• MAF North Carolina Symphony Brings Musical Joy to Raleigh (William Henry Curry, conductor, with Tina Morris-Anderson, soprano, Concert Singers of Cary, & Triangle Community Gospel Chorus) 11/29/08
• PP Chorus & Orchestra Shine in All-Bernstein Concert (Jamie Bernstein, narrator; Amy Johnson, soprano; Robert Moody, conductor; Winston-Salem Symphony, Symphony Chorale, Winston-Salem Children's Choir & UNCSA Cantata Singers) 11/25/08
• JWL A Triple Play from the Philharmonic Association (TYP, Hugh Partridge, conductor; TYS, Tony Robinson & Marta Findlay-Partridge, conductors; & TYO, Tim Kohring, conductor & Connie Lorber, string specialist) 11/23&25/08
• MAF Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra Presents Well-Played Variety of Music (with Eric Pritchard, violin, & Randolph Foy, conductor) 11/23/08
• TMcI Brevard Philharmonic Under Portnoy Gives a Good Nineteenth-Century Concert (with Donald Portnoy, conductor) 11/23/08
• WTW UNC Greensboro's Satisfying Staging of Amahl and the Night Visitors 11/23/08; & PREVIEW: WTW UNC Greensboro's Opera Theatre Will Test Renovated Aycock Auditorium with Amahl and the Night Visitors 11/20/08
• JR North Carolina Symphony Plays Musical Chairs (Daniel Müller-Schott, cello; Hugh Wolff, conductor) 11/22/08
• PP UNC School of the Arts Orchestra and Mauceri (with Corey Dundee, saxophone, Kristen Vanderschaaf, flute, and conductors Andrew McAfee, Konstantin Dobrykov, Valentino Piran, and John Mauceri) 11/22/08
• KH University of North Carolina Symphony Orchestra Provides Big Pleasures (with Tonu Kalam, conductor) 11/19/08
• PREVIEW: DK Pianist Andrew Tyson to Perform with Duke University String School Youth Symphony 11/17/08
• MAF Ritz Chamber Players Present Excellent Program 11/16/08
• KH Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Provides a Memorable Journey (with Mary Gayle Greene, mezzo-soprano, Robert Belinic, guitar, Tamara Farias Kraus, actress, & Lorenzo Muti, conductor) 11/16/08
• LMcD The Asheville Symphony Orchestra's 3 Bs Concert Simply a Stunner 11/16/08
• PDW A Fable and a Wedding — The N. C. Master Chorale and Chamber Choir 11/15/08
• TM The Kuss String Quartet 11/15/08
• KDA Dance Delivers Disavowal as David Dorfman Does Duke 11/13/08
• TMcI Kaprálová, Schulhoff and Others Remembered in Keowee Chamber Music Concert 11/13/08
• PP Obsessed by Music: Brain Sciences and Oliver Sacks (Duke Institute for Brain Sciences) 11/12-13/08
• JWL Kirov & Valery Gergiev Remind Area Music Lovers What World-Class Orchestras Should Sound Like 11/11/08
• PDW Through Many Centuries at St. Mary's (Aliénor Ensemble) 11/11/08
• TM North/South/North (New Music by Alan Anderson and Stephen Anderson of UNC Chapel Hill, and John Fitz Rogers of USC) 11/11/08
• SRow Gustafson Shines in Vivaldi Flute Concerto (Christine Gustafson, flute, Jorge Richter, director) 11/9/08
• TMcI Jeremy Denk Delivers Two Revolutions in Brevard 11/9/08
• WTW Greensboro Opera Company's Vibrant Performance of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore 11/9/08
• JR Music History Comes Alive with Takács, Muzsikás, and Márta Sebestyén 11/8/08
• MAF North Carolina Symphony and Sudbin Present Masterful Concert (Yevgeny Sudbin, piano, Grant Llewellyn, conductor) 11/8/08
• PDW Sonos Fully Sonorous at Vance-Granville (Sonos Handbell Ensemble) 11/8/08
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony Masterworks II — 2008-2009 (Kishna Davis, soprano, John Gordon Ross, conductor) 11/8/08
• WTW Alexander Ezerman's Brilliant Recital at UNC Greensboro 11/8/08
• KDA Compañia Flamenco José Porcel at Duke 11/7/08
• JR Hometown Star Collaborates with Filharmonia Brasileria 11/6/08
• KDA Inbal Pinto Dance Company: A Shimmering Shaker at UNC 11/5/08
• RP Russian Fireworks by Daniel Zaretsky 11/4/08
• KM Duke Encounters with Messiaen and Carter (Tony Arnold, soprano, & Jacob Greenberg, piano) 11/2/08
• RP Greenville Choral Society 11/2/08
• KH Curry, Hill, Henderson, & DSO Offer Benefit Concert 11/2/08
• SRow East Carolina Univeristy Singers Again Show Choral Mastery 11/1/08
• PP Charlotte Symphony Shines in Hallowed Evening Concerts (Thierry Fischer, conductor, Philip Cutlip, baritone, Ilana Davidson, soprano) 11/1/08
  
  Theatre Reviews:
  
• RWMcD Annie (Broadway Series South) 11/19/08
• ARH Blood Done Sign My Name (Duke Divinity School and Mike Wiley) 11/9/08
• KDA Hysteria (Burning Coal Theatre Company) 11/6/08
• RWMcD Rain — A Tribute to the Beatles (Broadway Series South) 11/4/08
  

