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Though it’s easy to think of classical music as an established body of work, it is always growing and evolving. Composers continue to write new pieces, and orchestras, including the Nashville Symphony, continue to premiere them. This fall is a special time for the orchestra because it will present two world premieres: Roberto Sierra’s Sinfonía No. 4 on October 1-3, followed by Miguel del Aguila’s The Fall of Cuzco on November 5-7. What’s unique about both of these works is that they are products of two relatively new commissioning programs that actively seek to shape the future of classical music — and thanks to the Nashville Symphony’s participation, local audiences will have the chance to take part in this evolutionary process.

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Overture: Alan D. Valentine High Notes: Symphony News Symphony Planner Upcoming Concert Calendar InTune: American Airlines InTune: Regions Backstage: Meet Our Musicians Food & Drink: Symphony Café 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: Hawaii — 50 at 50

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This is a promising time for symphonic music, and the coming years will be a very interesting journey for all of us. We’re going to get a whole new perspective on this fantastic thing we call the symphony orchestra.

’ve been in the orchestra business for more than 30 years, and I still get excited every time a new concert season rolls around. That sense of anticipation has been even stronger than usual this year, because I’m so thrilled about working with Giancarlo Guerrero, who is now officially here as the Nashville Symphony’s seventh music director. Giancarlo has already become a familiar presence on the podium over the past few seasons, but the current season represents a significant deepening of our partnership with him. As we look to the months and years ahead, I believe that he is going to provide the kind of leadership and vision that will take the Nashville Symphony into a period of unprecedented creativity and artistic growth.

To get a sense of where our orchestra is headed, just look at Giancarlo’s approach to programming. I think you’ll find that the music he’s planned for this season builds on the orchestra’s strengths while at the same time pointing in some intriguing new directions. It is one of the most musically diverse seasons we’ve programmed in the time since my own arrival in Nashville more than a decade ago. There really is something for everyone here, from Bach’s monumental Mass in B-minor to Bartók’s breathtaking opera Bluebeard’s Castle. Giancarlo has succeeded in creating a balance that not only reflects his own interests and passions, but also manages to explore every corner of the orchestral repertoire.

Symphonic music is a continually evolving art form, and it is Giancarlo’s firm belief — and mine as well — that audiences should have the opportunity to experience all of it and to be a part of the creative process. It is for this reason that the Nashville Symphony remains committed to commissioning and performing new music. This month, for instance, the orchestra will premiere a work we co-commissioned by Roberto Sierra, and in November we’ll premiere a piece about the fall of the Incan Empire by Miguel del Aguila. Under Giancarlo’s watch, we’re going to have more and more opportunities to hear from younger composers — those whose careers are largely ahead of them — helping to place the Nashville Symphony on the leading edge of the musical life of our country.

There was a time when the prevailing trend in classical music composition was to challenge audiences — to aim for the intellect rather than the heart and soul. Over the past few decades, however, we have entered a period when composers like Sierra and del Aguila are writing more and more with the audience in mind. Today’s generation of composer understands that new music can embrace and engage audiences while still incorporating fresh ideas and approaches. This is a promising time for symphonic music, and the coming years will be a very interesting journey for all of us. We’re going to get a whole new perspective on this fantastic thing we call the symphony orchestra.

This isn’t to say that the Nashville Symphony is going to make a vast departure from its artistic identity. With Giancarlo leading the orchestra, we’ll keep exploring the breadth of the classical repertoire, and we’ll always be looking ahead to bigger, bolder and more ambitious projects that will continue to raise the orchestra’s profile. We have so many exciting things planned, and it will all be happening right here at Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

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All are invited to enjoy Regions FREE Day of Music

On Saturday, October 10, Schermerhorn Symphony Center will open its doors to the community for the fourth-annual Regions FREE Day of Music. Beginning at 10 a.m., this daylong celebration will feature more than two dozen local ensembles performing throughout the building. The Day of Music is free and open to the public, but to avoid overcrowding, passes for entry will be distributed on a firstcome, first-served basis on the day of the event. Visitors are welcome to stay as long as they wish, but they must return their passes when they leave, allowing more visitors to gain access to the building.

The Symphony has enlisted a diverse array of artists to participate in the Regions FREE Day of Music, including Latin ensemble the San Rafael Band, the chamber-jazz quartet Otto and a number of student ensembles from area schools. One highlight will be percussionist Roy “Futureman” Wooten’s new project, The Black Mozart, a tribute to 18th-century French conductor, composer and military hero Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Led by Assistant Conductor Kelly Corcoran, the Nashville Symphony will perform at 8 p.m. in Laura Turner Concert Hall.

This hugely successful event, which drew more than 7,000 people to the Schermerhorn last year, wouldn’t be possible without the support of Regions. Thanks are also due to event planner Jim Gray and to the numerous musicians donating their time to the Regions FREE Day of Music.

Outdoor broadcast adds to spectacular First Tennessee Opening Night The Nashville Symphony opened a new chapter in its history — the Giancarlo Guerrero era — at its First Tennessee All-Beethoven Opening Night, which kicked off the 2009/10 season on September 11. The sold-out audience gave guest pianist Lang Lang a thunderous ovation for his performance of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, but the mood was just as lively outside the building, as several hundred people watched a live broadcast of the concert on a 9-by-16-foot LED video screen set up on the plaza fronting Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Local TV stations sent news crews to cover the event, and even a torrential downpour couldn’t deter visitors from enjoying the concert broadcast.

Just prior to the concert, the Symphony also present- Schermerhorn guests enjoy Opening Night on the big screen ed a live streaming video webcast featuring live, on-camera interviews and an exclusive look inside the hall during the opening minutes of the concert. More than 2,000 people from 35 U.S. states, Canada and Australia visited NashvilleSymphony.org to watch the hour-long program, which was simulcast on the big screen outside the Schermerhorn.

Many thanks to the parties who made the Symphony’s Opening Night such a huge success: sponsor First Tennessee; the musicians of the Nashville Symphony; on-camera hosts Alan Frio and Terri Merryman; Robert Swope of Sunrise Entertainment, who filmed the concert; and Bob Plageman and Dean Johnson of ATW Sports Broadcasting Network LLC, who helped to produce the webcast.

Symphony clarinetist selected by instrument maker Buffet Crampon Congratulations to Nashville Symphony principal clarinetist James Zimmermann, who was recently selected to serve as a performing artist for Buffet Crampon, one of the world’s oldest manufacturers of woodwind instruments. This is a big honor for Zimmermann — who will represent Buffet Crampon at recitals, master classes and other events — and for the orchestra, as now the Nashville Symphony joins the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra in having a Buffet Crampon Performing Artist in its ranks.

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The Sound of today Nashville Symphony helps expand the classical repertoire by participating in two visionary commissioning programs

By Jonathan Marx

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hough it’s easy to think of the classical repertoire as an established body of work, it is always growing and evolving. Throughout the history of music, the emergence of new voices — from Bach in the 18th century to Stravinsky in the 20th — has shaped what we hear in the concert hall. This is no less true of the present day: Composers continue to write new pieces, and orchestras, including the Nashville Symphony, continue to premiere them.

This fall is a special time for the Nashville Symphony because it will present two brand-new works at Schermerhorn Symphony Center as part of its SunTrust Classical Series: Roberto Sierra’s Sinfonía No. 4 on October 1-3, followed by Miguel del Aguila’s The Fall of Cuzco on November 5-7­. What’s unique about these pieces is that they are both products of two relatively new commissioning programs that seek to shape the future of classical music. And thanks to the Nashville Symphony’s participation, local audiences will have the chance to take part in this evolutionary process.

“I think of music as a living organism; it has to stay healthy to survive,” says Nashville Symphony Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero. “That’s why we have to keep reinventing ourselves and bringing new music into the concert hall. But simply performing a piece will not ensure its survival — that’s really up to the audience.”

The Nashville Symphony’s performance of Sierra’s Sinfonía No. 4 this month puts the orchestra at the forefront of an effort to expand classical repertoire by composers of diverse ethnic backgrounds. According to Detroit-based nonprofit The Sphinx Organization, works by AfricanAmerican and Latino composers account for less than 1 percent of the classical music performed by American orchestras. It is for this reason that The Sphinx Organization created the Sphinx Commissioning Consortium, Roberto Sierra a partnership of 12 American orchestras seeking to expand the number of works by black and Latino composers. Sierra was nominated for this commission by the Nashville Symphony, which is a member of the consortium, and his piece is the first in what promises to be a long line of Sphinx commissions.

Commissioning organizations may help fund the creation of new work, but they’re also important because they ensure that the work will be heard by an audience — and the more orchestras that are involved in these projects, the more performances a work can receive. Sierra’s piece, for instance, will be

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performed a total of eight times this season, and next year Guerrero will travel to Brazil to conduct the piece with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra.

“There are composers writing symphonies that will never be performed, and one of those might be the greatest piece ever written,” Sierra says. “That’s why we need the infrastructure provided by commissioning organizations, because then you have many people with a vested interest in making this happen. In the past, many performances of Mozart’s works were put together

by Mozart himself, and the same was true of Beethoven. We can’t put on this sort of ad hoc performance today because the cost would be astronomical.”

Guerrero points out that media and technology have also facilitated the growth of new music in a way that simply wouldn’t have been possible a century or two ago. “It used to be that after a piece was premiered, the composer would have to take the only available score and have the parts copied by hand; then the piece would have to be shipped by land or sea. That could take months. Nowadays, with the Internet, it’s so much easier to get new music performed; composers can just send PDF files of their scores.

“What’s more,” Guerrero adds, “we are giving audiences the chance to hear from the composers themselves by bringing them to the concert hall.

Imagine what it would have been like in the 1820s to go to the premiere of a Beethoven symphony and to hear him give a pre-concert lecture.”

Commissions ‘Take on a life of their Own’ through Magnum Opus Miguel del Aguila’s The Fall of Cuzco is the product of another commissioning project, Magnum Opus, which was launched seven years ago

by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Kathryn Gould in partnership with Meet The Composer, a national organization dedicated to promoting the creation of new music. Well-known in the world of business, Gould is also an amateur violinist and a passionate supporter of the arts. “I have often felt alienated from the music of my time,” she says, “and I wanted to do something about it. Commissioning new works through Magnum Opus has proven that I can be involved in a way I had not thought possible.”

The project’s first round of commissions was limited to orchestras in California’s Bay Area, but Magnum Opus has since expanded its scope. Most notably, conductors — instead of orchestras, as is typically the case — are partnering with composers for the project’s second round. That gives Giancarlo Guerrero and his fellow Magnum Opus participants, who include Buffalo Philharmonic Music Director JoAnn Falletta and Marin Symphony Music Director Alasdair Neale, the opporOCTOBER

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tunity to perform their respective commissions with other orchestras around the country. In the process, Gould says, the pieces have a chance to “take on a life of their own.”

