Nationally, lake property prices are skyrocketing and demand is at an all-time high. Prices in upstate New York’s Finger Lakes shot up 18.33% in 2020 and in the last eight months of 2020, there was an increase of 167% of buyers looking specifically for lakefront homes, according to Finger Lake Premier Properties. Chicagoans are moving and lakefront home sales in Walworth County, just over the Wisconsin state line, rose 53% in July and August 2020 compared with 2019, according to Metro MLS data. The average price-per-square-foot rose 38% to $556, according to an article in the Chicago Tribune.
It’s happening in Atlanta as well. Take Lake Oconee, for instance. Sales of lakefront homes in gated communities increased almost 72% from 64 in 2019 to 110 in 2020; sales for lakefront homes outside the gates rose 62% from 130 in 2019 to 210 in 2020. The average sales price for a home inside a gated community rose almost 10% for $1.4 million to $1.5 million; average sales outside a gated community increased by almost 7% from $552,929 to $599,974, according to Lake Oconee Realty.
A lake house on Lake Sinclair was listed for $800,000 and recently sold for $850,000.
Courtesy of Lakes Homes Realty.
Credit: Handout
Credit: Handout
“It’s been a very hot market for the last year and a half,” says Lisa Steele, an agent with Lake Homes Realty, who focuses on Lake Arrowhead near Waleska in Cherokee County. “The buyers are younger than in the past. I typically sell 55-plus retirement homes or homes for eventual retirement, now it’s dipped into the late 30s, early 40s. As a result, there’s a lot more traffic on the lake. We’re seeing a lot more kayaking, paddle boarding. We’re dubbing it a ‘fitness lake’.”
In addition, homeowners who rented their houses out are now living in them. “I’d say now about 15% are on VRBO; it used to be a much higher number. The pandemic changed that. It’s a big switch over the last 18 months.”
Prices are also going up. Today, a fixer-upper on Lake Arrowhead would cost at least $500,000; five years ago, it would be about $350,000. “It’s a big difference. And now prices are knocking on the door around $2 million.”
Judy Presley with Keller Williams Realty Lake Partners, says that today’s buyers are offering significantly above asking price, with many cash buyers. “People are pulling money out of places they wouldn’t necessarily have before but they feel like they need that as a bargaining chip,” she says.
Kim Yarrington, an associate broker with the same firm, says that COVID-19 “brought a lot of this on. COVID forced people to work in their homes and they decided to work in a place they really wanted to be. Atlanta isn’t that far. We just sold a lake home to a man from Miami who was originally looking for a weekend home. He decided to make it his year-round residence. We’re also seeing younger buyers.”
In 2019, 384 Lake Lanier properties were sold; in 2020, that number was 670. In seven months of 2021, 520 homes were sold. Prices are going up as well. Presley recently had a house appraised at $675,000, which went on the market for $825,000 and closed at $850,000, Presley says.
A lake house on Lake Sinclair was listed for $800,000 and recently sold for $850,000.
Courtesy of Lakes Homes Realty.
Credit: Handout
Credit: Handout
Adding to the “buy now” mentality is that COVID-19 has impacted construction costs and availability of materials, making the option of buying land and building less desirable. “Some builders aren’t taking any new orders until 2022. People are opting to move in right now,” she says.
Glenn S. Phillips, CEO of Lake Homes Realty, the nation’s largest lake-focused real estate company, says several factors are driving this buying trend. “When COVID hit, people looked around and said I can work anywhere, why not just find a house on a lake that pleases us and live there. It’s a ‘life is too short’ mentality,” he says. “Younger people are selling their intown homes at a great price and getting a lake house to work remotely. Some of them will go to the office two to three days and stay in a hotel, as a trade-off for living on the lake. We’re finding that people are choosing the lake that best suits their lifestyle needs rather than choosing a house.”
Segueing off the ‘life is short’ mantra are others “who contemplated an eventual lake home but who are doing it now so that they can enjoy the grandchildren at a place where everyone wants to be at and enjoy,” he says.
A third subset of the COVID-19 buying segment are “people who just wanted to move out of the more restricted states, and many of them are in the more expensive states to live in. They are getting their dream lake house in places with lower taxes,” Phillips says. “You’re seeing a lot of people in California and the northern states moving to Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas, Texas, and getting lake houses where they can enjoy all the recreational activities and be in nature — at a lower cost.”
