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2016/17 NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

GIANCARLO GUERRERO Music Director

VINAY PARAMESWARAN Associate Conductor

TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE Interim Chorus Director

The Nashville Symphony is composed of 83 full-time artists who live in Middle Tennessee and play an integral role in the life of our community.

FIRST VIOLINS* Jun Iwasaki, Concertmaster Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair

Gerald C. Greer,

Associate Concertmaster

Erin Hall,

Assistant Concertmaster

Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, Concertmaster Emerita

Denise Baker Kristi Seehafer John Maple Alison Hoffman Paul Tobias Beverly Drukker Anna Lisa Hoepfinger Kirsten Mitchell Isabel Bartles

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Anthony LaMarchina, Principal

Kevin Bate,

Assistant Principal James Victor Miller Chair

ENGLISH HORN

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Roger Wiesmeyer

James Zimmermann, Principal

Bradley Mansell Lynn Marie Peithman Stephen Drake Matthew Walker Christopher Stenstrom Keith Nicholas Xiao-Fan Zhang

Cassandra Lee,

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Daniel Lochrie

Assistant Principal

Daniel Lochrie

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Cassandra Lee

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Joel Reist, Principal Glen Wanner,

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Kevin Jablonski Katherine Munagian Tim Pearson+ Elizabeth Stewart

Gil Perel

Assistant Principal

FLUTES

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Carolyn Wann Bailey, Zeneba Bowers,

Kenneth Barnd Jessica Blackwell Rebecca Cole Zoya Leybin+ Benjamin Lloyd Louise Morrison Laura Ross Jung-Min Shin+ Jeremy Williams VIOLAS*

Daniel Reinker, Principal Shu-Zheng Yang, Assistant Principal

Judith Ablon Hari Bernstein Bruce Christensen Michelle Lackey Collins Christopher Farrell Mary Helen Law Melinda Whitley Clare Yang

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Roger Wiesmeyer

Julia Harguindey, Principal Dawn Hartley, Assistant Principal

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Steven Brown

Gilbert Long, Principal TIMPANI

Joshua Hickman, Principal

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Richard Graber,

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Licia Jaskunas, Principal

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Robert Marler, Principal

Gil Perel

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Jennifer Goldberg,

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Alexander Blazek TROMBONES Paul Jenkins, Principal

Susan K. Smith,

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Melissa McCarthy Steinberg, Principal

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MEET OUR MUSICIANS

ME E T O UR MUS IC IA NS MARY KATHRYN VAN OSDALE FIRST VIOLIN, CONCERTMASTER EMERITA

Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee | Member of the Nashville Symphony since 1974 Do you remember the first time you performed onstage?

I started violin when I was 4, and when the Blair School of Music opened, I started taking lessons there when I was 6. I got a scholarship, which was given by the women’s music sorority at Peabody College, so I gave my first little recital at the Social Religious Building on Peabody campus. They were so happy to have me. They gave me a huge corsage that I put on my chest and then proceeded to smash with my violin.

They were just in horror, and I didn’t even notice. I was playing two pieces at the time —by Vivaldi and Bach — and I just switched them right in the middle. I played one piece, then the other, and then went back to the first. My poor little accompanist was just so freaked out; I traumatized him, and I didn’t even know I did it!

You joined the Nashville Symphony when you were a teenager. How has the orchestra changed for you since then?

When I first joined the orchestra, it was a community orchestra. Most everyone was a professional in another field — bankers, doctors. It was mostly nighttime rehearsals and performances, except for educational concerts during the day.

But now it’s a full-time-plus job. Back then, it was classical and pops. Now it’s everything, all different genres of music. It’s really great for Music City to have a Music City orchestra — not just one thing, but something that pleases everyone.

because they were so afraid that the information would get out before the CD was released. I had no idea which songs I was playing until it came out.

What are some of your favorite moments with the Nashville Symphony?

One of my first experiences coming to hear the Nashville Symphony was when they performed with Isaac Stern. He was kind of my hero growing up. The first record I bought was None but the Lonely Heart, and I used to play it over and over and over again. It was a combination of short pieces — they would call them encore pieces now, but he played them with such soul. I always wanted to play like that. I got his autograph, and I still have the album. I met him much later, when I was a member of the Symphony, and it’s nice when you can make that connection across time.

Favorite composer? Brahms Favorite piece of music? Probably Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy Favorite non-classical musician? Adele Favorite venue other than the Schermerhorn?

Carnegie Hall Favorite sports team? I used to love watching the Bulls. I also like baseball — the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Favorite movie? Love in the Afternoon

What are some of your most memorable recording sessions?

I did a Bruce Springsteen album, and he was there in the studio. Everyone sees him with the bandana and the cool clothes, but he was in a business suit — he looked like a banker. I almost didn’t recognize him.

We did the album, but no titles were on the music,

Favorite Book? Sense and Sensibility Favorite food? Sushi Favorite place in Nashville? Edwin Warner Park

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MUSIC DIRECTOR

GIANCARLO GUERRERO

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iancarlo Guerrero is Music Director of the Nashville Symphony, having taken up the post in 2009. A natural and instinctive musician, Guerrero is a charismatic presence on the podium.

He is a strong advocate of contemporary music and has championed the works of several of America’s most respected composers. He has presented eight world premieres with the Nashville Symphony and has led the orchestra to several GRAMMY® wins in recent years, including in 2016 for his recording of works by Stephen Paulus.

In the 2016/17 season, Guerrero will lead performances with The Cleveland Orchestra in Miami, Charlotte Symphony, Yale Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, Brussels Philharmonic, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Frankfurter Opernand Museumsorchester, Orchestre National de France, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. For many years Guerrero has maintained a close association with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Brazil and will spend three weeks with the orchestra in the summer of 2017. In addition, he has been re-invited to lead a summer residency with Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute’s NYO2 project, culminating in a concert with the young musicians alongside the Philadelphia Orchestra at Verizon Hall.

Guerrero’s recent debuts include the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera conducting Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, and, in Europe, with the NDR Hanover, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, and Tonkünstler Orchester.

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Maestro Guerrero has appeared with many of the prominent North American orchestras, including those of Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Montreal, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., among others. He is also known to audiences of major summer festivals such as the Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles) and Blossom Music Festival (Cleveland). He has developed a strong guest-conducting profile in Europe and has worked with great success in recent seasons with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.

A passionate proponent of new music and contemporary composers, Guerrero has performed and recorded the works of John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Roberto Sierra, and Richard Danielpour. With the Nashville Symphony, he has made recordings of music by Danielpour and Sierra for the Naxos label, and Béla Fleck’s Banjo Concerto for Deutsche Grammophone. Guerrero also recently developed and guided the creation of Nashville Symphony’s Composer Lab & Workshop initiative, together with composer Aaron Jay Kernis, to foster and promote new American orchestral music.

Giancarlo Guerrero previously held posts as the Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami (2013-2016), Music Director of the Eugene Symphony (2002-2009), and Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra (19992004).

VINAY PARAMESWARAN

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ctive as both an orchestra and opera conductor, Vinay Parameswaran currently serves as Associate Conductor of the Nashville Symphony, where he works closely with Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and conducts the Symphony in classical, pops, education, and community concerts.

In his tenure as Associate Conductor, Parameswaran has conducted the Nashville Symphony in over 100 performances.

In the 2016/17 season, Parameswaran will make his debuts with the Rochester Philharmonic and Tucson Symphony. He will also make his Aegis Sciences Classical Series debut with the Nashville Symphony conducting works by Gabriella Smith, Grieg, and Prokofiev.

During the 2015/16 season, Parameswaran made his debuts with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra. During the 2014/15 season, he made his debut with the Eugene Symphony, and he was one of four conductors selected to participate in the David Zinman Conductor Workshop with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada. He was also one of 24 conductors selected to participate in the Malko Competition in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Parameswaran conducted the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble on the album Two x Four, featuring violinists Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh. Along with works by Bach, David Ludwig, and Philip Glass, the recording included Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds, which received a 2014 GRAMMY® nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. In the summer of 2012, Parameswaran was one of seven out of over 130 applicants to be selected as a participant in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s Conductors Workshop, headed by Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Parameswaran holds a Bachelor of Arts in music and political science from Brown University, where he graduated with honors. At Brown, he began his conducting studies with Paul Phillips. He received a diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Otto-Werner Mueller, distinguished conducting pedagogue, as the Albert M. Greenfield Fellow.

INTERIM CHORUS DIRECTOR

TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE

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r. Tucker Biddlecombe currently serves as Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where he directs the Vanderbilt Chorale and Symphonic Choir. Through creative programming and community building, Biddlecombe has reinvigorated choral activities at the Blair School.

Concert highlights have included Haydn’s Creation, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Brahms’ Schicksalslied, Fauré’s Requiem, and Rutter’s Mass of the Children, which was performed for Blair’s 50th Anniversary celebration. Biddlecombe has served as a clinician to choirs in 22 states and has conducted all-state choruses in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and New York. He has participated in master classes for Chorus America, Eastman’s Choral Institute, and the Oregon Bach Festival.

A passionate advocate of music education, Biddlecombe achieved National Board Teacher Certification and was awarded Teacher of the Year at Lawton Chiles High School in Tallahassee. At Vanderbilt, he serves as director of Blair’s five-year Bachelor of Music/Teacher Education degree (Ma5) program. Ensembles under his direction have toured nationally and internationally.

Off the podium, Biddlecombe is active as a tenor and keyboardist. He is chief collaborator in Collegium, a professional choir based at Vanderbilt, and has guest-conducted performances with Music City Baroque and the Nashville Early Music Festival.

He can also be heard as tenor soloist and conductor on And the Time Is, a recording of the music of Jack Stamp featuring the Vanderbilt Chorale and Wind Symphony. His online initiative Nashville Choral Consortium (nashchor.org) tracks each choral ensemble and performance throughout the season and serves as a hub for community, university, and church choral performance throughout Middle Tennessee.

Biddlecombe holds an MM and Ph.D. in Music Education and Choral Conducting from Florida State University, and he holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam.

He is a native of Buffalo, New York, and resides in Nashville with his wife Mary Biddlecombe, Artistic Director of the Blair Children’s Chorus.

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ne of the most popular and successful American orchestral composers of the modern age, John Williams is the winner of five Academy Awards, 17 GRAMMY® Awards, three Golden Globes, two Emmys, and five British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. Best known for his film scores and ceremonial music, he is also a noted composer of concert works and a renowned conductor.

Williams has composed the music and served as music director for nearly 80 films.

His scores for Jaws, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List and the Indiana Jones series have won him multiple awards and produced bestselling recordings. His scores for the original Star Wars trilogy transformed the landscape of Hollywood film music and have become icons of American culture. He has been awarded several Gold and Platinum records, and his score for Schindler’s List earned him both an Oscar and a GRAMMY®.

Williams was born in New York and moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948. There he attended UCLA and studied composition privately with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. After service in the Air Force, he returned to New York to attend The Juilliard School, where he studied piano with Madame Rosina Lhevinne.

He then returned to Los Angeles, where he began his career in the film industry, working with such composers as Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, and Franz Waxman. He went on to write music for many television programs in the 1960s, winning two Emmy Awards for his work.

In January 1980, Williams was named 19th Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. He assumed the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor following his retirement in December 1993 and currently holds the title of Artist-inResidence at Tanglewood.

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Williams has written many concert pieces, including a symphony; a sinfonietta for wind ensemble; a cello concerto premiered by YoYo Ma and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1994; concertos for flute and violin recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra; concertos for clarinet and tuba; and a trumpet concerto, which was premiered by The Cleveland Orchestra and their principal trumpet Michael Sachs in September 1996. His most recent concert work is Seven for Luck, a sevenpiece song cycle based on the texts of former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove.

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ustin Freer has become a highly sought-after conductor and producer of filmmusic concerts around the world. He began his formal studies on trumpet, playing in wind ensembles, marching bands, and community orchestras. He quickly turned to piano and composition, writing his first work for wind ensemble at age 11. He saw multiple wind ensemble, choral, and big band performances of his music while still a teenager and gave his professional conducting debut at age 16.

Freer has written music for trumpeters Doc Severinsen and Jens Lindemann and continues to be in demand as a composer and conductor. Major League Soccer called upon him to compose and conduct music for the 2011 and 2012 Major League Soccer Cup in Los Angeles. He has served as composer for several independent films and has written advertising music for some of 20th Century Fox Studios’ biggest campaigns, including Avatar, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dragonball Evolution, and Aliens in the Attic.

As a conductor, Freer has appeared with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Freer is the founder and president of CineConcerts, a company dedicated to the preservation and concert presentation of film, TV, and media music set to picture. He has produced, curated, and conducted full-length music score performances live with film for Gladiator, The Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

NA S H V I LL E SY M PH O N Y WOME N’S CHORUS TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE, interim chorus director SOPRANO Jill Boehme Stephanie Breiwa Sara Jean Curtiss Ashlinn Dowling Ally Hard Vanessa Jackson Nicole Lake Katie Lawrence

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TONIGHT’S CONCERT AT A GLANCE JOSEF STRAUSS Music of the Spheres • Josef Strauss is a member of the celebrated Viennese family best known for composing waltzes. Though it was his brother Johann Jr. who wrote the enduring “Blue Danube Waltz,” he claimed that brother Josef “is the more gifted of us two; I am merely the more popular.”

