Duke Performances 2014/15 Brochure by Duke Performances

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HELLO AND WELCOME It is with great joy that I offer Duke Performances’ 2014/2015 season. I hope that this handsome brochure and the programming it details will induce you to join us for this extraordinary sequence of live performing arts events. At Duke Performances, we are constantly working to set programming that reflects the breadth, depth, and ambition of Durham and Duke University today. We seek to engage forward-thinking artists who will simultaneously edify, reward, challenge, and expand the lives of our friends and neighbors in the region. In the interest of further activating this dialogue, we have put together a series of offers we hope lower the barrier to entry for all patrons. They include: 25% P I C K- F O U R O R M O R E D I S CO U N T

Patrons take 25% off their total price when they purchase tickets for four or more shows at one time from Duke Performances’ 2014/15 season.

$10 DUKE STUDENT TICKETS

Duke students — both undergraduate and graduate — may purchase $10 tickets to any Duke Performances show. This remarkable student ticket deal comes as the product of a special arrangement with the Duke University Provost.

$ 1 5 T I C K E T S F O R PAT R O N S A G E S 3 0 A N D U N D E R

Patrons ages 30 and under — whether young professionals, students, or youth — may purchase $15 tickets to nearly any Duke Performances show on the 2014/15 season.

15% DUKE EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT

All 35,000 of Duke’s employees are entitled to 15% off tickets to nearly any Duke Performances show on the 2014/15 season.

C H A M B E R A R T S S E R I E S , P I A N O R E C I TA L S E R I E S , VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES, AND CIOMPI QUARTET SERIES

Subscription buyers to all of Duke Performances’ classical series receive substantial discounts to the best classical music in the world presented at the acoustically superb Baldwin Auditorium. I am hopeful that you will join us as we continue building a community in Durham dedicated to the performing arts.

AARON GREENWALD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DUKE PERFORMANCES

C O V E R P H O T O : S H AY L A A L AY R E C A L D W E L L O F R O N A L D K . B R O W N / E V I D E N C E D A N C E C O M PA N Y, P H O T O B Y J U L I E TA C E R VA N T E S .

PAT M E T H E N Y U N I T Y G R O U P F E AT U R I N G C H R I S P O T T E R , A N T O N I O S A N C H E Z , BEN WILLIAMS & GIULIO CARMASSI

“A virtuoso guitarist, an expansive composer, and, above all, an inveterate searcher” (New York Times), legendary jazz artist Pat Metheny makes his return to small-combo performance with the Unity Group, a band gifted enough to keep up with the full range of his forty years of musical explorations. It is no surprise that with the Unity Group, Metheny won an astonishing 20th GRAMMY Award in 2013.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 | 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM Tickets: $65 • $55 • $45 • $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Returning to Duke Performances to make up a February 2014 date that was canceled due to snow, the Unity Group boast a fine lineup of “blazing virtuosi with musical intelligence to match” (Guardian): saxophonist Chris Potter, whom Metheny calls “one of the most exciting soloists in jazz on any instrument”; Ben Williams, “the baddest new bassist on the block” (The Revivalist); powerhouse drummer Antonio Sanchez; and extraordinary multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi. A co-presentation of Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre of Durham.

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THE CAMPBELL BROTHERS P L AY J O H N C O LT R A N E ’ S A L OV E S U P R E M E

OPENERS: PHIL COOK, JOHN DEE HOLEMAN & THE ROUSTERS O O O

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 | 6 PM HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER (THE CAMPBELL BROTHERS BEGIN AT 8 PM) Tickets: $35 Advance, $40 at the Door $10 Duke Students | General Admission

The sacred steel tradition was born of the ecstatic meeting of African-American gospel music and amplified steel guitar in the House of God Church. The electrifying Campbell Brothers are the musicians most responsible for bringing this form from the church to the concert stage. In Durham — commissioned by Duke Performances and Lincoln Center Out of Doors — they take on John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, interpreting the seminal work anew.

“Pedal steel guitar lines swooping skyward like a gospel shouter, carrying the songs to peak after peak.” (New York Times) In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Coltrane’s landmark recording, the Campbells lend their staggering virtuosity and devout conviction to one of the most deeply sanctified works in the jazz canon. This concert, presented at the Hayti Heritage Center, kicks off the annual Bull Durham Blues Festival. Arrive early to hear Phil Cook, Megafaun’s roots music savant, and Piedmont blues stalwart John Dee Holeman as they warm the room for the Campbells. A co-presentation of Duke Performances and St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center.

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V I E U X FA R K A T O U R É

RUDE MECHANICALS NOW NOW OH NOW

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S A T U R D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 13 | 8 P M REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 THROUGH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 | 7PM & 9PM BRODY THEATER

Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $24 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission

A Mali native, Vieux Farka Touré is the son of the late guitar luminary Ali Farka Touré, and he carries on the musical legacy he absorbed at his father’s feet. Touré extends the family tradition of creating pathbreaking music that is “both joyous and haunting, hooked up to deep tradition, but an essential soundtrack to modern urban Africa” (Mojo).

Internationally celebrated Austin, Texas theater collective the Rude Mechanicals have been delighting audiences with what they describe as a “genre-defying cocktail of big ideas, cheap laughs, and dizzying spectacle” for more than twenty years. The company makes its Durham debut with Now Now Oh Now, an immersive theatrical experience that explores the nature of beauty, evolution, choice, and chance.

For his Duke Performances debut, Touré comes to Durham with his acoustic quartet, perhaps the best vehicle for his dazzling guitar playing and deft songwriting. Already an international star, and “set to be Africa’s next guitar hero” (Guardian), Touré’s sound continues to develop from the traditional music he inherited. Touré says of his recent work, “My music is more mature now, more evolved. It digs deeper into the past and, at the same time, pushes harder into the future.”

Leading an intimate audience of only thirty people through a three-part cabinet of wonders in Duke’s Brody Theater, the Rude Mechs combine serious scientific content with the nerdy pleasures of interactive gaming and the undeniable satisfaction of Murder Mystery Theatre. The audience shapes the direction of each performance — which starts with a locked-room puzzle — making this an evening full of surprises for performers and audience alike. “Now Now Oh Now is a delightful way to have your mind blown” (Austin Chronicle).

Made possible, in part, with support from the Duke Africa Initiative, a faculty-led initiative that brings together scholars from across the University and Health System who have a shared interest, whether through their research or programmatic activities, in the countries and cultures of the African continent.

Made possible, in part, by a Visiting Artist Grant from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University, and support from the Department of Theater Studies at Duke University.

2 5% P I C K- F O U R O R M O R E D I S C O U N T

Take 25% off your total price when you purchase tickets to four or more shows at one time from Duke Performances’ 2014/15 season. 2014 | 2015

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VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES

A N O N YM O U S 4 O O O

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Renowned for their ethereal vocal blend and virtuosic ensemble singing, Anonymous 4 have been touring and recording for nearly thirty years. Long celebrated for their performances of medieval music — as well as American folksong, shape note tunes, and gospel — these four fine singers perform with a “signature radiant tone and pure blend of voices” (NPR). To kick off Duke Performances’ Vocal Ensemble Series and to bid farewell to Durham before disbanding in 2015/16, Anonymous 4 bring their Grace and Glory program to Baldwin Auditorium. The first half of the program, Marie et Marion, showcases 13 th-century French music, both sacred and profane, from the Montpellier Codex. After the intermission, the quartet shifts to a set of new arrangements of American folk music and hymns popular in 1865, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the conclusion of the Civil War.

T O U M A N I D I A B AT É & S I D I K I D I A B AT É O O O

W I T H E R I K A E C K E R T, V I O L A O O O

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $42 • $36• $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Malian kora virtuoso and twotime GRAMMY winner Toumani Diabaté shares the stage with his son Sidiki Diabaté, advancing a remarkable musical lineage that the family traces back seventy-two generations. Toumani Diabaté is the world’s greatest living player of the kora — a twenty-one-string West African harp-lute — and is known for his ability to beautifully render melody, rhythm, and bass simultaneously. The younger Diabaté apprenticed with his father, and is developing his own incisive voice on the instrument.

Marie et Marion: Anonymous works drawn from the 13th century Montpellier Codex.

