Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, June 2024

ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ASO | IN TUNE

DEAR FRIENDS:

This month, we are wrapping up a milestone season for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Concert attendance is setting records, and the Orchestra's performances have been deeply expressive and meaningful. All in all, it has been one of the strongest seasons in the Orchestra’s history— both on the stage and in the audience.

There are still many exciting things to come as we head toward the close of the season, including Nathalie Stutzmann conducting The Ring Without Words, a suite from Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Atlanta audiences are in for a very special evening, as Nathalie is gaining prominence as an important interpreter of Wagner's works. Her Bayreuth Festival debut led to the prestigious “Best Conductor of the Year” Oper Award.

The season closes with Nathalie conducting Stravinsky’s The Firebird. In addition to the epic ballet, we’ll also meet violinist Veronika Eberle, making her ASO debut playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.

Looking ahead to this fall, we will release our first album with Nathalie and our first on Warner Classics, featuring Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 and a selection of his Slavonic Dances. We'll share release details as we enter the month of August.

Finally, thanks to a very generous donor, we selected a new Steinway D at the factory in New York a little more than a year ago. Daniil Trifonov helped us make the selection, and we are ecstatic that he will be performing Brahms' monumental 2nd Concerto with us this month.

With gratitude,

Jennifer Barlament, Executive Director

TODD HALL

ASO | NATHALIE STUTZMANN

Named “Best Conductor of the Year” at the 2024 Oper! Awards, Nathalie Stutzmann has been the Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 2022 and is the second woman in history to lead a major American orchestra. She is also the Principal Guest Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Nathalie made big news in the opera pit in 2023 with her debut in Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival. She also made “a splashy debut” and “the coup of the year” (The New York Times) with her unanimously acclaimed double debuts at the Metropolitan Opera.

Highlights of her 2023/24 season with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra include a Bruckner festival to celebrate the composer’s 200th anniversary, collaborations with soloists such as Renée Fleming, Maria João Pires, and Daniil Trifonov, recording projects for Warner/Erato, and a tour in California. With The Philadelphia Orchestra, she will lead two weeks of programs, including her conducting debut at Carnegie Hall.

As a guest conductor this season, she has made debuts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Teatro Regio Torino. She returned to the London Symphony Orchestra for a Bruckner celebration week. Throughout the season, Nathalie has had a strong presence at the Philharmonie Paris where she has appeared with the Orchestre de Paris and Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, and also chaired the jury for the La Maestra Conducting Competition. During the summer of 2024, she will head back to the Bayreuth

Awarded the 2023 Opus Klassik “Concert Recording of the Year” for her recording of both the Glière and Mosolov Harp Concertos with Xavier de Maistre and WDR Sinfonieorchester, Nathalie also released in 2022 the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recorded with Haochen Zhang and The Philadelphia Orchestra. Nathalie is an exclusive recording artist of Warner/Erato.

Nathalie started her studies at a very young age in piano, bassoon, and cello and studied conducting with the legendary Finnish teacher Jorma Panula. As one of today’s most esteemed contraltos, she has made more than 80 recordings and received the most prestigious awards. Recognized for her significant contribution to the arts, 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 | 2023/24 Board of Directors

OFFICERS

Patrick Viguerie chair

Janine Brown immediate past chair

Bert Mills treasurer

Angela Evans secretary

DIRECTORS

Phyllis Abramson

Keith Adams

Juliet M. Allan

Susan Antinori

Rona Gomel Ashe

Andrew Bailey

Jennifer Barlament*

Keith Barnett

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

Carlos del Rio, M.D. FIDSA

Lisa DiFrancesco, M.D.

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 M. Johnson

Chris Kopecky

Carrie Kurlander

Susan Antinori vice chair

Lynn Eden vice chair

Scott Lampert

James H. Landon

Donna Lee

Sukai Liu

Kevin Lyman

Deborah Marlowe

Shelley McGehee

Arthur Mills IV

Bert Mills

Molly Minnear

Hala Moddelmog*

Caroline Moïse

Anne Morgan

Terence L. Neal

Galen Lee Oelkers

Dr. John Paddock

Margie Painter

Howard D. Palefsky

Doug Reid

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.

James F. Kelley

Patricia Leake

Karole F. Lloyd

Meghan H. Magruder

LIFE DIRECTORS

Howell E. Adams, Jr.

Connie Calhoun

C. Merrell Calhoun

Azira G. Hill

Penelope McPhee

Patricia H. Reid

Joyce Schwob

John A Sibley, III

H. Hamilton Smith

G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr.

Michael W. Trapp

James Rubright vice chair

James Rubright

Ravi Saligram

William Schultz

V Scott

Charles Sharbaugh

Fahim Siddiqui

W. Ross Singletary, II

John Sparrow

Elliott Tapp

Brett Tarver

Valerie Thadhani

Maria Todorova

S. Patrick Viguerie

Kathy Waller

Chris Webber

Richard S. White, Jr.

Mack Wilbourn

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

Ray Uttenhove

Chilton Varner

Adair M. White

Sue Sigmon Williams *Ex-Officio Board

Ben F. Johnson, III

John B. White, Jr.

ASO | 2023/24 Musician Roster

Nathalie Stutzmann

music director

The Robert Reid Topping Chair

FIRST VIOLIN

David Coucheron concertmaster

The Mr. & 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 / assistant principal

Dae Hee Ahn

Robert Anemone

Noriko Konno Clift

David Dillard

Eun Young Jung

Eleanor Kosek

Yaxin Tan

Rachel Ostler

VIOLA

Zhenwei Shi principal

The Edus H. & Harriet H.

