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2019/20 NASHV I LLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GIANCARLO GUERRERO

ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ

Martha & Bronson Ingram Music Director Chair

Principal Pops Conductor

NATHAN ASPINALL

TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE

Assistant Conductor

Chorus Director

Music Director

FIRST VIOLINS*

Jun Iwasaki, Concertmaster

Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair

Erin Hall,

Acting Associate Concertmaster

Gerald Greer,

Acting Assistant Concertmaster

Mary Kathryn Van Osdale,

Concertmaster Emerita

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

SECOND VIOLINS* Carolyn Wann Bailey, Principal

Jung-Min Shin

Acting Assistant Principal

Emilio Carlo+ Bruce Christensen Michelle Lackey Collins Christopher Farrell Tony Parce Melinda Whitley Clare Yang

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Titus Underwood, Principal Ellen Menking, Assistant Principal

Roger Wiesmeyer

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Xiao-Fan Zhang,

Acting Assistant Principal

Anthony LaMarchina, Principal Cello Emeritus

James Zimmermann, Principal

Gilbert Long, Principal

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Sam Bacco, Principal ◊ Richard Graber,

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Robert Marler, Principal

Gil Perel

Luke Bryson, Librarian David Jackson,

Joel Reist, Principal Glen Wanner,

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Licia Jaskunas, Principal

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Joshua Hickman, Principal

Assistant Principal

Matthew Abramo Kevin Jablonski Katherine Munagian Tim Pearson+

Assistant Principal

Paul Jenkins, Principal ◊ Derek Hawkes,

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MUSIC DIRECTOR

GIANCARLO GUERRERO Martha & Bronson Ingram Music Director Chair

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iancarlo Guerrero is a six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor now in his 11th season as Music Director of the Nashville Symphony. Guerrero is also Music Director of the Wrocław Philharmonic at the National Forum of Music in Poland and Principal Guest Conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal. He has been praised for his “charismatic conducting and attention to detail” (Seattle Times) in “viscerally powerful performances” (Boston Globe) that are “at once vigorous, passionate and nuanced” (BachTrack).

Through commissions, recordings and world premieres, Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony have championed the works of American composers who are defining today’s musical landscape, making Nashville a destination for contemporary orchestral music. Guerrero has presented 11 world premieres with the Nashville Symphony, including the GRAMMY®-winning performance of Michael Daugherty’s Tales of Hemingway and Terry Riley’s The Palmian Chord Ryddle.

Guerrero’s rich discography with the Nashville Symphony numbers 17 recordings, including the 2019 Naxos release of Jonathan Leshnoff ’s Symphony No. 4 “Heichalos.” The work was commissioned by the Nashville Symphony for the Violins of Hope, a collection of restored instruments that survived the Holocaust. This recording marks the first time the instruments have been heard on a commercially available album. Other albums have been dedicated to the music of composers as diverse as Jennifer Higdon, Richard Danielpour, Joan Tower and Béla Fleck.

During the 2019/20 season, Naxos will release recordings of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Symphony No. 4 and Christopher Rouse’s Concerto for Orchestra,

both recorded with the Nashville Symphony. As part of his commitment to fostering contemporary music, Guerrero, together with composer Aaron Jay Kernis, guided the creation of Nashville Symphony’s biennial Composer Lab & Workshop for young and emerging composers.

Guerrero’s 2019/20 season will include return engagements with the Boston Symphony, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberg Symphony, Frankfurt Opera and Museums Orchestra, and the New Zealand Symphony. In January 2020, Guerrero will conduct the Wrocław Philharmonic on a 12-city North American tour.

Guerrero has appeared with prominent North American orchestras, including those of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Montréal, Philadelphia, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver, as well as the National Symphony Orchestra. He has developed a strong international guest-conducting profile and has worked in recent seasons with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Deutsches Radio Philharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Netherlands Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, NDR in Hannover, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Queensland Symphony and Sydney Symphony in Australia. Guerrero was honored as the keynote speaker at the 2019 League of American Orchestras conference, where his address on transforming “inspiration and innovation into meaningful action” was met with a unified standing ovation.

Guerrero made his debut with Houston Grand Opera in 2015 conducting Puccini's Madama

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C O N D U C TO R S Butterfly. Early in his career, he worked regularly with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera and has conducted new productions of Carmen, La bohème and Rigoletto. In 2008 he gave the Australian premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's one-act opera Ainadamar at the Adelaide Festival.

Guerrero previously held posts as the Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami (2011-2016), Music Director of the Eugene Symphony (2002-2009), and Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra (1999-2004).

Born in Nicaragua, Guerrero immigrated during his childhood to Costa Rica, where he joined the local youth symphony. As a promising young

student, he came to the United States to study percussion and conducting at Baylor University in Texas; he earned his master’s degree in conducting at Northwestern, where he studied with Victor Yampolsky. Given his beginnings in civic youth orchestras, Guerrero is particularly engaged with conducting training orchestras and has worked with the Curtis School of Music, Colburn School in Los Angeles, and Yale Philharmonia, as well as with the Nashville Symphony’s Accelerando program. In recent years, he has also developed a relationship with the National Youth Orchestra (NYO2) in New York, created and operated by the Weill Institute of Music at Carnegie Hall.

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Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and Sarasota Orchestra. He has appeared with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Utah Symphony, Omaha Symphony and Oklahoma City Philharmonic.

As artistic director and co-founder of Symphonica Productions, LLC, Lopez-Yañez curates and leads programs designed to cultivate new audiences. An enthusiastic proponent of innovating the concert experience, he has created exciting education, classical and pops concerts for orchestras across the United States.

Sharing an equal love for opera, Lopez-Yañez served as Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master for the Berkshire Opera Festival, where his work was met with rave reviews. He has led opera gala concerts in San Diego and Aguascalientes (Mexico), as well as a production of Madama Butterfly with Main Street Opera in Chicago.

Lopez-Yañez is an active producer, composer and arranger whose work can be heard on numerous albums, including the UNESCO benefit Action Moves People United and the children’s music collection The Spaceship That Fell in My Backyard, winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Global Music Awards, Hollywood Music and Media Awards, and more.

Lopez-Yañez previously held the position of Assistant Conductor with the Nashville Symphony and Omaha Symphony. He holds a Master’s in Music from the University of Maryland and received a Master’s in Music and his Baccalaureate from UCLA, where he graduated summa cum laude.

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nrico Lopez-Yañez is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Nashville Symphony.

Appointed in 2019, he leads the Symphony’s Pops Series and Family Series. Since working with the Nashville Symphony, Lopez-Yañez has conducted concerts with a broad spectrum of artists, including Toby Keith, Richard Marx, Jennifer Nettles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Megan Hilty, Hanson, Kenny Loggins and more.

During the 2019/20 season, Lopez-Yañez will make appearances with the San Diego Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony and Edmonton Symphony, and return performances with the Detroit

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athan Aspinall begins his role as Assistant Conductor of the Nashville Symphony with the 2019/20 season. Previously, he was Assistant Conductor of Jacksonville Symphony. On a tour of South Florida with pianist Bezhod Abduraimov, he led performances of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

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During the 2018/ 19 season, Aspinall led Jacksonville Symphony in two masterworks subscription programs and a tour with organist Cameron Carpenter. He was selected as one of two conducting fellows at the Tanglewood Music

Festival during the summer of 2019.

Formerly, Aspinall held the position of Young Conductor with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Australia, where he assisted Chief Conductor Johannes Fritzsch and visiting guest conductors, and where he conducted concerts for the orchestra’s education series. He studied French horn and conducting at the University of Queensland and upon graduation was awarded the Hugh Brandon Prize. In 2012, he attended the Aspen Music Festival, where he was awarded the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize.

Aspinall has guest-conducted several symphony orchestras, as well as the Queensland Conservatorium Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances and masterclasses have included the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Oregon Bach Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Seminar. He studied Orchestral Conducting at New England Conservatory in Boston.

TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE Chorus Director

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ow entering his fourth season as director of the Nashville Symphony Chorus, Dr. Tucker Biddlecombe has raised the bar of excellence for Nashville’s premier choral ensemble through intense musical preparation, diverse programming and community building. Under his direction, the Chorus has expanded to 170 members and recently toured Prague, Czech Republic, performing Orff’s Carmina Burana. He also serves as Associate Professor and Director of Choral Studies at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where he directs the Vanderbilt Chorale and Symphonic Choir and teaches courses in choral conducting and music education.

Biddlecombe’s work with the Nashville Symphony has included chorus preparation for the world-premiere recording of John Harbison’s Requiem (Naxos) and concert performances of choral orchestral masterworks by Stravinsky, Ravel, Haydn, Verdi, Handel and Mahler. He conducts the orchestra and chorus in performance during the annual Voices of Spring concert. In 2018 the Vanderbilt Chorale released its first solo

album, Music in the Listening Place (Navona), with Gramophone UK noting that the Chorale “launch into each track with the earnest passion that only university music students can innocently and genuinely provide.” Biddlecombe made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2019 conducting Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna.

A passionate advocate of music education and a veteran teacher, Biddlecombe is active in school music programs, working with teachers as a side-by side coach with Metro Nashville Public Schools. In 2019 he completed a residency with the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, where he was honored to work with student and professional choral educators. He is in demand as a conductor and clinician, having served as a clinician to choirs in 25 states.

A native of Buffalo, New York, Biddlecombe is a graduate of SUNY Potsdam and Florida State University, where he completed doctoral studies in choral conducting and music education with André Thomas. He resides in Nashville with his wife Mary Biddlecombe, Artistic Director of the Blair Children’s Chorus.

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APPALACHIAN SPRING FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 6 & 7, AT 8 PM

NASHVILLE SYMPHONY GIANCARLO GUERRERO, conductor PAUL JENKINS, trombone

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DEREK HAWKES, trombone STEVEN BROWN, bass trombone GILBERT LONG, tuba

ALAN HOVHANESS Symphony No. 2, “Mysterious Mountain” – 16 minutes I. Andante con moto II. Double Fugue: Moderato maestoso – Allegro vivo III. Andante espressivo: Con moto HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS Bachianas brasileiras No. 2 – 21 minutes Preludio (O canto do capadocio) Aria (O canto da nossa terra) Dansa (Lembrança do Sertão) Toccata (O trenzinho do caipira) – INTERMISSION – JENNIFER HIGDON Low Brass Concerto – LIVE RECORDING 18 minutes

Paul Jenkins, trombone Derek Hawkes, trombone Steven Brown, bass trombone Gilbert Long, tuba AARON COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring – 24 minutes

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C L AS S I CA L S E R I E S M E D I A PA RT N E R

This concert will last one hour and 50 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission.

This concert will be recorded live for future release and future broadcast. Please keep noise to a minimum to ensure the highest-quality recording.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM Jennifer Higdon returns to the Nashville Symphony with one of her latest concertos. The composer notes that she aimed to reflect “the qualities of majesty, grace and power” of which low brass are capable. Higdon continues to adapt the tradition of American orchestral music to a contemporary sensibility. During the years of the Great Depression and World War II, Aaron Copland similarly sought to speak to audiences of his time. Copland’s contemporary Alan Hovhaness took a different path toward the same goal, making his breakthrough with his stirring Mysterious Mountain. All of these composers contributed facets to “the American sound” that is still being reshaped today. In Latin America, Heitor Villa-Lobos fused the music of the past with the rhythms, melodies and timbres of his native Brazil.

ALAN HOVHANESS Symphony No. 2, “Mysterious Mountain”

Born on March 8, 1911, in Somerville, Massachusetts

Died on June 21, 2000, in Seattle, Washington

Composed: 1955

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eferences to mountains abound in the titles Alan Hovhaness gave to his astoundingly prolific output of symphonies.

Along with Mysterious Mountain, his best known piece, they include Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain, Cold Mountain and more. And, as those names suggest, both nature and spiritual reflection were ongoing preoccupations for this composer. “Mountains are symbols, like pyramids of man’s attempt to know God,” he once observed.

Born in New England to an American mother and an Armenian father who was an immigrant from Turkey, Hovhaness later dropped the family name (Chakmakjian) and in its place used his middle name — the Armenian equivalent of “John.” He was a prodigy who became fascinated with both music and astronomy and started to compose at age 4.

Hovhaness obtained a scholarship to study

First performance: October 31, 1955, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Houston Symphony

First Nashville Symphony performance: January 12 & 13, 1959, with music director Guy Taylor

at the newly established Tanglewood Center, summer home of the Boston Symphony, in 1942. Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, who were both taking part in the composer seminar he joined, were unimpressed by his music. Their disparaging attitudes left a scar, and Hovhaness burned a vast amount of his early scores. He was persuaded to explore his Armenian heritage and also absorbed influences from throughout Asia.

Despite his negative experience at Tanglewood, Hovhaness found encouragement from figures like the choreographer and dancer Martha Graham, who would soon create Appalachian Spring with Copland. Later, Hovhaness wrote several ballet scores for Graham’s company.

One of his most power f u l cha mpions was the conductor Leopold Stokowski, to whom Hovhaness was introduced by the Armenian-American writer William Saroyan.

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of the composer’s Symphony No. 1 "Exile," which commemorates the Armenian genocide.

In the following decade, Stokowski commissioned a new work, which would become Mysterious Mountain, and premiered it during his first appearance with the Houston Symphony. Thanks to Stokowski’s advocacy, along with multiple performances by other orchestras and Fritz Reiner’s recording with the Chicago Symphony, Mysterious Mountain became Hovhaness’ breakthrough. Hovhaness did not even designate it a “symphony” until much later — listing it as No. 2 of a family that grew to include 67 numbered symphonies (among more than 400 extant works). He remained intensely creative until near the end of his long life, fi nding new inspiration in the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.

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tokowski encouraged Hovhaness to give the three-movement symphony a name.

Mysterious Mountain is thus an afterthought and not an indication of programmatic content.

