Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: June, 2023

Nathalie Stutzmann's Year One

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DEAR FRIENDS,

Welcome to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! Whether you’re here for the first time or the thousandth time, we are grateful you have chosen to attend an ASO performance, and we hope your experience is enjoyable, thought-provoking, moving, and fun.

It’s hard to believe it is already June! As we come to the close of Nathalie Stutzmann’s first season as Music Director, I’ve been reflecting on how remarkable the journey has been already. One of the privileges of working with Nathalie behind the scenes is getting to hear the story behind her intriguing interpretations. Even if you don’t know the story, you can tell there is a heightened sense of drama when she's on the podium, lending an air of excitement and freshness even to familiar works. What makes it all come together is the tremendous synergy between her and the musicians of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, who are able to translate her ideas and visions to intriguing performances of great intensity. With such a great start, it’s exciting to anticipate what the future holds.

Nathalie has been making waves everywhere she goes. The critics have been raving about her Met Opera debut: The New York Times wrote, "Stutzmann is a conductor who certainly knows how to challenge common wisdom, making for an absorbing evening.” Couldn’t have said it better myself.

In the meantime, your ASO has been hard at work making magic happen here in Atlanta, from emotional farewell performances with Sir Donald Runnicles to mentoring programs with emerging composers, education programs, movies and more. The Orchestra is always busy making Atlanta more musical and inspiring young people to pursue their dreams. Speaking of which, two of our flagship education programs finished the year strong in May. The Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra (AYSO) conquered Stravinsky’s fiendishly difficult ballet The Rite of Spring at their final performance of the year. Graduating seniors from the AYSO and the Talent Development Program are off to an impressive list of colleges, universities and conservatories, including Juilliard, Princeton, Stanford, Emory, Georgia Tech, and many more.

Last month our fiscal year ended, our ninth consecutive year with a surplus. In an era of uncertainty and recovery for the arts, we are proud of this accomplishment. And we couldn’t do it without you and your support. Thank you to our many friends and supporters who have stood by us and so generously supported the cause of great music.

We are ready to keep that momentum going forward into the 2023/24 season. In the meantime, come hear us outdoors in Piedmont Park on June 22, The Fred Amphitheater in Peachtree City on June 24, and July 1 in Centennial Olympic Park for music under the stars. Thank you for being part of this momentous year at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! With gratitude,

Jennifer Barlament, Executive Director

ASO | NATHALIE STUTZMANN

The 2022/23 season marks an exciting new era for the ASO as Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann takes her role as our fifth Music Director, making her the only woman leading a major American orchestra. She has also served as the Principal Guest Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 2021 and Chief Conductor of the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra in Norway since 2018.

Nathalie Stutzmann is considered one of the most outstanding musical personalities of our time. Charismatic musicianship combined with unique rigour, energy and fantasy characterize her style. A rich variety of strands form the core of her repertoire: Central European and Russian romanticism is a strong focus—ranging from Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms and Dvořák through to the larger symphonic forces of Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mahler, Bruckner and Strauss—as well as French 19thcentury repertoire and impressionism.

Highlights as guest conductor in the next seasons include debut performances with the Munich, New York and Helsinki Philharmonics. She will also return to the London Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris.

Having also established a strong reputation as an opera conductor, Nathalie has led celebrated productions of Wagner’s Tannhäuser in Monte Carlo and Boito’s Mefistofele at the Orange festival. She began the 2022/23 season with a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Pikovaya Dama in The Royal Theater of La Monnaie in Brussels and will make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera this season with two productions of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte reunite with Wagner’s Tannhäuser for a production at the Bayreuth in 2023.

As one of today’s most esteemed contraltos, she has done more than 80 recordings and received the most prestigious awards. Her newest album released in January 2021, Contralto, was awarded the Scherzo’s “Exceptional” seal, Opera Magazine’s Diamant d’Or and radio

RTL’s Classique d’Or. She is an exclusive recording artist of Warner Classics/Erato.

Nathalie was named “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur,” France’s highest honor, and “Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French government.

ASO | LEADERSHIP | 2022/23 Board of Directors

OFFICERS

Patrick Viguerie chair

Janine Brown immediate past chair

Keith Adams

Juliet M. Allan

Bert Mills treasurer

Angela Evans secretary

DIRECTORS

Carlos del Rio, M.D. FIDSA

Susan Antinori vice chair

Lynn Eden vice chair

Susan Antinori

Andrew Bailey

Keith Barnett

Jennifer Barlament*

Paul Blackney

Zachary Boeding*

Janine Brown

Benjamin Q. Brunt

Betsy Camp

S. Wright Caughman, M.D.

Lisa Chang

Susan Clare

Russell Currey

Sheila Lee Davies

Erroll Brown Davis, Jr.

Lisa DiFrancesco, M.D.

Sloane Drake

Lynn Eden

Yelena Epova

Angela Evans

Craig Frankel

Sally Bogle Gable

Anne Game

Rod Garcia-Escudero

Sally Frost George

Robert Glustrom

Bonnie B. Harris

Charles Harrison

Tad Hutcheson, Jr.

Roya Irvani

Joia Johnson

Chris Kopecky

Randolph J. Koporc

Carrie Kurlander

James H. Landon

Donna Lee

Sukai Liu

Kevin Lyman

Deborah Marlowe

Shelley McGehee

Arthur Mills IV

Bert Mills

Molly Minnear

Hala Moddelmog*

Anne Morgan

Terence L. Neal

Galen Lee Oelkers

Dr. John Paddock

Howard D. Palefsky

BOARD OF COUNSELORS

Neil Berman

Rita Bloom

John W. Cooledge, M.D.

John R. Donnell, Jr.

Jere A. Drummond

Carla Fackler

Charles B. Ginden

John T. Glover

Dona Humphreys

Aaron J. Johnson, Jr.

Ben F. Johnson, III

James F. Kelley

Patricia Leake

Karole F. Lloyd

LIFE DIRECTORS

Howell E. Adams, Jr.

*Ex-Officio Board Member

Connie Calhoun

Meghan H. Magruder

Penelope McPhee

Patricia H. Reid

Joyce Schwob

John A Sibley, III

H. Hamilton Smith

G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr.

James Rubright vice chair

Barbara N. Paul

Doug Reid

James Rubright

William Schultz

Charles Sharbaugh

Fahim Siddiqui

W. Ross Singletary, II

John Sparrow

Elliott Tapp

Brett Tarver

Maria Todorova

S. Patrick Viguerie

Kathy Waller

Chris Webber

John B. White, Jr.

Richard S. White, Jr.

Kevin E. Woods, M.D., M.P.H.

Michael W. Trapp

Ray Uttenhove

Chilton Varner

Adair M. White

Sue Sigmon Williams

C. Merrell Calhoun Azira G. Hill

ASO | 2022/23 Musician Roster

Nathalie Stutzmann music director

The Robert Reid Topping Chair

FIRST

VIOLIN

David Coucheron concertmaster

The Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Peevy Chair

Justin Bruns

associate concertmaster

The Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair

Vacant assistant concertmaster

Jun-Ching Lin assistant concertmaster

Anastasia Agapova acting assistant

concertmaster

Kevin Chen

Carolyn Toll Hancock

The Wells Fargo Chair

John Meisner

Christopher Pulgram

Juan R. Ramírez Hernández

Olga Shpitko

Kenn Wagner

Lisa Wiedman Yancich

Sissi Yuqing Zhang

SECTION VIOLIN ‡

Judith Cox

Raymond Leung

The Carolyn McClatchey Chair

Sanford Salzinger

SECOND VIOLIN

Vacant principal

The Atlanta Symphony Associates Chair

Sou-Chun Su acting / associate principal

The Frances Cheney Boggs Chair

Jay Christy acting associate / assistantprincipal

Dae Hee Ahn

Robert Anemone

Noriko Konno Clift

David Dillard

Sheela Iyengar**

Eun Young Jung•

Eleanor Kosek

Yaxin Tan•

Rachel Ostler

VIOLA

Zhenwei Shi principal

The Edus H. and Harriet H. Warren Chair

Paul Murphy associate principal

The Mary and Lawrence Gellerstedt Chair

Catherine Lynn assistant principal

Marian Kent

Yang-Yoon Kim

Yiyin Li

Lachlan McBane

Jessica Oudin

Madeline Sharp

CELLO

Rainer Eudeikis* principal

The Miriam and John Conant Chair

Daniel Laufer acting / associate principal

The Livingston Foundation Chair

Karen Freer acting associate / assistant principal

Thomas Carpenter

Joel Dallow

The UPS Foundation Chair

Peter Garrett•**

Brad Ritchie

Denielle Wilson•**

BASS

Joseph McFadden principal

The Marcia and John Donnell Chair

Gloria Jones Allgood associate principal

The Lucy R. & Gary Lee Jr. Chair

Karl Fenner

Michael Kenady

The Jane Little Chair

Michael Kurth

Nicholas Scholefield•

Daniel Tosky

FLUTE

Christina Smith principal

The Jill Hertz Chair

The Mabel Dorn Reeder Honorary Chair

Robert Cronin

associate principal

C. Todd Skitch

Gina Hughes

Sir Donald Runnicles

principal guest conductor; The Neil & Sue Williams Chair

PICCOLO

Gina Hughes

OBOE

Elizabeth Koch Tiscione principal

The George M. and Corrie Hoyt Brown Chair

Zachary Boeding associate principal

The Kendeda Fund Chair

Samuel Nemec

Emily Brebach

ENGLISH HORN

Emily Brebach

CLARINET

Jesse McCandless• principal

The Robert Shaw Chair

Ted Gurch

associate principal

Marci Gurnow

Alcides Rodriguez

E-FLAT CLARINET

Ted Gurch

BASS CLARINET

Alcides Rodriguez

BASSOON

Andrew Brady* principal

The Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation Chair

Anthony Georgeson acting / associate principal

Laura Najarian

Juan de Gomar

Jerry Hou resident conductor; music director of the atlanta symphony youth orchestra

The Zeist Foundation Chair

CONTRA-BASSOON

Juan de Gomar

HORN

Ryan Little• principal

The Betty Sands Fuller Chair

Susan Welty

associate principal

Kimberly Gilman

Bruce Kenney

TRUMPET

Stuart Stephenson* principal

The Madeline and Howell Adams Chair

Michael Tiscione acting / associate principal

Anthony Limoncelli

Mark Maliniak

William Cooper•**

TROMBONE

Vacant principal

The Terence L. Neal Chair, Honoring his dedication and service to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Nathan Zgonc acting / associate principal

Jason Patrick Robins

BASS TROMBONE

Vacant

The Home Depot Veterans Chair

Norman Mackenzie director of choruses

The Frannie & Bill Graves Chair

TUBA

Michael Moore principal

The Delta Air Lines Chair

TIMPANI

Mark Yancich principal

The Walter H. Bunzl Chair

Michael Stubbart assistant principal

PERCUSSION

Joseph Petrasek principal

The Julie and Arthur Montgomery Chair

Vacant assistant principal

The William A. Schwartz Chair

Michael Stubbart

The Connie and Merrell Calhoun Chair

HARP

Elisabeth Remy Johnson principal

The Sally and Carl Gable Chair

KEYBOARD

The Hugh and Jessie Hodgson Memorial Chair

Peter Marshall †

Sharon Berenson †

LIBRARY

Vacant principal

The Marianna & Solon Patterson Chair

Hannah Davis asyo / assistant librarian

Members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Advisory Council is a group of passionate and engaged individuals who act as both ambassadors and resources for the ASO Board and staff. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra extends heartfelt gratitude to the members listed on this page.

