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October 25, 2007

• Where's the ASO Review???

October 18, 2007

• 'Bach at Leipzig,' at Aurora Theatre

October 7, 2007

• Russian Pianist Opens Spivey Hall Season

October 4, 2007

• ASO Ties Itself In Knots and This is a Good Thing

October 1, 2007

• Conductor Runnicles Goes Home to Scotland

September 28, 2007

• ASO's complete 'La Boheme'

September 23, 2007

• Fringe Atlanta's Most Excellent Debut

September 16, 2007

• Opera Review: Love Stinks?

September 14, 2007

• Atlanta, America's New Opera Capital?

September 9, 2007

• New 'Solomon' Opera from Sharon Willis

September 6, 2007

• Pavarotti's Outrageous Best
• ASO Hires Concert Promoter

September 2, 2007

• New Trinity Baroque Plays the Hits

August 24, 2007

• Name the New AJC Arts Blog and Win a Prize!

August 16, 2007

• Acoustics and Audiences at Cobb Energy arts center

August 15, 2007

• First Listen at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre

August 9, 2007

• London Calling for ASO Conductors

August 8, 2007

• Those Ruthless ASO Chorus Auditions

August 5, 2007

• ASO Flies into Outer Space

July 31, 2007

• Endangered African Wood at Cobb Energy Arts Center

July 30, 2007

• The Highs and Lows of ASO Weekend

July 29, 2007

• Soprano Twyla Robinson at Spivey Hall

July 24, 2007

• Spano at a Career Crossroads?

July 18, 2007

• Gilbert Takes NY Philharmonic

July 16, 2007

• Baroque foreshadows Twilight of the Gods?

July 13, 2007

• At the Art Museum, At the Opera

July 5, 2007

• ASO Top Salaries

July 3, 2007

• Opera star Beverly Sills is Dead

June 28, 2007

• Bubbles on Her Deathbed

June 24, 2007

• Spoleto's Got What ATL Wants

June 21, 2007

• Is ASO's planned 14th St. Site Dead?

June 17, 2007

• ASO's Laura Jackson and 'Changing Cultural Life'

June 14, 2007

• A New Maestra in the House

June 12, 2007

• ASO Hires New Principal Oboist
• Music Critic? Arts Reporter? What's the deal?

June 7, 2007

• ASO's 'Carmina Burana' and a Polish Treasure

June 1, 2007

• SPOLETO: opera Faustus, The Last Night

May 31, 2007

• ASO Plays Baseball and Other American Classics

May 30, 2007

• New York Composer Celebrates Baseball

May 27, 2007

• SPOLETO: Opening Weekend

May 24, 2007

• ASO Takes A Walk On The Wild Side

May 17, 2007

• ASO Assistant Scores A Thrilling Brahms
• If You Failed Your 'American Idol' Audition...

May 13, 2007

• Almost Paradise: Elysium Makes Its Debut

May 6, 2007

• We're Outta Here: Opera's Farewell Gala

May 3, 2007

• ASO plays winning Bruckner and Beethoven

April 30, 2007

• Classical Quiz No. 4

April 27, 2007

• Appreciation: Mstislav Rostropovich

April 26, 2007

• ASO's British Invasion concert

April 20, 2007

• Classical Quiz No. 3

April 19, 2007

• ASO Goes Lite Classics

April 16, 2007

• World tunes ear to opera pioneer

April 13, 2007

• Classical Quiz No. 2

April 12, 2007

• ASO's Savage Brilliance in 'The Rite'
• 4/12: Steve Reich's Sonic Balm

April 6, 2007

• Classical Quiz 4/6

April 4, 2007

• Classical Music Fakery (Part 2)

April 1, 2007

• Two Georgians win Met Auditions

March 30, 2007

• ASO Visualizes Bach's 'St John' Passion

March 27, 2007

• Sonic Generator's High Tech Brilliance

March 26, 2007

• Profundo basso at Spivey Hall

March 22, 2007

• John Adams Conducts the ASO

March 21, 2007

• Bach, Bartok and the War in Iraq

March 15, 2007

• John Adams All Around Town

March 13, 2007

• Michael O'Neal Singers and Rossini's Irreverent Mass

March 5, 2007

• Spivey Weekend: Opera Star and Soulful Bach

February 28, 2007

• ATL Composers Feedback (Part 3)

February 26, 2007

• the Great Richard Goode at Spivey Hall
• the Great Richard Goode at Spivey Hall

February 22, 2007

• ASO, Emanuel Ax and Music of Rainbows

February 21, 2007

• Atlanta Opera Chorus Invited to Paris
• Local Tenor Wins at Met Audition Regionals

February 20, 2007

• 'Turned On' to Music of War and Gloom

February 18, 2007

• Feedback on ATL Composers

February 16, 2007

• Concertmasters, Cats, Composers

February 13, 2007

• Spoleto 2007 to honor Menotti

February 11, 2007

• Serkin Illuminates Stravinsky and Bach

February 9, 2007

• Star-Cross'd Opera Aligns for 'Romeo et Juliette'