This is especially rewarding for the composers involved in Magnum Opus. “At a time when budget cuts force many orchestras to limit their repertoire to standard historical works,” del Aguila says, “this project makes it possible for us to create something new. I worked for many months writing Cuzco, but my interaction with Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony will make this music, and the performance, a group project from which all involved will benefit and evolve in some way.”

Composers’ music captures a changing America Born and raised in Uruguay, del Aguila dramatizes the downfall of the Incan Empire in The Fall of Cuzco, his latest work to incorporate Latin American themes and ideas. Written several years ago, his Charango Capriccioso also incorporated folk idioms from Andean culture, while an even earlier set of works concerned the Aztec ruler Cuauhtémoc.

“For the past few years,” the composer explains, “there has been a tendency in my works to…write down on paper the unfiltered, undeveloped and simple music that still rings in me, the soundtrack of my childhood memories. The Fall of Cuzco follows this trend; it’s made out of my distant memories of Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru.”

Latin American motifs also run through the work of Sierra, who often incorporates elements from the music he heard growing up in Puerto Rico. “These are my tropical memories,” he explains. “I think there’s always that element of the Caribbean rhythm that comes through in my music, even if it’s on an unconscious level. I’ve also

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been influenced by the incredibly expressive nature of the singers I grew up hearing, people like Héctor Lavoe.”

By giving expression to these distinctive elements within his music, Sierra’s commission wonderfully helps to fulfill the Sphinx Organization’s goal of fostering greater diversity within classical music. At the same time, the composer says, “I do hope that our pieces aren’t played because they are minority pieces, but because they’re good and interesting pieces. Although it’s undeniable that opportunities are needed for minority composers, the goal is that eventually we get beyond the point of needing to commission new works because of the composer’s ethnic background.”

For both Sierra and del Aguila, their identity as Latin American composers is simply one aspect of the larger musical and cultural framework in which they find themselves. “I am an American composer,” del Aguila says. “I have no problem with my works being labeled as ‘exotic,’ as long as they are also considered part of our own culture, as I am. America is forever reinventing itself and redefining its own culture, and my music is just a small aspect of this process.”

Thanks to the efforts of both Sphinx and Magnum Opus — and of all the composers, conductors and orchestras who have helped bring these programs to life — audiences can experience for themselves the full breadth of contemporary American music.

“There used to be a time when orchestras would program new music as a formality, because they felt they had to,” Guerrero says. “But today we want to honor composers like Sierra and del Aguila in the same way we honor Beethoven and Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. I feel the same passion for their music that I do for any Mahler symphony — and if I feel that way, it comes across to the audience.

“I think that people’s enthusiasm for new music is only going to grow, because our participation in these commissioning projects is an ongoing thing. Next season, the Nashville Symphony will be doing one of the first performances of another Sphinx commission, by Daniel Bernard Roumain.

We’re hoping to take all of this to the next level and start recording some of these works as well. We are establishing a permanent record, and before you know it, more and more orchestras will be performing these pieces.”

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SILENT COMEDY CLASSICS FEATURING ORGANIST TOM TRENNEY, October 26 Tom Trenney returns to the magnificent Martin Foundation Concert Organ to provide the musical backdrop for two silent comedy classics. In One Week, newlyweds Buster Keaton and Sibyl Seely try their best to build a house from a do-it-yourself kit, while Big Business stars Laurel and Hardy as Christmas tree salesmen who get into an argument with a prospective customer and take their disagreement just a little too far. Hilarity and destruction ensue. Audience members are encouraged to shout and cheer along with the action, so come down to the Schermerhorn for what promises to be a roaring good time!

A MUSICAL SPACE ODYSSEY, November 5-7 Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and the orchestra will perform two pieces concert sponsor: used to memorable effect in Stanley Kubrick’s film classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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TANGO & RAVEL’S BOLERO, November 19-21 Laura Turner Concert Hall comes alive with Latin rhythms as Giancarlo Guerrero and the orchestra perform Ravel’s hypnotic Bolero and three works by Argentine tango master Astor Piazzolla. Daniel Binelli, a master of the bandoneón, the accordion-like instrument that gives the tango its distinctive sound, will take the stage to perform Piazzolla’s Aconcagua Concerto, while violinist Tianwa Yang is the featured artist on The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, which will transport listeners to this worldly South American city. Part of the SunTrust Classical Series.

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The Nashville Symphony’s 2009/10 season is full of highlights, so InConcert asked three members of the orchestra which concerts they were most excited about performing.

Joel Reist, principal bass I think the whole season is probably the most interesting we’ve presented, but if I had to pick a couple of highlights, I would probably start with Ligeti’s Atmosphères (November 5-7). I’ve never played it, and I’ve never heard it live. It was written in 1961, and it’s something that in 200 years is still going to sound fresh. It’s going to be a lot of fun to perform, because every string player has an individual part. This is going to require a different set of skills and will be a unique listening and performing experience.

On the same program is Also Sprach Zarathustra, a huge work that will prove to be memorable, challenging and very rewarding. In the double basses, we have many important passages. For the same reasons, I’m also looking forward to Mahler’s Fifth Symphony (April 29-May 1), which is another monumental work but is more like chamber music on a really grand scale. If I had to pick anything else, it would be Jennifer Higdon’s Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn (January 7-9) and Penderecki’s “Resurrection” Concerto with pianist Barry Douglas (January 21-23). It’s not often that you get to play a work that is pretty much brand-new and play it with the soloist for whom it’s been written.

Dawn Hartley, assistant principal bassoon I get excited every time I look at the new season, because there’s so much variety and there’s so much for me to learn this year. There are lots of pieces I’ve never performed before, and that’s really exciting, but even the familiar pieces are thrilling, because we don’t play them the same way that we might have played them in TPAC. I’m looking forward to both Krzysztof Penderecki (January 21-23) and Sir Neville Marriner (February 25-27) coming to town, because our guest conductors are always so wonderful to work with, and each one brings something new and different. I’m also really looking forward to our collaborations with the Nashville Symphony Chorus. I always enjoy the opportunity to perform with them, and we’re doing a lot with them this year. In addition to Handel’s Messiah (December 17-19), there’s Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Rachmaninoff’s The Bells (December 3-5) and William Walton’s Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario (February 25-27).

I love the play Henry V, so it will be interesting to hear how that has been set. And of course, Bach’s Mass in B minor (March 4-6) is going to be a joy; it will be a real highlight of the season to perform that at the Schermerhorn.

Rebecca Cole, second violin There are two concerts I am especially looking forward to this season.

One is Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle (May 20-22), because I love his music, but I have never played this piece — and it’s pretty rare that I have not played a piece by a major composer. It sounds really interesting in terms of the symbolism. For personal reasons, the other concert I am looking forward to is Bach’s B-minor Mass (March 4-6) with conductor Helmuth Rilling. I played under Rilling for 18 years at the Oregon Bach Festival and have performed this piece almost a dozen times with him; it’s been different every time. The contralto soloist, Ingeborg Danz, with whom I have worked at the Oregon Bach Festival and at the Internationale Bachakademie, is a very old and dear friend of mine. I had the pleasure of going sightseeing with her when we were both in Oregon — I remember she loved the sea lions and was trying to imitate their calls. I think anyone who loves music should be able to hear Ingeborg sing live at least once. She has this amazing voice. I think of it as an expensive, old red wine that has all of these different colors and textures in it, very complex and very beautiful.

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Classical Series

SCHermerhorn Symphony Center Laura Turner Concert Hall October 1, 2009, at 7 p.m.

October 2 & 3, 2009, at 8 p.m.

Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Alisa Weilerstein, cello

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385, “Haffner”

Allegro con spirito

Andante

Menuetto

Presto

Classical

Mozart & Shostakovich

Alisa Weilerstein

ROBERTO SIERRA Sinfonía No. 4

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Muy rápido y rítmico

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria; died on December 5, 1791, in Vienna Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385 “Haffner” Mozart composed his first version of the Symphony No. 35 in the summer of 1782 on a commission from Salzburg, where it was premiered that year. He later revised and shortened the work and conducted its Vienna premiere on March 23, 1783. The first Nashville Symphony performance of this piece took place on February 12-13, 1973, with Music Director Thor Johnson.

Mozart’s score calls for calls for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings. estimated length: 17 minutes The “Haffner” Symphony links Mozart’s first period in Vienna, where he had relocated in 1781, with his Salzburg past.

In 1776, he had written a wellreceived serenade for one of his native town’s powerbrokers, a wealthy merchant named Sigmund Haffner. When Haffner’s son was made a nobleman in the summer of 1782, the family wanted to celebrate with more music from the same source.

The trouble was that Mozart already found himself overextended with projects — particularly his first operatic commission for Vienna, The Abduction from the Seraglio.

Heightening the tension was the fact that Mozart was preparing for his own wedding in August, a match of which his

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father disapproved. Musicologist Neal Zaslaw speculates that Mozart possibly experienced a slight block owing to “disaffection toward Salzburg and anger at his father.” But whatever resentment he may have felt, the composer managed to produce one of his most sparkling and ebullient orchestral scores.

Movement by movement, Mozart sent what he completed to his father in Salzburg and then forgot about it. The following spring, when he needed fresh material for one of his Vienna concerts, he looked the score over again and made some revisions (for example, adding flutes and clarinets to the ensemble for the outer movements). To his father, Mozart remarked that “my new Haffner symphony has positively amazed me, for I had forgotten every single note of it. It must surely produce a good effect.”

Mozart’s prediction came true when he introduced it at the Vienna concert. A contemporary newspaper reported that among the “exceptionally large crowd” in attendance was the emperor, who stayed for the whole concert “against his habit” and joined in “such unanimous applause as has never been heard of here.”

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a unison leap of joy, a twooctave-spanning smile that sets the spirited Allegro in motion.

Mozart wrote to his father that it “must be played with great fire.” The entire movement is dominated by the character of the opening theme, an approach to sonata form influenced by the composer’s friend Haydn.

The G-major Andante winks and entertains with urbane pleasures, perhaps nodding to Mozart’s new public in the big city. The Minuet, by contrast, evokes the festive, unforced mirth of Mozart’s music for public celebrations from his earlier Salzburg years. Mozart wanted the Presto to be played “as fast as possible.” You can hear a prefiguration of the boisterous Figaro music to come in a few years, while the main tune actually recycles the hilarious final aria delivered by Osmin in The Abduction from the Seraglio.

