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DUKE PERFORMANCES
HELLO & WELCOME At Duke Performances, we offer an expansive array of expertly chosen shows. We’ve traveled the globe to vet and select the artists that appear here. Starting in mid-September and running through April, we’ll present over seventy performances at a collection of venues both on campus and in town. Durham is rapidly becoming the cultural hub of the region; it’s Duke Performances’ duty to spur that development further by programming art made boldly all over the city. At Duke Performances, Durham and Duke come together — with audiences sitting elbow to elbow — to make community. A great community deserves art of the highest quality, featuring work that reflects the interests and backgrounds of its members. Thanks to stalwart financial support from private donors and the University, we’re able to bring in diverse work and price tickets as competitively as possible so that a broad portion of our community can afford to see our shows. At Duke Performances, we’re cultivating a curious and discerning audience. We encourage patrons to check out shows with which they’re not familiar, or genres that they’d not normally frequent. Beyond performances, we offer more than fifty artist-in-residence activities per season — master classes, public conversations, screenings, and lectures — and these engagements provide patrons a chance to further their knowledge and deepen their experience. I look forward to seeing you this season at Duke Performances.
AARON GREENWALD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DUKE PERFORMANCES
C O V E R I M A G E : B R I A N N E W B Y O F R E N N I E H A R R I S P U R E M O V E M E N T, P H OTO B Y B R I A N M E N G I N I .
MAHMOUD AHMED O O O
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER
Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students
In the early 1970s, Ethiopia experienced a golden age of popular music with the rise of “Ethio-jazz” — a mesmerizing blend of zigzagging modal melodies and diminished harmonies played against a funky six-beat groove. At the center of the scene was vocalist Mahmoud Ahmed, who has been hailed as “one of the most exhilarating singers of the past half century” (The New Yorker). Ahmed’s 1975 album Erè Mèla Mèla is a classic from the golden age of Ethiopian music and was the first East African release to be embraced by a broad Western audience.
In the late ’90s, dozens of Ahmed’s recordings were reissued on the popular Éthiopiques compilations — four volumes featured Ahmed exclusively — and he became his country’s foremost musical ambassador. In concert, his enigmatic multi-octave voice “seizes on a note, brief or sustained, and makes its pitch tremble as if its urgency could barely be contained” (The New York Times). Count on Ahmed and his ace ten-piece band to open Duke Performances’ 2015/16 season on an exultant note.
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DUKE PERFORMANCES
LULA PENA
L. SUBRAMANIAM
BETTYE LAVETTE
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 | 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $22 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission
Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Portuguese singer-songwriter Lula Pena’s longing lyrics and wandering guitar lines descend from the fado tradition, which originated two hundred years ago in Lisbon and has since provided fertile ground for musical reinvention. Pena calls her unique take on fado a palimpsest, with its layers of languages and musical influences; singing in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French, she draws on Latin American nueva canción, Portuguese folk music of the 1960s, and French chanson.
A master of the violin in the Carnatic classical music tradition, L. Subramaniam has spent a lifetime exploring the versatility of his instrument. His work as a prolific composer, performer, and collaborator has brought global attention to the sound of the violin in the music of South Asia, with its distinctive slides, drones, and controlled oscillations between two notes. Subramaniam’s acclaimed scores for films by Mira Nair and Bernardo Bertolucci furthered his reputation as one of India’s most accomplished and multifaceted artists.
In 1962, at the age of sixteen, Bettye LaVette was invited to record her first single at Johnnie Mae Matthews’ legendary Detroit studio. “My Man, He’s a Loving Man” hit number seven on the R&B charts, and a career was born. National tours with Otis Redding and James Brown followed, along with recordings made in Memphis and Muscle Shoals. Though her fame never caught up with her talent, LaVette worked steadily on the fringes of the music world, buoyed by a cult following. She carries the grit of these lean years as a soul music survivor in her fierce and singular alto.
NPR describes Pena’s music as “the perfect soundtrack for a dark, seaside club.” Her haunting second record, Troubador, came after a twelve-year hiatus from touring and recording and was accompanied by an acclaimed appearance at WOMEX 2014, bringing her music to a broader European audience. Pena’s lovely hushed tunes are reminiscent of the intricate compositions of Karen Dalton and the quiet mystery of Connie Converse; Pena will perform them for an intimate audience in-theround at the Nelson Music Room.
“Simply the best … the greatest classical Indian violinist of our time.” (The Times of India) In the acoustically pristine Baldwin Auditorium, two other Carnatic musicians join Subramaniam: his son Ambi Subramaniam, also on violin, and Mahesh Krishnamurthy, on mridangam — a traditional barrelshaped Carnatic drum. Renowned violinist Yehudi Menuhin once said, “I find nothing more inspiring than the music-making of my very great colleague Subramaniam. Each time I listen to him, I am carried away in wonderment.”
“This is soul singing at its rawest and most persuasive,” proclaims The New York Times. At last, LaVette is getting her due, with a creative resurgence that began ten years ago when she teamed up with producer and songwriter Joe Henry for her album I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise. LaVette’s 2015 follow-up effort with Henry, Worthy, features tunes by Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Mickey Newberry, a repertoire she brings to Baldwin Auditorium alongside favorites collected from her five decades in R&B.
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DUKE PERFORMANCES
GREGORY PORTER
RHIANNON GIDDENS
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 | 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 | 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $55 • $45 • $40 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $55 • $45 • $40 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Brooklyn-based Gregory Porter compares sharing music with audiences to sharing food with friends: both endeavors are communal, fortifying, and joyous. Each of his three studio albums, filled with original material, has earned him an enthusiastic fandom and garnered more and more critical acclaim. Porter continues to write songs that deftly blend gospel, rhythm and blues, jazz, and soul. Porter makes his grand return to Durham at the newly renovated Page Auditorium, following an unforgettable sold-out concert at Duke Performances in the spring of 2014.
North Carolinian Rhiannon Giddens first came to Duke Performances in 2007 with the GRAMMY-winning string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops at Music in the Gardens. In the intervening years, she has returned to Duke Performances on multiple occasions and established herself as an international star. After Giddens sang on the soundtrack for the Coen Brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis, producer T Bone Burnett invited the singer to join his New Basement Tapes project alongside Elvis Costello, Jim James, and Marcus Mumford. Her voice is an endless marvel, and with it she embodies “the fervor of a spiritual, the yips of a folk holler, and the sultry insinuation of the blues” (The New York Times).
“Possessed of massive vocal power, his interpretations flit between jazz and soul, with the finesse of the former and the strength of the latter in equal measure” (Mojo). Porter’s latest album, Liquid Spirit — released on Blue Note — earned him a GRAMMY Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. On stage and on record, Porter is “a jazz singer of thrilling presence and a booming baritone with a gift for earthy refinement and soaring uplift” (Wall Street Journal).
In February 2015, Giddens released her debut solo album Tomorrow is My Turn on Nonesuch Records to widespread critical acclaim. Produced by Burnett, the record includes tunes made famous by Patsy Cline, Odetta, Dolly Parton, and Nina Simone. Giddens brings this music to Page Auditorium, backed by a band that features the current iteration of the Chocolate Drops.
PA G E A U D I T O R I U M R E N O VAT E D & R E O P E N E D
Page Auditorium, a 1,200-seat venue at Duke University, opened in the early 1930s as part of Duke’s original West Campus. The University has just completed a yearlong five million dollar renovation of the venue funded by a gift from the Duke Endowment. The space reopens for use during the 2015/16 season with seven special Duke Performances presentations: Gregory Porter; Rhiannon Giddens; Chucho Valdés & Irakere 40; Rosanne Cash; Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins & Anaïs Mitchell; Savion Glover & Jack DeJohnette; and Boban & Marko Markovic´ Orkestar + Fanfare Cioca˘rlia. 2015 | 2016
DUKE PERFORMANCES
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET O O O
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Over the course of twenty years, the Brentano String Quartet have built a broad discography encompassing the central European canon and new music alike, earning a reputation as one of America’s great veteran ensembles. Recently succeeding the Tokyo Quartet as Artists-inResidence at Yale, the Brentano are known for their “luxuriously warm sound and yearning lyricism” (The New York Times). The evening opens with selections from Bach’s Art of the Fugue, a landmark collection over which the composer labored in the last decade of his life and left unfinished. These experiments in form remain a pinnacle of contrapuntal writing, and have been transcribed for dozens of different ensembles. The complexity of Bach serves as a context for both the early lyricism of Mendelssohn’s op. 12 and the mature passion of Brahms’ op. 67. PROGRAM:
J.S. Bach: Selections from Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080
PATRICIA IBAÑEZ & ABEL HARANA MEMORIA A NTIGUA
THE FAIRFIELD FOUR & THE MCCRARY SISTERS ROCK MY SOUL
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 | 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $48 • $36 • $24 $10 Duke Students
Hailing from Jeréz de la Frontera on the western coast of Andalusia, dancer and choreographer Patricia Ibañez is a luminary of contemporary flamenco. Over a twenty-year career she has shared the stage with the likes of Carmen Cortés, Eva Yerbabuena, and Farruquito while maintaining a prestigious dance academy in Jeréz, the center of Spanish flamenco. She and Abel Harana visit Reynolds Industries Theater with a performance of Ibañez’s dazzling new duet Memoria Antigua.
Nashville quartet The Fairfield Four have been the foremost proponents of the African American a cappella gospel quartet tradition since 1921, passing the torch from generation to generation and maintaining their seamless and unmistakable blend. The Four had a resurgence in popularity after their unforgettable performance of “Lonesome Valley” in the flood scene of the Coen Brothers’ film O Brother Where Art Thou? The Los Angeles Times praises their “age-old approach to spirituals, singing in close harmony with only stomping feet for accompaniment.”
