North Carolina Symphony Pub Series Returns for Good Food with Great Music

The North Carolina Symphony's popular series of laid-back dinner performances return in two weeks with a concert of tantalizing musical themes. The 2011/12 edition of the celebrated Pub Series opens at Buku in downtown Raleigh on Monday, Oct. 10, with a celebration of Stravinsky, the master storyteller.

Dinner service begins at 6:00 p.m., the concert at 8:00 p.m.

The Symphony's dazzlingly talented new principal clarinet Andrew Lowy opens the evening with a haunting solo, Stravinsky's Three Pieces for Clarinet, before the evening's featured trio of Lowy, violin David Kilbride and piano John Noel launch into three selections from Stravinsky's beautiful and timeless love story, The Firebird.

The concert then takes dinnergoers deep into the dark and twisted dream world of A Soldier's Tale. Pulling together everything from tango to jazz, Stravinsky offers up a miniature masterpiece on that old and enticing story: A traveller meets the devil on an empty road.

Along the way, audience members will enjoy a multi-course meal from Buku's eclectic menu inspired by food from the pushcarts of vendors in cities across the globe. The restaurant puts a clever and delicious spin on street food, with dishes like Polish pierogis, Colombian arepas, Thai papaya salad served in a banana leaf and more.

The Oct. 10 Pub concert featuring Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale is just the beginning of the four-concert Pub Series, the perfect, sophisticated date nights or evenings out with friends. Upcoming concerts in the series are:

Sun, Feb. 12 at Humble Pie - Dvo?ák's celebrated and rarely heard masterpiece, the "American" String Quartet
Mon, Apr 16 at Buku - A Celtic night with traditional folk tunes and movie composer Bernard Herrmann's Souvenir de Voyages
Sun, May 20 at Humble Pie - 20th-century masterworks: Kodály's Duo for Violin and Cello and John Adams's sparkling John's Book of Alleged Dances

Tickets to Pub Series concerts are $65 per person, covering the multi-course meal and concert. The entire series can be purchased now for $200, but hurry, these concerts sell out fast! Visit www.ncsymphony.org/pub for tickets.

Buku is located at 110 East Davie St. in Raleigh.

About the North Carolina Symphony

Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony performs over 175 concerts annually to adults and school children. The orchestra travels extensively throughout the state to venues in over 50 North Carolina counties. The orchestra employs 67 professional musicians under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Resident Conductor William Henry Curry and Associate Conductor Sarah Hicks.

Based in downtown Raleigh's spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor summer venue at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It also holds regular concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington and individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities throughout the year.

For tickets, program notes, podcasts, musician profiles, the Symphony blog and more, visit the North Carolina Symphony Web site at www.ncsymphony.org. Call North Carolina Symphony Audience Services at 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724.

Series Listing:

North Carolina Symphony

2011/12 Pub Series

Mon, October 10, 2011 - Buku

Sun, February 12, 2012 - Humble Pie

Mon, April 16, 2012 - Buku

Sun, May 20, 2012 - Humble Pie

Concert/Event Listing:

North Carolina Symphony

Pub Series: Buku

Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale

Andrew Lowy, clarinet

David Kilbride, violin

John Noel, piano

Stravinsky: Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo

Stravinsky: Music from The Firebird

Stravinsky: A Soldier's Tale

Mon, Oct. 10, 2011 dinner 6pm, concert 8pm

Buku, 110 East Davie Street, Raleigh

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