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Piedmont Arts Podcast

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Barbara Krumdieck and Kenney Potter on "Messiah"

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2018/12/02

Handel’s oratorio Messiah is a cultural perennial that has numerous performances every holiday season. Barbara Krumdieck, director of the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, and choral conductor Kenney Potter are collaborating on performances featuring the Charlotte Master Chorale. They speak about the historically informed approach they take to the familiar favorite, and why it keeps drawing them back year after year. Learn more about Charlotte Master Chorale's performance of

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Christopher Warren-Green on "The Planets" and "Deep...

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2018/11/27

Music and imagery combine in a Charlotte Symphony concert program that brings together Holst’s beloved masterwork, The Planets , with a new work by the popular living composer Eric Whitacre called Deep Field . Music director Christopher Warren-Green describes the technological innovations in the Whitacre piece, which includes projected images from the Hubble Space Telescope and incorporates a phone app into the orchestration. The maestro also tells us about the astrological origins of

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Kenney Potter on the Brahms "Requiem"

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2018/10/29

Kenney Potter, one of the area’s most popular choral conductors, talks about the Brahms Requiem performance by the Charlotte Master Chorale at First United Methodist Church. He tells us about the works unusual power to heal and console, and about his artistic goals for the ensemble in the future. Learn more about the Charlotte Master Chorale performance of Brahms' Requiem

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Arthur Post on Copland, Haydn and Rachmaninoff

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2018/10/28

Western Piedmont Music Director candidate Arthur Post speaks about the concert he’ll conduct at Lenoir Rhyne University. For this “audition” of his talents, he’s selected a varied program of Copland, Haydn and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances . Learn more about Masterworks II: Fall

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Lee Pringle on the Colour of Music Festival

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2018/10/19

The 2018 Colour of Music Festival will take place at various venues throughout historic Charleston, SC. The festival highlights classical composers, musicians and vocalists of African descent. Lee Pringle, founder and artistic director of the Colour of Music Festival, speaks about the importance of this type of music series; the highlights of the current season; and the music teacher who inspired his love of classical music. Learn more about The Color of Music Festival

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Matthew Troy on “Mystery, Science and Theater”

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2018/09/30

After years under the leadership of maestro John Gordon Ross, this season the Western Piedmont Symphony is searching for a new music director. A number of promising prospects will be visiting to lead the orchestra in performances, and the first is a conductor familiar to music lovers in North Carolina. Matthew Troy will lead the orchestra in the first Masterworks Concert of the 2018 - 2019 season in P. E. Monroe Auditorium at Lenoir-Rhyne University. He speaks with WDAV about the wide-ranging

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Karin Hendrickson and Douglas Webster on Bernstein’s...

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2018/09/11

UNC School of the Arts marks the Bernstein centennial with an ambitious production of the composer’s theatrical work, Mass . Music director Karin Hendrickson, and stage director Douglas Webster speak about why Mass was commissioned to dedicate the Kennedy Center in Washington; the challenges of mounting a production with 200 performers onstage; and about the work’s timely message of coming together during turbulent times. Learn more about WDAV's 40th Anniversary Reception &

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Gene Kavadlo

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2018/08/06

After 43 years as the principal clarinetist with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Gene Kavadlo is retiring. He began his career as a music educator in the Manhasset Public Schools on Long Island before taking a gamble to become a symphony musician. He talks with WDAV about his musical journey, living in Charlotte and what will come next as he turns the page on an incredible career.

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Diane Restaino on the Joedance Film Festival

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2018/07/25

Since 2010, Charlotte has hosted a unique film festival with a very important mission. The Joedance Film Festival exists to raise funds and awareness for research into rare pediatric cancers, and focuses on the work of North Carolina filmmakers. Diane Restaino tells us why her family devised a film festival as way to raise funds for this cause, and the inspiration provided by the festival’s namesake, her son Joe. Learn more about the JoeDance Festival Pictured: Joe Restaino from

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Gil Morgenstern on An Appalachian Summer Festival

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2018/07/08

Guest Gil Morgenstern is violinist and director of the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, which is featured every year in the chamber music series that launched the Appalachian Summer Festival 34 years ago. He speaks with WDAV about his cross- disciplinary approach to programming the concerts, and about the highlights of the chamber series this season. Learn more about An Appalachian Summer Festival Pictured: Gil Morgenstern; photo by Natasha Patel

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Scott Allen Jarrett and Margaret Carpenter Haigh on...

