Program Notes
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2025/26 Season Program Notes
Lang Lang Performs Beethoven (September 19, 2025)
Opening Weekend with Nathalie Stutzmann (October 3-5, 2025)
Stutzmann Conducts Bach + Grieg (October 9-10, 2025)
Celestial Illuminations featuring The Planets (October 23-25, 2025)
ASYO Overture Concert (November 8, 2028) [pdf]
Beethoven Project: First Piano Concerto (November 6-8, 2025)
Beethoven Project Finale: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (November 13-16, 2025)
Brahms with Stutzmann + Grimaud (November 20-21, 2025)
Sibelius + Khachaturian (December 4-6, 2025)
Handel's Messiah (December 18-19, 2025)
The Four Seasons (January 4-6, 2026)
Schubert's Great Symphony (January 15-16, 2026)
Ellington + Elgar's Enigma Variations (January 22-24, 2026)
America @ 250: Copland + Barber (January 29-31, 2026)
America @ 250: Bernstein's West Side Story (February 12-14, 2026)
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4 (February 19-21, 2026)
Sibelius Symphony No. 5 (February 26-28, 2026)
Stutzmann Conducts Bruckner + Beethoven (March 5-7, 2026)
Bach's Mass in B minor + ASO Chorus (March 12-15, 2026)
Pictures at an Exhibition (March 19-21, 2026)
Rachmaninoff's First Symphony (April 9-10, 2026)
Jordan Conducts Symphonie fantastique (April 16-18, 2026)
Alexandre Kantorow in Recital (April 19, 2026)
Flores Performs Márquez (April 23-25, 2026)
America @ 250: Spano Conducts Bernstein + Rachmaninoff (April 30 - May 2, 2026)
America @ 250: Spano Conducts Bernstein + Berlioz (May 7-9, 2026)
Mozart's Jupiter Symphony (May 14-15, 2026)
2024/25 Season Program Notes
Season Opener with Nathalie Stutzmann (Sept 19-21, 2024)
Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Mahler + Shostakovich (Sept 26-27, 2024)
ASYO Overture Concert (Nov 3, 2024) [pdf]
Haydn and Mendelssohn Symphonies (Oct 17-19, 2024)
Roderick Cox Conducts Barber + Rachmaninoff (Oct 24-26, 2024)
All Mozart with Stutzmann + Chorus (Nov 7-10, 2024)
Stutzmann Conducts Bruckner (Nov 14-16, 2024)
Haydn + Mozart + Walton (Nov 21-23, 2024)
Yo-Yo Ma + Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Dec 5, 2024)
Christmas with the ASO (Dec 12-15, 2024)
Handel's Messiah with the ASO (Dec 19, 2024)
Coucheron + The Four Seasons (Jan 10-12, 2025)
Rachmaninoff + Stravinsky (Jan 16-18, 2025)
Beethoven Project: Symphonies 1 + 3 (Jan 23-25, 2025)
Beethoven Project: Symphonies 2 + 5 (Jan 30-Feb 2, 2025)
ASYO Crescendo Concert (Feb 22, 2025) [pdf]
All Haydn with the ASO (Feb 20-22, 2025)
Beethoven Project: Symphonies 6 + 8 (Feb 27-Mar 1, 2025)
Beethoven Project: Symphonies 4 + 7 (Mar 6-9, 2025)
Robert Spano Conducts Copland (Mar 20-22, 2025)
Spano Conducts Scheherazade (Mar 27-29, 2025)
Beethoven Project: Stutzmann Conducts Triple Concerto (Apr 3-4, 2025)
Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Tchaikovsky + Ravel (Apr 10-12, 2025)
Sibelius Violin Concerto (Apr 24-26, 2025)
ASYO Finale Concert (Apr 27, 2025) [pdf]
Italian Holiday with the ASO (May 1-3, 2025)
Beethoven Project: Missa solemnis (May 8-11, 2025)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (May 15-17, 2025)
2023/24 Season Program Notes
Opening Weekend: Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Tchaikovsky (Oct 5-7, 2023)
Folk Tales, Ragas and Lost Love (Oct 19-21, 2023)
Joshua Bell Masters the Elements (Oct 25, 2023)
Nathalie Stutzmann + Songs of Destiny (Nov 2-4, 2023)
ASYO Overture Concert (Nov 5, 2023) [pdf]
Nathalie Stutzmann + Dvořák New World Symphony (Nov 9-11, 2023)
Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 (Nov 16-19, 2023)
