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A NATION MADE NEWorn in revolution and tested in struggle, America is more a process than a thing: a process of shedding old skin, of hon-oring the past while breaking into the

future. Call it hope or moxie or do-it-yourself verve: its the spirit of a country that took what came before and out of it made something the world had never seen.

Im proud to present a season that honors the distinctly American tradition of reinventing tradi-tions. From the countryside modernism of singer-songwriter Jim White to Wayne Shorters take-no-prisoners innovation; from Ralph Lemons Mississippi futurism to the maverick partner-ship of the Kronos Quartet and Steve Reich, this season takes measure of the bristling diversity of American art today.

It also accounts for inspiration arriving from abroad: with Irelands Abbey Theatre, say, or with Guillermo Klein, the jazz force born in Buenos Aires, living in Spain, and arriving in Durham for his first ever southeastern date. All of American arts dynamic power crystallizes in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the iconic mod-ernists whose singular vision took shape in Black Mountain, NC, circa 1953, and has continued reno-vating dance until this, the companys last appear-ance in the state that ushered it into the world.

This season announces what I see as a distinctly American brand of performance. In this old, weird, and as-yet-unimagined national tradition, Witnesses, Inventors, Travelers, Liars, and The Sanctified all travel the same road, without hope of ever arriving home.

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Aaron GreenwaldDirector, Duke Performances

WITNESSES 1-4

INVENTORS 5-8

LIARS, THIEVES & BIGSHOT RAMBLERS 9-12

THE SANCTIFIED 13-18

MERCE 19-20

TRAVELERS 21-24

PIANO RECITAL SERIES 25-28

DUKE ARTISTS SERIES 29-30

CHAMBER ARTS SOCIETY 31-35

CIOMPI QUARTET 36

CALENDAR 37-38

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MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANYA NORTH CAROLINA HOMECOMING

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTERFRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 & 5 8 PM

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The visionary dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham partnered with John Cage to form the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

IN 2009:Merce passed away at 90, spurring a drive to archive the work of this American original. Fulfilling the founders vision, a legacy tour is set to bring Merces dance modernism to the world, live, a final time.

IN 2011: The legendary company returns to North Carolina for two once-in-a-lifetime shows, the last time they appear in the state that started it all.

[CUNNINGHAM] SPENT MORE THAN 50 YEARS CREATING DANCES OF UNCOMPROMISING RIGOR, WORKS SO PURE IN CONCEPT AND PRISTINE IN EXECUTION THAT THEY TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY.LONDON TIMES

CUNNINGHAM RANKS AMONG THE FOREMOST FIGURES OF ARTISTIC MODERNISM AND AMONG THE FEW WHO HAVE TRANSFORMED THE NATURE AND STATUS OF DANCE THEATER. IN HIS WORKS, INDEPENDENCE WAS CENTRAL.NEW YORK TIMES

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TO TRADITIONWITNESSESCAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS + JOE HENRY

Founded in Durham, the Chocolate Drops link with two centuries of black string music in the NC Piedmont, but their highwire live shows are as likely to rework contemporary R&B as Appalachian folk. The foot-stomping trio appears with Joe Henry, a powerful singer-songwriter and producer of the Drops latest album; his acoustic elegies and roadway love-songs invoke an America haunted by ghosts and thieves and shopping malls; he seems to inhabit an older music that never actually existed, or one that keeps being forgotten and relearned, over and over (Slant).TICKETS: $38 $32 DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 8 PMREYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

TRADITION IS A GUIDE, NOT A JAILER. WE PLAY IN AN OLDER TRADITION BUT WE ARE MODERN MUSICIANS.JUSTIN ROBINSON OF THE CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS

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DEL McCOURY BAND + PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BANDTwo standard-bearers of American music celebrate a com-bined century at the front edge of their craft. In the five decades since McCoury got his start with Bill Monroe, the titanically gifted guitarist has defined American blue-grass. On banjo and mandolin, his bandmates and sonsCMA winners bothkeep the family legend alive. They

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 PAGE AUDITORIUM 8 PM

IT IS GOOD TO BE THE KING. AND THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT DEL MCCOURYBACKED BY ARGUABLY THE MOST FORMIDABLE BLUEGRASS OUTFIT IN EXISTENCEREMAINS. BILLBOARD

appear with their friends and collaborators, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the stunning masters of Crescent City jazz (Jazziz) whose brassy, unhinged live shows are nothing short of miraculous (NPR). They dont just preserve the music of Satchmo and Jelly Roll; they remake it every night. TICKETS: $46 $38 $22 DUKE STUDENTS $5

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CEDRIC WATSON & BIJOU CREOLE + RED STICK RAMBLERS

MARTY STUART & THE FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES

This floorboard-rattling double bill features two of the sharp-est Louisiana bands working. Watson cut his teeth on the countrified chansons franaises of east Texas and Lafayette, LA; aggressive and gifted (NY Times), the Grammy-nom-inated prodigy works Acadian la-la tunes, Creole waltzes, and sizzling Zydeco stomps, hollering in French while

Born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Stuart came to Nashville when he was just 14 to join Lester Flatts band. Four decades later, hes a legendknowing mas-ter of every convention in the business and inspired guardian of all that country music is, was, and might be. From rhinestone-studded croons and pickup-truck reveries to stripped-down bluegrass and gospel con-fessionals, his genre-bending live act spins all of coun-trys magic diversity into a single spectacle, dazzling as his own outfits. His crackerjack Superlatives, always in matching Nudie-suits, burn down the barn in support. TICKETS: $38 $32 DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER 8 PM

THURSDAY, MARCH 3 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER 8 PM

his band blazes behind him. They appear with Red Stick Ramblers, the fast-living hybridists from Baton Rouge who use Cajun, swing, and country-western jazz ballads to create a rowdy new languagesometimes French, sometimes Englishthatll turn Reynolds into a rollicking fais do-do. TICKETS: $34 $26 DUKE STUDENTS $5

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Dave Longstreths genre-melting indie rock ensemble bears the torch for a new kind of all-devouring eclecticism: from sunny 60s harmony-rock and deconstructed afropop to murder ballads, electronica, and chamber mu-sic, the Brooklyn group consumes a world of influences and spits them out again, gleaming. The result is a brave new kind of experimental pop, driven by keening harmonies and a clear-eyed ambition to remake music as we know it. David Byrne, another innovator, calls them a quantum leap forwards and sideways at the same time.TICKETS: $26 $22 $15 DUKE STUDENTS $5

A boundless and deeply important young star (LA Weekly), Iyer sits at the head of a new table of jazz titans, calling on a grab bag of sourcesfor-eign and domestic, pop and jazzto forge a bold new sound thats American to its core, with a liq-uid urgency that consistently staggers the imagi-nation (All Music Guide). His audacious composi-tions and nervy piano line have already placed him in the pantheon of modern greats, redefining the nature of modern jazz pianism (Chicago Tribune). TICKETS: $34 $26 DUKE STUDENTS $5

DIRTY PROJECTORS

VIJAY IYER TRIO

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 PAGE AUDITORIUM 8 PM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER 8 PM

duuMajor Attractions

Duke Performances presentation of the Dirty Projectors is co-sponsoredby Major Attractions, a committee of the Duke University Union.

