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10 President’s Letter 12 Orchestra Leadership 14 Robert Spano 16 Musicians 33 Contributors 50 Calendar 52 Administration 54 General Info 56 Ticket Info 58 Gallery ASO
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Welcome to December! “When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.” The words of Robert Shaw — the late, beloved leader of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and a spiritual mentor through his choral music to countless thousands, including myself — provide an apt template for December at Symphony Hall. The life-affirming tradition of our holiday concerts celebrates the enduring beatitudes of existence: hope, faith, harmony, gratitude and, above all, joy! Our season within a season begins with a personal favorite, the Christmas portion and “Hallelujah” Chorus from Handel’s Messiah, and Vivaldi’s Gloria, Dec. 2 and 4. Director of Choruses Norman Mackenzie, the Orchestra and the Chamber Chorus endow these sacred creations with the orchestral and vocal glory they merit. I eagerly anticipate my first Gospel Christmas, Dec. 3 and 4, and hearing our roofraising Gospel Choir move heaven and earth under its new director Jarvis Wilson. Kid’s Christmas lives up to its name with productions of the modern children’s classic The Snowman and Clement Moore’s ’Twas The Night Before Christmas, Dec. 5 and 12. Jere Flint leads the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, with Lee Harper & Dancers, the Georgia Regional Girls Choir and narrator John Lemley of WABE-FM. From what I know of Robert Shaw, I feel certain he would approve of Christmas with the ASO, Dec. 9-11. His signature creation is lovingly embraced by former protégé Norman Mackenzie, who guides the Chorus, with the Morehouse College Glee Club and the Gwinnett Young Singers in the greatest story ever told. Principal Pops Conductor Michael Krajewski’s annual variety show, A Very Merry Holiday Pops, Dec. 17-18, is another story altogether. And we have it for you on page 18. (Michael returns New Year’s Eve with the vocal trio POParazzi for a salute to amore, from Puccini and Pavarotti to Jersey Boys and the Jersey boy, Frank Sinatra.) Our special headliner this season is the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. New Orleans’s fabled troubadours of Dixieland perform Creole Christmas, Dec. 19. Join us this month and the rest of the season to breathe in the curative powers of music. I wish you the happiest, healthiest and safest of holidays and New Year.
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Robert M Spano music Director
usic Director Robert Spano, beginning his 10th season as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, is recognized internationally as one of the most imaginative conductors today. Since 2001, he has invigorated and expanded the Orchestra’s repertoire while elevating the ensemble to new levels of international prominence and acclaim.
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The Orchestra and audiences together explore a creative programming mix, recordings, and visual enhancements, such as Theater of a Concert — the Orchestra’s continuing exploration of different formats, settings, and enhancements for the musical performance experience — and the first concert-staged performances of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic, in November 2008. The Atlanta School of Composers reflects Mr. Spano’s and the Orchestra’s commitment to nurturing and championing music through multi-year partnerships, defining a new generation of American composers, including Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Theofanidis and Michael Gandolfi. Since the beginning of his tenure, Mr. Spano and the Orchestra have performed over 100 concerts featuring contemporary works (composed since 1950), including 13 Atlanta Symphony-commissioned world premieres and three additional world premieres.
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Mr. Spano has a discography with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra of nine recordings — six of which have been honored with Grammy® awards. He has led the Orchestra’s performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, as well as the Ravinia, Ojai and Savannah Music Festivals. He has led the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, San Francisco, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras, as well as Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, BBC Symphony and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In addition, he has conducted for Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, and the 2005 and 2009 Seattle Opera Ring cycles. Mr. Spano was Musical America’s 2008 Conductor of the Year. In March 2010, Mr. Spano began a threeyear tenure as Emory University’s Distinguished Artist in Residence, for which he spends three weeks each year leading intensive seminars, lecturing, and presenting programs on science, math, philosophy, literature and musicology throughout the University’s campus.
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Jay Christy Assistant Principal
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michael Krajewski, Principal Pops Conductor Jere Flint, Staff Conductor; Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra The Zeist Foundation Chair * Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses, The Frannie and Bill Graves Chair PICCOLO
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Carl David Hall
Ted Gurch
Thomas Hooten
Thomas Sherwood
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Elizabeth Koch
Alcides Rodriguez
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Michael Myers Joseph Walthall
William Wilder
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Yvonne Powers Peterson Associate Principal Deborah Workman Ann Lillya † Patrick McFarland ENGLISH HORN
Patrick McFarland CLARINET
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Charles Settle
Elizabeth Burkhardt
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Bill Thomas George Curran BASS TROMBONE
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Brice Andrus
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Michael Moore
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William Rappaport The Alcatel-Lucent Chair
Alcides Rodriguez
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Susan Welty
George Curran
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Thomas Witte Richard Deane The UPS Community Service Chair
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Mark Yancich Principal The Walter H. Bunzl Chair*
William Wilder Assistant Principal
Elisabeth Remy Johnson Principal The Delta Air Lines Chair
KEYBOARD The Hugh and Jessie Hodgson Memorial Chair*
Peter Marshall † Beverly Gilbert † Sharon Berenson LIBRARY
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John Wildermuth Assistant Librarian *C hair named in perpetuity † Regularly engaged musician Players in string sections are listed alphabetically.