This exceptional and intimate concert features father and son performing as a duo. “We’re not going backwards, trying to play just how my father and grandfather did these songs,” the elder Diabaté says. “We have to do it our way. We’re modern griots, we live in the city, we’re connected to the world.” The two have only been playing together publicly since late 2013, and Nonesuch Records recently released their debut album, Toumani & Sidiki. The Times of London ranks the collaboration “among Toumani’s best work — joyous, spiritual, and uplifting.”

1865: American folk songs and hymns popular at the end of the U.S. Civil War.

Made possible, in part, with support from the Duke Africa Initiative.

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TA K Á C S Q UA R T E T

Founded four decades ago in Hungary, the Takács Quartet bring drama, humor, and warmth to their definitive interpretations of the string quartet repertoire. Renowned as a “benchmark ensemble among today’s string quartets” (Guardian), the Takács return to Duke Performances to inaugurate the 69th season of the Chamber Arts Series. The program begins with Schubert’s “Quartettsatz,” the only finished movement from the composer’s 12th string quartet. This is followed by Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130, played here with the Finale, which Beethoven was persuaded to substitute for the original last movement, the Grosse Fuge. Violist Erika Eckert joins the Takács for Mozart’s Viola Quintet in G Minor, among the finest of Mozart’s chamber works, in which a mood of sorrow gives way to joyous ebullience. PROGRAM:

Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703 (“Quartettsatz”) Beethoven: String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130 with Finale Mozart: Viola Quintet in G Minor, K. 516

For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org

VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES

Subscribe to the Vocal Ensemble Series — Anonymous 4, Vox Luminis, New York Polyphony, Stile Antico, I Fagiolini — and get tickets to all five concerts for $125. 2014 | 2015

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P I A N O R E C I TA L S E R I E S

R I Z WA N - M UA Z Z A M Q AW WA L I

RICHARD GOODE

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

When Pakistani qawwali superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died in 1997, his family’s six-century musical tradition did not end. The legacy of qawwali — a devotional genre extolling mystical love and worship of God — was passed to his nephews, Rizwan and Muazzam, exceptional singers who carry on the Sufi tradition of musical devotion and exaltation.

One of America’s finest concert pianists, Richard Goode has been hailed for musicmaking of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness. Celebrated for his “fluid, often tempestuous performances” (New York Times), Goode’s prodigious gifts will be shown to their best advantage in the acoustically pure setting of Baldwin Auditorium.

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Goode’s program opens with Beethoven’s Sonata in G Major, op. 14, no. 2, a lively and lyrical work with touches of charming humor. Goode then turns to two turbulent late sonatas of Schubert, which showcase the composer’s adventurous harmonies and mature development. Between the Schubert sonatas, Goode plays Schoenberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces, a series of splendid miniatures lasting just five minutes.

“One of the most exhilarating improvised vocal styles on the planet.” (Guardian) Performing songs that use hypnotic vocal repetition to induce a state of ecstasy, the brothers’ soaring voices are backed by a gharana, an ensemble of harmonium and tabla accompanied by handclaps. Intoxicating and entrancing, “Rizwan and Muazzam’s voices climb and swoop as if riding air currents; the harmonium seeks a similar undulating flight path while fingertips flutter like hummingbirds across the tablas” (BBC).

PROGRAM:

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Major, op. 14, no. 2 Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 19 in C Minor, D. 958 Schoenberg: Six Little Piano Pieces, op. 19 Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959

P I A N O R E C I TA L S E R I E S

Subscribe to the Piano Recital Series — Richard Goode, Yefim Bronfman, Jeremy Denk, Vladimir Feltsman, Paul Lewis — and get tickets to all five concerts for $150. 2014 | 2015

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THE BAD PLUS P L AY ORNETTE COLEMAN’S SCIENCE FICTION

LOS LOBOS P L AY LA PISTOLA Y EL CORAZÓN

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 | 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM

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S A T U R D A Y , O C T O B E R 18 | 8 P M BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $55 • $50 • $45 $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

After the soundtrack for La Bamba made overnight stars of Los Lobos in the mid1980s, the East L.A. combo doubled back to its norteño roots, recording the all-Spanish album La Pistola y El Corazón in 1988. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of that GRAMMY-winning masterpiece, Los Lobos will play the entire record live at the Carolina Theatre.

Duke Performances has once again engaged the forward-leaning jazz trio The Bad Plus — Ethan Iverson, piano; Reid Anderson, bass; Dave King, drums — to make a daring evening-length project. In 2011, Duke Performances commissioned The Bad Plus’ On Sacred Ground, a bold new interpretation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The intrepid trio —“about as badass as highbrow gets” (Rolling Stone) — now turns its sights to Ornette Coleman’s landmark 1972 recording Science Fiction following its 40th anniversary.

Los Lobos are long-standing masters of an adept mix of garage rock, R&B, country, and traditional Mexican music — “the genius of Los Lobos resides in their innate ability to find the redemptive power of music, no matter the style they choose to play” (All About Jazz). In this unplugged show, essential Los Lobos tunes bookend their performance of La Pistola y El Corazón. “For four decades Los Lobos have been exploring the artistic possibilities of American biculturalism, moving back and forth between their Chicano roots and their love of American rock” (Rolling Stone).

“Overflowing with brilliance” (AllMusic), Coleman’s Science Fiction is distinguished by its inventive combination of melodic beauty and avant-garde openness, enhanced by overdubs, vocals, and a sonic production unlike any other jazz recording in existence. The album has long been a touchstone for The Bad Plus: it is, for them, “the apotheosis of freedom and precision in improvised music.” At Baldwin Auditorium, they pay homage by boldly interpreting Science Fiction song-for-song, front-to-back, with help from an esteemed horn section of fine improvisers including Ron Miles, trumpet; Tim Berne, alto saxophone; and Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone.

A co-presentation of Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre of Durham.

$10 D U K E S T U D E N T T I C K E T S

Duke Performances offers Duke students — both undergraduate and graduate — tickets to any event for just $10. Limit of two $10 tickets per student for each presentation. Quantities of available $10 tickets may be limited. Duke student ID required at time of purchase. 2014 | 2015

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CHAMBER ARTS SERIES

VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES

P I A N O R E C I TA L S E R I E S

B E L C E A Q UA R T E T

VOX LUMINIS

YEFIM BRONFMAN

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PIANO

S A T U R D A Y , O C T O B E R 25 | 8 P M BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

T H U R S D A Y , O C T O B E R 30 | 8 P M DUKE CHAPEL

Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $36 • $20 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission With Limited Reserved Seating

Romanian violinist Corina Belcea founded her quartet while still a student at the Royal College of Music in London. Twenty years on, the Belcea still play like a “young quartet, seizing the music’s energy, shocking us out of our seats with every fortissimo” (Guardian). The Belcea return to Durham with Mozart’s last quartet, No. 23, which Alfred Einstein noted “seems to mingle the bliss and sorrow of a farewell to life.” From this classical beginning, the Belcea turn to the early romantic “Rosamunde” Quartet of Schubert, written during the turmoil of the composer’s final illness. The evening culminates in Brahms’ lush and romantic op. 51, no. 1, the first quartet he was willing to publish after destroying his first twenty attempts. PROGRAM:

Mozart: String Quartet No. 23 in F Major, K. 590 (“Prussian”) Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804 (“Rosamunde”) Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, op. 51, no. 1

Founded ten years ago, the young Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis have quickly earned a reputation among choral music aficionados for their fervent dedication to renaissance and baroque repertoire, their exquisite tuning and blend, and their clarity of sound. In 2012, the ensemble won Gramophone Recording of the Year for their release of Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien, a masterwork of 17th-century polyphony. Schütz’s requiem forms half of Vox Luminis’ program in the contemplative and soaring setting of Duke Chapel. The evening’s second part is a rare opportunity to hear the motets of the extended Bach clan. J.S. Bach himself curated the work of his uncles, and in Vox Luminis’ interpretation of this brilliant family’s compositions, their sound is “warm and resonant — they sing this 300-year-old music with the freshness and ardor of true believers” (The Independent). PROGRAM:

Heinrich Schütz: Musikalische Exequien, op. 7, SWV 279-281, followed by seven motets by members of the extended Bach family.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 | 7 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