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BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS & SPECIAL GUEST GLENN KOTCHE

WAYNE SHORTER QUARTETFeat. Shorter, Danilo Perez, Brian Blade & John Patitucci

With a potent blend of intensity, authority, and abandon (Vanity Fair), the worlds leading contemporary music ensemble turns out full-throttle per-formances as refined as they are exhilarating. Here they team with Kotche, drummer/percussionist for Wilco, in a program featuring compositions from BoaC co-founder Lang, Kotche, and Steve Reichthe iconic composer-percussionist who inspired Kotches own experiments. At the crossroads of Wilcos art rock and Reichs revamped classicism, Reichs 2x5written for two electric guitars, keyboard, bass, and drumkitcloses the program. TICKETS: $38 $32 DUKE STUDENTS $5

For half a century Shorters been jazzs greatest living composer (NY Times) and one of the most original thinkers in music (NPR)he played with Blakey and Miles, then broke from Miles legendary second quintet to follow a new vision, founding Weather Report and leading that institution for 15 years. Since 2001 his newest, all-acoustic quartet has been one of the most important working groups on the scene today (All About Jazz), with three next-generation heavies dialed into the great mans charts, sparking a chemical interplay thats explosive (Philadelphia Enquirer). TICKETS: $46 $38 $22 DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER 8 PM

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11 PAGE AUDITORIUM 8 PM

JAZZS PRE-EMINENT SAXOPHONISTAN INTREPID ASTRONAUT NAVIGATING THE MUSICAL COSMOS WITH IMPROVISATIONAL BRIO.BILLBOARD ON WAYNE SHORTER

DAVID LANG: Sunray

GLENN KOTCHE: Works TBD

STEVE REICH: Clapping Music Variations

STEVE REICH: Music for Pieces of Wood

STEVE REICH: 2x5

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KRONOS QUARTET WORLD PREMIERE STEVE REICH: THREE QUARTETSIn this world premiere, two of the most original mu-sical minds of the past hundred yearsSteve Reich and David Harringtoncome together for a once-in-a-lifetime performance made possible by Duke Performances ongoing collaboration with Kronos.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Reich is the most origi-nal musical thinker of our time (The New Yorker), but has to date only written two string quartets, both for Harringtons group: 2001s Triple Quartet and Different Trains (1988), a work of such aston-ishing originality that breakthrough seems the only possible description (NY Times).

FRIDAY, MARCH 19 PAGE AUDITORIUM 8 PM

Now another breakthrough arrives with Reichs third quartet, commissioned by Duke Performances and written specifically for Harringtons breathtaking ensemble. As the eras most adventurous group performs all three quartets by our greatest living composer (NY Times), Page Auditorium will bear witness to history. Reich will attend the premiere. TICKETS: $52 $42 $24 DUKE STUDENTS $5

THERES JUST A HANDFUL OF LIVING COMPOSERS WHO CAN LEGITIMATELY CLAIM TO HAVE ALTERED THE DIRECTION OF MUSICAL HISTORY. STEVE REICH IS ONE OF THEM.GUARDIAN (UK)

STEVE REICH: Different Trains Triple Quartet New Quartet (World Premiere)

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Born in Spray, NC, Poole was a one-time millhand who cut capers and downed booze while fighting his way to recording fame in the Depression-era South. Since the 1960s, Wainwrights lived in Pooles image, a mercurial troubadour with a knowing grin. With a full band behind him, the Chapel Hill native sings old and new songs honoring his doubles profane bravado. On record, Wainwrights thumping trib-utes won a Grammy; here they conjure the original NC rambler, a pis-tol-packing balladeer with a taste for hitmaking, women, and whiskey. TICKETS: $42 $36 DUKE STUDENTS $5

Clear the haze surrounding the Grateful Deads Workingmans Dead and American Beauty and you get a luminous Americana closer to Appalachia than Haight-Ashbury. Here, new-style folk band Ollabelleco-founded by Amy Helm (daughter of The Bands Levon)supports a ramble of stars as they recover the heart of those American beauties. Sharing lead vocals are country-bluegrass icon Lauderdale; Dylan collab-orator Mansfield; the singer-composer for Crooked Still, ODonovan; and the incredibly talented Russell (Village Voice)a freewheeling collective that evokes The Band but raises a new, unvarnished Dead. TICKETS: $32 $26 $18 DUKE STUDENTS $5

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III & FRIENDS

HIGH WIDE&HANDSOME A TRIBUTE TO NORTH CAROLINAS

CHARLIE POOLE

THE AMERICAN BEAUTY project

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 PAGE AUDITORIUM 8 PM

OLLABELLE WITH SPECIAL GUESTS JIM LAUDERDALE, CATHERINE RUSSELL AOIFE ODONOVAN & DAVID MANSFIELD

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER 8 PM

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ALLEN TOUSSAINT

BONNIE PRINCE BILLY & THE CAIRO GANG

with special guests Nicholas Payton & Joe Krown Trio feat. Krown, Russell Batiste & Walter Wolfman Washington

A one-man repository of Crescent City music (Paste), Toussaint is the legend of New Orleans R&B (All Music Guide) and a jazz-blues dynamo, who turns even traditional hymns into swinging, after-hours jams. This configuration shows off both sides of the masters groove: hes flanked by a special guest star, the abundantly gifted jazz trumpeter Payton (NY Times) and backed by three of New Orleans greatest players (Offbeat), funk pros who load Joe Krowns B3 licks and Batistes drums with the Wolfmans swampy, screaming guitar. TICKETS: $42 $36 DUKE STUDENTS $5

In a high-mountain warble that can be described only as mi-raculous (NY Times), Bonnie Prince BillyWill Oldhamsings austerely beautiful songs about abandoned meadows and carnal love, charging loss with fragile transcendence. Stalked by ghosts, Oldhams upended Americana is as powerful as his capacity for self-invention. In his newest guise as the Bonnie Prince, the shape-shifting Kentucky native continues, paradoxi-cally, to expose genuine aspects of himself. Backed by long-time collaborator Emmett Kellythe Cairo Ganghis poetic confessionals will heat Reynolds with quiet fire (Pitchfork). TICKETS: $38 $32 DUKE STUDENTS $5

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 7 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

OLDHAM ESCHEWS TRADITIONAL GENRE LABELS, BUT HIS DEEPLY EMOTIONAL, SOMETIMES PRIMITIVE ACOUSTIC SONGS RESONATE WITH A RARE BEAUTY AND LITERARY VISION.NPR

ALLEN TOUSSAINT IS THE JEWEL IN NEW ORLEANSS CROWN, NOT MERELY THE MOST DISTINCTIVE OF SOUL SONGWRITER/PRODUCERS, BUT A VIRTUOSO PIANO STYLIST WITH AN UNPARALLELED KNOWLEDGE OF THE CITYS MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT. INDEPENDENT (UK)

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WATTS PROJECT Jeff Tain Watts, Christian McBride Nicholas Payton & David Snchez

JIM WHITE + SOUTH MEMPHIS STRING BAND feat. Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus & Luther Dickinson

Whites art-country songs imagine found objectshowl-ing men, motor homesthrough the Pentecostal sermons he heard growing up in north Florida. A combination of philosopher and raconteur, country boy and intellectual (NY Times), he intersperses his shambling, otherworldy songs with rural yarns and improvised metaphysical riffs. He appears with the rattling South Memphis String

In this gathering of jazz headliners, three star bandleaders assemble to support Watts, the legendary sideman and Grammy-winning drummer who shines even brighter when cast as lead. Surrounding that polyrhythmic dynamo (NPR) are the dazzling Snchez on sax; the trumpet wizard Payton; and McBride, who lays down bass with an un-common synthesis of agility, brawn, and wit (NY Times). The irascible veteran leads them all in an evening of breakneck Watts origi-nals: propulsive and sly, they give the bands near-telepathic improvisation (JazzTimes) a tricksters edge.TICKETS: $32 $26 $18 DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, APRIL 1 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER 8 PM

Band, featuring Hart (Grammy-winning bluesman), Mathus (Squirrel Nut Zippers), and Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars & Black Crowes): halfway between preservationists and cutups, the superstars channel a jug-band tradition thats itself sacred and irreverent at once. TICKETS: $34 $26 DUKE STUDENTS $5

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With Vernon, the members of Megafaun moved from Wisconsin to Raleigh as the band DeYarmond Edison. After Vernon returned north to record as Bon Iver, the Cook brothers and Joe Westerlund stayed on in the Piedmont, crafting a timeless folk-pop that drinks deeply from the well of the past but could only have been made today (Drowned in Sound) an archive of rural Americas ghosts. In this exclusive live recording event, the rustic avant-gardists team with Fight the Big Bull, the thrilling (NPR) 9-piece brass band from Richmond, VA, along with Vernon and the blisteringly talented Van Etten.

