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Ethan Hill

Nick Arroyo

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features

the music

18 The Making of a DYNASTY

23 The concert’s program and notes

James Oliverio wrote DYNASTY: Double Timpani Concerto for Mark and Paul Yancich, who perform the world premiere at Symphony Hall.

44 A League of Her Own

Broadway Legend Patti LuPone Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda… and Does in a One-Woman SuperPOPS! show May 27-28.

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Welcome to May! I assumed responsibilities as president of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in May 2010, so this is something of an anniversary letter. Let me say, at the outset, how happy I am to be here. My family and I have been made to feel welcomed and loved and celebrated, and for that I am profoundly grateful.

From my first days in Atlanta — a place I have grown to love quickly — I challenged my colleagues to focus less on talking about what we do and to think more about the difference we make by doing those things.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents an exciting, well-balanced, 24-concert series each classical season. We invite world-renowned guest artists — Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Wynton Marsalis, Roberto Abbado, Jennifer Higdon, Dawn Upshaw and their peers — to share the stage with our own world-class, 27 Grammy Award-winning Orchestra. What difference does it make to the people of this community that we present memorable live performances of great art by great artists?

Our Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary, is the envy of choral music loving audiences across America and around the globe. Their artistry, which we will hear in two concert series this month alone, inspires us and transports us. What difference does it make to this community that we are home, to such a superb Chorus?

Through nationally respected initiatives like our Talent Development Program and the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, we nurture the talents of young musicians. We position them to reach beyond themselves, to hone their abilities and realize their dreams. Does that make a difference?

I’ve asked my colleagues to think about and to talk with me about the difference we make by the things we do, and now I’d like to ask you to do the same: What difference does the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra make in your life? How do you see our impact in this community?

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Thank you so much for supporting your Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

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leadership Atlanta Symphony Orchestra League 2010-2011 Board of Directors Officers Ben F. Johnson, III Chair Vice Chairs Clayton F. Jackson Finance Chair/ Treasurer

Meghan H. Magruder Jeff Mango Belinda Massafra * ASA President Penny McPhee

Stanley E. Romanstein, Ph.D. * Chilton Davis Varner Joni Winston Secretary

Directors Jim R. Abrahamson Pinney L. Allen Joseph R. Bankoff * Jason A. Bernstein Paul Blackney Janine Brown Donald P. Carson Ann W. Cramer Cari K. Dawson Richard A. Dorfman David Edmiston Gary P. Fayard Dr. Robert Franklin Paul Garcia Carol Green Gellerstedt Jim Henry

Tad Hutcheson Mrs. Roya Irvani Clayton F. Jackson D. Kirk Jamieson Ben F. Johnson, III Steve Koonin Carrie Kurlander Mike Lang Donna Lee Lucy Lee Karole F. Lloyd Meghan H. Magruder Jeff Mango Belinda Massafra * Darrell J. Mays Penny McPhee

Galen Oelkers Victoria Palefsky Leslie Z. Petter Suzanne Tucker Plybon Patricia Reid Martin Richenhagen John D. Rogers Stanley E. Romanstein, Ph.D.* Dennis Sadlowski Ms. Lynn Schinazi William Schultz Tom Sherwood John Sibley Hamilton Smith Lucinda B. Smith

Thurmond Smithgall Gail R. Starr Mary Rose Taylor Joseph M. Thompson Liz Troy Chilton Davis Varner S. Patrick Viguerie Rick Walker Thomas Wardell Mark Wasserman John B. White, Jr. Richard S. (Dick) White, Jr. Joni Winston Patrice Wright-Lewis Camille Yow

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

George Lanier Patricia Leake Mrs. William C. Lester Mrs. J. Erskine Love Carolyn C. McClatchey Bertil D. Nordin Joyce Schwob

Mrs. Charles A. Smithgall, Jr. W. Rhett Tanner G. Kimbrough Taylor Michael W. Trapp Edus Warren Adair R. White Neil Williams

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Robert M Spano music Director

usic Director Robert Spano, beginning his 10th season as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, is recognized internationally as one of the most imaginative conductors today. Since 2001, he has invigorated and expanded the Orchestra’s repertoire while elevating the ensemble to new levels of international prominence and acclaim.

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The Orchestra and audiences together explore a creative programming mix, recordings and visual enhancements, such as Theater of a Concert — the Orchestra’s continuing exploration of different formats, settings, and enhancements for the musical performance experience — and the first concert-staged performances of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic in November 2008. The Atlanta School of Composers reflects Mr. Spano and the Orchestra’s commitment to nurturing and championing music through multi-year partnerships, defining a new generation of American composers, including Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Theofanidis and Michael Gandolfi. Since the beginning of his tenure, Mr. Spano and the Orchestra have performed over 100 concerts featuring contemporary works (composed since 1950), including 13 Atlanta Symphony-commissioned world premieres and three additional world premieres.

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Mr. Spano has a discography with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra of nine recordings — six of which have been honored with Grammy® awards. He has led the Orchestra’s performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, as well as the Ravinia, Ojai and Savannah music festivals. He has led the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, San Francisco, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago and Philadelphia symphony orchestras, as well as Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, BBC Symphony and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In addition, he has conducted for Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, and the 2005 and 2009 Seattle Opera Ring cycles.

Mr. Spano was Musical America’s 2008 Conductor of the Year. In March 2010, Mr. Spano began a threeyear tenure as Emory University’s Distinguished Artist in Residence, for which he spends three weeks each year leading intensive seminars, lecturing, and presenting programs on science, math, philosophy, literature and musicology throughout the university’s campus.

