Atlanta Music Scene

Mondays at 9:00pm on WABE 90.1fm; Sundays at 10:00am on WABE Classical

Robert Hubert, host and producer of WABEs nightly Nocturne concerts, also hosts The Atlanta Music Scene Mondays at 9:00pm, a series of concert performances from venues all around Metro Atlanta. The Atlanta Music Scene is produced by Tommy Joe Anderson of ACA Digital Recording. The series is made possible in part by a grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts, a member agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

December 28, 2009Ken Cowan, organ
- Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Harmonies du soir, Op. 72, No. 1
- Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Valse mignonne, Op. 142, Op. 2
- Louis Vierne: Naïades, Op. 55, No. 4
- Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1
- Guy Bovet: Salamanca
- William Grant Still: Reverie
- Julius Reubke: Sonata on the Ninety-fourth Pslam
December 21, 2009Spivey Hall Children’s Choir
Martha Shaw, conductor & Judy Masson, accompanist
- John Rutter: Angel’s Carol
- Snyder (arr.): Patapan
- Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
- Vaugh Williams (arr.): Wassail Song
- Willcocks (arr.): O Little Town of Bethlehem, God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, Rocking and Good King Wenceslas
- Randall Reese (arr.): Quelle est cette odeur agréable and I Saw Three Ships
- Arrangements of Spin, Dreidel, Spin, The Kalanta of the New Year, Little Drummer Boy
- Mel Tormé: The Christmas Song
The Empire Brass

