He says: “She ignored me till I got the job in San Francisco!”
She shoots back: “That’s not true! ... But we tried not to talk about it, although it was the el...
In our modern à go-go view of Shakespeare, where almost every element of the plays can be extended beyond the specific and treated as a universal, it’s no big d...
From New York to Berlin, orchestras increasingly offer semi-staged productions of opera and theatrical works as part of their classical season. In the past few ...
A few months ago, it was touch and go whether the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra would reach its goal of performing 10 new fanfares across the 2010-11 season, commi...
A month before the world premiere of James Oliverio’s “Dynasty” Double Timpani Concerto, Paul and Mark Yancich are in a rehearsal hall at Emory University, faci...
The Atlanta Baroque Orchestra has returned to splendid form. Since the abrupt retirement of John Hsu as its energizing conductor, the period-instrument group ha...
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 lat...
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.
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.
