Duke Performances 2010/11 Brochure by Duke Performances

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A NATION MADE NEW orn in revolution and tested in struggle, America is more a process than a thing: a process of shedding old skin, of honoring the past while breaking into the future. Call it hope or moxie or do-it-yourself verve: it’s the spirit of a country that took what came before and out of it made something the world had never seen. I’m proud to present a season that honors the distinctly American tradition of reinventing traditions. From the countryside modernism of singersongwriter Jim White to Wayne Shorter’s takeno-prisoners innovation; from Ralph Lemon’s Mississippi futurism to the maverick partnership of the Kronos Quartet and Steve Reich, this season takes measure of the bristling diversity of American art today. It also accounts for inspiration arriving from abroad: with Ireland’s Abbey Theatre, say, or with Guillermo Klein, the jazz force born in Buenos Aires, living in Spain, and arriving in Durham for his first ever southeastern date. All of American art’s dynamic power crystallizes in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the iconic modernists whose singular vision took shape in Black Mountain, NC, circa 1953, and has continued renovating dance until this, the company’s last appearance in the state that ushered it into the world. This season announces what I see as a distinctly American brand of performance. In this old, weird, and as-yet-unimagined national tradition, Witnesses, Inventors, Travelers, Liars, and The Sanctified all travel the same road, without hope of ever arriving home.

WITNESSES

INVENTORS

LIARS, THIEVES & BIGSHOT RAMBLERS

9-12

THE SANCTIFIED

13-18

MERCE

TRAVELERS

PIANO RECITAL SERIES

25-28

DUKE ARTISTS SERIES

29-30

CHAMBER ARTS SOCIETY

31-35

CIOMPI QUARTET

CALENDAR

37-38

TICKETING & IMPORTANT INFORMATION 39-40

Welcome.

Aaron Greenwald Director, Duke Performances

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RTIST VISIO VISIONARY XPRESSIO MOVEMEN ARTIST VIS MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY

A NORTH CAROLINA HOMECOMING

MERCE

IN 1953:

The visionary dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham partnered with John Cage to form the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

CHOREO IN 2009:

“[CUNNINGHAM] SPENT MORE THAN 50 YEARS CREATING DANCES OF UNCOMPROMISING RIGOR, WORKS SO PURE IN CONCEPT AND PRISTINE IN EXECUTION THAT THEY TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY.” —LONDON TIMES

Merce passed away at 90, spurring a drive to archive the work of this American original. Fulfilling the founder’s vision, a legacy tour is set to bring Merce’s dance modernism to the world, live, a final time.

VISIONARY IN 2011:

The legendary company returns to North Carolina for two once-in-a-lifetime shows, the last time they appear in the state that started it all.

“CUNNINGHAM RANKS AMONG THE FOREMOST FIGURES OF ARTISTIC MODERNISM AND AMONG THE FEW WHO HAVE TRANSFORMED THE NATURE AND STATUS OF DANCE THEATER. IN HIS WORKS, INDEPENDENCE WAS CENTRAL.” —NEW YORK TIMES

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 & 5 • 8 PM

WITNE 1

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS + JOE HENRY Founded in Durham, the Chocolate Drops link with two centuries of black string music in the NC Piedmont, but their highwire live shows are as likely to rework contemporary R&B as Appalachian folk. The foot-stomping trio appears with Joe Henry, a powerful singer-songwriter and producer of the ‘Drops latest album; his acoustic elegies and roadway love-songs invoke an America haunted by ghosts and thieves and shopping malls; he “seems to inhabit an older music that never actually existed, or one that keeps being forgotten and relearned, over and over” (Slant). TICKETS: $38 • $32 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 • 8 PM

REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER “TRADITION IS A GUIDE, NOT A JAILER. WE PLAY IN AN OLDER TRADITION BUT WE ARE MODERN MUSICIANS.” —JUSTIN ROBINSON OF THE CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS

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DEL McCOURY BAND + PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND Two standard-bearers of American music celebrate a combined century at the front edge of their craft. In the five decades since McCoury got his start with Bill Monroe, the titanically gifted guitarist has defined American bluegrass. On banjo and mandolin, his bandmates and sons— CMA winners both—keep the family legend alive. They

appear with their friends and collaborators, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the “stunning” masters of Crescent City jazz (Jazziz) whose brassy, unhinged live shows are nothing short of “miraculous” (NPR). They don’t just preserve the music of Satchmo and Jelly Roll; they remake it every night. TICKETS: $46 • $38 • $22 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 • PAGE AUDITORIUM • 8 PM “IT IS GOOD TO BE THE KING. AND THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT DEL MCCOURY—BACKED BY ARGUABLY THE MOST FORMIDABLE BLUEGRASS OUTFIT IN EXISTENCE—REMAINS.” —BILLBOARD 3

CEDRIC WATSON & BIJOU CREOLE + RED STICK RAMBLERS This floorboard-rattling double bill features two of the sharpest Louisiana bands working. Watson cut his teeth on the countrified chansons françaises of east Texas and Lafayette, LA; “aggressive and gifted” (NY Times), the Grammy-nominated prodigy works Acadian la-la tunes, Creole waltzes, and sizzling Zydeco stomps, hollering in French while

his band blazes behind him. They appear with Red Stick Ramblers, the fast-living hybridists from Baton Rouge who use Cajun, swing, and country-western jazz ballads to create a rowdy new language—sometimes French, sometimes English—that’ll turn Reynolds into a rollicking fais do-do. TICKETS: $34 • $26 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER • 8 PM

MARTY STUART & THE FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES Born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Stuart came to Nashville when he was just 14 to join Lester Flatt’s band. Four decades later, he’s a legend—knowing master of every convention in the business and inspired guardian of all that country music is, was, and might be. From rhinestone-studded croons and pickup-truck reveries to stripped-down bluegrass and gospel confessionals, his genre-bending live act spins all of country’s magic diversity into a single spectacle, dazzling as his own outfits. His crackerjack Superlatives, always in matching Nudie-suits, burn down the barn in support. TICKETS: $38 • $32 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

THURSDAY, MARCH 3 • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER • 8 PM 4

DIRTY PROJECTORS

Dave Longstreth’s genre-melting indie rock ensemble bears the torch for a new kind of all-devouring eclecticism: from sunny ‘60s harmony-rock and deconstructed afropop to murder ballads, electronica, and chamber music, the Brooklyn group consumes a world of influences and spits them out again, gleaming. The result is a brave new kind of experimental pop, driven by keening harmonies and a clear-eyed ambition to remake music as we know it. David Byrne, another innovator, calls them “a quantum leap forwards and sideways at the same time.” TICKETS: $26 • $22 • $15 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 • PAGE AUDITORIUM • 8 PM Duke Performances’ presentation of the Dirty Projectors is co-sponsored by Major Attractions, a committee of the Duke University Union.

