Duke Performances 20011/12 Brochure by Duke Performances

DUKE PERFORMANCES 2011/12 SEASON

MUSIC, THEATER, DANCE & MORE.

IN DURHAM, AT DUKE, THE WORLD AWAITS

THE WORLD AWAITS In 2010/11, while Duke Performances explored the American tradition of reinvention in music and art, social upheavals were redrawing old lines of power around the world. In response, I am proud to present a 2011/12 season that reaches into every habitable continent to take the measure of these transformative times. There is bachata music from the Dominican Republic’s Joan Soriano and Afrobeat from Nigeria’s Seun Kuti. There is dance from Australia’s Chunky Move and choral music from Schola Cantorum de Venezuela. There are stops in the United Kingdom, Israel, Iran, Mali, India, Serbia, France, Germany, Spain, Hungary, and Argentina, composing an openended map with many routes but no fixed borders or destinations. And of course, there are plenty of domestic lines — San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, New Orleans, Georgia, Brooklyn, Cleveland, and Nashville — all converging in Durham. The abundant connections embedded in our programming are yours to discover and define. My goal is to sustain Duke’s campus and the community of Durham with year-round opportunities for insight and reflection through the performing arts. I hope that you will choose to survey both the familiar and the unknown this year, charting your own course through these willfully eclectic offerings. In an effort to encourage your sustained engagement, we are upping the discount on our Pick-Four program: simultaneously buying tickets for any four shows earns you a 25% discount on them all. It also earns you the opportunity to apply the same discount to individual shows at DPAC and the Carolina Theatre, which are excluded from the core deal. Combined with our artist residencies and our blog, The Thread, Pick-Four represents our commitment to making the performing arts accessible for the entire community. In Durham, at Duke, the world awaits.

Aaron Greenwald Director, Duke Performances

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JOAN SORIANO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 • 8 PM MOTORCO MUSIC HALL (723 RIGSBEE AVE. AT GEER ST.) TICKETS: $15 GENERAL • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

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The “Duke of Bachata” opens our 2011/12 season at Motorco Music Hall, a gorgeous new nightclub near the Durham Athletic Park that is perfect for dancing — which this festive music readily inspires — or relaxing with a beverage. However you choose, Joan Soriano’s brilliant steel-string guitar work and mellifluous Spanish vocals are an intoxicating combination.

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TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH MOTORCO MUSIC HALL AND DUKE PERFORMANCES’ WEBSITE, DUKEPERFORMANCES.ORG.

Soriano hails from the rural Dominican Republic, where bachata — a blend of rustic guitar syncopation and bittersweet lyrics — evolved from the Cuban bolero a century ago. An instant star in Santo Domingo, he continues to take the world by storm in this first-ever North Carolina concert. Joan Soriano is a co-presentation of Duke Performances and Motorco Music Hall.

ZAKIR HUSSAIN & RAKESH CHAURASIA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 • 8 PM • PAGE AUDITORIUM TICKETS: $38 • $30 • $20 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

In this unforgettable concert of intricately melodious music for tabla and flute, two great dynasties of Indian classical music converge. Worldwide percussion icon Zakir Hussain is the son of legendary tabla player Alla Rakha and returns to Page after a stunning concert there two years ago. Rakesh Chaurasia is the nephew and pupil of bansuri flute maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia. The bansuri is a simple tube of bamboo that is difficult to master and transcendent in tone. Pairing fluent rhythm and melody, these virtuosi tap into South Asian traditions to forge a sound where modernity and myth intertwine.

LIZZ WRIGHT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $34 • $26 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS Born in rural Georgia but now based outside of Asheville, NC, Lizz Wright grew up in a household where gospel music reigned supreme. While she turned out to be a phenomenal jazz, blues, and soul singer, she remains committed to the sacred music of her childhood. Revelatory when singing the classics, she nevertheless defies categorization with a personal canon where Stevie Wonder and Me’Shell Ndegéocello are as welcome as Ella Fitzgerald. With a sultry grain and impeccable control, Wright’s voice captivates. Bask in the commanding presence of an “awesome talent” (NY Times) who has hidden herself away in North Carolina.

BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $28 • $22 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

Fierce technique and untrammeled vision make the Malian fingerpicker Bassekou Kouyaté’s name inseparable from the ngoni, an ancient West African lute that produces a fleet and percussive music similar to the banjo. Kouyaté’s band combines four modified ngonis — with extra strings for added kick — to create a sweetly explosive sound that infuses African rhythms with the bite of American blues. A BBC3 “Best African Act” award in 2008 elevated Kouyaté’s prestige to rival Malian titan Ali Farka Touré. With spirited vocals courtesy of Amy Sacko, Kouyaté’s wife and “the Tina Turner of Mali” (MOJO), this band is simply a joy.

GORAN BREGOVIC & HIS WEDDING AND FUNERAL ORCHESTRA SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 • 8 PM • PAGE AUDITORIUM TICKETS: $42 • $34 • $22 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS In a four-decade career that has weathered war in Yugoslavia and exile in Paris, pan-Balkan bandleader and composer Goran Bregovic´ has become legendary for his flamboyant performances and evocative film scores — particularly for Emir Kusturica’s Time of the Gypsies and Underground. Rapturous and mournful, the colossal Wedding and Funeral Orchestra once sparked a rambunctious dance party in Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

With Bregovic´ and his core ensemble flanked by a Bulgarian choir and a Gypsy brass band, the music is as large-hearted and miscellaneous as the Balkans themselves. This is an exclusive Southeastern concert by the icon that indie-pop star Beirut dubbed his favorite musician ever. ‚

“BREGOVIC IS BOTH THE CATALYST AND RINGMASTER FOR A MUSICAL SPECTACLE UNLIKE ANYTHING ELSE ON NORTH AMERICAN STAGES.” _SF CHRONICLE

RANDY WESTON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 • 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM

TICKETS: $26 GENERAL • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

The author of a 2010 autobiography from Duke University Press visits the acoustically ideal Nelson Music Room for an intimate solo concert. Praised by Stanley Crouch for having “the biggest sound of any jazz pianist since Ellington and Monk,” Randy Weston rose to be-bop stardom in the mid-20th century, writing indelible standards like “Hi-Fly” and “Little Niles.” In the 1960s, a stint living in Morocco changed Weston’s music — and arguably jazz itself — forever. His sophisticated integration of African and Caribbean rhythms has been an invaluable contribution to the genre. More than four decades later, he continues to refine the music with energy and grace. Randy Weston is presented, in part, with support from Duke Press, the African and African-American Studies Department, and the Center for African and African-American Research.