October 2008 Archives

• PP "Innovative Works" for the North Carolina Dance Theater 10/30/08
• TM An Intimate Visit with Lubambo (Romero Lubambo, guitar) 10/30/08
• TM From Other Worlds (Nathan Zalman, flute) 10/28/08
• KH Borromeo, Henderson, Scearce: Names Locked in Musical Memory 10/26/08
• WTW Virginia Opera's Milestone Production of Verdi's Il Trovatore 10/26/08
• KDA The Rite of Spring: Compagnie Heddy Maalem at UNC-Chapel Hill 10/25/08
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony Chamber Classics II — 2008/09 (La Catrina Quartet) 10/25/08
• PP UNC School of the Arts Orchestra Birthday Concert 10/25/08
• LMcD The 5 Browns a Smash Hit with Young Asheville 10/25/08
• JR North Carolina Symphony "Impresses" (Anne-Marie McDermott, piano, James Gaffigan, conductor) 10/24/08
• PP Faust — Opera Carolina's Season-Opener 10/23/08
• JNB Prosperous Voyage for E.C.U. Pinafore 10/23/08
• PP Brilliant Saxophonist in Eclectic Repertory at UNCSA (Taimur Sullivan, saxophone, with Allison Gagnon, piano, Tadei Coelho, flute, & Saxton Rose, bassoon) 10/21/08
• MAF Raleigh Symphony Orchestra: Music to Touch Your Harp Strings (with Anita Burroughs-Price, harp, Alan Neilson, conductor, and 10 harp students) 10/19/08
• KH A Holocaust Remembrance to Celebrate (Mallarmé Chamber Players) 10/19/08
• LMcD Asheville Symphony Orchestra's Masterwork Concert a Sound Tribute to American Icons (Michael Boriskin, piano, & André Raphel Smith, conductor) 10/18/08
• SRow "Dream Visions" & Dream Voices in Tallis Scholars Program 10/17/08
• MAF Capital Opera Raleigh's Carmen (Cheryse McLeod Lewis, mezzo-soprano, Anna Kirby, soprano, Timothy Sparks, tenor) 10/17/08
• SRow True "Chamber" Works Presented in Four Seasons Concert (Ara Gregorian, violin, Hagai Shaham, violin, Nicholas Cords, viola, Michael Kannen, cello & Chris Grymes, clarinet) 10/16/08
• WTW University of North Carolina Symphony Orchestra Concert Features New Chancellor (& with Terry Rhodes, soprano, & Tonu Kalam, conductor) 10/14/08
• PDW "APPropos!" Strictly Apropos at Meredith 10/13/08
• MAF Chamber Orchestra of Triangle Presents Twentieth-Century Italian Music 10/12/08
• TMcI Asheville Hears Third U.S. Performance of McCartney Oratorio 10/12/08
• TM Jewish Music from England at Judea Reform (Fretwork — Wendy Gillespie, Susanna Pell, Richard Tunnicliffe, Richard Boothby and Richard Campbell — presented by TEMPO, the Triangle Early Music Presenting Organization ) 10/11/08
• WTW Chopin's Original Keyboard Sounds Explored (Brent Wissick, cello, Andrew Willis, piano, Richard Luby, violin) 10/10/08
• KDA Political Art to the n^th Degree: DV8's To Be Straight With You at UNC-CH 10/10/08
• TMcI Blue Ridge Orchestra and William Martin Reach the Public (William Martin, tenor) 10/10/08
• JR Milton Nascimento and the Jobim Trio Celebrate 50 Years of Bossa Nova 10/9/08
• PP Master of the Guitar: Carlos Pérez 10/9/08
• PP Excellent Student Orchestra Concert at Duke 10/8/08
• JR Anne-Sophie Mutter Plays the Complete Bach Violin Concerti (wth Camerata Salzburg, chamber orchestra and Vilde Frang, violin) 10/5/08
• PDW Eclecticism Celebrated: Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra 10/5/08
• PP North Carolina Symphony Concert Celebrates Iberia (with Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Bonnie Thron, cello, Anton Jivaev, viola, & Grant Llewellyn, conductor) 10/4/08
• TMcI Diane McEwen-Martin and Keith Chambers Excel in ALO’s Roméo et Juliette 10/4/08
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony Masterworks Concert Features Violinist Dmitri Berlinsky & New Music by J. Mark Scearce 10/4/08
• PP Charlotte Symphony & Andrew Grams – Superb! 10/3/08
• KM Arts Now! Sean Devlin 10/1/08
• WTW Eclectic UNCG Recital: Clarinetist Kelly Burke and Friends 10/1/08
  
  Theatre Reviews:
  
• KDA Druid Theatre's Renditions of The Shadow of the Glen and
  The Playboy of the Western World (Carolina Performing Arts) 10/29/08
• RWMcD War of the Worlds and The Lost World (NCSU Center Stage) 10/28/08
• ARH Blue Door (PlayMakers Repertory Company) 10/25/08
• RWMcD Yeston and Kopit's Phantom (NC Theatre) 10/19/08
  

