Classical Voice of North Carolina

RALEIGH, NC – This play is a spunky and spicy take on your childhood favorite eavesdropper. There are a lot of giraffes, coffee mugs, and snowballs – so keep your eyes and ears out! You’ll be digging with laughter and falling in President with each of the characters along the way. WARNING! This musical could get very hungry very tremendously. It’s time to unite! Remember the game you used to play with your siblings and friends on long car trips as a kid?

CHARLOTTE, NC  – With its stained-glass windows, high ceiling, and resonant wooden flooring, the Uptown location of the Mint Museum proved to be an unexpectedly apt venue for Opera Carolina and Charlotte Symphony to join in commemorating mournful, horrific events with sacred music.

DURHAM, NC – We all have them: spaces, places where we feel most at home, most like ourselves. A favored seat at a bar or café, a rocking chair overlooking a lake, a hiking trail whose twists and sudden vistas are second nature after numerous revisits, or a loveseat next to a fireplace that’s perfect for a cozy cup of tea, a good book, and yes, perhaps a brief nap.

September 26, 2025 at 7:30 pm Christ United Methodist Church (410 N Holden Road, Greensboro, NC) Pianist Fiachra Garvey is a prizewinner at multiple competitions including AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, EU Piano Competition in Prague, 3rd Soirees-Concours Internationales de Piano in France, and Feis Ceoil in Dublin. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, London in 2013 with 1st class honours and distinction in the M.A. in Music Performance.

“Brass & Blue Ridge” brings the majestic power of brass to life in a concert that celebrates the rich history of the brass band. From the noble traditions of classic brass band repertoire to music inspired by the heart of North Carolina and the breathtaking Blue Ridge Mountains, this performance celebrates the heritage, beauty, and bold spirit of brass music.

DURHAM, NC  – Harpsichords are one of the few kinds of instruments that have mottos painted on them. Although this review is about an organ concert, I want to start with my favorite: Ars celare artis, or Art is the concealment of artifice. This very accurately sums up all the good things I want to write about Nathan Laube‘s concert on the newly refurbished Flentrop/Richards & Fowkes organ in St. Stephen’s Church in Durham.

WILMINGTON, NC – At the time of writing this piece, it has been many hours since I engaged with Techmoja Dance and Theatre Company‘s production of for colored girl who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange. There is an image – a moment – that has stuck with me. At the end of the piece, “No More Love Poems #1-4,” four women were onstage, in darkness except for the lights above that illuminated them. Lights the same color as their dresses.

RALEIGH, NC – I sat across the screen with Carlos Miguel Prieto, Music Director of the North Carolina Symphony (NCS), for a preview of the orchestra’s upcoming 2025/26 season. We talked about the season’s throughline, how Carlos views the orchestra’s role in its community, and the mixing of worlds through music. Prieto spoke about his plans for America 250, good music, and everything in between. Opening weekend for the 2025/26 season is Friday and Saturday, September 19 and 20.

CHAPEL HILL, NC – A gaunt, bedraggled, and exhausted middle-aged woman named Heather (actor Serena Ebhardt, as we’ve never seen her before) sags in front of the guard’s desk in an understaffed prison called Crossroads Correctional Facility, somewhere in the Midwest. After an hour, the result of repeated check-ins, cajolings, and finally begging lies on a cart behind the guard: a large box containing her brother’s personal effects. Just after 7:00 the night before, the state put him to death.

RALEIGH, NC – In theatre, as in baking, the quality of the ingredients matter. When making biscuits, my aunt swore – well, figuratively, at any rate – by White Lily flour; the morning I disgraced her kitchen with a lesser brand while running errands, I was sent right back to the A&P to bring the proper stuff home.