The composer’s background in Renaissance music, Baroque counterpoint and liturgical

music blend together in this work. Many listeners are reminded of the gently “English pastoral” style of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

A slow movement opens the work with music of hymn-like serenity. The tightly woven string fabric opens to new vistas of woodwinds and brass, with the celesta contributing its special tint. Hovhaness’ early-music interests are most evident in the sophisticated counterpoint of the second movement, which unfolds as a double fugue based on a stepwise, speededup chorale, followed by a more animated and restless theme. Hovhaness then interlaces the two themes with great skill, building their combined energy into a noble climax.

The final movement starts off in a mysterious mood, suggesting distant landscapes in a manner reminiscent of Sibelius. He again alludes to the celestial atmosphere of the opening movement, and, after reflective passages for the woodwinds, the work builds to its conclusion on a majestic chorale.

Mysterious Mountain is scored for 3 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 5 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, celesta, harp and strings.

HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS Bachianas brasileiras No. 2 Born on March 5, 1887, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Died on November 17, 1959, in Rio de Janeiro

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he great Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos came of age during an era of revolutionary change in his native Rio de

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First performance: June 3 or September 3, 1934 (according to contradictory sources), at the Venice International Festival

First Nashville Symphony performance: April 8, 1952, with music director Guy Taylor

Janerio. Rejecting formal schooling, he found a sympathetic milieu among the city’s street musicians, playing guitar and later supporting

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himself as a cellist with gigs in the theater and cinema orchestras, as well as at local hotels.

Starting in 1905, Villa-Lobos began a series of excursions into the Amazon and other rural states of Brazil, collecting musical ideas for future inspiration. He later grew fond of embellishing the details of his adventures with outrageous claims.

Villa-Lobos also liked to play up his image as an essentially self-taught composer and enfant terrible. He became a key figure in the development of an authentically Brazilian musical language, which assimilated influences from European Modernism while at the same time rejecting older European conventions.

This quest led Villa-Lobos to design a system of music education that has had a profound impact on Brazil’s cultural life. He found ways to incorporate indigenous Brazilian elements across his productive career, earning the status of Brazil’s leading classical composer.

Despite criticism for his dubious connections to the right-wing regime of the dictator Getúlio Vargas, Villa-Lobos gained major international recognition through his visits to the United States, where such conductors as Leopold Stokowski championed his work. When his musical/folk operetta Magdalena opened on Broadway in 1948, it became the most expensive show to have been produced there.

Villa-Lobos also maintained connections to Europe — as both an exporter of Brazilian idioms and an importer of such masters as J.S. Bach, a lifelong idol. The Bachianas brasileiras epitomize the composer’s preoccupation with his Baroque predecessor, whom he called “a kind of universal folkloric source, rich and profound…[a source] linking all peoples.”

This series of nine suites spans the period from 1930 to his time in New York in 1945.

The word “suite” is particularly appropriate here, for in each work Villa-Lobos bridges the model of Bach’s Baroque instrumental suites with references to Brazilian musical forms and culture. Bachianas brasileiras No. 2 in particular offers snapshots of the Brazilian

landscape and the back-country character types the composer witnessed during his youthful years of travel across remote areas.

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he Bachianas brasileiras translate some of the musical precedents found in Bach — many of which are based on dance types — into a Brazilian context. No. 2 is a four-movement suite that begins with Prelúdio, to which VillaLobos adds the Brazilian parallel title O canto do capadócio (“Slacker’s Song”). The longest of the four movements, this Prelude unfolds as a longing, even languid, Adagio melody, with a more animated dance emerging in the middle. Aria, also titled O canto da nossa terra (“Song of Our Land”), is also in song form, its melancholy main melody surrounding an upbeat piano-and-saxophone-dominated central section.

Dansa, whose twin title is Lembrança do Sertão (“Memento of the Sertão” — referring to the outback of northeastern Brazil), presents a vivid landscape of dynamic rhythms that propel the trombone’s suave melody. The most famous part of Bachianas brasileiras No. 2 is the final movement, which gives the entire suite its name: O trenzinho do caipira (“Little Train of the Caipira” — i.e., of the outback).

Villa-Lobos associates this metaphorical train journey with the idea of the Toccata, referring to the Baroque tradition of fun, flashy music meant to show off technique. Here, he calls on his expanded percussion section (full of local color) to depict the steam locomotive’s painstaking yet somehow assured propulsion.

Over this track of brightly accented rhythms is laid an attractively songful melody. The melody guides the train along to its destination.

Bachianas brasilieras No. 2 is scored for flute (doubling piccolo), oboe, clarinet, tenor saxophone (doubling baritone saxophone), bassoon, contrabassoon, 2 horns, trombone, timpani, percussion (including a variety of native Brazilian rattles), celesta, piano and strings.

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JENNIFER HIGDON Low Brass Concerto

Born on December 31, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York

First performance: February 1, 2018, with Riccardo Muti conducting the Chicago Symphony

Currently resides in Philadelphia

Composed: 2017

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ennifer Higdon is one of America’s most acclaimed figures in classical music, receiving the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music and multiple GRAMMY® Awards.

She enjoys several hundred performances a year of her works, and blue cathedral is one of today’s most performed contemporary works.

Her works have been released on more than 60 recordings. Higdon’s first opera, Cold Mountain (2015) won the International Opera Award for Best World Premiere; Santa Fe Opera’s recording was nominated for two GRAMMY® Awards. Higdon holds the Rock Chair in Composition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her music is published exclusively

by Lawdon Press.

Born in Brooklyn, Higdon grew up in Atlanta and East Tennessee, with much exposure to country and rock. At age 15, she decided to teach herself flute and later became a performance major at Bowling Green State University.

The idea of composing emerged almost by chance, when her flute teacher asked her to write a short piece. “I found arranging sounds to be fascinating,” says Higdon. Soon the desire to compose became unavoidable, taking over her life. Now, with commissions pouring in and her music in high demand, Higdon is frequently on the road yet still composes several hours every day.

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First Nashville Symphony performance:

Estimated length: 18 minutes

These are the orchestra’s first performances and will be recorded live for a forthcoming release on Naxos.

acclaimed Concerto for Orchestra, a bluegrassstyled concerto for string trio, and concertos for oboe, piano, harp, violin, viola, string trio, soprano sax and percussion. The Concerto for Low Brass was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra serving as co-commissioners. One shared element that makes these compositions so consistently compelling is Higdon’s knack for telling a musical story through instruments alone — stories in which the solo instruments become protagonists as they interact with their peers in the orchestra.

IN THE COMPOSER’S WORDS Jennifer Higdon has supplied the following comments on the Concerto for Low Brass:

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ormally, when people think of brass they think of power, which is not an inaccurate assessment. Brass players are quick to tell you that they also can play beautiful melodies, and do so quietly and with exquisite control.

So early on in the planning process for this concerto, I decided to think about the music as reflections of the qualities of majesty, grace and power.

“Writing this concerto was a tremendous challenge, primarily because there is normally one person standing at the front of the stage, and this work requires four. Fortunately, I’ve had the opportunity on several occasions to

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write a concerto for multiple soloists. My first opportunity was with my bluegrass/classical hybrid concerto for Time for Three, Concerto 4-3, and the second time was writing On a Wire [for the ensemble eighth blackbird]. “ When I accept a commission and start the process of deciding what kind of music to write in a piece, I think a lot about the personalities of the players. I have, after decades of writing music, learned that the low brass players are always fun to work with. They bring an infectious joy to everything they play, which in itself is inspiring.

“With all of this in mind, I decided to write a traditional work that highlights these qualities, in straightforward lines and melodies. It is sometimes the most challenging thing for

a composer to do: compose a melody or chorale, with no special effects or colors, just focusing on the moving line. This is a work in one movement, with alternating slow and fast sections. There are solos for each player, as well as a few duets, and some chorales. This is a musical portrait of four extraordinary players, each working individually and as a group, bringing to the front of the stage all of their majesty, grace and power.”

In addition to the solo parts for 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone and tuba, the Concerto for Low Brass is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 percussionists and strings.

ABOUT THE SOLOISTS PAUL JENKINS

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native of Plano, Texas, Paul Jenkins has served as Principal Trombone of the Nashville Symphony since 2014. Prior to joining the Nashville Symphony, he served one year as Acting Associate Principal of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He studied trombone at Northwestern University with Michael Mulcahy and at The Colburn

DEREK HAWKES

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orn in West Chester, Pennsylvania, to a musical family, Derek W. Hawkes began piano instruction at age 5 and trombone at age 10. He studied primarily with John Kitzman; H. Dennis Smith; and, most recently, Toby Oft. Hawkes was Principal Trombone of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra in Maine, and he spent two seasons as Second Trombone of the Jacksonville Symphony

School with Mark Lawrence. He was an active freelance musician in Chicago during his time there, including performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and Kurt Masur. Jenkins has been in recital as a soloist at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and locally in chamber performances with the Nashville Trombone Quartet. He is also an active session musician in Nashville, having recorded numerous film, television and video game soundtracks.

beginning in 2015. He was also a multipleyear substitute on trombone, euphonium and bass trumpet with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He is in his third season as the Assistant Principal/Second Trombone of the Nashville Symphony.

Hawkes graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Trombone Performance at Southern Methodist University in 2014. He also pursued studies as a graduate diploma student at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

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STEVEN BROWN bass trombone

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GILBERT LONG tuba

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ilbert Long joined the Nashville Symphony in 1978. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in tuba from the University of Louisville and completed work toward a Master’s Degree at Austin Peay State University.

In addition to his position with the Nashville Symphony, Long is part-owner of Aardworks Publishing Company, a member of the Jack Daniel’s Silver Cornet Band, and a

also a substitute member of the Cincinnati Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic and the Columbus Symphony. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Illinois and a Master’s Degree in Trombone Performance from the Peabody Conservatory.

His primary teachers include Elliot Chasanov, Randy Campora and Tony Chipurn.

tuba instructor at Blair School of Music, where he plays in the Faculty Brass Quintet. He has also been involved in Sewanee Music Festival, Peninsula Music Festival, New Hampshire Music Festival and the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts.

Long is also the founding member of Tri Star Brass, an ensemble consisting of faculty brass quintets from MTSU, Belmont University and Blair School of Music. As a studio musician, he has recorded with Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Matchbox 20, Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens and Garth Brooks.

AARON COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring Born on November 14, 1900, in Brooklyn, New York Died on December 2, 1990, in North Tarrytown, New York

Composed: 1943-44

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First performance: October 30, 1944, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with a chamber ensemble conducted by Louis Horst (complete ballet); October 4, 1945, in New York, with Arthur Rodzinski conducting the New York Philharmonic (orchestral suite)

First Nashville Symphony performance: April 28, 1953, with music director Guy Taylor

Copland’s musical language to “pieces of Shaker furniture, simple to the point of being humble, but sturdy and effective.

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Copland’s path toward honing this style was not a simple or straightforward one.

Having come of age in Brooklyn as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he first studied theory from a correspondence course before finding private mentorship. He went on to study with Nadia B oulanger in Paris during the 1920s and became interested in the experiments with “symphonic jazz” that were creating a buzz at the time.

The Great Depression sharpened Copland’s desire to communicate with a wider audience.

Numerous ballet, theater and film projects in the 1930s gave Copland the contexts he needed to evolve a style of greater simplicity and directness while also conveying a distinctly American aura. With Billy the Kid, his “folkballet” from 1938, for example, Copland found a way to use widely spaced harmonies that vividly conjure a sense of “the open prairie.”

In 1943, the eminent arts patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge commissioned Martha Graham to create a ballet on American themes.

Graham herself first danced the role of the unnamed Bride.

Copland’s working title was Ballet for Martha, which later became the subtitle. After he had already composed the score, Graham chose the now familiar title from a section of the American poet Hart Crane’s epic The Bridge.

“Spring” here refers to water rather than the season. Also interesting to note: Copland imagined the music for the ballet’s unspoiled, folk-like Americana while living in both Hollywood and Mexico.

Appalachian Spring tells the story of a young, 19th-century pioneer couple simply called the Bride and her Husbandman. They are simultaneously joyful and anxious as they contemplate what their married life will be like. A revivalist Preacher and a Pioneer Woman

offer the couple moral support. By the end, despite their fears, the young couple enter into their new home in the wilderness, “quiet and strong.” The biographer Howard Pollack interprets the characters as “symbolic archetypes…the Pioneer Woman as the noble American dream, and the Revivalist and his Followers as an ascetic, resolute puritanism.”

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n idyllic, dreamy opening establishes the pastoral scene. Copland expands on a simple three-note idea and introduces each character. The music layers into bright, warm chords, like a dawn mist slowly evaporating.

A sudden jolt of energy signals the start of the action. Copland writes that “a sentiment both elated and religious gives the keynote to this scene.” Then comes a gentle duo dance for the Bride and her groom. The tempo then quickens — with “suggestions of square dances and country fiddlers” — for the scene with the Preacher and his flock.

A brief transition recalls the introductory music. Then we hear the ballet’s best-known sequence: a set of five variations on a Shaker melody that had been published in a mid-19thcentury collection under the title Simple Gifts.

First heard on solo clarinet, with decorative comments from the woodwinds, this is the only preexisting folk melody Copland used in Appalachian Spring. The suite concludes with a coda of muted strings.

Appalachian Spring is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, percussion, piano, harp and strings.

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

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CELTIC JOURNEY

with the Nashville Symphony

THURSDAY, MARCH 12, AT 7 PM | FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 13 & 14, AT 8 PM

CELTIC JOURNEY NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ, conductor

T H A N K YO U TO O U R P O P S S E R I E S PA RT N E R

TOMÁSEEN FOLEY, storyteller SUSANNA PERRY GILMORE, violin WILLIAM COULTER, guitar BRIAN BIGLEY, uilleann pipes, Irish flute, whistles SAMANTHA HARVEY, accordion

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ROSS HAUCK, tenor CAITLIN GOLDING, dancer GARRETT COLEMAN, dancer DANCERS FROM SCOTT-ELLIS SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCE

Selections to be announced from the stage.

