Encore Atlanta October 2009 ASO

ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ROBERT SPANO, MUSIC DIRECTOR

DONALD RUNNICLES, PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR

OCTOBER 2009

Where Great Music Thrives

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features

the music

14 Marvels & Milestones

19 The concert’s program and notes

Star power and five world premieres — the ASO’s most ever — marks the 65th-anniversary season.

44 Points of View

Associate Principal Second Violinist Sou-Chun Su gives his.

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elcome to a new season of dazzling music making. The year ahead bubbles with the musical excellence and originality of the Orchestra and Music Director Robert Spano that all of you have come to expect from the Atlanta Symphony.

This year we celebrate a landmark 65 seasons of music, creativity and legacy. It is a landmark that all of us can be proud of and inspired by, especially because it reminds us that without the dedication and support of you, our loyal patrons, donors, subscribers and ASO enthusiasts, none of this would be possible.

You are truly co-architects in building the Orchestra’s everrising reputation as a leader in the innovative programming and performance vividly realized in the 2009-2010 season, both here at Symphony Hall and in prestigious invitations for Maestro Spano and the Orchestra to return in November to Carnegie Hall and for Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles and the Chorus to perform this December in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic.

Robert toasts our 65th anniversary with five world-premiere collaborations, featuring Yo-Yo Ma in a concerto written for him

by Angel Lam; Wynton Marsalis’s first symphonic composition; highly charged works by Atlanta native Jennifer Higdon and Michael Gandolfi, prized members of our Atlanta School of Composers; and in October, pianist Dejan Lazic’s transcription of a Brahms classic, and the Theater of a Concert semistaging of Stravinsky’s glorious opera The Nightingale.

And, of course, there’s more. The SuperPops season begins with a bang as conductor Michael Krajewski proves “Broadway Rocks.” The Family Series, led by staff conductor Jere Flint, begins with the always popular and spooky Halloween concert. December is filled with the beautiful and joyous music of the season in all its forms.

So much to celebrate, so much to enjoy. I have only one request: Share the excitement and bring a friend the next time you come to Symphony Hall!

Yours in Music,

Allison Vulgamore President and Chief Executive Officer Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

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The Bailey Performance Center

at the Kennesaw State University School of Music announces the 2009-10 Premiere Series.

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Simone Dinnerstein, piano JA N UA RY 2 3 , 2 0 1 0

Cantus MARCH 13, 2010

The Lionel Loueke Trio APRIL 10, 2010

Alisa Weilerstein, cello with Lera Auerbach, piano

For tickets, please call (770) 423-6650.

Visit us on the web at baileycenter.kennesaw.edu.

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SCHOOL OF MUSIC

These performances are supported in part by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Georgia Council for the Arts.

Kennesaw State University, a unit of the University System of Georgia, is an equal opportunity educational institution which does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, religion, national origin or disability.

ASOleadership atlanta Symphony Orchestra League 2009-2010 Board of Directors Officers Ben F. Johnson, III Chairman Clayton F. Jackson Treasurer

Jeff Mango Penny McPhee

Chilton Davis Varner Allison Vulgamore*

Kathleen (Suzy) Wasserman ASA President* Joni Winston Secretary

Tycho Howle Tad Hutcheson Mrs. Roya Irvani Clayton F. Jackson Ben F. Johnson, III Marsha Sampson Johnson Mark Kistulinec Michael Lang Donna A. Lee Lucy Lee Patrice Wright-Lewis Meghan H. Magruder Jeff Mango Darrell J. Mays JoAnn McClinton

Penelope McPhee Giorgio Medici Charles Moseley Galen Oelkers Victoria Palefsky Leslie Z. Petter Patricia Reid Margaret Conant Reiser Martin Richenhagen John D. Rogers Dennis Sadlowski William Schultz Tom Sherwood John Sibley Hamilton Smith Thurmond Smithgall

Gail R. Starr Mary Rose Taylor Liz Troy Ray Uttenhove Chilton Davis Varner Allison Vulgamore* Rick Walker Mark Wasserman Kathleen (Suzy) Wasserman* John B. White, Jr. Richard S. (Dick) White, Jr. Joni Winston Camille Yow

George Lanier Patricia Leake Mrs. William C. Lester Mrs. J. Erskine Love Carolyn C. McClatchey Bertil D. Nordin Dell P. Rearden Joyce Schwob Mrs. Charles A.

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

Directors Pinney L. Allen Joseph R. Bankoff * Jason A. Bernstein Paul Blackney C. Merrell Calhoun Donald P. Carson Philip Cave Ann W. Cramer Christopher Crommett Cari K. Dawson Richard A. Dorfman Carla Fackler Gary P. Fayard Dr. Robert Franklin Willem-Jan O. Hattink Jim Henry

Board of counselors Howell E. Adams, Jr. Mrs. John Aderhold Robert M. Balentine Elinor Breman Dr. John W. Cooledge Bradley Currey, Jr. John Donnell Jere Drummond Arnoldo Fiedotin

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

* ex officio

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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 — the 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 returned for the cycle in August 2009. With a discography of 12 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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atlanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Spano, Music Director, The Robert Reid Topping Chair * Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor, The Neil and Sue Williams Chair *

FIRST VIOLIN VIOLA William Pu Reid Harris Associate/Acting Concertmaster Principal

BASS Ralph Jones

The Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair*

The Edus H. and Harriet H. Warren Chair*

Principal The Marcia and John Donnell Chair *

Justin Bruns

Paul Murphy

Gloria Jones

Assistant Concertmaster The Mary and Cherry Emerson Chair

Jun-Ching Lin

Assistant Concertmaster

Carolyn Toll Hancock

The AGL Resources Chair

Martha Reaves Head John Meisner Alice Anderson Oglesby Lorentz Ottzen Christopher Pulgram Carol Ramirez Juan Ramirez Olga Shpitko Denise Berginson Smith Kenn Wagner Lisa Wiedman Yancich SECOND VIOLIN David Arenz

Principal The Atlanta Symphony Associates Chair*

Sou-Chun Su

Associate Principal The Frances Cheney Boggs Chair*

Jay Christy

Assistant Principal

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

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Associate Principal The Mary and Lawrence Gellerstedt Chair *

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

Associate Principal

Jane Little

Assistant Principal Emeritus

Joseph Conyers• Michael Kenady Michael Kurth Douglas Sommer Thomas Thoreson

FLUTE Christina Smith

Principal The Jill Hertz Chair *

Robert Cronin

Associate Principal

Paul Brittan

The Georgia Power Foundation Chair

Carl David Hall PICCOLO Carl David Hall OBOE Elizabeth Koch

Principal The George M. and Corrie Hoyt Brown Chair *

CELLO Christopher Rex

Yvonne Powers Peterson Associate Principal Deborah Workman Patrick McFarland

Daniel Laufer

ENGLISH HORN Patrick McFarland

Principal The Miriam and John Conant Chair* Associate Principal The Livingston Foundation Chair

Karen Freer

Assistant Principal

Dona Vellek Klein

Assistant Principal Emeritus

Joel Dallow Jere Flint Larry LeMaster Brad Ritchie Paul Warner

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

CLARINET Laura Ardan

Principal The Robert Shaw Chair*

HORN Brice Andrus

Ted Gurch

Principal The Sandra and John Glover Chair

William Rappaport

Associate Principal

Associate Principal

Susan Welty

Alcides Rodriguez

Thomas Witte Richard Deane

E-FLAT CLARINET Ted Gurch

Bruce Kenney

The Lucent Technologies Chair

BASS CLARINET Alcides Rodriguez BASSOON Carl Nitchie

The UPS Community Service Chair

TRUMPET Thomas Hooten

Principal The Madeline and Howell Adams Chair*

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

Kevin Lyons

Elizabeth Burkhardt

The SunTrust Bank Chair

Associate Principal

Laura Najarian

The Pricewaterhouse ­Coopers Chair

Juan de Gomar CONTRABASSOON Juan de Gomar

TIMPANI Mark Yancich

Principal The Walter H. Bunzl Chair*

William Wilder

Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION Thomas Sherwood Principal The Julie and Arthur Montgomery Chair*

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

John Wildermuth

Associate Principal

Joseph Walthall

Michael Tiscione TROMBONE Colin Williams

Principal The First Union Chair

Stephen Wilson

Associate Principal The Patsy and Jere Drummond Chair

Bill Thomas George Curran BASS TROMBONE George Curran TUBA Michael Moore

Principal The Georgia-Pacific Chair * Chair named in perpetuity • New this season **Leave of absence † Regularly engaged musician Players in string sections are listed alphabetically.

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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 and Friday, October 15 and 16, 2009, at 8 p.m.

