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News Articles: classical music

Roderick Cox

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  • Music Interviews

Meet Roderick Cox, international conductor and son of Macon

LISTEN: Roderick Cox, music director of the opera orchestra in Montpellier, France, came home to Georgia to lead the ASO in concert last fall. GPB’s Sarah Zaslaw caught up with Roderick remotely in December.

March 24, 2025
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  • Sarah Zaslaw
In his new album, <em>Amours Interdites</em>, French pianist David Kadouch highlights music by gay composers whose concealed their sexuality because it wasn't accepted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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  • Music

Pianist David Kadouch probes gay composers' hidden loves, through music

In his album Amours Interdites (Forbidden Love) French pianist David Kadouch explores music by gay composers who concealed their sexuality in societies that wouldn't otherwise accept them.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
Athens musicians Itamar Zorman and Liza Stepanova

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  • Music Interviews

Partners in music, partners in life: Meet Athens’ Itamar Zorman and Liza Stepanova

They’re an international pair who have become Americans and put down roots in Georgia. Pianist Liza Stepanova moved from Belarus to Berlin and then to the States. Violinist Itamar Zorman studied in Israel and Germany before landing in New York, where the two met in school. In addition to their individual careers and their juggling act as parents, they perform together as two-thirds of the Lysander Piano Trio.

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Zaslaw
Jamie Barton

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  • Music Interviews

Meet Jamie Barton, Georgia’s international opera star with roots in Floyd County

She crosses the globe for her career, but she is still close with her family and community in the Northwest Georgia valley where she grew up.

October 23, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Zaslaw
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/10/10/nx-s1-5140160/adam-abeshouse-dead"target="_blank"   ><strong>Read Adam Abeshouse's obituary</strong></a>

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  • Obituaries

Powerhouse classical music producer Adam Abeshouse dies at 63

Over a career that lasted more than 30 years, Grammy-winner Adam Abeshouse made hundreds of records with some of classical music’s biggest stars.

October 11, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Vitale
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann with GPB's Sarah Zaslaw.

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  • Music

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Nathalie Stutzmann talks new season, conducting 'My Bolero'

Atlanta Symphony Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann is the second woman to lead a major U.S. orchestra. She joined ASO in 2022 and is in the middle of the 2023-2024 season, which debuted this week on GPB Radio and airs Thursdays and Sundays and streams across the state of Georgia on GPB Classical. This weekend, GPB TV will air the documentary, My Boléro, about Stutzmann's first time conducting the famous 1928 orchestral work by French composer Maurice Ravel.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Zaslaw and
  • Pamela Kirkland
The Apollo Chamber Players create concerts in response to book banning, the refugee crisis, the war in Gaza and other world events. The members of the Houston based ensemble are Matthew Dudzik, left, Aria Cheregosha, Matthew J. Detrick and Anabel Ramírez.

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  • Music

This classical ensemble is tuned in to today's headlines

The Apollo Chamber Players in Houston, Texas, create concerts in response to book banning, the refugee crisis, the war in Gaza and other world events. Thousands of people attend their performances.

March 04, 2024
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Katie Lehman

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  • Music

Spivey Hall's Katie Lehman looks to elevate both concerts and community

Katie Lehman talks with GPB's Sarah Zaslaw to discuss all things Spivey, from community educational programs and creativity on campus to its famed concert series.

September 21, 2023
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  • Sarah Zaslaw
Georgia in Play with Leah Fleming

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  • News

GPB News launches Georgia in Play; inaugural show discusses Music Midtown, Peach Jam and more

This week on Georgia in Play, host Leah Fleming talks Music Midtown, the Macon Film Festival, "Try That in a Small Town", and Georgia's up-and-coming musical talent.

September 15, 2023
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By:
  • Leah Fleming ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Julie Coucheron

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  • Music Interviews

Artistic director Julie Coucheron on 'four-hands piano' and the Georgian Chamber Players' new season

Norwegian-born Julie Coucheron acts as artistic director of the Georgian Chamber Players, which is gearing up for its 2023–24 season. Julie recently sat down in the studio with GPB Front Row Georgia host Sarah Zaslaw.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Zaslaw
Thom Yorke of Radiohead performs at Fox Theatre on Sunday, October 6, 2019, in Atlanta. (Photo by Robb Cohen/Invision/AP)

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  • Arts & Life

Two different Radiohead-themed musical experiences are coming to Atlanta

Georgia musicians will perform classical and jazz treatments of the band's songs in two different Atlanta-area concert settings in the months of April and May.

April 14, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Rose
Gianandrea Noseda talks with Marissa Regni about the loaned instruments.

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  • Music

A music director goes public with a secret stash of private instruments

National Symphony Orchestra Music Director Gianandrea Noseda is reshaping the ensemble's sound with the help of 17th and 18th century instruments he purchased secretly.

April 14, 2023
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton and
  • Barry Gordemer
Thomas Bangalter, half of the former Daft Punk duo, composed the score for the ballet Mythologies, choreographed by fellow Frenchman Angelin Preljocaj.

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  • Music

From Daft Punk to ballet: Thomas Bangalter makes full swing to classical

Thomas Bangalter, formerly of French electronic music duo Daft Punk, has released a classical music album: the score to a ballet titled Mythologies that draws on American minimalism and Baroque works.

April 07, 2023
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton and
  • Barry Gordemer
Beethoven is considered to be one of the greatest composers in the Western tradition.

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  • Science

Scientists sequence Beethoven's genome for clues into his painful past

Scientists have sequenced the genome of Ludwig van Beethoven from two-century-old locks of hair, and found clues about the ailments that plagued him in life.

March 22, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Colombian pianist Teresita Gómez is a legendary figure in that country's classical music scene.

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  • Performing Arts

At 3 she snuck in to play piano, at nearly 80, she's a Colombian classical legend

Teresita Gómez learned piano in secret at the exclusive fine arts school where her parents worked. She's now a celebrated classical pianist and a longtime promoter of music by Colombian composers.

February 18, 2023
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By:
  • Betto Arcos
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