October 2011: Glowing Ravel, Gorgeous Franck

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20 “Nyx”

25 This week’s concert and program notes

Esa-Pekka Salonen and Robert Spano are of one mind on a conductor’s role.

46 Community Corner: Meet Sheehan Hanrahan

In the community, making a difference.

50 ASO Media: Three for Three

Garrick Ohlsson performs Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 on new CD.

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Welcome Con-cert (kan-surt) n. [from Latin com-, with + certare, to strive] 1) mutual agreement, concord; 2) a performance of music — in concert, in unison.

Welcome to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s 2011-2012 Delta Classical Concert Season, our 68th! This season has been years in the making. We deliberated and planned and developed and tested idea after idea, all in an effort to fulfill the hopes, to meet the needs and expectations of our audiences. I am confident that we’ve created a season that will delight you, move you, and inspire you.

Over the coming weeks you will see and hear us: In Concert with Great Music: Beethoven’s immortal Ninth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concert, Brahms’ dramatic Symphony 4, Rachmaninov’s The Bells, music of our own day from renowned composers Osvaldo Golijov, Michael Abels, and Esa-Pekka Salonen — and much, much more.

In Concert with Great Artists: Music Director Robert Spano, soprano Christine Brewer, our own Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, legendary violinist Joshua Bell, pianists Terrence Wilson and Horacio Gutierrez and many, many more.

In Concert With This Community: Through our nationally recognized education programs — Sound Learning, the Talent Development Program, the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and Symphony Street Concerts — we are nurturing the musical gifts of Atlanta’s children and shaping both the present and the future of our city.

We are able to be in concert with great music, with great artists, and with this community thanks to your support. Bravo — and thank you!

Wishing you all the best,

Stanley E. Romanstein, Ph.D. President

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leadership Atlanta Symphony Orchestra League 2011-2012 Board of Directors Officers Jim Abrahamson D. Kirk Jamieson Joni Winston † Chair Vice Chair Secretary Karole F. Lloyd Meghan H. Magruder Clayton F. Jackson Chair-Elect Vice Chair Treasurer Directors Jim Abrahamson Pinney L. Allen Joseph R. Bankoff * Paul Blackney Janine Brown C. Merrell Calhoun Donald P. Carson Ann W. Cramer † Richard A. Dorfman David Edmiston Gary P. Fayard Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Jr. Paul R. Garcia Carol Green Gellerstedt

Thomas Hooten Tad Hutcheson † Mrs. Roya Irvani † Clayton F. Jackson D. Kirk Jamieson Ben F. Johnson III Mark Kistulinec Steve Koonin Carrie Kurlander Michael Lang Donna Lee Lucy Lee Karole F. Lloyd Meghan H. Magruder Belinda Massafra * Penny McPhee

Victoria Palefsky Leslie Z. Petter Suzanne Tucker Plybon Patricia H. Reid Margaret Conant Reiser John D. Rogers Stanley E. Romanstein, Ph.D. * Martin Richenhagen † Dennis Sadlowski Lynn Schinazi William Schultz John Sibley H. Hamilton Smith Lucinda B. Smith

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

Board of counselors Mrs. Helen Aderhold Robert M. Balentine Elinor Breman Dr. John W. Cooledge John Donnell Jere Drummond Carla Fackler Arnoldo Fiedotin

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 Joyce Schwob Mrs. Charles A. Smithgall, Jr.

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

Life Directors Howell E. Adams, Jr. Bradley Currey, Jr.

Mrs. Drew Fuller Mary D. Gellerstedt

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Arthur L. Montgomery * ex officio † 2011-2012 sabbatical

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usic Director Robert Spano, currently in his 11th 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.

Under Mr. Spano’s artistic leadership, the Orchestra and its audiences have together explored a creative mix of programming, including Theater of a Concert performances, which explore different formats, settings, and enhancements for the musical performance experience, such as the first concert-staged performances of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic in November 2008 and the production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in June 2011. The Atlanta School of Composers reflects Mr. Spano’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, Michael Gandolfi, and Adam Schoenberg. Since the beginning of his tenure (to date), Mr. Spano and the Orchestra have performed more than 100 concerts containing contemporary works (composed since 1950).

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Mr. Spano has a discography with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra of 19 recordings, six of which have been honored with Grammy® awards. He has led the Orchestra’s performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, as well as the Ravinia, Ojai, and Savannah Music Festivals. Mr. Spano 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.

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In March 2010, Mr. Spano began a three-year tenure as Emory University’s distinguished artist-in-residence, in which he leads intensive seminars, lectures, and presents programs on science, math, philosophy, literature, and musicology.

In March 2011, Mr. Spano was announced as the incoming music director of the Aspen Music Festival. He was in residence in Aspen for the 2011 summer season as music director-designate and will assume the full role of music director in 2012.

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Michael Krajewski

Music Director The Robert Reid Topping Chair *

Principal Guest Conductor The Neil and Sue Williams Chair *

Principal Pops Conductor

FIRST VIOLIN

SECOND VIOLIN

VIOLA

CELLO

David Coucheron Concertmaster William Pu Associate Concertmaster The Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair* Justin Bruns Assistant Concertmaster Jun-Ching Lin Assistant Concertmaster Carolyn Toll Hancock John Meisner Alice Anderson Oglesby Lorentz Ottzen Christopher Pulgram Carol Ramirez Juan Ramirez Olga Shpitko Denise Berginson Smith Kenn Wagner Lisa Wiedman Yancich

David Arenz Principal The Atlanta Symphony Associates Chair* Sou-Chun Su Associate Principal The Frances Cheney Boggs Chair* Jay Christy Assistant Principal Sharon Berenson David Braitberg Noriko Konno Clift David Dillard Eleanor Kosek Ruth Ann Little Thomas O’Donnell Ronda Respess Frank Walton

Reid Harris Principal The Edus H. and Harriet H. Warren Chair* Paul Murphy Associate Principal The Mary and Lawrence Gellerstedt Chair * Catherine Lynn Assistant Principal Wesley Collins Marian Kent Yang-Yoon Kim Yiyin Li Lachlan McBane Jessica Oudin Ardath Weck

Christopher Rex Principal The Miriam and John Conant Chair* Daniel Laufer Associate Principal The Livingston Foundation Chair* Karen Freer Assistant Principal Dona Vellek Assistant Principal Emeritus Joel Dallow Jere Flint Jennifer Humphreys Larry LeMaster Brad Ritchie Paul Warner

SECTION VIOLIN ‡

Judith Cox Raymond Leung Sanford Salzinger

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BASS

Ralph Jones Principal The Marcia and John Donnell Chair * Gloria Jones Associate Principal Jane Little Assistant Principal Emeritus Michael Kenady Michael Kurth Joseph McFadden Douglas Sommer Thomas Thoreson

Jere Flint

Norman Mackenzie

Staff Conductor; Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra The Zeist Foundation Chair*

