DU K E P E R FORMANC ES S P R I N G 2 015 S E A S O N | M U S I C , T H E AT E R , D A N C E & M O R E . I N D U R H A M , AT D U K E , E X P E C T T H E E X T R A O R D I N A R Y.
DUKE PERFORMANCES
THE WHISPER OPERA
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
I .C . E . I N T E R N AT I O N A L CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT O O O
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 | 7 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM
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
Tickets: $18 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission
Tickets: $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission
I.C.E. International Contemporary Ensemble — described as “extraordinary” by The New York Times — follow their performances of The Whisper Opera with a concert of chamber music in the round at the intimate Nelson Music Room. This wide-ranging program explores the tremendous expressive breadth of contemporary music, from the 1960s to the present day. The program is framed by Mark Applebaum’s Composition Machine, a piece that constructs itself before the audience’s eyes. In 13 Changes, Pauline Oliveros, a close collaborator of I.C.E. who has been at the forefront of American experimental music for six decades, uses text instead of a traditional score. Marta Ptaszyn ´ska’s Recitativo, Arioso, and Toccata showcases violinist and North Carolina native Jennifer Curtis. Giacinto Scelsi’s Kho-Lho bends the ear and blurs the distinction between the sounds of the flute and the clarinet. Mario Diaz de León’s The Soul is the Arena is filled with references to rock, metal, and noise music. Brazilian composer Marcos Balter’s Alone is a lyrical work. In Michael Finnissy’s Ettelijke bange eenden (Several scared ducks), the players follow each other closely for musical cues, creating sounds that resemble a flock of birds. Don’t miss this rare chance to hear the ensemble The New Yorker calls “the new gold standard for new music.”
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.” This one-of-a-kind work is performed with the musicians, singer, and audience enclosed in an intimate onstage set at Reynolds Industries 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.”
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N R I T YA G R A M D A N C E E N S E M B L E S O N G S O F L OV E & L O N G I N G O O O
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating
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.
“The flow and precision of their movement makes you think of water, of unravelling silk ... Hypnotically lovely to watch.” (The Guardian) 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.
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DUKE PERFORMANCES
P I A N O R E C I TA L S E R I E S
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
J E R E MY D E N K
C A L E FA X R E E D QUINTET
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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
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating
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.
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.
Denk’s return to Duke Performances features Haydn’s dazzlingly inventive Sonata in C Major; selections from Janácˇek’s On the Overgrown Path, inspired by Moravian folk melodies; and dance music from Schubert’s Ländler, Moments musicaux, and Ländler & Ecossaisen, as well as the Grazer Galopp. The program ends with the Mozart Rondo in A Minor, K. 511, an intimate and melancholy piece, and Schumann’s Carnaval, a brilliant suite of twenty short dances and tonepictures.
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 motet-chanson 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.
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Haydn: Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:50
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Janáček: Selections from On the Overgrown Path
J.S. Bach: Prelude & Fugue No. 7 in E-flat Major, from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, BWV 876
Schubert: Selections from Ländler, D. 366 & D. 790, and Ländler & Ecosaissen, D. 734
Ockeghem: Mort tu as navré Christopher Tye: Consort Music
Schubert: Selections from Moments musicaux, D. 780
César Franck: Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue Schubert: Grazer Galopp, D. 925 Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87 (selections)
Mozart: Rondo in A Minor, K. 511 Schumann: Carnaval, Op 9
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BRANFORD MARSALIS Q UA R T E T O O O
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 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 is matched by the substantive quality of his tunes.” (The 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” (The 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.
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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 | 3 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 The Guardian raved: “the finesse of his almost whispered tone creates a dazzling intimacy.”
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.”
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 The New York Times described as “not simply a matter of revival, but of imaginative reanimation.” PROGRAM:
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 and features both 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. For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
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”)
Please note that the original time of this performance has been changed to accommodate the start of the Super Bowl. $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 Spring 2015 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. SPRING 2015
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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, 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 presence of our ancestors and their profound impact on our lives. The Subtle One is paired with selections from Brown’s One Shot, based on the extraordinary life of Pittsburghbased photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris; One Shot is set to music by Ahmad Jamal and Mary Lou Williams, played live by the Bandwagon. Opening the evening is Brown’s Grace, one of the most popular works in the repertory of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a rapturous depiction of a journey to the promised land set to recordings by Duke Ellington, Roy Davis, and Fela Kuti. Hailed as a “modern dance savior” by The New York Times, Brown fuses the form and rhythm of African dance with contemporary choreography. Brown finds an ideal collaborator in Jason Moran — a composer, bandleader, and MacArthur Fellow — whom the Los Angeles Times describes as “a startlingly gifted pianist with a relentless thirst for experimentation.” 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” (The 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
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
YM U S I C DUKE PH.D. COMPOSER CONCERT
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
TUESDAY, MARCH 3 | 8 PM MOTORCO MUSIC HALL
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating
Tickets: $18 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission
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.
