ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will hold an appreciation ceremony for more than 180 Atlanta-area music teachers Friday evening.

The teachers will be recognized at 7 p.m. by ASO president Stanley Romanstein. Afterward, the instructors will attend the evening's concert featuring the music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov and Mussorgsky.

ASO cellist Joel Dallow will also receive a special award from Romanstein for his arts education advocacy work throughout Georgia.

Both the 8 p.m. concert and the preceding reception will take place at the Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree Street NE, Midtown.

ATLANTA -- Renee Lewis Glover, CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority, will leave the organization after 17 years at the helm.

According to a statement from the AHA, "the new board members appointed by Mayor Kasim Reed have made it clear that they would like to have change in leadership at the AHA, which is fully within the prerogative of the mayor and the board."

Glover and members of the board have been working "cooperatively' to come up with "mutually acceptable terms of separation and an orderly transition," the statement said.

Since Reed became Atlanta's mayor in January 2010, he began appointing board members who regularly challenged Glover's leadership and her policies in running the organization.

Before Reed was elected in November 2009, the AHA board had signed a five-year contract with Glover.

Atlanta, GA --  Award-winning storyteller and the author of numerous bestselling books for children, Carmen Agra Deedy will come to nine of our libraries this July!

Born in Havana, Cuba in 1960, she emigrated from her homeland during the Cuban Revolution to Decatur, Georgia.

Deedy’s books include Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, The Library Dragon, 14 Cows for America, The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark, and many more.

Tuesday, July 26. 11:00 a.m., Hapeville Branch, 525 King Arnold Street, Hapeville 30354

Seating is limited and reservations are required at some locations.  For information call 404.730.1845