Warren Chair

Paul Murphy

associate principal

The Mary & Lawrence Gellerstedt Chair

Catherine Lynn assistant principal

Marian Kent

Yang-Yoon Kim

Yiyin Li

Lachlan McBane

Jessica Oudin

Madeline Sharp

CELLO

Vacant

principal

The Miriam & John Conant Chair

Daniel Laufer

acting / associate principal

The Livingston Foundation Chair

Karen Freer

acting associate / assistant principal

Players in string sections are listed alphabetically

Thomas Carpenter

Joel Dallow

The UPS Foundation Chair

Ray Kim

Isabel Kwon

Nathan Mo

Brad Ritchie

Denielle Wilson

BASS

Joseph McFadden

principal

The Marcia & 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

PICCOLO

Gina Hughes

OBOE

Elizabeth Koch Tiscione

principal

The George M. & Corrie Hoyt Brown Chair

William R. Langley

associate conductor & atlanta symphony youth

orchestra music director

The Zeist Foundation Chair

Zachary Boeding

associate principal

The Kendeda Fund Chair

Samuel Nemec*

Jonathan Gentry

Emily Brebach

ENGLISH HORN

Emily Brebach

CLARINET

Jesse McCandless

principal

The Robert Shaw Chair

Ted Gurch*

associate principal

Marci Gurnow

acting associate principal

Julianna Darby

Alcides Rodriguez

E-FLAT CLARINET

Ted Gurch*

BASS CLARINET

Alcides Rodriguez

BASSOON

Vacant

principal

The Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation Chair

Anthony Georgeson

acting / associate principal

Laura Najarian

Juan de Gomar

CONTRA-BASSOON

Juan de Gomar

Norman Mackenzie director of choruses

The Frannie & Bill Graves Chair

HORN

Ryan Little principal

The Betty Sands Fuller Chair

Kimberly Gilman

Jack Bryant

Bruce Kenney

TRUMPET

Vacant

principal

The Madeline & Howell

Adams Chair

Michael Tiscione

acting / associate principal

Mark Maliniak

acting / associate principal

Anthony Limoncelli*

William Cooper

Ian Mertes

TROMBONE

Vacant

principal

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

Nathan Zgonc

acting / associate principal

The Home Depot Veterans Chair

Jason Patrick Robins

BASS TROMBONE

Chance Gompert

Jordan Milek Johnson Fellow

TUBA

Michael Moore principal

The Delta Air Lines Chair

Joshua Williams fellow

Zeist Foundation ASO Fellowship

Chair

TIMPANI

Mark Yancich

principal

The Walter H. Bunzl Chair

Michael Stubbart

assistant principal

PERCUSSION

Joseph Petrasek

principal

The Julie & Arthur

Montgomery Chair

Michael Jarrett

assistant principal

The William A. Schwartz Chair

Michael Stubbart

The Connie & Merrell Calhoun Chair

HARP

Elisabeth Remy Johnson principal

The Sally & Carl Gable Chair

KEYBOARD

The Hugh & Jessie Hodgson

Memorial Chair

Peter Marshall †

Sharon Berenson †

LIBRARY

Joshua Luty

principal

The Marianna & Solon

Patterson Chair

Sara Baguyos

associate principal librarian

GUEST CONDUCTOR

Neil and Sue Williams Chair

Members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

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

2023/24

CHAIRS

Jane Morrison

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

Eleina Raines

diversity & community connections task force co-chair

Otis Threatt

diversity & community connections task force co-chair

MEMBERS

Dr. Marshall & Stephanie Abes

Krystal Ahn

Paul & Melody Aldo

Kristi & Aadu Allpere

Evelyn Babey

Asad & Sakina Bashey

Herschel Beazley

Meredith W. Bell

John Blatz

Carol Brantley & David Webster

Johanna Brookner

Mrs. Amy B. Cheng and Dr. Chad A. Hume, Ph.D

Tracey Chu

Donald & Barbara Defoe

Paul & Susan Dimmick

Bernadette Drankoski

John & Catherine Fare Dyer

Mary Ann Flinn

Bruce Flower

Annie Frazer

John Fuller

Alex Garcias

Dr. Paul Gilreath

Tucker Green

Mary Elizabeth Gump

Elizabeth Hendrick

Caroline Hofland

Justin Im

Baxter Jones & Jiong Yan

Lana Jordan

Jon Kamenear

Rosthema Kastin

Brian & Ann Kimsey

Jason & Michelle Kroh

Dr. Fulton Lewis III & Mr. Neal Rhoney

Robert Lewis, Jr.

Eunice Luke

Erin Marshall

Belinda Massafra

Doug and Kathrin Mattox

Ed and Linda McGinn

Erica McVicker

Berthe & Shapour

Mobasser

Bert Mobley

Caroline & Phil Moïse

Sue Morgan

Jane Morrison

Gary Noble

Regina Olchowski

Bethani Oppenheimer

Chris Owes

Ralph Paulk

Ann & Fay Pearce

Jonathan and Lori Peterson

Eliza Quigley

Eleina Raines

Leonard Reed

Dr. Jay & Kimberley

Rhee

Vicki Riedel

Felicia Rives

David Rock

Frances A. Root

Tiffany & Rich Rosetti

Thomas & Lynne Saylor

Beverly & Milton Shlapak

Suzanne Shull

Baker Smith

Cindy Smith

Victoria Smith

Peter & Kristi

Stathopoulos

Tom & Ani Steele

Kimberly Strong

Beth and Edward Sugarman

Stephen & Sonia Swartz

George & Amy Taylor

Bob & Dede Thompson

Otis Threatt Jr.

Cathy Toren

Roxanne Varzi

Robert & Amy Vassey

Juliana Vincenzino

Nanette Wenger

Christopher Wilbanks

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.

It’s Just Opening the Door: ASO Welcomes Record Audiences

of All Ages

By Holly Hanchey

In March of this year, singer-songwriter Faye Webster released her new studio album, Underdressed at the Symphony. Webster is an Atlanta native who is currently on a world tour and was recently featured in a story in Rolling Stone magazine. The title track is about a romantic break-up, with the lyrics, “I’m underdressed at the symphony/Crying to songs/That you put me on.”

She told the magazine she found attending performances therapeutic, and the symphony she’s making famous in her lyrics is none other than the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Webster is just 26 years old and is part of the growing audience of younger and more diverse symphony goers who are helping the ASO reach record attendance and revenue numbers. In the 202324 season, the Orchestra has hit an all-time high total for Delta Classical Season ticket sales, which represents a 30% increase over the previous season. The average seating capacity in the hall is higher than ever, with 10 sell-out performances so far.

After a record number of new patrons this season, the coming season is trending strong as well, looking to surpass pre-pandemic subscription sales levels with several concerts already projecting sell-out crowds.

The ASO’s success can be attributed to a number of factors including programming decisions, cultural trends, effective marketing campaigns, and outreach to new audiences. Senior Director of Audience Development Erin Jones says it is the culmination of all of those things, plus some creative new audience development ideas.

One of the many outreach initiatives the Orchestra has undertaken in the last few years is a significant partnership with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Alliance, based in Atlanta and created to support HBCU graduates and students through student enrichment and community engagement. This season, the ASO hosted two evenings with the HBCU Alliance and the Divine Nine, with pre-concert events focused on building a more equitable future through music.

In addition to creating a welcoming atmosphere, the events create new audiences for the ASO, igniting a love for classical music performances. “Looking at the first time we had an event with the HBCU, of the people that came for that Alliance night, 99 percent

of them had never been in the hall,” Jones said. “Now looking at it three years later we have had many patrons return. Around 40 percent of those who have attended from that first HBCU night have come back, and some have come back this season for concerts that weren’t specifically part of an HBCU event.”

Many audience members find their way to the ASO by attending as part of a group. In fact, over 100 individual groups, from book clubs to middle school band students made their way to Symphony Hall this year.

Vice President of Sales and Revenue Management, Russell Wheeler attributes the strength of the groups to the powerful social bonds we develop when we experience works of art together. “If you can look down the row and see the faces of joy among your friends and family, really share that moment and then talk about it all the way home, there’s no doubt in my mind, that you’ll be more likely to return.”

The BRAVO Young Professionals group has also seen an increase in membership and attendance in the last season. Designed for those in the 25-40 age group, the membership includes five BRAVO events, which include food, drink, and tickets to the evening’s concert. According to Jones, she never sees anyone “underdressed” for those events, though no one would frown on it. The BRAVO young professionals group includes some of the best-dressed patrons in the Hall.

“A lot of younger people are choosing culture; they’re not running away from it. I think you see that across the Arts Center in general. You have people going to The High for their Friday Night Jazz series. The Alliance always attracts a huge swath of audience members of all ages, and I think younger people are choosing culture.”

Other affinity groups include the InUnison group for the LGBTQIA+ community and a relatively new program, Tutti, for seniors who are looking to attend events with others passionate about classical music.

“We are meeting people where they are, with a message of welcome. It makes perfect sense that once we open the door and say please come in, people do join us. It’s just opening the door.”

Long Term Donor Recognition

As we celebrate Donor Appreciation Week this month from June 10-16, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is honored to recognize & share our tremendous thanks to the over-600 individuals listed below who have supported the Annual Fund for 20 years or more. These extraordinary commitments have created the music of the ASO for decades, and we could not be more grateful for the dedication & support represented by these generous gifts.

40+ Years of Giving

A Friend of the Symphony (4)

Madeline* and Howell E. Adams, Jr.

Ms. Lu Allgood

Lisa and Joe Bankoff

Susan and Jack Bertram

Mr. Merritt S. Bond

Leon & Joy Borchers

Sidney and Bernice Breibart

Jacqueline A. and Joseph E. Brown, Jr.

Connie and Merrell Calhoun

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Callahan

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Carr

Peggy & Tony Clarke

Malcolm & Ann Cole

D. D. Conrad

Mrs. Irene M. Constantinides

John W. Cooledge

Jean and Jerry Cooper

Dean and Linda Copeland

Susan and Ed Croft

Dr. and Mrs. F. Thomas Daly, Jr.

Marcia and John Donnell

Mrs. Murlene L. Dubay

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

Mary Frances Early

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Edge

Eleanor and Charles Edmondson

Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Farnham

The Gable Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. John C. Garrett

Mr. and Mrs. Lendon D. Gibbs

Mary* & Charles Ginden

Sandra & John Glover

Mr. and Mrs. Marion B. Glover

David Goldsmith

Mr. and Mrs. James N. Grace

Mrs. Anne Haltiwanger

Mrs. E. Lewis Hansen

Mrs. Mary Ann Hart

Mrs. Elice D. Haverty

John* and Martha Head

Sarah and Harvey Hill, Jr.°

Alan and Lucy Hinman

Dona and Bill Humphreys

Barbara M. Hund

Ms. Rebecca Jarvis

Ms. Betty G. Jeter

Ann A. and Ben F. Johnson III°

William L. and Sally S. Jorden

Dick and Georgia Kimball

Josephine S. Kroger

James H. Landon

Jack and Margaret Langford

Lillian Balentine Law

Pat and Nolan Leake

Elizabeth J. Levine

Ms. Eunice A. Luke

Barbara and Jim MacGinnitie

Elvira and Jay Mannelly

John and Linda Matthews

Agnes V. Nelson

Mr. Andreas Penninger

Mrs. Missie Raudabaugh

In Memory of Dr. Frank S. Pittman III

James E. and Sharon V.* Radford

Mr. and Mrs. Joel F. Reeves

Mr. and Mrs. Milton Saul

Dick Schweitzer

Dr. and Mrs. George P. Sessions

Beverly and Milton Shlapak

Helga Hazelrig Siegel

Alida and Stuart Silverman

Hamilton and Mason Smith

Dr. Steven and Lynne Steindel°

Esther & Jim Stokes

Beth and Edward Sugarman

Kay R Summers

Mr. G. Kimbrough Taylor and Ms. Triska Drake

Dede and Bob Thompson

C. Barry and Louisa Titus

Trapp Family

Burton Trimble

Chilton and Morgan* Varner

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Vivona

Edward & Belinda Watkins

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

Dr. Nanette K. Wenger

David & Martha West

Mrs. Sue S. Williams

Kiki Wilson

Mr. & Mrs. M. Beattie Wood

Camille W. Yow

30+ Years of Giving

A Friend of the Symphony (8)

