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String Theory

Violinist Robert McDuffie Connects the Past, Present and Future in New Home of Mercer University’s Robert McDuffie Center for Strings

The Bell House, MARYANN BATES

FEBRUARY 12-26, 2015

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BRAD EVANS bradevans11@gmail.com There is something that has always been true in Macon, and that is that music has helped heal our divides.

Country music legend Billy Joe Shaver told me one time that he sat down and had a conversation with Little Richard a long time ago. Little Richard told him about being a young, gay, black kid in Macon during a time when either of those things was likely to get you hurt. He talked about washing dishes in a small dimly lit diner by the train tracks. Richard told Billy that it was the sounds of those trains, choogin in the night that gave him the rhythm he would use for many of his songs. But it wasn’t just those trains. Something here in our town allowed him to become Little Richard, and allowed the world to love him for who he was, and in doing that, the world glimpsed what life is about. I think about that when I hear a train in the distance late at night.

And Richard’s music inspired the Walden boys, who would sneak into the white section of black shows and hope their parents didn’t find out. When Phil started booking Otis Redding and other black acts, he didn’t even tell his father what he was doing. He’d fill up the family car with a band, take them to play a show in some college town and return in the wee hours of the morning, clean it up, and act like nothing had happened.

When the Army sent Phil to Germany, Phil’s brother Alan and his father ended up taking over while he was gone. Their father and Otis became best of friends. I don’t have to illustrate how that relationship changed history. I think about it every time I hear Otis on the radio.

And the Walden’s did it again by discovering a band of white boys, with a black drummer, who invented Southern rock. Capricorn Records, and the musicians that made a pilgrimage to Macon with the hopes of signing a deal gave life to a place called Grant’s Lounge.

The music pouring out of those doors brought blacks and whites together in the ‘60s in the South probably more than anything else ever did. And I think about that every time I have a beer there.

And it was only a few short years ago that our old friend Roger Riddle was written up in the LA Times for putting together a series of dance parties that brought people together. And even last week, hip hop artist Floco Torres put on another LunchBeat Macon, which brings suits, hippies, punks and pastors together to dance away their lunch break. I think about that, but I can’t dance.

We are lucky to live here, lucky to have those reminders. To have the kind of art we can look to for answers. And

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we’re lucky that another one-of-a-kind musician, Robert McDuffie, has taken interest in our town.

The McDuffie Center for Strings is a magical place. All you have to do is look at it to see that. But Robert’s vision is what really intrigues me. He wasn’t unlike any other north Macon white boy, if you take away all that fiddle playing.

Like a lot of us, he wasn’t sure how to process the racism that was around him.

But like a lot of us, he grew up, and he started thinking about it. In his 30’s he served on the board for the Harlem School of the Arts. He listened and learned from others, who had experienced the rougher side of racism. Fast forward to the Center for Strings. Robert’s vision isn’t just to bring great musicians to Macon to study at the Center.

He wants it to invest in our community, especially the urban areas. That’s why he’s hitching his wagon to the Otis Redding Foundation. The plan is to provide the string education for their forthcoming music school. He wants to change what an orchestra looks like, to expose classical music to those who haven’t had the chance to realize it’s importance and it’s beauty. By being a conservatory that reaches out to the urban community, he hopes to influence other conservatories to do the same. Changing things in the world of classical music isn’t an easy task. I don’t know anyone else better for the job than Robert.

Robert has a way of making folks believe in him. I imagine he always has.

The few times I’ve gotten to hang out with him, he’s made me feel like we’re best buddies. I imagine he does that to everyone. But when he looked at me with those great eyebrows and said, “I had to ask myself what I could do, and ultimately that’s what everyone should ask of themselves…. Actions do count, words do matter, and music does heal.”

I took it to heart. I think if you come see this performance, you will to.

Sat., Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m.

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” Robert McDuffie and Anna Deveare Smith Beulahland Bible Church

1010 Newberg Ave., Macon Free. Tickets are first come, first served and available at the Grand Opera House Box Office 651 Mulberry St., Macon

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Riverside Cemetery unveils new guided tour: North Gate Notables Feb. 14 & 15 What do the founder of Macon’s love affair with cherry blossoms, a former Allman Brothers Band road manager, and Georgia’s first lady of flight have in common?

They are all interred at historic Riverside Cemetery’s North Gate section, located between I-75 and Ingleside Avenue. The fascinating stories of these three, along with some 10 other notable Maconites, will be shared for the first time ever on a new guided tour of the cemetery’s North Gate section, Feb. 14 and 15 at 4:00 p.m. The Historic Riverside Cemetery Conservancy willpresent this one-and-a-half-hour walking tour, with parking available at Acme Paint, 1979 Riverside Drive, or at Hutchings Career Center, 2011 Riverside Drive. Cost is $5 per person at the gate. A museum shop will have T-shirts, relevant books, gifts and souvenirs for purchase. Allproceeds benefit the 501(c)(3) Conservancy.

Let the Good Times Roll in the Corridor Mardi Gras in Mercer Village Feb. 17 Put on your favorite feathered mask and join the party in the village! On February 17, Mercer Village merchants will host Mardi Gras festivities for lunch and dinner. Specials include chicory coffee at Jittery Joes and crawfish nachos with red beans and rice at Margaritas. Francars’s will be serving traditional beignets, shrimp po boys and gumbo while Sauced dishes out crawfish and andouille sausage flat bread pizza on a spicy cream sauce base. Things are getting spicy in the village!