The commanding GRAMMY-winning pianist Yefim Bronfman displays his gifts on the world’s biggest stages as a first-call concerto player with such illustrious conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, and EsaPekka Salonen. As a solo performer, his playing is distinguished by exceptional grace, with “brawny fingers seeming somehow to barely brush the keys, as though there were nothing to it” (Los Angeles Times). Bronfman’s formidable program takes us from Haydn’s playful Sonata No. 60 in C Major to early Brahms, the bold and expansive Sonata No. 3 in F Minor. The evening’s highlight is undoubtedly Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 6 in A Major, the first of the composer’s three War Sonatas, which passes from flowing lyricism to dramatic fury. PROGRAM:

Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI:50 Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, op. 5 Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Major, op. 82

For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org

CHAMBER ARTS SERIES

Subscribe to the Chamber Arts Series — Takács Quartet, Belcea Quartet, Horszowski Trio, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Calefax Reed Quintet, Jerusalem Quartet, Elias String Quartet, Artemis Quartet — and get tickets to all eight concerts for $180. 2014 | 2015

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ALLEN TOUSSAINT

C O M PA N H I A U R B A N A DE DANÇA

P R E S E R VAT I O N H A L L JAZZ BAND

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 | 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM

Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $55 • $50 • $45 $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Virtuosic dancers from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro fuse hip-hop, samba, capoeira, and contemporary dance in the boldly imaginative choreography of Sonia Destri Lie’s Companhia Urbana de Dança, one of the most exciting new ensembles on the world stage. “The seven young men and one woman in this Brazilian hiphop group are almost shocking in their individuality and physicality” (Dance Magazine).

In a meeting of New Orleans’ bestknown musical treasures, R&B legend Allen Toussaint joins with traditional jazz giants the Preservation Hall Jazz Band as the Cresent City holds sway at the Carolina Theatre. Toussaint is one of the most influential figures in contemporary New Orleans music, a renowned songwriter and producer who is celebrated for his deft touch and funky feel on the piano. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a multiple GRAMMY nominee, and, like Preservation Hall, a National Medal of Arts recipient.

Destri Lie deconstructs the thrilling kinetic expressions of street dance and shapes them into theatrical tableaux. “Classic hip-hop moves are visible — the rippling of arms, the rolling on backs — yet they have been stretched and shaped into something new” (New York Times). Companhia Urbana de Dança elicit a sense of euphoria wherever they perform; the San Francisco Chronicle raved that “this troupe from Brazil is an absolute marvel of gritty physical energy.”

The ebullient Preservation Hall Jazz Band have kept traditional jazz alive in the French Quarter for a half-century. At the band’s 50th anniversary celebration at Carnegie Hall, audiences reveled in “the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time” (New York Times). When these musical institutions come together in downtown Durham, expect a deep dive into New Orleans’ vibrant musical heritage. A co-presentation of Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre of Durham.

15% D U K E E M P L OY E E D I S C O U N T

All 35,000 of Duke’s employees are entitled to 15% off tickets to nearly every Duke Performances show, all season long. Limit of two discounted employee tickets for each presentation. Duke employee ID required at time of purchase. 2014 | 2015

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YM U S I C & S A M G R E E N THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS

HORSZOWSKI TRIO O O O

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

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Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER Tickets: $15 • $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

A vital young New York ensemble, the Horszowski Trio was founded in 2011, whereupon the New Yorker declared it “destined for great things.” Named for legendary teacher Mieczysław Horszowski, under whom pianist Rieko Aizawa studied as the master’s last pupil, the Trio have been praised for their “big, bold, dug-in tone” (Los Angeles Times).

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green collaborates with new music sextet yMusic on The Measure of All Things, a film/music project loosely inspired by The Guinness Book of World Records. The Measure of All Things, which premiered in 2014 at the Sundance Film Festival, is a meditation on fate, time, and the outer contours of the human experience.

The Horszowski guide us on an internal spiritual journey, which opens with the reverie of Haydn’s Trio in C Major, and then turns to the elegiac For Daniel, written by contemporary American composer Joan Tower upon the death of her young nephew. The pain of loss becomes a struggle for resolution with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor.

The performance weaves together a series of portraits of record-holding people, places, and things, including the tallest man (7 feet 9 inches); the oldest living thing (a 5,000-year-old Bristlecone pine); the man struck by lightning the most times (seven!); and the oldest living person (116), among other record holders. Drawing inspiration equally from old travelogues, the Japanese Benshi tradition, and TED talks, The Measure of All Things features Green’s disarming inperson narration and yMusic’s dynamic live soundtrack.

PROGRAM:

Haydn: Piano Trio in C Major, Hob. XV:21 Joan Tower: For Daniel

Made possible, in part, with support from the Department of Music at Duke University and the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, Duke.

Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, op. 50

2014/2015 E N S E M B L E I N R ES I D E N C E AT D U K E P H.D. P R O G R A M I N MU S I C COM P O S I T I O N O O O

YM U S I C DUKE PH.D. COMPOSER CONCERT

F E AT U R I N G H I D E A K I A O M O R I , C L A R I N E T; C J C A M E R I E R I , F R E N C H H O R N & T R U M P E T; C L A R I C E J E N S E N, C E L LO; R O B MO O S E, V I O L I N & G U I TA R; N A D I A S I R OTA, V I O L A; A L E X S O P P, F LU T E & P I C C O LO O O O

MONDAY, MARCH 2 | 8 PM MOTORCO MUSIC HALL Tickets: $18 • $15 Age 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students | General Admission

Culminating a second year of residency with Duke’s Ph.D. program in Music Composition, yMusic play a concert of world premiere pieces at the casual and intimate Motorco Music Hall. 2014 | 2015

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DIEGO EL CIGALA

WILLIAM TYLER C O R D U R OY R O A D S

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 | 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 | 8 PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 | 8 PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 | 8 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 | 7 PM THE SHADOWBOX

Tickets: $50 • $45 • $40 $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

With a husky, passionate lyricism honed in the cafés cantantes of Madrid, Diego El Cigala has become an international sensation — the world’s greatest living flamenco singer. His catalog includes a triumphant million-selling collaboration with Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés; more recently, the three-time GRAMMY winner and Deutsche Grammophon artist recorded Tango & Cigala, an “electrifying” tango record filled “with passion, fierceness, searing toughness, and a disarming directness” (Guardian).

Tickets: $24 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission

Duke Performances has commissioned the exceptional solo guitarist William Tyler — who occupies the musical intersection of John Fahey and Bill Frisell — to make a new performance that reflects on the lingering legacy of the Civil War. In the piece, Corduroy Roads, Tyler creates a soundtrack to accompany extraordinary photographs of the Civil War taken by George Barnard and Alexander Gardner, 150-year-old artifacts that have recently been acquired by Duke University Libraries. Tyler’s piece offers a contemporary narrative on the distant past, as Barnard and Gardner’s photographs are joined with images of the South through the Great Depression and into the present day.

“Flamenco has to be suffered. If there is no evidence of pain in your heart, there is no song.” (El Cigala) Paco de Lucia described El Cigala as possessing “one of the most beautiful flamenco voices of our time, a voice of sweetness that flows over everything.” Join us at the Carolina Theatre for this rare Durham presentation of flamenco royalty.

Corduroy Roads will be performed for an intimate audience at the new Shadowbox in Durham’s Golden Belt District. Join us for the premiere of this important new project by Tyler, whose debut solo release Behold the Spirit was lauded by Pitchfork as “the most vital, energized album by an American solo guitarist in a decade or more.”

A co-presentation of Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre of Durham.

Made possible, in part, with support from the Archive of Documentary Arts at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University.

$15 T I C K E T S F O R PAT R O N S A G E S 30 & U N D E R

Duke Performances offers patrons ages 30 and under tickets to nearly any event for just $15. Limit of two $15 tickets per patron for each presentation. Quantities of available $15 tickets may be restricted. ID required at time of purchase. 2014 | 2015

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PA B L O Z I E G L E R Q UA R T E T O O O

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Pablo Ziegler began his career as a pianist with Ástor Piazzolla, the world’s foremost composer of tango music. In the four decades since that auspicious musical apprenticeship, Ziegler has further enriched Piazzolla’s nuevo tango, infusing fresh melodic structures, jazz improvisation, and contrapuntal harmonies into music that originated in the clubs of Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

“Straight from the beating, bleeding heart of nuevo tango, with its mix of swagger and sweetness.” (Guardian) Ziegler brings his superb quartet — featuring piano, bandoneón, cello, and bass — to the elegant confines of Baldwin. In Durham, Ziegler demonstrates the musical ease of a natural-born tanguero: “he is cool, understated, and makes everything look easy and natural … just as a really suave tango dancer seems not to move with feet but on wheels, Ziegler skates the keyboard” (Los Angeles Times).

