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23 The concert’s program and notes

Miguel Harth-Bedoya explores the Inca Trail and the soul of South America in the ASO spectacular, Música Ardiente.

18 Mozart Myths Endure

Theories abound on Mozart’s unfinished Requiem.

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The ASO launches season two at its new summer residence.

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ike almost everyone these days, arts organizations nationwide are experiencing the challenges of our current economy — and adjusting accordingly. Here in Atlanta, our musicians, administrative staff and leadership recently took unprecedented steps to sustain one of this city’s and the nation’s most precious cultural assets, making both personal and professional sacrifices to safeguard our mission. Those selfless measures, together with the unwavering presence and support of our audiences and patrons, speak volumes to our collective commitment to the music. In fact, ASO Board Chair Ben Johnson recently affirmed, “the arts must sustain us and must be sustained by us.”

Indeed, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has never been more artistically vibrant, culturally relevant and full of possibility. The month of May opens with Music Director Robert Spano conducting his final two concerts of the season in Symphony Hall, including timeless works of Beethoven, Debussy, Stravinsky and Mozart.

Continuing the Orchestra’s multi-year partnership with Atlanta’s Latin American community, the 2008-09 classical season then culminates with ¡Música Ardiente!, a two-week festival (May 27June 6) showcasing the music, imagery, food and dance of South America — sponsored by CNN En Español and in partnership with the Latin American Association. We welcome back conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya to lead the festival’s three cornerstone performances: Caminos Del Inka, an exploration of the rich and varied music along the Inca Trail; Tango Fados and Dance!, a celebration through song and dance of the modern evolution of the music of Latin America; and Azul, the Soul of Argentina, featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing works by Argentinean-born, Atlanta School composer Osvaldo Golijov. Other can’t-miss events will be brought to the Woodruff Arts Center campus by various performing arts groups from throughout the metro area, including a Columbian Folkloric Dance Extravaganza, Tango Evolution, ¡Yo Bailo! (I Dance!) Salsa Night and Latin-infused performances by ASO musicians and Talent Development Program student musicians.

We continue our summer traditions — both new and old — with the 36th Delta Classic Chastain season and our second summer classical season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, launched with Maestro Spano conducting the dramatic Carmina Burana and memorable Barber of Seville. Please join us for great music in the great outdoors!

We hope you find inspiration in the music, as we continue to be sustained by your support and confidence. ¡Pura Vida!

Allison Vulgamore President and Chief Executive Officer Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

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Board of counselors Howell E. Adams, Jr. Mrs. John Aderhold Milton Brannon Elinor Breman Dr. John W. Cooledge Bradley Currey, Jr. John Donnell Jere Drummond

Ruth Gershon Charles Ginden John T. Glover Frances B. Graves Dona Humphreys John S. Hunsinger Aaron J. Johnson Herb Karp Jim Kelley

Life Directors Mrs. Drew Fuller Mary D. Gellerstedt

Azira Hill Dr. James M. Hund

Arthur L. Montgomery Mrs. M.G. Woodward

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Robert Spano music Director

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tlanta 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 ASO’s repertoire through a creative programming mix, recordings and visual enhancements, such as the Theater of a Concert — continuing exploration of different formats, settings, and enhancements for the musical performance experience. Mr. Spano also champions the Atlanta School of Composers, his commitment to nurturing and championing music through multi-year partnerships defining a new generation of American composers.

Mr. Spano has conducted the great orchestras of North America, including those in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Overseas, he has led the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Czech Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Sinfonie Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic and Tonhalle Orchester.

He has conducted the Chicago, Houston, Santa Fe, Royal Opera at Covent Garden and Welsh National Operas. In August 2005, he conducted Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at Seattle Opera, and returns for the cycle in 2009. With a discography of nine critically acclaimed recordings for Telarc and Deutsche Grammophon made over six years, Robert Spano has garnered six Grammy Awards.

Musical America’s 2008 Conductor of the Year, Mr. Spano was Artistic Director of the Ojai Festival in 2006, Director of the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center in 2003 and 2004, and from 1996 to 2004 was Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Head of the Conducting Fellowship Program at Tanglewood Music Center from 1998-2002, he has served on the faculties of Bowling Green State University, Curtis Institute and Oberlin Conservatory. Mr. Spano lives in Atlanta.

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Miguel Harth-Bedoya explores the Inca Trail and the soul of South America with Yo-Yo Ma and Luciana Souza in the ASO spectacular,

Música Ardiente

Trailblazer!

by Margaret Shakespeare

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ima-born Miguel Harth-Bedoya grew up surrounded by Peruvian music. Vocal music. His mother conducted the chorus of the Peruvian airline, Aeroperu. He sang in the chorus and danced in a company to the sounds of Peruvian folk tunes.

“Then about 20 years ago, when I was becoming a conductor, I began wanting to know if any [Peruvian] music existed for orchestra,” he says.

Harth-Bedoya attended the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School where colleagues and professors had little awareness of South American composers and music history. So he started to look — in libraries, archives, private collections and attics. “Little by little, as I was preparing programs, things would start to surface,” he says.” “Until, a few years ago, I decided to do a performance project and [have some of the music I’d found] published.”

By then Harth-Bedoya had been appointed Music Director of The Fort Worth Symphony.

He also had developed a busy freelance schedule, including guest conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and working with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who had founded the

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Silk Road Project in 1998. The Silk Road, an ancient trade route linking Eastern and Western cultures, inspired the eponymous project, which explores and brings together music, musicians, instruments and audiences from different traditions. “Yo-Yo and I were working with the Chicago (Symphony) on the Ravinia Festival premiere of Azul [by Osvaldo Golijov] three years ago,” Harth-Bedoya recalls. “And I told him about how the Inca Trail was like the Silk Road.” The historic 14,000-mile South American trail connected places and people of the Inca Empire. “He said I should go for it, really encouraged me to do something with it.”

So Caminos del Inka was born. The project is dedicated to unearthing music of forgotten South American composers and promoting performances of this music, alongside that of contemporary South Americans, such as Golijov who is Argentine. “The work is endless; I have to do it in stages,” Harth-

Bedoya says. “I have my wish list—of works I know exist and want to find—and a network [of sources who can help]. Then I have to learn each work, make a critical edition, trying to be true to the composer. I even started a publishing company to assure that these things don’t disappear again.” So far the Caminos del Inka repertory list contains 65 orchestral pieces, chamber music and other works spanning more than four centuries.

But, thinking about all that the actual Inca Trail encompassed, he adds “With all the regions and dialects, it’s probably hundreds of different cultures.”

He divides historical periods into Native (to 1533); Colonial (to 1820s), when the Spanish and others had control; Republican (to end of the 20th century) and Contemporary. Musically, after the Spanish arrived and started building cities that mimicked European models, he says, “there are [musical] parallels to the standard Classical, Romantic, Modern ... periods. European composers — from Italy, Germany, Belgium — did go to Peru and elsewhere. Communication and travel took so long, that sometimes the [South American] music can sound 20 years or so

off [stylistically].” He laughs, “Of course that rule probably doesn’t apply any more.”

