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Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture Schumann - Piano Concerto Stravinsky - Firebird Suite (1919 Version) Dvorák - Slavonic Dances, Nos. 1, 3, 5 & 8

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Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21

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Concerto in A minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 54 Allegro affettuoso Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso Allegro vivace Gabriela Montero, piano INTERMISSION

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has been used in countless marriage ceremonies since Victorian times.

With his Overture from 1826, Mendelssohn developed some features that became characteristic of his style, particularly the gossamer-textured, scherzo-like writing associated here with the fairies. Even more significantly, the Overture distills the essence of Shakespeare’s play into purely instrumental terms and thus looks ahead to the Romantic concept of the symphonic poem.

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R Born on February 3, 1809, in Hamburg, Germany; died on November 4, 1847, in Leipzig, Germany Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21 Composed: 1826 First performance: February 20, 1827, in Stettin, Germany, with Carl Loewe conducting First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first classical subscription performances.

Estimated length: 12 minutes

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he music that Felix Mendelssohn composed for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was created over a span of nearly two decades. Its best-known component — with one exception — is the Overture he wrote at the age of 17. This miraculously original piece seems uncannily suited to the atmosphere of the play, and it represents one of the towering achievements of composer-prodigies. Here Mendelssohn more than earns Schumann’s praise of him as “the Mozart of the 19th century.” In 1843, some 17 years later, Mendelssohn returned to this source when King Wilhelm IV of Prussia commissioned him to write a complete score of incidental music for a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Berlin. Almost seamlessly, he managed to find his way back into the sound world he had created as a teenager, weaving its threads into the later score. The 1843 work contains what is arguably Mendelssohn’s most famous creation: the Wedding March for Theseus and Hippolyta, which

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Mendelssohn originally wrote the Overture as a self-standing concert work; encountered by itself, it is a marvel of organic construction.

Mendelssohn was actually reluctant to attach a programmatic description to it, though his music critic friend A.B. Marx later described in his memoirs how he had encouraged the young composer to enrich his first draft to encompass each of the various character types as depicted in Shakespeare’s play.

This variety is rooted in the four “motto chords” we hear at the outset in the woodwinds.

Like the famous Masonic chords in Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute, they recur several times and frame the Overture we hear tonight.

An admiring Liszt aptly compared them to “slowly drooping and rising eyelids, between which is depicted a charming dream-world of the loveliest contrasts.” Their harmonies are ambiguous, oscillating between minor and major, but embedded within is a simple thematic shape of four descending scalar notes.

These are elongated, compressed and otherwise transformed to provide the sequence of five entirely separate ideas Mendelssohn presents during the Overture’s first part. In succession they conjure the distinctive environments of Shakespeare’s play: the light-as-air, mercurial music of the fairies; the stateliness of Theseus’ Athenian court; in lyrically chromatic form, the longing of the misaligned pairs of lovers; the rhythmic vitality of the eager but incompetent acting troupe led by Peter Quince, capped by a figure that depicts the “braying” of Nick Bottom when he is transformed into an ass; and the noble horns of Theseus and his hunting party.

Born on June 8, 1810, in Zwickau, Germany; died on July 29, 1856, in Endenich, outside Bonn, Germany Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 Composed: 1845 (using an earlier piece composed in 1841) First performance: December 4, 1845, in Dresden, with Clara Schumann as the soloist and Ferdinand Hiller conducting First Nashville Symphony performance: April 29, 1947, with Music Director William Strickland and soloist Jesús Maria Sanromá.

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obert Schumann was born only 16 months after Mendelssohn, and they shared an important characteristic that encouraged their deep love of literature and the other arts. In his

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new biography of Schumann, Martin Geck points out that they were “the first musicians to receive a proper formal education, which no doubt helps to explain why they understood each other as well as they did. The two composers became friends, and Mendelssohn even became godfather to Schumann’s first child, Marie.

It took Schumann longer to establish himself as a major musical figure, however. It wasn’t until the 1840s that he seriously turned his attention to orchestral music, having devoted most of the previous decade to works for solo piano. A major catalyst was the newfound sense of confidence that accompanied his marriage in 1840 to Clara Wieck, a celebrated concert pianist. She encouraged her husband to expand his ambitions, and early in 1841 he sketched out his First Symphony within a matter of days.

Schumann had made previous attempts at piano concertos — he started out with aspirations to become a soloist, which he later had to abandon — but his inspiration was hampered by the popular association of the genre with lightweight, empty virtuoso display. Finally, in 1841, Schumann arrived at a sort of compromise in the form of a “Phantasie” for piano and orchestra in one movement, which he wrote in part to fulfill his promise to write a concerto for Clara to perform.

The Phantasie was intended as a freestanding work, but it also turned out to be the embryonic stage of the Piano Concerto in A minor. Schumann returned to the Phantasie in 1845 and reworked his original movement, adding two more to complete the familiar threemovement design. While this is the only concerto Schumann would produce for the keyboard, with it he created one of the landmarks of the early Romantic repertoire.

Schumann’s thinking “is entirely grounded in the piano, which incorporates the orchestra to the extent that it results in a single body of sound,” writes Geck. “The resultant work is not a concerto for a keyboard virtuoso but one in which the omnipresent sound of the piano merges with that of the orchestra to create a single entity — it was in this sense that the composer hoped to merge with his interpreter, Clara, who even helped him in writing out the score.”

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Mendelssohn presents and develops this profusion of thematic material within a discreetly modified Classical framework. For example, the lovers’ tangle of confused desire reaches its climactic point in the development section midway, while the order in which the themes are reprised is altered from the first time around. This makes the musical events correspond more closely to the play’s denouement, which returns us from the nocturnal forest to the “real” world of the Athenian court, until Mendelssohn returns to the motto chords for a conclusion as beguiling as it is magical.

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Following the orchestra’s single exclamation point, the piano enters with a grand rhetorical gesture of descending chords, and then cedes to the oboe and bassoon for the lengthy central theme. This theme actually comprises multiple parts, each of which leads to varied transformations. Especially significant is its first part, a wistfully descending four-note phrase, which encodes an autobiographical dimension frequently found in Schumann’s compositions.

The notes themselves (C-B-A-A) outline the Italian spelling of Clara’s name (Chiara, where H = B in the German system), which Schumann alludes to in other works as well. In addition, this melodic idea itself recalls the beginning of the hero Florestan’s aria in Beethoven’s Fidelio, an opera whose loving couple Robert and Clara regarded as a mirror image during their prolonged and difficult courtship. A fundamental feature of his approach in the Phantasie, wrote Clara in the diary she shared with Robert, was how he managed to weave the piano and orchestra together “most skillfully.”

In its earlier incarnation as the singlemovement Phantasie, Schumann had organized his material into sections of contrasting tempo and mood so that the first movement already contains a sort of miniaturized version of a three-movement concerto. The “slow” movement arrives, after a fanfare-like working out of one Schumann’s thematic ideas, in the guise of a gentle dialogue between piano and clarinet that one early critic compared to a “little lake…between dark rocks and trees.” A richly imagined cadenza follows the reprise before a quickening of pace ends the first movement with a brisk, march-like variant on the theme.

