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RANDY TRAVIS With lifetime sales in excess of 20 million, Randy Travis is one of the biggest country record sellers of all time. His honors include seven GRAMMY® Awards, 10 Academy of Country Music statuettes, 10 American Music Awards, two People’s Choice Awards, seven Music City News Awards, eight Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association and five Country Music Association honors. In addition, three of his performances earned CMA Song of the Year honors: “On the Other Hand” (1986), “Forever and Ever Amen” (1987) and “Three Wooden Crosses” (2003). To date, he has 18 No. 1 singles, 29 Top 10 smashes and more than 40 appearances in feature films and television shows to his credit.
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Chabrier composed España in 1883 following a tour of Spain. An instant hit, the score percolates with cheerful energy and represents one of the best-loved examples of French musical impressions of Spain. First performance: November 4, 1883, in Paris, with Charles Lamoureux conducting First Nashville Symphony performance: May 15 & 16, 1970, with Music Director Thor Johnson Estimated length: 7 minutes
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n an era of easy travel and instant access to any imaginable style of music, it can be difficult to imagine the perspective of a 19th-century composer like Emmanuel Chabrier, whose trips to Germany and to Spain left such a deep stamp on his musical personality. Although he spent years chained to a bureaucratic post in France’s Ministry of the Interior, Chabrier squirreled away time in his free hours to compose, and he even enjoyed some success with an Offenbach-flavored comic operetta. His forays into music were encouraged by a close circle of artistic friends that included leading painters of the day — Chabrier was an
W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R Judging by the uninhibited reactions Chabrier recorded in his letters, his fascination was hardly confined to the music he encountered in cafes and plazas. These rhythms and tunes were for him an expression of the sexiness of Spanish dancers as well. In España the vogue for evoking “exotic” and sultry Spanish atmospheres previously found in Édouard Lalo and Bizet takes the form of an irrepressibly joyful fantasia of rhythms and orchestral colors. Initially Chabrier repeats the familiar trope of the ensemble as a giant guitar, as we imagine the dancers lining up. Since his harmony is so static, the shifting rhythmic and instrumental patterns become the focus of interest. The festive score seems to anticipate the montage-like buildup and arrangement of images of the cinematic era still to come. España is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 4 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 cornets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, 2 harps and strings.
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important early collector of the work of his Impressionist colleagues — as well as major literary figures like Mallarmé and Verlaine, who wrote librettos for him. After traveling to attend a life-changing performance of Tristan und Isolde, Chabrier decided to cast the day job aside — a choice made easier by a family legacy — and plunge into an existence devoted entirely to music. Subsequent travels throughout Spain in 1882 inspired him to write the work that first brought him real notice as a serious composer. Impressed by the colorful variety of the Iberian Peninsula, he gathered impressions of Spanish dances and folk music, making detailed note of local color and the many different dance idioms. Though Chabrier originally conceived España as a piano piece, he decided to amplify this material into a “rhapsody for orchestra.” It had to be encored at its first performance and remains a concert staple.
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Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (“The Red Violin”) Born on February 16, 1938, in New York City, where he currently resides John Corigliano’s Violin Concerto, which he composed in 2003, is one of a series of works drawing on ideas from his score for the 1998 film The Red Violin. With its blend of innovative design, emotional intensity and highly skillful orchestration, the Concerto ranks among the best-loved achievements of this eminent living composer. First performance: September 19, 2003, with Joshua Bell as the soloist and Marin Alsop conducting the Baltimore Symphony First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances. Estimated length: 35 minutes
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age during a period when audiences had grown used to feeling alienated from contemporary composers, and there was consequently a deep uncertainty about the future of classical music. Nevertheless, he developed a fresh and powerful voice that speaks to present-day listeners while revisiting genres of the concert music tradition. As an influential teacher on the Juilliard faculty (with such prominent students as Eric Whitacre, Mason Bates and Nico Muhly), Corigliano has also inspired a new generation of composers. In the first of his three symphonies to date, composed in 1988, Corigliano’s music of rage and lamentation created a counterpart in sound to the AIDS quilt. That score won the composer a Grawemeyer, one of the classical world’s most prestigious awards, while Leonard Slatkin’s recording with the National Symphony won a Best Classical GRAMMY® in 1996. These honors sit alongside a Pulitzer (for the Second Symphony, from 2000), multiple additional GRAMMY® Awards, and an Oscar for the score to the 1998 film The Red Violin. His catalog of more than 100 works reveals his mastery of the modern orchestra, and also includes chamber music and compositions for voice. His only opera, The Ghosts of Versailles (1991), riffs on the characters of Beaumarchais’s Figaro trilogy and was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. A richly theatrical imagination permeates Corigliano’s instrumental works as well. This is particularly true of the “Red Violin” Concerto, which is an offshoot of the dramatically compelling music he wrote for the film by French-Canadian director François Girard. As a multipart narrative traversing three centuries and three continents, and involving unrelated sets of characters, the film The Red Violin relies to an unusual degree on music as the story’s binding element. Corigliano devised musical terms to characterize the eponymous violin as the one constant thread linking these stories together. Dating from the golden age of Italian instrument builders, the violin is the masterwork of its grieving designer. He paints it with a mixture of varnish and the blood of his wife after she suddenly dies in childbirth. Corigliano had to compose much of the music before filming
The previously composed Chaconne serves as the first and the longest of the concerto’s four movements. A chaconne refers to the Baroque device of an easily recognizable chord sequence that continually repeats and forms a harmonic foundation. After a haze of indeterminate orchestral swirl around the solo violin, low brass and winds spell out the chaconne theme as a grim procession of seven chords. Meanwhile the soloist traces out a haunting melody — the music associated with the ill-fated Anna, the instrument maker’s wife — against these chords. Together the two elements suggest a musical image for both the relentless power of fate and the tragic memory of Anna that, in a sense, possesses the violin. They also provide the movement’s essential material. Alternately brooding and fiery, the music incorporates virtuosic etude-like passages, riveting climaxes and a remarkable solo cadenza voicing the different facets of the instrument’s personality that surface throughout the film. Three movements follow and form a
counterweight to the Chaconne’s imposing architecture. As the Red Violin is transported from Italy to Vienna, Oxford, Shanghai and modern-day Montreal, it is subjected to the varying temperaments and styles of those who come into possession of it. Corigliano notes that the brisk Pianissimo Scherzo, a “wild and colorful” movement, is meant to “break the Romantic mood of the first movement with sonoric and timbral effects” — and indeed his much-admired flair for orchestral texture and color comes very much to the fore. Anna’s theme makes a spectral appearance here and takes on deeply melancholy hues in the third movement. But the flute-like (flautando) playing prescribed by Corigliano for the soloist in the third pits grace against gravity, and provides a lyricism reminiscent of Samuel Barber. This segues into the troubadour/gypsy style of the finale, all passion and fire, which recalls the traditional Romantic concerto’s face-off between soloist and orchestra as each proceeds at contrasting tempos. Corigliano calls for special effects to enhance the sense of a “rollicking race,” while a gripping new theme introduces an air of introspection. The chaconne theme itself rounds out the concerto, symbolizing the survival of the violin, and of music itself, through the eras. In addition to solo violin, the “Red Violin” Concerto is scored for 3 flutes (2 doubling piccolos, 1 doubling alto flute), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (1 doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (1 doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 2 trumpets (optionally 1 trumpet and 1 piccolo trumpet), 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 4 percussionists, piano (doubling celesta), harp and strings.
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Corigliano recalls that the experience of scoring the film and collaborating with Joshua Bell “galvanized” him to take up the challenge of writing his first violin concerto.
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— the reverse of the normal practice — so that the many shots featuring actors playing the instrument could realistically synchronize with the soundtrack. From this he fashioned an independent concert piece, Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra, which premiered before the film opened. Other satellite works derived from The Red Violin include a suite from the film score, caprices for solo violin, and the concerto we hear. Corigliano recalls that the experience of scoring the film and collaborating with Joshua Bell, who played the solos on the soundtrack, “galvanized” him to take up the challenge of writing his first concerto for this instrument. This in turn became a loving tribute to his concertmaster father, to whose memory the score is dedicated. “It is an ‘in the great tradition’ kind of concerto,” the composer remarks, because with it he attempted “to write the piece my father would love to play.” While the concerto draws on material from the film score associated with its characters, this isn’t program music per se but a reimagining and celebration of that tradition for today.
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Born on June 2, 1857, in the village of Lower Broadheath in the Midlands of England; died on February 23, 1934, in Worcester, England Variations on an Original Theme (“Enigma”), Op. 36 Elgar composed the “Enigma” Variations between October 1898 and February 1899, and then revised the score. A towering example of orchestral variations, the work gave Elgar his first important breakthrough as a composer and can be “read” on several different levels: as a tribute to his close circle, as a study in musical development of a core idea, and as a mystical key to a larger, “unheard” meaning. First performance: June 19, 1899, in London, with Hans Richter conducting First Nashville Symphony performance: January 26, 1954, with Music Director Guy Taylor Estimated length: 30 minutes
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he formal concept of a theme and variations offers another way to represent the simultaneous persistence of a musical idea and its susceptibility to change over time. One of the most glorious examples of this concept can be found in Variations on an Original Theme, written by a composer still struggling to make his name before knighthood and international recognition singled him out. This work supplied Edward Elgar with his international breakthrough on the eve of a new century. Like Stephen Sondheim in our own time, Elgar was a passionate devotee of puzzles. There are, in fact, several enigmas associated with the piece, though the composer originally applied that term to the issue of the main theme alone. In a note for the premiere, Elgar hinted that this larger (still unexplained) enigma involves the identity and presence of the real principal theme, which is actually never played but only outlined indirectly by what we do hear — “even as in some late dramas the chief character is never onstage,” according to Elgar. The theme and variations that are written down would thus form a kind of accompaniment or countermelody implicitly pointing to the theme that isn’t heard and whose “dark saying,” as Elgar put it, can only be “left unguessed.” Not surprisingly, leaving the enigma of Elgar’s Variations unguessed is the last thing armies of scholars and puzzle-lovers have been willing to do. Proposed solutions to the unheard theme’s identity range from “Auld Lang Syne” and “God Save the Queen” (both of which Elgar categorically denied) to ideas that are outside the realm of music, including a code for pi and a phrase from the New Testament about divine love.