Director of Choruses The Frannie and Bill Graves Chair

FLUTE

BASS CLARINET

TROMBONE

HARP

Christina Smith Principal The Jill Hertz Chair* Robert Cronin Associate Principal Paul Brittan Carl David Hall

Alcides Rodriguez

Colin Williams Principal Stephen Wilson Associate Principal George Curran

Elisabeth RemyJohnson Principal The Delta Air Lines Chair

PICCOLO

Carl David Hall OBOE

Elizabeth Koch Principal The George M. and Corrie Hoyt Brown Chair * Yvonne Powers Peterson Associate Principal Ann Lillya † CLARINET

Laura Ardan Principal The Robert Shaw Chair* Ted Gurch Associate Principal William Rappaport Alcides Rodriguez E-FLAT CLARINET

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BASSOON

Carl Nitchie Principal Elizabeth Burkhardt Associate Principal Laura Najarian Juan de Gomar

BASS TROMBONE

George Curran TUBA

Juan de Gomar

Michael Moore Principal

HORN

TIMPANI

Brice Andrus Principal Susan Welty Associate Principal Thomas Witte Richard Deane Bruce Kenney

Mark Yancich Principal The Walter H. Bunzl Chair* William Wilder Assistant Principal

TRUMPET

Thomas Sherwood Principal The Julie and Arthur Montgomery Chair* William Wilder Assistant Principal The William A. Schwartz Chair* Charles Settle

CONTRA-BASSOON

Thomas Hooten Principal The Madeline and Howell Adams Chair* The Mabel Dorn Reeder Honorary Chair* Karin Bliznik Associate Principal Michael Tiscione Joseph Walthall

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The Hugh and Jessie Hodgson Memorial Chair* Peter Marshall † Beverly Gilbert † Sharon Berenson LIBRARY

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‡ rotate between sections * Chair named in perpetuity † Regularly engaged musician Players in string sections are listed alphabetically

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“Nyx,” Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Robert Spano who conducts the U.S. premiere of Salonen’s “Nyx” October 27/29, are of one mind on a conductor’s role

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a 17-minute work by the Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, arrives with its own mystique. Did Salonen title his composition after the ethereal figure Nyx, the goddess of the night in Greek mythology and a figure previously best captured on canvas by painters in search of a muse? Salonen himself isn’t saying, but Anna Frankenberg, a representative for the composer, says “he is hard at work completing his description of the piece.”

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“ The most important function … is developing local musical life.”

All shall be revealed Thursday and Saturday evenings, Oct. 27 and 29, when Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra give the U.S. premiere of “Nyx” — plus Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy and Rachmaninov’s The Bells.

Then it’s on to Carnegie Hall for the New York premiere of “Nyx,” and the Orchestra’s first performance at Carnegie without the Chorus since 1997, on Nov. 5. Instead of The Bells, pianist Garrick Ohlsson will perform the Rachmaninov Third Piano Concerto. (He plays the work on the new ASO Media recording, also featuring the composer’s Symphonic Dances, to be released in early November.

A related article appears on page 48.)

The piece, a co-commission by Radio France, Carnegie Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Barbican Centre and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, had its world premiere Feb. 19, 2011, during the final concert of Festival Présences Paris. “Nyx” affords audiences here and at Carnegie a glimpse of kindred sprits at work: Spano and Salonen, luminaries of contemporary music who believe making new music begins at home.

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where he brought a vital edge to the orchestra’s repertoire and an enthusiastic audience that came from every borough in New York City to hear what some called “classical music’s new era.”

Spano redoubled his commitment when he moved to Atlanta — where he now lives year-round — and founded the justly acclaimed Atlanta School of Composers. Members include Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Theofanidis, Osvaldo Golijov, Michael Gandolfi and Adam Schoenberg, with more composers on the horizon. Their orchestral and choral works are an essential part of the Orchestra’s recorded oeuvre.

“Spano has found that audiences react to these composers with pleasure,” wrote Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed in 2008. “The Orchestra takes pride in sending its listeners home happy, having been given a big sonic hug.”

Spano and Salonen are not the first conductors, of course, to try and solve the ultimate mystery of the orchestra business, which is how to attract new listeners without alienating established ones. Their reputations for bold choices, however, draw music lovers, and the kind of media swirl that Salonen for one can live without.

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

Delta Classical Series Concerts Thursday and Saturday, October 6 and 8, 2011, at 8 p.m..

Mei-Ann Chen, Conductor Terrence Wilson, Piano Michael Abels (b. 1962)

Global Warming (1991) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Piano Concerto in G Major (1931) I. Allegramente

II. Adagio assai

III. Presto

Terrence Wilson, Piano INTERMISSION César Franck (1822-1890)

Symphony in D minor (1888) I. Lento; Allegro non troppo

II. Allegretto III. Allegro non troppo

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

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

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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s concert on November 5, 2011 at Carnegie Hall is made possible through the generous support of Delta Air Lines and Thurmond Smithgall.

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

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

This performance is being recorded for broadcast at a later time. Atlanta Symphony concert broadcasts are heard each week on Atlanta’s WABE FM-90.1 and Georgia Public Broadcasting’s statewide network.

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program Notes on the Program

By Ken Meltzer Global Warming (1991) Michael Abels was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 8, 1962. The first performance of Global Warming took place in Phoenix on May 7, 1991, with Mark Russell Smith conducting the Phoenix Youth Symphony. Global Warming is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, harp, tam-tam, marimba, triangle, xylophone, tambourine, guiro, bodhrán (Irish drum), timbales, tablas (Indian drums), congas and strings. Approximate performance time is eight minutes.

These are the first ASO Classical Subscription Performances.

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lobal Warming, by the contemporary American composer Michael Abels, was commissioned by the Phoenix Symphony Guild. The work premiered on May 7, 1991, with Mark Russell Smith conducting the Phoenix Youth Symphony.

Following the premiere, Global Warming received numerous performances by orchestras throughout the United States (the ASO twice performed the work in 1992, as part of their Atlanta Parks concerts). The piece was also featured as part of the Detroit Symphony’s 1992 African-American Symphony Composers forum.

Global Warming was one of the first works by a black composer to be performed by the National Symphony of South Africa, after the election of Nelson Mandela as President. A recording of Global Warming by the Chicago Sinfonietta and conductor Paul Freeman is available from Cedille Records (CDR 90000 066), Volume III of its African Heritage Symphonic series.

The composer provided the following comments on Global Warming: Global Warming was written around the time of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, when the Cold War was ending. Living in Los Angeles, I’ve been able to learn about music from around the world simply by opening the window; among my neighbors are immigrants from every corner of the world. I was intrigued by the similarities between folk music of divergent cultures, and decided to write a piece that celebrates these common threads as well as the sudden improvement in international relations that was occurring. Since the piece was commissioned for an orchestra in the desert city of Phoenix, AZ, “global warming” was the title that seemed to incorporate all these ideas best.

