Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; November, 2022

CHRIS LEE

GIL SHAHAM

DEAR FRIENDS,

As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, our thoughts turn to the many things for which we are grateful. Here are some of the things I am thankful for at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra this year.

First, we are all grateful for a new era with Nathalie Stutzmann and for the joy, energy, and excitement she brings to the ASO and the City of Atlanta.

I am thankful for the artistry and partnership of our dedicated musicians, who give their utmost every time they take the stage.

I am grateful to the entire team that helps make the music happen, including our dedicated administrative team and Board, who give to the ASO in so many ways and provide the leadership we need to imagine a bright future.

I am grateful for the formation of our new Advisory Council, which has brought diverse voices and great ideas to the ASO, and for its Chair Arthur Mills, who is a constant cheerleader for the ASO.

I am grateful for the exceptionally gifted young musicians of the Talent Development Program and the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, whose commitment and passion gives us great hope for the future; and I am thankful to the supporters who have helped us launch the ASO Fellowship Program, which will create a new level of support to exceptional pre-professional musicians from historically underrepresented populations.

This fall, I celebrate the return of 30,000 young people for Students at field trips and behind-the-scenes tours. After years of remote learning, it is thrilling to see children experience their first symphony concert and discover the depth and power of a live orchestra experience.

I am thankful for the community support that provides affordable concert access to thousands of veterans, students, teachers, and more each year and especially for our education and community programs.

Last, and as always, I am forever grateful to the extraordinary family of donors and supporters of the ASO. It is the continued generosity of you, our patrons, that enables us to support our musicians, educate young people, and keep making great music.

May your Thanksgiving season be filled with joy and music!

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.

SIMON FOWLER

ASO | LEADERSHIP | 2022/23 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 Andrew Bailey

Jennifer Barlament* Paul Blackney

Rita Bloom 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.

Carlos del Rio, M.D. FIDSA Sloane Drake

Lynn Eden

Rod Garcia-Escudero Angela Evans Craig Frankel

Sally Bogle Gable Anne Game Sally Frost George Robert Glustrom

Bonnie B. Harris Charles Harrison Tad Hutcheson, Jr. Roya Irvani

Lynn Eden vice chair James Rubright vice chair

Chris Kopecky

Randolph J. Koporc Carrie Kurlander James H. Landon Donna Lee Sukai Liu Kevin Lyman Deborah Marlowe Shelley McGehee Bert Mills Molly Minnear Hala Moddelmog* Terence L. Neal Galen Lee Oelkers

Dr. John Paddock Howard D. Palefsky Cathleen Quigley

BOARD OF COUNSELORS

Neil Berman

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

Meghan H. Magruder

Penelope McPhee Patricia H. Reid

Joyce Schwob

John A Sibley, III H. Hamilton Smith

Doug Reid

James Rubright

William Schultz

Charles Sharbaugh Fahim Siddiqui

W. Ross Singletary, II John Sparrow Elliott Tapp Brett Tarver

S. Patrick Viguerie Kathy Waller

Mark D. Wasserman Chris Webber

John B. White, Jr. Richard S. White, Jr. Kevin E. Woods, M.D., M.P.H.

G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr. Michael W. Trapp Ray Uttenhove Chilton Varner Adair M. White

Sue Sigmon Williams

Howell E.

G.

Musician Roster

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 / assistant principal

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

Nathalie Stutzmann music director The Robert Reid Topping 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 Robert Cronin associate principal C. Todd Skitch

Gina Hughes

PICCOLO Gina Hughes

Sir Donald Runnicles

principal guest conductor; The Neil & Sue Williams Chair

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

The Zeist Foundation Chair

Norman Mackenzie director of choruses

The Frannie & Bill Graves Chair

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

Vacant principal

The Robert Shaw Chair The Mabel Dorn Reeder Honorary Chair

Ted Gurch acting / 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

CONTRA-BASSOON

Juan de Gomar

HORN Vacant principal

The Betty Sands Fuller Chair

Susan Welty acting / 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 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

Holly Matthews assistant principal librarian 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

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 Krystal Ahn Keith Barnett Asad & Sakina Bashey Meredith W. Bell Jane Blount

Ronald Breakstone Cristina Briboneria Tracey Chu

Donald & Barbara Defoe Paul & Susan Dimmick

Bernadette Drankoski Diana Einterz

Bruce Flower

John Fuller Tucker Green

Caroline Hofland Justin Im Baxter Jones & Jiong Yan Brian & Ann Kimsey Jason & Michelle Kroh Scott Lampert

