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Born on July 11, 1953, in Ilford in Greater London, England; currently resides in Vancouver, Canada Urban Runway Bramwell Tovey composed Urban Runway in 2008 on a joint commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic.

A droll commentary on bicoastal fashion sensibilities, as well as a valentine to orchestral jazz, this colorful concert opener displays charm and appeal.

First performance: July 3, 2008, with the composer conducting the New York Philharmonic.

First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances.

Estimated length: 10 minutes

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ur program explores works by two contemporaries from both sides of the pond, George Gershwin and William Walton.

These pieces were written early in their careers, when each had arrived at a major milestone.

Despite the pressure of expectations, they responded in remarkably original ways as they took up the challenge of the concerto and the symphony, respectively.

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Composer-conductor-pianist Bramwell Tovey, who is equally at home in both traditions, sets the proceedings in motion. After growing up in London’s East End in a family of Salvation Army musicians, Tovey experienced an early career breakthrough when he was asked to fill in at the last minute to conduct opening night of the London Symphony’s Leonard Bernstein Festival in 1986. He won the praise of Bernstein himself, and he has since become an internationally popular conductor, winning a Grammy in 2007 for his recording of William Walton’s Violin Concerto.

Tovey’s special affinity for George Gershwin is apparent in such projects as his recording of Gershwin songs, And Love Walked In, and the acclaimed concert performances of Porgy and Bess he led this year in Boston. As a composer, Tovey has written concertos for cello, viola and trumpet, and he won Canada’s Juno Award in 2003 for Best Classical Composition with his Requiem for a Charred Skull for choir and brass band. He recently recorded his opera The Inventor with the Vancouver Symphony, which Tovey has helmed since 2000. He is also a familiar presence as guest conductor of the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics. It was for both of these ensembles that he originally wrote Urban Runway as a July 4 piece.

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R The spirit of conspicuous celebration — and the flavor of both American coasts — pervades this single-movement work, which craftily plays different tempos and instrumental timbres off each other. Tovey has also mentioned that he drew in part on his memories of Bernstein. He offers the following description of the piece: “The concept for Urban Runway grew out of an amusing conversation with friends concerning the colorful idiosyncrasies of those who offer their patronage to the fashion houses on Fifth Avenue in New York or Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles.

New clothes, even those unseen inside designer shopping bags, appear to influence the gait of shoppers as they strut along the sidewalk. With a little imagination, the listener might care to speculate on the characters depicted in the music.

Based upon a simple ostinato figure housed in a

Urban Runway is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, flugelhorn, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (3 players), piano and strings.

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Piano Concerto in F Gershwin composed the Concerto in F in 1925 on a commission for the New York Symphony Orchestra. Consolidating the recent success of his “crossover” smash Rhapsody in Blue — a kind of mini-piano concerto — Gershwin creates a hybrid from his energetic, jazzinspired style and classical tradition in the Concerto in F.

Born on September 26, 1898, in Brooklyn New York; died on July 11, 1937, in Hollywood, California

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ong before the music companies had dreamed up the notion of “crossover,” George Gershwin was busy fusing genres across a wide spectrum and establishing a vital new American musical voice for the 20th century in the process. His upbringing in Manhattan’s Lower East Side sharpened Gershwin’s sensitivity to diverse musical styles and idioms, and he later attempted to weave them together in his music. In the pattern later followed by Leonard Bernstein, Gershwin divided his creative energy between popular music for the Broadway stage and “serious” compositions for the concert hall. In works like the Concerto in F, he also attempted to synthesize musical ideas derived from both popular and classical contexts.

Gershwin, unlike his almost-exact contemporary Aaron Copland, had not acquired

First performance: December 3, 1925, with the composer as soloist and Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York.

First Nashville Symphony performance: January 13-14, 1975, with soloist Enid Katahn and guest conductor Vincent DeFrank.

Estimated length: 32 minutes

formal training before setting out on his career, but the legend of his being a completely selftaught musician isn’t quite accurate. In fact, Gershwin applied himself diligently in private classical lessons and also avidly followed the latest developments in the classical scene abroad. Even after he had become internationally famous, he would seek guidance from leading contemporary European composers such as Maurice Ravel and Arnold Schoenberg. Both famously declined, fearing that such tutelage would trammel his instinctive creativity. Ravel even declared that he should take lessons from Gershwin, and his own later piano concertos show the American’s influence. Still, from his teenage years Gershwin was firmly grounded in the world of commercial entertainment, and he began his career by plugging songs for the pop-music epicenter of

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cakewalk rhythm, the score is laced with jazz and minimalist flavors. A flugelhorn and marimba introduce distinctive elements, and perhaps characteristically, the violas take a moment to remind us of the benefits of the ‘pre-owned’ grunge look….”

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the era, New York’s “Tin Pan Alley.” His superb natural gift for melody and rhythm would make it all too easy for critics to try to pigeonhole him as “merely” a songwriter who unwisely strayed into large-scale classical forms.

Gershwin stunned the musical world with the instant, smash success of his Rhapsody in Blue in 1924, and it proved that his talent went far beyond the standard three-minute format of the Tin Pan Alley hit. This early breakthrough brought the ambitious young Gershwin to the attention of admiring European composers, including Ravel and Schoenberg, and added a new twist to the ongoing dialectic between Old World traditions and American self-reliance.

Rhapsody’s powerful impact brought not just fame but a new commission for a more ambitious piano concerto. Only a day after attending the famous Carnegie Hall concert in which Rhapsody was first heard, Walter Damrosch — conductor of the New York Symphony, soon to merge into the New York Philharmonic — asked Gershwin to write the Concerto in F. This prospect raised the stakes for the composer. He would now be inviting direct comparison with works from the venerable European classical tradition.

At the same time, even as European composers were attempting to freshen their own scores by dallying with jazz elements, Gershwin’s intuitive understanding of jazz and his sense of how it could be used in larger, more ambitious pieces remained especially provocative. As Joseph Horowitz observes in his insightful Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall: “Like jazz, [Gershwin] poked at the fissures of the American experience: the relation between bloodline Anglos, immigrant Jews, and blacks once imported or sold; between high culture borrowed but pure, and a popular culture born of miscegenation. No less than jazz, Gershwin provoked a cacophony of opinion.”

There were plenty of technical issues to confront as well. Gershwin had actually composed Rhapsody for two pianos, handing off the score to Ferde Grofé to orchestrate.

Grofé crafted several versions, including the full orchestral one we usually hear in the concert hall. But with his confidence boosted

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by Rhapsody’s success — and determined to prove his chops as a full-fledged composer — Gershwin set about orchestrating the new Concerto himself, working under strict selfimposed deadlines.

Descriptions of the Concerto in F routinely conjure the image of the composer studiously burying his nose in theory books to get up to speed on the classical form, an image no doubt teasingly exaggerated by Gershwin himself.

The piece has had no shortage of critics who perceive nothing but overreaching ambition that strays too far from the composer’s natural talents. Yet many others admire the Concerto in F as a fluent, inventive and vital debut in a new genre for Gershwin, anticipating his even more remarkable feat in the following decade with the composition of a large-scale opera, Porgy and Bess.

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R Gershwin reimagines the familiar architecture and rhetorical gestures of 19th century piano concerts, filling this framework with recognizably American thematic, harmonic and rhythmic ideas. The Concerto opens with attention-grabbing timpani strokes and a nod to Broadway, while the rhythm of the Charleston — “representing the young enthusiastic spirit of American life,” as Gershwin put it — emerges as a primary motivating force. When the piano enters, it traces a dreamy melody that hints at the blues poetry to come in the Adagio. These two ideas, the melody and the dance, are engagingly varied and recombined throughout the movement.

A solo trumpet, shadowed by wistful clarinets, evokes what Gershwin characterized as the “nocturnal tone” of the Adagio. The treatment of solo instrumental passages throughout is richly detailed and offers evidence of an instinctive feel for orchestral color that is often underestimated in Gershwin’s scores. The piano’s first appearance on the scene, offering a spiced-up rhythmic dissection of the tune, is in remarkable contrast to its initially dreamy pose from the first movement.

These contrasting principles pervade both of the first two movements and are then speeded

In addition to solo piano, the Concerto is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (3 players) and strings.

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W I L L I A M WA LTO N Symphony No. 1 in B-flat minor Walton started writing the first of his two symphonies in 1932 but took until August 1935 to complete the score. Described as “the climax of my youth” by the composer, the First boldly absorbs influences as diverse as Beethoven, Elgar, Sibelius and Stravinsky into a personal and deeply dramatic vision of suffering and breakthrough.

Born on March 29, 1902, in Oldham, England; died on March 8, 1983 in Ischia, Italy

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ust three years Gershwin’s junior, William Walton was one of several leading European composers of the era who expressed their admiration for the dashing young American. “He was in the middle of writing his Piano Concerto in F, and I was hypnotized by his fabulous piano playing and his melodic gift,” Walton later recalled about meeting Gershwin in London in 1925. Walton himself first emerged in the 1920s as part of a new generation of English artists — after Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams — far more open to recent developments, including the latest adventures of the European avant-garde and the exciting Jazz Age vibe that beckoned from across the ocean. A key influence was the explosion of the modernist spirit in all its myriad forms, a spirit that had been intensified by the upheavals of World War I.

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up in the finale. Ideas from both also recur in the final movement, where they are pop up between statements of the rapidfire, toccata-like rondo theme. Described by Gershwin as an “orgy of rhythm,” this last movement returns to the Bright Lights showiness that opened the Concerto and brings the curtain down with a delirious series of trills vibrating through the orchestra.

First performance: November 6, 1935, in London, with Hamilton Harty conducting the BBC Symphony.

First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances.

Estimated length: 45 minutes

Walton’s flame burned with special incandescence in his early years, when he composed the works that have remained concert staples: the Viola Concerto, the biblical oratorio Belshazzar’s Feast and the mighty First Symphony, which Walton regarded as “the climax of my youth.” Though he would eventually become popular far beyond the concert hall and be considered an authoritative Voice of England through his scores for Laurence Olivier’s Shakespeare films, Walton first gained notice as something of an iconoclast: In the 1920s he composed the jazz-inflected chamber score Façade, a sequence of accompaniments to poems by eccentric modernist Edith Sitwell that is also familiar as a ballet. Sitwell belonged to a prominent family of artists who supported Walton when he was emerging.

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As he approached 30, Walton scored a major triumph with the impressively large-scale Belshazzar’s Feast (1931). He was encouraged by the Irish-born conductor-composer Hamilton Harty to attempt his next conquest in the realm of the symphony. Yet the sense of optimism associated with American jazz — as well as the avenues it seemed to open up for classical music in the 1920s — had given way to uncertainty and even despair about the ongoing displacement of tradition. “I think it almost hopeless for anyone to produce in any of the arts in these days,” Walton wrote to Harty, trying to explain the many delays that hindered progress on the new work.

“It is practically impossible to get away from the general feeling of hopelessness and chaos which exists everywhere, however one must try….”

Walton’s tempestuous love life is often cited as the main reason for the series of missed deadlines that marked the First Symphony’s drawn-out genesis (see sidebar). But such biographical glosses tend to overlook the daunting artistic and architectural challenge Walton had set himself when it came to concluding the work, having written an opening movement of epic expanse — “bardic” was the description aptly given by Richard Capell, an early critic — a fierce scherzo, and a profoundly tragic slow movement.

In any case, the completed First Symphony was immediately recognized as a landmark of modern music, and it inspired powerful praise from some of Britain’s most important critics. Several decades later the eminent musicologist Deryck Cooke wrote enthusiastically about the greatness and originality of this score, despite the pronounced influence of Jean Sibelius’s symphonic techniques and Stravinsky’s rhythmic dynamism. “Above all,” concludes Cooke, “the [First] is a true symphony, in that it says something fundamental in orchestral terms on a large scale.”

W HAT TO LIST E N F OR Walton himself later confided that the emotional map of the First reflects his personal experiences — “jealousy and hatred all mixed up with love” — rather than the existential fears of those pre-war years. Yet he manages to universalize these intimate feelings through a fascinating and

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stirring musical journey, with the first movement suggesting an air of imminent catastrophe. The sound world of Sibelius, with its vast open spaces and continual emergence of linked ideas, has left its imprint on Walton’s thinking, but he amalgamates this and other influences to create music that is distinctive and urgently expressive.

The quiet rolling of timpani — this instrument is given a significant role throughout — establishes a “pedal,” or a long-held note, usually deep in the bass. The First makes widespread use of such pedal notes, which function as a kind of anchor for the dizzying harmonic changes and dramatic dissonances that unfold around it. Walton soon overlays other textures: more sustained harmonies on the four horns, a nervous rhythmic motion on violins, and the solo oboe’s long melody centering around a repeated note. With page-turning intensity, the music builds a sense of expectation from transformations of these basic elements. Dramatic climaxes mark the movement’s progress, but its spirit of tragic defiance nevertheless feels unresolved by the end.

Indeed, Walton next brings the violent aspects of the First’s landscape into searing focus in a scherzo of malicious, irrepressible energy (“con malizio” is the unusual tempo indication).

