Good free chamber music in Durham:
Thursday, September 8
7:00 pm—Lyceum Series, B. N. Duke Auditorium, NC Central University, Durham
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No.1, Mvt. III
Prokofiev: String Quartet No.1 in B minor, Op. 50
Wynton Marsalis: At the Octoroon Balls
Rampart St. Row House Rag
Chick Corea: The Adventures of Hippocrates
Quasi Tango
Quasi Fugue
Borodin: String Quartet No.2 in D Major
919-530-6932; http:// nccu.edu/administration/opr/
Free admission
http://www.harlemquartet.com/
Free concert is tomorrow night!
Prokofiev chamber music is rarely heard live since he is the Leonard Bernstein of Russian composers. Borodin was an equal genius though less prolific, with some of the most beautiful music ever written to his name.
I'll keep an open mind through the Marsalis, remembering the admission price. :-P