W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R The theme that we do hear is stated outright in a songlike form (A-B-A) and contrasts minor with a final turn to the major. Pauses between each phrase enhance its expressive nature, and Elgar reverses the rhythmic pattern in each succeeding phrase: short-short-longlong followed by long-long-short-short, and so on. Each of the 14 variations then gives a
Elgar’s score calls for 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, organ and strings. — Thomas May is the Nashville Symphony’s program annotator.
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namesake). Jaeger was the composer’s closest friend and continually encouraged his efforts. His “portrait” recalls a deep conversation the two engaged in while walking one night, as Jaeger described the nobility of Beethoven’s slow movements. X: A delicate intermezzo depicts Dorabella Penny (who was related to the subjects of Variations III and IV), including her stutter. XI: This variation incorporates not only the subject, organist George R. Sinclair, but also his pet bulldog Dan. Elgar recalls a picnic afternoon during which Dan fell into the River Wye and barked emphatically as soon as he could wriggle out. XII: In this variation of touching melancholy, the cello takes the spotlight in homage to the cellist Basil G. Nevinson. XIII: Another enigma within the “Enigma” comes from the asterisks Elgar writes in the score for this “romanza” to conceal the subject’s identity. A quotation from Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage (clarinet) refers to the subject undertaking a sea voyage. Some speculate she may be an old flame, Elgar’s former fiancée Helen Weaver. XIV: A depiction of Elgar’s wife began the set; now the composer complements it with a self-portrait and a magnificent summing up of the whole work. (“E.D.U.” or “Edoo” was a pet name Elgar’s wife used for him.) He draws on the full resources of the orchestra for this energetic and most comprehensive expansion of the theme. In its opulent and stately guises, Elgar suggests how deeply his personality is entwined with those of his wife and his friend Jaeger.
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musical portrayal of friends and loved ones from Elgar’s relaxed inner circle in provincial central England. In the score, he cryptically identifies the corresponding personalities by initials, but the composer’s commentary and observations have made most of these easy to figure out. Personal interrelationships between some of the subjects also figure in. The Variations unfold in the following order: I: Elgar’s beloved wife, Caroline Alice Elgar, appears as a fuller, romanticized, harmonically richer development of the theme. II: Chromatic elaborations of the theme are said to refer to exercises with which Hew David Steuart-Powell, a pianist, would warm up at the keyboard. III: Registral extremes of high and low woodwinds are contrasted to etch a portrait of amateur actor Richard Baxter Townshend, who could vary the pitch of his voice to extreme contrasts. IV: A blustery change of tempo suggests a musical counterpart to the confident country gentleman William Meath Baker. V: This moody variation captures the mutability of poet Matthew Arnold’s son, Richard Penrose Arnold. VI: Isabel Fitton studied viola with Elgar and hence is depicted by the melodic dominance of a luminously beautiful viola. VII: Another music student, the architect Arthur Troyte Griffth, is the target of Elgar’s characteristic humor as he battles valiantly for command of the keyboard — and then just gives up. VIII: The graceful world of the elderly music patroness Winifrid Norbury — punctuated by her signature laugh — comes to life in this delicately proportioned variation. IX: A sustained line from the previous variation segues directly into what is the bestknown variation of the set — and its emotional core. This piece is often extracted for use at funerals and serious ceremonial occasions and has become the epitome for the grand rhetorical expression of the end of an era, before war and modernism swept it all away. “Nimrod” is one of Elgar’s puns for A. J. Jaeger (his name is the German word for “hunter,” like the biblical
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LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor Internationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin is currently Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL), France, and he is Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He previously served as Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. Since his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1974, Slatkin has led virtually all of the world’s major orchestras, including those of Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia, as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Vienna Philharmonic and all the prominent ensembles in Paris and London. He has served as conductor for performances on the world’s leading opera stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Bastille and the Washington National Opera. Slatkin’s more than 100 recordings have been recognized with seven GRAMMY® awards and 64 nominations. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the 2003 National Medal of Arts (the highest award given to artists by the United States government) and the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Slatkin is the Arthur R. Metz Foundation Conductor at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and the Distinguished Artist in Residence at American University. Born in Los Angeles to a distinguished musical family, Slatkin began his musical studies on the violin. He studied conducting with his father, conductor-violinist Felix Slatkin, followed by Walter Susskind at Aspen and Jean Morel at The Juilliard School. He is married to composer Cindy McTee.
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ELINA VÄHÄLÄ, violin Violinist Elina Vähälä made her orchestra debut at age 12 with Sinfonia Lahti and was later chosen as their “Young Master Soloist” by the conductor Osmo Vänskä. Some of the highlights of her current season are appearances with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Tania Miller, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Jean-Marie Zeitouni. She performs at numerous festivals this year, including the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, Spring Light Chamber Music Festival, and Kempten and Storioni Festivals. Past seasons have taken Vähälä to stages around the world, including performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, Colorado Symphony and Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, as well as tours in China and South Korea. In December 2008, Vähälä performed at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony and concert when Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari was awarded the prize. Vähälä’s repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary. She has given world premieres of Aulis Sallinen’s Chamber Concerto and Curtis Curtis-Smith’s Double Concerto, both written for her and pianist-conductor Ralf Gothóni. She is also a devoted chamber musician and has performed with Andras Adorjan, Ana Chumachenco, Chee-Yun, Peter Csaba, Itamar Golan and Alisa Weilerstein, among many others. Born in the United States and raised in Finland, Elina Vähälä began to play the violin at age 3. She studied at the Sibelius Academy with Tuomas Haapanen, and in 1998 she attended classes by Ana Chumachenco in Munich. Vähälä is a professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe.
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The Silk Road Ensemble Yo-Yo Ma, Artistic Director Jeffrey Beecher, contrabass Nicholas Cords, viola Sandeep Das, tabla Johnny Gandelsman, violin Joseph Gramley, percussion Hu Jianbing, sheng Colin Jacobsen, violin Eric Jacobsen, cello Kayhan Kalhor, kamancheh Yo-Yo Ma, cello Cristina Pato, gaita, piano Shane Shanahan, percussion Mark Suter, percussion Kojiro Umezaki, shakuhachi Yang Wei, pipa
Silk Road Suite IMPROVISATION GIOVANNI SOLLIMA SHANE SHANAHAN SAPO PERAPASKERO
Wandering Winds La Camera Bianca from Viaggio in Italia Saidi Swing Turceasca
JIA DAQUN
The Prospect of Colored Desert Commissioned by the Silk Road Project
VIJAY IYER
Playlist for an Extreme Occasion Commissioned by the Silk Road Project INTERMISSION
COLIN JACOBSEN
Beloved, do not let me be discouraged‌
KOJIRO UMEZAKI
seasons continue, as if none of this ever happened
JOHN ZORN arr. Silk Road Ensemble
Suite from Book of Angels Arrangements commissioned by the Silk Road Project
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P ROGRAM NOT ES For nearly 2,000 years (ending in the 14th century), the historical Silk Road, a series of land and sea trade routes, crisscrossed Eurasia, enabling the exchange of goods from Japan to the Mediterranean Sea. Over the centuries, many important technological innovations migrated to the West along the Silk Road, including the magnetic compass, the printing press and gunpowder. Interactions among cultural groups spread knowledge, religious beliefs, artistic techniques and musical traditions. Long after its decline, the Silk Road remains a powerful metaphor for cultural exchange, and it is an apt namesake for the Silk Road Project’s vision of connecting artists and audiences around the world. The repertoire of the Silk Road Ensemble includes traditional music as well as newly commissioned works, many of which combine non-Western and Western instruments, creating a unique genre that transcends customary musical classification. Tonight’s concert opens with a Silk Road Suite, in which the audience is greeted by Wandering Winds, an improvisation among wind instruments that explores the concept of
connecting the world’s neighborhoods. This conversation between such instruments as Chinese bawu and pipa and Japanese shakuhachi gives way to La Camera Bianca (The White Room), a string sextet by the young Sicilian composer Giovanni Sollima. The title refers to a laboratory exploration of a grave in the Cathedral of Palermo that unexpectedly revealed that the Emperor Frederic II was not buried alone, but in the arms of a woman. This element of surprise is evident in the playful melodic and rhythmic structure of the short piece. Percussionist and composer Shane Shanahan wrote the next piece in the Suite, Saidi Swing, inspired by the traditional Arabic rhythm known as Saidi, believed to have originated in Upper Egypt. Saidi Swing offers variations on the Saidi basic rhythm featuring the riq, an Egyptian tambourine; darbuka, a goblet-shaped drum used throughout the Middle East; tabla, a pair of drums played extensively in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan; and the frame drum, the oldest and most widely used drum in the world. The Suite concludes with Turceasca (Turkish Song), the signature piece of the Romanian gypsy
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band Taraf de Haïdouks, who were featured in the documentary Latcho Drom. Composer Osvaldo Golijov worked with the band to arrange Turceasca for the Kronos Quartet. The Silk Road Ensemble, further bolstered with an arrangement by Ljova, provides additional embellishments to the work with the inclusion of instruments from other traditions, including the cajón, a Peruvian drum. The Prospect of Colored Desert is a product of the Silk Road Project’s first round of commissions in 2000. Following eight years of study as a painter at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, composer Jia Daqun abandoned his career when his vision became impaired. He turned his attention to composition, a passion he had been developing while in art school. As a composer of contemporary music, he has imported the principles of form, line and color from Chinese calligraphy and painting into his compositions and teachings. In The Prospect of Colored Desert, the composer imagines a black ink brush painting of a desert. Listeners might also detect the influence of Chinese opera with the instruments acting out their operatic assignments. Playlist for an Extreme Occasion was written for the Silk Road Ensemble in 2012 by the acclaimed New York-based jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer. The title, according to Iyer, is meant to evoke the ways we listen to music today: “The piece’s structure is indeed a playlist, a kind of modular form that most of us have in our lives already (usually in our pockets). The literary theorist Edward Said, himself an amateur classical pianist, described recitals, operas and other classical performances as ‘extreme occasions’ because of their ritual quality, their now requisite displays of superhuman prowess and their careful prescriptions of the behavior of performers and audience alike.” Iyer adds, “I have great admiration for the Silk Road Ensemble for their ability to transcend the traditional confines of these settings, to connect authentically as people, and to communicate a real joy for creating music together. I dedicate this piece to them, and I thank them for the opportunity to collaborate with them.” In contrast to the previous piece, with its
