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12 This School is Never Out

8 Orchestra Leadership 10 Robert Spano 16 Musicians 37 Contributors 52 Calendar 54 Administration 56 General Info 58 Ticket Info 60 Gallery ASO

Robert Spano’s Atlanta School of Composers’ Michael Gandolfi and Jennifer Higdon unveil world premieres.

the music 19 The concert’s program and notes

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urrently in his ninth season, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Spano is recognized internationally as one of the most imaginative conductors of his generation. Since 2001, he has invigorated and expanded the Orchestra’s repertoire while elevating the ensemble to new levels of international prominence and acclaim.

The Orchestra and audiences explore a creative programming mix, recordings and visual enhancements, such as Theater of a Concert — the continuing exploration of different formats, settings and enhancements for the musical performance experience. The Atlanta School of Composers reflects Mr. Spano’s and the Orchestra’s commitment to nurturing and championing music by American composers, such as Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Theofanidis and Michael Gandolfi.

Mr. Spano and the Orchestra have performed over 100 contemporary works (composed since 1950), including 13 ASO-commissioned world premieres and three additional world premieres.

Mr. Spano has an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra discography of nine recordings, six of which have been honored with Grammy awards. He has led the Orchestra’s performances at Carnegie Hall, 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, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and 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, he began a three-year tenure as Emory University’s Distinguished Artist in Residence. Emory University has honored only seven other individuals with such expansive residencies, including the Dalai Lama, President Jimmy Carter and author Salman Rushdie.

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Michael Gandolfi is fretting. His new work, Q.E.D.: Engaging Richard Feynman, commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, needs some final tinkering. He has composed dozens of symphonic and chamber works, but this is his first piece for chorus and orchestra. And, he says, “The thing I’m most terrified of is the chorus.”

Michael Gandolfi and Jennifer Higdon, prolific members of Robert Spano’s Atlanta School of Composers, unveil world premieres on June 3, 5 and 6

This School is Never Out

by Margaret Shakespeare

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A decade ago ASO music director Robert Spano affirmed the Orchestra’s commitment to contemporary music by engaging several propitious composers in multi-year partnerships, a select group that became known as the Atlanta School of Composers.

Two of them — Michael Gandolfi and Jennifer Higdon — took on commissions to celebrate this 10th anniversary. A few months ago, they talked with me about the process of creating music.

Jennifer Higdon — who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize last month for her Violin Concerto — had actually sent her work, On A Wire, a concerto for the ASO and the iconoclastic sextet, eighth blackbird, off to Atlanta the day before I reached her by telephone. Her tone of voice mixes relief and anxiousness. Aside from a few interruptions — recordings, orchestra residencies and winning a 2010 Grammy for her Percussion Concerto — she worked steadily on this piece since last July. “I have to be deliberate,” she says of her work style, “because I have commissions stacked up for years.

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piece, although usually I don’t do that.

And I don’t usually [compose works] simultaneously — these works [for orchestra] are too big.”

Michael Gandolfi, did complete another piece while working on his ASO commission, which is not unusual for him. “There were materials in one that could go off in another direction in the other, sort of taking a rib from one and growing something new,” he says by telephone. Starting out, though, he “had no idea” where things were going. Until, surfing the Web, he came across a video interview of physicist and fertile thinker Richard Feynman that resonated. “He’s always been one of my favorite writers, someone I turn my friends on to, if they don’t know him. His views on beauty, the way he, a scientist, described the beauty of a flower, gave me the concept of setting two viewpoints.” Then he plunged into a sea of research — reading literature and poetry, finding field recordings of birds and examining other choral compositions.

“A bunch of time thinking” was involved.

But actually writing music, which started this past fall, took only “about a week each for two movements. Once the draft ideas were done, I spent more time moving things around and expanding.

Then comes, not invention, but crafting into a final object.” He now has a third movement in mind for what has become a large-scale sort of multi-media oratorio.

Higdon, who calls composing “rewarding struggle and constant worry,” ponders how the music muse propels her. Inspiration?

“Usually it’s the soloists, especially for a Continued on page 46

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Robert Spano, Music Director, The Robert Reid Topping Chair * Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor, The Neil and Sue Williams Chair *

Jere Flint Larry LeMaster Brad Ritchie Paul Warner

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SECOND VIOLIN

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William Pu

David Arenz

Reid Harris

Associate/Acting Concertmaster The Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair*

Principal The Atlanta Symphony Associates Chair*

Principal The Edus H. and Harriet H. Warren Chair*

Justin Bruns

Sou-Chun Su

Paul Murphy

Ralph Jones

Associate Principal The Frances Cheney Boggs Chair*

Associate Principal The Mary and Lawrence Gellerstedt Chair *

Principal The Marcia and John Donnell Chair  *

Assistant Principal

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Associate Principal

Eleanor Arenz Sharon Berenson David Braitberg Noriko Konno Clift Judith Cox David Dillard Raymond Leung Ruth Ann Little Thomas O’Donnell Ronda Respess Sanford Salzinger Frank Walton

Assistant Principal

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Wesley Collins Robert Jones Marian Kent Yang-Yoon Kim Lachlan McBane Heidi Nitchie Ardath Weck CELLO

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Christina Smith

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Daniel Laufer

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Karen Freer

Carl David Hall

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Dona Vellek Klein Assistant Principal Emeritus

