Feature Archives - 2005

• JWL Heroes – Sung & Unsung (Composer John Eaton Visits NCSU) 11/3&4/05
• JWL Large UNC Ensembles Play & Sing in Memorial Hall (UNC Wind Ensemble, Michael Votta, Jr.; & Guest Soloists, UNC Choirs [& Members of the Chapel Hill Community Chorus Chamber Choir] & UNC Symphony Orchestra, Tonu Kalam) 10/28/05
• RAC NEA Notebook: Your Tax Dollars at Work – A Level-Nine Call for Awareness, and Other Thoughts & Reflections 10/16-27/05
• JWL NCSU Music Department Turns 80 10/23/05
• JWL Nelita True, a Pianists' – and Piano Teachers' – Pianist – And Three More Piano Recitals*, Considered Together (*Gianni Della Libera, Frank Pittman, & Kent Lyman) 9/30, 10/1, 10/2, & 10/4/05
• KDA A Tale of Two Romeos, Two Companies, and More (Carolina Ballet & NCDT) 9/15 & 9/23/05
• RAC CVNC Insight Interview: John Candler, President & CEO, Brevard Music Center 8/8/05
• DK An Observation of 43 Years of Success at the Taos (NM) School of Music 8/11/05
• RAC David Effron to Retire from BMC – A CVNC Insight Interview: Life in the Pits 8/2/05
• RAC The 5th New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes – From the Inside Out 6/29 - 7/3/05
• RAC Brevard Music Center Opening Night: The Chickens Come Home To Roost 6/24/05
• SB A Look Back at the 2005 Van Cliburn Piano Competition 6/10/05
• John Q. Walker on Music Technology at Zenph Studios™ 4/19/05
• JR Greenhouse Celebration at UNC-Greensboro 3/4-6/05
• Scott Lindroth on Teaching Music in the 21st Century 2/10/05

December 2005 Archives

October 2005 Archives

• WTW Dazzling Violin Fireworks: Chee-Yun Wows Southern Pines 10/31/05
• JWL Raleigh Symphony's Free Spirits Ensemble Premieres Two Trios (by Hilary Tann & Lanette Lind) 10/30/05
• JWL Soprano Penelope Jensen and Friends (Thomas Brown, harpsichord/piano, & Timothy Holley, cello) 10/29/05
• WTW Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Piano Trio Renews Ties with NCSA 10/29/05
• KH Going Out for Good Music – for the Soul (NC Master Chorale Chamber Choir, Alfred E. Sturgis, director) 10/29/05
• WGC Western Piedmont Symphony Presents the Degas Quartet 10/29/05
• WTW ECU's Four Seasons Festival, Bursting with Success, Shifts Venues (...with Elina Vähälä, violin) 10/28/05
• WTW Restoration of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha Receives East Coast Premiere on WFU's Secrest Series 10/27/05
• KDA Carolina Ballet Comes up with Three Winners 10/27/05
• EK Sacred Bridges: A Treat for the Soul and the Intellect (King's Singers & Sarband) 10/25/05
• JWL "Mozart on Mondays" Features Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin (Frank Pittman & Carol Chung) 10/24/05
• KH Neilson & Raleigh Symphony on Target with Tribute to Longtime RSO Friend (Concert in Memory of Frosty Clark) 10/23/05
• WTW Virginia Opera on Tour in Richmond: Cristina Nassif's Outstanding Violetta (in La Traviata) 10/23/05
• PP NCSA in Impressive Start to Season (Skye Gao, piano, & NCSA Chamber Orchestra, Serge Zehnacker) 10/22/05
• WTW GSO Second Concert: A Real Romantic Rarity and Vital Performances of Classics (with Konstantin Lifschitz, piano) 10/22/05
• THL Rice Toyota Sitkovetsky & Friends Chamber Series at the UNCG School of Music Recital Hall (featuring Konstantin Lifschitz, piano, with GSO artists) 10/21/05
• JWL Franz Liszt, Entrepreneur (Pianists Richard & John Contiguglia at Elon University) 10/20/05
• WTW Opera Carolina's Glowing Production of Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles 10/20/05
• JK Duke Symphony Opener Stars Oboist Robinson 10/19/05
• KDA Eiko & Koma @ the Nasher 10/19/05
• PP Winston-Salem Symphony in Good Hands (with Byron Stripling, trumpet & vocals; & with Stephen Salter, baritone) (2 concerts) 10/15 & 10/18/05
• RCD Intensely Gripping Peace/NCS Chamber Concert (Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano, with Dovid Friedlander, violin, David Marschall, viola, & Bonnie Thron, cello) 10/17/05
• WTW RCMG 64th Season Opener: The Eroica Piano Trio, Three Graces Still on Form 10/16/05
• WTW UNC-Greensboro: A Week Awash With Living Composers! (Scott Rawls, viola, & UNCG SO, Robert Gutter & Matthew Thomas Troy) 10/15/05
• JWL The Ciompi Quartet – & Two of its Stars – Present New Music Program for Encounters 10/15/05
• EK Stunning Shostakovich 11 Touches NCS Crowd (Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano, with NCS, Kurt Sanderling) 10/14/05
• JWL Pianist and Band Render Grieg & More (Greg McCallum & Triangle Brass Band, Michael Votta, conductor) 10/14/05
• JR Swiss Strings, American Axe (Zurich Chamber Orchestra & Sharon Isbin, guitar) 10/11/05
• JWL Luby & Otten at Cherry Hill 10/9/05
• WTW Piedmont Opera Theatre's Masked Ball: Superb on All Counts 10/9/05
• PP Charlotte Symphony: Strauss, Korngold, & Beethoven (Vadim Gluzman, violin, with CSO, Christof Perick) 10/8/05
• KH Combined Resources Provide Intimate and Delightful Baroque Experience (Cary Choral Artists, Chatham Baroque Trio, Members of the East Carolina University Early Music Ensemble, & Guests) 10/8/05
• WTW Chamber Arts Society: Zephyros Winds Opened for the Rolling Stones? 10/8/05
• JK A First for Twelfth Night (Long Leaf Opera) 10/6/05
• JWL Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra Scores with Beethoven & Honegger 10/2/05
• RAC Brevard Philharmonic Debut: Promissory Notes – Pay It Forward 10/2/05
• KH Le nozze di Figaro Tickles the Ribs and Warms the Heart (Capital Opera Raleigh) 10/2/05
• KH Yale Russian Chorus Elevates the Souls of All 10/1/05
• WTW NCSA Chamber Music Society's Season Opener: Superb Program is a Hit 10/1/05
  