2022/23 CHAIRS

Arthur Mills, IV advisory council chair

Justin Im internal connections task force co-chair

Robert Lewis, Jr. internal connections task force co-chair

Frances Root patron experience task force chair

Jane Morrison

diversity & community connection task force co-chair

Eleina Raines

diversity & community connection task force co-chair

Cindy Smith

diversity & community connection task force co-chair

Otis Threatt

diversity & community connection task force co-chair

MEMBERS

Dr. Marshall & Stephanie Abes

Phyllis Abramson

Krystal Ahn

Paul Aldo

Kristi & Aadu Allpere

Evelyn Babey

Asad & Sakina Bashey

Herschel Beazley

Meredith W. Bell

Jane Blount

Carol Brantley & David Webster

Cristina Briboneria

Tracey Chu

Donald & Barbara Defoe

Paul & Susan Dimmick

Bernadette Drankoski

Diana Einterz

Burt Fealing

Bruce Flower

John Fuller

Tucker Green

Caroline Hofland

Justin Im

Baxter Jones & Jiong Yan

Jon Kamenear

Brian & Ann Kimsey

Jason & Michelle Kroh

Scott Lampert

Dr. Fulton Lewis III & Mr. Neal Rhoney

Robert Lewis, Jr.

Eunice Luke

Pam Martin

Belinda Massafra

Erica McVicker

Arthur Mills IV

Berthe & Shapour

Mobasser

Bert Mobley

Caroline & Phil Moïse

Sue Morgan

Jane Morrison

Tatiana Nemo

Gary Noble

Bethani Oppenheimer

Chris Owes

Margie Painter

Ralph Paulk

Regina Olchowski

Eliza Quigley

Eleina Raines

Vicki Riedel

Felicia Rives

Frances A. Root

Tiffany & Rich Rosetti

Thomas & Lynne

Saylor

Jim Schroder

Suzanne Shull

Baker Smith

Cindy Smith

Peter & Kristi

Stathopoulos

Tom & Ani Steele

Kimberly Strong

Stephen & Sonia Swartz

George & Amy Taylor

Bob & Dede Thompson

Otis Threatt Jr.

Cathy Toren

Sheila Tschinkel

Roxanne Varzi

Robert & Amy Vassey

Juliana Vincenzino

Robert Walt

Nanette Wenger

Kiki Wilson

Taylor Winn

Camille Yow

For more information about becoming an Advisory Council member, please contact Cheri Snyder at cheri.snyder@atlantasymphony.org or 404.733.4904.

with Nathalie Stutzmann

by Ashley Mirakian

s Nathalie Stutzmann’s inaugural season as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director comes to a close, we took a moment to sit down with her and reflect on the highlights of the past season, as well as take a look forward to her busy summer and the coming 2023/24 season, including some

What’s your favorite musical memory

I can’t really choose, because I give 100% of any project. But of course there were moments that we will always remember: the , and the Bach festival, and the Shostakovich with the film, Brahms Third Symphony, those were really very special experiences. The musicmaking with the orchestra is beautifully flourishing with this repertoire. It’s a nice feeling together, especially for a very young relationship.

What’s something that surprised you about Atlanta?

It’s more like discovering the city and the mentality of the people, which often goes with the weather, I have noticed! It’s for sure a much more relaxed feeling than the cities I’m used to being in. I slowly discover how people are thinking, and every place is so different. It takes a bit of time of course, but it’s fun to feel that every time I come back, I really feel a sense of home, and the

Your summer plans take you to Bayreuth and beyond. What will you do this summer to unwind, if you have

Actually, I have no time off before September because I am in Bayreuth all summer. The performances are very separated

because it’s a festival, and Tannhäuser is such a big event, so I will have to work a lot. But when the performance starts and we have some days in between, I will try to enjoy the beautiful German countryside in summer. Bayreuth is very beautiful, and it’s like a village, even as famous as it is.

I will have some time off in September when I can finally rest and enjoy the countryside at home in Switzerland and go to the lake and maybe spend a few days on the sea as well. I’ll see my family and my friends and cook French and Italian. I miss all my people so much. You know, five weeks ago I packed for five months. Five months without going home is a lot. It will be a very special moment to finally have a normal life for a couple of weeks.

There is much to look forward to in the 2023/24 season. Is there any recommended summer listening or reading that you have for our audience that would get them ready for the season?

I think some people have a little bit of a folkloric idea of the story of Dvořák 9, and it’s interesting to go back to the origins, how it was created when Dvořák arrived in America.

If there are some Bruckner lovers, there are some really good books about his life, to celebrate his birthday. It makes sense to read his biography, because he had a very lonely life. He was very religious and wanted also to dedicate his life to music.

Recommended reading: Dvořák by Kurt Honolka (available now via Google Books with photos of his time in New York)

Recommended reading: Bruckner (Master Musician’s Series) by Derek Watson (good balance of musical discussion and biography)

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Our Season Finale concert will feature a documentary you made with us called My Boléro with Nathalie Stutzmann. What do you hope audiences will learn from this film that will inform their hearing of this very familiar piece?

Many people might have an idea (about Boléro) which reminds them of a happy feeling because the rhythm of the Boléro is from Spain, originally, and it sounds like something more related to the country atmosphere.

And I think what was so revelatory for us all in our project of Boléro is that we are playing the ballet version. The ballet version is revelatory to what Boléro really is, because when it was created in Paris, the danger of it was very clear, the anxiousness of it. We believe the ballet was imagined with this woman dancer on the table surrounded by men, with knives, and we can guess that at the end, it’s very violent. She tries to protect herself. She dances, but she also feels that she attracts the eyes and attention of the men around her.

This version tells a story in the first rhythm in the beginning, and it’s not something happy. In fact, the pianissimo rhythm itself means danger, and especially with the drums that we have, the original military kind used in the ballet. Basically, the sum of it is that the ballet version reveals to the world what Ravel really meant in writing the ballet, in this infernal mechanical and obsessive rhythm, which brings out the essence of the pulse, which is then bringing out the mania of the onlookers.

ASO | SEASON SPONSORS

We are deeply grateful to the following leadership donors whose generous support has made the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's season possible.

ANNUAL FUND SUPPORT

As we celebrate Donor Appreciation Week this month from June 12-18, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is honored to recognize and share our tremendous thanks to the over-400 individuals listed below who have supported the Annual Fund for 25 years or more. These extraordinary commitments have created the music of the ASO for decades, and we could not be more grateful for the enduring support represented by these generous gifts.

Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Farnham

YEARS OF GIVING

A Friend of the Symphony (4)

Ms. Lu Allgood

Mrs. Elizabeth G. Arden

Lisa & Joe Bankoff

Susan & Jack Bertram

Mr. Merritt S. Bond

Jacqueline A. & Joseph E. Brown, Jr.

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Callahan

Peggy & Tony Clarke

Dr. John W. Cooledge

Marcia & John Donnell

Mrs. Murlene L. Dubay

Betty W. Dykes

Mary Frances Early

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge

Eleanor & Charles

Edmondson

Jan Francis & Doug Bailey

The Gable Foundation

Dr. & Mrs. John C. Garrett

Mr. & Mrs. Lendon D. Gibbs

Sandra & John Glover

Mr. & Mrs.

Marion B. Glover

David Goldsmith

Mrs. Anne Haltiwanger

Mrs. E. Lewis Hansen

Mrs. Mary Ann Hart

Martha Reaves Head

Azira G. Hill

Alan & Lucy Hinman

Dona & Bill Humphreys

Barbara M. Hund

Ms. Rebecca Jarvis

Dick & Georgia Kimball

James H. Landon

Jack & Margaret Langford

Lillian Balentine Law

Pat & Nolan Leake

Barbara & Jim

MacGinnitie

Elvira & Jay Mannelly

John & Linda Matthews

Dr. Patricia Moulton

Dr. & Mrs. John Nelson

Mrs. Clarence L. Peeler

Mr. Andreas Penninger

In Memory of

Dr. Frank S. Pittman III

James E. & Sharon V.*

Radford

Mr. & Mrs.

Joel F. Reeves

Dick Schweitzer

Dr. & Mrs.

George P. Sessions

Beverly & Milton Shlapak

Alida & Stuart Silverman

Dr. Steven & Lynne Steindel

Beth & Edward

Sugarman

Kay R. Summers

Mr. G. Kimbrough

Taylor & Ms. Triska Drake

Dede & Bob Thompson

Trapp Family

Burton Trimble

Chilton & Morgan

Varner

Mr. & Mrs.

Joseph B. Vivona

Dr. & Mrs.

James O. Wells, Jr.

Dr. Nanette K. Wenger

Mrs. Sue S. Williams

Kiki Wilson

Mr. & Mrs.

