“The Charleston Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Friday will live-stream a special program, ‘Call and Response: A Concert for Equality,’ to promote community unity and understanding,” reads an unsigned Monday (6/15) article in Charleston Currents (Charleston, S.C.). “ ‘What an orchestra does best is listen, and real listening only happens when we allow the voices of others to briefly be more prominent than our own,’ said assistant CSO conductor Kellen Gray in a statement. ‘Our community has many voices that deserve the stage and this program addresses that directly, by giving stage to voices muted by inequality, those that empathize and want to help, and those who see how inequality has wounded our community.’ … The program will be performed in an empty hall at the Gailliard Center [and streamed at] the symphony’s website.… Guest speakers include Grammy Award-winner Charlton Singleton, CSO Composer in Residence and Charleston native Edward Hart, and Coastal Community Foundation President and CEO Darrin Goss Sr. The performance will include orchestral works by William Grant Still, George Walker, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Adolphus Hailstork.” Also performing will be Charleston’s Ranky Tanky quintet, which performs arrangements of traditional Gullah music.
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