Robert Spano, Conductor James Alexander, Stage Director Yo-Yo Ma, Cello Angel Lam, Narrator Celena Shafer, Soprano (The Nightingale) Jessica Rivera, Soprano (The Cook) Vinson cole, Tenor (The Fisherman) Denis Sedov, Bass (The Chamberlain) Jason Grant, Bass (The Bonze) Kostas Smoriginas, Baritone (The Emperor) Irina Tchistjakova, Mezzo-Soprano (Death) Sean Mayer, tenor (Japanese Envoy) Stephen Ozcomert, bass (Japanese Envoy) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses

Angel Lam

Awakening from a Disappearing Garden (2009) I. II.

Yo-Yo Ma, Cello

Angel Lam, Narrator

World Premiere, Commissioned by Carnegie Hall Through the

Generosity of Henry R. Kravis in Honor of his Wife Marie-Josée.

INTERMISSION

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) (1914) Act I: The Forest at Dawn Act II: The Porcelain Palace of the Emperor of China Act III: The Emperor’s Bedchamber

Performed in Russian, with English surtitles English translation by Robert Craft, © 1956 by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner.

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

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

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra sponsors

is proud to sponsor the Delta Classical Series of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

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

After almost 80 years, Delta’s community spirit worldwide continues to be a cornerstone of our organization. As a force for global good, our mission is to continuously create value through an inclusive culture by leveraging partnerships and serving communities where we live and work. It includes not only valuing individual differences of race, religion, gender, nationality and lifestyle, but also managing and valuing the diversity of work teams, intracompany teams and business partnerships.

Delta is an active, giving corporate citizen in the communities it serves. Delta’s community engagement efforts are driven by our desire to build long-term partnerships in a way that enables nonprofits to utilize many aspects of Delta's currency – our employees time and talent, our free and discounted air travel, as well as our surplus donations.

Together, we believe we can take our worldwide communities to new heights!

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

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

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

This performance is being recorded for broadcast at a later time.

ASO concert broadcasts are heard each week on Atlanta’s WABE FM-90.1 and Georgia Public Broadcasting’s statewide network.

The ASO records for Telarc. Other ASO recordings are available on the Argo, Deutsche Grammophon, New World, Nonesuch, Philips and Sony Classical labels.

Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta is the preferred hotel of the ASO. Trucks provided by Ryder Truck Rental Inc. Media sponsors: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB 750 AM.

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ASOprogram Notes on the Program

By Ken Meltzer Awakening from a Disappearing Garden (2009) These are the world premiere performances of Awakening from a Disappearing Garden.

Awakening from a Disappearing Garden is scored for solo cello, narration, piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, two trombones, tuba, timpani, crotales, finger cymbal, tubular bells, triangle, bass drum, wind chimes, Indian hand bells, woodblocks, Chinese opera gongs (large and small), hi-hat, glockenspiel, temple bowls, tuned gongs, tam-tam, gamelan gong, triangle, bass drum, thunder sheet, marimba, Chinese drums (large and medium), vibraphone, piano/celesta, harp and strings.

Approximate performance time is thirty-two minutes.

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omposer Angel Lam’s music, a reflection of the beauty she finds in everyday life, has been praised as “beautiful, even ravishing at moments,” and “(a) kaleidoscopic outpouring.” Miss Lam’s music features a remarkable and captivating blend of the subtle and evocative expressiveness of East Asian aesthetics and femininity. She uses the beauty of soundscape, instrumentation and language to express refined emotions and images that inspire her works. Angel Lam also writes her own short stories that form an integral component of her music.

Miss Lam grew up in Hong Kong and Huntington Beach, California. During her undergraduate studies at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, she researched in ancient Chinese aesthetics and Asian aesthetics in contemporary Western music. She also received numerous awards and scholarships to attend music festivals internationally, and to study the fine arts and architectures of European cities. She was born in Hong Kong in August of 1978.

Miss Lam received two Masters degrees in composition and music theory at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. There, Miss Lam taught music theory to the Peabody undergraduates and designed three courses for the Johns Hopkins University undergraduates.

She is currently a doctoral candidate at Peabody, and an artist diploma candidate at Yale University. Her mentors are Martin Bresnick, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Atlanta School composer Christopher Theofanidis.

Angel Lam’s compositions have been performed throughout the United States and in many major cities around the world. She was twice commissioned by Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshops. The first time was in 2005-06, when she collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, and the second was in 2006-07, when she worked with Grammy Award-winning composer, Osvaldo Golijov, and soprano Dawn Upshaw. These collaborations culminated in two Carnegie Hall premieres of her work in 2006 and 2007.

Most recently, her composition Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain was selected to be part of the touring repertoire of Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, for performances in the United States, Britain, Canada, China, Japan and Switzerland’s Lucerne Festival. Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain was Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 21

released by Sony/BMG on Silk Road Ensemble’s CD New Impossibilities*, and will be released again in a brand new recording on their newest CD, Off the Map, during the fall of 2009.

Recent and upcoming premieres and performances include works for Minnesota Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Yale Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Yale Cellos, Hong Kong Arts Festival 2010, NYU Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Australia’s Grainger Quartet. *exclusively sold at Barnes and Nobles (The above is derived from the composer’s web site, which may be found at: http://angellam.com.)

Angel Lam’s Awakening from a Disappearing Garden, for solo cello and orchestra with narration, “was commissioned by Carnegie Hall through the generosity of Henry R. Kravis in honor of his wife Marie-Josée.” These are the world premiere performances. The artists will present the Carnegie Hall premiere on November 7, 2009.

Below are the narrator’s text, authored and narrated by the composer, and Miss Lam’s commentary on the work.

Awakening from a Disappearing Garden

by Angel Lam For solo cello and orchestra with narration Chapter I I took a taxi. It wouldn’t take long to reach this luxurious mansion where I had been invited for a party. A calendar on the dashboard showed in bright red letters, May 10th, 1953. I asked the driver to circle the block again, spending more time, and then had him drop me off a block away. I left the taxi and walked some distance so that no one would see me coming by taxi, and not by limousine.

Everything was so familiar, the high ceiling, the solid red, nine-foot wide main entrance, the flowery furnished corridor ... I had once lived in such a mansion.

The left side of the entrance lobby framed a full body mirror, where I spent some time smoothing my clothing — pushing up my shape, as well as my spirit.

There, I saw my beautiful face ... well-combed, short curled hair, fashion of the 40’s, last century. I patted my face hard and bit my lips, to highlight my color, and hide my age ...

The light of this modest city had humbled my royal-green robe, dragging me down as well. I said to myself, this is no fairy tale, but the trading ground of the upper class, where everybody is watched and calculated. When a distant bell droned nine times, the party began. I stood tall, and walked proud into the main hall.

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ASOprogram The host, a middle-aged woman, greeted me with a mechanical smile, calling my name, Lao Wu. (Number Five ...?)

Then, a man in his early fifties waved his hands at me, and my heartbeat hastened.

What’s next?

Should I walk over to greet him? Or wait for him to approach me?

This is when I awake, every time, the same moment, the same dream.

Who am I? Or, who was I, in dreams.

Chapter II September 9th, 2007 I was not in a hurry, but the taxi driver was. He drove madly through the capital streets, making sharp turns again and again until finally stopping abruptly in front of a glowing grand building. The rainbow neon signs stood ten stories tall.

They shone onto the dark surroundings, sucking in the nearby street lights.

The rapid rolling of colorful lights seized my soul immediately. Time and space seemed to pull backwards, hundreds of years ...

Music of old Shanghai whispered through the redwood framed Manchurian glass door. Two lines of tall, well-dressed women on both sides of the hallway uniformly shouted “Welcome!”

I grasped my father’s coat sleeve very tightly. I had a special feeling, if I were to lose him, he would change into a pig. We sat in a corner of this heavenly furnished place. Customers walked around with their hot tempers and crippled spirits. Everyone served meticulously; no mistakes would be allowed.

This was a luxurious nightclub. My father could not afford this place. I felt like a guest of the Emperor.

I spent the whole night talking to a girl who called herself Number Five. She came from a neighboring rural district, seeking her dreams. She taught me a song from an opera: Last night, we talked of dreams. This morning, I found that spring had gone by. A butterfly, shrunken on my writing desk, the swallows were gone along with the blooming flowers at the window. Why, autumn comes in such a hurry, we have not yet seen summer?

The nightclub closed late. When I pushed my father into a waiting taxi outside the building, he was drunk. The neon signs were off and the neighborhood drowned in darkness. A full autumn moon ruled over the sky, and gave the city an outline of silvery blue, like a territory of ghosts and spirits. A gust of wind

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animated some old newspapers and other rubbish to twist like a tornado, rolling high like an angry dragon. Was it a messenger from the Emperor?

I looked back.

I looked back over my shoulder, and saw Number Five. She was still standing there, under the neon blue moon shadow, waving her hand at me from a distance. She was so beautiful in her royal green Mandarin dress, somewhat unreal, like an ancient Chinese painting.

