Popular ASO guest Mr. McGegan, a master of Baroque sound, leads signature works from two great masters. Handel’s Water Music is one of the most beloved of all Baroque works, and Mendelssohn’s First Symphony, composed at the age of 15, is a dramatic and compelling revelation of a young genius.

October 16/18, 2008, 8pm (Th/Sat)
Friday Subscribers choose Thursday or Saturday

HANDEL: Zadok The Priest
HANDEL: Water Music Suite in F
MENDELSSOHN: Verleih’ uns Frieden
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 1

NICHOLAS MCGEGAN, conductor
ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHAMBER CHORUS

The celebrated American composer John Corigliano has written a percussion concerto that displays Evelyn Glennie’s astounding virtuosity. No exploration of music made in America would be complete without Dvorák’s monumental Ninth Symphony, inspired by his love of Native American and African-American melodies.

November 13/14, 2008, 8pm (Thursday/Friday)
November 16, 2008, 3pm (Sunday)
Saturday Subscribers attend Sunday

GERSHWIN: A Cuban Overture
CORIGLIANO: Percussion Concerto
DVORÁK: Symphony No. 9

DONALD RUNNICLES, conductor
EVELYN GLENNIE, percussion

An evening in Italy — Respighi’s Fountains and Pines of Rome are centerpieces of the repertoire, brilliantly exploring a vast range of orchestral color. Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto was inspired in Italy, and its opulent magic will be brought to life by the legendary Mr. Watts.

January 22/23/24, 2009, 8pm (Thursday/Friday/Saturday)

GABRIELI: Sonata pian e forte
RESPIGHI: Fountains and Pines of Rome
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2

ROBERT SPANO, conductor
ANDRÉ WATTS, piano

“Fearless soloist” (NY Times) Jennifer Koh makes an auspicious ASO debut in The Singing Rooms — an ASO co-commission with the Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras — by the homegrown Ms. Higdon, a prized member of the Atlanta School. Divine love flows from masters Wagner and Scriabin and former ASO composer-in-residence Singleton.

March 5/6/7, 2009, 8pm (Thursday/Friday/Saturday)

WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod
HIGDON: The Singing Rooms
SINGLETON: Praisemaker
SCRIABIN: The Poem of Ecstasy

ROBERT SPANO, conductor
JENNIFER KOH, violin

Donald Runnicles summons one of his most exalted muses. Mahler’s “Tragic” Sixth Symphony is an epic, inexorable journey from the grim, opening march to the final cry of despair. With its hammer blows of fate it is an awe-inspiring masterpiece of extremely personal inspiration.

April 23/24, 2009, 8pm (Thursday/Friday)
Saturday subscribers choose Thursday or Friday

MAHLER: Symphony No. 6

DONALD RUNNICLES, conductor

Join celebrated Tango dancer Rosa Collantes and her ensemble along with songstress Luciana Souza (celebrated for her part in the Golijov Pasion) for an evening of dance and song. From the Tangos of Argentina, the Bambucas if Colombia, the Marineras Trujillanas of Peru to the Sambas of Brazil Rosa,
her dancers and Luciana will transport us to the steamy nights of Buenos Aires, Bogota, Lima and Rio de Janeiro!

June 4/5/6, 2009, 8pm (Thursday/Friday/Saturday)

¡VIVA TANGO!
GINASTERA: Dances from Estancia
SORO: Tres Aires Chilenos
GALINDO: Sones de Mariachi

MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA, conductor
LUCIANA SOUZA, mezzo-soprano
ROSA COLLANTES AND COMPANY, dancers