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contemporary jazz influences, the inspiration for the next work is rooted in ancient Persian tradition. The title of Beloved, do not let me be discouraged… comes from a line of 16th century verse by Turkic poet Fuzûlî and is taken from his version of the legendary tale of Layla and Majnun, a story about ill-fated lovers that has many parallels to Romeo and Juliet. In working with the Ensemble and Alim Qasimov, the great Azeri mugham singer, on a chamber version of Hajibeyov’s 1908 opera Layla and Majnun, a melodic fragment caught Colin Jacobsen’s ear and developed into the rhythmic piece that forms the second half of Beloved. The musical voice of kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor is a natural fit for this piece, in part because Persian music often expresses a deep desire to lose oneself in love. The next piece was born out of another Ensemble member’s sense of connection to an event that played a part in shaping a culture — in this case, of the people of Japan. Kojiro Umezaki wrote seasons continue, as if none of this ever happened after the tsunami of 2011. Umezaki notes that nearly a century earlier, deeply affected by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, Nakao Tozan composed the work Kogarashi in response to the devastation, which was triggered by nature but amplified by human systems. Years later, a quote by a calligraphy teacher who lost her home in the 2011 tsunami caught Umezaki’s attention in its echo of the past: “It’s strange how the seasons continue, as if none of this ever happened,” Nagasawa said, glancing up at the blue sky. “Spring comes back, but [some] never will.” (New York Times, April 10, 2011) Umezaki asks, “Can we say that all communities grapple with the fragile relationship between advances in the human condition and their unknown consequences?” He explains that “this work honors Tozan, adding a fractured, rhythmic accompaniment as if the shakuhachi were, quite impossibly, a multi-stringed instrument.” To close the program, the Ensemble performs Suite from Book of Angels, made up of short pieces by the prolific and often avant-garde American composer John Zorn. Zorn’s Book of Angels is the second in a series of collections that
YO-YO MA The many-faceted career of cellist Yo-Yo Ma is testament to his continual search for new ways to communicate with audiences and to his personal desire for artistic growth and renewal. Ma maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with orchestras worldwide and his recital and chamber music activities. His discography includes over 75 albums, including more than 15 GRAMMY® Award winners. Ma serves as the artistic director of the Silk Road Project, an organization he founded to promote the study of cultural traditions along the ancient Silk Road trade routes. Since the Project’s inception, more than 70 works have been commissioned specifically for the Silk Road Ensemble, which tours annually. Ma also serves as the Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Institute for Learning, Access and Training. Ma was born in Paris to Chinese parents who later moved the family to New York. He began to study cello at the age of 4, attended The Juilliard School, and in 1976 graduated from Harvard University. He has received the 2001 National Medal of Arts, the 2006 Sonning Prize, the 2008 World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award and the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2011 Ma
THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE The Silk Road Ensemble draws together distinguished performers and composers from more than 20 countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Since the Ensemble formed under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma in 2000, the group’s innovative artists have eagerly explored contemporary musical crossroads. The Seattle Times praised the result as “a cornucopia of music ideas…featuring instrumental and vocal artists of almost unimaginable virtuosity.” The Ensemble’s approach is experimental and democratic, founded on collaboration and risk taking, on continual learning and sharing among a kaleidoscope of cultures and art forms. Members explore one another’s traditions, celebrating the multiplicity of approaches to music from around the world. They also develop new repertoire that responds to the multicultural reality of our global society. As the Los Angeles Times has said, “The Silk Road Ensemble vision of international cooperation is not what we read in our daily news reports. Theirs is the better world available if we, like these extraordinary musicians, agree to make it one.” The Silk Road Ensemble has performed to critical acclaim throughout Asia, Europe and North America and has recorded five albums. The Ensemble’s most recent recording, Off the Map, was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Crossover Album in 2011. For more information on the Silk Road Project and the Silk Road Ensemble, please visit silkroadproject.org.
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was recognized as a Kennedy Center Honoree. He has performed for eight American presidents, most recently at the invitation of President Obama on the occasion of the 56th Inaugural Ceremony.
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form his Masada project, an experiment in Jewish musical styles inspired by the composer’s own heritage. In exploring this collection, Ensemble members drew on their own respective musical interests from around the world to arrange the songs from diverse and sometimes unexpected cultural perspectives. The latest arrangement, by Kayhan Kalhor, was created to premiere on this concert tour. — Program notes by Isabelle Hunter, The Silk Road Project, 2013
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‘THE RING’ WITHOUT WORDS Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Louis Lortie, piano MAURICE RAVEL Concerto in D major for Piano (Left Hand Alone) and Orchestra Louis Lortie, piano INTERMISSION RICHARD WAGNER The Ring Without Words compiled by Orchestral highlights from the Ring cycle, including: Lorin Maazel Das Rheingold Prelude Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla Die Walküre Ride of the Valkyries Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music Siegfried Forest Murmurs Götterdämmerung Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music Immolation Scene
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Born on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, France; died on December 28, 1937, in Paris Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major In 1929 and 1930, Ravel interrupted work on his only other piano concerto to fulfill a commission for a concerto using only the left hand. The restriction spurred him to create a concerto of enigmatic theatricality that casts a sometimes-ironic eye on the Romantic concerto tradition. First performance: January 5, 1932, with Paul Wittgenstein as the soloist and Robert Heger conducting the Vienna Philharmonic First Nashville Symphony performance: October 18 & 20, 1979, with Music Director Michael Charry Estimated length: 20 minutes
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imposingly over many of the French artist’s peers, Ravel accomplished his own innovations without resorting to grand, all-encompassing theories. Roger Nichols points out in his recent biography that Ravel was able to “compartmentalize” a powerful emotional reaction to Wagner’s music “from his own composing process” and thus managed “to spare himself the agonizing struggles between Wagnerphilia and Wagnerphobia that racked” other French composers such as Debussy. Ravel developed much of the musical personality of his formative years through writing for the keyboard, so it makes sense that he wished to use the format of the piano concerto to stage his brand of musical theater. He came to the endeavor late in his career due in part to his relentless perfectionism (he abandoned several earlier attempts), but also because of the traumatic interruption of World War I. By the late 1920s, Ravel was at the height of his popularity, and he could exploit what he had learned about writing for the stage in his remarkable ballet scores and his two one-act operas. Ravel began with a normal concerto for both hands, which he intended to use as a vehicle for his own comeback as a concert pianist on an ambitious upcoming tour. This would become the Piano Concerto in G, a masterpiece permeated by the influences of Mozart and jazz. However, the aging composer eventually realized his technique was no longer up to the demands of what he was writing, and he ceded the soloist role to his friend Marguerite Long. While writing that work, Ravel received another commission from pianist Paul Wittgenstein. It came with the unusual request for the solo part to use only the left hand. Wittgenstein belonged to an enormously wealthy arts-loving family in Vienna (their father was a steel tycoon). His many siblings included Ludwig Wittgenstein, the highly influential philosopher of language. Very early in the Great War, Paul was seriously injured in combat — Ravel himself became involved on the opposing side, driving trucks behind French lines — and had to have his right arm amputated, but he was determined
W H AT TO LIST E N F OR Cast in a single movement without breaks but with sections of fluctuating tempos, the Concerto begins with a slow, mysterious introduction. Ravel stages the emergence of the basic material of the piece from the lower depths of the orchestra, as an extended solo for contrabassoon seems to flicker against the shadows. The overall character of this work, relative to the translucent, more classically oriented Concerto in G, is dark — though by no means exclusively so — and is punctuated by surprising touches of drama. A slow, steady crescendo intensifies the suspense. It reaches a peak as the soloist makes a monumental entry and immediately creates a sonic illusion of two-handed virtuosity with a cadenza that covers the whole range of the keyboard. It’s interesting to note that Ravel’s
score for the solo part calls for more notes in toto than does the two-handed Concerto in G. The composer’s detached, enigmatic theatricality underlies the chain of events which ensues. As you would expect from a concerto, the musical argument develops as an exchange between soloist and orchestra, yet the atmosphere shifts cinematically, jump-cutting from one scene to another. The keyboard’s ruminations suggest the lyric, reflective grace of a slow movement, but shortly before the midpoint, the music accelerates into an allegro. Suddenly the opening theme that had been the focus of the first part is set aside for a scherzolike march. Its insistent triplets and whiffs of jazz have a more sinister flavor than the corresponding moments of the Concerto in G. The mechanistic, martial pulse seems disturbingly at odds with the relaxed and cheerful implications of the jazz elements. A hint of war memories? Ravel’s orchestral wizardry is especially imaginative and unpredictable in this section. After a reprise of the opening theme, the orchestra subsides for the piano’s lengthy, restless cadenza. Ravel subtly weaves the ensemble back in and reworks the suspenseful drama of the opening crescendo — now it is the orchestra following the piano’s lead — to build a sense of overwhelming excitement once again. The grand first theme seems to have won out, but the scherzo-march music flashes threateningly in the final measures, effecting what Ravel described as “a brutal conclusion.” In addition to solo piano, Ravel’s score calls for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and strings.