August 2008 Archives

• PP Carolina Summer Music Festival Finale - Sunday Serenade (Elizabeth Ransom, flute, Jacqui Carrasco, violin, Scott Rawls, viola, Joe Mount, horn, John Spuller, bass, Carol Bernstorf, bassoon, Alan Black, cello, Ron Rudkin, clarinet) 8/31/08
• WTW Carolina Summer Music Festival: Panning for Gold…or Silver in the Moravian Archives (Elizabeth Ransom, flute, Jacqui Carrasco, violin, Jennifer Alexandra Johnston, cello, Simon Ertz, viola, Susan Bates, organ & harpsichord, & Marilyn Taylor, soprano) 8/24/08
• KM West Meets East: Hindustani Vocal Music (Rajan and Sajan Mishra, vocals, Subhen Chatterjee, tabla, & Snatan Goswami, harmonium) 8/23/08
• WTW Carolina Summer Music Festival: A Resplendent Evening with French Composers (Elizabeth Ransom, flute, Grace Lin Anderson, cello, Ināra Zandmane, piano, Mary Siebert, mezzo-soprano, Jacqui Carrasco, violin, Diane Phoenix-Neal, viola) 8/21/08
• WTW Summer Music at Reynolda House: Scintillating Gershwin (Ruskin Cooper, piano, & Jacqui Carrasco, violin, Carolina Summer Music Festival) 8/17/08
• PP Carolina Summer Music Festival: Gershwin, By George (Jacqui Carrasco, violin, Martha Bassett, vocals, Federico Pivetta, piano, John Wilson, drums, Ken Wilmot, trumpet, Wally West, tenor saxophone, Mat Kendrick, bass) 8/14/08
• LMcD Brevard Music Center: Transylvania Symphony Orchestra Plays Triumphant Season Finale (Steven Smith, conductor) 8/8/08
• LMcD BMC: Music for Two Pianos a Rare Treat (Sandra Wright Shen, Elizabeth Pridonoff, Douglas Weeks, Craig Nies, pianos, Charles Ross, Conrad Alexander, percussion) 8/6/08
• LMcD BMC Honors Two of Its Own (Christopher Martin, trumpet, Daniel Meyer, conductor) 8/3/08
• JR EMF Closes 47th Season with Heroic Program (Xavier Phillips, cello, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 8/2/08
• PP EMF: Concerto Competition Winners — Two (Holly Jenkens, violin, Hayato Tanaka, trumpet, Hana Huber, piano, Chelsea Tipton II & Jose-Luis Novo, conductors) 8/1/08
• TMcI BMC: Concerto Winners Perform Under Meyer's Sympathetic Baton (Brandon Garbot, piano, Youngji Kim, flute, French horn, Andrew Goldman, piano, Susie Chung, piano, Natasa Stojanovska, piano, Daniel Meyer, conductor) 8/1/08
  
  Theatre Reviews:

• RWMcD Gods of Autumn (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 8/21/08
• KDA The Servant of Two Masters (Deep Dish Theater) 8/21/08
• RWMcD Personals (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 8/7/08
• ARH Give It Up, Turn It Loose (Theatre in the Park) 8/2/08
  

July 2008 Archives

• PP EMF: Concerto Competition Winners - One (Marley Eder, flute, Julian Schwartz, cello, Chien-Lin Lu, Piano, José-Luis Novo & Chelsea Tipton II, conductors) 7/31/08
• TMcI BMC's Janiec Opera Company Presents Brilliant Adamo Opera: Little Women 7/31/08
• TMcI Lockhart & BMC Orchestra/Chorus Provide Music Treat (Bruce Murray, piano, Stanford Olsen, tenor, Lara Ciekewicz, soprano, Ted Federle, baritone, & Keith Lockhart, conductor) 7/27/08
• JR Superb Soloist Plus Great Brass Section Highlight EMF Concert (Elmar Oliveira, violin, & Jorge Mester, conductor) 7/26/08
• JWL EMF Hosts Awadagin Pratt (Young Artists Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 7/25/08
• DA Ken Cowan at Edenton Street United Methodist Church, Raleigh 7/25/08
• LMcD BMC's Young Transylvania Symphony Orchestra Reaches for the Stars (Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin, & Keith Lockhart, conductor) 7/25/08
• TMcI Llewellyn Leads BMC Orchestra in Beethoven and Mahler (Norman Krieger, piano, Grant Llewellyn, conductor) 7/20/08
• KDA ADF Closes 75th Season with Japanese Sweets 7/19/08
• TL EMF: Two Griegs, a Mahler, and a Full House (William Wolfram, piano, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 7/19/08
• PP EMF: Splashes of Orchestral Color and a Hidden Gem (Ani Kavafian, violin, with the EMF Student Orchestra, Jose-Luis Novo, conductor) 7/18/08
• PDW If Music Be the Food of Love... (Florence Peacock, soprano, with the Chapel Hill Community Chorus Summer Chorus, Sue Klausmeyer, conductor, & with Frank Pittman, piano, Martin Stam, bass, Stephen Coffman, percussion & Eric Hallman, trumpet) 7/18/08
• WTW EMF's Young Artists Orchestra: Divine Mozart with an Enigma (Jon Manasse, clarinet, Jorge Mester, conductor) 7/17/08
• KDA Japanese Mini-fest at ADF — Kochuten and Dairakudakan 7/16/08
• LMcD An Embarrassment of Riches: Díaz Trio Redux at BMC (Andrés Cárdenes & Amy Schwartz Moretti, violins, Roberto Díaz & Scott Rawls, violas Andrés Díaz, cello, Steven Cohen, clarinet, Bruce Murray, piano, & a 9-member cello ensemble) 7/16/08
• TL EMF: Chamber Music at Guilford College (Ann Choomack, flute, Jenny Grégoire, Diana Tsaliovich, & Shawn Weil, violins, Jamie Hofman & Jennifer Puckett, violas, Marta Simidtchieva & Neal Cary, cellos, R. Meredith Johnson, bass, & Yoshikazu Nagai, piano) 7/15/08
• KDA Past/Forward at ADF (Dendy, Holms, Hawkins, & Dean) 7/14/08
• TMcI Díaz Trio Concentrates on Magyar Vocabulary (Andrés Cárdenes, violin, Roberto Díaz, viola, & Andrés Díaz, cello, at the Brevard Music Festival) 7/14/08
• RP ECU Summer Guitar Workshop: Douglas James and Jason Vieaux 7/13/08
• WTW EMF: Chamber Music at Reynolda House (with Ann Choomack, flute & piccolo, Shawn Weil, violin, Jamie Hoffman, viola, Neal Cary, cello, R. Meredith Johnson, double-bass, & Gideon Rubin & Yoshikazu Nagai, pianos) 7/13/08
• JWL Highlands-Cashiers Presents Beethoven's Music for Piano & Cello (William Ransom, piano, & Sara Sant'Ambrogio, cello) 7/12&13/08
• WTW Eastern Music Festival Orchestra: Powerful Performance Caps Fine All-Russian Program (with Cecile Licad, piano, & Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 7/12/08
• PP EMF: Shostakovich Symphony No. 11, & Bonus Cecile Licad Master Class (with Christopher Olka, tuba, & David Lockington, conductor; and with student pianists Fang-Wei Hsu, Robin Jenkens, & Irina Arbatskaya in the class, conducted by Cecile Licad) 7/11/08
• KDA Double Dose of Interdisciplinary Performance at ADF: Meredith Monk and Bill T. Jones 7/10/08
• WTW EMF's Young Artists Orchestra (with Jeffrey Multer, violin, & José-Luis Novo, conductor) 7/10/08
• JR The Dazzling Virtuosity of Cellist Matt Haimovitz (with Geoff Burleson, piano) 7/9/08
• TMcI BMC: Cárdenes and Murray Provide Food for Thought 7/9/08
• KDA ADF: Ron K. Brown, Cleo Parker Robinson, and Doug Varone 7/7/08
• TMcI Falletta and Josefowicz in Beethoven at BMC 7/6/08
• MAF The Brussels Chamber Orchestra Presents Music that Inspires and Delights 7/5/08
• JR Eastern Music Festival: Big Name Draws Packed House (with Miodori Goto, violin, & David Lockington, conductor) 7/5/08
• JWL NC Symphony Dodges the Elements — Barely (with Christal Rheams, vocalist, the Concert Singers of Cary, & William Henry Curry, conductor) 7/5/08
• PP Independence Day at the Eastern Music Festival: An Evening Concert, & An Afternoon Master Class (with Christiana Dahl, piano, & David Lockington, conductor, & with José-Luis Novo, conductor; and with student violinists Sophie Pariot & Holly Jenkens in the class, conducted by Midori) 7/4/08
• KDA ADF: Paul Taylor and the Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet 7/3/08
• LMcD A Sumptuous Magic Flute at BMC 7/3/08
• TMcI William Preucil in BMC Faculty Recital (with Thomas Joiner & J. Patrick Rafferty, violins, & Douglas Weeks & Bruce Murray, pianos) 7/2/08
  
