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Nouveau-Passé Orchestra to perform
Saluda Mountain Jamboree, Friendship Church Road, off Howard Gap Road, Saluda. Open 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Bluegrass and barbeque will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Fridays. Admission: $8. Info: 749-3676 or www.saludamountainjamboree.com.
Done for the Evening Jazz Trio, 3 p.m. Sunday, July 16, at St. Matthias Episcopal Church, Asheville. Info: 252-0643.
Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, 8 p.m. Mondays through July 17, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville. Tickets: $17. Info: 890-4411 or 696-2118.
Montana Skies, 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 21, the Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher. Tickets: $10 in advance; $12 at the door. Info:l 891-8700, 684-3798 or www.unitync.net.
Lyle Lovett in concert, 8 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 24, in Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville. Tickets: 251-5505.
Class of the '70s, 8 p.m., Aug. 26, Eaglenest Entertainment, Highway 19, Maggie Valley. Info: www.eaglenestnc.com or (828) 926-9658.
Chris Isaak, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30, concert hall of the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, Greenville, S.C. Tickets: $48 to $58. Info: (864) 679-9210.
Music Series
Frank and Amy's Concerts at the Front Porch Coffee Bar, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights at Saluda Station. No cover charge;
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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra began a new era in its quest for greatness with the arrival of Yoel Levi in 1988. His first concert as Music Director, simulcast on radio and television statewide, gave evidence of extraordinary control in such areas as orchestral balance, precision, intonation and ensemble. Levi also moved quickly to improve the orchestra with additional players, most of them assistant or associate principals, and he told an interviewer that he wanted to create an ensemble "that plays orchestral music as if it were chamber music. I want players that know how to listen to one another, that really understand how they fit into the whole picture of the score. That is a great orchestra." The ASO also upgraded its facilities for recording concerts and expanded its national syndication of radio broadcasts, begun the previous year.
The new season saw the debut of the Atlanta Symphony Ball, latest of the volunteer fundraising projects of the Atlanta Symphony Associates, who also added a new membership unit to their roster: Fayette Fortissimo. The ASA, throug
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