2016 spoleto festival usa ticket brochure

SPOLETOFESTIVAL USA

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA SPOLETOUSA.ORG

MAY 27—JUNE 12, 2016

Ten years ago, we at Spoleto Festival USA set ourselves the

challenge of making the theaters we perform in throughout

Charleston as beautiful and as polished as this city has

become. First, the derelict Memminger Auditorium was

transformed into a grand black-box space finished in 2008.

In 2010, Dock Street Theatre—always one of Charleston’s

gems—was burnished to the luster it had when it was first

built. In 2011, the acoustics of the Sottile Theatre were

returned to the vibrancy they had when the theater opened

in 1927.

And now, thanks to the Gaillard Performance Hall

Foundation, we have the newly re-opened Charleston

Gaillard Center.

It is apt that in a season where we celebrate our 40th

festival, we return to a venue that is a core part of what

we do. In programming the 2016 season, we wanted to

make a bold statement about our past, our present, and

our future by bringing artists and productions worthy to

perform in the magnificently renewed Martha and John

M. Rivers Performance Hall. Our first performance in

the hall on opening night will be the Festival’s first-ever

production of Porgy and Bess. In 1970 a production staged

in the then newly opened Gaillard Auditorium to celebrate

Charleston’s tri-centennial was an occasion of great civic

importance. For the Festival’s return to the completely

renewed Gaillard, Porgy and Bess was the only choice. We

continue our celebration of the Gaillard and 40 years of

Spoleto with our orchestra, the Westminster Choir, artists

from our Bank of America Chamber Music series, and

artists from our past and present. The Gaillard has always

been our chosen theater for dance companies and this

year will see the Festival debut of L.A. Dance Project and

the rollicking celebration of Cuba that is Havana Rakatan.

Our choral and orchestral concert will bring Beethoven

to the new hall, and stellar jazz artists Randy Weston and

René Marie will also bring their musical magic into the

new space.

In the following pages you will find the wide variety of

events encompassing the realms of opera, dance, theater,

music, and visual arts that have made Spoleto Festival

USA the diverse arts experience for which it is valued. I

invite you to be part of this landmark year and to continue

to seek and find the inspiration that the Festival found in

Charleston all those years ago.

NIGEL REDDEN GENERAL DIRECTOR

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WELCOME

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40TH-SEASON CELEBRATION CONCERTThe full Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, the Westminster

Choir, musicians from the Bank of America Chamber Music

and Wells Fargo Jazz series, as well as other friends—more

than 140 strong—celebrate 40 years of spectacular music-

making and the wonderful acoustics of the new Martha and

John M. Rivers Performance Hall. Opening with the overture

to Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades—the inaugural

opera in 1977—the program includes works by composer

and Festival Founder Gian Carlo Menotti; Haydn’s Sinfonia

Concertante, performed by Chamber Music Director Geoff

Nuttall and his extraordinary roster of musicians; selections

from choral and operatic performances by the astonishing

Westminster Choir; and the premiere of Blessing the

Boats—a new work by Resident Conductor and Director

of Orchestral Activities John Kennedy, as well as a few

surprises. Former Festival Music Director Steven Sloane

conducts this wonderful program, and Mayor Joseph P.

Riley, whose enthusiasm for Spoleto Festival USA helped

make it a reality in Charleston, narrates this four-decade

celebration.

CHARLESTON GAILLARD CENTER

MARTHA AND JOHN M. RIVERS PERFORMANCE HALL

Saturday May 28 7:00pm

Tickets start at $35

APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR, 30 MINUTES

SEE PAGE 49 FOR DETAILS OF THE POST-CONCERT40TH-SEASON SOIRÉE.

CONDUCTED BY STEVEN SLOANE

OPERA

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PORGY AND BESS

Porgy and Bess in Charleston—what could be more perfect?

DuBose Heyward’s inspiration for Catfish Row is brought to

life on the new Martha and John M. Rivers Performance Hall

stage, just blocks from the historical Cabbage Row. David

Herskovits, whose 1998 production of Mamba’s Daughters

by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward won an OBIE award and

sold out at Spoleto Festival USA in 1999, returns to the

Festival to direct this landmark production. Visual Designer

Jonathan Green takes us on a journey from the streets of

the Charleston we know to a Charleston that reveals the

roots, strength, and character of the Gullah community.

Noted for his “ravishing, rolling baritone with power to

spare” (Opera News), Lester Lynch plays Porgy; soprano

Alyson Cambridge, whose performances are “radiant,

vocally assured, dramatically subtle and compelling,

and artistically imaginative” (The Washington Post),

makes her role debut as Bess. Hear such famed pieces as

“Summertime” and “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’” as conductor

Stefan Asbury leads members of the Spoleto Festival USA

Orchestra in this celebration of Charleston and its people.

Sung in English.

WITH

Johnson C. Smith University Concert Choir

Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra

CHARLESTON GAILLARD CENTER

MARTHA AND JOHN M. RIVERS PERFORMANCE HALL

Friday May 27 7:00pm

Monday May 30 7:30pm

Wednesday June 1 7:00pm

Friday June 3 7:00pm


Sunday June 12 2:00pm


APPROXIMATELY 3 HOURS, 15 MINUTES

THE GERSHWINS®’ PORGY AND BESS® by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin.

CREATED BY GEORGE GERSHWIN, DUBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD, AND IRA GERSHWINCONDUCTED BY STEFAN ASBURYDIRECTED BY DAVID HERSKOVITSVISUAL DESIGN BY JONATHAN GREEN

MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS GIFT FROM THE ROBERT AND JANICE MCNAIR FOUNDATION.

PRESENTED TO THE COMMUNITY BY WELLS FARGO PRIVATE BANK.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY THE DUBOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD MEMORIAL FUND, THE ALBERT SOTTILE FOUNDATION, THE SAMUEL FREEMAN CHARITABLE TRUST, AND THE BRAND FOUNDATIONOF NEW YORK, INC.

GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE ANNE AND RONALD ABRAMSON FAMILY FOUNDATION, MR. AND MRS. CARLOS E. EVANS, AND MR. M. EDWARD SELLERS AND DR. SUZAN BOYD.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM CAROLINAS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, MRS. ROGER P. HANAHAN, MR. NICHOLAS C. L. JONES, FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS, SUNTRUST BANK, AND ANN AND MICHAEL TARWATER.

OPERA PROGRAMMING IS ENDOWED BY THE ARTHUR AND HOLLY MAGILL FOUNDATION.

OPENING-NIGHT PARTY

Friday May 27 Immediately following performance

$100 per person; cocktails and hors d’oeuvres included.

Join the cast, musicians, and creative team of Porgy and Bess at a post-performance party celebrating the opening night.

CONVERSATIONS WITH

Sunday May 29 3:00pm

Host Martha Teichner interviews Director David Herskovits and Visual Designer JonathanGreen at Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston, 54 St. Philip Street.

See pages 43 and 44 for more events related to this production of Porgy and Bess.

SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA SPOLETOUSA.ORG

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WELLS FARGO JAZZ

JASON MORANFATS WALLER DANCE PARTYPianist Jason Moran is perhaps jazz’s best evidence of

enduring relevance and brilliant reinvention in the 21st

century. Whether performing with one of his acclaimed

ensembles, leading The Kennedy Center’s jazz program as

artistic director, or crafting ingenious new projects—often in

collaboration with visual artists—Moran has made his mark

(and earned a MacArthur “genius” fellowship) by digging

into storied histories and breaking new ground. For his Fats

Waller Dance Party, Moran—who has lived in Harlem for

20 years—celebrates a sound forged in that neighborhood

nearly a century ago. Performing in a spectacular papier-

mâché mask of Waller’s head and fronting a raucous band,

Moran deconstructs and reimagines Waller’s swinging

songbook, and he rekindles the spirit of jazz as a call that

moves not just minds but also bodies.

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON CISTERN YARD

Saturday June 4 9:00pm



SPONSORED BY WELLS FARGO

AAKASH ODEDRA COMPANYBritish dancer and choreographer Aakash Odedra has

rapidly accumulated international acclaim for his stunning

solo performance Rising. A testament to his reputation

as a dancer-to-watch, Rising features the work of three of

the world’s finest choreographers—Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui,

Akram Khan, and Russell Maliphant—who created pieces

especially for him performed alongside a work of his own.

Trained in the Indian dance styles of Kathak and Bharata

Natyam, Odedra sets out to tell stories through movement.

Each of the works in Rising generates a distinctly different

energy, showcasing his remarkable capabilities, from his

razor-sharp precision and enviable poise to his mesmerizing

agility, and sharing his “ecstatic joy in dancing” (The New

York Times).

EMMETT ROBINSON THEATREAT COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON


Thursday June 2 6:00pm






THE 2016 DANCE SERIES IS SPONSOREDBY BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE 2016 DANCE SERIES IS PROVIDED BY THE HARKNESS FOUNDATION FOR DANCE.

MASTER CLASS: CONTEMPORARY FUSION CLASSWITH AAKASH ODEDRA

Saturday June 4 11:30am to 1:00pm

For more information and to register,visit spoletousa.org.

RISING

“HE COMBINES POWER AND

GENTLENESS, DISCIPLINE

AND FREEDOM IN AN

ASTONISHING PACKAGE OF

VIBRATING MERCURIAL ENERGY...”

– The Straits Times

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THEATER

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THE IMPORTANCEOF BEING EARNEST

Dublin’s Gate Theatre makes its 10th appearance at Spoleto

Festival USA with a sparkling new production of Oscar

Wilde’s comic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.

