News Release

Memorial Hall to host strong lineup 
in 2006-07 performing arts series

CHAPEL HILL – Artists coming to Memorial Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the 2006-2007 Carolina Performing Arts Series – with dates, times, descriptions and Web sites – are listed below. Two special components, yearlong series by the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra and the UNC music department, are listed at the end.

This year the William R. Kenan Jr. Trust of Chapel Hill will make possible six of the classical music concerts, called Kenan Great Performances.

Lyle Lovett, Friday, Sept. 15, 8 p.m.
Carolina Performing Arts Series Opening Gala
Lyle Lovett is one of the few artists who emerged out of Nashville’s whirlwind of experimentation in the mid-1980s to have an enduring, significant and boldly original career. This Grammy-winning Texas singer/songwriter’s eccentric style fuses country, pop, blues, gospel, Rc&B, western swing, honky-tonk and folk music, with a talent for witty, literate, incisive lyrics. He has collaborated with Emmylou Harris, Randy Newman and Nanci Griffith, among others, and has acted in several movies, including Robert Altman’s "The Player" and "Short Cuts." People Magazine has called Lovett "…a true country maverick…" For concert tickets, call (919) 843-3333; for gala event information and upgrades, (919) 843-7776.

Web site: http://www.losthighwayrecords.com/lylelovett 

"The End of Cinematics," Mikel Rouse
Thursday, Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m. and Friday, Sept. 29, 8 p.m.
Rooted in early ’80s high art/popular culture fusion of downtown Manhattan, composer/director/filmmaker Mikel Rouse creates complex, provocative experimental pieces. With a trilogy of operas, books of string quartets, two films and more than 20 albums to his name, Rouse steeps his work in contemporary thought. Co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts, "The End of Cinematics" pays tribute to the movies while lamenting the decline of cinematic artistry. This dream-like, sensory experience features actors, a hypnotic surround-sound, pop-infused score, digital video shot on the streets of Paris and live video on multiple screens. The New York Times has called Rouse "…a composer many believe to be the best of his generation…" Web site: http://www.endofcinematics.com 

Chick Corea and Gary Burton
Saturday, Oct. 14, 8 p.m.
Grammy-winning pianist Chick Corea’s career is the stuff of jazz lore. After accompanying Sarah Vaughan and joining Miles Davis’s band, he went on to spearhead the mid-1970s fusion movement with Herbie Hancock and others. His groups are hotbeds of imagination, seething with influential, limit-stretching creativity.

Grammy-winning Gary Burton is a pioneering force on the vibraphone. His trailblazing late ’60s jazz-rock sound enabled the jazz ensemble to break the rock barrier for the first time. Pat Metheny and John Scofield are among the many guitarists who first came to light in Burton’s group. The program will feature selections from Corea and Burton’s groundbreaking 1972 duo album "Crystal Silence," which the Los Angeles Times called "Virtuosic brilliance…jazz at its optimal level…" Web sites: http://www.chickcorea.com; http://www.garyburton.com 

Ratan Thiyam’s Chorus Repertory Theater: "Nine Hills One Valley"
Thursday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m. and Friday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m.
Among today’s most influential and important international theater makers, Ratan Thiyam is renowned for his spectacular aural and visual aesthetic; potent thematic explorations; and disciplined performance practice. Drawing on universal themes of good and evil, he creates rich, hypnotic works that plumb the human condition. A reflection on the systems that lead a place and its people to many difficulties, "Nine Hills One Valley" is a color- and light-saturated tapestry of theater, live music, poetry and song, awash in the culture and politically charged realities of his company’s home in Manipur. The New York Times called the production "genius … transcendent."

