CHAPEL HILL -- Join the fun at the "Dinner and Holiday Cabaret: In One Era and Out the Other: A Newsworthy Serenade" on Dec. 5 at 6:30 p.m. at the Chapel Hill Museum.
This year's holiday event is a musical time travel through the 20th century performed by siren Serena Ebhardt and musical Director Julie Florin. Ebhardt will turn the past into the present as she leads the audience through decades of headline news and popular song.
This casual cabaret places familiar songs in contexts you'd never imagine.
Come celebrate the season with a seasonal dinner, wine and a professional performance by award-winning Ebzb Productions. It is the 10th year of this Chapel Hill tradition.
The cost is $125 per couple, $70 for singles.
Gallery to host CD release party
CHAPEL HILL -- The North Carolina Crafts Gallery in Carrboro will host a CD release reception for pianist Greg McCallum's latest release with MSR Classics, "Voyage à Paris," on Dec. 11 from 6 to 9 p.m.
The event will take place in conjunction with the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Second Friday Art Walk. This recording marks McCallum's fourth CD release and the second in his international cultural studies series with MSR Classics.
The North Carolina Crafts Gallery is at 212 West Main St. in Carrboro. "Voyage à Paris" is available at CD stores, Amazon.com, and McCallum's Web site at www.gregmccallum.com/recordings.shtml.
"Voyage à Paris" explores the evolution of French piano music from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, and includes works by Franck, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen.
ECHHS performs Winter Concert
CHAPEL HILL -- The East Chapel Hill High School Choral Department will perform its annual Winter Concert on Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the main stage auditorium.
As a gesture of good spirit in the holiday season and in the midst of the national economic crisis, the ECHHS Choral Department will not be charging admission to this particular concert. (Donations are welcome, but not necessary.)
A wide variety of music will be performed by such composers as Jean Berger, Randall Thompson and Wiliam Byrd.
ECHHS Band Concert Dec. 8
CHAPEL HILL -- The East Chapel Hill High School Band Concert is Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m.
This concert will feature the Concert and Symphonic Bands performing lighter/pops music. The Concert Band will perform Jay Chattaway's "Parade of the Tall Ships," and Leroy Anderson's "A Christmas Festival."
The Symphonic Band will perform "Flourish for Wind Band," and Timothy Mahr's "Fantasia in G."
ECHHS Orchestra Concert Dec. 10
CHAPEL HILL -- The East Chapel Hill High School Orchestra Concert is December 10 at 7:30 p.m.
This concert will feature both the String Orchesra and the Chamber Symphony for a night of lighter/pops music. The String Orchestra will perform "Rhosymedre" by Ralph Vaughn-Williams, Strauss' "Pizzicato Polka" and the new composition by Allen Lee Silva, "Rock Canyon Club."
The Chamber Symphony will perform the entire "Nutcracker Suite" by Peter Tchaikowsky. This concert is free and open to the public.
