1) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
2) Atlanta Film Festival celebrates the 20th anniversary of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing at the Fox Theatre.
3) Calu leads top-notch burlesquepades at Smith’s Olde Bar.
4) Talbot Tagora and Abe Vigoda play 529.
5) R. Land presents Zaat at Plaza Theatre.
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1) Bill Maher performs at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
2) Museum of Design Atlanta hosts Peaceably to Assemble: Protest in Film and Video, 1961-2006.
3) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs the music of Led Zeppelin at Chastain Park Amphitheater.
4) Georgia Shakespeare’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens at Conant Performing Arts Center.
5) Jennie C. Jones’ Red, Bird, Blue opens at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.
(Photo by Janet Van Ham)
1) Decatur Library hosts A Night of Recluse Artists.
2) Jenny Lin performs at Spivey Hall.
3) Emory Cinematheque presents Jaws.
4) Drive-By Truckers perform at Variety Playhouse.
5) Atlanta Symphony Hall hosts Conversations of Note — Atlanta School Part II: The Music of Composer Christopher Theofanidis.
(Photo courtesy Decatur Library)
1) Slow Food Atlanta hosts a Slow Sustainable Supper honoring Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
2) The Plaza Theatre screens the Woman’s Angle.
3) Introducing Carolyn Evans and New Paintings from Shannon Nyimicz open at TEW Galleries.
4) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Michael the K join forces for All You Need Is Love: Classical Mystery Tour, a 40th-anniversary celebration of the Fab Four’s pioneering album.
5) Fernbank Museum hosts Martinis and IMAX.
(Photo courtesy Michael Pollan)
1) GSU’s Welch School Gallery hosts Public Art for Beginners: Introducing Atlanta’s New Public Artists.
2) The Goldest plays the Earl.
3) Jack Riggs discusses and signs The Fireman’s Wife at Decatur Library’s Center for the Book.
4) The ASO performs a King Celebration concert at Morehouse College.
5) Grayson Capps plays Smith’s Olde Bar.
(Photo by Jason Parker for artrelish.com/Le Flash)
Soprano Teri Dale Hansen sings with the ASO on New Year's Eve.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bids farewell (and good riddance) to 2008 with the help of two powerhouse vocalists, soprano Teri Dale Hansen and tenor Eric Van Hoven, under the baton of conductor Michael Krajewski. Van Hoven made his New York debut with the New York City Opera and has impeccable classical credentials, while Hansen has won international recognition as a Kurt Weill specialist and a crossover artist who moves between opera and musical theater styles. Both former Florida State University students, they offer a tag-team discussion of the ASO’s New Year’s Eve show, which begins at 8 p.m. Dec. 31.
Do New Year’s Eve shows have a unique vibe?
Hansen: Absolutely. I think it’s pretty much a drunken vibe. We start the evening by drinking, which sets the tone early.
Van Hoven: This show, involving more classical music than usual, I find takes on an entirely different feeling. If it was a Lerner & Lowe revue, we’d spend the evening moving through their collaboration. In this one, because of the combination of early pieces and later ones, we’re bringing more of an updated feeling to the opera pieces. We don’t necessarily want to do it in character as we would in opera — we want to entertain and connect to the audience.
Hansen: It’s opera presented in an entertaining way, not like it’s been extracted from the original show. It’s an interactive show. It’s 3-D. It’s hands-on. Eric sings “La donne e mobile,” which is sung by the biggest cad in Rigoletto, so Eric’s going to go out in the house and accost all of the women.
Van Hoven: Not all of them. Just two or three. (more…)
1) Atlanta Symphony Hall hosts a Soulful Christmas with Will Downing, Lalah Hathaway and Gerald Albright.
2) Ed Roland plays Eddie’s Attic.
3) Sam the Lovesick Snowman continues at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
4) The Hawks play Detroit at Philips Arena.
5) New Trinity Baroque plays at St. Batholomew’s Episcopal Church.
(Photo courtesy Gerald Albright)
1) Carte Blanche opens at Wm Turner Gallery.
2) NPR’s Bailey White discusses Nothing with Strings at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
3) T. Model Ford plays Star Bar.
4) Invasion: Christmas Carol continues at Dad’s Garage.
5) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Chorus performs at Woodruff Arts Center.
(Photo by Bernard Matussière/Courtesy Wm Turner Gallery)
1) Managing Maxine continues at the Alliance Theater.
2) The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra hosts A Haunted Halloween.
3) TAG Records brings the Survival of the Freshest MC Competition to the Loft.
4) Moxie: A Queer Cabaret of Color celebrates Halloween at Parkway Loft.
5) Choreographers Showcase explores all sorts of dance at the Atlanta Civic Center.
(Photo by Greg Mooney)
1) Cutting Fine, Cutting Deep continues at the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum.
2) Henry Rollins plays Variety Playhouse.
3) Out of Hand Theater presents MEDS at Onstage Atlanta.
4) Arrested Development plays at Ferst Center for the Arts.
5) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs at Symphony Hall.
(Photo courtesy Julie Puttgen/Sewanee: The University of the South)
