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July and August 2008
Summer selections (from top): Midori will perform Brahms’ Violin Concerto at the Eastern Music Festival; King Kong will be shown on the lawn at Reynolda House as part of a “Cinema Under the Skies” series of films set in New York; and at the American Dance Festival, dancers from Kochuten will present a world premiere of Takuya Muramatsu’s ...gosh, I am alive....
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Published: June 29, 2008
Updated: 06/27/2008 07:35 pm
Through Sept. 28
There is a lot of intriguing Latin-American art out there -- and not all of it is in Latin America.
The Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro will present TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art through Sept. 28.
The exhibition was originally organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. It will explore how many artists "despite their differences, have commonly explored the question of identity through their own cultures and life experiences." Featured will be works by such artists as Francis Alys, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Enrique Chagoya and Salomon Huerta.
The Weatherspoon is open every day except Monday. Admission is free; call 336-334-5770.
July 5
Violinist Midori was featured in a 2007 residency with the Winston-Salem Symphony. She will return to the area to perform with the Eastern Festival Orchestra, as part of the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro. (See festival preview on E3.)
Midori will perform Brahms' Violin Concerto. The rest of the program, conducted by David Lockington in Dana Auditorium at Guilford College, will include Phillip Sawyers' The Gale of Life and Sibelius' Fifth Symphony.
Tickets, available through Triad Stage, are $47-$59; see www.easternmusicfestival.org or call 336-272-0160.
July 16-19
The American Dance Festival will wind up in a very Japanese manner.
Six performances (either by companies or solo artists) will be at Duke University in Durham. And audiences can see more than one group dance during each program.
Dairakudakan and Kochuten will perform July 16 and 17 in Page Auditorium. Natural Dance Theatre, Dance Theater LUDENS, and soloists Kei Takei and Teruko Fujisato will dance July 18 and 19 in Reynolds Industries Theater. Tickets are $26-$41. Go to www.tickets.duke.edu or call 919-684-4444.
July 24, 25
Triad Stage will present John Patrick Shanley's Doubt at An Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone.
The play is set in a Catholic high school in the Bronx borough of New York in 1964. In it, "four individuals struggle with doubt and conviction when the school principal voices her suspicions that one of her male colleagues, the resident priest, has abused a young boy."
Performances will be in Valborg Theatre at Appalachian State University. Tickets are $20, with discounts for students and children age 12 and under. See www.appsummer.org, or call 800-841-ARTS.
July 27
Keith Lockhart, who in 2001 led the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra at Joel Coliseum, has assumed musical leadership of the Brevard Music Center.
That means, among other things, that he will conduct Brevard's orchestras several times this summer.
On July 27, he'll lead the BMC Orchestra and Chorus in Orff's Carmina Burana and Strauss' Burleske, with pianist Bruce Murray.
Tickets are $40-$50; see www.brevardmusic.org or call 828-862-2105.
Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 , Sept. 6
New York has provided the setting for many a film.
That will become clear in August when Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents its "Cinema Under the Skies" series outside on the lawn. If it rains, films will be shown in Babcock Auditorium.
The series, co-sponsored by the film school at the N.C. School of the Arts, is meant to coincide with the museum's fall exhibition, Seeing the City: Sloan's New York, which will go on view Oct. 4. It will feature six films: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Aug. 2); King Kong (Aug. 9); Manhattan (Aug. 16); Ghostbusters (Aug. 23); Moonstruck (Aug. 30) and Gangs of New York (Sept. 6).
Admission: $5, $3 for members/students. Go to www.reynoldahouse.org or call 336-758-5150.
Aug. 3
The Winston-Salem Community Band, under Robert Clark's direction, will perform one of several summer concerts at the Miller Park Amphitheater on Queen Street.
In case of rain, the concert, scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., will be held in the Miller Park Recreation Center. Admission is free. For more information, call 336-727-2505 or 336-993-2325.
Aug. 8, 9, 15-17
The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem will present Seussical, a summer musical treat for the whole family.
Because of renovations at the Arts Council Theatre, performances will be in Reynolds Auditorium. Expect quite a spectacle, with 53 singers and dancers accompanied by a small orchestra.
Tickets, which go on sale July 28, are $20 for those over 16 and $10 for those under 16. Call 336-725-4001.
Aug. 15-24
Theatre Alliance will present Greater Tuna in August.
In the show, two men portray 22 different male and female characters in the zany town of Tuna, Texas, where town officials are trying to solve a mysterious death.
Theatre Alliance is in the process of moving from SECCA's McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium to its new home, in old Shell No. 1 gas station at the corner of Northwest Boulevard and Reynolda Road. Greater Tuna's production location will be announced soon. See www.wstheatrealliance.org or call 336-768-5655.
Aug. 14
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Locally performed chamber music will return -- thanks to the new Carolina Summer Music Festival.
The festival, presented by Old Salem Museum & Gardens and the Carolina Chamber Symphony Players of Winston-Salem, will include everything from Gershwin to Beethoven. Concerts will be at Gray Auditorium in Old Salem and at Reynolda House, Jon Kuhn Gallery and Zevely House.
Tickets -- with the exception of the Zevely concert, which includes dinner -- are $15, $10 for seniors and $5 for students. See www.carolinasummermusicfestival.org or call 366-682-8524.
■ Ken Keuffel can be reached at 727-7337 or at kkeuffel@wsjournal.com.
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