The Evans family — Bryan, Mackenzie, Lexi, Chandley and Shanon — stand on the lot where they are building a house on Lake Arrowhead. The home should be completed by next May.
Credit: Jamie Bogner, courtesy of Shanon Evans
Credit: Jamie Bogner, courtesy of Shanon Evans
Shanon and Bryan Evans planned to retire to a lake property but it was a few years off. Still, one day they looked at lake properties on a lark and fell in love with a house. They decided to sell their Acworth country club home and purchase the Lake Arrowhead property as their full time residence. Trouble was someone offered $100,000 over the list price in cash with no contingencies, and they lost the house. Undeterred, they purchased a lot to build their home as well as a townhome to live in while construction was underway. Shortly thereafter her two sisters and their families visited and bought lots to build their own homes. Lots were going for around $350,000 when Evans bought hers, but recently someone sold a lot for $600,000, she says.
The 8,200-acre Lake Arrowhead community. Christopher Oquendo Photography/AJC File
“My mother lives on Lake Oconee and my sister on Lake Lanier but they fell in love with the lake and will live and retire here,” say Evans. “About a year earlier we were standing around the table thinking it would be neat to find a lake and land where everyone could live there forever and be with grandkids. We couldn’t have planned it. But I have to admit that in the back of my head, COVID made us antsy and we were ready to find our paradise now.”
COVID-19 in the city or lake?
Davis Adams and Baron Smith each had a condo in Atlanta but realized it made more sense to share one condo and buy a house on Lake Lanier to rent out and use for weekends. They found a cabin in Hall County, closed on it Jan. 23, 2020, and renovated it so it would be a “great Airbnb. Three weeks later, the borders closed and suddenly we were there.”
Baron Smith takes a walk down to his dock at his Lake Lanier home.
Credit: Courtesy of Davis Adams
Credit: Courtesy of Davis Adams
Adams contracted COVID-19 in March and was “really sick, incredibly sick. I was turned away from the hospital because old people needed the beds. They didn’t want me and told me I would survive. I went back to the cabin. The whole world — including me — was panicking. I didn’t want to go back to Atlanta and the condo where 200 people would be sharing elevators. We wanted to control our environment.”
The pair moved to the cabin to wait out COVID-19 and found their stress levels were down. Both had employers who “prioritized people’s comfort” and allowed them to work from home. “We had no issues working from the cabin. Our Wi-Fi has been good and the only thing missing is the community of co-workers.”
Adams admits the lake lifestyle, while a relaxing one, took some adjustment. “I miss the multicultural aspect that Atlanta brings, and I mean ideas, people, culture, food. Baron misses a great martini and an occasional $100 Italian dinner.”
They are settled into a more structured routine, partly as a result of a lack of nearby options. They are cooking more and logistics are thoroughly planned. “We have a recipe plan in advance and we map out what we’re going to eat for a week because we can’t easily go to the store. We actually bought a Weber grill; we used to have a George Foreman. It’s a healthier lifestyle but you are aware that the amenities you took for granted are no longer around you.”
Friends attend a housewarming party for Baron Smith’s and Davis Adams’ lake house in March 2020.
Credit: Courtesy of Davis Adams
Credit: Courtesy of Davis Adams
Their social life has evolved as well. Instead of spending money and going out to restaurants, after work they now Jet Ski. “It’s free. People pay for that on a vacation,” he says. Although Adams says his Atlanta friends visit often, he’s found a new social set. “We meet people on the water. You’re in a cove and find yourself talking to the people on the next boat and sharing drinks. It’s a different community.”
Evans admits the rural life has some disadvantages. “We almost had to fight to get cable and, of course, we are putting a generator into our house. If there’s ice here, you’re stuck.”
But she’ll take the trade-offs. “We call it our slice of heaven. You come into the gates and you see bald eagles, deer with babies; the wildlife engulfs you. We pinch ourselves because once you’re here, you’re in a whole different world.”
NOTICE: The Indie Green Festival and Walk event has been canceled for this weekend.