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

David Coucheron Concertmaster The Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Peevy Chair*

William Pu Associate Concertmaster The Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair*

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SECOND VIOLIN

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Lachlan McBane Jessica Oudin Ardath Weck

BASS

Ralph Jones

CELLO

Principal The Marcia and John Donnell Chair  *

Christopher Rex

Gloria Jones

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Robert Cronin Associate Principal

Paul Brittan The Georgia Power Foundation Chair

Carl David Hall

michael Krajewski, Principal Pops Conductor Jere Flint, Staff Conductor; Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra The Zeist Foundation Chair * Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses, The Frannie and Bill Graves Chair PICCOLO

E-FLAT CLARINET

TRUMPET

PERCUSSION

Carl David Hall

Ted Gurch

Thomas Hooten

Thomas Sherwood

OBOE

BASS CLARINET

Elizabeth Koch

Alcides Rodriguez

Principal The Madeline and Howell Adams Chair*

Principal The Julie and Arthur Montgomery Chair*

Karin Bliznik

William Wilder

BASSOON

Associate Principal

Assistant Principal William A. Schwartz Chair*

rincipal P The George M. and Corrie Hoyt Brown Chair *

Yvonne Powers Peterson Associate Principal Ann Lillya † Patrick McFarland

Carl Nitchie Principal The Walter L. “Buz” Carr, III Chair

Elizabeth Burkhardt Associate Principal

Laura Najarian

Michael Myers Joseph Walthall TROMBONE

Colin Williams Principal The Wachovia Chair

Stephen Wilson

ENGLISH HORN

The Pricewaterhouse Coopers Chair

Patrick McFarland

Juan de Gomar

Associate Principal The Patsy and Jere Drummond Chair

CLARINET

CONTRABASSOON

George Curran Edmon Nicholson

Laura Ardan Principal The Robert Shaw Chair*

Juan de Gomar

Ted Gurch

HORN

BASS TROMBONE

Associate Principal

Brice Andrus

George Curran

William Rappaport

Principal The Sandra and John Glover Chair

TUBA

The Alcatel-Lucent Chair

Alcides Rodriguez

Susan Welty Associate Principal

Thomas Witte Richard Deane

Michael Moore Principal The Georgia-Pacific Chair

The UPS Community Service Chair

TIMPANI

Bruce Kenney

Principal The Walter H. Bunzl Chair*

Mark Yancich

William Wilder Assistant Principal

Charles Settle HARP

Elisabeth Remy Johnson Principal The Delta Air Lines Chair

KEYBOARD The Hugh and Jessie Hodgson Memorial Chair*

Peter Marshall † Beverly Gilbert † Sharon Berenson LIBRARY

Rebecca Beavers Principal

Steven Sherrill Assistant Principal Librarian

John Wildermuth Assistant Librarian *C hair named in perpetuity † Regularly engaged musician Players in string sections are listed alphabetically.

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The Making of a Dynasty “I am the luckiest guy in the world,” says Mark Yancich, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra principal timpanist since 1981. “I found a voice and followed it.”

A fourth-generation musician, he grew up in a musical household brimming with instruments and a world of sound. He took french horn lessons and tried out classical guitar before discovering in high school that “playing timpani sent a shiver up and down my spine.”

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James Oliverio (above, left) wrote DYNASTY: Double Timpani Concerto for Mark and Paul Yancich (above, right) who perform the world premiere at Symphony Hall, June 2/4

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A few years earlier, older brother Paul Yancich, principal timpanist of the Cleveland Orchestra, had had his own percussion epiphany. Their father taught french horn at the Eastman School of Music. “I saw someone at Eastman with a pair of drumsticks in his back pocket. And that was it,” remembers Paul, who got a practice pad and percussion lessons for his ninth birthday. “Then in high school the band director said ‘Can you tune these two notes?’ I could. Then he said, ‘So you’re going to play timpani.’”

“I’ve known James forever,” says Paul Yancich of the prolific composer who got a start composing a timpani piece for Paul’s senior recital at the Cleveland Institute. Oliverio’s works include the virtuosic Timpani Concerto No. 1 (The Olympian), which Paul premiered in 1990 with the Cleveland Orchestra. Mark later performed with the ASO and in the opening work for Atlanta’s Cultural Olympiad in 1996.

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Timpani soloists have a slim repertory. And for two timpanists, the list is not much beyond a piece by Philip Glass. “James, Mark and I had been talking about doing something together,” Paul says. The talking continued for a few years, with ideas for a double concerto emerging and winning a nod from Maestro Spano. Oliverio actually started to sketch and shape the work, which is in five movements, two summers ago, at the Yancich family summer home in Lake Placid, N.Y. And he has — studying, as did Mark later, with the revered Cloyd Duff at the Cleveland Institute of Music, as a member of the Atlanta Symphony from 1976 to 1981 and, since then, the Cleveland Orchestra.

“In my book, these two guys are the best timpanists in the world,” Oliverio says. “And the notion that they come from a musical family that dates way back was one of the paths to Dynasty. I wanted to honor that.”

As far as anyone knows, Mark and Paul Yancich own the universal title and territory of timpanist-brothers who are members of major orchestras. At least it is a pretty nifty rarity. But for them — and for the Atlanta audience — there is more rarified distinction to come next month when the two world-premiere DYNASTY: Double Timpani Concerto composed for them and the Orchestra by James Oliverio. Music Director Robert Spano will conduct the June 2 and 4 concerts at Atlanta Symphony Hall.

How to execute the piece? “My quest was for melodic and harmonic timpani writing,” Oliverio says. “And that has become the hallmark of this piece — melodic and harmonic structure that grows organically.

It was a challenge to feature two soloists, to allow both to shine equally. And, as with any composition, ideally I want to search out through sound vibration and take the listener to a different mental or psychological space where they want to stay or revisit.”

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Jere Flint, Conductor Chelsea Sharpe, Violin Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Les préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3 (1848) Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 14 (1940), First Movement I. Allegro

Chelsea Sharpe, Violin

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

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Chelsea Sharpe is one of two Concerto Competition winners this season.

