Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Photo by Rand Lines.
In last Tuesday’s (3/31) ArtsATL (Atlanta), Shane Harrison writes, “The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra announced its 2026-27 season today, and, after wrapping up the Beethoven Project in November 2025 … the orchestra is on to new German pastures…. On October 1 … Brahms takes center stage with the composer’s Symphony No. 1 and his sole Violin Concerto with soloist Johan Dalene. Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann will lead the orchestra … Brahms … weaves through the entire season as the ASO tackles all four symphonies, both of his piano concertos, the Double Concerto for violin and cello, the seven-movement choral masterwork Ein deutsches Requiem and the Academic Festival Overture…. The most striking thing about the ASO’s upcoming season is the sheer variety of the programming and a renewed sense of adventurousness. Music Director Laureate Robert Spano returns … with programs that include English composer Thomas Adès’ Inferno Suite … and the world premiere of Adam Schoenberg’s Concerto for Body…. Living composers [include] John Adams, Joan Tower, James MacMillan, Carlos Simon, Missy Mazzoli, Jasmine Barnes and Thea Musgrave … Simon and Barnes [have been] commissioned by the ASO for a celebration of Coretta Scott King … The ASO will offer two Wagner-heavy programs [and] a weekend devoted solely to Mozart.”