This concert will last approximately 2 hours, including a 20-minute intermission.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS TOMÁSEEN FOLEY storyteller

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ailed as “…a master of the Irish narrative and a keeper of the flame for a priceless piece of Irish culture,” Tomáseen Foley grew up on a small farm in the remote parish of Teampall an Ghleanntáin in the West of Ireland, where storytelling “was as natural as breathing.” His show Tomáseen Foley’s A

Celtic Christmas has played to critical acclaim and packed concert halls all over the U.S. for the past 25 years. In conjunction with the Omaha Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Nashville Symphony and other orchestras, he is delighted to be a part of Celtic Journey, as well as occasional performances with Apollo’s Fire and the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. Foley has released two albums: A Celtic Christmas: Parcel from America and a live recording, The Priest and the Acrobat.

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SUSANNA PERRY GILMORE

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usanna Perry Gilmore enjoys a multifaceted career as solo artist,chamber musician and concertmaster, performing on both modern and period instruments. Versatile in styles from classical to fiddling, Gilmore became concertmaster of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra at age 26 and

WILLIAM COULTER guitar

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illiam Coulter is an internationally acclaimed, GRAMMY® Award-winning master of the steel-string guitar. He has been music director for Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas since 1998 and has performed with the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Apollo’s Fire and

BRIAN BIGLEY

uilleann pipes, Irish flute, whistles

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rian Bigley has studied the Irish uilleann pipes for more than 25 years as a player and builder of the instrument. He has toured North America and Europe as both a musician and a dancer, appearing in Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas and Apollo’s Fire’s Sugarloaf

SAMANTHA HARVEY accordion

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joined the Omaha Symphony as concertmaster in 2011. Since 2014 she has been a frequent soloist and co-concertmaster with the period instrument ensemble and GRAMMY® Award winner Apollo’s Fire, with whom she tours nationally and internationally and appears on several recordings. Gilmore holds a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in the U.K., where she studied musicology, and a master’s in violin performance from the New England Conservatory. many other ensembles. Collaborations have been a mainstay of his career, including tours and recordings with Gourd Music artists Neal Hellman and Barry and Shelley Phillips, classical guitar virtuoso Benjamin Verdery, and Irish flute wizard Brian Finnegan. Coulter teaches classical guitar at U.C. Santa Cruz and at many summer camps and festivals.

He earned degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and U.C. Santa Cruz.

Mountain Christmas. In 2019, he was awarded second place in the piping competition at the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil music festival.

Bigley has four self-produced albums of traditional Irish music, as well as a contribution to the Sugarloaf Mountain Christmas album.

He lives near Cleveland, Ohio, with his fiddler wife, Kristen, and their dancing children, James and Kathleen; they have started a family business producing stage productions and building Irish pipes and flutes. groups such as Téada, Ireland the Show, Irish Christmas in America and Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas and Irish Times. This performance work has involved concerts and festivals in Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Europe and the United States. Harvey was privileged to perform in RTÉ’s Centenary 2016, broadcast live on television from the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin.

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enor Ross Hauck maintains a busy and eclectic career that spans both classical and crossover repertoire, and he has sung with orchestras and music festivals across the country. This season he made debuts with the symphonies of San Francisco (Bach’s St.

CAITLIN GOLDING

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aitlin Golding has been dancing for the past 24 years and has won numerous titles throughout her 14-year competitive career.

She started her studies with the Broesler School of Irish Dance in Baltimore and began her professional dance career after receiving a degree from the University of Maryland.

GARRETT COLEMAN dancer

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arrett Coleman is a two-time world champion in Irish dance and winner of 17 other national and international titles who has toured with Riverdance, Trinity Irish Dance Company, Cherish the Ladies, The Chieftains and others, and has twice been named one of the Top 100 Irish Americans by Irish America

SCOTT-ELLIS SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCE

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he Scott-Ellis School of Irish Dance in Nashville strives to provide dancers with a challenging yet enjoyable atmosphere for learning traditional and modern Irish step dancing. There’s

John Passion), Hawaii (Carmina Burana) and Calgary (Handel’s Messiah), and he toured the United Kingdom with Apollo’s Fire in concerts of early American music. An alumnus of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, he has won numerous awards, but his greatest prize is his wife and four kids. They live in the foothills outside Seattle, where Hauck is both a voice professor and church music director.

On her first audition in London, she was the only American selected to tour in the return of Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance.

Golding was lead soloist and dance captain with acclaimed productions Spirit of Ireland and Dance of Desire worldwide. She has co-starred and choreographed the original production Celtic Journey with the Omaha Symphony and performs alongside husband Garrett Coleman with his fusion dance company, Hammerstep. magazine. Co-founder of Hammerstep, a dance company fusing Irish step with hiphop, stepping and martial arts, he has starred in Hammerstep performances worldwide, from New York City’s Lincoln Center to London’s West End Palace Theatre to NBC’s America’s Got Talent. He is also the co-creator of the sci-fi theater drama Indigo Grey, a narrative universe presented as episodic content that includes an award-winning film and a soldout live immersive experience. something for everyone at our school. Whether participants are interested in performances, competitions or simply exercise, we strive to make sure we are meeting everyone’s needs.

Most importantly, we want to make sure people enjoy themselves. Irish Dancing is truly an incredible and unique form of dance, and we’re excited to share our love and passion for this sport. Learn more at scott-ellis.com.

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THE ANN & MONROE CARELL FAMILY TRUST FAMILY SERIES

THE GOLD RUSH: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL ADVENTURE with the Nashville Symphony

SATURDAY, MARCH 14, AT 11 AM

NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ, conductor

T H A N K YO U R TO O U R FA M I LY S E R I E S PA RT N E R

ABOUT OUR SENSORY FRIENDLY CONCERTS All Family Series concerts have the following sensory friendly supports available. Ask an usher or visit the information kiosk in the Main Lobby for more information!

• Flexible seating areas • Booster seats • No shushing in the concert hall — It’s OK to make noise!

• Closed captioning

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• American Sign Language interpreting • Fidget toys

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• Noise-cancelling headphones • Quiet spaces • Social stories, maps and more!

Learn more at NashvilleSymphony.org/sensoryfriendly.

WHEN THE CONCERT BEGINS...

The concertmaster will arrive to help the orchestra tune their instruments.

Then, the conductor will arrive!

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IT’S TIME FOR THE ORCHESTRA TO PLAY! Leroy Anderson Fiddle-Faddle Aaron Copland “Hoe Down” from Rodeo TraditionaL / arr. J. David Beasley “She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain” Sing-Along Gioachino Rossini Overture to William Tell Ferde Grofé “On the Trail” from Grand Canyon Suite Elmer Bernstein The Magnificent Seven Suite Antonín Dvořák Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 1 Aaron Copland Variations on a Shaker Melody from Appalachian Spring John Philip Sousa Washington Post March John Williams The Cowboys Overture This concert will last approximately one hour.

WHEN THE CONCERT IS OVER...

The conductor will turn around and the orchestra will stand up.

You can clap for the orchestra if you liked the music!

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BEETHOVEN’S PASTORAL SYMPHONY THURSDAY, MARCH 19, AT 7 PM | FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 20 & 21, AT 8 PM

NASHVILLE SYMPHONY & CHORUS GIANCARLO GUERRERO, conductor TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE, chorus director

T H A N K YO U C L AS S I CA L S E R I E S RA D I O PA RT N E R

JESSICA RIVERA, soprano ANDREW GARLAND, baritone

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, “Pastoral” – 39 minutes Allegro ma non troppo: Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the country Andante molto mosso: Scene by the brook Allegro: Merry assembly of country folk Allegro: Thunderstorm Allegretto: Shepherd’s Song – Happy, grateful feelings after the storm – INTERMISSION – GABRIELA LENA FRANK Conquest Requiem – LIVE RECORDING 38 minutes Introit: Cuicatl de Malinche (Song of Malinche) Judex ergo cum sedebit Dies Irae: Cuicatl de Martín (Song of Martín) Recordare, Jesu pie Rex Tremendae: El aullido de Malinche (the Howl of Malinche) Confutatis maledictis In Paradisum: Benedicion de Malinche y Martín

Jessica Rivera, soprano Andrew Garland, baritone

C L AS S I CA L S E R I E S M E D I A PA RT N E R

S U P P O RT P ROV I D E D BY

F R I DAY N I G H T PA RT N E R

SAT U R DAY N I G H T PA RT N E R

This concert will last approximately one hour and 45 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission.

This concert will be recorded live for future release and future broadcast. Please keep noise to a minimum to ensure the highest-quality recording.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM By deliberately evoking life in the countryside, Beethoven made the narrative arc of the symphony more explicit than usual in his Pastoral. The result conjures memories of a natural paradise that, from our contemporary perspective of climate change and global pollution, seem almost utopian, beyond reach. In her stirring new Conquest Requiem, California-based composer Gabriela Lena Frank radically adapts the traditional Requiem liturgy to tell a powerful story that likewise has inevitable ramifications for our situation today. Frank’s piece reflects on the pivotal moment when the Old and New Worlds were first encountering each other. While the violence of the male Conquistadores forever changed both worlds, it is the pain of her Nahua protagonist Malinche that is Frank’s focus.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 “Pastoral” Born on December 16, 1770, in Bonn, Germany Died on March 26, 1827, in Vienna

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hat remarkably different worlds Beethoven’s Fifth and Sixth Symphonies inhabit! The Fifth is the epitome of concision, while the Sixth lays out a leisurely sense of spaces to be strolled through and explored. The Fifth is an abstract canvas, its argument entirely musical: how to get from a determined C minor opening to a victory in C major? But onto that canvas, listeners have inscribed scenarios and imagined narratives since the music was first heard — the power of Fate in ancient Greek tragedy, the victory of the French Revolution, countless others.

The Sixth, on the other hand, carries a title provided by the composer himself: Pastoral, referring to Beethoven’s deep love of nature and long, ruminative walks in the countryside. In this work, Beethoven anticipates the musical Romanticism of the later 19th century, with

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First performance: December 22, 1808, in Vienna, with the composer conducting

First Nashville Symphony performance: February 14, 1950, at War Memorial Auditorium with Music Director William Strickland

its leaning for programmatic composition — pieces that allude to stories or sources outside of the music itself.

Yet both the Fifth and the Sixth Symphonies were unveiled on the very same concert! On December 22, 1808, Vienna’s Theater an der Wien hosted a very lengthy program that Beethoven himself organized and presented, as was standard practice for a freelance artist at the time — hence it was an all-Beethoven concert showcasing his latest works. Along with the Fifth and the Sixth, it featured the Fourth Piano Concerto, excerpts from the Mass in C major, a concert aria, and the Choral Fantasy, which anticipates the “Ode to Joy” finale of the Ninth. Whether the audience, freezing in an unheated hall, realized that music history was being made is another story.

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the Fifth and Sixth are of the same vintage.

Beethoven worked on both at the same time.

The closer you listen, the more you begin to notice certain aspects they share: the very first notes of the Pastoral are (almost) the same rhythmic pattern we know from the “Fate” motto opening the Fifth — except the Pastoral’s idea continues meandering amiably before reaching its sustained note and pause (whereas the Fifth does so at once, on the fourth note). Or consider the bird’s-eye view of overall design: in the Pastoral, Beethoven links the Scherzo directly to the Storm movement and then, without pause, leaps right into the cheerful finale. It’s a variant of his radical approach in the Fifth, where he directly links the Scherzo with a dark, suspenseful bridge to the triumphant finale.

In other words, are these two symphonies really “opposites,” as the old Beethoven cliché used to have it? According to the cliché, the odd-numbered symphonies are bold and aggressive, the even-numbered ones more “relaxed” and even “conventional.” In fact, the two works are more like close siblings who turn out to have strikingly different personalities.

Beethoven restlessly moved from one lodging to another within Vienna, but he always felt at home in the countryside. The Sixth can be heard as his expression of thanks for the therapeutic joy he found in nature. He even added evocative titles to each of its movements — all of them involving scenes of nature and the countryside: “Awakening of Cheerful Feelings upon Arriving at the Countryside” (first movement); “Scene by the Brook” (second movement); “Merry Gathering of Country Folk” (filling the usual position of a Beethoven Scherzo in the third movement); “Thunderstorm” (brief interlude); and “Shepherd’s Song: Happy and Thankful Feelings After the Storm” (finale).

These should not be taken too literally, though. Beethoven himself seemed to warn against this by writing onto the title page that the music is “more an expression of feeling than painting.”

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he first movement is about awakenings — gentle ones, though. The distinction is particularly apparent if you compare it to the dramatic call to awaken that opens the Fifth Symphony. As in that work, Beethoven insists on rhythmic patterns with fixed determination. Here, the summons is to a new level of sensitivity and awareness, as if this metaphorical trip to the country actually means escaping the mundane experience of time. The first movement revels in repeated sequences that slowly shift in harmony: Beethoven almost anticipates the giddy euphoria of Minimalism’s recurring loops.

The lengthy slow movement takes this principle of relaxation even further. It’s a daring thing to do, coming right after an opening movement that made a point of removing dramatic tension. Yet Beethoven’s exquisite orchestration (a quality not often associated with this composer) adds color to the flowing waves of melody. A series of woodwind cadenzas near the end imitates various birdcalls and is among the more explicitly extra-musical references in the Pastoral.

This programmatic aspect comes to the fore in the next two movements — though, again, note that Beethoven intends no specific narrative.

The third movement’s “merry gathering” adds earthiness to the innocence, imprinting a vividly physical sense with its vigorous rhythms — what a contrast to the ethereal flow of the preceding movement! The dancing and the raw humor of the peasants in the Trio bring an abrupt change of meter. Clouds overshadow the good times with ominous pianissimo until the thunderstorm arrives in full fury. Beethoven’s biting harmonies and volume contrasts are enhanced by orchestral effects of timpani and piercing piccolo. This is the Pastoral’s tensest moment.

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hymn-like phrase leading to the wheeling main theme, which is introduced by clarinet, then passed on to the horn, elaborated by the strings and, finally, given to the full ensemble.

Even though the spirit of relaxation here is reminiscent of the first two movements, Beethoven’s achievement is to make us feel as

though we’ve arrived at a new place. The coda touches on a note of nostalgia before bringing this idyll to a close.