MEGAFAUN & FIGHT THE BIG BULLfeat. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver & special guest Sharon Van Etten

world premiere SOUNDS OF THE SOUTH

THE SANCTIFIED

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 & 18 8 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 5 PM

HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER

MEGAFAUNS ROOTS ARE FAMILIAR; THE BLOOM IS UNIQUELY THEIRS.ROLLING STONE

Together in Durham for three shows only, theyll cut a live album based on Alan Lomaxs collection of shape-note songs and dirt-floor hymns, Sounds of the South, gathered during a two-year trek through the American southeast (1959-1961).

Filtered through Megafauns experimental Americana, FtBBs brass jazz, Vernons chilly, rusty grandeur (Village Voice), and Van Ettens haunting soprano, the folk songs Lomax immortalized will live again at Hayti, once an AME Zion church and now a semi-sacred venue whose acoustics rival any studios. TICKETS: $26 DUKE & NCCU STUDENTS $5

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SFJAZZCOLLECTIVEThe Music of Horace Silver feat. Miguel Zenon, Mark Turner, Avishai Cohen Robin Eubanks, Stefon Harris, Edward Simon Matt Penman & Eric Harland

Made with a cello, guitar, and electronic swirls floating between harmony and dissonance, The Books handcrafted musical assemblages combine experimental chamber music and acoustic pop with fragmentary voices from junkshop cassettes. The mesmerizing Massachusetts duo has been tapped by Wilco as the next generation in art rock. But their fragile mixture of field recordings, samples from radio broadcasts, and twanging folk instruments (Q Magazine) puts them all by themselves, in a genre of one (Pitchfork). Two sets; each set ticketed separately. TICKETS: $22 DUKE STUDENTS $5

Each year this all-star, 8-man co-op of the worlds most gifted musiciansbandleaders allpicks the mu-sic of one of modern jazzs great composers, re-sets it for the collective, then tours nationally to perform it. Featuring the lyrical, spiritual, and original Zenon (All About Jazz); Harris, one of the most important young artists in jazz (LA Times); Turner, possibly jazzs pre-mier player (NY Times); and the stunning Eubanks (All About Jazz), the jazz ambassadors shine their blaz-ing light on Silver, the hard bop pioneer who created a newer, earthier Blue Note sound from R&B, gospel, and Cape Verdean folk songs. Silvers quintessential charts light up in the hands of Americas most astound-ing ensemble, who roar with the kind of chemistry that [can] truly be deemed collective (SF Chronicle). TICKETS: $32 $26 $18 DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1TWO SETS: 8 PM & 10 PMSCHEAFER LAB THEATER

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28 8 PMPAGE AUDITORIUM

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RALPH LEMONHOW CAN YOU STAY IN THE HOUSE ALL DAY & NOT GO ANYWHERE?One of the most adventurous artists working today (Time Out NY), Lemon is a classically-trained dancer, ac-claimed choreographer, and mesmeriz[ing] conceptual artist (NY Times) whose seamless mixed-media perfor-mances draw on dance, video, recorded sound, and visual art to link specific human experiences to universal themes. Lemons breathtaking new mixed-media work, scored for six dancers and himself, archives his decade-long partner-ship with 102 year old Mississippi Delta resident and former sharecropper Walter Carter. The resulting three-part per-formance reaches toward elemental ideasmemory, com-munity, transcendencewith a vernacular and personal choreography (Theater Journal) so tactile and human it hurts. TICKETS: $34 $26 DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 & 6 8 PMREYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

Funded, in part, by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with leading funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation.

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GREIL MARCUS TALK: OUR OLD, WEIRD AMERICA

MABOU MINESWORKSHOP READING: THE GLASS MENAGERIEADAPTED & DIRECTED BY LEE BREUER

Author of The Old, Weird America: Bob Dylans Basement Tapes and The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy in the American Voice, among many others.

Marcus is the towering figure of American music writing, au-thor of authoritative books on Dylan and The Band, punk rock and prophecya public intellectual and lifelong di-viner of what makes American art American. At Duke he dis-cusses how American music palavers with a community of ghosts, as he said of Harry Smiths Anthology of American Folk Music, charting the future by channeling the old-er, stranger traditions that haunt the nations very bones. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Presented in association with Duke Universitys Theater Studies Department.

Mabou Mines and The Bad Plus residencies at Duke are funded, in part, by visiting artist grants from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University.

The most incendiary experimental theater company of the past half-century (NY Times), Mabou Mines is an institution of the American avant-garde; for 40 years theyve staged brave new plays and taken startlingly original slants on classic texts (Theatre Journal). Their perpetual revolution continues in a two-week residency at Duke, when the innovators prepare a new, dream-vision take on Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie, under the direction of the wizard-director Breuer (NY Times). Their creative process culminates in this dress-rehearsed, staged reading of Williams heartbreaking masterpiece, done workshop-style with scripts in hand. We play witnesses, as the countrys most celebrated en-semble peers at an American classic through the looking glass. TICKETS: $10 DUKE STUDENTS $5

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 VENUE: TBD 7 PM

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 SHEAFER LAB THEATER 3 PM

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THE BAD PLUSWORLD PREMIERE STRAVINSKYS THE RITE OF SPRINGIn this world premiere event, Americas most audacious, rule-breaking jazz trio (Billboard) unveils its take on the most notori-ous work in the history of music. Stravinskys modernist bomb-shell draped ancient folk rites in churning polyrhythms, pitting ruthless advocates of new art against old-guard connoisseurs. Its insurrectionary 1913 premiere remains a touchstone of rev-olutionary music. Its 2011 rebirth is commissioned exclusively by Duke Performances for The Bad Plus, an acoustic jazz trio for the future (Blender), genre-blasting experimentalists about as badass as highbrow gets (Rolling Stone). As Durham shifts into spring, Stravinskys defiant ambition flowers again. TICKETS: $34 $26 DUKE STUDENTS $5

Presented in association with Duke Universitys Music Department.

SATURDAY, MARCH 26 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

WITH THE MOST DISTINCTIVE SOUND OF ANY THREE-PIECE OUTFIT SINCE NIRVANA, THE BAD PLUSDEMONSTRATE VITALITY FEW BANDSROCK, JAZZ, OR WHATEVERCAN MATCH.AMPLIFER

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MERCE CUNNINGHAM REINVENTED DANCE, AND THEN WAITED FOR THE AUDIENCEHE HAS TAUGHT US SOMETHING NEW AND POWERFUL ABOUT HOW TO DANCE AND HOW TO LIVE, AND ABOUT THE DIVERSITY OF ART IN AMERICA.MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV

MERCETWO NIGHTSTHREE DECADES OF DANCE MODERNISM

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, live in North Carolina a final time.

PROGRAM:SOUNDDANCE (1975) AN ECSTATIC OPUS FOR 10 DANCERS; THE WHOLE EX-PERIENCE, MUSIC AND DANCING, [IS] AN EXHILARATING RUSH (WASHINGTON POST).

DUETS (1980)A NEWLY ELOQUENT PEAK IN THE CHOREOGRAPHERS MEDITATION ON HUMAN MOVEMENT (NY TIMES). ENDS IN A WHIRLING FINALE FOR ALL 6 COUPLES.