John Williams + The Five Sacred Trees (Nov 30-Dec 2, 2023)
Stutzmann Conducts Verdi Requiem (Feb 22-25, 2024)
Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra Crescendo Concert (Mar 10, 2024)
Stutzmann Conducts Mozart + Brahms (Apr 4-5, 2024)
Nathalie Stutzmann + Renée Fleming (Apr 11-13, 2024)
Stutzmann Conducts Pires + Beethoven (Apr 18-20, 2024)
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (Apr 25-26, 2024)
Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra 50th Anniversary Celebration (May 11, 2024)
Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony (May 2-4, 2024)
Robert Spano + Garrick Ohlsson (May 9-11, 2024)
Robert Spano + Rite of Spring (May 16-18, 2024)
Trifonov Performs Brahms (May 30-June 1, 2024)
Nathalie Stutzmann + The Ring Without Words (June 6-8, 2024)
2022/23 Season Program Notes
Opening Weekend with Emanuel Ax (Sept 22-24, 2022)
Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Oct 6-9, 2022)
Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Lush Romantics (Oct 14-15, 2022)
Violin Superstar Gil Shaham (Nov 10-12, 2022)
Inon Barnatan Plays Rachmaninov (Nov 17-19, 2022)
Pianist Awadagin Pratt Returns (Mar 2-4, 2023)
Sax + Sibelius (Mar 16-18, 2023)
Nathalie Stutzmann, Bach & Friends (Mar 23-25, 2023)
ASYO Crescendo Concert (Mar 25, 2023)
ASYO Finale Concert (May 7, 2023)
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 3 + Violinist Leila Josefowicz (June 8-10, 2023)
Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Beethoven & Boléro (June 15-18, 2023)
2021/22 Season Program Notes
Opening Weekend: Beethoven's Fifth (Sept 9-11, 2021)
Violinist Stefan Jackiw Returns (Sept 17-18, 2021)
Haydn, Brahms and Vanhal (Sept 23-25, 2021)
Stutzmann Conducts Tchaikovsky's Fifth (Oct 13-14, 2021)
Midori Plays Tchaikovsky (Oct 21-24, 2021)
Alisa Weilerstein Returns (Nov 4-6, 2021)
Spano Conducts Copland (Nov 18-20, 2021)
Everything Lasts Forever (Nov 19, 2021)
Donald Runnicles Conducts Brahms and Strauss (Dec 2-4, 2021)
Hansel And Gretel in Concert (Dec 5-8, 2021)
Christmas with the ASO (Dec 9-11, 2021)
Handel's Messiah (Dec 17-18, 2021)
Ksenija Sidorova Performs Piazzolla (Feb 3-5, 2022)
Triple Threat Dmitry Sinkovsky (Feb 10-13, 2022)
Zhenwei Shi: Walton's Viola Concerto (Feb 24-26, 2022)
Michelle Cann Plays Florence Price (Mar 3-5, 2022)
Stutzmann and the ASO Chorus (Mar 17-20, 2022)
Xavier Foley's Double Bass Concerto (Mar 24-26, 2022)
Scheherazade & Mandolinist Avi Avital Returns (Mar 31-Apr 2, 2022)
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Dvořák (Apr 13, 2022)
Bruch and Beethoven (Apr 21-23, 2022)
Debussy and Duruflé (Apr 28-30, 2022)
Rainer Eudeikis Plays Shostakovich (May 12-14, 2022)
Voices of Verdi (May 19-20, 2022)
Itzhak Perlman Returns (May 21, 2022)
Elizabeth Koch Tiscione: Marcello Concerto (May 26-28, 2022)
2020/21 Season Program Notes
Gil Shaham Plays Beethoven (Oct. 1, 2020)
Mozart and More (Oct. 15, 2020)
Principal Cello Rainer Eudeikis Performs Haydn (Oct. 22, 2020)
Principal Bassoon Andrew Brady Performs Hertel (Nov. 12, 2020)
Double-Bassist Xavier Foley Joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Nov. 19, 2020)
Robert Spano Conducts Ravel (Dec. 3, 2020)
Wagner and Beethoven (Dec. 10, 2020)
Tyshawn Sorey's For Roscoe Mitchell (Jan. 14, 2021)
Bruch's Irresistible Violin Concerto (Jan 28, 2021)
Mozart and the Violin (Feb. 18, 2021)
Sir Donald Runnicles Conducts Wagner (Apr. 1, 2021)
Beethoven and Mozart (April 8, 2021)
Chopin and Shostakovich (April 22, 2021)
Mendelssohn and Schubert (May 13, 2021)
Violin Powerhouse Augustin Hadelich (May 20, 2021)
Gaffigan Conducts Dvořák (May 27, 2021)