After a not-so-savory crossover experience earlier in the evening, this reviewer was very happy to see the old year out with David Parmley and Continental Divide, presented as part of Artsplosure’s First Night Raleigh by...
Read MorePerformances of this early (1718) English work by George Frideric Handel are rare, as the focus here is on the soloists, and not on the rarer choral moments. The plot, such as it is, focuses on the competition between the...
Read MoreA more-than-capacity crowd was present for the end-of-semester performance of the UNC Baroque Ensemble, directed from the cello by Brent Wissick. Audience members were standing, seated on the floor, or on the window-sills of the...
Read MoreBadi Assad, heard in concert at Duke as part of the Cantoras Brasileiras series, is unclassifiable. She is Brazilian, but scarcely known in Brazil, and the music of Brazil is hardly in evidence in her repertoire. She has a...
Read MoreA distressingly small turnout (about 30 hardy souls) greeted a fine program of contemporary music in the William S. Newman Series at UNC Chapel Hill, with works by two composers on their home turf (Allen Anderson and Stephen...
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