Downtown Mardi Gras Allows Tastings at New N’awlins Themed Eateries February 17 will also feature a progressive downtown event that starts at 5 p.m. at Ocmulgee Traders, 455 Poplar St., though attendees may arrive at any time before 6:30. Allan Bass of Quality Wine will provide complimentary wine and Ocmulgee Traders will have a Mardi Gras mask-making booth. Next, revelers will make their way to Kudzu Seafood, who will give away samples from their lunch menu and provide a glimpse of their new restaurant. Then, everyone will join the jazz parade at Third Street Park and sashay Mardi Gras-style down to Cherry Street. Groups will then walk to Travis Jean, where former New Orleans resident Jean Bragg will provide free chicory coffee and a stroll around her art and antiques gallery. From there, the walk continues to the new Parish on Cherry, a New Orleans-style restaurant who will give out free beignets. Groups and families are encouraged to dress up and compete for the best group costume, with prizes. 478-345-6162.

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Thursday

2.12

College Town Film Series: “True Stories” at the Douglass Theatre 7:30 p.m. Craig Coleman of Mercer University will present Talking Heads frontman David Byrne’s offbeat, music-laden comedy True Stories (1986). Free for students w/ I.D. and $5 for all others. Includes a small popcorn and a small drink.

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Friday

2.13

Neil Berg’s 130 Years of Broadway Romance Presented by Butler Lexus Broadway Series at The Grand Opera House. 7:30 p.m. Spend Valentine’s Day Eve with your sweetheart celebrating the 130th anniversary of The Grand Opera House with Neil Berg’s 130 Years of Broadway Romance, featuring five big-name Broadway stars performing the greatest love songs from musical theatre.

This fully staged concert recreates the greatest moments from the finest shows of the past 13 decades featuring the actual stars of Broadway productions such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, CATS, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Jekyll & Hyde. Celebrate the best of Broadway Romance at this incredible performance.

Tickets $35 and up. thegrandmacon.com Celebrate the Lunar New Year The Confucius Institute of Wesleyan College will ring in the Year of the Sheep with a banquet of traditional Chinese food from 5:30-7:30 p.m. followed by performance by the Wesleyan Chinese Folk Dance team. Cost: Free performance.

Dinner: $5; $3 children.

Mercer University Children’s Choir Valentine Cabaret and Silent Auction 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church of Christ, 511 High Place, Macon. Enjoy desserts and a concert, and make a bid on the many items and services available in the silent auction. Need not be present to win. The event will benefit the scholarship fund for the Children’s Choir. Tickets are $10. To purchase tickets, please call Rich Kosowski, director, at 301- 4167.

Theatre Macon presents “Clybourne Park” Feb. 13 - 21. Neighborhoods change, but do people? Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play, this razor-sharp satire takes a jab at race and real estate in a fictional Chicago neighborhood. The play begins in 1959 as a black family moves into a white enclave. The New York Times hailed it “ferociously smart!” This production is being done in honor of the grand opening of The Tubman African American Museum. Adults are $25.00, Students are $15.00 (under 22). 438 Cherry Street.

Saturday

2.14

Cirque D’Or at The Grand Opera House, 7:00 p.m. And Sunday, Feb. 15 at 3 p.m.

Cirque D’Or, with over 30 acrobats and performers from around the world, is a new generation of Cirque-style show, made popular by Cirque du Soleil. The electrifying and mesmerizing Cirque D’Or features a cast of world champion acrobats, contortionists, and aerial artists.

The show will entertain your entire family with beautiful costumes, breathtaking stunts and some of the world’s greatest talent assembled on one stage. Tickets start at $25 and are available by calling the Grand Opera House box office Monday – Friday (478) 301-5470 or buy online at thegrandmacon.com

Saturday

2.17

Mardi Gras Party at The Library Ballroom Fat Tuesday! Come and enjoy delectable Cajun style food and drinks in the enchanting atmosphere of the Library Ballroom. The event will also feature the sensational Dixieland sounds of The World Famous Walnut Street Dixie, Racing & Marching Society Jazz Band. A prize will be awarded for best costume! The party kicks off at 8:00 p.m. until 11:30 p.m.

Tickets are $15.00 per person or $25.00 per couple, 21 and up. 478-957-7728.

Georgia Wilderness Society Presentation John Trussell, outdoor writer, Oaky Woods supporter & lifelong resident of Houston County, will be the speaker, 7:30 pm at the Museum of Arts & Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road. All are welcome and admission is free. The GWS is a non-profit organization of outdoor recreation enthusiasts who enjoy hiking, camping, canoeing and other wilderness experiences. For more information, please contact Bonnie at 478-956-6973.

Friday

2.20

Mercer Jazz Ensemble: Magic of Miles Davis – This performance will take place on Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Fickling Hall on Mercer’s campus. Admission is free and open to the public.

Macon Little Theatre Presents “I Hate Hamlet” Thru Feb. 15 A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage, but there’s one problem: He hates Hamlet. His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore’s ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full costume to the apartment that once was his. The contrast between the two actors, the towering, dissipated Barrymore whose Hamlet was the greatest of his time, and Andrew Rally, hot young television star, leads to a wildly funny duel over women, art, success, duty, television, and yes, the apartment. Adults $18.00,Seniors (60 +) $15.00, Students (ages 5 - 23) $10.00. 4220 Forsyth Rd.

Gordon Lightfoot in Concert Feb. 20 at The Grand Opera House Gordon Lightfoot is perhaps the most accomplished and well-known singer/songwriter to ever come out of Canada. He is internationally known for such monumental folk/pop/rock hits as “Sundown”, “If You Could Read My Mind”, “Early Mornin’ Rain”, “Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald” and many more. His songs have been covered by such music giants as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Glen Campbell and Don Williams. Lightfoot began his music career fronting a variety of rock n roll bands around Toronto while still in his teens.