Sweet Honey in the Rock
Sunday, Oct. 29, 2 p.m.
This Grammy-winning a cappella ensemble has created music from the rich textures of African-American traditions for three decades. With deep roots in the sacred music of the black church, Sweet Honey in the Rock chronicles modern life and its struggles and victories with songs of justice, African chants, blues, jazz, spirituals and ancient lullabies. Featured in the PBS documentary "Sweet Honey: Raise Your Voice," the group has been a vital and innovative presence in the culture of Washington, D.C., and in communities of conscience around the world. The Washington Post called the ensemble "…soulful, spirited and stirring…" Web site: http://www.sweethoney.com 

Brentano String Quartet with pianist Mayron Tsong
Thursday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m.
A Kenan Great Performance
The Brentano String Quartet has been singled out for its technical brilliance, musical insight and stylistic elegance. UNC-Chapel Hill’s resident string quartet, Brentano has received the Cleveland Quartet Award, Naumburg Chamber Music Award, Martin E. Segal Award and Great Britain’s Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for the most outstanding debut. Previously, the quartet was in residence at Princeton and New York universities and London’s Wigmore Hall. With a strong interest in contemporary music, they have commissioned and premiered several important works.

Prize-winning Canadian pianist Dr. Mayron Tsong, a UNC assistant professor of music, has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician and collaborated with artists including the Miró String Quartet.

The concert will include works by Brahms, Schubert and Shostakovich.

Brentano Web site: http://silvertone.princeton.edu/~brentano/; Tsong photo, profile: http://www.unc.edu/news/pics/obj/piano_1.JPG;  http://music.unc.edu/faculty/facultyandstaffdirectory/facultystaffmember.2005-10-03.1224757352. 

Peter Serkin, piano
Friday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m.
A Kenan Great Performance
Throughout his career, Peter Serkin has conveyed the essence of five centuries of repertoire to worldwide critical acclaim. The son of pianist Rudolf Serkin, he has performed with major international symphony orchestras and eminent conductors including Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, James Levine and Seiji Ozawa. Peter Serkin also has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, the Guarneri and Orion String Quartets and others. An avid proponent of 20^th- and 21^st-century composers, he has performed many important world premieres. The concert will include works by Schönberg, Elliott Carter, J.S. Bach and Beethoven. New York Magazine has called Serkin "…one of the supreme musicians of our time." Web site: http://cmartists.com/artists/peter_serkin.htm 

Company Ea Sola: "Drought and Rain Vol. 2," U.S. premiere
Thursday, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m. and Friday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m.
Born in Vietnam and trained in Paris, choreographer/performer Ea Sola creates vital contemporary works grounded in the traditional culture, music, dance and history of Vietnam. With 12 livewire dancers from the National Ballet of Vietnam and a traditional Vietnamese music ensemble performing new music, "Drought and Rain Vol. 2" is a reflection on the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of the next generation. "The young person carries the memories of the old warriors … peace belongs to them when they take the responsibility …" (Ea Sola).

Carolina Ballet: "Nutcracker"
Friday, Dec. 1, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 2, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 3, 2 p.m.
A holiday season staple, "Nutcracker" is a fantasy classic, capturing the irrepressible imagination of a child’s world in which all things are possible. Based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s more macabre book, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," the ballet tells the story of Clara, a young German girl, who dreams of a nutcracker prince. This was Tchaikovsky’s third and last major ballet. The News & Observer of Raleigh has reported that "Carolina Ballet achieves front-rank status…" Web site: http://www.carolinaballet.com 

Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano 
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m.
A Kenan Great Performance
One of today’s major opera stars, Susan Graham has sung leading roles in the great opera houses and leading concert stages of the world. Her complete opera recordings include works by composers ranging from Handel, Verdi and Gluck to Barber’s "Vanessa" and Jake Heggie’s "Dead Man Walking." Graham’s 2004 recording of Charles Ives songs won a Grammy Award; her recording of Purcell’s "Dido and Aeneas," in which she sings Dido, received a Grammy nomination and the Maria Callas Award. This all-French program will feature songs by Debussy, Bizet, Gounod, Franck, Fauré and others. Gramophone Magazine has called Graham "America’s favorite mezzo." Web site: http://www.susangraham.com 

