Best Melody Hill Podcasts (2024)

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Eric Boruff and Tara Villa Keith on the Carolina Youth Orchestra Summer Festival

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The inaugural Carolina Youth Orchestra Summer Festival will take place at Davidson College in early August 2024. The three-day clinic is designed to help young musicians develop their musical skills under the tutelage of professional musicians and broaden their connections to our music community. The festival culminates in a free public concert at …

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Shanté Williams on Opera Carolina

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On this Piedmont Arts podcast, we talk with Shante Williams, the new general director of Opera Carolina. Williams is a business owner and venture capitalist who has been on the Opera Carolina board for three years. She talks about the upcoming season, her passion for new operas, and about the group's future.…

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Getting Close UP! S3E4 featuring Russ Hill 24:45

5d ago24:45

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Welcome to Season 3 Episode 4 as host Danielle Cox explores the home town of President Truman; finding a community based, non-for-profit haven for creatives. Russ Hill is the sound engineer and event coordinator for live events at the Englewood Arts center; where many of the musical guest that have appeared on our show have performed. Check out thi…

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Getting Close UP! S3E3 featuring Delaney 26:47

1M ago26:47

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Getting Close UP! S3E3 finds us exploring another Oprah moment with singer, songwriter Delaney. Mother with mental challenges, growing up with abandonment issues, and being plagued with self-doubt of her own gift; host Danielle Cox and Delaney get into the depths of her psyche to understand where all the emotions come from in her music and lyrics. …

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Getting Close UP! S3E2 featuring Baby Augi 26:22

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Getting Close UP! S3E2 brings us face to face with a new artist with an eclectic style and sound. Meet Baby Augi. Growing up with no notion of pursuing music, Baby Augi finds himself at a crossroad that opens his creative inclinations to help others by telling personal stories of his own plight. Host Danielle Cox and Baby Augi take an in-depth look…

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Dr. Hilary Green on Juneteenth

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Juneteenth marks the date on June 19, 1865, when news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached the last remaining enslaved people in Texas. We talk with Davidson College historian Hilary Green about how Texas commemorations in the 19th century led to the declaration of a national holiday in 2021. We also get an overview of the Juneteenth ev…

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Getting Close UP! S3E1 featuring Psycho Mismatch 35:05

2M ago35:05

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Welcome to Season 3 of Getting Close UP! We start off this season with a very talented cast of talented characters who make up the band Psycho Mismatch. Each member coming from a different musical background, each member plays multiple instruments and each member holding on to a dream to use their talents for the love of using their talents. Host D…

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Focus on Charlotte Bach Festival 2024

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Bach Akademie Charlotte’s 2024 Bach Festival returns to various locations around Charlotte and this year’s festival is called “Bach Akademie Charlotte Goes to Italy.” While it is indeed a Bach festival, it’s bookended by opening and closing concerts that focus on music from Italy, namely Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 . We …

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Getting Close UP! S2E9 featuring Zee Underscore 28:08

2M ago28:08

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Talented, Original, Innovative, Unafraid, Unique, Uninhibited, Self-Aware are just a few words to describe our S2E9 guest; Zee Underscore. Growing up in a musical family, going to a performance arts school and finding her voice while pursuing a career some might think of as contradictory to her creative nature, this independent creative sits down w…

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Getting Close UP! S2E5 featuring B-Rich 33:55

2M ago33:55

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Season 2 Episode 5 introduces us to comedian and promoter Barton Richardson, better known on stage as B-Rich. Traveling across the world, from comedy venues to Def Jam comedy specials, B-Rich shares intimate details about what it takes to be a stand-up comedian; dropping gems of knowledge for any of you out there trying to break into the business. …

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Getting Close UP! S2E4 featuring Madness & Melody 30:54

2M ago30:54

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Season 2 Episode 4 brings to you a dynamic musical duo; Melinda Edlin and Oliver Hughes make up the group Madness & Melody. Accomplished singers and songwriter in their own right, found themselves on a colliding path of devastation and unfortunate that brought then together to combine their talents and tales that create a unique melody all their ow…

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Getting Close UP! S2E7 featuring Bugzy Beast 34:02

2M ago34:02

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Season 2 Episode 7 introduces you to rapper, storyteller and now..........singer, Bugzy Beast! Join Danielle and Bugzy in this hilarious interview (maybe Bugzy should try comedy to) as they get into the ins and outs of defining someone wanting to embark on a music career vs. just being a rapper. I hope you walk away with a better understanding of t…

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Getting Close UP! S2E8 featuring Steven Hooks Jr. 29:48

