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 September
19/20/21, 2002 @ 8pm
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet
BARBER: Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4
Robert Spano, conductor
Midori, violin
ASO Music
Director Robert Spano opens the 2002-03 season with Tchaikovsky's
impassioned Symphony No. 4. Look for a profound, imaginative
Barber from the exquisite Midori, "a genius, pure and
simple" (Washington Post), and revel in the universally
loved Romeo and Juliet. The ASO's Opening Week.
 October
10/11/12, 2002 @ 8pm
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 22, K482
BUSONI: Berceuse élégiaque
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"
Roberto Abbado, conductor
Piotr Anderszewski, piano
The Abbado-ASO
relationship is a special one. A regular guest of the Orchestra,
Mr. Abbado has a "gently incandescent touch" (Boston
Herald), which ensures an exhilarating interpretation of Mendelssohn's
delicately shaded scenes from his travels in Scotland. Mozart's
radiant piano concerto shimmers in the hands of Mr. Anderszewski,
a young Polish virtuoso.
January
9/10/11, 2003 @ 8pm
DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un
faune
PUCCINI: La Bohème - finale of Act I and complete Act
III
DEBUSSY: La Mer
Robert Spano, conductor
Mr. Spano
and the ASO at peak performance in two pillars of French music
underscores a correlating High Museum exhibit on Paris: the
complete Act III and a huge portion of Act I of Puccini's
immortal Bohéme; and Debussy's set of sweeping tone
pictures, La Mer. An ASO-High Museum Creative Partnership
Week.
 March
6/7/8, 2003 @ 8pm
MOZART: Masonic Funeral Music, K477
MOZART: Symphony No. 38, K504 "Prague"
BEETHOVEN: Mass in C
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus
A fine
opportunity to experience Alan Gilbert's "assurance,
taste and acumen" (Los Angeles Times). Beethoven's rarely
heard masterpiece, the Mass in C Major, is a revelation captured
live by the unparalleled ASO Chorus. Mozart's majestic "Prague"
Symphony is undeniably captivating.
 April
10/11/12, 2003 @ 8pm
RAVEL: Ma mère l'oye
DEL TREDICI: Interlude and "Ecstatic Alice" from
Child Alice
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 3
Robert Spano, conductor
Lisa Saffer, soprano
Louis Lortie, piano
A triple
delight: The story of Ravel's Mother Goose, accompanied by
an ASO commissioned video artist's installation for the work;
Pulitzer Prize- winner Del Tredici provides a fantastical
picture of Alice in Wonderland; and the ASO's Rachmaninov
cycle concludes with what is arguably his grandest piano concerto,
performed by Louis Lortie, one of today's most stylish keyboard
players.
 May
1/2/3, 2003 @ 8pm
DUTILLEUX: The Shadows of Time
RAVEL: Shéhérazade
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5
Donald Runnicles, conductor
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
A fascinating
study of contrasts. Ms. Graham, one of our leading mezzos,
embracing Ravel's sensuous song cycle, Shéhérazade,
and the fateful fortitude of the famous Beethoven 5th.
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