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The Colour of Music Festival Orchestra ushering in Black History month in a special events performance highlighting Charleston’s “father of Black contributions” to classical music, Edmund Thornton Jenkins. Never heard before compositions include Mr. Jenkins’ Negro Symphony, A Prayer, his Clarinet Concerto and a South Carolina premiere of his original composition Charlestonia: A Folk Rhapsody. The evening will conclude with George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