M. Beattie Wood

Camille W. Yow

YEARS OF GIVING

A Friend of the Symphony (8)

Mr. & Mrs.

Alfred G. Adams

Madeline* & Howell E. Adams, Jr.

Judy & Dick Allison

Julie & Jim Balloun

Brian & Roberta Barber

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Bass

Guy M. Benian

Kelley O. & Neil H. Berman

Catherine Binns & Jim Honkisz

Rita Bissell

Shirley Blaine

Mrs. Inge Bledel

Dr. & Mrs.

Donald Block

Dr. & Mrs.

Jerome B. Blumenthal

Suzanne & Rob Boas

Mr. & Mrs.

William M. Bond

Leon & Joy Borchers

Mrs. Joy Borra

John A. Brazee

Sidney & Bernice

Breibart

Malcolm A. Bryan

Ms. Shirley H. Burk

Mr. & Mrs.

Alfred W. Busby

Dr. Aubrey Bush & Dr. Carol Bush

Connie & Merrell

Calhoun

M. Linda Cangelose

Mr. & Mrs.

Walter K. Canipe

Dewye & Russell Cason

Frank & Mary Anne Chew

William & Gayle

Christian

Mr. Michael J. Clifford & Ms. Sandra L. Murray

Mr. Jerold Cohen

Malcolm & Ann Cole

D. D. Conrad

Mrs. Irene M.

Constantinides

Jean & Jerry Cooper

Ms. Sima R. Cooperman & Ms. Janet A. Habas

Dean & Linda Copeland

Gray & Marge Crouse

Dr. & Mrs.

F. Thomas Daly, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs.

Joaquin R. Davila

Dr. & Mrs. S. Carter Davis Jr.

Peter & Vivian de Kok

Mr. Richard H. Delay & Dr. Francine D. Dykes

Miriam A. Drake

Gregory & Debra

Durden

Ms. Diane Durgin

Elizabeth Eakes

Drs. Bryan & Norma

Edwards

Mrs. Merrill B. Ellis

Dr. David Epstein & Ms. Stacey Hader Epstein

Marcia & Jacob* Epstein

Dr. & Mrs.

Carl D. Fackler

Ms. Jane E. Fahey & Mr. Emmet J. Bondurant II

Rosi Fiedotin

Dr. Allen B. Filstein

Mrs. Judith L. Finkel

Mr. & Mrs.

Stanford B. Firestone

Mr. & Mrs.

Daniel H. Forsyth, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs.

Gerald V. Frost

Bill & Carolyn Gaik

Mary Anne Gaunt

Mary* & Charles Ginden

Dr. & Mrs.

Martin I. Goldstein

Mr. & Mrs.

John L. Gornall, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs.

James N. Grace

Mr. & Mrs.

William L. Graves

Joan S. & William A.

Gray

Richard & Debbie

Griffiths

Dr. Jon P. Gunnemann & Dr. Karin V.

Gunnemann

Dr. John & Victoria

Haberlen

Mr. & Mrs. Pearce D.

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Mr. & Mrs.

David C. Huffman

Pamela P. Ingram

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Ms. Betty G. Jeter

Aaron & Joyce Johnson

Ann A. & Ben F.

Johnson III

Mr. & Mrs.*

Lynn H. Johnston

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Johnston

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William L. & Sally S.

Jorden

Mr. & Mrs.

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William C. Land, Jr.

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William G. Loventhal

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Leonard Sacks

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Scharbo-DeHaan

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Smith

Anne-Marie Sparrow

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Esther & Jim Stokes

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Willard & Wanda Timm

C. Barry & Louisa Titus

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John & Ray Uttenhove

Lee Harper & Wayne Vason

Amy & Robert Vassey

Drs. Jonne & Paul Walter

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Watkins

Alice P. Watson & Kim Morris

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Robert E. Weaver

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Carol Brantley & David Webster

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Concerts of Thursday, June 8, 2023 8:00pm Saturday, June 10, 2023 8:00pm

ANDREW MANZE, conductor

LEILA JOSEFOWICZ, violin

MODEST MUSSORGSKY (1839–1881)

A Night on Bald Mountain (1867) 12 MINS (Arranged by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov—1886)

HELEN GRIME (b. 1981)

Violin Concerto (2016) 22 MINS

Leila Josefowicz, violin

INTERMISSION 20 MINS

SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873–1943)

Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44 (1936) 39 MINS

I. Lento — Allegro moderato

II. Adagio ma non troppo

III. Allegro

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A Night on Bald Mountain

This arrangement of Night on Bald Mountain is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and strings.

by Noel Morris Program Annotator

First ASO performance: October 22, 1956

Henry Sopkin, conductor

Most recent ASO performances: May 7–9, 1998

In 1862, the St. Petersburg Conservatory opened its doors, causing a backlash from feisty purists. They howled at the introduction of foreign elements into Russian music, an age-old prejudice (Russia had had a long history of censorship, at times even banning the use of musical instruments). With the opening of the Conservatory, the music community drew a line in the sand: there were those who welcomed the school (Tchaikovsky was a member of its first graduating class) and those who rejected its teachings—the unapologetic amateurs. One particularly famous group of amateur/nationalists came to be known as “the mighty handful” or “the Russian Five,” a collective that included Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Alexander Borodin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Modest Mussorgsky

Yoel Levi, conductor

As a youngster, Mussorgsky had taken piano lessons with his mother. He went to boarding school and eventually landed in a military academy. From there, he became a commissioned officer, but all along continued to take music lessons. As a young adult, he aligned himself with other amateur composers (four of the Russian Five had day jobs) who saw themselves as the champions of the native Russian music. Eventually, his friend Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov tempered the schism by becoming a professor at the Conservatory.

In the early days of his job at the Conservatory, “Rimsky” felt self-conscious about his lack of formal training. He couldn’t bear having students whose skills exceeded his own, and so he embarked upon a self-guided study of counterpoint. He wrote pages and pages of exercises and sent them to Tchaikovsky to be corrected. Applying a yeoman’s work ethic, Rimsky developed into a proficient craftsman and went on to write an influential book on orchestration. This becomes an important plot point in the story of Night on Bald Mountain

In spite of his military career, Mussorgsky had the soul of a musician and made many attempts at writing music. Follow-through (and, perhaps, lack of technique) became his biggest adversary.

Around 1858, he toyed with an opera based on Gogol’s short story St. John’s Eve. He abandoned the project but repurposed its

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material into an opera about the witches’ sabbath after a play by Baron Georgiy Mengden.

“So far as my memory doesn’t deceive me, the witches used to gather on this mountain,” wrote Mussorgsky. “[They would] gossip, play tricks and await their chief—Satan. On his arrival they … formed a circle round the throne on which he sat, in the form of a goat, and sang his praise. When Satan was worked up into a sufficient passion by the witches’ praises, he gave the command for the sabbath, in which he chose for himself the witches who caught his fancy.”

Again, the ambition to write an opera fizzled, but this vivid scenario found its way into a tone poem titled St. John’s Eve on the Mountain in 1867, a piece he wrote in just 12 days.

“I didn’t sleep at night and actually finished the work on the eve of St. John’s Day,” he wrote and proudly added the descriptor: “I see in my wicked prank an independent Russian product, free from German profundity and routine, and, like Savishna, grown on our native fields and nurtured on Russian bread.”

He showed his piece to Balakirev, who told him it needed work. Rimsky-Korsakov agreed, and Mussorgsky set it aside. Sadly, Mussorgsky’s promise didn’t amount to more than a handful of successful works, including the opera Boris Gudonov, Pictures at an Exhibition, and A Night on Bald Mountain. He drank himself to death at the age of forty-three, dealing a heavy blow to Russian nationalists. Over the years, Rimsky-Korsakov labored to protect Mussorgsky’s legacy by ordering, completing and “correcting” his works. A Night on Bald Mountain is one of these projects, a successful concert piece that owes its existence (in truth) to two composers, not one.

St. John’s Day

St. John’s Day is the feast day of John the Baptist, marking his birth six months before the birth of Christ. In popular folklore, the holy day inspired a range of traditions, from great bonfires on the Eve of St. John’s Day to fantastic tales of witches’ orgies. In the tone poem A Night on Bald Mountain, the wicked ladies have a romp with Satan until the morning church bells drive them away.

These are the first ASO performances

Violin Concerto

In addition to the solo violin, this concerto is scored for two flutes (one doubling piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets (one doubling E-flat clarinet), two bassoons (one doubling contrabassoon), two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, percussion, harp, celeste and strings.

The music of Helen Grime has been performed by leading orchestras around the world, among them the London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductors who have championed her music include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Pierre Boulez, Kent Nagano, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Daniel Harding, Marin Alsop and Thomas Dausgaard. Her music frequently draws inspiration from related artforms such as painting (Two Eardley Pictures, Three Whistler Miniatures), sculpture (Woven Space) and literature A Cold Spring, Near Midnight, Limina) and has won praise in equal measure for the craftsmanship of its construction and the urgency of its telling.

Born in 1981, Helen Grime attended St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and studied at the Royal College of Music with Julian Anderson and Edwin Roxburgh (composition) and John Anderson (oboe).  She came to public attention in 2003, when her Oboe Concerto won a British Composer Award.  In 2008 she was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to attend the Tanglewood Music Center where she studied with John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi, Shulamit Ran and Augusta Read Thomas. Grime was a Legal and General Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music from 2007 to 2009. Between 2011 and 2015 she was Associate Composer to the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and in 2016 was appointed Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall in London. She was Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2010 and 2017 and is currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was appointed MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours List for services to music.

Recent works include Woven Space (2017), which was commissioned by the Barbican for Sir Simon Rattle’s inaugural season as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, a Percussion Concerto for Colin Currie, which received its premiere performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

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conducted by Marin Alsop in January 2019, Limina a co-commission for Tanglewood Music Center and Boston Symphony Orchestra, and  Meditations on Joy  for the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the BBC.