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Good Cheer, Great Music! A Very Merry Holiday Pops is merrier than ever with Capathia Jenkins and Joe Gransden If A Very Merry Holiday Pops is the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Christmas gift to Atlanta, then audiences are in for a magnificent treat on Friday, Dec. 17. and Saturday, Dec. 18. In addition to the Lassiter and Walton High School choruses, a dancing Santa Claus jollily portrayed by Brad Hood, and cherished musical classics, Principal Pops Conductor Michael Krajewski’s annual variety show features Broadway star Capathia Jenkins and local jazz trumpeter and vocalist Joe Gransden.
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Jenkins made her Broadway debut in The Civil War in 1999. Since then, she’s appeared in The Look of Love; Caroline, Or Change; and Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Over the past couple of years, she has performed with symphony orchestras around the world as well.
Symphony Hall or last summer’s reprisal of the show at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park. During the summer engagement which Krajewski conducted, he suggested she return to Atlanta for A Very Merry Holiday Pops as a guest vocalist.
“Broadway is really great and exciting … [but] when you stand in front of a symphony orchestra, it’s just the most glorious thing,” Jenkins says. “The first time, I was like a 5-year-old. It is a glorious, glorious experience — a wall of sound. It’s 80 pieces going for it, and you get to sing on top of it.”
“I was thrilled,” she says. “I really like the city of Atlanta [and] the orchestra there is fantastic. I like the way they play, but also, I like their spirit. It feels like everyone is having a great time on stage.”
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra audiences may remember Jenkins from October 2009’s Broadway Rocks concert at
Jenkins is a big fan of Krajewski, too. “He’s a great conductor and has a wonderful sense of humor,” she says. “We’re sort of kindred spirits that way. Continued on page 42
“ When you stand in front of a symphony orchestra, it’s just the most glorious thing.”
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Holiday Concert Series Thursday and Saturday, December 2 and 4, 2010, at 8 p.m.
Norman Mackenzie, Conductor Kiera Duffy, Soprano Magdalena Wor, Mezzo-soprano Richard Clement, Tenor Gerard Sundberg, Bass Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) Gloria in D Major, RV 589 INTERMISSION GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759) Christmas Portion and “Hallelujah!” Chorus from Messiah (1742)
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program Notes on the Program By Ken Meltzer Gloria in D Major, RV 589 Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy, on March 4, 1678, and died in Vienna, Austria, on July 28, 1741. The Gloria is scored for soprano and alto soloists, mixed chorus, oboe, trumpet, continuo and strings. Approximate performance time is thirty minutes.
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ntonio Vivaldi was one of the most prolific and influential musicians of the Baroque era — not just as a composer, but also as a violin virtuoso and teacher. The son of a professional violinist, Vivaldi originally trained for the priesthood and was ordained in 1703. However, Vivaldi suffered from an ailment he described as strettezza di petto (“tightness of the chest”) — in all likelihood, asthma. As a result, Vivaldi later recalled: “I said mass for year or a little more. Then I discontinued it, having on three occasions had to leave the altar without completing it because of this ailment.”
Vivaldi left the priesthood in 1703. That same year, he began his association with Venice’s Ospedale della Pièta, a home for orphaned girls renowned for its excellence in musical education. Despite extensive travels throughout Europe, Vivaldi remained affiliated with the Ospedale as a teacher, composer and music director for the better part of four decades. Although Vivaldi enjoyed great success during much of his life, the composer was povertystricken when he died in Vienna on July 28, 1741, at the age of 63. Like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi was buried in a pauper’s grave. It is in the realm of the concerto that Vivaldi exerted his most profound influence. Vivaldi composed approximately 550 concertos in which he explored a wide variety of instrumental combinations. But Antonio Vivaldi’s compositions also encompass numerous other chamber works, operas and sacred vocal music, the latter including two settings in D Major of the Gloria (RV 588 and 589). The date and specific circumstances surrounding the composition of the Gloria, RV 589, are unknown. However, its omission of any male soloists (unlike RV 588) indicates that Vivaldi may well have composed this beautiful work for performance at Ospedale della Pièta. Gloria in excelsis (Chorus) Gloria in excelsis Deo,
Glory be to God on high,
Et in terra pax (Chorus) Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
and on earth peace to men of good will. Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 25
Laudamus te (Two Sopranos) Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te.
We praise You, we bless You, we adore You, we glorify You.
Gratias agimus tibi (Chorus) Gratias agimus tibi
We give thanks to You
Propter magnam gloriam tuam (Chorus) propter magnam gloriam tuam.
for Your great glory.
Domine Deus (Soprano Solo) Domine Deus, Rex celestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.
Lord God, heavenly King, Father almighty.
Domine Fili unigenite (Chorus) Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe.
Lord the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
Domine Deus, Agnus Dei (Alto Solo and Chorus) Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Lord God, Lamb of God, Filius Patris, Son of the Father, qui tollis peccata mundi, who takes away the sins of the world, miserere nobis. have mercy upon us. Qui tollis (Chorus) Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris (Alto solo) Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.
You who take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.
You who sit at the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us.
Quoniam tu solus sanctus (Chorus) Quoniam tu solus sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe,
For You alone are the Holy One, You alone art the Lord, You, Jesus Christ, are the Most High,
Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus) Cum Sancto Spiritu, in gloria Dei Patris. Amen.
with the Holy Ghost, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
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program Christmas Portion and “Hallelujah!” Chorus from Messiah (1742) George Frideric Handel was born in Halle, Germany, on February 23, 1685, and died in London, England, on April 14, 1759. The first performance of Messiah took place at the New Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, Ireland, on April 13, 1742. Messiah is scored for solo soprano, alto, tenor and bass, mixed chorus, two oboes, two bassoons, two trumpets, timpani, organ, continuo and strings. Approximate performance of the Christmas portion of Messiah is 1 hour.
