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MILL NOVEMBER 2008 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 15 MUSIC SPOTLIGHTS PROJECT SYMPHONY + LOST IN THE TREES Hill Hall will host a charity concert Saturday at 7 p.m. for the non-profit Project Symphony, which aims to support local charities and budding classical composers alike. The first “Grande Concert,” features the Symphony No. 1 in C Minor writ- ten by composer and organization founder Ari Picker, of local bands Lost in the Trees and The Never. Ticket sales will benefit Project Symphony and the charity Chatham County Together, which works to encourage “at risk” youth towards health, self-sufficiency and productivity. Picker was helped by the program in his youth and views the concert as a way to give back. Picker was educated at the Berklee School of Music and has since spent a year writing the symphony. Performing the symphony is the 60-piece Project Symphony Orchestra. Also performing at the concert are Lost in the Trees and Phil Cook of Megafaun. For tickets, visit projectsymphony.org Mondays $1 off bottled Beer Tuesdays $1 off Wine/glass, $3 off Wine bottles Wednesdays $1 off Draft ORNETTE COLEMAN Jazz great and Pulitzer Prize-winning record- ing artist Ornette Coleman, a saxophonist and pioneer of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, will perform on Nov. 13 in Memorial Hall. Coleman’s most recent album, “Sound Gram- mar,” received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Music and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance. “Presenting Ornette Coleman this year is one of those small treasures we’re privileged to put our name on,” said Emil Kang, executive director for the arts at UNC. “He is hands down one of the greatest living jazz musicians, and his scope and influence are sure to shape the perceptions of musicians for generations to come.” Coleman received a 2007 Lifetime Achieve- ment Grammy Award. The honor recognized his 50 years of recording albums including critical favorites “In All Languages” (1987), “Song X” (1985), “Free Jazz” (1960) and “The Shape of Jazz to Come” (1959). Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are available online at carolinaperformingarts.org, at the Memorial Hall Box Office. Tickets start at $30. Tickets for Carolina students with valid UNC One Cards are $10. S
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projeCt SyMphony + LoSt In the treeSHill Hall will host a charity concert Saturday at 7 p.m. for the non-profit Project Symphony, which aims to support local
charities and budding classical composers alike. The first “Grande Concert,” features the Symphony No. 1 in C Minor writ-ten by composer and organization founder Ari Picker, of local bands Lost in the Trees and The Never.
Ticket sales will benefit Project Symphony and the charity Chatham County Together, which works to encourage “at risk” youth towards health, self-sufficiency and productivity.
Picker was helped by the program in his youth and views the concert as a way to give back. Picker was educated at the Berklee School of Music and has since spent a year writing the symphony. Performing the symphony is the 60-piece Project Symphony Orchestra.
Also performing at the concert are Lost in the Trees and Phil Cook of Megafaun. For tickets, visit projectsymphony.org
Mondays $1 off bottled BeerTuesdays $1 off Wine/glass, $3 off Wine bottles
Wednesdays $1 off Draft
ornette CoLeManJazz great and Pulitzer Prize-winning record-
ing artist Ornette Coleman, a saxophonist and pioneer of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, will perform on Nov. 13 in Memorial Hall.
Coleman’s most recent album, “Sound Gram-mar,” received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Music and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance.
“Presenting Ornette Coleman this year is one of those small treasures we’re privileged to put our name on,” said Emil Kang, executive director for the arts at UNC. “He is hands down one of the greatest living jazz musicians, and his scope and influence are sure to shape the perceptions of musicians for generations to come.”
Coleman received a 2007 Lifetime Achieve-ment Grammy Award. The honor recognized his 50 years of recording albums including critical favorites “In All Languages” (1987), “Song X” (1985), “Free Jazz” (1960) and “The Shape of Jazz to Come” (1959).
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are available online at carolinaperformingarts.org, at the Memorial Hall Box Office. Tickets start at $30. Tickets for Carolina students with valid UNC One Cards are $10.
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