When it designed a year of performance around Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” Carolina Performing Arts knew it wanted to include the work’s modern torchbearers. The genre-bending string quartet Brooklyn Rider fit the bill.
Gilberto Gil, a Brazilian guitarist and pop musician, performed at Memorial Hall Monday night. Gil’s music is noted for its African roots and eclectic style.
After 25 years, Philip Kan Gotanda’s narrative about Chang and Eng Bunker is ready to be told.
During the 20th century, contemporary classical music flourished in the Soviet Union — but it had to remain underground. The Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory — the first official contemporary music group in Russia — opposed the government with avant-garde compositions and practice.
Telling a story better than Jack London might sound intimidating, but two playwrights have accepted the challenge.
Three years after its controversial performance of “Orpheus and Eurydice,” Compagnie Marie Chouinard is returning to Memorial Hall.
A woman behind a screen wrestles with a cello, making it sound more like an electric guitar than a classical instrument. The world premiere performance of “Elsewhere” is a collaboration between cellist Maya Beiser and director Robert Woodruff, commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts.
The actualization of Carolina Performing Arts’ “The Rite of Spring at 100” began Sunday night — and it did not end in a riot.
Paris, 1913: Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” opens at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and is met with cries of outrage and hostile taunts.
Carolina Performing Arts is having its second most profitable year since 2005 — and it’s just getting started.
In an era of continuous budget cuts, campus arts organizations have made strides to become more self-sufficient, taking on larger budgets and projects.
The National Theatre of Scotland, which performed two years ago in Memorial Hall, is returning to UNC to open Carolina Performing Arts’ new season.
All the world’s a stage, and Carolina Performing Arts is one of the major players this year.
The first showing of “The Rite of Spring” in 1913 elicited audience participation — but not on purpose.
Ellen James, the marketing manager for Carolina Performing Arts, is pursuing a job offer with the Duke School of Nursing. Her last day with Carolina Performing Arts was Tuesday.
Carolina Performing Arts will bring nine world premieres and two U.S. premieres from around the globe to the Memorial Hall stage in its 2012-2013 season.
One of UNC’s own has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Council on the Arts.
The recipients of Grammy Awards in nine categories — the most in the awards’ history — will play tonight in Memorial Hall.
Within two weeks, Carolina Performing Arts is presenting two very different ballets.
In the span of a week, the music of Senegal, European youth and some of America’s finest jazz musicians will grace the stage of Memorial Hall.
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