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European troubadour Alexi Murdoch, “a kindred spirit to the intricate folk of Nick Drake” (NPR), studied with Reynolds Price at Duke before selfreleasing the gorgeous album Time Without Consequences, which supplied all the music for Sam Mendes’ film Away We Go. At Reynolds Theater, Murdoch showcases long-awaited new material from Towards the Sun. Durham’s Mount Moriah is equally self-sufficient, touring with the Indigo Girls before self-releasing its potent debut. A rare stage presence, singer Heather McEntire brings a punk edge to the lineage of Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton. Both acts are united by their stellar songwriting, independent nerve, and ties to Durham.

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Founded by choreographer Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, the acclaimed Australian dance company Chunky Move creates beautiful, ambitious work with new media. Connected, Obarzanek’s final piece for the ensemble, is the crowning achievement to date of a breathtakingly innovative career.

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Connected is a collaboration with the pioneering California artist Reuben Margolin, whose “kinetic sculptures” mimic waveforms through elegant systems of humble objects. Beginning with hundreds of small parts — wood, plastic, paper, and steel — dancers build a suspended Margolin creation, weaving themselves into the undulating mass with increasingly complex movements. A visual marvel of choreographed theater, Connected treads a razor’s edge between dance and sculpture. ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE OCTOBER 23 THROUGH 28.

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

THE GREAT FLOOD

Film by BILL MORRISON Music by BILL FRISELL with Tony Scherr, Ron Miles & Kenny Wolleson SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $34 • $26 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS Rock, country, jazz, blues, experimental music, and collaborations with everyone from Pat Metheny to Brian Eno: over the last three decades, guitar genius Bill Frisell has done it all. This new partnership with experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia) is based on the Mississippi River flood of 1927, which sparked the “Great Migration” of blues musicians from the rural South to the urban North. Haunting archival footage edited by Morrison looms large behind the musicians as they perform 75 minutes of prismatic roots music. The Great Flood is an enchanting meditation led by one of America’s most technically subtle, quietly dazzling musicians.

SCHOLA CANTORUM DE VENEZUELA

CONDUCTED BY MARÍA GUINAND WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 • 8 PM • DUKE CHAPEL

TICKETS: $26 GENERAL • $5 ALL STUDENTS Venezuela’s foremost choral society visits Duke Chapel for an invigorating survey of 20th century milestones with an emphasis on Latin America. With 45 divine voices singing a mix of religious, secular, antique, and contemporary songs — from the luminously sanguine music of Eric Whitacre to the tango-inspired confections of Astor Piazzolla — Schola Cantorum’s joyful sound will be a treat in the majestic Duke Chapel. Schola Contrum full description and program under Essential Classics on page 28.

CHRIS THILE MANDOLIN

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 • 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM (309 WEST MORGAN ST.)

TICKETS: $38 • $30 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

Mandolinist Chris Thile, a charismatic prodigy who “contains multitudes” (NY Times), is bestknown for the mainstream success of his audacious string bands Nickel Creek and the Punch Brothers. With Bach in one ear and Radiohead in the other, Thile is positioned to steward bold new directions in bluegrass. In this solo performance, he showcases sparkling original tunes alongside Bach Partitas that he transcribed for mandolin, galvanizing them all with a famously deft touch. At the historic Carolina Theatre, hear the mandolin as you have never heard it before.

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ECCENTRIC SOUL REVUE: DURHAM, NC SYL JOHNSON, THE NOTATIONS, RENALDO DOMINO, THE SWEET DIVINES & THE DIVINE SOUL RHYTHM BAND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19 • 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM (309 WEST MORGAN ST.) TICKETS: $25 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

In its flagship series, Eccentric Soul, the Numero Group of Chicago illuminates neglected soul gems through archival recordings and curated performances with legends of the genre. This spectacular revue reprises a storied American music tradition: three vintage acts combine with one smoking band for a night of sweatsoaked entertainment.

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The 1960s hit-maker Syl Johnson is enjoying a massive renaissance thanks to the Complete Mythology box set and a string of fantastic headlining performances. Curtis Mayfield protégés The Notations are a Temptations-style quartet with a rich four decade career, and Renaldo Domino is a best-kept-secret with a voice like spun sugar. With vocal harmonies and backing by the Sweet Divines and their band, the authoritative grit of authentic Chicago soul is revived at the Carolina Theatre.

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25% discount code available for Duke Performances' Pick-Four buyers. Eccentric Soul Revue is a copresentation of Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre of Durham.

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25% discount code available for Duke Performances' Pick-Four buyers. Chris Thile is a co-presentation of Duke Performances and the Carolina Theatre of Durham.

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS + LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 • 8 PM • PAGE AUDITORIUM TICKETS: $52 • $42 • $24 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

After winning a Grammy for Genuine Negro Jig, Durham’s Carolina Chocolate Drops take a victory lap at Page. With the departure of Justin Robinson and the addition of a mouth percussionist and a guitarist, things have changed for the Drops, but their jubilant string-band music sounds sharper than ever. With openers Luminescent Orchestrii — a raucous gypsy-punk outfit that channels Romania by way of New York and with whom the Drops collaborated on a recent Nonesuch EP — get ready to clap your hands and stomp your feet for the high-energy showmanship of two singular but equally explosive bands.

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BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JANUARY 13 & 14 • 8 PM • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER TICKETS: $52 • $44 • $5 DUKE & NCCU STUDENTS Three-time Grammy winner and Durham resident Branford Marsalis is among the most important jazz artists working today. Born in New Orleans, the saxophonist cut his teeth with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers before forming his superb Branford Marsalis Quartet, including pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and 20-year-old drumming prodigy Justin Faulkner.

Assertive and precise, with a timeless yet daring sensibility, Marsalis is the heir apparent of John Coltrane, and led a pacesetting live recording of Coltrane's legendary composition A Love Supreme in 2003. In this home date, the quartet stretches out for two nights of refreshed standards and classic originals, helmed by the most trustworthy arbiter of the state of the art.

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CYMBELINE BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 THROUGH 4 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $28 • $22 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

Founded in 2007, this six-person company is already renowned for its dynamic, actor-focused style and lapidary productions of Shakespeare, whose elaborate romance Cymbeline sings out clearly in Fiasco’s hands. During a swift-moving 150 minutes of witty music and dynamic action, the “lucid, modest performances let the comedy, poignancy, and unlikely magic surface” (NY Times).

