An Ode to 25 Years of Joy With Peter Bay

Celebration puts Austin Symphony Orchestra conductor center stage

"...Orchestra” than that of conductor and ASO Music Director Peter Bay...."

March 31, 2022 Arts Post by Jasmine Lane

Peter Bay’s MASS Appeal

The local maestro brings Leonard Bernstein’s massive stagework to Austin with a lot of help from a lot of friends

"...Peter Bay, conductor and music director of the Austin Symphony..."

June 29, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Local Composer Peter Stopschinski Releases 50 Free Albums in One Summer

That’s just the kind of guy he is

"...of doorways, tall and wide, through which to bring Peter Stopschinski to your attention, a musician and composer who..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Arts Feature by Kirk Lynn

Happy Anniversary to Peter

"...Orchestra. [“An Ode to 25 Years of Joy With Peter Bay,” Daily Arts, March 31] It has been an..."

April 3, 2022 Postmarks

SXSW Music Interview: Peter & Arwen Lewis

Moby Grape dad and daughter make new music together

"...of Horses' deep harmonies all owe royalties to a Bay Area roots collective whose catalyst, Skip Spence, died in..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...(bass) and Loretta Young's son of a Byrds disciple Peter Lewis (picker No. 2), who all bowed to the..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Man With the Light Touch

Peter Bay leads the Austin Symphony with the finesse of Astaire

"...then you might be a bit startled upon seeing Peter Bay take the podium. The now well-established director of..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sergei's Big Score

Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay has tremendous regard for both Sergei Prokofiev's score and Sergei Eisenstein's images for the 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, and as he prepares for a live performance of the score as the film is being shown, he talks about this remarkable fusion of image and music and what's involved in performing it live.

"...Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay fell under the spell of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky..."

May 23, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Putting It Together

The Austin Symphony's Peter Bay on Leading an Orchestra, Interpreting a Score, and Seeing Music

"...Impish and powerful. To watch Austin Symphony maestro Peter Bay at work on the podium is to see..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Orchestrating Partnerships

Maestro Peter Bay likes to play with others – especially when they're outside the orchestra

"...an isolated one – something Austin Symphony Orchestra maestro Peter Bay knows all too well. "I enjoy what I..."

May 4, 2012 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2016

These inductees – Ballet Austin's Cookie Ruiz and Stephen Mills, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra's Peter Bay – are cultural heroes who lead by example

"...Here is a brief introduction to these cultural heroes. Peter Bay..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Peter Bay spices up the symphonic menu with some new compositions

"...resistance, even from regular subscription holders. ASO Music Director Peter Bay explains, "New music can be stimulating and exciting..."

May 31, 2013 Arts Feature by Natalie Zeldin

Forklift Danceworks

Ballet for Bay

"...dance. Her subject will be Austin Symphony Orchestra conductor Peter Bay...."

Dec. 23, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Bay Gets the Baton

"...connection to classical music.) This week, the symphony selected Peter Bay, music director for Pennsylvania's Erie Philharmonic and the..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Battleship

Crass and hugely dumb aliens vs. multiple earthling navies: Must mean the start of summer movies has arrived.

"...Directed by: Peter Berg. Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgård,..."

May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Humor, Introspection, Ecstasy

UT Composer Dan Welcher is one step away from greatness.

"...This spring, Peter Bay, music director and conductor of the Austin Symphony,..."

April 13, 2001 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Our Shostakovich Year

On the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth, Austin arts groups join forces to throw the Russian composer a yearlong party

"...with Maestro Buckley and Austin Symphony Orchestra Music Director Peter Bay and composer Graham Reynolds, both of whom have..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Optimus Prime finds a new pal in franchise addition Mark Wahlberg.

"...Directed by: Michael Bay. Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz,..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

I Hear a Symphony

Composer Kent Kennan has been an essential voice in America's musical counterpoint since 1936 when he won the Prix de Rome Composition Prize. Now, at age 90, he'll hear the Austin Symphony play his composition for the very first time.

"...the end of the semester. Austin Symphony Orchestra conductor Peter Bay kept his copy of The Technique of Orchestration..."

Jan. 31, 2003 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

All Over Creation: Surprise, Surprise

Peter Bay's work in 'Solo Symphony' revealed sides of him that hadn't been seen before

"...That's what Peter Bay gave me two weeks ago – well, not..."

July 27, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...di Tito; commissioned a new opera from Austin composer Peter Stopschinski based on Terry Galloway's play Lardo Weeping; and..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mozart Requiem Undead Receives an Encore

This Austin-generated reinvention comes to Bass Concert Hall

"...kind of collaboration. Composer-bandleader and Golden Hornet Project co-founder Peter Stopschinski had discovered a scholarly work in which the..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Austin Symphony with Caitlin Tully

Local Arts Reviews

"...Conductor Peter Bay, introducing what turned out to be an invigorating..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

On His Toes

"...downtown past the banner at Symphony Square welcoming conductor Peter Bay to Austin, the Maestro has arrived where he..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Austin Symphony Orchestra Keeps Playing From Beyond the Stage

For the second time in its 109-year history, the ASO weathers a global pandemic

"...early weeks; indeed, to this day, ASO Music Director Peter Bay wryly admits that "every meeting starts with undoing..."

June 19, 2020 Arts Feature by David Sotelo

Austin Symphony's Happy Birthday, Lenny

In its concert celebrating Bernstein, the ASO shows the composer giving his all in even the briefest of works

"...American composer. The program chosen by ASO Music Director Peter Bay favored Bernstein in small doses – selections from..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

A Maestro Prepares

Before the baton goes up, conductors have to know the score – every note of it

"...podium in Dell Hall in early April, a lot. Peter Bay, music director of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, and..."

April 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Symphony Orchestra: Roll over, Beethoven

The Austin Symphony is set on playing all nine of Beethoven's symphonies before it makes its first appearance in the Long Center in 2008

"...short weeks. Come Oct. 6 and 7, music director Peter Bay will lead the ASO through Symphony No. 1,..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Solo Symphony

When maestro Peter Bay was truly conducting, electricity charged this dance he inspired

"...a music and movement work for Austin Symphony maestro Peter Bay by Forklift Danceworks Artistic Director Allison Orr, proved..."

July 20, 2012 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Green sewer-dwellers battle purple ooze. Big, dumb fun

"...who was 18 years old when Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s “heroes on the half-shell” made its microbudgeted (i.e.,..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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