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Spoleto board's mood optimistic
An upbeat tone, leavened by guarded optimism, was the prevailing mood of the annual winter meeting of the Spoleto Festival USA Board of Directors here Saturday. Challenges abound, but so do energy, innovation and resolve, board members said.
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Spoleto auction set for Friday
Spoleto Festival USA will hold its 30th annual La Dolce Vita auction Friday at Memminger Auditorium, 56 Beaufain St.
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Spoleto's 30th auction
Traditional gala event Friday to raise funds for festival orchestra
Grand total: $4,000. That's the decidedly modest sum raised by the inaugural Spoleto Auction in 1979. The Spoleto Festival USA had just embarked on its maiden voyage two years before, and was fated to earn a reputation as one of the nation's finest celebrations of the arts.
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Spoleto Festival USA announces 2010 lineup
The Spoleto Festival USA, running May 28 to June 13, has announced its schedule of events for 2010. Its restoration complete, the Dock Street Theatre again is a showcase venue.
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Festival enjoyed robust ticket sales
This year's Spoleto Festival USA came with a silver lining. Despite a challenging economy that forced organizers to reduce the festival's budget from $8.4 million to $6.2 million and limit some programming, ticket sales were mostly robust; and it appears the festival will end with a balanced budget, perhaps a modest surplus, officials said.
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Spoleto Finale
Hundreds of people picnicked Sunday beneath the Spanish moss-draped trees at the Spoleto Finale at Middleton Place.
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Another fine festival takes a bow
The party's over. After tonight, the 2009 Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, which hadn't even held its first rehearsal a month ago, will cease to exist except in the memories of those who were there to play or listen during its few weeks of glory in Charleston.
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Chamber music performance brilliant
Franz Schubert's ethereal String Quintet in C major ended the 11th chamber music program Saturday and will be the last piece played today in the final concert.
Charles Wadsworth programmed this for his final year as artistic director, a piece Spoleto Festival founder Gian Carlo Menotti often requested as a final one to end a festival.
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Chamber concert delivers seasoned talent
Spoleto Chamber Music Series X, featuring very difficult and very beautiful music by Haydn, Dvorak and Schumann, was a delight to the packed audience at Memminger Auditorium.
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