Nathalie Stutzmann launched her tenure as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s new music director — a remarkable achievement on many levels — in an unexpectedly humble way: she got straight to work. Perhaps fitting for a star contralto-turned-conductor, Stutzmann’s inaugural program, Thursday in Symphony Hall, was as much about singing as about the symphony orchestra. As…
Violinist Joshua Bell’s recital Friday evening, opening Spivey Hall’s 32nd season, was like rummaging through a time capsule. It’s a curious sensation, hearing the ever-brilliant Bell as he applies his aristocratic style, as if from a bygone era, to beloved classics — two from the early 19th century, two from the early 20th. Peter Dugan,…
It’s opening night at the new Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! The start of the 78th season, with a new music director, epic repertoire, a new artistic agenda! Champagne, ball gowns and tuxedos, long-winded speeches — no one knows how to party like the ATL! Except that all starts in two weeks. Nathalie Stutzmann takes the podium…
The medieval pilgrimage known as the Camino de Santiago, the Way of St. James, has inspired a millennium of music and culture. Among the most recent is British composer Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles, an hour-long choral work which premiered in 2005. The outstanding professional chamber choir Kinnara, based in Atlanta and led by J.D. Burnett,…
Two dads — strong-willed men who have become powerless in their own lives — seek to control their daughters’ actions and love affairs. Success would mean the fathers’ own fortunes are reversed; failure would result, of course, in their daughters’ deaths. (In both stories, there are no mothers to counsel these vulnerable young women.) Thursday…
It’s easy to get hooked on Anna Clyne’s music. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is now on that satisfying path. The British composer, still young at 42, has written several small masterpieces that are being performed widely, including a moody, emotion-charged concerto for two violins called “Prince of Clouds” and an intense, understated, sorrowful memorial for…
An unnamed member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus tested positive for Covid Thursday morning, and reportedly sat out the performance. Pandemic? Endemic? No big deal? The ASO has canceled a lot of events during our endless global health crisis but, for now, the show will go on. Despite the risks of high-velocity spittle and…
In recent months, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has presented more than a few concerts that felt like special events, of dazzling new soloists and world premieres and epic rarities in the concert hall. Thursday’s show in Symphony Hall was normal in the extreme: familiar faces, standard repertoire, everything played nicely within the ASO’s comfort zone….
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra celebrated Georgia talent Thursday evening, with two rising stars running the show. For both musicians, the ASO left a lasting imprint and, to a varying degree, helped shape their music and their careers. One brought his specialty pieces, the sort of music that makes a great first impression. The other brought…
With orchestras and opera companies around the world protesting Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, it was time for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to add its own voice. An insert in Thursday’s program printed the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag, with the words to the long-besieged country’s national anthem, “Ukraine’s Glory Has Not…
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