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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2007
Concert brings
holidays to UNC
BY KELLY YANG
STAFF WRITER
With soft gestures as fluid as
each other explosive notes, soprano
Kathleen Battle sang in the holiday
season to a filled Memorial Hall on
Monday.
Accompanied by pianist Joel
Martin, the two were presented
by UNC’s opera director Terry
Rhodes.
Rhodes explained to the audi
ence that Cyrus Chestnut, who
was originally slated to accompany
Battle, would be replaced by Martin.
Their performance was a part of the
Carolina Performing Arts Series.
“This is a beautiful program
of well-loved holiday music, car
ols, spirituals and some unusual
pieces such as a Chilean carol and
a West Indian Christmas spiritual,”
said Rosemary
Holland, direc
tor of artistic
affairs for CPA.
The program
opened with
several of those
“unusual pieces,”
as well as “Ave
Maria,” as Battle
was positioned
on a nearly bare
stage next to the
piano wearing
simple attire.
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Soprano
Kathleen
Battle sang
holiday music at
Memorial Hall.
Martin said he only recently met
up with Battle in New York and
began rehearsing a few weeks ago.
“Six to seven hours of rehearsal
had been standard,” he said.
And Monday night, six rehears
als later, Battle and Martin meshed
their two different genres of music
to produce a unique sound that res
onated throughout Memorial Hall.
Kris Ford, a biomedical engi
neering graduate student who
attended the performance, said
he saw releases with information
about Battle’s concert online and
decided to attend.
“I’ve always been big into piano
music having played the saxo
phone,” he said.
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musical expressions at the concert.
“She expresses each piece with
such great emotion that she’s able
to connect with the audience,”
Schultes said.
Junior Chase Beck said he
had seen Battle on television and
jumped at the opportunity to see
her perform.
“I’ve never attended an opera
concert, and this seemed to have
been a great starting point into the
exposure of the opera scene,” Beck
said. “To have her in our own back
yard was an opportunity I couldn’t
pass up.”
After intermission, Battle
returned wearing a golden shawl
to close out her performance with
new and favorite holiday tunes.
“It gave me goose bumps to hear
a beautiful ring come out of a beau
tiful lady, simply accompanied by
one instrument,” Beck said. “This
concert gave me anew light on
operas and the classics.”
Audience members began to bob
their heads and hummed along as
Martin’s musicality energized the
hall. He played interludes that
transitioned into the next song and
showed off the pianist’s interpreta
tion of each song.
These piano transitions were
highlighted in the final Christmas
carol medley, which included “Away
in a Manger,” “Silent Night,” “The
First Noel,” “Angels We Have Heard
on High” and “O Holy Night.”
Following a standing ovation,
the audience was treated to an
abbreviated, solo performance by
Martin,, which featured his “jazzi
cal” style.
Emil Kang, UNC’s executive
director for the arts, said this con
cert was the prelude for Battle’s
concert at the Kennedy Center.
“This was a great way in showing
that Chapel Hill is an important
location,” Kang said. “And a great
way to send her off to the Kennedy
Center.”
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tion that supports limited govern
ment, urged caution.
“That is always what is said
when there is a big proposal to do
something,” he said of proponents’
claims. “Studies like these are usu
ally designed to come up with pre
ordained conclusions.”
Woodhouse said the state would
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something gets watered.
“Asa department, we’ve really
pushed sustainability, perennials
and drought-tolerant ornamental
grasses,” he said.
He said that during the warmer
months, the ideal time to water
the flowers and other plants is in
the morning, before students with
8 a.m. classes begin roaming the
campus.
“It’s not as great this time
of year because of the seasonal
change. But in summer, evapora
tion plays a big part in watering,”
he said.
“It’s a good practice to water
early so whatever you’re watering
has the opportunity to use that
water before losing it to the heat
of day.”
Fortunately, Pelland said, many
flowers around campus don’t need
ENERGY
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the process of negotiating 10 con
tracts from six different sources of
renewable energy.
She said biomass, which includes
animal waste, and solar energy are
the primary sources that Duke
Energy is considering.
“You have to ask what’s most
economical and look at how you
can do the most good for the most
people,” Sheehan said.
But putting the chicken waste to
use might not be a picture-perfect
solution to North Carolina’s renew
able energy problem.
Douglas Crawford-Brown, direc
tor of the UNC Institute for the
Environment, said biofuels such
as chicken waste aren’t cleaner
than coal, as they produce the same
amount of carbon emissions.
He said that although using
chicken litter as energy serves as a
be better off spending those dollars
on infrastructure improvements.
