The USC Music Times, founded in 2011, is the online, student run classical news source for the University of South Carolina and the city of Columbia.
The USC Music Times, founded in 2011, is the online classical news source for the University of South Carolina and the city of Columbia. Today, arts writers and music critics are getting cut from newspapers across the country. Regional and local newspapers rarely feature classical music stories. Classical events are listed in the back of most newspapers as afterthoughts (in tiny, unreadable print)
09/20/2012
Review from Friday's SC Phil concert.
SC Philharmonic and Zachary Hughes Delight Columbia As is customary in the first concert of the season, Friday’s opened with a thrilling performance of theStar-Spangled Bannerand I was equally thrilled to hear one the greatest piano concertos ever written.
09/18/2012
A color photograph of the conductor Claudio Abbado with pianist Martha Argerich, taken during their joint recording session in Berlin in 1967.
09/15/2012
Weekend reading: an interesting review on Cage's life.
"Fed up with repeatedly having to study the composer's harmony textbook, "Harmonielehre," Cage dropped out of Schoenberg's UCLA class in 1936 after having devoted himself to the master for nearly two years. Still the young composer continued to, as he put it, worship Schoenberg like a god. He took away from Schoenberg the idea that a composer always needed some kind of system. And Cage always came up with one."
John Cage's genius an L.A. story Composer John Cage is among the most innovative music figures of the 20th century. Yet his formative years in the cultural stew of 1920s and '30s L.A. get overlooked.
09/14/2012
Janette Fishell, William Bates receive 2012 Oswald Gleason Ragatz Distinguished Alumni Award | News. Congratulations to Organ Department Chair Janette Fishell and University of South Carolina Professor William Bates, who are the 2012 Oswald Gleason Ragatz Distinguished Alumni Award recipients.
09/14/2012
SC Philharmonic Concert tonight with pianist Zachary Hughes
http://www.scphilharmonic.com/theconcerts/calendar.aspx?event_id=49
09/13/2012
"[A]study published last month is the first to show that music lessons in childhood may lead to changes in the brain that persist years after the lessons stop."
Early Music Lessons Have Longtime Benefits When children learn to play a musical instrument, they strengthen a range of auditory skills. Recent studies suggest that these benefits extend all through life.
09/13/2012
Violinist Robert McDuffie's take on succeeding as a young musician.
Robert McDuffie's new approach Violinist Robert McDuffie talks with Fred Child about the future of music education.
06/14/2012
Review of Boris Slutsky's recital last night at the Southeastern Piano Festival.
Boris Slutsky at the Southeastern Piano Festival The tenth Southeastern Piano Festival (SEPF) is now in full swing; the Piano Extravaganza Concert was Sunday evening followed by a concert played by two SEPF alumni (music on this program included three American premieres) and 16-year-old pianist George Li gave a stunning recital Tuesday evening.
06/14/2012
Alessio Bax, tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the School of Music Recital Hall.
Good luck with your busy end-of-school duties. We will be back this summer and next semester!
03/28/2012
Updated
Upcoming Concerts All the upcoming classical music concerts in Columbia, South Carolina.