{"id":2044924,"date":"2025-09-23T23:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2044924"},"modified":"2025-09-23T23:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:13:06","slug":"johns-creek-symphony-opens-new-season-with-new-music-director-henry-cheng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/johns-creek-symphony-opens-new-season-with-new-music-director-henry-cheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Johns Creek Symphony Opens New Season with New Music Director, Henry Cheng"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Monday\u2019s (9\/22) Appen Media\u00a0<\/a>(Alpharetta, Georgia), Jon Wilcox writes, \u201c[A] dramatic Western scene was the first of several narrated by [composer George S.] Clinton during the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra\u2019s first concert of the season Sept. 20 at Mount Pisgah Church. The performance marked the start of a new chapter for the orchestra with new Music Director Henry Cheng conducting. It also welcomed youth with a new policy of providing free tickets to all students. Before each of the five parts of his violin concerto, \u2018The Rose of Sonora,\u2019 Clinton narrated the story of Rose and Jed, inviting the audience to paint their own vivid mental pictures. Clinton is an award-winning film and TV composer \u2026 The concert was the first of the orchestra\u2019s \u2018IMAGINE: Your Playlist\u2019 season, which aims to make classical music more accessible. Cheng, who was selected in May, said he thinks it is essential for orchestras to make music that speaks directly to the community\u2026. \u2018It\u2019s sharing stories that I hope connect with the community, whether it\u2019s exploring ideas of grief, ideas of overcoming and how we\u2019re actually much more connected than ever,\u2019 Cheng said previously\u2026. \u2018Music is that bridge.\u2019 \u201d Violinist Holly Mulcahy was the soloist for the concerto; the program also included Elgar\u2019s Enigma Variations<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source symphony.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Monday\u2019s (9\/22) Appen Media\u00a0(Alpharetta, Georgia), Jon Wilcox writes, \u201c[A] dramatic Western scene was the first of several narrated by [composer George S.] Clinton during the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra\u2019s first concert of the season Sept. 20 at Mount Pisgah Church. The performance marked the start of a new chapter for the orchestra with new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2044925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[341674,350491,344569,378894],"class_list":["post-2044924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-audiences","tag-composers","tag-conductors","tag-repertoire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Johns-Creek-Symphony-Opens-New-Season-with-New-Music-Director.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}