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Adams

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

Judy & Dick Allison

Ms. Julie M. Altenbach

Betsy and David Baker

Linda Baldree Uhler

Julie and Jim* Balloun

Brian & Roberta Barber

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bass

Guy M. Benian

Kelley O. and Neil H. Berman

Catherine Binns & Jim Honkisz*

Mr. and Mrs. Reis Birdwhistell

Mrs. Inge Bledel

Dr. and Mrs. Donald Block

Dr. and Mrs. Jerome B. Blumenthal

Suzanne & Rob Boas

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Bond

Mrs. Sidney W. Boozer

Mrs. Joy Borra

Ellen and Don Bracewell

John A. Brazee

James Bross

Malcolm A. Bryan

Ms. Shirley H. Burk

Alfred W. Busby

Dr. Aubrey Bush and Dr. Carol Bush

M. Linda Cangelose

Mr. and Mrs. Walter K. Canipe

John* & Rose Cannon

Mr.* and Mrs. Alan D. Chunka

Dr. J. Richard Clarke

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

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

Mr. Jerold Cohen and Ms. Andrea Strickland

Liz and Charlie Cohn°

Ned Cone and Nadeen Green

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

Gray and Marge Crouse

Claire and Alex Crumbley

Mr. and Mrs. Joaquin R. Davila

Mrs. Glenda G. Davis

Dr. and Mrs. S. Carter Davis Jr.

Peter and Vivian de Kok

Gregory and Debra Durden

Ms. Diane Durgin

Elizabeth Eakes

Drs. Bryan & Norma Edwards

Mrs. Merrill B. Ellis in memory of Mr. R. Park Ellis

Dieter Elsner & Othene Munson

Dr. David Epstein and Ms. Stacey Hader Epstein

Dr. and Mrs. Carl D. Fackler

Dr. and Mrs. Allen B. Filstein

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Finkel

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Forsyth, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Fowler

Dr. & Mrs.* Richard D Franco

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald V. Frost

Representative Pat Gardner and Mr. Jerry Gardner

Mary Anne Gaunt

Presidential Financial Corporation

Dr. & Mrs. Martin I. Goldstein

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Gole

Mr. Robert Golomb

Carol H. Gordon

Mr. & Mrs. John L. Gornall, Jr.

Mr. Robert C. Grant

Joan S. and William A. Gray

Richard and Debbie Griffiths

Dr. Jon P. Gunnemann and Dr. Karin V. Gunnemann

Dr. John and Victoria Haberlen

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Hally

Mr. Michael E. Halpern and Mrs. Julie Witt

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Handell

Mrs. Wendolyn M. Harding

Mr. and Mrs. Pearce D. Hardwick

Hilary Hargreaves

Sally W. Hawkins

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Haynes

Mr. and Mrs. John Hellriegel

Richard L. Henneman & Janet L. Fath

Dr. Kenneth L. Herrmann

Mr. Kenneth & Ms. Colleen Hey

Ms. Sandra L. Hill

Laurie House Hopkins & John D. Hopkins

Harry Howard

Mr. and Mrs. David C. Huffman

Emily Williams Huie

Pamela P. Ingram

Clay and Jane Jackson

Dr. and Mrs. Philip Jardina

Mrs. Alton P. Jensen

Aaron & Joyce Johnson

Bucky and Janet Johnson

Weyman T. Johnson, Jr. and Allison Forkner

Mr. and Mrs.* Lynn H. Johnston

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnston

Mrs. John A. Jolley

Cecile M. Jones

Lana M. Jordan

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Kaplan

Paul* and Rosthema Kastin

Robert Kinsey

Philip N. Kranz

Dr. and Mrs. William C. Land, Jr.

Ms. Brenda I. Leder

Ione and John Lee

J. Bancroft Lesesne & Randolph Henning

Dr. and Mrs. Raphael S. Levine

Mr. and Mrs. J. David Lifsey

Deborah and William Liss

Allan and Vaneesa Little

Arietha Lockhart

Mrs. Janet J. Love

Mr. and Mrs. William G. Loventhal

Mr. and Mrs. R. Gregg Magruder

Dr. Harvey Mannes

Ms. Valerie Manson

Fred and Joan Martich

Belinda and Gino Massafra

Arthur B. Mathews

Sharon & Gene McClure

Sally and Allen McDaniel

Nancy K. McGee

Mr. C. Andrew McLean

John F. and Marilyn M. McMullan

Birgit and David McQueen

Dr. and Mrs. J. Maxwell Miller

Robert and Pat Milne

Jeffrey & Esta Mitchell

Linda & Jim Morgan

Carter and Hampton Morris

Catherine A. Mullins

David & Teresa Murray

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Neale

Richard Kaplan and Sharon Neulinger

Adelisa Panlilio and Andrew Eilers

Ms. Kathleen A. Parker

Dr. Richard D. Parry

Mrs. Polly N. Pater

Mr. and Mrs. Solon P. Patterson

Mr. and Mrs. Edmund F. Pearce, Jr.

Cynthia Pearson

Martha M. Pentecost

30+ Years of Giving (continued)

David and Diane Pitts

G. Ernest Plunkett

Ms. Lynn Pollard

Dr. and Mrs. John P. Pooler

Bob and Susan Powell

Mr. and Mrs. Seth Price

Mrs. Anne C. Pritchett

Louise H. Reaves

Mrs. Susan H. Reinach

Vicki and Joe Riedel

Karen Rogers

Ralph Roughton

John T. Ruff

Dr. & Mrs. Rein Saral

Dr. Marianne Scharbo-DeHaan

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Schneidewind, Jr.

Mr. Harold R. Schraibman

Mrs. William A. Schwartz

Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Schwartz

Joyce and Henry Schwob

June and John Scott

Mrs. Sylvia Seago

Shouky A. Shaheen

Charlie & Donna Sharbaugh

Suzanne Shull

Mr. John A. Sibley, III

Sydney Simons

Andrew J. Singletary

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Sjoquist

Betty Gabriel Slater

Bill and Susan Small

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Smith

Anne-Marie Sparrow

Dr. Herb & Cantor Jill Spasser

Dr. and Mrs. David Stacy

Peggy and Jerry Stapleton

Kent C. Nelson* and Ann Starr

Mr. and Mrs. Steve J. Stern

John & Yee-Wan Stevens

Mrs. and Mrs. Jack Stringer

Dr. and Mrs. Ramon A. Suarez

Mr. James Sustman and Dr. Janet

St. Clair

Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Taratus

George & Amy Taylor

Judith & Mark K. Taylor

Mrs. Dale L. Thompson

Carolyn C. Thorsen

Willard and Wanda Timm

Dr. Rafael V. Urrutia, Jr.

John & Ray Uttenhove

Wayne & Lee Harper Vason

Amy and Robert Vassey

Drs. Jonne and Paul Walter

Allan and Marilyn Wasserman

Ms. Carolyn W. Fierer and Ms. Alice P. Watson

Dr. and Mrs. David T. Watson

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Weaver

Thomas R. Webb

Carol Brantley and David Webster

Brooke and Winston Weinmann

Mr. and Mrs. James T. White

Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr.

Suzanne B. Wilner

Emily Elizabeth Winship

Elliott and Susan Winton

Miss Cornelia K. Witte

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Wittenstein

Mrs. Lillian M. Woolf

Mr. & Mrs. John C. Yates

Marguerite York

Herbert* and Grace Zwerner

20+ Years of Giving

A Friend of the Symphony (5)

Ms. June M. Abbott

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Adams

John and Juliet Allan

Mr. and Mrs. Hunter S. Allen, Jr.

