Feature Archives - 2010

• SRow ECU’s Gregorian Joins Daedalus Quartet 10/3/10
• ARH Snow Camp’s Pathway to Freedom One of Five Penned by Mark R. Sumner, Sr. 7/21/10
• Rev. Carolyn Brockwell Remembers Long-Time Broughton High School Choral Director Judith Freeman 6/2
• RWMcD The 10 Best Shows of 2009 - & The Best of the Best 1/2/10
  
  
  
• December 2010 Archives
• JWL Making a Joyful Noise – the Garner Sinfonia Debuts with Raleigh's Schola Cantorum 12/19/10
• JWL Chapel Hill Community Chorus Celebrates 30th Anniversary (Carolina Brass & Chapel Hill Community Chorus, Sue T. Klausmeyer, director) 12/18/10
• RP Holiday Choral Festival: Greenville Choral Society as a part of the Mary Poole Music Series (Chamber Chorale, Lisa Stockard, director, & Concert Choir and New Carolina Sinfonia, Jeffrey Ward, director) 12/18/10
• BS The North Carolina Symphony Entertains with Holiday Pops 12/16/10
• PT Charlotte Symphony Rejoices Greatly at Knight Theater (Marie-Eve Munger, soprano, Krista River, mezzo-soprano, Aaron Sheehan, tenor, Jesse Blumberg, baritone, Oratorio Singers of Charlotte, & Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Scott Allen Jarrett, conductor) 12/16/10
• PDW Garner Audience to RTOOT: Your Music (Somewhat) Better Than None (Really Terrible Orchestra Of the Triangle) 12/14/10
• PDW The Oakwood Waits Banish Christmas Blahs Around Moore Square 12/12/10
• LMcD Asheville Symphony’s Holiday Pops a Gift of Joy and Wonder (Alexsandr Voinov, piano, Jonathan Scales, steel drum, Asheville Symphony Chorus, Dewitt Tipton, director, Children’s Chorus, Timothy Wilds, director, & Asheville Symphony, Daniel Meyer, conductor) 12/12/10
• JR Chamber Arts Society of Durham Closes out 2010 with Opus One 12/11/10
• TL Rejoice! (Bel Canto Company, Welborn E. Young, conductor, Cantabile Singers of the Greensboro Youth Chorus, Ann Doyle, conductor) 12/11/10
• WGC Kontras Quartet Offers Beethoven & Tchaikovsky, Including Nutcracker 12/11/10
• TMcI Santa Brings Greenville Chorale Across the Border to North Carolina (Greenville Chorale and Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, Bingham Vick, Jr., conductor) 12/11/10
• TMcI Shane Long with Asheville Choral Society 12/10/10
• WTW UNC Symphony Orchestra and Alumna Deliver Brilliant Performance (Molly Morkoski, piano, & UNC Symphony Orchestra, Tonu Kalam, conductor) 12/9/10
• WTW Duke Symphony Orchestra and Soloists Excel in Choice All-Samuel Barber Program (Jung Eun Oh, soprano, Eric Pritchard, violin, & Duke Symphony Orchestra, Harry Davidson, conductor) 12/8/10
• SRow Magnificat Leads Back-to-Back Choral Performances (East Carolina University Chamber Singers, Alfred Sturgis, director, University Chorale or the St. Cecilia Singers, Jeffrey Ward, director) 12/6&7/10
• PT A Bright, Brassy Magnificat at Myers Park Baptist 12/6/10
• KH More Excellence from Hillyer Community Chorus and Conway (Meg Risinger, soprano, Laura Williams, mezzo-soprano, Nancy Brenner, alto, Rob Maddrey, tenor, John E. Karny & Dick Wilson, baritone, Lewis Moore, bass & Hillyer Community Chorus, Paul Conway, director) 12/5/10
• TMcI Chamber Music in an Asheville House (Kenneth Law, cello, & Daniel Weiser, piano) 12/5/10
• KH TGMC – Sensational All Male Chorus 12/5/10
• ARH Music and Theater Combine Seamlessly to Create a Superb Amadeus (NC Symphony & PlayMakers Repertory Company) 12/4/10
• KH Raleigh Symphony Orchestra's Contribution to the Seasonal Festivities 12/4/10
• WTW Duke University Chapel: Another Translucent and Vivid Messiah (Ilana Davidson, soprano, Drew Minter, counter-tenor, John Elwes, tenor, & Alexander Dobson, bass, Duke Chapel Choir, Rodney Wynkoop, conductor) 12/3/10
• PDW Instrumental and Choral Forces Bestow “Holiday Concerts” on NC State (Jazz Ensemble I, Wes Parker, director; Wind Ensemble, Paul Garcia, director; Vox Accalia, Singing Statesmen, & The North Carolina State University Chorale, Nathan Leaf, director) 12/2&3/10
• SRow Dohnányi Quintet Shows Skills of Youthful Composer (Ara Gregorian & Axel Strauss, violin, Maria Lambros, viola, Amit Peled, cello, Adam Neiman, piano) 12/2/10
  