Mozart seems to celebrate not only his Salzburg friends of old but also the liberating prospects of his new life in Vienna, where he was just beginning to make his mark.

Roberto Sierra born on October 9, 1953, in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico; currently resides in Ithaca, N.Y. Sinfonía No. 4 Roberto Sierra composed his Sinfonía No. 4 between 2008 and 2009 on a commission by the Nashville Symphony as part of the Sphinx Commissioning Consortium. These performances mark the world premiere of Sinfonía No. 4, which the composer has dedicated to Nashville Symphony Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero.

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Sierra has scored the work for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, marimba, bongos, bass drum, harp, piano and strings. estimated length: 25 minutes Puerto Rican-born composer Roberto Sierra has developed a unique style characterized by infusing classical forms and genres with Latin American idioms. The composer refers to the process of creating these vibrantly colorful hybrids as “tropicalization.” The journeys that Sierra undertakes are not limited to the geographical. His compositions also travel freely across time. His Concierto barroco for guitar, for example, was inspired by the historical novel

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Sierra’s four symphonies, which are part of an ongoing cycle, similarly reconsider the traditional genre from his unique perspective. “I’m interested in the Classical and Romantic tradition of the multi-movement symphony as something that can still be used by modern composers,” Sierra explains. Sinfonía No. 4, his longest to date, is designed according to a classically familiar architectural pattern: a first movement that can be loosely traced to sonata form, followed

by Sierra’s reinterpretations of a scherzo and a slow movement, and an exciting, rhythmically charged finale.

Sierra intends his symphonies to communicate purely musical experiences, without reference to external programmatic elements. Still, his innovative, “tropicalizing” style — mixing popular and classical idioms — links these works to others in the prolific composer’s catalogue that do have extra-musical associations, such as a piece Sierra wrote for the Kronos Quartet drawing on personal memories (Memorias Tropicales) or his acclaimed Missa Latina, which suggests a spiritual odyssey. In line with this “tropicalization,” the Sinfonía No. 4 subtly weaves familiar Latin metrical patterns into its musical argument — sometimes subliminally, sometimes more overtly, as in the bolero framework of the third movement or the 3+3+2 rhythmic pattern (known as a clave) that underlies the finale.

Sierra, who spent a period in Europe studying with György Ligeti, recalls that the modernist guru gave him essential advice by encouraging him to stay true to his roots. Although he has lived in the United States since 1989 and teaches at Cornell University, Sierra remains intimately connected to his Puerto Rican heritage and the vernacular music that was a part of daily life growing up in Vega Baja, on the northern coast of the Enchanted Isle. “Because I am Puerto Rican,” declares the composer, “my music is Puerto Rican. Always. The wealth of images I have in mind refers to that place where I grew up, to the sounds, the colors, the sunshine, the Puerto Rican sky.

Even the more abstract music has an accent that points to where I was born.”

Roberto Sierra has provided the following description of Sinfonía No. 4: “The first movement (Moderadamente rápido) introduces three different kinds of materials: first, melodic gestures centered around the tonality of A minor; a series of chords with highly chromatic content that provide harmonic support for contrasting melodic gestures; and a rhythmic figure which supports both harmonic and melodic materials. These elements are then developed, combined and appear in different guises, sometimes either as foreground or as background material. The movement closes with a brief coda that comes back to the initial tonality of A minor and vaguely suggests a recapitulation.

“The first 12 notes of the ‘scherzo’ form the basis for the whole second movement (Rápido). Instead of using the

traditional scherzo-trio-scherzo structure, slow lyrical sections provide formal variety.

Although the initial melodic material is not a tone row, it is formed of four three-note groups that are symmetrical in nature. The central note of the movement is C-sharp.

“As the tempo indication implies, the third movement (Tiempo de bolero) evokes the slow Latin ballads, called boleros, that became very popular in the 1950s. The accompanying chords of the bolero melodies are written on a chromatic descending bass line that starts in F and cycles back to F. The first fast digression is reminiscent of the ‘scherzo’ material and provides a contrasting musical idea that becomes contrapuntal accompaniment when the bolero resumes. The two ideas are then superimposed, forming a complex polyphonic structure.

Eventually, the bolero idea returns just as it was introduced at the start of the movement.

“The last movement (Muy rápido y rítmico) ends where the Sinfonía began and is centered around the note A. The arc formed by the central notes of each movement thus make up the augmented chord A/C-sharp/ F/A, which is a basic chordal structure/sound used in all four movements. The main idea of this finale is the vibrant Latin clave rhythm, which supports from beginning to end all the melodic and harmonic materials.”

Dmitri Shostakovich born on September 25, 1906, in Saint Petersburg, Russia; died on August 9, 1975, in Moscow Concerto for Cello No. 2 in G major, Op. 126

Shostakovich composed the second of his two cello concertos in spring 1966 for Mstislav Rostropovich, who performed as soloist in the premiere in Moscow on September 25, 1966, with Evgeny Svetlanov conducting the USSR Symphony Orchestra. This month’s concerts mark the first time that the Nashville Symphony has performed this piece.

In addition to solo cello, Shostakovich scores the concerto for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 3 bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), 2 horns, timpani, tambourine, snare drum, tom-tom, woodblock, whip, bass drum, xylophone, 2 harps and strings. estimated length: 33 minutes Throughout his life, Shostakovich endured numerous ordeals engineered

by Stalin’s thought police, and he was repeatedly subjected to a humiliating cycle of public denunciation and rehabilitation.

By the time of the Second Cello Concerto (the fifth of the six concertos in his catalogue), Stalin had been dead for 13 years, and the composer was, aside from a few controversies, back in official favor — he even received several state medals at the 60th-birthday concert at which this concerto was premiered. Still, Shostakovich had hardly lost sight of the essentially precarious position of an artist in the Soviet Union.

Shortly before he began writing the concerto came the death of Anna Akhmatova — the poet with whom he was often compared and who had also suffered under Stalin. And

soon enough the new regime of Leonid Brezhnev would put an end to the “thaw” and revive more repressive policies.

In his private correspondence, Shostakovich indicated that he had no “program” in mind for the concerto, but a sense of quiet desperation seems to underlie its remarkably subdued tone. The piece can be seen to anticipate the leaner and sometimes oddly mercurial late style of his final decade, during which the composer was beset by ill health. (He suffered his first heart attack just a month after finishing the work.) In addition, the soloist plays a subtler protagonist here than in the much better-known First Cello Concerto from 1959. Both concertos were written specifically for the incredible expressive range commanded by Mstislav Rostropovich.

Shostakovich apparently considered this Second Concerto to be close in nature to a symphony. Chronologically, it comes between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Symphonies; in fact, it foreshadows aspects of his final work in the genre, the Fifteenth. Although its design suggests the traditional threemovement format you would expect for a concerto, Shostakovich develops a language of symphonic rigor. The first four notes of the piece (a sparse motif of a half-step) is the cell from which much of the musical material is generated. Moreover, the soloist clearly has the spotlight and yet is intricately woven into what is often an extraordinarily strange and unpredictable orchestral fabric. There is little of the extroverted display that tends to be associated with a concerto.

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Even the three-movement structure turns out to be unusual. The first and last movements are of comparable length, dwarfing an interlude-like middle movement, which is seamlessly linked to the finale. Shostakovich meanwhile subverts the “public” guise of the concerto by starting with slow and quiet music of an intensely private, brooding quality. The second theme brings a contrast of gentle harmonies but is closely related to the opening motif. A quickening during the central development (signaled by the xylophone and woodwinds) is effected by shortening note values instead of changing the tempo.

In one of the piece’s most unsettling moments, the orchestral frenzy is silenced by ominous thwacks from the bass drum as the cello continues on its own. A recapitulation leads back to the melancholy introspection of the opening for a quiet conclusion from the harp and horn against the cello’s sustained note.

Embedded throughout are numerous self-quotations, but the scherzo-like middle movement borrows from a popular (and apparently bawdy) Ukrainian tune that served as a private joke between Shostakovich and Rostropovich. It’s certainly catchy and is announced right after the fanfare-flourish with which the cello starts. But the simple fanfare motif and one of its offshoots turn out to be the real engine driving the movement and are passed kaleidoscopically across the orchestra. Under snare drum rolls, the fanfare segues into the final movement.

In the Allegretto, an opening cadenza for cello, strangely accompanied by tambourine, leads the way to a theme whose

lyricism alternates with a sprightly march-like fragment.

The cello ties the movement’s segments together with a recurrently graceful, neoclassical flourish. Along the way we hear a systematic recall of themes from the first two movements.

In a striking climax, Shostakovich alludes to the “breakthrough” fanfare of Mahler’s First Symphony. But the frenzy that follows is soon deflated, and the music returns to the brooding attitude that opened the concerto. Surreally underscored by ticking percussion, the cello is left at last in total solitude.

Maurice Ravel born on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, France; died on December 28, 1937, in Paris Rapsodie espagnole Ravel originally composed the Rapsodie espagnole for duo piano in the summer of 1907, using a piece he had written in 1895 for the third movement.

He scored the work for orchestra between 1907 and 1908. Édouard Colonne led the premiere in Paris on March 18, 1908.

The first Nashville Symphony performance of this piece took place on January 27-28, 1989, with guest conductor Michael Barrett.

The score calls for 2 piccolos, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, tam-tam, military drum, Basque drum, cymbals, triangle, xylophone, castanets, celesta, 2 harps and strings. estimated length: 15 minutes

Maurice Ravel

The Rapsodie espagnole dates from a pivotal year for Maurice Ravel. He was already a celebrated composer, but in 1907 he undertook both his first opera (L’Heure espagnole) and his first major orchestral work (the Rapsodie). As it happens, both address Spanish themes. Ravel had been born just north of the Spanish border, and his Basque mother imbued her son with a lifelong enthusiasm for Spanish culture — one that certainly extended beyond his best-known work, the ballet Bolero.

But in the meticulous detail of its orchestration, the Rapsodie perhaps also points to Ravel’s other parent as well. Of Swiss origin, his father was a musically inclined mechanical engineer who was involved with the development of the automobile and even invented circus contraptions for Barnum and Bailey. Ravel inherited his love of gadgets and toys, and it’s easy to see the father’s logical discipline as a source for the son’s unyielding perfectionism. Ravel initially worked out the Rapsodie in a version for duo piano, but in its fully orchestrated form, his masterful and vivid wash of colors gives the impression that this composer, who had been scandalously rebuffed when he

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tried to win recognition from the academy, was already an old hand at working with a complex symphonic canvas.

