2016/17 Spring Brochure by Duke Performances

DU KE PERFO R MAN CES

S P R I N G 2017 | M U S I C , T H E AT E R , D A N C E & M O R E . IN DURHAM, AT DUKE, ES S EN TI AL ART.

BRANFORD MARSALIS & JOEY CALDERAZZO

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 & SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $56 • $44 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

Jazz titan Branford Marsalis is a famous son of New Orleans and scion of that city’s first family of music. For the last fifteen years this definitive American saxophonist, who plays “with the technical mastery and emotional maturity that produces great music” (San Francisco Chronicle), has called Durham home, teaching at NC Central University and recording albums here. Virtuoso pianist Joey Calderazzo first met Marsalis almost thirty years ago, when the young musicians worked together in Michael Brecker’s combo. Calderazzo also lives in Durham, having spent two decades as a featured artist in GRAMMY-winner Marsalis’ quartet and releasing his own acclaimed albums on Marsalis’ label.

These two longtime collaborators return to Duke Performances, bringing a sly irreverence to their hometown concerts in a presentation perfectly sized to Baldwin Auditorium. Together, they play everything from blues to ballads, excelling in both swinging standards and angular experimentation. JazzTimes said of their 2011 duo album Songs of Mirth and Melancholy, “both musicians shine, but there’s no strutting going on here, no cutting contest, only a singular vision.”

“MARSALIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPOSING SAXOPHONISTS IN JAZZ.” — CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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BARNATAN, McGILL, WEILERSTEIN TRIO SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

Each player in this dream ensemble is a star in his or her own right: Cellist Alisa Weilerstein is a MacArthur Fellow, praised as “a passionate player of intense musicality” (The New York Times); New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill is also a tireless chamber player renowned for “his trademark brilliance, penetrating sound, and rich character” (The New York Times); and pianist Inon Barnatan is a sought-after soloist whom New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert called “a complete artist.” These three stars come together here to explore the clarinet trio repertoire with three markedly different works. The program begins with the world premiere of a trio written for this group by the composer Joseph Hallman, then turns to Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio in B-flat, an arrangement of the op. 20 septet, an early masterpiece. Brahms’ Clarinet Trio, which rekindled his career, caused his lifelong friend, musicologist Eusebius Mandyczewski, to remark that “it is as though the instruments were in love with each other.”

PROGRAM Joseph Hallman: Clarinet Trio World Premiere Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major, op. 11 Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A Minor, op. 114

THE CIVILIANS NEW PLAY WORKSHOP READING SATURDAY, JANUARY 28 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER Tickets: $10 | General Admission Seating

The Civilians return to Duke Performances to workshop a new play by Ethan Lipton about the corporatization of U.S. public education. A playwright, performer, and songwriter, Lipton is best known for his plays Luther — a New York Times Critics’ Pick, with five stars from TimeOut NY — and the Obie-winning No Place To Go, which was presented at The Public Theater. Made possible, in part, with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts & Council for the Arts Visiting Artist Program, as well as the Department of Theater Studies & the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

DEVIANT SEPTET FEAT. MELLISSA HUGHES, SOPRANO

PIERROT LUNAIRE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 | 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM

Tickets: $24 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students General Admission Seating

Deviant Septet, the new music ensemble which Time Out New York called “exceedingly fun,” are now in their second year of residency at Duke. Last season, they brought down the house with their performance of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat, which Indy Week praised as “limber and rich, showing the wit and humor that so often hide behind Stravinsky’s cool exterior.” That was the piece that originally drew the group together, and it has remained their calling card ever since.

This season, Deviant Septet present Arnold Schoenberg’s astounding Expressionist melodrama from 1912, Pierrot Lunaire, specially transcribed for the group’s instrumentation. They are joined by soprano Mellissa Hughes, “a dazzling diva adept at old and new music” (TimeOut New York), who half-sings, half-speaks her way through the twenty-one irreverent poems that Schoenberg set in captivating atonality. Hughes and Deviant Septet perform in the intimate confines of the Nelson Music Room, offering audiences an up-close seat to Schoenberg’s masterpiece.

PROGRAM Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21

ARTIST RESIDENCY Deviant Septet return to Duke Performances as Ensemble-inResidence this season, visiting Durham three times to workshop and record new compositions by Duke graduate composers. Made possible, in part, with support from the Department of Music at Duke University & the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, Duke University.

