Charleston Currents: Charleston Symphony to present Friday concert for equality. Livestream 7:30 PM Friday, June 19, 2020

Ranky Tanky

(By Peter Frank Edwards)

 Kellen Gray

(Chicago Sinfonietta)

Charleston Currents

June 15, 2020

 

Staff reports  |  The Charleston Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Friday will live-stream a special program, “Call and Response: A Concert for Equality,” to promote community unity and understanding.

“What an orchestra does best is listen, and real listening only happens when we allow the voices of others to briefly be more prominent than our own,” said assistant CSO conductor Kellen Gray in a statement. “Our community has many voices that deserve the stage and this program addresses that directly, by giving stage to voices muted by inequality, those that empathize and want to help, and those who see how inequality has wounded our community.”

Due to the pandemic, the program will be performed in an empty hall at the Gailliard Center.  You can watch it via the symphony’s website:  CharlestonSymphony.org.

The concert will feature music of African American and Afro-British composers interspersed with three testimonials.

 

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The program will conclude with a special performance from Charleston’s own Ranky Tanky.  

 

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This performance will include orchestral works by William Grant Still, George Walker, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Adolphus Hailstork.

 

The program will conclude with a special performance from Charleston’s own Ranky Tanky.

PROGRAM

WILLIAM GRANT-STILL 
Lift Every Voice and Sing 
Conductor Speaks: Kellen Gray

WILLIAM GRANT-STILL
Mother and Child
Guest Speaker: Charlton Singleton

GEORGE WALKER
Lyric for Strings
Guest Speaker: Edward Hart

SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Petite Suite
Guest Speaker: Darrin Goss, Sr.

ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK
Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed 

RANKY TANKY
Freedom