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2017/18 NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE Chorus Director

The Nashville Symphony is composed of 83 full-time artists who live in Middle Tennessee and play an integral role in the life of our community.

FIRST VIOLINS* Jun Iwasaki, Concertmaster Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair

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DEREK HAWKES ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL TROMBONE Hometown: Plano, Texas | Joined the Nashville Symphony in 2017

What interested you about the Nashville Symphony, and what led to your decision to take the position?

This institution is on such an amazing hot streak right now. In addition to the GRAMMY® Awards, our concert hall is revered all over the world. I’ve visited Nashville four or five times in the past six years, and every time I’ve come, I’ve loved the city more and more. In this industry, you don’t really get to choose where to live, so when the stars align, and you get to move to a city you’ve dreamed of living in, it’s a very special thing.

What do you love most about playing the trombone?

The trombones have such versatile use — often we’re called in to be the orchestral enforcers, the big guns during some of the most impactful moments of the repertoire. And as a whole, the low brass can be used to portray a very vocal entity. When you hear chorales in a Brahms or a Mahler symphony, there’s often a dripping, thick richness or sweetness about the low brass section sound, and those moments are what make playing the trombone very special.

If you could meet any composer, living or dead, who would it be and what would you ask?

Stravinsky — his use of color and all the amazing timbres he developed over the course of decades is incredible. I think I would have to ask about that use of color — why he selected and used some instruments in the ways that he did.

Do you have favorite American composer?

I’m an enormous Bernstein fan. He developed such a special subgenre of classical music and a crossover sound that is so unique, enthralling and approachable.

It’s always a blast to play and to listen to. As far as composers who are active nowadays, one of my favorites is Cindy McTee. I find her works to be very invigorating.

What do you enjoy doing when you’re not rehearsing and performing?

Being a Dallas native, I’m a huge Dallas Stars fan. After watching Stars games as an undergraduate, I so fell in love with hockey that I couldn’t imagine not playing it, so I decided to start playing hockey at age 20. Like anything, it takes a whole lot of practice to master, but I enjoy it immensely.

Favorite piece of music?

Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Favorite non-classical musician?

I’m a big fan of Queen, but I also enjoy jazz across decades. Frank Rosolino and J.J. Johnson, of course, are two of the absolute titans of the trombone. Even going to back to Tommy Dorsey, there’s something about the sweetness of that ’30s, ’40s sound that hits you right in the heart. I’m a real sucker for the Stan Kenton era as well, and I’m also a huge fan of Maynard Ferguson, borne out of the Kenton Orchestra itself!

What was the first concert you ever attended?

Both my parents were musicians, so I’m going to assume it was them playing on a recital long before I could remember it.

Favorite movie?

Saving Private Ryan always gets me. Also, American History X is an extremely moving account of the necessary reformation of humanity.

Favorite book?

Most of the books I read are scores, so let’s say the score for Mahler’s Third or Bernstein’s West Side Story or Chichester Psalms, which are very special reads in their own right.

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GIANCARLO GUERRERO

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iancarlo Guerrero is the five-time GRAMMY®winning Music Director of the Nashville Symphony, a post he has held since 2009 and has committed to through the 2024/25 season. Starting in the 2017/18 season, Guerrero will also take on the role of Music Director of the Wrocław Philharmonic at the National Forum of Music in Poland. A natural and instinctive musician, Guerrero “brings to the podium not only vitality and insight but also an appealing physical dynamism,” writes the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

A passionate proponent of new music, Guerrero has championed the works of several of America's most respected composers through commissions, recordings and world premieres. Guerrero’s advocacy has helped make Nashville a destination for contemporary music. He has presented eight world premieres with the Nashville Symphony, including the 2016 performance and recent GRAMMY®-winning recording of Michael Daugherty’s cello concerto Tales of Hemingway. The 2016/17 season also saw the release of new albums with the Nashville Symphony dedicated to the music of Richard Danielpour and Jennifer Higdon. Guerrero developed and guided the creation of Nashville Symphony’s Composer Lab & Workshop initiative, together with composer Aaron Jay Kernis, to further foster and promote new American orchestral music.

A well-traveled guest conductor, Guerrero enjoys relationships with orchestras around the world. In the 2017/18 season, his guest-conducting engagements include the Boston Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Queensland Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Residentie Orchestra in The Hague and Gulbenkian

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Orchestra in Lisbon, among others.

Maestro Guerrero has appeared with many of the prominent North American orchestras, including those of Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Montréal, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver; the Philadelphia Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic; and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. He has developed a strong guestconducting profile in Europe and has worked with great success in recent seasons with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Deutsches Radio Philharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Netherlands Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Guerrero made his debut with Houston Grand Opera in 2015 conducting Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Early in his career, he worked regularly with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera and has conducted new productions of Carmen, La bohème, and Rigoletto.

In 2008 he gave the Australian premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s one-act opera Ainadamar at the Adelaide Festival to great acclaim.

Guerrero previously held posts as Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami (2011-16), Music Director of the Eugene Symphony (2002-09) and Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra (1999-2004).

Guerrero is particularly engaged with conducting training orchestras and works regularly with the Curtis School of Music, Colburn School in Los Angeles and Yale Philharmonia. In recent years, he has developed a relationship with the National Youth Orchestra (NYO2) in New York, created and operated by the Weill Institute of Music at Carnegie Hall.

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nrico Lopez-Yañez is the newly appointed Assistant Conductor of the Nashville Symphony.

