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Canonical scriptures create a dichotomy within the act of procreation, deeming it as the original sin on one hand and then accepting it as an essential component of an everlasting union. However, the city of Charleston takes this dilemma to a whole new level, being identified as "The Holy City" for a good part of its odd 300-year existence and then being dubbed as "America's Sexiest City" off late. The city's rich orchestral legacy would probably constitute the latter characterization, having defined the musical pulse of the urban center for the past two centuries. And no entity better embodies the melodious spirit of this "siren" of the South than the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, which has been tunefully teasing the city's denizens since the Depression Era. So get some Charleston Symphony Orchestra tickets now to get your own musical appeasement.
 
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra saw its creation in 1936 at the hands of one Miss Maude Winthrop Gibbon as well as Mrs. Martha Laurens Patterson. Towards the end of the same year, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra brought fourth its debut performance at the Hibernian Hall under the conductorship of Mr. Tony Hadgi. The Orchestra's first season also saw it perform the score to The Recruiting Officer that was performed to celebrate the reopening of the Dock Street Theater that had recently been renovated. The Charleston Symphony Orchestra made its home at the Dock Street Theater for three straight years and then relocated to the Memminger Auditorium during the 1940s and the 1950s. Over the decades, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra has been graced by notable artists, such as Blanche Theirbom, Robert Merrill, Donald Voorhees, Eleanor Steber and Jan Pierce, who performed with the company in 1940s and the 1950s. Prominent conductors attached with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra include Lucien DeGroote, J. Albert Frecht and Don Mills as well as the late great David Stahl who took over as Music Director and Conductor in 1984 and remained till his untimely death due to lymphoma in 2010.
 
David Stahl's efforts with regards to putting together the Charleston Symphony Orchestra's yielded copious fruit over the years and catapulted the organization at the forefront of the classical music scene in the Southeast of the US. His personal merits and musical mettle can be traced back to his mentor, the legendary Leonard Bernstein, under whom he refined his conducting skills whilst at Carnegie Hall after graduating from Queens College at the City University of New York. Stahl's former's directorial stint at Munich's Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz put him in good stead to lead the Charleston Symphony Orchestra for almost three decades, whilst also serving as a guest director at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Bavarian State Opera, the New York City Opera as well as the Deutsche Opera Berlin.
 
The 1970s saw the Charleston Symphony Orchestra emerge as a full-fledged professional orchestral outfit for the first time and subsequently conservator-trained, resident principal players. The organization was also the first in the American Symphony Orchestra League to attain a truly “Metropolitan” standing and regularly performed throughout the Charleston region, including locales such as the U.S. Custom House as well as the aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown. The Charleston Symphony Orchestra frequently performs it series of Pops concerts at local parks, as well as Masterworks and Chamber Orchestra mixed ensemble music as part of its seasonal offerings.
 
Concurrently, the Orchestra also operates through its various affiliates, namely the CSO Chorus, CSO Gospel Choir, an 80 member unit under the direction of Sandra Barnhardt and the CSO Spiritual Ensemble that pays tribute to the generations of African American slaves that had toiled in the region by recreating their musical traditions. The CSO League has been operating for the last four decades as the voluntary arm of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra by carrying out educational programs and fund raising activities that result in reaching out to in excess of 7,500 students throughout the school systems of the counties of Charleston, Dorchester as well as Berkley. Even though the Charleston Symphony Orchestra faced a lot of financial strain during the recent recession, to the extent of it having to suspend its programs for more than half-a-year in 2010, it is still going strong with more than three dozen fulltime musicians in its employment. So for being serenaded by a piquantly persistent symphonic entity with charmingly traditional qualities, book your Charleston Symphony Orchestra tickets now.