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program Notes on the Program

By Ken Meltzer Les préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3 (1848) Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, Hungary, on October 22, 1811, and died in Bayreuth, Germany, on July 31, 1886. The first performance of Les préludes took place in Weimar, Germany, on February 28, 1854, with the composer conducting the Weimar Court Orchestra. Les préludes is scored for piccolo, three flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, snare drum, harp and strings. Approximate performance time is sixteen minutes.

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es préludes is the third of twelve Symphonic Poems written by Franz Liszt during the Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor’s tenure at the Weimar court (1848-1861). Liszt originally conceived of the work as an orchestral overture to a setting, for male chorus and piano, of Joseph Autran’s cycle of poems, Les quatre éléments. Liszt composed the overture during the years 1845-1848.

However, Liszt finally abandoned the Four Elements portion of the project, and concentrated upon revising his overture.

It was then that Liszt received inspiration — not from Autran’s verse — but from the epic poem, Les préludes, included in the 1823 collection, Nouvelles méditations poétiques,

by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869). Liszt completed the work he now entitled “Les préludes” in 1854, and conducted its premiere in Weimar on February 28. Les préludes enjoyed great popularity during the composer’s lifetime, and this thrilling symphonic poem continues to be one of Liszt’s most-performed orchestral works.

Liszt provided the following synopsis in the preface to the score of his Les préludes: What is our life but a series of Preludes to that unknown song, the first solemn note of which is sounded by Death? The enchanted dawn of every existence is heralded by Love, yet in whose destiny are not the first throbs of happiness interrupted by storms, whose violent blasts dissipate his fond illusions, consuming his altar with fatal fire? And where is it to be found the cruelly bruised soul, that having become the sport of one of these tempests, does not seek oblivion in the sweet quiet of rural life? Nevertheless, man seldom resigns himself to the beneficial calm that at first chained him to Nature’s bosom. No sooner does the trumpet sound the alarm, than he runs to the post of danger, be the war what it may, that summons him to its ranks. For there he will find again in the struggle complete self-realization and the full possession of his forces.

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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 14 (1940), First Movement Samuel Barber was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on March 9, 1910, and died in New York on January 23, 1981. The first performance of the Violin Concerto took place at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 7, 1941, with Albert Spalding as violin soloist and Eugene Ormandy conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra. In addition to the solo violin, the Concerto is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, snare drum, piano and strings. Approximate performance time of the first movement is ten minutes.

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he Concerto for Violin and Orchestra was the product of the first major commission for American composer Samuel Barber. The commission was from Samuel Fels, a wealthy American businessman who served on the board of trustees of Barber’s alma mater, the Curtis Institute of Music. Fels intended the Concerto to serve as a vehicle for his protégé, the young Odessa-born violinist Iso Briselli.

Fels offered the commission in the spring of 1939. That summer, while staying in Sils-Maria, Switzerland, Barber commenced work on the Concerto. In August of 1939, Barber traveled to Paris, where he intended to finish the Concerto by autumn. However, the imminent Nazi invasion of Poland forced Barber to change his plans. Barber returned to the United States, where he completed the Concerto the following year.

Differences arose between Barber and Iso Briselli over the Concerto, the nature of which is the subject of some debate. Iso Briselli did not play the premiere of the Barber Violin Concerto.

That honor went to the renowned American violinist, Albert Spalding. On February 7, 1941, Spalding, accompanied by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, gave the first performance at the Academy of Music.

The soaring lyricism of the first two movements, coupled with the virtuoso fireworks of the finale, have made the Barber Violin Concerto one of the American composer’s most popular works, for violinists and audiences alike.

This concert features the Concerto’s opening movement.

I. Allegro — The Concerto opens with the soloist’s immediate presentation of the lengthy and flowing principal theme. The jaunty second theme, introduced by the solo clarinet, has a decidedly Scottish flavor. A vivacious sequence for the soloist concludes the exposition portion of the opening movement. The development section begins in agitated fashion, but soon returns to the generally lyrical character of the Allegro. The tension mounts once again, leading to the orchestra’s fortissimo launch of the recapitulation. After a brief cadenza for the soloist, the opening movement concludes with hushed variants of the “Scottish” and opening themes.

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program The Promise of Living, from The Tender Land, Orchestral Suite (1958) Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 14, 1900, and died in North Tarrytown, New York, on December 2, 1990. The first performance of the Orchestral Suite from The Tender Land took place at Symphony Hall in Chicago, Illinois, on April 10, 1958, with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Orchestral Suite from The Tender Land is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, orchestra bells, ratchet, snare drum, slap stick, triangle, wood block, xylophone, harp, piano/celeste and strings. Approximate performance time is five minutes.

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aron Copland wrote his only full-length opera, The Tender Land, in response to a 1952 commission from the League of Composers, funded by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The libretto by Erik Johns (writing under the pseudonym “Horace Everett”), was inspired in part by the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with text by James Agee and photographs by Walker Evans.

The story of The Tender Land takes place in the 1930s, on a farm in the Midwest at harvest time. Laurie, about to graduate from high school, falls in love with Martin, a drifter who has come to the farm looking for work. The two plan to elope after Laurie’s graduation.

However, Martin has a change of heart, and runs off. When Laurie discovers that Martin has deserted her, she still decides to seek her independence, and leaves the farm.

The Tender Land received its premiere at the New York City Opera on April 1, 1954. Copland and Johns revised the work, and the final version premiered at Oberlin College on May 20, 1955.

Copland described the genesis of his Orchestral Suite from the opera: Soon after the original premiere in 1954, I arranged an orchestral suite from The Tender Land. It does not represent a digest of the dramatic action of the opera, but it proceeds from the second act to the first in a threemovement sequence… the last movement is the music of “The Promise of Living,” the vocal quintet from the end of Act I...When I conducted it with the BSO in Boston (10-11 April 1959) and then New York (21 November), the reviews were far better than they had been for the opera.

