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Wynton Marsalis
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Published: January 4, 2009
Updated: 01/03/2009 08:20 pm
Jan. 15
The N.C. Black Repertory Company will present its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration at 7 p.m. in the Arts Council Theatre, 610 Coliseum Drive. Expect eclectic performances.
Admission is free, but reservations are mandatory. Call 336-723-2266.
Those making reservations are asked to donate at least three nonperishable food items to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina. The items will be collected at the door before the performance.
Jan. 20-May 16
Wake Forest University's Museum of Anthropology will showcase 74 funerary figures known as kkoktu in an exhibit called "Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World."
The figures, carved from wood in the 19th and 20th centuries, depict colorful acrobats, clowns and mystical animals that were used to decorate funeral biers. They reflect the realities of rural Korean life, and they represent a desire that the deceased loved one enter the next world surrounded by joy.
Admission is free. The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Several related activities will explore Korean culture. See www.wfu.edu/moa or call 336-758-5282.
Jan. 22 and Feb. 28
The Revolve Film Festival, in addition to presenting a five-day festival, will be screening a new independent film each month.
The January film will be Fiona Conchrane's Four of a Kind, a narrative mystery about four women who unknowingly share a dark secret. The February film will be Denny Tedesco's The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about a group of Los Angeles studio musicians who were featured in hits by such artists as Frank Sinatra, the Beach Boys and the Monkees.
Both films will be screened at 7 p.m. in Drama Workshop at Salem College. Admission for Four is $5 at the door. Admission for Crew is $10. See www.revolvefestival.com or call 336-722-8238.
Jan. 24
How does the winner of a major piano competition sound when he's not competing?
Listeners can find out when Jon Nakamatsu performs in recital in Watson Hall at the UNC School of the Arts.
Nakamatsu won the gold medal at the 10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997. He will perform Haydn's Sonata No. 33 in C minor, Chopin's Andante Spianato and Grande Polinaise Brilliante and Schumann's Papillons and Carnaval.
The recital will be at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12, $10 for seniors and students. See www.uncsa.edu or call 336-721-1945.
Jan. 30, 31 and Feb. 1, 5-8
The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem will present I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change in the Arts Council Theatre, 610 Coliseum Drive.
The show, a four-person musical with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts, celebrates the mating game as it takes on truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum known as "the relationship."
Shows will be at 8 p.m. Jan. 30, 31 and Feb. 5-7, with 2 p.m. matinees Feb. 1 and 8.
Tickets are $22, $20 for seniors and $18 for students. Student rush tickets for $10 will be offered 10 minutes before showtime. There will be a sneak-preview performance Jan. 29, with open seating at $10. The box office will open Jan. 26. See www.LittleTheatreOnline.com or call 336-725-4001.
Jan. 31
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis spends more than a third of each year on tour.
The group will stop by Williams Auditorium at Winston-Salem State University to perform selections from a repertoire that includes music by Ellington, Basie, Henderson, Gillespie, Goodman and many others.
Showcased will be trumpeter Marsalis; he's the first artist to win jazz and classical Grammy awards in the same year, and he was the first jazz composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in music.
The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $47 in advance, $55 on the day of the show and $12 for WSSU students; call 336-750-3220.
Feb. 13, 14 and 19-22
Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance will present Stephen Dolginoff's musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story at Theatre Alliance's venue, 1047 Northwest Blvd.
The show recounts the story of "thrill killers" Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who "committed one of the most infamous and heinous crimes of the 20th century."
Shows will be at 8 p.m. Feb. 13, 14, 19, 20 and 21, with a 2 p.m. matinee Feb. 22. Tickets are $16, $14 for students and for seniors 62 and older. Special rates are available for groups of 10 or more. See www.wstheatrealliance.org or call 336-723-7777.
Feb. 19
Alison Balsom, a rising virtuoso trumpeter, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall, as part of the Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University.
The program will include music for trumpet, violin, cello and keyboard. It will feature such works as Vivaldi's D-Major Concerto, Purcell's Sonata, De Falla's Seven Songs and Piazzolla's Libertango.
Tickets: $16, $13 for seniors and non-WFU students, $5 for children under 12; call 336-758-5295. The concert is free for WFU staff and students.
Note: Kevin Bowen, the director of bands at WFU, will present the free Secrest Signature pre-performance talk at 6:40 p.m. in Room 208 of the Scales Fine Arts Center. From 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 20, Balsom will lead a master class for trumpet students at WFU and the UNC School of the Arts in Room 167 of UNCSA's Music Complex. The class is free, but an invitation is required; call 336-758-5757.
Feb. 25
During the run of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, in Thrust Theatre at the UNC School of the Arts, there will be a special tribute on Feb. 25 to Gerald Freedman, the school's drama dean.
The tribute will start a drive to endow a drama professorship in Freedman's honor. The attendees will include Mandy Patinkin, who originated the role of Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park on Broadway.
Tickets to the tribute are $100 (8 p.m. performance and dessert reception); $250 (cocktail reception, dinner, performance and dessert reception); and $500 (cocktails, dinner, performance, dessert and a $250 contribution to the professorship). Call UNCSA's advancement office at 336-770-3329.
The rest of the Sunday in the Park performances will be at 8 p.m. Feb. 20, 21, 26-28 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 22. Tickets are $12, $10 for seniors and students; see www.uncsa.edu or call 336-721-1945.
Feb. 19-22
Dancers from Keigwin and Company will perform alongside their counterparts at the UNC School of the Arts during UNCSA's Winter Dance concert at the Stevens Center. The presentation will include a new work by Larry Keigwin.
"Winter Dance" will also include new work by Trish Casey as well as Jerome Robbins' Fanfare, with the Benjamin Britten score to be performed from the pit by the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra.
Evening shows will be at 8 p.m. Feb. 19-21, with a 2 p.m. matinee Feb. 22.
Tickets are $12, $10 for seniors and students; see www.uncsa.edu or call 336-721-1945.
■ Ken Keuffel can be reached at 727-7337 or kkeuffel@wsjournal.com.
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