  Theatre Previews & Reviews:
• RWMcD Ctrl+Alt+Delete (Live Wire Theatre Company) 10/28 & 10/29/05
• RWMcD Private Lives (Deep Dish Theater Company) 10/27 & 10/27/05
• RWMcD Blithe Spirit (Meredith Performs Theatre) 10/20 & 10/26/05
• RWMcD Painting Churches (OdysseyStage Theatre) 10/20 & 10/23/05
• RWMcD Women’s Minyan (StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance/Theatre Or) 10/14 & 10/15/04
• RWMcD The Tale of Teeka (Les Deux Mondes at N.C. State University Center Stage) 10/13 [mini-preview] & 10/13/05
• RWMcD Scapin (Towne Players of Garner) 10/13 & 10/15/05
• RWMcD The Time Traveler's Wife (Wordshed Productions) 10/11 & 10/9/05
• RWMcD Moon Over Buffalo (RLT) 10/7 & 10/7/05
• RWMcD The Front Page (PRC) 10/4 & 10/8/04

• JR A Tale of Two Concerts – On the Same Night (Zuill Bailey, cello, & NCS, Grant Llewellyn, conductor) 9/30/05
• RAC Asheville Chamber Music Series: The Mozart Piano Quartet – appassionato y fuoco, ad hoc 9/30/05
• RAC Benjamin Bunch Performs for the Transylvania Arts Council 9/29/05
• KH What Is a Wind Symphony? (Duke Wind Symphony, John Randal Guptill, director) 9/29/05
• KH A Happening at Hayti Heritage Center (Mallarmé Chamber Players) 9/25/06
• WTW Bullock/Whitehouse Duo: Facets of North Carolina Native Artists 9/25/05
• JK An Anniversary Homecoming (Ciompi Quartet with alumni members - Claudia Erdberg [Warburg], Claudia Bloom, George Taylor, & Sharon Robinson) 9/24/05
• SB Wilmington Symphony* Recovers Favorably in Second Half of Opening Concert (*with Atlantean [Piano] Trio - Barry Salwen, Joby Brunjes, & Richard Thomas) 9/24/05
• WTW Musical Sparks Fly at "Sitkovetsky and Friends" Concert (GSO artists with Eugen Tichindeleanu, violin) 9/23/05
• KH Dunn & Heid – Musicianship on Display in a Benefit & Memorial Concert 9/23/05
• JWL NCS Launches Its Season with "Groundbreakers" (with Joanna MacGregor, piano) 9/23/05
• WTW Dynamic "Eroica" from Sitkovetsky & GSO Augers Well for a Season of Beethoven (with Eugen Tichindeleanu, violin) 9/22/05
• KH Ciompi First Course – Plus 9/22/05
• JK A Bouquet of Cellos (Timothy Holley, Virginia Hudson, David Oh, Bonnie Thron, & Helen Johnson) 9/20/05
• RAC Pianist Kevin Ayesh's Hommage à George Phillips 9/18/05
• KH An Evening of Songs and Inspiration at Temple Beth Or (Katherine Kaufman Posner & Margaret Singer) 9/18/05
• JWL RSO's "Free Spirits" Series Gets Underway in Carswell Hall (Izabela Cohen & Lanette Lind) 9/18/05
• RAC Asheville Symphony – The New Era Begins: Meet the New Boss (Debut of Daniel Meyer as MD) 9/17/05
• SB Coastal Carolina Chamber Music Festival Premieres New Work* at Finale Concert (*exodus, by Elena Ruehr) 9/17/05
• WTW Perick-Led Charlotte Symphony Opener: Simply Perfect (Tai Murray & Nokuthula Ngwenyama with CSO, Christof Perick) 9/17/05
• RCD Carolina Ballet R&J Still Powerful (with Cast #2 & Cast #3 Updates) 9/15, 9/24, & 10/1/05
• JR A Triple Voyage with Triple Helix 9/11/05
• CJH Triple Helix in Raleigh 9/9/05
• WTW Winston-Salem Symphony: An Auspicious Debut by the New Music Director 9/9/05
• WTW "Pizzicato-mania": David Finckel & Wu Han at Wake Forest University 9/8/05
• JWL "Complete" Chopin: Raimi & Hawkins Essay Two Chamber Works 9/4/05
  
