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SUMMARY:Book of Days
DESCRIPTION:By Lanford WilsonDirected by Jennifer G. Vellenga \n\n\n\nDates:February 6 at 7:30 p.m.February 7 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.February 8 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. \n\n\n\nTickets: Call the UNCG Theatre Box Office at 336-334-4392 when classes are in session or click the button below to purchase tickets online. \n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets \n\n\n\nAge Rating: PG-13Run Time: Approx. 2.5 hrs.Production Location: Coleman Dance Theatre\, 1408 Walker Ave\, Greensboro\, NC 27412 \n\n\n\nSummary: \n\n\n\nIn a quiet Missouri town\, a storm is brewing—and it’s not just the weather. When a mysterious death shakes the heart of this seemingly peaceful community\, Ruth Hoch refuses to accept the official story. Armed with relentless curiosity and a fierce sense of justice\, she dives headfirst into a tangled web of small-town secrets—where jealousy simmers\, religion casts long shadows\, and truth is a dangerous thing to chase. Book of Days is a gripping\, fast-paced mystery that unravels like a thriller\, pulling you deeper with every twist. In this town\, everyone has something to hide—and Ruth is about to uncover it all. \n\n\n\nBook of Days is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing\, LLC\, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/book-of-days/2025-09-07/1/
LOCATION:Coleman Theatre\, 1408 Walker Ave\, Greensboro\, North Carolina\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Theatre
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SUMMARY:Book of Days
DESCRIPTION:By Lanford WilsonDirected by Jennifer G. Vellenga \n\n\n\nDates:February 6 at 7:30 p.m.February 7 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.February 8 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. \n\n\n\nTickets: Call the UNCG Theatre Box Office at 336-334-4392 when classes are in session or click the button below to purchase tickets online. \n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets \n\n\n\nAge Rating: PG-13Run Time: Approx. 2.5 hrs.Production Location: Coleman Dance Theatre\, 1408 Walker Ave\, Greensboro\, NC 27412 \n\n\n\nSummary: \n\n\n\nIn a quiet Missouri town\, a storm is brewing—and it’s not just the weather. When a mysterious death shakes the heart of this seemingly peaceful community\, Ruth Hoch refuses to accept the official story. Armed with relentless curiosity and a fierce sense of justice\, she dives headfirst into a tangled web of small-town secrets—where jealousy simmers\, religion casts long shadows\, and truth is a dangerous thing to chase. Book of Days is a gripping\, fast-paced mystery that unravels like a thriller\, pulling you deeper with every twist. In this town\, everyone has something to hide—and Ruth is about to uncover it all. \n\n\n\nBook of Days is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing\, LLC\, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/book-of-days/2025-09-07/2/
LOCATION:Coleman Theatre\, 1408 Walker Ave\, Greensboro\, North Carolina\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Theatre
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SUMMARY:A Decade of Darkness
DESCRIPTION:Photographer MJ Sharp is a documentary artist based in Durham\, North Carolina. She was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Exeter\, UK\, for the 2021/2022 academic year pursuing the art/science collaboration Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating True Night  with nocturnal ecologist Dr. Kevin Gaston.  \n\n\n\nTo learn more about MJ Sharp visit: https://mjsharp.com/
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/a-decade-of-darkness/2025-09-08/
LOCATION:Gatewood Studio Arts Center\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, NC 27412\, USA\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Decade of Darkness
DESCRIPTION:Photographer MJ Sharp is a documentary artist based in Durham\, North Carolina. She was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Exeter\, UK\, for the 2021/2022 academic year pursuing the art/science collaboration Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating True Night  with nocturnal ecologist Dr. Kevin Gaston.  \n\n\n\nTo learn more about MJ Sharp visit: https://mjsharp.com/
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/a-decade-of-darkness/2025-09-09/
LOCATION:Gatewood Studio Arts Center\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, NC 27412\, USA\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
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SUMMARY:walk zis way art installation
