Event Calendar

Starting in the 1940s, Joseph Winters Sr., one of Raleigh’s first African American police officers, transcended the color line by bringing white and black audiences in the capital city together to take in the country’s greatest black musical acts -- from Sarah Vaughan to Chuck Berry to Motown to Parliament/Funkadelic and hundreds more. Joe’s remarkable run as a cop, music impresario and community leader stretched from segregation and Jim Crow in the ‘40s and ‘50s to civil rights and Black Power in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Working with Joe’s surviving children and a volunteer team headed up by marketing exec/musician Billy Warden, the City of Raleigh Museum (COR) is curating a display on Joe’s career which is currently housed in the lobby of Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, home to so many of his memorable shows.

A free reception in the lobby of Raleigh Memorial Auditorium will feature music, guest speakers, Joe’s children Chacona and Joseph Jr. and more on Sunday, February 24, 2:00-4:00 p.m. The exhibit and reception are sponsored by Womble Bond Dickinson and Greg Paul Builders.

To celebrate the 100th birthdays of Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins, icons of classical music and ballet, as well as Broadway, we will be reviving their Fancy Free – the ballet that changed American dance forever. This work was also the genesis of the Broadway show and Hollywood movie, On the Town.

For the first time ever, we will present Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun set to the music of Claude Debussy.

Two worlds collide in this “breathtaking and exquisite” (The New York Times) musical, based on the 2015 Tony Award®-winning Lincoln Center Theater production. One of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s finest works, THE KING AND I boasts a score that features such beloved classics as “Getting To Know You,” “I Whistle a Happy Tune,” “Hello Young Lovers,” “Shall We Dance” and “Something Wonderful.”

Set in 1860’s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in an imperialistic world, brings to Siam to teach his many wives and children. THE KING AND I is “too beautiful to miss” (New York Magazine).

Presented by Duke Energy Center & North Carolina Theatre

Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind tribute to one of the most iconic bands in history! We will rock you with killer Queen hits including "Somebody to Love," "Under Pressure," "We Are the Champions," "Bohemian Rhapsody," and many more. Experience the unforgettable magic of Queen, with a full rock band and the North Carolina Symphony, in this electric concert.
 

Due to Hurricane Florence, this concert was re-scheduled from Saturday, September 15th, 2018. If you have tickets for the original date, your tickets will be valid for the Friday, March 22nd, 2019 date. If you will be unable to attend on the rescheduled date, please contact the box office at 919.733.2750 or via email at tickets@ncsymphony.org.

Set in a dystopian time where language is rationed, a sentence can get you sentenced and the silent are rising, our young hero Orhan discovers that a word can change the world. 

This is a free event that is open to the families of student performers.

In 1999 The Raleigh Fine Arts Society began a new tradition: an annual Choral Celebration, a project offering choral groups in grades 4 and 5 in Wake County Schools a chance to share their music as well as enjoy the successes of other elementary school choruses.

The first performances were held at Martin Middle School and moved in 2001 to Meymandi Concert Hall. Since then the Choral Celebration has received much greater visibility within the Raleigh community and achieved record attendance of over 3,000 people. There are 16 elementary choral groups performing, with each performing two songs. This opportunity for some students is a once in a life time experience: singing in the state-of the-art concert hall, home of the NC Symphony.

North Carolina Symphony

Wesley Schulz, conductor

Paperhand Puppet Intervention

Have you ever seen an elephant ballet? Or encountered giant sea creatures in a submarine? Look no further! Larger-than-life Puppets and the symphony will bring the animal kingdom to life for Saint-Saëns’ favorite of young audiences (and the young at heart) The Carnival of the Animals.

Inspired after hearing Handel’s Messiah, Joseph Haydn wrote his greatest oratorio, The Creation, one of the most beloved works in the choral literature. Haydn’s depiction of the Biblical creation of the world is jubilant and uplifting. The 170-voices of the Chorale, orchestra, and soloists perform The Creation.

Wiesenthal is the Off Broadway award-winning hit show about the life of Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter who was responsible for bringing over 1100 Nazi war criminals to Justice. Known throughout the world as 'the Jewish James Bond', the critically acclaimed production stars Tom Dugan as Simon Wiesenthal, an ordinary man who did extraordinary things.

Post show, audience members are encouraged to stay in their seats for a free Q&A with writer and actor Tom Dugan about the inspiration and creation of this production.

Legendary artist Graham Nash is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee - with Crosby, Stills, and Nash and with the Hollies. He was also inducted twice into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, as a solo artist and with CSN, and he is a GRAMMY Award winner.

SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque is the sexiest, smartest, geekiest, and most fun definitive pop-culture burlesque show! Featuring none other than SuicideGirls themselves, the show has been performed hundreds of times, delighted millions of fans in over six countries, and has been touring since 2003! Don’t miss your chance to see it live during the 2018 US Tour! SuicideGirls has been redefining beauty since 2001 with its network of over 3,000 SuicideGirls and almost 9 million pinup-style photographs on the premier, members-only social network SuicideGirls.com. Check out blackheartburlesque.com for more information about the tour and to see where the girls are headed next!

VIP Ticket Options

The special VIP meet-and-greet is one hour prior to general admission doors and includes an exclusive VIP lanyard and an entire hour with the SuicideGirls!  Expect to meet and have your picture taken with the performers and have one item signed.  See you there!

North Carolina Symphony

Grant Llewellyn, conductor

Zuill Bailey, cello

Roberto Díaz, viola

Walton: Cello Concerto

Strauss: Don Quixote

Guest artists Zuill Bailey, cello, and Roberto Díaz, viola, join NCS to portray the fantastical misadventures of literature’s favorite befuddled knight and his loyal sidekick. The charming musical vignettes of Don Quixote wistful eloquence of the Walton Cello Concerto in this program to be recorded for the Symphony’s next album.

The diva Floria Tosca has always sacrificed for her art, but what is she willing to surrender to spare her lover from execution at the hands of evil Baron Scarpia? Her answer may surprise you, but her next move will shock you even more. Tosca is the quintessential Puccini thriller set in June 1800 in Rome where politics, religion, love, jealousy, violence and revenge all collide during one fateful 24-hour period. Not seen in the Triangle since NCO’s premiere season, Toscareturns with a cast of rising stars and the NCO Opera Orchestra and Chorus, all conducted by Joseph Rescigno (NCO’s Rigoletto).

Tosca is generously sponsored by C. Thomas Kunz.

Rounding out Pinecone's Down Home Concert season is a special concert by two-time GRAMMY® nominees The Milk Carton Kids. Their newest album, All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do was released earlier this year on ANTI- Records. The new project marks the first time that acoustic duo Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale have brought a band into studio with them. They will perform with a full band for this concert!

Join us for an evening of dance inspired by the famous paintings of Claude Monet featuring Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s Picnic on the Grass and Robert Weiss’ The Gardens of Giverny. This beautiful homage to the great French painter features the evocative music of his compatriots Chausson, Debussy, and Poulenc. Originally commissioned in 2007 by the North Carolina Museum of Art this two-part ballet has everything a dance lover could wish for: a story ballet based on Monet’s life to open and a sweeping impressionistic second act based on his famous garden paintings.