Upcoming Performances
To order your subscription tickets, click HERE to download an order form. Single tickets for individual concerts can always be purchased through the Gaillard Auditorium Box Office (77 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC), any Ticketmaster outlet, or though www.charlestonsymphony.com.
Yuriy Bekker and Friends
March 5, 2010 7:00pm
Christ Episcopal Church, Mount Pleasant
March 7, 2010 4:00pm
St. John the Beloved, Summerville
Orchestral Section Highlights
A new series of musician-led performances in an intimate setting featuring stimulating musical themes.
McCrady’s Charleston Pops
March 12 & 13, 2010, 8:00pm
Memminger Auditorium
Scott Terrell, guest conductor
The Gold Rush!
Charlie Chaplin’s greatest and most ambitious silent film comedy The Gold Rush (1925), finds Chaplin portraying a lone prospector who searches for love and acceptance in the frenzy of the great Klondike gold rush. Featuring the full musical score composed by Chaplin himself back dropped by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.
Merrill Lynch Masterworks
March 20, 2010, 8:00pm
Gaillard Auditorium
Daniel Hege, Guest Conductor
Spring Delight
Program:
Delius, On Hearing the First Cucko in Spring
Copland, Suite from Appalachian Spring
Schumann, Symphony No. 1“Spring”
Irresistible works to celebrate Spring: Delius’ avian delight meets Copland’s beautifully evocative, wide-open bit of Americana and Schumann’s Spring Symphony No. 1 ranks as one of the happiest and most genial of all.
Backstage Pass
March 25, 2010, 7:00pm
Memminger Auditorium
Mischa Santora, Guest Conductor
Charles Messersmith, Klezmer Clarinet
Beyond Belief
Program:
Osvaldo Golijov, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
Charles Messersmith, klezmer clarinet
Haydn, Seven Last Words of Christ
A kind of epic, a history of Judaism, Argentinean-born living composer Golijov’s central image of Isaac the Blind, the greatest Kabbalist rabbi of Provence, who,approximately 800 years ago, wrote everything in the universe are products of the Hebrew alphabet’s letters. The evening concludes with Haydn’s moving work commissioned in 1787 for the Good Friday service at the Grotto Santa Cueva in southern Spain.
Merrill Lynch Masterworks
Season Finale - Haydn
April 17, 2010, 8:00pm
Gaillard Auditorium
David Stahl, Conductor
Featuring the CSO Chorus
Program:
Haydn, The Creation
Considered composer Franz Joseph Haydn’s masterpiece, The Creation is his groundbreaking portrait of the beginning of the world, as told in the Holy Bible and John Milton’s poem Paradise Lost.