Schumann conceived of the second and third movements as a single, interlinked entity. The language shared by piano and orchestra is lighter in character, even coquettish, in the outer sections of what Schumann calls an “Intermezzo,” but it soars into rhapsody as strings and piano embrace in a swooning melody in the middle of the second movement. A reminiscence of the Concerto’s opening prepares the way for the finale, now in A major, which follows without pause. Again

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Schumann gives us a complex theme reflecting several emotional shades, though a sense of exuberance dominates, thanks to its powerful rhythmic character. Touching at times on Beethoven in his heroic mode, the finale includes patches of suspenseful counterpoint and further recalls of the first two movements before working its way to music of irresistible affirmation in which piano and orchestra have equal share.

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Born on June 17, 1882, in Oranienbaum, Russia; died on April 6, 1971, in New York City Firebird Suite (1919 version) Composed: 1909-10; revised 1919 for this suite First performance: June 25, 1910, in Paris, as part of the Ballets Russes season First Nashville Symphony performance: October 30, 1956, with Music Director Guy Taylor Estimated length: 20 minutes

The Firebird’s enthusiastic reception won international fame for Stravinsky, who had hitherto merely been one of numerous promising Russian composers.

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R The Firebird’s musical language shifts between exotic, chromatic gestures to illustrate the supernatural dimension (including a powerful non-Western scale that would later appear in The Rite of Spring) and the singsong simplicity of folk music for the mortals. The suite opens with a spooky conjuring, low in the strings, of Kastchei’s magical realm. In his illusory garden, Prince Ivan encounters the Firebird, which is depicted with opulent colors and radiant trills. A calmly pastoral section follows, featuring Stravinsky’s characteristically imaginative scoring for woodwinds. Prince Ivan observes the princesses who have been captured by Kastchei performing their ritual Khorovod, or round dance, and falls in love with the one destined to be his bride.

To protect Ivan, the Firebird casts a spell over Kastchei and his monstrous aides. Whipped into motion by Stravinsky’s frenetic rhythms, they are compelled to dance themselves to exhaustion in a savage “Infernal Dance.” Their paroxysms subside, while a serene lullaby (“Berceuse”) lulls the hypnotized Kastchei to sleep, its lazy tune first given by the bassoon. Ivan is instructed to destroy the giant egg containing the ogre’s soul, and Kastchei’s power vanishes. A solo horn, intoning the score’s most famous folk tune, announces the joyful arrival of sunlight. Together with Ivan and his betrothed, the rescued captives celebrate with music that swells and rings out in glorious triumph. The Firebird clearly shows Stravinsky on the cusp of a new world, mixing the orchestral mastery of his Russian mentors with the rhythmic vitality of the revolutionary about to burst out of his shell.

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his centenary year of The Rite of Spring has occasioned numerous reassessments of Stravinsky’s achievement in this pivotal score of musical modernism. But only three years before The Rite of Spring premiered, the young Russian enjoyed his first great triumph with his ballet score for The Firebird, which was created for the same dance company, the Paris-based Ballets Russes. The Firebird’s enthusiastic reception won international fame for Stravinsky, who had hitherto merely been one of numerous promising Russian composers.

The Ballets Russes featured star attractions from the Russian Imperial Ballet and had just begun to take the West by storm. Impresario Serge Diaghilev decided to gamble on the virtually unknown 27-year-old Stravinsky by commissioning him to write the first completely original score for his young company.

The composer was given a scenario based on Russian folklore. The Firebird tells of the downfall of a powerful, ogre-like figure of evil, Kastchei the Deathless, through the intervention of a beautiful rare bird. The miraculous Firebird is so called on account of her beautiful feathers, which glitter and flicker like flames. Kastchei is in the habit of seizing pretty young princesses as captives and turning the knights who arrive to rescue them into stone. Crown Prince Ivan, the protagonist, enlists the Firebird’s help to destroy Kastchei and free his victims.

You can readily hear how Stravinsky’s own imagination must have caught fire. The Firebird’s score blends the orchestral wizardry Stravinsky had learned as a student of Nikolai RimskyKorsakov with the vitality of Russian folk music to yield a dazzling, evocative atmosphere.

Throughout his later career, Stravinsky remained especially fond of The Firebird, returning to create three different concert versions that he himself conducted tirelessly. The most popular is the

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losing our program with yet another concept of dance, the Slavonic Dances similarly represent a breakthrough for their composer.

Antonín Dvořák had been making ends meet but faced limited opportunities in Prague of the 1870s. He decided to apply for a government grant administered by a committee in the imperial capital of Vienna — his native Bohemia was then part of the Habsburg Empire — and he thus came

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to the attention of the powerful critic Eduard Hanslick and his friend Johannes Brah The German composer brought Dvořák to the attention of his publisher, who commissioned a series of “ethnic” dances for the lucrative piano four hands market (i.e., piano duets for two players at the same keyboard — a popular way of making music in this pre-modern media era).

Brahms had recently scored a major commercial success with his own series of Hungarian Dances, feeding the appetite for “exotic” musical flavors, so the Slavonic Dances were commissioned with the Brahms examples as a template. Dvořák wrote a set of eight of these as piano duets and also orchestrated them at the same time. Their enormous popularity won him international recognition and set his career into high gear.

Later, Dvořák published a second collection, also of eight dances, as his Opus 72.

Despite the Brahmsian model, Dvořák developed his own approach for the Slavonic Dances, something more akin to what Béla Bartók would do with folk music in the following century. While Brahms simply arranged preexisting tunes, Dvořák crafted melodies of his own so convincingly in the idiom of folk music that they could easily be misconstrued as transcriptions “from the field.” Moreover, as David Hurwitz observes in his overview of this remarkable composer, Dvořák rejected the publisher’s request to call them Czech Dances, “preferring instead to cast a wider net and include representative dance forms from all over Eastern Europe.”

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R Dances 1 (in C major) and 8 (in G minor) are versions of the Czech furiant, a fast-paced dance form (presto in both cases) with unpredictable rhythmic accentuation and a passionate temper.

The furiant is also used in several other orchestral and chamber works by Dvořák. Together these two dances create a neatly balanced framework for the first set of Slavonic Dances. The third dance (in D major) is by contrast a polka, and the fifth (in A major) a vivacious Slavic folk dance. Along with their ingratiating melodies and exciting rhythmic characters, there’s much to

enjoy in Dvořák’s colorful use of the orchestra to enhance each dance’s particular mood.

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GILBERT VARGA, conductor Gilbert Varga, son of the celebrated Hungarian violinist Tibor Varga, studied under three very different and distinctive maestros: Franco Ferrara, Sergiu Celibidache and Charles Bruck. A commanding and authoritative figure on the podium, he is renowned for his elegant baton technique, and he has held positions with and guest-conducted many of the major orchestras across the world.

In North America, Varga regularly guest conducts the symphony orchestras of Houston, St. Louis, Atlanta, Baltimore and Milwaukee, among others. In Europe, he works regularly with the major orchestras of Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Cologne, Budapest, Porto, Brussels and Glasgow, among others. In May 2013, Varga was appointed Principal Conductor of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, an appointment that comes at an exciting time for the orchestra as the city of Taipei embarks upon a journey to build the orchestra its own concert hall, a process in which Varga will be heavily involved as consultant.

Repeatedly acclaimed for his ability to draw out a broad range of colors and emotions from the orchestra, Varga frequently conducts the ballet suites, tone poems and symphonies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of a recent performance of Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, the Leipziger-Volkszeitung commented: “The Hungarian gypsies were lascivious and witty under Varga’s baton, full of fire with ardent strings and blazing brass. The oboe, clarinet and horn gave beautiful solos, and the flutes and piccolo were so soft, that the delicate pizzicato sounded almost coarse.”