In 1958, he relocated to Los Angeles where he found work writing jingles for TV commercials but returned to Toronto in 1962 where he rapidly became a fixture in the city’s bugeoning folk music scene. He made his first records for a local Toronto label in 1963 but it wasn’t until he signed a major record deal and released his first album in 1966 that he became widely known. In 1970, he scored his first top ten hit with “If You Could Read My Mind” beginning a decade of chart-topping albums and hit songs hightlighted by his #1 hit in 1974 with “Sundown”. After nearly 20 years of success, Lightfoot when into self-imposed semi-retirement in the late 1980s but reemerged in 1993 with the highly acclaimed album “Waiting For You”. His 1998 album “Painter Passing Through” also drew high praise from critics and fans alike. Lightfoot is currently on a national tour taking him up the southeastern coast and Macon is proud to be able to host the folk legend. Tickets start at $54. Visit thegrandmacon.com or call (478) 301-5470.

Middle Georgia Comic Convention Feb. 21-22 MGA CON is offering a variety of events that will keep you entertained! MGA CON will have a dealers room, an artist alley, an art show, gaming (which inludes a Super Smash Bros tournament), panels, costume contest, and autograph signing. Pre-Registered Membership: $25 + tax for 2-Day Badge; ends February 19. If you’re already a member of MGA Con, entry is free. WALK-IN MEMBERSHIP (AGES 13 AND UP): One-Day, Saturday - $25.00; One-Day, Sunday- $20.00; Two-Day, Saturday/Sunday - $35.00. Free for children 10 and under (up to two per adult ticket). Doors open at 9 a.m. Macon Centreplex Arena.

Special guests will include; - Keith Brooks is an actor, director, and writer most known for his work in The Walking Dead (“Deserve It” Dan a.k.a that guy that did that horrible thing to Carl that upset you), He is the director of Deadpool: A Typical Tuesday, M is for Manscaping (Abc’s of Death 2), and the upcoming features Nerd Love, and DickBall.

- Shane Berryhill is a novelist and comic book creator/writer. His work has been praised by Publishers Weekly, Comic Book Resources, NPR, NBC Today.com, Wired Magazine, Horror World, and others.

- Craig Gilmore is a veteran comic book illustrator, storyboard artist and conceptual illustrator. He is best known these days for his work in the motion picture and television industry as the story board artist on AMC’’s the Walking Dead, ABC’s Resurrection, Showtime’s Homeland and several motion pictures.

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Saturday

2.21

Hearts in the Park Presented by Ocmulgee National Monument Free event! Join us for a night walk at Ocmulgee with a Valentine’s Day theme. 1 mile walk round trip from the park’s visitor center to the Great Temple Mound. Free red glow stick to the first 50 people. Additional glow sticks available for $1.00. Gates open at 6:30 pm for free hot cocoa before walk. 1207 Emery Highway “Letter From Birmingham Jail” presented by the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings World-renowned violinist Robert McDuffie and actress/playwright Anna Deavere Smith will perform a program of spoken word and music. Free, 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets are available at the Grand Opera House box office. The performance will take place at Beulahland Bible Church, 1010 Newburg Avenue. COMPLETE STORY ON PAGE 13.

Mammal Mayhem Presented by Museum of Arts and Sciences 10am - 4 pm. a day of Furry Family Fun! Mammals of all ages are invited to come enjoy a full day of events. Museum visitors can meet the newest members of the Museum’s mammal family, quiz our experts, play games, create art, and taste some interesting treats at our Road Side Café. There will be special presentations, as well as demonstrations by the Macon Police Department Canine Unit in the Museum’s Auditorium and many other special guests in the main lobby.

Fairy Tale Ball Presented by Rooms from the Heart at The Blacksmith Shop. Join us for an evening of dance and music to support nonprofit Rooms from the Heart. All proceeds provide a critically ill child a bedroom of their choice.

Tickets $35.

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Sunday

2.22

The Sea Chanters in concert The Navy Band Sea Chanters is the United States Navy’s official chorus. The ensemble performs a variety of music ranging from traditional choral music, including sea chanteys and patriotic fare, to opera, Broadway, and contemporary music. At home in Washington, they perform for the president, vice pres-

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ident and numerous congressional, military and foreign dignitaries. Experience The Sea Chanters on Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. in Willingham Hall, Mercer University. Admission is free and open to the public.

Monday

2.23

Saxophonist John Ellis Presented by Wesleyan College. Wesleyan’s Lamar Lecture series features saxophonist John Ellis and his New Orleans-centered band, Double-Wide.

Widely recognized as one of New York’s premiere tenor saxophone voices, John has performed extensively around the world for the last 20 years. He has released eight albums and has more than 100 album credits as a sideman. Free and open to the public. 7 p.m.

Porter Auditorium on Wesleyan’s campus.

10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s 6 p.m.

(Learn the facts. Early detection of Alzheimer’s disease gives you a chance to begin drug therapy, enroll in clinical studies, and plan for the future.) Alzheimer’s Association Community Outreach Center 886 Mulberry Street. Free. For a full listing of classes , or to register for a class call 800-272-3900

Tuesday

2.24

Joan Stockstill Godsey Concert Series: A Musical Journey with Friends: Carol Goff, collaborative piano; Richard Kosowski, tenor; Monty Cole, saxophone; Martha Malone, soprano – Townsend faculty perform a recital of solo and chamber music at 7:30 p.m. in Fickling Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

Saturday

2.28

The Music of Macon Presented by Macon Pops at Macon City Auditorium. Join us as we celebrate Macon’s rich musical heritage from the past, present, AND future! This will be a fantastic evening for all music lovers and proud Maconites as Macon Pops performs music from artists who hail from Macon or have ties to our beloved city.

