duke performances 2013/14 brochure

IN DURHAM, AT DUKE THE WORLD, JUST OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR.

DUKE PERFORMANCES2013/2014 SEASON • MUSIC, THEATER, DANCE & MORE.

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THE WORLD,JUST OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR.This season, as ever, we wrestle with these questions: what can we offer our patrons to reflect the breadth, depth, and ambition of Durham and Duke University? Which of today’s best performers can best edify, reward, challenge, and expand the cultural lives of our neighbors?

We answer with the 2013/2014 season: an audacious set of shows that bounds across genres and hopscotches from venues grand to intimate. We break bread with the most compelling, virtuosic, and forward-thinking artists in the world. And we offer all of this, easily and accessibly, just outside your door.

The 47 shows described here represent a set of offerings defined by its diversity and distinguished by its quality. Many of these offerings are world premieres featuring special collaborations with local artists or shows developed here in Durham via artist residencies. To best accommodate this range of offerings, programs will take place at more than a dozen different venues located both on campus and in town. Among these venues, the most noteworthy addition is Baldwin Auditorium, which has undergone a 15-million dollar, two-year reinvention and will now provide an acoustically pristine new home for chamber music, piano recitals, choral concerts, and jazz performances.

Also new in 2013/2014: first, in order to provide greater access for younger patrons, we are making tickets available for $15 per show to those age 30 and under. Second, we are launching a Vocal Ensemble Series on which we will present the finest vocal groups in the world; this vocal series complements our Piano Recital Series and Chamber Arts Series as hallmarks of Duke Performances’ classical music programming.

Meanwhile, we will celebrate a series of anniversaries with some of the most extraordinary artists in the world: Urban Bush Women mark their 30th anniversary with us this season, while Kronos Quartet tallies their 40th. The most steadfast of these groups comes first, though, when we host a record release event at the Hayti Heritage Center featuring The Blind Boys of Alabama, celebrating 75 years since their founding — an homage to an invaluable cultural institution and an ideal set of concerts to kick off Duke Performances’ 2013/2014 season.

Thanks and best regards,

Aaron Greenwald, Executive Director Duke Performances

Cover image inspired by Amiga Label 45 Record Sleeve (VEB Deutsche Schallplatten), East Germany, 1954

World-class talent finds a world-class home this season, when a renovated Baldwin Auditorium becomes the region’s premier showplace for acoustic music. Two years of construction and 15 million dollars have gone into crafting the new Baldwin, a performance space that incorporates every modern amenity without losing its historical charm. The renovations have carved out a new hall within the existing structure, completely remaking the venue’s sound and atmosphere.

Baldwin now features comfortable and accessible seating at all levels, with a wrap-around balcony that brings audiences closer than ever to the musicians. Its new design also accommodates modern, spacious lobbies and restrooms. Most importantly, its acoustics have been transformed by up-to-the-minute technology: its walls have been reshaped and a full stage canopy added to create a pristine new Baldwin sound for the world’s most accomplished performers.

Baldwin Auditorium triumphantly reopens this season on Duke’s East Campus, a welcoming location for audiences from Durham and across the region. The hall offers an equally warm welcome to great musicians, giving them a venue they will want to call home for years to come.

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Founded at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939, The Blind Boys of Alabama performed for over 40 years on the gospel circuit before they broke through to worldwide acclaim in 1985, appearing in Lee Breuer’s ground-breaking The Gospel at Colonus. Six Grammy Awards later, their soul-stirring live shows remain the stuff of legend — as Ben Harper says, “they are the pyramids of gospel music; the birthplace of sacred soul.”

Now, these Gospel Music Hall of Famers kick off Duke Performances’ new season with a rare two-night engagement in a venue tailor-made for their voices. At the Hayti Heritage Center, a historic former AME church, The Blind Boys of Alabama will celebrate both their proud tradition and their bold new project set for release just two weeks after the concert: an album produced by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon with music direction from Megafaun’s Phil Cook.

THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMAFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 148PM | HAYTI HERITAGE CENTERTICKETS: $34 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER • $10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

Cellist David Finckel, violinist Philip Setzer, and pianist Wu Han make as fine a piano trio as the world knows. Given their résumés, this is no surprise: Finckel spent more than thirty years with the famed Emerson String Quartet, Setzer is a founding member of the Emerson, and Han has an outstanding career as an orchestral soloist and chamber player. Together, these three bring decades of experience to their exploration of the piano trio repertoire.

Their program begins where Beethoven began — with that composer’s first published work. His serene Trio in G Major

pays tribute to his teacher Haydn, all the while hinting at an explosive career to come. They close with two Slavic masterpieces: Shostakovich’s arresting remembrance of friends lost in wartime and Dvorák’s take on the elegiac Ukrainian folk songs known as “dumky.”

FINCKEL, SETZER, HAN TRIOSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER • $10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

PROGRAM: BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No. 2 in G Major, Op. 1, No. 2 SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor DVOŘÁK: Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90, “Dumky”

Why do collaborators from Meredith Monk to Laurie Anderson to John Hollenbeck flock to work with Theo Bleckmann? Because Bleckmann offers a voice “so colossal, yet so meticulous, he can seem otherworldly” (All About Jazz). Last heard in Durham a season ago fronting Hollenbeck’s big band, this supernatural jazz vocalist returns with a band and project of his own.

In PSI Theatre’s intimate black box space, Bleckmann pays tribute to another singular voice: British art-pop innovator Kate Bush, with whom he shares an off-kilter sensibility. The tribute, Hello Earth!, his reimagining of Bush’s songs, was named one of the top ten jazz albums of 2012 by NPR. But categories like “jazz” and “pop” barely contain Theo Bleckmann’s outsize charisma and interstellar voice.

THEO BLECKMANNHELLO EARTH!THE MUSIC OF KATE BUSHFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27& SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 289 PM | PSI THEATRE AT THEDURHAM ARTS COUNCILTICKETS: $24 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

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Just fifty years ago, five courageous African-American students integrated Duke University. As part of Duke’s yearlong commemoration of the anniversary, Duke Performances commissioned three-time Grammy Award winner Billy Childs to write a major new song cycle which will receive its world premiere at the newly renovated Baldwin Auditorium.

A musical polymath, Childs is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who won a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. His main vehicle, the 10-piece Jazz Chamber Ensemble, is an ingenious melding of jazz combo and classical string quartet. With that group, Childs creates a dynamic sound unique in the musical world.

For this special commemorative concert, Childs and his ensemble are joined by four-time Grammy winner Dianne Reeves, whom the Seattle Times calls the “most compelling vocalist in jazz.” This starry group comes together on the stage of the revamped Baldwin Auditorium to celebrate the brave students who changed the community and the country fifty years ago.

Made possible, in part, with support from the Office of the President of Duke University and 50 Years of Black Students at Duke University Executive Committee.

BILLY CHILDSJAZZ CHAMBERENSEMBLEFEATURING DIANNE REEVESWITH THE YING QUARTETCOMMEMORATING 50 YEARSOF BLACK STUDENTS AT DUKEFRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $42 • $34 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

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From his early days in the honky-tonks of his native Texas to his heyday in Nashville, Guy Clark has spent more than fifty years writing and performing unforgettable songs. Timeless gems, Clark’s songs have been covered by Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, and many more; Emmylou Harris calls him “an American poet,” and Bob Dylan has him on his list of favorite songwriters.

Duke Performances is proud to present Guy Clark’s first visit to the area in almost a decade. After a short opening set by acclaimed Chapel Hill duo Mandolin Orange, Clark takes the stage to play and sing his handcrafted songs — songs made, according to Lyle Lovett, with an “extraordinary ability to translate the emotional into the written word.”

GUY CLARKSPECIAL GUESTS:MANDOLIN ORANGEFRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 | 8 PMREYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATERTICKETS: $38 • $32 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

The first Jubilee Singers set out from Nashville’s Fisk University in 1871 to share choral arrangements of the songs of perseverance their parents and grandparents sang to endure the hardships of slavery. Now, nearly 150 years later, the 16-voice Fisk Jubilee Singers keep this rich tradition alive, performing these spirituals for a new generation.

This season the Fisk Jubilee Singers, recipients of a 2008 National Medal of the Arts, bring their musical tradition to Durham. Their weeklong residency at both Duke and the Durham School of the Arts culminates with a celebratory community concert featuring the Fisk Jubilee Singers joined on select spirituals by the DSA choir.

