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EVENTS FROM 09/05 - 09/12
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
- THE MUSICAL OFFERING
BEL CANTO COMPANY
Bel Canto 101
Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 9 am
Starmount Presbyterian Church, Greensboro
INFO: belcantocompany.com/bcc101.aspx
Treat yourself to a day of great music making! You will learn some of the "secrets" of Bel Canto's signature sound while singing several familiar choral arrangements such as "The Lord Is My Shepherd" from John Rutter's Requiem and Craig Courtney's "Silent Night", a perennial favorite of Bel Canto Company audiences. All levels of singing experience are welcome. Participate in 3 rehearsals. Sing with 2 or more Bel Canto Company singers per section. Join Bel Canto for lunch and a Q & A session with Dr. Young and the singers. Invite your friends and family to the free concert at the end of the workshop. Hear Bel Canto Company singers give a sneak preview of the fall concert
- CARY TOWN BAND
FREE! “In the Army Now” Concert
Friday, September 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Sertoma Amphitheatre, Bond Park, Cary
INFO: carytownband.org
The band opens this concert season with “army music” – music written for or by soldiers; music recalling events involving armies; and, joining forces with the 82nd Airborne Division "All American" Band from Fort Bragg, music performed with active army personnel. Of course the US Army march, Sousa’s “US Field Artillery,” will be included, along with British and Russian Army marches. We’ll hear about Anderson’s “Phantom Regiment” and boogie with a bugle boy. Von Suppé’s “Light Cavalry” charges, and we'll recall a battle that took place in 1812. All together, it will be an explosive and grand musical event you won’t want to miss. See you in the field.
- DUKE MUSIC
FREE! Lecture: Roger Parker (Kings College, London)
Friday, September 10, 2010 at 4 pm
Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, Duke campus
INFO: 919.660.3333; music.duke.edu
Roger Parker, Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London, will present a music lecture entitled "Twin styles in 1830s London: The form and order of a perspicuous unity.” Roger Parker's work focuses on opera, especially Italian opera of the nineteenth century. For ten years he was founding co-editor (with Arthur Groos) of the Cambridge Opera Journal, and he continues as General Editor (with Gabriele Dotto) of the Donizetti Critical Edition. He was a Guggenhiem Fellow in 1986-7, received the Premio Giuseppe Verdi in 1986, and in 1991 was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association. He has produced numerous publications but his latest book is Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio.
- FREE! Faculty Recital: Hsaio-mei Ku, violin and Vincent van Gelder, piano
Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 8 pm
Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, Duke campus
INFO: 919.660.3333; music.duke.edu
Violinist Hsiao-mei Ku, Professor of the Practice of Music and a member of the Ciompi Quartet at Duke University, will give a free recital with pianist Vincent van Gelder. The recital will take place at 8 pm in the Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, and will include Stravinsky's Duo concertant for violin and piano, Schubert's Sonata in A major, D. 574 and selections from Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit.
- NEW MUSIC RALEIGH
Concert in the MusiCoal Series
Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 7 pm
Murphy Theatre, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh
INFO: newmusicraleigh.org; 919.834.4001; burningcoal.org
New Music Raleigh returns to Burning Coal’s MusiCoal Series for a second year to perform more exciting contemporary classical music. In its first year of existence, NMR has proven to be one of Raleigh's most forward-thinking arts organizations, providing performances that match the area's most dynamic musicians with modern, edgy composition, resulting in a captivating, yet casual, concert experience. New Music Raleigh's second season will feature more cross-genre collaboration, intimate audience experiences, and exceptional musical performances.
- NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY
FREE! Pops in the City Concert
Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 7 pm
Downtown Raleigh Amphitheatre
INFO: ncsymphony.org
Pops in the City is presented in partnership with the City of Raleigh. Take a seat downtown and travel the globe, from the capitals of classical music with masterworks by Handel and Mendelssohn to Latin-flavored favorites and the very best of Broadway. The concert starts at 7pm. Gates open at 5pm. Seating is first come, first served.
* In collaboration with the Independent Weekly's Hopscotch Music Festival, Minneapolis-based multi-instrumentalist, Dosh opens the event at 5:45pm with his electronic blends of folk keyboard and experimental sampling. Hopscotch brings more than 120 bands in more than a dozen genres from indie rock and alternative country to free jazz and hip-hop to 10 venues in Raleigh on September 9,10 and 11.
- RALEIGH CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD
Brooklyn Rider
Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 3 pm
Fletcher Opera Theatre, Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts
INFO: rcmg.org; 919.821.2030; rcmg.org/newsletters/RCMGnews-2010-2.pdf
Experience this highly-acclaimed, genre-defying string quartet in an eclectic program of their own compositions, Armenian Folk Songs and the great "American" String Quartet by Dvorák. * 2:15 pm in the Fletcher side lobby: Pre-concert talk by Dr. George Gopen, Duke University Professor of the Practice of Rhetoric and Director of the Chamber Arts Society, followed by a Mallarmé Youth Chamber Orchestra ensemble.
- RALEIGH RINGERS
Performances On-Tour
September 11, 2010 at 7:30 pm; Westminster Presbyterian Church, Rock Hill, SC
September 12, 2010 t 3 pm; Keppel Auditorium at Catawba College, Salisbury, NC
- TRYON PALACE
FREE! Fife & Drum Corps Concert followed by Stanly-Spaight Duel Reenactment New Bern Academy Green
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 4 pm
Tryon Palace, New Bern
INFO: 800.767.1560; tryonpalace.org
Enjoy a concert by the Tryon Palace Fife & Drum Corps, and step back in time to an era where a man’s personal honor was his most cherished quality. Any incursion on this cherished value could result in fiery and violent retribution. Watch the drama of the September 5, 1802 duel unfold before your eyes. In this historical reenactment of a duel between 19th-century New Bern political rivals, costumed characters battle to protect their reputations.