The Symphony No. 6 is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani and strings.

GABRIELA LENA FRANK Conquest Requiem Born on September 26, 1972, in Berkeley, California

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nly in the United States could you hear a story like mine, the daughter of an immigrant, born in the hippie campus town of Berkeley, with hearing loss,” says Gabriela Lena Frank. “Yet I am a mix of American cultural facets that were laid in place centuries ago.” The child of a Peruvian mother of Chinese descent and a father with a Lithuanian-Jewish background, this remarkable composer fearlessly navigates multicultural identities in her creative work. The Conquest Requiem is a particularly bold example that dramatizes the violent, blood-stained, still unresolved and still unfolding moment of confrontation between the Old and New Worlds.

When the widely traveled Frank made her first trip to her mother’s homeland of Peru in 2000, it became a “mind-blowing, lifechanging experience,” she recalls, and inspired Three Latin American Dances (2003), her second orchestral work, which marked an

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First performance: May 5, 2017, with Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducting the Houston Symphony and Chorus First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances and will be recorded live for a forthcoming release on Naxos.

early breakthrough.

The insatiably curious composer, who is also a distinguished pianist and mentor, has been highly sought after through commissions and orchestral residencies (including one at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music last year) and received a Latin GRAMMY® Award in 2009 for Inca Dances, recorded by guitarist Manuel Barrueco and Cuarteto Latinoamericano.

Many of Frank’s works involve some kind of story in the form of a narrative or character.

She created the Conquest Requiem, among her most ambitious scores to date, during her tenure as composer-in-residence with the Houston Symphony under music director Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Here, the composer juxtaposes the traditional Roman Catholic Mass for the dead with decisive historical events and characters from the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire during the early 16th century.

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as told by the victors — the Conquistadores — Frank and her longtime collaborator, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and poet Nilo Cruz, craft a story from the perspective of the conquered.

The Conquest Requiem homes in on the figure of Malinche, a young Nahua woman who was enslaved by the invading Spaniards and eventually became the mistress of Hernán Cortés. Malinche (sung here by soprano Jessica Rivera) reflects on the Conquest not as an heroic epic, but as a devastating tragedy. The complexity of her own feelings, including remorse, mirrors the contradictory facets of her reputation.

The other chief character is Martín, Malinche’s son by Cortés (sung here by baritone Andrew Garland), whose existence as a mestizo points to the new era that has come into being.

The chorus is omnipresent, tasked with the commentator role familiar from ancient Greek tragedy and singing in every one of the Conquest Requiem’s seven movements.

The libretto combines three languages: the Latin used in the Requiem liturgy; Nahuatl, the classical language of the Aztecs; and new verses in Spanish by Nilo Cruz, with whom Frank is collaborating on a much anticipated new opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera that will be premiered at San Diego Opera in 2021. Frank explains that she became more involved in preparing the text than is her usual custom, dramaturgically consulting with Cruz about the story line and character development. The resulting psychological portrayal of Malinche and her pain reflects Frank’s ongoing fascination with questions of identity.

Who is being mourned and commemorated in the Conquest Requiem? Frank explains that she became aware of how so many modern-day conflicts can be traced back to this pivotal meeting of the Old and New Worlds, when the one began to colonize the other. “We’ve inherited all this baggage and been grandfathered into a United States today

originating from that violence, and it affects everyday issues. Even the issue of climate change, when you realize that in this time period [of the Conquest] there was a huge depletion of resources being taken out, paving the way for pollution and destruction of the environment. This period laid some of the groundwork for all of that.” The Conquest Requiem thus poses the fundamental question: “How do you reconcile this legacy?”

Frank recalls the profound impact of singing in a chorus during her student years. “I never forgot the massive universes these composers were painting in their Requiems.” Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem in particular became the inspiration for the Conquest Requiem’s combination of old and modern texts.

Frank decisively compresses and shortens the traditional Latin liturgy while expanding individual sections with the text in Nahuatl and Spanish. She begins with the expected Introitus praying for “eternal rest” (the source of the term “Requiem”), but the solo soprano soon introduces Malinche’s voice, singing a mixture of Cruz’s poetry and verses that Frank culled from an anthology of Nahuatl poetry

by Aztec princes and kings. At the end of the first movement, the chorus sings the Kyrie, to which Malinche adds lloro (“I cry”).

A vast portion of the work is then given to Frank’s unconventional treatment of the Dies irae, the series of prayers involving the Last Judgment, which stretches across movements two through six. Omitting the Offertory, Sanctus and Agnus Dei sections of the Requiem Mass, Frank instead sets In Paradisum in the seventh and final movement. Technically, this is not part of the Requiem Mass, but a prayer sung as the choir accompanies the body from the church to the place of burial. (The Requiems of Britten and Fauré are two famous examples that also include this prayer.)

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people or even animals like this! I realized that therefore the sound had to be luminous and striking.” Listen, for example, to the double basses playing at the extreme high end of their register along with marimbas and harps in the Recordare, or for the oscillating marimbas in the In Paradisum.

Frank frequently uses the high and low ends of the register to generate a sense of wonder.

The orchestra, she points out, is “every bit as important as the singers” in this sound world. As for the vocal lines, Frank says she frequently uses an operatic style — recitative and dramatic arias for the soloists — while testing out different levels of orchestral weight behind them.

IN THE COMPOSER’S WORDS Frank has provided the following commentary on her Conquest Requiem: “

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uch has been written of the violent meeting of the Old and New Worlds that produced the Americas — North, Central and South — known to the world today. Over the centuries since, key figures have emerged — conquistadores Cristoforo Colombo, Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro; chroniclers Bernal Díaz del Castillo, the native Garcilaso de la Vega and the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas — as especially emblematic of the cataclysm that was the Conquest. These men and countless others bore witness and, oftentimes, great responsibility for the death and destruction of entire societies while simultaneously having a hand in the birth of new mestizo (mixed-race) civilizations.

“Against such grand historical strokes, the

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stories of ordinary people are easily swept away but for the efforts of creative imagination, employed here in the Conquest Requiem.

This piece is inspired by the true story of Malinche, a Nahua woman from the Gulf Coast of Mexico who was given to the Spaniards as a young slave. Malinche’s ever-evolving prowess as an interpreter of her native Nahuatl, various Mayan dialects and Spanish elevated her position such that she would convert to Christianity and become mistress to Cortés during his war against the Aztecs. She would later give birth to their son Martín, one of the first mestizos of the New World.

“While Malinche has been conflated with Aztec legends, she has been variously viewed as feminist hero who saved countless lives, treacherous villain who facilitated genocide, conflicted victim of forces beyond her control, or as symbolic mother of the new mestizo people.

“In the Conquest Requiem, Malinche’s story is the linchpin for the juxtaposition of traditional liturgical verses from the Latin Mass for the dead against Nahua poetry as chronicled from the mouths of fallen indigenous princes. Newly composed Spanish words from playwright/ poet Nilo Cruz round out the text.”

In addition to solo soprano, solo baritone and mixed chorus, the Conquest Requiem is scored for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd doubling English horn), 3 clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussionists, piano, harp and strings.

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

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ABOUT THE SOLOISTS JESSICA RIVERA soprano

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ossessing a voice praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for its “effortless precision and tonal luster,” GRAMMY®winning soprano Jessica Rivera is one of the most inspired vocal artists performing today.

The intelligence, dimension and spirituality with which she infuses her performances has garnered Rivera artistic collaborations with composers including John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jonathan Leshnoff, Nico Muhly and Paola Prestini, and has brought her together with such conductors as Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Simon Rattle, EsaPekka Salonen and Michael Tilson Thomas.

During the 2019/20 season, Rivera returns

ANDREW GARLAND baritone

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ailed for his “baritone of strength and vocal opulence” and “cosmic energy and suavity” (Opera News), Andrew Garland is widely recognized as a leader in recital work. His performances include Carnegie Hall with pianist Warren Jones and programs of modern American songs all over the Unites States and in Canada. This season Garland can be heard as the baritone soloist in Messiah with the Colorado Symphony and the Colorado Bach Ensemble, in Santa Fe Pro Musica’s production of The Creation, and in recital with Warren Jones for Coastal Concerts.

He is a regular with the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) and has given multiple recitals at Carnegie Hall and the Ravinia

to the Aspen Music Festival for an evening of Spanish art songs with guitarist Sharon Isbin.

She also performs Golijov’s La Pasión según San Marcos in her debut with the Minnesota Orchestra, led by María Guinand.

A major voice in the rich culture of Latin American music and composers, she recently performed in Antonio Lysy’s Te Amo Argentina with Arizona Friends of Chamber Music and partnered with pianist Mark Carver for a recital titled Homage to Victoria de los Angeles.

Rivera treasures her decade -long collaboration with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and was recently featured in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem and Jonathan Leshnoff ’s Zohar with the Atlana Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at Carnegie Hall. Her third release for Urtext, Homage to Victoria de los Angeles, is due for release in 2020.

Festival, as well as Vocal Arts DC, Marilyn Horne Foundation, the Bard Festival, Camerata Pacifica, Andre-Turp Society in Montréal, Voce at Pace, Fort Worth Opera and Seattle Opera. In 2014, he was the featured recitalist for the NATS national convention, where that organization’s president declared him “the next Thomas Hampson.”

Garland’s latest solo recording, American Portraits with pianist Donna Loewy, went to No. 1 on Amazon Classical. He has five other recordings on the Telarc, Naxos, Roven Records and Azica Labels. He is the winner of the Lavinia Jensen, NATSAA, Washington International, American Traditions, NATS and Opera Columbus competitions, and he was a prize winner in the Montréal International, Jose Iturbi, Gerda Lissner, McCammon and Palm Beach International competitions.

Garland recently joined the voice faculty at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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NASHVILLE SYMPHONY CHORUS TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE, Chorus Director

SOPRANO ALTO

Carol Armes Kathy Bearden Tessa Berger Mary Bond Vinéecia Buchanan Mary Callahan* Cathi Carmack† Kelsey Christian Lisa Cooper† Helen Cornell Carla M. Davis† Amanda Leigh Dier

Erin Elgass Cara Frank Dana Purser Gary Katherine Gillett Elizabeth Gilliam† Debra L. Greenspan Bevin Gregory Judith Griffin Leah Handelsman Sidney Hyde Liza Marie Johnston Valerie Kamen

Leah Koesten Stephanie Kraft Emily Longenecker Shelly McCormack Asha Moody Jessica Moore Stephanie Moritz Shelia Mullican Valerie Nelson Lisa Pellegrin Annette Phillips Stacy L. Reed

Debbie Reyland Anna Lea Ritchie Allie Senyard Hannah Sims Anjali Sivaainkaran Madalynne Skelton Caroline Kimbrey Talbert* Deanna Talbert Kathryn Whitaker Maggie Zeillmann

TENOR

Paige Stinnett Clair Susong Marva A. Swann Marjorie Taggart Angie Thomas* Ashley Vance Jan Staats Volk† Camille Winton Sylvia Wynn Callie Zindel

Kacie Dunham Allison Espada Becky Evans-Young Amy Frogge Kelli Gauthier Rebecca Greer Grace J. Guill† Ally Hard Stacey Haslam Vanessa D. Jackson* Katie Lawrence

Anthony R. Barta Robert Bennett Eric Boehme Kevin Brenner Brett Cartwright Taylor Chadwick Joe A. Fitzpatrick Fred Garcia Danny Gordon*

Kory Henkel William F. Hodge† Ron Jensen Jeremiah Kamtman Mitchell Lane Scott Lee Lynn McGill Don Mott Devin Mueller

Ryan Norris John Perry Keith Ramsey David M. Satterfield†* Zach Shrout Daniel Sissom Eddie Smith Stephen Sparks† Joel Tellinghuisen

Christopher Thompson Matt Tuggle Benjamin Tyrrel Richard Colby White Richard Wineland Scott Wolfe John Logan Wood Jonathan Yeaworth

BASS

Jennifer Lynn Alisha Austin Menard Jean Miller Jessie Neilson Angela Pasquini Clifford Samantha Petry Kristine Phillips Beth Pirtle Ring Renita J. Smith-Crittendon Ashlinn Snyder

Beverly Anderson† Katie Arata Esther Bae Amie Bates Jill Boehme Stephanie Breiwa Christine Brosend Daphne Bugelli Sara Jean Curtiss Claire Delcourt Katie Doyle

Gilbert Aldridge James Cortner Nick Davidson Dustin Derryberry Frank Ellsworth Mark Filosa Ian M. Frazier Stuart Garber George Goetschel Tim Goodenough

Duane Hamilton Andrew Hard Luke Harnish Richard Hatfield† Carl Johnson Kenneth Keel Justin Kirby William Loyd Taylor Lucy Rob Mahurin

Adam Mamula Bruce Meriwether Andrew Miller Christopher Mixon Chandler Montgomery Steve Myers Alec Oziminski Billy Pickus Steve Prichard Daniel Silva

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Andrew Miller, president Sara Crigger, librarian

Merv Snider William E. Squires Larry Strachan David B. Thomas†* Alex Tinianow Brian Warford* Eric Wiuff Hunter Yates

Jeff Burnham, accompanist

SPECIAL EVENT

JUDY COLLINS

with the Nashville Symphony

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, AT 7:30 PM

JUDY COLLINS NASHVILLE SYMPHONY NATHAN ASPINALL, conductor

Selections to be announced from the stage.

This concert will last approximately 2 hours, including a 20-minute intermission.

ABOUT THE ARTIST JUDY COLLINS

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udy Collins has long inspired audiences with her sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal triumphs and a firm commitment to social activism. In the 1960s, she evoked both the idealism and steely determination of a generation united against social and environmental injustices. Five decades later, her luminescent presence shines brightly as new generations bask in the glow of her iconic, 55-album body of work and heed inspiration from her spiritual discipline to thrive in the music industry for half a century.