Aadu and Kristi Allpere

Marty and Richard Alterman

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FBucky and Janet Johnson: Music is Our Passion

or Bucky and Janet Johnson, music is important “for our hearts, and for our ears” (Janet). Bucky is now Emeritus Director of Bands at Georgia Tech, where he also headed the Music Department. According to Chris Moore, his successor as Director of Athletic Bands, “Bucky’s leadership not only allowed the ensemble to flourish, but his vision enabled the creation of the music technology program that has grown into a world leader in audio technologies and research.” Bucky is Mayor Emeritus of Norcross. Janet worked as a high school choral conductor, taught conducting methods at Georgia State University, and had a long career in church music. She has sung in the ASO Chorus for over 25 years, and formerly sang in both the Shaw Chamber Singers and the ASO Chamber Chorus. One of her favorite memories is of the 1988 European Tour, when the Orchestra and Chorus under Robert Shaw sang in East Berlin, behind the Iron Curtain: “Whenever we look back on that, it’s so emotional—tearful, but with joy.”

The Johnsons now work with Southern Stars, a music festival and competition for high school music ensembles that they created together in 1993.

For more than 30 years, the Johnsons have been donors to the ASO Annual Fund. “Music is our passion,” said Janet, “so we care greatly that we live and work in a place where the best literature is performed by the best musicians.”

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

Concerts of Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 8:00 PM Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 8:00 PM

NATHALIE STUTZMANN, conductor

DANIIL TRIFONOV, piano

JOHANNES BRAHMS

(1833-1897)

Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major, Op. 83 (1881) 50 MINS

I. Allegro non troppo

II. Allegro appassionato

III. Andante

IV. Allegretto grazioso

Daniil Trifonov, piano

INTERMISSION

JOHN DOWLAND (c.1563-1626)

20 MINS

Lachrimae antiquae (1604) 4 MINS (segue)

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61 (1847) 39 MINS

I. Sostenuto assai. Un poco più vivace. Allegro ma non troppo

II. Scherzo: Allegro vivace. Trio 1. Trio 2. Coda

III. Adagio espressivo

IV. Allegro molto vivace

This weekend's concerts are dedicated to SHEILA LEE DAVIES & JON DAVIES in honor of their extraordinary support of the 2022/23 Annual Fund.

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Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major, Op. 83 (1881)

Johannes Brahms was known for big-hearted generosity and breathtaking sarcasm. When he finished the Piano Concerto No. 2 in July 1881, Brahms wrote to his friend Elisabet von Herzogenberg that he’d written “a tiny, tiny piano concerto with a tiny, tiny wisp of a scherzo.”

First ASO performance: January 30, 1954, Henry Sopkin, conductor, Joseph Battista, piano

Most recent ASO performances: November 19 and December 1, 2012, Robert Spano, conductor, Emmanuel Ax, piano

Nothing could be further from the truth. At fifty minutes, the “Brahms Second” is a behemoth. To this day, pianists count it among the most difficult. And Brahms’s “wisp of a scherzo” is thick and stormy ("scherzo" typically indicates playful).

Yet, for all its pianistic challenges, this concerto exudes radiance. Covering a range of characters and moods—from vigorous, Romani-style acrobatics to lush Romantic melodies to a sweet lullaby for solo cello—the sunniness prevails. All the passions, joys, and affections Brahms withheld from friends seem to pour forth from this concerto.

The music came to him in 1878 while on vacation in Italy. By then, he had money; he was self-assured and an international celebrity. He continued to make sketches over summer holidays in picture-postcard locales and then did the real work of composition during the summer of 1881. Perhaps he experienced a sense of arrival because his thoughts turned to the past.

As a 12-year-old, Brahms helped support his family by playing the piano in seedy bars. Working in deplorable conditions, he grew as a musician, thanks to the nurture of his piano and composition teacher, Eduard Marxsen, who refused to accept payment from young “Hannes.”

Decades later, the paunchy, middle-aged Brahms extended his gratitude through the Second Concerto, “dedicated to his dear friend and teacher Eduard Marxsen.”

Lachrimae antiquae, or Seaven Teares

John Dowland was an exact contemporary of William Shakespeare. Dowland journeyed from one court to another, performing a seemingly endless playlist of original songs about life, love, courtship, heartbreak, and sorrow. Some songs

These are the first ASO performances.

are bawdy, while others are tender. He gained an international reputation; across Europe, printers issued collections of his songs for local musicians to play.

Despite his popularity, Dowland never achieved his life’s ambition: to serve in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Given the ravages of the Protestant Reformation, he suspected the Queen resented his conversion to Catholicism. Whatever the reason for the rejection, his relationship with the English court remained a thorn in his side and was central to his landmark composition "Lachrimae", or Seven Tears.

During the 1590s, his lute piece “Lachrimae Pavan” made its way around Great Britain (lachrimae is Latin for tears; a pavan is a slow, stately dance). In 1600, he added words, calling the song “Flow My Tears,” with the last stanza digging into the melancholy:

Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell,

Learn to contemn light

Happy, happy they that in hell

Feel not the world's despite.

In other words, he suggested people in Hell were happier than he. In 1604, the year after Elizabeth died, Dowland lifted this famous song to create a piece for a five-part ensemble. His "Lachrimae", or Seven Tears, is dedicated to Anne of Denmark, wife of England’s King James I (Elizabeth’s successor). In 1612, Dowland won a position in the court of James I and served there until he died in 1626.

First ASO performances: May 13-15, 1971, James Levine, conductor

Most recent ASO performances: April 25-27, 2019, Carlos Kalmar, conductor

Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61 (1847)

Through the 1840s, Robert and Clara Schumann were one of Europe’s power couples. He was an influential music critic; she was a famous pianist. They married and had eight children. Robert wanted to write music while his wife tended the kids. Clara wanted a career.

At Clara’s suggestion, he traveled to Vienna in 1838 to explore the possibility of settling there. He didn't like the city, but he did make a remarkable discovery while visiting the brother of a musical hero.

Franz Schubert had been dead for ten years when Schumann knocked on the door of Ferdinand Schubert. They chatted about the late composer. Ferdinand showed him around, and Schumann

left carrying the manuscript of an unpublished masterpiece: Schubert’s “Great” C Major Symphony. Schumann delivered the piece into the hands of conductor Felix Mendelssohn and saw to its first performance and publication.

Schumann married Clara in 1840. And then, over four days, he drafted his First Symphony (1841). Mendelssohn conducted a successful premiere, and the publisher added it to their catalog. It seemed that Schumann had finally arrived as a composer until the publisher declined his next symphony, the B-flat Major Symphony (now known as Symphony No. 4). Suffering the rejection, Schumann tucked the piece away and continued to split his time between composition and journalism.

In 1844, he and Clara toured Russia, where she basked in glory while the public ignored her composer husband. Shortly after their return, Robert suffered another breakdown. In 1845, he wrote to Mendelssohn, “Every disruption of my simple, orderly life destroys my composure, and I feel sick and irritable.” On doctor’s orders, the family moved from Leipzig to the quieter, more conservative town of Dresden, where Schumann sketched his C Major Symphony.

“I wrote the C Major Symphony in December 1845 while I was still half sick, and it seems to me that one can hear this in the music,” he wrote. “Although I began to feel like myself while working on the last movement, I recovered totally only after completing the entire piece.”

According to biographer John Daverio, Schumann emulated Schubert’s “Great” C Major Symphony in his own Symphony in C, “especially in the magnificent valedictory hymn that crowns the finale.” The piece also owes a debt to J.S. Bach, as Schumann applied intensive studies of the Well-Tempered Clavier to his integrated handling of melodic material.

Felix Mendelssohn conducted the first performance of Schumann’s C Major Symphony at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig on November 5, 1846. The audience reacted lukewarmly but was more enthusiastic at the second performance. Friedrich Whistling of Leipzig published the piece as Symphony No. 2 in 1847, forever mixing up the chronology of Schumann’s symphonies. Schumann wrote his next symphony in 1850. He issued the revised B-flat Major Symphony (now known as Symphony No. 4) in 1853.

DANIIL TRIFONOV

Grammy-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov is a solo artist, concerto champion, chamber collaborator and composer. Combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, his performances are a perpetual source of wonder.

In the 2023-24 season, Trifonov performs Mason Bates’s Concerto, a work composed for him, with the Chicago Symphony, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; returns to the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and Israel Philharmonic; and tours the U.S. and Europe with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra, respectively. In recital, he tours Europe with cellist Gautier Capuçon and embarks on a high-profile transatlantic tour with a new solo program of Rameau, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven.