The opening section of the piece is a vision of the traditional idea of global warming — a vast desert, the relentless heat punctuated by the buzzing of cicadas, and an anguished, frenetic violin solo. This scene Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 27

gives way to several episodes reminiscent of folk music of various cultures, most noticeably Irish and Middle Eastern. At the climax of the piece, a Middle Eastern melody is transformed, through gradual changes in rhythm and ornamentation, back into the Irish refrain, and many countermelodies join in to present a noisy yet harmonious world village.

This joyous moment is broken by a sudden return to the stark vision of the opening, leaving it to the listener to decide which image may more accurately reflect the future.

— Michael Abels

Piano Concerto in G Major (1931) Maurice Ravel was born in Ciboure, Basses-Pyrénées, France, on March 7, 1875, and died in Paris, France, on December 28, 1937. The first performance of the G-Major Piano Concerto took place at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on January 14, 1932, with Marguerite Long as soloist and the composer conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra.

In addition to the solo piano, the G-Major Concerto is scored for piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, B-flat clarinet, E-flat clarinet, two bassoons, two horns, trumpet, trombone, harp, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, wood block, triangle, tam tam, suspended cymbal, whip, bass drum and strings. Approximate performance time is twenty-three minutes.

First ASO Classical Subscription Performance: January 10, 1963, Philippe Entremont, Piano, Henry Sopkin, Conductor.

Most Recent ASO Classical Subscription Performances: November 19, 20 and 22, 2009, Olli Mustonen, Piano, Robert Spano, Conductor.

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oward the close of 1927, Maurice Ravel embarked upon a four-month tour of the United States and Canada. Ravel traveled across the North American continent, appearing as pianist and conductor in twenty-five cities. Ravel enjoyed a glorious reception from the American people. At an all-Ravel concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall by the Boston Symphony and Serge Koussevitsky, the audience greeted the composer with a standing ovation. “You know, this doesn’t happen to me in Paris,” Ravel wistfully commented.

“Take Jazz Seriously!”

While in America, Ravel had the opportunity to meet such musicians as George Gershwin and Paul Whiteman. In fact, Ravel and Gershwin traveled to Harlem on several occasions to listen to jazz. Ravel was impressed by what he heard and in a March, 1928 article for Musical Digest entitled Take Jazz Seriously!, the composer admonished: You Americans take jazz too lightly. You seem to feel that it is cheap, vulgar, momentary. In my opinion it is bound to lead to the national music of the United States. Aside from it you have no veritable idiom as

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program yet. Most of your compositions show European influences, either Spanish, Russian, French or German-rather than American individuality. Nor do I believe those who claim that this is due to the admixture of foreign peoples who comprise the American people. Pas de tout. C’est ridicule, ça!...

Abroad, we take jazz seriously. It is influencing our work. The Blues in my sonata, par exemple, is stylized jazz, more French than American in character perhaps, but nevertheless strongly influenced by your so-called “popular music.”

Personally, I find jazz most interesting: the rhythms, the way melodies are handled, the melodies themselves. I have heard some of George Gershwin’s works and I find them intriguing...

When Ravel returned to Europe, he began composition of his G-Major Piano Concerto, completing the work in the fall of 1931. Ravel had, for some time, contemplated the possibility of writing a piano concerto for his own performance. But failing health prevented Ravel from appearing as soloist in the January 14, 1932 premiere of his G-Major Concerto.

The composer did, however, conduct that performance at the Paris Salle Pleyel. The soloist was pianist Marguerite Long (who also premiered Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin), to whom Ravel dedicated the Concerto.

In an interview, Ravel acknowledged that the jazz he so enjoyed in the United States influenced the G-Major Concerto. “What is being written today without the influence of jazz?”, Ravel queried. “It is not the only influence, however; in the concerto one also finds bass accompaniments from the time of Bach, a melody that recalls Mozart, the Mozart of the Clarinet Quintet, which by the way is the most beautiful piece he wrote.” Of course, the success of the G-Major Concerto is a tribute to Ravel’s remarkable ability to synthesize these various and potentially disparate influences into an engaging, unified and individual work.

Musical Analysis I. Allegramente — The soloist accompanies a vivacious piccolo melody, apparently based upon a Basque folk tune. The melody is soon played by the trumpet, then by the entire orchestra.

Ravel introduces several themes, notably a descending blues passage first played by the clarinet, and echoed by the muted trumpet. In commenting on the G-Major, Ravel noted: “It has been said of certain great classics that their concertos were written not ‘for,’ but ‘against’ the piano. I heartily agree.” Indeed, the soloist and orchestra display an exceptional degree of interaction. Toward the latter portion of the movement, the soloist takes center stage with an extended cadenza. The opening theme returns for the movement’s exuberant conclusion.

II. Adagio assai — Ravel confessed to Marguerite Long that the Concerto’s slow movement (inspired by the Larghetto of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, K. 581) was crafted “bar by bar.”

Still, there is no apparent sense of effort in the extended, flowing piano solo with which the movement opens. The remainder of the Adagio features lovely woodwind passages, including a haunting duet for piano and English horn in the latter portion of the movement.

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III. Presto — The virtuoso finale is the Concerto’s most overtly jazz-influenced movement.

After an orchestral fanfare, the soloist enters with a scurrying perpetual motion figure and continues to play almost without pause throughout. A reprise of the opening fanfare caps this energetic and playful finale.

Symphony in D minor (1888) César Franck was born in Liège, Belgium, on December 10, 1822, and died in Paris, France, on November 8, 1890. The first performance of the Symphony in D minor took place in Paris on February 17, 1889, with Jules Garcin conducting the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. The Symphony in D minor is scored for two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, two cornets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, harp and strings.

Approximate performance time is forty minutes.

First ASO Classical Subscription Performance: May 4, 1947, Henry Sopkin, Conductor.

Most Recent ASO Classical Subscription Performances: March 10, 11 and 12, 1994, Yoel Levi, Conductor.

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istinguished musical compositions are not always welcomed with the esteem they deserve. Composer, conductor and musicologist, Nicolas Slonimsky, was able to compile several hundred pages of negative critical reactions to acknowledged masterpieces. That book, the Lexicon of Musical Invective, subtitled Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven’s Time (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1953) makes for fascinating and delightful reading (Invection, an Index of Vituperative, Pejorative and Deprecatory Words and Phrases is alone worth the price of the book).

Slonimsky’s Lexicon contains the following contemporary review by Le Ménestrel, Paris, of César Franck’s D-minor Symphony: The Symphony in D minor by César Franck drags slowly, painfully.

It solemnly presents phrases whose chief merit comes from gravity, imperturbable seriousness with which they are given. This music is morose and pompously generates tedium. The maître had very little to say here, but he proclaims it with the conviction of the pontiff defining the dogma.

