January 2009 Archives

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KH Women's Voices Chorus Provides Music to Nourish All Generations (Allan Friedman, director) 1/31/09
PP Emerging Artists Lead Student Orchestra Concert (Andrew McAfee, Valentino Piran, Konstantin Dobroykov, student conductors at UNC School of the Arts) 1/31/09
TMcI Western Carolina Hosts Farallon Recorder Quartet (ECHO Early Music Festival) 1/31/09
RP Wearing Another Hat: Music for the Harpsichord by Organ Composers (Frances Conover Fitch, harpsichord, 13th Annual East Carolina Religious Arts Festival) 1/31/09
SRow Organist Jensen Offers Shorter Works from More Modern Times (Wilma Jensen, organ, 13th Annual East Carolina Religious Arts Festival) 1/30/09
JR This Will Never Happen Again: The Improvisations of Gabriela Montero 1/30/09
LMcD Asheville Lyric Opera's Glittering 10th Anniversary Gala a Triumph 1/30/09
TL Greensboro Symphony Rice Toyota Chamber Series: Sitkovetsky and Friends (Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin, & Konstantin Lifschitz, piano) 1/30/09
WTW The Greensboro Symphony Set Great Russian Melodies Ablaze (Konstantin Lifschitz, piano, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, director) 1/29/09
TM A Latin-American Potpourri (Orchestra of St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble) 1/29/09
PP Donizetti's Elisir d'Amore (Fletcher Opera Institute) 1/28/09
TM In the Grace of the World: Vasks and More (Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carolina Performing Arts) 1/28/09
KM Arts NOW: Cinematic Music (Alan Anderson, Stephen Anderson, Rodney Waschka II, composers; Brooks de Wetter-Smith, flute, Stephen Anderson, piano, Thomas Warburton, piano) 1/28/09
LMcD Music for Midday at the University of North Carolina Asheville (Gail Ann Schroeder, bass & treble viola da gamba, Ann Stierli, alto recorder & tenor and bass viola da gamba, & Barbara Weiss, virginal & alto recorder) 1/28/09
KDA "The Devil's Fiddler": Roby Lakatos and Ensemble at Duke (Duke Performances) 1/25/09
KH A New Look at The Long Shadow of Romanticism (Beethoven) (Ciompi Quartet with Randall Love, piano) 1/25/09
TMcI Commendable Collaboration in Opera Carolina's Barber of Seville 1/24/09
WGC Salisbury Symphony Orchestra (Anne Sellitti, cello, & David Hagy, director) 1/24/09
KDA Re- Remade: Shen Wei Dance Arts at Duke (Duke Performances) 1/23/09
WTW Richard Luby's Enterprising and Imaginative UNC Recital (Richard Luby, violina and Wonmin Kim, piano) 1/23/09
JR The Curious Concert of Guitarist Roland Dyens (Music for a Great Space & Piedmont Classical Guitar Society) 1/23/09
WTW Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Performed With Verve 1/18/09
SRow Elegant, Intimate, Unusual Mark Chamber Musicians' Program (Joseph Genualdi, violin, Gail Williams, horn, Robert McDonald, piano) 1/18/09
MAF NC Symphony Presents Variety of Satisfying Music (Midori, violin, and Michael Christie, conductor) 1/17/09
JR Bailey and Dinnerstein Play Beethoven (Zuill Bailey, cello and Simone Dinnerstein, piano) 1/17/09
PP André Watts and Charlotte Symphony (Rossen Milanov, guest conductor) 1/16/09
PP nu = New Music Ensemble with a Passion at UNC School of the Arts 1/13/09
JNB Chopin at East Carolina University: Dr. Henry Doskey, Piano 1/12/09
WTW UNC School of the Arts "Songs for All Seasons": a Winning Vocal Recital (Glenn Siebert, tenor, Janine Hawley, mezzo-soprano, & Allison Gagnon, piano) 1/10/09
SRow Four Seasons Festival: Stunning Artistry, Contrasts (Ara Gregorian, violin, Adam Neiman & Keiko Sekino, piano, Maria Lambros, viola, Ani Aznavoorian, cello) 1/9/09
PP Charlotte Symphony: Haydn Cello Concerto and Scheherazade (Julie Albers, cello, Christopher Warren-Green, guest conductor) 1/9/09
PP Philidor Percussion Gem: Next Performance Soon! 1/6/09

Theatre Reviews:
KDA Repertory at PlayMakers Includes a Glowing Glass Menagerie 1/31/09
ARH Monsters and Prodigies Begins as Allegory but Dissovles into Camp (Carolina Performing Arts) 1/24/09
ARH Way to Heaven Is an Audacious Play About A Monstrous Wrong (Burning Coal Theatre Company) 1/23/09
ARH Rent Explodes Onstage in a Kaleidoscope of Raw Power and Emotion (Durham Performing Arts Center) 1/21/09
RWMcD The 10 Best Shows of 2008 1/19/09
RWMcD Director Beth Honeycutt and a Stellar Cast Make The Fantasticks Sparkle Like the Hope Diamond (Towne Players) 1/17/09
KDA The Young Ladies of... Is a Sometimes Trying, Sometimes Touching, Pastiche (Playmakers Repertory Company — PRC² series) 1/7/09
RWMcD Long-Running Broadway Musical A Chorus Line Demonstrates That It Still Has Legs (Broadway Series South) 1/6/09

Note: The following December 2008 reviews were posted in January 2009:

JR North Carolina Symphony Dances in 2009 12/31/08
PP Excellent New Year's Eve Concert Tainted by Electronic Problems (Winston-Salem Symphony, Robert Moody, conductor) 12/31/08