Duke Performances 2009/10 Brochure

DUKE PERFORMANCES 2009/10 SEASON

DUKE PERFORMANCES

MUSIC, THEATER, DANCE, MORE.

IN DURHAM, AT DUKE, THE MODERN COMES HOME.

…THE MODERN COMES HOME

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DUKE PERFORMANCES 2009/2010 SEASON

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Home to a long-running folk-art heritage and gospel roots that reach deeper than slavery, Durham also houses Duke, a boundarypushing institution whose networks of engagement span the globe.

Duke Performances’ 09/10 season honors that double legacy.

It begins from the premise that the forms we call modern have been in the making for centuries, steeped in tradition and charged with the unswerving force of belief. Each of these 52 world-class events embodies another aspect of modern performance’s backstory, stripping off the metropolitan gloss to expose the foundations that make art real.

Those foundations were laid in a larger, global context, when ocean crossings dismantled older traditions and rebuilt dynamic new ones. This year’s programs trace a story of Atlantic innovation, connecting South Carolina blues to Zimbabwean dance, putting Puerto Rican plena in dialogue with bluegrass Americana, and finding a common source in Brazilian guitar and the firestorm sermonizing of preachers like Shreveport’s Pastor Brady Blade, Sr. Beginning with an epic free show by Sweet Honey in the Rock, the season opens up to include This House on Fire, six take-noprisoners concerts that drive toward a secular kind of rapture.

By the River takes us to the semi-sacred headwaters of modern form, where African song and southern gospel-blues flow as one.

In Voices Lifted, Brazilian guitarist Romero Lubambo exalts three breathtaking female vocalists.

With These Hands conjures a handcrafted Americana that explodes its own category, while Moved gives physical shape, in dance, to the interface between experiment and tradition. At the Crossroads puts you there: with two of the most daring theater companies on earth, watching as classics are reborn as brave new masterpieces. And as always, the Piano Recital Series and Duke Artists Series feature the finest classical artists anywhere, taking on risky programs that promise highstakes results.

I’m proud to present a season of modern performance rooted in the tangled vines and human communities of a global South. I’m prouder that this lineage can be reborn as world-class performance in Durham, a town that’s made its name by turning old things new again.

Enjoy the shows.

Aaron Greenwald Director, Duke Performances

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SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK On the lush, sloping lawn in the S.E. corner of Duke Gardens, a free daytime show rings in a season unlike any other. D.C.-based legends Sweet Honey distill two centuries’ of black experience into a capella harmonies shot through with the joys of rapture and the demand for a better world. They sang at the Obama White House for Black History Month. They sing here, among the magnolias, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Duke Gardens.

This massive free show is open to all: bring picnics, bring children, bring your will to be moved.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2009 GREAT LAWN, DUKE GARDENS · 4 PM FREE · NO TICKETS NECESSARY SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK’S PERFORMANCE IS FUNDED, IN LARGE PART, BY THE SARAH P. DUKE GARDENS.

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Sun Ra Arkestra + Mingus Big Band Sun Ra turned the mixed-up lore of space and the Bible into a universe of cow bells, sax figures, and the piano lines he’d learned in church. His sprawling, out-of-this-world Arkestra continues its founder’s swing. The Mingus Big Band is a 14-piece juggernaut that only intensifies what made its namesake great — “the muscle, the affection for history, the guts and soulfulness” (NY Times). Both titanic bands appear in this 7 pm double bill, with an intermission with beer and wine available.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 PAGE AUDITORIUM · 7 PM $32 · $26 · $20

IN THE BEGINNING, HEAT Two fire-spitting blockbusters open the fall season.

On Friday, 9/25, blues prodigy Corey Harris appears with S.C.-born legend James “Blood” Ulmer in the By the River series (page 8). And on Saturday, 9/26, the smoking hot Sun Ra Arkestra and Mingus Big Band show what burns at the core of jazz.

SEPTEMBER 25-26, 2009

SUN RA DOWNTOWN This fall, the Durham Art Guild partners with Duke’s John Hope Franklin Center to present Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn, and Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground 1954 - 68. The exhibit runs from August 21 through October 18 at 120 Morris Street, Durham. (Public opening event Friday, August 21, 5 - 7 pm.) www.durhamartguild.org 4

WAIL As part of This House on Fire, three young masters of world saxophone come to Durham over a single weekend in February, the most innovative artists in jazz together for the first time. Tickets to all three red-hot shows can be ordered for the discounted price of $60.

