Name: Bach + Brahms
Start: 2026-11-07T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Symphony Hall at Woodruff Arts Center

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Brahms Revealed, the season-long Brahms festival, continues with a psychological profile of the composer. Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann kicks it off with a splendorous orchestral suite by Brahms’s hero, Johann Sebastian Bach. She follows the suite with something of a joke. When the officials at the University of Breslau awarded Brahms an honorary degree, they hoped that he would write them a symphony. Ever bullheaded and often a tease, Brahms instead gave them the Academic Festival Overture, a rollicking piece packed with student drinking songs.In 1881, Brahms poured that same free spirit into his Piano Concerto No. 2. It’s an absolute charmer for audiences, but a bear for the pianist. A concerto with the grandeur of a symphony, it is athletic, turbulent, tender, and fiery, and a perfect showcase for the talents of pianist and ASO Artist-in-Residence, Anna Geniushene.

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Nathalie StutzmannHeadliner

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1280 Peachtree St NE

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Woodruff Arts Center Garage (1280 Peachtree St.) $18.00 (pre-paid available; $8 for 30 mins-1 hour; $18 for 1-5 hours; $25 after 5pm and on weekends; $40 for Atlanta Symphony Hall LIVE events; $45 for Premium parking; $18 for subscribers when pre-paid) Enter the Woodruff Arts Center Garage from Arts Center Way, which parallels Peachtree Street behind the Arts Center. Arts Center Way can be accessed by either 15th or 16th Streets. Reserve Parking Online

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