From the composer:

My Violin Concerto came about after several collaborations with Malin Broman and many years of gestation. We first worked together with Malin’s piano trio (Kungsbacka Trio) but I also had chance to work with the orchestra, conducted by Daniel Harding with Malin leading, in 2010. I was immediately struck by the ferocity, power and passion in her playing. At turns she is able to play with a sort of wild abandon but also with great tenderness, sensitivity and with many different colors. I knew when we started talking about the piece some years back, that I wanted to highlight and showcase these striking, opposing qualities. Violent, virtuosic music covering the whole range of the violin is contrasted with more delicate and reflective filigree material that features oscillating natural harmonic passages and searching melodies. Towards the beginning of the writing process, I sent Malin various fragments of material and many of these are used in the concerto. These initial sketches actually became the basis for the piece’s central section and everything else sprung from this. In one continuous movement, the piece falls into three main sections but features extensive dreamlike interlinking passages that connect them.

Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44

This symphony is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, celeste and strings.

First ASO performance:

November 5, 1955

Henry Sopkin, conductor

Most recent

ASO performances:

October 12–14, 2017

Robert Spano, conductor

On a rainy spring day in 1902, Sergei Rachmaninov entered a military chapel to wed Natalia Satina, his first cousin. It had been a rocky engagement. The Orthodox Church frowned upon marriage between cousins. So did her parents. To make matters worse, the composer often skipped church. After refusing to go to confession, Rachmaninov couldn’t get a marriage certificate. For three years, the couple drifted in limbo until he found a priest who didn't answer to the Holy Synod, one who was a military man.

They arranged for a small ceremony with just two witnesses. With the tsar's blessing, Sergei and Natalia married. They honeymooned in Vienna, Italy, and Lucerne.

“Living here [Lucerne] is not bad,” he wrote. “The country is very beautiful, and the air is lovely. The only pity is that there is but one road for walks. But this is a lovely road: through pine forests with beautiful views all the way.”

By then, Rachmaninov was 29 and among Russia’s most prominent musicians. A decade before, he had stunned the musical establishment with two exceptional student compositions (a piano concerto and an opera). He soon proved to be a natural conductor and an unrivaled pianist. His only stumbling block was in the symphonic form. At 24, he wrote a symphony that nearly ruined him.

Some blame the performance. Others point to the alleged drunkenness of the conductor. Whatever the reason, the premiere of his First Symphony was a disaster, and the criticism ran across him like battery acid. Rachmaninov grew to hate the piece and sank into depression. For three years, he didn't write a note. Then, in 1900, a doctor used hypnosis to guide him out of his malaise. Once again, the creative juices stirred, and Rachmaninov wrote the wildly popular Piano Concerto No. 2.

Over the coming years, Sergei and Natalia had two daughters and grew into the Russian musical establishment. Rachmaninov overcame his demons to write a Second Symphony, winning accolades in 1908. Then, in 1917, the earth shifted beneath their feet—the Bolsheviks seized power. Unwilling to adapt to the new regime, the composer informed Soviet authorities he was playing concerts in Scandinavia, loaded the family into an open sleigh and crossed into Finland. He never went back. At 44, Sergei Rachmaninov started over. No longer a sought-after composer of cantatas, operas, chamber, choral and orchestral works, he moved his family to New York City and became a touring pianist.

In 1930, Rachmaninov was in the midst of a European tour when he and Natalia passed through Lucerne—the place where they had honeymooned 28 years before. Once again, they marveled at the limestone cliffs and the aquamarine waters. On impulse, they purchased a lakeside lot. There, they built a summer home and put their names together to christen it “Senar” (Sergei-Natalia-Rachmaninov).

“Here is just the silence and tranquility that I need so much,” he

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said. Lake Lucerne proved to be a balm for the exiled composer and an inspiration for more music. Over the coming summers, he wrote his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (1934) and followed it with the Third Symphony (1935–1936).

Rachmaninov used a three-movement structure for his new symphony, merging the scherzo and slow movement. Thematically, he crafted an opening that recalls the sound of Orthodox chant, setting the tone for the work and creating the thread that knits the piece together. The Third Symphony is one of only six compositions written by Sergei Rachmaninov in 25 years of exile.

ANDREW MANZE, CONDUCTOR

ndrew Manze has been Chief Conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Hannover, since September 2014 and his contract has been extended until summer 2023. Since 2018, he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

The 22/23 season sees the NDR Radiophilharmonie return to Japan for a busy touring schedule. Manze and the orchestra have embarked on a major series of award-winning recordings for Pentatone, focused on the works of Mendelssohn and Mozart. The first recording in the Mendelssohn series won the Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik. Manze has also recorded a cycle of the complete Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for Onyx Classics to critical acclaim. In the 22/23 season Manze makes his operatic debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, conducting performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas alongside Schoenberg’s Erwartung, in collaboration with artistic director Serge Dorny. Other highlights of the 22/23 season include engagements with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra, and conducting performances with the WDR Symphony as part of the Klavierfest Ruhr.

Manze is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, Visiting Professor at the Oslo Academy, and has contributed to new editions of sonatas and concerti by Bach and Mozart, published by Bärenreiter, Breitkopf and Härtel. He also teaches, writes about, and edits music, as well as broadcasting regularly on radio and television. In November 2011 Andrew Manze received the prestigious ‘Rolf Schock Prize’ in Stockholm.

LEILA JOSEFOWICZ, VIOLIN

Leila Josefowicz’s passionate advocacy of contemporary music for the violin is reflected in her diverse programs and enthusiasm for performing new works. A favorite of living composers, Josefowicz has premiered many concertos, including those by Colin Matthews, Luca Francesconi, John Adams and Esa-Pekka Salonen, all written specially for her.

Following summer performances at Sun Valley Music Festival and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Josefowicz’s season begins with a return to Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra with Susanna Mälkki and the Austrian premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Assonanza

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with Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Wien Modern Festival. The 2022/23 season sees the introduction of Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto into Josefowicz’s repertoire which she premiered with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, and, as part of a special triple bill of three contemporary concerti by Hartmann, Adès and Grime, with Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska. Further orchestral dates include Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, and Vancouver, Detroit and Atlanta symphonies, and Konzerthausorchester Berlin, NDR Elbphilharmonie and Valencia Symphony Orchestra.

Highlights of recent seasons include working with Berliner Philharmoniker, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Royal Concertgebouworkest, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Oslo Philharmonic, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, The Cleveland, and The Philadelphia Orchestras, where she worked with conductors at the highest level, including Matthias Pintscher, John Storgårds, EsaPekka Salonen, Louis Langrée, Hannu Lintu and John Adams.

Josefowicz has released several recordings, notably for Deutsche Grammophon, Philips/Universal and Warner Classics and was featured on Touch Press’s acclaimed iPad app, “The Orchestra.” Her latest recording, released in 2019, features Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Violin Concerto with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu. She has previously received nominations for Grammy Awards for her recordings of Scheherazade.2 with St. Louis Symphony conducted by David Robertson, and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Violin Concerto with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.

In recognition of her outstanding achievement and excellence in music, she won the 2018 Avery Fisher Prize and was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2008, joining prominent scientists, writers and musicians who have made unique contributions to contemporary life.

Concerts of Thursday, June 15, 2023 8:00 PM Saturday, June 17, 2023

8:00 PM

Sunday, June 18, 2023

1:00 PM

RICHARD

LISE DE LA SALLE, piano

Thursday’s concert is dedicated to JOHN D. FULLER in honor of his extraordinary support of the 2021/22 Annual Fund.

Saturday’s concert is dedicated to JOHN R. PADDOCK, PH.D. & KAREN M. SCHWARTZ, PH.D. in honor of their extraordinary support of the 2021/22 Annual Fund.

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NATHALIE STUTZMANN, conductor

Overture to Tannhäuser

This overture is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings.

“If Wagner had lived in this century, he would have been the No. 1 film composer,” said Max Steiner.

by Noel Morris Program Annotator

First ASO performance:

November 25, 1952

Henry Sopkin, conductor

Most recent ASO performances:

February 16–18, 1995

Yoel Levi, conductor

Wagner’s vision of stagecraft forever changed theatre; it changed Hollywood before its advent and altered our concept of harmony, philosophy, and literature. Of course, being a one-person revolutionary is tough. People often resist radical change. And while Wagner had tasted some success, he faced tremendous headwinds in 1845—not just of the operatic kind. He said and did things that were offensive, unethical and sometimes illegal. But that’s a story for another time.

From 1833 to 1842, Richard Wagner moved around Europe, working as a conductor and seeking opera houses that would produce his works according to his specifications. In 1842, he started sketching the libretto for Tannhäuser, pulling threads from history, medieval literature, folklore and mythology.

The Venusberg

Venusberg is a fairyland or otherworld inhabited by Venus, the goddess of love. In German folklore, a mortal man crosses into Venusberg to become her lover. In some versions of the story, he then journeys to Rome, seeking forgiveness from the pope. In Wagner’s version, the pope says to Tannhäuser: “As this staff in my hand no more shall bear fresh leaves, from the hot fires of hell, salvation never shall bloom for thee.”

Wartburg Song Contest

According to tradition, the Wartburg Castle hosted a song contest in 1207, inviting Minnesänger, or minstrels, to compete for a prize. In the opera, Tannhäuser enters the competition to win back the chaste Elizabeth but commits the ultimate faux pas: he sings of his immoral communion with Venus. An angry mob of Christians surrounds him. Elizabeth intercedes on his behalf. The lord of the castle sends him on a pilgrimage to Rome. Months later, the pilgrims return; Tannhäuser isn’t among them. Stricken with grief, Elizabeth dies. Tannhäuser returns in time to witness her funeral procession and falls dead. In the

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end, a group of pilgrims arrives with a miraculous tree branch—the pope’s staff. And it is in bloom.

The Overture to Tannhäuser opens with music from the famous “Pilgrim’s Chorus.” In the opera, the weary pilgrims (who have angelic singing voices) approach from offstage. Their music swells as they make their way across the stage and recedes as they continue their journey. The overture mirrors their entrance, starting with hushed horns and winds. It erupts like Vesuvius into a full-on orchestral barrage that takes us to the opening scene in Venusberg.

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37

First ASO performance:

January 18, 1951

Henry Sopkin, conductor

Hugh Hodgson, piano

Most recent ASO performances:

February 1–3, 2018

Robert Spano, conductor

Jorge Federico Osorio, piano

In addition to the solo piano, this concerto is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.