Dr. Fulton Lewis III & Mr. Neal Rhoney

Robert Lewis, Jr. Eunice Luke Belinda Massafra Erica McVicker

Arthur Mills IV Berthe & Shapour Mobasser Bert Mobley

Caroline & Phil Moïse Sue Morgan Anne Morgan Jane Morrison Tatiana Nemo Gary Noble Bethani Oppenheimer Chris Owes Margie Painter

Ralph Paulk

Regina Olchowski Eliza Quigley

Eleina Raines

Felicia Rives

Frances A. Root Thomas & Lynne

Saylor

Jim Schroder Baker Smith Cindy Smith Peter & Kristi Stathopoulos Kimberly Strong Stephen & Sonia Swartz George & Amy Taylor 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.

“It’s all about the music”:

A profile of ASO Board Chair

PATRICK VIGUERIE

By James L. Paulk

New Board Chair led the Music Director Search Committee that culminated in Nathalie Stutzmann’s appointment

This season we welcome Patrick Viguerie as Chair of the ASO Board of Directors. As a Board member, Patrick “has already had a transformative influence on the Orchestra,” said Jennifer Barlament, the Orchestra’s Executive Director. “As chair of our Music Director Search Committee, he led the team that identified Nathalie Stutzmann as our new artistic leader.”

Patrick’s mother was a classical pianist. “She was also music director and organist at our church, and she sang in the St. Louis Cathedral choir,” he explained, “and was also a classical organist. She taught me the basics of piano. Along the way I switched to rock guitar and played in bands in college and graduate school—and still do today.”

“What got me interested in classical music was my son Sam”

“But what really got me interested in classical music was when my son Sam developed as a musician.” Sam began playing cello in the third grade. He was accepted into the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra when he was in high school.

While at St. Olaf College as a music major, Sam won first place in the 2015 Schubert Club competition and the 2016 Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Competition. “That got him serious about pursuing a music career,” said Patrick. “He went on to New England Conservatory for a master’s degree, and then to Rice University. This fall he won a position with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.”

PAUL MAROTTA

It was Sam’s passion for music that ultimately led Patrick to join the ASO Board. “Sam’s involvement with the ASYO was my introduction to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. At the time I was looking for an organization in the community to spend some time with, and [then ASO Board Chair] Ben Johnson asked me if I would join the ASO Board, which I did in 2011. The ASO’s Board is a tremendous resource to the organization, and I am proud to be a part of it. It’s an honor to serve as Chair, following in the footsteps of previous chairs including Ben, Janine Brown, and Howard Palefsky.”

According to one of Sam’s teachers, ASO Acting Principal Cellist Daniel Laufer: “It isn’t every day that the Board Chair of a major orchestra has a deep understanding of what it takes to study an instrument at a young age, attend music schools for college, and be fortunate enough to have very hard work pay off by winning a job in an orchestra. Patrick Viguerie has seen this long road through his son, Sam, who took cello lessons with me during his final two years in high school. Through Sam, I met his very supportive and caring family. The ASO is very fortunate to have Patrick as our Board Chair.”

A distinguished career as a strategic advisor

“We are all smarter and better off because of Patrick’s leadership and generosity…”

Patrick grew up in New Orleans, received a B.A. in computer science from Dartmouth College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He spent 27 years at McKinsey & Company, where he was a senior partner, advising companies in a range of industries. He also led the Firm’s strategy practice for the Americas, and co-authored The Granularity of Growth, a book that focuses on how large companies can sustain growth and performance over time. Patrick has spent the past eight years as a senior partner at Innosight, the strategy boutique founded by Clayton Christensen, where his roles have included serving as the firm’s President and Managing Partner. Patrick’s extensive business background has been consequential in his work with the Orchestra. “As a strategic advisor, I try to help leaders recognize and confront challenges and capture new opportunities in their businesses. I approach board roles the same way.” As Jennifer Barlament put it: “Patrick is a great strategic thought partner and mentor to me. He has leveraged his connections to bring us insight to topics as diverse as recent concert hall projects, representation of Black musicians in American orchestras, and strategic reframing of the ASO’s business model. We are all smarter and better off because of Patrick’s leadership and generosity, and I look forward to the coming years of working closely together.” Patrick and his wife Susie have spent the past 35 years in Atlanta. “We moved to Atlanta after I finished business school, and we’ve been here ever since.” As Patrick made clear, “Susie is the real secret to our family’s success.” Sam is their youngest son. The oldest, Shaun, is a portfolio manager for a multistrategy asset management firm in New York. Alex, their middle son, has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Emory and is a staff scientist with the CDC.

