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Hometown: Wooster, Ohio Member of the Nashville Symphony since 1978 You’re retiring at the end of this season after 37 years with the Nashville Symphony. As you reflect back on your experiences, what stands out?

Making music with the Nashville Symphony has left me with many unique memories: I have often told friends that I have the best seat in the house. Guest artists who delivered unforgettable performances during my early years in the Symphony include Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie and Victor Borge — who instructed the orchestra not to crack even the tiniest smile as he fell off of the piano bench.

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How did you get started playing music?

I am grateful to have grown up in a family where the arts and literature, and music in particular, were so valued. My mother started me on piano at age 3, and at age 10 I was allowed to choose a second instrument. Cello has been my true voice ever since. Classical music was often heard in my home: whether on a tape or a record, or some other member of the family practicing an instrument. Our family of six regularly attended classical concerts together. I was 10 years old before we had a television, and my mother solved that problem quite neatly by only allowing us to watch TV as much as we had practiced.

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I am an avid reader and look forward to having more time for that, and also for writing (poetry, memoir and also some of those arrangements for solo cello). Probably my favorite book of the last year was Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Other authors I particularly enjoy include Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, Ruth Ozeki and Ann Patchett. I also enjoy historical fiction and a good mystery!

What are your plans once the concert season winds down?

After retiring from the symphony, I certainly intend to keep playing. In terms of work, I will continue to play recording sessions. I also enjoy playing solo and in a chamber group at my church, Woodmont Christian Church, and have been creating solo cello versions of hymns for worship.

My heart truly is in volunteer work: I am hoping to stay connected with music’s unique quality of bringing joy and healing to our lives. I volunteer for Alive Hospice, where I play bedside for patients, and enjoy finding other opportunities to bring music to those who are not able to come to a concert.

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FRANK TICHELI — RADIANT VOICES • Los Angeles-based composer Frank Ticheli wrote Radiant Voices in 1992, shortly after the beating of Rodney King by L.A.P.D. officers. He says he “was guided by a strong personal wish to express through music feelings of hope and joy, to compose an optimistic fantasy — a sounding of ‘radiant voices’ amid the turmoil.” The music includes sonic effects that hint at chaos and violence, but the composer affirms that the piece is about “celebrating life.”

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FELIX MENDELSSOHN — PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN G MINOR, Op. 25 • Felix Mendelssohn is one of music’s most celebrated prodigies: By age 14, he’d already started composing string symphonies; by 17, he’d written his Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture; and by age 21, he’d started work on his First Piano Concerto.

• Mendelssohn wrote the work while visiting Munich, where he met and flirted with another young musical talent, Delphine von Schauroth. Even though their elders encouraged the two to get serious, Mendelssohn chose not to pursue a relationship with Delphine— but he did dedicate the concerto to her.

• Mendelssohn’s musical style straddles the Classical era of Mozart and the Romantic era of Beethoven. One of his great innovations here is to link all three movements into one unbroken piece. Listen for the fanfares that connect each of the movements. Likewise, you won’t be able to miss the impressive arpeggio runs played by the soloist as the work winds to a thrilling finish.

• The concerto gained massive popularity thanks to Franz Lizst, who played it often. Ironically, Mendelssohn later admitted that he didn’t even like the work. “I composed it in just a few days and almost carelessly,’’ he wrote.

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY — SYMPHONY NO. 6 IN B MINOR, OP. 74 (“PATHÉTIQUE”) • Tchaikovsky called his Sixth Symphony “the best thing I ever composed or ever shall compose.” Ever since its premiere, the work has been shrouded in mystery. The composer hinted at an underlying narrative or theme, but he never acknowledged what it was.

• As the story goes, his brother Modest — himself a playwright and librettist — proposed the subtitle “Pathetique,” which remains to this day. In Russian, this word means something closer to “passionate” and “emotional,” though as the music suggests, it has an element of suffering as well.

• The symphony was the last piece Tchaikovsky would ever perform. He conducted the premiere in October 1893; a week later, he died after contracting cholera from a glass of contaminated water.

• The work was performed for the second time a week after Tchaikovsky’s death. In the audience was Igor Stravinsky, only 11 at the time. His father, Fyodor Stravinsky, was a baritone who had performed in some of Tchaikovsky’s operas.

• Tchaikovsky transforms the conventional Romantic symphony of triumph and transcendence into a work of tragedy and lamentation. This artistic decision would have a great impact on composers who came after him, including Gustav Mahler.

• The drama here comes not only from the intensity of the music — listen in particular for a descending scale that represents the idea of fate — but also from the moments of silence that punctuate the music.

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Born on January 21, 1958, in Monroe, Louisiana; currently resides in Los Angeles

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t’s a process in which the head and the heart are constantly keeping each other in check,” Frank Ticheli says about the art of composing.

“The tension between those two forces is what creates a piece of music. And it’s a real mystery, a hall of mirrors: the more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know.”

Ticheli is also a highly respected teacher and mentor who has taught at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California since the early 1990s. He studied composition with William Bolcom and others at the University of Michigan and has won such accolades as the Charles Ives Scholarship, the 2012 Arts and Letters Award, and the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship. His catalogue of orchestral, choral and chamber works includes pieces commissioned by Chamber Music America, the American Music Center and the Orange County, California-based Pacific Symphony, for which he wrote Radiant Voices while serving as composer-inresidence there. Ticheli has also built a reputation as a composer for concert band and as a guest conductor.

Radiant Voices has received performances by numerous other orchestras since its premiere.

Following an account given by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Peter Dobrin praised Radiant Voices for striking “a balance

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I N T H E COMPOS E R’S WO R DS “Radiant Voices, begun one week after the outbreak of the Los Angeles civil unrest in May of 1992, was completed the following January. Its creation was guided by a strong personal wish to express through music feelings of hope and joy, to compose an optimistic fantasy — a sounding of ‘radiant voices.’

“The piece is divided into four clearly delineated sections (slow/fast/slow/fast), with the second section being the longest and most elaborate. The slower sections are private in nature, marked by intimate solo passages and poignantly lyrical melodic lines. The fast sections are extremely gregarious, characterized by wild color contrasts, driving rhythms and a palpable sense of urgency. The energy becomes barely containable, a pressure cooker of excitement and urgency that bursts out in the work’s conclusion.”

Radiant Voices is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and strings.

Radiant Voices, Ticheli says, “was guided by a strong personal wish to express through music feelings of hope and joy, to compose an optimistic fantasy.”

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FEL I X M E N D E L SSO HN

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Concerto No. 1 in G minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 25

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n addition to his gifts as a composer, Felix Mendelssohn led an active musical life as a conductor and pianist. In fact, both Felix and his sister Fanny were piano virtuosos. The First Piano Concerto originated in his happy years of travel across Europe, drawing on sketches he jotted down while in Rome — though, according to biographer R. Larry Todd, Mendelssohn composed the bulk of the score and orchestrated it while in Munich. The German city beckoned not only with professional promise, but also as the residence of the talented young pianist Delphine von Schauroth (1814-1887), to whom Felix apparently felt some attraction. Various matchmakers (including even King Ludwig I of Bavaria) encouraged a union between the two gifted young artists, but the composer resisted their efforts. Even so, Mendelssohn did dedicate his First Concerto to the beautifully named Delphine.

The work was well received at its premiere, and Clara Schumann and Franz Liszt, leading keyboard stars of the era, also championed it. The highly self-critical Mendelssohn claimed he had written it “almost carelessly” within a few days, adding, “It always pleased people the most, but me very little.”

W HAT TO LISTE N F OR The Classical-Romantic balance that is a key to Mendelssohn’s music is already apparent in his mixture here of poise and innovative structural ideas. The most obvious of his innovations is the linkage of all three movements into a single interconnected span. Similarly, Mendelssohn 18

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opens the Concerto by giving the soloist a sudden early entrance after a mere few bars of fiery dramatics from the orchestra. This gambit adds to the sense of urgency and reinforces the agitated, driving emotions of the first movement.

Like Mozart, Mendelssohn knew that the piano could allure with simple, restrained poetry (as in the second theme), just as much as it could with rocketing octaves and rippling scales. Near the end of the first movement, the conspicuous dotted rhythm of the main theme gives way to a repeatednote fanfare from the trumpets and horns.

This fanfare is used as a linking device between the movements. It clears the space for a piano solo that leads to a placid Andante in E major. This movement features reduced, pastellike scoring to enhance the intimate rapport between piano and ensemble. As a unifying device, Mendelssohn alludes to the dotted-rhythm pattern of the first movement’s main theme.

The fanfare returns after a long, hushed pause to launch the finale — now in the major, with a theme of bounding joy first stated in staunch octaves, to counterbalance the opening theme’s G-minor turmoil. Mendelssohn once again alludes to the same dotted-rhythm pattern in the two main themes here. In another unifying device near the end, the soloist also briefly alludes to the first movement’s lyrical second theme, as if she had chanced upon it while improvising. An exuberant coda draws out the dazzling virtuosity that characterizes this movement.

In addition to solo piano, the Piano Concerto No. 1 is scored for pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, and trumpets, timpani and strings.

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Composed: 1893 First performance: October 28, 1893, in Saint Petersburg, with the composer conducting First Nashville Symphony performance: February 21, 1956, with Music Director Guy Taylor Estimated length: 45 minutes

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he arresting emotional turbulence of Tchaikovsky’s mature masterpieces often evokes a confessional character. As the composer himself wrote of the Symphony No. 6, his final work in the genre, “Without exaggeration, I have put my entire soul into this symphony.”

Thus it can be tempting to construct an explanatory narrative around his late work. Quite possibly for that reason, Tchaikovsky became ambivalent about program music, which had been championed by his early mentors and the Russian nationalists as an antidote to the sterile “formalism” of Western music. The composer had written his share of narrative-driven pieces: At one extreme are the Fourth Symphony, for which Tchaikovsky supplied an elaborate program centered on the idea of Fate, and his unnumbered Manfred Symphony of 1885, a treatment of Lord Byron’s poetic drama and its Faustian hero.

Something more subtle happens in the Symphony No. 6. For this work Tchaikovsky developed a “private,” unpublished program and did without the recurrent cyclic themes of the

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Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique”

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Fifth and Manfred Symphonies. At the same time, he drew attention to the existence of some extramusical dimension by adopting the provocative working subtitle “Program Symphony.” According to one of the many legends that surround the work, Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest suggested the French title Pathétique — which connotes “impassioned suffering” in its Russian context.

The composer’s sudden death just a little over a week after he had led the world premiere in October 1893 made that title seem uncannily wellsuited to the devastating psychological drama the Sixth encompasses.

The circumstances of Tchaikovsky’s death have further enshrouded the Pathétique in mystery.

As with the early death of the genius cryptanalyst Alan Turing (recently dramatized in the film The Imitation Game), questions continue to proliferate about the cause. Did an accidental drink of cholera-contaminated water kill Tchaikovsky, or did the “scandal” of his same-sex affairs result in the composer’s submitting to a kind of Socratic suicide to preserve a code of “honor” among his associates? (This sensationalist interpretation has generally been debunked.) The debate about the potential “encoded” meaning of this work — much like the debate surrounding Shostakovich and his attitude toward Communist control — rages on unresolved, ensuring that the Pathétique remains one of the symphonic repertoire’s mostdebated works.

The Israeli musicologist Marina Ritzarev proposes another provocative argument in her new book, Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique and Russian Culture. In Ritzarev’s analysis, the conventional view of the Sixth as a personal, subjective lamentation clashes with the composer’s aesthetic and ethical sensibility. The actual “program,” she insists, has to do with a more traditional, religious sense of “Passion” (and compassion) from European culture. “The image that might have served as the source of inspiration for Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece,” she writes, “was that of Jesus Christ, his life and death, transformed into a general imagery of the Passion.”

Mendelssohn, incidentally, plays a role here on account of his culturally pivotal revival of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1830 (just a few years before his First Piano Concerto). The impact of that revival, notes Ritzarev, “with its emotionally powerful presentation of gospel

scenes, [may have] influenced young [theologian] David Strauss, a pioneer in the de-consecration of Christ’s image, which eventually made Christ the most popular cultural hero of the 19th century.”

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The extensive first movement immediately ushers us into a world of bleak despair that acquires crushing intensity. Tchaikovsky employs his orchestral mastery and technical acumen to give resilient shape to these passions. He manages this with relatively traditional orchestral forces: brass chorales evoke apocalypse, while caressing memories are wrought by delicately sprung woodwind solos. Tempestuous string scales possess a shattering, nervous energy we cannot soon forget. But the climaxes evade predictability: in the middle of the movement, an exaggerated silence (marked pppppp in the score for emphasis) shocks even more than an explosion of sound would.

