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WDAV To Broadcast Live From Carolinas Summer Music Festivals
If you intend to be one of classical music’s next great players, you don’t spend your summers flipping burgers or hanging out by the pool. You commit to an intensive multi-week summer music institute...
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Video greeting from from the campus of Guilford College from WDAV’s mid-day host, Jennifer Foster, who invites you to tune in for live coverage of the Eastern Music Festival Thursday and Friday from 10...
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WDAV Settles in at Eastern Music Festival
WDAV is broadcasting live this week from the Eastern Music Festival held at historic Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. Our staff is already there setting up our studio-away-from-home and conducting...
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WDAV And The Summer Festivals
Thank you to Greensboro’s Eastern Music Festival, which hosted WDAV last week on the campus of historic Guilford College. We heard outstanding performances from students, faculty and guest performers,...
View ArticleHow Many Radio Pros Does it Take to Park an RV?
On loan, WDAV’s mobile broadcast studio makes its way to stage right, Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium. Live Broadcasts from WDAV’s Camper Van Beethoven on Friday and Sunday!
View ArticleWDAV Bids a Fond Farewell to Summer
This long Labor Day weekend, WDAV bids farewell to summer by sampling selections from the great Carolinas summer music festivals we’ve visited over the past few months.You’ll hear music from Piccolo...
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WDAV Dispatch from Spoleto
https://s3.amazonaws.com/wdav.org/audio/20170518172826_dispatch-1-returning-to-spoleto.mp3 As WDAV embarks on another season visiting the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, it’s inevitable to look...
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The Charlotte New Music Festival
by Joe Brant, WDAV Weekend Host & Operations Manager Loadbang The Charlotte New Music Festival (CNMF) is going on now through July 1 at various venues, both conventional and unconventional....
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WDAV Dispatch from Spoleto: Spoleto Theater and Dance
By Lawrence Toppman Soaring was the main activity of the opening weekend of Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston. Literally so in exuberant performances by Miami City Ballet and metaphorically so in “The...
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Dispatch from Spoleto: Seven Memorable Moments from the Chamber Music Series
Pictured: Geoff Nuttall (far left), the Director of the Bank of America Chamber Music series, with members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet and pianist Pedja Muzijevic at the Dock Street Theatre....
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Dispatch from Spoleto: A Night at the Opera
Pictured: Elliot Madore in the US premiere of Tree of Codes, with music and libretto by Liza Lim. Photo by William Struhs. By Lawrence Toppman Every opera at Spoleto Festival USA that gets a U.S....
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A Festive Carolina Summer
Summer festivals, featuring diverse artistic contributions from chamber music and orchestra to theatre and choral singing, are happening across North and South Carolina. Below you’ll find highlights...
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Spoleto at Home
Pictured: The St. Lawrence String Quartet plays Haydn’s “Emperor” quartet during the Bank of America Chamber Music series. Photo by William Struhs. By Frank Dominguez I didn’t travel to Europe for the...
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Summer Festivals Play On(line)
By Frank Dominguez As the pandemic drags on in the Carolinas, the arts continue to feel the repercussions. Particularly hard hit are the regional summer music festivals that have been a haven of...
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Carolina Summer Festivals: Live and In-Person
Updated July 15, 2021. Though virtual offerings have been a sustaining force for music lovers over the past year, there’s something about enjoying a symphony in the fresh mountain air that screens...
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In Spoleto Festival Chamber Music Series, Last Minute Changes Can Be Good News
By Lawrence Toppman Ever-restless Geoff Nuttall, wearing a brown suit and a sheepish grin, paced the Dock Street Theatre stage before concert No. 4. “I like getting emails from you,” the host of the...
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“Omar” Triumphs, “Unholy Wars” Struggles
Pictured: Cheryse McLeod Lewis in “Omar” photo by Leigh Webber/courtesy Spoleto Festival USA. By Lawrence Toppman “A folk musician and a movie composer.” I heard that fragment of speech, which sounded...
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Bach Akademie Charlotte Springs into Christmas
By Lawrence Toppman Before the pandemic, Bach Akademie Charlotte (BAC) anchored its first two seasons with Johann Sebastian Bach’s profoundest utterances, the B Minor Mass and the St. Matthew Passion....
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