BIPED (1999)ONE OF HIS MOST LUXURIANT WORKS, WHERE FUTURIS-TIC PATTERNS OF LIGHT FRAME CHOREOGRAPHY OF SCALE AND WONDER (GUARDIAN (UK)). FOR THE FULL COMPANY. FRIDAY & SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4 & 5 8 PM

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Presented by Duke Performances

TICKETS: $58 $48 $38 DUKE STUDENTS $5

See page 39 for Durham Performing Arts Center ticketing information and discounts on tickets to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

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TIFT MERRITT &SIMONE DINNERSTEINWORLD PREMIERE NIGHT

THOMAS HAMPSON, BARITONESONG OF AMERICA

In this two-night world premiere commissioned by Duke Performances, an angelic, NC-born country-folk heavy-weight (Spin) and a classical pianist of mathematical exacti-tude and passion (Washington Post) unite in a new pro-gram made possible by Dukes relationship with both artists. Merritt sings with a magical combination of cool reserve and effortless warmth (Entertainment Weekly); Dinnersteins playing is beautiful, sensitive, intelligent, and manifestly sincere (Piano). Night is where they meet: a collaborative evening of songs from across genres, performed by both women, thats greater, somehow, than the sum of its parts. TICKETS: $38 $32 DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 & 22 REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER 8 PM

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 PAGE AUDITORIUM 8 PM

Born in Indiana and raised in Spokane, this internationally-renowned recital-ist has become one of the most respected soloists of his era by following the example of his mentor Leonard Bernstein. Hampsons latest mission is to archive the history of American vocal art, turning the clarion power of his baritone (LA Times) toward a suite of historic American works he arranged with the Library of Congress, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the first-ever American song. TICKETS: $52 $42 $24 DUKE STUDENTS $5

Hampsons recital is part of both the Travelers series and the Duke Artists series.

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ABBEY THEATRE OF IRELANDTERMINUS Written & directed by Mark ORoweSince 1904, Irelands National Theater has shouldered the burden of staging the peoples art in the land of Beckett, Synge, and Yeats, the modernist poet-prophet who founded it. The Abbeys tradition of fearless writing lives on in this audacious new work by ORowe (NY Times) which recounts angels and demons, passion and atonement, in three interlocked monologues that wrestle vivid, half-rhymed poetry from sublime vulgarity. Gripping, grotesque, and deliriously good (Sunday Tribune, (UK)), ORowes sordid epic pushes toward heaven but wallows in unholier places. This is the Abbey Theatres first-ever appearance in NC and the first time theyve toured the U.S. in a decade. Presented by Duke Performances at the Carolina Theatre of Durham. TICKETS: $34 $26 DUKE STUDENTS $5

Warning: Not for the faint of heart. Contains strong language and violent descriptions. Recommended for ages 18 and over.

See page 39 for Carolina Theatre ticketing information and discounts on tickets to the Abbey Theatre.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 & 26 8 PMCAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM

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BRAD MEHLDAU &ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER

GUILLERMO KLEIN Y LOS GUACHOSfeat. Klein, Miguel Zenon, Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Jeff Ballard, Richard Nant Diego Urcola, Taylor Haskins, Sandro Tomasi, Chris Cheek & Fernando Huergo

Americas most inventive, dazzling pianist (NY Daily News), Mehldaus made a career of showing how apparently disparate genres connectjazz, clas-sical, and most recently a textured, feedback-washed variety of indie-pop. Von Otters a mezzo-soprano of global renown and electrifying power (Guardian (UK)), collaborator with Elvis Costello, and tireless enemy of musical boundaries. In this breathtaking new partnership (Financial Times), the two genre-bending artists treat a synthetic classical-and-pop program that finds the common ground between Lennon/McCartney and Brahms, concluding with Mehldaus own hybrid masterpiece, Love Songs. TICKETS: $42 $36 DUKE STUDENTS $5

Triangulating Barcelona (where he lives), Buenos Aires (where hes from), and New York (where he now performs just one week a year), Kleins compositions hum with the lustrous elegance of Ellington at his haughtiest (JazzTimes): thick bop grooves drive Argentine tangos and chacareras while smoky voices round out the swirling, stunning sound (All Music Guide). This exclusive Duke Performances presentation is the first time the astonishing 11-piece has ever played in the southeast, a rare US date for Klein and his famed Guachos, who cut from their short run at NYCs Village Vanguard for this single Durham show.TICKETS: $34 $26 DUKE STUDENTS $5

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BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas 109, 110, 111

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A refined intellectual musician (NY Times), the Viennese Fellner began as one of Alfred Brendels most accomplished students and is now among the foremost keyboard virtuosi

of the day (Observer (UK)). Over the past three years, he has undertaken to perform all of Beethovens 32 piano sonatas in

order, across the worldin London, Paris, and Carnegie Hall. At Duke, the fiercely precise pianist ends this journey, embracing

Beethovens final three sonatas, perhaps the most breathtaking examples of the form in existence.TICKETS: $34 DUKE STUDENTS $5

P I A N O

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Since his debut in 1950s Hungary, the revelatory Schiff has climbed to the very summit of modern clas-sical music, carving out a luminous five-decade career in which his uncanny combination of elegance and intensity (NY Times) has become legendary.

The exquisitely sensitive master has studied under Gyrgy Kurtg and George Malcolm; founded his own chamber orchestra; earned first prizes at the Tchaikovsky and Leeds competitions, among others; won two Grammy awards; and played in nearly every major concert hall in Europe, Asia, and North America.

In this special performance at Duke, Schiff follows his two-year survey of Beethovens piano sonatas by plunging further into the 19th century; he approaches a pair of darkly romantic works by Schumann and Mendelssohn, both of whom turn 200 this year. TICKETS: $52 $42 $24 DUKE STUDENTS $5

Schiffs recital is part of both the Piano Recital Series and the Duke Artists Series.

ANDRS SCHIFF

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM

SCHIFF STANDS WITH PERHAPS ONLY A HANDFUL OF PIANISTS IN HIS TOTAL ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MOST SEVERE BEAUTY.PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

MENDELSSOHN: Variations serieuses, Op. 54

SCHUMANN: Sonata in F-sharp Minor, No. 1, Op. 11

MENDELSSOHN: Fantasie in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28

SCHUMANN: Fantasie in C Major Op. 17

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ARNALDO COHEN & MIHAELA URSULEASAA SPECIAL RECITAL FOR FOUR HANDS

JEREMY DENK

BACH: Goldberg Variations

LIGETI: tudes for Piano, 1 & 2

PROGRAM

A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE...ONE OF THE BEST SOLO PERFORMANCES THIS YEAR. NEW YORK TIMES ON DENKS GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

Bracing, effortlessly virtuosic, and utterly joyous (NY Times), Denk has collaborated with Joshua Bell and like that other sensation, plays with a kind of refined abandon, adept and exhilarated (Washington Post). Denks sophis-ticated energy is evident in his entrancing take on the Goldberg Variations (NY Times) paired here with two books of tudes by Gyrgy Ligeti, famous for scoring Stanley Kubrick films; these intricate, rarely-heard works (1985-2001) are among the finest piano compositions of the 20th century. TICKETS: $34 DUKE STUDENTS $5

MOZART: Sonata in D Major, K. 381

SCHUBERT: Fantasy in F Minor, D. 940

BARBER: From Souvenirs, Op. 28

RAVEL: Ma Mere Loye

DVORK: Two Slavonic Dances: Op. 72, No. 2 in E Minor & Op. 46, No. 1 in C Major

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 7 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

An intrepid explorer and immaculate pianist (Gramophone), the Brazilian-born Cohen met Ursuleasa at the 2001 Chopin Competition, in Warsaw, where he was a judge and the 23-year-old Romanian blew him away. Now the two team up for a rare four-hand recital, with his visceral punch (Chicago Tribune) and her speedy fingers and impressive technique (Seattle Times) combining to inter-pret works by Mozart, Schubert, Barber, Ravel, and Dvork. TICKETS: $34 DUKE STUDENTS $5

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A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE...ONE OF THE BEST SOLO PERFORMANCES THIS YEAR. NEW YORK TIMES ON DENKS GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

MARINO FORMENTIWHAT JAMES JOYCE DID FOR THE NOVEL, FORMENTI SEEMS INTENT ON DOING FOR THE PIANO RECITAL.SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