FISK JUBILEE SINGERSSPECIAL GUESTS: DSA CHOIRFRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

Between performances with leading orchestras from Berlin to Boston and acclaimed solo recitals, violinist Christian Tetzlaff is in constant demand. But for a short time each year, he puts his solo career on hold as he and his sister, the cellist Tanja Tetzlaff, reunite with Elisabeth Kufferath and Hanna Weinmeister to form the Tetzlaff Quartet. These rare engagements are nothing short of astonishing.

This year, the Tetzlaff Quartet comes to Durham. Their program demonstrates the range of their expertise: from one of Haydn’s Sun quartets, which defined the voice of the classical string quartet for 200 years to come; forward to the tonally audacious Lyric Suite, Berg’s diary of a secret love affair; and back to Beethoven’s celestial and haunting fifteenth quartet, which traces his triumph over pain.

TETZLAFFSTRING QUARTETSATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $38 • $32 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER $10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

PROGRAM:HAYDN: String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 20, “Sun”BERG: Lyric Suite BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132

PROGRAM:TRADITIONAL(ARR. WILLIAM L. DAWSON): Ain’t That Good News(ARR. JOHN W. WORK III): Our Father(ARR. J.W. WORK III): Done Made My Vow(ARR. HALL JOHNSON): When I Was Sinkin’ Down(ARR. H. JOHNSON): Honor! Honor!(ARR. GENE BARTLETT): Here’s One(ARR. J.W. WORK III): I’ve Been In the Storm(ARR. MOSES HOGAN): Cert’nly Lawd(ARR. JESTER HAIRSTON): Poor Man Laz’rus(ARR. J.W. WORK III): Let the Church Roll On(ARR. J.W. WORK III): Jubilee! Jubilee!(ARR. PAUL T. KWAMI): Swing Low, Sweet Chariot(ARR. H. JOHNSON): Ain’t Got Time to Die(ARR. J.W. WORK III): Lord, I’m Out Here On Your Word(ARR. J. HAIRSTON): Hold On(ARR. WENDELL WHALUM): Sweet Home(ARR. M. HOGAN): Old Time Religion(ARR. M. HOGAN): The Battle of Jericho(ARR. WILLIAM SMITH): Ride the Chariot

Funded, in part, with a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council.

Yuja Wang is “quite simply, the most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the concert world today,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. Though the Chinese-born prodigy made headlines with her flamboyant fashion and lightning-fast encores, there is nothing showy about her musicianship. Wang “has proved herself a sensitive and probing artist,” notes the New York Times.

Yuja Wang’s Duke Performances debut, the first piano recital at the reinvigorated Baldwin Auditorium, centers on the extraordinary music Chopin composed for the instrument: from contemplative nocturnes to triumphant fantasies. His third sonata, with its journey from refined opening to bravura finale, makes a perfect showcase for the mix of effortless virtuosity and deep intelligence that makes Wang the next piano superstar.

YUJA WANG, PIANOTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $42 • $34 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER $10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

PROGRAM:PROKOFIEV: Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 28CHOPIN: Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58CHOPIN: Nocturne No. 1, Op. 27CHOPIN: Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47CHOPIN: Fantasie in F Minor, Op. 49STRAVINSKY: Three Movements from Petrushka

PIANO RECITAL SERIESThe freshly-renovated Baldwin Auditorium provides a warm and welcoming new showcase for some of the world’s finest pianists. Concerts from such luminaries as the incomparable Emanuel Ax, next-generation powerhouse Yuja Wang, and emerging star Benjamin Grosvenor testify to the enduring dynamism of the piano repertoire.

FEATURING

YUJA WANGThursday, October 24

KIRILL GERSTEINSaturday, November 9

EMANUEL AX& YOKO NOZAKI

Saturday, February 1

LISE DE LA SALLESaturday, February 22

LOUIS LORTIEFriday, March 7

BENJAMIN GROSVENORSunday, April 27

Durham is becoming a magnet for great musicians from all over, and Wisconsin native Nick Sanborn is one of the busiest of those transplants. It seems like Sanborn plays with every band in town: from Megafaun to The Love Language to Sylvan Esso — not to mention Milwaukee stalwarts Field Report and Collections of Colonies of Bees.

For two nights, Sanborn will have the rare chance to gather all these exceptional musicians together in one place. One by one, he will bring these collaborators and friends on stage, building a once-in-a-lifetime band. With the audience arranged in the round in the intimate space of Nelson Music Room, Sanborn will trace the strands that make up a thriving, cross-country musical community.

FEATURING:BRAD COOK (Megafaun) ERIN FEIN (Headlights, Psychic Twin) AMELIA MEATH (Mountain Man, Sylvan Esso) CHRIS PORTERFIELD (Field Report) CHRIS ROSENAU (Collections of Colonies of Bees)WILLIAM TYLER (Lambchop, Silver Jews, Paper Hats) JOE WESTERLUND (Megafaun, Grandma Sparrow)

Produced in partnership with Alverno Presents, Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI.

LEND ME YOUR VOICEHOSTED BY NICK SANBORNFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1& SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 PM | NELSON MUSIC ROOMTICKETS: $24 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

Made possible, in part, with support from the Department of Music at Duke University and the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, Duke University.

yMUSICCONCERT NO. 1:TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013 CONCERT NO. 2:TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 20148 PM | CASBAH DURHAMTICKETS: $15 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION; SEATING PROVIDED

OBIE Award-winning director Christopher McElroen and Drama Desk Award-winning actor T. Ryder Smith team up to create Measure Back, an immersive mixed-media theater experience that draws from the evening news and Homer’s Trojan War to examine the ubiquity of war.

A trio of actors led by Smith stand as soldiers, while the audience acts alternatively as spectators, participants, and subjects of the war unfolding around them. Will you question authority or follow orders? Will you participate or resist? Can you change the course of war or is it predetermined? A shared theatrical journey, Measure Back is a fierce and sometimes darkly comic attempt to seek out the roots of warfare within us.

MEASURE BACKCREATED BY T. RYDER SMITH& CHRISTOPHER MCELROENWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8& SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 98:15 PM | MANBITES DOG THEATERTICKETS: $22 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

New York sextet yMusic combines “all the prestige and virtuosity of classical music degrees with all the attitude and energy of an indie rock band” (Paste Magazine). They thrive comfortably in both spheres, bringing classical polish to indie rock artists from Sufjan Stevens to Dirty Projectors and indie rock fire to contemporary classical composers from Gabriel Kahane to Nico Muhly.

yMusic’s yearlong university residency will feature two complementary concerts at Durham’s intimate Casbah nightclub. In November, they perform new works from their forthcoming second record. In March, after working for a year with the Duke composition program, they play works by up-and-coming graduate composers.

NOVEMBER 5 CONCERT FEATURES PIECES BYTIMO ANDRESANNIE CLARK

JUDD GREENSTEINGABRIEL KAHANE

DAVE LONGSTRETH SON LUX

NICO MUHLYSUFJAN STEVENS

SHARA WORDEN

AND MANY MORE . . .

Measure Back is a co-presentation of Duke Performancesand Manbites Dog Theater.

Kirill Gerstein, declares the Boston Globe, is “on the fast track to a major career, and he deserves to be.” After high-level training in Russia and the United States — including a stint studying jazz improvisation — and a promising early performance career, Gerstein received the Gilmore Foundation Artist Award in 2010. This incredibly exclusive prize is bestowed on only one classical pianist every four years and put him in the company of such luminaries as Leif Ove Andsnes and Piotr Anderszewski.

Gerstein brings freshness and intelligence to his playing of the two vignette-based masterpieces that anchor his Duke Performances program: Schumann’s dazzling Carnaval, inspired by a rogue’s gallery of masked revelers, and Mussorgsky’s iconic Pictures at an Exhibition, based on an art gallery of Russian paintings.

KIRILL GERSTEIN, PIANOSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

PROGRAM:HAYDN: Variations in F MinorSCHUMANN: CarnavalTIMO ANDRES: Old FriendMUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition

KIRILL GERSTEIN, PIANOSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

PROGRAM:BRAHMS: Warum ist das Licht gegeben?RUDOLF TOBIAS:

Kleine KarfreitagsmotetteVivit!Ascendit in coelum

BRAHMS: Fünf Gesänge, Op. 104ARVO PÄRT: Kaks slaavi psalmi (Two Slavonic Psalms)ALFRED SCHNITTKE: Three Sacred HymnsA. PÄRT:

Magnificat Da Pacem DomineDopo la Vittoria

For the twenty-four singers in the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, perhaps the finest professional choir in the world today, choral singing is a long and proud part of their Baltic heritage. Their powerful and expressive voices produce a sound that is both precise and passionate. Durham audiences will hear those voices resonate in the stained glass and stone of Duke Chapel, an ideal performance space for a choir of this size and quality.