But Carroll said he thinks an
inland port would be beneficial
for everyone involved.
“It would be good for the region;
it would be good for the state; it
would be good for this part of the
country.”
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a great deal of water to sustain
themselves.
“We can get enough water to
keep plants alive much more
easily than we can solve the
drought.”
Some campus officials worry
that a loss of beauty could mean a
loss of applications.
Admissions Communication
Director Ashley Memory said the
campus’s beauty has always been
something potential students
focus on.
She said that people across the
state are noticing changes in the
landscape caused by the drought
but that she is confident UNC’s
beauty will uphold its legendary
status.
“Overall, the beauty of Carolina
continues to be a strong point of
campus,” Memory said.
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the waste, it shouldn’t be consid
ered a replacement for searching
for other sources of bioenergy, such
as plant-based alternatives that
recapture emitted carbon.
“Given the fact that we have
chicken waste sitting around,
it’s important to make use of it,”
he said. “But we wouldn’t want
that to be an excuse to produce
more. It’s probably best to move
away from the large-scale animal
sources.”
But chicken waste does serve as
a better alternative than coal, he
said, in that it is readily available
as an energy source, while coal has
to be mined.
And chicken waste is fiber-heavy,
he added, drying the waste out and
making it easier to bum than coal.
Burning the chicken litter would
help reduce the release of harmful
pollutants found in the waste.
“You can let it sit there and
go back up in the atmosphere as
methane,” he said.
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the world and takes up 275 NCAA
basketball courts. Only 19 percent
of AIDS deaths in the United States
are represented on the quilt.
Family and friends of those who
have succumbed to the AIDS virus
can make a quilt panel honoring
that person.
“There are four panels on the
quilt that represent close friends
of mine,” Phoenix said.
About 30 people gathered for
the event many with personal
stories and great passion for AIDS
awareness.
“I feel real strongly about the
cause,” freshman Kelley Mathys
said. “I have been interested in
AIDS/HIV awareness for a while. ...
We need to teach kids early. People
don’t realize they have (AIDS) and
continue to spread it.”
Monday’s event was part of an
AIDS awareness week that aims to
bring information to the forefront of
people’s minds and remember those
whose lives were taken by the virus.
“World AIDS Week is a week-long
program that occurs because AIDS is
something that is affecting humanity
today,” said Elizabeth Bemold, presi-
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UNC, said she appreciated the
snowflake design.
“It’s good that they went with a
secular holiday symbol because it’s
more appropriate for such a diverse
town,” Hartley said.
Hartley suggested that the town
add some blue lights, as the color
would be season-appropriate, as
well as University-appropriate.
Other Franklin Street patrons
made suggestions Monday for
additional holiday decorations.
“I think we should get more of
a variety of holiday symbols, like
wreathes or candles,” Chapel Hill
resident Stephanie Hunt said.
“Green and red lights would make
the street feel more Christmas-y.”
Tulsi Craddosk, a volunteer rais
ing money on Franklin Street for
various local soup kitchens, said
that she did not care what the light
design was but that she would like
to see more lights put up.
“It would be nice to see the
whole street lit up on both sides
with lights,” Craddosk said. “It
would really make this street come
alive.”
McGurk said the Downtown
Partnership does not have any plans
for additional decorations. Instead,
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“What was most
impressive about
this project is the
humanity shared.”
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dent of N.C. Hillel, one of the event’s
sponsors. “It creates a connection
between the student body.”
Bernold said she cared more
about what people took away from
the events taking place on campus
than the number of attendees.
“It’s the personal connections,
not the numbers, that are impor
tant,” she said.
And the different groups spon
soring this week’s events also are
making connections through their
collective efforts.
“What was most impressive
about this project is the human
ity shared,” Bemold said. “All these
groups working together is incred
ible and brings commonalities
between them.”
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‘And it’s that
(Christmas) cheer
that can brighten
up the gloomiest of
days”
NYOKA NORMAN, unc senior
the group’s goal right now is to suc
cessfully complete this year’s holiday
decoration campaign.
“We still have money to raise
and decisions to make about the
banners we want to get for the off
season,” McGurk said.
But Nyoka Norman, a senior
at UNC and an employee of Four
Corners, said any amount of holi
day decorations on Franklin Street
is an improvement.
“They’re nice because they bring
a little bit more Christmas cheer to
the street,” Norman said. “And it’s
that cheer that can brighten up the
gloomiest of days.”
For more information about
how to make a contribution to
the holiday decoration campaign,
call the Chapel Hill Downtown
Partnership at 967-9440.
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