A Glenn Gould for the 21st century (LA Times), the Italian-born Formenti performs his delicate, otherworldly cycle of interlocked pi-ano pieces based on the work of Gyrgy Kurtg, the Hungarian mod-ernist who taught Andrs Schiff. In this hybrid composition, bursts of Messiaen, Stockhausen, and Bartk intercut with fragments from Kurtg, creating a spectral network of citation that leaves audienc-es in a state of exhilaration beyond any experience (LA Weekly). TICKETS: $34 DUKE STUDENTS $5

KURTGS GHOSTS

PROGRAM

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 7 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

MARC-ANDR HAMELIN

HAYDN: Variations in F Minor, Hob. XVII: 6

MOZART: Sonata in A Minor, K 310

LISZT: Venezia e Napoli

FAUR: Nocturne No.6, Op.63

ALKAN: Symphonie for solo piano

PROGRAM

Hamelin is a titanically gifted, boundary-testing performer whose breathtaking live appearances have made him one of the most adventurous and certainly the most courageous pianists of recent times (International Piano Quarterly). Says Alex Ross of The New Yorker, right now, there is no one like him.

Having earned nearly every accolade in international music, the Montral native brings his formidable technique (Boston Globe) to a bold program that pairs Liszt and Haydn with Charles-Valentin Alkan, the forgotten French genius whose fiercely difficult composi-tions, melodic and intense, Hamelin has done so much to rediscover. TICKETS: $34 DUKE STUDENTS $5

FRIDAY, MARCH 4 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

SUNDAY, MARCH 27 7 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

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STILE ANTICO

Working without a conductor, the twelve Grammy-nominated singers of Stile Antico arrange their voices in delicate, watchful harmonies, set[ting] new standards for Renaissance polyphonic singing (Independent (UK)). Amidst the gothic stonework of Duke Chapel, the young British stars staggeringly beautiful voices (Sunday Times (UK)) breathe life into 16th century arrangements of the Song of Songs, the biblical love poem that, in the Renaissance, inspired devotional music as bracing and passionate as any the world has ever seen. TICKETS: $30 DUKE STUDENTS $5

AN ENSEMBLE OF BREATHTAKING FRESHNESS, VITALITY, AND BALANCE.NEW YORK TIMES

ANDRSSCHIFF

MENDELSSOHN: Variations serieuses, Op. 54

SCHUMANN: Sonata in F-sharp Minor, No. 1, Op. 11

MENDELSSOHN: Fantasie in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28

SCHUMANN: Fantasie in C Major Op. 17

PROGRAM

In this special performance at Duke, the legend of modern piano approaches a pair of darkly ro-mantic works by Schumann and Mendelssohn, both of whom turn 200 this year.TICKETS: $52 $42 $24 DUKE STUDENTS $5

Schiffs recital is part of both the Piano Recital Series and the Duke Artists Series.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 DUKE CHAPEL 8 PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22 8 PM PAGE AUDITORIUM

SONG OF SONGS

CLEMENS NON PAPA: Ego flos campi

PALESTRINA: Osculetur me

PLAINCHANT: Dum esset Rex

LASSUS: Veni in hortum meum

GOMBERT: Quam pulchra es

PLAINCHANT: Alleluia. Tota pulchra es

PROGRAM

GUERRERO: Ego flos campi

VICTORIA: Vadam et circuibo

LASSUS: Veni dilecte mi

PLAINCHANT: Laeva ejus

LHRITIER: Nigra sum

CEBALLOS: Hortus conclusus

PLAINCHANT: Speciosa facta es

VIVANCO: Veni, dilecte mi

GUERRERO: Trahe me post te

PLAINCHANT: Iam hiems transiit

PRAETORIUS: Tota pulchra es

DUKE ARTISTS SERIES

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ANDRSSCHIFF

SONG OF AMERICA 250 years of American songs, including songs by Foster, Copland, Barber, Bernstein, Rorem, and Ives.

Full program information forthcoming.

PROGRAM

THOMAS HAMPSON, BARITONE SONG OF AMERICA

Hampson is an internationally-renowned opera lead and recitalist, artist in residence with the New York Philharmonic, and one of the most respected soloists of his era. Born in Indiana and raised in Spokane, the mission of this Leonard Bernstein protg is to archive the history of American vocal art. Here his clarion power (LA Times) is turned to a suite of historic American works arranged with the Library of Congress, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the first-ever American song. TICKETS: $52 $42 $24 DUKE STUDENTS $5

Hampsons recital is part of both the Duke Artists series and Travelers series.

VENICE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA FEAT. GUILIANO CARMIGNOLA, VIOLIN

Founded in Italy by the dazzlingly epicurean Andrea Marcon in 1997, the Venice Baroque Orchestra is now recog-nized as the worlds most adventurous and dramatic period instrument ensemble, known for ravishing performances of classic scores. Supported by the charismatic, high-voltage vir-tuoso Carmignola on violin (Washington Post), the group strips the varnish off Vivaldi to recover the musics original vitality. TICKETS: $46 $38 $22 DUKE STUDENTS $5

ANDREA MARCONLEADS THE ENSEMBLE IN VIVID, NEARLY RECKLESS PERFORMANCES, TEARING THE POWDERED WIG OFF THIS MUSIC ONCE AND FOR ALLWHAT IS REVEALED IS BREATHTAKING.WASHINGTON POST

VIVALDI: Sinfonia in A Major for strings and continuo, RV. 158

MARCELLO: Concerto in D Minor for oboe, strings, and continuo

ALBINONI: Concerto in G Major for strings and continuo, Op. 6, No. 4

TARTINI: Concerto in A Major for violin, strings, and continuo, D 96

VIVALDI: Concerto in E-flat Major for violin, strings, and continuo, RV. 253, La tempesta di Mare

VIVALDI: Concerto in G Minor for violin, strings, and continuo, RV. 332

VIVALDI: Concerto in D Major for violin, strings, and continuo, RV. 210

PROGRAM

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 PAGE AUDITORIUM 8 PM

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 PAGE AUDITORIUM 8 PM30

CHAMBERARTS

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COLIN JACOBSEN: Achille's HeelPHILIP GLASS: String Quartet No. 2 CompanyGIOVANNI SOLLIMA: Federico II, from Viaggio en ItaliaSCHUBERT: String Quartet No.14 in D Minor, Death and the Maiden

PROGRAM

With an eclectic, imaginative repertory intended to mirror the polychrome diversity of their native borough, Brooklyn Riderwho travel with Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemblehave made it their mis-sion to cross borders. But whether they are sharp-ening the cutting edge of new chamber repertory or reworking established classics, they perform with consummate artistry, producing performances that are energetic, finely detailed, technically polished, and interpretively insightful (NY Times).

They open the season with arresting contem-porary works and end with Schuberts late mas-terpiece, the Death and the Maiden Quartet. TICKETS: $30 DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

EMERSON STRING QUARTET

HAYDN: String Quartet No. 68 in D Minor, Op.103, H. 3/83 (unfinished)

BARTK: String Quartet No. 6

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No.15 in G Major, D. 887

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Technically resourceful, musically insightful, cohesive, full of character and always interesting (NY Times), the Emerson may be the most accomplished string quartet in the world. They bring their bracing virtuosity to a program of final works by three of the greatest chamber composers. Haydns final unfinished quartet and Schuberts trembling, otherworldly masterwork are set against Bartks String Quartet No. 6 (1939), an elegy that was the last piece the master wrote in his native Hungary before fleeing the German Reich. TICKETS: $30 DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

"AN EXTRAORDINARY FUSION OF EXPERIENCE AND AUTHORITY WITH AUDACITY AND FRESHNESS."BOSTON GLOBE

BROOKLYN RIDER

SEPTEMBER PRELUDE

The Chamber Arts Society of Durham collaborates again with our counterparts in the Triangle to present the 2010 September Prelude, a three-day weekend of per-formances by Brooklyn Rider. The quartet will perform separate concert programs on Friday, September 10, at UNC-CHs Memorial Hall; Saturday, September 11, at Dukes Reynolds Industries Theater; and Sunday, September 12, at the Fletcher Opera Theater in Raleigh.

