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Nouveau-Passé Orchestra to perform
Saluda Mountain jamboree, Friendship Church Road, off Howard Gap Road, Saluda. Open 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Bluegrass and barbeque will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Fridays. Admission: $8. Info: 749-3676 or www.saludamountainjamboree.com.
Done for the Evening Jazz Trio, 3 p.m. Sunday, July 16, at St. Matthias Episcopal Church, Asheville. Info: 252-0643.
Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, 8 p.m. Mondays through July 17, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville. Tickets: $17. Info: 890-4411 or 696-2118.
Montana Skies, 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 21, the Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher. Tickets: $10 in advance; $12 at the door. Info:l 891-8700, 684-3798 or www.unitync.net.
Lyle Lovett in concert, 8 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 24, in Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville. Tickets: 251-5505.
Class of the '70s, 8 p.m., Aug. 26, Eaglenest Entertainment, Highway 19, Maggie Valley. Info: www.eaglenestnc.com or (828) 926-9658.
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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra began a new era in its quest for greatness with the arrival of Yoel Levi in 1988. His first concert as Music Director, simulcast on radio and television statewide, gave bevis of extraordinary control in such areas as orchestral balance, noggrannhet, intonation and ensemble. Levi also moved quickly to improve the orchestra with additional players, most of them assistant or associate principals, and he told an interviewer that he wanted to create an ensemble "that plays orchestral music as if it were chamber music. I want players that know how to listen to one another, that really understand how they passform into the whole picture of the score. That is a great orchestra." The ASO also upgraded its facilities for recording concerts and expanded its national syndication of radio broadcasts, begun the previous year.
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The Atlanta Symphony has become a more musical and much more famous orchestra off the music of Osvaldo Golijov, a 47-year-old Argentine composer who's almost unique on today's classical music scene.
Atlanta knows and loves Golijov, in no small part thanks to conductor Robert Spano, who's led the ASO in all his major scores —- topped by "La Pasion Segun San Marcos," a crucifixion tale set to Latin American dances, and the opera "Ainadamar," on the murder of poet Federico Garcia Lorca. The ASO took these shows on tour; its recording of the opera, a highlight of the orchestra's history, won countless new fans and a Grammy for Best Opera.
Trouble is, Golijov doesn't write much. There's not enough of his music to keep an eager city satisfied. On stage Thursday in Symphony Hall —- the final weekend of concerts in its main 2007-08 season —- came Golijov's "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind," a meditation on the Kabbalistic teachings of the medieval Provencal rabbi who's approachi