Atlanta Music Events February 2012

Yet another edition of Atlanta Music Shows and Events for February 2012. Here is Atlanta GA Today’s comprehensive list of current music performances. Featured musical performances for February include Kelly Clarkson, Sophie Milman, Leif Ove Andsnes, Jade Simmons and the Freddy Cole Quartet.

Sophie Milman
02/04/2012 to 02/04/2012
Jazz vocalist Sophie Milman is a sophisticated and torchy singer with a bent toward American popular songbook standards. Born in Russia, she grew up in Israel and Canada where she surprised the jazz world in her early 20s. Not yet 30, she headlines sold-out jazz shows, releases her 4th CD this fall, and has been nominated for a Juno Award.
Company: Ferst Center for the Arts
Price: $25.00 – $50.00
Box Office: 404-894-9600
Public Transportation Available
Free Parking Available
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Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions 2012
02/05/2012 to 02/05/2012
Outstanding young vocalists from North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia sing opera arias before a panel of expert judges, competing to advance to the national finals on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Always an exciting afternoon, the Met Auditions are a must for any opera lover. Catch a rising star!
Company: Spivey Hall
Suitability: Family Friendly
Price: $35.00
Box Office: 678-466-4200
Free Parking Available

McIntosh County Shouters with special introduction by Arthur S Rosenbaum
02/09/2012 to 02/09/2012
This concert is part of the annual Roswell Roots Festival celebrating Black History Month. The McIntosh County Shouters were formed as a professional performing group in 1980. This does not mean, however, that 1980 is when they began “shouting”. After their ancestors had finished a long day’s hard work in the plantations, they would come home and praise the fact that they had survived yet another day. Women would move in a counterclockwise direction while the men would act as clappers and bassers. This call-and-response form of communication was formed in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was used in the plantations as a means of communication while working in the rice fields during the days of slavery. Often Biblical in nature, the songs and vignettes they shouted out could range from spirituals to talking about a child’s illness or even death of a loved one.

This tradition was literally handed down from generation to generation. The elders would teach the younger generations how to perform the authentic ring shout. Much attention is paid to the detail of performing these ring shouts as this group firmly believes in retaining the integrity of the authentic ring shout. So, one day in 1980 an outsider made the discovery that this tradition was still being practiced amongst the community and taught to children. At the time, the McIntosh County Shouters were the last practitioners of this art form. Once this discovery was made known, people began requesting the McIntosh County Shouters to explain and demonstrate this traditional song and dance art form. His folk music field work in the South and Midwest has resulted in over 14 documentary recordings, several of which are on Smithsonian-Folkways; he wrote and illustrated two books, Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia (1983), and Shout Because You’re Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition on the Coast of Georgia (1998), both published by the University of Georgia Press. A performer on a variety of folk instruments, he has appeared at numerous folk festivals both solo and with groups like the present-day Skillet Lickers, has cut three banjo/vocal LPs and CD’s, and has written and illustrated two instruction books on traditional banjo styles. He is Wheatley Professor in Fine Arts at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia and in 2003 was a recipient of a Governor of Georgia’s Award in the Humanities.
Company: Roswell Presents
Suitability: Family Friendly
Price: $30.00
Box Office: 770-594-6232
Free Parking Available

Leif Ove Andsnes
02/11/2012 to 02/11/2012
Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes makes his long-awaited return to Spivey Hall with a program culminating with lyrical and dramatic works by Frederic Chopin. Pianist-in-Residence of the Berlin Philharmonic in the 2010-2011 season, Andsnes is a highly sought-after artist whose performances and recordings combine technical mastery with “unassuming and superlative artistry” (Gramophone).
Company: Spivey Hall
Suitability: Family Friendly
Price: $75.00
Box Office: 678-466-4200
Free Parking Available

Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
02/12/2012 to 02/12/2012
Grammy Award winner Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano commemorates its 50th anniversary and the bicentennial of Mexico with VIVA MEXICO! The concert tells the story of Mexican independence through mariachi favorites including Viva Mexico, Mexico Lindo, La Bamba, Ave Maria, La Cucaracha and many more.
Company: Ferst Center for the Arts
Price: $22.00 – $42.00
Box Office: 404-894-9600
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My Way, A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra
01/20/2012 to 02/12/2012
This smart and classy musical revue pays tribute to one of America’s most beloved entertainers. Taking you on a sentimental musical journey, spanning almost 50 years, an amazing cast of four captures the essence of “Ol’ Blue Eyes.” Featuring all your swinging Sinatra favorites: “Strangers in the Night,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” “New York, New York,” “That’s Life,” and “Young At Heart.”
Conceived by David Grapes & Todd Olson
Company: Stage Door Players
Price: $13.00 – $26.00
Box Office: 770-396-1726
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Florian Boesch, baritone, Roger Vignoles, piano
02/12/2012 to 02/12/2012
A song cycle of searing emotional power, Schubert’s Winterreise (Winter Journey) is “twenty-four numbingly beautiful songs on texts by Wilhelm Müller” ( The New Yorker).
Austrian baritone Florian Boesch “embarked on a Winterreise of such angst and anger that even Schubert himself might have been alarmed. What was so exciting was his lashing out against fate, his refusal to accept comfort without cynicism – and that Vignoles and Boesch seemed, inevitably, to be walking a tightrope of musical risk” (The Times, London).
Program
SCHUBERT Winterreise, D. 911
Company: Spivey Hall
Suitability: Family Friendly
Price: $50.00
Box Office: 678-466-4200
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Jade Simmons- ARTech Artist
02/18/2012 to 02/18/2012
Known for her musical creativity and electrifying stage presence, pianist Jade Simmons is committed to expanding the boundaries of classical music. Selected as this year’s ARTech resident artist at Georgia Tech, she will explore rhythm as vital to efficiency, productivity, and communication. The concert will feature new work created during the residency.
Company: Ferst Center for the Arts
Price: $22.00 – $28.00
Box Office: 404-894-9600
Public Transportation Available
Free Parking Available
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Freddy Cole Quartet
02/18/2012 to 02/18/2012
A Grammy Award nominee and Georgia Music Hall of Fame honoree who calls Atlanta home when he’s not touring the world, pianist and vocalist Freddy Cole enthralls and entertains with his “gorgeous autumnal baritone, expressive phrasing, and pitch-perfect feel for jazz standards, pop tunes and love ballads” (People).
“Freddy has an impeccable sense of swing. . . .He is, overall, the most maturely expressive male jazz singer of his generation, if not the best alive” (The New York Times).
Company: Spivey Hall
Suitability: Family Friendly
Price: $40.00
Box Office: 678-466-4200
Free Parking Available

Kelly Clarkson
02/23/2012
Kelly Clarkson is out to tell a story with her newest release Stronger! Current hit “Mr. Know It All” quickly rose to the top ten in the charts.

The Texas born singer-songwriter whose 2002 audition in the American Idol TV Series not only brought her fame but fortune also.

For more information visit our article on Kelly Clarkson Stronger Tour.
Venue: Fox Theatre
Price: Kelly Clarkson Tickets here
Pay Parking Available

Jupiter String Quartet
02/25/2012 to 02/25/2012
With “a warm, refined sound and a tensile interpretive style” (The Boston Globe), the Jupiter String Quartet wins accolades and admirers for its cohesive, deeply-felt interpretations of a rich repertoire.
As the creative engine powering the three-season PROJECT JUPITER education/outreach residency at Spivey Hall, the four Jupiters continue to attract fans of all ages, heightening awareness and appreciation of the excellent music for string quartet.
Program
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 18 No. 6
BARTÓK String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114
MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in D major, Op. 44 No. 1
Company: Spivey Hall
Suitability: Family Friendly
Price: $45.00
Box Office: 678-466-4200
Free Parking Available

 

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