• Music of the Spheres was written for the annual Medical Association Ball of 1868. Though intended as a dance piece, it also has qualities of a tone poem and betrays the influence of Wagner and Liszt. Dreamy harmonies and a wistful violin melody allude to the celestial imagery of the title.

PHILIP GLASS Violin Concerto No. 1 • One of contemporary music’s best-known composers, Philip Glass will celebrate his 80th birthday on January 31. Frequently cited as an exemplar of the minimalist style, he established his reputation with the ambitious, five-hour opera Einstein on the Beach in 1976, after which he wrote a series of operas.

• Written in 1987, his First Violin Concerto represents Glass’ first major entry into the world of instrumental music for orchestra. He wrote the work for the American Composers Orchestra, which was conducted and co-founded by Dennis Russell Davies, one of his earliest champions.

• The work follows the typical structure of a concerto, with an opening fast movement, a slow middle movement, and a fast closing movement. Glass had originally envisioned a different structure, with five shorter movements. But after he wrote the first two movements, he scaled it back.

• Listeners familiar with Glass’ sound will instantly recognize the propulsive chords, arpeggios, and repetitive patterns in this work. “This piece explores what an orchestra can do for me,” the composer said at the time of its premiere.

GUSTAV HOLST The Planets • British composer Gustav Holst wrote The Planets in 1914-16, during the turbulent early years of World War I. “These pieces were suggested by the astrological significance of the planets,” the composer wrote of his work, in which each movement is named for a different planet. Earth is not included among the movements, nor is Pluto, which wasn’t discovered until 1930.

• The Planets opens with “Mars, the Bringer of War,” which was especially timely for contemporary audiences, given that the war had only recently come to a close by the time of the work’s premiere. The uneven 5/4 meter and the instrumentation here create a mood of looming conflict.

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Born on August 20, 1827, in Vienna; died on July 22, 1870 in Vienna

Music of the Spheres Composed: 1868 First performance: Believed to be January 21, 1868, at the Medical Association Ball in Vienna First Nashville Symphony performance: March 18 & 19, 1994, with Music Director Kenneth Schermerhorn Estimated length: 12 minutes

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he family name “Strauss” has long since served as a kind of “branding” for a musical joie de vivre associated with cosmopolitan Vienna in the later 19th century — and the Strauss waltz style can even evoke our distance from that vanished world, as Ravel does so effectively through the prism of World War I in La Valse.

It all started with Johann Strauss I (18041849), the patriarch who was born in a Viennese suburb and whose string quartet grew into a small string orchestra specializing in dance music. Johann had three sons who in turn became composers: Johann, Jr., the most famous of the bunch; Eduard; and Josef, the middle son.

(Note that Richard Strauss was not part of this dynasty, though he referenced their music in his own works.)

The shy, socially awkward Josef initially pursued a non-musical career as an engineer and architectural draughtsman in Vienna and was gifted in other artistic fields as well. He turned to composing when he had to fill in for his ill brother to lead the family orchestra (and moneymaker). Despite his being eclipsed by Johann, Jr., in popularity, connoisseurs will argue that Josef was in fact the most talented composer of the brood. Johann himself famously declared: “[He] is the more gifted of us two; I am merely the more popular.”

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ertainly Josef Strauss’ more visionary qualities are on display in Music of the Spheres (also known by its original German title, SphärenKlänge). Strauss introduced this waltz at a major ball held for Vienna’s Medical Association in the winter of 1868.

In his book Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution, Derek B. Scott notes that Josef and brother Johann shared an interest in Wagner’s revolutionary new music.

(Tristan und Isolde had been premiered only three years before Music of the Spheres.) The title Music of the Spheres suggests a kinship with the programmatic music of Franz Liszt — Scott writes that it “bears features resembling a symphonic poem” — and the dreamy harmonies in the slow introduction seem to promise a far-ranging journey. The wistful violin melody that emerges near the end becomes the “leading” phrase of the main waltz melody.

Yet this was indeed written as dance music, meant to be immediately “accessible.” Scott observes that “there has often been a comradely alliance between the popular and the ‘advanced’ — one has only to think of the image of Karlheinz Stockhausen on the cover of the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

In connection with Josef ’s intriguing title, it’s interesting to recall that Stanley Kubrick chose the more famous Blue Danube Waltz of Johann, Jr., to accompany cosmic moments in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Music of the Spheres is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, cymbal, harp, and strings.

DESPITE HIS BEING ECLIPSED BY JOHANN, JR., IN POPULARITY, CONNOISSEURS WILL ARGUE THAT JOSEF WAS IN FACT THE MOST TALENTED COMPOSER OF THE BROOD.

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PH IL IP G L A SS Born on January 31, 1937, in Baltimore, Maryland; currently resides in New York City

Composed: 1987 First performance: April 5, 1987, at Carnegie Hall, with Paul Zukofsky as the soloist and Dennis Russell Davies conducting the American Composers Orchestra First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances.

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t the end of this month, one of today’s preeminent musical icons celebrates his 80th birthday. Philip Glass remains intensely active even as he launches his octogenarian decade: among the abundance of concert halls and opera houses celebrating this milestone year, on January 31 (his actual birthday), the composer’s Eleventh Symphony will premiere at Carnegie Hall in a program conducted by longtime champion Dennis Russell Davies.

Davies, a renowned American-born conductor and pianist long based in Europe, has played a critical role in Glass’ career since their paths first intersected in 1980, when Davies conducted the German premiere of Satyagraha in Stuttgart.

Since then Davies has been a frequent presence, conducting many important Glass premieres in the opera house and concert hall alike. Up through Einstein on the Beach — his debut opera, premiered in 1976 — Glass had focused on composing for the synthesizer-heavy, amplified sound of the Philip Glass Ensemble, which attracted such figures in the popular music world as Paul Simon and David Bowie.

Einstein was situated on the far fringes of experimental music theater (despite being presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, which Glass rented). But the two stage works that followed, Satyagraha and Akhnaten, were commissioned by opera companies and were therefore composed for operatically trained, unamplified voices accompanied by orchestras.

“If [people] were angry about Einstein, they were doubly angry about [Satyagraha],” Glass recalls in his recent memoir, Words Without Music. “I was looking for a way of radicalizing

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the music again, and sometimes that can mean doing something that people already know.” At the age of 43, “after almost 12 years with my ensemble, [I was] about to reenter the world of concert music and traditionally presented opera.”

Aside from some student works, these operatic projects marked Glass’ first large-scale compositions calling for traditional symphony orchestra. It was Davies who encouraged Glass to consider applying his unique style to classical instrumental genres as well, suggesting he write a work for the New York-based American Composers Orchestra, which Davies had cofounded. The result was the Violin Concerto, which launched his career in the concert hall as a prolific composer of concertos and symphonies — forms that previously held little interest for him.

Several layers of personal connection shaped the Violin Concerto. The proposed soloist was Paul Zukofsky, with whom Glass had collaborated on Einstein, in which the violinist represented the title figure onstage. Glass dedicated the score both to Davies and to Zukofsky. On a deeply personal level, Glass states that he wrote the Violin Concerto for his late father, Ben Glass, from whom he had suffered a rift in his later years. Ben owned a record store in Baltimore, and his family boasted a number of musicians.

“I knew he loved the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, so I wrote in a way that he would have liked,” the composer says. “In his actual lifetime [he died in 1974], I didn’t have the knowledge, skill, or inclination to compose such a work. I missed that chance by at least 15 years. But when I could, I wrote it for him anyway.”

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t first encounter, the Violin Concerto follows the conventional structure of three movements in the order fast-slow-fast. Yet, as the Glass scholar Robert Maycock reports, the work “changed significantly between project and completion. In advance it seemed set to be like a concert transfer of the well-established Glass style of the 1980s: cycles and chord sequences and accompaniments [as] the raw material, repeats and concise extensions [as] the driving force, melody floated above.” As such, Glass initially projected five short movements. Zukofsky requested him to end with a slow movement. But two of the movements expanded beyond their original dimensions, writes Maycock, and Glass grew worried the piece would end up becoming “unfeasibly long,” and so streamlined it to the more conventional format.

The movements grow progressively longer, starting with a recurring chord sequence and pulsating motion that may remind some of Baroque music. In fact, the violinist Robert McDuffie, with whom Glass collaborated on

G U STAV H O L ST Born on September 21, 1874, in Cheltenham, England; died on May 25, 1934, in London

his Second Violin Concerto, The American Four Seasons, came to see the composer as “an American Vivaldi” on account of certain stylistic traits. The solo part explores the violin’s high range during its most melodic ruminations.

In the slow second movement, Glass uses another technique associated with the Baroque: a recurring pattern of chords that descend, setting up a harmonic framework for the whole movement. With this, Glass builds an ingenious interaction between the orchestra and the violinist that reaches a remarkably indeterminate point, and the movement ceases. The dance-like finale sets up another tension of its own, which finally yields to a slow coda — Glass’ way of acceding to Zukofsky’s desired slow ending — that recalls music from the opening and brings the work to a gentle end.

In addition to the solo violin, the Violin Concerto No. 1 is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, woodblocks, triangle, cymbals, harp, and strings.

Composed: 1914-16 First performance: September 29, 1918, in a private performance, with Adrian Boult conducting the Queen’s Hall Orchestra in London; first public performance on November 15, 1920, in London, with Albert Coates conducting the London Symphony First Nashville Symphony performance: February 9 & 10, 1970, with Music Director Thor Johnson Estimated length: 52 minutes

The Planets, Op. 32 Since its first performance almost a century ago, The Planets has escaped the orbit of the classicalmusic world to become part of the popular cultural imagination as well. Gustav Holst drew on a spectrum of influences from Romanticism to early modernism for this work, digesting these into an arresting orchestral epic that has in turn influenced countless film scores.

Holst had been recently impressed by his discovery of the revolutionary music of Stravinsky

and Schoenberg. He also became interested in astrology, which he used to build an overall framework. “These pieces were suggested by the astrological significance of the planets,” the composer wrote — in other words, each of the seven movements takes its cue from the particular character and astrological symbolism associated with the planet in question.

Yet Holst realized that the musical material for

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Mars made a spectacular opening, so The Planets takes liberties with traditional astronomy. The sequence of movements seems “out of order” for the first three, while the remaining four movements are in the correct order of distance from the sun (and earth). Earth is omitted, since it represents the vantage point from which the other planets are observed. There is no movement for Pluto, which was not discovered until 1930, a few years before Holst’s death, and which in any case has been demoted from its planetary status in recent years.

From the start, listeners have been tempted to bring their own associations to the score. The first audiences associated the symbolism of Mars with the World War I, which officially ended over a month after the premiere — though in fact Holst had composed “Mars, the Bringer of War” in the summer of 1914, when talk of war was in the air, but well before the brutality of the Great War had come to pass. Along with the ancient astrological associations, nowadays we are inclined to think of the dazzling revelations of modern scientific technology — so vividly represented in the HD visuals that accompany this performance.

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olst paints a vast sonic canvas at the beginning of “Mars, the Bringer of War,” with its mixture of aggressive brass, augmented woodwinds, low harp, and strings playing with the wood of the bow. The repetitive background rhythm hammered out in an uneven 5/4 meter suggests an inhuman, mechanizing force that intensifies the menace of the looming three-note motif. Even the fanfares here seem to do battle with each other. At the end, Holst carefully maps out a crescendo to a devastatingly dissonant climax.

“Venus, the Bringer of Peace” moves from the harshness of the brass to an almost pastoral horn solo, using woodwinds and strings to enhance a feeling of serenity. The rocking chords suggest an Impressionist, Debussy-like harmonic stasis that is the opposite of the forward thrust of “Mars.” The vision of Venus here is peaceful rather than erotic.

“Mercury, the Winged Messenger,” the briefest of The Planets, implies a lighthearted scherzo movement for many — following the symphonic analogy of “Mars” as an extroverted opening and “Venus” as the slow movement. The virtuosity Holst demands of the orchestra here extends not only to the music’s gossamer textures, but also to its extraordinarily tricky cross-rhythms, which pit varying pulses against each other.

These first three movements introduce a series of ideas and transformations — motivic, harmonic, rhythmic, and textural — that recur in subtle ways within the highly varied remaining movements.

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center and seems to contain a dual aspect, touching on both the playful and the serious.

While the orchestra initially dances with joy, at the center of the movement we hear a hymn-like tune that unfolds with stately dignity.

“Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age” recalls the oscillating harmonies of “Venus,” now transformed into something tantalizingly mysterious. Holst conveys a palpable sense of iciness and growing distance through his orchestration. A slow, funereal march proceeds to a frightening climax of clanging bells, but the specter of “physical decay,” notes the composer, yields to “a vision of fulfillment” in the final minutes.

In “Uranus, the Magician,” the enigmatic four-note motif heard at the beginning becomes a sort of incantation. The music conjures elements of a sinister, march-like scherzo, building to a full-scale climax supported by the organ. In a remarkable postlude, the music dissipates into fragments.

“Neptune, the Mystic” seems almost completely liberated from the emotional energy of the first movements. Texture rather than thematic development becomes the focus. Holst asks for pianissimo throughout the piece, shifting from one instrumental texture to another. “Neptune” circles back to reference the beginning by using the same 5/4 time signature as “Mars.” In a stroke of irony, this most-distant and disembodied of The Planets introduces the human voice in the form of a wordless female double choir (singing three parts each), which Holst instructs to remain invisible

The Planets is scored for a very large orchestra consisting of 4 flutes (3rd and 4th doubling piccolo, 4th also doubling alto flute), 3 oboes (3rd doubling bass oboe), English horn, 3 clarinets,

bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, double bassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tenor and bass tuba, 6 timpani, triangle, snare drum, tambourine, cymbals, bass drum, gong, tubular bells, glockenspiel, xylophone, celesta, organ, 2 harps, and strings, plus a 6-part women’s choir.

