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WUNC Radio sets a Composer in Context at a live radio show

CHAPEL HILL -- WUNC-FM will present a live taping of a Composers-in-Context show featuring Margaret Brouwer, head of the composition department at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Nov. 24 at the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh.

The show, which begins at 3 p.m., will be co-hosted by WUNC’s Patty Painter-Wakefield and North Carolina Symphony Composer-in-Residence Nathaniel Stookey. Brouwer will talk with the co-hosts about her music and the influences that have affected her as an artist. She also will take questions from the audience. The Mallarme’ Chamber Players will perform Brouwer’s Quartet for clarinet, bassoon, violin and percussion.

Tickets are available from the museum box office. They cost $6 for general admission, $5 for museum members, and are free for students. Tickets may be purchased by telephone, (919) 715-5923, Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Visa and MasterCard are accepted.

WUNC’s Composers-in-Context Concert Series presents a living composer within the context of works that have influenced his or her development as an artist. The series draws on talent from across WUNC’s 28-county coverage area.

Stookey's residency with the North Carolina Symphony, in association with WUNC-FM, the Ciompi Quartet and the Mallarme' Chamber Players, is made possible by Meet the Composer Inc., and its New Residencies Program. Funding for new residencies is provided by the Pew Charitable Trusts with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts and other generous donors.

WUNC, the public radio service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, operates a five-station radio network serving more than 230,000 weekly listeners from Greensboro to the Outer Banks. WUNC has the largest public radio news staff in North Carolina and produces the public radio programs "The State of Things," "The People’s Pharmacy," "North Carolina Postcards" and "Back

Porch Music." A member station of National Public Radio, WUNC is heard at 91.5 FM in the Triangle and the Triad, at 90.9 FM in the Rocky Mount/Wilson/Greenville area, and at 90.5 and 90.9 FM along the Outer Banks. WUNC is online at www.wunc.org

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News Services contact: Mike McFarland, 919-962-8593
WUNC-FM contact: Patty Painter-Wakefield, 919-966-5454