Metrical shifts and lopsided accents result, giving an unbalanced edge to its volatile, elemental force, which biographer Michael Kennedy memorably compares to “some kind of fission process.” The deeply affecting Andante con malincolia (actually a misspelling of the Italian word for melancholy, malinconia) explores new regions of tragic despair, with pedals from cellos and horns undergirding the flute’s eloquently desolate melody. Passions heat up in Walton’s updating of the restless harmonic language of late Romanticism, but they are eventually subdued in the haunting final pages.

The long-delayed finale begins with a sudden surge of hope whose implications will be worked out through this large-scale movement. Along the way, Walton found a solution to his musical block by introducing the old-fashioned reliability of a fugue several minutes in. The finale, which calls for the largest orchestration of the entire score,

reverses the attitude of struggle and anguish heard in the preceding movements as the music finds its way to exuberant affirmation.

ABOUT THE SOLOISTS BRAMWELL TOVEY, BRAMWELL conductor TOVEY, conductor Bramwell Tovey’s conducting career is uniquely Bramwell Tovey’s conducting enhanced by his work as career is uniquely enhanced a composer and pianist. by his work as a composer His positions as music and pianist. His positions director with the Vancouver as music director with the Symphony, Luxembourg Vancouver Symphony, Philharmonic and Winnipeg Luxembourg Philharmonic and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras have Symphony Orchestras have been characterized been characterized by his expertise in operatic, by his expertise in operatic, choral, British and choral, British and contemporary repertoire. contemporary repertoire.

Tovey has an ongoing association with the Tovey has an ongoing association with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and with the New Los Angeles Philharmonic and with the New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics series at Avery Fisher Hall. He has worked with series at Avery Fisher Hall. He has worked with orchestras throughout the United States and orchestras throughout the United States and Europe, including the London Philharmonic and Europe, including the London Philharmonic and the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, as well as the the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, as well as the orchestras of Philadelphia, Detroit, Seattle and orchestras of Philadelphia, Detroit, Seattle and Montreal. For the opening subscription week of Montreal. For the opening subscription week of the Boston Symphony’s 2012/13 season, Tovey the Boston Symphony’s 2012/13 season, Tovey conducted a reprise of the highly acclaimed conducted a reprise of the highly acclaimed concert version of Porgy and Bess, first heard in concert version of Porgy and Bess, first heard in the orchestra’s 2011 Tanglewood season. Other the orchestra’s 2011 Tanglewood season. Other guest engagements this season include a return to guest engagements this season include a return to Australia and a tour of the western U.S. with the Australia and a tour of the western U.S. with the Vancouver Symphony.

Vancouver Symphony.

Prior to his music directorship in Vancouver, Prior to his music directorship in Vancouver, Tovey spent 12 years as music director of the Tovey spent 12 years as music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, where he Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, where he founded its highly regarded New Music Festival. founded its highly regarded New Music Festival.

His recording with the Vancouver Symphony His recording with the Vancouver Symphony and James Ehnes of the Walton, Korngold and and James Ehnes of the Walton, Korngold and Barber concerti received both GRAMMY® and

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— Thomas May is the Nashville Symphony’s program annotator.

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Walton’s Symphony No. 1 is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani (2 players), percussion and strings.

Barber concerti received GRAMMY® and Juno Awards in 2007.

He both has also built a strong Juno Awards 2007.

He has alsotwo built a strong to reputation as in a jazz pianist with recordings reputation as ahas jazzmade pianist with two appearances recordings to his name and memorable his name and has made memorable appearances on television. on television.

TERRENCE WILSON, piano WILSON, piano Terrence Wilson hasTERRENCE appeared with the symphony Terrence Wilson has orchestras of Atlanta, appeared the symphony Detroit, with Washington, D.C. orchestras Atlanta, Detroit, (Nationalof Symphony), Washington, D.C. (National San Francisco, Cleveland Symphony), San Francisco, and Philadelphia, among Cleveland others. Heand hasPhiladelphia, worked with among others. He hasnumerous worked with numerous distinguished distinguished conductors, including Marin Alsop, conductors, including Marin Alsop, Christoph Christoph Eschenbach, Neeme Jarvi, Andrew Yoel Levi, Eschenbach, Neeme Jarvi, Yoel Levi, Andrew Litton, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Litton, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Gunther Gunther Herbig. Herbig.

Highlights of Wilson’s 2011/12 season included a performance Rachmaninoff ’s Second Piano Concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony under the baton of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, as well as an appearance with the Atlanta Symphony, playing Ravel’s G major Concerto with conductor Mei-Ann Chan. He appeared as guest artist with the orchestras of Wichita, Santa Barbara, Albany, Stamford and Helena.

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

An active recitalist, Wilson made his New York City recital debut at the 92nd Street Y. In Europe he has given recitals at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and at the Louvre in Paris. An avid chamber musician, he performs regularly with the Ritz Chamber Players, and has appeared at Tanglewood and Wolf Trap.

Wilson has received the SONY ES Award for Musical Excellence, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Juilliard Petschek Award. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. A native of the Bronx, he resides in Montclair, New Jersey.

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Kenny soaked up the R&B of the early and mid-1970s during his teen years at an innercity Seattle high school. Inspired by the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire and Grover Washington Jr.,

he was only 17 when he landed a gig with Barry White and his Love Unlimited Orchestra at the Paramount Northwest Theater in 1973. After high school, gigs with R&B and contemporary jazz artists like White and Jeff Lorber kept coming. In 1982, he landed a record deal with Arista and launched a solo career with three critically acclaimed jazz albums: Kenny G (1982), G-Force (1983) and Gravity (1985). By the ’90s, he was a multi-platinum seller and a frequent collaborator with some of the most iconic figures in American popular music, including Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Natalie Cole and Frank Sinatra.

Career highlights include Miracles, a 1994 holiday album that took him to the top of the Billboard chart for the first time and has since become the best-selling holiday album of all time. His two holiday albums since then — Faith in 1999 and Wishes in 2002 — have been similarly successful.

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Nashville Symphony Nashville Symphony Chorus Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Kelly Corcoran, interim chorus director Sherezade Panthaki, soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen, mezzo-soprano Gordon Gietz, tenor Michael Dean, bass-baritone GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL HANDEL

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Symphony PART I Accompagnato: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people Air: Ev’ry valley shall be exalted Chorus: And the glory, the glory of the Lord Accompagnato: Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts Air: But who may abide the day of His coming Chorus: And He shall purify Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive Air and Chorus: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion Accompagnato: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth.

Air: The people that walked in darkness Chorus: For unto us a Child is Born Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) Recitative: There were shepherds abiding in the field Accompagnato: And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them Recitative: And the angel said unto them Accompagnato: And suddenly, there was with the angel Chorus: Glory to God in the Highest Air: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind be open’d Duet: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd Chorus: His yoke is easy, and His burthen is light

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PART II Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God Air: He was despised Chorus: Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows Chorus: And with His stripes we are healed Chorus: All we like sheep have gone astray Accompagnato: All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn Chorus: He trusted in God Accompagnato: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart Arioso: Behold and see if there be if there be any sorrow Accompagnato: He was cut off out of the land of the living Air: But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell Chorus: Lift up your heads Air: How beautiful are the feet of them Air: Why do the nations so furiously rage together Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder Recitative: He that dwelleth in heaven Air: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron Chorus: Hallelujah PART III Air: I know that my Redeemer liveth Chorus: Since by man came death Accompagnato: Behold, I tell you a mystery Air: The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be rais’d Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb, that was slain

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Born on February 23, 1685, in Halle, Germany; died on April 14, 1759, in London, England Messiah Handel composed the first version of Messiah in just a little over three weeks, between August 22 and September 14, 1741, but continued to make revisions to the score — in some cases adding new arias — for subsequent revivals of the work.

Although Messiah has come to be seen as the quintessential English oratorio, it actually represents something of an experimental departure from the norm in its approach to Bible-based narrative. In this work Handel draws on his long experience as an opera composer and a pioneer of English choral music to write music tracing the universal emotions that underlie the Christian story of redemption.

First performance: April 13, 1742, in the Great Music Hall in Dublin, with the composer conducting.

First Nashville Symphony performance: December 15, 1963, with Music Director Willis Page.

Estimated length: 2 hours and 20 minutes in performance, with a 20-minute intermission

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verall, the career of George Frideric Handel resembles that favorite symbol of eighteenth-century England: the wheel of fortune. The man who was born Georg Friedrich Händel to a barber-surgeon in Halle (less than 100 miles from J.S. Bach’s birthplace) settled in London in 1712 and made England his home until he died. Handel found admiring royal and aristocratic patrons there but also enjoyed success as a musical entrepreneur, managing the production of a prolific series of Italian operas which he wrote for the London stage. Then, after his reputation and fortune soared, fashions changed and Handel came close to the brink of ruin. It was through his cultivation of the English oratorio — essentially, opera in disguise, without the costumes — that he turned his luck around once more.

Messiah belongs to this pivotal turning point in Handel’s career, when he was shifting his focus away from the genre of tragic opera (opera seria) that had become a central preoccupation of his London career. In fact, it was with opera (Rinaldo, in 1711) that Handel scored his first hit in London. Opera seria involved setting librettos in Italian which recounted stories from mythology or history. It was a genre calculated in part to showcase the star singers of the era, often with spectacular special effects as part of the staging. By the late 1730s, the high costs of production were making it an unsustainable business model.

What’s more, significant changes in the English public’s musical taste could not be ignored.

After Messiah, Handel ceased writing Italian operas altogether and concentrated mostly on oratorios in English.

Handel cultivated an English variation on the older oratorio idea, cleverly mixing a sense of moral uplift with the entertainment value of opera, minus the expense, costumes, and fussy, overpaid egos. Oratorio had an additional appeal, in that it seemed more acceptable to emerging middle-class audiences wary of the scandal-tinged world of opera.

But this association with the sphere of secular performance generated some initial resistance to Messiah.

After producing a highly successful

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R Handel’s musical expression homes in on the universal emotions that underlie each stage of the Christian redemption narrative. Handel was above all a man of the theater, and his operatic genius for establishing the mood to suit a given situation is everywhere apparent. But in opera, Handel typically accomplishes this through a lengthy chain of arias. The centrality of the chorus in Messiah allows for greater diversity. Part One establishes a pattern of recitative, aria, and chorus, which then allows for further variation in the other two parts.

Handel moreover draws on the gamut of international styles of his era, mixing highly wrought, thrillingly complex Northern European counterpoint alongside straightforward, Italianate lyricism, majestic French rhythms, and homo-

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Egypt (first presented in 1739) which anticipates the method of construction of Messiah, arranging actual texts from the bible. But the process is less straightforward in Messiah. Jennens — a wealthy patron who was nevertheless an outsider, disaffected with contemporary English politics — juxtaposes extracts from both the Old and the New Testaments to represent the basic narrative of Christian redemption. Rather than a biographical sketch of the life of Jesus, Messiah concerns the very idea of divinity becoming manifest in human history (hence the lack of the definite article — “the Messiah” — in its title).

There is very little dramatic impersonation of characters. The narrative is indirect and suggestive, and, as has been often noted, downright confusing to anyone not familiar with the implied events involving the life of Jesus. Jennens divides the libretto into three acts (although he calls them “parts”), much like the organization of a baroque opera. Part One centers around prophecy and the nativity of Jesus, ending with his miracles (this is the part of the oratorio that is most closely tied to the Christmas season). Following its evocation of hope comes a condensed version of the Passion story of sacrifice in Part Two. Part Three concludes with the implications of Christ’s redemption of humanity from the fall of Adam.

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subscription series of both oratorios and operas in Dublin in the 1741-42 season, Handel chose to conclude it by presenting the world premiere of Messiah in the spring of 1742. Despite the praise the new work won from its Dublin audiences, back in London it became the subject of controversy as a debate raged in the press.

Messiah’s method of setting actual scriptural texts, as well as its delineation of Jesus within a genre that could be performed “for diversion and amusement,” even triggered charges of blasphemy, although these were leveled against the secular context of the performances rather than Handel’s music itself.

The fretting subsided within a few years, although the only times Handel led Messiah in a non-secular space were in his last years, when he gave midday performances in the newly built chapel of the Foundling Hospital. (The fact that the composer donated proceeds from Messiah concerts to charitable causes added to the work’s allure.) During his last decade, Handel conducted annual performances that became a highlight of the season. These were always given in the spring, at Eastertide. It was only after his death that the association of Messiah with the Christmas season took root.

Handel also introduced changes at several of these revivals. For the most part, these involved substitutions or rewrites of arias. They reflected practical performance conditions and took into account the limitations or strengths of the particular soloists on hand. In fact, even the Dublin premiere varied somewhat from the score Handel had written out beforehand. For the revival of 1750, for example, since the castrato Gaetano Guadagni was available (he later created the role of Orfeo in Gluck’s famous opera), Handel recast “But who may abide the day of his coming” to include a dizzyingly virtuosic setting — one of countless remarkable instances of Handelian word painting to reflect verbal images in music — of the phrase “a refiner’s fire.”

Although we tend to think of Messiah as the quintessential English oratorio, its text represents an unusual approach to the genre. Librettist Charles Jennens had collaborated previously with Handel and likely compiled the book for Israel in

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phonic choruses. He avails himself as well of an astonishing range of colors in the accompanying textures, though with a remarkable economy of instrumentation. Notice, for example, how the trumpets remain silent in Part One until “Glory to God,” and are subsequently kept in the wings until the “Hallelujah!” chorus at the end of Part Two. (Incidentally, in contrast to what is often assumed, the glory this chorus depicts refers not to the moment of Christ’s resurrection but to the triumph of redemption).