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ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER CHOIR

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, VIOLIN & LARS VOGT, PIANO

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 | 8 PM DUKE CHAPEL

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 | 8 PM B AL D W I N AU D I TO R I U M

Tickets: Preferred Seating ‑ $42 General Admission Seating ‑ $24 • $15 Ages 30 & Under & $10 Duke Students

Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir come from a country where musical virtuosity is prized, part-singing has been an essential ingredient of education for centuries, and the choral tradition is closely linked to the sense of national identity. It is not surprising, then, that this outstanding twenty-five voice professional ensemble arose from a children’s choir. As adults, graduates of that choir formed what would become the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, winning several international competitions and growing in popularity along with the Estonian composer whose work they championed, Arvo Pärt. These flawless singers, renowned for the shimmering quality of their sound, return to Duke Chapel following their triumphant sold-out 2013 performance. Their program features works by two of the greatest living choral composers: Pärt, whose luminous compositions look back to medieval and renaissance music, and Pärt’s countryman Veljo Tormis, who draws inspiration from Estonian folk songs. Rounding out the program are rarely-performed masterpieces by Tchaikovsky — Nine Sacred Pieces — and Sibelius — the folk-based Partsongs.

Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt both have thriving solo careers; when they appear together, the result is truly dynamic. Their long-standing partnership brings them to Duke Performances for a program that demonstrates why the Chicago Tribune wrote that “whatever the time period and style of the music, Tetzlaff and Vogt excelled, bringing to it not only virtuosity but also penetration.” They begin with Beethoven’s dramatic Seventh Violin Sonata and then juxtapose it with Bartók’s intricate Violin Sonata No. 2, a work incorporating Romanian and Roma influences. In a second revealing juxtaposition, they contrast Mozart’s introspective F Major Sonata with Schubert’s bravura Rondo, both ideal showcases for “two musicians absolutely at the top of their game” (Gramophone Magazine).

PROGRAM Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 7 in C Minor, op. 30, no. 2 Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 2, Sz. 76

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Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in F Major, K. 377/374e Schubert: Rondo for Piano and Violin in B minor, D. 895

Arvo Pärt: Solfeggio, Nunc Dimittis, The Woman with the Alabaster Box, Dopo La Vittoria Tchaikovsky: Selections from Nine Sacred Pieces: Nos. 3, 7, and 9 Veljo Tormis: Towerbell of my Village, Curse Upon Iron Sibelius: Selections from 6 Partsongs, op. 18: Song of my Heart, Beloved, Fire on the Island

SPRING 2017

H I P -H O P I N I T I AT I V E

TALIB KWELI THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 | 9 PM M O T O R C O MUSI C HA L L

Tickets: $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students | General Admission Limited Seating

Groundbreaking Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli first made his name as half of Black Star, alongside Mos Def. Their acclaimed 1998 album mixed “rugged street beats and rhymes brainy enough for boho B-boys” (Entertainment Weekly), rejecting the violence and nihilism of gangsta rap in favor of a message of empowerment. Kweli has since put out more than a dozen albums, each radiating an “emotional immediacy and political awareness that was largely absent from hip-hop” (Pitchfork). Twenty years into his career and still pushing boundaries, Talib Kweli collaborated with Durham’s own multi-GRAMMY-winning producer 9th Wonder on the 2015 album Indie 500. Capping off a weeklong residency at Duke, Kweli presents this two-night stand at Motorco, offering a rare opportunity to hear one of hip-hop’s most original and accomplished voices in the up-close-and-personal club setting. It’s the perfect venue to show off his combination of social consciousness and pure lyrical virtuosity. Talib Kweli is presented as part of Duke Performances’ Hip-Hop Initiative, made possible, in part, with support from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.

JERRY DOUGLAS PRESENTS

EARLS OF LEICESTER SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

Dobro master Jerry Douglas is a true legend of bluegrass. “From regal restraint to reckless abandon, Douglas is never anything less than astonishing” (Billboard). Stars as diverse as Charlie Haden, Dolly Parton, and Ray Charles have called on Douglas’ unmistakable sound as a session musician on an astounding two thousand albums. Douglas moved from sideman to soloist and producer more than twenty years ago when he formed the acoustic supergroup Strength in Numbers. He has won an amazing fourteen GRAMMY awards, culminating in a 2015 win for best bluegrass album by his all-star group the Earls of Leicester. In name and style, the group is Douglas’ tribute to the Foggy Mountain Boys, led by the legendary duo of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Six of roots music’s very finest (including veterans of Union Station and the son of an original Foggy Mountain Boy) join to conjure up the sound and feel of a concert by the fathers of modern bluegrass. “You expect a band of superstars to be fantastic,” raved Bluegrass Today. “But these six guys go far beyond that superlative.”

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U.S. PREMIERE | DANCE

MALPASO DANCE COMPANY + ARTURO O’FARRILL & THE AFRO LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE DREAMING OF LIONS “YOU GET THE FEELING THAT THEY COULD DANCE JUST ABOUT ANY GENRE WITH JAW-DROPPING STYLE. WHICH MAKES THEIR UNIQUE EXPRESSION OF CUBAN CULTURE IN ALL ITS PROFOUND AND COMPLEX GLORY ALL THE MORE SPECIAL.” — NOW MAGAZINE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

Thanks to thawing relations between the U.S. and Cuba, the prodigiously talented Malpaso Dance Company of Havana have started to appear more frequently on American stages. Central to Malpaso’s rising profile is their relationship with the New York-based Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, which has won two GRAMMY awards under bandleader Arturo O’Farrill. The tenpiece Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble (ALJE), featuring members of the Orchestra, “embraces music from across the Americas, playing all of its diverse material with the same precision and fire it brings to a mambo workout” (The New York Times).

