Edmund Thornton Jenkins

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The Colour of Music Festival Orchestra ushers in Black History month with a special performance highlighting Charleston’s “father of Black contributions” to classical music, Edmund Thornton Jenkins. The evening’s program includes the South Carolina premiere of his original composition Charlestonia: Folk Rhapsody, and will conclude with George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

“The Festival, which presents solo recitals, chamber music programs and large-scale concerts, is a showcase of Black talent meant to shake up a classical music world that’s a little too set in its ways and to raise awareness among audiences.”