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The Percussion Concerto is featured on the Nashville Symphony’s latest release on the Naxos label, which also includes Schwantner’s Chasing Light… and Morning’s Embrace. “This latest GRAMMY® nomination is a tribute to Giancarlo Guerrero’s strong artistic leadership, and to the Nashville Symphony’s growing profile as one of this country’s leading advocates for American orchestral music,” says President & CEO Alan Valentine. “We have a long history of championing the work of today’s leading composers, and we look forward to more exciting recording projects in the future.” Congratulations are also due to ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, which was among the nominees for Best Small Ensemble Performance. Though it didn’t win this year, the group — which features members of the Nashville Symphony — was nominated among impressive company for its very deserving project, Gabriela Lena Frank’s Hilos.
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Cassandra wilson The innovative and pioneering Cassandra Wilson is considered by many to be one of the greatest vocalists of her generation. She was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, by musician and educator parents. She studied piano for 13 years, and during the 1970s she could be found performing Joni Mitchell songs behind an acoustic guitar, fronting a large funk band, or in the company of long-time friends in an all-girls band. In the 1980s, Wilson moved to New Orleans and performed with Earl Turbinton and Ellis Marsalis. She later moved on to the New York jazz scene, and following a stint as the main vocalist with Steve Coleman’s M-Base Collective,
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aynsley Martindale, mezzo-soprano Aynsley Martindale made her solo debut with the Nashville Symphony in March 2007, joining tenor John McDermott in “A Celtic Celebration.” In May 2008, she performed in Washington, D.C., at the Fifth Annual Candlelight Vigil for the National ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) Advocacy Day. She has performed multiple times on WPLN-FM’s Live in Studio C. Martindale grew up in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, area and is a 1998 graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music, where she earned her B.M.A. in vocal jazz studies. She sings concerts and recording sessions in various styles, including jazz, R&B, classical, Irish folk and sacred, as well as contemporary worship. Currently, she directs her own 501(c)3 department of Artists in Christian Testimony Intl and serves as lead vocalist and music leader for The Table, a new setting for worship at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville. She has released four CDs, two of which are available at the Symphony Store: Passage and Cradle: A Collection of Lullabies from Around the World. Her most recent release, Rhythm and Songs, is available at www.aynsleysings.com. karen Crow, mezzo-soprano Karen Crow holds a BME in Music Education from Lee University and is a recent graduate of Austin Peay State University, where she received an M.M. in performance. She has appeared as a soloist with the Lee University Masterworks Series, performing the alto solo in Joseph Haydn’s Mass in D minor. She has also performed as alto soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Handel’s Messiah. In fall 2009, Crow was named as a finalist in the Highlands Opera Competition in Moorehead, Kentucky. In May 2010, she and pianist Michael Land were chosen
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as participants of the Baldwin Wallace Art Song Festival in Berea, Ohio. In spring 2011, she was winner of the APSU Concerto and Aria Competition. Crow is passionate about the art of the German Lied. In summer 2011, she was one of eight singers chosen to participate in the Schumann Liederfest in Zwickau, Germany. She studied and performed works of Robert Schumann in the Schumann House in Zwickau (the composer’s birthplace), as well as the Schumann House in Leipzig. She also participated in Lied Austria International, a training program in Leibnitz, Austria. A native of Dickson, Tennessee, Crow is a resident of Nashville, where she sings regularly with the Nashville Symphony Chorus. JaMes harrinGton, bass James Harrington is a member of the professional core of singers in the Nashville Symphony Chorus and at St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville. Additionally, he is a regular member of the Nashville Opera Ensemble and the choral arm of Music City Baroque. Most recently, Harrington has played Marquis d’Obigny in La Traviata and Fouquier-Tinville in Andréa Chenier, both with Nashville Opera. Upcoming engagements include Dick Deadeye in H.M.S. Pinafore at Opera New Jersey, Collatinus in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia at the Mattannia Opera Workshop in Detroit, and bass soloist in Bach’s Mass in B minor with Music City Baroque. He will participate in Opera New Jersey’s Victoria J. Mastrobuono Emerging Artist Program this summer. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Harrington is a student of Jonathan Carle and David Ripley.
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Prokofiev composed the second of his two violin concertos in 1935, around the time he was deciding to resettle in his homeland after years of exile. Although often described as an example of the more “populist,” ingratiatingly melodic style he adopted back in the Soviet Union, the Second Concerto contains touches of Prokofiev at his most subversively individualistic.
serGei prokofiev Born on April 23, 1891, in Sontsovka, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire); died on March 5, 1953, in Moscow Concerto for Violin No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63
Less than two months after this work received its premiere in Spain came the infamous denunciation of Shostakovich, Prokofiev’s younger colleague, by Soviet authorities. They condemned his wildly successful new opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, as “decadently” modernist music, effectively singling out Shostakovich as an artistic enemy of the people. Prokofiev himself would face similarly humiliating charges a dozen years later, when he was one of several composers accused of writing music that was too “individualistic.” Yet a lingering sense of homesickness blinded the composer to the perils he would have to navigate as a public cultural figure in Stalin’s Soviet Union. He was further disarmed by the deceptively friendly treatment Communist authorities accorded him. Prokofiev and his family were given special privileges, including a roomy Moscow apartment and even permission to hold on to a blue Ford he had shipped over from the United States. Sporting his signature yellow shoes and orange tie, he struck a dapper figure in bold contrast to his comrades’ drab attire. 28
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first performance: December 1, 1935, in Madrid, Spain, with Robert Soëtens as soloist and Enrique Fernández Arbós conducting the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. first nashville symphony performance: January 21 & 22, 1963, with visiting conductor Harry Newstone and violinist Michael Semanitzky. estimated length: 26 minutes recommended listening: Cho-Liang Lin has recorded compelling interpretations of both of Prokofiev’s violin concertos with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony). Curiously, each of Prokofiev’s two violin concertos is tied to decisive moments in his relationship with Russia. The First, completed in 1917, had to wait several years for its premiere, as Prokofiev left behind the chaos of the Bolshevik Revolution and began a lengthy period of exile. While in the West, he cultivated the image of an arrogant enfant terrible, flirting with the fashionable avant-garde and also trying to earn a living as a touring concert pianist. But, little by little, Prokofiev was reentering the Soviet orbit in the period leading up to the Second Violin Concerto. It represents his final commission for Western European audiences and was written specifically for French violinist Robert Soëtens, who had premiered one of the composer’s chamber pieces. Soon after, Prokofiev took the fateful leap and resettled for good (landing, as Shostakovich unforgettably put it, “like a chicken in the soup”). But his cosmopolitan, nomadic lifestyle of constant travel left its mark on the creation of the piece. Prokofiev composed it while shuttling between Paris and resort towns
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Prokofiev had been grappling with the issue of how to communicate with a larger public, as opposed to addressing only a privileged elite. By 1934, he formulated a brief manifesto of his vision for a music centered on melody, with “simplicity” as its hallmark.
in the Soviet Union, while the Spanish tinge of the finale, where he uses castanets, suggests a postcard from Madrid, city of its premiere. Prokofiev’s “rediscovery of his native land only made him lean more strongly on music of utter simplicity and directness,” Aaron Copland wrote, referring to the remarkable stylistic change evident in his Russian colleague’s music from this time. Initially, Prokofiev had earned a reputation as an arch-ironist, flitting from suave neoclassicism to caustic sarcasm and “grotesquerie” — all the while eagerly making room for experiments with dissonant harmony. Yet even before he resettled in Moscow, Prokofiev had been grappling with the issue of how to communicate with a larger public, as opposed to addressing only a privileged elite. By 1934, he formulated a brief manifesto of his vision for a music centered on melody, with “simplicity” as its hallmark, but in which the simplicity “should not be old-fashioned; it must be a new simplicity.” This soon found expression in his ballet music for Romeo and Juliet and the Second Violin Concerto, which he composed side by side.
what to listen for The Second Violin Concerto tends to be regarded as more “conservative” in demeanor than Prokofiev’s First, yet it includes a number of surprisingly unconventional choices. One is the very opening gesture. Without any orchestral introduction, the solo violin emerges, rising up from its lowest note: a lone, melancholy voice in the desert. Its theme hints at folk-like directness, but the rhythmic accents are unpredictable. The orchestra enters with a bare minimum of color
from muted strings. The palette gradually brightens, as does the overall atmosphere, to present a highly memorable second melody that is the essence of the desired “new simplicity.” Prokofiev develops both ideas with great rhythmic and harmonic imagination, giving substance to the violinist’s flights of virtuosity. Yet another surprise comes with the sudden snuffing out of the final measures. The much-admired slow movement reveals another instance of Prokofiev’s deceptive simplicity. That most familiar of techniques — a melody played against clearly articulated accompaniment — is exaggerated by the deliciously fairy-tale orchestration of “lefthand” triplets, over which the violin spins out an ecstatic song in E-flat major. The effect mixes ironic suggestions of the mechanical age with the sweetness of a Baroque aria. And Prokofiev works something of his “bad boy” image of old into an infectiously delightful finale. Suddenly dispelling the enraptured dream he has just cast, he lets loose with a dance in heavily accented triple time, spiked with piquant harmonies, displaced beats and brash colors. Yet a shadow of menace emerges, too, from the bass drum’s persistence. (Notice the role of percussion, minus the familiar timpani, in this movement.) In the coda, the violin seems to struggle to wrest itself free from the clutches of its instrumental compadres. In addition to solo violin, the Concerto is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, cymbals, castanets and strings.
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ClassiCal series dMitri shostakoviCh Born on September 25, 1906, in Saint Petersburg, Russia; died on August 9, 1975, in Moscow Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 “Leningrad” Shostakovich composed the Symphony No. 7 between July and December 1941. The longest of his 15 symphonies, it was associated from its premiere with a defiantly patriotic reaction to the devastating siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), the second largest city in the Soviet Union, following the German invasion during World War II. Yet the Seventh arguably expresses Shostakovich’s response to the evils inflicted by Stalinism and Western fascism alike. first performance: March 1, 1942, in Kuybyshev in the Soviet Union (a city to which evacuees had fled after the German invasion), with Samuil Abramovitch Samosud conducting the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra. first nashville symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances. estimated length: 75 minutes recommended listening: Valery Gergiev’s searing account uses two orchestras: the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Kirov Theater Orchestra (Philips).
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The question of how Shostakovich’s music interacts with his biographical circumstances continues to simmer and generate controversy decades after his death. A search for hidden meanings in his scores has proved especially relevant to the Symphony No. 7 in C major. From the start, this epic canvas was believed to represent a kind of musical equivalent to Picasso’s Guernica, bearing powerful artistic testimony to the overwhelming suffering of war — specifically, the unthinkable suffering inflicted by the sudden German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Shostakovich himself endured the first months of the Wehrmacht’s siege of his native city of Saint Petersburg (then known as Leningrad). While still under bombardment there, he composed a major portion of this gigantic score at breakneck speed. But Soviet authorities, now wanting to protect him, insisted on evacuating the composer and his family eastward to relative safety in the city of Kuybyshev (presentday Samara), which was made temporary capital of the USSR during the invasion crisis. There Shostakovich completed the score just before the end of the year. The Seventh, which he dedicated to the city of Leningrad (without conferring that name as an official title to the work), continued the process of Shostakovich’s restoration to public favor. As mentioned above, his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk had been denounced by Pravda in 1936. The immense success of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony the following year was a pivotal turning point that allowed the composer to recover from his official fall from grace, though his Sixth Symphony earned only lukewarm praise at its premiere in 1939. (Shostakovich would again be scapegoated, this time together with Prokofiev, in another round of postwar denunciations in 1948.) When premiered during the dark years of the war, the Seventh seemed to serve as one of the first great patriotic responses demanded by Soviet authorities to the German invasion, as well as a powerful rallying cry for the Allies in general. As far as the West was concerned, Shostakovich had become the official musical voice for the Communist state, now joined in the fight against Hitler. The bespectacled composer
even appeared on the cover of TIME magazine in the summer of 1942, wearing a fireman’s helmet and posed against a smoldering city backdrop. The audience’s reaction to the New York premiere, wrote the critic, sounded “as if it had just heard news of a Nazi defeat.” (Prokofiev would also be chosen to grace a TIME cover a few months after the end of the war.) Perhaps inevitably, the pendulum swung the other way after victory, and the Seventh was largely dismissed as an overglorified “battle symphony” by many who considered it nothing more than a tool for bombastic propaganda and a manifesto for state-approved Socialist Realism. In recent decades, though, the work has been viewed as more universal in scope. Thus, for example, the mammoth first movement — the most controversial part of the Seventh — was once thought to depict Hitler’s ruthless invasion in the crudest, most obvious terms. But fresher interpretations suggest a more complex picture, involving an attack from within. Some even argue that Shostakovich began the symphony before the Nazi onslaught, as a kind of requiem for the victims of Stalin’s purges.
what to listen for The first movement initially follows the conventional symphonic pattern of two contrasting sets of ideas: a hardy, optimistic, march-like first theme in strings followed by a lyrically meditative second one. But the space that should be given to development of these ideas is taken over by Shostakovich’s notorious “invasion” music, which incorporates various coded musical references (including a particularly subversive one to the composer’s own Lady Macbeth). This episode consists of a set of 12 repetitive variations on what starts out as a comically vulgar march tune. Steadily growing in menace, it climaxes in a furious, fearsome meltdown. It’s not hard to imagine that Shostakovich has in mind here the soul-destroying power exerted by all forms of totalitarianism. The
music brutalizes everything in its path. In the recapitulation of the opening material that follows, the beautiful lyrical respite is now given the character of a forlorn lament on the bassoon. (Despite calling for a massive orchestra, notice how the Seventh features remarkably extensive solo spotlights, particularly for the woodwinds.) It’s as if the music has been inalterably infected by the toxic nature of the intervening march. This vast opening movement, the longest, is followed by the shortest of the Seventh’s four movements. It unfolds as a cross between a more relaxed intermezzo and a scherzo, interrupted by a central episode of Shostakovich’s savage humor. After this comes a moving, requiemlike and highly varied Adagio. An opening chorale alternates with austerely beautiful string recitatives, while the menace of the invasion music marches through the movement’s center. The Adagio is linked directly to the finale, which generates exciting momentum from simple musical materials. Crescendos are again carefully built up and used with cunning strategy to serve as structural pillars. A stern, slower section in the middle brings eerie recollections of musical ideas heard earlier in the work. The ironic contrasts of “high” and “low” elements that mark so much of this score suggest the influence of Mahler, one of Shostakovich’s symphonic idols. The coda works strenuously — all too strenuously, for those aware of the composer’s irony — toward a jubilant close in unalloyed C major. “Victory” here, as in the composer’s Fifth Symphony, seems to leave unsettling questions no matter how defiantly it is proclaimed. The Symphony No. 7 is scored for a large orchestra consisting of 3 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo, 3rd doubling alto flute), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (3rd doubling E-flat clarinet), bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 8 horns, 6 trumpets, 6 trombones, tuba, 5 timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, tambourine, cymbals, tam-tam, xylophone, 2 harps, piano and strings. InConcert
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Fresher interpretations suggest a more complex picture, involving an attack from within.
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soCialist realisM in MusiC According to the doctrine officially prescribed for Soviet artists — not only in music, but in all media — the goal of a work of art was to be accessible to the masses at large while affirming the utopian ideals of a society that preached radical egalitarianism. In practice, as far as composers were concerned, this meant writing music that was tuneful and suggested an optimistic outlook. Pathos might be expressed, especially in the context of the war, but it should be balanced by final triumph. In spite of the popularity of much of their music, composers like Shostakovich and Prokofiev could never be sure whether their latest work would be judged as rebelliously “formalist” (too individualistic) by the cultural overseers. — Thomas May is the Nashville Symphony’s program annotator. He writes extensively about music and theater.