Suddenly, I felt released. She was tough, so tough that she could overcome another revolution.

This is a story about two women, two different generations, two different eras, in a society that had turned our nature upside down and then upside down again ...

Never changing is the spirit and face, to live, and to survive. It is all well preserved, in the memories, of our previous lives.

Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) (1914) Igor Stravinsky was born in Lomonosov, Russia, on June 17, 1882, and died in New York on April 6, 1971. The first performance of The Nightingale took place at the Opéra in Paris, France, on May 26, 1914, with Pierre Monteux, conducting. The Nightingale is scored for two soprano, alto, two tenor, baritone, and three bass soloists, mixed chorus, piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, three clarinets, bass clarinet, three bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, snare drum, triangle, bass drum, ancient cymbals, orchestral bells, tambourine, tam-tam, piano, celesta, two harps, guitar, mandolin and strings. Approximate performance time is forty-five minutes.

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“He is man on the eve of celebrity”

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gor Stravinsky’s opera, The Nightingale, is based upon a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Stravinsky and his friend, Stepan Mitoussov, authored the libretto. When Stravinsky began work on The Nightingale, he was in the final years of study with his mentor, Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. According to Stravinsky, The Nightingale “was greatly encouraged by my master, and to this day I remember with pleasure his approval of the preliminary sketches … It grieves me that he was never to hear them in their finished form, for I think he would have liked them.”

Rimsky-Korsakov’s death in June of 1908 halted Stravinsky’s progress on The Nightingale. In the summer of the following year, Stravinsky returned to the opera, “with the firm intention of finishing it.” But once again, fate intervened. The Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev

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ASOprogram requested Stravinsky, to compose a work for the Ballets Russes’ 1910 spring season in Paris.

After some hesitation, Stravinsky agreed to the project, a ballet based upon the Russian folk legend of the Firebird.

During one of the rehearsals for The Firebird, Diaghilev pointed to Stravinsky, and said to ballerina Tamara Karsavina: “Mark him well. He is a man on the eve of celebrity.” On June 25, 1910, at the Paris Opéra, the Ballets Russes staged the triumphant premiere of Stravinsky’s The Firebird (ASO concerts of April 1 and 3, 2010). Stravinsky’s life and career were forever changed.

Two more Stravinsky ballets for Diaghilev’s company followed: Petrushka (1911) (ASO concerts of March 11, 12 and 13, 2010) and the path-breaking The Rite of Spring (1913) (January 28, 29 and 30, 2010).

Completing The Nightingale After The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky returned to The Nightingale, first at the invitation of the Théâtre Libre of Moscow. Stravinsky had some misgivings about resuming work on his opera: “Only the Prologue — that is to say, Act I — was in existence. It had been written four years earlier, and my musical language had been appreciably modified since then.”

Indeed, the three-year journey from The Firebird to The Rite of Spring was a remarkable one.

The immense popularity of the lush, romantic Firebird prompted Stravinsky later to dub it “that great audience lollipop.” By contrast, French conductor Pierre Monteux, who led the premieres of Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, confessed that when he heard first the latter composition, he “did not understand one note of Le sacre du printemps. My one desire was to flee that room and find a quiet corner in which to rest my aching head.” The May 29, 1913 premiere at the Paris Opéra of The Rite of Spring inspired the most infamous audience riot in music history.

Nevertheless, Stravinsky realized that the change in his composition style might actually prove of benefit in completing The Nightingale: As there is no action until the second act, I told myself that it would not be unreasonable if the music of the Prologue bore a somewhat different character from that of the rest. And, indeed, the forest, with its nightingale, the pure soul of the child who falls in love with its song … all this gentle poetry of Hans Andersen’s could not be expressed in the same way as the baroque luxury of the Chinese Court, with its bizarre etiquette, its palace fetes, its thousands of little bells and lanterns, and the grotesque humming of the mechanical Japanese nightingale … in short, all this exotic fantasy obviously demanded a different musical idiom.

Stravinsky completed the score of The Nightingale on March 28, 1914. Prior to that time, the Théâtre Libre suffered a financial collapse. And so, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes presented the world premiere at the Paris Opéra on May 26, 1914. With “sumptuous scenery and costumes”

by Alexandre Benois and Monteux’s expert musical direction “the opera was (according to Stravinsky) performed with the utmost perfection.”

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The Story of The Nightingale The Nightingale is in three brief acts. The first act takes place in a forest by the sea, at dawn.

A Fisherman sings, awaiting the arrival of the Nightingale. The Nightingale appears, and enchants the Fisherman with its beautiful song. Members of the court of the Emperor of China, led by the Cook, enter the forest in search of the Nightingale. The courtiers mistake the mooing of a cow and the croaking of frogs for the song of the Nightingale. The courtiers finally discover the Nightingale, and invite it to go with them to the palace to sing for the Emperor. The act closes with a reprise of the Fisherman’s song.

The second act takes place in the Emperor’s palace. Everyone awaits the appearance of the Nightingale. A march signals the entrance of the Emperor of China. At the Emperor’s command, the Nightingale begins to sing. The Emperor is captivated by the Nightingale’s beautiful song.

Japanese envoys arrive with a gift from their Emperor — a mechanical nightingale. The real Nightingale is offended and flies away. The Emperor condemns the Nightingale and bestows an honor upon its mechanical counterpart. The Emperor and his court leave. The Fisherman’s voice returns, praising the Nightingale’s song.

The third act takes place in the Emperor’s bedchamber. The Emperor, mortally ill, lies on his bed. Death sits at the Emperor’s bedside, wearing the imperial crown and holding the sword of state and the standard. The Specters of the Emperor’s past evil deeds also haunt him. When the Emperor begs for music, the real Nightingale returns and begins to sing. Death is captivated by the Nightingale’s song and agrees to return the crown, sword and standard. Death and the Specters depart. The grateful Emperor asks the nightingale to stay in the palace forever. The Nightingale declines, and vows instead to return every night to sing for the Emperor. The courtiers, in a solemn funeral procession, enter the Emperor’s bedchamber. They are shocked to find their Emperor in robust health. The opera concludes with the Fisherman’s celebration of the power of music.

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ASOprogram james alexander, Stage Director

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his staging of Stravinsky’s Nightingale will be James Alexander’s fourth production for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (following Bernstein on Broadway, La Bohème and Dr. Atomic).

Having had an extensive career in the performing arts, where amongst other things, Mr. Alexander founded a music theatre company in his native Scotland, managed the Boston Pops James Alexander on international tours and directed both plays and musicals in London’s West End. He was also on the A&R team at The Decca Record Company, managed classical soloists and conductors and produced television and staged operas on three continents with a number of prestigious companies, orchestras and conductors.

In the U.S., Mr. Alexander was a long time collaborator with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony, where he helped create stagings of Salome, Pique Dame, Idomeneo and the 50th Anniversary production of Peter Grimes at Tanglewood.

Most recently, Mr. Alexander collaborated with conductor Sir Roger Norrington on a production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro for Cincinnati Opera, which was hailed by Opera News as “a perfect combination of tastefulness and humor.”

yo-yo ma, Cello

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he many-faceted career of cellist Yo-Yo Ma is testament to his continual search for new ways to communicate with audiences, and to his personal desire for artistic growth and renewal. Whether performing a new concerto, revisiting a familiar work from the cello repertoire, coming together with colleagues for chamber music or exploring musical forms outside of the Western classical tradition, Mr. Ma strives to find connections that stimulate the imagination.

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Yo-Yo Ma maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with orchestras throughout the world and his recital and chamber music activities. He draws inspiration from a wide circle of collaborators, each fueled by the artists’ interactions.

One of Mr. Ma’s goals is the exploration of music as a means of communication, and as a vehicle for the migrations of ideas, across a range of cultures throughout the world.

Expanding upon this interest, Mr. Ma established the Silk Road Project to promote the study of the cultural, artistic and intellectual traditions along the ancient Silk Road trade route that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. By examining the flow of ideas throughout this vast area, the Project seeks to illuminate the heritages of the Silk Road countries and identify the voices that represent these traditions today.

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Mr. Ma is an exclusive Sony Classical artist, and his discography of over 75 albums (including more than 15 Grammy award winners) reflects his wide-ranging interests. In addition to the standard concerto repertoire, Mr. Ma has recorded many of the large body of works that he has commissioned or premiered. He has made several successful recordings that defy categorization, including Hush with Bobby McFerrin, Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey with Mark O’Connor and Edgar Meyer and two Grammy-winning tributes to the music of Brazil, Obrigado Brazil and Obrigado Brazil — Live in Concert. Mr. Ma’s most recent recordings include Silk Road Journeys: New Impossibilities, with the Silk Road Ensemble, Appassionato, and Paris: La Belle époque, with pianist Kathryn Stott; he also appears on John Williams’ soundtrack for Rob Marshall’s film Memoirs of a Geisha. Across the full range of releases, Mr. Ma remains one of the best-selling recording artists in the classical field.