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Cymbeline is just the beginning of Fiasco’s three-week residency with Duke Performances, where they also develop Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure at Sheafer Lab Theater before giving two workshop readings in that intimate black-box space. ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE JANUARY 31 THROUGH FEBRUARY 18.

Fiasco Theater Company is a co-presentation of Duke Performances and Duke Theater Studies. Fiasco Theater Company’s residency is made possible, in part, by a Visiting Artist Grant from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University.

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FLAMENCO VIVO CARLOTA SANTANA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 • 8 PM • PAGE AUDITORIUM

TICKETS: $32 • $26 • $18 • $10 YOUTH* (17 & UNDER) • $5 DUKE STUDENTS With a dual vocation of exhilarating performance and community outreach, Flamenco Vivo is the nation’s most accomplished flamenco dance company. Founded in New York, it established a Durham branch in 1996 to serve the Triangle’s growing Latin-American community. Led by the redoubtable choreographer Carlota Santana, the company performs traditional flamenco alongside original work: an extravagant display of whirling garments, dramatic narratives, and expert live musicians that earns rave reviews wherever its feet stomp down. Santana “wants to bring the flamenco language into the mainstream of dance,” says the News & Observer, “with offerings like this, she is bound to succeed.” *Limit one youth admission per adult companion ticket. Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana is presented, in part, with support from the Duke Dance Program.

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“MCGREGOR'S CHOREOGRAPHY DEMONSTRATES STARTLING CLARITY AND BREATHTAKING INVENTION." _THE TELEGRAPH (UK)

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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE FEBRUARY 19 THROUGH 25.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 & 25 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $34 • $26 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

“If any artist has defined the decade,” raves the London Times, “it’s Wayne McGregor.” With his company Random Dance, the choreographer has developed a signature style blending contemporary ballet and modern dance with cutting-edge technology. In the stunning new hour-long piece, FAR, a gorgeous duet set to Vivaldi spins out into rigorous movements of mounting dramatic intensity for the whole company. Exquisite high-contrast lighting and austere Ben Frost music frame a “blazing, mysterious dance"(Observer (UK)). FAR is a landmark work for ten athletic performers by a choreographer who always translates intellectual brilliance into persuasive movement.

EDGARDOUBLE MEYER DOUBLE BASS BASS THURSDAY, MARCH 1 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $38 • $32 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS Whether playing classical music with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor or Americana with Chris Thile and Béla Fleck, the inimitable Edgar Meyer is the undisputed master of the double bass — “the best alive,” says San Diego Magazine. A MacArthur Fellow and Avery Fisher Prize winner (a first for a bassist), he creates impeccable new classical music and ingenious transcriptions of Bach’s cello suites for double bass, full of fiendishly difficult effects rendered with deceptive ease. Bringing a lively suite of this material to a rare solo show at Reynolds Theater, a prolific collaborator and roundly acknowledged genius gets his individual due. Edgar Meyer's performance also appears as part of Duke Performances' Essential Classics Series.

ROBERT GLASPER TRIO FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 30 & 31 • 8 PM CASBAH DURHAM (1007 WEST MAIN ST.)

TICKETS: $22 GENERAL • $5 DUKE STUDENTS Jazz has provided a wealth of material for hip-hop producers to refashion. The gap between the two traditions resoundingly slams shut in the one-of-a-kind person of Robert Glasper. Whether working with Kanye West or Terence Blanchard, here is a pianist who “unfailingly gets the feeling right” (New York Magazine). He revs up his acoustic outfit — with bassist Vicente Archer and drummer Chris Bell — for two sizzling nights at the Casbah, the cozy new club near Brightleaf Square. With seating provided, this is an ideal downtown spot to enjoy Glasper’s lush, hard-charging style of hip-hop-infused jazz.

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Robert Glasper is a co-presentation of Duke Performances and the Casbah Durham.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 5 • 8 PM • PAGE AUDITORIUM TICKETS: $38 • $30 • $20 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

Fela Kuti, lately the subject of a popular Broadway musical, pioneered Afrobeat in the 1970s. The politically volatile Nigerian funk music soon attained worldwide popularity, profoundly influencing Western artists from Roy Ayers to David Byrne.

Fresh off a brilliant new record with producer Brian Eno, the firebrand saxophonist Seun Kuti keeps his father’s tradition and band, the seasoned powerhouse Egypt 80, in circulation. An intensely physical performer, Seun Kuti unites musical abandon and social conscience into a sheer force of nature. His large combo’s blazing rhythms and incantatory vocals will be the most visceral sounds to shake local stages this year.

ANOUSHKA SHANKAR & THE TRAVELER ENSEMBLE FLAMENCO JOURNEY

SATURDAY, APRIL 14 • 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM

TICKETS: $42 • $34 • $22 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS To begin her exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon, the superlative sitarist Anoushka Shankar enlisted top players from India and Spain to record Traveler, promptly breaking new ground between South Asian classical and Spanish dance music — as befits the innovative legacy of her father and mentor, the great Ravi Shankar. With a highly original mix of percussion, winds, and vocalists from India and Spain, Shankar and her ensemble condense Gypsy music’s thousand-year migration from India to Europe into one exceptional evening at Page Auditorium, where Andalusian flamencos and Carnatic ragas merge seamlessly.

MOHAMMAD-REZA SHAJARIAN & THE SHAHNAZ ENSEMBLE SATURDAY, APRIL 28 • 8 PM • DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (123 VIVIAN ST.) TICKETS: $55 • $45 • $35 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

In Durham, Shajarian — with 17 musicians playing traditional instruments, some of his own design — reveals the magnificent ancient poetry of classical Persian songs. Do not miss the only Southeastern date on a highly select tour by an international phenomenon in whom timelessness, principle, and preternatural talent combine.

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Even the grandly spacious Durham Performing Arts Center will be hard-pressed to contain the living legend Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, who has become Iran’s most iconic singer over an extraordinary forty-year career. A winner of prestigious UNESCO awards and one of NPR’s “50 Great Voices,” his rich and moving tenor seems to echo down the ages.

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TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER BOX OFFICE AND DUKE PERFORMANCES’ WEBSITE, DUKEPERFORMANCES.ORG.