It’s all about the music

Patrick clearly sees this as a pivotal time for the ASO: “This is a truly important moment and opportunity for the symphony to build on its strong foundation and lean into the music: to really focus on artistic development. It’s all about the music. Nathalie’s leadership and presence on the podium will help the Orchestra take its already fantastic music to a new level, to connect more deeply with our audiences, and to build the reputation of the ASO in the community, nationally and internationally.”

SPECIAL THANKS:

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra gives special thanks to the following donors for their extraordinary support of the Orchestra’s Stability Fund.

Created at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stability Fund helps mitigate the enormous challenges of the pandemic and allows the Orchestra to continue performing and sharing music with our community.

A Friend of the Symphony (4) The Antinori Foundation

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Players’ Association

Jennifer Barlament & Kenneth Potsic

Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr.

The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation

Thalia & Michael C. Carlos Advised Fund

Marcia & John Donnell In loving memory of Catherine W. Dukehart

The Estate of Geoffrey G. Eichholz Angela Evans James H. Landon Bert & Carmen Mills Lynn & Galen Oelkers

Sally & Pete Parsonson Patty & Doug Reid

Mr. John A. Sibley, III Ross & Sally Singletary Slumgullion Charitable Fund Kathy Waller & Kenneth Goggins

Adair & Dick White

The Estate of Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr. Kiki Wilson

This list recognizes donors who have made contributions to the ASO Stability Fund since March 2020.

SPONSORS

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

Concerts of Thursday, November 10, 2022, 8:00pm Saturday, November 12, 2022, 8:00pm

HANNU LINTU, conductor

GIL SHAHAM, violin

JEAN SIBELIUS (1865–1957)

The Oceanides, Op. 73 (1914) 10 MINS ERICH KORNGOLD (1897–1957) Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (1937, rev. 1945)25 MINS

I. Moderato nobile

II. Romance: Andante

III. Finale: Allegro assai vivace Gil Shaham, violin

INTERMISSION 20 MINS

JENNIFER HIGDON (b. 1962) Concerto for Orchestra (2002) 32 MINS

I II III IV V

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.

notesontheprogram

by Noel Morris Program Annotator

The Oceanides, Op. 73

The Oceanides is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, timpani, percussion, two harps and strings.

These are the first ASO performances

“The natural surroundings had not been disturbed but were reverently protected from the advance of civilization,” wrote the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in 1914. “It was as romantic and mysterious as it had been two hundred years earlier. There was an atmosphere of poetry over the large, sleeping woods that was unique.”

These were his impressions of Norfolk, Connecticut, a small town nestled in the lower Berkshires. According to the 2020 census, Norfolk has only 1,588 residents. Nevertheless, it punches above its weight in arts and culture. It is home to Yale University’s tuitionfree summer music and art schools as well as the nation’s oldest internationally renowned music festival—all thanks to the work of one enterprising family.

In the 19th century, a local business magnate named Robbins Battell (1819–1895) took steps to give Norfolk and the surrounding county of Litchfield its unique identity: he started a singing school, built a hotel, and personally financed a concert series on the village green. After his death, Battell’s daughter, Ellen, took up her father’s work and ran with it. Together with her husband, Carl Stoeckel, she built the summer concert series into an international destination—the first internationally acclaimed music festival in the Americas. Drawing top musicians from around the Northeast and beyond, they commissioned works from such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Max Bruch, Camille SaintSaens, and the present work by Jean Sibelius (right).

In August of 1913, the Stoeckels enlisted Horatio Parker, dean of the Yale School of Music, to contact Sibelius and request a new piece for the 1914 festival. Eager to see America, Sibelius accepted Parker’s offer.

Throughout his career, the composer had written music derived from the stories of the Kalevala, a collection of Finnish folktales, epic poems and mythology. For the American commission, Sibelius turned to a different source: Greek mythology. The Oceanids or Oceanides are a group of 3,000 water nymphs. They are the daughters of the sea goddess Tethys and the Titan

god Oceanus, whose river encircles the earth. (Oceanus is famously represented in the Trevi Fountain in Rome.) These Oceanides are said to preside over the earth’s fresh water—rivers, streams, lakes, rain, etc.

Sibelius sat down to write The Oceanides while staying in Berlin in early 1914. After completing the first version, he sent the score ahead to Parker in New Haven but began to have some doubts. Rushing to rewrite the piece ahead of his Atlantic crossing, he barely finished in time to hand it over to a copyist, only to make further revisions (he was inspired by his ocean voyage).