MIGUEL ZENON’S ESTA PLENA SEPTET

JASON MORAN FEATURING ALICIA HALL MORAN Moran’s a jazz trailblazer whose longstanding relationship with Duke ratcheted up last year when he performed the Duke Performances-commissioned IN MY MIND: Monk @ Town Hall, 1959 at New York’s Town Hall, after premiering it in Durham.

Here, his muscular piano is accompanied by the hypnotizing soprano of his collaborator and wife Alicia Moran. (Jason and his Bandwagon trio also appear with LINES ballet, 1/29 & 1/30, page 23).

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2010 NELSON MUSIC ROOM · 8 PM $22

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Born and raised in San Juan, sax phenom Zenon has won Guggenheim and MacArthur grants for linking classic jazz with the pulsing syncopations of AfroCaribbean and Latin American folk, part of his effort to reimagine jazz for the twenty-first century. His barnstorming quartet is joined by three master pleneros, back-country troubadours who sing like history depends on it.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $28 · $22

RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA’S INDO-PAK COALITION Mahanthappa’s shimmering sax runs and textured compositions have put him on the front edge of modern jazz. On alto sax, tabla, and guitar, he and his Indo-Pak Coalition turn out a synthesis of bebop chromatics and coiling ragas, something less like fusion and more like the shape of jazz to come, a “meticulously ordered” sound that “swings like mad” (New Yorker).

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010 NELSON MUSIC ROOM · 8 PM $22

RAVI COLTRANE’S QUARTET

In a world premiere made possible by Kronos’ ongoing collaboration with Duke Performances, the modern era’s most adventurous quartet turns its fierce creativity toward a new, Duke-commissioned work by MacArthurwinner Maria Schneider — the first time these two icons of innovation have worked together.

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Coltrane is a bandleader and sax force who bears the weight of heritage — his father is the N.C.-born John; his mother is Alice, the piano star and organist from Detroit who stepped in for McCoy Tyner then married the bandleader. Now in his 40s, the newest Coltrane has aimed his legacy forward, inflecting the angles of bop with a “sinewy lyricism” all his own (Downbeat ).

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COREY HARRIS QUINTET + JAMES “BLOOD” ULMER TRIO Since living in Cameroon and Louisiana, the MacArthur-winning Harris has made heart-rattling songs from the reggae and blues that link Africa to New World slave hubs. His band splits the bill with the iconic Ulmer, who was born in an S.C. cotton town, carved modernist guitar figures for Ornette Coleman, and has returned to the muddied-up blues that started his journey in the first place.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $28 · $22

THE HEAVENS OPEN Harris and Ulmer appear on Friday, 9/25. On Saturday, 9/26, the unstoppable Sun Ra Arkestra and blazing Mingus Big Band play a double bill in Page Auditorium (page 1) — the opening weekend of a season that plays for keeps.

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NEW GOSPEL QUINTET FEATURING REV. KELLY R. ANDREWS Byron is a tenor sax and clarinet wizard who rolls between high art and low by exploring the real-life swerve at the heart of jazz. Behind the soaring vocals of D.K. Dyson, Byron’s New Gospel Quintet comes to Hayti, exploring the work of Georgia-born gospel king Thomas A. Dorsey (b. 1899), whose own high-low game put hymns of praise alongside raunchy Saturday-night blues, and all was joy.

This show features a sermon by Rev. Kelly R. Andrews.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009 HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER · 8 PM $22

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FEATURING PASTOR BRADY BLADE, SR., DANIEL LANOIS, BRIAN BLADE, BRADY L. BLADE, JR., GREG LEISZ, BUDDY MILLER, JON COWHERD, CHRIS THOMAS, AND ADA SMALL Brian Blade is “the most imaginatively supple drummer in jazz” (NY Times). He learned his trade hitting rhythm at Shreveport’s Zion Baptist, where his father — the spine-shaking Pastor Brady Blade, Sr. — presides. In New Orleans, Brian partnered with Lanois (producer of U2 & Bob Dylan) to devise a gospel project that culminates here.

In this once-in-a-lifetime event, the drummer, the producer, and the drummer’s father convene in Durham to cut a live album driven

by Pastor Blade. They’re joined by bus-fulls of churchgoers from Shreveport and the sharpest sidemen in the business.