  Theatre Reviews:
  
• RWMcD Peter Pan (North Carolina Theatre) 7/12/08
• ARH Everybody's "On Edge" in the Seventh Annual 10 by 10 in the Triangle Festival (The Arts Center) 7/12/08
• KDA Goin' A Buffalo (Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern) 7/9/08
• RWMcD True West (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 7/2/08
  

June 2008 Archives

• LMcD BMC's Celebratory Tribute to the late Bill Boggs, Jr. 6/30/08
• KDA ADF: Keigwin + Company, Battleworks and PARADIGM 6/30/08
• TMcI Keith Lockhart & BMC Orchestra Communicate Vienna (with Robert McDuffie, violin) 6/29/08
• JR Long Leaf Opera: Orpheus, Euridice, Dancers, Clarinets, Chairs? 6/29/08
• RCD Glass Hammer Highlight of Long Leaf Opera Festival 6/28/08
• MAF The North Carolina Symphony: Beautiful Music for a Summer Evening 6/28/08
• KDA Into the Sublime at ADF: Martha Graham and Lar Lubovitch 6/26/08
• KM Still Funny, After All These Years: A Water Bird Talk (Long Leaf Opera) 6/24/08
• KDA Extreme Philosophies at ADF (Marin, Teker and Radin) 6/24/08
• TMcI Gary Graffman in Tryon: Left-handed Masterpieces 6/22/08
• TL Magnolia Baroque Festival: The Triumph of Love (with members of the New Bern Dancing Assembly) 6/21/08
• JR Long Leaf Opera: Two Super and Supernatural One-Acts 6/20/08
• JWL An All-Bach Evening from Magnolia, with Love (Ingrid Matthews, solo violin, & Ensemble) 6/20/08
• KDA Pilobolus at ADF 6/19/08
• WTW Magnolia Baroque: The Harmonious Blacksmith Explores Improvisation 6/19/08
• WTW Magnolia Baroque Festival 2008: Fresh Fare from the Moravian Archives 6/18/08
• JWL Duke Summer Series Offers Wide-Spectrum Chamber Program (Ciompi Quartet with Max Raimi, viola) 6/18/08
• KDA The Collaborationists: ADF's Fourth Program (Eiko and Koma, John Jasperse Company, and Zvi Dance) 6/16/08
• RAC Keowee CMF: Pretty Place 6/15/08
• MAF A Blitzstein-Weill Cabaret Evening in Two Acts: Great Music and Superb Singing (Long Leaf Opera) 6/14/08
• PDW North Carolina Symphony – Classical Stories (Summerfest, with Joan Landry, conductor) 6/14/08
• JR Long Leaf Opera: A Rare But Well-Done Regina 6/13/08
• KDA ADF: Trisha Brown and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Companies 6/12/08
• KH Long Leaf Opera: Justine Chen, Local Teens - Deliver! 6/11/08
• JWL Mallarmé Musicians Illuminate 20th-Century Music by African-Americans 6/11/08
• KDA ADF: Limón and Dayton Contemporary Dance Companies 6/8/08
• RAC Keowee CMF: Hot! 6/8/08
• PDW Vocal Arts Ensemble: Beyond All Mortal Dreams 6/7/08
• TL UNCG Piano Literature Symposium, Part III: Jerome Lowenthal and Parisian Virtuosity 6/7/08
• JWL Feeling the Heat, NCS Delays Summerfest Opener (with Evelyn Glennie, percussion, 8 high-school snare-drummers, & William Henry Curry, conductor) 6/7/08
• TL UNCG Piano Literature Symposium, Part II: Wandering Off the Beaten Path 6/6/08
• WTW The 32nd Edition of Spoleto Festival USA Was Red Hot in Multiple Senses (operas) 6/2 & 6/6/08
• WTW Spoleto Festival USA 2008: Chamber Music Programs VI-XI 6/1 - 6/7/08
• WTW Spoleto Festival USA 2008 Part III: Choral and Orchestral Concerts (& 2 Intermezzi) 6/1 & 6/3-5/08
• WTW Spoleto Festival: Piccolo 30th Anniversary Sampler (L'Organo, Early Music, & Spotlight Chamber Music) 6/2-7/08
• KDA ADF Opens 75th Anniversary Season (Shen Wei Dance Arts, David Parsons, & Ailey II) 6/5/08
• TL UNCG Piano Literature Symposium 6/5/08
• MAF Raleigh Ringers: Musical Skill and Diversity 6/1/08
  