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VIJAY IYER TRIO A “boundless and deeply important young star” (LA Weekly), Iyer sits at the head of a new table of jazz titans, calling on a grab bag of sources—foreign and domestic, pop and jazz—to forge a bold new sound that’s American to its core, with a “liquid urgency that consistently staggers the imagination” (All Music Guide). His audacious compositions and nervy piano line have already placed him in the pantheon of modern greats, “redefining the nature of modern jazz pianism” (Chicago Tribune). TICKETS: $34 • $26 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER • 8 PM 6

BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS

& SPECIAL GUEST GLENN KOTCHE With “a potent blend of intensity, authority, and abandon” (Vanity Fair), the world’s leading contemporary music ensemble turns out full-throttle performances as refined as they are exhilarating. Here they team with Kotche, drummer/percussionist for Wilco, in a program featuring compositions from BoaC co-founder Lang, Kotche, and Steve Reich—the iconic composerpercussionist who inspired Kotche’s own experiments. At the crossroads of Wilco’s art rock and Reich’s revamped classicism, Reich’s 2x5—written for two electric guitars, keyboard, bass, and drumkit—closes the program. TICKETS: $38 • $32 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

PROGRAM DAVID LANG: Sunray GLENN KOTCHE: Works TBD STEVE REICH: Clapping Music Variations STEVE REICH: Music for Pieces of Wood STEVE REICH: 2x5

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28 • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER • 8 PM

WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET Feat. Shorter, Danilo Perez, Brian Blade & John Patitucci For half a century Shorter’s been “jazz’s greatest living composer” (NY Times) and one of “the most original thinkers in music” (NPR)—he played with Blakey and Miles, then broke from Miles’ legendary second quintet to follow a new vision, founding Weather Report and leading that institution for 15 years. Since 2001 his newest, all-acoustic quartet has been “one of the most important working groups on the scene today” (All About Jazz), with three next-generation heavies dialed into the great man’s charts, sparking a chemical interplay that’s “explosive” (Philadelphia Enquirer). TICKETS: $46 • $38 • $22 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11 • PAGE AUDITORIUM • 8 PM

“JAZZ’S PRE-EMINENT SAXOPHONIST…AN INTREPID ASTRONAUT NAVIGATING THE MUSICAL COSMOS WITH IMPROVISATIONAL BRIO.” —BILLBOARD ON WAYNE SHORTER

“THERE’S JUST A HANDFUL OF LIVING COMPOSERS WHO CAN LEGITIMATELY CLAIM TO HAVE ALTERED THE DIRECTION OF MUSICAL HISTORY. STEVE REICH IS ONE OF THEM.” —GUARDIAN (UK)

KRONOS QUARTET WORLD PREMIERE • STEVE REICH: THREE QUARTETS

In this world premiere, two of the most original musical minds of the past hundred years—Steve Reich and David Harrington—come together for a oncein-a-lifetime performance made possible by Duke Performances’ ongoing collaboration with Kronos. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Reich is “the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker), but has to date only written two string quartets, both for Harrington’s group: 2001’s Triple Quartet and Different Trains (1988), “a work of such astonishing originality that breakthrough seems the only possible description” (NY Times).

Now another breakthrough arrives with Reich’s third quartet, commissioned by Duke Performances and written specifically for Harrington’s breathtaking ensemble. As the era’s most adventurous group performs all three quartets by “our greatest living composer” (NY Times), Page Auditorium will bear witness to history. Reich will attend the premiere. TICKETS: $52 • $42 • $24 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 PROGRAM STEVE REICH: Different Trains Triple Quartet New Quartet (World Premiere)

FRIDAY, MARCH 19 • PAGE AUDITORIUM • 8 PM 8

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III & FRIENDS

HIGH WIDE

&HANDSOME A TRIBUTE TO NORTH CAROLINA’S

CHARLIE POOLE Born in Spray, NC, Poole was a one-time millhand who cut capers and downed booze while fighting his way to recording fame in the Depression-era South. Since the 1960s, Wainwright’s lived in Poole’s image, a mercurial troubadour with a knowing grin. With a full band behind him, the Chapel Hill native sings old and new songs honoring his double’s profane bravado. On record, Wainwright’s thumping tributes won a Grammy; here they conjure the original NC rambler, a pistol-packing balladeer with a taste for hitmaking, women, and whiskey. TICKETS: $42 • $36 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER • 8 PM

THE

AMERICAN BEAUTY project

OLLABELLE WITH SPECIAL GUESTS JIM LAUDERDALE, CATHERINE RUSSELL AOIFE O’DONOVAN & DAVID MANSFIELD

grateful dead c.1970

Clear the haze surrounding the Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty and you get a luminous Americana closer to Appalachia than Haight-Ashbury. Here, new-style folk band Ollabelle— co-founded by Amy Helm (daughter of The Band’s Levon)—supports a ramble of stars as they recover the heart of those American beauties. Sharing lead vocals are country-bluegrass icon Lauderdale; Dylan collaborator Mansfield; the singer-composer for Crooked Still, O’Donovan; and the “incredibly talented” Russell (Village Voice)—a freewheeling collective that evokes The Band but raises a new, unvarnished Dead. TICKETS: $32 • $26 • $18 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 • PAGE AUDITORIUM • 8 PM REDUCED CAPACITY FOR THIS SHOW—ONLY THE BEST SEATS ON-SALE

ALLEN TOUSSAINT with special guests Nicholas Payton & Joe Krown Trio feat. Krown, Russell Batiste

& Walter “Wolfman” Washington

“A one-man repository” of Crescent City music (Paste), Toussaint is “the legend of New Orleans R&B” (All Music Guide) and a jazz-blues dynamo, who turns even traditional hymns into swinging, after-hours jams. This configuration shows off both sides of the master’s groove: he’s flanked by a special guest star, the “abundantly gifted” jazz trumpeter Payton (NY Times) and backed by “three of New Orleans greatest players” (Offbeat), funk pros who load Joe Krown’s B3 licks and Batiste’s drums with the Wolfman’s swampy, screaming guitar. TICKETS: $42 • $36 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 • 7 PM

REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER “ALLEN TOUSSAINT IS THE JEWEL IN NEW ORLEANS’S CROWN, NOT MERELY THE MOST DISTINCTIVE OF SOUL SONGWRITER/PRODUCERS, BUT A VIRTUOSO PIANO STYLIST WITH AN UNPARALLELED KNOWLEDGE OF THE CITY’S MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT.” —INDEPENDENT (UK)

BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY

& THE CAIRO GANG In a high-mountain warble “that can be described only as miraculous” (NY Times), Bonnie “Prince” Billy—Will Oldham— sings austerely beautiful songs about abandoned meadows and carnal love, charging loss with fragile transcendence. Stalked by ghosts, Oldham’s upended Americana is as powerful as his capacity for self-invention. In his newest guise as the Bonnie Prince, the shape-shifting Kentucky native continues, paradoxically, to expose genuine aspects of himself. Backed by longtime collaborator Emmett Kelly—“the Cairo Gang”—his poetic confessionals will heat Reynolds with “quiet fire” (Pitchfork). TICKETS: $38 • $32 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

“OLDHAM ESCHEWS TRADITIONAL GENRE LABELS, BUT HIS DEEPLY EMOTIONAL, SOMETIMES PRIMITIVE ACOUSTIC SONGS RESONATE WITH A RARE BEAUTY AND LITERARY VISION.” —NPR 11

JIM WHITE + SOUTH MEMPHIS STRING BAND feat. Alvin “Youngblood” Hart, Jimbo Mathus & Luther Dickinson White’s art-country songs imagine found objects—howling men, motor homes—through the Pentecostal sermons he heard growing up in north Florida. A “combination of philosopher and raconteur, country boy and intellectual” (NY Times), he intersperses his shambling, otherworldy songs with rural yarns and improvised metaphysical riffs. He appears with the rattling South Memphis String

Band, featuring Hart (Grammy-winning bluesman), Mathus (Squirrel Nut Zippers), and Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars & Black Crowes): halfway between preservationists and cutups, the superstars channel a jugband tradition that’s itself sacred and irreverent at once. TICKETS: $34 • $26 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18 • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER • 8 PM

WATTS PROJECT Jeff “Tain” Watts, Christian McBride Nicholas Payton & David Sánchez

In this gathering of jazz headliners, three star bandleaders assemble to support Watts, the legendary sideman and Grammy-winning drummer who shines even brighter when cast as lead. Surrounding that “polyrhythmic dynamo” (NPR) are the dazzling Sánchez on sax; the trumpet wizard Payton; and McBride, who lays down bass with an “uncommon synthesis of agility, brawn, and wit” (NY Times). The irascible veteran leads them all in an evening of breakneck Watts originals: propulsive and sly, they give the band’s “near-telepathic” improvisation (JazzTimes) a trickster’s edge. TICKETS: $32 • $26 • $18 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, APRIL 1 • 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM REDUCED CAPACITY FOR THIS SHOW—ONLY THE BEST SEATS ON-SALE 12

THE SANCT

TIFIED MEGAFAUN & FIGHT THE BIG BULL feat. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver & special guest Sharon Van Etten

world premiere · SOUNDS OF THE SOUTH With Vernon, the members of Megafaun moved from Wisconsin to Raleigh as the band DeYarmond Edison. After Vernon returned north to record as Bon Iver, the Cook brothers and Joe Westerlund stayed on in the Piedmont, crafting a timeless folk-pop that “drinks deeply from the well of the past but could only have been made today” (Drowned in Sound) —an archive of rural America’s ghosts. In this exclusive live recording event, the rustic avantgardists team with Fight the Big Bull, the “thrilling” (NPR) 9-piece brass band from Richmond, VA, along with Vernon and the blisteringly talented Van Etten.