25% discount code available for Duke Performances' Pick-Four buyers. Presented, in part, with support from Duke University’s Vice Provost for the Arts and the Persian Student Association.

ESSENTIA CLASSICS ORION STRING STRING QUARTET QUARTET ORION & WINDSCAPE WINDSCAPE & BACH: THE THE ART ART OF OF THE THE FUGUE FUGUE BACH: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $30 GENERAL • $5 DUKE STUDENTS The Orion String Quartet is prized for its command of both the classical repertory and contemporary music by composers like Lowell Liebermann and Wynton Marsalis. Likewise, the five distinguished woodwind soloists who compose Windscape — the Manhattan School of Music’s ensemble-in-residence — draw insightful connections all over the musical map. In Durham, these institutions combine their forces in the landmark Art of the Fugue, where Bach elaborates a simple subject toward profound complexity without specifying any particular instrumentation. Samuel Baron’s 1960 arrangement for string quartet, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn supplies 80 minutes of ravishing ensemble color to the intensely logical score.

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BACH: The Art of the Fugue for String Quartet and Wind Quintet, BWV 1080 (arr. Samuel Baron, 1960)

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $48 • $36 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

The natural countertenor voice is so rare that a wealth of great music for it goes underperformed. Enter France’s Philippe Jaroussky, who performs this neglected repertory with a “mellow, evenly toned, wide-ranging” voice of extraordinary color and purity (BBC Music Magazine). At Reynolds, Jaroussky is joined by Apollo’s Fire, America’s preeminent Baroque orchestra, which dignifies the emotional character of 18th century music with incisive finesse. With Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins anchoring arias by Vivaldi and Handel, the program brims with all the fiery virtuosity and human drama of Baroque opera, revivified by classical music’s most viable young pop star.

PROGRAM HANDEL: “Disperato il mar turbato” from Oreste HANDEL: “Con l’ali di costanza” from Ariodante VIVALDI: Concerto for Four Violins in B Minor VIVALDI: “Se in ogni guardo” from Orlando Finto Pazzo VIVALDI: “Se mai senti spirarti sul volto” from Catone in Utica VIVALDI/SORRELL: La Folia (“Madness”) VIVALDI: “Vedro con mio diletto” from Giustino VIVALDI: “Nel profondo” from Orlando Furioso

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, VIOLIN & LARS VOGT, PIANO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 • 8PM • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER TICKETS: $30 GENERAL • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

A concerto interpreter of “emotional openness and deep sincerity” (Boston Globe), the world-renowned violinist Christian Tetzlaff comes to Duke fresh off a stand in Carnegie Hall’s prestigious Perspectives Series. At age 20, pianist Lars Vogt took second prize in the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition, launching a prolific international performance and recording career. In Durham, these frequent collaborators offset Brahms’ gracious, leisurely Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 with Bartók’s thrillingly caustic first sonata. Rounded out by César Franck’s enchanting Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, this program roils with all the transformative energies of end-of-the-century Europe.

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BRAHMS: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 BARTÓK: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 21 CÉSAR FRANCK: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major

INGRID FLITER, PIANO

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 • 8 PM • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $30 GENERAL • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

The outstanding Argentinean pianist Ingrid Fliter has captivated American audiences since making her stateside debut with the Atlanta Symphony five years ago. Her first concert for Duke Performances features a delectable sample of the Chopin waltzes for which she “set a new benchmark” with a 2009 recording (Gramophone). Schumann hailed Chopin’s salon music as “waltzes for the soul, not the body;” Fliter draws out their rhythmic zest and glittering chic with impeccable timing. Another of her specialties, Beethoven, rounds out a stylish program from a Gilmore Artist Award winner who plays with fire yet is “incapable of grandstanding” (Chicago Sun-Times).

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BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57, "Appassionata" CHOPIN: Waltz in E-flat Major, Op. 18 CHOPIN: Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 34, No. 1 CHOPIN: Waltz in B Minor, Op. 69, No. 2 CHOPIN: Three Waltzes, Op. 64 CHOPIN: Waltz in G-flat Major, Op. 70, No. 1 CHOPIN: Waltz in A Minor, Op. posth. CHOPIN: Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. posth. CHOPIN: Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 42

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SCHOLA CANTORUM DE VENEZUELA CONDUCTED BY MARÍA GUINAND

MILESTONES OF THE 20TH CENTURY CHORAL REPERTOIRE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 • 8 PM • DUKE CHAPEL TICKETS: $26 GENERAL • $5 ALL STUDENTS The South American classical renaissance made waves in the States when LA Philharmonic maestro Gustavo Dudamel conducted Schola Cantorum last year. Now Venezuela’s foremost choral society treats Duke Chapel to a survey of 20th century milestones with an emphasis on Latin America. The preferred ensemble of composers such as John Adams and Osvaldo Golijov, these 45 divine voices sing religious, secular, antique, and contemporary music alike with a “robust, flexible sound” (NY Times) and infectious elation. From the luminously sanguine music of Eric Whitacre to the tangoinspired confections of Astor Piazzolla, Schola Cantorum celebrates the vibrancy of worldwide 28 choral music with unrivalled passion.

PROGRAM CALIXTO ALVAREZ: “Lacrimosa” ROBERTO CAAMAÑO: “Psalm 113” KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI: “Stabat Mater” THOMAS JENNEFELT: “O Domine” GIEDRIUS SVILIANIS: “Laudate Dominum” VIC NEES: “Blue Be It” (text by Gerard Manley Hopkins) BEATRIZ BILBAO: “La Fiesta de San Juan” MURRAY SCHAFER: “Magic Songs” ERIC WHITACRE: “Cloudburst” (text by Octavio Paz) ALBERTO GRAU: “Binnamma” GUIDO LÓPEZ-GAVILÁN: “Mambo (que Rico E)” ASTOR PIAZZOLLA/OSCAR ESCALADA: From “Las Cuatro Estaciones” (The Four Seasons) PIAZZOLLA: “Verano Porteño” (Summer in Buenos Aires) PIAZZOLLA: “Primavera Porteña” (Spring in Buenos Aires)

ANDRÉ WATTS, PIANO SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 • 8 PM • PAGE AUDITORIUM TICKETS: $46 • $38 • $22 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

André Watts was born just after the second world war to an American father and a Hungarian mother, who famously used stories of Liszt’s work ethic to inspire young Watts to practice. It paid off handsomely when he filled in for Glenn Gould with the New York Philharmonic in 1963, where his preternatural command of Liszt’s first concerto brought down the house. In Durham, the Avery Fisher Prize recipient trains his finely honed expertise on an all-Liszt program in honor of the master’s bicentennial, including the Sonata in B Minor — that deathless ode to Schumann — and the sublimely darkening Nuages Gris.