Joel Dallow

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Joseph Walthall

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Elizabeth Koch

Carl Nitchi

Thomas Sherwood

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Patrick McFarland CLARINET

Laura Ardan Principal The Robert Shaw Chair*

Ted Gurch

Michael Tiscione

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Elizabeth Burkhardt

TROMBONE

William Wilder

Associate Principal

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Stephen Wilson

Charles Settle

Juan de Gomar

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Laura Najarian The Pricewaterhouse Coopers Chair

Juan de Gomar HORN

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George Curran

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William Rappaport

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Ted Gurch BASS CLARINET

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Elisabeth Remy Johnson Principal The Delta Air Lines Chair

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Rebecca Beavers

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John Wildermuth

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program Robert Spano, Music Director Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor

Delta Classical Series Concerts Thursday and Saturday, June 3 and 5, 2010, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 6, 2010, at 3 p.m.

Robert Spano, Conductor eighth blackbird: Tim Munro, Flute, Piccolo, Alto Flute Michael J. Maccaferri, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Matt Albert, Violin, Viola Nicholas Photinos, Cello Matthew Duvall, Marimba Lisa Kaplan, Piano Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses MIchael Gandolfi (b. 1956)

QED: Engaging Richard Feynman (2010)

I. On Waking II. Song of the Universal Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus World Premiere, Commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)

On A Wire (2010) eighth blackbird: Tim Munro, Flute, Piccolo, Alto Flute Michael J. Maccaferri, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Matt Albert, Violin, Viola Nicholas Photinos, Cello Matthew Duvall, Marimba Lisa Kaplan, Piano World Premiere, Commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Akron Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the West Michigan Symphony, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts with the Vermont Symphony, and the Cabrillo Festival.

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INTERMISSION Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543 (1788)

I. Adagio; Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Finale: Allegro

Eighth Blackbird’s performances this weekend are sponsored by a deeply appreciated gift from Marcia and John Donnell.

“Inside the Music” preview of the concert, Thursday at 7 p.m., presented by Ken Meltzer, ASO Insider and Program Annotator.

The use of cameras or recording devices during the concert is strictly prohibited.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is a founding member of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center.

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is the Presenting Sponsor of the Atlanta School of Composers.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s special artistic initiatives surrounding The Atlanta School of Composers is generously funded in part by Turner Voices. Turner Voices is Turner Broadcasting’s philanthropic initiative that focuses on building the next generation of storytellers in the arts and high school education arenas. on 2 Blue TURNER VOICES

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Delta’s commitment to the communities we serve began the day our first flight took off.

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Major funding for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council.

Solo pianos used by the Orchestra are gifts of the Atlanta Steinway Society and in memory of David Goldwasser. The Hamburg Steinway piano is a gift received by the ASO in honor of Rosi Fiedotin.

The Yamaha custom six-quarter tuba is a gift received by the ASO in honor of Principal Tuba player Michael Moore from The Antinori Foundation.

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Notes on the Program

By Ken Meltzer QED: Engaging Richard Feynman (2010) Michael Gandolfi was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, on July 5, 1956. These are the world premiere performances of QED: Engaging Richard Feynman. QED: Engaging Richard Feynman is scored for mixed chorus, piccolo, three flutes, three oboes, English horn, three clarinets, bass clarinet, three bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, vibraphone, xylophone, orchestra bells, hand bells, large suspended cymbal, medium suspended cymbal, cymbals, splash cymbal, bass drum, tambourine, triangle, cowbell, rain stick, mark tree, harp, piano and strings. Approximate performance time is twenty-two minutes.

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Michael Gandolfi

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merican composer, instrumentalist and educator Michael Gandolfi developed an interest in classical, rock and jazz music at an early age. At the age of eight, Mr. Gandolfi taught himself to play the guitar, and soon became interested in composing. Formal composition studies in his early teens led to fellowships at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, the Composers Conference and the Tanglewood Music Center. Michael Gandolfi graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he now serves as the Chairman of the Composition Department. In addition to the New England Conservatory, Mr. Gandolfi is on faculty at the Tanglewood Music Center. He has also taught at Harvard University, Phillips Academy, Andover and Indiana University.

Michael Gandolfi’s musical interests span the worlds of contemporary concert music, jazz, blues and rock. Mr. Gandolfi is also fascinated by the interaction between music and other disciplines, including science, film and theater. Mr. Gandolfi has pursued these broadranging, eclectic interests both as an educator, and in his own compositions. In addition, Michael Gandolfi has long held a profound interest in writing music for young audiences, and has written several works for them.

Michael Gandolfi is a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s “Atlanta School” of composers. The ASO commissioned Mr. Gandolfi’s orchestral work, The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, inspired by Charles Jenck’s garden in Dumfries, Scotland. Music Director Robert Spano and the ASO gave the world premiere performances of the work at Symphony Hall on May 24, 25 and 26, 2007. Mr. Spano and the ASO also recorded The Garden of Cosmic Speculation for Telarc Records. Other commissions for new works include the Fromm Foundation, Boston Musica Viva, Speculum Musicae, and the Koussevitzky Foundation, among many others.

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program Michael Gandolfi’s music has been recorded on the Telarc, BMOP Sound, Deutsche Grammophon, CRI, Innova and Klavier labels.

For more information, visit: michaelgandolfi.com.

QED: Engaging Richard Feynman These concerts feature the world premiere of Mr. Gandolfi’s work for chorus and orchestra, commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: QED: Engaging Richard Feynman.

