Articles by Abe Johns

Carolina Performing Arts dazzled this year

This article was published in the 2009 Year in Review issue of The Daily Tar Heel.

This fall Carolina Performing Arts offers a new experimental series that breaks down the formality between artist and audience.

I was a nude model

Inspiration comes in many forms. One of those is naked.

12:10 a.m. Nov. 5 - Due to a reporting error, this story misstated the time of the Anoop Desai concert. It begins at 7 p.m. Sunday. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.

Anoop Desai to perform for Homecoming

Anoop Desai, former American Idol contestant and UNC Clef Hanger, will perform on campus as a second Homecoming act, organizers confirmed today.

He will play at 8 p.m. on Nov. 8 in Memorial Hall, a week after hip-hop artist Fabolous performs on Homecoming weekend.

The show is free for students, but tickets are required. The tickets will be given out Monday to students with valid OneCards. Tickets will be available to the public for $5 beginning Nov. 6.

Homecoming director Courtney Brown said she was satisfied with the decision to bring Desai.

Desai chosen to play at UNC

Anoop Desai, former “American Idol” contestant and UNC Clef Hanger, will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 8 at Memorial Hall as a second Homecoming act, organizers confirmed Wednesday.

“I think this will be real cool,” Desai said.

“I was planning on coming back anyway since the ‘Idol’ tour didn’t come through the Chapel Hill-Raleigh area.”

‘Godfather of world music’ to perform

Ravi Shankar, deemed the “godfather of world music” by former Beatle George Harrison, will perform a sold-out show with his daughter tonight in Memorial Hall.

Through collaborations with major musicians such as The Beatles and virtuoso violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Shankar is noted for bringing Indian music to contemporary global audiences.

Tobias Wolff kicks off Living Writers lectures

As a paratrooper during the Vietnam War, a high school teacher, a night watchman and an honors English student at Oxford University, Tobias Wolff garnered a variety of life experiences that inspired him to write.

Now, as the first of four distinguished visiting writers this fall, the acclaimed memoirist and short story author will sit down with the Living Writers creative writing class to talk with students who have been studying his work.

Aldwyth exhibit full of personality

Like Cher, Bono or Madonna, the Hanes Art Center visiting lecturer goes by only one name — Aldwyth. And she has just as much personality as they do.

The 73-year-old South Carolinian artist’s work is on display now through Sunday at the Ackland Art Museum.

“Aldwyth has archived reproductions of old works, and she collages them into a fresh personal language,” said Cary Levine, a contemporary art history professor who introduced the lecture.

Music seminar pairs bigwigs

Two famed Tar Heels will be teaching a new first-year seminar, which will offer students the chance to see 18 musical performances this fall.

The class, a first-year seminar called MUSC 064 – Listening to Music, will team up Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser and Emil Kang, Carolina Performing Arts executive director, to introduce musical presentations to about 20 freshmens.

“One of the great tragedies of the Carolina experience is for a student to come here and not take advantage of everything,” Moeser said.

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