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LISZT: Étude de Concert No. 3, “Un Sospiro” LISZT: Les Jeux d’eau a la Villa d’Este LISZT: Piano Sonata in B Minor LISZT: Bagatelle ohne Tonart LISZT: Nuages Gris LISZT: En Rêve LISZT: La Lugubre Gondola No. 2 LISZT: Schlaflos, Frage, und Antwort LISZT: Étude No. 5, “La Chasse,” from Six Grand Études after Paganini LISZT: Transcendental Étude No. 10 in F Minor LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A Minor

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ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 • 8PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER TICKETS: $30 GENERAL • $5 DUKE STUDENTS Cherished for its freewheeling animation of the most traditional repertory, the passionate St. Lawrence String Quartet returns for a third consecutive season with a program juxtaposing the most classical of composers with a modern icon. The concert begins with one of the Haydn works that earned him the title of “father of the string quartet” and ends with a middle-period gem from his pupil Beethoven. Between these two classics, St. Lawrence exhibits its new commission from Osvaldo Golijov, a composer of Argentinean nationality and Eastern European heritage who draws upon traditions as diverse as Judeo-Christian liturgies and Latin-American folk music.

PROGRAM HAYDN: String Quartet No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5 OSVALDO GOLIJOV: New String Quartet (commissioned in 2011 by the St. Lawrence String Quartet) BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1 R ARTS SO BE

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SIMONE DINNERSTEIN, PIANO FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 • 8 PM • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $30 GENERAL • $5 DUKE STUDENTS In her 2011 Duke Performances collaboration with Tift Merritt, the Brooklyn-based pianist Simone Dinnerstein caught Americana partisans off guard with her marvelous solo rendition of a suite by Bach — a composer whose rigorously precise music she plays with accessible clarity and “lean, knowing, unpretentious elegance” (The New Yorker). After rising to prominence via a self-financed recording of the Goldberg Variations, she now records for the eminent Sony Classical label. This year, Dinnerstein steps into the solo spotlight for a full course of piano music, offering two delightful Bach Partitas alongside poetically tender meditations by Brahms and Schubert.

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CHOPIN: Nocturne No. 8 in D-flat, Op. 27, No. 2 DANIEL FELSENFELD: Cohen Variations BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2 BACH: Partita No. 2 SCHUBERT: Four Impromptus, Op. 90 BACH: Partita No. 1

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TRIO JEAN PAUL FRIDAY & SATURDAY JANUARY 27 & 28 • 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM

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SATURDAY PROGRAM HAYDN: Piano Trio No. 37 in D Minor, Hob. XV: 23 MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49 SCHUBERT: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat Major, D. 898, Op. 99 R ARTS SO BE

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Saturday’s concert offsets another celebrated Haydn trio, No. 37 in D Minor, with a work that Trio Jean Paul recorded to great acclaim in 2009, Mendelssohn’s first trio. These pieces form an intriguing context for Schubert’s late masterpiece.

HAYDN: Piano Trio No. 43 in C Major, Hob. XV: 27 WOLFGANG RIHM: Fremde Szene III SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63

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Friday’s concert creatively combines Haydn’s Piano Trio in C Major with two key works from Trio Jean Paul’s early recording career: German postmodernist Wolfgang Rihm’s Fremde Szene III and Schumann’s first piano trio, a quintessentially restive Romantic work.

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Five composers, two concerts, and an engaging blend of old and modern repertoire add up to an unforgettable weekend with Trio Jean Paul, which plays with a refined wit and poetic intensity worthy of its literary namesake.

EDGAR MEYER DOUBLE BASS

THURSDAY, MARCH 1 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $38 • $32 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS Whether playing classical music with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor or Americana with Chris Thile and Béla Fleck, the inimitable Edgar Meyer is the undisputed master of the double bass — “the best alive,” says San Diego Magazine. A MacArthur Fellow and Avery Fisher Prize winner (a first for a bassist), he creates impeccable new classical music and ingenious transcriptions of Bach’s cello suites for double bass, full of fiendishly difficult effects rendered with deceptive ease. Bringing a lively suite of this material to a rare solo show at Reynolds, a prolific collaborator and roundly acknowledged genius gets his individual due.

JERUSALEM STRING QUARTET SATURDAY, MARCH 3 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TICKETS: $30 GENERAL • $5 DUKE STUDENTS Representing the new generation of superb classical musicians from Israel, the up-and-coming Jerusalem String Quartet earned an ECHO Classic award for its 2008 recording of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden — just one step along its rapid climb to the upper echelons of chamber music. This eclectic program, culling music from three distinct periods, highlights the Quartet's wide range and consummate ability. The classical elegance of Mozart’s String Quartet in D Minor calls out to the romantic passion of Brahms’ second quartet over a bridge of 20th century angst, Shostakovich’s gripping String Quartet No. 10.

PROGRAM MOZART: String Quartet No. 15 in D Minor, K. 421 SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat Major, Op. 118 BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 1

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GARRICK OHLSSON, PIANO FRIDAY, MARCH 16 • 8 PM • REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

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After André Watts plays an all-Liszt program in December, the equally cultivated pianist Garrick Ohlsson offers his own interpretation of the composer through an almost entirely different set of pieces. With a style blending “the gossamer and the athletic” (NY Times), the Chopin International Piano Competition winner begins with Liszt’s transcription of Bach’s Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor and moves on through the whimsical but demanding Transcendental Etude No. 5 and the first Mephisto Waltz, a sensuous concert favorite. With Ohlsson slated to join the Takács Quartet on the following night, this concert inaugurates a weekend-long visit from an incredibly versatile pianist.