The award-winning singer-songwriter is esteemed for her imaginative interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk standards and her own poetically poignant original compositions. Her stunning rendition of Joni

Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” from her landmark 1967 album Wildflowers has been entered into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame. Judy’s dreamy and sweetly intimate version of “Send in the Clowns,” a ballad written by Stephen Sondheim for the Broadway musical A Little Night Music, won Song of the Year at the 1975 GRAMMY® Awards. She’s earned several Top 10 hits and Gold- and Platinum-selling albums. Artists including Rufus Wainwright, Shawn Colvin, Dolly Parton, Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen honored her legacy with the album Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins.

Collins is as creatively vigorous as ever, writing, touring worldwide and nurturing fresh talent. She is a modern-day Renaissance woman who is also an accomplished painter, filmmaker, record label head, musical mentor and an in-demand keynote speaker for mental health and suicide prevention. She continues to create music of hope and healing that lights up the world and speaks to the heart.

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INDIVIDUALS

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 and support for Special Events. Donors as of January 21, 2020.

MARTHA RIVERS INGRAM SOCIETY Gifts of $50,000 + Mr. Newman & Mr. Johnathon Arndt ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Mr. Michael Carter, Sr. & Mrs. Pamela Carter ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Kevin W. Crumbo ◊

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone ◊ Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram ◊ Donna & Ralph Korpman Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt K. McCluggage Richard & Sharalena Miller ◊

Gifts of $25,000 - $49,999

WALTER SHARP SOCIETY Mr. & Mrs. James Ayers Mr. Russell W. Bates ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bottorff ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Carlton The Rev. & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Giarratana Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero ◊

Mr.* & Mrs. Spencer Hays ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Mark Humphreys Mr. Orrin H. Ingram II Patricia and Louis Todd Family Foundation

Mr. Ronald P. Soltman, in memory of Judith Cram ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Mark Tillinger ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner ◊ David* & Gail Williams ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joel Williams ◊

Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter ◊

Gifts of $15,000 - $24,999

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Patricia & H. Rodes Hart ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rodes Hart Sr. ◊ Mr. and Mrs. James A. Haslam II Mr. and Mrs. James A. Haslam III Vicki & Rick Horne ◊ Mr. & Mrs. T. K. Kimbrell ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Howard S. Kirshner ◊ Mr. Neil B. Krugman and Ms. Leona M. Pratt

Mr. & Mrs. David K. Morgan ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Mark E. Nicol ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus A. Puryear IV ◊ Anne & Joe Russell ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Rick Scarola Ron & Diane Shafer ◊ Mr. Robert J. Turner & Mr. Jay Jones ◊ Alan D. & Jan L. Valentine ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan G. Weaver The Harris Widener Family Fund ◊

Ellen Harrison Martin ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. ◊

2 019/20 B OA R D O F D I R ECTORS OFFICERS

DIRECTORS

Mark Peacock

Russell Bates

Board Chair

Treasurer

Pamela Carter

Hank Ingram

Chair Elect

Secretary

Kevin Crumbo

Alan D. Valentine

Immediate Past Chair

President & CEO

Rev. Dexter Sutton Brewer Vice Chair

+ Indicates Young Leaders Intern

Newman Arndt Melinda Balser Dr. H. Victor Braren Mary Cavarra Michelle Collins Carol Daniels Nick Deidiker James Edward Demont, II + Christopher Farrell Andrew Giacobone Edward A. Goodrich Brenda P. Griffin

Derek Hawkes Michael W. Hayes Christopher T. Holmes Vicki Horne Emily Humphreys Lee Ann Ingram Martha R. Ingram Dr. Edmund Jackson Jay Jones Laura Kimbrell Sandra Lipman Cynthia Clark Matthews

Andy Miller Richard L. Miller Pat Murphy Bob Olsen Victoria Pao Jeremie Papin W. Brantley Phillips, Jr. Ric J. Potenz Jennifer H. Puryear Dr. Janice Riley-Burt E. Kelly Sanford Carolyn W. Schott

James C. Seabury III Luis Solana Karl Sprules Mark Tillinger Glen Wanner Jonathan G. Weaver James W. White Peri Widener Betsy Wills Clare Yang Alan R. Yuspeh Shirley Zeitlin

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Nicholas Deidiker

Andrew Hard

Victor Evans

Lenai Augustine

Chair

Secretary

Membership Chair

Samantha Breske

Jason Palmer

Brian Cook

Cassandra Petty

Amos Glass

James Richfield

Sarah Kendrick

Ginny Stalker Taylor Vickery

Allison Reed

Andrew Martin

Kayla Counts

Past Chair

Treasurer

Events Chair

Hank Ingram

Amanda Kane

Catherine Grace

Laura Kimbrell

Chair Emeritus

Communications Chair

Spirits of Summer Chair

Megan Koch

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Ryan Lipscomb

I N D I V I D UA L PAT R O N S

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overning Members receive access to Founders Hall donor lounge, complimentary drinks, special access, exclusive invitations and behind-the-scenes experiences. Membership is offered with an annual gift of $3,000 and purchase of 4+ concerts.

Visit NashvilleSymphony.org/GoverningMembers for more information.

Jay Jones, Chair Ric Potenz, Chair Emeritus

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I N D I V I D U A L PAT R O N S Catherine Chitwood ◊ David & Starling Clark Jay & Ellen Clayton ◊ Terry & Holly Clyne ◊ Ed & Pat Cole ◊ Mr. & Mrs. H. Rhea Cole Marjorie Collins ◊ Dr. Michael E. Conver Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. ◊ Kathy & Scott Corlew ◊ Teresa Corlew & Wes Allen ◊ Roger & Barbara Cottrell David Coulam & Lucy A. Visceglia ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert Joel* & Charlotte Covington ◊ Mrs. Kim Crafton Dr. Leslie J. Crofford Angela & Charles Curtiss ◊ Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Daley III ◊ Mr. M. Bradshaw Darnall III Stephen & Kimberly Drake ◊ Mr.* & Mrs. Glenn Eaden Dr. Mac & Brenda Edington Mr. Owen T. Embry ◊ Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Will Fischer ◊ Dr. Mary D. Fitzgerald & Mr. John D. Fitzgerald Jr. ◊ Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer & Family ◊ John & Barbara Fletcher ◊ Dr. Sharron H. Francis Mr. & Mrs. Pete Franks ◊ Cathey & Wilford Fuqua ◊ Dr. Ronald E. Galbraith & Mrs. Faith H. Galbraith ◊ Ms. Harper Ganick Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gann ◊ Harris A. Gilbert ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III ◊ Mr. Amos R. Glass ◊ Andrew & Alene Gnyp ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Joel C. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Steve T. Greene ◊ Mr. Gerald C. Greer and Dr. Scott Hoffman Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin D. Griffin Mrs. Anna M. Grizzle

Ms. Tracy Guarino John & Libbey Hagewood ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Hagood Mrs. Robbie J. Hampton ◊ Ted Hanson ◊ Dr. Edward Hantel ◊ Suzy Heer ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Henry ◊ Ms. Cornelia B. Holland ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Christopher T. Holmes Drs. Robert Hines* & Mary Hooks ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson ◊ Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques ◊ Janet & Philip Jamieson ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Lou Jennings ◊ George & Shirley Johnston ◊ Ms. Sarah Kendrick ◊ Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy William Killebrew Tom & Darlene Klaritch ◊ Mr. & Mrs. David J. Klintworth ◊ Anne Knauff ◊ Jack T. & Sophie Knott ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. ◊ Ms. Pamela L. Koerner ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach ◊ Mrs. Nona Jane Kroha ◊ Kevin & Nicole Krushenski ◊ Mr. Paul H. Kuhn, Jr. ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Mike LaDouceur ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Mr. Edward Lanquist ◊ Martha & Larry Larkin ◊ Kevin & May Lavender Dr. Michelle Law ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Lentini ◊ Ms. Sally M. Levine ◊ Hon. & Mrs. Thomas R. Lewis ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Lippolis ◊ Mr. Brent D. Longtin & Mr. Douglas A. Darsow ◊ Mr. & Mrs.* George Luscombe II ◊ Mr. John Maddux ◊ Ms. Orlene Makinson ◊ Lynn & Jack May ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. McCarty

Ms. Jennifer McCoy and Mr. JT Dominick Mr. & Mrs. Chet Melvin ◊ Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger ◊ Dr. Ingrid M. Meszoely ◊ Laurie Miller ◊ Mr. David K. Mitchell ◊ Mr. & Mrs. S. Moharreri ◊ Bill & Cindy Morelli Mr. & Mrs. Timothy L. Morris Mr. Wayne E. Morris Dr. & Mrs. Kelvin A. Moses ◊ Matt & Rhonda Mulroy ◊ James & Patricia Munro ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. ◊ Mr. Chase Neely Mr. Anne T. Neff and Mr. Peter L. Neff Leslie & Scott Newman ◊ Dr. Agatha L. Nolen ◊ Dr. John A. Oates Jr.* & Meredith S. Oates ◊ Mr. & Mrs. John Ohlinger ◊ David & Pamela Palmer ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Grant T. Patterson Susan Holt & Mark Patterson ◊ Drs. Teresa & Phillip Patterson ◊ Mr. Richard M. Patterson Dr. & Mrs. Dale Pilkinton Donna and Tom Priesmeyer ◊ Dr. Zeljko & Tanya Radic ◊ Mr. & Mrs. W. Edward Ramage ◊ Mr. James H. Reed IV and Mr. Jack Arnold Mr. & Mrs. Alexander T. Renfro ◊ Dr. William D. Richie ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Riven ◊ Dr. Robert & Taylor Robinson ◊ Misha Robledo Anne & Charles Roos ◊ Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke ◊ Ms. Mary Frances Rudy ◊ Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle Peggy C. Sciotto ◊

Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Seale ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Sewell ◊ Joan Blum Shayne ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Steve Shelton ◊ Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Bill & Sharon Sheriff ◊ Ms. Jennifer Shinall ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood K.C. & Mary Smythe ◊ Mr. Jason P. Somerville & Mr. Eric Cook ◊ Christopher & Maribeth Stahl ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Mr. & Mrs. Barry Steele ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Steele Robert & Virginia Stewart ◊ Deborah & James Stonehocker ◊ Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Samuel B. Strang IV Mrs. Pamela K. Pfeffer Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Thomson Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Thursby ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes ◊ Martha J. Trammell ◊ Mr. James N. Vickers & Mr. Brian Schafer ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner ◊ James & Greta Walsh ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen ◊ Talmage M. Watts & Debra Greenspan Watts ◊ Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle ◊ Mr. James L. White ◊ Stacy Widelitz ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly IV Mr. & Mrs. William S. Wire II Mr. & Mrs. Marvin L. Wood ◊ Ira Work ◊ Dr. Burton Elrod & Ms. Carol H. Yarbrough Dr. Artmas L. Worthy ◊ Donna B. Yurdin ◊ Mr. Craig Zimberg & Ms. Tara Sawdon ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Victor L. Zirilli ◊

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Gifts of $1,500 - $2,999 Anonymous(5) Dr. Vandana & Dr. Rick Abramson Jeff & Tina Adams Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth S. Adams IV Drs. Wendell S. & Paige Akers Mr. & Mrs. Roger Allbee Ms. Elizabeth Allen Lisa & Mr. Gerry Altieri Dr. and Mrs. John E. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Donald Ansley Mr. & Mrs. Don Aplin Ms. Jennifer McNew Appelt Ms. Deborah Arvin Mr. Bruce G. Aubrey Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Austin Mr. and Mrs. James J. Ayers Ms. Peggy Mayo Bailey Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Baker

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Mr. Ron Balcarras Mr. and Mrs. Keith M. Barry Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Basile Mr. & Mrs. John Bearden Craig & Angela Becker Mr. and Mrs. W. Todd Bender Brian D. Bialek Mrs. Raymond P. Bills Randolph & Elaine Blake Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Gene & Donna Bonfoey Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Bovender Mr. and Mrs. Alandis Brassel Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Berry & Connie Brooks Ms. Caroline Brzozowicz Jean & David Buchanan

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey G. Bunting Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Burns Drs. Robert F. and Mirna Caldwell Dr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Callahan III Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cammack Mr. Brian Carden Dr. Robert J. Carroll Bill & Chris Carver Vickie & Buzz Cason David & Pam Chamberlin Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Douglas B. Chappell Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Chasanoff Barbara & Eric Chazen Mr. J.D. Pickslay Cheek Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher Dr. and Mrs. André L. Churchwell Drs. Keith and Leslie Churchwell

Mr. and Mrs. David C. Cloyd Cindy & Doug Cobb Dr. & Mrs. Robert Deaver Collins Jr. Amy & Overton Colton Mr. & Mrs. Peter Cook Greg & Mary Jo Cote Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Counts III Mr. Thomas F. Cowhey and Ms. Cynthia E. Lasker Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Crook Katherine C. Daniel Linda & Ben Davis ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Eric Delpire Mr. and Mrs. William P. Dial Mr. Michael S. Dixon and Mr. Brian D. Setzer Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Dolan Carol & Harold Donaldson

I N D I V I D UA L PAT R O N S Peter & Kathleen Donofrio Ms. Linda Kartoz-Doochin & Mr. Michael Doochin Kathryn Applegate Duffer Mr. and Mrs. M. Gavin Duke Mr. and Mrs. James M. Edwards Dr. Susan H. Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Victor J. Evans Mr. & Mrs.* DeWitt Ezell Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Falk Mr. and Mrs. Todd R. Falk John & Debbie Farringer Mr. & Mrs. James A. Fitzgerald Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Matthew H. Fones Ann D. Frisch Dr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Frist Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Frohsin Mr. and Mrs. G. Robert Frost Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Fulk II Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Mr. & Mrs. Peter D. Gage Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Garber Mr. & Mrs. Scott Gardner Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Dr. & Ms. Richard J. Geer Mr. Norman B. Gillis Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Goad Jr. Mr. Max R. Goldberg James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Grace Mr. Richard A. Green Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gregg Mr. Lance W. Gruner and Mr. Shawn Wilson Dr. Gary S. Gutow Mr. David A. Hall John & Melissa Halsell Brenda & Edward Callis Jim & Stephanie Hastings Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Samuel N. Hazen Lisa & Bill Headley Mrs. Nancy P. Hearn Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Heeren Mr. & Mrs. Marion W. Hickerson III Mr. Kevin E. Hickman Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin H. Hill ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Daniel D. Hite Dr. Elisabeth Dykens & Dr. Robert Hodapp Mr. and Mrs. Hampton A. Holcomb Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jay M. Hollomon Mrs. Henry W. Hooker* Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Dr. & Mrs. Stephen L. Houff Bruce & Diane Houglum