The Estonians are dedicated to performing the music of their countryman Arvo Pärt, who invokes early music to compose arresting and contemplative work. Since Pärt writes expressly for the ensemble, it is no surprise that the Guardian says that the Estonians’ performances of his compositions are “perfectly judged…it is hard to imagine it sung by anyone else.” Their Durham program also includes two rare works for unaccompanied choir by Johannes Brahms, both overflowing with melodies sad and sweet.

ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER CHOIRTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 | 8 PMDUKE CHAPELTICKETS: $32 • $18 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER • $10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION WITH LIMITED RESERVED SEATING

The centuries-long tradition of unaccompanied choral singing fills the resonant Duke Chapel and the revamped Baldwin Auditorium in the inaugural season of our Vocal Ensemble Series. The early music of the Hilliard Ensemble and Chanticleer mixes with both the classical masterpieces of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the King’s Singers and the soulful American songs of the Fisk Jubilee Singers to reveal a genre as essential as the human voice itself.

VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES FEATURINGFISK JUBILEE

SINGERSFriday, October 18

ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC

CHAMBER CHOIRTuesday, November 12

HILLIARD ENSEMBLE

Tuesday, January 21

THE KING’S SINGERS

Friday, February 21

CHANTICLEERFriday, May 2

A unique dance company, People Get Ready also plays kinetic, irrepressible rock music. Fusing music and dance, they envision a concert as a total artistic experience. Led by the breathtaking imagination of bandleader Steven Reker, People Get Ready creates an experience beyond hearing music in a club or viewing a dance, attracting the attention of David Byrne, Robert Wilson, and Miranda July.

In Specific Ocean, their exuberant and inventive live show, the stage dances along with the ensemble, a guitar plays itself, and the microphones become dance partners. Bob Boilen of NPR Music named Specific Ocean his favorite concert of 2012 and declared that “no single show took my breath away the way this one did — part rock concert, part performance art, part dance, all perfectly melded together.”

PEOPLEGET READYSPECIFIC OCEANFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15& SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 168 PM | REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATERTICKETS: $22 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

Tehran native Kayhan Kalhor is a master of Persian musical traditions that stretch back thousands of years. These ancient forms combine classical precision with improvisation, and Kalhor seamlessly interweaves the two disciplines on his kamanche, a plaintive-voiced upright fiddle. While his mastery of that instrument originally brought him fame in this country as a founding member of Yo-Yo Ma’s celebrated Silk Road Ensemble, he is also a sought-after soloist.

Kalhor will perform in the intimate auditorium of Duke’s Nasher Museum in conjunction with Doris Duke’s Shangri-La, an exhibition of the philanthropist’s astounding collection of Islamic Art. He will be accompanied by his countryman Ali Bahrami Fard on the santour (a Persian hammered dulcimer); together, they make music that harkens back to ancient traditions while embracing our current times.

Made possible, in part, with support from the Nasher Museum of Art, in conjunction with their exhibition Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art, on view August 29 through December 29.

KAYHAN KALHOR& ALI BAHRAMI FARDTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 | 8 PMNASHER MUSEUM AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $30 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

The Los Angeles Times hails eighth blackbird as “a new breed of super musicians.” The Chicago-based sextet combines striking virtuosity with disarming irreverence, as they devote themselves to inspiring and performing today’s master classical composers.

eighth blackbird’s program presents selections of these contemporary new works in all their thrilling variety. They commissioned the visionary Australian composer Brett Dean to write what the Guardian called “a beautifully shaped and realized sextet.” Yale-trained classical guitarist Bryce Dessner unites minimalist rhythms with American folk melodies. And Steven Mackey’s Slide brought the group their third Grammy Award in early 2013.

PROGRAM:STEVEN MACKEY: Suite: Slide TOM JOHNSON: Counting Duets LIGETI (ARR. BY KAPLAN/MUNRO): Etudes RICHARD REED PARRY: Duet for Heart and Breath BRETT DEAN: Sextet BRYCE DESSNER: American Hymns

EIGHTH BLACKBIRDSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

Not many orchestras feature eight musicians all playing the same instrument. But the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain plays a range of music few orchestras dare to consider: from Tchaikovsky to David Bowie to Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti western themes. And no other orchestras can match what the New York Times calls their “sheer fun and outright daffiness tied to first-rate musicality and comic timing.”

The group began as a lark more than twenty-five years ago, but has since grown into a phenomenon in concert halls and viral videos alike. They are part of a growing wave of popularity for the diminutive Hawaiian instruments, with members playing them in every imaginable size and register. And if eight ukuleles are not quite enough, the audience is invited to bring their own and strum along to the grand finale.

UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAINSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 | 7 PMPAGE AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $18 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER • $10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

Boston’s Debo Band starts with Ethio-jazz, that early-70s mix of traditional Amharic melodies and bass grooves from American funk, now familiar to audiences across the world from the popular Ethiopiques recordings. Then they add a supercharged brass and string section worthy of Balkan legend Goran Bregović and throw in a fuzzed-out electric guitar. The result is an unstoppable new form far beyond “world fusion.”

Debo Band finds the perfect dance venue in Durham’s Motorco Music Hall, located in the city’s flourishing Central Park district. Just try sitting still when this cross-cultural dynamo launches into “full rave mode, an ecstatic place beyond even the wildest hybrids of Addis in the ’70s” (NPR).

DEBO BANDFRIDAY, DECEMBER 6DOORS AT 8 PM; CONCERT AT 9 PMMOTORCO MUSIC HALLTICKETS: $24 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSIONEXTREMELY LIMITED SEATING PROVIDED

The Emerson String Quartet towers over American chamber music: Newsday calls them “the one indispensible quartet.” Their return to Durham this season brings with it a new beginning; for the first time in more than thirty years, the Emerson welcomes a new member, cellist Paul Watkins.

Fittingly, the new Emerson will play music of endings and beginnings. Mendelssohn wrote his last major work, the sixth string quartet, in response to the loss of his beloved sister. Shostakovich faced down his mortality with the brief and chilling thirteenth quartet. Beethoven’s seventh quartet represented a giant leap forward from all previous chamber writing in its emotional intensity. Welcome the new Emerson.

EMERSON STRING QUARTETSATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $42 • $34 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER • $10 DUKE STUDENTSRESERVED SEATING

PROGRAM:MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80 SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Minor, Op. 138 BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1, “Razumovsky”

Young audiences who want to see the world’s greatest performers but think tickets are just out of reach now have the chance to see any show they want. This season, for the first time, Duke Performances offers patrons ages 30 and under the opportunity to purchase tickets to any event for just $15.

Limit of two $15 tickets per patron for each presentation. Quantities of available $15 tickets will be limited on a show-by-show basis. ID required at time of purchase.

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The Boston Globe calls Imani Winds “the leading wind quintet in America.” These classical virtuosi make it their mission to expand the repertoire for their ensemble, by both composing and arranging for themselves and by commissioning composers from a variety of genres to write for the classical wind quintet.

In this program, the ensemble shows off its considerable skill with Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Quintette en Forme de Choros, which shapes the street songs of the composer’s youth in Brazil using the modernist tones of his training in 1920s Paris. The ensemble shines in new works by two composers who come from the world of jazz — Danilo Pérez’s travelogue of his native Panama and MacArthur “Genius” Jason Moran’s Creole-flavored celebration of his family’s proud history in rural Louisiana.

IMANI WINDSSATURDAY, JANUARY 18 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

PROGRAM:JEFF SCOTT: Startin’ Sumthin’ JASON MORAN: Cane VALERIE COLEMAN: Suite: Portraits of Josephine Baker DANILO PÉREZ: Travesias Panamenas HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS: Quintette en Forme de Choros ÁSTOR PIAZZOLLA (ARR. JEFF SCOTT): Libertango

PROGRAM:CORNISH: Adieu mes amoursCORNISH: Ah, RobinANON.: Remember me my dearJOSQUIN DESPREZ: Mille regretzANTOINE DE FÉVIN: Petite camusetteJANEQUIN: O mal d’aimerPIERRE SANDRIN: Douce mémoireARCADELT: Il bianco e dolce cignoANON. (ITALIAN): Passacalli della vitaPHILIPPE VERDELOT: Divini occhiCIPRIANO DE RORE: O sonnoGAVIN BRYARS: From the First Book of Madrigals:

Web / Stormy / Almond Tree / Just as theash-glow / Within minutes

PEROTINUS (PÉROTIN): VideruntJOSQUIN DESPREZ: Ave MariaARVO PÄRT: And one of the Pharisees…SHARAKANS (TRAD. ARMENIAN,

ARR. KOMITAS): Ov zarmanali / Hays hark nviranc ukhti / Amen hayr surp / Surp, Ter zorutheanc

A. PÄRT: Most Holy Mother of God


The Globe and Mail calls the Hilliard Ensemble “without a doubt one of the finest vocal ensembles in the world.” Early music specialists, the Hilliard’s four exquisite male voices will be accentuated by the lustrous acoustics of Duke Chapel as they sing masterpieces of early music, including great works by the French composer Pérotin, who wrote some of the earliest polyphony, and by the later Franco-Flemish visionary Josquin Desprez.