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to revive his career as a concert pianist when he returned to civilian life. He immediately set about to remedy the lack of left-handed repertoire by commissioning a slew of new works from leading composers, including Prokofiev, Richard Strauss and Britten, as well as Ravel. To Ravel’s chagrin, Wittgenstein was initially hesitant about the value of what he had produced: “Only much later, after I’d studied the concerto for months,” recalled the pianist, “did I become fascinated by it and realize what a great work it was.” Much as Ravel’s imagination had been sparked by adapting a simpler, childlike point of view in his piano music inspired by the tales from Mother Goose, the technical limitations necessitated by writing the Concerto for the Left Hand led him to a fresh evaluation of the genre. According to musicologist Michael Russ, in this work Ravel “is not so much participating in the 19th-century tradition as viewing it from a distance.”
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interruption midway through, completed orchestration of the final part in November 1874. Lorin Maazel arranged the orchestral suite The Ring Without Words for a CD project, which was released in December 1987. Wagner’s ideas of using music to shape the structure, atmosphere and even psychology of the drama have left their mark not just on other composers but on philosophers, poets and playwrights and continue to resound in countless film scores.
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Born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, Germany; died on February 13, 1883 in Venice, Italy The Ring Without Words arrangement by Lorin Maazel Wagner initially conceived The Ring of the Nibelung as a single opera in 1848, but his vision expanded into a titanic, four-part cycle. He began composing the Ring in the fall of 1853 and, after a lengthy
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ong before Freud, Jung, J.R.R. Tolkien or George Lucas, Richard Wagner grasped the terrific potential of fantastic mythological narratives and the emotional truths they can convey. As the music world celebrates Wagner’s bicentennial this year, his insights about myth and his capacity to express them in sound remain inexhaustibly fascinating. Wagner mined a mountain of sources, including actual Nordic myths and sagas, fairy-tales and recent scholarship, to gather what he needed to construct a myth of his own: the four-part Der Ring des Nibelungen (“The Ring of the Nibelung”), usually simply called The Ring. The composer actually thought of The Ring as a trilogy, in analogy to the great three-part cycles of ancient Greek tragedy.
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First performance: The Ring itself was first performed as a complete cycle at Wagner’s new theater in Bayreuth, Germany, in August 1876. First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances of this concert suite, though portions of The Ring were first performed by the Nashville Symphony on March 13, 1951, with Music Director William Strickland. Estimated length of the concert suite: 70 minutes
These three larger-scale music dramas consist of Die Walküre (“The Valkyrie,” i.e., Brünnhilde), Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (“Twilight of the Gods”). They are preceded by the shorter, intermission-less Das Rheingold as a prelude to the cycle which establishes what’s at stake. The Ring is not a “retelling” of a famous myth but an original, intricate synthesis of narrative threads comprising a cast of nearly 30 individual characters, each with a backstory, along with numerous “extras.” The “cycle” spanned by The Ring’s four operas entails nothing less than a history of the world, from the dawn of time to the collapse of civilization — and the promise of a new start with its rebirth. Like the epics of Homer, Wagner’s Ring unfolds on parallel planes of gods
W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R The opening is a potent realization in sound of a world coming into being, starting with a sustained bass E-flat. Eight horns emerge from the depths and overlap with the cycle’s very first leitmotif, a rising sequence associated with innocent nature, water, even evolution itself. The whole prelude, a foretaste of Minimalism, suggests a vast time-lapse unfolding. The rest of Das Rheingold introduces the epic range of The Ring’s world, from the lofty heights of Valhalla (the splendid new castle Wotan has contracted to be built for the gods) to the depths of the mines where the Nibelungs are forced into slave labor. Nature appears in Wagner’s orchestration as an ever-present backdrop, sometimes serene and sometimes violent. Maazel arranges Wagner’s storm music to bridge Das Rheingold with Die Walküre, where we encounter mortals for the first time. “The Ride of the Valkyries” is the prelude to the storm of Wotan’s rage against his daughter Brünnhilde for her disobedience. His music of farewell intensifies into one of the cycle’s most moving climaxes, symphonic and elegiac at the same time, interlaced with the hypnotic, lullaby-like motif signifying Brünnhilde’s sleep. In the brief
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an active participant in the failed revolution in Dresden in 1849, escaping arrest and a possible death sentence by fleeing German territory for exile in Switzerland. There was now no turning back. The heady thinking of these years provided the initial impetus for The Ring as a reflection, through myth, on a society that has become hopelessly corrupted and that must be redeemed. Layered on top of this was Wagner’s increasingly pessimistic philosophy, as he came to see suffering as the inevitable result of existence itself, which no revolution or utopian society could ameliorate. Through the quarter century that elapsed between his initial concept and the orchestration of the cycle’s final bars, The Ring absorbed all these contradictions, along with the advancement of Wagner’s art and technique as a composer. The Ring became “the poem of my life and of all that I am and feel,” as he wrote to his friend Franz Liszt.
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and humans, with the two intersecting at its tragic center. The plot itself is complex and spans multiple generations. It’s this complexity that led Wagner to expand from one to four operas in the first place, to make the motivations more compelling. Essentially, though, The Ring revolves around the conflict generated by the opposing drives of power and love. The ring of the title was forged from the primal Rhinegold when the Nibelung dwarf Alberich renounced love itself. A talisman that confers limitless power, the ring also carries a deadly curse. Wotan, the head of the gods, devises an elaborate scheme to win control of the ring but is thwarted by the conditions that give him power, which he would otherwise have to forfeit. The hero Siegfried is Wotan’s human grandson and freely comes into possession of the ring. For him it symbolizes his loving union with the ex-Valkyrie Brünnhilde. But Siegfried, too, falls victim to its curse and to those who covet the ring’s power. Finally his widow Brünnhilde restores the ring to the Rhinemaidens from whom its gold was stolen and the old, corrupt order is destroyed by fire and flood. As Wagner plotted his epic narrative, he discovered he needed to rethink the very basis of the relation between the music and the drama. As a result, he came to redefine the orchestra’s role and function in a radical way. The orchestra itself becomes a central character, in effect playing the role of a master narrator or bard and reinforcing an underlying unity through the composer’s system of leitmotifs. From these, Wagner spins a web of commentary on the inner lives of his characters and their relationships. At the same time, his score possesses an emotional directness that requires no specific knowledge of what particular themes “signify.” Why did this material attract Wagner in the first place? In the spring of 1848, the revolution spreading through Europe was gathering steam. With a day job as music director at one of the leading establishment opera houses of the time, in Dresden, Wagner had lost faith in his hopes for reform of institutions from within. There seemed to be little point in continuing to churn out new works for the old system. He meanwhile became
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but intensely beautiful excerpt from the “Forest Murmurs” scene in Siegfried, Nature again returns to the foreground in music of chamber-like delicacy and exquisite tone painting. Next, the cosmic worry of the Norns (a version of the Fates) gives way to the hopefilled, human joy of new lovers in music from the last of The Ring’s operas, as the newly human Brünnhilde is transformed by the power of her love for Siegfried. But the world of Götterdämmerung contains the Ring’s darkest and most violent passages, as in the motifs evoking Siegfried’s nemesis, who has him murdered. The hero’s Funeral March concentrates what has come before in the tragedy into a miniature tone poem, and it is famous in its own right as a concert hall extract. Wagner gives the final word in The Ring to his orchestra, following the magnificent final monologue delivered by Brünnhilde as she prepares for her self-sacrifice. The final minutes weave all of the key leitmotifs from The Ring
together into a finale of overwhelming force and eloquence marked by dramatic harmonic modulations. But this epilogue is much more than a straightforward parade of themes or a grand summary: as Wagner himself once confessed, listeners must follow their own “intuition” to decide where the music has taken them by the end of this journey. The Ring Without Words is scored for a very large orchestra of 2 piccolos, 3 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, 8 horns (4 doubling Wagner tubas), 3 trumpets, 2 bass trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, 2 harps and strings, along with such unusual instruments as anvils and a “stierhorn.” — Thomas May is the Nashville Symphony’s program annotator.