Rolf Smedvig and Marc Reese-trumpets, Gregory Miller-horn, Alexei Doohovskoy, trombone Kenneth Amis-tuba
- Tylman Susato: Basse Dance Bergeret
- Prokofiev: Troika from Lt. Kijé
- Albinoni: Introduction and Allegro
- Carol of the Bells
- Tchaikovsky: Dance arabe & Dance russe from Nutcracker, Op. 71
- Amazing Grace.
- Traditional Irish Kesh Jig
- Anthony Holborne: Gigue
- Arrangements of The First Nowell, Angels We Have Heard On High, Jingle Bells and Ain’t Misbehavin’.
December 14, 2009Morehouse / Spelman Christmas Carol Concert
David Morrow & Kevin Johnson, conductors
- William Mathias: Sir Christèmas
- Conrad Susa: Carols & Lullabies Christmas in the Southwest
- Richard Jones: Good King Wenceslas
- Dan Forrest (arr.): Good Christian Men Rejoice
- Gustav Nordqvist & Dan Davison: Wonderful Peace
- Mark Hayes: Gloria in Excelsis Deo
- Arrangements of Ave Maria, Listen to the Angels Shouting, Wasn’t That A Mighty Day, We Are Christmas, I Wonder As I Wander, Masters in This Hall, Mary Had A Baby and
December 7, 2009Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus
Kevin Robison, conductor
- Lara Hoggard (arr.): Personent Hodie
- Eddy Clement (arr.): Merry Christmas/A Christmas Carol
- Anne Albritton (arr.): Over the River and Through the Woods
- Samuel Barber: Must the Winter Come So Soon?
- Kevin Robison (arr.): There Is No Rose
- Arrangements of El Cant Dels Ocells / Riu, Riu Chiu: El Lobo Rabioso
- Chanukah, oi Chanukah and Silver Bells.
- Irving Berlin medley- White Christmas.
- Arrangements of Oh! Christmas Tree??? / Holly Jolly Christmas / Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy / Christmas Children / Children Will Listen / Our Time and closes with A Merry Christmas.
November 30, 2009The Atlanta Singers, David Morrow, conductor
- Poulenc: Quatre Motets pour le temp de Noel
- Celi: Ya viene el Niñito
- Brensinger (arr.): O Tannenbaum
- Schreck: Three Advent Motets
- Dirksen: A Child My Choice
- Brahms: O Heiland reiss die Himmel auf, Op. 74, No. 2
- Parker/Shaw (arr.): The Cherry Tree Carol
- Mendelssohn: Weihnachten & Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
- Steven Sametz: Gaudete
- Herbert Howells: Sing Lullaby
- Ulysses Kay: Welcome Yule
- René Clausen: Calm, On the Listening Ear of Night
- Donna Schultz (arr.): Noël Nouvelet
- Peter Schubert: Noël Nouvelet
- Emile Desamours: Noél Ayisyen
November 23, 2009Katherine Murray, mezzo-soprano & Walter Huff, piano
- Handel: Ombra mai fu from Serse
- Handel: Ch’io Mai Vi Possa from Siroe
- Schumann: Selections from Frauenliebe und leben, Op. 42
- Seymore Barab: A Child’s Garden of Verses
- Manuel de Falla: Siete Canciones populares Españolas
- Aaron Copland: At the River
November 16, 2009DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, Fyodor Cherniavsky, conductor
- Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Op. 26
- J. S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
  - Olga Shpitko & Kenn Wagner, violins
- Richard Strauss: Serenade in E-Flat Major, Op. 7
- Tommy Joe Anderson: War Chant, Op. 32
  - Sam Hagan, tenor & Christina Howell, soprano
- Bach/Stokowski: Toccata & Fugue in D minor
November 9, 2009Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, Jere Flint, conductor
- Mozart: Allegro maestoso from Concerto No. 1 in G Major, K. 313
  - Alison Beskin, flute
- Giovanni Bottesini: Moderato from Concerto No. 2 in B minor
  - Robert Nelson, double bass
- Nicolò Paganini: Allegro maestoso from Concerto No. 1 in D Major
  - Anna Gibbons, violin
- Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47
November 2, 2009Atlanta Chamber Players
- Heinrich von Herzogenberg: Trio in D Major, Op. 61
- Beethoven: String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130
October 26, 2009Bradley Hunter Welch-organ
- William Albright: Nocturne / Jig for the Feet (Totentanz)
- Alexander Guilmant’s Sonata I in D Minor, Op. 42
- J. S. Bach:Toccata & Fugue in D Minor
- Bach: Trio Sonata No. 6 in G Major
- Franz Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on the Name B-A-C-H.
October 19, 2009Christopher Sarzen-piano
- Scarlatti: Sonata in C Min., L.4 / Sonata in C Maj., L.5
- Mozart: Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332
- Frederic Chopin: Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54
- Chopin: Four Mazurkas, Op. 24
- Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2, Op. 36
- Chopin: Etude, Op. 10, No. 1
- Rachmaninoff: Moment Musical, Op. 16, No. 4
October 12, 2009Olga Shpitko-violin & Peter Marshall-harpsichord
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Sonata IV & Sonata Representativa
- Girolamo Frescobaldi: Partite 14 sopra l’Aria della Romanesca.
- George Frideric Handel: Sonata in F Major
October 5, 2009Georgian Chamber Players
- Anton Arensky: Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 32
- Sergei Taneyev: Quintet in G Minor, Op. 30
September 28, 2009Atlanta Chamber Players
Christina Smith-flute, Elizabeth Koch-oboe, Carl Nitchie-bassoon, Justin Bruns and John Meisner-violins, Catherine Lynn-viola, Brad Richie-cello, Paula Peace-piano
- Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 25 for Flute, Violin and Viola
- Poulenc: Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Quintet in E Major, Op. 15
September 21, 2009Mimi Stillman, flute, Allyson Fleck, viola & Ellen Foster, harp
- Allemande & Corrente from Bach’s Partita in A Minor BWV 1013
- Arnold Bax: Elegiac Trio for flute, viola and harp
- Paganini: Caprice No. 5 in A Minor and No. 24 A Minor
- Debussy: Syrinx
- Jeremy Gill: Pnigos for solo flute from Parabasis
- Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
September 14, 2009Atlanta Baroque Orchestra
Daniel Pyle, Resident Director
Wanda Yang Temko-soprano, Holly McCarren-contralto
- Bruce Sellers-tenor and Brent Davis-bass
- Georg Philipp Telemann: Ouverture à 5
- Matthias Weckmann: “Wie liegt die Stadt so wüste”
- Johann Christoph Bach: Lamento “Ach, daß ich Wassers gnug hätte”
- J.S.Bach: Cantata No. 106, Actus Tragicus “Gottes Zeit ist der allerbeste Zeit”
September 7, 2009Chanticleer
- William Byrd: Sing Joyfully & Ave verum corpus
- Giovanni de Palestrina: Ave Regina coelorum
- Josquin des Pres’ El grillo
- Steven Stucky: Cradle Songs
- Michael McGlynn: Dulaman
- Vaughan William: Linden Lea
- arrangement of Wayfarin’ Stranger
- Polina Leschenko, piano
- Liszt: Sonata in B Minor
August 31, 2009Theatre of Voices
Judith Nelson—soprano / Alan Bennett—tenor

