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Page The newly redesigned Ring A10 Theater features a temporary Elizabethean stage for the production of Hamlet. Page A11 Arts Entertainmentwww.ogb.wfu.edu old gold and black& thursday, august 24, 2000 World-renowned performers highlight Secrest By Katie Venit tify” classical music. An article in title role in “Samson et Dalila.” Assistant A&E Editor the May 8, 1993 issue of The Wash- Other notable appearances for ington Post described a meeting Graves include a concert at the The 2000-2001 Secrest Artists of these two artists: “When one 1999 Nobel Peace Prize Awards in Series will present a variety of thinks of the harp, often rippling Oslo, Norway in which she was the classical performers, from a flute swirls of sound come to mind. only classical music artist invited and harp duet to the “River- But how often do we associate to perform. She is also a frequent dance” fiddler. the instrument with, say, Amer- guest star on the famous children’s The season will start with flut- ican blues, or with Japanese show “Sesame Street.” ist Eugenia Zukerman and harp- Kyoto music? (Zukerman and Despite this résumé, Graves ist Yolanda Kondonassis on Sept. Kondonassis) provided an exqui- does not confine her style to oper- 21. site evening of imaginatively pro- atic. She is a sought-after master of Zukerman was born in Cam- grammed works, ranging from English Art Song, Broadway musi- bridge, Mass. She entered Bar- Gershwin, Persichetti and Scarlatti cals, crossover and jazz music and nard College and intended to to Japanese and Chinese works, American spirituals. major in English, but soon she along with French Impression- A native of Washington, D.C., decided to transfer to The Julliard ism.” Graves attended Duke Ellington School where she studied with Kondonassis, one of America’s School for the Performing Arts. Julius Baker, a renowned flutist. foremost harpists, was born in She attended Oberlin College Zukerman has played at sev- Norman, Okla. She has studied Conservatory of Music and the eral world-famous music festivals, the harp since she was 9 years New England Conservatory. including the Aspen Music Fes- old and attended the Interlochen Graves has released many CDs tival and the Mostly Mozart Fes- Arts Academy for high school. including a recording of spiritu- tival. She has released several She received her bachelor’s and als, Angels Watching Over Me, albums, including Aria, a collec- master’s degrees at the Cleveland and a collection of French arias, tion of opera favorites, and Incan- Institute of Music. Among several Héroïnes de l’Opéra romantique tation, a selection of her solo flute other releases, Kondonassis’ latest Franéais. recordings. release features a harp transcrip- Graves will perform for the Other than her flute career, tion of Vivaldi’s “The Four Sea- Secrest Artists Series with the Win- this Renaissance woman may be sons.” Courtesy of News Services ston-Salem Piedmont Triad Sym- known from her 19 years on “CBS Kondonassis wants to change phony March 22. the image of the harp as a ABOVE: The Bang On A Can All-Stars and RIGHT: the Sunday Morning” as the arts cor- Takács String Quartet are just two of the groups lined Eileen Ivers will close out the gentle instrument. “Most people’s respondent. up for this year’s Secrest Artist Series. Secrest Season March 22 with her Zukerman is also the author of images of the harp are rather lov- band, playing various Irish tunes three screenplays and two novels: ingly held,” she said in the Oct. with some surprises thrown in. Deceptive Cadence and Taking the 10, 1996 issue of the Greensboro pest’s Liszt Academy. They made formers. Six players kept coming who have committed their lives Ivers is a revolutionary fiddler, Heat. Zukerman also co-authored News and Record. “I don’t think the their North American debut tour back to participate in the festi- to music. The All-Stars debuted at crossing between the Irish flavor a book with her sister, Dr. Julie harp has been used in a delicate in 1982. val, and eventually, the festival the Lincoln Center in the 1993-94 that she performed for Riverdance Ingelfinger, called Coping with fashion. The instrument can really Takács has regularly appeared lumped them together to create season with two concerts in the to the jazz and hip-hop music she Prednisone. be so much more. The colors in every major music capital and the Bang On A Can All-Stars. Great Performers Series. Since listened to in her youth. Zukerman does not want to pres- and textures of the harp are an prestigious festival since its forma- Michael Gordon, David Lang then, the group has released Ivers’s album, Crossing the ent her work as designed merely incredible resource for compos- tion. and Julia Wolfe, the artistic direc- several CDs, including Brian Bridge, explores the relationships for the master classical listener. ers. There’s a lot more repertory The members of the group tors of the Bang On A Can Fes- Eno’s Music for Airports in 1998 between the music of Spain, She said, in an article in the than we think there is.” obtained residency at the Univer- tival combined the talents of cel- and Cheating, Lying, Stealing in Africa, the West Indies, Cuba and November/December 1994 issue The next Secrest event will be sity of Colorado at Boulder in list Maya Beiser, bassist Robert 1996. Ireland, and also the genres of of Symphony, “I can believe pri- the Takács String Quartet on Oct. 1983, shortly after their arrival in Black, pianist Lisa Moore, percus- Denyce Graves debuted at the jazz, hip-hop, reggae, flamenco vately that classical music repre- 17. The quartet consists of violin- the United States. sionist Steven Schick, electric gui- Metropolitan Opera in the and bluegrass. sents the highest achievement in ists Edward Dusinberre, Karoly They received permanent fac- tarist Mark Stewart and clarinet- 1995-96 season as the title role in In whatever she plays, there is music in the last 500 years, but the Schranz and Roger Tapping and ulty appointments at that univer- ist and saxophonist Evan Ziporyn “Carmen.” always an Irish undertone, a rem- minute I say such a thing, I would cellist Andras Fejer. The string sity in 1986. into the All-Stars group. This mezzo-soprano returned nant of her background. Ivers was perpetuate the formality and isola- quartet formed in 1975, with One of the most interesting Representing genres from clas- for the same role in the 1997-98 born in an Irish community in the tion that exists. I want to de-mys- Gabor Takács-Nagy, the group’s events on the lineup for next year’s sical to rock to jazz, these All-Stars season, this time performing Bronx and first started playing the tify classical music. It is not for the namesake, and Gabor Ormai, Secret Series is the Bang On A represent the vision of the festi- opposite Plácido Domingo. fiddle when she was 8 years old. elite, but it is for the informed.” who were later replaced by Dusin- Can All-Stars on Nov. 9. The val that Gordon, Lang and Wolfe Graves has since performed the She has since toured with “River- Zukerman’s partner in the Sept. berre and Tapping. The original Bang On A Can Festival began had in mind at its inception, to role of Carmen a number of times, dance” and has formed her own 21 performance, Yolanda Kon- four members were assembled in 1987 and has since been dis- introduce adventurous, dynamic seeming to make it her specialty. all-woman folk group, Cherish the donassis, also hopes to “de-mys- when they were studying at Buda- covering exciting alternative per- and intense musicians to the world She has also mastered the female Ladies. To have your event listed, send Ziggy’s attracts students, bands e-mail to [email protected], fax CALENDAR to (336) 758-4561 or write to P.O. Box 7569. Ziggy’s Tavern is the best place in sage: “Roots, Rock, Reggae.” The diver- Music lovers will surely be delighted sity of the acts that have graced that very town to catch musical acts ranging stage holds true to this theme. 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