The following are program notes on the work by author Dana Bonstrom, who, with Mr. Gandolfi, selected and compiled the work’s various texts: Q.E.D.: Engaging Richard Feynman is a celebration, in words and music, of the boundless curiosity and infectious enthusiasms of the sui generis theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate, bongo player, raconteur, and practical joker, Dick Feynman (1918-1988).

Q.E.D. derives from ideas Feynman explored in a 1981 BBC interview; the chosen interview excerpts offer evidence of Feynman’s significant gifts as a storyteller. There is no science to confront here: one need not understand quantum electrodynamics (the Q.E.D. of the title), Feynman diagrams, or calculus. The listener is asked only to spend a few minutes in the company of an impish nose-tweaker who was as well-known for his practical jokes and irreverent anecdotes as he was for his gamechanging theoretical work.

The interview segments also expose a dialectical technique common to Dick Feynman’s writings and lectures, whether addressed to a general audience (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out; Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!) or to his students and colleagues (the 1964 Cornell Messenger Lectures; the landmark 1963 Lectures on Physics).

This dialectical technique led to an approach to the language that populates the libretto of Q.E.D. Simply put, Dick Feynman loved to set up straw men, then gleefully knock them down. In the case of the first movement (“On Waking”), an artist acquaintance suggests that Feynman, as a scientist, is incapable of appreciating the essential beauty of a flower. Feynman makes short work of this preposterous claim.

In the second movement (“Song of the Universal”), Feynman relates an episode from a childhood summer at a Catskills resort. Once again, he gives his nemesis enough rope to hang himself: in this instance, Feynman’s foil is a chum who asserts that young Dick, because he doesn’t know the name of a particular bird, knows nothing. Labels, Feynman later learns from his father, are meaningless. Know the bird, not the bird’s name.

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The text of Q.E.D., therefore, attempts to recreate the tension of Feynman’s call-and-response method of argumentation. Rather than seeking single poems to carry the movements, several poets — multiple voices drawn from across the decades — were convened, and instructed, as Feynman himself might suggest, to “talk among yourselves.”

Given Feynman’s subjects — the beauty of a flower; a bird’s true nature — certain voices were obvious choices: Emily Dickinson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Walt Whitman. And, Feynman’s equal in impishness, Gertrude Stein (“Suppose, to suppose, suppose a rose is a rose is a rose”).

Other participants, from across the Pond, may seem less obvious: the British poet Siegfried Sassoon, writing in the midst of the First World War, invokes a soldier, lying in a muddy trench, as he watches a bird wheeling above; the bird, from its pitying perspective, observes the soldier.

And Joseph Campbell: not the noted mythologist, but the remarkable Irish Republican poet. Perhaps best known for his prison poems, Campbell was nevertheless capable of marvelous expressions of transcendent affirmation. In Q.E.D., Campbell’s 1916 hymn to nature, “The Dawn,” serves well to echo Dick Feynman’s own enthusiasm and wonder.

The result here is a poetical collage — a mash-up. Stein offers up, with a wink, one of her “Elucidations”; Emerson strides through the woods outside of Concord. Dickinson contemplates the gardens of the Homestead; Whitman yawps. Campbell throws open the door of his cottage and breathes deeply of Cualann’s dawn air; Sassoon longingly ponders a thrush’s unfettered flight.

While purists may cavil and poets cringe at this process of poetical excision and reassembly, it seems quite possible that Dickinson, Emerson, Whitman, Stein, Sassoon, and Campbell are somewhere, at the moment, in Dick Feynman’s company — and are well-pleased.

Their words, after all, have been set to Michael Gandolfi’s music.

— Dana Bonstrom

Text sources I. On Waking 1. Feynman video excerpt – from “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out” (BBC Horizon, 1981)

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I have a friend who’s an artist and he’s sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say, “Look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree, I think.

program And he says, “You see, I as an artist can see how beautiful this is, but you as a scientist, oh, take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing.”

And I think that he’s kind of nutty.

First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me, too, I believe, although I might not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is. But I can appreciate the beauty of the flower.

At the same time I see much more about the flower than he sees. I can imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside which also have a beauty. I mean, it’s not just beauty at this dimension of one centimeter, there is also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure.

Also, the processes, the fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting ­— it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which shows that science knowledge only adds to the excitement and mystery and the awe of a flower.

It only adds; I don’t understand how it subtracts.

A sepal, petal, and a thorn Upon a common summer’s morn, A flash of dew, a bee or two, A breeze A caper in the trees,— And I’m a rose!

(Emily Dickinson [American; 18301886], “A Rose,” first published in Emily Dickinson, Poems. Third Series, 1896).

Sleep, gray brother of death, Has touched me, And passed on.

I arise, facing the east— Pearl-doored sanctuary From which the light, Hand-linked with dew and fire, Dances.

Hail, essence, hail!

Fill the windows of my soul With beauty: Pierce and renew my bones: Pour knowledge into my heart As wine.

Cualann is bright before thee.

Its rocks melt and swim: The secret they have kept From the ancient nights of darkness Flies like a bird.

Suppose, to suppose, suppose a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

What mourns?

Cualann’s secret flying.

A lost voice In endless fields.

What rejoices?

My voice lifted praising thee.

Gertrude Stein [American; 1874-1946], “First Example,” from An Elucidation, 1923 (fragment).

