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Video: Symphony sings downtown thanks to a French muralist, nonprofit Living Walls

On your mark, get set, go: Composers vie in Atlanta Chamber Players’ “Rapido!,” Year Two

Robert Spano won’t play piano for his Emory lecture-recital tonight

Playing to strengths and box office, Atlanta Opera announces shortened 2010-11 season

ASO’s world premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ “Blues Symphony” postponed again

ASO and Chorus open Alpharetta’s Encore Park with spectacular “Carmina Burana”

Getting inside the Atlanta Symphony Chorus’ head

ARTS ATL StaffFebruary 27, 2019

Three portraits. Six eyes. And they're all looking at you from downtown Atlanta's Peachtree Center, an eat-shop-work destination. The 13,000-square-foot mural t...

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Pierre RuheAugust 18, 2010

The “Rapido! A 14-Day Composition Contest” has announced a slate of semifinalists for 2010-11, and what’s clear is that classical music in America is finally ge...

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Pierre RuheApril 2, 2010

Tonight is the opening public event of Robert Spano's three-year Distinguished Artist in Residence appointment at Emory University, which we wrote about here. T...

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Pierre RuheJanuary 28, 2010

The Atlanta Opera has announced its 31st season, 2010-11. In shorthand: Bohème, Porgy, Così. As previously reported, the opera's near future will be smaller an...

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Pierre RuheNovember 10, 2009

For the third time, the world premiere of Wynton Marsalis' "Blues Symphony" has been postponed. Booked by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for summer 2008, then ...

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Pierre RuheJune 23, 2009

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, in the northern Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, is a very big place. Last year, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra inaug...

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Pierre RuheMay 27, 2009

When he led the ASO Chorus, Robert Shaw shared his thoughts in "letters" to his singers. Many of these were collected in "The Robert Shaw Reader" (Yale Univ. Pr...

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