Monday, September 18, 2000
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Special concert marks debut of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra director Robert Spano
A special concert this week--not part of the regular season series--will mark the Athens debut of Robert Spano, the newly appointed Atlanta Symphony Orchestra music director. The concert will begin at 2 p.m. Sept. 24 in Hodgson Hall in the Performing Arts Center. It was originally scheduled for 3 p.m. but has been moved to an hour earlier so that guest pianist Emanuel Ax can fly to New York afterwards to perform later the same day in a Carnegie Hall tribute to renowned violinist Isaac Stern.
Spano was appointed music director of the Atlanta Symphony earlier this year, and he will conduct five weeks of ASO concerts this season, assuming full duties as music director in 2001. He is known for his wide knowledge of the classical repertoire and his imaginative programming.
He has been music director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic since 1996, and he has conducted nearly every major North American orchestra. He has also appeared with orchestras and opera companies throughout Europe and Asia, and he is also an accomplished pianist, performing chamber music with colleagues from the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, and Oberlin Conservatory.
Ax will join the orchestra for Brahms’s Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 83. The program for the afternoon also includes Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36, and Scheherazade, Op. 35.
Tickets for the concert are $45-$49 (half-price for students), and they are available at the box office in the Performing Arts Center (542-4400), open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and two hours before performances.
--Bobby Tyler
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