2M ago29:48

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As we are quickly approaching the end of Season 2, our Episode 8 allows us to switch up from music to a different type of creative. Steven Hooks Jr. is an entrepreneur, owning. his on Image Consulting, Event Planning, Production Company. Join Danielle and Steven as he allows a glimpse into his world as he delves into his beginnings, challenges, tri…

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Getting Close UP! S2E6 featuring Jamogi 27:50

2M ago27:50

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Season 2 Episode 6 introduces you to a singer, songwriter, producer and entertainer who's ambition and vision cannot be contained in a musical box. Danielle and Jamogi go memory deep into how, growing up as a church boy, moving from California to Kansas City and a family migrating from Belize to the US, has influenced his musical creations. This ep…

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Getting Close UP! S2E3 featuring Alan Kneeland 28:16

2M ago28:16

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Getting Close UP! Season 2, Episode 3 welcomes Alan Kneeland; owner of The Combine at 2999 Troost Ave, Kansas City Mo, and the first African American President of The Greater Restaurant Association. Danielle and Alan have an in-depth conversation about having passion that intertwines with a dream that results in establishing. your own business that…

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Getting Close UP! S2E10 featuring Jo Blaq 36:01

2M ago36:01

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We've come to the last show in season 2. Episode 10 features grammy nominated singer, songwriter, producer and now educator........Jo Blaq. With a plethora of industry experience; producing artist like Arianna Grande, Jill Scott and Justin Bieber (just to name a few), Danielle and Jo come together to talk his return to settle in his home town of Ka…

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Getting Close UP! S2E1 featuring Antonio J 26:04

2M ago26:04

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Getting Close UP! Season 2, Episode 1 welcomes Antonio J; rapper, songwriter and producer. Join Danielle as she gets up close and personal with Antonio J; digging deep into motivations, oppositions and the influence family has on the path that has been laid to express self-reflection in rhythm and rhyme.…

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Getting Close UP! S2E2 featuring Tyjuania Gatson 28:37

2M ago28:37

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Getting Close UP! Season 2, Episode 2 welcomes Tyjuania Gatson; owner of Minor Solutions. Danielle and Tyjuania get extremely personal discussing the evolution of a dream. Lemons into lemonade would be a good title for this segment as Tyjuania reveals how past abuse inspired her collection of "Faces Like Me". Just in time for Christmas, once you he…

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Rodney Marsalis on Summer in the Springs

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Trumpeter Rodney Marsalis is a member of the famous New Orleans musical family and the leader of the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass. We talk to Marsalis about his career and the group's upcoming concert at Gardner-Webb University. Learn more about the Summer in the Springs with the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass Concert Pictured: Th…

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Getting Close UP! S1E9 featuring MeShall Shumate 39:39

3M ago39:39

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Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 9 welcomes MeShall Shumate; award winning filmmaker, photographer and CEO of Shu Productions. If you've watched the GCU! Game Time with MeShall Shumate, you can just image what this interview is like. Between the laughs and during the fun Danielle and MeShall talk about the early years of being behind the camera,…

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Getting Close UP! S1E10 featuring Sean Tyler 32:33

3M ago32:33

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Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 10 welcomes Sean Tyler; Direction of Communications and Artist Management at Strange Music, Radio Personality, Content Creator, Singer, etc.....etc.....etc. We thought Sean would be the perfect guest for our season 1 finale. Being an intricate component of the #1 independent record company "Strange Music", his kn…

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Getting Close UP! S1E2 featuring theSanctuary 46:33

3M ago46:33

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Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 2 welcomes theSanctuary, a gospel recording artist. Host Danielle Cox takes us on a journey of musical beginnings, influences, up and downs, to the culmination of their last single and music video released on Memorial Day 2023, "In My Victory" (of which you can find on this channel.) Check out this episode as Dan…

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Getting Close UP! S1E3 featuring Jarvis Rhone 40:39

3M ago40:39

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Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 3 welcomes Jarvis Rhone; founder and inventor of U-Keys, a keyboard overlay to add pizazz to your look on stage or as an educational tool for the seeing and the deaf. Host Danielle Cox takes us on a journey of musical beginnings, staring his own business and the journey into expanding the unknown gifts of those h…

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Getting Close UP! S1E4 featuring Lawanda Spears 25:48

3M ago25:48

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Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 4 welcomes LaWanza Spear the author of "Southern Stories: The Family Secret". Pinned under the pseudonym "Albe Charles", her story of a family and the highs and lows they go through is so relatable, you will find yourself thinking through memories from your only family's secrets. Host Danielle Cox is enamored wit…

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Getting Close UP! S1E8 featuring Mike Murphy 33:36

