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12 A Revolution in Tango 20 Exploring Musical Frontiers Maria Browning

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Once confined to cabarets and ballrooms, Argentina’s tango music came into its own as a concert genre in the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the innovations of composer Astor Piazzolla, who combined a lifelong devotion to tango tradition with extensive classical training. Local audiences will have a rare opportunity to experience this music in all of its dramatic sweep at the Nashville Symphony’s SunTrust Classical Series concerts on November 19-21, when Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and the orchestra will perform three rarely heard pieces by Piazzolla.

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Overture: Susan Plageman High Notes: Symphony News Symphony Planner Upcoming Concert Calendar InTune: Vanderbilt University Medical Center InTune: SunTrust Backstage: Meet Our Musicians InTune: Tennessee Arts Commission Special Events: Now booking through 2011 Conductors Orchestra Roster Board of Directors Staff Roster Applause: Donor Listings Annual Fund: Individuals Annual Fund: Corporations & Foundations A Time for Greatness Campaign Legacy Society Guest Information Building Map Finale: Isaac Mizrahi

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Both featured as part of the Nashville Symphony’s November 5-7 SunTrust Classical Series concerts, Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra and György Ligeti’s Atmosphères are linked in the popular imagination through their inclusion in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Even so, it’s hard to imagine two more disparate pieces of music. Taken together, these two works serve as a vivid example of the breadth of classical music; at the same time, each reveals the composer’s desire to reach beyond the musical conventions of his day.

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Looking Ahead: Rachmaninoff & Stravinsky; Home for the Holidays; Handel’s Messiah; Happy Holidays! A Winter Wonderland; ‘The’ Organ Symphony; Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Let Freedom Sing!; Penderecki Comes to Nashville; Branford Marsalis Cover illustration by Ellen Weinstein

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Though we have so much to celebrate, we remain focused on becoming an even stronger institution. We are looking ahead with much excitement to great artistic achievements — perhaps the greatest in the history of this organization.

hanks to the talent and hard work of numerous individuals, the Nashville Symphony is a thriving institution, but our patrons are just as essential to our success. Without you in the audience, there would be no one to listen, no one to applaud; without your support, the Symphony wouldn’t have achieved all of its amazing accomplishments. November is a time to give thanks, and I would like to take this opportunity to express my own deep gratitude to you for believing in the Nashville Symphony, whether that means attending a concert, volunteering your time or donating to our annual campaign. Your involvement and your dedication keep us going. As the year comes to a close and you take a moment to consider your plans for year-end giving, I hope that you will remember the Nashville Symphony. Though we have so much to celebrate, we remain focused on becoming an even stronger institution, and the arrival of Giancarlo Guerrero as the orchestra’s seventh and newest music director has provided fresh inspiration for all of us. Under his guidance, the orchestra has given some magnificent performances this fall, and we are looking ahead with much excitement to even greater artistic achievements — perhaps the greatest in the remarkable history of this organization. Your contributions will help make that possible. Your support also helps to fund our many community concerts, which share the music of the Nashville Symphony with Middle Tennesseans of all ages and backgrounds. Through our performances at area parks and schools, and through our annual Regions FREE Day of Music, which brought more than 5,000 visitors to the Schermerhorn last month, we remain committed to enriching the lives of all Nashvillians. Our vision for the Nashville Symphony is to build an institution that will serve many generations to come, and a growing number of our patrons have aided us immeasurably in this goal by including the Symphony in their estate planning. This dedicated group of supporters is known as the Nashville Symphony Legacy Society, and their ranks are growing as more people learn of this forward-looking approach to charitable giving, which offers some unique tax benefits to donors. Because you are such an important part of the Nashville Symphony, we want to ensure that your experience with us is meaningful and gratifying. It is for this reason that we established our Patron Services program — so that we would be able to provide each donor and season ticket holder with expert, personalized service in the form of a specially assigned customer service representative. If you need to purchase tickets or make a reservation at our restaurant Arpeggio, or if you’d simply like more information about an upcoming event, our Patron Services specialists are here to assist you and to build what we hope will be a long-lasting relationship. It’s one of the many ways we seek to show our appreciation for all that you do.

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Nashville Symphony prepares to ring in the holidays The Nashville Symphony will celebrate the holidays with several concerts at the Schermerhorn next month, and it will get some help from WSMV-Channel 4 evening anchor Demetria Kalodimos at Happy Holidays! A Winter Wonderland, the next installment in The Ann & Monroe Carell Family Trust Pied Piper Series. Along with a program of treasured holiday music from Assistant Conductor Kelly Corcoran, the orchestra and the Blair Children’s Chorus, this family-friendly event on Saturday, December 19, will also include storytelling, with Kalodimos taking the stage to read Clement Moore’s “The Night Before Christmas.” Pre-concert activities and festivities begin at 10 a.m. That same weekend, on December 17-19, the Nashville Symphony and Chorus will present their annual performances of Handel’s Messiah, with Chorus Director George Mabry returning to conduct this year’s concerts. He’ll be joined by four top-notch soloists: soprano Jennifer Casey Cabot, mezzosoprano Theodora Hanslowe, tenor Scott Ramsay and baritone Philip Cutlip, the last of whom was featured in the orchestra’s 2008 performances of Messiah. Earlier in the month, Home for the Holidays promises an entire evening of seasonal favorites on December 10. Led by Resident Conductor Albert-George Schram, the Nashville Symphony and Chorus and the Blair Children’s Chorus will perform everything from “Joy to the World” to “Silver Bells” to “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” and audience members are invited to sing along. For tickets, call the box office at 615.687.6400 or visit NashvilleSymphony.org. New concerts just announced! Country music legend Kenny Rogers will make a stop at Schermerhorn Symphony Center for a one-night-only performance with the Nashville Symphony on Friday, February 5, 2010. It’s a rare chance to hear this enduringly popular singer, best known for his massive 1978 hit “The Gambler.” Backed by the expansive sound of the orchestra, he’ll survey his long and successful career, which stretches from his early work with The First Edition (“Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town”) to his string of chart-toppers in the ’70s and ’80s (“Lucille,” “Lady,” “Islands in the Stream”). Tickets are also on sale for Hogaku: New Sounds from Japan, taking place on Wednesday, January 13, 2010. Featuring three duos — TsuguKajiKoto, Oyama & Nitta, and Hide & Miho — the program will explore traditional and contemporary Japanese styles. Presented by the Japan Foundation and the Consulate-General of Japan in Nashville, this very speKenny Rogers cial evening will give audiences a chance to hear some of the country’s most gifted instrumentalists performing on the stringed koto, the lute-like shamisen and a variety of drums and percussion. For tickets and information, visit NashvilleSymphony.org or call 615.687.6400. Give the gift of Symphomoney It’s just the right time to get started on holiday shopping, and if you’ve got a music lover on your list, consider giving them Symphomoney. Available for $50 apiece, these vouchers can be redeemed for a seat at many of the concerts in our 2009/10 season. They’re like gift certificates, only with even better value, because each voucher can be traded in for the best seats available at the time of redemp-

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tion. That means the initial purchase price of $50 (plus a $2.50 service fee) could be worth as much as a $125 ticket. Symphomoney vouchers can be used on offerings in the Nashville Symphony’s SunTrust Classical Series, some of the Bank of America Pops Series and a number of special events. If Symphomoney isn’t redeemed during the 2009/10 season, it can still be used as a $50 credit toward the purchase of a fullprice ticket for Nashville Symphony events taking place after July 2010. For more information, visit NashvilleSymphony.org, call 615.687.6400 or visit the Schermerhorn Symphony Center Box Office. Please note that Symphomoney requires a minimum purchase of three vouchers, and that orders placed after December 16 may not be received by Christmas Day. Kelingos Education Fund award goes to Symphony percussionist Graber Assistant principal percussionist Richard Graber recently received a $500 award from the John Kelingos Education Fund, which annually provides a member of the Nashville Symphony with the opportunity to pursue advanced study with instructors and colleagues around the country. This August, Graber used his Kelingos award to help cover the cost of attending the Northwestern University Percussion Symposium, a weeklong gathering featuring some of the country’s most accomplished percussionists. While there, Graber took part in master classes, clinics and discussion sessions, and he had the chance to study with Marc Damoulakis of the Cleveland Orchestra and Patsy Dash of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Kelingos Fund was established by Ann Woodmore in memory of longtime Nashville Symphony violinist John A. Kelingos, who died in 1996. For more information, contact Janice Crumpacker, Director of Special Campaigns, at 615.687.6529 or email her at jcrumpacker@nashvillesymphony.org.

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Nashville Symphony concerts spotlight the musical innovations of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla By Maria Browning

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made a revolution in tango,” Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla once declared. For those who know tango only as flashy gyrations on TV dance shows, that might seem an absurd statement. True tango, however, is known to aficionados as an art of passion and nuance in which the music is as important as the dance. Tango music combines earthy Latin American rhythms with lyrical melodies, expressing both depth and delicacy of feeling. Local audiences will have a rare opportunity to experience this music in all of its dramatic sweep at the Nashville Symphony’s SunTrust Classical Series concerts on November 17-19, when Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and the orchestra will perform three rarely heard pieces by Piazzolla. Once confined to cabarets and ballrooms, tango music came into its own as a concert genre in the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the innovations of Piazzolla, who combined a lifelong devotion to tango tradition with extensive classical training. He introduced elements such as dissonance and counterpoint, and he utilized improvisation in small ensembles Astor Piazzolla — a technique borrowed from jazz. His experiments did indeed revolutionize the genre, creating a style known as nuevo tango, which continues to inform much of the tango music being played today. Although he is probably best known for his work with smaller groups, his pieces for orchestra are unique and compelling, revealing his simultaneous respect for tradition and penchant for innovation. Tango began in the crowded slums of Buenos Aires in the 19th century as a form of street entertainment that made its way into taverns and brothels. Early tango songs were bawdy tunes performed on a combo of violin, guitar and piano. A large influx of Italian immigrants around the turn of the century introduced Neopolitan song styles and a more fluid, refined violin technique. Around 1910, the bandoneón arrived in Argentina from Europe and was quickly taken up by tango musicians. A type of button accordion invented in Germany, this is the instrument that gives tango its unmistakable sound. Described by tango scholar Christine Denniston as “hauntingly beautiful,” the voice of the bandoneón has an intense, plaintive quality that can convey a wide range of emotions. The bandoneón was Piazzolla’s instrument, and he mastered it at an early age. Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1921, he emigrated with his family to New York City in 1925, where his homesick father bought him his first bandoneón. The family later returned to Argentina, and by the time Piazzolla was 17, he was making his living in Buenos Aires by playing in tango orchestras. By the 1930s, the popularity of tango had spread around the world, and Argentines had come to regard it as part of the

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country’s cultural heritage. As the homegrown creation of ordinary people, it was a source of national pride, although still widely regarded as somewhat déclassé. From the tavern to the concert hall The lack of artistic respect for tango was one of the things that drove Piazzolla’s evolution from jobbing bandoneónist to innovative composer. Having studied classical music from childhood, he was never content with being merely a first-class tango musician. “He was so hungry to be taken seriously,” Music Director Guerrero says, and that hunger led him to begin studying with the premier classical composer in Argentina at that time, Alberto Ginastera. He began to experiment with his tango arrangements, employing new harmonic elements that scared off dancers and angered traditionalists. A musical turning point for Piazzolla came in 1953, when his Buenos Aires — Tres Movimientos Sinfonicas, Op. 15 (1951) won a major competition in Argentina. Guerrero notes that this early

symphonic effort by Piazzolla, which is among the pieces on the Nashville Symphony program, has fallen into an undeserved obscurity, too often passed over in favor of later works. “It’s a wonderful piece of music. It showcases Piazzolla at his best. It proves to me beyond any doubt that he was a very talented serious composer.” Indeed, there’s nothing modest about Buenos Aires, which employs all the muscle of a full symphony orchestra, from its powerful opening through its dynamic, almost frenzied final movement. The inclusion of the bandoneón in the piece angered its first audience, who thought the tango instrument was inappropriate for a symphonic setting. Piazzolla’s gift for incorporating tango elements into a more formal musical context is clear in the two later works on the program. The first of these, Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires) (1969), is, in Guerrero’s words, “a Four Seasons for the 20th century.” Piazzolla’s work mirrors Vivaldi’s original, quoting particular phrases and using the same

Capturing the Sound Piazzolla performances will be recorded for future release on Naxos There’s been a renewed interest in Astor Piazzolla’s compositions for full orchestra in recent years, and the Nashville Symphony will be helping to promote that interest by recording the three Piazzolla pieces to be performed at this month’s SunTrust Classical Series concerts. This project is the latest collaboration between the Nashville Symphony and Naxos, the innovative record company based in Franklin, Tennessee. Known for offering a vast catalogue at affordable prices, Naxos has released 17 recordings to date by the orchestra, including Joan Tower’s Made in America, which won three GRAMMY® Awards in 2008. While the Nashville Symphony has been making recordings for more than 40 years, it gained an exceptional venue for capturing its performances with the opening of Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2006. Everything about the building, from the windows to the heat-and-air system, has been designed to prevent unwanted noise. The most remarkable feature is the “acoustical isolation joint” — a 2-inch air space that surrounds the entirety of Laura Turner Concert Hall, buffering it from external sound. According to Mark Blakeman, the Symphony’s Vice President of Orchestra and Building Operations and General Manager, the hall’s exceptional acoustic properties make it “almost like a gigantic recording booth.” Actually, it might be considered better than a recording booth. The room ambience and reverberation that enhance a live concert performance are missing in a studio setting, and have to be added to a recording in the production process. A different, arguably better, way of recording is to place the musicians in a concert hall with great ambience and reverberation, and then, says Blakeman, “try to capture as much of the room as you can while you capture the orchestra.” In addition to the optimal environment provided at the Schermerhorn, the symphony’s projects with Naxos have benefited from the record company’s streamlined approach to orchestral recording. The common method for making commercial recordings in a concert hall is to use dozens of microphones, thereby capturing individual instruments as isolated sounds. The sounds are then blended back together by the producer, working in collaboration with the conductor. This technique provides a lot of control over the final product, but it loses some of the character of the original performance. The Naxos technique uses as few as eight to 10 microphones. “It’s a very organic process,” says Blakeman. “It largely relies on capturing the sense of ensemble that’s already being created by the orchestra.” In the case of this month’s Piazzolla recording, conveying the character of the Symphony’s performance is especially important. According to Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero, Piazzolla’s Buenos Aires — Tres Movimientos Sinfonicas, Op. 15 is not as widely performed or as well known as his other work. “We’re delighted that we’re not only performing it for our audiences, but we’re also recording it for posterity,” he says. “It’s going to be a testament to how much this orchestra has grown artistically.” —Maria Browning

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orchestration. At the same time, notes Guerrero, “It’s a great rendition of tango music. It’s very nostalgic and very sensual in many ways.” The references to Vivaldi are clear, but Piazzolla’s composition is darker, with an urban brashness. In Concierto para Bandoneón “Aconcagua,” also to be performed at the Schermerhorn, Piazzolla gave the tango’s best-loved instrument a featured role. Only a master of the bandoneón could have created it. As Guerrero says, “This concerto was written by Piazzolla for himself, the way Rachmaninoff wrote piano concerti for himself and Chopin wrote piano concerti for himself.” Nashville Symphony audiences will be fortunate to hear a live performance of the piece much as Piazzolla conceived it. Bandoneónist Daniel Binelli, who will be the guest soloist, played with one of the last ensembles Piazzolla led in the late 1980s; in the years since, he has emerged as one of the world’s foremost performers of his instrument. “There aren’t that many solo bandoneón players in the world,” Guerrrero notes, “and 99 percent of

them come from Argentina.” Guerrero, who grew up hearing tango music in his native Costa Rica, is eager to present Piazzolla to Nashville audiences. “His symphonic work is very imaginative, and I think it combines great classical music style with great tango sounds.” Maria Browning is a Nashville-based freelance writer and pops program annotator for the Nashville Symphony.

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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, December 10 Resident Conductor Albert-George Shram, the Nashville Symphony and Chorus, and the Blair Children’s Chorus usher in the holidays with this concert featuring everyone’s seasonal favorites. Songs will include traditional carols, a medley of Santa Claus tunes and festive selections like “Brazilian Sleigh Bells.” Audience members are encouraged to sing along, and lyrics will be provided! HANDEL’S MESSIAH, December 17-19 Handel’s choral masterpiece has been an audience favorite ever since it was first performed for the public in 1742. No holiday season at the Schermerhorn would be complete without a presentation of this beloved oratorio, and there’s no better place to experience it than in the resonant splendor of Laura Turner Concert Hall. Chorus Director George Mabry returns to lead this year’s concerts, which will feature the Nashville Symphony and Chorus. Purchase your tickets now, before they sell out! HAPPY HOLIDAYS! A WINTER WONDERLAND, December 19 Pre-concert festivities and a lively mix of holiday selections, including music from The Polar Express and The Night Before Christmas, are on tap for the Nashville Symphony’s next family concert. Demetria Kalodimos of WSMV-Channel 4 will serve as a guest narrator, and Assistant Conductor Kelly Corcoran will lead the orchestra and the Blair Children’s Chorus in what promises to be a fun-filled celebration of the holiday season. Part of The Ann & Monroe Carrell Family Trust Pied Piper Series.

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November 5, 6 & 7, 2009 A Musical Space Odyssey

November 12, 13 & 14, 2009 SOLDIERS’ CHORUS OF THE U.S. ARMY FIELD BAND

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December 10, 2009 Home for the Holidays

April 1, 2 & 3, 2010 THIBAUDET Returns

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ichard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra and György Ligeti’s Atmosphères will forever be linked to each other by virtue of their inclusion in Stanley Kubrick’s Oscar-winning 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Even so, it’s hard to imagine two more disparate pieces of music. Composed in 1896, Strauss’ work — its opening “dawn” motif one of the most recognizable passages in any genre of music — is a sumptuous tone poem, a dramatic and highly structured series of unfolding themes and melodies. Written a little more than a half-century later, Ligeti’s composition offers a stark, modernist study in contrast, eschewing melodic cohesion in favor of sonic density and shading. Where Also Sprach Zarathustra is all about spectacle and movement, Atmosphères is built almost entirely on subtlety and texture. “There aren’t even 70 years between the writing of these two pieces,” observes Nashville Symphony Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero, who programmed both works, under the title A Musical Space Odyssey, as part of the Nashville Symphony’s November 5-7 SunTrust Classical Series performances. “And yet, hearing them together, you can’t help wondering, ‘How did we get this far, and in such a short span of time?’ “The Ligeti depends almost entirely on colors,” Guerrero goes on to explain of the Hungarian composer’s work. “This is a piece that utilizes the orchestra in the same way that a painter uses a brush. The Strauss, on the other hand, is one of the most luscious tone poems ever. This is a man who really knew how to write for an orchestra.” Many people are familiar with the opening three minutes of the German composer’s work, a crashing sequence of chords that signal evolutionary breakthroughs at the beginning and end of Kubrick’s picture, but there is another RICHARD STRAUSS half-hour of spectacular music after that. “Pop culture has thought of the Ligeti and the Strauss as basically one because of their appearance in Kubrick’s movie,” says Guerrero, “but taken together, the two works really show the great diversity that exists within classical music.” Their considerable differences notwithstanding, both pieces nevertheless share two crucial features in common: a certain lack of musical resolution and a desire to reach beyond the compositional conventions of their day. Based on Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel of the same name, Also Sprach Zarathustra consists of nine sections, each corresponding to a particular theme — from the role of science in society to the nature of human longing — that Nietzsche explores in his book. Strauss, however, never attempts to answer the questions the philosopher raises. Instead, he is content merely to evoke them through music that, by turns lyrical and chromatic, invites listeners to ponder these existential mysteries for

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themselves. While Nietzsche believed that answers to life’s questions could be found in selfmastery achieved through the exercise of the will to power, Strauss ends his meditation on a less certain note. Neither of the two conflicting keys that appear in the final portion of his piece — not B major, which symbolizes humanity, nor C major, which represents the larger universe — emerges as the tonic, or defining, key as the music reaches its conclusion. The lack of resolution in Ligeti’s Atmosphères, meanwhile, is entirely musical, with no two instruments in the orchestra playing the same melodic pattern. “Ligeti divided the players in each section of the orchestra and had them play individual parts, which makes his piece extremely difficult to perform,” Guerrero explains. “It’s not about what one person is playing, but how all of these instruments are coming together to create this illusion, these shades of brightness and darkness. It’s really an exercise in how music can be translated into color.” Ligeti’s work, which remains as intriguing today as it did when it made its debut nearly 50 years ago, is as intellectually absorbing for

listeners as it is for the musicians who perform it. “Audiences really need to prepare themselves mentally for this piece,” Guerrero says. “Otherwise, you can miss the point of what the composer was trying to achieve.” Employing a spatial conception of sound, which creates the illusion of music that doesn’t go anywhere, Atmosphères stands as a response to the compositional ideal of works that progress thematically and evince a discernible structure. There, of course, is movement in Ligeti’s nineminute opus. The motion in question, though, is more breath-like, rising and falling at assorted intervals, rather than advancing through a series of passages toward a momentous climax, as we hear in Strauss’ work. And yet, even if Zarathustra appears to be the more conventional of the two pieces, Strauss, too, was looking beyond the compositional norms of his day. “After the death of Beethoven, who in many ways did it all, composers were left with a big problem,” Guerrero explains. “Nobody wanted to write symphonies, piano concerti or string quartets anymore. They wanted to come up with new titles and ideas for their work.”