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About the soloist Cho-lianG lin, violin Violinist Cho-Liang Lin is lauded the world over for his superb musicianship. He has appeared as soloist with the orchestras of Dallas, Toronto, Houston and San Diego, as well as with the Bergen Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic and the English Chamber Orchestra. His engagements in Asia include the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony. Lin has worked with composers as diverse as Lalo Schifrin, Paul Schoenfield and Joan Tower. An avid chamber musician, he appears at the Beijing Music Festival, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. As Music Director of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest since 2001, Lin has helped develop a multidisciplinary event featuring dance, jazz and a burgeoning new music program, commissioning composers as diverse as Chick Corea, Stewart Copeland, Wayne Shorter, Kaija Saariaho and Gunther Schuller. Lin’s recordings have won Gramophone’s Record of the Year, as well as two GRAMMY® nominations. They reflect the breadth of his distinctive career and include violin concerti from Mozart to Stravinsky, chamber music from Brahms to Ravel, and contemporary music from Chen Yi to Christopher Rouse. Born in Taiwan in 1960, Lin began violin lessons at age 5. He made his New York debut at 19 at the Mostly Mozart Festival, and soon thereafter with the New York Philharmonic. He was invited to join the faculty of The Juilliard School in 1991. More recently he was appointed professor of violin at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He plays the 1715 “Titian” Stradivarius.
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ludwiG van beethoven (1770-1827) Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 “Pastoral” Composed 1806-08; first performed December 22, 1808, in Vienna, conducted by the composer. estimated length: 40 minutes The Pastoral Symphony caused Berlioz to declare that music, in Beethoven’s hands, had come of age and had finally reached the point where the power of poets such as Virgil and Theocritus to evoke landscape had been conquered by the power of sound. He had earlier described the symphony as if it were the joint work of Poussin and Michelangelo. Composed in 1806-08, it was recognized by all Beethoven’s successors as a signpost to the future and the father of a whole genre of music. It gave them the license to depict not just the
natural world, but all manner of physical and extra-musical concepts in symphonic language, to the point where program music thereafter dominated the orchestral repertoire central to concert life for the last 200 years. Beethoven’s evocation of country life in sound has many times been emulated, but scarcely ever surpassed. As in so many of Beethoven’s mighty middleperiod works, it is both conventional and wholly new. The desire to convey people, places and things in music was almost an obsession in the previous century, whose composers were no strangers to program music. Think of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The animals that color the pages of Rameau and Haydn and the intensely human emotions expressed by Mozart and Gluck are examples of the recurrent belief that instruments can convey the shape, sound and impressions of the real world beyond any doubt. Beethoven inherited that belief and applied it almost mechanically when he came to compose the Pastoral Symphony. At the same time, he gave the genre two profoundly original dimensions by conveying these sights and sounds as “feelings” (as in the headings of the first and last movements), and by casting the whole episode as an orchestral symphony. The world of the “Pastoral” is not just any landscape; rather, it is the landscape of the composer’s experience, real or imagined. Beethoven frequented and loved the countryside around Vienna, but he is not simply depicting Austrian village life. He is transferring his own response to the country and making something extraordinary out of something ordinary — “more feeling than painting,” as he explained it himself. InConcert
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It has become normal in our concert life to hear the largest work, usually a symphony, after intermission as something substantial to take home with us at the end of a concert. This was not standard practice in Beethoven’s time, when something brief and upbeat like an overture would close what was often a very long and very varied program. It can be argued that we should put the most demanding work at the start of the concert when we are most receptive and fresh, yet no one now expects to hear, say, a Mahler symphony followed by a Haydn symphony or even an overture. Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, nicknamed the “Pastoral,” is perhaps not the most demanding of the nine, but it is no lightweight either, and it repays our fullest concentration. And today’s concert offers at the close Respighi’s colorful images of Rome, which hardly require the furrowed brow of earnest concentration to catch the vivid world he evokes. The solo feature is Grieg’s evergreen Piano Concerto in A minor, one of the most Romantic of piano concertos, evoking the Norwegian north in contrast to the Roman south.
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The “Scene by the brook” is a movement of magnificent breadth. The water murmurs throughout, and the leisurely unfolding of a full sonata form gives Beethoven space to indulge his command of heavenly melody.
To fashion it as a symphony required him to step across its familiar limits. Most obviously, he depicts five scenes when a symphony normally permitted four, with the storm occurring between the scherzo and the finale, and leading to the mood of contentment and optimism in which Beethoven always ended his symphonies. The famous passage at the end of the slow movement — the most perfect evocation of serenity ever composed — when three birdcalls are heard (in turn, nightingale, quail and cuckoo) gives an astonishing jolt to the reverie and falls perilously close to bathos, yet it aptly serves Beethoven’s almost humorous purpose. The style of the symphony is not dramatic and knotty, like the famous Fifth, but expansive, in a plain diatonic language which avoids the abrupt dynamics and uneven rhythms of much of his earlier music. Beethoven’s favorite device, an early fermata (hold), in the fourth measure of the work, places a question mark as if to ensure that the listener’s attention is truly engaged. There is no slow introduction (as in symphonies 1, 2 and 4), and the main theme of the movement is presented in as simple a fashion as possible at the outset. The movement suggests a leisurely stroll in the most innocent rustic environment. The development section, in particular, settles into long paragraphs of repeated figures against sustained chords that strikingly anticipate Bruckner’s style. The “Scene by the brook” is a movement of magnificent breadth. The water murmurs throughout, and the leisurely unfolding of a full sonata form gives Beethoven space to indulge his command of heavenly melody, a legacy from
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his earliest years as a composer. The delicacy of his orchestration here is especially remarkable, with two cellos singled out to add an extra voice to the string texture and some lovely writing for woodwinds. The Scherzo is a rustic dance, accompanied (evidently) by rustic instruments, and the Trio section is even more down-to-earth, with an emphatic drone bass and the rambunctious stamping of clogs. Two trumpets join the orchestra for the first time in the symphony at this point, the full weight of trumpets and drums being held back to lend force and ferocity to the storm, which approaches with the warning of heavy raindrops and breaks with horrifying force. Two trombones, held back with iron restraint, join the clamor, and a piccolo whistles for the wind. The trombones are permitted to join the merry-making of the finale, though the piccolo and drums are not. The mood and style are similar to that of the first movement, and Beethoven feels no need to step up the pace at the end to generate any false excitement. The end, in fact, is surprisingly low-key, since country life continues its endless cycle despite the dramatic intervention of the storm. But before the end Beethoven does allow the music to rise in a magnificently broad coda, hinting at the chorus “The Heavens are telling” in Haydn’s Creation, and therefore, no doubt, to be heard as a thanksgiving to the Almighty. Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani and strings.
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edvard GrieG (1843-1907) Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Composed 1868; first performed April 3, 1869, in Copenhagen, with Edmund Neupert as soloist and Grieg conducting. estimated length: 30 minutes Of the great piano concertos that make up the soloist’s usual repertoire, Grieg’s is the earliest to come from outside the Austro-German tradition that gave us the concertos of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Schumann and Brahms. Because for many people this piano concerto stands for Grieg, and Grieg stands for Norwegian music, we hear a Norwegian flavor in the main theme of the first movement (where there really is none) and in the spirited dance of the last movement (where there is plenty). But Grieg was a product of German training, and his clearest model for a piano concerto was the concerto, also in A minor, by Robert Schumann. Between the ages of 15 and 19, Grieg studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, a school where the Beethoven tradition was firmly inculcated in its students. He also attended the famous Gewandhaus concerts where he heard Clara Schumann performing her husband’s classic concerto.
Grieg’s concerto is scored for solo piano, with 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and strings.
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None of his Leipzig teachers suggested to Grieg that his music ought to sound distinctively Scandinavian. The Danish composer Niels Gade had earlier spent many years in Leipzig and had been a friend of both Mendelssohn and Schumann; it is hard to identify any Danish qualities in his music. Grieg’s generation was the first to feel the need to craft a new musical language out of their native folk music, as Smetana did in Bohemia and the Russians did in their own land. In Grieg’s case, it did not happen overnight. His early works, which cling closely to classical models, include a symphony, a piano sonata and two violin sonatas. On his return from Leipzig, he lived for considerable periods in Denmark, whose musical culture was several degrees richer than that of Norway. The Piano Concerto was composed in Denmark in the summer of 1868, and it was first performed in Denmark, too. The soloist and dedicatee was the young Norwegian virtuoso Edmund Neupert. Grieg was a good pianist, but he preferred to leave the playing in the hands of specialists on his concert tours. The three movements of the Piano Concerto enjoy the balance of classical form, with an attractive richness of melody. In the slow movement, muted strings present the main melody with sumptuous harmony, while the soloist responds first with elegant tracery, and then with a full-blooded statement of the melody. The horn is prominently featured throughout. The spirited finale places taxing demands on the soloist’s technique. The flute introduces a melody of a quite different sort, which turns out at the end, after the return of the dance has been transformed into a lively three-four pattern, to be called upon to provide the closing bars in grandiose style.
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The pine trees themselves are not so much the topic of the piece, but rather the places over which they preside.
ottorino respiGhi (1879-1936) The Pines of Rome Composed 1923-24; first performed on December 14, 1924, in Rome, conducted by Bernardino Molinari. estimated length: 25 minutes Born and educated in Bologna, Ottorino Respighi moved in his mid-30s to Rome. If Bologna gave him his lifelong interest in early Italian music and plainsong, his brilliant orchestral gifts were nurtured by a period of study in Saint Petersburg under Rimsky-Korsakov. He also learned much from Richard Strauss’ dazzling tone poems. Respighi’s first tone poem, The Fountains of Rome, appeared in 1917. It depicted four of Rome’s famous fountains in a symphonic framework and enjoyed immense success once it was taken up by Toscanini. This work and the clever adaptation of Rossini melodies in the Boutique fantasque (1919) made Respighi the best-known Italian composer of his generation. The Pines of Rome followed in 1924, again providing a four-movement symphonic framework for orchestral pictures of the pines that provide a characteristic background to four of Rome’s localities. The pine trees themselves are not so much the topic of the piece, but rather the places over which they preside. Respighi provided a helpful guide: In the first movement he is depicting children at play in the gardens of
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the Villa Borghese. They fight and scream “like swallows in the evening,” and come and go in swarms. The silence of the double basses in this movement gives it a high-pitched, joyous tone, full of animation and color, with hints of childish songs. The music moves abruptly into the second movement, “Pines Near a Catacomb,” which, by contrast, has a dark, murky atmosphere. A mournful psalmody is heard on the horns, and a distant trumpet outlines a solemn hymn that rises to a climax and then fades. The Janiculum hill portrayed in the third movement stands outside the old city of Rome and provides a grand view of the city. Respighi here suggests a tremor in the air (piano solo) and the serenity of the hill and its pines (clarinet solo). The luxuriant atmosphere gives way to the silence of night, when only a nightingale is heard. For the final movement, Respighi immerses himself in his imagined picture of ancient Rome. It begins at dawn on the Appian Way with the muffled tramp of soldiers on the march. It becomes a vision of Roman legions at the height of empire striding into Rome with the rising sun and gathering in full splendor at the Capitol. Respighi augments his orchestra with six buccine, ancient Roman trumpets to be represented by modern saxhorns or other equivalent brass. With organ, piano and heavy percussion, this movement can shake the very foundations of any concert hall. The Pines of Rome is scored for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, offstage trumpet, 4 trombones, 6 buccine (Roman trumpets), timpani, triangle, small cymbals, tambourine, rattle, cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, harp, bells, celesta, gramophone, piano, organ and strings. —program notes by Hugh Macdonald © 2012
the Cleveland orChestra Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. In concerts at its winter home at Severance Hall and at each summer’s Blossom Festival, in residencies from Miami to Vienna to New York, and on tour around the world, The Cleveland Orchestra sets standards of artistic excellence, creative programming and community engagement. The 2011/12 season marks the 10th year of the Orchestra’s partnership with Franz WelserMöst. Together, they have earned The Cleveland Orchestra unprecedented residencies in the United States and in Europe, including one at the Musikverein in Vienna — the first of its kind by an American orchestra. Welser-Möst and the Orchestra’s 2010 tour of Japan and Korea was their 10th international tour together. The Orchestra regularly appears at European festivals, including an ongoing series of biennial residencies at the Lucerne Festival (featuring Roche Commissions, a project involving the Orchestra, the Festival and Carnegie Hall). The Orchestra returns to Vienna in the autumn of 2011 for its fifth Musikverein Residency as part of a European tour. In the United States, Welser-Möst and the Orchestra have toured from coast to coast, including regular appearances at Carnegie Hall, and in January 2007 began an unprecedented long-term residency project in Miami, Florida, where they perform annually at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and provide a wide array of community and educational activities. Summer 2011 marked the beginning of a biennial residency at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival, starting with orchestral concerts featuring the music of Bruckner and Adams. The Orchestra has also begun a series of residencies at Indiana University, performing and interacting with students at the Jacobs School of Music.
The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by a group of local citizens. It has been led by seven music directors (Nikolai Sokoloff, 1918-33; Artur Rodzinski, 1933-43; Erich Leinsdorf, 1943-46; George Szell, 194670; Lorin Maazel, 1972-82; Christoph von Dohnányi, 1984-2002; and Franz Welser-Möst, 2002-present) and one musical advisor (Pierre Boulez, 1970-72). Expansion to a year-round schedule was made possible in 1968 with the opening of Blossom Music Center, an outdoor facility in nearby Cuyahoga Falls that is home to the Orchestra’s Blossom Festival. The Cleveland Orchestra’s educational programs, a cornerstone of the Orchestra’s original mission, have introduced more than 4 million Cleveland-area schoolchildren to symphonic music since 1921. Today, through touring, residencies, radio broadcasts, and recordings available by internet download and on DVD and CD, the Orchestra’s music-making is offered to a broad and loyal constituency around the world. Gabriela Montero, piano Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations and improvisational gifts have won her a devoted following around the world. Her engagements include performances with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall and Rotterdam Philharmonic. In recital, she has appeared in Berlin, Frankfurt, Dresden, Hamburg, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Salzburg Festival, Koln Philharmonie, Tonhalle Dusseldorf, Istanbul International Festival, Kennedy Center and Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Montero’s 2011/12 season highlights include debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she returns to Pittsburgh for performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. In Europe, she performs with Vienna Radio Orchestra and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Montero’s EMI CD Bach and Beyond is a complete disc of improvisations on themes
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by Bach. In February 2008, her follow-up recording of improvisations, Baroque, was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award and received five-star reviews from BBC Music Magazine and Classic FM. Her most recent recording, Solatino, released by EMI Classics in 2011, is devoted exclusively to works by Latin American composers. She selected the works of six composers, including Alberto Ginastera’s Piano Sonata No. 1, as well as her own improvisations on Latin themes. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Montero made her concert debut at age 8 with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra and was granted a scholarship to study in the United States. She currently resides in Massachusetts with her two daughters.
