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BRIEFS: String Band Comes to UNCG Music School

Posted on: Thursday, 30 March 2006, 12:00 CST

By Times-News, Burlington, N.C.

Mar. 30--GREENSBORO -- The School of Music at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro will celebrate North Carolina's musical heritage April 7 with some of the top string band performers in the state, including cross-picking legend George Shuffler. N.C. Music Fest will include workshops, films, presentations and a free public concert at 7:30 p.m. in the School of Music Recital Hall. Shuffler, who spent 20 years with the Stanley Brothers, will be joined by Bob Carlin (banjo), Doug Rorrer (guitar), Josh Goforth (violin), Laura Boosinger (banjo) and Taylor Rorrer (guitar). Dr. Gavin Douglas, ethnomusicologist at the UNCG School of Music, is organizing the event. He says he hopes it will broaden the scope of musical styles studied at the school. The festival includes public fiddle and guitar workshops the morning of April 7, a panel discussion that afternoon and Iris Chapman's film about Mebane fiddler Joe Thompson that afternoon. N.C. Music Fest is the first in a series of celebrations to showcase less recognized musical styles, Douglas said. The shows will take place every two or three years, financed by a grant from the N.C. Humanities Council. For more details about the festival, visit www.uncg.edu/mus/stringfest.html. Academy of Ancient Music to play CHAPEL HILL -- Britain's Academy of Ancient Music, one of the world's bestknown period music orchestras, will perform at 8 p.m. Monday at Memorial Hall, the University of North Carolina, as part of the Carolina Performing Arts Series. The chamber orchestra will perform an all-Mozart concert focusing on the composer's violin works. It includes his Divertimento in F Major, Violin concertos No. 1 and 5 and Symphony No. 29 in A Major. The concert is one of two major classical music events the new few days. The Brentano String Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. today at Memorial Hall to kick off Carolina's Festival on the Hill, a weekend of performances celebrating the legacy of North Carolina's Black Mountain College. They will play Arnold Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2. Tickets for both concerts are $28 to $50 and are available weekdays at the box office or by calling (919) 843-3333. Futrell to conduct at Carnegie Hall ELON -- Stephen Futrell, director of choral activities at Elon University, will conduct his first Carnegie Hall concert this coming Sunday evening. The concert will feature more than 200 high school singers performing as part of a learning experience organized by Field Studies, Inc. The firm contracts with choral conductors and educators to work with mass choirs; Futrell will rehearse the choir for two days before the performance. The concert includes "Libera me" from Faure's "Requiem," a "Sanctus" by Craig Courtney and "In Remembrance" by Ames, as well as Futrell's arrangements of "Shenandoah" and "It's a Most Unusual Day," a patriotic melody and song by Freddie Mercury. "Performing at Carnegie is definitely a thrill," he said. He previously sang there with the University of Missouri at Kansas City's Heritage Chorale.

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