  Theatre Reviews:
  
• KDA Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Party Girl Productions at CGT) 6/25/08
• PREVIEW: RWMcD From Cherokee to Manteo, 22 Outdoor Dramas Will Brighten N.C. Summer Nights This Year 6/22/08
• RWMcD The Robber Bridegroom (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 6/19/08
• RWMcD Dearly Departed (Theatre in the Park) 6/13/08
• RWMcD Dearly Beloved (Theatre in the Park) 6/6/08
• ARH The Line in the Sand (Justice Theatre Project) 6/7/08
• RWMcD Rumors (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 6/4/08
  

May 2008 Archives

• MAF Madama Butterfly: Thoroughly Satisfying (Opera Company of North Carolina) 5/30/08
• SRow North Carolina Symphony Soloist Adds Lightness to Schumann, Beethoven (Alon Goldstein, piano, Grant Llewellyn, conductor) 5/29/08
• LMcD Pastyme was Good Company (Hendersonville Chamber Music and Blue Ridge Community College) 5/25/08
• WTW North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony: Sometimes Bigger is Really Better! (Ransom Wilson & Valentino Piran, conductors) 5/23/08
• WTW PREVIEW: Magnolia Baroque Festival Returns June 17-22 with Bach Concertos, Moravian Connections, & Purcell Masques 5/20/08
• JWL Hillyer Community Chorus Offers Schumann's Last Choral Work (Penelope Jensen, soprano, Nancy Brenner, alto, David Wiehle, tenor, Lewis Moore, bass, Hillyer Community Chorus, & Orchestra, Paul Conway, conductor) 5/18/08
• RAC Brevard Philharmonic: Season Concludes with Vigor (with Sylvia Kim, violin, & Donald Portnoy, conductor) 5/18/08
• KH Carmina Burana: Shaky, But Exhilarating and Fun (Chapel Hill Community Chorus, Sue Klausmeyer, director with North Carolina Boys Choir) 5/17/08
• TMcI Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra: Crossover Defined! 5/17/08
• RP Haydn, The Creation: Greenville Choral Society and New Carolina Sinfonia 5/17/08
• KDA Romeo and Juliet Triumphant: NC Dance Theatre's New Production 5/15/08
• LMcD Asheville Symphony Orchestra: A Russian Feast Indeed (Konstantin Soukhovetski, piano; Red Herring Puppets, Lisa Sturz, director; Daniel Meyer, conductor) 5/10/08
• TL NC School of the Arts: Street Scene 5/10/08
• KDA Triangle Youth Ballet: Sleeping Beauty 5/10/08
• RAC Asheville Ballet: Coppelia with Medley of West Side Story 5/9/08
• JR Mitsuko Uchida Transfixes Chapel Hill Audience 5/6/08
• JWL Chapel Hill Philharmonia Ends its 25th Season with a Program Celebrating Youth (Melissa Chan, piano, & Donald L. Oehler, conductor) 5/4/08
• RP Mallarmé Chamber Players: Baroque and Brand New (Whitley-Bauguess, dancer, Stephanie Vial, cello, Rebecca Troxler, flute, Bo Newsome, oboe, & Elaine Funaro, harpsichord) 5/4/08
• KH Women's Voices Chorus Provides Fun and Pleasure 5/4/08
• JWL TYP Hosts Fine Soloist, Distinguished Guest (Ashley Martin, violin, with Hugh Partridge & Grant Llewellyn, conductors) 5/4/08
• TMcI Asheville Chamber Players Give Stirring Performance of Haydn Mass 5/4/08
• JR North Carolina Symphony Plays a Powerful Ninth (Ilya Gringolts, piano, Grant Llewellyn, conductor) 5/3/08
• SB Wilmington Choral Society Performs Mozart's "Coronation" Mass 5/3/08
• WTW NCSA Faculty Celebrate Brahms' Birthday... Mostly (Marilyn Taylor, soprano, Allison Gagnon, piano, Sheila Browne, viola & Joseph Genualdi, viola) 5/3/08
• JWL Hail & Farewell: The Triangle Brass Band Changes Leaders (with Michael Votta & Tony Granados, directors) 5/2/08
• TL Rice Toyota Sitkovetsky & Friends Chamber Series (Pedja Muzijevic, piano, Jakov Jakoulov, piano, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin, Kelly Burke, clarinet, Scott Rawls, viola, & Inara Zandmane, piano) 5/2/08
• TMcI Steven Walter Guitars Celebrated in Performance 5/2/08
• RAC Manuel Barrueco: Chamber Nuance (with Cuarteto Latinoamericano) 5/1/08
• TL Greensboro Symphony Orchestra: Gift of the Magi (Pedja Muzijevic, piano, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, director) 5/1/08
  
