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Jan. 13, 2006 -- No. 20 |
‘Seven Deadly Sins,’ ‘Shanghai Strings!’,
more coming up at UNC music department
CHAPEL HILL — Music lovers will find favorites including the annual Carolina Jazz Festival and the Festival on the Hill in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Music’s spring 2006 concert season.
Diverse new works also are featured, including a concert by one of America’s most prolific composers, a ballet chante ("ballet with songs") and a performance from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
The jazz festival will return March 1-4, and the Festival on the Hill, March 30-April 2, will celebrate the music of Black Mountain College. For more information on the department’s entire spring season, visit http://music.unc.edu/ or call the department office at (919) 962-1039. Additional contact information also is listed in the highlights below:
Jan. 20, symposium featuring Deborah Wong of the University of California-Riverside, "Big Beats: Taiko in Asian-American California."
Jan. 22,
3 p.m., The Complete Brahms Piano Quartets, Hill Hall Auditorium, performed by UNC string and piano faculty, Duke University’s Ciompi String Quartet and North Carolina Symphony principals Bonnie Thron, cello, and Hugh Partridge, viola. Part of the department’s William S. Newman Artists Series. Tickets: $15 (seniors $12, students $5). Contact: Richard Luby, (919) 929-0548.Jan. 25, 4 p.m.,
A Conversation with composer Libby Larsen, Person Recital Hall.Jan. 26, 8 p.m., The
Music of Libby Larsen, Hill Hall Auditorium. Grammy Award-winner Larsen is one of America’s most prolific and most performed living composers, with a catalogue of more than 200 works spanning virtually every genre, from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral and choral scores. USA Today calls her "the only English-speaking composer since Benjamin Britten who matches great verse with fine music so intelligently and expressively." The Wall Street Journal says, "Libby Larsen has come up with a way to make contemporary opera both musically current and accessible to the average audience." Contact: Dr. Terry Rhodes, (919) 962-2270.Feb. 11, 8 p.m., Annual Emerging Artists Concert, Hill Hall Auditorium. The "J" Quartet performs with Donald Oehler, clarinet. This prize-winning young string quartet was formed at the Juilliard School by Chapel Hill violinist Jennifer Curtis. The program will include the Brahms Clarinet Quintet and string quartets of Mozart and Ligeti. The concert will be the last in this year’s Newman series. Tickets: $15 (seniors $12, students $5). Call (919) 962-1039.
Feb. 28, 8 p.m., UNC Symphony Orchestra, Hill Hall Auditorium. The orchestra will perform Wagner’s "Overture to Rienzi." The concert will feature winners of the 2005 Concerto Competition: Matthew Kiefer, violin; Megan Seiler, violin; and David Suchoff, trumpet. The performance will benefit scholarships in the department. Tickets: $10 (seniors $5, students $2). Contact: Tonu Kalam, (919) 966-1330.
March 1-4, Carolina Jazz Festival, founded in 1977, including performance, education and scholarship. This year’s guest artists include Don Braden, tenor saxophone, and Terell Stafford, trumpet. For more information, contact Jim Ketch, (919) 962-7560. Festival highlights will include:
March 7, 8 p.m., Hill Hall Auditorium,
"Shanghai Strings!" Professor Burkhard Godhoff, head of the International String Program of the Shanghai Conservatory, will present his students in a joint concert with UNC professor Richard Luby and UNC violinists. Founded in 1927, the Shanghai Conservatory was the first music institution of higher education in China. Contact: Richard Luby, (919) 929-0548.March 8, 8:15 p.m.; March 9, 5 p.m. and 8:15 p.m., Kenan Theater, Center for Dramatic Art. Kurt Weill’s "The Seven Deadly Sins." This ballet chante ("ballet with songs") will feature music professor Dr. Terry Rhodes and dramatic art professor Julie Fishell of UNC and Jane Hawkins and Bryan Gilliam of Duke University; Fishell will direct.
This musical collaboration by Weill and Bertolt Brecht is rarely performed. George Ballenchine was choreographer for the original production. The story, which has become one of the greatest satires of modern music, centers around a young woman, sung by the practical Anna I, and her alter-ego, danced by the impulsive Anna II. Anna sets out on a journey through American cities to earn money for her family to build a house. In each city, she succumbs to one of the "seven deadly sins." Contact: Dr. Terry Rhodes, (919) 962-2270.
March 30-April 2, The 2006 Festival on the Hill, featuring the musical legacy of Black Mountain College. In the 1930s and 1940s, the college became a haven for renowned Austro-German artists escaping the tyranny of the Nazis. In turn, radical American composers and artists including John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg came to Black Mountain to study with these refugees and their circle. Together, they produced works that shook the foundations of 20th-century modernist art. The Festival will include a two-day academic conference and four concerts related to Black Mountain’s musical life. For detailed information on the festival’s concerts and conferences at Memorial Hall and in the music department, visit http://music.unc.edu/calendars/blackmtn/index_html or contact Severine Neff, (919) 962-2276.
April 25, 8 p.m., Memorial Hall. UNC Symphony Orchestra with UNC assistant professor Dr. Mayron Tsong, piano, performing Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 2," Respighi’s "Fountains of Rome" and Ravel’s "Bolero." Contact Tonu Kalam, (919) 966-1330.
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Music department contact: Glenn McDonald, (919) 962-1039, gmm@unc.edu
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Weaver Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu