Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) - 2008-9
Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill

This listing will eventually include all CPA series and Carolina Ballet plus Music on the Hill (UNC Music Department events in Memorial Hall) & the NCJRO. For NC Symphony concerts on the NCS' Chapel Hill series in Memorial Hall (& elsewhere in the Triangle), click here. $. 919/962-1449 or http://www.unc.edu/carolinaperformingarts.org/. Memorial Hall Box Office: Cameron Avenue, 919/843-3333, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. Subscriptions and individual tickets can be purchased online at carolinaperformingarts.org, by phone through the Memorial Hall Box Office at (919) 843-3333, or by mail to the Memorial Hall Box Office, UNC-Chapel Hill, Campus Box 3276, Chapel Hill, N.C., 27599-3276.

• Thursday September 11
  CPA - American Roots: Abigail Washburn, singer/songwriter/banjo, and the Sparrow Quartet, featuring Béla Fleck, banjo, with Casey Driessen, fiddler, & Ben Sollee, cello
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Friday September 19
  CPA - Jazz Series: Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (New York)
  Program: The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Legacy*
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/
  *"... a tribute to the legacy of Thad Jones, a former Count Basie trumpeter, and drummer Mel Lewis, who played with Benny Goodman and Woody Herman."

• Friday October 3
  CPA - American Roots: Buckwheat Zydeco with Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Sunday October 5
  CPA - Special Event: Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin, & Camerata Salzburg
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Thursday-Friday October 9-10
  CPA - Experimental Series: DV8 Physical Theatre (London)
  Program: To Be Straight With You ("... a poetic and unflinching exploration of intolerance, religion and sexuality")
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 10/9 @ 7:30p & 10/10 @ 8p.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/
  Note: This program contains disturbing material and is not recommended for ages 15 and under.

• Tuesday October 21
  CPA - Experimental Series: Ong Keng Sen (Singapore) and Theatreworks (Karen Kandel, Julie Atlas Muiz, Charlotte Engelkes, & drag dame Buckwheat)
  Program: Vivien and The Shadows( (premiere) ("... melds film,
  theater, race, gender and sexuality")*
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/
  *"...inspired by the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire... [w]ith new texts by ... Chay Yew; soundscapes by ... Kaffe Matthews; [&] ... videos by ... Brian Gothong Tan...."

• Thursday October 23
  CPA - Classical Ensembles Series: Montserrat Figueras, soprano, Vocalists of La Capella Reial de Catalunya, & Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall, conductor/ viola da gamba
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/
  Note: This performance complements the "El Greco to Velazquez" exhibition at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art.

• Saturday October 25
  CPA - World Stage: Compagnie Heddy Maalem (Mali, Benin, Nigeria & Senegal)
  Program: The Rite of Spring (a "[re]interpretation of the infamous 1913
  Stravinsky/Nijinsky ballet") (choreographed by Heddy Maalem)
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Wednesday-Thursday October 29-30
  CPA - World Stage: Druid Theatre Company (Ireland)
  Progra: John Millington Synge: The Shadow of the Glen, & Playboy of the Western World
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/.
  Note: Both plays will be performed each night.

• Wednesday November 5
  CPA - Dance: Inbal Pinto Dance Company
  Program: " Shaker" ("A dance-theater piece... with music by Chopin, Purcell, Gavin Bryars, Arvo Pärt, Swedish folk music, and songs from the 1950s performed by Japanese pop artists").
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Thursday November 11
  CPA - Classical Ensembles: Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, conductor
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Thursday November 13
  CPA - Special Event: Ornette Coleman
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Friday November 14
  CPA - Classical Recital Series: Matthias Goerne, baritone
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Friday November 21
  CPA - Dance: Pilobolus
  Program contains nudity
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/ \

• Saturday-Sunday December 6-7
  CPA - Special Event: Carolina Ballet
  Program: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker (choreographed by Robert Weiss)
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 12/6 @ 8p & 12/7 @ 2p
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Sunday January 18
  CPA - Special Event: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Saturday January 24
  CPA - World Stage:Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes (Mexico City)
  Program: Monsters and Prodigies: The History of the Castrati* (in Spanish with English supertitles)
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/
  *"...revels in the outrageous lifestyles, musical brilliance, decadence and violence surrounding the rock-star sex symbols of the Baroque: male sopranos."

• Wednesday January 28
  CPA - Classical Ensembles: Orchestra of St. Luke's, Xian Zhang, conductor
  Program features music by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Saturday February 14
  CPA - Classical Recital Series: Hilary Hahn, violin
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Friday-Saturday February 20-21
  CPA - Experimental Series: The Builders Association, Marianne Weems, director
  Program: Continuous City (exploring "the impact of technology on human presence")
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Tuesday February 24
  CPA - American Roots: Aaron Neville and The Neville Brothers with Dr. John (New Orleans)
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Friday February 27
  CPA - Jazz Series: Branford Marsalis Quartet
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/
  Note: This performance is part of the 32nd Annual Carolina Jazz Festival.

• Tuesday-Wednesday March 3-4
  CPA - Special Event: New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, conductor
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Wednesday March 18
  CPA - Special Event: Patti LuPone
  Program:"Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda" - selections from Hair, Bye Bye Birdie, Funny Girl, West Side Story, Peter Pan, Evita, Anything Goes, & more.
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Wednesday March 25
  CPA - Dance: Compagnie Marie Chouinard
  Program: "Orpheus and Eurydice" (contains nudity)
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Saturday-Sunday March 28-29
  CPA - Special Event: The Hilliard Ensemble
  Program: Heiner Goebbels: "I went to the house but did not enter"* (US premiere)
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 3/28 @ 8p & 3/29 @ 7:30p.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/
  *"...a new, experimental piece that delves into 20th-century literary texts by T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett and Maurice Blanchot."

• Tuesday March 31
  CPA - Special Event: Mariza ("world music artist - European category")
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Friday April 3
  CPA - Jazz Series: Vijay Iyer Trio
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Tuesday April 7
  CPA - Classical Recital Series: András Schiff, piano
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Tuesday-Wednesday April 21-22
  CPA - Special Event: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater with Sweet Honey in the Rock
  Program: Ailey 50th Anniversary Celebration, Judith Jamison & Hope Boykin, choreographers
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Wednesday June 10
  CPA - Dance: Bolshoi Ballet
  Program: Minkus: Don Quixote
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/
  Note: The Bolshoi Ballet will also perform Don Quixote at 7:30 p.m. 6/11, and Swan Lake on 6/13-14.

• Thursday June 11
  CPA - Special Event: Bolshoi Ballet
  Program: Minkus: Don Quixote
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/

• Saturday-Sunday June 13-14
  CPA - Special Event: Bolshoi Ballet
  Program: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
  Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill. 6/13 @ 8p & 6/14 @ 2p.
  $. 919/843-3333 or http://carolinaperformingarts.org/