Paul Elliott—tenor / Paul Hillier—baritone & director
- Perotin: Beata viscera
- Hildegard von Bingen: Columba aspexit -Anon/13th c.: Edi beo thu
- Anon/14th c.: Stond wel moder
- Hildegard von Bingen: O Viridissima Virga
- Byrd: Four Corpus Christi motets
- William Billings: The Dying Christian’s Last Farewell
- Abraham Wood: Brevity
- Billings: I am the Rose of Sharon
- Monteverdi: Ogni amanti / Bel pastor / Vorrei bacciarti /Tornate, tornate / Lamento della Ninfa
August 24, 2009Dwight Coleman, baritone & Cary Lewis, piano
- Rorem: Five Poems of Walt Whitman: Sometimes With One I Love / Look Down, Fair Moon / Gliding O’er All / Reconciliation and Gods
- Rorem: As Adam Early in the Morning / O You Whom I Oftenand Silently Come and Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Gregory Broughton, tenor and Paolo Gualdi, piano
- H. T. Burleigh: Deep River / De Blin’ Man Stood on de Road an’ Cried / I’ve Been In De Storm So Long / Don’t You Weep When I’m Gone and Oh Didn’t It Rain
- Hall Johnson: Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit / Honor! Honor! / City Called Heaven / I Gotta Lie Down and Witness
Spirituals: Ride on, Jesus / On Ma Journey Now / You Can Tell the World / God Is a God Ain’t-a That Good News? and Scandalize My Name
August 17, 2009Vega String Quartet
Fia Durrett & Jessica Wu, violins; Yinzi Kong, viola and Guang Wang, cello; William Ransom, piano
- Haydn: String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2
- Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13
- Camille Saint-Saens: Quintet in A Minor, Op. 14
August 10, 2009Ying Quartet
Timothy & Janet Ying-violins; Philip Ying-viola and David Ying-cello
- Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 12
- Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 6
August 3, 2009Carter Brey, cello & Christopher O’Riley, piano
- Beethoven: Variations in F Major on “Ein Madchen oder Weibchen” from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Op. 66
- Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1
- Debussy: Sonata for Cello & Piano
- Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Cello & Piano
July 27, 2009Andras Schiff, piano
- J. S. Bach: 24 Preudes & Fugues of Book One of the Well-Tempered Clavier
July 20, 2009Lise De La Salle, piano
- Mozart: Rondo in A Minor, K. 511
- Mozart: Twelve Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman,” K. 265
- Maurice Ravel: Sonatine
- Prokofiev: Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28
- Prokofiev: Six Pieces from Roméo et Juliette, Op. 75
- Prokofiev: Toccata, Op. 11
July 13, 2009Vega String Quartet with Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Alexei Romanenko, cello
Vega String Quartet with Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
- Mozart: Quintet in A Major, K. 581
Alexei Romanenko, cello
- Zoltán Kodály: Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello, Op. 8
July 6, 2009Rastrelli Cello Quartet
- Sergio Drabkine: Paganissimo
- Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1
- Sulkhan Zinzadze: Georgian Folk Suite
- David Popa: Tarantella
- 12th Street Rag
- Nicolay Sokolov: Melody
- Dave Brubeck: Blue Rondo a la Turk
- Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion
- Medley of the music from Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess
June 29, 2009Alexander Kobrin, piano
- Beethoven: Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 “Tempest”
- Chopin: Four Impromptus
- Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
- Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in f Minor, Op. 52
June 22, 2009Vanessa Gunter, flute & Timothy Gunter, piano
- Darius Milhaud: Sonatine
- William Thomas McKinley: Romances No. 2
- Jean Rivier: Sonatine
- Peter Schickele: Spring Serenade
June 15, 2009Pius Cheung, marimba
- Keiko Abe: Variations on Japanese Children’s Songs
- Zhou Tian: Blowing Westward
- Pius Cheung: Three Etudes