Memoria Antigua — for two dancers, two singers, and one guitarist — is flamenco at its finest, with lightningfast footwork and the highest standard of “taste, technique, and agility” (La Voz Digital). For the musical repertoire, Ibañez reaches into secluded corners of Spain and recalls a number of songs that have long fallen into disuse, incuding the Seguiriya de Frijones from Jeréz and the Zángano from Puente Genil. A rare opportunity to witness flamenco directly from the source.
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, op. 12 Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, op.67
In association with the PBS special Rock My Soul, The Fairfield Four join up for a very special collaborative performance at the Carolina Theatre of Durham with a younger generation of luminaries, The McCrary Sisters. These four sisters are the daughters of Reverend Sam McCrary, who led The Fairfield Four from the 1940s to the 1980s, and they appear here accompanied by a stripped-down R&B ensemble. The New York Times raves that the new Buddy Miller-produced McCrary Sisters record “speaks to the moment while ranking with the most potent roof-raising, pewshaking music ever created.” The Fairfield Four & The McCrary Sisters is a co-presentation of Duke Performances and The Carolina Theatre of Durham.
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Patrons ages 30 & under — high school students, college students matriculating at neighboring institutions & young professionals — may purchase tickets to nearly every presentation on Duke Performances’ 2015/16 season for just $15. Note: Limit of two $15 tickets per patron for each presentation. Quantities of $15 tickets may be restricted. ID required at time of purchase. 2015 | 2016
DUKE PERFORMANCES
JULIAN SANDS A CELEBRATION OF HA ROLD PINTER DIRECTED BY JOHN MALKOVICH O O O
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
British actor Julian Sands is a veteran of stage, film, and television perhaps best known for his breakout role as the romantic lead in the 1985 Merchant Ivory film A Room with a View. In 2005, Sands had the pleasure of meeting Nobel Prize-winning playwright, poet, and political activist Harold Pinter, an artist later eulogized as “the most influential, provocative, and poetic dramatist of his generation” (The Guardian). When the two artists decided to collaborate in preparing a set of Pinter’s poems for a London performance, a lasting friendship was born. Pinter’s work with Sands is the subject of a poignant and unsettlingly funny solo show, written and performed by Sands and directed by John Malkovich. Sands assumes the role of the prickly-but-charming Pinter, reciting poems, chiding the audience, and ruminating on his status as a literary legend. The New York Times raves, “[Sands] embodies the notion of the actor as a transparent vessel through which we see the thoughts and feelings of others.”
ANA TIJOUX O O O
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 | 8 PM MOTORCO MUSIC HALL
Tickets: $22 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission
French-Chilean MC Ana Tijoux is one of today’s most compelling voices, working at the intersection of hip-hop, jazz, and Latin music. The daughter of Chilean parents who lived in exile during Pinochet’s dictatorship, she first achieved success as the frontwoman of the Chilean band Makiza, whose understated lyrics and forwardthinking production earned the group a reputation as a modern classic of Latin American hip-hop.
“Sitting at the top of Chile’s vibrant hip-hop scene, Tijoux is probably the best-known Latina rapper on the international stage.” (Newsweek) Since 2007, Tijoux has built a musically adventurous and politically engaged solo career, assailing human rights injustices in Chile and throughout Latin America with her trademark rapid-fire flow. In her words, “hip-hop is the land of the people that don’t have a land.” With both GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY nominations this past year, Tijoux is making her best music yet; her work is “take-no-prisoners, precise, and powerful” (NPR).
JONATHAN BISS PIANO O O O
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
The Piano Recital Series begins with the pianist, scholar, and New York City cultural linchpin Jonathan Biss. As the co-artistic director of Marlboro Music Festival with pianist Mitsuko Uchida, he brings analytical and stylistic acumen to each program he develops and performs. The formidable pianist and pedagogue Leon Fleisher once said of Biss, “his ability and interest go for things of transcendence and sublimeness.” Biss comes to Duke Performances with a program of works by Mozart, Schoenberg, and Schumann. Mozart’s Sonatas K. 457 and K. 533 were two of only six solo piano sonatas written in his Vienna years, an era celebrated for his breakthroughs in chamber music, opera, and symphonic works. Biss separates these sonatas with Schoenberg’s extremely brief Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke; The New York Times praised Biss’ interpretation for its “concentrated bursts of flavor.” The program is rounded out by Schumann’s eight-movement Kreisleriana, which the composer famously called “my favorite work.” PROGRAM:
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457 Schoenberg: Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, op. 19 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 15 in F Major, K. 533/494 Schumann: Kreisleriana, op. 16
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DUKE PERFORMANCES
VIENNA BOYS’ CHOIR O O O
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Established by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1498, the Vienna Boys’ Choir is not just the world’s most famous youth choir, but also one of Europe’s longest-running cultural institutions. Consisting of twentyfour trebles and altos ages ten to fourteen, the ensemble brings their senza vibrato sound to a repertoire ranging from motets and Lieder to contemporary folk and new music. “The mix of purity and lung power, childlike simplicity and mature command of breath control and phrasing, is what this ensemble is all about,” declares The Washington Post. The Vienna Boys’ Choir open the Vocal Ensemble Series at Duke Performances with a program that will be announced over the summer; it is certain to include ecclesiastical essentials from the likes of Monteverdi and Bach alongside familiar tunes from beyond the European canon. PROGRAM:
The program for this concert will be drawn from the extensive repertoire of the Vienna Boys’ Choir: church music from the renaissance to the present day, opera choruses, classic Broadway musicals, and folk songs from around the world. Complete program to be announced on dukeperformances.org by late summer 2015.
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM & EKAYA O O O
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $52 • $46 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Since signing his first record deal under the patronage of Duke Ellington in 1964, South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim has made a staggering fifty-two albums as pianist and bandleader and has played a central role in his country’s twentieth-century musical and political landscape. Born into the rich culture of pre-Apartheid Cape Town, the eighty-one-year-old Ibrahim — who was once known by the name Dollar Brand — absorbed the songs of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the burgeoning marabi tradition in the townships, and, of course, American jazz. The result is a musical voice that is at once intellectual and deeply felt — his piano playing casts broad, hymn-like strokes with hints of Ellington’s colorful orchestrations in Ekaya, his seven-piece ensemble. After a 2014 performance at New York’s Schomburg Center, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times said of the music, “It reached the audience as if it were a music never heard before, and did so by degrees: first like a history lesson, then like a party, then like a deep and serious matter.”
CUARTETO CASALS O O O
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Characterized by “intense focus and a striking unanimity of gesture” (The New York Times), Cuarteto Casals is the first Spanish string quartet to achieve a genuinely international profile. They visit Duke with a program of three treasures of the standard repertoire, rendered with their unmistakable brand of bold and expressive playing. Mozart’s Quartet K. 387 was the first of his six “Haydn Quartets,” a cycle in which the composer heralded a shift toward increased chromaticism by integrating some of Haydn’s vocabulary into his style. The Financial Times raves that the Casals’ interpretations of these quartets are “bold in contrasts and almost Beethovenian in their mettlesome thrust.” The Mozart is followed by Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 5, a work which finds the composer in trademark form, equal parts sardonic, savage, and charming. The concert concludes with Ravel’s String Quartet in F, originally intended as an application to the Conservatoire de Paris (he was rejected) and now acknowledged as one of the great works of impressionism in any medium. PROGRAM:
Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K. 387 (“Spring”) Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat Major, op. 92 Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
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DUKE PERFORMANCES
RENNIE HARRIS PUREMOVEMENT O O O
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students
Rennie Harris is one of the great veterans of hip-hop dance, having broken down barriers between the vocabulary of the street and the vocabulary of the concert hall for nearly forty years. At the age of twelve he formed his first crew, and by the age of twenty-five he had shared the stage with many of hip-hop’s founders, including Run DMC, Sugarhill Gang, Salt ’n’ Pepa, and Kurtis Blow. He comes to Reynolds Theater with his company Rennie Harris Puremovement, repeat Bessie Award-winners whom The New York Times calls “phenomenal” and “seemingly without a semblance of gravity.” As hip-hop rose to the mainstream and splintered into factions, Harris evolved, breathing new life into popping, locking, breaking, and voguing. The New Yorker calls Harris “the most respected — and the most brilliant — hip-hop choreographer in America.” Puremovement’s program begins with the new four-movement work Nuttin’ but a Word, which, as Harris says, aims to “challenge the hip-hop puritans at every turn.” After intermission the company perform two Rennie Harris classics: Continuum and Students of the Asphalt Jungle. 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 Dance Program at Duke University.
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Duke students — both undergraduate & graduate — may purchase tickets to any and all shows on Duke Performances’ 2015/16 season for just $10. Note: Limit of two $10 tickets per student for each presentation. Quantities of available $10 Duke student tickets may be restricted. Duke student ID required at time of purchase. 2015 | 2016
DUKE PERFORMANCES’ ESSENTIAL CLASSICS 2015/16 CONCERT SEASON
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
Brentano String Quartet • Cuarteto Casals • Montrose Trio Ruske-Frautschi-Chien Horn Trio • Jennifer Koh & Shai Wosner Danish String Quartet • Parker Quartet feat. Kim Kashkashian Emerson String Quartet Regular price: $295. Series discount price: $180.
Q P I A N O R EC I TA L S E R I E S
Jonathan Biss • Valentina Lisitsa • Igor Levit Fazil Say • Conrad Tao • Murray Perahia Regular price: $245. Series discount price: $185.
Q VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES
Vienna Boys’ Choir • Amarcord • The King’s Singers Cantus • Orlando Consort • Roomful of Teeth Regular price: $250. Series discount price: $185.
