Performance Posts

A beloved Raleigh holiday tradition! The Chorale’s 170-voice Symphonic Choir, Chamber Choir, and Youth Choir accompanied by brass ensemble, percussion, piano, and organ return to Meymandi Concert Hall to sing the festive music of the season. You’ll hear familiar carols and enjoy new and contemporary settings destined to become holiday favorites. You’ve seen us on

Since 1933, Duke University Chapel has welcomed the holiday season with the sublime music of Messiah. From the haunting strains of “The people that walked in darkness” to the exuberant triumph of “Hallelujah” and “Worthy is the Lamb,” George Frideric Handel’s masterwork weaves a musical tapestry that recounts the story of Christ’s life, from birth

The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach are a form of musical exegesis, or preaching through music. Written to be performed in worship, Bach’s cantatas artfully set scripture texts, hymn stanzas, prose, and poetry to various musical forms-arias, recitatives, choruses-to create a “sermon in sound.” To that end, the cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (“Savior

“Like his better-known contemporaries John Scofield & Bill Frisell, Sawyer was weaned on the Beatles, the blues & ‘Bird’. You can hear it in everything he plays, a new kind of guitarspeak comprised of pop, improv and sounds never before heard. It is a language Sawyer uses with authority.” – Joe Vanderford Scott Sawyer displays his musical diversity like a