Barbara Cook
Friday, Jan. 19, 8 p.m.
The legendary Barbara Cook has delighted audiences around the world for more than 50 years, first as Broadway’s favorite ingénue in the heyday of the Broadway musical. Then she became a concert and cabaret artist, performing at the White House and in Carnegie Hall and appearing with the New York Philharmonic. With Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards to her name, Cook achieved another career high in 2006 when New York’s Metropolitan Opera Company presented her in her solo concert debut, making her the first female pop singer to be presented by the opera company in its 123-year history. The New York Times called a Cook performance "… quietly shattering … a powerful elixir of distilled memory and longing …" Web site: http://www.barbaracook.com 

Sekou Sundiata: "the 51^st (dream) state"
Friday, Jan. 26, 8 p.m.
Harlem-born Sekou Sundiata came of age as a poet during the Black Arts/Black Aesthetic movement of the 1960s and ’70s. Featured in Bill Moyers’ PBS poetry series "The Language of Life," and in Russell Simmons’ "Def Poetry Jam" on HBO, he has written and performed in highly acclaimed, award-winning performance theater works. Currently, Sundiata is a professor at Eugene Lang College in New York City.

"the 51^st (dream) state" is his contemplation of America’s national identity, its power in the world and its guiding mythologies. Featuring a cycle of songs, poems and monologues, and still and moving projected images, the performance will explore how America defines itself in a new era of unprecedented influence. This work was co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts. The Washington Post has written of Sundiata, "His arresting works (are) firmly in the tradition of Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka…" Web site: http://www.multiartsprojects.com/artists/sekousundiata/sekousundiata.php 

Radu Lupu, piano
Friday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m.
A Kenan Great Performance
A leading interpreter of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Schubert, Radu Lupu is firmly established as one of the most important musicians of his generation. He has appeared with major European and North American orchestras and has more than 20 recordings to his name, including the complete Beethoven piano concertos, the complete Mozart violin and piano sonatas and numerous solo Beethoven recordings. Lupu won a Grammy Award for his recording of Schubert sonatas and has recorded with Murray Perahia, Daniel Barenboim and Barbara Hendricks, among others. The concert will include works by Schubert, Debussy, Brahms and Beethoven (program subject to change). Gramophone Magazine has written of Lupu, "His talent is the kind of which legends are made." Web site: http://www.deccaclassics.com/artists/lupu 

Dave Holland Sextet
Thursday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Leading jazz bassist Dave Holland was a fixture at Ronnie Scott’s famous jazz club in late ’60s London, appearing with jazz greats including Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Joe Henderson. In 1968, he joined Miles Davis’s band in New York, touring and appearing on several recordings including "Bitches Brew" and "In a Silent Way." Holland founded the group Circle with Chick Corea, joined Stan Getz’s group, and has appeared with artists including Thelonious Monk, Betty Carter, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Michael Brecker. He also has led and recorded with his own bands. His sextet features Mulgrew Miller, Eric Harland, Robin Eubanks, Antonio Hart and Alex Sipiagin. The New York Times has called Holland "One of the jewels of the jazz world." Web site: http://www.daveholland.com 

Dance Brazil: "Retratos da Bahia"
Friday, Feb. 9, 8 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 10, 8 p.m.
Dance Brazil’s thrilling, high energy movement aesthetic fuses modern dance, samba and capoeira, a form thought to have been developed by African slaves as a means of self-defense in the 16^th and 17^th centuries. Forbidden to practice this martial art, the slaves disguised the form as dance, now common in parts of Brazil. Influenced by Alvin Ailey, who joined their board of directors in 1980, Dance Brazil tours nationally and internationally and has appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln Center in New York. The company was featured in PBS’s "Alive From Off Center" and "Egg: The Arts Show." Web site: http://www.dancebrazil.org 

King Britt presents Sister Gertrude Morgan
Friday, Feb. 16, 8 p.m.
One of the most sought-after remixers in the world, Philly DJ and producer Britt has toured with Digable Planets and crafted unforgettable dance music sets in clubs around the globe. He has remixed the work of Macy Gray, Tori Amos, Yoko Ono, Curtis Mayfield, The Ojays, Gamble and Huff, Destiny’s Child and others.