The opening, Prelude to the Night, prefigures a kind of Minimalism as it hypnotically repeats a descending four-note pattern. The piece evokes the mystery of night undiluted by light pollution, as eyes adjust to shifting shadows. Ravel knew how to use his instruments as characters: In pairs, first clarinets and then bassoons weave spell-like cadenzas with an ambiguous, bi-tonal flavor that may well have given Stravinsky some ideas for his ballet Petrushka. Malagueña refers to the folk music of southern Spain, specifically a kind of fandango or flamenco.

Ravel quickly builds from a quiet opening to a dizzying collage of sound pictures before a doleful English horn solo cools down the mood and signals the return of the Prelude music.

The Habanera — which originates from a piece the composer had written in 1895 — features an unusual and surprising choice of colors.

Toward the end, listen for Ravel’s accentuation of the familiar rhythm high in the instrumental register. The concluding Feria (referring to a “festival day”) is the longest piece of the set, a tour de force of blended colors and rhythmically charged energy.

Ravel’s music spins cheerfully, stopping just short of frenzied mania before it is interrupted by a languorous middle section.

Daylight, we thought, had dispelled the shadows for good, yet the night music from the Prelude holds sway once more.

But Ravel ensures we fully revel in the celebration, as the music at last explodes with an impressive shower of orchestral fireworks.

— 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.

Artist Bio

ALISA WEILERSTEIN, cello American cellist Alisa Weilerstein has attracted widespread attention for combining a natural virtuosic command and technical precision with impassioned musicianship. At 27 years old, she is already a veteran on the classical music scene. She has performed with the nation’s top orchestras, has given recitals in music capitals throughout the U.S. and Europe, and has appeared regularly at prestigious festivals. She is also a dedicated chamber musician.

A highlight of Weilerstein’s 2009/10 season will take place on May 1, 2010, when she performs Elgar’s Cello Concerto in London with the Berlin Philharmonic and Daniel Barenboim. The concert will be televised live worldwide and will also be released on DVD. During the season she will also perform the Elgar concerto with the Hamburg Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Lyon.

Other highlights of Weilerstein’s 2009/10 season include the Canadian premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and her debuts with the BBC Scottish Symphony and at the Cartagena International Music Festival. She will perform the Dvořák Cello Concerto

Alisa Weilerstein

with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Peter Oundjian, the Hallé Orchestra and Okko Kamu, the Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic.

In November 2009, Weilerstein will perform the first three of Bach’s Six Cello Suites over three days at Columbia University in New York City.

She will conclude the Bach cycle in April 2010.

In 2008, Weilerstein was awarded Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal prize for exceptional achievement, and she was named the winner of the 2006 Leonard Bernstein Award, which she received at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany. She received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2000 and was selected for two prestigious young artists’ programs in 2000/01: the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organization) “Rising Stars” recital series and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two. Weilerstein also recorded a CD for EMI Classics’ Debut series in 2000.

In November 2008, Weilerstein — who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 9 years old — was made a celebrity advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

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Nashville Symphony Matt Catingub, conductor

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Artist bios

AL JARREAU, vocals Al Jarreau’s unique vocal style and innovative musical expressions have made him one of the most exciting and critically acclaimed performers of our time, with seven GRAMMY® Awards, scores of international music awards and popular accolades worldwide. When Jarreau was a young man, his natural musical gifts began to shape his future. Living in San Francisco, he found himself performing at a small jazz club with a trio headed by George Duke, and by the late ’60s he knew that he would make singing his life. Relocating to Los Angeles, he began his apprenticeship in such famed nightspots as Dino’s, the Troubadour and the Bitter End West. Shortly thereafter, he branched out to New York City, where he gained national television exposure on programs hosted by Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, David Frost and Mike Douglas.

In 1975, following an extended stint at the Bla Bla Cafe in Los Angeles, Warner Bros. Records talent scouts spotted Jarreau and signed him to a recording contract.

His debut album for the label, We Got By, was released to considerable acclaim. That positive reception spread across the continent and over the Atlantic when Jarreau was awarded a national music award in Germany for Best New International Soloist that same year. A second German award came his way with the release of

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his follow-up album, Glow.

Jarreau’s career breakthrough came in 1977, when Warner Bros. released Look to the Rainbow, his live double album, which was culled from his first world tour. The record earned the vocalist his first GRAMMY® for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.

In recent years Jarreau has continued to tour extensively across the globe, with trips to Azerbaijan, Morocco, Tunisia and Russia, and a co-headlining U.S. tour with George Benson in support of their duet album, Givin’ It Up. Recorded in spring 2006, Givin’ It Up features many guest artists, including Herbie Hancock, Sir Paul McCartney, Jill Scott, Chris Botti and Patti Austin, among other musical veterans.

Since 1999, Jarreau has been teaming up with symphony orchestras throughout the U.S. and Europe, performing his most popular hits, along with some classics and some favorites from Broadway.

MATT CATINGUB, conductor Matt Catingub is a musician of many talents: woodwind artist, conductor, pianist, vocalist, performer, director, composer and arranger. Born on March 25, 1961, to parents of Polynesian island descent, he is the youngest son of the great jazz vocalist Mavis Rivers.

Catingub was introduced to music through his mother’s albums for Capitol Records and Frank Sinatra’s Reprise label. Affectionately known as “Polynesia’s First Lady of Song,” Rivers performed regularly with her son at her side, until

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the day of her passing in 1992.

Rivers was always closely connected with Hawaii and the South Pacific, and her influence on Catingub, culturally and musically, will forever be strong.

Largely self-taught, Catingub began learning the piano at age 7 before switching to the alto saxophone at 16. A year later, he was asked to play at the Monterey Jazz Festival.

At 18, he became the youngest member of the Louie Bellson Big Band, where he debuted his arranging career with his composition “Explosion!,” which made it onto the band’s next recording.

Catingub has been the conductor for the Honolulu Symphony Pops since 1998, conducting, performing and producing 90 percent of the orchestra’s arrangements and orchestrations. Rosemary Clooney performed the last concert of her career with the Honolulu Symphony Pops. The November 2001 concert was recorded and released in 2002 as a tribute to the artist; it was the first CD by the Honolulu Symphony Pops and would later be nominated for a GRAMMY®.

Moviegoers have also been exposed to Catingub’s musical talent. His music was heard in the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, and most recently he wrote the music for George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck.

The movie features Catingub’s arrangements and tenor sax, and he even has an onscreen appearance as the leader of the band. The soundtrack went on to win a GRAMMY® in 2005.

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Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser

CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Concert de Gaudí Allegro Largo sereno Svolazzante Sharon Isbin, guitar

intermission ROBERT SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97 “Rhenish” Lebhaft Scherzo: Sehr mässig Nicht schnell Feierlich Lebhaft

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RICHARD WAGNER born on May 22, 1813, in Leipzig, Germany; died on February 13, 1883, in Venice, Italy Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music Wagner composed the first version of his opera Tannhäuser between the summer of 1843 and April 1845 and led its first performance in Dresden on October 19, 1845. He later revised the score substantially for a revival of the work in Paris, which opened on March 13, 1861 (and became a legendary fiasco). The Nashville Symphony’s first performance of the Overture and Venusberg Music together took place on October 15-16, 1998, with Music Director Kenneth Schermerhorn.

Wagner’s score calls for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, castanets and strings. estimated length: 24 minutes After several years of living a miserable, down-and-out existence in Paris, the young Richard Wagner experienced a dramatic reversal of fortune when the Dresden Opera produced his third completed opera, Rienzi.

It scored a desperately needed hit for the composer and helped secure him a prestigious position as head of the opera company in Dresden, where he settled with his first wife, Minna, in 1842.

Tannhäuser was the product of this relatively stable period, and it also marked his first foray into medieval Germanic legend for source material.

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Tannhäuser mixes conventional operatic idioms of the era with the beginnings of a more innovative language that Wagner was evolving. Despite a lukewarm premiere, Tannhäuser established the composer’s reputation and remained among his best-loved operas through much of the 19th century. The poet Charles Baudelaire penned an influential essay in praise of Tannhäuser’s “intoxicating” beauty, while Oscar Wilde alluded to it prominently in The Picture of Dorian Gray. In view of the composer’s notorious antiSemitism, it’s one of the great paradoxes of Wagner’s life and art that Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, claimed that a performance of Tannhäuser inspired his vision of a modern Jewish state.

Wagner based his opera about the search for redemptive love on a cautionary tale from the Crusades involving a knight who seeks repentance after having sinfully indulged his senses in the underground domain of Venus. This is the “Venusberg” where the pagan gods were believed to have retreated in the face of Christianity. Wagner wasn’t interested in the religious trappings of his source, though: His Tannhäuser becomes an outsider artist figure (in some ways a Faust-like self-portrait) who yearns for full experience.

It’s ironic that the opera is still sometimes dismissed as a prim Victorian fable about chaste love triumphing over sexual desire — in spite of the actual evidence of the music.

The flesh-spirit dichotomy provides Wagner with an opportunity to evoke starkly differentiated sound worlds, and the

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Richard Wagner

Overture and Venusberg music encapsulate these extremes.

Opening with the chorale-like Pilgrims’ Chorus (one of the most marvelous tunes ever penned by Wagner), he signifies the steadfast assurance of the faithful. This is soon contrasted with music of anxious striving: the existential journey Tannhäuser must make in the opera. The orchestra swells into a triumphant full statement of the Pilgrims’ Chorus and then diminishes as the penitents recede into the distance. Wagner abruptly whisks us into the erotic underworld of Venus. Her faster, chromatic music entices with quivering tremolos and surging rhythms, and Tannhäuser’s song in praise of the goddess rings out, framing an exquisitely enchanting interlude for solo clarinet and strings.

The initial Dresden version of the opera followed this Venusberg music with a recapitulation of the first part so that the Overture had a symmetrical structure and ended with a rousing restatement of the Pilgrims’ Chorus. But Wagner remained unsatisfied with his score, periodically coming back to revise it throughout his life. For a staging in Paris in 1861, the composer

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in a frenzied orgy, and the sequence ends with a drawn-out post-coital glow while a “rosy mist” fills the stage. A Chorus of Sirens praises the bliss of love.

Christopher Rouse born on February 15, 1949, in Baltimore, Md., where he currently resides

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decided to prepare a major overhaul of the introductory scene in particular — depicting his hero’s dalliance with Venus — which he deemed the weakest spot musically. Wagner’s artistic technique had advanced incalculably in the intervening years; his recently composed Tristan und Isolde in particular had explored a rich new palette of colors and ambiguous harmonies to express erotic longing. For his revised Tannhäuser, Wagner wrote an extensive new opening ballet (the Bacchanale) to illustrate Venus’ luxurious, sensual realm.

