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33-576: Though earlier organizations bearing the same name date back as far as 1923, thanks largely to the efforts of Josephine Fields Sanders , the orchestra was officially 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

66-764: A concert at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium on February   4, 1945, conducted by Henry Sopkin . The sold-out performance led to the AYSO soon changing its name once again to become the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra . She was also a supporter of the High Museum of Art . Sanders died on March   18, 1975. She was added to the Georgia Women of Achievement in 2022. Out of Time (album) Out of Time

99-497: A full-time, 52-week orchestra to a part-time, 42-week organization. In 2014, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , the orchestra's management and principal musicians faced a 6 September 2014 deadline to reach a collective bargaining agreement or face delaying the opening of the season. This continued a rancorous history between management and players, as they attempt to extricate themselves from operating in

132-436: A low scoring review of two and a half out of five stars, observing, "The scope of R.E.M.'s ambitions is impressive, and the record sounds impeccable, its sunny array of pop and folk songs as refreshing as Michael Stipe's decision to abandon explicitly political lyrics for the personal." concluding "Most of the songs are slight but pleasant, or are awkward experiments like " Radio Song "'s stab at funk, and while this sounds fine as

165-531: A new concentration on country elements that would continue on 1992's Automatic for the People . It features guest appearances by KRS-One and Kate Pierson from The B-52's . Preceded by the release of " Losing My Religion ", which became R.E.M.'s biggest U.S. hit, Out of Time gave them their first U.S. and UK No. 1 album. The band did not tour to support the release, although they did make occasional appearances on television or at festivals. In Germany, it

198-471: A special live performance of "Losing My Religion" for an MTV 10th Anniversary Special. Members of the orchestra also recorded parts on four songs on R.E.M.'s next album, 1992's Automatic for the People . The orchestra and chorus made their first recording, a 2-LP Christmas album entitled Nativity , for Turnabout/ Vox Records in 1975, conducted by Robert Shaw. This was an album directly based on their annual Christmas concert. A slightly shortened version of

231-476: Is one of the few recordings without a chorus that the orchestra made with Shaw. The ASO has suffered from labor disputes between management and musicians in recent years. In 2012, musicians agreed to decrease by ten weeks of pay yearly in order to help balance the ASO's budget, which had seen a major deficit in part due to years of mismanagement and declining ticket sales. As a result, the orchestra's status changed from

264-409: Is the band's best-selling album, selling more than 1,250,000 copies, reaching 5× gold. Out of Time was the first R.E.M. album to have an alternative expanded release on CD, including expanded liner notes and postcards. In Spain, a contest was held to have a limited-edition cover, with the winner being an abstract oil painting. For the 25th anniversary the album was remastered. The standard version of

297-553: Is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M. , released on March 12, 1991, by Warner Bros. Records . With Out of Time , R.E.M.'s status grew from that of a cult band to a massive international act. The record topped the album sales charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom, spending 109 weeks on U.S. album charts and, with two separate spells at the top, and spending 183 weeks on

330-565: The Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Levi became music director emeritus in 2000, and was succeeded as music director by Robert Spano . Allison Vulgamore was hired as president of the orchestra in 1993, remaining in the role until 2009. The current executive director of the ASO is Jennifer Barlament, since January 2016. The orchestra toured Europe under Yoel Levi in 1991; and with its chorus, under Robert Shaw, in 1988. In 2006

363-783: The University of Chicago and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels . Sanders then taught at Baylor University . After World War I started, Sanders traveled to Europe to entertain American troops. She married James O'Hear Sanders after returning to the United States, who would later become the lead plaintiff in Gray v. Sanders (1963), a Supreme Court case which resulted in Georgia's county unit system being struck down as unconstitutional. The Sanders family moved to Atlanta in

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396-517: The 75-minute album was issued by Vox in the 1990s on compact disc under the title Christmas with Robert Shaw . 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. The Telarc association, which resulted in 26 Grammy awards , continued until 2010, one of

429-434: The ASO announced the appointment of Stutzmann as its next music director, effective with the 2022-2023 season, with an initial contract of four years. Stutzmann is the first female conductor to be named music director of the ASO. The orchestra was featured on R.E.M. 's 1991 album Out of Time , most notably on " Losing My Religion ". Members of the orchestra performed with the band on November 10, 1991, when R.E.M. recorded

462-509: The ASO's parent organization. Including Encore Park and its activities at Atlanta Symphony Hall and Chastain Park, the ASO expects to present more than 300 performances annually. With a budget expected to increase to US$ 50 million with the completion of its new Amphitheatre, the ASO has become one of the six or seven largest orchestras in America, by budget size. The ASO's budget includes not only

495-492: The British charts, including one week at the top. The album has sold more than four and a half million copies in the United States and more than 18 million copies worldwide. Out of Time won three Grammy Awards in 1992 : one as Best Alternative Music Album , and two for its first single, " Losing My Religion ". Out of Time combines elements of pop, folk and classical music heard on the band's previous album, Green , with

528-538: The United States, where buyers were encouraged to sign their name in support for Rock the Vote, who were in support of the Motor Voter Act to ease voter registration, and would allow voters "to register through their local DMV". Gold reasoned, considering many of the album's buyers would be young, that this could "vote out" the controversial Parents Music Resource Center music censorship bill, who "put pressure on

561-493: The age of 16. Said to be the longest-tenured orchestra musician in the world, Little remained a member of the ASO for the rest of her life until her death on May 15, 2016 at age 87, a few hours after collapsing during an ASO concert. In December 2020, Nathalie Stutzmann first guest-conducted the ASO. She returned in February 2021 for an additional guest-conducting engagement, in a streamed quarantine concert. In October 2021,

