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May 8, 2024 Music Post by Madeline Duncan
Can Austin Animal Center Be No-Kill and Humane?
Audit finds welfare priorities in conflict
"...behaviorally challenged dogs, says AAC Director Don Bland "runs ASO like a conventional pound, not like a No-Kill shelter,"..."
Oct. 6, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher
Five Orchestral Performances to Get You Hooked on Classics
Expand your musical horizons with these really old-school grooves
"...Wars, and more – performed by the always excellent ASO...."
Feb. 24, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner
We Have an Issue: Ice Ice Baby
Beat the record-breaking heat with our cover story about Casey’s New Orleans Snowballs
"...Austin Symphony Orchestra – the third time this year ASO has had to cancel an outdoor concert due to..."
July 15, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones
Austin Symphony Orchestra Cancels Performance Due to Extreme Heat
Hartman Foundation Concerts in the Park hit thrice this season
"...the Hartman Family Foundation. However, so far this year, ASO has been forced to cancel three of the five..."
July 10, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker
Happy Anniversary to Peter
"...with the extraordinary musicians, staff, and board of the ASO all this time, and to have had an evening..."
April 3, 2022 Postmarks
An Ode to 25 Years of Joy With Peter Bay
Celebration puts Austin Symphony Orchestra conductor center stage
"...with “Austin Symphony Orchestra” than that of conductor and ASO Music Director Peter Bay...."
March 31, 2022 Arts Post by Jasmine Lane
How Austin's Performing Artists Are Reopening Their Spaces
After months behind screens, the folks who run the city's theatres, concert halls, and comedy clubs are welcoming audiences back inside
"...concerned with physical health and safety, and for good reason. Over the long haul though, it became apparent that..."
July 16, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Forget Decorum: Music Fans Holler Their Appreciation for the Symphony
And the classical music crowd goes wild
"...way was a canny move on the part of ASO Music Director Peter Bay. It guaranteed that every person..."
May 28, 2021 Features Feature by Robert Faires
Austin Symphony Orchestra Keeps Playing From Beyond the Stage
For the second time in its 109-year history, the ASO weathers a global pandemic
"...compliance with the city's social distancing guidelines, and the ASO was without a venue to play in or an..."
June 19, 2020 Arts Feature by David Sotelo
ASO Fires Player Over Racist Remarks
Austin Opera and area schools also cut ties with trombonist
"...your 1/2 black president done for you?? The ONLY REASON he was elected was because he is 1/2 black...."
June 2, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Austin Symphony Orchestra Heads Bach to the Clubs
Round Two of ASO's collaboration between a string quartet and local DJs resulted in a sold-out show at the North Door
"...initiated in 2018 as a new way of getting ASO out of the concert hall and connected to the..."
March 6, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Austin Symphony Orchestra: "Rach Star"
Orion Weiss played Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto with the Austin Symphony, and we were spellbound
"...All eyes were on Weiss, but Bay and the ASO made his triumph all the richer...."
Jan. 17, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Austin's Throwing a Big Bash for Beethoven in 2020
The classical community is lighting 250 candles for this musical superhero
"...five of Beethoven's piano concertos with Bay and the ASO over two nights, June 18 and 19. That's just..."
Jan. 10, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
A Guide to Austin Classical Music
The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here
"...coolest way to make music and may be one reason he's sought out so frequently as a collaborator: with..."
April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Coexisting With the Coyotes of Travis County
Austin’s wildlife management program goes countywide
"...every year, largely to appease private agricultural interests, the ASO uses nonlethal techniques to mitigate conflict, in line with..."
Feb. 22, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader
Austin Symphony Orchestra's Variation Voyage
ASO’s first concert of 2019 had us hearing all sorts of feels, but Leon Fleisher’s piano also got us thinking
"...played with spirit by the respective sections of the ASO). The work shared some of the mutability and boldness..."
Jan. 18, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Robert Faires’ Top 10 Dance and Classical Joys of 2018
In this year’s dance and classical offerings, extraordinary depictions of loss and suffering continue to haunt
"...YOUNG COMPOSERS CONCERT We grieved just-slain young composer Draylen Mason, but his spirit was present here and, true to..."
Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Austin Symphony's Happy Birthday, Lenny
In its concert celebrating Bernstein, the ASO shows the composer giving his all in even the briefest of works
"...and definitely larger-than-life American composer. The program chosen by ASO Music Director Peter Bay favored Bernstein in small doses..."
Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Bach N' Beats
Austin Symphony musicians mix it up with DJs at the Parish
"...they'll be playing with a string quartet composed of ASO musicians: Joseph Smith, violin; Ashley Cooper, violin; Martha Carapetyan,..."
Sept. 27, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Music to Wave Flags By
The 411 on the 4th of July concerts in the 512 and environs
"...(John Stafford Smith's arrangement), and it's a given that ASO will trot out the cannons for Pytor Tchaikovsky's Overture..."
June 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Peter Bay’s MASS Appeal
The local maestro brings Leonard Bernstein’s massive stagework to Austin with a lot of help from a lot of friends
"...late composer-conductor's 100th birthday, a celebration that's included several ASO concerts, a West Side Story sing-along at the Alamo..."
June 29, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Confusion, Concerns Surround Response to County’s Dangerous Dogs
A partnership problem, or not?
"...But Eckhardt blindsided ASO staff when she said she was hesitant to expand..."
March 23, 2018 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader
Fear & Loathing
Travis County says goodbye to a coyote-killing machine
"...Creek Preserve, which some residents saw as hasty and unreasonable. While TWS claimed it had received numerous calls of..."
Dec. 22, 2017 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader
Austin Symphony Orchestra: Feast of Voices
The ASO and Chorus Austin combined forces for an evening of music that was gorgeous, sensual, and sometimes hall-shaking
"...in D minor) offered another pretty piece for the ASO, whose plucked strings and undulating, swaying melody complemented a..."
Oct. 13, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
Strike Up the Band!
If it's patriotic tuneage you want for your Fourth, here it is
"...by John Stafford Smith), and it's a given that ASO will trot out the cannons for Pytor Tchaikovsky's Overture..."
July 1, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires
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"...resignation Wednesday, effective May 14. Hammond has overseen the ASO since June 2015...."
April 14, 2017 News Feature
Robert Faires' Top 10 Classical Music / Dance Treasures of 2016
The richest work in dance and classical music this year ran the gamut from a dance in a backyard pool to an opera about Cold War brainwashing
"...by Nigel Westlake and Lior Attar made clear why ASO's Peter Bay was moved to bring it to Austin:..."
Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Mozart Requiem Undead Receives an Encore
This Austin-generated reinvention comes to Bass Concert Hall
"...So which version did ASO music director and conductor Peter Bay choose? Something modern?..."
Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2016
These inductees – Ballet Austin's Cookie Ruiz and Stephen Mills, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra's Peter Bay – are cultural heroes who lead by example
"...they come, but put him in front of the ASO – or an orchestra for a performance by Ballet..."