Varga’s discography includes recordings with various labels including ASV, Koch International and Claves Records. His most recent recording, of concertos by Ravel and Prokofiev with

GABRIELA MONTERO, piano Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations have won her a quickly expanding audience and devoted following around the world. Her engagements include performances with the New York Philharmonic, L.A. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra. Recent collaborators include conductors Claudio Abbado, Gustavo Dudamel, James Gaffigan, Lorin Maazel, Yannick NezetSeguin and Leonard Slatkin. In recital she has appeared at the festivals of Salzburg, Istanbul, Ravinia and Tanglewood, as well as at the Köln Philharmonie, Tonhalle Dusseldorf, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall in London, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Orchard Hall Tokyo and at the Progetto Martha Argerich Festival in Lugano, where she is invited annually.

In addition to her brilliant and nuanced classical interpretations, Montero’s unique personal style comes from her improvisational gifts. “I connect to my audience in a completely unique way — and they connect with me,” she explains. “Because improvisation is such a huge part of who I am, it is the most natural and spontaneous way I can express myself.” Today, in both recital and after performing a concerto, Montero often invites her audience to participate in asking for a melody for improvisations.

Montero’s innovative perspectives are in wide demand outside of the classical music world.

She has been invited to speak twice at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. She also participates in the Women of the World Festival held at London’s Southbank Centre. She is an honored recipient of the 2012 Rockefeller Award for her contributions to the arts.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Montero gave her first public performance at age 5. At age 8, she made her concerto debut in Caracas and was granted a scholarship from the Venezuelan Government to study in the United States. She currently resides in Massachusetts with her two daughters.

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

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A TRIBUTE TO PATSY CLINE WITH MANDY BARNETT Nashville Symphony Albert-George Schram, conductor Mandy Barnett, vocalist Robert Marler, piano GEORGES ENESCO GEORGE GERSHWIN orch. Ferde Grofé

Rumanian Rhapsody in A major, Op. 11, No. 1 Rhapsody in Blue Robert Marler, piano

INTERMISSION JIMMIE CRANE & AL JACOBS* BOB MONTGOMERY* ALAN BLOCK & DONN HECHT* HANK COCHRAN* WILLIE NELSON & FARON YOUNG* PAT MCLAUGHLIN & RUSSELL BROWN arr. Kris Wilkinson & Jim Gray HANK COCHRAN & HARLAN HOWARD* BOB WILLS* PAT MCLAUGHLIN & RUSSELL BROWN DOC DAUGHERTY, ELLIS REYNOLDS & AL NEIBURG BOB & JOHN WILLS*

Hurt Back in Baby’s Arms Walkin’ After Midnight She’s Got You Three Days Whispering Wind I Fall to Pieces San Antonio Rose Who I’m Confessin’ That I Love You Faded Love

HUGHIE CANNON*

(Won’t You Come Home) Bill Bailey?

PINO DONAGGIO arr. Tony Migliore

You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me

ROY ORBISON arr. Tony Migliore

Crying

DON GIBSON arr. Tony Migliore

I Can’t Stop Loving You

PEE WEE KING, CHILTON PRICE & REDD STEWART* WILLIE NELSON*

You Belong to Me Crazy

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MANDY BARNETT A native of Crossville, Tennessee, Mandy Barnett started singing at 5 years old. She has been singing ever since.

Her style is rooted in the classic country and pop crooning of iconic singers and enduring sounds. She delves into a song with a keen interpretative sense, studying the intricacies of its emotional content and rendering a powerful performance through her full-bodied voice.

As a teenager, Barnett starred as country music legend Patsy Cline in the stage show Always...Patsy Cline at the Ryman Auditorium.

The performances sold out nightly and received rave reviews across the country. She soon signed with Asylum Records, where she released her selftitled debut as a solo artist. The album received glowing reviews in major trade publications and magazines, including Time magazine.

When Seymour Stein re-launched his Sire

Records label, Barnett was the first artist he signed. Barnett’s Sire Records project paired her with the undisputed pioneer of the Nashville Sound, producer Owen Bradley. The album they made together, I’ve Got a Right to Cry, would be Bradley’s final contribution to the community who knew him through his work with legends Ernest Tubb, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline and Kitty Wells.

In addition to her own albums, Barnett has been featured on movie soundtracks, including Election, Drop Dead Gorgeous and Crazy. She tours regularly, nationally and internationally, and is a frequent guest on the Grand Ole Opry. Her latest album, I Can’t Stop Loving You: The Songs of Don Gibson, comes out this month. It’s a salute to the iconic songs of the Country Music Hall of Fame® inductee, whom Barnett befriended a few years prior to his passing 10 years ago.

Among Gibson’s most famous compositions are “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Sweet Dreams” and “Oh Lonesome Me.” With this release, Barnett fulfills her long-ago promise to Gibson to record a collection of his songs.

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PETER & THE WOLF

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Nashville Symphony Kelly Corcoran, conductor Wishing Chair Productions Brian Hull, narrator

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OTTORINO RESPIGHI

Galop from La Boutique fantasque

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The Swan of Tuonela

MODEST MUSSORGSKY

Ballet of the Chicks from Pictures at an Exhibition

orch. by Touschmaloff (with Rimsky-Korsakov) FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

Finale (Vivace) from Symphony No. 82 in C major “The Bear”

NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

Flight of the Bumblebee from The Tale of Tsar Saltan

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Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 Brian Hull, narrator Wishing Chair Productions

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BRIAN HULL, narrator Emmy Award-winner Brian Hull has been entertaining audiences for over 30 years. Known for joining compelling original ideas with engaging visual style, he has created hundreds of successful productions. As head of Wishing Chair Productions, Hull leads a troupe of internationally renowned puppeteers in performing for average audiences of 5,000 each month at Nashville Public Library. He also has extensive experience in the theme park industry, with eight seasons writing and directing shows at Dollywood Theme Park and seven seasons at Opryland USA, where he created Professor U.B. Sharp, a colorful character that lives on today at Nashville Public Library.

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by Nashville Public Library’s puppet shows since Tom Tichenor’s first production in 1938. Wishing Chair Productions, the library’s resident puppet troupe, continues this tradition by creating wordclass shows that delight children and adults alike.

Brian Hull leads this talented group of performers in creating the puppets, scenery and music for original productions, such as Anansi the Spider, that reflect the diverse storytelling traditions and cultures of Nashville. Other shows re-create classic works such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The troupe also continues to perform original Tichenor shows, including The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings.

Wishing Chair Productions partners with cultural institutions like the Nashville Symphony and the Nashville Jazz Workshop. Drawing on

Nashville’s own talented musicians and theater professionals enables the troupe to bring each story to life with wonderful music and inventive storytelling. The troupe’s Puppet Truck works in conjunction with Nashville Public Library’s Bringing Books to Life program to perform live shows at community events, reaching children and school groups who aren’t able to visit the Main Library’s Children’s Theater.

Each year, more than 69,000 children attend the puppet shows and storytimes at the Main Library. Annual attendance for Puppet Truck performances tops 27,000.

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Stroke

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Violin Concerto Cho-Liang “Jimmy” Lin, violin

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Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat major, Op. 55, Eroica Allegro con brio Marcia funebre: Adagio assai Scherzo: Allegro vivace Finale: Allegro molto

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Composed: 2010 First performance: May 13, 2011, Manfred Honeck conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances.