Two inner movements of contrasting character turn out to be interludes rather than long-range shifts of direction. The second movement’s flowing, dance-like charm is given a subtle displacement through the use of 5/4 meter (which manages to sound graceful rather than hobbled, though it gives the familiar pattern of the waltz an uneasy edge). In the third movement,

Tchaikovsky presents a blazing but hollowly triumphant, brass-reinforced march that revels in aggressive, swaggering rhythm.

It has often been pointed out that if Tchaikovsky had simply switched the order of the final two movements, he would have preserved the optimistic, Beethovenian model of light winning out over darkness. Yet by reversing that model and ending with the nihilistic, dying fall of a “lamenting” Adagio (the same tempo with which the Symphony began), he introduces a radically new concept of the symphonic journey. (Mahler’s Ninth would adopt a similar strategy.) The valedictory plunge into silence from a sustained B minor chord deep in the strings sets the stage for a new century of bleak requie Tchaikovsky’s genius is to generate compassion in those listeners who follow his journey into the psyche.

The Symphony No. 6 is scored for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, cymbals and tamtam) and strings.

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

ABOUT THE ARTISTS CARL ST. CLAIR, conductor Music Director of the Pacific Symphony for more than two decades, Carl St. Clair has become widely recognized for his musically distinguished performances, innovative approaches to programming, and commitment to outstanding educational programs. The largest ensemble formed in the United States during the last 40 years, the Pacific Symphony owes its rapid artistic growth to St. Clair’s astute leadership.

Influenced by his close association with Leonard Bernstein, his commitment to the development and performance of new works by American composers is evident in the wealth of the Pacific Symphony’s commissions and recordings.

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Winner of the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, she is one of only a handful of pianists and the only woman to have received this honor.

Fliter made her American orchestral debut with the Atlanta Symphony, just days after the announcement of her Gilmore Award. Since then she has appeared with the Cleveland and Minnesota orchestras, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco, St. Louis, National, Detroit, Dallas, Houston and Milwaukee symphonies,

among others. She has also appeared at the Mostly Mozart, Grant Park, Aspen, Ravinia, Blossom and Brevard festivals. Equally busy as a recitalist, she has performed in New York at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, the Metropolitan Museum and the 92nd Street Y, at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, and for the Van Cliburn Foundation in Fort Worth. In Europe and Asia, she has performed with orchestras and in recital in Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Cologne and Tokyo.

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• Olivier Messiaen had synethesia, a rare condition in which one sensory experience triggers another sensory response — in this case, the ability to “see” colors in music. This is beautifully exemplified in the third-part melody of Les Offrandes oubliées, which Messiaen himself compared to red, blue and gold hues of stained glass.

• Constructed as a triptych, Les Offrandes oubliées features themes and symbolism that mirror Messiaen’s own devout Catholic ideology. This piece was his first attempt to state his strong religious beliefs using the “voice” of an orchestra.

• Singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright has said that Messiaen’s music was a “revelation from the first chord,” while Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood calls the composer’s Turangalîla Symphony his all-time favorite piece of music.

JEAN SIBELIUS — VIOLIN CONCERTO • Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, the only one he ever wrote for the instrument, is the most recorded and performed violin concerto of any written in the 20th century. By the year 2000, there were more than four dozen recordings of the piece, remarkable considering that it did not enjoy initial success.

• The Finnish composer had lofty aspirations when he began his violin studies at the age of 14: “The violin took me by storm,” he wrote in his diary, “and for the next 10 years it was my dearest wish, my overriding ambition, to become a great virtuoso.” He abandoned his dreams after an unsuccessful audition for the Vienna Philharmonic.

• Sibelius believed that a soloist waiting for his or her turn to play was a wholly uninteresting spectacle. As such, this concerto’s soloist is thrust into the spotlight immediately. The first movement features dramatic solo writing, starting with three preliminary notes that lay the foundation for much of the music that follows.

• Tonight’s soloist, the Finnish-born Elina Vähälä, made her orchestral debut at age 12 and has built an impressive international reputation. In 2008, she performed before a worldwide television audience during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo.

HECTOR BERLIOZ — SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE • Symphonie fantastique is a self-portrait of Berlioz himself and the story of his obsession with the Irish Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson, whom the composer first encountered in 1827. Berlioz portrays Smithson as his idée fixe (“fixed idea”) across five movements that reveal the very best and worst of his own emotional spectrum.

• Due to the hallucinatory nature of the work, Leonard Bernstein described Symphonie fantastique as history’s first psychedelic symphony and the first-ever musical description of a drug-induced trip. Berlioz is believed to have written at least some of the piece while using opium, resulting in a score that is ripe with visions.

• Though she initially rebuffed his advances, Smithson became intrigued by Berlioz shortly after hearing the second performance of Symphonie fantastique and realizing that she was the subject of the work. The pair married in 1833, though the union lasted seven mostly turbulent years. Even after they were separated, Berlioz continued to support his muse, and the couple is buried together in Montmartre Cemetery in Paris.

• Where you’ve heard this music: The nightmarish fifth movement (“Witches Sabbath”) was featured in Sleeping with the Enemy, and Stanley Kubrick used the movement’s solemn Dies Irae chant as the theme for The Shining.

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Composed: 1930 First performance: February 19, 1931, in Paris, with Walther Straram conducting the Orchestre Straram.

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

Estimated length: 12 minutes

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merican composer Ned Rorem famously pronounced that “the world is divided into two aesthetic styles: French and German.” Yet each of the three composers featured on this program evokes an utterly distinctive world that defies such broad categorization. Framing the concert are works by Olivier Messiaen and Hector Berlioz that encompass a century of developments in French music. Scandinavian composer Jean Sibelius, meanwhile, never traveled well south of the Danish border, yet he found some of his staunchest champions in Britain and America.

With Les Offrandes oubliées (“The Forgotten Offerings”), composed in 1930, the year Messiaen completed his studies at the Paris Conservatory, the young Frenchman began developing a reputation as an innovative musical thinker. In contrast to the sometimes-flippant attitude of the so-called “Les Six,” the group of French composers

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R In the opening panel, a lamenting vision of Christ on the Cross, strings slowly intone an angular, grieving, chant-like melody in unison.

The reality of sin intrudes like a violent shock in the second section — in the composer’s words, “quick, fierce, desperate, breathless” — with harsh, biting rhythms and swirling textures that suggest the recent influence of Messiaen’s composition teacher, Paul Dukas.

The extremely slow third part, as long as the first two combined, counters the darkness of death with the promise of redemption. The chantlike melody returns, transfigured and set against pianissimo harmonies that Messiaen compares to the “red, gold and blue” of stained glass. In place of struggle, the music floats with an aura of serene timelessness.

Les Offrandes oubliées is scored for 3 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings.

Messiaen spoke in a language that seemed more intent on revealing profound mysteries.

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comprising names like Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud, Messiaen spoke in a language that seemed more intent on revealing profound mysteries.

The first orchestral work he chose to publish, Offrandes epitomizes the conflation of aesthetic and spiritual concerns that is a signature of this devoutly religious composer’s music. Messiaen explicitly draws on imagery and symbolism from Catholic theology — almost in the manner of old-fashioned program music — to shape the emotional progress of the piece.

Like a triptych that might be displayed on the altar of the Church of the Trinity in Paris, where the young Messiaen was just beginning his parallel career as organist, Offrandes unfolds in three parts linked together as a single movement.

The composer’s comments on the score clarify his title: The Cross (first part) and the Eucharist (third part) show Jesus’ love for humanity, but these “offerings” are forgotten as we fall into the dark “abyss” of sin (second part).

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Born on December 8, 1865, in Hämeenlinna, Finland; died on September 20, 1957, in Järvenpää, Finland Concerto in D minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 47 Composed: 1904; revised 1905 First performance: First version on February 8, 1904, in Helsinki, with Victor Novácek as the soloist and the composer conducting. Revised/ standard version on October 19, 1905, in Berlin, with Karel Halír as the soloist and Richard Strauss conducting the Berlin Court Orchestra.

First Nashville Symphony performance: February 17, 1953, with Music Director Guy Taylor and soloist Tossy Spivakovsky Estimated length: 35 minutes

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etween his adolescence and early 20s, Jean Sibelius had nurtured the dream of fame as a violin virtuoso, but a failed audition forced him to give up that particular plan. In this sense, the Violin Concerto he wrote at the end of his 30s — his only contribution to the concerto genre — might be seen as a work combining fantasy and farewell. The richly varied exploration of the instrument’s personality in the Violin Concerto in a sense sublimates his ambitions, as the supervirtuoso called for in the Concerto is perhaps a kind of idealized alter-ego for the composer.

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is not to say there’s ever been a shortage of commentators who try to superimpose an extramusical dimension on the work, discovering within it “Northern” landscapes and local color, from dancing polar bears to the aurora borealis.

Taken on its own terms, the Violin Concerto achieves an admirable synthesis between tradition and novelty, solo display and musical substance.

With this single addition to the violin concerto literature, Sibelius bequeathed a masterpiece now prized as one of the most musically satisfying in the repertoire.

As is often the case, the Concerto got a less than promising introduction — one that hardly anticipated the esteem and admiration it would eventually secure. Willy Burmester, a German violinist and former student of Joseph Joachim (the inspiration for Brahms’ great Violin Concerto), had initially encouraged Sibelius to write the work for him. Although the music Sibelius produced deeply impressed Burmester, a scheduling snafu prevented him from taking part in the premiere. (Sibelius was responsible for insisting on the inconvenient date and venue.)

Another violinist had to be called in to play the solo part, but without adequate preparation. It was a fiasco. Sibelius withdrew the score and then prepared a new, tighter version that trimmed away some of the excessively showy solo writing of the original.

In a perversely self-destructive gesture, the composer snubbed Burmester by again allowing the new premiere to be scheduled at a time that conflicted with Burmester’s engagements. This time the Czech violinist Karel Halíř was called on to take his place, and the premiere of the revised version was conducted by Richard Strauss.

By this point the peeved Burmester swore off performing the Violin Concerto. His advocacy might have won it popularity sooner. As it happened, decades passed before the Concerto earned more widespread recognition. Jascha Heifetz and Ginette Neveu number among the most eloquent early champions of a work that today boasts an unbelievably rich discography.

Despite its initial lack of success, the Violin Concerto marks a significant turning point for Sibelius. Even as late Romanticism continued to exert a powerful influence on music of the day, this work reveals the composer becoming increasingly preoccupied with the abstract

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In addition to solo violin, the Violin Concerto is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and strings.

Born on December 11, 1803, in La Côte-SaintAndré, France; died on March 8, 1869, in Paris Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Composed: 1830; revised frequently between 1830-55 First performance: December 5, 1830, in Paris, with François Habeneck conducting First Nashville Symphony performance: October 26 & 27, 1959, with Music Director Willis Page Estimated length: 50 minutes

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composer in the late 1820s in Paris, Berlioz assimilated a number of life-changing experiences. These involved his discovery of the symphonies of Beethoven, as well as his passion for a woman who served as the vehicle for one of his most important artistic epiphanies — the work of Shakespeare. In 1827 (the same year that Beethoven died) Berlioz developed an obsession with an Irish actress, Harriet Smithson, when he InConcert

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The first movement lasts longer than the other two combined and tends toward dramatic writing for the violin soloist, who is set in relief against the orchestral ensemble. The opening sound of the orchestral violins trembling in softly muted clouds of D minor provides an arrestingly atmospheric backdrop against which the soloist comes into focus playing the first theme (the first three notes of which are the seed of much of the material to come).

The solo violinist is depicted by Sibelius as a strong-minded individualist and soon launches a small cadenza. The brooding emotions of the second theme, introduced by the orchestra, are intensified by the soloist’s ruminations. A shorter third theme gives way to the soloist’s much more

substantial cadenza. As a formal innovation, this cadenza takes the place of a conventional development. Sibelius uses this section and the ensuing recapitulation to supply new perspectives on the material heard at the beginning of the movement. The coda seals the movement with a heightened sense of emotional urgency.

After such expansive musical thoughts, the Adagio offers a satisfying foil with the serene beauty of its main melody. Note especially the dialogue between the soloist and flute in the contrasting central section. The finale, meanwhile, pulsates with an almost aggressive rhythmic energy. Sibelius reserves some of the Concerto’s most taxing technical demands for this movement, which contains a veritable textbook of virtuoso gestures. Yet the virtuosity of Sibelius’ “alter ego” is counterbalanced by the skillful symphonic technique of his orchestral writing.

The result is a thrilling consummation of the marriage between performer and composer.