Wilde’s joyous social satire chronicles the escapades of

dashing men-about-town—the irrepressible Algernon

Moncrieff and the exquisitely mannerly John Worthing—

and their courtship of the ladies Gwendolen Fairfax and

Cecily Cardew. Matters are hilariously complicated by the

gallants’ deceptions and the interference of Gwendolen’s

formidable mother, Lady Bracknell. Boasting what the

company’s Artistic Director Michael Colgan calls “a dream

cast,” expect Gate Theatre to brilliantly deliver both Wilde’s

rapier wit and an exuberant evening of theatrical fun and

frothy sophistication in the Dock Street Theatre.

DOCK STREET THEATRE

Thursday May 26 8:00pm (preview)



Monday May 30 3:30pm & 8:00pm



Saturday June 4 3:30pm & 8:00pm


Tuesday June 7 7:30pm

Wednesday June 8 3:30pm & 8:00pm






APPROXIMATELY 2 HOURS, 30 MINUTES

SPONSORED BY FIRST CITIZENS BANK

GATE THEATRE

WRITTEN BY OSCAR WILDEDIRECTED BY PATRICK MASON


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SPOLETOFESTIVAL USAORCHESTRA

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A remarkably versatile ensemble composed of the

country’s most accomplished young professional

musicians, the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra performs

in many capacities, including opera, symphonic, choral,

chamber, and contemporary concerts. Formed anew each

year through national auditions, this prestigious orchestra

is led by the Festival’s Resident Conductor and Director of

Orchestral Activities John Kennedy. This season, members

of the ensemble present two orchestral concerts.

MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANSPremiered 40 years ago in New York City and achieving

immediate renown, Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians

remains a landmark work of the 20th century, helping to

define the minimalist movement with its revolutionary style.

This unconducted masterpiece showcases harmonically

driven pulses that envelop listeners with waves of hypnotic

and mesmerizing textures.

MEMMINGER AUDITORIUM



APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERTCONDUCTED BY NORMAN HUYNH

The youthful virtuosity of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra

will be on display in this special chamber orchestra

program, which includes Alberto Ginastera’s superbly

crafted Variaciones concertantes—an expressive work with

improvisatory character that features every instrument as a

soloist. Performed in the beautiful sanctuary of St. Matthew’s

Lutheran Church, this concert will cast a spotlight on the

orchestra’s eclectic talents.

ST. MATTHEW’S LUTHERAN CHURCH

Monday June 6 5:00pm



DIRECTED BY DREW DIR

ADA/AVADescribed as “talent incarnate” by Time Out New York,

Chicago-based performance collective Manual Cinema

makes its Spoleto Festival USA debut with Ada/Ava. Twin

sisters Ada and Ava have lived their whole lives together

until, suddenly, Ava dies leaving Ada haunted by grief,

solitarily marking time in the patterns of a life built for

two. However, when a traveling carnival comes to town,

a trip to a mirror maze plunges her into a journey across

the thresholds of life and death. Set within a New England

gothic landscape, Ada/Ava uses a story of the fantastic and

the supernatural to explore mourning and melancholy,

and notions of self and other. Featuring three musicians

performing an original score live and more than 300 flat

paper and acetate puppets manipulated by five puppeteers,

this compelling and visually stunning work is created

transparently with the audience privy to the process of “. . .

turning substance into shadow and shadow into substance”

(The New York Times).

MANUAL CINEMA

EMMETT ROBINSON THEATREAT COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON


Saturday May 28 1:00pm & 6:00pm

Sunday May 29 1:00pm & 7:00pm



For adults and children 8 and older.Special children’s ticket price available.


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“...THIS CHICAGO TROUPE IS

CONJURING PHANTASMS TO DIE

FOR IN AN UNCLASSIFIABLE

STORY OF SPECTRAL BEAUTY

CALLED ADA/AVA.”

– The New York Times

BILL T. JONES/ ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY

The innovative and iconic Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance

Company returns to Spoleto Festival USA with Play and

Play: An Evening of Movement and Music. Performed

to live music, the program marries Jones’s inventive

choreography with works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, and

Beethoven to highlight the exhilaration of musicians and

dancers working together. Jones’s joyful tour-de-force

“D-Man in the Waters” is a two-time New York Dance and

Performance (“Bessie”) Award-winning work considered a

classic of modern dance. Set to Mendelssohn’s Octet for

Strings in E-flat Major, op. 20, the work celebrates life and

the resiliency of the human spirit, guiding the audience

through loss, hope, and triumph. “Spent Days Out Yonder”

is a musical exploration set to the second movement of

Mozart’s String Quartet in F Major, no. 23, with the dancers

becoming “. . . the perfect embodiment of the score” (The

New Yorker). “Continuous Replay” is based on a 1977

solo by Arnie Zane revised by Jones as a group work in

1991, reflecting Zane’s fascination with photography and

film. Based on 45 precise gestures that start with one

dancer and cunningly build into a frenetic accumulated

phrase performed by the group, the work features a score

by Jerome Begin for octet that combines motifs from

Beethoven’s first and last string quartets with recorded

sounds to create a surprising soundscape.

This program contains nudity.

Featuring members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON SOTTILE THEATRE






SUPPORT FOR THE 2016 DANCE SERIES IS PROVIDED BY THE HARKNESS FOUNDATION FOR DANCE.

DANCE

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PLAY AND PLAY: AN EVENING OF MOVEMENT AND MUSIC

MASTER CLASS: COMPANY CLASS WITH JANET WONG

Thursday May 26 5:30pm to 7:00pm

For more information and to register, visit spoletousa.org.

“RARELY HAS ONE SEEN A DANCE

COMPANY THROW ITSELF ONTO

THE STAGE WITH SUCH KINETIC

EXALTATION.”

– The New Yorker


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OPERA

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THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL

Hans Christian Andersen’s sobering tale depicts a poor

girl on a snowy street, lighting matches for a few seconds

of fleeting warmth in her final hour. In his opera, avant-

garde composer Helmut Lachenmann explores the

girl’s last moments as she gazes into the dreams and

memories conjured by the flames. Co-Directors Phelim

McDermott of award-winning improvised theater makers

Improbable, and Mark Down of master-puppeteers Blind

Summit Theatre cast extraordinary shadows to make

a show that almost isn’t there, lit by the light of a match

and performed at the speed of scissors. Elevated on a

platform and encircling the audience, 106 members of the

Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra perform this astonishingly

evocative score, full of clicks, crackles, knocks, and hisses,

under the baton of Resident Conductor and Director of

Orchestral Activities John Kennedy. Lachenmann departs

from traditional performance techniques in order to create

a frigid atmosphere—a nearly meteorological effect—both

animating the match girl’s world and contemplating the

coldness of a society that would let a child freeze.

In collaboration with Blind Summit Theatre and Improbable

theater company.

WITH

Westminster Choir

Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra



Tuesday May 31 7:00pm





SPONSORED BY BMW MANUFACTURING CO.

OPERA PROGRAMMING IS ENDOWED BY THE ARTHURAND HOLLY MAGILL FOUNDATION.

MUSIC AND LIBRETTO BY HELMUT LACHENMANNCONDUCTED BY JOHN KENNEDYDIRECTED BY MARK DOWN AND PHELIM MCDERMOTT

US PREMIERE

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“...LACHENMANN’S MUSIC FORCES THE

LISTENER TO CONFRONT AND

QUESTION THEIR INGRAINED

EXPECTATIONS FROM AND RESPONSES

TO MUSIC, IN AN ATTEMPT TO EXTEND

AND FURTHER ILLUMINATE ONE’S

POWERS OF PERCEPTION.”

– Musical Times

CONVERSATIONS WITH


Host Martha Teichner interviews Co-Directors Mark Down and Phelim McDermott at the Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street.

THEATER AMERICAN EXPRESS WOOLFE STREET SERIES

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EVERY BRILLIANT THING

Every Brilliant Thing is a “beautiful, heart-wrenching and

very funny” (Time Out London) play about finding reasons

to live when all hope seems lost. A man looks back at a

list he began as a child to help his depressed mother

rediscover joy—a list of “every brilliant thing” worth living

for. Beginning with “1. Ice cream,” the list grows as the boy

grows up, and soon takes on a life of its own. Performed

by Jonny Donahoe, Every Brilliant Thing comes to Spoleto

Festival USA following critically acclaimed runs at the

Edinburgh Festival, New York’s Barrow Street Theatre, and

a UK tour. Exploring the lengths people go to for those

they love, the play has been described as “a piece that

DIRECTED BY GEORGE PERRINWRITTEN BY DUNCAN MACMILLAN WITHJONNY DONAHOE

PAINES PLOUGH AND PENTABUS THEATRE COMPANY

demonstrates why life is worth living—you’ll leave feeling

elated” (The Scotsman).

