
{"id":149,"date":"2007-04-18T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T00:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/04\/18\/carolina-performing-arts-announces-new-season\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T19:10:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T03:10:37","slug":"carolina-performing-arts-announces-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/04\/18\/carolina-performing-arts-announces-new-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Performing Arts announces new season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/images-1.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>Joshua Bell<\/em><strong><em><\/p>\n<p>UNC News Services <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma, k.d. lang and Brazilian vocalist Caetano Veloso will be among artists presented in the 2007-2008 Carolina Performing Arts season at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Three major international orchestras also will perform during the organization\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third season in Memorial Hall \u00e2\u20ac\u201c including the legendary Saint Petersburg Philharmonic with chief conductor Yuri Temirkanov in a rare <st1:state><st1:place>North Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> appearance for both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Further diversifying the line-up will be the African dance troupe Spirit of Uganda, classical pianist Mitsuko Uchida, new-music ensemble Bang on a Can, pop-country singer and songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, soprano Kathleen Battle and rhythm and blues a cappella group Take 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Building on the first two hugely successful seasons of Carolina Performing Arts, UNC-Chapel Hill is positioning itself as one of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s major university performing arts presenters, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With 35 performances from September through May 2008, the season will feature a rare trio performance by mandolin player Sam Bush, dobro maestro Jerry Douglas and bassist Edgar Meyer; Murray Perahia with the <st1:place><st1:placetype>Academy<\/st1:placetype>  of <st1:placename>St. Martin<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> in the Fields; the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves and violinist Joshua Bell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As in the 2006-2007 season, the William R. Kenan Jr. Trust Endowment of Chapel Hill will make possible the six classical music series concerts \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Kenan Great Performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current emphasis on globalization will be represented in the lineup, as will new works, emerging artists and collaboration with the UNC-Chapel Hill music department and campus academic programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dancers from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Cambodia<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region><st1:place>Senegal<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region><st1:place>India<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region><st1:place>Taiwan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> will add international flavor, as will classical musicians from <st1:country-region><st1:place>Spain<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region><st1:place>England<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and a contemporary Canadian circus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With the UNC-Chapel Hill music department, Carolina Performing Arts commissioned a project entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u015310&#215;10,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d through which 10 new works will be commissioned for performance by 10 music faculty members over 10 years. The first, to premier next March in Memorial, will be a vocal work by Cuban-American composer Tania Le\u00c3\u00b3n, to be written for UNC-Chapel Hill music professor and soprano Terry Rhodes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Carolina Performing Arts also will present world premieres of two new pieces it commissioned, written by rock musicians Glenn Kotche of Wilco and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. They will perform the songs with the musicians of Bang on a Can, a New York-based organization that commissions, creates, performs and records contemporary music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ticket sales for the new season will include new Web-ordering options that allow purchasers to choose their own seats and see a view of the stage from those seats online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Current subscribers may renew now at www.carolinaperformingarts.edu or by calling or visiting the Memorial Hall Box Office on Cameron Avenue, (919) 843-3333, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New subscription orders will be processed after May 14. Subscribers will have the first opportunity to purchase tickets to special events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Single tickets to all performances will go on sale July 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Prices will vary by performance and seat location, but again this year, tickets for UNC-Chapel Hill students will be $10 each. Students are encouraged to note on-sale dates if they would like to order by Web or phone while they are away from campus for the summer.<span>  <\/span><st1:city><st1:place>Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> faculty and staff (active and retired) can purchase subscriptions and receive 20 percent savings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The season highlights include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Season Opening Celebration, <st1:date year=\"2007\" day=\"13\" month=\"9\">Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007<\/st1:date><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Aretha Franklin: Concert, <st1:time minute=\"0\" hour=\"20\">8  p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Taiwan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wild Cursive,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29, <st1:time minute=\"0\" hour=\"20\">8 p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Khmer Arts Ensemble: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pamina Devi: A Cambodian \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMagic Flute,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Friday, Oct. 5, <st1:time minute=\"0\" hour=\"20\">8 p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 St. Petersburg Philharmonic and conductor Yuri Temir,kanov, pianist Nelson Freire, Friday, Oct. 26, <st1:time minute=\"0\" hour=\"20\">8 p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Sam Bush (mandolin), Jerry Douglas (dobro) Edgar Meyer, (double bass), Sunday, Nov. 4, <st1:time minute=\"0\" hour=\"14\">2 p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Caetano Veloso, Wednesday, Nov. 7, <st1:time minute=\"30\" hour=\"19\">7:30 p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violinist, Wednesday, Jan. 9, <st1:time minute=\"30\" hour=\"19\">7:30  p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Mary Chapin Carpenter,<span>  <\/span>Friday, Feb. 15, <st1:time minute=\"0\" hour=\"20\">8 p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Yo-Yo Ma and Friends, Wednesday, Feb. 27, <st1:time minute=\"30\" hour=\"19\">7:30 p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of <st1:country-region><st1:place>India<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, Sunday, March 2, <st1:time minute=\"0\" hour=\"14\">2 p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 k.d. lang, Wednesday, March 5, <st1:time minute=\"30\" hour=\"19\">7:30 p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Joshua Bell, violin, Thursday, March 6, <st1:time minute=\"30\" hour=\"19\">7:30 p.m.<\/st1:time><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Bell UNC News Services Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma, k.d. lang and Brazilian vocalist Caetano Veloso will be among artists presented in the 2007-2008 Carolina Performing Arts season at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Three major international orchestras also will perform during the organization\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third season in Memorial Hall \u00e2\u20ac\u201c including the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}