the clevelAnd orchestrA franz welser-Möst, Music director Kelvin Smith Family Chair first violins William Preucil, Concertmaster Blossom-Lee Chair Yoko Moore, Assistant Concertmaster Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair Peter Otto, First Associate Concertmaster Jung-Min Amy Lee, Associate Concertmaster Gretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair Lev Polyakin, Assistant Concertmaster Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair Takako Masame Paul and Lucille Jones Chair Wei-Fang Gu Drs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair Kim Gomez Elizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair Chul-In Park Harriet T. and David L. Simon Chair Miho Hashizume Theodore Rautenberg Chair Jeanne Preucil Rose Dr. Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair
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Alicia Koelz Oswald and Phyllis Lerner Gilroy Chair Yu Yuan Patty and John Collinson Chair Isabel Trautwein Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair Mark Dumm Gladys B. Goetz Chair Alexandra Preucil Katherine Bormann Ying Fu seCond violins Stephen Rose* Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair Emilio Llinas2 James and Donna Reid Chair Eli Matthews1 Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair Elayna Duitman Ioana Missits Carolyn Gadiel Warner Stephen Warner Sae Shiragami Vladimir Deninzon Sonja Braaten Molloy Scott Weber Kathleen Collins Beth Woodside Emma Shook Jeffrey Zehngut
violas Robert Vernon* Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair Lynne Ramsey1 Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball Chair Stanley Konopka2 Mark Jackobs Jean Wall Bennett Chair Arthur Klima Richard Waugh Lisa Boyko Lembi Veskimets Eliesha Nelson Joanna Patterson Zakany Patrick Connolly Cellos Mark Kosower* Louis D. Beaumont Chair Richard Weiss1 The GAR Foundation Chair Charles Bernard2 Helen Weil Ross Chair Bryan Dumm Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair Tanya Ell Ralph Curry Brian Thornton David Alan Harrell Paul Kushious Martha Baldwin Thomas Mansbacher
e-flat Clarinet Daniel McKelway Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair
harp Trina Struble* Alice Chalifoux Chair
Contrabassoon Jonathan Sherwin
flutes Joshua Smith* Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Chair Saeran St. Christopher Marisela Sager2 Austin B. and Ellen W. Chinn Chair Mary Kay Fink piCColo Mary Kay Fink Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair oboes Frank Rosenwein* Edith S. Taplin Chair Jeffrey Rathbun2 Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair Robert Walters enGlish horn Robert Walters Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair Clarinets Franklin Cohen* Robert Marcellus Chair Robert Woolfrey Daniel McKelway2 Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair Linnea Nereim
bass Clarinet Linnea Nereim bassoons John Clouser* Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair Barrick Stees2 Sandra L. Haslinger Chair Jonathan Sherwin
horns Richard King* George Szell Memorial Chair Michael Mayhew§ Knight Foundation Chair Jesse McCormick Hans Clebsch Richard Solis Alan DeMattia truMpets Michael Sachs* Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair Jack Sutte Lyle Steelman2 James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair Michael Miller Cornets Michael Sachs* Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair Michael Miller troMbones Massimo La Rosa* Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair Richard Stout Alexander and Marianna C. McAfee Chair Shachar Israel2
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euphoniuM and bass truMpet Richard Stout tuba Yasuhito Sugiyama* Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair tiMpani Paul Yancich* Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair Tom Freer2 perCussion Jacob Nissly* Margaret Allen Ireland Chair Donald Miller Tom Freer Marc Damoulakis keyboard instruMents Joela Jones* Rudolf Serkin Chair Carolyn Gadiel Warner Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair librarians Robert O’Brien Donald Miller orChestra personnel Carol Lee Iott Director Rebecca Vineyard Manager * Principal § Associate Principal 1 First Assistant Principal 2 Assistant Principal endowed Chair Currently unoCCupied Assistant Principal Harp Sunshine Chair
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It Had to Be You One Mint Julep As Time Goes By The Girl from Ipanema One Mint Julep Adventures in T.V. Syndication: The ’70s All in the Family – The Brady Bunch – Sanford & Son M.A.S.H. – TheIpanema Bob Newhart Show – Sesame Street The Girl from The Muppet Show – Barney Miller – Love: American Style The Love Boat – Happy Days
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kathy Mattea Twice named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association, Kathy Mattea carved out a role for herself in the late 1980s and 1990s as a sensitive yet energetic artist who’s at ease with both country tradition and freeranging innovation. In 1990, the West Virginia native won the first of her two GRAMMY® Awards, earning the Best Female Country Vocal Performance award for her moving “Where’ve You Been,” co-written with her husband, Jon Vezner. She is among the most successful women in the genre’s history, yet her creative spirit has led her to explore musical territory well beyond its confines. Her recent recordings have intertwined Celtic, gospel and bluegrass influences with the folk and acoustic music that have always served as her artistic anchor. An early spokesperson and advocate for AIDS awareness and research, Mattea has a long history of activism that has led her to bring public attention to several current environmental issues, including global warming and mining practices in her native Appalachia. The work and the music have joined together to produce her latest GRAMMY®-nominated CD, Coal, featuring songs from the coal country and culture of “her place and her people.”
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thAnK you to our sponsor bridGestone aMeriCas trust fund To make our hometowns and cities even better places to live, work and play, the Bridgestone Americas family of companies gives generously through the Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund. Since 1952, the fund has contributed more than $86 million nationwide to charitable and philanthropic groups supporting environmental and conservation efforts, the welfare of children and education. In addition to contributing to organizations such as the Middle Tennessee Council Boy Scouts of America, United Way and Junior Achievement, the fund also believes in supporting the arts, because the availability and diversity of rich cultural and arts programming is the mark of a vibrant community. More information on the Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund can be found at BridgestoneAmericas.com/trustfund.asp.
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Nashville Symphony David Hamilton, conductor The Nashville Choir, John Coates, director Committed Michael W. Smith Randy Travis Marcia Ware O for a Thousand Tongues (C. Wesley & C. G. Glazer) – arr. Hamilton Overture on Hymntunes – arr. Huff This is My Father’s World (M.D. Babcock/trad. melody) The God of Abraham Praise (T. Olivers/trad. melody) O for a Thousand Tongues (C. Wesley & C.G. Glazer)
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Doxology (T. Ken & L. Bourgeois) CCLI #56204
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Rise Up – arr. Hamilton Rise Up, O Church of God (W.P. Merrill & A. Williams) CCLI #186480 The Church’s One Foundation (S.J. Stone & S.J. Wesley) CCLI #55377 How Firm a Foundation (Rippon’s Selection of Hymns/trad. melody) CCLI #107816 All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name (E. Perronet & O. Holden) CCLI #196858
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For All the Saints (W.W. How & R.V. Williams) – arr. C. Willcock CCLI #90590
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Praise to the Lord, The Almighty (J. Neander & S. Gesangbuch) – arr. D. Clydesdale CCLI #43073
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O God Our Help in Ages Past (I. Watts & W. Croft) CCLI #43152
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Just a Closer Walk With Thee (Anonymous) – arr. David Hamilton I’ll Fly Away (A. E. Brumley) CCLI #26399
Randy Travis / All Sing
Unclouded Day (Rev. J.K. Alwood) CCLI #45538
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The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13, music A. H. Mallotte) – arr. Coates
Dylan Anderson
This Little Light of Mine (trad.)
Marcia Ware
I Love the Lord (R. Smallwood) – arr. Warren
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America the Beautiful (K.L. Bates & S.A. Ward) – arr. Hamilton CCLI #5470060 INTERMISSION
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Finlandia (J. Sibelius) Be Still My Soul (Katherine von Schlegel & J. Sibelius) CCLI #96910
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Great Is Thy Faithfulness (T. Chisholm & W. Runyan) – arr. Shipps CCLI #18723
All Sing Committed
Abide with Me (H.F. Lyte & W.H. Monk) – arr. Gervais
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How Great Thou Art (S.K. Hine) – arr. Gervais/Hamilton CCLI #14181 We’re Marching to Zion (I. Watts & R. Lowry) – arr. Hamilton CCLI #144398
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Bound for the Promised Land (S. Stennett/trad. melody) – arr. Wilberg
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In Christ Alone/The Solid Rock (S. Townend & K. Getty) – arr. Cottrell/Shipps CCLI #3350395, 25417
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Michael W. Smith / All Sing
Agnus Dei (M.W. Smith) – arr. Hamilton CCLI #626713
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Holy Holy Holy (R. Heber & J. Dykes) – arr. Huff CCLI #1156
Amazing Grace (J. Newton & J.P. Rees/trad. melody) – arr. Hamilton CCLI #4837910 Michael W. Smith, Randy Travis / All Sing The Lord Bless You and Keep You (Numbers 6:24-26 & P.C. Lurkin) – arr. Huff
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david haMilton David Hamilton is a respected producer, arranger, conductor, pianist and songwriter. His music can be heard on recordings by artists spanning diverse genres, including pop, country, contemporary Christian, gospel and classical. Hamilton recently made his Carnegie Hall debut with tenors Steve Green, Larnelle Harris and Steve Amerson. As musical director for holiday and pops concerts with Amy Grant, Vince Gill and Michael W. Smith, Hamilton has conducted numerous orchestras, including the Dallas, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Kansas City and Edmonton symphonies. He has made guest appearances conducting and touring with the Nashville Symphony, including the 2006 gala pops concert celebrating the opening of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. He also served as musical director for the 2008 and 2009 Dove Awards. Hamilton has recorded with musicians in studios across the world, including the renowned Abbey Road and AIR studios in London. His work as composer and producer can be heard on projects by artists such as Shania Twain, Renee Fleming, Ricky Skaggs and The Canadian Tenors.
Hamilton received his undergraduate degree in Piano Performance from the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and his Master’s degree from the University of Miami School of Music. He and his wife Sandy and their two children make their home in Brentwood. the nashville Choir The Nashville Choir is a diverse group of 150 professional and non-professional singers who share a passion for choral music. Their musical styles vary, but everything flows from their foundation in powerful traditional and orchestral music whose beauty has stood the test of time. In its seventh year, The Nashville Choir has performed an unprecedented nine times at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, including three times with the Nashville Symphony for the Community Hymn Sing. TNC most recently presented A Lifetime Tribute to Bill Gaither, with guest starts Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Michael W. Smith and Sandi Patty. The Choir can be heard on Michael W. Smith’s recording “It’s a Wonderful Christmas,” and at the Billy Graham Library singing “Just as I Am.” TNC was invited by Governor Bill Haslam to sing for his Inaugural prayer service at the Ryman Auditorium in January 2011, and can be heard nightly at Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color. John E. Coates founded The Nashville Choir
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in May 2005, and in just seven years has led the choir to become both a sought-after performing group and a mission-oriented team dedicated to serving the city of Nashville. Coates’s expertise in conducting, arranging and orchestrating has taken him to stages from Las Vegas to The White House, and from The Tonight Show to Epcot Center’s first Christmas spectacular. Some of the nation’s leading Christian publishers have offered more than 50 of Coates’ choral collections, musicals and piano books, and his 35-year tenure in Nashville includes 18 years as Director of Music at Christ Presbyterian Church, where he is presently serving on a parttime basis. Coates is at home in both the world’s finest concert halls and in the halls of inner-city schools, and he has assembled a choir to reflect this heartbeat: a talented group of musicians from all walks of life, dedicated to serving Nashville as “A Light for the City.” The Nashville Choir’s heart is firmly planted right here in Nashville, with a passion to love and encourage the agencies that care for the poor and marginalized. CoMMitted There’s no more compelling instrument than the human voice, a fact that is evident on the debut album by Committed, the six-man group that won season two of NBC’s singing competition series, The Sing-Off. The popular series exposed the Alabama-based group to a national audience, and Committed impressed viewers with their stellar vocals, soaring harmonies, engaging stage presence and dedication to their faith. The group launched in 2003 at Forest Lake Academy, outside Orlando, Fla. Collectively, the group shares a wide range of influences, including BeBe & CeCe Winans, Stevie Wonder, Bobby McFerrin and Take 6. All the facets of Committed’s musical personality shine on their self-titled debut. “The entire album is a cappella,” says Committed member Theron “Therry” Thomas. “We do the different sounds that you would hear: guitar sounds, synthesizer sounds. If
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you listen to it, you almost can’t tell.” On the album, Committed serves up a celestial version of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together,” and the group’s faith shines through in their rendition of the timeless “Down by the Riverside.” The collection also includes “Break Free,” an original penned by Therry Thomas. MiChael w. sMith Throughout his 29-year career as a recording artist, Michael W. Smith has amassed an impressive catalog of achievements. His 22 albums have garnered multiple honors, including an American Music Award, three GRAMMY® Awards (from 13 nominations), 44 GMA Dove Awards and 33 No. 1 radio hits. In addition, he holds 16 Gold, seven Platinum and two Double-Platinum albums for career sales of 15 million. Glory, Smith’s second full-length instrumental album, was released last November. His most recent project, Decades of Worship, a collection of his most popular worship songs, came out earlier this year. Inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2009, Smith has scored film projects, written 12 books and been featured by media outlets, including Hannity, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Larry King Live, Billboard, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and more. One of Smith’s current projects is Rocketown, a nightclub for teens in his hometown of Nashville. The club serves as a safe place for young people to enjoy music, and as a venue for artists to be discovered. Smith and his wife of 30 years, Debbie, are the proud parents of five children. randy travis With lifetime sales in excess of 20 million, Randy Travis is one of the biggest country record sellers of all time. His honors include seven GRAMMY® Awards, 10 Academy of Country Music statuettes, 10 American Music Awards, two People’s Choice
MarCia ware Marcia Ware’s outstanding music career has included working with Mary Wilson, Joan Osborne, Peter Frampton, Chaka Kahn and Alison Krauss, among others. She is also the host of her own weekly radio show, syndicated in over 100 markets across the country. After graduating from Anderson University in Indiana, Ware hosted at the Nashville-based WAY-FM Media Group. During her tenure there, she was nominated every year at the March of Dimes AIR (Achievement in Radio) Awards, winning in 1998 for Best Midday Show, and in 2002 for Best Morning Show. Currently, Ware is the host of her own late-night program, as well as The Twenty Most Wanted, a weekly countdown show. She has served on worship teams for women’s conferences, as well as for renowned speaker Beth Moore. She was a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall for Christmas in New York with the American Festival Choir in 2011. Since 2006, she has been the principal background vocalist for country music legend Lorrie Morgan. Ware makes her home in Nashville.
Triple Platinum, and another is Quintuple Platinum. In 2004, Randy was honored with his own star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has been a member of the cast of the Grand Ole Opry since 1986. Through it all, he has retained his humility, politeness and graciousness. His gentle dignity and low-key sense of humor have also remained with him.
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awards, seven Music City News awards, eight Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association and five Country Music Association honors. In addition, three of his performances earned CMA Song of the Year honors, “On the Other Hand” (1986), “Forever and Ever Amen” (1987) and “Three Wooden Crosses” (2003). To date, he has 18 No. 1 singles, 29 top-10 smashes and more than 40 appearances in feature films and television shows to his credit. Ten of his albums are Gold records. Eight are Platinum. Two have gone Double Platinum. One is
SunTrust Classical Series CLASSICAL SERIES Thursday, March 29, at 7 p.m. Friday & Saturday, March 30 & 31, at 8 p.m. Nashville Symphony Gilbert Varga, conductor Jon Kimura Parker, piano ZOLTAN KODALY SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
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ZOLTAN KODALY Born on December 16, 1882, in Kecskemét, Hungary (then part of the Russian Empire); died on March 6, 1967, in Budapest, Hungary Dances of Galánta Kodály composed Dances of Galánta in 1933 for the 80th anniversary of the Budapest Philharmonic Society, to whom the work is dedicated. A loving homage to his memories of village life in his native Hungary, Dances is a revel of vibrant melody, rhythm and orchestral color. First performance: October 23, 1933, with Ernö von Dohnányi leading the Budapest Philharmonic. First Nashville Symphony performance: December 8 & 9, 1969, with Music Director Thor Johnson Estimated length: 15 minutes Recommended listening: Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra give an infectiously enjoyable performance that’s coupled with instrumental excerpts from his folk opera Háry János.
What to listen for The verbunkos style is based on a contrast of tempo between a slow-paced, melancholy introductory section and a wild, rousing fast conclusion. Kodály repeats this pattern several times in the course of the piece as he presents a series of five dances. These are framed according to the verbunkos model: a moody slow introduction launches the sequence of dances, which are then wrapped up by a flashy coda. The clarinet is prominently featured. It spells out the main dance theme that recurs in varied form between sections of the suite. An irresistible rhythmic figure takes shape in ever-changing orchestral guises, while the melancholy clarinet theme keeps returning. In lively verbunkos tradition, Kodály finally whips the entire orchestra into a frenzy for a dance in which we can easily imagine young would-be soldiers joining together with the musicians. Dances of Galánta is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, snare drum, triangle, glockenspiel and strings. InConcert 51
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“The most beautiful seven years” of his childhood, Zoltán Kodály once recalled, were spent in Galánta, a small Hungarian town located in present-day Slovakia. It was there that the young boy encountered some of his formative musical experiences, including the town band playing what was considered Gypsy-flavored music. Much later, in 1933, the now-famous Kodály was invited to write an orchestra piece to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Budapest Philharmonic. This provided the occasion for one of Kodály’s most popular works, Dances of Galanta, which pays homage to the composer’s memories of long-ago village life. A pioneer researcher in the area of folk music, Kodály mentored his fellow Hungarian Béla Bartók in developing a more objective understanding of ethnomusicology. For Dances of Galánta, Kodály turned for inspiration to a rediscovered collection of Hungarian folk dances that had been published in Vienna around 1800. The suite imitates the basic style and structure of the instrumental dance music known as verbunkos, which evolved during the days before conscription, when Austrian recruiters would attempt to lure young Hungarians to join the army by enlisting local musicians and dancers to entertain them.
