“You don’t have to hear the Mozart, I’ll just tell you what it meant.”

Good stuff out of Emory….

Emory announced today that Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Spano will become a “distinguished artist in residence” at the university beginning next year, joining the likes of the Dalai Lama and Salmon Rushdie.

According to a press release from the university…

Maestro Spano will co-teach seminars, lecture and present programs on literature, philosophy, science and musicology for three weeks during each of the spring semesters of 2010–2012. The University-wide residency has the potential to enhance the educational experiences of Emory’s 12,500 students from the Emory College of Arts and Sciences and multidisciplinary graduate programs as well as the greater community.

His first project is entitled “Tonality and Sonata Form: Pythagorean Tuning, Numerology and Cosmology”, which will include three public lectures and performances by Spano in April 2010.

The full details of the public performances of this series can be found after the jump…

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In case you needed more proof that Atlanta is on the cutting edge of the “classical music” scene, ATLarts is reporting that ASO music director Robert Spano and Wynton Marsalis are in the midst of a collaboration on a symphonic piece that has been tentatively scheduled to premiere in Atlanta in July.

Oh man, I can feel the synergy!   (Says the ASOC member in full disclosure)