Yo-Yo Ma is strongly committed to educational programs that not only bring young audiences into contact with music but also allow them to participate in its creation. While touring, he takes time whenever possible to conduct master classes as well as more informal programs for student-musicians and non-musicians alike.

Yo-Yo Ma was born in 1955 to Chinese parents living in Paris. He began to study the cello with his father at age 4 and soon came with his family to New York, where he spent most of his formative years. Later, his principal teacher was Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School. He sought out a traditional liberal arts education to expand upon his conservatory training, graduating from Harvard University in 1976. He has received numerous awards, including the Avery Fisher Prize (1978), the Glenn Gould Prize (1999), the National Medal of the Arts (2001), the Dan David Prize (2006) and the Sonning Prize (2006). Mr. Ma and his wife have two children. He plays two instruments, a 1733 Montagnana cello from Venice and the 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius.

angel lam, Narrator

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ngel Lam is a young artist who uses the beauty of soundscape, instrumentation and language to express refined emotions and her love for life. Through musical poetry she conveys the memories and imageries that inspired her works. Her music is praised as “beautiful, even ravishing at moments,” as well as “[a] kaleidoscopic outpouring.” Her music ranges from the delicate depiction of a drop of water for an unconventional instrumentation — guitar, harp, vibraphone, Angel Lam crotales and double bass — to the telling of a forgotten hero from ancient China written for large orchestra and narration. She writes her own short stories that are an important part of her music. In her works, she continually seeks to retell the beauty she finds in everyday life.

Miss Lam grew up in Hong Kong and Huntington Beach, Calif. Her compositions have been performed throughout the United States and in many major cities around the world. She is

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ASOprogram a two-time winner of the Carnegie Hall emerging composer commission. She first received the award in 2005-06, where she worked with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, and then again in 2006-07, where she worked with Grammy Award winning composer Osvaldo Golijov and prolific vocalist Dawn Upshaw. These two collaborations, together with the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, culminated in two Carnegie Hall premieres of her work in September 2006 and April 2007. Most recently, her composition Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain was selected to be on the touring repertoire of Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, who toured with her piece in the United States, Canada, China, Japan and Switzerland’s Lucerne Festival in 2007-09.

This work was released by Sony/BMG on Silk Road Ensemble’s CD New Impossibilities, and will be released in a brand new recording on their new CD this fall 2009.

Her recent and upcoming collaborations include commissions from Yale Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Carnegie Hall in a work written for Yo-Yo Ma and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to premiere in Atlanta Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium this fall 2009; Yale Cellos; Hong Kong Arts Festival 2010; Greenwich Village Orchestra (New York); Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Grainger Quartet (Australia); Orange County Women’s Chorus; Loyola High Men’s Chorus and Orchestra (Los Angeles); Houston Chamber Choir; Peabody Dance in a theater composition created under the guidance of renowned theater artist Martha Clarke; and performances by Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, NYU Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia and Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest (Chicago).

She is currently a doctoral candidate at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory and an artist diploma candidate at Yale University under the Henry and Lucy Moses Full Scholarship. Her mentors are Martin Bresnick, Aaron Jay Kernis, Ezra Laderman and Christopher Theofanidis.

She received two Master degrees in composition and music theory at the Peabody Conservatory, where she taught music theory to the Peabody undergraduates and designed three courses: “Classical Music Today: An analysis and Appreciation of Contemporary Classical Music,” “The Romantic Composer” and “World Music, World Culture” for the Johns Hopkins University undergraduates during the 2005-09 intersession terms. Miss Lam began studying composition in high school at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, and later entered the Academy to begin her undergraduate studies in composition studying with Law Wing Fai, Clarence Mak (electronic music) and Lo Hau-Man. At the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, she researched ancient Chinese aesthetics and Asian aesthetics in contemporary Western music. She received numerous awards and scholarships during her undergraduate studies to attend music festivals internationally, and a scholarship from the Liberal Arts Department, lead by Prof. Betty Wei, where she toured Europe studying the fine arts and architectures of European cities. To pursue her graduate studies, she received the honored Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship, Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Composition Scholarship for Overseas Studies and Peabody Conservatory’s Graduate Assistantship Full Tuition Award.

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celena shafer, Soprano (The Nightingale)

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raised for her silvery radiant voice, fearlessly committed acting and phenomenal technique, soprano Celena Shafer is recognized as one of the leading artists of her generation garnering great acclaim for her operatic, orchestral, and recital performances.

Highlights from past seasons include her New York Philharmonic debut in Handel’s Messiah with Alan Gilbert, and returns for Mozart’s Coronation Mass and also the Brahms German Requiem, both led by Loren Maazel; a debut with the Chicago Celena Shafer Symphony in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 led by Michael Tilson Thomas and a return for the Brahms German Requiem with Kent Nagano; her Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart’s Requiem with Donald Runnicles and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; a Los Angeles Philharmonic debut in the Mozart Requiem led by Christoph von Dohnányi, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Kansas City Symphony and Nicholas McGegan; her debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah and with the San Francisco Symphony in Carmina Burana.

The 2008-09 season included Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortileges with the New York Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel at Carnegie Hall, The Creation with the Phoenix Symphony and Michael Christie and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. After a two-year absence, Ms. Shafer returned to the operatic stage as Norina in Don Pasquale with the Utah Symphony & Opera. In the 2007-08 season Celena Shafer debuted with the St. Louis Symphony as Marzelline in concert performances of Beethoven’s Fidelio conducted by David Robertson, and with the Seattle Symphony for Handel’s Messiah.

jessica rivera, Soprano (The Cook)

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ailed by the New York Times as a “vocally luminous young soprano,” Jessica Rivera quickly is establishing herself as one of the most creatively inspired vocal artists of her generation. She made her critically acclaimed Santa Fe Opera debut in the summer of 2005 as Nuria in the world premiere of the revised edition of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar. She reprised the role for the 2007 Grammy Award winning Deutsche Grammophon recording of the work Jessica Rivera with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano, and in the Peter Sellars staging at Lincoln Center in January 2006, as well as in performances at the Barbican Centre, and the Ojai and Ravinia Festivals.

The artist’s first performances of Margarita Xirgu in Ainadamar, a role created by Dawn Upshaw, occurred in the summer of 2007 at the Colorado Music Festival under the baton of Michael Christie.

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ASOprogram Ms. Rivera gave the world premiere of John Adams’ newest opera, A Flowering Tree, singing the role of Kumudha, during the past season in a production directed by Peter Sellars, as part of the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, Austria. She reprised her role in performances of A Flowering Tree for her Berlin Philharmonic debut under Sir Simon Rattle and under the composer’s baton with the San Francisco Symphony and with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre. The London performances were recorded for commercial release on the Nonesuch Records label. Recent engagements also include performances and the Telarc recording of Vaughan William’s Serenade to Music with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano; her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut under David Robertson in Adams’ El Niño; Handel’s Messiah and Vivaldi’s Gloria under Norman Mackenzie with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; and Golijov’s La Pasión según San Marcos with the Schola Cantorum de Caracas under Maria Guinand, which she has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. Ms. Rivera made her European operatic debut in the 2006-07 season as Kitty Oppenheimer in John Adams’ Dr. Atomic with the Netherlands Opera.

vinson cole, Tenor (The Fisherman)

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merican tenor Vinson Cole is internationally recognized as one of the leading artists of his generation. His career has taken him to all major opera houses across the globe including the Metropolitan Opera, Opera National de Paris Bastille, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Theatre Royale de la Monnaie, Brussels, Berlin State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Munich State Opera, San Francisco Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Opera Australia and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Seattle Opera and many more.

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Equally celebrated for his concert appearances, Mr. Cole has been a frequent guest of the most prestigious orchestras throughout the world and has collaborated with the greatest conductors of this era including Christoph Eschenbach, Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, James Conlon, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Gerard Schwarz as well as Sir Georg Solti and Giuseppe Sinopoli. Mr. Cole had an especially close working relationship with the late Herbert von Karajan, who brought the artist to the Salzburg Festival to sing the Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier — the first of many performances there together. Their collaboration went on to include works such as Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Mozart’s Requiem and Bruckner’s Te Deum. Many of these were issued on recordings on Deutsche Grammophon.

Born in Kansas City, Mo., Vinson Cole completed his vocal studies at the Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of legendary singer and teacher Margaret Harshaw. He made his professional operatic debut at the San Francisco Spring Opera in the title role of Mascagni’s L’Amico Fritz and subsequently made his first European debuts singing at the Festival d’Anjou in Angers in Handel’s Acis and Galatea and then at the Welsh National Opera as Belmonte in Mozart’s Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail. Important international operatic debuts all followed in rapid succession.

