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Atlanta Arts Alliance 1974—75 Contributors AAA Lawn Industries A THEAtlanta MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE ATLANTA MEMORIALArts ARTS CENTER SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1975 Robert Shaw, Music Director & Conductor Of Special interest AT THE CENTER Life Insurance is the most personal product you'll ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ever buy ... 24 Concert Subscription make sure Programs for 31st Season your agent is The Atlanta Symphony's “Star- a professional who Spangled” Season, it’s 31st season, will cares about you. be bigger than ever with 24 concert Tom Flournoy,lll,CLU subscription programs. Helping cele­ 2 Peachtree St. brate America’s 200th birthday, the Atlanta Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents eight distinguished guest conductors joining Music Director Robert Shaw and Associate Conductor Michael Palmer on the podium—Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Leonard Slatkin, Dennis Russell Davies, Otto-Werner Mueller, Alexis Hauser. Eduardo Mata, Francois Huybrechts and Daniel Lewis. 25 internationally acclaimed soloists will further make this season the Atlanta Symphony Or­ chestra’s most oustanding. From the opening night, September 18th, featuring Robert Shaw, conduct­ ing, William Steck, violinist, and Robert Marsh, cellist to the finale in May of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 featuring Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Choruses and soloists should prove to be the best season yet ranking among the very top in the United States. /fe Sendt/ie new In addition to the 24 subscription programs there will be three choral 'Jiffan/u tf catalog specials beginning Nov. 20/21/22. containing t/ie most Robert Shaw will conduct the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber ieaatifaddesigns Chorus in Bach’s Cantata No. 131, Aus ure ka/ne ccer /oneSented. der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir and Mozart's Requiem Mass. The Ninth The 1975-76 catalog has 180 Annual Family Christmas Festival Con­ full color pages of new as well as cert will be the second choral special classic designs in Jewelry, held this year in Symphony Hall at Watches, Clocks, Silver, China, 8:00 P.M. on Dec. 16/17. Robert Crystal and Stationery. There is literally something for Shaw will conduct the Atlanta Sym­ every pocketbook. phony Orchestra and Choruses. Publishing date. October 15. Price. J 2. The third choral special will feature Beethoven's “Missa Solemnis” on Feb. 12/14 and Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont and Symphony No. 9 with ATLANTA PHIPPS PLAZA Tiffany&Co. 18TH CENTURY STYLE DOUBLE BONNET SECRETARY faithfully reproduced by Henredon, where pride in one's work will never be a thing of the past. $1165. final chorus on Schiller’s “Ode to Joy" on Feb. 13/15. These Beethoven se­ lections will be presented also in New York and Washington when the Sym­ phony goes on tour in May 1976. We bid you Tickets are now on sale for all three choral specials as well as for all 24 subscription concerts. There will be four subscription con­ WELCOME! certs in October. October 2/3/4, I^a- zuyoshi Akiyama conducting with Lynn Harrell, cello. October 16/17/18/19, We're so hoppy you've Robert Shaw conducting, Irene Gubrud, come to our collections soprano, and Samuel Hagan, tenor. October 23/24/25, Otto-Werner Muel­ of beautiful clothes for the ler conducting, Michael Ponti, piano. entire family home fashions, October 30/31; November 1, Francois Huybrechts conducting, John Ogdon, gifts and antiques too. piano. Do stay for luncheon or tea at our Bird Cage restaurant, open every shopping day. Lord & Taylor, Phipps Plaza Peachtree Road between Wieuca and Lenox Roads 266-0600 Monday through Saturday Pianist Michael Ponti, left, and celloist Lynn Har­ rell, right, perform with the Atlanta Symphony. 10:00 a.m. to 600 p.m. The Women’s Association is again Monday and Thursday sponsoring pre-concert dinners, pre­ evenings until 900 p.m. concert lectures, after-concert parties and meet-the-artist luncheons. Those held in September-October are: Meet- the-Artist Luncheons—Oct. 2 at 12:30 P.M. witn Harrell/Akiyama and Oct. 30 at 12:30 P.M. with Ogdon/Huy- brechts. For reservations and informa­ tion call 892-3600, ext. 252. Pre-Concert Dinners—Every Thurs­ day evening; Friday evenings, Sept. 19 and Oct. 16; Sat. evenings, Sept. 20. All dinners 6:30 P.M. in the Members Room. For information and reserva­ tions call 874-0739. Pre-Concert Lec­ tures and Open Rehearsals—Oct. 15— Lecture 6:30-7:15 P.M. Walter Hill Auditorium. Open rehearsal 7:15-11:00. 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STORES posed sculptures highlight this colorful open every night and Sunday afternoons exhibition by abstractionist Leeper, one of the South’s most outstanding and 19 Appliance Catalog Stores popular artists. A native of Charlotte, all around the Atlanta area North Carolina, she now resides near Jacksonville, Florida, and was a re­ 24 Hour Catalog Shopping cipient of a National Endowment for by phone from home, call 892-4242 the Arts grant in 1973. An illustrated catalogue is available. Surplus, Bargain Stores with closeouts from catalog and stores Special Services SEARS CARPET CLEANING call 262-2853 SEARS DRAIN & SEWER SERVICE call 875-6601 SEARS DRIVING SCHOOL call 352-3400 FLOWERS BY SEARS call 325-0337 (Atlanta) Sauce Tureen (one of a pair) by Paul Storr, London, 1805. In the Hoblitzelle Collection, or 422-0656 (Marietta) opening on September 13. 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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Shaw, Music Director and Conductor Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, 8:30, Oct. 23, 24, 25, 1975 OTTO-WERNER MUELLER Conducting MICHAEL PONTI, Piano PROGRAM CARTER *Holiday Overture (1944) BAR TOK *Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra (1931) Allegro Adagio; Presto Allegro molto INTERMISSION DVORAK Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (“From the New World”) (1893) Allegro molto Largo Molto vivace Allegro con fuoco *First performance at these concerts This concert will be broadcast on a delayed basis by Atlanta Public Radio, WABE-FM 90.1, Tuesday evening at 8:30 p.m. by special permission of the Atlanta Federation of Musicians, Local 148-462, the Atlanta Symphony Players’ Association, and with the support of the Georgia Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. The use of recording devices or cameras during concerts is strictly prohibited. ONLY A VERY SPECIAL WOOD will do for making charcoal to smooth out Jack Daniel’s Whiskey. 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