Chamber Music Hilton Head opens its 10th Anniversary season with a concert at All Saints Episcopal Church on Monday, October 29. Most of the participating musicians are core members of the ensemble, with oboist Lauren Stuligross and pianist Jean Shamo being Island residents. Sharing assignments with Jean will be guest Karla Qualls, head of the piano accompanying program at Georgia Southern State University in Statesboro.
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Maestro Fred Devyatkin will conduct a celebration of Virtuoso Composers of the Nineteenth Century when the Beaufort Orchestra opens its twenty-second season on October 25th and 28th. Tamas Kocsis, concertmaster of the Orlando Symphony, will return as violin soloist in Paganini’s Violin Concerto in D.
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Amazing musicians will be playing traditional favorites and new compositions during the five concerts of the 2007-2008 USC Beaufort Festival Series with Mr. Chamber Music himself, Charles Wadsworth, playing and hosting. Just a few droppable names – Erika Nickrenz, Todd Palmer, Wendy Chen, Chee Yun, and the Miro Quartet will be playing pieces by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Enescu, Dvorak, Stravinsky, and Bizet.
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Beaufort has been named as one of the top 100 best art towns in the United States for the past 10 years. Beaufort’s finest art galleries will open their doors to bring some of the best art and artists the Lowcountry has to offer during the tenth bi- annual Guild of Beaufort Galleries Fall ArtWalk, Saturday October 27th, from 5:00pm to 7:30pm.
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As October sprints toward a finish with its usual flourish, the Beaufort Art Association Gallery, located at 1001 Bay Street in downtown Beaufort, is offering a number of colorful events to suit a variety of tastes. The annual “Holiday Boutique” is coming in time to join the final week of “Hetty’s World”—an exhibition of paintings by featured artist Hetty Nijman. BAA members have created unique, artful gifts specifically for the boutique and will offer them for sale beginning October 24.
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It's the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to garnish her shop for the Savannah historical district decorating contest, which she intends to win. Weezie is ready to shoot herself with her glue gun by the time she's done, but the results are stunning. She's certainly one-upped the owners of the trendy shop around the corner, but suddenly things start to go missing from her display, and there seems to be a mysterious midnight visitor to her shop.
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Chaffin describes her paintings as “haiku poetry, rather than novels. The paintings are responses to a specific time, place, or person; for instance, the mood of being by the Colleton River one day.” In her new series at Charles Street Gallery in November, the paintings are made of cross hatches, which are indirect ways of mark-making.
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I’ve been meaning to write this column for a long time. Last week, two events converged in my life, and I could no longer put it off. Event #1 – My family and I took a trip to New York City. It was not my first trip to New York City, or even my second, but it had been a long, long time – nigh on a decade. I was due up.
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Jeff and I have been watching Ken Burns’ latest PBS documentary film, The War, which, as of this writing, is about halfway through its 15-hour run. We’ve been faithful viewers – a challenge, since it’s also been “season premier week” on the networks, bringing lots of tempting competition after a long, mind-numbing summer. (It’s either feast or famine with TV, isn’t it?)
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A study reported last week in the journal Nature Neuroscience has determined that – drum roll, please – liberals and conservatives don’t think alike. Um… duh.
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