What sets the Hilliard Ensemble apart from other groups is its perpetual questing for new material. This can include a lesser-known Renaissance composer like Josquin’s disciple Févin, through his charming chanson Petite Camusette, or modern composers like Bryars and Pärt, who adopt Renaissance styles. In a Hilliard performance, six-hundred-year-old pieces sound fresh and world premieres sound like enduring classics.


HILLIARD ENSEMBLETUESDAY, JANUARY 21 | 8 PMDUKE CHAPELTICKETS: $32 • $18 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSIONWITH LIMITED RESERVED SEATING

LUCIANA SOUZAFEATURING LIONEL LOUEKE& GREGOIRE MARETTHURSDAY, JANUARY 23 | 8 PMREYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATERTICKETS: $42 • $34 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

Brazilian-born jazz vocalist Luciana Souza “sounds like Astrud Gilberto channeling Nina Simone,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. That combination of luminous voice and arresting presence won her a Grammy Award in 2008 and captivated audiences at sold-out Duke Performances concerts in 2008 and 2010.

Souza’s return to Durham features star turns from two alumni of Herbie Hancock’s band: West African guitarist Lionel Loueke, whom Hancock praised as “a musical painter,” and Swiss harmonica genius Gregoire Maret, the heir apparent to Toots Thielemans. Together with Souza, their melodic interplay will make for a dazzling night of music.

SEPTEMBER ’13

THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMAFriday & Saturday, September 13 & 14 • 8 pmHayti Heritage Center

CIOMPI QUARTET CONCERT NO. 1FEAT. THE KRUGER BROTHERSSaturday, September 21 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

THEO BLECKMANNHELLO EARTH!(THE MUSIC OF KATE BUSH)Friday & Saturday, September 27 & 28 • 9 pmPSI Theatre in the Durham Arts Council

FINCKEL, SETZER, HAN TRIOSaturday, September 28 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

OCTOBER ’13

BILLY CHILDS JAZZ CHAMBER ENSEMBLE WITH THE YING QUARTET FEAT. DIANNE REEVESFriday, October 4 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

GUY CLARK SPECIAL GUESTS:MANDOLIN ORANGEFriday, October 11 • 8 pmReynolds Industries Theater

FISK JUBILEE SINGERSSPECIAL GUESTS: DSA CHOIRFriday, October 18 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

TETZLAFF STRING QUARTETSaturday, October 19 • 8 pm Baldwin Auditorium

YUJA WANG, PIANOThursday, October 24 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

NOVEMBER ’13

LEND ME YOUR VOICE HOSTED BY NICK SANBORNFriday & Saturday, November 1 & 2 • 8 pmNelson Music Room

CIOMPI QUARTET CONCERT NO. 2Saturday, November 2 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

yMUSIC CONCERT NO. 1Tuesday, November 5 • 8 pmCasbah Durham

MEASURE BACKCREATED BY T. RYDER SMITH& CHRISTOPHER MCELROENWednesday, November 6 –Saturday, November 9 • 8:15 pmManbites Dog Theater

KIRILL GERSTEIN, PIANOSaturday, November 9 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

ESTONIAN PHILHARMONICCHAMBER CHOIRTuesday, November 12 • 8 pmDuke Chapel

PEOPLE GET READYSPECIFIC OCEANFriday & Saturday, November 15 & 16 • 8 pmReynolds Industries Theater

KAYHAN KALHOR& ALI BAHRAMI FARDThursday, November 21 • 8 pmNasher Museum Auditorium

EIGHTH BLACKBIRDSaturday, November 23 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

UKULELE ORCHESTRAOF GREAT BRITAINSunday, November 24 • 7 pmPage Auditorium

DECEMBER ’13

DEBO BANDFriday, December 6 • 9 pmMotorco Music Hall

EMERSON STRING QUARTETSaturday, December 7 • 8 pm Baldwin Auditorium

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IMANI WINDSSaturday, January 18 • 8 pm Baldwin Auditorium

HILLIARD ENSEMBLETuesday, January 21 • 8 pmDuke Chapel

LUCIANA SOUZA FEAT. LIONEL LOUEKE& GREGOIRE MARETThursday, January 23 • 8 pmReynolds Industries Theater

LOVE’S INFRASTRUCTUREMUSIC BY BOMBADIL | PUPPETS & SCENIC DESIGN BY TORRY BENDFriday & Saturday, January 24 & 25 • 8:15 pmSunday, January 26 • 3:15 pmPSI Theatre in the Durham Arts Council

CIOMPI QUARTET CONCERT NO. 3Saturday, January 25 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

FEBRUARY ’14

EMANUEL AX & YOKO NOZAKI, PIANOSaturday, February 1 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

URBAN BUSH WOMENFriday & Saturday, February 7 & 8 • 8 pmReynolds Industries Theater

ARIEL STRING QUARTET FEAT. ALISA WEILERSTEIN, CELLOSaturday, February 8 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

PAT METHENY UNITY GROUPWednesday, February 12 • 8 pmCarolina Theatre of Durham

REPUBLICHOI POLLOIThursday, February 20 – Saturday, March 1Manbites Dog Theater

THE KING’S SINGERSFriday, February 21 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

LISE DE LA SALLE, PIANOSaturday, February 22 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

MARCH ’14

ÉBÈNE STRING QUARTETSaturday, March 1 • 8 pm Baldwin Auditorium

GREGORY PORTERThursday, March 6 • 8 pmReynolds Industries Theater

LOUIS LORTIE, PIANOFriday, March 7 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

KRONOS QUARTETSaturday, March 22 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

yMUSIC CONCERT NO. 2Tuesday, March 25 • 8 pmCasbah Durham

ZAKIR HUSSAIN & SPECIAL GUESTS MASTERS OF PERCUSSIONThursday, March 27 • 8 pmDurham Performing Arts Center

GERALD CLAYTON TRIOFriday & Saturday, March 28 & 29 • 9 pmCasbah Durham

APRIL ’14

BRIAN CARPENTERGHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRAFriday & Saturday, April 4 & 5 • 9 pmMotorco Music Hall

JOE HENRY & OVER THE RHINEFriday & Saturday, April 11 & 12 • 8 pmHayti Heritage Center

PAVEL HAAS STRING QUARTETSaturday, April 12 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

CHICK COREAFriday, April 18 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

CIOMPI QUARTET CONCERT NO. 4FEAT. GABRIEL RICHARD, VIOLIN& ANDREW TYSON, PIANOSaturday, April 19 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

PACO PEÑA & ELIOT FISKFriday, April 25 • 8 pmReynolds Industries Theater

BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, PIANOSunday, April 27 • 7 pmBaldwin Auditorium

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CHANTICLEERFriday, May 2 • 8 pmBaldwin Auditorium

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LOVE’S INFRASTRUCTUREMUSIC BY BOMBADILPUPPET & SCENIC DESIGN BY TORRY BENDFRIDAY, JANUARY 24& SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 | 8:15 PMSUNDAY, JANUARY 26 | 3:15 PMPSI THEATRE AT THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCILTICKETS: $24 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

Durham’s Bombadil made their name on the local and national scenes playing ambitious indie pop with an international kick: “the melodies are chipper, the hooks prominent, the performances energetic, and the arrangements full to bursting with ideas” (Paste Magazine). Duke Theater Studies professor and puppeteer Torry Bend hand-crafts exquisite miniature worlds, with the Indy Weekly calling her puppet odyssey The Paper Hat Game “sparkling yet pensive” in a rare five-star review.

Now, two of Durham’s most inventive forces unite to offer the world premiere of Love’s Infrastructure, an immersive experience on a set designed by Bend, with music performed live by Bombadil, and enlivened with a cast of Bend’s captivating puppets.

Made possible, in part, with support from the Department of Theater Studies at Duke University.

