AN EXCITING SEASON AWAITS Including Piano Sensation. Lang Lang. Renew Today! 2018/19 SEASON CLASSICAL SERIES. ROBERT SPANO Music Director

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1 AN EXCITING SEASON AWAITS Including Piano Sensation Lang Lang 2018/19 SEASON Renew Today! ROBERT SPANO Music Director

2 SURE TO SELL OUT ADD THESE SPECIALS TO YOUR SPECIAL EVENTS Year TWO of the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle with pianist Jonathan Biss JAN 23 Wed: 8pm Piano Sonatas Nos. 6, 18, 20 & 29 MAR 6 Wed: 8pm Piano Sonatas Nos. 11, 14, 24, 25 & 30 APR 17 Wed: 8pm Piano Sonatas Nos. 7, 16, 19, 27 & 28 MAY 22 Wed: 8pm Piano Sonatas Nos. 3, 10, 15 & 32 SUBSCRIBERS receive FIRST CHANCE to purchase limited, on-stage seating to this recital series $50 per recital, per seat. SEP 26 Wed: 8pm Lang Lang MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik MOZART: Symphony No. 40 MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24 Mei-Ann Chen, conductor Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Sunday 3-CONCERT SEP 23 Sun: 3pm RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 Kirill Gerstein, piano APR 14 Sun: 3pm BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 Thomas Søndergård, conductor Jessica Rivera, soprano Stephanie Lauricella, mezzo-soprano Thomas Cooley, tenor Daniel Moody, countertenor Andrea Mastroni, bass JUN 2 Sun: 3pm BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No. 3 BERNSTEIN: Halil BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral Donald Runnicles, conductor Christina Smith, flute aso.org/renew

3 Choose your series PREMIUM SEP 20/22 Thu/Sat: 8pm RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 Kirill Gerstein, piano NOV 8/10 Thu/Sat: 8pm ROSSINI: String Sonata No. 1 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8 BRAHMS: Violin Concerto Roberto Abbado, conductor Veronika Eberle, violin 1 6-CONCERT Family & Friends: Three programs from our beloved Music Director Robert Spano and one program each from guest conductors who are practically family, Roberto Abbado and Peter Oundjian. Plus, some sibling rivalry on the timpani! Woven in are perennial favorites: Tchaikovsky's Fifth, Strauss s Also sprach Zarathustra and Beethoven's Fifth. FEB 14/16 Thu/Sat: 8pm SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 1 RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 3 Stephen Mulligan, conductor Nikolai Lugansky, piano MAR 21/23 Thu/Sat: 8pm BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1 STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Peter Oundjian, conductor Benjamin Grosvenor, piano APR 4/6 Thu /Sat: 8pm MICHAEL GANDOLFI: Imaginary Numbers MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 25 BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra Jeremy Denk, piano Elizabeth Koch Tiscione, oboe Laura Ardan, clarinet Andrew Brady, bassoon Brice Andrus, horn MAY 9/11 Thu/Sat: 8pm RICHARD PRIOR: of shadow and light JAMES OLIVERIO: Double Timpani Concerto BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 Mark Yancich, timpani Paul Yancich, timpani KIRILL GERSTEIN Rachmaninov PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 NIKOLAI LUGANSKY Rachmaninov PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3 JEREMY DENK Mozart PIANO CONCERTO NO. 25 VERONIKA EBERLE Brahms VIOLIN CONCERTO Brahms PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 BENJAMIN GROSVENOR MARK & PAUL YANCICH Oliverio DOUBLE TIMPANI CONCERTO

4 OCT 11/13 Thu /Sat: 8pm BERLIOZ: Benvenuto Cellini Overture VIEUXTEMPS: Violin Concerto No. 5 RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloé Jun Märkl, conductor Giora Schmidt, violin NOV 15/17 Thu/Sat: 8pm RICHARD PRIOR: Symphony No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 Louis Lortie, piano GIORA SCHMIDT Vieuxtemps VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 5 LOUIS LORTIE Tchaikovsky PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 PREMIUM JAN 24/26 Thu/Sat: 8pm ALEX TURLEY: City of Ghosts JENNIFER HIGDON: Viola Concerto BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique Roberto Díaz, viola MAR 7/9 Thu /Sat: 8pm RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso LALO: Symphonie espagnole FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat (complete ballet) TBD, conductor David Coucheron, violin APR 11/13 Thu/Sat: 8pm BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 Thomas Søndergård, conductor Jessica Rivera, soprano Stephanie Lauricella, mezzo-soprano Thomas Cooley, tenor Daniel Moody, countertenor Andrea Mastroni, bass ROBERTO DÍAZ Beethoven SYMPHONY NO. 9 Higdon VIOLA CONCERTO ASO CHORUS Lalo SYMPHONIE ESPAGNOLE DONALD RUNNICLES DAVID COUCHERON Fabulous France MAY 23/25 Thu /Sat: 8pm MILHAUD: Le boeuf sur le toit CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne DEBUSSY (arr. Matthews): Préludes DEBUSSY: La mer Donald Runnicles, conductor Kim-Lillian Strebel, soprano 2 6-CONCERT Romantic Era s Greatest Hits: Passionate masterpieces from Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz and Debussy, and the defining work of the era, Beethoven s almighty Ninth. Runnicles invites us to France, the Grammy Awardwinning Viola Concerto by Atlanta School of Composers favorite Jennifer Higdon and our own David Coucheron dazzles with Symphonie espagnole.