While Atlanta Symphony Orchestra audiences will hear Harth-Bedoya conduct an entire Caminos del Inka program — from Spanishborn Baltasar Martinez Y Companion (17381797) to 30-year-old Peruvian Jimmy Lopez (who studied in Finland) — he hopes other conductors and orchestras will program individual pieces that he has rediscovered.

“The whole point is for others to do these works.” And then there are Caminos Del Inka Ensemble artists. “They are friends, who needed help in finding [obscure South American music] and they all got involved in the concept. We all have different stories but coming together is a benefit.”

Among those friends is flutist Jessica WarrenAcosta, a master of Andean instruments, who will perform Gabriela Lena Frank’s Illapa on the ASO program. “Gabriela had originally written this tone poem for [Western] flute. When I told her that Jessica also played Andean flute, she transcribed it.” Usually, Harth-Bedoya admits, it’s hard to successfully mix ethnic instruments with a symphony orchestra. “I’m biased about Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 13

the borderline between entertainment and an orchestral presentation.”

He does believe in the evocative power of visual art. When ASO audiences punch their tickets for a full-evening Caminos Del Inka journey, the experience will include videography — by renowned Peruvian photographer Gabriela Fit — of Machu Picchu and monuments that tie the musical landscape to the actual land and people who inhabit it.

¡Música Ardiente!

Complete list of events

May 27, 6:45pm • Atlanta Symphony Hall Talent Development Program Students of the ASO’s TDP perform to shine a spotlight the ASO’s training programs.

May 27, 7pm • Atlanta Symphony Hall Conversations of note – Celebrating the Inca Trail ASO Insider and Program Annotator Ken Meltzer kicks off the festival with an engaging conversation with Miguel Harth-Bedoya.

May 27, 8pm • Atlanta Symphony Hall ¡Bomba Boleros!

Lose yourself in bolero heaven as ASO musicians play a collection of these popular Latin tunes.

May 27, 8:45pm • Woodruff Arts Center Galleria ¡Yo Bailo! (I Dance) SALSA Party!

Live bands will provide a mix of salsa to satisfy your dancing feet.

In partnership with the Woodruff Arts Center’s Celebrate Diversity through the Arts May 28*/30, 8pm • Atlanta Symphony Hall Caminos del Inka Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor Jessica Warren-Acosta, flute May 28, post-concert • Woodruff Arts Center Galleria VIENTOS DEL PUEBLO – Music from the Andes Stay after the concert to hear the ancestral and contemporary sounds of the Andean highlands from the band Vientos Del Pueblo

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Maestro Harth-Bedoya, who could have been satisfied with his rising profile as an international conductor, admits that his own Caminos Del Inka excursion caught him by surprise. “I didn’t even know I was doing it at first.” But, planned or not, he is well on his way, a trail guide with an infectious, illuminating passion.

New York writer Margaret Shakespeare frequently covers music and musicians.

May 29, 7pm • Woodruff Arts Center Galleria Tango Evolution You’ll melt into the steamy embrace of Tango as dancers heat up the Galleria.

May 29, 8pm • Atlanta Symphony Hall Azul, the Soul of Argentina OUT SOLD Yo-Yo Ma, cello with the ASO Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor JUNE 3, 7pm • Latin American Association, 2750 Buford Hwy RÍTMO CARIBEÑO Celebrate the Music of Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Argentina, and Mexico June4*/5/6, 8pm • Atlanta Symphony Hall Tango, Fados and Dance!

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor Luciana Souza, mezzo-soprano Rosa Collantes and Company, dancers June 5, 7pm • Woodruff Arts Center Galleria ¡El Ritmo Latino! with Havana Son Images of a tropical paradise will come to mind when you hear the sweet and sultry melodies of authentic Latin rhythms.

June 6, 7pm • Atlanta Symphony Hall Colombian Dance Extravaganza!

From the jaunting rhythmic movements of the Mapalé to the folkish charm of the Bambuco this explosive showcase by the Ballet Folklórico de Colombia is not to be missed! *Thursday pre-concert lecture with ASO Insider Ken Meltzer Festival sponsored by CNN en Españole

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BASS Ralph Jones

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Mozart Myths Endure

Theories abound on Mozart’s unfinished Requiem, which Robert Spano conducts in his final concert of the Delta classical season, May 14, 16 and 17

By Brooke Phillips

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ozart’s Requiem, left uncompleted at the time of his death in 1791 at age 35, is one of classical music’s most haunting works. It has a complex history and many finer points of fact are often encased in myth — ever more so since the huge success of the 1985 movie, Amadeus.

The movie was never intended to be taken as fact, and many enduring misconceptions about Mozart — his life, work, and especially his Requiem — were revisited when the film was released. The film itself, was based on a play, Mozart and Salieri, by Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, which contains many of the falsehoods that are presented, if rather entertainingly, in the film version.

These are longstanding myths, including that Mozart’s nemesis Salieri helped complete the Requiem. We now know that Mozart’s wife, Constanze, hired a number of composers to help finish the piece.

Ultimately, the composer Sussmayr completed the Requiem. We also know that Mozart began the composition amid personal financial setbacks, waning popularity in Vienna, and struggles with his health. Franz Count von

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Walsegg, an amateur musician who wanted to memorialize his dead wife, and possibly, pass off the work as his own, commissioned the Requiem. Mozart began working on his last piece in a state of fragile health with a looming sense that the very Requiem he was writing was his own.

In the ASO performance, Robert Spano ingeniously couples Mozart’s final utterance with Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. “Mozart distilled in his Requiem Mass so much of his genius,” says Evans Mirageas, director of artistic planning for the ASO. “And even though he did not live to complete it that which he himself wrote is powerful, doleful, tender and speaks from heart to heart across three centuries about the ‘debt we all must pay.’”

Mirageas adds that “the perfect foil to this grand and glorious Mass is Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. The composer himself wrote: ‘It is not a symphony in which I have included Psalms to be sung. On the contrary, it is the singing of the Psalms that I am symphonizing.’”

Atlanta writer Brooke Phillips contributes articles to Encore Atlanta and other publications.

From One Genius to Another Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s musical genius has affected legions of people since he drew he last breath in 1791, at age 35. One of the many lives he touched with his music was another towering genius, Albert Einstein. A lifelong violinist, Einstein felt a creative and almost otherworldly affinity for the beauty of Mozart’s music. He famously remarked, “While Beethoven created his music, Mozart’s “was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.” Einstein looked to Mozart’s music not only for creative inspiration, but also for clues to the symmetry and order he sought and later famously discovered in theoretical physics.

