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John Adams All Around Town
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The Atlanta Symphony has been away from Symphony Hall for a few weeks now. The orchestra was on tour to Florida in recent weeks, with great reviews at almost every stop. Tonight, back home, they’ll perform a “Symphony 360” lecture-performance devoted to Dvorak’s “From the New World” Symphony. ASO assistant conductor Laura Jackson is on the podium.
There’s also an ASO pops program Friday and Saturday, and on Sunday afternoon, an Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra concert with an interesting program, including Hovhaness, Kodaly, Ives and Don Gillis’ “Symphony X.”
Next week, March 22 and 24, the big ASO returns to its usual groove with a big event on Atlanta’s classical-music calendar: composer John Adams conducts the ASO in his own music. I’ve written a big piece on Adams that will be published on the cover of Sunday’s Arts&Books section (the article should be available online later today or tomorrow).
This morning Georgia State University announced a free Adams lecture. Here’s what GSU composer Nick Demos sent me:
I would like to cordially invite you all and all your students to an exciting weekend here on the campus of Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta. The School of Music will be hosting the American Music Center Professional Development Workshops for Composers on Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, March 25.
You can find out more about these workshops and how to register by visiting:
[http://www.amc.net/resources/pdp/workshopsAtlanta0307.html]
In conjunction with these workshops, I am pleased to also invite you and all your students to a 90 minute Lecture with Composer John Adams. Mr. Adams, in town for performances of his Violin Concerto and the Pulitzer Prize winning On The Transmigration of Souls with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, will be on our campus on Friday, March 23 from 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM.
While the AMC Workshops do cost some money (with discounts for AMC members and for attendance at all workshops), I’m happy to let you all know that the Adams lecture is completely FREE. I realize this may be a little late notice — but the logistics of Mr. Adams’ visit have just now been completely worked out!
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