Consider, too, the compelling psychological range Handel explores, encompassing in Part One alone the fathomless darkness associated with the period of universal waiting for a savior; the oasis-like calm of the purely instrumental “Pastoral Symphony,” with its evocation of the music of shepherds; and the dancing exuberance of “Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion.” Handel continually finds freshly inventive ways to “paint” the words through music (witness the “straying” lines of “All we like sheep”) but subtler surprises are often hidden within his settings as well. In that same chorus, Handel engineers a detour from the cheerful mood that predominates into the tragic minor when the consequences of human failure are suggested.

Amid all this variety, by the end of Part Three Handel has taken us on a journey that will later become familiar in the symphonies of Beethoven — the passage from darkness to enlightenment and final victory. The “Hallelujah!” chorus may seem unbeatable, yet somehow Handel manages to follow it with still more glorious music: the soaring certainty of “The trumpet shall sound” and the progression of the choral finale, with its fugal setting of “Amen.” As the voices weave their threads together, that final word becomes a serene chant, all-encompassing in its resonance.

In addition to four vocal soloists and four-part chorus, the version of Handel’s scoring for Messiah used in these performances call for an orchestra of 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings and continuo.

— Thomas May is the Nashville Symphony’s program annotator. He writes extensively about music and theater.

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TEXT FOR ‘MESSIAH’ PART ONE SYMPHONY ACCOMPAGNATO: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people (Tenore) Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God; speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplish’d, that her iniquity is pardon’d. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make straight in the desert a highway for our God. AIR: Ev’ry valley shall be exalted (Tenore) Every valley shall be exalted, and ev’ry mountain and hill made low, the crooked straight and the rough places plain.

CHORUS: And the glory, the glory of the Lord And the glory, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

ACCOMPAGNATO: Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts (Basso) Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; Yet once, a little while, and I will shake the heav’ns and the earth, the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all nations; and the desire of all nations shall come.

The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, ev’n the messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts.

AIR: But who may abide the day of His coming (Alto) But who may abide the day of His coming, and who shall stand when He appeareth? For He is like a refiner’s fire.

CHORUS: And He shall purify And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

RECITATIVE: Behold, a virgin shall conceive (Alto) Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call his name Emmanuel, “God with us.”

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ACCOMPAGNATO: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth (Basso) For Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee.

And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. the brightness of thy rising.

AIR: The people that walked in darkness (Basso) The that that walked in darkness have(Basso) seen AIR:people The people walked in darkness aThe great light.that And they that dwell in have the land people walked in darkness seenof the shadow death, light a great light.ofAnd theyupon that them dwell hath in thethe land of shined. the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

CHORUS: For unto us a Child is born For unto usFor a Child is born, us a Son CHORUS: unto us a Childunto is born is given, government shallusbea upon For untoand us athe Child is born, unto Son His shoulder: andgovernment His Name shall is given, and the shallbe becalled upon Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty His shoulder: and His Name shall beGod, calledThe Everlasting The Prince of Peace!

Wonderful, Father, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace!

PIFA PIFA RECITATIVE: There were shepherds abiding in the field (Soprano) RECITATIVE: There were shepherds abiding in the There were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping field (Soprano) watch over their flock by night.in the field, keeping There were shepherds abiding watch over their flock by night.

ACCOMPAGNATO: And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them (Soprano) ACCOMPAGNATO: And lo, the angel of the Lord And the them angel(Soprano) of the Lord came upon them, camelo, upon and glory of the LordLord shone round about Andthe lo, the angel of the came upon them, them, theyofwere sore shone afraid.round about and theand glory the Lord them, and they were sore afraid.

RECITATIVE: And the angel said unto them

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AIR AND CHORUS: O thou that tallest good tidings to Zion (Alto) O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

RECITATIVE: (Soprano) And the angel said unto them (Soprano) And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for And theIangel Fear not: for behold, bringsaid youunto goodthem, tidings of great joy, behold, I bring you tidings of great which shall be to allgood people.

For unto youjoy, is born which be city to allofpeople. unto you is born this dayshall in the David aFor Saviour, which is this daythe in Lord. the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ Christ the Lord.

ACCOMPAGNATO: And suddenly there was with ACCOMPAGNATO: the angel (Soprano) And suddenly there was with the (Soprano) Andangel suddenly there was with the angel a And suddenly there was with angel aGod, and multitude of the heav’nly host,the praising multitude saying, of the heav’nly host, praising God, and saying, CHORUS: Glory to God in the highest CHORUS: Glory in theand highest Glory to God in to theGod highest, peace on earth, Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, goodwill towards men. goodwill towards men.

AIR: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Soprano) AIR: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Soprano) Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion shout, O Rejoice O daughter of Zion shout, O daughtergreatly, of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh daughter Jerusalem: behold,Saviour, thy Kingand cometh unto thee:ofHe is the righteous He unto thee: He is the righteous Saviour, and He shall speak peace unto the heathen. shall speak peace unto the heathen.

RECITATIVE: Then shall the eyes of the blind be RECITATIVE: open’d (Alto) Then shall the eyes of the blind be open’ (Alto) Thendshall the eyes of the blind be open’d, and the Then shall the of the blind open’ d, lame and the ears of the deafeyes unstopped; thenbe shall the ears theasdeaf unstopped; then shall the dumb lame manof leap a hart, and the tongue of the man shall leap sing.as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing.

DUET: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd (Alto, DUET: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd (Alto, Soprano) Soprano) He shall feed His flock like a shepherd, and He He feedthe Hislambs flockwith like aHis shepherd, He shallshall gather arm, andand carry shall lambs with His lead arm,those and carry themgather in His the bosom, and gently that are them in His bosom, and Him, gentlyalllead thoselabour that are with young.

Come unto ye that with young.

Come unto all ye that and are heavy laden, andHim, He will give youlabour rest. and and and He will give Takeare Hisheavy yoke laden, upon you, learn of you Him,rest. for He Take Hisand yoke upon and learn of Him, is meek lowly ofyou, heart, and ye shall findfor restHe is meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. unto your souls.

CHORUS: His yoke is easy, His burthen is light CHORUS: yoke easy, His burthen is light His yoke isHis easy andisHis burthen is light.

His yoke is easy and His burthen is light.

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CHORUS: Behold the Lamb of God CHORUS: Lambthat of God Behold theBehold Lamb the of God, taketh away the sin Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world. of the world.

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AIR: He was despised (Alto) AIR: He despised was despised He was and (Alto) rejected of men; a man of He was despised and rejected men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with of grief. sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

CHORUS: Surely, He hath borne our griefs and CHORUS: He hath borne our griefs and carried ourSurely, sorrows carried ourhath sorrows Surely, He borne our griefs and carried our Surely, He hath our griefs and carried our sorrows; He wasborne wounded for our transgressions, sorrows; He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the He was bruised iniquities; theHim. chastisement of for ourour peace was upon chastisement of our peace was upon Him. CHORUS: And with His stripes we are healed CHORUS: Andstripes with His we are healed And with His westripes are healed.

And with His stripes we are healed.

CHORUS: All we like sheep have gone astray CHORUS: we like gone All we likeAll sheep havesheep gonehave astray; weastray have All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned ev’ry one to his own way; and the Lord turned ev’ry one to hisiniquity own way; and hath laid on Him the of us all.the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

ACCOMPAGNATO: All they that see Him, laugh ACCOMPAGNATO: All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn (Tenore) Him to scorn (Tenore) All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn; they All they that see Him, laugh Him to heads, scorn; saying: they shoot our their lips, and shake their shoot our their lips, and shake their heads, saying: CHORUS: He trusted in God CHORUS: in He Godwould deliver Him, let He trustedHe in trusted God that He trusted in God that He would Him deliver Him, if He delight in deliver Him. Him, let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him. ACCOMPAGNATO: Thy rebuke hath broken His ACCOMPAGNATO: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart (Tenore) heart (Tenore) Thy rebuke hath broken His heart; He is full of Thy rebukeHe hath broken heart; He ispity fullon of heaviness: looked forHis some to have heaviness: He looked for some to have pity on Him, but there was no man, neither found He any Him, but there to comfort Him.was no man, neither found He any to comfort Him. ARIOSO: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow ARIOSO: (Tenore) Behold, and see if there be any sorrow (Tenore) Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow!

His sorrow!

ACCOMPAGNATO: He was cut off out of the land ACCOMPAGNATO: of the living (Tenore)He was cut off out of the land of the living (Tenore)

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He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the He was cut offofout of people the land of He the stricken. living; for the transgression Thy was transgression of Thy people was He stricken.

AIR: But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell AIR: But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell (Tenore) (Tenore) But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell; nor But not leave HisOne soultoinsee hell; nor didstThou Thoudidst suffer Thy Holy corruption. didst Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption.

CHORUS: Lift up your heads CHORUS: Lift up your heads Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, Lift up your heads, O ye and of beGlory ye liftshall up, ye everlasting doors, andgates, the King ye everlasting and the King ofThe Glory shall come in! Whodoors, is the King of Glory?

Lord come in!

Who is the King of Glory?

The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. strong mighty battle.

Lift up and yourmighty, heads, the O yeLord gates, and beinye lift up, Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye liftshall up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory ye everlasting and the King ofThe Glory shall come in! Whodoors, is the King of Glory?

Lord of come in!

Who is the King of Glory?

The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.

Hosts, He is the King of Glory.

AIR: How beautiful are the feet of them (Soprano) AIR: beautiful arefeet the of feetthem of them HowHow beautiful are the that(Soprano) preach the How beautiful are the feet of them that preach gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good the gospel things. of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things.

AIR: Why do the nations so furiously rage together AIR: Why do the nations so furiously rage together (Basso) (Basso) Why do the nations so furiously rage together: Why dothe thepeople nationsimagine so furiously together: why do a vainrage thing?

The why do the people imagine a vain thing?

The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take kings of together the earthagainst rise up,the andLord, the rulers take His counsel and against counsel anointed.together against the Lord, and against His anointed.

CHORUS: Let us break their bonds asunder CHORUS: Lettheir us break their bondsand asunder Let us break bonds asunder, cast away Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us. their yokes from us.

RECITATIVE: RECITATIVE: He He that that dwelleth dwelleth in in heaven heaven (Tenore) (Tenore) He that dwelleth in heaven shall He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh laugh them them to to scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision. scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision.

AIR: AIR: Thou Thou shalt shalt break break them them with with aa rod rod of of iron iron (Tenore) (Tenore) Thou Thou shalt shalt break break them them with with aa rod rod of of iron; iron; thou thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. vessel.

CHORUS: CHORUS: Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! for for the the Lord Lord God God Omnipotent Omnipotent reigneth.

The kingdom of reigneth. The kingdom of this this world world is is become become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and and He He shall shall reign reign for for ever ever and and ever. ever. King King of of Kings, Kings, and and Lord Lord of of Lords.

Lords. Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

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ACCOMPAGNATO: Behold, I tell you a mystery (Basso) Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be chang’d in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

AIR: The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be rais’d (Basso) The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be chang’d.

CHORUS: Worthy is the Lamb, that was slain Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honour, glory and pow’r, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. Amen.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS SHEREZADE PANTHAKI, soprano Sherezade Panthaki’s international success has been fueled by superbly honed musicianship.

An acknowledged star in the early-music field, Panthaki has developed ongoing collaborations with many of the world’s leading interpreters, including Nicholas McGegan, William Christie and Simon Carrington. She will make her New York Philharmonic debut in the 2012/13 season with Masaaki Suzuki in a program of Bach and Mendelssohn.

Highlights of her past and current seasons include Orff ’s Carmina Burana with the Houston

NINA YOSHIDA NELSEN, mezzo-soprano Hailed as a “rich voiced, expressive mezzosoprano” by San Francisco Classical Voice and “appealingly direct and honest in tone and bearing,” by Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe, Nina Yoshida Nelsen recently made her New York City Opera debut as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, conducted by George Manahan.

In the 2012/13 season, Nelsen will return to Opera Santa Barbara, where she sings the role of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and she will return to Carnegie Hall as the mezzo soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

In the 2011/12 season, Nelsen made her debut with Sarasota Opera singing Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and her Avery Fisher Hall debut singing Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. She was also seen as the mezzo soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass with the Santa Barbara Symphony.

Nelsen made an important debut at Utah Opera in March 2009, singing Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro. In 2006, she was a national semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is a 2009 graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) in Philadelphia, where she studied with Bill Schuman. Other noteworthy recent engagements include Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette with Opera New Jersey, and Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opera Santa Barbara.

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CHORUS: Since by man came death Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

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AIR: I know that my Redeemer liveth (Soprano) I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And tho’ worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep.

Symphony, Handel and Bach with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and featured roles in Handel’s Solomon under Kenneth Montgomery, and in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with the Yale Schola Cantorum.

She has also performed in Poulenc’s Stabat Mater with Simon Carrington, Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Cantata BWV 51 with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the St. Matthew Passion at the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival, and Handel at Carnegie Hall with William Christie and the Yale Philharmonia. She was featured in a solo concert of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi with the Rebel Baroque Orchestra.