  Theatre Achives:
• SP Ira David Wood IV Carries on the Family Legacy (TIP's A Christmas Carol) 12/11/10
• SRoss Oh, the Humanity and other exclamations (Manbites Dog Theatre) 12/11/10
• LJ A'Caroling... in High Point (NCShakes' Christmas Carol) 12/11/10
• SP Raleigh Little Theater's Cinderella Enchants 12/10/10
• J-KC Full Circle, Sort of – David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries Plays at Theatre in the Park 12/11/10
• SRoss A Christmas Story (North Carolina Theatre, Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy, & Broadway Series South) 12/10/10
• LMcD Montford Park Players' Reprise of Dickens' A Christmas Carol 12/9/10
• KDA Coming to You Almost Live: Piano Starts Here 12/8/10
• ARH Art Tatum Performs "Live" At Doc Hanley's Jazz Club in Harlem 12/8/10
• JR It's Alive! Young Frankenstein at DPAC 12/7/10
• JWL Cary Players Say "Yes Virginia" – Yep, Christmastime Is Here, by Golly! 12/6/10
• KDA PlayMakers Puts the "Play" back in Acting with Shipwrecked! 12/5/10
• SRoss Crowns (Burning Coal Theatre Company) 12/5/10
• PT Scrooge! Triumphs at ImaginOn (Children's Theatre of Charlotte) 12/4/10
• LJ For the First of Several Times, A'Caroling We Shall Go (Triad Stage does Dickens) 12/3/10
• SP Inspecting Carol for the Win in the End (NCSU Theatre) 12/1/10
  
  
• November 2010 Archives
• WTW Winston-Salem Symphony's Vital and Vivacious Performance of Haydn's Creation Oratorio (Kendra Colton, soprano, John McVeigh, tenor, Laurence Albert, bass, Winston-Salem State University Choir, Winston-Salem Symphony Chorale, Winston-Salem Symphony, Donald Neuen, conductor) 11/23/10
• JWL Philharmonic Association's Three Orchestras Strut their Considerable Stuff (Triangle Youth Philharmonic, Hugh Partridge, conductor; Triangle Youth Orchestra, Tim Kohring, conductor, & Connie Lorber, string specialist; & Triangle Youth Symphony, Marta Findlay-Partridge & Jim Waddelow, conductor) 11/21&23/10
• WTW Kitchen and Tyson Strike Interpretative Sparks on St. Stephen's Concert Series (Nicholas Kitchen, violin, & Andrew Tyson, piano) 11/21/10
• KH An Event to be Cherished at Duke Chapel 11/21/10
• BS The Cape Fear Chorale in a Festival of Carols 11/21/10
• JR Two Piano Men, Mussorgsky's Pictures and Trio Solisti Light up Durham 11/20/10
• LMcD Asheville Symphony’s Third Masterworks Program a Collaborative Masterpiece (Elizabeth Grayson, soprano, Janine Hawley, mezzo-soprano, and Scott Joiner, tenor; Asheville Symphony Chorus, Dewitt Tipton, director; North Carolina Stage Company, Angie Flynn-McIver, director; & Asheville Symphony, Daniel Meyer, conductor) 11/20/10
• MAF Asheville Lyric Opera: Musical Christmas Party Was a Delight (with Pastyme, Voices in the Laurel, the Greater Works Gospel Praise Team, Mars Hill College Choir and Chamber Singers, David Starkey & Dominic Aquilino, baritones, Cara Ray Burrus & Heather Ferguson, sopranos, & Jazz Trio - Brad Curtioff, piano, Bruce Lang, bass, & Justin Watt, drums) 11/19/10
• WTW New Zealand String Quartet: Exceptional Survey of Masterworks at Elon University 11/18/10
• JWL Transformed by Words and Music: Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra's Poetry Connections 2 (with Wade Henderson, tenor, Nathan Leaf, reciter, Karyn Friedman, mezzo-soprano, Brian Reagin, violin, & Randolph Foy, conductor) 11/14/10
• KH Glorious Sounds Provided by Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (Andrea Moore, soprano, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Lorenzo Muti, conductor) 11/14/10
• SRow Mozart String Divertimento, Four Allegros Show Musical Future in Good Hands (Keiko Sekino, piano, Ara Gregorian & Katherine Dennis, violin, Jessica Thompson, viola, Weipeng Liu, cello; Min-Young Kim & Liz Upson, violin, Melissa Reardon & Andrew Minguez, viola, Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Emmanuel Gruber, cello, Keiko Sekino, piano, Chris Ferrara, violin, and others; Ara Gregorian, Min-Young Kim, Caroline Cox & John Spence, violin, Melissa Reardon & Stephen Luerhman, viola and Raman Ramakrishnan & Weipeng Liu, cello) 11/14/10
• JWL Flash – New Music Ensemble Presents New Music before Substantial Audience in UNC’s Memorial Hall (Carolina Choir & UNC Chamber Singers, Susan Klebanow, conductor; UNC New Music Ensemble, Stephen Litwin, conductor; Mayron Tsong, piano, Louise Toppin, soprano) 11/13/10
• WGC Scearce, DBR, & More from the Western Piedmont Symphony (Daniel Bernard Roumain [DBR], violin & Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, conductor) 11/13/10
• WTW  School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra's "Arabian Nights" is Brilliant (Benjamin Robinette, alto saxophone, University of North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Thomas Troy, conductor) 11/13/10
• WTW Ciompi Quartet and Friends Present Richly Satisfying Concert (with John Brown, bass, & Thomas Kraines, cello) 11/12/10
• PT NC Dance Theatre Shoots for the Green with Innovative Works 11/11/10
• PP Flicka Holds Audience in the Palm of Her Hand (Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano, Allison Gagnon, piano, Richard Ollarsaba, Bass-Baritone) 11/10/10
• PP Gidon Kremer and Baltic Strings Superb at Wake Forest University (Kremerata Baltica) 11/9/10
• WTW Concertante Delighted its Southern Pines Audience with a Sextet Sampler 11/8/10
• TMcI Organist Charlie Steele Celebrates Southern Harmony 11/8/10
• RP John Rutter's Requiem by the Christ Church Choir (New Bern) 11/7/10
• PDW Raleigh Civic Symphony Makes Two Powerful Poetry Connections, One Less So 11/7/10
• JWL The Durham Symphony Looks Back While Moving Forward 11/7/10
• TMcI Teresa Sumpter Performs Russian and Catalonian Composers (Asheville Art Museum) 11/7/10
• ELB A Romantic Field Day: Chopin and Schumann at Duke University (Mayron Tsong & Derison Duarte, pianists, with Nicholas DiEugenio & Jubal Fulks, violins, Yoram Youngerman, viola, & Alexander Ezerman, cello) 11/6/10
• TL Mozart’s Fantastical Magic Flute (Greensboro Opera Company, Valéry Ryvkin, artistic director/conductor) 11/6/10
• MFW Music at Queens: The Poulenc Trio 11/6/10
• KDA This Art Is Not a Product: Ralph Lemon at Duke 11/5/10
• PT E-flat Major Trumpet Talent in a Strapless Red Gown (Alison Balsom, trumpet, & Charlotte Symphony, Christopher Warren-Green, conductor) 11/5/10
• BS The North Carolina Symphony Features Brahms (with Melanie Wilsden, oboe, Dovid Friedlander, violin, & Grant Llewellyn, conductor/harpsichord) 11/4/10
• JR The Birthday Boys from 1810 Celebrated at Duke and Carolina (in order of appearance: Andrew McAfee, horn, & Derison Duarte, piano; Susan Dunn, soprano, & David Heid, piano; Donald Oehler, clarinet, Jonathan Bagg, viola, & Jane Hawkins, piano; & Richard Luby, violin, Bagg, Fred Raimi, cello, & Hawkins) 11/4/10
  