Together in Durham for three shows only, they’ll cut a live album based on Alan Lomax’s collection of shapenote songs and dirt-floor hymns, Sounds of the South, gathered during a two-year trek through the American southeast (1959-1961). Filtered through Megafaun’s experimental Americana, FtBB’s brass jazz, Vernon’s “chilly, rusty grandeur” (Village Voice), and Van Etten’s haunting soprano, the folk songs Lomax immortalized will live again at Hayti, once an AME Zion church and now a semisacred venue whose acoustics rival any studio’s. TICKETS: $26 • DUKE & NCCU STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 & 18 • 8 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 • 5 PM

HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER

“MEGAFAUN’S ROOTS ARE FAMILIAR; THE BLOOM IS UNIQUELY THEIRS.” —ROLLING STONE

THE BOOKS Made with a cello, guitar, and electronic swirls floating between harmony and dissonance, The Books’ handcrafted musical assemblages combine experimental chamber music and acoustic pop with fragmentary voices from junkshop cassettes. The mesmerizing Massachusetts duo has been tapped by Wilco as the next generation in art rock. But their “fragile mixture of field recordings, samples from radio broadcasts, and twanging folk instruments” (Q Magazine) puts them all by themselves, in “a genre of one” (Pitchfork). Two sets; each set ticketed separately. TICKETS: $22 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 TWO SETS: 8 PM & 10 PM SCHEAFER LAB THEATER

SFJAZZ

COLLECTIVE

The Music of Horace Silver

feat. Miguel Zenon, Mark Turner, Avishai Cohen Robin Eubanks, Stefon Harris, Edward Simon Matt Penman & Eric Harland Each year this all-star, 8-man co-op of the world’s most gifted musicians—bandleaders all—picks the music of one of modern jazz’s great composers, re-sets it for the collective, then tours nationally to perform it. Featuring the “lyrical, spiritual, and original” Zenon (All About Jazz); Harris, “one of the most important young artists in jazz” (LA Times); Turner, “possibly jazz’s premier player” (NY Times); and the “stunning” Eubanks (All About Jazz), the jazz ambassadors shine their blazing light on Silver, the hard bop pioneer who created a newer, earthier Blue Note sound from R&B, gospel, and Cape Verdean folk songs. Silver’s quintessential charts light up in the hands of America’s most astounding ensemble, who “roar with the kind of chemistry that [can] truly be deemed collective” (SF Chronicle). TICKETS: $32 • $26 • $18 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28 • 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM

horace silver c.1955

“THE STANDARD OF MUSICIANSHIP, IN TERMS OF SOLO FIREPOWER, COULD HARDLY BE HIGHER” —NEW YORK TIMES ON SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE

RALPH LEMON HOW CAN YOU STAY IN THE HOUSE ALL DAY & NOT GO ANYWHERE? “One of the most adventurous artists working today” (Time Out NY), Lemon is a classically-trained dancer, acclaimed choreographer, and “mesmeriz[ing]” conceptual artist (NY Times) whose seamless mixed-media performances draw on dance, video, recorded sound, and visual art to link specific human experiences to universal themes. Lemon’s breathtaking new mixed-media work, scored for six dancers and himself, archives his decade-long partnership with 102 year old Mississippi Delta resident and former sharecropper Walter Carter. The resulting three-part performance reaches toward elemental ideas—memory, community, transcendence—with a “vernacular and personal” choreography (Theater Journal) so tactile and human it hurts. TICKETS: $34 • $26 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 & 6 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER Funded, in part, by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with leading funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation.

GREIL MARCUS

TALK: OUR OLD, WEIRD AMERICA Author of The Old, Weird America: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes and The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy in the American Voice, among many others. Marcus is the towering figure of American music writing, author of authoritative books on Dylan and The Band, punk rock and prophecy—a public intellectual and lifelong diviner of what makes American art American. At Duke he discusses how American music “palavers with a community of ghosts,” as he said of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, charting the future by channeling the older, stranger traditions that haunt the nation’s very bones. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 • VENUE: TBD • 7 PM

MABOU MINES WORKSHOP READING: THE GLASS MENAGERIE

ADAPTED & DIRECTED BY LEE BREUER The “most incendiary” experimental theater company of the past halfcentury (NY Times), Mabou Mines is an institution of the American avant-garde; for 40 years they’ve staged brave new plays and taken “startlingly original” slants on classic texts (Theatre Journal). Their perpetual revolution continues in a two-week residency at Duke, when the innovators prepare a new, dream-vision take on Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, under the direction of the “wizard-director” Breuer (NY Times). Their creative process culminates in this dress-rehearsed, staged reading of Williams’ heartbreaking masterpiece, done workshop-style with scripts in hand. We play witnesses, as the country’s most celebrated ensemble peers at an American classic through the looking glass. TICKETS: $10 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 • SHEAFER LAB THEATER • 3 PM Presented in association with Duke University’s Theater Studies Department.

17 Mabou Mines’ and The Bad Plus’ residencies at Duke are funded, in part, by visiting artist grants from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University.

THE BAD PLUS

WORLD PREMIERE • STRAVINSKY’S THE RITE OF SPRING In this world premiere event, America’s most “audacious, rulebreaking jazz trio” (Billboard) unveils its take on the most notorious work in the history of music. Stravinsky’s modernist bombshell draped ancient folk rites in churning polyrhythms, pitting ruthless advocates of new art against old-guard connoisseurs. Its insurrectionary 1913 premiere remains a touchstone of revolutionary music. Its 2011 rebirth is commissioned exclusively by Duke Performances for The Bad Plus, “an acoustic jazz trio for the future” (Blender), genre-blasting experimentalists “about as badass as highbrow gets” (Rolling Stone). As Durham shifts into spring, Stravinsky’s defiant ambition flowers again. TICKETS: $34 • $26 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, MARCH 26 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

igor stravinsky c.1917

“WITH THE MOST DISTINCTIVE SOUND OF ANY THREE-PIECE OUTFIT SINCE NIRVANA, THE BAD PLUS…DEMONSTRATE VITALITY FEW BANDS—ROCK, JAZZ, OR WHATEVER—CAN MATCH.” —AMPLIFER

Presented in association with Duke University’s Music Department. 18

MERCE TWO NIGHTS THREE DECADES OF DANCE MODERNISM The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, live in North Carolina a final time. PROGRAM: SOUNDDANCE (1975) “AN ECSTATIC OPUS” FOR 10 DANCERS; “THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE, MUSIC AND DANCING, [IS] AN EXHILARATING RUSH” (WASHINGTON POST). DUETS (1980) “A NEWLY ELOQUENT PEAK” IN THE CHOREOGRAPHER’S MEDITATION ON HUMAN MOVEMENT (NY TIMES). ENDS IN A WHIRLING FINALE FOR ALL 6 COUPLES. BIPED (1999) “ONE OF HIS MOST LUXURIANT WORKS, WHERE FUTURISTIC PATTERNS OF LIGHT FRAME CHOREOGRAPHY OF SCALE AND WONDER” (GUARDIAN (UK)). FOR THE FULL COMPANY.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4 & 5 • 8 PM

