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“Cello and Bass…Seriously?”

WUNC | By Anita Rao,
Frank Stasio
Published November 18, 2014 at 11:00 AM EST
The Low and Lower duo puts a new twist on chamber music.
Low and Lower
The Low and Lower duo puts a new twist on chamber music.

Duo 'Low and Lower' perform live on The State of Things with Mallarmé artistic director Suzanne Rousso on viola

The Low and Lower duo puts a new twist on chamber music.
Credit Low and Lower
The Low and Lower duo puts a new twist on chamber music.

Bassist Paul Sharpe and Cellist Brooks Whitehouse are a bestselling cello-bass duo who developed a new genre of music that puts string instruments in a new context. 

They combine more traditional chamber music with humor and satire, ranging from stories about the big bad wolf to rapid-fire tongue twisters. Although the two travel the country with their work, they both also teach at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. The duo "Low and Lower" will join theMallarmé Chamber Players for concerts on November 22-23, but we'll get a sneak preview at The Triad Stage in downtown Greensboro. 

Host FrankStasiotalks to the duo and they perform live at the Triad Stage withMallarmé artistic director SuzanneRoussoon viola.  

Watch them play Poke: a bagatelle on antisocial media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mYPzl1itIc

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Anita Rao
Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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