  Theatre Reviews:
  
• RWMcD Radio Gals (Raleigh Little Theatre) 5/30/08
• KDA Mix, Match, and Mash-Up: Fistful of Love at Manbites Dog (Manbites Dog Theater and Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern) 5/16/08
• RWMcD Avenue Q (Broadway Series South) 5/6/08
  

April 2008 Archives

• SRow Vespers a Transformative Experience at St. Paul's (East Carolina University Chamber Singers, Daniel Bara, director) 4/27/08
• KM Iceblink: Poetry in Sound and Image (Terry Rhodes, soprano, & Tonu Kalam, narrator, with Brooks de Wetter-Smith, flute, Donald Oehler, clarinet, Jacquelyn Bartlett, harp, Hsiao-Mei Ku, violin, Hugh Partridge, viola, Timothy Holley, cello, Martin Stam, double bass, Peter Zlotnick, percussion, & Michael Votta, Jr., conductor) 4/27/08
• TMcI Converse Piano Trio Introduces Hendersonville to a 2001 Work by Robert Aldridge 4/27/08
• JWL Mostly Russian Program Brightens Cary's Amphitheatre (Diane Thornton, mezzo-soprano, Concert Singers of Cary, & Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, Alan Neilson & Lawrence Speakman, conductors) 4/26/08
• JR Siblings and Strings: The Ying Quartet at Duke (with Christopher Taylor, piano) 4/26/08
• WGC Salisbury Symphony Orchestra's Season Finale (with Le'Sondra Brown, Michael Weddington, Neal Wilkinson, Wandalaine Berry-Burch, Teresa Moore-Mitchell, Craig Estep, Jimmy R. Jenkins, Robert Knott, Robert Keeney, vocalists [in order of appearance], Livingstone Choir, Rowan All-County Fifth Grade Honors Chorus, Catawba College Choir, & David Hagy, conductor) 4/26/08
• SRow Something Old, Something New at Four Seasons Finale (Ara Gregorian & Elina Vähälä, violins, Hsin-Yun Huang & Melissa Reardon, violas, & Raman Ramakrishnan, cello) 4/25/08
• KH Fulfilling Performance of Brahms' German Requiem at UNC's Memorial Hall (Jeanne Fischer, soprano, Valentin Lanzrein, baritone, Carolina Choir, UNC Chamber Singers, UNC Men’s Glee Club, UNC Women’s Glee Club, & UNCSO, Tonu Kalam & Susan Klebanow, conductors) 4/22/08
• MAF And Peace Will Come: A Celebration of Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church's Jubilee Year (Karen Hayden, soprano, Paul Baswell, tenor, Joshua Conyers, baritone, Festival Choir, Mallarmé Chamber Players, Michael Hrivnak, horn, & Orchestra, Philip Hayden, conductor) 4/20/08
• PDW Raleigh Civic Symphony Dreams of China (Jennifer Chang, guzheng, Bonnie Thron, cello, & Randolph Foy, conductor) 4/20/08
• KH Britten Masterpiece Stirs Large Crowd at Duke Chapel (Ester Hardenbergh, soprano, William Hite, tenor, Christòpheren Nomura, baritone,.Choral Society of Durham, Duke University Chapel Choir, Duke University Chorale, Durham Children’s Choir (Scott Hill, director), David Arcus, organ, Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra, Rodney Wynkoop, conductor) 4/20/08
• TM Parisian Nights (David Dutton, oboe, William Davis, bassoon, & Beverly Biggs, fortepiano) 4/20/08
• WTW NCSASO Delivers Exciting Performances (with Laura Manko, viola, and Andrew McAfee & Ramsom Wilson, conductors) 4/19/08
• TMcI Stanfold Olsen Shows Versatility with Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra (& with Josianne Bailey, flute, & Thomas Joiner, conductor) 4/19/08
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony Chamber Classics Celebration (Fry Street Quartet & La Catrina Quartet) 4/19/08
• PDW The Operatic Requiem (Verdi's Requiem, with Brenda Harris, soprano, Christy Lynn Brown, mezzo-soprano, Dan Snyder, tenor, Myron Meyers, bass, NC Master Chorale & Orchestra, Alfred E. Sturgis, conductor) 4/19/08
• KDA No Guts, No Glory: Merce Cunningham at UNC 4/18/08
• PP Charlotte Symphony and James Gaffigan – A Memorable Evening (Elmar Oliveira, violin, with James Gaffigan, conductor) 4/18/08
• PP Flash! Don't Miss this Charlotte Symphony Concert! (Elmar Oliveira, violin, with James Gaffigan, conductor) 4/18/08
• JWL Guest Artists Help Duke Symphony Orchestra Close 2007-8 Season (Soloists, Durham Children's Choir, & Duke SO, Harry Davidson, conductor) 4/18/08
• TM Music from the UNC Electro-Acoustic Studio 4/16/08
• WTW Winston-Salem Symphony's "Romantic Nights" Program 4/15/08
• TM Music on Main: The Philharmonic Quintet 4/13/08
• TM The Jupiter String Quartet 4/13/08
• WTW Virginia Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor: Superb Drama and Vocal Fireworks 4/13/08
• MAF Michael Collins and NCS Make Superb Music 4/12/08
• JR The Ups and Downs of Bang on a Can 4/12/08
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony Masterworks V — 2007/8 4/12/08
• TMcI Well-Prepared Chorus Joins Asheville Symphony Orchestra 4/12/08
• KM Born Into Brothels Ensemble 4/11/08
• WTW UNCG Opera Theatre's Imaginative La Vida Breve 4/11/08
• LMcD The Anthony & Beard Variety Show (Ryan Anthony, trumpet, & Gary Beard, organ/piano) 4/6/08
• MAF Love and War In Cosi fan tutte (Capital Opera) 4/6/08
• WTW Ann Schein Shines in Eclectic Elon Piano Recital 4/3/08
  