WOOLFE STREET PLAYHOUSE







SPONSORED BY AMERICAN EXPRESS

WELLS FARGO JAZZ SPOLETOUSA.ORG

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RANDY WESTON AFRICAN RHYTHMS SEXTET

Having lived through much of the music’s history, pianist

and composer Randy Weston helped author jazz’s story. He

was born in Brooklyn, New York, at a time when “shoeshine

boys whistled bebop melodies,” Weston recalls. He didn’t

have to travel far to hear the giants that moved him—Count

Basie, Nat King Cole, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington and, his

deepest influence, Thelonious Monk. The poet Langston

Hughes, who collaborated on Weston’s landmark 1960

album, Uhuru Afrika, once wrote, “When Randy Weston

plays, a combination of strength and gentleness, virility

and velvet, emerges from the keys in an ebb and flow of

sound seemingly as natural as the waves of the sea.” In

2001, he was named a National Endowment for the Arts

Jazz Master, and is honored and credited with exemplifying

a uniquely American art form. Throughout his career, in

formats ranging from solo piano to jazz orchestra, Weston

has delved more deeply and with more profound insight

than any other musician into jazz’s African roots.

CHARLESTON GAILLARD CENTERMARTHA AND JOHN M. RIVERS PERFORMANCE HALL





RANDY WESTON, PIANOT.K. BLUE, SAXOPHONE AND FLUTEALEX BLAKE, BASSNEIL CLARKE, AFRICAN PERCUSSIONBILLY HARPER, TENOR SAXOPHONELEWIS NASH, DRUMS

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WESTMINSTER CHOIR CONCERTSAlways in great demand, Westminster Choir Concerts

in the Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul are an

unforgettable experience. In this idyllic setting, the pristine

voices of the Festival’s acclaimed choir-in-residence soar

in purity and bliss. Conducted by Joe Miller, the Festival’s

director for choral activities, this esteemed ensemble offers

selections from its rich and widely varied repertoire; the

2016 program, titled Angel Band, features Poulenc’s sonic

masterpiece, Messe en Sol Majeur; Debussy’s lush Trois

chansons de Charles d’Orléans; and Brahms’s colorful vocal

quartet An Die Heimat, along with traditional favorites.

CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. LUKE AND ST. PAUL

Monday May 30 5:00pm




CONDUCTED BY JOE MILLER

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On an evening in late December, 1808, Beethoven performed

a concert in Vienna that he hoped would raise significant

funds; the financial outcome of this endeavor is unknown,

though it yielded some of the legendary composer’s best-

loved music. In addition to the premiere of Beethoven’s

fifth and sixth symphonies, his fourth piano concerto, and

the performance of several movements of his Mass in C

Major, a new piece emerged that utilized the piano, chorus,

and orchestra: the Choral Fantasy.

In what will be another remarkable evening, Westminster

Choir, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and

the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra will combine forces to

present Beethoven’s Mass in C Major and Choral Fantasy,

as well as Olivier Messiaen’s Couleurs de la Cité Celeste

for piano, winds, and percussion. Pianist Lori Sims,

whose “superb musicianship and flexible virtuosity”

(Gramophone) mark her performances will be featured in

the latter two works. The Beethoven works emerged from

his “heroic” period, a time when he strayed from classical

convention, heading instead toward the lows and highs of

struggle and celebration. In the Choral Fantasy, many hear

early sketches of the melody made famous in Beethoven’s

ninth symphony—full of hope, fraternity, and joy.





SPONSORED BY SOUTH STATE BANK

CHORAL FANTASYBEETHOVEN / MASS IN C MAJORMESSIAEN / COULEURS DE LA CITÉ CELESTEBEETHOVEN / CHORAL FANTASY

CONDUCTED BY JOE MILLER

MUSIC

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GRACE NOTES

“Grace can be understood as a principle, a quality, a gesture,

or a moral code. Grace implies freeing the bondage of the

human spirit and suggests the breadth, scope, and depth

of our humanity in the face of violence—acts that may be

found in our everyday lives or reflected in public moments

of collective grief. Grace, as expressed in these moments,

is not transformative when it ends only in a tear, a sigh, or a

moment of silence. Grace is meant to activate us, to propel

us, to challenge us to see what we might prefer to remain

unseen, and to act where we have been complacent and

unable to move.”

– Carrie Mae Weems

Always focused on social justice, acclaimed visual artist

Carrie Mae Weems offers up Grace Notes: Reflections

for Now, a provocative performance of music, song, text,

spoken word, and video projection that explores our

historical moment. For this seminal performance, Weems

brings together such artists and consummate intellectuals

as composers and musicians James Newton, Geri Allen,

and Craig Harris, along with poet Aja Monet, writer Carl

Hancock Rux, and singers Alicia Hall Moran, Imani Uzuri,

and Esai Davis. Originally conceived as a gift to President

Obama, who sang a rendition of “Amazing Grace” during

his eulogy for Emanuel AME Church victim Reverend

Clementa Pinckney, this immersive experience asks: what

is the role of grace in the pursuit of democracy?






DIRECTED BY CARRIE MAE WEEMSCURATED BY SARAH LEWIS

WORLD PREMIERE

REFLECTIONS FOR NOW

CONVERSATIONS WITH


Host Martha Teichner interviews visual artist Carrie Mae Weems at Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street.


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Carrie Mae Weems, A Woman Observes, 2008Archival pigment print, 61 x 51 inches

©Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

RENÉ MARIE

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A Festival favorite, René Marie is known for her vocal

vibrancy and self-possessed boldness, making her one of

the most compelling voices performing today. A distinctly

American mélange of jazz, soul, blues, folk, and gospel

give way to Marie’s innate theatrical ability to interpret a

song deeply, this time on the beautifully renovated stage of

the Charleston Gaillard Center. Her 2016 performance will

include a commissioned work—“Be the Change”—inspired

by the community outpouring after the nine murders in

Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church in 2015.






WITHETIENNE CHARLES, TRUMPETWYCLIFFE GORDON, TROMBONEJOHN CHIN, PIANOELIAS BAILEY, DOUBLE BASSQUENTIN BAXTER, DRUMS

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A GAMBLER’SGUIDE TODYING

In this “funny, observant, poignant” (Financial Times) one-

man show, Scottish writer and actor Gary McNair poses

the question: what are the odds of living an extraordinary

life? He recounts the story of his garrulous gambling

grandfather whose winning bet on the 1966 World Cup final

made him his fortune and forged a family legend. When

diagnosed with cancer, his grandfather decided to punt on

his prognosis by betting all of his accumulated gambling

winnings on living to see the year 2000. Awarded The

Scotsman’s Fringe First award for new writing at the 2015

Edinburgh Fringe Festival, A Gambler’s Guide to Dying is

an intergenerational tale of what we live for and what we

leave behind.

EMMETT ROBINSON THEATRE AT COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON








SPONSORED BY RENAISSANCE CHARLESTON HISTORIC DISTRICT HOTEL

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY GARY MCNAIRDIRECTED BY GARETH NICHOLLS

US PREMIERE

SHOW AND TELL

“...A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN,

DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE, WARMLY

COMIC PIECE THAT ACCUMULATES

LAYERS OF MEANING THROUGH

THE ACT OF STORYTELLING ITSELF.” – The Guardian

OPERA

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LA DOUBLECOQUETTE

What happens when a good-looking, double-crossing cross-

dresser sets out to win back her lover from the arms of a young

seductress? Find out in the very French La Double Coquette—a

charming revision of Antoine Dauvergne’s 1753 opéra comique,

La Coquette trompée. Contemporary French composer Gérard

Pesson’s 32 additions—supplements, asides, codas, and new

harmonies—seamlessly complement the original score, and

costumes designed by acclaimed French visual artist Annette

Messager bring the work into the 21st century. Combined

with Pierre Alferi’s cheeky new libretto, La Double Coquette

is delicious light comedy brought to life by the gifted period

musicians of Ensemble Amarillis.

Sung in French with English supertitles.

WITH

Ensemble Amarillis

DOCK STREET THEATRE



Tuesday May 31 8:00pm




The concert version of La Double Coquette was produced by the Ensemble Amarillis and Les 2 Scènes-scène nationale de Besançon on December 2, 2014 at the Théâtre de Besançon. Gerard Pesson’s music and Pierre Alferi’s libretto were commissioned by Les 2 Scènes-scène nationale de Besançon.

With the support of the Orange Foundation.

The staged version of La Double Coquette is produced by the Festival d’Automne in Paris; the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Festival Le French May / Hong Kong; Festival de Sablé; Metz en Scenes - Arsenal; Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne; KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen; Spoleto Festival USA; Peak Performances @ Montclair State University. With support from le Fonds de Creation et Lyrique and l’ADAMI.

SPONSORED BY BMW MANUFACTURING CO.

OPERA PROGRAMMING IS ENDOWED BY THE ARTHUR AND HOLLY MAGILL FOUNDATION.

THIS EVENT WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF FACE, THE FRENCH-AMERICAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE.

COMPOSED BY ANTOINE DAUVERGNE WITHREVISIONS BY GÉRARD PESSONLIBRETTO BY CHARLES-SIMON FAVART WITHREVISIONS BY PIERRE ALFERIDIRECTED BY FANNY DE CHAILLÉ

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BANK OF AMERICA CHAMBER MUSICNow in his seventh year as director, violinist Geoff Nuttall

leads the Bank of America Chamber Music series in what

can only be described as a party. With his boisterous humor,

exuberant performance style, and expansive historical

knowledge, Nuttall and a thrilling selection of musicians

perform 11 programs—each three times—presenting both

familiar favorites and stimulating discoveries from the

gamut of music literature. To celebrate Spoleto Festival

USA’s 40th season, the St. Lawrence String Quartet will

be in residence for the duration of the Festival, also joined

by pianists Stephen Prutsman and Inon Barnatan, cellist

Alisa Weilerstein, violinist Benjamin Beilman, oboist James

Austin Smith, baritone Tyler Duncan, and many others.