Malpaso and the ALJE come to Duke for the U.S. premiere of Dreaming of Lions, in which ten musicians and ten dancers present an evening-length evocation of Ernest Hemingway’s classic 1952 novella The Old Man and the Sea. Choreographer Osnel Delgado draws on ballet and Cuban dance in depicting the tale of a fisherman’s quest to catch an elusive marlin, using a different movement vocabulary to delineate each character in the story. The work wrestles with themes of honor, determination, and loss through one man’s crusade for victory in the unrelenting sea.

Malpaso Dance Company is an Associate Company of Joyce Theater Productions. Made possible, in part, with a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council, and support from the Dance Program at Duke University.

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ERIC WHITACRE SINGERS

“WHITACRE WRITES CAPTIVATING MUSIC OF RARE BEAUTY.” — NPR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 | 8 PM DUKE CHAPEL Tickets: VIP Seating ‑ $52 Preferred Seating ‑ $42 General Admission Seating ‑ $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under & $10 Duke Students

“Eric Whitacre is a phenomenon in the music world,” wrote the Sydney Morning Herald, calling him “a composer of thoughtful and genuinely original choral works which are not only challenging and complex, but also hugely popular.” The Juilliard-trained composer and conductor has become a force in the choral genre. He has released chart-topping and GRAMMY-winning albums, toured the world with his all-star ensemble the Eric Whitacre Singers, and assembled the world’s first online virtual choir. Whitacre brings his virtuoso ensemble to what is sure to be a standing-room-only Duke Chapel, the perfect acoustic match for his ethereal compositions. Fittingly, the program will include his Music for Sacred Spaces, a choral work that integrates solo cello with elements of electronic music. The program also features two transporting classics of his repertoire, Sleep and Lux Aurumque, both of which have become — thanks to their inclusion in Whitacre’s virtual choir project — worldwide choral classics.

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KIRILL GERSTEIN, PIANO HAGEN QUARTET FEAT. KIRILL GERSTEIN, PIANO

FRIDAY, MARCH 3 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

Five years ago, The New York Times declared that Kirill Gerstein was “emerging as one of the most respected pianists of his generation.” That emergence is now complete, with the Russian-born musician and winner of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award in high demand both as a recitalist and concerto soloist on the great stages of the classical world. The Guardian wrote of his playing: “This is the kind of serious, intelligent, and virtuosic music-making that keeps classical music alive.” Gerstein returns to Duke Performances with an ambitious program of masterpieces that show off his astounding technique. The interlacing voices of Bach’s sublime Four Duettos prefigure one of Brahms’ first compositions, the dramatic Sonata in F-sharp Minor. He centers the recital on two Beethoven sonatas: No. 13 in E-flat, and the famous Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor (“Moonlight”). Gerstein follows these titanic sonatas with the fireworks of the teenage Franz Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes.

PROGRAM

SATURDAY, MARCH 4 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

The Hagen Quartet sound like they’ve been playing together their whole lives — because they have. The otherworldly closeness of their sound, built on the collaboration of the three Hagen siblings with violinist Rainer Schmidt, led the Los Angeles Times to call them “the ideal string quartet.” Legends in Europe for three decades, the rarity of their visits to the United States makes this concert a true event. For this program, they are joined by pianist Kirill Gerstein, whose “blistering technique is matched only by his deeply soulful connection to standard repertoire” (TimeOut New York). The Hagens begin on their own, with Beethoven’s charming Second Quartet, which evokes Haydn and Mozart. They demonstrate their range by turning to Bartók’s Third Quartet, a spirited one-movement worh influenced by Beethovenian counterpoint. Gerstein joins them for the finale, the tragic and tempestuous Piano Quintet, which Brahms’ friend Hermann Levi called “beautiful beyond words, a masterpiece of chamber music.”

Bach: Four Duettos, BWV 802-805 Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp Minor, op. 2

PROGRAM

Beethoven: Sonata No. 13 in E-flat Major, op. 27, no. 1 Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, op. 27, no 2 (“Moonlight”) Liszt: Selections from Transcendental Etudes, S. 139

Beethoven: String Quartet in G Major, op. 18, no. 2 Bartók: String Quartet No. 3 Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, op. 34

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DANCE

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GEIMARU-ZA CAPPELLA PRATENSIS NIHON BUYO TROUPE FRIDAY, MARCH 10 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $32 • $26 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

TUESDAY, MARCH 7 | 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER Tickets: $32 • $26 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

Geimaru-za is an ensemble dedicated to nihon buyo, or traditional Japanese dance, an ancient offshoot of kabuki dance drama. Like kabuki, nihon buyo incorporates vivid narrative, colorfully costumed performers, and live music. These dances have been refined through the ages into simple and elegant narratives: in one dance, a puppeteer helps a marionette after it gets tangled in its own strings; in another, a poet saves both a plum tree and the nightingale that lives in its branches. The five dynamic young dancers of Geimaru-za trained in the Department of Traditional Japanese Music at Tokyo’s prestigious University of the Arts; they appear at Duke Performances as part of their first-ever tour of the United States. Performing with eight live musicians, including shamisen (a three-stringed lute), fue (flute), and a resounding percussion section of taiko, o-tsuzumi, and ko-tsuzumi, the consummate artists of Geimaru-za offer an authentic performance of a distinctly Japanese dance tradition made vital and new. This tour of Geimaru-za is produced & organized by Japan Society, New York & supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan & The Asahi Shimbun Foundation.