  Theatre Reviews
• SP UNC Pembroke Presents Noises Off 11/20/10
• SP UNCG's Alice: A Modern Twist on a Classic Tale 11/19/10
• SRow ECU’s Brigadoon a Feast for Musical Theater Fans 11/19/10
• ARH NCSU’s Inspecting Carol Is Boilerplate Farce for a Holiday Giggle 11/19/10
• ARH Irish Vocal Group “Celtic Thunder” Wows the Faithful at DPAC 11/17/10
• TMorman Haute Cuisine as Performance Art – at Memorial Auditorium, Various Anthony Bourdains Dish Up Bad Boy Barbs and Some Good Advice for Living 11/13/10
• KDA Harriet Jacobs Brought to Life at Little Green Pig 11/10/10
• PDW Playhouse Creatures from the Seventeenth Century Descend upon Meredith 11/9/10
• J-KC Jungalbook Launches RLT's Youth Series 11/7/10
• KDA Hot Blood and Cold Whiskey: McPherson’s St. Nicholas at Burning Coal Theatre 11/7/10
• J-KC St. Nicholas at Burning Coal Theatre: Davis Does Commendable Work with a Difficult Piece 11/6/10
• SR Night Beast (Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern) 11/6/10
• JR Gotta Dance: Billy Elliot Soars at DPAC 11/3/10
• JWL Saint Augustine’s College Theatre Produces Strong Franklin Play 11/3/10
  
• October 2010 Archives
• JWL Comes the Dawn – Mallarmé Leaves Its Mark on Nosferatu 10/31/10
• WGC Salisbury Symphony Orchestra Presents "Pictures" (Cynthia Lawing, piano, & Salisbury Symphony Orchestra, David Hagy, conductor) 10/30/10
• KDA Bombay Bellywood at Durham’s Carolina 10/29/10
• KH Eavesdropping on the Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century (Newberry Consort) 10/29/10
• JWL Up Close & Personal with Paul Green’s Grandchildren at Weymouth (Nancy Green, cello & Frederick Moyer, Piano) 10/29/10
• WTW Awadagin Pratt's Dazzling Adams Foundation Piano Recital at Elon University 10/26/10
• KH North Carolina Master Chorale on Target Again (NCMC, Alfred E. Sturgis, conductor, with Katherine Anderson. soprano, Daniel Hinson, tenor, & David Mellnik, baritone, & with Wake County High School Honors Chorus) 10/24/10
• WTW East Carolina's Enchanting Performance of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream 10/24/10
• LMcD Weiser and Liston-Kraft Smoke the 88 at White Horse Black Mountain (Daniel Weiser & Philip Liston-Kraft, piano) 10/23/10
• PT Holst Gets a Planetarium at New KnightSounds Series (Charlotte Symphony, Christopher Warren-Green, conductor) 10/22/10
• SRow NC Symphony Presents Pure Melody in All-Tchaikovsky Concert (with Bonnie Thron, cello, & William Henry Curry, conductor) 10/22/10
• JWL Schiff Debuts with Mendelssohn & Schumann for Duke Performances (András Schiff, piano) 10/22/10
• TL Rice Toyota "Sitkovetsky & Friends" Chamber Series (Dmitri Sitkovetsky & Stephanie Ezerman, violin, Scott Rawls, viola, Julie Albers, cello, & Inara Zandmane, piano) 10/22/10
• TL Moscow Nights with Sitkovetsky and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (Julie Albers, cello, & Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor) 10/21/10
• WTW UNC Symphony's Enterprising Program Displayed Both Finesse and Power 10/19/10
• PDW Raleigh Symphony Orchestra Begins Thirty-first with Three Staples (Yang Xi, violin, & Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, Jim Waddelow & Alan Neilson, conductors) 10/17/10
• JWL Susan Dunn in Recital (Susan Dunn, soprano, & David Heid, piano) 10/16/10
• PDW Music @ NC State Observes Chopin Bicentennial With Opus 1 of “The Chopin Project” (Olga Kleiankina, Arthur Greene, Dmitri Vorobiev, Svetlana Smolina) 10/16/10
• PT Opera Carolina’s Così Fan Tutte Goes Through the Motions 10/16/10
• TMcI Keowee Chamber Music: A Fine Trio by Vivian Fine (Kate Steinbeck, flute, Amy Brucksch, guitar, & Elizabeth Gergel, cello) 10/16/10
• JR North Carolina Opera Kicks Off Inaugural Season with Puccini’s Tosca 10/15/10
• SRow Skeltons Bring Out Varied Colors from Fisk Organ (Carolyn and John Skelton, organ) 10/15/10
• JWL Organist Gregory Hand at Sacred Heart Cathedral 10/11/10
• TMorman A Gorgeous Spiritual Evening: Salar Aghili's Persian Traditional Music (Salar Aghili with the Raz-o-Niaz Ensemble & Hossein Behroozinia) 10/10/10
• KH Cuarteto Latinoamericano Provides Pleasure and Insight 10/10/10
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony Opens Season with "Things That Go Bump in the Night" (Gregory Knight, piano, Kontras Quartet, & Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, conductor) 10/9/10
• LMcD A Grand Evening with the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra (Yakov Kasman, piano & Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Joiner, conductor) 10/9/10
• LMcD Daedalus Quartet Dazzles in Asheville Season Opener 10/8/10
• KDA Dracula Lives Again at NC Dance Theatre 10/8/10
• KH Stile Antico Fills Duke Chapel with Glorious Sound 10/7/10
• WTW All-French Piano Recital by Pascal and Ami Rogé Is Doubly Winning 10/4/10
• JR Triangle Opera Studios Presents “Cav and Pag” in Durham Premiere 10/3/10
• JWL Till Fellner Launches 3rd Season of Piano Recitals for Duke Performances 10/3/10
• PDW Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra Makes Threefold Keyboard Connections 10/3/10
• WGC The Kontras Quartet Launches the Western Piedmont Symphony's Chamber Classics for 2010-11 10/2/10
• TMorman Ciompi Quartet’s Smart, Challenging, Wonderfully Human Season Opener 10/2/10
• PP Bright and Shiny – Trumpet Recital Sets a High Mark (Judith Saxton, trumpet, Allison Gagnon, piano, & John Beck, percussion) 10/2/10
• PP Gothic Opera Chills and Thrills (Piedmont Opera) 10/1/10
  
