The unusually large and responsive audience in Fletcher Opera Theater no doubt expected a superb concert from the excellent wind quintet Windscape, brought to Raleigh as part of the Masters Series of the Raleigh Chamber Music...
Read MoreThe North Carolina Symphony is justly recognized for its high professionalism, superb technical skill demonstrated in all sections, and its attention to the musical demands of its conductors. All these admirable qualities were...
Read MoreAn admirable performance of the Adagio and the Allegro of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 in D (1795) and the composer’s famous Missa St.Bernard von Offida in B Flat (“Heiligmesse”) brought obvious...
Read MoreAs Grant Llewellyn, Music Director of the North Carolina Symphony, said from the podium, this evening’s concert was to be a mixture of great sadness and great classical music. The sadness was the passing of Maxine McMahon...
Read MoreGiuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto has from its earliest performances been part of the basic opera repertory and has never lost this position. Its story of evil by men in power, represented by the Duke of Mantua and his henchmen,...
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