LORI N M A A Z E L A N D ‘ TH E RI NG’ When conductor and composer Lorin Maazel was asked to prepare and record a “symphonic synthesis” of The Ring for the record label Telarc in the 1980s, he recalled a pivotal encounter with Wieland Wagner, the composer’s grandson. Maazel had been the first American to conduct at Bayreuth, where Wieland had introduced a revolutionary new postwar approach to the operas as stage director. “The Orchestra — that’s where it all is — the text behind the text,” he remembered Wieland remarking. This view proved especially fitting for The Ring. “Its orchestral score,”
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Maazel writes, “is The Ring itself, coded in sound. Decoded, it becomes story, legend, song, philosophy in countless cosmic overtones and human undertones.” Using only Wagner’s own notes, The Ring Without Words gathers several of the score’s “coded” orchestral highlights into a continuous suite. Hearing Maazel’s arrangement is not, of course, a substitute for experiencing the entire Ring in live performance. Still, follow along on this orchestral journey and you will come away with a hint of the scope and gripping power of Wagner’s vision.
ABOUT THE SOLOIST LOUIS LORTIE, piano FrenchCanadian pianist Louis Lortie has extended his acclaimed interpretative voice across a broad range of repertoire. In 2012/13 he performs Gershwin in São Paulo with conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier, Liszt with NHK Tokyo and Charles Dutoit, Chopin with The Cleveland Orchestra and Jaap Van Zweden, and Schubert and Liszt with Emmanuel Krivine in Utrecht. He also tours with the La Scala Orchestra, and he returns to Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and other important venues to perform a recital program of opera transcriptions called “Lortie Goes to the Opera (Mostly with Wagner).” Other recitals include Copenhagen, Osaka, Cremona and Dresden. Lortie has performed with the world’s leading conductors, including Riccardo Chailly, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa and Osmo Vänskä. He has also been involved in many chambermusic projects with such musicians as Frank Peter Zimmermann, Leonidas Kavakos and Gidon Kremer. His regular piano-duo partner is fellow Canadian Hélène Mercier. He has made more than 30 recordings for the Chandos label, covering repertoire from Mozart to Stravinsky, including a set of the complete Beethoven sonatas and the complete Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage. Lortie studied in Montreal with Yvonne Hubert, in Vienna with Beethoven specialist Dieter Weber, and subsequently with Schnabel disciple Leon Fleisher. He made his debut with the Montreal Symphony at age 13. In 1992 he was named Officer of the Order of Canada and received both the Order of Quebec and an honorary doctorate from Université Laval. He has lived in Berlin since 1997 and also has homes in Canada and Italy.
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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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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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Acting Associate Principal/ 3rd Horn
Joel Reist,
Mary Kathryn Van Osdale,
ALBERT-GEORGE SCHRAM Resident Conductor
Radu V. Rusu,
Associate Concertmaster
Erin Hall,
GIANCARLO GUERRERO Music Director
BASSES*
HORNS
Zeneba Bowers,
Assistant Principal
Principal
Assistant Principal Principal Emeritus
Kevin Jablonski FLUTES
Erik Gratton,
Principal Anne Potter Wilson Chair
Ann Richards,
Assistant Principal
Kathryn Ladner PICCOLO
Kathryn Ladner,
Norma Grobman Rogers Chair
Kenneth Barnd Jessica Blackwell Rebecca Cole Radu Georgescu Benjamin Lloyd Louise Morrison Laura Ross Lisa Thrall+ Adrienne Watkinson++ Jeremy Williams Rebecca J Willie
OBOES
VIOLAS*
Cassandra Lee,
Daniel Reinker, Principal
Shu-Zheng Yang,
Assistant Principal Judith Ablon
Hari Bernstein Bruce Christensen Michelle Lackey Collins Christopher Farrell Mary Helen Law Melinda Whitley Clare Yang CELLOS*
Co-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
Ellen Menking,
Principal
Assistant Principal
Roger Wiesmeyer
ENGLISH HORN
William G. Wiggins, PERCUSSION
Sam Bacco, Principal
Roger Wiesmeyer
Richard Graber,
CLARINETS
Trent Leasure
James Zimmermann, Principal
Assistant Principal
Daniel Lochrie
E-FLAT CLARINET
Cassandra Lee
Assistant Principal
HARP
Licia Jaskunas, Principal
KEYBOARD
Robert Marler, Principal
BASS CLARINET
LIBRARIANS
BASSOONS
Jennifer Goldberg,
Daniel Lochrie Cynthia Estill, Principal
Dawn Hartley,
Assistant Principal
Julia Tanner,
CONTRA BASSOON
Bradley Mansell Lynn Marie Peithman Stephen Drake Michael Samis Matthew Walker
Principal
TIMPANI
Principal
Gil Perel
Assistant Principal James Victor Miller Chair
Jeffrey Bailey,
James Button,
Anthony LaMarchina, Principal
Acting Assistant 1st Horn
Gil Perel
HORNS
Leslie Norton, Principal
Beth Beeson
D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal
Librarian
ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGERS
Anne Dickson Rogers Carrie Marcantonio, Assistant
*Section seating revolves +Leave of Absence ++Replacement/Extra
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photos by Jackson DeParis
Gerald C. Greer,
Christopher Stenstrom Keith Nicholas Xiao-Fan Zhang
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Concertmaster Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair
CELLOS*
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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 * 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
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 Sheridan Ernst-Cavanaugh, Group Ticket Services Specialist Jackie Knox, Director of Sales 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 DATA STANDARDS Tony Exler, Director of Data Standards Sheila Wilson, Sr. Database Associate DEVELOPMENT Erin Wenzel, CFRE, 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 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 Pam Lindemann, Payroll and Accounts Payable 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
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
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ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION Larry Tucker, Director of Artistic Administration Emma Smyth, Manager of Artistic Administration Ellen Kasperek, Manager of Pops and Special Programs Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator
Collin Husbands, Catering and Events Manager 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
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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 Katy Lyles, Assistant to the Senior Vice President and 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
I.T. Dan Sanders, Director of Information Technology Trenton Leach, Software Applications Developer Chris Beckner, Technical Support Specialist MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Jonathan Marx, Sr. Director of Marketing & Communications Misty Cochran, Director of Advertising and Promotions 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 February 6, 2013:
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David & Diane Black Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick
Carol & Frank Daniels III Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram
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. Cano Ozgener Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner
VIRTUOSO SOCIETY Gifts of $10,000-$14,999 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.
Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero Carl & Connie Haley Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Jan & Daniel Lewis The Melkus Family Foundation The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt
Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter 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 Ann & Frank Bumstead Ann Scott Carell* Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Carlton Fred Cassetty 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 The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation
Marilyn Ezell John & Lorelee Gawaluck Allis Dale & John Gillmor Ed & Nancy Goodrich Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Helen & Neil Hemphill Mrs. V. Davis Hunt Mr. & Mrs. David B. Ingram Lee Ann & Orrin Ingram Keith & Nancy Johnson Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Christine Konradi & Stephan Heckers Ralph & Donna Korpman Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee Jim Lewis
Zachary Liff Robert Straus Lipman Ellen Harrison Martin Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Sheila & Richard McCarty Edward D. & Linda F. Miles Richard & Sharalena Miller Mr. & Mrs. Eduardo H. Minardi Gregg & Cathy Morton Anne & Peter Neff Dr. Barron Patterson & Mr. Burton Jablin Hal & Peggy Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Carol & John T. Rochford Anne & Joe Russell Joe & Dorothy Scarlett Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Schatzlein
Dr. & Mrs. John Selby 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 Barbara & Bud Zander 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 Ms. Marilyn Bell 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 Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Buijsman Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt
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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
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone Harris A. Gilbert William & Helen Gleason Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Goad Jr. James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Tony & Teri Gosse Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin Suzy Heer Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilton Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel Donald L. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques Robin & Bill King Anne Knauff
Anne & Charles Roos Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson Mr. & Mrs. Scott C. Satterwhite Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Scott Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Christopher & Maribeth Stahl Pamela & Steven Taylor Rich & Carol Thigpin Scott & Julie Thomas Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes 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 Charles Hampton White Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly Dr. Artmas L. Worthy Shirley Zeitlin
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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 Christopher & Patricia Mixon Mr. David K. Morgan Jonathan R. Norris & Jennifer Carlat Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Keith & Deborah Pitts Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus A. Puryear IV Eric Raefsky, M.D. & Ms. Victoria Heil
