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Sonic Best Bets: May 8–14

Lauren LeathersMay 8, 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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Classical Music Year in Review: How the ASO, Atlanta Opera and more shaped 2018

Mark GreshamDecember 26, 2018

Endings, beginnings and a couple of centennials marked 2018 in Atlanta's classical music scene. ArtsATL has curated a few of the highlights and game-changing ev...

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Gerald Finley, with pianist Julius Drake, holds nothing back in Spivey recital

Stephanie AdrianMay 1, 2018

Beethoven didn’t really like composing songs, but his creative output includes 60 of them, many of which are settings of the great 19th-century German lawyer-po...

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Soprano Julia Bullock pushes through opera stereotypes in Spivey Hall recital

Stephanie AdrianApril 10, 2018

Soprano Julia Bullock has a dilemma. Opera is all about stereotypes aka fach -- role classification based upon a classical singer’s vocal and sometimes physical...

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Review: Gil Shaham and pianist Akira Eguchi mix modern and classic at Spivey recital

Mark GreshamFebruary 20, 2018

On Saturday evening at Spivey Hall, violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Akira Eguchi performed a recital of music by Kreisler, Bach, Franck and contemporary compos...

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Luminary Awards: Amaranth winner Robert Edge has made major imprint on Atlanta arts

Gail O'NeillJanuary 29, 2018

Robert “Bob” Edge, ArtsATL’s Luminary Awards Amaranth Winner for Philanthropic Legacy, has practiced law at Alston & Bird, where he is the firm’s senior cou...

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Review: Kirill Gerstein christens Spivey Hall’s new Steinway with a brilliant workout

Mark GreshamJanuary 24, 2018

On Sunday's warming sunny afternoon, pianist Kirill Gerstein played a solo recital of music by Bach, Debussy, Chopin, Adès and Brahms at Spivey Hall, offering u...

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Review: Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor plays with subtle radiance at Spivey Hall concert

Mark GreshamNovember 21, 2017

On Sunday's clear and chilly afternoon, 25-year-old British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor returned to Spivey Hall, performing a recital of music by Bach, Mozart, D...

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Review: Sir András Schiff shows off his virtuosity on piano with spellbinding Spivey performance

Mark GreshamOctober 31, 2017

This past Friday evening at Spivey Hall, Hungarian-born British pianist András Schiff performed a solo recital of music by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Brahms and Ba...

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Spivey Hall kicks off season in perfect harmony with vocal group Chanticleer

Stephanie AdrianOctober 10, 2017

Within his notorious Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer gave us “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” in which the rooster Chanticleer learns the hard way that one should n...

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