Schedule | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Opening Night: Midori Plays Beethoven

Classical

Robert Spano opens his 12th — and the Orchestra’s 68th — season with twin peaks of the repertoire: Beethoven’s grand and poetic Violin Concerto, with the luminous Midori; and Tchaikovsky’s fateful 4th. Read More

Ticket Prices: $32 – $84

Performance dates

Thursday, October 4, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 6, 2012 8:00 pm
Sunday, October 7, 2012 3:00 pm

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ADL Presents Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin

Specials

Hear the riveting story of courageous Jewish prisoners in World War II’s Theresienstadt concentration camp who learned Verdi’s Requiem Mass and performed the compelling work 16 times, answering the worst of mankind with the best of mankind. Read More

Ticket Prices: $55 – $100

Performance date

Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:00 pm

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Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel

Pops

The acclaimed national touring duo of AJ Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle bring their heartfelt interpretations of Simon and Garfunkel to the orchestra stage for the first time! Hear “America,” ”Mrs. Robinson,” and more in this major premiere.

Ticket Prices: $24 – $60

Performance dates

Friday, October 12, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:00 pm

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Carnegie Bound

Classical

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Be at Atlanta Symphony Hall for a Spano/Orchestra/Chorus spectacular that plays Carnegie a week later. Read More

Ticket Prices: $23 – $67

Performance dates

Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, October 20, 2012 8:00 pm

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Casino Night

Specials

Step back in time to the underground gambling rings of the prohibition era with Bravo!, the Atlanta Symphony's young professionals group at this year's 3rd annual Casino Night. Read More

$75 – $95

Performance date

Friday, October 19, 2012 8:00 pm

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Halloween on Hogwarts

Family

Wholly Harry, wholly entertaining! Led by a wise old wizard with a bedazzling assortment of tricks up his sleeve, the Orchestra performs selections from the Harry Potter films. Read More

Ticket Prices: $15 – $20

Performance dates

Sunday, October 21, 2012 1:30 pm
Sunday, October 21, 2012 3:30 pm

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An Evening with John Williams & Steven Spielberg

Specials

Two icons of the arts come together for the concert event of the year. Join John Williams and Steven Spielberg as they celebrate in words and music the legendary composer’s 80th birthday earlier this year. Read More

Ticket Prices: $30 - $125

Performance date

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 8:00 pm

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Mary Mary

Specials

Can’t wait for the Orchestra’s Gospel Christmas? Double your inspiration with Erica and Tina Campbell, the luminous sister vocalists of Mary Mary, whose three Grammys and raise-the-roof hits “God in Me,” “Shackles (Praise You)” bear witness to their popularity. Read More

Tickets on sale 10am on 9/07
Ticket Prices: $29 – $100

Performance date

Friday, October 26, 2012 8:00 pm

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Mozart, Meistersinger Suite

Classical

If life without Mozart is empty, then the master’s sprightly Rondo and haunting Concerto, with Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear, will fill the soul. Israeli conductor Asher Fisch leads Strauss’s ode to death’s sweet release and the Suite from Wagner’s comic masterpiece. Read More

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, November 1, 2012 8:00 pm
Friday, November 2, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 3, 2012 8:00 pm

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Firebird, A Mozartian Debut

Classical

Debuts that will have you talking: heralded composer Matthias Pintscher leads Stravinsky’s incendiary Firebird Suite, Ravel’s multi-colored “Spanish Rhapsody” and his own mythic ode. Karen Gomyo performs Mozart’s crowning work for violin. Read More

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, November 8, 2012 8:00 pm
Friday, November 9, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 10, 2012 8:00 pm

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Youth Orchestra - Overture

ASYO

Ticket Prices: $10

Performance date

Sunday, November 11, 2012 3:00 pm

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An Evening with Melissa Etheridge

ASO Presents

Tickets on sale 9/24
Ticket Prices: $37.50 – $102.50

Performance date

Monday, November 12, 2012 8:00 pm

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Beethoven's 5th, Sibelius's Tapiola

