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Power Violin: Leila Josefowicz at Duke Performances
Leila Josefewicz I went for the John Adams, but came away with a new appreciation for Robert Schumann. In a variation on its piano recital format, Duke Performances presented the powerful violinist...
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Faith, Fate, Fado: Queenly Ana Moura in Durham
I fell for fado when I visited Portugal nearly 14 years ago. I went after the Lisboa Olympics, and before Portugal went on the euro and was still very affordable–and before fado had become a world...
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Angels of NIGHT: Tift and Simone at the First Presbyterian
Tift Merritt. Photo: Duke Performances Tift Merritt, rocking Americana singer-songwriter from Raleigh, and Simone Dinnerstein, spell-weaving classical pianist, had met briefly during a Gramophone...
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People Get Ready, There’s a Train a-Comin’
Almost ready to roll. Looking up into the dome of Baldwin Auditorium. “People Get Ready” opens the great Curtis Mayfield song released in 1965, but I always hear it in my mind as sung by North Carolina...
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Variations on the Piano
Andras Schiff. Photo: Nadia F. Romanini. I heard two solo piano recitals this week–two very different musicians, in quite different halls, but both playing Steinway concert grands. In Chapel Hill,...
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MEASURE BACK: There is no time before war, and no future without it
T. Ryder Smith in MEASURE BACK. Photo courtesy Duke Performances. I’m old. It’s definite now. I don’t have to ask the mirror anymore. I was chosen as someone who looks old–though not rich, Jewish, or...
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Kirill Gerstein Piano Recital
The Duke Performances piano recital series continued in Baldwin Auditorium Nov. 9, with Kirill Gerstein playing a well-considered program that began delightfully and progressed toward the sublime....
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Into the mystic with Persian masters Kayhan Kalhor and Ali Bahrami Fard
Duke Performances presents a mind-boggling range of music, from soloists to huge ensembles, in many venues at Duke and in Durham, and regular theater-goers here have become accustomed to glorious...
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2 Recent Reviews
Links to two recent reviews published on CVNC.org. Click through to read. The splendor of Nrityagram was a bit dim on Jan. 22 at Duke Performances. Lots to Long for in Nrityagram’s “Songs of Love and...
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Ecstatic Rhythms
Greatness in the house: Rhythm artists Savion Glover, left, and Jack DeJohnette. Photo courtesy DP. Tapper Savion Glover and drummer Jack DeJohnette will return, with their colleagues, to Page...
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