EMANUEL AX & YOKO NOZAKI, PIANOSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $52 • $42 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER • $10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

Emanuel Ax is the essential pianist of our time — the Los Angeles Times praises “his greatness, his overwhelming authority as a musician, technician, and probing intellect.” Yoko Nozaki, Ax’s wife, is a Juilliard-trained piano soloist hailed by the New York Observer for her “grace and power.” Together, they are the leading performers of the brilliant but rarely heard repertoire for two pianos. In high demand, they play only a handful of public concerts together each year, but this area merits a special visit: Nozaki, the daughter of a Duke biochemist, grew up right here in Durham.

Their homecoming performance in Baldwin Auditorium includes Mozart’s only sonata for two pianos, a joyful dialogue between instruments, and Brahms’ Haydn Variations, which follows a

single theme through eight different styles. The program also features another Mozart sonata and a set of Brahms variations; these works will showcase the masterful Ax alone.

PROGRAM:MOZART: Sonata (TBD)MOZART: Sonata for Two Pianos is in D major, K.448BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Haydn for Two Pianos, Op. 56bBRAHMS: Variations and Fugue on a theme by G F Handel Op. 24

Made possible, in part, with support from the Office of the President of Duke University.

Funded, in part, with a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council; a Visiting Artist Grant from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University; and support from the Dance Program at Duke University.

URBAN BUSH WOMENDARK SWAN & WALKING WITH ‘TRANEFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 88 PM | REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATERTICKETS: $38 • $32 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATINGUrban Bush Women is celebrating 30 years as an unstoppable force in American dance. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s troupe started out with “raw power and conviction” (Village Voice), and it continues to make visceral, politically-charged work, including the three new pieces they dance at Duke Performances.

The culmination of a two-week residency at Duke, their program begins with Hep Hep Sweet Sweet, an earthy and provocative new take on the swing dance and jitterbug of Cab Calloway’s jazz age. They follow that with Dark Swan, choreographed by former UBW dancer Nora Chipaumire, which reimagines a classic European ballet in an African context. Finally, they offer the world premiere of Walking with ’Trane, a piece inspired by the life of John Coltrane and by his seminal jazz suite A Love Supreme.

ARIEL STRING QUARTETFEATURING ALISA WEILERSTEIN, CELLOSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $38 • $32 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

The Ariel Quartet formed in a Jerusalem high school and traveled together to study in America. Here they met and bonded with Alisa Weilerstein, an up-and-coming cellist. Today, the Ariel is a rising star on the international chamber music scene, hailed for their “utter musicality and remarkable interpretive power” by the American Record Guide, and Weilerstein is one of the finest cellists in the world, the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” grant.

The Ariel opens the program with an early Beethoven quartet that brings out the young composer’s brilliant wit. Then Weilerstein joins her friends to perform two all-time classic quintets for the unusual double-cello instrumentation — Boccherini’s, with its instantly-recognizable minuet, and Schubert’s, which pianist Arthur Rubinstein called “the entrance to heaven.”

PROGRAM:BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2 BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11, No. 5 SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956

PAT METHENY UNITY GROUPWITH CHRIS POTTER, ANTONIO SANCHEZBEN WILLIAMS & GIULIO CARMASSIWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 | 8 PMCAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAMTICKETS: $55 • $50 • $45 • $10 DUKE STUDENTSRESERVED SEATING

“A virtuoso guitarist, an expansive composer and, above all, an inveterate searcher” (New York Times), legendary jazz artist Pat Metheny made his return to small-combo performance with the Unity Group, a band gifted enough to keep up with the full range of his forty years of musical explorations. It is no surprise that with that band — “blazing virtuosi with musical intelligence to match” (Guardian (UK)) — Metheny won his astonishing 20th Grammy award in 2013.

The Unity Group boasts a once-in-a-lifetime lineup: saxophonist Chris Potter, whom Metheny calls “one of the most exciting soloists in jazz on any instrument”; Ben Williams, “the baddest new bassist on the block” (The Revivalist); powerhouse drummer Antonio Sanchez; and extraordinary multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi.

Pat Metheny Unity Group is a co-presentation of Duke Performancesand The Carolina Theatre of Durham.

HOI POLLOI • REPUBLICTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 THROUGH SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 | 7:30 PMSUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 | 2:30 PMWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 THROUGH SATURDAY, MARCH 1 | 7:30 PMMANBITES DOG THEATERTICKETS: $17 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

Brooklyn theater company Hoi Polloi creates full-throttle theatrical experiences that look at how Americans come together and how we fall apart. In that vein, the OBIE Award-winning company the New York Times lauded for their “audacity, invention, and talent” takes on the father of western philosophy’s blueprint for nation-building: Plato’s Republic.

Fast-moving and contemporary, Hoi Polloi’s Republic measures the big social questions of Socrates and company against today’s modern world. An intimate audience at Manbites Dog Theater joins their symposium for arguments about music, wine, and government. Artistic Director Alec Duffy, a Duke graduate, developed Republic over a two-year residency on campus; the result is an adventure that stimulates both the senses and the synapses.

Funded, in part, with a Visiting Artist Grant from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University, and support from the Department of Theater Studies at Duke University.

Republic is a co-presentation of Duke Performancesand Manbites Dog Theater.

THE KING’S SINGERSFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $42 • $34 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

“A superlative vocal sextet that has retained immaculate blend, perfect tuning, and crystal diction” (London Times), The King’s Singers performs the widest repertoire in the musical world: more than two thousand pieces, including early motets, cutting-edge new classical music, and Broadway gems.

That repertoire is on full display at Duke Performances, beginning with masterworks drawn from two of the finest madrigal collections of the Renaissance: Italy’s Il Trionfo di Dori and England’s The Triumphs of Oriana. The King’s Singers then turn to a 20th century songbook, American classics written by the Gershwins and Rodgers and Hart.

French pianist Lise de la Salle “has wowed the world with her prodigious gifts, superlative technique, and a passionate, mature musicianship found in only the rarest of prodigies” (LA Weekly). Five years after this extraordinary performer amazed audiences as the inaugural artist in Duke Performances’ Piano Recital Series, she returns an even more accomplished and acclaimed musician.

De la Salle’s program centers on two towering French masterpieces: Debussy’s Preludes, painterly miniatures that bridge romantic and modern styles, and Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, a set of fantastical vignettes so technically dazzling that only a few pianists in the world can play it. She also plays two starker but no less monumental works: Bach’s Chaconne, which Brahms described as “a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings,” and Brahms’ Theme and Variations, his tribute to Bach’s Chaconne.

LISE DE LA SALLE, PIANOSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

PROGRAM:THOMAS MORLEY: Hard By a Crystal Fountain

(from The Triumphs of Oriana)GIOVANNI CROCE: Ove tra l’Herbe e Fiori (from Il Trionfo di Dori)CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS: SaltarelleGIOVANNI GABRIELI: Se Cantano gl’Augelli (from Il Trionfo di Dori)EDWARD JOHNSON: Come, Blessed Bird

(from The Triumphs of Oriana)FRANCOIS POULENC: Un Soir de NeigeGIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA: Quando dal terzo cielo

(from Il Trionfo di Dori)THOMAS WEELKES: As Vesta Was Descending

(from The Triumphs of Oriana)JOBY TALBOT: LeonGOFFREDO PETRASSI: NonsenseGEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN (ARR. B. CHILCOTT): I Can’t Sit DownRICHARD RODGERS & LORENZ HART (ARR. A. L’ESTRANGE):

My Funny ValentineCHARLES TRENET & JACK LAWRENCE (ARR. A. L’ESTRANGE):

Beyond the SeaHAROLD ARLEN & IRA GERSHWIN

(ARR. R. RODNEY BENNETT): It’s a New WorldHARRY CONNICK JR. (ARR. R. RICE): Recipe for Love

PROGRAM:BACH: Chaconne from the Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor,

BWV 1004 (transcribed by Busoni)BRAHMS: Theme and Variations in D Minor, Op. 18b DEBUSSY: Preludes (Book 1)RAVEL: Gaspard de la Nuit

ÉBÈNE STRING QUARTETSATURDAY, MARCH 1 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER • $10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

PROGRAM:MOZART: String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat Major, K. 428, “Haydn” MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13 SCHUMANN: String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3

The Ébène Quartet blends classical artistry with French cool. The New York Times calls them “one of the standout quartets of the new generation.” They bring flawless technique to their take on the chamber repertoire. Their 2009 album of French string quartets won them awards for record of the year from both Echo Klassik and Gramophone.

For its first appearance in Durham, Ébène begins with one of Mozart’s quartets dedicated to Haydn. They continue with Mendelssohn’s A minor quartet, the eighteen-year-old prodigy’s

daring homage to the late quartets of Beethoven. The program concludes with Schumann’s dream-like String Quartet No. 3, composed in his astonishing “Year of Chamber Music.”