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Franz Liszt is widely considered to be the originator of the tone poem, a piece of music that in many ways resembles a symphony, but draws inspiration from a folktale or a piece of literature. Taking their cue from nonmusical ideas, tone poems subscribe to the notion that music can be a medium for storytelling in its own right. Another evocative work, Miguel del Aguila’s The Fall of Cuzco, will open the symphony’s program the first weekend of November. “Like any great composer — Strauss or Mahler, for example — Miguel has his own language and this, too, is a tone poem,” Guerrero says of the Uruguayan composer’s work, which will receive its world premiere at the Schermerhorn. “His piece is about Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro’s arrival in Cuzco and uses strong Incan themes to tell the story of the disappearance of that great civilization, which is a mystery still.” Yet another connection among the works on the program, albeit one that’s more national than thematic, is the presence of the fiery Concerto for Piano No. 2 by Béla Bartók, maybe the foremost early influence on his fellow Hungarian Györgi

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Ligeti. The piece will feature the celebrated Russian-Israeli pianist Yefim Bronfman, who won a GRAMMY® Award in 1997 for his recording of the three Bartók Piano Concertos, with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. “I’ve been a huge fan of Bronfman’s for a long time, and one of the things he’s best at is this concerto,” Guerrero says of the virtuoso pianist, who has performed with the Nashville Symphony before. “He loves working with this orchestra; I’m especially looking forward to his performance.” Just as gratifying should be the second half of the Musical Space Odyssey program, particularly given the extent to which the divergent works by Strauss and Ligeti are likely to take full advantage of the singular acoustics of Laura Turner Concert Hall. “Playing those two pieces together is going to showcase the great strength of our concert hall,” Guerrero says, anticipating, with particular relish, how the low, rumbling organ in Zarathustra will sound. “This program is going to take our concert hall for a spin, so to speak.” Bill Friskics-Warren is a Nashville-based freelance writer.

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At some point in their careers, all musicians wind up playing some unusual concerts — and with 83 members, the Nashville Symphony has plenty of musicians who can share a story or two about their strangest onstage experience. For longtime members of the orchestra, though, one story in particular stands out: the time, in the early ’90s, when the Nashville Symphony performed at Opryland Hotel (now known as Gaylord Opryland Hotel). With its glass ceilings and expansive, open-air ambience, the hotel’s Cascades Lobby has long been a destination for tourists, who routinely flocked there in the ’80s and ’90s to hear Lloyd Lindroth — the renowned “Liberace of the harp” — perform amid the sparkling fountains. In this case, though, the idea was to have the orchestra members perched on a series of guest-room balconies overlooking the lobby, while the conductor was standing on the roof of a revolving gazebo below. Second violinist Laura Ross remembers it well: “We actually did this Opryland Hotel concert several different times. Usually, there would be two musicians on each balcony, and we were set up on three different floors, 10 rooms across. So you might have section members above you, below you or off to one side. It was extremely difficult, because we could not hear each other. The only thing we could do was to watch the conductor. “The first time, the performance was at night, so [Music Director] Kenneth [Schermerhorn] stood up on the podium and wore white gloves so that we could see him. The concert was for a big gathering of convention planners, and they had no idea that anything was going to happen. They were down in the lobby having Brian Groner, the Nashville Symphony’s assistant cocktails, and we had to sit and wait in the guest rooms in the dark conductor in the late ’80s and early ’90s, leads — we couldn’t turn lights on, because the hotel didn’t want any of the orchestra in a rehearsal for what might these convention attendees to know someone was up there. So we have been its most unusual concert ever, at the would come in, unpack our instruments, sit in the dark and wait. Opryland Hotel. Photo by Ric Ricker Then the lights would go up, and there we would be on the balcony. “When we played, the music was bouncing everywhere because of all the glass in the Cascades. The last piece of the evening was with country singer Lee Greenwood, and they were actually shooting off fireworks from the ceiling. Luckily, it was far enough away from us that we didn’t have to worry about getting hit. “I thought the idea was an interesting one, especially considering who it was aimed at. The whole point was to bring us to these convention planners’ attention, to let them know that when they brought conventions to town, the Nashville Symphony was something people could attend. It was smart, but it was very stressful, because we wanted to make sure we sounded the best we could; but it was also very exciting.” NOVEMBER

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MIGUEL DEL AGUILA The Fall of Cuzco, Op. 99 [La caída de Cuzco] WORLD PREMIERE BÉLA BARTÓK Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra Allegro Adagio - Presto - Adagio Allegro molto Yefim Bronfman, piano

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RICHARD STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 Introduction Of the Backworldsmen Of the Great Longing Of Joys and Passions The Song of the Grave Of Science and Learning The Convalescent The Dance-Song Song of the Night Wanderer The Fall of Cuzco was commissioned through the Magnum Opus project: Kathryn Gould, founding patron and commissioner, and Meet The Composer, project manager concert sponsor:

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Miguel del Aguila Born on September 15, 1957, in Montevideo, Uruguay; currently resides in Oxnard, California

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The Fall of Cuzco, Op. 99 (World Premiere) Miguel del Aguila completed The Fall of Cuzco (La caída de Cuzco) in 2009 on a commission from the Nashville Symphony through the Magnum Opus project, which is managed by Meet The Composer. Kathryn Gould is the founding patron and commissioner of Magnum Opus. These performances mark the world premiere. The score calls for piccolo, 2 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, crotales, chimes, triangles, sleigh bells, small cowbells, tam-tam, whip, hi-hat, cymbals, castanets, claves, tambourine, snare drum, bass drum, ratchet, temple block, wood block, harp, amplified celesta/piano and strings. estimated length: 20 minutes Miguel del Aguila’s childhood in Latin America left a series of lasting musical impressions on his memory. The Fall of Cuzco represents one of several works in recent years through which the composer has been re-accessing that source of inspiration. Aguila began studying music at a very young age in his native Uruguay, but the rising military dictatorship of the 1970s made life there unbearable. At age 20, he was finally able to flee the country for the United States. After studies at the San Francisco Conservatory, Aguila spent a decade in Vienna, where his career began to blossom. In 1992

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he returned to the U.S., settling in southern California. A piece for cello and percussion, Messages — which was introduced at the concert hall of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1983 — carries the first official opus number in a body of work that has already reached 100. Aguila’s prolific output ranges widely, from pieces for solo piano (his own instrument) to works for full orchestra. He has also written extensively for voice, including choral music, a chamber opera and two full-scale operas. Aguila describes his compositional process in visual terms, comparing his scores to “emotional soundtracks of a silent movie.” His orchestration doesn’t mark the final step in a process; instead, it is present from the start. “In everything I write I always hear an orchestra — even in a piano piece,” he explains. “I orchestrate like a painter and use instruments to color the emotion that’s already there.” With this commission, Aguila was given free rein to write about whatever he wished, using the musical resources of the orchestra. He remarks that his compositions are part of a lifelong continuum and tend to be interconnected. In 2005, he began a two-year composer residency in New Mexico. The 2009

experience reawakened memories of the folkloric music he had known from Andean culture, which he began channeling into a number of works. Without planning it, Aguila found that his initial musical impulses for the new piece prompted a fantasy of the vanished Incan Empire. Andean music, Aguila notes, is “deceivingly simple” and calls for a delicate balance. “Its pentatonic nature, its strict harmonic, melodic and rhythmic structures, and its non-dramatic character make its fabric extremely fragile and elusive. At the first attempt of thematic development, its essence vanishes. On the other hand, abiding by all its rules results in a pale imitation.” As a result, he “walked the thin line between both” to create The Fall of Cuzco. The imagery Aguila imagined suggested the form of the piece, which “loosely follows the events that led to the collapse of the Incan Empire and its capital, Cuzco.” Aguila stresses that his process is inherently intuitive rather than analytical. “I want to abandon myself to follow where the music takes me and encourage the audience to do so.” The composer has graciously provided the following note: 1. High in the Andes the rising sun is greeted by a caracol [a ceremonial horn] as a new day begins in Cuzco. 2. The Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro arrives, and after initial fear and suspicion, he’s greeted with music and celebration. 3. During the celebration, Pizarro captures the Incan king Atahualpa, who offers him a room filled with gold in exchange for his freedom and that of his people. Pizarro agrees. 4. Over many days gold is

brought in endless processions, from all corners of the land. 5. The gold finally fills the room to the ceiling, while even larger piles surround the building and bury it. As the clouds dissipate, the sun shines upon it with blinding light. (After all the gold is taken, Pizarro will kill Atahualpa.) With this work I tried to recreate my fantasy of this mystical place and time, as well as give a voice to those who were silenced. The underlying theme is GOLD and its power over men and their greed. Once Pizarro arrives, the GOLD theme (in 15/8 meter) starts subduing the other three themes, which struggle for their survival throughout the entire piece. Finally, the GOLD theme triumphs and is heard in all its boisterous brilliance. The closing bars of the piece depict this mountain of gold, blinding, seductive and overwhelming. Béla Bartók Born on March 25, 1881, in Nagyszentmiklós in the Habsburg Empire (now Sînnicolau Mare, Romania); died on September 26, 1945, in New York City Piano Concerto No. 2 Béla Bartók began writing the second of his three piano concertos in October 1930. He drafted it first in a version for two pianos and completed the full orchestration a year later. He was the soloist for the first performance on January 23, 1933, in Frankfurt, with Hans Rosbaud conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. This is the Nashville Symphony’s first performance. In addition to the solo piano, the score calls for 3 flutes (3rd

doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 3 bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, tuba, timpani, snare drum, triangle, bass drum, cymbals and strings. estimated length: 28 minutes Béla Bartók has always stood a little outside the standard narrative of how modern music evolved. He doesn’t fit comfortably into the standard camps of modernism. He absorbed a remarkable range of influences in his earliest works, from Liszt and the early Impressionists to the tone poems of Richard Strauss. But he eventually emerged from the post-Romantic quandary — where was music to go next? — tracing his own path. One crucial element came from his meticulous study of folk music — not only within his native Hungary, but elsewhere in Eastern Europe and even in North Africa. (He was a pioneer of enthnomusicology.) Bartók forged a language liberated from tonal and metrical conventions, characterized by an unusual harmonic palette, fiery colors and tremendous rhythmic vitality. Modernist dissonance often mixes with timeless elements derived from folk music to give his music its distinctly invigorating flavor. Bartók belongs to the tradition of great composer-pianists who wrote works intended to showcase their own dual personae as creators and performers. This club includes such figures as Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt (to whom Bartók could trace his piano lineage, as he studied with a pupil of Liszt’s), Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. Among his many musical activities, Bartók had a parallel career as a touring pianist and closely

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identified with the instrument. After a fallow period that had lasted several years, the piano proved the key that opened the way toward his mature style, with his Piano Sonata of 1926. Bartók proceeded to build a fresh repertoire for himself as a performer with the First Piano Concerto of the same year. While the Second Concerto shares some features with the First, Bartók intended it to be “a kind of antithesis to the First, easier in its orchestral part and more lucid in structure.” Its more readily accessible character results, according to the composer, in a “more conventional and simpler treatment of most of the themes.” The piece, incidentally, made an unintended political statement: Its premiere marked Bartók’s final performance in Germany. After the Nazis came to power a week later, he stopped touring there. Although it’s wonderfully enjoyable even on a first hearing, the Concerto is richly inventive and by no means a lightweight piece. The overall architecture is carefully planned. It reinterprets the conventional three movements of a concerto according to the arch-like or palindrome design that became a Bartók signature (this design also features in his string quartets around this time). Thus the opening Al-

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legro provides source material for the final movement, marked Allegro Molto. These fast movements, meanwhile, frame the middle and longest of the three, which itself forms an arch: The opening Adagio segues into a scherzo-like Presto interlude and then returns, in varied form, to conclude the movement. We hear five distinct sections in the piece, although they are arranged in the expected three-movement format of a concerto. At the same time, Bartók structures the progression of the piece in terms of its orchestration, giving the piano a different backdrop for each movement. The first movement uses only woodwinds, brass and percussion. The strings are silent until the Adagio parts of the second movement, which are limited to strings and timpani, with the woodwinds and other percussion joining in during the Presto interlude. Only in the final movement does the full ensemble become part of the action. The Concerto opens with highly energetic gestures. Immediately, we hear the dynamic persona that the piano assumes throughout much of the piece, while the trumpet and piano introduce the main thematic ideas for the movement. Bartók enlivens his style with a neo-Baroque briskness, but with no trace of the smart-alecky self-consciousness sometimes found in other exponents of neoclassicism. A strong rhythmic profile, punctuated by fanfare-like flourishes and scale patterns, underlines the sense of forward motion. Notice especially what a thrilling moment Bartók makes of the recapitulation. The second movement, with its atmospheric “night music,” brings another Bartókian sig-

nature to the fore. Using muted string choirs, the Adagio sections paint a canvas that is alternately serene and surreal, a marvelously suggestive background for the timpani’s rolling thunder in dialogue with the piano. Bartók uses the timpani to tilt the music into the embedded Presto, which whirs into being like a dream within a dream. Drums and piano also conspire to spring the finale into motion. It returns not only to the ideas of the first movement — fancifully varied — but to its brighter colors and energy, now filtered through the fuller spectrum of the orchestra. A brief pause for introspection sets up the last blazing rush of the coda. György Ligeti Born on May 28, 1923, in Dicsöszentmárton (now Târnaveni), a small town in Transylvania, Romania; died on June 12, 2006, in Vienna Atmosphères György Ligeti composed Atmosphères in 1961 on a commission from the South West German Radio Orchestra, which gave the premiere on October 22, 1961, under Hans Rosbaud at the Donaueschingen Festival (a newmusic festival with a focus on the avant-garde). The Nashville Symphony has performed this work only once previously, in November 1971. Ligeti’s piece “for large orchestra without percussion” (as he subtitled Atmosphères) is scored for 4 flutes (all doubling piccolo), 4 oboes, 4 clarinets (4th doubling E-flat clarinet), 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, piano and strings. estimated length: 8 minutes

György Ligeti

György Ligeti was the escape artist par excellence of postwar modernism, a Houdini who constructed complex yet curiously liberating sonic labyrinths. His genius was shaped by his personal experiences of catastrophe: Some of his family members perished in the Holocaust, but Ligeti survived the war only to experience a new wave of oppression in Communist Hungary, which he fled in the wake of the country’s 1956 uprising. He ended up in Germany, ground zero of the West European avantgarde, where total serialism and electronic music were the new orthodoxy. Yet what Ligeti called an inherent “immunity to all ideologies” encouraged him to follow his own path. In the process, Ligeti — who found a powerful model in his fellow Hungarian Bartók — emerged as possibly the most endearing of the postwar avant-gardists. (His death three years ago was keenly felt in the music world.) The composer’s creative flexibility and interest in exploring unique, exuberantly inventive sound worlds offered an antidote to the dogmatism that was fashionable for avant-garde musical thought at the time. The orchestral essay Atmosphères created an extraordinary stir among his peers at its

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premiere and became known as a path-breaking piece showcasing the composer’s radical approach to texture. Atmosphères opened the door to a whole new way of experiencing sound, taking earlier explorations of music as texture to previously unimagined extremes. Ligeti deploys his large orchestra in massive timbral clusters and overlapping layers. The lack of percussion here is characteristic of his rebellious attitude. As biographer Richard Toop points out, this ran against the grain, “since percussion sections of epic dimensions were a primary feature of the 1950s modernist orchestra.” Yet, Toop explains, the dramatic sounds of percussion (which emphasize attack and decay) would distract from the essential soundscape that Ligeti lays out in Atmosphères, which is all about “a new form of musical continuity” of sound. Ligeti’s clusters replace the traditional building blocks of melody, harmony, rhythm and pulse with sound colors. These colors shift in intensity, volume and register. Minute changes in volume and the thickness of the sound, for example, assume a spectral quality and replace the expected sense of musical events. Ligeti compared the result to natural processes, such as the moment before crystallization occurs in a solution, or the reflection of light on a lake surface. Woven from so many individual voices that they blur into floating sonic “clouds,” the music no longer unfolds as a series of events but presents an infinite horizon, swallowing space and time alike.

Richard Strauss Born on June 11, 1864, in Munich; died on September 8, 1949, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 Strauss composed Also Sprach Zarathustra between February and August 1896. He conducted the first performance in Frankfurt on November 27, 1896. The Nashville Symphony’s first performance of the work was in October 1976; its last performance was in 1998. Strauss’ very large orchestra consists of 2 piccolos, 3 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 tubas, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, bells, 2 harps, organ and strings. estimated length: 32 minutes By the turn of the century, the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) had started to influence artists across all disciplines. His “prose poem” Also sprach Zarathustra — written in the mid-1880s but not published in full until 1892 — features a language rich in symbolism, parable and enigmatic oracles. The name Zarathustra (also known as Zoroaster) refers to the ancient Persian prophet credited with developing a religious vision of the cosmic struggle between good and evil. Nietzsche’s version remodels Zarathustra after his own image. The prophet now returns to subvert the old values, preaching a message of extreme self-reliance in which humans must become superhuman: i.e., create their own meaning by affirming life and nature, rather

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than relying on the illusion of a transcendent god. Some have argued that Strauss’ tone poem is less about Nietzsche than about the reactions that reading his philosophy aroused. The composer himself wrote, “I did not intend to write philosophical music or to portray Nietzsche’s great work in musical terms,” but instead to reflect “my homage to the genius of Nietzsche” in the evolutionary arc suggested by the piece. Also sprach Zarathustra can also be heard as an orchestral showpiece, a massive ensemble concerto in which Strauss flexes his muscle as a master of instrumental surround-sound. As a self-appointed heir to Wagner, however, Strauss would have been especially tuned in to the philosopher’s sensitivity to musical thought, which Wagner had helped inspire. Nietzsche’s Zarathustra is pervaded with references to music and acts of hearing. Its most pivotal moments occur in the form of songs. Strauss selected a small number from the many short chapters comprising the text and reshuffled their order to prompt his muse, fashioning a symphonically unified work. Stanley Kubrick’s iconic use of the introduction for his film 2001: A Space Odyssey (which also incorporates Ligeti’s

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Atmosphères) may have made this music over-familiar, but it remains a thrilling depiction of the prologue to Nietzsche’s work — a scene in which the prophet greets the sunrise and determines to come down from his mountain to share his wisdom with humanity. Against a profound shadow cast by the lowest bass, Strauss introduces the central cell of the piece as four trumpets pronounce a primal ascending motif (C-G-C). Strauss later explained that he meant “to convey in music an idea of the human race from its origins, through its various phases of development (religious and scientific) right up to Nietzsche’s idea of the Superman [Übermensch].” The following eight sections are woven together seamlessly and pursue the idea of humanity’s evolution. Where Nietzsche resorted to resonant symbols, allegories and wordplay, Strauss builds a sense of dramatic conflict through his deployment of key and orchestration. The fundamental tension pivots around the tonics of C (the tonality of the introduction), which is associated with nature, and B (minor and major), used as a symbol for humanity. Each is only a half-step apart, yet when sounded together, they clash in a powerful dissonance. First, though, comes a momentary oasis in “Of the Backworldsmen.” Strauss quotes from plainchant and then develops a lush fabric of divided strings to depict the worldview of those who seek consolation through the hollow promise of an afterlife. While Nietzsche’s tone is acerbic and mocking, Strauss nearly convinces us with the overwhelming beauty of this music before casting it aside as an illusion. In “Of the Great

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Longing” and “Of Joys and Passions,” the dramatic tension rises to a boil, with the central C-G-C motif now clearly associated with questing. The religious music recurs as a source of dissonance, symbolizing a conflict with natural desires, while Strauss borrows a page from Götterdämmerung to inject a tone of tragic pathos. Particularly elegiac scoring for the winds adds to the intense pity of “The Song of the Grave” as Zarathustra sees humanity still enslaved by its illusions. As with religion in the earlier movements, learning and study present another potent force for disappointment in “Of Science and Learning.” (The German word for “science,” Wissenschaft, actually refers to all scholarly endeavors, suggesting here the Faustian quest for knowledge.) Strauss structures this section around that most learned of forms, the fugue — an especially imposing one that employs all 12 tones of the chromatic scale for its subject. In the midst of this, Zarathustra collapses from exhaustion and is then restored to health (“The Convalescent”), as the fugue reaches a climax with a restatement of the introductory sunrise music. A long pause follows, but humanity remains benighted, as the grim music in B minor indicates. In an extraordinary passage, the orchestra rallies its energy and begins to glimmer and twinkle with sounds of a new awakening. Zarathustra at last begins to preach the ideal of the Übermensch (the ultimate goal of the fully self-reliant human) in “The Dance Song.” This long section, set as a waltz, also doubles as a mini-violin concerto. The idea of a waltz might seem incongruously lighthearted

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for the philosophical idea being espoused, but here Strauss taps into a very Nietzschean sense of irony, of “unbearable lightness.” This builds to a new climax, marked by the twelvefold tolling of a bell, for the concluding “Song of the Night Wanderer.” The gorgeous, velvety night music suggests an air of leavetaking. Yet it is also emphatically inconclusive. Instead of resolving the nature-humanity dichotomy, Strauss pits the C-G-C theme deep in the bass against a high, shimmering chord of B major. The dissonance is now sweet and subtle, but it is left to ring in our ears as evolution continues. — Thomas May is the program annotator for the Nashville Symphony and writes regularly about music and theater. His books include Decoding Wagner and The John Adams Reader.

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YEFIM BRONFMAN, piano Yefim Bronfman is widely regarded as one of the most talented virtuoso pianists performing today. His commanding technique and exceptional lyrical gifts have won him consistent critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences worldwide, whether for his solo recitals, his prestigious orchestral engagements or his rapidly growing catalogue of recordings. Orchestral highlights of the 2009/10 season include two performances at the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under James Levine and Michael Tilson Thomas; an appearance at the Lucerne Festival with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen, followed by

concerts with the Philharmonia and Christoph von Dohnányi, performing both Brahms piano concertos; multiple concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta and the Lucerne Academy Orchestra with Pierre Boulez; Artiste Etoile at the Lucerne Festival; a European tour with the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert; and subscription concerts with the Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Cleveland orchestras. Recitals and duos in 2009/10 include appearances at New York’s Carnegie Hall, both solo and with Magdalena Kozena; a recital tour through 10 U.S. cities; a recital tour through Japan; and performances in Rome, Vienna and Warsaw. Bronfman made a recent live television appearance with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Bronfman has won wide-

spread praise for his solo, chamber and orchestral recordings. He won a GRAMMY® Award in 1997 for his recording of the three Bartók Piano Concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His most recent releases are Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Mariss Jansons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; a recital disc, Perspectives, which complements his designation as a Carnegie Hall “Perspectives”’ artist for the 2007/08 season; and recordings for the Arte Nova/BMG label of all the Beethoven piano concerti, as well as the Triple Concerto, together with violinist Gil Shaham, cellist Truls Mørk and the Tönhalle Orchestra Zürich under David Zinman. Bronfman was born in Tashkent, in the Soviet Union, on April 10, 1958, and immi-

Yefim Bronfman

grated to Israel with his family in 1973. There he studied with pianist Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. In the United States, he studied at The Juilliard School, Marlboro and the Curtis Institute, and with Rudolf Firkusny, Leon Fleisher and Rudolf Serkin. He became an American citizen in July 1989.