Q CIOMPI QUARTET SERIES
Ciompi Quartet featuring special guests Nnenna Freelon, Tony Arnold, Kyo-Shin-An Arts, and Edgar Meyer. Regular price $100. Series discount price: $80. Chamber Arts, Piano Recital, and Vocal Ensemble series packages provide best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium for a series discount price. Ciompi Quartet series package provides general admission seats in Baldwin Auditorium for a series discount price.
DUKE PERFORMANCES
BUE NA VISTA S OCIAL CLUB A DIÓS TOUR
IMANI WINDS F E AT U R I N G
THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS JOHN HOPE FRA NKLIN @ 100
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 | 7 PM DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $85 • $65 • $50 • $40 $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
In 1996, Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos González, American guitarist Ry Cooder, and British producer Nick Gold assembled a group of old-guard son musicians to record a collection of classic mambos, cha-cha-chás, and boleros, a tribute to Havana’s vibrant club scene in the 1930s and ’40s. Buena Vista Social Club emerged as a near-perfect record: the album was certified platinum, won the GRAMMY for Best Latin Album, and was the subject of an acclaimed Wim Wenders documentary.
Imani Winds, a quintet lauded as “strikingly virtuosic and immaculately tight” by the Boston Music Intelligencer, come to Baldwin Auditorium as part of a University-wide celebration of historian John Hope Franklin’s centenary. Dr. Franklin, a Duke professor and author of the authoritative African American history From Slavery to Freedom, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in his lifetime and chaired President Clinton’s Advisory Board for the Initiative on Race.
Many of the original ensemble members — including trumpeter Guajiro Mirabal, laúd virtuoso Barbarito Torres, guitarist Eliades Ochoa, and the incomparable singer Omara Portuondo — embark this year on an ambitious Adiós tour, the end of Buena Vista’s life on the road. This special concert will feature those charter members plus a twelve-piece band, in a musical celebration sufficiently memorable to fill the grand Durham Performing Arts Center. The New York Times says of the Buena Vista experience: “The stage is awash in such intense joy and camaraderie, you become convinced that making music is a key to longevity and spiritual well-being.”
The program is anchored by American composer Frederic Rzweski’s Breath, a Duke Performances-commissioned world premiere, based on the melodies of spirituals and dedicated to Franklin’s memory. The evening is further enriched by a collaboration between Imani Winds and GRAMMY Hall of Fame inductees the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a sixteen-voice a cappella ensemble in continuous operation since 1871 at Dr. Franklin’s alma mater, Fisk University. This will be a unique musical celebration dedicated to the life and legacy of a brilliant scholar and activist and a pillar of the Duke community. Made possible, in part, with an award from the National Endowment for the Arts; a grant from South Arts, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council; the Office of the President of Duke University; and the John Hope Franklin Centenary Committee.
Buena Vista Social Club is a co-presentation of Duke Performances and The Carolina Theatre of Durham.
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DUKE PERFORMANCES
AMARCORD
MONTROSE TRIO
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
In 1992, five erstwhile members of St. Thomas’ Boys Choir in Leipzig — where Bach himself once served as music director — decided to continue their musical partnership into adulthood. Thus the all-male vocal ensemble Amarcord was formed. In the twenty years since, they have toured six continents and become great musical ambassadors of Germany, bringing to their craft “a musically dazzling union of intelligent emotion, glittering esprit, and supple elegance” (Schwäbische Zeitung).
The brand-new Montrose Trio, featuring Martin Beaver and Clive Greensmith of the recently-retired Tokyo Quartet alongside pianist Jon Kimura Parker, continues the legacy of the Tokyo and channels its expertise into the piano trio repertoire. The Montrose bring their “sumptuous, beautifully blended sonority” (The Strad) to a varied selection of works by Turina, Beethoven, and Brahms. The program begins with Turina’s second piano trio, which combines Spanish folk rhythms, impressionist-inspired harmonic vocabulary, and shimmering sonic effects. Beethoven’s first piano trio marks the emergence of his compositional voice; it is a sprightly trio with an undercurrent of tragedy. Brahms’ first piano trio, op. 8, was drafted when the composer was twenty-one but rewritten towards the end of his career, taking its place among the most accomplished of his chamber works.
Amarcord’s program focuses on works from the nineteenth century, including music by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Grieg, and Saint-Saëns. Though this is rare terrain for most small vocal ensembles, the rich romantic harmonies are perfectly suited to their resounding blend; Amarcord’s new recording of this repertoire earned them the ECHO Klassik and Luxembourgian Supersonic Awards. Duke Performances’ presentation of Amarcord provides a fitting follow-up to the Vienna Boys’ Choir in October, demonstrating how rigorous vocal training in childhood can bloom, with age, into a virtuosic musical maturity.
PROGRAM:
Joaquín Turina: Piano Trio No. 2 in B Minor, op. 76 Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat Major, op. 1
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Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, op. 8
Amarcord’s program centers on romantic music from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much of it originally written for male chorus, including works by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Grieg, Janáček, and Elgar. For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org
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HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER & WILLIAM GEDNEY O O O
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students
Hiss Golden Messenger is the indie folk project of Durham-based musical omnivore M.C. Taylor. “At once firmly steeped in tradition and immediately accessible” (NPR), Hiss Golden Messenger calls up a wide spectrum of American vernacular music, from Archie Brownlee to the Staple Singers, from Van Morrison to Townes Van Zandt. At Reynolds Industries Theater, Duke Performances presents the world premiere of a specially commissioned song cycle by Taylor, complete with a large electric and acoustic ensemble. This project is the latest installment in Duke Performances’ From the Archives initiative, which pairs artists with archival resources from Duke’s Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library to develop
bold and ambitious new work. In this case, Taylor’s cycle draws upon a group of photographs from 1972 by documentarian William Gedney (1932-1989), known for his uncanny ability to “catch fleeting moments of grace, joy, melancholy, and humor” (The New York Times). Gedney’s visit to the Blue Diamond Mining Camp in Leatherwood, Kentucky generated the poignant portfolio of photographs of everyday life that provides the source material for this collection of songs. Working alongside OBIE-winning stage director and designer Jim Findlay, Taylor offers a set of songs that address family, work, home, and love, as inspired by the photos’ subjects.
Made possible, in part, with an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and support from the Archive of Documentary Arts at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University. 2015 | 2016
DUKE PERFORMANCES
CHUCHO VALDÉS & IRAKERE 40
THE KING’S SINGERS O O O
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 | 7 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $52 • $46 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $55 • $45 • $40 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
With immaculate harmonies and a flawless blend, two-time GRAMMY winners and recent Gramophone Hall of Fame inductees The King’s Singers represent the “world standard in male a cappella singing” (The New Yorker). They have released over 150 albums and premiered over 200 new works since their founding in 1968. Their repertoire is farreaching, with an emphasis on renaissance and twentieth-century choral music.
Latin jazz giant and pianist Chucho Valdés visits Page Auditorium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his groundbreaking Havana-based ten-piece band Irakere. A five-time GRAMMY winner, three-time Latin GRAMMY winner, and the son of Cuban jazz pioneer Bebo Valdés, Chucho single-handedly developed many of today’s Afro-Cuban musical hallmarks: the combination of bebop with guajeo-based horn lines, the use of the batá and other Cuban folkloric instruments, and rhythms that laid the groundwork for timba.
This program, Pater Noster, centers around one of the most ancient aspects of Christian worship, the Lord’s Prayer. For each phrase of the prayer, The King’s Singers perform a selection of works from different eras that find new ways of setting these deeply-rooted words to music, from Byrd’s text-painting to Stravinsky’s hymn-like harmonies. Beginning and ending in plainsong, The King’s Singers trace a musical, religious, and literary path that includes works by Schütz, Purcell, and Bernstein.
Irakere emerged as a collection of recent conservatory graduates led by Valdés and featuring Paquito D’Rivera and Arturo Sandoval. In 1979, after five years of international touring, they took the world by storm with a self-titled live album — recorded at the Newport and Montreux Jazz festivals — that earned the GRAMMY for Best Latin Recording. Valdés has helmed Irakere for the past four decades, swapping in the finest young Cuban musicians, making certain the band swings hard, and persevering at the vanguard of Cuban jazz. El Periódico declares, “Valdés is the creator of a sound that is now the lingua franca in Latin Jazz, but forty years ago … it sounded like a revolution.”
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The King’s Singers’ program explores the breadth and depth of musical expression inspired by the words of the Lord’s Prayer, with works by composers from every era, including Byrd, Duruflé, Tavener, Stravinsky, Lassus, and Gibbons. For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org
VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES
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DUKE PERFORMANCES
NICK LOWE & LOS STRAITJACKETS
RUSKE-FRAUTS CHI-CHIEN HORN TRIO
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Duke Performances ushers in the holiday season with British rock ’n’ roll legend Nick Lowe and Nashville-based surf rockers Los Straitjackets. Lowe, who achieved breakthrough success in the late ’70s with his Top 40 single “Cruel To Be Kind,” is equally decorated as a songwriter and producer; he was at the helm for classic albums by Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, and The Pretenders. In the 21st century he has re-emerged as a tender-hearted but sharp-tongued songwriter without equal.
Eric Ruske (horn), Jennifer Frautschi (violin), and Gloria Chien (piano) come to Baldwin Auditorium with a program of rare and moving repertoire for horn trio. The New York Times raved that Ruske’s playing “enchants by virtue of its confidence, imagination, and ebullient virtuosity.” Frautschi’s playing has been praised by Le Soleil for its “strength and palpable intensity.” The Boston Globe applauded Chien’s “wondrously rich palette of colors, which she mixes with dashing bravado.”
