The Charleston Gaillard Center presents the Colour of Music Festival
Colour of Music Festival Masterworks I: St. Georges’ The Anonymous Lover
October 20th at 8:00pm. The Anonymous Lover petit opera will make its world première in South Carolina featuring Léger and her considerable vocal athleticism and ringing high notes. Continuing the French musical motif, Maestro Daniel welcomes virtuoso French-born violinist Romuald Grimbert-Barré serving as guest Concertmaster and soloist performing Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 44 in G Minor.
Colour of Music Festival Masterworks II: Bruch, Debussy, Scott, Dvorak
October 21st at 8:00pm Led by German-born and South American-based Concertmaster Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, the orchestra welcomes 17-year old piano virtuoso Clayton Stephenson, a founding competitor of the inaugural Van Cliburn Junior Competition.
Colour of Music Festival Masterworks III: Clayton Stephenson/Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana
October 22nd at 7:00pm. This black tie gala performance will be led by Roderick Cox, Associate Conductor of the renowned Minnesota Orchestra, conducting Carl Orff’s magnificent choral masterpiece Carmina Burana.
Colour of Music Festival Masterworks IV: Brahms, Faure, Mahler
October 23rd at 5:00pm. The Festival concludes with an Ode to the Emanuel-9, its survivors, and congregation with a moving performance of Johannes Brahms’ Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (Song of Destiny), and Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem under the baton of Atlanta’s Morehouse College conductor David E. Morrow.
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The Charleston Gaillard Center is located at 95 Calhoun Street, Charleston.
-Submitted by Tidelines Editor