3M ago33:36

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Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 8 welcomes Mike Murphy; singer, songwriter, and lead vocalist for the band Sunny Side Down. Tune in to this episode as Danielle and Mike dig deep into the emotional abyss from where the melodies and words are birth.By theSanctuary Entertainment

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Getting Close UP! S1E6 featuring Ryan Hamilton 28:43

3M ago28:43

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Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 6 welcomes Ryan C. Hamilton; a photographer, music blogger, and documentarian. Check out this episode as Danielle and Ryan discuss the road to finding your passion and the sacrifice, the confidence, the struggles, the commitment, and the determination it takes to live there. Out of his love of music Ryan co-found…

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Getting Close UP! S1E5 featuring Telepharo Howard 50:13

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Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 5 welcomes Telepharo; a rapper, singer, song writer and barber. Check out this episode as Danielle and Telepharo talk about his turbulent past and a praying Grandmother. See how both have influenced his 30 + years journey to releasing his first project of deep feeling and inspirational relationship beliefs. Deliv…

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Getting Close UP! S1E1 featuring Diallo French 50:13

3M ago50:13

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Getting Close UP! Season 1, Episode 1 welcomes Diallo Javonne French, a music photographer and filmmaker. Host Danielle Cox and Diallo talks musical beginnings and the journey to becoming a writer, director and filmmaker. His most recent film "Kansas City Dreaming" is a documentary about the rich musical heritage birth from generations of gifted ar…

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Daniel Wiley on the Salisbury Symphony

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The Salisbury Symphony has been looking for a new music director this season, and they will audition their final candidate at their concert called "Hope and Lifting." Daniel Wiley will conduct the orchestra in music of Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Omar Thomas. Wiley is currently assistant conductor with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Pops. …

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Christopher James Lees on MERGE

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The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra is producing an immersive event called "Merge" that combines modern symphonic music with electronic dance music and synchronized visual projections. Resident Conductor Christopher James Lees talks about the symphony's foray into new territory and the collaboration that brought it to life. Learn more about the MERGE:…

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Lorne Lassiter & Gary Ferraro on Craft Across Continents

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Charlotteans Lorne Lassiter and Gary Ferraro helped found the former Mint Museum of Craft and Design in uptown. They've also donated dozens of pieces from their own collection. The exhibit "Craft Across Continents" features many of those works in glass, wood, ceramics, and textiles. On this edition of the Piedmont Arts podcast, we tour the exhibit …

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Kalena Bovell on the Salisbury Symphony

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Kalena Bovell, a candidate for Salisbury Symphony Music Director, will lead the orchestra in a program called "Musical Inspirations." Bovell made her professional debut as the Chicago Sinfonietta's Assistant Conductor in 2015 and has led performances at the BBC Proms and the Kennedy Center. She also recently had her opera debut at Volcano Theatre w…

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David Fisk on Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Endowment

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The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (CSO) shared news that the organization has raised more than $40 million toward a goal of $50 million for its endowment. CSO President and CEO David Fisk discusses why having a significant endowment makes the orchestra stronger, and he provides details about the vital programs the endowment campaign will enable in t…

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Tom Gabbard on Blumenthal Arts

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Charlotte's nonprofit Blumenthal Arts hosts touring Broadway shows, symphony concerts and the ballet, among other things. But it's also branching out to other kinds of events, like the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit a couple of years ago. David Boraks talks with Blumenthal Arts CEO Tom Gabbard about another big immersive exhibit coming to Charlotte and…

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Rick Thurmond on Charlotte Shout!

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The Charlotte Shout! festival is produced by Charlotte Center City Partners and showcases Charlotte's creativity, innovation, diversity, and resilience. It includes music acts, art installations, community conversations, culinary events, and more. We talk to Rick Thurmond from Charlotte Center City Partners about the festival's importance to our cu…

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Professor Jennifer Stasack on Davidson’s Digital Composers

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Traditionally, composers have written music with a group of musicians in mind, painstakingly transcribing or notating their ideas as sheet music. But these days, many work on a computer loaded with a digital library of instruments and sounds. That’s the case for the next generation of composers in training at Davidson College. We visit with music p…

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Dr. Scott MacLeod on Piedmont Opera

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The Marriage of Figaro considered one of the greatest operas of all time, is billed as a comic opera but addresses serious themes such as tension between the social classes. Find out more about this masterpiece, and its important place in history by listening to a conversation with Dr. Scott MacLeod, associate professor of music and director of Hig…

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Micah Deer on One Voice Chorus