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he creation of George Frideric Handel’s most beloved work, Messiah, took place during a challenging period in the composer’s life. The steady decline in London of the popularity of Italian opera had caused Handel tremendous financial hardship. In addition, Handel’s rigorous work schedule had taken a profound toll on the composer’s health. By the summer of 1741, a period of lethargy had set in. It was at this point that Handel received a libretto for a new work, an oratorio based upon the birth, life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The author of the libretto was Charles Jennens, who collaborated with Handel on several oratorios. In July of 1741, Charles Jennens wrote to a friend: Handel says he will do nothing next Winter, but I hope I shall persuade him to set another Scripture Collection I have made for him, & perform it for his own Benefit in Passion Week. I hope he will lay out his whole Genius & Skill upon it, that the Composition may excel all his former Compositions, as the Subject excels every other subject. The Subject is Messiah. Handel began composition of Messiah on August 22, 1741. There seems to be no question that the libretto, based upon the Old and New Testaments, proved to be a source of majestic inspiration. Handel, working at a lightning pace, completed Messiah in just 24 days. Once Handel completed Messiah, he focused his attention upon Samson, another oratorio inspired by the Bible. It was during this period that Handel accepted an invitation to travel to Dublin for a series of concerts in aid of charity. In November, Handel set sail for Dublin, bringing with him several works for performance at the charity concerts. Among those works was Messiah. The premiere of Messiah took place at Dublin’s New Music Hall in Fishamble Street on April 13, 1742. Three days prior to the performance, the Dublin Journal printed the following admonition: Many Ladies and Gentlemen who are well-wishers to this Noble and Grand Charity for which this Oratorio was composed, request it as a Favour, that the Ladies who honour this Performance with their Presence would be pleased to come without Hoops, as it will greatly increase the Charity, by making room for more company. Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 27
Gentlemen were also requested to refrain from bringing their swords to the performance, again for the purpose of increasing the audience capacity. The performance was a tremendous success. As the Dublin Journal reported: (T)he best Judges allowed (Messiah) to be the most finished piece of music. Words are wanting to express the exquisite Delight it afforded to the admiring crowded audience. The Sublime, the Grand, and the Tender, adapted to the most elevated, majestic and moving Words, conspired to transport and charm the ravished Heart and Ear. It is but justice to Mr. Handel, that the World should know, he generously gave the Money arising from this Grand Performance, to be equally shared by the Society for relieving Prisoners, the Charitable Infirmary, the Mercer’s Hospital, for which they will ever gratefully remember his Name… The London premiere of Messiah, which took place at Covent Garden on March 23, 1743, was more problematic. It appears that the London public accorded Handel’s Messiah a mixed reception. However, at least according to one observer, those in attendance — including one very prominent member of the audience — were particularly moved by a portion of the oratorio. This resulted in the birth of a tradition that continues to this day: “When the chorus struck up ‘for the Lord God Omnipotent’ (in the ‘Hallelujah’ Chorus), they were so transported that they all together, with the King (who happened to be present), started up and remained standing till the chorus ended.” In May of 1750, Handel agreed to present Messiah as a benefit for London’s Foundling Hospital. The performance venue of the Hospital’s Chapel, coupled with the worthy cause, removed any possible objections. Charity concerts of Messiah became a yearly tradition at the Foundling Hospital. On April 6, 1759, Handel made his final public appearance, conducting a London performance of Messiah. Eight days later, Handel was dead at the age of 74. The funeral, held in Westminster Abbey, attracted an estimated 3,000 mourners. Three years later, the great church unveiled a monument to Handel, created by the French sculptor, Louis François Roubiliac. The monument depicts Handel, holding the score of Messiah. Overhead, an angel plays a lyre. The score is opened to the soprano solo that serves to begin the oratorio’s Third Part: “I know that my redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.” This concert features Part I, the Christmas Portion, of Messiah, as well as the “Hallelujah!” Chorus from Part II. Messiah Music by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Texts selected from Holy Scripture by Charles Jennens (1700-1773)
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program Part I Sinfonia Tenor Comfort ye my people, saith your God; speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill made low: the crooked straight and the rough places plain. [Isaiah 40:1-4] Chorus And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. [Isaiah 40:5] Bass Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Yet once a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea and the dry land, and I will shake all nations, and the desire of nations shall come. The Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in, behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts. [Haggai 2:6-7; Malachi 3:1] Alto But who may abide the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appeareth? For He is like a refiner’s fire. [Malachi 3:2]
Chorus And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. [Malachi 3:3] Alto Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel, God with us. [Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23] Alto and Chorus O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah: Behold your God! Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. [Isaiah 40:9; 60:1] Bass For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. [Isaiah 60:2-3] Bass The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. [Isaiah 9:2 (Matthew 3:16)]
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Chorus For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. [Isaiah 9:6] Pastoral Symphony Soprano There were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them: Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people: for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying: [Luke 2:8-11,13] Chorus Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will towards men. [Luke 2:14] Soprano Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, thy King cometh unto thee. He is the righteous Saviour, and He shall speak peace unto the heathen. [Zechariah 9:9-10]
