February 6, 2018 By Stephanie Adrian Some may say that classical art song is outdated, irrelevant to our modern times and lives. After all, it’s a musical form firmly rooted in the nineteenth century, poetry set to music, performed by an opera singer and a pianist. (Perhaps not as captivating as the latest royal romance or the outcome of the Super Bowl?) But on Saturday evening at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and pianist Bradley Moore turned such provincial thinking on its ear, presenting a thematic recital that was immensely relevant. The duo took perhaps…
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Top Atlanta Music Picks for the New Year
In January I’ll join ranks with Jimmy Paulk and Mark Gresham, writing classical music news and reviews for the ArtsCriticATL website: http://www.artscriticatl.com/. Vocal music offerings for the first quarter of 2012 look promising. The Atlanta Opera will produce Peter Ash’s new opera The Golden Ticket (March 3-11), Susan Graham comes to town to sing a recital with Malcolm Martineau at Spivey Hall (February 5), and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will perform Mahler’s Symphony #2 “Resurrection” with soloists Nicole Cabell and Kelley O’Connor (January 26, 28).