III. Finale; The Promise of Living

Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) (1924) Ottorino Respighi was born in Bologna, Italy, on July 9, 1879, and died in Rome, Italy, on April 18, 1936. The first performance of Pines of Rome took place at the Augusteo in Rome on December 14, 1924, with Bernardino Molinari conducting.

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Pines of Romeis scored for piccolo, three flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, four trombones, six buccine (a buccina is a curved Roman brass instrument — flicorni or flugelhorns may substitute for the buccine), timpani, harp, piano, celesta, organ, bass drum, cymbals, orchestra bells, ratchet, snare drum, tam tam, tambourine, triangle and strings. Approximate performance time is twenty-three minutes.

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n 1916, Italian composer Ottorino Respighi completed Fountains of Rome, the first of three tone poems that musically portray the sights, sounds and history of the noble city. The 1917 premiere of the work, led by Antonino Guarneri at the Augusteo in Rome, was not a success. However, when the legendary maestro Arturo Toscanini conducted Fountains of Rome in 1918 at a concert in Milan, the audience and critics responded enthusiastically. Respighi gratefully acknowledged to his publisher Ricordi: “In Toscanini’s hands everything takes on strength and color: he understands and brings out the composer’s innermost thoughts.”

The ultimate triumph of Fountains of Rome gave Respighi the confidence to compose the second work in his Roman Trilogy, Pines of Rome. (The third, Roman Festivals, premiered in 1929). The premiere of Pini di Roma took place at the Augusteo on December 14, 1924, under the baton of Bernardino Molinari. The composer’s widow, Elsa Respighi, recalled: The hall was packed, the atmosphere electric. At the end of the first part there were protests in the form of booing and hissing which subsided with the sudden pianissimo in the second section. The audience was gripped by the second and third parts, while frantic applause such as had never been heard before in the Augusteo drowned out the last bars of the poem.

The American premiere of Pines of Rome occurred on January 14, 1926, at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Toscanini, making his debut with the New York Philharmonic, was the conductor. The next day, Respighi conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in the same work.

The composer offered this commentary on his Pines of Rome: While in his preceding work, “The Fountains of Rome,” the composer sought to reproduce by means of tone an impression of nature, in “The Pines of Rome,” he uses nature as a point of departure, in order to recall memories and visions. The century-old trees which dominate so characteristically the Roman landscape become testimony for the principal events in Roman life.

Respighi, who studied in Russia with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was a gifted orchestrator.

His Pines of Rome is a magnificent showpiece, one that earned the admiration of Arturo Toscanini, and many of the great maestros who have followed. It certainly was a work that meant a great deal to the composer. According to Elsa Respighi:

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program I honestly believe it was one of the compositions in which (he) was most emotionally involved. During the last ten years of his life Respighi often conducted the work in concerts of his music all over the world and I watched with the keenest interest the same excited, enthusiastic response from the most different audiences.

In a preface to the score, Respighi described the four movements of the Pines of Rome (which are played without pause): I. The Pines of the Villa Borghese Children are at play in the pine groves of Villa Borghese; they dance round in circles, they play at soldiers, marching and fighting, they are wrought up by their own cries like swallows at evening, they come and go in swarms. Suddenly the scene changes, and II. The Pines Near a Catacomb we see the shades of the pine-trees fringing the entrance to a catacomb.

From the depth rises the sound of mournful psalmsinging, floating through the air like a solemn hymn, and gradually and mysteriously dispersing.

III. The Pines of the Janiculum A quiver runs through the air: the pine-trees of the Janiculum stand distinctly outlined in the clear light of a full moon. A nightingale is singing (Annotator’s note: Here, Respighi specifies that a recording of the nightingale’s song be used).

IV. The Pines of the Appian Way Misty dawn on the Appian Way: solitary pine-trees guarding the magic landscape; the muffled, ceaseless rhythm of unending footsteps. The poet has a fantastic vision of bygone glories: trumpets sound and, in the brilliance of the newly-risen sun, a consular army bursts forth toward the Sacred Way, mounting in triumph to the Capitol.

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jere flint, Conductor The Zeist Foundation Youth Orchestra Conductor Chair

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ntering his fourth decade with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Jere Flint continues to lead a busy triple life. As the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra staff conductor, he developed and conducts the popular Family Concert Series as well as Symphony Street concerts for young children and Concerts for Young People for elementary and Jere Flint middle school children. He often conducts on the SuperPops Series, and Classic Chastain with some of the nation’s top headliners, as well as other special concerts throughout the year. He is now in his third decade as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. He directs weekly Youth Orchestra rehearsals and three major concerts a year, as well as other concerts throughout the season. When not on the podium, he is a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra cello section. Mr. Flint earned his bachelor’s degree in music from Wittenberg University in Ohio, where he was assistant director of the school’s noted choir. At the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received his Master of Arts degree in music, he served as manager of the university’s opera company and music director for the School of Drama. He pursued further conducting studies at Yale University with Otto-Werner Mueller. A former conductor of the Atlanta-Emory Orchestra, Mr. Flint has also conducted at the Brevard Music Center, Sewanee Summer Music Center, Southeastern Music Center and several honors and all-state orchestras. He has served as conductor for a number of national touring companies of Broadway shows and Theater of the Stars productions.

atlanta symphony youth orchestra

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stablished in 1974, The Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra has a history like no other.

Born from a symphony orchestra that began as a youth orchestra itself, student education and training has always been paramount. Each year, over 300 student musicians ages 13-18 audition for the orchestra. Just over 100 students are selected and dedicate their time to weekly ensemble and sectional rehearsals. The Atlanta Youth Orchestra was founded in 1945 Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra by members of the Atlanta Music Club. The ensemble gradually grew to be the professional ASO; however, youth education has remained crucial to its mission. Nearly 30 years later, the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra was founded. Directed

by ASO Associate Conductor Michael Palmer, the first concert was held on December 21, 1974.

