It’s a cliché to talk about couples who finish each other’s sentences. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s principal bass player, Ralph Jones, and associate principal bass Gloria Jones, who will have been married for 28 years this May, finish each other’s musical phrasing.
“We have the same concept of how long or short something should be,” [...]
Meet Monica Caldwell, a sophomore at Shiloh High School. The 15-year-old violist is in her third year as a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Talent Development Program and her second season with the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Monica attributes her success as a musician to what she has gained through these student musician training programs.
When [...]
Timing is everything in music, and Donald Runnicles’s decision 12 years ago to become Principal Guest Conductor-designate of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and join Music Director-designate Robert Spano in a novel creative partnership has been serendipitous for all parties.
“I’m delighted and grateful to be part of what I consider to be a vital and groundbreaking [...]
It feels like the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-12 season has barely begun, yet the Orchestra’s Education and Community Engagement department is in full swing and already has added a number of new initiatives to its repertoire — and the continuous thread between all of these is the immeasurable impact these outreach efforts have in and [...]
Few things in this world convey the spirit of the holidays as clearly and concisely as a well-sung (or played) song. From the rousing opening notes of Handel’s “Hallelujah” chorus to the jubilant closing notes of “Jingle Bell Rock,” there seems to be something almost magical about the music of the season. Whether your tastes [...]
Meet Sheehan Hanrahan, a member of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and a student at Alpharetta High School. A Youth Orchestra student council leader and sole student member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Education Committee, Sheehan also develops community service projects for his school orchestra and now is developing a Youth Orchestra community service plan.
What [...]
“Nyx,” a 17-minute work by the Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, arrives with its own mystique. Did Salonen title his composition after the ethereal figure Nyx, the goddess of the night in Greek mythology and a figure previously best captured on canvas by painters in search of a muse? Salonen himself isn’t saying, but Anna [...]
Michael Krajewski, the first-ever Principal Pops Conductor at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, leads concerts with Cirque de la Symphonie and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy this season. He recently sat down for a short interview.
When did you first fall in love with music?
When I was six years old, my parents asked me if I’d be interested in [...]
It was the middle of winter 2010 and the busy summer concert season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park was long gone. But the popular location did not lay dormant. Almost 5,000 people braved the cold to attend a candlelit Christmas Eve service, presented by Passion City Church in December — and just one [...]
In an era where the biggest story on Broadway is the abysmal failure of the accident-plagued Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, the legendary Patti LuPone stands apart as (to borrow a line from composer Marvin Hamlisch) one singular sensation.
A Broadway veteran with nearly 40 years of experience; two Tony Awards (for 1979’s Evita and 2008’s Gypsy [...]