“Few musicians get better with age, but Nick Lowe is an exception.” (NPR)
Brahms’ Horn Trio is a unique and exquisite component of his chamber music catalogue. Originally scored for the more melancholic Waldhorn (“natural” horn, without valves), it has become a benchmark for all composers trying their hand at this uncommon instrumentation. Among those composers is György Ligeti, whose Horn Trio was a watershed piece, signaling a shift toward a highly rhythmic and polymodal style he claimed was “neither modern nor postmodern.” These two works anchor the program, complemented with chamber duets by Schumann and Brahms.
Lowe first joined forces with Los Straitjackets for the collaborative holiday album Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection for All the Family, released in 2013 on Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records. Hailed as “characteristically great” (New York Magazine) and “unimpeachably tasteful” (The Washington Post), the record combines original songs with Yuletide standbys and lesser-known gems by the likes of Ry Cooder and Ron Sexsmith. Los Straitjackets, wearing their signature Mexican wrestling masks, help Lowe bring irreverently classic cool to the endof-year festivities, in a holiday show for grown-ups and children alike.
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Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, op. 108 Ligeti: Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano Schumann: Fantasiestücke for Horn and Piano, op. 73 Brahms: Horn Trio in E-flat Major, op. 40
2015 | 2016
DUKE PERFORMANCES
ROSANNE CASH THE RIVER & THE THREA D
VALENTINA LISITSA O O O
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Valentina Lisitsa has a unique story among contemporary concert pianists. Born and trained in Kiev, she got her start as Hilary Hahn’s accompanist, then found global acclaim when her YouTube videos of the Rachmaninoff Études — filmed in her adopted home of New Bern, NC — went viral. Now, she counts over 70 million views on her YouTube channel and a full calendar of international touring. The Daily Telegraph proclaims, “Her essential attribute is a fevered urgency, an almost desperate desire to suck the expressive marrow from a piece.”
Miami-based singer Cécile McLorin Salvant is a rising star, possessed of a remarkable voice and critically acclaimed for her authoritative live performances. In the two short years since releasing her debut record WomanChild on Mack Avenue, her enormous dynamic range, perfect pitch, and supple sense of swing have earned her a GRAMMY nomination and praise from the likes of The New York Times: “She has a rich and varied tonal palette, exquisite taste in songs and phrasing, and a deep connection to lyrics.”
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 | 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $55 • $45 • $40 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Iconic songwriter Rosanne Cash visits Duke Performances backed by a full band, for an evening-length performance of songs from her recent GRAMMY Award-winning album The River & The Thread. With eleven number-one country singles and a host of collaborators ranging from Bruce Springsteen to Neko Case, Cash is a “deeply personal and insightful” artist (Los Angeles Times). No stranger to Duke Performances, at her 2010 performance in Page Auditorium Cash surprised the audience by inviting Bruce Springsteen to join her for a performance of the classic country tune “Sea of Heartbreak.” Cash’s latest album is a selfdescribed “mini-travelogue of the South, and of the soul,” based on a series of road trips with husband and music director John Leventhal. It navigates through centuries of American history and weaves together fragments of Cash family lore into an “exquisitely profound” whole (Rolling Stone). Cash is one of the great songwriters of the last forty years, and she is now working at the pinnacle of her craft.
PIANO
At Duke Performances, Lisitsa plays a bountiful and melodic program that explores short-form works for piano. The first half is a retrospective of the ambitious Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, traversing decades of his career with Preludes, Études, and Poèmes. After intermission, Lisitsa takes on all twenty-four of the celebrated Chopin Études, a benchmark for Scriabin and countless other late nineteenth century pianist-composers. PROGRAM:
Scriabin: Selections from Preludes op. 2, 11, 27, and 35 Scriabin: Poèmes op. 41, 73, 34, and 38 Scriabin: Polonaise, op. 21 Scriabin: Three Études, op. 65 Chopin: Twenty-Four Études
2015 | 2016
CÉCILE M C LORIN SALVANT
Wynton Marsalis was among the first to take notice — soon after Salvant won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, he invited her to perform with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The New York Times proclaimed after her JALC appearance that “McLorin Salvant has it all … If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three — Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald — it is this 26-year-old virtuoso.” Salvant closes Duke Performances’ fall season with her crackerjack quartet, singing a carefully curated clutch of rare and unrecorded jazz and blues tunes and a sophisticated catalogue of jazz standards.
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S E P T E M B E R ’ 15 MAHMOUD AHMED Thursday, September 10 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater LULA PENA Thursday, September 17 | 8 PM Nelson Music Room L. SUBRAMANIAM Friday, September 18 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Monday, October 26 | 7 PM Durham Performing Arts Center
GREGORY PORTER Thursday, September 24 | 8 PM Page Auditorium
IMANI WINDS FEAT. THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN @ 100 Thursday, October 29 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
RHIANNON GIDDENS Friday, September 25 | 8 PM Page Auditorium
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N O V E M B E R ’15
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET Saturday, September 26 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
AMARCORD Friday, November 6 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
PATRICIA IBAÑEZ & ABEL HARANA MEMORIA ANTIGUA Saturday, September 26 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater
MONTROSE TRIO Saturday, November 7 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
O C T O B E R ’15 THE FAIRFIELD FOUR & THE MCCRARY SISTERS ROCK MY SOUL Thursday, October 1 | 8 PM Carolina Theatre of Durham JULIAN SANDS A CELEBRATION OF HAROLD PINTER Friday, October 2 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER & WILLIAM GEDNEY Friday, November 13 & Saturday, November 14 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater CHUCHO VALDÉS & IRAKERE 40 Monday, November 16 | 7 PM Page Auditorium THE KING’S SINGERS Saturday, November 21 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 1 FEAT. NNENNA FREELON, VOCALIST Saturday, October 3 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 2 FEAT. TONY ARNOLD, SOPRANO Sunday, November 22 | 7 PM Baldwin Auditorium
ANA TIJOUX Thursday, October 8 | 8 PM Motorco Music Hall
D E C E M B E R ’15
JONATHAN BISS, PIANO Friday, October 9 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium VIENNA BOYS’ CHOIR Tuesday, October 13 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium ABDULLAH IBRAHIM & EKAYA Friday, October 16 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium CUARTETO CASALS Saturday, October 17 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium RENNIE HARRIS PUREMOVEMENT Friday, October 23 & Saturday, October 24 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater
NICK LOWE & LOS STRAITJACKETS Wednesday, December 2 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater RUSKE-FRAUTSCHI-CHIEN HORN TRIO Saturday, December 5 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium ROSANNE CASH THE RIVER & THE THREAD Thursday, December 10 | 8 PM Page Auditorium VALENTINA LISITSA, PIANO Friday, December 11 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT Saturday, December 12 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
DUKE PERFORMANCES 2 0 1 5 /16 S E A S O N O O O
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FILTER THEATRE & ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT Friday, February 5 & Saturday, February 6 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater BLITZ THE AMBASSADOR Thursday, February 11 | 8 PM Motorco Music Hall DANISH STRING QUARTET Saturday, February 13 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION WHEN THE WOLVES CAME IN Friday, February 19 & Saturday, February 20 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater IGOR LEVIT, PIANO Friday, February 19 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 3 FEAT. KYO-SHIN-AN ARTS Saturday, February 20 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
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TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE Thursday, February 25 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater
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J A N UA R Y ’1 6 REZ ABBASI INVOCATION Friday, January 22 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium THYMOS QUARTET FEAT. CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, PIANO Sunday, January 24 | 7 PM Baldwin Auditorium JENNIFER KOH & SHAI WOSNER Saturday, January 30 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
FAZIL SAY, PIANO Sunday, February 28 | 7 PM Baldwin Auditorium
M A R C H ’16 SAVION GLOVER & JACK DEJOHNETTE Thursday, March 3 | 8 PM Page Auditorium PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND Friday, March 4 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF Saturday, March 5 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
DEVIANT SEPTET Friday, March 11 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium PARKER QUARTET FEAT. KIM KASHKASHIAN, VIOLA Saturday, March 12 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium CONRAD TAO, PIANO Friday, March 25 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium THE GLOAMING Saturday, March 26 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
A P R I L ’16 BECKETT TRILOGY: NOT I, FOOTFALLS, ROCKABY FEAT. LISA DWAN Friday, April 1 & Saturday, April 2 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater KASSÉ MADY DIABATÉ Friday, April 1 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium EMERSON STRING QUARTET Saturday, April 2 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium SHANGHAI QUARTET FEAT. WU MAN, PIPA Friday, April 8 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium ORLANDO CONSORT VOICES APPEARED: LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC Saturday, April 9 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium BOBAN & MARKO MARKOVIĆ ORKESTAR + FANFARE CIOCĂRLIA Monday, April 11 | 7 PM Page Auditorium CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 4 FEAT. EDGAR MEYER, BASS Saturday, April 16 | 2 PM Baldwin Auditorium TIMBER & RUSHES Friday, April 22 & Saturday, April 23 | 8 PM Durham Fruit & Produce Company MURRAY PERAHIA, PIANO Friday, April 29 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium ROOMFUL OF TEETH Saturday, April 30 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium
DUKE PERFORMANCES
REZ ABBAS I INVOCATION O O O
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $28 • $22 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Invocation is Pakistani-born jazz guitarist Rez Abbasi’s quintet featuring pianist Vijay Iyer and saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa. In this performance at Baldwin Auditorium, the quintet unveils a new project that explores Carnatic classical music from Southern India through the idiom of jazz. This is the final installment in a triptych made by Abbasi that puts a jazz lens on the musical traditions of South Asia; Invocation previously explored Hindustani music and qawwali in a pair of critically acclaimed recordings. All About Jazz calls Abassi’s music “neither Eastern nor Western, but effortlessly global … proof that jazz can be as vital and boundary-pushing as ever.” Abbasi — along with Iyer and Mahanthappa — is one of a trio of jazz musicians who are forging distinctly South Asian-inflected voices on the contemporary scene. Abbasi comes to this endeavor honestly: he is one of the foremost guitar players in modern jazz, a product of the Manhattan School of Music, and early in his career he made a pilgrimage to India to study intensively with tabla master Ustad Alla Rakha, father of Zakir Hussain. The mission of Invocation’s music, Abbasi declares, is “to create a global-based music steeped in jazz. This tradition follows in the footsteps of some of the greatest jazz musicians. Coltrane, Ellington, and Gillespie all immersed themselves in music from around the world.” The performance of Rez Abbasi’s Invocation, presented in collaboration with Asia Society and Walker Art Center, is supported by Presenter Consortium for Jazz, a program of Chamber Music America funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
THYMOS QUARTET F E AT U R I N G
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH PIANO O O O
SUNDAY, JANUARY 24 | 7 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
When Paris-based Thymos Quartet visited the United States in 2012, The Washington Post called their Kennedy Center performance “detailed down to the last atom, and overflowing with human experience.” The Thymos visit Durham with a program of Schubert and French composer Olivier Dejours. They are joined by the elegant pianist and conductor Christoph Eschenbach, hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his “crystalline tone” and “hypnotic rhythmic animation” in his interpretations of the music of Schubert. Opening the evening is Schubert’s Quartet No. 13, “Rosamunde,” written during the composer’s hiatus from writing art song to focus on larger-scale works. This is followed by the world premiere of Olivier Dejours’ String Quartet no. 17, a work that embodies Schubertian melodic values. The concert culminates in Schubert’s enduringly popular “Trout” Quintet, featuring a final movement that spins seemingly infinite variations from the melody of a single Lied.