Trifonov won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album of 2018 with the Liszt collection Transcendental. His discography also includes the Grammy-nominated live recording of his Carnegie recital debut; Chopin Evocations; Silver Age, for which he received Opus Klassik’s Instrumentalist of the Year/Piano award; the bestselling, Grammy-nominated double album Bach: The Art of Life; and three volumes of Rachmaninoff with the Philadelphia Orchestra, two of which received Grammy nominations and the third won BBC Music’s 2019 Concerto Recording of the Year.

Named Gramophone’s 2016 Artist of the Year and Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, Trifonov was made a “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French government in 2021. During the 2010-11 season, he won Third Prize in Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, First Prize in Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Competition, and both First Prize and Grand Prix in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. He studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Concerts of Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 8:00 PM

Friday, June 7, 2024 at 8:00 PM

Saturday, June 8, 2024 at 8:00 PM

NATHALIE STUTZMANN, conductor

ELIZABETH TISCIONE, oboe

JESSE MCCANDLESS, clarinet

RYAN LITTLE, horn

ANTHONY GEORGESON, bassoon

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)

Sinfonia concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 297b [Anh.9] (1778) 32 MINS

I. Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Andantino con variationi

Elizabeth Tiscione, oboe

Jesse McCandless, clarinet

Ryan Little, horn

Anthony Georgeson, bassoon

INTERMISSION 20 MINS

RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883) / ARR. LORIN

MAAZEL (1930-2014)

Der Ring ohne Worte (The Ring Without Words) (1987) 70 MINS

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Sinfonia concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 297b [Anh.9]

The Sinfonia Concertante for Winds sounds a lot like Mozart. It radiates charm. It's a well-written piece and is an enigma. We don't actually know who composed it.

In 1777, Leopold Mozart sent his son, Wolfgang, on a jobhunting tour of Germany and Paris. Young Mozart dug deep into his contacts, knocking on doors and enquiring about leadership positions with court orchestras. After six months, he had only managed to land a scattering of one-off projects. His father was getting impatient.

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The first ASO performance: January 15, 1969, Michael Palmer, conductor Joseph Robinson, oboe; Alan Balter, clarinet; John Henigbaum, horn; Russell Bedford, bassoon

The most recent ASO performance: May 5-7, 1988, Robert Shaw, conductor, Jonathan Dlouhy, oboe Laura Ardan, clarinet; Brice Andrus, horn; Carl Nitchie, bassoon;

In the spring of 1778, Wolfgang wrote from Paris that he'd composed a Sinfonia Concertante for Winds to be played by four friends from Mannheim (flute, oboe, bassoon, and horn). Ostensibly, Mozart handed the piece over to a copyist. Instead, the trail goes cold. The performance never happened, and Mozart left Paris without the score. From this information, we cannot verify whether he wrote it.

The work on tonight’s concert turned up a century later in Berlin in a private collection owned by the Mozart biographer Otto Jahn. Many Mozart enthusiasts have tried to connect it to the missing Paris composition, but the handwriting in the Berlin edition doesn't match Mozart’s handwriting. Adding to the mystery, the instrumentation is different: the Berlin piece features oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn—these are not interchangeable with flute, oboe, bassoon, and horn. Nevertheless, the clarinet writing shows the hand of a skillful composer. It could be Mozart. The orchestral writing is a different matter; most scholars agree it was written by someone else.

In the end, we have an engaging concert piece that gives a solo turn to some of the orchestra’s principal players. The music continues to be popular. But its origins keep us guessing.

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Der Ring ohne Worte (The Ring without Words)

It started with an image: the funeral of a fallen hero. That’s all it was. However, the image acted on Richard Wagner like a tug on a piece of yarn. He started working backward, imagining the hero’s deeds, his adolescence, his parents, and their parents. Wagner imagined mythic beings that populated the hero’s world, and he infused them with human qualities to probe the psychology of love, greed, and power. He gave them music to make us feel what they feel and see what they see.

Wagner’s odyssey through The Ring spanned more than twenty years. Through it, he delivered a mega-opera in four parts and a custom-built opera house—all to bring us into the gravity of that epic funeral.

The Ring of the Nibelung is one of the most analyzed, talked about, revered, reviled, and wondrous experiences ever set to music. Before the advent of supertitles, its fifteen-hour duration cast fear into hearts—but no more. Wagner’s Ring is the original binge-watch, supremely entertaining with a horde of mythic rivalries driven by characters who've been assigned their own music or “leitmotif.” Once you know these signature tunes, you can drop the needle anywhere in the four operas and know precisely where you are in the story.

Wagner based his Ring on Norse and German mythology with a nod to Greek tragedy. Conductor Lorin Maazel stitched together The Ring without Words in 1990. According to the publisher, there isn’t a bar of Maazel’s compilation that doesn’t come from Wagner himself.

Das Rheingold

Wagner begins The Ring as if cracking a door on an ancient world. He projects an exquisite sense of calm and equilibrium as we find ourselves beneath the undulating waters of the Rhine. Enter Alberich, a Nibelung (member of a race of dwarves) who spies the lovely Rhinemaidens. He approaches them as they frolic around the Rhinegold. Alberich tries to make love to them, but they taunt and mock him mercilessly. Eventually, he gives up and steals their gold. To harness its magic, he foreswears love and forges a ring of power.

Meanwhile, the gods wake to their new castle, Valhalla, built by two giants. To pay them for their work, Wotan, the king of the gods, steals Alberich’s gold. As Wotan feels the power-surge coming from the ring, Alberich curses it. The giants collect their payment—including the ring—and immediately, one murders the other, foreshadowing Wotan’s end.

Die Walküre

Between the first and second operas, Wotan fathers eleven children: the twin mortals, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and the nine Valkyries (warrior maidens who escort fallen heroes to Valhalla). In Act I, Sieglinde’s brute husband vows to kill Siegmund, at which point the twins decide incest is best and consummate their union. This puts Wotan at odds with his wife, Fricka, the goddess of marriage. She reminds him of the inviolability of the Law and manipulates him into siding against his son. Brokenhearted, Wotan sends his beloved Valkyriedaughter Brünnhilde to bring Siegmund into the afterlife at Valhalla. She disobeys her father and makes a rescue attempt—what Wotan most desires but cannot permit. Wotan sees to Siegmund’s demise and banishes Brünnhilde, leading to a wrenching mountaintop farewell. He places her in a deep sleep and surrounds her with a magical ring of fire. Now, she's mortal and doomed to marry any man who rescues her—though only the most courageous will brave the fire.

Siegfried

We meet that courageous man and his leaping horn-call in the third opera, Siegfried. He's the son of Siegmund and Sieglinde and has been raised in the wilderness by Alberich’s odious brother, Mime. Young Siegfried is brash, impetuous, ignorant, and more powerful than any mortal, man or beast. He re-forges Siegmund’s broken sword, slays the dragon guarding the Rhinegold, and kills Mime. Siegfried seizes the ring and the tarnhelm (a magic helmet). A songbird leads him to Brünnhilde, the first woman he's ever seen. “This is no man,” he observes. For the first time in his life, he experiences fear. Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

Siegfried and Brünnhilde live as man and wife. Soon, he sets sail to seek his destiny. King Gunther awaits Siegfried’s arrival with his halfbrother Hagen (son of Alberich). They slip the gullible hero a memoryblocking potion and promise him the hand of Gunther’s sister. Under their influence, Siegfried dons the magic Tarnhelm to disguise himself as Gunther and retrieves Brünnhilde from the flames on the mountain. Now, she’s forced to marry Gunther while her faithless Siegfried marries the sister. Hagen plots with her to kill Siegfried, stabbing him in the back. In his dying breath, Siegfried remembers Brünnhilde. Siegfried’s flaming funeral pyre drifts into the Rhine (and, yes, he’s wearing the ring). Brünnhilde rides her horse onto the pyre. Valhalla goes up in flames, and the Rhine swallows them all.

ELIZABETH KOCH TISCIONE, oboe

Principal Oboe Elizabeth Koch Tiscione joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) at the beginning of the 20072008 season. She currently holds the George M. and Corrie Hoyt Brown Chair.

In addition to her responsibilities with the ASO, Tiscione plays Principal Oboe at the Grand Teton Music Festival and is a member of the Atlanta Chamber Players. She has performed as a guest musician with the orchestras of Philadelphia, St. Louis, St. Paul, Baltimore, Rochester, Buffalo, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Recent solo engagements include the World Youth Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, and Dekalb Symphony Orchestra. She has been featured on NPR's "From the Top," and has also performed at many chamber music festivals throughout the country, including Tannery Pond, Cape Cod, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Tiscione has a love for teaching and is currently a faculty member at Kennesaw State University. She also teaches internationally at Festicamara, in Medellin, Colombia, and has a studio in Atlanta.