ClassiCal series serGei raChManinoff Born on April 1, 1873, in Semyonovo, Russia; died on March 28, 1943, in Beverly Hills, California Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 Rachmaninoff composed the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in just a little over a month in the summer of 1934. One of the few works he wrote since leaving his Russian homeland after the Bolshevik Revolution, the Rhapsody is often considered Rachmaninoff’s unofficial fifth piano concerto and reasserts not just his keyboard virtuosity but the composer’s undiminished creative imagination. first performance: November 7, 1934, in Baltimore, with Rachmaninoff as the soloist and Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. first nashville symphony performance: December 14 & 15, 1970, with Music Director Thor Johnson and guest pianist Lucien Stark. estimated length: 25 minutes recommended listening: Rachmaninoff himself recorded the Rhapsody with Stokowski in 1934 (RCA), and it’s fascinating to compare his account with that of a contemporary artist like Denis Matsuev, who recently recorded the piece with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev (on the ensemble’s self-produced label).
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After fleeing his native Russia during the 1917 Revolution, Sergei Rachmaninoff lived the rest of his life as an émigré. For a while he was able to divide his time between Western Europe and the United States, but with the advent of war once again in 1939, Rachmaninoff opted to settle permanently in the New World. Throughout these decades of homesickness and exile, Rachmaninoff ’s output as a composer dwindled to just a handful of works, the most famous of which is the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Constant touring as concert pianist, as well as a longing for his homeland that could never quite be assuaged, are thought to account for the sharp downturn in new compositions. Still, Rachmaninoff sought to replicate the comfort and inspiration that had earlier surrounded him at his Russian estate in the long-vanished pre-Revolutionary era. In the early 1930s, he had an idyllic retreat designed for his family on property near Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Featuring a villa, park and garden, this get-away provided a refuge during the summers leading up to the war years. Rachmaninoff christened his Swiss estate “Senar” from the combination of his initials with those of his wife, Natalia. Its reassuring atmosphere kindled a desire to compose once again, resulting in two large-scale works written over successive summers in the 1930s: the Rhapsody (composed in less than two months) and the Third Symphony. Of his reduced number of late-period compositions, only the Rhapsody was immediately taken to heart by the public. Yet the claim, still occasionally encountered, that Rachmaninoff had somehow left his inspiration behind in Russia is a myth, belied by the evolution of his later style into something tighter and less caloric.
what to listen for Rhapsody consists of 24 variations, but the work as a whole also suggests a variation on the principle of variation. The progress of the Rhapsody traces the outline of a bona fide piano concerto, complete with an opening fast movement that contains two themes, a slow but highly varied middle movement, and a dramatically climactic finale. This sense of larger architecture creates a fascinating tension between the diversity of moods and the obsessive, boxed-in character of Paganini’s actual 16-bar theme in A minor. Rachmaninoff teasingly starts off with a very short introduction and then gives us the first variation before actually laying out the theme itself. The honor is entrusted to the violins — Paganini’s instrument. It’s an ironic gesture, but so at times is Rachmaninoff ’s writing for the soloist, when he has the keyboard mimic the violin in just one of its many virtuoso disguises. A few years after he composed the Rhapsody, Rachmaninoff suggested a scenario for choreographer Mikhail Fokine to use in Paganini, the ballet he created for this score in 1939. The scenario involves Paganini (represented by the theme/soloist) selling his soul to the devil “for perfection in his art and also for a woman.” The implied love interlude is wonderfully contained in the “slow movement” (Variations 11-18) and is introduced by a dreamy cadenza. Blissful apotheosis is reached in the piece’s most famous moment, Variation No. 18, in which the Rhapsody is at its most rhapsodic. A double irony here: Rachmaninoff channels the lush, Romantic sound of his Russian days via a gorgeous melody that is actually an economic recycling. It rearranges a phrase from the Paganini theme that is turned upside-down. Regardless of whether Rachmaninoff had the Paganini/devil narrative in mind while composing, he introduces another famous melody as a counter-theme. This is the medieval
chant tune to the Dies irae sequence from the Requiem Mass, which crops up in several of the composer’s works like a morbid leitmotif. It appears first in Variation 7 — here with its dire associations lightened by scherzo-like mutations of the Paganini theme — and seems to proclaim a bombastic victory at the climax of the “final movement” (Variations 19-24). But it is Rachmaninoff ’s own creative spirit that, with a witty wink at the end, triumphs in the Rhapsody. In addition to solo piano, the score calls for 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets,3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, glockenspiel, harp and strings.
raChManinoff & paGanini Rachmaninoff seems to have chosen his theme for the Rhapsody with more than a touch of irony, as if to refute charges of weakened inspiration. The theme itself is taken from the last of Niccolò Paganini’s Twenty-Four Caprices for solo violin, published in 1820 and considered a hackneyed affair by this time. It had been used by numerous 19th-century composers, including Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. Moreover, Paganini’s career mirrored that of Rachmaninoff insofar as he combined proto-rock star celebrity as a virtuoso performer with his ambitions as a composer. Yet Rachmaninoff shows he has something beguiling and original to say, even when limiting himself to the framework of an exceedingly well-known tune by another artist. He had paved the way for this dialogue with the past in his Variations on a Theme of Corelli for piano, written in 1931.
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Rachmaninoff sought to replicate the comfort and inspiration that had earlier surrounded him at his Russian estate in the long-vanished pre-Revolutionary era.
ClassiCal series CÉsar franCk Born on December 10, 1822, in Liège, Belgium; died on November 8, 1890 in Paris, France Symphony in D minor César Franck wrote the Symphony in D minor from 1886-89. Though mostly ignored by the French music establishment, Franck achieved a late-inlife breakthrough as a composer with a brief series of masterpieces. One of them is the Symphony, his final orchestral work, which freshly combines the legacies of Beethoven and Romanticism alike. first performance: February 17, 1889, in Paris. first nashville symphony performance: February 24, 1948, with Music Director William Strickland estimated length: 40 minutes recommended listening: Pierre Monteux’s classic recording with the Chicago Symphony remains wonderfully persuasive and is easily available in an excellent remastering (on RCA, oddly coupled with Stravinsky’s Petrushka).
The name César Franck — with its blend of French and Germanic — encapsulates the mixed background that gave the composer an outsider’s perspective as a resident of Paris for most of his life. Franck arrived in the French music capital as a teenager, thanks to his father’s ambitions for him. The elder Franck resettled the entire family in Paris so that the talented son could be enrolled in the Conservatory there, a goldmine for making career-enhancing connections. César had been born in present-day Belgium, in a territory then governed by the Netherlands, and grew up with French as his first language. Yet from German composers, he later absorbed significant influences that tended to be distasteful to many of his Gallic peers. Franck’s musical life is framed by a curious paradox. While he began as a prodigy, he represents one of the archetypal “late bloomers” among composers. Franck produced the small number of works with which he made his mark only in his late 50s and 60s. Unlike the familiar stories of composers whose parents adamantly opposed their desire for a musical career (e.g., Berlioz), Franck’s father was dead set on grooming his son to become a flashy keyboard virtuoso in the manner of Liszt, who was then taking Europe by storm. But such a lifestyle held little appeal for César, who took some time to break free from his filial bond. He abandoned the prescribed role of piano celebrity and instead gained a reputation as one of the era’s great organists, eventually presiding over the organ loft at the recently built, twin-spired St. Clotilde basilica. Franck patiently devoted a portion of his day to composing, but he lacked the gene for self-publicity — essential in the competitive Parisian milieu — and his music was mostly ignored. As the composer Olivier Messiaen (also a great organist) would do a century later, Franck meanwhile developed a devoted following of students while teaching at the prestigious Conservatory. Several of these students, such as Ernest Chausson, Henri Duparc and Vincent d’Indy, would become well-known composers in their own right. Their enthusiasm prompted the master to grapple with the symphonic tradition
what to listen for The first and longest of the symphony’s three movements establishes a tone of stern mystery from the start. A slow introduction probes the implications of a three-note motif, ultra-simple but shaped like a musical question mark. It recalls the famous three-note motif Beethoven used in his final string quartet, where he in fact did inscribe it with a question: “Muss es sein?” (“Must it be?”) This is also the seed for the Allegro’s impetuous main theme. The introduction turns out not to be the normal curtain raiser — over and done with — but returns, in a different key, and is reprised yet again as part of the fabric of the movement. This is a prime example of Franck’s quest to ramify structural unity. Notice, too, how much mileage he gets out of the economical shape of the second theme, with its
much-repeated note. Franck’s orchestration, with its varied use of different blocks of instruments, betrays the thumbprint of the organist. The second movement does double duty as the expected slow movement and scherzo of a conventional symphony. Liszt is one source for this kind of synthesis, which Rachmaninoff in turn would later use to great effect. Franck’s nuanced orchestral coloring suggests a lighter Gallic touch, with plucked strings and harp picking out a haunting accompaniment to what seems a mournful, archaic melody given to the English horn. The latter seems perfect for Franck’s palette here, though it was exactly this sound that disturbed some of the initial critics of the piece. A change of texture and mood at the center brings a whiff of scherzo, but Franck artfully combines this with the march-like opening material. Beethoven’s shadow recurs in the finale as well, where the finale from his own Ninth provides a very loose model for a basic technique of “cyclic form” — i.e., quoting music heard in previous movements. In fact, the culminating movement here achieves its sense of resolution from this technique more than from the paradigm of minor-to-major. After a bit of dramatic atmosphere, Franck simply takes the shift for granted, using a rhythmically infectious main theme. A chorale-like second theme mirrors the economical one from the first movement, while the moody march of the middle movement passes several times in review — but now placed in a new context. Franck implies the relationships of his various thematic shapes throughout. This is most clearly heard near the end, where he transforms the three-note introductory idea to stage the return of the finale’s main theme in its most vibrant form. The Symphony in D minor is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 cornets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, harp and strings. — Thomas May is the Nashville Symphony’s program annotator. He writes extensively about music and theater.
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during the late-period blossoming of his creative powers, which also gave us his splendid Violin Sonata. Franck had written a more conservative symphony in his youth, but by this point in his artistic evolution he was incorporating the bolder harmonic language of composers like Liszt and Wagner. Liszt’s experiments with the symphonic poem inspired Franck’s sense of thematic development and “cyclic form” — the catchphrase for the kind of overarching coherence attempted in the Symphony in D minor. “Why, when it was in the opera house and not the organ loft that reputations were sought and won, did it take a failed pianist, immured in churchly obscurity at St. Clotilde, to awaken the talents of an entire generation of French musicians?” That question, posed by biographer Laurence Davies, would certainly have baffled Franck’s initial audience, who reacted to his new symphony with a scorn not unlike that directed at the symphonist Anton Bruckner (also an organist-composer) for most of his career in Vienna. Franck died before he could witness it, but the Symphony in D minor — which tends to elicit strongly differing reactions even today — soon won recognition as his crowning achievement, alongside his chamber music. It has remained a magnet for generations of Franckophiles.
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Gilbert varGa, conductor Gilbert Varga, son of the celebrated Hungarian violinist Tibor Varga, is renowned for his elegant baton technique; he has guest-conducted and held positions with many of the world’s major orchestras. In the 2011/12 season, Varga returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra with Yefim Bronfman, makes his debut with the Houston Symphony and returns to other orchestras, including the Indianapolis, Colorado and Utah symphonies, as well as the Minnesota Orchestra, which he conducts every season. Other ongoing relationships continue with the Atlanta, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Baltimore symphony orchestras. In Europe, Varga regularly conducts the major orchestras in musical centers such as Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Cologne, Budapest, Lisbon, Brussels and Glasgow, with soloists including Truls Mørk, James Ehnes, Anna Vinnitskaya, Marc-André Hamelin and Kirill Gerstein. Varga has been repeatedly acclaimed for his ability to draw out a broad range of colors and emotions from the orchestra; his programs frequently feature the ballet suites, tone poems and symphonies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of a recent performance of Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, the Leipziger-Volkszeitung said: “The Hungarian gypsies were lascivious and witty under Varga’s baton, full of fire with ardent strings and blazing brass. The oboe, clarinet and horn gave beautiful solos, and the flutes and piccolo were so soft that the delicate pizzicato sounded almost coarse.” Varga’s discography includes recordings with the ASV, Koch International and Claves Records labels. His 2011 recording of concertos by Ravel and Prokofiev with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Anna Vinnitskaya on Naïve Records was given five stars by BBC Music Magazine.
Jon kiMura parker, piano Jon Kimura Parker has performed as guest soloist with major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie, Warsaw Philharmonic and NHK Tokyo Orchestra. Conductors he has recently worked with include James DePreist, Jeffrey Kahane, Carlos Kalmar, Jahja Ling, Andrew Litton, Larry Rachleff and Pinchas Zukerman. Parker performs as duo partner regularly with James Ehnes, Lynn Harrell and Cho-Liang Lin. An unusually versatile artist, he has also jammed with Audra McDonald, Bobby McFerrin and Doc Severinsen. As a member of the outreach project Piano Plus, he toured remote areas including the Canadian Arctic, performing classical music and rock ’n’ roll on everything from upright pianos to electronic keyboards. In commemoration of his performance in war-torn Sarajevo in 1995, he was a featured speaker alongside humanitarians Elie Wiesel and Paul Rusesabagina at the 50th Anniversary of AmeriCares. This season, Parker performs the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Bournemouth Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, West Virginia Symphony and Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and also performs piano concerti of Brahms, Grieg and Barber. His recital program includes his solo transcription to celebrate the centenary of Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. A committed educator, Parker is professor of piano at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He is an Officer of The Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian honor. He was born, raised and educated in Vancouver, British Columbia. He lives in Houston with his wife, violinist Aloysia Friedmann, and their daughter, Sophie.
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Now entering his third season as its Music Director, Giancarlo Guerrero continues to flourish with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO). In autumn 2011, Guerrero also begins his new appointment as Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency. A fervent advocate of new music and contemporary composers, Guerrero has collaborated with and championed the works of several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Daugherty and Roberto Sierra. His first recording with the Nashville Symphony, on Naxos, of Michael Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony and Deus Ex Machina, won three 2011 GRAMMY® Awards, including the category of Best Orchestral Performance. In 2010/11, Guerrero and the NSO released two more recordings on Naxos — one featuring the music of Argentine legend Astor Piazzolla and another featuring the music of American composer Joseph Schwantner. In 2011/12, Guerrero will debut several world premieres with the Nashville Symphony, including a new work by Richard Danielpour, a banjo concerto by Béla Fleck and a concerto for electric violin by Terry Riley, which the NSO will bring to Carnegie Hall as part of the Spring for Music festival. With The Cleveland Orchestra, where Guerrero first appeared in May 2006, he will conduct subscription concerts in both Severance Hall and for Miami Residency performances
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at the Arsht Center, as well as plan and engage in education and community programs in the Miami-Dade area. Also this season, he returns to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and makes his debut with the Pacific Symphony. Internationally, highlights of this season include his first European tour with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, concerts with the Slovenian and Strasbourg Philharmonics, the BBC Scottish and BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestras, and a return to the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra. In summer 2011, Guerrero again led the Philadelphia Orchestra in concert at Mann Center, and in addition conducted the orchestra in their summer residencies at Vail and Saratoga. This followed a busy 2010/11 season that included guest-conducting engagements in five continents: Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and South America. He now returns annually to Caracas, Venezuela, to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar and to work with young musicians in the country’s much-lauded El Sistema music education program. In recent seasons he has appeared with many of the major North American orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and the National Symphony in Washington, D.C. He has also appeared at several major summer festivals, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Festival, and Indiana University’s summer orchestra festival. In June 2004, Guerrero was awarded the Helen M. Thompson Award by the American Symphony Orchestra League, which recognizes outstanding achievement among young conductors nationwide. He holds degrees from Baylor and Northwestern universities. Guerrero was formerly the music director of the Eugene Symphony (2001-2008), associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra (1999-2004) and music director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.