- Arnold Schoenberg: Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
- Andrew Thomas: Merlin
- (Improvisation) Somewhere Over the Rainbow
June 8, 2009Sara Sant’Ambrogio, cello; William Ransom, piano
- Beethoven: Twelve Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus
- Beethoven: Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1
- Beethoven’s Sonata No.3 in A Major, Op. 69
- Beethoven: Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
June 1, 2009Atlanta Music Festival
- Jacqueline Hairston: Guide My Feet
- Adolphus Hailstork: Who is Sylvia
- Robert Owens: Pierrot from Heart on the Wall
- Nkeiru Okoye: I am Harriet Tubman from Songs of Harriet Tubman
- Ulysses Kay: Like as a Father
- Ulysses Kay: O Praise the Lord
- William L. Dawson arr. Steven Darsey: You’re Tired Chile
- Rachel Eubanks: Five Interludes for Piano (Movements III & V)
- Fleming/Dodson: The Confession Stone (The songs of Mary)
- Undine Smith Moore: Love, Let the Wind Cry
- arr. Moses Hogan: I Want to Be Ready
- David N. Baker: Thou Dost Lay Me in the Dust of Death from Through This Vale of Tears
- Ludwig van Beethoven:String Trio, Op. 9 (Movement I)
- arr. Betty Jackson King: It’s Me O Lord
- Stephen Michael Newby: Gospel Quintet
May 25, 2009Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra
Jere Flint, conductor
- Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9
- Emily Jackson, violin soloist performing
  Saint-Saëns: Concerto #3 in B Min. for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 61
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
- Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
May 18, 2009Claude Frank, piano
- Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330
- Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 (E Maj.), Op. 109
- Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 21 (Bb Maj.), D. 960
May 11, 2009Chu-Fang Huang, piano
- Domenico Scarlatti: Four Sonatas
- Robert Schumann: Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17
- Maurice Ravel: La Valse
May 4, 2009Georgia Guitar Quartet
- Michael Praetorius: Four Dances
- Domenico Scarlatti: The Cat’s Fugue
- Chopin’s Etude: Op. 10, No. 3 arranged by Phil Synder
- Edvard Grieg: Anitra’s Dance from Peer Gynt
- Nikita Koshkin: Suite for Four Guitars
- Vince Guaraldi: Linus and Lucy
- Leonard V. Ball Jr.: Wheels
- Federico Torroba: La Boda/Camino del Molino/Juegos Infantiles
- Alberto Ginastera: Danza del Gaucho Matrero
- Georgia on My Mind
April 27, 2009Carl Nitchie & Shelly Unger, bassoons / Laura Gordy, piano & Vega String Quartet
- Paul Hindemith’s Sonata
- Otmar Nussio: Variations on an air by Pergolesi
- Michael Braz: Dances with Spiders for bassoon & string trio
- Christian Ludwig Dietter: Concerto for Two Bassoons
April 20, 2009Atlanta Chamber Players
- Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D. 965
- Beethoven: String Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No. 1
- Brahms: Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60
April 13, 2009Blair String Quartet
- Charles Ives: Quartet No. 1 “From The Salvation Army”
- Dvorak: Quartet No. 6 in F Major, Op. 96 “American”
April 6, 2009Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
- J. S. Bach: Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914
- Beethoven: Sonata No. 13 in E-Flat Major, Op. 27, #1
- Sibelius: Kyllikki / Elegiaco/ The Birch / Barcarola
- Grieg: Ballade in G Minor, Op. 24
March 30, 2009Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze, conductor
Part Two
- Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68.
March 23, 2009Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze, conductor
Part One
- Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 “Eroica”
March 16, 2009Lúnasa
Seán Smyth (fiddle & whistle), Kevin Crawford (flute, whistle & bodhran), Trevor Hutchinson (bass), Cillian Vallely (pipes & whistle) and Paul Meehan (guitar)