Revered violinist Pamela Frank will make her Festival debut,

and Osvaldo Golijov returns to the series as composer in

residence. Nuttall’s ingenious programs delight every ear

and expand every mind that experiences them, and are a

joyful example of the true spirit of chamber music.

DOCK STREET THEATRE

PROGRAM IFriday May 27 1:00pmSaturday May 28 11:00am & 1:00pm

PROGRAM IISunday May 29 11:00am & 1:00pmMonday May 30 11:00am

PROGRAM IIIMonday May 30 1:00pmTuesday May 31 11:00am & 1:00pm

PROGRAM IVWednesday June 1 11:00am & 1:00pmThursday June 2 11:00am

PROGRAM VThursday June 2 1:00pmFriday June 3 11:00am & 1:00pm

PROGRAM VISaturday June 4 11:00am & 1:00pmSunday June 5 11:00am

PROGRAM VIISunday June 5 1:00pmMonday June 6 11:00am & 1:00pm

PROGRAM VIIITuesday June 7 11:00am & 1:00pmWednesday June 8 11:00am

PROGRAM IXWednesday June 8 1:00pmThursday June 9 11:00am & 1:00pm

PROGRAM XFriday June 10 11:00am & 1:00pmSaturday June 11 11:00am

PROGRAM XISaturday June 11 1:00pmSunday June 12 11:00am & 1:00pm

FULL PROGRAM DETAILS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2016 AT SPOLETOUSA.ORG

DETAILS ABOUT BANK OF AMERICA CHAMBER MUSIC SUBSCRIPTIONS CAN BE FOUND AT SPOLETOUSA.ORG/CHAMBER-MUSIC-SUBSCRIPTIONS



SPONSORED BY BANK OF AMERICA

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY THE ROBERT AND JANICE MCNAIR FOUNDATION.

THE ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET IS THE ARTHUR AND HOLLY MAGILL QUARTET IN RESIDENCE.


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DANCE

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L.A. DANCEPROJECT

Bursting onto the dance scene in 2012, L.A. Dance Project

has been turning heads with its fresh, contemporary vision

of dance and stylistically diverse repertory. The collective

makes its Spoleto Festival USA debut with a program of

three works. New York City Ballet soloist and Resident

Choreographer Justin Peck has become one of the ballet

world’s most sought-after choreographers. His Murder

Ballades is based on the rich and intriguing American folk

tradition of songs about crime. Bright and athletic on the

surface, dark undertones slowly creep through, augmented

by a score by Bryce Dessner (The National) and visuals

by artist Sterling Ruby. The result is a vibrant work “. . .

bookended by extravagant energy—the finale is a series

of frenetic solos that twist, reach and unravel—but at its

center are two duets that hint at the ominous title” (The

New York Times). In Harbor Me by award-winning Belgian

choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, a trio of dancers

explores the role of the harbor as a place of shelter, offering

protection, but also as a border that can turn you away.

Embodying the three elements of fire, water, and air that

influence, transform, or destroy each other as they move,

the piece is set to music by Korean composer Woojae

Park. Hearts & Arrows by L.A. Dance Project founder, Paris

Opera Ballet director of dance, and former New York City

Ballet principal, Benjamin Millepied, is set to Philip Glass’s

String Quartet no. 3 and sees eight dancers move through

numerous patterns where “everything is unexpected,

and everything feels serendipitously right” (The New

York Times).



Sunday June 5 1:00pm and 7:00pm


APPROXIMATELY 2 HOURS

THE 2016 DANCE SERIES IS SPONSORED BYBLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE 2016 DANCE SERIESIS PROVIDED BY THE HARKNESS FOUNDATION FOR DANCE.

MURDER BALLADESHARBOR MEHEARTS & ARROWS

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GOLEM

Hailed as “a Frankenstein for the 21st century” (The

Times, London) Golem is the newest creation from the

astonishingly original company 1927. A dark and fantastical

tale of an extraordinarily ordinary man, Golem follows the

company’s hugely successful productions—and wildly

popular Festival hits—The Animals and Children Took to the

Streets (2012) and Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

(2008). Golem is loosely based on the Jewish folklore myth

about a man who fashions a creature out of clay to work

for him, but is an original story told via 1927’s characteristic

blend of live performance and stunning sets brought to life

through film, animation, and claymation. A dystopian fable

for the current age, Golem cleverly and satirically explores

one of the great questions of the modern world: who or

what is in control of our technologies?









SPONSORED BY HYATT PLACE & HYATT HOUSE

THEATER

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1927

“GROUNDBREAKING WITH STROKES

OF GENIUS... A WITTY COLLISION

OF ANTIQUATED AESTHETICS, WIDE

RANGING CULTURAL INFLUENCES AND

MODERN-DAY SENSIBILITIES.”

– The Daily Telegraph

DIRECTED AND WRITTEN BY SUZANNE ANDRADEFILM, ANIMATION, AND DESIGN BY PAUL BARRITT

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CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT

WELLS FARGO JAZZ

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Cécile McLorin Salvant has been turning heads since she won

the Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition

in 2010, enticing jazz aficionados with her “heightened

music-theatre, enunciated with authority and polished with

elaborate sonic costume changes” (The Guardian). Back in

Charleston after her 2012 Festival debut, Salvant brings the

fruits and success of the last several years to the Cistern

Yard, marked by theatrical portrayals, fresh interpretations,

and a handful of original compositions—heard on her 2015

album, For One to Love. This Grammy-nominated singer

embeds her work with originality, lyrical playfulness, and a

floating tone that uplifts all who hear it.






“... A SAVVY POST-MODERN THINKER

WHO HAS DIGESTED THE ENTIRE

REPERTOIRE AND USES IT TO TELL HER

OWN STORIES.”

– The Times-Picayune

ARTURO O’FARRILL AND THE AFROLATIN JAZZORCHESTRAWinner of multiple Grammy awards, pianist and composer

Arturo O’Farrill inherited a powerful legacy from his father,

the legendary Cuban composer and bandleader Chico

O’Farrill. Born in Mexico and raised in New York City, he

was also deeply influenced by experimental jazz. O’Farrill’s

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra embodies the drama of big-band

jazz, the dynamism of Latin music, and the thrill of 18 world-

class musicians united in a quest for aesthetic liberation.

They express the promise of a lasting bond between Cuba

and the United States, invigorated this year by a changed

political context—a decision affirmed in O’Farrill’s latest

CD title, Cuba: The Conversation Continues. His orchestra

mines the rhythmic and cultural traditions of many

nations—from Peru and Colombia to Spain and beyond—to

extend Dizzy Gillespie’s vision of jazz as a “global music.”


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THE CONVERSATION CONTINUES:THE US, CUBA, AND JAZZ


Pianist/composer Arturo O’Farrill and saxophonist/

composer Yosvany Terry (p 35) discuss the historic

bond between the US and Cuba in conversation with

music critic Larry Blumenfeld at Simons Center Recital

Hall at College of Charleston, 56 St. Philip Street.

HAVANA RAKATANThis “stunning slice of Havana life” (The Independent)

brings salsa, mambo, jazz, bolero, son, cha-cha-cha, and

rumba together for a dazzling display of Cuban passion.

Exuberantly exploring the country’s rich history through

dance, Cuban choreographer Nilda Guerra’s whirlwind

of movement is underpinned by the loose, syncopated

rhythms of Cuba’s well-known eight-piece son band

Turquino performing live on stage. Havana Rakatan made

its hugely successful debut in London, where Time Out

London proclaimed it “rip-roaring entertainment.” The

show subsequently completed four successful West End

runs and has toured the world as one of Sadler’s Wells’s

most successful productions.








SPONSORED BY SHERMAN CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE 2016 DANCE SERIES IS PROVIDED BY THE HARKNESS FOUNDATION FOR DANCE.

DANCE

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SADLER’S WELLS LONDON &CONGAS PRODUCTIONS

“...HAVANA RAKATAN IS A NEAR

PERFECT DANCE SHOW...”

– The Stage (UK)

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BOHEMIAN TRIO

WELLS FARGO JAZZ

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YOSVANY TERRY, SAXOPHONE AND CHÉKEREORLANDO ALONSO, PIANOYVES DHARAMRAJ, CELLO

Drawn to the idea that a blend of traditions would speak to

the true voice of the Americas, Yosvany Terry (saxophone

and chékere), Orlando Alonso (piano), and Yves Dharamraj

(cello) pooled their cultural and musical backgrounds to

form the Bohemian Trio in 2013. Together, they forge a

new identity—a polyphony of cultures—that transcends

old-world boundaries. Bohemian Trio intertwines earthy,

Afro-Cuban rhythms with sweeping classical melodies,

jazz improvisation, and the celebration of Latin dance to

transport its audiences to an inspired and fantastical place,

though one longing for a bygone era at odds with the

modern world. Grounded in both distinct formal traditions

and abstract ideas, each member exhibits his own brand

of technical prowess and invention, creating an extension

of the familiar. Their musical narratives—deftly woven into

original and commissioned works—simultaneously evoke

joy, nostalgia, and passion.

SIMONS CENTER RECITAL HALLAT COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON

Saturday May 28 5:00pm & 7:00pm


Tuesday May 31 5:00pm & 7:00pm




THE CONVERSATION CONTINUES:THE US, CUBA, AND JAZZ


Pianist/composer Arturo O’Farrill and saxophonist/composer Yosvany Terry (p 35) discuss the historic bond between the US and Cuba in conversation with music critic Larry Blumenfeld at Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston, 56 St. Philip Street.