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A Salute to America’s Veterans SCHermerhorn Symphony Center Laura Turner Concert Hall November 12, 2009, at 7 p.m. November 13 & 14, 2009, at 8 p.m. Nashville Symphony Albert-George Schram, conductor Soldiers’ Chorus of the U.S. Army Field Band CPT Leonel Peña, conductor JOHN STAFFORD SMITH

The Star-Spangled Banner

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Fanfare for the Common Man

Three selections from the Soldiers’ Chorus TRADITIONAL America (My Country ’tis of Thee) arr. Robert Edgerton TRADITIONAL Shenandoah arr. James Erb GINO VANNELLI None So Beautiful as the Brave arr. MSGs Vince Norman MSG Victor Cenales, baritone and Robert Jefferson GIUSEPPE VERDI

Triumphal March (from Aïda)

A Night at the Opera, arr. SSG Adrian Hernandez JOHANN STRAUSS A Toast to Champagne (from Die Fledermaus) SGM Douglas Cox, tenor MSG Janet Hjelmgren, soprano SSG Charis Strange, soprano GIACOMO PUCCINI Quando m’en vo (from La Bohème) SSG Meghan Whittier, soprano GIUSEPPE VERDI Brindisi (from La Traviata) SFC Robert McIver, tenor SFC Rose Ryon, soprano GAETANO DONIZETTI Pronto io son (from Don Pasquale) SFC Samuel Chung, baritone SSG Charis Strange, soprano

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CHARLES GOUNOD Salut, demeure chaste et pure (from Faust) SGM Joel Dulyea, tenor GEORGES BIZET Toreador Song (from Carmen) SSG Mark Huseth, baritone ALEXANDER BORODIN Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor)

intermission GEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN George and Ira: A Gershwin Songbook arr. MSG Jay Norris SGM Robert Barnett, tenor; SGM Joel Dulyea, tenor; MSG William Gabbard, tenor; SFC Mario Garcia, tenor; SFC Robert McIver, tenor; SFC Erica Russo, mezzo-soprano; SSG Brendan Curran, baritone; SSG Charis Strange, soprano Voices of Strength, arr. MSG Jay Norris S. ROMBERG, O. HAMMERSTEIN Stouthearted Men (from The New Moon) ALAN JAY LERNER, F. LOEWE They Call the Wind Mariah (from Paint Your Wagon) If Ever I Would Leave You (from Camelot) MITCH LEIGH The Impossible Dream (from Man of La Mancha) SSG Brendan Curran, baritone SSG Mark Huseth, baritone SSG Charles Parris, bass EDWARD ELGAR Nimrod (from Enigma Variations) / A Letter from Mom text Tami Ketteman MSG Janet Hjelmgren, narrator TOBY KEITH American Soldier arr. SSG Adrian Hernandez MSG Victor Cenales, baritone MSG Laura Lesche, soprano VARIOUS Armed Forces Salute arr. SFC (ret) Robert Lichtenberger TRADITIONAL arr. Peter Wilhousky

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What better way to honor America’s veterans than with an evening of song from some of the most talented men and women serving in today’s military? The Soldiers’ Chorus of the U.S. Army Field Band travels the world, entertaining diverse audiences in venues ranging from school auditoriums to concert halls. Renowned Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel described the Soldiers’ Chorus as “the greatest military chorus in the world,” and its 29 singers offer an impressive range of musical training and experience. Their performance backgrounds include opera, musical theater and cabaret, as well as a variety of choral ensembles. Tonight’s program begins with songs celebrating love of country and the spirit of service. “The Star-Spangled Banner” and Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” kick off the evening, leading into a medley of stirring favorites that includes “Shenandoah” — a traditional tune that was born as a 19th century river shanty — and Gino Vannelli’s 1995 ballad “None So Beautiful as the Brave.” The show moves into a more lighthearted mood with “A Night at the Opera,” a selection of popular arias and duets that will give the singers an opportunity to display

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their remarkable versatility. They’ll perform “A Toast to Champagne” from Die Fledermaus and “Pronto io son,” the mischievous duet from Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Solos include Puccini’s classic song of seduction, “Quando m’en vo,” and the tender cavatina from Gounod’s Faust, “Salut, demeure chaste et pure.” The second half of the program returns to American music, with a round of classic show tunes by the Gershwin brothers, Oscar Hammerstein, and Lerner and Loewe. The heart of tonight’s tribute to our nation’s soldiers is expressed with the reading of “A Letter from Mom.” Written by Ohio mother Tami M. Ketteman as her son awaited deployment to Afghanistan, this letter to America is a poignant mix of love, pride and concern: “The little hands full of dirt and dandelions that gave me my first bouquet now hold a weapon that gives you freedom,” Ketteman writes. The reading will be accompanied by “Nimrod” from Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations. This somber, moving composition, written in 1898, is traditionally played for Remembrance Sunday ceremonies in Great Britain. Songs rooted in America’s heritage of pride and patriotism close the evening, with old and new favorites including “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and Toby Keith’s “American Soldier.” — Maria Browning, a Nashvillebased freelance writer, is pops program annotator for the Nashville Symphony

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SOLDIERS’ CHORUS OF THE U.S. ARMY FIELD BAND The Soldiers’ Chorus, founded in 1957, is the vocal complement of the United States Army Field Band of Washington, D.C. The 29-member mixed choral ensemble travels throughout the nation and abroad, performing as a separate component and in joint concerts with the Concert Band of the “Musical Ambassadors of the Army.” The chorus has performed in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, India, the Far East and throughout Europe, entertaining audiences of all ages. The musical backgrounds of Soldiers’ Chorus personnel range from opera and musical theater to music education and vocal coaching; this diversity provides unique programming flexibility. In addition to presenting selections from the vast choral repertoire, Soldiers’ Chorus performances often include the music of Broadway, opera, barbershop quartet and Americana. This flexibility has earned the Soldiers’ Chorus an international reputation for presenting musical excellence and inspiring patriotism. Critics have acclaimed recent appearances with the Boston Pops, the Cincinnati Pops and the Detroit, Dallas and National symphony orchestras. Other notable performances include American Choral Directors Association conferences, music educator conventions, Kennedy Center Honors programs, four world’s fairs, the 750th anniversary of Berlin and the rededication of the Statue of Liberty.

Tango & Ravel’s Boléro November 19, 2009, at 7 p.m. November 20 & 21, 2009, at 8 p.m. Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Tianwa Yang, violin Daniel Binelli, bandoneón

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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Buenos Aires: Tres Movimientos Sinfonicos, Op. 15 Moderato Lento, con anima Presto marcato Daniel Binelli, bandoneón ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Concierto para Bandoneón “Aconcagua” Allegro marcato Milonga (Moderato) Presto Daniel Binelli, bandoneón

intermission ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas [The Four Season of Buenos Aires] Orch. Leonid Desyatnikov Otoño Porteño (Più lento) [Autumn] Invierno Porteño (Lento y dramatico) [Winter] Primavera Porteña (Allegro) [Spring] Verano Porteño (Lento y melancólico) [Summer] Tianwa Yang, violin MAURICE RAVEL

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Astor Piazzolla Born on March 11, 1921, in Mar del Plata, Argentina; died on July 4, 1992, in Buenos Aires, Argentina “If classic is what remains as a model and universal is what belongs to everyone for all time, Piazzolla’s tango is universal and classic music.” So proclaims Horacio Ferrer, the poet and tango authority who collaborated with the composer on some of his best-known works. Indeed, Astor Piazzolla’s name has become synonymous with the signature dance of his native country, Argentina. Like Johann Strauss Jr. with regard to the waltz, Piazzolla transformed a popular idiom into sophisticated art music. This program samples Piazzolla’s orchestral music, which represents just one facet of a complex, enormously gifted and prolific composer, performer and cultural icon whose influence continues to be felt across musical genres. We hear pieces ranging from his more classically oriented youthful efforts to mature masterworks in which he discovered a balance for his creative ambitions. As a chaser to this exploration of Piazzolla’s world, the evening concludes with perhaps the most famous symphonic tour de force based on a Latin dance — the Boléro of Maurice Ravel. The tango is notoriously resistant to simple definitions. It is, after all, much more than a dance based on a derivative of the habanera rhythm. The tango contains within its hypnotic pulse an amalgam of diverse influences out of Europe and Africa — the word itself is possibly African in origin. These influences were stirred together

in the slums and brothels of Buenos Aires. Immigrant workers within that great port city in the late 19th century shaped the unmistakable rhythmic gestures, instrumentation and general attitude of the tango. It then crossed lines of class and milieu. But the tango has always been defined by paradox: It can be heard in the tension between a strict, tight rhythmic control and the sensuous freedom suggested by the melodic line. Melancholy is countered with menace, while genuine passion faces up to dissembling masquerade. Tradition and innovation are another paradox inherent in the tango as Piazzolla came to experience it. The son of Italian immigrants to Argentina, he moved with his parents to New York City, where he had a streetwise upbringing in Little Italy. As a young boy, Piazzolla had little interest in the music from back home until, at the age of 8, his tango-loving father bought him a bandoneón, or button accordion, at a pawn shop. The young Piazzolla fed his growing interest in classical music while becoming a prodigy on the instrument. In 1936, while he was still a teenager, the family returned to Argentina, and before he was 20 Piazzolla was already playing in Buenos Aires’ top-notch tango orchestra, led by Aníbal Troilo. Piazzolla acquired practical experience from countless nights in smoky clubs, but he already had a hankering for innovation — which proved to be a problem during this golden age of the cabaret tango. Its aficionados tended to be ultra-traditionalists, resistant to any tinkering with the now familiar formulas of tango

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culture (an irony, considering how dramatically the tango had evolved in just a few decades). Inevitably, Piazzolla stirred up resentment when he began experimenting with new tango hybrids. His approach was iconoclastic and gave birth to a revolutionary musical movement, dubbed nuevo tango, which borrowed elements from jazz and classical music (from the Baroque to contemporaries such as Stravinsky and Bartók). Nuevo tango had greater complexity in terms of rhythmic patterns, harmonic vocabulary and contrapuntal textures. Piazzolla also began exploring longer forms suggested by classical music, even including a tango opera, María de Buenos Aires. Moreover, he bypassed the sacrosanct instrumentation of the standard tango orchestra and added electric sounds to the acoustic mix. His favorite tango band setup was a quintet consisting of bandoneón, piano, violin, electric guitar and double bass. Buenos Aires - Tres Movimientos Sinfonicos, Op. 15 Piazzolla composed his Tres Movimientos Sinfonicos in 1951. Fabien Sevitzky conducted the premiere on August 16, 1953, in

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Buenos Aires. The score calls for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, campanelli [small bells], tambourine, bass drum, tam-tam, triangle, whip, snare drum, guiro, xylophone, 2 bandoneóns, piano/celesta, harp and strings. estimated length: 25 minutes Piazzolla said that Buenos Aires taught him the secrets of the tango. He learned these “in a cold room in a boarding house, in the cabarets in the 1940s, in the cafes with balconies and orchestras, in the people of yesterday and today, in the sounds of the streets.” But in addition he singled out two great teachers from the classical world: Nadia Boulanger and Alberto Ginastera. What he learned from Ginastera is particularly evident in the Tres Movimientos Sinfonicos. In 1941 Piazzolla began a period of five years of private study with Ginastera, who lived across town in Buenos Aires, on the recommendation of pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Ginastera, only five years older, would develop a reputation as one of Argentina’s leading 20thcentury composers. At the time, he seemed withdrawn and always dressed in black, looking “like a Protestant minister,” Piazzolla recalled, but the young musician was grateful that he learned more than technique from this teacher. Ginastera was a humanist who emphasized exposure across the arts — painting, literature, theater and film. “In those days,”

according to Piazzolla, “with the majority of my colleagues, I could only talk about soccer and gambling.” This is when Piazzolla began writing his most overtly classical pieces — on a parallel track with his tango orchestra pieces. This classical period culminated in Buenos Aires: Tres Movimientos Sinfonicos, which the composer also referred to as his Sinfonía Buenos Aires. Piazzolla’s score won a contest administered by Fabien Sevitzky (a nephew of Serge Koussevitzky and conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony), which provided a scholarship to study in France. Sevitzky flew to Buenos Aires to conduct the piece in August 1953. The audience included a small but vocal group of opponents who shouted disapproval, which Sevitzky found encouraging. “I have never seen such fistfights at a premiere,” the composer recalls him saying, “but relax, this is all publicity.” The three-movement symphonic triptych displays an impressive sense of confidence in wielding such a large ensemble. It begins with bold, brassy gestures that sound generic at first, but Piazzolla’s personality soon emerges in the tango rhythms and flourishes that become part of the fabric. His taste for surprising percussive effects also adds color. Although the musical argument is often episodic, fitfully changing topic, the imaginative interplay of textures bears out Piazzolla’s claim that Ginastera made orchestration “one of my strong points.” The second movement makes wonderful use of soloistic writing to paint its doleful moods. Piazzolla has clearly

picked up some lessons from the Russian classics, too: A delicious clarinet solo provides entrée to a tango-driven episode, which is then whipped into a frenzy of Tchaikovskian emotion. Another tempestuous climax features prolonged trills out of The Rite of Spring. The music returns to its sad, stepwise melody before Piazzolla concludes his symphonic vision of Buenos Aires with a Presto marcato of thrilling, fiery momentum. Here he is most successful at integrating the rhythmic elements that predominate in the work, bringing it to a close with a convincingly sustained climax. Yet such all-out symphonism turned out to be a dead end for Piazzolla. His year of study with Nadia Boulanger in 1954 led to an epiphany. Boulanger, the legendary composition teacher who mentored generations of musicians, from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass, knew only of her new student’s classical ambitions. She judged the pieces he had shown her well constructed but somehow disguising his true spirit. Piazzolla assumed his tanguero background would be dismissed as trivial. Quite the contrary. He played one of his tangos, “Triunfal,” for her on the piano. “When I had finished,” the composer recalls, “she said, ‘Astor, this is beautiful. Here is the true Piazzolla — do not ever leave him.’ It was the great revelation of my musical life.” Concierto para Bandoneón (“Aconcagua”) The Concerto for Bandoneón, written on a commission from the Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, dates from the end

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of 1979. Piazzolla performed the solo at the premiere in Buenos Aires, with an ad hoc orchestra conducted by Simon Blech. In addition to bandoneón, Piazzolla’s score calls for a small orchestra consisting of piano, harp, timpani, triangle, guiro, bass drum and strings. estimated length: 22 minutes Boulanger marked a turning point for Piazzolla. The validity of his creative engagement with the tango had been reaffirmed, and it became the basis for his subsequent classical efforts — rather than an element that had to be disguised by overstated classical rhetoric. The bandoneón represents Piazzolla as the protagonist in his own music, much as the piano did for Mozart or Beethoven. He cultivated a distinctive style of playing the instrument as a member of his famous quintet and other ensembles. In fact, even if he had never composed, he’d still be a tango legend on account of his interpretive powers, amply documented on recordings. (Piazzolla defied tradition by performing while standing, with one leg raised on a chair.) A member of the concertina family, the bandoneón betrays yet another of the tango’s paradoxes. It was invented in Germany in the first half of the 19th century as a humble squeezebox, a makeshift organ used for worship, but it eventually found its way to the Buenos Aires docks and brothels as part of the emerging tango culture. The bandoneón was more than a musical instrument for Piazzolla, who compared it to his psychoanalyst: “I start playing

and I blurt everything out.” He composed the Bandoneón Concerto during one of the most creatively exhilarating periods of his life. As with the “Moonlight” Sonata, the nickname “Aconcagua” is an invention by a party other than the composer — in this case, Piazzolla’s publisher, Aldo Pagani, who posthumously tacked the name on; it refers to the highest Andean peak. Piazzolla frequently played and recorded the piece, which embodies many of his characteristic devices. The score omits woodwinds and brass, creating an ideal balance for the soloist. The first movement begins with bold determination — a more mature refinement of the similar procedure launching the Tres Movimientos Sinfonicos. The ensemble writing is dramatic and neatly articulated. Piazzolla also makes space for intimate dalliances between the soloist and orchestra, and for elaborate cadenzas in the center, before the opening material returns. The central movement reveals Piazzolla — as composer and performer — at his most intimate, beginning with an extensive, soulful solo on the bandoneón emphasizing the lyrical intensity of which the tango is capable. The movement unfolds as introspective night music, with harp, solo violin and piano adding evocative touches. The finale begins as a bracing, breathless rondo but takes a surprise turn midway through. Suddenly, underscored by the guiro, the bandoneón begins to bawl a self-pitying monologue and then resolves into a stoic motif, convincing the ensemble to join in.

Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires) Piazzolla composed each of Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas separately, beginning with Summer in 1965 and concluding with Winter in 1970. This piece has appeared in countless arrangements by Piazzolla and others. In 1999 Leonid Desyatnikov made the arrangement we hear, in consultation with Gidon Kremer, for solo violin and string orchestra. estimated length: 25 minutes It’s not surprising that the linear counterpoint of Baroque music left its imprint on Piazzolla’s tango aesthetic. The jazz masters admired by Piazzolla were also influenced by aspects of the Baroque, and like his Baroque forebears, Piazzolla made multiple arrangements of the same piece of music. The first music he learned to play on bandoneón was that of Bach, which he learned from a Hungarian pianist in his neighborhood who had studied with none other than Rachmaninoff. Piazzolla wrote Las Cuatro Estaciones de Buenos Aires in separate installments in the late 1960s. Even after he put them together as a suite whose title referred to Vivaldi’s famous set of four concertos (themselves part of a larger cycle), that was just one of the many incarnations in which this music has appeared over the years. The composer started with Summer as a stand-alone piece, written overnight as theater music to accompany a play and

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configured for his five-piece tango quintet. The adjective porteño refers to “people of the port/harbor,” i.e., the people of Buenos Aires. Unlike Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, each of which is a three-movement violin concerto accompanied by descriptive sonnets, Piazzolla’s pieces are single tango movements that conjure states of mind. However, the posthumous arrangement we hear does indulge in a few more Vivaldi references. Most importantly, Leonid Desyatnikov reconfigured the music for solo violin; he also added explicit quotes in Summer and Winter, playfully alluding to the hemispheric difference, so that Buenos Aires’ Summer correctly corresponds to Vivaldi’s Italian Winter, and vice versa. The seasons may also be played in the order preferred. Autumn starts off with imitative percussion effects from the soloist and soon brings in the knife-edge glissando swoops that figure so prominently in Piazzolla’s tango style. An emotionally florid cadenza from the cello reminds us of the reflective state of mind so often associated autumn. A passing tutti gives way to another cadenza, this time from the violin, which rewrites the cello solo with its own more capricious meditations. An angry-sounding reprise of the opening brings a quick end. The emotional range Piazzolla uncovers in the tango is truly limitless. Winter begins in a somber mood. The violin’s cadenza here seeks to heat the music up with passion, which leads to an amorous duet with solo cello. Eventually, a full-on tango breaks out — almost as a

challenge, as music from Vivaldi’s Summer storm briefly rages in the background. More Baroque references close out this odd tango. Spring kicks off with a wonderfully fugal texture (the very idea of a “tango fugue” is, in a nutshell, typical of Piazzolla’s nuevo tango). The luxuriously lyrical middle episode mimics the function of the slow interior movement in a three-movement concerto grosso. Following this comes a reprise of the fugal opening spiced with Psycho-like dissonances. A similar shape is found in Summer, with delirious, languid excursions in the central episode. Concluding the cycle is a climax of intense frenzy — the tango as erotic duel. Maurice Ravel Born on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, France; died on December 28, 1937, in Paris Boléro Ravel composed Boléro in 1928 as a ballet commission. The first performance was given on November 22, 1928, at the Paris Opera, with Walther Straram conducting. The Nashville Symphony’s first performance was in April 1961; its most recent was in November 2001. Ravel scores the work for a large orchestra consisting of piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes (2nd doubling oboe d’amore), English horn, 2 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, piccolo trumpet, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 2 saxophones, timpani, snare drums, cymbals, tam-tam, celesta, harp and strings. estimated length: 14 minutes

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Preoccupation with the dance is a recurrent and unifying thread among Ravel’s compositions. Boléro dates from near the end of his career and, like several pieces that preceded it in his catalogue, began life as a ballet before it went on to become even more familiar in the concert hall — not to mention film scores, commercials and other areas of popular culture. Ravel was a master of transcription from piano to orchestra. Hoping to benefit from this gift, Ida Rubinstein — the star ballerina and beauty formerly with the Ballets Russes, who had struck out on her own — asked Ravel to orchestrate the Spanishthemed piano pieces Isaac Albéniz had written for his suite Iberia. He began the project, but when copyright complications got in the way, Ravel decided to write a new ballet from scratch. The simple scenario Rubinstein had in mind is reminiscent of Carmen: A female dancer in a Spanish tavern is cheered as she leaps onto a table and works the audience into a state of excitement with her performance. The composer’s mother was of Spanish heritage, and Ravel himself had used Spanish themes in several earlier works. For Boléro — as if to underline

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the stark simplicity of the ballet — he fixated on a basic rhythmic pattern, which consists of two measures in triple meter, at a moderate tempo. This is repeated by the snare drum throughout the piece (an effect known as ostinato because of its “obstinate” quality) and is one of the two repetitive elements around which Ravel structured his score. The other is the melody, which is laid out in two sections (both of them repeating) and unfolds sinuously, like a charmed snake. Throughout the piece, this melody is voiced by different instruments from Ravel’s unusually large orchestra, starting with a solo flute and passing from solo instruments to instrumental choirs. Two things about Ravel’s concept are especially radical. (Boléro even led to speculations that he had gone mad, although

it quickly achieved enormous popularity.) First is the monomania of the repetition, likened by some to a kind of pre-minimalism. Second is the complete absence of thematic development, which was a mainstay of the Western classical tradition. Yet the music, even while stuck in its C major groove, does seem to grow: Ravel structures the entire piece as a slowly building crescendo. Moreover, the constant shifting of tone colors against the rigid rhythmic tattoo generates a sense of tension that, at the climax, results in a sonic explosion. — Thomas May is the program annotator for the Nashville Symphony and writes regularly about music and theater. His books include Decoding Wagner and The John Adams Reader

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Giancarlo Guerrero, music director

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The Nashville Symphony’s 2009/10 season marks Giancarlo Guerrero’s first as music director of the Nashville Symphony.

