The adventurous and uncompromising Atlanta Contemporary Music Collective adds a vital new voice to the local music scene. :: For Atlanta Contemporary Music Collective executive and Artistic Director Bryan Wysocki, his organization’s upcoming season finale is another positive step forward in his efforts to put Atlanta on the map for contemporary chamber music. The Atlanta…
Atlanta Symphony bassist Michael Kurth and his neighbors got started the way so many rock groups do, as friends looking for something fun to do. :: Acclaimed composer and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist Michael Kurth is kicking my ass at a game of pool. We’re at Laseter’s Tavern to discuss his upcoming May 21 concert…
Atlanta chamber choir Coro Vocati will celebrate its 15th year of operation with Two Rivers: A Journey Through Life’s Contrasts, performed May 17 at 7 p.m. at St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church in Marietta and again May 18 at 4 p.m. at Mercer University’s Fickling Hall. The evening will feature guest conductor Dr. Stanley Roberts, who…
Nobody can accuse Deb Bowman of having a dull life. As we sat down to discuss her new album, the Latin-inflected jazz LP Reflection, she’s getting ready to leave for Russia to sing at the Kremlin. “It’s called the Road to Yalta,” she explains. “It’s a celebration of the departure of Nazi Germany from the…
For all his prolific output, Ludwig van Beethoven was seldom one to write sacred music. Missa solemnis, his epic musical dramatization of the Catholic Mass, is one of only a handful of works written expressly for the church. As such, it is a bit of an oddity in his catalog but one that served as…
The award-winning musician will make two visits to Atlanta this year, first at Spivey Hall and, later this fall, at Symphony Hall. :: Synesthesia is the fascinating psychological phenomenon that causes some people to associate musical pitches with specific colors. Piano phenom Pavel Kolesnikov claims not to have the condition, but his sense of musicality…
Allen McCullough’s unorthodox and harmonically dense ‘Precipice’ was the April 6 concert’s centerpiece. :: The Atlanta Chamber Players took the stage at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta on Friday, April 6, for an afternoon of Beethoven coupled with a new work by composer Allen McCullough. The performance proved to be a stylistically vast offering from…
The ensemble takes on the era-straddling Vespers, a crucial yet rarely performed work in the classical canon, at the Cathedral of St. Philip. :: When the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra presents Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers on March 28 and March 29 at the Cathedral of St. Philip, it will be a rare opportunity to hear a transformative…
The Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus and the Atlanta Women’s Chorus offer connection in troubling times with ‘This Is Me’ :: A performance by Voices of Note, the choral organization that combines the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus and the Atlanta Women’s Chorus, would be worthwhile in and of itself, but, for the AGMC and AWC, it’s…
The composer’s Fourth and Seventh hint at the epic nature of the legendary works that followed. :: The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Project continued unabated Thursday, March 6, with symphonies Four and Seven. Thus far, it’s been a generally successful foray into the nine symphonies that tower over the art form like the pillars of…
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