THE FREDDYCOLE QUARTET

Distinguished by his warm grace and suave, smoky voice,

Freddy Cole is one of the most respected lyrical storytellers

in jazz today. Raised in an exceptionally musical family in

Chicago, Cole grew up in a home that saw visitors like Duke

Ellington, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton. He and his

three older brothers—Nat King Cole among them—were

all musicians taught by their mother; Freddy continued

his music education at The Juilliard School and the New

England Conservatory of Music before developing a vast

repertoire and flourishing career in Manhattan bistros. A

two-time Grammy nominee, Cole now performs with a

quartet including bassist Elias Bailey, percussionist Quentin

Baxter, and featuring guitarist Randy Napoleon, and has

moved into the front ranks of America’s homegrown art

form with a style and musical sophistication all his own.


Wednesday June 8 5:00pm & 7:00pm

Thursday June 9 5:00pm & 7:00pm

Friday June 10 5:00pm & 7:00pm





“FREDDY HAS AN IMPECCABLE SENSE

OF SWING . . . HE IS, OVERALL, THE

MOST MATURELY EXPRESSIVE MALE

JAZZ SINGER OF HIS GENERATION, IF

NOT THE BEST ALIVE.” – The New York Times

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FREDDY COLE, PIANO/VOCALSRANDY NAPOLEON, GUITARELIAS BAILEY, BASSQUENTIN BAXTER, DRUMS/PERCUSSION

OPPOSINGFORCES

Breakdancing, live beats, and hip hop collide to challenge

perceptions of gender roles in this exciting work created

by choreographer, dancer, and educator Amy O’Neal.

Five world-class B-Boys—Alfredo “Free” Vergara Jr.,

Brysen “Just Be” Angeles, Fever One, Michael O’Neal Jr.,

and Mozes Lateef Saleem—use their distinctive physical

language to examine the value systems of race and gender

within the environments of battling, commercial dance,

contemporary performance, and rap culture. Performed to

an original score of contagious beats by Waylon Dungan,

also known as WD4D, the action takes place inside a

futuristic geometric landscape creating a work that “...

transcends disciplines and boundaries. It is a bridge

between worlds, a translator for opposing points of view, a

force for good” (City Arts Magazine, Seattle).










The presentation of Opposing Forces was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE 2016 DANCE SERIESIS PROVIDED BY THE HARKNESS FOUNDATION FOR DANCE.

CONCEPT, DIRECTION, AND CHOREOGRAPHYBY AMY O’NEAL

MASTER CLASS: STREET DANCE STYLES WITHAMY O’NEAL

Saturday June 11 12:00pm to 1:30pm

For more information and to register,visit spoletousa.org.

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“WITH OPPOSING FORCES AMY O’NEAL

TAKES THE FORM ONE STEP

FURTHER, TURNING HIP HOP INTO

NUANCED, HAUNTING, BEAUTIFUL,

CONCERT ART.”

– The Seattle Times


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MUSIC IN TIMEJOHN KENNEDY, DIRECTOR AND HOST

HELMUT LACHENMANN IN CONVERSATIONHelmut Lachenmann, the German composer whose opera

The Little Match Girl has its US premiere at the Festival

this year (p 13), is one of the most distinctive and creative

composers of our time. Hear this warm, engaging, and

provocative gentleman discuss his opera as well as his

philosophies of musical and social engagement. Also on

the program will be Lachenmann’s 2008 song cycle, Got

Lost—a deconstruction of text and sound in which music

reflects upon itself in, as he says, “a constantly changing

field of sound, reverberation, and movement.” Got Lost will

be performed by celebrated interpreters of Lachenmann’s

music, soprano Yuko Kakuta and pianist Stephen Drury.



EIN KINDERSPIEL AND SPOLETUDESThis playful program abounds with new sounds, led by

Helmut Lachenmann’s Ein Kinderspiel (Child’s Play) for

solo piano, played by Renate Rohlfing. Virtuosic musical

portraits for musicians who have had a long association

with Spoleto Festival USA will be revealed in the premiere

of John Kennedy’s Spoletudes. And with his new

Verplichtet II, Gleb Kanasevich creates a bizarre tapestry

of chamber orchestra dialogue, complete with abstract

references to Kanye West and an amplified milkshake.



SERYNADE WITH AN AUTOMATED SUNRISEThis celebration of Helmut Lachenmann concludes with

his monumental piano solo Serynade. Played by the

masterful Stephen Drury, the work’s ringing harmonics

and resonances will clearly traverse the intimate acoustics

of the Recital Hall. And the series closes not with a sunset,

but a sunrise: Oscar Bettison’s hypnotic, kaleidoscopic,

and utterly lovely 2014 work for small ensemble, An

Automated Sunrise (for Joseph Cornell).




ALL CONCERTS APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR

HELMUT LACHENMANN

RENATE ROHLFING

MUSIC IN TIME AT WOOLFE STREET PLAYHOUSE

ANCIENT VOICES OF CHILDRENGeorge Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children, a cycle of

songs on texts by Federico García Lorca, is a contemporary

music classic that retains its earthy timelessness and

evocative drama. This special Woolfe Street performance

features soprano Heather Buck with pianist Stephen Drury

and members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra.

Sharing the program is Pierre Boulez’s haunting Dialogue

de l’ombre double (Dialogue of the Double Shadow)

for clarinet and spatial electronics, performed by Gleb

Kanasevich.



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STEPHEN DRURY HEATHER BUCK

A MAZE (WITH GRACE)“Amazing Grace” is unfolded note-by-note in Thomas

Albert’s ode to memory, A Maze (With Grace). Other new

and exciting works, including Hong-Da Chin’s …the clock

is ticking… and Richard Reed Parry’s Music for Heart and

Breath will be brought to life in performances by members

of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra.




ALL CONCERTS APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR


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AFRAM OU LA BELLE SWITA

A native of Charleston, Edmund Thornton Jenkins was

the seventh son of Reverend Daniel Jenkins, who, born a

slave, founded the Jenkins Orphanage on King Street; the

Jenkins Orphanage Band accompanied every Broadway

performance of Dorothy and DuBose Heyward’s Porgy, the

play on which Porgy and Bess (see p 3) was based. Edmund

was the Ross Scholar at London’s Royal Academy of Music,

winning awards in performance and composition before

his premature death in Paris at age 32.

Jenkins’s last composition, Afram ou La Belle Swita,

is an “African romance” that travels from Africa to the

American South, encountering a prince and princess, a

lounge lizard, banjos under the moonlight, and possum

hunts; he intended this work to be performed by the likes

of Florence Mills, the winsome “Queen of Happiness”

from the Harlem Renaissance and a member of his coterie

of friends. Reconstructed in what is believed to be its first

performance, Afram is a cabaret revue with songs, fox

trots, and such evocations of Charleston as “Underneath

the Palmettos and Pines.” With stage direction by David

Herskovits and featuring members of the Porgy and Bess

cast, Afram transports you to the romance and whimsy of

Jazz-age Paris, with a southern touch.








Florence Mills (1896 – 1927) in Dover Street to Dixie at the London Pavilion, 1923. Jenkins had hoped Mills, a successful and dynamic cabaret singer, would sing in Afram.© National Portrait Gallery, London.

COMPOSED BY EDMUND THORNTON JENKINSDIRECTED BY DAVID HERSKOVITS

WORLD PREMIERE

MUSIC AMERICAN EXPRESS WOOLFE STREET SERIES


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CONVERSATIONS WITH


Host Martha Teichner interviews Music Director Duane Davis and artist Tuffus Zimbabwe at Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street.

WALKING TOUR Explore the world of Porgy and Bess beyond the stage with

this specially curated walking tour of downtown Charleston.

Featuring locations made famous by the opera and DuBose

Heyward’s novel, Porgy—including Catfish Row—the tour

will feature sites associated with the fictional characters

as well as the real people on which they are based. Your

knowledgeable guide will provide a rich historical context

for the work and its creators and also visit sites that inspired

the production’s visual designer, artist Jonathan Green.

TOURS DAILY, MAY 27 – JUNE 12

11:00am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm, and 2:00pm$40 Adult | $20 Child (ages 6 – 12)

Advance ticket purchase required.Additional details available at spoletousa.org.

APPROXIMATELY 2 HOURS

PORGY AND BESS IN CHARLESTON

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THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM I GOT PLENTY O’ NUTTIN’: GEORGE GERSHWIN’S CHARLESTON

Reflecting the 1930s Charleston that DuBose Heyward

and George Gershwin witnessed when writing and

composing the opera, this exhibit will feature black

and white images of Charleston during the 1920s and

1930s, period clothing and accessories, the very piano

George Gershwin used to compose the opera, as well

as a goat cart of the period in ode to Sammy Smalls,

the inspiration for the character of Porgy. The Museum

will offer exclusive curator-led tours and children’s

educational programs during the exhibition.

MAY 15 – JUNE 15, 2016360 MEETING STREETCHARLESTONMUSEUM.ORG

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON LIBRARIES“PORGY AND BESS: A CHARLESTON STORY” EVENT SERIES

The College of Charleston Friends of the Library

and Special Collections will host a series of events

celebrating Porgy and Bess and exploring the origins,

legacies, and controversies of the story in its many

forms. The free events will include a Porgy and Bess

exhibition of art and rare manuscripts, the dedication

of a historic plaque at the site of the real Catfish

Row, and a public lecture and author signing for the

forthcoming book Porgy and Bess: A Charleston Story.