Praise! Praise! Praise!

Praise out of the trumpets, whose brass Is the unyoked strength of bulls;

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Praise upon the harp, whose strings Are the light movement of birds; Praise of leaf, praise of blossom, Praise of the red-fibred clay; Praise of grass, Fire-woven veil of the temple; Praise of the shapes of clouds; Praise of the shadows of wells; Praise of worms, of fetal things, And of things in time’s thought Not yet begotten.

To thee, queller of sleep, Looser of the snare of death.

that the other fathers had to take their kids for walks the next weekend.

And the next Monday, when they were all back to work, all the kids were playing in the field, and one kid said to me, “See that bird? What kind of bird is that?”

And I said, “I haven’t the slightest idea what kind of a bird that is.”

He says, “It’s a brown-throated thrush” — or something — “Your father doesn’t tell you anything.”

1. Feynman Video — from “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out” (BBC Horizon, 1981)

But it was the opposite: my father had taught me. Looking at a bird he says,“Do you know what that bird is? It’s a brownthroated thrush. But in Portuguese it’s a Bom da Peida, in Italian a Ciutto Lapittida,” he says “in Chinese it’s a Chung-long-tah, in Japanese a Katano Tekeda,” et cetera.

We used to go to the Catskills Mountains.

We lived in New York and the Catskills Mountains was the place where people went in the summer. And the fathers — there was a big group of people there, but the fathers would all go back to New York to work during the week and only come back on the weekends.

“Now,” he says, “you know in all the languages you want to know what the name of that bird is and when you’ve finished with all that,” he says, “you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird.

You only know about humans in different places and what they call the bird.

When my father came, he would take me for walks in the woods, and tell me very interesting things that were going on in the woods — which I’ll explain in a minute — but the other mothers seeing this, of course, thought this was wonderful, and that the other fathers should take their sons for walks, and they tried to work on them, but they didn’t get anywhere, at first.

“Now,” he says, “let’s look at the bird.”

(Joseph Campbell [Irish; 1879-1944], “The Dawn,” from Earth of Cualann, 1916) II. Song of the Universal

And they wanted my father to take all the kids, but he didn’t want to because he had a special relationship with me — we had a personal thing together — so it ended up

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The chorus recites names for the Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos): Singdrossel (German) Zorzal común (Spanish) Grive musicienne (French) Tordo bottaccio (Italian) Zanglijster (Dutch) Pevchy Drozd (Russian) Taltrast (Swedish)

program Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering, High in the purer, happier air.

[Walt Whitman [American; 1819-1892], “Song of the Universal,” from Leaves of Grass, 1881 ed. (fragment).

When the pine tosses its cones To the song of its waterfall tones, Who speeds to the woodland walks?

To birds and trees who talks?

Cæsar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.

He goes to the river-side, — Not hook nor line hath he; He stands in the meadows wide, — Nor gun nor scythe to see.

Sure some god his eye enchants: What he knows nobody wants.

In the wood he travels glad, Without better fortune had, Melancholy without bad.

Knowledge this man prizes best Seems fantastic to the rest: Pondering shadows, colors, clouds, Grass-buds and caterpillar-shrouds, Boughs on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot the violet’s petal, Why Nature loves the number five,

And why the star-form she repeats: Lover of all things alive, Wonderer at all he meets, Wonderer chiefly at himself, Who can tell him what he is?

Or how meet in human elf Coming and past eternities?

[Ralph Waldo Emerson [American; 18031882], “Woodnotes,” from Poems, Volume 9, 1854 (fragment).

Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim, Whose voices make the emptiness of light A windy palace. Quavering from the brim Of dawn, and bold with song at edge of night, They clutch their leafy pinnacles and sing Scornful of man, and from his toils aloof Whose heart’s a haunted woodland whispering; Whose thoughts return on tempest-baffled wing; Who hears the cry of God in everything, And storms the gate of nothingness for proof.

Siegfried Sassoon [British; 1886-1967], “Thrushes,” from Counter-Attack and Other Poems, 1918.

On A Wire (2010) Jennifer Higdon was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 31, 1962. These are the world premiere performances of On A Wire. On A Wire is scored for solo flute/ piccolo/alto flute in G, clarinet in B-flat/bass clarinet in B-flat, violin/viola, cello, marimba and piano, two flutes, two clarinets in B-flat, bassoon, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, two trombones, tuba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, snare drum, temple blocks, guiro, sizzle cymbal, Chinese suspended cymbal, xylophone, chimes, sandpaper blocks, rute, bass drum and strings. Approximate performance time is twenty-two minutes.

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These are the first ASO Classical Subscription Performances.

Jennifer Higdon

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ith more than 200 performances of her works each year, Jennifer Higdon is one of the most prominent composers of her generation. Ms. Higdon’s music — with its brilliant and varied canvass of instrumental colors, pulsating rhythms and compelling synthesis of captivating lyricism and irrepressible energy — resonates with musicians and audiences throughout the world.

Jennifer Higdon’s extensive list of commissions include works for the Atlanta Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Chicago Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, pianist Gary Graffman and the Tokyo String Quartet. Recent premieres include a concerto for pianist, Yuja Wang, and a concerto for violinist, Hilary Hahn, as well as a band work for the President’s Own Marine Band. Upcoming commissions include a choral work for the New York Virtuosi Singers, and a large orchestral work for The Grand Tetons Music Festival in partnership with The National Park System.