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iancarlo Guerrero’s 09/10 season marks his first as music director of the Nashville Symphony. A champion of new music, Guerrero has collaborated with and conducted the music of several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty and Roberto Sierra. A new CD on Naxos of music by Michael Daugherty, with Guerrero conducting the Nashville Symphony, is scheduled for release in September 2009. Guerrero’s guest conducting engagements in the 09/10 season include appearances with the symphony orchestras of Milwaukee, New Jersey and Fort Worth; the Pacific Symphony in Costa Mesa; and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in Philadelphia. Abroad, he conducts the Symphony Orchestras of Vancouver and Edmonton in the fall and the Slovenian Philharmonic in the spring. As a guest conductor, Guerrero recently made two important debuts abroad: his European debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, where he was immediately invited to return, and his U.K. Debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has also recently made successful debuts with several major American orchestras, including the Baltimore Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra (where he was invited back for a subscription week and tour), the Seattle Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Other recent orchestral engagements in North America include appearances with the orchestras of Columbus, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Phoenix, San Antonio and San Diego; the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.; and at the Grant Park Festival. Also in demand in Central and South America, Guerrero conducts regularly in Venezuela with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, with which he has had a special relationship for many years. His debut at the Casals Festival with Yo-Yo Ma and the Puerto Rico Symphony in 2005 was followed by return engagements in 2006 and 2007. He also made his debut at the Teatro Colón in Argentina in 2005. Elsewhere, he is a regular guest conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand. Equally at home with opera, Guerrero works regularly with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera and in recent seasons has conducted new productions of Carmen, La bohème and most recently a new production of Rigoletto. In February 2008, he gave the Australian premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s one-act opera Ainadamar at the Adelaide Festival, to great acclaim. In June 2004, Guerrero was awarded the Helen M. Thompson Award by the League of American Orchestras, which recognizes outstanding achievement among young conductors nationwide. Guerrero holds degrees from Baylor and Northwestern universities. He was most recently music director of the Eugene Symphony. From 1999 to 2004, he served as associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra. Prior to his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra, he served as music director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.

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Conductors Albert-George Schram, resident conductor

Kelly Corcoran, assistant conductor

Albert-George Schram, a native of the Netherlands, has served as resident conductor of the Nashville Symphony since August 2005 and is concurrently staff conductor of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. He also holds regular guest-conducting Photo by Amy Dickerson positions with the Tucson Symphony and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. When the Nashville Symphony opened Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2006, Schram was invited to become the orchestra’s resident conductor. While he has conducted on all series the orchestra offers, Schram is primarily responsible for its Bank of America Pops Series. Maestro Schram’s longest tenure has been with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, where he has worked in a variety of capacities since 1979 and is an audience favorite for all series he conducts, including Pops and the CSO’s summer season. As a regular guest conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Schram in 2002 opened the orchestra’s new permanent summer home, Symphony Park. He has regularly conducted the Charlotte Symphony for nine consecutive years. In 2008 Maestro Schram was invited to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Bolivia in La Paz and the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. His other foreign conducting engagements have included the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the Taegu Symphony Orchestra in Korea, and the Orchester der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft Luzern in Switzerland. He has made return appearances to his native Holland to conduct the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Netherlands Broadcast Orchestra. Schram’s studies have been largely in the European tradition under the tutelage of Franco Ferrara, Rafael Kubelik, Abraham Kaplan and Neeme Järvi. He received the majority of his initial training at the Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands. His training was completed at the University of Washington.

The 2009/10 season marks Kelly Corcoran’s third season as assistant conductor of the Nashville Symphony. During this time, she has conducted a variety of programs, including the Symphony’s SunTrust Classical Series and Bank of America Photo by Amy Dickerson Pops Series, and has served as the primary conductor for the orchestra’s education and community engagement concerts. She also conducted the Nashville Symphony’s recent CD with Riders In The Sky, ‘Lassoed Live’ at the Schermerhorn. Corcoran debuts this season with the Naples (Fla.) Philharmonic, the Charlotte Symphony and the Memphis Symphony. She has conducted orchestras throughout the country, including the Detroit Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, she made her South American debut as a guest conductor with the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. She has developed a reputation for exciting, energized performances. The Tennessean hailed her work on the podium as “lively” and “fresh.” Named as Honorable Mention for the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, Corcoran conducted the Bournemouth (UK) Symphony in January 2008 and 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 selective National Conducting Institute, where she studied with her mentor, Leonard Slatkin. She has held additional posts as assistant music director of the Nashville Opera and founder/music director of the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra. Originally from Massachusetts and a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for 10 years, Corcoran received her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from The Boston Conservatory. She received her Master of Music in instrumental conducting from Indiana University. She currently serves on the conducting faculty at Tennessee State University. NOVEMBER

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Conductors George Mabry, chorus director and conductor George Mabry, who has directed the Nashville Symphony Chorus since 1998, is Professor Emeritus of Music at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville. He served as Director of its Center for the Creative Arts and Director of Choral Activities at the university until his retirement in 2003. While at Austin Peay, Mabry’s choirs performed for national and regional conventions of the Music Educators National Conference and the American Choral Directors Association. A native Tennessean, Mabry holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Florida State University and Master of Music and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from George Peabody College for Teachers at Vanderbilt University. Mabry is active as a choral clinician and festival adjudicator. He has conducted All-State choirs in Kentucky and Virginia. Mabry is also a published composer and arranger. In addition to his choral and instrumental compositions, he has written and produced musical shows for entertainment parks around the country. He was formerly Director of Entertainment for Opryland U.S.A. in Nashville. In 2003, he received the Governor’s Award in the Arts for Arts Leadership in BlairPAM_ad:Layout 1 6/25/09 10:03 AM Academy. Page 1 Tennessee and the Spirit of Tennessee Award from the Tennessee Arts

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Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero Music Director

Albert-George Schram Resident Conductor

First Violins* Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, Concertmaster Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair Gerald C. Greer, Associate Concertmaster Erin Hall, Assistant Concertmaster Denise Baker Kristi Seehafer John Maple Deidre Fominaya Bacco Alison Gooding Paul Tobias Beverly Drukker Anna Lisa Hoepfinger Kirsten Mitchell Erin Long Isabel Bartles second Violins* Carolyn Wann Bailey, Principal Zeneba Bowers, Assistant Principal Jeremy Williams Laura Ross Louise Morrison Kenneth Barnd Benjamin Lloyd Lisa Thrall Rebecca Cole Rebecca J Willie Radu Georgescu Jessica Blackwell Keiko Nagayoshi+ violas* Daniel Reinker, Principal Shu-Zheng Yang, Assistant Principal Judith Ablon Bruce Christensen Michelle Lackey Collins Christopher Farrell Mary Helen Law Rebecca Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Boyle Melinda Whitley Clare Yang

Kelly Corcoran Assistant Conductor

cellos* Anthony LaMarchina, Principal Julia Tanner, Assistant Principal James Victor Miller Chair Bradley Mansell Lynn Marie Peithman Stephen Drake Michael Samis Matthew Walker Christopher Stenstrom Keith Nicholas Xiao-Fan Zhang basses* Joel Reist, Principal Glen Wanner, Assistant Principal Elizabeth Stewart Gary Lawrence, Principal Emeritus Kristen Bruya Tim Pearson flutes Erik Gratton, Principal Anne Potter Wilson Chair Ann Richards, Assistant Principal Norma Grobman Rogers piccolo Norma Grobman Rogers oboes Bobby Taylor, Principal Ellen Menking, Assistant Principal Roger Wiesmeyer english horn Roger Wiesmeyer clarinets James Zimmermann, Principal Cassandra Lee, Assistant Principal Daniel Lochrie

George L. Mabry Chorus Director

e-flat clarinet Cassandra Lee, Assistant Principal

timpani William G. Wiggins, Principal

bass clarinet Daniel Lochrie

percussion Sam Bacco, Principal Richard Graber, Assistant Principal

bassoons Cynthia Estill, Principal Dawn Hartley, Assistant Principal Gil Perel contra bassoon Gil Perel horns Leslie Norton, Principal Beth Beeson Joy Worland,+ Associate Principal Radu V. Rusu, Assistant 1st Horn Hunter Sholar trumpets Patrick Kunkee, Co-Principal Jeffrey Bailey, Co-Principal Gary Armstrong, Assistant Principal trombones Lawrence L. Borden, Principal Susan K. Smith, Assistant Principal bass trombone Steven Brown tuba Gilbert Long, Principal

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harp Licia Jaskunas, Principal keyboard Robert Marler, Acting Principal librarians D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian orchestra personnel manager Anne Dickson Rogers Carrie Marcantonio, Assistant

*Section seating revolves +Leave of Absence

The Nashville Symphony would like to acknowledge generous contributions that have made the following fine instruments available to our musicians: Daniel Reinker plays a Grancino viola, circa 1698. Anthony LaMarchina plays a Goffriller cello, circa 1700.

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Board of Directors

2009/10 BOARD OF DIRECTORS James C. Gooch Board Chair

Officers James C. Gooch, Board Chair Robert E. McNeilly III, Board Chair-Elect Lee A. Beaman, Immediate Past Board Chair John T. Rochford, Board Vice Chair Julie G. Boehm, Board Secretary David Williams II, Board Treasurer Directors Alan D. Valentine* President and CEO Janet Ayers Julian B. Baker Jr. Russell W. Bates Scott Becker James L. Beckner Rob Bironas Jack O. Bovender Jr. William H. Braddy III, CFP Anastasia Brown Virginia Byrn Pamela L. Carter Ramon Cisneros Dawn Cole** Michelle Lackey Collins* Greg Daily 68

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Marty G. Dickens David Steele Ewing John Ferguson Judy Foster* John Gawaluck Edward Goodrich Amy Grant Gerald C. Greer* Carl Grimstad Francis S. Guess Kathleen R. Guion Billy Ray Hearn C. Keith Herron Dan W. Hogan Martha R. Ingram Lee Ann Ingram Clay Jackson Harry R. Jacobson Ruth E. Johnson Elliott W. Jones Larry J. Larkin Kevin P. Lavender Zachary Liff Robert S. Lipman Daniel Lochrie* Donald M. MacLeod Richard Maradik Jr. Ellen Harrison Martin* Robert A. McCabe Jr. Eduardo Minardi Gregory Morton Hal N. Pennington Pamela K. Pfeffer 2009

Joseph K. Presley Charles Pruett Wayne J. Riley Doyle Rippee Norma Rogers* Anne L. Russell* Kristi Seehafer* Mark Silverman Beverly K. Small Patti Smallwood Wyatt Smith** Stephen Sparks* Christopher Stenstrom* Howard Stringer Bruce D. Sullivan Louis B. Todd Jay Turner Steve Turner David T. Vandewater Johnna Watson William Wiggins* Sadhna V. Williams* Jeremy Williams* Betsy Wills William M. Wilson Clare Yang* Derek Young Shirley Zeitlin *Indicates Ex Officio **Indicates Young Leaders Council Intern

Staff

2009/10 Nashville Symphony Staff Alan D. Valentine President and CEO

Executive Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO Laura Faust, Executive Assistant to President and CEO Mark A. Blakeman, V.P. of Orchestra and Building Operations and General Manager Sarah Jones, Assistant to the V.P. of Orchestra and Building Operations Michael Kirby, V.P. of Finance and Administration and CFO Mitchell Korn, V.P. of Education and Community Engagement Jim Mancuso, V.P. of Artistic Administration Jonathan Norris, SPHR, V.P. of Human Resources Susan W. Plageman, CFRE, V.P. of External Affairs Emmaline McLeod, Assistant to the V.P. of External Affairs Annual Campaign Stacy Eaton-Carter, CFRE, Director of Annual Campaign Charles Stewart, Corporate Relations Manager Maribeth Stahl, Sponsorship Coordinator Kathleen McCracken, Annual Campaign Coordinator Joel Rice, Annual Campaign Coordinator Artistic Administration Tanya Davis, Manager of Artistic Administration Valerie Pullen, Artistic Administration Assistant Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator Box Office/Ticketing Kimberly Darlington, Director of Ticket Services Rodney Irvin, Assistant Director of Ticket Services Meaghan Callahan, Ticket Services Specialist Tina Messer, Ticket Services Specialist Missy Hubner, Ticket Services Assistant

Communications Alan Bostick, Sr. Director of Communications Jared Morrison, Website and Multimedia Manager Jonathan Marx, Publications Manager Mark McCormack, Public Relations Associate Barbara Hoffman, Archivist and Historian Data Standards Kent Henderson, Director of Data Standards Sheila Wilson, Sr. Database Associate Mark McCormack, Database Associate Grant Cooksey, Patron Services Analyst Education Michelle Lin, Education and Community Engagement Manager Sara Trikalsaransukh, Education and Community Engagement Assistant Event Services Ellen Baum Hollis, Director of Event Services Allison Huber, Event Services Manager Heather Martin, Event Services Manager Bruce Pittman, Catering Manager Lori Scholl, Event Services Assistant Ellen Kasperek, House Manager Finance Karen Warren, Controller Mildred Payne, Accounts Payable and Payroll Manager Sheri Switzer, Food and Beverage Accountant Steven McNeal, Finance Assistant Debra Hollenbeck, Buyer/Retail Manager Food & Beverage Steve Perdue, Director of Food and Beverage Roger Keenan, Executive Chef David Bolton, Sous Chef

Lacy Lusebrink, Food and Beverage Manager Angela Gutheridge, Food and Beverage Supervisor Sherman Hughes, Banquet Captain Anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager Jody Sweet, Beverage Manager Human Resources Ashley Skinner, Human Resources Generalist Martha Bryant, Receptionist-Office Assistant I.T. Greg Thomas, Director of Information Technology Andrew Grady, Software Applications Administrator Maren Smith, Technical Support Specialist Marketing Ronda Combs Helton, Sr. Director of Marketing Becca Hadzor, Graphic Designer Misty Cochran, Advertising and Promotions Manager Emily Shannon, Group Sales Specialist Production and Orchestra Operations Tim Lynch, Sr. Director of Operations Anne Dickson Rogers, Orchestra Personnel Manager Carrie Marcantonio, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal Librarian Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian John Sanders, Chief Technical Engineer Brian Doane, Production Manager Gary Call, Audio Engineer Marc Estrin, Audio Engineer W. Paul Holt, Stage Manager Patron Services Kristen Oliver, Director of Patron Services Michael Backes, Patron Services Specialist NOVEMBER

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Applause

Annual Fund Individuals

Beth Sharp, Jim McFadden, Deela Camage, Karen Jonkman

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 September 30, 2009.

Virtuoso Society Gifts of $10,000+ Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. Lee A. Beaman Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Richard & Judith Bracken Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick Janine & Ben Cundiff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Curb Martin Brown Family Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Greg & Collie Daily Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero

Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hayes Mr. & Mrs. John Ingram Mrs. Martha R. Ingram Robin & Bill King The Martin Foundation Ellen Harrison Martin Mr. & Mrs. Clayton McWhorter The Melkus Family Foundation Andrew Woodfin Miller Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Cano Ozgener Ragsdale Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter

Carol & John T. Rochford Anne & Joe Russell David Sampsell Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III Mr. & Mrs. Rusty Siebert Maestro Leonard Slatkin & Ms. Linda Hohenfeld Barbara & Les Speyer Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Sullivan Margaret & Cal Turner Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson Mr. & Mrs. William M. Wilson

Stradivarius Society Gifts of $5,000+ Anonymous (1) Mr. James Ayers J. B. & Carylon Baker Russell W. Bates Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bottorff Pamela & Michael Carter Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Chasanoff Kelly & Bill Christie Hilton & Sallie Dean Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis Marty & Betty Dickens Alan & Linda Dopp Mike & Carolyn Edwards The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Marilyn & Bill Ezell Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Frist Jr.

Allis Dale & John Gillmor James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Mrs. Landis B. Gullett Mrs. Harold Hassenfeld Jim Hastings Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Helen & Neil Hemphill Mr. & Mrs. V. Davis Hunt Mr. & Mrs. David B. Ingram Lee Ann & Orrin Ingram Gordon & Shaun Inman Keith & Nancy Johnson Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Mr. & Mrs. Brad M. Kelley

Christine Konradi & Stephan Heckers Ralph & Donna Korpman Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby Karen & Jim Lewis Mr. Zachary B. Liff Robert Straus Lipman Clare & Samuel Loventhal Mrs. Jack Carroll Massey Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Richard & Sharalena Miller Christopher & Patricia Mixon Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Patton Hal & Peggy Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer

Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett The Roros Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus Mary Ruth & Bob Shell Nelson & Sheila Shields Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Jay Steere Earl & Sue Swensson Robert & Regina Swope Dominique Thormann Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. The Vandewater Family Foundation Peggy & John Warner Mr. & Mrs. Ted H. Welch David & Gail Williams Shirley Zeitlin Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth

Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques Norm & Barb Johnson Thomas & Darlene Klaritch Anne Knauff Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. Kevin P. & May Lavender John T. Lewis Gina & Dick Lodge Frances & Eugene Lotochinski F. Max & Mary A. Merrell Edward D. & Linda F. Miles Anne & Peter Neff

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Dr. Terryl A. Propper Eric Raefsky, M.D. & Ms. Victoria Heil Anne & Charles Roos Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Scott Ronald & Diane Shafer Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small Dr. Michael & Tracy Stadnick Pamela & Steven Taylor Dr. John B. Thomison Charles Hampton White Stacy Widelitz

Golden Baton Society Gifts of $2,500+ Anonymous (1) Clint & Kali Adams Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Shelley Alexander Allison & John Beasley Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup Julie & Dr. Frank Boehm Dr. & Mrs. H. Victor Braren Mr. & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III LifeWorks Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Harold J. Castner Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr.

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Richard & Kathy Cooper Mr. & Mrs. James H. Costner Carroll & Dell Crosslin Barbara & Willie K. Davis Dee & Jerald Doochin Patrick & Kitty Moon Emery Jere & Linda Ervin Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind Bob & Judy Fisher Harris A. Gilbert Carl & Connie Haley Suzy Heer Robert & Ann Howe Hilton

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Clark Spoden, Norah Buikstra Conductor’s Circle Gifts of $1,500+ Anonymous (7) James & Martha Ackerman James & Glyna Aderhold Rick & Alice Arnemann Dr. & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr. Barbara & Mike Barton Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Bernice Amanda Belue Barbara Bennett & Peter Miller Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Blakeman Dennis & Tammy Boehms Mr. & Mrs. C. Dent Bostick Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells Vic Briggs & Family Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Mr. & Mrs. Tony E. Brown Ann & Frank Bumstead

Drs. Leslie & Keith Churchwell Betty & Lonnie Burnett Chuck & Sandra Cagle Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Brenda & Edward Callis Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Ann & Sykes Cargile Fred Cassetty Barbara & Eric Chazen Sigourney & Jim Cheek Renée A. Chevalier Mr. & Mrs. John J. Chiarmonte Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher Drs. Keith & Leslie Churchwell Mr. & Mrs. David F. Clark Mr. & Mrs. John M. Clark Mr. & Mrs. John W. Clay Jr. Mr. & Mrs. G. William Coble II Mr. & Mrs. Neely B. Coble III Dorit & Don Cochron Esther & Roger Cohn

Jennie Smith, James Gooch, Jim & Sigourney Cheek

Chase Cole Marjorie & Allen Collins Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Cook III Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan Robert C. Crosby Mary & Jim Crossman Kimberly L. Darlington John & Natasha Deane The Rev. Canon & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Devlin Cindi & David Dingler Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden E.B.S. Foundation Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Robert Eisenstein David Ellis & Barry Wilker Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Dr. Neil Price & Nancy M. Falls John & Carole Ferguson

T. Aldrich Finegan John David & Mary Dale Trabue Fitzgerald John & Cindy Watson Ford Chloe Fort Tom & Judy Foster Danna & Bill Francis William H. & Babs Freeman Ann D. Frisch Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Larry & Felicia Gates John & Lorelee Gawaluck Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III Frank Ginanni Ed & Nancy Goodrich Tony & Teri Gosse Kate R. W. Grayken Francis S. Guess Kathleen & Harvey Guion

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Mr. & Mrs. Arthur S. Hancock Dr. & Mrs.* Edward Hantel Jay & Stephanie Hardcastle Mr. & Mrs. Tom Harrington Kay & Karl Haury Bill & Robin Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Philip & Amber Hertik Mr. Austin Hill Lucia & Don Hillenmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey N. Hinson Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Judith Hodges Mr. & Mrs. Dan W. Hogan Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Linda & Doug Howard Donna & Ronn Huff Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Judith & Jim Humphreys Marsha & Keel Hunt Bud Ireland Donald L. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Adam W. James Louis Johnson M.D. Mary Evelyn & Clark Jones Jan Jones & Steve Williams Mr. & Mrs. Russell A. Jones Jr. Richard Kephart Mr. & Mrs. Bill G. Kilpatrick Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Kirby The Kirkland Foundation/ Chris & Beth Kirkland Mr. Richard B. Kloete William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Bob & Mary LaGrone Larry & Martha Larkin Jon & Elaine Levine Sally M. Levine Drs. Thomas J. & Lee E. Limbird Dr. & Mrs. Scott Little Robert A. Livingston Donald M. & Kala W. MacLeod Mr. & Mrs. Richard Maradik Shari & Red Martin Sheila & Richard McCarty Scott & Jennifer McClellan Tommy McEwen Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. McRae III