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Albert-George Schram, a native of the Netherlands, has served as Resident Conductor of the Nashville Symphony since 2006. While he has conducted on all series the orchestra offers, Schram is primarily responsible for its Bank of America Pops Series. Schram’s longest tenure has been with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, where he has worked in a variety of capacities since 1979. As a regular guest conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Schram in 2002 opened the orchestra’s new permanent summer home, Symphony Park. From 1990 to 1996, he served as resident conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. The former Florida Philharmonic Orchestra appointed Schram as resident conductor beginning with the 2002/03 season. In 2008 Schram was invited to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Bolivia and the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. His other foreign conducting engagements have included the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the Taegu Symphony Orchestra in Korea, and the Orchester der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft Luzern in Switzerland. He has returned to his native Holland to conduct the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Netherlands Broadcast Orchestra. In the U.S., his recent and coming guest conducting appearances include the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Shreveport Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Allentown Symphony and the Mansfield Symphony. Schram’s studies have been largely in the European tradition under the tutelage of Franco Ferrara, Rafael Kubelik, Abraham Kaplan and Neeme Järvi. He received his initial training at the Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands, then later moved to Canada to undertake studies at the universities of Calgary and Victoria. His training was completed at the University of Washington.
Now in her fifth season with the Nashville Symphony, Associate Conductor Kelly Corcoran serves as the primary conductor for the orchestra’s education and community engagement concerts. She has also conducted the Symphony’s Classical Series, Pops Series, and its CD collaboration with Riders In The Sky, ‘Lassoed Live’ at the Schermerhorn. Corcoran has conducted major orchestras throughout the country, including the Houston and Utah Symphonies, and return engagements with the Detroit, Milwaukee and National Symphonies. In 2009, she made her South American debut as guest conductor with Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, returning for multiple programs in 2011. She has developed a reputation for exciting performances. The Tennessean has hailed her work on the podium as “lively” and “fresh.” Named as Honorable Mention for the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, Corcoran studied with Marin Alsop and shared performances with her and the Bournemouth (U.K.) Symphony and Colorado Symphony. In 2004, she participated in the National Conducting Institute, where she studied with her mentor Leonard Slatkin. She has also attended the Lucerne Festival’s master class in conducting with Pierre Boulez. Prior to Nashville, Corcoran completed three seasons as assistant conductor for the Canton Symphony Orchestra in Ohio and music director of the Canton Youth Symphony and the Clevelandarea Heights Chamber Orchestra. She has served as assistant music director of the Nashville Opera, founder/music director of the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra and fellow with the New World Symphony. Originally from Massachusetts and a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for more than 10 years, Corcoran received her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from The Boston Conservatory, and she received her Master of Music in instrumental conducting from Indiana University. She currently serves on the faculty at the New York Summer Music Festival.
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horNS Kelly Cornell, Associate Principal/3rd Horn Hunter Sholar Radu V. Rusu, Assistant 1st Horn TruMPETS Jeffrey Bailey, Principal Patrick Kunkee, Co-Principal Gary Armstrong+, Assistant Principal Preston Bailey, Acting Assistant Principal TroMBoNES Lawrence L. Borden+, Principal Susan K. Smith, Acting Principal Prentiss Hobbs, Acting Assistant Principal BaSS TroMBoNE Steven Brown TuBa Gilbert Long, Principal TiMPaNi William G. Wiggins, Principal PErCuSSioN Sam Bacco, Principal Richard Graber, Assistant Principal Trent Leasure harP Licia Jaskunas, Principal KEYBoard Robert Marler, Principal LiBrariaNS D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian orChESTra PErSoNNEL MaNagErS Anne Dickson Rogers Carrie Marcantonio, Assistant *Section seating revolves +Leave of Absence
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2011/12 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS
DIRECTORS
James C. Gooch Board Chair
Janet Ayers Julian B. Baker, Jr. Russell W. Bates Scott Becker James L. Beckner Rob Bironas David L. Black Julie Boehm James B. Boles Jack O. Bovender, Jr. William H. Braddy III, CFP Anastasia Brown Ann Carell Rebecca Cole * Lisa Cooper * Susannah C. Culbertson * Ben L. Cundiff Carol Daniels Bob Dennis David Steele Ewing Bob Ezrin John D. Ferguson Ben Folds John Gawaluck Amy Grant Carl Grimstad Carl Haley, Jr.
edward Goodrich Board Chair Elect John t. rochford Board Vice Chair david williams ii Board Treasurer betsy wills Board Secretary alan d. valentine * President & CEO
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Billy Ray Hearn C. Keith Herron Lee Ann Ingram Martha R. Ingram Clay Jackson Ruth E. Johnson Elliott Warner Jones, Sr. Larry Larkin Kevin P. Lavender Mary Helen Law * Zachary Liff Ellen Harrison Martin * Robert A. McCabe, Jr. Robert E. McNeilly III Eduardo Minardi Gregg Morton Peter Neff Victoria Chu Pao Charles R. Pruett Jennifer Puryear Jesse B. Register Wayne J. Riley Norma Rogers * Anne L. Russell Michael Samis * Mike Schatzlein, M.D. James C. Seabury III
Kristi Seehafer * Nelson Shields Beverly K. Small Renata Soto Bruce D. Sullivan Brett Sweet Louis B. Todd Van Tucker Jay Turner Steve Turner Mark Wait Jeffery Walraven Johnna Watson Ted Houston Welch William Greer Wiggins * Jeremy Williams * William M. Wilson Clare Yang * Shirley Zeitlin James Zimmermann* Young Leaders Council intern Amy Richardson *Indicates Ex Officio
2011/12 NASHVILLE SYMPHONY STAFF exeCutive alan d. Valentine, President and CEO Karen Fairbend, Executive Assistant to the President and CEO Mark a. Blakeman, V.P. of Orchestra and Building Operations and General Manager Sarah Jones, Assistant to the V.P. of Orchestra and Building Operations andrea dillenburg, V.P. of External Affairs Polly rembert, Assistant to the V.P. of External Affairs Michael Kirby, V.P. of Finance and Administration and CFO Jim Mancuso, V.P. of Artistic Administration Jonathan Norris, SPHR, V.P. of Human Resources
Lacy Lusebrink, Food and Beverage Manager Collin husbands, Food, Beverage and Events Coordinator angela gutheridge, Food and Beverage Supervisor Johnathon Mcgee, Food and Beverage Supervisor anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager garland Smith, Beverage Supervisor
artistiC adMinistration Emma Smyth, Manager of Artistic Administration Valerie Nelson, Manager of Pops & Special Programs Ellen Kasperek, Artistic Administration Assistant andrew risinger, Organ Curator
i.t. dan Sanders, Director of Information Technology Trenton Leach, Software Applications Developer Chris Beckner, Desktop Support Specialist
box offiCe/tiCketinG Kimberly darlington, Director of Ticket Services Emily Shannon, Box Office Manager Tina Messer, Ticket Services Specialist Missy hubner, Ticket Services Assistant CoMMuniCations Jonathan Marx, Director of Communications Laurie davis, Publicist Nancy Vanreece, Social Media Strategist and Website Manager data standards Tony Exler, Director of Data Standards Sheila Wilson, Sr. Database Associate developMent Erin Wenzel, Sr. Director of Development hayden Pruett, Major Gifts Officer Maribeth Stahl, Director of Corporate Relations and Grants holly Noble, Grants Manager Kristy reuter, Benefit Fulfillment Coordinator Sara hanahan, Development Events Manager eduCation Blair Bodine, Director of Education and Community Engagement andy Campbell, Education and Community Engagement Program Manager Kelley Bell, Education and Community Engagement Assistant finanCe Karen Warren, Controller Mildred Payne, Accounts Payable and Payroll Manager Sheri Switzer, Senior Accountant Steven McNeal, Staff Accountant debra hollenbeck, Buyer/Retail Manager food, beveraGe and events Steve Perdue, Director of Food, Beverage and Events roger Keenan, Executive Chef ryan Slattery, Executive Sous Chef Bruce Pittman, Catering & Events Sales Manager Kayanne Jones, Catering and Events Manager hays McWhirter, Catering and Events Manager
huMan resourCes ashley Skinner, PHR, Human Resources Manager Kathleen McCracken, Volunteer Manager Martha Bryant, Receptionist and Human Resources Assistant
MarketinG ronda Combs helton, Sr. Director of Marketing Misty Cochran, Director of Advertising and Promotions Sarah Vickery, Sales Manager Meredith Benning, Promotions & Sales Coordinator Jessi Menish, Graphic Designer ashley May, Graphic Design Associate Kate allen, Graphic Design Intern produCtion and orChestra operations Tim Lynch, Sr. Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager anne dickson rogers, Orchestra Personnel Manager Carrie Marcantonio, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager d. Wilson ochoa, Principal Librarian Jennifer goldberg, Librarian John Sanders, Chief Technical Engineer Brian doane, Production Manager Mitch hansen, Lighting Director gary Call, Audio Engineer Mark dahlen, Audio Engineer W. Paul holt, Stage Manager Josh Walliser, Stage and Production Assistant patron serviCes Kristen drake, Director of Patron Services Patron Services Specialists: Darlene Boswell, Dennis Carter, Phil Shay, Daniel Tonelson, Judith Wall Jackie Knox, Manager of Marketing Associates Eric adams, Assistant Manager of Marketing Associates Marketing associates: Linda Booth, Toni Conn, James Calvin Davidson, Gina Haining, Mark Haining, Lloyd Harper, Rick Katz , Deborah King, Cassie Nowels, Misha Robledo, Jesse Rosas, Dustin Skilbred venue ManaGeMent Eric Swartz, Associate V.P. of Venue Management Craig Colunga, Director of Security danny Covington, Chief Engineer raay Creech, Facility Maintenance Technician Kenneth dillehay, Facility Maintenance Technician Wade Johnson, Housekeeping Manager Kevin Butler, Housekeeper Tony Meyers, House Manager
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A Leader Among Leaders The Alexis de Tocqueville Society was founded in Nashville in 1981 by Dr. Thomas F. Frist, Jr. The Society now circles the globe with 26,000 members contributing $500 million annually to United Way’s most critical work. Following are the members of Nashville’s 2010 Alexis de Tocqueville Society, Alpha Chapter with years of membership denoted. 2010 Alexis Tocqueville Society, Alpha Chapter Members Mr. and Mrs. Kent Adams, 6 Mr. and Mrs. David G. Anderson, 12 Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Arthur, 5 Jim and Janet Ayers, 16 Dr. Jeffrey R. Balser, 3 Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II, 17 Carol and Barney Barnett, 8 Mr. Russell W. Bates, 8 Mr. and Mrs. James S. Beard, 15 Dr. and Mrs. Robert Daniel Beauchamp, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Bedard, 8 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Belser, 8 Mr. and Mrs. Phil and Amberly Billington, 6 Mr. and Mrs. W. Perry Blandford, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Blank, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Brad Blevins, 9 Mr. and Mrs. J. William Blevins, 16 Michael and Resha Blivens, 1 Linda and David Bohan, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Jack O. Bovender, Jr., 21 Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Bracken, 14 Mrs. James C. Bradford, Jr., 23 Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Braman, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Bray, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Laurance H. Brewster, 3 David and Jenny Briggs, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay Bright III, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Brown, 24 Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Bumstead, 10 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Burch, 24 Julie and Matt Burnstein, 5 Diane and Kyle Callahan, 10 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Campbell III, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Victor Campbell, 19 David and Elizabeth Cannady, 4 Mrs. Monroe J. Carell, Jr., 14 Bill and Trudy Carpenter, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Carter, 5 Mr. and Mrs. William J. Carver, Jr., 6 Mr. Fred J. Cassetty, 7 Yonnie and Curt Chesley, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cigarran, 11 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Clay, Jr., 16 Mr. and Mrs. William S. Cochran, 25 Mr. J. Chase Cole, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Wiley B. Coley III, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cook, Jr., 17 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Crosslin, 5 Kevin and Katie Crumbo, 5 Harvey and Helen Cummings, 19 Mr. and Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., 30 Professor Richard Daft and Dorothy Marcic, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daniels III, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Davis, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Dean, 12 Mayor Karl F. Dean and Ms. Anne Davis, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis T. Delaney, 11 Elizabeth and Robert Dennis, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. DeVane, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Dewey, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Dobyns, 3 Margaret and Steve Dolan, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Cullen E. Douglass, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Eads, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Eddy, 12 Cassie and Tom Edenton, 12
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Elcan, 16 Mr. and Mrs. Jason Epstein, 4 Mrs. Irwin B. Eskind, 27 Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind, 16 Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Ezell, Jr., 18 Mr. and Mrs. Mark V. Ezell, 4 Bob and Amanda Farnsworth, 9 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Felts, Jr., 3 Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ferguson, 8 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund B. Fitzgerald, 21 Mr. and Mrs. Gene Fleming, 17 Tom and Judy Foster, 6 Mr. Sam O. Franklin III, 16 Mr. and Mrs. David Freeman, 4 Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Frist, 19 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Frist, Jr., 30 The Honorable and Mrs. William H. Frist, 19 Mr. and Mrs. William R. Frist, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Fritch, 6 Mr. Mario J. Gabelli, 8 Mr. and Mrs. John Gawaluck, 11 Mr. and Mrs. Gerard V. Geraghty, 7 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Gerdesmeier, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gordon, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Joel C. Gordon, 30 Robert and Julie Gordon, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Green, 4 Kristen and Chad Greer, 6 Steve Groom, 2 Landis B. Gullett Lead Annuity Trust, 16 Mr. and Mrs. James S. Gulmi, 10 Scott and Kathy Hadfield, 3 JB and Shawn Haile, 1 Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hailey, 17 Mr. Charles J. Hall, 4 Russ and Elvia Harms, 8 Robert L. and Caitlin S. Harris, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Hays, 19 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel N. Hazen, 11 Mrs. Phyllis G. Heard, 2 Mr. and Mrs. E. Anthony Heard III, 9 Drs. Robert and Alexandra Hendricks, 2 Ms. Sherri M. Henry, 6 Mr. J. Reginald Hill, 10 Damon and Carrie Hininger, 6 Mr. and Mrs. James D. Hinton, 12 Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. Hogan, 6 Ms. Angela Rene Hoke, 1 Mr. and Mrs. William Holleman, 3 Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Holliday, Jr., 1 Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Hooker, 30 The Houghland Foundation, 29 Carol and Ad Hudler, 1 Ms. Angela H. Humphreys, 4 Mr. Franklin Y. Hundley, Jr., 3 Mr. and Mrs. James V. Hunt, Sr., 9 Mr. and Mrs. David B. Ingram, 14 Martha R. Ingram, 30 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ingram, 15 Mr. and Mrs. Orrin H. Ingram, 16 Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Inman, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Israel, 19 Mr. and Mrs. Clay T. Jackson, 14 Mr. and Mrs. Granbery Jackson III, 11 Mr. and Mrs. Clint Jennings, 2 Mr. and Mrs. James L. Johnson, 17 Mr. and Mrs. R. Milton Johnson, 12 Roy and Marty Jordan, 7 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Kindig, 3
Robin and Bill King, 24 Mr. and Mrs. Larry Kloess, 8 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Knox, Jr., 14 Mr. Kumar Kolin, 1 Mr. Kevin P. Lavender, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby, 23 Irving E. Lingo, Jr. and Karin Demler, 3 Mr. Robert S. Lipman, 14 Sam and Mary Ann Lipshie, 3 Estate of Clare H. Loventhal, 10 Mr. and Mrs. C. Stephen Lynn, 16 Barbara and Kenny Lyons, 8 Mr. and Mrs. Myles A. MacDonald, 5 Mr. and Mrs. David J. Malone, Jr., 19 Mr. and Mrs. Chip Manning, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Masie, 3 Ms. Cheryl White Mason, 5 Mrs. Jack C. Massey, 30 Ms. Margaret C. Mazzone, 3 Ms. Maeve E. McConville, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. McGregor, 3 Betsy Vinson McInnes, 12 Mr. and Mrs. Robert McNeilly, Jr., 9 Mr. and Mrs. R. Clayton McWhorter, 24 Mr. and Mrs. Scott McWilliams, 8 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Meadows, Jr., 11 Lynn and Ken Melkus, 17 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin S. Millen, 2 Andrew Woodfin Miller Foundation, 20 Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Miller, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller, 3 Ms. Mary Mirabelli and Mr. Steven Cristanus, 6 Mr. Kevin N. Monroe, 2 Mr. Donald R. Moody, 5 Mr. and Mrs. A. Bruce Moore, Jr., 14 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Moore, 19 Mr. and Mrs. William P. Morelli, 10 Gregg F. and Cathy T. Morton, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Nash, 8 Troy and Kimberly Nunn, 4 Philip and Carolyn Orr, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Paisley, 6 Mr. and Mrs. James N. Parrott, 6 Ms. Mary Parsons, 6 Mr. and Mrs. William V. Parsons, Jr., 9 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Martin Paslick, 5 Mr. Steven A. Pate, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Hal N. Pennington, 10 Mr. and Mrs. James W. Perkins, Jr., 29 Mr. and Mrs. Clay Petrey, 3 Craig E. Philip and Marian T. Ott, 11 Leigh and David Pickett, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Sid Pilson, 13 Mr. and Mrs. Marshall T. Polk III, 9 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Pruett, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Mel Purcell, 4 Mr. Larry Quinlan, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Art Rebrovick, 13 Mr. and Mrs. Ben L. Rechter, 7 Mr. and Mrs. Ben R. Rechter, 29 Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Rechter, 7 Mr. and Mrs. Colin Reed, 5 Bonnie and Gary Reid, 2 Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Rein, 4 Ken and Michelle Rideout, 3 Dr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Riley, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Riven, 20 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Roberts, 27 Mr. and Mrs. Bailey P. Robinson III, 16
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Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rochford III, 16 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Rohleder, 6 Mr. Anthony A. Rose, 22 W. Andrew and Sabrina Ruderer, 2 Anne and Joe Russell, 22 Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rutan, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Bill B. Rutherford, 9 Mr. and Mrs. William Paul Rutledge, 10 The Scarlett Family Foundation, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Joe Scarlett, 11 Tim and Beth Scarvey, 6 Mr. and Mrs. James Schmitz, 4 Mr. and Mrs. David G. Sehrt, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Shallcross, 10 Michael and Lisa Shmerling, 13 Mr. and Mrs. W. Lucas Simons, 23 R. Timothy Sinks, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Barry R. Smith, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Smith, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne T. Smith, 10 Grant and Suzanne Smothers, 1 Joe and Joanne Sowell, 2 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Spieth, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sprintz, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Joe N. Steakley, 14 Mr. John M. Steele, 12 John and Beth Stein, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Stinnett, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Don Street, Jr., 12 Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Sullivan, 9 David and Mona Tehle, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Steve Thomas, 6 Mrs. Kim Bradley Thomason, 3 Robin and Overton Thompson, 1 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Tishler, 3 Ms. Claire Whitfield Tucker, 12 Mr. and Mrs. Cal Turner, 24 James Stephen Turner Family Foundation, 3 Juan and Elizabeth Vallarino, 2 Mr. and Mrs. Lee F. Van Dyke, 3 Mr. and Mrs. David T. Vandewater, 16 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Viehmann, 18 Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wallace, 12 Mr. and Mrs. Johnson B. Wallace, Jr., 12 Brian and Christy Waller, 6 Ms. Leigh Walton, 1 Mr. Brian Ampferer Ward, 9 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Waterman, 14 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Weaver, 9 Marti and Brian Webster, 1 Colleen and Ted Welch, 18 Betty and Bernard Werthan Foundation, 30 Mrs. John Warner White, 24 Mr. and Mrs. David Williams II, 4 Ms. Noel B. Williams, 13 Mr. and Mrs. Ridley Wills II, 30 Dan Wilson and Linda Dickert Wilson, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Brad Withrow, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Witt, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Yuspeh, 11 Mrs. Robert K. Zelle, 28 Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, 3 Raymond and Etta Zimmerman, 30 Dana A. Zukierski, 1
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the nashville symphony is deeply grateful to the following individuals who support its concert season and its services to the community through their generous contributions to the Annual fund. donors as of January 26, 2012.