— Thomas May, the Nashville Symphony’s program annotator, is a writer and translator who covers classical and contemporary music. He blogs at memeteria.com.

ABOUT THE SOLOIST JUN IWASAKI

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un Iwasaki was appointed concertmaster of the Nashville Symphony

by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero in 2011. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music’s prestigious Concertmaster Academy, he has been hailed for his combination of dazzling technique and lyrical musicianship. In a review of Iwasaki’s performance at the Mimir Chamber Music Festival, the Fort Worth Star Telegram called him “the magician of the evening. He could reach into his violin and pull out bouquets of sound, then reach behind your ear and touch your soul.”

Prior joining the Nashville Symphony, Iwasaki served as concertmaster of the Oregon

Symphony from 2007-11, and he performed with that ensemble at the first annual Spring For Music Festival in 2011. Throughout his career, he has appeared with numerous other orchestras, including the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Blossom Festival Orchestra, Rome (Georgia) Philharmonic, New Bedford Symphony, Canton Symphony, Richardson Symphony, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Plano Symphony Orchestra, and the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. In addition, he has served as guest concertmaster of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in 2015, Santa Barbara Symphony in 2010, and National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa in 2006. He served in the same position with the Canton (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra from 2005-07.

In addition to teaching at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, Iwasaki is the artistic director of Portland Summer Ensembles in Portland, Oregon, a workshop for young musicians focusing on chamber music.

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to the audience. The final bar — a pair of chords echoing the oscillating motion from “Venus,” sung by the women alone — implies an infinitely repeating loop that diminishes toward absolute silence.

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Overflow from at a glance • the time of the work’s premiere. The uneven 5/4 meter and the instrumentation here create a mood of looming conflict.

• The ensuing movements each have their own unique character, from the serenity of “Venus, the Bringer of Peace,” to the lively feel of “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity,” to the gently shimmering “Neptune, the Mystic,” which features the women of the Nashville Symphony Chorus.

• Though he is credited with writing one of the great works of orchestral repertoire, Holst devoted most of his career to composing songs, choral pieces, and stage works, some shaped by his interest in mysticism and spirituality.

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reated, produced, and hosted by game industry veteran and superstar Tommy Tallarico, Video Games Live is an immersive concert event featuring music from the most popular video games of all time. Top orchestras and choirs around the world perform with exclusive synchronized video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, solo performers, electronic percussion, live action, and unique interactive segments to create an explosive, one-of-a-kind entertainment experience. Special events surround the concert, including a pre-show costume contest and a post-show meet-and-greet with top game composers. All events are open to all ticket holders.

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ímear Noone is arguably the world’s premier conductor of video game scores (both in the studio and in the concert hall), with credits including “World of Warcraft,” “Starcraft II,” and, more recently, “Diablo III” and “Overwatch.” As a composer, she was part of the team who wrote the music for “World of Warcraft: Warlords of Dreanor.”

Over the past four years, Noone has conducted Video Games Live in some of the greatest venues around the world, including two soldout shows at the “Bird’s Nest” National Olympic Stadium in Beijing. In 2011, she recorded the Zelda Symphony 25th Anniversary CD, released

by Nintendo as part of its newest Zelda game, “The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.” She also

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In 2011, Noone conducted and co-produced “This Is Ireland,” a live show with her husband, Emmy-nominated composer Craig Stuart Garfinkle, at Royce Hall in Los Angeles for St. Patrick’s Day. Featuring orchestra, gospel choir, actors, and soloists, the show starred Irish actors Pierce Brosnan and Roma Downey. “This is Ireland” is now being developed for a possible tour and television broadcast.

Although best known for contemporary and video game performances, Noone has a solid background in classical music. She had the pleasure of conducting the orchestra for the Los Angeles Ballet in its inaugural production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker in 2007.

Before relocating to California, Noone conducted and composed for the Dublin City Concert Orchestra, an ensemble she co-founded at age 21 for the performance and promotion of film music and repertoire used in films. The three honorary patrons of the orchestra were John Boorman, Elmer Bernstein, and Noel Pearson.

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helsea Tipton, II has won over audiences and critics with his vibrant musicality, accessibility, versatility, and extraordinary commitment to arts education. Now celebrating his eighth season as music director of the Symphony of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, has also serves as principal pops conductor of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra recognized Tipton with its first annual Aspire Award, which identifies accomplished African American or Latino professional musicians who demonstrate a commitment to community and inclusiveness. The Neches River Festival in Beaumont honored Tipton with Citizen of the Year in 2014, and the same year he received the Community Spotlight Award from Capital One Bank for community leadership.

As a guest conductor, Tipton has appeared with numerous major orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Houston Symphony, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo, Dohnanyi Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, Atlanta Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and others. Tipton conducted the Sphinx Competition Showcase gala concert at Carnegie Hall, culminating a 10-city tour. Other highlights include serving as a last-minute replacement for Robert Spano with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. In 2011, Tipton was part of an extensive European tour with Sting that took him to 15 countries, where he worked with 19 different European orchestras.

Tipton earned a master of music degree in orchestral conducting from Northern Illinois University and a bachelor of music in clarinet performance from the Eastman School of Music, with additional studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

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nnelle Kazumi Gregory is a laureate of the 2013 Stradivarius International Violin Competition and the 2016 National Sphinx Competition, as well as first-prize winner of the 2016 American Protégé International Concerto Competition, firstprize winner of the 2015 Beverly Hills National Auditions, and gold medalist of the 2012 National NAACP ACT-SO competition. In 2010, she performed at Carnegie Hall as a first violinist of the Sphinx Virtuosi and recorded with the ensemble on their debut album, Sphinx Virtuosi: Live in Concert. In 2014, Gregory released a collection of works by Grieg, Mozart, and Szymanowski with pianist Alexander Sinchuk, and in 2015 she recorded with organist Carol Williams on Just Carol — Compositions.

Gregory has won first place in many other competitions, including the 2014-16 Musical Merit Competitions, 2016 Classics Alive Young Artist Auditions, 2013 La Jolla Symphony Young Artists Competition, and 2013 San Diego Symphony “Hot Shots” Young Artists Competition.

Gregory was awarded the 2014 Glenn Dicterow Music Scholarship, has received scholarships from the League of Allied Arts and the Musical Merit Foundation, and has been supported in part by a Sphinx MPower Artist Grant. From 2012-2015, she was concertmaster and a featured soloist for the California International Music Festival Orchestra at Namedy and Weikersheim Castles, Germany. She has also performed with the symphonies of Detroit, La Jolla, and San Diego; Chicago Sinfonietta; California Chamber Orchestra; and the Long Beach Mozart Festival, among others. She was a featured soloist in the 2016 iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates and served as assistant concertmaster for the 2013 World Youth Chamber Orchestra tour.

Gregory currently studies under former New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow.

DIANA POE, director SOPRANO Carol Ames* Andrea Baker Conra Collier Willia Doss Delphine Gentry Barbara E Glover Cheryl Goodloe Kay N. Higgs Soncerray Jones Lisa K. Love Brenda Northern Diana K. Poe Gloria Ransom Valerie Ross Demytris Savage Renita J. SmithCrittendon* Clair Susong* Marva Swann* Majorie Taggart

Gina Thomas Debra Waters Lela Waters Sylvia Wynn* ALTO Esther Caudle L.B. Gaiters Deborah Gardner Nerissa Harvey Shawn Johnson Gladys Ketsri Cloretta Lampkin Lee A. Mayberry Marian W. Patton Diyahna Poe Carolyn RansomJones Beverly A. Scott Odessa L. Settles

Cassandra StroudeWilliams Lauren Thomas Vernita Thompson Vicki Todd-Stubbs TENOR Deirtra Bledsoe Gary M. Burke Danny Gordon* Lorie Golden Janice Hayes Keith Ramsey* Hezekiah Savage Eugene (Gene) Smith Sarah Sulton Dion Treece Monica P. Walker James W. White* Jordan Williams*

BASS Laurens A. Blankers Rich Davis Marquan Martin Ed Morant Lynn J. Ross Gene A. Shade Robert L. Smith, Jr Gregory Washington *Denotes Nashville Symphony Chorus member Accompanist: Dion Treece Sign Language: Andrea Baker

Celebration Chorus extends special thanks to guest conductor Chelsea Tipton, Nashville Symphony MLK Committee, Nashville Symphony Chorus, Fifteenth Ave. Baptist Church, Diana Poe, Dion Treece, Andrea Baker, Gary Burke, and Odessa Settles.

CE LEB RAT IO N YO U T H C HORUS MARGARET CAMPBELLE-HOLMAN, director SATB Lawson Ashurst Joya Burrell Mayson Harris Porcia Haynes Jesica Hereford Garrel Lawrence Sydney Lee Kyla Mahaffey Lauren Pettis Angela Pinnock Destini Thompson Nefermeya Cunningham Oremeyi Daniyan Mary Kaylee Gunn Nzinga Jean Briana Jenkins Ryan Miller Audrey Williams Isabella ForresterKent Jamila Wiseman Faith Wright TREBLE Emily Craig Isaac Crouse Trevor Harris Keanna Hoskins Alice Morgan

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erklee-trained arranger/conductor Brent Havens has written music for orchestras, feature films, and virtually every kind of television. His TV work includes movies for ABC, CBS, and ABC Family Channel Network; commercials; sports music for ESPN; and even cartoons. Havens has also worked with the Doobie Brothers and the Milwaukee Symphony, arranging and conducting the combined group for Harley Davidson’s 100th Anniversary Birthday Party Finale, attended by over 150,000 fans.

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Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and countless others. In 2013 Havens conducted the Malaysian Philharmonic for the Music of Michael Jackson and returned to Kuala Lumpur in 2014 with the Music of Led Zeppelin and in 2015 with the Music of Queen.

Havens composed the score for the film Quo Vadis, a Premier Pictures remake of the 1956 gladiator film. In 2013 he worked with the Baltimore Symphony and the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens to arrange and produce the music for the Thanksgiving Day halftime show between the Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers, adapting both classical music and rock songs into a single fourminute show. Havens is arranger/guest conductor for 12 symphonic rock programs.

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ony Vincent grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., where from a young age he was exposed to the music of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. While attending university in Nashville, he started a makeshift record company out of his dorm room and recorded a five‐song EP, which led to a recording contract with EMI records. Two solo albums followed, producing six No. 1 Billboard radio singles.

Shortly after moving to New York City in 1997 to continue his recording career, Vincent took an unexpected detour into the world of rock‐based theater, joining the cast of RENT, initially as part of the first national tour, then making his Broadway debut in the New York production in 1999. He was featured as Simon Zealotes in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s remake of the film Jesus Christ Superstar (2000), and when the production

was revived on Broadway that same year, Vincent earned critical acclaim starring as Judas Iscariot.

In 2002 Vincent originated the role of Galileo Figaro in the rock band Queen’s smash hit We Will Rock You in London’s West End. He also fronted the band itself on several occasions, including a performance of “Bohemian Rhapsody” at Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee concert for a live audience of over 1 million people and over 200 million television viewers worldwide. Two years later, he was invited to Las Vegas to open the North American premiere of We Will Rock You. During this time Vincent continued to write, and in 2008 he independently released the EP A Better Way, produced by Adam Anders. In the fall of 2009, he returned to Broadway, originating the role of St. Jimmy in Green Day’s American Idiot. Vincent is best known for his appearance on the second season of NBC’s reality singing competition, The Voice. While on the show, he was selected to be on “Team Cee Lo” and made a lasting impression on fans worldwide with his final performance of The Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams.”

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VINAY PARAMESWARAN, conductor MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, vocals SAM KRIGE, piano ALBIE BERK, drums

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ichael Feinstein, known as the “The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook,” is a multi-Platinum-selling artist and entertainer praised as one of the premier interpreters of American music. Through his live performances, recordings, film and television appearances, and his songwriting (in collaboration with Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Lindy Robbins, Bob Merrill and Amanda Green), Feinstein is an all-star force in the industry. His 200-plus shows a year have included performances at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, and the Hollywood Bowl, as well as the White House and Buckingham Palace.

Feinstein has received international recognition for his commitment to celebrating America’s popular song and preserving its legacy for the next generation. In 2007, he founded the Great American Songbook Foundation, which is dedicated to celebrating the art form through educational programs, master classes, and the

annual High School Songbook Academy, a summer intensive open to students from across the country. He serves on the Library of Congress’ National Recording Preservation Board, an organization dedicated to ensuring the survival, conservation, and increased public availability of America’s sound recording heritage.

Feinstein earned his fifth GRAMMY® nomination in 2009 for The Sinatra Project, his CD celebrating the music of “Ol’ Blue Eyes.” His Emmy-nominated TV special Michael Feinstein — The Sinatra Legacy aired across the country in 2011. The PBS series Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook was broadcast for three seasons and is available on DVD. His most recent primetime PBS-TV Special, New Year’s Eve at the Rainbow Room — written and directed by Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry — aired in 2014.

