Atlanta Symphony’s 2019 season-opener, on television and streaming, Dec. 31

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening concert September 20, 2019 will be broadcast on December 31 at 9:30pm ET on Georgia Public Broadcasting television and streamed at GPBs’s website, gpb.org/live. Music Director Robert Spano will conduct the Prelude to Act I of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto for Orchestra, and Wieniawski’s Second Violin Concerto with Joshua Bell as soloist. The program, entitled “An ASO75 Concert,” will include remarks from Spano about the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s 75th season. “We are happy to be working with GPB Media to bring the music of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to people beyond Symphony Hall,” said Tammy Hawk, VP of Marketing and Communications of the ASO. “It’s the perfect way to ring in 2020 and join in the ASO’s 75th Anniversary Celebration.”