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ASOprogram Atlanta Symphony Orchestra A founding member of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center Robert Spano, Music Director Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor

Delta classical Series Concerts Thursday, Friday and Saturday May 7,8 and 9, 2009, at 8 p.m.

robert spano, Conductor louis lortie, Piano

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Orpheus, S. 98 (Symphonic Poem No. 4) (1853-4)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 58 (1806) I. Allegro moderato II. Andante con moto III. Rondo; Vivace Louis Lortie, Piano INTERMISSION

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune” (1894)

La mer (The Sea), Three Symphonic Sketches (1905) I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer

(From Dawn until Noon on the Sea) II. Jeux de vagues (Play of the Waves) III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer

(Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea)

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

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ASOprogram Notes on the Program

By Ken Meltzer Orpheus, S. 98 (Symphonic Poem No. 4) (1853-4) Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, Hungary, on October 22, 1811, and died in Bayreuth, Germany, on July 31, 1886. The first performance of Orpheus took place in Weimar, Germany, on February 16, 1854, conducted by the composer. Orpheus is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, two harps and strings. Approximate performance time is thirteen minutes.

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he legend of Orpheus, the musician who descended into Hades in an attempt to rescue his wife, Eurydice, has inspired many great works of art. One of the most famous is Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice (1762).

In the preface to the score of his Symphonic Poem, Orpheus, Liszt recalled: I once had to conduct a performance of Gluck’s Orpheus.

During the rehearsals, I could not prevent my mind wandering … to that other Orpheus whose name hovers so majestically and harmoniously over one of the most poetic myths of Greece. I recalled an Etruscan vase in the Louvre collection, which represents the first poet-musician, clothed in a starry robe, his forehead bound with the mystically royal fillet, his lips open for the utterance of divine words and songs, and his lyre resounding under the touch of his long and graceful fingers.

Liszt’s Orpheus was the fourth of twelve Symphonic Poems written during the Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor’s tenure at the Weimar court (1848-1861). Liszt conducted the premiere of his Orpheus in Weimar on February 16, 1854. On that occasion, Liszt’s work served as an orchestral introduction to a performance of Gluck’s opera. On November 10 of that year, Liszt’s Orpheus received its first performance as an independent Symphonic Poem.

Though rarely performed (these concerts mark the ASO premiere), Liszt’s Orpheus has earned the admiration and affection of many great musicians. It was a favorite of the legendary British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. And German opera composer Richard Wagner described it as “a quite unique masterpiece of the highest perfection.”

Orpheus begins with a hushed statement by the horns, answered by a flowing passage for the two harps. The latter are prominent throughout the work as a representation of Orpheus’s lyre “resounding under the touch of his long and graceful fingers.” The mood throughout is one of elegant nobility and lyricism, a reflection, according to Liszt, of the power of Orpheus’s

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music to tame both the wild beasts and man’s baser instincts. After a radiant climax, Orpheus closes with a magical series of chords for the strings and winds, described by the composer as “gradually rising like the vapor of incense.”

Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 58 (1806) Ludwig van Beethoven was baptized in Bonn, Germany, on December 17, 1770, and died in Vienna, Austria, on March 26, 1827. The first public performance of the Piano Concerto No. 4 took place in Vienna at the Theater-an-der-Wien on December 22, 1808, with the composer as soloist. In addition to the solo piano, the Concerto No. 4 is scored for flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.

Approximate performance time is thirty-four minutes.

First ASO Classical Subscription Performance: March 21, 1951, Claudio Arrau, Piano, Henry Sopkin, Conductor.

Most Recent ASO Classical Subscription Performances: February 5, 6 and 7, 2004, Radu Lupu, Piano, Donald Runnicles, Conductor.

“Too much of a good thing”

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eethoven completed the score of his G-Major Concerto in 1806, and first performed the work during a March 1807 private concert at the palace of his patron, Prince Joseph Lobkowitz. The first public performance of the Fourth Piano Concerto took place at the Vienna Theater-an-der-Wien on December 22, 1808. In addition to the Fourth Piano Concerto, the concert, sponsored by Beethoven, included the world premieres of the composer’s Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and Choral Fantasy, as well as four movements from his Mass in C and the soprano aria, Ah! Perfido. In a single evening, Beethoven lavished upon the Viennese public several hours of some of his most inspired compositions.

Still, the benefit concert (known as an “Akademie”) was far from a resounding success. The meager rehearsal time was Insufficient for a program of such length and difficulty. During the premiere of the Choral Fantasy, the orchestra was forced to stop in the middle of the work and begin a section over again. Further, the audience endured this taxing winter program in an unheated theater. The German musician Johann Reichardt was in attendance: I accepted with hearty thanks the kind offer of Prince Lobkowitz to let me sit in his box. There we continued, in the bitterest cold, too, from half past six to half past ten, and experienced the truth that one can easily have too much of a good thing — and still more of the loud. Nevertheless, I could no more leave the box before the end than could the exceedingly good-natured and delicate Prince, for the box was in the first balcony near the stage, so that the orchestra

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ASOprogram with Beethoven in the middle conducting it was below us and near at hand; thus many a failure in the performance vexed our patience in the highest degree.

Poor Beethoven, who from this, his own concert, was having the first and only scant profit that he could find in a whole year, had found in the rehearsals and performance a lot of opposition and almost no support.

Perhaps the Fourth Piano Concerto fared as well as any piece on the December 22, 1808 program. Beethoven was the soloist, and, according to Reichardt: “He played ... with astounding cleverness and in the fastest possible tempi. The Adagio (i.e., second movement), a masterly movement of beautifully developed song, he sang on this instrument with a profound melancholy that moved me.”

“Heights undreamt of in earlier music” The Fourth Piano Concerto proved to be the last such work Beethoven composed for his own performance. Increasing deafness finally made public appearances all but impossible for one of the greatest piano virtuosos of his time.

Beethoven completed his magnificent Fifth Piano Concerto (“Emperor”) in 1809. The “Emperor,” Beethoven’s final Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, is certainly a fitting culmination of the composer’s efforts in this genre. Still, there are many advocates for the G-Major Concerto as the composer’s finest. It is a miraculous blend of haunting lyricism, expressive virtuosity, and formal innovation. As British musicologist Sir Donald Francis Tovey observed: “Beethoven has now well and truly laid the foundations of his concerto form and is free to raise the edifice to heights undreamt of in earlier music.”

Musical Analysis I. Allegro moderato — In Beethoven’s first three Piano Concertos, the composer follows traditional concerto sonata form, opening with a purely orchestral exposition. In the G-Major Concerto, it is the pianist who first softly intones the principal theme before it is repeated by the strings. After a majestic orchestral statement, the first violins introduce a lyrical but melancholy second theme that is soon transformed into a radiant orchestral tutti. The soloist returns with his own improvisatory restatement of the principal thematic material. The soloist’s music is notable throughout for its remarkable combination of technical challenges and lyrical restraint. After the development, the soloist ushers in the recapitulation with a heroic restatement of his initial entrance. A lengthy cadenza and brief, dramatic coda round out the opening movement.

II. Andante con moto — The slow movement, scored for piano and strings, is an extraordinary dialogue between the soloist and orchestra. The strings announce a forte, syncopated figure, to which the soloist responds with a tender phrase, marked molto cantabile. The confrontation proceeds until finally, the orchestra yields to the soloist. Franz Liszt compared this brief movement to “Orpheus taming the wild beasts with his music.” (See, Liszt, Orpheus, above.)

The finale ensues without pause.

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III. Rondo; Vivace — The dialogue between the strings and piano briefly continues with a furtive, pianissimo introduction of the principal Rondo theme. Soon, however, the orchestra proclaims a joyous, fortissimo restatement of the theme. Beethoven presents a remarkable variety of moods and instrumental colors throughout the finale. After a cadenza and series of trills, there is a moment of repose before the soloist and orchestra dash headlong to a Presto finish.

Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune” (1894) Claude Debussy was born in St. Germain-en-Laye, France, on August 22, 1862, and died in Paris, France, on March 25, 1918. The first performance of Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune” took place in Paris at the Salle d’Harcourt on December 22, 1894, with Gustave Doret conducting the Société Nationale de Musique. Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune” is scored for three flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, antique cymbals, two harps and strings. Approximate performance time is ten minutes.

First ASO Classical Subscription Performance: March 10, 1953, Henry Sopkin, Conductor.

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“Music that brings out the feeling of my poem”

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ccording to Pierre Boulez, “modern music was awakened

by L’après-midi d’un faune.” Other pioneering works, such as Ludwig van Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony (1803), Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco (1842), and Igor Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps (1913) stunned the music world with their overwhelming energy and dissonance. Debussy, on the other hand, chose to wake his listeners in a far more seductive and beguiling fashion, with elusive tonalities and rhythms couched in the most exquisite orchestral sonorities.

Debussy’s most famous orchestral work was inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem, the genesis of which dates as far back as 1865. L’après-midi d’un faune relates the tale of a faun’s erotic (and unrequited) fascination with a pair of nymphs. Mallarmé conceived The Afternoon of a Faun as a monologue to be recited on stage by an actor.

Debussy composed his music between 1892 and 1894. It appears Debussy first planned the work as a series of pieces (Prélude, interlude et paraphrase finale), designed to serve as incidental music to a dramatic recitation of Mallarmé’s poem. It is possible that Debussy incorporated music from the sketches for the Interlude and Final Paraphrase into the Prelude.

Prior to the first performance of the Prélude, Debussy played the work for Mallarmé. As Debussy described to his friend, G. Jean-Aubry: “Mallarmé came in with a prophetic air and his Scotch plaid around him. After listening he remained silent for a long time; then said: ‘I didn’t expect anything like this. It is music that brings out the feeling of my poem, providing it with a warmer

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ASOprogram background than color.’” And in an undated letter, Mallarmé further congratulated Debussy on “your illustration of L’après-midi d’un faune which presents no dissonance of my text; rather does it go further into the nostalgia and light with subtlety, malaise, and richness.”

“We are going to defend a great cause this evening” The premiere of Debussy’s Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune” took place at the Paris Salle d’Harcourt on December 22, 1894. Gustave Doret conducted the Société Nationale de Musique. The following are excerpts from Doret’s recollections of the premiere: But the hour of the great test has arrived. Debussy hides his anxiety with a grin I well knew. He presses my hands. The orchestra tunes up in the corridor. I ask for silence. “My friends,” I say to the musicians, “you know that we are going to defend a great cause this evening. If you have some friendship for Debussy and for me, you will give yourselves completely.” My good colleagues applauded: “Don’t worry maestro! We’ll win.”

I ascend the podium with some emotion, but much reassured and full of confidence. I wait a long moment after having imposed silence on the last lingering conversations among the audience. The hall is packed. An impressive silence reigns, when our marvelous flutist Barrère unrolls his opening theme …

Suddenly I feel behind my back — it is a special ability of certain conductors — a completely captivated public! The triumph is complete, so much so that in spite of the rule forbidding encores I did not hesitate to break the rule. The orchestra, delighted, joyfully repeated the work that it had loved and imposed on the conquered public.

Debussy described his Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun” as “a very free interpretation of Mallarmé’s poem. It has no pretensions of presenting a synthesis of the poem. It is rather a series of scenes against which the desires and dreams of the Faun are seen to stir in the afternoon heat.” In an October 10, 1896 letter to music critic Henri Gauthier-Villars, Debussy observed: More precisely, the work conveys the general impression of the poem … it follows the ascendant movement of the poem and illustrates the scene marvelously described in the text. The close is a prolongation of the last line: “Couple adieu! Je vais voir l’ombre que tu deviens.” (“Farewell, couple! I go to see the shadow that you have become.”)

La mer, Three Symphonic Sketches (1905) Claude Debussy was born in St. Germaine-en-Laye, France, on August 22, 1862, and died in Paris, France, on March 25, 1918. The first performance of La mer took place in Paris on October 15, 1905, at the Concerts Lamoureux, with Camille Chevillard conducting. La mer is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, three bassoons, Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 29

contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, two cornets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, orchestra bells, tam-tam, triangle, two harps and strings. Approximate performance time is twenty-three minutes.

First ASO Classical Subscription Performance: December 1, 1961, Henry Sopkin, Conductor.

Most Recent ASO Classical Subscription Performances: February 3, 4 and 5, 2005, Roberto Abbado, Conductor.

“I still have a great passion for the sea”

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he first mention of Claude Debussy’s La mer occurs in a September 12, 1903 letter. There, Debussy informed composer André Messager: “I am working on three symphonic sketches under the title La mer: Mer belle aux îles Sanguinaires; Jeux de vagues; and Le Vent fait danser la mer.” (Debussy later changed the titles of the outer movements.)

In that same letter, Debussy confided: “You perhaps do not know that I was destined for the fine life of a sailor and that it was only by chance that I was led away from it. But I still have a great passion for the sea.” This “passion” may be traced as far back as Debussy’s childhood visits to Cannes. And, the composer’s fascination with the sea continued throughout his life.

In 1889, the young Debussy responded in a questionnaire that if he were not a composer, he would like to be “a sailor.” That same year, Debussy traveled with his friends — the brothers René and Michel Peter — to St. Lunaire, located on the north coast of Brittany. During the visit, Debussy and the Peters made a twenty-mile voyage in a fishing boat from St. Lunaire to Cancale. The trip occurred during a raging storm. René and Michel Peter feared for their lives — and for good reason.

Debussy, on the other hand, relished the experience: “Now here’s a type of passionate feeling I have not before experienced — Danger! It is not unpleasant. One is alive!” After the travelers safely returned to St. Lunaire, the Peters did not see Debussy for several days. He left a note that read, “I have been smitten not with sea-sickness, but with sea-seeing-sickness.”

It is perhaps ironic that the majority of the composition of La mer took place when Debussy was at inland locations. However, Debussy did not view this as a handicap. As he told Messager: (Y)ou’ll reply that the Atlantic doesn’t wash the foothills of Burgundy...! And that the result could be one of those hack landscapes done in the studio! But I have innumerable memories, and those, in my view, are worth more than a reality which, charming as it may be, tends to weigh too heavily on the imagination.