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B R A D M E H L D AU TRIO

VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES

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N E W YO R K P O LY P H O N Y

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T H U R S D A Y , D E C E M B E R 11 | 8 P M BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

“Universally admired as one of the most adventurous pianists to arrive on the jazz scene in years” (Los Angeles Times), Brad Mehldau has spent the last two decades extending and refining the possibilities of the piano trio. Mehldau takes center stage at Baldwin Auditorium with longtime trio partners Larry Grenadier, bass and Jeff Ballard, drums.

GRAMMY-nominated vocal quartet New York Polyphony perform their holiday program, Wondrous Birth, O Wondrous Child, a reverent meditation on the Christmas season at the acoustically resonant Baldwin Auditorium. Praised for a “rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts” (NPR), New York Polyphony is regarded as one of the finest vocal chamber ensembles in the world. The quartet applies a distinctly modern approach to repertoire ranging from austere medieval melodies to cutting-edge contemporary compositions.

Stanford University ensemble-inresidence St. Lawrence String Quartet return to Duke Performances with their trademark combination of incisive playing and “irresistible exuberance” (Boston Globe). This quartet is “remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection” (New Yorker).

“Mehldau’s inventive powers are fresh as ever … and the interplay with Ballard and Grenadier is masterly.” (Daily Telegraph) Whether playing his own exceptional compositions, Thelonious Monk classics, American Songbook standards, or more contemporary tunes, Mehldau has a gift for emotionally arching improvisations replete with extraordinary harmonic and rhythmic acuity. His most recent Nonesuch Records release, Ode, is a sparkling collection of original compositions “by the most influential jazz pianist of the last 20 years” (New York Times).

The inspired program for this holiday concert spans nine centuries, from Victoria’s O Magnum Mysterium and early carols to newer music that includes a composition by New York Polyphony’s countertenor Geoffrey Williams, and a commission from composer Andrew Smith. Throughout the concert, expect New York Polyphony to sing with nothing less than “intelligence, subtlety, and consummate artistry” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). PROGRAM:

New York Polyphony’s program includes Advent and Christmas music for four voices, from medieval carols and motets to contemporary music inspired by ancient melodies. For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org

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The evening opens with Haydn’s “Joke” quartet, a surprise-filled work that turns audience expectations upside down. This is followed by the third quartet of Erich Korngold, a composer who fled Nazi tyranny for Hollywood in 1938. After writing a series of successful film scores, Korngold fell silent until the waning days of the war, when he wrote this dazzling composition. The program ends with Bartók’s fourth quartet, inspired by Hungarian folk music, but also conveying a modern sound that employs muted strings, pizzicati, and glissandi. PROGRAM:

Haydn: String Quartet No. 30 in E-flat Major, op. 33, no. 2 (“Joke”) Erich Korngold: String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, op. 34 Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, Sz. 91

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SEASON CALENDAR

THE CAMPBELL BROTHERS JOHN COLTRANE’S A LOVE SUPREME Friday, September 5 Hayti Heritage Center

AU G U S T ’1 4 SU

S E P T E M B E R ’ 14 SU

N O V E M B E R ’ 14 SU

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D E C E M B E R ’ 14 SU

VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ Saturday, September 13 Reynolds Industries Theater CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 1 FEAT. AWADAGIN PRATT, PIANO Saturday, September 20 Baldwin Auditorium RUDE MECHANICALS NOW NOW OH NOW Wednesday, September 24 through Saturday, September 27 Brody Theater ANONYMOUS 4 Saturday, September 27 Baldwin Auditorium

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PAT METHENY UNITY GROUP Saturday, August 9 Carolina Theatre of Durham

TOUMANI & SIDIKI DIABATÉ Thursday, October 2 Reynolds Industries Theater

VOX LUMINIS Thursday, October 30 Duke Chapel

N O V E M B E R ’14 CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 2 FEAT. AMERNET STRING QUARTET Saturday, November 1 Baldwin Auditorium YEFIM BRONFMAN, PIANO Sunday, November 2 Baldwin Auditorium ALLEN TOUSSAINT & PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND Thursday, November 6 Carolina Theatre of Durham COMPANHIA URBANA DE DANÇA Friday, November 7 & Saturday, November 8 Reynolds Industries Theater HORSZOWSKI TRIO Saturday, November 8 Baldwin Auditorium YMUSIC & SAM GREEN THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS Saturday, November 15 Reynolds Industries Theater DIEGO EL CIGALA Thursday, November 20 Carolina Theatre of Durham

TAKÁCS QUARTET FEAT. ERIKA ECKERT, VIOLA Saturday, October 4 Baldwin Auditorium

WILLIAM TYLER CORDUROY ROADS Thursday, November 20 through Sunday, November 23 The Shadowbox

RIZWAN-MUAZZAM QAWWALI Thursday, October 9 Reynolds Industries Theater

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RICHARD GOODE, PIANO Friday, October 10 Baldwin Auditorium THE BAD PLUS ORNETTE COLEMAN’S SCIENCE FICTION Saturday, October 18 Baldwin Auditorium LOS LOBOS LA PISTOLA Y EL CORAZÓN Friday, October 24 Carolina Theatre of Durham BELCEA QUARTET Saturday, October 25 Baldwin Auditorium

PABLO ZIEGLER QUARTET Saturday, December 6 Baldwin Auditorium BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO Thursday, December 11 Baldwin Auditorium NEW YORK POLYPHONY Friday, December 12 Baldwin Auditorium ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET Saturday, December 13 Baldwin Auditorium

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DAVID LANG & I.C.E. THE WHISPER OPERA Friday, January 16 & Saturday, January 17 Reynolds Industries Theater

YMUSIC DUKE PH.D. COMPOSERS Monday, March 2 Motorco Music Hall

LILA DOWNS Saturday, May 2 Carolina Theatre of Durham

I.C.E. CHAMBER CONCERT Sunday, January 18 Nelson Music Room

VLADIMIR FELTSMAN Friday, March 6 Baldwin Auditorium

NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE SONGS OF LOVE & LONGING Thursday, January 22 Reynolds Industries Theater JEREMY DENK, PIANO Friday, January 23 Baldwin Auditorium CALEFAX REED QUINTET Saturday, January 24 Baldwin Auditorium BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET Friday, January 30 & Saturday, January 31 Baldwin Auditorium

F E B R UA R Y ’ 1 5 JORDI SAVALL, VIOL Sunday, February 1 Baldwin Auditorium CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 3 FEAT. NICHOLAS KITCHEN, VIOLIN & YEESUN KIM, CELLO Saturday, February 7 Baldwin Auditorium KURT ELLING Friday, February 13 Baldwin Auditorium JERUSALEM QUARTET Saturday, February 14 Baldwin Auditorium RONALD K. BROWN/EVIDENCE & JASON MORAN & THE BANDWAGON THE SUBTLE ONE Friday February 20 & Saturday, February 21 Reynolds Industries Theater STILE ANTICO Saturday, February 21 Duke Chapel ANTHONY BRAXTON DIAMOND CURTAIN WALL QUINTET Friday, February 27 Baldwin Auditorium

JD SOUTHER & CARRIE RODRIGUEZ Saturday, March 7 Baldwin Auditorium JENNY SCHEINMAN & H LEE WATERS KANNAPOLIS: A MOVING PORTRAIT Friday, March 20 Reynolds Industries Theater ELIAS STRING QUARTET FEAT. BENJAMIN HOCHMAN, PIANO Saturday, March 21 Baldwin Auditorium ARI PICKER LION & THE LAMB Friday, March 27 & Saturday, March 28 Nelson Music Room