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processes of long-form musical thought and transformation. A synthesis of brilliant solo writing and symphonic coherence, it adheres to the conventional concerto layout: a grand opening movement; a slow, lyrical middle movement; and an earthy and energetic finale.

Yet into this architecture Sibelius introduces some formal innovations and treats.

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saw her performances of Shakespeare as part of a Parisian residency by the English company to which she belonged. His knowledge of English at the time was minimal, yet the composer experienced something he later recalled in terms that evoke divine revelation.

Berlioz’s discovery of Shakespeare, like that of Beethoven, profoundly affected his understanding of his mission as an artist. Harriet’s portrayals of Ophelia and Juliet in particular moved Berlioz to the core. The composer sent her letters that went unanswered, and a few years passed before he even met her in person. Still, he channeled his idealized vision of the actress into the germinating Symphonie fantastique, weaving in several musical ideas from earlier compositions.

Berlioz signaled his aesthetic agenda by subtitling the Symphonie fantastique “An Episode in the Life of an Artist.” The idea of descriptive program music was not in itself new, but Berlioz changed the game through the intensity of his subjective portrait. Here was music that transformed the framework of a symphony into a vessel for autobiographical confession: an artist’s fever dream in which the composer projects

both his longing for the ideal woman and the disturbing consequences of that longing.

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R The remarkable orchestral effects and thematic transformations of Berlioz’s score evoke the metamorphoses and visions that occur in a state of dreaming or fantasizing — in the very state in which our obsessions are revealed in new and unsettling perspectives, as Romantic poets, painters and composers showed us decades before Freud.

Thus Berlioz calls the first movement Rêveries — Passions (“Daydreams — Passions”).

Muted strings shape the mood of this slow and melancholy introduction, filled with uneasy pauses, which sets the stage for the composer’s protagonist and alter ego: a passionate musician.

In his solitude, Berlioz’s Artist feels that he is incomplete because he lacks the ideal woman he loves.

The introduction gives way to a recurring theme representing this ideal Beloved —Berlioz referred to this theme as his idée fixe, or “fixed idea.” Initially it takes the shape of a melody in

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POSTSCR IPT: B ER L IOZ AN D HAR R IET S MITHSON After Berlioz professed his love for her, Harriet Smithson rejected the composer at first, but in 1833 — well after it had become common knowledge that she was the Beloved in his now famous work — she agreed to marry him. They had one son together, Louis. Yet their real-life love story took a sadly prosaic turn as Harriet’s career deteriorated, and the couple eventually separated.

Berlioz continued to support her until her death.

Symphonie fantastique is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets (2nd doubling E-flat clarinet), 4 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 cornets, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 bass tubas, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, bells, 2 harps and strings.

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nightmare. The Artist has continued to the next stage of his imagined death and fantasizes his funeral in the form of a demonic orgy. Berlioz achieves an especially shocking effect here by distorting the idée fixe into a leering parody of its original haunting beauty: the high-pitched E-flat clarinet squawks out the tune, suggesting that the Beloved lustily participates in the frightening witches’ dance.

The funeral rites include a sardonic version of the solemn Dies Irae chant, normally associated with the Requiem and its vision of a terrifying Judgment Day. This melody is initially entrusted to the tuba, after a series of tolling bells, and then sequentially speeded up by different sections of the orchestra. Berlioz brings the movement to its climax with an orgiastic fugue comprising the funeral chant and the music of the dancing witches — yet another dimension of parody, as the “learned” science of the fugue is put to the service of this demonic ritual.

While the Artist never awakens from this fever dream in the Symphonie fantastique, in 1831 Berlioz penned a sequel in which his protagonist does just that. In Lélio, ou le Retour à la Vie (“Lélio, or the Return to Life”), music itself provides the antidote to the Artist’s hopeless obsession.

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flutes and violins that ranges restlessly over nearly two octaves to suggest a kind of yearning. But it should be noted that this is also an eminently musical idea, easily fragmentable into constituent parts. The idée fixe plays a key role in the musical argument, reappearing in dramatically changing contexts through the course of the piece.

For all his Romantic credentials, Berlioz had a firm grounding in the Classical art of Gluck and Mozart, two composers he adored. Notice the clarity of texture and diaphanous beauty of the second movement, Un bal (“A Ball”), which adds the enchanting sound of a pair of harps. Here the Artist sinks into a state of despondency that is only enhanced by the fleeting joys of the dancers around him; he continues to fixate on his Beloved.

In Scène aux champs (“Scene in the Countryside”), the third movement — the longest and most enigmatic of the work — echoes of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony are especially obvious. As this movement reveals, Berlioz’s innovations as an orchestrator go far beyond his use of “special effects” and extend to his painterly mixture of timbres, his ability to mimic a kind of “shadowing” through adjusting the foreground and background levels of his sound colors. The English horn and oboe participate in a “pastoral duet,” yet the Artist continues to be tormented by fears of betrayal. The natural setting becomes a screen onto which he projects his fears, symbolized by distant thunder that announces a coming storm.

If the first two movements explore the idealism of the Artist’s obsession with love, the third is a fulcrum, giving way to a descent into hell that unfolds in the final two movements.

With its boisterous accents, Marche au supplice (“March to the Scaffold”) depicts the Artist fantasizing his own execution for having killed the Beloved. This fantasy is triggered by a heavy dose of opium he consumes in a suicidal state.

The Artist populates the scene with a sadistic crowd that gathers to witness his execution. A shift in point of view near the end moves from the isolated Artist to the crowd and back, as a clarinet reprises the idée fixe: the final image that flashes before the Artist’s eyes before he is decapitated, followed by a graphic illustration of the descending guillotine.

Songe d’une nuit de sabbat (“Witches’ Sabbath”) concludes the Symphonie fantastique with a full-on

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ELINA VÄHÄLÄ, violin Born in the U.S. and raised in Finland, Elina Vähälä made her orchestral debut with Sinfonia Lahti at age 12 and was later chosen by Osmo Vänskä as the orchestra’s “young master soloist.” Since then, her career continues to expand on the international stage. Vähälä has appeared with orchestras including Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Lahti, Turku Philharmonic, Oregon Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra. She has toured throughout the U.K., Germany, China, Korea and South America; in 2008 she was chosen to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, which was televised to a worldwide audience.

Season highlights for 2014/15 include performances with orchestras throughout

Finland, among them Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, alongside a return to North America for concerts with a variety of orchestras, notably Leonard Slatkin and Detroit Symphony Orchestra and a tour of the U.S. with the Festival Pablo Casals Prades Collective.

With a repertoire that ranges from baroque to contemporary, Vähälä has given the world premieres of Aulis Sallinen’s Chamber Concerto and Curtis Curtis-Smith’s Double Concerto, both written for her and pianist-conductor Ralf Gothóni. In addition, Vähälä gave the Nordic first performance of John Corigliano’s Violin Concerto The Red Violin and commissioned a new violin concerto from composer Jaakko Kuusisto.

Both the Corgiliano and Kuusisto concertos were recorded for BIS in 2013.

In 2009, Vähälä launched the Violin Academy. Funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the academy is a master class-based educational project for highly talented young Finnish violinists.

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Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Nashville Symphony Chorus Kelly Corcoran, chorus director Blair Children’s Chorus Mary Biddlecombe, artistic director Erin Wall, soprano Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor Phillip Addis, baritone

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BENJAMIN BRITTEN — WAR REQUIEM, Op. 66 • Benjamin Britten composed his War Requiem in 1961 for the consecration of St. Michael’s Cathedral in Coventry, England. The cathedral had been destroyed in 1940 during a German bombing raid that destroyed more than 4,000 homes. The premiere took place in the rebuilt cathedral on May 30, 1962. One of the Nashville Symphony’s performances will take place on the very same day 53 years later.

• Best known for The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Britten was one of England’s most beloved composers, and his War Requiem was a huge public success — fueled, in part, by the momentousness of the occasion for which it had been written.

• A lifelong pacifist, Britten was a conscientious objector during World War II and spent part of those years living as an exile in the U.S. The threat of global conflict still loomed when Britten wrote the War Requiem, as the Bay of Pigs invasion had ratcheted up Cold War tensions, and the Cuban Missile Crisis would take place just a few months after the premiere.

• Britten adapted text from the Latin Requiem Mass and interspersed it with poems by the British poet Wilfred Owen, who wrote of his own experiences in World War I. On the cover of the War Requiem score, Britten included the following quotation from Owen: “My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. All a poet can do today is warn.”

• The piece includes three solo vocal parts. For the premiere, Britten had three singers in mind, each representing countries who fought in World War II: Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, British tenor Peter Pears (who was also the composer’s life partner) and German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Vishnevskaya, who was the wife of the great conductor and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, was barred by the Soviet Union from performing at the premiere, though she later performed and recorded the work.

• Britten’s orchestration is wholly unique: The performers are divided into three groups, each representing different aspects of the work: First is the orchestra, along with chorus and soprano, who sing the Latin Requiem; second is a children’s chorus, accompanied here by harmonium, who also sing parts of the Requiem; and third is a chamber orchestra with tenor and baritone, who sing Owen’s poetry. The result is a multilayered construction in which the striking musical and thematic contrasts build to a powerful conclusion.

• The work is divided into six movements, each based on a portion of the Requiem. Britten uses the tritone — the pairing of two notes separated by three whole tones (in this case, C and F-sharp) — as an underlying musical conceit. This particular sound feels unnatural and unsteady to the ear, which underscores the themes of Britten’s work. Listen as well for the sound of tolling bells. In the fourth movement you can also hear the influence of Indonesian gamelan music.

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Composed: 1961 First performance: May 30, 1962, at Saint Michael’s Cathedral, Coventry, England First Nashville Symphony performance: January 23 & 24, 2004, with Music Director Kenneth Schermerhorn, soprano Twyla Robinson, tenor Don Frazure and baritone Dean Elzinga Estimated length: 85 minutes

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n this spring marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, there’s much to gain from experiencing this masterpiece. Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem demonstrates the power of art to confront humanity’s failings — and at the same time to offer hope. The War Requiem also stands out as a rare instance of a new work in the 20th century that was greeted from the start with overwhelming approval by critics and audiences alike. It even pointed ahead to the longing for a peaceful society that would define the ’60s, “just as [Britten’s first major opera] Peter Grimes had harmonized with the mood of the ’40s,” biographer Humphrey Carpenter observes.

The War Requiem, from first note to last, holds true to Britten’s conviction about the important role music should play in society. Here, in a work designed for the most public of occasions, Britten found an ideal outlet for his deepest, innermost concerns. The ethical perspective of this lifelong

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pacifist, who had been a conscientious objector in World War II, converges with the remarkable gifts that made him one of the supreme musical dramatists of the past century. In taking up one of the most tradition-laden texts of Western music, the Latin Mass for the Dead, Britten challenges and reinvigorates the very meaning of this ritual.

After World War II, Britten had considered Requiem-like works to commemorate the victims of the atomic bombings in Japan and, later, the assassination of Gandhi, but these plans never crystallized. A commission to supply a new score as part of the consecration of the newly rebuilt Coventry Cathedral, which had been destroyed by German bombing raids in 1940, at last provided Britten with the stimulus he needed to embark on a large-scale choral-symphonic composition.

Britten wasn’t interested in reinforcing platitudes about the sacrifices of war — let alone patriotic sentiments that whitewashed its horrors.

For the words of the War Requiem he therefore decided to combine the traditional Latin Requiem texts (with one telling change, in the Agnus Dei) with the English poetry of Wilfred Owen (18931918). Before Owen was killed on the battlefield in France, precisely one week before the Armistice ended World War I, the poet had responded to the madness of his frontline experience by writing bitterly ironic antiwar poetry that subverted the use of verse as a tool for patriotic propaganda.

“Christ is literally in ‘no man’s land’…. Thus you see how pure Christianity will not fit in with pure patriotism,” the young poet wrote to his mother. The latent homoeroticism of Owen’s poetry also resonated with Britten. As an epigraph to the War Requiem, Britten quoted a passage by Owen: “My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. All a poet can do is to warn.”

Britten moreover conceived the three solo parts specifically for singers who would stand for three of the nations in the worldwide conflagration: the Soviet Union (soprano Galina Vishnevskaya), Germany (the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) and England (his life partner, the tenor Peter Pears). To anchor his antiwar message, Britten tapped into a tradition of sacred music that carries a plea for peace amid turmoil (such as Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli or Beethoven’s Missa solemnis). His juxtaposition of

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Latin liturgical texts with secular poetry also had precedent, yet Britten interwove Owen’s poems in such a way that they serve as a provocative commentary on the familiar Requiem.

