Articles for Creative Loafing Atlanta:

• VIBES Feature, October 20, 2009:  [PDF]
  Soulbird hopes to build a safe nest for Iraqi artists
  Atlanta musician goes to Kurdistan to make music amid chaos

• VIBES Feature, February 27, 2008:
  Fringe: Smooth around the edges
  Event puts a new spin on the old classics

• ARTS Feature, October 27, 2007:
  With Turandot, a turning point
  Will a new venue provide Atlanta Opera's springboard to success?

• VIBES Spotlight, July 25, 2007:
  R. Timothy Brady
  One hand loves the opera

• VIBES CD Release, June 13, 2007:
  Resurrecting the Dead
  Lee Johnson gives Grateful Dead the classical treatment

• VIBES Feature, May 16, 2007:
  Michael Gandolfi: Weird science
  Eclectic composer grows a cosmic garden
      [NOTE: The author did not write the caption published under Mr. Gandolfi's photo. However, word is that the caption is actually a nod to the 1973 "Cosmic Slop" album by 1970s funk band, Funkadelic.]
  
  
• VIBES Spotlight, March 21, 2007:
  Morris Robinson
  Bass in Your Face: All-American lineman turns opera pro

• VIBES Spotlight, January 31, 2007:
  Kakali Bandyopadhyay
  Voyage to India

• VIBES Spotlight, December 27, 2006:
  Terrance McKnight
  Music producer for Georgia Public Broadcasting Radio

• VIBES Media Mashup, November 1, 2006:
  Finding the Still Point: Music for Healing
  Vancouver Chamber Choir/Jon Washburn [Grouse]

• VIBES Feature, October 11, 2006:
  Beat the drums loudly
  Two different sounds of East Africa head to Atlanta

• VIBES Media Mashup, September 13, 2006:
  Ainadamar
  Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Robert Spano [Deutsche Grammophon]

• VIBES Spotlight, May 31, 2006:
  Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus
  June 3 concert at St. Philip's

• VIBES Spotlight, March 8, 2006:
  Maya Hoover
  Clayton State University assistant professor

• VIBES Feature, February 22, 2006:
  Grassroots are Always Greener
  A cappella women's trio Saheli visits Pine Lake

• VIBES Feature, February 1, 2006:
  Beating the odds
  Persistence is percussionist Evelyn Glennie's forte

• VIBES Real Life Top Five, January 25, 2006:
  Laura Jackson
  ASO conducting fellow makes her subscription series debut

• VIBES Feature, January 4, 2006:
  Roll over Stradivarius
  Violinlist Bobby Yang chooses Zeppelin over Mozart

• VIBES CD Review, November 9, 2005:
  Mark O'Connor
  Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Live in New York
    [ Reprinted in: Monterey County Weekly (CA), Nov. 17, 2005 ]

• VIBES Brief, November 2, 2005:
  Death becomes him
  ASO performs Osvaldo Golijov's one-act opera, Ainadamar

• VIBES Feature, October 26, 2005:
  Ups and downs
  Georgia native Robert Pound debuts 'Irrational Exuberance'

• VIBES See & Do, October 5, 2005:
  Behind the Music
  The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's hands-on open house for all ages, Symphony Celebration, ...

• VIBES Real Life Top Five, September 28, 2005:
  Karen Freer
  Freer breaks down her "top five" picks of exemplary cello music

• VIBES Disc Review, August 31, 2005:
  Mozart: Requiem
  Donald Runnicles conducting, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Chorus

• VIBES Feature, August 31, 2005:
  We got the jazz (again)
  Montreux Jazz Festival returns to Atlanta

• VIBES Spotlight, August 31, 2005:
  Greg Curbow
  [obit]

• VIBES Feature, August 10, 2005:
  Inside Out
  Atlantis Music Conference tries to lure fans with a new festival feel

• VIBES Feature, July 19, 2005:
  Classical Next
  NBAF works to change the face of classical music

• VIBES Feature, June 22, 2005:
  Symphonic Games
  Final Fantasy music leaps from game console to live concert

• VIBES Feature, May 12, 2005:
  Symphony Strikes Bach
  A mature ASO shakes out the stuffiness

