It was precisely six years since I’d last sampled a symphonic performance at the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium toward the end of the annual seven-week revels at the Brevard Music Center. On that occasion, the prospect of...
Read MoreWhile it isn’t unusual for our symphony and festival orchestras to find welcome and summertime refuge in the mountains, it’s rare to see musical reciprocation coming from the high country. So the concerts scheduled...
Read MoreRalph Harris is a comedian who has competed with distinction on Last Comic Standing. As an actor, his résumé lists TV credits stretching back to Seinfeld and film appearances that include Dreamgirls. So he is...
Read MoreLate in 2008, when I interviewed North Carolina Dance Theatre artistic director Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and his associate director, Patricia McBride, for a feature in Dance International, McBride was already gushing in...
Read MoreOne thing you can’t say against arch villain Iago in the Opera Carolina production of Verdi’s Otello. He wasn’t a racist. Arrigo Boïto’s libretto, trimmed only slightly at Charlotte’s Belk...
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