The result is a complex yet ingeniously lucid six-movement structure embedded with an ongoing song cycle for tenor and baritone, who between them sing the Owen poems. This fusion of the ancient and the modern — with the latter commenting on the former — might be interpreted as the composer’s musical and textual counterpart to architect Basil Spence’s bold design for Coventry Cathedral.

W HAT TO LISTE N F OR The vast resources Britten calls for clue us in to the architectural and spatial breadth of his conception. The scoring is divided into three groupings that are perceived to emanate from three distinct spheres. First is the more conventional sound world of full orchestra (including enlarged brass and percussion sections) and mixed chorus, which sings only the Latin texts. The soprano solos belong to this sphere as well.

If these performers represent the world of humanity facing our mortal condition, the boys’ choir, accompanied throughout by organ or harmonium, exists suspended beyond it as the voice of eternal, angelic innocence. Britten specifies that their sound is to be “distant.”

The composer draws on his operatic experience for the entire work, but the third level, with its reduced satellite orchestra and two male soloists, recalls textures from his chamber operas in particular. This is the very real world of violence and meaningless death — the plane on which ideals and innocence are corrupted.

Britten’s settings dramatize not only the Owen poems, but also their relation to the surrounding Requiem: most tellingly in Owen’s ironic comment on the Offertorium’s reference to “Abraham and his seed.”

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tritone, which permeates the opening Requiem aeternam in the form of C-F-sharp. This inherently unstable interval, the harmonic pivot of the entire work, can resolve in widely distant directions and thus underscores the pervasive feeling of ambivalence. (The tune of “Maria” from West Side Story also pivots on the tritone.) The first movement introduces other key musical ideas, too. The erratic, unpredictable rhythmic pulse is a nervous variant of a death march (the grim textures here are reminiscent of Shostakovich and, to a lesser degree, Mahler), while the solemn bell sounds prompt the first intersection with Owen’s poetry. Concluding the movement is an extraordinarily compressed setting of the Kyrie, which all too quickly resolves from its unstable harmonies into a soft F major chord.

All of this sets the stage for the vastly differentiated and dramatic canvas of the Dies Irae. Britten acknowledged his debt to Verdi’s well-known setting, and indeed the entire movement can be experienced as a miniature opera, with its shift of focus from the dread of universal apocalypse to the solo tenor’s heartrending question, “Was it for this the clay grew tall?” After the soprano’s oracular first entry in the Liber scriptus, the tone turns sardonic as the tenor and baritone intrude with more of Owen’s poetry. More contrasts accumulate until bells resound once again with the unstable tritone in the final chorus.

The traditional fugue setting of the Offertorium text is suddenly disrupted by Owen’s dark retelling of the sacrifice of Isaac, in which Abraham disobeys the divine voice and proceeds to murder his son. Immediately following, with its echoes of both Monteverdi and Indonesian gamelan music, is the shockingly triumphant Sanctus, though the baritone solo counters this with Owen’s poetic denial of the afterlife’s consolation.

Briefest of the six movements, the Agnus Dei reverses the textual pattern and begins with Owen, juxtaposing his moving image of a warshattered roadside crucifix with the Latin prayer in a haunting scalar melody. Swerving from the traditional Requiem version, Britten here inserts the line “dona nobis pacem” — his most straightforward plea for peace.

The final movement frames Owen’s dramatic

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

ABOUT THE ARTISTS ERIN WALL, soprano Soprano Erin Wall is acclaimed for her musicality and versatility, with an extensive opera and concert repertoire that spans three centuries, from Mozart and Beethoven to Britten and Strauss. She has sung leading roles in the world’s great opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and she appears in concert with leading symphony orchestras and conductors worldwide.

Recent career highlights include the title role in Strauss’ Arabella and Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Metropolitan Opera; a highly acclaimed debut as Clémence in L’amour de loin with the Canadian Opera Company in 2012; the title role in Thaïs at the Edinburgh Festival; and the 50th anniversary performance of Britten’s War Requiem with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra led by Andris Nelsons at Coventry Cathedral. Wall has recently sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Boston Symphony under Bernard Haitink and the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann, and she has sung Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the Hessischer Rundfunk under Paavo Järvi, Houston Symphony under Christoph Eschenbach, and NHK Philharmonic under

Jacques Dutoit.

Wall’s discography includes Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the Melbourne Symphony, conducted

by Sir Andrew Davis, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the Berlin Staatskapelle conducted by Pierre Boulez and the GRAMMY®-winning recording of the same work with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas. She has recorded Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the San Francisco and Montréal symphonies, and sings Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte on DVD, recorded live at Aix-en-Provence.

ANTHONY DEAN GRIFFEY, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey has appeared in the world’s most prestigious opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Paris Opera, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, and the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan. His many roles include the title roles in Peter Grimes, Idomeneo and Oedipus Rex; Florestan in Fidelio; Erik in Die Fliegende Holländer; Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia; and Alfred in Die Fledermaus.

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The War Requiem is scored for soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, mixed choir and boys’ choir, with three separate ensemble groups: full orchestra (with

soprano) comprising 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (3rd doubling E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (4 players), piano and strings; a chamber orchestra (with tenor and baritone) comprising flute (doubling piccolo), oboe (doubling English horn), clarinet, bassoon, horn, timpani, harp and a small group of solo strings; and a harmonium (with the boys’ choir).

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vision of two wartime “enemies” meeting after death within settings of the Libera Me and In Paradisum. Here the catastrophe of the day of reckoning yields to the most personal encounter in the parallel universe of Owen’s poetry. Britten dissolves this scene into the final Latin prayer In Paradisum, for the first time joining all the performing forces together. The chorus’s final measures repeat the harmonic sequence that ends the opening movement: is this the attainment of final rest, or the start of humanity’s eternally recurring pattern?

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Tanglewood Festival under Seiji Ozawa, and has since performed it all over the world, most recently with the Atlanta Symphony in Carnegie Hall as part of its Britten Centenary celebrations.

A supporter of new works, Griffey has won acclaim for creating the role of Mitch in the world premiere of André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire at the San Francisco Opera and for his performances of Lennie in Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men. A four time GRAMMY®-winner, Griffey has made numerous recordings, including the Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Grimes (EMI Classics), the Los Angeles Opera’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Euroarts) and the Metropolitan Opera’s Tristan und Isolde (DG/Universal). He holds degrees from Wingate University, the Eastman School of Music, and The Juilliard School and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Program. He currently holds the position of Distinguished Artist in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

PHILLIP ADDIS, baritone Canadian baritone Phillip Addis is praised for his creamy, bright, smooth voice as much as for his spell-binding yet sensitive interpretations.

He has performed in opera, concerts and recitals

throughout Canada, the U.S., Europe and Japan.

Recent seasons have included appearances as The Ferryman in Curlew River and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both at the Opera di Roma; his house debut at l’Opéra National de Paris as Roderick Usher in Debussy’s unfinished opera The Fall of the House of Usher; his debut at the London Proms in the title role of a concert version of Pelléas et Mélisande; as Marcello in Calgary Opera’s La Bohème and as Gugliemo in Così fan tutte with the Atlanta Opera. He has performed Britten’s War Requiem in Cincinnati, the Duruflé Requiem with I Musici de Montreal, and Handel’s Messiah in Ottawa with the National Arts Centre Orchestra.

Among Addis’ awards and honors are First Prize in the 2004 Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal’s Standard Life Competition, First Prize in the 2004 Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec’s Canadian Concerto Competition, and the 2005 Joseph Rouleau award from the Montreal International Music Competition. He received grants from the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation for Young Canadian Opera Singers’ support program from 2004-09.

With a Bachelor of Music from Queen’s University and a diploma in operatic performance from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, Addis began his operatic career in the apprenticeship program at the Atelier Lyrique de L’Opéra de Montréal with further studies at the Steans Institute at Ravinia, the Britten-Pears School and the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute.

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GIANCARLO GUERRERO

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iancarlo Guerrero is Music Director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of Cleveland Orchestra Miami.

Guerrero has established himself with many of the major North American orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, among others. He is also known to audiences of large summer festivals such as the Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles) and Blossom Music Festival (Cleveland). Equally at home in operatic repertoire, Guerrero makes his debut with the Houston Grand Opera in 2014/15 conducting Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.

He has conducted new productions of Carmen, La bohème and Rigoletto; in 2008, he gave the Australian premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s one-act opera Ainadamar at the Adelaide Festival to great acclaim.

Guerrero is cultivating an increasingly visible profile in Europe, where his recent debuts include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Copenhagen Philharmonic and Frankfurt Radio Symphony. In the 2014/15

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season, he makes debuts with the Orchestre National de France, Tonkünstler Orchester and Residentie Orkest (The Hague Philharmonic).

For many years, Guerrero has maintained a close association with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Brazil, as well as with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and El Sistema in Venezuela.

Guerrero’s recordings with Nashville Symphony won GRAMMY® Awards in 2011 and 2012, including Best Orchestral Performance.

A fervent advocate of contemporary music and composers, he has championed works by several of America’s foremost composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Roberto Sierra and Richard Danielpour.

A native of Costa Rica, Guerrero gained early experience with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera, and later spent time in Venezuela as Music Director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra. Upon moving to the U.S., he studied conducting and percussion at Baylor and Northwestern universities. He served as Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra from 1999-2004 and was Music Director of the Eugene Symphony in Oregon from 2002-09.

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

CHORUS DIRECTOR

VINAY PARAMESWARAN

KELLY CORCORAN The 2014/15 season marks Kelly Corcoran’s eighth season with the Nashville Symphony. As Associate Conductor for seven seasons, she conducted the Nashville Symphony in hundreds of performances, including the Symphony’s Classical and Pops Series, and served as the primary conductor for the orchestra’s education and community engagement concerts. In 2013, Corcoran was named Director for the Nashville Symphony Chorus.

Always interested in creating something new and collaborating with others, Corcoran plans to unveil her latest project, Intersection, an exciting new music ensemble with concerts for all ages. Corcoran created and founded the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra 11 years ago and continues to serve on the board.

Corcoran has appeared as a guest conductor with many major orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee and National Symphonies and the Louisville Orchestra, often with return engagements. Abroad, Corcoran has conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, and the Bournemouth (UK) Symphony. Interested in many musical styles, she has worked with a range of artists, including Béla Fleck, Brad Paisley, Amy Grant and Chris Botti, and has conducted the film scores to many movies in live performance screenings.

Originally from Massachusetts and a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for more than 10 years, Corcoran received her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from The Boston Conservatory and her Master of Music in instrumental conducting from Indiana University. She made her professional conducting debut in 2004 with the National Symphony Orchestra where she studied with her primary mentor, Leonard Slatkin. Corcoran studied with Marin Alsop as Honorable Mention for the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship.

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As Assistant Conductor of the Nashville Symphony, Vinay Parameswaran works closely with Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and conducts the symphony in classical, pops and education and community concerts. During the 2013/14 season, Parameswaran conducted an acclaimed concert with Itzhak Perlman at Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

He also returned to the Curtis Opera Theater in a production of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore.

During the 2012/13 season, Parameswaran conducted Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with the Curtis Opera Theatre, followed by appearances with the Vermont Symphony conducting three doubleconcertos with distinguished violinists Jamie Laredo and Jennifer Koh. He concluded the season with East Coast tour appearances at the Perelman Theater (Kimmel Center), the Kennedy Center and Miller Theater, also featuring Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh, as part of the “Curtis on Tour” program.

In the summer of 2012, Parameswaran was one of seven out of more than 130 applicants to be selected as a participant in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Workshop’s Conductors Institute, headed by Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier. In May of that year, he served as the cover conductor to Robert Spano in the Curtis Symphony Orchestra’s tour to Dresden, Germany, as well as the cover conductor to Miguel Harth-Bedoya with the Fort Worth Symphony.

As an opera conductor, Parameswaran made his Curtis Opera Theater debut conducting a doublebill of works by Davies and Handel. He served as the assistant conductor of Curtis Opera Theater productions of Les Mamelles de Tirésias, The Cunning Little Vixen and Elegy for Young Lovers.