Very special guest performers include: Dexter Redding and Otis Redding III, Chuck Leavell, Jimmy Hall, Amy Schwartz Moretti, Robert McDuffie, Floco Torres, Daniel NeSmith, Louise Warren, Joshua Neal and a few BIG surprises! Balcony tickets $10. 478-751-9232.

Join the community at the Museum of Arts and Sciences on Saturday, February 21 for a day of Furry Family Fun! Mammals of all ages are invited to come enjoy a full day of events. Museum visitors can meet the newest members of the Museum’s mammal family, quiz our experts, play games, create art, and taste some interesting treats at our Road Side Café.

Included with Musuem admission.

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Celebrate the Chinese New Year Friday, February 13 Chinese Banquet 5:30-7:00pm Anderson Dining Hall $5 adults, $3 children

Chinese Folk Dance and Music Ensemble 7:30pm Porter Auditorium Free and open to the public

Comprised of students of various nationalities, Wesleyan College’s Chinese Folk Dance and Music Ensemble was established in fall 2014. Their performances represent traditional Chinese folk art across the dynasties and regions of China.

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Many will know the house from the iconic photograph by Stephen Paley on the cover of the 1969 debut album by the Allman Brothers Band. The six musicians, all in their twenties, soon to be collectively hailed as one of the greatest rock groups of all time, are lined up in a row across the side porch of a Greek Revival-style antebellum residence in Macon, Georgia, originally constructed in 1855 for a wealthy plantation owner.

Sporting long-hair and mutton chops, wearing bell-bottoms, bloused shirts, boots and fringed leather jackets, the boys in the band look stylishly nonchalant. The house is in comparatively shabby condition with white paint peeling off the Corinthian columns and outer walls, and green vines piled up around the column bases.

Nearly a half-century later, on a partially overcast, but otherwise cool and pleasant January afternoon, a remarkably contrasting but not unrelated scene greets a reporter visiting Bell House at 315 College Street. A cadre of Latino workers is putting finishing touches on the structure, which fairly gleams with fresh paint, restored ornamental trim, and cleanly swept porches on three colonnaded sides.

Emanating from inside the house are the sonorous strains of a double bass. Peering through a window next to the double-door entrance, the reporter sees a tall young man with straight dark hair and wearing black thick-rimmed glasses sawing away on a large hollow-bodied wooden instrument. His eyes are closed.

The melody line is rambling, dreamy and very beautiful. The technique is assuredly expert, but the youth’s body language indicates an attention focused less on notational precision than on deftly manipulating waves of musical sound for the sheer joy of it.

Thanks to the visionary zeal of Macon native Robert “Bobby” McDuffie, one of the world’s leading classical violinists, the Bell House is about to embark on the next leg of its historical journey, this time as the new home of The Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University. Named for Mercer trustee Gus Bell who donated the 10,000-square-foot building and property to the university in 2008, the now stately mansion houses a 60-seat performance hall plus one smaller salon on the first floor; thirteen dedicated studios and practice rooms, a lounge and storage space on the second; and administrative offices on both. Fiber optic wiring means live instructional sessions can be piped in from anywhere in the world, and live broadcasting of performances is possible. The extensive restoration of the building, which has been listed on the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places since 1972 (one of 57 historic places in Macon to receive the distinction), was funded largely by a $1.5 million grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation.

“Like other great conservatories, which took over the grand old homes and turned them into learning centers, we are following a historical model -- Curtis did it, Peabody did it, and now we are doing it,” says McDuffie, referring to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.

To mark the debut of the newly transformed Bell House, organizers have scheduled tours, chamber concerts and other events on Friday through Sunday, February 20-22. Topping off the weekend is “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” a free performance on Sunday evening by McDuffie and actress-playwright Anna

Deveare Smith (West Wing, Nurse Jackie) at the 2,000-seat Beulahland Bible Church. The performance, which intertwines spoken word and music, features Smith portraying historical figures from the civil rights movement including Martin Luther King, Jr., and John Lewis, while McDuffie accompanies the action with songs such as “How Great Thou Art,” “Ashoken Farewell,” “Schindler’s List” and “America the Beautiful.”

The events underline the McDuffie Center founder’s commitment to forging partnerships with community arts organizations, such as the Otis Redding Foundation, and instituting outreach programs to encourage local involvement with the center. “I’m happy that our students are getting to see this, as another way for them to understand why the arts matter and why what they do matters,” says McDuffie.

In New York, where the violinist has been living with his wife and two children for many years, McDuffie says he learned a few things about the relationship between the arts and the public by serving on the board of the Harlem School of the Arts and chairing the organization’s Education Committee. “The question is: What role can the arts play to make the city a better place,” he says. “People look to the arts for answers, and they turn to music for consolation. Music and the other arts give adults and children ways to communicate across all sorts of divides.”

String Theory in the Deep South Robert McDuffie Center for Strings Connects the Past, Present and Future in New College Street Home Originally published at GeorgiaMusic.org

BY DOUG DELOACH

The Business of Teaching Music Seven years ago, R. Kirby Godsey, who served as president of Mercer University from 1979 to 2006, asked McDuffie to “figure out a way to put the university’s music program on the map.” Seven years later, with continuing enthusiastic support and leadership from current president William D. Underwood, the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings is well on the way to fulfilling its mission.