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Nancy & Bob Arnett Dr. Arthur M. Mellor Don & Carolyn Midgett Dr. & Mrs. F. Michael Minch Mr. & Mrs. William T. Minkoff Jr. Ms. Lucy H. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Leonard B. Murray Jr. Lannie W. Neal Mr. & Mrs. F.I. Nebhut Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John C. Neff Ms. Agatha L. Nolen Representative & Mrs. Gary L. Odom Patricia J. Olsen Michelle Boucher & Bob Palardy Ms. Mary E. Pinkston David & Adrienne Piston Susan & Bob Plageman Judith & John Poindexter Charles H. Potter Jr. William W. & Julie C. Pursell Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Carol & Neil Rasmussen III Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Raths Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Mr. & Mrs. David H. Richmond Drs. Wayne & Charlene Riley Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Roberts Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation Charles & Jean Robison James & Patricia Russell Mr. & Mrs. John J. Sangervasi Dr. Norman Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Deborah & Albert-George Schram Dr. & Mrs. John Selby Max & Michelle Shaff Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Mark Silverman Mr. & Mrs. Martin Simmons Susan & Luke Simons William & Cyndi Sites Joanne & Gary Slaughter Drs. Walter Smalley & Louise Hanson Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood Ms. Jennifer L. Smith Suzanne & Grant Smothers K. C. & Mary Smythe Jack & Louise Spann Mickey & Kathleen Sparkman Dan & Cynthia Spengler Michael & Grace Sposato

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Richard & Kathy Cooper

Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell Mr. & Mrs. John Stein Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III Ann & Bob Street Mr. & Mrs. William S. Stuard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Keith Summar Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor Rev. & Mrs. Tim Taylor Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Dr. & Mrs. C. S. Thomas Jr. Candy Toler Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Christi & Jay Turner Jenna Milam Unutmaz Alan D. & Connie F. Valentine Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund Kris & G. G. Waggoner Deborah & Mark Wait Mrs. W. Miles Warfield Mr. & Mrs. Martin H. Warren Bill & Ruth Wassynger Robert & Michelle Way Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. B. Wheelock David W. White Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White Mr. Donald E. Williams Judy S. Williams Sadhna & Jim Williams Shane & Laura Willmon Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills III Ms. Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Mr. & Mrs. John R. Wingo Rev. Donald Orin* & Janet B. Wiseman Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Robert L. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Samuel C. Yeager Encore Circle Gifts of $1,000+ Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Andrews Jr. Mark & Niki Antonini Mr. & Mrs. Jon K. Atwood Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Mrs. Brenda Bass Betty C. Bellamy

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey K. Belser Dr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Biller Alan & Katherine Bostick Jean & David Buchanan Dr. & Mrs. Robert Burcham John E. Cain III Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III Anita & Larry Cash Erica & Doug Chappell Mrs. John H. Cheek Jr. Ed & Pat Cole Mr. & Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Mr. & Mrs. Joe C. Cook Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Lindsey W. Cooper Sr. Mrs. Andrea Pace Cope James L. & Sharon H. Cox Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Dale III Stephen Drake Mr. & Mrs. Mike Dye Mr. & Mrs. John W. Eakin Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. David Ewing & Alice Randall Mr. & Mrs. DeWitt Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild Mr. & Mrs. Gene Fleming Lois & Gilbert Fox Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Frist Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Gould Mr. & Mrs. William M. Gracey Mr. & Mrs. Christopher C. Guerin Dr. Charlene Harb Mrs. Charles Hawkins III Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Mr. James L. Horne III Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson Victor Johnson Foundation Ruth E. Johnson George & Shirley Johnston Mr. & Mrs. William S. Jones Thomas J. & Sally J. Killian Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce Mitchell Korn Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lea IV Mrs. Ken Lester Dr. & Mrs. T. A. Lincoln Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Lind Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lipman Tim Lynch

James Mancuso Mr. & Mrs. Stephen S. Mathews Lynn & Jack May Jim & Judi McCaslin Kevin P. & Deborah A. McDermott Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. McNeilly III Jim & Glenda Milliken Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli Ann & Denis O’Day Richard & Inka Odom Mr. & Mrs. William C. O’Neil Jr. Alex S. Palmer Dr. & Mrs. W. Faxon Payne Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Prill John & Tracy Rankin Mr. & Mrs. David Rawlings John & Nancy Roberts Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins Georgianna W. Russell Dr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Shack Nita & Mike Shea Bill & Sharon Sheriff Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Singleton Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Small Julie & George Stadler Hope & Howard Stringer Fridolin & Johanna Sulser James B. & Patricia B. Swan Joe & Ellen Torrence Dr. & Mrs. Alexander S. Townes Bill & Cathy Turner Michael & Kari Waggoner Elaine & Mike Walker

William G. Wiggins & Gay Hollins-Wiggins Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Williams ConcertMaster Gifts of $500+ Anonymous (11) Gerald Adams Jeff & Tina Adams Mr. & Mrs. James B. Alcott Mr. & Mrs. David G. Anderson Jeremy & Rebecca Atack Don & Beverly Atwood James E. & Judith M. Auer Mr. & Mrs. Brian C. Austin Jeff & Carrie Bailey Mr. & Mrs. John H. Bailey III Ms. Peggy S. Mayo Bailey Virginia Bain Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Bainbridge Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Ms. Katrin Bean Tom & Marilynn Benim Mike & Kathy Benson Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Black Ralph & Jane Black Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dr. & Mrs. Marion Bolin Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Jeff & Jeanne Bradford Joseph & Bethany Bradford

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Mr. Keith Brent Berry & Connie Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Brown H. Carey Brown Mr. & Mrs. James A. Brown Gene & Jamie Burton John & LuAnnette Butler Virginia Byrn Mr. & Mrs. Cabot J. & Angelia Cameron Mike & Linda Carlson James T. & Ruth A. Carroll Mr. & Mrs. D. Michael Carter Mr. & Mrs. John L. Chambers M. Wayne Chomik Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Mr. & Mrs. M. Thomas Collins Charles J. Conrick III Marion Pickering Couch Richard & Marcia Cowan Janice Crumpacker Buddy & Sandra Curnutt Mr. Dan Daley Carolyn & Jim Darke Julian & Alma de la Guardia M. Maitland DeLand, M.D. Sandra & Daryl Demonbreun Mrs. Edwin DeMoss Mark & Barbara Dentz Mr. & Mrs. Arthur DeVooght George deZevallos

Dr. Alan W. Dow II Tere & David Dowland Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Dr.* & Mrs. Lloyd C. Elam Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Michael & Jeannine Engel Robert & Cassandra Estes Dr. & Mrs. John H. Exton Dr. & Mrs. Roy C. Ezell Toni & Jim Foglesong Randy & Melanie Ford Patrick & Kimberly Forrest Mr. & Mrs. David B. Foutch Ms. Elizabeth A. Franks Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Frye Mrs. Jeanne K. Gardiner Drs. G. Waldon & Renee Garriss Kathy & Marbut Gaston Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Mr. & Mrs. H. Steven George Jennifer George Ted M. George Bryan D. Graves Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Green Mr. Thomas A. Greene Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin Mr. James H. Griggs Dr. & Mrs. W. H. Hackman Mr. & Mrs. J. Todd Hagely Mr. & Mrs. Elden Hale Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hamilton Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Hanselman

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Dr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hardy H. Clay & Mary Harkleroad Kent & Becky Harrell Sue Ann & John Hart Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hartzog Janet & Jim Hasson Lisa & Bill Headley Ronda & Hank Helton Kent & Melinda Henderson Keith & Kelly Herron John Reginald Hill Mr. & Mrs. Bill Hodde Dr. George W. Holcomb Jr. Vicki & Rick Holton Ray Houston Margie & Nick Hunter Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Scott & Amy Jacky Dr. Robert Cameron Jamieson Lee & Pat Jennings Bob & Virginia Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Samuel L. Johnson Mr. Regi Jones Sarah & Walter Lee Jordan Bill & Susan Joy Mrs. Robert N. Joyner Dr. Barbara F. Kaczmarska Drs. Spyros Kalams & Lisa Mendes Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kanak Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane Marion & Peter Katz Mr. & Mrs. Christopher P. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. James Kelso Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy John & Eleanor Kennedy Jane Kersten Jerry & Bonnie Knapper Dale & Jim Knight Ms. Janet Kurtz & Mr. Ronald Gobbell Dr. & Mrs. John William Lamb Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Paul & Dana Latour Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Drs. Walter & Shannon Little The Howard Littlejohn Family Drs. Amy & George Lynch Jeffrey C. Lynch Drs. George & Sharon Mabry James & Jene Manning James & Patricia Martineau Robert P. Maynard Mr. & Mrs. J. David McClain Mr. & Mrs. Ken P. McDonald

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Dr. & Mrs. James B. McKee Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Miles II Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. Jere Mitchum Beth & Paul Moore Cynthia & Richard Morin Steve & Laura Morris Margaret & David Moss Cliff Myles, M.D. Lucille C. Nabors Larry & Marsha Nager Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Neal Ruth & Roger Neal Joyce & Robert Ness Jane K. Norris Jonathan R. Norris & Jennifer L. Carlat Virginia O’Brien D. Wilson Ochoa Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr. David & Pamela Palmer Terry & Wanda Palus Mr. & Mrs. M. Forrest Parmley John W. & Mary Patterson Dr. & Mrs. Joel Q. Peavyhouse Mr. & Mrs. John S. Perry Linda & Carter Philips Drs. Sherre & Daniel Phillips Faris & Bob Phillips Dr. & Mrs. James L. Potts George & Joyce Pust Dr. James Quiggins Ray & Ruth Randolph Dr. Philip & Mrs. Deborah Rosenthal Dr. & Mrs. Mace Rothenberg Mr. & Mrs. Edmund P. Routon Ms. Jo Rutherford Mr. & Mrs. Dick Sammer John R. Sanders Jr. Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson Philip & Jane Sanderson Ruble & Brenda Sanderson Paula & Kent Sandidge Dr. Samuel A. Santoro & Dr. Mary M. Zutter Nancy & Alan* Saturn Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul Deborah & Paul Schertz Don Schlitz Pam & Roland Schneller Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle

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Anna W. Roe & Kenneth E. Schriver Mr. & Mrs. Julian Scruggs Ms. Patricia B. Selle Odessa L. Settles Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Sharbel Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Pamela Sixfin Charles R. & Vernita Hood-Smith Smith Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith Richard & Molly Dale Smith Drs. Robert M. Smith & Barbara K. Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Ms. Maggie P. Speight Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Christopher & Maribeth Stahl Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Gloria & Paul Sternberg Lana & Jerry Stewart Dr. & Mrs. William R. Stewart Mr. Russell P. Stover Jean Stumpf James & Becky Summar Dianne & Craig Sussman Norman & Marilyn Tolk Larry & Gigi Tomich Martha J. Trammell Mr. & Mrs. James M. Usdan Dr. F. Karl VanDevender Mr. & Mrs. Gay E. Vick III John & Ann Waddle Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner Kay & Larry Wallace Dr. & Mrs. John J. Warner Talmage M. Watts Dr. Medford S. Webster Beth & Arville Wheeler Dr. & Mrs. William Whetsell Harvey & Joyce White Adam & Laura Wilczek Mr. Craig P. Williams Gary & Cathy Wilson Elizabeth R. Witsil* Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wood Sr. Chancellor & Mrs. Joe B. Wyatt Pam & Tom Wylly Mr. & Mrs. Julian Zander Jr. Dr. Michael Zanolli & Julie K. Sandine Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Zelle Roy & Ambra Zent

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Mr. Jere T. Brassell Henry & Linda Cato Brendle Dr. & Mrs. Phillip Bressman Miss Sandra J. Brien Betty & Bob Brodie Kathy & Bill Brosius Burnece Walker Brunson Eileen Tomson Bryan & Betty Tomson John & Karyn Bryant Linda & Jack Burch Vira Burcham Sharon Lee Butcher Mr. & Mrs. David G. Buttrick Geraldine & Wilson Butts Mrs. Julia C. Callaway Mrs. Bratschi Campbell Patricia & Winder Campbell Mr. Gary Canaday Charles & Vicki Carlisle Karen Carr Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Carter Kent Cathcart Dr. Elizabeth Cato Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Cavarra Martin & Mitzi Cerjan Mr. & Mrs. John P. Chaballa Evelyn L. Chandler Marti & Fred Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Dean F. Chase Gladys M. Chatman Ernest & Carolyn Cheek Catherine Chitwood Ms. Dorothy H. Chitwood Ms. Celita Christman

Neil Christy & Emily Freeman Mr. George D. Clark Jr. Mr. T. Henry Clark & Ms. Betty C. Nixon Mr. & Mrs. Roy E. Claverie Sr. David & Sallylou Cloyd Mr. & Mrs. Wiley B. Coley Ms. Peggy B. Colson Bill & Peg Connor Ms. Sheila M. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Paul Cooke Charley & Arlene Cooper Dr. Jackie Corbin & Jan Gressman Elizabeth Cormier David & Sally Costello Joseph P. Cowden Mr. & Mrs. Rob Crichton R. Barry & Kathy Cullen Katherine C. Daniel Andrew Daughety & Jennifer Reinganum Calvin & Elizabeth Davidson Janet Keese Davies Adelaide S. Davis Joan & Mac Davis Jr. Robert & Leriel Davis Dr. & Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Mr. Lamont Dennis Mr. & Mrs. J. William Denny Ann Deol Dr. Jayant Deshpande & Ms. Patricia Scott Ann & Grady Devan Dory deZevallos

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Roger & Sherri Gray Ms. Jane H. Greene Mrs. Grace G. Grissom Steve & Anna Grizzle Mary Beth & Raul Guzman John & Susan Hainsworth Ms. Leigh Ann Hale Renée & Tony Halterlein Mr. & Mrs. Harry M. Hanna Mr. Eric B. Hardesty Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Hardison Jr. Frank & Liana Harrell Mrs. Edith Harris Lawrence Harris Dickie & Joyce Harris Dr. Troy Harris Mr. James S. Hartman Dr. Morel Enoch & Mr. E. Howard Harvey David & Judith Slayden Hayes Judy & Bob Haynes Dr. & Mrs. James A. Hefner Drs. Dila Vuksanaj* & Jacques Heibig Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Hellerson Ms. Doris Ann Hendrix Ernest & Nancy Henegar Jack & Shirley Henry Dr. Casilda I. Hermo Ms. Donna Hill Dr. & Mrs. George A. Hill Mr. David Hilley Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilmer Mr. Wayne E. Hilton Sam & Melanie Hirt

Anna Lisa Hoepfinger Mr. & Mrs. Don Hofe Aurelia L. Holden Dr. Nancy D. Holland Mr. & Mrs. John J. Hollins Sr. Jung Ja Hong Drs. Richard T. & Paula C. Hoos Dr. Cherry L. Houston Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious Ken & Mallory Howell Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Howser Louis & Lyn Hoyt Dr. Jason R. Hubbard Bill Hudgins Dr. & Mrs. Louis C. Huesmann II Charlesetta Gillis-Hughes Mr. & Mrs. William E. Hughes Kathryn & Mike Hulsey Gail Hyatt Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Irby Sr. Dr. & Mrs. Roger W. Ireson Rodney & Kim Irvin Mr. & Mrs. Van T. Irwin Jr. Dr. & Mrs. G. Whit James Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Javorcky Mr. & Mrs. James M. Joers Joyce E. Johnson Pres. Melvin N. Johnson & Dr. Marcy N. Johnson Donald & Catherine Joiner Patricia & David Jones Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Lee Jones Mary L. Jones Malinda Jones* Sarah Rose Jones

Vic Lineweaver Joanne L. Linn, M.D. Debra S. & Keltner W. Locke Ms. Pamela London Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Looney Mr. & Mrs. David L. Loucky Mr. & Mrs. Denis Lovell Thomas H. Loventhal Mr. & Mrs. James C. Lundy Jr. Mr. Raymond A. Lynch Patrick & Betty Lynch Sharron Lyon Ms. Francine K. Maas Dr. & Mrs. Joe M. MacCurdy Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James R. Mahurin Helga & Andrea Maneschi Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Manno Beverly Darnall Mansfield Mimi & Scott Manzler Mr. Kenneth B. Marcom* Mr. & Mrs. David Marcus Mr. William Marrero Tony & Sharan Martin Jean W. Martin Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Mason Herbert & Sue Mather Lynn & Paul Matrisian Cynthia Clark Matthews Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Russell McAdoo Mr. & Mrs. John D. McAlister Mrs. Joanne Wallace McCall Tom & Marcia McCarthy Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. McCarty

Jack & Joan Jordan Ms. Rita K. Jorgensen Ray & Rosemarie Kalil Dr. & Mrs. Herman J. Kaplan Cornelia S. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Kenworthy Jeffrey & Layle Kenyon Edward & Eunice Kern Robert Kerns Jim & Liz Kershaw Mr. Brock Kidd Mr. & Mrs. Carrol D. Kilgore Vera C. King Frank & Jane Kirchner Judy & David Kolzow Sanford & Sandra Krantz Neil Krugman Tim Kyne Mr. Daniel L. LaFevor Dr. & Mrs. David G. Lalka Mrs. Betty S. Lamar Edd & Nancy Lancaster Richard & Diane Larsen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Mrs. Douglas E. Leach Rob & Julia Ledyard Choo & Karensa Lee J. Mark Lee Gregory M. Lehman Richard & Deborah Lehrer Michael & Ellen Levitt Rosalyn Lewis Marty & Ronald S. Ligon Burk & Caroline Lindsey Mr. & Mrs. Mack S. Linebaugh Jr.

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Kathleen McCracken Mr. & Mrs. James M. McFarlin Mr.* & Mrs. William Thomas McHugh Ms. Anne Elizabeth McIntosh Mr. Brian L. McKinney Ms. Jamesina R. McLeod Mr. & Mrs. Walter D. McMahan Catherine & Brian McMurray Ed & Tracy McNally Dr. & Mrs. Timothy E. McNutt Sr. Sam & Sandra McSeveney Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. McWherter Robby & Kathy Meadows Dan & Mary Mecklenborg Ms. Virginia J. Meece Ronald S. Meers Janis Meinert Herbert & Sharon Meltzer Raymond & Linda Meneely Drs. Manfred & Susan Menking Sara Meredith Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether Cedric & Delberta Miller Mr. & Mrs. John T. Miller Dr. & Mrs. Philip G. Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent Millspaugh Diana & Jeff Mobley Dr. & Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt Dr. & Mrs. Anthony Montemuro Ms. Gay Moon Mr. James Elliott Moore James & April Moore Mr. & Mrs. Steve Moore Margaret E. Moorhead Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett Lee & Ingeborg Mountcastle James & Patricia Munro Dwayne & Sterlene Murray Mr. & Mrs. J. William Myers Dr. & Mrs. Allen Naftilan Richard & Ruth Nagareda Dodie & Bob Nemcik Dr. & Mrs. Harold Nevels Fred Newman Dr. Scott Newman & Leslie Newman John & Judy Nichols Mr. & Mrs. Justin Niebank Al Nisley Mrs. Caroline T. Nolen Ms. Kristen Oliver Philip & Marilyn Ollila Philip & Carolyn Orr Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Overfield Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Owens Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict Dr. & Mrs. James R. Pace

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Doria Panvini Clint Parrish Mrs. Bert Parrish Jr. Lisa & Doug Pasto-Crosby Barron Patterson & Burton Jablin Jack & Jeannie Patterson Mr. & Mrs.* Robert K. Pease Charlie & Connally Penley Steve A. Perdue Dr. Rebecca Peters & Mr. Robert Peters Dr. & Mrs. A. F. Peterson Jr. Mrs. Houston Pewett Mary & Joe Rea Phillips Charles & Mary Phy Dudley & Regina Pitts Rick & Diane Poen Phil & Dot Ponder Mr. Robert S. Poole Stanley D. Poole Ms. Elizabeth M. Potocsnak Dr. Benjamin K. & Michelle Poulose Mr. & Mrs. Brooks A. Quin Mr. John Quinlan Mr. & Mrs. John E. Ragan Edria & David Ragosin Mr. & Mrs. James A. Rainey Mr. & Mrs. Ross Rainwater Nancy & Harry Ransom Nancy Ward Ray Raul & Kelly Regalado Mr. & Mrs. Chris Remke Allen Reynolds Al & Laura Rhodes Don & Connie Richardson Elisha R. Richardson, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D. Ms. Mary A. Riddle Margaret Riegel Ms. Margot A. Riser Mrs. Roscoe R. Robinson Albert & Donna Rodewald Mr.* & Mrs. Ed C. Rodgers Jr. Fran C. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ropelewski Mr. & Mrs. Jackson L. Ross III Edgar & Susan Rothschild Lauren & Christopher Rowe Pamela Lee Rutledge Ron & Lynn Samuels Samuel L. & Barbara Sanders James & Susan Sandlin Essie Sappenfield David M. Satterfield William B. & Toni C. Saunders Mr. Donald D. Savoy

Drs. Carl N. & Mary W. Schofield Mr. & Mrs. Martin R. Schott Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott Gary & Gloria Scott Drs. Fernando & Elena Segovia Mr. Gene A. Shade Richard & Marilyn Shadinger Mrs. Jack W. Shepherd Ms. Ann M. Shipp & Mr. Roger N. Higgins Sue & Nicholas Sieveking Mr. Brian D. Siewert Keith & Kay Simmons Mr. Michael Simpson Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir Betty B. Sisk Dr. & Mrs. David Slosky David & Robin Small Mrs. Madison Smith Dr. Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Mr. & Mrs. Brian Smokler Dan & Siri Speegle Nan E. Speller Thomas F. Spiggle Mr. M. Clark Spoden Mrs. Randolph C. St. John Caroline Stark & Lane Denson Janice & Charley Stefl Michael Samis & Christopher Stenstrom John & Jane Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Charles V Stewart III Mr. & Mrs. David B. Stewart Elizabeth Stewart & James Grosjean Mr. J. Cyril Stewart Jane Lawrence Stone Lois & Larry Stone Charles & Deborah Story Mr. Harry E. Stratton Mr. & Mrs. William T. Stroud Mr. John Graham Sugg Gayle Sullivan Mrs. T. C. Summers Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Svennevik Dr. Esther & Mr. Jeff Swink Bishop Frederick Hilborn Talbot Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Taylor Dr. Paul E. Teschan Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Thackston Ms. Harriett Thomas Lisa G. Thomas Billy H. & Alice Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Bob F. Thompson Dr. Charles B. Thorne* NOVEMBER

Kala MacLeod, Joan Neff Richard & Shirley Thrall Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Thurman Mr. Michael P. Tortora Dr. Anthony E. & Dr. Mona Trabue Tripp Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull Ms. Deborah F. Turner Larry & Brenda Vickers Kimberly Dawn Vincent Richard Wager Mrs. Deborah W. Walker Victoria C. Walker Fran Wallas Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Warner Jr. Lawrence & Karen Washington Drs. Mark & Sally Watson Shirley Marie Watts Jane & Frank Wcislo Randall Weaver H. Martin & Joyce Weingartner Ann Harwell Wells Mr. & Mrs. Ted Wells Mr. Kevin L. Welsh Mr. & Mrs. George A. West III Kim & Jason West Linda West Franklin & Helen Westbrook J Peter R. Westerholm Fred & Pauline Wheeler Ms. Harriett C. Whitaker Mrs. Barbara Bransford White Linda & Raymond White Mr. Walter White & Dr. Susan Hammonds-White Ms. Judith B. Wiens Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Marie Holman Wiggins Mr. Robert S. Wilkinson Jeremy Williams Dr. Joyce E. Williams Paul & Dena Williamson Dr. Carl R. Willis Raleigh & Lesley Willson Carol Ann & Tommy Wilson The Wing Family Jerry & Julia Wingler Edward & Mary E. Womack Mr. & Mrs. David L. Woodland Mr. & Mrs. Matthew W. Wright Richard A. & Vivian R. Wynn Jane & Tom Yount Donna B. Yurdin Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Zeitlin Jerry Zhao *denotes donors who are deceased

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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 September 30, 2009.

