2022 SEASON
NOW LET ME FLY
songs of freedom & transformation
Alva Anderson voice
LaToya Reneá voice + percussion
March 30 at 3:30pm
Preview Concert. FREE.
Charleston County Public Library
3035 Sanders Road
Charleston, SC 29414
March 31 at 6:00pm
The Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401
Music has been a universal expression of protest and powerful agent of change. Here, it gives voice to the heroic figures portrayed by William H. Johnson in the exhibit, Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice. Listen for hidden messages in songs of the Underground Railroad, hear new songs of freedom and transformation, and lift your own voice in call and response.
Bob Marley – Redemption Song
Traditional – Now Let Me Fly
Alva Anderson/LaToya Reneá – When I Rise/Freedom Calling
John Coltrane – Underground Railroad (lyrics by Alva Anderson and LaToya Reneá)
Traditional – Wade in the Water/Follow the Drinking Gourd
Alva Anderson – Take My Hand
Marian Anderson, ca. 1945, by William H. Johnson (American, 1901-1972). Oil on paperboard, 35 5/8 x 28 7/8 inches. Image courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum.
This performance accompanies the exhibition Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice organized by the Smithsonian American with generous support from Art Bridges, Faye and Robert Davidson, and the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation.
SEA TO SHINING SEA
two composers envision America
Lydia Chernicoff violin
Jessica Tong violin
Dan Urbanowicz viola
Danielle Cho cello
July 6 at 3:30pm
Preview Concert. FREE.
Charleston County Public Library
68 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC 29401
July 7 at 6:00pm
The Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401
Hazy, Southern nights, foot-tapping fiddle tunes, and traditional folk songs bring William Eggleston’s ground-breaking photographs of rural America to life. We’ll investigate how the everyday becomes art, and how a contemporary Southerner and a romantic Czech composer translate the sights and sounds of America, in connection with the exhibition, Charleston Collects: William Eggleston Photography.
Jennifer Higdon – Southern Harmony
Antonín Dvořák – American Quartet
Untitled (Boy in chair, Sumner, Mississippi), 1972. Dye transfer print, 1986, 20 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. © Eggleston Artistic Trust, courtesy of David Zwiner New York.
CURRENT
Lydia Chernicoff violin
Lenora Cox Leggatt violin
Kirsten Swanson viola
Ismar Gomes cello
August 21 at 6:00pm
Principle Gallery Charleston
125 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401
The sounds of our modern world and those of centuries past flow together in this program of electroacoustic music. Steve Reich uses recorded speech to generate melody and rhythm in a string quartet that explores the wildly different journeys taken by train before, during, and after WWII. Mason Bates finds a funky groove that seamlessly blends the warmth of a live string quartet with prerecorded sounds and electronics.
Steve Reich – Different Trains
Mason Bates – Bagatelles
Photo courtesy of JMBoatwright Photography.
FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY
music and the Greek ideal
Trio Appassionata
Lydia Chernicoff violin
Andrea Casarrubios cello
Ronaldo Rolim piano
October 26 at 6:00pm
The Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401
An early Beethoven piano trio embodies the Classical Greek ideals of beauty, clarity and balance (with plenty of light-hearted charm). Only Brahms could make a neo-classicist of himself by revisiting and reworking one of his earliest chamber pieces some thirty-five years later. While much of the trio and its main themes remain the same, Brahms brings a maturity and craftsmanship to the work that lifts every note to new heights. See the goddesses, musicians, and animals from the Gibbes exhibition, From Chaos to Order, leap to life in response.
Beethoven – Trio in E flat Major,
Op. 1 No. 1
Brahms – Trio in B Major, Op. 8
Greek (Olympia?), Dancing Bull, Eighth century B.C., Bronze, The Sol Rabin Collection