Indeed, the Franck D-minor, one of the most performed and beloved 19th-century French symphonies, had a decidedly inauspicious beginning. Franck was highly revered as a virtuoso organist and professor at the Paris Conservatoire. His compositions, however, did not always inspire the same level of adulation. Franck’s disciple and champion, composer Vincent d’Indy, gave this unforgettable eyewitness account of the premiere of the D-minor Symphony: The Symphony was given for the first time on February 17, 1889, by the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. The performance was quite

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program against the wish of most performers of the famous orchestra, and was only pushed through thanks to the benevolent obstinacy of the conductor, Jules Garcin.

The subscribers could make neither head nor tail of it, and the musical authorities were in much the same position. I inquired of one of them — a professor at the Conservatoire, and a kind of factotum on the Committee — what he thought of the work. “That, a symphony?” he replied in contemptuous tones. “But, my dear sir, who ever heard of writing for the cor anglais in a symphony? Just mention a single symphony by Haydn or Beethoven introducing the cor anglais?

(Annotator’s note: Franz Joseph Haydn composed a Symphony that included not one, but two English horns, the 1764 “Philosopher,” No. 22 in E-flat major.) There, well, you see — your Franck’s music may be whatever you please, but it will certainly never be a symphony!” This was the attitude of the Conservatoire in the year of grace 1889.

At another door of the concert-hall, the composer of “Faust,” escorted by a train of adulators, male and female, fulminated a kind of papal decree to the effect that this symphony was the affirmation of incompetence pushed to dogmatic lengths. (Charles) Gounod must be expiating these words in some musical purgatory; for, coming from an artist such as he was, they can never have been sincere nor disinterested.

For sincerity and disinterestedness we must turn to the composer himself, when, on his return from the concert, his whole family surrounded him, asking eagerly for news. “Well, were you satisfied with the effect on the public? Was there plenty of applause?” To which “Father” Franck, thinking only of his work, replied with a beaming countenance: “Oh, it sounded well, just as I thought it would!”

Over time, orchestras, audiences and critics have come to appreciate the Symphony’s considerable strengths. The Franck D-minor is a dramatic symphonic journey that, as d’Indy observed, “is a continual ascent towards pure gladness and life-giving light, because its workmanship is solid, and its themes are manifestations of ideal beauty.”

Musical Analysis I. Lento; Allegro ma non troppo — The D-minor Symphony begins with a slow introduction (Lento) that foreshadows the opening movement’s principal themes. The violas, cellos and basses intone a three-note motif, reminiscent of both the “Muss es sein?” (“Must it be?”) theme in the final movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet, Opus 135 (1826), and the opening of Franz Liszt’s 1848 symphonic poem, Les préludes. The tension mounts and, after a crescendo, the Allegro non troppo begins with a thunderous transformation of the three-note motif. An F-minor reprise of the Lento introduction and Allegro non troppo Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 31

leads to an F-Major section and the introduction of a flowing theme that has been described as the composer’s affirmation of faith. The development presents juxtapositions of the principal themes. A recapitulation ensues, and the movement concludes with a massive statement of the three-note motif and a final glorious orchestral pronouncement.

II. Allegretto — The Allegretto serves the dual function of a slow movement and scherzo.

Over harp and pizzicato strings, the English horn sings a plaintive cantabile melody, soon continued by the clarinets and horns. A scurrying passage for muted strings inaugurates an episode that recalls the quicksilver charm of Felix Mendelssohn’s incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The English horn solo returns, now accompanied by the muted strings, as the Allegretto proceeds to its serene conclusion.

III. Allegro non troppo — After a brief and vibrant introduction, the bassoons and cellos sing the finale’s principal melody, soon proclaimed in bold fashion by the entire orchestra.

The trumpets introduce a chorale-like subsidiary theme. In the finale the composer reprises melodies from the previous movements, beginning with the Allegretto English horn solo, ultimately transformed into a massive orchestral proclamation. The “faith” and three-note motifs from the opening movement return as well, but in the end, the finale’s principal melody emerges triumphant.

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program Mei-ann chen, Conductor

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ne of the most dynamic young conductors in America, Mei-Ann Chen has recently completed her first season as music director of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. The impact of her energy, enthusiasm and high level of music-making has already been felt by the orchestra, audiences and entire community. In June, she assumed the music directorship of the Chicago Sinfonietta, only the second person to hold this position.

Mei-Ann Chen

In great demand as a guest conductor, Ms. Chen has appeared with the Alabama, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Colorado, Columbus, Edmonton (Canada), Florida, Fort Worth, Honolulu, National (Washington, D.C.), Oregon, Pacific, Phoenix, Princeton, Seattle and Toronto symphonies, and the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra. Worldwide engagements include all the principal Danish orchestras, BBC Scottish Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Graz Symphony, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic and the Trondheim Symphony. During the 2011-12 season, she will debut with the symphonies of Jacksonville, Naples, Nashville, Pasadena and Sarasota as well as the National Symphony of Mexico and the Netherlands Philharmonic at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

The first woman to win the Malko Competition (2005), Ms. Chen has served as assistant conductor of the Oregon Symphony, and has recently completed highly successful tenures as assistant conductor of the Atlanta and Baltimore symphonies; these positions were sponsored by the League of American Orchestras. Ms. Chen, who received the 2007 Taki Concordia Fellowship, has appeared jointly with Marin Alsop and Stefan Sanderling in highly acclaimed subscription concerts with the Baltimore Symphony, Colorado Symphony and Florida Orchestra.

In 2002, Ms. Chen was unanimously selected as music director of the Portland Youth Philharmonic in Oregon, the oldest of its kind and the model for many of the youth orchestras in the United States. During her five-year tenure with the orchestra, she led its sold-out debut at Carnegie Hall, received an ASCAP award for innovative programming and developed new and unique musicianship programs for the orchestra’s members. She was honored with a Sunburst Award from Young Audiences for her contribution to music education.

Ms. Chen, who was born in Taiwan, has lived in the United States since 1989. She holds a doctor of musical arts in conducting from the University of Michigan, where she was a student of Kenneth Kiesler. Before that, she was the first student in New England Conservatory history to receive masterd degrees simultaneously in both violin and conducting. Ms. Chen also participated in the National Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C., and the American Academy of Conducting in Aspen, Colo.

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Terrence Wilson, Piano

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ianist Terrence Wilson has established a reputation as one of today’s most gifted instrumentalists. He has appeared with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Washington, D.C. (National Symphony), San Francisco, St. Louis, Cleveland, Minnesota, Philadelphia and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has worked with such conductors as Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach, Neeme Mei-Ann Chen Jarvi, Yoel Levi, Andrew Litton, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Robert Spano, Yuri Temirkanov, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Gunther Herbig.

Highlights of Mr. Wilson’s 2011-12 season include engagements with the Cincinnati Symphony, performing Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto under the baton of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and with the Atlanta Symphony, playing Ravel’s G Major Concerto with conductor Mei-Ann Chen. He will also be guest artist with the orchestras of Wichita, Kan.; Santa Barbara, Calif.; Albany; Stamford, Conn.; and Helena, Mont. He returns to the Jacksonville Symphony in February 2012 as pianist in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, and to Cincinnati’s Xavier University Piano Series, where he will perform in recital in March.

