Encounters: With the Music of our Time
Encounters: Live performances of new music you won't hear anywhere else in the Triangle!
Twenty-sixth season, 2006-2007
In presenting Encounters, the Duke University Department of Music gratefully acknowledges the support and collaboration of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and Duke Performances.
2006-2007 Season
Saturday, October 21, 8 pm, Baldwin Auditorium
New chamber works by Duke graduate composers. John Bower, The Echo Over the Voice; Arístides Llaneza Sandoval, Bóveda Celeste, desierto en mi imaginación; John Mayrose, String Theory. Ensembles conducted by Michael Votta.
March 2-7, 2007: MILESTONES FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC
Friday, March 2, 8 pm, Nasher Museum Auditorium, Duke
Pamela Z presents Metal/Vox/Water
*Cosponsored by Duke Performances
Sunday, March 4, 4 pm, Baldwin Auditorium, Duke
The Red Clay Saxophone Quartet will perform four premieres of new works by Duke graduate composers George Lam, Kathleen Bader, Paul Leary, and Ben Crawford, as well as music by Allen Anderson, Ben Johnston, and Brian McCune.
Sunday March 4, 7:30 pm, Hill Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
William S. Newman Series and Milestones Festival, Brentano Quartet. Featuring featuring Steve Mackey's Ludus and Bela Bartok's pathbreaking String Quartet No. 2, as well as works by Mario Davidovsky and the U.K.'s Nick Horne. Admission: $15 general public, $10 faculty, staff, and students. Information: www.music.unc.edu.
Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 pm, Memorial Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
Milestones Gala Concert, featuring soloists Terry Rhodes, soprano and Frank Gratowski, alto saxophone, are joined by UNC Wind, Percussion, Choral and Orchestral Ensembles, and the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra in Stephen Jaffe's cantata Songs Of Turning, Blue Cathedral by Jennifer Higdon, and the world premiere of Todd Hershberger's new concerto for saxophone and jazz orchestra. Admission: $15 General public, $10 faculty, staff, and students, $10.
Tickets available on line through http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org; by phone (919)-843-3333 or in person at Memorial Hall's Box Office.
Wednesday, March 7, 8 pm, "The Space", Smith Arts Warehouse, Duke
The Zeitgeist ensemble of Minneapolis presents Awaken, a new, collaborative work with music by Scott Lindroth and visual media by Anya Belkina. Cosponsored by the Duke University Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies.