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Check out the Fall Arts Preview, on stands today. In regard to the Duke Performances story, Director Aaron Greenwald mentioned a two-part video that he said, in many ways, was a source of inspiration for the 2009-10 programming. You can check out the videos on Duke Performances’ Web site here or below. Lambchop and Alejandro [...]
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Duke Performances has just released its schedule for the 2009-2010 academic calendar. The season incorporates 10 thematic series (By the River, This House on Fire, With These Hands, Voices Lifted, At the Crossroads, Moved, Piano Recital Series, Duke Artists Series, Ciompi Quartet and Chamber Arts Society) from around the world and commences Sunday, August 30 [...]
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After a successful run last year, Duke Performances is bringing back its summer Music in the Gardens series. Called “Music in the Gardens: Listening Locally,” the series puts the spotlight on “the best forward-thinking art from the state.” This years schedule looks great.
May 20 – Ciompi Quartet with Sandra Cotton, soprano – Kirby Horton Hall, [...]
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Many things pass over the desk of the recess editor, or would if I had a desk. Most of them end of getting chucked, but some are too weird to pass up. Like this one.
Tight on the heels of Viking Storm, the two-day celebration at the Coffeehouse and the Pinhook to mark the release of [...]
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Time flies when you’re having fun; when you’re having fun and watching Bela Fleck and friends, fingers fly, too. But while pretty well everyone in the sold-out house was awestruck at the likes of D’Gary, more than one audience member was overheard remarking that they were shocked three hours had passed. It was that kind [...]
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A few days before his Duke Performances- and Center for Documentary Studies-sponsored concert at New York’s Town Hall Thursday night, Charles Tolliver spoke with me about how the show had come about, the challenge of transcribing the scores and his memories of Monk’s 1959 Town Hall concert–er, well, I’ll let him tell it.
What [...]
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