“Lee Pringle has spent the last seven years building the Colour of Music Festival into a stunning and expansive presentation of classical music either composed or performed by African Americans,” writes Vincent Harris in Wednesday’s (1/29) Charleston City Paper (SC). This year’s edition in Charleston, January 29-February 1, “features a piano recital courtesy of Leonard Hayes, a clarinet quintet led by Robert L. Davis, a vocal recital from Indra Thomas, soprano, and performances by string and brass ensembles. Over four days, the program that Pringle spent more than a year creating will unfold in intimate surroundings—just the kinds that the composers themselves might have envisioned.… In addition to his own skills as a tenor vocalist, he’s produced more than 150 orchestral and choral concerts along with solo recitals and … led his own marketing and production firm … and he has an extensive background in corporate finance. All of that experience essentially allows him to execute events like this from start to finish, and he’s done so not just in Charleston, but in Nashville, New Orleans, and Pittsburgh.… ‘We initially modeled ourselves after the Spoleto Festival … but our model has since become a portable model.”
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