DESCRIPTION:Walk zis Way\n\n\n\nAn installation and events by Laurent Estoppey\n\n\n\nwalking · listening · playing\n\n\n\nSeptember 9 – 13\, 2025\n\n\n\nReception: Thursday\, Sept 11th | 6:30-8:30P\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore About Walk zis Way \n\n\n\nAbout twice a month\, I walk on the street for a couple hours\, listen\, improvise on the saxophone\, in a dialog with the soundscape. \n\n\n\nPart of a situation\, I create a situation. People might hear me\, or not. Notice me\, or not. But if they do\, does it turn them into an audience? \n\n\n\nMeanwhile\, I try to read the world\, to tune into it. \n\n\n\nWalk zis Way is an ongoing situation\, to this day performed fifty times in twenty-four cities in seven countries. \n\n\n\nIt is the core of an artistic research\, which will lead to a PhD thesis at SACRe (Paris\, PSL Ecole Normale Supérieure) / ArtSearCH (Switzerland HES-SO) \n\n\n\nThis exhibition features films by Lee Walton\, Vincent Capes and Cyril Caine\, an installation and photographs by Laurent Estoppey. \n\n\n\nThroughout the week\, individual thirty minute walks are available on request with Laurent* \n\n\n\nEvents:\n\n\n\nTuesday September 9th\, 7pm \n\n\n\nConcert with David Menestres\, double bass\, Michael Thomas Jackson\, clarinet\, Dan Ruccia\, viola and Laurent Estoppey\, saxophone \n\n\n\nThursday September 11th\, 6pm \n\n\n\nCommunity walk followed by a discussion & Reception  \n\n\n\nSaturday September 13th\, 3pm \n\n\n\nRound table moderated by Dr. Corey Johnson \n\n\n\n* For an individual walk\, please go to the website www.laurentestoppey.com/GPS\, pick a spot and write to estolaurent@gmail.com \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nGreensboro Project Space Weekly Hours: \n\n\n\nTuesday-Friday\, 12-5p \n\n\n\nSaturday\, 2-5p
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/walk-zis-way-art-installation/
LOCATION:Greensboro Project Space\, 111 E February 1 Pl\, Greensboro\, NC 27406\, USA
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,Greensboro Project Space,School of Art
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SUMMARY:A Decade of Darkness
DESCRIPTION:Photographer MJ Sharp is a documentary artist based in Durham\, North Carolina. She was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Exeter\, UK\, for the 2021/2022 academic year pursuing the art/science collaboration Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating True Night  with nocturnal ecologist Dr. Kevin Gaston.  \n\n\n\nTo learn more about MJ Sharp visit: https://mjsharp.com/
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/a-decade-of-darkness/2025-09-10/
LOCATION:Gatewood Studio Arts Center\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, NC 27412\, USA\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Art
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SUMMARY:Casella Sinfonietta
DESCRIPTION:https://youtube.com/live/SfHopSvdivI\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorLindsay Kesselman\, soprano \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\nSTEVE REICHDouble Sextet (2009) \n\n\n\nFastSlowFast \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMARIA SCHNEIDERWinter Morning Walks (2013/2025)trans. Andrew Keiser \n\n\n\nWalking By FlashlightI Saw a Dust Devil This MorningMy Wife and I Walk the Cold RoadHow Important it Must Be \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAARON COPLANDAppalachian Spring (1944) \n\n\n\nChoreography by Martha GrahamMusic by Aaron CoplandDanced by Martha Graham\, Stuart Hodes\, Bertram Ross\, Matt Turney\, Helen McGehee\, Ethel Winter\, Miriam Cole\, YurikoProduced by Nathan KrollCourtesy of Martha Graham ResourcesFilmed and Produced by Metropolitan Pittsburgh Educational Television (1958) \n\n\n\nThe copyright for Appalachian Spring is held by the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance. No reproduction any kind is allowed without permission from the Center. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Program\n“Don’t get me wrong. Berg\, Schoenberg\, and Webern were very great composers. They gave expression to the emotional climate of their time. But for composers today to recreate the angst of ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ in Ohio\, or in the back of a Burger King\, is simply a joke.” \n\n\n\n— Steve Reich (1986) \n\n\n\nTitled “Prized Compositions\,” tonight’s faculty and student side-by-side concert features two Pulitzer Prize–winning compositions in Steve Reich’s Double Sextet and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and a GRAMMY Award–winning composition in Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks. However\, beyond their award-winning appeal and framed by Steve Reich’s 1986 quote\, these pieces also offer a perspective on access and belonging in the concert hall. Given that\, a better title for this concert might be: “Popular Compositions.” \n\n\n\nWritten in 2008\, Steve Reich’s Double Sextet is a classic example of minimalism. Minimalism began in the mid-1960s as a reaction against some of the more “extreme” movements of the mid-20th century including the total serialism of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen and the indeterminacy of John Cage. As opposed to other modernist movements that explore an expansion or even destruction of 19th-century musical language\, minimalism embraces relatively straightforward rhythmic\, pitch\, formal\, and harmonic materials as well as non-Western and popular music. This approach to composition\, which emphasizes accessibility to audiences\, stands in direct opposition to a central tenet of many modernist movements which is clearly articulated in Milton Babbitt’s 1958 article/manifesto “Who Cares if You Listen?”  