JENNIFER KOH & SHAI WOSNER O O O
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Acclaimed and adventurous artists Jennifer Koh (violin) and Shai Wosner (piano) come together for a performance of Beethoven’s three brilliant Sonatas for Piano and Violin, op. 30. The New York Times declared that “Mr. Wosner’s singing tone and expressive musicality complemented Ms. Koh’s insightful, richly hued playing.” In this program, Koh and Wosner create a compositional conversation between Beethoven and American composer Andrew Norman, from whom they have commissioned companion pieces to Beethoven’s violin sonatas. Norman, whose music is often inspired by architecture, has been praised by The New York Times for his “daring juxtapositions and dazzling colors.” In response to the rhythmic elegance of op. 30, no. 1, the dramatically syncopated sforzandi of no. 3, and the expressive piano part that predominates in no. 2, Norman’s compositions shed new light on a set of classics. PROGRAM:
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Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 5 in A Major, op. 30, no. 1
Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804 (“Rosamunde”)
Andrew Norman: Response to Beethoven op. 30
Olivier Dejours: String Quartet No. 17 (“Creation”)
Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 8 in G Major, op. 30, no. 3
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 (“The Trout”)
Andrew Norman: Response to Beethoven op. 30 Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 7 in C Minor, op. 30, no. 2
2015 | 2016
DUKE PERFORMANCES
CANTUS THE FOUR LOVES O O O
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 | 7 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
FILTER THEATRE & ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT DIRECTED BY SEAN HOLMES O O O
Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER
Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Hailed by The Washington Post for their “expressive power and spontaneous grace,” the nine-voice men’s choir Cantus was founded in 1995 when its members were students at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Singing without a conductor, their trademark warmth, blend, and engaging performances have earned them accolades from the likes of the Los Angeles Times: “They revel in a heft of sound hardly imagined possible from nine men singing without accompaniment.”
Filter Theatre is quickly gaining a reputation as one of London’s boldest and most inventive young Shakespeare ensembles. The Daily Telegraph praises their “work that dazzles the eye, enchants the ear, and stimulates both the mind and heart.” Duke Performances hosts Filter’s radically cut, fast-paced version of Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy, Twelfth Night, where iconic verse meets madcap production.
In this pre-Valentine’s Day concert, Cantus bring their unity and purity of sound to a program of songs about the four loves of ancient Greek tradition. Highlights include Eric Whitacre’s ethereal Lux Aurumque, Gerald Finzi’s romantic Thou Didst Delight My Eyes, and Grieg’s rousing Brothers, Sing On! Cantus have also commissioned four new works for this program from composers David Lang, Roger Treece, Ysaye Barnwell, and Joseph Gregorio.
The classic farcical story of romance and mistaken identity is combined with Filter’s dynamic narrative drive and a torrent of sound and music to create one of the most entertaining and accessible Shakespeare productions of recent years. The Sunday Times raves, “The most hardhearted purists would melt at Filter’s ninety-minute reworking of this play, directed with passion, panache, and precision. This is not a send-up; it’s a celebration — mad, wild, loving, and hilarious.”
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Cantus’ program includes works from a wide range of composers — among them Poulenc, Eric Whitacre, Grieg, Beethoven, and Janáček — on the theme of the four loves of ancient Greek tradition. For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org
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DUKE PERFORMANCES
BLITZ THE AMBASSADOR
DANISH STRING QUARTET
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 | 8 PM MOTORCO MUSIC HALL
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $22 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission
Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Ghanaian-American rapper Blitz the Ambassador makes no bones about his mission. He blends elements of Ghanaian highlife with the fiercest and most socially engaged ’90s hip-hop, drawing inspiration from the supercharged rhythms of Fela Kuti and the thunderous delivery of his hero Chuck D. The result is a pointed commentary about Africa and America that is at once smart and outrageously danceable. “Blitz is one of the leading voices in the growing movement connecting the classic sound of American hip-hop with stories and musical traditions of Africa and the African diaspora” (Afropop Worldwide).
The recent emergence of the Denmarkand Norway-based Danish String Quartet has brought a fresh voice to the world of chamber music. Having played together since the age of fifteen, they tackle a remarkable variety of repertoire — Brahms, Nielsen, Scandinavian folk tunes, jazz standards — with equal thoughtfulness and rigor. The Danish String Quartet recently performed on NPR’s popular Tiny Desk Concerts series, where they were lauded for their “warmth, wit, beautiful tone, and technical prowess.” In Durham, these four exceptional and energetic players dive into an allBeethoven program, starting with the composer’s mastery of the form in op. 18 and culminating in the complexity and emotional depth of two of his colossal late quartets, op. 135 and op. 131. The latter is routinely considered Beethoven’s most strikingly innovative achievement, with its nearly improvisatory wanderings between permutations of its central themes. Stravinsky once called it “perfect, inevitable, inalterable.”
Blitz is backed here by a seven-piece band in the intimate nightclub setting of Motorco Music Hall, a venue perfectly suited to his “sonic fireworks, horn stabs, and percussive rumbles” (NPR). Blitz’s latest release, Afropolitan Dreams, chronicles life as an African artist in America, faced with the constant hustle between two different worlds. Blitz, with his rapper’s winning bravado, describes how he’s going to make it big: by dreaming large, working hard, and flowing indefatigably.
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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, op. 18 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, op. 135 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, op. 131
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
Subscribe to the Chamber Arts Series — Brentano String Quartet • Cuarteto Casals • Montrose Trio Ruske-Frautschi-Chien Horn Trio • Jennifer Koh & Shai Wosner • Danish String Quartet Parker Quartet feat. Kim Kashkashian • Emerson String Quartet — and get tickets to all eight concerts for $180. 2015 | 2016
DUKE PERFORMANCES
ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION WHEN THE WOLVES CAME IN O O O
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students
Abraham.In.Motion is the company of director and choreographer Kyle Abraham. A modern renaissance man, Abraham trained as a classical cellist and visual artist before turning his focus to contemporary dance. He is a MacArthur “Genius” and a recipient of both Princess Grace and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Awards. Dance Magazine praises his highly musical style, which “brings buried rhythms to the surface in swaths of luscious yet intricate movement.”
“An original and politically minded downtown sensibility … as much Merce and Martha, as it is Eadweard Muybridge and Michael Jackson.” (Vogue) Abraham’s virtuosic ensemble of eleven dancers perform his latest work, When the Wolves Came In, at Reynolds Industries Theater. The work examines two triumphs of international civil rights: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the abolishment of apartheid in South Africa. Anchored by the music of Robert Glasper and by the visuals of Glenn Ligon, When the Wolves Came In is a stylistic leap forward and a compelling new chapter for this modern dance visionary.
2015 | 2016
DUKE PERFORMANCES
IGOR LEVIT PIANO O O O
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Twenty-eight-year-old Russian-born pianist Igor Levit has experienced a meteoric rise over the last twelve months. His debut recording for Sony Classical boldly tackled the final three Beethoven sonatas, a rare undertaking for such a young artist. The New Yorker’s Alex Ross said of the recordings, “I was transfixed. Here was playing of technical brilliance, tonal allure, and intellectual drive.” Levit’s program spans two centuries, beginning with Bach’s Partita No. 4 from the composer’s last — and most technically demanding — set of keyboard suites. Levit then turns to the 19th century with Schubert’s complete Moments Musicaux and Beethoven’s stormy early sonata op. 31, no. 2. The evening concludes with Prokofiev’s politically charged Sonata op. 83. Written in 1942 in response to his close friend’s murder at the hands of Stalin’s Secret Police, it ranks among Prokofiev’s most subversive and celebrated works for piano. PROGRAM:
Bach: Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE LE TERRIBLE ORCHESTRE DE BELLEVILLE WITH COMPOSER BENOÎT CHAREST O O O
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
To celebrate the 10 anniversary of the unclassifiable, outrageous, and universally acclaimed animated film The Triplets of Belleville, composer Benoît Charest leads the nine-piece Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville in a live performance of his original score in tandem with a screening of the film at Reynolds Theater. The film features a cascade of memorable characters: squareshouldered noir-era henchmen, an impossibly wiry Tour de France cyclist, and of course the three eponymous jazz-era divas. The New York Times calls it “a tour de force of ink-washed, crosshatched mischief, and unlikely sublimity.” th
Charest’s score is a modern spin on 1930s Parisian jazz, ranging from rollicking dance numbers to dusky chansons, including the Oscar-nominated tune “Belleville Rendez-vous.” This performance, developed as a special presentation for the Montreal Jazz Festival, comes complete with live jazz-age music, singing, dancing, and live Foley artist accompaniment. A deluxe film and music presentation fit for big and little kids alike.
