Tag: Duke Performances

• Top 40 Over 40.22: Mahmoud Ahmed

  Universities can be weird places to see shows, musical or otherwise.  The setting can make it feel like whatever creative process put forward is subject for intellectual consideration from a distance, rather than communal participation.  What’s on offer might be critiqued and dismissed, or fetishized as a deracinated trophy from a frequently subaltern culture that…

  jhd123

  November 27, 2016

  Top 40 Over 40, Uncategorized

  12 Times Table, Carolina Performing Arts, Duke Performances, Duke University, Ethiopia, Ethiopiques, Liberation News, Mahmoud Ahmed, Mark Anthony Neal, Nasher Museum of Art, Tameka Norris

• Top 40 Over 40.20: L. Subramaniam live

  Sometimes you just gotta trust a friend.  Every year Duke Performances has a concert series you can buy into at a package discount.  I pick up seats for the shows I wanna see before it all starts, and watch the dates roll forward and wash over me as the year unfolds.  At the suggestion of my…

  jhd123

  November 8, 2015

  Music, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40

  Ambi Subramaniam, Duke Performances, John Darnielle, L. Subramaniam, Top 40 Over 40