The collaboration is made possible by Music on the Hill at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Raleigh Chamber Music Guild, the Chamber Arts Society of Durham, and Duke Performances.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM

A chamber music supergroup, Opus One brings together four of the most renowned musicians of our time, veter-ans of ensembles like Tashi, the Beaux Arts Trio, and the Orion and Guarneri String Quartets. As Opus One, these advocates of contemporary American music create work thats passionate, lushly textured, and impeccably bal-anced (NY Times). Here, Brahms and Beethoven sur-round a new work by the radiantly visionary Lowell Lieberman (Time). The Brahms Opus 60 is considered by many to be the most intense piano quartets ever written. TICKETS: $30 DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

PROGRAM

RACHMANINOFF: Trio Elgiaque No.1 in G Minor (1892)CHOPIN: Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Trio Solisti)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op.16

LOWELL LIEBERMAN: Quartet for Piano and Strings, Op. 114

BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60, Werther

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OPUS ONE

TRIO SOLISTIA SPECIAL TWO-CONCERT EVENT

PROGRAM

TURINA: Piano Trio No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 76DVORK: Piano Trio in F Minor, Op. 65MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 8 PM NELSON MUSIC ROOM

In a special two-evening engagement, the consistently bril-liant Trio Solisti (NY Times) makes its Duke debut as the most exciting piano trio in America (The New Yorker), hav-ing now displaced the Beaux Arts Trio, critics say, as the outstanding chamber music ensemble of its kind (Wall Street Journal). The trio has transfixed audiences world-wide with performances emanating both musical virtuos-ity and a muscular grace. On Friday, they pair Dvork and Mendhelssohn with Spaniard Joaqun Turina; on Saturday they bring their unrelenting passion and zealous aban-don (Washington Post) to a program that bookends one of Chopins great works with two powerful Russian pieces. TICKETS: $30 DUKE STUDENTS $5

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OPUS ONESince their foundation in 1994, the Pacifica has won nearly every top award in chamber music, including the Naumburg. Their reputation for luscious, edge-of-your-seat music-making (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) was confirmed in 2009, when they earned both a Grammy and Musical Americas Ensemble of the Year. Combining lyric intensity and blaz-ing energy, their playing [is] of the most sublime kind (Sunday Telegraph (UK)). Here they perform with Anthony McGill, the principal clarinet of New Yorks Metropolitan Opera who played at Barack Obamas 2004 inauguration. TICKETS: $30 DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, JANUARY 15 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No.1 in F Major, Op.18, No.1

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No.10 in A-flat Major, Op.118

BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op.115 (with Anthony McGill, clarinet)

PROGRAM

PACIFICA QUARTET & ANTHONY MCGILL, CLARINET

THEY PLAY WITH STUPENDOUS, BREATHTAKING VIRTUOSITYAN EVENING OF INTELLECTUAL FIRE. THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) ON PACIFICA QUARTET

Now among the preeminent quartets in the world, the St. Lawrence has cultivated a global following for its vis-ceral and passionate performances that are nevertheless rooted in a ferocious attention to the details of the score (Toronto Globe & Mail). At Duke, they appear with cellist Andrs Daz, whose strongly personal interpretive vision (NY Times) alights here on Schuberts Quintet in C Major, perhaps the greatest work ever written for this configuration. TICKETS: $30 DUKE STUDENTS $5

ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET & ANDRS DAZ, CELLO

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

PROGRAM MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No.1 in E-flat Major, Op.12

PROKOFIEV: String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92

SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 (with Andrs Daz, cello)

THE ST. LAWRENCE ARE REMARKABLE NOT SIMPLY FOR THE QUALITY OF THEIR MUSIC MAKING, EXALTED AS IT IS, BUT FOR THE JOY THEY TAKE IN THE ACT OF CONNECTION.ALEX ROSS, THE NEW YORKER

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The Borromeo String Quartet is one of the most dynamic ensembles working today, playing with lean clarity and eloquence (Cleveland Plain Dealer): according to the Boston Globe theyre simply the best there is. Here the much-heralded quartet partners with Graffman, the legendary pianist who, after a 1979 injury, has played only with his left hand. Together they interpret E.W. Korngolds celebrated Piano Quintet, a lush, late-romantic work composed in 1921 for another one-hand virtuoso, Paul Wittgenstein.TICKETS: $30 DUKE STUDENTS $5

PROGRAMBACH: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV. 552, "St. Anne" (arr. Nicholas Kitchen)

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74, "Harp"

BACH/BRAHMS: "Chaconne" from Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV. 1004 (Gary Graffman, solo piano)

KORNGOLD: Piano Quintet in E Major, Op.15 (with Gary Graffman, piano)

SATURDAY, APRIL 30 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

The fact is, says the Guardian (UK), they are peer-less: formed at Budapest in 1975, the Takcs is now widely recognized as one of the premiere string quartets of our time. Virtuosic and inspired, they approach their music with a rapturous intensity that has made them a fixture on the Chamber Arts Society calendar for more than a decade. This season they offer vital readings of Haydn, Schubert, and Bartk, the Hungarian folk-ge-nius with whom the Takcs share a special connection. TICKETS: $30 DUKE STUDENTS $5

SATURDAY, MARCH 12 8 PM REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER

PROGRAM HAYDN: String Quartet No. 59 in G Minor, Op. 74, No. 3, RiderBARTK: String Quartet No. 5SCHUBERT: String Quartet No.13 in A Minor, Rosamunde

THE BORROMEO ARE RECREATING THE MEDIUM ANEW AND WE ARE LUCKY TO BE HERE TO HEAR IT.BOSTON GLOBE

BORROMEO STRING QUARTET & GARY GRAFFMAN, PIANO

TAKCS QUARTET

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CIOMPI QUARTET

Founded in 1965, the Ciompi has been Dukes resident chamber ensemble for more than four decades, turning out bracing performances of new and classic programs with genuine warmth and effortlesscoordination (NY Times). They return with a season packed with inten-sityincluding works by Webern, Stravinsky, Duke Ph.D in composition David Lipten, and newly hired assistant pro-fessor of music John Supko, whose newest string quartet receives its world premiere.

In each of these free lunchtime events, 50 minutes of the most essential chamber music is accompanied by a short introduction by a Quartet member. Admission is free. Food is not provided, but audience members are encouraged to bring lunch. This season the Ciompi addresses canonical works by Mozart.

THE CIOMPI QUARTETS LUNCHTIME CLASSICS SERIES

First CourseTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 KIRBY HORTON HALL, DUKE GARDENS 6 PM TICKETS: $5 FRIENDS OF CIOMPI $3 DUKE STUDENTS FREESpeaker TBD

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp Major, Op. 142WEBERN: 6 Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9

Ciompi Concert no. 1SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2 NELSON MUSIC ROOM 8 PM TICKETS: $20 DUKE STUDENTS $5MOZART: String Quartet No. 20 in D Major, K. 499, HoffmeisterSHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp Major, Op. 142WEBERN: 6 Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9SMETANA: String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor

Ciompi Concert no. 2FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 NELSON MUSIC ROOM 8 PM TICKETS: $20 DUKE STUDENTS $5Guest Artists: John Brown, bass; Thomas Kraines, cello

MOZART: Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G Major, K. 525, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (with John Brown, bass)DAVID LIPTEN: Ictus for String Quartet, (2000)SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 (with Thomas Kraines, cello)

Ciompi Concert no. 3SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 NELSON MUSIC ROOM 8 PM TICKETS: $20 DUKE STUDENTS $5Guest Artists: Valentin Lanzrein, baritone

HAYDN: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 74, No. 3, The RiderBARBER: Dover Beach for Baritone and String Quartet, Op. 3 (with Valentin Lanzrein, baritone)BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127

First CourseTHURSDAY, MARCH 31 NELSON MUSIC ROOM 6 PM TICKETS: $5 FRIENDS OF CIOMPI $3 DUKE STUDENTS FREEProf. John Supko introduces his new string quartet.