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denis sedov, Bass (The Chamberlain)

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pera News hails Denis Sedov as “tall and commanding, gifted with a splendid physique and a bass to match” and has an ability to “seduce with his voice as well as with his presence.” His engagements in the 2008-09 season and beyond included Nourabad in Les Pêcheurs de Perles with the Washington National Opera; both Zoroastr in Handel’s Orlando and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Al Ayre Español; Shostakovich’s Song of the Forest at the Grand Park Denis Sedov Music Festival; the world premiere of Carlos Alberto Vazquez’s Requiem Domesticus at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico; Colline in La Bohème and Lodovico in Otello with the Cincinnati Opera; and Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte with the Atlanta Opera. In the 2007-08 season he sang Giorgio in I Puritani with Seattle Opera and Frere Laurent in Roméo et Juliette with L’Opera de Montreal, He joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for performances of Colline in La Bohème with under the baton of Robert Spano that were recently released on the Telarc label. The bass also sang Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Quebec Symphony as well as with L’Orchestre de Paris under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach.

Mr. Sedov’s recent international engagements include his debut with the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni under the baton of Riccardo Muti at Teatro alla Scala, and Colline in La Bohème at Paris Opera. Also in Paris, he sang the title role in Don Giovanni and Count Rodolfo in Bellini’s La Sonnambula at the Opéra Comique. Further performances include Il Re di Scozia in Ariodante at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Don Profondo in Il viaggio a Reims with La Monnaie; Timur in Turandot at Opéra de Montréal; King Henry VIII in Anna Bolena in Torino; Selim in Il Turco in Italia in Marseille; Mustafa in L’Italiana in Algeri with Opéra du Rhin; Count Rodolfo in La Sonnambula in Florence; Walter in Luisa Miller in Bordeaux; the tutor in Le Comte Ory in Toulouse; his Teatro Colon debut in Buenos Aires as Oroveso in Norma; Rossini’s Maometto Secondo in Strassbourg; Colline in La Bohème; more performances of Ariodante with Les Musiciens du Louvre and Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte in Lyon.

jason grant, Bass (The Bonze)

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native of Los Angeles, bass-baritone Jason Grant has won acclaim for his elegantly expressive, richly hued voice. This summer, Mr. Grant returns to the New York Philharmonic, singing Pater Profundis in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 for Lorin Maazel’s final concerts as music director. He also joins the Grant Park Music Festival for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Carlos Kalmar. During the 2009-10 season, Mr. Grant sings the Brahms German Requiem with the Virginia Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic, both led by JoAnn Falletta. He

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ASOprogram joins Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony for Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol, in Atlanta and on the road at the University of Georgia and at Carnegie Hall. He sings the Mozart Requiem with the San Diego Symphony and Jahja Ling, and both the Mozart Requiem and Zemlinsky’s Frühlingsbegrabnis with the Phoenix Symphony and Michael Christie.

Mr. Grant began the 2008-09 season with Mozart’s Mass in C Minor at the Mostly Mozart Festival, led by Louis Langrée. He appeared with the Grand Rapids Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Other recent highlights include the Bach St. Matthew Passion with the New York Philharmonic, led by Kurt Masur; Don Fernando in Fidelio with the Saint Louis Symphony, led by David Robertson; the Bach Mass in B Minor with Andreas Delfs and the Milwaukee Symphony; and a concert of Shakespearean Baroque Arias and duets with the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston. As Angelotti in Tosca, he returned to the Seattle Opera, and joined the New York Philharmonic for concert performances of the opera conducted by Lorin Maazel.

He has appeared with the New York City Opera as Pooh-Bah in Jonathan Miller’s production of The Mikado, Dulcamara in Miller’s new production of L’elisir d’amore, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Don Profondo in Il viaggio a Reims, Zuniga in Carmen, Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, Angelotti in Tosca, Lesbo in a new production of Handel’s Agrippina and Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia for the New York City Opera National Company.

Career highlights include Antonio in Le Nozze di Figaro, followed by student performances of Leporello in Don Giovanni and the Four Villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann with the Dallas Opera; Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins under Keith Lockhart with the Utah Symphony a Opera; Olin Blitch in Susannah led by James Conlon; Henry Kissinger in The Nixon Tapes led by John Adams at the Aspen Music Festival; Salieri in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri and the Mozart Requiem with the Virginia Symphony.

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ithuanian bass-baritone, Kostas Smoriginas has appeared as Araspe in Tolemeo and Seneca in L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Royal College of Music; Dandini in La Cenerentola, Pizzaro in Fidelio with the National Latvian Symphony Orchestra; Tomsky in Pique Dame at the Latvian National Opera; Masetto in Don Giovanni for Opera Island Kristiansand; last year he covered the role of Alidoro in La Cenerentola at Glyndebourne and debuted in the role at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Other roles include Melitone in La Forza del Destino and the title role Don Giovanni.

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His recent and future Royal Opera House engagements include his debut as Alidoro, the Marquis d’Obigny in La Traviata, Angelotti in Tosca, Zuniga in Carmen and a Flemish Deputy in Don Carlo. He will also cover Escamillo and the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro.

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irina tchistJakova, Mezzo-Soprano (Death)

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rina Tchistjakova graduated from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow in 1989. In 1988, she became a principal soloist at the Theatre-Studio of the Gnesin Academy of Music and a leading mezzo-soprano of the Moscow Municipal Theatre ‘New Opera’ and of the Bolshoi Theatre. She was awarded first prize at the Viñas Singing Competition in Barcelona in 1993. Her career highlights include Tchaikovsky’s Moscow Cantanta with the Bern Symphonie Orchester; Rusalka with the Bayerischer Rundfunk; Larina in Eugene Onegin at the Irina Tchistjakova Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville and with Maestro Ozawa in Japan; Kindertotenlieder with the Bergen PO; War and Peace and Pique Dame at the Bastille; Jean d’Arc at the Montpellier Opera; the Death in Le Rossignol at the BBC Proms; and Alexander Nevsky at the Tonhalle in Dusseldorf, with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington conducted by Leonard Slatkin and in a recorded concert with VARA Radio at the Royal Concertegebouw in Amsterdam.

Sean Mayer, Tenor (Japanese Envoy)

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member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus since 1994, Sean Mayer has been a featured incidental soloist in performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail, Bartók’s Cantata profana and on the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers recording, A Robert Shaw Christmas: Angels on High.

Mr. Mayer was also a member of the chorus of The Atlanta Opera (from 1998 to 2006) where he sang an incidental role in their 2003 production of Salome.

Sean Mayer

Stephen ozcomert, Bass (Japanese Envoy)

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tephen Ozcomert is a regular performer in Atlanta area concert halls. He has performed as a soloist with the Altanta Symphony Orchestra as Figaro in a performance of the Act II Finale in 2004 from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro under Robert Spano’s direction, and was the soloist for a 2006 master season performance of Bach’s Magnificat. Other ASO peformances include several July 4 Holiday Concerts, an assisting soloist in 2007 under the direction of Donald Runnicles in excerpts from Strauss’ Rosenkavalier, the narrator in Copland’s Lincoln Portrait under Alexander Mickelthwaite, soloist in The Lord of the Rings Symphony, and others.

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ASOprogram NORMAN MACKENZIE, Director of Choruses

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orman Mackenzie’s abilities as musical collaborator, conductor and concert organist have brought him international recognition. As Director of Choruses for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and holder of its endowed Frannie and Bill Graves Chair, he was chosen to help carry forward the creative vision of legendary founding conductor Robert Shaw to a new generation of music lovers.

Mackenzie prepares the Choruses for all concerts and recordings, conducts holiday concerts annually and works closely with Music Norman Mackenzie Director Robert Spano and commissioned-composers in the creation and premiere of new works. He received Grammy Awards for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance for the ASO and Chorus recording of A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams in 2003; for Best Choral Performance for the Berlioz Requiem in 2005; and for Best Opera Recording with Golijov’s Ainadamar in 2007. Mackenzie is also Director of Music and Fine Arts for Atlanta’s Trinity Presbyterian Church, and pursues an active recital and guest-conducting schedule.

In his 14-year association with Shaw (1985-1999), he was keyboardist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, principal accompanist for the ASO Choruses and ultimately assistant choral conductor. In addition, he was musical assistant and accompanist for the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, the Robert Shaw Institute Summer Choral Festivals in France and the United States and the famed Shaw/Carnegie Hall Choral Workshops.

In 1996, Mr. Mackenzie made his New York conducting debut in a concert sponsored by Carnegie Hall, leading the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers in a critically acclaimed performance at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, substituting for Shaw on short notice. In 1999, he was chosen by Shaw to prepare the Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus for Charles Dutoit, and he was choral clinician for the first three annual workshops after Shaw’s passing. He has prepared choral performances under Robert Spano, Donald Runnicles, John Adams, Roberto Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Nicholas McGegan, Alan Gilbert, Yoel Levi, James Conlon and Sir Neville Marriner.

