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June 23, 2008
Advance Notice

Candler concerts feature illustrious performers

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet*
Friday, Sept. 26, 8 p.m.
$48; $36 employees; $5 Emory students.
Grammy winners presenting standards plus world and contemporary works.

Lynn Harrell, cello*
Saturday, Oct. 25, 8 p.m.
$48; $36 employees; $5 Emory students.
A consummate recitalist, conductor and teacher whose international tours have placed him in the highest echelon of today’s musicians.

Warsaw Philharmonic; Antoni Wit, conductor; and Valentina Lisitsa, piano
Friday, Nov. 7, 8 p.m.
$80; $60 employees; $10 Emory students.
Poland’s national orchestra presents Liszt’s “Piano Concert no. 1, E-flat major” and Brahms’ “Symphony no.
2, op. 73, D major.”

Philip Glass’ “Akhnaten,” performed by Atlanta Opera
Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009, 5 p.m.
$76; $57 employees; $10 Emory students.
The concert-staged Atlanta premiere of Glass’ mesmerizing historical drama about the Egyptian pharaoh.

Emory College presents: New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, conductor
Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, 8 p.m.
(limited balcony tickets on sale; no discounts). $80.
In his final season as New York Philharmonic music director, Lorin Maazel leads a performance of Berlioz and Schumann.

Guarneri String Quartet
Tuesday, March 3, 2009,
8 p.m. $52; $39 employees; $5 Emory students.
Enjoy the Quartet’s final Atlanta performance before retiring from a 45-year career.

Lionheart* with the Vega String Quartet
Friday, March 20, 2009, 8 p.m.
(Pre-concert lecture, composer Phil Kline, 7 p.m.) $48; $36 Emory employees; $5 Emory students.
Vega premieres Richard Prior’s string quartet “Three Essays” then joins vocal sextet Lionheart for Phil Kline’s “John the Revelator.”

* Emory Coca-Cola Artists in Residence