Jennifer Higdon has received awards and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, two awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Meet-the-Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and ASCAP. She has served as Composer-in-Residence with numerous orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Green Bay Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony and the Pittsburgh Symphony. In the summer of 2003, Jennifer Higdon was the first woman composer to be named a featured composer at the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival. Her piano work, Secret & Glass Gardens, won the 2005 Van Cliburn Piano Competition’s American Composers Invitational and was performed by several of the semi-finalists. Recently, Jennifer Higdon’s Violin Concerto (2009) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

Jennifer Higdon received a Ph.D. and a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in composition, a B.M. in flute performance from Bowling Green State University, and an Artist Diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her teachers have included George Crumb and Ned Rorem (composition), Judith Bentley (flute), and Robert Spano (conducting).

Ms. Higdon is also profoundly involved in music education. In 2006-7, she served as the Karel Husa Visiting Professor at Ithaca College. She is currently on the composition faculty of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she holds the Rock Chair in Composition.

The Atlanta Symphony and Music Director Robert Spano have enjoyed a long and rewarding association with Jennifer Higdon, a member of the Orchestra’s “Atlanta School” of composers. Mr. Spano and the ASO have performed and recorded (for Telarc) Ms. Higdon’s blue cathedral, City Scape, Concerto for Orchestra, and Dooryard Bloom.

Ms. Higdon’s music is published by Lawdon Press. For more information, visit: jenniferhigdon.com.

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program On A Wire is a co-commission by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Akron Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the West Michigan Symphony, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts with the Vermont Symphony, and the Cabrillo Festival. The work receives its world premiere at these concerts.

The composer provided the following commentary for On A Wire: Writing a concerto for one soloist and orchestra is a bit of a balancing act … so imagine throwing in 5 more soloists. On A Wire is eighth blackbird’s high-wire-act-of-a concerto. Having already written 2 chamber works for this group, I am familiar with their ability to do all sorts of cool things on their instruments, from extended techniques, to complex patterns, to exquisitely controlled lyrical lines. I also admire the pure joy that emanates from their playing, no matter the repertoire. Written as a onemovement work, it highlights the group as an ensemble, allows each member to solo, and utilizes some of their unique staging: the players move about and perform beyond their traditional instrument (the work begins with bowed piano). So imagine 6 blackbirds, sitting on a wire …

— Jennifer Higdon

Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543 (1788) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, on January 27, 1756, and died in Vienna, Austria, on December 5, 1791. The Symphony No. 39 is scored for flute, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings. Approximate performance time is twenty-six minutes.

First ASO Classical Subscription Performance: November 4, 1950, Henry Sopkin, Conductor.

Most Recent ASO Classical Subscription Performances: March 24, 25 and 26, 2005, Charles Dutoit, Conductor.

The Mystery of the Final Three Symphonies

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ozart completed his final three Symphonies (Nos. 39-41) during a remarkably brief span between June 26 and August 10, 1788. There is no specific documentation that any of these Symphonies were performed during Mozart’s lifetime. As a result, many have advanced the theory that Mozart did not write these sublime works for any specific occasion. Instead, Mozart composed these Symphonies in response to an intense need to express himself in music.

We do know that these glorious Symphonies, among Mozart’s crowning achievements, were the product of a particularly distressing period in the composer’s life. Mozart’s career Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 29

in Vienna as a composer, teacher, virtuoso pianist and impresario reached its apex in the mid-1780s. However, the exhilaration of those triumphant years soon yielded to profound frustration and unhappiness. Mozart experienced a precipitate decline in the demands for his services in Vienna. In April of 1787, Mozart and his wife, Constanze, were forced to move from their elegant apartment in the Schulerstrasse to far more humble lodgings on the outskirts of Vienna.

Mozart was soon reduced to begging for money from acquaintances, principally Michael Puchberg, a fellow mason and ardent music lover. Several of Mozart’s letters to Puchberg have survived. In June of 1788, the composer wrote the following to Puchberg: Dearest Brother, Your true friendship and brotherly love embolden me to ask you for a great favour: I still owe you 8 ducats (annotator’s note: approximately $5.50) — and not only am I unable at the moment to repay them, but my confidence in you is so great that I venture to beg you to help me, only until next week (when my concerts at the Casino begin), with the loan of 100 fl. (approximately $15.00); the subscription money cannot fail to be in my hands by that time, and I can quite easily repay you 136 fl., with my warmest thanks ...

A letter of June 17 (nine days before the completion of the Symphony No. 39) follows, with Mozart again requesting a loan from Puchberg: If you will do me this kindness, I shall primo (being thus provided) be able to make necessary payments when they are due and therefore more easily, whereas I now continually delay and must then often pay out at once all I have received, and that at the most inconvenient moment.

Secondo, I shall be able to work with an easier mind and a lighter heart, and thus earn more. As for security, I do not believe you will have any doubts! You know pretty well how I stand and are acquainted with my principals! As for the subscription you need have no anxiety; I am now extending the time by a few months; I have some hope of finding more supporters abroad than here ...

As distressing as it is to encounter this sublime musical genius reduced to begging for money, the letters offer a clue that, perhaps, Mozart intended his final three Symphonies for performance at subscription concerts in Vienna. This would certainly be consistent with Mozart’s general practice of composing large-scale works with a specific, upcoming event in mind.

