Tag Archives: Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
The List: 2014 in the Arts!
SUSAN ISAACS NISBETT (Ann Arbor, Dec. 31, 2014) It’s time to say good-bye to 2014 and welcome in the New Year. It’s a time to settle accounts and make plans, but I’ll wait till tomorrow to do the latter. Today, … Continue reading
Stellar Mahler from the San Francisco Symphony in the first of 2 UMS performances
Susan Isaacs Nisbett (Ann Arbor, Nov. 15, 2014) It’s cold. It’s dark. The ground is a little icy from a slick of snow. It’s a good night to be moving toward the light. Whether they knew it or not, that’s … Continue reading
Anton Nel: An old friend returns for A2SO’s ‘Tchaikovsky & Friends’
Susan Isaacs Nisbett (Ann Arbor, Nov. 13, 2014) When your concerto soloist is marooned by a massive snowstorm and stuck 500 miles from the concert hall, who you gonna call? For the Cleveland Orchestra, one winter back in the mid-‘90s, … Continue reading
If it’s Saturday, it must be the USA: A2SO concert highlights what’s homegrown
Susan Isaacs Nisbett (Ann Arbor, Oct. 12, 2014) I’m reminded, as I write this review, of the scary name-that-tune tests we had to take in college music history: As the stylus descended on a mystery LP (yup, that’s what we … Continue reading
All-American: A2SO presents ‘Made in the USA’
Susan Isaacs Nisbett (Ann Arbor, Oct.11, 2014) Arie Lipsky, music director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, is a man on the move. Literally. “I’m just dusty and trying to remember what I put where,” he said by phone recently … Continue reading
Ann Arbor Symphony and Andre Watts deliver crowd-pleasing Beethoven Festival
Susan Isaacs Nisbett Ann Arbor, Mich. (Sept. 14, 2014) Two 5’s and a 3 make 13. And 13 is clearly a lucky number for the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, which launched its 2014-15 season Saturday evening at Hill Auditorium with … Continue reading
An Emperor’s Feast: All-Beethoven, with Andre Watts, at the A2SO this weekend
Susan Isaacs Nisbett Ann Arbor, Mich. (Sept. 9, 2014) By his own admission, Arie Lipsky, music director of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, likes to change things up. “I like contrasts,” he said in a recent phone call. That … Continue reading
Chamber Music from the A2SO: A Sweet Way to Spend an Afternoon
By Susan Isaacs Nisbett Ann Arbor, Mich. (May 4, 2014) I’d probably like any event where you get dessert before the meal. And that’s just what the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Chamber Recital Series offers: dessert first, then an hour-long … Continue reading
Q & A with David Requiro
Ann Arbor, Mich. (Apr. 10, 2014) Naumburg Award-winning cellist David Requiro plays with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Saturday evening at the Michigan Theater. Since he’s an Ann Arbor “regular” – Saturday’s his second concert with the A2SO and he … Continue reading
The Downbeat 