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Alto Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing. [Isaiah 35:5-6] Alto and Soprano He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, and He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead those that are with young. Come unto Him, all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and He will give you rest. Take His yoke upon you, and learn of Him, for he is meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. [Isaiah 40:11; Matthew 11:28-29] Chorus His yoke is easy, and His burthen is light. [Matthew 11:30] Chorus Hallelujah! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever. King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. [Revelation 19:6; 11:15; 19:16]
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orman Mackenzie’s abilities as musical collaborator, conductor and concert organist have brought him international recognition. As director of choruses for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and holder of its endowed Frannie and Bill Graves Chair, he was chosen to help carry forward the creative vision of legendary founding conductor Robert Shaw to a new generation of Norman Mackenzie music lovers. At the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, he prepares the choruses for all concerts and recordings, conducts holiday concerts annually and works closely with Music Director Robert Spano and commissioned composers in the creation and premiere of new works. His leadership was rewarded in 2003 with Grammy awards for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance for the orchestra and chorus recording of A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams, in 2005 with another Best Choral Performance Grammy for the Berlioz Requiem and in 2007 for Best Opera Recording with Golijov’s Ainadamar. Mackenzie also serves as director of music and fine arts for Atlanta’s Trinity Presbyterian Church, and pursues an active recital and guest conducting schedule. Mr. Mackenzie has been hailed by The New York Times as Robert Shaw’s “designated successor.” In his 14-year association with Shaw (1985-99), he was keyboardist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, principal accompanist for the ASO Choruses, and ultimately assistant choral conductor. In addition, he was musical assistant and accompanist for the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, the Robert Shaw Institute Summer Choral Festivals in France and the U.S., and the famed Shaw/Carnegie Hall Choral Workshops. In 1996, Mr. Mackenzie made his New York conducting debut in a concert sponsored by Carnegie Hall, leading the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers in a critically acclaimed performance at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, substituting for Shaw on short notice. In 1999, he was chosen by Shaw to prepare the Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus for Charles Dutoit, and he was choral clinician for the first three annual workshops after Shaw’s passing. In 2011, he will partner with Robert Spano for the workshop’s 20th anniversary, featuring the Berlioz Requiem. A native of suburban Philadelphia, Mr. Mackenzie made his debut as a pianist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 12, and as an organist at age 20. He made his New York recital debut at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. He holds degrees from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Westminster Choir College. He has prepared choruses for performance under Robert Spano, Donald Runnicles, John Adams, Roberto Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Labadie, Nicholas McGegan, John Nelson, Alan Gilbert, Yoel Levi, Robert King, James Conlon, and Sir Neville Marriner. A frequent recitalist and clinician for conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the American Choral Directors Association, he has also been featured on National Public Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 31
Radio’s “Performance Today” and Minnesota Public Radio’s “Pipedreams” broadcasts. Mackenzie’s acclaimed Telarc recording of a cappella sacred music (featuring the Vaughan Williams Mass in G-Minor), represents the ASO Chamber Chorus’ first recording apart from the orchestra. In November 2009, he returned with the Chamber Chorus, ASO and Robert Spano to Carnegie Hall for a concert performance of Stravinsky’s The Nightingale. Mackenzie also prepared the ASO Chorus for its acclaimed 2003 debut and successive 2008 and 2009 performances in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic (in Britten’s War Requiem, Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem respectively), conducted by ASO Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles.
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program kiera duffy, Soprano
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merican soprano Kiera Duffy is recognized for both her gleaming high soprano and insightful musicianship in repertoire that encompasses Handel, Praetorius, Bach, Mozart and Verdi to the modern sounds of Alban Berg, Elliott Carter and John Zorn. In the 2010–11 season, Ms. Duffy returns to the San Francisco Symphony in Mozart’s Requiem and Feldman’s Rothko Chapel Kiera Duffy under Michael Tilson Thomas, after having debuted as soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah in December 2010. She also will be soprano soloist in Messiah and Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Duffy will make her London Symphony Orchestra debut singing Cunegonde in a concert performance of Candide with Kristjan Järvi conducting and will also return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Unsuk Chin’s Cantatrix Sopranica. On the opera stage, she will be seen at Wexford Opera Festival as Violet Beauregard in the European premiere of The Golden Ticket and Atlanta Opera as Despina in Così fan tutte. Ms. Duffy also will record the fifth volume of The Complete Songs of Richard Strauss with Roger Vignoles for Hyperion Records. In Ms. Duffy’s 2009–10 season, she returned to the New York Philharmonic as Venus in György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre under the baton of newly appointed musical director Alan Gilbert and to the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. She also made her debut at Wigmore Hall with legendary pianist Roger Vignoles and tenor Andrew Kennedy in a program of Richard Strauss Lieder. Ms. Duffy was seen in several exciting 20th century operatic works including John Corigliano’s Ghosts of Versailles at the Wexford Opera Festival, the Center for Contemporary Opera’s new production of Morton Feldman’s only “anti-opera” Neither at the Brut Wien and Benjamin Britten’s Rape of Lucretia at Toledo Opera. Ms. Duffy made her Atlanta Symphony debut with Mozart’s Coronation Mass under the baton of Roberto Abbado, sang Michael Praetorius’ Christmas “Vespers” with Cleveland’s award-winning Apollo’s Fire, and appeared in several performances of Carmina Burana with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Duffy returned to the Marlboro Music Festival in the summer of 2010 to collaborate with such famed chamber musicians as Mitsuko Uchida and Richard Goode. She also sang Berg’s Lulu Suite with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein at Bard Summerscape.
