The wheel of fortune turns, raising some up, casting others down. But everyone was a winner Saturday evening at Hill Auditorium, where the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, directed by Arie Lipsky, made Carl Orff’s secular cantata “Carmina Burana” the centerpiece of its last concert of the season. Fickle fortune and ...
It’s not just the venue change—from the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s usual home, the Michigan Theater, to Hill Auditorium—that tells you that the grand finale of the orchestra’s 2011-2012 season is, well, grand. When you pick a monumental cantata, like Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana,” as the centerpiece of a program ...
AnnArbor.com and the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra are partnering to offer readers a chance to win free tickets to the A2SO's season-finale performance of "Carmina Burana" in historic Hill Auditorium.
From beginning to end, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s “Masterworks” concert Saturday night at the Michigan Theater was a stunner. That two local music heroes—a composer and a soloist—had key roles in the performance made its success all the sweeter. First on the program was acclaimed University of Michigan composer ...
For the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, March is a mad whirl. It brings a family concert, several youth concerts and a Saturday evening subscription concert, all in the space of a week. No complaints from orchestra or conductor, especially when the subscription concert, billed “Masterworks,” makes good on its title. ...
If you’re the birthday boy, and you’re Mozart, well, the party should be at least a little decorous. But the occasion also demands wit, as well as a dash of charm, perhaps, to season things just so. All those qualities (and chocolates, too) marked the festivities Saturday evening at the ...
You can never call the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra a fair-weather friend. Year in, year out, whether the Divine Mr. M —that’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—is turning 250 (one of those round-number anniversaries the world loves to celebrate) or 256, as he does this year, the orchestra sticks by him with ...
Two widely divergent works proved a successful pairing Saturday night, courtesy of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, playing at the Michigan Theater. The evening opened with Debussy’s impressionistic, three-part “La Mer,” which visited the moods of the sea from dawn to dusk. No Dramamine was needed to navigate these musical ...
It’s always fun to figure out the logic uniting certain pieces of music on a program. Sometimes it’s easy. A composer can be a unifier, the way Beethoven was last month for an Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra concert—a spectacular one—that brought together the “Fidelio Overture,” the Symphony No. 1 and ...
When you start off your season on a high note—as the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra did in September with a concert capped by a spectacular Shostakovich Symphony No. 5—the question is, what do you do to top it? The answer, in one word: Beethoven. That’s the card the A2SO played, ...
When Beethoven unveiled his first symphony, at a concert in Vienna in April of 1800, he was at the podium himself, for a program that also included his Septet and his Piano Concerto No. 2, as well as excerpts from Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” and a Mozart symphony. Says Arie ...
A new Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra fund-raiser aims to name a local celebrity to stand at the A2SO podium later this season as a special "guest conductor" chosen by members of the public. "Pursuit of the Podium: The Search for Ann Arbor’s Next Celebrity Conductor" will run throughout the season, ...
There are concerts so satisfying in their first halves that the music post-intermission seems superfluous. And there are concerts that don’t get going till, well, the encores. But opening its 2011-2012 season Saturday evening at the Michigan Theater, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director Arie ...
The main business of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra is music making, of course. But like any good symphony orchestra, it has many fortes. Among them is the orchestra’s keen sense of community and its dedication to fostering it —not just through educational programs, but through its selection of composers ...
The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra has announced it will hold auditions next month for several open positions.
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