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Interview: Meredith Monk [Part 2]

October 25, 2012

As the great and unclassifiable performing artist Meredith Monk ramps up a residency with her Vocal Ensemble at Duke Performances—offering a talk at the Nasher tonight and two performances next weekend—we continue our exclusive in-depth interview. On Tuesday, we discussed how Monk developed singing, dance, theater and more into a form of her own. Today

Interview: Meredith Monk [Part 1]

October 22, 2012

As a singer, dancer, composer, choreographer, filmmaker, installation artist, and more—not compartmentally, but all at once—Meredith Monk broke a lot of new ground on her way to becoming one of the most iconic and original performing artists of our times. Her vocal innovations, known to academics as “extended techniques,” still elude codification after half a

Interview & Stream: Duke Composers Write for Members of the Bad Plus

September 17, 2012

Shortly after premiering On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring at Duke Performances in March of 2011, the members of jazz trio the Bad Plus—pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King—spent a day in Durham’s Sound Pure Studios recording compositions written for them by four Duke doctoral students: Dan Ruccia, Kenneth David

Goode Intentions: A Conversation with a Great Pianist

April 19, 2012

Yesterday, the seminal pianist Richard Goode—who gives a solo recital of music by Schumann and Chopin at Page Auditorium tonight—brought the program to life in a conversation with Duke Professor of Music R. Larry Todd, which took place beneath the towering golden organ pipes of downtown Durham’s First Presbyterian Church. (You can hear it for

The Robert Glasper Hypothesis

March 30, 2012

The name “Robert Glasper Experiment” is more than a rhetorical flourish. This is a band that actually has a hypothesis, which says that a pianist and producer who laces jazz with hip-hop, pop, and R&B can successfully turn that formula upside down, enhancing the scope of what we think of as “black radio” in the

Interview: Jessica Wright of Random Dance

February 24, 2012

Jessica Wright (photo: Ravi Deepres)

Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance has been in residence at Duke Performances all week, culminating tonight in the first of two performances of FAR, a cutting-edge feast of dance, light, and music, partially based on the tension between science and religion in the Age of Enlightenment. Dancer Jessica Wright, a company member

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