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magdalena wor, Mezzo-Soprano
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agdalena Wór sang her first Carmen last season and won approval from the critics and her audience: “Polish-born mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wór … made a magnificent debut … with her rich, seductive mezzo sound, perfectly suited to the role. And her acting as the sultry, sexy and fiery cigarette girl had just the right amount of intensity.” – Palm Beach Artspaper Magdalena Wor Immediately following those performances, Magdalena sang Tisbe for Washington Concert Opera’s La Cenerentola and as soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria with the National Philharmonic. Other performances this season include soloist in Messiah with the Atlanta Symphony and solo recitals in London at the Polish Os´rodek Spoleczno-Kulturalny celebrating Chopin’s 200th birth anniversary and for the Macon Concert Association and Ash Lawn Opera. This season, Magdalena reprises her Messiah performances with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Memphis Symphony Orchestra. She will also be soloist with the National Philharmonic for Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Magdalena Wór is a First Place Winner of the Heinz Rehfuss Vocal Competition, a Metropolitan Opera Competition National Finalist, an alumna of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Summer Opera Program and Chautauqua Music Institution’s Marlena Malas Voice Program as well as a winner of the Mozart Society of Atlanta Competition. In 2008, Ms. Wór completed the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera. Ms. Wór has sung Siebel in a concert version of Faust for Opera Camerata of Washington, D.C., Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro for Ash Lawn Opera, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Cobb Symphony Orchestra and Lord Nelson Mass with National Philharmonic, solo recitals for the Polish National Embassy, Austrian National Embassy and Russian Culture Center in Washington, D.C., and Anitra in Grieg’s Peer Gynt with the National Symphony Orchestra. Other recent peformances include Third Maid in Elektra, Giovanna in Rigoletto and Grimgerge in Walküre, Herdswoman in Jenùfa and The Witch in Hansel and Gretel for Washington National Opera’s main stage as well as Zita in Gianni Schicci for the Young Artist Program. She covered the role of Mercedes in Carmen for The Metropolitan Opera and sang Tisbe in La Cenerentola for The Atlanta Opera as well as Enrichetta for Washington Concert Opera’s I Puritani. Magdelana is originally from Poland and has lived in the U.S. since 1991. She received her Bachelor and Master’s degrees in vocal performance from Georgia State University and studies with Magdalena Moulson-Falewicz. Magdalena is represented worldwide by JEJ Artists.
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program RICHARD CLEMENT, Tenor
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rammy-winning American tenor Richard Clement has performed with most of America’s major orchestras and music directors, bringing tonal beauty and superb musicality to repertoire from the baroque to the contemporary. He recently earned particular acclaim for the title role of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the North Carolina Symphony Richard Clement and Sacramento Choral Arts Society and Orchestra. In addition, he premiered and recorded Theofanides’ The Here and Now with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony, including performances in Atlanta and at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Among the most in-demand tenors for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, invitations include the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; New Jersey, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Oregon, San Diego, Baltimore, Nashville, Phoenix, Colorado and Toledo symphonies. He recently sung Elijah with the Memphis and Charlotte symphonies; and the Verdi Requiem with the the Santa Rosa Symphony and Chautauqua Music Festival Orchestra. Season engagements for 2008-09 included the Atlanta Symphony for Messiah and concert performances of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic; Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra; and the Memphis Symphony’s Die Schoepfung. His current season includes returns to the New Jersey Symphony for the Verdi Requiem under Neeme Jaervi, Die Schoepfung with the Puerto Rico Symphony, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and a return to the Atlanta Symphony for Messiah. Mr. Clement has performed the role of Belmonte in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony; Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with Jeffrey Kahane and the Colorado Symphony; Carmina Burana with Neeme Järvi and the Detroit Symphony, Haydn’s Die Schoepfung with Duain Wolfe and the Colorado Symphony; and Die Schoepfung and two Mozart programs with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society under Grant Llewellyn. He also sang Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht and Second Symphony with Kurt Masur and the Israel Philharmonic; Toch’s Cantata of the Bitter Herbs with the Czech Philharmonic; the Mozart Requiem with the Saint Louis Symphony; Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony; Kernis’ Millenium Symphony with the Minnesota Orchestra; Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony with the Atlanta Symphony; Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with Jeffrey Kahane and the Santa Rosa Symphony; The Bells with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony in Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall; Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. In addition, he has been guest soloist with the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras; Houston, Toronto, San Francisco and Cincinnati symphonies and collaborated with such conductors as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Jesús López-Cobos, Bobby McFerrin, Daniel Harding, Christopher Hogwood, Carlo Rizzi, John Mauceri, Marin Alsop, Hugh Wolff and James Conlon. Festival engagements include Tanglewood (concert performance of Act III of Verdi’s Falstaff), Beethoven No. 9 at Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 32D
both Grant Park and the Hollywood Bowl, and the Bach B Minor Mass with Seiji Ozawa at Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival. He was a Tanglewood Music Festival Fellow, has been a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio and was a recipient of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Jacobson Study Grant. Recordings include Britten’s War Requiem with the Washington Choral Society, Bartók’s Cantata Profana with the Atlanta Symphony (both Grammy winners) and Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame. Mr. Clement is currently on staff as a visiting lecturer at Atlanta’s Georgia State University.