In 1787, the Emperor’s brother agreed to sponsor 16-yearold Beethoven on a major excursion: the boy would go to Vienna to study with the celebrated composer Mozart. At that point, Beethoven was already handy as a church organist, rehearsal pianist, string player and harpsichordist in the court orchestra. He was especially dazzling at the piano, a relatively new invention that had only recently become widespread.

In March, the teenager climbed into a coach and made the nearly three-week-long journey to the Austrian capital. It’s possible he met Mozart (reports are unconfirmed), but a message followed him there: his mother lay dying.

Beethoven hurried home, making it back in time to say goodbye. He remained in Bonn for another five years until he received another grant to travel to Vienna. By that time, Mozart had died, and Haydn was to be his teacher—not a particularly good fit. The two composers had a series of strained meetings, but the taste of success turned Beethoven’s head away from more lessons.

Almost immediately, he was teaching and performing in palaces around the city. The noble houses gleefully opened their doors to this thundering and tempestuous young pianist. He built a reputation and wrote piles of piano music to show off his skills. It wasn’t until 1800, more than seven years later, that he organized his first public performance before the Viennese. Billed as a concert “for his own benefit,” Beethoven premiered his First Symphony, conducted music by Haydn and Mozart, and played an original piano concerto. He had intended to premiere his Third Piano Concerto that night, but the

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piece wasn’t ready (and wouldn’t be for another three years).

In early 1803, Emanuel Schikaneder appointed Beethoven composer at the new Theater an der Wien and gave him an apartment on the property. Living rent-free, Beethoven invited his brother Carl to move in with him and continued to write music. In early 1803, he produced the oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives and the famous Kreutzer Sonata.

In the spring, Beethoven hosted another benefit concert, assembling a ragtag orchestra and chorus (the city’s top musicians were playing another event). Starting at 8:00 AM, Beethoven drilled the musicians for a grueling 10-hour rehearsal that ended just before the doors opened. That night, he presented his Symphony No. 1, plus three world premieres: the Symphony No. 2, the new oratorio, and the Third Piano Concerto. Beethoven himself played the solo piano part during the concerto. His page-turner, one Ignaz von Seyfried, gave an eyewitness account.

“I saw almost nothing but empty leaves,” wrote Seyfried, “At the most, on one page or another, a few Egyptian hieroglyphs, wholly unintelligible to me, were scribbled down to serve as clues for him; for he played nearly all of the solo part from memory since, as was so often the case, he had not had time to set it all down on paper. He gave me a secret glance whenever he was at the end of one of the invisible passages, and my scarcely concealable anxiety not to miss the decisive moment amused him greatly. And he laughed heartily during the jovial supper which we ate afterward.”

Le tombeau de Couperin

Le tombeau de Couperin is scored for two flutes (one doubling piccolo), two oboes (one doubling English horn), two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, trumpet, harp and strings.

“He drove a truck or an ambulance in the war,” recalled Igor Stravinsky, “And I admired him for it because at his age and with his name, he could have had an easier place—or done nothing.”

First ASO performances: March 5–6, 1959

Henry Sopkin, conductor

Most recent

ASO performances: November 15–18, 2020

Robert Spano, conductor

When Germany declared war on France in August 1914, the 39-yearold composer Maurice Ravel made several attempts to enlist. Initially, he thought he might be a pilot or perhaps an observer in the French air force but failed the physical. And so it was, in 1915, he volunteered as a driver—it nearly broke him.

“He looked rather pathetic in his uniform,” said Stravinsky. “So small. He was two or three inches smaller than I am.” Stravinsky was around 5'3".

In the early months of WWI, Ravel expressed his patriotism through music: he started to compose a suite based on French Baroque dances for piano, an homage to François Couperin and a golden age in French composition.

“No, it isn’t what you think: ‘La Marseillaise’ will not be in it. But it will have a forlane and a gigue; no tango, however,” he joked. (At that time, the tango was all the rage in Paris—and quite scandalous.)

In 1916, Ravel was sent to the front lines and served at the Battle of Verdun. By 1917, he suffered from what was likely PTSD, a heart condition, frostbite and complications from dysentery. During a long recovery, he returned to work on his French suite, now titled  Le tombeau de Couperin,  with each movement serving as a memorial to a friend who had died in the War (tombeau means tomb or musical memorial). The last was a toccata dedicated to Joseph de Marliave, husband of pianist Marguerite Long—the woman who played the first performance in 1919.

Ravel typically composed for the piano first and made orchestrations later. In 1919, he arranged four of the movements of  Tombeau for orchestra. Some critics noted that  Le tombeau de Couperin is not particularly somber, to which Ravel replied: “The dead are sad enough in their eternal silence.”

In 1975, dance legend Georges Balanchine, who had worked with Ravel, made a ballet of Tombeau to commemorate Ravel’s centennial.

First ASO performance:

November 24, 1954

Henry Sopkin, conductor

Most recent ASO performances: April 22, 2023

Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor

Boléro

Boléro is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes (one doubling oboe d’amore), English horn, two clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, three saxophones (sopranino, soprano, alto), four horns, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, two harps, celeste and strings.

In the aftermath of World War I, Maurice Ravel, the one-time night owl and man about town, was a shell of himself. Service on the front lines left him with insomnia, depression and anxiety. He continued to compose but slowed to roughly one work per year. By then, people considered him an elder statesman of French music, which left him open to criticism from the younger generation.

To escape the bustle and backbiting, he left Paris in 1921 to live in

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a cottage in Montfort-l’Amaury, 30 miles outside the city. There he threw himself into the design and decoration of his home, curating his garden with the care of a landscape architect. Inside, he laid out his mechanical toy collection and antique goods as if assembling a work of art. The little house he called Le Belvédère, “beautiful view,” gave him privacy and space to breathe. By 1925, he was back on his feet and busy as a touring conductor and pianist.

In 1927, the famous choreographer Ida Rubinstein asked him to write a “fandango” for an Iberian-themed production. Although he agreed to the project, he took his time with it. In January, he embarked on a North American tour, visiting Harlem jazz clubs with George Gershwin. Around performances, he saw the Grand Canyon, New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and Niagara Falls. Upon his return to France, Rubinstein reminded him of his obligation, but he produced nothing until August.  He was vacationing in Saint-Jean-de-Luz when he called a friend over to the piano and played a tune. “Don’t you think this tune has a certain insistent quality?” he asked. Soon, the composer would turn that tune into his most famous piece.

Ravel had a mind like a clockmaker and sometimes approached composition as if he were solving a 3-D puzzle. (He once set out to write music’s most challenging piano piece, Gaspard de la nuit). With  Boléro, he gave himself a different sort of puzzle: he aspired to make an essay on orchestral color. To achieve this, he eschewed other musical elements—Boléro has zero melodic development. The tune, the harmonies, and the rhythms all stay the same. To build drama, the composer layered instrument upon instrument. And that he did brilliantly.

Ravel wrote Boléro at his home in Montfort-l’Amaury. Ida Rubinstein’s ballet troupe danced the premiere at the Paris Opera in November 1928, and orchestras worldwide hurried to play it. Later, he reportedly told Arthur Honneger, “I’ve written only one masterpiece—Boléro Unfortunately, it has no music in it.” Happily, fans disagree.

For more insights into this work, read the interview on page 17 regarding our new documentary: My Boléro with Nathalie Stutzmann.

LISE DE LA SALLE, PIANO

Anative of France, Lise de la Salle first came to international attention in 2005, at the age of 16, with a Bach/Liszt recording that Gramophone Magazine selected as “Recording of the Month.” De la Salle, who records for the Naïve label, was then similarly recognized in 2008 for her recording of the first concertos of Liszt, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich – a remarkable feat for someone only 20 years old. Recent recordings offer works of Schumann, the Complete Works of Rachmaninov for Piano and Orchestra with Fabio Luisi and the Philharmonia Zurich and the acclaimed Bach Unlimited. Spring 2021 season saw the release of her most recent recording When Do We Dance? on Naïve, which presents an odyssey of dance inspired works from around the globe that span a century.

De la Salle has played with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. She made her London Symphony Orchestra debut with Fabio Luisi and in 2016 returned to the orchestra with Antonio Pappano. Luisi, who invited her to become the first Artist-in-Residence of the Zurich Opera in 2014, has also frequently featured Ms. de la Salle with the Vienna Symphony, including a performance in New York on the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center. In the U.S., Ms. de la Salle has played with the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, and four times with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, among others. In her second appearance with the Minnesota Orchestra, she played the Gershwin Concerto in F, a performance that inspired one critic to exclaim, “She might just be the most exciting young artist in classical music right now.”

In recent seasons, Ms. de la Salle has appeared with leading symphonic ensembles in London, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Baltimore, Detroit, Dallas, and Atlanta, among others, with such esteemed conductors as Osmo Vanska, James Conlon, Karina Canellakis, and Lionel Bringuier. A sought-after recitalist, she has captivated enthusiastic audiences and critics in major series in New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto, and at the Philharmonie in Berlin, Wigmore Hall in London, the Louvre in Paris, and colleges and universities around the country.

Ms. de la Salle also takes pleasure in educational outreach and conducts master classes in many of the cities in which she performs.

Born in Cherbourg, France in 1988, Ms. de la Salle was surrounded by music from her earliest childhood. She began studying the piano at

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the age of four and gave her first concert at nine in a live broadcast on Radio-France. When she was eleven, Ms. de la Salle received special permission to enter the Paris Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique to study with Pierre Réach. At thirteen, she made her concerto debut with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in Avignon, and her Paris recital debut at the Louvre before going on tour with the Orchestre National d’Ile de France playing Haydn’s Concerto in D Major. Ms. de la Salle graduated in 2001 and subsequently enrolled in the postgraduate cycle with Bruno Rigutto. Since 1997, she has worked closely with Pascal Nemirovski and studied with Genevieve Joy-Dutilleux.

