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1 (Saturday)

UNCSA Symphony Orchestra

The concert will feature concerto competition winner Scott O’Toole in Joseph Schwantner’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. The program finishes with Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, known as The Great Symphony. James Allbritten conducts.

7:30 p.m. at Stevens Center

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

3-7 (Monday-Friday)

Emerging Choreographers

An exciting evening of world premiere works by college senior contemporary dance students is presented.

7:30 p.m. at de Mille Theatre

FREE, but please call the Box Office to make reservations.

4 (Tuesday)

Towering Trios

Pianist Eric Larsen, violinist Joseph Genualdi and cellist Brooks Whitehouse present an evening of trios. Franz Schubert’s Trio in B-flat major and Antonin Dvořák’s “Dumky” Trio are regarded as landmarks in the Classical and Romantic chamber music literature as well as perennial favorites of chamber music lovers.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

5-7 (Wednesday-Friday) & 13-16 (Thursday-Sunday)

A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard

Directed by Matt Bulluck / Featuring members of Studio 4

Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shepard’s enormously vital and outrageously humorous 1985 play explores the destinies of two dysfunctional families linked by marriage but set apart by jealousies and distrust in the gritty American West.

Oct. 5-7 and Oct. 13-15 at 8 p.m.

Oct. 15 & 16 at 2 p.m.

Catawba Theatre, Performance Place

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

6 (Thursday)

UNCSA Jazz Ensemble

The award-winning UNCSA Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ron Rudkin, will perform a program offering an extensive range of big band jazz styles, including traditional swing, Latin, fusion and contemporary. The performance will feature the group’s most talented jazz soloists and highlight different sections of the band.

7:30 p.m. at Thrust Theatre, Performance Place

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

15 (Saturday)

Joseph Genualdi Violin Recital

Richard Wilson, professor and holder of the Mary Conover Mellon Chair at Vassar College, will be the featured guest on a program including his Concert Piece for violin and piano with UNCSA faculty member Joseph Genualdi. Also on the program will be the Brahms Sonata op. 100, and Schubert’s Rondo Brilliante.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

16 (Sunday)

Cantata Singers Concert

James Allbritten leads the ensemble in one of Rossini’s final works, Petite Messe Solonnelle. Rossini originally wrote the mass to be performed in the private chapel of a friend’s home, with accompaniment of two pianos and harmonium. For years the original manuscript was kept in the library of a friend, but has recently been made available to the public. With this new edition, the Cantata Singers will perform Rossini’s mass as he originally intended.

2 p.m. at Crawford Hall

FREE

17 (Monday)

The Lightness of Being - Presented by Heliand Consort

20th century French music for winds and piano.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

FREE

22 (Saturday)

Trumpet Tunes – The Global Collection

Professors Judith Saxton and Allison Gagnon join forces in their annual musical partnership to present tunes from their world travels with stops in Germany, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Greece and Canada. Included in this eclectic mix will be a piece by N.C. composer Terry Mizesko, a guest singer for Robert Starer’s The Mystic Trumpeter, and a featured performance by new clarinet faculty member Oskar Espina-Ruiz. In an innovative, interactive twist, the audience will choose the final piece/country.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

25 (Tuesday)

Sheila Browne Viola Recital – By Special Arrangement (Part Two)

Violist Sheila Browne has made special arrangements to bring pianist David Kalhous from the Czech Republic and flutist and UNCSA alumna Debra Reuter-Pivetta to Watson Hall to perform with the UNCSA Chamber Ensemble. This program will include the premiere of Mozart’s glorious Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola as transcribed by Ms. Reuter- Pivetta, as well as performances of Franck’s Violin Sonata and Bloch’s dramatic 1919 Suite.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

27-30 (Thursday-Sunday)

Innocent Thoughts, Harmless Intentions by John Heuer

Directed by Kelly Maxner / Featuring members of Studio 3

This theatrically innovative play, set in the barracks of a remote Alaskan outpost during the Korean conflict, centers around a sadistic corporal, cruel pranks performed by his squad on a sensitive “misfit” in the ranks, and an Eskimo native awaiting the fate of her illegitimate pregnancy.

Oct. 27-29 at 8 p.m.

Oct. 29 & 30 at 2 p.m.

Patrons Theatre, Performance Place

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

Oct. 28-30 (Friday-Sunday) & Nov. 2-6 (Wednesday-Sunday)

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Rob Ruggiero / Featuring members of Studio 4

Tennessee Williams’ explosive 1948 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama changed the landscape of the American theatre. In the sultry French Quarter of New Orleans, we are introduced to the indelible characters Blanche Du Bois, a faded Southern belle; her pregnant sister, Stella; and Stanley Kowalski, her primal, brutish husband.

Oct. 28-29 & Nov. 2-5 at 8:00 p.m.

Oct. 30 & Nov. 5-6 at 2:00 p.m.

Thrust Theatre, Performance Place

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

29 (Saturday)

Low and Lower

With works by Deak, Steinmetz and Haydn, cellist Brooks Whitehouse and bassist Paul Sharpe step artfully in and out of the traditional roles of their instrumentation to present a concert that is: 1) more crazy than classical, 2) more serious than comedy, and 3) more virtuosic than the instrumentation suggests.

7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall

$15 adults / $13 students and seniors

6 (Thursday)

Wake Forest University presents

Alberto Pedro’s Cuban Musical

Havana Delirium

Stevens Center

7:30 p.m.

$8-$12

8 (Saturday)

Kids of Childhood Cancer presents

Bowzer & the Stingrays

Reynolds Auditorium

7 p.m.

$50-$15

15 (Saturday)

Winston-Salem Symphony

Stevens Center

7:30 p.m.

$41-$16

16 (Sunday)

Winston-Salem Symphony

Stevens Center

3 p.m.

$61-$14

18 (Tuesday)

Winston-Salem Symphony

Stevens Center

7:30 p.m.

$61-$14

28 (Friday)

Piedmont Opera

Don Giovanni

Stevens Center

7 p.m.

$81-$16

29 (Saturday)

David Sedaris

Stevens Center

8 p.m.

$55-$40

30 (Sunday)

Piedmont Opera

Don Giovanni

Stevens Center

3 p.m.

$81-$16