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program Gerard sundberg, Bass
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r. Sundberg has distinguished himself as a concert artist with his mastery of bass/baritone repertoire. For the past 12 seasons, he has performed the bass arias of Handel’s Messiah and other various Advent/Christmas repertoire with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Recent performances also included the Bach St. Matthew Passion with the Chicago Chorale; the St. John Passion with Gerard Sundberg the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, conducted by John Nelson at the Notre Dame Cathedral; and Duruflé Requiem with the Kapiti Chamber Choir, Wellington, New Zealand. He has appeared as soloist with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers and with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Robert Shaw. He has sung extensively with the Oregon Bach Festival under the artistic leadership of Helmuth Rilling. Performances for the 2009-10 season included Mendelssohn Elijah with Bradley University; Bach Weihnachts-Oratorium and Messiah with Atlanta Symphony; Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem with Southwest Florida Symphony; Handel Judas Maccabaeus excerpts and Mendelssohn Elijah excerpts with the Rockford Symphony; Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen with Wheaton Conservatory Symphony Orchestra; Mozart Requiem with First Congregational Church, Crystal Lake, Ill.; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Rockford Symphony and Bach Matthäus-Passion with the Peoria Bach Festival. The 2010-11 season includes Bach Mass in B Minor with the Nova Singers; Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem with Wheaton Conservatory Music, Chicago Apollo Chorus, Calvin College Artists Series and Costa Rica National Symphony; Messiah with Atlanta Symphony; Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen with the Fox Valley Symphony; Mendelssohn St. Paul with Duke University and Bach Easter Oratorio with Peoria Bach Festival. Dr. Sundberg is a graduate of Bethel College, and holds both Master of Fine Arts and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Minnesota, where he studied voice with Clifton Ware and Roy Schuessler. He is presently professor of voice at Wheaton Conservatory of Music, where he teaches studio voice and vocal pedagogy. His three recordings are Singer on a Journey, including four sacred song cycles by Brahms, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams and Carlisle Floyd; Songs for the Journey and Songs Through Endless Ages, both of which include arrangements by Edwin Childs of hymns and gospel songs.
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atlanta symphony orchestra chamber chorus Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses The Frannie and Bill Graves Chair Jeffrey Baxter, Choral Administrator Todd Skrabanek, Accompanist
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uring the 2010–11 season, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus will be featured in seven concert programs, including Beethoven’s Missa Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Solemnis, Janácˇek’s Glagolitic Mass, Britten’s Spring Symphony, Chorus Rachmaninov’s rarely performed Spring Cantata, and the ASO Theater of a Concert presentation of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Acclaimed for the beauty, precision and expressive qualities of its singing, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus has been an important part of the Orchestra’s programming since its founding on Sept. 24, 1970 by Robert Shaw. Composed entirely of volunteers, the 200-voice ASO Chorus and 60-voice ASO Chamber Chorus also are featured on many of the ASO’s recordings, which have earned 14 Grammy awards (nine for Best Choral Performance; four for Best Classical Recording and one for Best Opera Recording). The Chamber Chorus, which debuted on Dec. 14, 1967, is composed of volunteers selected by audition from the ranks of the ASO Chorus, who meet for extra rehearsals and perform with the ASO each season. The Chamber Chorus performs music of the Baroque and Classical eras, as well as works by modern masters such as Golijov, Tavener, Pärt, Paulus, Poulenc and Britten. Highlights of the ASO Chamber Chorus’s history include a residency with the ASO and Robert Spano for California’s Ojai Festival, participation with the ASO in Telarc recordings of masterworks by Bach, Golijov, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Vivaldi; a 2005 a cappella recording that features the Vaughan Williams Mass under Norman Mackenzie, an appearance on national television in 1987 performing Handel’s Messiah with Robert Shaw, and several Carnegie Hall appearances, which include performances of the B-minor Mass, the Matthew and John Passions of Bach, the Rachmaninoff Vespers and the Mozart/Levin Requiem. The ASO Choruses made their Carnegie Hall debut in 1976, and have returned on a number of occasions, most recently in November 2009 to perform Stravinsky’s The Nightingale with Music Director Robert Spano and the Orchestra. The ASO Chorus performed at the Kennedy Center for President Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Concert in 1977, and in 1988, accompanied the Orchestra on its first European tour. The Choruses have appeared with the ASO for several televised concerts, including the 1996 Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games. The Choruses have twice performed at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago: in June 2003 with Mr. Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus opened the festival with John Adams’s El Niño; and in 2006, Mr. Spano lead the Orchestra and Chorus in Osvaldo Golijov’s opera, Ainadamar. In December 2003, Mr. Runnicles and the ASO Chorus made their debut
