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  <title><![CDATA[Students meet the masters]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[What better way to foster an appreciation and understanding of a musical instrument than to have it played by a world-class musician?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Review: Ambitious CSO Presents Heartfelt Verdi Requiem]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[When Giuseppe Verdi wrote his requiem he was something of an institution in Italy: the premier opera composer of his age and a strong advocate of national pride and culture. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[CSO presents massive Messa da Requiem in the Sottile]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In celebration of composer Giuseppe Verdi’s 200th birthday, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra is presenting two special performances of the Messa da Requiem on April 12 and 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Sottile Theatre. The concerts will feature the orchestra, a double choir, four guest soloists, and world-renowned guest conductor Maximiano Valdés.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra to Perform Special Concert at Coker College]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Two Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) ensembles will perform in a free public concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25 in the Watson Theater of Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra to Present “Brilliant Sounds of Trumpet and Organ” Concert April 28, 2013]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) announces a concert of arrangements and original works for the trumpet to feature principal trumpet Michael Smith at First (Scots) Presbyterian Church, 53 Meeting St., in downtown Charleston, on Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 3:00pm.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.charlestonsymphony.org/About-The-CSO/Media-Center/Press-Releases/Charleston-Symphony-Orchestra-to-Present--Brillian.aspx?feed=news]]></link>     	
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra Ensembles to Perform “Fantastic Journey: Exotic Lands” Concerts in Three Area Churches]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will close its Ensembles Series for the 2012-13 season with three performances of a concert titled “Fantastic Journey: Exotic Lands.”]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra to Perform Verdi's Requiem Mass]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Marking the bicentennial anniversary year of the composer’s birth, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will present two performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem on April 12 and 13, 2013, at 7:30pm at Sottile Theatre, 44 George Street, Charleston.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Review: CSO chamber concert mixes classics with new music]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Sitting in the Dock Street Theatre, a friend turned to me and asked if I'd ever fantasized about traveling back in time with music from the modern era tucked under my arm and playing it for one of the old masters. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A with composer Florencia Di Concilio]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Adam Parker interviews composer Florencia Di Concilio. The US Premiere of her work will be during the Postcards from Abroad concert on March 28 at Dock Street Theatre. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.charlestonsymphony.org/About-The-CSO/Media-Center/News/Q-A-with-composer-Florencia-Di-Concilio.aspx?feed=news]]></link>     	
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  <title><![CDATA[Review: Magnetic South's new music program a lively, accessible success ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[It can be fun to listen to a cover band, but nothing can match the experience of being in the presence of the music's originators. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Collaborative ‘Magnetic South’ series a showcase for new music]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Playing new music can be risky. If it’s never been recorded, if the player has no opportunity to hear it in advance, if it’s written in a challenging style, if the melodies and harmonies are unfamiliar, then there’s a degree of uncertainty involved.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Review: Vynnytsky thrills packed house at Charleston Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concert ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Friday was V-day. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Volodymyr Vynnytsky Leads Sottile Powerhouse]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[WHAT TURNED OUT to be a barn-burner concert of works by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev on Friday night began benignly with Gabriel Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80—a piece (or combination of pieces) with an unusual history of transmutations. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[CSO concert set for Friday, Saturday]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor David Lockington and accompanied by pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky, will perform Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1,” Fauré’s “Pelléas et Mélisande Suite” and Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet Suites” Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, at the College of Charleston’s Sottile Theatre.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pilot program teaches elementary school students how to write music]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Students from three Charleston County public schools completed a music composition project last week designed to de-mystify the creative process. Nearly 70 young participants were exposed to the symphony orchestra’s special range of sound and color.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Visiting the 36th Annual Charleston Symphony Orchestra League will allow visitors to experience the home of their dreams ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[If you've ever walked through a showhouse, chances are you have been fascinated by its finishes, bedazzled by its bedrooms and generally spellbound by the spectacle of it all.  ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra to Perform Works by Living Composers for Magnetic South New Music Series]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Magnetic South Series, a partnership in its second year between the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and the College of Charleston School of the Arts, promotes contemporary music with concerts of new works and commissions from both emerging and established composers. On Friday, March 22, 2013 at 8:oo p.m. the second concert of the 2012-13 series, Magnetic Premieres, will take place at the Simons Center, 54 St. Phillip St., Charleston.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Symphony and CCSD present new education and community initiative]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[On Thursday, March 7, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and the Charleston County School District will present an event to commemorate a new education initiative titled Composition and Critique.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra to Perform Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, Excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will present two concerts featuring Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and excerpts from Prokofiev’s orchestral suite from Romeo and Juliet on Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, 2013 at Sottile Theatre, 44 George St., in Charleston, SC. The concerts, on Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm, will be supplemented by a recently added open dress rehearsal on Friday at 10:00am.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra Announces 2013-14 Season]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will continue all three of its main stage series concerts for the 2013-14 season, while adding one concert to each series and a third evening performance to the Masterworks Series on Thursdays. There will be six Masterworks, four Pops, and six Charleston Chamber Orchestra concerts.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra has a 'wicked' season in store]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra just released the lineup for their 2013-2014 season. They'll be at the Sottile Theatre and Dock Street Theatre again while the Gaillard is closed for renovations.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony announces 2013-14 season lineup]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra, enjoying a popular resurgence, has announced programming for its 2013-14 season.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Review: Charleston Symphony offers Romantic night of Brahms]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[I love Brahms — his lush textures, rhythmic juxtapositions, that zigzagging between major and minor. I love his inner gypsy and outer humanist, his respect for classical forms, his sense of melody.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra Concert Will Celebrate American Music and Dance]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will present two performances featuring popular music by American composers and songwriters of the 20th century on Friday and Saturday, March 1-2, 2013 at 7:30pm at Sottile Theatre, 44 George St., in Charleston, SC.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra presents Mozart and Mendelssohn: Young Geniuses ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra is bringing concert-goers the music of the original live-fast-die-young rock stars: Mozart and Mendelssohn. The Young Geniuses concert will feature music written early in their careers, to showcase the amazing talent that they’d already developed.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Symphonic Circus at the Sottile]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Sottile Theater saw a different CSO crowd this past weekend. After all, people came to see the circus as much, if not more than, the symphony—and they got a delightful dose of both.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[CSOL Designer Showhouse features converted cotton warehouse]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[From March 21st through April 21st, the public will be invited to enjoy the Charleston Symphony Orchestra League’s 36th Annual Designer Showhouse at 4 South Adgers Wharf.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra Presents Cirque de la Symphonie]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[As part of the Pops Series for the 2012-13 Season, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will present three concerts featuring Cirque de la Symphonie on Friday, January 25 at 7:30pm, and on Saturday, January 26 at 11:00am and 7:30pm. The performances will be held at Sottile Theatre, 44 George St., in Charleston. The Saturday morning matinee will be a specially-priced, abbreviated, family-friendly performance.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[CSO Triumphant in Russian Masterworks Program]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Distinguished guest conductor JoAnn Falletta and young piano wonder Micah McLaurin conspired with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) to conjure rare musical magic in Saturday evening’s repeat program of universally cherished masterpieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff at the sold-out Sottile Theatre.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony's all-Russian program tempts fate, wows]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra offered an all-Russian program Friday night in celebration of youth. And it was thrilling. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Q&A with conductor JoAnn Falletta]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Listen to public radio's "Performance Today" on any given morning and there's a good chance you will hear JoAnn Falletta conducting the Buffalo Philharmonic or some other symphony orchestra. In the classical music world, Falletta has become a force to reckon with. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Review: Chamber Orchestra Series finds Haydn, offers hits]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Chamber Orchestra Series, presented by the Charleston Symphony, continued Saturday evening at the Dock Street Theatre with a light-hearted program featuring some of Franz Joseph Haydn’s playful piece]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Piano virtuoso Micah McLaurin to take stage with Charleston Symphony]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Sometimes talent emerges from unexpected places. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[JoAnn Falletta guest conducting CSO's upcoming Russian Masters concert]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming Russian Masters concert, scheduled for Jan. 12, is already sold out — but as of press time, it looks like you can still get in to the open dress rehearsal on Jan. 11 at 10 a.m.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra Opens Dress Rehearsal for Sold Out “Russian Masters” Concerts]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[On Friday, January 11, 2013, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will open its Masterworks dress rehearsal to the public. The rehearsal, taking place at 10:00 a.m. at Sottile Theatre, will feature a program of “Russian Masters: Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky” that will be performed in two concerts to sold out audiences at 7:30 p.m. that evening as well as on Saturday, January 12 at 7:30 p.m.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Looking for something artistic to do? Search no further]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Even artists get holiday vacation time, but for those of us with an eternal yen for artistic events, it’s been a little hard to find something new.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Messiah is coming: Perennial season favorite is showcase for great choral singing]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[How can something so 18th century almost always sound so new and exciting?]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra Announces 2nd Annual Share the Stage Contest for Young Musicians]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra announces its second annual Share the Stage™ for young musicians. Talented South Carolina students have the unique opportunity to perform onstage with their professional counterparts.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[CSO show exhilarating and refined]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Though Philip Glass wrote his second violin concerto for Robert McDuffie, Charleston heard the soloist perform something Glass did not originally intend. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Greenberg and Bekker Highlight Chamber Group]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Chamber Orchestra, consisting of Charleston Symphony Orchestra members, performed with great passion and intensity to sold out houses on Friday, November 9, and Saturday, November 10. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra hold surprise concert on King Street]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra surprised visitors at 2nd Sunday on King today by holding a pop-up concert.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Teacher and student join together on stage at Dock Street Theatre to play the Four Seasons]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Happy Anniversary Seabrook!]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra Concerts Feature Rare Violins]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[This month the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will host several concerts that boast three special violins and three world-class soloists that will perform on them. There are five opportunities for audiences to experience these live. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ensemble highlights new music]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In its third concert, the new music series Magnetic South made the leap to present music written exclusively in our adolescent century.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Strad magnet: Charleston draws famous violins (and famous violinists) for chamber and Masterworks concerts]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Talk about a twofer. The teacher-student pairing is but one of the noteworthy treats for which the audience is in store. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony wows 2,500 school kids with popular favorites]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[About 2,500 schoolchildren filed into Lightsey Auditorium on the campus of Charleston Southern University Thursday morning to attend a special classical music concert tailored just for them. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Masterworks Lead with Holst]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[THE FIRST MASTERWORKS CONCERT by the Charleston Symphony for this 2012-2013 season featured a sure fire blockbuster in Gustav Holst’s seven-movement suite for orchestra The Planets. 
Story by William Furtwangler, Charleston Today]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[With opera composer Verdi's three fateful knocks, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra opened the 2012-2013 season Friday with a theme of destiny and the heavens. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Gustav Host’s “The Planets” is a soaring — and challenging — opener for the Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s season Friday and Saturday at the Sotille Theater. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[The CSO goes galactic with their season opener ]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra narrows down Music Director search]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra announced yesterday that the Music Director Search Committee has narrowed down the list of 100-plus candidates to the final six.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra announced it has settled on six finalists in its search for a new music director.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony kicks off new season with Holst’s ‘The Planets’]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra presents “The Planets,” along with Brahms’ choral “Schicksalslied” and Verdi’s overture to the opera “La forza del destino,” in two back-to-back concerts at the Sottile Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Ready to take a musical tour around the solar system? Now you’ve got one more night to do so, as the Charleston Symphony Orchestra is opening up its Thursday dress rehearsal of Holst’s The Planets to the general public.