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fter starting out as a pianist, Joan Tower decided to give up performing and devote herself full-time to composing in 1985. She was already in her late 40s by then, but she soon made up for lost time, moving beyond works tailored for her own chamber group, the Da Capo Chamber Players, to colorful and highly energetic orchestral scores. Her debut piece written for the orchestra — Sequoia (1981), a study of what Tower calls the “ ‘balancing’ of musical energies — opened up a new path that she has followed with prestigious awards and orchestral residencies. Tower became the first woman to win the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in 1990 for Silver Ladders, and the Nashville Symphony’s Made in America, a CD of various Tower works conducted by Leonard Slatkin, collected a trifecta of three GRAMMY® Awards in

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Born on September 6, 1938, in New Rochelle, New York; currently resides in Annandale-onHudson, New York

2008: Best Classical Contemporary Composition (for the title work), Best Classical Album and Best Orchestral Performance. Tower is also active as a conductor and educator and has been teaching for nearly three decades at Bard College in upstate New York.

The Nashville Symphony and Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero continue their celebration of Tower’s 75th birthday year with two more works following last month’s performances of her Chamber Dance. All three works, which have never been previously available on CD, are being recorded for future release. Concerning her gravitation toward instrumental over vocal music, Tower explained in an interview with Frank J. Oteri of New Music Box that she believes “composers express themselves through ‘meaning’ of different kinds.” One kind of composer requires meaning “with a verbal connection to it,” while there are other composers who, as in her case, “don’t want to have anything to do with verbal meaning: this is pure, abstract, musical, instrumental, whatever you want to call it.” Tower’s frequently evocative titles, she adds, represent “just a way of creating a little window into the piece that isn’t too heavy.”

In Stroke, a recent and highly personal composition commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra during her residency there, Tower explores the terrifying zone in which the normal patterns of meaning itself have broken down as the result of a catastrophic life event. In 2008, her 60-year-old younger brother George suffered a serious stroke that left him partially paralyzed. The premiere was broadcast live via Skype to the recovery center where George was then living. Instead of a tone poem depicting physical illness and some sort of transcendence — along the lines, say, of Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration — Tower opted to write a singlemovement piece mirroring the experience from within.

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of emotion and a large amount of mental discipline to adapt to a body that can no longer do the things it did before. The positive side of this experience (and alternate meaning of the word ‘stroke’) is one of occasional but welcomed rests of peace and deep love that become more pronounced as the stroke victim adjusts to his new reality.

“I tried to depict these extreme emotions through the musical journey of my 17-minute piece.

Inside a dramatic and often loud steady beat (of the heart) surrounded by waves of fast notes (which veer between ‘anxious’ and ‘joyful’), there are five slower (and ‘softer’) solos for horn, bassoon, violin, clarinet and trumpet where more ‘peaceful’ surroundings come forward.

“Stroke is a piece concerned with many emotions, one that hopefully offers a quiet ‘hope’ at the end. With a stroke, it is hard to tell which way it will go.”

JOA N TOWE R Violin Concerto Composed: 1991 First performance: April 24, 1992, with Elmar Oliveira as soloist and Joseph Silverstein conducting the Utah Symphony in Salt Lake City First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances.

Estimated length: 19 minutes

International Competition in Moscow in 1978 — that Tower composed her Violin Concerto, one of several instrumental concertos in her catalogue. Cast in a single movement, the Concerto also includes a personal reference to loss by way of honoring Oliveria’s musician brother, who died while Tower was writing the work.

I N T H E COMPOS E R’S WO R DS : “[The Concerto] is really a fantasy for violin and orchestra exploring different kinds of feelings that range from a robust Romantic tune for orchestra to sharply etched rhythmic punctuations to a very soft passage that descends from the highest celestial reaches of the violin. There are two violin duets for soloist and concertmaster that were written as a tribute to Elmar’s brother (also a violinist and one of Elmar’s teachers), who passed away in the fall of 1991. The last section is fast, and takes as its thematic basis a motive from Bartók’s Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano, an idea that has frequently appeared in other of my works.”

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She is passionately concerned about reestablishing lines of communication between contemporary composers and audiences. In The Muse That Sings (1999), a series of interviews exploring the creative process of several contemporary composers, Ann McCutchan includes a conversation with Tower that touches on issues of inspiration, ideal working conditions, being a woman in a traditionally maledominated field, and the way composers interact with performers: “Working with performers really feeds me,” says Tower. “When I hand a piece of music to performers, and they love the piece, that is the most beautiful thing in the world.”

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Yet while the idealistic Beethoven certainly abhorred tyranny, he hadn’t categorically ruled out the practical advantages of such a tribute (at the time he was considering resettling in Paris), and to his publisher he later indicated that the symphony’s title “is really Bonaparte.” It has even been suggested that the work represents an act of “premature burial” in which Beethoven’s funeral march mourns the loss of his earlier idealistic vision of Napoleon as a heroic force for revolutionary change. Yet the hope represented by the French Revolutionary breakthrough resurfaces in the midst of the slow movement’s ceremonial grieving and animates the final two

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movements to thrilling effect. And some of the rhetorical gestures of the entire work — as is the case in the Fifth Symphony as well — pay homage to French musical tropes of the Revolutionary period.

The Third Symphony is also part of Beethoven’s creative response to a profoundly unsettling personal crisis that hit him shortly after 1800: the undeniable onset of deafness, which led the composer to contemplate suicide. The so-called Heiligenstadt Testament is the moving confessional letter he penned in 1802, in the form of a will, which clarifies his determination to continue living: “It seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon me to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence.” And this renewed sense of purpose went hand in hand with a desire to forge what Beethoven was calling “a new path” in music.

This new attitude bore fruit in the Third Symphony. Almost everything about the work points to how the stakes have now been raised to a higher level. Its only traditional aspect is the instrumentation, which calls on the standard forces used by Mozart and Haydn in their mature symphonies, with the exception of an added third horn. What are some examples of this change?

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No one has been able to explain just how, more than two centuries after it baffled its first audiences, the Eroica retains its capacity to sound so urgently bold and new. Whether the first movement is heard to evoke scenarios of a metaphoric battlefield (the assertive opening chords as “cannon shots”) or the untiring energy of early industrialism, it is the driving, epic force of Beethoven’s imagination that resonates. The famous “surprise” note in the seventh measure (a C-sharp, which strays outside the home key of E-flat major) is an emblem of this musical eagerness to encounter experience head-on, no matter where it leads.

This certainly includes pain, although the music as a whole seems to be reaching for an optimistic outlook. Unlike the Fifth Symphony, which achieves drama via intense compression, the Eroica employs expansion to convey this sense of experience, using distant keys, a plenitude of thematic material and an enlargement of the design traditionally used for a classical symphony’s opening movement. The thrilling coda, for example, is no longer a quick wrap-up but presents an enormous counterweight to the development of ideas preceding it.

In place of a pleasingly lyrical slow movement meant to relax tensions, Beethoven writes a monumental funeral march, a meditation on death to follow the epic life journey of the opening movement. Mahler would later turn to this as a template for some of the marches in his own symphonies. Here Beethoven balances public against private grief. Notice the “personal” sound of the oboe, an instrument highlighted as a leading character in each of the four movements.

