Mallarmé Music

FAMILY CONCERT: Space Pants
2025-06-28 14:00 - 15:15 (America/New_York) | Durham County Library, Main Branch, 300 N. Roxboro Street, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Join SpacePants (Jennifer Beattie – voice, Diana Wade – viola) for a sound and wonder-filled adventure to the moon. We’ll follow instructions from the NASA 1969 Saturn V Flight Manual, and with our musical imaginations and with your help we Burn for the Moon!
We’ll also perform “Fry on Fry”, where we read and sing music written in…french fries.
Program
“Fry on Fry” by Diana Wade, with French fry notation created by SpacePants for two voices
“Permission to Land”* by SpacePants, with text and inspiration from the NASA 1969 Saturn V Flight Manual
*please put on your space helmets/tinfoil hats, and participate in the countdown to liftoff and BURN FOR THE MOON (we’ll shout it) with your small tube or other noise-making instrument!
READ THE PROGRAM NOTES
About the Artists:
SpacePants is a virtuosic viola/voice duo who wear space pants and is guided by a TUBE from outer space. The TUBE is an InterGalacticDIYDadaist performance artist animated by a group of RAD Aliens in the Andromeda Galaxy. At the command of the TUBE, SpacePants brings their own and others’ works of art to life here on Earth.
www.spacepantsmusic.com
Family concerts are 70-minute-long interactive, musical adventures appropriate for peeps from 5 to 105. (Not for very young children)
Free and open to the public at the lovely Durham County Library Main Branch

FAMILY CONCERT: Renaissance Tunes with Forgotten Clefs
2026-02-28 14:00 - 15:00
Introducing the current and next generation to Renaissance music, Forgotten Clefs, the Renaissance wind ensemble, presents a FREE family-friendly concert. Learn about the instruments that were the forerunners of today’s oboes, flutes and bassoons including the shawm, recorder and dulcian. Hear the music that was written for these instruments over 500 years ago!
READ THE PROGRAM: FG FAMILY
Family concerts are about an hour long and are appropriate for folks 5 years and older, held at the Main Branch of the Durham County Library. FREE and open to the public.
Sponsored by Mark and Cindy Kuhn