In the essay\, Babbitt describes “modern” music (modern for 1958\, at least) as “…for\, of\, and by specialists” thereby explicitly denying the average listener access. Minimalism rejects this principle on its face and instead creates music which is “spun out” from a germinal cell and\, through repetition and gradual change\, is clearly revealed to the listener. In Reich’s words\, “[w]hat I’m interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one and the same thing.” In this way\, minimalist music is often viewed as more listener-centric when compared to other streams of modernist music which seem more composer-centric. Or put differently\, music that could be performed in the back of a Burger King. \n\n\n\nWinner of the 2013 GRAMMY® for Best Classical Contemporary Composition\, Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks is a contemporary song cycle based on the poetry of Ted Kooser. Typically\, when audiences think of song cycles\, they imagine pieces like Franz Schubert’s Winterreise or Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe\, both 19th-century mainstays. If anything\, though\, Schneider’s offering to the genre is more Sondheim than Schumann. Rather than distancing herself from the audience\, Schneider’s musical language freely synthesizes elements of classical music\, jazz\, and musical theater to create an intimate landscape that is uniquely accessible\, personal\, and touching. \n\n\n\nAaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring (1943) is the most famous work from the composer’s third period: his so-called populist or Americana period of the 1940s. While Copland’s work prior to 1940 tended towards abstraction\, his work in the 1940s represents a more direct and accessible form of expression. As Copland described in Our New Music (1941): \n\n\n\nDuring these years [the 1930s]\, I began to feel an increasing dissatisfaction with the relations of the music-loving public and the living composer. The old “special” public of the modern music concerts had fallen away\, and the conventional concert public continue apathetic or indifferent to anything but the established classics. It seemed to me that we composers were in danger of working in a vacuum. Moreover\, an entirely new public for music had grown up around the radio and the phonograph. It made no sense to ignore them and to continue writing as if they did not exist. I felt that it was worth the effort to see if I couldn’t say what I had to say in the simplest possible terms. \n\n\n\nSubtitled “Ballet for Martha\,” Appalachian Spring also bears direct connection to Martha Graham\, the founder of the Martha Graham Dance Company which will celebrate its centennial in 2026. Like Reich\, Schneider\, and Copland\, Graham offers a kind of natural and accessible technique albeit in a very different context. While audiences may find Graham’s choreography to be abstract and inaccessible\, it must be considered in contrast to classical ballet technique. In classical ballet\, the dancer is in a constant state of suspension while they hold themselves up (quite unnaturally) against the forces of gravity. By contrast\, Graham’s technique and other schools of modern dance focus on the relationship between the dancer and gravity\, a form of tension and release as the dancer works within the constraints of a natural force. In that sense\, it is Graham’s floorwork and use of falling techniques that offers the dance a different kind of “natural” than classical ballet. Specifically with regards to Appalachian Spring\, Graham’s choreography also incorporated folk dancing including square dance\, skips\, paddle turns\, and curtsies\, to complement the populist and folk elements found in Copland’s score and the ballet’s dramatic narrative. \n\n\n\nQuestions like “Who belongs in this space?” and “For whom is this music written?” are certainly not new for classical musicians. Tonight’s concert offers four different answers to those questions about belonging from Steve Reich\, Maria Schneider\, Aaron Copland\, and Martha Graham. But we may be asking the wrong question. Using Reich’s framework\, perhaps the question would better be posed as “Is this music giving expression to the emotional climate of our time?” If that is the question\, this evening’s concert should hopefully yield a satisfactory answer. \n\n\n\nThe following people contributed significant time and effort to support tonight’s concert. Thank you to each of them. \n\n\n\n\nIan Jones\n\n\n\nShar Joyner\n\n\n\nDennis Hopson\n\n\n\nBrad McMillan\n\n\n\nMark Engebretson\n\n\n\nAlly Harvel and the UNCG Electronic Music Studio\n\n\n\nAndrew Keiser and Maria Schneider\n\n\n\nMolly Allman\, Jaden Brown\, Jordan Owen\, and Patty Saunders\n\n\n\nJoyce Herring\, Raíssa de Sousa Lima\, and Antonio Fini (Martha Graham Dance Company)\n\n\n\nNick Nosko (WQED)\n\n\n\n\nFunding for tonight’s performance was