The Granada Is Back

Just six weeks after its disastrous sprinkler mishap the venerable Granada Theatre was back to its sparkling self when the 27-time Grammy winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed as part of the CAMA Masterseries.

Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann, music director since 2022 and only the second woman in history to lead a major American orchestra, joined Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang – at 33 one of the youngest ever to win the Van Cliburn competition in 2009 – in playing a program featuring Beethoven, Dvořák, and Brahms.

Beethoven’s “‘Emperor’ Piano Concerto No. 5” kicked off the thoroughly intoxicating show with Dvořák’s “Symphony No.9, ‘From the New World’” concluding the concert with an encore of Brahms’ “Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor.”

A peach of a performance…