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Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra takes flight with Tin, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky

It’s always a pleasure to see a performing arts group grow and progress. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra (JCSO), a fully professional, part-time symphonic ...
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North Carolina Symphony finds drama and contrast in Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schumann under Prieto

Carlos Miguel Prieto and the North Carolina Symphony gave central North Carolinians a chance this weekend to hear their eponymous band perform important Classical and early Romantic repertoire. The ...
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Igor Levit pairs Beethoven and Schönberg in a statement of musical resistance

Igor Levit launches his NO SILENCE label with “Resistance,” pairing Schönberg’s political “Ode to Napoleon” with Liszt’s ...
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center explores four American voices in ‘American Soundscapes’

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center opened the 2026–27 Candler Concert Series at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts with American Soundscapes, a program ranging across more ...
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A virtuosic season opening for the North Carolina Symphony with Prieto, Giltburg

Raleigh’s North Carolina Symphony opened its 2026–27 season with a concert that sandwiched a dark and dour Russian concerto between a tract of dappled French sunshine and a colorful French-Russian ...
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Cleveland Orchestra musicians authorize strike amid contract talks

CLEVELAND, Ohio— Musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra voted unanimously on Thursday to authorize a strike if a new labor agreement is not reached by Sept. 23, raising the prospect of a work stoppage ...
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Houston Grand Opera gives Mazzoli’s ‘Breaking the Waves’ an unflinching voice

In the operatic world, a simple formula has persisted now for more than two centuries. A “he” and a “she” meet, live a romance, and usually then go towards a horrible destiny. The settings may change, ...
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Eastern Festival of Music returns with all-American program under Gerard Schwarz

Greensboro, North Carolina, in 2026 strikes your reviewer not as a snazzy city but as one of the remaining American urban areas where one can drive around more or less randomly and get the impression ...
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ensemble vim blends imagination and collaboration in ‘IGNITE: SPARK2 Launch Concert’ at The Goat Farm

As ensemble vim completes its seventh illustrious season, I’m reminded how greatly Atlanta’s cultural scene has grown in the last 50 years, and how fortunate we are to have so many musical entities ...
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Spivey Hall’s 36th season comes into focus in conversation with Katherine Lehman

Ahead of its 36th season, Spivey Hall, located just south of Atlanta on the campus of Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia, recently announced a wide-ranging series of performances spanning ...
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Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra explores silence, memory, and renewal in immersive ‘What We Carry’

How often, for a symphony concert, do you enter a dark, cozy, atmospheric space that fills you with such wonder and curiosity that you can’t imagine what the evening will present? How often does that ...
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Houston’s Kinetic Ensemble brings the immigrant experience to the fore with Al-Zand’s ‘The Strangers’ Case’

Co-presented by Houston’s premier new music collective Musiqa and the dynamic conductorless string orchestra Kinetic Ensemble, this weekend’s world premiere of Karim Al-Zand’s The Strangers’ Case ...