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Sarah Zaslaw
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On Second Thought
Donald Runnicles On Leading Orchestras And Yearning To Fly
Jet-set conductor Donald Runnicles is all over the map, literally. In Berlin, he’s music director of the German Opera. In Wyoming, he heads the Grand Teton Music Festival. And he often visits Georgia as principal guest conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It all began in Scotland, where Runnicles grew up the son of a church choirmaster and an amateur pianist. In May, between weekends of Debussy and Beethoven with the ASO, he sat down with GPB’s Sarah Zaslaw. She asked about his earliest musical experience.
2019-06-11
17 min
On Second Thought
Violence, Trauma, Radical Empathy In The Atlanta Opera's 'Dead Man Walking'
The Atlanta Opera's production of "Dead Man Walking" tells the story of Sister Helen Prejean and her relationship with death row inmate Joseph de Rocher. It's based on Prejean's real-life book chronicling her prison ministry. Prejean wrote about her experiences as a spriritual counselor to death row inmates Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie in the book, which the production amalgamates into de Rocher's character. GPB's Sarah Zaslaw spoke to Tomer Zvulun , the Atlanta Opera's artistic director, and Georgia native Jamie Barton , who plays Sister Helen in the production. They discussed ideas of justice, forgiveness and how the opera...
2019-02-01
15 min