When jazz legend Marcus Roberts sits down at the piano, you want to be in that room. He’s got the wild style of Thelonious Monk with a little Fats Waller thrown in for good measure. He’s won countless awards (his most cherished is the Helen Keller Award for Personal Achievement), launched his own record label,…
Students in applied music lessons will perform in their spring recital.
North Carolina has a rich musical heritage, and pioneering artists like Shana Tucker are keeping this lineage alive. "Chambersoul" is how Tucker prefers to label her distinctive mix of lyrical storytelling, uplifting jazz, classical, folk, R&B and pop — all translated through her soulful voice and hypnotic cello arrangements.
North Carolina has a rich musical heritage, and pioneering artists like Shana Tucker are keeping this lineage alive. "Chambersoul" is how Tucker prefers to label her distinctive mix of lyrical storytelling, uplifting jazz, classical, folk, R&B and pop — all translated through her soulful voice and hypnotic cello arrangements.
The Department of Music's director of piano studies Olga Kleiankina, teaching associate professor, will perform a recital to mark the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth. Kleiankina and violinist Dovid Friedlander, associate concertmaster of the NC Symphony, will perform three violin sonatas representing Beethoven's early, middle and late life periods.
Students in applied music lessons will present their spring recital.
A glorious musical adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s novel, with music by Stephen Flaherty, book by Terrence McNally, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. Historical figures like Emma Goldman, Booker T. Washington, and Evelyn Nesbitt intersect with three groups of New Yorkers – the upper crust of New Rochelle, the African Americans of Harlem, and the Eastern…