In 2011 Panthaki graduated with an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. She has won multiple awards at Yale, including the prestigious Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize.

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GORDON GIETZ, tenor Gordon Gietz’s current season highlights his diverse talents on stage and in concert, with performances at Netherlands Opera in Franz Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber, in Opera Ontario’s production of Rigoletto, and in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, Italy.

His concert engagements include Mozart’s Mass in C with the Vancouver Symphony and Requiem Mass with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, as well as a New Year’s Eve concert with the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra in Toronto.

Gietz’s performances last season included the role of Roméo in Roméo et Juliette with Vancouver Opera, and a return to Houston Symphony as the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Past operatic performances have included his Metropolitan Opera debut in the highly anticipated new production of Shostakovich’s The Nose conducted by Valery Gergiev, as well as appearances at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and with San Francisco Opera. He appeared with Opera National de Paris as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and he created the role of Stingo in Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

MICHAEL DEAN, bass-baritone Michael Dean has appeared with many of the leading opera houses and orchestras of the U.S. and Europe. He has made frequent appearances at New York City Opera, where he has performed the title role in The Marriage of Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni, George in Of Mice and Men, and Papageno in The Magic Flute. Recent roles have also included Jason McFarlane in the “Live From Lincoln Center” broadcast of Lizzie Borden, the title role in Don Giovanni and Silva in Ernani at the Landestheater in Linz, Austria. Dean has also received critical praise for his numerous recordings of Baroque opera.

Recent and upcoming appearances include Messiah with I Musici de Montreal, Mozart’s Requiem with the Modesto Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic, and the role of Gregorio in Roméo et Juliette with the Los Angeles Opera.

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iancarlo Guerrero is Music Director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO) and concurrently holds the position of Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency. Last year, he led the Nashville Symphony to a GRAMMY® win for a second consecutive year with their recording of American composer Joseph Schwantner’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra.

His previous recording with the orchestra of Michael Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony and Deus Ex Machina won three 2011 GRAMMY® Awards, including Best Orchestral Performance. A fervent advocate of new music and contemporary composers, Guerrero has collaborated with and championed the works of several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Roberto Sierra and Richard Danielpour.

In the 2012/13 season, Guerrero makes debuts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin and Norwegian Radio Orchestra. He returns to the Boston, Indianapolis and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, Philadelphia Orchestra for both its subscription season and at Vail, Brussels Philharmonic, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra and to Australia for performances with the Adelaide Symphony and Auckland Philharmonia. An advocate for young musicians and music education, Guerrero now returns annually to Caracas, Venezuela, to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar and to work with young musicians in the country’s lauded El Sistema music program. This season he will also work with the student orchestras of Curtis Institute and the Colburn School.

In recent seasons Guerrero has appeared with many of the major North American orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Baltimore,

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Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, San Diego, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and the National Symphony in Washington, D.C., as well as at several major summer festivals, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Festival and Indiana University’s summer orchestra festival. He is also establishing an increasingly visible profile in Europe, where his upcoming engagements will include a debut appearance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Last season, he led a five-city European tour with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic.

Early in his career, Guerrero worked regularly with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera, and in recent seasons has conducted new productions of Carmen, La Bohème and Rigoletto. Future plans include productions at the Houston Grand Opera and Marseille Opera. In February 2008, he gave the Australian premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s one-act opera Ainadamar at the Adelaide Festival, to great acclaim.

In June 2004, Guerrero was honored with the Helen M. Thompson Award by the American Symphony Orchestra League, which recognizes outstanding achievement among young conductors nationwide.

Guerrero holds degrees from Baylor and Northwestern universities. He was previously the Music Director of the Eugene Symphony in Oregon.

From 1999 to 2004, he served as Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, where he made his subscription debut in March 2000 leading the world premiere of John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria on the Ghosts of Versailles. Prior to his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra, he served as Music Director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.

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ALBERT-GEORGE SCHRAM

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lbert-George Schram, a native of the Netherlands, has served as Resident Conductor of the Nashville Symphony since 2006. While he has conducted on all series the orchestra offers, Schram is primarily responsible for its Bank of America Pops Series.

Schram’s longest tenure has been with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, where he has worked in a variety of capacities since 1979. As a regular guest conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Schram in 2002 opened the orchestra’s new permanent summer home, Symphony Park. From 1990 to 1996, he served as resident conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. The former Florida Philharmonic Orchestra appointed Schram as resident conductor beginning with the 2002/03 season.

In 2008 Schram was invited to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Bolivia and the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. His other foreign conducting engagements have included the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the Taegu Symphony Orchestra in Korea, and the Orchester der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft Luzern in Switzerland. He has returned to his native Holland to conduct the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Netherlands Broadcast Orchestra.

In the U.S., his recent and coming guest conducting appearances include the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Shreveport Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Allentown Symphony and the Mansfield Symphony.

Schram’s studies have been largely in the European tradition under the tutelage of Franco Ferrara, Rafael Kubelik, Abraham Kaplan and Neeme Järvi. He received his initial training at the Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands, then later moved to Canada to undertake studies at the universities of Calgary and Victoria. His training was completed at the University of Washington.

he 2012/13 season marks Associate Conductor Kelly Corcoran’s sixth season with the Nashville Symphony. During this time, she has conducted a variety of programs, including the Classical and Pops Series, and has served as the primary conductor for the orchestra’s education and community engagement concerts. She made her Carnegie Hall conducting debut in May 2012 with the Nashville Symphony during the Spring For Music Festival. This season she is also the Acting Director for the Nashville Symphony Chorus.

Corcoran appears this season with The Cleveland Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Louisville Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony and as a Music Director candidate with the Topeka Symphony and FargoMoorhead Symphony. She has conducted major orchestras throughout the country, including the Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee and National Symphonies, often with return engagements. In 2009, she made her South American debut as a guest conductor with the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, returning for multiple subscription programs in 2011.

Named as Honorable Mention for the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, Corcoran studied with Marin Alsop and shared performances with her and the Bournemouth (UK) Symphony and Colorado Symphony. Prior to Nashville, she completed three seasons as assistant conductor for the Canton Symphony Orchestra in Ohio and music director of the Canton Youth Symphony and the Cleveland-area Heights Chamber Orchestra. Corcoran attended the Lucerne Festival’s master class in conducting with Pierre Boulez.

In 2004, Corcoran participated in the National Conducting Institute, where she studied with Leonard Slatkin. Her past posts include assistant music director of the Nashville Opera, founder/music director of the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra and fellow with the New World Symphony. Originally from Massachusetts and a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for more than 10 years, Corcoran received her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from The Boston Conservatory and her Master of Music in instrumental conducting from Indiana University.

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2012/13 NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FIRST VIOLINS*

Jun Iwasaki,

Joel Reist,

Assistant Concertmaster

Glen Wanner,

Concertmaster Emerita

Elizabeth Stewart Gary Lawrence,

Erin Hall,

Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, Denise Baker Kristi Seehafer John Maple Deidre Fominaya Bacco Alison Gooding Paul Tobias Beverly Drukker Anna Lisa Hoepfinger Kirsten Mitchell Erin Long+ Isabel Bartles SECOND VIOLINS*

Carolyn Wann Bailey, Principal

GIANCARLO GUERRERO Music Director ALBERT-GEORGE SCHRAM Resident Conductor KELLY CORCORAN Associate Conductor GEORGE L. MABRY Chorus Director

BASSES*

Associate Concertmaster

Zeneba Bowers,

Assistant Principal

Kenneth Barnd Jessica Blackwell Rebecca Cole Radu Georgescu Benjamin Lloyd Louise Morrison Laura Ross Lisa Thrall+ Adrienne Watkinson++ Jeremy Williams Rebecca J Willie VIOLAS*

Daniel Reinker, Principal

Principal

Assistant Principal Principal Emeritus

Kevin Jablonski Joe Ferris II FLUTES

Erik Gratton,

Principal Anne Potter Wilson Chair

Ann Richards,

Assistant Principal

Kathryn Ladner PICCOLO

Kathryn Ladner,

Norma Grobman Rogers Chair

OBOES

James Button, Principal

Ellen Menking,

Assistant Principal

Roger Wiesmeyer

ENGLISH HORN

James Zimmermann, Principal

Cassandra Lee,

Assistant Principal

Cassandra Lee

BASS CLARINET

Daniel Lochrie BASSOONS

Cynthia Estill, Principal

Dawn Hartley,

Assistant Principal

Principal

Gil Perel

Assistant Principal James Victor Miller Chair

CONTRA BASSOON

Bradley Mansell Lynn Marie Peithman Stephen Drake Michael Samis Matthew Walker

TRUMPETS

Jeffrey Bailey, Principal

Patrick Kunkee, Co-Principal

Gary Armstrong+,

Assistant Principal

Preston Bailey,

Acting Assistant Principal

TROMBONES

Susan K. Smith,

Acting Principal

Prentiss Hobbs,

Acting Assistant Principal

BASS TROMBONE

Steven Brown TUBA

Gilbert Long, Principal

TIMPANI

William G. Wiggins, Principal

PERCUSSION

Sam Bacco, Principal

Trent Leasure

E-FLAT CLARINET

Julia Tanner,

Acting Assistant 1st Horn

CLARINETS

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

Anthony LaMarchina,

Hunter Sholar Jennifer Kummer,

Richard Graber,

Daniel Lochrie

CELLOS*

Acting Associate Principal/ 3rd Horn

Roger Wiesmeyer

Shu-Zheng Yang,

Assistant Principal

Radu V. Rusu,

Gil Perel

HORNS

Leslie Norton, Principal

Beth Beeson

Assistant Principal

HARP

Licia Jaskunas, Principal

KEYBOARD

Robert Marler, Principal

LIBRARIANS

D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal

Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGERS

Anne Dickson Rogers Carrie Marcantonio, Assistant

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Christopher Stenstrom Keith Nicholas Xiao-Fan Zhang

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Concertmaster Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair

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2012/13 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OF D I R E C TOR S

OFFICERS

DIRECTORS

Edward A. Goodrich Board Chair

Janet Ayers John Bailey III Joseph Barker Russell Bates Scott Becker David Black Jack Bovender Jr. William Braddy Anastasia Brown Keith Churchwell Rebecca Cole * Michelle R. Collins * Lisa Cooper * Ben Cundiff Carol Daniels Robert Dennis Robert Ezrin Benjamin Folds Judy Foster James Gooch Alison Gooding * Amy Grant Carl Haley Jr.

James Seabury III Board Chair Elect Kevin Crumbo Board Treasurer Betsy Wills * Board Secretary Alan D. Valentine * President & CEO

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Michael W. Hayes Billy Ray Hearn Lee Ann Ingram Martha R. Ingram * Elliott Warner Jones Sr. Larry Larkin John T. Lewis Richard Miller Eduardo Minardi David Morgan Peter Neff Cano Ozgener Victoria Chu Pao Pam Pfeffer Deborah Pitts Jennifer H. Puryear Wayne Riley Anne Russell Michael Samis * Michael Schatzlein Nelson Shields Beverly K. Small Renata Soto

Brett Sweet Van Tucker Steve Turner Mark Wait Jeffery Walraven Johnna Watson Ted Houston Welch William Greer Wiggins * David Williams II Harry Williams Jr. * Jeremy Williams * Rebecca Willie * Clare Yang * Donna Yurdin * Shirley Zeitlin James Zimmermann * *Indicates Ex Officio Ingram Scholar Intern Marwah Shahid

Staci Davenport, Food, Beverage and Events Assistant Johnathon McGee, Food and Beverage Supervisor Schuyler Thomas, Food and Beverage Supervisor Anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager Garland Smith, Beverage Supervisor Debra Hollenbeck, Buyer/Retail Manager

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION Emma Smyth, Manager of Artistic Administration Ellen Kasperek, Artistic Administration Assistant Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator

HUMAN RESOURCES Ashley Skinner, Director of Human Resources Kathleen Conwell, Human Resources Coordinator Kathleen McCracken, Volunteer Manager and League Liaison Martha Bryant, Receptionist and Human Resources Assistant

DATA STANDARDS Tony Exler, Director of Data Standards Sheila Wilson, Sr. Database Associate DEVELOPMENT Erin Wenzel, Sr. Director of Special Campaigns Maribeth Stahl, Sr. Director of Annual Campaigns Hayden Pruett, Major Gifts Officer Sara Davenport, Development and League Events Manager Jason Parker, Grants Manager Phil Shay, Corporate Development Manager Dan Tonelson, Corporate Development Manager EDUCATION Blair Bodine, Director of Education and Community Engagement Andy Campbell, Education and Community Engagement Program Manager Kelley Bell, Education and Community Engagement Assistant FINANCE Karen Warren, Controller Mildred Payne, Accounts Payable and Payroll Manager Sheri Switzer, Senior Accountant Steven McNeal, Staff Accountant FOOD, BEVERAGE AND EVENTS Steve Perdue, Sr. Director of Food, Beverage and Events Roger Keenan, Executive Chef Lacy Lusebrink, Food and Beverage Manager Ryan Slattery, Executive Sous Chef Hiroju LaPrad, Sous Chef Bruce Pittman, Catering & Events Sales Manager Hays McWhirter,Catering and Events Manager Collin Husbands, Catering and Events Manager