February 2, 2007

• Composer, Spoleto founder Menotti is dead

January 31, 2007

• Sonic Generator

January 28, 2007

• Atlanta Baroque Orchestra goes Italian

January 25, 2007

• ASO in 'Rosenkavalier' Excerpts
• ASO in 'Rosenkavalier' Excerpts

January 24, 2007

• ASO's new pavillion

January 20, 2007

• The Pain and Pathos of Maria Callas

January 18, 2007

• Ravel and Rimsky from the ASO
• Arabian Nights and Guerrilla Art

January 13, 2007

• Met Opera a No-Show, 'Violence Averted'

January 12, 2007

• Maya Angelou, the ASO and 'A King Celebration'

January 9, 2007

• San Francisco Opera names Runnicles' Replacement

January 3, 2007

• Opera, popcorn and 'Puritani'

December 27, 2006

• Does Ballet need orchestra for 'The Nutcracker'?

December 25, 2006

• ASO Chorus Does Berlin, The Sequel?

December 22, 2006

• Met premieres 'First Emperor'

December 21, 2006

• Off to New York

December 19, 2006

• New to the ASO's 'Messiah'?

December 14, 2006

• ASO in Vivaldi and Handel's 'Messiah'

December 10, 2006

• Classical CDs you shouldn't miss, from the minimalist and the master
• BLOG: Is 'Christmas with ASO' Still a Great Show?

December 7, 2006

• REVIEW: 'Christmas with the ASO'
• ASO gets 7 Grammy nominations

November 30, 2006

• REVIEW: ASO and Music that Glitters

November 15, 2006

• Itzhak Perlman and the ASO
• Sonic Generator Makes Its Debut

November 13, 2006

• Tenor Villazon, another coup for Spivey Hall

November 11, 2006

• Titans and Creatures from the ASO

November 10, 2006

• Atlanta Opera's 'Barber' and a note on deadlines

November 2, 2006

• REVIEW: ASO Serenades the Crowd

October 29, 2006

• Violinist John Holloway plays Bach

October 26, 2006

• Epic Mozart and Pretty Faure from ASO

October 24, 2006

• Michael O'Neal Singers' Holocaust Cantata

October 22, 2006

• New Trinity Baroque on Handel and Liars We Love

October 15, 2006

• Lucky Luciana and LAGQ Open Spivey Hall Season

October 12, 2006

• ASO Dazzles in Music by the Moderns

October 7, 2006

• ASO and Shaham in English

October 6, 2006

• Atlanta Opera's Double: Pagliacci and Carmina Burana

October 1, 2006

• Pianist takes on Bach's 'Well Tempered Clavier'

September 29, 2006

• Spano continues partnership with Vaughan Williams' compositions

September 24, 2006

• Cobb Symphony Opens Dozier, Atlanta Baroque's Mozart

September 21, 2006

• ASO Season Opening Higdon, Beethoven and More
• ASO Season Opening Higdon, Beethoven and More
• ASO Season Opening Higdon, Beethoven and More

September 18, 2006

• 'Streetcar Named Desire' from Capitol City Opera

September 3, 2006

• New Trinity Baroque's Zesty Mozart

July 23, 2006

• ASO and young talent shine in NBAF concert

July 17, 2006

• ASO and Jackson play Hollywood 2
• Jackson and ASO play Hollywood 1

June 5, 2006

• Cool French sounds from Bent Frequency

June 4, 2006

• A capella debut for ASO Chamber Chorus

May 25, 2006

• ASO and Spano make 'Kullervo' a masterpiece

May 19, 2006

• ASO and Pianist Gutierrez Excel in Chopin
• Atlanta Opera's 'Tosca'

May 11, 2006

• Arzewski and ASO in Berg's Violin Concerto

May 8, 2006

• Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra's 'Made in America'

May 7, 2006

• Renaissance rocks with Atlanta Schola Cantorum

May 4, 2006

• At the ASO, East meets West, wonderfully

April 30, 2006

• Perlman and Zukerman at Emory

April 29, 2006

• 'Susannah' by Capitol City Opera

April 13, 2006

• ASO offer Bloated Romanticism, and Laughs

April 6, 2006

• A Cosmic Garden from the ASO

March 30, 2006

• Christine Brewer, the ASO, and Death

March 27, 2006

• Golijov by the Riverside Chamber Players

March 23, 2006

• ASO in Messiaen and Mozart

March 20, 2006

• Chopin Society offers Polish prodigy

March 12, 2006

• ASO's Verdi Requiem at Carnegie Hall

March 10, 2006

• Atlanta Opera in Mozart 'Abduction from the Seraglio'

March 2, 2006

• ASO's Verdi Requiem in Atlanta

February 16, 2006

• ASO triumph with a new 'St Mark Passion'