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One Voice Chorus was founded in Charlotte in 1990 to bring together lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and LGBTQIA+ affirming people to celebrate their lives through song. Since that time the chorus has grown in membership from 25 to more than 90 singers. Executive Director Micah Deer fills us in on the organization's history, purpose, and progra…

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Thorgy Thor on the Thorchestra

5M ago

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Thorgy Thor, a classically trained musician who first came to national prominence on the television series RuPaul’s Drag Race , is the guest on this episode of Piedmont Arts. After a recent appearance at Davidson College, she spoke to us about how she developed the concert program Thorgy and the Thorchestra which has been performed with orchestras …

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Michelle Di Russo on the Salisbury Symphony

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The Salisbury Symphony is auditioning candidates for music director. Michelle Di Russo, a candidate for the position, will conduct their "Enchanting Sounds" concert in Keppel Auditorium. She'll lead a program of music by Piazzola, Saint-Saens, and Rimsky-Korsakov. Di Russo is from Argentina, and currently the Associate Conductor in her second seaso…

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Jake Runestad and Kenney Potter on Charlotte Master Chorale Unity Concert

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Each year, Charlotte Master Chorale presents a "Unity Concert" with the goal of building bridges in the community through the shared experience of choral music. This year's concert is called "Unity: Earth" and is Saturday, March 9 at 4pm at First United Methodist Church in Charlotte. The ensemble will perform the North Carolina premiere of Jake Run…

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Denyce Graves on Opera Carolina

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One of the most extraordinary figures in American classical music is someone you may never have heard of. Mary Cardwell Dawson, born in 1894 in Madison, NC, was a musician, teacher, and founding director of the National Negro Opera Company, the longest-running, all-Black opera company which helped launch the careers of many singers. Now her story i…

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Eric Boruff on Cornelius Youth Orchestras

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Research suggests there are significant neurological and academic benefits to children who learn to play a musical instrument. However, most school systems wait until 6th grade to offer band or orchestra programs, and many kids simply do not have access to instrumental instruction until it's offered at school. Cornelius Youth Orchestras wants to ch…

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Burnt Reeds on Homegrown Melodies

6M ago

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Burnt Reeds is a reed quintet of local professional instrumentalists. Their concert called "Homegrown Melodies" features newly commissioned works by local composers. It's a project that brings together not only composers but also music producers, local independent mixed media artists, and of course musicians -- from a variety of backgrounds. Three …

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Jocelyn Hagen & Kenney Potter on the Charlotte Master Chorale

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The Charlotte Master Chorale's Chamber Singers will present concerts called "Art & Science" at Christ Episcopal Church in Charlotte and Davidson College Presbyterian Church in Davidson. The centerpiece of the concerts is a multi-media symphony, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci , by composer Jocelyn Hagen. The work uses the latest video syncing te…

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Michael L. Kitchen and Dr. Amy Carleton on the Black Notes Project Music Festival

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The inaugural Black Notes Project Music Festival makes it debut at Charlotte's Knight Theater. The two-day festival celebrates and amplifies Black music and artistry and will honor the classical orchestral tradition while situating it alongside contemporary musical innovation. Nationally known artists such as harpist Brandee Younger and opera singe…

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Frances Blaker on Splendid Music from the Time of Queen Charlotte

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North Carolina Baroque Orchestra will perform concerts called "Splendid Music from the Time of King George III and Queen Charlotte" in locations across the Charlotte region. The program includes works by Chevalier de Saint Georges, Handel, Mozart, Avison, and others. Frances Blaker, the ensemble's artistic director and conductor, explains how the c…

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Steven LaCosse on The Metropolitan Opera’s Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

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The Metropolitan Opera's Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition has auditions across the country. The competition is designed to discover promising young opera singers and assist the development of their careers. The North Carolina District holds auditions and approximately 25 singers will compete to move on to Regionals in Atlanta. The event is op…

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Inside the Rhythm: Unlocking Music Success with Nathaniel The Great and the Rise of the Great Ones Label 16:21

7M ago16:21

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Unlock the secrets to setting the music industry ablaze with R&B sensation Nathaniel The Great, who joins us to dissect the creation of their latest anthem that's igniting the seasons, tailored for the ladies who love to groove. We then pivot to the grand reveal of my new venture, the Great Ones label – a collective that's crafting a future for not…

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Beating the Drum of Memphis: The City's Music Scene with Drumma Boy 28:00

7M ago28:00

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Memphis beats in my heart like a drum, and my soul thrums to the rhythm of the city's music scene. That's why it was an absolute thrill to sit with Drumma Boy, whose tracks have painted the backdrop of Memphis' streets, echoing stories of adversity, triumph, and unity. Our conversation, rich with personal anecdotes, delves into his emergence from t…

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