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Top 10 Arts Calendar: September & October 2008
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Published: August 31, 2008
Updated: 08/30/2008 08:45 pm
Sept. 1
How might Labor Day sound to local music lovers?
The Piedmont Wind Symphony has an answer, namely a "Disney Celebration" for the entire family in front of the Children's Museum of Winston-Salem. Bring lawn chairs.
Vocalists Art Bloom and his daughter, Austin, will perform favorite tunes from the stage and screen.
The concert is at 6 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call 336-722-9328.
Sept. 6-Oct. 5
The N.C. Shakespeare Festival will present two plays at the High Point Theatre -- King Lear, directed by Henson Keys, and Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Steve Umberger.
Much Ado will be staged Sept. 6, 7 18, 20, 26 and 28, and Oct. 2 and 4. King Lear's dates are Sept. 13, 14, 19, 21, 25 and 27, and Oct. 3 and 5.
Tickets are $31, with discounts for seniors, students and groups. See www.highpointtheatre.com of call 336-887-3001.
Sept. 12
Join the opening celebration of two exhibitions at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art: Erwin Olaf: Still Living and Structure, Surface and Expression: Quilt Directions Today.
The opening celebration will include a cash bar, hors d'oeuvres and a book signing with Erwin Olaf.
Admission to the celebration is free. See www.secca.org or call 336-725-1904.
The two exhibitions will run through Jan. 4, when the center is expected to close for renovations. They aim to showcase the best of internationally known photography and contemporary quilting.
Sept. 18, 20, 21 and 23
The Winston-Salem Symphony and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra will join forces in a season-opening concert designed to "double the podium power."
The conductors of both ensembles will step into the guest-artist spotlight. The Winston-Salem Symphony's Robert Moody will sing the baritone solo in Copland's Old American Songs, and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra's Dmitry Sitkovetsky will take out his violin and play the suite from John Corigliano's film score for The Red Violin. Richard Strauss' A Hero's Life will conclude the program.
Concerts in Greensboro will be Sept. 18 and 20, and the Winston-Salem performances will be Sept. 21 and 23. Tickets for the Winston-Salem concerts, at the Stevens Center, are $15 to $55, with discounts for seniors and students. See www.wssymphony.org or call 336-464-0145 weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sept. 19, 20 and 25-28
The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem will present You Can't Take It With You at Reynolds Auditorium. George S. Kauffman and Moss Hart wrote this show, described as "classic comedy at its hilarious best." In it, Tony Kirby tries to persuade his parents that Alice Sycamore and her zany family are is the right choice for him.
Tickets are $16-$20. See www.littletheatreonline.com or call 336-725-4001.
Sept. 25
It's time to get jazzed about New Orleans jazz -- in Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University.
Famed trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra will present the first concert in this year's Secrest Artists Series. Mayfield formed the orchestra to preserve and celebrate the deep cultural heritage of jazz.
Jacqui Carrasco, a violinist, teaches at WFU and performs jazz and several other styles. She will present the Secrest Signature talk just before the concert. Double-bass player Matt Kendrick will offer a presentation on jazz the day before the orchestra performs in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
Tickets are $20, $17 for seniors and non-WFU students. Admission is free for WFU staff and students. See www.wfu.edu/secrest/ or, after Labor Day, call 336-758-5295.
Oct. 3
Reynolda House's Seeing the City: Sloan's New York will focus on John Sloan's images of New York in paintings, drawings, prints and photographs. The exhibition, which will be Oct. 4 through Jan. 4, will open with a party on Oct. 3.
At the party, curators Joyce Schiller and Heather Coyle will talk about the exhibition, and the Seth Trachy Quartet will perform jazz standards from the 1920s and '30s.
Admission to the party is $5, free for Reynolda members and students. See www.reynoldahouse.org or call 336-758-5150.
Oct. 10, 12 and 14
It's not often that the name of our city is sung in a contemporary work of musical theater. But that's exactly what will happen in the Stevens Center when Piedmont Opera presents Adam Guettel's The Light in the Piazza, a Tony Award-winning musical from 2005.
The Light in the Piazza, based on Elizabeth Spencer's short 1960 novel of the same name, is about two Winston-Salem tourists vacationing in Florence, Italy, in the 1950s. One of the tourists, Margaret Johnson, is married to a tobacco-company executive. The other is her daughter, Clara. Clara is 26, but she has the mental development of a 10-year-old, having suffered a traumatic brain injury in childhood.
When Clara falls for an Italian man named Fabrizio Naccarelli, Margaret struggles with what to do about the love affair. Should she, as her husband desires, keep protecting her daughter? Or should she let go and allow her to have as much happiness as possible?
Tickets are $15-$70; see www.piedmontopera.org or call 336-724-3202.
Oct. 23
In late October, we'll be just days away from deciding who the next president will be. Politicos and journalists will be quite busy -- and so will the satirists and comedians in Capitol Steps, which will perform in the Stevens Center as part of the "Something for Everyone" series. Expect songs and skits to bring out the silly side of a seemingly never-ending campaign.
Tickets are $32 orchestra and $28 balcony, with discounts for groups of 20 or more. Call 336-721-1945.
Oct. 25
Classical music is big on celebrating the birthdays of its composers and performers.
Conductor Ransom Wilson will underscore that point when he leads the UNC School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra at the Stevens Center. On Wilson's birthday, Oct. 25, he will conduct Holiday Overture (in honor of its composer, Elliot Carter, who'll turn 100 in December), and waltzes and polkas by Johann Strauss Jr., who was born on Oct. 25.
Oct. 25 is also Georges Bizet's 170th birthday, so the orchestra will team up with drama and design-and-production students to present at Gerald Freedman's English adaptation of Alphonse Daudet's L'Arlesienne, with incidental music by Bizet. Freedman is the drama dean at UNCSA.
Tickets are $12, $10 for seniors and students. See www.ncarts.edu or call 336-721-1945.
■ Ken Keuffel can be reached at 727-7337 or at kkeuffel@wsjournal.com.
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