February 9, 2006

• Christie conducts ASO in Michael Hersch

February 2, 2006

• Krivine and Fischer Wow at the ASO

January 26, 2006

• ASO plays Mozart Mozart Mozart Mozart

January 22, 2006

• Razzle-dazzle from the Cobb Symphony Orchestra

January 19, 2006

• Gilmore Winner Ingrid Fliter makes ASO Debut

January 13, 2006

• 'A King Celebration' for 2006

January 9, 2006

• 'Trout' Quintet from Georgian Chamber Players

January 5, 2006

• ASO Obsesses Over Bach and Brahms

December 18, 2005

• New Trinity Baroque's 'Candlelight Christmas'

December 15, 2005

• Handel's 'Messiah' (and Bach) from ASO
• Tobias Picker's 'An American Tragedy' at the Met

December 8, 2005

• Mackenzie's debut 'Christmas with the ASO'

December 1, 2005

• Stephane Deneve conducts the ASO

November 18, 2005

• Spano and ASO meet Beethoven
• Atlanta Opera's 'Porgy and Bess'

November 10, 2005

• ASO performs Golijov opera 'Ainadamar'

November 3, 2005

• Michael Morgan and Chris O'Riley with the ASO

October 30, 2005

• Douglas Major's Requiem Mass, world premiere

October 28, 2005

• Roberto Abbado conducts the ASO

October 23, 2005

• Atlanta Baroque Orchestra visit Zimmermann's Cafe

October 20, 2005

• ASO hosts the enlightened Oliver Knussen

October 14, 2005

• Atlanta Opera's 'La Traviata'

October 12, 2005

• Five New Works by Atlanta Composers

October 6, 2005

• ASO plays mostly Mozart

September 30, 2005

• Marin Alsop conducts the ASO

September 26, 2005

• Tenor Ian Bostridge opens Spivey Hall season

September 23, 2005

• ASO plays Finnish Masters

September 15, 2005

• Mahler Resurrection Symphony opens ASO season

July 17, 2005

• Laura Jackson conducts ASO

May 19, 2005

• ASO's season-closing concert

May 13, 2005

• ASO plays two world premieres

May 8, 2005

• 'Margaret Garner,' an opera world premiere

May 5, 2005

• ASO in Bruckner Sym. No. 8

April 29, 2005

• ASO teaching the classics

April 18, 2005

• Tenor Salvatore Licitra at Spivey Hall

April 17, 2005

• ASO and Emory Concerts

April 15, 2005

• Atlanta Opera's 'Fidelio'

April 11, 2005

• Merling Trio at Marcus JCC in Dunwoody

April 8, 2005

• ASO plays Sibelius and Beethoven

March 24, 2005

• 'Petrouchka' and more from ASO

March 23, 2005

• Party music by Atlanta Chamber Players

March 17, 2005

• ASO's 'The Damnation of Faust'

March 15, 2005

• The Michael O'Neal Singers in 'Elijah'

March 11, 2005

• ASO plays Tan Dun and Mahler

March 6, 2005

• Critic's Notebook: Emory's Race and Identity in Music

March 4, 2005

• ASO plays Dawson and Gershwin

March 2, 2005

• Masur leads Orch National de France at Emory

February 15, 2005

• World Premieres from NeoPhonia

February 13, 2005

• Sharon Willis' Opera 'The Candlers of Callan'

February 11, 2005

• Atlanta Opera's 'La Boheme'

February 6, 2005

• Strathmore, a New Concert Hall

February 3, 2005

• Abbado and Hahn with the ASO

January 29, 2005

• Death, Gloom and Mozart at the ASO

January 27, 2005

• Rare Jewish Cantata by Emory Early Music

January 26, 2005

• Pianists Andsnes and Grimaud in recitals

January 24, 2005

• Joyful 'early music'

January 22, 2005

• Capitol City Opera in Mozart's 'Cosi fan tutte'

January 20, 2005

• ASO, Runnicles in Music from Home

January 14, 2005

• A King Celebration Concert

January 7, 2005

• ASO's Bumpy Ride for a Valkyrie

January 3, 2005

• Ensemble Sirius plays Stockhausen at Eyedrum

December 16, 2004

• Handel's 'Messiah' from the ASO

December 6, 2004

• Soprano Measha Brueggergosman at Spivey

December 2, 2004

• ASO's Gospel Christmas

November 22, 2004

• Riverside Chamber Players

November 12, 2004

• ASO on Thursday: 'Oceana'

November 6, 2004

• Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

November 5, 2004

• Atlanta Opera: “Don Giovanniâ€?

November 1, 2004

• Cap City Opera and Georgia Philharmonic

October 28, 2004

• ASO and Yoel Levi play Mahler 9

October 27, 2004

• Thomas Hampson sings at Emory

October 25, 2004

• A Harbison Premiere, the classical weekend

October 22, 2004

• Volkov conducts ASO