  Theatre Previews & Reviews:
• RWMcD Julius Caesar & As You Like It (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival) Previews 9/30/05; JC 10/4/05, & AYLI 10/6/05
• RWMcD Suddenly Last Summer (Peace College Theatre) 9/30 (mini-preview) & 9/29/05
• RWMcD Southern Fried Chicks (Carolina Theatre) 9/29 & 9/30/05
• RWMcD & ARH Red Herring (Flying Machine Theatre Company) 9/29 & 10/1/05
• RWMcD Happy Days (Duke Performances) 9/22 & 9/24/05
• RWMcD & ARH: Third Annual Play Slam (North Carolina Playwrights Alliance) 9/22 & 9/24/05
• RWMcD Picasso at the Lapin Agile (North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre) 9/16 & 9/25/05
• RWMcD & ARH: Art (TIP) 9/16 & 9/17/03
• RWMcD & SR & RWMcD (2 views): The Taming of the Shrew (Burning Coal) 9/15, 9/17, & 9/22/05
• RWMcD Scenes and Revelations (Stillwater Theatre) 9/15 & 9/18/05
• RWMcD & SR: An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin (Duke Performances) 9/13 & 9/15/05
• RWMcD The Story (RLT) 9/10 & 9/9/05
• RWMcD Camelot (NCT) 9/10 & 9/11/05
• RWMcD Long Day’s Journey into Night (Ghost & Spice Productions) 9/8 & 9/10/05
• RWMcD The Miser (StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance) 9/2 & 9/4/05
• RWMcD The Donkey Show (Qat Productions) 9/1 & 9/3/05

August 2005 Archives

• WTW ECU's Four Season's Chamber Music Festival Opener Was Spectacular 8/26/05
• WTW Peter Kairoff in Recital at Reynolda House 8/14/05
• RAC BMC Season Finale — Effron Packs Up, Escapes 8/7/05
• EK Chanterelle Opens Sights & Sounds on Sundays Series 8/7/05
• KH Winsome Rigoletto in Brevard 8/6/05
• RAC BMC: Keith Lockhart Conducts Transylvania Symphony Orchestra 8/5/05
• RAC I Solisti de Brevard 8/3/05
  
  Theatre Previews & Reviews:
• RWMcD Permanent Collection (Deep Dish Theater Company) 8/25 & 8/25/05
• RWMcD The Modern Olympia (Ape & Astronaut Theater Company) 8/18 & 8/20/05
• RWMcD: Beyond Broadway (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 8/16 & 8/17/05
• RWMcD Driving Miss Daisy (Towne Players of Garner) 8/16 & 8/18/05
• RWMcD Twelfth Night (Agora Players) 8/13 & 8/15/05
• RWMcD The Spitfire Grill (RLT) 8/12 & 8/14/05
• RWMcD The Importance of Bein’ Earnest (Actors Comedy Lab) 8/7/05 (*with mini-preview of 8/6/05)
• RWMcD Macbeth (Carolina Arts Festival and the Town of Cary) 8/6/05 (*with mini-preview of 8/6/05)
• RWMcD Starting Here, Starting Now (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 8/2 & 8/3/05

