Fringe: A Unique New Music Experience in Atlanta

Fringe
September 22 & December 1
Redeemer
5185 Peachtree Dunwoody Road
Atlanta, GA


Fringe is about art—about crossing ethnic, cultural, and social divides through music by purposely melding worlds to create something entirely new. Fringe will put gifted composers, musicians, and visual artists together to showcase their talent in a fresh experience of the arts unlike any Atlanta has ever seen. It will blend a cocktail of music and visual arts that will bring back the original, intimate experience of chamber music in an approachable, exciting way—especially for younger audiences weaned on pop music and even poppier culture.The concerts will look something like this: chamber music (classical music played by small groups of musicians) will be the focus of each evening, with performances of some of the most virtuosic music compositions ever written, performed by the best musicians in Atlanta and throughout the country. Unlike the iconic classical music experience of sitting, listening, yawning, and then leaving, each interactive performance will be a swift blend of live music performances, a DJ spinning ambient and electronica, documentary-style videos of the performers and finally, an independent, jury-selected short film.

This blending of art is radically different from what has come before, and we hope it begins to usher in a new era of the classical concert experience—not by talking down to its audience and expecting them to be quiet and behave—but by inviting them in to get dirty and truly experience this great art anew.

The first two concerts Sept. 22 and Dec. 1, and the remaining two will be held in the winter of 2008 (dates TBD).
September 22, »8pm»Fringe’s first concert will be a swift blend of documentary-style videos of the performers, a DJ spinning ambient and electronica, and a screening of an independent, jury-selected short film. The highlight of the evening will be performances of a violin-and-cello duo by Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály (a fiery, folksy and virtuosic work) along with the famed Schubert Cello Quintet in C Major. READ MORE…
December 1, 2007 »8pm» Along with a short film screening and other included visual arts, this concert will feature New York harpist Bridget Kibbey, winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, and flutist Julietta Curenton, a duo that has competed and performed worldwide. As described by The New York Times, 28-year-old harpist Kibbey “made it seem as though her instrument had been waiting all its life to explode with the gorgeous colors and energetic figures she was getting from it.” Kibbey has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, among others. She’s been featured on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” as well as on A&E’s “Breakfast with the Arts.”

-Info taken from: www.fringeatlanta.com