Classical
Music / Dance
& Concert
MAY 15
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Sarah Chang and Bruch Violin
Concerto No. 1 8 p.m. Tickets $18-$70. Also Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1,
"Classical" and Dvorak's Symphony No. 5. Laura
Jackson conducts. Atlanta Symphony
Hall, 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta. For more
information, please call 404-733-5000 or visit
www.atlantasymphony.org
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MAY 16
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Sarah Chang and Bruch Violin
Concerto No. 1 8 p.m. Tickets $18-$70. Also
Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1, "Classical" and
Dvorak's Symphony No. 5. Laura Jackson conducts. Atlanta Symphony
Hall, 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta. For more
information, please call 404-733-5000 or visit
www.atlantasymphony.org
.
Spivey Hall Young Artists with the Spivey Hall Children’s Choirs.
7
p.m. Tickets $20. This spring concert showcases the achievements of the Spivey Hall Young Artists, who sing with spirit and beauty under the direction of Craig Hurley and accompanist Steven Wooddell. To cap off their year, the Young Artists give a program that includes performances with the Spivey Hall Children's Choir under the direction of Dr. Martha Shaw, marking another successful season of extraordinary music making for all 170 students - the finest young singers in Georgia. Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, 2000 Clayton State blvd., Morrow. For more information, please call 678-466-4200 or visit
www.spiveyhall.org
.
MAY 17
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Sarah Chang and Bruch Violin
Concerto No. 1
8 p.m. Tickets $18-$70. Also Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1,
"Classical" and Dvorak's Symphony No. 5. Laura
Jackson conducts. Atlanta Symphony
Hall, 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta. For more
information, please call 404-733-5000 or visit
www.atlantasymphony.org
.
Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Big Band Afro-Latin Jazz.
8 p.m. Tickets $36, $46, $62 (Group and Georgia State University faculty, staff, and student discounts available). Winner of the Latin Jazz USA Outstanding Achievement Award for 2003, Arturo O’Farrill brings his Afro-Cuban Big Band to the Rialto stage. Mr. O’Farrill played piano with the Carla Bley Big Band from 1979 through 1983. He then went on to develop as a solo performer with a wide spectrum of artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Turre, Freddy Cole, The Fort Apache Band, Lester Bowie, Wynton Marsalis, and Harry Belafonte. In 1995, Mr. O’Farrill agreed to direct the band that preserved much of his father’s music, Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. Because of the large and very demanding body of substantial music in the genre of Latin and Afro-Cuban Jazz that deserved to be appreciated and experienced by the general jazz audience, Mr. O’Farrill and Wynton Marsalis created the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra for Jazz at Lincoln Center. His debut album with the Orchestra “Una Noche Inolvidable” earned a Grammy award nomination in 2006. Rialto Center for the Arts. For more information, please call 404-413-9TIX or visit
www.rialtocenter.org
Atlanta Sacred Chorale: Masterworks.
8 p.m. Tickets $20; $15 students and ages 65 and older.
Faure Requiem with chamber orchestra and organ. Schwartz
Center for Performing Arts, Emory University, 17oo N.
Decatur Road, N.E., Atlanta. For more information, please
call 404-915-4541 or visit
www.atlantasacredchorale.org
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"Bon Voyage" Concert.
4 p.m. Tickets $15; $10 students and senior citizens; ages
11 and younger free. The William Baker Festival Singers
perform Holocaust songs by Atlanta composer William
Dreyfoos, Renaissance to contemporary classics and a new
collection of spirituals. Grace United Methodist Church,
458 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta. For more information,
please call 404-909-8357 or visit
www.festivalsingers.org
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Gwinnett Choral Guild.
7 p.m. Tickets $15; $25 couples; $10 senior citizens and
students. Season finale. "Spanning the Globe: Choral
Gems from Near and Far" features choral classics side
by side with new choral treasures. Conducted by G. Phillip
Shoultz III. Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church, 800
Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville. For more
information, please call 404-223-9962 or visit
www.gwinnettchoralguild.org
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Spivey Hall Children's Choir.