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program with the Berlin Philharmonic in Britten’s War Requiem. Following the performance, Der Tagesspiegel wrote: “The world has really turned a bit topsy-turvy when our fabulous Berliner Philharmoniker turn around in their orchestra seats to applaud an American amateur chorus.” Mr. Runnicles and the ASO Chorus performed the Berlioz Requiem with the German orchestra in May 2008, and most recentlyw in December 2009, Mr. Runnicles and the Chorus performed Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, sung in German. Soprano June Abbott * JoAnn Alexander Claudia Corriere Amber Greer Kristen Gwaltney Celia Jacobs Kathleen KellyGeorge Arietha Lockhart * Cheryl Lower ** Joneen Padgett Lisa Rader Erin Riesebieter Anne-Marie Spalinger Rachel Stewart ** Wanda Yang Temko Kara Mia Wray
Alto Ana Baida Donna Carter-Wood * Marcia Chandler Christa Joy Chase Laurie Cronin Janet Johnson * Paige Mathis Holly McCarren Linda Morgan ** Katherine Murray Brenda Pruitt * Laura Rappold Kathleen Poe Ross Diana Strommen Carol Wyatt
Tenor Jeffrey Baxter * David Blalock ** John Brandt * Jack Caldwell * Phillip Crumbly Jeffrey Daniel Leif Hansen Thomas LaBarge Keith Langston Sean Mayer Nathan Osborne Christopher Patton Charles Redmon ** Wesley Stoner Timothy Swaim
Bass Michael Arens * Robert Bolyard Russell Cason * Trey Clegg John Cooledge ** Rick Copeland * Steven Darst * Timothy Gunter Gregory Hucks Adam Kissel Robert Lower ** Stephen Ozcomert * Kendric Smith ** Edgie Wallace Edward Watkins Andrew Westerhaus
* 20+ years of service ** 30+ years of service
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“ It’s a huge pleasure and an honor playing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It’s a big deal. I can’t wait to get on the stage.” – Joe Gransden Continued from page 20
We’re both there to have a really good time and give the audience a treat.” While they were talking about the holiday show last summer, Krajewski told Jenkins to check out the website of a local Atlanta musician he was thinking of bringing in, Joe Gransden. Soon afterwards, Gransden fielded a call from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, asking him to join the cast of A Very Merry Holiday Pops as a featured soloist. “I’ve subbed in symphonies as a trumpet player, but never as a featured artist,” Gransden says. “It’s a huge pleasure and an honor playing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It’s a big deal. I can’t wait to get on the stage.” 42 EncoreAtlanta.com
Gransden and his 17-piece big band play, on average, 320 gigs a year, but not always in Atlanta. He’s played several private events and golf tournaments in California for one of his biggest fans: Clint Eastwood. “Clint heard one of my CDs on the radio and called me up,” Gransden explains. “He’s the nicest guy in the world, and he loves jazz and the trumpet.” An avid golfer, Gransden says one of the biggest perks of working for Eastwood is getting to play in celebrity golf tournaments like the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. That’s where Gransden met the legendary smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G, who produced his last album.
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A self-professed “Christmas fanatic,” Gransden has also recorded a full album of Christmas songs, which is for sale in the lobby. Called I’ll Be Home for Christmas, it’s named for one of his favorite songs. Other favorites include “Let It Snow” and A Charlie Brown Christmas’ “Linus and Lucy.” Jenkins also is a big fan of Christmas music. “I love ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside,’” she says. “I love ‘The Christmas Song’ and ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.’” Every year, she watches Rankin and Bass animated holiday specials with her family and heads to Manhattan to see a classic Christmas show with her brother. “[We’ll] see the Christmas Spectacular or [A Christmas Carol],” Jenkins says with a chuckle. “We’d [have] all these kids 44 EncoreAtlanta.com
around us and our hot cider and he’d turn to me and say, ‘Have you found the Christmas Spirit yet?’ And I’d say, ‘Yes! Have you found it?’” This year, Gransden is building on family Christmas traditions with his son, who recently turned one. He is looking forward to the big holiday meal his mom will cook and exchanging presents, although he misses the snow of his youth. His immediate family is in Atlanta, but he grew up in New York City, where his extended family still lives. Not that he has any plans to move back to Manhattan. “Atlanta is incredible,” he says. “I have no reason to leave. There’s a really strong corporate party scene here; the jazz scene is really strong;
and, since Hurricane Katrina, a lot of musicians from New Orleans have moved here, which gives us that Cajun vibe. I think we’re really fortunate; we’ve got a lot of good things going on here.” Jenkins, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, loves the juxtaposition of metropolitan city with Southern charm she finds in Atlanta, but she’s not ready to leave New York. “I sort of love that this city never sleeps,” she says. “It’s the place for me to be.” One thing both performers are looking forward to is sharing the stage with Lassiter and Walton’s high school singers. And they have some words of advice for the aspiring musicians.
Jenkins adds that would-be singers need to perform all the time, in as many places as they can, even if that means sometimes working for free. “And never rest on your laurels,” she says. “Find that thing that makes you unique, and learn to do more than one kind of music. You need to know how to maintain your instrument, which is your body, your voice. Always sing. You can’t just sit around and wait for Quincy Jones to call you up.” For more information about the featured performers in a Very Merry Holiday Pops, visit their respective websites at capathiajenkins.com and joegransden.com.
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“Practice, practice all the time,” Gransden says. “You have to know your instrument
inside and out. Listen [to music] all the time. And then just stick with it; you need to always be trying to learn, get better [and] … challenge yourself.”
