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The Olympic Arts Festival:
One Fantastic Fortnight
JONATHAN GALAIF SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
W
hat do Travis Tritt, James
Brown, Wynton Marsalis,
the Jerusalem Symphony
Orchestra, Itzhak Perl-
man, the Royal Thai Ballet, play-
wright Alfred Uhry, photographer
Annie Leibovitz and artist Thorn-
ton Dial have in common?
They're all coming to Atlanta
during the 1996 Olympic Arts
Festival, a cultural and enter-
tainment extravaganza that
promises to be the most spectac-
ular, star-studded and wide-
reaching event the Southern city
has ever seen.
Undoubtedly, most people
know about the athletic competi-
tion of the Olympics. But few re-
alize the historical precedent for
cultural arts in conjunction with
the Games, which celebrate their
centennial this summer.
The French founder and spir-
itual father of the modem Games,
Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Cou-
bertin, had envisioned the revival
of the ancient Games to feature
athletic prowess "woven of art
and philosophy." The baron's
dream became reality when a
"Pentathlon of the Muses" was
presented at the 1912 Stockholm
Games.
Each Olympic host city choos-
es the scope of the cultural arts
festival. Montreal in 1976 and
Moscow in 1980 showcased only
native artists, while Mexico City
(1968), Munich (1972), Los An-
geles (1984) and Barcelona
(1992) featured international fes-
tivals.
Atlanta's festival is the largest
and most comprehensive scope
yet attempted by an Olympic city.
There will be 21 exhibitions
and 18 works of art, with more
than 3,000 performers at nearly
200 ticketed performances. Pro-
duced by the Atlanta Committee
for the Olympic Games' Cultural
Olympiad, most Olympic Arts
Festival events are taking place
now through August 4, but oth-
ers will continue long after the
Games end and the world has
gone home.
Live performances began
Wednesday, with more than 1
million tickets for sale. Prices
range from $5 for exhibitions to
$75 for some of the more popular
music concerts. Included in the
price of admission is transporta-
tion to the event, provided pri-
Something Jewish?
W
hat can the Atlanta Jewish community,
not to mention visiting Jewish tourists,
see in this myriad of artistic pleasures?
Jewish artists scheduled to perform dur-
ing the Olympic Arts festival include:
overture In Honor of 3,000.
• Violinist Itzhak Perlman will join the Gram-
my-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, di
rected by Yoel Levi, on July 20. Perlman will
also join fellow violinist Pinchers Zukerman and
several other world-class soloists for a celebra-
tion of chamber music July 22.
• Classical music puts you to sleep, you say? How
about some Jewish comedy? The theater per-
formance that has sold the most tickets thus
far is the Alliance Theatre Company's presen-
tation of Alfred Uhry's latest, The Last Night
of Ballyhoo. In this work commissioned by the
festival, Uhry, best known for his Driving Miss
Daisy, chronicles two college students of Ger-
man-Jewish descent in the late '30s just prior
to the Atlanta premiere of Gone With The Wind.
• The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra will cele-
brate the holy city's 3,000th anniversary with
a concert featuring pianist Yefim Bronfm.an on
July 30. The concert will include the United
States premiere of Menachem Weisenberg's
`a Although the Olympic Arts Festival per-
formances are sold out, Ballyhoo will have a
second run as part of the Alliance's 1996 fall
season. For ticket information, call (404) 733-
5000.