Arts

Triad Arts Weekend Holiday Celebration Part One

by David Ford

Every year around this time there's an enormous variety of artful holiday traditions going on here in the Triad. Dance, music, theatre, art, you'll find it all, and frankly, there just aren't enough hours in the day to attend every event. But today on Triad Arts Holiday Celebration, gonna have our fruit cake and eat it too. First off, we'll hear lots of outstanding music—holiday favorites, plus some completely original sounds of the season. We've also got poems, short stories and essays that explore this magical time of year. The best part is, for the next hour everything you'll hear will be performed by a group of incredibly talented musicians, poets and writers who each call the Piedmont home. It's a Triad Arts Holiday Celebration.

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Composer and Conductor Lee Holdridge Joins Greensboro Symphony Pops to Celebrate John Denver

by David Ford

New Year's Eve, the Greensboro Symphony Pops presents a truly unique, feel good way to ring in 2014. The symphony along with Grammy award-winning arranger, composer and conductor Lee Holdridge will celebrate what would have been John Denver's 70th birthday with the return of tribute artist Jim Curry. Jim has performed Denver's songs in sold out shows all across the country, and he's quickly become today's top interpreter of Denver's enormous legacy of multi-platinum hits. In addition to his long list of concert works performed and recorded by major orchestras and opera orchestras, award-winning T.V., and film hits, Lee Holdridge has worked with a veritable Who's Who list of major recording artists including Barabara Streisand, Neil Diamond, Stevie Wonder, and John Denver.

December Issue of Our State Features "A Prayer for North Carolina"

by David Ford

The December issue of Our State Magazine is out. This month's cover features a Mason jar snow bottle decked out with a little cardinal in a Frazier Fir tree. Inside you'll find beautiful hand-made Christmas gifts at the John C. Campbell Folk School, the best Country Ham for Christmas breakfast, fantastic holiday stories by award-winning NC authors, and as always incredible photographs that bring the stories to life. New to this December's issue are a group of 16 people of faith who share their powerful reflections on Our State. The feature is called A Prayer for North Carolina. Editor in Chief Elizabeth Hudson told David Ford about it.

Carolina Chamber Symphony Players Presents Peter and the Wolf

by David Ford

The early 20th century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf may be one of the greatest introduction to the orchestra sorts of pieces of music ever written, but it's also great music and a wonderful story all rolled into one. The Carolina Chamber Symphony Players will bring Peter to the Piedmont later this month. It's part of Carolina Winter Music Festival 2013, and artistic co-director and Winston-Salem Symphony French hornist Joe Mount shares more.