The musical conversations that make up great classical chamber music come alive on the stage of the reinvigorated Baldwin Auditorium. World-class string quartets such as the Emerson and Ébene and contemporary music champions Imani Winds and eighth blackbird embrace the extraordinary range of classical masterpieces composed for small ensembles.

GREGORY PORTERTHURSDAY, MARCH 6 | 8 PMREYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATERTICKETS: $42 • $34 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

Gregory Porter burst onto the scene five years ago when Wynton Marsalis selected the then-unknown singer to perform a residency with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Since then, Porter’s albums Water and the Grammy-nominated Be Good plus his soulful live shows have marked him as “the brilliant new voice of jazz” (Huffington Post) — he is that rare male jazz vocalist with true star power.

A minister’s son with a deep love of Nat King Cole, Porter combines the power of a gospel shouter with the honeyed tone of a crooner. Whether singing standards or one of his own songs, he moves audiences with “a voice and musicality to be reckoned with” (BBC).

CHAMBER ARTS SERIESFEATURING

FINCKEL, SETZER, HAN TRIOSaturday, September 28

TETZLAFFSTRING QUARTET

Saturday, October 19

EIGHTH BLACKBIRDSaturday, November 23

EMERSONSTRING QUARTET

Saturday, December 7

IMANI WINDSSaturday, January 18

ARIEL STRING QUARTETFEAT. ALISA WEILERSTEIN

Saturday, February 8

ÉBÈNE STRING QUARTETSaturday, March 1

PAVEL HAASSTRING QUARTET

Saturday, April 12

LOUIS LORTIE, PIANOFRIDAY, MARCH 7 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

The Los Angeles Times praised Canadian pianist Louis Lortie for “his bravura, amazing display of color, and beautiful way with a melodic line,” calling “each an awesome aspect of a monster technique.” For select programs, he summons all of his technique and skill to perform just a single concert-length masterpiece.

At Duke Performances, Lortie offers a rare complete performance of the first two books of Franz Liszt’s magnum opus Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage). In virtuosic passages that swing between serene and stormy, the great Romantic composer conjures up memories of his love-struck younger years in Switzerland and Italy.

PROGRAM:LISZT: Années de Pèlerinage (Books 1 & 2)

KRONOS QUARTETSATURDAY, MARCH 22 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $52 • $42 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

Forty years in, Kronos Quartet still feels revolutionary. They have commissioned hundreds of new works for string quartet, recorded almost fifty albums, and brought the work of musicians from across the globe into the chamber musician tradition. “The best thing about Kronos,” writes The New Yorker, “is their unflagging curiosity about the world.”

Kronos’ curiosity will be on full display in their return to Durham. Their first appearance at the revamped Baldwin Auditorium features a Duke Performances commission: You Know Me From Here, which composer Missy Mazzoli calls a “musical journey homeward.” That’s also the theme of Aheym, which Bryce Dessner based on his grandparents’ turbulent journey to this country. And frequent Kronos collaborator Philip Glass contributes a brand-new composition full of his trademark driving rhythms.

PROGRAM:MISSY MAZZOLI: You Know Me From Here* PHILIP GLASS: NEW WORK BRYCE DESSNER: Aheym (Homeward) ALTER YECHIEL KARNIOL

(ARR. JUDITH BERKSON): Sim SholomAMON TOBIN: NEW WORK LAURIE ANDERSON (ARR. JACOB GARCHIK): Flow*Commissioned, in part, by Duke Performances

Their program reveals a group more dedicated than ever to founder David Harrington’s dream of making the string quartet “vital and energetic and alive.”

This year Kronos also brings with them a new cellist, Sunny Jungin Yang. Kronos’ Grammy-winning record producer Judith Sherman calls Yang’s playing “joyful, beautiful, and meaningful.” Yang will no doubt help write another exciting chapter of this landmark group’s history.

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GERALD CLAYTON TRIOFRIDAY, MARCH 28& SATURDAY, MARCH 299 PM | CASBAH DURHAMTICKETS: $24 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION; SEATING PROVIDED

The brilliant young pianist Gerald Clayton was schooled in hard-swinging, melodic jazz by his father, John Clayton, uncle Jeff Clayton, and his mentors Billy Childs and Kenny Barron. More recently, he has collaborated with the innovators of his own generation, from Ambrose Akinmusire to Kendrick Scott. In his long-standing trio with drummer Justin Brown and bassist Joe Sanders, Clayton blends those styles into a musical language all his own.

The New York Times raved about Clayton’s “huge authoritative presence and highly controlled touch and dynamics.” In the close-up club atmosphere of Durham’s Casbah, that authority will be all the more palpable.

Made possible, in part, with support from the Jazz Program at Duke University.

ZAKIR HUSSAIN & SPECIAL GUESTSMASTERS OF PERCUSSIONTHURSDAY, MARCH 27 | 8 PMDURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTERTICKETS: $55 • $45 • $40 • $30 • $20 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER • $10 DUKE STUDENTSRESERVED SEATING

A classical tabla player of the highest order, Zakir Hussain’s scintillating performances have established him as a national treasure in India. He inherited this skill from a remarkable musical lineage: he is the son of iconic tabla player Alla Rakha, and heir to a family that has boasted master instrumentalist for many generations. Demonstrating a “virtuosity that is barely to be believed” (Washington Post), Hussain has become the world’s foremost ambassador of Indian classical music — the successor to his longtime collaborator Ravi Shankar.

Hussain returns to Duke Performances with the Masters of Percussion, his hand-picked group of the ten finest musicians from across the Indian classical tradition. Featuring sitarist Niladri Kumar, sarangi player Dilshad Khan, and led by Hussain, this exceptional ensemble performs in a venue suitable to their musical pedigree: the world-class Durham Performing Arts Center.

BRIAN CARPENTERGHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRAFRIDAY, APRIL 4 & SATURDAY, APRIL 59 PM | MOTORCO MUSIC HALLTICKETS: $24 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION; SEATING PROVIDED

The Ghost Train Orchestra, led by trumpeter Brian Carpenter, unearths the little-known and rarely-heard jazz that was a fixture in the dance halls and nightclubs of prohibition-era Harlem and Chicago. A top-notch ten-piece, they play the music that gave the Jazz Age its name in swinging new arrangements. “Peppy, charged, vaudevillian in feel” according to NPR, their 2011 debut recording was Best Jazz Record of the Year.

“This crazy-beautiful living-history lesson” (Boston Globe) sets down for two shows at Motorco Music Hall in conjunction with the Nasher Museum’s exhibition Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, the first major retrospective of the career of a Harlem Renaissance painter who made jazz musicians and dancers one of his favorite subjects.

Made possible, in part, with support from the Nasher Museum of Art, in conjunction with their exhibition Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, on view January 30 through May 11.

JOE HENRY &OVER THE RHINEFRIDAY, APRIL 11 & SATURDAY, APRIL 128 PM | HAYTI HERITAGE CENTERTICKETS: $34 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

Cincinnati duo Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, better known as Over the Rhine, have been making gorgeous records for two decades that sound like “they sprung from another time” (Los Angeles Times). Singer-songwriter Joe Henry spent the same decades writing and performing songs that seem “to inhabit an older music that never actually existed or one that keeps being forgotten and relearned over and over” (Slant Magazine). They first came together when Henry produced Over the Rhine’s acclaimed 2011 album The Long Surrender.

Now they reunite for an only-at-Duke Performances special event: in front of a live audience at Hayti Heritage Center, Henry and Over the Rhine will perform and record an album of new songs they wrote together. A cadre of crackerjack sidemen will fill out the band, taking advantage of the flawless acoustics of this former church.

PAVEL HAASSTRING QUARTETSATURDAY, APRIL 12 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

“The world’s most exciting string quartet?” asked the Times of London. Their vote was for the Pavel Haas Quartet, a Czech-Slovak ensemble fast rising to the top of the chamber music world. They champion the works of their countrymen, and their 2011 recording of two quartets by Antonin Dvorák won them the coveted Gramophone Award for record of the year.

No group is better qualified than the Pavel Haas to play Dvorák’s “Slavonic” quartet, which transforms the folk dances of their homeland. But their range also encompasses one of the last quartets by Haydn, father of the form, and Brahms’ poignant Quartet No. 2. Experience the next great European quartet when the Pavel Haas makes an impressive Durham debut.

PROGRAM:HAYDN: String Quartet No. 64 in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5 DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51, “Slavonic” BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2

The intricacy of classical guitar and the fire of flamenco might seem worlds apart. But the masters of these two great guitar traditions, Eliot Fisk and Paco Peña, come together to reveal the unbroken lineage of their shared instrument.