Traveling to Norfolk, Sibelius led an orchestra made up of players from the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera and raved about the quality of the players. Throughout his time in the U.S., he received a celebrity’s welcome and visited a number of sites, including Niagara Falls.

First ASO performances: September 16–18, 1999 Yoel Levi, conductor Gil Shaham, violin

Most recent ASO performances: October 22–24, 2009 Donald Runnicles, conductor James Ehnes, violin

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

In addition to the solo violin, this concerto is scored for two flutes (one doubling piccolo), two oboes (one doubling English horn), two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons (one doubling contrabassoon), four horns, two trumpets, one trombone, timpani, percussion, harp, celeste and strings.

The life of Erich Wolfgang Korngold begins like a Hollywood screenplay: he was a child prodigy born to a prominent family. His incredible gifts were celebrated by all the right people. Sadly, this story has a horrible villain.

Korngold was born in the city of Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czechia). His father was a prominent music critic—well networked to help a preternaturally gifted son. When Erich was just 11 years old, he wrote his ballet-pantomime The Snowman, which was then performed in 1910 by the Vienna Court Theater with the Emperor in attendance. Throughout his youth, Korngold’s genius was affirmed by the greatest musical talents in Europe, including Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Giacomo Puccini and Jean Sibelius. In 1921, his third opera, Die tote Stadt, debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The composer was just 24.

One can just imagine what a 24-year-old hotshot might have expected from life: all around him, the lions of music were making headlines, hopping trains and boarding steamships to reign over the

world’s most storied opera houses. But through the 1920s, the Nazi menace festered in Weimar, and Korngold was Jewish.

In 1934, the director Max Reinhardt lured Korngold to Hollywood to arrange music by Mendelssohn for a screen adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. At the time, most film scores were little more than a pastiche of existing music. A year later, Warner Bros. offered the composer an exclusive—and lucrative—contract. He accepted, providing he could maintain his composing career in Europe. For him, that was a good arrangement until the German National Socialists annexed Austria in 1938 (the Anschluss). Sensing the danger, Korngold sent for his family and remained in Southern California for the duration of the war.

During his 12 years in Hollywood, Korngold inspired directors to reimagine the role of music in the cinema. He pioneered the sumptuous, sweeping melodies that came to define Hollywood’s Golden Age and won two Academy Awards. At war’s end, he announced his retirement from film and a return to concert music.

He issued the Violin Concerto in 1945. Not unlike Mahler and Richard Strauss, Korngold wasn’t above a little recycling. Many of the concerto’s themes are drawn from his own film scores. The piece opens with a tune from the 1937 Errol Flynn melodrama Another Dawn. A second theme had originally accompanied Bette Davis in the 1939 historical drama Juarez. In the slow movement, one of the themes comes from Korngold’s Oscar-winning score for the 1936 feature Anthony Adverse. The finale lifts a tune from the 1937 film The Prince and the Pauper

Korngold went home to Vienna in 1949 but scarcely recognized the place. Due to a waning interest in the music of the late Romantics, he never regained his popularity in the concert hall. People dismissed him as being old-fashioned or “too Hollywood.”

Today, musicians are rediscovering his works. In 2007, Katy Korngold Hubbard, granddaughter of the composer, addressed the Jewish Museum in Vienna:

“Fifty years ago, Korngold died in Hollywood, brokenhearted, believing himself a forgotten man. I would like to . . . [articulate] how deeply gratified our family is to know that Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the man and his music, have been welcomed once again to Vienna, the city he knew and loved so well. Indeed, the child prodigy has, at last, come home again.”

WIKIMEDIA

Concerto for Orchestra

First ASO performances:

October 1–3, 2015

Robert Spano, conductor

Most recent ASO performances:

September 18–22, 2019

Robert Spano, conductor

Concerto for Orchestra is scored for three flutes (one doubling piccolo), three oboes, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, celeste and strings.

Jennifer Higdon is one of America’s most acclaimed and most frequently performed living composers. She is a major figure in contemporary classical music, receiving the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto, a 2010 Grammy for her Percussion Concerto, a 2018 Grammy for her Viola Concerto and a 2020 Grammy for her Harp Concerto.