Season Presenters Gifts of $100,000+

The Martin Foundation Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Council Gifts of $75,000+

Directorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Associates Gifts of $50,000+

Principal Players Gifts of $25,000+ Mike Curb Family Foundation

Government Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County

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Mayor Karl F. Dean

Metropolitan Council

Chuck & Georgia Mauro Orchestra Partners Gifts of $10,000+ AT&T Atticus Trust Caterpillar Financial Services Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated Gaylord Entertainment Foundation Genesco Inc. The Houghland Foundation LifeWay Worship Neal & Harwell Publix Super Markets Charities Mary C. Ragland Foundation Target The Wachovia Foundation Wilkes & McHugh, P.A.

Robert & Alberta Doochin, Albert-George Schram Artistic Underwriters Gifts of $5,000+ Aladdin Industries, LLC Colliers Turley Martin Tucker The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Corrections Corporation of America Cracker Barrel Foundation The Danner Foundation Dell Foundation Ford Motor Company Hastings Architecture Associates, LLC The HCA Foundation Interior Design Services, Inc. Odom’s Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc.

Jim Humphreys, Robert Reynolds

The Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor Charitable Foundation The Sparrow Foundation Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP

Business Partner Gifts of $2,500+ AMSURG Blevins, Inc. City of Brentwood Dave Nemo Entertainment Delta Dental of Tennessee First Baptist Church Nashville Gould Turner Group, P.C. Sandra Schatten Foundation Washington Foundation

Business Council Gifts of $1,500+ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP Cooper Steel Custom Packaging, Inc. Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation H. G. Hill Realty Company, LLC J. Alexander’s Corporation MJM Architects, LLC Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris Architects, Inc. Tennsco Corporation WASCO, Inc.

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Business Leader Gifts of $1,000+ Anonymous (1) ADEX! Homesellers ASCAP Barrett Johnston & Parsley Bio Ventures, Inc. Carter-Haston Holdings, LLC Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation Neely Coble Company Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co. DZL Management Direct Solutions Economy Pen & Pencil Co. Enfinity Engineering, LLC Heidtke & Company, Inc. David M. Schwarz Architectural Services, Inc. Wallboard & Supply Co. William Morris Agency, Inc. Business Associates Gifts of $500+ American Drywall Co. APEX - Atlas Van Lines Agent Black Box Network Services Mark Boughton Photography R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation Branstetter, Stranch & Jennings, PLLC Broadcast Music, Inc. Buford Lewis Co. Capitol Records CedarStone Bank The Celebration D.F. Chase, Inc. Chesley The Cleaner Contractors & Industrial Supply Co., Inc. Country Music Association Daily’s Convenience Stores Direct Connect Solutions Embassy Suites Nashville Airport Fabricators CAD Service, Inc. Haber Corporation R D Herbert & Sons Co. J & J Interiors, Inc. Liddle Brothers Contractors, Inc. Eddie Lunn Magellan Midstream Partners McIntosh-Murphy Co., Inc.

Hunt Oliver – Nashville Carpet Center Nashville Commercial / Cushman & Wakefield Alliance Northgate Gallery, Inc. Paramore|Redd Online Marketing PICA Group RD Plastics Co., Inc. Robert Orr-SYSCO SESAC, Inc. Stansell Electric Co., Inc. The Tennessee Credit Union Volunteer Barge & Transport, Inc. WBUZ Buzz 102.9 / WPRT Party 102.5 Business Friend Gifts of $300+ A-1 Appliance Company V. Alexander & Co., Inc. Alpha Delta Omega Foundation Altissimo! Records & Distribution Apple Barn Cider Bar – Opry Mills Mall Batten & Shaw, Inc. BB&T Cooper, Love, Jackson, Thornton & Harwell Insurance Services, Inc. Bloom Electric Supply BMW-MINI of Nashville Bradshaw Collision Repair Centers Bryan, Ward & Elmore, Inc. Case Selects Wine and Spirits CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Courtyard by Marriott J.E. Crain & Son, Inc. Dancy’s, Nancy June Brandon DataMarketing Network, Inc. Demos’ Steak & Spaghetti House Ellis Moving & Storage, LLC emma Feldhaus Memorial Chapel Freeman Webb Company Realtors, Inc. GML, LLC Hoge Motor Company Horrell Realty and Investments Hunter Marine IBIS Communications, Inc. Import Auto Maintenance, LLC

Media Partners

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integrity events, inc. Jack Cawthon/Jack’s Bar B Que Lankford Hardware & Supply Company MAC Presents Modular Designs Musgrave Pencil Company, Inc. National Toxicology Specialists Inc. The Oxford Shop Parthenon Chapter of the Links, Inc. Prime Properties, Inc. David L. Battis / Edwin B. Raskin Company Riley Warnock & Jacobson Sam & Zoe’s/Star Bagel Cafe The Scotlyn Group, Inc. Servitech Industries, Inc. Southern Light Inc. Sunrise of Nashville Trickett Honda Monte Turner/Turner and Associates Realty, Inc. Walker Lumber & Hardware Company Youth About Business IN-KIND American Airlines American Tuxedo AT&T Real Yellow Pages Courier Printing The Glover Group Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Nashville, 4th Avenue The Ivy Basket Florist McQuiddy Printing Miller’s Florist Steinway Piano Gallery Target WTVF-TV, Channel 5 Honorary & Memorial Gifts In memory of Carol Ainsworth In memory of Moshe Alexandroni In loving memory of Jessica Bloom

In memory of Pearl Bottiggi In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn’s marriage (2) In memory of T. Earl Hinton & Nora Gardner Smith Hinton (2) In memory of James Warner Hofstead In memory of Lillian Hunt In honor of Martha Rivers Ingram (2) In memory of Mrs. Nancy M. Johnson In honor of the marriage of Larry Larkin & Martha Olsen (2) In memory of Mark Alan Lewis In honor of Mother’s Day for Clare Loventhal In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Loventhal’s anniversary In honor of Richard & Cynthia Morin’s 50th anniversary In memory of Catherine (Cate) Myer (7) In memory of Mildred J. Oonk In memory of Lisa Renegar In memory of Catherine Hunter Sadler In memory of Robert K. Sharp (2) In honor of Chris Simonsen In memory of Lillian Vann In memory of James Crawford Ward Jr.

A Time For GreaTNESS campaign A Time for Greatness, the Nashville Symphony’s endowment campaign, ensures a brilliant future for the orchestra. Funds raised through A Time for Greatness are used to increase the orchestra’s financial capacity to support continuing artistic growth and program development, and sustain the orchestra’s expanded operations in Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Changes as of October 8, 2009.

Founders Gifts of $1,000,000+ Laura Turner Dugas AmSouth Foundation The Frist Foundation James W. Ayers - FirstBank The Grimstad and Stream Families Bank of America Patricia and H. Rodes Hart The Beaman Family Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff & Family Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Hays HCA — Hospital Corporation of America Mr.* and Mrs. Monroe Carell Jr. Ingram Charitable Fund CaremarkRx Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Inman Caterpillar Inc. and Its Employees Ellen Harrison Martin The Community Foundation of Charles N. Martin Jr. Middle Tennessee The Martin Foundation Mike Curb Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. R. Clayton McWhorter Mr. and Mrs. Greg Daily The Memorial Foundation Dollar General Corporation Leadership Gifts Gifts of $500,000+ Anonymous Mr. Tom Black Giarratana Development / Novare Group Holdings

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County Anne* and Dick Ragsdale & Family Mr. and Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Margaret and Cal Turner Jr. The James Stephen Turner Family Vanderbilt University The Vandewater Family Foundation Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson Colleen and Ted Welch The Anne Potter Wilson Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Hayes HCA Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Regions Bank

Gifts of $250,000+ American Retirement Corp. The Cigarran Family E.B.S. Foundation

Harry and Jan Jacobson The Judy and Noah Liff Foundation Robert Straus Lipman

SunTrust Bank Laura Anne Turner Anne H. and Robert K. Zelle

Gifts of $100,000+ Mr. and Mrs. Dale Allen Phyllis and Ben* Alper American Constructors, Inc. Andrews Cadillac/Land Rover Nashville Averitt Express Barbara B. and Michael W. Barton Marty and Betty Dickens-BellSouth Julie and Frank Boehm Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, PLC Richard and Judith Bracken Mr. and Mrs. James C. Bradford Jr. The Very Rev Robert E & Linda M Brodie The Charles R. Carroll Family Fred J. Cassetty Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Chasanoff CLARCOR The William Sherrard Cochran Family

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fite Cone Corrections Corporation of America Deloitte & Touche LLP The Rev. Canon & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Michael D. and Carol E. Ennis Family ESa Design Team: Earl Swensson Associates Inc. I.C. Thomasson Associates Inc. KSi/Structural Engineers Annette and Irwin* Eskind Jane and Richard Eskind and Family Mr. and Mrs. Steven B. Franklin Frost Brown Todd LLC Drs. Priscilla and Pedro Garcia Gordon and Constance Gee Genesco Inc.

Amy Grant and Vince Gill Mr. and Mrs. Joel Charles Gordon Guardsmark, LLC Billy Ray and Joanie* Hearn The Hendrix Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Hooker and Family Walter and Sarah Knestrick Lattimore, Black, Morgan & Cain, PC Mrs. Jack C. Massey Lynn and Ken Melkus Andrew Woodfin Miller Foundation Nashville Symphony Chorus Nashville Symphony Orchestra League Pat and John W. Nelley Jr. O’Charley’s Bonnie and David Perdue Pamela K. Pfeffer & Philip M. Pfeffer

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Mr. and Mrs. Dale W. Polley Mary C. Ragland Foundation The John M. Rivers Jr. Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rochford III Anne and Joseph Russell and Family Daniel and Monica Cintado-Scokin Bill and Sharon Sheriff Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Luke and Susan Simons Irvin and Beverly Small The Henry Laird Smith Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Smith Barbara and Lester Speyer The Starr Foundation Hope and Howard Stringer Louis B. and Patricia C. Todd Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Viehmann Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Wendell Mr. David M. Wilds

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Major Gifts Gifts of $50,000+ Adams and Reese / Stokes Bartholomew LLP The Law Firm of Baker Donelson Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Baker Mr. and Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Dr. and Mrs. T. B. Boyd III Dr. Ian and Katherine* Brick Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Brown Mr. and Mrs. R. Michael Cain The Danner Foundation Dee and Jerald Doochin Ernst & Young Mr. and Mrs. David Steele Ewing Ezell Foundation & Purity Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sam M. Fleming Gannett Foundation / The Tennessean Letty-Lou and Joseph Gilbert Jr. Ruth Ann and William F. Harnisch Hastings Architecture Associates, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Clay T. Jackson KPMG LLP Mrs. Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiehl Lazenby Gilbert Stroud Merritt David K. Morgan Musicians of the Nashville Symphony Esen and Cano Ozgener Ponder & Co. Eric Raefsky, M.D. and Ms. Victoria Heil Ro’s Oriental Rugs, Inc. Rosalie Buxbaum Delphine and Ken Roberts Mrs. Dan C. Rudy Mary Ruth and Bob Shell Stites & Harbison, PLLC Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Sullivan Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis Nicholas S. Zeppos & Lydia A. Howarth Gifts of $25,000+ AmSurg Corp. The Bank of Nashville Bass, Berry and Sims PLC Tom and Wendy Beasley Phil Bredesen and Andrea Conte Iris and Arthur H. (“Mike”) Buhl III Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Doug and Sondra Cruickshanks Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. DeDee The Eisenstein Family John and Carole Ferguson Tom and Judy Foster Mr. and Mrs. Keith Frazier and Family John and Lorelee Gawaluck Jim and Jeannie* Hastings Hawkins Partners, Inc. Landscape Arch. Hemphill Family Foundation Hilton Nashville Downtown Dr. and Mrs.* George W. Holcomb Jr. Nancy Leach and Bill Hoskins

InConcert

Hudson Family Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John F. Jacques Ms. Mercedes Elizabeth Jones Mr. and Mrs. Randy Kinnard KraftCPAs PLLC Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Lipman The Howard Littlejohn Family Mimsye and Leon May Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. McDermott Rock and Linda Morphis Anne and Peter Neff Carole and Ed Nelson Odom’s Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc. Larry D. Odom, Chairman/CEO Hal N. and Peggy S. Pennington Celeste Casey* and James Hugh Reed III Renasant Bank Lavona and Clyde Russell Kenneth D. Schermerhorn* Family of Kenneth Schermerhorn Lucy and Wilbur Sensing Nelson W. and Sheila A. Shields Lisa and Mike Shmerling Joanne and Gary Slaughter Dr. and Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Hans and Nancy Stabell Ann and Bob Street Mr. and Mrs. William J. Tyne Alan D. and Connie Linsler Valentine Janet and Alan Yuspeh Mr.* and Mrs. Martin L. Zeitlin Special Gifts Gifts of $15,000+ Kent and Donna Adams Aladdin Ind. Foundation / V.S. Johnson Leigh and Hunter Atkins Mr. and Mrs. Albert Balestiere Baring Industries Jane and Jim Beard June and Boyd Bogle John Auston Bridges Terry W. Chandler Community Counselling Service (CCS) Barbara and Willie K. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. DeVooght Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Hughes Dobson V Donna Scott and John Eley Larry P. and Diane M. English Ms. Nancy M. Falls and Dr. Neil M. Price Beatriz Perez and Paul Knollmaier Richard and Delorse Lewis Frances and Eugene Lotochinski The Loventhal and Jones Families Mr.* & Mrs. Robert C. H. Mathews Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James L. McGregor Dr. and Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Dr. Arthur M. Mellor Christopher and Patricia Mixon Piedmont Natural Gas Dr. Clifford and Mrs. Sharon Roberson Anne and Charles Roos

NOVEMBER

2009

Joan Blum Shayne Eli and Deborah Tullis Mr. and Mrs. James M. Usdan Betty and Bernard Werthan Foundation Mr. and Mrs. W. Ridley Wills II

Dr. and Mrs. John Brown Thomison Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Trammell Jr. Louise B. Wallace Foundation David, Gail, Sam and Nick Williams Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Dr. and Mrs. Artmas L. Worthy

Gifts of $10,000+ Ruth Crockarell Adkins American Brokerage Company, Inc. American Paper & Twine Company Mr. and Mrs. William F. Andrews Mr. and Dr. Richard C. Arnemann Sue G. Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Brenda C. Bass Mr. and Mrs. John S. Beasley II Frank and Elizabeth Berklacich Ann and Jobe* Bernard Mr. and Mrs. Roger T. Briggs Jr. Cathy and Martin Brown Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Bumstead Patricia and Manny Buzzell Ann and Gerry Calhoun Chase Cole Dr. and Mrs. Lindsey W. Cooper Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Crawford Rita Bennett* and Steve Croxall Janine and Ben Cundiff Marty and Betty Dickens Ellen and Townes Duncan Mike and Carolyn Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Martin Emmett Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind Bob and Judy Fisher Karen and Eugene C. Fleming Cathey and Wilford Fuqua Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Gaeto Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC Heidtke Charitable Foundation Robert C. Hilton Dr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Franklin Y. Hundley Jr. Margie and Nick Hunter Sandra and Joe Hutts Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. David B. Johnson The Russell A. Jones Jr. Family Fund Pamela and Michael Koban Jr. Robert A. Livingston Jack and Lynn May Betsy Vinson McInnes Mary and Max Merrell Donald J. and Hillary L. Meyers NewsChannel 5 Network Susan and Rick Oliver David and Adrienne Piston Charles H. Potter Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Mr. Scott L. Probasco Jr. Linda and Art Rebrovick Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Robinson Jr. Ron Rossmann Mr. and Mrs. Irby C. Simpkins Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood Murray and Hazel Somerville Southwind Health Partners® Dr. Steve A. Hyman and Mark Lee Taylor

Gifts of $5,000+ Anonymous Elizabeth M. Adams & David B. Scott Mr. Jerry Adams James and Glyna Aderhold American Airlines Mr. and Mrs. David G. Anderson Joël Anquetil DeVan D. Ard & Renée A. Chevalier The Arrants Family Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Bainbridge Dr. and Mrs. Elbert W. Baker Jr. Dr. and Mrs. R. Daniel Beauchamp Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bell Annie Laurie and Irvin Berry Dr. Marion and Tricia Bolin Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Bradbury III Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Bradford Dr. and Mrs. Victor Braren Mr. William V. Briggs and Family Richard Fitzgerald Bryan J. Burts Bryant Jr. Michael and Sarah Buckland Dr. and Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Hillary and Jimmy Bynum Ann and Sykes Cargile Mr. and Mrs. Clint Carter Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Casa Santa Central Business Group / Space Saver Mr. and Mrs. James A. Charron Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Chasanoff Barbara and Eric Chazen In memory of John Hancock Cheek Jr. Drs. Keith and Leslie Churchwell CIC Foundation, Inc. Marion S. and Roy C. Clark Esther and Roger Cohn Mrs. Peggy Wemyss Connor Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Craig Laura, Brad, Anna Linn and Nate Currie Kimberly L. Darlington In memory of Joe Davis Drs. Carla and Dick Davis Mr. and Mrs. J. William Denny Carol and Tom DePauw Mr. Mark Deutschmann Jane Davis Doggett Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Doochin Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Eastwood Jr. Dr. and Mrs. E. Mac Edington Sylvia and Robert H. Elman Kitty and Patrick Emery Mr. T. Aldrich Finegan Mr. & Mrs. John David Fitzgerald Jr. Mr.* and Mrs. Gerald Fleischer Mr. and Mrs. Steve G. Fridrich Dr. and Mrs. John R. Furman Mr. and Mrs. Landy Gardner

Conrad Edington, Johnny Popper, Mac Edington Timothy J. Gilbreath Fred and Deana Goad Mr. Edward and Mrs. Nancy Goodrich Gerald C. Greer and Dr. Scott Hoffman Jennifer and Daniel Gremillion Dale and Nancy Grimes Doug and Rose Grindstaff Jim and Paula Grout Sylvia Hyman and Arthur Gunzberg John and Freda Hall Mark Hann R. Rick Hart Mr. and Mrs. James K. Hasson Jr. Bill and Robin Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. John Burton Hayes In memory of Macon Hilton Judith and Mark* Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. Hogan Sally A. Holland Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Keel and Marsha Mason Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Davis Hunt Mr. and Mrs. David C. Huseman Toshinari and Emiko Ishii Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Israel Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jackson Jr. Mr. Erin Matthew Johnson Mr. and Mrs. George T. Johnston Journal Communications, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Kane Jackie & Marshall Karr, Price & Morgan Cornelia S. Kelly Buddy Killen* Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Klaritch Neil Krugman Thomas and Randi Land Larry J. Larkin Sally M. Levine and Family Mr. and Mrs. Irving Levy Zach Liff Drs. Thomas J. and Lee E. Limbird In loving memory of Weng-Teh Lin Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas J. Lippolis Mrs. Roberta D. Lochte-Jones Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Lovett William R. and Maria T. MacKay Mark IV In honor of Mercedes E. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Hill McAlister Karen C. and Charles R. McCarty Richard and Sheila McCarty Mr. and Mrs. J. David McClain Mr. and Mrs. Mark McDonald

Tim & Sandy Towers

Mrs. Leatrice B. McKissack James Victor Miller* Richard L. and Sharalena Miller Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Molteni Mrs. Margaret E. Moorhead Mr. and Mrs. William P. Morelli Mr. and Mrs. John J. Morris Lee and Ingeborg Mountcastle J. Philip Moyers, M.D. Nashville Symphony Players Assembly Mr. and Mrs. F.I. Nebhut Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ralls Niewold Mr. and Mrs. Marvin J. Nischan Oakwood the Greener Cleaner The Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Briant Family Hunt Oliver Nashville Carpet Center Lucius and Freida Outlaw David and Pamela Palmer Pan South Productions Parking Management Company Tom Patterson and Mike Eldred Dr. and Mrs. Joel Peavyhouse Nancy Sanders Peterson Paul and Valery Prill Production Resource Group Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Michael and Jan Reeves John and Nancy Roberts Charles, Jean and Paisley Robison Ed* and Teena Rodgers and Family Charles B. and Margaret G. Rush Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. Russ Mr. and Mrs. P. Michael Saint David F. Sampsell Dr. Paula Sandidge & Kent Sandidge III James A. Scandrick Jr. In memory of Emanuel Schatten Cooper and Helen Schley In memory of Kenneth Schermerhorn Dr. and Mrs. John R. Schottland Dr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Scobey Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Scott Dr. and Mrs. Max Shaff Mr. and Mrs. R. Patrick Shepherd Dr. John R. and Betty Benroth Sisk Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Small Dr. and Mrs. Brent A. Soper Karen Spacek Mr. and Mrs. Mickey M. Sparkman Ms. Maggie P. Speight Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sposato Edward and Sally Stack