“We are reaching a point of stability, which is a wonderful achievement,” says Amy Schwartz Moretti, the center’s director and an accomplished concert violinist in her own right. “Our next big goal is to reach our full complement of twenty-six students.” Twenty-two students are currently enrolled in the undergraduate program, which can accommodate twelve violinists, six violists, six cellists and two double bassists. “By design, the process moves slowly and deliberately.

The young people who are chosen for the full program have to be the right fit and be at the right level of talent.”

To expose students to professional venues and develop a feel for the commercial side of the industry, the McDuffie Center has formed

The elegant salon at The Bell House. Photo WALTER ELLIOT Below, Robert McDuffie.

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partnerships with the Rome Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Brevard Music Festival, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, and the Miami-based New World Symphony. Additionally, every other year, the students play Le Poisson Rouge (formerly the legendary Village Gate jazz club), which McDuffie says is “now the hip classical music venue in New York.”

In developing the McDuffie Center’s four-year program, McDuffie insisted on putting an emphasis on business acumen and entrepreneurial skills as well as the pursuit of artistic excellence and academic achievement. “Mercer has a great law school, a great business school, and a great liberal arts program,” he says. “Now it has a conservatory with a specific, business-oriented curriculum, which will prepare 21st century classical musicians for the real world.”

An Eclectic Career In a career spanning five decades, the 56-year-old McDuffie has performed with the world’s greatest orchestras from New York, Los Angeles and London to Montreal, Frankfurt and Rome. He has headlined programs with the Jerusalem Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico, and all of the major orchestras of Australia. He has been participating as a performer and instructor at the Aspen Festival in Colorado for the last thirty-nine summers. In 2003, an abiding passion for all things Italian compelled the violinist to found the Rome Chamber Music Festival.

His family even lived in Italy for a brief period.

In 2009, McDuffie joined the Toronto Symphony for the world premiere of Violin Concerto No. 2, The American Four Seasons, which was written by Phillip Glass for the violinist. At McDuffie’s urging, Glass wrote his concerto for the same instrumentation used by Antonio Vivaldi in the original Four Seasons with the exception of the harpsichord, which was replaced by—what else—a synthesizer.

In Atlanta last January McDuffie joined an all-star troupe of rock ‘n’ rollers including Gregg Allman, Randall Bramblett, Jimmy Hall and Michelle Malone, plus the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, at the Woodruff Arts Center to celebrate the music of Georgia-born composer, singer and Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell. At one point during the free-wheeling fandango, McDuffie found himself onstage jamming with the gang on “Midnight Rider.”

“That show was one of the most fun things I have ever done, but I was also very nervous about the whole thing,” McDuffie says, his beaming, boyish countenance testifying to the honesty in the remark.

McDuffie grew up in a north Macon suburb, the child of middle class, musically oriented parents. His mother Susan, who still teaches piano, is locally renowned as a church organist and choir director. Along with his peers, McDuffie could hardly avoid being exposed to the musical exploits of hometown heroes, such as Otis Redding and Little Richard. The ascendancy of the Allman Brothers was a source of local pride, which led to shared devastation in the wake of the untimely deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley.

In spite of many opportunities, before he participated in the Leavell tribute at Symphony Hall, McDuffie had never seen a live concert by the Allman Brothers or any of its band members.

“Backstage, before the show, I told Gregg that, even though I wasn’t aware of it back then, listening to Duane and Dickey going at it on those recordings was my first exposure to chamber music. The reason why I love playing chamber music today is because of the conversational and deferential manner in which those guys made music.” McDuffie says Allman looked up at the sky, shook his head, then muttered in his distinctive gravelly drawl, “’Chamber music, man…Oh, man, chamber music….’”

Not Just another Pretty Violin Actually, for McDuffie, professional violin playing has proven to be a lucrative occupation. So lucrative, he was able to purchase his fantasy instrument, a violin made in 1735 by Bartolomeo “Giuseppe” Guarneri del Gesù, who is regarded as the finest talent among an acclaimed family of violin-makers in Cremona, Italy. Even in the 18th centu14 FEBRUARY 11-25, 2015

ry, the instruments produced by the Guarneri clan were reputedly superior to examples from the other great house of Italian violin makers, the Stradivarius. Today, many soloists prefer the Guarneri because it produces a more robust (some would say louder) tone and is more capable of withstanding the rigors of a touring performer’s regimen. McDuffie’s “del Gesu,” dubbed The Ladenburg for one of its owners, a 19th century German banking family, was once Nicolò Paganini’s instrument of choice.

“It gives me the greatest confidence, so that when I walk onstage I know that I can do whatever I want to do, and never have to think about the instrument’s limitations,” McDuffie says.

In 2001, after playing the Ladenburg for several years under a loan agreement struck with a rare violin dealer, McDuffie formed a limited partnership of sixteen investors called 1735 del Gesù Partners LP. The group purchased the instrument for the then-current value of $3.5 million. One of the “del Gesù” investors is Mike Mills, a teenage friend of McDuffie’s who also happens to be the bassist for the recently retired rock band R.E.M.

Robert McDuffie and Actress Anna Deavere Smith Highlight McDuffie Center Gala Feb. 21 World-renowned violinist Robert McDuffie and actress/playwright Anna Deavere Smith will perform a program of spoken word and music on Feb. 21, the highlight of grand opening festivities for the McDuffie Center for Strings’ new home, the Bell House. The performance will be held at Macon’s Beulahland Bible Church, one of the Southeast’s most influential African-American churches.