I.T. Dan Sanders, Director of Information Technology Trenton Leach, Software Applications Developer Chris Beckner, Desktop Support Specialist

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BOX OFFICE/TICKETING & SALES Kimberly Darlington, Director of Ticket Services Emily Shannon, Box Office Manager Tina Messer, Ticket Services Specialist Missy Hubner, Ticket Services Assistant Jackie Knox, Director of Sales Sarah Vickery, Sales Manager Marketing Associates: Alexandra Arekelian, Richard Bartkowiak, Linda Booth, Toni Conn, James Calvin Davidson, Kevin Davis, Kimberly DePue, Mark Haining, Lloyd Harper, Monique Ireland, Rick Katz, Deborah King, Misha Robledo, Dustin Skilbred, Tiffany Terrell

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EXECUTIVE Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO Karen Fairbend, Executive Assistant to the President and CEO Mark A. Blakeman, Senior Vice President, General Manager Michael Kirby, V.P. of Finance and Administration and CFO Jonathan Norris, V.P., Revenue Delaney Gray, Assistant to the V.P., Revenue

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2012/13 NASHVILLE SYMPHONY STAFF

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Jonathan Marx, Sr. Director of Marketing & Communications Misty Cochran, Director of Advertising and Promotions Richard Rittenberry, Marketing Manager Laurie Davis, Publicist Nancy VanReece, Social Media Strategist and Website Manager Jessi Menish, Graphic Designer Sean Shields, Graphic Design Associate PATRON SERVICES Eric Adams, Director of Patron Services Patron Services Specialists: Darlene Boswell, Dennis Carter, Gina Haining, Paul Shearer, Judith Wall PRODUCTION AND ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS Tim Lynch, Sr. Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager Anne Dickson Rogers, Director of Orchestra Personnel Carrie Marcantonio, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal Librarian Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian John Sanders, Chief Technical Engineer Brian Doane, Production Manager Mitch Hansen, Lighting Director Michelle Griesmer, Assistant Lighting Director Gary Call, Audio Engineer Mark Dahlen, Audio Engineer W. Paul Holt, Stage Manager Josh Walliser, Stage and Production Assistant VENUE MANAGEMENT Eric Swartz, Associate V.P. of Venue Management Danny Covington, Chief Engineer Raay Creech, Facility Maintenance Technician Kenneth Dillehay, Facility Maintenance Technician Wade Johnson, Housekeeping Manager Kevin Butler, Lead Housekeeper/Utility DeAndrea Mason, Housekeeper Tony Meyers, Director of Security and Front of House Alan Woodard, Security Guard

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The Nashville Symphony is deeply grateful to the following individuals who support its concert season and its services to the community through their generous contributions to the Annual Fund. Donors as of October 24, 2012

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David & Diane Black Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick

Carol & Frank Daniels III Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram

Mr. & Mrs. Cano Ozgener

WALTER SHARP SOCIETY Gifts of $15,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (1) Judy & Joe Barker

Mr. & Mrs. Albert F. Ganier III Dr. & Mrs. Howard S. Kirshner

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner

VIRTUOSO SOCIETY Gifts of $10,000-$14,999 Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Richard & Judith Bracken Mr.* & Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. Mac & Linda Crawford Janine & Ben Cundiff

Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr. James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero Patricia & H. Rodes Hart The Melkus Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer

Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Anne & Joe Russell Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III Margaret & Cal Turner

STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. James Ayers J. B. & Carylon Baker Russell W. Bates Mr. James B. Boles Ann & Frank Bumstead Ann Scott Carell* Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Carlton Kelly & Bill Christie Mr. & Mrs. Tom F. Cone Hilton & Sallie Dean Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis Marty & Betty Dickens Dee & Jerald Doochin Laura & Wayne Dugas Mr. & Mrs. Jere M. Ervin Annette S. Eskind The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation

Marilyn Ezell Allis Dale & John Gillmor Ed & Nancy Goodrich Carl & Connie Haley Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Helen & Neil Hemphill Mrs. V. Davis Hunt Mr. & Mrs. David B. Ingram Lee Ann & Orrin Ingram Keith & Nancy Johnson Robin & Bill King Christine Konradi & Stephan Heckers Ralph & Donna Korpman Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby Jim Lewis Zachary Liff Robert Straus Lipman Ellen Harrison Martin

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Sheila & Richard McCarty The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt Edward D. & Linda F. Miles Richard & Sharalena Miller Mr. & Mrs. Eduardo H. Minardi Gregg & Cathy Morton Anne & Peter Neff Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Dr. Barron Patterson & Mr. Burton Jablin Hal & Peggy Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Carol & John T. Rochford The Roros Foundation Joe & Dorothy Scarlett Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Schatzlein Mr.* & Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus

Ronald & Diane Shafer Nelson & Sheila Shields Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small Mr. & Mrs. Earl S. Swensson Dr. John B. Thomison Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. Alan D. Valentine Peggy & John Warner Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson Mr. & Mrs. Ted H. Welch David & Gail Williams Mr. & Mrs. Julian Zander Jr. Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth

GOLDEN BATON SOCIETY Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous (1) Clint & Kali Adams Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Shelley Alexander Dr. & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup Mark & Sarah Blakeman Dr. & Mrs. Frank H. Boehm Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells Dr. & Mrs. H. Victor Braren Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III

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Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Buijsman Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt Mrs. Patricia B. Buzzell Mr. Philip M. Cavender Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler Drs. Keith & Leslie Churchwell Dorit & Donald Cochron The Honorable & Mrs. Lewis H. Conner Richard & Sherry Cooper Mr. & Mrs. James H. Costner Mr. & Mrs. Justin Dell Crosslin The Rev. & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller

Donna & Jeffrey Eskind Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ezrin Bob & Judy Fisher Tom & Judy Foster Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Frist Jr. Cathey & Wilford Fuqua John & Lorelee Gawaluck Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone Harris A. Gilbert William & Helen Gleason Tony & Teri Gosse Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin

Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund Mr. Vince Vinson Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery C. & Dayna L. Walraven Jonathan & Janet Weaver Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle Art & Lisa Wheeler Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenck Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly Dr. Artmas L. Worthy Shirley Zeitlin

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Suzy Heer Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilton Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel Donald L. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques Anne Knauff Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. John T. Lewis Red & Shari Martin Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Dr. Arthur M. Mellor F. Max & Mary A. Merrell Jonathan R. Norris & Jennifer Carlat Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock

CONDUCTOR'S CIRCLE Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (12) Jerry Adams Jeff & Tina Adams James & Glyna Aderhold Drs. W. Scott & Paige Akers Mark & Niki Antonini Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Jeremy & Rebecca Atack Jon K. & Colleen Atwood Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Barbara & Mike Barton Mrs. Brenda Bass Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Betty C. Bellamy Marti Bellingrath Mr. & Mrs. Louie A. Belt Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Frank M. Berklacich, MD Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Dennis & Tammy Boehms Bob & Marion Bogen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Brown Jr. Sharon Lee Butcher Chuck & Sandra Cagle John E. Cain III Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Brenda & Edward Callis Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Jan & Jim Carell Ann & Sykes Cargile Clint & Patty Carter Michael & Pamela Carter Fred Cassetty Mary & Joseph Cavarra Dr.* & Mrs. Robert Chalfant Erica & Doug Chappell Barbara & Eric Chazen Donna R. Cheek James H. Cheek III Mrs. John Hancock Cheek Jr. Catherine Chitwood M. Wayne Chomik Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher Mr. George D. Clark Jr. Mr. Terry Clyne Esther & Roger Cohn Ed & Pat Cole Chase Cole Marjorie & Allen* Collins Mr. & Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Mr. Brian Cook Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Cook III

Joe & Judy Cook Teresa Corlew & Wes Allen Roger & Barbara Cottrell Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan James L. & Sharon H. Cox Dr. & Mrs. James Crafton Drs. Paul A. & Dorothy Valcarcel Craig Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie Greg & Collie Daily Mr. Charles E. Daley John & Natasha Deane M. Maitland DeLand, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Daryl Demonbreun Mr. & Mrs. Kenton Dickerson Andrea Dillenburg & Ted Kraus Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Doochin Stephen & Kimberly Drake Laura L. Dunbar Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Robert D. Eisenstein David Ellis & Barry Wilker Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Laurie & Steven Eskind Robert & Cassandra Estes Mr. & Mrs. DeWitt Ezell Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild Mr. & Mrs. John Ferguson T. Aldrich Finegan John David & Mary Dale Trabue Fitzgerald John & Cindy Watson Ford Ms. Deborah F. Turner & Ms. Beth A. Fortune Drs. Robert & Sharron Francis Danna & Bill Francis Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III Frank Ginanni Francis S. Guess Dr. Edward Hantel Mr. & Mrs. J. George Harris Janet & Jim Hasson Mr. & Mrs. James O. Hastings Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Mr. Larry O. Helms Ronda & Hank Helton Ms. Doris Ann Hendrix Carrie & Damon Hininger Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey N. Hinson

Judith Hodges Ken & Pam Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Dan W. Hogan Mr. & Mrs. Richard Holton Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Vicki & Rick Horne Ray Houston Hudson Family Foundation Donna & Ronn Huff Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Judith S. & James R. Humphreys Marsha & Keel Hunt Bud Ireland Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson Ellen & Kenneth Jacobs Lee & Pat Jennings George & Shirley Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Clark Powell Jones Jan Jones & Steve Williams Mary Loventhal Jones Ray & Rosemarie Kalil Peter* & Marion Katz Mr. & Mrs. James Kelso Mr. & Mrs. Bill G. Kilpatrick Michael & Melissa Kirby Tom & Darlene Klaritch Mr. Richard B. Kloete Walter & Sarah Knestrick William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Ms. Pamela L. Koerner Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce

Peg and Harry Williams

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Marty & Betty Dickens, Shirley Zeitlin, Leon Tonelson

Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Bob & Mary LaGrone Robert & Carol Lampe Larry & Martha Larkin Richard & Diane Larsen Kevin P. & May Lavender Sandi & Tom Lawless Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lea IV Jon & Elaine Levine Sally M. Levine Dr. & Mrs. T. A. Lincoln Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Lind Margaret & Bill Lindberg Burk & Caroline Lindsey Robert A. Livingston Tim Lynch Myles & Joan MacDonald Elizabeth & Jim Mancuso Dr. John F. Manning Jr. Rhonda A. Martocci & William S. Blaylock Steve & Susie Mathews Lynn & Jack May Robert P. Maynard Jim & Judi McCaslin Scott & Jennifer McClellan Mr. Charles W. McDowell Tommy & Cat McEwen Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. McRae III Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger Mr. & Mrs. William T. Minkoff Jr. Christopher & Patricia Mixon Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli Ms. Lucy H. Morgan

Matt & Rhonda Mulroy James & Patricia Munro Leonard Murray & Jacqueline Marschak Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. Lannie W. Neal Robert Ness Ms. Agatha L. Nolen Chris & Leslie Norton Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Odom Jr. Representative & Mrs. Gary L. Odom Inka & Richard Odom Dan & Helen Owens David & Pamela Palmer Victoria & William Pao Mr. & Mrs. William C. Pfaender Dr. Edgar H. Pierce Jr. David & Adrienne Piston Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Prill Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Sharon Hels & Brad Reed Dr. Jesse B. Register Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Drs. Wayne & Charlene Riley Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Riven Mr. & Mrs. John A. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke Georgianna W. Russell James & Patricia Russell David Sampsell Paula & Kent Sandidge Mr. & Mrs. John J. Sangervasi Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Ms. Sandra A. Schatten Mrs. Cooper M. Schley Dolores & John Seigenthaler Dr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Shack Joan B. Shayne Anita & Mike Shea Bill & Sharon Sheriff Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Tom & Sylvia Singleton William & Cyndi Sites George & Mary Sloan Drs. Walter Smalley & Louise Hanson Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood Suzanne & Grant Smothers

K. C. & Mary Smythe Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Sohr Jack & Louise Spann Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell E.B.S. Foundation Dr. Michael & Tracy Stadnick Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Mr. & Mrs. David B. Stewart Jane Lawrence Stone Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III Ann & Bob Street Mrs. Susan & Volker Striepe M.D. Bruce & Elaine Sullivan Fridolin & Johanna Sulser Andrew Keith & Donna Dame Summar James B. & Patricia B. Swan Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Dr. & Mrs. William Thetford Dr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Thomas Scott & Julie Thomas Candy Toler Norman & Marilyn Tolk Joe & Ellen Torrence Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Thomas L. & Judith A. Turk Christi & Jay Turner William E. Turner Jr. The Vandewater Family Foundation Larry & Brenda Vickers Kris & G. G. Waggoner Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Deborah & Mark Wait Mr. & &Mrs. Martin H. Warren Mike Elaine Walker Erin&Wenzel Mr. Mrs. Martin H. Warren Mr. &Wenzel Mrs. Thomas G. B. Wheelock Erin Charles Hampton Mr. & Mrs. ThomasWhite G. B. Wheelock Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie White D. White Charles Hampton Stacy Widelitz Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White Mr. & Mrs. William G. Wiggins Stacy Widelitz David M.G.Wilds Mr. & Mrs. William Wiggins E. Williams Mr. &Donald Mrs. David M. Wilds JudyDonald S. Williams Mr. E. Williams ShaneS.&Williams Laura Willmon Judy Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II Shane & Laura Willmon WilliamWills M. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Ridley II Ms. &Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie Mr. Mrs. William M. Wilson & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Ms. Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie Dr.& Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Theodore E. Wiltsie Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe

CONCERTMASTER Gifts of $500 - $999 Anonymous (14) Carol M. Allen Mr. & Mrs. James E. Auer Jeff & Carrie Bailey Sallie & John Bailey Dr. Houston A. Baker Richard W. Baker Susan F. & Paul J. Ballard Dr.* & Mrs. Thomas C. Barr Mr. & Mrs. Edwin R. Barton Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Katrin T. Bean Dr. & Mrs. R. Daniel Beauchamp Bernice Amanda Belue Mike & Kathy Benson Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell

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Mr. Rob Bironas Ralph & Jane Black Randolph & Elaine Blake Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte William H. Braddy III Mr. Randal Braker Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Dr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Bressman Berry & Connie Brooks Bob & Kay Brotherton Dr. Pamela E. Brown Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Mrs. Michelle H. Burgess Dr. Roger & Mrs. Donah* Burgess

Gene & Jamie Burton John & LuAnnette Butler James Button Janet C. Camp* Mr. Kirk C. Campbell Mr. Thomas R. Campion Michael & Linda Carlson Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III Mr. & Mrs. John L. Chambers Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Starling Davis Clark & David F. Clark Jay & Ellen Clayton Sallylou & David Cloyd Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Domer Collins

Tom & Chris Rashford Mr. Edwin B. Raskin Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths Mr. & Mrs. David Rawlings Franco & Cynthia Recchia Ms. Allison R. Reed & Mr. Sam Garza Mr. Gregory M. Reed Susan B. Ridley Mrs. Julie A. Roe Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland Laura Ross Samuel L. & Barbara Sanders Philip & Jane Sanderson Pam & Roland Schneller Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle Drs. Carl & Wendy Schofield Dr. Kenneth E. Schriver & Dr. Anna W. Roe Peggy C. Sciotto Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott Drs. Fernando F. & Elena O. Segovia Odessa L. Settles Max & Michelle Shaff Mr. & Mrs. Richard Shearer Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas A. Sieveking Sr. Betty B. Sisk Pamela Sixfin Smith Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith Richard & Molly Dale Smith Mrs. Myrtis F. Smith Dr. Robert Smith & Barbara Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Mr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Snyder Mr. & Mrs. James H. Spalding Ms. Maggie P. Speight Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Ms. Karen G. Sroufe Gloria & Paul Sternberg Jr. Dr. & Mrs. William R. Stewart Mr. Russell P. Stover Jean Stumpf Mr. Donald T. Sullivan Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James E. Summar Sr. Craig & Dianne Sussman Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Taylor Lorraine Ware & Reid Thompson Mr. & Mrs. William D. Tidwell Mr. Michael P. Tortora Martha J. Trammell Monty Holmes & Van Tucker Ms. Rita R. Vann Lois J. Wagner & Barbara M. Lonardi Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner Kay & Larry Wallace Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Warner Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen Talmage M. Watts Mrs. William C. Weaver III Dr. Medford S. Webster Beth & Arville Wheeler Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wheeler Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. White Alyson Wideman Joe Wieck Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Mrs. Marie Holman Wiggins Adam & Laura Wilczek Vicki Gardine Williams Gary & Cathy Wilson Edward & Mary E. Womack Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wood Sr. Patrick & Phaedra Yachimski Mr. Payton H. Young Roy & Ambra Zent

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Teresa F. Kersey Jane Kersten Nancy & Edd Lancaster Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lavender Mrs. Martha W. Lawrence Ted & Anne Lenz Michael & Ellen Levitt Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Lippolis Drs. Walt & Shannon Little The Howard Littlejohn Family Mr. & Mrs. Denis Lovell Drs. Amy & George Lynch George & Cathy Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. MacDonald William R. & Maria T. MacKay Donald M. & Kala W.* MacLeod Joe & Anne Maddux James & Gene Manning Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Manno Mr. & Mrs. Richard Maradik James & Patricia Martineau Mr. & Mrs. Leon May Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. McCarty Peg & Al McCree Sandra & Ken McDonald Mr. John M. McDougal Joey & Beth McDuffee Catherine & Brian McMurray Ed & Tracy McNally Dan & Mary Mecklenborg Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether Cedric & Delberta Miller Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent B. Millspaugh Mr. Conley Minnick Dr. Jere Mitchum Diana & Jeff Mobley Dr. & Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt Ms. Gay Moon Beth & Paul Moore Cynthia & Richard Morin Lynn Morrow Ms. Patricia A. Moseley Margaret & David Moss Dick & Mary Jo Murphy Lucille C. Nabors Larry & Marsha Nager Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Nagle Leslie & Scott Newman Lonnie & Allene Newton Jane K. Norris Virginia O'Brien D. Wilson Ochoa Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr. Patricia J. Olsen Mr. & Mrs. Jack Oman Mr. Sergio Ora Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page Ms. Kathern W. Parker Mr. & Mrs. M. Forrest Parmley Ms. Lisa Pasho-Coughlin Grant & Janet Patterson John W. & Mary Patterson Drs. Teresa & Phillip Patterson Mr. John S. Perry Linda & Carter Philips Barbara Gregg & Robert Phillips Faris & Robert Phillips Joe* & Gaynelle Pitner Mr. John Pope Ms. Elizabeth M. Potocsnak Dr. & Mrs. James L. Potts J. Hayden Pruett George & Joyce Pust

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William & Margaret Connor Paul & Alyce Cooke Mr. Randy M. Cooper Marion Pickering Couch Dr. Robert Crants III Ms. Susannah C. Culbertson Tenchia Cupp Kimberly L. Darlington Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Davenport MariaGabriella Giro & Jeff Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Davis Mr. Shawn Delp Mrs. Edwin DeMoss Mr. Carl Denney Mark & Barbara Dentz Suzanne Day Devine Mr. & Mrs. Arthur DeVooght Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Peter & Kathleen Donofrio Dr. Alan W. Dow II Tere & David Dowland Ms. Katie Doyle Mr. Frank W. Drake Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Dr. John & Janet Exton Bill & Dian S. Ezell Ms. Marilyn Falcone Michael & Rosemary Fedele Bill Fialkowski, M.D. Bela Fleck Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer & Family Randy & Melanie Ford Patrick & Kimberly Forrest Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery J. Forshee Mr. & Mrs. David B. Foutch Robert & Peggy Frye Suzanne J. Fuller John & Eva Gebhart Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Mr. & Mrs. H. Steven George Dodie & Carl George Mr. Benjamin L. Gordon Bryan D. Graves Richard & Randi Green Dr. Gary S. Gutow & Ms. Jessica Gutow Viner Cathey & Doug Hall RenĂŠe & Tony Halterlein Dr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hardy Frank & Liana Harrell Kent & Becky Harrell Dr. & Mrs. Jason Haslam Mr. Scott Hatcher Mr. & Mrs. Doug Hauseman Mrs. Estela R. Hayes Lisa & Bill Headley Keith & Kelly Herron Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Elizabeth Dykens PhD & Robert Hodapp PhD Frances Holt Ken & Beverly Horner Dr. Jian Huang Margie & Nick* Hunter Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Robert C. Jamieson MD Jack Jezioro & Ellen Menking Bob & Virginia Johnson Ruth E. Johnson Mrs. Robert N. Joyner Dr. Barbara F. Kaczmarska Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy John & Eleanor Kennedy

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Anonymous (30) Drs. Oran Aaronson & Shannon Snyder Judith Ablon The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. W. Robert Abstein Ben & Nancy Adams Eric & Shannon Adams Mr. George E. Alexander Chip Alford Dr. & Mrs. John Algren Mr. & Mrs. Roger Allbee Dr. Joseph H. Allen Ruth G. Allen Mr. & Mrs. John Allpress Adrienne Ames Wm. J. & Margery Amonette Ken & Jan Anderson Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple Mr. & Mrs. George Armistead III Mr. Aaron Armstrong Patricia & Jay Armstrong Mrs. Margaret Arnold Todd & Barbara Arrants Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead Geralda M. Aubry The Brian C. Austin Family Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Averbuch Dr. & Mrs. J. Kelley Avery Grace & Carl Awh Janet B. Baggett James M. & Kim M. Bailey Ms. Susie M. Baird Drs. Ferdinand & Eresvita Balatico Ms. René Balogh & Mr. Michael Hinchion Mr. & Mrs. J. Oriol Barenys Dr. Beth S. Barnett George E. Barrett William & Sharon Baxter Mr. & Mrs. William Beach Mrs. Teresa A. Beard Ms. Traciee D. Bearden Susan O. Belcher Mark H. Bell Ron & Sheryl Bell Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Tom & Marilynn Benim Mr. Carl W. Berg Ms. Margaret P. Bernado Dick & Gwen Berry

Frank and Carol Daniels

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Annie Laurie & Irvin Berry Cherry & Richard Bird Dr. Joel S. Birdwell Ms. Helen R. Blackburn-White Joan Bledsoe Mr. John Bliss Ms. Mimi Bliss Mrs. Andrea Boely David L. Bone David Bordenkircher Ms. Donna R. Bostick Jerry & Donna Boswell Robert E. Bosworth Mr. Brian Boxer Mr. David G. Boyd Don & Deborah Boyd Jeff & Jeanne Bradford Dr. Joel F. Bradley Mr. Mark D. Branstetter Jere & Crystal Brassell Robert & Barbara Braswell Dr. Daniel K. Bregman Mary Lawrence Breinig Jamie A. Brewer Mr. David Bridgers Betty & Bob Brodie Kathy & Bill Brosius Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Brown Ms. Roxanne Brown Burnece Walker Brunson Mrs. Margaret J. Bryson T. Mark & D. K. Buford Linda & Jack Burch Dr. & Mrs. Grady Butler Geraldine & Wilson Butts Dr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Buxbaum Dr. & Mrs. Robert Byrd Ruth M. Byrdsong Julia C. Callaway Claire Ann Calongne Mr. Richard A. Calvin Bratschi Campbell Gary E. Canaday Mr. Mark J. Cappellino Mr. & Mrs. W. Hill Carlen Karen Carr Ronald & Nellrena Carr Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Carter Valleau & Robert M. Caruthers Bill & Chris Carver Kent Cathcart Mr.* & Mrs. James W. Chamberlain Evelyn LeNoir Chandler Renée Chevalier Mrs. Robert L. Chickey Ms. Dorothy H. Chitwood Mr. Won S. Choi Mark & Bette Christofersen Neil Christy & Emily Freeman Dr. André & Ms. Doreatha H. Churchwell Mr. Daryl Claggett Councilman & Mrs. Phil Claiborne Charles & Agenia Clark Steven* & Donna Clark Dr. Paul B. Clark Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Roy Claverie Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Neely B. Coble III Misty Cochran & Josh Swann Mark & Robin Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Coleman Colonel (ret.) Dr. & Mrs. James R. ( Conra) Collier

Ms. Peggy B. Colson Laura & Kyle Cooksey Ms. Anne G. Cooper Renette I. Corenswet Nancy K. Corley Elizabeth Cormier Drs. Charles L. & Joy Cox Ms. Laura Crafton-Sizemore Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Jeff L. Creasy Mr. & Mrs. David Crecraft R. Barry & Kathy Cullen Ms. Dana R. Curtis Mr. Brian B. Cuyler Ms. Kathryn Czynszak Rev. Frederick L. Dale Katherine C. Daniel James & Maureen Danly Kim & Roy Dano Mr. M. Bradshaw Darnall III Mr. Robby Dasher Andrew Daughety & Jennifer Reinganum Janet Keese Davies Adelaide S. Davis Mr. Joshua M. Davis Ms. Maria de la Cruz Steve Sirls & Allen DeCuyper Dr. & Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Wade & Jeanine Denney Mr. & Mrs. J. William Denny Ann Deol Dr. & Mrs. Henry A. DePhillips Mr. John I. Dickson Jr. Natalie R. Dickson & Aaron T. Raney Dr. Joseph & Ambassador Rachel Diggs Mr. & Mrs. John H. Dinkins Ms. Shirley J. Dodge Michael Doochin & Linda Kartoz-Doochin Elizabeth Tannenbaum & Carl Dreifuss Dr. & Mrs. W. David Driskill Clark & Peggy Druesedow Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Dugger Kathleen & Stephen Dummer Mr & Mrs. Mike Dungan Mrs. Kristi D. Dunham Bob & Nancy Dunkerley Michael & Beverly Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Jim Eades Jr. Kathryn & Webb Earthman Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Easterling Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Ebert Thomas D. Edmonds DVM Mrs. Clara Elam Mr. & Mrs. James H. Ellis III Dan & Zita Elrod Ms. Kaaren Engel Ms. Ann Epperson Dr. Jack W. Erter Dr. & Mrs. James Ettien Ms. Claire Evans Dr. Ann Evers & Dr. Gary Smith Ed W. Evins Jr. Tony & Shelley Exler Steven & Katie Ezell Drs. Charles & Evelyn Fancher Chrtistopher Farrell & Kathryn Beasley Laurie & Ron Farris