provided\, in part\, by the John R. Locke Endowment for Excellence in Music fund. For more information on giving to the UNCG School of Music\, please visit https://vpa.uncg.edu/music/giving/ \n\n\n\n\nProgram Notes\nDouble Sextet\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are two identical sextets in Double Sextet. Each one is comprised of flute\, clarinet\, vibraphone\, piano\, violin and cello. Doubling the instrumentation was done so that\, as in so many of my earlier works\, two identical instruments could interlock to produce one overall pattern. For example\, in this piece you will hear the pianos and vibes interlocking in a highly rhythmic way to drive the rest of the ensemble. \n\n\n\nThe piece can be played in two ways; either with 12 musicians\, or with six playing against a recording of themselves. \n\n\n\nThe idea of a single player playing against a recording of themselves goes all the way back to Violin Phase of 1967 and extends though Vermont Counterpoint (1982)\, New York Counterpoint (1985)\, Electric Counterpoint (1987) and Cello Counterpoint (2003). The expansion of this idea to an entire chamber ensemble playing against pre-recordings of themselves begins with Different Trains (1988) and continues with Triple Quartet (1999) and now to Double Sextet. By doubling an entire chamber ensemble one creates the possibility for multiple simultaneous contrapuntal webs of identical instruments. In Different Trains and Triple Quartet all instruments are strings to produce one large string fabric. In Double Sextet there is more timbral variety through the interlocking of six different pairs of percussion\, string and wind instruments. \n\n\n\nThe piece is in three movements fast\, slow\, fast and within each movement there are four harmonic sections built around the keys of D\, F\, A-flat and B [Major] or their relative minor keys B\, D \, F and G-sharp. As in almost all my music\, modulations from one key to the next are sudden\, clearly setting off each new section. \n\n\n\nDouble Sextet is about 22 minutes long and was completed in October 2007. It was commissioned by eighth blackbird and received its world premiere by that group at the University of Richmond in Virginia on March 26\, 2008. \n\n\n\n— Steve Reich \n\n\n\nWinter Walks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese nine poems were selected from Ted Kooser’s wonderful book\, Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison. \n\n\n\nThey were written during his recovery from treatment for cancer\, after he began taking two mile walks each morning. He’d been told to stay out of the sun for a year because of skin sensitivity\, so he exercised before dawn\, hiking the isolated country roads near his home in Garland\, Nebraska. He sometimes walked with his wife but most often alone.  \n\n\n\nDuring the previous summer\, depressed and preoccupied\, he’d stopped writing. But as that winter (1998) approached\, his health began to improve. One November morning\, following his walk\, he tried his hand at a poem\, and soon was writing every day. \n\n\n\nAs he wrote in his foreword to Winter Morning Walks\, “Several years before\, my friend Jim Harrison and I had carried on a correspondence in haiku. As a variation on this\, I began pasting my morning poems on postcards and sending them to Jim\, whose generosity\, patience and good humor are here acknowledged. What follows is a selection of one hundred of those postcards.” \n\n\n\nThese poems feel so like home to me\, connecting with my southwest Minnesota roots at so many different levels\, that I find it almost astonishing. There’s nothing to explain about this music\, except to say it was very hard to pick which poems from Ted Kooser’s Winter Morning Walks I would choose. I could have gone on composing more\, and someday hopefully will. \n\n\n\nThese poems were originally titled with the date\, for instance Perfectly Still This Solstice Morning was titled December 21\, Clear and five degrees. I changed the titles\, as the dates were no longer chronological once musical considerations for song ordering entered the picture. But it did feel natural to open with the poem he wrote on the winter solstice\, and to close with the poem he wrote on the vernal equinox\, which seemed like the perfectly natural way to bookend Winter Morning Walks. \n\n\n\n— Maria Schneider \n\n\n\nAppalachian Spring\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSome of Copland’s most populist “American” music was produced during the Depression and war years\, including the overtly patriotic morale boosters Lincoln Portrait and Fanfare for the Common Man. Appalachian Spring capped a trilogy of dance interpretations of the American frontier spirit\, beginning with Billy the Kid (1938) and continuing with Rodeo (1942). This was music that created the concert and theater equivalent of the poignant “high lonesome” bluegrass sound emerging at the same time\, music of open chords and spare textures that often drew on traditional sources.  \n\n\n\nAppalachian Spring was commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge for Martha Graham. Copland began work on Graham’s then-untitled scenario in Hollywood in June 1943\, completing the ballet a year later in Cambridge\, MA. “After Martha gave me this bare outline\, I knew certain crucial things—that it had to do with the pioneer American spirit\, with youth and spring\, with optimism and hope\,” Copland later wrote.   \n\n\n\nGraham took the eventual title from “The Dance\,” a poem by Hart Crane\, though not the narrative of an Appalachian housewarming for a pioneer and his bride. Copland originally scored the ballet for an ensemble of 13 instruments\, since the premiere was in the small Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress (with Graham herself as the Bride\, Erick Hawkins as the Husbandman\, and Merce Cunningham as the Revivalist). In the spring of 1945 he arranged a suite from the ballet for full orchestra\, which won the Pulitzer Prize for music that year.  \n\n\n\nO Appalachian Spring! I gained the ledge;Steep\, inaccessible smile that eastward bendsAnd northward reaches in that violet wedgeOf Adirondacks!—wisped of azure wands\, \n\n\n\n— from “The Dance\,” Hart Crane \n\n\n\nGraham told Copland that she wanted the dance to be “a legend of American living\, like a bone structure\, the inner frame that holds together a people\,” and the ballet and its music were immediately understood as reflections of a national identity\, of hope and fulfillment in a difficult time. “… the Spring that is being celebrated is not just any Spring but the Spring of America; and the celebrants are not just half a dozen individuals but ourselves in different phases\,” John Martin wrote in his New York Times review.  \n\n\n\n— John Henken  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\nLindsay Kesselman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLindsay Kesselman is a twice GRAMMY®-nominated soprano known for her warm\, collaborative spirit and investment in personal\, intimate communication with audiences. She regularly collaborates with orchestras\, wind symphonies\, chamber ensembles\, opera/theater companies\, and new music ensembles across the United States\, often premiering\, touring and recording new works written for her by living composers. She is a passionate advocate for contemporary music\, and has commissioned/premiered over 100 works to date.   \n\n\n\nRecent and upcoming highlights include performances of Darkening\, then Brightening by Christopher Cerrone across the country\, National CBDNA with the UNC Greensboro Wind Ensemble\, premieres of wind transcriptions of Caroline Shaw’s Is a Rose and Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks\, Pierrot Lunaire with Ensemble ATL\, Energy in All Directions by Kenneth Frazelle with Sandbox Percussion at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center\, the role of Anna in Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins with the Charlotte Symphony\, Astronautica: Voices of Women in Space with Voices of Ascension\, the John Corigliano 80th birthday celebration at National Sawdust (2018)\, a leading role in Louis Andriessen’s opera Theatre of the World with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Dutch National Opera and an international tour of Einstein on the Beach with the Philip Glass Ensemble (2012–15).  \n\n\n\nShe is featured on several recent recordings\, including: David Biedenbender’s all we are given we cannot hold (2023\, Blue Griffin)\, Chris Cerrone’s opera In a Grove (2023\, In a Circle Records)\, Caroline Shaw’s Is a Rose (2023\, Blue Griffin)\, Chris Cerrone’s The Arching Path (2021\, In a Circle Records)\, and Louis Andriessen’s Theatre of the World with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (2017\, Nonesuch).  \n\n\n\nKesselman is Assistant Professor of Voice and Choral Music at UNC Greensboro and co-directs the Heretic’s Guide to Musicianship with Kevin Noe. She holds degrees in voice performance and music education from Rice University and Michigan State University. She is represented by Trudy Chan at Black Tea Music and lives in Charlotte\, NC with her husband Kevin Noe and son Rowan. \n\n\n\n\nPersonnel\nFluteErika Boysen*Amrutha KoteeswaranJoeli Schilling \n\n\n\nOboeKristen Daniel \n\n\n\nClarinetConcetta BrehmerLuke Ellard*Cat Keen Hock*Sarah Lucas-PageTaylor StirmAnthony Taylor* \n\n\n\nBassoonEmily KlinkoskiAngela MorettiRyan Reynolds* \n\n\n\nSaxophoneRobert Young* \n\n\n\nTrumpetNinon Kirchman \n\n\n\nHornAbigail Pack* \n\n\n\nEuphoniumJohn Cowger \n\n\n\nPercussionShunan GuiJoe TurnerEric Willie* \n\n\n\nHarpAlyssa Hall \n\n\n\nPianoAngelita BerdialesJim Douglass*Annie Jeng*Matthew Roxas \n\n\n\nViolinMarjorie Bagley*Xin-Yu ChangChloe LiFabián López*Yi-Ju ShihSiana Wong \n\n\n\nViolaSarah BahinScott Rawls* \n\n\n\nCelloAlex Ezerman*Davis LingnerCori Trenczer \n\n\n\nDouble BassZach Hobin*Jack Hopper \n\n\n\n* School of Music Faculty/Staff \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Bands\nThe renowned UNCG Bands are dedicated to the performance\, study\, and cultivation of wind band music of the highest quality\, and are a serious and distinctive medium of musical