Classical

Music Director Robert Spano articulates Sibelius’s revered tone poem Tapiola. Premiere soprano Jessica Rivera shines in songs by Romantic masters, and we close with the most renowned and beloved of all symphonies, Beethoven’s 5th. Read More

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:00 pm
Friday, November 16, 2012 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 18, 2012 3:00 pm

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Lang Lang

Specials

Ticket Prices: $35 – $90

Performance date

Saturday, November 17, 2012 8:00 pm

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Pirates of the Caribbean

Pops

Shiver me timbers, it’s the first film of the swashbuckling film series, featuring Capt. Jack and a motley crew of marauders in all their glory on the big screen! Read More

Ticket Prices: $29 – $65

Performance dates

Friday, November 23, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 24, 2012 8:00 pm

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Jackie Evancho and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Specials

Jackie Evancho applies her brilliant voice and extraordinary artistry to an entirely new set of classics with the release of Songs From the Silver Screen, her newest collection for Columbia/Syco Records. Read More

Tickets on sale after 10 AM on 9/10
Ticket Prices: $39 – $125

Performance date

Sunday, November 25, 2012 7:30 pm

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Stellar Ax

Classical

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, November 29, 2012 8:00 pm
Friday, November 30, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 1, 2012 8:00 pm

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TDP Fall Musicale

Talent Development Program

FREE EVENT: Student musicians of the acclaimed Talent Development Program perform at the Fall Musicale, which also kicks off annual fundraising for the coveted Azira G. Hill Scholarship. Read More

FREE with Ticket

Performance date

Sunday, December 2, 2012 7:00 pm

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Christmas with the ASO

Holiday

Ticket Prices: $29 – $60

Performance dates

Thursday, December 6, 2012 8:00 pm
Friday, December 7, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 8, 2012 2:00 pm
Saturday, December 8, 2012 8:00 pm

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ASO Kid's Christmas

Holiday

Ticket Prices: $15 – $22

Performance dates

Sunday, December 9, 2012 1:30 pm
Sunday, December 9, 2012 3:30 pm
Sunday, December 16, 2012 1:30 pm
Sunday, December 16, 2012 3:30 pm

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Handel: Messiah

Holiday

Ticket Prices: $30 – $60

Performance dates

Thursday, December 13, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 15, 2012 8:00 pm

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ASO Gospel Christmas

Holiday

Ticket Prices: $18 – $45

Performance dates

Friday, December 14, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:00 pm

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A Very Merry Holiday Pops

Holiday

Ticket Prices: $22 – $60

Performance dates

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:00 pm
Friday, December 21, 2012 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 22, 2012 2:00 pm
Saturday, December 22, 2012 8:00 pm

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Celtic Woman: A Christmas Celebration - The Symphony Tour

Specials

Ticket Prices: $35 - $100

Performance date

Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:00 pm

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New Year's Eve

Pops

Ticket Prices: $31 – $69

Performance date

Monday, December 31, 2012 8:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:00 pm

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World Premiere!

Classical

Ticket Prices: $23 – $67

Performance dates

Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:00 pm
Friday, January 11, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, January 12, 2013 8:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:00 pm

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Gluzman's Bruch and the "Scottish"

Classical

Pleasures abound: Weber’s sparkling Overture; Vadim Gluzman’s rendering of the Bruch Violin Concerto that BBC Music hailed as comparable to Heifetz; and Mendelssohn’s famed “Scottish,” which reveals his multi-faceted and sophisticated personality. Read More

Ticket Prices: $23 – $67

Performance dates

Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:00 pm

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One To Watch!