A P R I L ’15 ROKIA TRAORÉ Wednesday, April 1 Reynolds Industries Theater PAUL LEWIS Friday, April 3 Baldwin Auditorium CASSANDRA WILSON Saturday, April 4 Carolina Theatre of Durham ALICE RUSSELL Friday, April 10 Reynolds Industries Theater CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 4 FEAT. ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO, COUNTERTENOR Saturday, April 11 Baldwin Auditorium

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I FAGIOLINI Friday, April 24 Baldwin Auditorium

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ARTEMIS QUARTET Friday, April 17 Baldwin Auditorium A.C.M.E. CHAMBER MUSIC OF CAROLINE SHAW Saturday, April 18 Motorco Music Hall

M AY ’15 SU

DUKE PERFORMANCES

THE WHISPER OPERA

N R I T YA G R A M DANCE ENSEMBLE S O N G S O F L OV E & LONGING

B Y D AV I D L A N G P E R FO R M E D BY I.C.E. I N T E R N AT I O N A L CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE D I R E C T E D & D E S I G N E D B Y J I M F I N D L AY O O O

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F R I D A Y , J A N U A R Y 16 & S A T U R D A Y , J A N U A R Y 17 | 7 P M & 9 P M REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

Tickets: $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission

Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

I.C.E. International Contemporary Ensemble — “bracing, illuminating, reassuring” (Financial Times) — perform The Whisper Opera, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang’s compelling new work of lyric theater, for an audience of just fifty-two people per show at Duke Performances. The piece premiered at MCA Chicago and the Mostly Mozart Festival, where the New York Times praised the work’s “contemplative allure … which comes from its pervasive softness, stillness, intimacy.”

Surupa Sen (choreographer/dancer) and Bijayini Satpathy (dancer), the magnificent duo from South India’s Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, perform a special program of solos and duets inspired by the epic Indian poem the Gita Govinda at Duke Performances. This dance performance — accompanied by a musical ensemble featuring voice, harmonium, mardala, violin, and bansuri — recounts the love between the immortal Krishna and the human Radha described in the 12th-century ballad.

This one-of-a-kind work is performed with the musicians, singer, and audience enclosed in an intimate onstage set at Reynolds Theater. Scored for soprano, flute, clarinet, percussion, and cello, the libretto of The Whisper Opera is performed almost entirely in whispers, audible thanks to director Jim Findlay’s innovative design. As he developed the work, David Lang wondered: “what if a piece were so quiet and so personal to the performers that you needed to be right next them or you would hear almost nothing? A piece like this would have to be experienced live. The only way this piece can be received is if you are there, listening very very closely.”

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, based in an intentional community near Bangalore, is regarded as India’s foremost dance company, and the leading exemplar of the classical dance form Odissi. Calling their New York debut “one of the most luminous dance events of the year,” the New York Times marveled as the company “performed with a burnished grace, a selfless concentration, and a depth that reflected their intensive training.” Although dedicated to an ancient practice, Nrityagram is also committed to carrying Indian dance into the twenty-first century by making new choreography and collaborating with contemporary Indian musicians.

I .C . E I N T E R N AT I O N A L C O N T E M P O R A R Y E N S E M B L E CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT F E AT U R I N G TO N Y A R N O L D S, S O P R A N O; K I V I E C A H N-L I PM A N, C E L LO; CLAIRE CHASE, FLUTE; ROSS KARRE, PERCUSSION; JOSHUA RUBIN, CLARINET O O O

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 | 7 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM Tickets: $18 • $15 Age 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students | General Admission

Following their presentation of The Whisper Opera at Reynolds Theater, I.C.E. play a concert of contemporary chamber music in the round at the intimate Nelson Music Room. 2014 | 2015

DUKE PERFORMANCES

P I A N O R E C I TA L S E R I E S

CHAMBER ARTS SERIES

C A L E FA X R E E D QUINTET

BRANFORD MARSALIS Q UA R T E T

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F R I D A Y , J A N U A R Y 23 | 8 P M BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

F R I D A Y , J A N U A R Y 30 & S A T U R D A Y , J A N U A R Y 31 | 8 P M BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Durham-born pianist Jeremy Denk, a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and winner of the 2014 Avery Fisher Prize, has steadily built a reputation as a refined and compelling artist with a broad and thought-provoking repertoire. In addition, Denk has achieved increasing recognition for his original and insightful writing on classical music, which The New Yorker critic Alex Ross praises for its “arresting sensitivity and wit.”

The Calefax Reed Quintet, a unique reed ensemble from Amsterdam, has distinguished itself with its imaginative transcriptions that reach back to the Middle Ages, its “spectacular sound that draws in the audience” (El País), and its lively unseated performances.

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“Once you’ve entered the Denkian dimension, you won’t want to leave.” (NPR) Denk’s return to Duke Performances will feature solo piano works by the triumvirate of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Specific pieces and program order will be announced nearer to the concert. The lack of program should not dissuade you from purchasing early, as the New York Times notes: “Mr. Denk, clearly, is a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs, in whatever combination — both for his penetrating intellectual engagement with the music and for the generosity of his playing.” PROGRAM:

Spanning 400 years, the program begins with a transcription of J.S. Bach’s Prelude & Fugue in E-flat Major from The Well Tempered Clavier. The ensemble reaches back to the 15th-century for the lamentations of Johannes Ockeghem’s motetchanson Mort tu as navré, and then offers the 16th-century consort music of Christopher Tye, which once reverberated in the courts of Elizabethan England. The shimmering Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue of César Franck is followed by selections from Shostakovich’s Preludes & Fugues, the Russian composer’s tribute to J.S. Bach. PROGRAM:

J.S. Bach: Prelude & Fugue No. 7 in E-flat Major, from The WellTempered Clavier Book II, BWV 876 Ockeghem: Mort tu as navré

Program to include Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven as part of Jeremy Denk’s upcoming project The Classical Style.

Christopher Tye: Consort Music

For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org

Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87 (selections)

César Franck: Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue

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Tickets: $58 • $48 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Jazz titan Branford Marsalis is a GRAMMY winning saxophonist, composer, and bandleader; a record label owner responsible for some of the most electrifying jazz of the last decade; and the eldest child in a New Orleans family legendary for its dedication to jazz. A longtime Durham resident, Marsalis returns to Duke Performances with his quartet for a two-night stand at Baldwin Auditorium.

“One of the most imposing saxophonists in jazz, the comprehensive nature of his virtuosity matched by the substantive quality of his tunes.” (Chicago Tribune) Profoundly influenced by his early mentor, the renowned drummer Art Blakey, Marsalis went on to record with such luminaries as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins. His quartet recently released Four MFs Playin’ Tunes, an album praised as “a knockout: hard-nosed and hyperacute, tradition-minded but modern” (New York Times). Marsalis will be joined by his critically lauded combo, which includes fellow Durham resident Joey Calderazzo, piano; Eric Revis, bass; and Justin Faulkner, drums.

DUKE PERFORMANCES

J O R D I S AVA L L VIOL O O O

KURT ELLING PA S S I O N W O R L D O O O

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 | 7 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Jordi Savall, one of the world’s most illustrious performers of early music, is famed for the depth of feeling and exquisite technique he brings to the seven-string bass viol, the cello-like renaissance instrument that mirrors the human voice. Savall plays a special solo program at Duke’s acoustically flawless Baldwin Auditorium, an ideal fit for the musician about whom the Guardian raved: “the finesse of his almost whispered tone creates a dazzling intimacy.” Composers who were also viol virtuosos wrote some of the outstanding music of the baroque era. Savall’s Duke Performances program features two such dazzling composers, Marin Marais and Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, and also encompasses a more commonly known master of the baroque, J.S. Bach. Come and hear a rare solo concert by this exceptional artist whose musical career the New York Times described as “not simply a matter of revival, but of imaginative reanimation.” PROGRAM:

The exceptional jazz vocalist Kurt Elling comes to Baldwin Auditorium on Valentine’s weekend with selections from his forthcoming album Passion World; commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center, this cosmopolitan project features ballads of love and loss from across the globe. The Washington Post offered the intrepid Elling this high praise: “since the mid-90s, no singer in jazz has been as daring, dynamic, or interesting. With his soaring vocal flights, his edgy lyrics and sense of being on a musical mission, he has come to embody the creative spirit in jazz.” Elling has won every DownBeat Critics Poll for Male Vocalist over the last fourteen years and has been named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association eight times in that same span. Every one of Elling’s ten albums has been nominated for a GRAMMY. Elling’s rich baritone spans four octaves providing a vehicle for astonishing technical mastery and emotional depth. His repertoire includes original compositions and modern interpretations of standards, all of which are springboards for inspired improvisation, vocalese, and poetry.

