Augusta Symphony conductor Dirk Meyer sits down with GPB’s Sarah Zaslaw to chat about everything from the renovated movie palace the orchestra now calls home and to its music therapy program that changes lives to the difference between German and American conductor training and his own secret musical past.
Change is in the air at the Savannah Philharmonic, which has been rethinking everything the orchestra does, with an eye toward community and relevance.
Since 2011, American violinist Joshua Bell has also been music director of the London-basedAcademy of St. Martin in the Fields, whose first pandemic-era U.S. tour together kicks off Feb. 22 in Columbus, Georgia.