Save 25 Percent on Duke Performances

Gina Streaty tries to get her Christmas shopping done early.

When Duke Performances offers a 25 percent discount to employees during the holidays, Streaty buys tickets to upcoming shows for family and friends. This month, she bought tickets to see Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli on Feb. 17 and jazz ensemble Christian McBride Trio on April 30, which she will gift to her brother and friends. She saved a total of $33 on the purchase. 

“They make the best gifts because you can buy a card, say ‘Merry Christmas,’ and you give them tickets for an experience,” said Streaty, engagement and diversity specialist for the Duke Clinical Research Institute. “Anyone who works at Duke and doesn’t take advantage of Duke Performances and the talent they bring are missing a treat.”

The Duke Performances holiday discount for individual and multiple tickets for staff and faculty is available now through Jan. 6 and can be used for all remaining 2016-17 shows. The discount is available online, by calling (919) 684-4444, or in person at the University Box Office in the top level of the Bryan Center, where employees must present their DukeCard ID.

“The experience of an exceptional performance is something that lasts forever,” said Aaron Greenwald, Duke Performances’ executive director. “Great beauty and live performance are timeless. Those are the things that people remember longer than any physical gift you give them.”

For employees looking for performance ideas, here are some of Greenwald’s picks for the rest of season:

Jan. 13 & 14 – Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo
Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis and virtuoso pianist Joey Calderazzo, both Durham-based musicians, visit Baldwin Auditorium to play blues to ballads. 

Feb. 24 & 25 – Malpaso Dance Company + Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble
The two groups will perform the U.S. premiere of “Dreaming of Lions,” in which 10 musicians and 10 dancers present an evocation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 novella “The Old Man and the Sea” in Reynolds Industries Theater in the Bryan Center.

Feb. 28 – Eric Whitacre Singers
The Juilliard-trained and Grammy-winning choral composer brings his virtuoso ensemble to Duke University Chapel. The concert will feature Whitacre’s composition “Music for Sacred Spaces” for choir and solo cello, as well as worldwide choral classics “Sleep” and “Lux Aurumque.”