Posted by City of Norcross - Government on Friday, August 20, 2021
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This 38-minute film about “jazz music, photography and race,” the outgrowth of that research, is a collaboration between Ballethnic, The Breman Museum and Jewish photojournalist Herb Snitzer, whose photos were on display at the museum earlier this year. Front and center are the latter’s black and white photos of these now legendary Black musicians — Ellington, Basie, Nina Simone, Miles Davis — many of them taken during the civil rights movement.","_id":"FEWABIYWKZCTXDNLJTPAFNLKIA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1629197097898,"type":"text","content":"Snitzer is an off-screen presence, narrating stories about the time he spent with them. “There was something not right with Miles,” he says of the mercurial Davis. Ellington “was like royalty” and Simone, clearly his favorite, “was driven by ghosts” but always friendly to him. “I loved her,” he says. 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One shows her sitting on a stool in a floral dress, her legs kicked out in front of her, and she’s laughing. It’s not an image we generally associate with her and it is a delight to see, especially paired with Snitzer’s endearing stories. It introduces the Fusion Chamber Ensemble’s instrumental version of her song “Four Women,” which here, in dance, is a sultry quartet; four women sit casually on folding chairs before performing elegant, confident solos on pointe.","_id":"M46XXD7P75FCXGLOLYBKCZIRIE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1629197097901,"type":"text","content":"“Mississippi Goddam” is Simone’s blistering indictment of racism, her anger and anguish palpable in line after line: “I don’t belong here, I don’t belong there / I have even stopped believing in prayer” and “Oh, but this whole country is full of lies / you’re all gonna die and die like flies.” This takes Lucas and the dancers into challenging territory. How do you create movement equal to the power of such an anthem? The answer is you can’t, not really, but you can create an environment that invites you to hear the song anew.","_id":"IFX2BBG4QVEQ7EECHHIGJKFAXE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1629197097902,"type":"text","content":"Snitzer’s respect and love for these larger-than-life personalities and their music, Simone especially, is truly engaging. He says early on that the racial struggle was never discussed when he spent time with these jazz greats. It was all about the music, even though racism informed their lives at every turn. The photos and Snitzer’s memories feel intimate, while the dancing, passionately and expertly performed on the Southwest Arts Center stage but filmed with few close-ups, feels more distant. Different camera angles reveal sudden, and likely unintentional, changes of lighting in the same work, which is distracting, and the uplifted, controlled quality of traditional ballet technique doesn’t always match the music’s wild, propulsive rhythms. Lucas’ choreography for “Agitation,” for instance, is overwhelmed at times by Davis’ jagged, almost chaotic improvisations.","_id":"7C74D4YP6ZD4FIZJ2W3P6L36DA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1629197097903,"type":"text","content":"“Jazz is a metaphor for freedom,” says Snitzer at one point. “Jazzing: Memoirs in Jazz” embodies freedom of expression in movement, even though marrying photography and racial history with dance on film is an ambitious undertaking that doesn’t always work. Still, this is a hopeful, celebratory, multimedia presentation and a welcome addition to Ballethnic’s repertory. 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And now prices are knocking on the door around $2 million.”","_id":"NENIP4TP2NF3RNUGDIJDLUPLOQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365312,"type":"text","content":"Judy Presley with Keller Williams Realty Lake Partners, says that today’s buyers are offering significantly above asking price, with many cash buyers. “People are pulling money out of places they wouldn’t necessarily have before but they feel like they need that as a bargaining chip,” she says.","_id":"3VMATWHO5FDHLAZUCPB3HZF32I","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365313,"type":"text","content":"Kim Yarrington, an associate broker with the same firm, says that COVID-19 “brought a lot of this on. COVID forced people to work in their homes and they decided to work in a place they really wanted to be. Atlanta isn’t that far. We just sold a lake home to a man from Miami who was originally looking for a weekend home. 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Presley recently had a house appraised at $675,000, which went on the market for $825,000 and closed at $850,000, Presley says.","owner":"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc","address":,"syndication":,"caption":"A lake house on Lake Sinclair was listed for $800,000 and recently sold for $850,000. nCourtesy of Lakes Homes Realty.","source":"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":"editor":"photo center","taxonomy":"associated_tasks":[],"type":"image","distributor":"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019","version":"0.10.3","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/V5PC5P6YLVCOJDVGJGHHIMB2AU.jpg","licensable":false,"credits":"affiliation":[],"by":["name":"Handout","type":"author","byline":"Handout"],"subtitle":"AAJC 081221 DL lake houses","width":1080,"_id":"V5PC5P6YLVCOJDVGJGHHIMB2AU","additional_properties":"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/Y2k-Vto3BTN3-REeFDLl4QMKr-8=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/V5PC5P6YLVCOJDVGJGHHIMB2AU.jpg","owner":"[email protected]","comments":[],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/Y2k-Vto3BTN3-REeFDLl4QMKr-8=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/V5PC5P6YLVCOJDVGJGHHIMB2AU.jpg","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/V5PC5P6YLVCOJDVGJGHHIMB2AU.