3 p.m. Tickets $20. The superlative Spivey
Hall Children's Choir brings its year and the 2007-2008 Spivey Series to a close with two wonderful concerts - demonstrating once again why the Spivey Hall Children's Choir Program under the direction of Dr. Martha Shaw and accompanist Judy Mason enjoys an international reputation for artistic excellence. The advanced singers of the Tour Choir, Spivey Hall's marvelous musical ambassadors, give a preview of selections to be performed on their annual summer concert tour. Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, 2000 Clayton State blvd., Morrow. For more information, please call 678-466-4200 or visit
www.spiveyhall.org
.
MAY 18
Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra.
3 p.m. Free. Ruth Kern Young Artist Concerto Competition
Concert. Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture, plus
performances by winners of the young artist competition.
Falany Performing Arts Center, 7300 Reinhardt College
Circle, Waleska. For more information, please call
770-720-9167 or visit
acsorch.org
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China Philharmonic Orchestra.
8 p.m. Tickets $221-$70. Pianist Lang Lang and the
orchestra perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.
Atlanta Symphony Hall, 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.,
Atlanta. For more information, please call 404-733-5000 or
visit
www.atlantasymphony.org
.
Cobb Wind Symphony.
3 p.m. Donations accepted. Adult community band's spring
concert. Kell High School, 4770 Lee Waters Road, Marietta.
For more information, please call 678-305-7148 or visit
www.cobbwindsymphony.org
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Decatur Civic Chorus.
3 p.m. Free. This 60th anniversary concert is a reprise of
past hits, from Brahms and Bach to "Oklahoma!"
and "West Side Story." Opens the Dec atur Arts
Festival. First Baptist Church of Decatur, 308 Clairmont
Avenue, Decatur. For more information, please call
770-388-9536 or visit
www.decaturcivicchorus.org
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Bruce Neswick, organ.
3:15 p.m. The Cathedral of St. Philip, 2744 Peachtree
Road, N.W., Atlanta. For more information, please call
404-365-1052
Spivey Hall Children's Choir.
3 p.m. Tickets $20. The superlative Spivey
Hall Children's Choir brings its year and the 2007-2008 Spivey Series to a close with two wonderful concerts - demonstrating once again why the Spivey Hall Children's Choir Program under the direction of Dr. Martha Shaw and accompanist Judy Mason enjoys an international reputation for artistic excellence. The advanced singers of the Tour Choir, Spivey Hall's marvelous musical ambassadors, give a preview of selections to be performed on their annual summer concert tour. Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, 2000 Clayton State blvd., Morrow. For more information, please call 678-466-4200 or visit
www.spiveyhall.org
.
JUNE 1
New Trinity Baroque.
3 p.m. Tickets $25. Predrag Gosta, conductor.
Praised as "one of Atlanta's most prized ensembles" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) as well as one of its most adventurous, New Trinity Baroque makes its first appearance at Spivey Hall in a program of lively works including trios sonatas and chaconnes by Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli, Leclair, Castello, Purcell and others. Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, 2000 Clayton State Blvd., Morrow. For more information, please call 678-466-4200 or visit
www.spiveyhall.org
.
JUNE 7
Atlanta Balalaika Society.
8:15 p.m. Tickets $20. The Atlanta Balalaika
Society is one of the few authentic Russian folk instrument orchestras outside of Russia. The group performs in traditional costume on hand-crafted instruments, with an extensive repertoire of music of old Russia, Eastern Europe and classical composers such as Tchaikovsky and Glinka. Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, 2000 Clayton State Blvd., Morrow. For more information, please call 678-466-4200 or visit
www.spiveyhall.org
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JUNE 11
Cathedral Concerts. 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10. Atlanta
Summer Organ Festival Concert. Peter Conte, organ. From
Wanamaker Department Store and St. Clement's Episcopal
Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Cathedral of
St. Philip, 2744 Peachtree Road, N.W., Atlanta. For more
information, please call 404-365-1052
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