EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re looking back on 2024 with reprints of some of the best stories of the year. In this review, “Stutzmann conducts ASO in a unique interpretation of Bruckner,” Pierre Ruhe combined the history of the composer’s work with conductor Nathalie Stutzmann’s approach to the works and a poetic description of the performance, revealing…
We were treated to Anton Bruckner in all his originality and splendor — while it lasted. This weekend and next, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann are offering a rarity: a two-program festival under the rubric Bruckner@200: Architect of the Spirit. Each show holds a cathedral-sized symphony: Thursday evening, January 18, we…
THEATER Snowgirls: The Musical concludes at Out Front Theatre this Sunday. Based on the 1995 cult film Showgirls, this North Pole adaptation stars Anna Holland as a reindeer and features costumes by Eric Griffis and music by David Cerda. ArtsATL writer Benjamin Carr interviewed director Paul Conroy and discovered how much research the cast and crew did to bring this…
In the symphony of life, J. Wayne Baughman played many roles — conductor, music director, singer, teacher, community activist, counselor, father, friend. On November 9, at the age of 77, he found his peaceful finale after a brief yet courageous encounter with pancreatic cancer. Those who knew him remember not only his exceptional musical brilliance…
Johannes Brahms’ four symphonies, broad-shouldered and public-pleasing, can feel ubiquitous in the concert hall. Yet the composer’s deepest thoughts and most tender emotions lay in his writing for voice, his settings of poetry to music. And it’s where the composer devoted much of his energy: When you line up his complete scores on a shelf,…
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus convened Thursday evening at Symphony Hall for a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sprawling epic St. Matthew Passion. It was a consistently sublime effort under the baton of Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann, even if the three-hour run time did noticeably strain the attention span of some of the audience….
The thing about hearing Donald Runnicles conduct the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Johannes Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem — at least for local audiences — is that we don’t measure these forces against some venerable European ensemble with a 19th-century connection that goes back to the composer himself. No, we consider the ASO and…
MUSIC The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra brings back one of its signature works Thursday and Saturday to Symphony Hall: Brahms’ A German Requiem. The piece’s history in Atlanta goes back to famed Music Director Robert Shaw, and the orchestra and chorus performed the work at Carnegie Hall and recorded an acclaimed album. Principal Guest Conductor Donald…
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…
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…
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