His refusal to situate the ballet later in the opera, where Parisian convention expected one, incited a loud-mouthed faction to disrupt performances. The production closed after three attempts.

Despite the fiasco, Wagner’s Paris Tannhäuser gained a new dimension with its intensified characterization of sensual desire. In this later version of the opera, the Overture segues directly from the Venusberg music into the Bacchanale as the curtain rises. In several spasmodic phases, Wagner’s delirious strains build to a climax. He even borrows the four-note rising chromatic motif that pervaded Tristan as an emblem of desire. The ballet depicts assorted satyrs, fauns, nymphs and bacchantes engaged

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Concert de Gaudí The Concert de Gaudí is a concerto for guitar, jointly commissioned by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for guitarist Sharon Isbin. Rouse composed the Concert de Gaudí in 1999, dedicating it to Richard and Jody Nordlof. Sharon Isbin gave the world premiere in Hamburg, with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk under Christoph Eschenbach, on January 2, 2000. Her recording of the work on Teldec won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Contemporary Composition in 2002. This month’s concerts mark the first time that the Nashville Symphony has performed this piece.

In addition to solo guitar, the score calls for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, harp, celesta, timpani, tambourine, tenor drum, bass drum, castanets, wood block, rute, suspended cymbal, Chinese cymbal, triangle, tam-tam, xylophone, marimba, antique cymbals and strings. estimated length: 21 minutes Christopher Rouse belongs to the generation that came of age when contemporary orchestral music was considered a dead 2009

end by many. Yet his own work has turned out to be instrumental in revitalizing the appeal of American orchestral music over the past few decades. Since the early 1990s, Rouse has been creating an ongoing series of concertos commissioned by leading soloists of the day. A pattern runs through this substantial and varied body of work, as Rouse has observed. His concertos tend to stick to what he calls either a “somber” or a “genial” character.

The Concert de Gaudí for guitar exemplifies the latter strain and is directed “more towards the light.” The textural beauty of these “genial” pieces might be seen, too, as a more Mozartean tempering to Rouse’s modern American romanticism.

It’s also possible to see in Rouse’s work a division in terms of programmatic versus nonprogrammatic concertos. His Flute Concerto (1993) evokes the spiritual presence of Celtic myth, while his percussion concerto, Der gerettete Alberich (written in 1997 for Evelyn Glennie), imagines the soloist riffing on the role of Wagner’s malevolent dwarf from the Ring. His recently premiered Oboe Concerto, on the other hand, investigates a realm of sensual beauty arising from the personality of the instrument itself.

The Concert de Gaudí occupies a middle ground. It balances between a very loosely programmatic concept and Rouse’s purely musical fascination with the guitar’s potential as a solo instrument interacting with a full orchestra. His initial impulse in composing the piece was to turn to “the great Spanish tradition of music for this instrument.” That tradition is immediately recognizable in the flamenco idiom

heard in the fanfare-like gestures that open the first movement and serve as a recurrent feature of the score. Rouse then complemented his musical associations with an architectural one: the fantasy and whimsy of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (18521926). (Architecture plays a role, too, in the Schumann work we hear later on the program, which includes a movement inspired by a lofty Gothic cathedral.)

For Rouse, Gaudí represents a “quintessentially Spanish combination of surrealism and mysticism” — elements that the composer embeds throughout his concerto.

Goethe famously compared architecture to “frozen music,” but the fluidity of Gaudí’s idiosyncratic designs is what captivated Rouse. The composer refers to “melting” and “bending” the familiar sound world of

flamenco as a musical equivalent for “the way Gaudí would take a traditional design and add fanciful and phantasmagoric touches to make it unlike any other’s work.” Rouse’s score has a noticeably mercurial quality, alternating between clear and opaque harmonies and swirling suddenly from one textural idea to another — this is a concerto of extraordinary color. The result gives delicious unpredictability — what the composer calls “an intentionally ‘unfocused’ quality” — to the traditional concerto structure of three movements in a fast-slow-fast order.

Instead of attempting to “illustrate” Gaudí’s creations, the Concert de Gaudí draws from the composer’s subjective responses to this architecture.

For the wonderfully meditative lyricism of the slow movement, however, Rouse did “on occasion

visualize Gaudí’s Cathedral of the Sagrada Familia while I was conceiving the music.” The finale — marked svolazzante (“fluttering”) — returns to the prismatic flamenco gestures of the opening but has room for an extended, far-ranging cadenza as well. The surreal textures pervading the concerto as a whole are perhaps more evident than its mystical moments, which each listener will identify differently.

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ducted the first performance in Düsseldorf on February 6, 1851.

The Nashville Symphony’s first performance of this piece took place on September 5, 1998, with Music Director Kenneth Schermerhorn.

The score calls for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and strings. estimated length: 31 minutes Robert Schumann was living in Dresden during the time of Tannhäuser’s premiere, and he expressed mixed feelings about the emerging phenomenon of Wagner. “He’s certainly an ingenious fellow, full of the most extravagant ideas and immeasurably audacious,” Schumann wrote to Mendelssohn in his critique of the new opera. “But believe me, he can hardly set down and think out four measures either beautifully or correctly.”

Schumann also noted in his diary that “Wagner possesses an enormous gift of gab, crammed full of overwhelming thoughts; one can’t listen to him for long.”

Wagner had set out on a radical path to remake opera, but Schumann — who was just three years older — was reinvestigating inherited traditions in his own way. He did, after all, share some characteristics with Wagner. The son of a bookseller, Schumann always harbored an alter-ego as a poet, producing verse throughout his life. His work as a music critic — especially as editor of the groundbreaking Neue Zeitschrift für Musik — was probing and prophetic. Schumann’s artistic vision was inspired by a close

affinity with literary pursuits, particularly as found in the early exponents of German Romanticism. And, like Wagner, he idolized Beethoven, whose example is clearly woven into the texture of the “Rhenish” Symphony.

But Wagner rejected Classical instrumental genres as historically played out — no longer suitable for a contemporary composer — and focused exclusively on his evolving idea of music drama on a grand scale.

Schumann, in contrast, explored a remarkable diversity of media and genres, from intimate piano miniatures, song cycles and chamber music to symphony, oratorio and opera. He synthesized the heritage of the past — the language of the Viennese classicists and the counterpoint of Bach — with his own brand of Romanticism. In Schumann’s case, the Romantic impulse is driven by his trust in the transcendent power of fantasy or imagination.

Soon after Schumann married the pianist Clara Wieck in 1840, she encouraged him to expand his ambitions beyond the keyboard and to write for the orchestra. Early in 1841, he took just four days to sketch out his First Symphony (subtitled “Spring”). That year he also wrote a symphony in D minor but held it back from publication until 1851, when it appeared, with substantial new revisions, as the Symphony No. 4. Thus the composer’s Second Symphony is actually his third, while the “Rhenish” is the fourth and last of his cycle of symphonies.

Schumann had endured a dark period of nervous breakdown in the 1840s, but in 1850 he recaptured the exuberant and

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spontaneous spirit of the First Symphony with the “Rhenish.”

At the same time, he now had greater technical confidence and was able to balance divergent musical inspirations — including Beethoven, Schubert and the early Baroque — with mature mastery. The “Rhenish” belongs to Schumann’s final phase: the last creative flowering before his catastrophic breakdown and premature death in a mental institution.

An extroverted, joyful mood is especially apparent in its first and final movements. Schumann felt the liberation of starting over when he wrote the “Rhenish.” He had recently relocated his family to Düsseldorf from Dresden and had been appointed municipal music director in this city located on the Rhine River.

He was still in the honeymoon phase of his new job, though it would sour before long and the composer would even attempt to drown himself in that very river.

But as soon as it was introduced in 1851, the “Rhenish” gave Schumann one of his greatest triumphs.

The Symphony has no specific program as such — the nickname “Rhenish” came later — but conveys only loose associations with the river. To latter-day ears, the opening movement’s surging energy and

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home key of E-flat may trigger a cross-reference to the music Wagner was to write just a few years later for the beginning of his Ring cycle, in which the same key is used to conjure the elemental power of nature represented by the flowing Rhine. For Schumann, though, the reference is to Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony in E-flat. He emulates its purposeful momentum by plunging, without introduction, into a theme of epic potential that powers through the entire movement. Its syncopated stretches at first seem intended to dam the pulse of the triple meter (also the meter of the Eroica’s first movement), but as the theme continues, it flows along buoyantly with the current.

Schumann allows a more relaxed atmosphere to take over in the next two movements. The Scherzo has an amiable gait (at one point it was called “Morning on the Rhine”), though a hint of the more somber music to come emerges in one of its episodes.

A notable innovation of the “Rhenish” is the replacement of a traditional slow movement with two movements — the third and fourth — whose characters contrast strikingly.

The third movement is a lighter intermezzo, its gently hesitant lyricism nodding to the composer’s beloved Schubert and to the more intimate fantasy of Schumann’s own piano music. In the fourth movement, Schumann introduces a new tone of emotional gravity, which was inspired by his visit to nearby Cologne Cathedral. Rich brass scoring and majestic layerings of harmony, together with oldfashioned church counterpoint, evoke an awe-inspiring sense of place and ceremony.

Schumann carefully integrates the fourth movement with the finale (as, indeed, he does the entire symphony’s interrelated thematic material).

The last two movements at first suggest a sacredprofane dichotomy — after the cathedral’s solemnity, the jocularity of an outdoor festival.

But Schumann persuasively weaves the earlier church music back into the finale and ends with the bold optimism that launched the symphony.

— 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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JOHN FIORE, conductor American-born conductor John Fiore begins the 2009/10 season as the new music director of the Norwegian Opera & Ballet (Den Norske Opera & Ballett), the company’s first music director in more than a decade. Fiore is the artistic chief of the company’s orchestra and chorus and leads opera, ballet, symphonic and chamber music performances in diverse and divergent styles, from baroque to the most contemporary. During his first season, Fiore will lead a new opera production, Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos; a new ballet production of Cinderella to Prokofiev’s music; and a series of symphonic and choral concerts with the DNOB orchestra and chorus. He will also perform chamber music with members of the orchestra.

Elsewhere this season, Fiore returns to Prague for the National Theater’s new production of Wagner’s

Parsifal, in addition to revival performances of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin; he will also lead Venice, Italy’s famed Teatro La Fenice on tour to Abu Dhabi in spring 2010. In Europe he is the conductor for three different competitions for young vocal talent: Norway’s Queen Sonja competition and both the ARD Competition (Munich) and Bertelsmann Competition (Gütersloh) in Germany.