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

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2014/15 NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Associate Concertmaster Assistant Concertmaster

Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, Concertmaster Emerita

Principal

Zeneba Bowers,

Assistant Principal

GIANCARLO GUERRERO Music Director

since 2009

VINAY PARAMESWARAN Assistant Conductor

since 2014

KELLY CORCORAN Chorus Director

since 2013

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

Daniel Reinker, Principal Shu-Zheng Yang, Assistant Principal

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

Anthony LaMarchina,

Kevin Jablonski Katherine Munagian

TROMBONES Paul Jenkins, Principal

Principal Emeritus

FLUTES

Erik Gratton, Principal

Anne Potter Wilson Chair

Ann Richards,

Assistant Principal

Kathryn Ladner,

Norma Grobman Rogers Chair

PICCOLO

Kathryn Ladner,

Norma Grobman Rogers Chair

OBOES

James Button, Principal Ellen Menking, Assistant Principal

Roger Wiesmeyer

ENGLISH HORN

Roger Wiesmeyer CLARINETS

James Zimmermann, Principal

Cassandra Lee,

Assistant Principal

Susan K. Smith,

Assistant Principal

BASS TROMBONE

Steven Brown TUBA

Gilbert Long, Principal TIMPANI

William G. Wiggins, Principal

PERCUSSION Sam Bacco, Principal

Richard Graber,

Assistant Principal

HARP

Licia Jaskunas, Principal

KEYBOARD

Robert Marler, Principal

LIBRARIANS

D. Wilson Ochoa+, Principal

Jennifer Goldberg,

E-FLAT CLARINET

Jared Rex,

BASS CLARINET

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER

Cassandra Lee

Daniel Lochrie BASSOONS

Cynthia Estill, Principal Dawn Hartley,

Acting Principal Librarian

Carrie Marcantonio

Assistant Principal

Gil Perel

Acting Assistant Principal James Victor Miller Chair

CONTRA BASSOON

Bradley Mansell Lynn Marie Peithman Stephen Drake Matthew Walker Christopher Stenstrom Keith Nicholas Julia Tanner

Assistant Principal

Daniel Lochrie

Principal

Xiao-Fan Zhang,

Co-Principal

STA F F

Carolyn Wann Bailey,

Preston Bailey, Acting

Assistant Principal

&

SECOND VIOLINS*

Elizabeth Stewart Gary Lawrence,

DIRECTO RS

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

Jeffrey Bailey, Principal Patrick Kunkee,

O F

photos by Jackson DeParis

Erin Hall,

TRUMPETS

Joel Reist, Principal Glen Wanner,

Gil Perel

*Section seating revolves +Leave of Absence ++Replacement/Extra

HORNS

Leslie Norton, Principal Beth Beeson Patrick Walle, Associate Principal/3rd Horn

Hunter Sholar Radu V. Rusu,

Assistant 1st Horn

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Gerald C. Greer,

BASSES*

B OARD

FIRST VIOLINS* Jun Iwasaki, Concertmaster Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair

2014/15 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

DIRECTORS

B OARD

James Seabury III Board Chair Mark Peacock Board Chair Elect

O F DIRECTO RS

Jeffery Walraven Board Treasurer Jennifer H. Puryear Board Secretary Alan D. Valentine * President & CEO

John Bailey III Russell Bates Scott Becker David Black Vic Braren Keith Churchwell Rebecca Cole * Michelle R. Collins * Kevin Crumbo Ben Cundiff Frank Daniels Jana Davis Robert Dennis Mary Falls Benjamin Folds Judy Foster Becky Gardenhire Vince Gill Edward A. Goodrich

Alison Gooding * Francis Guess Carl Haley Jr. Michael W. Hayes Evelyn Hill Christopher Holmes Lee Ann Ingram Martha R. Ingram * Elliott Warner Jones Sr. Larry Larkin * John T. Lewis Amanda Mathis Keith McLusky * John Manson * Robert E. McNeilly Jr. Richard Miller William Minkoff David Morgan Mike Musick

Harrell Odom Cano Ozgener Pam Pfeffer Brantley Phillips Jr. Ric Potenz Nelson Shields Judy Simmons Renata Soto Brett Sweet Mark Wait Melinda Whitley * Roger Wiesmeyer * William Greer Wiggins * Betsy Wills * Donna Yurdin * Shirley Zeitlin *Indicates Ex Officio

A N D STA F F

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF EXECUTIVE

Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO Karen Fairbend, Executive Assistant to President and CEO Chad Boyd, CFO Steven Brosvik, COO Katy Lyles, Executive Assistant to the COO

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION

Laurence Tucker, Director of Artistic Administration Ellen Kasperek, Manager of Artistic Administration Maiken Knudsen, Manager of Artistic Administration D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal Librarian Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian Jared Rex, Librarian Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator

COMMUNICATIONS Jonathan Marx, V.P. of Communications Dave Felipe, Publicist Britanie Knapp, Website and Social Media Community Manager Jessi Thompson, Art Director Kelsea Allen, Graphic Design Associate

DATA STANDARDS

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

DEVELOPMENT Jonathan Norris, V.P. of Development Maribeth Stahl, Sr. Director of Development Erin Wenzel CFRE, Sr. Director of

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Delaney Gray, Development Events Manager Robert Ketter, Corporate Development Officer Dennis Carter, Patron Engagement Officer Gina Haining, Patron Engagement Officer Sam LoCascio, Patron Engagement Officer Judith Wall, Patron Engagement Officer Devan Pope, Stewardship Coordinator Jami Frazier, Development Assistant

EDUCATION

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

FINANCE

Karen Warren, Controller Pamela Lindemann, Payroll and Accounts Payable Manager Sheri Switzer, Senior Accountant Charlotte Schweizer, Retail Manager and Buyer

FOOD, BEVERAGE AND EVENTS

Hays McWhirter, Director of Events Johnathon McGee, Food and Beverage Supervisor Schuyler Thomas, Food and Beverage Supervisor Anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager

HUMAN RESOURCES

Ashley Skinner SPHR, Director of Human Resources Katie Conwell, Human Resources Manager Kathleen McCracken, Volunteer Manager and League Liaison

I.T.

Trenton Leach, Director of Information Technology

MARKETING Daniel B. Grossman, V.P. of Marketing Misty Cochran, Director of Advertising and Promotions Emily Shannon, Director of Ticket Services Jeremy Painter, Box Office Manager Caroline Scism, Assistant Box Office Manager Missy Hubner, Ticket Services Assistant Paul Shearer, Manager of Marketing Associates Sarah Rose Peacock, Marketing and Communications Coordinator

PRODUCTION & ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS

Sonja Winkler, Sr. Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager Carrie Marcantonio, Orchestra

Personnel Manager John Sanders, Chief Technical Engineer Gary Call, Audio Engineer Mark Dahlen, Audio Engineer Mitch Hansen, Lighting Director W. Paul Holt, Stage Manager Josh Walliser, Production Manager Trevor Wilkinson, Assistant Production Manager Emily Yeakle, Assistant Lighting Director

VENUE MANAGEMENT

Eric Swartz, Associate V.P. of Venue Management Kenneth Dillehay, Building Engineer Wade Johnson, Housekeeping Manager Brenita McGlory, Housekeeper James Harvell, Housekeeper Tony Meyers, Director of Security and Front of House Alan Woodard, Security Guard Tom Downing, Facility Maintenance Technician

The Governing Members program honors those patrons who attend at least four performances annually and make an annual contribution of $2,500+ to the Annual Fund. The program provides opportunities for recognition, special access and institutional influence. Please call 615.687.6532 to discuss becoming a Governing Member today!

Ric Potenz Chair

Jon Weaver Vice Chair, Membership

Bethany Whelan Vice Chair, Membership

Brenda Griffin Vice Chair, Engagement

Andy Giacobone Vice Chair, Engagement

MEMBERS Claudia Douglass Myrtianne Downs Mr. and Mrs. Burton Dye Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Robert D. Eisenstein Dr. Noelle Daugherty & Dr. Jack Erter Mrs. Annette S. Eskind Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild Dr. Lee A. Fentriss T. Aldrich Finegan Tom & Judy Foster Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone Harris A. Gilbert Allis Dale & John Gillmor Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Gnyp Jr. James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Ed & Nancy Goodrich Mr. John Green Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero Francis S. Guess Carl & Connie Haley Mr. & Mrs. John Halsell Carolyn Hamby Mr. & Mrs. Arthur S. Hancock Jack & Jill Harmuth Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Janet & Jim Hasson Mr. & Mrs. Monty D. Hatcher Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Hays Mr.* & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Suzy Heer Ms. Victoria Heil Hemphill Family Foundation William Hester & Titus Daniels Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin H. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilton Drs. Robert Hines & Mary Hooks Judith Hodges Ken & Pam Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Scott Hoffman Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram Lee Ann & Orrin Ingram Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques Janet & Philip Jamieson George & Shirley Johnston Ms. Price Jones Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kestner Tom & Darlene Klaritch Walter & Sarah Knestrick Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Ms. Pamela L. Koerner Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach Robert & Carol Lampe Larry & Martha Larkin Paul & Dana Latour

Mr. & Mrs. John M. Leap Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee Sally M. Levine Kimberly & Jim Lewis John T. Lewis Robert Straus Lipman Myles & Joan MacDonald David & Lisa Manning Ellen Harrison Martin Red & Shari Martin Ms. Amanda Mathis Mr. Shawn D. Mathis- OnSomble Lynn & Jack May Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Sheila & Richard McCarty Gena & Cary McClure Tommy & Cat McEwen Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. Dr. Arthur M. Mellor Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Mericle F. Max & Mary A. Merrell The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger Edward D. & Linda F. Miles Richard & Sharalena Miller Mr. & Mrs. William Minkoff Jr. Christopher & Patricia Mixon Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli Mr. & Mrs. David K. Morgan Debra & William Morris Matt & Rhonda Mulroy James & Patricia Munro Dr. Barbara A. Murphy & Bruce Tripp Michael & Karen Musick Anne & Peter Neff Mr. Mark E. Nicol Kenneth Niermann Dr. Agatha L. Nolen Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Odom The Paisley Family Lee Parmley Dr. Barron Patterson & Mr. Burton Jablin Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer Dr. & Mrs. Edgar H. Pierce Jr. David & Adrienne Piston Donna and Tom Priesmeyer Dr. Terryl A. Propper Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus A. Puryear IV Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation Misha Robledo Carol & John T. Rochford Anne & Charles Roos Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke Anne & Joe Russell Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell Joe & Dorothy Scarlett Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle

Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Scott Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III Stephen K. & Patricia L. Seale Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus Ron & Diane Shafer Joan Blum Shayne Colleen Sheppard Bill & Sharon Sheriff The Shields Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Michael Shmerling Mrs. Martin E. Simmons William & Cyndi Sites George & Mary Sloan Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small David & Niki Smith Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith K. C. & Mary Smythe Jack & Louise Spann Mr. & Mrs. Clark Spoden & Norah Buikstra Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell Christopher & Maribeth Stahl Deborah & James Stonehocker Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III Johanna & Fridolin Sulser Brett & Meredythe Sweet Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Matthew K. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Mark Tillinger Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. Candy Toler Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner Mr. Robert J. Turner & Mr. Jay Jones Alan D. & Jan L. Valentine Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund David Coulam & Lucy A. Visceglia Kris & G. G. Waggoner Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner Mark Wait Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery C. & Dayna L. Walraven James & Greta Walsh Mrs. W. Miles Warfield Peggy & John Warner Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen Jonathan & Janet Weaver Art & Lisa Wheeler Mr. Thomas G. B. Wheelock Bethany Whelan Mr. & Mrs. James W. White Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White David & Gail Williams Jerry & Ernie Williams Mr. & Mrs. Joel Williams Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Dr. Artmas L. Worthy Patrick & Phaedra Yachimski Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth

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Anonymous (6) Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Drs. W. Scott & Paige Akers Shelley Alexander Dale & Julie Allen Jon K. & Colleen Atwood Sallie & John Bailey Mr. David M. Baldwin/ Pancake Pantry Judy & Joe Barker Mr. Russell W. Bates & Mr. Oguz E. Bates Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup Betty C. Bellamy Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Annie Laurie Berry David & Diane Black Mr. and Mrs. Brad Blevins/ Blevins, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Frank H. Boehm Dennis & Tammy Boehms Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells Richard & Judith Bracken Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. Randal & Priscilla Braker H. Victor Braren, M.D. Dr. Michael C. Buchholz & Dr. Jacqueline R. Ansell Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Buijsman Ann & Frank Bumstead Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt Chuck & Sandra Cagle Michael & Jane Ann Cain Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Ann & Sykes Cargile Crom & Kathy Carmichael Dr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Carter Michael & Pamela Carter Ms. Pamela Casey Fred Cassetty Mr. Philip M. Cavender Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler Donna R. Cheek Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Clark Terry & Holly Clyne Dorit & Donald Cochron Ed & Pat Cole Marjorie Collins Mr. Brian Cook Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan Mr. & Mrs. Justin Dell Crosslin Mr. & Mrs. Kevin W. Crumbo Janine & Ben Cundiff Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Daley III Carol & Frank Daniels III “David” Dr. & Mrs. Ben Davis Hope and Elliott Dawson Hilton & Sallie Dean John & Natasha Deane Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis The Rev. & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Marty & Betty Dickens Dee Doochin Dr. & Mrs. Alan Dopp

GOV ERNING

OFFICERS

I NDI VI DU A L S

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 March 31, 2015.

