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Year In Review

12/31/2015

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Mark Gresham of ArtsATL.com weighed in on our remarkable 2015 as well. Let's keep the momentum going!

Year in Review: For the Atlanta Symphony, a year of healing, recovery and moving forwardDecember 31, 2015

By Mark Gresham
The year 2015 was one of recovery, then pressing ahead, for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the wake of a difficult labor dispute and nine-week lockout which had dominated the latter months of 2014. A number of ASO roster musicians were still engaged in temporary contracts with other orchestras at the beginning of the new calendar year, posing some recuperative artistic challenges in the interim, with the orchestra beginning to re-unify as those players returned one by one.

The first half of 2015 nevertheless had its high points. Those included a performance of Mahler’s “Rückert Lieder” and Symphony No. 5 in early March, led by principal guest conductor Donald Runnicles and featuring mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor; the world premiere of the concert-length oratorio Creation/Creator by Christopher Theofanidis in April, led by music director Robert Spano; and culminating with the season finale, a concert version of Camille Saint-Saëns’ opera Samson et Dalila, also performed under Spano’s baton. A recording of Theofanidis oratorio was released in September on ASO media. 

By the orchestra’s summer hiatus, it was evident that the ASO had turned a financial corner, reporting that it had met and exceeded budget. Even greater optimism ensued over fundraising for the orchestra’s endowment, which as of the end of October has raised $17 million of the $25 million goal to underwrite the positions of 11 musicians to bring the total roster up to 88 roster players over the next few years.

Three new musicians have already been hired this fall to fill existing vacancies: principal contrabass Colin Corner, second horn Ernesto Tovar Torres and section contrabass Karl Fenner, who will join the orchestra in January.
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Music director Robert Spano led the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the stellar performance of Creation/Creator. (Photo by Jeff Roffman)
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Thank You, Terry Neal

12/11/2015

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Yesterday, we celebrated the 15 month tenure of our incredible Interim CEO, Terry Neal, with a speech, a framed letter signed by every musician, and a well-deserved standing ovation. Terry had the impossible job of rebuilding trust, bringing the organization together, and helping to move us forward after years of anger, mistrust, animosity, and an institution-wide downward spiral.

Terry did all that and more. He was a constant (and we mean constant) fixture backstage and won us all over with his ear-to-ear smile. He turned this place around, no question about it, but he also made all of us feel valued and feel more optimistic in our futures here in Atlanta. No one could have predicted the epic turnaround we've seen in the last year, and we are so grateful to have had Terry at the helm.

Now, as we look forward to welcoming new CEO, Jennifer Barlament, we are excited that Terry will still be a fixture at the ASO as a board member. We can't wait to have such a strong advocate on the board, and we are certain that we will still be seeing Terry hanging out backstage and greeting everyone with his signature handshake and grin. Thank you, Terry!

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Go To The Orchestra.

12/10/2015

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“Go to the orchestra. It’s the best orchestra in the whole wide world, arguably, and it’s right in our city. Take the money you were going to spend on the Browns, take your kids, and go to the (bleeping) orchestra. Then you can have pride in your city. That’s the thing to be proud of. Don’t wear your (bleeping) Browns shirt like an idiot.”
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