The talk, exhibition, and docent-led tours will be held

at the College of Charleston Marlene and Nathan

Addlestone Library.

MAY 2016205 CALHOUN STREET

FRIENDS.LIBRARY.COFC.EDU

ENGAGING CREATIVE MINDSSpoleto Festival USA will partner with Engaging

Creative Minds and the Ravinia Festival’s “One Score,

One Chicago” music-education program, along with

local artists to implement a learning program based

on Porgy and Bess for eighth graders in the Berkeley,

Charleston, and Dorchester school districts. This

project will culminate in the students attending a dress

rehearsal of the new Spoleto Festival USA production.

The project helps to fulfill Engaging Creative Minds’s

goal to provide students with equal access to highly

impactful learning opportunities.

ENGAGINGCREATIVEMINDS.ORG

In addition to the events listed above, new events and

more detailed information will be updated online at

spoletousa.org.

GIBBESMUSEUMOF ART BEYOND CATFISH ROW:THE ART OF PORGY AND BESS Beyond Catfish Row: The Art of Porgy and Bess celebrates

George Gershwin’s famed opera, as interpreted by visual

artists since its creation. The exhibition includes a number

of paintings from the 1930s era, including works by

American realist George Biddle, who illustrated the original

Porgy and Bess libretto in 1935. Beyond Catfish Row also

includes paintings by Gershwin himself and works by

American modernist Henry Botkin, who accompanied the

composer to Charleston while he wrote the opera. The

1930s works are paired with more recent interpretations by

contemporary artists Kara Walker and Jonathan Green. One

of the foremost artists addressing issues of race, class, and

gender in America, Walker created a suite of 20 lithographs

as illustrations for the Porgy and Bess libretto, published

by Arion Press in 2013. Green is the visual designer for

Spoleto Festival USA’s 2016 production of Porgy and Bess.

THE THINGS WE CARRY:CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE SOUTH The Things We Carry: Contemporary Art in the South

features paintings, sculpture, photography, and mixed-

media works by a diverse group of nationally known

contemporary artists. Together, these artists address the

difficult history of the South and the many ways it manifests

today, including responses to the tragic 2015 shooting at

Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. This exhibition provides

a place where the Charleston community and visitors alike

can come together to discuss the city’s past and the impact

of the tragic Emanuel shooting, as well as celebrate the

spirit of Charleston and the community’s response to social

challenges. Participating artists include Bo Bartlett, William

Christenberry, Sonya Clark, Andrea Keys Connell, Deborah

Luster, Sally Mann, Stephen Marc, Mike Smith, Damian

Stamer, and Stacy Lynn Waddell.

Cornrow Chair, 2011, by Sonya Clark (American, b. 1967), upholstered found chair, stitched with silk thread, image courtesy of the artist.

Porgy and Bess, Embracing, 2013, by Kara Walker (American, b 1969), lithograph, image courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association.

GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART

135 Meeting Street

May 28 – October 9, 2016

MUSEUM HOURS: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: 10:00am to 5:00pm, Wednesday: 10:00am to 8:00pm, Sunday: 1:00pm to 5:00pm, Monday: Closed gibbesmuseum.org

VISUAL ARTS SPOLETOUSA.ORG

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Since its discovery by folk icon Doc Watson 15 years ago,

Old Crow Medicine Show has won the enthusiastic support

of every kind of bluegrass lover. The six-piece band has a

double helping of energy and a boundless spirit—that of

the traditional art form, and that of their youth. Inducted

as members of the Grand Ole Opry in 2013 and two-time

Grammy-Award winners, Old Crow Medicine Show is a

phenomenally entertaining ensemble, perfectly suited for

Charleston’s beautiful Cistern Yard stage, with its drooping

Spanish moss and stately columns. Hear an exhilarating

performance that is at once steeped in Southern tradition

and wide-eyed vitality—a combination sure to create an

unforgettable live-music experience.


Thursday May 26 9:00pm (Festival Eve)




SPONSORED BY SPOLETO SCENE

OLD CROWMEDICINE SHOWKEVIN HAYES, GUITJO AND VOCALSCORY YOUNTS, MANDOLIN, KEYBOARDS, DRUMS, AND VOCALSCRITTER FUQUA, SLIDE GUITAR, BANJO, GUITAR, AND VOCALSCHANCE MCCOY, GUITAR, FIDDLE, BANJO, VOCALSKETCH SECOR, FIDDLE, HARMONICA, BANJO, AND VOCALSMORGAN JAHNIG, UPRIGHT BASS

“OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW

HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR A

FEW PROMISING SHOOTS OF LIFE

SPRINGING FROM THE CREATIVELY

BARREN LANDSCAPE, WHILE STILL

MAINTAINING THEIR UNDERDOG

CHARM AND INDEPENDENT SPIRIT.”

– SavingCountryMusic.com

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CHARLESTON

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BEHIND THE GARDEN GATE

Hidden behind ivy-covered walls and artful wrought-iron

gates, some of Charleston’s most charming gardens await

you. Building on the event’s sold-out popularity of the past

three years, Spoleto Festival USA will again collaborate

with the Charleston Horticultural Society and The Garden

Conservancy to open the gates to 16 of the gorgeous

gardens that grace the Holy City. Each of the two weekend

tours feature eight gardens on the Peninsula.

The tours are self-guided and will be offered rain or shine.

Saturday May 28 between 10:00am and 4:00pm

Saturday June 4 between 10:00am and 4:00pm


More information about the gardens can be found at

opendaysprogram.org beginning March 1, 2016.

PRESENTED BY THE CHARLESTON HORTICULTURALSOCIETY AND SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA AS PART OF THEGARDEN CONSERVATORY’S NATIONAL OPENDAYS PROGRAM

FINALE SPOLETOUSA.ORG

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WELLS FARGO FESTIVALFINALE FEATURING NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATSAmong those leading a revival of classic soul, Denver-based

group Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats emphatically

exude a deep, primal, and stirring soulfulness reminiscent

of singers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. Nathaniel

Rateliff, originally a solo singer-songwriter, formed the

eight-piece soul band in 2013, and as a unit, they have

broken into audacious new territory—effortlessly blending

soul with rock and roll and earning such accolades as “one

of rock’s best new live acts” (Rolling Stone). Their featured

performance at the Festival Finale is sure to yield an

enthusiastic response and send the audience home with a

feeling of unbridled joy.

Arrive early to explore Middleton Place’s stunning

landscaped gardens and enjoy refreshments from the Beer

Garden while local and regional bands play the main stage

throughout the afternoon. A performance schedule for live

music prior to Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats will be

posted at spoletousa.org. The evening will conclude with a

spectacular display of post-concert fireworks bringing the

40th Festival to a celebratory close.

MIDDLETON PLACE

Sunday June 12

Gates and Beer Garden open at 3:30pm

Live music starts at 4:00pm

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats perform at 8:30pm

Tickets start at $35 for adults; $15 for children (ages 6 – 12)

Children ages 5 and under are admitted free of charge.

Middleton Place is located 14 miles from downtown Charleston. Seating is on the lawn and unreserved. The ticket price includes admittance to Middleton Place. Patrons are welcome to bring their own chairs, blankets, and picnics; food and beverage will also be available for purchase. This event is rain or shine.

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Following the 40th-Season Celebration Concert, we invite

you to experience The Dewberry in a special evening

commemorating four decades of innovation, artistry,

and beauty at Spoleto Festival USA. Toast our landmark

Festival season at this elegant, newly opened hotel with a

sumptuous supper, sultry jazz, and hand-crafted cocktails,

all in the company of Festival artists and patrons at

Charleston’s premier event destination.

COCKTAIL ATTIRE.

THE DEWBERRY, 344 MEETING STREET


$385 per person ($200 tax deductible), Soirée ticket only.

Tickets are limited. Purchase a ticket to the pre-Soirée

performance of the 40th-Season Celebration Concert (p 2).

THE DEWBERRY IS THE OFFICIAL HOTEL PARTNER OF THE WELLS FARGO JAZZ SERIES.

AT THE DEWBERRY

BECOME A DONORSPOLETO SOCIETYMembers of Spoleto Society ($1,250+) enjoy unparalleled

opportunities to experience the best of what the Festival

has to offer—benefits range from personal ticketing

assistance through our patron services manager to the

opportunity to meet artists at exclusive evening parties

throughout the Festival.

FESTIVAL CIRCLEMembers of Festival Circle ($100+) receive an array of

benefits, including advance access to tickets during

our donor pre-sale and an invitation to the final dress

rehearsal of a featured production.

SPOLETO SCENEMembers of Spoleto SCENE ($125 individual membership),

the Festival’s young patrons group (age 21 – 39), enjoy

specially priced SCENE Selection ticket packages,

invitations to SCENE-only parties, happy hours, and

behind-the-scenes opportunities during the Festival.

SPOLETOUSA.ORG/SUPPORT843.720.1176

The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation

City of Charleston

The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund

The Albert Sottile Foundation

The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies

South State Bank

The Dewberry

The Brand Foundation of New York, Inc.

County of Charleston

South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts

Sherman Capital Markets, LLC

Hyatt Place & Hyatt House

Foundation for the Carolinas

Carolinas HealthCare System

SunTrust Bank

Arthur and Holly Magill Foundation

French-American Cultural Exchange

Christel DeHaan Family Foundation

The Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Charitable Trust

The Harkness Foundation for Dance

Renaissance Charleston Historic District Hotel

THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS

IMAGERY CREDITS: Jonathan Green, covers and pp 3 & 4; Julia Lynn Photography, pp 1 & 2, 9, 17, 53; Clay Patrick McBride, p 5; Chris Nash, p 6; Pat Redmond, pp 7 & 8; Katherine Greenleaf, p 10; Paul B.

