Georgia Symphony
Orchestra returns to stage
for 2021-2022 concert
season
The Georgia Symphony Orchestra announced
its 71st concert season with a return to the
stage beginning late September 2021.
The GSO’s Classics series, led by music
director and conductor Timothy Verville, will
feature three performances at either the
Marietta Performing Arts Center or the Bailey
Center for the Performing Arts at Kennesaw
State University. In an effort to continue its
focus on diversity and inclusivity in classical
music, the series features the works of two
American women composers and two women
soloists.
On Sept. 25, the orchestra will kick off
the season with Mahler, smahler, a reduced
orchestration of Gustav Mahler’s Fourth
Symphony. Soprano and Marietta native
Maria Valdes is the featured soloist.
The GSO’s performance of Beethoven
at the Beach, scheduled for Feb 26, 2022,
features Amy Beach’s Symphony No. 2, the
first symphony written and published by an
American woman composer, and Beethoven’s
Violin Concerto in D Major. The awardwinning
violinist, Minami Yoshida, joins the
GSO for her American debut. Yoshida was
a major prize winner at the Montreal and
Sibelius competitions and has performed
with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra,
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre
Symphonique de Montréal, Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra and others.
The Classics series concludes on May 21,
2022, with a concert entitled The Firebird and
Music of Remembrance. The performance
includes American composer Jennifer
Higdon’s Blue Cathedral and Igor Stravinsky’s
Firebird Suite (1919). This concert also will
feature the GSO’s 90-voice GSO Chorus.
In addition to the Classics series, the
GSO’s season also includes its Holiday Pops,
Sensory Friendly and GSO Jazz! concerts.
Two shows of the GSO’s Holiday
Pops concert will be held at the Marietta
Performing Arts Center on December 4.
In addition to a traditional sing-along and
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