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Music news briefs: Symphony Hall to host all-star salute to Georgia music

Isabel WalstonJune 28, 2019

R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills, Grammy-nominated violinist Robert McDuffie and The Rolling Stones’ keyboardist and music director Chuck Leavell will perform together...

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The Year in Review: ASO, The Atlanta Opera reach toward financial and artistic stability

Mark GreshamDecember 28, 2016

For the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the first half of 2016 was most distinctively marked by the culmination of its Robert Shaw Centennial, celebrating the late long-time music director who was responsible for turning the ASO into a full-time professional orchestra and recording multiple Grammy Award-winning albums with the orchestra and its chorus...

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Review: R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills, violinist Robert McDuffie cook up a rockin’ classical gas

Mark GreshamNovember 1, 2016

On Friday evening. violinist Robert McDuffie headlined a concert of American music featuring the new Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and String Orchestra by Mike Mills -- a founding member of the legendary alternative rock band R.E.M. -- plus music by John Adams and Philip Glass, in the 800-seat Emerson Hall at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts....

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Review: ASO rings the bell with Oundjian and Robert McDuffie on Berlioz and Glass

Mark GreshamJune 3, 2016

On Thursday evening at Symphony Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed a concert of music by Philip Glass and Hector Berlioz, led by guest conductor Pet...

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News briefs: Candler line-up announced; “pop-up” box office opens; the Atlanta Opera honored

ARTS ATL StaffMarch 4, 2016

The Branford Marsalis Quartet headlines the Candler Concert Series. Schwartz Center announces line-up for the Candler Concert Series The 2016-17 Candler Conc...

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