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2008 Summer Festivals - by starting date:
Spoleto USA and Piccolo Spoleto (Charleston, SC) May 23 - June 8;
Duke Summer Music (Durham) May 28 - August 3;
Keowee Chamber Music Festival (Asheville, Waynesville, & Cedar Mt.) June 3-15;
Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy (Raleigh) June 4 - August 31;
UNCG's Focus on Piano Literature: Paris in the 1920s (Greensboro) June 5-7;
American Dance Festival (Durham) June 5 - July 19;
NCS Summerfest (Cary) June 7 - July 19;
UNCA's Concerts on the Quad (Asheville) June 9 - July 14;
Long Leaf Opera Festival (Chapel Hill) June 11-29;
Magnolia Baroque Festival (Winston-Salem) June 17-22;
NCSA Summer Performance Festival (Manteo) June 24 - August 2;
Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre (Snow Camp) June 26 - August 30;
Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival (Brevard) June 27 - August 10
Appalachian Summer Festival (Boone) June 28 - July 26; &
Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Fest. (Highlands/Cashiers) July 6 - August 10
(Pending: CCMF, EMF, & Swannanoa)

• Repeats Tuesday May 20
  Classics Series: Actors from NCSA School of Drama & Winston-Salem Symphony, Robert Moody, conductor
  Program: Heroes and the American Dream: Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”); & Peter Boyer: Ellis Island: The Dream of America
  Stevens Center, Winston-Salem. Sunday @ 3:00 p.m. & Tuesday @ 7:30 p.m.
  $. 336/725-1035, ext. 201, 336/723-7919, or http://www.wssymphony.org/

• Friday May 23
  emerging artist concert: Taimur Sullivan, saxophone, & Symphony Orchestra, Ransom Wilson, conductor
  Program: Beethoven: Coriolan: Overture; Keith Gates: Sonatina for Saxophone and Orchestra; & Mahler: Symphony No. 1
  Stevens Center, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm

• Friday May 23
  Ken Rhodes Trio (Ken Rhodes, piano, Matt Kendrick, bass, & John Wilson, percussion)
  Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem. 8:00 p.m.
  $12, members/students $8. 336/758-5150

• Friday May 23 - Sunday June 8 - Charleston, SC
  Spoleto Festival USA & Piccolo Spoleto Festival
  For complete schedules, see the presenters' websites
  $. http://www.spoletousa.org/ & http://www.piccolospoleto.com/

• Sunday May 25
  emerging artist concert: Cantata Singers, James Allbritten, director
  Crawford Hall, NCSA, Winston-Salem. 2:00 p.m.
  Free. 336/721-1945 or http://www.ncarts.edu/music/eventlisting.htm

• Thursday-Saturday June 5-7
  UNCG Music: Focus On Piano Literature Symposium, Andrew Willis, Director
  Program: Paris in the 1920s
  UNCG School of Music, Greensboro.* Times t.b.a.
  $**. 336/334-5508 or http://www.uncg.edu/mus/focus
  *All events in School of Music Recital Hall unless otherwise indicated.
  **A limited number of tickets to the three evening concerts will be available for non-registrants after 5/26. Starting on that date, call 336/334-5508 and leave a message with your name, return number, and request. You will be contacted to confirm ticket reservation.
  Admission to daytime events is by registration only. Fees: Registration includes admission to all day sessions and three evening concerts during the 2008 Focus on Piano Literature symposium. The Friday luncheon and Saturday evening banquet must be purchased separately.
  $135 (before 5/22; $145 thereafter); students $90 (before 5/22; $100 thereafter); parking $10 (covers 6/5-7); luncheon 6/6 $12 per person; banquet 6/7 $36 per person. Remit to “UNCG School of Music.” In lower, left-hand corner of check, please indicate “for FOPL." Mail to Focus on Piano Literature, attn. Andrew Willis, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170. No refunds after 5/22!