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Presented by Duke Performances TICKETS: $58 • $48 • $38 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 “MERCE CUNNINGHAM REINVENTED DANCE, AND THEN WAITED FOR THE AUDIENCE…HE HAS TAUGHT US SOMETHING NEW AND POWERFUL ABOUT HOW TO DANCE AND HOW TO LIVE, AND ABOUT THE DIVERSITY OF ART IN AMERICA.” —MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV See page 39 for Durham Performing Arts Center ticketing information and discounts on tickets to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

TIFT MERRITT & SIMONE DINNERSTEIN WORLD PREMIERE • NIGHT

In this two-night world premiere commissioned by Duke Performances, an “angelic,” NC-born country-folk heavyweight (Spin) and a classical pianist of “mathematical exactitude” and “passion” (Washington Post) unite in a new program made possible by Duke’s relationship with both artists. Merritt sings with “a magical combination of cool reserve and effortless warmth” (Entertainment Weekly); Dinnerstein’s playing is “beautiful, sensitive, intelligent, and manifestly sincere” (Piano). Night is where they meet: a collaborative evening of songs from across genres, performed by both women, that’s greater, somehow, than the sum of its parts. TICKETS: $38 • $32 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 & 22 • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER • 8 PM

THOMAS HAMPSON, BARITONE SONG OF AMERICA Born in Indiana and raised in Spokane, this internationally-renowned recitalist has become one of the most respected soloists of his era by following the example of his mentor Leonard Bernstein. Hampson’s latest mission is to archive the history of American vocal art, turning the “clarion power” of his baritone (LA Times) toward a suite of historic American works he arranged with the Library of Congress, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the first-ever American song. TICKETS: $52 • $42 • $24 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 Hampson’s recital is part of both the Travelers series and the Duke Artists series.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 • PAGE AUDITORIUM • 8 PM 22

ABBEY THEATRE OF IRELAND TERMINUS • Written & directed by Mark O’Rowe

Since 1904, Ireland’s National Theater has shouldered the burden of staging the people’s art in the land of Beckett, Synge, and Yeats, the modernist poet-prophet who founded it. The Abbey’s tradition of fearless writing lives on in this “audacious” new work by O’Rowe (NY Times) which recounts angels and demons, passion and atonement, in three interlocked monologues that wrestle vivid, half-rhymed poetry from sublime vulgarity. “Gripping, grotesque, and deliriously good” (Sunday Tribune, (UK)), O’Rowe’s sordid epic pushes toward heaven but wallows in unholier places. This is the Abbey Theatre’s first-ever appearance in NC and the first time they’ve toured the U.S. in a decade. Presented by Duke Performances at the Carolina Theatre of Durham. TICKETS: $34 • $26 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 Warning: Not for the faint of heart. Contains strong language and violent descriptions. Recommended for ages 18 and over.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 & 26 • 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM See page 39 for Carolina Theatre ticketing information and discounts on tickets to the Abbey Theatre. 23

BRAD MEHLDAU &

ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER America’s most “inventive, dazzling pianist” (NY Daily News), Mehldau’s made a career of showing how apparently disparate genres connect—jazz, classical, and most recently a textured, feedback-washed variety of indie-pop. Von Otter’s a mezzo-soprano of global renown and “electrifying” power (Guardian (UK)), collaborator with Elvis Costello, and tireless enemy of musical boundaries. In this “breathtaking” new partnership (Financial Times), the two genrebending artists treat a synthetic classical-and-pop program that finds the common ground between Lennon/McCartney and Brahms, concluding with Mehldau’s own hybrid masterpiece, Love Songs. TICKETS: $42 • $36 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 • 7 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

GUILLERMO KLEIN Y LOS GUACHOS feat. Klein, Miguel Zenon, Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Jeff Ballard, Richard Nant Diego Urcola, Taylor Haskins, Sandro Tomasi, Chris Cheek & Fernando Huergo

Triangulating Barcelona (where he lives), Buenos Aires (where he’s from), and New York (where he now performs just one week a year), Klein’s compositions “hum with the lustrous elegance of Ellington at his haughtiest” (JazzTimes): thick bop grooves drive Argentine tangos and chacareras while smoky voices round out the swirling, “stunning” sound (All Music Guide). This exclusive Duke Performances presentation is the first time the astonishing 11-piece has ever played in the southeast, a rare US date for Klein and his famed Guachos, who cut from their short run at NYC’s Village Vanguard for this single Durham show. TICKETS: $34 • $26 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, APRIL 29 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

PIAN TILL FELLNER A “refined intellectual musician” (NY Times), the Viennese Fellner began as one of Alfred Brendel’s most accomplished students and is now “among the foremost keyboard virtuosi of the day” (Observer (UK)). Over the past three years, he has undertaken to perform all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas in order, across the world—in London, Paris, and Carnegie Hall. At Duke, the fiercely precise pianist ends this journey, embracing Beethoven’s final three sonatas, perhaps the most breathtaking examples of the form in existence. TICKETS: $34 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 • 7 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER PROGRAM 25

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas 109, 110, 111

ANDRÁS

SCHIFF

“SCHIFF STANDS WITH PERHAPS ONLY A HANDFUL OF PIANISTS IN HIS TOTAL ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MOST SEVERE BEAUTY.” —PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Since his debut in 1950s Hungary, the “revelatory” Schiff has climbed to the very summit of modern classical music, carving out a luminous five-decade career in which his “uncanny combination of elegance and intensity” (NY Times) has become legendary. The exquisitely sensitive master has studied under György Kurtág and George Malcolm; founded his own chamber orchestra; earned first prizes at the Tchaikovsky and Leeds competitions, among others; won two Grammy awards; and played in nearly every major concert hall in Europe, Asia, and North America. In this special performance at Duke, Schiff follows his two-year survey of Beethoven’s piano sonatas by plunging further into the 19th century; he approaches a pair of darkly romantic works by Schumann and Mendelssohn, both of whom turn 200 this year. TICKETS: $52 • $42 • $24 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 Schiff’s recital is part of both the Piano Recital Series and the Duke Artists Series.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22 • 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM PROGRAM MENDELSSOHN: Variations serieuses, Op. 54 SCHUMANN: Sonata in F-sharp Minor, No. 1, Op. 11 MENDELSSOHN: Fantasie in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28 SCHUMANN: Fantasie in C Major Op. 17

ARNALDO COHEN & MIHAELA URSULEASA A SPECIAL RECITAL FOR FOUR HANDS “An intrepid explorer and immaculate pianist” (Gramophone), the Brazilian-born Cohen met Ursuleasa at the 2001 Chopin Competition, in Warsaw, where he was a judge and the 23-year-old Romanian blew him away. Now the two team up for a rare four-hand recital, with his “visceral punch” (Chicago Tribune) and her “speedy fingers and impressive technique” (Seattle Times) combining to interpret works by Mozart, Schubert, Barber, Ravel, and Dvorák. TICKETS: $34 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 PROGRAM MOZART: Sonata in D Major, K. 381 SCHUBERT: Fantasy in F Minor, D. 940 BARBER: From Souvenirs, Op. 28 RAVEL: Ma Mere L’oye DVORÁK: Two Slavonic Dances: Op. 72, No. 2 in E Minor & Op. 46, No. 1 in C Major

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 • 7 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

JEREMY DENK “A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE...ONE OF THE BEST SOLO PERFORMANCES THIS YEAR.” —NEW YORK TIMES ON DENK’S GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

“Bracing, effortlessly virtuosic, and utterly joyous” (NY Times), Denk has collaborated with Joshua Bell and like that other sensation, plays with a kind of refined abandon, “adept and exhilarated” (Washington Post). Denk’s sophisticated energy is evident in his “entrancing” take on the Goldberg Variations (NY Times) paired here with two books of études by György Ligeti, famous for scoring Stanley Kubrick films; these intricate, rarely-heard works (1985-2001) are among the finest piano compositions of the 20th century. TICKETS: $34 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 PROGRAM BACH: Goldberg Variations LIGETI: Études for Piano, 1 & 2

