Looking for something affordable and fun for the family to do this weekend? Check out a symphony concert in Hickory, dig for fossils at the Catawba Science Center or enjoy
ELLSWORTH — Being the great-granddaughter of Maine suffragist Florence Brooks Whitehouse has inspired a passion for the history of women’s rights in Anne Gass. Her first book, "Voting Down the
Faculty Artist Series // Beethoven cast a long imposing shadow on Johannes Brahms, who waited until he was 40 to publish his first string quartet proclaiming that, “You can’t have any idea what it is like always to hear such a giant marching behind you!” It is no wonder that Brahms’ first quartet Op. 51 No. 1, when it finally came, was such a masterpiece dark, ambitious, rhythmically complex, and in the tragic C minor key of Beethoven’s great Fifth Symphony.
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.