In the increasingly distant days of the early 2010s, I knew them. They rehearsed next door to my band while a BDSM nightclub world of leather, whips and chains throbbed away overhead. While my group was busy with stoner metal, our neighbors in Palaces were sculpting their signature cacophonic onslaught of visceral screams and impenetrable…
William Pu Music Academy aims to begin a lifetime educational process as early as possible. :: There’s an almost monastic quality to the William Pu Music Academy, a classical music program with locations in Alpharetta and Buford. The chamber where we meet is an unadorned room hidden among other units in an unassuming office park….
The annual Elizabeth B. Stephens International Organ Competition is dedicated to the memory of a remarkable woman and the legacy she left behind. :: The interior of Peachtree Road United Methodist Church of Atlanta is a labyrinthine realm of towering white columns and long, echoing corridors. It captures that classic Methodist aesthetic: at once majestic…
Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra director Henry Cheng is quick to point out that the orchestra’s 20th season has a very appropriate title: Becoming. “What’s interesting about season 20 is that it parallels the growth of the city,” he explains. “Just as the city of Johns Creek is filling out its new boardwalk at City Hall…
Another Pride month is in full swing, and, with it, the Atlanta area LGBTQ population proves once again that they throw the best parties. It makes for wild nights out on the town, to be sure. Nevertheless, it’s difficult to avoid how the mainstreaming of all that revelry runs the risk of turning what was…
When the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus assembled on Thursday, June 4, it did so for a season finale that carried with it all the gravitas of those words when applied to a prestige television drama. Throughout the preceding months, I’d watched the ASO open strong with Copland, Elgar and Strauss and complete its ambitious…
“Be well-assured, tempers too stubborn are the first to fail. The steel you see forged to stiffness in the furnace, you may see most frequently shivered and broken.” Such are the iconic words of Creon as he presides over the trial of his niece Antigone in Sophocles’ titular tragedy. The observation begins a monologue on…
Director Scott A. Stewart explains why the groundbreaking American composer is particularly relevant to young musicians today. :: Two weeks ago, I was commencing work with a student ensemble, and I needed the drummer to loosen up. Kids tend to play their instruments with the overly rigid formality of early 20th-century stenographers, even when the…
There’s been a recent surge in online content demonstrating how Bach’s music would have sounded on the instruments of his time. It does seem odd that the instruments modern listeners most closely associate with the composer — modern pianos, strings and woodwinds — sound nothing like what he actually had in mind. That core discrepancy…
What it means for local arts organizations, and its potential as a tool for both funding and access. :: On May 1, 1969, children’s television personality Fred Rogers, the creator and host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, appeared before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications to testify against the Nixon administration’s proposed reduction of the budget…
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