The New York Times lauded Peña as “a genuine virtuoso capable of dazzling an audience beyond the frets of mortal man,” while the renowned Andres Segovia called Fisk “one of the most brilliant, intelligent, and gifted artists of our time.” Watch Peña and Fisk share their jaw-dropping artistry on solos and duets from both the classical and flamenco traditions.

PACO PEÑA & ELIOT FISKFRIDAY, APRIL 25 | 8 PMREYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATERTICKETS: $42 • $34 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

CHICK COREASOLO PIANO CONCERTFRIDAY, APRIL 18 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $52 • $42 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

Musical chameleon Chick Corea’s career “is among the most kaleidoscopic in jazz,” says the New York Times, “encircling everything from plunging postbop to chamberesque Latin hybridism to superheated fusion.” That drive to explore the next frontier has propelled collaborations with legends like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and Gary Burton and has won him twenty Grammy awards — including two in 2013 for his Hot House album.

Chick Corea’s far-ranging mastery will be on display when he visits Durham this season for a solo performance at the rejuvenated Baldwin Auditorium. Alone at the piano, this jazz titan plays music across the range of his ambitious and adventurous career.

BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, PIANOSUNDAY, APRIL 27 | 7 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $32 • $26 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

“In an age of ready-made virtuosos,” writes the Times of London, Benjamin Grosvenor’s “gifts are already distinctive: poetic, romantic, almost old-school.” Those gifts were evident when he first emerged at age eleven on the classical scene of his native England winning the BBC’s Young Musician Competition. In the decade since, he has cultivated the expressive tone and probing musical intelligence that mark him as a star with staying power for years to come.

Audiences at Grosvenor’s Duke Performances debut will hear the most promising British pianist in decades just as he joins the first rank of international performers. His uncommon instinct for lyricism is perfectly matched in the graceful melodic lines of Schubert’s great G-flat Impromptu and in Ravel’s Schubert-inspired Valses Nobles et Sentimentales.

PROGRAM:MENDELSSOHN: Andante & Rondo Capriccioso in E Major, Op. 14 SCHUBERT: Impromptu in G-flat, Op. 90 No. 3 SCHUMANN: Humoreske, Op. 20 MOMPOU: Paisajes MEDTNER: 2 Fairy Tales, Op. 51 No. 3 in A Major & Op. 14 No. 2 in

E Minor (“March of the Paladin”)RAVEL: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales STRAUSS (ARR. SCHULZ-EVLER): Blue Danube

CHANTICLEERFRIDAY, MAY 2 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $42 • $34 • $15 AGE 30 & UNDER$10 DUKE STUDENTS | RESERVED SEATING

Chanticleer began singing Medieval and Renaissance music more than thirty-five years ago, and their soaring performances helped revive this vital repertoire in America. Now the twelve-member vocal ensemble the Washington Post calls “the reigning gods of the men’s chorus world” have become the standard bearers of a flourishing early music scene, singing with unmatched beauty and precision.

Chanticleer’s program at Baldwin Auditorium revolves around the extraordinary circle of composers that assembled in Venice in the late Renaissance. Adrian Willaert and Giovanni Gabrieli challenged the choirs of St. Mark’s with their elaborate triple-chorus polyphony, a form their successor Claudio Monteverdi both embraced and transformed into the more melodic Baroque style.

PROGRAM:GIOVANNI GABRIELI: Angelus ad pastores aitPLAINSONG: Quem vidistis pastoresG. GABRIELI: O Jesu mi dulcissimeJOSQUIN DESPREZ: Praeter rerum seriemCIPRIANO DE RORE: Missa Praeter rerum seriemADRIAN WILLAERT: CredidiPLAINCHANT: Protexisti meANDREA GABRIELI: O salutaris hostiaPLAINCHANT: Tenebrae factae suntCLAUDIO MONTEVERDI: Stabat materC. MONTEVERDI: Adoramus te, ChristeA. WILLAERT: Congratulamini mihi omnesA. GABRIELI: O sacrum conviviumGIOVANNI CROCE: Laudans exultetC. MONTEVERDI: Laudate pueri

The Ciompi, Duke’s resident string quartet for nearly five decades, explores the bounds of chamber music over the course of their dynamic new season. That musical territory stretches all the way from classics of the string quartet repertoire by Beethoven and Brahms to the world premiere of a specially commissioned new quartet by Pulitzer Prize winner Melinda Wagner.

Their wide-ranging season includes collaborations with bluegrass innovators The Kruger Brothers in their chamber suite Appalachian Concerto, with talented guest soloists on Ernest Chausson’s ravishing but rarely heard Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, and with talented Duke undergrads in John Adams’ seminal Shaker Loops.

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CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 1FEATURING THE KRUGER BROTHERSJENS KRUGER, BANJO; UWE KRUGER, GUITAR& JOEL LANDSBERG, BASSSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $20 • $10 ALL STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

PROGRAM:HAYDN: String Quartet No. 60 in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat Major, Op. 133KRUGER BROTHERS: Appalachian Concerto

CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 2SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2013 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $20 • $10 ALL STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

PROGRAM:BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67JOEL FEIGIN: Mosaic in Two Panels for String Quartet BEETHOVEN: Septet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20 (with Allan Ware

and local musicians)

CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 3SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014 | 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $20 • $10 ALL STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

PROGRAM:BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 3JOHN ADAMS: Shaker Loops (with Duke students)BRAHMS: String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51 No. 1

CIOMPI CONCERT NO. 4FEATURING ANDREW TYSON, PIANO& GABRIEL RICHARD, VIOLINSATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2014 • 8 PMBALDWIN AUDITORIUMTICKETS: $20 • $10 ALL STUDENTSGENERAL ADMISSION SEATING

PROGRAM:HEINRICH WILHELM ERNST: String Quartet in B-flat Major MELINDA WAGNER: Premiere of a new commissioned string quartetCHAUSSON: Concerto in D Major, for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet,

Op. 21 (with Andrew Tyson, piano & Gabriel Richard, violin)

From formal halls and adaptable theaters to intimate nightclubs and black-box spaces, Duke Performances finds ideal stages for diverse artists and audiences in high-quality venues on campus and in town.VENUES:

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TLOCATIONBaldin Auditorium is located on Duke University’s East Campus at the intersection of Onslow Street and West Markham Avenue.

SEATINGBaldwin is equipped with modern, comfortable seating throughout the hall; the capacity of the venue is 700. Wheelchair accessible seating is also available at all levels, including the balcony via elevator. Please contact the University Box Office at 919-684-4444 if you have questions about accessibility.

PARKINGDuke Parking and Transportation will administer four parking lots for patrons visiting Baldwin Auditorium. Parking for events is $5 per car — cash only.

Parking #1 & #2 (Bivins/Biddle) provide principle parking for Baldwin Auditorium. These lots are accessible via the campus entrance located at the intersection of West Markham Avenue and Sedgefield Street.

Parking #3 (Brown/Bishops) provides accessible and additional general parking for Baldwin. This lot is accessible via the campus entrance located at the intersection of North Buchanan Boulevard and Dacian Avenue. Guests with accessibility or mobility issues will have priority access to this lot.

Parking #4 (Asbury Church) provides additional parking for Baldwin. This lot is located at the intersection of West Markham Avenue and Sedgefield Street.

By special arrangement with the Provost, Duke undergraduate and graduate students can purchase tickets to any Duke Performances event for just $10. This amazing deal lets students see live performances from the best musicians, dancers, and actors in the world for the price of a movie ticket.

Limit of two $10 tickets per student for each presentation. Quantities of available $10 student tickets will be limited on a show-by-show basis. Student ID required at time of purchase.

$10 DUKE STUDENTTICKETS

REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATERReynolds Industries Theater is a midsized proscenium house with a dramatic stadium slope and a polished, oaky ambience.

Bryan University Center125 Science DriveDurham, NC 27708dukeperformances.org

NASHER AUDITORIUMIN THE NASHER MUSEUMThe Nasher Auditorium is an intimate and warm performance and lecture space off the museum’s main atrium.

2001 Campus DriveDurham, NC 27705nasher.duke.edu

CASBAH DURHAMThe Casbah, a nightclub in downtown Durham, sports a full bar and a long, narrow layout that focuses the room toward the stage.

1007 West Main Street Durham, NC 27701casbahdurham.com

DURHAMPERFORMING ARTS CENTERDurham Performing Arts Center is a centerpiece of downtown Durham’s revival, a grand, world-class venue with tiered seating and full amenities.

123 Vivian StreetDurham, NC 27701www.dpacnc.com

PAGE AUDITORIUMPage is a grand auditorium that provides excellent vantages from its ample orchestra seating and overhanging balcony.