Since then, the youth orchestra has seen only two other conductors, Sung Kwak and Maestro Jere Flint. The Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra has gained national recognition as one of the best youth orchestras in the country. The only American youth orchestra ever to participate in an Olympic Games, the ASYO was a featured ensemble in the 1996 closing ceremonies. ASYO has also been featured on National Public Radio, WABE, and with the rock group Collective Soul.

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program 2010-2011 Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra Jere Flint, Music Director and Conductor The Zeist Foundation Youth Orchestra Conductor Chair A Division of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Spano, Music Director Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor Stanley Romanstein, Ph. D., President First Violin Chelsea Sharpe, Concertmaster Duluth HS Emily Brooks Lassiter HS Richard Duan Northview HS Kevin Fan Chamblee Charter HS Sheehan Hanrahan Alpharetta HS Emily Kaplan Paideia School Angela Kim Johns Creek HS Juyun Kim Centennial HS Alex Li Walton HS Megan Li Chattahoochee HS Tianyi Lu Northview HS Taishi Namura Pope HS Boyang Niu Northview HS Angelina Park Duluth HS Shuo Qian Northview HS Emily Reinhard Woodstock HS Thomas Sulkoske Woodstock HS George Tang Centennial HS Micah Wallen Home School Jennifer Warrilow Centennial HS Second Violin Do Young Kim, Principal Brookwood HS Daniel Allen Davidson Fine Arts School Jeffrey Bai Alpharetta HS Eileen Cheng Chattahoochee HS Claudia Cheung Pope HS Miki Hayashi Northview HS Olivia Holladay Walton HS Brandon Hou Gwinnett School of Math, Science & Technology

Joseph Jung Johns Creek HS Ivan Kang Chattahoochee HS Tae Hee Kim Alpharetta HS Tatsuya Kudo Walton HS Huijeong Lee Duluth HS Justin Lee River Trail MS Keanu Mitanga Atlanta International School Hana Oberst Walton HS James Pinder Home School Debbie Shim The Westminster Schools Yejin Shin Riverwatch MS Lihua Shu Parkview HS Viola Grace Laminack, Co-Principal Home School John Cooper, Co-Principal Norcross HS William Anderson New Creation Christian Academy Monica Caldwell Shiloh HS Arlyn Goodrich Parkview HS Andy Huang Northview HS Katherine Hur The Westminster Schools Haerin Im Walton HS Anna Jackson Collins Hill HS Jean Kang Northview HS Richard Lee Peachtree Ridge HS Larissa Mapua North Cobb HS Matthew O’Shaughnessy Milton HS

Cello Grace Sommer, Principal Home School Anna Bing Paideia School Alex Chumbley Riverwood International Charter School Andrew Cleveland Grady HS Joseph Fan Chamblee HS Haley Huang Kell HS Sam Lee Northview HS Myrtil Mitanga Atlanta International School Wick Simmons Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School Brian Song Henderson MS William Ulman Hillgrove HS Sam Viguerie Woodward Academy Bass Xavier Foley, Principal Pope HS Kathryn Evans Lassiter HS Jared Houseman Dacula HS Kiah Simmons Grady HS Geoffrey Solomon DeKalb School of the Arts Andrew Sommer Walton HS Dylan Stroud Pope HS Nick Twarog Brookwood HS Moe Winograd Johns Creek HS Flute Amy Caputo Grayson HS Hally Davidson Home School Catherine Rothery Allatoona HS Alexandra Smith The Westminster Schools

Oboe Olivia Bona Riverwood International Charter School Lauren Firestone Riverwood HS Wilson Harmon Union County HS Stephen Woolfitt Chamblee HS Clarinet Kevin Chiou Walton HS Scott Park Walton HS Shaquille Southwell Hillgrove HS Jeffrey Wang Northview HS Bassoon Sandra Bailey Home School Shelby Jones East Coweta HS Alex Pappas North Springs HS Haley Strauss Starr’s Mill HS Horn Hannah Choi Chamblee Charter HS Christopher Leitten Home School Alex Lind Lassiter HS Brooke Martin Habersham Central HS Amy Melton Whitewater HS Stephen Newberry Creekview HS Rachel Romero McEachern HS David Sidlow Lakeside HS Trumpet Scott Hickman Sequoyah HS Sean Lee Walton HS Ryan Reed Kell HS Austin Williams North Cobb HS

Trombone Kenton Campbell Grayson HS Sarah Manley McIntosh HS Zachary Whitney Davidson Fine Arts School Joseph Poole - bass Hillgrove HS Tuba Carter Mitchell Vestavia Hills HS (AL) David Nelson A.C. Reynolds HS (NC) Percussion Madeline Bates Kell HS Ryan Cash Lassiter HS Matthew Leitten Home School Nick Stevens Lassiter HS Harp Angelica Hairston Chamblee HS Tinsley Stokes North Atlanta HS Keyboard Grace Liu Dacula HS Librarians Emily Reinhard Grace Sommer

Players in each section are listed alphabetically.

The ASYO English horn was given

by Hawthorne Elementary School in memory of Mrs. Betty Crockett.

The ASYO bass clarinet is a bequest from Judy Ravan Thomas.

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chelsea sharpe, Violin

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helsea Sharpe has been playing the violin for 12 years and has been a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Talent Development Program since 2003. Chelsea has played with Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Buckhead Youth Orchestra and has been a 5-year member of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra where she is currently Concertmaster. Last winter, Chelsea was selected to be a member of the 2010 National Chelsea Sharpe High School Honors Orchestra and was a winner of the Ruth Kern Young Artist’s Concerto Competition as well as the High School Division winner of the Georgia College and State University Performance Competition for Strings.

More recently, Chelsea won first place in the Artisan division of the Georgia Philharmonic Concerto Competition.

Thanks to scholarships from the Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Foundation, the Buckhead Youth Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Azira G. Hill Scholarship fund, Chelsea has spent summers studying at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Brevard Music Center, Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Meadowmount School of Music.