A frequent recitalist and clinician for the American Guild of Organists and the American Choral Directors Association, he has also been featured on NPR’s “Performance Today” and Minnesota Public Radio’s “Pipedreams.”

Mackenzie’s acclaimed Telarc recording of a cappella sacred music represents the ASO Chamber Chorus’ first recording apart from the orchestra. Next month he returns to Carnegie Hall with the Chamber Chorus, ASO and Robert Spano to reprise tonight’s performance.

Mackenzie also prepared the ASO Chorus for its acclaimed 2003 debut and successive 2008 performances with the Berlin Philharmonic (in Britten’s War Requiem and Berlioz’s Requiem respectively), conducted by ASO Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles. In December 2009, he returns with the Chorus to Berlin for their third engagement with the Berlin Philharmonic and Donald Runnicles for a series of three Brahms Requiem performances.

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ASOprogram atlanta symphony orchestra chamber chorus Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses The Frannie and Bill Graves Chair Jeffrey Baxter, Choral Administrator Todd Skrabanek, Accompanist

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cclaimed for the beauty, precision and expressive qualities of its singing, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus has been an important part of the orchestra’s programming since its founding by the late Robert Shaw. The Chamber Chorus, which debuted on Dec. 14, 1967, is composed of 40-60 volunteers selected by audition from the ranks of ASO Chamber Chorus the ASO Chorus, who meet for extra rehearsals and perform with the ASO each season. The Chamber Chorus performs music of the Baroque and Classical eras, as well as works by modern masters such as Golijov, Tavener, Pärt, Paulus, Poulenc and Britten. Highlights of the ASO Chamber Chorus’s history include a residency with the ASO and Robert Spano for California’s Ojai Festival, participation with the ASO in Telarc recordings of masterworks by Bach, Golijov, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Vivaldi and a 2005 a cappella recording that features the Vaughan Williams Mass under Norman Mackenzie, an appearance on national television in 1987 performing Handel’s Messiah with Robert Shaw, and several Carnegie Hall appearances, which include performances of the B-Minor Mass, the Matthew and John Passions of Bach, the Rachmaninoff Vespers and the Mozart/Levin Requiem.

Soprano JoAnn Alexander Michelle Belle Isle Kristen Gwaltney Amber Harris Celia Jacobs Kathleen Kelly-George Marie Little Arietha Lockhart * Cheryl Lower ** Joneen Padgett Lisa Rader Doris Rivers Anne-Marie Spalinger Camilla Springfield * Rachel Stewart ** Wanda Yang Temko

Alto Donna Carter-Wood * Marcia Chandler Christa Joy Chase Laurie Cronin Lisa Foltz Janet Johnson * Maria LindbergKransmo Linda Morgan ** Katherine Murray Brenda Pruitt Karen Sikorski Diana Reed Strommen Carol Wyatt

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Tenor Jeffrey Baxter * David Blalock ** Jack Caldwell * Phillip Crumbly Jeffrey Daniel Leif Hansen Thomas LaBarge Keith Langston Sean Mayer Nathan Osborne Christopher Patton Wesley Stoner Mark Warden

Bass Michael Arens Robert Bolyard Russell Cason * Joseph Champion Joshua Clark John Cooledge ** Steven Darst * Timothy Gunter Gregory Hucks Robert Lower ** Owen Mathews Stephen Ozcomert * Kendric Smith ** Edgie Wallace Edward Watkins

* 20+ years of service ** 30+ years of service

ASOsupport Ray Uttenhove, Appassionato Chair

Ap-pas’-si-o-na’-to – adv., Passionately, with strong emotion 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

Ms. Joni Winston

$35,000+

Robert Spano $25,000+ Madeline & Howell E. Adams, Jr. Stephanie & Arthur Blank Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Currey, Jr. Catherine Warren Dukehart

Lucy R. & Gary Lee, Jr. Terence L. & Jeanne P. Neal* Victoria & Howard Palefsky Mrs. Charles A. Smithgall, Jr. Ray & John Uttenhove

Morgan & Chilton Varner Mark & Rebekah Wasserman Adair & Dick White Mr. & Mrs. John B. White, Jr.* Sue & Neil Williams*

$15,000+ AGCO Corporation, Martin Richengagen Pinney L. Allen & Charles C. Miller III Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney Mr. & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun Christopher S. & Ana P. Crommett Mary Helen & Jim Dalton Lynne and Richard Dorfman Gary & Nancy Fayard*

Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Fox Charles & Mary Ginden* Jim & Pam Henry Clay & Jane Jackson Ann A. & Ben F. Johnson III Mr. & Mrs. James C. Kennedy Michael & Cindi Lang Donna Lee & Howard C. Ehni Meghan & Clarke Magruder Mr. Jeff Mango Brenda & Charles Moseley

Patty & Doug Reid Margaret & Bob Reiser John & Kyle Rogers Dennis & JoAnne Sadlowski Mr. Thurmond Smithgall Marsha Johnson – Southern Company Susan & Thomas Wardell Mr. & Mrs. Edus H. Warren, Jr. Camille W. Yow

Mary D. Gellerstedt Nancy D. Gould Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Grathwohl The Graves Foundation Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Fund Mr. Jennings M. Hertz, Jr. * * Lauri & Paul Hogle Tom & Jan Hough Mr. Tad Hutcheson Roya & Bahman Irvani Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley* Philip I. Kent Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Keough Amy & Mark Kistulinec Family of Thomas B. Koch Mr. & Mrs. John M. Law John & Patrice Lewis Printpack Inc. & The Gay & Erskine Love Foundation

Massey Charitable Trust John F. & Marilyn M. McMullan Mr. Kenneth & Dr. Carolyn Meltzer Mr. & Mrs. Harmon B. Miller III Morgens West Foundation Lynn & Galen Oelkers Mr. & Mrs. Solon P. Patterson* Joyce & Henry Schwob Mr. John A. Sibley III John Sparrow Loren & Gail Starr Mary Rose Taylor Carol & Ramon Tome The Michael W. Trapp Family Mike & Liz Troy Turner Foundation, Inc. Neal & Virginia Williams

$10,000+ Anonymous (2) Ron & Susan Antinori Betty & Robert Balentine The Balloun Family* Lisa & Joe Bankoff Barnes & Thornburg LLP Ms. Diana J. Blank Breman Foundation The Walter & Frances Bunzl Foundation Cynthia & Donald Carson Shannon & Philip Cave Dr. John W. Cooledge In Honor of Norman Mackenzie

by Janet Davenport Cari Katrice Dawson Marcia & John Donnell Eleanor & Charles Edmondson

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

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ASOsupport Judy Hellriegel, Chair

The Insider’s Experience for Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Members 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 ASO family through their institutional leadership and financial support.

$5,000+ Aadu & Kristi Allpere Anonymous (3) Mr. & Mrs. William Atkins Jan & Gus Bennett Kelley O. & Neil H. Berman Mr. David Boatwright Ms. Suzanne Dansby Bollman Dr. Robert L. & Lucinda W. Bunnen Ann and Jeff Cramer* Sally & Larry Davis Triska Drake & G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr. Jere & Patsy Drummond Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Fackler Rosi & Arnoldo Fiedotin

Mr. David L. Forbes Betty Sands Fuller Sally & Carl Gable Ruth Gershon & Sandy Cohn Dick & Ann Goodsell John E. Graham Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Gross Joe Guthridge & David Ritter Sharon & Michael Hodgson C. Tycho & Marie Howle Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William C. Humphreys, Jr. John Hunsinger Hazel & Herb Karp James H. Landon

George H. Lanier* Pat & Nolan Leake Mr. & Mrs. Darrell J. Mays Penelope & Raymond McPhee Margaret H. Petersen Mr. George E. Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Baker A. Smith Hamilton & Mason Smith* Irene & Howard Stein Lynne & Steven Steindel* Gertrude & William C. Wardlaw Fund, Inc. Russell Williamson & Shawn Pagliarini Suzanne Bunzl Wilner T & H Yamashita*

Dr. & Mrs. James T. Lowman Gino & Belinda Massafra John & Linda Matthews Walter W. Mitchell Dr. & Mrs. Mark P. Pentecost, Jr. Elise T. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Rezin Pidgeon, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joel F. Reeves

Edward G. Scruggs Morton & Angela Sherzer Sydney Simons Amy & Paul Snyder Mrs. C. Preston Stephens Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr.