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alongside music luminaries such as Bette Midler, Neil Sedaka, Liza Minnelli, Rickie Lee Jones, David Hyde Pierce, and more.

Feinstein serves as artistic director of the Palladium in Carmel, Indiana, which opened in January 2011. The theater is home to diverse live programming and a museum for his rare memorabilia and manuscripts. Since 1999, he has served as artistic director in collaboration with ASCAP for the immensely popular series at Carnegie Hall, Standard Time with Michael Feinstein. Starting in 2010, he became the director of the Jazz and Popular Song Series at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Feinstein was named principal pops conductor for the Pasadena POPS in 2012. Under his leadership, the Pasadena POPS has quickly become the nation’s premier presenter of the Great American Songbook in the orchestral arena, delivering definitive performances of rare orchestrations and classic arrangements.

Feinstein’s at the Nikko, Michael’s nightclub at San Francisco’s Nikko Hotel, has presented the top talents of pop and jazz since 2013. He debuted at Feinstein’s/54 Below, his new club in New York, late

in 2015. His first venue in New York, Feinstein’s at the Regency, featured major entertainers such as Rosemary Clooney, Glen Campbell, Barbara Cook, and Diahann Carroll from 1999 to 2012.

The roots of all this work began in Columbus, Ohio, where Feinstein started playing piano by ear as a 5-year-old. After graduating from high school, he worked in local piano bars for two years, moving to Los Angeles when he was 20. The widow of legendary concert pianist-actor Oscar Levant introduced him to Ira Gershwin in July 1977. Feinstein became Gershwin’s assistant for six years, which earned him access to numerous unpublished Gershwin songs, many of which he has since performed and recorded.

Gershwin’s influence provided a solid base upon which Feinstein evolved into a captivating performer, composer, and arranger of his own original music. He has also become an unparalleled interpreter of music legends such as Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington, and Harry Warren. He has received three honorary doctorates.

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pasana Peforming Arts Center, founded in 2003 by Sonia Chaudhuri, is the largest school of Kathak dance and Hindustani vocal music in Nashville. Chaudhuri has trained for 30 years in Kathak, a highly stylized classical Indian dance. She has also been professionally trained in Bharatanatyam, ballet, and modern dance.

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hinese Arts Alliance of Nashville (CAAN) is organized to promote the awareness, understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the Chinese visual arts and performing arts by presenting fine Chinese visual arts, crafts, performing arts, and

renowned gurus of Kathak, including Pandit Birju Maharaj and Guru Urmila Nagar in Delhi, India, and Guru Amita Dutta in Kolkata, India.

Chaudhuri has had the honor of performing in prestigious venues in Kolkata, India’s Arabindo Ashram and Children’s Little Theatre.

In 2011, Chaudhuri established a diploma program in Kathak and Hindustani vocal music through an affiliation with Pracheen Kala Kendra University of Chandigarh, India. The following year, she established the Upasana Dance Company.

This professional company participates in numerous prestigious events and has achieved national recognition for innovative choreography, gorgeous costumes, and excellence in dance. culture to the public. Founded in 2002, CAAN is a nonprofit organization. Activities include seminars, art exhibitions, classroom teaching, educational workshops, and public programs for children and adults.

CAAN seeks to bring Chinese arts to Nashville by developing and showcasing talents in Nashville, and by bringing Chinese artists from around the nation and world. Established in 2006, its Chinese Lion Dance & Drumming Team has performed more than 100 times. The Nashville Dragon Dance Team was established in 2012.

beauty of different cultures, offering creative GLOBAL ED UCAT ION CENT ER solutions to confront cultural and religious intolerance, stereotypes, misinformation, lack of information, and the many “isms” of American lobal Education society that make harmonious living difficult for Center was many people. founded in 1997 by The Global Education Center is housed in director Ellen Gilbert, historic Richland Hall at 4822 Charlotte Ave. and an anti-bias, multicultural education specialist, in the adjacent building at 4820 Charlotte Ave. based on her school outreach work begun in The facilities include two large dance studios 1982. In her work as an administrator, a teacher, with sprung wood floors and mirrors, a cozy and a parent volunteer, Gilbert saw a need for multicultural library, a recording studio, and developing intercultural understanding and two spacious storefronts housing a third dance respect and for exploring ways in which to create studio and a multicultural gift shop specializing in classrooms that are safe havens for all children. musical instruments and crafts from around the With encouragement from educators throughout world. In 2012, the center opened Global South the area, she partnered with a diverse pool of as a satellite studio at Casa Azafrán Community artists to create lively programming that beckons Center. all of the senses to experience the richness and

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MARTHA RIVERS INGRAM SOCIETY Mr. Russell W. Bates & Mr. Oguz E. Bates ◊ David & Diane Black ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Mr. Martin S. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Carlton ◊ Michael & Pamela Carter ◊ Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin W. Crumbo ◊ Ben Cundiff ◊ Carol & Frank Daniels III ◊ Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Hays ◊ Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram ◊ The Melkus Family Foundation Richard & Sharalena Miller ◊

WALTER SHARP SOCIETY Anonymous (1) H. Victor Braren, M.D. ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone ◊ Patricia & H. Rodes Hart ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilton ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Howard S. Kirshner ◊

Mr. & Mrs. Mark E. Nicol ◊ Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Olsen ◊ Clifford Parmley ◊ Ron & Diane Shafer ◊

VIRTUOSO SOCIETY Anonymous (1) Dale & Julie Allen ◊ Mr. Newman & Mr. Johnathon Arndt ◊ Mrs. Melinda S. & Dr. Jeffrey R. Balser ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bottorff Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. ◊ Mr. Philip M. Cavender ◊ Mrs. William Sherrard Cochran Sr. Mr.* & Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr.

The Rev. & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller ◊ Tom & Judy Foster ◊ Jennifer & Billy Frist Allis Dale & John Gillmor ◊ Ed & Nancy Goodrich ◊ David & Brenda Griffin ◊ Mr. & Mrs. William D. Gwin Sr. ◊ Vicki & Rick Horne ◊ Mr. & Mrs. David B. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. T.K. Kimbrell ◊ Ralph & Donna Korpman

Gifts of $25,000 + Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter ◊ Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III ◊ Mr. Ronald P. Soltman, in memory of Judith Cram ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner ◊

Gifts of $15,000 - $24,999 Jonathan & Janet Weaver ◊ David & Gail Williams ◊ Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth ◊

Gifts of $10,000 - $14,999 Ellen Harrison Martin ◊ Mr. & Mrs. David K. Morgan ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Patrick H. Murphy ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus A. Puryear IV ◊ Anne & Joe Russell ◊ Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Mark Tillinger ◊ Margaret & Cal Turner ◊ Alan D. & Jan L. Valentine ◊ Mr. & Mrs. James W. White ◊ * denotes donors who are deceased ◊ denotes donors who are Governing Members

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DIRECTORS

Mark Peacock Board Chair

John Bailey III Russell Bates Chase Neely* H. Victor Braren, MD Rev. Dexter Sutton Brewer Pamela Carter Phil Cavender Kevin Crumbo Frank Daniels Jana Davis Robert Dennis Mary Falls Benjamin Folds Judy Foster Becky Gardenhire Edward A. Goodrich Brenda Griffin

Kevin Crumbo Board Chair Elect David Morgan Board Treasurer Jennifer Puryear Board Secretary Alan D. Valentine President & CEO*

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David Gwin Carl Haley Jr. Michael W. Hayes Evelyn M. Hill Christopher Holmes Vicki Horne Martha R. Ingram+ Richard Miller Louise Morrison Pat Murphy Mike Musick Harrell Odom Mark Peacock Lynn Peithman W. Brantley Phillips Jr. Ric Potenz Jennifer H. Puryear

James Seabury III Nelson Shields Jeremy Tucker Mark Wait Patrick Walle Jonathan Weaver Bethany Whelan+ Jim White Betsy Wills+ Clare Yang Donna Yurdin+ Shirley Zeitlin + Indicates Ex Officio * Young Leaders Intern

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Ric Potenz, Chair Emeritus Jonathan Weaver, Chair

Brenda Griffin, Vice Chair, Engagement Rhonda Mulroy, Vice Chair, Engagement

STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY Anonymous (1) Brian & Beth Bachmann ◊ Sallie & John Bailey ◊ Judy & Joe Barker ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup ◊ Annie Laurie & Irvin* Berry ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Harold Brewer ◊ Ann & Frank Bumstead ◊ Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt ◊ Michael & Jane Ann Cain ◊ Ms. Pamela Casey ◊ Fred Cassetty ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Chasanoff Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Clark ◊ Dorit & Donald Cochron ◊ Brian & Haden Cook ◊ Allen & Nancy Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Justin Dell Crosslin ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Ansel L. Davis Hilton & Sallie Dean ◊ Nick Deidiker & Connie Richardson ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis ◊ Marty & Betty Dickens ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Burton Dye ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Jere Mann Ervin Mrs. Annette S. Eskind ◊

The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation ◊ Marilyn Ezell Mr. Dave Felipe & Mrs. Mary Jennings ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas R. Ganick John & Lorelee Gawaluck James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith ◊ Carl & Connie Haley ◊ Carolyn Hamby ◊ Mr. Timothy Hertel Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin H. Hill ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Irby Sr. ◊ Drs. Edmund & Lauren Parker Jackson ◊ Keith & Nancy* Johnson Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee ◊ Jim & Kimberly Lewis ◊ Robert Straus Lipman ◊ Myles & Joan MacDonald ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. ◊ Sheila & Richard McCarty ◊ The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt ◊ Edward D. & Linda F. Miles ◊ Michael & Karen Musick ◊ Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Odom ◊

GOLDEN BATON SOCIETY Anonymous (3) Shelley Alexander ◊ Jeremy & Rebecca Atack ◊ Jon K. & Colleen Atwood ◊ Grace & Carl Awh ◊ David Baldwin, Pancake Pantry ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Billy R. Ballard ◊ Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Ned Bates & Brigitte Anschuetz ◊ Betty C. Bellamy ◊ Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Frank H. Boehm ◊ Dennis & Tammy Boehms ◊

Gene & Donna Bonfoey ◊ Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells ◊ Randal & Priscilla Braker ◊ Mary Lawrence Breinig ◊ Chanelle Acheson & David Bridgers ◊ Steven & Cassandra Brosvik ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Buijsman ◊ Marcus Butler ◊ Chuck & Sandra Cagle ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun ◊ Kirk & Darlene Campbell ◊ Ann & Sykes Cargile ◊ Crom & Kathy Carmichael ◊

Jay Jones, Vice Chair, Ambassadors John Halsell, Vice Chair, Communications

Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 Victoria & William Pao Mr. & Mrs. Laurence M. Papel Barron Patterson & Burton Jablin ◊ Peggy & Hal Pennington Joelle & Brant Phillips CW Pinson, M.D., MBA ◊ Carol & John T. Rochford ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Scott C. Satterwhite Joe & Dorothy Scarlett ◊ Elaina & the Late Ronnie Scott ◊ The Shields Family Foundation ◊ Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Matthew K. Taylor ◊ Louis B. Todd & Patricia C. Todd* ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Tucker Mr. Robert J. Turner & Mr. Jay Jones ◊ Peggy & John Warner ◊ Art* & Lisa Wheeler ◊ Bethany Whelan ◊ Jerry & Ernie Williams ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly Barbara & Bud Zander ◊ Shirley Zeitlin ◊

Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 Dr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Carter ◊ Dr. Elizabeth Cato Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler ◊ Erica & Doug Chappell ◊ Donna R. Cheek* ◊ Mr. & Mrs. James H. Cheek III ◊ Terry & Holly Clyne ◊ Ed & Pat Cole ◊ Marjorie & Allen* Collins ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. ◊ Kathy & Scott Corlew ◊ Teresa Corlew & Wes Allen ◊ Roger & Barbara Cottrell ◊

2016/17 BOARD OF ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OFFICERS Bethany Whelan Chair Hank Ingram Chair-Elect Allison Reed Secretary

DIRECTORS Brian Cook Nicholas Deidiker Andrew Hard Everly Heeren Lauren Parker Jackson Laura Kimbrell

Melissa Moss Jason Parker Cassie Petty Ginny Soenksen Ginny Stalker Clayton Wraith

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David Coulam & Lucy A. Visceglia ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert ◊ Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan ◊ Dr. & Mrs. James Crafton ◊ Janine Cundiff Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Daley III ◊ Mr. M. Bradshaw Darnall III ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Ben Davis ◊ John & Natasha Deane ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Donald Denbo Claudia Douglass ◊ Myrtianne Downs ◊ Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington ◊ Robert D. Eisenstein Mr. Owen T. Embry ◊ Dr. Noelle Daugherty & Dr. Jack Erter ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind ◊ Dr. Meredith A. Ezell ◊ Ms. Paula Fairchild ◊ Dr. Lee A. Fentriss ◊ T. Aldrich Finegan ◊ Mr.& Mrs. Will Fischer ◊ Mr. Brian T. Fitzpatrick ◊ Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer & Family ◊ John & Barbara Fletcher ◊ Drs. Robert* & Sharron Francis ◊ Cathy & Wilford Fuqua ◊ Peter & Debra Gage ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gann ◊ Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins ◊ Harris A. Gilbert ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III ◊ Andrew & Alene Gnyp ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Goad Jr. ◊ Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner ◊ Mr. John Mack Green ◊ Gerald C. Greer & Scott Hoffman, MD ◊ Ms. Gail Danner Greil ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin D. Griffin ◊ Karen & Daniel Grossman ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Hagood ◊ John and Melissa Halsell ◊ Mrs. Robbie J. Hampton ◊ Andrew & Ally Hard ◊ Janet & Jim Hasson ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Hatef ◊ Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes ◊ Everly Heeren & Gregory Suhayda ◊ Helen & Neil Hemphill ◊ Drs. Robert Hines & Mary Hooks ◊ Dr. Jan Van Eys & Judith Hodges ◊ Ken & Pam Hoffman ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Scott Hoffman ◊ Ms. Cornelia B. Holland ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Dr. & Mrs. Stephen L. Houff ◊ Hank Ingram ◊ Rodney Irvin Family Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel ◊

Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson ◊ Donald L. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques ◊ Janet & Philip Jamieson ◊ George & Shirley Johnston ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kestner ◊ Robin & Bill King Tom & Darlene Klaritch ◊ Anne Knauff ◊ Walter & Sarah Knestrick ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. ◊ William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch ◊ Ms. Pamela L. Koerner ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Spencer N. Lambright ◊ Robert & Carol Lampe ◊ Mr. Edward Lanquist ◊ Larry & Martha Larkin ◊ Drs. Paul & Dana Latour ◊ Kevin & May Lavender Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lavender Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby Mr. & Mrs. John M. Leap ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Lentini ◊ Sally M. Levine ◊ Marye & Bill Lewis ◊ George & Cathy Lynch ◊ Red & Shari Martin ◊ Rhonda A. Martocci & William S. Blaylock ◊ Steve & Susie Mathews Lynn & Jack May ◊ Tommy & Cat McEwen ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Mericle ◊ F. Max & Mary A. Merrell ◊ Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger ◊ Michael G. Miller ◊ Christopher & Patricia Mixon ◊ Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli ◊ Matt & Rhonda Mulroy ◊ James & Patricia Munro ◊ Dr. Barbara A. Murphy & Bruce Tripp ◊ Mr. Chase Neely Mr. Aaron Connolly & Dr. Kenneth Niermann ◊ Dr. Agatha L. Nolen ◊ Dr. Christopher J. Ott & Mr. Jeremy R. Simons Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict ◊ David & Pamela Palmer ◊ Chelsea & Jason Parker ◊ Grant & Janet Patterson ◊ Mr. & Mrs. John Francis Paul ◊ Catherine J. Holsen & John S. Perry ◊ Ms. Cassandra E. Petty ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Edgar H. Pierce Jr. ◊ Carol Len & Scott M. Portis Mr. Charles H. Potter Jr. ◊ Donna & Tom Priesmeyer ◊ Dr. Terryl A. Propper ◊ Mr. & Mrs. W. Edward Ramage ◊ Allison Reed & Sam Garza ◊

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Anonymous (10) Jerry Adams Jeff & Tina Adams James & Glyna Aderhold Mr. & Mrs. Roger Allbee Carol M. Allen Dr. & Mrs. Gregg P. Allen Lisa & Gerry Altieri Ms. Deborah Arvin The Brian C. Austin Family David A. & Stephanie Bailey 60

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Richard & Ada Baker Barbara & Mike Barton Dr. Reca Barwin Mrs. Brenda Bass Craig & Angela Becker Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Mr. Wesley P. Belden Bernice Amanda Belue Frank M. Berklacich, MD* Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Riven ◊ Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation ◊ Misha Robledo ◊ Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland ◊ Anne & Charles Roos ◊ Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke ◊ Ms. Mary Frances Rudy ◊ Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson ◊ Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul ◊ Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell ◊ Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Mr. Tim Scarvey ◊ Peggy C. Sciotto Stephen K. & Patricia L. Seale ◊ Dr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Shack Joan Blum Shayne ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Steve Shelton ◊ Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard ◊ Bill & Sharon Sheriff ◊ William & Cyndi Sites ◊ George & Mary Sloan ◊ David & Niki Smith ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith ◊ K.C. & Mary Smythe ◊ Clark Spoden & Norah Buikstra ◊ Christopher & Maribeth Stahl ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Jack Stalker ◊ Deborah & James Stonehocker ◊ Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III ◊ Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor ◊ Jeremy & Carrie Teaford Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes ◊ Risë & Laurence Tucker Mr. & Mrs. James F. Turner Jr. ◊ George & Margaret Uribe ◊ Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund ◊ Mr. James N. Vickers & Mr. Brian Shafer ◊ Larry & Brenda Vickers ◊ Mr. & Mrs. William H. Wade ◊ Kris & G. G. Waggoner ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner ◊ Mark Wait ◊ James & Greta Walsh ◊ Mrs. W. Miles Warfield ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen ◊ Talmage M. Watts & Debra Greenspan Watts ◊ Mr.& Mrs. Kevin Welty and Jasmine ◊ Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle ◊ Mr. James L. White ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer ◊ Donald E. Williams ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joel Williams ◊ Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie ◊ Ms. Deborah L. Winkler ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe ◊ Dr. Artmas L. Worthy ◊ Donna B. Yurdin ◊

Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Mr. David Blackbourn & Ms. Celia Applegate Randolph & Elaine Blake Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Berry & Connie Brooks Jean & David Buchanan Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Sharon Lee Butcher Mrs. Patricia B. Buzzell David L. & Chigger J. Bynum John E. Cain III

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Mr. David Carlton Don Carmody Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Carr Clint & Patty Carter Valleau & Robert* M. Caruthers Bill & Chris Carver Mary & Joseph Cavarra Dr.* & Mrs. Robert Chalfant Barbara & Eric Chazen Catherine Chitwood Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher George D. Clark Jr. Mr. & Dr. Brian & Anna Clayton Jay & Ellen Clayton Mr. Ernest Clevenger III Sallylou & David Cloyd Douglas & Cindy Cobb Esther & Roger Cohn Chase Cole Joe & Judy Cook Mike & Sandy Cooper Nancy Krider Corley Greg & Mary Jo Cote Drs. Paul A. & Dorothy Valcarcel Craig Mr. Charles Curtiss James & Maureen Danly Drs.Maria Gabriella Giro & Jeffrey M. Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Daryl Demonbreun Drs. Clint & Jessica Devin Ms. Teri I. DeVires John & Diana Doss Joe & Shirley Draper Laura & Wayne Dugas Laura L. Dunbar Mr. & Mrs. James E. Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Dr. James E. & Mrs. Beverly Edwards Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Laurie & Steven Eskind Bill & Dian S. Ezell Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ezrin Alex & Terry Fardon Dawn L. Farris Michael & Rosemary Fedele John David & Mary Dale Trabue Fitzgerald Béla Fleck Mr. & Mrs. Pete Franks Ann D. Frisch Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Galbraith Mr. and Mrs. Ryan W. Gardenhire John* & Eva Gebhart Frank Ginanni Mr. & Mrs. Gary A. Glover Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin R. Goldberg Dr. Cornelia R. Graves Richard A. Green Drs. Steven & Ruth Haley Elinor Hall Ellen C. Hamilton The Evelyn S. & Jim Horne Hankins Foundation Dr. Edward Hantel Dr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hardy Mr. & Mrs. James M. Harris Ms. Pamela Harris Jim & Stephanie Hastings Lisa & Bill Headley Suzy Heer Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Ms. Victoria Heil Philip & Amber Hertik Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Dr. Elisabeth Dykens & Dr. Robert Hodapp Dale & Willa Holmer

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Ms. Susan S. Holt Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Ray Houston Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious Hudson Family Foundation Donna & Ronn Huff Albert C. Hughes Jr. & Charlotte E. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. John Huie Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Bud Ireland Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Mr. & Mrs. Steven L. Jackson Lee & Pat Jennings Mary Loventhal Jones Joseph Judkins Dr. Barbara F. Kaczmarska Mr. & Mrs. Lon D. Keele Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Kelly Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy Jeffrey & Layle Kenyon Mrs. Daisy King Linda R. Koon Ms. Nona Kroha Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Sandi & Tom Lawless Ms. Natalie C. Lévy-Sousan Daniel Lewis Ms. Delorse A. Lewis Hon. & Mrs. Thomas R. Lewis Don & Patti Liedtke Burk & Caroline Lindsey Keltner W. & Debra S. Locke Mr. Mark E. Lopez & Mr. Patrick J. Boggs Mr. John Maddux Drs. Thomas & Beverly Madron Ms. Orlene Makinson Andrea & Helga Maneschi Ms. Sheila Mann James & Gene Manning David & Leah Marcus Captain Nathan Marsh Metro Fire Fighter James & Patricia Martineau Ms. Helen J. Mason Dr. Nancy Brown & Mr. Andrew May Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Bob Maynard

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CONCERTMASTER SOCIETY Anonymous (21) Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Abelman Ken & Jan* Anderson Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple David & Marsha Armstrong Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins Mr. Bruce G. Aubrey Geralda M. Aubry Mr. & Mrs. James E. Auer Lawrence E. Baggett Dr.* & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr. J.E. & Doris Barlow Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Elisabetha Baugh Katrin T. Bean Scott & Dawn Becker Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Mike & Kathy Benson Carl W. Berg Dr. Diane Rae & Mr. Greg Berty

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Anonymous (33) Henry J. Abbott & Rita J. Bradley Judith Ablon The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. W. Robert Abstein Ben & Nancy* Adams Neil & Leslie Alexander Mr. John D. Allison Adrienne Ames Mr. & Mrs. Harry Anderson Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Mr. Aaron Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. Phil Arnold Mr. & Mrs. Timothy W. Arnold Todd & Barbara Arrants Mr. & Mrs. Kevin W. Atenhan Richard C. Bailey Mr. & Mrs. J. Oriol Barenys Dr. Beth S. Barnett Mr. Richard M. Barry Mr.* & Mrs. Jack Bass, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James Bauchiero Fran & Sandy Bedard Mark H. Bell Ms. Jackie Bellar Ms. Reba Bellar Ms. Carmen Bellos Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Bennett Jr. Mr. Bradley Bills Cherry & Richard Bird Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell Walter Bitner & Melanie Delvalle Melvin Black Ms. Helen R. Blackburn-White Dr. Lacy R. Blackwell Mr. & Mrs. John Bliss Mrs. Andrea Boely Mr. & Mrs. Seton J. Bonney Dr. & Mrs. Glenn H. Booth Jr. David Bordenkircher Robert E. Bosworth Mr. Kevin L. Bowden & Candice Ethridge Don & Deborah Boyd Eleanor & Harold Bradley Robert & Barbara Braswell Gene & Delane Brewer Anna-Short-Bridgers Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Bridges Mr. & Mrs. Iain Briggs Betty* & Bob Brodie Caherine Brown Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Brown Mr. James I. Brown Steven & Jill Brown Ms. Tonia K. Brown Karen M. Browne Mr. & Mrs. Edward A. Burgess Mr. & Mrs. George A. Burke Sr. Dr. Grady L. Butler Mr. & Mrs. David R. Buttrey Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Byrd Mrs. James W. Byrdsong Mr. & Mrs. Wentworth Caldwell, Jr. Dr. W. Barton Campbell & Mrs. Campbell Karen Carr Mary Ann Carter Mr. Rick D. Casebeer Mr. Andrew I. Castillo Ronald Cooke Cate Mr. Edmundo J. Cepeda Gladys M. Chatman Dr. Walter J. Chazin

Mr. William T. Cheek III & Ms. Kathryn E. Barnett Dr. Amy Chomsky Neil Christy & Emily Freeman Dr. & Mrs. André L. Churchwell Drs. Walter K. Clair & Deborah Webster-Clair Mr. & Mrs. Roy Claverie Sr. Mark A. Clay Dr. Mary Ellen Clinton-Wade Mr. & Mrs. Neely B. Coble III Mark & Robin Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Wiley B. Coley Alma Jean Colley Colonel (ret.) Dr. & Mrs. James R. (Conra) Collier Ms. Peggy B. Colson John O. Colton Mr. & Mrs. Randy Cook Paul & Alyce Cooke Arlene & Charley Cooper Ted Cooper Renette I. Corenswet Dr. Adrienne Corn & Mr. Darwin Melnyk Ms. Nina Cornelsen Mr. & Mrs. James H. Costner Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr. Mr. Jonathan I. Creamer Mr. & Mrs. David Crecraft Mr. Howard R. Crockett Jack & Ruth Cronk Ms. Pauline C. Cross R. Barry & Kathy Cullen Mr. Timothy D. Curtis & Adam N. Castellarin Katherine C. Daniel William N. Daniel Jr. Jessica David Dr. & Mrs. Glen W. Davidson James Calvin & Elizabeth Davidson Mr. Jerry W. Davidson Ms. Joni M. Davidson Deborah Davies Adelaide S. Davis* Mr. William T. Davis Ms. Martha Lou Deacon Dr. & Mrs. Darryl T. Deason Steve Sirls & Allen DeCuyper Mrs. Elizabeth C. DeFrancesco Mr. Wayne Detring Ms. Kathy Devine Michael Doochin & Linda Kartoz-Doochin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dortch David Dubose Judith A. Dudley Carl & Francie Duffield Greg Dugdale Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Dugger Harold & Lou Anne Dulaney Michael & Beverly Dunn Mr. Karl Dupre & Ms. Katherine Tange-Dupre Mr. & Mrs. Jim Eades Jr. Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Braces by Dr. Ruth Sherie Lea Edwards Drs. Timothy & Stephanie Eidson Ms. Rosana Eisenberg Mrs. Clara Elam Mr. James H. Eldridge Dan & Zita Elrod Ms. Martha C. Elzen Mr. Ray Enochs & Mrs. Lee Emerson Michael D. & Carol Ennis Robert & Cassandra Estes