The late Sister Morgan was a New Orleans painter, singer and self-proclaimed "Bride of Christ" whose explosive folk art is celebrated in international museums. Her 1960s album is one of gospel music’s secret relics, released to widespread acclaim in 2003. Here, King Britt creates a groundbreaking live video mix featuring Sister Gertrude’s paintings, documentary and political footage, along with live musicians and turntable. Web site: http://www.kingbritt.com 

Kenny Garrett and Nicholas Payton: Battle of the Bands
Friday, March 2, 8 p.m.
Two of the top instrumentalists in jazz will rekindle the competitive fire that drove much of the early days of jazz. With their respective bands on opposite ends of the stage, they will put their friendship aside and square off with alternating selections of original material and tunes of the jazz masters.

Saxophonist Garrett, an alumnus of the legendary Miles Davis’ ensembles, has influenced a generation of players. Trumpeter Payton, one of the brightest trumpet stars to emerge in the 1990s, was featured in the Robert Altman film "Kansas City" and has appeared with Wynton Marsalis’s Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

"Someone should post a storm warning…" The Washington Post has written of "Battle of the Bands." Web sites: http://www.kennygarrett.com,  http://www.nicholaspayton.com 

David Grisman Quintet
Sunday, March 4, 2 p.m.
Composer and mandolin virtuoso David Grisman concocts "Dawg" music – his own blend of bluegrass, swing, gypsy music, Latin and jazz. Providing a rich breeding ground for new acoustic talent, he has influenced generations of musicians, including Béla Fleck and Mark O’Connor, with his "newgrass" or "new acoustic" movements. Grisman has toured and recorded with Stephane Grappelli and worked with the late Jerry Garcia on the Grateful Dead’s classic recordings "American Beauty" and "Old & in the Way." Billboard Magazine has called Grisman’s work "idiosyncratically pleasing …" Web site: http://www.dawgnet.com/dgq_splash.html 

Kodo
Thursday, March 8, 7:30 p.m.
World-renowned Japanese ritual drumming ensemble Kodo preserves and re-interprets traditional Japanese performing arts, exploring the limitless possibilities of the traditional Japanese drum – the taiko – and forging new directions for a vibrant living art form. "Kodo" means "heartbeat," the primal source of all rhythm.

With more than 2,700 performances on five continents, Kodo has collaborated with other artists and composers to produce startling new fusion and forms, displaying intoxicating speed, dexterity, precision and muscular endurance.

The Village Voice has called its members "Percussionist kamikazes." Web site: http://www.kodo.or.jp/ 

The Cleveland Orchestra and Miguel Harth-Bedoya, guest conductor
Sunday, March 18, 7:30 p.m.
Carolina Performing Arts Series Spring Gala
Long considered one of America’s great orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra continues to set standards of performing excellence, imaginative programming and educational outreach that serve as a model for audiences and performers alike.

Founded in 1918 under the direction of Russian-American conductor Nikolai Sokoloff, the orchestra has been led by music directors George Szell, Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel and Christoph von Dohnányi.

Since his New York Philharmonic debut in 2000, guest conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya has established a flourishing reputation through his appearances with opera companies and many of North America’s top orchestras. Music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, he also serves as associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. For concert tickets, call (919) 843-3333; for gala event upgrades, (919) 843-7776 after Jan. 8, 2007. Web site: http://www.clevelandorch.com 

Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Sunday, March 25, 7:30 p.m.
The first jazz composer to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio "Blood in the Fields," New Orleans native Marsalis was the first artist to win jazz and classical Grammy Awards in the same year. The best-known and most influential jazz musician of his generation, he is artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. His Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, composed of 15 of today’s finest players, performs and educates around the world in concert halls, dance venues, jazz clubs, river boats and churches, and with symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. The Chicago Tribune has called the orchestra "The greatest large jazz ensemble working today." Web site: http://www.jalc.org 

Carolina Ballet: "Firebird"
Saturday, March 31, 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 1, 2 p.m.
Launched in 1997, Carolina Ballet already is recognized as one of the top 10 ballet companies in the country. Founding artistic director Robert Weiss is a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet and past artistic director of Pennsylvania Ballet.