In fact, Debussy once admitted to a friend that he found it difficult to compose while in close proximity to the sea he loved so much.

The premiere of La mer took place in Paris on October 15, 1905, at the Concerts Lamoureux, with Camille Chevillard conducting. While critical reaction varied, most recognized the importance of La mer in the development of French musical expression. Debussy himself penned revisions

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ASOprogram to the score in 1909, although some conductors and orchestras continue to perform the 1905 version. Regardless, Debussy’s La mer is a brilliant musical product of the composer’s lifelong fascination with the sea and its infinite mysteries. Debussy’s La mer, like its subject, continues to elude description, all the while exerting a powerful attraction.

Musical Analysis I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer (From Dawn until Noon on the Sea) — A slow, mysterious introduction depicts the grandeur of the sea at dawn. Soon, the sea awakens and activity increases as Debussy introduces several masterfully orchestrated rhythmic motifs. A grand concluding section, containing a chorale theme that will appear again in the finale, radiates the magnificence of the sea glistening in the noonday sun.

II. Jeux de vagues (Play of the Waves) — If the first movement of La mer serves as the equivalent of a symphony’s vibrant opening movement (with slow introduction), Jeux de vagues is the scherzo. The play of the waves is reflected in the orchestra’s quicksilver introduction and exchange of rhythmic and melodic fragments. The peaceful conclusion of the movement is in sharp contrast to the almost frenetic activity that precedes it.

III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea) — The finale begins ominously, with a roll of the timpani and terse interjections by the lower strings, answered by the woodwinds. The music gathers strength, momentum, and at times, violence. A contrasting, lyric section soon gains energy of its own. The chorale, first heard in the opening movement, heralds the climax of the finale.

louis lortie, Piano

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anadian pianist Louis Lortie has been praised for the fresh perspective and individuality he brings to a deliberately broad spectrum of the keyboard canon. He studied in Montréal with Yvonne Hubert (a pupil of French pianist, Alfred Cortot), in Vienna with the Beethoven specialist Dieter Weber, and subsequently with Schnabel disciple Leon Fleisher, among others.

Louis Lortie Mr. Lortie has performed the complete works of Ravel in London and Montréal for the BBC and CBC, and is known for his interpretation of Chopin. Following a recital of Chopin’s complete Etudes in London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Financial Times wrote: “Better Chopin playing than this is not to be heard, not anywhere.” He also often performs major contemporary works, recently concentrating on pieces by British composer Thomas Ades.

Celebrated for his interpretation of works by Beethoven, Mr. Lortie has performed the complete Beethoven sonatas in London’s Wigmore Hall, Toronto’s Ford Center, the Berlin Philharmonie Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 31

ASOprogram and the Sala Grande del Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. In Berlin, Die Welt called his performances “possibly the most beautiful Beethoven since the times of Wilhelm Kempff.”

With the Montreal and Quebec Symphonies, he performed and conducted all five Beethoven Piano Concertos.

In May 2008, Mr. Lortie concluded his multi-year project to play and conduct all 27 Mozart Piano Concertos (along with other all-orchestral repertoire by various composers). In 200809, he and a cinematographer collaborate on a special Venice recital: Mr. Lortie performs a program surrounding the themes of Venice and water, while a film of Venice scenes is shown simultaneously. He performs it for the first time this summer at the Orford Festival. Other notable concerts: the Saint Louis Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra in Cleveland and on tour, the Toronto Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the NACO, the Cincinnati Symphony, and many important recitals, including the complete Chopin Etudes at the Kennedy Center. In Europe, highlights include his concerts with Kurt Masur at the Musikverein and at Royal Festival Hall, his tour in Europe with the BBC Orchestra, and his performances at the Dresden Festival.

Mr. Lortie has made over 30 recordings on the Chandos label, ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky. His recording of Beethoven’s Eroica Variations won the Edison Award, and his disc of Schumann’s Bunte Blatter and other works by Schumann and Brahms was named one of the best CDs of the year by BBC Music Magazine. He has recorded Ravel’s complete works for piano and has nearly completed the 32 Beethoven sonatas. His recording of the complete Chopin Etudes, opp. 10 and 25, has been cited by BBC Music Magazine’s special Piano Issue as one of “50 Recordings by Superlative Pianists.” Mr. Lortie’s most recent CD release is the final recording in his three-CD series of Liszt’s complete works for piano and orchestra with the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague. It was immediately named “Editor’s Choice” by Gramophone Magazine.

Born in Montréal, Louis Lortie made his debut with the Montréal Symphony at the age of 13 and the Toronto Symphony three years later, which as a result engaged him for an historic tour of the People’s Republic of China and Japan. In 1984, he won First Prize in the Busoni Competition and was a prize-winner at the Leeds Competition. In 1992, he was named Officer of the Order of Canada, and received both the Order of Quebec and an honorary doctorate from Laval University. As his schedule permits, he teaches at Italy’s renowned piano institute at Imola. Mr. Lortie has lived in Berlin since 1997 and also has a home in Canada.

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Linda & Richard Hubert Dr. William M. Hudson Mr. & Mrs. W. F. Johnston Mr. & Mrs. L. Michael Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. King Mr. & Mrs. John King Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Kruger Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey Mr. & Mrs. Sean Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Mabry Ruth & Paul Marston Dr. & Mrs. William McClatchey Mr. & Mrs. David V. McQueen Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Mitchell Ms. Lilot Moorman & Mr. Jeffrey B. Bradley Richard S. & Winifred B. Myrick Dr. & Mrs. R. Daniel Nable Mr. & Mrs. Albert N. Parker Mr. & Mrs. Andreas Penninger Janet M. Pierce Dr. John B. Pugh

$3,500+ Julie M. Altenbach Ms. Carol F. Comstock & Mr. James L. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Todd Evans Mr. & Mrs. Marshall E. Franklin Mr. & Mrs. Henry D. Gregory Ms. Cynthia Jeness

$2,250+ John & Helen Aderhold Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Agnew Mr. & Mrs. Richard Allison Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Alvelda* Mr. Albert S. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. A. James Anderson Anonymous (4) Jack & Helga Beam Neale M. Bearden Robert & Teresa Betkowski Shirley & Sol** Blaine Rita & Herschel Bloom Mr. & Mrs. Merritt S. Bond* Mr. & Mrs. Milton W. Brannon Jacqueline A. & Joseph E. Brown, Jr. Maj. Gen. & Mrs. Robert Bunker Dr. Carol T. Bush & Dr. Aubrey M. Bush Mr. & Mrs. Russell E. Butner*

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ASOsupport $2,250+ (continued) Realan Foundation, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. W. Harrison Reeves, Sr. In memory of Nora A. Richardson S. A. Robinson Mrs. William A. Schwartz

Mr. Craig H. Seibert & Ms. Molly Minnear Elizabeth S. Sharp Beverly & Milton Shlapak W.H. Shuford Louis Sicurezza Helga Hazelrig Siegel