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introduced into the surging course of the first movement, the pattern is reversed here as a bright streak of hope intrudes (again, introduced by the oboe) before the march returns to its tragic C minor, now unfolding in a fugue of overpowering majesty. The final pages are almost cinematic, as Beethoven suggests an individual mourner breaking down, unable to go on, while the crowd eventually proceeds.

In place of a Classical minuet, the Scherzo brings a return to the surging life force of the first movement, yet on a more elemental level.

Beethoven focuses on the inherent tension and playfulness of pairs of chords jostling against a backdrop of triple meter. The reason behind his choice of three instead of two horns becomes apparent when that section gets its spotlight in the echoing calls of the trio.

Concluding this magnificent edifice is perhaps the most innovative movement of all, for here Beethoven recalibrates the weight of his mighty work to make this variation-finale into an inevitable culmination. Variations unfold not only on the theme introduced after teasing foreplay, but also on the simple bass line underpinning it. Beethoven had used the theme in several earlier compositions, including a ballet titled The Creatures of Prometheus. That mythological reference adds yet another dimension to the Eroica. Some see the defiant god Prometheus (who endured terrible suffering to bring enlightenment to humanity) as the true hero of the work. Beethoven reconsiders this musical material in the light of his “new path.” The oboe’s unassuming tune is revealed to contain enormous reservoirs of meaning, from the chattering virtuosity of the flute to the nobly triumphant climax for the entire orchestra, which wells into a frightening reminiscence of the tragic depths of the Funeral March. Through these ingenious transformations, Beethoven discloses the creative self as the true hero of his music.

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

ABOUT THE SOLOIST CHO-LIANG LIN, violin In a concert career spanning the globe for more than thirty years, violinist Cho-Liang Lin is equally at home with orchestra, in recital, playing chamber music and in a teaching studio. His concert engagements reflect his wide-ranging musical activities. Performing on several continents, Lin appears as soloist with orchestras of Detroit, Toronto, Dallas, Houston and San Diego; in Europe with the tockholm Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic and the English Chamber Orchestra; and in Asia with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Malaysia Philharmonic and Bangkok Symphony.

In recent seasons, Lin has expanded his orchestral engagements to include performances as both soloist and conductor. He completed season-long residencies with the Shanghai Symphony and with the Singapore Symphony. As an advocate for music of our time, he has enjoyed collaborations and premieres with composers such as Tan Dun, Christopher Rouse, Bright Sheng and Joan Tower. As Music Director of La

Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest since 2001, Lin has helped develop a festival that once focused primarily on chamber music into a multidisciplinary festival featuring dance, jazz and a burgeoning new music program commissioning composers as diverse as Chick Corea, Stewart Copeland, Wayne Shorter and Gunther Schuller.

In Asia, Lin serves as Artistic Director of Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival.

Born in Taiwan in 1960, Lin began his violin lessons when he was 5 years old with Sylvia Lee. At the age of 12, he went to Sydney to continue his musical studies with Robert Pikler. Inspired by an encounter with Itzhak Perlman while in Sydney, he traveled to New York in 1975 to audition for Perlman’s teacher, the late Dorothy DeLay, at The Juilliard School. He was to study with DeLay for six years. At 19, Lin made his New York debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival. He was invited to join the faculty of The Juilliard School in 1991. More recently he was appointed professor of violin at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He plays the 1715 “Titian” Stradivarius.

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iancarlo Guerrero is the Music Director of the Nashville Symphony and concurrently holds the position of Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency.

His recordings with Nashville Symphony won GRAMMY® Awards in 2011 and 2012, including Best Orchestral Performance. A fervent advocate of contemporary music and composers, Guerrero has championed works by several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Roberto Sierra and Richard Danielpour.

In the 2013/14 season, Guerrero will make several European debuts, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Copenhagen Philharmonic. In North America, he takes The Cleveland Orchestra on tour and returns to the symphony orchestras of Cincinnati and Detroit. For many years he has maintained a close association with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Brazil, as well as with the Simón

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Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and El Sistema in Venezuela.

In recent seasons Guerrero has established himself with many of the major North American orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Toronto and Vancouver, among others. He is also known to audiences of large summer festivals including the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Blossom Music Festival in Cleveland. He is also cultivating an increasingly visible profile in Europe, where his recent debuts included BBC Symphony Orchestra and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

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.

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ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR & CHORUS DIRECTOR

KELLY CORCORAN

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he 2013/14 season marks Associate Conductor Kelly Corcoran’s seventh season with the Nashville Symphony. During this time, she has conducted a variety of programs and has served as the primary conductor for the orchestra’s education and community engagement concerts. She also conducted the Nashville Symphony’s CD with Riders In The Sky, ‘Lassoed Live’ at the Schermerhorn, and made her Carnegie Hall conducting debut in May 2012 with the Nashville Symphony during the Spring For Music Festival. In May 2013, Corcoran was named director of the Nashville Symphony Chorus.

This season, Corcoran has return guestconducting engagements with The Cleveland Orchestra and the Naples Philharmonic, as well as a debut with the Charleston Symphony. She has conducted major orchestras throughout the country, including performances with the Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee and National Symphonies, often with return engagements. In 2009, she made her South American debut as a guest conductor with the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza,

Argentina, and returned for multiple programs in 2011. Corcoran has developed a reputation for exciting, energized performances. Critic Tim Page of the Washington Post hailed her conducting as “sure and sensitive.”

Named as Honorable Mention for the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, Corcoran studied with Marin Alsop. Prior to her position in Nashville, she completed three seasons as assistant conductor for the Canton Symphony Orchestra in Ohio and music director of the Canton Youth Symphony and the Cleveland-area Heights Chamber Orchestra.

In 2004, Corcoran participated in the National Conducting Institute, where she studied with Leonard Slatkin. Originally from Massachusetts and a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for more than 10 years, she received her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from The Boston Conservatory and her Master of Music in instrumental conducting from Indiana University. She currently serves on the conducting faculty at the New York Summer Music Festival.

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A benefit for St. Cecilia Academy Fine Arts Campaign

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“There’s something special about this place.”

December 8, 2013 6:30 p.m.

St. Cecilia Academy Theater

Ticket Information: Call 615.383.3230

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Blair Concert Series 2013-2014 The Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University—Artistry in Education

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2013/14 NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FIRST VIOLINS*

BASSES*

TRUMPETS

Jun Iwasaki,

Joel Reist,

Jeffrey Bailey,

Gerald C. Greer, Assistant Concertmaster

Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, Concertmaster Emerita

Denise Baker Kristi Seehafer John Maple Deidre Fominaya Bacco Alison Gooding Paul Tobias Beverly Drukker Anna Lisa HoepďŹ nger Kirsten Mitchell Erin Long Isabel Bartles SECOND VIOLINS*

Carolyn Wann Bailey, Principal

Zeneba Bowers, GIANCARLO GUERRERO Music Director KELLY CORCORAN Associate Conductor & Chorus Director

Assistant Principal

Kenneth Barnd Jessica Blackwell Rebecca Cole Radu Georgescu 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

