Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann opens her fourth season with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a concert of triumph and heroism with music by Copland and Strauss.

The first Delta Classical Series concert of the 2025-26 season open with Stutzmann conducting Copland’s iconic Fanfare for the Common Man – a piece abounding in grandeur and featured throughout cinema, sporting events and memorials.

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins the orchestra for Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto. Weilerstein has performed with the world’s top orchestras for decades and has been described by The New York Times as having "vibrato saturated with meaning, her lyricism slinking and menacingly enigmatic."

The concert finishes strong as Stutzmann summons orchestral muscle for Strauss’ heroic tone poem, Ein Heldenleben — a brilliantly orchestrated, theatrically conceived, and emotionally layered masterpiece that captures both the grandeur and complexity of a "hero's" journey.