• Thursday June 5
  Focus...: Paris in the 1920s: Andrew Willis, harpsichord, Deborah Egekvist, flute, Ashley Barret, oboe, Kelly Burke, flute, John Fadial, violin, & Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello; Juan Pablo Andrade, piano; Elizabeth Loparits, piano; Dalyn Cook, piano; Vincent van Gelder, piano; & Inara Zandmane, piano
  Program: Willis & Ens.: Falla: Harpsichord Concerto (1923-26); Andrade, Lopartis, & Cook: Ravel: Frontispice (1918); Andrade & Lopartis: Gershwin: An American in Paris (1928); & Gelder & Zandmane: Ravel: La Valse (1920)
  Recital Hall, School of Music, UNCG, Greensboro. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 336/334-5508 or http://www.uncg.edu/mus/focus
  Related events on 6/5:
  9:00 a.m. Registration (Second Floor Atrium);
  10:00 a.m. Welcoming remarks, Dean John Deal;
  10:15 a.m. Lecture, Paul Stewart: “Americans in Paris”;
  11:00 a.m. Lecture, John Salmon: “Daniel Ericourt: UNCG’s Link to Paris in the 1920s”;
  11:45 a.m. Break: Lunch on your own;
  1:15 p.m. Lecture, William Goode: “Paris in the 20th Century: The Close of the Belle Epoque”;
  2:00 p.m. Lecture-recital, James Douglass & Hope Koehler “Paris's Popular Music and Poulenc's Mélodies”;
  2:45 p.m. ;
  3:15 p.m. Lecture, Keith Waters: “1920s Paris and the Art of the Everyday: Jazz, Neoclassicism, and Postwar Modernism”;
  4:00 p.m. Presentation: Dalyn Cook: “Satie’s Sports et Divertissements (1914)“;
  4:30 p.m. Presentation: Yong Im Lee: “A Chilean in Paris: Allende’s 12 Tonadas (1918-22)”;
  5:00 p.m. Break;
  6:30 p.m. Welcoming Reception (Recital Hall Atrium);
  8 p.m. UNCG School of Music Concert (see above)

• Friday June 6
  Focus...: Paris in the 1920s: John Salmon, piano; Andrew Willis, piano; Hope Koehler, soprano, & James Douglass, piano; & students from the Departments of Dance and Theatre
  Program: Salmon: Saint-Saëns: Fugues in G major & G minor, Op. 161, Nos. 3 & 6 (1920); Tailleferre: Album des Six (1919): Pastorale; Ravel-ericourt: Pièce en forme de Habanera, (1907, transcr. 1926); Ericourt: Mechanic (1929), Fantaisie (1926), & Pièce en forme de Rag (1924); Willis: Stravinsky: Piano-Rag-music (1919); Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op. 50, Nos. 3 & 4 (1924-26); Poulenc: Nocturne No. 1 (1929); & Martinu: Czech Dance No. 3 (Polka) (1926); Koehler & Douglass: Roussel Caplet: Mélodies t.b.a.; & Salmon & Willis, with students from the Departments of Dance and Theatre: Milhaud: Le Bœuf sur le Toit (The Nothing Doing Bar), Op. 58 (1919)*
  Recital Hall, School of Music, UNCG, Greensboro. 8:00 p.m. Reception.
  $. 336/334-5508 or http://www.uncg.edu/mus/focus
  *Ann Dils and Cast (choreography/restaging); Kelly Gordon, director; Fritz Janschka, designer; & students from Department of Theatre, props & costumes
  Related events on 6/6:
  8:00 a.m. Registration (Second Floor Atrium);
  9:00 a.m. Lecture, Kelly Gordon: “A ‘Plant [Discusses] Horticulture:’ the Complicated Machinery of Jean Cocteau’s ‘Poésie de Théatre’”;
  9:45 a.m. Break;
  10:00 a.m. Lecture, Ann Dils: “Paris Dancing in the 1920s: Bricktop, Baker, and Ballet”;
  10:45 a.m. Break;
  11:00 a.m. Mini-concert: Poulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano (1926) (Ashley Barret, oboe, Michael Burns, bassoon, & Inara Zandmane, piano); & Tansman Sonatine for Flute and Piano (1925) (Tadeu Coelho, flute, & James Douglass, piano);
  11:45 a.m. Break;
  .Noon Luncheon, Spencer’s, Second Floor, Dining Hall (reservations required);
  1:30 p.m. Jerome Lowenthal Master Class: Participants and Repertoire t.b.a.;
  3:00 p.m. Break;
  3:15 p.m. Lecture, Porter Aichele (Art): “Synesthesia and Simultaneity in the Visual Arts”;
  4:00 p.m. Lecture, Anthony Cuda (English): “Old Possum and the Parisian Literary Scene, 1922”;
  4:30 p.m. Break: dinner on your own; &
  8 p.m. UNCG School of Music Concert (see above)

