In January 1991, when Spivey Hall opened, it stood alone as the only international-caliber concert hall in the Atlanta area. Indeed, with jewel-box acoustics and top-shelf programming, the 390-seat venue — on a picturesque site on the edge of a lake, on the campus of Clayton State University — instantly rivaled the best halls in…
Pianist Angela Hewitt returned to Spivey Hall for an all-Bach recital Sunday afternoon, the penultimate installment of her four-year “Bach Odyssey” — the complete keyboard works of old Johann Sebastian performed in a dozen concerts. International in scope, the whole cycle is being heard in London, New York, Tokyo, Florence, and her hometown of Ottawa,…
I hope Hollywood makes a glamorized, romanticized bio-flick about maligned composer Arnold Schoenberg. People somehow think they don’t already love his music. Tuesday evening, a superb student ensemble played Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a vivid nightmare bathed in gorgeous moonlight. This inscrutable half-hour melodrama from 1912 ought to be a cult classic. Instead, just a handful…
Bliss from the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. Two essential composers — one famous but still underappreciated, George Frideric Handel; the other sorely neglected, Jean-Philippe Rameau — were the focus Friday evening for an atypical concert at the Cathedral of St. Philip, billed as “A Night at the Opera.” Handel and Rameau, born a few years apart,…
The Band’s Visit arrived at the Fox Theatre on Tuesday evening — a national touring production running through Sunday (January 26) — and there’s one essential question: How does this intimate, conversational, silence-laden musical translate from a small Broadway theater to the cavernous old movie palace on Peachtree? Based on an indie Israeli film about…
David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion returned to Atlanta on Saturday night at MINT gallery, in a breathtakingly beautiful performance by the vocal group Kinnara, with percussionist Caleb Herron. The Little Match Girl Passion is a remarkable work on many levels, a retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen tale in which an abused little…
All at once, the Atlanta landscape for new classical music is about to get stronger. Two chamber ensembles with a shared mission — to play recent classical works by living composers — perform concerts this Sunday, November 10. At 3 p.m., the Soundscape Series gives the third concert of its debut season, titled Under Construction,…
Why can’t more concerts be like this? Performers at the top of their art; a compelling, perhaps profound theme; tight integration of music, dance, video art, theater, atmospheric lighting and, most of all, immersive storytelling. In War and Peace: Harmony Through Music, a sort of one-woman pastiche opera created and driven by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato,…
On Saturday night — drenched by tropical storm Nestor — the dark and stormy mood outside was carried into Spivey Hall for a recital by two exacting and brilliant Germans, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt. Esteemed soloists on the world’s stage, they are also frequent collaborators, well matched in temperament and effortless virtuosity…
The concert hall, like this journalistically proper website, has self-enforced decency standards. That’s so 2018. In a new song cycle by Brad Mehldau, The Folly of Desire, a tenor sings of ancient celebrations of rape culture — the gods’ lust for mortals. He sings of rough sex with an angel. And, in a jazzy song…
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