  Theatre Reviews
• J-KC August Wilson’s Fences Raises the Bar at PlayMakers 10/30/10
• JR August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Fences Triumphs at PlayMakers 10/30/10
• SRoss The Rocky Horror Show (Broadway Series South, Raleigh) 10/30/10
• TMorman Two Weekends Left to See the Smart, Shocking Bug from Raleigh Ensemble Players 10/29/10
• LJ Educating Rita Wows Bibliophiles and Biblio-phobes Alike (Triad Stage) 10/22/10
• JKC Towne Players of Garner offer Curious Savage 10/14/10
• SRoss Breadcrumbs as Aids to Memory... at Manbites Dog 10/9/10
• ARH Giddy Highs and Devastating Lows Mark the Entrance of a Con Man in 6 Degrees (Ghost & Spice) 10/8/10
• LJ UNCG’s School of Theatre, Music and Dance’s Oklahoma Is Thrilling Times Three 10/1/10
• ARH “The Books”: the Epitome of Modern Musical Collaboration 10/1/10
  
  
• September 2010 Archives
• PT Chamber Music at St. Peter’s Revives with a Sparkling Benefit (Rosemary Furniss, violin, Alan Black, cello, Dana Protopopescu, piano, & Sally Silver, soprano) 9/28/10
• WTW Aliénor and the Arts of the Harpsichord at the North Carolina Museum of Art (Elaine Funaro & Beverly Biggs, harpsichords) 9/26/10
• JWL Soprano Risa Poniros Offers a Bittersweet Farewell to Meredith 9/26/10
• LMcD Living Legend Rachel Barton Pine Stars in Brevard Philharmonic Opener (Rachel Barton Pine, violin; & Brevard Philharmonic, Donald Portnoy, conductor) 9/26/10
• JR Greensboro Symphony Opens 2010-11 Season with Beethoven and Brahms (Vladimir Feltsman, piano, & Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor) 9/25/10
• WTW Charlotte Symphony's All-Elgar Program Augurs Well for New Music Director's Inaugural Season (Alisa Weilerstein, cello; & Charlotte Symphony, Christopher Warren-Green, conductor) 9/25/10
• SRow ECU Symphony Shows Polish, Strength, Maturity in Season Opener 9/25/10
• PDW North Carolina Symphony and Soloists Get Down to the Basics (Navah Perlman, piano, Giora Schmidt, violin, Zuill Bailey, cello; & NC Symphony, Grant Llewellyn, conductor) 9/24/10
• KDA Loudon Wainwright III and the Charlie Poole Project at Duke 9/24/10
• TL Greensboro Symphony Rice Toyota Chamber Series; Sitkovetsky and Friends (Vladimir Feltsman, piano, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Marjorie Bagley, & Fabian Lopez, violin, Scott Rawls, viola, Alexander Ezerman, cello) 9/24/10
• WTW Carolina Baroque's Superb Survey of the Music of François Couperin, Le Grand (Mary Mendenhall and Teresa Radomski, soprano, John Pruett, violin, Holly Maurer, viola da gamba, Susan Bates, harpsichord and organ, & Dale Higbee, recorder) 9/24/10
• LRP Carolina Chamber Music Festival: Classical Cabaret (Catherine French, violin, Melvin Chen, violin/piano, Amadi Azikiwe, viola, Jennifer Lucht, cello, with Ron Raines & Chantal Hollatschek,vocalists) 9/23/10
• PP Mysterious Musical Adventures in New Music Festival (Two Concerts) (UNCG's New Music Festival) 9/21&23/10
• PT Virtuoso Flutist and Fruity Harpsichord Blend Beautifully at BachFest V (Kim Pineda, baroque flute, Richard Krumdieck, recorder, David Wilson & Aaron Westman, baroque violins, Joey O'Donnell, baroque viola, Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, baroque 'cello, & Henry Lebedinsky, harpsichord/director) 9/19/10
• TMcI Musicke Antiqua in Concert, in Costume and in Tune 9/19/10
• RP David Arcus, Organ, Duke Divinity School Chapel 9/19/10
• BS The North Carolina Symphony in a Celebratory Evening (in Wilmington) 9/18/10
• CCS “Resurrection from the Rubble”: North Carolina Hearts go out to Haitian Dance Troop 9/17/10
• WTW The Vivaldi Project Presented the Vivid Virtuosity of C.P.E. Bach String Writing 9/15/10
• CCS NCSU’s Computer Music Offers a Rare Opportunity for The Open-Minded 9/13/10
• PDW Storied Old Venue Embraces “New Music” (New Music Raleigh) 9/12/10
• KH Brooklyn Rider String Quartet Pleases Audience – Leaves a Smile 9/12/10
• LMcD Pianist Hwa-Jin Kim Takes on the Titans at Diana Wortham 9/12/10
• JR Brooklyn Rider: September Prelude's 2010 Headliner at Duke University 9/11/10
• KDA “Pleasure is the law”: Brooklyn Rider Opens September Prelude at UNC 9/10/10
• SRow Dvořák, Brahms Shine in Four Seasons Series Opener (Jesse Mills & Hagai Shaham, violin, Xiao-Dong Wang & Gregorian, viola, Edward Arron, cello) 9/10/10
• TMcI It’s a Grand Night for Singing (Jacquelyn Culpepper, soprano, Dan Boye, bass-baritone, & Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Joiner, conductor) 9/3/10
  
