Spring was the theme this weekend at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. But big trouble arrived, during Saturday's performance, when it edged into summer.
The latest fanfare in celebration of Robert Spano’s decade as the ASO's music director -- 10 across the season -- came from Robert Pound, a composer at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and a regular visitor to Atlanta.
In 2005, the ASO premiered his “Irrational Exuberance,” based on former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan’s description of the stock market during a period of economic frenzy. But what once seemed like a celebration of good times has since become a ...
She’s calling it her “legacy.” Violinist Cecylia Arzewski is the former concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and one of the most interesting personalities in the local musical community. She has been practicing and performing Johann Sebastian Bach's six works for solo violin all her life. The journey that started when she was learning the music as a young girl will end, at some existential level, later this month when Arzewski finishes recording the Bach violin sonatas and partitas in New York.
To prepare for the recording sessions, at the acoustically radiant Academy of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, she’s been ...
In January, the Atlanta Symphony received a $1.8 million gift to the orchestra’s endowment -- announced here -- that also included a special musician’s award, named the Mabel Dorn Reeder Honorary Chair.
Principal trumpet Thomas Hooten, 34, has been named its first recipient.
The Reeder Chair is a merit-based award for an ASO player who, according to the gift, “demonstrates excellence in musical artistry, leadership, collegiality and community engagement. The chair may be granted to any tenured orchestra member, including those who already occupy a named chair. Recipients will be awarded a one-time $10,000 stipend at the start of their five-year term ...
"Atlanta Art Now," planned as a biennial publication devoted to critical discussion of the city's visual artists, has released the names of those to be featured in its inaugural volume. "NOPLACENESS" is written by a trio of Atlanta-based critics: Jerry Cullum, ArtsCriticATL’s chief art critic Catherine Fox and Cinqué Hicks. Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, will write the book's foreword.
Subtitled “Art in a Post-Urban Landscape,” the publication explores work by Atlanta visual artists who are responding to new paradigms of space, place and identity in the global era. The announcement ...
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ends its season of family concerts this Sunday with Lemony Snicket's "The Composer Is Dead," based on a witty children's picture book that introduces youngsters to the sections of the orchestra and provides hilarity for adults who know backstage politics.
The book comes with a CD of Mr. Snicket narrating the story, accompanied by an eclectic, clever score by San Francisco-based composer Nathaniel Stookey, a sort of update to Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra." The ASO, conducted by Jere Flint, will perform the music and tell the story with actors from the ...
Lee Hoiby’s 20-minute monologue opera “Bon Appetit!,” drawn from Julia Child’s 1970s television cooking shows, is becoming a staple of Atlanta Opera’s community outreach. With soprano Susan Nicely in the role, it first performed the mini opera in November, as a benefit at Cook’s Warehouse, a kitchen supply store in Midtown. (Before that performance, I interviewed composer Hoiby and librettist Mark Shulgasser; Hoiby died in March.)
The opera returned to “Bon Appetit!” last week at another Cook’s Warehouse, this one in Decatur. (The store’s management had asked the opera’s general director, ...
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