5 This will be our reply...to make music more intensely, more beautifully Bernstein s timeless words echo in some of music's most eloquent responses to war in epic works of Britten, Shostakovich, Elgar and Bernstein. Plus not-to-bemissed classics: Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, Mozart s Jupiter and Beethoven s Pastoral. 3 6-CONCERT ASO CHORUS Britten WAR REQUIEM JOHANNES MOSER Bernstein THREE MEDITATIONS FROM MASS SHEKU KANNEH- MASON SIMON TRPČESKI Rachmaninov PIANO CONCERTO NO. 4 ROBERT SPANO Mozart "JUPITER" SYMPHONY CHRISTINA SMITH OCT 25/27 Thu/Sat: 8pm BRITTEN: War Requiem Donald Runnicles, conductor Evelina Dobračeva, soprano Thomas Cooley, tenor Russell Braun, baritone Gwinnett Young Singers NOV 29/DEC 1 Thu/Sat: 8pm RACHMANINOV: Isle of the Dead RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 4 RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Edward Gardner, conductor Simon Trpčeski, piano JAN 17/19 Thu /Sat: 8pm BERNSTEIN: Three Meditations from MASS SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7, Leningrad Johannes Moser, cello PREMIUM FEB 21/23 Thu/Sat: 8pm MOZART: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter VERDI: Four Sacred Pieces APR 25/27 Thu/Sat: 8pm SULLIVAN: Overture di Ballo ELGAR: Cello Concerto SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 2 Carlos Kalmar, conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello Elgar CELLO CONCERTO MAY 30/JUN 1 Thu/Sat: 8pm BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No. 3 BERNSTEIN: Halil BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral Donald Runnicles, conductor Christina Smith, flute Bernstein HALIL FREE Thursday pre-concert chamber recital featuring members of the ASO and special guests. Please note: There will be an upcharge for exchanges into PREMIUM concerts aso.org/renew

6 PREMIUM Flexible ticket exchanges (with 24-hour notice) YOUR seat for your favorite concerts Advance notice of select special programming NOV 1/3 Thu/Sat: 8pm MAHLER: Symphony No. 10 Donald Runnicles, conductor JAN 10/12 Thu/Sat: 8pm BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story BERNSTEIN: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs BERNSTEIN: Songs and Dances Christopher Allen, conductor Laura Ardan, clarinet Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano Joseph Lattanzi, baritone Pre-purchase valet parking 4 6-CONCERT REMEMBER THESE GREAT SUBSCRIBER Benefits Discounted prepaid parking in the Woodruff Arts Center garage 10% savings on any additional non-premium Delta Classical and Family concerts Free open rehearsals and Thursday concert previews Discounts at the Symphony Store, High Museum of Art and the Alliance Theatre Dream Collaborations: The Firebird (Stravinsky and Diaghilev); West Side Story (Bernstein, Sondheim, Robbins and Laurents) sometimes a musical meeting of the minds makes history. Three celebrated soloists bring us Beethoven s Triple, Runnicles channels Mahler and Spano caps off the season with Beethoven s only opera, Fidelio. MAR 2 Sat: 8pm Thu subscribers attend Sat RAVEL: Mother Goose (complete ballet) PAULUS/ROBERT ELHAI: Jump glo, moving artists MAR 28/29 Thu/Fri: 8pm Sat subscribers attend Fri BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture BEETHOVEN: "Triple Concerto" SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1, Spring Daniel Hope, violin David Finckel, cello Wu Han, piano DONALD RUNNICLES Mahler SYMPHONY NO. 10 Ravel MOTHER GOOSE All MAY 2/4 Thu/Sat: 8pm PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 4 RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite (1919) Lionel Bringuier, conductor Lise de la Salle, piano JUN 6/8 Thu/Sat: 8pm BEETHOVEN: Fidelio Christine Goerke/Leonore, soprano Joseph Kaiser/Florestan, tenor Nmon Ford/Pizarro, baritone Arthur Woodley/Rocco, bass Laura Tatulescu/Marzelline, soprano Miles Mykkanen/Jacquino, tenor Morris Robinson/Don Fernando, bass glo LISE DE LA SALLE Ravel PIANO CONCERTO Beethoven TRIPLE CONCERTO DAVID FINCKEL WU HAN DANIEL HOPE Beethoven FIDELIO MORRIS ROBINSON

7 COCA-COLA Holiday CONCERTS DEC 8/9 Sat: 3 & 8pm Sun: 3 & 8pm Christmas with the ASO Norman Mackenzie, conductor Morehouse College Glee Club Gwinnett Young Singers DEC 13 Thu: 8pm Handel s Messiah Norman Mackenzie, conductor ASO Chamber Chorus DEC 20/21 Thu/Fri: 8pm A Very Merry Holiday Stephen Mulligan, conductor CONCERTS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY The Coca-Cola Holiday Concerts are presented by Holiday concerts are made possible through an endowment from the Livingston Foundation in memory of Leslie Livingston Kellar. DEC 16 Sun: 1:30 & 3:30pm A Festive Family Holiday OCT 28 Sun: 1:30 & 3:30pm Halloween at Hogwarts Family 3-CONCERT Stephen Mulligan, conductor MAR 17 Sun: 1:30 & 3:30pm Magical Music Adventure featuring The Listener with the Magic Circle Mime Company ADD TO YOUR FAMILY NOV 25 Sun: 1:30 & 3:30pm DISNEY IN CONCERT: A Silly Symphony Celebration

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