Peter James Stelling John & Yee-Wan Stevens John & Marilyn Thomas Ms. Caroline M. Thompson Ann & Joan Titelman Burton Trimble Mr. William C. Voss

Mr. Thomas P. Walbert Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Walker Dr. & Mrs. James O. Wells, Jr. Ms. Mary Lou Wolff Mr. & Mrs. John C. Yates Mr. Michael H. Zimmerman

Heike & Dieter Elsner Joseph W. & Beth M. Gibson Carol & Henry Grady Duncan & Judy Gray Mr. Kenneth R. Hey Ed Heys Thomas J. High Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Hollums Dr. & Mrs. James M. Hund Dorothy Jackson Mary & Wayne James Lana M. Jordan Mr. Thomas J. Jung Dr. & Mrs. M. J. Jurkiewicz Betty Karp Paul & Rosthema Kastin Mr. & Mrs. John H. Kauffman Dick & Georgia Kimball* Veronique Krafft-Jones & Baxter Jones Mr. & Mrs. David Krischer Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth F. Leddick Paul & Winifred Lefstead * Dr. Leslie Leigh Dr. J. Bancroft Lesesne Dr. Fulton Lewis III & S. Neal Rhoney Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Lutz* Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Manners Mr. & Mrs. James H. Matthews, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Devereaux McClatchey Martha & Reynolds McClatchey JoAnn Godfrey McClinton Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. McGhee John F. & Marilyn M. McMullan Angela & Jimmy Mitchell Judy & Gregory Moore Mrs. Gene Morse Mr. & Mrs. Vernon J. Nagel Lebby Neal Mr. & Mrs. J. Vernon O’Neal, Jr. Sanford & Barbara Orkin Keith & Dana Osborn Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Palay Mr. & Mrs. Emory H. Palmer Mr. & Mrs. William A. Parker, Jr. Ms. Susan B. Perdew Mr. & Mrs. William John Petter Brian & Sherry Ranck Mr. Christopher D. Rex & Dr. Martha Wilkins Mr. & Mrs. John E. Robertson Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Rodgers The Gary W. & Ruth M. Rollins Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Rein Saral Dr. Paul Seguin

Dr. & Mrs. James Sexson Lewis Silverboard Andrew J. Singletary Gary E. Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Raymond F. Stainback, Jr. Mrs. James R. Stow Kay & Alex Summers Elvira Tate Mr. & Mrs. George B. Taylor, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mark Taylor Dede & Bob Thompson Mr. & Mrs. William M. Tipping Frank Vinicor, M.D. Drs. Mel & Nan Vulgamore Charlie Wade & M.J. Conboy Mr. J.H. Walker III Drs. Julius & Nanette Wenger David & Martha West Mrs. Thomas R. Williams Mark & Ruthelen Williamson Ned J. Winsor Jan & Beattie Wood Dorothy & Charlie Yates Family Fund Marguerite & Mike York Chuck & Pat Young Dr. & Mrs. James D. Young The Zaban Foundation, Inc. Grace & Herbert Zwerner

$1,750+ Marian & Paul Anderson Anonymous Mrs. Kathy Betty B. Sandford Birdsey III Ms. Laura J. Bjorkholm & Mr. John C. Reece II Martha S. Brewer Mr.** & Mrs. Eric L. Brooker Tony & Norma Jean Bueschen Ian M. Burt Evelyn J. & Richard A. Carroll Dr. Michele R. Chartier & Lt. Col. Kirk Chartier Dr. & Mrs. Grady S. Clinkscales, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. B. Woodfin Cobbs, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Barksdale Collins* Jean & Jerry Cooper Robert Cronin & Christina Smith Mr. & Mrs. Burton K. Davis Mrs. H. Frances Davis Cecil B. Day Family Elizabeth & John Donnelly Mr. Bruce E. Dunlap Ms. Diane Durgin Cree & Frazer Durrett Dr. Francine D. Dykes & Mr. Richard Delay Drs. Norma J. & Bryan P. Edwards

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

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ASOsupport

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CNN en Español HoneyBaked Ham Company Reliance Trust Sutherland, LLP The UPS Foundation

Evolution Home Theater Nordstrom Peachtree Hills Place Stanford Financial Services

The Boston Consulting Group Turner Construction Company Verizon Wireless Wilmington Trust WineStyles

foundation and government support $100,000+ The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation The Halle Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundations The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Zeist Foundation

Major funding for this organization is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council.

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$25,000+ American Symphony Orchestra League Anne and Gordon Getty Foundation MetLife Music for Life Initiative

$5,000+

$10,000+ The Aaron Copland Fund For Music, Inc. The Arnold Foundation The Green Foundation Hellen Ingram Plummer Charitable Foundation The Kendeda Fund

Atlanta Federation of Musicians Fraser-Parker Foundation Robert S. Elster Foundation The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts

Office of Cultural Affairs: Major support is provided by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.

Special Gifts The ASCAP Foundation Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Foundation Kathy Griffin Memorial Endowment Livingston Foundation Reiman Charitable Foundation William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund

This program is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

ASOsupport Recognizing planned gifts that benefit the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Madeline & Howell E. Adams, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John E. Aderhold William & Marion Atkins Dr. & Mrs. William Bauer Neil H. Berman Fred & Bettye Betts Mr. & Mrs.* Karl A. Bevins Mr.* & Mrs. Sol Blaine Frances Cheney Boggs* W. Moses Bond Robert* & Sidney Boozer Elinor A. Breman William Breman* James C. Buggs, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Burgin Hugh W. Burke Wilber W. Caldwell Mr. & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun Cynthia & Donald Carson Margie & Pierce Cline Dr. & Mrs. Grady Clinkscales, Jr. Miriam & John A. Conant* Dr. John W. Cooledge Mr. & Mrs. William R. Cummickel* John R. Donnell Dixon W. Driggs* Catherine Warren Dukehart Ms. Diane Durgin Arnold & Sylvia Eaves

Elizabeth Etoll John F. Evans Doyle Faler* Rosi & Arnoldo Fiedotin Dr. Emile T. Fisher A. D. Frazier, Jr. Betty & Drew* Fuller Carl & Sally Gable William H. Gaik Kay Gardner* Mr.* & Mrs. L. L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Ruth Gershon & Sandy Cohn Micheline & Bob Gerson Mr. & Mrs. John T. Glover Mrs. Irma G. Goldwasser* Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Billie & Sig* Guthman Betty G. & Joseph* F. Haas James & Virginia Hale Ms. Jeannie Hearn Jill* & Jennings Hertz Albert L. Hibbard, Jr.* Richard E. Hodges Mr. & Mrs. Charles K. Holmes, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Hoyt, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. James M. Hund Mary B. James deForest F. Jurkiewicz* Herb & Hazel Karp Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley

Bob Kinsey James W. & Mary Ellen* Kitchell Paul Kniepkamp, Jr. Miss Florence Kopleff Ouida Hayes Lanier Liz & Jay* Levine Jane Little Mrs. J. Erskine Love, Jr. Nell Galt & Will D. Magruder K Maier John W. Markham, III Ann Bernard Martin* Mr. Michael McDowell* Mr. & Mrs. Richard McGinnis Vera A. Milner* Mr. & Mrs. Bertil D. Nordin Roger B. Orloff Dr. Bernard & Sandra Palay Bill Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Rezin E. Pidgeon, Jr. Janet M. Pierce Reverend Neal P. Ponder, Jr. William L. & Lucia Fairlie Pulgram Carl J. Reith* Edith Goodman Rhodes* Vicki J. & Joe A. Riedel Dr. Shirley E. Rivers Mr. & Mrs. Martin H. Sauser

Mr. Paul S. Scharff & Ms. Polly G. Fraser Edward G. Scruggs Dr. & Mrs. George P. Sessions W. Griggs Shaefer, Jr.* Mr. & Mrs. Robert Shaw* Charles H. Siegel* Mr. & Mrs. H. Hamilton Smith Mrs. Lessie B. Smithgall Margo Sommers* Elliott Sopkin Elizabeth Morgan Spiegel Daniel D. Stanley* Peter James Stelling C. Mack* & Mary Rose Taylor Jed Thompson Steven R. Tunnell Mary E. Van Valkenburgh Mrs. Anise C. Wallace* Mr. & Mrs. John B. White, Jr. Richard S. White, Jr. Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr. Sue & Neil Williams Mrs. Frank L. Wilson, Jr. Elin M. Winn* Joni Winston George & Camille Wright Mr.* & Mrs. Charles R. Yates Anonymous (12)

*Deceased

Talent Development program supporters Funds included: ASO Training Programs Fund as part of the ASO Learning Community Fund, The Azira G. Hill Scholarship Endowment Fund, & TDP Endowment Campaign

$25,000+

Bank of America The Coca Cola Company John H. & Wilhelmina D. Harland Foundation* Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Hill , Jr.* Monica (Kaufman) Pearson & John E. Pearson, Sr.* Margaret & Bob Reiser* Jay & Arthur Richardson*

$10,000+

AGL Resources* Edith H. & James E. Bostic, Jr. Family Foundation* Marcia & John Donnell* Cree & Frazer Durrett* The Goizueta Foundation The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc.* The Pittulloch Foundation* John C. Portman, Jr.* Simmons Family Foundation* Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Yellowlees*

$2,500+

Mr. & Mrs. Henry Aaron* Elinor Rosenberg Breman** Cynthia & Donald Carson* Georgia-Pacific Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Ginden* Mr. & Mrs. David Gould Mrs. Mary C. Gramling* Lincoln Financial Foundation Links Inc., Azalea City Chapter Mr. Kenneth & Dr. Carolyn Meltzer Margo Brinton & Eldon Park* Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Sullivan* Isaiah & Hellena Huntley Tidwell* The Frances Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc.* Ms. Joni Winston*

$1,000+

Madeline & Howell E. Adams, Jr.* Claire & Hubie Brown Dr. Eric & Nancy Brown*

Dr. Sheri D. Campbell* Sharon, Lindsay & Gordon Fisher Dr. John O. Gaston & Dr. Gloria S. Gaston* Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Greer* The Honorable Judge Glenda Hatchett* Ms. Joy G. Howard Aaron & Joyce Johnson* Mr. & Mrs. William Lamar, Jr.* Ms. Malinda C. Logan* Mr. & Mrs. Howatt E. Mallinson* Dr. Emily A. Massey* Dr. Joanne R. Nurss* Dr. & Mrs. Travis Paige* Mr. & Mrs. Howard Palefsky* Ms. Margaret H. Petersen Ms. Elise T. Phillips Erich & Suzette Randolph* Mr. Herman J. Russell, Sr. Michael & Lovette Russell Stephanie & H. Jerome Russell*

Suzanne & Willard Shull* Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Troy Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Wasserman* Mr. Mack Wilbourne*

Special gifts

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation GE Energy The Green Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundations Kraft Foods, Inc. MetLife Music for Life Initiative Nordstrom The UPS Foundation Woodruff Arts Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Celebrate Diversity through the Arts The Zeist Foundation * Those that have contributed recently to the TDP Endowment Campaign

**Scholarships for Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra tuition are made possible through the Elinor Rosenberg Breman Fellowship.

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ASOsupport The volunteer organization of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 2008-2009 Board Kathleen (Suzy) Wasserman President Leslie Petter Advisor Judy Schmidt Parliamentarian Alison Mimms Secretary

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Liz Troy VP Membership Martha Perrow Decorators’ Show House & Gardens Chair Sylvia Davidson VP Youth Education Yetty Arp & Deede Stephenson ASA Fall Meeting

Belinda Massafra Nominating Chair April Conaway & Annie York Trujillo ASA Night at the Symphony Janis Eckert ASA Spring Luncheon Camille Kesler Newsletter Editor

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special contributors

BenefactorS Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Antinori Lisa & Joe Bankoff GOLD Jan & Gus Bennett Stephanie & Arthur Blank Chris & Merry Carlos Cynthia & Donald Carson Silver Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney Shannon & Phillip Cave Michelle & David Crosland Monica & John S. Mr. & Mrs. Jere A. Pearson, Sr. Bronze Drummond Ms. Joni Winston Adorno & Yoss Mary D. Gellerstedt Buckingham Portraits Bronze Frannie & Bill Graves Flat Creek Lodge Jesse & Azira G. Hill Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Gross King & Spalding LLP Gail & Loren Starr Veronique Krafft-Jones Magick Lantern Patty & Doug Reid & Baxter Jones Printpack, Inc. & Mr. & Mrs. Manuel The Gay & Erskine Hosts Kaloyannides Love Foundation Victoria & Howard Jeff Mango The Ranches at Belt Creek Palefsky Lawrence E. Mock, Jr. William & Judith Vogel The Yachts of Seabourn Susan Bell & Patrick Morris Media sponsor The Atlantan Cisco Neiman Marcus Siemens Energy & Automation Southern Company Sutherland Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Moseley Lynn & Galen Oelkers Margo Brinton & Eldon Park Leslie & Skip Petter Patty & Doug Reid Margaret & Bob Reiser Jay & Arthur Richardson John & Kyle Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Baker A. Smith Annie York Trujillo & Raul F. Trujillo Adair & Dick White Mary & Felker Ward

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The Woodruff Arts Center salutes the Patron Circle of Stars: Those who have given $15,000 or more to our Annual Corporate Campaign.

You helped us reach a record $8.7 Million Goal for 2007-2008. Thank You!

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Kaiser Permanente KPMG LLP, Partners & Employees The Sara Giles Moore Foundation ★★★★★★★★★★★ PricewaterhouseCoopers $400,000+ Partners & Employees Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. The Rich Foundation, Inc. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. The Wachovia Foundation, Inc.