Abroad, Mr. Wilson has played concerti with such ensembles as the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, the Malaysian Philharmonic, and the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In 2005, he toured Spain with the Baltimore Symphony, Yuri Temirkanov conducting.

An active recitalist, Mr. Wilson made his New York City recital debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Washington, D.C., recital debut at the Kennedy Center. In Europe he has given recitals at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and at the Louvre in Paris. He has given recitals at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, N.Y., San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society. An avid chamber musician, he performs regularly with the Ritz Chamber Players. Festival appearances include the Blossom Festival, Tanglewood and Wolf Trap.

Mr. Wilson has received numerous awards and prizes, including the SONY ES Award for Musical Excellence, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Juilliard Petschek Award. He has also been featured on several radio and television broadcasts, including NPR’s “Performance Today,” WQXR radio in New York, and programs on the Bravo network, the A&E network and public television Mr. Wilson is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky.

He is a Bronx native, who now lives in Montclair, N.J.

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support The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the generous gifts of individuals, corporations, foundations, government and other entities whose contributions help the Orchestra fulfill its mission to be a vigorous part of the cultural fabric of our community. The following list represents the cumulative total of philanthropy of $1,750 and above to the Orchestra’s fundraising campaigns, events and special initiatives from the fiscal year 2011: June 1, 2010 through May 31, 2011.

(Please note that donor benefits are based solely on contributions to the annual fund.) $500,000+

Mrs. Thalia N. Carlos** Delta Air Lines

The Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

$250,000+

Madeline & Howell Adams, Jr. Mrs. Anne Cox Chambers

The Coca-Cola Company Mrs. William A. Schwartz

$100,000+

GE Asset Management Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. McTier

Turner Broadcasting System The Vasser Woolley Foundation, Inc. Woodruff Arts Center

$75,000+

Fulton County Arts Council

National Endowment for the Arts

UPS

$50,000+

Anonymous AT&T Real Yellow Pages Marcia & John Donnell GE Energy The Graves Foundation InterContinental Hotels Group

The Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc. The Reiman Foundation Mr. Thurmond Smithgall Robert Spano Susan & Thomas Wardell

SunTrust Bank SunTrust Foundation SunTrust Bank Trusteed Foundation – Walter H. and Marjory M. Rich Memorial Fund

$35,000+

Massey Charitable Trust Porsche Cars North America

Publix Super Markets Charities Patty & Doug Reid

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Lucy R. & Gary Lee, Jr. MetLife Foundation The Sara Giles Moore Foundation Nalley Automotive Group Terence L. & Jeanne P. Neal* Victoria & Howard Palefsky Mr. & Mrs. Solon P. Patterson* Printpack Inc. & The Gay & Erskine Love Foundation

Ryder System, Inc. Mrs. Charles A. Smithgall, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. K. Morgan Varner, III Adair & Dick White Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr.* Sue & Neil Williams

$25,000+

Susan & Richard Anderson Stephanie & Arthur Blank Mr. & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Currey, Jr. Georgia Council for the Arts Georgia Natural Gas Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation John H. & Wilhelmina D. Harland Charitable Foundation, Inc.

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

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$17,500+

Anonymous (2) Jim and Adele Abrahamson The Arnold Foundation, Inc.

Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr. City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs

Gary & Nancy Fayard Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Garcia Jane & Clay Jackson Karole & John Lloyd

Mr. Kenneth & Dr. Carolyn Meltzer Loren & Gail Starr Alison M. & Joseph M. Thompson Camille Yow

Mr. Donald F. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence L. Gellerstedt III Charles & Mary Ginden Ann A. & Ben F. Johnson III* Sarah & Jim Kennedy Steve & Eydie Koonin Carrie & Brian Kurlander

Michael & Cindi Lang Donna Lee & Howard C. Ehni Meghan & Clarke Magruder Jeff Mango Verizon Wireless Mr. & Mrs. William T. Plybon*

Dr. Stanley & Shannon Romanstein Lynn Schinazi Irene & Howard Stein Mary Rose Taylor Ray & John Uttenhove Mr. & Mrs. Edus H. Warren, Jr.

The John & Rosemary Brown Family Foundation The Walter & Frances Bunzl Foundation Cynthia & Donald Carson Dr. John W. Cooledge Trisha & Doug Craft Cari Katrice Dawson Eleanor & Charles Edmondson Rosi & Arnoldo Fiedotin Mary D. Gellerstedt GMT Capital Corporation Nancy D. Gould The Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Fund

Joe Guthridge & David Ritter* Jan & Tom Hough Mr. Tad Hutcheson Roya & Bahman Irvani Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Keough Mr. & Mrs. John M. Law The Livingston Foundation, Inc. Mike’s Hard Lemonade Morgens West Foundation Lynn & Galen Oelkers Primerica

Margaret & Bob Reiser Bill & Rachel Schultz* Joyce & Henry Schwob Mr. John A. Sibley III John Sparrow Carol & Ramon Tome Family Fund* Trapp Family Mike & Liz Troy Turner Foundation, Inc. Mark & Rebekah Wasserman Neal & Virginia Williams Suzanne Bunzl Wilner

Breman Foundation Jeff & Ann Cramer*

Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Hill, Jr. C. Tycho & Marie Howle Foundation

JBS Foundation The Hellen Plummer Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Fackler David L. Forbes James F. Fraser The Fraser-Parker Foundation, Inc. Betty Sands Fuller Sally & Carl Gable Dick & Anne Goodsell The Jamieson Family Philip I. Kent James H. Landon George H. Lanier

The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc. Pat & Nolan Leake Links Inc., Azalea City Chapter Belinda & Gino Massafra Linda & John Matthews John F. & Marilyn M. McMullan Penelope & Raymond McPhee* Dr. & Mrs. Mark P. Pentecost, Jr.

Margaret H. Petersen John & Kyle Rogers Hamilton & Mason Smith* Sandy & Paul Smith Peter James Stelling Mrs. C. Preston Stephens Triska Drake & G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr. Charlie Wade & M.J. Conboy Russell Williamson & Shawn Pagliarini

Ellen & Howard Feinsand Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta Herbert & Marian Haley Foundation Steven & Caroline Harless

Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hellriegel Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Hollums JoAnn Hall Hunsinger

Paul & Rosthema Kastin Dr. & Mrs. James T. Laney* Mr. & Mrs. William C. Lester*

$15,000+

Pinney L. Allen & Charles C. Miller III The Antinori Foundation Lisa & Joe Bankoff Mary Helen & Jim Dalton Mr. & Mrs. David Edmiston In memory of Polly Ellis

by Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. $10,000+ Anonymous The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. AGCO Corporation, Lucinda B. Smith Mark & Christine Armour The Balloun Family Kelley O. & Neil H. Berman Mr. David Boatwright Mrs. Suzanne Dansby Bollman & Mr. Brooks Bollman The Boston Consulting Group $7,500+ Atlanta Federation of Musicians Edith H. & James E. Bostic, Jr. Family Foundation

