Alys Stephens Center, Jemison Concert Hall

  Jemison Concert Hall Description Part of the 2024 Alabama Colloquium series, this event features an in-depth conversation between author Rick Bragg and humorist Roy Wood Jr. The duo will be recognized as Alabama Humanities Fellows for how they use the humanities – and their Alabama roots – to tell stories that challenge us toContinue Reading ...

  Beethoven began work on the Eighth in the summer of 1812, immediately after the completion of his Seventh Symphony. Martin Geck describes the Eighth as containing “all the relevant hallmarks, including motivic and thematic writing notable for its advanced planning, defiant counterpoint, furious cross-rhythms, sudden shifts from piano to forte, and idyllic and evenContinue Reading ...

  The orchestra will play Bartok’s Concerto for orchestra. Bartók makes extensive use of classical elements in the work; for instance, the first and fifth movements are in sonata-allegro form. The work combines elements of Western art music and eastern European folk music, especially that of Hungary, and it departs from traditional tonality, often usingContinue Reading ...

(Alabama Symphony Orchestra) Attend the live concert + public recording of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra's Inspired by Alabama. The concert will include prominent names + scores,  including: Carlos Izcaray, conductor Amerigo Marino: Stars Fell on Alabama Brian Raphael Nabors: Letters from Birmingham William Levi Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony  

  In celebration of Carlos Izcaray’s 10 years as Music Director of the ASO, the orchestra will perform an anniversary program featuring works Maestro Izcaray conducted at his opening concert in 2013. La Péri, written in 1911, and was Dukas’ last published work is not as well known as The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, this ballet hasContinue Reading ...

  The orchestra will perform The Symphonie fantastique, a piece of music that tells the story of a gifted artist who, in the depths of hopelessness and despair because of his unrequited love for a woman, has poisoned himself with opium. The piece tells the story of the artist’s drug-fueled hallucinations, beginning with a ballContinue Reading ...

  Join the Alabama Symphony Orchestra for a Hip Hop fusion show with local Birmingham talent Shaheed and D.J. Supreme! Perfect for all ages, this Young People’s Concert will fuse the orchestral artform with turntables, empowering messaging, and sick beats! Knowledge is power with the incorporation of STEAM components and a teacher guide for gradesContinue Reading ...

  Music Director Carlos Izcaray opens the 2024/25 season with Shostakovich’s Festive Overture. Described by Shostakovich as “festive or celebrative in spirit,” It begins with a brass fanfare which later reappears. Amaryn Olmeda joins Maestro Izcaray and ASO for a performance of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto. The evening concludes with Saint – Saëns Organ SymphonyContinue Reading ...

  Described by Shostakovich himself as “festive or celebrative in spirit,” The Festive Overture begins with a brass fanfare which later reappears before the work’s coda. The concert concludes with Saint – Saëns Organ Symphony No. 3. It is popularly known as the Organ Symphony, since, unusually for a late-Romantic symphony, two of the fourContinue Reading ...

Please join the Alabama Symphony Orchestra for an inspirational concert featuring IMANI WINDS- Black and Brown- A Celebration of Composers of Color. The three-time GRAMMY® nominated Imani Winds has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences ofContinue Reading ...