ANNUAL

MARTHA RIVERS INGRAM SOCIETY Gifts of $25,000 + Mr. Russell W. Bates & Mr. Oguz E. Bates David & Diane Black Mr. & Mrs.* Martin S. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Kevin W. Crumbo

Janine & Ben Cundiff Carol & Frank Daniels III Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Hays Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram The Melkus Family Foundation

Richard & Sharalena Miller Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson

FUND

WALTER SHARP SOCIETY Gifts of $15,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (1) Judy & Joe Barker Richard & Judith Bracken Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero Patricia & H. Rodes Hart

Mr.* & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Jan & Daniel Lewis Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock

Ron & Diane Shafer Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner David & Gail Williams Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth

VIRTUOSO SOCIETY Gifts of $10,000-$14,999 Anonymous (3) Dale & Julie Allen Mr. Bill G. Anderson Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey R. Balser Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bottorff Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. Mr.* & Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr.

Tommy & Julie Frist Jennifer & Billy Frist Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone Allis Dale & John Gillmor Ed & Nancy Goodrich Mr. & Mrs. John Ingram Lee Ann & Orrin Ingram Dr. & Mrs. Howard S. Kirshner Ralph & Donna Korpman

Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt Lee Parmley Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer Mr.* & Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus Mr. & Mrs. Michael Shmerling

STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous (1) Julie & Tom Aaron Mr. & Mrs. James Ayers Brian & Beth Bachmann Sallie & John Bailey Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup Annie Laurie & Irvin* Berry H. Victor Braren, M.D. Ann & Frank Bumstead Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt Michael & Jane Ann Cain Michael & Pamela Carter Fred Cassetty Drs. Keith & Leslie Churchwell Mr. & Mrs. Justin Dell Crosslin Greg & Collie Daily Mr. & Mrs. Ansel L. Davis Hilton & Sallie Dean Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis The Rev. & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Marty & Betty Dickens Dee & Jerald Doochin Claudia Douglass Mr. and Mrs. Burton Dye Mr. & Mrs. Jere M. Ervin Mrs. Annette S. Eskind The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Marilyn Ezell

Patrick & Kimberly Forrest Tom & Judy Foster Frank & Amy Garrison James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin Francis S. Guess Carl & Connie Haley Carolyn Hamby Jack & Jill Harmuth William Hester & Titus Daniels Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin H. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilton Judith Hodges Mr. & Mrs. David B. Ingram Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Anne Knauff Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee Kimberly & Jim Lewis John T. Lewis Robert Straus Lipman Myles & Joan MacDonald Ellen Harrison Martin Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Sheila & Richard McCarty Mr. & Mrs. Clayton McWhorter Edward D. & Linda F. Miles Mr. & Mrs. William Minkoff Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sam Z. Moore

Michael & Karen Musick Anne & Peter Neff Mr. Mark E. Nicol Victoria & William Pao Dr. Barron Patterson & Mr. Burton Jablin Peggy & Hal Pennington Joelle & Brant Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus A. Puryear IV Carol & John T. Rochford Anne & Joe Russell Mr. & Mrs. Scott C. Satterwhite Joe & Dorothy Scarlett Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Scott The Shields Family Foundation Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood Mr. & Mrs. Matthew K. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Mark Tillinger Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. Alan D. & Jan L. Valentine Peggy & John Warner Jonathan & Janet Weaver Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White Jerry & Ernie Williams Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin

GOLDEN BATON SOCIETY Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous (2) Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Drs. W. Scott & Paige Akers Shelley Alexander Mr. Thomas L. Altman Jon K. & Colleen Atwood 60

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Dr. & Mrs. Billy R. Ballard Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Betty C. Bellamy Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Dr. & Mrs. Frank H. Boehm Dennis & Tammy Boehms Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells

Mr. & Mrs. Chad W. Boyd Randal & Priscilla Braker Dr. Michael C. Buchholz & Dr. Jacqueline R. Ansell Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Buijsman Chuck & Sandra Cagle Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Ann & Sykes Cargile

Anne & Charles Roos Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke Dr. James Roth Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Stephen K. & Patricia L. Seale Joan Blum Shayne Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Bill & Sharon Sheriff William & Cyndi Sites George & Mary Sloan David & Niki Smith Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith K. C. & Mary Smythe Jack & Louise Spann Mr. & Mrs. Clark Spoden & Norah Buikstra Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell Christopher & Maribeth Stahl Deborah & James Stonehocker Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III Johanna & Fridolin Sulser Brett & Meredythe Sweet Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor Pamela & Steven Taylor Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Candy Toler Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes Risë & Laurence Tucker Mr. Robert J. Turner & Mr. Jay Jones Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund Kris & G. G. Waggoner Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner Mark Wait Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery C. & Dayna L. Walraven James & Greta Walsh Mrs. W. Miles Warfield Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen Art & Lisa Wheeler Mr. Thomas G. B. Wheelock Bethany Whelan David W. White Mr. & Mrs. James W. White Jerry & Ernie Williams Mr. & Mrs. Joel Williams Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Dr. Artmas L. Worthy Patrick & Phaedra Yachimski

FUND

"David" Rodney Irvin Family Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel Donald L. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques Janet & Philip Jamieson George & Shirley Johnston Ms. Price Jones Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kestner Tom & Darlene Klaritch Walter & Sarah Knestrick Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Ms. Pamela L. Koerner Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach Robert & Carol Lampe Larry & Martha Larkin Paul & Dana Latour Kevin & May Lavender Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby Mr. & Mrs. John M. Leap Sally M. Levine David & Lisa Manning Red & Shari Martin Rhonda A. Martocci & William S. Blaylock Ms. Amanda Mathis Mr. Shawn D. Mathis-OnSomble Lynn & Jack May Gena & Cary McClure Tommy & Cat McEwen Dr. Stephen Y. McLeod-Bryant Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Dr. Arthur M. Mellor Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Mericle F. Max & Mary A. Merrell Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger Christopher & Patricia Mixon Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli Mr. David K. Morgan Matt & Rhonda Mulroy James & Patricia Munro Dr. Barbara A. Murphy & Bruce Tripp Kenneth & Merna Niermann Dr. Agatha L. Nolen Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat Dr. & Mrs. Edgar H. Pierce Jr. David & Adrienne Piston Donna and Tom Priesmeyer Dr. Terryl A. Propper Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation Misha Robledo

ANNUAL

Mr. David Carlton Crom & Kathy Carmichael Dr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Carter Ms. Pamela Casey Dr. Elizabeth Cato Mr. Philip M. Cavender Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler Donna R. Cheek Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Clark Mr. & Mrs. John M. Clark Terry & Holly Clyne Dorit & Donald Cochron Ed & Pat Cole Marjorie & Allen* Collins Mr. Brian Cook Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. David Coulam & Lucy A. Visceglia Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Daley III “David” Dr. & Mrs. Ben Davis John & Natasha Deane Dr. & Mrs. Alan Dopp Myrtianne Downs Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Robert D. Eisenstein David Ellis & Barry Wilker Dr. Noelle Daugherty & Dr. Jack Erter Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild Dr. Lee A. Fentriss T. Aldrich Finegan Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas R. Ganick Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Harris A. Gilbert Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Gnyp Jr. Mr. John Green Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Hagood Mr. & Mrs. John Halsell Janet & Jim Hasson Mr. & Mrs. Monty D. Hatcher Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Suzy Heer Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Ms. Victoria Heil Hemphill Family Foundation Drs. Robert Hines & Mary Hooks Ken & Pam Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Scott Hoffman Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (10) Jerry Adams Jeff & Tina Adams James & Glyna Aderhold Carol M. Allen Mr & Mrs. Thomas Andrews Jr. Gerry & Lisa Altieri Jeremy & Rebecca Atack The Brian C. Austin Family Barbara & Mike Barton Mrs. Brenda Bass Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass Ned Bates Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Ms. Marilyn Bell Bernice Amanda Belue Frank M. Berklacich, MD Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills Mr. David Blackbourn & Ms. Celia Applegate Randolph & Elaine Blake Bob & Marion Bogen Mr. & Mrs. Gene Bonfoey Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Jere & Crystal Brassell Berry & Connie Brooks Mr. James Beach & Dr. Shervondalonn Brown Mr. Scott Bryant

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Dr. Joseph & Ambassador Rachel Diggs Pam Dishman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Donnell Jr. Michael Doochin & Linda Kartoz-Doochin Amy Dorfman & Donald Capparella Mr. Eddie H. Doss Henry & Anna Dowler Ms. Martha H. DuBose Judith A. Dudley Mr. & Mrs. Carl Duffield Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Dugger Kathleen & Stephen Dummer J. Michael & Kay Duncan Bob & Nancy Dunkerley Dr. & Mrs. Ryszard Dworski Mr. & Mrs. Jim Eades Jr. Braces by Dr. Ruth Thomas D. Edmonds DVM Mr. Richard A. Edwards Ms. Jenna C. Egelston Ms. Rosana Eisenberg Ms. Katherine H. Elcan Mr. James H. Eldridge Dan & Zita Elrod Ms. Martha C. Elzen Mr. Ray Enochs & Mrs. Lee Emerson Ms. Claire Evans Bobby & Dawn Evans Tony & Shelley Exler Dr. & Mrs. Roy C. Ezell Mr. Stephen E. Farner John & Deborah Farringer Glenn & Susan Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. Fields Dr. & Mrs. Jack Fisher Doris T. Fleischer John & Mary Folger Cathy & Kent Fourman Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Fox III Andrew & Mary Foxworth Sr. Ms. Elizabeth A. Franks Robert Franz* & Nancy Zambito Ms. Anna K. Iversen Ms. Caitlin S. Frazier Ms. Sandra L. Freeze Scott & Anita Freistat Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Debra Frey Ms. Linda Friend Dr. Mark E. Frisse Dr. Alex B. Fruin Dr. Henry Fusner* Lois* & Peter Fyfe Ms. Mary T. Gallagher Ms. Elham Galyon Mr. David Gann Barbara & Joaquin Garcia Ms. Lisa Garmon Ms. Donna S. Garripoli Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Garrison Mr. Kelly E. Gatewood Dr. Carrie C. Gauchat Alan & Jeannie Gaus Christopher & Amanda Genovese Dodie & Carl George Em J. Ghianni Ms. Stephanie R. Gibbs Mr. & Mrs. John Gillespie Mr. Mark S. Giovetti Mr. Andre L. Gist Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Glassford Mrs. Megan G. Glosson Linda & Joel Gluck Ms. Beverly Jean Godwin Susan T. Goodwin Jeff & Dolores Goold Dr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Gotterer Kathleen Gould Mrs. Sarah D. Governale Tom & Carol Ann Graham Roger & Sherri Gray Austin & Delaney Gray Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Green Mr. & Mrs. George G. Green III Judith & Peter Griffin Mr. Michael Grillot R. Dale & Nancy G. Grimes Eric & Martha Grindeland

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Dr. Vicky Jones Drs. Ramon & Cathy Jrade Mr. & Mrs. David A. Kacynski Cathy Couey & Richard Kasnick Carol & Sol Katz Hal & Peggy Kearns Mr. Mike Keenan Mr. Antonio Keith Jamie & Wade Kelley Ron & Janice Kempf Mr. & Mrs. Brock Kidd Mr. Harlon J. Kimbro Jr. George C. King Marsha Kline Jack T. & Barbara E. Knott George McCulloch & Linda Knowles David & Judy Kolzow Mrs. Rachel Korine Mark J. Koury & Daphne C. Walker Joyce K. Laben Mr. John E. Land Mr. Howard Landman Mr. & Mrs. Keith H. Landry Danny & Jan Law Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Ellen C. Lawson Ruth & Paul Lebovitz Dr. & Mrs. Donald Lee J. Mark Lee Ms. Nora Lee Mr. Kyle Lehning Dorothy & Jim Lesch Mr. Matthew Leverton Jeff & Lynn Levy E. A. Lewis Mr. Michael A. Lewis Mr. Adam J. Liff Mack & Katherine Linebaugh Richard & Tad Lisella The Howard Littlejohn Family Mr. & Mrs. James H. Littlejohn Kim & Mike Lomis Mr. Mark E. Lopez & Mr. Patrick J. Boggs David & Nancy Loucky Mr. Thomas H. Loventhal Kenyatta & Tracey Lovett Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal Mr. & Mrs. William B. Loyd Drs. Bo Lu & Jia Bi Ms. Frances B. Lumbard Patrick & Betty Lynch Mr. Michael J. MacDonald Mr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Mack Dr. Susan R. MacKenzie Mr. & Mrs. James N. Maddox Mr. John Maddux Mr. Eric J. Mader Mr. & Mrs. John D. Madole Dr. & Mrs. Mark A. Magnuson Sam & Betty Marney Lee Marsden Dr. & Mrs. Harry D. Marsh Dr. Dana R. Marshall Henry & Melodeene Martin Ms. Stephanie K. Martin Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Massie Mr. & Mrs. Donnie H. Masters Sue & Herb Mather Ms. Mitzi Matlock Mr. & Mrs. John M. Mauldin Ms.Margery L. Mayer & Ms. Carolyn Oehler Sonje K. Mayo Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. McAllister Mr. Paul Lorczak & Janet McCabe Ron & Suzanne McCafferty Jocelynne McCall Ms. Carolyn McClerkin Timothy & Shirlee McCleskey Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. McClure Mr. Zachary McCormick Thomas B. McCoy Kathleen McCracken Mary & John McCullough Bob McDill & Jennifer Kimball Ed & Carla McDougle 70