Goode, pp 11 & 12; istockphoto.com, pp 13 & 14; Phoebe Cheong, p 15; George Braunschweig, pp 16, 53; shutterstock.com, p 18; courtesy of Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, pp

19 & 20; Janice Yim, p 21; Mihaela Bodlovic, p 22; Marc Domage, pp 23 & 24, 53; William Struhs, pp 25 & 26, 51; Rose Eichenbaum, pp 27 & 28; Bernhard Mueller, pp 29 & 30, 53; David Garten, p 31; John

Abbott, p 32; Alastair Muir, pp 33 & 34, 53; Laura Razzano, p 35; courtesy of Freddy Cole, p 36; Bruce Clayton Tom, pp 37 & 38; Astrid Karger, p 39; courtesy of Renate Rohlfing, p 39; courtesy of Stephen

Drury, p 40; Lisa-Marie Mazzucco, p 40; © National Portrait Gallery, London, pp 41 & 42; Doug Hickok p 43, 47; courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association, pp 44; Crackerfarm, pp 45 &

46; Malia James, p 48; courtesy of The Dewberry, p 49.

COVERS: Detail of Jonathan Green’s Three Sisters, 1985.

PICCOLO SPOLETOPiccolo Spoleto, the official outreach companion

to Spoleto Festival USA, partners with the

Festival each Spring to host an exuberant 17-

day celebration of the arts and community.

Every year, Piccolo Spoleto features hundreds

of free and modestly priced events with a focus

on accessibility and participation in the arts.

Detailed program information and advance

ticketing will be available in the spring at

www.piccolospoleto.com or by phoning the

City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs at

843.724.7305.

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THIS SEASON OF SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART THROUGH FUNDS FROM THE SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA ENDOWMENT, GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF SOUTH CAROLINA, WELLS FARGO, BANK OF AMERICA, AND BY THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE FUNDERS LISTED ABOVE.

OPERAPorgy and Bess 3La Double Coquette 23The Little Match Girl 13

THEATERA Gambler’s Guide to Dying 22Ada/Ava 10Every Brilliant Thing 15Golem 29The Importance of Being Earnest 7

DANCEAakash Odedra Company 6Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company 11Havana Rakatan 33L.A. Dance Project 27Opposing Forces 37

MUSICAfram ou La Belle Swita 41Bank of America Chamber Music 25Choral Fantasy 18Grace Notes 19Music In Time 39Old Crow Medicine Show 45Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra 9Westminster Choir Concerts 1740th-Season Celebration Concert 2

WELLS FARGO JAZZArturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra 32Bohemian Trio 35Cécile McLorin Salvant 31

The Freddy Cole Quartet 36Jason Moran/Fats Waller Dance Party 5Randy Weston African Rhythms Sextet 16René Marie 21

AND MORE...Accommodations 51Behind the Garden Gate 47Conversations With 3, 13, 19, 41 Event Calendar 5340th-Season Soirée 49Master Classes 6, 11, 37 Porgy and Bess Walking Tour 43Sponsors 50Venue Guide 52Visual Arts 44Wells Fargo Festival Finale 48

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CHARLESTON ACCOMMODATIONS GUIDE

P1 VRTC Garage 63 Mary Street

P2 Visitor Center Lot 375 Meeting Street

P3 Aquarium Garage 24 Calhoun Street

P4 Camden Garage 47 John Street

P5 Gaillard Garage 32 Alexander Street

PARKING GUIDE SEE MAP ON PAGE 52

ANSONBOROUGH INN(Circa 1900) This 4-Diamond AAA-Rated boutique inn offers complimentary breakfast and afternoon wine and cheese reception. We are walking distance to most Spoleto Festival USA events. 21 Hasell St. / ansonboroughinn.com / 800.723.1655

CHARLESTON HARBOR RESORTAND MARINA A full-service waterfront resort located on the Charleston Harbor at Patriots Point. The resort offers 125 guestrooms, free parking, three on-site restaurants, complimentary hotel trolley, fitness center, pool, private beachfront, a full service marina, and bike rentals. 20 Patriots Point Road / charlestonharborresort.com / 888.856.0028

CHARLESTON MARRIOTTThe Charleston Marriott is conveniently located downtown, one mile from historic district with complimentary parking, recently renovated guestrooms and meeting space, fitness center and pool, and shuttle service to downtown. 170 Lockwood Boulevard / marriottcharleston.com / 843.723.3000

THE COTTAGES ON CHARLESTON HARBOROne of Southern Living’s “Best Places to Stay in Charleston,” The Cottages on Charleston Harbor offer ten two-bedroom cottages with spacious living areas, full kitchens, and private waterfront porches. 16 Patriots Point Road / thecottagesoncharlestonharbor.com / 843.849.2300

THE DEWBERRYThe Dewberry brings a world-class hotel experience to downtown Charleston. Overlooking Marion Square, guests will enjoy thoughtfully curated interiors and unprecedented service in addition to Henrietta’s restaurant, Citrus Club rooftop lounge, and signature day spa. 334 Meeting St. / thedewberrycharleston.com

FRANCIS MARION HOTELHistoric hotel in the grand tradition. In the historic district and walking distance to many Festival venues, restaurants and shops. Rooms and spacious penthouse suites with unsurpassed views of Charleston. Parking, valet. 387 King Street / francismarioncharleston.com / 877.756.2121

HYATT HOUSE CHARLESTON – HISTORIC DISTRICTOur brand new hotel is located in Charleston’s trendy Upper King Historic District with shopping, attractions, and over 25 restaurants within 0.3 miles. Perfect for Spoleto Festival travelers, this hotel offers residential-style accommodations with full-kitchens and upscale amenities including an indoor heated pool, complimentary breakfast buffet featuring a made-to-order omelet station, and free WiFi. 560 King St. / hyatthousecharlestonhistoricdistrict.com / 843.207.2299

HYATT PLACE CHARLESTON – HISTORIC DISTRICTOpened Fall 2015, this new hotel is located in Charleston’s Upper King Historic District near shopping, dining, and many Spoleto Festival events. Guests will enjoy spacious rooms, indoor heated pool, complimentary breakfast buffet, and free WiFi. 560 King St. / hyattplacecharlestonhistoricdistrict.com / 843.414.4900

RENAISSANCE CHARLESTON HISTORIC DISTRICT HOTEL An upscale location within steps of the festivities, each turn will surprise and delight. Featuring luxurious full-service accommodations, unique designs that meld historic charm with modern sophistication, plus palate-pleasing culinary delights. 68 Wentworth St. / renaissancecharlestonhotel.com / 843.534.0300

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P6 Marion Square Garage 399 King Street

P7 College of Charleston Garage 91 St. Philip Street

P8 George Society Lot 31 George Street

P9 St. Philip Street Garage 34 St. Philip Street

P10 Charleston Place Garage 85 Hasell Street

P11 Wentworth Garage 81 Wentworth Street

P12 Majestic Square Garage 153 Market Street

P13 Cumberland Street Garage 160 Meeting Street

P14 Concord Garage 1 Cumberland Street

P15 Market/Horlbeck Lot 131 Market Street

P16 Queen Street Garage 93 Queen Street

P17 Garage at King and Queen Streets 114-128 King Street

P18 East Bay Garage 25 Prioleau Street

PARKING GARAGES: There are many parking garages located throughout downtown Charleston. Garages typically charge by the hour.

SURFACE PARKING LOTS: Surface lots either charge by the hour or a flat daily rate.

METERED PARKING: Most meters are checked 9:00am until 6:00pm Monday through Saturday. Parking at meters is free on Sunday and city holidays.

RESIDENTIAL AREAS: Visitors can park for free for one to two hours on residential streets. Time limitations are posted in these areas.

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Learn more about Go Spoleto! hotel and ticket packages at spoletousa.org/gospoleto or when making your hotel reservation with a Go Spoleto! hotel partner.

CGC Charleston Gaillard Center, 95 Calhoun St.

CIS College of Charleston Cistern Yard, 66 George St.

CLS Charleston Library Society, 164 King St.

CTL Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul, 126 Coming St.

CVC Charleston Visitor Center/Spoleto Festival USA Box Office, 375 Meeting St.

DST Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St.

GIB Gibbes Museum of Art, 135 Meeting St.

MID Middleton Place, 4300 Ashley River Rd. (not on map)

MEM Memminger Auditorium, 56 Beaufain St

OPN Opening Ceremonies, City Hall, 80 Broad St.

REC Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston, 54 St. Philip St.

ROB Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston, 54 St. Philip St.

SOT College of Charleston Sottile Theatre, 44 George St.

STM St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, 405 King St.

TDA TD Arena at College of Charleston, 301 Meeting St.

WSP Woolfe Street Playhouse, 34 Woolfe St.

