The Arts Council Pearce Series
Recognized for featuring national and international famed performances and performers, the Arts Council Pearce Series™ celebrates it's 26th season this year.
More than any of our programs, The Arts Council Pearce Series features performing artists to our community that would otherwise not be available without traveling to a major metropolitan city. The series is comprised of three performances each year.
Tickets for The Arts Council Pearce Series can be purchased by the performance or for the entire series. Click here to purchase tickets online. If you become a member of The Arts Council as a Friends of the Arts™, you will receive complimentary tickets for the entire series, premium seating and invitation to private receptions. See Membership Levels for list of all membership benefits.
2010 Arts Council Pearce Series™ Season
We are proud to present the following performances for our 2010 season:
Celtic Crossroads
Feb. 25
8PM
Pearce Auditorium
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Daniel Rodriguez
'the NYC singing cop'
May 20
8 PM
Georgia Mountains Center
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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
July 30
8 PM
The Lawn - Arts Council Smithgall Arts Center
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Celtic Crossroads February 25 Ticket Prices:
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Celtic Crossroads
“The most exhilarating and authentic show to come from Ireland in decades.”
Just when you think that you have seen the best that Irish music has to offer, a fresh new show from Ireland is taking the art form to an entirely new level. Celtic Crossroads presents Irish music like never before, set to do to Irish music what Riverdance has done to Irish dance.
The concert is a spectacle of talent, displaying how Irish music influenced the global birth of a multitude of musical genres. This show is redefining Irish music by going right to the heart of its rhythms. The inventive arrangements and bass-driven grooves are steering Irish acoustic music into surprising new territory. On its first American visit, word-of mouth alone led to a sell out tour.
The show itself, incorporating seven world-class musicians, playing over twenty instruments on stage, is a fantastic spectacle. From start to finish you are captivated by a wonderful fusion of musical genres in the Irish music family, such as eastern European Gypsy, north American Bluegrass, world Classical and Jazz, and the various forms of Celtic music from around Europe and the rest of the world.
As the thunder starts to take hold, rhythms beating, Irish dancers defying laws of speed and gravity, musicians swopping instruments before your eyes, building and rising from a slow groove to a climactic, epic and all encompassing wildness of unadulterated genius, audiences are unable to prevent themselves from jumping to their feet in thunderous ovation.
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Daniel Rodriguez Ticket Prices: (all tickets are general seating)
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“I hear the real voice. And the real voice was really an operatic one.” - Placido Domingo on Daniel Rodriguez
To those who have come to love him as the so-called “singing policeman,”—the New York City cop who helped bring the country an uplifting spirit of promise and hope with his stirring rendition of “God Bless America” after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
As with every “overnight” success, Daniel’s road to his current place as “America’s Beloved Tenor” was long and rife with all the detours and potholes of every life path. At 16, he presented his first recital at Carnegie Hall; at 17, he was billed as the “17-year-old Baritone.” Then, at 19, he put music aside to raise his family, going to work to make ends meet. But, at 24, he decided to go back into music, which he did with a very entrepreneurial spirit.
As an “official singer” for the NYPD Ceremonial Unit, he sang at memorials in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. Before long, then-New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani helped set up an audition at the Metropolitan Opera. Placido Domingo heard the story, and he told Giuliani he would give the singer a listen. Daniel studied under Maestro Domingo for a year and half.
Since then, he has performed at the 2002 Winter Olympics, the PBS Memorial Day concert in Washington, D.C., the Tournament of Roses Parade, the 2004 Republican National Conventio, and on television’s “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “Larry King Live,” “Live with Regis and Kelly” and “Oprah,” among many other high profile events. He officially retired from the NYPD in June of 2004.
Celebrating our 35th Season!
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, currently in its 65th season, is one of America’s leading orchestras, known for the excellence of its live performances, presentations, renowned choruses, and its impressive list of Grammy® Award-winning recordings. The leading cultural organization in the Southeast, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra serves as the cornerstone for artistic development and music education in the region. Under the Creative Partnership of Music Director Robert Spano, Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles, and President and CEO Allison Vulgamore since September 2001, the Orchestra and audiences together explore a creative programming mix, recordings, and visual enhancements, such as the ASO Theater of a Concert, the Orchestra’s continuing exploration of different formats, settings, and enhancements for the musical performance experience.
During its 31-year history with Telarc, the Orchestra has recorded more than 100 albums and its recordings have won 26 Grammy Awards in categories including Best Classical Album, Best Orchestral Performance, Best Choral Performance, and Best Opera Performance. The ASO Chorus has earned nine Grammy® Awards for Best Choral Performance, most recently for the Berlioz Requiem in 2005.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performs more than 200 concerts each year to a combined audience of more than a half million in a full schedule of performances which also feature educational and community concerts. A recognized leader and supporter of contemporary American music, the Orchestra recently received the 2007 award for Strongest Commitment to New American Music from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. In addition, Music Director Robert Spano was named Musical America 2008 Conductor of the Year.