COUNTERPOINT Reception Event

COUNTERPOINT Reception Event

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March 9, 2025
Sunday
at 1:30PM

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COUNTERPOINT is a community of intellectually curious and creative Atlantans who enjoy rich cultural experiences. Members have access to curated salons that feature intimate conversations with luminaries before concerts. The group name is inspired by the musical technique of counterpoint, where a combination of melodic lines come together to contribute equally to the works' overall melody. Come find your people. Learn More about COUNTERPOINT
 

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Join us for this pre-concert reception and concert featuring vocal artist, improvisor and composer Mali Irene.

Mali Irene will explore improvisation as composition centering the sacred Black feminine voice. Her project deconstructs the traditional format of the orchestra conjuring an ecstatic ceremonial experience reminiscent to a cypher, church service, kirtan, or jam session. Mali will work with ensembles to explore form, trust, deep listening, and call and response in the rehearsal process. She will devise scores for musicians and music leaders to co-create similar experiences unique to their respective groups. The project invites musicians to use the musical score as a guide and liberates musicians to explore individuality and/or sectional unity while incorporating the magic of a vocalist who doubles as a conductor/composer. The project welcomes Afro-diasporic music lovers, experimental intellectuals, and classical music audiences while also expanding the minds of scholars, conductors, music directors, and players to explore more possibilities for the orchestra and the capacity of its traditional instruments. Mali Irene’s work with various collaborators over the past decade draws from sacred lined-hymn singing, Ring Shout, African chanting, spirituals, the blues, jazz, and scat. Her musical inspirations are Umm Kulthum, Baaba Maal, Alice Coltrane, Sun Rah, Fela Kuti, Mahalia Jackson, Esperanza Spaulding, Jill Scott, and Tunde Jegede.

 


Concert: Beethoven Project: Symphonies 4 + 7

Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 3pm
In just over 30 years, Ludwig van Beethoven produced works that shattered norms and became the North Star for generations of composers. This week, Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the magnificent Seventh, a piece that bristles with bounding exuberance and rustic charm yet shimmers with a kind of unfathomable genius.
 

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