July 2005 Archives

• RAC BMC: Symphonie Fantastique – Passion Amid the Honksters (Barrick Stees & BMCO, Steven Smith) 7/31/05
• WTW Fischer and Schwarz Crown a Successful EMF Season (with Eastern Philharmonic) 7/30/05
• WTW Student Orchestras Strut Their Stuff for Family and Friends at EMF Matinee 7/30/05
• RAC BMC: Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble – Nine Guys in Tuxedos 7/29/05
• WTW A Congenial Summer Evening with Julia Fischer & the Eastern Chamber Players 7/26/05
• RAC BMC: Miami String Quartet with Douglas Weeks, piano – Our Gang Rocks the House 7/25/05
• RAC BMC: Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 7/23/05
• WTW Peter Serkin & Michael Stern Join for a Special EMF Concert (Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra) 7/23/05
• JWL Summerfest Ends with a Series of High Notes (Jacqueline Saed & NC Symphony, William Henry Curry) 7/23/05
• WTW Haimovitz’s EMF Performance Was Hot & So Was the Hall (Matt Haimovitz & Festival Orchestra, José-Luis Novo) 7/22/05
• RAC BMC: Frederica von Stade Returns – There's Something About Presence... 7/22/05
• WTW EMF Student Orchestra Gives White-Hot Performance of Russian Works (Yoshikazu Nagai & Festival Orchestra, Scott Sandmeier) 7/21/05
• RAC Carlos Pérez, Chilean Guitarist 7/21/05
• EK The Many Faces of the Grand Old Man of Modern Dance (ADF: Paul Taylor Dance Company) 7/21/05
• WTW EMF Chamber Music: A Fun-Filled Concert of Trifles, a Novelty, and Sunny Brahms (with Matt Haimovitz, cello, & Blair Bollinger, trombone) 7/19/05
• KDA Keenly-Anticipated ICCP Doesn't Disappoint (ADF) 7/18/05
• RAC At HCCMF, Eliot Fisk & Vega String Quartet Premiere "Juniper" 7/15 & 7/18/05
• RAC BMC: Bachauer Memorial Concert: Rach. Two & More Brahms (Jon Nakamatsu & BMCO, David Effron) 7/17/05
• WTW Perick and Eastern Philharmonic Wow EMF Audience (with Elaine Douvas, oboe) 7/16/05
• KDA alban elved — & "Acts to Follow" — at Duke (ADF) 7/15-16/05
• WTW A Colorful Student Orchestra Concert at the EMF (James Giles & Festival Orchestra, Scott Sandmeier) 7/14/05
• KDA Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company – "Wow! Hope You Can See This!" (ADF) 7/14/05
• KH Papadakos Charms the Heart of Raleigh 7/13/05
• RAC BMC: The Díaz Trio & the 500 lb. Gorilla (with Bruce Murray, piano) 7/13/05
• KH St. Paul's, Indianapolis, Brings Fine Cathedral Music to Duke Chapel 7/12/05
• RAC BMC Variations: Emmylou Harris – One More Waltz 7/12/05
• KDA Seven Lucky Numbers for Battleworks at the ADF 7/11/05
• JWL Our Quartet (Ciompi Quartet 40th Anniversary Concert, with Arturo Ciompi, clarinet) 7/10/05
• RAC BMC: Spanish Tales and French Romantics – Impressionistic Impressions (Christina Castelli & Repertory SO, Steven Smith; & BMC Orchestra, David Effron) 7/8 & 7/10/05
• JR Eastern PO Dazzles Sold-Out Dana (Branford Marsalis & Eastern PO, George Manahan) 7/9/05
• EK The Grand Tour on a Summer Night (NCS - Summerfest) 7/9/05
• WTW At the EMF: An Eclectic and Enterprising Student Orchestra Concert (Mark Gould & Festival Orchestra, Scott Sandmeier) 7/8/05
• JR A Miraculous Mahler 6th at the Eastern Music Festival (Festival Orchestra, José-Luis Novo) 7/7/05
• KDA French Hip-Hop? Compagnie Käfig! (ADF) 7/7/05
• RCD The Ciompi with Harp in the Garden 7/6/05
• WTW EMF Chamber Music: An Eclectic Menu of American Music 7/5/05
• KDA Brian Brooks Moving Company at the ADF 7/5/05
• LRP A Festive Launch for the Highlands-Cashiers Festival (Timothy Albrecht, organ, & Mark Hughes, trumpet) 7/3/05
• JWL An Early Fourth in Garner (NC Symphony) 7/3/05
• WTW EMF's Terrific All-American Orchestral Program (Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg & Eastern PO, Gerard Schwarz) 7/2/05
• WTW Steinway Piano Gala's "Variations on a Carnival" Theme Launches EMF Vol. 44 7/1/05
  
  Theatre Previews & Reviews (except as noted):
• RWMcD The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) (Flash in the Pan) 7/29 & 7/31/05
• RWMcD Titus Andronicus (Bare Theatre Company) 7/26 & 7/30/05
• RWMcD Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 7/19 & 7/20/05
• RWMcD Preview: Sleeping Beauty (RLT) 7/15/05
• RWMcD The Underpants (Actors Comedy Lab) 7/15 & 7/15/05
• RWMcD "Ten by Ten in the Triangle" (ArtsCenter) 7/14 & 7/16/05
• RWMcD North Carolina Theatre: Pop Singer Sheena Easton Will Star in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 7/8 & 7/10/05
• RWMcD Songs & Scenes from “Sam/Sara” (The Open Eye Crew) 7/7 & 7/7/05
• RWMcD A Guy’s Tale (Cap & Gown Theatre Company and the Carolina Production Guild) 7/5 & 7/11/05