JOHN SUPKO: New String Quartet (World Premiere)

Ciompi Concert no. 4SATURDAY, APRIL 2 NELSON MUSIC ROOM 8 PM TICKETS: $20 DUKE STUDENTS $5MOZART: String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589, Prussian No. 2JOHN SUPKO: New String Quartet (World Premiere)BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2

LUNCHTIME CLASSICS NO. 1TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

MOZART: String Quartet No. 20 in D Major, K. 499, Hoffmeister

LUNCHTIME CLASSICS NO. 2TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2010

MOZART: String Quartet No. 18 in A Major, K. 464

LUNCHTIME CLASSICS NO. 3TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011

MOZART: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, Dissonance

LUNCHTIME CLASSICS NO. 4TUESDAY APRIL 5, 2011

MOZART: Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G Major, K. 525, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (with John Brown, bass) MOZART: String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat Major, K. 589, Prussian

ALL LUNCHTIME CONCERTS START AT 12 PM FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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SEPTEMBER 10

11 Saturday BROOKLYN RIDER Reynolds industries Theater 8 pm

17/18 Friday & Saturday SOUNDS OF THE SOUTH MEGAFAUN & FIGHT THE BIG BULL FEAT. JUSTIN VERNON OF BON IVER & SHARON VAN ETTEN Hayti Heritage Center 8 pm

19 Sunday SOUNDS OF THE SOUTH MEGAFAUN & FIGHT THE BIG BULL FEAT. JUSTIN VERNON OF BON IVER & SHARON VAN ETTEN Hayti Heritage Center 5 pm

24 Friday LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III & FRIENDS HIGH WIDE & HANDSOME Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

25 Saturday CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS + JOE HENRY Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

OCTOBER 10

1 Friday THE BOOKS Sheafer Lab Theater 8 pm & 10 pm

2 Saturday CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 1 Nelson Music Room 8 pm

3 Sunday TILL FELLNER, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater 7 pm

5 Tuesday DIRTY PROJECTORS Page Auditorium 8 pm

7 Thursday STILE ANTICO SONG OF SONGS Duke Chapel 8 pm

15 Friday THE AMERICAN BEAUTY PROJECT OLLABELLE WITH JIM LAUDERDALE CATHERINE RUSSELL, AOIFE ODONOVAN Page Auditorium 8 pm

16 Saturday EMERSON STRING QUARTET Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

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30 Saturday DEL MCCOURY BAND + PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND Page Auditorium 8 pm

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5/6 Friday & Saturday RALPH LEMON HOW CAN YOU STAY IN THE HOUSE ALL DAY & NOT GO ANYWHERE? Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

7 Sunday ALLEN TOUSSAINT WITH NICHOLAS PAYTON & THE JOE KROWN TRIO Reynolds Industries Theater 7 pm

12 Friday CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 2 Nelson Music Room 8 pm

13 Saturday CEDRIC WATSON & BIJOU CREOLE + RED STICK RAMBLERS Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

14 Sunday ARNALDO COHEN & MIHAELA URSULEASA, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater 7 pm

19/20 Friday & Saturday TRIO SOLISTI Nelson Music Room 8 pm

DECEMBER 10

3 Friday VIJAY IYER TRIO Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

4 Saturday BONNIE PRINCE BILLY & THE CAIRO GANG Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

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15 Saturday PACIFICA QUARTET & ANTHONY MCGILL, CLARINET Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

21/22 Friday & Saturday TIFT MERRITT & SIMONE DINNERSTEIN: NIGHT Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

28 Friday BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS & SPECIAL GUEST GLENN KOTCHE Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

29 Saturday CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 3 Nelson Music Room 8 pm

FEBRUARY 11

4/5 Friday & Saturday MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY A NORTH CAROLINA HOMECOMING: SOUNDDANCE (1975), DUETS (1980), BIPED (1999) Durham Performing Arts Center 8 pm

11 Friday WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET Page Auditorium 8 pm

12 Saturday JEREMY DENK, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

15 Tuesday THOMAS HAMPSON, BARITONE SONG OF AMERICA Page Auditorium 8 pm

17 Thursday GREIL MARCUS Venue: TBD 7 pm

18 Friday JIM WHITE + SOUTH MEMPHIS STRING BAND FEAT. ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART JIMBO MATHUS & LUTHER DICKINSON Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

19 Saturday ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET & ANDRS DAZ, CELLO Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

25/26 Friday & Saturday ABBEY THEATRE OF IRELAND: TERMINUS Carolina Theatre of Durham 8 pm

27 Sunday MABOU MINES | LEE BREUER: THE GLASS MENAGERIE Sheafer Lab Theater 3 pm

27 Sunday BRAD MEHLDAU & ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER Reynolds Industries Theater 7 pm

MARCH 11

3 Thursday MARTY STUART & THE FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

4 Friday MARC-ANDR HAMELIN, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

12 Saturday TAKCS QUARTET Reynolds industries Theater 8 pm

19 Saturday KRONOS QUARTET STEVE REICH: THREE QUARTETS Page Auditorium 8 pm

26 Saturday THE BAD PLUS: THE RITE OF SPRING Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

27 Sunday MARINO FORMENTI, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater 7 pm

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1 Friday WATTS PROJECT JEFF TAIN WATTS, CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE DAVID SNCHEZ & NICHOLAS PAYTON Page Auditorium 8 pm 2 Saturday CIOMPI QUARTET: CONCERT NO. 4 Nelson Music Room 8 pm 7 Thursday VENICE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA FEAT. GUILIANO CARMIGNOLA, VIOLIN Page Auditorium 8 pm

29 Friday GUILLERMO KLEIN Y LOS GUACHOS Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

30 Saturday BORROMEO STRING QUARTET & GARY GRAFFMAN, PIANO Reynolds Industries Theater 8 pm

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ORDERING TICKETS

ONLINELog on to the DP website anytime at www.dukeperformances.org or visit the University Box Office website at www.tickets.duke.edu. Credit card orders only.

BY PHONECall the University Box Office between Monday and Friday, 10 am to 5 pm, 919-684-4444. Credit card orders only.

IN PERSONVisit the University Box Office in the top level of the Bryan Center on Duke Universitys West Campus between Monday and Friday, 10 am to 5 pm. A box office will open at performance venues one hour prior to the start of each show.

FOR TICKETS, FULL PROGRAM DETAILS & OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

WWW.DUKEPERFORMANCES.ORG

DUKE PERFORMANCESPICK-4 DISCOUNT TAKE 20% OFF YOUR TOTAL PRICE WHEN YOU PURCHASE TICKETS TO ANY 4 OR MORE SHOWS FROM DUKE PERFORMANCES 2010/11 SEASON.*

*Note: Because Ticketmaster has exclusive ticketing agreements with DPAC and the Carolina Theatre, Duke Performances presentations of both the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Abbey Theatre are excluded from the Pick-4 discount. However, patrons purchasing a Pick-4 package will receive a discount code from the University Box Office offering 30% off tickets to both those performances. Patrons may use this code online, by phone, or in person purchasing tickets from the DPAC and/or Carolina Theatre box offices.

DUKE PERFORMANCES CLASSICAL MUSIC DISCOUNTS IN ADDITION TO THE PICK-4 DISCOUNT, DUKE PERFORMANCES OFFERS DISCOUNTS ON ALL CLASSICAL MUSIC SERIES:

TICKETING DETAILS FOR THE MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY AT DPAC & THE ABBEY THEATRE AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM

PIANO RECITAL SERIESNote: Includes best available orchestra tickets for Andrs Schiff in Page Auditorium

Till Fellner [$34] Andrs Schiff [$52] Arnaldo Cohen & Mihaela Ursuleasa [$34] Jeremy Denk [$34] Marc-Andr Hamelin [$34] Marino Formenti [$34]

REGULAR PRICE: $222. SERIES DISCOUNT PRICE: $178.