Classical

Vilde Frang, a Norwegian violinist on the ascendant, makes her ASO debut with Mozart's "Turkish" Violin Concerto No. 5. The assured Gilbert Varga returns with Schumann’s renowned homage to a fabled cathedral and life along the Rhine. Read More

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 2, 2013 8:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, February 7, 2013 7:00 pm

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Milos/Tchaikovsky "Love"

Classical

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, February 7, 2013 8:00 pm
Friday, February 8, 2013 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 10, 2013 3:00 pm

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Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis

Specials

One night only! Trumpeter-composer-bandleader Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra return to Atlanta Symphony Hall to perform memorable jazz tunes and swingin' new favorites. Read More

Ticket Prices: $30 – $90

Performance date

Saturday, February 9, 2013 8:00 pm

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Jim Brickman, An Evening of Romance

Specials

Two-time Grammy-nominated, Platinum-selling pianist and songwriter Jim Brickman brings his entertaining and romantic music to Atlanta Symphony Hall for Valentine’s Day! Read More

Ticket Prices: $25 – $90

Performance date

Thursday, February 14, 2013 8:00 pm

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Viva Italia

Pops

Ticket Prices: $24 – $60

Performance dates

Friday, February 15, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 16, 2013 8:00 pm

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Charlotte and the Music Maker

Family

Gleeful entertainment for everyone! Charlotte enters the thrilling world of the orchestra and the exciting sound and colors of its instruments, accompanied by a stunning original score. Read More

Ticket Prices: $15 – $20

Performance dates

Sunday, February 17, 2013 1:30 pm
Sunday, February 17, 2013 3:30 pm

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Pre-concert Chamber Recital

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, February 21, 2013 6:45 pm

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Spano Leads Brahms, Mustonen Plays Respighi!

Classical

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:00 pm
Friday, February 22, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 23, 2013 8:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:00 pm

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Spano Conducts Bach's Mass

Classical

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:00 pm
Friday, March 1, 2013 8:00 pm

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Steve Martin Performs at Symphony Gala

Specials

Steve Martin, America’s leading funnyman and a Grammy-winning banjo picker, performs with the Steep Canyon Rangers bluegrass band and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Atlanta Symphony Hall for the annual Symphony Gala for one night only. Read More

Tickets On Sale 10/23 at 10am
Ticket Prices: $45 – $120

Performance date

Saturday, March 2, 2013 7:30 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, March 7, 2013 7:00 pm

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Coucheron Performs Mendelssohn

Classical

Ticket Prices: $23 – $67

Performance dates

Thursday, March 7, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 9, 2013 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 10, 2013 3:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:00 pm

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Beethoven's "Pastorale"

Classical

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:00 pm
Friday, March 15, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 16, 2013 8:00 pm

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Youth Orchestra - Crescendo

ASYO

Ticket Prices: $10

Performance date

Sunday, March 17, 2013 3:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Recital

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:45 pm

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Russian Stalwarts

Classical

Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin (“potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century” - London Telegraph) debuts in Tchaikovsky’s immortal Concerto. Michael Morgan, path-breaking Music Director of the Oakland Symphony, brings a particular love for Shostakovich’s 6th Symphony — one of his most personal and poignant statements. Read More

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:00 pm
Friday, March 29, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 30, 2013 8:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, April 4, 2013 7:00 pm

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"A King Remembrance"

Classical

In these concerts, dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jazz pianist Marcus Roberts premieres his latest piano concerto Spirit of the Blues: Piano Concerto in C minor. Also receiving its world premiere is Everything Lasts Forever, a new work by composer and ASO bassist Michael Kurth.

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, April 4, 2013 8:00 pm
Friday, April 5, 2013 8:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:00 pm

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Weilerstein Performs Shostakovich

Classical

Ticket Prices: $23 – $67

Performance dates

Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:00 pm
Friday, April 12, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 13, 2013 8:00 pm

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Mother Goose

Family

Ticket Prices: $15 – $20

Performance dates

Sunday, April 14, 2013 1:30 pm
Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:30 pm

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Sixties Hits with THE MIDTOWN MEN

Pops

Ticket Prices: $24 – $60

Performance dates

Friday, April 19, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:00 pm

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TDP Annual Recital #1

Talent Development Program

FREE EVENT: Spring recitals feature every program participant; dual purpose - juried performance & recruitment. Read More

FREE

Performance date

Sunday, April 21, 2013 4:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, April 25, 2013 7:00 pm

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Perlman Commands

Classical

Ticket Prices: $32 – $84

Performance dates

Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 27, 2013 8:00 pm
Sunday, April 28, 2013 3:00 pm

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Voices Teen Showcase

Specials

The most talented teens in Atlanta come together for a one-night only show.