June 2005 Archives

• EK The Ciompi and the Kilburns 6/30/05
• KDA Dancing on – & in – Air (Brenda Angiel Dance Company at ADF) 6/30/05
• KDA A Chilly Evening in Summer (Emanuel Gat Dance Company at the ADF) 6/27/05
• RAC BMC All-Beethoven Concert (BMC Orchestra) 6/26/05
• WTW Magnolia Baroque Festival Finale: A Vibrant Four Seasons and Magnificent Bach 6/25/05
• JR Pink Martini: A Perfect Summer Musical Mix (Summerfest IV) 6/25/05
• RAC BMC's Janiec Opera Company Serves up Rossini's The Barber of Seville 6/25/05
• PP Magnolia Baroque Festival – Venetian Revelry in a Delightful Evening of Dance 6/24/05
• RAC Brevard Music Center Opening Night: The Chickens Come Home To Roost 6/24/05 [run as a CVNC feature]
• WTW Second Magnolia Baroque Festival Concert: A Surprise Sell Out Full of Surprises 6/23/05
• KDA Agony and Ecstasy: ADF Continues (Chunky Move & Festival of the Feet II) 6/22 & 6/23/05
• PP Magnificent Magnolia Opening 6/22/05
• SR Triangle Gay Men's Chorus 10th Anniversary Celebration Concert 1995-2005 6/18/05
• JWL Summerfest III (NC Symphony) 6/18/05
• RAC Keowee Opening Night: Nothin' But Wood 6/17/05
• KDA Pilobolus! 6/16/05
• KDA Show Me the Leopard (Urban Bush Women at the ADF) 6/14/05
• KH A Serenade to Music and to the Triangle (Vocal Arts Ensemble) 6/12/05
• JWL Raleigh Ringers Ring in Spring 6/12/05
• EK Murder She Did: Tosca at the OCNC 6/10/05
• KDA The ADF Gets Underway with Shen Wei 6/9/05
• WTW A Piccolo Spoleto 2005 Sampler: Charleston's Outreach Companion to Spoleto USA 6/3 & 6/6-8/05
• WTW The Charms of Less-Often-Played Works on Spoleto USA Chamber Music Programs V-IX 6/3-9/05
• WTW Spoleto USA 2005: An Enterprising Festival Concert, Solid Choral Concert, & [3] Intermezzi 6/3, 6/5, 6/7, & 6/8/05
• JWL A Sailor's Life for Me — and Thee? (Camerata Trajectina) 6/6/05
• KH RCMG Ends Season with Mellow Sounds (Kate Steinbeck & Byron Hedgepeth) 6/5/05
• JWL Summerfest I (NC Symphony) 6/4/05
• WTW Spoleto USA: Total Immersion in Mozart's Don Giovanni 6/3/05
• WTW Spoleto USA Opera: A Delightful Discovery, Braunfels’ Die Vögel (The Birds) 6/2/05
• KH A Choral Feast in Charleston (Spoleto Festival USA and Piccolo Spoleto events) 5/28 & 6/2/05
• KH Chamber Music with the Charm of Charleston (Chamber Music III & IV) 5/31 & 6/1/05
• KH Sleeping Beauty (Respighi's opera at the Spoleto Festival USA) 5/31/05
  
  Theatre Previews & Reviews (except as noted):
• RWMcD Proof (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 6/28 & 6/29/05
• RWMcD Review only — no preview: Being the Exonerated (Blue Moon Theatre Company) 6/26/05
• RWMcD A Skull in Connemara (Wordshed Productions and Ghost & Spice Productions) 6/23 & 6/25/05
• RWMcD The Man from Stratford(TIP) 6/23 & 6/24/05
• RWMcD Previews: 2005 Triangle Summer Theater Lineup Includes An Eclectic Selection of Musicals and Plays 6/21/05
• RWMcD The Dining Room (Cary Players) 6/15 & 6/26/05
• RWMcD Dial “M” for Murder (University Theatre at NCSU) 6/15 & 6/16/05
• RWMcD “Graceland” and “Asleep on the Wind” (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy) 6/14 & 6/15/05
• RWMcD Previews: N.C. Outdoor Drama: Summer 2005 Highlights 6/9/05
• RWMcD Carousel (RLT) 6/3 & 6/5/05
• RWMcD Dragon Lady (Chinchilla House Theater) 6/2 & 6/4/05
• RWMcD Appointment with Death (University Theatre at NCSU) 6/2 & 6/2/05