On Saturday night there’s a live recording; on Sunday morning a worship service led by Pastor Blade; and on Sunday evening another live performance. All of it unfolds at Hayti, once an AME church and now a deconsecrated chapel whose Jim Crowera walls create acoustics better than any studio’s.

Organized by Duke Performances to happen in Durham, this landmark event in black music unearths the rapture at the core of modern art, two days of hands-in-the-air music that, on wax, will never die.

LIVE RECORDINGS: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2009 · 8 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2009 · 5 PM HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER · $26

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WORSHIP SERVICE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2009 HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER · 10 AM FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC RESIDENCY OCTOBER 8 - 14

ELUJAH LIVE RECORDING & 2-DAY GOSPEL EVENT

THOMAS MAPFUMO & THE BLACKS UNLIMITED The Lion of Zimbabwe was a second-class subject of the British Empire when he began routing traditional Shona music through Otis Redding and the ‘Stones, making razor-sharp pop about rural uprising. With his post-independence band, the one-time cattle herd and fiercely committed artist appears here in an intimate BYOB show at the Coffeehouse; they support dancer Nora Chipaumire 2/26 & 2/27 (page 24).

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2010 DUKE COFFEEHOUSE TWO SETS: 8 PM & 10:30 PM $15

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ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO + LAMBCHOP Lambchop creates rock’s most willfully singular music, an atmosphere of slide guitar, Stax soul, and broken-down lyrics evoking the town they still call home: Nashville. Escovedo started life as a punk rock axe-handler and has incorporated his earlier selves into a strange new art — “thoughtful” and “meticulous” guitar poetry (NY Times) that snarls. They split a double bill of Americana that wouldn’t answer to the name.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $28 · $22

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CHRIS THILE “Wily, omnivorous bluegrass titans” (Village Voice), the Punch Bros. blaze while Grammywinning mandolin genius Chris Thile, formerly of Nickel Creek, leads gospel and highlonesome harmonies. They play Carnegie Hall in October. At Duke the tight-knit, countrified virtuosos play “The Blind Leaving the Blind,” a four-movement suite for bluegrass quartet that’s “as nakedly ambitious as popular music gets” (Slant Magazine).

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $32 · $24

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LOS LOBOS + LEO KOTTKE Los Lobos makes blistering-hot rock in the borderlands of R&B, blues, and Tejano. Here the wolves of East L.A. look back, trading electrics for guitarones in an all-acoustic set of Latin American folk, todo caliente. They split the bill with Kottke, the jawdropping master of American acoustic; in his hands, 6- and 12-string guitar chords smoke with the blues he picked up in Oklahoma, while flights of superhuman picking inscribe harmony over the throb.

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ROSANNE CASH + MARK O’CONNOR POETS AND PROPHETS Rosanne Cash’s father picked cotton and listened to gospel in Dyess, Arkansas, before becoming the Man in Black. He’s now the subject of a powerful collaboration, as the Grammy-winning Rosanne joins kingpin fiddler O’Connor, CMA’s Musician of the Year 6 times running, in an evening of music inspired by Johnny Cash. As two heirs to Cash’s genius take the stage, the spirit of a dirt-heeled modernist breathes new.

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URBAN BUSH WOMEN Pounding out double-dutch rhythms with bare feet, the Brooklyn-based UBW are “fierce” and “smart” and “shake the theater” when they move (Village Voice).

The black, all-female ensemble comes to Duke for a three-day residency, culminating in a performance where chants and drums are the backbeat for these “physically poetic” dancers (NY Times), who turn the stage into a place they own.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $28 · $22 RESIDENCY NOVEMBER 10 - 12

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ALONZO KING’S LINES BALLET

WITH JASON MORAN’S BANDWAGON SCHEHERAZADE & MORAN King and Moran are new-style formalists, injecting classic structures with vernacular energy. Here the two visionaries collaborate for an evening of ravishing dance. The first piece is King’s brawny, sinuous overhaul of Ballets Russes’ icon of dance modernism, Scheherazade — here in its American premiere. The second piece has Moran’s trio playing live, lighting up a score the pianist wrote for King’s troupe.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 & 30, 2010 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $32 · $24

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Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet’s residency is funded, in part, by a Visiting Artist Grant from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University.