Glen Wanner, Assistant Principal

Elizabeth Stewart Gary Lawrence,

Anthony LaMarchina, Principal

Xiao-Fan Zhang, Acting Assistant Principal James Victor Miller Chair

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

Co-Principal

Preston Bailey, Acting Assistant Principal

Principal Emeritus

Kevin Jablonski FLUTES

Erik Gratton, Principal Anne Potter Wilson Chair

Ann Richards,

TROMBONES

Vacant, Principal

Susan K. Smith, Acting Principal BASS TROMBONE

Steven Brown

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,

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

Assistant Principal

Daniel Lochrie E-FLAT CLARINET

Cassandra Lee BASS CLARINET

Daniel Lochrie BASSOONS

Cynthia Estill, Principal

Dawn Hartley, Assistant Principal

CELLOS*

Principal

Patrick Kunkee,

ROSTER

photos by Jackson DeParis

Associate Concertmaster

Erin Hall,

Principal

Gil Perel

LIBRARIANS

D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal

Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER

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

CONTRA BASSOON

Gil Perel HORNS

Leslie Norton, Principal

Beth Beeson Patrick Walle, Associate Principal/ 3rd Horn

Hunter Sholar Radu V. Rusu, Assistant 1st Horn InConcert

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2013/14 BOARD OF DIRECTORS B OA R D O F D I R E C TO R S

OFFICERS

DIRECTORS

Edward A. Goodrich Board Chair

Janet Ayers John Bailey III Russell Bates Scott Becker David Black Jack Bovender Jr. Anastasia Brown Keith Churchwell Rebecca Cole * Michelle R. Collins * Ben Cundiff Carol Daniels Robert Dennis Robert Ezrin Benjamin Folds Judy Foster Alison Gooding * Amy Grant Carl Haley Jr. Michael W. Hayes

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

Lee Ann Ingram Martha R. Ingram * Elliott Warner Jones Sr. Larry Larkin * John T. Lewis John Manson * Richard Miller Eduardo Minardi William Minkoff David Morgan Mike Musick Peter Neff Harrell Odom Cano Ozgener Victoria Chu Pao Mark Peacock Pam Pfeffer Deborah Pitts Jennifer H. Puryear Nelson Shields

Renata Soto Brett Sweet Van Tucker Mark Wait Jeffery Walraven Ted Houston Welch Melinda Whitley * Roger Wiesmeyer * William Greer Wiggins * David Williams II Harry Williams Jr. * Jeremy Williams * Clare Yang * Donna Yurdin * Shirley Zeitlin James Zimmermann * *Indicates Ex Officio

To view a full listing of administrative staff, please visit NashvilleSymphpony.org/staff.

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The Nashville Symphony is deeply grateful to the following individuals who support its concert season and its services to the community through their generous contributions to the Annual Fund. Donors as of October 3, 2013

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MARTHA RIVERS INGRAM SOCIETY Gifts of $25,000 + David & Diane Black Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick Janine & Ben Cundiff

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin W. Crumbo Carol & Frank Daniels III

Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III

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

Dr. & Mrs. Howard S. Kirshner The Melkus Family Foundation

Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Cano Ozgener

Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner

VIRTUOSO SOCIETY Gifts of $10,000-$14,999 Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Richard & Judith Bracken Mr.* & Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jere M. Ervin Allis Dale & John Gillmor

Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero Carl & Connie Haley Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Jan & Daniel Lewis Myles & Joan MacDonald The Melkus Family Foundation The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt

Richard & Sharalena Miller Mr. & Mrs. William T. Minkoff Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Musick Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer

STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 Mr. & Mrs. James Ayers J. B. & Carylon Baker Russell W. Bates Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup Annie Laurie & Irvin* Berry Mark & Sarah Blakeman Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bottorff Ann & Frank Bumstead Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Carlton Fred Cassetty Kelly & Bill Christie Drs. Keith & Leslie Churchwell Mr. & Mrs. Tom F. Cone Hilton & Sallie Dean Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis Marty & Betty Dickens Dee & Jerald Doochin Laura & Wayne Dugas Mr. & Mrs. John W. Eakin Jr. Annette Eskind The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Marilyn Ezell John & Lorelee Gawaluck Ed & Nancy Goodrich Jack & Jill Harmuth

Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Helen & Neil Hemphill Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilton Judith Hodges Mrs. V. Davis Hunt Mr. & Mrs. David B. Ingram Keith & Nancy Johnson Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Anne Knauff Christine Konradi & Stephan Heckers Ralph & Donna Korpman Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee Jim Lewis John T. Lewis Zachary Liff Robert Straus Lipman Ellen Harrison Martin Sheila & Richard McCarty Edward D. & Linda F. Miles Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Musick Anne & Peter Neff Dr. Barron Patterson & Mr. Burton Jablin

Hal & Peggy Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Eric Raefsky, M.D. & Ms. Victoria Heil Anne & Joe Russell Mr. & Mrs. Scott C. Satterwhite Joe & Dorothy Scarlett Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Schatzlein Dr. & Mrs. John Selby Mr.* & Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus Ronald & Diane Shafer The Shields Family Foundation Nelson & Sheila Shields Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small Mr. & Mrs. Earl S. Swensson Dr. John B. Thomison* Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. Alan D. & Jan L. Valentine Peggy & John Warner Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson Mr. & Mrs. Ted H. Welch Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth

GOLDEN BATON SOCIETY Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous (2) Clint & Kali Adams Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Drs. W. Scott & Paige Akers Shelley Alexander Jon K. & Colleen Atwood Sallie & John Bailey 42

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Dr. & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr. Ms. Marilyn Bell Betty C. Bellamy Mr. & Mrs. Louie A. Belt Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Dr. & Mrs. Frank H. Boehm Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells

Randal & Priscilla Braker Dr. & Mrs.* H. Victor Braren Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Buijsman Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt Michael & Jane Ann Cain Ann & Sykes Cargile

Stephen K. & Patricia L. Seale Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons K. C. & Mary Smythe Jack & Louise Spann Christopher & Maribeth Stahl Brett & Meredythe Sweet Mr. & Mrs. Matthew K. Taylor Pamela & Steven Taylor Rich & Carol Thigpin Scott & Julie Thomas Candy Toler Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes Risë & Laurence Tucker Monty Holmes & Van Tucker Mr. Robert J. Turner Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund Mr. Vince Vinson Kris & G. G. Waggoner Deborah & Mark Wait Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery C. & Dayna L. Walraven Mrs. W. Miles Warfield Jonathan & Janet Weaver Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle Art & Lisa Wheeler Mr. Thomas G. B. Wheelock Charles Hampton White Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White Ms. Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly

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Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques Robin & Bill King Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach Robert & Carol Lampe Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Ledbetter Jr. Sally M. Levine Red & Shari Martin Tommy & Cat McEwen Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Dr. Arthur M. Mellor F. Max & Mary A. Merrell Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger Mr. & Mrs. Eduardo H. Minardi Christopher & Patricia Mixon Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli Mr. David K. Morgan Ms. Lucy H. Morgan Matt & Rhonda Mulroy Mr. Mark E. Nicol Dr. Agatha L. Nolen Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat David & Adrienne Piston Keith & Deborah Pitts Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Priesmeyer Dr. Terryl A. Propper Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus A. Puryear IV Ms. Allison R. Reed & Mr. Sam Garza Jeff & Kim Rice Anne & Charles Roos Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Scott

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Mr. Philip M. Cavender Catherine Chitwood Dorit & Donald Cochron Marjorie & Allen* Collins Mr.* & Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Richard & Sherry Cooper Mr. & Mrs. James H. Costner Dr. & Mrs. Ben Davis John & Natasha Deane The Rev. & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller David Ellis & Barry Wilker Donna & Jeffrey Eskind Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ezrin Ms. Paula Fairchild Tom & Judy Foster Danna & Bill Francis Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Frist Jr. Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone Harris A. Gilbert Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Goad Jr. James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Tony & Teri Gosse Kate R. W. Grayken Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Hagood Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin Suzy Heer Mr. & Mrs. Scott Hoffman Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Dr. & Mrs. Stephen L. Houff Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel Donald L. Jackson