Ballet companies around the world have created their own versions of "Firebird," set to Stravinsky’s famous score. Weiss has created his own unique version, complete with an enchanted forest, the evil sorcerer, the handsome prince, the beautiful princesses and the exotic Firebird. Good conquers evil in this fairytale classic. Web site: http://www.carolinaballet.com 

4D art and Théâtre du Nouveau Monde: "la tempête" (The Tempest)
Wednesday, April 4, 7:30 p.m. and Thursday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.
Canada’s 4D art and the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde have collaborated to create a stunning, high-tech, hybrid version of Shakespeare’s masterpiece "The Tempest," merging virtual reality with live actors and new media. Shakespeare created a universe in which certainties disappear and the eternal becomes ephemeral. 4D art’s dazzling and audacious approach brings the play alive with spells, visions and poetry that convey the dreamy opulence of the work, including a previously unimaginable storm that appeals to the senses as well as the mind. This production is in French, with Shakespeare’s original English text in subtitles. Journal de Montréal called "la tempête" "Pure magic…a daring production." Web site: http://www.4dart.com/4Dart.html/en/menu.html 

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with violinist Gil Shaham
Tuesday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.
A Kenan Great Performance
The Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has delighted music lovers for 32 years, with its celebrated Carnegie Hall concert series the centerpiece of each Orpheus season. The orchestra has collaborated with great artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman and Emanuel Ax, and has recorded nearly 70 albums. Following the aspirations of its founding musicians, Orpheus performs without a conductor. Grammy Award-winning Gil Shaham is among the most virtuosic and engaging classical artists today. He debuted with the Jerusalem Symphony and the Israel Philharmonic at the age of 10 and now is sought after internationally for concert, recital and ensemble performances. He has made several notable recordings. The program will include work by Beethoven and Mendelssohn.

Web site: http://www.orpheusnyc.com 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Friday, April 13, 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m.
Fusing styles and setting precedents for American dance, Alvin Ailey created more than 50 works for his own company and for American Ballet Theater, the Joffrey Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the London Festival Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet. His ballet "Revelations" established his company as the foremost dance interpreter of the African-American experience. With an extensive international reputation, the company maintains peerless stature as touring ambassadors of good will. The performance will include the company’s signature work, "Revelations."

Web site: http://www.alvinailey.org 

André Watts, piano
Friday, April 20, 8 p.m.
A Kenan Great Performance
In 1963, when Watts was only 16, Leonard Bernstein chose him to perform with the New York Philharmonic for their Young People’s Concerts, broadcast nationwide. Two weeks later, Bernstein asked him to substitute for an ailing Glenn Gould, launching Watts’ career in storybook fashion. Watts remains one of today’s most celebrated and beloved pianists.

A much-honored artist, he has played before royalty and heads of state around the world, performed with major orchestras and made frequent television appearances. In this recital, he will perform works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy and Liszt. The Washington Post has credited Watts with "A formidable technical arsenal, a still more-powerful intellect." Web site: http://cmartists.com/artists/andre_watts.htm 

The North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra performs the classic jazz and big band music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie and others – a uniquely American art form that is rarely presented outside major metropolitan areas. Led by UNC music professor James Ketch, director of jazz studies, the 18-piece orchestra features the finest jazz musicians in the state. The orchestra (www.ncjro.org) will contribute the following concerts to the 2006-2007 Carolina Performing Arts Series:

• "Swingin’ with Satch and More," Friday Oct. 13, 8 p.m.
  Guest trumpet soloist Byron Stripling, a former lead trumpet player with the Count Basie Orchestra.
• "Holiday Jazz Blizzard," Saturday, Dec. 9, 8 p.m.
  The concert will feature Duke Ellington’s adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s "Nutcracker Suite."
• "Jammin’ at the Reno: Count Basie and Kansas City Swing," Thursday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.
• "The King By George: Benny Goodman, George Gershwin and the Making of American Musical Traditions," Friday, May 4, 8 p.m.

