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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 2008/02
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Subj: [DR-L] The Atlanta Baroque Orchestra Explodes...
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:09:21 -0500
...with the FANTASTIC music of Sammartini, Locatelli and Geminiani!
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Dear List,
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CASH IN those Delta frequent-flyer miles and join the ABO for this drop-dea=
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performance featuring the seductive allure of Baroque Italian composers. N=
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need for fancy dress...we open our doors to YouTubers, text messengers,=20
corporate executives, Democrats, Republicans, Unions, Gangsters, MTV fans,=20
desperate housewives, cigar smokers, martini drinkers...and other social ou=
tcasts. =20
If you are homeless, you are granted a comp ticket...no questions asked.
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Hope to see you on Sunday!
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Janie
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ATLANTA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA continues
its 10th Anniversary season with
"The Enchanted Forest": Program Music from Italy on Sunday Feb. 17
EVENT: Atlanta Baroque Orchestra presents "The Enchanted Forest": Program=
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Music from Italy
DATE and TIME: Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
PLACE: Chapel of Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, 3180 Peachtree=20
Rd., N.E., Atlanta (in Buckhead)
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Giuseppe Sammartini: Concerto Grosso, Op. 5, No. 6, "Christmas" for string=
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and continuo
Pietro Antonio Locatelli: Concerto =E0 quattro in E-flat Major, Op. 7, No.=
6,=20
"Il Pianto d'Arianna" for 2 violins, viola, cello, strings and continuo
Francesco Geminiani: The Enchanted Forest, for 2 flutes, trumpet, 2 horns,=
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strings and continuo
ARTISTS: The Atlanta Baroque Orchestra with John Hsu, Conductor
TICKETS: $25 regular admission, $15 seniors (age 62+), students with ID an=
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members of Atlanta Early Music Alliance; children under 12 are admitted=20
free=20
Tickets are available in advance by telephone: 770.537.3974, or at the door=
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A season ticket package and Family Pass Season Tickets are available.
WEBSITE: _www.atlantabaroque.org_ (http://www.atlantabaroque.org)=20
"Let me tell you a story. . ." The Atlanta Baroque Orchestra introduces to=
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Atlanta audiences program music by a trio of Italian composers, including a=
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concerto depicting Christmas by Sammartini, a concerto by Locatelli=20
representing the weeping of Ariadne (spurned by her lover Theseus) and culm=
inating in=20
Geminiani's music for ballet, The Enchanted Forest. "Program Music" is=20
designed to paint a picture, tell a story or depict an idea which means tha=
t this=20
concert will feature works that are both colorful and evocative. Written b=
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three of the "superstars" of the Baroque who are not heard in Atlanta on a=20
regular basis, audiences have a rare opportunity to learn why these=20
contemporaries of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi were so well known and admired i=
n their time=20
and remain favorites of early music lovers today.
Has it really been ten years and fifty or more concerts? Indeed it has! =20
Since its first public concert in January 1998, the group has grown from a=20=
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of peripatetic period-instrument instrumentalists to an established and=20
highly professional ensemble of colleagues who have developed a collective=20
stylistic conception through regular performance of Baroque and Classical=20
masterworks on instruments in use at the time that the works were performed=
. Please=20
join Artistic Director, John Hsu and the ABO musicians for this historic=20
performance!
"The Enchanted Forest" is made possible in part through a $5,000 gift by=20
Lois Z. Pyle.
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**************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy=20
Awards. Go to AOL Music. =20
(http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=3Daolcmp00300000002565)
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