John & Adrienne Carr Mr. & Mrs. Dan Cathy Mrs. Hugh Chapman Lavon & Dennis Chorba Honor C. Cobbs Lucy & John Cook Mona & Leonard** Diamond Mr. Michael E. Dickens Mr. & Mrs. Christopher S. Edmonds George T. & Alecia H. Ethridge Mr. & Mrs. Todd Evans Ken Felts & Richard Bunn Mr. & Mrs. Howard Feinsand Mr. Joseph M. & Pronda Few Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Fullilove* Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. M. Garland Ms. Alma Garrette

Dr. Mary G. George Bill & Susan Gibson Mr. & Mrs. John T. Glover Ben & Lynda Greer Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Hale Mr. Steven & Mrs. Caroline Harless Sally W. Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hellriegel Mr. Haywood (Robin) Hendrix Deedi Henson In Memory of Carolyn B. Hochman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Hollums Mr. & Mrs. Harry C. Howard Ms. Joy G. Howard Linda & Richard Hubert Dr. William M. Hudson JoAnn Hall Hunsinger

$3,500+ Julie M. Altenbach Ms. Carol F. Comstock & Mr. James L. Davis Ms. Cynthia Jeness Dr. & Mrs. James T. Laney* Mr. & Mrs. T.J. Lavallee, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. William C. Lester* Deborah & William Liss*

$2,250+ Mr. & Mrs. Phillip E. Alvelda* Mr. Albert S. Anderson Anonymous Dr. David & Julie Bakken Jack & Helga Beam Neale M. Bearden Shirley & Sol** Blaine Rita & Herschel Bloom Mr. & Mrs. Merritt S. Bond* Jacqueline A. & Joseph E. Brown, Jr. Maj. Gen. & Mrs. Robert Bunker Dr. Aubrey M. Bush & Dr. Carol T. Bush Mr. & Mrs. Russell E. Butner* Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Canipe Mrs. Thalia Carlos Mr. & Mrs. Beauchamp Carr

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ASOsupport $2,250+ (continued) Aaron & Joyce Johnson Mr. & Mrs. W. F. Johnston Mr. & Mrs. John H. Kauffman Mr. & Mrs. L. Michael Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. King 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 Ms. Molly Minnear & Mr. Craig H. Seibert Richard S. & Winifred B. Myrick

Dr. & Mrs. R. Daniel Nable Mr. & Mrs. J. Vernon O’Neal, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Albert N. Parker Mr. & Mrs. Andreas Penninger Dr. John B. Pugh Realan Foundation, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. W. Harrison Reeves, Sr. In memory of Nora A. Richardson S. A. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Rodgers Mrs. William A. Schwartz Dr. Paul Seguin Elizabeth S. Sharp Beverly & Milton Shlapak

Helga Hazelrig Siegel Lewis Silverboard Peter James Stelling John & Yee-Wan Stevens John & Marilyn Thomas 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

Mary & Wayne James Lana M. Jordan Mr. Thomas J. Jung Betty Karp Paul & Rosthema Kastin Dick & Georgia Kimball* Dr. Rose Mary Kolpatzki Mr. & Mrs. David E. Krischer Dr. Leslie Leigh Dr. J. Bancroft Lesesne Dr. Fulton Lewis III & S. Neal Rhoney Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Lutz* Mr. & Mrs. James H. Matthews, Jr. Martha & Reynolds McClatchey Captain & Mrs. Charles M. McCleskey Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. McGhee Angela & Jimmy Mitchell Judy & Gregory Moore Carter & Hampton Morris Mrs. Gene Morse Mr. & Mrs. Vernon J. Nagel Lebby Neal Mr. & Mrs. Victor A. Nilson Sanford & Barbara Orkin Keith & Dana Osborn Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Palay Mr. & Mrs. Emory H. Palmer Mr. & Mrs. William A. Parker, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William John Petter Dr. & Mrs. Frank S. Pittman III

Mr. Christopher D. Rex & Dr. Martha Wilkins Ms. Mary Roemer & Ms. Susan Robinson The Gary W. & Ruth M. Rollins Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Rein Saral Nancy & Henry Shuford Alida & Stuart Silverman Sandy & Paul Smith 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 Mr. & Mrs. William M. Tipping Frank Vinicor, M.D. Charlie Wade & M.J. Conboy Mr. J.H. Walker III Jonne & Paul Walter Drs. Julius & Nanette Wenger David & Martha West Mrs. Thomas R. Williams Mark & Ruthelen Williamson Jan & Beattie Wood Dorothy & Charlie Yates Family Fund Mike & Marguerite York Chuck & Pat Young The Zaban Foundation, Inc.

$1,750+ Marian & Paul Anderson Mr. & Mrs. William B. Astrop Mr. & Mrs. Ron H. Bell Ms. Laura J. Bjorkholm & Mr. John C. Reece II Mr.** & Mrs. Eric L. Brooker Tony & Norma Jean Bueschen Dr. & Mrs. Grady S. Clinkscales, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Barksdale Collins* Robert Cronin & Christina Smith Mr. & Mrs. Burton K. Davis Mrs. H. Frances Davis Mr. & Mrs. P. Brantley Davis Elizabeth & John Donnelly Mr. Bruce E. Dunlap Ms. Diane Durgin Dr. Francine D. Dykes & Mr. Richard Delay Mary Frances Early Drs. Bryan & Norma Edwards Representative Pat Gardner & Mr. Jerry Gardner Joseph W. & Beth M. Gibson* Carol & Henry Grady Duncan & Judy Gray Kenneth R. Hey Ed Heys Thomas J. High Mr. Thomas Hooten Dr. & Mrs. James M. Hund Dorothy Jackson

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

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ASOsupport

Corporate sponsors $100,000+

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

Holiday Title Sponsor

“2009 A King Celebration” Presenting Sponsor

Muhtar Kent President and Chief Operating Officer

Robert L. Ulrich Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

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1180 Peachtree * Perimeter Summit * Riverwood

Delta Classic Chastain Presenting Sponsor jerome j. byers, II Atlanta Regional President

$50,000+ AT&T The Real Yellow Pages GE Energy Oliver Wyman

Delta Classic Chastain Presenting Sponsor

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Philip I. Kent Chief Executive Officer

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$35,000+

$20,000+

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC Porsche Cars North America Publix Super Markets Charities

Owned by an affiliate of the General Electric Pension Trust – advised by GE Asset Management

Official Coffee of Delta Classic Chastain Free Parks Title Sponsor

Supporter of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Lisa Compton Regional Vice President

Jerry Karr Managing Director GE Asset Management

$10,000+

CNN en Español HoneyBaked Ham Company Sutherland, LLP

Stanford Financial Services The Boston Consulting Group Turner Construction Company Verizon Wireless

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

$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

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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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* 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 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

THE LEARNING COMMUNITY Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, Talent Development Program, Azira G. Hill Scholarship Endowment Fund, Concerts for Young People, Family Concerts, Conversations of Note

$250,000+

The Goizueta Foundation The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

$50,000+

GE Energy John H. & Wilhelmina D. Harland Foundation

$25,000+

Bank of America The Coca-Cola Company William Randolph Hearst Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Hill, Jr. MetLife Music for Life Initiative Monica (Kaufman) Pearson & John E. Pearson, Sr. Hellen Ingram Plummer Charitable Foundation Publix Super Markets & Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. 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 Green Foundation Livingston Foundation, Inc. The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc. The Pittulloch Foundation John C. Portman, Jr. Simmons Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Yellowlees

$5,000+

Mr. & Mrs. Henry Aaron EZ Agape Foundation Dr. Margo A. Brinton & Mr. Eldon Park Cynthia & Donald Carson Mr. & Mrs. David Gould Mrs. Mary C. Gramling Kraft Foods, Inc.

Isaiah & Hellena Huntley Tidwell The Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Ms. Joni Winston

Aaron & Joyce Johnson Mr. & Mrs. William Lamar, Jr. Ms. Malinda C. Logan Mr. & Mrs. Howatt E. Mallinson Dr. Emily A. Massey $2,500+ Dr. Joanne R. Nurss Elinor Rosenberg Breman* Dr. & Mrs. Travis Paige Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Ginden Mr. & Mrs. Howard Palefsky Lincoln Financial Foundation Ms. Margaret H. Petersen Links Inc., Azalea City Chapter Ms. Elise T. Phillips Erich & Suzette Randolph $1,000+ Mr. Herman J. Russell, Sr. Madeline & Howell E. Adams, Jr. Michael & Lovette Russell Claire & Hubie Brown Stephanie & H. Jerome Russell Suzanne & Willard Shull Dr. Eric & Nancy Brown Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Sullivan Dr. Sheri D. Campbell Sharon, Lindsay Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Troy & Gordon Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Wasserman Dr. John O. Gaston Mr. Mack Wilbourn & Dr. Gloria S. Gaston Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Greer The Honorable Judge Glenda A. Hatchett Ms. Joy G. Howard

* 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 2009-2010 Board Kathleen (Suzy) Wasserman President Leslie Petter Advisor Judy Schmidt Parliamentarian Alison Mimms Secretary