Ticket Prices: Free (General Admission)

Performance date

Friday, April 26, 2013 7:00 pm

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Talent Development Program Spring Recital

Talent Development Program

FREE EVENT: Some of the region’s top music students perform challenging solo and concerto selections. Read More

FREE

Performance date

Saturday, April 27, 2013 4:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:00 pm

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Barnatan Plays Beethoven

Classical

In his ASO debut, extraordinary pianist Inon Barnatan (“a pianist of uncommon sensitivity” –The New Yorker) graces Beethoven’s divine Fourth Concerto. To declare his joy in marrying the love of his life, Schumann wrote his ecstatic First Symphony. Read More

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, May 2, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, May 4, 2013 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 5, 2013 3:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, May 9, 2013 7:00 pm

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Robert Spano

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Runnicles & Spano Share the Spotlight

Classical

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, May 9, 2013 8:00 pm
Friday, May 10, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, May 11, 2013 8:00 pm

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Youth Orchestra - Finale

ASYO

Come catch a glimpse of the future of orchestral music as defined by a collection of the region’s top young musicians. Featured soloists Cassie Pilgrim and Myrtil Mitanga are two of the three winners of the ASYO Concerto Competition. Read More

Ticket Prices: $10

Performance date

Sunday, May 12, 2013 3:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date

Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:00 pm

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Poignant Beauty

Classical

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

Performance dates

Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:00 pm
Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:00 pm

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SOLD OUT: Free Parks

Summer

The Orchestra returns to Piedmont Park for its first of two free concerts. Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles leads the Orchestra in selections from Brahms's Hungarian Dances, the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Concertmaster David Coucheron as soloist, and Beethoven's Symphony No 5. Read More

Tickets available May 3.
Ticket Prices: Free

Performance date

Friday, May 17, 2013 7:30 pm

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Robert Spano

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Free Parks: Bank of America presents "Performance on the Promenade"

Summer

Tickets available May 10.
Ticket Prices: Free

Performance date

Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:30 pm

Buy Tickets Piedmont Park Info

*Tickets are only available online and patrons should choose the “print at home” option. Tickets will not be available at the Woodruff Arts Center Box Office or on site at Piedmont Park.

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Michael Feinstein

Pops

Ticket Prices: $29 – $65

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Friday, May 24, 2013 8:00 pm

Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date(s)

Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:00 pm

A Thibaudet Premiere

Classical

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

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Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:00 pm

Saturday, June 1, 2013 8:00 pm

Sunday, June 2, 2013 3:00 pm

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Tony Bennett w/ very special guest Jackie Evancho

Specials

Tickets on sale 3/15
Ticket Prices: $29 – $125

Performance date

Friday, May 31, 2013 8:00 pm

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Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY

Specials

Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY returns to Atlanta for two nights only! Captivating audiences across the globe, the program features iconic selections from throughout the 25 year catalogue of monumental FINAL FANTASY music. Read More

Ticket Prices: $40 – $90

Select your date:

Friday, June 7, 2013 8:00 pm

Saturday, June 8, 2013 8:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date(s)

Thursday, June 13, 2013 7:00 pm

Close Encounters!

Classical

Ticket Prices: $24 – $75

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Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:00 pm

Saturday, June 15, 2013 8:00 pm

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First Fridays: Close Encounters!

Classical

Inaugural First Friday with the ASO! Read More

Ticket Prices: $25

Performance date

Friday, June 14, 2013 6:00 pm

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Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-Concert

Ticket Prices: FREE

Performance date(s)

Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:00 pm

Runnicles-Vogt-Brahms

Classical

Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles and great German pianist Lars Vogt embrace the searing emotional depth of Brahms in honor of the composer’s 180th birthday. The ASO’s season-ending performances feature the Brahms’s tour-de-force First Piano Concerto, Tragic Overture, and magnificent First Symphony. Read More

Ticket Prices: $32 – $84

Select your date:

Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:00 pm

Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:00 pm

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