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Edward W. McFadden Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. McGrew Jr. Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy E. McIntosh Jr. Dr. Joy H. McKee Ms. Ashley M. Mcmahan Mrs. Catherine G. McMurtry Dr. & Mrs. Timothy E. McNutt Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. McWherter Mr. David W. Mead Linda & Ray Meneely Mr. Julius E. Meriweather Jr. Mr. Jack E. Meyer Sheila & Alan Miller Dr. & Mrs. Philip G. Miller Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. Ron V. Miller Mrs. Sherri M. Miller Mr. Robert D. Minton Dr. Fernando Miranda & Dr. Patricia Bihl-Miranda Mr. Trent J. Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Scott Moffett Shirley & Felix Montgomery Dr. Michael F. Montijo & Mrs. Patricia A. JamiesonMontijo Jerry E. & Gleedell J. Moody D. Mark Moore James & April Moore Dr. Kelly L. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Morris Mr. Neal R. Morse Monica L. Mosesso Dr. Matthew K. Mosteller Mr. & Mrs. John C. Moulton Dr. J. Philip Moyers Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Mueller Drs. Russell & Lizabeth Mullens Mrs. Elizabeth Murphy Mr. & Mrs. B. Dwayne Murray Jr. Capt. Bryan Clinton Neal Mr. James R. Neal Gerald & Jennifer Neenan Ms. Diana Nelson Jennifer Nelson Dr. & Mrs. Harold Nevels Jeanne & Mike Newton Stephen & Barbara Nichol Ms. Alice Nichols Ms. Iris A. Nolan Drs. John* & Margaret Norris Mr. Thomas H. North Judy M. Norton Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Ms. Laura B. O'Connell Patricia J. Olsen Mr. Brendan O'Malley Philip & Carolyn Orr Wayne Overby Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Overfield Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Overstreet Mr. Stephen N. Owens Dr. & Mrs. Aydin Ozan Dr. & Mrs. James Pace Ophelia & George Paine Ms. Susan M. Kalp Terry & Wanda Palus Doria Panvini Jason & Chelsea Parker Clint Parrish Dr. & Mrs. Earl Q. Parrott Lisa & Doug Pasto-Crosby Ms. Anupama A. Patel Ms. Rebecca Selove Diane Payne Dr. & Mrs. W. Faxon Payne Joyce D. Peacock Mr. & Mrs. John O. Pearce Ms. Linda Pegues Anne & Neiland Pennington Ark Construction Dr. & Mrs. A. F. Peterson Jr. Dr. & Mrs. William M. Petrie Ms. Sonya M. Petway-Edwards Mr. Donald L. Pickard Mr. Maurice W. Pinson

Ms. Julie B. Plexico Rick & Diane Poen Mr. Timothy J. Polaschek Phil & Dot Ponder Katherine M. Poole Stanley D. Poole Ms. Elizabeth M. Potocsnak Cammy Price Mr. & Mrs. John E. Prine Mr. Franklin M. Privette Mr. & Mrs. James Puckett Mr. & Mrs. Brooks A. Quin Mr. Daniel L. Rader & Mrs. Leah R. Jensen-Rader Mrs. Tanya C. Radic CDR Helen F. Ragan, NC, USNR Edria & David Ragosin Dr. & Mrs. Ivan N. Raley Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths Mr. Hugh M. Rayhab Mrs. Dawn D. Redlin Charlotte A. Reichley Mr. Allen Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Al J. Rhodes Mr. Cliff N. Rhodes Dr. John S. Rich Barbara Richards Mrs. Jane H. Richmond Mrs. Paul E. Ridge Mr. & Mrs. James Riley Mr. & Mrs. Brian Roark Rev. Robin Robertson Dr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Rogers Alice & Michael Rolli Judith R. Roney Dr. & Mrs. Hal M. Roseman Rodney & Lynne Rosenblum Mrs. Ruth S. Roten Lauren & Christopher Rowe Mr. Jeffery M. Roy Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Roy Mrs. Denise Ruiz Dr.* & Mrs. Kenneth Rutherford Mr. Arthur C. Rutledge Judith Ann Sachs Mr. & Mrs. John Saidy Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Sams Ron & Lynn Samuels Alan & Ann Sanders Mr. & Mrs. Bryce Sanders Mr. Bradley T. Sanderson James & Susan Sandlin Mr. & Mrs.William B. Saunders & Family Mr. Donald D. Savoy Diane Scher Ms. Carol Schlafly Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth P. Schnaars Molly & Richard Schneider Drs. Carl & Wendy Schofield Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Schwab Mr. Paul C. Scott Mr. & Mrs. Harold Seavey Mr. Carl A. Sedgeman Mrs. Adrianne Seifert Dr. Ed & Cecile Settle Gene A. & Linda M. Shade Mr. & Mrs. Stephen B. Shanklin Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Shea Ms. Laura E. Sikes Keith & Kay Simmons Mr. & Mrs. William L. Simmons Mr. & Mrs. Wilson Sims Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir Alice Sisk Ms. Diane M. Skelton Dr. & Mrs. David Slosky Scott Smieja & Leilani Mason Mrs. Madison Smith Ms. Cara Smith Mr. Charles Smith Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Mr. Edd Smith Mrs. Jacqueline M. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Kenric Smith Mrs. Melissa M. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Keith H. Solomon

HONORARY

In honor of the marriage of Celia Applegate & David Blackbourn In honor of Bettie Berry’s Birthday In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Milton Hay Brown In honor of Dr. Glenn & Mrs. Suzanne Buckspan In honor of Marion P. Couch In honor of Keelan Farrell & Ben Gager In honor of Jennifer Goldberg In honor of Martha Ingram In honor of Wilhelmina Johnson In honor of Frank P. Lavarre In honor of Peggy Loughran's birthday In honor of Robert (Bob) McNeilly In honor of John William Meyers In honor of the marriage of David Morgan and Janice Elliott In honor of Harrell Odom In honor of Roger Wiesmeyer

LAWRENCE S. LEVINE MEMORIAL FUND

George E. Barrett John Auston Bridges Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Barbara & Eric Chazen Donna R. Cheek Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Esther & Roger Cohn Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Dee & Jerald Doochin Robert D. Eisenstein Mrs. Annette S. Eskind Laurie & Steven Eskind Harris A. Gilbert Allis Dale & John Gillmor Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Mr.* & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Judith Hodges Judith S. & James R. Humphreys Walter & Sarah Knestrick Sheldon Kurland Ellen C. Lawson Sally M. Levine In honor of Judith & Jim Humphreys Frances & Eugene Lotochinski Ellen Harrison Martin Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Cynthia & Richard Morin Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Mr. and Mrs. Craig E. Philip Anne & Charles Roos Mr.* & Mrs. John L. Seigenthaler Joan B. Shayne Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Vicky & Bennett Tarleton Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Byron Trauger Betty & Bernard Werthan Mr. Mark Zimbicki and Ms. Wendy Kurland Alice A. Zimmerman

FUND

*denotes donors who are deceased

Ms. Judith B. Wiens Mr. Jonathan N. Wike Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Wiley Frank & Marcy Williams Ms. Jannie C. Williams John & Anne Williams Dr. Joyce E. Williams Mr. John A. Willis Ms. Donna Wilson The Rev. & Mrs. H. David Wilson Ms. Emily J. Windham Ms. Barbara W. Winstead Ms. Sandra Wiscarson Mr. Robert E. Wise Mr. & Mrs. William F. Wolf Scott & Ellen Wolfe Mr. Casey R. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Wood Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wood Sr. Miss Jessica Woodard Ms. Nerene G. Wray Kathryn & Roy Wroth Dr. Mary Yarbrough Mr. & Mrs. Michael Yarbrough Ms. Laura L. Yeager Ms. Faith Adams Young Mr. Anthony Zahorik Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Zibart Rev. & Mrs. A. Jackson Zipperer Jr. Ms. Wilma Zonn

ANNUAL

Ms. Rejane Soucy Mr. Stuart S. Southard Mrs. Karen E. Speyer Tom Spiggle Mr. & Mrs. Charles Sprintz Tom Squires Nancy & Lily Stalls Lelan & Yolanda Statom Dr. & Mrs. James D. Stefansic Dr. C. Thomas & Cheryl Steiner John & Jane Stephens Mr. Donald L. Stephenson Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens Ms. Allison Stillwell Young Dr. Christie E. St-John Kent & Judy Stockton Mr. & Mrs. Glenn C. Stophel Mr. & Mrs. Warner A. Stringer III Ricky & Carol Sullivan Frank Sutherland & Natilee Duning Greg & Rhonda Swanson Dr. Becky E. Swanson-Hindman Ms. Carolyn C. Swinney Dr. Anna & Mr. Jaroslaw Szczuka Bishop & Mrs. Melvin G. Talbert Dr. Thomas R. Talbot Bruce & Jaclyn Tarkington Mr. and Mrs. James D. Tashie Mr. Lawrence E. Taylor Jeremy & Carrie Teaford Dr. & Mrs. David L. Terrell Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Thackston Mr. & Mrs. Richard Theiss Dr. & Mrs. William Thetford Mr. Larry C. Thornton Richard & Shirley Thrall Bill Tidwell Scott & Nesrin Tift Ms. Shari L. Tish Mr. Erik Todd Ms. Emily Todoran Mr. & Mrs. Lewis J. Tomiko Mr. Anthony E. Tomlinson Mr. & Mrs. Sean Torr Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Trusty Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull Mr.* & Mrs. Jimmy L. Turner Dr. & Mrs. Michael Tyler Frances Anne Varallo Mr. & Mrs. Gay E. Vick III Kimberly Dawn Vincent Jessica & Daniel Viner Mr. & Mrs. Douglas K. Voise Mrs. Bridget S. von Weisenstein Patricia C. Wade Mr. & Mrs. William W. Wade Ms. Brenda Walker Mr. Charles E. Walker Charles & Carol Walker Mrs. Emily L.Martin Lynn S. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wallace Kay & Larry Wallace Dr. & Mrs. Gary L. Waltemath Ms. Judith Walter Mr. Allen P. Ward Dr. Jane Warren Mrs. Lynn S. Waterman Bob Watson & Beth Mallen Shirley Marie Watts Frank & Jane Wcislo Mr. Daniel G. Weese H. Martin* & Joyce Weingartner Dr. Jay Weiss Ms. Amy Wells Ms. Donna M. Werner Ms. Joni P. Werthan & Mr. Larry S. Jessen Linda C. West Franklin & Helen Westbrook Linda & Raymond White Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Whiteaker Mr. & Mrs. Larry Whitehead Mr. Michael T. Whitler & Mr. Mark Weber Dr.& Mrs. Mitchell Wiatrak

MEMORIAL

In memory of Carole Slate Adams In memory of James R. Austin In memory of Jessica Bloom In memory of James F. Brandenburg In memory of Nathan Alexander Brooks In memory of William S. Cochran In memory of W. Ovid Collins Jr. In memory of Denese Cure In memory of Lucille David In memory of Jerry Doochin In memory of James J. (Bucky) Doster In memory of Mort L. Downey In memory of Mrs. Sue Doyle In memory of Esther Gorny In memory of Jackson Harris MD In memory of Adolphus "Dolph" Henry Hatcher III In memory of Sandra Elizabeth Gray Hunt In memory of Rodney Irvin In memory of Clare & Samuel Loventhal In memory of Samuel C. Loventhal In memory of Jim McCaslin In memory of Susan Plageman In memory of Alyce M. Priesmeyer In memory of William Satterwhite In memory of Betty Jo Shafer In memory of Wilda Tinsley In memory of Dr. Pedro Vasseur In memory of H. Martin Weingartner

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From the performing arts to sports, Nashville Arts & Entertainment Magazine celebrates the thriving, creative spirit of one of the most exciting cities in the nation.