VirTuoSo SoCiETY Gifts of $10,000+
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Anonymous (2) David & Diane Black Richard & Judith Bracken Mr.* & Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick Mac & Linda Crawford Janine & Ben Cundiff Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Daniels III Mr. & Mrs. Albert F. Ganier III James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hayes Mrs. Martha R. Ingram Dr. & Mrs. Howard Kirshner
LifeWorks Foundation The Martin Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Cano Ozgener Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Anne & Joe Russell Margaret & Cal Turner Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner Mr. & Mrs. Ted H. Welch
STradiVariuS SoCiETY Gifts of $5,000+ Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. James Ayers J. B. & Carylon Baker Judy & Joe Barker Russell W. Bates Mr. James B. Boles Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Carlton Kelly & Bill Christie Mr. & Mrs. Tom F. Cone Hilton & Sallie Dean Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis Marty & Betty Dickens Dee & Jerald Doochin Mr. & Mrs. Jere M. Ervin Annette S. Eskind
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The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Marilyn Ezell Allis Dale & John Gillmor Ed & Nancy Goodrich Carl & Connie Haley Mrs. Harold Hassenfeld Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Helen & Neil Hemphill Mrs. V. Davis Hunt Mr. & Mrs. David B. Ingram Lee Ann & Orrin Ingram Gordon & Shaun Inman Keith & Nancy Johnson Robin & Bill King Christine Konradi & Stephan Heckers
Jim Lewis Mr. Zachary B. Liff Robert Straus Lipman Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Sheila & Richard McCarty Dr. Ron McDow The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt Christopher & Patricia Mixon Gregg & Cathy Morton Anne & Peter Neff Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Burton Jablin & Barron Patterson Hal & Peggy Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Carol & John T. Rochford
The Roros Foundation Dorothy & Joe Scarlett Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Schatzlein Mr.* & Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus Ronald & Diane Shafer Nelson & Sheila Shields Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small Mr. & Mrs. Earl S. Swensson Dr. John B. Thomison Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. Alan D. & Connie F. Valentine Peggy & John Warner David & Gail Williams Mr. & Mrs. Julian Zander Jr. Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth
goLdEN BaToN SoCiETY Gifts of $2,500+ Anonymous (2) Clint & Kali Adams Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Shelley Alexander Dr. & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup Dr. & Mrs. H. Victor Braren Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Ann & Frank Bumstead Mrs. Patricia B. Buzzell Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler Richard & Kathy Cooper Mr. & Mrs. James H. Costner Mr. & Mrs. Justin Dell Crosslin Barbara & Willie K. Davis
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Andrea Dillenburg & Ted Kraus Donna & Jeffrey Eskind Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ezrin Bob & Judy Fisher Harris A. Gilbert Amy Grant & Vince Gill Kate R. W. Grayken Suzy Heer Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilton Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques Anne Knauff Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. Kevin P. & May Lavender
Dr. Arthur M. Mellor F. Max & Mary A. Merrell Edward D. & Linda F. Miles Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Eric Raefsky, M.D. & Ms. Victoria Heil Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Risk Anne & Charles Roos Debbie & Albert-George Schram Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Scott Mr. & Mrs. Rusty Siebert Dr. Michael & Tracy Stadnick Mr. & Mrs. Brett Sweet Pamela & Steven Taylor
The Vandewater Family Foundation Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery C. & Dayna L. Walraven Jonathan & Janet Weaver Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenck Dr. Artmas L. Worthy Shirley Zeitlin
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Gifts of $1,500+
Anonymous (3) Jeff & Tina Adams James & Glyna Aderhold Dr. Alice & Mr. Richard C. Arnemann Jon K. & Colleen Atwood James M. Bailey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Barbara & Mike Barton Betty C. Bellamy Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Frank M. Berklacich, MD Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mark & Sarah Blakeman Julie & Dr. Frank Boehm Dennis & Tammy Boehms Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III Mr. Jamey Bowen & Mr. Norman Wells Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Brown Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Buijsman Betty & Lonnie Burnett Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt Chuck & Sandra Cagle Michael & Jane Ann Cain Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Brenda & Edward Callis Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Jan & Jim Carell Ann & Sykes Cargile Clint & Patty Carter Michael & Pamela Carter Fred Cassetty Erica & Doug Chappell Barbara & Eric Chazen James H. Cheek III Mr. & Mrs. John J. Chiaramonte Jr. Catherine Chitwood M. Wayne Chomik Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher Drs. Keith & Leslie Churchwell Mr. George D. Clark Jr. Dorit & Don Cochron Esther & Roger Cohn Ed & Pat Cole Marjorie & Allen* Collins Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Roger & Barbara Cottrell Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan James L. & Sharon H. Cox Dr. & Mrs. James Crafton Kimberly L. Darlington John & Natasha Deane Sandra & Daryl Demonbreun The Rev. & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden E.B.S. Foundation Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Robert D. Eisenstein Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Mr. & Mrs. John Ferguson T. Aldrich Finegan John David & Mary Dale Trabue Fitzgerald
John & Cindy Watson Ford Tom & Judy Foster Danna & Bill Francis Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone Lynette Gibbons & D. Cole Gibbons Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III Frank Ginanni Tony & Teri Gosse Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin Francis S. Guess Kathleen & Harvey Guion Dr. Edward Hantel Janet & Jim Hasson Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Lucia & Don Hillenmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey N. Hinson Judith Hodges Ken & Pam Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Judith & Jim Humphreys Marsha & Keel Hunt Rodney Irvin Family Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson Donald L. Jackson Ellen & Kenneth Jacobs Louis Johnson M.D. Norm & Barb Johnson George & Shirley Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Clark Powell Jones Dr. & Mrs. David S. Jones Jan Jones & Steve Williams Drs. Spyros Kalams & Lisa Mendes Ray & Rosemarie Kalil Mr. & Mrs. Bill G. Kilpatrick Michael & Melissa Kirby Tom & Darlene Klaritch Mr. Richard B. Kloete William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Bob & Mary LaGrone Robert & Carol Lampe Larry & Martha Larkin Sandi & Tom Lawless Jon & Elaine Levine Sally M. Levine John T. Lewis Margaret & Bill Lindberg Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Lippolis Robert A. Livingston Elizabeth & Jim Mancuso Shari & Red Martin Rhonda A. Martocci & William S. Blaylock Scott & Jennifer McClellan Tommy & Cat McEwen Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. McNeilly III
Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. McRae III Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli Ms. Lucy H. Morgan Matt & Rhonda Mulroy James & Patricia Munro Leonard Murray & Jacqueline Marschak Lannie W. Neal Pat & John W. Nelley Jr. Ms. Agatha L. Nolen Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat Representative & Mrs. Gary L. Odom Ms. Mary E. Pinkston David & Adrienne Piston Charles H. Potter Jr. Dr. Neil Price & Nancy M. Falls Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus A. Puryear IV Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Sharon Hels & Brad Reed Dr. Jesse B. Register Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Drs. Wayne & Charlene Riley Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Roberts Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke James & Patricia Russell Mr. & Mrs. John J. Sangervasi Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Dolores & John Seigenthaler Mrs. Wendy F. Sensing Dr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Shack Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Tom & Sylvia Singleton William & Cynthia Sites George & Mary Sloan Drs. Walter Smalley & Louise Hanson Suzanne & Grant Smothers K. C. & Mary Smythe Jack & Louise Spann Stuart & Shirley Speyer Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell Christopher & Maribeth Stahl Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III Ann & Bob Street Bruce & Elaine Sullivan Fridolin & Johanna Sulser Andrew Keith & Donna Dame Summar Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Dr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Thomas Scott & Julie Thomas Candy Toler Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Christi & Jay Turner Kris & G. G. Waggoner Deborah & Mark Wait
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Anonymous (8) Mark & Niki Antonini Mrs. Brenda Bass Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Marti Bellingrath Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills Bob & Marion Bogen Mr. Michael F. Brewer Jean & David Buchanan Sharon Lee Butcher John E. Cain III Anita & Larry Cash Dr. Elizabeth Cato Mary & Joseph Cavarra Dr.* & Mrs. Robert Chalfant Mrs. John Hancock Cheek Jr. Mr. & Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Joe C. Cook III Mr. & Mrs. Joe C. Cook Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie Greg & Collie Daily Mr. & Mrs. Julian de la Guardia Mr. & Mrs. Kenton Dickerson Kimberly & Stephen Drake Laura L. Dunbar Mr. & Mrs. Mike Dye Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Robert & Cassandra Estes Mr. & Mrs. DeWitt Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild Drs. Robert & Sharron Francis Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Gould Mr. Larry O. Helms Keith & Kelly Herron Mr.* & Mrs. John B. Hickox Carrie & Damon Hininger Mr. & Mrs. Richard Holton Ray Houston Hudson Family Foundation Donna & Ronn Huff Bud Ireland Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Peter* & Marion Katz Walter & Sarah Knestrick Rachel & John Kuchtey Richard & Diane Larsen Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lea IV
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Dr. & Mrs. T. A. Lincoln Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Lind Burk & Caroline Lindsey Tim Lynch Dr. & Mrs. Joe MacCurdy Steve & Susie Mathews Lynn & Jack May Robert P. Maynard Jim & Judi McCaslin Emily & Jonathan McDevitt Robert Ness Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Nischan Dr. Casey Noble Ann & Denis O'Day Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Odom Jr. Inka & Richard Odom Mr. & Mrs. James E. Orgain Alex S. Palmer David & Pamela Palmer Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Prill Susan B. Ridley Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins Georgianna W. Russell David Sampsell Paula & Kent Sandidge Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter Dr. & Mrs. John S. Sergent Nita & Mike Shea Bill & Sharon Sheriff Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Mr. & Mrs. David B. Stewart Jane Lawrence Stone James B. & Patricia B. Swan William & Rebecca Taylor Norman & Marilyn Tolk Joe & Ellen Torrence Thomas L. & Judith A. Turk William E. Turner Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Mike & Elaine Walker Mr. & Mrs. William G. Wiggins Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Williams
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Irma Bolster Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte William H. Braddy III Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Berry & Connie Brooks Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Mrs. Michelle H. Burgess Dr. Roger & Mrs. Donah Burgess Mr. & Mrs. Richard Burks Gene & Jamie Burton John & LuAnnette Butler James Button Mr. & Mrs. Cabot J. & Angelia Cameron Janet C. Camp Mr. Kirk C. Campbell Mr. Thomas R. Campion Michael & Linda Carlson Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III Mr. & Mrs. John L. Chambers Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Starling Davis Clark & David F. Clark Jay & Ellen Clayton Sallylou & David Cloyd Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Paul & Alyce Cooke Marion Pickering Couch Richard & Marcia Cowan Ms. Susannah C. Culbertson Tenchia Cupp MariaGabriella Giro & Jeff Davidson Dr. & Mrs. Ben Davis Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Davis Mark & Barbara Dentz Suzanne Day Devine Mr. & Mrs. Arthur DeVooght Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Dr. Alan W. Dow II Tere & David Dowland Mr. Frank W. Drake Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Emily & Mark Eberle Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Dr.* & Mrs. Lloyd C. Elam Dr. Christopher & Wendy Ellis Dr. John & Janet Exton Bill & Dian S. Ezell Ms. Marilyn Falcone Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer & Family Art & Charlotte Fogel Randy & Melanie Ford Patrick & Kimberly Forrest Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery J. Forshee Ms. Deborah F. Turner & Ms. Beth A. Fortune Mr. & Mrs. David B. Foutch Ms. Elizabeth A. Franks Robert & Peggy Frye