RESIDENCY JANUARY 25 - FEBRUARY 1

PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH DUKE UNIVERSITY’S DANCE PROGRAM

NORA CHIPAUMIRE WITH THOMAS MAPFUMO & THE BLACKS UNLIMITED LIONS WILL ROAR, SWANS WILL FLY, ANGELS WILL WRESTLE IN HEAVEN, RAINS WILL BREAK: GUKURAHUNDI The Zimbabwean Chipaumire updates a ritual dance vocabulary to beat out pulsing, physical evocations of struggle: she crouches then explodes, turning muscularity into stark grace. In two performances this Urban Bush Women collaborator (page 22) presents a momentous new piece based on Zimbabwean politics, while that nation’s greatest musician, Mapfumo, plays live. Chipaumire’s week-long residency at Duke begins 2/22; Mapfumo and his band also appear at Duke Coffeehouse 2/25 (page 10).

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FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26 & 27, 2010 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $28 · $22 RESIDENCY FEBRUARY 22 - 27

Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation.

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CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM This “dauntless” company (NY Times) drew a crowd of 10,000 to the New Orleans performance of its Godot revival, which it staged in the 9th Ward, on the porch of a flooded house, after black Americans had waited months for a more concrete kind of salvation. At Duke, the Harlem-based company’s “bracing and immediate” adaptation of Beckett’s play (Time Out NY) sharpens yet another radical edge of this timeless parable of abandonment. The tramps, the road, and the tree could be in Rocky Mount (flooded 1999), Wilmington (race riot 1898), Durham — or anywhere Americans wait for help that either will arrive or won’t.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23 & 24, 2009 · 8 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009 · 3 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER $28 · $22

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Note: Final casting announcement will be made in September; check dukeperformaces.org for up-to-date company roster.

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This “mesmerizing” adaptation of Aeschylus’s Oresteia (Guardian UK) turns the ageless language of Greek tragedy toward a particularly modern object — South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee, when torturers and tortured confronted one another in open court. As a white Klytemnestra and a black Elektra speak testimony into dark spaces, a chorus of Ngqoko elders drones laments, a split-tone indictment that is devastating and beautiful at once. In this tragedy for the global age, classical form and contemporary life come into contact, throwing off sparks that are fitting, since in Sesotho, MoLoRa means “ashes.”

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 19 & 20, 2010 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $28 · $22

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Dianne Reeves featuring Russell Malone & Romero Lubambo Reeves is the most commanding jazz vocalist on earth: her creamy, shattering contralto has a “skyscraper authority” (NY Times) that was shaped by Sergio Mendes and Harry Belafonte but breathes the sultry gospel-blues of Mahalia Jackson. Here the Detroit-born legend appears with two ace guitarists — Georgia native Malone and Lubambo, from Rio, who’s “the best practitioner of his craft in the world today” (Jazziz).

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009 PAGE AUDITORIUM · 8 PM $42 · $34 · $22

Gal Costa & Romero Lubambo Costa was the most compelling female voice in Brazil’s Tropicália movement, turning out sexy, swinging pop-art experiments that draped left-wing politics in the folds of a voice like no other. Now past 60, her sly lilt has gained depth, cracking open timeless lyrics to show what melts inside. In this intimate Reynolds show, the star reworks bossa nova standards and sambas, accompanied only by Lubambo, the finest Brazilian guitarist on the planet.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $38 · $30 Official Tour Sponsor

Luciana Souza featuring Cyro Baptista & Romero Lubambo A native of São Paulo, Souza is a three-time Grammy-nominee whose voice is almost inhumanly pure, “trac[ing] a landscape of emotions that knows no boundaries” (Entertainment Weekly). Returning to Duke after an entrancing 2008 show, Souza’s piercing, crystalline vocals are backed

by Baptista, who’s cut percussion for David Byrne and Yo-Yo Ma, and Lubambo, who by now needs no introduction.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2010 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $32 · $24

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In this unique series, three of the world’s most breathtaking female voices are lifted by one of the planet’s most accomplished guitarists. Romero Lubambo plays a fluent, shifting style that alludes to Bach and Brazilian folk. His special relationship with Duke began with last season’s solo show; it extends here, in collaborations with three enthralling women.