Schubert: Moments musicaux, D. 780 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, op. 31, no. 2 Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, op. 83
2015 | 2016
PATTY GRIFFIN, SARA WATKINS & ANAÏS MITCHELL O O O
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 | 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $55 • $45 • $40 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Three great American songwriters share the stage for an intimate presentation of their finest songs. Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins, and Anaïs Mitchell have each spent the last decade developing some of the most distinctive voices in American roots music. In this special show, they will sing from their own catalogues, back each other vocally and instrumentally, and recount the stories behind the songs. Griffin is a songwriting titan, weaving folk, gospel, and anthemic country rock into her GRAMMYwinning catalogue. She “digs deep into introspective lyrics… [using] the silence between notes to create shimmering music you won’t soon forget” (American Songwriter). Watkins, a founding member of progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek, has released two solo albums on Nonesuch to critical acclaim, and Mitchell is a Vermont-bred maverick whom The Independent on Sunday calls “the most original artist working in the field of new American folk music.” This concert promises to be a rare and illuminating meeting of three exceptionally creative musicians.
DUKE PERFORMANCES
FAZIL SAY
SAVION GLOVER & JACK DEJOHNETTE
PIANO O O O
O O O
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 | 7 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
THURSDAY, MARCH 3 | 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $55 • $45 • $40 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Born and raised in Ankara, pianist and composer Fazil Say is one of the most distinctive artists to emerge from Turkey in the last twenty years. His works blend folk traditions from his homeland with elements of Western classical music. Say’s musical vocabulary, like the geography of his native country, is situated between Europe and Asia. Le Figaro raves, “Say is not merely a pianist of genius; undoubtedly he will be one of the greatest artists of the twenty-first century.”
Savion Glover is the world’s reigning king of tap; over a thirty-year career he has brought his staccato art form into a contemporary black context while affirming its innate relationship to jazz music. The New York Times declares, “Glover’s strength doesn’t stop at his feet. It pumps through his body, lanky and tightly wound, radiating out like an electrical force.” At Duke Performances, Glover collaborates with legendary drummer and NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette, accompanied by DeJohnette’s eponymous quartet featuring reedman Don Byron.
The program is half Mozart and half Say’s original work. Say begins with two Mozart sonatas, K. 331 and 332, written in Vienna. The final movement of K. 331, uncoincidentally known as “Alla Turca,” features a march evoking an Ottoman Janissary band. After intermission, Say treats the audience to three pieces of his own, including a set of Jazz Fantasies based on Mozart’s march.
DeJohnette, famed for his “propulsive, percussive mastery” (NPR), launched his career with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in Chicago, played as a sideman for Bill Evans and Miles Davis (on Bitches Brew and Jack Johnson), and later recorded a run of albums for the ECM label. This will be an evening of rhythmic genius, with DeJohnette’s drumming providing expert interplay for Glover’s cadenced dance.
PROGRAM:
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332 Fazil Say: Gezi Park 2, Sonata for Piano Fazil Say: Ballads Fazil Say: Jazz Fantasies
Made possible, in part, with an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
2015 | 2016
DUKE PERFORMANCES
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND
HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF
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O O O
FRIDAY, MARCH 4 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
SATURDAY, MARCH 5 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Peter Rowan “is to country and bluegrass what Willie Nelson is to Country and Western: so deep in the traditions that the music seeps out of his pores” (San Francisco Chronicle). Both a traditionalist and an explorer, Rowan got his start in the 1960s as the lead vocalist and guitarist in Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys.
Born to Puerto Rican parents, raised in the Bronx, and now a resident of New Orleans, Alynda Lee Segarra fronts Hurray for the Riff Raff, a five-piece band that is equal parts jangly blues and gothtinged Americana, with Segarra’s warm alto voice at the center. The group visits Duke Performances with an evening of music drawing from their breakthrough record Small Town Heroes, released on ATO Records in 2014.
When roots music became popular and spread from the American South throughout the country, Rowan formed the marquis bluegrass quartet Old and In the Way with Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, and Vassar Clements. His flatpicking style and belted harmonies have become influential ingredients of the bluegrass canon over the last thirty years. Rowan’s performance at Baldwin Auditorium alongside his traditional combo will showcase his mastery of a beloved American art form.
Since that release, Hurray for the Riff Raff have benefited from an increased profile, including features on NPR and in The New York Times, as well as appearances in Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series and on the Newport Folk Festival’s main stage. Gramophone exclaims, “Hurray for the Riff Raff’s junkyard folk is stubborn, melancholy, and beautifully played. They are the perfect soundtrack to your Southern gothic romance, a junebug serenade, a two-step bramble-bush waltz.”
DEVIANT SEPTET O O O
FRIDAY, MARCH 11 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $28 • $22 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
In 2010, seven of New York City’s most sought-after and versatile instrumentalists connected over a shared love for Stravinsky’s magnificent L’Histoire du Soldat, and Deviant Septet was born. Scored for a high and low voice from each instrumental family — violin and bass, clarinet and bassoon, trumpet and trombone — plus percussion, the concert version of L’Histoire explores a unique and marvelous collection of sonic colors. Through a series of commissions, the “boisterously entertaining” (Lucid Culture) Deviant Septet is currently assembling new repertoire for their unusual instrumentation. At Duke Performances, the first half of their program will consist of brand new pieces by Duke Ph.D. student composers, developed over the course of the season while Deviant Septet are artists-in-residence at Duke. After intermission, they perform their signature rendition of Stravinsky’s masterful L’Histoire du Soldat. 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.
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DUKE PERFORMANCES
PARKER QUARTET
CONRAD TAO
F E AT U R I N G
PIANO
KIM KASHKASHIAN VIOLA O O O
SATURDAY, MARCH 12 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
The GRAMMY-winning Parker Quartet brings “pinpoint precision and a spectacular sense of urgency” (Boston Globe) to their broad repertoire and multitude of musical collaborations. Recently appointed Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University’s Department of Music, they are quickly becoming known as formidable interpreters of romantic and contemporary works. Beethoven’s op. 95 Quartet — which he called “Serioso” — is the shortest in his catalogue; compared to his late essays in the genre, it is a masterpiece of compactness and intensity. Op. 95 is followed by a new piece by Chicago composer Augusta Read Thomas, written in celebration of the Meselson-Stahl DNA replication discovery in 1958. After intermission, the quartet is joined by their former mentor, GRAMMY-winning violist Kim Kashkashian, for Dvor�ák’s Quintet op. 97, written during his 1893 stay at a Bohemian enclave in Iowa.
O O O
FRIDAY, MARCH 25 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Conrad Tao began his musical career as a wunderkind. As a preteenager he appeared as both a violin and piano soloist with dozens of top-tier orchestras, and later received eight consecutive ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Now twenty-one, he has transitioned gracefully into a mature artist with interpretive depth well beyond his years. The Baltimore Sun declares, “Tao possesses startling technical élan and an ability to communicate clearly, no matter how thorny a score may become.” At Duke Performances, Tao plays a varied program of old favorites and new discoveries. The first half is anchored by American works: excerpts from North American Ballads by the iconoclastic contemporary composer Frederic Rzewski sit alongside Copland’s Piano Sonata. In the second half, Tao takes on Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, a set of waltzes at the intersection of impressionism and modernism, followed by Schumann’s Carnaval, each movement of which represents a different festal reveler.
PROGRAM:
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, op. 95 (“Serioso”) Augusta Read Thomas: Helix Spirals Dvořák: String Quintet No. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 97
PROGRAM:
Frederic Rzewski: North American Ballads: Which Side Are You On? and Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues Copland: Piano Sonata Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales Schumann: Carnaval, op. 9
2015 | 2016
THE GLOAMING O O O
SATURDAY, MARCH 26 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Dublin’s The Gloaming are a fivepiece ensemble featuring some of the world’s great Celtic musicians, including singer Iarla Ó Lionáird and Martin Hayes, “one of the best fiddlers on the planet” (San Francisco Chronicle). Rounding out the collaboration are hardanger fiddler Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh; guitarist Dennis Cahill; and Brooklyn-based pianist and producer Thomas Bartlett, aka Doveman, best known for his work with The National, Grizzly Bear, and Nico Muhly. The Gloaming’s self-titled 2014 debut album was named one of the year’s best by NPR. The Guardian raves of The Gloaming, “one can only marvel at the intuitive understanding between the five. But it’s not just jigs and reels that make them remarkable; the opening “Song 44” has more in common with post-rock than with Christy Moore. It’s a staggering display of both emotion and virtuosity.” At Baldwin Auditorium, The Gloaming summon this transfixing blend of musical influences for an evening that is at once visionary and firmly grounded in the rich musical traditions of Ireland.
S A M U E L B E C K E T T, PA R I S , 1 9 7 9. P H O T O B Y R I C H A R D AV E D O N .
