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The Reynolda Quartet, acclaimed faculty-artists in the School of Music at UNCSA, will perform "In The Footsteps of a Giant," a program of quartets by Béla Bartók and Johannes Brahms, at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 27.

In a celebration of juxtapositions, Duke's own Ciompi Quartet will perform the world premiere of long-time collaborator and fellow faculty member John Supko's 2020 Soleil Noir ("Black Sun"), a "sinister-absurd" work - according to the composer - that rams aggressive chords against a tortured melodic line. To contrast, the program opens with a suite of airy English renaissance songs by John Dowland arranged for piano quintet, with the piano line delivered by Lithuani...

Around lunchtime on a recent Wednesday, as students, staff and faculty hustled to class or appointments, a few dozen Duke community members spread out amid the pews of Goodson Chapel to savor the sound of the Ciompi Quartet. As the four faculty members in the Quartet played selections from composers Carlos Chávez and Silverstre Revueltas, the sound of the quartet’s cello, viola and violins filled the space and felt as warm and illuminating as the sunshine that poured through the windows.

The Graduate School awarded more than $5 million in Summer Research Fellowships for 2021. Take a look at some of the many Ph.D. student endeavors supported by that funding.

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98, Schumann’s Liederkries, Op. 39, and Beethoven’s Aus Goethes Faust, Op. 75, No. 3. Register and view here until April 18. 8 pm ET: Tippet Rise Art Center presents Spring Festival. For the first day of Tippet Rise’s Spring Festival, two films have been captured at the DiMenna Center. The first features violinist Katie Hyun—founding member of the Amphion String Quartet—performing Vytautas Barkauskas’s Partita for violin solo. For the second film, Tippe...