May 2005 Archives

• EK Some Good, Some Evil, Some Mixed (COR's Faust) 5/26/05
• KH Viva Italia!: A Clinic of Masterful Choral Singing (NCMC Chamber Choir) 5/24/05
• EK Clarinetist Fiterstein and Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Sparkle 5/22/05
• KH Less than Perfect, More than Wonderful: Elegance and Grace from the French Baroque (Hillyer Community Chorus) 5/22/05
• JR [& JWL] Spring Is in the Air – without the Pollen (NCS; & Hugh Partridge Receives Maxine Swalin Award) 5/20 & 5/22/05
• WTW NCSA's Emerging Artists Concert: Romantics Played With Zest (Stefani Collins & NCSASO) 5/20/05
• FDP Mei-Ting Sun, Cortot, Gould, Tatum Perform Live in Raleigh 5/19/05
• KDA Lustrous Swan Completes Ballet's Season (Carolina Ballet) 5/19/05
• PP Flute & Piano Recital at NCSA (Tadeu Coelho & Allison Gagnon: premiere of Lawrence Dillon's Sonata: Motion) 5/17/05
• SB Chamber Music Society of Wilmington Concludes Superb Season 5/15/05
• JR Mallarmé Ends Season in High Style (Mallarmé Chamber Players) 5/15/05
• KH Love and Roses in Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill Community Chorus) 5/14/05
• JWL NC Wind Orchestra Concludes Season with Blaze of Glory 5/13/05
• KH The Devil Did His Worst but Got Booted Out... (Long Leaf Opera: The Devil and Daniel Webster) 5/13/05
• WTW Carolina Chamber Symphony's Audacious Program Succeeds 5/12/05
• JK The Big Bash — NCS's Annual Gala 5/12/05
• JK Ambrosia Airs Seldom Played Works for String Trio Plus a Bonus (with Jimmy Gilmore) 5/10/05
• JR Bach's B Minor Mass Transforms Duke Audience 5/8/05
• JWL Mikado and More from the NCS 5/8/05
• WTW Reynolda House Concert: Vital Frazelle World Premiere 5/7/05
• WTW Sitkovetsky and Friends Chamber Music Series Finale: A Family Affair 5/6/05
• JWL Women's Voices Chorus Sets Sail 5/6/05
• PP GSO Season Finale — Wow! 5/5/05 [with Odds & Sods (NCSASO) 4/16/05]
• JR Sones de México Hosts a Quatro de Mayo Party 5/4/05
• WTW NCSA’s Production of Mechem’s Tartuffe: Brilliant, Witty, and… Hilarious 5/4/05
• WTW UNCG's Annual Concerto & Aria Competition Concert: A Smorgasbord of Music and Talent 5/3/05
• JWL Young Artists Play Here & There (TYP and Maia Cabeza, & Chapel Hill Philharmonia and Hattie Chung) 5/1 & 5/3/05
• KH Pegg Departs from Bel Canto Company with Warm Accolades 5/2/05
• JK Juilliard Delivers Mixed Bag 5/1/05
  
  Theatre Previews & Reviews (except as noted):
• RWMcD The Last Five Years (Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy [Theater]) 5/31 & 6/1/05
• RWMcD Preview: Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy [Theater] (four shows, 2 one-acts, & a revue) 5/31/05
• RWMcD Preview: First Annual Stoneleaf Festival (Asheville) 5/26/05 [Note: This is a severely cut version of the preview provided to email subscribers of Robert's Reviews.]
• RWMcD The Butler Did It (TheatreFest 2005 at NCSU) 5/25 & 5/26/05
• RWMcD Preview: TheatreFest 2005 (University Theatre at NCSU) 5/25/05
• RWMcD & ARH Hard Love (Theatre Or at CG Theatre & in Asheville) 5/19 & 5/21/05
• RWMcD An Evening of Bill Cosby (John Nittolo Productions, Inc.) 5/13 & 5/15/05
• RWMcD As You Like It (RLT) 5/12 & 5/14/05
• RWMcD & KDA The Woman in the Attic (Duke Performances and Archipelago Theatre) 5/5 & 5/5/05
• RWMcD Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Burning Coal Theatre Company) 5/5 & 5/7/05
• RWMcD The Lion in Winter (TIP) 5/5 & 5/6/05
• RWMcD Out of the Dark (Wordshed Productions) 4/29 & 5/1/05
• RWMcD Disney’s Beauty and the Beast(NCT) 4/29 & 4/30/05