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (12) Jerry Adams Jeff & Tina Adams James & Glyna Aderhold Mark & Niki Antonini Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Jeremy & Rebecca Atack Grace & Carl Awh Dr. & Mrs. Billy R. Ballard Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Barbara & Mike Barton Mrs. Brenda Bass Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Mrs. Norma M. Bell Frank M. Berklacich, MD Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills Mr. David Blackbourn & Ms. Celia Applegate Dennis & Tammy Boehms Bob & Marion Bogen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III Jere & Crystal Brassell Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Brown Jean & David Buchanan Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Sharon Lee Butcher John E. Cain III

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Jan & Jim* Carell Mr. David Carlton Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III Clint & Patty Carter Dr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Carter Michael & Pamela Carter Anita & Larry Cash Dr. Elizabeth Cato Mary & Joseph Cavarra Erica & Doug Chappell Barbara & Eric Chazen Donna R. Cheek James H. Cheek III Mrs. John Hancock Cheek Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher David & Starling Clark George D. Clark Jr. Esther & Roger Cohn Ed & Pat Cole Chase Cole Mr. Brian Cook Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Joe & Judy Cook Teresa Corlew & Wes Allen Nancy Krider Corley Roger & Barbara Cottrell Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert

Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan Dr. & Mrs. James Crafton Drs. Paul A. & Dorothy Valcarcel Craig Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie Mr. Charles E. Daley M. Maitland DeLand, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Daryl Demonbreun LeeAnne & Carl Denney Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Doochin Laura L. Dunbar Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden E.B.S. Foundation Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Robert D. Eisenstein Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Dr. Jack W. Erter Laurie & Steven Eskind Robert & Cassandra Estes Mr. Matthew Evers Mr. & Mrs. DeWitt Ezell Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Mrs. Nancye Feistritzer Mr. & Mrs. John Ferguson W. Tyree Finch T. Aldrich Finegan John & Cindy Watson Ford

The Nashville Symphony would like to express sincere thanks and appreciation to the musicians and staff for their contributions. Through their extraordinary sacrifices, hard work and unwavering dedication, every member of our organization is helping to build a sustainable institution committed to serving our entire community through great music and education programs.

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Ms. Deborah F. Turner & Ms. Beth A. Fortune Drs. Robert & Sharron Francis Ms. Bettie D. Fuller Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas R. Ganick Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III Frank Ginanni Nancy & Gerry GofďŹ net Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Dr. & Mrs. James D. Green Dr. & Mrs. Allen F. Gwinn The Evelyn S. & Jim Horne Hankins Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Ms. Doris Ann Hendrix Carrie & Damon Hininger Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey N. Hinson Ken & Pam Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Holton Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Vicki & Rick Horne Ray Houston Hudson Family Foundation Donna & Ronn Huff Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Huljak Judith S. & James R. Humphreys Marsha & Keel Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Irby Sr. Bud Ireland Rodney Irvin Family Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Ellen & Kenneth Jacobs Lee & Pat Jennings George & Shirley Johnston Mary Loventhal Jones Mrs. Robert N. Joyner Tom & Darlene Klaritch Walter & Sarah Knestrick William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Ms. Pamela L. Koerner Ms. Linda R. Koon Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Bob & Mary LaGrone Mr. Okey M. Landers Larry & Martha Larkin Richard & Diane Larsen Kevin & May Lavender Sandi & Tom Lawless Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lea IV Don & Patti Liedtke Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lipman Joe & Anne Maddux

Rhonda A. Martocci & William S. Blaylock Steve & Susie Mathews Lynn & Jack May Bob Maynard Joey & Beth McDuffee Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. McRae III Drs. Manfred & Susan Menking Diana & Jeff Mobley Dr. & Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt Patricia & Michael Moseley Mrs. Betty W. Mullens James & Patricia Munro Leonard Murray & Jacqueline Marschak Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. Lannie W. Neal Robert Ness Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Odom Jr. Representative & Mrs. Gary L. Odom Dan & Helen Owens The Paisley Family David & Pamela Palmer Victoria & William Pao Grant & Janet Patterson Dr. Edgar H. Pierce Jr. Mr. Charles H. Potter Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Brad S. Procter Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Riven Mr. & Mrs. John A. Roberts Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation Mary Rolando Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke Georgianna W. Russell James & Patricia Russell David Sampsell Paula & Kent Sandidge Mr. & Mrs. John J. Sangervasi Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Mrs. Cooper M. Schley Mr. & Mrs. John L. Seigenthaler Dr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Shack Joan B. Shayne Anita & Mike Shea Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Bill & Sharon Sheriff

Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas A. Sieveking Sr. Luke & Susan Simons Tom & Sylvia Singleton William & Cyndi Sites George & Mary Sloan Drs. Walter E. Smalley Jr. & Louise Hanson Suzanne & Grant Smothers Mr. & Mrs. James H. Spalding Dr. & Mrs. Norman Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell Dr. Michael & Tracy Stadnick Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Mr. & Mrs. David B. Stewart Jane Lawrence Stone Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III Mrs. Susan & Volker Striepe M.D. Bill & Linda Suchman Bruce & Elaine Sullivan Johanna & Fridolin Sulser James B. & Patricia B. Swan Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Dr. Paul E. Teschan Dr. & Mrs. William Thetford Dr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Thomas Mr. Dwight D. Thrash Dr. Gary Tizard Norman & Marilyn Tolk Joe & Ellen Torrence Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Thomas L. & Judith A. Turk Christi & Jay Turner Mr. & Mrs. William E. Turner Jr. Larry & Brenda Vickers Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Mike & Elaine Walker Mr. & Mrs. Martin H. Warren Talmage M. Watts Erin Wenzel Mr. & Mrs. James W. White Stacy Widelitz Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Mr. & Mrs. David M. Wilds Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenk Judy S. Williams Shane & Laura Willmon Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Mr. & Mrs. D. Randall Wright Mr. Matthew W. Wyatt Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Zigli

CONCERTMASTER Gifts of $500 - $999 Anonymous (24) Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Abelman Carol M. Allen Andy & Karen Anderson Geralda M. Aubry Richard W. Baker Mr. Randall B. Ball Susan F. & Paul J. Ballard George E. Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Edwin R. Barton Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Katrin T. Bean Marti Bellingrath Bernice Amanda Belue Mike & Kathy Benson Dr. Joel Birdwell Ralph & Jane Black 44

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Randolph & Elaine Blake Mr. John Blanton Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Irma Bolster Mary K. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Mrs. Beverly J. Brandenburg Robert* & Barbara Braswell Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Dr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Bressman Anastasia Brown Dr. Pamela E. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Edward A. Burgess Mr. Peter L. Bush Dr. & Mrs. Grady Butler William & Mary Callahan Mr. Thomas R. Campion

Michael & Linda Carlson Bill & Chris Carver Mr. & Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Ms. Pamela Casey John & Susan Chambers M. Wayne Chomik Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Jay & Ellen Clayton Sallylou & David Cloyd Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen The Honorable & Mrs. Lewis H. Conner Paul & Alyce Cooke Elizabeth Cormier Marion Pickering Couch Richard & Marcia Cowan Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Craig