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” will feature Ms. Smith, accompanied by McDuffie, reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s April 1963 letter. Smith will also portray other important figures from the Civil Rights movement.

“Words matter. Music heals. I want the Center for Strings to be not just ‘the Juilliard of the South,’ but more importantly, I want it to be a force for good,” McDuffie said.

Smith is widely known for her television roles as national security adviser Nancy McNally in “The West Wing” and as hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series “Nurse Jackie.” She is a recipient of The MacArthur Fellowship, known as the Genius Grant (1996), The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2013), and is currently artist-in-residence at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. McDuffie and Smith have previously performed this piece together at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “Anna is the star of the show, she becomes Charlayne Hunter Gault, the first African American woman admitted into the University of Georgia... she becomes John Lewis

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extending grace to his attackers,” said McDuffie.

The Feb. 21 performance will be free and open to the public, but is a ticketed event. A limited number of tickets are available at The Grand Opera House Box Office, 651 Mulberry Street. Tickets must be picked up in person Monday - Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., first-come, first-served, no reservations.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with the program starting at 7:30 p.m. The 2,500-seat church is located at 1010 Newberg Avenue in Macon. For more information, call (478) 301-2886 or email crowe_pa@mercer.edu.

Center for Strings recorded a “demo” of the first two movements of the concerto. A video clip of the session, which was recorded in Athens, is readily accessible online. Plans are currently underway to take Concerto for Violin and Rock Band on the road in 2016-17.

“I had not seriously thought about doing anything of this nature before,” Mills says. “What we are doing is relatively untried; as such, I am hoping to avoid any overt influences. I am looking at it as a tabula rasa, although, of course, nothing is created in a vacuum.” * * *

McDuffie and childhood friend Mike Mills of R.E.M.

The two men met when they were 12-13 years old and members of the youth and handbell choirs at First Presbyterian Church in Macon (where Sydney Lanier was once the organist). On Sunday evenings, the boys’ parents got together, usually at the McDuffie’s house, where “my dad would cook spaghetti and the adults would libate while the kids watched The Waltons and Barnaby Jones.” Although Bobby and Mike took dramatically different paths in pursuit of their muse, they kept in touch and occasionally crashed each other’s gigs, especially when they were playing in the same city.

A few years ago, McDuffie approached Mills about writing something in a classical vein. The result is a workin-progress titled Concerto for Violin and Rock Band. Last October, McDuffie, Mills and members of the McDuffie

Back at the Bell House, final preparations for the gala opening are proceeding. McDuffie explains to a reporter that, in refurbishing the house as a conservatory, a professional acoustician was hired to provide design, construction and materials guidance. Some sections of the second floor are reinforced with extra concrete to contain the sound of instruments playing and mitigate creaking noises. The walls in the practice rooms are not quite square, which enhances the interior acoustics. In the high-ceilinged, 60-seat performance hall on the first floor, where a string quartet, large chamber ensemble or lone double bassist would feel at home, tall windows await the installation of specially fabricated acoustical drapery.

As a touchstone for the progenitors of Southern Rock and now a proving ground for the budding symphonic stars of tomorrow, the Bell House symbolizes a cultural imperative spanning genres and generations. “I don’t think we have compromised on anything to give our students the best possible experience,” McDuffie says.

One would expect nothing less from the founder and caretaker of The Robert McDuffie Center for Strings and its musically tinged abode.

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59th Annual Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Honors Court has selected eight new members for the state’s athletic Hall of Fame. The Class of 2015 includes William Fulcher, Bobby Hendley, Alec Kessler, Willie McClendon, Reg Murphy, John Schuerholz, Hope Spivey, and Charlie Ward. The inductees were chosen from a starting pool of 189 nominees that were narrowed through a three-tiered screening process culminating with the Honors Court meeting.

“The Hall’s newest honorees are representative of the talent, diversity, and hard work that characterize our state’s teams and athletic programs at all levels”, said GSHF Authority Chairman Emily P. Myers. “These individuals personify the positive traits and attitudes that the Hall strives to nurture in the youth of our state.

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Class of 2015 to Macon in February.”

The 2015 Induction Ceremony will be held on Saturday, February 21, at the Macon City Auditorium located at 415 1st St, Macon GA, 31201. The dress for this event is cocktail attire.

The cocktail hour will begin at 5:30pm and the banquet will start at 6:30pm. For tickets visit http:// georgiasportshalloffame.com/.

Want to meet our Alumni and the Class of 2015? Then join us on Saturday, February 21 from 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. for FanFest 2015! Admission to the museum will be free all day! The Class of 2015 and GSHF Alumni will be here for a special meet & greet with fans! For more information on our 59th Annual Induction Ceremony and a complete weekend itinerary visit our website.

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LD • BAR $ 4274 Broadway. Open Tues-Fri 3pm - 2am. Sat and Sunday at noon. Waiter service and outdoor seating available. (478) 781-5656 Bearfoot Tavern Downtown Macon’s only sports tavern with loads of beers on tap, over 50 craft beers (the largest in middle ga!), great food and flat screen tvs at every booth. LD • BAR • $ 401 Cherry Street. Open Monday through Friday at 4:00 p.m and Saturday and Sunday at noon.

Locos Grill & Pub Casual, kid-friendly, family dining. We’re talking great food, sports on the big screens and a full bar. Fantastic weekly specials and live music on the weekends. Delivery and catering also available. LD BAR • $ 2440 Riverside Drive.