Hudson Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John Huie Mrs. Kaye C. Humphrey Ms. Virginia Ingram Bud Ireland Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Donald L. Jackson G. Brian Jackson & Roger E. Moore Mr. David James & Ms. Jeri Thomson Barry & Suzanne Jennings Mr. Mountaine M. Jonas ◊ Mary Loventhal Jones Mr. and Mrs. Russell A. Jones Jr. Ms. Amanda K. Kane ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Bob Keith Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kelley Mr. & Mrs. W Evans Kemp Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Kestner Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Ketchel III William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch ◊ Linda R. Koon Ms. Janet Kurtz & Mr. Ronald V. Gobbell Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Robert & Carol Lampe Mr. & Mrs.* Samuel W. Lavender John & Barbara Lawless Mr. & Mrs. John M. Leap ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Leeper Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Lenz Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Liedtke Mr. and Mrs. Corey W. Lile Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Lipman Katherine C. Follin and Robert Straus Lipman ◊ Mr. Kenneth B. Lock & Dr. Susan Sharpe Mrs. Travis B. Loller & Mr. James A. Nichols ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Lowery Dr. and Mrs. John R. Lowry Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan R. Lund Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O. MacLellan Mrs. Charles Taxon Malott Mr. and Mrs. Andrea E. Maneschi Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Maradik Jr. Captain Nathan Marsh Metro Fire Fighter Mr. Andrew Martin Ms. Helen J. Mason Steve & Susie Mathews Mr. & Mrs. Timothy L. Mayes Mr. & Mrs. Cary A. McClure Ms. Kathryn McDaniel Mr. & Mrs. William D. McDowell

ENCORE CIRCLE Anonymous (10) Jerry Adams Carol M. Allen Adrienne Ames Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins Mr. & Mrs. J. Oriol Barenys Mrs. Brenda Bass Dr. & Mrs. David M. Bayer

Katrin T. Bean Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bernard Annie Laurie & Irvin* Berry Dr. Diane Rae & Mr. Greg Berty Dr. and Mrs. Brian S. Biesman Mrs. June Bogle Ms. Christa M. Bowdish Mr. & Mrs. John R. Braden Robert & Barbara Braswell

* denotes donors who are deceased

Dr. Hassane Mchaourab Mr. & Mrs. Michael McIlwain Dr. Susan M. Menking Mr. Steve Merryman Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mertz Mr. and Mrs. William T. Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Miller ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Moody Joseph & Julia Moore Mr. and Mrs. James Moore ◊ Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris Architects, Inc. Margaret & David Moss Mary & Gudger Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Niewold Mr. and Mrs. Lee F. Noel Virginia O'Brien Mr. & Mrs.* Douglas Odom Jr. Dr. Eleanor and Mr. Eric Osborne Dr. and Mrs. Bryan D. Oslin Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict David Oxley, MD FACS Mr. and Mrs. Murat Ozgener Mr. Timothy J. Pagliara Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Patton Mr. Michael L. Peacock and Ms. Tara Scarlett Catherine & John Perry Claude Petrie Jr. Ms. Cassandra E. Petty ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Jason E. Pharris Robert & Laura Pittman Carol Armes & Bob Pitz Mr. & Mrs. Mark Poe Mr. Charles H. Potter Jr.* Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Potter Brad S. Procter Nancy Ray Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn C. Raymer Mr. Sam Garza and Ms. Allison R. Reed ◊ Mr. James E. Richfield Delphine and Kenneth Roberts Ms. Courtney Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Rogers V David & Karin Roland Mr. & Mrs. Robert Rolfe Barry & Melissa Rose Peoples Robert Lawrence Sadler, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Sangervasi Mr. and Mrs. Ted Saunders Mr. L. Jonathan Savage Paul H. Scarbrough Mr. & Mrs. Fraser G. Schaufele III Judy & Hank Schomber Mr. and Mrs. John S. Scott Mr.* & Mrs. John L. Seigenthaler

Gifts of $1,000 - $1,499

Ms. Samantha Breske Mr. James I. Brown & Ms. Lindella Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Brown Jr. Mr. Tony E. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Eugene N. Bulso Jr. Gina & Sam Burnette Howard & Karen Burris Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III

◊ denotes donors who are Governing Members

Mrs. Alexandrino Severino Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Shea Mr. and Mrs. Dean G. Short III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Singleton Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Sloan Mrs. Richard M. Small Drs. Walter E. Smalley Jr. & Louise Hanson Mrs. Ione Smith Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith ◊ Nan E. Speller & Dan Eisenstein Stuart & Shirley Speyer Mr. and Mrs. James W. Spradley Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James R. Stadler Sid Stanley Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Stearns Dr. Catherine V. Stober & Mr. James McAteer Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Stringfellow Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Keith Summar Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Susano Mr. & Mrs. Steven H. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. T. Stephen C. Taylor Mr. Rusty Terry Mr. & Mrs. David B. Thomas Sr. Larry & Paula Throneberry Ms. Janice E. Ticich Mr. & Mrs. H.K. Tigrett Norman & Marilyn Tolk Mila & Bill Truan Thomas L. & Judith A.* Turk Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tyrrell Dr. and Mrs. Jacob G. Unger Mr. and Mrs. Jerry D. Vessell ◊ Larry & Brenda Vickers Kris & G. G. Waggoner Mike & Elaine Walker Kevin & Elizabeth Warren Mr. & Mrs. Derek West ◊ Mrs. John W. White Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Mr. and Mrs. Jim Williams Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Williams Mr. and Mrs. David G. Williamson III Mr. and Mrs. W. Ridley Wills II Mr. and Mrs. David K. Wilson III Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Wilson Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Mr. Robert H. Wolle Jr. Wood Family Trust Berje Yacoubian & Kathy Wade-Yacoubian Dr. & Dr. John York Mr. Jeffery A. Zeitlin Glenn & Heather Zigli

Dean & Sandy Chase Renée Chevalier Dr. Amy Chomsky Ms. Christine Quinn Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Clevenger III Teri & Alan Cohen Esther & Roger Cohn Chase Cole Joe & Judy Cook

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I N D I V I D U A L PAT R O N S Nancy Krider Corley Ms. R. Suzanne Cravens Dr. & Mrs. Glen W. Davidson Drs. Maria Gabriella Giro & Jeffrey M. Davidson Barbara* & Willie K. Davis Dr. & Mrs. Henry A. DePhillips Mr. & Mrs. Rodger Dinwiddie Dr. Tracey E. Doering Mr. & Mrs. John R. Doss III Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Drake Joe & Shirley Draper Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Driggins Laura L. Dunbar Mr & Mrs. Mike Dungan Melissa Eckert Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Dr.* & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Bill & Dian S. Ezell Dr. Kimberly D. Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Keith D. Frazier John C. Frist Jr., M.D. Chris & Mandy Genovese Gregory George & Mary E. Fortugno Sonny Gichner Erin Gillaspie Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner W.L & Lynn Gray Dr. & Mrs. John D. Hainsworth Elinor Hall Pam Hamrick Andrew & Ally Hard Dr. Morel E. Harvey Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Havens Michael & Catherine Hayes Dr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Heimburger Ms. Doris Ann Hendrix Mr. Bradley Hickman Mr. & Mrs. Winston C. Hickman Ms. Jere R. Hinman

Mr. and Mrs. Dana L. Holmes Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hommrich Drs. Richard T. & Paula C.* Hoos Ken & Beverly Horner Mr. David Huckabee Donna & Ronn* Huff Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Huljak Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Mr. & Mrs. Steven L. Jackson Margaret & Richard Bruce Jennings Susan & Evan Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Tarpley Jones Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane George C. King William & Bethany Kroemer Dr. Karen Duffy & Mr. Henry E. Kromer Tim Kyne Joyce K. Laben* Mr. Jerry Lackey Rob & Julia Ledyard John & Mary Leinard Mr.* & Mrs. Irving Levy Ms. Delorse A. Lewis Ms. Jana J. Lisle Parham Dr. & Mrs. William R. Long Ms. Theresa MacDonald William R. & Maria T. MacKay Mr. & Mrs. Ben T. Martin Dr. & Mrs.* Raymond S. Martin Mr. and Mrs. James L. Martineau Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Marx Mr. Leon May Bob Maynard Dr. Wendell McAbee Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Ron & Karen Meers Eric & Denise Mericle Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether

CONCERTMASTER SOCIETY Anonymous(11) Henry J. Abbott Ben & Nancy* Adams Jeffrey H. Adams Ms. Arnelle S. Adcock Dr. James & Dr. Rachel Ailor Newton & Burkley Allen Mrs. Wendy A. Allen Mr. Geoff Amateau Mr. & Mrs. David Bruce Amiot Betty Anderson Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Judith Andrews Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple Mr. & Mrs. J. Hunter Atkins Geralda M. Aubry Dr. and Mrs. Theophilus B. Boyd III Mr. & Mrs. James E. Auer Philip E. Autry, DMA Dr. Joseph Awad & Jane Gilliam Lawrence E. Baggett Mr. Omar S. Bakeer Mr. Bradford Baldauf Ms. Emiko S. Baldwin Mr. and Mrs. James B. Banker

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Mr. Brian Barry Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass Mr. & Mrs. David L. Bata Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Mr. & Mrs. Royce A. Belcher Rick & Stephanie Belcher Ms. Mariel Bentz Carl W. Berg Mr. Calvin Bishop Rick & Abby Blahauvietz Marilyn Blake Drs. Mary Anne Blake and Judson E. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Boswell Mr. Kevin L. Bowden & Candice Ethridge Mr. Jeffery B. Bowlin Dr. Deborah & Mr. Don Boyd Dr. Scott B. Boyd Mr.* & Mrs. William E. Boyte Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Bracken Ms. Linda W. Bramblett Mrs. Beverly J. Brandenburg-Scott Dr. Joe P. Brasher Bob & Linda Brewer Mr. and Mrs. James P. Brooks

F. Max & Mary A. Merrell Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Meyers Mr. Michael Mishu Rev. Dr. & Mrs.* Charles L. Moffatt Mr. & Mrs. J. Steven Moll Ms. Gay Moon James & April Moore Lynn Morrow Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Motley Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Mueller Mr. Reginald Murphy Teresa & Mike Nacarato Mrs. Argie C. Oman Mr. Robert O'Quin Ms. Susan Palmer Mr. & Mrs. Tim & Sue Palmer Mr. & Mrs. James C. Pankow Janie E. Parmley Clint Parrish Mr. and Mrs. James D. Peyton Dr. and Mrs. F. Carter Philips Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Powell Jr. Ms. Julia W. Powell Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Purcell Ms. Deborah Putnam Tom & Chris Rashford Mr. & Mrs. Frederic W. Reisner Paul & Gerda Resch Candace Mason Revelette Mr. Allen Reynolds Don* & Connie Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Dudley C. Richter Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Richard Rosenthal & Audrey Anderson Ms. Caroline Rudy G. Kyle Rybczyk David Sampsell Mr. Paul Sanderson Mrs. Cooper Schley

Mr. & Mrs. Lou Schmalzer Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Schultenover Dr. & Mrs. John S. Sergent Mrs. Lillian C. Sharp The Honorable and Mrs. Wayne C. Shelton Dr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Shinar Mr. and Mrs. James Sipes Ms. Diane M. Skelton Ashley N. Skinner George & Mary Sloan Susan Diane Sloan Dr. & Mrs. Norman Spencer Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Stein Dr. Martha Walker-Stratton Hope & Howard* Stringer Bruce & Elaine Sullivan Craig & Dianne Sussman Dr. Paul E. Teschan Clay & Kimberly Teter Torrence Family Fund Mr. Michael P. Tortora Dr. & Mrs. Michael Tyler Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wallick Dr. & Mrs. John J. Warner Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson Dr. and Mrs. James J. Wendel Ms. Libby R. Werthan Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wieck Marie Holman Wiggins Diana T. Wilker Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenk Mr. & Mrs. Rick Wilson Mr. & Mrs. William (Dan) F. Wolf Ms. Donna Womack Brian & Mary Jessica Woodrum Mary Yarbrough & Terry Wharton Dr. & Mrs. Donald Yurdin Ms. Jane Zeigler

Gifts of $500 - $999

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Brown Pamela Brown & Lynn McCraney Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Brown Steven & Jill Brown David Bruce Richard Bruehl & Nancy Stott Martha S. Bryant Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Mr. & Mrs. G. Rhea Bucy Mr. Gary W. Bullard Ben F. Burns III Mr. & Mrs. Carl Bush Ms. Constance L. Caldwell Ms. Marguerite E. Callahan Mrs. Julia C. Callaway Ms. Karen Campbell Dr. & Mrs. W. Barton Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Luther Cantrell Jr. Ms. Sophie Cape Dr. & Mrs. Michael A. Carter Mr. & Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Mrs. Gay Chamberlain Mrs. Sharon Charney Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Donna P. Clark

Mr. George D. Clark Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John W. Clay Jr. Mr. & Mrs. T. Kent Cochran Colonel (ret.) Dr. & Mrs. James R. (Conra) Collier Marion Pickering Couch Mr. & Mrs. Richard Courtney Mr. & Mrs. Brennis Craddock Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Buddy R. Curnutt Mr. Timothy D. Curtis & Adam N. Castellarin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Y. Dale Dr. & Mrs. Brett W. Darwin Andrew Daughety & Jennifer Reinganum Thomas G. Davidson Janet Keese Davies Dr. Carla M. Davis Mr. Frank C. Davis Steve & Julie Davis Mr. & Mrs. W. Kirby Davis Jr. William Davis & Catherine Colbert Dr. & Mr. John A. Deane Dr. & Mrs. Ben Dehner Dr. & Mrs. Jerome K. Del Pino