John and Beth Stein William Robert & Cheryl Anne Stewart Cyndi Stover Mr. and Mrs. James G. Stranch III Sunset Grill - Midtown Cafe CABANA Tracy Tajbl and Neil Kent Jones Brad Thomason Candy Toler and Bob Day Dr. Rubye P. Torrey Byron and Aleta Trauger Larry and Brenda Vickers Bayard H. and Rosemary Lab Walters James Crawford Ward Sr. & Irene Ward Nancy and Marty Warren Drs. Mark and Sally Watson and Billy Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie D. White Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Frank and Mareca Williams John and Anne Williams Gary and Catherine Wilson Marilyn Shields & Theodore E. Wiltsie Tim and Mary Wipperman Richard A. and Vivian R. Wynn Ms. Donna B. Yurdin Mr. and Mrs. Julian Zander Jr. GENERAL GIFTS Gifts of $2,500+ Anonymous In memory of Ann Canfield Arnett Mr. Frederick C. Ayers Joanne and Clay Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. Bauguess Dr. and Mrs. Cliff B. Bennett Patricia and Richard Bibb Drs. William and Wanda Bigham Randolph and Elaine Blake Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Blakeman Flora, Stephanie and Erin Blocker Dr. Richard G. Bruehl and Dr. Nancy J. Stott Cole Burgess Daniel and Rosalie Buxbaum Janet C. Camp Kent S. Cathcart Ben Cavalier Family Cavarra Family Fletch and Bill Coke Everett and Katheryne Cowan

NOVEMBER

John West, Peggy Warner, Kay West Dr. and Mrs. George H. Crossley III Janice Crumpacker Donna and Dan Daniel Mr. and Mrs. Jay Dawson Dr. and Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Daryl and Sandra Demonbreun Dr. Robert F. Dendy & Ms. Lisa R. Silver Mr. and Mrs. Michael Devlin Mr. and Mrs. Ken Downey Carol and Michael Barton Dye Gloria Laird and Colin Maxwell Elliot Sam and Laura Faust Beverly K. Feldman Kevin and Susan Foley Family Faith and Ron Galbraith Joaquin and Barbara Garcia John and Eva Gebhart Kate R. W. Grayken Ms. Holly Beth Greene Matthew T. Grimm Charles and Carol Hankla and Family Sondra and George Harris Ron and Carolyn Harris Dr. and Mrs. James A. Hefner Dr. Richard and Rev. Paula C. Hoos Mary Ann and Calvin Houghland Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hull Hunt Family Foundation of Nashville TN Dr. Anna M. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Jones Harold G. and Robbie H. Jones Sam and Nancy Jones Mr. and Mrs. Kazuhiko Kawamura Brenda and Ronnie Kelly Teresa F. Kersey Wayne and Marilyn King Judge and Mrs. William C. Koch Jr. Philip and Leslie Kulp Mr. and Mrs. F. Kurzynske Nancy and Vaden Lackey Mrs. Douglas E. Leach Dorothy and Jim Lesch Elaine and Jon Levine LifeWorks Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Lind Jay and Debbie Lowenthal Mr. and Mrs. Alphonso C. Mance Mr. and Mrs. James P. Manning Mr. and Mrs. James L. Martineau Dr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Mathews Sally and Joe Matlock Jackson Brim McCall and Family

2009

InConcert

Ted Welch, Dr. Kathy Kankel

Mr. and Mrs. Dale McCulloch Mr. James F. McGrath Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Meadows Robert W. Meyer and Family Mr. D. Mark Moore Philip and Lechelle Moore and Family Mr. and Mrs. Russell F. Morris III William and Jennifer Moseley To honor Prof. & Mrs. Alfred Mosemiller Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Neal Craig and Linda Nelson Judy Oxford and Grant Benedict Gary and Nancy Pack Ms. Patricia Paiva Dr. Mary Witherspoon Parks Susan and Bob Plageman and Family Ms. Elizabeth M. Queener Dr. James G. Quiggins Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ransom Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Raths Mr. and Mrs. David L. Raybin Martha and J. Buist Richardson III Miss Margaret L. Riegel Kathleen H. Rivers Georgianna W. Russell Dr. and Mrs. Henry P. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Sammer Nancy and Alan* Saturn Caren A. Shaffer Dana and Nicole Shockley James T. and Judith Smythe Clark Spoden Mr. and Mrs. Roland R. Strickert Drs. Reid C. Thompson and Lorraine B. Ware Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trost and Family Kenneth and Jean Tyree M. Andrew Valentine and Nancy Coleman Mary Kathryn and Gary Van Osdale Drs. Robert and Nancy Wahl Estate of Kenneth Allen Walkup David and Karen Walton Joyce* and David Ward Mr. and Mrs. Talmage Watts Marie Holman Wiggins Judy S. Williams Mrs. Mary K. Wolf Donald and Trudi Yarbrough Peter G. Youngman

InConcert

Larry & Martha Larkin, Bill Koch Gifts of $1,000+ Anonymous Bassel and Rima Abou-Khalil The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Abstein Aerial Innovations of Tennessee, Inc. Clint and Kali Adams Rob and Linda Allen David and Kathy Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Andrews Jr. Mr. Carl D. Apple Mary Candice Burger and Dan Ashmead Mr. and Mrs. Sam D. Bacco Carolyn Wann Bailey Jeffrey Bailey Mike and Debbie Ballard Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Barber Dr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Barr Clisby Hall Barrow Mr. and Mrs. E. Warner Bass Jack and Melinda Bass Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Batson Nader and Barbara Baydoun and Family Carol L. Crowell-Bayer and William Bayer Ted and Beverly Beckwith Sarah Elizabeth Beeson Ronald E. Bell and Family Lori and Jeff Belser Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bender Mr. and Mrs. W. Todd Bender David, Erin and Caitlin Berndt Charlotte Bialeschki Dr. Joel S. Birdwell Diana and Phil Bittle Ralph and Jane Black Rob and Julie Blagojevich Drs. Mary Anne Blake & Judson E. Rogers John and Jeanette Bliss Dr. and Mrs. George C. Bolian Mr. and Mrs. Perry J. Bolton Bone McAllester Norton, PLLC Sandra Boone Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Booth John and Teri Bosio Don and Deborah Boyd Mr. and Mrs. James K. Brahaney Jere T. Brassell Phil and Pat Bressman Mr. James J. Breuss Sandra Jean Brien Dr. and Mrs. Marcellus Brooks

NOVEMBER

2009

Patricia & Manny Buzzell

Dr. and Mrs. Gaylan W. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Tony E. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Bryan Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bryan Jr. David, Jean and Jane Buchanan Mr. William R. Buckley Melissa and Rod Buffington Donah and Roger Burgess Jamie and Gene D. Burton Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Caldwell Brenda and Edward Callis Kathryn H. Campbell Dr. W. Barton and Audrey Campbell Mike, Linda, Rick and Lauren Carlson David and Teddy Jo Carson Karen D. Casey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Cassilly Ms. Gladys Chatman Barbara Richards and Stanley Chervin Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Childress Sam and Alice Childs Mr. Won S. Choi Elsie Harper Clark Mr. George D. Clark Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Clement Mr. Penn B. Cobb Marcia and Steve Colburn Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Cole Sam Coleman and Phillip Stewart Colliers Turley Martin Tucker Annamarie Collins Mr. and Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Don and Mary Gail Compton Mr. Peter Condiles Robert and Gail Merritt Congdon The Honorable and Mrs. Lew Conner Terry and Joani Cook Paul and Alyce Cooke Dr. Michael Cooper and Ms. Bethany Jackson Sharon and Jim Cox Mr. and Mrs. John T. Crain D. Robert Crants III Suzanne Cherry Cravens Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Crawford John and Rosalie Crispin Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Crouch Ida Kay Cothron Crowder Joann Cruthirds

The Honorable and Mrs. J. Dewey Daane Katherine C. Daniel Mrs. Donald L. Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Mark Davenport Mr. W. T. Davidson Dr. and Mrs. Ben Davis Mrs. Raymond (Margaret L.) Davis Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Dawson Martha Lou Deacon Mrs. Edwin F. DeMoss Anne R. Dennison William T. DePriest Don Dey Mr. and Mrs. G. Orion Dickson Mr. and Mrs. Matthew H. Dobson IV Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Doeg Ms. Amy Dorfman and Mr. Donald Capparella Lynn Dorris Karen and Ted Dreier Dr. Raymond and Lisa A. DuBois Mrs. Jane Anderson Dudley and Mr. Dwayne Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Duffield Mr. and Mrs. William D. Duke Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Dunnington Mr. and Mrs. John W. Eakin Jr. Susan Sheppard Edwards Eric and Nena Egli Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Elkin Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Elsesser Coni Ely and Chris Guerin Mrs. Ervin M. Entrekin Mrs. Alice D. Epperson Ann Epperson Betty East Esslinger Dr. and Mrs. Roy C. Ezell Kerry L. Fair Lois B. Faison Ms. Rebecca Ferguson Jacob W. and Lois A. Flaker Fletcher Rowley Chao Riddle Inc. Dr. Edward and Mrs. Janet Foley Elizabeth Givens Folsom Mrs. Patricia A. Fredericksen Mr. James C. Free Jesse and Julia Freeman Alexander and Makiko Freeman Anita and Scott Freistat Hubert and Wendy Freund Mary Carol and Charles Friddell Dr. and Mrs. Steven G. Gabbe Jose E. Garcia and Carol Scales Ms. Pamela B. Garrett

Mr. and Mrs. Tim K. Garrett Carlene Hunt and Marshall Gaskins Mr. and Mrs. Marbut G. Gaston Jr. David and Patsy Gaw Gaylord Entertainment Company Ms. Sally Ann Gentry Mr. and Mrs. V. Carl George Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Gerace Harry E. Gibson Mr. Terrence L. Gibson Elizabeth Gilliam Dr. Joseph Awad & Ms. Jane E. Gilliam Frank Ginanni Lyndi Ann Crowder Goodall Vice President and Mrs. Albert A. Gore Jr. Gerald and Shelley Gotterer Jay Grannis Dr. and Mrs. Herschel A. Graves Jr. Mr. William J. Green Ms. Thelma L. Grimsley and Family Mr. and Mrs. Russell D. Groff Daniel J. Guill Sara E. Guill John R. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Maurice M. Hallum III Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hamilton Edward and Kathryn* Hantel Dr. Charlene Harb Mr. and Mrs. John B. Hardcastle Jr. George and Cindy Harper Paul and Senator Thelma Harper Scott and Carol Harris Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Harrison Jr. Jay and Dawn Hartley Dorothy M. Hartman* James S. Hartman Lane and Hugh Harvey Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harvey Sedley and Chris Hassel Mr.* and Mrs. Marion J. Hatchett David and Judith Slayden Hayes Bill and Lisa Headley Peter and Gini Heller Kent and Melinda Henderson Mr. William I. Henderson Doris Ann Hendrix Mr. and Mrs. David A. Herlitzka Mr. and Mrs. Marion W. Hickerson III Ms. Martha Sue Highfill* Doris M. Hill Mitchell and Betsy Hilt Eileen R. Holloran Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. House Dee and Fran Howell Mr. and Mrs. L. Wearen Hughes Judith and Jim Humphreys In honor of the birthday of Mrs. Martha R. Ingram In honor of Martha R. Ingram Ingram Micro Inc. Rodney Irvin Dr. and Mrs. Albert P. Isenhour Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Edward I. Isibor J & J Interiors, Inc. Claudia S. Jack Donald L. Jackson Patricia Marie Jansen Mr. John Barlow Jarvis

Charles and Edeltraut Jenkins Mrs. Mary Grey Jenkins Dr. and Mrs. Gary F. Jensen Jo’s Custom Cakes and Catering Inc. Keith and Nancy Johnson Mary and Doug Johnston Jane and Cecil Jones Mr. and Mrs. Sydney L. Jones Jr. Ann and Thomas Kahn Dr. and Mrs. Martin Katahn Christopher and Ginger Kelly and Family The Kelly Family Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kennedy Patrick B. Kennedy & Jaime S. Amos & Riley & Eden Bruce and Maryann Kilbourn and Family Mr. and Mrs. Bill G. Kilpatrick Dr. Edward M. and Bonita D. Kimbrell Don R. and Kathleen Matteuzzi King Jim and Bunny King and Family Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kinser Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Kirby Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Kitchell Mr. and Mrs. James A. Knestrick Ms. Linda R. Koon Bob and Cathy Krumm Doctor and Mrs. John W. Lamb Sterling S. Lanier III Robert M. Latimer* Mr. and Mrs. Danny Law Frances A. Lawson James E. and Judith G. Lawson Richard G. & Sandra M. Lenz and Family In memory of Dr. Virgil Shields LeQuire Sam and Lee Levine and Family Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Lewis Mary Fancis Schmitt Ligon Rhea and Marie Little Drs. Walt and Shannon Little Stephen R. and Jean N. Locke Kaye Lockwood Douglas and Denise Lokken David and Nancy Loucky Johnny & Lindalu Lovier Mr. James Edgar Lowe William and Evelyn Luetzow Dr. and Mrs. John N. Lukens Jr. Ms. Nina B. Lunn Mrs. Robert P. Mace Mrs. Robert R. MacKenzie Mr. and Mrs. Boyce C. Magli Helga and Andrea Maneschi Mark and Kelly Manning Bradley D. Mansell John Maple Mr. and Mrs. Michael Marchetti Annette B. Martin Ben T. and Loy W. Martin Dr. and Mrs. Raymond S. Martin III Mr. and Mrs. Jack N. Matheson III Ms. Cynthia Clark Matthews Ms. Sonje K. Hubsch Mayo Ms. Jocelynne I. McCall Jennifer and Shane McClure

Rev. Stanley L. McCormick Larry and Karen McCoy George and Linda McCulloch Lisa H. McDonald Ms. Josephine McLeod Mr. and Mrs. Walter Douglas McMahan Michael and Mary Jane McWherter Mr. Ronald S. Meers Ellen Menking Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Mewbourne Jr. Dr. and Mrs. J. Berry Middleton Mr. Anthony P. Migliore Cedric and Delberta Miller Dan and Karen Miller Jim and Glenda Milliken Diana and Jeffrey Mobley Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Moench Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Moench Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Molnar Jr. Margaret W. Moore Cynthia and Richard Morin The Morphett Family Mr. and Mrs. Rogers H. Morrison Sr. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Mullins Nashville Advertising and Promotions Lannie W. Neal Mr. and Mrs. John C. Neff James and Irene Neilan Dr. and Mrs. I. Armistead Nelson Lee and Emily Noel Chuck Norman Jonathan R. Norris D. Wilson Ochoa Dr. Samuel O. Okpaku The Honorable Hazel R. O’Leary Jo Ellen L. Olson Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Oman Hansi D. Orgain Dr. and Mrs. Harry L. Page Mrs. John Gray Palmer Mr. Clint Parrish Dr. and Mrs. Earl Q. Parrott Mr. Richard D. Parrottino Doug and Lisa Pasto-Crosby Jack and Jeannie Patterson John W. and Mary E. Patterson Mr. Stephen D. Patton Dr. W. Faxon and Frances W. Payne Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Pennington Elizabeth and Phil Perkins Dr. L.O.P.* and Rosetta Miller Perry Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Peterson Frances and Kathryn Petrocelli Dr. James A. Petty Mrs. Patsy C. Petway Charles and Mary Phy Robert S. Poole Mr. and Mrs. Joel Ayers Pope Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pope Mr. and Mrs. James Pratt Ms. Rhonda M. Prevatt Charles W. Rager II and Amber Culverhouse Dr. Hal R. Ramer Jennifer and David Rawlings Jeff and T Reese Sandra L. Reeves

NOVEMBER

William Boatner Reily III Steven and Ellen Resnick Family Trust Brooke and Jason Reusch and Family Kay and Byung-Hyun Rhee Kellye and Jeff Rice Ms. Ann Richards and Mr. Glen Wanner Woodrow and Cemele Richardson Carolyn Fludd Ridley Dr. and Mrs. Russell Ries Mrs. Roscoe R. Robinson Anne D. Rogers Fran C. Rogers Norma and Bruce Rogers Sydney and Buddy Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Tate Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Clark B. Rollins III Judith R. Roney Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Ropelewski Lynne and Rodney Rosenblum Laura Ann Ross Joyce and Mace Rothenberg Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Roy Dwight and Margaret Rucker and Family Warren T. Runion and Catherine J. Holsen Ms. Jean W. Russell Ms. Patricia Russell Mr. and Mrs. Jason Saling Michael Samis and Christopher Stenstrom John R. Sanders Jr. Sam and Barbara Sanders Ms. Suzanne Sanders James and Susan Sandlin Pauline and Robert Satterfield Wm. B. and Toni C. Saunders and Family In memory of Kenneth Schermerhorn Molly and Richard Schneider Jim and Mary Schumacher Dr. Marvin and Claire Schwartz Gary and Gloria Scott Mr. and Mrs. Terry R. Sears Charles and Bettye Seivers Dr. and Mrs. John S. Sergent Odessa L. Settles John and Nanette Shand Dr. and Mrs. Steven B Shankle Mr. and Mrs. Alfred D. Sharp III Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Tricia Sharp Ms. Kenya Sharp Beverly P. Sharpe and Devin C. Sharpe Nita and Mike Shea Mrs. Jack W. Shepherd Mr. and Mrs. Ernest D. Shepherd Gerald “Buzz” and Lex Ann Sheridan Jr. David and Nancy Shurson Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Sigmund Ms. Sandra Simpson Michael and Susanne Sims Dr. and Mrs. Manuel Sir Pamela Sixfin Ms. Diane M. Skelton The Sloatman Family

2009

InConcert

Mr. Joe R. Smith Ms. Melanie K. Smith Sandra and Randall Smith Mrs. Samuel Boyd Smith Dan and Cynthia Spengler Dr. and Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Staley Dr. and Mrs. Leon E. Stanislav DDS Mrs. Elise L. Steiner John and Jane Stephens Dan and Rosi Stewart Michael Stiltz Kelli and Bill Stokes Dr. and Mrs. William S. Stoney Jr. Shelby B. Strickland Cindy Strother Dr. and Mrs. Richard F. Stults Kay and Michael* Sykes Dr. and Mrs. Bobo Tanner Boyce D. and Amelia M. Tate Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tatum Donald and Kristin Taylor Mr. and Mrs. F. Morgan Taylor Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor Bobby and Frances Taylor William E. and Susan E. Taylor Dr. and Mrs. William Thetford Mr. Frank Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Thomas Ms. Hazel B. Thomas Gloria, Frank, Jordan and Jack Thomas Patricia and Parker W. Thomas Jr. Mrs. Overton Thompson Jr.

In memory of Moneta Allison Thorpe Frances and John Tipton Jr. John W. Todd Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Tolk Dr. and Mrs. Alexander S. Townes Claire and Reece Whitfield Tucker Lizette M. Tucker Mr. and Mrs. John A. Turnbull Donna and Robert Vaughn Victor R. and Suzanne Vaughn Mr. Wayne Vaught Joyce A. Vise Robert C. and Mary M. Vowels Martin H. Wagner M.D. and Family Patricia W. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Walton Mr.* and Mrs. James M. Ward Leslie P. Ware W. Miles* and Sharon Warfield C. Brian and Alison H. Warford Karen Marie Warren Cheryl and Mark Wathen Dr. and Mrs. Gates J. Wayburn Jr. Jane and Frank Wcislo Mr.* and Mrs. William C. Weaver III Mr.* and Mrs. James A. Webb Jr. Bob, Gail, Collin and Graham Webb Mr. Stephen Webb H. Martin and Joyce Weingartner William and Raylene Welch Charles Hampton White James W. White Linda and Raymond White Don and Maureen Whitehead

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Wieck Mr. and Mrs. William G. Wiggins Faith Lansing Wikoff Mr. and Mrs. J. Denny Wilkening Jimmy D. and Malinda E. Williams Ms. Vicki Gardine Williams Rod and Phyllis Williamson Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Williamson Eleanor Lawson Willis Blythe Wilson, Elysabeth Lackey Jerry and Julia Wingler Scott and Ellen Wolfe and Family In honor of the Irving Wolfe Family Dale and Carol Womack Ms. Lisa A. Wood Paul Gambill and Joy Worland James and Jan Yarbrough Mr. and Mrs. Julian Zander Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Barry Zeitlin Michael and Margaret Zibart Dr. Thomas F. Zimmerman

Gifts of $500+ Anonymous Judith Ablon Vicky Abney and daughter Lesley Voltz Jeff, Tina, Jennifer & Jonathan Adams Mr. Howard D. Adcock Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey K. Adkisson Elke, Bridget and Lex Aita George Alexander and Family

Joyce Price Allen Ms. Patricia B. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Ron Alley William J. and Margery Amonette Paul and Nancy Anderson Family Robert Alden Anderson Samuel F. Anderson In honor of Maestro Kenneth Andrews Peggy A. Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Argo Mr. and Mrs. James C. Armistead Jr. Aaron Armstrong Debi and Katrina Armstrong Mr. Joseph B. Armstrong Dr. Jane Bacon and Timothy Artist Pamela R. Atkins Geralda M. Aubry Mr. Albert Austin The Brian C. Austin Family Dr. Philip Autry Dr. Elizabeth M. Backus Al and Judy Baer Mr. and Mrs. Herb Baggett Lawrence E. Baggett Sallie and John Bailey Mr. David S. Baily Ralph B. Ballou Jr.* Scott M. Bane Alice Ann Vaughan Floyd Barge Kenneth Barnd Jonnie and Barbara Barnett Christal E. Barrow Oliver and Lisa Barry Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Bayless

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Dr. and Mrs. Charles B. Beck Dr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Bergstrom Dr. and Mrs. Roy Berkon Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Berry Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Best Robert C. and Jane B. Blakey Ron, Sandra, Ethan and Erica Block Familia Boero Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Bolton Andi Bordick Dr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Boskind Mr. and Mrs. C. Dent Bostick Nancy and Dewey Boswell Ms. Michelle Boucher Zeneba Bowers Mr.* and Mrs. James E. Boyd Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bransford Jr. Mr. Keith Brent Mr. and Mrs. John F. Brewer III Libby and David Broadhurst Mr. and Mrs. Danny E. Broadway Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Brockman Jr. Berry and Connie Brooks Vernice Oakley Bryan Gino and Kathy Bulso Wyeth and Edward Burgess Dr. and Mrs. Ian M. Burr Mr. and Mrs. Todd A. Burr Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Callis Dr. and Mrs. Tracy Q. Callister Jeanne Camara Bratschi Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Campbell MariLynn and Mike Canterbury Luther E. Cantrell Jr. David L. Carlton David S. Carter Mr. and Mrs. D. Michael Carter J. R. Caryl Jim and Shirley Casselberry Mr. and Mrs. Dean F. Chase Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Chickey Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Robert* and Mary Churchwell Sr. Teresa Harper Cissell Mr. and Mrs. Gary Clardy Shelton and Catherine Clark Mr. and Mrs. John J. Claxton II Jacquelyn L. Clevenger Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Cobb Mr. and Mrs. Neely Coble Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Joan and Charlie Coker Rebecca Cole John and Rita Collett Mr. and Mrs. M. Thomas Collins Mr. Charles J. Conrick III Ms. Catherine Cook Mr. and Mrs. Robert William Coon Mrs. Elizabeth F. Cormier Dr. Will Kendrick and Ms. Marymac Cortner Natalie Corwin Mr. and Mrs. James M. Costello James and Amy Cotton Jennifer A. Coyle Ms. Ann S. Cross Mr. Will R. Crowthers Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Cullen