• Saturday June 7
  Focus...: Paris in the 1920s: Jerome Lowenthal, piano
  Program: Poulenc: Aubade (1929); Stravinsky: Sonata (1924); Milhaud: [3] Saudades do Brasil: Copacabana, Ipanema, Gavea (1920-21); Fauré: Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, Op. 119 (1922); & Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914-17)
  Location t.b.a. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 336/334-5508 or http://www.uncg.edu/mus/focus
  Related events on 6/7:
  9:00 a.m. Registration (Weatherspoon Art Gallery lobby);
  9:30 a.m. Group A: Video: “Montparnasse Revisited: The Composers” (Weatherspoon Lecture Hall) & Group B: Weatherspoon Gallery Tour featuring Picasso Pochoirs (assemble in lobby);
  10:30 a.m. Break;
  10:45 a.m. Group A: Weatherspoon Gallery Tour featuring Picasso Pochoirs (assemble in lobby); & Group B: Video: “Montparnasse Revisited: The Composers” (Weatherspoon Lecture Hall);
  11:45 a.m. Break: lunch on your own;
  1:15 p.m. Audience/Panel discussion (Recital Hall);
  2:45 p.m. Break;
  3:00 p.m. Paul Stewart: "Teaching the Composers of Paris in the 1920s": Suna Li, Grace Oh, Katie Yodis (Mary Alicia Cox); Zachary Ao, Lindsay Bastian, William Hueholt (Barbara Furr); April Dai, Sara Lee, Brendan Shi (Diane Higgins); Emily Tran (Dzidra Reimanis); Nicholas Allgeier, Richard He, Celia Henderson (John Ruggero); Caroline Cox, Catherine Cox (Ruth Sinclair); Justin Morrell, Lily Yuan (Tanya Smirnov); Richard Lu, Melina Smith, Ying-Ao Zhang (Mary Turner); & Danning Ge (Vincent van Gelder);
  4:15 p.m. Break;
  5:30 p.m. Banquet, Cone Ballroom, Elliott University Center (reservations required); &
  8 p.m. Guest Artist Recital: Jerome Lowenthal, piano (see above)

• Wednesday June 18
  MBF: Andrew Willis, fortepiano, Gesa Kordes, violin, & Salem Collegium
  (Martha Perry, violin, Annie Loud & John O’Brien, violas, Brent Wissick, cello, & Rebecca Troxler, flute).
  Program: The Movavians' Passion for Music: Music from the Salem Collegium by J.F. Peter, W. Piecl, Graun, & others.
  Calvary Moravian Church, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert lecture by Nola Knouse, Director of the Movavian Music Archives
  $25/$20/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.magnoliabaroque.com/

• Thursday June 19
  MBF: “The Harmonious Blacksmith” (Ingrid Matthews, violin, Joe Gasho, harpsichord, John Lenti, lute/theorbo, Nika Zlatzric, cello, Justin Godoy recorder, & Ah Hong, soprano)
  Program: The Excitement of Improvisation
  Grey Auditorium, Old Salem 7:30 p.m.
  $25/$20/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.magnoliabaroque.com/

• Friday June 20
  MBF: Ingrid Matthews, violin, with Martha Perry, Jeanine Johnson, & Annie Loud, violins, John O’Brien, viola, Elizabeth Reed, cello, Robbi Link, violone, Jack Mitchner, harpsichord, & Joe Gascho, harpsichord continuo.
  Program: The Love of Bach - concerti of J.S. Bach, including, violin concerti in E and A Minor, the double violin concerto in D Minor, & the Brandenburg Concerto No. 4.
  Watson Hall, NCSA, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
  $25/$20/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.magnoliabaroque.com/

• Saturday June 21
  MBF: Paige Whitley Bauguess, Tom Baird, & dancers from the New Bern Dancing Assembly, with Ah Hong & Cecilia Leitner, sopranos, Glenn Siebert, tenor, bass t.b.a., & MBF Chorus, & with Gesa Kordes, violin, Annie Loud, viola, Brent Wissick, cello, Robbie Link, violone, Stephen Bard & Meg Owens, oboes/recorders, Michael McCraw, bassoon, Barry Bauguess & Deidre Pelletier, trumpets, John Beck, timpani, & John O’Brien, harpsichord
  Program: Purcell: "The Triumph of Love" - scenes from King Arthur, Dioclesian, & The Fairy Queen.
  Stevens Center, Winston-Salem. 7:30 p.m.
  $25/$20/$10. 336/721-1945 or http://www.magnoliabaroque.com/

• Saturday June 21 - High Point
  High Point Theatre: The Machine
  Program: A Pink Floyd Tribute
  High Point Theatre, High Point. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 336/883-3097 or http://www.highpointtheatre.com/