PROGRAM BACH/LISZT: Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor LISZT: Fantasia and Fugue on “Ad Nos, Ad Salutarem Undam” (transcribed by Busoni) LISZT: Benediction de Dieu dans la Solitude LISZT: Feux Follets (Transcendental Etude No. 5) LISZT: Valse Oubliee No. 1 LISZT: Nuages Gris LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No. 1

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TICKETS: $30 GENERAL • $5 DUKE STUDENTS The esteemed Takács, one of the world’s premier string quartets, returns to Duke Performances. Since forming in Budapest 36 years ago, the Takács has perfected its trademark of “overwhelming intensity” (The Guardian (UK)). The members' protean rapport is ideal for one of Beethoven’s finest chamber music creations, where seven continuous movements flow together to create an extended moment of intricate beauty. Equally exciting is the guest appearance by outstanding pianist Garrick Ohlsson, a Chopin International Piano Competition winner with more than 80 concertos in his repertoire, who joins the Takács to perform Shostakovich’s effervescent Piano Quintet in G Minor.

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BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131 SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57 (with Garrick Ohlsson, piano)

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TALLIS SCHOLARS

CONDUCTED BY PETER PHILLIPS FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD SUNDAY, APRIL 1 • 5 PM • DUKE CHAPEL TICKETS: $26 GENERAL • $5 ALL STUDENTS

Tallis Scholars are acknowledged titans of Renaissance choral music with a venerable four-decade history. In Duke Chapel, they bring the past to life with unimpeachable authority and craft. In 16th century Calais, the retinues of England’s King Henry VIII and France’s King Francis I met in a field for a mutual show of power. Cloth-of-gold tents were raised and red wine flowed from fountains. Rival choirs squared off at a distance, the French led by composer Jean Mouton and the English by William Cornysh. Tallis’ program of a capella music by Mouton and Cornysh, composed for this meeting at Calais, proves yet again why these ten resplendent singers set the standard for sacred polyphony.

PROGRAM JEAN MOUTON: Nesciens Mater WILLIAM CORNYSH: Ave Maria MOUTON: Ave Maria MOUTON: Quaeramus Cum Pastoribus JOHN BROWNE: Salve Regina MOUTON: “Kyrie” and “Agnus Dei” from the Missa “Dictes moy toutes vos pensées” MOUTON: Salva Nos CORNYSH: Ah, Robin CORNYSH: Woefully Arrayed CORNYSH: Magnificat

RICHARD GOODE

PIANO

THURSDAY, APRIL 19 • 8 PM • PAGE AUDITORIUM TICKETS: $46 • $38 • $22 • $5 DUKE STUDENTS

With his superhuman expertise and capacity for insight, Richard Goode may be the definitive American pianist of the last half-century. The Grammy and Avery Fisher Prize winner set a new standard of excellence for the complete Beethoven sonatas with his acclaimed recording for Nonesuch and currently serves as the co-artistic director of the prestigious Marlboro Music School. For Duke Performances, Goode brings his “fastidious musicianship, infallible fingers, and warming spirit” (NY Times) to bear on a program including Schumann’s Kreisleriana — a wonderfully dramatic work dedicated to Chopin — and Chopin’s final piano sonata, his most ambitious attempt at the form.

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SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 “Scenes from Childhood” SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 “Phantasien für das Pianoforte” CHOPIN: Short Piece TBA CHOPIN: Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58

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“GOODE HAS SO THOROUGHLY ENTERED INTO THE SPIRIT OF THE COMPOSITIONS HE PERFORMS THAT YOU'D SWEAR THE COMPOSER HIMSELF WAS AT THE KEYBOARD.” -TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL

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SATURDAY, APRIL 28 • 8PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER TICKETS: $30 GENERAL $5 DUKE STUDENTS

This vivacious program of French repertory is a study in musical lineage. The Artemis spent a decade training with the Emerson and Juilliard Quartets before officially launching its career at the Berlin Philharmonie in 1999. Its patient, sharply honed playing “finds a balance between projecting musical structure and conveying immediacy” (NY Times) — a perfect fit for Debussy’s sole string quartet, where a conventional form houses otherworldly harmonies.

Meanwhile, Ravel’s only string quartet was rejected by the academy but embraced by the public for its quicksilver elegance. In 1976, Henri Dutilleux reckoned with the exotic language of these so-called Impressionists with fresh creativity in his nocturnal Ainsi la Nuit.

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The Ciompi, Duke University's longstanding ensemblein-residence, interprets old and new chamber music with colloquial warmth and tremendous musicality. Its substantial 2011/12 season includes classic quartets by Haydn, Dvorˇák, Shostakovich, and Beethoven; collaborations with the likes of Leeds International Piano Competition winner Ian Hobson; and the world premiere of a new quartet by Donald Wheelock.

CONCERT NO. 1

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HAYDN: String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 20, No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 49 ˇ ÁK: String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major, Op. 105 DVOR

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WITH KRISTA RIVER, MEZZO-SOPRANO SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 • 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM TICKETS: $20 GENERAL

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ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK: String Quartet in C Major PUCCINI: “Crisantemi” for String Quartet HUGO WOLF: “Italian Serenade” for String Quartet VERDI: String Quartet in E Minor RESPIGHI: “Il Tramonto” for String Quartet and Mezzo Soprano (with mezzo-soprano Krista River)

THE CIOMPI QUARTET’S LUNCHTIME CLASSICS SERIES

In this special series of lunchtime performances, the Ciompi explores the connections between Haydn and Shostakovich. Each event lasts approximately 50 minutes and features quartets by both composers. Admission is free. Though food is not provided, audience members are encouraged to bring lunch. All concerts begin at noon in the Gothic Reading Room at Perkins Library.

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CIOMPI QUARTET & BORROMEO STRING QUARTET SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 • 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER TICKETS: $20 GENERAL

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New York’s Borromeo Quartet — with first violinist Nicholas Kitchen, who was raised in Durham — has been gathering major awards since 1992. At Reynolds, its talents combine with those of Duke’s own Ciompi for two sumptuous octets: one blending late-Romantic styles with early modernism that Romania’s George Enescu wrote when he was 19 and another that Mendelssohn wrote at the unbelievable age of 16. Ciompi’s individual performance of Haydn’s String Quartet No. 2 tempers the precocious program with an august maturity. HAYDN: String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2 GEORGE ENESCU: Octet for Strings in C Major, Op. 7 MENDELSSOHN: Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 16

CONCERT NO. 4

WITH IAN HOBSON, PIANO SATURDAY, APRIL 7 • 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM TICKETS: $20 GENERAL

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Bonus Concert

CIOMPI QUARTET & PROF. GEORGE GOPEN

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 • 7 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM

This special bonus concert, an addition to the Chamber Arts Society and Ciompi Quartet composed seasons, pairs two monuments of Western art — one of the greatest string quartets ever composed and one of the greatest English poems ever written. First, the Ciompi Quartet performs Beethoven’s magisterial String Quartet No. 15. After intermission, Prof. George Gopen reads one of his academic specialties: T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets,” often considered to be the finest poem in English since Shakespeare. BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 T.S. ELIOT: Four Quartets This special event is offered free of charge, though advance tickets are required. Chamber Arts Society and Ciompi Quartet subscribers are entitled to one complimentary ticket per subscription. The remaining tickets will be offered to the general public on a first-come, first-serve basis. To claim a ticket, please contact the Duke University Box Office by telephone (919-684-4444) or in person (M-F, 11 am - 6 pm).