“Cappella Pratensis sing with an organic appreciation of line and text that enfolds the ear in every phrase,” marveled Classical Music Magazine. This Dutch ensemble summons the atmosphere of choral singing from five centuries ago: eight male voices, all reading from a single choir book. They recreate original practices without sacrificing the immediacy of these intricate masterworks. Cappella Pratensis come to Duke Performances with a tribute to the best-known son of their native city, the phantasmagorical painter Hieronymus Bosch. To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, the group brings to life the music of the astounding generation of Franco-Flemish choral composers he would have heard in his day. While Bosch filled his paintings with vivid and densely packed images, composers like Pierre de La Rue filled their works with musical variety and polyphonic innovation. Cappella Pratensis contrasts a mass by de La Rue with two “triptych wings”: simple Gregorian plainchant and the many-voiced motets of Mouton and Clemens non Papa.

PROGRAM The program for this concert will include polyphonic works by composers Pierre de La Rue, Jean Mouton, and Jacobus Clemens non Papa, along with plainchant. For the complete program, please visit dukeperformances.org.

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JAZZ @ 21C

ANAT COHEN QUARTET “A WOODWIND REVELATION OF DARK TONES AND DELICIOUS LYRICISM.” — DOWNBEAT SUNDAY, MARCH 19 TWO SETS: 5 PM & 7:30 PM 21C MUSEUM HOTEL DURHAM

Tickets: $34 • $10 Duke Students General Admission Seating

Anat Cohen “has emerged as one of the brightest, most original young instrumentalists in jazz, playing saxophone and clarinet in no fewer than seven working bands and almost as many styles,” marveled The Washington Post. The Israeli-born reed player boasts a stunning tone and a magnetic live presence to match; it’s no wonder that both DownBeat Magazine critics’ and readers’ polls have named her their best jazz clarinetist every year since 2011. Cohen is at ease playing music from modern jazz to Dixieland, but she has perhaps most astutely assimilated the musical traditions of Latin America, including Afro-Cuban, Argentinean, and Brazilian sounds. The great Cuban jazz clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera has served as Cohen’s mentor and champion in this music, calling her “one of the greatest players ever of the clarinet.” Cohen brings her quartet, with its effortlessly beautiful sound, to the stylish and intimate ballroom at Durham’s 21c Hotel. Jazz at the 21c is presented in collaboration with the 21c Museum Hotel Durham.

STEPHIN MERRITT & THE MAGNETIC FIELDS 50 SONG MEMOIR NIGHT ONE: FIRST 25 SONGS TUESDAY, MARCH 21 | 8 PM NIGHT TWO: SECOND 25 SONGS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 | 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM

Tickets [Per Show]: $55 • $45 • $30 • $10 Duke Students

Please note: Each performance will be a separate program, the entire album — 50 Song Memoir — will be performed over two nights: Night One: Songs 1-25, Night Two: Songs 26-50.

Stephin Merritt has been called “a contrarian pop genius” (The New York Times). With his intricate lyrics and distinctive languid bass voice, Merritt is a true original of the musical world. After more than a decade spent recording and performing offbeat orchestral indie-pop, his group The Magnetic Fields came into its own in 1999 with 69 Love Songs, their witty and mordant encyclopedia of an album released on Merge Records. In the spirit of 69 Love Songs and i (likewise a catalog record), Merritt created his new 50 Song Memoir for Nonesuch. He began recording on his fiftieth birthday, writing an autobiographical song for each year of his life so far, from his first breath in 1965 to the present day. On a Carolina Theatre stage littered with fifty years’ worth of artifacts musical (reel-to-reel tape decks, newly-invented instruments) and decorative (tiki bar, shag carpet), Merritt and six other musicians bring this grand experiment of theatrical introspection to life over two nights, offering twenty-five years’ worth of songs each night. 50 Song Memoir is presented in collaboration with The Carolina Theatre of Durham.

