BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA!
Alva Anderson voice + viola
Duda Lucena voice + guitar
Three performances:
Friday, April 23 at 1:00 pm. FREE.
(outside, weather permitting)
Charleston County Public Library
Reservations required. For details, and to sign up, contact Jackie at lyonsj@ccpl.org.
Thursday, April 29 at 7:30 pm. FREE.
Commonhouse Aleworks
4831 O'Hear Avenue
North Charleston SC 29405
Join us for music and beer outside.
Friday, May 7 Time TBD. FREE.
Online performance
“With its hushed intimacy, poetic lyrics, alluring melodies and mesmerizing rhythms, bossa nova music continues to cast a spell 60 years after it first came into the world. It possesses an ineffable quality that just seems to epitomize coolness, transcend time and transport the listener to another place.” — Charles Waring
Escape to Rio! You’ll hear the choro, samba rhythms, and jazz — and the sensual, flowing Bossa Nova tunes that bring it all together.
Dorival Caymmi
Samba da Minha Terra
Ary Barroso
Aquarela do Brasil
Duda Lucena
Choro (lament)
Antônio Carlos Jobím
A Felicidade
Girl from Ipanema
One Note Samba
Agua de Beber
No More Blue
Kenny Dorham
Blue Bossa
Marcos Valle
Summer Samba
WATER MUSIC
Mary Reed bass
Dan Morris vibraphone
Two performances:
Wednesday, June 16 at 7:30 pm. FREE.
Commonhouse Aleworks
4831 O'Hear Avenue
North Charleston SC 29405
Join us for music and beer outside.
Friday, June 18 at 1:00 pm. FREE.
(outside, weather permitting)
Charleston County Public Library
5130 HWY 165
Hollywood, SC 29449
Reservations required. To sign up contact Cary at jonesc@ccpl.org.
Splash! In a program that explores the mysterious, changeable nature of water, you’ll hear new and familiar pieces arranged for a bass and vibraphone duo, just for this concert. Let the current take you downriver, listen to the rain, spy on the creatures that live beneath the sea. Float lazily through Charleston harbor, and we’ll sail you home with a tune you’re sure to recognize!
G. F. Handel
Water Music Suite No. 1: Air, Minuet, and Bourree
François Couperin
“L’anguille” (The Eel)
Frederic Chopin
Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 "Raindrop"
Franz Liszt
Nuages Gris S. 199 (Grey Clouds)
Tōru Takemitsu
Toward the Sea: II. Moby Dick
Claude Debussy
Petite Suite, L. 65: I. En Bateau
Bjork
Anchor Song
Jack Lawrence/CharlesTrenet
Beyond the Sea (La Mer)
NEXUS
Music at the Crossroads of East and West
Lydia Chernicoff violin
Ronaldo Rolim piano
Two performances:
Saturday, July 10 at 5:00 pm
Sunday, July 11 at 3:00 pm
The Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401
In a nexus of music, art, and poetry, these four composers exchange ideas and influences across cultures, mediums, eras, and geography. Rudolf Dittrich invokes Utagawa Hiroshige’s woodblock prints in his setting of Japanese folksongs for solo piano; Tōru Takemitsu takes his inspiration from poetry, creating a world of sound informed by the great impressionist composers; Somei Satoh finds a free, flowing lyricism that suspends time; Claude Debussy draws on traditional, modal scales to craft an evocative, sensual sonata that lives somewhere between East and West.
Rudolf Dittrich
Nippon Gakufu: Six Japanese Popular Songs Collected and Arranged for Pianoforte
Tōru Takemitsu
Distance de Fée
Somei Satoh
Bifü
Claude Debussy
Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano
BLUEPRINT
Lydia Chernicoff violin
Lenora Leggatt violin
Kirsten Swanson viola
Ismar Gomes cello
Three performances:
Thursday, November 4 at 6:00 pm. FREE.
Principle Gallery Charleston
125 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401
Seating is limited, reservations required. To sign up email newmuseconcerts@gmail.com.
Friday, November 5 at 1:00 pm. FREE.
Charleston County Public Library
Baxter-Patrick James Island Branch
1858 S. Grimball Road
Charleston, SC 29412
Seating is limited, reservations required. To sign up email bpcreative@ccpl.org.
Saturday, November 6 at 3:00 pm. FREE.
Munkle Brewing Co
1513 Meeting Street Road
Charleston SC 29405
Join us for music and beer outside.
Every listener hears something different in a piece of music, and the way we hear a piece changes over time. Blueprint shows us how composer Caroline Shaw hears Beethoven. Written hundreds of years after the quartet that inspired it, Shaw’s Blueprint explores both the modernity and the timeless essence of Beethoven’s music.
Come join us for both string quartets, and hear for yourself how one influences the way you hear the other. If you don’t know her work already, Caroline Shaw is a great discovery — and Ludwig van Beethoven may never sound the same.
Caroline Shaw
Blueprint
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet Op. 18 No. 6