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5 DONALD WHEELOCK: String Quartet No. 6 (World Premiere) ELGAR: Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84 (with Ian Hobson, piano)

LUNCHTIME CLASSICS #1

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 • 12 PM HAYDN: String Quartet No.1 in E-flat, Op. 20, No.1 SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No.1 in C Major, Op. 49

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 • 12 PM HAYDN: String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4 SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 83

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 • 12 PM HAYDN: String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2 SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 68

TUESDAY, APRIL 10 • 12 PM HAYDN: String Quartet No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5 SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat Major, Op. 133

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE AT DUKE DUKE PERFORMANCES: PERFORMANCES: AT JOIN THE THE JOIN CONVERSATION CONVERSATION

Our artist-in-residence program creates opportunities for face-to-face engagement with visiting dP performers. Through a variety of free, public events, patrons can discover the stories and context surrounding each performance. We invite you to join the conversation.

LISTENING SESSIONS:

FILMS:

Heather McEntire & Jenks Miller of Mt. Moriah Thursday, October 20 • 6:30 pm The Pinhook (117 W. Main St.)

Emir Kusturica’s Time of the Gypsies Featuring Goran Bregovic´'s soundtrack Wednesday, October 5 • 7 pm Motorco Music Hall

Bassekou Kouyate Thursday, October 13 • 6:30 pm The Pinhook

Throw Down Your Heart: Béla Fleck Brings the Banjo Back to Africa Featuring Bassekou Kouyaté Followed by a conversation with Prof. Laurent Dubois & Prof. Phil Gura Wednesday, October 12 • 7 pm Carolina Theatre (309 W. Morgan St.) Tickets: $5 (Purchased through the Carolina)

Visiting artists discuss and play recordings of the music that influences and inspires them.

Chris Thile Sunday, November 13 • 12 pm Motorco Music Hall (723 Rigsbee Ave.) Eccentric Soul with Ken Shipley & Michael Slaboch of The Numero Group Friday, November 18 • 6:30 pm The Pinhook Branford Marsalis Thursday, January 12 • 6:30 pm Motorco Music Hall Edgar Meyer Wednesday, February 29 • 6:30 pm Motorco Music Hall

Rare and exclusive screenings of films pertinent to dP performances.

Bill Morrison’s Decasia Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Bill Morrison Monday, November 7 • 7 pm Carolina Theatre Tickets: $5 (Purchased through the Carolina)

Co-sponsored by Duke's Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts.

CONVERSATIONS:

LONG-TERM RESIDENCIES:

Randy Weston Moderated by Prof. Nate Mackey Friday, October 21 • 12 pm East Duke Parlor, East Duke Building

Chunky Move Monday, October 24 – Friday, October 28

Visiting artists discuss their work with notable scholars.

André Watts Moderated by Prof. Anthony Kelley Saturday, December 3 • 12 pm Nelson Music Room Simone Dinnerstein Moderated by Prof. Jane Hawkins Thursday, January 19 • 6 pm Nelson Music Room Edgar Meyer Wednesday, February 29 • 12 pm Nelson Music Room Garrick Ohlsson Moderated by Prof. Larry Todd Saturday, March 17 • 12 pm Nelson Music Room

Visiting artists host a variety of free, public events during extended stays in Durham.

Fiasco Theater Tuesday, January 31 – Saturday, February 18 Workshop Reading: Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare Friday & Saturday, February 17 & 18 • 8 pm Sheafer Lab Theater Tickets: $10 general • $5 Duke students Wayne McGregor | Random Dance Monday, February 20 – Saturday, February 25 Additional residency events and details will be added throughout the 2011/12 season. Please check dukeperformances.org/residency for updates. To sign up for the dP Residency Email list, please email megan.k.stein@duke.edu.

Robert Glasper Moderated by Prof. Mark Anthony Neal Friday, March 30 • 12 pm John Hope Franklin Center, Rm 240 Richard Goode Moderated by Prof. Larry Todd Wednesday, April 18 • 6 pm First Presbyterian Church (305 E. Main St.)

MASTER CLASSES:

Visiting artists teach technique. Windscape Saturday, October 1 • 12 pm Nelson Music Room Ingrid Fliter Thursday, November 3 • 5 pm Nelson Music Room Trio Jean Paul Saturday, January 28 • 12 pm Nelson Music Room Master class students are chosen by the Duke Music department; the public is encouraged to attend and observe these special teaching sessions.

SEPTEMBER ‘11

NOVEMBER ‘11

JOAN SORIANO Friday, September 23 • 8 pm Motorco Music Hall

INGRID FLITER, PIANO Friday, November 4 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater

CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 1 Saturday, September 24 • 8 pm Nelson Music Room

THE GREAT FLOOD BILL FRISELL & BILL MORRISON Saturday, November 5 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater

ZAKIR HUSSAIN & RAKESH CHAURASIA Friday, September 30 • 8 pm Page Auditorium

OCTOBER ‘11 ORION STRING QUARTET & WINDSCAPE Saturday, October 1 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater LIZZ WRIGHT Friday, October 7 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater BASSEKOU KOUYATÉ & NGONI BA Friday, October 14 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater

SCHOLA CANTORUM DE VENEZUELA Wednesday, November 9 • 8 pm Duke Chapel CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 2 Saturday, November 12 • 8 pm Nelson Music Room CHRIS THILE, MANDOLIN Sunday, November 13 • 8 pm Carolina Theatre of Durham ECCENTRIC SOUL REVUE

SYL JOHNSON, THE NOTATIONS & RENALDO DOMINO

Saturday, November 19 • 8 pm Carolina Theatre of Durham

GORAN BREGOVIC´ & HIS WEDDING AND FUNERAL ORCHESTRA Sunday, October 16 • 8 pm Page Auditorium