A native of Hamburg, NY, Tiscione began the oboe in the NY State public school system at age nine. She continued her studies at the Interlochen Arts Academy under Daniel Stolper and studied with Richard Woodhams at the Curtis Institute of Music. Other teachers include Mark DuBois, J. Bud Roach, Pierre Roy, Robert Walters, and Eugene Izatov.

JESSE MCCANDLESS, clarinet

Jesse McCandless is the newly appointed Principal Clarinetist of the Atlanta Symphony. An ardent orchestral and chamber musician, Mr. McCandless has appeared in performances with the Jacksonville Symphony, New Haven Symphony, and the Florida Orchestra. During his stint with the New World Symphony, he had the privilege of serving under the batons of such artists as Michael Tilson Thomas, Stéphane Denève, Peter Oundjian, and John Williams. Mr. McCandless has collaborated with the Amernet String Quartet and Eighth Blackbird, and has attended the Aspen Music Festival, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Norfolk Chamber Music festival, and the Kent-Blossom Chamber Music Festival.

Mr. McCandless received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and his Master's degree from the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Richard Hawkins and David Shifrin, respectively. Other primary influences include Michael Rusinek of the Pittsburgh Symphony and Michael Wayne of the Eastman School of Music.

RYAN LITTLE, french horn

Ryan Little joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as Principal Horn during the 2022-2023 season. Prior to his arrival at the ASO, he served as Principal Horn of the Naples Philharmonic for six years. Ryan received his B.M. from the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music where he studied with Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen and received his M.M. from the Rice University Shepherd School of Music where he studied with William VerMeulen.

In addition to his responsibilities with the ASO, Ryan plays Principal Horn at the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. Ryan has performed as Guest Principal Horn with the orchestras of Cincinnati, Frankfurt Radio, Minnesota, Orlando, Sarasota, Vancouver, and WDR Cologne, and has also performed with the Houston Grand Opera, Houston Symphony, New World Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Utah Symphony. As a concert soloist, he has performed with the Naples Philharmonic, Northwestern University Baroque and Symphonic Wind Ensembles, l’Orchestre de la Francophonie, and the Skokie Valley Symphony.

During the summers Ryan has performed at the Britt Music & Arts Festival, Grant Park Music Festival, Lakes Area Music Festival, and Sun Valley Music Festival. He also been a fellow in the Castleton Festival, Lucerne Festival Academy, National Orchestral Institute, Spoleto Festival USA, Tanglewood Music Center, Verbier Festival, and YOA Orchestra of the Americas. Ryan performs on instruments made by Karl Hill of Rockford, Michigan.

ANTHONY GEORGESON, bassoon

Anthony Georgeson joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as Associate Principal Bassoon in the fall of 2017 and currently holds the position of Acting Principal Bassoon. Prior to that, he was Principal Bassoon of the Florida Orchestra (2007–2017), a member of the New World Symphony and acting Principal Bassoon of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, Classical Tahoe, Mainly Mozart Music Festival, Strings Music Festival, and both as guest assistant principal and second bassoonist with The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall, Carnegie Hall, Blossom Music Festival, and throughout Europe. As part of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2014 Brahms Cycle recording project he, as guest second bassoonist, recorded Brahms’s Symphonies 1-3 to DVD/BluRay from the BBC Proms and the Musikverein in Vienna.

Georgeson earned his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, studying with Whitney Crockett, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison as a student of Kenneth Moses. He began studying the bassoon with Cynthia Cameron-Fix, has had further studies with John Clouser in performance and reed-making, and counts Bernard Garfield as a strong musical influence. Mr. Georgeson plays on pre-war Heckel Bassoon #7507 made in Biebrich (Wiesbaden), Germany in 1934.

Georgeson made his solo debut at the age of 17 performing Weber's Bassoon Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and has been a soloist with The Florida Orchestra, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the UW Symphony Orchestra, and the Concord Chamber Orchestra performing the bassoon concerti of Mozart, Zwilich, and Weber. With a strong family background and commitment to education, he also maintains a private teaching studio and is on faculty as Artist Affiliate in Bassoon at Emory University.

Concerts of Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 8:00 PM

Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 8:00 PM

Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 3:00 PM

NATHALIE STUTZMANN, conductor

VERONIKA EBERLE, violin

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 61 (1806) 56 MINS

Cadenzas by Jörg Widmann (b. 1973) (US Premiere)

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Ia. Cadenza

II. Larghetto

IIa. Cadenza

III. Rondo: Allegro

IIIa. Cadenza

Veronica Eberle, violin

Widmann cadenza soloists

David Coucheron, violin

Joe McFadden, double bass

Michael Stubbart, timpani

INTERMISSION

MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)

20 MINS

Menuet antique (1929) 6 MINS

Alborada del gracioso (1918) 8 MINS

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

L'oiseau de feu Suite (The Firebird) 37 MINS [1919 version]

Introduction —

Dance of the Firebird — Variation of the Firebird

Round Dance of the Princesses

Infernal Dance of King Kastcheï Berceuse — Finale

The use of cameras or recording devices during the concert is strictly prohibited. Please be kind to those around you and silence your mobile phone and other hand-held devices.

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 61

“Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me.”

by Noel Morris Program Annotator

First ASO performance: October 31, 1948, Henry Sopkin, conductor, Robert Harrison, violin Most recent ASO performances: September 20-24, 2020, Robert Spano, conductor, Gil Shaham, violin

In 1802, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a letter to his brothers. He was having a crisis and even having thoughts of suicide. Despite his progressive hearing loss, Beethoven chose to live, and the music in his head gave him purpose. He never sent that letter but always kept it with him. Now called the Heiligenstadt Testament, this document pinpoints the onset of hearing impairment to 1796. It also gives us a window into Beethoven’s personality. He was a hothead but hated the grief and isolation that came with it.

Beethoven wrote the Violin Concerto in 1806, at the height of his career as a hearing musician. He was a star pianist. He launched an opera and was at the vanguard of symphonic music. 1806 gave us some of his most enduring works: the Fourth Symphony, the Fourth Piano Concerto, and the Violin Concerto. He also wrote his Razumovsky Quartets and worked on his Fifth Symphony. Music poured out of him—bold, daring, and optimistic works.

In both the Fourth Piano Concerto and the Violin Concerto, he achieved a kind of transcendent grace and ebullience—feelings that couldn’t be further from his mortal existence. In 1806, he suffered chronic illness and hearing loss. He had blowups with family and friends; he fell out with his theater director and severed ties with a benefactor, costing him his annual stipend.

Beethoven wrote the Violin Concerto for a friend named Franz Clement, a one-time child prodigy. Clement had an uncanny musical memory, reproducing full scores after only one or two hearings. It was an impressive party trick and a good thing, in this instance, because Beethoven labored over his concerto up to the last minute. Clement practically sightread the world premiere. On the same concert, he included a stunt in which he played the violin upside down. After that, the Beethoven Violin Concerto passed into near oblivion. Decades later, Felix Mendelssohn resurrected the piece with the violin prodigy Joseph Joachim.

Cadenzas

When Beethoven wrote his concerto, improvisation was a standard technique for musicians. Out of that came the tradition of performing cadenzas during concertos (much like guitar solos in today’s rock songs). Over the years, improvised cadenzas fell by the wayside, but many violinist/composers wrote and published cadenzas for this piece. In that tradition, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra soloist Veronika Eberle commissioned cadenzas by German composer Jörg Widmann. Eberle told The Strad magazine, “Basically [Jörg] has taken all the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic material from the concerto and transposed it to the present day,” offering a contemporary take on a 19th-century masterpiece.

Maurice Ravel was born ten miles from the Spanish border in a house overlooking Saint-Jean-de-Luz harbor. With the Pyrenees rising in the distance, his birthplace lies in the heart of Basque Country, a region inhabited by a distinct ethnic group straddling France and Spain. His mother, Marie, grew up there and often visited her cousins in Spain. During one of those visits, she met a Swiss inventor and engineer named Joseph Ravel.

They moved to Montmartre in Paris shortly after baby Maurice arrived. During the summer, they returned to the seaside village. As a family, they shared many happy hours around Joseph’s piano. Marie sang Spanish folk songs. And soon, Maurice and his little brother joined the ensemble. Their father also liked to take the boys to factories to see the latest wonders in mechanical engineering. (Years later, Ravel’s friend Igor Stravinsky called him the “Swiss clockmaker of composers.”)

