A classical view

Here are some of the latest reviews from the CVNC.org or the Classical Voice of North Carolina, a nonprofit, online performing arts journal:

Deep Dish Theater: Uncle Vanya – A quietly simple set depicts what should be a simple, quiet home in Deep Dish Theater Company’s Uncle Vanya, currently onstage at University Mall. But the return of the man who actually owns the home, rather than running it, has put the entire household into a panic. (Runs through March 14) Full review

Arts Now: I’m Talkin’ Here – On Tuesdays and Thursdays, you can find him impersonating a music professor at Price Music Center. But during a lunar eclipse or a blue moon, composer and director of the Arts Now Series at North Carolina State University, Dr. Rodney Waschka transforms himself — sometimes into a Were-Being (pronounced w-a-r-e, by the way). The latest program took place on Tuesday evening, in the safety of Tally Student Center Ballroom – where the lights were lit, for the comfort of new listeners. Full review

Chapel Hill Community Chorus and Chapel Hill Philharmonia Benefit Concert –Two of Chapel Hill’s leading cultural organizations joined forces to support the Inter-faith Council of Chapel Hill and its work with folks for whom the recession has become an all-too-personal nightmare. Full review

Duke Music: Encounters with the music of our time – Programs at the East Duke Nelson Music Room, on the campus of Duke University, are frequently interrupted by local distractions. Perhaps a Cageian moment this time, it seemed perfectly natural that the 8 o'clock train would arrive to accompany Shirish Korde's beautiful 1990 composition, "Tenderness of Cranes." Flutist Laura Gilbert wasn't in the least bothered by the intrusion as she gracefully traversed the numerous stands holding music attached to gilded corrugated cardboard with scalloped edges. Her scintillating performance was an auspicious beginning. Full review