Story by Ford Dyas, Charleston City Paper]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[September 4, 2012 (Charleston, SC)   The historic Vanderhorst Plantation House on Kiawah Island, along with four beautiful private homes on Kiawah Island, will be featured on the Charleston Symphony Orchestra League’s (CSOL) 15th Annual Island House Tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, November 3rd.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra Announces $71,000 Surplus ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Charleston's only full-time, resident, professional orchestra announced that financially responsible operating procedures have allowed the Charleston Symphony Orchestra(CSO)to finish the 2012 fiscal year (July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012)with a surplus.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra on sound footing for 2012-13 season]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Story by The Post and Courier, Adam Parker ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Story by Elizabeth Pandolfi, Charleston City Paper]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[by Elizabeth Pandolfi, Charleston City Paper - April 17, 2012]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra celebrates classic film scores]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Post and Courier article by Bill Thompson, Sunday, April 8, 2012]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[April 1, 2012 - story by Adam Parker, Post and Courier]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[New sounds streaming from CSO and CofC ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Magnetic Music, by Katie Toussaint, Charleston City Paper, 3/29/12
    
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra is sounding a little different these days. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Charleston Symphony Orchestra ushers in new era of harmony]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[By Jon Bruce
ABC News 4]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[International and Metropolitan Opera sensation Denyce Graves to headline as Carmen]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s Brass Quintet will be part of the “Romantic Strings and Brass” series of concerts at various venues. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The sound from a more than 300 year old Stradivarius violin and the debut of a concerto written as a love letter for South Carolina will headline a history making show for the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Saturday night. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[College of Charleston music professor Edward Hart will have a once-in-a-lifetime moment this Saturday (February 11, 2012), when his composition is played on a rare $4 million-dollar Stradivarius violin. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Edward Hart and the CSO debut a Lowcountry concerto]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Charleston City Paper - Edward Hart is about as homegrown as you can get. He was born and raised in downtown Charleston, went to school at the College of Charleston, and now teaches there. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, SC - February 8, 2012 - The Charleston Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet will perform chamber music of Debussy, Handel, and more inspired by the current exhibition Jill Hooper: Contemporary Realist on Sunday, February 26 at 4pm.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[The 1686 ex-Nachez Stradivarius violin was almost certainly built entirely by Antonio Stradivari himself one year after the birth of J.S. Bach, when the violin maker was 46 and at the peak of his powers.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Bekker will play on the 1686 ex-Nachez Stradivarius violin, one of the most treasured and valuable instruments in the world.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Magnetic South is an innovative partnership between the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and the Composition area of the College of Charleston (CofC) Music Department.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[The artistic excellence continues with a concert featuring Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, conductor JoAnn Falletta, and guest violinist Michael Ludwig.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Charleston City Paper - By all outward appearances, the CSO is well on its way to becoming a modern, sustainable symphony. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Demonstrating its continued commitment to education, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra announces its inaugural Share the Stage Contest for young musicians.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra presents two performances of George Frideric Handel's Messiah.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[November 17, 2011 - The Charleston Symphony Orchestra's Masterworks performance highest grossing concert in CSO history.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[More than a decade ago, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Gospel Choir took the stage and dazzled Charleston audiences with its very first performance, a dynamic holiday program entitled the First Annual CSO Gospel Christmas. Featuring Guest Conductor Vincent L. Danner, then Associate Conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the CSO Gospel Choir's inaugural performance received rave reviews and a sold-out audience at Charleston's Gaillard Auditorium.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[Novermber 6, 2011 - The CSO continues to think big.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[October 20, 2011 - The CSO opens its 2011-2012 season Friday, November 4 with Broadway's Golden Age, part of the all new series Pops at the Gaillard.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[October 18, 2011 - The Charleston Symphony Orchestra announces a new music series in Columbia, SC, presented by the South Carolina Philharmonic.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[October 12, 2011 - The Charleston Symphony Orchestra offers a free concert on the Village Green at Freshfields Village following the 14th Annual CSO League's Kiawah Island House Tour.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Charleston Symphony Orchestra is back and stronger than ever.]]></description>
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