WCPE Arts Calendar


Weekly arts calendar:

 







High Notes from the WCPE Arts Calendar


WHAT TO SEE...




THIS week:

Fred RaimiSaturday, September 4, is a great day for Bach fans! Enjoy a Duke Faculty Recital by cellist Fred Raimi (of the Ciompi Quartet). Raimi performs J.S. Bach Suites for Cello Solo (four of six). FREE! Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, Duke University, Durham. 8 pm.





NEXT week:

Cary Town Band opens a new concert season with “In the Army Now” -music written for or by soldiers- on Friday, September 10th at 7:30 p.m. Sertoma Amphitheater, Bond Park.



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Arts Addendum

  

EVENTS FROM 08/29 - 09/05

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

  • DOWNTOWN RALEIGH ALLIANCE

    First Friday: Galleries, Studios, Museums, Music
    Friday, September 3, 2010; 6-9 pm
    INFO: 919.832.1231; YouRHere.com/FirstFriday
    The first Friday of each month is a fun-filled introduction to Raleigh’s exciting art, music and dining scene. First Friday is one of Raleigh’s most popular evening escapes.


  • DUKE MUSIC

  • FREE! Faculty Recital: Fred Raimi, cello
    Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 8 pm
    Nelson Music Room, East Duke Buildin, Duke University, Durham
    INFO: 919.660.3333; music.duke.edu
    Fred Raimi plays J.S. Bach Suites for Cello Solo (four of six).


  • FREE! Duke Symphony Orchestra: Pops Concert
    Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 6 pm
    East Campus Quad, Duke University, Durham
    INFO: 919.660.3333; music.duke.edu
    Harry Davidson, music director. Rain location: Baldwin Auditorium.


  • DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL
    Life through Quilts: Works by the African American Quilt Circle of Durham
    Through October 3, 2010
    Allenton and Semans Galleries, Durham
    INFO: durhamarts.org/exhibits.html


  • NC STATE MUSIC
    Jennifer Seiger, mezzo soprano
    Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 7 pm
    Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre, NCSU, Raleigh
    INFO: 919.515.1100; ncsu.edu/arts
    Program: 17th- & 18th-century Italian Art songs t.b.a.; Mahler: Rückert Lieder; Ravel: Histoires Naturelles; & various composers’ settings of the poems of Emily Dickinson.


  • PAKISTAN RELIEF CONCERT
    Jonathan Kramer & Fred Raimi, cellists, & Jane Hawkins, piano
    Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 4 pm
    Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh, Wade Ave.
    INFO: 919.781-7635
    Admission by donations to Oxfam for Pakistan relief


  • QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS & MUSIC
    KidzNotes Day
    Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 7:30 pm
    Quail Ridge Books & Music, Wade Ave., Raleigh
    INFO: 919.828.1588; quailridgebooks.com
    KidZNotes is a Durham-based, nonprofit program that provides free instruments and instruction in classical music and orchestra for underserved children. It is modeled on /El Sistema/, the hugely successful program that transformed the lives of many of Venezuela's poorest children. Executive Director of KidZNotes, Katie Wyatt, a very talented violist, has studied with Mr. Dudamel in Venezuela. At 7:30 PM on September 1st, she will be here to share stories and videos about her experience and about the mission of KidZNotes in Durham and in all of North Carolina. She will be joined in performance by singer/songwriter, Ari Picker, of the band Lost in the Trees, Bonnie Thron, principal cellist of the N.C. Symphony; and Scott Laird from the N.C. School of Math and Science. Throughout the day, when you shop in the store or on-line, just mention *KidZNotes* and QRB will donate *20%* of your qualifying purchases to KidZNotes.


  • TRIAD STAGE
    The Glass Menagerie
    September 5- 26, 2010
    Triad Stage, 232 S. Elm St., Greensboro
    INFO: 336.272.0160; triadstage.org
    Memories as fragile as glass are tossed into the air in Tennessee Williams’ first great masterpiece. Dreams meet reality and love becomes desperate in a shimmering drama of a family on the edge. Tom struggles in a modern day world while his mother holds tight to a fantasy of Southern gentility and his sister hides amongst the glistening crystalline creatures she collects. With an edge as sharp as broken glass, the play cuts deep into the longing of human hearts.


 

Weekly arts calendar:

EVENTS FROM 08/23 - 08/30

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

  • CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC 2nd ANNUAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
    The Gypsy- Festival Finale with Wine Reception
    Friday, August 27, 2010 at 7 pm- Holy Trinity Church, Fayetteville
    Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 2:30 pm- Founders Hall at Sacred Heart
    INFO: 910.687.4746; CarolinaPhil.org
    Debussy’s evocative Sonata for Cello and Piano and Shostakovich’s Mystical Piano Trio No. 1 pave the way for perhaps the most exciting and adventuresome Piano Quartets of all time, the Brahms’ G-minor - the wisdom of Solomon, the whim of a gypsy and the song of a lark rolled in one. This exciting finish to our 2nd Chamber Music Festival will be followed by a wine reception.


  • DUKE MUSIC
    FREE! Lecture/Recital: Britten’s “Holy Sonnets of John Donne” with Elizabeth Linnartz, soprano and Jeremy Begbie, piano
    Thursday, August 27, 2010 at 7:30 pm
    Goodson Chapel, Duke University, Durham
    INFO: 919.660.3333; music.duke.edu


  • RALEIGH RINGERS
    Performances on Tour
    August 28, 2010: Roswell, Georgia
    August 29, 2010: Lincolnton, Georgia


  • ROANOKE ISLAND FESTIVAL PARK
    Weather and Sky Photography Exhibit
    Throughout August
    Info: 252.475.1500


  • RUGGERO PIANO
    4th Friday Mix
    Friday, August 27, 200 at 7:30 pm
    Bosendorfer Hall, 4720-120 Hargrove Rd. Raleigh
    INFO: 919.839.2040; ruggeropiano.com
    4th Friday Mix is back after taking July off and it's excited to begin a great new season of music at Bosendorfer Hall. The goal each month is to provide an exciting variety of musical styles and instrumentation. This month certainly meets that effort with solo piano, violin and vocal performances. 4th Friday Mix concerts are free, open to the public, and take place in Bosendorfer Hall at Ruggero Piano in Raleigh. Emcee Eric Hale always schedules a great night of music, so bring a friend or the whole family. Eats and drinks always follow the evening's performance, as well as an opportunity to talk with the musicians. Thanks to Sue Timmons for her continued dedication as our house accompanist.


  • UNC- GREENSBORO School of Music
    FREE! Opera Scenes
    Recital Hall, School of Music, UNC-Greensboro
    Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 4:30 pm
    Enjoy scenes from Steven Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Charpentier's Louise, Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte(The Magic Flute). The program features many young artists who have performed with Greensboro Opera on the main stage and in outreach programs, as well as in Opera at the Carolina productions. Admission is gratis. Show your support of our local talent!


OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST

  • DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL
    Life through Quilts: Works by the African American Quilt Circle of Durham
    Through October 3, 2010
    Allenton and Semans Galleries, Durham
    INFO: durhamarts.org/exhibits.html