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May 28, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Austin Symphony With Ilya Gringolts
Austin Symphony's return to Mahler's Fifth Symphony under the baton of Peter Bay revealed a mature and confident orchestra pulling itself up another notch
"...Kwak briefly made Mahler part of the ASO's diet and wanted to expand to Bruckner, but rumored..."
April 23, 2004 Arts Review by Jerry Young
Austin Symphony With Norman Krieger
On the first anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, the Austin Symphony offered a pleasing variety of views of the American landscape through music by 20th-century composers
"...to local composer Donald Grantham and Frenchman Maurice Ravel. ASO music director Peter Bay has long championed American and..."
March 26, 2004 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
Dancing the Desert
"...the same thing just a couple of days after ASO's American-flavored concert, when the exhilarating company MOMIX returns to..."
March 19, 2004 Arts Feature
Watchmen on the Walls of Freedom
UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.
"...Peter Bay, the ASO director conducting JFK: The Voice of Peace, was a..."
Nov. 7, 2003 Music Feature by Robert Faires
Austin Symphony with the Eroica Trio
A concert showcasing a variety of tempos, intensities, and moods -- from cheeky Beethoven to hypnotic Kilar -- made this particular outing of the Austin Symphony with the Eroica Trio a memorable success.
"...the country, it is heartening to note that the ASO appears to be on the continuous artistic ascendant --..."
Oct. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
Austin Symphony and Emanuel Ax
For the Austin Symphony's season opener, conductor Peter Bay and company made a pleasure cruise of Smetana's "The Moldau" and turned Sibelius' Second Symphony into a ride through the perfect storm, while guest Emanuel Ax led a refined reading of da Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
"...to welcome an audience back for a new symphony season. This music flows downstream through scenic musical snapshots, with..."
Sept. 12, 2003 Arts Review by Jerry Young
Sergei's Big Score
Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay has tremendous regard for both Sergei Prokofiev's score and Sergei Eisenstein's images for the 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, and as he prepares for a live performance of the score as the film is being shown, he talks about this remarkable fusion of image and music and what's involved in performing it live.
May 23, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Austin Symphony: The French Connection II
The Austin Symphony's Jan. 31 concert was to have been all French, but matters of health changed that and gave audiences the chance to hear a tender tribute to composer Kent Kennan and an exhilarating Beethoven concerto from André Watts.
"...1970s solo recital at Palmer Auditorium. But his 1988 ASO appearance was, if not a disaster, a huge disappointment,..."
Feb. 14, 2003 Arts Review by Jerry Young
I Hear a Symphony
Composer Kent Kennan has been an essential voice in America's musical counterpoint since 1936 when he won the Prix de Rome Composition Prize. Now, at age 90, he'll hear the Austin Symphony play his composition for the very first time.
"...seems," Stoltzman told me before his 1997 performance with ASO. "Kennan's transcription is so simple and very tastefully done,..."
Jan. 31, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young
Austin Symphony with Caitlin Tully
Local Arts Reviews
"...Two final points: Bay and the ASO are programming some terrific, accessible, exciting music, and, as..."
Oct. 25, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
The Manhattan Transfer with the Austin Symphony
The four accomplished vocalists who comprise the Manhattan Transfer turned an evening with the Austin Symphony at the Austin Convention Center into a night when "there was magic abroad in the air."
"...Pops Promenade concert closing out the Austin Symphony's 2001-02 season didn't exactly promise enchantment at the outset. Holding the..."
June 14, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires
Articulations
The Long Center for the Performing Arts is delayed until 2005, and MS / Nerve Dance Company and Jason Phelps hold a very personal benefit.
"...Arts Center. Arts Center Stage held conversations with the ASO, ALO, and ballet prior to announcing the delay, and..."
May 17, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Conception of Fate
The Austin Symphony's performance of the program Conception of Fate, with its works by Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven, melded craft and style into a profound, spirited, joyful night of art.
"...bubbly, virtuosic jollity. Such exuberance was catching, and the ASO matched the wit and style of Walsh's excellent work...."
March 1, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
Articulations
It may still be too hot to frolic in the noonday sun, but it's not too hot to put on a show to help someone in need, and that's what a number of Austin artists are up to this month, raising funds for flood victims in Houston and an Austin musician with a spinal cord injury.
"...for Austin Symphony musician Doug Tabony, a violinist with ASO since 1977 and the organization's personnel manager. Last September,..."
Aug. 24, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Public Notice
"Public Notice" talks about friends and the end of this column.
"...it, call these numbers for tix: Riverbend, 327-3540 or ASO, 476-6064...."
Aug. 24, 2001 Column by Kate X Messer
Hearts and Violins
Jennifer Bourianoff has found happiness playing chamber music and living in Austin.
"...The grand finale of this season's Austin Chamber Music Festival is a homecoming concert for..."
June 29, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
Articulations
The scoop on the 2000-01 Austin Critics Table awards ceremony
"...less -- fresh from extending his contract with the ASO another three years. Guess that means the critics can..."
June 15, 2001 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Putting It Together
The Austin Symphony's Peter Bay on Leading an Orchestra, Interpreting a Score, and Seeing Music
"...This is Bay's third full season with the Austin Symphony Orchestra (ASO). After a lengthy..."
Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
Real Estate and Perfect Mates
The Year in Austin Culture
"...chance to hear it live was quite the treat. ASO provided an overpowering and gratifyingly big Dies Irae but..."
Jan. 5, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
2000 Kids Summer Fun Guide
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"...the orchestra. During the morning festivities, members of the ASO visit with the children to talk about their instruments..."
May 5, 2000 Features Feature
Austin Symphony Orchestra: Dance Fever
Robi Polgar responds to the November concert of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, featuring the premiere of Austin composer Darden Smith's Grand Motion.
"...local work in its programming. No one could accuse ASO of being a museum act, with its keen interest..."
Nov. 12, 1999 Arts Review by Robi Polgar
Articulations
ARTS Center Stage making the Big Decision: What architect is going to transform Palmer Auditorium into the Long Center for the Performing Arts.
"...find a new base of operations by the 2003-04 season, when the UT Performing Arts Center could no longer..."
Nov. 12, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Dr. Akagi
"...Imamura. Starring: Masanori Sera, Jacques Gamblin, Jyuro Kara, Kumiko Aso and Akira Emoto. Two-time Palm d'Or recipient Inamura (1983's..."
July 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
1999 Critics' Table Winners
"...Actor, Drama Jason Phelps, Angels in America/Race of the Ark Tattoo..."
June 18, 1999 Arts Feature
Art Fun in the Summertime
May
"...Naked Man Season finale for Capital City Men's Chorus with guests Alamo..."
May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
The South Bank
"...programming dates --Austin Lyric Opera (ALO), Austin Symphony Orchestra (ASO), and Ballet Austin (BA) -- to find a new..."
Dec. 4, 1998 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
On His Toes
"...named as music director of the Austin Symphony Orchestra (ASO). (Well, his first evening concert, anyway -- Bay leaped..."
Nov. 13, 1998 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar
Articulations
Johnson/Long Boldly Go ...
"...Orchestra to create a millennium work for presentation at ASO's November 1999 subscription series concert. Sharing the stage with..."
Aug. 7, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Articulations
Muffitt Promoted
"...simultaneously with the hiring of Bay: Timothy Muffitt, the ASO's Assistant Conductor for the past two years, was promoted..."