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J A N UA R Y ’1 7 BRANFORD MARSALIS & JOEY CALDERAZZO Friday, January 13 & Saturday, January 14 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium BARNATAN, MCGILL, WEILERSTEIN TRIO Saturday, January 21 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium

F E B R UA R Y ’ 1 7 CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 3 FEAT. JAMIE LAVAL, FIDDLE Saturday, February 4 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium

DEVIANT SEPTET FEAT. MELLISSA HUGHES, SOPRANO Thursday, February 9 | 8 PM Nelson Music Room ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER CHOIR Friday, February 10 | 8 PM Duke Chapel CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, VIOLIN & LARS VOGT, PIANO Saturday, February 11 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium TALIB KWELI Thursday, February 16 & Friday, February 17 | 9 PM Motorco Music Hall JERRY DOUGLAS PRESENTS EARLS OF LEICESTER Saturday, February 18 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium MALPASO DANCE COMPANY + ARTURO O’FARRILL & THE AFRO LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE Friday, February 24 & Saturday, February 25 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater ERIC WHITACRE SINGERS Tuesday, February 28 | 8 PM Duke Chapel

M A R C H ’17 KIRILL GERSTEIN, PIANO Friday, March 3 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium HAGEN QUARTET FEAT. KIRILL GERSTEIN, PIANO Saturday, March 4 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium GEIMARU-ZA NIHON BUYO TROUPE Tuesday, March 7 | 8 PM Reynolds Industries Theater CAPPELLA PRATENSIS Friday, March 10 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium ANAT COHEN QUARTET Sunday, March 19 | 5 PM & 7:30 PM 21C Museum Hotel Durham STEPHIN MERRITT & THE MAGNETIC FIELDS 50 SONG MEMOIR Part 1: Tuesday, March 21 & Part 2: Wednesday, March 22 | 8 PM Carolina Theatre of Durham

MAHAN ESFAHANI, HARPSICHORD Thursday, March 23 | 8 PM Nelson Music Room HILARY HAHN, VIOLIN & ROBERT LEVIN, PIANO Friday, March 24 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON’S DRONE MASS FEAT. ACME, THEATRE OF VOICES & JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON Saturday, March 25 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium DANIIL TRIFONOV, PIANO Friday, March 31 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium

A P R I L ’17 CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 4 FEAT. GERARD MCBURNEY, NARRATOR Saturday, April 1 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium ARDITTI QUARTET FEAT. ELIOT FISK, GUITAR Sunday, April 2 | 7 PM Baldwin Auditorium ANOUSHKA SHANKAR HOME Friday, April 7 | 8 PM Page Auditorium ALINA IBRAGIMOVA, VIOLIN & CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN, PIANO Saturday, April 8 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium DAKHABRAKHA DOVZHENKO’S EARTH: FILM + LIVE SCORE Friday, April 14 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Saturday, April 15 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium RICHARD GOODE, PIANO Friday, April 28 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE TRIO Sunday, April 30 | 5 PM & 7:30 PM 21C Museum Hotel Durham

M AY ’17 EIGHTH BLACKBIRD & WILL OLDHAM Saturday, May 6 | 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium

VENUES

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From formal halls and adaptable theaters to intimate nightclubs and black-box spaces, Duke Performances finds ideal stages for diverse artists and audiences in high-quality venues on campus and in town.

21C MUSEUM HOTEL DURHAM

BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

111 Corcoran Street | Durham, NC 27701 21cmuseumhotels.com

1336 Campus Drive (intersection of Onslow Street & West Markham Avenue) Durham, NC 27708 dukeperformances.org

C A R O L I N A T H E AT R E O F D U R H A M

DUKE CHAPEL

309 West Morgan Street | Durham, NC 27701 carolinatheatre.org

401 Chapel Drive | Durham, NC 27708 chapel.duke.edu

MOTORCO MUSIC HALL

NELSON MUSIC ROOM

723 Rigsbee Avenue | Durham, NC 27701 motorcomusic.com

1304 Campus Drive | Durham, NC 27708 dukeperformances.org

PA G E A U D I T O R I U M

R E Y N O L D S I N D U S T R I E S T H E AT E R

402 Chapel Drive | Durham, NC 27708 dukeperformances.org

Bryan University Center 125 Science Drive | Durham, NC 27708 dukeperformances.org SPRING 2017

DUKE PERFORMANCES

MAHAN ESFAHANI

HILARY HAHN, VIOLIN

HARPSICHORD

WITH ROBERT LEVIN, PIANO

THURSDAY, MARCH 23 | 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM

Tickets: $28 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students General Admission Seating

In 2015, the young Iranian-American virtuoso Mahan Esfahani became the first harpsichordist to record for Deutsche Grammophon in more than three decades, with the venerable label calling him “a dynamic, daring musician who thinks way beyond the conventional boundaries of his instrument.” His album included not only performances of Baroque masters like Bach and Scarlatti, but also wildly unexpected modern composers like Górecki and Reich. “With his dazzling displays,” wrote The Times of London, “Esfahani is sweeping away the image of his instrument as an antique.” That adventurous spirit also governs Esfahani’s concert for Duke Performances. The evening includes a propulsive Bach Toccata, as well as much newer fare like Steve Reich’s mind-bending work Piano Phase with Esfahani playing simultaneously live and on tape. Esfahani not only unearths the elegant compositions of English Renaissance composers Tomkins, Bull, and Farnaby, but dives into the twentieth-century experimentation of Viktor Kalabis and Kaija Saariaho.