  Theatre Reviews
  
• KDA Playmakers Mainstage: As You Like It 9/25/10
• JR Feed Me: The Plant’s the Thing with North Carolina Theatre’s Little Shop of Horrors 9/18/10
• ARH TIP's Complete Works... Does a Number on All of the Bard's Plays 9/17/10
• KDA Sometimes the Song is Sweet: To Kill a Mockingbird at Burning Coal Theatre 9/12/10
• LJ Glass Menagerie an Homage to Williams from Triad Stage's Preston Lane 9/10/10
• SRoss "And The Winner Is..." (Raleigh Little Theatre & Actors Comedy Lab) 9/10/10
• ARH Justice Theater Project's Our Town - 2010-11 Season Stresses Home and Community 9/10/10
• ARH PlayMakers Rep Opens Second Stage with a Classic, Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days 9/8/10
• SRoss Talking Things Over with Chekhov (Free Association Theatre Ensemble (FATE)) 9/4/10
  
  August 2010 Archives
  
• CCS Music at Meredith: Jennifer Gaspar and David Heid's Partnership Proves Key to Excellence (Jennifer Gaspar, mezzo-soprano, & David Heid, piano) 8/29/10
• RP Amphion's Echo: 17th and 18th-century Arie con tromba (Thomas Huener, baroque trumpet, Jon Ward Shaw, soprano, & John B. O'Brien, organ) 8/29/10
• PP Carolina Summer Music Festival Closes With Farcical Humor (Lisa Ransom, flute, Jacqui Carrasco & Corine Brouwer, violin, Diane Phoenix-Neale, viola, Alexandra Johnston, cello, Bob Campbell & Joe Mount, horn, Matt Ransom, tuba, and John Beck, tambourine) 8/28/10
• PDW Strings Are (Re)Attached at Meredith (Michael Danchi & Lyda Cruden, violin, and Nancy Whelan, piano) 8/28/10
• WTW Carolina Summer Music Festival's Resplendent Chopin Concert in Kuhn Studio Gallery (Paul Gillies & Barbara Lister-Sink, piano, Evan Richey, cello) 8/25/10
• PDW Audience and "Learned Judge" Prevail in Trial by Jury (White Iris Light Opera at Meredith) 8/20/10
• PP Grab It, a Wild Evening of Avant-Pop Music at Krankies' Wherehouse (Lisa Ransom, flute, Taimur Sullivan, alto and tenor saxophone, Jacqui Carrasco & Marjorie Bagley, violin, Scott Rawls, viola, & Alexander Ezerman, cello) 8/20/10
• JR Blue Ridge Chamber Players Perform a Pair of Very Different Cello Quintets (Peter deVries & Tatiana Karpova, violin, Martha Geissler, viola, Nick Lampo & Jennifer Humphreys, cello) 8/15/10
• WTW Carolina Summer Music Festival: Summer Romantics Program Gave Music Addicts a Fix (Peter Burns, piano, Jodi Burns, soprano, Glenn Siebert, tenor, Joseph Mount, horn, & Elizabeth Holler Ransom, flute) 8/15/10
• WTW Duke University's "Music in the Gardens" Finale Explored Diverse Combinations (Richard Luby, violin, Fred Raimi, cello, & Jane Hawkins, piano) 8/11/10
• JR Norah Jones Rocks On (…and on and on) at DPAC (with Elvis Perkins) 8/8/10
• LMcD Brevard Music Center's Season Finale: Effron, Shaham and Two by Brahms 8/8/10
• PT Unplugged Colionne Woos and Delights Smooth Jazz Fans at Halton Theater (Nick Colionne & Jeff Golub, guitars, Gerald Veasley, electric bass, & Eric Darius, saxophone) 8/7/10
• KH Hinshaw Celebration XXXVI (Bel Canto Company, Welborn Young, director) 8/6/10
• LMcD Figaro Caps Brevard Music Center’s Opera Season (Janiec Opera Company) 8/5/10
• WTW Duke University's Music in the Garden: Mallarmé Chamber Players Explore Sonorities (Jeremy Preston, violin, Suzanne Rousso, viola, Nathan Leyland, cello, & Thomas Warburton, piano) 8/4/10
• LMcD Beyond the String Quartet: Mozart and Tchaikovsky at Brevard Music Center (Carolyn Huebl & Jason Posnock, violin, Scott Rawls & Jennifer Kozoroz, viola, Benjamin Karp, cello; Byron Tauchi & Timothy Christie, violin, Pamela Ryan & Maggie Snyder, viola, Yumi Kendall & Alistair MacRae, cello) 8/3/10
• ECMcI I Solisti di Brevard Performs the High Baroque: Wassenaer Outstanding (Jacob Schafer, violin, Arian Shaw, viola, Matthew Liversedge, cello, Mark Hughes & Mark Schubert, trumpets, Dilshad Posnock, piccolo, Ken Lam, conductor, Felix Wang, musical preparation) 8/2/10
• LMcD Brevard Music Center's "Soloists of Tomorrow" Today: Those Fabulous Concerto Competition Winners (Jia Rong Gan, violin, Eva Ryan, flute, Casey Tamanaha, trumpet, Esther Shin & Vijay Venkatesh, piano, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Ken Lam, conductor) 8/1/10
  