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/Y2k-Vto3BTN3-REeFDLl4QMKr-8=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/V5PC5P6YLVCOJDVGJGHHIMB2AU.jpg","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/Xi54AI8pCOBW_wa-dft_c2OvXEs=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/V5PC5P6YLVCOJDVGJGHHIMB2AU.jpg","version":0,"originalName":"AAJC 0812221-3 DL Lake Houses.jpg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"QUK2RARL6FHUHFSNDZE72PSNUU","created_date":"2021-08-09T16:42:41Z","last_updated_date":"2021-08-09T16:42:41Z","slug":"AAJC 081221 DL lake houses","height":810,"image_type":"photograph","_id":"MYV7NJAWYZFQHDXT656IRKOCUI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365315,"type":"text","content":"Adding to the “buy now” mentality is that COVID-19 has impacted construction costs and availability of materials, making the option of buying land and building less desirable. “Some builders aren’t taking any new orders until 2022. People are opting to move in right now,” she says.","_id":"XNOHIISXGNAI3BNRHL6F6BORNM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365316,"type":"text","content":"Glenn S. Phillips, CEO of Lake Homes Realty, the nation’s largest lake-focused real estate company, says several factors are driving this buying trend. “When COVID hit, people looked around and said I can work anywhere, why not just find a house on a lake that pleases us and live there. It’s a ‘life is too short’ mentality,” he says. “Younger people are selling their intown homes at a great price and getting a lake house to work remotely. Some of them will go to the office two to three days and stay in a hotel, as a trade-off for living on the lake. We’re finding that people are choosing the lake that best suits their lifestyle needs rather than choosing a house.”","_id":"4VJN535IFRGFXFSDXEF3U3I27Y","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365317,"type":"text","content":"Segueing off the ‘life is short’ mantra are others “who contemplated an eventual lake home but who are doing it now so that they can enjoy the grandchildren at a place where everyone wants to be at and enjoy,” he says.","_id":"KZBP77SCX5A7VFUIIN2NMGR32A","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365318,"type":"text","content":"A third subset of the COVID-19 buying segment are “people who just wanted to move out of the more restricted states, and many of them are in the more expensive states to live in. 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I was turned away from the hospital because old people needed the beds. They didn’t want me and told me I would survive. I went back to the cabin. The whole world — including me — was panicking. I didn’t want to go back to Atlanta and the condo where 200 people would be sharing elevators. We wanted to control our environment.”","_id":"QNFSGOKLCVG2JMTCGHAVUZKAZU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365324,"type":"text","content":"The pair moved to the cabin to wait out COVID-19 and found their stress levels were down. Both had employers who “prioritized people’s comfort” and allowed them to work from home. “We had no issues working from the cabin. Our Wi-Fi has been good and the only thing missing is the community of co-workers.”","_id":"DBXMBFGJHFFP7OTU2GD4VWDEKU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365325,"type":"text","content":"Adams admits the lake lifestyle, while a relaxing one, took some adjustment. “I miss the multicultural aspect that Atlanta brings, and I mean ideas, people, culture, food. Baron misses a great martini and an occasional $100 Italian dinner.”","_id":"Z6MGT25MTZCO5FDSMTGMBPFIT4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365326,"type":"text","content":"They are settled into a more structured routine, partly as a result of a lack of nearby options. They are cooking more and logistics are thoroughly planned. “We have a recipe plan in advance and we map out what we’re going to eat for a week because we can’t easily go to the store. We actually bought a Weber grill; we used to have a George Foreman. 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Instead of spending money and going out to restaurants, after work they now Jet Ski. “It’s free. People pay for that on a vacation,” he says. Although Adams says his Atlanta friends visit often, he’s found a new social set. “We meet people on the water. You’re in a cove and find yourself talking to the people on the next boat and sharing drinks. It’s a different community.”","_id":"IQYCRJEQRRGJFGZO52EXWBMYPM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365328,"type":"text","content":"Evans admits the rural life has some disadvantages. “We almost had to fight to get cable and, of course, we are putting a generator into our house. If there’s ice here, you’re stuck.”","_id":"GYVOMZUA6BGXLLVH6CUH2SOXPM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628527365329,"type":"text","content":"But she’ll take the trade-offs. “We call it our slice of heaven. You come into the gates and you see bald eagles, deer with babies; the wildlife engulfs you. 