Dr. & Mrs. John L. Lloyd Keltner W. & Debra S. Locke Jean & Steve Locke Kim & Mike Lomis Kim & Bob Looney Frances & Eugene Lotochinski David & Nancy Loucky Thomas H. Loventhal J. Edgar Lowe Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal Mr. & Mrs. James C. Lundy Jr. Revs. James & Michelle Lunsford Jeffrey C. Lynch Patrick & Betty Lynch Sharron Lyon Herman & Dee Maass Mr. John Maddux Dr. Mark A. Magnuson & Ms. Lucile Houseworth Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Maier Mr. Mikal Malik Mr. & Mrs. Eric J. Manders Audrea & Helga Maneschi Dr. & Mrs. N. H. Mann Jr. Sheila Mann Mr. Joshua P. Manning David & Leah Marcus Sam & Betty Marney Mr. Henry Martin Dr. & Mrs. Raymond S. Martin Drs. Jeff & Patty Marvel Abraham, Lesley & Jonathan Marx Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Massie Sue & Herb Mather Mr. Jimmy R. Mattingly Margery Mayer & Carolyn Oehler Mr. & Mrs. John D. McAlister Joanne Wallace McCall Chris & John McCarthy Ms. Carolyn McClerkin Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. McClure Kathleen McCracken Mary & John McCullough Bob McDill & Jennifer Kimball Mr. & Mrs. Edwin A. McDougle Dr. & Mrs. James B. McKee Jr. Mr. Brian L. McKinney Dr. & Mrs. Timothy E. McNutt Sr. Sam & Sandra McSeveney Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. McWherter Mr. Michael A. Meadows Ms. Virginia J. Meece Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Meek Ronald S. Meers Mr. Paul Megee Janis Meinert Linda & Ray Meneely Drs. Manfred & Susan Menking Sara Meredith Sherree Meyers Dr. & Mrs. Philip G. Miller Dr. Ron V. Miller Dr. Fernando Miranda & Dr. Patricia Bihl-Miranda Mr. & Mrs. Steven Moll Anthony & Ariane Montemuro Dr. Michael F. Montijo & Mrs. Patricia A. Jamieson-Montijo James & April Moore Mr. David K. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Charles Murchison Mr. John Murphy Mr. & Mrs. B. Dwayne Murray Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. William Myers Allen & Janice Naftilan Ms. Carolyn Heer Nash

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David & Judith Slayden Hayes Peggy R. Hays Stephen & Deborah Hays Fred & Judy Helfer Doug & Becky Hellerson Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Heyman John Reginald Hill Ronald & Nancy Hill Mr. David Hilley Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilmer Dr. Becky E. Swanson-Hindman Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Hodum Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hofe Jim & Kim Holbrook Aurelia L. Holden Dr. Nancy D. Holland Mr. & Mrs. James G. Holleman William Hollings Mr. & Mrs. Jay M. Hollomon Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Hooper Drs. Richard T. & Paula C. Hoos George & Joan Hornberger Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious Samuel H. Howard Ms. Edith B. Hudson Dr. & Mrs. Louis C. Huesmann II Mr. & Mrs. Robert Huljak The Hunt Family Foundation Michael & Evelyn Hyatt Mrs. Beverly Hyde Dr. & Mrs. Roger Ireson Dr. Anna M. Jackson Frances C. Jackson Ms. Laura R. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Jacobs Haynie & Patsy Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Javorcky Mr. Richard W. Jett Joyce E. Johnson Mary & Doug Johnston Susan & Evan Johnston Frank & Audrey Jones Mr. & Mrs. Michael Jones Mr. Patrick D. Jones Sarah Rose Jones Dr. & Mrs. Herman J. Kaplan Mrs. Cynthia A. Keathley Ms. Georgia Keeling Jeffrey & Layle Kenyon Mr. Jason Kesler Mr. & Mrs. Brock Kidd Bill & Becca Killebrew The Williams-King Foundation Kathleen & Don King Drs. Thomas & Vicki King George McCulloch & Linda Knowles Mr. & Mrs. Rick Koelz David & Judy Kolzow Sanford & Sandra Krantz Tim Kyne Mr. Daniel L. LaFevor Dr. Kristine L. LaLonde Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Mrs. Douglas E. Leach Trenton & Shellie Leach Rob & Julia Ledyard Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee J. Mark Lee Dorothy & Jim Lesch Ralph G. Leverett E. A. Lewis John & Marge Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Monty S. Ligon Mr. & Mrs. Ronald S. Ligon Mr. & Mrs. John Lillie Mack & Katherine Linbaugh

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Dana Ferris Vince & Dorothy Fesmire Billy & Donna Fields Janie & Richard Finch Callum, Julia & A. J. McCaffrey Dr. & Mrs. Jack Fisher Doris T. Fleischer Mr. James T. Fleming Ms. Deborah G. Flowers Cathy & Kent Fourman Mrs. Katherine H. Fox Andrew & Mary Foxworth Ms. Elizabeth A. Franks Mr. & Mrs. J. Richard Franz Mr. Chris R. Fraser Jim W. Freeland William H. & Babs Freeman Scott & Anita Freistat Ms. Heather Funderburg Dr. Henry Fusner Bill & Ginny Gable Mr. Peter Gage Mr. Anderson C. Gaither Jim & Michiko Gaittens Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Galbraith Aaron & Tracy Gallagher Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Gangaware Mr. & Mrs. Philip Ganske Ms. Susan M. Gant Mr. & Mrs. George C. Garden Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Garrett Alan & Jeannie Gaus Jennifer George Mr. Scott A. German & Ms. Tammie Shannon Em J. Ghianni Mr. & Mrs. Stewart J. Gilchrist Mr. Andre L. Gist Mark Glazer & Ms. Cynthia Stone Linda & Joel Gluck Mr. Charles S. Golden Ms. Susan T. Goodwin Zachary & Martha Goodyear Eugene F. Grah Tom & Carol Ann Graham Antonio M. Granda M.D. Mr. Chris Gray Roger & Sherri Gray Mr. & Mrs. Luke Gregory Mr. Michael Grillot Ms. Melinda T. Grimes R. Dale & Nancy G. Grimes Teresa J. Grimes Mr. & Mrs. Russell D. Groff Mary Beth & Raul Guzman Dr. & Mrs. John D. Hainsworth Byron & Antoinette Haitas Ms. Leigh Ann Hale Scott, Kathy & Kate Hall Katherine S. Hall Mr. Robert T. Hall Walter H. White III & Dr. Susan Hammonds-White Mr. & Mrs. Harry M. Hanna Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Hanselman Dr. John B. & Kathleen E. Harkey Cindy Harper Dr. & Mrs. Frank P. Harrell Mrs. Edith Harris Dickie & Joyce Harris Mr. & Mrs. Jay Hartley Mr. James S. Hartman Dr. Morel Enoch & Mr. E. Howard Harvey Robert & Nora Harvey Mr. Jonathan Harwell

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Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Neal Mr. James R. Neal Mr. Fred S. Nelson William & Kathryn Nicholson Al Nisley Mrs. Caroline T. Nolen Judy M. Norton Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Mrs. Edith M. Oathout Dr. & Mrs. Wills Oglesby Hunt & Debbye Oliver Philip & Marilyn Ollila Philip & Carolyn Orr Wayne Overby Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Overfield Frank & Pamela Owsley Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict Dr. & Mrs. James Pace Terry & Wanda Palus Mr. & Mrs. Chris Panagopoulos Dr. Fritz F. Parl Clint Parrish Lisa & Doug Pasto-Crosby Mr. Pat Patrick Mr. & Mrs. Gary K. Patterson Dr. & Mrs. W. Faxon Payne John & Lori Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Pendleton Charlie & Connally Penley Anne & Neiland Pennington Dr. & Mrs. A. F. Peterson Jr. Claude Petrie Jr. Kenneth C. Petroni MD Charles & Mary Phy Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pickel Jr. Mrs. Tanya M. Pierce Mr. Maurice W. Pinson Rick & Diane Poen Mr. Van G. Pond Jr. & Mr. David Glasgow Phil & Dot Ponder Mr. Jason E. Poole Mr. Marico Portis Mr. Sean Power Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Priesmeyer Ann Pushin Edria & David Ragosin Joel & Elizabeth Rainer Mr. & Mrs. Ross Rainwater Randy & Carol Rawlings Ms. Bonnie D. Reagan Buford L. & Ernestine S. Reed Don Reed & Lynne Wallman Don & Kathy Reed Mr. & Mrs. David R. Reeves Lee Allen Reynolds Al & Laura Rhodes Mr. Cliff N. Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. Tate Rich Barbara Richards Don & Connie Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Richardson Mrs. Jane H. Richmond Mary Riddle Mrs. Paul E. Ridge Margaret Riegel Mr. George Ritzen Mr. & Mrs. Brian Roark Mr. Steven B. Robertson Mrs. Roscoe R. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Doug Rogers Fran C. Rogers Judith R. Roney Mr. Aaron D. Rosburg Rodney & Lynne Rosenblum

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Edgar & Susan Rothschild Jan & Ed Routon Mr. & Mrs. Robert Rutherford Pamela & Justin C. Rutledge Judith Ann Sachs Mr. Stephen Sachs Mr. Douglas L. Sadtler Michael Samis & Christopher Stenstrom John R. Sanders Jr. Dr. Glynis Sandler & Dr. Martin Sandler Dr. Neil S. Sanghani Jack & Diane Sasson William B. & Toni C. Saunders Mr. Donald D. Savoy Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Schnaars Molly & Richard Schneider Sheila Schott Jack Schuett Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Schultenover Mr. Devin Schultz Mr. Roderick Scruggs Ms. Amy Jeanece Seals Mr. & Mrs. J. Douglas Seiters Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Self Gene & Linda Shade Richard & Marilyn Shadinger Caroline & Danny Shaw Phil & Sonnie Shay Family Mrs. Jack W. Shepherd Dr. John O. Simmons Keith & Kay Simmons Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir Alice Sisk Ashley N. Skinner Dr. & Mrs. David Slosky Charles R. Smith & Vernita Hood-Smith Dallas & Jo Ann Smith John & Jane Smith Susan K. Smith & Joe Stegemann Elaine & Robert Smyth James T. & Judith M. Smythe Mr. & Mrs. Robert Sneed Mr. James E. Snider Jr. Dr. Susan Snyder & Mr. William Snyder Marc & Lorna Soble Mr. & Mrs. Robert Speight Nan E. Speller Tom Spiggle Mr. M. Clark Spoden Mrs. Randolph C. St. John Caroline Stark & Lane Denson Lelan & Yolanda Statom Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens CAPT & Mrs. Charles E. Stewart Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Cyril Stewart Tom & Gayle Stroud Mr. & Mrs. Samuel E. Stumpf, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William C. Suchman Gayle Sullivan Mrs. T. C. Summers Thomas & Sarah Summers Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Svennevik Dr. Esther & Mr. Jeff Swink Mr. & Mrs. Richard Tayrien Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Te Selle Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Thackston Mr. & Mrs. Richard Theiss David & Kathryn Thompson Mr. Marcus W. Thompson Richard & Shirley Thrall Mr. Dwight D. Thrash Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Thurman

Scott & Nesrin Tift Ms. Shari L. Tish Leon Tonelson Mila & Bill Truan Richard, Kimiko, Jennifer & Lindsey Tucker Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull Ms. Junita Turnipseed Mrs. Mary A. Van Dyken Dr. Jan Van Eys Kimberly Dawn Vincent Ms. Dominique M. Vonsiatsky Richard Wager Aaron & Wyatt Suffridge Mr. Steven B. Waldrep Mr. & Mrs. Ron Walker Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wallace Mrs. Bridgette K. Walsh Ms. Leslie P. Ware Lawrence & Karen Washington Gayle & David Watson Shirley Marie Watts Frank & Jane Wcislo H. Martin & Joyce Weingartner Dr. & Mrs. Matthew B. Weinger Ms. Karen L. Weissman Mr. Kevin L. Welsh Dr. J. J. Wendel Joni Werthan Franklin & Helen Westbrook J Peter R. Westerholm Dr. & Mrs. William Whetsell Linda & Raymond White Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Whiteaker Mr. Michael T. Whitler & Mr. Mark Weber Jonna & Doug Whitman Ms. Eleanor D. Whitworth Ms. Judith B. Wiens Roger M. Wiesmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Wiggins Mr. Robert S. Wilkinson Jerry & Ernie Williams Frank & Marcy Williams Jeremy S. Williams John & Anne Williams Amos & Etta Wilson Tommy &Carol Ann Wilson The Wing Family Ms. Sandra Wiscarson Scott & Ellen Wolfe Dr. & Mrs. Robert S. Wood Jr. Mr. Michael T. Woods Mr. Peter Wooten & Ms. Renata Soto Mr. Howard F. Wright Gary & Marlys Wulfsberg Kay & Randall Wyatt Pam & Tom Wylly Vivian R. & Richard A. Wynn Ms. Na Yang Shu-Zheng & Li Li Yang Dr. Mary Yarbrough Mr. & Mrs. Samuel C. Yeager Donna B. Yurdin Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Zibart Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Zigli James & Candice Zimmermann *denotes donors who are deceased

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 24, 2012.

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The Martin Foundation

PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL Gifts of $75,000+ TM

DIRECTORS’ ASSOCIATES Gifts of $50,000+

PRINCIPAL PLAYERS Gifts of $25,000+ Mike Curb Family Foundation

NASHVILLE CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU

GOVERNMENT Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County

Mayor Karl F. Dean

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Metropolitan Council

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ORCHESTRA PARTNERS Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 Caterpillar Financial Services Chase Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated Fidelity Motors Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation Gaylord Entertainment Foundation Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Griffin Technology The HCA Foundation Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville Downtown Hearn Charitable Foundation KraftCPAs PLLC LifeWay Worship Neal & Harwell, PLC Publix Super Markets Charities Mary C. Ragland Foundation Wells Fargo ARTISTIC UNDERWRITERS Gifts of $5,000- $9,999 Aladdin Industries, LLC BDO Chet Atkins Music Education Fund Corrections Corporation of America Cracker Barrel Foundation David Yurman Samuel M. Fleming Foundation Landis B. Gullett Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Interior Design Services, Inc. Nashville Predators Foundation OSHi Flowers Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor Charitable Foundation PwC Tennessee Christian Medical Foundation VSA Arts Tennessee BUSINESS PARTNER Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 American General Life & Accident Insurance Company AmSurg BioVentures, Inc. Blevins, Inc. City of Brentwood Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co., Inc. Delta Dental of Tennessee First Baptist Nashville Gannett Foundation/The Tennessean Schoenstein & Company Washington Foundation BUSINESS COUNCIL Gifts of $1,500 - $2,499 Carter Haston Real Estate Services Inc. The Hendrix Foundation J. Alexander's Corporation Stor-N-Lock Paramore | the digital agency Tennsco Corporation WASCO, Inc. BUSINESS LEADER Gifts of $1,000 - $1,499 Anonymous (1) A-1 Appliance Company Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation Neely Coble Company DZL Management Company Enfinity Engineering, LLC Richard Fletcher of 511 Group Inc. Harmon Group, Inc. Heidtke & Company, Inc. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment 64

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BUSINESS ASSOCIATES Gifts of $500 - $999 AARP Tennessee ADEX! Homesellers Black Box Network Services R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation BMI Capitol Records CedarStone Bank D.F. Chase, Inc. Cushman & Wakefield | Cornerstone The Buzz 102.9 / The Game 102.5 / The LIGHT 102.1 Haber Corporation Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Northgate Gallery, Inc. RD Plastics Co., Inc. SESAC, Inc. Stansell Electric Company, Inc. Sysco Nashville Volunteer Barge & Transport, Inc. BUSINESS FRIEND Gifts of $300 - $499 V. Alexander & Co., Inc. ACP Special T's Batten & Shaw, Inc. CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Dancy's, Nancy June Brandon DataMarketing Network, Inc. DBS & Associates Engineering, Inc. Demos' Steak & Spaghetti House Freeman Webb Company Realtors, Inc. Horrell Realty and Investments Hunter Marine Import Auto Maintenance, LLC INDUSCO J & J Interiors, Inc. Jack Cawthon/Jack's Bar B Que Jesse Lee Jones of Robert's Western World Meharry Medical College National Toxicology Specialists Inc. Riley Warnock & Jacobson PLC Servitech Industries, Inc. Sharing Spree LLC Trickett Honda Monte Turner/Turner and Associates Realty, Inc. Walker Lumber & Hardware Company IN-KIND AARP Tennessee American Airlines American Tuxedo Crowe Horwath LLP Dulce Desserts The Glover Group Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Nashville, 4th Avenue Hilton Nashville Downton Ms. Sally M. Levine Lipman Brothers McQuiddy Printing Nashville Symphony Volunteer Auxiliary OSHi Flowers The Pinnacle at Symphony Place Premier Parking of Tennessee Mr. John R. Sanders HONORARY In honor of Bette Berry In honor of Darlene Boswell In honor of Marion P. Couch in honor of Thomas Wynne Cowan

In honor of Jeanne Crossnoe In honor of Harris Gilbert's 80th birthday In honor of George* & Jo Hall's 58 years of marriage MEMORIAL Jerry Adams - In memory of Carole Slate Adams In memory of Mrs. Evalina Andrews In memory of Pauline Becker In memory of Jessica Bloom In memory of Mrs. Mary Jane Blount In memory of Betty Boatright In memory of Scott Clayton, CLU In honor of Jeanne Crossnoe In memory of Mrs. May Drummond In memory of Mr. Charles K. Evers In memory of Mr. Patrick Francis Hamill In memory of Mr. John Bachman Hardcastle In memory of T. Earl Hinton & Nora Smith Hinton In memory of Dr. James I. Hudson From Hutt Family in memory of Dr. James Irvin Hudson Jr. In memory of Virgil Davis Hunt In memory of Peter Katz In memory of John Kelingos In memory of Jerry Long In memory of Lil McAdams In memory of Kala Welch MacLeod In memory of Volker Marschall In memory of Mr. J. Patrick Maxwell In memory of Cate Myer In memory of Mildred J. Oonk In memory of Ms. Jean Pinson In memory of Babs Reinfeld In memory of William Satterwhite In memory of Mr. Earl Scruggs In memory of Mr. Gerald E. Sheridan In memory of Martha B. Short In memory of Mrs. Adele Youngberg Smith In memory of Lester Speyer In memory of Mr. James Albert Stein In memory of Joe Tobias In memory of Dr. David L. Walker In memory of Mary Lee Watson

JR Roper, Shirley Guerrero, Joy Roper, Giancarlo Guerrero

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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

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 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

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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 $10,000 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.

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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 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. 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 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. 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

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Kent & Donna Adams 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 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

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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.

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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.

LEGACY SOCIETY LEAVING A LEGACY, BUILDING A FUTURE When Schermerhorn Symphony Center opened to the public in 2006, we envisioned our concert hall serving many generations for decades to come.

If you have that same vision for the Nashville Symphony, then a planned gift can become your ultimate demonstration of commitment and support. You can help us plan for our future — and your own — through this creative approach to philanthropy and estate planning, which allows you to make a significant contribution to the Nashville Symphony while also enjoying income and tax benefits for you and your family.

Great orchestras, like all great cultural institutions throughout history, are gifts to posterity; they are built and bestowed to succeeding generations by visionary philanthropists.

To find out more about planned giving opportunities, please visit NashvilleSymphony.org/plannedgiving, or contact Hayden Pruett, Major Gifts Officer, at 615.687.6615

Anonymous Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Julie & Frank Boehm Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Donna & Steven Clark Dr. Cliff Cockerham & Dr. Sherry Cummings Mrs. Barbara J. Conder Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert William M. & Mildred P.* Duncan Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Judy & Tom Foster Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia James C. Gooch Billy Ray Hearn

Judith Hodges Judith S. Humphreys Martha R. Ingram Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Anne T. Knauff Heloise Werthan Kuhn Sally M. Levine John T. Lewis Todd M. Liebergen Clare* & Samuel Loventhal Ellen Harrison Martin Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Cynthia & Richard Morin Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Pamela K. & Philip Maurice Pfeffer Joseph Presley

Eric Raefsky, MD & Victoria Heil David and Edria Ragosin Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Fran C. Rogers Kristi Lynn Seehafer Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Irvin & Beverly Small Mary & K.C. Smythe Dr. & Mrs. W. Anderson Spickard Jr. Dr. John B. Thomison Sr. Louis B. Todd Judy & Steve Turner Alan D. Valentine Mrs. Johnna Benedict Watson Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Anne H. & Robert K.* Zelle *deceased InConcert

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One might say in our walk of faith, we’ve been down many paths. But few as exciting as the one we’re on now. With hard hats and rolled sleeves, we’re building a university that will serve students in greater, more innovative ways than ever in our history. Two new health science buildings providing state-of-the-art facilities for nursing and pharmacy.

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In just the past 24 months— 16 new graduate programs, with more to come, that meet the demands of today’s workforce in fields such as information technology and biomolecular science. And almost 60 new faculty members to help us keep our stride. Watch us as we hammer out our future and take some exciting steps forward.

To us, this is a stepping stone.

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VISTING THE SCHERMERHORN RESTROOMS & WATER FOUNTAINS

Restrooms and water fountains are available on the Lounge Level, located one floor below the Main Lobby; on the east and west sides of the Founders and Balcony Levels; and outside the Mike Curb Music Education Hall on the Founders Level.

Located on the Lounge Level, unisex restrooms are available for disabled guests needing special assistance.

COAT CHECK

To enhance the acoustical experience inside Laura Turner Concert Hall, guests are invited to check their coats at one of several complimentary coatcheck locations on each seating level. The most convenient is on the Lounge Level, located one floor below the Main Lobby.

CAMERAS, CELL PHONES & OTHER DEVICES

Cameras or audio recording equipment may not be brought into any space where a rehearsal, performance or lecture is taking place. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms must be turned off prior to the start of any event.

LATE SEATING

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members, each performance will have designated breaks when latecomers are seated. Those arriving after a performance begins will be asked to remain outside the entrance door nearest their ticketed seats until the appropriate break.

GET INVOLVED! VOLUNTEER

The Nashville Symphony offers a wide variety of opportunities to engage volunteers from Nashville and surrounding communities. Tasks include providing office support, assisting on concert nights and much more. You’ll have the opportunity to meet fellow music lovers and to help out behind the scenes at the Schermerhorn! Volunteers can customize their schedules to fit their lifestyles. For more information, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/volunteer.

NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE

The Nashville Symphony Orchestra League (NSOL) is a membership-driven organization committed to supporting the work of the Nashville Symphony.

Members help make a difference in our community by assisting with the Nashville Symphony’s music education programs, presenting pre-concert talks, providing administrative support to the Symphony Spring Fashion Show and more. For more information, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/NSOL. 78

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CRESCENDO CLUB

The Crescendo Club is a newly launched group of community leaders, philanthropists and music enthusiasts, ages 21 to 40-ish, who are interested in supporting the Nashville Symphony by participating in unique social events, fundraising initiatives and other music educational activities. For more information, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/CrescendoClub.

NASHVILLE SYMPHONY CHORUS

Have you got an urge to sing? Consider joining the Nashville Symphony Chorus! Now numbering more than 130 voices in concert, the Chorus performs at least twice each season as part of the Nashville Symphony’s SunTrust Classical Series, in addition to Handel’s Messiah each December. For more information, including how to audition, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/NashvilleSymphonyChorus.

HOW MAY WE ASSIST YOU? CONCERT CONCIERGE

Schermerhorn Symphony Center has been carefully designed to be barrier-free and meets or exceeds all criteria established by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). All public spaces, restrooms, meeting rooms, offices, backstage dressing rooms and orchestra lounge, and production control rooms will accommodate performers, staff and guests with disabilities. Interior signage and all elevators make use of Braille lettering for directional signs in both public and backstage areas, including all room signs.

An infrared hearing system is available for guests who are hearing impaired. Headsets are available at no charge on a first-come, first-served basis from the coat-check area on the Lounge Level, and from the Concert Concierge.

EMERGENCY MESSAGES

Guests expecting urgent calls may leave their name and exact seat information (seating level, door number, row and seat number) with any usher. Anyone needing to reach guests during an event may call the Security Desk at 615.687.6610.

LOST AND FOUND

Please check with the House Manager’s office for any items that may have been left in the building. The phone number for Lost and Found is 615.687.6450.

PARKING & TRANSPORTATION NEW! FREE PARKING!

New for the 2012/13 season, FREE parking is available in Lot R at LP Field, with shuttles running to and from the lot for just $3 per person roundtrip. This shuttle service is available for all SunTrust Classical, Bank of America Pops and Jazz Series concerts, along with many special events. For more information, call our Box Office at 615.687.6400.

PARKING AT THE PINNACLE

Located directly across Third Avenue from the Schermerhorn, the Pinnacle at Symphony Place offers Symphony patrons pre-paid parking at a discount! To purchase, please call 615.687.6401.

VALET

Valet parking, provided by Parking Management Company, is available on Symphony Place, on the north side of the building between Third and Fourth avenues. We also offer pre-paid valet parking; for more details, call 615.687.6401.

CHAUFFEURED TRANSPORTATION

Grand Avenue, the official transportation provider for the Nashville Symphony, offers town cars, sedans, limousines and bus transport for individuals and groups of all sizes. To make a reservation, please contact GrandAvenueLimo.com or 615.714.5466.

TICKET SALES The Box Office is on the Fourth Avenue side of the building closest to Symphony Place. Tickets may be purchased with MasterCard, VISA, American Express, Discover, cash or local personal checks. Limited 15-minute parking is available on Fourth Avenue just outside the Box Office.

Regular Hours:

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday Hours on Concert Days:

10 a.m. to intermission Monday-Saturday

Call for hours on Sunday Tickets are also available by visiting NashvilleSymphony.org or by phoning the Box Office at 615.687.6400.

CAN’T MAKE A CONCERT?

If you cannot attend a concert, exchanges must be made at least 10 business days prior to the performance date; otherwise, you may donate your tickets for resale. You may also choose to put the value of your tickets on account no later than 10 business days prior to the performance. On-account money may be used for any concert in which we are allowing exchanges; please contact your Patron Services Specialist for details or contact the box office at 615.687.6400.

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SERVICES FOR GUESTS WITH DISABILITIES

Accessible and companion seating are available at all seating and price levels with excellent acoustics and sight lines to the stage. Transfer seating is also available to allow guests in wheelchairs to transfer easily to seats in the hall. Please arrange in advance for accessible seating by calling a customer service representative at 615.687.6400.

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Have a question, request or comment?

Please visit our Concert Concierge, which is available to help you with anything you might need during your visit. Located in the Main Lobby, Concert Concierge is open through the end of intermission.

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