Jazz legend Herbie Hancock kicks off CPA’s 20th season
Carolina Performing 艺术 celebrates its 20th season with a star-studded slate of performers.
Carolina Performing 艺术 is celebrating its 20th anniversary by asking big questions about America — where it’s been, where it’s going and how the country fits into the fabric of the world.
定下基调 CPA 2024-25赛季 is one of the most iconic and impactful artists in American music history, 爵士大师赫比·汉考克. The 84-year-old Hancock will open CPA’s 20th year with a 9月. 24日在纪念堂演出.
汉考克的职业生涯长达50年, 14 Grammy Awards and includes collaborations with fellow music legends like Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell. 同样重要的是, Hancock is known for his humanitarian work and his channeling of art to help foster peace, serving as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations’ UNESCO agency.
“Herbie Hancock is the perfect ambassador to launch our 20th season,艾莉森·弗里德曼说, the James and Susan Moeser executive and artistic director for CPA. “He’s used his platform to promote peace dialogue and cultural exchange through music, and this is something that’s vital to the core of what Carolina Performing 艺术 does.
“我们的使命是搭建桥梁. We use arts as the tool to bring groups together to see and experience sides of cultures, people and societies that you don’t get through the news, 通过商业和商业或通过政治.”
Hancock’s performance sets the stage for an eclectic and start-studded CPA season that Friedman says will explore “what it means to be part of this American experiment.”
亮点包括:
- “这片土地是你的土地” by Martha Redbone Roots Project and American Patchwork Quartet 10月. 25. The evening will pay homage to the diverse cultural mosaic within America, 就像红骨镇的民风一样, blues and gospel reflect her southeastern Cherokee/Choctaw and African American roots.
- “美国铁路” 丝绸之路合奏团与Rhiannon 吉登斯. 20. 吉登斯, CPA的三年驻校艺术家, returns to direct Silkroad’s exploration of the Transcontinental Railroad that was built by Irish, 华人和其他移民社区, as well as African Americans and displaced indigenous communities.
- 五部分 “这是美国” 系列，从12月开始. 《太阳城娱乐城》，由驻馆策展人约翰尼·甘德尔斯曼(Johnny Gandelsman)创作. A Grammy-award winning violinist and member of the Brooklyn Rider quartet, Gandelsman developed this project during the COVID-19 pandemic. 正如他所描述的, the series “celebrates America’s rich cultural tapestry and its myriad perspectives, 思想和观念, offering a vivid counterpoint to the idea that this land can be understood through a singular, 主导观点.”
None of these performances aim to provide clear-cut answers about the American experiment.
“We’re not so presumptuous to say we know how to define America,” Friedman said. “It’s about asking questions and then listening to different responses and insights. We’re hoping that audiences this year come in with an open, curious and courageous mind.”
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除了校内演出, CPA’s 20th season will also venture into the Chapel Hill community and surrounding area.
Most notably, CPA has partnered with campus and community stakeholders to bring the iconic 斋浦尔文学节到北卡罗来纳 第一次. Held annually in India, JLF-North Carolina will take place 9月. 27-28 on campus and at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh and features a caravan of writers, 思想家, 诗人, 有影响力的人, 叙事家和演说家.
Additionally, 第一次, CPA will present two performances at The Chapel of the Cross. Brookyln Rider will pay tribute to iconic composer Philip Glass 10月. 著名合唱团The Crossing将进行演出 “属于我的东西” 11月. 15.