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Anonymous (14) Jerry Adams Don & Judi Arnold Jeremy & Rebecca Atack Don & Beverly Atwood Mr. & Mrs. James E. Auer Jeff & Carrie Bailey Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Bainbridge Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Barton Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Katrin T. Bean Dr. & Mrs. R. Daniel Beauchamp Bernice Amanda Belue Mike & Kathy Benson Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell Mr. Rob Bironas Ralph & Jane Black Randolph & Elaine Blake
Suzanne J. Fuller Dr. David & Kimberly Furse John & Eva Gebhart Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Mr. & Mrs. H. Steven George Bryan D. Graves Richard & Randi Green Cathey & Doug Hall Jay & Stephanie Hardcastle Dr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hardy Frank & Liana Harrell Kent & Becky Harrell Dr. & Mrs. Jason Haslam Mrs. Estela R. Hayes Lisa & Bill Headley Kent & Melinda Henderson John Reginald Hill Dr. Anne L. Hillegas & Mr. Donald Hill Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Elizabeth Dykens PhD & Robert Hodapp PhD Ken & Beverly Horner Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious Margie & Nick* Hunter Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Sandra & Joe Hutts James R. & Helen H. James Robert C. Jamieson MD Lee & Pat Jennings Jack Jezioro & Ellen Menking Bob & Virginia Johnson Ruth E. Johnson Mary Loventhal Jones Mrs. Robert N. Joyner Dr. Barbara F. Kaczmarska Dr. & Mrs. Michael Kaminski Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane Mr. & Mrs. James Kelso Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy John & Eleanor Kennedy Teresa F. Kersey Jane Kersten Patricia Lee & Orville Kronk Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lavender Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Drs. Walt & Shannon Little The Howard Littlejohn Family Carolyn & Fred Loeffel Samuel C. Loventhal Drs. Amy & George Lynch William R. & Maria T. MacKay James & Gene Manning Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Manno Mr. & Mrs. Richard Maradik Steve & Carrie Marcantonio & Family Mimsye & Leon May Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. McCarty Sandra & Ken McDonald Joey & Beth McDuffee Mary G. McGrath Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Catherine & Brian McMurray Ed & Tracy McNally Dan & Mary Mecklenborg
Herbert & Sharon Meltzer Dr. & Mrs. Berry Middleton Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent B. Millspaugh Mr. Conley Minnick Dr. Jere Mitchum Diana & Jeff Mobley Dr. & Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt Ms. Gay Moon Cynthia & Richard Morin Steve & Laura Morris Lynn Morrow Margaret & David Moss Lucille C. Nabors Larry & Marsha Nager Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. Jane K. Norris Chris & Leslie Norton Virginia O'Brien D. Wilson Ochoa Patricia J. Olsen Mr. & Mrs. Jack Oman Dan & Helen Owens Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page Mr. Steven C. Page Ms. Kathern W. Parker Mr. & Mrs. M. Forrest Parmley John W. & Mary Patterson Drs. Teresa & Phillip Patterson Theresa G. Payne Dr. & Mrs. Joel Q. Peavyhouse Steve A. Perdue Linda & Carter Philips Barbara Gregg Phillips Drs. Sherre & Daniel Phillips Mr. Edward B. Phillips Faris & Robert Phillips Keith & Deborah Pitts Mr. John Pope Ms. Elizabeth M. Potocsnak Dr. & Mrs. James L. Potts George & Joyce Pust Tom & Chris Rashford Mr. Edwin B. Raskin Mr. & Mrs. David Rawlings Franco & Cynthia Recchia Ms. Allison R. Reed & Mr. Sam Garza Candace Mason Revelette Martha & Buist Richardson Mrs. Julie A. Roe Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Margaret H. Rollins Laura Ross Mr. & Mrs. Dick Sammer Samuel L. & Barbara Sanders Cooper* & Helen Schley Pam & Roland Schneller Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle Drs. Carl & Wendy Schofield Dr. Kenneth E. Schriver & Dr. Anna W. Roe Peggy C. Sciotto Odessa L. Settles Max & Michelle Shaff Joan Blum Shayne Allen Shoffner
Crea & Alan Sielbeck Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas A. Sieveking Sr. Betty B. Sisk Pamela Sixfin David & Robin Small Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith Richard & Molly Dale Smith Mrs. Myrtis F. Smith Dr. Robert Smith & Barbara Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smyth Mr. & Mrs. James H. Spalding Ms. Maggie P. Speight Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Gloria & Paul Sternberg Elizabeth Stewart & James Grosjean Dr. & Mrs. William R. Stewart Jean Stumpf Craig & Dianne Sussman Lorraine Ware & Reid Thompson Martha J. Trammell Van Tucker Larry & Brenda Vickers Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner Kay & Larry Wallace Dr. & Mrs. John J. Warner Bill & Ruth Wassynger Talmage M. Watts Mrs. William C. Weaver III Mr. & Mrs. James Webb III Dr. Medford S. Webster Beth & Arville Wheeler Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wheeler Harvey & Joyce White Vicki Gardine Williams Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II Gary & Cathy Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wood Sr. Mr. & Mrs. D. Randall Wright Shu-Zheng & Li Li Yang Jane Yount Roy & Ambra Zent
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Mr. & Mrs. John Allpress Adrienne Ames Mark Amonett Wm. J. & Margery Amonette Ken & Jan Anderson Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple Mr. & Mrs. George Armistead III Mr. & Mrs. James Armstrong Patricia & Jay Armstrong Mrs. Margaret Arnold Todd & Barbara Arrants Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins Geralda M. Aubry Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Averbuch Grace & Carl Awh Janet B. Baggett Mr. & Mrs.* F. Clay Bailey Jr. Ms. Susie M. Baird Drs. Ferdinand & Eresvita Balatico Dr. & Mrs. Billy R. Ballard Susan F. & Paul J. Ballard Ms. René Balogh & Mr. Michael Hinchion Dr. Beth S. Barnett Dr.* & Mrs. Thomas C. Barr William & Sharon Baxter Mrs. Teresa A. Beard Ms. Traciee D. Bearden Susan O. Belcher Mark H. Bell Ron & Sheryl Bell Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Berry Ms. Helen R. Blackburn-White Mrs. Andrea Boely David L. Bone David Bordenkircher Ms. Donna R. Bostick Jerry & Donna Boswell Robert E. Bosworth Mr. Brian Boxer Mr. David G. Boyd Don & Deborah Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Douglas G. Bradbury III Jeff & Jeanne Bradford Dr. Joel F. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. James F. Brandenburg Mr. Mark D. Branstetter Jere & Crystal Brassell Robert & Barbara Braswell Dr. Daniel K. Bregman Mary Lawrence Breinig Phil & Pat Bressman Jamie A. Brewer Miss Sandra J. Brien Betty & Bob Brodie Kathy & Bill Brosius Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Brown Ms. Roxanne Brown Mr. S. Mark Brumbelow Burnece Walker Brunson Mrs. Margaret J. Bryson 80
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T. Mark & D. K. Buford Linda & Jack Burch Geraldine & Wilson Butts Dr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Buxbaum Dr. & Mrs. Robert Byrd Ruth M. Byrdsong Julia C. Callaway Claire Ann Calongne Mr. Richard A. Calvin Bratschi Campbell Gary E. Canaday Mr. Mark J. Cappellino Dr. Wayne Carpenter Karen Carr Ronald & Nellrena Carr Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Carter Valleau & Robert M. Caruthers Bill & Chris Carver Kent Cathcart Mr. & Mrs. John P. Chaballa Evelyn LeNoir Chandler Dean & Sandy Chase Renée Chevalier Mrs. Robert L. Chickey Mark & Bette Christofersen Neil Christy & Emily Freeman Dr. André & Ms. Doreatha H. Churchwell Mr. Daryl Claggett Councilman & Mrs. Phil Claiborne Drs. Walter & Deborah Clair Steven & Donna Clark Mr. & Mrs. Roy Claverie Sr. Ms. Christy Cleveland Mr. & Mrs. Neely B. Coble III Misty Cochran & Josh Swann Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Coleman Ms. Peggy B. Colson William & Margaret Connor Laura & Kyle Cooksey Renette I. Corenswet Nancy K. Corley Elizabeth Cormier Ms. Laura Crafton-Sizemore Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Jeff L. Creasy Mr. Joe D. Creecy Mr. & Mrs. Rob Crichton Mary & Jim Crossman Mr. Samuel B. Cruz Dr. A. Keith Cryar Ms. Dana R. Curtis Rev. Frederick L. Dale Julie & Peter Damp Katherine C. Daniel Kim & Roy Dano Mr. Robby Dasher Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Davenport Janet Keese Davies Adelaide S. Davis Mr. Joshua M. Davis Ms. Maria de la Cruz Mr. Karl Dean & Ms. Anne Davis Wade & Jeanine Denney Ann Deol Henry & Catherine DePhillips Natalie R. Dickson & Aaron T. Raney
Dr. Joseph & Ambassador Rachel Diggs Mr. & Mrs. John H. Dinkins Ms. Shirley J. Dodge Peter & Kathleen Donofrio Michael Doochin & Linda Kartoz-Doochin Kristen & David Drake Elizabeth Tannenbaum & Carl Dreifuss Mr. & Mrs.* David K. Duchac Kathleen & Stephen Dummer Mrs. Kristi D. Dunham Bob & Nancy Dunkerley Michael & Beverly Dunn Kathryn & Webb Earthman Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Easterling Patricia & Larry Eastwood Ms. Susan S. Edwards The Rev. Dr. Donna Scott & Dr. John Eley Dan & Zita Elrod Dr. & Mrs. Ronald B. Emeson Ms. Kaaren Engel Mrs. Keturah E. Engle Mr. Phillip M. Englehart Ms. Ann Epperson Dr. Jack W. Erter Mr. James Eslinger Ms. Claire Evans Dr. Ann Evers & Dr. Gary Smith Drs. Charles & Evelyn Fancher Kathryn Beasley & Chris Farrell Mr. Steven Fast Michael & Rosemary Fedele Dana Ferris Mr. Vincent Fesmire Jill Denmark & William Fialkowski MD Janie & Richard Finch Mrs. Jackie M. Flavell Ms. Deborah G. Flowers Cathy & Kent Fourman Mrs. Katherine H. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Andrew & Mary Foxworth Sr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Richard Franz Jim W. Freeland Scott & Anita Freistat Emily & Randy Frey Ms. Heather Funderburg Tom & Jennifer Furtsch Dr. Henry Fusner Lois & Peter Fyfe Bill & Ginny Gable Jim & Michiko Gaittens Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Galbraith Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Gangaware Mr. & Mrs. Philip Ganske Ms. Susan M. Gant Mr. & Mrs. George C. Garden Miss Ailish Garrett Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Garrett Alan & Jeannie Gaus Em J. Ghianni Mr. & Mrs. Stewart J. Gilchrist Ms. Dianne R. Gillespie Mr. Andre L. Gist William & Helen Gleason
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Joyce E. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Johnson Mary & Doug Johnston Donald & Catherine Joiner Pat & David Jones Frank & Audrey Jones Mr. & Mrs. Michael Jones Mr. Patrick D. Jones Sarah Rose Jones Ms. Georgia Keeling Jeffrey & Layle Kenyon Edward & Eunice Kern Robert Kerns Mr. Michael Kice Mr. & Mrs. Brock Kidd Bill & Becca Killebrew Kathleen & Don King Mrs. Amanda L. Kirkpatrick Louise & Joe Kitchell Edward & Rosemary Knish Mr. & Mrs. Rick Koelz David & Judy Kolzow Sanford & Sandra Krantz Ms. Geri Kristof Tim Kyne Mr. Daniel L. LaFevor Dr. Kristine L. LaLonde Nancy & Edd Lancaster Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Mrs. Douglas E. Leach Trenton & Shellie Leach Rob & Julia Ledyard Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee J. Mark Lee Martin & Eileen Leinwand Mr. & Mrs. Michael LeJeune Dorothy & Jim Lesch Ralph G. Leverett Michael & Ellen Levitt Mr. Marvin J. Liebergot Rick & Shirley Lievanos Marty & Ronald S. Ligon Mr. & Mrs. John Lillie Mack & Katherine Linbaugh Joanne L. Linn, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Linton Dr. & Mrs. John L. Lloyd Keltner W. & Debra S. Locke Jean & Steve Locke Kim & Bob Looney Frances & Eugene Lotochinski David & Nancy Loucky Thomas H. Loventhal J. Edgar Lowe Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal Mr. & Mrs. James C. Lundy Jr. Revs. James & Michelle Lunsford George & Cathy Lynch Jeffrey C. Lynch Patrick & Betty Lynch Sharron Lyon Mr. John Maddux Anne & Joe Maddux Mr. & Mrs. David J. Mahanes III Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Maier Mr. Robert C. Majors Mr. Mikal Malik Mr. & Mrs. Eric J. Manders Sheila Mann
Mr. Joshua P. Manning Beverly Darnall Mansfield Abraham, Lesley & Jonathan Marx Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Massie Frank & Laura Mastrapasqua Sue & Herb Mather Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Callum, Julia & A. J. McCaffrey Mr. & Mrs. John D. McAlister Mrs. Joanne Wallace McCall Ms. Carolyn McClerkin Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. McClure Kathleen McCracken Peg & Al McCree Mary & John McCullough Bob McDill & Jennifer Kimball Mr. & Mrs. Edwin A. McDougle Dr. & Mrs. James B. McKee Jr. Mr. Brian L. McKinney Dr. & Mrs. Timothy E. McNutt Sr. Sam & Sandra McSeveney Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. McWherter Mr. Michael A. Meadows Ms. Virginia J. Meece Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Meek Ronald S. Meers Mr. Paul Megee Janis Meinert Linda & Ray Meneely Manfred & Susan Menking Sara Meredith Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger Dr. & Mrs. Philip G. Miller Dr. Ron V. Miller Mr. John Milliken Dr. Fernando Miranda & Dr. Patricia Bihl-Miranda Mr. Riley Mitchell Anthony & Ariane Montemuro Dr. Michael F. Montijo & Mrs. Patricia A. Jamieson-Montijo James & April Moore Mr. David K. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett Dr. Erik B. Motsenbocker Dr. J. Philip Moyers Mr. & Mrs. Charles Murchison Mr. John Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Dwayne Murray Mr. & Mrs. J. William Myers Allen & Janice Naftilan Ms. Carolyn Heer Nash Mr. James R. Neal Dr. & Mrs. Harold Nevels Dr. John Newman & Ms. Rebecca Lyford Leslie & Scott Newman John & Judy Nichols William & Kathryn Nicholson Al Nisley Mrs. Caroline T. Nolen Judy M. Norton Michael & Joanne Nowlin Mrs. Edith M. Oathout Dr. & Mrs. Wills Oglesby Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr.
