Carolina Ballet Monet Impressions Jan. 11-14 Raleigh Memorial Auditorium Tickets: $10-$55 Tickets: BalletLine 719-0900; TicketMaster 834-4000 or on the Web; or [email protected] Impression: a telling image impressed on the senses or the mind; an often indistinct or imprecise notion or remembrance; an immediate psychical effect of sensory stimulus. Impressionist art? Of course. Impressionist music? You […]
Barbara Norton
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Childhood’s winter delights
Carolina Ballet The Nutcracker, Dec. 15-23, $15-$100 Monet Impressions, Jan. 11-14, $16-$55 Raleigh Memorial Auditorium Tickets: BalletLine: 719-0900, [email protected] Ticketmaster: 834-4000, www.ticketmaster.com Carolina Ballet has it allalmost. Director and choreographer Robert Weiss has spent the last nine and a half years bringing to the Triangle a full-time ballet company many larger (and far better funded) […]
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Peter Serkin
Peter Serkin UNC-Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall Friday, Nov. 10 What ties a program together? A theme is seldom anything as obvious as Works I Happen to Have Practiced Recently or Pieces in C Major. Last Friday at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall, pianist Peter Serkin brought memory and the past into the present to thread together […]
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Les Voix Humaines
Duke University’s Goodson Chapel Friday, Nov. 3 There is no better embodiment of baroque music than French music of the late 17th century. The word baroque comes from the Portuguese barroco, a term used to refer to an imperfect pearl, one irregular in shape and unusual in color. By standards of predictability, it doesn’t pass […]
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A house divided
Samuel Barber’s Vanessa is big and challenging, with terrific arias for all the characters, yet it has been inexplicably overlooked by most major companies. Long Leaf Opera’s willingness to give it a shot proves they’re not afraid of breaking new ground. But they don’t seem too sure of what to build on the lot. Barber […]
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Hip op
Lately, restoration has become a very loud buzzword for Triangle residents. They’re rescuing neglected houses, they’re recovering older neighborhoods, and most of all, they’re reclaiming downtown. They’re putting the public back in public spaces, recognizing that for a city’s downtown to be viable, it has to have real live human beings. It can’t be just […]
