Make your home in Savannah for long enough and it’s almost frighteningly easy to wake up one morning and realize you have inadvertently come to take the inherent beauty of much of the city for granted.

One of the coolest “gets” by this year’s Savannah Music Festival must surely be Saturday night’s exceedingly rare chance to catch the genre-hopping master banjoist Béla Fleck joined by four of the most revered traditional African musicians alive today for an evening of multi-cultural string and percussion music.

ASO & The Marcus Roberts Trio  *** In one of the most curious (and curiously depressing) developments of this year’s SMF, this closing day performance by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Robert Spano has failed to generate the same level of interest and anticipation as the group’s two previous annual appearances at the Festival. Word on the street has it that this high-profile event (the only SMF show to take place ...

When most people think of a "composer," they think of a dead European dude with a powdered wig. Texas-born, Yale-educated, 41-year-old Christopher Theofanidis is none of those, but he is one of the most prolific young composers in America today.

To the best of my knowledge, Rob Gibson has never played a lick of music on any stage in Savannah. 

Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake 

It's the rare performer with equal appeal to adults as well as children, and Billy Jonas is one of them. His brand of "bangin' and sangin'" -- in which whimsical songs are sung to the accompaniment of found, nontraditional percussion instruments -- is guaranteed to keep the young ones interested and the adults' toes tapping.