Mr. Thomas Cullen and Ms. Wray Estes Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Cummins Buddy and Sandy Curnutt Louis and Kathy Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Angelo Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Davenport Robert G. Davis and Leriel Davis Jeremy Dawkins* In memory of Jeremy Dawkins Mr. and Mrs. E. Mandell de Windt Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Debelak Ms. Jean Dedman Mr. and Mrs. Brett A. DeFore Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Delk Dr. and Mrs. James L. Dickson Mary Sue Dietrich and Family Wally and Lee Lee Dietz Martin L. Donner Jim and Ramsey Doran Rebecca Dorcy Robert and Kathryn Dortch Mr. and Mrs. David Dowland James and Julie Duensing Janet Ivey Duensing Greg Dugdale and Family Felicia and Charles Duncan Bob and Nancy Dunkerley Mr. Blair P. Durham Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Dwelle Lynne M. Cushing and S. June Dye Frances and Bill Earthman Susan Eason* Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Eggleston Mr. David R. Elkins Ms. Helen C. Elkins Mr. and Mrs. Dan H. Elrod Mr. and Mrs. Martin Emrath Mary Ella Eubanks Mr. and Mrs. Ross I. Evans Duncan Eve Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Evers III Mr. and Mrs. Mark Farrington Bryan and Rachel Fay Anthony J. Ferrara Walter and Rebecca G. Ferris Jim and Mary Flanagan Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Flautt Jeff and Margaret Flowers Sarah C. Fogel and Jane S. Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Fogelberg Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Forshee Julie Foss Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Francis Elizabeth A. Franks James C. Franks Family Jim W. Freeland Freeland Broadcasting Frist Center for the Visual Arts Sara N. Gaines William Joyce and Anderson Gaither Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Gannaway Glenna R. Gant Mr. and Mrs. Brian Garcia Grace D. Gardner Ms. Jane Gardner Dr. and Mrs. G. Waldon Garriss III Mr. Ronald Gash The Gassler Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Gideon

Mr. Michael E. Giffin Norman and Cathy Gillis Girl Scout Council of Cumberland Valley Gary and Robin Glover Mr. and Mrs. William L. Godsey Terry and Nancy Goins Jay and Grace Goostree Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Gore Esther A. Gorny Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Gostowski Dr. & Mrs. CK Hiranya & Saraswathi Devi Gowda In memory of Edwin M. Gould Mrs. Jeanne S. Gower Betty and Lewis Graham Bryan D. Graves John and Mary France Gray Mrs. Max Greenberg Ms. Martha P. Gregory Ms. Gail W. Griffin Ms. Becky Griffith Mr. Thomas A. Grooms and Ms. Linda G. Ashford Mary Beth and Raul Guzman Dr. and Mrs. Allen F. Gwinn Jr. Joanne and Will Hackman Dr. and Mrs. Bill Halliday Dr. and Mrs. Charles Hambrick Dr. and Mrs. Edward D. Hamilton Dr. and Mrs.* James R. Hamilton Mrs. Vandella Hancock Mr. Fred G. Hardin Dr. and Mrs. F. Payne Hardison Jim, Ruth and Andrea Hayes Jim and Sandy Heatley Fred and Judy Helfer Ted and Mary Beth Helm Ernest and Nancy Henegar Father John C. Henrick Ms. Elizabeth W. Henson Karen Hickox Hicks Charitable Foundation Byron and Virginia Hillblom Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Hindalong Michelle E. C. Hinson Mrs. Johnnie K. Hodge Sandra D. Hollingsworth Jeanni Holmes William Paul Holt David F. and Barbara S. Howell Mr. and Mrs. A. Scott Hubbard SSG. Derrick W. Hudson and Mrs. Kerry Hudson Vickie J. Hudson Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hughes Jr. Mrs. Beverly Hyde Ms. Suzy C. Hyslip Robert Rowe & Peniruth Ingram-Rowe Mr. William C. Ireland Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Van T. Irwin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Jacobson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. James Judi and John N. Jaszcz Mr. and Mrs. Neil Jobe Mr. and Mrs. David A. Johnson Harley and Joyce Jones Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kacynski Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kazimi

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Mr.* and Mrs. George F. Kennedy Ronald Kidd and Yvonne Martin Kidd Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Knabe Mr. and Mrs. Wendell L. Knight Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Knox Jr. Karen Ward & Thomas K. Knox & Family In memory of Joe Kraft Morris Kraft Mr. and Mrs. James S. Kreider Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Kupferer Jr. Anthony and Wendy LaMarchina Ms. Andrea G. Landry Robert R. Laser Jr. Mr. Roger W. Latterell Steve and Martha Lawrence Cassandra Lee Judy and Lewis Lefkowitz Mrs. Vito F. LePore The LeQuire Family Paul and Susan Levy Rita Diane Lewis Daniel P. Lindstrom Mr. and Mrs. Ken Lingo Ms. Amanda Livsey Daniel Lochrie Carolyn S. Lockard In memory of H. A. Lockhart Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Loffi Gilbert and Erin Long Dr. and Mrs. William R. Long Mr. and Mrs. William B. Loyd Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lyles Betty and Pat Lynch Dr. and Mrs. George L. Mabry In honor of George and Sharon Mabry Malinda Mabry-Scott Ms. Alexandra T. MacKay Douglas L. MacKenzie Mr. and Mrs. James N. Maddox John and Laura and Patrick Maddux Miss Anne W. Magruder Rolin and Kristine Mains Shelia and Charles Majors Lucy and Larry Majors Mrs. Tommie C. Manning Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Mappes Carrie and Steve Marcantonio and Family Jeanne and Gino Marchetti Curt and Cynthia Masters Steve and Jean Matthews Leslie H. Matkosky Mr. Mark Matson Linda Mattson Mary Helen Maupin Larry and Kathleen Starnes-Maxwell Dr. Ingrid Mayer and Dr. Ricardo Fonseca Mr. and Mrs. John David McAlister Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. McAllister Mr. and Mrs. Randall McCathren Mr. and Mrs. Brian M. McClanahan Mr. and Mrs. E. Lamar McCoy Mr. and Mrs. Edward McCullough Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. McDougle Mr. R. David McDowell Timothy and Sally McFadden

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 17

DR. JOYCE JONES, Professor of Organ and Organist-in-Residence,

Baylor University

SUNDAY, APRIL 18 Hymn Festival with The King’s Brass

DR. ALBERT L. TRAVIS, Distinguished Professor

Emeritus of Organ, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

DR. J. SCOTT BENNETT, Organist & Master of the Music, Grace Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14

DR. CRAIG PHILLIPS, Associate Director of Music and Composer-in-Residence All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills, California

2010 THURSDAY BUSINESS LUNCH ORGAN RECITALS FEBRUARY 4

STEPHEN ABER, Senior Organ Performance Major, Belmont University

APRIL 1

KENNETH B. BREWER, Organist, restores antique keyboard instruments

FIRST BAPTIST NASHVILLE SEVENTH & BROADWAY

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MAY 6

DR. WILMA JENSEN, Choirmaster/Organist Emerita, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville

OCTOBER 7

DR. J. GREGG BUNN, Organist, Brentwood United Methodist Church

DECEMBER 2

ELIZABETH SMITH, Assistant Organist, Nashville Symphony

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Ronald Gobbell, Mary Ann & Gregory Sligh Mr. and Mrs. Neil McFarren James R. McGlocklin Mr. Garney McGregor Ms. Anne Elizabeth McIntosh Mr. and Mrs. Scott H. McKean Linda R. McLeod Mr. Alan Medders Herbert and Sharon Meltzer Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Merin Bruce and Bonnie Meriwether Lawrence and Donna Middleton Ms. Donna J. Mills James L. Mills Stephen A. and Karen R. Mitchell Tom and Joan Mitchell Robert and Marie Mobley Dr. and Mrs. Harold W. Morrison Theodore and Erin Morrison Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Morrow Linda and Harold Moses Mehran Mostajir and Dr. Mojdeh Mozayani Ms. Patricia Mraz Ms. Jennifer Murphy Tom* and Lucille Nabors Carolyn Heer Nash, Cali & Hayli Heer Mark and Carolyn Naumann Mr. Michael T. Neely Dr. and Mrs. Bryce A. Nelson Stephen Lee Nesbitt Keith Nicholas Robert Kinsley and Donna Nichols Paul Nicholson Phoenix Chicken Nicks Mrs. Marvin A. Nikolaus Chris and Leslie Norton James H. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Nancy and Frank Orr Rick and Penny Osgood Mary J. Osthus Mr. Inman E. Otey Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Owen Jr. Ophelia and George Paine Aaron and Jennifer Painter Ms. Ellie Parchman The Rev. Dr.* and Mrs. J. Perry Parker Donna Patterson and Roger Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Peak Dan Peck Mr. and Mrs. Tim Pedigo Dr. Lisa C. Pellegrin Mr. and Mrs. James W. Perkins Ms. Melrose Faulkerson Perry

Marty & Betty Dickens, Stephen Hough, Eric Deems, Stas Ghiletchi Suevelyn W. Peters Carol A. Pike In loving memory of Charles M. Plaxico Mr. Paul A. Pomfret Stephanie L. Poole Mr. and Mrs. John C. Porter Billy, Connie and Will Powell Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Price Pamela L. Quayson Mrs. John Rainey Mr. and Mrs. Ross A. Rainwater Gayle Ray Ms. Kathleen G. Rayburn Douglas P. Raymont Dr. and Mrs. Paul S. Redelheim Ms. Charlotte A. Reichley James and Deborah Reyland Dr. William O. Richards Bob Richardson Rev. and Mrs. Robert P. Richardson Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Harris D. Riley Jr. Dave and Ramona Riling Harry and Deborah Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rodewald Elizabeth and John Alden Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Federico Rodriguez-Giacinti Kenneth E. Schriver and Anna W. Roe Mr. and Mrs. Don Rollins Jack E. and Sharon G. Rubey Ms. Lora Rucker Gary M. Russell Simona and Radu Rusu Scott Rye Irene Carter Sain Dr. & Mrs. Norman R. Saliba Sterling McCann Sanders Samuel A. Santoro and Mary M. Zutter David Martin Satterfield Creston and Janice Saylors Carina and Roger Schecter In memory of Kenneth Schermerhorn Glenn R. and Carolyn J. Schirg The Robert Schnells Nelda and Kurt G. Schreiber In memory of Ola Mabel Webb Scott Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott Ms. Margaret D. Scruggs Ms. Amy Jeanece Seals Kristi L. Seehafer

Dr. and Mrs. L. Ray Sells Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Shears Ms. Clela Sheppard Denver & Sandy Sherry, Symphony Chorus Adrienne and Stanton Shuler Richard L. Simmons Mr. Gene Simpson Dr.* and Mrs. T. A. Smedley Kathy J. Smith and Family Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Kevin S. Smith Reinhold E. Smith Susan and Bill Snyder Jack S. Sollner Southeastern Telecom, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Sperling Irma and Robert Spies Mr. and Mrs. William T. Spitz Butch and Sunny Spyridon Mr. Darryl Glenn Steele and Family Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Steele Mr. Robert H. Stephens Mrs. Frank W. Stevens* Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Stevens Storage Technologies Frank and Patricia Storz Joseph and Cheryl Strichik Mr. and Mrs. Richard Suddeath John Sujdak & Judy Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Guin Sujdak & Family Charles S. and Gayle A. Sullivan Matthew and Andrea Sullivan and Family Robert L. and Catherine Cate Sullivan James Marshall Summar Keith and Donna Dame Summar Mr. Frank Sutherland and Ms. Natilee M. Duning Greg, Rhonda and Erik Swanson Dr. Anna Szczuka Dr. Loyda C. Tacogue Jaclyn and Bruce Tarkington Dr. Calvin M. Taylor Katherine Taylor Mary Curtis Taylor, Violin 1967-1991 Matthew W. Tays Christian and Grace Teal Ms. Laura Tek Michael Terry and Family Mr. and Mrs. Eugene TeSelle Lisa Thomas Mary Lee and Jim Thompson Donna K. Thurman Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Thurman Jr.

NOVEMBER

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Jeffrey Null Tiefermann and Family Mr. and Mrs. Don Tillman Dale and Doris Torrence Bill and Sharon Torrens Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Tosh Sr. Kita Mappin and Lloyd Townsend Jr. Thomas L. and Judith A. Turk Bradley and Karen Vander Molen Barbra B. Vaughn Ms. Susan C. Vincler Mr. Richard J. Waldrop Matt Walker Sarah Huddleston Walker Dr. and Mrs. Steve L. Walker Victoria C. Walker Mr.* and Mrs. Simon G. Waterlow Jerry and Brenda Weeks Ms. Rosemary D. Wesela John & Betsy Westfield Dr. and Mrs. Arville V. Wheeler Susan Hammonds-White and Walter H. White Mr. and Mrs. C. Parker Whitlock Roger M. Wiesmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Earl H. Williams Jr. Jeremy Williams Jo Anne Williams Ms. Cheryl L. Wilson Mrs. F. R. Wingo Sandra Wiscarson in memory of Kenneth Young Broadcasting Nashville - WKRN-TV Chris and Cindy Wood Mr. and Mrs. Lewis F. Wood Jr. Sidney and Richard M. Wooten Anne Allen Wright Dr. Patty W. Wright and Mr. Christopher J. Wright Gary and Marlys Wulfsberg Judge Randall and Kay Wyatt James Clayton Young Sr. Family *denotes donors who are deceased

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Legacy Society The Legacy Society honors those patrons whose deep commitment to the future of the Nashville Symphony has inspired them to include the Symphony in their estate planning through bequests, life-income gifts or other deferred-giving arrangements.

Anonymous Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Julie & Frank Boehm Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Mrs. Barbara J. Conder Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert William M. and Mildred P.* Duncan Family and Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia Landis Bass Gullett Judith Hodges Judith S. Humphreys Martha R. Ingram Heloise Werthan Kuhn Sally M. Levine

John T. Lewis Clare & Samuel Loventhal Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor James Victor Miller* Cynthia and Richard Morin Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Pamela K. and Philip Maurice Pfeffer Eric Raefsky, MD & Victoria Heil Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Irvin and Beverly Small Betsy Proctor Stratton* & Harry E. Stratton Dr. John B. Thomison Sr. Judy & Steve Turner Anne H. & Robert K. Zelle

*deceased

Great orchestras, like all great cultural institutions throughout history, are gifts to posterity; they are built and bestowed to succeeding generations by visionary philanthropists. If you have that vision for the Nashville Symphony and have provided for its future through your estate planning, the Symphony would like to recognize you as a member of its Legacy Society. You can request an enrollment form or more information about tax-advantaged planned giving through Susan Williams in the Symphony Development Department at 615.687.6524 or swilliams@nashvillesymphony.org. 90

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style. fashion. sophistication.

Burberry

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BCBG MaxAzria

Banana Republic

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Kate Spade

Gus Mayer

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Louis Vuitton

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Marmi Shoes

Sephora

The Cheesecake Factory

Brooks Brothers

Therapy Systems

Wolford

Tiffany & Co.

Stuart Weitzman

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Gift cards available from our mall concierge. THE MALL AT G R E E N H I L L S • H I L L S B O R O A N D A B B O T T M A RTIN ROADS, NASHVILLE • THEMALLATGREENHILLS.COM

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Arpeggio Arpeggio is a dining experience offered in the East Lobby. Open before all nighttime SunTrust Classical, Bank of America Pops, Adams and Reese Jazz Series concerts and most special performances, it features a sumptuous four-course buffet including appetizer, soup station, four entrées and dessert. The price is $38 with water and tea, not including tax and gratuity. Doors open two hours before the performance. Reservations are preferred; please call 615.687.6400. For updated menu information, please visit NashvilleSymphony.org. THE CAFÉ AND LOBBY BARS The Café, located in the West Lobby, offers a bistro-style à la carte menu beginning two hours prior to all concerts. The Café is also open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. Seven bars are spread throughout the building offering premium spirits, cocktails, wine, beer, soft drinks and bottled water. SYMPHONY STORE The Symphony Store is located on the west side of the building near the West Atrium lobby and the Café. A variety of items, including a wide selection of classical CDs, are available at all price ranges. Customers may also place special orders. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, and on all concert evenings from one hour prior to performance until 30 minutes after the performance has ended. ACCOMMODATIONS Restrooms and water fountains are available on the Lounge Level, located one floor below the Main Lobby; on the east and west sides of the Founders and Balcony Levels; and outside the Mike Curb Music Education Hall on the Founders Level. All restrooms are equipped for people with disabilities. Located on the Lounge Level, unisex restrooms are also available for disabled guests needing special assistance. CAMERAS, CELL PHONES, RECORDERS, BEEPERS & WATCH ALARMS Cameras or audio recording equipment may not be brought into any space where a rehearsal, performance or lecture is taking place. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms must be turned off prior to the start of any event.

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COAT CHECK To enhance the acoustical experience inside Laura Turner Concert Hall, we ask that guests 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. LATE SEATING As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members, each performance will have designated breaks when latecomers are seated. Those arriving after a performance begins will be asked to remain outside the entrance door nearest their ticketed seats until the appropriate break. CONCERT CONCIERGE Have a question, request or comment? Please visit our Concert Concierge on the northwest side of the Main Lobby. The Concierge is available to help you with anything you might need during your visit. Concert Concierge is open through the end of intermission. TICKET SALES The Box Office is located at street level on the Fourth Avenue side of the building closest to Symphony Place. Tickets may be purchased with MasterCard, VISA, American Express, Discover, cash or local personal checks. Limited 15-minute parking is available on Fourth Avenue just outside the Box Office. Regular Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday Hours on Concert Days: 10 a.m. to intermission Monday-Saturday Call for hours on Sunday Tickets for future performances and Will Call

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reservations are available by using one of the self-service kiosks located in the East and West Atrium lobbies or in the Box Office lobby. To speak with a customer service representative by phone, call 615.687.6400. Tickets are also available for future Nashville Symphony concerts through the Nashville Symphony’s website (NashvilleSymphony.org).

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

CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS Offered in the Balcony Lobby prior to each SunTrust Classical Series concert, these informal halfhour talks with our conductors and guest artists explore the evening’s program. Talks begin at 6 p.m. Thursday and at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

SERVICES FOR GUESTS WITH DISABILITIES Schermerhorn Symphony Center has been carefully designed to be barrier-free and meets or exceeds all criteria established by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). All public spaces, meeting rooms, offices, backstage dressing rooms and orchestra lounge, and production control rooms will accommodate performers, staff and guests with disabilities. Interior signage and all elevators make use of Braille lettering for directional signs in both public and backstage areas, including all room signs.

CAN’T MAKE A CONCERT? If you are unable to use your tickets, you may exchange them for another performance, availability permitting, or you may donate them for a tax deduction. Tickets must be exchanged or donated by 6 p.m. on the day before the performance. Some restrictions may apply. Call 615.687.6401. LISTENING DEVICES An infrared hearing system is available for guests who are hearing impaired. Headsets are available at no charge on a first-come, first-served basis from the coat-check area on the Lounge Level, and from the Concert Concierge. EMERGENCY MESSAGES Guests expecting urgent calls may leave their name and exact seat information (seating level, door number, row and seat number) with any usher. Anyone needing to reach guests during an event may call the Security Desk at 615.687.6610. EVACUATION To ensure your safety in case of fire or other emergency, we ask that you note the exit route nearest your seat. Please follow the instructions of our ushers, who are specifically trained to assist you in case of an emergency. 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.

VALET Valet parking, provided by Parking Management Company, is available for all performances on Symphony Place, on the north side of the building between Third and Fourth avenues. We offer pre-paid valet parking for all performances. For more details, call 615.687.6401. shuttles For $10 cash per person, round-trip shuttle service is available for SunTrust Classical Series and Bank of America Pops Series concerts. First come, first served. The shuttles leave from Belle Meade Plaza and The Factory at Franklin. For more info, call 615.687.6541.

FREE PARKING

Thanks to the generosity of SunTrust, we offer all Nashville Symphony concertgoers FREE parking on all concert nights in the original SunTrust parking garage at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Commerce Street (between Church Street and Commerce Street). Free shuttles are also provided. Visit our website for full details.

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BuildingMap Exit

Restrooms

Stairs

Elevator

Coat check and main restrooms located half-floor down in Lower Lobby

Concert Concierge

East Atrium

West Atrium

Box Office

Bar

Symphony Store Symphony Cafe

Bar

arpeggio

Loge Hall Loge Boxes

West Lobby

Laura Turner Concert Hall

Loge Hall Loge Boxes

Martha Rivers Ingram Courtyard

East Lobby

Security

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BuildingMap Coat Check

Food

WiFi Access

Concert Concierge Classical Conversations, additional bar and restrooms located in third-floor Balcony Lobby

East Grand Staircase

West Grand Staircase

Founders Circle

Green Room

Founders Boxes

Board Room

Founders Hall

Bar

Founders Boxes

Laura Turner Concert Hall

Orchestra View

Curb Room

Founders Level (2nd Floor) NOVEMBER

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Symphony Spring Fashion Show welcomes Isaac Mizrahi

n April 20, 2010, Schermerhorn Symphony Center will be the center of the style universe for one very special evening, when world-famous fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi presents his fall collection at the 2010 Symphony Spring Fashion Show. Mizrahi is also a published author and a veteran stage and screen personality — most recently featured in the Bravo network’s The Fashion Show. His designs have been worn by Hollywood celebrities and, of late, by first lady Michelle Obama. He’ll team with designer clothing store Gus Mayer for the 2010 Symphony Spring Fashion Show, which is being chaired by Troy Solarek and Pamela Kurio-Poe. Now known as one of the leading fashion events in this part of the country, the show will benefit the Nashville Symphony and the Thor Johnson Scholarship Fund. For more information, contact Amy Jacky, Director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra League, at 615.687.6541 or at ajacky@nashvillesymphony.org.

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If dreams came in shapes… Crisscut Diamond ®