CIOMPI QUARTET & PROF. GEORGE GOPEN Sunday, November 20 • 7 pm Nelson Music Room

RANDY WESTON, PIANO Friday, October 21 • 8 pm Nelson Music Room

DECEMBER ‘11

ALEXI MURDOCH + MOUNT MORIAH Saturday, October 22 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater COUNTERTENOR PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY WITH APOLLO’S FIRE Wednesday, October 26 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater CHUNKY MOVE CONNECTED Friday, October 28 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF & LARS VOGT Saturday, October 29 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS + LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII Friday, December 2 • 8 pm Page Auditorium ANDRÉ WATTS, PIANO Saturday, December 3 • 8 pm Page Auditorium ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET Saturday, December 10 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater

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JANUARY ‘12 BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET Friday & Saturday, January 13 & 14 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater SIMONE DINNERSTEIN, PIANO Friday, January 20 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater TRIO JEAN PAUL Friday & Saturday, January 27 & 28 • 8 pm Nelson Music Room

FEBRUARY ‘12 FIASCO THEATER CYMBELINE BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thursday, Friday & Saturday February 2, 3 & 4 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater FLAMENCO VIVO CARLOTA SANTANA Saturday, February 11 • 8 pm Page Auditorium FIASCO THEATER MEASURE FOR MEASURE BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friday & Saturday, February 17 & 18 • 8 pm

Sheafer Lab Theater CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 3 WITH BORROMEO STRING QUARTET Saturday, February 18 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater WAYNE MCGREGOR | RANDOM DANCE Friday & Saturday, February 24 & 25 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater

MARCH ‘12

ROBERT GLASPER TRIO Friday & Saturday March 30 & 31 • 8 pm Casbah Durham

APRIL ‘12 TALLIS SCHOLARS Sunday, April 1 • 5 pm Duke Chapel SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 Thursday, April 5 • 8 pm Page Auditorium CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 4 Saturday, April 7 • 8 pm Nelson Music Room ANOUSHKA SHANKAR & THE TRAVELER ENSEMBLE Saturday, April 14 • 8 pm Page Auditorium RICHARD GOODE, PIANO Thursday, April 19 • 8 pm Page Auditorium

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ARTEMIS STRING QUARTET Saturday, April 28 • 8pm Reynolds Industries Theater MOHAMMAD-REZA SHAJARIAN & THE SHAHNAZ ENSEMBLE Saturday, April 28 • 8 pm Durham Performing Arts Center

MARCH ‘12 SU

EDGAR MEYER, DOUBLE BASS Thursday, March 1 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater JERUSALEM STRING QUARTET Saturday, March 3 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater GARRICK OHLSSON, PIANO Friday, March 16 • 8 pm Reynolds Industries Theater TAKÁCS QUARTET & GARRICK OHLSSON, PIANO Saturday, March 17 • 8pm Reynolds Industries Theater

APRIL ‘12 SU

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CHRIS THILE, MANDOLIN SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 • 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM 309 WEST MORGAN STREET, DURHAM WWW.CAROLINATHEATRE.ORG | 919-560-3030

PERFORMANCE CANCELLATION Because the performing arts are live events, programs are subject to change without notice for reasons outside the control of Duke Performances. If a performance is cancelled, you will be notified as early as possible and offered either an exchange or a refund. Join our email list or check www.dukeperformances.org for the most up-to-date information regarding performances.

REFUNDS Tickets are nonrefundable except in the case of cancelled events.

IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND

SYL JOHNSON, THE NOTATIONS & RENALDO DOMINO, THE SWEET DIVINES & THE DIVINE SOUL RHYTHM BAND

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.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19 • 8 PM CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM 309 WEST MORGAN STREET, DURHAM WWW.CAROLINATHEATRE.ORG | 919-560-3030

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.

NUMERO GROUP'S ECCENTRIC SOUL REVUE: DURHAM, NC

Tickets for Duke Performances’ presentations of Chris Thile and Eccentric Soul Revue at the Carolina Theatre may be purchased through the Carolina Theatre website (www.carolinatheatre.org), by calling 919-560-3030, or by visiting the Carolina Theatre box office at 309 W. Morgan Street. Tickets for Carolina Theatre performances are sold through Ticketmaster; Ticketmaster service charges will be applied.

MOHAMMAD-REZA SHAJARIAN & THE SHAHNAZ ENSEMBLE SATURDAY, APRIL 28 • 8 PM DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 123 VIVIAN STREET, DURHAM WWW.DPACNC.COM | 919-680-2787 Tickets for Duke Performances’ presentation of MohammadReza Shajarian at DPAC may be purchased through the DPAC website (www.dpacnc.com), by calling 919-680-2787, or visiting the DPAC box office at 123 Vivian Street. Tickets for all DPAC performances are sold through Ticketmaster; Ticketmaster service charges will be applied. In addition, a $3 City of Durham Facility Fee is added to every DPAC ticket.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION DIRECTIONS & PARKING For full driving directions and parking information please visit www.dukeperformances.org.

LATE SEATING POLICY Please allow enough time to park, claim your tickets, and get seated several minutes before the announced start-time of performances. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house manager and Duke Performances staff with respect for the performers and other patrons.

LOST TICKETS If you lose your tickets and need replacements, please call the University Box Office, 919-684-4444.

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.

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.

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

THANKS TO Duke University Office of the President Duke University Office of the Provost Duke University Provost’s Council for the Arts’ Visiting Artist Grant Duke University office of the Vice-Provost for the Arts Armentrout Endowment for the Visual and Performing Arts Artist Residency Endowment Fund Artists Series Enhancement Endowment Fund Blackburn Performing Arts Fund Charles M. and Shirley F. Weiss Fund for Creativity in the Arts Edith London Endowment Fund Eleanor Naylor Dana Endowment Fund Ella Fountain Pratt Cultural Affairs Endowment Ernest W. Nelson Endowment Fund Frances and E.T. Rollins, Jr. Endowment Fund Friends of Duke Performances Henry David Epstein Endowment Fund J.J. and Ruth M. Blum Endowment Fund Nancy Hanks Resident Fellows Endowment Fund Patrick M. and Catherine Greer Williams Endowment Fund Robert and Margaret Boyer Endowment Fund Roy O. Rodwell Endowment Fund

DUKE PERFORMANCES 2011/12 Season Brochure Box 90757 Durham, NC 27708 152.2120

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