594-428: The album for its refreshing sound, calling it "easily their most eclectic and wildly inspired album yet, although it is still very identifiably REM". At the same time, Entertainment Weekly ' s David Browne was left unimpressed with the record, criticizing the album for sounding boring, and describing it as "the least satisfying, most forced album they've ever made". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave

627-441: The costs of production, along with musician and staff salaries and benefits, but also the orchestra's very significant expenditures on education, community outreach, special events and fundraising. Past assistant conductors of the ASO have included Joseph Young . The current associate conductor of the ASO is Jerry Hou. One noted past ASO member was Jane Little , who debuted as a double bassist in Atlanta on February. 4, 1945, at

660-429: The creators and distributors of 'objectionable' music", as well as make good use of the popular longbox packaging format of the day, which many artists and customers considered unnecessary and wasteful. Michael Stipe also appeared in a public service announcement for the campaign. In July 2014, radio show 99% Invisible said that because of this packaging, Out of Time is "the most politically significant album in

693-643: The departure of Sopkin, Robert Shaw (founder of the Robert Shaw Chorale ) became the music director, and a year later the orchestra became full-time. In 1970, Shaw founded a choir , the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus . In 1988, Yoel Levi became music director and principal conductor. Under him, the orchestra played Summon the Heroes composed and conducted by John Williams at the opening and closing ceremonies of

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726-652: The early 1940s. By 1943, Sanders had become president of the Atlanta Music Club. Sanders was unhappy that Atlanta was the largest city in the country without a professional orchestra, so she claimed that "Atlanta will grow an orchestra, not buy one". Starting with the In and About Atlanta Orchestra, Sanders raised funds to add professional musicians to the group, which soon became the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra (AYSO). The AYSO held

759-418: The history of the United States". They said that three weeks after the album's release, "they had received 10,000 petitions, 100 per senator, and they just kept coming in droves", and a month following its release, the campaign's political director and members of KMD "wheeled a shopping cart full of the first 10,000 petitions into a senate hearing". The bill was eventually passed in 1993 by Bill Clinton and

792-483: The longest continuous associations of an orchestra with a record label. In 2011 the orchestra began releasing recordings on its own ASO Media label. In 2004, the orchestra began a project to record for the Deutsche Grammophon label several works by composer Osvaldo Golijov . One of the orchestra and chorus's best-known recordings, of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Robert Shaw, was recorded for

825-519: The now defunct Pro Arte label, and is out of print, though excerpts from the "Ode to Joy" fourth movement may be found in anthologies issued on the Reference Gold and Classical Heritage labels. Another of the ASO's recordings now out-of-print because it was recorded for the Pro Arte label is that of Brahms 's Piano Concerto No. 1 , with Peter Serkin as soloist and Robert Shaw conducting. It

858-687: The orchestra and its chamber chorus, under Robert Spano, served as the resident ensemble for California's Ojai Festival. The full ASO Chorus has thrice visited Berlin, giving three performances on each occasion of Benjamin Britten 's War Requiem (2003), Hector Berlioz 's Grande Messe des Morts (2008), and Johannes Brahms 's Ein Deutsches Requiem (2009) with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under ASO Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles . Since 2005,

891-554: The orchestra had been actively planning for the construction of a new principal concert hall. In 2008, the ASO opened its new 12,000-seat Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in north Fulton County in the town of Alpharetta , some 22 miles north of Atlanta, where it presents concerts of its own as well as those by various pops groups. Encore Park and the Amphitheatre are owned by the Woodruff Arts Center,

924-492: The record is playing, there's not much substantive material to make the record worth returning to." Out of Time was one of R.E.M.'s more successful albums in terms of awards and nominations . It was their only album to win a Grammy Award , for Best Alternative Music Album . It also won the Q Award for Best Album of 1991. In 2000, Out of Time was voted number 49 in Colin Larkin 's All Time Top 1000 Albums . It

957-405: The red, as has been the case for many years now. The local paper also indicated that their touted "operating budget" was unsustainable for a variety of reasons. In September 2014, after musicians refused to agree to a new contract, management locked out the players and putting the beginning of the 2014–15 season in jeopardy. The lockout ended up lasting beyond the scheduled date at which the season

990-488: The reissue comes with a second disc of demos, the deluxe version adds a third disc featuring live acoustic tracks. It was released through Concord Records on November 18, 2016. Warner Bros. Records executive Jeff Gold, alongside Rock the Vote campaign co-founder and Virgin Records executive Jeff Ayeroff , approached R.E.M. in regards to printing a petition on the back of Out of Time' s CD longbox packaging in

1023-858: Was featured in Time magazine's 2006 list of the "All-Time 100 Albums". According to the review aggregator Metacritic , the 25th anniversary re-release of Out of Time received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 80 out of 100 from nine critic reviews. All tracks written by Bill Berry , Peter Buck , Mike Mills and Michael Stipe . Time Side Memory Side Personnel adapted from Out of Time liner notes, except where indicated. R.E.M. Additional musicians Production Sales figures based on certification alone. Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. In 2005, Warner Bros. Records issued an expanded two-disc edition of Out of Time which includes

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1056-486: Was in effect January 1, 1995; one commentary later said this happened "in no small part because of R.E.M.'s lobbying". The album received mostly positive reviews from critics. Mark Cooper of Q contrasted Out of Time with its predecessor Green , highlighting Stipe's vocals and the harmony singing while describing the album as a "brooding departure [that] offers them at their most reflective, challenging and intriguing". Terry Staunton in his review for NME praised

1089-505: Was supposed to start, on September 25. Josephine Fields Sanders Josephine Fields Sanders (January   1, 1895 – March   18, 1975) was an American teacher and musician . Sanders played a key role in the formation of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the mid-1940s. Sanders was born on January   1, 1895 in Dallas, Texas . She graduated from Georgetown University , followed by graduate studies in violin and French at

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