Chapel Bell / Dance on the Wave / Horse & Carriage / The Miller of Drohan/ Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight / Jimmy Ward’s Favorite / Not Safe with a Razor / Three Dances “Fest Nos” / Across the Black River / Boy In The Boat / Spoil the Dance / There Grows a Rose / A rez du Ponta Vedra / Monyera de Cazu / Long Nancy’s Jig / Port na bPucai / Last Pint / Ash Plant.
March 9, 2009Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, Jere Flint, conductor
- Dimitri Kabalevsky: Overture to Colas Breugnon, Op. 24
- Sergei Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé, Symphonic Suite, Op. 60
- Áskell Másson: Konzertstück for Snare Drum & Orchestra (Michael Jarrett, snare drum soloist)
- Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
March 2, 2009Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony, Scott Stewart, conductor
- Leonard Bernstein: Two Dance Episodes from On The Town
- Howard Hanson: Chorale and Alleluia
- Claude T. Smith: Eternal Father, Strong to Save
- Johan de Meij: Symphony No. 1 “The Lord of the Rings”
February 23, 2009Atlanta Chamber Players
- Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
- Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 97, “Archduke”
February 16, 20092009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
Southeast Region Final Auditions

Recorded at Spivey Hall January 25, 2009
February 9, 2009DeKalb Symphony Orchestra
DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, Fyodor Cherniavsky, conductor
Anthony S. Tricoli, narrator
- Verdi: Overture to Nabucco.
- Copland: Lincoln Portrait
- Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major “London”
February 2, 2009Jupiter String Quartet and LaGrange Symphony Orchestra
Jupiter String Quartet
- Samuel Barber: Quartet for Strings, Op. 11
- Ruth Crawford Seeger: Quartet for Strings
LaGrange Symphony Orchestra, Patricio Cobos, conductor
- Douglas Hooker: Sinai Symphony
January 26, 2009Olga Shpitko, violin & Daniel Pyle, harpsichord
- Giuseppi Tartini: Sonata in G Minor, Op. 1, No. 10
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Sonata VI in C minor
- Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata in A Major, Op. 5, No. 6
- J. S. Bach’s Sonata No. 4 in C minor, BWV 1017
January 19, 2009Balkan Quartet
Sinisa Ciric & Mirna Ogrizovic-Ciric, violins Danijela Zezelj-Gualdi, viola & Martin Gueorguiev, cello
- Aleksander Glazunov: Quartet No. 3, Op. 26 “Slave”
- Brian Mitchell: Wishing, Wanting, Waiting
- Aleksandar Vrebalov: Pannonia
- Milos Simic: Zikino Kolo, Konstantin Blagojevic
- Sinisa Ciric: Folk Suite
- Aleksandar Gajic’s Souvenir from the Marinko’s Pond
January 12, 2009duoATL, Nicole Randall, flute & Brian Luckett, guitar
- Katherine Hoover: Caprice
- Antonio Ruiz-Pipo: Jarcias
- Radames Gnattali: Cantanda con simplicidade from Sonatina
- Astor Piazzolla: Libertango
- Brian Luckett: West End Funk
- Roberto Sierra: Primera Crónicas del Descubrimiento
- Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango
- Michael Daughtery: I Loved Lucy
January 5, 2009Elysium Chamber Orchestra & Chorus
David Hancock and Alan Raines, conductors
- Gabriel Pierné: Serenade, Op. 7
- Jules Massenet: Le Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge
- Ernest Gillet: Loin Du Bal
- Camille Saint-Saëns: Prelude from Le Deluge
- Gabriel Fauré: Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48

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Atlanta Music Scene

Mondays at 9:00pm on WABE 90.1fm; Sundays at 10:00am on WABE Classical

The Empire Brass

Gregory Broughton, tenor and Paolo Gualdi, piano

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Alexei Romanenko, cello