1889 was a memorable year. The Ravel family lived in the colorful neighborhood of Pigalle, a place not quite wholesome but legendary for its artists, writers, and philosophers. The Moulin Rouge opened its doors just around the corner, and Toulouse-Lautrec began painting prostitutes (Pigalle was home to a famous red-light district). Beyond the neighborhood, the Paris Exposition featured the opening of the Eiffel Tower and offered a wondrous display of technology and cultures from around the world. In that saucy and heady atmosphere, fourteen-year-old Maurice and his friend Ricardo Viñes made a sport of people-watching. In the fall, they entered the Paris Conservatoire. Viñes proved to be a brilliant pianist, while Ravel neglected to

practice. Over time, Ravel gravitated toward composition and settled in at the school for an unusually long stay, finally leaving in 1903. All the while, he clashed with the stalwarts at the conservatory; they saw him as an upstart and a radical. He and Viñes fell into a group of young creatives who hosted salons and haunted the late-night cafes. One night, an old curmudgeon reportedly called them “Apaches” (pron. ah-POSH), a word associated with Paris street thugs. Ravel and his friends laughed and started calling themselves “Les Apaches.” Ravel wrote the piano pieces Miroirs between 1904 and 1905, dedicating each one to a member of Les Apaches. Alborada del gracioso comes from this set.

Menuet antique (1929)

The Menuet antique came from 1895 while Ravel was still a student. The title presents a paradox: a menuet is a 17th-century dance with a predictable meter and form; “antique” suggests the ancient world. Biographer and friend Alexis Roland-Mauel called it a “conflict between order and adventure.” Ravel dedicated the Menuet antique to his childhood friend, the Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes, who played the first performance of both these piano works. With the Menuet, twenty-year-old Ravel became a published composer. He orchestrated it in 1929.

Alborada del gracioso (1918)

The title leaves us guessing: An alborada is a morning song that might greet the day or signal young lovers that it's time to part. A gracioso is a buffoon or jester. Rhythmically, the piece echoes Spanish dance. In 1918, Ravel added his dazzling orchestration to the piece for the ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev.

These are the first ASO performances.

First ASO performance: March 13, 1956, Henry Sopkin, conductor

Most recent ASO performance: March 24-26, 2006, Charles Dutoit

First ASO performances: January 21-22, 1960, Henry Sopkin, conductor

Most recent ASO performances: May 2-4, 2019, Lionel Bringuier, conductor

L'oiseau de feu Suite (The Firebird)

On the eve of its premiere, the composer of The Firebird was a no-name, a 28-year-old stranger in the cultural capital of the world. In a few days, the skinny, bespectacled Russian would be the toast of Paris. Ironically, Igor Stravinsky, the composer who made the cover of Time magazine and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, hadn’t even been the first choice for the job.

In 1909, things Russian were all the rage in Paris, owing in large part to the ambitions of Sergei Diaghilev. Fleeing the 1905 Russian Revolution, Diaghilev made it his mission to promote and profit from Russian culture in the French capital, presenting concerts, operas, and an art exhibition. Having that multidisciplinary experience would prove invaluable when he hit upon his greatest achievement: the Ballets Russes. Using scores by composers such as Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, Diaghilev engaged the finest choreographers, artists and dancers to dazzle the French. Paintings by his set and costume designer Leon Bakst began appearing in Paris galleries, and actresses solicited Bakst dress designs. Conspicuously, there was one facet of Diaghilev’s productions that had underwhelmed the French avant-garde: the music—none of it had been original. Diaghilev made up his mind to change that.

For the coming season, he envisioned a new ballet called The Firebird, using a scenario drawn from various Russian fairy tales. He hired the Russian composer Nikolai Tcherepnin, but the deal fell apart. He then turned to Lyadov, Glazunov and Sokolov—all declined the project. Six months before rehearsals, the impresario offered the job to Stravinsky, who later wrote, “I remember the day Diaghilev telephoned me to say go ahead, and my telling him I already had.”

Although this would be his first large-scale work, Stravinsky was no stranger to the theater. The son of the famous bass, Fyodor Stravinsky, the opera house had been his playground. To his dismay, his parents insisted he study law instead of music. And yet it was his father’s stature that afforded him access to one of the most influential Russian composers of his time: Nicolai RimskyKorsakov. Stravinsky asked the older composer for advice about his compositions, and when his father died in 1902, became a “Rimsky” disciple.

By the time Stravinsky landed The Firebird commission in 1909, Rimsky-Korsakov had been dead for a year. Already, the younger

composer was taking strides into modernism, but he set those inclinations aside to write this Russian fairy tale.

“Russian legends have as heroes characters that are simple, naive, sometimes even frankly stupid, devoid of all malice,” wrote Stravinsky. “And it is they who are always victorious over characters that are clever, artful, complex, cruel and powerful.” He goes on to say that Ivan defeats Kashchei “because he yielded to pity, a wholly Christian notion, which dominates the imagination and the ideas of the Russian people.”

Following his teacher’s lead, Stravinsky tapped into Russian nationalism. One of the most prominent tunes in the ballet, the "Round Dance of the Princesses," is taken from Rimsky-Korsakov’s compilation, 100 Russian Folk Songs. It follows that Stravinsky used folk songs to contrast his human characters with the chromatic music of his supernatural characters. Stravinsky’s opulent orchestration leans heavily upon the inflience of Rimsky-Korsakov.

After rocketing to stardom, Igor Stravinsky first split his time between Russia and the West. With the outbreak of WWI, he settled his family in Switzerland. When that conflict spilled into the Russian Revolution of 1917, their exile became permanent. Years later, Stravinsky described the creation of the piece that closed one chapter of his life and launched another:

“Early in November, I moved from Saint Petersburg to a dacha belonging to the Rimsky-Korsakov family about seventy miles southeast of the city. I went there for a vacation, a rest in birch forests and snow-fresh air, but instead began to work on The Firebird. Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov (son of the composer) was with me at the time, and he often was during the following months; because of this, The Firebird is dedicated to him.”

VERONIKA EBERLE

Veronika Eberle’s exceptional talent and the poise and maturity of her musicianship have been recognized by many of the world’s finest orchestras, venues and festivals, as well as by some of the most eminent conductors. Sir Simon Rattle’s introduction of Veronika, aged just 16, to a packed Salzburg Festpielhaus at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival in a performance of the Beethoven concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker, brought her to international attention. Key orchestra collaborations since then include the London Symphony, Concertgebouw, New York Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Munich Philharmonic and Gewandhaus Orchestras, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, Bamberger Symphoniker, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, NHK Symphony, and Rotterdam Philharmonic.

Born in Donauwörth, Southern Germany, she started violin lessons at the age of six and four years later became a junior student at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium in Munich with Olga Voitova. After studying privately with Christoph Poppen for a year, she joined the Hochschule in Munich, where she studied with Ana Chumachenco 2001-2012.

Veronika Eberle plays on a violin made by the Italian violin maker Antonio Giacomo Stradivari in 1693, which was made available to her on generous loan by the Reinhold Würth Musikstiftung gGmbH.

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Martha & Reynolds

McClatchey

Molly McDonald and Jonathan Gelber

Ms. Kathy Powell

Mrs. Susan H. Reinach

S.A. Robinson

Mr. David Roemer

Donna Schwartz

Ms. Martha Solano

Mrs. Dale L. Thompson

Mr. & Mrs. Art Waldrop

Mr. & Mrs. Rhys T. Wilson

Ms. Sonia Witkowski

$2,000+

A Friend of the Symphony(2) 2492 Fund

Mr. & Dr. Paul Akbar

Mr. & Mrs. Louis Alrutz

Mr. James L. Anderson

Ms. Debra Atkins & Ms. Mary Ann Wayne

The Atlanta Music Club

Anthony Barbagallo & Kristen Fowks∞

Ms. Susan Bass & Mr. Tom Bradford

Dr. Laura Beaty

Bell Family Foundation for Hope Inc

Dr. & Mrs. Joel E. Berenson

Susan & Jack Bertram

Catherine Binns & Jim Honkisz*

Leon & Joy Borchers

Andrew & Elissa Bower°

Ms. Jane F. Boynton

Martha S. Brewer

Harriet Evans Brock

Dr. Aubrey Bush & Dr. Carol Bush

Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Canipe

Betty Fuller Case

Julie & Jerry Chautin

Mr. Jeffery B. Chancellor & Mr. Cameron England

Mr. James Cobb

Coenen-Johnson Foundation

Susan S. Cofer

Ralph & Rita Connell

Mrs. Nancy Cooke

Mary Carole Cooney & Henry R. Bauer, Jr.

