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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 [...]

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.

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.

In 2007, the Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs threw a no-holds-barred party for its annual Memorial Day weekend jazz event, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Atlanta Jazz Festival in its true home, Piedmont Park. It seemed like all the big names — Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, The Bad Plus and the Vijay Iyer Quartet — came to Atlanta to congratulate the city for supporting live jazz.

At age 27, Augustin Hadelich has emerged as a major violin soloist, shortlisted by major orchestras as he introduces himself to the world. But if anyone at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra concert on Thursday, his Atlanta debut, expected the sort of flashy showmanship often associated with young prodigies, they were in for a big surprise.

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.