  Theatre Reviews:
  
• KDA Riverdance (Broadway Series South) 4/29/08
• KDA Witness to an Execution (PlayMakers Repertory Company) 4/23/08
• RWMcD Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika (Theatre in the Park) 4/18/08
• RWMcD Spamalot (Broadway Series South) 4/15/08
• RWMcD Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches (Theatre in the Park) 4/12/08
• RWMcD Crowns (Burning Coal Theatre Company) 4/10/08
• ARH Amadeus (PlayMaker's Repertory Company) 4/5/08
• RWMcD Dinner with a Legend: The Music of Sam Cooke (North Carolina Theatre and Prime Only Downtown) 4/4/08
• KDA The Duck Variations and Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Ghost and Spice Productions) 4/4/08
• RWMcD Girls Night: The Musical (Broadway Series South) 4/2/08
  

• KH Robert Parkins Stirs Audience with Romantic German Organ Sonatas 3/30/08
• JWL A Feast of Bach (NC Bach Festival Finale) 3/30/08
• WTW Opera Carolina's Vital, Mostly Traditional Staging of Don Giovanni 3/30/08
• JR The Eroica Effect (The Helsingborg Symphony, Andrew Manze, conductor) 3/29/08
• TM Gonzalo Rubalcaba 3/29/08
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony Chamber Classics IV –2007/08 (La Catrina Quartet) 3/29/08
• KDA Dance as Evidence (Ron K. Brown/Evidence) 3/28/08
• SRow Infrequently Played Elgar Quintet Highlights Four Seasons (Ittai Shapira & Hagai Shaham, violin, Ara Gregorian, viola and music director of the festival, Zvi Plesser, cello, and Arnon Erez, piano) 3/28/08
• LMcD The Fab Four: Turtle Island String Quartet 3/28/08
• WTW Sherrill Milnes & Greensboro College Voices Make a Stirring Elijah 3/27/08
• KM Duke Encounters: Patterns in a Chromatic Field (Charles Curtis, cello & Aleck Karis, piano) 3/22/08
• RAC Simon Trpceski (piano) 3/21/08
• KDA Duke Performances: Bill T. Jones 3/19/08
• WTW Charlotte Symphony: Hadelich and Perick Superbly Meld Depth and Virtuosity (Augustin Hadelich, violin, Christoph Perick, conductor) 3/15/08
• KDA Garth Fagan Dance at NCSU 3/13/08
• PDW Cathcart and Laufer Dazzle at Saint Mary's 3/11/08
• JWL Crazy Anatoly! (Anatoly Larkin, piano) 3/10/08
• KH Awadagin Pratt & Zuill Bailey: Exceptional Duo 3/9/08
• JWL Raleigh Symphony Orchestra Hosts Concerto Competition Winners (Kathryn Reeves Pearson, violin, Alan Toda-Ambaras, cello, Joshua Brooks & Hsin-I Huang, pianos, & RSO, Alan Neilson & Xi Yang, conductors) 3/9/08
• JR A Tale of Two Quartets (Takács & Borromeo) 3/8&9/08
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony's Masterworks IV 3/8/08
• KDA North Carolina Dance Theater 3/7/08
• WTW Outlaw and Jones: Victorious Return of the Natives 3/7/08
• KH Davidson, Duke Symphony Orchestra and Guests Redefine Three "Bs" (Alyssa Zhu, piano; Beaufort (SC) High School Voices, Victor Varner, director; & Duke SO, Harry Davidson, conductor) 3/5/08; & a note on Duke Chamber Players, Michael Wood, director 3/1/08
• WTW Secrest Finale: Apollo's Fire and Jennifer Larmore with Vivaldi and Handel 3/5/08
• JWL Concerto Competition Winners Appear with UNCSO in Benefit Concert (Christopher Whittemore, clarinet, Benjamin Crouch, alto saxophone, Beth Allen, soprano, Tonu Kalam, Music Director) 3/2/08
• KH Isabella Provides an Outstanding Concert 3/2/08
• WTW Virginia Opera Celebrates Thirty-third Season with a Triumphant Eugene Onegin 3/2/08
• KDA Nrityagram Dance Ensemble 3/2/08
• WGC Salisbury Symphony Orchestra 3/1/08
• TMcI Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven 5 Practicum 3/1/08
  