A work of art unto itself, the magazine is your ultimate source for exclusive interviews, news, and information, including a calendar of events. The perfect-bound annual glossy is a beauty, exclusively distributed in the 800 rooms at the Omni Convention Center Hotel, in addition to other select locations. Of course, you’ll want one for your coffee table, too.

The brand new edition includes a fun piece that takes you backstage at TPAC, the Nashville Symphony, the Grand Ole Opry, and Ryman Auditorium. New this year, Nashville Arts & Entertainment will honor five remarkable Nashvillians whose lives have impacted our city in countless ways. Nashville Arts & Entertainment Honors is pleased to make a donation of $1,000 to each of five different charities these honorees support in recognition of their tremendous spirit of giving and encouragement. Read all about it!

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Get your copy at Barnes & Noble, Costco, Hudson News Gift Shops at the airport, Kroger, Publix, and finer newsstands throughout middle Tennessee or purchase online at NAEmag.com.

The magazine is also distributed by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development.

Nashville Arts & Entertainment Magazine is published by Glover Group Entertainment. For information about advertising in the magazine — or the Performing Arts Magazine you received at today’s performance — visit GloverGroupEntertainment.com or call 615-373-5557.

Encore Dining 1808 Grille

Sophisticated, yet casual, 1808 Grille’s seasonal menus blend traditional Southern dishes with global flavors. Award-winning wine list, as well as full bar and bar menu.

Forbes Four-Star. Complimentary valet. 1808 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203 Ph: (615) 340-0012 www.1808grille.com

Bob’s Steak & Chop House

The prime place for prime steak Located inside the Omni Nashville Hotel, Bob’s Steak & Chop House is a nationally renowned steak house specializing in the finest corn-fed, Midwestern prime beef. Our menu formula is simple: incredible meat, gigantic shrimp, fabulous salads and decadent desserts. Classic steak house food prepared and presented in a manner that Bon Appétit calls “the kind of fare you’ll want to go back for again and again.” 250 5th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203 Ph: (615) 761-3707

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar

Fleming’s Nashville is an ongoing celebration of exceptional food & wine, featuring the finest prime steak and an award-winning wine list. We are located across from Centennial Park at 2525 West End Ave.

Ph: (615) 342-0131 www.flemingssteakhouse.com/locations/tn/nashville

Goozy Dessert Bar and Café

Nashville’s first dessert bar, featuring molten chocolate cakes, housemade gelato, inventive desserts, artisan grilled cheeses, gourmet coffee, wine, craft beer and cocktails.

Located in Green Hills across from Orvis and Noshville.

Visit www.gotogoozy.com for hours and directions. Ph: (615) 297.0274

Kitchen Notes

Authentic Southern Flavor Enjoy traditional Southern dishes handed down from generation to generation at Kitchen Notes, offering sustainable dishes made from treasured family recipes. This innovative farm-to-table concept incorporates using the freshest ingredients to create great food and a casual dining experience. While you’re here, don’t miss out on our famous Biscuit Bar, serving biscuits throughout the day! 250 5th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203 Ph: (615) 761-3700

Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Nashville

On the corner of Fourth & Broadway, Margaritaville has everything… authentic southern food, the best bars & the caliber of music that’s expected in Nashville.

Ph: 615-208-9080 / www.MargaritavilleNashville.com / Sales@MargaritavilleNashville.com

The Melting Pot - a Fondue Restaurant

Where fun is cooked up fondue style. Join us for Cheese and Chocolate fondue or the full 4-course experience. Casually elegant – Always Fun. Open 7 Days for dinner.

Sundays after the Matinee. Valet Parking. Ph: (615)742-4970. 166 Second Ave. N.

Reservations Recommended. www.meltingpot.com/nashville

Prime 108

Prime 108 was named a Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star restaurant, offering contemporary American cuisine with new menus each season and an extensive wine list.

Located inside the historic Union Station Hotel. 1001 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203

Ph: (615) 620-5665 for reservations www.prime108.com

Rodizio Grill - The Brazilian Steakhouse

Enjoy the authentic flavors, style and warm alegria of a Brazilian Churascarria (Steakhouse). Rodizio Grill features unlimited appetizers, gourmet salads, side dishes and a continuous rotation of over a dozen different meats carved tableside by our Gauchos. Banquet seating and private dining available. Valet Parking .

Ph: (615)730-8358. 166 Second Ave. N. Reservations Accepted. www.rodiziogrill.com/nashville

Stock-Yard Restaurant

One of the top 10 Prime Steakhouses in the U.S.! Private dining is available from 10130. Complimentary shuttle service from every hotel in the city! Make your reservations today! 901 Second Ave. N. Nashville, TN 37201 Ph: 615.255.6464 www.stock-yardrestaurant.com

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ANNUAL

CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

The Nashville Symphony is deeply grateful to the following corporations,foundations and government agencies that support its concert season and its services to the community through generous contributions to the Annual Fund. Donors as of March 3, 2015.

FUND

SEASON PRESENTERS Gifts of $100,000+

AEGIS

SCIENCES FOUNDATION EST. 2013

Care Foundation of America, Inc.

DIRECTORS’ ASSOCIATES Gifts of $50,000+

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

Mary C. Ragland Foundation

Washington Foundation

GOVERNMENT Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County

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BUSINESS PARTNER Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 AmSurg BioVentures, Inc.

BUSINESS LEADER Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (1) Beaman Automotive Group R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation The Crichton Group DBS & Associates Engineering, Inc. Enfinity Engineering, LLC Gannett Foundation/The Tennessean J. Alexander's Corporation Nashville Predators Foundation Nashville Symphony Crescendo Club RD Plastics Co., Inc. Vannatta Farms' family: Linda Vannatta, Tracy & Teri Vannatta; Troy & Elizabeth Vannatta; Ralph & Sharon Edwards VSA Arts Tennessee Walker Lumber & Hardware Company BUSINESS ASSOCIATES Gifts of $500 - $999 ADEX! Homesellers Cooper Steel Nancy June Brandon, Dancy's The Heritage at Brentwood Hoskins & Company, P.C. INDUSCO Osher Lifelong Learning Institute At Vanderbilt Riley Warnock & Jacobson PLC Stansell Electric Company, Inc. Sysco Nashville The Tennessee Credit Union Women's Philharmonic Advocacy IN-KIND AARP Tennessee American Airlines Mrs. Valorie Ward Cole Crowe Horwath LLP

The Glover Group Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Nashville Hilton Nashville Downtown Just Love Coffee Roasters Lipman Brothers & R.S. Lipman Company Nashville Symphony Volunteer Services NAXOS OSHi Floral Décor Studio Jason and Chelsea Parker Premier Parking of Tennessee Provence Breads & Café Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant Sambuca Restaurant MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES Arcadia Healthcare American General Life & Accident American International Group, Inc. Atmos Energy AT&T Higher Education/Cultural Matching Gift Program Bank of America BCD Travel Becton Dickinson & Co. CA Matching Gifts Program Caterpillar Foundation Cigna Foundation Community Health Systems Foundation Eaton Corporation ExxonMobil Foundation First Data Foundation First Tennessee The Frist Foundation GE Foundation General Mills Foundation Hachette Book Group IBM Corporation Illinois Tool Works Foundation McKesson Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co Foundation, Inc. Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Nissan Gift Matching Program P&G Fund Matching Gift Program Regions Scottrade Square D Foundation Matching Gift Program Shell Oil Company Foundation Starbucks Matching Gifts Program The Aspect Matching Gifts Program The HCA Foundation The Meredith Corporation Foundation The Prudential Foundation The Stanley Works U.S. Bancorp Foundation Williams Community Relation

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ARTISTIC UNDERWRITERS Gifts of $5,000- $9,999 A.C. Entertainment Inc. The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Aladdin Industries, LLC Aston Martin, Maserti, Rolls-Royce & Bentley of Nashville BDO USA LLP Blevins, Inc. BMI Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Chet Atkins Music Education Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated The Cockayne Fund Inc. Cracker Barrel Foundation Samuel M. Fleming Foundation Freeman Webb, Inc. Landis B. Gullett Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville Downtown KraftCPAs PLLC NAXOS Nordstrom Community Giving OSHi Floral Decor Studio PwC Ernest and Selma Rosenblum Fund for the Performing Arts Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation UBS Vanderbilt University Wiseman Ashworth Law Group PLC WME and Becky Gardenhire

Carter Haston Real Estate Services Inc. City of Brentwood Dex Imaging & Mailing Direct Solutions First Baptist Nashville Gould Turner Group, P.C. Just Love Coffee Roasters Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris Architects, Inc. Morgan Stanley Pancake Pantry Parking Management Company Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation Tennsco Corporation Tokio Marine Management

ANNUAL

ORCHESTRA PARTNERS Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 Caterpillar Financial Services Corrections Corporation of America Frost Brown Todd LLC FTB Advisors Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Griffin Technology Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation The HCA Foundation The Hendrix Foundation Mid-Tennessee Hyundai Dealers Neal & Harwell, PLC Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. Renasant Bank Travelink American Express Travel

CAPITAL FUNDS

CAPITAL

The Nashville Symphony wishes to acknowledge and thank the following individuals, foundations and corporations for their commitment to the Symphony. This list recognizes donors who contributed $15,000 or more to one of the Symphony’s endowment or capital campaigns. These capital campaigns make it possible to ensure a sustainable future for a nationally recognized orchestra worthy of Music City. $1M+

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

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

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

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

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

$250,000+

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

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

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

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

$100,000+

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

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

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

$50,000+

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

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

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

FUNDS

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

$500,000+

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

$25,000+

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

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

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

$15,000+

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

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

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

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

CAPITAL

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

N A S H V I L L E SY M P H O N Y LEGAC Y

LEGACY SOCIETY

SO C IET Y

LEAVING A LEGACY, BUILDING A FUTURE

Violinist Erin Hall is one of many Nashville Symphony musicians who are passing along the gift of music to the next generation.

Pictured is the commemorative lapel pin given exclusively to members of the Nashville Symphony Legacy Society.

Anonymous (3) Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Ann R. Bernard Diane and David L. Black Julie & Frank Boehm Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Mr. & Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Donna & Steven* Clark George D. Clark, Jr. Dr. Cliff Cockerham & Dr. Sherry Cummings W. Ovid Collins, Jr.* Mrs. Barbara J. Conder* Kelly Corcoran Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert Janet Keese Davies William M. & Mildred P.* Duncan Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Mrs. Johnna Benedict Ford Judy & Tom Foster Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia 78

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The Nashville Symphony is committed to serving Nashville with world-class music and education programs not just for today, but for generations to come. If you share the same vision for your orchestra and your community, please consider making a planned gift to the Nashville Symphony. Your gift will leave a lasting impact on Middle Tennessee and beyond!

You can make a gift that costs you nothing during your lifetime — it’s true! By making the Nashville Symphony the beneficiary of your will, trust, retirement plan, life insurance policy or other estate planning vehicle, you’ll help guarantee our financial strength tomorrow without affecting your cash flow or your family’s financial stability today.

The Legacy Society honors those who include a gift to the Nashville Symphony in their estate plans. Accepting our offer of membership allows us to honor your future gift and to say “thank you” now.

Be “instrumental” in our success by sharing your passion for music with future generations. For more information on the many creative ways to make a planned gift, please visit www.nashvillesymphony.org/plannedgiving or call Maribeth Stahl at 615.687.6532.

Harris Gilbert James C. Gooch Ed & Nancy Goodrich Landis Bass Gullett* Carl T. Haley, Jr. David W. & Judith S. Hayes Billy Ray Hearn* Judith Hodges Judith S. Humphreys Martha R. Ingram Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Anne T. Knauff Heloise Werthan Kuhn Sally M. Levine John T. Lewis Todd M. Liebergen Clare* & Samuel* Loventhal Ellen Harrison Martin Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Richard L. Miller Cynthia & Richard Morin Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Harry & Shelley Page

Pamela K. & Philip Maurice Pfeffer Joseph Presley Eric Raefsky*, MD & Victoria Heil David & Edria Ragosin Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Fran C. Rogers Kristi Lynn Seehafer Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Irvin & Beverly Small Mary & K.C. Smythe Dr. & Mrs. W. Anderson Spickard Jr. Maribeth & Christopher Stahl Dr. John B. Thomison Sr.* Louis B. Todd Judy & Steve Turner Alan D. & Jan L. Valentine Dr. Colleen Conway Welch & Mr. Ted Houston Welch* Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Anne H. & Robert K.* Zelle *deceased

R e m ov i n g h e r b ra i n t u m o r w a s a t h i n g o f b e a u t y, in more ways than one.

Nothing shall be impossible.

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