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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 Grace & Carl Awh Dr. & Mrs. Billy R. Ballard Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Barbara & Mike Barton Mrs. Brenda Bass Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Betty C. Bellamy Mr. & Mrs. Louie A. Belt Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Frank M. Berklacich, MD Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills Mr. David Blackbourn & Ms. Celia Applegate Dennis & Tammy Boehms Bob & Marion Bogen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bottorff Jean & David Buchanan Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Sharon Lee Butcher Chuck & Sandra Cagle John E. Cain III Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Jan & Jim Carell Ann & Sykes Cargile Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III Clint & Patty Carter Dr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Carter Michael & Pamela Carter 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 David & Starling Clark 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 Nancy Krider Corley Roger & Barbara Cottrell Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert 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 Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Doochin Stephen & Kimberly Drake Laura L. Dunbar E.B.S. Foundation Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Robert D. Eisenstein David Ellis & Barry Wilker Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Dr. Jack W. Erter Laurie & Steven Eskind Robert & Cassandra Estes Mr. Matthew Evers Mr. & Mrs. DeWitt Ezell Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild Mr. & Mrs. John Ferguson T. Aldrich Finegan John & Cindy Watson Ford Ms. Deborah F. Turner & Ms. Beth A. Fortune Drs. Robert & Sharron Francis Danna & Bill Francis Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas R. Ganick Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III Frank Ginanni The Evelyn S. & Jim Horne Hankins Foundation Mr. & Mrs. J. George Harris Janet & Jim Hasson Mr. & Mrs. James O. Hastings Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Mr. Larry O. Helms 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 Drs. James I. and Margo Hudson III Donna & Ronn Huff Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Judith S. & James R. Humphreys Marsha & Keel Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Irby Sr. Bud Ireland Rodney Irvin Family Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Ellen & Kenneth Jacobs Lee & Pat Jennings George & Shirley Johnston Jan Jones & Steve Williams Mary Loventhal Jones Ray & Rosemarie Kalil Mr. & Mrs. James Kelso Michael & Melissa Kirby Tom & Darlene Klaritch Walter & Sarah Knestrick William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Ms. Pamela L. Koerner Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce 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 Don & Patti Liedtke Dr. & Mrs. T. A. Lincoln Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Lind Margaret & Bill Lindberg Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lipman Tim Lynch Myles & Joan MacDonald Dr. John F. Manning Jr. Rhonda A. Martocci & William S. Blaylock Lynn & Jack May
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Robert P. Maynard Mr. Charles W. McDowell Tommy & Cat McEwen Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. McRae III Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger Mr. & Mrs. William T. Minkoff Jr. 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 Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Odom Jr. Representative & Mrs. Gary L. Odom Dan & Helen Owens The Paisley Family David & Pamela Palmer Victoria & William Pao Mr. & Mrs. William C. Pfaender Dr. Edgar H. Pierce Jr. David & Adrienne Piston Mr. Charles H. Potter Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Prill Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Ms. Allison R. Reed & Mr. Sam Garza Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Riven Mr. & Mrs. John A. Roberts Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins
Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke Georgianna W. Russell James & Patricia Russell David Sampsell Paula & Kent Sandidge Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul 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 Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Bill & Sharon Sheriff Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas A. Sieveking Sr. Luke & Susan Simons Tom & Sylvia Singleton William & Cyndi Sites George & Mary Sloan Drs. Walter E. Smalley Jr. & Louise Hanson Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood Suzanne & Grant Smothers K. C. & Mary Smythe Mr. & Mrs. James H. Spalding Jack & Louise Spann Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell 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 Johanna & Fridolin Sulser James B. & Patricia B. Swan Brett & Meredythe Sweet Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Dr. & Mrs. William Thetford Dr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Thomas Candy Toler Norman & Marilyn Tolk Joe & Ellen Torrence Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Thomas L. & Judith A. Turk Christi & Jay Turner The Vandewater Family Foundation Larry & Brenda Vickers Kris & G. G. Waggoner Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Deborah & Mark Wait Mike & Elaine Walker Mr. & Mrs. Martin H. Warren Talmage M. Watts Erin Wenzel Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. B. Wheelock Stacy Widelitz Mr. & Mrs. William G. Wiggins Mr. & Mrs. David M. Wilds Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenk Judy S. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II Mr. & Mrs. William M. Wilson Ms. Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. 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 George E. Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Edwin R. Barton Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Katrin T. Bean Dr. & Mrs. R. Daniel Beauchamp Marti Bellingrath Bernice Amanda Belue Mike & Kathy Benson Mr. Rob Bironas Ralph & Jane Black Randolph & Elaine Blake Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Irma Bolster Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Mr. Randal Braker Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Dr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Bressman Berry & Connie Brooks Bob & Kay Brotherton Dr. Pamela E. Brown
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Dr. Roger & Mrs.* Donah Burgess Gene & Jamie Burton Mr. Peter L. Bush James Button Mr. Thomas R. Campion Michael & Linda Carlson Bill & Chris Carver Mr. & Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Ms. Pamela Casey John & Susan Chambers Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Jay & Ellen Clayton Sallylou & David Cloyd Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Domer Collins William & Margaret Connor Paul & Alyce Cooke Mr. Randy M. Cooper Marion Pickering Couch Dr. Robert Crants III Ms. Susannah C. Culbertson 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 Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Peter & Kathleen Donofrio
Tere & David Dowland Ms. Katie Doyle Mr. Frank W. Drake Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden Dr. James E. Edwards Mrs. Clara Elam Dr. Christopher & Wendy Ellis Dr. John & Janet Exton Bill & Dian S. Ezell Michael & Rosemary Fedele Bill Fialkowski, M.D. Ms. Fern Fitzhenry Bela Fleck Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer & Family Randy & Melanie Ford Patrick & Kimberly Forrest Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery J. Forshee Robert & Peggy Frye Suzanne J. Fuller John & Eva Gebhart Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Mr. & Mrs. H. Steven George Dodie & Carl George Mr. & Mrs. Stewart J. Gilchrist Mr. Benjamin L. Gordon Bryan D. Graves Richard & Randi Green Dr. Gary S. Gutow & Ms. Jessica Gutow Viner Cathey & Doug Hall
Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle Dr. Kenneth E. Schriver & Dr. Anna W. Roe Peggy C. Sciotto Mr. Roderick Scruggs Drs. Fernando F. & Elena O. Segovia Odessa L. Settles Max & Michelle Shaff Mr. & Mrs. Richard Shearer Smith Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith Dr. Robert Smith & Barbara Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Mr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Snyder Mr.& Mrs. James M. Sohr Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Sohr Ms. Maggie P. Speight Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Ms. Karen G. Sroufe Gloria & Paul Sternberg Jr. Dr. & Mrs. William R. Stewart Jean Stumpf Mr. Donald T. Sullivan Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James E. Summar Sr. Craig & Dianne Sussman Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Taylor Mr. Marcus W. Thompson Lorraine Ware & Reid Thompson Mr. & Mrs. William D. Tidwell Mr. Michael P. Tortora Martha J. Trammell Monty Holmes & Van Tucker Kathryn G. Varnell Lois J. Wagner & Barbara M. Lonardi Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Warner Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen Mrs. William C. Weaver III Mrs. James A. Webb Jr. 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 Patrick & Phaedra Yachimski Mr. Payton H. Young Jane Yount Roy & Ambra Zent Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Zigli
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 Todd & Barbara Arrants Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead The Brian C. Austin Family Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Averbuch
Dr. & Mrs. J. Kelley Avery Janet B. Baggett Lawrence E. Baggett James M. & Kim M. Bailey Ms. Susie M. Baird Drs. Ferdinand & Eresvita Balatico Mr. & Mrs. J. Oriol Barenys Dr. Beth S. Barnett A. S. Barns Dr.* & Mrs. Thomas C. Barr Mr. & Mrs. William Beach Ms. Traciee D. Bearden
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Cedric & Delberta Miller Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent B. Millspaugh Dr. Jere Mitchum Diana & Jeff Mobley Dr. & Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt Ms. Gay Moon Beth & Paul Moore Cynthia & Richard Morin 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 William & Kathryn Nicholson Mr. Brian M. Norris Jane K. Norris Virginia O'Brien D. Wilson Ochoa Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr. Mr. Sergio Ora Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page Mr. & Mrs. M. Forrest Parmley Ms. Lisa Pasho-Coughlin Grant & Janet Patterson John W. & Mary Patterson Drs. Teresa & Phillip Patterson Dr. & Mrs. Joel Q. Peavyhouse Mr. John S. Perry Linda & Carter Philips Barbara Gregg & Robert Phillips Faris & Robert Phillips Joe* & Gaynelle Pitner Ms. Julie B. Plexico Rick & Diane Poen Mr. John Pope Dr. & Mrs. James L. Potts J. Hayden Pruett George & Joyce Pust Mr. Edwin B. Raskin Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths Franco & Cynthia Recchia Mr. Gregory M. Reed Mary Riddle Susan B. Ridley Mrs. Julie A. Roe Mr. & Mrs. Doug Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland Laura Ross Samuel L. & Barbara Sanders Philip & Jane Sanderson David M. Satterfield Pam & Roland Schneller