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:

One Classical Solo (oratorio aria or artsong preferred - accompanist provided) Scales (major or minor, sung unaccompanied)

Pitch Memory Drills

Intervals

Sight-Reading

Short Written Theory Test

AUG 27/28, 2023

To make an audition appointment: 404.733.4876 | asochorus.org

ASO | SUPPORT

TheAtlanta Symphony Orchestra continues to prosper thanks to the support of our generous patrons. The list below recognizes the donors who have made contributions since June 1, 2021. Their extraordinary generosity provides the foundation for this world-class institution.

$1,000,000+ A Friend of the Symphony∞

$100,000+

1180 Peachtree

The Antinori Foundation

The Molly Blank Fund of

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation∞

The Coca-Cola Company

Sheila L. & Jonathan J. Davies

Delta Air Lines

Lettie Pate Evans Foundation

Barney M. Franklin & Hugh W. Burke Charitable Fund

Georgia Power Company

The Home Depot Foundation

Invesco QQQ

Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation∞

Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc.

Amy W. Norman Charitable

Foundation

Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr.°∞

The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

Alston & Bird LLP

$50,000+

$75,000+ Accenture LLP

The John & Rosemary Brown Family Foundation

Cadence Bank

Thalia & Michael C. Carlos Advised Fund

$35,000+

Sally & Larry Davis

The Roy & Janet Dorsey Foundation

EY, Partners & Employees

John D. Fuller∞

$25,000+

Aadu & Kristi Allpere°

Jennifer Barlament & Kenneth Potsic

Paul & Linnea Bert

Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney

Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr.

Connie & Merrell Calhoun

Chick-fil-A

John W. Cooledge

The Jim Cox, Jr. Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Erroll B. Davis, Jr.∞

Mr. Richard H. Delay & Dr. Francine D. Dykes∞

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Thalia & Michael C. Carlos Foundation

City of Atlanta

Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs

Ms. Lynn Eden

Emerald Gate Charitable Trust

Ms. Angela L. Evans∞

The Gable Foundation

Fulton County Arts & Culture Google

Donna Lee & Howard Ehni

National Endowment for the Arts

John R. Paddock, Ph.D. & Karen M. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Marina Fahim°

Betty Sands Fuller*

Dick & Anne Game°

Sally & Walter George

Jeannette Guarner, MD & Carlos del Rio, MD

The Halle Foundation

Bonnie & Jay Harris

League of American Orchestras

Livingston Foundation, Inc.

The Marcus Foundation, Inc.∞

Massey Charitable Trust

John & Linda Matthews∞

Moore Colson, CPAs & Bert & Carmen Mills

PNC Slumgullion Charitable Fund

Georgia Council for the Arts

Graphic Packaging International, Inc.

The Graves Foundation

Gary Lee, Jr.

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Truist

David, Helen & Marian Woodward Fund, Atlanta

Sally & Pete Parsonson∞

Patty & Doug Reid

Mary & Jim Rubright

Patrick & Susie Viguerie

Mr.* & Mrs. Edus H. Warren, Jr.

Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley

Northside Hospital

Novelis

Victoria & Howard Palefsky

Mr. Tyler Perry

Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc.

Bill & Rachel Schultz°

June & John Scott∞

Ross & Sally Singletary

Mr. G. Kimbrough Taylor & Ms. Triska Drake

Troutman Pepper

Kathy Waller & Kenneth Goggins

WarnerMedia

Mrs. Sue S. Williams

$17,500+

A Friend of the Symphony

Mr. Keith Adams & Ms. Kerry Heyward°

John & Juliet Allan

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bailey

Benjamin Q. Brunt

Wright & Alison Caughman

Choate Bridges Foundation

Russell Currey & Amy Durrell

Cari K. Dawson & John M. Sparrow

Maria & Rodrigo Garcia-Escudero

Mr. Max M. Gilstrap∞

Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Harrison

The Estate of John H. Head

The Hertz Family Foundation, Inc.

Azira G. Hill

James H. Landon

The Ray M. & Mary Elizabeth Lee Foundation, Inc.

Mr. Kevin Lyman & Dr. Jennifer Lyman

Ms. Deborah A. Marlowe & Dr. Clint Lawrence

Terence L. & Jeanne Perrine Neal°

Lynn & Galen Oelkers

Ms. Margaret Painter∞

Martha M. Pentecost

The Hellen Ingram Plummer

Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Ms. Cathleen Quigley

Regions

Joyce & Henry Schwob

Mr. Fahim Siddiqui & Ms. Shazia Fahim

Dr. Steven & Lynne Steindel°

Ms. Brett A. Tarver

Carolyn C. Thorsen∞

The Mark & Evelyn Trammell

Foundation

Universal Music Group

John & Ray Uttenhove

$15,000+

Phyllis Abramson, Ph. D.

Madeline* & Howell E. Adams, Jr.

Mr. David Boatwright

Ms. Elizabeth W. Camp

Ms. Lisa V. Chang

Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Clare°

Lisa DiFrancesco, MD & Darlene Nicosia

Eleanor & Charles Edmondson

Fifth Third Bank

Craig Frankel & Jana Eplan

Georgia-Pacific

Pam & Robert Glustrom

Roya & Bahman Irvani

Joia M. Johnson

Mr. Sukai Liu & Dr. Ginger J. Chen

John F. & Marilyn M. McMullan

Ms. Molly Minnear

New Music, USA

North Highland Company

Barbara & Andrew Paul

Mr. Edward Potter & Ms. Regina Olchowski°

Charlie & Donna Sharbaugh

Beverly & Milton Shlapak

Mr. John A. Sibley, III

Elliott & Elaine Tapp

Carol & Ramon Tomé Family Fund

Adair & Dick White

Drs. Kevin & Kalinda Woods

$10,000+

A Friend of the Symphony (2)

AAA Parking

Paul & Melody Aldo∞

Mr. & Mrs. Calvin R. Allen

Paul & Marian Anderson*

Farideh & Al Azadi Foundation∞

Julie & Jim* Balloun

Keith Barnett

Bell Family Foundation for Hope Inc

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald R. Benjamin

Kelley O. & Neil H. Berman

Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Boston Consulting Group

The Breman Foundation, Inc.

Lisa & Russ Butner∞

CBRE

Colliers International

Donald & Barbara Defoe°

Peter & Vivian de Kok

Marcia & John Donnell

Ms. Diane Durgin

Mr. & Mrs. John Dyer

Eversheds Sutherland

Dr. & Mrs. Leroy Fass

The Robert Hall Gunn, Jr., Fund

Deedee & Marc Hamburger*°

Hamilton Capital Partners

Clay & Jane Jackson

JBS Foundation

Ann A. & Ben F. Johnson III

James Kieffer

Stephen & Carolyn Knight

Dr. & Mrs. Scott I. Lampert

The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation

Pat & Nolan Leake

Meghan & Clarke Magruder

Mr. Nicholas Marrone

Belinda & Gino Massafra

Merrill Lynch

The Monasse Family Foundation∞

Moore, Colson & Company, P.C.

Mr. & Mrs. James F. Nellis , Jr.

The Norfolk Southern Corporation

Ms. Gail O'Neill & Mr. Paul Viera

Kathryn Petralia & Diane Bartlett

Leonard Reed°

David F. & Maxine A.* Rock

Thomas & Lynne Saylor

Peter James Stelling*

John & Yee-Wan Stevens

George & Amy Taylor

Judith & Mark K. Taylor

Dr. & Mrs. James O. Wells, Jr.

We salute these extraordinary donors who have signed pledge commitments to continue their support for three years or more.

For information about giving to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Annual Fund, please contact William Keene at 404.733.4839 or william.keene@ atlantasymphony. org.

°We are grateful to these donors for taking the extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers. *Deceased

ASO | SUPPORT (cont.)

$7,500+

Jack & Helga Beam∞

Karen & Rod Bunn

Patricia & William Buss∞

Mark Coan & Family

Sally W. Hawkins

Grace Ihrig*

Ann & Brian Kimsey

Jason & Michelle Kroh

Dr. Fulton D. Lewis III & S. Neal Rhoney

Mr. Robert M. Lewis, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Mills IV

Berthe & Shapour Mobasser

Mr. Bert Mobley

Hala & Steve Moddelmog

Caroline & Phil Moïse

Jane Morrison∞

Gretchen Nagy & Allan Sandlin

Margaret H. Petersen

Ms. Felicia Rives

Hamilton & Mason Smith

Tom & Ani Steele

Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Stroetz, Jr.

Stephen & Sonia Swartz

Drs. Jonne & Paul Walter

Kiki Wilson

Mr. David J. Worley & Ms. Bernadette Drankoski

Camille W. Yow

$5,000+ A Friend of the Symphony (2)

Dr. Marshall & Stephanie Abes

Mrs. Kay Adams* & Mr. Ralph Paulk

Judy & Dick Allison

Dr. Evelyn R. Babey

Lisa & Joe Bankoff

Juanita & Gregory Baranco

Asad Bashey

Mr. Herschel V. Beazley

Meredith Bell

Bennett Thrasher LLP

Rita & Herschel Bloom

Jane & Gregory Blount

Dr. & Mrs. Jerome B.

Blumenthal

Mrs. Sidney W. Boozer

Carol Brantley & David Webster

Mrs. Cristina Briboneria

Margo Brinton & Eldon Park

Jacqueline A. & Joseph E. Brown, Jr.

Judith D. Bullock

CBH International, Inc

John Champion & Penelope Malone

Ms. Tena Clark & Ms. Michelle LeClair

Dr. & Mrs. Richard W. Compans

Carol Comstock & Jim Davis

Ralph & Rita Connell

William & Patricia Cook

Janet & John Costello

Dillon Production Services, Inc.

Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Dimmick

Dorsey Alston Realtors

Xavier Duralde & Mary Barrett

Paulette Eastman & Becky Pryor Anderson∞

Diana Einterz

Dieter Elsner & Othene Munson

Robert S. Elster

Foundation

Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Fackler

Ellen & Howard Feinsand

Bruce W. & Avery C.

