Performance Posts

This year’s series focuses on themes of salvation and redemption. It includes cantatas by Johann Sebastian and Johann Christoph Bach, George Frideric Handel, Michael Praetorius, and Mikolaj Zielenski. Soloists include Andrea Edith Moore, Molly Quinn, Tamsin Simmill, Daniel Shirley, Tony Boutteé, James Reese, and David Newman. Duke Bach Ensemble and Mallarmé Chamber Players are directed

Ralph Vaughan Williams’ prayer for peace, Dona Nobis Pacem, is as relevant and moving today as it was when it was composed just three years before the outbreak of World War II. Paired with this beloved masterpiece are works by Peteris Vasks and Arvo Pärt – plus, Samuel Barber’s transcendent choral transcription of his Adagio for Strings.

UNC Music Faculty and Guest Artists perform French Romantic chamber music on period instruments. Free Concert. Repertoire will include Saint-Saëns Septet for Trumpet, Piano, and Strings and works by Gabriel Fauré. Mimi Solomon, Pleyel piano Brent Wissick, cello Nicholas DiEugenio, violin Suzanne Rousso, viola Robbie Link, bass Barry Bauguess, trumpet

We’re celebrating autumn, as the leaves transform outside the studio… We invite you to bring along a poem/verse that you associate with autumn, or one that simply speaks to you these days. You can present it yourself, or ask someone else to do so, and the band will accompany/respond to the poem in improvised fashion.