Encounters: With the Music of our Time
Encounters: Live performances of new music you won't hear anywhere else in the Triangle!
Twenty-eighth season, 2008-2009
In presenting Encounters, the Duke University Department of Music gratefully acknowledges the support and collaboration of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and Duke Performances.
2008-2009 Season
Sunday, November 2, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
Guest recital with Tony Arnold, soprano and Jacob Greenberg, piano, featuring Thomas Adès' Life Story, Elliott Carter's Voyage, and Olivier Messiaen's monumental song cycle Harawi (1945), exploring themes of love and death.
Monday, February 9 - Saturday, February 14
Alarm Will Sound residency
- Tuesday, February 10, 2 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
Reading of new works by graduate composition students - Friday, February 13, 8 pm, Reynolds Industries Theater
1969 (world premiere, on the world changing music made in 1969)
Saturday, February 21, 8 pm, Nelson Music Room
with guest composer Paul Moravec
Featuring faculty artists Jane Hawkins, piano, Eric Pritchard, violin and Jonathan Bagg, viola
and guest musicians
Kelly Burke, clarinet, Laura Gilbert, flute, and Matt Slotkin, guitar
Tenderness of Cranes, Shirish Korde
Songs and Dances from the New Village, Dusan Bogdanovic
Music for Three, Scott Lindroth
Tempest Fantasy, Paul Moravec