September 2009 Concert Calendar

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9/5	New Trinity Baroque Atlanta	Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Their Contemporaries	Celebrating Haydn’s 200th anniversary
9/10	Columbus State University Legacy Live! Columbus	Paul Galbraith, guitar	Galbraith performs on a special 8-string guitar he plays in the position of a cello
9/10	Falany Performing Arts Center Waleska	D'Amore Duo	Young virtuoso American guitarist William Feasely and Russian oboist Vladimir Lande
9/12	Ocmulgee Symphony Orchestra Hawkinsville	Mozart: A Little Night Music Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto Copland: Appalachian Spring	Griffin Campbell, saxophone Adrian Gnam, guest conductor
9/12, 19 & 26	Cultural Arts Council Douglasville	Fall Concerts on the Plaza: Latin Rhythms
9/13	Georgia Philharmonic Rabun Gap	Classical Pops Summer Fling	Dvorak, Mozart, Strauss, Rodgers & Hammerstein and more at the Rabun Music Festival
9/13	Falany Performing Arts Center Waleska	Un-Reconstructed Band	A four-piece string band with Civil War-era tunes plus Irish and Scottish folk music
9/13	Concerts with a Cause Augusta	Dame Gillian Weir, concert organist	Free concert at Saint John Church. An offering will be taken for the Kroc Center.
9/15-27	Fox Theatre Atlanta	The Color Purple	A musical about love, starring Fantasia
9/17-26	Westobou Festival Augusta & North Augusta	Westobou Festival	Ten days of arts and entertainment featuring local, regional and national artists in dance, music, theater and visual arts
9/17-30	Springer Opera House Columbus	Footloose	A big city kid moves to a small town where dancing is illegal. Based on the 1980s hit movie.
9/11-13, 18-20. 24-26	Augusta Players Augusta	Steel Magnolias	Follows the lives of six Southern women as they share triumphs, tragedies and gossip
9/18	Spivey Hall Morrow	Daniel Pyle, organ	Music by Bach and Alain
9/18-20	Sacred Heart Cultural Arts Center Augusta	Silent Movie Night	The General, with theater organist Ron Carter
9/19	Greater Augusta Arts Council Augusta	Arts in the Heart Festival	Showcases visual and performing arts and celebrates Augusta's ethnic groups. Plus entertainers.
9/19	Augusta Choral Society Augusta	Carmina Burana by Carl Orff	200 choristers and instrumentalists (Augusta Choral Society, other groups, soloists, orchestra)
9/19	Rome Symphony Orchestra Rome	Featuring Mendelssohn’s Concerto in D minor for Violin and Piano, plus string music by Vaughan Williams and Grieg	David Kim, violin (Philadelphia Orchesta), William Ransom, piano (Emory University), Richard Prior, conductor
9/19	Plaza Arts Center, Eatonton	The Manhattan String Quartet's return to Georgia	Mendelssohn, Schubert, Shostakovich
9/20	Columbus State University Columbus	Barry Snyder, international concert pianist, recording artist, Cliburn prize winner and Eastman professor	Free recital in the Schwob School of Music’s Studio Theater
9/21	University of West Georgia Carrollton	Violnist Alfonso Lopez (concertmaster, Venezuela Symphony) and pianist Michelle Tabor	Free recital in Kathy Cashen Recital Hall including Mozart, Schumann, Dvorak, Albeniz, Sas, Lopez
9/22	LaGrange Symphony Orchestra LaGrange	A Merry Gathering Patricio Cobos conducts	Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 (“Pastorale”), a Rossini overture, Verdi’s Triumphal March from Aida, and tenor arias with LaGrange’s Adam Kirkpatrick
9/24, 26-27	Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Atlanta	Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”	Opening night 2009-2010, with pianist Garrick Ohlsson and conductor Robert Spano
9/25	Symphony Orchestra Augusta Augusta	Video Games Live! The first major U.S. video game music concert tour. Think concert, theatrical stage show, and interactive video game all wrapped into one, featuring the best music and video clips from the beginning of video gaming to the present.	Augusta’s orchestra is back with a new name, a new music director, Shizuo Kuwahara, and a new concert concept
9/25	Covenant College Lookout Mountain	Boston Brass	“Boston Brass...has pioneered a new generation of music that sets out to achieve one simple goal: entertain at all costs with blistering precision.”
9/25	Ferst Center for the Arts Atlanta	Keiko Matsui	Iconic jazz keyboardist Keiko Matsui’s music blends Western and Eastern musical influences.
9/25	Harry Jacobs Chamber Music Society Augusta	New York Chamber Soloists	At Augusta State’sMaxwell Theatre and part of the Westobou Festival
9/26	Albany Symphony Orchestra Albany	Romantic Russia Glinka: Russlan & Ludmilla, Overture Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5	Ran Dank, piano (first prize winner, Young Concert Artist Auditions) Claire Fox Hillard, conductor
9/26	Columbus Symphony Orchestra Columbus	Handel: Royal Fireworks Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, “Pastorale”	Adele Anthony, violin George Del Gobbo, conductor
9/29	Grand Opera House Macon	Cirque Dreams Illumination	“An all-new journey of nighttime dreamers ... a landscape of towering buildings … world-class acrobats, athletes, musicians.” For all ages. 4:00, 7:30.