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The Inside the Classics section of our website is currently being redesigned. Sam and Sarah’s blog will be temporarily inactive, as we plan the 201...
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I think I’ve mentioned a few times before that I’m a bit of a baseball nut. I grew up rooting for the Phillies and Twins (yes, I have two teams, an...
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Um, no. Not that kind of fleece. So, can we talk about this Olympics thing ? I know everyone’s been piling on the organizers of this summer’s Lo...
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The opening weekend of Sommerfest is always a big event for the orchestra, and this Friday and Saturday will be no different, except for the fa...
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Tonight, as every Monday night through August 27, WUNC-FM will broadcast another favorite NCS performance from 10pm to midnight. Legendary broadcas...
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Hello my followers! I am here to share with you some pictures taken at reharsal yesterday. The little Jackie Evancho did not reharse… We...
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Make it big, make it fun, make it the 80s this coming Saturday at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary with Totally Awesome 80s with NCS Associate Conductor ...
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I’ve written often about the huge amount of preparation that Sarah and I put into every new Inside the Classics program, and even when we put on ...
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One of the really great things about these Common Chords residencies that the orchestra has begun undertaking is that, rather than just blowing i...
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As I said in my last post, the full orchestra won’t be descending on Willmar until Thursday afternoon, but Sarah and two chamber ensembles have bee...
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It’s been a tough few weeks for the orchestra and our extremely hardworking staff, as you might have heard , so if you don’t mind, I’d like to onc...
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We’re taking questions and ideas from the room this month, and as I mentioned at the end of my last post, commenter Michael presented us with an in...
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My last post on how I had nothing to write about generated a few interesting questions that I responded to in the comments, but it also included a ...
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Ordinarily, when this blog goes dark for a week or more, it’s because I’m so absurdly overwhelmed with work that I haven’t had time to write. But t...
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We’ll get back to Judd’s post-premiere thoughts soon, I promise – he’s in the one of the busiest stretches of his season at the moment, and I told ...
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When former NBC correspondent and anchor John Dancy retired after 27 years of reporting the events of the world from London, Berlin, Moscow and Was...
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“His work is fresh and arises from a distinct personality.” – San Francisco Classical Voice The Yale School of Music presents a Doctor of ...
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As promised, here’s the first installment of my post-premiere conversation with Judd. I knew he’d been thrilled with the performances of Acadia a...
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Music Director Grant Llewellyn and the North Carolina Symphony Youth SInfonietta present theirsecond concert of the season this coming Sunday, Apri...
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Two weeks ago, as we wrapped up the MicroCommission Project with two electric performances of Judd Greenstein’s Acadia , I promised that we’d have...
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