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER 27

MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN Hamelin is a titanically gifted, boundary-testing performer whose breathtaking live appearances have made him “one of the most adventurous and certainly the most courageous pianists of recent times” (International Piano Quarterly). Says Alex Ross of The New Yorker, “right now, there is no one like him.” Having earned nearly every accolade in international music, the Montréal native brings his “formidable technique” (Boston Globe) to a bold program that pairs Liszt and Haydn with Charles-Valentin Alkan, the forgotten French genius whose fiercely difficult compositions, melodic and intense, Hamelin has done so much to rediscover. TICKETS: $34 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 PROGRAM HAYDN: Variations in F Minor, Hob. XVII: 6 MOZART: Sonata in A Minor, K 310 LISZT: Venezia e Napoli FAURÉ: Nocturne No.6, Op.63 ALKAN: Symphonie for solo piano

FRIDAY, MARCH 4 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

MARINO FORMENTI “WHAT JAMES JOYCE DID FOR THE NOVEL, FORMENTI SEEMS INTENT ON DOING FOR THE PIANO RECITAL.” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“A Glenn Gould for the 21st century” (LA Times), the Italian-born Formenti performs his delicate, otherworldly cycle of interlocked piano pieces based on the work of György Kurtág, the Hungarian modernist who taught András Schiff. In this hybrid composition, bursts of Messiaen, Stockhausen, and Bartók intercut with fragments from Kurtág, creating a spectral network of citation that leaves audiences in “a state of exhilaration beyond any experience” (LA Weekly). TICKETS: $34 · DUKE STUDENTS $5 PROGRAM KURTÁG’S GHOSTS

SUNDAY, MARCH 27 • 7 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

DUKE

ARTISTS

SERIES

STILE ANTICO “AN ENSEMBLE OF BREATHTAKING FRESHNESS, VITALITY, AND BALANCE.” —NEW YORK TIMES

Working without a conductor, the twelve Grammy-nominated singers of Stile Antico arrange their voices in delicate, watchful harmonies, “set[ting] new standards for Renaissance polyphonic singing” (Independent (UK)). Amidst the gothic stonework of Duke Chapel, the young British stars’ “staggeringly beautiful” voices (Sunday Times (UK)) breathe life into 16th century arrangements of the Song of Songs, the biblical love poem that, in the Renaissance, inspired devotional music as bracing and passionate as any the world has ever seen. TICKETS: $30 · DUKE STUDENTS $5 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 • DUKE CHAPEL • 8 PM PROGRAM SONG OF SONGS CLEMENS NON PAPA: Ego flos campi

GUERRERO: Ego flos campi

PLAINCHANT: Speciosa facta es

PALESTRINA: Osculetur me

VICTORIA: Vadam et circuibo

VIVANCO: Veni, dilecte mi

PLAINCHANT: Dum esset Rex

LASSUS: Veni dilecte mi

GUERRERO: Trahe me post te

LASSUS: Veni in hortum meum

PLAINCHANT: Laeva ejus

PLAINCHANT: Iam hiems transiit

GOMBERT: Quam pulchra es

LHÉRITIER: Nigra sum

PRAETORIUS: Tota pulchra es

PLAINCHANT: Alleluia. Tota pulchra es

CEBALLOS: Hortus conclusus

ANDRÁS SCHIFF In this special performance at Duke, the legend of modern piano approaches a pair of darkly romantic works by Schumann and Mendelssohn, both of whom turn 200 this year. TICKETS: $52 · $42 · $24 · DUKE STUDENTS $5 Schiff’s recital is part of both the Piano Recital Series and the Duke Artists Series.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22 • 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM PROGRAM MENDELSSOHN: Variations serieuses, Op. 54 SCHUMANN: Sonata in F-sharp Minor, No. 1, Op. 11 MENDELSSOHN: Fantasie in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28 29

SCHUMANN: Fantasie in C Major Op. 17

THOMAS HAMPSON, BARITONE SONG OF AMERICA Hampson is an internationally-renowned opera lead and recitalist, artist in residence with the New York Philharmonic, and one of the most respected soloists of his era. Born in Indiana and raised in Spokane, the mission of this Leonard Bernstein protégé is to archive the history of American vocal art. Here his “clarion power” (LA Times) is turned to a suite of historic American works arranged with the Library of Congress, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the first-ever American song. TICKETS: $52 · $42 · $24 · DUKE STUDENTS $5 Hampson’s recital is part of both the Duke Artists series and Travelers series. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 • PAGE AUDITORIUM • 8 PM PROGRAM SONG OF AMERICA 250 years of American songs, including songs by Foster, Copland, Barber, Bernstein, Rorem, and Ives. Full program information forthcoming.

VENICE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA FEAT. GUILIANO CARMIGNOLA, VIOLIN

“ANDREA MARCON…LEADS THE ENSEMBLE IN VIVID, NEARLY RECKLESS PERFORMANCES, TEARING THE POWDERED WIG OFF THIS MUSIC ONCE AND FOR ALL…WHAT IS REVEALED IS BREATHTAKING.” —WASHINGTON POST

Founded in Italy by the dazzlingly epicurean Andrea Marcon in 1997, the Venice Baroque Orchestra is now recognized as the world’s most adventurous and dramatic period instrument ensemble, known for ravishing performances of classic scores. Supported by the “charismatic, high-voltage virtuoso” Carmignola on violin (Washington Post), the group strips the varnish off Vivaldi to recover the music’s original vitality. TICKETS: $46 · $38 · $22 · DUKE STUDENTS $5 THURSDAY, APRIL 7 • PAGE AUDITORIUM • 8 PM

PROGRAM VIVALDI: Sinfonia in A Major for strings and continuo, RV. 158 MARCELLO: Concerto in D Minor for oboe, strings, and continuo ALBINONI: Concerto in G Major for strings and continuo, Op. 6, No. 4 TARTINI: Concerto in A Major for violin, strings, and continuo, D 96 VIVALDI: Concerto in E-flat Major for violin, strings, and continuo, RV. 253, “La tempesta di Mare” VIVALDI: Concerto in G Minor for violin, strings, and continuo, RV. 332 VIVALDI: Concerto in D Major for violin, strings, and continuo, RV. 210

CHAMBER ARTS SOCIETY

BROOKLYN RIDER With an eclectic, imaginative repertory intended to mirror the polychrome diversity of their native borough, Brooklyn Rider—who travel with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble—have made it their mission to cross borders. But whether they are sharpening the cutting edge of new chamber repertory or reworking established classics, they perform with consummate artistry, producing performances that are “energetic, finely detailed, technically polished, and interpretively insightful” (NY Times). They open the season with arresting contemporary works and end with Schubert’s late masterpiece, the “Death and the Maiden” Quartet. TICKETS: $30 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER PRELUDE The Chamber Arts Society of Durham collaborates again with our counterparts in the Triangle to present the 2010 September Prelude, a three-day weekend of performances by Brooklyn Rider. The quartet will perform separate concert programs on Friday, September 10, at UNC-CH’s Memorial Hall; Saturday, September 11, at Duke’s Reynolds Industries Theater; and Sunday, September 12, at the Fletcher Opera Theater in Raleigh. The collaboration is made possible by Music on the Hill at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Raleigh Chamber Music Guild, the Chamber Arts Society of Durham, and Duke Performances.