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RenĂŠe & Tony Halterlein Kent & Becky Harrell Dr. & Mrs. Jason Haslam Mr. Scott Hatcher Mr. & Mrs. Doug Hauseman Mrs. Estela R. Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Philip F. Head Lisa & Bill Headley Keith & Kelly Herron Mr. David Hilley Dr. Becky E. Swanson-Hindman Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Dr. Elisabeth Dykens & Dr. Robert Hodapp Dr. Jian Huang Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Huljak Margie Hunter Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Robert C. Jamieson MD 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 Teresa F. Kersey 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 Mr. & Mrs. John Lillie Burk & Caroline Lindsey Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Lippolis Drs. Walt & Shannon Little The Howard Littlejohn Family Mr. & Mrs. Denis Lovell George & Cathy Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. MacDonald William R. & Maria T. MacKay Donald M. & Kala W.* MacLeod Joe & Anne Maddux Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Manno James & Patricia Martineau Mr. & Mrs. Leon May Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Peg & Al McCree Sandra & Ken McDonald Mr. John M. McDougal Catherine & Brian McMurray Ed & Tracy McNally Dan & Mary Mecklenborg Linda & Ray Meneely Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether
FIRST CHAIR Gifts of $250 - $499 Anonymous (26) Drs. Oran Aaronson & Shannon Snyder Judith Ablon The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. W. Robert Abstein Ben & Nancy Adams Eric & Shannon Adams Mr. George E. Alexander Dr. & Mrs. John Algren Dr. Joseph H. Allen Newton & Burkley Allen Ruth G. Allen Mr. & Mrs. John Allpress
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Dr. Sammy F. Becdach Susan O. Belcher Mark H. Bell Ron & Sheryl Bell Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Ms. Margaret P. Bernado Dick & Gwen Berry Annie Laurie & Irvin Berry Cherry & Richard Bird Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell Dr. Joel S. Birdwell Ms. Helen R. Blackburn-White Joan Bledsoe Ms. Mimi Bliss Mrs. Andrea Boely David L. Bone David Bordenkircher Jerry & Donna Boswell Robert E. Bosworth Mr. Brian Boxer Don & Deborah Boyd Jeff & Jeanne Bradford Mr. Mark D. Branstetter Mr. Charles Brasher Robert & Barbara Braswell Dr. Daniel K. Bregman Mary Lawrence Breinig Betty & Bob Brodie Kathy & Bill Brosius Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Brown Burnece Walker Brunson T. Mark & D. K. Buford Dr. & Mrs. Grady Butler Geraldine & Wilson Butts Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Byrd Mr. Richard Callahan Mrs. Julia C. Callaway Claire Ann Calongne Mr. Richard A. Calvin Bratschi Campbell Gary E. Canaday Mr. Mark J. Cappellino Mr. T. James Carmichael Karen Carr Ronald & Nellrena Carr Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Carter Valleau & Robert M. Caruthers Evelyn LeNoir Chandler Dr. Walter J. Chazin Mrs. Robert L. Chickey Barry & Janie Childers Ms. Dorothy H. Chitwood Mr. Won S. Choi Mr. Joseph B. Christy Dr. AndrĂŠ & Ms. Doreatha H. Churchwell Teresa C. Cissell Mr. Daryl Claggett Councilman & Mrs. Phil Claiborne Drs. Walter & Deborah Clair 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 F. Michael Combs Mr. & Mrs. Randy Cook Ms. Anne G. Cooper Kathy & Scott Corlew
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Elizabeth Cormier Drs. Charles L. & Joy Cox Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Jeff L. Creasy Mr. & Mrs. David Crecraft R. Barry & Kathy Cullen Mr. Brian B. Cuyler Ms. Margaret M. DAngelo Katherine C. Daniel James & Maureen Danly Mr. M. Bradshaw Darnall III Andrew Daughety & Jennifer Reinganum Janet Keese Davies Steve Sirls & Allen DeCuyper Dr. & Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Wade & Jeanine Denney Mr. & Mrs. J. William Denny Dr. & Mrs. Henry A. DePhillips Mrs. John S. Derryberry Dr. Joseph & Ambassador Rachel Diggs Mr. & Mrs. John H. Dinkins Mr. Guy R. Dinwiddie Ms. Shirley J. Dodge Michael Doochin & Linda Kartoz-Doochin Dr. & Mrs. W. David Driskill Clark & Peggy Druesedow Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Dugger Kathleen & Stephen Dummer Mr & Mrs. Mike Dungan Bob & Nancy Dunkerley Mr. & Mrs. Jim Eades Jr. Kathryn & Webb Earthman Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Ebert Thomas D. Edmonds DVM Mr. & Mrs. James H. Ellis III Dan & Zita Elrod Mr. Owen T. Embry Dr. & Mrs. James Ettien Ms. Claire Evans Dr. Ann Evers & Dr. Gary Smith Ed W. Evins Jr. Tony & Shelley Exler Steven & Katie Ezell Chrtistopher Farrell & Kathryn Beasley Laurie & Ron Farris Ms. Karen A. Fentress Dana Ferris Vince & Dorothy Fesmire Billy & Donna Fields Janie & Richard Finch Dr. & Mrs. Jack Fisher Doris T. Fleischer Dr. & Mrs. Armando C. Foronda Mr. Kent T. Forward Cathy & Kent Fourman Mrs. Katherine H. Fox Andrew & Mary Foxworth Ms. Elizabeth A. Franks William H. & Babs Freeman Scott & Anita Freistat Dr. Henry Fusner Bill & Ginny Gable Mr. Anderson C. Gaither Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Galbraith Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Gangaware Mr. & Mrs. Philip Ganske Mr. & Mrs. George C. Garden Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Garrett Alan & Jeannie Gaus Jennifer George
Mr. Scott A. German & Ms. Tammie Shannon Em J. Ghianni Mark Glazer & Ms. Cynthia Stone Linda & Joel Gluck Susan T. Goodwin Zachary & Martha Goodyear Dr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Gotterer Tom & Carol Ann Graham Dr. Cornelia R. Graves Mr. Chris 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 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 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 Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Hausman David & Judith Slayden Hayes Peggy R. Hays Stephen & Deborah Hays Fred & Judy Helfer Doug & Becky Hellerson John Reginald Hill Ronald & Nancy Hill Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilmer Mr. Charles R. Hinterman Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Hodum Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hofe Jim & Kim Holbrook Aurelia L. Holden Mr. & Mrs. James G. Holleman William Hollings Catherine J. Holsen Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Hooper Drs. Richard T. & Paula C. Hoos Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. House Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious Samuel H. Howard Ms. Edith B. Hudson Dr. & Mrs. Louis C. Huesmann II The Hunt Family Foundation Michael & Evelyn Hyatt Mr. Narum Hyatt Mrs. Beverly Hyde Dr. & Mrs. Roger Ireson Dr. Anna M. Jackson Frances C. Jackson Haynie & Patsy Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Javorcky Mr. Richard W. Jett John T. & Kerrie Johnson Susan & Evan Johnston Dr. Amos Jones Jr. Mr. Patrick D. Jones
Mr. George Ritzen Mr. Steven B. Robertson Fran C. Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Rogers Judith R. Roney Mr. Aaron D. Rosburg Rodney & Lynne Rosenblum Edgar & Susan Rothschild Jan & Ed Routon Mr. & Mrs. Robert Rutherford Judith Ann Sachs Mr. Stephen Sachs Mr. Douglas L. Sadtler Ron & Lynn Samuels Dr. Glynis Sandler & Dr. Martin Sandler William B. & Toni C. Saunders Mrs. Thomas W. Schlater III Molly & Richard Schneider Drs. Carl & Wendy Schofield Jack Schuett Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Schultenover Mr. Devin Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Self Gene & Linda Shade Richard & Marilyn Shadinger Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Shaw Phil & Sonnie Shay Family Mr. Paul Shearer Mrs. Jack W. Shepherd Dr. John O. Simmons Keith & Kay Simmons Mrs. Wilson Sims Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir Alice Sisk Pamela Sixfin Ashley N. Skinner Mr. Wesley A. Skinner Dr. & Mrs. David Slosky Charles R. Smith & Vernita Hood-Smith Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Susan K. Smith & Joe Stegemann Ruth & William Smith Elaine & Robert Smyth Mr. James E. Snider Jr. Dr. Susan Snyder & Mr. William Snyder Marc & Lorna Soble Nan E. Speller Tom Spiggle Mrs. Randolph C. St. John Tabor Stamper - KHS America Caroline Stark & Lane Denson* Lelan & Yolanda Statom Dennis & Billie Jean Stephen Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens CAPT & Mrs. Charles E. Stewart Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Cyril Stewart Bob & Tammy Stewart Tom & Gayle Stroud Mr. & Mrs. Samuel E. Stumpf, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William C. Suchman Gayle Sullivan Mrs. T. C. Summers Frank Sutherland & Natilee Duning Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Svennevik Ms. Jeanette Tatman Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Te Selle Dr. Paul E. Teschan Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Thackston Mr. & Mrs. Richard Theiss Mr. Gilbert Thibedore Richard & Shirley Thrall
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Drs. Manfred & Susan Menking Sara Meredith Ms. Brinkley Meyers Sherree Meyers Dr. & Mrs. Philip G. Miller Dr. Ron V. Miller Dr. Fernando Miranda & Dr. Patricia Bihl-Miranda Mr. Steve C. Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Steven Moll Dr. Michael F. Montijo & Mrs. Patricia A. Jamieson-Montijo Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett Lynn Morrow Mr. & Mrs. B. Dwayne Murray Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. William Myers Allen & Janice Naftilan Ms. Carolyn Heer Nash Dr. Turner Nashe Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Neal Mr. Fred S. Nelson Dr. & Mrs. Harold Nevels Dr. John Newman & Ms. Rebecca Lyford Al Nisley Judy M. Norton Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Ann & Denis* O'Day Dr. & Mrs. Wills Oglesby Hunt & Debbye Oliver Mr. & Mrs. Jack Oman Philip & Carolyn Orr Wayne Overby Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Overfield Frank & Pamela Owsley Dr. Fritz F. Parl Clint Parrish Lisa & Doug Pasto-Crosby Mr. Pat Patrick Mr. & Mrs. Gary K. Patterson John & Lori Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Pendleton Charlie & Connally Penley Anne & Neiland Pennington Dr. & Mrs. A. F. Peterson Jr. Claude Petrie Jr. Charles & Mary Phy Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pickel Jr. Mrs. Tanya M. Pierce Mr. Maurice W. Pinson Phil & Dot Ponder Mr. Jason E. Poole Ms. Elizabeth M. Potocsnak Mr. Sean Power Cammy Price Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Priesmeyer Ann Pushin Edria & David Ragosin Mr. & Mrs. Ross Rainwater Mr. & Mrs. William C. Randle Randy & Carol Rawlings Buford L. & Ernestine S. Reed Don Reed & Lynne Wallman Mr. & Mrs. David R. Reeves Dr. William M. Regenold Lee Allen Reynolds Al & Laura Rhodes Mr. Cliff N. Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. Larry V. Rhodes Barbara Richards Don & Connie Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Richardson Mrs. Jane H. Richmond Mrs. Paul E. Ridge Margaret Riegel
