Category Archives: Art

The Handspring Puppet Company was in town for two Memorial Hall performances of Tall Horse plus a few sessions with UNC art classes. The life-sized puppets were certainly impressive, and the telling of the 19th century story of Eqypt’s gift … Continue reading →

The acoustics of Memorial Hall have been perfect all season, but they really shined in this performance. Youssour N’Dour’s powerful vocals would have overwhelmed many venues, I think. Instead, even I got the sense of being out in the desert … Continue reading →

Thursday night brought out the jazz geeks, mostly to see jazz legend Marian McPartland. She’s the only performer I’ve seen to get a standing ovation before the performance began. Though 87 years old, you couldn’t tell it from her energetic … Continue reading →

Japanese violinist Midori (Goto) performed with pianist Charles Abramovic last night. (I didn’t catch the name of the other performer — the guy turning the pages for the pianist.) She’s apparently a world-class violinist, and we overheard someone at intermission … Continue reading →

We unfortunately missed DJ Spooky and Los Lobos while on vacation. We gave our tickets to friends who said both events were very good. Friday night we saw Tift Merritt and Nanci Griffith. I have to admit I’m not a … Continue reading →

Our second show of the performing arts series was tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake performing Shubert pieces. I can’t decide if I would have liked it better if the singing was in English or not. Being in German, … Continue reading →

To celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary, Bonnie and I got season tickets for the Carolina Performing Arts Series at the newly renovated Memorial Hall at UNC. We don’t see a lot of performance art, so it will be a good … Continue reading →