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Q&A: Common talks growth, his new album and performing with the ASO

Lauren LeathersJune 27, 2019

No two music styles are more divergent than classical and rap, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Common will try to bridge that gap in a performance Saturd...

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Sonic Best Bets: June 12–18

Alexandra BenisekJune 12, 2019

Each Wednesday, we’ll round up our top sonic picks for the week ahead – from performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to the bands of East Atlanta Village...

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The ASO performs two free concerts in Piedmont Park

Isabel WalstonJune 11, 2019

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will continue an Atlanta summer tradition with two free concerts in Piedmont Park’s Oak Hill on June 12 and June 19. The orchestr...

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With a lineup of all-stars, the ASO delivers a home run with Fidelio

Benjamin WadsworthJune 7, 2019

The ASO’s performance last night of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio (composed and revised between 1805–14) was a timely meditation on tyranny, love and freedom. It tr...

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Soprano Christine Goerke finds her voice, sings in the ASO’s season-ending Fidelio

Lauren LeathersJune 5, 2019

Artists sometimes talk about how “every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” Composing never came easy for Beethoven, who may have sacrificed his sa...

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Sonic Best Bets: June 5–11

Lauren LeathersJune 5, 2019

Each Wednesday, we’ll round up our top sonic picks for the week ahead – from performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to the bands of East Atlanta Village...

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The ups, and downs, of the ASO’s latest Bernstein and Beethoven

Benjamin WadsworthMay 31, 2019

In another installment of its two-year Beethoven and Bernstein survey, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s concert last night brought together works united by conc...

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Sonic Best Bets: May 29–June 4

Alexandra BenisekMay 29, 2019

Each Wednesday, we’ll round up our top sonic picks for the week ahead – from performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to the bands of East Atlanta Village...

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The ASO educates and entertains with a concert of French music

Benjamin WadsworthMay 24, 2019

The ASO’s concert this weekend featured French works inspired by sights and sounds throughout the world. Darius Milhaud’s Le bœuf sur le tout or The Bull on the...

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Sonic Best Bets: May 22–28

Lauren Leathers and artlessBrandonMay 22, 2019

Each Wednesday, we’ll round up our top sonic picks for the week ahead -- from performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to the bands of East Atlanta Villag...

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