Chelsea has performed in master classes for Paul Biss, Sally O’Reilly and renowned violinists Midori, Tai Murray and James Ehnes. In 2004, she was the subject of a joint Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Georgia Public Television (GPTV) documentary entitled “Instrumental Success” with her current teacher, ASO violinist Ronda Respess.

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support Appassionato

Meghan H. Magruder, 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.

$50,000+

Mrs. Anne Cox Chambers

The Reiman Foundation

$35,000+

Robert Spano

Susan & Thomas Wardell

Mark & Rebekah Wasserman

$25,000+ Madeline & Howell E. Adams, Jr. Susan & Richard Anderson Stephanie & Arthur Blank Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Currey, Jr. Marcia & John Donnell Catherine Warren Dukehart

Lucy R. & Gary Lee, Jr. Terence L. & Jeanne P. Neal* Victoria & Howard Palefsky Printpack Inc. & The Gay & Erskine Love Foundation Mrs. Charles A. Smithgall, Jr.

Mr. Thurmond Smithgall Mr. & Mrs. K. Morgan Varner, III Adair & Dick White Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr.* Sue & Neil Williams*

Mr. Donald F. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Garcia Charles & Mary Ginden Jim & Pam Henry InterContinental Hotels Group Clay & Jane Jackson Ann A. & Ben F. Johnson III Mr. & Mrs. James C. Kennedy Eydie & Steve Koonin Mr. & Mrs. Brian Kurlander Michael & Cindi Lang Donna Lee & Howard C. Ehni

Karole & John Lloyd Meghan & Clarke Magruder Jeff Mango-Verizon Wireless Mr. Kenneth & Dr. Carolyn Meltzer Mr. & Mrs. William T. Plybon Patty & Doug Reid Ms. Lynn Schinazi Gail & Loren Starr Irene & Howard Stein Alison M. & Joseph M. Thompson Ray & John Uttenhove Camille W. Yow

Carol & Larry Gellerstedt Mary D. Gellerstedt Nancy D. Gould Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Grathwohl The Graves Foundation Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Fund Joe Guthridge & David Ritter* Tom & Jan Hough Mr. Tad Hutcheson Roya & Bahman Irvani Robert J. Jones* Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley* Philip I. Kent Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Keough Amy & Mark Kistulinec Mr. & Mrs. John M. Law Massey Charitable Trust

Morgens West Foundation Lynn & Galen Oelkers Mr. & Mrs. Solon P. Patterson* Bob & Margaret Reiser Stanley & Shannon Romanstein Dennis & JoAnne Sadlowski Bill & Rachel Schultz Joyce & Henry Schwob Mr. John A. Sibley III John Sparrow Mary Rose Taylor Carol & Ramon Tome* The Michael W. Trapp Family Mike & Liz Troy Turner Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Edus H. Warren, Jr. Neal & Virginia Williams

$15,000+ AGCO Corporation, Martin Richenhagen Pinney L. Allen & Charles C. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun Mary Helen & Jim Dalton Mr. & Mrs. David Edmiston In memory of Polly Ellis by Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. Gary & Nancy Fayard* $10,000+ Anonymous (2) Ron & Susan Antinori Mark & Christine Armour The Balloun Family* Lisa & Joe Bankoff Barnes & Thornburg LLP Kelley O. & Neil H. Berman The John & Rosemary Brown Family Foundation The Walter & Frances Bunzl Foundation Cynthia & Donald Carson Shannon & Philip Cave Dr. John W. Cooledge Cari Katrice Dawson Eleanor & Charles Edmondson Rosi & Arnoldo Fiedotin

*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.

$5,000+ John & Helen Aderhold* Aadu & Kristi Allpere* Anonymous (3) Mr. David Boatwright Mrs. Suzanne Dansby Bollman & Mr. Brooks Bollman Breman Foundation Dr. Robert L. & Lucinda W. Bunnen Ann & Jeff Cramer* Triska Drake & G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Fackler Mr. David L. Forbes

Mr. James F. Fraser Betty Sands Fuller Sally & Carl Gable Dick & Ann Goodsell C. Tycho & Marie Howle Foundation The Jamieson Family Family of Thomas B. Koch James H. Landon George H. Lanier Pat & Nolan Leake Linda & John Matthews Penelope & Raymond McPhee* Brenda & Charles Moseley

Dr. & Mrs. Mark P. Pentecost, Jr. Margaret H. Petersen John & Kyle Rogers Hamilton & Mason Smith Lynne & Steven Steindel* Peter James Stelling Charlie Wade & M.J. Conboy Gertrude & William C. Wardlaw Fund, Inc. Russell Williamson & Shawn Pagliarini Suzanne Bunzl Wilner

Dr. & Mrs. James T. Laney* Mr. & Mrs. William C. Lester* Deborah & William Liss* Dr. & Mrs. James T. Lowman Gino & Belinda Massafra* Walter W. Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Rezin Pidgeon, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joel F. Reeves

S. A. Robinson Nancy & Henry Shuford Sandy & Paul Smith Mrs. C. Preston Stephens Burton Trimble T & H Yamashita*

Sally & Larry Davis Gregory & Debra Durden Ms. Diane Durgin Mr. & Mrs. Christopher S. Edmonds Ellen & Howard Feinsand John & Michelle Fuller Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Garland Peg Gary Dr. Mary G. George & Mr. Kenneth Molinelli Carol & Henry Grady Ben & Lynda Greer Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Gross Herbert & Marian Haley Foundation Mr. Lewis H. Hamner III Steven & Caroline Harless Sally W. Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hellriegel

Darlene K. Henson Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Hill, Jr. In Memory of Carolyn B. Hochman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Hollums Mr. & Mrs. Harry C. Howard Richard & Linda Hubert Dr. William M. Hudson Mr. & Mrs. William C. Humphreys, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. James M. Hund Dorothy Jackson Ms. Cynthia Jeness Mr. & Mrs. W. F. Johnston Dr. Maurice J. Jurkiewicz Hazel & Herb Karp Paul & Rosthema Kastin Mr. & Mrs. John H. Kauffman Mr. & Mrs. L. Michael Kelly Dick & Georgia Kimball*