$5,000+ Anonymous (3) John** & Helen Aderhold* Aadu & Kristi Allpere* Ms. Julie M. Altenbach The ASCAP Foundation Dr. Robert L. & Lucinda W. Bunnen Charles Campbell & Ann Grovenstein-Campbell Richard A. & Lynne N. Dorfman Christopher & Sonnet Edmonds

$3,500+ Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Chorba Mr. James L. Davis & Ms. Carol Comstock* Jere & Patsy Drummond

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support

$3,500+ continued Deborah & William Liss Dr. & Mrs. James T. Lowman Ruth & Paul Marston Mr. & Mrs. Harmon B. Miller III

Walter W. Mitchell Leslie & Skip Petter Mr. & Mrs. Rezin Pidgeon, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joel F. Reeves S.A. Robinson

Nancy & Henry Shuford In memory of Willard Shull Elliott Sopkin Ms. Kimberly Tribble & Mr. Mark S. Lange

Burton Trimble Drs. Julius & Nanette Wenger H. & T. Yamashita*

Gregory & Debra Durden Ms. Diane Durgin Cree & Frazer Durrett The Robert S. Elster Foundation George T. & Alecia H. Ethridge John & Michelle Fuller Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Garland Dr. Mary G. George & Mr. Kenneth Molinelli Ben & Lynda Greer Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Gross Paul B., Paul H., & M. Harrison Hackett Sally W. Hawkins Darlene K. Henson 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. Robert A. Johnson Mr. W. F. & Dr. Janice Johnston Dr. Maurice J. Jurkiewicz**

Hazel & Herb Karp Mr. & Mrs. John H. Kauffman Mr. & Mrs. L. Michael Kelly Dick & Georgia Kimball* Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. King Dr. Fulton D. Lewis III & Mr. Stephen Neal Rhoney Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Lutz* Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Mabry Barbara & Jim MacGinnitie The Devereaux F. & Dorothy McClatchey Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. McGhee Birgit & David McQueen Gregory & Judy Moore Ms. Lilot S. Moorman & Mr. Jeffrey B. Bradley Dr. & Mrs. R. Daniel Nable Mr. & Mrs. Robert Olive Ms. Rebecca Oppenheimer Mr. & Mrs. Andreas Penninger Susan Perdew Dr. & Mrs. W. Harrison Reeves, Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Rodgers Mr. & Mrs. George P. Rodrigue Dr. Paul J. Seguin Elizabeth S. Sharp Angela & Morton Sherzer Kay R. Shirley Beverly & Milton Shlapak Helga Hazelrig Siegel Lewis Silverboard Baker & Debby Smith Amy & Paul Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Raymond F. Stainback, Jr. Lynne & Steven Steindel* John & Yee-Wan Stevens Mr. & Mrs. George B. Taylor, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mark Taylor Annie York-Trujillo & Raul F. Trujillo Mr. William C. Voss Dr. & Mrs. James O. Wells, Jr. David & Martha West Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Whitcup Mary Lou Wolff Jan & Beattie Wood Mr. & Mrs. John C. Yates

Elizabeth & John Donnelly Xavier Duralde & Mary Barrett Cree & Frazer Durrett Dr. Francine D. Dykes & Mr. Richard Delay Mary Frances Early Ree & Ralph Edwards George T. & Alecia H. Ethridge Bill & Susan Gibson Carol & Henry Grady Mr. Lewis H. Hamner III Thomas High In memory of Carolyn B. Hochman Stephanie & Henry Howell Mary B. & Wayne James Aaron & Joyce Johnson Veronique & Baxter Jones Lana M. Jordan Mr. Thomas J. Jung Dr. Rose Mary Kolpatzki Mr. & Mrs. David Krischer

Thomas C. Lawson Mr. & Mrs. Craig P. MacKenzie Kay & John Marshall Martha & Reynolds McClatchey Captain & Mrs. Charles M. McCleskey Virginia K. McTague Angela & Jimmy Mitchell Mrs. Gene Morse** Barbara & Sanford Orkin Dr. & Mrs. Keith D. Osborn Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Palay Mr. & Mrs. Emory H. Palmer Elise T. Phillips Dr. & Mrs. Frank S. Pittman III The Reverend Neal P. Ponder, Jr. Provaré Technology, Inc.

Ms. Susan Robinson & Ms. Mary Roemer The Gary 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 Drs. Jonne & Paul Walter Alan & Marcia Watt Mr. & Mrs. William White* Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr. Mrs. Frank L. Wilson, Jr. Charlie & Dorothy Yates Family Fund Herbert & Grace Zwerner

$2,250+ Anonymous (3) Mrs. Kay Adams* & Mr. Ralph Paulk Mr. & Mrs. Phillip E. Alvelda* Paul & Marian Anderson 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. Dr. & Mrs. Anton J. Bueschen Major General & Mrs. Robert M. Bunker Dr. Aubrey M. Bush & Dr. Carol T. Bush The Buss Family Charitable Fund Ms. Marnite B. Calder Mr. & Mrs. Beauchamp C. Carr Chip & Darlene Conrad Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Cousins Mr. Robert Cronin & Ms. Christina Smith Sally & Larry Davis Elizabeth & John Donnelly

$1,750+ Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Ambo Dr. David & Julie Bakken Mr. & Mrs. Ron Bell Leon & Linda Borchers Mr.** & Mrs. Eric L. Brooker Mr. & Mrs. Russell E. Butner Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Canipe Susan & Carl Cofer Mr. & Mrs. R. Barksdale Collins* Ralph & Rita Connell Dr. & Mrs. William T. Cook Jean & Jerry Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Brant Davis* Mrs. H. Frances Davis Mr. & Mrs. Peter T. de Kok Drs. Carlos Del Rio & Jeannette Guarner

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

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additional support Blonder Family Foundation

William McDaniel Charitable Foundation

Appassionato

William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund

Meghan Magruder, Appassionato Chair

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

Patron Partnership

Thomas J. Jung, 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.

