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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is an American orchestra based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Robert Spano has been their music director since 2001. The orchestra was founded in 1945, and played its first concert as the Atlanta Youth Symphony under the direction of Henry Sopkin, a Chicago music educator who remained its Conductor until 1966.The organization changed to its current name in 1947, and soon began attracting well known soloists such as Isaac Stern and Glenn Gould. In 1967, with the departure of Sopkin, Robert Shaw (founder of the Robert Shaw Chorale) became the conductor, and a year later the orchestra turned full-time. In 1970, Shaw founded a choir specially for the orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. In 1988, Yoel Levi became Music Director and principal conductor. Under him, the orchestra played at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Levi became Music Director Emeritus in 2000, and was succeeded as Music Director by Robert Spano. The ASO and chorus made its first recording, a 2-LP Christmas album entitled Nativity, for Turnabout/Vox Records in 1975, under the directorship of Robert Shaw. This was an album directly based on their annual Christmas concert. In 1978, the ASO became the first American orchestra to make a digital recording intended for commercial release, when it played Igor Stravinsky's Firebird suite and excerpts from Alexander Borodin's opera, Prince Igor for the Telarc label. As of 20
top songs
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The Messiah, HWV 56: Hallelujah Chorus
2,2672Carmina Burana: Introduction
1,9983Gloria in D Major, RV 589: I. Gloria in excelsis
1,5494O Come, O Come Emmanuel
1,2455Adeste Fidelis
1,0006Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248: Sinfonia in G Major, "And There Where Shepherds"
8677Gloria in D Major, R. 589: Gloria in excelsis
6068Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Dona nobis pacem
5789Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248: Sinfonia, "And There Where Shepherds"
52010Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248: Jesus, Shepherd My Beginning
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