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Hunt & Debbye Oliver Philip & Marilyn Ollila Philip & Carolyn Orr Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Overfield Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict Dr. & Mrs. James Pace Mrs. Kimberly Williams Paisley Terry & Wanda Palus Mr. & Mrs. Chris Panagopoulos Doria Panvini Dr. Fritz F. Parl Lisa & Doug Pasto-Crosby Mr. & Mrs. Gary K. Patterson Grant & Janet Patterson Dr. & Mrs. W. Faxon Payne John & Lori Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Pendleton Anne & Neiland Pennington Ms. Rosetta Miller Perry Claude Petrie Jr. Kenneth C. Petroni MD Charles & Mary Phy Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pickel Jr. Ms. Julie B. Plexico Viv & Don Pocek Rick & Diane Poen Mr. Van G. Pond Jr. & Mr. David Glasgow Phil & Dot Ponder Stanley D. Poole Mr. Marico Portis Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Priesmeyer Mr. Jovan Quallo Edria & David Ragosin Joel & Elizabeth Rainer Mr. & Mrs. Ross Rainwater Nancy & Harry Ransom Mr. & Mrs. Randall A. Rawlings Nancy Ward Ray Ms. Bonnie D. Reagan Don & Kathy Reed Mr. & Mrs. David R. Reeves Ms. Sandra L. Reeves Allen Reynolds Al & Laura Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. Tate Rich Barbara Richards Don & Connie Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Richardson Mrs. Jane H. Richmond Mary Riddle Mrs. Paul E. Ridge Margaret Riegel Mr. George Ritzen Mr. & Mrs. Brian Roark Ms. Stacie Robbins Mrs. Roscoe R. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Doug Rogers Fran C. Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland Judith R. Roney Rodney & Lynne Rosenblum Edgar & Susan Rothschild Jan & Ed Routon Lauren & Christopher Rowe Mr. Edward J. Rucker Melissa M. & Philip R. Russ 82
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Dr. & Mrs. Don Russo Pamela & Justin C. Rutledge Michael Samis & Christopher Stenstrom John R. Sanders Jr. James & Susan Sandlin Dr. Neil S. Sanghani Jack & Diane Sasson Mr. Donald D. Savoy Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas W. Schlater III Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Schnaars Sheila Schott Jack Schuett Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Schultenover Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott Mr. Roderick Scruggs Drs. Fernando F. & Elena O. Segovia Mr. & Mrs. J. Douglas Seiters Gene & Linda Shade Richard & Marilyn Shadinger Caroline & Danny Shaw Miss Alena Shostak Mr. & Mrs. Steven Singleton Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir Alice Sisk Ashley N. Skinner Dr. & Mrs. David Slosky Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Joy & Richard Smith Ms. Sara K. Smith Susan K. Smith James T. & Judith M. Smythe Mr. & Mrs. Robert Sneed Marc & Lorna Soble Nan E. Speller Mr. M. Clark Spoden Mrs. Randolph C. St. John Caroline Stark & Lane Denson Lelan & Yolanda Statom Janice & Charley Stefl Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens CAPT & Mrs. Charles E. Stewart Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles V Stewart III Mr. & Mrs. Cyril Stewart Bob & Tammy Stewart Mr. Russell P. Stover Tom & Gayle Stroud Gayle Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. James E. Summar Sr. Mrs. T. C. Summers Thomas & Sarah Summers Dr. Esther & Mr. Jeff Swink Ms. Amanda Tallant Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Taylor Dr. Paul E. Teschan Mr. & Mrs. Richard Theiss Dr. & Mrs. William Thetford Jennifer Kraus & family Mrs. Lillian D. Thomas* Mr. & Mrs. Bob F. Thompson David & Kathryn Thompson Mr. Marcus W. Thompson
Richard & Shirley Thrall Mr. & Mrs. William J. Tichi Mr. & Mrs. William D. Tidwell Scott & Nesrin Tift Leon Tonelson Mr. Michael P. Tortora Mila & Bill Truan Mr. David Tucker Richard, Kimiko, Jennifer & Lindsey Tucker Dr. & Mrs. Michael Tyler Mrs. Mary A. Van Dyken Dr. Jan Van Eys Kimberly Dawn Vincent Mr. Steven B. Waldrep Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wallace Ms. Cynthia G. Waller Mrs. Bridgette K. Walsh Ms. Leslie P. Ware Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Warner Jr. Carolyn M. Wasleski Mr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen Gayle & David Watson Shirley Marie Watts Frank & Jane Wcislo H. Martin & Joyce Weingartner Mr. Kevin L. Welsh J. Jason Wendel M.D. Erin Wenzel Joni Werthan George & Julie West Franklin & Helen Westbrook J Peter R. Westerholm Dr. & Mrs. Mark B. Whaley Dr. & Mrs. William Whetsell Linda & Raymond White Mr. Michael T. Whitler & Mr. Mark Weber Joe Wieck Ms. Judith B. Wiens Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Roger M. Wiesmeyer Marie Holman Wiggins Mr. Robert S. Wilkinson Jerry & Ernie Williams Frank & Marcy Williams John & Anne Williams Susan & Fred Williams Amos & Etta Wilson Carol Ann & Tommy Wilson Ms. Carolyn D. Wilson The Wing Family Ms. Sandra Wiscarson Scott & Ellen Wolfe Edward & Mary E. Womack Dr. & Mrs. Robert S. Wood Jr. Mr. Michael T. Woods Mr. & Mrs. Matthew W. Wright Gary & Marlys Wulfsberg Kay & Randall Wyatt Vivian R. & Richard A. Wynn Patrick & Phaedra Yachimski Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Zibart James & Candice Zimmermann
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the nashville symphony is deeply grateful to the following corporations, foundations and government agencies that support its concert season and its services to the community through generous contributions to the Annual fund. donors as of January 26, 2012.
SEaSoN PrESENTErS Gifts of $100,000+
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dirECTorS’ aSSoCiaTES Gifts of $50,000+
PriNCiPaL PLaYErS Gifts of $25,000+ Mike Curb Family Foundation
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goVErNMENT Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
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orChESTra ParTNErS Gifts of $10,000+ ArtNowNashville.com AT&T Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Caterpillar Financial Services Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated The Cockayne Fund Inc. Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation Gaylord Entertainment Foundation Hastings Architecture Associates, LLC The HCA Foundation Hearn Charitable Foundation KraftCPAs PLLC Lifeway Worship Neal & Harwell Publix Super Markets Charities Mary C. Ragland Foundation VSA – The International Organization on Arts and Disability MetLife Foundation Wells Fargo
arTiSTiC uNdErWriTErS Gifts of $5,000+ Aladdin Industries, LLC BDO Clarcor Inc. Chet Atkins Music Education Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Corrections Corporation of America Cracker Barrel Foundation Dan McGuinness Irish Pub David Yurman Ford Motor Company Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Landis B. Gullett Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Hi Fi Buys Interior Design Services, Inc. Monell's Restaurants OSHi Flowers The Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor Charitable Foundation Tennessee Christian Medical Foundation
You might be surprised to find many of these alumni and other our name behind some of the notable artists to documentary most well-known artists in the films, musicals and dramatic region and nation—Michael plays, there are always events Shane Neal, Anna Jaap, Dawn and performances across campus Whitelaw, Paula Frizbe and that are open to the public for little or no charge. To brush Harold Kraus, just to name a up on what’s happening go to few. From exhibits in the John C. Hutcheson Gallery featuring events.lipscomb.edu.
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BuSiNESS ParTNEr Gifts of $2,500+ American General Life & Accident Insurance Company AmSurg Corp BioVentures, Inc. City of Brentwood Dave Nemo Entertainment Delta Dental of Tennessee First Baptist Nashville Gannett Foundation/ The Tennessean Schoenstein & Company VOGUE Washington Foundation BuSiNESS CouNCiL Gifts of $1,500+ BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Community Trust Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co., Inc. The Hendrix Foundation J. Alexander's Corporation Paramore | the digital agency Tennsco Corporation
Volunteer Barge & Transport, Inc. WBUZ Buzz 102.9 / WPRT The Game 102.5 BuSiNESS FriENd Gifts of $300+ A-1 Appliance Company ACP Special T's V. Alexander & Co., Inc. Alpha Delta Omega Foundation Bloom Electric Supply Bradshaw Collision Repair Centers CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Cooper Steel Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Dancy's, Nancy June Brandon DataMarketing Network, Inc. DBS & Associates Engineering, Inc. Demos' Steak & Spaghetti House Freeman Webb Company Realtors, Inc. Hoge Motor Company Hunter Marine IBIS Communications, Inc. INDUSCO Jack Cawthon/Jack's Bar B Que Meharry Medical College National Toxicology Specialists Inc. Nitetrain Coach Prime Properties, Inc. David L. Battis / Edwin B. Raskin Company Riley Warnock & Jacobson PLC Robert's Western World Servitech Industries, Inc. Trickett Honda Monte Turner/Turner and Associates Realty, Inc. Walker Lumber & Hardware Company
In honor of Marion P. Couch In honor of Jeanne Crossnoe In honor of Laurie Davis & Meredith Benning In honor of Bob Eisenstein's 95th birthday In honor of Harris Gilbert's 80th birthday In honor of Giancarlo Guerrero In honor of Martha Ingram In honor of Mitchell Korn In honor of Tom Patterson & Mike Eldred's wedding In honor of Dr. Lawrence K. Wolfe's birthday
thank BuSiNESS LEadEr Gifts of $1,000+ Anonymous (1) Barrett Johnston Bryan Symphony Orchestra at TTU Carter-Haston Holdings, LLC Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation Neely Coble Company DZL Management Direct Solutions Economy Pencil Co. J&J's Market & Cafe Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris Architects, Inc. Purity Dairies, Inc. Stor-N-Lock
MEMoriaL In memory of Carole Slate Adams In memory of Jessica Bloom In memory of Betty Boatright In memory of Scott Clayton, CLU In memory of Catherine Cook In memory of Gerry Daniel In memory of T. Earl & Nora Smith Hinton (2) In memory of Davis Hunt In memory of Rodney Irvin In memory of Peter Katz In Memory of John Kelingos In memory of Kala Welch MacLeod In memory of Mildred J. Oonk In memory of Lisa Renegar In memory of Betty Richards (2) In memory of Lenore S. Schermerhorn In memory of Ed Wanner
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BuSiNESS aSSoCiaTES Gifts of $500+ APEX & Robert E. Lee Moving & Storage, Inc. Black Box Network Services BMW-MINI of Nashville R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation Broadcast Music, Inc. Capitol Records CedarStone Bank The Celebration Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre D.F. Chase, Inc. Cornerstone Commercial Real Estate Services Country Music Association Fabricators CAD Service, Inc. Haber Corporation Pam Lewis & PLA Media Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Northgate Gallery, Inc. RD Plastics Co., Inc. SESAC, Inc. Sigma Alpha Iota – Vanderbilt Chapter Stansell Electric Co., Inc.
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A TIME FOR GREATNESS CAMPAIGN
A Time for Greatness, the Nashville Symphony’s endowment campaign, ensures a brilliant future for the orchestra. Funds raised through A Time for Greatness are used to increase the orchestra’s financial capacity to support continuing artistic growth and program development, and sustain the orchestra’s expanded operations in Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
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FOUNDERS Gifts of $1,000,000+
AmSouth Foundation James W. Ayers - FirstBank Bank of America Alvin & Sally Beaman Foundation Lee A. Beaman, Trustee / Kelley Beaman, Trustee Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff Ann & Monroe* Carell CaremarkRx Caterpillar Inc. & Its Employees The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Mike Curb Family Foundation Greg & Collie Daily Dollar General Corporation Laura Turner Dugas The Frist Foundation The Grimstad & Stream Families Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Hays HCA
Ingram Charitable Fund Gordon & Shaun Inman Ellen Harrison Martin Charles N. Martin Jr. The Martin Foundation Mr. & Mrs. R. Clayton McWhorter The Memorial Foundation Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County Anne* & Dick Ragsdale Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter The Grimstad & Stream Families 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
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NASHVILLE SYMPHONY LEGACY SOCIETY leAvinG A leGAcy, buildinG A future
When Schermerhorn Symphony Center opened to the public in 2006, we envisioned our concert hall serving many generations for decades to come. If you have that same vision for the Nashville Symphony, then a planned gift can become your ultimate demonstration of commitment and support. You can help us plan for our future — and your own — through this creative approach to philanthropy and estate planning, which allows you to make a significant contribution to the Nashville Symphony while also enjoying income and tax benefits for you and your family. Great orchestras, like all great cultural institutions throughout history, are gifts to posterity; they are built and bestowed to succeeding generations by visionary philanthropists. To find out more about planned giving opportunities, please visit: NashvilleSymphony.org/plannedgiving, or contact Hayden Pruett, Major Gifts Officer, at 615.687.6615
The Nashville Symphony Legacy Society honors those patrons who have included the Symphony in their estate planning
THANK YOU
Anonymous Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Julie & Frank Boehm Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Donna & Steven Clark Mrs. Barbara J. Conder Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert Andrea Dillenburg & Ted Kraus William M. & Mildred P.* Duncan Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Judy & Tom Foster Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia James C. Gooch Billy Ray Hearn Judith Hodges Judith S. Humphreys Martha R. Ingram Heloise Werthan Kuhn Sally M. Levine John T. Lewis
Clare* & Samuel Loventhal Ellen Harrison Martin Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Cynthia & Richard Morin Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Pamela K. & Philip Maurice Pfeffer Joseph Presley Eric Raefsky, MD & Victoria Heil David and Edria Ragosin Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Fran C. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Irvin & Beverly Small Mary & K.C. Smythe Dr. John B. Thomison Sr. Judy & Steve Turner Mrs. Johnna Benedict Watson Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Anne H. & Robert K.* Zelle
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GUEST INFORMATION
DINING AT THE SCHERMERHORN
ARPEGGIO
Open before all nighttime series concerts and most special events, Arpeggio features a sumptuous four-course buffet including appetizer, soup station, four entrées and dessert. The price is $38 with water and tea, not including tax and gratuity. Arpeggio is located in the East Lobby, and doors open two hours before the performance. Reservations are preferred; please call 615.687.6400. For more information, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/Arpeggio.
SYMPHONY CAFÉ
Located in the West Lobby, the Symphony Café offers breakfast and lunch on weekdays and casual pre-concert dining in the evenings. Choose from a selection of gourmet soups, artisan sandwiches and fresh salads in addition to Seattle’s Best coffee and espresso. Symphony Café is open 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. On concert evenings, the Café opens two hours prior to the performance. Free Wi-Fi is available. BARS
Seven bars are located throughout the building offering premium spirits, cocktails, wine, beer, soft drinks and bottled water.
VISTING THE SCHERMERHORN RESTROOMS & WATER FOUNTAINS
CAMERAS, CELL PHONES & OTHER DEVICES
Restrooms and water fountains are available on the Lounge Level, located one floor below the Main Lobby; on the east and west sides of the Founders and Balcony Levels; and outside the Mike Curb Music Education Hall on the Founders Level. Located on the Lounge Level, unisex restrooms are available for disabled guests needing special assistance.
Cameras or audio recording equipment may not be brought into any space where a rehearsal, performance or lecture is taking place. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms must be turned off prior to the start of any event.
COAT CHECK
To enhance the acoustical experience inside Laura Turner Concert Hall, guests are invited to check their coats at one of several complimentary coat-check locations on each seating level. The most convenient is on the Lounge Level, located one floor below the Main Lobby.
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LATE SEATING
As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members, each performance will have designated breaks when latecomers are seated. Those arriving after a performance begins will be asked to remain outside the entrance door nearest their ticketed seats until the appropriate break.
HOW MAY WE ASSIST YOU?
PARKING & TRANSPORTATION
have a question, request or comment? please visit our concert concierge, which is available to help you with anything you might need during your visit. located in the main lobby, concert concierge is open through the end of intermission.
located directly across third Avenue from the schermerhorn, the pinnacle at symphony place offers symphony patrons pre-paid parking at a discount! to purchase, please call 615.687.6401.
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services for Guests With disAbilities
schermerhorn symphony center has been carefully designed to be barrier-free and meets or exceeds all criteria established by the Americans with disabilities Act (AdA). All public spaces, restrooms, meeting rooms, offices, backstage dressing rooms and orchestra lounge, and production control rooms will accommodate performers, staff and guests with disabilities. interior signage and all elevators make use of braille lettering for directional signs in both public and backstage areas, including all room signs. An infrared hearing system is available for guests who are hearing impaired. headsets are available at no charge on a first-come, firstserved basis from the coat-check area on the lounge level, and from the concert concierge. Accessible and companion seating are available at all seating and price levels with excellent acoustics and sight lines to the stage. transfer seating is also available to allow guests in wheelchairs to transfer easily to seats in the hall. please arrange in advance for accessible seating by calling a customer service representative at 615.687.6400. emerGency messAGes
Guests expecting urgent calls may leave their name and exact seat information (seating level, door number, row and seat number) with any usher. Anyone needing to reach guests during an event may call the security desk at 615.687.6610. lost And found
please check with the house manager’s office for any items that may have been left in the building. the phone number for lost and found is 615.687.6450.
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valet parking, provided by parking management company, is available on symphony place, on the north side of the building between third and fourth avenues. We also offer pre-paid valet parking; for more details, call 615.687.6401. chAuffeured trAnsportAtion
Grand Avenue, the official transportation provider for the nashville symphony, offers town cars, sedans, limousines and bus transport for individuals and groups of all sizes. to make a reservation, please contact GrandAvenuelimo.com or 615.714.5466.
TICKET SALES the box office is on the fourth Avenue side of the building closest to symphony place. tickets may be purchased with mastercard, visA, American express, discover, cash or local personal checks. limited 15-minute parking is available on fourth Avenue just outside the box office. regular hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. monday-friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. saturday hours on Concert days: 10 a.m. to intermission monday-saturday call for hours on sunday tickets are also available by visiting nashvillesymphony.org or by phoning the box office at 615.687.6400. cAn’t mAKe A concert?
if you are unable to use your tickets, you may exchange them for another performance, availability permitting, or you may donate them for a tax deduction. tickets must be exchanged or donated by 6 p.m. on the day before the performance. some restrictions may apply. call 615.687.6401.
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