In 2018, Higdon received the Nemmers Prize from Northwestern University, which is given to contemporary classical composers of exceptional achievement who have significantly influenced the field of composition. Most recently, the recording of Higdon’s Percussion Concerto was inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. Higdon enjoys several hundred performances a year of her works, and blue cathedral is today’s most performed contemporary orchestral work, with more than 600 performances worldwide.

Her works have been recorded on more than seventy CDs. Higdon’s first opera, Cold Mountain, won the prestigious International Opera Award for Best World Premiere and the opera recording was nominated for two Grammy awards. Her music is published exclusively by Lawdon Press.

From the composer:

The Concerto for Orchestra is truly a concerto in that it requires virtuosity from the principal players, the individual sections, and the entire orchestra. Built from the inside out, the third movement was written first, and it is the movement that allows each principal player a solo, before moving into section solis. The winds are highlighted first, which are followed (after a tutti) by the strings, and then the brass. Each solo has its own unique material, some of which is utilized in the tutti sections of the movement. The second movement was written next, inspired by the string sound of The Philadelphia Orchestra. This movement is like a scherzo in character, written in a jaunty rhythm and tempo that celebrates the joyous sound of strings. The movement begins with everyone playing pizzicato and then slowly integrates an arco

sound, first through soloists, and then with all of the players. It continues to romp through to the end, where a snap pizzicato closes out the movement. The fourth movement is a tribute to rhythm and the percussion section of the orchestra (harp, celesta, and piano are included in this movement). Since this piece was completed at the beginning of the 21st century, it seemed very fitting to have a movement that highlights the one section of the orchestra that has had the greatest amount of development during the 20th century. Ironically, the opening of this movement is the quietest and stillest part of the entire work, which is not what one might expect from percussion. The movement opens with bowed vibraphone and crotales…opening the way for the percussion to move through many of its pitched instruments (as well as collaborating with the harpist and celesta player, who are percussive in their nature). Eventually, the musicians move to nonpitched percussion, which is emphasized by the movement’s tempo speeding up at key moments. This progression in the tempi will carry this movement from an extraordinarily slow start (quarter equals 42) through to the fifth movement, which continues the progression of increasing tempi, until the end of that movement, which arrives at a quarter equals 160–180 on the metronome. These tempo increases occur at specific moments, usually covering two measures, and are meant to resemble the effect of a victrola being wound up.

The fifth movement, which begins with the entrance of the violins, highlights the entire orchestra and has its rhythm set up through an ostinato in the percussion, which has been carried over from the previous movement. The various sections of the orchestra converse in musical interplay throughout, while the tempo continues to increase. This occurs to such an extent, that a primary theme that is stated within the first minute of the movement will eventually come back in rhythmic values that are twice as long, but with the increased tempo, will sound like it did at its first appearance.

Surprisingly, the first movement was the last to be composed. It took writing the other four movements to create a clear picture of what was needed to start this virtuosic tour-de-force. The opening of the piece begins with chimes and timpani, sounding together, and then a quick entrance by the strings in energetic scale patterns (octatonic), which moves the orchestra up through the winds and finally adds the brass in major chords, a major second apart [this is a sound the composer has been working with for years]. This movement is primarily tutti in its use of instruments, but there are small chamber moments, in recognition of the fact that it takes many individuals to make the whole of the orchestra.

Concerto for Orchestra was commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra as part of its Centennial Celebrations. Funding was provided by The National Endowment for the Arts, The Philadelphia Music Project (funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by Settlement Music School) and Peter Benoliel. Premiered June 12, 2002, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conducting.

HANNU LINTU, CONDUCTOR

Maestro Hannu Lintu is Chief Conductor of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet. The appointment followed a series of successful collaborations with the company. In 2021 his season included Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

Lintu recently completed his eighth and final season as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor. In the 2021/22 season, Lintu made his debut with Opéra National de Paris, conducting Der fliegende Holländer. Lintu also regularly conducts at the Savonlinna Festival, most recently for productions of Verdi’s Otello (2018) and Sallinen’s Kullervo (in 2017, as part of Finland’s centenary celebrations).

Guest highlights of the 2021/22 season included returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, Gulbenkian Orchestra, and Tampere Philharmonic. Lintu also guest conducts the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

GIL SHAHAM, VIOLIN

Gil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time; his flawless technique combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit has solidified his renown as an American master. The Grammy® Award-winner, also named Musical America’s “Instrumentalist of the Year,” is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors.

Appearances with orchestra include the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and San Francisco Symphony.

Shaham has more than two dozen concerto and solo CDs to his name, earning multiple Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d’Or, and Gramophone Editor’s Choice. His most recent recording in the series 1930s Violin Concertos Vol. 2 was nominated for a Grammy Award.

