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Read MoreThe Raleigh Boychoir Announces Girls Programming and Reduced Tuition
This article has been provided by the Raleigh Boychoir. The Raleigh Boychoir (RBC) will have girls programming for the first time in its 55-year history and is reducing its tuition for all participants. Emily Turner, RBC’s...
Read MoreNobuntu Brings Zimbabwean Passion and Power to ASU’s Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts
On Tuesday evening at Appalachian State University’s Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts, the internationally-acclaimed female a cappella quintet from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Nobuntu, took the stage to deliver a passionate...
Read MoreChanticleer Perseveres Brilliantly with Fewer Singers
A truthful-yet-succinct review of any Chanticleer concert could simply state, ‘”Chanticleer’s singers performed admirably before a large audience. Their voices and musicianship were as fine as ever, their...
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Serenity Descends upon Duke Chapel as the VAE Returns for “O Holy Night”
The campus was largely deserted but Duke Chapel was wall-to-wall with people as ushers looked for...
Read MoreOn December 12, in SECU Auditorium in the East Building of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Justice Theater Project offered the first of three concert presentations of music from its annual production of Langston Hughes’...
Read MoreHaving heard many musical events at Duke Chapel, almost all of them of the highest caliber, this concert was a disappointment. Why? Not because of the performers; both singers and instrumentalists were excellent. But Duke...
Read MoreIf the sold-out, packed house at Brendle Recital Hall were not evidence enough of popularity, Wikipedia lists 99 professional a capppella groups, including Chanticleer, the King’s Singers, Manhattan Transfer, Pentatonix,...
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The Rose Ensemble Closes Tour in Durham with Beauty and Variety
Few vocal music groups have a repertoire as diverse as the Rose Ensemble, based in St. Paul, Minn. While usually defined as an “early music ensemble,” a glance at their concert series or published recordings suggests an unparalleled breadth of experience. Geographically, their musical exploration jumps around the globe, from Malta to Mexico to Hawaii and early America. Reflected in the symbolically-laden Rose the ensemble bears, founder and artistic director Jordán Šrámek has created a mission to produce performances of many faiths and cultures throughout history.
Read MoreThe Tallis Scholars Fill Duke Chapel with Glory
To hear The Tallis Scholars in Duke Chapel is to hear the stones, the carvings, the stained-glass windows. The music soared like a great bird without flapping its wings. Somehow the presence in the chapel seemed to be saying,...
Read MoreThe 8-Voiced Wonder Avante Seriously Swings at Sharp 9 Gallery
Driving down Durham’s Martin Luther King Parkway, possibly its most attractive thoroughfare, you reach Industrial Lane. Despite its name that conjures up a collection of dirty factories and such, it is mostly an...
Read MoreA Schubertiade the Composer Himself Would Have Recognized
In the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church, an extraordinary event took place as two of Durham’s leading music groups – the Chamber Choir of the Choral Society of Durham and the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University...
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