  Theatre Reviews
  
• SRoss Peril on the Red Planet at the North Carolina Museum of Art 8/28/10
• TMcI SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS (Blumenthal Performing Arts Center) 8/27/10
• ARH Lackluster Revival of Broadway’s The Wiz Is Magical Only in A Few Moments (Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre) 8/24/10
• ARH Lauren Kennedy Plays Tell Me on a Sunday to Packed House, Standing Ovation (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 8/20/10
• ARH Puppets, Monsters and Magic Tell a Morality Tale of Islands Unknown (Paperhand Puppet Intervention) 8/6/10
• PT Montford’s Troilus and Cressida Is Easier to Enjoy Than to Categorize 8/1/10

July 2010 Archives

• SRow Shaham's Brahms, Schwarz's Strauss Equally Thrilling in EMF Finale (Gil Shaham, violin, Eastern Festival Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 7/31/10
• PT Brevard Sinfonia Triumphs Over Insect Kibbitzing in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite (Marianne Gedigan, flute, Brevard Sinfonia, Matthias Bamert, conductor) 7/31/10
• PP Concerto Winners (Volume Two): Ravel Triumphs at Eastern Music Festival (William Huehold, piano, Xavier Foley, double bass, Kai-Wei Chen, violin, Katherine Francis, flute, Guilford Symphony Orchestra, Chelsea Tipton, conductor & Eastern Symphony Orchestra, Jose-Luis Novo, conductor) 7/30/10
• JWL Three Cheers for Edenton Street! (Dorothy Papadakos, organ) 7/30/10
• LMcD Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival Program a Transport of Delight (William Preucil, violin, Will Ransom, piano, Valerie von Pechy Whitcup, harp, Charae Krueger, cello, Yinzi Kong, viola, & Lea Kibler, flute) 7/30/10
• PP Concerto Winners (Volume One): All Win at Eastern Music Festival (Christopher Smith, bassoon, Angelica Hairston, harp, Jennifer Gersten, violin, Eastern Symphony Orchestra, Jose-Luis Novo, conductor, Guilford Symphony Orchestra, Chelsea Tipton, conductor) 7/29/10
• PDW Paco Band Beats the Heat With Burning Coal 7/25/10
• PP Smashing Performance of Tchaikovsky Favorite at Eastern Music Festival (William Wolfram, piano, & Festival Orchestra, Christopher Seaman, conductor) 7/24/10
• JNB East Carolina U. Summer Guitar Workshop: Jason Vieaux and Bustos/Weverka Duo Recital 7/24/10
• JR Strauss, Beethoven, Borodin, and the Piano Going Back-and-Forth at EMF (Joseph Kalichstein, piano, & Young Artists Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 7/23/10
• WTW Eastern Music Festival's Young Artists Orchestra Has the Accents & Facets of Youth (with Neil McNeill, narrator, and Eric Garcia & José-Luis Novo, conductors) 7/22/10
• KDA American Dance Festival: Shen Wei Shines 7/22/10
• WTW Eastern Music Festival: Carnegie Chamber Music Series Explored Neglected Gems (Marian Hahn, piano, Penny Thompson Kruse, violin, Rebecca Zimmerman, cello, James Giles, piano, Randall Weiss and Diana Tsaliovich, violin, Daniel Reinker, viola, & Marta Simidtchieva, cello) 7/20/10
• KDA Past/Forward at ADF 7/19/10
• TL Eastern Festival Orchestra: Tchaikovsky and Mahler (Tianwa Yang, violin, & Eastern Festival Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 7/17/10
• SRow NC Symphony's Beethoven, Saint-Saëns Amid the Raindrops (Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano, & NC Symphony, William Henry Curry, conductor) 7/17/10
• PP Eastern Music Festival Concert Leaves One Wanting More (Shannon Scott, clarinet, & Young Artists Orchestra, James Ross, conductor) 7/16/10
• KDA A Surge of Joy: Paul Taylor at ADF 7/15/10
• TL EMF Young Artists Orchestra: Multer, Mendelssohn and Much More (Jeffrey Multer & Jennifer Gersten, violin, Angelica Hairston, harp, & Young Artists Orchestra, José-Luis Novo, conductor) 7/15/10
• PDW Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market Serves Up Zucchini and Puccini (Michelle Ayres, soprano, Jennifer Seiger, mezzo, Daniel Hinson, tenor, Kathryn Lewis, piano) 7/14/10
• TL EMF Carnegie Chamber Music, Playing in Threes: A Big Bang and Two Chamber Jewels (John Shaw, Wiley Sykes, & Nathaniel Collins, percussion; Shannon Scott, clarinet, Marta Simidtchieva, cello, Yoshikazu Nagai, piano; John Fadial, violin, Beth Vanderborgh, cello, Rebecca Penneys, piano) 7/13/10
• TMI Cárdenes and Murray Solo with BMC Chamber Orchestra (Andrés Cárdenes, violin, Bruce Murray, piano) 7/13/10
• KDA It's Her Party: The Return of Rosie Herrera to ADF 7/12/10
• JR Eastern Music Festival Presents World Premiere and Two Old Friends (Barry Douglas, piano, & Eastern Festival Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 7/10/10
• PT Swannanoa and Queens Launch 2010-11 Season as Best Friends (Peter deVries, violin, Paul Nitsch, piano, George Pope, flute, Cynthia Watson, oboe, David Bell, clarinet, Bill Hoyt, horn, & Lynn Heilman, bassoon) 7/10/10
• LMcD Ransom and Attacca Quartet Launch Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival's 29th Season 7/10/10
• PP Powerful Performance of Le Sacre du Printemps at Eastern Music Festival (Yoshikazu Nagai & Gideon Rubin, piano, EMF Young Artists Orchestra, José-Luis Novo, conductor) 7/9/10
• CCS Cross Currents Chamber Music Showcases Talent from Near and Far (Dovid Friedlander, violin, Bonnie Thron, cello & Brussels Chamber Orchestra) 7/9/10
• KDA Flying Too Close to the Ground: Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance at ADF 7/8/10
• PDW Mallarmé Chamber Players Skillfully Surf "Cross Currents" (Les Roettges, flute, Jeremy Preston, viiolin, Jeremy Thompson, piano, Suzanne Rousso, viola, Nathan Leyland, cello) 7/8/10
• LMcD Die Fledermaus at Brevard Music Center in Transylvania County: Who Can Top This? 7/8/10
• TMcI Marathon Beethoven Performances by Preucil and Murray at Brevard Music Festival (William Preucil, violin, & Bruce Murray, piano) 7/5-6/10
• KDA Not Quite Ready for Harvest: Martha Clarke's Angel Reapers at ADF 7/5/10
• WTW Eastern Music Festival's Brilliant and Innovative Opening Orchestral Concert (Lynn Harrell, cello, Eastern Festival Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conductor) 7/3/10
• KDA Pilobolus at ADF 7/1/10