His October appearance at Schermerhorn Symphony Center represents his Nashville Symphony debut.

In 2008/09, Fiore completed his 10th and final season as chief conductor of the Deutsche Operam-Rhein, where he kept an extensive schedule conducting in the company’s two houses in the neighboring cities of Düsseldorf and Duisburg. Highlights included new productions of Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten, Dvořák’s Rusalka, Janáček’s From the House of the Dead, and a season-long survey of the many productions he had led during the preceding decade.

Fiore was also the general music director of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker for eight seasons, ending his final season in 2007/08 with a highly acclaimed performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 “The Symphony of a Thousand.”

SHARON ISBIN, guitar Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility, GRAMMY® Award winner Sharon Isbin has been hailed as the preeminent guitarist of our time. Her recent Sony release Journey to the New World, which features Joan Baez and violinist Mark O’Connor, shot up to No.

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Winner of the Madrid, Toronto and Munich competitions, and of Guitar Player’s Best Classical Guitarist award, Isbin gives soldout performances throughout the world in the greatest venues, including New York’s Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, London’s Barbican Centre and Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein, Paris’ Châtelet, Munich’s Herkulessaal and Madrid’s Teatro Real. She has served as artistic director/ soloist for festivals at Carnegie Hall and New York’s 92nd Street Y, and for the national radio

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Isbin’s catalog includes more than 25 recordings, from Baroque, Spanish/Latin and 20th century to crossover and jazz fusion. Her Dreams of a World soared to the top of Billboard’s classical charts, edging out The 3 Tenors, and earned her a 2001 GRAMMY®, making her the first classical guitarist to receive the award in 28 years. Her recording of concerti written for her by Christopher Rouse and Tan Dun received a 2002 GRAMMY® and Germany’s Echo Klassik Award. She received a 2005 Latin GRAMMY® nomination for Best Classical Album and a 2006 GLAAD Award nomination for Outstanding Music Artist for her recording with the New York Philharmonic of concerti by Joaquín Rodrigo, Manuel Ponce and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Isbin has expanded the guitar repertoire with some of the finest new works of the century. Her American Landscapes CD with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra features concerti written for her by John Corigliano, Joseph Schwantner and Lukas Foss. Other composers who have written for her include Joan Tower, David Diamond, Ned Rorem, Aaron Jay Kernis, Howard Shore and Leo Brouwer.

Isbin began her studies at age 9 in Italy and later studied with Andrés Segovia, Oscar Ghiglia and Rosalyn Tureck.

She received B.A. and master’s degrees from Yale, is the author of the Classical Guitar Answer Book, and directs the guitar departments at the Aspen Music Festival and The Juilliard School.

ProgramFour special

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Silent Comedy Classics with Organist Tom Trenney

SCHermerhorn Symphony Center Laura Turner Concert Hall

October 26, 2009, at 7 p.m.

Tom Trenney, organ

FILM: ONE WEEK improvised accompaniment to a silent film starring Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Laurel & Hardy

MUSICAL INTERLUDE JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor Improvisation on Shel Silverstein Poems

Magic Carpet Forgotten Language Dancing Pants

DUDLEY BUCK

Variations on the “The Last Rose of Summer”

CESAR FRANCK

Piéce heroique

FILM: BIG BUSINESS improvised accompaniment to a silent film starring Laurel and Hardy

Tom Trenney performs this evening on the Martin Foundation Concert Organ

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TOM TRENNEY, Tom Trenney recently was appointed Minister of Music at First Plymouth Church (United Church of Christ) in Lincoln, Neb., where he conducts the Plymouth Choir, performs on the church’s Schoenstein organ and serves as artistic director of the Abendmusik Concert Series.

This appointment follows Trenney’s seven years as Director of Music Ministries at First Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Mich., where he founded Many Voices…One Song, an extensive music outreach program.

Trenney completed two graduate degrees at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., studying organ performance with David Higgs and choral conducting with Dr. William Weinert. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance from the Cleveland

Institute of Music, where he studied organ and church music with Todd Wilson. A native of Perry, Ohio, Trenney began piano study with Margaret Syroney at age 4 and began organ lessons with Anne Wilson at a Pipe Organ Encounter (POE) in 1991.

His involvement in POE has continued since then as a student, chaperone, teacher, performer and director. An active member of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), he has served on the organization’s national Committee on the New Organist.

Trenney has been awarded first prize at regional and national competitions, becoming the first organist to win both the first prize and audience prize in the AGO’s National Competition in Organ Improvisation. Nationally known for his improvisations on submitted themes, poetry or artwork, as well as silent film accompaniments, hymn festivals, choral and organ workshops and

Tom Trenney

master classes, he is represented

by Karen McFarlane Artists. He has performed at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, Spreckels Organ Pavilion and Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center.

His debut recording, Organa Americana, featuring works by American composers, was released on the Pro Organo label in 2004. Organ Ovations and Improvisations on the Raven label was released in 2007 and has received much critical acclaim.

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SCHermerhorn Symphony Center Laura Turner Concert Hall

October 29, 2009, at 7 p.m.

October 30 & 31, 2009, at 8 p.m.

Nashville Symphony Matt Catingub, conductor

Pops

Hawaii — 50 at 50

Hawaii celebrates the 50th anniversary of becoming the 50th state in the union Pops conductor for the Honolulu Symphony, Matt Catingub presents a program highlighting Hawaii’s great history of music, including traditional Hawaiian songs, current Hawaiian pop artists, tributes to Don Ho and Kui Lee, and a heartfelt musical tribute to Pearl Harbor.

Amy Hanaiali‘i, vocals Afatia Thompson, vocals Jeff Peterson, guitar, ukulele Steve Moretti, drums Steve Jones, bass Dancers from the Global Education Center in Nashville, Tennessee Selections to be announced from the stage

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about the program

At the heart of Hawaiian culture is a happy paradox: Hawaii has somehow managed to retain a deep attachment to its native heritage while absorbing folkways from around the world. Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Filipino influences, along with the polyglot culture of the mainland U.S., have all become part of Hawaii’s identity without overwhelming its distinctive character. Only these islands could produce a cuisine that treasures both poi and Spam musubi, a distinctly Hawaiian variation on Japanese sushi.

The Hawaiian gift for cross-cultural adaptation is evident in tonight’s celebration of the 50th state’s golden anniversary. Hawaii’s musical sensibility is rooted in the melodious chants of its original inhabitants, but it has absorbed a succession of other traditions, from Christian hymns to hip-hop, imbuing each one with the islands’ distinctive rhythms and love of sweet tones. Afatia Thompson, who comes from a family of traditional Polynesian performers, now devotes his soulful voice to R&B with a uniquely Hawaiian style. He and Honolulu Symphony Pops conductor Matt Catingub will present a selection of pop standards associated with Hawaii, including “I’ll Remember You,” a bittersweet song made famous by the late Don Ho. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” once indelibly connected with Kansas, acquired Hawaiian citizenship through the 1993 recording by Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole, whose haunting rendition has become as recognizable as Judy Garland’s.

Slack key guitar is perhaps the best example of an “alien” import that Hawaii has made entirely its own. Mexican cowboys brought guitars when they came to work on the islands in the early 19th century.

Their style of playing was taken up by local cowboys (paniolos) and eventually transformed to please Hawaiian ears. (“Slack key” refers to the non-standard tunings that give the music its unique sound.)

Maui-born Jeff Peterson was introduced to the technique by his father, a paniolo, and is recognized as one of the finest contemporary masters of the instrument.

Amy Hanaiali‘i brings classical training and a passion for her heritage to new songs in the Hawaiian language. Her falsetto has been described as “a voice that inspires dreams,” and while her style is clearly shaped by her experience in jazz and musical theater, the spiritual, romantic character of her songs couldn’t be more Hawaiian. “Palehua” evokes the spirit of ancient island folk music: Calling to me Is Palehua A heavenly place Unforgettable Famous mountain Oak Hill School Unveiled to the heavens students shine on stage Hear my call Oh Palehua and throughout life.

No tribute to Hawaii would be complete without a remembrance of Pearl Harbor, which made the islands more than just another faraway place to most Americans. Hapa haole — Hawaiian pop music sung in English — enjoyed new popularity on the mainland after the war, and “The Hukilau Song,” introduced in 1948, became de rigueur at suburban luaus.

Hawaii’s ability to welcome a wealth of cultures while remaining distinctly itself has made its music a many-faceted gift to the world.

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Artist Bios conductor MATT CATINGUB, Please see the bio on page 42.

AMY HANAIALI‘I, vocals Amy Hanaiali‘i has established herself as Hawaii’s most respected and loved female vocalist, songwriter, composer and performer. She continues to be the top-selling female vocalist in Hawaii. Known worldwide for her unmatched vocal range, polished performances, classic charm and infectious smile, Hanaiali‘i has traveled the world and has received formal training in European classical music, jazz, blues, American standards and pop. Combining these artistic styles with her infectious smile and charm, she is a fluently diverse entertainer and creates an immediate and profound connection with her audiences.

She has toured extensively on the East and West coasts, and through Germany, Japan, China and Tahiti, captivating and collecting new fans along the way. Hanaiali‘i is officially Hawaii’s Music Ambassador, and as she travels the world, her music carries with it the great culture of the Hawaiian people and the great depth of the Hawaiian experience. Her success as a recording artist is evidenced by a multitude of awards and acknowledgments, including three GRAMMY® nominations for Best Hawaiian Music Album. She has also earned 14 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards (Hawaii’s equivalent to the GRAMMY®), including Female Vocalist of the Year, Hawaiian Album of the Year, Contemporary Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Group of the Year.

‘Aumakua, which means “family guardian” in Hawaiian, is Hanaiali‘i’s ninth album

and a true embodiment of her consummate talent. Her falsetto vocals offer a reverent assemblage of original songs and beloved, time-honored classics.

Hanaiali‘i has come full circle back to her extensive roots in Hawaii, with a new focus on tradition, culture and family. She lives on the island of Moloka‘i with her 3-year-old daughter, Madeline, and her fiancé, John Austin. In her “spare” time, Amy helps to run their shrimp farm, producing the best pure and natural shrimp in Hawaii.

AFATIA THOMPSON, vocals For a young man of mixed Polynesian ancestry, song and dance are much more than performance. They are a culturally rooted way of life.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Afatia Thompson had no “career start” to speak of. Like most Polynesians, he was of a very young age when he began singing and dancing — a responsibility to be shouldered with integrity and perfection, reflecting one’s family, culture and community. His singing blossomed in the church, where he found a calling directing worship and acknowledging the divine source of his talent.