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Winner of an unprecedented triple award at the Naumburg Competition, Pratt is a musical risk-taker who as a young superstar used big pieces to shift into “a spectacular form of pianistic overdrive” (Baltimore Sun). Now 42, his fierce proficiency is tempered by the nuance maturity brings, as dazzling passages emphasize moments of subtle introspection.

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PROGRAM HAYDN: Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI: 37 HAYDN: Sonata in B-flat Major, Hob. XVI: 41 BEETHOVEN: Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 BACH: Passacaglia & Fugue in C Minor (Arranged by A. Pratt) LISZT: Sonata in B Minor

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PERAHIA Perahia is a titanic figure of modern piano — a three-time Grammy-winner, Knight Commander of the British Empire, and, as of May 2009, holder of an honorary doctorate from Duke.

Since working with a list of mentors including Rudolph Serkin, Perahia has spanned three decades with canonical recordings and performances, becoming one of the most accomplished pianists of our time — “superbly analytical, gorgeously romantic, and full of spontaneous surprises” (Washington Post ).

Because of Perahia’s special relationship with Duke, we have been able to engage him for a special presentation, one of his few U.S. bookings this year. This blockbuster solo recital, focused on masterworks of the European tradition, links the Piano Recital Series and the Duke Artists Series and is listed under each series.

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PROGRAM BACH: Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109

LOUIS LORTIE As a prodigy in the 1970s, Lortie was hailed as one of Canada’s “most gifted pianists” (Montreal Star). He’s since crafted an international reputation for audacious program selections and an incredible emotional range.

His daring is on view here as he plays the complete Chopin Études — a stunning gambit whose results are “electrifying” (Guardian).

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER 8 PM · $30

SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen CHOPIN: 3-4 pieces t.b.d.

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ANTON KUERTI Kuerti’s iconic recordings of Beethoven glow with a “bright power” and “slow-burning intensity” (Boston Globe). Here the “marvelously fluid” and “interpretively expansive” master (Philadelphia Inquirer) turns to Beethoven once more, in a program that ends with a brilliant but rarely-heard masterpiece Schoenberg thought was Beethoven’s most adventurous work.

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PROGRAM BEETHOVEN: Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 81a, “Les Adieux” Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata” 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in C Major, Op. 120

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PETER SERKIN Serkin’s father was legendary pianist Rudolf Serkin, who also taught Murray Perahia (10/20) and Anton Kuerti (1/22). This lineage pays off in “surgical precision and infinite subtlety” (NY Times), turned here toward a program that puts new music in conversation with Bach, Chopin, and Brahms. (Serkin also appears with the Orion String Quartet on 2/6, page 35).

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $30 PROGRAM WORKS BY: BACH BRAHMS CHOPIN CHARLES WUORINEN

RAFAL BLECHACZ In 2005 the “superlative” Blechacz (BBC Music) ran the table at the Chopin International Piano Competition, a triumph that earned the Polish prodigy comparisons to the great players of the modern age. “Graceful, thoughtful, and poetic” (NY Times), he shares an almost intuitive connection with that other Polish phenomenon, Chopin, who turns 200 March 1st.

FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM $30 PROGRAM BACH: Italian Concerto, BWV. 971 MOZART: Sonata in B-flat Major, KV. 570 K. SZYMANOWSKI: Variations in B-flat Minor, Op. 3 CHOPIN: Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47 CHOPIN: Mazurka in B-flat Major, in E Minor, in A-flat Major, in A Minor, Op. 17 CHOPIN: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61

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MURRAY PER In this special event, the icon of modern piano appears in a rare solo recital, offering a program of masterworks by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and Chopin, whose 200th birthday comes this year. The concert is also part of the Piano Recital Series (page 26).

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009 PAGE AUDITORIUM · 8 PM $46 · $38 · $25 PROGRAM BACH: Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen CHOPIN: 3-4 pieces t.b.d.

Murray Perahia’s performance is funded, in part, by the Office of Duke University’s President.

NYMOUS 4 Exuding “ethereal clarity” (BBC Music), the four women of Anonymous 4 fill Duke Chapel’s gothic alcoves with music from a convent in northern Spain, a crossroads of medieval Europe that turned out a new kind of sacred polyphony. As soul-shaking vocals resonate off stone walls, “the sound of heaven” fills the Chapel (American Record Guide).

