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out that history. If you aren’t
reading about it, you might
not know.”
In 2013, Pringle’s
inaugural Colour of Music
– Black Classical Musicians
Festival was a success for
the Spiritual Ensemble.
Participants are equally
enthusiastic about this year’s
festival, which will kick off
in none other than Pringle’s
beloved neighborhood,
I’On, on Oct. 19, at
the current East Cooper
Montessori location.
According to Pringle,
this year’s festival will
focus on female African-
American composers
in classical music, with
two ladies from Nigeria and Trinidad traveling to
Charleston for the festival. There will also be focus
on Charleston’s contribution to African-American
classical music, with a rhapsody written by Edmund
Thorton Jenkins, of The Jenkins Institute for
Children, on the program.
“What I’ve been doing the last 20 years is teaching
people about the African in American music,” Pringle
pointed out. “And in world music as well.”
Pringle is particularly looking forward to bringing
For the past 20 years, Lee Pringle has been teaching people about the African in American music.
the kickoff concert to his fellow neighbors and to East
Cooper classical enthusiasts in general. The Virtuosi
Series finale will simultaneously complete the I’On
summer concert series as well as begin the Colour of
Music 2014 celebration.
“I wanted to have something in Mount Pleasant,”
Pringle said. “This is my home, and a lot of us who
participate in the arts live in East Cooper.”
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