402 Chapel DriveDurham, NC 27708dukeperformances.org

FLETCHER HALLAT THE CAROLINA THEATREFletcher is a sizeable, comfortable hall in the historic Carolina Theatre that features parallel balconies and striking Beaux-Arts décor.

309 West Morgan StreetDurham, NC 27701carolinatheatre.org

PSI THEATER AT THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCILLocated in the Durham Arts Council building, PSI Theatre is an 180-seat multi-use performance space.

120 Morris StreetDurham, NC 27701durhamarts.org

DUKE CHAPELA West Campus landmark, Duke Chapel accommodates large audiences below a 210-foot spire and a 50-bell carillon.

401 Chapel DriveDurham, NC 27708chapel.duke.edu

MANBITES DOG THEATERAn intimate black-box theater with flexible seating, Manbites Dog Theater is situated in Durham’s reinvigorated Central Park dining and entertainment district.

703 Foster StreetDurham, NC 27701www.manbitesdogtheater.org

NELSON MUSIC ROOMThe Nelson Music Room is an intimate, acoustically pristine recital hall with seating that can be configured in the round.

1304 Campus DriveDurham, NC 27708dukeperformances.org

HAYTI HERITAGE CENTERRetaining the ambience from its history as an AME church, the Hayti Heritage Center features pew seating, beautiful stained-glass windows, and flawless acoustics.

804 Old Fayetteville StreetDurham, NC 27701hayti.org

MOTORCO MUSIC HALLIn the heart of Durham’s thriving Central Park district, this roomy nightclub offers a cavernous concert space and an outdoor bar.

723 Rigsbee AvenueDurham, NC 27701motorcomusic.com

TICKET ON SALE DATESDuke Performances 2013/14 season ticket packages — including the Pick-Four or More, Vocal Ensemble Series, Piano Recital Series, Chamber Arts Society, and Ciompi Quartet Series — will go on sale TUESDAY, JUNE 25, AT 11 AM. Single tickets to Duke Performances 2013/14 shows will go on sale TUESDAY, JULY 16, AT 11 AM. $10 Duke student tickets and $15 tickets for patrons age 30 and under will go on sale TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, AT 11 AM.

DP DISCOUNTS25% PICK-FOUROR MORE DISCOUNT

Take 25% off your total price when you simultaneously purchase tickets to four or more shows from Duke Performances’ 2013/14 season.

Note: Because of Ticketmaster’s exclusive agreement with the Carolina Theatre and Durham Performing Arts Center, Duke Performances’ co-presentation of Pat Metheny at the Carolina Theatre and the presentation of Zakir Hussain at the Durham Performing Arts Center are excluded from Pick-Four discounts. However, the purchase of a Pick-Four package comes with a discount code — redeemable online, by phone, or at the Carolina Theatre and Durham Performing Arts Center box offices — worth 25% off tickets to Pat Metheny and Zakir Hussain.

$10 — AN AMAZINGSTUDENT TICKET PRICE

By special arrangement with the Provost, Duke undergraduate and graduate students can purchase tickets to any Duke Performances event for just $10. This amazing deal lets students see live performances from the best musicians, dancers, and actors in the world for the price of a movie ticket.

Limit of two $10 tickets per student for each presentation. Quantities of available $10 student tickets will be limited on a show-by-show basis. Student ID required at time of purchase.

$15 TICKETS FOR PATRONSAGE 30 AND UNDER:

Young audiences who want to see the world’s greatest performers but think tickets are just out of reach now have the chance to see any show they want. This season, for the first time, Duke Performances offers patrons ages 30 and under the opportunity to purchase tickets to any event for just $15.

Limit of two $15 tickets per patron for each presentation. Quantities of available $15 tickets will be limited on a show-by-show basis. Valid ID required at time of purchase.

10% DUKE EMPLOYEE DISCOUNTEVERY SHOW, ALL SEASON, TAKE ADVANTAGE.

DUKE PERFORMANCES’ CLASSICAL MUSIC DISCOUNTS — UP TO 45% OFF EACH TICKETIn addition to the Pick-Four or more, we offer the following deep discount packages on our classical music series:

VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIESPackage includes best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium and special reserved seating for performances by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Hilliard Ensemble in Duke Chapel. Fisk Jubilee Singers [$32] • Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir [$32] • Hilliard Ensemble [$32] • The King’s Singers [$42] Chanticleer [$42] Regular price: $180. Series discount price: $100

PIANO RECITAL SERIESPackage includes best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium.Yuja Wang [$42] • Kirill Gerstein [$32] • Emanuel Ax & Yoko Nozaki [$52] • Lise de la Salle [$32] • Louis Lortie [$32]Benjamin Grosvenor [$32] Regular price: $222. Series discount price: $120.

CHAMBER ARTS SERIESPackage includes best available reserved seats in Baldwin Auditorium.Finckel, Setzer, Han Trio [$32] • Tetzlaff String Quartet [$38]eighth blackbird [$32] • Emerson String Quartet [$42] • Imani Winds [$32] • Ariel Quartet feat. Alisa Weilerstein [$38]Ébène String Quartet [$32] • Pavel Haas String Quartet [$32] Regular price: $278. Series discount price: $160.

CIOMPI QUARTET SERIESGeneral admission seating in Baldwin Auditorium. Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 1 feat. Kruger Brothers [$20]Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 2 [$20] • Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 3 [$20] • Ciompi Concert No. 4 feat. Andrew Tyson, piano & Gabriel Richard, violin [$20]Regular price: $80. Series discount price: $60.

ORDERING TICKETSBY PHONECall the University Box Office between Monday and Friday, 11 am to 6 pm,919-684-4444. Credit card orders only.

ONLINELog on to Duke Performances’ website any time at dukeperformances.org or visit the University Box Office website at tickets.duke.edu. Credit card orders only.

IN PERSON Visit the University Box Office in the top level of the Bryan Center on Duke University’s West Campus between Monday and Friday, 11 am to 6 pm. Box office will open at performance venues one hour prior to the start of each show.

FOR TICKETS, FULL PROGRAM DETAILS & OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATIONDUKEPERFORMANCES.ORG

IMPORTANT INFORMATIONDIRECTIONS & PARKINGFor full driving directions and parking information, please visit dukeperformances.org and click on the button marked Venues.

LATE SEATING POLICYPlease allow enough time to park, claim your tickets, and get seated before the 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 TICKETSIf you lose your tickets and need replacements, please call the University Box Office, 919-684-4444.

PERFORMANCE CHANGES& PERFORMANCE CANCELLATIONPrograms 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 dukeperformances.org for the most up-to-date information regarding performances.

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 your request at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled performance.

WEBSITE & EMAIL UPDATESVisit dukeperformances.org for updates on all events. We also encourage you to join our email list which can be accessed through our website. We will use this list to inform you of any changes in the series.

ACCESSDuke Performances strives to ensure that events are accessible to individuals with disabilities. Individuals with a disability who expect to need accommodations or who have questions about physical access should contact the University Box Office at 919-684-4444 in advance of the concert.

REFUNDSTickets are nonrefundable except in the case of cancelled events.

FUNDING THANKS TO:Duke University Office of the PresidentDuke University Office of the ProvostDuke University Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts50 Years of Black Students at Duke University Executive CommitteeArmentrout 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 ArtsCouncil for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke UniversityDuke University Dance ProgramDuke University Department of MusicDuke University Department of Theater StudiesDuke University Jazz ProgramEdith 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 FundNasher Museum of Art, Duke UniversityPatrick M. and Catherine Greer Williams Endowment FundRobert and Margaret Boyer Endowment FundSouth Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council

TICKETING DETAILS FOR DUKE PERFORMANCES’ CONCERTSAT CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM AND DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

PAT METHENY UNITY GROUPWednesday, February 12, 2014Carolina Theatre of Durham309 West Morgan Street, Durham carolinatheatre.org | 919-560-3030

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

ZAKIR HUSSAIN & SPECIAL GUESTS Thursday, March 27, 2014Durham Performing Arts Center123 Vivian Street, Durhamdpacnc.com | 919-688-3722

Tickets for Duke Performances’ presentation at the Durham Performing Arts Center may be purchased through the DPAC website (dpacnc.com), by calling 919-688-3722, or by visiting the DPAC box office at 123 Vivian Street. Tickets for DPAC performances are sold through Ticketmaster; Ticketmaster service charges will be applied.

Duke students may purchase student tickets to dP concerts at the Carolina Theatre and Durham Performing Arts Centerthrough the University Box Office in the Bryan Center.

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