Today there are thousands of celebrated and prodigiously talented classical principals, composers and performers of African descent throughout the world. Yet, their opportunities to grace concert stages of major American orchestras are rare to non-existent. The Colour of MusicRead more
Today there are thousands of celebrated and prodigiously talented classical principals, composers and performers of African descent throughout the world. Yet, their opportunities to grace concert stages of major American orchestras are rare to non-existent. The Colour of Music Festival’sRead more
JAZZ ELEMENTS: The Music of Earth, Wind & Fire Featuring guest vocalist Quiana Parler The CJO’s Maestro Charlton Singleton calls Earth, Wind and Fire the greatest band ever assembled. This American music group founded by the late Maurice White, hasRead more
Join the Colour of Music Festival for a performance of Hiawantha’s Wedding Feast followed by the Black Classical Renaissance Gala Benefit. Maestro Kazem Adbullah will open the Colour of Music Festival’s Masterworks series, as he conducts Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s magnificent orchestra and choralRead more
As a prelude to the Sunday, October 22 Requiem for Rice premiere, the Grace Church Cathedral will present the Lloyd Mallory singers as part of its concert series on Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Grace Church Cathedral is locatedRead more
The Colour of Music Festival Presents the Black Classical Renaissance Gala Benefit. You are cordially invited to the Colour of Music Festival's Gala Benefit Performance of Samuel-Coleridge Taylor's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast and Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer 1915.
The Colour of Music Festival concludes with an ode to the Emanuel-9, its survivors and congregation of the Mother Emanuel AME Church, with a moving performance of Robert Nathaniel Dett’s Chariot Jubilee, Franz Joseph Haydn’s Nelson Mass and the premiere performanceRead more
Celebrated international artist and City of Charleston Ambassador for the Arts, Jonathan Green is pleased to announce Jonathan Green’s “Requiem for Rice”, presented in collaboration with the International African American Museum. Jonathan Green’s “Requiem for Rice” is a musical tributeRead more
Classical soprano Jill Terhaar Lewis, saxophonist Robert Lewis, and pianist Gerald Gregory explore a repertoire that resides in and in-between classical and jazz. They’re joined by Charleston Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker. This performance is an encore of a show producedRead more
In honor of John Williams’ 85thbirthday, the CSO kicks off its Pops series with some of his most memorable film scores. Let the music from Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Schindler’s List, Superman and more awaken your imagination and bring theseRead more