Jordi Savall’s solo program for viol highlights two masters of the French baroque, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais.

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J E R U S A L E M Q UA R T E T O O O

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

The Jerusalem Quartet, enthusiastically received at Duke Performances in 2012, return to Durham with their unique combination of confident energy and exquisite sensitivity. The New York Times hailed the Jerusalem for playing with “passion and a tender sense of ownership.” The program opens with Haydn’s op. 74, no. 3, a quartet filled with surprises; it is known as the “Rider” for the galloping theme of its final movement. Czech modernist composer Erwin Schulhoff, whose charming Five Pieces for String Quartet draws on a range of dance forms, was one of the first classical composers influenced by jazz and popular dance music. Well known in his day, Schulhoff perished in the Holocaust, and only recently has his work been revived. The concert concludes with Schubert’s anguished masterpiece, “Death and the Maiden.” PROGRAM:

Haydn: String Quartet in G Minor, op. 74, no. 3 (“Rider”) Erwin Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 (“Death and the Maiden”)

For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org

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DUKE PERFORMANCES

R O N A L D K . B R O W N / E V I D E N C E D A N C E C O M PA N Y & J A S O N M O R A N & T H E B A N D WA G O N THE SUBTLE ONE O O O

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

In this new collaboration, commissioned and developed by Duke Performances, celebrated choreographer Ronald K. Brown and acclaimed pianist Jason Moran bring together their respective ensembles — Brown’s Evidence Dance Company and Moran’s Bandwagon jazz trio — for the world premiere with live music of The Subtle One. Set to a musical suite of the same name, this potent new work reflects on the spiritual presence of our ancestors and the profound impact they have on our daily lives. Hailed as a “modern-dance savior” by the New York Times, Brown fuses the form and rhythms of African dance with contemporary choreography. Brown finds an ideal collaborator in Jason Moran — a composer, bandleader, and 2010 MacArthur Fellow — whom the Los Angeles Times describes as “a startlingly gifted pianist with a relentless thirst for experimentation.” Evidence rounds out the evening’s premiere with work from Brown’s deep repertoire, including Poinciana, Bellows, and Free Spirit, all accompanied live by Moran and the Bandwagon. Made possible, in part, with a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council, and support from the Dance Program at Duke University.

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DUKE PERFORMANCES

VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES

STILE ANTICO O O O

S A TURDA Y, FEBRU A RY 21 | 8 P M DUKE CHAPEL Tickets: $36 • $20 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission with Limited Reserved Seating

Stile Antico, a superb twelve-voice British chamber choir, return to Duke Chapel for a candlelit concert, In Pace: Music for Compline. Hailed for their masterful interpretations of renaissance and baroque choral music, they are winners of a Gramophone Award and a Diapason d’Or for their recordings on Harmonia Mundi. The performances of this exceptional ensemble have been praised for their liveliness, expressive lucidity, and imaginative response to text. The New York Times called them “an ensemble of breathtaking freshness, vitality, and balance.” The program features intimate and uplifting works, all written for the late-evening Compline service, by three generations of English Catholic composers. The performance leads the listener from John Sheppard to Thomas Tallis and Tallis’ musical heir, William Byrd. “Stile Antico’s expressivity is inseparable from its technical achievement, such that attention is always drawn to the music’s ingenious intricacies, its startling richness, its sharp-turn surprises” (Boston Globe). PROGRAM:

Stile Antico’s program centers on the sublime choral music of Tudor England, including works by John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd. For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org

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ANTHONY BRAXTON D I A M O N D C U R TA I N WA L L Q U I N T E T

V L A D I M I R F E LT S M A N

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FRIDAY, MARCH 6 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

For more than four decades, the legendary multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Braxton has been a sonic innovator. With his Diamond Curtain Wall Quintet, the 1994 MacArthur Fellow and 2014 NEA Jazz Master combines intuitive improvisation with interactive electronics. The musicians in the ensemble react both to the evocative graphic notation of Braxton’s Falling River Music and to the unique and responsive electronic patches the composer designed using SuperCollider programming software.

“I’m an African-American, and I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: it’s in between these areas.” (Anthony Braxton) In a program not for the faint of heart, Braxton will be joined for this concert by an ensemble of celebrated avant-garde musicians: Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet; Mary Halvorson, electric guitar; Ingrid Laubrock, saxophone; and Andrew Raffo Dewar, saxophones and clarinet. “Braxton’s music is made of wonder,” Jazz Times wrote of a recent Kennedy Center showcase. “Digital timbres rippled and blended with the players’ restlessly held long tones; for a while, the music was full of migrating nodes, slippery tension, and cinematic beauty.”

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Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Virtuoso pianist Vladimir Feltsman was banned from performing in his native Russia for eight years after he tried defecting in 1979, but he has made up for this long period of silence since immigrating to the United States three decades ago. Feltsman sets a formidable standard with his vast repertoire, “an effortless yet Herculean technique, and an even more formidable ability to stretch a piece to its stylistic limits and beyond” (San Diego Union-Tribune). Feltsman opens with the Haydn Piano Sonata No. 31, an impeccablycrafted showpiece containing one of the composer’s finest Adagios. Schubert’s first completed sonata, D. 537, anticipates Liszt with its extreme contrasts of serenity and storminess. The high point of the evening comes with two grand works by Liszt. The Ballade No. 2 is amongst Liszt’s finest works and contains a beautiful, quasioperatic love theme. Liszt’s Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude evokes the transcendence of love over death. The evening closes with Scriabin’s Vers la Flamme, a masterful work in which the mystical composer evokes a fiery apocalypse. PROGRAM:

Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Hob. XVI:46 Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, D. 537 Liszt: Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171 Liszt: “Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude” from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173 Scriabin: Vers la Flamme, op. 72

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DUKE PERFORMANCES

J.D. SOUTHER & C A RR I E R O DR IGU EZ O O O

SATURDAY, MARCH 7 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

J.D. Souther and Carrie Rodriguez — a celebrated pair of Texas-born singer/songwriters — share a double-bill at Baldwin Auditorium. A principal architect of the Laurel Canyon sound, the Amarillo-reared Souther produced era-defining classics for Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, and The Eagles. In addition, Souther put out a series of celebrated solo records in the late ’70s before going on a lengthy hiatus from the record business. Now based in Nashville, he returned to making records in 2008; JazzTimes described his new material as “whipsmart, adventurous, seductive, and shot through with the sublime longing that characterizes Souther’s finest work. And his voice — one of the most plaintive and soulful in rock ’n’ roll — has never sounded so immediate and so powerful.” Born and bred in Austin and schooled at Berklee, Carrie Rodriguez — a songwriter, singer, and fiddle player — has emerged as one of the most compelling new voices in American roots music. “Hailed by Lucinda Williams, recruited by Alejandro Escovedo, and nurtured by Lyle Lovett” (Boston Globe), Rodriguez — the daughter of a fine Texas songwriter — keeps good company. She has recorded eight exceptional records in as many years, prompting The New Yorker to write, “Rodriguez creates beautiful music that is always slyly smart, which in turn makes it more beautiful.” These two superb musicians, who first collaborated in 2012 at the Aspen Songwriters Festival, come together again at Duke Performances.

