UGA hosts ASO

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is in concert this evening in Athens, a performance featuring pianist Michelle Cann. It’s underway at 8 o’clock tonight in the University of Georgia’s Performing Arts Center.

From the UGA master calendar…

Florence Price was the first female African-American composer to achieve widespread national attention and the first to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra.

Celebrated concert pianist and Curtis Institute faculty member Michelle Cann brings her “exquisite…technical sparkle and probing humanity of Price’s writing” (Philadelphia Inquirer) to UGA Presents for her debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

The orchestra then plays Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, a grand and ambitious work in four movements that evokes the sounds of the mountains, a folk dance, a funeral march, and offers up an impressively regal climax.

PRICE: Piano Concerto in One Movement

MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 in D Major

Tuesday, March 22 at 8:00pm

 Performing Arts Center, Hodgson Concert Hall 230 River Road, Athens, GA 30605

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