This yearlong festival of concerts by the faculty, students and friends of the UNC Department of Music (http://music.unc.edu/) will comprise:

"September Prelude" 
Saturday, Sept. 9, 8 p.m.
The third edition of "September Prelude," the Triangle’s annual Festival of Chamber Music, will expand to three concerts (Sept. 8-10) and come to Chapel Hill for the first time. North Carolina Symphony principal harpist Anita Burroughs-Price and principal cellist Bonnie Thron will join budding star violinist Jennifer Curtis of Chapel Hill in this performance, a tribute to the music of France. Faculty musicians from UNC and Duke and East Carolina universities also will perform. Works by Fauré, Debussy and Ravel will be included. For information about the other "September Prelude" programs, in Durham and Raleigh Sept. 8 and 10, call (919) 962-1039.

Carolina Wind Quintet, Saturday
Oct. 7, 8 p.m.
UNC’s venerable faculty chamber music ensemble will make its Memorial Hall debut. North Carolina Symphony principals Michael Schultz, oboe, Andrew McAfee, horn and John Pederson, bassoon, will join clarinetist Donald Oehler and flutist Brooks de-Wetter Smith of UNC.

UNC Symphony Orchestra
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.
Music professor Tonu Kalam, conductor of the 110-member orchestra, pairs a new work of the 21st century with a great one of the 20th. The orchestra will premiere UNC percussionist and composer Lynn Glassock’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra and will commemorate the 100th anniversary year of Shostakovich’s birth with his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54.

"Mozart Serenades and Diversions" 
Sunday, Nov. 5, 2 p.m.
Mozart, a master of virtually every musical genre, made special magic when he wrote for winds. Conductor Michael Votta Jr. and clarinetist Donald Oehler, both UNC music professors, have created a survey of Mozart’s music for winds. The concert will present the composer’s serious side as well as his "Mozart-the-entertainer" side.

UNC Opera: "Cosi fan tutte" 
Tuesday, Nov. 28, 7:30 p.m., and Wednesday, Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m.
Student ensembles will perform Mozart’s ultimate relationships opera, which chronicles the passion and rivalry of the sexes. UNC drama professor David Hammond will direct; UNC music professor Tonu Kalam will conduct the UNC Orchestra.

Vega String Quartet with Thomas Otten, piano
Saturday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m.
One of America's finest young string quartets is now residence in at Emory University in Atlanta. UNC-Chapel Hill faculty pianist Thomas Otten will join them in performing one of the greatest piano quintets, by Dvořák, along with quartets by Beethoven and Bartók.

"Songspiel,"from Kurt Weill’s "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," and Stravinsky’s "L’Histoire du Soldat" (trio version)
Saturday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m.
The concert stage and the theater will never be more entwined than in this pairing of two 20^th-century masterpieces, Stravinsky’s every-man soldier and Weill’s caricature of an American city dedicated to pleasure. UNC music professor Dr. Terry Rhodes will perform.

Milestones Festival
Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 p.m.
Every year, the UNC and Duke University music departments collaborate on a gala concert devoted to important works of new music by composers from around the nation and the world. In 2007, the festival include a performance in Memorial Hall and feature work by the UNC Chamber Singers.

UNC Symphony Orchestra with violinist Richard Luby
Tuesday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.
The orchestra will present an all-Russian program, pairing Stravinsky’s witty Violin Concerto in D with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29, known as the "Polish." The concert will feature two UNC music professors: Tonu Kalam, orchestra conductor, and Richard Luby, soloist.

J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor, Thursday, April 26, 7:30 p.m.
UNC music professor Susan Klebanow will lead the Carolina Choir and an orchestra of period instrument specialists in a performance of one of Bach’s best known, most enigmatic works.

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For ticket-purchasing options, see http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/tix031706.htm

For a story about the series, see http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/season031706.htm

Carolina Performing Arts Series contact: Jennifer Smith, (919) 966-3834, jwsmith@email.unc.edu

News Services contacts: Print, L.J. Toler, (919) 962-8589; broadcast, Karen Moon, (919) 962-8595