  Theatre Reviews:
• ARH Still...Life: An Exploration of a Killing State: North Carolina (Carolina Performing Arts in collaboration with The Justice Theater Project) 3/29/08
• RWMcD Joshua Lozoff: Beyond Belief (Ghost and Spice Productions) 3/27/08
• RWMcD The Wedding Singer (Broadway Series South) 3/26/08
• RWMcD Moby Dick Rehearsed (NC State University Center Stage) 3/25/08
• ARH Mannheim Steamroller (Broadway Series South) 3/20/08
• KDA Wine in the Wilderness (New Traditions Theatre at Common Ground) 3/20/08
• RWMcD The Trip to Bountiful (Raleigh Little Theatre) 3/8/08
• RWMcD Jay Johnson: The Two and Only! (Broadway Series South) 3/5/08
  

• SRow Empire Brass: No Gabrieli, But Still Great Sounds 1/31/08
• WTW Opera Carolina's Taut Staging of Verdi's Aïda Focused on Drama 1/31/08
• LMcD L'Orfeo and Asheville's Echo Early Music Festival (Aaron Schnurbusch, tenor, & Michael Porter, conductor) 1/30/08
• PDW A Saint Mary's French Evening (Laura Byrne, harp, Pamela Nelson, flute & Judith Bruno, soprano) 1/29/08
• WTW Nancy Walker: Vocal Feast Had a Hilarious Dessert 1/27/08
• RAC A Trio for Tryon (Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Piano Trio) 1/27/08
• TMcI Opal Tackles Brahms and Shostakovich 1/27/08
• AJ King Britt and Sylk 130 Bring Philly's Soul to Duke 1/26/08
• TM North Carolina Symphony (Yevgeny Sudbin, piano & NCS with Grant Llewellyn, conductor) 1/26/08
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony Chamber Classics III (La Catrina String Quartet) 1/26/08
• TMcI Electronics Meets the Beats at UNCA 1/23/08
• TMcI Brahms Will Provide A Test for Meyer and Asheville Symphony Orchestra 1/21/08
• JWL Mimi Stillman Dazzles as Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Anniversary Celebrations Continue 1/20/08
• JR New Early Music Series Premieres in Chapel Hill (Beverly Biggs & Elaine Funaro, harpsichord, Rebecca Troxler, baroque flute, Gesa Kordes, baroque violin, Robbie Link, viola da gamba) 1/20/08
• MAF Lucia di Lammermoor: Mayhem, Murder, Madness and Superb Singing (Opera Company of NC and Asheville Lyric Opera) 1/19/08
• WGC Salisbury Symphony Orchestra 1/19/08
• JR An Ives Experience on the Hill (Stefan Litwin, piano, Richard Luby, violin, Mayron Tsong, piano, & Brent Wissick, cello) 1/18/08
• LMcD Legends: Von Stade and Ramey with Katz 1/15/08
• PDW Degas with Bartók and Beethoven (Degas String Quartet) 1/13/08
• KH Women's Voices Chorus in Duke Chapel — A Special Treat 1/13/08
• LMcD Keowee Chamber Players at St. Matthias Episcopal Church 1/13/08
• KH Voices of Light: A Moving and Unforgettable Artistic Achievement (Mary Adoki, Wade Henderson, Laura Jones, Donald Milholin, Megan Bender, Janelle Guthrie, Justine Limpic, PJ Zhu, Concert Singers of Cary, & Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence J. Speakman, conductor) 1/12/08
• JR Emerson String Quartet at Night: Energy to Spare 1/12/08
• TM Emerson String Quartet — Matinee 1/12/08
• MAF Three Giants of Nineteenth-Century European Music (Andrew von Oeyen, piano, & NC Symphony with Emmanuel Villaume, conductor) 1/11/08
• TM Luciana Souza 1/11/08
• WTW Sitkovetsky and Friends: Eclectic Program Mix Rewarding (Inara Zandmane, piano, Augustin Hadelich, violin, Beth Vanderborgh, cello; Robert Overman, baritone, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, violin, Nancy Johnson, piano) 1/11/08
• SRow Four Seasons: Piano Quintets, Schubert Trio Blossom (Joseph Genualdi & Ani Kavafian, violins, Ara Gregorian, viola, Michael Kamen, cello, & Robert McDonald, piano) 1/11/08
• PP Charlotte Symphony Music Director Search Continues (with William Eddins, conductor) 1/11/08
• WTW Greensboro Symphony's Satisfying Mix of Rarities and Chestnuts 1/10/08
• TM David Parmley: First Night 12/31/07
• TM The NC Symphony's New Year's Eve Extravaganza (with Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano, the Red Clay Ramblers, & Grant Llewellyn, conductor) 12/31/07
  
  Theatre Reviews:
  
• RWMcD Disney's High School Musical on Tour (Broadway Series South) 1/29/08
• ARH World Premiere of George Tells a High (School) Tale of Boy Meets Girl (Perihelion Theater and Production Company) 1/26/08
• RWMcD Cats Is the Still Cat's Meow of British Megamusicals (Broadway Series South) 1/22/08
• KDA Europe Central Takes Its Place Beside Mahagonny in the Pantheon of Brilliant Local Theater (Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern) 1/17/08
• RWMcD Dreamgirls (NC Theatre) 1/12/08
• ARH All in the Timing (Ghost and Spice Productions) 1/12/08
• KDA A Little Lacking as a Performance Piece, Lisa Kron’s 2.5 Minute Ride Is More Than Satisfactory as a Highly-Crafted Piece of Writing (PRC2) 1/9/08
• RWMcD The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway Series South) 1/1/08