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FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Donald F. Fox Executive Vice President for Business Operations & Chief Financial Officer Shannon McCown Assistant to the Executive Vice President for Business Operations & Chief Financial Officer Susan Ambo Controller Kim Hielsberg Director of Financial Planning & Analysis April Satterfield Senior Accountant Peter Dickson Staff Accountant Michael Richardson Venues Analyst Stephen Jones Symphony Store Manager Galina Rotbakh Symphony Store Sales Associate
DEVELOPMENT Sandy Smith Vice President for Development Tammie Taylor Assistant to the VP for Development Stephanie Malhotra Director of Development & Education Services Rebecca Abernathy Development Services Coordinator
MARKETING & CONCERT PROMOTIONS Charles Wade Vice President for Marketing & Symphony Pops Alesia Banks Director of Customer Service & Season Tickets Nellie Cummins Group & Corporate Sales Associate ADMINISTRATION Meko Hector John Sparrow Major & Planned Giving Office & Marketing Vice President Jessica Langlois Coordinator for Orchestra Initiatives Director of Leadership Gifts Jennifer Jefferson & General Manager & Planned Giving Director of e-Business Julianne Fish Andrea Welna & Interactive Media Orchestra Manager Major Gifts Officer Melanie Kite Nancy Crowder Meredith Schnepp Subscription Operations/Rental Prospect Research Officer Office Manager Events Coordinator Shelby Moody Annual, Institutional Kelly O’Donnell Group & Corporate & Volunteer Services Artist Assistant Sales Coordinator Corey Cowart Carol Wyatt Seth Newcom Director of Executive Assistant Database Administrator Corporate Relations to the Music Director & Principal Guest Kimberly Nogi Toni Paz Conductor Director of Individual Giving Publicist ASO Presents Jeffrey Baxter Robert Phipps Barbara Saunders Clay Schell Choral Administrator Publications Director Director of Vice President, Programming Foundation Relations Ken Meltzer Melissa A. E. Sanders Trevor Ralph ASO Insider Senior Director, General Manager and Senior Maya Robinson & Program Annotator Communications Patron Partnership Director of Operations Gifts Officer Russell Williamson Travis Sari Holly Clausen Orchestra Personnel Marketing Manager Zachary Brown Director of Marketing Manager Director of Karl Schnittke Keri Musgraves Volunteer Services Susanne Watts Publications Editor Promotions Manager Assistant Orchestra Sarah Levin Robin Smith Lisa Eng Personnel Manager Volunteer Project Manager Subscription Graphic Artist Paul Barrett & Education Sales Ashley Krausen Chastain Park Amphitheater Senior Production Special Events Coordinator Rachel Trignano Stage Manager Tanner Smith Manager of Program Director Richard Carvlin Broad Based Giving Stage Manager Russell Wheeler Verizon Wireless Lela Huff Group & Corporate Amphitheatre at Assistant Stage Sales Manager Encore Park Manager Christina Wood Katie Daniel Director of Marketing VIP Sales Manager Education & Community Engagement Jenny Pollock Operations Manager Mark B. Kent Senior Director of Education Rebecca Gordon & Community Engagement Box Office Manager Melanie Darby Director of Education Programming Lindsay Fisher Education & Community Engagement Specialist; Ensembles Coordinator
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general info LATE SEATING Latecomers are seated at the discretion of house management. Reserved seats are not guaranteed after the performance starts. Latecomers may be initially seated in the back out of courtesy to the musicians and other patrons. SPECIAL ASSISTANCE All programs of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra are accessible to people with disabilities. Please call the box office (404. 733.5000) to make advance arrangements. SYMPHONY STORE The ASO’s gift shop is located in the galleria and offers a wide variety of items, ranging from ASO recordings and music-related merchandise to t-shirts and mugs. Proceeds benefit the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
JANUARY 6-9, 2011 TICKETS ON SALE NOW TICKETMASTER.COM OR 800-745-3000 OR AT THE CENTRE’S BOX OFFICE
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THE ROBERT SHAW ROOM The ASO invites donors who contribute at least $1,750 annually to become members of this private salon for cocktails and dining on concert evenings — private rentals available. Call 404.733.4860. IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS Concert Hotline.......................404.733.4949 (Recorded information) Symphony Hall Box Office......404.733.5000 Ticket Donations/Exchanges....404.733.5000 Subscription Information/Sales....404.733.4800 Group Sales..............................404.733.4848 Atlanta Symphony Associates..... 404.733.4865 (Volunteers) Educational Programs..............404.733.4870 Youth Orchestra.......................404.733.5038 Box Office TTD Number.........404.733.4303 Services for People...................404.733-5000 with Special Needs Lost and Found........................404.733.4225 Symphony Store.......................404.733.4345
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ticket info CAN’T ATTEND A CONCERT? If you can’t use or exchange your tickets, please pass them on to friends or return them to the box office for resale. To donate tickets, please phone 404.733.5000 before the concert begins. A receipt will be mailed to you in January acknowledging the value of all tickets donated for resale during the year. SINGLE TICKETS Call 404.733.5000 Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.– 8 p.m.; Sat.–Sun., Noon–8 p.m. Service charge applies. Phone orders are filled on a best-available basis.
FEBRUARY 3-6, 2011
TICKETS ON SALE NOW TICKETMASTER.COM OR 800-745-3000 OR AT THE CENTRE’S BOX OFFICE
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www.atlantasymphony.org Order any time, any day! Service charge applies. Allow two to three weeks for delivery. For orders received less than two weeks prior to the concert, tickets will be held at the box office. Woodruff Arts Center Box Office Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Sat.–Sun., noon– 8 p.m. The box office is open through intermission on concert dates. No service charge if tickets are purchased in person. Please note: All single-ticket sales are final. No refunds or exchanges. All artists and programs subject to change. GROUP DISCOUNTS Groups of 10 or more save up to 15 percent on most ASO concerts, subject to ticket availability. Call 404.733.4848. GIFT CERTIFICATES Available in any amount for any series, through the box office. Call 404.733.5000.
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1 Waves of raves greeted Robert Spano, and the Orchestra and the Chorus following their performance October 30 at Carnegie Hall. “The Orchestra played with brilliance and precision,” The New York Times reported, and Musical America said the players and Chorus “blew the roof off” the fabled hall and took note of Mr. Spano’s “irresistibly colorful 20th-century mix.”
also conducted the Orchestra, November 4-5/7, came back on stage Thursday evening to visit with students from Alpharetta High School, Webb Bridge Middle School and Hopewell Middle School.
2 Q & A with Mr. Perlman The great violinist Itzhak Perlman, who performed and
marveled at the performance afterwards with Music Director Robert Spano.
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