MAGNETIC SOUTH: CATCH AND RELEASE
After a silent season due to Covid-19, Magnetic South, the professional new music concert series collaboration with the College of Charleston Music Department is back! Join us at the Sottile Theater for important stylistically diverse works of the 20th and 21st centuries that represent our programming and commissioning philosophy.
Celebrated Finnish composer and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Esa-Pekka Salonen’s 2006 Catch and Release, and West Coast composer and UC David Professor Laurie San Martin’s tiny fonts, originally commissioned and premiered by Magnetic South in 2015 are joined by two important 20th century staples: Theodore Antoniou’s seminal Octet (1986) and Igor Stravinsky’s Suite no1 for small orchestra (1925).
Magnetic South is an innovative partnership between the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and the College of Charleston Department of Music. It combines the resources of the two institutions to present contemporary classical music in Charleston in an informative context. The goal of the Magnetic South partnership is to bring to the audiences of the Lowcountry, including students at the College, masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries along with important new works by living composers. The concerts, performed by CSO musicians, feature carefully selected works from a variety of aesthetic directions and styles to represent the panorama of the music of our time. Magnetic South was co-founded in 2012 by Vassilandonakis, fellow faculty member and now Dean, Edward Hart and CSO Concertmaster and Principal Pops Conductor, Yuriy Bekker.
The College of Charleston Sottile Theatre will require face coverings for all patrons and staff, regardless of vaccination status. This requirement aligns with the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC).
We appreciate your willingness to comply with this directive so that we may mitigate the possible spread of COVID-19 and keep our community safe and healthy.