I N D I V I D UA L PAT R O N S Mr. & Mrs. Joe H. Delk Mr. Shawn Delp Mr. and Mrs. Daryl R. Demonbreun Mrs. Keith C. DeMoss Ms. Laura Denison Anne R. Dennison Mr. & Mrs.* J. William Denny Mr. and Mrs. Walton Denton Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. DiNella Bob Dozier Mr. Carl Dreifuss & Mrs. Elizabeth G. Tannenbaum Dr. Robert E. Dudley Mr. Michael L. Duffer Mr. and Mrs. Gus Duffy Ms. Ann L. Duncan Mr. & Mrs. John C. Egyed Ms. Rosana Eisenberg Mrs. Clara Elam Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Elcan The S. Brent Elliott Family Dr. William E. Engel Dr. & Mrs. James Ettien David & René Evans Dr. John & Janet Exton Frank & Shirley Fachilla Alex & Terry Fardon Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Fell Anita Schmid & Tyree Finch Béla Fleck Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Fleming Dr. Evon Flesberg and Mr. Norm Nelson Mr. and Mrs. David B. Foutch Andrew & Mary Foxworth Sr. Judson & Leah Fredrickson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frey Dr. Alex B. Fruin Dr. Paul O. Gaddis Ms. Anne W. Gaither Mr. & Mrs. George C. Garden Jr. Kathy & Marbut Gaston Gatewood Consulting Services Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Rick & Sara Getsay Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Gilmore Dr. Mark Glazer & Cindy Stone Ms. Jennifer Goetz Dr. James R. Goldenring & Ms. Barbara M. Fingleton Wes Gordon Kathleen Gould Brent & Pat Graves Dr. Cornelia R. Graves Mr. Michael P. Griffin Judith & Peter Griffin Mr. Willard W. Griffin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gupton III Mr. Steven W. Habegger Richard & Carol Ann Haglund Mr. Christopher Hamby Walter H. White III & Dr. Susan Hammonds-White Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hardy H. Clay & Mary Harkleroad Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Harmon Cindy Harper Drs. Liana and Frank Harrell Mr. & Mrs. J. George Harris Ms. Jane Harris

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Harvey Jason & Carrie Haslam Mr. and Mrs. James K. Hasson Jr. Mr. Donald B. Hastings Mr. and Mrs. William W. Hastings Dr. Christopher H. Hawkins Veronica Hawkins H. Carl Haywood Dr. James L. Head & Dr. Anita R. Head Doug & Becky Hellerson Dennis & Leslie Henson Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hertik Mr. Cameron R. Hicks Mr. Clint Higham and Mr. Matthew Donahoe Gerald Hill Robert C. & Shirley M. Hilmer Dr. Elena M. Hines Mr. and Mrs. Damon T. Hininger Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hofe Robert Hoffman Frances Holt Mr. Richard D. Holtz Mrs. Teressa A. Honnoll Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious Mrs. Charlotte E. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Hull Mr. & Mrs. David Hunt Margie Hunter Dr. & Mrs. Timothy Hutchison Roger T. Jenkins & Gayle Jenkins Ms. Janice A. Jennings Richard W. Jett Hal & Dona Johnson Ms. Pamela D. Jonhson Bob & Virginia Johnson Mr. Stephen Jonhson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy K. Johnson Mary & Doug Johnston Dr.* & Mrs. Sam Jones Byron and Carolyn Kamp Mr. Daniel A. Kashyap Mr. and Mrs. Duane A. Kavka Mr. and Mrs. Alan Scott Kendrick John & Eleanor Kennedy Patrick B. Kennedy & Jamie S. Amos Jane S. Kersten Mr. & Mrs. Brock Kidd The Kimball Family Mr. & Mrs. Kurt W. Koehn Dr. Valentina Kon & Dr. Jeffrey L. Hymes Mr. Daniel Kula Mr. Daniel L. LaFevor Drs. Cheryl Laffer & Fernando Elijovich Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Mr. Joseph Y. Lee & Ms. Erica Fetterman Mr. Talmage Lefler Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy R. Lemmon Dorothy & Jim Lesch Michael & Ellen Levitt Dr. Christopher & Melissa Lind Burk & Caroline Lindsey Jeffrey & Lori Lipscomb Richard & Tad Lisella

* denotes donors who are deceased

Drs. Walter and Shannon Little Mr. and Mrs. Keltner W. Locke Chris & Elizabeth Long Kim & Bob Looney Mr. Enrico Lopez-Yanez Mr. & Mrs. Denis Lovell Kenyatta & Tracey Lovett Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal Jim & Debbie Lundy Drs. Amy & George Lynch Michael & State Representative Susan Lynn Herman & Dee Maass Dr. & Mrs. Mark A. Magnuson Ms. Sheila Mann Mr. & Mrs. John F. Manning Jr. Mr. Troy B. Marden & Jerome Farris Dr. Dana R. Marshall Mr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Marston Henry & Melodeene Martin Curt & Cynthia Masters John H. Mather M.D. Dr. Nancy Brown & Mr. Andrew May Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Mr. & Mrs. Alan W. Mayes Dr. James S. McBride Ms. Mary Ann McCready Mr. and Mrs. John McLarty Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Linda & Ray Meneely Peter & Mecky Meschter David & Lisa Minnigan Dr. & Mrs. Guy B. Mioton Dr. & Mrs. William M. Mitchell Diana & Jeff Mobley Marian R. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Moore Dr. and Mrs. Joe M. Morgan Shawn & Nancy Morin Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett Mr. & Mrs. Will Morrow Andrew Moyer Mary Jo & Dick Murphy Mr. & Mrs. B. Dwayne Murray Jr. Ms. Sheryl A. Mustain Mr. and Mrs. J. William Myers Mr. & Mrs. Donald D. Napier III Ms. Kenya Nelson Stevens Dr. & Mrs. Harold Nevels Mrs. Beth Newell Dr. John H. Newman & Ms. Rebecca Lyford Drs. John* & Margaret Norris Mr. David W. Oglesby Hunt* & Debbye Oliver Karl M. Olsen Mrs. Argie C. Oman Frank & Betty Orr Drs. Lucius & Freida Outlaw Dr. & Mrs. Aydin Ozan Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page Mrs. Douglas J. Parsons Mr. and Mrs. James Patricelli Ms. Diane T. Payne Kimberley Perkins-Davis Ms. Jennifer C. Peters Mr. & Mrs. G. Patrick Phillips

◊ denotes donors who are Governing Members

Faris & Bob Phillips Charles & Mary Phy Mr. and Mrs. Craig E. Plattner Mr. and Mrs. Roy T. Plummer Mr. and Mrs. Dale W. Polley Mr. & Mrs. Charles Poole Ms. Elizabeth M. Potocsnak Ms. Cynthia M. Powell Dr. & Mrs. Tim Powers Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin S. Purser Jr. George & Joyce Pust Ross & Suzanne Rainwater Mr. & Mrs. Thomas T. Raney Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths Mr. & Mrs. J. David Rawle Drs. Wesley and Kecia Ray Mr. and Mrs. Willard J. Reagan David Reynolds & Shei Dewald Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Barbara Richards Mrs. Jane H. Richmond Ms. Linda N. Rittenhouse Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Robbins Mr. & Mrs. John A. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Paul Robertson Julie Roe, PhD Marc R. Rogers Rodney & Lynne Rosenblum Ed & Jan Routon Lauren & Christopher Rowe Mr. Stephen Sachs Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Samuels Mr. Bradley T. Sanderson Mr. & Mrs.William B. Saunders & Family Robert Schlafly & Teri Arney Mr. and Mrs. Roland Schneller Jack Schuett Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott Mr. Michael A. Seiler Odessa L. Settles Mr. & Mrs. Gene A. Shade Max & Michelle Shaff Mr. & Mrs. Alan Sielbeck Faye Silva Ms. Stephanie J. Silva Mr. Heber Simmons III Mr. & Mrs. John C. Slater Mr. Charles L. Smith Dr. Robert Smith & Barbara Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Mr. Robert Sneed Mr. James H. Spalding Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William T. Spitz Ms. Karen G. Sroufe Dr. Ernest D. Standerfer Ward Stein Mr. & Mrs. Glenn C. Stophel Gayle Sullivan Frank Sutherland & Natilee Duning Dr. Becky E. Swanson Eric & June Swartz Mark S. Tallent Mr. Philip S. Tatum Mr. Terry D. Taylor Dr. and Mrs. Richard Tayrien Mr. & Mrs. Daryle Teague James Temple

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I N D I V I D U A L PAT R O N S The Doerr Foundation Jeanne & Steve Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Wendol R. Thorpe Walter & Cindy Tieck Mrs. Stephen C. Tippens Ms. Donna Tisdale Dr. and Mrs. Todd G. Tolbert Mr. Lloyd Townsend Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull Mr. & Mrs. David T. Vandewater Frances Anne Varallo

Candace & William Wade Mr. & Mrs. Philip L. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wallace Kay & Larry Wallace Mr. Kenneth F. Walters Major & Yong Wang Ms. Karen M. Warren Gayle & David Watson Ms. Joni P. Werthan Franklin & Helen Westbrook Linda & Raymond White

Jonna & Doug Whitman Ms. Eleanor D. Whitworth James L. Wilbanks III Mr. & Mrs. David M. Wilds Mr. & Mrs. Wayne P. Wilkinson Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Williams Judy S. Williams Ben Williamson Mr. & Mrs. John W. Williamson Amos & Etta Wilson Mary E. Womack

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wood Sr. Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Woosley III Pam & Tom Wylly Vivian R. & Richard A. Wynn Mr. Richard S. Yadach Mr. Mark A. Young Dr. Michael Zanolli & Julie K. Sandine Roy & Ambra Zent Mrs. Nancy O. Zoretic

H O N O RA RY In honor of Cynthia Arnholt In honor of Henry Byington In honor of Eric Gratton In honor of Steven M. Hoffman In honor of Martha Rivers Ingram

In honor of Jay Jones' Birthday In honor of Elizabeth Nickerson "Tutter" McCabe In honor of Kathleen McCracken In honor of Gayley and Bob Patterson

In honor of Maya Stone In honor of Brooke Stuart In honor of Brian Uhl

M EM O R IA L In memory of Benjamin Patrick Belden In memory of Jessica Bloom In memory of Frederic Blumberg In memory of Tom McAninch Horn Chair In memory of Harold Cruthirds In memory of Gene Dietz In memory of Philip Dikeman In memory of Al Hacker

In memory of Gary Kenneth Hughes In memory of Dr. Martin Katahn In memory of Martha Lamprecht In memory of Sara Harris Moffatt In Memory of Colonel & Mrs. Ben M.D. Newsom In memory of Lt Cmdr Alan A. Patterson, USN

In memory of Charles Howell Potter, Jr. In memory of Prince In memory of Edgar Arthur Reed In memory of David Williams In memory of Fred Simon In memory of Robert Polk Thomson In memory of Professor Vicki Gardine Williams

LAW R EN C E S. LEVINE MEMO RIAL FUND Judy and Joe Barker George E. Barrett* John Auston Bridges Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Barbara & Eric Chazen Donna R. Cheek* Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Esther & Roger Cohn Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Dee & Jerald* Doochin Robert D. Eisenstein* Mrs. Annette S. Eskind

Laurie & Steven Eskind Harris A. Gilbert Allis Dale & John Gillmor Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Mr.* & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Judith Hodges Judith S.* & James R. Humphreys Walter & Sarah Knestrick Sheldon Kurland Ellen C. Lawson Sally M. Levine

Frances & Eugene Lotochinski Ellen Harrison Martin Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III

Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein

Cynthia* & Richard* Morin

Mr.* & Mrs.* Louis B. Todd, Jr.

Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook

Mr. & Mrs. Byron Trauger

Mr. and Mrs. Craig E. Philip Anne & Charles Roos Mr.* & Mrs. John L. Seigenthaler Joan B. Shayne

Vicky & Bennett Tarleton

Betty & Bernard* Werthan Mr. Mark Zimbicki and Ms. Wendy Kurland Alice A. Zimmerman

CO R P O RATE MATCHING CO MPANIES Arcadia Healthcare American General Life & Accident American International Group, Inc. Atmos Energy AT&T Higher Education /Cultural Matching Gift Program Bank of America BCD Travel Becton Dickinson & Co. BLR CA Matching Gifts Program

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Caterpillar Foundation Cigna Foundation Community Health Systems Foundation Eaton Corporation ExxonMobil Foundation First Data Foundation GE Foundation General Mills Foundation Hachette Book Group IBM Corporation Illinois Tool Work Foundation McKesson Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co

Foundation, Inc. Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Nissan Gift Matching Program P&G Fund Matching Gifts Program PulteGroup Regions Scottrade Square D Foundation Matching Gifts Program

The Aspect Matching Gifts Program The HCA Foundation The Meredith Corporation Foundation The Prudential Foundation The Stanley Works UBS United Health Group U.S. Bancorp Foundation Williams Community Relations

Shell Oil Company Foundation Starbucks Matching Gifts Program

* denotes donors who are deceased

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Guests feast on unlimited starters, a gourmet salad and side area and fresh rotisserie grilled beef, lamb, chicken, pork and more carved table side.

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At Sambuca, we think friends, family, food and fun are what life should be about. Our philosophy is shared with all who walk into our restaurants.

Sambuca features savory new American food and modern cocktails that will tempt any palate and nourish the soul. Our nightly live music will engage our guests in the energetic vibe of the restaurant, reminding them to enjoy the simple pleasures of life.

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Over 2,700 clients will receive services from Hope Clinic this year.

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Creating Spaces to Nurture the Imagination New Arts Performance center opening fall 2020

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thank you to our volunteers!

Nashville Symphony volunteers play an integral role in supporting the organization's mission by assisting with concerts, auditions, fundraising, education and community programs, and more. The Symphony expresses its gratitude to these dedicated individuals who volunteer their time and recognizes the following volunteers, who have each donated more than 19 hours of service within the last season.

To learn more about volunteer opportunities, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/volunteer or contact Cat Royka, Manager of Volunteer Services, at croyka@nashvillesymphony.org or 615.687.6542.