ADDITIONAL EVENTS OF INTEREST
- ALLIANCE FOR HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH
Family Fun Day- Colonial Kids Day
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Orange County Historical Museum and Burwell School Historic Site, Hillsborough
INFO: historichillsborough.org; 919.732.7741
Enjoy some old fashioned fun on Saturday, September 11th for Colonial Kids Day. Take a step back in time from 11-4pm at the Orange County Historical Museum and the Burwell School Historic Site and enjoy colonial games and try on colonial clothing. Stop by the Museum, 201 N. Churton Street, between 1-3pm for a lesson in Colonial medicine. This event is FREE and open to the public.
- BURNING COAL THEATRE COMPANY
To Kill A Mockingbird
September 9-26, 2010
Murphy Theatre, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh
INFO: 919.834.4001; burningcoal.org
Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will open its 2010/2011 season with To Kill A Mockingbird, a stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic novel by Christopher Sergel. The production runs September 9 – 26, 2010. Performances are September 9 – 11, 16 – 18, 23 – 25, 2010 at 7:30 pm and September 12, 19 and 26th at 2 p.m. All tickets are $20 or $15 for students, seniors and active military except Thursday night tickets, which are $10 apiece. The first Sunday of the run, September 12 at 2 p.m. is our “Pay What You Can” day, and that performance will also be audio-described for the sight-impaired.
- FREE ASSOCIATION THEATRE ENSEMBLE
Talking Things Over with Chekhov
September 9-11, 2010 at 8 pm
The Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary
INFO: 919.539.0993; email fateinfo@gmail.com
A play about ex-lovers, optimistic expectations, Broadway aspirations and wisdom of Anton Chekhov
- GALLERY C
Exhibition: " Harry DeMaine: 1940's Oils on Canvas from Gloucester, Massachusetts"
September 10 – October 19, 2010
Gallery C, Wade Ave., Raleigh
Gallery C is proud to present a vintage group of fine oils by Harry DeMaine (1880-1952), painted during his time in Gloucester, Massachusetts in the 1930s and 1940s. Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 10-6, Wed 10-8, Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5
- LINCOLN FINANCIAL FOUNDATION
The Glass Menagerie
Through September 26, 2010
Triad Stage, Greensboro
INFO: 866.579.TIXX; triadstage.org
An American masterpiece by Tennessee Williams
- LITTLE GREEN PIG THEATRE CONCERNS
Redghost
September 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17 & 18 at 8pm; September 12 at 2pm
Common Ground Theatre, Durham
INFO: littlegreenpig.com; 919. 452.9204
An original adaptation of one of Japan's best known and most terrifying ghost stories, Yotsuya Kaidan. Revenge, lust, obsession and the fast track to Hell.
- NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY
Discover the Real George Washington: New Views From Mount Vernon
September 10, 2010 – January 21, 2011
North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh
INFO: ncmuseumofhistory.org
The North Carolina Museum of History will host the traveling exhibition Discover the Real George Washington: New Views From Mount Vernon during its three-year national tour. Approximately 100 original objects associated with Washington will be on view in this exhibition from Sept. 10, 2010, through Jan. 21, 2011, in Raleigh. The N.C. Museum of History is the only venue in the Southeast on the exhibition’s tour.
- TREASURES OF THE EARTH
Gem, Mineral & Jewelry Shows
Through September 6, 2010
Kerr Scott Building; NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh
INFO: 804.746.7663; treasuresoftheearth.net
CALL FOR ENTRIES
- JOHNSTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL
North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots Arts Program subgrants
Through Friday,August 20th, 2010 at 5pm
INFO: 919.553.1930; info@johnstoncountyarts.org
Applications are available for non-profit organizations whose purpose is to promote and develop diverse cultural arts programming in Johnston County.Funding priority is given to qualified arts organizations (theaters, galleries, choral societies, festivals), arts in education programs conducted by qualified artists, and other community organizations that provide arts programs in the county. Grassroots funds are not generally awarded to arts organizations that receive funding through the North Carolina Arts Council's General Support Program. Projects must occur between July 1, 2010- May 15, 2011.
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NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY
Talent Search
Saturday, September 25, 2010
INFO: ncsymphony.org/talentsearch
The Search is open to vocalists and instrumentalists both as individuals or in performing groups, from any genre of music, be it classical, rock, gospel, bluegrass, jazz, Broadway, opera, hip hop or something else. “The trick is that it has to work with the Symphony somehow….”
- Ruggero Piano
Chopin Master Class for piano students
Saturday, October 16th, 11:00 - 2:30
Bosendorfer Hall, Rugero Piano
INFO: email olga_kleiankina@ncsu.edu
Free and open to Triangle area piano students (Chopin selections only) Only 8 spots available, so contact Olga as soon as possible to reserve your time.
- TRIANGLE PERFORMING ARTS
Auditions for 2010 Holiday Spectacular
September 11 & 12, 2010
Barriskill Dance Studio, Shannon Road, Durham
INFO: barriskilldance.com; 919.489.5100
Auditions for The Nutcracker, Act II will be held on Saturday, September 11, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. About 30 performers, ages six through adult will be cast for this act. The Broadway Holiday audition will be September 12 from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm with about 30 performers, ages eight through adult, cast. Performers are asked to arrive 30 minutes prior to the audition to register.
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