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ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: America @ 250, Bernstein + Berlioz
Place & Time
Atlanta Symphony Hall @ Woodruff Arts Center
1280 Peachtree St NE
Atlanta GA USA
May 9, 2026
8:00 PM
Program

Berlioz: Harold in Italy

Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety"

Robert Spano, conductor

Zhenwei Shi, Principal Viola

Conrad Tao, piano

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Additional Information

Two wartime poets expressed disillusionment; two composers spun their poems into evocative musical scores. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Principal Violist Zhenwei Shi stands in for Childe Harold in Berlioz's picturesque Harold in Italy. Robert Spano presents the "fearless" piano virtuoso Conrad Tao in Bernstein's plaintive and sassy symphony "The Age of Anxiety," inspired by W.H. Auden's Pulitzer Prize-winning poem.

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