It is not certain that the concerts Mozart refers to in his letters to Puchberg ever took place. There is, however, documentation of concerts conducted by Mozart in Germany in 1789 and 1790. For example, a program from a May 12, 1789 concert at the Leipzig Gewandhaus lists a Mozart “Symphony” as one of the featured works.

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program Likewise, “A new grand Symphony by Herrn Mozart” was the opening work on an October 15, 1790 Frankfurt concert. Benefit concerts on April 16 and 17, 1791, for the Vienna “Society of Musicians,” conducted by Antonio Salieri, also featured “a grand symphony

by Mozart.” It is only logical to assume that Mozart would have favored his most recent symphonic efforts for such programs.

The mystery of whether Mozart ever heard performances of all, or part, of his magnificent final symphonic trilogy will probably never be definitively resolved. What is left for consideration is the music itself — in this case, the Symphony No. 39. It is one of Mozart’s grandest symphonic creations, a work of extraordinary beauty and vitality, belying the difficult circumstances surrounding its creation.

Musical Analysis I. Adagio; Allegro — The Symphony opens with an extended and majestic slow introduction (Adagio), whose dramatic tension is heightened by the use of dotted rhythms and occasional dissonance. The mood finally calms, and a descending passage for the flute, bassoons and first violins serves as prelude to the ensuing Allegro. Cast in triple time, the Allegro’s initial theme is a flowing melody, introduced by the first violins. This leads to a commanding orchestral tutti and, typical of Mozart, an ensuing abundance of thematic material. The exposition concludes with a repeated eighth and double sixteenth-note rhythm that is also quite prominent in the following development. The first violins inaugurate the recapitulation of the principal thematic material. A brief coda, again prominently displaying the eighth/sixteenth-note motif, brings the first movement to a dynamic close.

II. Andante con moto — The violins softly intone the slow movement’s yearning, principal melody. After a passage for winds, the Andante’s calm is shattered by an agitated, minorkey episode. The return of the opening melody is once again interrupted by this stormy passage. The conflict is finally resolved with a final reprise of the principal melody, capped by a pair of forte chords.

III. Menuetto: Allegretto — The Minuet is a vigorous affair, with forte attacks and angular melodic contours. By contrast, the intervening Trio, spotlighting the clarinets, is hushed throughout. The Minuet returns to conclude the third movement.

IV. Finale: Allegro — The Finale opens with the first violins’ furtive introduction of the movement’s principal theme, which soon bursts forth with unrestrained vigor. The theme is based upon an ascending and descending motif that predominates throughout this sonata-form movement. Indeed, Mozart calls upon the motif to fashion an unexpected and delightful conclusion to this extraordinary Symphony.

(Robert Spano and the ASO will perform Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 40 and 41 the weekend of June 10, 2010.)

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eighth blackbird Tim Munro, Flutes Michael J. Maccaferri, Clarinets Matt Albert, Violin & Viola Nicholas Photinos, Cello Matthew Duvall, Percussion Lisa Kaplan, Piano

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rammy-winning eighth blackbird promises, and delivers, provocative and engaging performances to its burgeoning audiences. Combining bracing virtuosity with an alluring sense of irreverence, the sextet debunks the myth that contemporary music is only for a cerebral few. The ensemble attracts fans of all ages to its performances and recordings, which sparkle with wit and pound with physical energy; it inhabits and explores the sound-world of new music with comfort, conviction, and infectious enthusiasm. Eighth blackbird is widely lauded for its performing style — often playing from eighth blackbird memory with theatrical flair — and for making new music accessible to wide audiences.

Profiled in the New York Times and NPR’s All Things Considered, the sextet also has been featured on “CBS News Sunday Morning,” “St. Paul Sunday,” “Weekend America” and “The Next Big Thing,” among others. The group is in residence at the University of Richmond in Virginia and the University of Chicago.

The 2009-10 performance schedule includes eighth blackbird’s debut at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, playing the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Grazioso!, which was commissioned by the festival for the ensemble; a new version of Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire; and Slide, a new music-theater piece by Rinde Eckert and Steven Mackey, at the Ojai Music Festival this summer and in the ensemble’s hometown, Chicago, where the group has its own two-concert series at the Harris Theater.

During another season residency, at the Curtis Institute of Music, eighth blackbird performs Steve Reich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece Double Sextet, which the ensemble commissioned, premiered and recorded for release in the 2010-11 season. Other stops include New York City for the Look & Listen Festival and the Peoples’ Symphony Concerts, and its Minneapolis debut, performing Double Sextet at the Walker Art Center.

The sextet has appeared in Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands and South Korea; at nearly every major chamber music venue in North America, with performances at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum, Kennedy Center, Library of Congress and other prestigious venues. The ensemble’s most recent – strange imaginary animals, released in November 2006 ­— won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. The group’s name comes from the Wallace Stevens poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”

Visit the ensemble’s official website at eighthblackbird.com for more information.

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program atlanta symphony orchestra 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 Atlanta Symphony concert programs, including Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Orchestra Chorus Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass, Britten’s Spring Symphony, Rachmaninov’s rarely performed Spring Cantata and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 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 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and 60-voice Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus also are featured on many of the Orchestra’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 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 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 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 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 Orchestra 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, they 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 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus made their debut 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 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus performed the Berlioz Requiem with the German orchestra in May 2008, and most recently in December 2009, Mr. Runnicles and the chorus performed Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, sung in German.