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Every family member played at least one instrument, and his earliest memories include listening to the classic Ormandy recordings of standard symphonic repertory. At 10, the family moved to Milan for six years, where his mother directed a music program in an American school. Upon his return, Dixon studied piano at Eastman, and played French horn in band and youth orchestra.","_id":"6LEELOCCOJCDXLX2UMXHIHVJ7A","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857380,"type":"text","content":"After completing his education at Dartmouth and Northwestern University, he embarked upon a 20-year career managing some of the most notable musical entities in the country, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chicago’s Music of the Baroque. Dixon came to Spivey in 2004, initially assisting then-director Sherryl Nelson, then in 2006 became, as he jokes, “King of the Forest. 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The university was unable to accept my proposal, so I stepped back from the precipice and decided to carry on for a while. Then my dad passed away in 2019, and that started my internal clock ticking. My boss here at Clayton State was Dr. Tim Hynes, and he was taking retirement on June 30. In one of our meetings I heard myself say, “I so envy the freedom you’re about to have.” When I heard myself say that, a bolt of light went through me, because my own need to have this freedom was real.","_id":"BOBYJ3QRCFAVNMNHEI375ZTIJ4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857384,"type":"text","content":"And to be very honest, I got pretty battered up by having to wipe out the season-and-a-half because of the pandemic. I am tremendously proud of how we at Spivey Hall pivoted to online performances, and we had great success with that. But it was physically exhausting to wipe everything out, go to virtual concert presentation, and produce and edit it all. These things require six million clicks of the mouse. I decided I needed to spend less time in front of a screen, and for the first time in my professional life I decided I needed to put my life before work.","_id":"D5WMQUZCLZFNVKVXVGD3VZRD7A","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857385,"type":"text","content":"I also felt that after 17 years, it was time for, if not a reboot, a refresh. Institutions need renewal periodically; they need injection of new ideas, and people who have different relationships with the repertoire or different understandings of how we might engage new audiences and develop the reach and value of virtual programming. I’ve worked in music my entire professional life, and that is something I have been extremely fortunate to do. I have long relationships with major orchestras and conductors, and have aspired to a standard of excellence, and I don’t give that up easily. But I also know that it’s very challenging to sustain that level of excellence if you’re not all in and I need to be not all in now. I need my own period of renewal.","_id":"XLUD3ZI6KVHE7GAYSUEMTV7RYI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857386,"type":"text","content":"ArtsATL: What do you think enabled Spivey Hall to become such a huge presence so quickly?","_id":"GPCJBVPXWVH5ZKYARF2EQLZ6SQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857387,"type":"text","content":"Dixon: When Emilie Spivey moved ahead with plans to build this gorgeous hall after the death of Walter Spivey in 1984, she had the great foresight to not only raise the money for the hall itself, but to also create a foundation to support music programs at Clayton State. That is a necessary feature for any small hall which has a limited revenue potential to pay fees for international artists like Renée Fleming or Itzhak Perlman. Also, from the very beginning, concerts at Spivey Hall were recorded for radio broadcast and made available. There was a series of broadcasts with the 1996 Olympics which my predecessor Sherryl Nelson engineered. We hosted the Calgary international organ competition finals twice. In other words, we’ve had a strong media presence from the beginning.","owner":"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc","copyright":"© 2000 Atlanta Journal-Constit","address":"locality":"Morrow","region":"GA","syndication":,"caption":"A portrait of Emilie Spivey hangs across the lobby from a portrait of her husband in Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow. 