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Dr. & Mrs. Herman J. Kaplan Mrs. Michel G. Kaplan Mrs. Cynthia A. Keathley Jeffrey & Layle Kenyon Mr. Jason Kesler Bill & Becca Killebrew Mr. & Mrs. Monty Kimble The Williams-King Foundation Kathleen & Don King George McCulloch & Linda Knowles Mr. & Mrs. Rick Koelz David & Judy Kolzow Dr. Valentina Kon & Dr. Jeffrey L. Hymes Sanford & Sandra Krantz Tim Kyne Mr. & Mrs. John H. Laird Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Mrs. Douglas E. Leach Rob & Julia Ledyard Dorothy & Jim Lesch Ralph G. Leverett John & Marge Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Monty S. Ligon Mr. & Mrs. Ronald S. Ligon Mack & Katherine Linbaugh Robert A. Livingston Keltner W. & Debra S. Locke Jean & Steve Locke Kim & Mike Lomis Frances & Eugene Lotochinski David & Nancy Loucky Thomas H. Loventhal J. Edgar Lowe Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal Ms. Frances B. Lumbard Mr. & Mrs. James C. Lundy Jr. Patrick & Betty Lynch Sharron Lyon Herman & Dee Maass Mr. John Maddux Dr. Mark A. Magnuson & Ms. Lucile Houseworth Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Maier Mr. Cosmin E. Majors Mr. Mikal Malik Audrea & Helga Maneschi Dr. & Mrs. N. H. Mann Jr. Sheila Mann David & Leah Marcus Sam & Betty Marney Mr. Henry Martin Dr. & Mrs. Raymond S. Martin Abraham, Lesley & Jonathan Marx Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Masterson Sue & Herb Mather Mr. Jimmy R. Mattingly Margery Mayer & Carolyn Oehler Mr. & Mrs. John D. McAlister Joanne Wallace McCall Chris & John McCarthy Kathleen McCracken Mary & John McCullough Bob McDill & Jennifer Kimball Ed & Carla 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 Ms. Virginia J. Meece Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Meek Ronald S. Meers Janis Meinert
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Mr. Dwight D. Thrash Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Thurman Scott & Nesrin Tift Ms. Shari L. Tish Leon Tonelson Mr. & Mrs. Ray Troop Mila & Bill Truan Mr. Phillip Trusty Richard, Kimiko, Jennifer & Lindsey Tucker Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull Ms. Junita Turnipseed Rev. and Mrs. Jan P. Van Eys Mr. James N. Vickers Kimberly Dawn Vincent Ms. Lucy A. Visceglia Ms. Maria Voss Mr. Steven B. Waldrep Mr. Matthew D. Wardle Ms. Leslie P. Ware Lawrence & Karen Washington Dr. Adam E. Watkins Gayle & David Watson Shirley Marie Watts Frank & Jane Wcislo H. Martin & Joyce Weingartner Dr. & Mrs. Matthew B. Weinger Ms. Karen L. Weissman Dr. J. J. Wendel Joni Werthan Franklin & Helen Westbrook 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 Jerry & Ernie Williams Frank & Marcy Williams Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Williams Jeremy S. Williams John & Anne Williams Dr. Joyce E. Williams Tommy & Carol Ann Wilson The Wing Family Ms. Sandra Wiscarson Scott & Ellen Wolfe Mr. Robert H. Walle Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wood Sr. 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 James & Candice Zimmermann *denotes donors who are deceased HONORARY In honor of Bette Berry In honor ofDarlene Boswell In honor of Marion P. Couch In honor of Thomas Wynne Cowan In honor of Jeanne Crossnoe In honor of George* & Jo Hall's 58 years of marriage In honor of Martha Ingram In honor of the marriage of Michael Thigpen & Kimhoung Nhep
MEMORIAL 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 Steven A. Clark In memory of Scott Clayton, CLU 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 From Hutt Family in memory of Dr. James Irvin Hudson Jr. In memory of James I. Hudson Jr. In memory of Virgil Davis Hunt In memory of Lawrence Levine In memory of Jerry Long In memory of Katherine Ramage Love In memory of Volker Marschall In memory of Mr. J. Patrick Maxwell In memory of Lil McAdams In memory of Cate Myer In memory of Mildred J. Oonk In memory of Willis Page In memory of 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 Fred Viehmann In memory of Dr. David L. Walker In memory of Mary Lee Watson
Mark Tedder, MD Saint Thomas Heart Cardiac Surgeon
A lifesAving AdvAncement is giving heArt pAtients
a new lease on life Thanks to new surgical techniques, patients with previously inoperable and high-risk valvular heart issues are going on to potentially live full, healthy lives. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive alternative to open heart surgery that has a significantly shorter recovery time. Saint Thomas Heart is the first FDA approved program in the state to perform this procedure through
the rib cage for patients with arteries that are too small for the transfemoral approach. With TAVR, we are able to help more patients who previously had little hope. For more informations, visit www.SaintThomasHeart.com/TAVR. To schedule an appointment with a Saint Thomas Heart physician, please call 800.345.5016.
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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 February 6, 2013:
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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
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BUSINESS PARTNER Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 AmSurg BioVentures, Inc. Blevins, Inc. Cassidy Turley
BUSINESS COUNCIL Gifts of $1,500 - $2,499 Alessio International AT&T Butterfly Meadows Inn & Farm CapWealth Advisors Carter Haston Real Estate Services Inc. The Crichton Group Gannett Foundation/The Tennessean Harmon Group, Inc. The Hendrix Foundation J. Alexander's Corporation Lexus of Nashville Paramore | the digital agency Reliant Bank Stor-N-Lock Tennsco Corporation WASCO, Inc. BUSINESS LEADER Gifts of $1,000 - $1,499 Anonymous (1) A-1 Appliance Company Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation DZL Management Company Richard Fletcher of 511 Group Inc. Enfinity Engineering, LLC Heidtke & Company, Inc. Sales Executives Professional Recruitment William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Women's Philharmonic Advocacy BUSINESS ASSOCIATES Gifts of $500 - $999 AARP Tennessee ADEX! Homesellers Black Box Network Services R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
BMI The Buzz 102.9 / The Game 102.5 / The LIGHT 102.1 CedarStone Bank D.F. Chase, Inc. Cushman & Wakefield | Cornerstone Haber Corporation J & J Interiors, Inc. Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Northgate Gallery, Inc. SESAC, Inc. Stansell Electric Company, Inc. Sysco Nashville Volunteer Barge & Transport, Inc.
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City of Brentwood Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co., Inc. Delta Dental of Tennessee First Baptist Nashville First Trust Portfolios Schoenstein & Company
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BUSINESS FRIEND Gifts of $300 - $499 V. Alexander & Co., Inc. Batten & Shaw, Inc. CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Courtyard by Marriott Downtown DataMarketing Network, Inc. Frank C. Davis & Associates Demos' Steak & Spaghetti House Freeman Webb Company Realtors, Inc. Horrell Realty and Investments Hoskins & Company, P.C. Hunter Marine Import Auto Maintenance, LLC INDUSCO Jack Cawthon/Jack's Bar B Que Jesse Lee Jones of Robert's Western World National Toxicology Specialists Inc. Riley Warnock & Jacobson PLC Servitech Industries, Inc. Sharing Spree LLC Trickett Honda Monte Turner/Turner and Associates Realty, Inc
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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, John & Jenny Cundiff Deloitte & Touche LLP The Rev. Canon & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Marty & Betty Dickens Michael D. & Carol E. Ennis Family Annette & Irwin* Eskind The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation
The M. Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Franklin Front Brown Todd LLC Gannett Foundation / The Tennessean Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia Gordon & Constance Gee Genesco Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Joel C. Gordon Guardsmark, LLC Billy Ray & Joan* Hearn The Hendrix Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker & Family Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Warner Jones Walter & Sarah Knestrick ESaDesign Team Earl Swensson Associates Inc. I.C. Thomasson Associates Inc. KSi/Structural Engineers Lattimore, Black, Morgan & Cain PC Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wiehl Lazenby Sally M. Levine Andrew Woodfin Miller Foundation Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. Nashville Symphony Chorus Nashville Symphony Orchestra League Pat & John W. Nelley Jr.
O’Charley’s Partnership 2000 Bonnie & David Perdue Mr. & Mrs. Philip Maurice Pfeffer Mr. & Mrs. Dale W. Polley Mary C. Ragland Foundation The John M. Rivers Jr. Foundation Inc. Carol & John Rochford Mr. & Mrs. Alex A. Rogers Anne & Joseph Russell & Family Daniel & Monica Scokin Bill & Sharon Sheriff Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Luke & Susan Simons Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Smith Barbara & Lester* Speyer The Starr Foundation Hope & Howard Stringer Louis B. & Patricia C. Todd Jr. Lillias & Fred Viehmann The Henry Laird Smith Foundation Mr. & Mrs. E.W. Wendell Mr. David M. Wilds Mr. & Mrs. W. Ridley Wills III Mr. & Mrs. David K. Wilson
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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.
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
$15,000+
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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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
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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.
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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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
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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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