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2010 · PAGE AUDITORIUM · 8 PM $46 · $38 · $25

PROGRAM STRAVINSKY: Concerto in D Major for String Orchestra, “Basel Concerto” BACH: Concerto for Piano and Strings in D Minor, BWV. 1052 SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: “New Brandenburg No. 5” DVORÁK: Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22

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ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS WITH JULIAN RACHLIN, VIOLIN Along with the Orpheus (1/30), the 20-piece ASMF shares billing as one of the two most accomplished orchestras in the world, renowned for a “finely incisive” technique (Gramophone) that combines “grace and verve” (Seattle P-I ). They appear with Rachlin, the Lithuanian-born maestro whose violin cuts and sings with “brilliant high-octane technique” (NY Times).

FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2010 · PAGE AUDITORIUM · 8 PM $46 · $38 · $25 PROGRAM GRIEG: Holberg Suite, Op. 40 BEETHOVEN: Sonata in A Major, Op. 47, “Kreutzer Sonata” (Arranged by R. Tognetti) BRITTEN: Lachrymae, Op. 48 PIAZZOLLA: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

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CIOMPI QUARTET The Ciompi Quartet is Duke’s resident chamber ensemble, playing innovative programs with “genuine warmth” and “effortless… coordination” (NY Times).

World renowned but Durham-based, the local virtuosos bring their art to a season that brims with excellence: from Haydn to Robert Ward, Beethoven to Bartók, these dozen shows reveal the dynamic range of chamber music today.

The season also introduces a new brownbag concert series, “Lunchtime Classics,” which will present the most vital chamber music in history in the elegant but unpretentious setting of the Rare Book Room at noon.

First Course

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009 · NELSON MUSIC ROOM · 6 PM $5 · FREE FOR DUKE STUDENTS Composer Max Raimi discusses his premiere

Ciompi Concert no. 1

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009 · REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 3 PM · $ 20 Guest artist: Susan Fancher, saxophone HAYDN: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20 No. 3 MAX RAIMI: Quintet for Saxophone and Strings DVORÁK: String Quartet No. 11 in C Major, Op. 61

First Course

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009 · DUKE GARDENS · 6 PM $5 · FREE FOR DUKE STUDENTS Prof. John Supko discusses Bartók

The Ciompi Quartet’s Lunchtime Classics Series

Ciompi Concert no. 2

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2009 · NELSON MUSIC ROOM · 8 PM · $20 MOZART: Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 BARTÓK: Quartet No. 4 BEETHOVEN: Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 No. 3

In each of these free lunchtime events, 50 minutes of the most essential chamber music in history will be accompanied by a short introduction, giving insight into the shape and brilliance of these canonical works. All lunchtime concerts are in the Rare Book Room in Perkins Library, 12 – 1 pm. Admission is free. Food is not provided, but lunch-eating is welcomed.

First Course

LUNCHTIME CLASSICS 1: HAYDN TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 RARE BOOK ROOM, 12 - 1 PM

WILLIAM BYRD: Fantasia a 6 No. 2 in G Minor for 6 Viols SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: String Quartet “A Sad Paven for these Distracted Tymes” FRANK BRIDGE: String Sextet in E-flat Major RALPH VAUGHN WILLIAMS: “On Wenlock Edge” for Tenor, Piano, and String Quartet

HADYN: Opus 20, No. 3, from the “Sun Quartets” LUNCHTIME CLASSICS 2: BEETHOVEN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009 RARE BOOK ROOM, 12 - 1 PM BEETHOVEN: Opus 59, No. 3 LUNCHTIME CLASSICS 3: SCHUBERT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2010 RARE BOOK ROOM, 12 - 1 PM SCHUBERT: String Quartet in D Minor, “Death and the Maiden” LUNCHTIME CLASSICS 4: BARTÓK TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2010 RARE BOOK ROOM, 12 - 1 PM BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 4 in C Major

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010 · DUKE GARDENS · 6 PM $5 · FREE FOR DUKE STUDENTS Prof. Philip Rupprecht discusses the program

Ciompi Concert no. 3

SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2010 · NELSON MUSIC ROOM · 3PM · $20 Guest artists: Yoram Youngerman, viola; Nancy Green, cello; Phillipe Castagner, tenor; Jane Hawkins, piano

First Course

THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010 · DUKE GARDENS · 6PM $5 · FREE FOR DUKE STUDENTS