The Rookery There isn’t a place downtown that has been serving us longer. Two time winner of Best Burger in Macon in the Readers Choice Awards. Sandwiches, fresh salads and house specialties. LD BAR $-$$ 543 Cherry Street, 746-8658 Texas Cattle Company Macon’s original premier steak house and banquet facility. Featuring hand-cut, choice-grain, aged beef, fresh seafood, in-house ground steak burgers and banquet accamadations for groups of 5-50. TCC will buy your dinner on your birthday, simply bring in a valid ID after 4 p.m. Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner. Prices from $5.99 - $24.99. LD • BAR • $-$$. 5797 Houston Road.

Wild Wing Cafe Newly opened franchise at the Shoppes at River Crossing, fantastic wings in over 30 flavors, over 20 brews on tap, great salads and one of the few dining options in North Macon that offers live music on the weekends.

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Edgar’s Bistro presents a dining experience that nourishes the body and soul. Open for lunch Monday thru Friday, Edgar’s serves as a handson training facility for the culinary students at Helms College’s Polly Long Denton School of Hospitality. Come dine with them on an array of New American selections of soups, garden-fresh salads, sandwiches and entrees. To view the quarterly menu visit Edgarshospitality.com/menu.

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Ginger Stir-Fry Located downtown, it’s Macon’s only build your own stir fry bar with over 500 combinations. Cool experience for the kids, not your average dining experience. You want it spicy, sweet, both? You be the judge, but don’t worry, there are recipe cards as well for the beWe deliver in the Corridor! ginner.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MACON-BIBB URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

Macon Action Plan asks “Whattabout You” in next the MAP Party on Open House Attend March 6 at 5 p.m. at the There are certain questions that come up again and again in a community that is growing. Questions usually come from a good place, but sometimes curiosity and criticism look shockingly similar.

When a new building is rehabbed, a new idea is forwarded, or a new business opens there can be a tendency to ask “whattabout this” or “whattabout that other thing” or “whattabout me”.

In the course of planning sessions regarding the Macon Action Plan, we have heard a lot of “whattabouts” and that is obviously to be expected. Many of these questions are good natured and highlight a different form of thinking on a particular issue.

“Whattabouts” can be the type of question that moves an idea forward in a truly big way. It can also be the type of question that someone serves up as a means to stifle conversation.

We have to make sure that are always willing to ask the first type of “whattabout” and always be willing to listen to the answer. Genuine curiosity and concern for others is the foundation for collaborative planning and is going to be one of the hallmarks of the Macon Action Plan.

That means we are asking “whattabout residents”, we are asking “whattabout building owners and businesses”, and most of all we are asking “whattabout the people”.

So, whattabout the people? People, how they move and interact with the built environment, how they dine and shop and spend, how they engage in leisure and communicate with each other, are the foundation of any plan and of any city.

That is why we need everyone to be included in the planning process and why we keep throwing the question out to you.

Cox Capitol Theatre Only you can remind us to ask all the “whattabouts” that we may be missing. We need to know how to answer “whattabout my commute to work” or “whattabout the way businesses get off the ground” in the best way.

We want the Macon Action Plan to be the answer to every “whattabout” that you may have, and we need you to be a part of the answer.

Some of the action strategies of the plan have come into focus. New loan programs, new streetscape concepts, new ideas for spaces have all already been developed because folks were willing to shine a light on issues that had been neglected or unknown before.

And as these concepts have been piloted we have learned new “whattabouts” that people have and have begun to address them.

But, if we are truly willing to grow, we cannot stop with the “whattabout” and walk away and we cannot assume the answer to “whattabout me” doesn’t have to answered by the one asking the question.

A community is always built on the question that leads to the development of commonwealth and trust—“whattabout all of us, together”—because that is a question that answers itself, because it can only be answered by all of us, together.

To share your “whattabouts” and listen to some answers to it, please attend the MAP party on March 6th at 5:00pm at the Cox Capitol Theatre. At this meeting you will see recommendations from planners and community leaders that need your input. I am proud to say that I will be there, whattabout you?

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CGTC To Offer New Study Abroad Opportunity “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain Several years ago I was talking with a group that included young people from very diverse backgrounds. Because I then had a daughter at university and a son beginning to work on his college applications, I mentioned that most students in England take a “gap year” traveling or working between high school and college. One young man from England quickly corrected me by saying, “Well, all the rich kids do but that’s not most of us.” Of course he was correct. Most of the British families I knew did fall into that category. I’m sure he and his similarly-situated colleagues would have loved to ski in Switzerland, hike in Peru, and sightsee in New Zealand. For them, though, taking a year off would instead be a necessity to earn enough money to begin college.

When I began heading the international programs at Central Georgia Technical College, most people were surprised to learn that we have foreign students enrolled in several programs (all here legally). I asked one Japanese student how she happened to be at CGTC, fully expecting her to reply that she had some family member here who recommended it. I was surprised to learn that she had researched one particularly-specialized health major, polysomnography, and found that CGTC has a highly-respected program in the field.

Last fall the U.S. State Department’s Thomas Jefferson Scholarship Program placed at CGTC four students from Tunisia, an emerging democracy found in Africa’s northern-most country. One of those students, Seif Harrathi, worked incredibly hard during fall semester and was understandably proud to earn a perfect 4.0. I should add that he earned it while studying in English, which is his third language. I accompanied him to Washington recently where we met at the U. S. State Department with the Assistant Secretary of State. In front of everyone, Seif told her that he had been able to earn a 4.0 because of all the wonderful support he received from everyone at Central Georgia Technical College. I proudly must tell you that none of the other 31 Tunisian students even mentioned the name of the school they were attending. You can be certain that, because of his experience here, when he returns to his country, he will always speak highly of Macon and central Georgia in particular, and of Americans in general.