Thompson recently released his first solo album, Afatia 5:54.

The time in the title references the emergence of a truly unique flavor: urban R&B and soul, mixed with a hint of Polynesian roots. Although his music reflects due respect to the R&B artists who have influenced him, Thompson’s style and artistry are unique. His music is sophisticated yet native, innovative yet traditional, bold yet gentle.

JEFF PETERSON, guitar, ukulele Born on the island of Maui, Jeff Peterson grew up

on the slopes of Haleakala, where he was introduced to the rich heritage of Hawaiian music by his father, a paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboy. The music he heard from his father and other paniolos, as well as the slack key guitar on classic recordings by the Gabby Pahinui Band, Leonard Kwan and Sonny Chillingworth, made a deep and lasting impression on him. As he began studying the guitar on his own, his interests broadened, and he delved into a wide variety of musical genres. To explore these interests further, he went on to study jazz and classical guitar at the University of Southern California and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

As a performer, Peterson has had the honor to work with a wide range of artists and groups, including Eric Clapton, James Galway, Michael Feinstein, the Honolulu Symphony, Hawaii Opera Theatre, jazz bassist Rufus Reid, shakuhachi master Riley Lee, soprano Dana Hanchard and many other artists in the fields of Hawaiian, classical and jazz music. He has traveled to Europe, Australia and across the U.S. to perform at a variety of venues, from Symphony Space in New York City to the National Folk Festival in Canberra. He was featured recently at the First World Guitar Congress in Maryland, where he performed Hawaiian slack key guitar as well as classical music in master classes led by classical guitarists David Russell and Dusan Bogdanovic.

Peterson achieved a milestone in Hawaiian music at the 47th annual GRAMMY® Awards in 2005, when Slack Key Guitar, Volume 2, featuring Peterson and other island artists, won the first ever GRAMMY® Award for Best Hawaiian Recording.

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ProgramSix Pied Piper

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Halloween on the High Seas SCHermerhorn Symphony Center Laura Turner Concert Hall October 31, 2009, at 11 a.m.

Nashville Symphony Kelly Corcoran, conductor Andrew Risinger, organ Angela Carr, actor School of Nashville Ballet Donna Delseni, director

ERICH KORNGOLD

Overture to Captain Blood

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Storm from Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a

LÉON BOËLLMANN Toccata from Suite Gothique Andrew Risinger, organ RICHARD WAGNER

Overture to Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Infernal Dance from The Firebird

ARAM KHACHATURIAN

Dance of the Pirates from Spartacus

MODEST MUSSORGSKY orch. by Rimsky-Korsakov

A Night on Bald Mountain

HANS ZIMMER Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl arr. Ricketts

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Conductors

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.

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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.

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Orchestra

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 O’Boyle Melinda Whitley Clare Yang

Kelly Corcoran Assistant Conductor

cellos* Anthony LaMarchina, Principal Julia Tanner, Assistant Principal 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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*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 Michael Edwards Board Chair

Officers Michael Edwards, Board Chair Lee A. Beaman, Immediate Past Board Chair John T. Rochford, Board Vice Chair Julie G. Boehm, Board Secretary David Williams II, Board Treasurer

Directors Janet Ayers Julian B. Baker Jr. Russell W. Bates James L. Beckner 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 Marty G. Dickens David Steele Ewing John Ferguson Judy Foster*

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John Gawaluck James C. Gooch 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 Larry J. Larkin Kevin P. Lavender Zachary Liff Robert S. Lipman Daniel Lochrie* Donald M. MacLeod James Mallon Richard Maradik Jr. Ellen Harrison Martin* Robert A. McCabe Jr. Robert E. McNeilly III Eduardo Minardi Gregory Morton Hal N. Pennington Pamela K. Pfeffer

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Joseph K. Presley Charles Pruett Wayne J. Riley Norma Rogers* Anne L. Russell* Kristi Seehafer* Mark Silverman Beverly K. Small Patti Smallwood Stephen Sparks* Christopher Stenstrom* Howard Stringer Bruce D. Sullivan Louis B. Todd Jay Turner Steve Turner Alan D. Valentine* 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 Sylvia Bosma, 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 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 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 Jeffery Blevins, Lighting Director Patron Services Kristen Oliver, Director of Patron Services Michael Backes, Patron Services Specialist Darlene Boswell, Patron Services Specialist Aaron Coleman, Patron Services Specialist Sara Davenport, Patron Services Specialist

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Daniel Tonelson, Patron Services Specialist Judith Wall, Patron Services Specialist Jackie Knox, Manager of Marketing Associates Linda Booth, Marketing Associate James Calvin Davidson, Marketing Associate Andrea Flowers, Marketing Associate Gina Haining, Marketing Associate Mark Haining, Marketing Associate Lloyd Harper, Marketing Associate Rick Katz, Marketing Associate Deborah King, Marketing Associate Cassie Morazzi, Marketing Associate Planned Giving & Grants Susan D. Williams, CFRE, CVA, Sr. Director of Special Campaigns and Planned Giving Janice Crumpacker, CFRE, Director of Special Campaigns Venue Management Eric Swartz, Associate V.P. of Venue Management Craig Colunga, Director of Security Danny Covington, Chief Engineer Raay Creech, Facility Maintenance Technician Kenneth Dillehay, Facility Maintenance Technician Wade Johnson, Housekeeping Manager Kevin Butler, Housekeeper Veronica Morales, Housekeeper Volunteer Services Amy Jacky, Director of Nashville Symphony Orchestra League Stacie Taylor, Volunteer Coordinator

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Annual Fund Individuals

Sarah Knestrick, Marty & Betty Dickens

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 August 27, 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. Martin Brown Family Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick Janine & Ben Cundiff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Curb 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 The Ann & Monroe Carell Family Trust Pamela & Michael Carter Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Chasanoff Kelly & Bill Christie Connie & Tom Cigarran 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 Gordon & Shaun Inman Mr. & Mrs. Elliot W. Jones

Mr. & Mrs. Brad M. Kelley Christine Konradi & Stephan Heckers Ralph & Donna Korpman Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby 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 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 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

Norm & Barb Johnson Thomas & Darlene Klaritch Anne Knauff Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. Karen & Jim Lewis John T. Lewis LifeWorks Foundation 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 Stadnick Mr. & Mrs. Steven H. Taylor Dr. John B. Thomison Charles Hampton White Stacy Widelitz Rev. Donald Orin* & Janet B. Wiseman

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

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Carroll & Dell Crosslin Barbara & Willie K. Davis Dee & Jerald Doochin Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden Jere & Linda Ervin Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind Bob & Judy Fisher Harris A. Gilbert Carl & Connie Haley Suzy Heer Robert & Ann Howe Hilton Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques

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Albert-George Schram, Debbie & Don Holmes Conductor’s Circle Gifts of $1,500+ Anonymous (7) James & Martha Ackerman James & Glyna Aderhold Rick & Alice Arnemann Dr. & Mrs. Elbert W. 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 Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dennis & Tammy Boehms Mr. & Mrs. C. Dent Bostick Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells Vic Briggs & Family Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Mr. & Mrs. Tony E. Brown

Ray & Liz Conklin, Tim Hauser

Ann & Frank Bumstead 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 Chase Cole Marjorie & Allen Collins Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Cook III Richard L. Cooper, CPA 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 Mr. & Mrs. Arthur DeVooght George deZevallos Cindi & David Dingler E.B.S. Foundation Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Robert Eisenstein David Ellis & Barry Wilker

Cathy & Bill Gracey

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

Cano & Esen Ozgener, Martha Fort, Jacqueline Hahamyan Kate R. W. Grayken Francis S. Guess 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 Phil & Amber Hertik Mr. Austin Hill Lucia & Don Hillenmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey N. Hinson Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Judith Hodges Mr. & Mrs. Dan W. Hogan 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 Mr. & Mrs. Russell A. Jones Jr. Richard Kephart Mr. & Mrs. Bill G. Kilpatrick Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Kirby The Kirkland Foundation/ Chris & Beth Kirkland William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Bob & Mary LaGrone Larry & Martha Larkin Elaine & Jon Levine Sally M. Levine Drs. Thomas J. & Lee E. Limbird Dr. & Mrs. T. A. Lincoln Dr. & Mrs. Scott Little Robert A. Livingston Donald M. & Kala W. MacLeod Mr. & Mrs. Richard Maradik Shari & Red Martin Sheila & Richard McCarty Tommy McEwen Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. McRae III Dr. Arthur M. Mellor

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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 Dr. & Mrs. Max I. Shaff Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Mark Silverman Mr. & Mrs. Martin Simmons Susan & Luke Simons William & Cyndi Sites Joanne & Gary Slaughter 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 Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell Mr. & Mrs. John Stein Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III

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Desha Wiseman, Janet Wiseman 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. 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 Bill & Ruth Wassynger Robert & Michelle Way Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. B. Wheelock David W. White Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White Mr. Donald E. Williams Judy S. Williams Jim & Sadhna Williams Shane & Laura Willmon Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills III Ms. Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Mr. & Mrs. John R. Wingo 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 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Betty C. Bellamy Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey K. Belser Alan & Katherine Bostick Jean & David Buchanan Dr. & Mrs. Robert Burcham John E. Cain III Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III

Cal Turner, Daniel Hill

Anita & Larry Cash Erica & Doug Chappell Mrs. John H. Cheek Jr. Ed & Pat Cole 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 Mr. & Mrs. Mike Dye Mr. & Mrs. John W. Eakin Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. David Ewing & Alice Randall Mr. & Mrs. DeWitt Ezell 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 Keith & Nancy Johnson Victor Johnson Foundation Ruth E. Johnson George & Shirley Johnston Ms. Janet L. Jones & Mr. Steven C. Williams Mr. & Mrs. William S. Jones Thomas J. & Sally J. Killian Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce Mitchell Korn Kevin & May Lavender Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lea IV Mrs. Ken Lester Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Lind Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lipman Tim Lynch James & Patricia Martineau 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 Drs. Walter Smalley & Louise Hanson Smith Family Foundation Julie & George Stadler 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 Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Williams ConcertMaster Gifts of $500+ Anonymous (10)

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 Jerry E. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Baker Ms. Katrin Bean Susan O. Belcher Tom & Marilynn Benim Mike & Kathy Benson Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell Jim & Sharon Birdwell Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Black Ralph & Jane Black 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 Ginger Byrn Mr. & Mrs. Cabot J. & Angelia Cameron 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. W. Ovid Collins Charles J. Conrick III Marion Pickering Couch 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 Dr. Alan W. Dow II Tere & David Dowland 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 Roger & Sherri Gray Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Green Mr. Thomas A. Greene Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin 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 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 Combs Helton & Hank Helton Kent & Melinda Henderson John Reginald Hill Mr. & Mrs. Bill Hodde