Flower∞

David L. Forbes

Mary* & Charles Ginden

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Goodsell∞

Melanie & Tucker Green

William Randolph Hearst

Foundations

Tad & Janin Hutcheson

Mr. Justin Im & Dr. Nakyoung Nam

Mr. & Mrs. Baxter Jones

Paul* & Rosthema Kastin

Ms. Carrie L. Kirk

Mr. Charles R. Kowal

Mrs. Heidi LaMarca

Peg & Jim* Lowman

Ms. Eunice Luke

Dr. & Mrs. Ellis L. Malone

Elvira & Jay Mannelly

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher D. Martin

Mr. Robert S. Mathews

Mary Ruth McDonald

The Fred & Sue McGehee

Family Charitable Fund

Ed & Linda McGinn°

Ms. Erica McVicker

Ms. Sue L. Morgan∞

Music Matters

Gary R. Noble, MD & Joanne Heckman

Ms. Bethani Oppenheimer

Mr. & Mrs. Edmund F. Pearce, Jr.°

Ms. Eliza Quigley

John H. Rains

Mr. & Mrs. Joel F. Reeves

Margaret & Bob Reiser

Cammie & John Rice

Vicki & Joe Riedel

Betsy & Lee Robinson

Mrs. Nita Robinson

Ms. Frances A. Root

Mr. Joseph A.

Roseborough

Tiffany & Rich Rosetti∞

John T. Ruff

Katherine Scott

Suzanne Shull

Gerald & Nancy

Silverboard

Baker & Debby Smith

Ms. Cynthia Smith

Dr. K. Douglas Smith

In memory of Elizabeth

B. Stephens by Powell, Preston & Sally∞

Richard M. Stormont & Sally C. Jobe

Ms. Kimberly Strong

Dr. Nossi Taheri & Ms. Hope Vaziri

Dede & Bob Thompson

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Toren

Trapp Family

Burton Trimble

Chilton & Morgan* Varner

Mr. & Mrs. Benny Varzi

Amy & Robert Vassey

Ms. Juliana T. Vincenzino

Mr. Robert Walt & Mr. Daniel J. Hess

Alan & Marcia Watt

Ruthie Watts

Dr. Nanette K. Wenger

Suzanne B. Wilner

$3,500+

42 West Entertainment Group

Mr. John Blatz

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis M. Chorba

Jean & Jerry Cooper

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.

Nadeen Green & Ned Cone

Phil & Lisa Hartley

Martha Reaves Head

Barbara M. Hund

Cameron H. Jackson°

Mr. W. F. & Dr. Janice Johnston

Wolfgang* & Mariana Laufer

Fara & Ari Levine°

Deborah & William Liss°

Martha & Reynolds

McClatchey

Judy Zaban-Miller & Lester Miller

Donald S. Orr & Marcia K. Knight

In Memory of Dr. Frank S. Pittman III

Dr. & Mrs. John P. Pooler

Ms. Kathy Powell

Mrs. Susan H. Reinach

S.A. Robinson

Dr. & Mrs. Rein Saral

Donna Schwartz

Ms. Martha Solano

Angela Spivey

Beth & Edward Sugarman

Mrs. Dale L. Thompson

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Welch

David & Martha West

Mr. & Mrs. M. Beattie Wood

$2,000+ A Friend of the Symphony (4)

2492 Fund

Dr. & Mrs. Joel M. Adler, D.D.S.

Affairs to Remember

Kent & Diane Alexander

Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Allen IV

Mr. & Mrs. Walker Anderson

The Hisham & Nawal Araim Family Foundation

Anthony Barbagallo & Kristen Fowks∞

Drs. Jay & Martin

Beard-Coles

Susan & Jack Bertram

Catherine Binns & Jim Honkisz*

Shirley Blaine*

Leon & Joy Borchers

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Bower°

Martha S. Brewer

Harriet Evans Brock

Dr. Aubrey Bush & Dr. Carol Bush

Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Canipe

Mrs. Betty Case

Julie & Jerry Chautin

Mr. James Cobb

Coenen-Johnson Foundation

Susan S. Cofer

Liz & Charlie Cohn°

Malcolm & Ann Cole

Mr. & Mrs. R. Barksdale Collins°

Mrs. Nancy Cooke

Mary Carole Cooney & Henry R. Bauer, Jr.

R. Carter & Marjorie A.

Crittenden Foundation

Dr. & Mrs. F. Thomas

Daly, Jr.

Mr. John C. Dancu

Mrs. Anna F. Dancu

Priscilla Davis

Mary & Mahlon Delong

Delta Community

Credit Union

Mr. & Mrs. Graham Dorian

Gregory & Debra Durden

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge

Erica Endicott & Chris Heisel

Mr. Ramsey Fahs°

Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Farnham

Ken Felts & A. Richard Bunn

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Flinn

Dr. Karen A. Foster

Ms. Elizabeth C. French

Gaby Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Sebastien

Galtier

Raj & Jyoti Gandhi Family Foundation

Marty & John Gillin°

Sandra & John Glover

Mrs. Janet D. Goldstein

Mary C. Gramling

Connie & Danny Griffin

Richard & Debbie Griffiths

Louis & Mary Gump

Mr. & Mrs. George Gunderson

Linda & Hank Harris

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Hauser

Mr. & Mrs. John Hellriegel∞

Ms. Elizabeth Hendrick

Mr. Kenneth & Ms. Colleen Hey

Sarah & Harvey Hill, Jr.°

Laurie House Hopkins & John D. Hopkins

James & Bridget Horgan

Mrs. Sally Horntvedt

Ms. & Mr. Carli Huband

Richard & Linda Hubert

Dona & Bill Humphreys

Patron Leadership (PAL) Committee

Mary & Wayne James*

Nancy & John Janet

Ms. Rebecca Jarvis

Mrs. Gail Johnson

Cecile M. Jones

Mr. & Mrs. David T. Jones

Lana M. Jordan

William L. & Sally S. Jorden

Teresa M. Joyce, Ph.D

Mr. & Ms. Josh Kamin

Mona & Gilbert Kelly°

Mr. & Mrs. Todd E. Kessler

Mr. Lewis King

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore J.

Lavallee, Sr.

Lillian Balentine Law

Mr. & Mrs. Chris Le

Grace & Josh Lembeck

Elizabeth J. Levine

Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey

Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Mattox

Dr. Marcus Marr

Dr. & Mrs. David H. Mason

In Memory of Pam McAllister

Mr. & Mrs. James

McClatchey

Birgit & David McQueen

Dr. & Mrs. John D. Merlino

Anna & Hays Mershon

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Mimms, Jr.

Laura & Craig Mullins

Janice & Tom

Munsterman∞

Michael & Carol Murphy

Melanie & Allan Nelkin

Agnes V. Nelson

Mr. and Mrs. Solon P.

Patterson

Linda Matthews chair

The Piedmont National Family Foundation

Ponce de Leon Music Store

Sharon & David Schachter°

Mrs. Dianna A. Scherer

Drs. Bess Schoen & Andrew Muir

Drs. Lawrence & Rachel Schonberger

Nick & Annie Shreiber

Helga Hazelrig Siegel

Diana Silverman

Jeanne & Jim Simpson

Mr. Matthew Sitler

The Alex & Betty

Smith Donor-Advised Endowment Fund

Anne-Marie Sparrow

Peggy & Jerry Stapleton

Candace Steele

James & Shari Steinberg

Dr. & Mrs. John P. Straetmans

Kay R Summers

Ms. Linda F. Terry

Ms. Lara C. Tumeh°

Dr. Brenda G. Turner

Wayne & Lee Harper

Vason

Vogel Family Foundation

Ron & Susan Whitaker

Russell F. Winch & Mark B. Elberfeld

Mrs. Lynne M. Winship

Ms. Sonia Witkowski

Zaban Foundation, Inc.

Herbert* & Grace Zwerner

We give special thanks to this dedicated group of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra donor-volunteers for their commitment to each year’s annual support initiatives:

Kristi Allpere

Helga Beam

Bill Buss

Pat Buss

Kristen Fowks

Deedee Hamburger

Judy Hellriegel

Nancy Janet

Belinda Massafra

Sally Parsonson

June Scott

Milt Shlapak

Sheila Tschinkel

Jonne Walter

Marcia Watt

°We are grateful to these donors for taking the extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers. *Deceased

HENRY SOPKIN CIRCLE

Named for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s founding Music Director, the HENRY SOPKIN CIRCLE celebrates cherished individuals and families who have made a planned gift to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. These special donors preserve the Orchestra’s foundation and ensure success for future generations.

A Friend of the Symphony (22)

Madeline* & Howell E. Adams, Jr.

Mr.* & Mrs.* John E. Aderhold

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Aldo

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald R. Antinori

Dr. & Mrs. William Bauer

Helga Beam

Mr. Charles D. Belcher *

Neil H. Berman

Susan & Jack Bertram

Mr.* & Mrs.* Karl A. Bevins

The Estate of Donald S. & Joyce Bickers

Ms. Page Bishop*

Mr.* & Mrs.* Sol Blaine

John Blatz

Rita & Herschel Bloom

The Estate of Mrs.

Gilbert H. Boggs, Jr.

W. Moses Bond

Mr.* & Mrs. Robert C. Boozer

Elinor A. Breman*

Carol J. Brown

James C. Buggs*

Mr. & Mrs.* Richard H. Burgin

Hugh W. Burke*

Mr. & Mrs. William Buss

Wilber W. Caldwell

Mr. & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun

Cynthia & Donald Carson

Mrs. Jane Celler*

Lenore Cicchese*

Margie & Pierce Cline

Dr. & Mrs. Grady S. Clinkscales, Jr.

Suzanne W. Cole Sullivan

Robert Boston Colgin

Mrs. Mary Frances

Evans Comstock*

Miriam* & John A.* Conant

Dr. John W. Cooledge

Mr. & Mrs. William R. Cummickel

Bob* & Verdery* Cunningham

Mr. Richard H. Delay & Dr. Francine D. Dykes

John R. Donnell

Dixon W. Driggs*

Pamela Johnson Drummond

Mrs. Kathryn E. Duggleby

Catherine Warren Dukehart*

Ms. Diane Durgin

Arnold & Sylvia Eaves

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge

Geoffrey G. Eichholz*

Elizabeth Etoll

Mr. Doyle Faler

Brien P. Faucett

Dr. Emile T. Fisher*

Moniqua N Fladger

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce W. Flower

A. D. Frazier, Jr.

Nola Frink*

Betty & Drew* Fuller

Sally & Carl Gable

William & Carolyn Gaik

Dr. John W. Gamwell*

Mr.* & Mrs.* L.L. Gellerstedt, Jr.

