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www.artsATL.com Review: Rising star Tara Erraught brings her Irish roots and soaring mezzo to Spivey Hall
March 26, 2014 By Stephanie Adrian The month of March prompts one to think of shamrocks, corned beef and cabbage, and a myriad of other Irish clichés like kissing the Blarney Stone and green beer. In the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, perhaps, Spivey Hall welcomed Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught and her pianist Dearbhla Collins…
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Preview on www.artsATL.com: Music educators convene for public conference, concerts based on Zoltán Kodály’s “universal musical humanism”
March 17, 2014 By Stephanie Adrian Hungarian pianist and composer Zoltán Kodály held that everyone has musical ability that should be cultivated in order to benefit humanity. The Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE), a professional organization for music educators, will convene in Atlanta on March 20 to promote his philosophy of “universal musical humanism.”…
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ArtsATL Review: Skylark Vocal Ensemble performs impressive array of songs for winter and spring
January 27, 2014 By Stephanie Adrian On Friday night conductor Matthew Guard and his Skylark Vocal Ensemble offered a concert titled From Winter to Spring at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Buckhead. Equipped with a theme exceedingly apropos for Atlanta’s chilly weather conditions, the Skylark singers entered a darkened sanctuary and opened with Moritz Hauptmann’s “Zigeunerlied.”…
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This Spring at Spivey
Just a small portion of the wall backstage at Spivey Hall that displays autographed press photos of the stunning artists who have performed here. In this shot you can see Bryn Terfel, Christine Brewer, Joyce DiDonato, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Murray Perahia. Tomorrow my 9-year-old daughter will have the privilege of playing a small Schumann song…
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Tommasini’s Assessment of 2013 in The New York Times
“Lessons in a Year of Crises” by Anthony Tommasini mourns the loss of New York City Opera and highlights Gotham Chamber Opera, a company with a $1.5 annual budget and no endowment. http://nyti.ms/19eB7br
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ArtsATL Year in Review: The most notable performances and events in Atlanta music
January 3, 2014 By ArtsATL staff Though the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed a reduced number of concerts last year, the quality more than made up for the quantity. And the city’s burgeoning alternative classical scene received a major boost when both Sonic Generator and Bent Frequency looked to expand their horizon to foreign destinations. Tomer Zvulun…
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Preview: Skylark Vocal Ensemble opens season with mix of modern and ancient Christmas songs
December 18, 2013 By Stephanie Adrian A skylark is a small bird found in Europe, Asia and northern Africa, especially known for singing while in flight. And conductor Matthew Guard — inspired by a P.B. Shelley poem called “To a Skylark” — chose the lark as his choral group’s namesake, classifying it as Atlanta’s only…
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In the December Issue of Opera News…Review of Tosca
Atlanta Opera 10/5/13 Atlanta Opera’s newly appointed general and artistic director, Tomer Zvulun, started the company’s 2013–14 season with a tasteful production of Puccini’s Tosca (seen Oct. 5). Zvulun, who is not yet forty, is a sought-after stage director who will manage the affairs of A.O. while fulfilling prior directing commitments at the Met, Boston Lyric Opera…
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Sad News From Australia…McCultured!
One McDonalds restaurant in Australia turned to opera in order to ward off teen gangs. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511488/McDonalds-Australian-plays-loud-classical-opera-music-stop-teen-gangs-loitering.html
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Review: Rome native Jamie Barton displays depth and breadth of emotion at Spivey Hall
November 20, 2013 By Stephanie Adrian The late Charles Ives wrote in a postscript to his collection, 114 Songs, “Every normal man — that is, every uncivilized or civilized human being not of defective mentality, moral sense, etc. — has, in some degree, creative insight (an unpopular statement) and an interest, desire and ability to…
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