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Artists love it, they are inspired by it, and they can take chances here. The sense of audience connection in this hall is so palpable. You can see the artists’ eyes, you can see their faces, and when the acoustics are this great you know this concert is something you’re going to remember for the next 20 years. If you are a real music lover, there is very little in life that can surpass that, and Spivey Hall attracted very passionate music lovers. And that has been the secret of Spivey Hall’s success.","_id":"B6T7I7AF3VAT5HFVX2ZFL7UXSU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857389,"type":"text","content":"ArtsATL: Have you followed any particular philosophy in your programming? How have you determined what would fly and what wouldn’t?","_id":"AB3GUWFYHVHLPBMMQQGXDWQCTA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857390,"type":"text","content":"Dixon: I always felt variety and balance are key. I felt that a season of programs basically represented something like a series of dinner parties. You have to create a menu. As much as we love steak, you don’t really want steak every day. And as much as we love certain vegetables and fruits, they’re not always available or in season. You must create the best of what you can to entice people to choose to come and enjoy this meal. I learned from a telemarketer (my first job was as a telemarketer for the Rochester Philharmonic, and I’ve been talking to people about music ever since) you sell the sizzle as well as the steak. So the programming ethos is “variety in balance.”","_id":"6UXUVBHJZBGPXMWJASGPK3BK4Y","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857391,"type":"text","content":"You have to think about where the audience is, meet them honestly, and respect their listening expectations. And you have to create expectations. This has everything to do with how one writes about concerts. I think there is tremendous power in knowledgeable personal enthusiasm about music. Tell me about the artist, tell me what this experience is going to be. There is a deeper history of choral music and singing in Atlanta than there is instrumental music, so we have to be the lichen in the granite and grow from what there is in order to create more.","_id":"6XNRVLKLGVCFZGLXV6A6OZASNQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857392,"type":"text","content":"This is our mission statement: “Spivey Hall, Clayton State University’s acoustically superb recital hall, cultivates a community of artists and audiences who share a passion for the discovery and appreciation about expanding music, through concerts and learning experiences.” This has served us extremely well. If we are cultivating that community and bringing them together in ways that are mutually gratifying, our lives are enhanced and people will come back.","_id":"5URGC2YQCZCM5OTR4I3IAHOPFA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857393,"type":"text","content":"Sherryl Nelson had this little bracelet with three questions on it. Is it the best? Who will come? And what would Emilie Spivey do? For years I’ve asked myself those questions, and they haven’t led me astray.","_id":"OHTGTU2H2JA6VIEXNTZGT2UFT4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857394,"type":"text","content":"ArtsATL: As you look back over the last 17 years, are there any memories that you especially treasure, or any accomplishments of which you are most proud?","_id":"HSVKNXD2FRDQZLFYDROWIIZ4E4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857395,"type":"text","content":"Dixon: I’ll talk about music in a second, but I must mention the development of the Spivey Hall Friends. We have a tradition of philanthropy in the U.S., but before the Friends none of the gifts to Spivey Hall were part of our regular budget. Now, the Friends’ annual gifts and endowments are the largest source of artist fees. I’m so proud of how these relationships with music-loving patrons have matured to secure this future for Spivey Hall. 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I got the Academy of Ancient Music to come with Richard Egarr to perform the complete Brandenburg concerti. I was exhilarated, I was on cloud 19. I have heard the concerti millions of times, but this was life changing. Another big memory: I had known the French/Canadian pianist Louis Lortie for a long time, but he had never been to Spivey Hall. Louis sat down and played the complete etudes of Chopin in a single sitting. It was mind-blowing; my jaw was literally dropping. Many people remember that one. Then, in the good days before he became overextended, Rolando Villazon sang a beautiful recital. I’m very proud of that, and I have a picture of me standing next to him. We’ve also had Bryn Terfel here several times. I adore him. Those have been huge highlights.","_id":"62CR4VEJKVCU5DYSVI4MNMTYEQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628678857397,"type":"text","content":"I’m also a gigantic fan of Gerald Finley; Gerry is coming back next season. 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For the safety of our patrons and our staff is our number one priority. As such, a full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result will be required to attend Music Midtown 2021. https://t.co/5hEsM5HPo9 pic.twitter.com/BIyYzwB2DH