He plays the 1699 “Countess Polignac” Stradivarius, and lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Adele Anthony, and their three children.

CHRIS

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JOHN STORGÅRDS, CONDUCTOR

hief Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, John Storgårds has a dual career as a conductor and violin virtuoso. As Artistic Director of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra for 25 years, Storgårds earned global critical acclaim for the ensemble’s adventurous performances and award-winning recordings.

Storgårds appears with such orchestras as Bamberger Symphoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Münchner Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, ORF RadioSymphonieorchester Wien, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale della RAI, BBC Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra as well as all major Nordic orchestras including the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was Chief Conductor from 2008 to 2015.

Further afield, he appears with Sydney, Melbourne, Yomiuri Nippon and NHK Symphony Orchestras as well as Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, St. Louis and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.

INON BARNATAN, PIANO

Inon Barnatan has established a unique and varied career, equally celebrated as a soloist, curator and collaborator. Barnatan served as the inaugural Artist-in-Association of the New York Philharmonic for three seasons.

During the pre-pandemic period of the 19/20 season, Inon played with the symphony orchestras of Minnesota, Dresden, Barcelona, Stockholm, Ottawa, Innsbruck, Tenerife and Los Angeles, recreated Beethoven’s legendary 1808 concert with the Cincinnati Symphony, and recorded the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Alan Gilbert and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, released by the Pentatone label in 2020.

In 2020, Inon recorded concert films and streamed performances with numerous orchestras, including the Boston, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Detroit, New Jersey and San Diego symphony orchestras, conducted Mozart and Beethoven concertos from the keyboard with the Seattle Symphony, performed the US premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s piano concerto with the New World Symphony, and played numerous recitals and chamber music performances online.

ASO | SUPPORT

The Atlanta 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+

$100,000+

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The Antinori Foundation

The Molly Blank Fund of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation∞ The Coca-Cola Company Sheila L. & Jonathan J. Davies

$75,000+

Alston & Bird LLP

$50,000+

Accenture LLP

The John & Rosemary Brown Family Foundation Thalia & Michael C. Carlos Advised Fund

$35,000+

BlackRock, Inc. City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs Sally & Larry Davis The Roy & Janet Dorsey Foundation

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

A Friend of the Symphony

Delta Air Lines Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Barney M. Franklin & Hugh W. Burke Charitable Fund Georgia Power Company The Home Depot Foundation Invesco QQQ

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation PNC

Thalia & Michael C. Carlos Foundation Ms. Lynn Eden Ms. Angela L. Evans∞ The Gable Foundation Georgia Council for the Arts

EY, Partners & Employees Fulton County Arts & Culture Donna Lee & Howard Ehni National Endowment for the Arts John R. Paddock, Ph.D. & Karen M. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Betty Sands Fuller John D. Fuller∞ Dick & Anne Game° Sally & Walter George Jeannette Guarner, MD & Carlos del Rio, MD

The Halle Foundation Bonnie & Jay Harris League of American Orchestras The Marcus Foundation, Inc.∞ Massey Charitable Trust John & Linda Matthews Moore Colson, CPAs & Bert & Carmen Mills

Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation∞ Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc. Amy W. Norman Charitable Foundation

Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr.°∞ The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

Slumgullion Charitable Fund Kathy Waller & Kenneth Goggins

Graphic Packaging International, Inc. The Graves Foundation Gary Lee, Jr. David, Helen & Marian Woodward Fund, Atlanta

Sally & Pete Parsonson∞ Patty & Doug Reid Mary & Jim Rubright Patrick & Susie Viguerie Mr.* & Mrs. Edus H. Warren, Jr.

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP 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 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

Mr. & Mrs. Erroll B. Davis, Jr. Cari K. Dawson & John M. Sparrow Mr. Max M. Gilstrap∞

Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Harrison

The Hertz Family Foundation, Inc. Azira G. Hill James H. Landon

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

Mr. & Dr. Kevin Lyman Ms. Deborah A. Marlowe & Dr. Clint Lawrence Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley 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

The Mark & Evelyn Trammell Foundation

$15,000+

Phyllis Abramson, Ph. D. Madeline* & Howell E. Adams, Jr. Mr. David Boatwright Ms. Liza V. Chang

Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Clare° The Jim Cox, Jr. Foundation Eleanor & Charles Edmondson