Ms. Julie B. Plexico Rick & Diane Poen Mr. John Pope Dr. & Mrs. James L. Potts John & Fiona Prine Ms. Belinda A. Pulley George & Joyce Pust Dr. James Quiggins Mr. Edwin B. Raskin Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths Mrs. Ida D. Read Ms. Bonnie D. Reagan Franco & Cynthia Recchia Paul & Gerda Resch Candace Mason Revelette Mr. Cliff N. Rhodes Mary Riddle Mrs. Julie A. Roe Mr. & Mrs. Doug Rogers W. Don Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland Dr. James Roth Dr.* & Mrs. Kenneth Rutherford Samuel L. & Barbara Sanders Philip & Jane Sanderson Dr. Glynis Sandler & Dr. Martin Sandler David M. Satterfield Mr. & Mrs. Charles & Robin Schlacter Pam & Roland Schneller Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle Dr. Kenneth E. Schriver & Dr. Anna W. Roe Peggy C. Sciotto Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott Mr. Roderick Scruggs Drs. Fernando F. & Elena O. Segovia Odessa L. Settles Mr.* & Mrs. Robert K. Sharp Mr. & Mrs. Richard Shearer Mr. & Mrs. Alan Sielbeck Smith Family Foundation Robert B. Smith Dr. Robert Smith & Barbara Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Ruth & William Smith Mr. James E. Snider Jr. Mr.& Mrs. James M. Sohr Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Sohr Mickey M. & Kathleen Sparkman Ms. Maggie P. Speight Mr. M. Clark Spoden Ms. Karen G. Sroufe Gloria & Paul Sternberg Jr. CAPT & Mrs. Charles E. Stewart Jr. Dr. & Mrs. William R. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. James P. Stonehocker Mr. & Mrs. William T. Stroud Mr. & Mrs. James E. Summar Sr. Craig & Dianne Sussman Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Taylor Eugene & Penny Te Selle Gilbert Thibedore Mr. Marcus W. Thompson Mr. Michael P. Tortora Martha J. Trammell Mr. & Mrs. Ray Troop Mila & Bill Truan Bradley & Karen Vandermolen Ms. Rita R. Vann Kathryn G. Varnell Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner Curt & Kay Wallen Mr. Donald D. Warden II Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Warner Jr. Lawrence & Karen Washington Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen Mrs. James A. Webb Jr. InConcert

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Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Sandra & Joe Hutts Michael & Evelyn Hyatt Robert C. Jamieson MD Bob & Virginia Johnson Dr. Barbara F. Kaczmarska Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy John & Eleanor Kennedy Jane Kersten & Ray Sissom Ms. Janet Kleinfelter Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce Nancy & Edd Lancaster Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lavender Mrs. Martha W. Lawrence Mr. David C. Lehman Jr. Michael & Ellen Levitt Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Mr. & Mrs. John Lillie Burk & Caroline Lindsey Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Lippolis Drs. Walt & Shannon Little The Howard Littlejohn Family Mr. & Mrs. Denis Lovell Drs. Amy & George Lynch George & Cathy Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Phil Lyons Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Macdonald William R. & Maria T. MacKay Mr. & Mrs. Don MacLachlan James & Gene Manning Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Manno Lee Marsden James & Patricia Martineau Abraham, Lesley & Jonathan Marx Mr. & Mrs. Leon May Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Peg & Al McCree Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Randy & Edina McMasters Catherine & Brian McMurray Sam & Sandra McSeveney Ronald S. Meers Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Mericle Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether Dr. & Mrs. Philip G. Miller Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent B. Millspaugh Dr. Jere Mitchum Ms. Gay Moon Cynthia & Richard Morin Steve & Laura Morris Margaret & David Moss Dick & Mary Jo Murphy Lucille C. Nabors Larry & Marsha Nager Leslie & Scott Newman Lonnie & Allene Newton William & Kathryn Nicholson Mr. Brian M. Norris Jane K. Norris Virginia O'Brien Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr. Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page Ms. Jeanne E. Pankow Mr. & Mrs. M. Forrest Parmley Dr. & Mrs. C. Leon Partain Ms. Lisa Pasho-Coughlin John W. & Mary Patterson Drs. Teresa & Phillip Patterson Dr. & Mrs. Joel Q. Peavyhouse Dr. & Mrs. A. F. Peterson Jr. Linda & Carter Philips Faris & Robert Phillips CW Pinson, M.D., MBA Gaynelle Pitner

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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

$500,000+

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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

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

C A P I TA L

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The Nashville Symphony wishes to acknowledge and thank the following individuals, foundations and corporations for their commitment to the Symphony. This list recognizes donors who contributed $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.

$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.

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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

C A P I TA L

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

C A P I TA L

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 S Y M P H O N Y LEGACY SOCIETY L E GACY

LEAVING A LEGACY, BUILDING A FUTURE

SO CI E T Y Principal clarinet James Zimmermann is one of many NSO musicians who are passing along the gift of music to a younger generation.

The Nashville Symphony is committed to serving Nashville with worldclass 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 a 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 Wade Kelley at 615.687.6615.

Anonymous (2) Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Diane and David L. Black Julie & Frank Boehm Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Donna & Steven Clark Dr. Cliff Cockerham & Dr. Sherry Cummings Mrs. Barbara J. Conder* Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert William M. & Mildred P.* Duncan Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Judy & Tom Foster Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia James C. Gooch Ed & Nancy Goodrich Carl T. Haley 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 Mrs. Ernestine M. Lynfoot Ellen Harrison Martin Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Richard L. Miller Cynthia & Richard Morin Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Pamela K. & Philip Maurice Pfeffer Joseph Presley

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

It's Now Easier to Make Your Gift Through Your IRA The IRA Charitable Rollover, a popular tax-wise giving option, is available through December 31, 2013. If you are 70 1/2 or older, you may make a gift of up to $100,000 directly to the Nashville Symphony from your IRA and have this amount count against your required minimum distribution, with no federal income tax impact. Check out our “Frequently Asked IRA Questions” and download a sample “letter of instruction” to your plan provider at NashvilleSymphony.org/ira-rollover.

PLEASE NOTE: The material presented is not offered as legal or tax advice. You are urged to seek the advice of your tax advisor, attorney and/or financial planner to determine whether a contemplated gift fits well into your overall circumstances and planning.

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VISTING THE SCHERMERHORN COAT CHECK

Guests are invited to check their coats at one of several complimentary coat check locations on each seating level. The most convenient is on the Lounge Level, located one floor below the Main Lobby.

CAMERAS, CELL PHONES & OTHER DEVICES

Videocameras and recording devices are strictly prohibited in the concert hall or in any other space where a performance or rehearsal is taking place, but photographs are permitted anytime the house lights are illuminated. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off once the performance starts.

LATE SEATING

As a courtesy to performers and audience, each performance will have designated breaks when latecomers are seated. Those arriving after a performance begins will be asked to wait until the appropriate break to be seated.

SERVICES FOR GUESTS WITH DISABILITIES

Schermerhorn Symphony Center meets or exceeds all criteria established by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Interior signage and all elevators make use of Braille lettering. An infrared hearing system is available for guests who are hearing impaired; headsets may be retrieved from

the Lounge Level coat-check area and from the Concert Concierge. Unisex restrooms are available on the Lounge Level for disabled guests needing special assistance.

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

EMERGENCY MESSAGES

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

LOST AND FOUND

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

CONCERT CONCIERGE

Have a question, request or comment? Please visit our Concert Concierge, which is available to help you with anything you might need during your visit.

Located in the Main Lobby, Concert Concierge is open through the end of intermission.

PARKING NEW! FREE PARKING!

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

PARKING AT THE PINNACLE

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

VALET

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

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