Tag: Spoleto
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Music of 1930’s Berlin, Spoleto Festival Preview

“Berlin at the end of the Great War was a city filled with brilliant, young, inflamed, and rebellious minds who wanted the destruction of an invalid past.” From S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives.
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Music in Time, Spoleto’s Contemporary Classical Music Showcase, a Preview
2001 Archives My interview with John Kennedy. Every Spoleto, I was most reliably excited by Kennedy’s curated contemporary classical music series. For this year, 2001, we got to hear music by Ruth Crawford Seeger, in honor of her centennial, including Nine Preludes for Piano, Music for Small Orchestra, and Three Songs, as well as some…