Theatre Reviews:

• ECMcI Brevard Music Center Delivers a Vocal Program Without a Voice (Bruce Murray, Andrew Goldman, Craig Nies, & Donna Lee, pianists, & Marianne Gedigian, flute, Maria Sampen, violin, Jennifer Kozoroz, viola, & David Premo, cello) 6/29/10
• LMcD And Now for Something Different: Eclectic Chamber Music Program at Brevard Music Center 6/28/10
• TMcI Parker String Quartet, Zaretsky World Premiere at Swannanoa Festival 6/27/10
• JR An American Music Sampler: North Carolina Symphony, the Ahn Trio, and the Heat (with William Henry Curry, conductor) 6/26/10
• LMcD Tintypes at Brevard Music Center So Much More Than Entertainment 6/26/10
• LMcD Opening Night at Brevard Music Center is Bittersweet 6/25/10
• KDA Elastic Fantastic RUBBERBANDance at ADF 6/24/10
• KDA Dendy Dancetheater at ADF: So You Think You Can Act? 6/21/10
• PDW North Carolina Symphony Begins Tenth Season at Koka Booth Amphitheatre (NC Symphony, William Henry Curry, conductor, and Concert Singers of Cary, Larry Speakman, director) 6/19/10
• JWL Back to Basics: Bach at the Magnolia Baroque Festival (Linda Tsatsanis, soprano, Barry Bauguess, trumpet, Ingrid Matthews, violin, Brent Wissick, viola da gamba, & Andrew Willis, pianoforte) 6/19/10
• TL Magnolia Baroque Festival: Exploring Love and Death in 17th Century France (Harmonious Blacksmith) 6/18/10
• KDA Ballet Across America Closes with Triple Splendor 6/18/10
• JR Magnolia Baroque Festival: An Evening Devoted to Claudio Monteverdi (with Linda Tsatsanis, soprano, Brent Wissick, gamba/cello, John Lenti, theorbo, MBF instrumentalists, & Paige Whitley-Baguess and Thomas Baird, dancers) 6/17/10
• KDA Ballet Across America: Part II 6/17/10
• WTW Magnolia Baroque Festival Explores the Works of Bohemian Composers (Barry Bauguess & Justin Bland, trumpets, John Lent, theorbo, Julie Andrijeski & Johanna Novum, violins, & Paige Whitely-Bauguess & Thomas Baird, dancers) 6/16/10
• WTW Magnolia Baroque Festival Explores the Music of Johann Friedrich Peter in Depth (Julie Andrijeski & Johanna Novom, violin, Daniel Elyar & Adrianne Post, viola, Brent Wissick, cello, Jeanne Fischer, soprano, & John O'Brien, organi) 6/16/10
• MFW (loud) Charlotte Blues: Otis Taylor 6/16/10
• KDA Ballet on the Potomac: NC Dance Theatre Dances in DC 6/15/10
• PDW A Time of Peace Settles Over Duke Chapel (Vocal Arts Ensemble, Rodney Wynkoop, director) 6/13/10
• KH Mallarmé Chamber Players Provide Music That Sees As Well As Sounds 6/13/10
• JWL New Opera Company Debuts with Al Fresco Concert at Art Museum (Sandra Lopez, soprano, Daniel Stein, tenor, Nelson Martínez, baritone, Todd Robinson, bass, & Timothy Meyers & James Carlson, conductors) 6/12/10
• PDW Animated Recital Quickens a Lazy Saturday Afternoon (Rose Prather, soprano, & Margaret Singer, piano) 6/12/10
• ECMcI Signature Winds Perform Jansons and Lefebvre at St. Matthias 6/6/10
• TL UNCG Focus on Piano Literature: Ann Schein’s Illuminating Pianism (with Earl Carlyss, violin, & Darrett Adkins, cello) 6/5/10
• JWL An Opera about Violence (Long Leaf Opera) 6/4/10
• JWL UNC Greensboro’s “Focus” Turns to Mendelssohn & Schumann (Nancy Walker, soprano. Robert Wells, baritone, Alexander Ezerman & Grace Lin Anderson, cellos, Andrea Brown, horn, & Andrew Willis & John Salmon, pianos) 6/4/10
  
