CARRACK FREE IMPROV TUESDAY: A TRIBUTE TO PAULINE OLIVEROS Tuesday, Dec. 13 8 p.m., free The Carrack, Durham www.thecarrack.org When composer Pauline Oliveros died last week at age eighty-four, I found myself caught up in a Twitter conversation about which recordings were the best points of entry for people wanting to learn more about her […]
Joanna Helms
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Put a Ring on It: N.C. Opera Takes on Wagner’s Formidable Masterwork
N.C. Opera: Das Rheingold Friday, September 16 & Sunday, September 18, $25–$99 Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh Nearly a hundred fifty years after his death, German composer Richard Wagner remains an intimidating force in Western music. His operas are notoriously difficult to stage: he intended for them to represent his grandiose vision of opera as a […]
