Category: Articles
Take a Trip with NC Brass Band in “Brass Aro...
Posted by Andrea Luke | Mar 7, 2024 | Articles, Brass Band, Brass Ensemble, Chamber Music, Feature, Instrumental Ensemble, Music, Previews | 0
Rotating Dynamic Duos to Perform at ECU’s Fo...
Posted by Andrea Luke | Mar 7, 2024 | Articles, Chamber Music, Chamber Orchestra, Feature, Music, Previews | 0
Downtown Raleigh Gets New Art Gallery Showcasing W...
Posted by Andrea Luke | Feb 22, 2024 | Articles, Exhibition, Feature, News, Previews, Public Art, Visual Art | 0
THROUGH 2/16: When We Were Queens at NCMA
Posted by Alana Bleimann | Feb 14, 2024 | Articles, Dance, Feature, Music, Music Review, Perfomance Art, Reviews | 0
Tonu Kalam’s Final Concert with the UNC Symphony Orchestra
by Andrea Luke | Apr 26, 2024 | Articles, Choral Music, Music, Music Review, Orchestral Music, Reviews | 0
CHAPEL HILL, NC – UNC Symphony Orchestra Music Director and Conductor Tonu Kalam may not be quite as longstanding an institution as the first university in the state, but has been conducting this ensemble beautifully for the...
Read MoreNC Opera’s “Girl of the Golden West” Peeks into Puccini’s Darker Side
by Lawrence Bivins | Apr 25, 2024 | Articles, Music, Opera, Orchestral Music, Reviews, Vocal Music | 0
RALEIGH, NC – Operas performed in a concert format are often viewed as economy productions, where the music eclipses the visual spectacle that comes with ornate sets, lavish costumes, and ready action. There was nothing...
Read MoreOur First Lady of Jazz at Duke University
by Emmeline MacMillan | Apr 18, 2024 | Articles, Chamber Music, Choral Music, Music, Orchestral Music, Reviews, Vocal Music | 0
DURHAM, NC – “Your attentive participation, through listening with your ears and your heart, will allow you to enjoy fully this exchange of ideas, to sense these various moods, and to reap the full therapeutic rewards that...
Read MoreIntriguing Worldbuilding, Incomplete: Stone Soup Theatre’s “R&J” at Center Theater Company
by Byron Woods | Apr 16, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre | 0
CARRBORO, NC – Worldbuilding isn’t just an esoteric activity limited to the constructs of virtual reality and speculative fiction; it’s a fundamental part of the theatrical enterprise. If drama at its essence...
Read MoreWinston-Salem Symphony Celebrates the Bicentennial of “The Ninth”
by Timothy Lindeman | Apr 15, 2024 | Articles, Choral Music, Music, Orchestral Music, Reviews | 0
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (“Choral”) by Ludwig van Beethoven (Germany, 1770-1827) is truly one of the turning points in music history. It is the first “symphony” (meaning...
Read MoreThrough 4/21: Midsummer magic – mostly: Burning Coal Theatre’s A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
by Byron Woods | Apr 13, 2024 | Musical Theatre, Reviews | 0
The romantic conceit dates back before Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 classic, Smiles of a Summer Night, and well before Shakespeare: when humans have gotten themselves stuck in the worst partnerships possible (or, even worse, in abject celibacy), the magic of a midsummer’s night can sort everything out, bring the right pairs together in spite of themselves and restore harmonic community, dyad by dyad.
Read MoreNC Dance Festival Collaboration: Dance Project, Music for a Great Space, & the Khemia Ensemble
by Andrea Luke | Apr 10, 2024 | Articles, Chamber Music, Class, Contemporary Music, Dance, Music, Participatory Dance, Previews | 0
Above: the Khemia Ensemble (photo by Angie Petty) will perform alongside works by Jiwon Ha, as...
Read MoreThrough 4/14: Spirit Gum’s “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” Delivers Mystery, Whimsy, and Profound Fun
by Lynn Felder | Apr 9, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre | 0
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – It’s so mundane as to be profoundly comical: an annoying cell phone rings incessantly while you are trying to enjoy your soup, and its owner can’t even be bothered to answer it. That’s...
Read MoreTHROUGH 4/14: “Ada and the Engine” at NC State’s University Theatre
by Alana Bleimann | Apr 8, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre | 0
RALEIGH, NC – Students skipped and wandered around NC State University, buzzing with...
Read MoreCharlotte Symphony’s New Maestro, Kwamé Ryan, Thrills a Packed House
by Perry Tannenbaum | Apr 7, 2024 | Articles, Music, Orchestral Music, Reviews | 0
CHARLOTTE, NC – The audience at Belk Theater didn’t rise and sing the National Anthem as we...
Read MoreThrough 4/14: NC Black Rep’s “Coconut Cake” Serves Up a Deliciously Textured, Emotional Performance
by Lynn Felder | Apr 6, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre | 0
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – The North Carolina Black Repertory Company (N.C. Black Rep) created the...
Read MoreThe Joke Breaks Down When Bodies Do: real.live.people’s “could be worse”
by Byron Woods | Apr 1, 2024 | Dance, Reviews | 0
The pursuit of all of these, and the list of commodities and prices voiced afterward, has the dancers literally running in circles by the end. The metaphor could hardly be more pointed; persisting as an artist can be an act of endurance art in itself.
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