April 2005 Archives

• JR Manhattan Transfer Rocks a Black-Tie Affair 4/30/05
• KH North Carolina Symphony Concert Sparkles with Gems (with Lynn Harrell, cello) 4/29/05
• JWL UNCSO Raises the Roof 4/28/05
• KH Fortuna – One More Time!? 4/24/05
• JWL Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra Concludes All-American Mini-Series 4/24/05
• WTW ECU's Four Season's Chamber Music Festival Finale: Et tu harmonium? 4/23/05
• KH Meymandi: More a Temple than a Concert Hall for War Requiem (NCMC, RBC, NCS members, etc.) 4/23/05
• KDA Mechanisms of an Art, Obligingly Displayed (Carolina Ballet: Backstage...) 4/21/05
• JWL Milton Laufer, Peace College's "Spanish Ambassador," Takes on Albéniz 4/20/05
• WTW Winston-Salem Symphony's Robust Elijah 4/19/05
• JWL Raleigh Civic Symphony Offers First of Two All-American Concerts 4/17/05
• KH Verdi's Requiem Provides Emotional Rollercoaster Ride in Duke Chapel 4/17/05
• WTW Virginia Opera’s Devilishly Good Faust 4/17/05
• JR Ciompi Quartet Concludes 40th Season Triumphantly 4/16/05
• KH Concert Singers of Cary Bring Bach and Handel to Life 4/16/05
• WTW WFU's Secrest Series: En famille Under the Tuscan Sun (NES Chamber Orchestra) 4/16/05
• DA Neos at Christ Church, Greensboro (with Matt Curlee) 4/15/05
• KDA Hot at Hayti (Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble) 4/15/05
• JR Minimalist Guitarist Creates Maximum Effect (Dominic Frasca) 4/14/05
• JWL Duke Symphony Ends Season in Blaze of Glory 4/13/05
• JR The Magic Flute Weaves its Magic (Piedmont Opera Theater) 4/12/05
• JWL Celebrating Greg McCallum – An Artist Whose Gifts Keep on Giving 4/10/05
• WTW Chamber Arts Society's Stand-ins: Music in Harmony with Concertante 4/9/05
• KH Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky, According to the NCS... (with NC Master Chorale, Sally Burgess, mezzo-soprano, Bonnie Thron, cello, & William Henry Curry, conductor) 4/8/05
• WTW WFU Premieres Manuel García's Salon Opera L'isola disabitata 4/8/05
• WTW GSO's Alexander Nevsky: A More Heroic Effort Than Expected 4/7/05
• JWL On an Opera for an Unusual Venue (Scenes from James Dashow's Archimedes) 4/6&7/05
• WTW Violin Pyrotechnics: Musakhodzhayeva's Recital at UNCG 4/4/05
• KH Duke Chapel Music: Robert Parkins, University Organist 4/3/05
• JWL Aspects of Love, Part II (OCNC's Merry Widow) 4/3/05
• WTW Opera Carolina's Tosca A "Hit" with Three Runs 4/2/05
• JWL Aspects of Love? (NCSU's Grains of Time) 4/1/05
  
  Theatre Previews & Reviews (except as noted):
• RWMcD Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (NCT) 4/29 & 4/30/05
• RWMcD Preview: A Man for All Seasons (OdysseyStage Theatre) 4/29/05
• RWMcD Out of the Dark (Wordshed Productions) 4/29 & 5/1/05
• RWMcD Preview: Quilters (DDT) 4/28/05
• RWMcD The Last Silver Zephyer (Bill Svanoe, Blake Bradford, & Joan Darling) 4/22 & 4/24/05
• RWMcD Moon Over Buffalo (Towne Players of Garner) 4/22 & 4/23/05
• RWMcD Killer Joe (REP) 4/21 & 4/23/05
• RWMcD Preview: The Full Monty (Broadway at Duke) 4/19/05
• RWMcD Dinner with Friends (Flying Machine Theater Company) 4/15 & 4/16/05
• RWMcD Preview: Dora the Explorer Live! [-] Dora’s Pirate Adventure! (BSS) 4/14/05
• RWMcD & ARH White People (StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance) 4/14 & 4/16/05
• RWMcD Catfish Moon (RLT) 4/8 & 4/10/05
• RWMcD & ARH Lipstick Traces (Burning Coal Theatre Company) 4/7 & 4/8/05
• RWMcD Caesar and Cleopatra (PRC) 4/6 & 4/9/05
• RWMcD Smokey Joe’s Café (BSS) 4/5 & 4/5/05