COLIN JACOBSEN: Achille's Heel PHILIP GLASS: String Quartet No. 2 “Company” GIOVANNI SOLLIMA: Federico II, from “Viaggio en Italia” SCHUBERT: String Quartet No.14 in D Minor, “Death and the Maiden”

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

EMERSON STRING QUARTET "AN EXTRAORDINARY FUSION OF EXPERIENCE AND AUTHORITY WITH AUDACITY AND FRESHNESS." —BOSTON GLOBE

“Technically resourceful, musically insightful, cohesive, full of character and always interesting” (NY Times), the Emerson may be the most accomplished string quartet in the world. They bring their bracing virtuosity to a program of final works by three of the greatest chamber composers. Haydn’s final unfinished quartet and Schubert’s trembling, otherworldly masterwork are set against Bartók’s String Quartet No. 6 (1939), an elegy that was the last piece the master wrote in his native Hungary before fleeing the German Reich. TICKETS: $30 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER PROGRAM HAYDN: String Quartet No. 68 in D Minor, Op.103, H. 3/83 (unfinished) BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 6 SCHUBERT: String Quartet No.15 in G Major, D. 887

TRIO SOLISTI A SPECIAL TWO-CONCERT EVENT

In a special two-evening engagement, the “consistently brilliant” Trio Solisti (NY Times) makes its Duke debut as “the most exciting piano trio in America” (The New Yorker), having now displaced the Beaux Arts Trio, critics say, as “the outstanding chamber music ensemble of its kind” (Wall Street Journal). The trio has transfixed audiences worldwide with performances emanating both musical virtuosity and a muscular grace. On Friday, they pair Dvorák and Mendhelssohn with Spaniard Joaquín Turina; on Saturday they bring their “unrelenting passion and zealous abandon” (Washington Post) to a program that bookends one of Chopin’s great works with two powerful Russian pieces. TICKETS: $30 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 • 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM PROGRAM TURINA: Piano Trio No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 76 DVORÁK: Piano Trio in F Minor, Op. 65 MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 • 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM PROGRAM RACHMANINOFF: Trio Elégiaque No.1 in G Minor (1892) CHOPIN: Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8 33

MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Trio Solisti)

OPUS ONE A chamber music supergroup, Opus One brings together four of the most renowned musicians of our time, veterans of ensembles like Tashi, the Beaux Arts Trio, and the Orion and Guarneri String Quartets. As Opus One, these advocates of contemporary American music create work that’s “passionate, lushly textured, and impeccably balanced” (NY Times). Here, Brahms and Beethoven surround a new work by the “radiantly visionary” Lowell Lieberman (Time). The Brahms Opus 60 is considered by many to be the most intense piano quartets ever written. TICKETS: $30 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER PROGRAM BEETHOVEN: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op.16 LOWELL LIEBERMAN: Quartet for Piano and Strings, Op. 114 BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60, “Werther”

“THEY PLAY WITH STUPENDOUS, BREATHTAKING VIRTUOSITY…AN EVENING OF INTELLECTUAL FIRE.” —THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) ON PACIFICA QUARTET

PACIFICA QUARTET

ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET & ANTHONY MCGILL, CLARINET & ANDRÉS DÍAZ, CELLO Since their foundation in 1994, the Pacifica has won nearly every top award in chamber music, including the Naumburg. Their reputation for “luscious, edge-of-your-seat musicmaking” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) was confirmed in 2009, when they earned both a Grammy and Musical America’s Ensemble of the Year. Combining lyric intensity and blazing energy, their “playing [is] of the most sublime kind” (Sunday Telegraph (UK)). Here they perform with Anthony McGill, the principal clarinet of New York’s Metropolitan Opera who played at Barack Obama’s 2004 inauguration. TICKETS: $30 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, JANUARY 15 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER PROGRAM

“THE ST. LAWRENCE ARE REMARKABLE NOT SIMPLY FOR THE QUALITY OF THEIR MUSIC MAKING, EXALTED AS IT IS, BUT FOR THE JOY THEY TAKE IN THE ACT OF CONNECTION.” —ALEX ROSS, THE NEW YORKER

Now among the preeminent quartets in the world, the St. Lawrence has cultivated a global following for its “visceral and passionate” performances that are nevertheless “rooted in a ferocious attention to the details of the score” (Toronto Globe & Mail). At Duke, they appear with cellist Andrés Díaz, whose “strongly personal interpretive vision” (NY Times) alights here on Schubert’s Quintet in C Major, perhaps the greatest work ever written for this configuration. TICKETS: $30 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER PROGRAM

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No.1 in F Major, Op.18, No.1

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No.1 in E-flat Major, Op.12

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No.10 in A-flat Major, Op.118

PROKOFIEV: String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92

BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op.115 (with Anthony McGill, clarinet)

SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 (with Andrés Díaz, cello)

TAKÁCS QUARTET

BORROMEO STRING QUARTET & GARY GRAFFMAN, PIANO “THE BORROMEO ARE RECREATING THE MEDIUM ANEW AND WE ARE LUCKY TO BE HERE TO HEAR IT.” —BOSTON GLOBE

“The fact is,” says the Guardian (UK), “they are peerless”: formed at Budapest in 1975, the Takács is now widely recognized as one of the premiere string quartets of our time. Virtuosic and inspired, they approach their music with a rapturous intensity that has made them a fixture on the Chamber Arts Society calendar for more than a decade. This season they offer vital readings of Haydn, Schubert, and Bartók, the Hungarian folk-genius with whom the Takács share a special connection. TICKETS: $30 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

The Borromeo String Quartet is one of the most dynamic ensembles working today, “playing with lean clarity and eloquence” (Cleveland Plain Dealer): according to the Boston Globe they’re “simply the best there is.” Here the much-heralded quartet partners with Graffman, the legendary pianist who, after a 1979 injury, has played only with his left hand. Together they interpret E.W. Korngold’s celebrated Piano Quintet, a lush, late-romantic work composed in 1921 for another one-hand virtuoso, Paul Wittgenstein. TICKETS: $30 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, MARCH 12 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

SATURDAY, APRIL 30 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

PROGRAM HAYDN: String Quartet No. 59 in G Minor, Op. 74, No. 3, “Rider” BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 5 SCHUBERT: String Quartet No.13 in A Minor, “Rosamunde”

PROGRAM BACH: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV. 552, "St. Anne" (arr. Nicholas Kitchen) BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74, "Harp" BACH/BRAHMS: "Chaconne" from Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV. 1004 (Gary Graffman, solo piano) KORNGOLD: Piano Quintet in E Major, Op.15 (with Gary Graffman, piano)

IOMPI QUARTET First Course

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 • KIRBY HORTON HALL, DUKE GARDENS • 6 PM TICKETS: $5 • FRIENDS OF CIOMPI $3 • DUKE STUDENTS FREE Speaker TBD

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp Major, Op. 142 WEBERN: 6 Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9

Ciompi Concert no. 1

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2 • NELSON MUSIC ROOM • 8 PM TICKETS: $20 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 Founded in 1965, the Ciompi has been Duke’s resident chamber ensemble for more than four decades, turning out bracing performances of new and classic programs with “genuine warmth” and “effortless…coordination” (NY Times). They return with a season packed with intensity—including works by Webern, Stravinsky, Duke Ph.D in composition David Lipten, and newly hired assistant professor of music John Supko, whose newest string quartet receives its world premiere.