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Soprano 1 JoAnn Alexander Liz Dean Kelly Eggers Kristen Gwaltney Amber Harris Cristina Herrera Arietha Lockhart * Constance Mack Mindy Margolis Patricia Nealon * Joneen Padgett Kristi Pass Courtney Stanley Brianne Turgeon Kara Mia Wray Wanda Yang Temko Natalie York Soprano 2 June Abbott* Sloan Atwood Pamela Barnette ** Claudia Corriere Martha Craft Ellen Dukes ** Zelda Johns Kathleen Kelly-George Natalie Lee Marie Little Eda Mathews * Rachel O’Dell Vickie Orme Linda Searles Sydney Smith-Rikard Paula Snelling Anne-Marie Spalinger Camilla Springfield * Tommie Storer Cheryl Thrash Donna Weeks Jennifer Zuiff

alto 1 Ana Baida Deborah Boland * Donna Carter-Wood * Laurie Cronin Pamela Drummond Lisa Foltz Pamela Griffin Beverly Hueter Janet Johnson * Virginia Little Staria Lovelady Allison Lowe Paige Mathis * Frances McDowell * Linda Morgan ** Dominique PetiteChabukswar Norma Raybon Andrea Seeney Cheri Lee Snyder Diana Strommen Sharon Vrieland * Nancy York alto 2 Nancy Adams Marcia Chandler Meaghan Curry Cynthia Goeltz DeBold * Michèle Diament Janet Hubler ** Katherine Johnson Sally Kann Nicole Khoury Becky Kurtz Lynda Martin Julie Northup Brenda Pruitt * Sharon Simons Patricia Sinback Virginia Thompson Sarah Ward Kiki Wilson * Diane Woodard *

* 20+ years of service

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tenor 1 Jeffrey Baxter * David Blalock ** John Brandt Daniel Cameron Clifford Edge * Steven Farrow * Wayne Gammon Kirt Greenburg Leif Hansen James Jarrell Thomas LaBarge Christopher Patton Stephen Reed ‡ David Ritter Stephen Rotz Keith Smith

tenor 2 Matthew Allemani Sutton Bacon Curt Bisges Nicholas Cavaliere Charles Cottingham ‡ Phillip Crumbly Jeffrey Daniel Joseph Few Hamilton Fong Earl Goodrich * John Goodson Keith Jeffords Steven Johnstone John Kenemer Nathan Osborne Marshall Peterson * Phillip Rodefer Brent Runnels Clifton Russell Scott Stephens * Wesley Stoner Robert Wilkinson Amir Zaheri

** 30+ years of service

bass 1 Mark Blankenship Robert Bolyard Richard Brock Russell Cason * Trey Clegg Steven Darst * David Forbes Joseph Guthridge David Hansen * Gregory Hucks Nick Jones ‡ Robert Lower ** Peter MacKenzie Charles McClellan * Jason Perkins Mark Russell Kendric Smith # John Stallings Ike Van Meter Edgie Wallace Edward Watkins ** Andrew Westerhaus bass 2 Shaun Amos Brian Brown Joseph Champion John Cooledge ‡ Rick Copeland * Joel Craft * Andrew Gee Timothy Gunter Christopher Hornsby Ben Howell Philip Jones Eric Litsey * Sam Marley Owen Mathews Evan Mauk Eckhart Richter * John Ruff John Smith Jonathan Smith Timothy Solomon * Benjamin Temko David Webster ** Gregory Whitmire * Keith Wyatt ‡

Charter member (1970)

program norman mackenzie, Director of Choruses

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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 Norman Mackenzie generation of 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 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus recording of A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams. In 2005, he was awarded another Best Choral Performance Grammy for the Berlioz Requiem and a Best Opera Recording in 2007 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 (1985-1999), he was keyboardist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, principal accompanist for the 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 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.

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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 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 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus’ first recording apart from the orchestra. In November 2009, he returned with the Chamber Chorus, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Robert Spano to Carnegie Hall for a concert performance of Stravinsky’s The Nightingale.

Mackenzie also prepared the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 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 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra principal guest conductor Donald Runnicles.

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support Appassionato

Ray Uttenhove, Appassionato Chair

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is privileged to receive annual contributions from individuals throughout the southeast. Appassionato was inaugurated in 2000 & welcomes annual givers of $10,000 & above. Appassionato members provide the Symphony with a continuous & strong financial base in support of our ambitionous aritistic & education initiatives.

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

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Patron Partnership

Judy Hellriegel, Chair

The Patron Partnership of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is the society of donors who have given $1,750 or more and comprise a vital extension of the Orchestra family through their institutional leadership and financial support.

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concerto. There is not really a routine.

You have to follow the game plan your brain comes up with. It’s never predictable. And it’s totally mysterious.”

One rule she tries to follow: Not listening to other composers. “You don’t want to be thinking about other people’s tunes. If I have to go to a concert — for a premiere or residency — I like to shut that out. It’s noises in my head.”

A close look at scores, however, helps problem-solve — to an extent. Higdon says, “I knew one thing I wanted was a bowed piano. I had to look up how a group I’d heard in Colorado did this bizarre thing.” Gandolfi says, “I’m such an orchestral composer, and I wasn’t always comfortable with choral register [the range of each voice]. But looking at the literature, I think I am okay. One thing I’m learning is the difference that a half a step [from one tone to another] can make in the brightness of color.”

What worried them most? Both composers told me, in a word: balance.