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2018/06/06

Bach Akademie Charlotte aims to be the premier voice for Bach and Baroque music in the Charlotte region, specializing in the historically informed performances with a focus on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. They’re presenting their inaugural Bach Festival in June 2018. Artistic Director Scott Allen Jarrett and Artistic Administrator Margaret Carpenter Haigh visit WDAV to talk about why they’re doing a Bach Festival in their first year of existence, the value such a festival can

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Nigel Redden on Spoleto Festival USA

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2018/05/27

The Spoleto Festival USA is one of the leading arts festivals in the country, and a highlight of the cultural scene in the Carolinas. Festival director Nigel Redden speaks with WDAV about how the festival makes the city of Charleston “come alive” for seventeen days each year with “an embarrassment of artistic riches.” He also recommends some of the events this season that are of particular interest to classical music lovers. Learn more about this year's Spoleto

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Christopher Warren-Green on the Music of the Royal...

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2018/05/14

Charlotte Symphony Music Director Christopher Warren-Green has become the “go-to” conductor for British royal weddings. The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Saturday, May 19 marks his third time on the podium leading the orchestra for royal nuptials. (Previously, he conducted at the ceremonies for Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles and for Prince William and Kate Middleton.) Although he’s now a royal ceremony veteran, Warren-Green shares with WDAV a few of his

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James Meena and Douglas Tappin on I Dream

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2018/05/13

The Queen City’s venerable opera company is departing from its familiar repertory to present something timely and powerful – a rhythm & blues opera called I Dream . James Meena, general director and principal conductor of Opera Carolina, talk about his aspirations for this new work, and composer Douglas Tappin speaks about how his musical hybrid is ideal for telling the story of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Learn more about Opera Carolina's performance

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Mark Petering and Aubrey Foard on Concerto for Tuba

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2018/05/08

As the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (CSO) wraps up its latest Classical Series, there will be a rare opportunity to hear a Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra written by contemporary composer Mark Petering. We speak with Mark about his work "Lament" from Concerto for Tuba, and some of his earlier work – including a composition for orchestra and locomotive. We also speak with soloist Aubrey Foard, the CSO’s Principal “Tubist,” about playing Petering’s work for

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Dan Forrest and Christopher Gilliam on the Choral...

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2018/04/29

On this edition two guests speak about the End-of-Year Masterworks Performance by the Choral Arts Society of Davidson. The concert features the latest work by prolific composer Dan Forrest. It’s called Jubilate Deo, and uses texts in several languages including Latin, Mandarin and Zulu. The composer speaks about the inspiration for this new piece, as well as “the supremacy of the human voice,” and Choral Arts Society director Christopher Gilliam tells us how the ensemble works to

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John Gordon Ross

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2018/04/09

Conductor John Gordon Ross of the Western Piedmont Symphony bids farewell to the podium after twenty-seven years. He spoke with WDAV about his plans for retirement, how the orchestra has changed over the years, and what he’s enjoyed about living in Hickory. Gordon's farewell concert will be held at Lenoir Rhine University in Hickory. The concert features Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 , with the Hickory Choral Society, Lenoir Rhyne A Capella Choir, and Catawba Valley Community

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Matthew Diffee on One Man Group Show

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2018/03/19

New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee speaks with WDAV about his exhibit “One Man Group Show” at the Hickory Museum of Art. He talks about his training in fine art, and about how standup comedy led him to drawing cartoons. Pictured: Matthew Diffie self-portrait/ matthewdiffee.com Learn more about the One Man Group Show

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Linda Weisbruch on Heart of the Home Kitchen Tour

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2018/02/26

Linda Weisbruch of the Symphony Guild of Charlotte speaks about the popular, yearly "Heart of the Home" Kitchen Tour. In addition to details about the six homes that are part of the event, she also discusses the positive impact the Guild has on the Charlotte Symphony, and why the orchestra is so important to her.

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Cathy Youngblood on the Caritas Ensemble

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2018/02/19

Artistic Director and Conductor Cathy Youngblood of the Caritas Ensemble talks with WDAV about upcoming concerts at Davidson College Presbyterian Church and Christ Episcopal in Charlotte. She talks about the group’s purpose, and why she believes choral music is “the deepest expression of the soul.”

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