THE CIOMPI QUARTET’S

LUNCHTIME CLASSICS SERIES In each of these free lunchtime events, 50 minutes of the most essential chamber music is accompanied by a short introduction by a Quartet member. Admission is free. Food is not provided, but audience members are encouraged to bring lunch. This season the Ciompi addresses canonical works by Mozart. LUNCHTIME CLASSICS NO. 1 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 MOZART: String Quartet No. 20 in D Major, K. 499, “Hoffmeister” LUNCHTIME CLASSICS NO. 2 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2010 MOZART: String Quartet No. 18 in A Major, K. 464 LUNCHTIME CLASSICS NO. 3 TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011 MOZART: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, “Dissonance” LUNCHTIME CLASSICS NO. 4 TUESDAY APRIL 5, 2011 MOZART: Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G Major, K. 525, “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” (with John Brown, bass) MOZART: String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat Major, K. 589, “Prussian” ALL LUNCHTIME CONCERTS START AT 12 PM FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC IN THE RARE BOOK ROOM, PERKINS LIBRARY

MOZART: String Quartet No. 20 in D Major, K. 499, “Hoffmeister” SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp Major, Op. 142 WEBERN: 6 Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 SMETANA: String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor

Ciompi Concert no. 2

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 • NELSON MUSIC ROOM • 8 PM TICKETS: $20 • DUKE STUDENTS $5

Guest Artists: John Brown, bass; Thomas Kraines, cello MOZART: Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G Major, K. 525, “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” (with John Brown, bass) DAVID LIPTEN: “Ictus” for String Quartet, (2000) SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 (with Thomas Kraines, cello)

Ciompi Concert no. 3

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 • NELSON MUSIC ROOM • 8 PM TICKETS: $20 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 Guest Artists: Valentin Lanzrein, baritone

HAYDN: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 74, No. 3, “The Rider” BARBER: Dover Beach for Baritone and String Quartet, Op. 3 (with Valentin Lanzrein, baritone) BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127

First Course

THURSDAY, MARCH 31 • NELSON MUSIC ROOM • 6 PM TICKETS: $5 • FRIENDS OF CIOMPI $3 • DUKE STUDENTS FREE Prof. John Supko introduces his new string quartet. JOHN SUPKO: New String Quartet (World Premiere)

Ciompi Concert no. 4

SATURDAY, APRIL 2 • NELSON MUSIC ROOM • 8 PM TICKETS: $20 • DUKE STUDENTS $5 MOZART: String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589, “Prussian No. 2” JOHN SUPKO: New String Quartet (World Premiere) BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2 36

SEPTEMBER ‘10 11 Saturday

BROOKLYN RIDER Reynolds industries Theater · 8 pm

17/18

Friday & Saturday SOUNDS OF THE SOUTH MEGAFAUN & FIGHT THE BIG BULL FEAT. JUSTIN VERNON OF BON IVER & SHARON VAN ETTEN Hayti Heritage Center · 8 pm

19 Sunday SOUNDS OF THE SOUTH MEGAFAUN & FIGHT THE BIG BULL FEAT. JUSTIN VERNON OF BON IVER & SHARON VAN ETTEN Hayti Heritage Center · 5 pm 24 Friday

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III & FRIENDS HIGH WIDE & HANDSOME Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

25 Saturday

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS + JOE HENRY Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

OCTOBER ‘10 1 Friday THE BOOKS Sheafer Lab Theater · 8 pm & 10 pm 2 Saturday

CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 1 Nelson Music Room · 8 pm

3 Sunday

TILL FELLNER, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater · 7 pm

5 Tuesday DIRTY PROJECTORS Page Auditorium · 8 pm

22 Friday ANDRÁS SCHIFF, PIANO Page Auditorium · 8 pm 28 Thursday SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE THE MUSIC OF HORACE SILVER Page Auditorium · 8 pm 30 Saturday DEL MCCOURY BAND + PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND Page Auditorium · 8 pm

5/6 Friday & Saturday

RALPH LEMON HOW CAN YOU STAY IN THE HOUSE ALL DAY & NOT GO ANYWHERE? Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

Sunday ALLEN TOUSSAINT WITH NICHOLAS PAYTON & THE JOE KROWN TRIO Reynolds Industries Theater ·7 pm

OCTOBER ‘10 SU

13 Saturday CEDRIC WATSON & BIJOU CREOLE + RED STICK RAMBLERS Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

NOVEMBER ‘10

14 Sunday ARNALDO COHEN & MIHAELA URSULEASA, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater ·7 pm 19/20

Friday & Saturday TRIO SOLISTI Nelson Music Room · 8 pm

DECEMBER ‘10

BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY & THE CAIRO GANG Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

15 Friday

EMERSON STRING QUARTET Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

12 Friday CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 2 Nelson Music Room · 8 pm

3 Friday VIJAY IYER TRIO Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

16 Saturday

NOVEMBER ‘10

7 Thursday STILE ANTICO SONG OF SONGS Duke Chapel · 8 pm THE AMERICAN BEAUTY PROJECT OLLABELLE WITH JIM LAUDERDALE CATHERINE RUSSELL, AOIFE O’DONOVAN Page Auditorium · 8 pm

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OPUS ONE Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

DECEMBER ‘10 SU

JANUARY ‘11 15

Saturday PACIFICA QUARTET & ANTHONY MCGILL, CLARINET Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

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Friday & Saturday TIFT MERRITT & SIMONE DINNERSTEIN: NIGHT Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

28 Friday

27 Sunday BRAD MEHLDAU & ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER Reynolds Industries Theater · 7 pm

MARCH ‘11 3 Thursday

MARTY STUART & THE FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS & SPECIAL GUEST GLENN KOTCHE Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

4 Friday MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

29 Saturday CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 3 Nelson Music Room · 8 pm

12 Saturday TAKÁCS QUARTET Reynolds industries Theater · 8 pm

FEBRUARY ‘11 4/5

19 Saturday

KRONOS QUARTET STEVE REICH: THREE QUARTETS Page Auditorium · 8 pm

Friday & Saturday MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY 26 Saturday A NORTH CAROLINA HOMECOMING: THE BAD PLUS: THE RITE OF SPRING SOUNDDANCE (1975), DUETS (1980), BIPED (1999) Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm Durham Performing Arts Center · 8 pm

11 Friday

WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET Page Auditorium · 8 pm

12 Saturday JEREMY DENK, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm 15 Tuesday

THOMAS HAMPSON, BARITONE SONG OF AMERICA Page Auditorium · 8 pm

17 Thursday

GREIL MARCUS Venue: TBD · 7 pm

18 Friday JIM WHITE + SOUTH MEMPHIS STRING BAND FEAT. ALVIN “YOUNGBLOOD” HART JIMBO MATHUS & LUTHER DICKINSON Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

27 Sunday MARINO FORMENTI, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater · 7 pm

APRIL ‘11 1 Friday WATTS PROJECT JEFF “TAIN” WATTS, CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE DAVID SÁNCHEZ & NICHOLAS PAYTON Page Auditorium · 8 pm 2 Saturday CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 4 Nelson Music Room · 8 pm 7 Thursday VENICE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA FEAT. GUILIANO CARMIGNOLA, VIOLIN Page Auditorium · 8 pm

19 Saturday

29 Friday GUILLERMO KLEIN Y LOS GUACHOS Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

25/26 Friday & Saturday

30 Saturday BORROMEO STRING QUARTET & GARY GRAFFMAN, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET & ANDRÉS DÍAZ, CELLO Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

ABBEY THEATRE OF IRELAND: TERMINUS Carolina Theatre of Durham · 8 pm

27 Sunday

MABOU MINES | LEE BREUER: THE GLASS MENAGERIE Sheafer Lab Theater · 3 pm

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TAKE 20% OFF YOUR TOTAL PRICE WHEN YOU PURCHASE TICKETS TO ANY 4 OR MORE SHOWS FROM DUKE PERFORMANCES’ 2010/11 SEASON.*

BY PHONE

*Note: Because Ticketmaster has exclusive ticketing agreements with DPAC and the Carolina Theatre, Duke Performances’ presentations of both the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Abbey Theatre are excluded from the Pick-4 discount. However, patrons purchasing a Pick-4 package will receive a discount code from the University Box Office offering 30% off tickets to both those performances. Patrons may use this code online, by phone, or in person purchasing tickets from the DPAC and/or Carolina Theatre box offices.

Log on to the DP website anytime at www.dukeperformances.org or visit the University Box Office website at www.tickets.duke.edu. Credit card orders only.

Call the University Box Office between Monday and Friday, 10 am to 5 pm, 919-684-4444. Credit card orders only.

IN PERSON Visit the University Box Office in the top level of the Bryan Center on Duke University’s West Campus between Monday and Friday, 10 am to 5 pm. A box office will open at performance venues one hour prior to the start of each show.