• VIBES Feature, February 23, 2005:
  The Player
  Why André Watts still attacks the keys like he was 9 years old

• VIBES Feature, January 27, 2005:
  Songs of the South
  Soweto Gospel Choir puts fresh take on African spiritual music

• VIBES Feature, December 16, 2004:
  Soul for the Season
  The Blind Boys of Alabama spread Christmas cheer

• VIBES Earshot, November 25, 2004:
  No kidding
  Woodruff Arts Center adopts Young Audiences of Atlanta

• VIBES Feature, October 21, 2004:
  The persistence of memory
  Composer John Harbison explores our collective recollections

• VIBES Earshot, August 12, 2004:
  Conducting business

• VIBES Earshot, August 5, 2004:
  Well-orchestrated career moves
  [ Conductor Michael Palmer returns to Atlanta. ]
      (AUTHOR'S NOTE: I have no idea who the band in the photo might be, but it's certainly not Michael Palmer. This online edition of CL seems to have posted the wrong photo! The correct photo appears in the printed edition. —MG)

• VIBES Feature, July 15, 2004:
  Diversity Without Borders
  Tania Leòn and her Son Sonora Ensemble play the National Black Arts Festival

• VIBES Show'N'Tell, June 3, 2004:
  Howard Shore
  [ Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore shares a few thoughts about how he runs Rings around film to concert stages.]

• VIBES Feature, May 27, 2004:
  Two Paths, two friends
  ASO season concludes with a work drawing on multiple kinships

• VIBES Earshot, May 20, 2004:
  Studio Spivey

• VIBES Earshot, May 6, 2004:
  Musical Gardens of the Mind

• VIBES Earshot (inside Sharp Notes), Apr. 29, 2004:
  Music city in training
  (curiously, this wrongly appears as the first section within Nikhil Swaminathan's "Sharp Notes" column, even though I wrote it and my by-line trails the passage. —mg)

• VIBES Earshot - Feature, Apr. 15, 2004:
  Messiaen's symphony marries East with West

• VIBES Earshot - CD Review, Apr. 8, 2004:
  Higdon: Concerto of Orchestra / City Scape
  Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Spano, conductor [TELARC]

• VIBES Earshot, Mar. 11, 2004:
  Christina Smith goes solo
  [ASO prinicpal flutist performs Rouse concerto]

• VIBES Feature, Feb. 12, 2004:
  Both sides now
  Peter Schickele goes head to head with his alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach

• VIBES Earshot, Jan. 29, 2004:
  Taking Atlanta "From the Top"
  [PRI's hit radio series visits Atlanta]

• VIBES Feature, Jan. 15, 2004:
  When opportunity strikes
  A young Atlantan makes her solo debut with the ASO
  ››› Reprinted by permission in Expository Magazine (Vol. 3, No. 1 - March 2004)

• COVER 2003 Year in Culture, Dec. 25, 2003:
  Classical identity crisis
  [Atlanta's year in classical music]
  ››› See Creative Loafing's The Top 40: Local CD Honor Roll for 2003.
  ››› See Creative Loafing's complete 2003 Year in Culture offerings by various writers.

• VIBES Show 'N' Tell, Nov. 27, 2003:
  Matt Haimovitz
  [cellist on 50-state tour to promote his new Anthem CD]

• VIBES Feature, Nov. 13, 2003:
  Sing to the sun
  A conversation with Alvin Singleton, Atlanta's foremost composer

• VIBES CD Review, Oct. 30, 2003:
  Ethel
  Ethel [Cantaloupe Music]

• VIBES Feature, Oct. 23, 2003:
  Double life
  Mason Bates' two musical paths converge

• VIBES Feature, Sep. 11, 2003:
  Season's Greetings
  What's on tap for the 2003-2004 classical season

• VIBES Feature, Jul. 24, 2003:
  In the key of life
  Decatur-based composer finds musical inspiration in DNA

• VIBES Feature, Jul. 17, 2003:
  Women and children first
  LaRoche celebrates the life of the Titanic's sole black passenger