New York sextet yMusic combines “all the prestige and virtuosity of classical music degrees with all the attitude and energy of an indie rock band” (Paste Magazine). They thrive comfortably in both spheres, bringing classical polish to indie rock artists from Sufjan Stevens to Dirty Projectors and indie rock fire to contemporary classical composers from Gabriel Kahane to Nico Muhly. Their new album, Balance Problems, produced by Son Lux, was called “beautifully intricate” by Utne Reader. The New York Times calls yMusic “co-conspirators in the compositional process, interacting with the music as a living document … The group has set the bar high.”
“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 this adventurous program, Braxton will be joined 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 tribute. “Digital timbres rippled and blended with the players’ restlessly held long tones ... the music was full of migrating nodes, slippery tension, and cinematic beauty.”
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Now in their second year as ensemblein-residence with Duke’s Ph.D. program in Music Composition, yMusic visits Durham three times this season to read and record works written for them by Duke’s graduate composers. The culminating event of this year’s residency is a concert of world premieres at the casual and intimate Motorco Music Hall. F E AT. D U K E P H . D . C O M P O S E R S : SARAH CURZI BEN DANIELS EREN GUMRUKCUOGLU JAMIE KEESECKER VLADIMIR SMIRNOV YA H N WA G N E R
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 University.
DUKE PERFORMANCES
J.D. SOUTHER & CARRI E RODRI G UE Z
PIANO RECIAL SERIES
V L A D I M I R F E LT S M A N PIANO
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SATURDAY, MARCH 7 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
FRIDAY, MARCH 6 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating
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” (The San Diego Union-Tribune).
J.D. Souther and Carrie Rodriguez — a celebrated pair of Texas-born singersongwriters — 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 music business. Now based in Nashville, he returned to making records in 2008; JazzTimes described his new material as “whip-smart, adventurous, seductive … and his voice — one of the most plaintive and soulful in rock ’n’ roll — has never sounded so immediate and so powerful.”
Feltsman opens with the Haydn Piano Sonata No. 31, an impeccably-crafted showpiece containing one of the composer’s finest Adagios. Schubert’s first completed sonata, D. 537, incorporates extreme contrasts of serenity and storminess. The program ends with Mussorgsky’s masterful Pictures at an Exhibition, in which the composer renders in music a friend’s exhibition of drawings and paintings in St. Petersburg. Mussorgsky recreates the experience of a visitor to the exhibition, pausing before each of ten pictures. Promenade music between the movements evokes both the physical experience of moving through a gallery, and the changes to the inner life inspired by great works of art.
Born and bred in Austin and schooled at Berklee, Carrie Rodriguez — a songwriter, singer, and fiddle player — broke into the business working alongside Texas music legend Chip Taylor. Since then, she’s been “hailed by Lucinda Williams, recruited by Alejandro Escovedo, nurtured by Lyle Lovett, and has emerged as one of the most compelling new voices on the Americana scene" (The Boston Globe). She has recorded eight exceptional records in as many years, prompting The New Yorker to opine, “Rodriguez creates beautiful music that is always slyly smart, which in turn makes it more beautiful.”
PROGRAM:
Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Hob. XVI:46 Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, D. 537 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
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SPRING CALENDAR
J A N UA R Y ’1 5 DAVID LANG & I.C.E. THE WHISPER OPERA Friday, January 16 & Saturday, January 17 Reynolds Industries Theater I.C.E. CHAMBER CONCERT Sunday, January 18 Nelson Music Room 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, VIOLA & 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
A.C.M.E. CHAMBER MUSIC OF CAROLINE SHAW Saturday, April 18 Motorco Music Hall I FAGIOLINI Friday, April 24 Baldwin Auditorium
M A R C H ’15
M AY ’15
YMUSIC DUKE PH.D. COMPOSERS Tuesday, March 3 Motorco Music Hall
LILA DOWNS Saturday, May 2 Carolina Theatre of Durham
VLADIMIR FELTSMAN, PIANO Friday, March 6 Baldwin Auditorium J.D. 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 VUSI MAHLASELA Wednesday, April 1 Reynolds Industries Theater PAUL LEWIS, PIANO 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 ARTEMIS QUARTET Friday, April 17 Baldwin Auditorium
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Bryan University Center 125 Science Drive | Durham, NC 27708 dukeperformances.org
401 Chapel Drive | Durham, NC 27708 chapel.duke.edu
NELSON MUSIC ROOM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
1304 Campus Drive | Durham, NC 27708 dukeperformances.org
1336 Campus Drive | Durham, NC 27708 dukeperformances.org
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MOTORCO MUSIC HALL 723 Rigsbee Avenue | Durham, NC 27701 motorcomusic.com
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Tickets for Duke Performances’ presentations at the Carolina Theatre may be purchased through the Duke Performances website (dukeperformances.org), by calling 919-560-3030, or by visiting the Carolina Theatre box office at 309 West Morgan Street. Tickets for Carolina Theatre performances are sold through Ticketmaster; Ticketmaster service charges will be applied.
