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EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL

This year's program promises five weeks brimming with daily free and ticketed performances, featuring EMF’s renowned faculty artists, emerging young musicians, and esteemed guest soloists. Events will take place primarily at Guilford College’s Dana Auditorium, with a special performance at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Highlights of the 2024 season include: Signature Performances: June 26: Renowned Pianist William Wolfram in Recital ($35/ticket) June 27: "Welcome Bach" - An Evening Dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach ($35/ticket) June 28: "EMF Celebrates: Dvořák’s America" - By EMF Faculty and Young Artists Orchestras (Pay What You Can) July 1: The Amernet String Quartet in Recital ($35/ticket) July 3: Euphonium-Tuba Institute Recital ($35/ticket) July 10: US Air Force Heritage Winds Quintet (FREE) July 17: "Rhythm & Resonance" - Featuring EMF Percussion Faculty ($35/ticket) July 21: KALEIDOSCOPE: EMF 2024 Orchestral Fellows Recital (Pay What You Can) July 22: OVERTURES: EMF 2024 Conducting Scholars (Pay What You Can) July 24: EMF Classical Guitar Summit ($35/ticket) at Temple Emanuel Weekly Events: Tuesdays: Chamber Music with the Eastern Chamber Players ($35/ticket) Thursdays and Fridays: EMF Young Artist Orchestras ($15/ticket) Saturdays: The Joseph M. Bryan, Jr. Festival Orchestra Series ($55/ticket) 2024 Festival Orchestra Series Soloists include: Béla Fleck, banjo (June 29), Carter Doolittle, saxophone (June 29), Jeffrey Multer, violin (July 6), Julian Schwarz, cello (July 6), Santiago Rodriguez, piano (July 13), Jason Vieaux, guitar (July 20), Amanda Forsyth, cello (July 20), Chee Yun, violin (July […]

North Carolina Baroque Orchestra: Musical Gems Celebrating Summer: works by baroque masters Bach, Rameau, Vivaldi and more

St. Paul's Episcopal Church Winston Salem 520 Summit St., Winston-Salem, NC, United States

Directed by Frances Blaker The North Carolina Baroque Orchestra(NCBO) performs baroque favorites to celebrate summer following their retreat at The Mountain Retreat Center in Highlands, NC. NCBO is a nonprofit organization composed of professional musicians specializing in historically informed performance of 17th & 18th century music on period instruments, with a passion for Bringing New Life to Old Music! $20 suggested donation at the door

Eastern Music Festival: Eastern Festival Orchestra: Festival Finale

Dana Auditorium 710 Levi Coffin Dr., Greensboro, NC, United States

PERFORMED BY: Gerard Schwarz, music director and conductor; Mark Peskanov, violin; Eastern Festival Orchestra PROGRAM: VIVALDI: Guitar Concerto in D major, RV. 93; R. STRAUSS: Don Juan, op.20; HINDEMITH: Mathis der Maler (Symphony); BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, op.56 “Triple Concerto” Pre-concert lecture, “Musically Speaking,” at 7:00PM in the Moon Room, Dana Auditorium. Ticket Office 336-333-7450 x221

$55

The Music House: The Italian Song Book by Hugo Wolf

The Music House 408 West 5th St., Greenville, NC, United States

Jessie Wright Martin, mezzo-soprano, Patrick Howle, baritone, John O’Brien, piano The Italian Song Book demonstrates Wolf’s ultimate in compositional refinement.  The first volume (22 songs) was composed in 1890-91; the second (24 songs), in 1896.  It is interesting how the style remained so consistent over such a long period of time.  A year later, the composer entered an asylum where he died in 1903. The music is profound in its sheer simplicity.  The original Italian text is from a collection of hundreds of rispetti, veloti, retornelli, popular ballads, songs in folk-style, Corsican songs, and death laments.  In 1860 it was compiled and translated into German by Paul Heyse, a popular poet and author. Because the authors of the original Italian poems are anonymous, Wolf was able to put much more of himself into the music, as there was no revered shade of a great poet effecting his thought and feelings. In dividing the songs between the sexes, many of the serious love-songs are for the man, while the woman exhibits moods of scorn, resentment, or humorous tolerance of her lover’s (or lovers’) defects. Hugo Wolf did not set the order of the songs and the songs do not tell a story per se.  The […]

North Carolina Baroque Orchestra: Musical Gems Celebrating Summer: works by baroque masters Bach, Rameau, Vivaldi and more

Hayes Barton United Methodist Church 2209 Fairview Road, Raleigh, NC, United States

Directed by Frances Blaker The North Carolina Baroque Orchestra(NCBO) performs baroque favorites to celebrate summer following their retreat at The Mountain Retreat Center in Highlands, NC. NCBO is a nonprofit organization composed of professional musicians specializing in historically informed performance of 17th & 18th century music on period instruments, with a passion for Bringing New Life to Old Music! Your donations to the orchestra are greatly appreciated!

Music Carolina: SummerFest: Peter and the Wolf Family Concert

Kaleideum 120 West 3rd Street, Winston Salem, United States

A family-friendly program of the chamber version of Peter and the Wolf with woodwind quintet and narrator. Jason McKinney, narrator; Peter Shanahan, flute; Matthew Covington, oboe; Ron Rudkin, clarinet; Joe Mount, horn; Brianna Cantwell, bassoon; Bev Naiditch, percussion

The Music House: The Music House String Quartet

The Music House 408 West 5th St., Greenville, NC, United States

John O’Brien, 2nd violin Kirsten Swanson violin, Meredith Harris, viola, Christopher Nunnally, cello The Music House String Quartet returns this summer with an exciting program: Beethoven Opus 18, No. 6, Shostakovich No. 8 Blueprint by Greenville native Caroline Shaw.

Ciompi Presents: Summer Music Series: Dreamtime

Doris Duke Center 420 Anderson Street Sarah P. Duke Gardens,, Durham, NC, United States

Presented by Eric Pritchard, violin Throughout human history, artists and composers have sought to lift the veil of the subconscious by giving voice to the dreamworld in their work. This concert begins with luminous sounds and evocative stories from six contemporary composers and concludes with a transcription of Arnold Schoenberg's glorious setting of Transfigured Night.

$10 – $25