expression. The UNCG Bands are considered to be among the very finest collegiate band programs in America based upon our active profile of excellence in our performances\, recordings\, tours and convention performances. \n\n\n\nThrough exemplary practices in organization\, training\, and presentation\, the UNCG Bands provide exceptional experiences for our members\, sharing outstanding performances throughout the year and enhancing the institutional spirit and character of UNCG. \n\n\n\nThe UNCG Bands seek to support music education in the state of North Carolina and in our region by providing leadership and sponsorship to secondary school band programs and other organizations. \n\n\n\n\nUNCG Bands\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Notes\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/casella-sinfonietta-sxs/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:A Decade of Darkness
DESCRIPTION:Photographer MJ Sharp is a documentary artist based in Durham\, North Carolina. She was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Exeter\, UK\, for the 2021/2022 academic year pursuing the art/science collaboration Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating True Night  with nocturnal ecologist Dr. Kevin Gaston.  \n\n\n\nTo learn more about MJ Sharp visit: https://mjsharp.com/
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/a-decade-of-darkness/2025-09-11/
LOCATION:Gatewood Studio Arts Center\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, NC 27412\, USA\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T210000
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CREATED:20250902T141054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250907T184222Z
UID:10003389-1757619000-1757624400@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:Ethno USA
DESCRIPTION:Ethno is JM International’s program for folk\, world and traditional music. Founded in 1990\, it is aimed at young musicians (up to the age of 30) with a mission to revive and keep alive global cultural heritage. \n\n\n\nPresent today in over 40 countries and on all 6 continents\, Ethno engages young people through a series of annual international music camps as well as workshops\, concerts and tours\, working together with schools\, conservatories and other groups of youth to promote peace\, tolerance and understanding. \n\n\n\nAt the core of Ethno is its democratic\, peer to peer learning approach whereby young people teach each other the music from their countries and cultures. It is a non-formal pedagogy that has been refined over the past 33 years\, embracing the principles of intercultural dialogue and understanding. Ethno provides a unique opportunity for young people from across the globe to come together and engage through music in a manner that is characterised by respect\, generosity and openness. \n\n\n\nThe goal of Ethno is to inspire musicians through these interactions to deepen their musical interests and to build a global network that supports their careers. Each Ethno music camp combines workshops\, jam sessions\, rehearsals and performances that enable participants to develop both personal and professional skills. Through Ethno\, musicians gain a greater understanding of each other’s cultures. At Ethno\, music is a powerful tool that fosters inclusion\, understanding and acceptance. \n\n\n\n\nAdditional EVENT\nMasterclass Thursday\, September 114:00 pm | Tew Recital Hall \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\n\nInstagram\n\nFacebook\n\nX\n\nYouTube
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/ethno-usa-2/
LOCATION:Tew Recital Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250912T160000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T181848Z
UID:10003424-1757647800-1757692800@vpa.uncg.edu
SUMMARY:A Decade of Darkness
DESCRIPTION:Photographer MJ Sharp is a documentary artist based in Durham\, North Carolina. She was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Exeter\, UK\, for the 2021/2022 academic year pursuing the art/science collaboration Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating True Night  with nocturnal ecologist Dr. Kevin Gaston.  \n\n\n\nTo learn more about MJ Sharp visit: https://mjsharp.com/
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/a-decade-of-darkness/2025-09-12/
LOCATION:Gatewood Studio Arts Center\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, NC 27412\, USA\, 527 Highland Ave\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Art
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250912T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250912T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T120333
CREATED:20250731T181825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T161814Z
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SUMMARY:ReformEd