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Dayna & Tom Hulme 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 Kaczmarska Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane Marion & Peter Katz Mr. & Mrs. Christopher P. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. James Kelso 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 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 Helga & Andrea Maneschi James & Jene Manning Robert P. Maynard Mr. & Mrs. J. David McClain Mr. & Mrs. Ken P. McDonald 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

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Roger Prince, Harry Stratton, Roger Qian Joyce & Robert Ness Jane K. Norris Jonathan R. Norris & Jennifer L. Carlat 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 Fran C. Rogers 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 Dr. Kenneth E. Schriver & Dr. Anna W. Roe Mr. & Mrs. Julian Scruggs Ms. Patricia B. Selle Odessa L. Settles Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Sharbel Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Pamela Sixfin Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith Richard & Molly Dale Smith Drs. Robert M. Smith & Barbara K. Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Christopher & Maribeth Stahl

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Linda Leaming, Phurba Namgay, Janine & Ben Cundiff

Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Gloria & Paul Sternberg Lana & Jerry Stewart Mr. Russell P. Stover Hope & Howard Stringer Jean Stumpf James & Becky Summar Dianne & Craig Sussman Candy Toler 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 Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle Beth & Arville Wheeler Dr. & Mrs. William Whetsell Harvey & Joyce White Adam & Laura Wilczek Mr. Craig P. Williams Gary & Cathy Wilson Elizabeth R. Witsil* 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 First Chair Gifts of $250+ Anonymous (26) Henry J. Abbott & Rita J. Bradley Judith Ablon Ben & Nancy Adams Howard D. Adcock Dr. & Mrs. John Algren Carol M. Allen Dr. Joseph H. Allen Newton & Burkley Allen Ruth G. Allen Ms. Adrienne Ames William J. & Margery Amonette

Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple Mr. & Mrs. James Armstrong Joseph B. Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins Dr. Philip Autry Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Averbuch Frederick C. Ayers Janet B. Baggett Ms. Susie M. Baird Drs. Ferdinand & Eresvita Balatico Susan & Paul Ballard Ms. RenĂŠ Balogh & Mr. Michael Hinchion Dr. Beth S. Barnett Dr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Barr Joseph & Dorothy Barrett Mr. & Mrs. John Edward Baum Mr. Curtis L. Baysinger Ron & Sheryl Bell Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Mr. & Mrs. Earl Bentz Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Best Drs. William & Wanda Bigham Cherry & Richard Bird Dr. Joel S. Birdwell Mr. William Blackford Randolph & Elaine Blake Joan Bledsoe David L. Bone David Bordenkircher Jerry & Donna Boswell Robert Bosworth Mr. Brian Boxer Don & Deborah Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Douglas G. Bradbury III Mr. & Mrs. James F. Brandenburg Mr. Jere T. Brassell Stephen & Nancy Brenner 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 Mike & Linda Carlson 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. Robert T. Coleman 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 Corley Elizabeth Cormier Mr. & Mrs. David A. Costello Joseph P. Cowden Mr. & Mrs. Rob Crichton Robert B. 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 Dory deZevallos Dr. Gursheel Dhillon Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Mr. Donald A. Dobernic Peter & Kathleen Donofrio Michael Doochin & Linda Kartoz-Doochin Betty & Robert Dooley James & Ramsey Doran Mr. Eddie H. Doss

Mr. Frank W. Drake Elizabeth Tannenbaum & Carl Dreifuss Clark & Peggy Druesedow Ms. Susan L. Drye Mr. & Mrs. Carl Duffield Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Dugger Ms. Margaret R. Dunn Kathryn & Webb Earthman Dr. W. James Booth & Dr. Jane Easdown Ms. Carrie Easley Emily & Mark Eberle Christine R. Edson Bonnie Edwards Drs. Ronald & Priscilla Eichler Mr. Brandon Eilerman The Rev. Dr. Donna Scott & Dr. John Eley Dan & Zita Elrod Joy & Ralph Emery Dr. & Mrs. Ronald B. Emeson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Epperson Jean & Allen Eskind Ms. Claire Evans Carolyn Evertson Bill & Dian S. Ezell Laurie & Ron Farris Sam & Laura Faust Dr. & Mrs. E. John Felderman Dana Ferris Walter & Rebecca Ferris Mr. & Mrs. Billy W. Fields

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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 Jack & Joan Jordan Ms. Rita K. Jorgensen Ray & Rosemarie Kalil

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kanak Dr. & Mrs. Herman J. Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Maurice J. Kellogg Cornelia S. Kelly Mr.* & Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy 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 David & Judy Kolzow Sanford & Sandra Krantz Neil Krugman Tim Kyne Mr. Daniel L. LaFevor 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. 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 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 Kathleen McCracken

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Shulamith Wheelock, Calina & Emily York, Thomas Wheelock 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. Drs. Kenneth & Molly Petroni 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 Tad & Rosemary Porter 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 Don & Connie Richardson Elisha R. Richardson, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D. Margaret Riegel Ms. Margot A. Riser Mrs. Roscoe R. Robinson Albert & Donna Rodewald Mr.* & Mrs. Ed C. Rodgers Jr. 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 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 Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Smith Dr. Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Mr. & Mrs. Brian Smokler Dan & Siri Speegle Ms. Maggie P. Speight Nan E. Speller Thomas F. Spiggle Mr. M. Clark Spoden Mrs. Randolph C. St. John Caroline Stark & Lane Denson Janice & Charley Stefl John & Jane Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Charles V Stewart III Mr. & Mrs. David B. Stewart Mr. J. Cyril Stewart Dr. & Mrs. William R. 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 Thomas Billy H. & Alice Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Bob F. Thompson OCTOBER

Bill & Georgia Kilpatrick Dr. Charles B. Thorne 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 Mrs. Marie Holman Wiggins 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 2009

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Annual Fund

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 August 27, 2009.

Season Presenters Gifts of $100,000+

The Martin Foundation President’s Council Gifts of $75,000+

Directors’ 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

Dr. Jan van Eys, Judith Hodges 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.

Andy & Carol Strayer, Nathan Berg

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 The HCA Foundation Interior Design Services, Inc. Odom’s Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc. 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 Delta Dental of Tennessee First Baptist Church Nashville Gould Turner Group, P.C. Dave Nemo Entertainment Sandra Schatten Foundation Washington Foundation

Norman Wells, Jamey Bowen 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. Cummins Station/ DZL Management Company 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. 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 Hoge Motor Company Horrell Realty and Investments Hunter Marine IBIS Communications, Inc. Import Auto Maintenance, LLC integrity events, inc.

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Lankford Hardware & Supply Company MAC Presents, Marcie & Chris Cardwell 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. Stansell Electric Co., 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 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 Carole Slate Adams In memory of Carol Ainsworth In loving memory of Jessica Bloom In memory of Pearl Bottiggi

In honor of Jim Cavert In honor of George Clark’s Birthday In memory of Betty Gwinn 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 Sarah Howell Houston In memory of Lillian Hunt In honor of Martha Rivers Ingram 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 Nellie M. Moser 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 September 10, 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

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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

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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

Jeffrey Springer, Marion & Bob Bogen 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

Trish Mixon, Lin Cameron, Dr. Chris Mixon

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 O’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

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Martin & Joyce Weingartner

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

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(standing) Dr. Marvin Rosenblum, Carrie Greene, (seated) Leon & Mimsye May

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

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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

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2009

Elizabeth Minkoff, Mark Burnett, Ann Olsen

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

OCTOBER

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

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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 D’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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Elliott & Marilyn Jones 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. O’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

Miles Mennell, Mac Mellor, Sarah Cook 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

James Barnett, Annie New, Christina Bogdanova

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 O’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.

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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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LegacySociety

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 Annette & Irwin* Eskind Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia Landis Bass Gullett Judith Hodges 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.

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Advertising today is about spending money smarter to reach your target audience. The performing arts venue setting provides a unique advertising experience, what we like to call "the last captured audience in print"...10 minutes before the curtain goes up, there are no distractions, you can't channel surf, fast forward, or TIVO . . . everyone is reading their magazine...just look around the room.

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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

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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 on 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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Aloha, Nashville!

Matt Catingub

On October 29-31, the Nashville Symphony’s Bank of America Pops Series will celebrate the 50th anniversary of America’s 50th state with “Hawaii — 50 at 50.” This wide-ranging evening of music will include a mix of traditional Hawaiian songs, classic pop tunes, a tribute to Pearl Harbor and much more, all featuring the rich orchestral backdrop of the Nashville Symphony. Conductor for the Honolulu Symphony Pops, Matt Catingub will serve as the evening’s host and conductor. InConcert asked him about what makes Hawaii and its music so unique.

How do you explain Hawaii to people whose only knowledge of the islands has come through movies and TV? The thing about Hawaii is that before it became a state, it was its own territory, with a culture going back hundreds of years. That’s of great significance to the people who live there, and you hear it in the music. I’ve conducted everywhere, and I can say that no place has as diverse a culture as Hawaii does.

The evening includes a selection of hapa haole songs. Could you explain what that means?

Hapa means half, and haole means someone who’s not local, like a tourist. So hapa haole means that the music is a mix of both Western and local influences. It came about around the same time as the Great American Songbook that we know in the U.S. Ever since people started arriving in Hawaii, the

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music has been very much influenced by outsiders — for instance, the Portuguese introduced the ukulele, and that took on a life of its own.

This concert will also showcase what is new right now. Amy Hanaiali‘i is a singer whose grandmother performed hapa haole music, and she has combined that with a more contemporary bent.

If you were to pick one song that defines Hawaii, what would it be?

When people think of Hawaiian music, they think of “Tiny Bubbles,” which isn’t even Hawaiian. One song we’re doing is “Aloha Oe.” Everybody knows it, but in the history of Hawaii and its people, this song is quite significant. It was written by Queen Lili‘uokalani, the last monarch in Hawaii. After Westerners came and took over the islands, she was put in jail, and she wrote the song from her jail cell. Today, it has become a tourist song, but it has a much deeper meaning. When you hear the way Amy Hanaiali‘i sings it, it will bring chills to your spine.

That’s like the word “Aloha” itself — it has a deeper meaning than “hello” and “goodbye.”

Its significance as a word embodies all of Hawaii, what it’s like to live there and to be among its people — the aloha spirit. Basically, it’s the idea of friendly love and embracing all. You see it all the time in Hawaii: neighbors helping neighbors, people being over-the-top nice.

—Jonathan Marx

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