PROGRAM Henry Cowell: Set of Four Thomas Tomkins: Pavan

“THE CORE OF HAHN’S TECHNIQUE IS PRECISION AND REFINEMENT — ELEGANT SOUND; FRICTIONLESS, CLEAN BOWING AND INTONATION; POLISHED, ROUNDED-OFF PHRASING.” — THE BOSTON GLOBE FRIDAY, MARCH 24 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $58 • $48 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

Multiple GRAMMY winner Hilary Hahn has been one of the best-known violinists in the world for twenty-five years, playing with a style that is “technically immaculate and musically magisterial” (Los Angeles Times). Pioneer Press calls her playing “brimming with emotion and enthusiasm, excitement and interpretive imagination.” Nürnberger Nachrichten lauds her as “the epitome of violinist perfection.” Hahn’s incomparable skill is matched by her musical intelligence and daring programming; not only is she a first-class exponent of Bach’s work, but she is also one of the foremost commissioners of new works for the violin. Her program at Duke Performances contains both: opening with Bach’s late-baroque jewel, Sonata No. 6 in G Major, Hahn and pianist Robert Levin follow this with solo works written just for them — a melodic partita for violin by Antón García Abril, and an improvisatory work for piano by Hans Peter Türk. The concert culminates with the juxtaposition of Mozart’s gentle K. 481, and Beethoven’s monumental “Kreutzer” Sonata.

John Bull: Hexachord Fantasia

PROGRAM

Giles Farnaby: Woody-Cock Viktor Kalabis: Three Aquarelles

J.S. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019

Kaija Saariaho: Jardin Secret II J.S. Bach: Toccata in C, BWV 911

Antón García Abril: Partita No. 6, "You," from Six Partitas for Solo Violin (selection, written for Hilary Hahn)

Steve Reich: Piano Phase

Hans Peter Türk: Träume for solo piano (written for Robert Levin) Mozart: Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, K. 481 Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, op. 47 ("Kreutzer") SPRING 2017

DUKE PERFORMANCES P I A N O R EC I TA L S E R I E S

JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON’S DRONE MASS

DANIIL TRIFONOV PIANO “TRIFONOV HAS SCINTILLATING TECHNIQUE AND A VIRTUOSIC FLAIR.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES

FEATURING ACME & THEATRE OF VOICES

FRIDAY, MARCH 31 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

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SATURDAY, MARCH 25 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Tickets: $32 • $26 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

Two of the world’s leading-edge new music ensembles — the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) and Theatre of Voices — come to Duke for one monumental performance. ACME, last at Duke Performances with Blonde Redhead in Fall 2016, have been lauded as “contemporary music dynamos” by NPR. The Danish vocal group Theatre of Voices, dedicated to contemporary work, produce “impeccably refined and expressive singing” (Sunday Times) under their director, the choral sage and Hilliard Ensemble founder Paul Hillier. The piece that brings these two new music powerhouses together is Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s haunting Drone Mass. Best known for his elegantly minimalist, Oscar-nominated film scores for The Theory of Everything and Sicario, Jóhannsson writes unclassifiable modern music that “lies somewhere between classical, ambient music, and an experimental soundtrack” (The Guardian). ACME and Theatre of Voices join for a stirring performance of his recent oratorio Drone Mass, with Jóhannsson himself adding the electronic hum that gives the piece its name.

Daniil Trifonov has arrived as the unquestioned next superstar of classical piano. “What makes him such a phenomenon is the ecstatic quality he brings to his performances — an all-consuming intensity-of-belonging on the public platform that translates into something thrilling, absorbing, inspiring,” wrote the Financial Times. This prize pupil of Sergei Babayan (previously seen at Duke Performances in Fall 2016) has made rapturously received debuts in recent years as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic, as well as highly regarded recital appearances at Carnegie Hall. The young Russian virtuoso will perform a program made up of miniatures. This includes pieces from his countrymen: several of Shostakovich’s Bach-inspired Preludes and Fugues, and selections from Stravinsky’s free-spirited ballet score for Petrouchka. He brings both sensitivity and fire to Schumann’s beloved compendia Kreisleriana and Kinderszenen, the latter a touching and nostalgic look back at childhood.

