Orpheus et Eurydice Compagnie Marie Chouinard Memorial Hall, UNC Campus March 25 The story of Orpheus and Eurydice ranks highly among the most frustratingly inevitable Greek myths. When Eurydice is killed by the bite of an asp, Orpheus ventures into the underworld to save her. His lyrics on the lyre are so beautiful that he […]
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Silver mettle: Raleigh’s Silber Records
Brian John Mitchell, the 33-year-old proprietor of Raleigh’s Silber Records, is a painter, comic book creator and experimental musician. His music, recorded and released under the name Remora, uses guitar effects to build ambient dreamscapes and noisy terrors. On Remora’s forthcoming concept album, Mecha, Mitchellguitar in handcasts himself as a warrior leading a revolution on […]
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Live: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time
Duke Performances Presents Akoka: After Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time Page Auditorium, Durham
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Twelve ways of looking at Abraham Lincoln
I. Abraham Lincoln: savior, martyr, saint. Julia Ward Howe, author of “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” echoes the Christian nativity scene in “Through the Dim Pageant of the Years”: “A cabin of the western wild/ Shelters in sleep a new-born child.” II. Lincoln’s name would become sentimentally synonymous with American gumption. Nancy Byrd Turner and […]
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Bon Iver’s Blood Bank
Justin Vernon, formerly of the Raleigh band DeYarmond Edison, scored a surprise indie hit last year with For Emma, Forever Ago, his debut solo album as Bon Iver. Recorded in a Wisconsin cabin as Vernon battled two breakups and mononucleosis, For Emma collected nine haunted folk songs, alternately recalling Devendra Banhart’s spectral early work and […]
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UNC Opera takes on the wild, modernist The Breasts of Tirésias
The Breasts of Tirésias UNC Opera Hill Hall Auditorium Nov. 21-22 A poet, art critic, playwright, essayist and anonymous author of erotica, Guillaume Apollinaire was a key figure in the emerging modernist art of the early 20th century. His essays were instrumental in defining cubism, and he’s often credited with coining the phrase surrealism. Because […]
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Two decades in, Lud remains lean, mean and laid-back
Kirk Ross lives on the outskirts of Chapel Hill in a brick house with electric blue trim. Fallen leaves and wild foliage cloak the front yard, and two leftover jack-o-lanterns flank the door like decaying sentinels. Overlooking the woodsy backyard is an elevated deck, where a bloodhound named Gracie pads amiably around a moldering wicker […]
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Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra at The Pinhook
Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra The Pinhook, Durham Saturday, Nov. 1 It seemed like a typical Saturday night in downtown Durham: Smokers huddled on the Federal’s patio. Diners gravitated toward Brightleaf Square. … And a bedraggled troupe of zombies moaned and groaned down Main Street.
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Chapbooks give voice to new work by Triangle poets Jon Leon and Eric Amling
Alexandra By Jon Leon Cosa Nostra Editions, Iowa City, Iowa, 2008 Split Level Igloo By Eric Amling Human Hair & Co. Press, Raleigh, 2008
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Three area musicians explain their new visual art
Now in its third year, Minus Sound Research collects visual art by seven North Carolina-based musicians at Wootini this weekend: Maria Albani (Schooner), Laura Ballance (Superchunk), Anna Bullard (Pox World Empire), Catherine Edgerton (Midtown Dickens), John Harrison (North Elementary), Reid Johnson (Schooner) and Nathan Oliver White (Nathan Oliver). Co-founders Harrison and Albani conceived of Minus […]
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