Ms. Elizabeth Wiggs Cooper & Mr. Larry Cooper

R. Carter & Marjorie A. Crittenden Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Cushing

Dr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Daly, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Kyle Dasher

Priscilla Davis

Delta Community Credit Union

Mr. David S. Dimling

Mr. & Mrs. Graham Dorian

Gregory & Debra Durden

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge

Diana Einterz

Erica Endicott & Chris Heisel

Mr. & Mrs. Taylor Fairman

Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Farnham

Mr. & Mrs. Massoud Fatemi

Dr. Karen A. Foster

Dr. Elizabeth C. French

Gaby Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Sebastien Galtier

Raj & Jyoti Gandhi

Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. C. Ben Garren

Sandra & John Glover

Mrs. Janet D. Goldstein

Mr. Robert Golomb

Mr. James N. Grace

Connie & Danny Griffin

Richard & Debbie Griffiths

Mr. & Mrs. George Gundersen

Phil & Lisa Hartley

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Hauser°

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hawk

Mr. & Mrs. John Hellriegel∞

Ms. Elizabeth Hendrick

Ms. Ann Herrera & Ms. Mary M. Goodwin

Mr. Kenneth & Ms. Colleen Hey

Sarah & Harvey Hill, Jr.°

Laurie House Hopkins & John D. Hopkins

James & Bridget Horgan°

Ms. & Mr. Carli Huband

Dona & Bill Humphreys

International Women’s Forum

Lillian Kim Ivansco & Joey Ivansco

Nancy & John Janet

Ms. Rebecca Jarvis

William L. & Sally S. Jorden

Teresa M. Joyce, Ph.D

Mr. Lewis King

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore J.

Lavallee, Sr.

Lillian Balentine Law

Mr. & Mrs. Chris Le

Van & Elizabeth Lear

Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey

Jun-Ching Lin & Helen Porter

Barbara and Jim MacGinnitie

Azy Lotfi & Max Lotfi

Dr. Marcus Marr

Mrs. Sam Massell

In Memory of Pam McAllister

Mr. & Mrs. James McClatchey

Birgit & David McQueen

Anna & Hays Mershon

Mr. & Mrs.

Thomas B. Mimms, Jr.

Mrs. Pat Mitchell & Mr. Scott Seydel

Hala and Steve Moddelmog

Mr. Charles Morn

Ms. Helen Motamen and Mr. Deepak Shenoy

Janice & Tom Munsterman∞

Melanie & Allan Nelkin

Agnes V. Nelson

Mr. Denis Ng & Ms. Mary Jane Panzeri

Gary R. Noble, MD & Joanne Heckman

Donald S. Orr & Marcia K. Knight

Mr. & Mrs.

Solon P. Patterson

Mr. & Mrs.

Jonathan K. Peterson

The Piedmont National Family Foundation

Ponce de Leon Music Store

Mr. & Ms. Douglas R. Powell

Ms. Patricia U. Rich

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Riffey, Jr.

Sharon & David Schachter°

Drs. Bess Schoen & Andrew Muir

Alan and Marion Shoenig

Drs. Lawrence & Rachel Schonberger

Dick Schweitzer

Mr. David C. Shih

Nick & Annie Shreiber

Helga Hazelrig Siegel

Diana Silverman

Silvey James and Rev. Jeanne Simpson

The Society, Inc

The Alex & Betty Smith Donor-Advised Endowment Fund

Ms. Lara Smith-Sitton

Anne-Marie Sparrow

Peggy & Jerry Stapleton

James & Shari Steinberg

Richard M. Stormont*

Dr. & Mrs.

John P. Straetmans

Kay R Summers

TEGNA Foundation

Ms. Linda F. Terry

Dr. Brenda G. Turner

Wayne & Lee Harper Vason

Vogel Family Foundation

Dr. James L. Waits

Mr. Charles D. Wattles & Ms. Rosemary C. Willey

David & Martha West

Russell F. Winch & Mark B. Elberfeld

Mrs. Lynne M. Winship

Zaban Foundation, Inc

Herbert* & Grace Zwerner

Patron Leadership (PAL) Committee

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

Linda Matthews chair

Kristi Allpere

Helga Beam

Bill Buss

Pat Buss

Kristen Fowks

Deedee Hamburger

Judy Hellriegel

Nancy Janet

Belinda Massafra

Sally Parsonson

June Scott

Milt Shlapak

Jonne Walter

Marcia Watt

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

Paul & Melody 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

Dr. Janie Cowan

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

Joia M. Johnson

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*

Hal Matthew Mueller* and Constance Lombardo

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.

Dr. John B. Pugh

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

ARTISTIC

Gaetan Le Divelec vice president, artistic planning

Hannah Davis choral and artistic manager

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

Emily Liao Master vice president & general manager

Renee Hagelberg manager of orchestra personnel

Kelly Edwards director of operations

Paul Barrett

senior production stage manager

Richard Carvlin stage manager

Joshua Luty principal librarian

Sara Baguyos associate principal librarian

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Ashley Mirakian vice president, marketing & communications

Camille McClain director of marketing & communications

Adam Fenton director of multimedia technology

Delle Beganie content & production manager

Mia Jones-Walker

marketing manager

Whitney Hendrix creative services manager, aso

Sean David video editor

Will Strawn director of marketing, live

Lisa Eng creative services manager, live

Caitlin Buckers marketing manager, live

Meredith Chapple marketing coordinator, live

Bob Scarr archivist & research coordinator

SALES & REVENUE MANAGEMENT

Russell Wheeler vice president, sales & revenue management

Nancy James front of house supervisor

Erin Jones director of sales & audience development

Jesse Pace senior manager of ticketing & patron experience

Dennis Quinlan manager, business insights & analytics

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

Michelle Hannaford associate director of events & hospitality

Christine Lawrence associate director of guest services

Jessi Lestelle event manager

Dan Nesspor ticketing manager, atlanta symphony hall live

Liza Palmer event manager

Nicole Jurovics booking & contract manager

Shamon Newsome booking & contract associate

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

Susan Ambo executive vice president & cfo

Kimberly Hielsberg vice president of finance

April Satterfield controller

Brandi Reed staff accountant

DEVELOPMENT

Grace Sipusic vice president of development

Cheri Snyder senior director of development

William Keene director of annual giving

James Paulk senior annual giving officer

Renee Contreras director of foundation and corporate relations

Dana Parness manager of individual giving & prospect research

Sharveace Cameron senior development associate

Sarah Wilson manager of development operations

Renee Corriveau donor stewardship & events coordinator

Jenny Ricke foundation & corporate giving associate

ASO | CORPORATE & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

CHARLESTON

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.

A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Anonymous*

Elizabeth Armstrong* Around the Table Foundation*

Douglas J. Hertz Family Foundation*

Patty & Doug Reid*

A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

The Antinori Foundation Bank of America*

Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda & Dan Cathy

Emerald Gate Charitable Trust*

The Home Depot Foundation

Sarah & Jim Kennedy

Suzy Wilner*

Accenture

AT&T Foundation

Farideh & Al Azadi Foundation

The Molly Blank Fund

The Halle Foundation

Invesco QQQ

Novelis, Inc.

The Rich’s Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

Truist Trusteed Foundations: Walter H. and Marjory M. Rich

Memorial Fund and Truist Trusteed Foundations: The Greene-Sawtell Foundation

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+

1180 Peachtree

A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

ACT Foundation

Alston & Bird

Anonymous*

Atlantic Station

The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation

Cadence Bank

City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Cousins Foundation

Ann & Jeff Cramer*

Sheila Lee Davies & Jon Davies

Reade & Katie Fahs*

Barney M. Franklin & Hugh W. Burke

Charitable Fund

Fulton County Board of Commissioners

Georgia Council for the Arts

Georgia-Pacific

Estate of Burton M. Gold

Google

Graphic Packaging International, Inc.

John H. & Wilhelmina D. Harland

Charitable Foundation

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

Jocelyn J. Hunter*

Jones Day Foundation & Employees

Kaiser Permanente

Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation

King & Spalding, Partners & Employees

The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation*

Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc.

Lululemon

The Marcus Foundation, Inc.

The Sara Giles Moore Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Amy W. Norman Charitable Foundation

Northside Hospital

Bob & Margaret Reiser*

Southern Company Gas

Carol & Ramon Tomé Family Fund

Warner Bros. Discovery

Kelly & Rod Westmoreland

Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr.

wish Foundation

*A portion or entirety designated to Capital and/or Endowment commitments