$3,500+ Julie M. Altenbach Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Chorba Ms. Carol F. Comstock & Mr. James L. Davis* Jere & Patsy Drummond Dr. & Mrs. C.R. Harper JoAnn Hall Hunsinger $2,250+ Mr. & Mrs. Phillip E. Alvelda* Marian & Paul Anderson Anonymous Jack & Helga Beam Ms. Laura J. Bjorkholm & Mr. John C. Reece II Rita & Herschel Bloom Margo Brinton & Eldon Park Jacqueline A. & Joseph E. Brown, Jr. Maj. Gen. & Mrs. Robert Bunker Dr. Aubrey M. Bush & Dr. Carol T. Bush The Buss Family Charitable Fund Charles Campbell & Ann Grovenstein-Campbell Mrs. Thalia N. Carlos Mr. & Mrs. Beauchamp Carr Lucy & John Cook Robert Cronin & Christina Smith

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support $2,250+ (continued) Dr. Fulton D. Lewis III & Mr. Stephen Neal Rhoney Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Lutz* Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Mabry Ruth & Paul Marston The Devereaux F. & Dorothy McClatchey Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. McGhee Birgit & David McQueen Judy & Gregory Moore Ms. Lilot S. Moorman & Mr. Jeffrey B. Bradley Dr. & Mrs. R. Daniel Nable

Ms. Rebecca Oppenheimer Mr. & Mrs. Andreas Penninger Susan Perdew Mr. & Mrs. David M. Ratcliffe Realan Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Rodgers Mr. & Mrs. George P. Rodrigue Mrs. William A. Schwartz Elizabeth S. Sharp Angela & Morton Sherzer Dr. Kay R. Shirley Beverly & Milton Shlapak In memory of Willard Shull Helga Hazelrig Siegel Lewis Silverboard

Baker & Debby Smith Amy & Paul Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Raymond F. Stainback, Jr. John & Yee-Wan Stevens Mr. & Mrs. George B. Taylor, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mark Taylor Mr. William C. Voss Dr. & Mrs. James O. Wells, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Whitcup Ms. Mary Lou Wolff Jan & Beattie Wood Mr. & Mrs. John C. Yates The Zaban Foundation, Inc.

Representative Pat Gardner & Mr. Jerry Gardner Paul B., Paul H. & M. Harrison Hackett Carol & Thomas J. Hanner Thomas J. High Mr. Thomas Hooten Mary & Wayne James Aaron & Joyce Johnson Veronique & Baxter Jones Lana M. Jordan Mr. Thomas J. Jung Dr. Rose Mary Kolpatzki Mr. & Mrs. David E. Krischer Thomas C. Lawson Dr. Leslie Leigh Levenson Foundation Barbara & Jim MacGinnitie Mr. & Mrs. Craig P. MacKenzie Mr. & Mrs. James H. Matthews, Jr. Martha & Reynolds McClatchey Captain & Mrs. Charles M. McCleskey John F. & Marilyn M. McMullan Virginia K. McTague Angela & Jimmy Mitchell* Mrs. Gene Morse** Mr. & Mrs. Robert Olive Sanford & Barbara Orkin Dr. & Mrs. Keith D. Osborn Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Palay

Mr. & Mrs. Emory H. Palmer Leslie & Skip Petter Dr. & Mrs. Frank S. Pittman III The Reverend Neal P. Ponder, Jr. Provaré Technology Dr. & Mrs. W. Harrison Reeves, Sr. The Gary W. & Ruth M. Rollins Foundation John T. Ruff Dr. & Mrs. Rein Saral Alida & Stuart Silverman Sydney Simons Alex & Betty Smith Foundation, Inc. Johannah Smith Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Steagall Kay & Alex Summers Elvira Tate Mr. & Mrs. William M. Tipping Ms. Kimberly Tribble & Mr. Mark Lange Robert F. Tuve* Drs. Jonne & Paul Walter Drs. Julius & Nanette Wenger David & Martha West Mr. & Mrs. William White* Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr. Mrs. Frank L. Wilson, Jr. Dorothy & Charlie Yates Family Fund Grace & Herbert Zwerner

$1,750+ Anonymous (2) Mrs. Kay Adams* & Mr. Ralph Paulk Mr. & Mrs. John Allen Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Ambo Dr. David & Julie Bakken Betty & Robert Balentine Mr. & Mrs. Ron H. Bell Leon & Linda Borchers Mr.** & Mrs. Eric L. Brooker Dr. & Mrs. Anton J. Bueschen Mr. & Mrs. Russell E. Butner* Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Canipe In Memory of Dr. Richard A. Carroll, Sr. Susan & Carl Cofer Mr. & Mrs. R. Barksdale Collins* Ralph & Rita Connell Jean & Jerry Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Curling Mrs. H. Frances Davis Brant & Kathy Davis* Mr. & Mrs. Peter T. de Kok Drs. Carlos del Rio & Jeannette Guarner Elizabeth & John Donnelly Cree & Frazer Durrett Dr. Francine D. Dykes & Mr. Richard Delay Mary Frances Early Judge & Mrs. Jack Etheridge George T. & Alecia H. Ethridge

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

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Corporate Support $100,000+

Classical Title Sponsor Classic Chastain Title Sponsor Family and SuperPOPS Presenting Sponsor

Holiday Title Sponsor Muhtar Kent Chairman, Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer

Richard Anderson Chief Executive Officer

jerome j. byers, II Atlanta Regional President

Atlanta School of Composers Presenting Sponsor Philip I. Kent Chief Executive Officer

$50,000+ AGCO Corporation and Vendors AT&T The Real Yellow Pages GE Energy UPS

$35,000+ Georgia Natural Gas InterContinental Hotels Group Porsche Cars North America Publix Super Markets & Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc.