BECKETT TRILOGY: NOT I, FOOTFA LLS, ROCKA BY F E AT U R I N G
LISA DWAN BY SAMUEL BECKETT DIRECTED BY WALTER ASMUS O R I G I N A L LY P R O D U C E D B Y T H E R O YA L C O U R T T H E AT R E O O O
FRIDAY, APRIL 1 & SATURDAY, APRIL 2 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER
Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students
Samuel Beckett’s one-person plays contain notoriously thorny and challenging roles, requiring actors who possess both Herculean stamina and a formidable expressive range. Irish actress Lisa Dwan first garnered acclaim as a Beckett interpreter a decade ago with a captivating performance of Beckett’s treacherous and beautiful oneperson play Not I. The New York Times calls Dwan “an instrument of Beckett, in the same way saints and martyrs are said to be instruments of God … these plays, like dreams, stir up dormant parts of your mind that you don’t acknowledge during the day.”
A devoted acolyte of Beckett’s work and a longtime friend of his muse Billie Whitelaw, Dwan has assembled an evening of three one-person Beckett plays, fresh off of successful runs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Royal Court Theatre. Not I features Dwan blindfolded and chattering breathlessly; Footfalls depicts a grieving daughter pacing metronomically outside her dying mother’s bedroom; and Rockaby converts a rocking chair into an emblem of eternal sleep. These plays find Dwan in her element, enchanting and deeply committed to the affective power of theater.
2015 | 2016
DUKE PERFORMANCES
KASSÉ MADY DIABATÉ O O O
FRIDAY, APRIL 1 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $34 • $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Singer Kassé Mady Diabaté is a descendant of the most distinguished griot family of the ancient Manding Empire, the Diabatés of Kéla. His name, alongside other griot legends Toumani Diabaté and Bassekou Kouyaté, signifies musical royalty in Mali. Over a five-decade career, Diabaté has brought his nuanced, stirring voice to a series of splendid recordings, including 2010’s GRAMMY-winning Afrocubism, and the collaborative record Kulanjan with Taj Mahal. Salif Keita calls him “the greatest singer in Mali.” Diabaté’s new record, Kiriké, is a return to Malian tradition. Diabaté is backed by a stripped-down acoustic band of n’goni, balafon, and kora, the latter played by the legendary Ballaké Sissoko. The Chicago Reader calls it “an intimate set” which “allows Diabaté’s voice to shine — an airy, refined balance of sweetness and soul, gentleness and force.” Diabaté promises an evocative performance at the exquisite Baldwin Auditorium: “This is like sitting in a Bamako compound late at night, under the stars, and being sung to person to person” (Arts Desk UK).
EMERS ON STRING QUARTET O O O
SATURDAY, APRIL 2 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
The Emerson String Quartet have been lauded as “the one indispensible quartet” (Newsday). In their forty-year career they have made unparalleled contributions to American chamber music, amassed thirty recordings, nine GRAMMYs, and received induction into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. They are frequent guests of the Chamber Arts Society, most recently having come to Duke Performances in 2013, when they were newly energized by the addition of cellist Paul Watkins. The evening’s program begins with Haydn’s tuneful “Emperor” Quartet, followed by Bartók’s densely beautiful Fourth Quartet, the five movements of which form a palindrome of tempo and intensity imbued with Hungarian folk tunes. Schubert’s posthumously-published Quartet in G is a fitting culmination not only of this concert, but also the 2015/16 Chamber Arts Series. This work finds the composer deeply engaged with modal mixture and slippery modulations. The effect is a winding, sometimes disorienting, and ultimately satisfying journey — a crowning achievement of First Viennese School chamber music.
SHANGHAI QUARTET F E AT U R I N G
WU MAN P I PA O O O
FRIDAY, APRIL 8 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
The Chamber Arts Series offers a very special program set outside the boundaries of standard repertoire: the acclaimed Shanghai Quartet and pipa (Chinese lute) virtuoso Wu Man unite to perform three new pieces by contemporary Chinese composers for string quartet and pipa. Called “wonderfully ferocious and illuminating” by The Washington Post, the Shanghai are recognized for their unique fluency in both Eastern folk and Western Classical idioms. This program showcases their exceptional stylistic range with works by composer Tan Dun and a world premiere from the Shanghai’s own second violinist Yi-Wen Jiang. Tan, who achieved international fame for his score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, blends elements of Western avantgarde, Chinese opera, and sounds of nature into one of today’s most remarkable musical voices. The program concludes with Zhao Jiping & Zhao Lin’s Quintet for Pipa and String Quartet.
PROGRAM:
Tan Dun: Ghost Opera PROGRAM:
Haydn: String Quartet No. 3 in C Major, op. 76 (“Emperor”) Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, Sz. 91 Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887
2015 | 2016
Yi-Wen Jiang: Chinese folk song arrangement Zhao Jiping & Zhao Lin: Quintet for Pipa and String Quartet Made possible, in part, with an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
DUKE PERFORMANCES
ORLANDO CONS ORT VOICES A PPEA RED: LA PASSION DE JEA NNE D’A RC
BOBAN & MARKO MARKOVIĆ ORKESTAR + FANFARE CIOCĂRLIA
O O O
O O O
SATURDAY, APRIL 9 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
MONDAY, APRIL 11 | 7 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $45 • $35 • $30 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
In a special performance, Britain’s Orlando Consort accompany a screening of the landmark Carl Theodor Dreyer film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928) with the music of Dufay, Binchois, and other fifteenth-century composers. For twentyfive years this five-voice ensemble has produced renaissance vocal music noted for its vibrancy and precision; The New York Times praises their “consummate mastery and refinement.”
Page Auditorium will be swept up in raucous celebration when two of today’s pre-eminent Balkan brass bands play an extraordinary double bill. Serbian-born Boban Markovic´ is widely considered the foremost trumpet virtuoso to emerge from the Balkans. His Boban Markovic´ Orkestar is a thirteen-piece ensemble featuring his son, trumpeter Marko Markovic´, a rising star. Wall Street Journal praises the Orkestar’s kitchen-sink aesthetic, which includes “Middle Eastern pentatonics, Yiddishkeit minor key moaning and wailing, Cubano-style clave, and even New Orleans funk backbeats.”
At Duke Performances, the Orlando Consort honor the rich and meticulous period detail of Dreyer’s depiction of medieval France with a vivid live soundtrack of motets and plainsong. To further link the film and music, they have selected only music that was composed during Joan of Arc’s lifetime: 1412-1431. Renée Falconetti’s rapturous performance as the title heroine in the movie remains a landmark in the history of cinema; even devoted fans of the film will find new depths in Dreyer’s masterpiece when it is coupled with the Orlando Consort’s deeply moving score.
Fanfare Cioca˘rlia, hailing from the Romanian village of Zece Prajini, is a twelve-piece maelstrom of trumpets, tuba, clarinets, saxophones, and percussion. Noting their range of influences, from Duke Ellington to Balkan wedding music, The Guardian raves, “They were faster and more frantic than any other brass ensemble I can think of, but never lost control, and constantly and ingeniously varied the repertoire.” Don’t miss these two outstanding ensembles whose collaborative album Balkan Brass Battle was praised by AllMusic as “thrilling and packed with virtuosic playing.”
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The Orlando Consort’s program includes music composed during the lifetime of St. Joan of Arc, including works by Dufay, Binchois, Estienne Grossin, Johannes Le Grant, and Johannes Tapissier. For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org
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DUKE PERFORMANCES
MICHAEL GORDON TIMBER & RUSHES
MURRAY PERAHIA
F E AT U R I N G M A N T R A P E R C U S S I O N & THE RUSHES ENSEMBLE
O O O
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FRIDAY, APRIL 22 & SATURDAY, APRIL 23 | 8 PM DURHAM FRUIT & PRODUCE COMPANY
Tickets: $22 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission
Bang on a Can co-founder Michael Gordon, one of America’s most adventurous composers, writes music characterized by “vigor and hypnotic intensity” (The New York Times). Mantra Percussion and The Rushes Ensemble come to the Durham Fruit & Produce Company — a new downtown warehouse space dedicated to the arts — with a program of two of Gordon’s thematically-linked major works that have never before been presented in the United States in a single evening. Timber, for six percussionists playing two-by-fours — like you might buy at a lumber yard — creates a rhythmic atmosphere of overtones that The Boston Globe describes as “a halo, an ethereal aura of sound.” Rushes also makes inventive use of unusual resources: it is a reflective, sixtyminute tour de force scored for seven bassoons and partially inspired by the ethos of Timber. The pieces will be performed in adjacent spaces, separated by an intermission. In this immersive, site-specific experience, Gordon intends to create “a quasimeditative, almost ecstatic state in the listener as well as the performer.”
PIANO
FRIDAY, APRIL 29 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $62 • $54 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
The Piano Recital Series closes with three-time GRAMMY-winning concert pianist Murray Perahia. As the protégé of Vladimir Horowitz, Perahia developed a sound that is at once stately and incendiary, taking bold interpretive liberties without sacrificing precision, poise, or fidelity to the score. He has earned nine Gramophone Awards over thirty years for his recordings of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin, composers who form the core of his repertoire. Perahia, who holds an honorary doctorate from Duke, has been performing on campus since his early twenties. The Chicago Tribune raves, “the commanding insights he brings to the essential keyboard repertory are more than enough to breathe freshness and distinction into works we’ve heard many times before, but seldom played at this inspired level.” Perahia’s program at Duke Performances will be finalized in early 2016; regardless of repertoire this promises to be a singular opportunity to hear one of the greatest living pianists in an close-up setting.
ROOMFUL OF TEETH O O O
SATURDAY, APRIL 30 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $28 • $22 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
The eight-member GRAMMYwinning a cappella vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth explore the expressive power and range of the human voice in the Vocal Ensemble Series’ closing concert. Formed at Williams College by music professor Brad Wells, its members are classically trained singers who draw on techniques and genres as disparate as yodeling and Tuvan throat singing. The ensemble works closely with contemporary composers in creating an ecstatic, entirely commissioned repertoire. NPR declares, “their singing is fiercely beautiful and bravely, utterly exposed.” Caroline Shaw became the youngestever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her piece Partita for 8 Voices, which she wrote for Roomful of Teeth (of which she is a member). Partita, a four-movement work fashioned after a baroque dance suite and inspired by a Sol LeWitt drawing, forms the backbone of this program at Baldwin Auditorium, alongside new pieces by New York City composers Judd Greenstein, Eric Dudley, and another recent Pulitzer awardee, Julia Wolfe.