Gifts of $250 - $499 Ms. Claire Evans Mark Ewald Tony & Shelley Exler Frank & Shirley Fachilla Ms. Marilyn Falcone Dale C. Farran Ms. LuAnn R. Fell Janie & Richard Finch Mr. & Mrs. Donald Fish Mr. & Mrs. James Fishel Dr. & Mrs. Jack Fisher Doris T. Fleischer Cathy & Kent Fourman Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Fox III Andrew & Mary Foxworth Sr. Ms. Elizabeth A. Franks Mrs. Cynthia Franzen Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Freas Judson & Leah Fredrickson Emily & Randy Frey Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Debra Frey Ms. Linda Friend Al Fuller William S. Joyce & Anderson C. Gaither Mr. Russell C. Gallagher W. David Gann Mr. & Mrs. Joaquin Garcia Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Garrett Rev. Phillip W. Garvey Alan & Jeannie Gaus Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Gaw Nancy & Ken Gentry Mr. Joe W. Giles Dr. Sam & Diane Glasgow Mrs. Lucie A. Glass Ms. Beverly Jean Godwin Zachary & Martha Goodyear Dr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Gotterer Bill & Jane Gray Roger & Sherri Gray Austin & Delaney Gray Shirley C. Greenberg Ms. Lynn Gregory Ms. Rebecca Grim R. Dale & Nancy G. Grimes Mr. & Mrs. David C. Guth Jr. Rev. & Mrs. Gerald R. Hager Katherine S. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hamilton Pamela Hamrick Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Hanselman Dickie* & Joyce Harris Ron & Carolyn Harris George Harrison Mr. James S. Hartman Mr. Jonathan Harwell David & Judith Slayden Hayes Mr. & Mrs. John C. Hayes III Bob & Judy Haynes Stephen & Deborah Hays H. Carl Haywood Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton Hazlehurst Mr. & Mrs. Allen W. Head Dr. James L. Head & Dr. Anita R. Head Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey C. Heeren Dr. & Mrs. James A. Hefner Jack & Shirley Henry Dennis & Leslie Henson Steve Hesson Patricia Ann Hester Dr. & Mrs. Gerald B. Hickson Dr. & Mrs. George A. Hill

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Gerald Hill Ronald & Nancy Hill Robert C. & Shirley M. Hilmer Ms. Mary C. Hinton Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hofe Aurelia L. Holden Dr. Nan Holland & Dr. R. Duane Holland Mr. & Mrs.* James G. Holleman William Hollings & Michael Emrick Dr. and Mrs. Doy Hollman Savina Hollman Steve & Leslie Holman Ms. Carolyn W. Holmes Mr. & Mrs. George Hornberger Samuel and Karan Howard Mrs. Carol Hudler Leslie & David Hudson Dr. & Mrs. Louis C. Huesmann II John & Beth Huff The Hunt Family Foundation Ms. Karen L. Ingram Mr.* & Mrs. Billy C. Jack Greg & Patti James Mr. & Mrs.* Alan R. Javorcky Joetter Smith Jenkins Roger T. Jenkins & Gayle Jenkins Mr. Casey Jennings Dr. James T. John & Dr. Brenda J. Butka Dr. Carl H. Johnson & Mrs. Mine Yoshizawa Dr. & Mrs. Charles Johnson Susan & Evan Johnston Mr. Rhori Johnston Jane & Cecil Jones Frank & Audrey Jones Drs. Ramon & Cathy Jrade Ms. Carolyn Kamp Cathy Couey & Richard Kasnick Carol & Sol Katz Jane S. Kersten Mr. & Mrs. Brock Kidd Peter & Courtney Kihlberg George McCulloch & Linda Knowles Ms. Diane Knox David & Judy Kolzow Ms. Sherry E. Male & Terry Komp Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Krantz Joyce K. Laben Mr. John E. Land Mr. Howard Landman Tom Langford Ms. Deborah A. Lannigan-Macara Mr. Robert J. Laub Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Ms. Kelly Lebow Rob & Julia Ledyard Dr. & Mrs. Donald Lee Mr. Joseph Y. Lee & Ms. Erica Fetterman Martin & Eileen Leinwand Dr. Emiko J. LeJeune Dorothy & Jim Lesch Ralph G. Leverett Mr. & Mrs. Ronald S. Ligon Alice & John Lindahl Mack & Katherine Linebaugh Richard & Tad Lisella Mr. & Mrs. James H. Littlejohn Jean & Steve Locke Kim & Mike Lomis Chris & Elizabeth Long Mr. Thomas H. Loventhal Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal Mr. & Mrs. James C. Lundy Jr. Mr. George Luscombe Patrick & Betty Lynch Sharron Lyon Mr. Michael J. MacDonald Theresa MacDonald

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Mack Mr. & Mrs. James N. Maddox Dr. & Mrs. Mark A. Magnuson Mr. & Mrs. Robin L. Majors Robert & Heather Mangeot Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Manno Lee Marsden Dr. & Mrs. Harry D. Marsh Dr. Dana R. Marshall Dr. & Mrs. Raymond S. Martin Ms. Jane M. Massey Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Massie Sue & Herb Mather John H. Mather M.D. James Mathis Ms. Mitzi Matlock Ms.Margery L. Mayer & Ms. Carolyn Oehler Sonje K. Mayo Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. McAllister Dr. James S. McBride Timothy & Shirlee McCleskey Andy McCloud Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. McClure Mr. & Mrs. Durand McIntosh Scott & Karen McKean Dr. Joy H. McKee Mrs. Catherine G. McMurtry Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. McWherter Ms. Martha Mecke Mrs. Norma L. Merced Mr. Julius E. Meriweather Jr. Peter Meschter Dr. Ron V. Miller Mark & Bonnie Miller-McLemore Dr. Michael F. Montijo & Mrs. Patricia A. Jamieson-Montijo Livingfield More Dr. & Mrs. Joe M. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Sarah Morse Mr. Neal R. Morse Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Mueller Mrs. Sucitra B. Mukherji Drs. Russell & Lizabeth Mullens Mr. & Mrs. James R. Neal Jim & Irene Neilan Beverly Nelson Ms. Diana Nelson Ms. Regina V. Nelson Mr. Hunter S. Neubert Dr. John Newman & Ms. Rebecca Lyford Mike & Jeanne Newton Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Nicholas Rev. Alice Nichols Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Mr. Jake W. Null Mrs. Edith M. Oathout Mary O'Kelly Hunt & Debbye Oliver Mr. Robert O'Quin Frank & Nancy* Orr A. Wayne Overby Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Overfield Dan & Helen Owens Dr. & Mrs. Aydin Ozan Dr. & Mrs. James Pace Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Terry & Wanda Palus Doria Panvini Dr. & Mrs. Earl Q. Parrott Dr. Gregory W. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Randall K. Patton Diane Payne Joyce D. Peacock John & Lori Pearce Ms. Linda Pegues Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Pendleton

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Anne & Neiland Pennington Mr. Scott C. Peterson Ms. Sara L. Pettit Mr. & Mrs. James D. Peyton Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Phillips Mr. Bradley K. Place Craig & Raelynn Plattner Ms. Julie B. Plexico Rick & Diane Poen Dr. Clair S. Poff Phil & Dot Ponder Mr. & Mrs. Charles Poole Mr. & Mrs. Brooks A. Quin Dr. & Mrs. Ivan N. Raley Mr. & Mrs. William C. Randle Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths Mr. & Mrs. J. David Rawle Mr. Ray T. Register Mr. & Mrs. Al J. Rhodes Dr. John S. Rich Charles Richardson Mrs. Jane H. Richmond Mrs. Paul E. Ridge Margaret Riegel Ms. Linda N. Rittenhouse Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Robbins Judith R. Roney Dr. & Mrs. Charles Ross Lauren & Christopher Rowe Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Roy Mr. John W. Russell Mr. Arthur C. Rutledge Judith Ann Sachs Mr. Stephen Sachs Diane Sacks Michael Samis & Christopher Stenstrom Mr. Hal R. Sanders LaRhea D. Sanford Eleanor* & Rudy Saperstein Mr. & Mrs.William B. Saunders & Family Mr. Donald D. Savoy Mr. Frank J. Scanlon Walter & Mary Schatz Mr. Bob Schlafly Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth P. Schnaars Molly & Richard Schneider Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Schwab Mr. Paul C. Scott Mr. Carl A. Sedgeman Mr. John Shafer Mr. & Mrs. Stephen B. Shanklin Shannon Family Mr. Wayne C. Shelton Ms. Laura E. Sikes Keith & Kay Simmons Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir

Alice Sisk Ms. Diane M. Skelton Mr. & Mrs. John C. Slater Elisabeth Small Scott Smieja & Leilani Mason Mr. Brian J. Smith Ms. Cara Smith Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Mr. Edd Smith Gail S. Smith Kenric & Suzette Smith Ms. Kelly J. Smits Mr. Robert Sneed Mr. Brandon T. Sory Nan E. Speller Mrs. Karen E. Speyer Robert & Irma Spies Michael & Kelly Sponsler Mr. & Mrs. Charles Sprintz Jane L. Stafford Sarah Stamps Hilary & Shane Stapleton Lelan & Dr. Yolanda Statom Dr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Stearns Dr. & Mrs. James D. Stefansic Dr. C. Thomas & Cheryl Steiner Mr. Donald L. Stephenson Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens Dr. Virginia & Mr. Robert J. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Glenn C. Stophel Dr. Martha Walker-Stratton Mr. & Mrs. William T. Stroud Mr. Gregory J. Suhayda Dewayne & Kristy Sullivan Frank Sutherland & Natilee Duning Don D. & Louise McKee Swain Dr. Becky E. Swanson-Hindman Mr. Richard J. Swoboda Dr. Anna & Mr. Jaroslaw Szczuka Bishop & Mrs. Melvin G. Talbert Mr. Philip S. Tatum Lynne Taylor Ms. Sylvia E. Taylor Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Thackston Ms. Prema Thiagarajah Rev. C. Steve Thomas Bob & Mary Battle Thompson Richard & Shirley Thrall Mr. Dwight D. Thrash, CPA, FCPA Mr. Walter Tieck Scott & Nesrin Tift Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Tippens Mr. Carlos Tirres Mr. Mark G. Tobin Mr. & Mrs. Lewis J. Tomiko

Mr. Anthony E. Tomlinson Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Trusty Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull Ms. Jesse W. Van Volkenburg Frances Anne Varallo Kimberly Dawn Vincent Jessica & Daniel Viner Mrs. Bridget S. von Weisenstein Mrs. Emily L.Martin Dr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wall Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John M. Wallick Mr. & Mrs. Robin Walsh Major & Yong Wang Ryan Ward Dot & Jerry Warren Mrs. Lynn S. Waterman Shirley Marie Watts Frank & Jane Wcislo Mr. Michael T. Whitler & Mr. Mark Weber Mr. Joseph D. Weekly H. Martin* & Joyce Weingartner Linda C. West Mr. & Mrs. Larry Whitehead Ms. Judith B. Wiens Mr. & Mrs. James M. Williams John & Anne Williams Dr. Joyce E. Williams Mr. & Mrs. John W. Williamson Ms. Donna Wilson Gary & Cathy Wilson Tommy & Carol Ann Wilson Ms. Sandra Wiscarson Jeff & Karen Witte Scott & Ellen Wolfe Ms. Laura Katherine Wood Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Wood Susan Woods Linda Workman Todd K. Wortman Clayton Wraith Mr. & Mrs. James A. Wright Kathryn & Roy Wroth Mr. & Mrs. Gary P. Wulfsberg Kay & Randall Wyatt Pam & Tom Wylly Vivian R. & Richard A. Wynn Mr. & Mrs. Michael Yarbrough Adam Zager Dr. Michael Zanolli & Julie K. Sandine Ms. Shirley Zent Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Zibart Dr. Thomas F. Zimmerman, M.D. *denotes donors who are deceased

HONORARY In honor of Jane & Jim Beasley's 50th wedding anniversary In honor of Bettie Berry's Birthday In honor of Jessica Blackwell In honor of Julie Boehm In honor of Audrey Campbell In honor of Kelly Corcoran In honor of Marion P. Couch In honor of Bob Eisenstein In honor of Jason Frazier In honor of Andy Giacobone's 50th Birthday In honor of Maestro Guerrero's appearance at the Centennial Club

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In honor of John Halsell In honor of Michael Hayes In honor of Everly Heeren In honor of Bo Hillard In honor of Vicki & Rick Horne In honor of Martha Ingram In honor of the Ingram Family Planned Giving Council of Middle Tennessee in honor of Steve Manno In honor of Bill & Elizabeth Minkoff In honor of Laura Niewold In honor of board member Harrell Odom In honor of Sarah Reisner

In honor of Evelyn Richmond In honor of Bethany Rozell In honor of Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III In honor of Cassidy Thomason In honor of Roger Weismeyer In honor of Paulette Wells-Harris In honor of Arthur* & Lisa Wheeler In honor of Scott Wolfe

Jerry Adams - In memory of Carole Slate Adams In memory of Jan Anderson In memory of James R. (Pete) Austin In memory of Andrew G. Bachmann In memory of Jessica Bloom In memory of Flora Borloz In memory of Mary Katherine "Kitty" Boyd In memory of James F. Brandenburg In memory of W. Ovid Collins Jr. In memory of Leisa Crane In memory of Gerry Daniel

In memory of Jean Lorraine Lieber Eskind In memory of Doris Emogene Estes In memory of Sanford "Tex" Payne Fagadau In memory of Catherine "Cathy" Ann Fleming In memory of Helen Hall Golter In memory of Bruce Hall In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Harold Hassenfeld In memory of Billy Ray Hearn In memory of Nancy Hall Mason Johnston In memory of Ilona and Jozef In memory of Barbara Knott

In memory of Jim McCaslin In memory of Mrs. J.C. Norris In memory of Mildred J. Oonk In memory of Lt Cmdr Alan A. Patterson, USN In memory of Mary Ruth Shell In memory of Glenn E. Smith In memory of H. Martin Weingartner In memory of Arthur "Art" P. Wheeler

LAWRENCE S. LEVINE MEMORIAL FUND George E. Barrett* John Auston Bridges Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Barbara & Eric Chazen Donna R. Cheek* Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Esther & Roger Cohn Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Dee & Jerald* Doochin Robert D. Eisenstein Mrs. Annette S. Eskind Laurie & Steven Eskind Harris A. Gilbert Allis Dale & John Gillmor

Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Mr.* & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Judith Hodges Judith S. & James R. Humphreys Walter & Sarah Knestrick Sheldon Kurland Ellen C. Lawson Sally M. Levine In honor of Judith & Jim Humphreys Frances & Eugene Lotochinski Ellen Harrison Martin Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Cynthia* & Richard* Morin Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook

Mr. and Mrs. Craig E. Philip Anne & Charles Roos Mr.* & Mrs. John L. Seigenthaler Joan B. Shayne Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Vicky & Bennett Tarleton Mr. & Mrs.* Louis B. Todd Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Byron Trauger Betty & Bernard Werthan Mr. Mark Zimbicki and Ms. Wendy Kurland Alice A. Zimmerman

Governing Members are highly engaged patrons who have a desire to influence the future of the Nashville Symphony.