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particular combination for me to look at.

So we had constant dialogue: ‘Can you get this many notes in this run? Can you switch instruments here? Should this be viola?’ And, instead of one crayon for a violin soloist, I had to use 200 crayons for all the possibilities with the orchestra.”

Gandolfi’s concern was balancing the chorus against the orchestra. “Do you hear what I want you to hear?” he asks rhetorically. “The clarity of things is what I worried about.”

“There aren’t any easy parts in composing: You can’t live with it, you can’t live without it,” Higdon admits, with a small sigh. “And my mood is affected by not composing. I miss it and feel anxious when I am away.” Gandolfi, for all his fretfulness as the ASO Chorus is about to begin learning his first choral piece, one that he clearly loves, thinks back to its genesis: “Saying yes is better than saying no. I knew I wouldn’t be challenged if I didn’t. I always tell my students ‘don’t say no to anything. You might find something you didn’t know you had.’”

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calendar The Orchestra returns to Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, Alpharetta for its third summer, with a spectacular lineup of concerts for the whole family to enjoy.

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Planet Earth George Fenton, conductor

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Broadway Rocks Michael Krajewski, conductor

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Disney in Concert – Magical Music from the Movies Michael Krajewski, conductor

The Orchestra and guest vocalists perform the scores and songs of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and more — shown on the big screens.

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staff Administrative Staff Executive FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Stanley Romanstein President Donald F. Fox Executive Vice President Evans Mirageas Director of Artistic Planning for Business Operations & Chief Financial Officer ADMINISTRATION Aysha Siddique Assistant to the EVP John Sparrow for Business Operations Vice President & CFO for Orchestra Initiatives & General Manager Susan Ambo Controller Rachel Trignano Assistant to the VP for Kim Hielsberg Orchestra Initiatives Director of Financial & General Manager Planning & Analysis Julianne Fish April Satterfield Orchestra Manager Senior Accountant Nancy Crowder Peter Dickson Operations/Rental Staff Accountant Events Coordinator Michael Richardson Carol Wyatt Venues Analyst Executive Assistant Stephen Jones to the Music Director Symphony Store & Principal Guest Manager Conductor Galina Rotbakh Jeffrey Baxter Symphony Store Choral Administrator Sales Associate Ken Meltzer ASO Insider ASO PRESENTS & Program Annotator Clay Schell Russell Williamson Vice President, Programming Orchestra Personnel Manager Trevor Ralph General Manager and Senior Susanne Watts Director of Operations Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager Holly Clausen Director of Marketing Paul Barrett Senior Production Keri Musgraves Stage Manager Promotions Manager Richard Carvlin Lisa Eng Stage Manager Graphic Artist Lela Huff Chastain Park Amphitheater Assistant Stage Tanner Smith Manager Program Director Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park Katie Daniel VIP Sales Manager Jenny Pollock Operations Manager Rebecca Gordon Box Office Manager

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advancement & learning Sandy Smith Interim VP for Institutional Advancement & Learning Tammie Taylor Assistant to the Interim VP for Institutional Advancement & Learning Stephanie Malhotra Director of Advancement & Learning 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 Rebecca Enright Subscription & Education Sales Major & Planned Giving Assistant Jessica Langlois Janice Hay Director of Leadership Gifts Senior Director & Planned Giving of Marketing Andrea Welna Meko Hector Major Gifts Officer Office & Marketing Meredith Jackson Coordinator Prospect Research Officer Jennifer Jefferson Director of e-Business Annual, Institutional & Interactive Media & Volunteer Services Melanie Kite Corey Cowart Subscription Corporate Relations Office Manager Manager Shelby Moody Toni Paz Director of Individual Giving Group & Corporate Sales Coordinator Maya Robinson Seth Newcom Patron Partnership Database Administrator Gifts Officer Robert Phipps Celeste Pendarvis Publications Director Director of Volunteer Services & Special Events Melissa A. E. Sanders Senior Director, Sarah Levin Communications Volunteer Project Manager Karl Schnittke Ashley Krausen Publications Editor Special Events Coordinator Robin Smith Learning Community Group & Corporate Melanie Darby Sales Assistant Director of Education Laura Soldati Programming Publicist Sandy Smith Russell Wheeler Director of Development Group & Corporate Barbara Saunders Sales Manager Learning Community Christina Wood Gifts Officer Marketing Manager Elizabeth Wilson Director of Student Musician Development Lindsay Fisher Learning Community 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.

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 404.733.4800 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. www.atlantasymphony.org Order any time, any day! Service charge applies. Allow two to three weeks for delivery.

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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.

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SHOW TIME The Atlanta Symphony Associates’ 40th annual Show House and Gardens was a grand success.

Sharing in the opening ribboncutting ceremony were (l to r) Mollie Palmer (2010 DSH & G chair), Arthur Blank, Stephanie Blank, ASA President Suzy Wasserman, and the Orchestra’s new president, Stanley Romanstein.

DEVELOPING TALENT The Talent Development Program Spring Recital featured many TDP students including cellist Mitzi Okou, accompanied on piano by Sharon Berenson, a member of the Orchestra’s violin section.

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A POPULAR CHOICE Michael Krajewski was named the Orchestra’s first ever Principal Pops Conductor.

He chats here with the Jamiesons — (L to R) board member Kirk, daughter Grace, and wife Kimberlee — at a post-concert reception of Pops patrons in Table 1280.

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