EMF’s Symphonic Triptych Overflows with Virtuosity and Enthusiasm
GREENSBORO, NC – You could almost hear the consternation behind the scenes as Gerard Schwarz and the Eastern Music Festival deliberated over what to call their most recent Saturday evening concert, the penultimate fourth of five offerings in this season's Joseph M....
Through 7/28: Opera Wilmington Brings Tosca Majestically to Life
WILMINGTON, NC – Being able to watch an Italian opera first staged in 1900 live in coastal North Carolina in 2024 is something of a miracle when you really stop and think about it. This is an art form that has managed to survive for hundreds of years, always finding...
EMF OPEN HOUSE TITLED “KALEIDOSCOPE” SHOWCASES THIS SUMMER’S YOUNG ARTISTS AND ORCHESTRAL FELLOWS
An Afternoon of Free Recitals Culminating in a Pay-What-You-Can Performance by the EMF Orchestral Fellows This Sunday GREENSBORO, N.C. (July 19, 2024) – Eastern Music Festival (EMF), a summer educational program and renowned music festival, presents this summer’s Open...
Through 7/20: Terpsicorps’ Before the Scream Makes Art About Art and Scorches the Stage with Magical Movement
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance's international cast blazed onto the stage of Hanesbrands Theatre July 18 with all the energy of a house on fire. Artistic Director and UNC School of the Arts alumna Heather Maloy chose to change the order of the...
American Dance Festival Students Stun In Footprints
DURHAM, NC – Every year, dozens of pre-professional dancers flock to Durham, NC for the American Dance Festival. For the summer months, they have the unique opportunity to study and train under some of the modern dance world's finest choreographers and teachers. They...
THROUGH 7/28: Young Frankenstein Delivers Excess, Glitz, and Ecstatic Filth at Matthews Playhouse
MATTHEWS, NC - Just turned 98, Mel Brooks has overachieved in every way possible, including longevity. Yes, he wrote the music and lyrics in adapting his own Oscar-winning script, The Producers, into a Broadway musical. If that 2001 megahit was the most prodigious and...
Week 4 (July 15-21): Eastern Music Festival – Violins, Percussion, Pianos, Oh My!
Eastern Music Festival’s 2024 Season continues to captivate audiences with its fourth week, featuring a vibrant lineup of performances by our young artists, distinguished faculty, talented fellows, and renowned special guests Chee-Yun, Amanda Forsyth, and the EMF...
MADE IN NC: Stacy Wolfson & Curtis Eller, Iyun Ashani Harrison, Dom-Sebastian Alexis, Gavin Stewart & Vanessa Owen
Striking modern and contemporary dance couldn’t be made in North Carolina without visionary teachers and mentors to nurture the choreographers who make them and train the dancers who enact their work. This home truth was underscored in a moving ceremony Sunday night in Reynolds Industries Theater, as American Dance Festival director Jodee Nimerichter dedicated the festival’s 2024 season to longtime Triangle-based dance teachers Annie Dwyer and Gene Medler, moments before the start of “Made in NC,” the festival’s second annual showcase of North Carolina choreographers.
ADF Offers Two World Premieres This Week in Durham!
July 11-12: Program: Bob ADF-Commissioned World Premiere | ADF Debut Running Time: 60 minutes, no intermission Tickets: $32 Milka Djordjevich Website Bob is a manic whirlwind of methodical, rapid-fire movements dictated, performed, and self-enforced by Milka...
EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS “ROMANCE & REVOLUTION” THIS SATURDAY
GREENSBORO, N.C. (July 9, 2024) – Eastern Music Festival is excited to announce, “Romance and Revolution,” featuring renowned pianist William Wolfram and the Eastern Festival Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Schwarz. This concert will be held in Guilford College's Dana...