PROGRAM Schumann: Kinderszenen, op. 15 Schumann: Toccata in C Major, op. 7 Schumann: Kreisleriana, op. 16 Shostakovich: Selections from 24 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87 Stravinsky: Selections from Petrouchka

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DUKE PERFORMANCES CHAMBER ARTS SERIES

ARDITTI QUARTET ANOUSHKA FEAT. ELIOT FISK, GUITAR SHANKAR HOME: A TRIBUTE TO RAVI SHANKAR

SUNDAY, APRIL 2 | 7 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students

The Arditti Quartet is the only chamber ensemble ever to receive the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, the “Nobel Prize of Music,” usually awarded to individuals; guitarist Eliot Fisk was called “one of the most brilliant, intelligent, and gifted artists of our time” by his mentor, the great Andrés Segovia. What these musicians share is a passionate love for contemporary music, with both the British quartet and the American guitarist dedicated to commissioning, performing, and recording new work. This is the legendary Arditti Quartet’s first visit to Duke Performances, and they begin the program on their own, with a performance of Mexican composer Hilda Paredes’ Bitacora Capilar, written to celebrate the Arditti’s 40th anniversary. They follow this with one of their trademark pieces: an eerie, angular, rarely performed quartet by the modern master György Ligeti. Fisk joins the Arditti for the culminating performance of the evening: a brand-new quintet for strings and guitar written for these musicians by German composer Wolfgang Rihm.

PROGRAM Hilda Paredes: Quartet No. 3 (“Bitacora Capilar”)

FRIDAY, APRIL 7 | 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM Tickets: $55 • $45 • $40 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students

Anoushka Shankar grew up playing by the side of her father and teacher, the revered sitar player Ravi Shankar. She emerged from his tutelage to become a pioneer on the sitar and “one of the most gifted artists in her generation of Indian classical artists” (Los Angeles Times). As Shankar’s career progressed, she moved away from more traditional material to experiment with styles ranging from pop to electronica to flamenco before coming full-circle to the intricacy and beauty of South Asian classical music. Shankar’s 2015 album Home marked her triumphant return to Indian classical music. Rolling Stone called the record “jaw-dropping virtuosic fun, a powerful testimony to a father-daughter relationship, and a beautifully recorded introduction to the Indian classical tradition.” Shankar comes to Duke Performances with a six-piece classical ensemble to play the timeless ragas she learned as a child, paying tribute to her father’s rich legacy while also forging her path as a master in her own right.

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA, VIOLIN & CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN, PIANO SATURDAY, APRIL 8 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students

The Guardian raved that the pairing of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien “mesmerizes and captivates, achieving rare freshness and vitality in the most familiar repertoire ... today’s partnership of choice for violin and piano repertory.” Ibragimova studied with Christian Tetzlaff, heard earlier in Duke Performances’ Spring 2017 season. Bach’s Fourth Violin Sonata places both instruments on equal footing, as does Brahms’ Sonata for Piano and Violin. John Cage’s simple yet affecting Six Melodies defines a set of notes and turns them into melodic sequences; AllMusic calls it one of his “most approachable and immediately satisfying compositions.” Cage dedicated this work to Bauhaus-trained modernist artists Josef and Anni Albers, who left Germany in 1933 to teach at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College. Schumann’s masterful Second Violin Sonata provides a vibrant and energetic finale.

PROGRAM Bach: Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017

Ligeti: Quartet No. 2

Brahms: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 2 in A Major, op. 100

Wolfgang Rihm: Guitar Quintet

John Cage: Six Melodies for Violin and Piano Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, op. 121 SPRING 2017

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DAKHABRAKHA CÉCILE DOVZHENKO’S EARTH: MCLORIN SALVANT FILM + LIVE SCORE FEAT. SULLIVAN FORTNER, PIANO “UKRAINIAN FOLKDRONE BJÖRKPUNK.” — ROLLING STONE F R ID AY, AP RIL 14 | 8 P M BAL D WIN A UDI TORIUM Tickets: $28 • $22 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

DakhaBrakha began by playing the folk music of their native Ukraine at an avant-garde theater in Kiev. After experimenting with traditional sounds, this theatrical quartet began adding West African rhythms, American hip-hop beats, and Australian drums, creating a transnational sound rooted in Ukrainian culture. DakhaBrakha’s singular musical style swings from minimalist drone to raucous wedding dance, and “the effect,” raves The Daily Telegraph, “is wildly exciting.” This performance features DakhaBrakha playing their own live score for Earth, a 1930 silent classic of Soviet cinema by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko. The ravishingly beautiful film tells the story of farmers resisting Stalin’s plan to collectivize their farms; The New Yorker’s esteemed film critic Pauline Kael called it “a passionate lyric on the continuity of man, death, and nature.” DakhaBrakha’s mix of unruly ancient song and contemporary rhythms transforms Dovzhenko’s striking images into an exhilarating live experience.