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 & Martha Head Ms. Jeannie Hearn Mr. Walter T. Heist* 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

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Bob Kinsey James W. & Mary Ellen* Kitchell Paul Kniepkamp, Jr. Miss Florence Kopleff Ouida Hayes Lanier Mr. & Mrs. William Lester 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 Barbara Dunbar Stewart* C. Mack* & Mary Rose Taylor Jennings Thompson IV Margaret* & Randolph Thrower Kenneth & Kathleen Tice Steven R. Tunnell Mary E. Van Valkenburgh Mrs. Anise C. Wallace* Mr. & Mrs. John B. White, Jr. Adair & Dick White 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

corporate & government support

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

Holiday Title Sponsor Muhtar Kent President and Chief Operating Officer

Richard Anderson Chief Executive Officer

Darryl Harmon Southeast Regional President

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

Atlanta School of Composers Presenting Sponsor

Supporter of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Philip I. Kent Chief Executive Officer

Jerry Karr Managing Director

This program is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra programs are supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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

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Atlanta Symphony Associates The volunteer organization of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

2011-2012 board Belinda Massafra President Sylvia Davidson President Elect Suzy Wasserman, Leslie Petter, Camille Yow Advisors Ruth & Paul Marston Decorator’s Show House & Gardens Advisors Elba McCue Secretary

Sabine Sugarman Treasurer Camille Kesler VP Administration Dawn Mullican VP Public Relations Paula Ercolini VP Youth Education Ruth & Paul Marston VP Membership Gayle Lindsay Parliamentarian

Ann Levin & Gail Spurlock Historians Judy Schmidt Nominating Committee Chair Amy Mussara, Chair, Decorators’ Show House & Gardens Natalie Polk & Hillary Inglis Co-Chairs, Decorators’ Show House & Gardens

Janis Eckert & Gail Spurlock Chairs, ASA Fall Meeting Poppy Tanner Chair, ASA Night at the ASO Glee Lamb & Adele Abrahamson Chairs, ASA Spring Luncheon Pat King ASA Notes Newsletter Editor Jamie Moussa Chair, ASA Annual Directory

Nancy Levitt Ambassadors’ Desk Helen Marie Rutter Bravo Chair Elba McCue Concerto Chair Joan Abernathy Encore Chair Liz Cohn & Betty Jeter Ensemble Chairs Karen Bunn Intermezzo Chair

BRAVO! ON THE “BEACH” Members of Bravo!, the young professional volunteer group of the Orchestra, took in former Beach Boy Brian Wilson’s August show at Delta Classic Chastain. Shannon Smith, Helen Marie Rutter (Bravo! Unit Chair), and Wadette Bradford (left to right) soak up the “Good Vibrations.”

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Chairman’s Council ★★★★★★★★★★★★★ $500,000+

★★★★★★★ $100,000+

AirTran Airways Bank of America Delta Air Lines, Inc. Kaiser Permanente King & Spalding LLP ★★★★★★★★★★★ $450,000+ KPMG LLP, Partners & Employees Cox Interests Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Marcus Foundation, Inc. WSB-TV, Cox Radio Group The Sara Giles Moore Atlanta, James M. Cox Foundation Foundation Novelis, Inc. Hon. Anne Cox Chambers Regions Financial Corporation Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ★★★★★★★★★ $200,000+ The David, Helen & Marian Woodward Fund AT&T The Community Foundation for ★★★★★★ Greater Atlanta, Inc. $75,000+ Deloitte LLP, its Partners & Employees Holder Construction Company Ernst & Young, Partners & The Sartain Lanier Family Employees Foundation, Inc. The Home Depot Foundation Patty & Doug Reid Family Foundation Jones Day Foundation & Employees ★★★★★ The Klaus Family Foundation $50,000+ PricewaterhouseCoopers Partners AGL Resources Inc. & Employees Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation Lisa & Joe Bankoff Cisco Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Coca-Cola Enterprises Ann & Jay Davis ★★★★★★★★ Doosan Infracore International $150,000+ Frank Jackson Sandy Springs Alston & Bird LLP Toyota and Scion Equifax Inc. & Employees GMT Capital Corporation The Rich Foundation, Inc. Beth & Tommy Holder SunTrust Bank Employees & ING Trusteed Foundations Mr. & Mrs. M. Douglas Ivester Harriet McDaniel Kilpatrick Townsend & Marshall Trust Stockton LLP Walter H. & Marjory M. Newell Rubbermaid Rich Memorial Fund Primerica Thomas Guy Woolford Darrick Stephens Charitable Trust Sutherland Asbill & Greene-Sawtell Foundation Brennan LLP Wells Fargo The Zeist Foundation, Inc. The Coca-Cola Company Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. UPS

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★★★★ $35,000+ Accenture & Accenture Employees Katharine & Russell Bellman Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Currey, Jr. GE Energy The Imlay Foundation, Inc. Invesco PLC Norfolk Southern, Employees & Foundation SCANA Energy Siemens Industry, Inc. Harris A. Smith Troutman Sanders LLP Frances Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc. ★★★ $25,000+ Air Serv Corporation Assurant Atlanta Companies Assurant Solutions Assurant Specialty Property Atlanta Foundation Julie & Jim Balloun BB&T Corporation BDO USA, LLP Laura & Stan Blackburn Brysan Utility Contractors, Inc. Chartis CIGNA Foundation Cousins Properties Incorporated Crawford & Company Drummond Company, Inc. Eisner Family Foundation First Data Corporation Ford & Harrison LLP Genuine Parts Company Georgia-Pacific Jack & Anne Glenn Foundation, Inc. IBM Corporation Infor Global Solutions Sarah & Jim Kennedy Philip I. Kent Foundation The Ray M. & Mary Elizabeth Lee Foundation, Inc. LexisNexis Risk Solutions

The Blanche Lipscomb Foundation Livingston Foundation, Inc. Macy’s Foundation McKinsey & Company, Inc. Katherine John Murphy Foundation Piedmont Charitable Foundation, Inc. J. Marshall & Lucile G. Powell Charitable Trust Mary & Craig Ramsey Rock-Tenn Company Richard D. Shirk Southwire Company Spectrum Brands Towers Watson Waffle House, Inc. Gertrude & William C. Wardlaw Fund Waste Management Charitable Foundation Yancey Bros. Co. ★★ $15,000+ 22squared, inc.

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“Being a conductor myself, I do have some knowledge of the ‘empty hype’ that goes with this profession,” he said in an interview several years ago with Alex Ross of The New Yorker. “Conductors should be what they used to be — spokespeople for music in their hometown. But [as a composer] only I can write my own music.

There’s no one else who can do it for me.”

Having studied horn, composing and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki during the 1970s, Salonen initially considered himself to be a conducting composer, until 1983, when he pinchhit on short notice for a performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and became a composing conductor virtually overnight. His orchestral works are regularly performed and broadcast around the world.

“ Conductors should be spokespeople for music in their hometown.”

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The Salonen-Spano pairing has prompted a palpable buzz in Atlanta music circles.

After all, Spano and the ASO have performed nearly 100 contemporary pieces (works composed since 1950), since 2001, including seven ASO-commissioned world premieres, two additional world premieres, and two U.S. premieres as of the 2011-12 season. The Orchestra has received a total of eight Grammy awards for five recordings of contemporary works and, in 2007, was awarded ASCAP’s most prestigious honor, the John S. Edwards Award for Strongest Commitment to New American Music.

Next up, “Nyx.” Tickets and more information on the performance and the complete 2011-12 season are available at aso.org, at the Woodruff Arts Center box office or by calling 404.733.5000.

community corner

In the Community, Making a Difference Meet Sheehan Hanrahan, a member of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and a student at Alpharetta High School. A Youth Orchestra student council leader and sole student member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Education Committee, Sheehan also develops community service projects for his school orchestra and now is developing a Youth Orchestra community service plan.

