The first concert of Atlanta’s fall classical season arrives early this year. New Trinity Baroque, viable despite the recession and cutbacks last spring, will perform a concert of Italian music Saturday, September 4 -- mostly concertos by Corelli, Mandredini and Torelli, plus Antonio Vivaldi’s first masterpiece of sacred music, the Stabat Mater. Magdalena Wór, a promising mezzo-soprano, will sing the solo part.
Wór’s career is going international as she exits her 20s. She’s made substantive contributions to the local scene for a decade, first as a student at Georgia State University and later with countless local groups, from the Cobb Symphony ...
In the months after his Atlanta concert last December, I listened so often to Tristan Perich's new "1-Bit Symphony" -- playing it for friends, playing it for pleasure -- that I burned out the battery. Fortunately, the 3-volt lithium watch battery is easily replaced.
Perich's five-movement symphony is not a recording in the usual sense. It's not even an actual compact disc. Rather, it's a little electronic "performer" glued into a clear CD case, a 1-bit digital microchip that Perich programmed with his music -- plus a battery, on/off switch, volume control and headphone jack.
Assembled in Perich's New York apartment by ...
The future of the Atlanta Opera might look different from its recent past, thanks to the official arrival of conductor Arthur Fagen as music director.
The announcement was made this week by the opera’s general director, Dennis Hanthorn. It’s the latest in a series of recent administrative changes for the 31-year-old company, which has been on an artistic roll but is struggling financially and still doesn't have a strong profile in the Atlanta metro region.
Fagen is booked to conduct two productions each season starting in 2011-12. The New York-born conductor will also help Hanthorn in several key areas: casting singers and ...
The “Rapido! A 14-Day Composition Contest” has announced a slate of semifinalists for 2010-11, and what’s clear is that classical music in America is finally getting an overdue dose of the contemporary. From the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to the Metropolitan Opera, classical groups recognize that an artistically and intellectually vibrant arts culture can’t thrive by recycling a narrow slice of the repertoire. It’s unhealthy for art. It's also bad for business: what industry can survive if it ignores R&D for more than a half-century?
Thus we’ve written a lot about the Atlanta Chamber Players’ “Rapido!,” which was such a surprising success ...
Award-winning theater and TV actress Jasmine Guy, an Atlanta treasure, has been named producing director of Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company, taking both artistic and administrative duties. Her new role amounts to a full-time commitment to the company. The job is billed as “working to further True Colors' mission on both the local and national fronts.”
In the coming 2010-11 season, she will act in the regional premiere of Nathan Louis Jackson’s comedy “Broke-ology,” to be directed by artistic director Leon, and she will star in Sam Shepherd’s drama “Fool for Love.” She will also direct George C. Wolfe’s “The ...
It took a moment to get over the surprise. Here's what the ASO's media relations department posted on Facebook today:
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Happy 60th Birthday to Maestro Yoel Levi, Music Director Emeritus of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! Still making wonderful inspiring music.
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Levi has been persona non grata with the ASO's management for most of the past decade. His photos did not appear in ASO publications or on its office walls, although his predecessor's (Robert Shaw) and successor's (Robert Spano) were usually prominent. Although Levi had been named music director emeritus, his ...