For the first time, CGTC’s students will now have the opportunity to study abroad and to earn academic credit while doing so. Robert Gordon University is located in Aberdeen on Scotland’s beautiful east coast. The area was in great decline until large oil reserves were found in the North Sea and Aberdeen became that industry’s headquarters. The resulting abundant source of income has allowed RGU to build a sleek and modern new campus on the River Dee

I am optimistic about the future when I think of CGTC student Seif Harrathi in a position of leadership in northern Africa and the Middle East, and I am confident that is exactly where we will find him.

while retaining its beautiful old buildings in the middle of town. Not far up the river is Balmoral Castle, the Queen’s Scottish home, which will be visited by our participants this summer along with Edinburgh and other points of interest.

Students at CGTC have historically not had the opportunities normally offered to the majority of college students. Most work while attending classes and many also have to take care of children or other family members. For them, a semester abroad would not be possible even if finances were not an issue. By restricting the trip to two weeks in July, plus making financial aid available for many, CGTC students will now be offered a chance to experience a foreign environment.

They are no less deserving of that opportunity than other college students who don’t face the same challenges as CGTC students.

Because so many community leaders and friends of the college were excited to hear of this chance, CGTC is making the trip available to friends and family members.

To obtain information, email me at rhutto@ centralgatech.edu.

Upon their return, students who are earning academic credit will be required to write a report detailing their experience and their reactions to a people the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw referred to as “two countries separated by the same language.” I’m willing to wager they will find more in common they expected.

Let’s leave the last word to our First Lady, Michelle Obama, who told a group of students that she didn’t have the money to travel abroad while she was a student and has always regretted it : “The more young people get the opportunity to travel the world, live in other cultures and learn new languages, the more they will begin to understand our shared ideals and the shared opportunities to keep moving this world forward.”

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FNS Live Show Review of Montreal - Jan. 20 Venue: Cox Capitol Theatre Cost: $15 at the door

by Jared Wright

There’s a scene that always sticks my mind from Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Ray Bradbury has spent the opening chapters of the book building tension with harbingers of a carnival. Faint notes of a calliope arrive on the wind, and mysterious flyers flutter through the streets of town bearing news of attractions magnificent and crude until a locomotive splits the illuminated moon meadow, arriving in the emerald-tinted night. Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway sneak out to investigate and imagine the fantastic characters and mysteries that might lie behind the painted canvas or beyond the darkness between cage bars.

There’s no moon in the Macon sky tonight, but those are my thoughts as I walked down to the Capitol Theatre for of Montreal. The band is notorious for its characters - both onstage and off, real and imaginary - that might feel comfortable on Bradbury’s mystery train. Early on, there were the scores of twee Penny Lane expats like the Fun Loving Nun, Nickee Coco or the Miniature Philosopher. Later, the characters grew darker: Georgie Fruit, St. Exquisite, Eva the Faggy Girl or Georges Bataille, eggs and eyes in tow. There’s no way of knowing what might show up on the stage tonight.

Adding to the intrigue is the recently-released The Past is a Grotesque Animal, a documentary which explores of Montreal’s history and largely paints frontman Kevin Barnes as a narcissistically driven individual who “value[s] art over human relationships.” Early on in the film, former keyboardist Dottie Alexander remarks that of Montreal is one of those bands that you either love intensely or know nothing about. That’s certainly true in my case. The band completely fell off my radar after excursions into the glamfunk rabbit-holes of Skeletal Lamping and False Priest. I didn’t know about the lineup changes, didn’t know about the solo project belatedly turned into an of Montreal album, didn’t know about this “new sound” supposedly influenced by country-rock titans Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan and Neil Young.

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The band that graced the stage at the Capitol was a straight-up five-piece - two guitars, keyboards, bass and drums. They came out looking like Georgie and His Droogs, Kevin Barnes flamboyant in a smock and tights, the other players clad only in white. Immediately, the Dylan/ Parsons/Young references didn’t really stick. Sure, Barnes’ lyrics are cryptic, meandering and literate, and the new second guitarist added some pedal steel-referencing swells, but If anything, the new additions to the band have given the new of Montreal a sound that is closer to the days of Satanic Panic in the Attic or The Sunlandic Twins. The live incarnation is definitely more consistent than the manic capriciousness of the “band” on record.

Stripped down and limited to a certain number of sounds, it’s easier to pick out allusions to the Kinks filtered through Low-era David Bowie. The guitars are more present, and the overblown Prince influence of recent years is toned down to a tolerable level. There’s less emphasis on creating onstage characters, more emphasis on cohesive musicianship. It doesn’t sound like a band that’s been presented with songs to learn in a live setting, it sounds like a band that’s allowed to take certain liberties with the creative process.

The band skillfully navigated a mix of new and old tunes, presented in a way that tastefully lassoed the colossally diverse range of of Montreal’s recorded output.

But that’s not to say that the theatrics that have come to be associated with an of Montreal show have been dropped. A phallic eye made an appearance alongside androgynous actors in white, expressionless masks; a psychedelic light show similar to the cover of Hissing Fauna framed the band; the feather cannons were fully loaded, and much of the crowd was dressed like they were part of the act.

When asked in interviews recently about of Montreal’s stylistic and lineup changes in interviews, Kevin Barnes is quick to point out that the band is “still bringing the circus.” Bring it they did, and the audience was certainly the sideshow.

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