JENNY SCHEINMAN & H . L E E WAT E R S KANNAPOLIS: A M OV I N G P O R T R A I T O O O

FRIDAY, MARCH 20 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Duke Performances has commissioned Jenny Scheinman, an acclaimed composer, singer, and violinist, to make an original live score set to 70-year-old archival footage taken by the late North Carolina filmmaker H. Lee Waters. Scheinman and a trio of top-flight musicians will create a soundtrack of new folksongs, fiddle music, and field sounds to accompany Waters’ fascinating footage of the Piedmont in the early ’40s. “Scheinman [has] a distinctive vision of American music, suffused with plainspoken beauty and fortified all at once by country, gospel, and melting-pot folk, along with jazz and the blues” (New York Times). During the ’30s and ’40s, H. Lee Waters made more than 200 films capturing life in the Piedmont, which he called Movies of Local People. The full slate of Waters’ movies — the only such collection from an itinerant American filmmaker of the era — are now housed at Duke’s Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Scheinman, who recently recorded The Littlest Prisoner for Sony Masterworks with Bill Frisell and Brian Blade, employs her formidable musical ingenuity to make a stirring new presentation drawing from this rich artifact of American cinema. Made possible, in part, with support from New Music USA; a Visiting Artist Grant from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University; and the Archive of Documentary Arts at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University. 2014 | 2015

CHAMBER ARTS SERIES

ELIAS STRING Q UA R T E T

WITH BENJAMIN HOCHMAN, PIANO O O O

SATURDAY, MARCH 21 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Formed at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music and nurtured in Cologne, Germany, the Elias String Quartet has attracted notice for playing with “a beautiful sound, burnished yet translucent” (Sunday Times). Joining the Elias is pianist Benjamin Hochman, whose playing has been called “lucid, with patrician authority and touches of elegant wit” (Vancouver Sun). The opening work is Mozart’s best-known string quartet, called the “Dissonance” for its bold departure from the standard rules of harmony. At the program’s center is Benjamin Britten’s third and last quartet, a deathbed farewell in which the composer echoes the themes of his gripping opera Death in Venice. Hochman joins the Elias for Schumann’s Piano Quintet, op. 44, the composer’s finest chamber work and a favorite of the romantic repertoire. PROGRAM:

Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 (“Dissonance”) Britten: String Quartet No. 3, op. 94 Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, op. 44

DUKE PERFORMANCES

P I A N O R E C I TA L S E R I E S

ARI PICKER OF LOST IN THE TREES LION AND THE LAMB

ROKIA TRAORÉ B E AU T I F U L A F R I C A

PAU L L E W I S

O O O

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

FRIDAY, APRIL 3 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

The extraordinary Malian musician Rokia Traoré spent nearly two decades creating a sound that is utterly contemporary yet deeply rooted in her West African homeland. As the daughter of a Malian diplomat, the musician grew up traveling the globe, rapidly absorbing cultures as the family moved from Belgium to France to Algeria to Saudi Arabia. “Traoré is indeed a remarkable artist — it is difficult to think of anyone else who can switch from ancient Malian culture to African rock and roll” (Guardian).

English pianist Paul Lewis, a protégé of Alfred Brendel, has devoted much of his career to the music of Beethoven. His award-winning recordings of the complete Beethoven sonatas on Harmonia Mundi were praised as “an unmissable benchmark” by the Guardian; the New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini went further still: “There are many prized recordings of the Beethoven sonatas from past masters and current artists. But if I had to recommend a single complete set, I would suggest Mr. Lewis’s distinguished recordings.”

F R I D A Y , M A R C H 27 & S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 28 | 8 P M NELSON MUSIC ROOM Tickets: $28 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission

Ari Picker is best known as the front man for the acclaimed orchestral indie rock band Lost in the Trees, but the Chapel Hill native also distinguished himself studying composition at Berklee School of Music. The Huffington Post enthused, “Ari Picker has Nick Drake speaking to him in one ear and Handel whispering in the other.” For Lion and the Lamb, a Duke Performances commission, Picker assembles a superb local ensemble of both indie rock and classical musicians for a new work inspired by Book of Hours, Rainer Maria Rilke’s early masterpiece of devotional poetry. Lion and the Lamb finds Picker expanding his compositional palette, drawing new inspiration from minimalism and jazz improvisation, while maintaining his knack for writing “extraordinary arrangements for strings and choral voices [that] find no precedent in rock and pop” (Wall Street Journal). For the world premiere of this piece — which will be performed in the round at the Nelson Music Room — Picker is joined by vocalist Phil Moore (Bowerbirds), saxophonist Jacob Rodriguez, pianist Adam Benjamin (Kneebody), percussionist Peter Lewis (Lost in the Trees), and the New Music Raleigh String Quartet.

“A singer-songwriter in the modern sense, embracing but also stretching centuries-old traditions.” (Chicago Tribune) Traoré’s most recent release on Nonesuch Records, Beautiful Africa, earned five stars from the Observer and Songlines, which raved: “Music from Africa really doesn’t get better than this ... exciting, surprising, and always perfectly executed.” The New York Times wrote: “Traoré has a gentle voice with a steely core, one that’s revealed more clearly than ever on Beautiful Africa.” However fine her recordings, Traoré is perhaps most celebrated for her live show, which Time Out London says is “arguably the most exciting, most thrilling live African music show around.” Made possible, in part, with support from the Duke Africa Initiative.

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PIANO

Lewis brings his signature vigor and authoritative command to Beethoven’s final three sonatas for piano, written at a time when the composer was extending the boundaries of classical style. The program begins with the passionate and melancholy No. 30 in E Major, op. 109. The central work, No. 31 in A Flat Major, op. 110, expresses the wide-ranging moods of a man losing his hearing. To close the program, Lewis plays No. 32 in C Minor, op. 111, in which Beethoven evokes a journey from darkness to celestial light. PROGRAM:

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, op. 109 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, op. 110 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, op. 111

DUKE PERFORMANCES

CASSANDRA WILSON COMING FORTH BY DAY: A C E L E B R AT I O N O F B I L L I E H O L I D AY O O O

SATURDAY, APRIL 4 | 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM Tickets: $65 • $55 • $45 $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Cassandra Wilson, perhaps the greatest living jazz singer, comes to the Carolina Theatre to offer a special tribute concert to Billie Holiday on the centennial of Lady Day’s birth. Wilson has the goods to honor Holiday: TIME magazine recognized her as “America’s best singer” and “the true heir of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.”

“I’ve been in love with Billie Holiday’s voice since the moment I heard it, and she has inspired me throughout my career.” (Cassandra Wilson) The New York Times noted approvingly that Wilson possesses “a contralto as rich and as supple as vintage leather,” with a distinctive “earthy majesty.” The BBC went further in describing her spectacular voice: “husky yet smooth, like sand mixed with honey, it’s sophisticated, wise, and sexy all at the same time, and seems to plug right in to the history of black American music.”

CHAMBER ARTS SERIES

ALICE RUSSELL

A R T E M I S Q UA R T E T

O O O

FRIDAY, APRIL 10 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

F R I D A Y , A P R I L 17 | 8 P M BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

From Dusty Springfield to Joss Stone, there is a glorious history of British R&B artists mastering the grit, swing, and swagger of American soul music. Alice Russell is the latest standard-bearer, with her languorous and intoxicating delivery, impeccable timing, and powerhouse stage show. “With due respect to fans of Amy Winehouse and Adele,” writes AllMusic, “songstress Alice Russell is the true blue-eyed soul queen from across the pond.”

The founding members of the Artemis Quartet developed their skills for a full ten years before offering their first concert. This dedication to excellence has not wavered, and their playing is known for its “apparently effortless grace and effervescent athleticism” (BBC). The Artemis return to Duke Performances for the third time.

“I freaking love Alice Russell!” (?uestlove) Over the course of five studio albums Russell has garnered favorable comparison to her idol Chaka Khan and has collaborated with David Byrne, Quantic, and The Roots. “Alice Russell’s career has been something of a slow burn — full of experimentation and lots of thrilling collaboration” (WNYC). Russell’s anthemic tune, “Breakdown,” was featured in the opening segment for season seven of AMC’s Mad Men, another breakout moment for this fast-rising musician.

The Artemis’ program opens with Dvor˘ák’s tribute to the American Midwest, evoking the composer’s experience of 19th-century pioneer life with a decidedly Czech accent. Shostakovich’s fifth quartet follows; played in three movements without pause, this spacious and elegiac quartet reflects the loss of one of the composer’s great loves. The first of Tchaikovsky’s string quartets, with a folk-song-based second movement that has become famous on its own, concludes the evening. PROGRAM:

Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, op. 96 (“American”) Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat Major, op. 92 Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, op. 11 (“Accordion”)

A co-presentation of Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre of Durham.

