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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Live
Since its birth in the late 1930s, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has earned its place as one of the most renowned orchestras in the nation. With over 150 live shows annually, each performance delivers depth and mastery brought forth by the ASO's renowned Maestros and award-winning guest artists. The 2022-2023 season marks the 78th for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and guests can expect a historic and exciting year for classical music in Atlanta. In 2022, the Symphony welcomed its fifth-ever Music Director, Nathalie Stutzmann. Described as "a consummate rock star on the podium" by ArtsATL, Maestro Stutzmann is expected to usher in a new era of musical culture for the ASO and Atlanta as a whole. Stutzmann began her first season featuring 13 living composers, including Hilary Purrington, Tyshawn Sorey and Joel Thompson. In her first season, Stutzmann is also leading eight programs featuring the classical masters, including Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony," Brahms' "Third Symphony" and a two-week Bach celebration culminating in Bach's "St. Matthew Passion." For fans of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's returning and pop culture series, you won't want to miss highlights like the hit program Star Wars and More: The Music of John Williams or performances of Nobuo Uematsu's Final Fantasy soundtrack with a unique HD video multimedia experience.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Concert
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra was originally founded by Anne Grace O'Callaghan in 1939 as the In-and-About High School Atlanta Symphony. As Supervisor of Music for Atlanta high schools, O'Callaghan started the passion project by recruiting the best high school players across the region. By 1943, Chicago Conductor Henry Sopkin had joined the ranks to lead the young musicians. The talented group's performances quickly drew the interest of patrons and investors, and by 1945 the Atlanta Music Club had offered Sopkin an eight-month contract to develop the Atlanta Youth Symphony. Finally, in 1947, the Youth Symphony dropped the "Youth" moniker and played their first concert as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra -- the start of decades to come as a world-renowned institution of classical music. Since then, ASO has traveled nationwide and internationally, been hosted by U.S. Presidents and won 27 Grammy Awards as of 2022 in Best Classical Album, Best Orchestral Performance, Best Choral Performance, and Best Opera Performance categories.
The theme was perfect for young concert-goers and the music was wonderful. It might be nice to have more tables set up for kids to do the art activities, but they were fun as well.
ASO nailed Holst. Excellent performance by the symphony
Nice selection of music Comfortable seating Avery nice evening out
Our group was celebrating a birthday, and this venue was perfect! The music was amazing, the parking was handled very well, and the bathrooms were clean and well stocked.
Lovely evening, great weather, and amazing music, with baseball-ish food and drinks! It was different, in a good way. Friendly and beautiful. Many thanks for the invitation!
great music, perfect weather! My husband is handicapped any every staff member went out of his way to make the evening more enjoyable!
Beautiful renditions of interesting pieces and the sound amplification was perfect! Added to that was a beautiful evening with perfect weather making it just an all around wonderful event! So glad we went!
Great evening under the stars! The ASO did not disappoint.
We sat in the lawn area where the sound was poor. If the idea of such concerts is to attract audiences to the symphony hall, we should be able to hear the music clearly and have a chance to appreciate it. It's especially important for people sitting in the open where there are other distractions and kids chirping around. The sound needs to "envelop"us but not deafen us either. Secondly, the ASO can definitely make far better selections. Some pieces had very soft and slow movements which are not suitable for such a venue and especially, for non-serious audiences. The power, rhythms, and melodies of such music were not done justice in my opinion. Overall, it was unsatisfactory from a big music lover and a fan of the ASO. I carry a subscription and think the repertoire could be much much better for a general audience and for the express purpose of drawing not just more people to the ASO but more importantly, to introduce this music to younger audiences (aka future ASO subscribers). PS: The ASO repertoire has improved ten fold in the last 2 years. Kudos to the new maestro and the organizers!
The orchestra was superb and the pieces played very accessible to all listeners.