Jose Olea Vico, a 25-year-old violinist in the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Durham Fellowship program, performs at Southwest Elementary School. photo by Angelica Edwards. It’s a little before the ...

It seemed like a typical Saturday night in downtown Durham: Smokers huddled on the Federal’s patio. Diners gravitated toward Brightleaf Square. … And a bedraggled troupe of zombies moaned and groaned ...

Given the quantity of SME music released by Emanem, cynics might be thinking that quality control must have slipped, that the barrel is being scraped. Miraculously, nothing could be further from the ...

In 2008, a retired software architect with a treble clef tattooed on his shoulder launched his own amateur orchestra, inviting 50-odd closeted musicians to dust off their cellos and pull bassoons out ...