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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’ unblinking 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” (The 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; the Archive of Documentary Arts at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University; and a gift from Neil D. Karbank.
SPRING 2015
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CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
ELIAS STRING Q UA R T E T
ARI PICKER OF LOST IN THE TREES LION AND THE LAMB
WITH BENJAMIN HOCHMAN, PIANO O O O
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SATURDAY, MARCH 21 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
FRIDAY, MARCH 27 & SATURDAY, MARCH 28 | 8PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | Reserved Seating
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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” (The Sunday Times). Joining the Elias is pianist Benjamin Hochman, whose playing has been called “lucid, with patrician authority and touches of elegant wit” (The Vancouver Sun).
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.
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.
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” (The 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 vocalists Phil Moore (Bowerbirds) and Skylar Gudasz, saxophonist Jacob Rodriguez, pianist Adam Benjamin (Kneebody), percussionist Peter Lewis (Lost in the Trees), and the New Music Raleigh String Quartet.
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
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P I A N O R E C I TA L S E R I E S
VUSI MAHLASELA
PAU L L E W I S
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PIANO 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
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Celebrated South African singersongwriter Vusi Mahlasela is known as “The Voice,” both for his extraordinary range as a singer, and for his role as a troubadour proclaiming freedom amidst tumult and reconciliation over recrimination. The South African Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer had this to say about the musician: “Vusi Mahlasela sings as a bird does: in total response to being alive. Music was at the heart of the struggle for freedom; Vusi was there. Music is at the heart of reconstruction; Vusi’s music is here to stir and delight us. He is a South African national treasure.”
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.” 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.
In the 20 years since the fall of apartheid, Mahlasela has gained a worldwide following. His most recent album, Say Africa, was produced by the great bluesman Taj Mahal, who praises Mahlasela’s “joyous energy.” This extraordinary musician, who sings in English, Sotho, and Swahili, has recorded numerous albums on Sony and with Dave Matthews’ ATO Records, has collaborated with artists from Ladysmith Black Mombazo to Sting, and was honored with a SAMA lifetime achievement award in 2012 — the South African equivalent of a GRAMMY. Mahlasela recently performed at Carnegie Hall with Hugh Masekela to mark twenty years of democracy in South Africa.
PROGRAM:
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, op. 109
Vusi Mahlasela replaces the previously scheduled concert with Rokia Traoré.
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, op. 110
Made possible, in part, with support from the Duke Africa Initiative.
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, op. 111
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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 most exceptional 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.” A co-presentation of Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre of Durham.
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
ALICE RUSSELL
A R T E M I S Q UA R T E T
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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. Brighton’s Alice Russell is the latest standardbearer, 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.
“Working with a singer like Alice Russell was something new, terrifying, and ultimately amazing.” (David Byrne) Over the course of five studio albums for the iconic British indie label Tru Thoughts, Russell has garnered favorable comparison to her idols Chaka Khan and Roberta Flack. In addition to her solo work, Russell has taken part in collaborations with a cadre of iconic musicians including David Byrne, Gilles Peterson, and The Roots. “Alice Russell’s career has been something of a slow burn — full of experimentation, lots of thrilling collaboration, and the fierce confidence of a true soul disciple” (WNYC).
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”)
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VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES
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
I FA G I O L I N I I N S A L ATA I FAG I O L I N I
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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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FRIDAY, APRIL 24 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
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
SPRING 2015
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” (The Washington Post). A co-presentation of Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre of Durham.
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, a regular guest artist at the Metropolitan Opera, and Nicholas Kitchen, viola, a
Durham-born founder of the Borromeo String Quartet. The Spring 2015 season includes a wealth of essential repertoire from Bach to Shostakovich, embraces the French romanticism of Duparc and Chausson, and includes a world premiere by composer Stephen Jaffe.
CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 3
CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 4
F E AT U R I N G
F E AT U R I N G
NICHOLAS KITCHEN, VIOLA & 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
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 11 | 8 P M BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $25 • $10 Students | General Admission Seating
Tickets: $25 • $10 Students | General Admission Seating
PROGRAM:
PROGRAM:
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552 (“St. Anne”), arr. Nicholas Kitchen
Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703 (“Quartettsatz”)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, op. 68
Handel: Arias for countertenor and strings
Brahms: Sextet in G Major, op. 36
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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