Carolina Chamber Music Festival Presents a Winter Celebration
NEW BERN, NC – This is the twenty-second season of the Carolina Chamber Music Festival, the nucleus of which is several regionally trained artists with strong local ties. The festival includes four concerts: Classical Lunch (piano solo; Bank of the Arts), After Work:...
THROUGH 2/23: Little Theatre Production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Captures Irrepressible Spirit of the Blues
WINSTON-SALEM - Before she even enters the Chicago recording studio on a cold winter day in 1927, Ma Rainey is already making her presence felt. Her musicians, in a rehearsal room, await her orders, some more eagerly than others. Her manager and producer anticipate...
A Valentine’s Day Organ Recital with Jacqueline Farrell
NEW BERN, NC – Jacqueline Farrell's Valentine's Day recital at Christ Church in New Bern was billed some places as the beginning of a new recital series at Christ Church. Although I can be skeptical about the "first annual" or "first in a series" anything, I am...
Elgar and Olga Kern Headline Sparkling Euro Evening with the Charlotte Symphony
CHARLOTTE, NC – Russian-born pianist Olga Kern has now played in Charlotte at least five times, making her one of our most popular and welcome guest artists. Yet, it wasn't exactly inevitable that she would someday sit before us in a Charlotte Symphony program...
Rest in Peace: Clyde Simons Hiss (1933-2025)
It is with deep sadness and profound appreciation that we announce the passing of Dr. Clyde Hiss on January 28, 2025. Clyde singlehandedly shaped a generation of singers and opera lovers during his distinguished tenure as a professor at the East Carolina School of...
Wilmington Symphony Expertly Curates Saint-Saëns + Ravel
WILMINGTON, NC – There are many things to appreciate about the symphonic concert experience, whether it is being part of music history, or seeing master musicians at their peak. One of the more underrated joys, and one that the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra excels at,...
THROUGH 2/23: Good Yanks Hard on Wheels of Black Representation: Justice Theater Project’s “Fairview”
RALEIGH - The oddest thing by far about Fairview, the rewarding and certainly provocative meta-theatrical farce at The Justice Theater Project, is that it apparently never ends. Sure, it seemed unambiguous when its cast of eight came out for bows on Saturday night...
Music for a Great Space presents Amanda Mole, organ
Above: Amanda Mole, organ. Photo credit: Gerry Szymanski GREENSBORO, NC | Hailed as a rising star, Amanda Mole is quickly earning a reputation as one of the leading concert organists of her generation. She was the first-prize winner of the 8th International...
Would That Loving Were Enough: The Music of Lee R. Kesselman by the Haven Trio
Lee R. Kesselman: Would That Loving Were Enough: The Music of Lee R. Kesselman. Sakura (2017), arrangement of Japanese folksong; Ashes & Dreams (2016), haiku and waka settings; Piangeró (2012), recomposed from the original work by G F Handel, from Giulio...
Through 2/9: Alyson Cambridge Turns Up the Voltage Reprising the Sass and Savagery of Carmen
CHARLOTTE, NC – "Prends garde à toi!" You better watch out when la Carmencita gazes at you lovingly. The queen of Seville's cigarette girls proclaims this insolent challenge – to the men she slinks past in the town square and a detachment of lascivious soldiers lazing...