“MCLORIN SALVANT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY REVELATION OF CONTEMPORARY VOCAL JAZZ. HER VOICE POSSESSES AMAZING EXPRESSIVE AUTHENTICITY COUPLED WITH OUTSTANDING CONTROL.” — JAZZ HOT S ATU R D AY, APR I L 1 5 | 8 PM B AL D W I N AU D I TO R I U M Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students

Cécile McLorin Salvant, who recently won her first GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album, is the shimmering young star of the jazz world. “Ms. Salvant has it all,” raved The New York Times. “If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three — Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald — it is this virtuoso.” So captivating was her Duke Performances concert last season that she is the rare artist to be invited back for for the second season in a row. Salvant makes an electric connection with live audiences. “Resoundingly eloquent, whether growling the blues or barely breathing, Salvant has inbuilt swing, an actor’s stagecraft, an instrumentalist’s precision of nuance, and an appetite for dusting off rarely performed songs,” declared The Guardian. In the mold of her idols, Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln, McLorin Salvant makes every song utterly her own. Joined for this concert by gifted New Orleans pianist Sullivan Fortner, she has fast become jazz’s must-see vocalist.

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

RICHARD GOODE

PIANO

FRIDAY, APRIL 28 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students

Richard Goode has been universally acclaimed as a master interpreter of the classical piano repertoire for more than fifty years. “One of the greatest American pianists of his or any generation, Goode performs with deceptive ease,” wrote the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “He plays with complete mastery of his instrument and the score.” He is also a true citizen of classical music, having run the legendary Marlboro Music School and Festival for fifteen years. He and Jeremy Denk, who performed at Duke Performances in Fall 2016, are among the few classical pianists ever to be signed to Nonesuch Records. More than two decades after he became the first American pianist to record the complete Beethoven sonatas, Goode brings five of these sublime works to Durham. He plays all three Opus 10 sonatas, the radical and impetuous pieces that marked the young Beethoven’s breakthrough in the form. He contrasts these youthful sonatas with two mature ones: the thunderous but rarely-performed No. 22, and the poetic and heartfelt No. 28, the first of the composer’s late-period masterpieces.

JAZZ @ 21C

CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE TRIO SUNDAY, APRIL 30 TWO SETS: 5 PM & 7:30 PM 21C MUSEUM HOTEL DURHAM

Tickets: $34 • $10 Duke Students General Admission Seating

EIGHTH BLACKBIRD & WILL OLDHAM AKA BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY

SATURDAY, MAY 6 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 Duke Students

Celebrated jazz musician Christian McBride is a great virtuoso of the bass, and part of an exclusive lineage of bassist-bandleaders. In the twenty-five years since McBride’s debut with saxophonist Bobby Watson, McBride has become a commanding leader and vital sideman, playing on an astounding three hundred albums and winning five GRAMMY Awards along the way. McBride is the musician all the stars want in their corner, from James Brown to The Roots and D’Angelo. Newly named artistic director of the Newport Jazz Festival, McBride is the essential bassist of his generation.

Twenty years into its extraordinary run, eighth blackbird is still “one of the smartest, most dynamic contemporary classical ensembles on the planet” (Chicago Tribune). This sextet is a busy commissioner of new works from today’s most gifted composers. They share the stage with the singular Will Oldham, who writes and performs sparse, revelatory songs as his musical alter ego Bonnie “Prince” Billy. The New Yorker called Oldham “an uncanny troubadour, singing a sort of transfigured country music.”

The ballroom at the 21c Hotel offers a rare chance to hear this jazz virtuoso in an intimate setting. The Christian McBride Trio pairs its masterful namesake with two young up-and-comers who complement him perfectly: dynamic pianist Christian Sands and lightning-quick drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. The New York Times called their gorgeous musical interplay “charged, uplifting, worth seeing.”

eighth blackbird opens the concert with two works originally written for them, including David Lang’s learn to fly and the folk-song-inspired Murder Ballades by Bryce Dessner of The National. Oldham, an erstwhile actor, joins the sextet to narrate Coming Together, Frederic Rzewksi’s fantastically urgent setting of a letter from a prison inmate. They close the evening with a set of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s exquisite songs arranged for Oldham and eighth blackbird.

Jazz at the 21c is presented in collaboration with the 21c Museum Hotel Durham.

PROGRAM

PROGRAM Beethoven:

David Lang: learn to fly

Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, op. 10

Bryce Dessner: Murder Ballades

Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Major, op. 10

Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together feat. Will Oldham, aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy

Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, op. 10

Will Oldham: Selected songs feat. Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie “Prince” Billy

Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Major, op. 54 Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, op. 101 SPRING 2017

T H E C I O M P I Q UA R T E T AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 3

CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 4

F E AT U R I N G

JAMIE LAVAL

GERARD M C BURNEY

FIDDLE

N A R R ATO R

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

SATURDAY, APRIL 1 | 8 PM BALDWIN AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $25 • $15 Ages 30 & Under $10 All Students | General Admission Seating

PROGRAM:

Benjamin Britten: Three Divertimenti for String Quartet

Beethoven: String Quartet in D Major, op. 18, no. 3

Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte for String Quartet

Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131

David Kirkland Garner: New work for String Quartet and Fiddle Dvorˇák: String Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 51 SPRING 2017

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Stephin Merritt & The Magnetic Fields • 50 Song Memoir

Part 1: First 25 Songs Tuesday, March 21 | 8 PM

Part 2: Second 25 Songs Wednesday, March 22 | 8 PM

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