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Historical women composers ranging from the relatively well-known to the decidedly obscure are joined by a handful of works from the present day. Much of this music was originally composed for piano. The transcriptions are all Remy Johnson’s. The selection of repertory was done with meticulous care.","_id":"Y3TYCSAY25D7VGNR2WGHQY7FH4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628250399501,"type":"text","content":"“It depended on how the composers were approaching the piano in specific compositions,” she says. “For example, something with a ton of activity in the low octaves on the piano and lots of repeated notes is not going to work with the vibration of the strings on the harp, it would just be a buzzy mess. Some other deal breakers were intense chromaticism. For example, in ‘Desdemona’ in the Mel Bonis collection. One part of it almost didn’t work and I had to come up with creative ways of using enharmonics and rewriting pitches to get the music across. 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Once there, she was in classes with Debussy and outshining him. Then Bonis fell in love with a poet, her parents yanked her out of the school and “married her off to some guy.” She continued to compose in isolation and remarked to her daughter near the end of her life that her greatest regret was not getting to hear her music performed.","_id":"THITQGEDNVBBNF44HFJM2BKPCA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628250399504,"type":"text","content":"“Some of her compositions were performed, but they never had the international acclaim they should have,” says Remy Johnson. “She did her career on her own, as a side gig from being a wife and mother.”","_id":"HZVQLPQPXBF23AXR5SZ5EKGUPU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628250399505,"type":"text","content":"The Boston Symphony performed the music of Amy Beach early in the 20th century. “In the ‘20s, she tried to get an American league of women composers and the Depression knocked it down,” says Remy Johnson. “It’s cyclical. We have these moments of discovery, but we need to keep talking about it, and keep playing the music, or else it will go through another down period.”","_id":"D4RVZUVWZBGW7I7HSRXJTZ7X7M","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628250399506,"type":"text","content":"In 2018, Remy Johnson was examining listings of future ASO programs and became increasingly dismayed with the lack of balance she saw. “Let’s just say I was a little frustrated,” she says wryly. “I was doing dishes or something, and thought, ‘Well, I can’t just wait for all these great women composers to be programmed apparently. 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Not only did she support all their children after the early death of Robert; I just cannot imagine keeping that family afloat and keeping her career going while dealing with her husband’s mental illness at a time when that had no understanding. To deal with that pain and keep her family and career together — she was a superhero.”","_id":"TUWDN46ORVEQNANHLJSUAQUYYY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628250399509,"type":"text","content":"In May, the ensemble performed and livestreamed “American Music for Today and Tomorrow” at the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, a program that focused on first-generation and immigrant American women. The ensemble commissioned “The Book of Spells” by Brazilian American composer Clarice Assad, which was given an ASO premiere in March. 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But there are also great programs for young women and more awareness of the need for balance. I think there is hope. There are organizations who want this to be part of their identity and are committed to having an open podium and open program. This is very much a long-term project.”","_id":"DS25BW6UZFAJZCHY6OLMU7BHEM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1628250399512,"type":"text","content":"One can hardly imagine a better spotlight for women composers than what Remy Johnson has achieved with “Quest.” It’s one of the most beautiful solo instrumental recordings released in some time. 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It’s refreshing to see an artist tackling the divide between belief and reality that the American ideal can often represent, especially in the realm of social justice. After a year and a half of isolation and cataclysmic social upheaval, it is surprising to see so few local exhibitions digging deep into the pain, injustice and rage that defined 2020. Though devoid of anything as powerful as anger, there is a thread of discontent running through “Freedom Isn’t Free” in references to the slave trade, to the heavy burden borne by Black women and, as indicated from the enormous loads and babies toted by the women in two small “Exodus” papercuts, the toll of emigration.","_id":"OZIT4YEUDFCXTB7DIS6W54IQRI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627998889108,"type":"text","content":"The exhibition is a mix of more contemporary work and other pieces that are more than twenty years old. 