Events
October 2021
Andrea Cheeseman
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Andrea Cheeseman has been a featured performer at festivals such as the Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival and the Electroacoustic Barn Dance and has appeared at SEAMUS (Society of Electroacoustic Music in the US) conferences.
FSO Season “Bach to Broadway”
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Season tickets for the FSO 2021-2022 season are now on sale. Please call the FSO office, 843-661-2541 to purchase your season tickets.
FSO “Homecoming”
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After a most challenging year, our Symphony returns to our home venue at the FMU Performing Arts Center. The guest artist is hometown favorite, Rhodes Scholar and piano virtuoso, John Hoffmeyer.
FMU Concert Band
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The Francis Marion University Concert Band will be performing its fall concert at the FMU Performing Arts Center in downtown Florence.
November 2021
FSO “Pines of Rome”
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Principal musicians Mary Louise Nagata and Jennifer Deudkoontod perform in a Double Concerto by composer Max Bruch. Then, escape to Italy with Respighi’s “Pines of Rome," a work many critics regard as his greatest masterpiece.
FMU Concert Choir, Voice and Strings
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Open to all university students, the University Concert Choir has an average enrollment of between 35 and 45 students. This group has sung in numerous area churches and has also performed with the Florence Symphony Orchestra. They have performed such major choral works as the “Polovetzian Dance and Chorus” of Alexander Borodin, the “Schicksalslied” of Johannes Brahms, and the Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven. Recently their concerts have included selections accompanied by the newly formed Francis Marion string ensemble.
December 2021
FSO “Holiday Pops!”
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The FSO’s holiday concert is a long standing tradition and one of the most popular performances of the season. This concert will feature winners of Florence One Vocal Star competition and members of the South Carolina Dance Theatre. Don’t miss this year’s holiday extravaganza!
Cinderella presented by The State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine
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The State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine returns to the United States to present their captivating two-act performance of Cinderella at the PAC!
February 2022
The Rocky Horror Show
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As an out-of-work actor in London in the early 1970s, Richard O’Brien wrote The Rocky Horror Show to keep himself busy on winter evenings. Since his youth, he had developed a passion for science fiction and B horror movies; he wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle films, and fifties rock and roll into The Rocky Horror Show.
The Rocky Horror Show
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As an out-of-work actor in London in the early 1970s, Richard O’Brien wrote The Rocky Horror Show to keep himself busy on winter evenings. Since his youth, he had developed a passion for science fiction and B horror movies; he wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle films, and fifties rock and roll into The Rocky Horror Show.