• VIBES Feature, Jul. 3, 2003:
  Gentlemen, start your organs
  Atlanta's pipe-organ community works for harmonious accord

• VIBES Feature, May 29, 2003:
  El Niño blows into town
  John Adams' setting of the nativity story brings a breath of fresh air to oratorio

• VIBES Feature, May 21, 2003:
  Klezmer schezmer!
  Divahn differences make for heavenly music

• VIBES Earshot, May 21, 2003:
  Bent Frequency
  Playing what's good for you

• VIBES Feature, Apr. 23, 2003:
  Little-heard, but no less sacred
  Emory embraces Baltic choral music

• VIBES Earshot, Apr. 16, 2003:
  Classical Georgia
  (A Voice of Their Own: Black Classical Music in Georgia)

• VIBES Feature, Mar. 26, 2003:
  Hear here
  Pauline Oliveros returns for more deep listening

• VIBES Feature, Mar. 19, 2003:
  Don't look Bach
  Matt Haimovitz brings baroque cello suites to a folk club

• VIBES Feature, Mar. 12, 2003:
  Currency inversion
  An American in Germany brings Glass stateside

• VIBES Feature, Feb. 26, 2003:
  Pre-war America revisited
  Eos Orchestra unearths Copland's seminal film music

• VIBES Feature, Feb. 19, 2003:
  New music great and small
  Oliver Knussen fantasizes; eighth blackbird diverges

• VIBES Feature, Jan. 29, 2003:
  May the Schwartz be with you
  Emory unveils its new performance facility as the center of its expanding arts village

• VIBES Feature, Jan. 22, 2003:
  World beaters
  Les Percussions de Guinée drum up interest

• VIBES Earshot, Jan. 1, 2003:
  Witt's South African adventure
  Elise Witt ... one of only 30 women from the U.S. participating in a two-week cultural exchange in Polokwane

• VIBES Live Review, Dec. 11, 2002:
  Love at first sound
  Emory's Wind Ensemble plays, but Schwartz Center stars

• VIBES Feature, Nov. 20, 2002:
  New kid in town
  ASO's Alexander Mickelthwate makes his official debut

• FEATURE, Nov. 13, 2002:
  Sounds like home
  An Atlanta-bred composer returns to her roots to unearth a vision for the future

• VIBES Feature, Nov. 6, 2002:
  Back in black
  New Thamyris CDs highlight Alvin Singleton and other black composers

• VIBES Earshot, Oct. 30, 2002:
  Last Hurrah
  Lanier Trio plays its final concert as an Atlanta-based ensemble

Articles for NewMusicBox:

• RADAR March 13, 2006:
  Music of Hope, Music of Fear
  [Field report from Atlanta.]
  
  
• RADAR January 26, 2006:
  Rocking the Violin
  [Field report from Atlanta.]
  
  
• RADAR December 20, 2005:
  What Has 18 Strings and a Quartertone Fretboard?
  [Field report from Atlanta.]
  
  
• RADAR December 6, 2005:
  Written Upon Request
  [Field report from Atlanta.]
  
  
• RADAR September 20, 2005:
  Breaking Out New Cello Music
  [Field report from Atlanta.]
  
  
• RADAR July 5, 2005:
  All the (Virtual) World's a Stage and
  Opera that Runs with Scissors
  [Field report from Atlanta.]
  
  
• RADAR May 23, 2005:
  Branching Out Beyond the Borders
  [Field report from Atlanta.]
  
  
• RADAR May 11, 2005:
  From Gamelan to Quartertone Guitar
  [Field report from Atlanta.]
  
  
• VIEW December 2004:
  Whatever Happened to American Music Week?
  
  
• VIEW from Atlanta, April 2004:
  Compose Locally, Market Globally
  
  

Articles for Encore Atlanta:

• PROFILE, March 2004:
  Wind Sprinter
  [Profile of flutist Christina Smith.]
  
  
• PROFILE, December 2004:
  On Her Toes
  [Profile of dancer/choreographer Lee Harper.]
  
  
• PROFILE, February 2005:
  Returning in Triumph
  [Profile of soprano Indra Thomas.]