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Fifth Third Bank Craig Frankel & Jana Eplan Florencia y Rodrigo Garcia-Escudero Georgia-Pacific Pam & Robert Glustrom Roya & Bahman Irvani Mr. Sukai Liu & Dr. Ginger J. Chen John F. & Marilyn M. McMullan Ms. Molly Minnear New Music, USA North Highland Company Mr. Edward Potter & Ms. Regina Olchowski° Charlie & Donna Sharbaugh Beverly & Milton Shlapak Mr. John A. Sibley, III Elliott & Elaine Tapp John & Ray Uttenhove Adair & Dick White Drs. Kevin & Kalinda Woods

$10,000+ A Friend of the Symphony (2) 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. CBRE

Colliers International Peter & Vivian de Kok Donald & Barbara Defoe° Marcia & John Donnell Ms. Diane Durgin Eversheds Sutherland Dr. & Mrs. Leroy Fass The Robert Hall Gunn, Jr., Fund Deedee & Marc Hamburger° Clay & Jane Jackson JBS Foundation

Ann A. & Ben F. Johnson III James Kieffer

Stephen & Carolyn Knight

The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation

Pat & Nolan Leake Meghan & Clarke Magruder Mr. Nicholas Marrone Belinda & Gino Massafra

The Monasse Family Foundation∞ Moore, Colson & Company, P.C. Mr. & Mrs. James F. Nellis , Jr. 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.

*Deceased

ASO | SUPPORT (cont.)

$7,500+

Jack & Helga Beam∞ Karen & Rod Bunn Patricia & William Buss∞ Lisa & Russ Butner 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 Mr. Bert Mobley Hala & Steve Moddelmog Caroline & Phil Moïse Judge Jane Morrison∞ Gretchen Nagy & Allan Sandlin

Margaret H. Petersen Ms. Felicia Rives Hamilton & Mason Smith Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Stroetz, Jr. Stephen & Sonia Swartz Drs. Jonne & Paul Walter Mrs. Frank L. Wilson, Jr. Mr. David J. Worley & Ms. Bernadette Drankoski

$5,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

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 Natalie & Matthew Bernstein Rita & Herschel Bloom Jane & Gregory Blount

Dr. & Mrs. Jerome B. Blumenthal

Mrs. Sidney W. Boozer Mrs. Cristina Briboneria Margo Brinton & Eldon Park

Jacqueline A. & Joseph E. Brown, Jr. Mrs. 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 Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Dimmick Dorsey Alston Realtors Xavier Duralde & Mary Barrett Mr. & Mrs. John Dyer Paulette Eastman & Becky Pryor Anderson∞ Diana Einterz Dieter Elsner & Othene Munson Robert S. Elster Foundation 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

Mr. Justin Im & Dr. Nakyoung Nam

Mr. & Mrs. Baxter Jones Paul* & Rosthema Kastin Ms. Carrie L. Kirk Mr. Charles R. Kowal Mrs. Heidi LaMarca Dr. & Mrs. Scott I. Lampert

Peg & Jim Lowman Ms. Eunice Luke Dr. & Mrs. Ellis L. Malone Elvira & Jay Mannelly Mr. Robert S. Mathews Mary Ruth McDonald The Fred & Sue McGehee Family Charitable Fund Ed & Linda McGinn° Ms. Erica McVicker Berthe & Shapour Mobasser Ms. Sue L. Morgan∞ Gary R. Noble, MD Ms. Bethani Oppenheimer Ms. Eliza Quigley 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 John T. Ruff Katherine Scott Suzanne Shull Gerald & Nancy Silverboard Baker & Debby Smith Ms. Cynthia Smith Dr. K. Douglas Smith Tom & Ani Steele 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 Carolyn C. Thorsen∞ 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 Camille W. Yow

$3,500+ Mr. John Blatz Carol Brantley & David Webster

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis M. Chorba Jean & Jerry Cooper

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Phil & Lisa Hartley John* & Martha Head Deborah & William Liss° Martha & Reynolds McClatchey Judy Zaban-Miller & Lester Miller Donald S. Orr & Marcia K. Knight Mr. & Mrs. Edmund F. Pearce, Jr.° In Memory of Dr. Frank S. Pittman III Dr. & Mrs. John P. Pooler Ms. Kathy Powell 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 (3) 2492 Fund

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

Kent & Diane Alexander

Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Allen IV Mr. & Mrs. Walker Anderson

The Hisham & Nawal Araim Family Foundation Anthony Barbagallo & Kristen Fowks Mr. Jay & Dr. Martin Beard-Coles Susan & Jack Bertram Shirley Blaine Leon & Joy Borchers