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overning Members receive access to Founders Hall donor lounge, complimentary drinks, special access, exclusive invitations and behind-thescenes experiences Membership is offered with an annual gift of $2,500 and purchase of 4+ concerts.

UPCOMING EVENTS January 12-14: Pre-Concert Reception in Founders Hall January 17: Insiders’ Access Event: World of Percussion February 2: Post-Concert Toast Backstage w/Musicians February 3: Pre-Concert Dinner at Trattoria Il Mulino March 9-11: Pre-concert Whiskey Tasting Learn more: Kathryn Wroth, Sr. Patron Engagement Officer, 615.687.6615 or kwroth@nashvillesymphony.org.

ANNUAL FUND

MEMORIAL

ANNUAL FUND

CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

The Nashville Symphony is deeply grateful to the following corporations, foundations and government agencies that support its concert season and its services to the community through generous contributions to the Annual Fund. Donors as of October 25, 2016.

SEASON PRESENTERS Gifts of $100,000+

AEGIS

SCIENCES FOUNDATION EST. 2013

DIRECTORS’ ASSOCIATES Gifts of $50,000+ THE ANDREW W.

SAMUEL M. FLEMING FOUNDATION

MELLON FOUNDATION

PRINCIPAL PLAYERS

Gifts of $25,000+

MIKE CURB FAMILY FOUNDATION

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ANNUAL FUND ORCHESTRA PARTNERS Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. American Constructors, Inc. Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation AT&T Bass Berry & Sims Blakeford California Closets Caterpillar Financial Services Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated Country Music Association Corrections Corporation of America Equitable Trust First Tennessee Bank Flavor Catering FTB Advisors The HCA Foundation The Hendrix Foundation Humphreys and Partners Architects Made In Network MarketStreet Enterprises Mednikow Jewelers Nashville Symphony Crescendo Club Neal & Harwell, PLC Peace Communications Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. Rebel Hill Florist Renasant Bank ARTISTIC UNDERWRITERS Gifts of $5,000- $9,999 Aladdin Industries, LLC American Paper & Twine Aston Martin, Maserti, Rolls-Royce & Bentley of Nashville Bass Berry & Sims BDO USA, LLP Blevins, Inc. BMI Bonnaroo Works Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee The Cockayne Fund Inc. Chet Atkins Music Education Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Clarcor Foundation Community Health Systems Direct Travel The Edwards Pharris Group at Morgan Stanley Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville Downtown Dan Hatef, M.D. KraftCPAs PLLC Landis B. Gullett Charitable Lead Annuity Trust The Lipman Group Sotheby's International Realty M. Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation NAXOS Nordstrom Community Giving

Parking Management Company Pinnacle Financial Partners Premier Parking Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation UBS Vanderbilt University Wells Fargo Foundation Wiseman Ashworth Law Group PLC WME and Becky Gardenhire BUSINESS PARTNER Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 AmSurg BioVentures, Inc. City of Brentwood Carter Haston Real Estate Services Inc. Cumberland Trust Downtown Nashville Nissan First Baptist Church Nashville The Goddard School Gould Turner Group, P.C. Clint Newman, DDS Pancake Pantry Piedmont Natural Gas Tennsco Corporation Tokio Marine Management BUSINESS LEADER Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (1) DBS & Associates Engineering, Inc. GM-Spring Hill Manufacturing J. Alexander’s Corporation Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation RD Plastics Co., Inc. The Village Fund Walker Lumber & Hardware Company BUSINESS ASSOCIATES Gifts of $500 - $999 ADEX! Homesellers The Buzz 102.9 / The Game 102.5 / Game2 94.9 / The LIGHT 102.1 Creation Gardens, Inc. The Heritage at Brentwood Hoskins & Company, P.C. INDUSCO Partners Healthcare Group Riley Warnock & Jacobson PLC Stansell Electric Company, Inc. Sysco Nashville Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy IN-KIND Crowe Horwath LLP Flavor Catering The Garage Coffee Company The Glover Group Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville Downtown

Hans and Nancy Stabell Hilton Nashville Downtown James and Valorie Cole Jason and Chelsea Parker Laurence and Risë Tucker Lipman Brothers, Inc. Made In Network NAXOS of America Inc. Peace Communications Premier Parking Provence Breads & Café Puckett’s Grocery And Restaurant Rebel Hill Florist Sally Levine Sambuca Restaurant MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES Arcadia Healthcare American General Life & Accident American International Group, Inc. Atmos Energy AT&T Higher Education/Cultural Matching Gift Program Bank of America BCD Travel Becton Dickinson & Co. CA Matching Gifts Program Caterpillar Foundation Cigna Foundation Community Health Systems Foundation Eaton Corporation ExxonMobil Foundation First Data Foundation First Tennessee The Frist Foundation GE Foundation General Mills Foundation Hachette Book Group IBM Corporation Illinois Tool Works Foundation McKesson Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co Foundation, Inc. Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Nissan Gift Matching Program P&G Fund Matching Gift Program Regions Scottrade Square D Foundation Matching Gift Program Shell Oil Company Foundation Starbucks Matching Gifts Program The Aspect Matching Gifts Program The HCA Foundation The Meredith Corporation Foundation The Prudential Foundation The Stanley Works U.S. Bancorp Foundation Williams Community Relations

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CAPITAL FUNDS The Nashville Symphony wishes to acknowledge and thank the following individuals, foundations and corporations for their commitment to the Symphony. This list recognizes donors who contributed $15,000 or more to one of the Symphony’s endowment or capital campaigns. These capital campaigns make it possible to ensure a sustainable future for a nationally recognized orchestra worthy of Music City.

AmSouth Foundation Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation The Ayers Foundation Bank of America Alvin & Sally Beaman Foundation Lee A. Beaman, Trustee Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Bottorff Ann* & Monroe* Carell Caterpillar Inc. & Its Employees The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Mike Curb Family Foundation CaremarkRx Greg & Collie Daily

Dollar General Corporation Laura Turner Dugas The Frist Foundation Amy Grant & Vince Gill Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Hays HCA Ingram Charitable Fund Lee Ann & Orrin Ingram The Martin Foundation Ellen Harrison Martin Mr.* & Mrs. R. Clayton McWhorter The Memorial Foundation Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County

Anne* & Dick Ragsdale Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Estate of Walter B & Huldah Cheek Sharp State of Tennessee Margaret & Cal Turner Jr. James Stephen Turner Charitable Foundation Vanderbilt University The Vandewater Family Foundation Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson Colleen & Ted* Welch The Anne Potter Wilson Foundation

$500,000+

Mr. Tom Black Dr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Frist, Jr. Giarratana Development, LLC Carl & Connie Haley Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hayes

HCA Foundation, in honor of Dr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Frist Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Regions Bank Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III

Estate of Anita Stallworth SunTrust Bank Tennessee Arts Commission Laura Anne Turner

$250,000+

American Constructors, Inc. Barbara & Jack Bovender American Retirement Corp.

Connie & Tom Cigarran E.B.S. Foundation Gordon & Shaun Inman

Harry & Jan Jacobson The Judy & Noah Liff Foundation Robert Straus Lipman Mrs. Jack C. Massey* Mr. & Mrs. Henry McCall Lynn & Ken Melkus

Richard L. & Sharalena Miller National Endowment for the Arts Justin & Valere Potter Foundation Irvin & Beverly Small Anne H. & Robert K.* Zelle

$100,000+

Mr. & Mrs. Dale Allen Phyllis & Ben* Alper Andrews Cadillac/Land Rover Nashville Averitt Express Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton BellSouth Julie & Frank Boehm Richard & Judith Bracken Mr.* & Mrs. James C. Bradford Jr. Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, PLC The Charles R. Carroll Family Fred J. Cassetty Mr.* & Mrs. Michael J. Chasanoff Leslie Sharp Christodoulopoulos Charitable Trust CLARCOR Mr.* & Mrs. William S. Cochran Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Fite Cone Corrections Corporation of America Estate of Dorothy Parkes Cox Janine, Ben, John & Jenny Cundiff Deloitte & Touche LLP The Rev. Canon & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Marty & Betty Dickens Michael D. & Carol E. Ennis Family Annette & Irwin* Eskind The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation

The M. Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Franklin Front Brown Todd LLC Gannett Foundation / The Tennessean Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia Gordon & Constance Gee Genesco Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Joel C. Gordon Guardsmark, LLC Billy Ray* & Joan* Hearn The Hendrix Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker & Family Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Warner Jones Walter & Sarah Knestrick ESaDesign Team Earl Swensson Associates Inc. I.C. Thomasson Associates Inc. KSi/Structural Engineers Lattimore, Black, Morgan & Cain PC Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wiehl Lazenby Sally M. Levine Andrew Woodfin Miller Foundation Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. Nashville Symphony Chorus Nashville Symphony Orchestra League Pat & John W. Nelley Jr.

O’Charley’s Partnership 2000 Bonnie & David Perdue Mr. & Mrs. Philip Maurice Pfeffer Mr. & Mrs. Dale W. Polley Mary C. Ragland Foundation The John M. Rivers Jr. Foundation Inc. Carol & John Rochford Mr. & Mrs. Alex A. Rogers Anne & Joseph Russell & Family Daniel & Monica Scokin Bill & Sharon Sheriff Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Luke & Susan Simons Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Smith Barbara & Lester* Speyer The Starr Foundation Hope & Howard Stringer Louis B. & Patricia C.* Todd Jr. Lillias & Fred* Viehmann The Henry Laird Smith Foundation Mr. & Mrs. E.W. Wendell Mr. David M. Wilds Mr. & Mrs. W. Ridley Wills III Mr.* & Mrs. David K. Wilson

Adams and Reese / Stokes Bartholomew LLP American Airlines American General Life & Accident Insurance Company

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz J B & Carylon Baker Dr. & Mrs. T.B. Boyd III William H. Braddy III

Dr. Ian* & Katherine* Brick Mr. & Mrs.* Martin S. Brown Sr. Michael & Jane Ann Cain Mike Curb/Curb Records Inc. The Danner Foundation

$1M+

$50,000+

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Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson KPMG LLP Mrs. Heloise Werthan Kuhn John T. Lewis Gilbert Stroud Merritt Mr. & Mrs. David K. Morgan Musicians of the Nashville Symphony Anne & Peter Neff Cano & Esen Ozgener Ponder & Co. Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Ms. Victoria Heil Delphine & Ken Roberts

Ro’s Oriental Rugs, Inc. Mrs. Dan C. Rudy* Mary Ruth* & Bob Shell Mr. & Mrs. Richard Speer Stites & Harbison, PLLC Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Sullivan Alan D. Valentine Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP Estate of Christine Glenn Webb David & Gail Williams Nicholas S. Zeppos & Lydia A. Howarth

$25,000+ AMSURG

Mr. & Mrs. Keith D. Frazier John & Lorelee Gawaluck Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero Mr. & Mrs. James Earl Hastings Hawkins Partners, Inc. Landscape Architects Neil & Helen Hemphill Hilton Nashville Downtown In Memory of Ellen Bowers Hofstead Hudson Family Foundation Iroquois Capital Group, LLC John F. & Jane Berry Jacques Mercedes E. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Randall L. Kinnard KraftCPAs PLLC Estate of Barbara J. Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Lipman The Howard Littlejohn Family The Loventhal and Jones Families Mimsye* & Leon May Kevin P. & Deborah A. McDermott Rock & Linda Morphis Carole & Ed* Nelson Nissan North America, Inc.

