Live performances of new music
you won't hear
anywhere else in the Triangle
Celebrating our Twenty-Seventh Season (2007-2008)
Sunday, November 11, 5pm, Nelson Music Room
The BLAK NEW BLUES ENSEMBLE presents
Musical Ruminations on the Black American Experience
New tunes and historical melodies reinterpreted through performance, improvisation and multimedia. Music by Anthony Kelley, W.C. Handy, Thelonious Monk, Oliver Nelson and others.
Personnel:
Anthony Kelley, director
Nicholas Lewis, clarinet
John Brown, bass
John Zachary, drums
Encounters Weekend with Eighth Blackbird
February 23-24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 8pm, Page Auditorium
DAWN UPSHAW & ORQUESTA LOS PELEGRINOS
performing Osvaldo Golijov's Ayre and other works
*Co-sponsored with Duke Performances
**TIME CHANGE**
Sunday, February 24, 1:30pm, Baldwin Auditorium
Eighth Blackbird performs works by Janet Chen, Alex Kotch, Dan Ruccia and Paul Swartzel.
Saturday, March 22, 8pm, Nelson Music Room
CHARLES CURTIS, cello, and ALEC KARIS, piano,
performing Morton Feldman's Patterns in a Chromatic Field
For the Encounters Series the Department of Music gratefully acknowledges the support and collaboration of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and Duke Performances.