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Bower° Martha S. Brewer Harriet Evans Brock Dr. Aubrey Bush & Dr. Carol Bush Ms. Elizabeth W. Camp Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Canipe Mrs. Betty Case Julie & Jerry Chautin Mr. James Cobb Susan S. Cofer Malcolm & Ann Cole

Mr. & Mrs. R. Barksdale Collins° Ned Cone & Nadeen Green Mrs. Nancy Cooke R. Carter & Marjorie A. Crittenden Foundation Dr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Daly, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. John C. Dancu Mary & Mahlon Delong Mr. & Mrs. Graham Dorian Gregory & Debra Durden Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge Erica Endicott & Chris Heisel

Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Fackler Mr. Ramsey Fahs° Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Farnham Ken Felts & A. Richard Bunn Mr. & Mrs. William A. Flinn Dr. Karen A. Foster 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 Richard & Debbie Griffiths 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 Dona & Bill Humphreys Barbara M. Hund Mary & Wayne James Nancy & John Janet Ms. Rebecca Jarvis Mrs. Gail Johnson Mr. W. F. & Dr. Janice Johnston 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 Mr. & Mrs. Todd E. Kessler

Wolfgang* & Mariana Laufer

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore J. Lavallee, Sr. Lillian Balentine Law Mr. & Mrs. Chris Le Grace & Josh Lembeck Mr. & Mrs. Ari Levine° Elizabeth J. Levine Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey 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 Dr. & Mrs. John Nelson

The Piedmont National Family Foundation John H. Rains Mrs. Susan H. Reinach Sharon & David Schachter° Mrs. Dianna A. Scherer Drs. Bess Schoen & Andrew Muir 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 Dr. & Mrs. Gerald M. 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

Linda Matthews chair

Kristi Allpere

Helga Beam

Bill Buss

Pat Buss

Deedee Hamburger

Judy Hellriegel

Kristen Fowks

Nancy Janet Belinda Massafra

Sally Parsonson

June Scott

Milt Shlapak

Sheila Tschinkel

Jonne Walter

Marcia Watt

HENRY SOPKIN CIRCLE

Named

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* 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. Robert Boston Colgin Mrs. Mary Frances Evans Comstock* Miriam* & John A.* Conant Dr. John W. Cooledge Mr. & Mrs. William R. Cummickel

Bob* & Verdery* Cunningham John R. Donnell Dixon W. Driggs* Pamela Johnson Drummond Mrs. Kathryn E. Duggleby Catherine Warren Dukehart* Ms. Diane Durgin Mr. Richard H. Delay & Dr. Francine D. Dykes 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

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. 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

EXECUTIVE

Jennifer Barlament executive director

Alvinetta Cooksey executive & finance assistant

Elise Kolle executive assistant to senior management Emily Fritz Endres executive management fellow

ARTISTIC

Gaetan Le Divelec vice president, artistic planning

Jeffrey Baxter choral administrator Bob Scarr archivist & special projects coordinator

RaSheed Lemon aso artist liaison

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Sarah Grant director of education Ryan Walks talent development program manager

Elena Gagon coordinator of education & community engagement

OPERATIONS

Sameed Afghani vice president & general manager

Tyler Benware director of orchestra operations & asyo Elizabeth Graiser manager of operations & asyo

Victoria Moore director of orchestra personnel

Paul Barrett senior production stage manager

Richard Carvlin stage manager Holly Matthews, assistant principal librarian

Hannah Davis, assistant librarian

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Ashley Mirakian vice president, marketing & communications Delle Beganie content & production manager Leah Branstetter director of digital content 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 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

Joshua Reynolds event manager, 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 senior director of financial planning & analysis

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 assistant manager of donor engagement

Robert Cushing development associate, major gifts Sarah Wilson development operations associate

This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Major funding is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.

Major support is provided by the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs.

THE WOODRUFF CIRCLE

Woodruff Circle members have contributed more than $250,000 annually to support the arts

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

opportunities

access

The Antinori

Atlanta

& Mrs. Shouky Shaheen

& Al Azadi

Molly

Gurley Brown

Goizueta

Rhonda

The Home Depot Foundation Sarah and Jim Kennedy

Dan

The Rich Foundation, Inc. Alfred A. Thornton Venable Trust

Trusteed Foundations: Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund Thomas Guy Woolford Charitable Trust

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.

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.

1180 Peachtree

ACT Foundation, Inc.

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*

Morris Manning & Martin LLP

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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