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A .C . M . E . A M E R I C A N CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE CHAMBER MUSIC O F C A R O L I N E S H AW O O O

S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 18 | 8 P M MOTORCO MUSIC HALL Tickets: $24 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission

A.C.M.E. American Contemporary Music Ensemble, “contemporary new music dynamos” (NPR), perform a program of chamber music by Caroline Shaw, 2013 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music. A composer, vocalist, violinist, violist, and NC native, Shaw was, at 30 years old, the youngest-ever winner of the Pulitzer for music; she performs as a member of A.C.M.E., as well as the new music vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth.

“An original blending of vernacular music, ancient music, and avantgarde techniques at once fascinating and moving.” (Steve Mackey on Caroline Shaw) The centerpiece of this special Duke Performances program is Shaw’s 30-minute Ritornello for string quartet, which is performed alongside a film made by the composer and inspired by architecture, memory, and the tale of Rip Van Winkle. Of Ritornello, Shaw says, “[it] evokes the notion of time folding in on itself, repeating and forgetting and unfolding again.” The program also includes Entr’acte, which Shaw wrote for the Brentano Quartet, as well By & By, which features settings and lyrics from old gospel tunes with vocals by Shaw.

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I FA G I O L I N I I N S A L ATA I FAG I O L I N I O O O

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

I Fagiolini, winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Ensemble Award, are a British vocal ensemble of six singers specializing in dynamic, historically informed performances of renaissance vocal music. Far from ‘stand and deliver’ performers, I Fagiolini invest their concerts with a theatrical style that seeks to capture the spirit of the music. With a program title that plays on the ensemble’s name and translates as “A Salad of Green Beans,” I Fagiolini present a meal fit for a king at Baldwin Auditorium, seasoned with the ensemble’s signature blend of dramatic skill and flawless technique. The program of madrigals, chansons, and ensaladas — songs with mixtures of languages and rhythms, written as entertainments for the Valencian court — had the Guardian raving, “bean salads rarely come as good as this … For all the humor, the program worked beautifully because of the deadly serious musicianship that is I Fagiolini’s gold standard.” PROGRAM:

I Fagiolini’s program is a feast of renaissance choral music from across Europe, ranging from lesserknown compositions by Cipriano de Rore to the masterworks of Monteverdi. For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org

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LILA DOWNS O O O

SATURDAY, MAY 2 | 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM Tickets: $50 • $45 • $40 $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating

The celebrated Mexican-American singer Lila Downs closes Duke Performances’ 2014/15 season with a special May concert at the Carolina Theatre. Renowned for her magnetic performances, Downs has created a singular exploration of Mexican roots music that engages the rich culture on both sides of the U.S./Mexican border. The ferocious sweep of Downs’ voice provides the foundation for her performance; as “she shifts from cumbia to norteño, jazz to balladry, Downs alternates the lower register of her voice with breezy, childlike murmurs and sustained, high-pitched bursts of passion” (New York Daily News).

“A Mexican-American Laurie Anderson, or Frida Kahlo if Frida were a musician instead of a painter.” (AllMusic) Born in Oaxaca and raised in Minnesota, the daughter of an American professor and a Mixtec cabaret singer, Downs came of age in both countries. With her passionate lyrics, charismatic exuberance, and a musical vocabulary that ranges from Celtic folk to brassy banda, this GRAMMY Award winner “has reinvigorated the place in Mexican music where popular and traditional sound collide” (Washington Post). A co-presentation of Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre of Durham.

DUKE PERFORMANCES

C I O M P I Q UA R T E T O O O

The Ciompi, Duke’s resident string quartet for nearly five decades, are joined by a full roster of talented guest artists from the world stage, notably Durham’s own Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor, and Nicholas Kitchen, violin; as well as Awadagin Pratt, piano; Yeesun Kim, cello; and the Amernet String Quartet.

The season features a wealth of essential repertoire from Bach to Shostakovich, embraces the French romanticism of Duparc and Chausson, and includes two world premieres by composers Carl Schimell and Stephen Jaffe. Subscribe to the Ciompi Quartet’s 2014/15 season and get tickets to all four concerts for $100.

CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 1

CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 2

F E AT U R I N G

AWA D A G I N P R AT T, P I A N O

AMERNET STRING QUARTET

O O O

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $25 • $10 Students | General Admission Seating

PROGRAM:

Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 50, no. 1

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, K. 546

Beethoven: String Quartet in F Minor, op. 95 (“Serioso”)

Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, op. 11

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, op. 34

Carl Schimell: Premiere of a new octet for strings Shostakovich: Octet for Strings, op. 11

CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 3

CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 4

F E AT U R I N G

NICHOLAS KITCHEN, VIOLIN & YEESUN KIM, CELLO

A N T H O N Y R OT H CO S TA N ZO, CO U N T E R T E N O R

O O O

WITH EL AINE FUNARO, HARPSICHORD & JA N E H AWK I N S , PI A N O

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

O O O

Tickets: $25 • $10 Students | General Admission Seating

S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 11 | 8 P M BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

PROGRAM:

Tickets: $25 • $10 Students | General Admission Seating

Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552 (“St. Anne”), arr. Nicholas Kitchen

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, op. 68

Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703 (“Quartettsatz”)

Brahms: Sextet in G Major, op. 36

Handel: Arias for countertenor and strings Stephen Jaffe: Premiere of a new string quartet Henri Duparc: Three songs for voice and string quartet (transcribed by David Kirkland Garner) Ernest Chausson: Chanson perpetuelle, op. 37

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C A R O L I N A T H E AT R E

DUKE PERFORMANCES AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM

PAT M E T H E N Y U N I T Y G R O U P SATURDAY, AUGUST 9

LOS LOBOS LA PISTOLA Y EL CORAZÓN

ALLEN TOUSSAINT & P R E S E R VAT I O N H A L L J A Z Z B A N D

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

DIEGO EL CIGALA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

LILA DOWNS

CASSANDRA WILSON

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and Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Diego El Cigala, Cassandra Wilson, and Lila Downs are excluded from the standard Pick-Four discount. However, the purchase of a standard Pick-Four package comes with a discount code — redeemable online, by phone, or at the Carolina Theatre — worth 25% off tickets to these presentations. Duke students may purchase student tickets to Duke Performances shows at the Carolina Theatre through the University Box Office in the Bryan Center.

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DUKE PERFORMANCES TICKET INFORMATION O O O

T I C K E T O N S A L E D AT E S

Duke Performances 2014/15 season ticket packages — including the Pick-Four or More, Chamber Arts Series, Piano Recital Series, Vocal Ensemble Series, and Ciompi Quartet Series — will go on sale Tuesday, June 24, at 11 am. Single tickets to Duke Performances 2014/15 shows will go on sale Tuesday, July 15, at 11 am.  $10 Duke student tickets and $15 tickets for patrons ages 30 and under will go on sale Tuesday, August 19, at 11 am.

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Package includes best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium. Takács Quartet with Erika Eckert, Viola [$42] • Belcea Quartet [$38] • Horszowski Trio [$38] • St. Lawrence String Quartet [$42] • Calefax Reed Quintet [$38] • Jerusalem Quartet [$42] • Elias String Quartet with Benjamin Hochman, Piano [$38] • Artemis Quartet [$42] Regular price: $320. Series discount price: $180. P I A N O R E C I TA L S E R I E S

Package includes best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium. Richard Goode [$48] • Yefim Bronfman [$48] • Jeremy Denk [$38] • Vladimir Feltsman [$38] • Paul Lewis [$38] Regular price: $210. Series discount price: $150. VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES

Package includes best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium and special reserved seating for performances by Vox Luminis and Stile Antico in Duke Chapel. Anonymous 4 [$42] • Vox Luminis [$36] • New York Polyphony [$38] • Stile Antico [$36] • I Fagiolini [$38] Regular price: $190. Series discount price: $125. CIOMPI QUARTET SERIES

General admission seating in Baldwin Auditorium. Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 1 feat. Awadagin Pratt, piano [$25] • Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 2 feat. the Amernet String Quartet [$25] • Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 3 feat. Nicholas Kitchen, viola & Yeesun Kim, cello [$25] • Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 4 feat. Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor [$25] Regular price: $100. Series discount price: $80.

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