Ruth Gershon & Sandy Cohn

Micheline & Bob Gerson

Max Gilstrap

Mr. & Mrs. John T. Glover

Mrs. David Goldwasser

Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Fund

Billie & Sig Guthman

Betty G.* & Joseph* F. Haas

James & Virginia Hale

Ms. Alice Ann Hamilton

Dr. Charles H. Hamilton*

Sally & Paul* Hawkins

John* & Martha Head

Ms. Jeannie Hearn*

Barbara & John Henigbaum

Jill* & Jennings* Hertz

Mr. Albert L. Hibbard

Richard E. Hodges

Mr.* & Mrs. Charles K.

Holmes, Jr.

Mr.* & Mrs.* Fred A. Hoyt, Jr.

Jim* & Barbara Hund

Clayton F. Jackson

Mary B. James

Nancy Janet

Mr. Calvert Johnson & Mr. Kenneth Dutter

deForest F. Jurkiewicz*

Herb* & Hazel Karp

Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley

Bob Kinsey

James W.* & Mary Ellen*

Kitchell

Paul Kniepkamp, Jr.

Vivian & Peter de Kok

Miss Florence Kopleff*

Mr. Robert Lamy

James H. Landon

Ouida Hayes Lanier

Lucy Russell Lee* & Gary Lee, Jr.

Ione & John Lee

Mr. Larry M. LeMaster

Mr.* & Mrs.* William C. Lester

Liz & Jay* Levine

Robert M. Lewis, Jr.

Carroll & Ruth Liller

Ms. Joanne Lincoln*

Jane Little*

Mrs. J. Erskine Love, Jr.*

Nell Galt & Will D. Magruder

K Maier

John W. Markham*

Mrs. Ann B. Martin

Linda & John Matthews

Mr. Michael A. McDowell, Jr.

Dr. Michael S. McGarry

Richard & Shirley McGinnis

John & Clodagh Miller

Ms. Vera Milner

Mrs. Gene Morse*

Ms. Janice Murphy*

Mr. & Mrs. Bertil D. Nordin

Mrs. Amy W. Norman*

Galen Oelkers

Roger B. Orloff

Barbara D. Orloff

Dr. Bernard* & Sandra Palay

Sally & Pete Parsonson

James L. Paulk

Ralph & Kay* Paulk

Dan R. Payne

Bill Perkins

Mrs. Lela May Perry*

Mr.* & Mrs. Rezin E. Pidgeon, Jr.

Janet M. Pierce*

Reverend Neal P. Ponder, Jr.

William L.* & Lucia Fairlie*

Pulgram

Ms. Judy L. Reed*

Carl J. Reith*

Mr. Philip A. Rhodes

Vicki J. & Joe A. Riedel

Helen & John Rieser

Dr. Shirley E. Rivers*

David F. & Maxine A.* Rock

Glen Rogerson*

Tiffany & Richard Rosetti

Mr.* & Mrs.* Martin H. Sauser

Bob & Mary Martha Scarr

Mr. Paul S. Scharff & Ms. Polly G. Fraser

Dr. Barbara S. Schlefman

Bill & Rachel Schultz

Mrs. Joan C. Schweitzer

June & John Scott

Edward G. Scruggs*

Dr. & Mrs. George P. Sessions

Mr. W. G. Shaefer, Jr.

Charles H. Siegel*

Mr. & Mrs. H. Hamilton Smith

Mrs. Lessie B. Smithgall*

Ms. Margo Sommers

Elliott Sopkin

Elizabeth Morgan Spiegel

Mr. Daniel D. Stanley

Gail & Loren Starr

Peter James Stelling*

Ms. Barbara Stewart

Beth & Edward Sugarman

C. Mack* & Mary Rose* Taylor

Isabel Thomson*

Jennings Thompson IV

Margaret* & Randolph* Thrower

Kenneth & Kathleen Tice

Mr. H. Burton Trimble, Jr.

Mr. Steven R. Tunnell

Mr. & Mrs. John B. Uttenhove

Mary E. Van Valkenburgh

Mrs. Anise C. Wallace

Mr. Robert Wardle, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. John B. White, Jr.

Adair & Dick White

Mr. Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr.*

Sue & Neil* Williams

Mrs. Frank L. Wilson, Jr.

Mrs. Elin M. Winn

Ms. Joni Winston

George & Camille Wright

Mr.* & Mrs.* Charles R. Yates

*Deceased

ASO | STAFF

EXECUTIVE

Jennifer Barlament executive director

Alvinetta Cooksey executive & finance assistant

Emily Fritz-Endres executive management

fellow

Dautri Erwin executive assistant

ARTISTIC

Gaetan Le Divelec vice president, artistic planning

Jeffrey Baxter

choral administrator

RaSheed Lemon aso artist liaison

Ebner Sobalvarro artistic administrator

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Sarah Grant

senior director of education

Ryan Walks

talent development program manager

Elena Gagon

coordinator of education & community engagement

OPERATIONS

Paul Barrett

senior production stage manager

Richard Carvlin

stage manager

Hannah Davis, assistant librarian

Elizabeth Graiser

manager of operations & asyo

Renee Hagelberg

manager of orchestra personnel

Victoria Moore

director of orchestra personnel

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Ashley Mirakian

vice president, marketing & communications

Delle Beganie content & production manager

Leah Branstetter director of digital content

Meredith Chapple marketing coordinator

Adam Fenton director of multimedia technology

Will Strawn associate director of marketing, live

Caitlin Buckers marketing manager, live

Lisa Eng

multimedia creative manager, live

Mia Jones-Walker marketing manager

Camille McClain director of marketing & communications

Rob Phipps

director of creative services

Bob Scarr

archivist & research coordinator

Madisyn Willis marketing manager

SALES & REVENUE

MANAGEMENT

Russell Wheeler vice president, sales & revenue management

Nancy James

front of house supervisor

Erin Jones director of sales

Jesse Pace

senior manager of ticketing & patron experience

Dennis Quinlan

data analyst

Robin Smith

patron services & season ticket associate

Jake Van Valkenburg sales coordinator

Milo McGehee guest services coordinator

Anna Caldwell guest services associate

ATLANTA SYMPHONY HALL LIVE

Nicole Panunti

vice president, atlanta symphony hall live

Christine Lawrence associate director of guest services

Michael Tamucci

associate director of performance management, atlanta symphony hall live

Dan Nesspor

ticketing manager, atlanta symphony hall live

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

Susan Ambo chief financial officer & vice president, business operations

Kimberly Hielsberg

vice president of finance

Brandi Hoyos

director of diversity, equity & inclusion

April Satterfield controller

Brandi Reed staff accountant

DEVELOPMENT

Grace Sipusic vice president of development

Cheri Snyder

senior director of development

Julia Filson

director of corporate relations

William Keene

director of annual giving

James Paulk

senior annual giving officer

Renee Contreras associate director, development communications

Dana Parness

manager of individual giving and prospect research

Catherine MacGregor manager of donor engagement

Sharveace Cameron senior development associate

Sarah Wilson development operations associate

ASO | CORPORATE & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

THE WOODRUFF CIRCLE

Woodruff Circle members have contributed more than $250,000 annually to support the arts and education work of the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and High Museum of Art. We are deeply grateful to these partners who lead our efforts to help create opportunities for enhanced access to the work.

$1MILLION+

A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Mr. & Mrs. Shouky Shaheen

The Antinori Foundation

Bank of America

A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

$500,000+ $250,000+

Accenture

AT&T Foundation

Farideh & Al Azadi Foundation

The Molly Blank Fund

Helen Gurley Brown Foundation

Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda & Dan Cathy

The Goizueta Foundation

Invesco QQQ

Novelis

PNC

The Home Depot Foundation

Sarah and Jim Kennedy

The Rich Foundation, Inc.

Alfred A. Thornton Venable Trust

Truist Trusteed Foundations:

Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund

Thomas Guy Woolford Charitable Trust

UPS

WestRock

The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

THE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Leadership Circle corporations have committed to a contribution of $1,000,000 over one or more years to support the arts and education work of the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and High Museum of Art.

Accenture

The Coca-Cola Company

Chick-fil-A

Delta Air Lines

Georgia Power

Graphic Packaging

Novelis

UPS

WestRock

THE BENEFACTOR CIRCLE

Benefactor Circle members have contributed more than $100,000 annually to support the arts and education work of the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and High Museum of Art. We are deeply grateful to these partners who lead our efforts to help create opportunities for enhanced access to the work.

$100,000+

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Alston & Bird

Atlantic Station

John Auerbach

Sandra & Dan Baldwin

BlackRock

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Melinda & Brian Corbett

Sheila L. & Jonathan J. Davies

Barney M. Franklin & Hugh W. Burke Charitable Fund

Georgia-Pacific

Google

Graphic Packaging

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Grien

Louise S. Sams and Jerome Grilhot

The John H. & Wilhelmina D. Harland Charitable Foundation

The Hertz Family Foundation, Inc.

Mr. & Mrs. Hilton H. Howell, Jr.

The Imlay Foundation Institute of Museum & Library Services

Jones Day Foundation & Employees

Kaiser Permanente

Abraham J. and Phyllis Katz Foundation

King & Spalding, Partners & Employees

The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation

Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc.

The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

The Marcus Foundation, Inc.

John W. Markham III*

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Morris Manning & Martin LLP

National Endowment for the Arts

Newell Brands

Norfolk Southern Foundation

Amy W. Norman Charitable Foundation

Northside Hospital

Victoria & Howard Palefsky

Patty and Doug Reid

The Shubert Foundation

Carol & Ramon Tomé Family Fund

Dr. Joan H. Weens

Kelly and Rod Westmoreland

Ann Marie and John B. White, Jr.

wish Foundation

The David, Helen & Marian Woodward Fund

Peachtree ACT Foundation, Inc.

*notates deceased