Stephen Abelman Melinda Adams Rebekah Alexander Carol Allen Susie Ashley Gail Bennett Mike Benson Mary Ellen Black Art Blackburn Tori Blackshear Harriett Boglin Barbara Bomar Ellen Borchers Roger Borchers John Bosio Judith Broadbent Kate Broadbent Marian Brown Patty Brown Janet Bruno Russanne Buchi-Fotre Brenda Butler Garner Cagle Anthony Calderon Irene Calderon Julia Callaway Cathi Carmack Lorraine Cash David Chamberlin Pamela Chamberlin Carol Childress Dorit Cochron Linda Coleman Conra Collier Nancy Covert Roy Covert Jan Cowan Dave Criss Heather Cuellar Laura Culbertson

Lisa Darby Randy Darby Janet Davies Alma de la Guardia Leslie Denbo William DeVoe Kathleen Duer Valeria Eadler Millie East Katherine Eboch Joann Ehrhardt Diane Ellsworth Frank Ellsworth Marilyn Falcone Eileen Farina Gerald Farina Ethel Theresa Fennell Marilyn Garcia Mary Garrison Albert Gass Andrew Giacobone Elizabeth Gilliam Beverly Gray Jackie Hansom Barbara Harris Megan Herjeczki Gregory Hersh Sylvia Hix Lynn Holland Sara Hunt Linda Hutchison LaiLa Isa Charles Jaeger Jewell Jemison Delores Johnson Linda Johnson Karen Jones Shirley Jones Kate Kelly Thomas Kern

Sheri Kimble Diane Klaiber Elizabeth Krogman Nancy Lawrence Amber Lee Frances Lewis Loraine Lippolis Tina Logan Geneva London Denis Lovell Carlie Lyster Zera Marshall Dave Mason Cynthia Matthews Barbara Maulsby Lindsey Miller Cindy Morelli Gayla Morris Jennifer Navarre Mike Nowlin Stephen Oloughlin Glenna Orr Cea Pannell Doria Panvini Donna Pavlick Stacy Peterson Poli Polidoro Nancy Posey Marne' Price Bill Proctor Sheryll Proctor Laura Qualman Ruth Rahenkamp Ella Redkevitch Neil Redkevitch John Reid Pendy Reid Carolyn Ricketts Raquel Rincon-Martinez Kathy Robbins

Sharon Roberts Judith Robison Michael Romeo Judi Sachs Diane Sackl Malabika Sarbadhikary Mary Schery Lucy Seifferth Kathy Shaffer Sarah Jo Shearer Thomas Shearer Patti Siegert Mary Smythe Steve Sparks Darcie Sperber Karen Sroufe Nancy Suppelsa Hank Sweetman Martha Sweetman Sandra Trabert Jean Trail Courtney Tucker Lynda Umbarger David Vance Angela Walker Amanda Warner Betty Waters Nancy Weatherhead Sue Wei Bonnie Whittemore Kristin Williams Marcia Williams Lanny Willis Hank Woerner Ann Woodmore Jackie Wright Dessislava Yankova

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CO R P O R AT E , F O U N DAT I O N & G OV E R N M E N T PA RT N E R S

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 their contributions.

Donors as of January 21, 2020.

SEASON PRESENTERS & OFFICIAL PARTNERS THE ANDREW W.

MELLON FOUNDATION

PREMIER PARTNERS Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation

LEAD PARTNERS

MIKE CURB FAMILY FOUNDATION MARY C. RAGLAND FOUNDATION

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS METROPOLITAN GOVER N MENT OF N ASH VILL E A N D DAVIDSON COUNTY

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WASHINGTON FOUNDATION

A N N UA L F U N D

ORCHESTRA PARTNERS

SAMUEL M. FLEMING FOUNDATION

HENDRIX FOUNDATION

ANN HARDEMAN AND COMBS L. FORT FOUNDATION

MUSICIAN PARTNERS American Paper and Twine BDO USA, LLP Carter Haston Real Estate Chet Atkins Music Education Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennesse City Winery Cumberland Trust & Investment Co.

Cumberland University Ensworth School Flavor Catering Hans and Nancy Stabell HUB International Mid-South I.C. Thomasson Associates Inc. NAXOS Parking Management Companies

Robert K. & Anne H. Zelle Fund for Fine and Performing Arts of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation The Houghland Foundation The Cupcake Collection

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION PARTNERS AmazonSmile Foundation Craft Brewed Jimmy Choo USA Midtown Corkdork Wine Spirits Beer Nashville First Baptist

SONY ATV Tennsco Corporation The Game 102.5Â / Game2 94.9 Tiffs Treats 101.1 THE VILLE

Mix 92.9 The Cockayne Fund Inc. 92.1 Q

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

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

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

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

$500,000+

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

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

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

$250,000+

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

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

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

Richard L. & Sharalena Miller National Endowment for the Arts Mr. & Mrs. Philip Maurice Pfeffer 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 Frost 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. Dale W. Polley Mary C. Ragland Foundation The John M. Rivers Jr. Foundation Inc. Carol & John Rochford Mr. & Mrs. Alex A. Rogers Anne & Joseph Russell & Family Daniel & Monica Scokin Bill & Sharon Sheriff Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Luke & Susan Simons Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Smith Barbara & Lester* Speyer The Starr Foundation Hope & Howard* Stringer Louis B.* & Patricia C.* Todd Jr. Lillias & Fred* Viehmann The Henry Laird Smith Foundation Mr. & Mrs. E.W. Wendell Mr. David M. Wilds Mr. & Mrs. W. Ridley Wills III Mr.* & Mrs. David K. Wilson

Adams and Reese / Stokes Bartholomew LLP American Airlines American General Life & Accident Insurance Company Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

J B & Carylon Baker Dr. & Mrs. T.B. Boyd III William H. Braddy III Dr. Ian* & Katherine* Brick Mr. & Mrs.* Martin S. Brown Sr. Michael & Jane Ann Cain Mike Curb/Curb Records Inc.

The Danner Foundation Dee & Jerald* Doochin Ernst & Young Mr. & Mrs. David S. Ewing Ezell Foundation / Purity Foundation Mr.* & Mrs.* Sam M. Fleming In Memory of Kenneth Schermerhorn

$1M+

$50,000+

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$25,000+

$15,000+

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

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

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 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

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he Nashville Symphony is grateful to those donors who have remembered the orchestra in their estate plans. Legacy gifts to the Nashville Symphony help Middle Tennessee’s resident orchestra achieve its mission of making beautiful music, reaching diverse audiences and improving life in our community for generations to come through the following: – World-class performances of enduring orchestral music, from Bach to Beethoven to Bernstein – Affordable ticket prices for music lovers of all ages and backgrounds – Commissions and recordings of America’s leading composers, who are keeping classical music relevant for 21st-century audiences – Life-changing education programs that provide inspiration, instruction and mentorship for students from kindergarten through high school – The acoustical brilliance of Schermerhorn Symphony Center, a venue built to serve the entire community Be “instrumental” in our success by sharing your passion for music with future generations.

For more information on the many creative ways to make a planned gift, please visit NashvilleSymphony.org/plannedgiving or call Andrew Shafer at 615.687.6484.

Anonymous (4) Stephen Abelman & Robin Holab-Abelman Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Russell Bates Elisabetha C. Baugh Ann Bernard Congressman Diane Black & Dr. David L. Black Julie G. & Frank H. Boehm, MD Ellen & Roger Borchers Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff H. Victor Braren, M.D. Charles W. Cagle Mr. and Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Paul Catt and Linda Etheredge Donna & Steven* Clark George D. Clark Jr. Dr. Cliff Cockerham & Dr. Sherry Cummings Barbara J.* and John J.* Conder Marianne Connolly Kelly Corcoran & Joshua Carter Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert Kevin and Katie Crumbo Janet Keese Davies Andrea Dillenburg

The William M.* and Mildred P.* Duncan Family and Deborah Annette & Irwin* Eskind Paula Fairchild Judy and Tom Foster Henry S. Fusner* Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia* & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia* Harris Gilbert Allis Dale & John Gillmor James C. Gooch Ed & Nancy Goodrich Landis Bass Gullett* Connie & Carl T. Haley, Jr. Martin Todd Harris David & Judith S. Hayes Billy Ray Hearn* Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Victoria Heil Gregory T. Hersh Judith Hodges Mr. & Mrs. Bennett F. Horne Judith Simmons Humphreys* Martha R. Ingram Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Anne Knauff Heloise Werthan Kuhn Paul Kuhn Barry S. Lapidus

Sally M. Levine John T. Lewis Todd M. Liebergen Clare* & Samuel* Loventhal Ernestine M. Lynfoot Ellen Harrison Martin Thomas McAninch Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor James Victor Miller* Sharalena & Dick Miller Rev. Dr. Charles L. Moffatt, III Ellen Livingfield More Cynthia* & Richard* Morin Patricia W. & James F. Munro Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Harry & Shelley Page Juanita M. Patton* Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Pamela K. & Philip Maurice Pfeffer Joseph Presley Dr. Zeljko Radic & Tanya Covington Radic David & Edria Ragosin Nancy Ray Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Fran C. Rogers Judith A. Sachs

Mr. James A. Scandrick Jr.* Kristi Lynn Seehafer Mr. Martin E.* & Mrs. Judy F. Simmons Irvin & Beverly Small Mary & K.C. Smythe Dr. and Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Maribeth & Christopher Stahl Betsy Proctor Stratton* & Harry E. Stratton* Patricia Mlcuch Strickland Dr. Esther & Mr. Jeffery Swink Steve Alan Hyman & Mark Lee Taylor Dr. John Brown Thomison, Sr.* Mr. Robert J. Turner & Mr. Jay Jones Alan D. & Janet L. Valentine Mrs. Johnna Benedict Watson Dr. Colleen Conway Welch* Jimmie D. & Patricia Lee White Lalah Gee Williams Dr. Patricia B. Willoughby Donna B. Yurdin Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Anne H. & Robert K.* Zelle

*denotes donors who are deceased

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NAS HV I LLE SYMP HONY ADM I N I STRATIVE STAFF

EXECUTIVE

Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO Steven Brosvik, COO Marye Walker Lewis, CPA, CFO Heather Romero, Executive Assistant

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION Jessica Slais, V.P. of Artistic Administration Ellen Kasperek, Senior Manager of Artistic Administration

Eleanor Roberts, Manager of Artistic Administration

Harrison Bryant, Artistic Coordinator Luke Bryson, Librarian David Jackson, Assistant Librarian Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator

COMMUNICATIONS Jonathan Marx, V.P. of Communications Dave Felipe,

Celine Thackston, Grants Manager Jesse Strauss, Grants Assistant Samantha Solatka, Stewardship Coordinator

EDUCATION Kimberly Kraft McLemore, Director of Education and Community Engagement

Kelley Bell, Education and Community Engagement Program Manager

Kristen Freeman, Education and Community Engagement Program Manager

Bryson Finney, Accelerando Coordinator

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

Publicist & Communications Manager

Justin Bradford, Director of Digital Media Diana Rosales, Digital Media Coordinator Sean Shields, Art Director Alina Van Oostrom, Graphic Design Associate

DATA SERVICES

FOOD, BEVERAGE AND EVENTS Johnathon McGee,

Senior Event Sales Manager

Schuyler Thomas, Senior Event Manager Lee Ann Eaton, Event Facilitator Anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager

Sarah Rose Peacock, Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Marketing Associates: Henry Byington, Jim Davidson, Kimberly DePue, Rick Katz, Misha Robledo Ticket Services Supervisors: Jesse Baker, Jean-Marie Clark, Peter Donnelly, Melissa Messer Ticket Services Specialists: Erin Caby, Tyrone Cadogan, Kaitlyn Elsen, Lindsey George, Rachael Greenman, Dana Manno, Casandra Nevils, Mary Self, Elizabeth Singer, Lindsey Smith-Trostle, Rachel Stigliano

PRODUCTION & ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS Sonja Thoms, Sr. Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager

John Wesolowski, Orchestra Personnel Manager

Joseph Demko Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager

Mark Dahlen, Audio Engineer Emily Yeakle, Senior Lighting Director Trey Franklin, Lighting Director W. Paul Holt, Stage Manager Josh Walliser, Production Manager Trevor Wilkinson, Recording Engineer &

Tara Shirer, Manager of Data Services Sheila Wilson, Sr. Database Associate Tatyana Bristol, PT Database Associate

HUMAN RESOURCES

DEVELOPMENT

Catherine Royka,

Jonathan Norris, V.P. of Development Maribeth Stahl, Sr. Director of Development Kortney Toney,

Manager of Volunteer Services

Katy Lyles, Operations Coordinator

I.T.

VENUE MANAGEMENT

Trenton Leach,

Eric Swartz, V.P. of Venue Management John Sanders, Chief Technical Engineer Kenneth Dillehay, Chief Engineer Wade Johnson, Housekeeping Manager James Harvell, Housekeeper Tony Meyers,

Corporate Partnerships Manager

Trianne Newbrey, Corporate Partnerships Officer

Ashlinn Snyder, Development Programs Manager

Dennis Carter, Patron Engagement Officer Judith Wall, Patron Engagement Officer Jacob Tudor, Patron Engagement Officer Andrew Shafer, Planned Giving Manager Brooke Stuart, Development Events Manager

Katie Curry Development Events Manager

Nakisha Hicks, Director of Human Resources and Inclusion

Director of Information Technology

MARKETING Daniel B. Grossman, V.P. of Marketing Misty Cochran, Director of Marketing Lindsay Bergstrom, Director of Ticket Services

Gena Staib, Box Office Manager Rachael Downs, Assistant Box Office Manager

Rich Bartkowiak, Marketing Supervisor Missy Hubner, Ticket Services Assistant

Assistant Production Manager

Larry Bryan, Audio Engineer & Assistant Production Manager

Director of Security and Front of House

Alan Woodard, Security Manager Sam Harrington, Facility Maintenance Technician

Gregory Weiss, Facility Maintenance Technician

INCONCERT

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