DUKE ARTIST SERIESStile Antico [$30] Andrs Schiff [$52 | $42 | $24] Thomas Hampson [$52 | $42 | $24] Venice Baroque Orchestra [$46 | $38 | $22]

REGULAR PRICES: $180 | $152 | $100. SERIES DISCOUNT PRICES: $144 | $122 | $80.

ESSENTIAL CLASSICS: PIANO RECITAL SERIES + DUKE ARTISTS SERIESNote: Includes best available orchestra tickets for all concerts in Page Auditorium

REGULAR PRICE: $350. SERIES DISCOUNT PRICE: $245.

CHAMBER ARTS SOCIETY OF DURHAMBrooklyn Rider [$30] Emerson String Quartet [$30] Trio Solisti [$30] Opus One [$30] Pacifica Quartet [$30] St. Lawrence String Quartet [$30] Takcs Quartet [$30] Borromeo String Quartet [$30]

REGULAR PRICE: $240. SERIES DISCOUNT PRICE: $135.

MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANYFRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 & 5

Durham Performing Arts Center 123 Vivian Street, Durhamwww.dpacnc.com | 919-680-2787

Tickets for Duke Performances presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at DPAC must be purchased through the DPAC website (www.dpacnc.com), by calling 919-680-2787, or visiting the DPAC box office at 123 Vivian Street. Tickets for all DPAC performances are sold through Ticketmaster; Ticketmaster service charges will be applied. In addition, a $2 City of Durham Facility Fee is added to every DPAC ticket.

ABBEY THEATRE OF IRELANDFRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 & 26

Carolina Theatre of Durham 309 West Morgan Street, Durhamwww.carolinatheatre.org | 919-560-3030

Tickets for Duke Performances presentation of the Abbey Theatre at the Carolina Theatre be purchased through the Carolina Theatre website (www.carolinatheatre.org), by calling 919-560-3030, or by visiting the Carolina Theatre box office at 309 W. Morgan Street. Tickets for Carolina Theatre performances are sold through Ticketmaster; Ticketmaster service charges will be applied.

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WEBSITE & EMAIL UPDATESVisit dukeperformances.org for updates on the series. We also encourage you to join our email list, accessible through the website. We use this list in addition to our website to update ticketholders about changes to the series.

ACCESSIndividuals with disabilities who anticipate needing additional accommodation or who have questions about physical access, should contact the Duke University Box Office at 919-684-4444 prior to ordering tickets.

THANKS TO

Duke University Office of the PresidentDuke University Office of the ProvostDuke University Provosts Council for the Arts Visiting Artist GrantDuke University Office of the Vice-Provost for the Arts

Armentrout Endowment for the Visual and Performing ArtsArtist Residency Endowment FundArtists Series Enhancement Endowment FundBlackburn Performing Arts FundCharles M. and Shirley F. Weiss Fund for Creativity in the ArtsEdith London Endowment FundEleanor Naylor Dana Endowment FundElla Fountain Pratt Cultural Affairs EndowmentErnest W. Nelson Endowment FundFrances and E.T. Rollins, Jr. Endowment FundFriends of Duke PerformancesHenry David Epstein Endowment FundJ.J. and Ruth M. Blum Endowment FundNancy Hanks Resident Fellows Endowment FundPatrick M. and Catherine Greer Williams Endowment FundRobert and Margaret Boyer Endowment FundRoy O. Rodwell Endowment Fund

PHOTO CREDITS

Table of Contents: Merce Cunningham by Richard Rutledge Page 2: Carolina Chocolate Drops by Julie Roberts, Joe Henry by Lauren Dukoff Page 4: Cedric Watson by Lucius Fontenot, Red Stick Ramblers by Joshua Black Wilkins, Marty Stuart by The Greenroom PR Page 6: Dirty Projectors by Sarah Cass, Vijay Iyer Trio by Prashant Bhargava Page 7: Bang on a Can All-Stars by Stephanie Berger, Glenn Kotche by Michael Wilson, Wayne Shorter by Henry Leutwyler Page 8: Steve Reich by Jeffrey Herman Page 11: Allen Toussaint by Lee Crumcrop, Bonnie Prince Billy by F. Simani Page 12: Jim White by Robin Broward, Jeff Tain Watts by Oliver Link Page 14: Megafaun by DL Anderson Page 15: SFJazz Collective by Walt Denson, Horace Silver by Karel Hageman Page 16: Ralph Lemon by Frank Oudeman Page 17: Greil Marcus by Thierry Arditti, Lee Breuer by Tom LeGoff Page 18: The Bad Plus by Cameron Wittig Page 19: Merce Cunningham by Mark Seliger Page 22: Tift Merritt by Tony Nelson, Simone Dinnerstein by Lisa Marie Mazzucco, Tift Merritt by Emily Wilson, Thomas Hampson by Dario Acosta Page 23: Terminus Courtesy of the Public Theater Page 24: Anne Sofie Von Otter by Harald Hoffman, Brad Mehldau by Michael Wilson, Guillermo Klein by Lourdes Delgado Page 25: Till Fellner by Ben Ealovega Page 26: Andrs Schiff by Sheila Rock Page 27: Jeremy Denk by Dennis Callahan Page 28: Marc-Andr Hamelin by Fran Kaufman, Marino Formenti by Gyula Fodor Page 29: Stile Antico by Marco Borggreve, Andrs Schiff by Sheila Rock Page 30: Thomas Hampson by Dario Acosta, Venice Baroque Orchestra by Harold Hoffman, Guiliano Carmignola by Kasskara Page 32: Brooklyn Rider by Richard Frank, Emerson String Quartet by Lisa Marie Mazzucco Page 35: Takcs Quartet by Ellen Appel, Borromeo String Quartet by Liz Linder Page 36: Ciompi Quartet by Brenda Scott

$500 AN AMAZING STUDENT TICKET PRICEIn a remarkable arrangement with the University Provost, Duke undergraduate and graduate students can purchase tickets to any Duke Performances event for just $5. Limit of two $5 tickets per student for each event. Quantities of available tickets may be limited due to demand. Student ID required at time of purchase.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

DIRECTIONS & PARKINGFor full driving directions and parking information please visit www.dukeperformances.org.

LATE SEATING POLICYPlease allow enough time to park, claim your tickets, and get seated several minutes before the announced start-time of performances. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house manager and Duke Performances staff with respect for the performers and other patrons.

LOST TICKETS If you lose your tickets and need replacements, please call the University Box Office, 919-684-4444.

PERFORMANCE CANCELLATIONBecause the performing arts are live events, programs are subject to change without notice for reasons outside the control of Duke Performances. If a performance is cancelled, you will be notified as early as possible and offered either an exchange or a refund. Join our email list or check www.dukeperformances.org for the most up-to-date information regarding performances.

REFUNDSTickets are nonrefundable except in the case of cancelled events.

IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTENDIf you are unable to attend a program for which you hold tickets, you may donate those tickets in person to the University Box Office for a tax credit (no refunds). In order to qualify for the tax credit, the Box Office must receive refund requests at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled performance.

We encourage all ticket holders to return tickets they are unable to use so that seats can be made available to students, charitable groups, or other patrons who might otherwise not be able to attend.

VOLUNTEER FOR DPDuke Performances welcomes volunteer ushers for its events. Volunteers provide a valuable service and are able to see performances free of charge. Ushering requires a time commitment both before and after the performance; precise responsibilities will vary. For information about becoming a volunteer usher, please call Duke Performances at 919-660-3356 or email the usher coordinator at performances@duke.edu. 40

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