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Kronos Quartet and new music

Emory’s Schwartz Center brought the Kronos Quartet to Atlanta last night for an evening of transcendent, or as we used to say in the ’60s, mind-blowing music. In addition, the audience had a chance to see the Azerbaijan Alim Qasimov Ensemble, … Continue reading

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ART: Local versus global and does it matter?

I attended part of a symposium yesterday at Emory’s Michael C. Carlos museum called “The Somewhere Summit, Connecting the Local to the Global in Atlanta Art”. In conjunction with Atlanta Art Now’s 2011 publication, Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape, … Continue reading

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Music at Emory

Last night I saw the young Vega String Quartet perform Beethoven’s String Quartet in E Minor, op. 59, No. 2 – or the Razumovsky quartet – at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory campus. This was an … Continue reading

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Race, Sex, Politics, Religion…what not to talk about

That’s the title of an exhibit now up through April 16 at Emory’s Visual Arts Gallery, curated by artist Larry Jens Anderson. (that link is from Baltimore artist/writer/musician Jaclyn Paul, check out her site) The show was originally presented by Space … Continue reading

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