Delta Classic Chastain Presenting Sponsor

Supporter of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Ralph de la Vega President & CEO of Mobility and Consumer Markets

Jerry Karr Senior Managing Director GE Asset Management

$10,000+

$20,000+ Nalley Cars Ryder System, Inc. Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP SunTrust Foundation

AlixPartners, LLP Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta The Boston Consulting Group

Foundation and Government Support $250,000+ The Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation Wells Fargo The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

$100,000+ The Halle Foundation Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation The Vasser Woolley Foundation, Inc

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

$25,000+ Anne & Gordon Getty Foundation John H. & Wilhelmina D. Harland Charitable Foundation, Inc. Hellen Ingram Plummer Charitable Foundation The Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc. MetLife Foundation The Sara Giles Moore Foundation SunTrust Bank Trusteed Foundation- Walter H. and Marjory M. Rich Memorial Fund

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

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$10,000+

Special Gifts

The Aaron Copland Fund The ASCAP Foundation For Music, Inc. Irving Caesar Fund The Arnold Foundation, Inc. The Blonder Family Foundation, Inc. Livingston Foundation, Inc. $5,000+ Reiman Charitable The Fraser-Parker Foundation Foundation Robert S. Elster Foundation William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund JBS Foundation William McDaniel The Sartain Lanier Charitable Foundation Family Foundation

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.

support Henry Sopkin Circle 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 Kenneth P. Dutter 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 Miss Alice Ann Hamilton* John and Martha Head 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 Calvert Johnson 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* Dr. Michael S. McGarry 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 The Reiman Foundation 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 Margaret* & Randolph Thrower Kenneth & Kathleen Tice Steven R. Tunnell Mary E. Van Valkenburgh Mrs. Anise C. Wallace* Mr. & Mrs. John B. White, Jr. Adair and Dick White Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr. Sue & Neil Williams Mrs. Frank L. Wilson, Jr. Elin M. Winn* George & Camille Wright Mr.* & Mrs. Charles R. Yates Anonymous (12)

*Deceased

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“James knows what to do idiomatically with the kettles,” Mark says of the composer’s technique. “I think the audience will be able to hear some really good music that happens to be for timpanists. They should sit back and enjoy the sound of what a timpani can do. And have fun watching us — up front for a change.”

Timpani — also called kettledrums, after their appearance — have been part of the orchestral family since the Baroque era. While timpani are among the few percussion instruments that have definite pitch, each kettle has a limited range of less than an octave. Scores call for various numbers of drums, usually in pairs with complementary tunings, up to about five for one player. Foot pedals allow the player to change pitches. “And then there are stick choices for articulation or mellowness [or other sound qualities],” Mark explains, “often not indicated by the composer [Oliverio excepted, of course]. So it becomes the artistic choice of the player or conductor. Some schools of thought say just a few pair are enough; some have a palette of dozens of pairs.

Paul and I are in the middle. Usually we use about eight pairs of sticks, ranging from the hardest to softest.”

Still, Paul points out physical limitations: “With a violin you have a huge range at your fingergtips, while we change the notes with our feet. A pianist uses 10fingers, while we play with two sticks. Our instruments are slow mechanically and big to get around.”

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“ I want to…take the listener to a different mental or psychological space…”

— James Oliverio foot pedal. The two soloists have to share certain notes of a melody.”

Composer and soloists have had a few in-progress sessions to rehearse together and exchange ideas. “Paul will be driving his instruments to Atlanta for the premiere,” says Mark, who will return the favor when the brothers perform DYNASTY with the Cleveland Orchestra in September at the Blossom Music Festival. The score calls for each player to use five drums. “Mr. Spano heard us read through initial sketches and gave us some input. And James has incorporated some things that Paul and I asked for.” One being the use of two harps.

“He had the solo timpani with harp in his first concerto, and we thought it was really neat. Writing for two timpanists is extremely challenging territory. It’s tricky. It passes back and forth. James has ingeniously combined two players’ parts to sound as one.”

“I think once the piece starts, until the last note, people will think, ‘Wow,’” says Paul.“We happen to be musicians who play timpani. We are hoping this opens up a new appreciation for what timpanists do in general.”

Mark adds, “And playing with my brother — it doesn’t get any better than this!”

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By 1973 she’d made her Broadway debut playing Irina in Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, and two years later she received her first Tony Award nomination — Best Featured Actress in a Musical — for her role as Rosamund in The Robber Bridegroom.

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A Broadway veteran with nearly 40 years of experience; two Tony Awards (for 1979’s Evita and 2008’s Gypsy revival); and numerous Tony, Laurence Olivier and Drama Desk award nominations under her belt, LuPone remains one of musical theater’s most celebrated talents. And though she may venture into TV (“LBJ: The Early Years,” “Oz,” “30 Rock”) and film (City By The Sea, State and Main, Driving Miss Daisy) from time to time, her solo show Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda proves that the Long Island native remains most at home on the stage.

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LuPone’s latest solo show, Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, offers Broadway’s greatest diva since Ethel Merman a chance to perform songs from musicals in which she could’ve played, would’ve played, did play or will play, including beloved favorites from Evita and Gypsy. The set list is filled with songs from classic musicals such as Hair; Bye, Bye Birdie; Funny Girl; West Side Story; and Peter Pan, all of them born anew thanks to LuPone’s depth of emotion, dramatic gestures and signature knack for the dynamic knockout punch.

While the Great White Way may be floundering, searching for new ways to “turn off the dark,” Patti LuPone reveals herself to be in peak form as Broadway’s reigning Grande Dame. And if Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda is any indication, she has no intention of relinquishing that crown anytime soon.

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2 VOILÀ! Partnering with WXIA-TV and its Random Acts of Kindness program, the Orchestra welcomed Miranda Cantrell, a local student and violinist, to Atlanta Symphony Hall for an open rehearsal, a “meet-andgreet” with Robert Spano, and a lesson from Concertmaster David Coucheron.

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