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Artists responded but chose not to show the damage vandals had done. The “white supremacist hatred,” as Dirga called it, was buffed out. He took to Instagram after finding seven murals vandalized. “Cabbagetown won’t stand for repugnant ideas, or resentful tags on our walls,” he said, “nor will we post photos glorifying toxic additions to beautiful artwork created by amazing artists.”","_id":"QLRXE7PUGRDDRAJU7YJ32SNJY4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627590260263,"type":"text","content":"In an email to ArtsATL, SOFAHOOD called the acts tasteless, obviously racially motivated and extremely disrespectful. “If you have some opinion to share make your own art about it,” she said. “Don’t ruin another artist’s work.”","_id":"BG2CKWGNHZDYZLHD5TRCPT4EEE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627590260264,"type":"text","content":"Arrrtaddict, whose indigenous representation mural on the Atlanta BeltLine’s Edgewood Bridge earned positive feedback this year, has been tagged three times. She doesn’t think the taggers realize they’re damaging the work of upcoming artists. “I would love to figure out who these kids are and say, ‘Hey, if you really want to paint, come help me. Let’s do a mural together. Let me show you how to submit a proposal. Let me show you what you need to do so you can get a wall, too.’”","_id":"7KOBJ2JWFVEVZPLKZFMPNE2PYE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627590260265,"type":"text","content":"Curator Courtney Brooks’ 2020 “Journey of a Black Girl” project featured multiple installations, including a clubhouse that worked as a pop-up gallery. Yuzly Mathurin painted a mural there depicting a little girl with Afro-puffs. 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Her installation of 15-foot fiber-art braids — 26 of them — were affixed to the bridge in a way that should have made them untouchable. One day she received a call that one braid was missing and that a young boy had been seen with it.","_id":"CG73NJLOJREX7OYDIE4G747KRY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627590260267,"type":"text","content":"She walked around the neighborhood to see if anyone knew anything. She came upon elders sitting and children playing outside a nearby apartment complex — like “Journey of a Black Girl” in living color. As she spoke to little girls doing hair, she explained who she was, told them what the art was about and talked with them about public art. 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The rainbow door (Door 2, Atlanta BeltLine, Old Fourth Ward) has been tagged over the years; in the past year, however, the tagging began to overwhelm it.","_id":"MKAJRJLFMRFXBNQLSUPVHXSNAI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627590260270,"type":"text","content":"Singer is less focused on those who’ve done the damage than on what changes she, other artists and the community can make to help taggers feel like their voices are heard. “How can we find folks who have a spray can, have something to say and give them a place to do it that doesn’t tear anyone else down?” she asked. In the past three months, she’s also noticed that people have visited Door 2 to spray in an arch that replaces the lost rainbow.","_id":"Q4QARS46DJCXFMV6KTBNGBYDTI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627590260271,"type":"text","content":"She wants to find more ways to engage young people, to talk about the story behind public art and how it’s brave to put your voice out there. When you’re young, you have no idea about permits or spaces to create freely. “There’s room that we can build respect here,” she said. “There’s room for all of us.”","_id":"A3UJLJKJXZAJNI4EJ4G2LP72W4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627590260272,"type":"text","content":"In an email statement, Camille Russell Love, executive director of the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs, said her office has a conservation and maintenance team that routinely addresses graffiti on its public art. “The nature of public art is that it is in the public space and while most enjoy and appreciate it, there is an element that does not understand the impact of their destructive acts. 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Cobb Galleria Centre, 2 Galleria Parkway, Atlanta. 1-800-285-6340. Southeasthomeschoolexpo.com.","_id":"JHKGJEK7XZBDTFQR6ZAFIK26FQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627643044152,"type":"text","content":"If you’re homeschooling or are considering this option, come to this two-day expo devoted to educational materials by Christian, secular and specialty publishers.","_id":"O2CUVRW5BBHBBDS5AM2ODCGIKA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627643044153,"type":"text","content":"Back-to-School Bash. 1 p.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, July 31. Free admission. Town Center at Cobb, 400 Ernest Barrett Parkway, Kennesaw. 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Paintingwithatwist.","_id":"ZJYE33VQNZFRDJH25PB44RYCI4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627643044173,"type":"text","content":"Choose a llama family picture to paint on a 16x20 canvas, which you can also get framed for an extra charge.","_id":"KM3GMKY6KNEITF2LSF7AV4EDVA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627643044174,"type":"text","content":"Opossum Breakfast. 8 a.m.-9 a.m. Friday, July 30. $20 per person, $10 for CNC members. Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Road, Roswell. 770-992-2055, ext. 237. Chattnaturecenter.org.","_id":"UZR4G4RIHZFGNAZPH4OG6BGWUE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627643044175,"type":"text","content":"Have a light breakfast alongside an opossum as staff members share how they care for these animals. 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