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• PP Inspired Performance by Wake Forest University Student Orchestra 4/29/10
• SRow ECU's Four Seasons Closes With Two Rich Entrees (Ara Gregorian & Axel Strauss, violin, Hsin-Yun Huang & Maria Lambros, viola, Ani Aznavoorian & Nina Lee, cello) 4/29/10
• JWL Last Manning Series Concert of Season at Peace College Offers late-18th-century Classics (David Kilbride & Karen Strittmatter Galvin, violins, David Marschall, viola, Lisa Shaughnessy, cello, & Milton Rubén Laufer, piano) 4/26/10
• SRow ECU Musical Forces Offer Splendid Brahms Requiem 4/25/10
• KH North Carolina Museum of Art Grand Opening Focuses Pride and Pleasure (Carolina Brass) 4/24/10
• TL Divided We Stand —Bel Canto Joins Forces with UNCG Chamber Singers 4/24/10
• LMcD The East Coast Chamber Orchestra Triumphs at the Porter Center 4/23/10
• JWL Meredith Opera Theatre Workshops Two Charming Scores 4/22/10
• JWL A Bittersweet Season Finale at Duke (Brian Sung, cello, & Duke Symphony Orchestra, Harry Davidson, conductor) 4/21/10
• WTW A Fine Joint North Carolina Master Chorale and Raleigh Symphony Orchestra Concert 4/18/10
• ELB The American Dream: A Salute to the Music of the WPA (Olga Kleiankina, piano, Sarah Busman, flute, & Raleigh Civic Symphony, Randolph Foy, conductor) 4/18/10
• WTW Borromeo String Quartet Concert at St. Stephen's Church Had a Russian Flavor 4/18/10
• TMcI Giannini Brass Serves Up Confections 4/18/10
• PP Impressive Mahler 2^nd Symphony at University of North Carolina School of the Arts 4/17/10
• JR The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields at Play in the Gothic Wonderland (with Julian Rachlin, violin/viola & leader) 4/16/10
• PT Empire Brass Feels the Love and Gives It Back 4/16/10
• SRow Chanticleer and the Glory of the Human Voice 4/15/10
• PDW NC State Chorale Serenades Holy Trinity Lutherans 4/15/10
• JWL Catherine Charlton Sings at Meredith Enroute to West Point 4/14/10
• TM Camerata Trajectina 4/14/10
• WTW University of North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, Soloists and Chorus Present Blockbuster Concert 4/13/10
• PP Piedmont Opera's Turandot, Powerful and Effective 4/11/10
• JR The Many Worlds of Kronos Quartet Featured at Duke University 4/10/10
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony, Hyperion String Quartet and Philip von Maltzahn 4/10/10
• JWL An Emersonian Evening at the UNC School of the Arts 4/10/10
• PDW Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra Looks Back at the New Deal After 75 Years 4/10/10
• PDW North Carolina Symphony Traverses Broad Style Spectrum (Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano, Paul Randall, trumpet, & Grant Llewellyn, conductor) 4/9/10
• MAF Asheville Lyric Opera's Carmen: An Audience's Histrionic and Musical Delight 4/9/10
• JWL A Mostly Broadway Evening, Benefitting Several Worthwhile Causes (Richard C. Wall, coordinator & director, Christine Weidinger, John Oliver, John Cashwell, Shannon French, Jim Burnette, Kirsten Cervati, Emily Johnston, Janie Imperial, Nicole Graziano, Cher Lair, Stephen Lair, Jackson Lair, Evelyn McCauley, Pastor David Hood, Steve Dobbins, Arthur Johnson, & Tom Terry) 4/9/10
• WTW UNC Greensboro Opera: Magical Double Bill of Debussy and Ravel Operas 4/8/10
• TM Yukiko Sekino in Recital 4/7/10
• BS North Carolina Symphony Appealing in Varied 19th Century Program 4/6/10
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony Chamber Classics V –Hyperion Quartet 4/3/10
• TM UNCG Percussion Ensemble in Concert 4/1/10
  
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March 2010 Archives