Belinda Massafra Treasurer Joanne Lincoln Historian Janis Eckert Nominating Chair Elba McCue VP Adminstration Honey Corbin VP Public Relations

Glee Lamb VP Membership Martha Perrow Decorators’ Show House & Gardens Sylvia Davidson VP Youth Education Yetty Arp & Martha Perrow ASA Spring Luncheon

April Conaway & Annie York Trujillo ASA Night at the Symphony Camille Kesler Newsletter Editor Sylvia Davidson & Dr. Mary Francis Early Target Family Day Brooke Merrill Fall Membership Party

Pat King Directory Editor Nancy Levitt Ambassador’s Desk Camille Yow & Leslie Petter VP Annual Fund Dr. Mary Francis Early VP Outreach

Events 2009 Decorators’ Show House & Gardens Diamond Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Platinum Bovis Lend Lease St. Regis Atlanta Ticket Sponsor Springer Mountain Farms

Gold Boxwoods Comcast Encore Atlanta Magazine Jackson Spalding Mercedes-Benz of Buckhead Silver Phipps Plaza

Bronze Closets & More Conceirge Services of Atlanta Designer Previews Flora by John Grady Burns Laubmann Rector, Inc. Landscape Architecture & Land Planning

Olde Savannah Flooring, Inc Preprint Rabun Rasche Rector & Reece Architects Swoozie’s

2008 Atlanta Symphony Ball corporate Sponsors Phoenix Delta Air Lines Platinum Invesco Coca-Cola Company Diamond Mednikow Jewelers Gold Beacham & Company, Realtors A Legendary Event UPS Silver AGL Resources AirTran Airways Alston & Bird LLP AT&T Georgia Caren West PR Cayo Espanto Island Resort

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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title Sponsor AirTran Airways Reception Sponsors Blackberry Verizon Wireless Four-person Team & Hole Sponsor Atlanta Braves Radio Network Atlanta Falcons Coca-Cola Company

Four-person Team Sponsor Auburn ISP Sports Network Beck EMC Corporation HKS Architects Signal Point System Turner Construction Two-person Team & Hole Sponsor: ZWJ Investment Counsel

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Hole Sponsor: Asurion ATC Associates, Inc. Cosentini Associates Credit Suisse Cushman & Wakefield Dennis Taylor & Co., Inc. Gwinnett Chamber Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. Morgan Stanley Nordmark Consulting Group

North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Pathbuilders, Inc. Sasaki Associates, Inc. The Shumacher Group Troutman Sanders LLP Wilmington Trust

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ASO Theater of a Concert production of Haydn’s Creation

Continued from Page 14 In November, jazz great Wynton Marsalis, the Pulitzer Prizewinning composer-musician, unveils his highly anticipated first purely orchestral work, “American Symphony,” which explores American musical styles in a symphonic context. And next spring, Jennifer Higdon and Michael Gandolfi — two of the breakthrough composers in Mr. Spano’s heralded Atlanta School of Composers — offer the final world-premiere triumphs of the season: Ms. Higdon’s innovative “Concerto” for chamber group and orchestra showcases the unique sextet of performers called eighth blackbird while; Mr. Gandolfi (composer of the ASO’s Garden of Cosmic Speculation) has penned a new choral/ orchestral work further illuminated by the vaunted ASO Chorus.

The Chorus also graces the eagerly awaited ASO performances of the Brahms German Requiem with Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles on October 29 and 30 and, under the leadership of Director of Choruses Norman Mackenzie, has a unique honor — their third invitation to return to Berlin, where in late

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October 22/23/24 October 29/30 JANUARY 7/9/10 MAY 6/8 Donald Runnicles

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December, they rejoin Mr. Runnicles to perform the Brahms with the Berlin Philharmonic in the resplendent Philharmonie concert hall. Mr. Spano and the ASO also celebrate the end of Mozart’s symphonic journey in a two weekend-long springtime performance of the master’s last three symphonies.

Other highlights include star soprano Sylvia McNair, who performed with the late ASO icon, Music Director and Conductor Emeritus Robert Shaw, and now leads an ASO New Year’s Eve celebration; and Verdi’s monumental Requiem ­— a musical calling card of the ASO Chorus and an encore of their first collaboration with Mr. Spano.

Pianists Lang Lang and Jean-Yves Thibaudet and violinists Midori and Lela Josefowicz are just four of the music-lover household names in an impressive roster of renowned guests.

ASO debuts include pianists Simone Dinnerstein and violinist James Ehnes and the aforementioned eighth blackbird. The Orchestra also welcomes 24 vocalists with 16 ASO debuts.

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The season culminates in the hosting of two prestigious American musical leadership organizations in their combined national conferences: the League of American Orchestras and Chorus America. The convention kicks off the ninth anniversary of the Atlanta School of Composers, with the music of members Christopher Theofanidis and Osvaldo Golijov.

A season of marvelous performances and milestone moments is off and running. For information, visit atlantasymphony.org or call 404-733-5000.

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Points of View

By Ken Meltzer

knowing not only that I would be playing with my hometown orchestra, but that I would also be sitting next to my former teacher.

Not too many people have that opportunity.

In addition, one of my best friends from my days in the ASYO, John Sparrow, is now the GM and Vice President of the ASO. What special responsibilities do you have as the Orchestra’s Associate Principal Second Violin?

Sitting in the second chair, I need to provide strong sound and rhythmic support to the principal, but at the same time blend in with the section. I also need to be always prepared to lead the section in case the principal is out, sometimes on very short notice.

I understand you have played on recordings for R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen and Faith Hill.

What were those experiences like?

Sou-Chun su Associate Principal Second Violin When did you first become interested in classical music?

I started the violin when I was three. My father was a violin teacher, so I heard violin lessons in my house from the time I was an infant. When I was 14, my parents moved to this country from Taiwan so I could pursue a career in music.

You have a special relationship with the ASO. Can you tell us about it?

My relationship with the ASO goes back quite a ways. I was a member of the ASYO from 1982-85 and came to many ASO concerts as a high school student. That combination was my first experience with great symphonic music. During those years, I took private lessons with the ASO Principal Second Violin, David Arenz. Upon my graduation from the Cleveland Institute of Music, I was fortunate to win an audition with the ASO for my current position. Needless to say, I was thrilled

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They were all very down to earth and genuinely appreciative and impressed with our playing during the recording sessions.

Interestingly, they found our work just as fascinating and some wished they had the talent to play the violin, cello, etc. We of course wanted to have their fame and fortune! I have a Triple Platinum Commemorative Plaque with R.E.M. from Warner Brothers. Many of my students/friends find that more impressive than anything else I have accomplished in classical music!

What do you wish for the ASO in the future?

I hope our audiences will continue to grow in numbers and also in their support for us.

Nothing energizes the musicians more than to see a full house and the enjoyment that the audience expresses after a good concert.

Obviously, I also hope we can have a new concert hall soon. It’s not just for the ASO. It’s for everyone in Atlanta, who will benefit from hearing great classical music performed in a world-class setting.

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FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Donald F. Fox Executive Vice President for Business Operations & Chief Financial Officer Aysha Siddique Assistant to the EVP for Business Operations & CFO Susan Ambo Controller April Satterfield Senior Accountant Kim Hielsberg Director of Financial Planning & Analysis Guy Wallace Staff Accountant Stephen Jones Symphony Store Manager Galina Rotbakh Symphony Store Sales Associate Peter Dickson Venue Accountant Popular Presentations Clay Schell General Manager Trevor Ralph General Manager and Senior Director of Operations Holly Clausen Director of Marketing Keri Musgraves Promotions Manager Lisa Eng Graphic Artist Chastain Park Amphitheater Tanner Smith Program Director Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park Katie Daniel VIP Sales Manager Jenny Pollock Office Manager & Assistant Operations Manager Rebecca Gordon Box Office Manager

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advancement & learning Paul W. Hogle Vice President for Institutional Advancement & Learning Tammie Taylor Assistant to the VP for Advancement & Learning Stephanie Malhotra Director of Advancement & Learning Services Rebecca Abernathy Donor Services Associate Major & Planned Giving Jessica Langlois Director of Leadership Gifts & Planned Giving Andrea Welna Major Gifts Officer Meredith Jackson Prospect Research Officer Annual, Institutional & Volunteer Services Sandy Smith Senior Director of Institutional Support & Partnerships Corey Cowart Corporate Relations Manager Toni Paz Director of Individual Giving Maya Robinson Patron Partnership Gifts Officer Andrea Mendez Patron Development Officer Celeste Pendarvis Director of Volunteer Services & Special Events Sarah Turner Special Events Coordinator ASO Learning Community Melanie Darby Director of Education Programming Sandy Smith Director of Development Elizabeth Wilson Director of Student Musician Development Lindsay Fisher Learning Community Specialist; Ensembles Coordinator

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