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73rd Season Opening Celebration Join us for a night of food, fun, and great music! Come meet our new Executive Director, Suzanne Tucker, and learn about the GSO’s upcoming season. Your ears will delight in music provided by GSO Jazz! and a private performance from Okorie “OKCello” Johnson. To satisfy your tastebuds, partake in heavy […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

Things take an eclectic turn with the GSO’s opening performance of the season. The music of four composers who failed to reach the age of forty sets the scene and asks the question of how their music would have developed had they not each met an untimely, and early death. Georges Bizet never lived long […]

A Day With Disney features music from popular Disney films including The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Star Wars, and more! Audience members are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite Disney characters too! This event is designed especially for persons with sensory sensitivities and their families, and gives audience members the […]

A Day With Disney features music from popular Disney films including The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Star Wars, and more! Audience members are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite Disney characters too! Enjoy this 50 minute family-friendly performance where kids can be kids!  Experience orchestral music without any of […]

A Cobb and Marietta tradition, the GSO’s Holiday Pops presents new and beloved holiday music each year, including our popular sing-a-long! Your friends and family will have a great time celebrating the season with your favorite symphony.   Featured Artists             Venue Information Marietta Performing Arts Center       […]

A Cobb and Marietta tradition, the GSO’s Holiday Pops presents new and beloved holiday music each year, including our popular sing-a-long! Your friends and family will have a great time celebrating the season with your favorite symphony.   Featured Artists             Venue Information Marietta Performing Arts Center       […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

What the World Needs Now: Celebrating the music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David features the GSO Jazz! Combo, and the iconic music and lyrics of two great American songsmiths onstage at the Canton Theatre.    Please note: this performance occurs in Canton. The Marietta performance is on 2/17/2024   Featured Artists       […]

What the World Needs Now: Celebrating the music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David features the GSO Jazz! Combo, and the iconic music and lyrics of two great American songsmiths onstage at the Strand Theatre.  Featured Artists             Venue Information Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre         […]

Mozart’s sublime Concerto for Clarinet and the second symphony of Brahms create an evening of music sure to please. Quin Mason describes his piece Immerse as “a study in texture and the blending/timbral qualities.” This is achieved via a chorale that moves through different sections of the orchestra, with each lending its particular colors and […]

The GSO’s Beethoven 9 Vocal Competition concludes in an afternoon of performances by the finalists with piano accompaniment. Up to sixteen vocalists will compete in this final round to become a winner in one of four voice categories, and for the opportunity to perform as a featured soloist in the GSO’s May performances of Beethoven’s […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

The GSO Chorus, accompanied by the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, presents Robert Ray’s unique and powerful Gospel Mass.  Robert Ray, who wrote his Gospel Mass in 1979, died in 2022 at the age of seventy-six after a notable career at the University of Illinois-Urbana and later work with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Chorus. His setting […]

With a five-decade presence in New York City, the ever-evolving Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Vanguard Orchestra has had a lasting presence on the jazz scene. Their recorded works have received critical acclaim and numerous Grammy award nominations and a pair of wins in the “Big Band” category. Enjoy an evening of exploration of their influential catalog […]

This event is designed especially for persons with sensory sensitivities and their families, and gives audience members the ability to fully experience orchestral music without any of the constraints of a standard performance. During this 50 minute program, audience members are free to move about, dance, speak, sing, or vocalize. Sensory sensitive listeners and family members […]

Enjoy this 50 minute family-friendly performance where kids can be kids!  Experience orchestral music without any of the constraints of a standard performance, within a 50 minute program. Kids of all ages will delight in the discovery of an orchestral experience that invites and welcomes all to the world of classical music. Up to 30min […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

Students in the largest youth orchestra program in the southeast, the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at KSU’s Bailey Performance Center. Special thanks to The Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music and their support of GYSO! Click to learn more about the KSU School of music         Venue Information Bailey Performance Center […]

Discover the vastness of space and the bonds of humankind in this season-ending spectacular performance. Known for his multimedia virtual choruses, Eric Whitacre’s Deep Field is performed live to the film Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe. Combining stunning imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope and never-seen-before galaxy fly-bys, and bespoke animations, it […]

Discover the vastness of space and the bonds of humankind in this season-ending spectacular performance. Known for his multimedia virtual choruses, Eric Whitacre’s Deep Field is performed live to the film Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe. Combining stunning imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope and never-seen-before galaxy fly-bys, and bespoke animations, it […]