Composers Robert Ward and Chiayu Hsu discuss their premieres

Ciompi Concert no. 4

SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2010 · REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER · 8 PM · $20 Guest artists: Alan Ware, clarinet; Joseph Robinson, oboe; Michael Burns, bassoon; Robbie Link, bass; Randall Love, piano BEETHOVEN: Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6 CHIAYU HSU: A Quartet commissioned and premiered by the Ciompi Quartet ROBERT WARD: Symphony No. 6

CHAMBER ARTS SOCIETY OF DURHAM AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

The 64th season of the Chamber Arts Society of Durham features some of the most stunning music ever written for chamber ensembles, brought to life by a series of the most accomplished players in the world. From Schumann, Beethoven, and Messiaen to Ellen Taaffe Zwillich, John Adams, and Duke-trained Caroline

New Baroque Ensemble SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2009 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER • 8 PM $30 ARTISTS: Krista Bennion Feeney, violin; Owen Dalby, viola; Phoebe Carrai, cello; Ilya Poletaev, fortepiano; Sandra Miller, flute; Stephen Hammer, oboe

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Mallonée, this season’s programs shift between renowned names in the history of music and bright modern voices. All of them provide structures on which contemporary chamber music’s finest musicians can elaborate their craft.

Takács Quartet SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER • 8 PM $30 PROGRAM

MOZART: Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285 Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478 "Gran Partita" in B-flat Major, K. 361 (Arranged by C.F.G. Schwenke)

HAYDN: String Quartet Op. 71, No. 1 BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1 SCHUMANN: String Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 1

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BACH: Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus 1 LEON KIRCHNER: String Quartet No. 4 BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74, “Harp” BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34

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BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114

RAVEL: Piano Trio in A Minor

CAROLINE MALLONÉE: New Work (2010)

BARTÓK: “Contrasts”

PETER LIEBERSON: “Tashi Quartet”

MESSIAEN: “Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps” (“Quartet for the End of Time”)

Han, Setzer, Finckel Trio SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2010 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER • 8 PM $30

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Hayti Heritage Center 10/10 at 8 pm · 10/11 at 5 pm

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THE HALLELUJAH TRAIN SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE WITH PASTOR BRADY BLADE, SR.

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ANONYMOUS 4 Duke Chapel · 8 pm

18 Sunday CONCERT NO.1: CIOMPI QUARTET Reynolds Industries Theater · 3 pm

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MURRAY PERAHIA Page Auditorium · 8 pm

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JASON MORAN FEAT. ALICIA HALL MORAN Nelson Music Room · 8 pm

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RAFAL BLECHACZ Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

ARTEMIS STRING QUARTET Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

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LUNCHTIME CLASSICS: CIOMPI QUARTET 16 Friday Rare Book Room · 12 noon - 1 pm

ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS

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MIGUEL ZENON’S ESTA PLENA SEPTET

Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm 29 Thursday

FIRST COURSE: CIOMPI QUARTET 12 Friday

Duke Gardens · 6 pm

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PUNCH BROTHERS FEAT. CHRIS THILE Reynolds Industries Theater · 8 pm

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TICKETING HOW TO ORDER ONLINE Log on the Duke Performances website anytime at www.dukeperformances.org or the University Box Office website at www.tickets.duke.edu. Credit card orders only.

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

IN PERSON For tickets and information, visit the University Box Office in the Bryan Center on Duke University’s West campus between Monday and Friday, 10 am to 5 pm. The box office will open at the performance location one hour prior to the start of all performances.

WITH THE ORDER FORM Fill out the attached order form and mail to Duke Performances 09/10, C/O Duke University Box Office, Box 90940, Durham, NC 27708 or fax, Attn: Duke University Box Office, to 919-660-1729. Credit card and personal check orders by mail. Credit card orders only by fax.

FOR INFORMATION CALL 919-660-3356 OR VISIT DUKEPERFORMANCES.ORG

IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND

If you are unable to attend a program for which you hold tickets, you may donate those tickets in person to the University Box Office for a tax credit (no refunds). In order to qualify for the tax credit, the Box Office must receive refund requests at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled performance.

We encourage all ticket holders to return tickets they are unable to use so that seats can be made available to students, charitable groups, or other patrons who might otherwise not be able to attend.

VOLUNTEER FOR DP

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

ACCESS

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

WEBSITE & EMAIL UPDATES

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

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