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★★★★★★★★★ $200,000+ AT&T The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. SunTrust Foundations & Employees Florence C. & Harry L. English Memorial Fund Harriet McDaniel Marshall Trust Walter H. & Marjory M. Rich Memorial Fund ★★★★★★★★ $150,000+ Alston & Bird LLP Bank of America Ernst & Young, Partners & Employees Equifax Inc. & Employees Jones Day Foundation & Employees

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★★★★★★★ $100,000+ AirTran Airways R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation Holder Construction Company ING King & Spalding LLP The Marcus Foundation, Inc. The David, Helen & Marian Woodward Fund ★★★★★★ $75,000+ GE Energy Goldman Sachs & Co. The Home Depot Foundation Kimberly-Clark Corporation The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc. Macy’s Foundation Verizon ★★★★★ $50,000+ American International Group, Inc. Cisco Citi Foundation and Citi businesses of Primerica Citi Smith Barney CitiFinancial Corporate Investment Bank Coca-Cola Enterprises The Delta Airlines Foundation

★★★ $25,000+ Acuity Brands, Inc. Arcapita Balch & Bingham LLP BDO Seidman, LLP The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Woodruff Arts Center Alliance Theatre Company Atlanta Symphony Orchestra High Museum of Art Young Audiences Crawford & Company DLA Piper Duke Realty Corporation EARNEST Partners LLC General Motors Corporation Georgia Natural Gas Georgia-Pacific Corporation Harland Clarke C. Tycho & Marie Howle Foundation IBM Corporation IDI JPMorgan Private Bank Philip I. Kent Foundation LaFarge North America Thomas H. Lanier Foundation The Blanche Lipscomb Foundation McKinsey & Company, Inc. Morgan Stanley Norfolk Southern Foundation Powell Goldstein LLP Revenue Analytics, Inc. SCANA Energy Southwire Company Spectrum Brands Towers Perrin Gertrude & William C. Wardlaw Fund Yancey Bros. Co. ★★ $15,000+ Accenture ACE INA Foundation AFLAC Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Atlanta Life Financial Group Atlanta Marriott Marquis Julie & Jim Balloun Bank of North Georgia BB&T Corporation The Beaulieu Group, LLC Kenny Blank Boral Bricks Inc.

Bovis Lend Lease Bradford Branch The Brand Banking Company CB Richard Ellis Center Family Foundation Mrs. Bunny Center Mr. Charles Center Mr. & Mrs. Fred Halperin Ms. Charlene Berman Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin The Chatham Valley Foundation, Inc. Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Cleveland Electric Company Kimberly & David Hanna Charitable Fund Cousins Properties Incorporated Credit Suisse Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown Exposition Foundation, Inc. John & Mary Franklin Foundation, Inc. Ford & Harrison LLP Ford Motor Company Gas South, LLC Global Payments Inc. GMT Capital Corp.

The Howell Fund, Inc. Hunton & Williams Initial Contract Services J. Mack Robinson Interests Atlantic American Corporation Delta Insurance Group Gray Television Jamestown Properties Mr. and Mrs. Tom O. Jewell Weldon H. Johnson Family Foundation Jones Lang LaSalle David & Jennifer Kahn Family Foundation Sarah & Jim Kennedy Livingston Foundation, Inc.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Macy's Systems & Technology Manhattan Associates Gail and Bob O'Leary Paces Properties & the Cochran Family Fund Piedmont Charitable Foundation, Inc. Post Properties, Inc. Price Gilbert, Jr. Charitable Fund Printpack Inc./The Gay & Erskine Love Foundation David M. Ratcliffe Betsy & Bert Rayle Raymond James Financial, Inc. Regal Entertainment Group Russell Reynolds Associates Schiff Hardin LLP The Sembler Company Alex and Betty Smith Foundation, Inc. Spencer Stuart Karen & John Spiegel Superior Essex Inc. U.S. Security Associates, Inc. VIPGift Waste Management Charitable Foundation Watson Wyatt Worldwide John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods The Betty A. & James B. Williams Foundation Sue & Neil Williams Winter Construction Company Leonard & Carla Wood WATL/WXIA/Gannett Foundation The Woodruff Arts Center gratefully acknowledges the generocity of the Fulton County Arts Council. *As of August 1, 2008

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Encore, Encore!

By Karl Schnittke

Let the bravos begin now for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s seven-concert second season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in Alpharetta. Close to the Orchestra’s burgeoning North Georgia audience and an easy outing for the Symphony Hall faithful, the ASO’s new summer residence evolved into an imaginative hub of new traditions with its 2008 inaugural season.

(More on that after a snapshot of the new season. ) Robert Spano, the Orchestra, and guest vocalists — notably soprano Georgia Jarman, one of the stars of the ASO’s staging of La Bohème last summer — knock it out of the park opening night with excerpts from Orff’s Carmina Burana and Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Saturday, June 20. Maestro The ASO launches Spano will be season two at its New taking a 48-hour summer residence break from conducting “The Ring” in Seattle to be on hand for this opening night spectacular.

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Carmina Burana & Barber of Seville

There are all Mozart and Beethoven evenings and a rip-roaring Fourth of July. Assistant Conductor Mei-Ann Chen explores the mystique of space travel with Holst’s Planets (more dazzling than ever with high-definition footage of the planets, courtesy of NASA), Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra (immortalized in the Stanley Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey), and John Williams’s Star Wars suite.

Turner Classic Movies and its charmingly erudite host Robert Osborne collaborate with the ASO in “Rodgers & Hammerstein At The Movies,” a toast in film and music to the partnership that forever changed the face of Broadway and Hollywood musicals.

June 27

The August 15 finale features two breakout prodigies. The 16-year-old Venezuelan conductor Ilyich Rivas, in his major American orchestra and professional debut, will conduct Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. And, 22-year-old violinist Elena Urioste, junior and senior laureate of the prestigious Sphinx Competition for African-American and Latino student-musicians, will perform the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.

July 4

The ASO’s blueprint for its new venue included several new traditions that heighten the concert experience. Returning this season: July 11

• Top of the Lawn – ASO Insider Ken Meltzer’s informal chats with ASO musicians at 7 p.m. provide background and insight on concerts.

• Backstage LIVE – Concertgoers can text message questions for the artists, who will answer them live on the big screens during intermission.

July 25

• Theme Evenings – Adding to the joie de vivre ambiance are concert-specific picnic baskets (a South Pacific basket for Rodgers and Hammerstein, a Bavarian basket for Beethoven) and in-the-moment attire — lederhosen for Mozart, anyone?

Visit atlantasymphony.org for the complete Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre schedule, individual concert dates and details, and amenities. Or call 404.733.5000.

August 1

August 15

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Three sellout shows in April, including two by the Dave Matthews Band, opened the rock and pop side of the ASO’s new season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre. Coming up: Kenny Chesney on May 28, Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago on June 6, and Styx and REO Speedwagon on June 21, to name just a few. Visit vzwamp.com for further concert information and deltaclassicchastain.com for information on the new season at Delta Classic Chastain.

Karl Schnittke is publications editor for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

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