Chamber Masterworks Resound at St. Stephen’s
The three musicians who performed Sunday for the St. Stephen’s Concert Series are not afraid of hard work. Three big works filled out the program – two of them brilliant masterpieces of the repertoire and another that may not be quite so grand but is a technical challenge of the highest order. In all, another grand day at St. Stephen’s.
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Chamber Masterworks Resound at St. Stephen’s
The three musicians who performed Sunday for the St. Stephen’s Concert Series are not afraid of hard work. Three big works filled out the program – two of them brilliant masterpieces of the repertoire and another that may not be quite so grand but is a technical challenge of the highest order. In all, another grand day at St. Stephen’s.
Read MorePianist Yuja Wang Wows in Renovated Baldwin Auditorium
Piano superstar Yuja Wang, dressed as if she were on her way to the most glam cocktail party on the East Coast, stopped by Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium Thursday evening to perform a piano recital for Duke Performances. Hers...
Read MorePianist Solzhenitsyn Shows Extraordinary Sensitivity in Schubert, Messiaen
The Fletcher Opera Theater in Raleigh, part of the Duke Energy Performing Arts Center, is without question the area’s most perfect public venue for performances that require and celebrate intimacy. A small, fan-shaped...
Read MoreA Tribute to Van Cliburn, a Larger-than-Life American Artist
Perhaps you have seen it. It’s a fuzzy black-and-white image snapped by an Associated Press photographer during the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow in 1958. The photographer is at the rear of the stage looking out into the audience. Cliburn is seated at the piano, his eyes turned heavenward, as was so often the case. The hall is packed – so crowded that the space between the front row of seats and the stage is jammed with admirers. At the bottom left of the photo are two young women. One has her arms wrapped around the other, and their faces are lit with rapture.
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