Odom’s Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc. Larry D. Odom, Chairman/CEO Hal N. & Peggy S. Pennington Celeste Casey* & James Hugh Reed III* Renasant Bank Jan & Stephen S. Riven Lavona & Clyde Russell Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Schatzlein Kenneth D. Schermerhorn* Lucy & Wilbur Sensing Nelson & Sheila Shields Michael & Lisa Shmerling Joanne & Gary Slaughter Doug & Nan Smith Hans & Nancy Stabell Ann & Robert H. Street Mr. & Mrs. William J. Tyne Washington Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. W. Ridley Wills II Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly Janet & Alan Yuspeh Shirley Zeitlin

$15,000+ Kent & Donna Adams

Martin & Alice Emmett Larry P. & Diane M. English Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind Bob & Judy Fisher Karen & Eugene C. Fleming Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Gaeto The Grimstad & Stream Families Heidtke & Company, Inc. Robert C. Hilton Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Franklin Y. Hundley Jr. Margie & Nick* Hunter Joseph Hutts Mr. & Mrs. T.J. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. David B. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Russell A. Jones Jr. John Kelingos Education Fund Beatriz Perez & Paul Knollmaier Pamela & Michael Koban Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Langone Richard & Delorse Lewis Robert A. Livingston Frances & Eugene Lotochinski Mr.* & Mrs. Robert C.H. Mathews, Jr. Betsy Vinson McInnes Jack & Lynn May Mr. & Mrs. James Lee McGregor Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod MR. & Mrs. Robert E. McNeilly III Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Mary & Max Merrell Donald J. & Hillary L. Meyers Christopher & Patricia Mixon NewsChannel 5 Network Susan & Rick Oliver

Piedmont Natural Gas David & Adrienne Piston Charles H. Potter Jr. Joseph & Edna Presley Nancy M. Falls & Neil M. Price Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Linda & Art Rebrovick Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Dr. & Mrs. Clifford Roberson Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Robinson Jr. Anne & Charles Roos Ron Rossmann Joan Blum Shayne Mr. & Mrs. Irby C. Simpkins, Jr. Patti & Brian Smallwood Murray & Hazel Somerville Southwind Health Partners® The Grimstad & Stream Families Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mark Lee Taylor John B. & Elva Thomison Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Jr. Eli & Deborah Tullis Mr. & Mrs. James M. Usdan Louise B. Wallace Foundation Mr.* & Mrs. George W. Weesner Ann & Charles* Wells In Memory of Leah Rose B. Werthan Mr.* & Mrs.* Albert Werthan Betty & Bernard Werthan Foundation Olin West, Jr. Charitable Lead Trust Mr. & Mrs. Toby S. Wilt Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Dr. Artmas L. Worthy Mr. & Mrs. Julian Zander Jr.

Family of Kenneth Schermerhorn The Bank of Nashville Bass, Berry & Sims PLC Tom & Wendy Beasley The Bernard Family Foundation The Honorable Philip Bredesen & Ms. Andrea Conte The Very Rev. Robert E. & Linda M. Brodie Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Mr. & Mrs. Frank M. Bumstead Community Counselling Service Co., Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Doug & Sondra Cruickshanks Mr. & Mrs. Robert V. Dale Gail & Ted DeDee In Memory of Ann F. Eisenstein Enco Materials, Inc./Wilber Sensing Jr., Chair Emeritus Nancy Leach & Bill Hoskins John & Carole Ferguson Estate of Dudley C. Fort Mr. & Mrs. F. Tom Foster Jr.

Ruth Crockarell Adkins Aladdin Industries, LLC American Brokerage Company, Inc. American Paper & Twine Co. Mr. & Mrs. William F. Andrews Dr. Alice A. & Mr. Richard Arnemann Mr. & Mrs. J. Hunter Atkins Sue G. Atkinson Mr. & Mrs. Albert Balestiere Baring Industries Brenda C. Bass Russell W. Bates James S. & Jane C. Beard Allison & John Beasley Ruth Bennett & Steve Croxall Frank* & Elizabeth Berklacich Ann & Jobe* Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Boyd Bogle III John Auston Bridges Mr. & Mrs. Roger T. Briggs Jr. Cathy & Martin Brown Jr. Grennebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC Patricia & Manny* Buzzell Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Terry W. Chandler Neil & Emily Christy Chase Cole Dr. & Mrs. Lindsey W. Cooper Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Andrew D. Crawford Barbara & Willie K. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Arthur C. DeVooght Mr. & Mrs. Matthew H. Dobson V Mike & Carolyn Edwards Mr. John W. Eley & Ms. Donna J. Scott Sylvia & Robert H. Elman

*denotes donors who are deceased

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C A P I TA L F U N D S

Dee & Jerald* Doochin Ernst & Young Mr. & Mrs. David S. Ewing Ezell Foundation / Purity Foundation Mr.* & Mrs.* Sam M. Fleming In Memory of Kenneth Schermerhorn Letty-Lou Gilbert*, Joe Gilbert & Family James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Edward A. & Nancy Goodrich Bill & Ruth Ann Leach Harnisch Hastings Architecture Associates, LLC Dr. & Mrs.* George W. Holcomb Jr.

LEGACY SOCIETY

N A S H V I L L E SYMPH ONY

LEGACY SOCIETY LEAVING A LEGACY

BUILDING A FUTURE

T

he Nashville Symphony is grateful to those donors who have remembered the orchestra in their estate plans. Legacy gifts to the Nashville Symphony help Middle Tennessee’s resident orchestra achieve its mission of making beautiful music, reaching diverse audiences and improving life in our community for generations to come through the following:

• World-class performances of enduring orchestral music, from Bach to Beethoven to Bernstein

• Affordable ticket prices for music lovers of all ages and backgrounds • Commissions and recordings of America’s leading composers, who are keeping classical music relevant for 21st-century audiences • Life-changing education programs that provide inspiration, instruction and mentorship for students from kindergarten through high school • The acoustical brilliance of Schermerhorn Symphony Center, a venue built to serve the entire community

Be “instrumental” in our success by sharing your passion for music with future generations.

For more information on the many creative ways to make a planned gift, please visit NashvilleSymphony.org/plannedgiving or call Maribeth Stahl at 615.687.6532.

Stephen Abelman & Robin Holab- Abelman Anonymous (4) Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Russell & Oguz Bates Elisabetha C. Baugh Ann Bernard Congressman Diane Black and Dr. David L. Black Julie G. & Frank H. Boehm, MD Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Mr. and Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Paul Catt and Linda Etheredge George D. Clark Jr. Donna & Steven* Clark Dr. Cliff Cockerham & Dr. Sherry Cummings W. Ovid Collins, Jr.* Barbara J.* and John J.* Conder Marianne Connolly Kelly Corcoran Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert Kevin & Katie Crumbo Janet Keese Davies The William M.* & Mildred P.* Duncan Family & Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Paula Fairchild Judy & Tom Foster 78

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Henry S. Fusner* Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia Harris A. Gilbert Allis Dale & John Gillmor James C. Gooch Ed & Nancy Goodrich Landis Bass Gullett* Connie & Carl T. Haley, Jr. David W. & Judith S. Hayes Billy Ray Hearn* Judith Hodges Judith Simmons Humphreys Martha Rivers Ingram Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Anne Knauff Heloise Werthan Kuhn Sally M. Levine John T. Lewis Todd M. Liebergen Claire* & Samuel* Loventhal Ernestine M. Lynfoot Ellen Harrison Martin Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Sharalena & Dick Miller Ellen Livingfield More Cynthia* & Richard* Morin Patricia W. & James F. Munro Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Harry & Shelley Page Juanita M. Patton * Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Pamela K. and Philip Maurice Pfeffer and the Pfeffer Foundation Joseph Presley Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Victoria Heil David & Edria Ragosin Nancy Ray Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Fran C. Rogers Kristi Lynn Seehafer Mr. Martin E.* & Mrs. Judy F. Simmons Irvin & Beverly Small Mary & K.C. Smythe Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard, Jr. Maribeth & Christopher Stahl Dr. Esther & Mr. Jeffery Swink Dr. John B. Thomison, Sr.* Mr. & Mrs.* Louis B. Todd, Jr. Judy & Steve Turner Robert Turner Alan D. & Janet L. Valentine Johnna Benedict Watson Dr. Colleen Conway Welch Lalah Gee Williams Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Anne H. & Robert K.* Zelle

*denotes donors who are deceased

S TA F F R O S T E R

N AS HV I L L E SYM PH ONY ADMI N I ST R ATIVE STA FF EXECUTIVE

Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO Karen Fairbend, Executive Assistant to President and CEO Steven Brosvik, COO Katy Lyles, Operations Coordinator Marye Walker Lewis, CFO

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION

Laurence Tucker, Vice President of Artistic Administration Maiken Knudsen, Director of Artistic Administration Ellen Kasperek, Manager of Artistic Administration Eleanor Roberts, Artistic Coordinator Melissa McCarthy Steinberg, Principal Librarian Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator

COMMUNICATIONS Jonathan Marx, V.P. of Communications Dave Felipe, Publicist Justin Bradford, Website and Social Media Community Manager Sean Shields, Art Director Kailey Sullivan, Graphic Design Associate

DATA STANDARDS

Tony Exler, Director of Data Standards Sheila Wilson, Sr. Database Associate LaNessa Griffey, Data Standards Assistant

DEVELOPMENT Jonathan Norris, V.P. of Development Kathy Devine, Sr. Director of Corporate Development Maribeth Stahl, Sr. Director of Development Delaney Gray, Director of Development Events Kathryn Wroth, Senior Patron

Engagement Officer Celine Thackston, Grants and Research Manager

Michael Ceccarelli, Corporate Partnerships Officer Dennis Carter, Patron Engagement Officer Gina Haining, Patron Engagement Officer Sam LoCascio, Patron Engagement Officer Judith Wall, Patron Engagement Officer Jami Frazier, Stewardship Coordinator Cori Rodery, Development Assistant

EDUCATION

Walter Bitner, Director of Education and Community Engagement Kelley Bell, Education and Community Engagement Program Manager Kristen Freeman, Education and Community Engagement Coordinator

FINANCE

Karen Warren, Controller Bobby Saintsing, A/P & Payroll Manager Sheri Switzer, Senior Accountant Charlotte Schweizer, Retail Manager and Buyer

FOOD, BEVERAGE AND EVENTS

Johnathon McGee, Senior Event Sales Manager Schuyler Thomas, Senior Event Manager Anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager Brandon Hogan, Event Supervisor

HUMAN RESOURCES

Ashley Skinner SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Vice President of Human Resources Katie Hoffman SHRM-CP, Human Resources Manager Kathleen McCracken, Director of Volunteer Services and League Liaison

I.T.

Trenton Leach, Director of Information Technology

MARKETING Daniel B. Grossman, V.P. of Marketing Misty Cochran, Director of Marketing Emily Shannon, Director of Ticket Services

Lindsay Bergstrom, Box Office Manager Gena Staib, Assistant Box Office Manager Missy Hubner, Ticket Services Assistant Sarah Rose Peacock, Marketing and Communications Coordinator Marketing Associates - Rich Bartkowiak, Henry Byington, Toni Conn, Jim Davidson, Kimberly DePue, Rick Katz, Misha Robledo, Cody Smith, Luke Watson Ticket Services Specialists - Liana Alpino, Jesse Baker, Harrison Bryant, Zac Cambria, Maggie Chafee, Jean-Marie Clark, Ashlinn Dowling, Steven Gadzinski, Jeff Hoehne, Brett Mitchell, Emily Perino, Jesse Rosas, Matt Siffert, Elena Sokol, David Swick, Geoff Sullivan, Lindsay Thomas

PRODUCTION & ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS

Sonja Winkler, Sr. Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager Carrie Marcantonio, Orchestra Personnel Manager Erin Ozment, Orchestra Personnel Assistant John Sanders, Chief Technical Engineer Gary Call Hanley, Recording and Audio Engineer Mark Dahlen, Audio Engineer Mitch Hansen, Lighting Director W. Paul Holt, Stage Manager Josh Walliser, Production Manager Trevor Wilkinson, Assistant Production Manager Emily Yeakle, Assistant Lighting Director

VENUE MANAGEMENT

Eric Swartz, V.P. of Venue Management Kenneth Dillehay, Chief Engineer Wade Johnson, Housekeeping Manager James Harvell, Housekeeper Tony Meyers, Director of Security and Front of House Alan Woodard, Security Manager Larry Maday, Facility Maintenance Technician

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ACCELERANDO Training young musicians for the future

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ccelerando is an intensive education program designed to prepare gifted young students of diverse ethnic backgrounds for pursuing music at the collegiate level and beyond. Participants receive: • • • • • •

Year-round instruction from a Nashville Symphony musician or a highly qualified local instructor Solo recital and chamber performance opportunities Summer workshops and camps College and career guidance and counseling Complimentary tickets to Nashville Symphony Classical Series performances Assistance in applying for music school

INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS for prospective students and their families

Tuesday, January 24, 7-8:30 pm Casa Azafrán, 2195 Nolensville Pike Thursday, February 2, 7-8:30 pm Hartman Park Community Center, 2801 Tucker Rd. Thursday, February 16, 7-8:30 pm Casa Azafrán, 2195 Nolensville Pike

AUDITIONS

Saturday, March 4 & 11 Nashville State Community College, 120 White Bridge Rd.

The deadline to apply for auditions is February 17.

Visit NashvilleSymphony.org/accelerando for application materials and audition requirements in English and in Spanish.

Questions? Email accelerando@nashvillesymphony.org.