TICKETING DETAILS FOR THE MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY AT DPAC & THE ABBEY THEATRE AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY

ABBEY THEATRE OF IRELAND

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 & 5

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 & 26

Durham Performing Arts Center 123 Vivian Street, Durham www.dpacnc.com | 919-680-2787

Carolina Theatre of Durham 309 West Morgan Street, Durham www.carolinatheatre.org | 919-560-3030

Tickets for Duke Performances’ presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at DPAC must be purchased through the DPAC website (www.dpacnc. com), by calling 919-680-2787, or visiting the DPAC box office at 123 Vivian Street. Tickets for all DPAC performances are sold through Ticketmaster; Ticketmaster service charges will be applied. In addition, a $2 City of Durham Facility Fee is added to every DPAC ticket.

Tickets for Duke Performances’ presentation of the Abbey Theatre at the Carolina Theatre be purchased through the Carolina Theatre website (www.carolinatheatre. org), by calling 919-560-3030, or by visiting the Carolina Theatre box office at 309 W. Morgan Street. Tickets for Carolina Theatre performances are sold through Ticketmaster; Ticketmaster service charges will be applied.

DUKE PERFORMANCES CLASSICAL MUSIC DISCOUNTS IN ADDITION TO THE PICK-4 DISCOUNT, DUKE PERFORMANCES OFFERS DISCOUNTS ON ALL CLASSICAL MUSIC SERIES:

PIANO RECITAL SERIES

Note: Includes best available orchestra tickets for András Schiff in Page Auditorium Till Fellner [$34] • András Schiff [$52] • Arnaldo Cohen & Mihaela Ursuleasa [$34] • Jeremy Denk [$34] • Marc-André Hamelin [$34] • Marino Formenti [$34]

REGULAR PRICE: $222. SERIES DISCOUNT PRICE: $178. 39

DUKE ARTIST SERIES Stile Antico [$30] • András Schiff [$52 | $42 | $24] • Thomas Hampson [$52 | $42 | $24] • Venice Baroque Orchestra [$46 | $38 | $22]

REGULAR PRICES: $180 | $152 | $100. SERIES DISCOUNT PRICES: $144 | $122 | $80.

ESSENTIAL CLASSICS: PIANO RECITAL SERIES + DUKE ARTISTS SERIES Note: Includes best available orchestra tickets for all concerts in Page Auditorium

REGULAR PRICE: $350. SERIES DISCOUNT PRICE: $245.

CHAMBER ARTS SOCIETY OF DURHAM Brooklyn Rider [$30] • Emerson String Quartet [$30] • Trio Solisti [$30] • Opus One [$30] • Pacifica Quartet [$30] • St. Lawrence String Quartet [$30] • Takács Quartet [$30] • Borromeo String Quartet [$30]

REGULAR PRICE: $240. SERIES DISCOUNT PRICE: $135.

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AN AMAZING STUDENT TICKET PRICE

In a remarkable arrangement with the University Provost, Duke undergraduate and graduate students can purchase tickets to any Duke Performances event for just $5. Limit of two $5 tickets per student for each event. Quantities of available tickets may be limited due to demand. Student ID required at time of purchase.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION DIRECTIONS & PARKING For full driving directions and parking information please visit www.dukeperformances.org.

LATE SEATING POLICY Please allow enough time to park, claim your tickets, and get seated several minutes before the announced start-time of performances. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house manager and Duke Performances staff with respect for the performers and other patrons.

LOST TICKETS If you lose your tickets and need replacements, please call the University Box Office, 919-684-4444.

PERFORMANCE CANCELLATION Because the performing arts are live events, programs are subject to change without notice for reasons outside the control of Duke Performances. If a performance is cancelled, you will be notified as early as possible and offered either an exchange or a refund. Join our email list or check www.dukeperformances.org for the most up-to-date information regarding performances.

REFUNDS Tickets are nonrefundable except in the case of cancelled events.

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 to the University Box Office for a tax credit (no refunds). In order to qualify for the tax credit, the Box Office must receive refund requests at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled performance. We encourage all ticket holders to return tickets they are unable to use so that seats can be made available to students, charitable groups, or other patrons who might otherwise not be able to attend.

VOLUNTEER FOR DP Duke Performances welcomes volunteer ushers for its events. Volunteers provide a valuable service and are able to see performances free of charge. Ushering requires a time commitment both before and after the performance; precise responsibilities will vary. For information about becoming a volunteer usher, please call Duke Performances at 919-660-3356 or email the usher coordinator at performances@duke.edu.

WEBSITE & EMAIL UPDATES Visit dukeperformances.org for updates on the series. We also encourage you to join our email list, accessible through the website. We use this list in addition to our website to update ticketholders about changes to the series.

ACCESS Individuals with disabilities who anticipate needing additional accommodation or who have questions about physical access, should contact the Duke University Box Office at 919-684-4444 prior to ordering tickets.

THANKS TO Duke University Office of the President Duke University Office of the Provost Duke University Provost’s Council for the Arts’ Visiting Artist Grant Duke University Office of the Vice-Provost for the Arts Armentrout Endowment for the Visual and Performing Arts Artist Residency Endowment Fund Artists Series Enhancement Endowment Fund Blackburn Performing Arts Fund Charles M. and Shirley F. Weiss Fund for Creativity in the Arts Edith London Endowment Fund Eleanor Naylor Dana Endowment Fund Ella Fountain Pratt Cultural Affairs Endowment Ernest W. Nelson Endowment Fund Frances and E.T. Rollins, Jr. Endowment Fund Friends of Duke Performances Henry David Epstein Endowment Fund J.J. and Ruth M. Blum Endowment Fund Nancy Hanks Resident Fellows Endowment Fund Patrick M. and Catherine Greer Williams Endowment Fund Robert and Margaret Boyer Endowment Fund Roy O. Rodwell Endowment Fund

PHOTO CREDITS Table of Contents: Merce Cunningham by Richard Rutledge Page 2: Carolina Chocolate Drops by Julie Roberts, Joe Henry by Lauren Dukoff Page 4: Cedric Watson by Lucius Fontenot, Red Stick Ramblers by Joshua Black Wilkins, Marty Stuart by The Greenroom PR Page 6: Dirty Projectors by Sarah Cass, Vijay Iyer Trio by Prashant Bhargava Page 7: Bang on a Can All-Stars by Stephanie Berger, Glenn Kotche by Michael Wilson, Wayne Shorter by Henry Leutwyler Page 8: Steve Reich by Jeffrey Herman Page 11: Allen Toussaint by Lee Crumcrop, Bonnie “Prince” Billy by F. Simani Page 12: Jim White by Robin Broward, Jeff “Tain” Watts by Oliver Link Page 14: Megafaun by DL Anderson Page 15: SFJazz Collective by Walt Denson, Horace Silver by Karel Hageman Page 16: Ralph Lemon by Frank Oudeman Page 17: Greil Marcus by Thierry Arditti, Lee Breuer by Tom LeGoff Page 18: The Bad Plus by Cameron Wittig Page 19: Merce Cunningham by Mark Seliger Page 22: Tift Merritt by Tony Nelson, Simone Dinnerstein by Lisa Marie Mazzucco, Tift Merritt by Emily Wilson, Thomas Hampson by Dario Acosta Page 23: Terminus Courtesy of the Public Theater Page 24: Anne Sofie Von Otter by Harald Hoffman, Brad Mehldau by Michael Wilson, Guillermo Klein by Lourdes Delgado Page 25: Till Fellner by Ben Ealovega Page 26: András Schiff by Sheila Rock Page 27: Jeremy Denk by Dennis Callahan Page 28: MarcAndré Hamelin by Fran Kaufman, Marino Formenti by Gyula Fodor Page 29: Stile Antico by Marco Borggreve, András Schiff by Sheila Rock Page 30: Thomas Hampson by Dario Acosta, Venice Baroque Orchestra by Harold Hoffman, Guiliano Carmignola by Kasskara Page 32: Brooklyn Rider by Richard Frank, Emerson String Quartet by Lisa Marie Mazzucco Page 35: Takács Quartet by Ellen Appel, Borromeo String Quartet by Liz Linder Page 36: Ciompi Quartet by Brenda Scott 40

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