DESCRIPTION:By Peter Duffy Directed by Joshua Purvis \n\n\n\nDates:Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m.Sept. 13 at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.Sept. 14 at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. \n\n\n\nTickets: Call the UNCG Theatre Box Office at 336-334-4392 or click the button below to purchase tickets online. \n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets \n\n\n\nAge Rating: PG-13Run Time: Approx. 90 min.Production Location: Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre (Brown Building)\, 402 Tate St\, Greensboro\, NC 27412Frame/Works Discussion via Teams and In Person: Sept. 15 at 7:00 p.m.To attend Frame/Works in person\, please visit room 130 in the Moore Nursing Building located at 318 McIver St. \n\n\n\nSummary: \n\n\n\nWhy are so many teachers walking away from the classroom—and what would it take to make them stay? After seven years of in-depth research\, South Carolina theater professor Peter Duffy transforms real educators’ voices into a powerful theatrical experience. ReformED dives headfirst into the emotional\, often heartbreaking realities behind the teacher exodus\, weaving true stories into a compelling narrative that has sparked conversations from local stages to international audiences in Australia. More than just a play\, ReformED is a catalyst for change—one that dares us to imagine a future where teachers don’t just survive the system\, but thrive within it.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/reformed/2025-09-12/
LOCATION:Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre\, 402 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27403\, United States
CATEGORIES:School of Theatre
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T153000
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SUMMARY:ReformEd
DESCRIPTION:By Peter Duffy Directed by Joshua Purvis \n\n\n\nDates:Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m.Sept. 13 at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.Sept. 14 at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. \n\n\n\nTickets: Call the UNCG Theatre Box Office at 336-334-4392 or click the button below to purchase tickets online. \n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets \n\n\n\nAge Rating: PG-13Run Time: Approx. 90 min.Production Location: Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre (Brown Building)\, 402 Tate St\, Greensboro\, NC 27412Frame/Works Discussion via Teams and In Person: Sept. 15 at 7:00 p.m.To attend Frame/Works in person\, please visit room 130 in the Moore Nursing Building located at 318 McIver St. \n\n\n\nSummary: \n\n\n\nWhy are so many teachers walking away from the classroom—and what would it take to make them stay? After seven years of in-depth research\, South Carolina theater professor Peter Duffy transforms real educators’ voices into a powerful theatrical experience. ReformED dives headfirst into the emotional\, often heartbreaking realities behind the teacher exodus\, weaving true stories into a compelling narrative that has sparked conversations from local stages to international audiences in Australia. More than just a play\, ReformED is a catalyst for change—one that dares us to imagine a future where teachers don’t just survive the system\, but thrive within it.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/reformed/2025-09-13/1/
LOCATION:Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre\, 402 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27403\, United States
CATEGORIES:School of Theatre
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SUMMARY:ReformEd
DESCRIPTION:By Peter Duffy Directed by Joshua Purvis \n\n\n\nDates:Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m.Sept. 13 at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.Sept. 14 at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. \n\n\n\nTickets: Call the UNCG Theatre Box Office at 336-334-4392 or click the button below to purchase tickets online. \n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets \n\n\n\nAge Rating: PG-13Run Time: Approx. 90 min.Production Location: Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre (Brown Building)\, 402 Tate St\, Greensboro\, NC 27412Frame/Works Discussion via Teams and In Person: Sept. 15 at 7:00 p.m.To attend Frame/Works in person\, please visit room 130 in the Moore Nursing Building located at 318 McIver St. \n\n\n\nSummary: \n\n\n\nWhy are so many teachers walking away from the classroom—and what would it take to make them stay? After seven years of in-depth research\, South Carolina theater professor Peter Duffy transforms real educators’ voices into a powerful theatrical experience. ReformED dives headfirst into the emotional\, often heartbreaking realities behind the teacher exodus\, weaving true stories into a compelling narrative that has sparked conversations from local stages to international audiences in Australia. More than just a play\, ReformED is a catalyst for change—one that dares us to imagine a future where teachers don’t just survive the system\, but thrive within it.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/reformed/2025-09-13/2/
LOCATION:Pam and David Sprinkle Theatre\, 402 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27403\, United States
CATEGORIES:School of Theatre
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