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2016 EVENT CALENDAR

SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA ORCHESTRAPage 9, 18

RANDY WESTONPage 16

26 MAY: THURSDAY8:00pm The Importance of Being Earnest

(preview) DST (p 7)9:00pm Old Crow Medicine Show CIS (p 45)

30 MAY: MONDAY11:00am Chamber II DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber III DST (p 25)3:00pm Ada/Ava ROB (p 10)3:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)5:00pm Bohemian Trio REC (p 35)5:00pm Westminster Choir Concert CTL (p 17)7:00pm Ada/Ava ROB (p 10)7:00pm Bohemian Trio REC (p 35)7:30pm Porgy and Bess CGC (p 3)8:00pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)

27 MAY: FRIDAY12:00pm Opening Ceremonies OPN1:00pm Chamber I DST (p 25)5:00pm Ada/Ava ROB (p 10)5:00pm Helmut Lachenmann in Conversation

REC (p 39)7:00pm Porgy and Bess CGC (p 3)7:30pm Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company SOT (p 11)8:00pm The Importance of Being

Earnest DST (p 7)9:00pm Old Crow Medicine Show CIS (p 45)

31 MAY: TUESDAY11:00am Chamber III DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber III DST (p 25)5:00pm Bohemian Trio REC (p 35)7:00pm Bohemian Trio REC (p 35)7:00pm The Little Match Girl MEM (p 13)8:00pm La Double Coquette DST (p 23)

28 MAY: SATURDAY10:00am Behind the Garden Gate (p 47)

(self-guided tours until 4:00pm)11:00am Chamber I DST (p 25)1:00pm Ada/Ava ROB (p 10)1:00pm Chamber I DST (p 25)3:00pm Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance

Company SOT (p 11)3:00pm Conv | Mark Down and Phelim

McDermott CLS (p 13)5:00pm Bohemian Trio REC (p 35)6:00pm Ada/Ava ROB (p 10)7:00pm 40th-Season Celebration Concert CGC (p 2)7:00pm Bohemian Trio REC (p 35)8:30pm 40th-Season Soirée (p 49)8:30pm La Double Coquette DST (p 23)9:00pm Arturo O’Farrill CIS (p 32)

1 JUNE: WEDNESDAY11:00am Chamber IV DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber IV DST (p 25)6:00pm Aakash Odedra Company ROB (p 6)7:00pm Porgy and Bess CGC (p 3)8:00pm La Double Coquette DST (p 23)9:00pm Ancient Voices of Children WSP (p 40)

29 MAY: SUNDAY11:00am Chamber II DST (p 25)1:00pm Ada/Ava ROB (p 10)1:00pm Chamber II DST (p 25)3:00pm Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance

Company SOT (p 11)3:00pm Conv | Jonathan Green and David

Herskovits ROB (p 4)

Spoleto Festival USA Box OfficeCharleston Visitor Center375 Meeting StreetCharleston, SC 29403

MARCH 14 – APRIL 30Monday – Saturday9:00am – 5:00pm

MAY 1 – JUNE 11Monday – Sunday9:00am – 5:00pm

SUNDAY, JUNE 129:00am – 2:00pm

BEGINNING MAY 2: Spoleto Festival USA Box OfficeCharleston Gaillard Center95 Calhoun StreetCharleston, SC 29401

IN PERSON:

Bold = opening performance

HOW TO BUYTICKETSTickets available online and over the phone beginning January 14.

Visit spoletousa.org for information about pre-sale access for donors.

ONLINE:

BY PHONE:

SPOLETOUSA.ORG

843.579.3100

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3:30pm La Double Coquette DST (p 23)5:00pm The Conversation Continued REC (p 31, 35)7:00pm Ada/Ava ROB (p 10)7:00pm René Marie CGC (p 21)7:30pm The Little Match Girl MEM (p 13)8:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)9:00pm Arturo O’Farrill CIS (p 32)

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STUDENT DISCOUNTS

For information about our Spoleto Student Ticket program, please visit spoletousa.org.

2 JUNE: THURSDAY11:00am Chamber IV DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber V DST (p 25)6:00pm Aakash Odedra Company ROB (p 6)7:00pm The Little Match Girl MEM (p 13)7:00pm Randy Weston CGC (p 16)7:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)9:00pm A Maze (With Grace) WSP (p 40)

3 JUNE: FRIDAY11:00am Chamber V DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber V DST (p 25)5:00pm Westminster Choir Concert

CTL (p 17)

6:00pm Aakash Odedra Company ROB (p 6)7:00pm Porgy and Bess CGC (p 3)7:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)8:00pm Music for 18 Musicians MEM (p 9)9:00pm Cécile McLorin Salvant CIS (p 31)

4 JUNE: SATURDAY10:00am Behind the Garden Gate (p 47)

(self-guided tours until 4:00pm)11:00am Chamber VI DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber VI DST (p 25)2:00pm The Little Match Girl MEM (p 13)3:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)

5:00pm Aakash Odedra Company ROB (p 6)5:00pm Ein Kinderspiel and Spoletudes

REC (p 39)7:00pm Grace Notes SOT (p 19)8:00pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)8:00pm L.A. Dance Project CGC (p 27)9:00pm Afram ou La Belle Swita

WSP (p 41)9:00pm Jason Moran CIS (p 5)

5 JUNE: SUNDAY11:00am Chamber VI DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber VII DST (p 25)1:00pm L.A. Dance Project CGC (p 27)3:00pm Conv | Carrie Mae Weems

CLS (p 19)5:00pm Aakash Odedra Company ROB (p 6)5:00pm Afram ou La Belle Swita

WSP (p 41)7:00pm L.A. Dance Project CGC (p 27)7:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)8:00pm Grace Notes SOT (p 19)

6 JUNE: MONDAY11:00am Chamber VII DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber VII DST (p 25)3:00pm Conv | Duane Davis CLS (p 41)5:00pm Chamber Orchestra Concert

STM (p 9)7:00pm Afram ou La Belle Swita

WSP (p 41)

7 JUNE: TUESDAY11:00am Chamber VIII DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber VIII DST (p 25)5:00pm Serynade with an Automated

Sunrise REC (p 39)6:00pm A Gambler’s Guide to Dying

ROB (p 22)7:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)8:00pm Choral Fantasy CGC (p 18)

11 JUNE: SATURDAY11:00am Chamber X DST (p 25)1:00pm A Gambler’s Guide to Dying ROB

(p 22)1:00pm Chamber XI DST (p 25)2:00pm Golem SOT (p 29)2:00pm Havana Rakatan CGC (p 33)3:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)5:00pm Every Brilliant Thing WSP (p 15)5:00pm The Freddy Cole Quartet REC (p 36)5:00pm Opposing Forces MEM (p 37)7:00pm The Freddy Cole Quartet REC (p 36)7:00pm Havana Rakatan CGC (p 33)8:00pm Golem SOT (p 29)8:00pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)

8 JUNE: WEDNESDAY11:00am Chamber VIII DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber IX DST (p 25)3:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)5:00pm The Freddy Cole Quartet REC (p 36)6:00pm A Gambler’s Guide to Dying ROB

(p 22)6:00pm Opposing Forces MEM (p 37)7:00pm The Freddy Cole Quartet REC (p 36)7:00pm Porgy and Bess CGC (p 3)8:00pm Every Brilliant Thing WSP (p 15)8:00pm Golem SOT (p 29)8:00pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)

12 JUNE: SUNDAY11:00am Chamber XI DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber XI DST (p 25)1:00pm Opposing Forces MEM (p 37)2:00pm Golem SOT (p 29)2:00pm Porgy and Bess CGC (p 3)3:30pm The Importance of Being

Earnest DST (p 7)3:30pm Festival Finale MID (p 48)

9 JUNE: THURSDAY11:00am Chamber IX DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber IX DST (p 25)5:00pm The Freddy Cole Quartet

REC (p 36)6:00pm Every Brilliant Thing WSP (p 15)6:00pm Opposing Forces MEM (p 37)7:00pm The Freddy Cole Quartet

REC (p 36)7:30pm The Importance of Being

Earnest DST (p 7)8:00pm A Gambler’s Guide to Dying

ROB (p 22)8:00pm Golem SOT (p 29)8:00pm Havana Rakatan CGC (p 33)

10 JUNE: FRIDAY11:00am Chamber X DST (p 25)1:00pm Chamber X DST (p 25)5:00pm The Freddy Cole Quartet REC (p 36)6:00pm A Gambler’s Guide to Dying ROB

(p 22)6:00pm Opposing Forces MEM (p 37)7:00pm The Freddy Cole Quartet REC (p 36)7:30pm The Importance of Being Earnest

DST (p 7)8:00pm Golem SOT (p 29)8:30pm Havana Rakatan CGC (p 33)9:00pm Every Brilliant Thing WSP (p 15)

FOLLOW THE FESTIVAL

GROUP SALES

SENIOR AND MILITARY DISCOUNTS

SAVE THE DATES

Discounted rates are available for groups of 12 or more on selected performances. For more information, call 843.720.1116.

Senior citizens and military personnel may receive discounts on select performances with valid identification. Discounts may apply only to certain seating sections.

Spoleto Festival USA 2017: May 26 – June 11

Please call the box office at 843.579.3100 to request accessible seating.

Program, artists, venues, and pricing are subject to change without notice. All running times are approximate.

LATE SEATING: Patrons arriving late to a performance will be seated solely at the house manager’s discretion.

All audience members, regardless of age, must have a ticket.

Lawn chairs are prohibited at all College of Charleston Cistern Yard events.

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FILLS CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA’S HISTORIC THEATERS, CHURCHES, AND OUTDOOR

SPACES WITH PERFORMANCES BY RENOWNED ARTISTS AS WELL AS EMERGING PERFORMERS

IN DANCE, MUSIC, OPERA, AND THEATER.

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