Share a little about the community service plan you’re developing for the Youth Orchestra.

I envision every member participating in at least one community service project this season, which is a challenge because we do a lot more than practice and perform music.

We’re involved in sports, school clubs, organizations and many other activities, but I am confident we can do it — from volunteering at instrument petting zoos and a Youth Orchestra fundraiser to working in the community. Student musicians are the Youth Orchestra’s greatest resource, and following the lead of the Atlanta Symphony, we have the potential to take our music and talents throughout Atlanta and Georgia. There are many of us and taking part in one service project will have a lot of impact in the community.

What started you on the path to community service?

I started early, joining clubs and activities in my elementary, middle and high schools, and a community organization with my family. In middle school, I was a member of the chamber music program, Beta Club, Junior Honor Society and a member of the Atlanta Indian Catholic Association.

All these organizations arranged for community opportunities which I took part in; all of them exposed me to community service and giving.

Tell us about your work with the ASYO Student Council.

I’ve been a member for two years. The student council is comprised of members from each [instrumental] section, and we meet throughout the year to discuss the non-music and social aspect of being in the orchestra and bring up any questions or concerns. We also plan events throughout the year that give students an opportunity to socialize and get to know one another.

In the past we have held secret Santa gift exchanges and kickball games and will add community service as a priority.

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What are the challenges you face as the “student voice” on the Orchestra’s Education Committee?

One of the biggest challenges is finding ways to make music more interesting and to incorporate it into students’ lives in the community and in their schools. Many students who would have been exposed to music at an early age are now missing out due to budget cuts, and this is devastating.

We are all aware of the numerous studies that repeatedly show the positive effects of music on children, yet many families are not inclined towards music or are unable to afford private music tuition. My peers in the Youth Orchestra and I are a testament to the positive impact that music can have on students. I started playing the violin in fourth grade, and since then I have realized how much it has benefitted and helped me in various aspects of my life. There are many ideas as to how to solve this problem and efforts are underway to improve the situation.

How does the ASO impact your life and lives in your high school and community?

It’s my favorite thing about this city and has provided me with so many wonderful experiences and opportunities, both musical and non-musical. To me, there is nothing that can compare to a night at the symphony.

Watching our outstanding orchestra perform music with unsurpassed skill and musicality offers me something that no movie or theater can. My visits to Atlanta Symphony Hall are always the highlight of my week and always create fantastic memories.

The Orchestra also allows us to grow and develop by providing us mentoring from by its musicians. Participating in master classes is a privilege that very few students

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elsewhere receive. Musicians volunteer their time to travel to schools throughout the city to work with students and teachers, and perform at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park and Chastain Park Amphitheater, Family concerts and Symphony Street concerts. These provide wonderful music experiences for the general public and serve to make the Symphony an ever bigger part of the Atlanta community.

On a more personal level, our parent orchestra has helped me develop my leadership, social, academic and organizational skills to a great extent. These skills have helped me start a chamber music group in my school that performs throughout the community, and represent the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra at local music camps. I am grateful.

Edited and condensed by Karl Schnittke

“ The Orchestra also plays a large role in the community.”

Sheehan Hanrahan

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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Rachs ’n’ rolls into November with the release of an all-Rachmaninov recording on its own ASO Media label.

Music Director Robert

By Karl Schnittke Spano leads the Orchestra in the composer’s Symphonic Dances and Garrick Ohlsson, a frequent guest at Atlanta Symphony Hall, performs the mighty Third Concerto, a touchstone of the piano repertoire.

The album is the third release this year

by ASO Media. The Orchestra created the label in late 2010, and “It was an exciting and vital step forward for us,” recalled John Sparrow, who guides the label as vice president of orchestra initiatives and general manager. “We were thrilled to build on our longstanding tradition of excellence with our partners at Telarc, which had brought us national and international recognition.”

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Elaine Martone and recording engineer Michael Bishop, both of whom received Grammys for their work with the Orchestra, are part of the ASO Media team as well, a fact applauded by Spano.

“We have a great recording history together,” he said, “and working with Elaine and Michael provided the opportunity to perpetuate this legacy and ensure our recording history remains a vital and integral part of our future.”

ASO Media’s first recording came out Feb. 22, 2011. Music Director Robert Spano conducted the Orchestra in works by two members of his Atlanta School of Composers: On A Wire, a concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Higdon, an Atlanta native, with the chamber ensemble eighth blackbird; and Michael Gandolfi’s choral work, QED: Engaging Richard Feynman (“The most exciting choral work I’ve heard in a while” — America Record Guide), with the Orchestra Chorus.

On June 28, ASO Media released the world-premiere recording of Atlanta School member Christopher Theofanidis’s Symphony No. 1 (“fresh and provocative” wrote the San Francisco Chronicle), and Peter Lieberson’s Neruda Songs, inspired by the poetry of Pablo Neruda, sung by mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor.

A few years back, critic Susan Elliott remarked that “no other orchestra in this country has commissioned and performed as much new work in a similar time frame as have Robert Spano and his players.” With the launch of ASO Media and three records in less than a year, it’s safe to say the ASO is still on track.

ASO Media recordings are available at the Symphony Store.

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October 27/29 Thu/Sat: 8pm Delta Classical Esa-PEkka salOnEn: Nyx scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy rachmaninOv: The Bells Robert Spano, conductor Tatiana Monogarova, soprano Sergey Romanovsky, tenor Denis Sedov, bass Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus

november 17/19 Thu/Sat: 8pm Delta Classical rugglEs: Angels sEEgEr: Andante for strings mOzart: Flute concerto no. 1 sibElius: symphony no. 2 Ilan Volkov, conductor Christina Smith, flute

October 30 Sun: 1:30 & 3:30pm Family a stOrybOOk hallOwEEn Jere Flint, conductor Lee Harper Dancers Wendy Bennett, vocalist

JamEs bEckEl: Celebrations liaDOv: From the Apocalypse gabriEla lEna Frank: La Llorona

november 10/12/13 Thu/Sat: 8pm/Sun: 3pmDelta Classical

brittEn: The Building of the House Overture brahms: Double concerto OlivEr knussEn: symphony in One movement brittEn: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Oliver Knussen, conductor David Coucheron, violin Christopher Rex, cello

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symphonic summer 1 SPANO AT ASPEN Robert Spano, the music director-designate of the Aspen Music Festival, led Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto, with Vladimir Feltsman at the keyboard.

2 INTO THE WOODS WE GO! The Orchestra’s student musicians play a vital role in the Alliance Theatre’s opening production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods.

3 BRAVO, BRAVES! Members of the Youth Orchestra, under Jere Flint, performed the National Anthem at the Atlanta Braves’ inaugural Music Appreciation Night.

4 VWA WOW! The Orchestra’s fourth summer at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre hit all the right notes, including a concert with Cirque de la Symphonie.

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