PROGRAM:
PROGRAM:
Program to be finalized in early 2016.
Roomful of Teeth’s program includes Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices, in addition to new works by New York City composers Judd Greenstein, Eric Dudley, and Julia Wolfe. For complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org
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C I O M P I Q UA R T E T CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 1
CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 3
F E AT U R I N G
F E AT U R I N G
KYO-SHIN-AN ARTS
NNENNA FREELON
J A M E S N YO R A K U S C H L E F E R , S H A K U H A C H I YO KO K I M U R A , S H A M I S E N & V O I C E Y U M I K U R O S AWA , KOTO
JAZZ VOCALIST O O O
O O O
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
Tickets: $25 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 All Students | General Admission Seating
Tickets: $25 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 All Students | General Admission Seating
PROGRAM:
PROGRAM:
Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, op. 77, no. 1 Beethoven: String Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 74 (“Harp”)
Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, op. 10
Mark Kuss: Slave Songs and Spirituals with Nnenna Freelon, jazz vocalist
Zhou Long: Poems from Tang (commissioned by the Ciompi) James Nyoraku Schlefer: Dream Corner, for Japanese Sankyoku and String Quartet
CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 2
CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 4
F E AT U R I N G
TONY ARNOLD
5 0T H A N N I V E R S A R Y C E L E B R AT I O N & DUKE ALUMNI CONCERT
SOPRANO
F E AT U R I N G
O O O
EDGAR MEYER
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 | 7 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
BASS
Tickets: $25 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 All Students | General Admission Seating
SATURDAY, APRIL 16 | 2 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
PROGRAM:
Schubert: String Quartet in A Minor, op. 29 (“Rosamunde”)
Tickets: $25 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 All Students | General Admission Seating
Webern: Langsamer Satz
PROGRAM:
Webern: Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, op. 9
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp Minor, op. 10 with Tony Arnold, soprano
Edgar Meyer: String Quintet
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Dvořák: String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, op. 77
VENUES
VENUES O O O
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BALDWIN AUDITORIUM
R E Y N O L D S I N D U S T R I E S T H E AT E R
1336 Campus Drive (intersection of Onslow Street & West Markham Avenue) Durham, NC 27708 dukeperformances.org
Bryan University Center 125 Science Drive | Durham, NC 27708 dukeperformances.org
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MOTORCO MUSIC HALL
305 South Dillard Street | Durham, NC 27701 dukeperformances.org
723 Rigsbee Avenue | Durham, NC 27701 motorcomusic.com
C A R O L I N A T H E AT R E O F D U R H A M
DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
309 West Morgan Street | Durham, NC 27701 carolinatheatre.org
123 Vivian Street | Durham, NC 27701 dpacnc.com 2015 | 2016
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T I C K E T O N S A L E D AT E S
Duke Performances 2015/16 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 to general public on TUESDAY, JUNE 23 at 11 AM. Single tickets to Duke Performances 2015/16 shows will go on sale TUESDAY, JULY 14 at 11 AM. $10 Duke student tickets and $15 tickets for patrons ages 30 and under will go on sale TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 at 11 AM.
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25% 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 buy tickets to four or more shows from Duke Performances 2015/16 season. Note: Because of Ticketmaster’s exclusive agreement with The Carolina Theatre & DPAC, Duke Performances’ co-presentations of The Fairfield Four & The McCrary Sisters and Buena Vista Social Club are excluded from Pick-Four discounts. However, the purchase of a Duke Performances’ Pick-Four package comes with a discount code — redeemable online, by phone, or at the venue box office — worth 25% off tickets to those presentations.
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Brentano String Quartet • Cuarteto Casals • Montrose Trio Ruske-Frautschi-Chien Horn Trio • Jennifer Koh & Shai Wosner Danish String Quartet • Parker Quartet feat. Kim Kashkashian, viola Emerson String Quartet CAS package provides best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium. Regular price: $295. Series discount price: $180.
$ 10 T I C K E T S F O R D U K E S T U D E N T S ; A MIRACULOUS STUDENT TICKET PRICE
Duke students — both undergraduate & graduate — may purchase tickets to any and all shows on Duke Performances’ 2015/16 season for just $10. Note: Limit of two $10 tickets per student for each presentation. Quantities of available $10 Duke student tickets may be restricted. Duke student ID required at time of purchase.
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Jonathan Biss • Valentina Lisitsa • Igor Levit • Fazil Say Conrad Tao • Murray Perahia PRS package provides best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium. Regular price: $245. Series discount price: $185.
$1 5 T I C K E T S F O R PAT R O N S A G E S 3 0 & U N D E R
Patrons ages 30 & under — high school students, college students matriculating at neighboring institutions & young professionals — may purchase tickets to nearly every presentation on Duke Performances’ 2015/16 season for just $15. Note: Limit of two $15 tickets per patron for each presentation. Quantities of $15 tickets may be restricted. ID required at time of purchase.
15 % D U K E E M P L OY E E D I S C O U N T; E V E R Y S H O W, A L L S E A S O N
Duke University employs 35,998 fine folks; each and every one is entitled to 15% off tickets to nearly every presentation on Duke Performances’ 2015/16 season. Note: Limit of two discounted employee tickets per presentation. Duke employee ID required at time of purchase.
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Vienna Boys’ Choir • Amarcord • The King’s Singers • Cantus Orlando Consort • Roomful of Teeth VES package provides best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium. Regular price: $250. Series discount price: $185.
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Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 1 feat. Nnenna Freelon, jazz vocalist Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 2 feat. Tony Arnold, soprano Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 3 feat. Kyo-Shin-An Arts Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 4 feat. Edgar Meyer, bass Ciompi series employs general admission seating in Baldwin Auditorium. Regular price $100. Series discount price: $80.
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ORDERING TICKETS
By Phone Call the Duke University Box Office between Monday and Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM, 919-684-4444. Credit card orders only. Online Log on to Duke Performances’ website any time at dukeperformances.org In Person Visit the University Box Office on the top level of the Bryan Center on Duke University’s West Campus between Monday and Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM. Box office will open at performance venues one hour prior to the start of each show. T I C K E T I N G D E TA I L S F O R D U K E P E R F O R M A N C E S ’ C O N C E R T S AT C A R O L I N A T H E AT R E O F D U R H A M A N D DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
The Fairfield Four & The McCrary Sisters Thursday, October 1 | 8 PM Carolina Theatre of Durham Tickets may be purchased through the Carolina Theatre website at carolinatheatre.org, by calling 919-560-3030, or by visiting the Carolina Theatre box office at 309 W. Morgan St. Tickets for Carolina Theatre performances are sold through Ticketmaster; Ticketmaster service charges will be applied. Buena Vista Social Club Monday, October 26 | 7 PM Durham Performing Arts Center Tickets may be purchased through the DPAC website at dpacnc.com, by calling 919-688-3722, or by visiting the DPAC box office at 123 Vivian Street. Tickets for DPAC performances are sold through Ticketmaster; Ticketmaster service charges will be applied.
If You Are Unable To Attend If you are unable to attend a program for which you hold tickets, you may donate those tickets in person or via phone at 919-684-4444 to the University Box Office for a tax credit. Website & Email Updates Visit dukeperformances.org for updates on all events. We also encourage you to join Duke Performances’ email list which can be accessed through our website. We will use this list to inform you of any changes to the series. Accessibility If you anticipate needing any type of special accommodation or have questions about physical access please contact the University Box Office at 919-684-4444 in advance of the concert. Refunds Tickets are nonrefundable except in the case of canceled events.
GIVE TO DUKE PERFORMANCES In order to best serve our community, Duke Performances offers tickets at the lowest possible price, typically 30% less than tickets to comparable events in the region. Donations from patrons ensure that we can continue to offer tickets to exceptional programs at these low prices. With increasing pressure on funding sources, we depend even more on the generosity of those who can support our efforts to provide the best performing arts to the widest possible audience. When you make a gift to Duke Performances you ensure our ability to continue presenting top-flight, forward-thinking artists, foster meaningful interaction with students and build a community in Durham dedicated to culture and the arts.
Duke students may purchase $10 student tickets to these shows at the Carolina Theatre and Durham Performing Arts Center through the Duke University Box Office in the Bryan Center.
Visit dukeperformances.org/give to make your fully tax-deductible contribution to Duke Performances. If you have any questions about how to further support Duke Performances, please contact us at either performances@duke.edu or 919-660-3356.
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Directions & Parking For full driving directions and parking information, please visit dukeperformances.org and click on the button marked VENUES.
Aaron Greenwald / Executive Director 919-660-3357 / aaron.greenwald@duke.edu
Late Seating Policy Please allow enough time to park, claim your tickets, and get seated before the start-time of performances. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house manager and Duke Performances staff. Lost Tickets If you lose your tickets and need replacements, please call the University Box Office at 919-684-4444. Performance Changes & Performance Cancellation Programs are subject to change without notice for reasons outside the control of Duke Performances. If a performance is canceled, you will be notified as early as possible and offered either an exchange or a refund.
Eric Oberstein / Associate Director 919-660-3359 / eric.oberstein@duke.edu Ariel Fielding / Marketing Director 919-660-3348 / ariel.fielding@duke.edu Gray West / Graphic Designer 919-660-3371 / gray.west@duke.edu Suzanne Despres / Production Manager 919-660-3379 / suzanne.despres@duke.edu Gloria Hunt / Business Manager 919-660-3356 / gloria.hunt@duke.edu
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