March 2005 Archives

• WTW UNC-Greensboro's Production of Lakmé Rings the Chimes 3/31 & 4/3/05
• JR Cassandra Wilson: Singer beyond Categories 3/31/05
• JWL Kramer & Vogel at NCSU 3/28/05
• KDA Duke Presents nicholasleichterdance 3/23/05
• JK Elegance and Fire at Fletcher (Abegg Trio) 3/20/05
• WTW Rawls and Bush Focus on the Middle Voice 3/18/05 (updated/corrected 4/3/05)
• KH A Chilly Concert on a Chilly Night (Arnaldo Cohen & NCS, Grant Llewellyn) 3/17/05
• KDA Carolina Ballet Revives Coppelia 3/17/05
• KH Meredith Music: Meredith Chorale & Encore 3/15/05
• JK Slatkin & the NSO: Visitors with Class & Classes 3/13/05
• JWL Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle 3/13/05
• JR Heavenly Playing of Orion (Orion String Quartet) 3/12/05
• KH NSO Chamber Musicians Reveal Intimate Truths (NSO Artists in concert for the DSO) 3/12/05
• WTW ECU's Compromise Staging of Dialogues of the Carmelites: Successful 20th-century "Mystery Play" 3/11/05
• JR The Swingle Singers Keep Swinging 3/10/05
• EK Dhrupad and the Origins of North Indian Classical Music (Uday Bhawalkar) 3/8/05
• KH Elmar Oliveira & NCS Artists in Chamber Music 3/7/05
• KH American Music with James Longmire & the Raleigh Boychoir 3/6/05
• JR Greenhouse Celebration at UNC-Greensboro 3/4-6/05 [run as a CVNC feature]
• JWL Back-to-Back Piano Recitals in Chapel Hill (Arnav Tripathy & Thomas Otten) 3/4-5/05
• WTW Triad Choirs' Dress Rehearsal for Joint Carnegie Hall Venture (Choral Society of Greensboro, Members of [4] UNCG Choirs, & the High Point University Chorus) 3/4/05
• KH North Carolina Symphony Shines through the Bland and the Brilliant 3/4/05
• WTW Beethoven on Period Instruments: A Promising Trial Run (Brent Wissick & Randall Love) 3/3/05
• JK UNC Concerto Winners Framed by a Funeral March and an Orgy (UNCSO & Student Artists) 3/1/05
  
  Theatre Previews & Reviews (except as noted):
• RWMcD Harvey (TIP) 3/17 & 3/21/05 (performance of 3/19/05)
• RWMcD Crazy for You (BSS) 3/11 & 3/12/05 (performance of 3/11/05)
• RWMcD Preview: The Emperor's New Clothes (RLT) 3/10/05
• RWMcD Preview: A Little Bit of Destiny (OdysseyStage Theatre) 3/4/04
• RWMcD & SR Big Picture (Carolina Theatre) 3/4 & 3/8/05 (performance of 3/4/05)
• RWMcD Little Shop of Horrors (BSS) 3/2 & 3/3/05 (performance of 3/1/05)
• RWMcD Preview: She Stoops to Conquer (Shendanoah Shakespeare Express on Duke Performances) 3/1/05
• RWMcD The Man Who (Manbites Dog Theater) 3/1 & 3/8/05 (performance of 3/5/05)

February 2005 Archives

• JWL Raleigh Civic Symphony Offers New Views of Old Masters 2/27/05
• JR Marcus Roberts at UNC – Only 10 Fingers? Really? 2/25/05
• WTW Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Pinehurst: Basking in Brahms 2/25/05
• KDA Carolina Ballet Rambles in & with Red Clay (...with the Red Clay Ramblers) 2/24/05
• WTW GSO's "Old and New World" Concert: Comfort Food Made Gourmet (Jeffrey Biegel with GSO, Dmitry Sitkovetsky) 2/24/05
• JWL Duke Symphony Visits Mother Russia (Brian Johnson with Duke SO, Harry Davidson, conductor) 2/23/05
• JK A Masterpiece But Still a Puzzle (Elaine Funaro with NCS & UNC Artists) 2/20/05
• JWL Durham Symphony Soars in Mozart & Other Works 2/20/05
• KH The Lawrence/Kairoff Duo at the NCMA 2/20/05
• WTW VOC's Touring Tristan und Isolde: Wagner Lite but a Delight, Mostly 2/20/05
• JR First Course & Main Meal with the Ciompi Quartet 2/17&19/05
• EK Two Takes on a Rake (NC Symphony with FOI Artists, William Henry Curry) 2/18/05
• KDA alban elved Does Duke 2/17/05
• JWL Luby & Tsong Light up the Orange Co. Skies 2/15/05
• WTW Boston Camerata: The Spread of Folksongs across the Ages 2/14/05
• WTW A Survey of American Popular Song with Bolcom and Morris 2/12/05
• KH Romance in the Air (NCMC Chamber Choir) 2/12/05
• JWL Four Hands Festival at Duke (Duke Faculty & Students, & Hollis-Tipton, Fogle-Lyman, the Masonpierres, & the Janus Duo) 2/11-12/05
• KH A Star Has Arisen in the Heavens (Joshua Bell) 2/11/05
• EK In Tempore Belli (CSD & NCS, Rodney Wynkoop) 2/11/05
• WTW Steven Mayer's Recital at Elon University 2/8/05
• WTW Winston-Salem Symphony Music Director Search: A Tight Finish? 2/6/05