Spoleto Starts Today….Tips on the Festival

Friday, May 23, 2008

The Post and Courier
This year’s Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto festivals begin today, opening our annual 17-day season of fine-arts immersion. It’s more culture than any individual can hope to absorb, and you’d have to be independently wealthy and blissfully idle to score tickets to all the festival highlights. So how do you [...]

2008 Spoleto Poster

Richard C. Hagerty
2008 Piccolo Spoleto Official Poster Artist
Richard Hagerty (Artist-Surgeon), a self-taught artist, paints from a vast reservoir of dreams, his store of personal imagery suffused with the infinite memories, symbols, and archetypes of the collective unconscious. Attenuated since childhood to the power of dream and myth, the notion of the shadow self, and the [...]

Music at Spoleto

What would Spoleto be without the presence of the pristine beauty of the Westminster Choir? The Westminster Choir College students again will treat audiences to two concerts conducted by Joe Miller and featuring laments by Brahms, Shakespearean sonnets set to music and contemporary versions of traditional spirituals. Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul. May [...]