The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has unveiled its 2019–20 season, which will celebrate the orchestra’s 75th year and music director Robert Spano’s and principal guest conductor Donald Runnicles’ 19th season as artistic partners. The season will feature 16 ASO premieres and two world premieres by Richard Prior and Brian Nabors. The ASO’s classical subscriptions have tripled…
Since 2006, Evans Mirageas has been involved in artistic planning for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, later ascending into the role as vice president of artistic planning in 2012. The role includes assisting music director Robert Spano and principal guest conductor Donald Runnicles in all creative aspects of the orchestra’s season planning and helping identify the roster…
The history of music and art has left us with a lot of examples of unfinished business — great masterpieces that, for whatever reasons, never got completed, often due to the demise of the artist or the subject of their art. Sometimes the idea of completing such a work is abandoned, and sometimes it can…
The roofless ruins of the old St. Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry, England, serve as a reminder of both the devastation of war and the will of humans to persist, survive and ultimately grow and flourish in its wake. Constructed during the late 14th and early 15th centuries, St. Michael’s Church became one of the largest…
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will conclude its two-year celebration of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Leonard Bernstein and mark the centennial of the end of World War I in the upcoming 2018–19 season. The orchestra will also record an album commissioned by the ASO. The upcoming season, announced today by the ASO, will…
Looking back on 2017, the richness and continued potential of Atlanta’s diverse musical offerings shone well throughout the year. For the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, 2017 was marked by growing optimism about the orchestra’s future among musicians, patrons and audience. The orchestra added significantly to its roster in 2017, allowing the orchestra’s ranks to begin a…
On Thursday evening at Symphony Hall the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus performed Giuseppe Verdi’s monumental “Messa da Requiem,” led by ASO principal guest conductor Donald Runnicles and featuring four guest vocal soloists: soprano Erin Wall, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, tenor Dimitri Pittas and bass Peter Rose. The program will be repeated Saturday at Symphony Hall….
On Thursday evening at Symphony Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, led by principal guest conductor Donald Runnicles, performed an all-French program of music by Debussy, Jolivet and Fauré. Featured soloists for the evening were ASO principal flute Christina Smith, soprano Kim-Lillian Strebel and baritone Matthew Worth. The program will be repeated Saturday night at…
Calendar editor Andrew Alexander presents his weekly list of artistic highlights happening around Atlanta.
On Thursday evening at Symphony Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus performed a concert of music by Anton Bruckner, led by ASO principal guest conductor Donald Runnicles, with soprano Melody Moore, mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, tenor Nicky Spence and bass Raymond Aceto as vocal soloists. The concert will be repeated Saturday evening at Symphony Hall….
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