Lopez-Yañez comes to Nashville following two seasons as Assistant Conductor (and, previously, Conducting Fellow) of the Omaha Symphony, where he led more than 100 performances on the orchestra’s Family, Education, Community and Symphony Rocks concert series. In the summer of 2016, Lopez-Yañez served as Assistant Conductor to Christoph Eschenbach and Valeri Gergiev for the National Youth Orchestra’s Carnegie Hall, New York state, and European tour performances.

Sharing an equal love for opera, Lopez-Yañez recently served as Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master for the Berkshire Opera Festival, where his work was met with rave reviews. He has led opera gala concerts in San Diego and Aguascalientes, Mexico; led a production of Madama Butterfly with Main Street Opera in Chicago; and served as Assistant Conductor for Opera Omaha’s production of La bohème.

While in graduate school, Lopez-Yañez served as Assistant Conductor to the Capital City Symphony and Music Director for the University of Maryland’s Repertoire Orchestra. Lopez-Yañez also attended the Castleton Music Festival, where Lorin Maazel invited him as a Conducting Associate. His international appearances have included guest conducting with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Zacatecas, Mexico; the Orchestra Sinfónica de Aguascalientes, Mexico; the Prague Summer Nights Orchestra in Czech Republic; and the 2011 Festival de Musica in Londrina, Brazil.

Lopez-Yañez’s principal teachers were Jim Ross and Thomas Wilkins, with additional studies and masterclasses from Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas and Ken Kiesler. He holds a Master’s in Music in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Maryland. Before studying at Maryland, Lopez-Yañez received his Baccalaureate and Master’s in Music from UCLA, where he studied trumpet with Jens Lindemann and graduated summa cum laude.

TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE his season marks the first season of Tucker Biddlecombe as Chorus Director of the Nashville Symphony Chorus, after having served as interim director for the 2016/17 season. He also serves as Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where he directs the Vanderbilt Chorale and Symphonic Choir and teaches courses in choral conducting and music education.

His work with the Nashville Symphony has included Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and a world premiere recording of John Harbison’s Requiem for Naxos. Other notable works with Vanderbilt Choirs have included Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Haydn’s Creation and an upcoming staged performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in April 2018. The Vanderbilt Chorale will release their first solo album, Music in the Listening Place (Navona), in March 2018.

Biddlecombe can also be heard as tenor soloist and conductor on And the Time Is, a recording of the music of Jack Stamp (Klavier) featuring the Vanderbilt Chorale and Wind Symphony.

Biddlecombe serves as director of Blair’s fiveyear Bachelor of Music/Teacher Education degree (Ma5) program offered in conjunction with Peabody College at Vanderbilt. He has served as a clinician to choirs in 22 states and has conducted all-state choruses in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and New York.

Off the podium, Biddlecombe is active as a tenor and keyboardist. He has guest-conducted performances with Music City Baroque and the Nashville Early Music Festival, and serves as organist and musician at Harpeth Presbyterian Church in Brentwood. Biddlecombe is active in public school music programs in Nashville, working with teachers as a side-by side coach. His web initiative, the Nashville Choral Consortium, tracks each choral ensemble throughout the season and serves as a hub for choral performance throughout Middle Tennessee.

A native of Buffalo New York, Biddlecombe is a graduate of SUNY Potsdam and Florida State University. He resides in Nashville with his wife Mary Biddlecombe, Artistic Director of the Blair Children’s Chorus.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS JO H N W I L L I A M S COM P OS E R / CO N D U C TO R

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n a career spanning more than five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage. He has served as music director and laureate conductor of one of the country’s treasured musical institutions, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and he maintains thriving artistic relationships with many of the world’s great orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Williams has received a variety of prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Olympic Order and numerous Academy Awards, GRAMMY® Awards, Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. He remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices.

Williams has composed the music and served as music director for more than 100 films. His 40-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Munich, Hook, Catch Me If You Can, Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Empire of the Sun, The Adventures of TinTin and War Horse. Their latest collaboration, The BFG, was released in summer 2016.

Williams composed the scores for all seven Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone, Nixon, The Patriot, Angela’s Ashes, Seven Years in Tibet, The Witches of Eastwick, Rosewood, Sleepers, Sabrina, Presumed Innocent, The Cowboys, The Reivers and Goodbye, Chips, among many others. He has worked with many legendary directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, William Wyler and Robert Altman.

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In 1971, he adapted the score for the film version of Fiddler on the Roof, for which he composed original violin cadenzas for renowned virtuoso Isaac Stern.

Williams has appeared on recordings as pianist and conductor with Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Jessye Norman and others. He has received five Academy Awards and 50 Oscar nominations, making him the Academy’s most-nominated living person and the second-most-nominated person in the history of the Oscars. His most recent nomination was for the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He also has received seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), 23 GRAMMY® Awards, four Golden Globes, five Emmys and numerous Gold and Platinum records.

Born and raised in New York, Williams moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948, where he studied composition with Mario CastelnuovoTedesco. After service in the Air Force, he returned to New York to attend The Juilliard School, where he studied piano with Madame Rosina Lhévinne. While in New York, he also worked as a jazz pianist, both in nightclubs and on recordings. He returned to Los Angeles and began his career in the film industry, working with a number of accomplished composers including Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman and Franz Waxman. He went on to write music for more than 200 television films for the groundbreaking, early anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Chrysler Theatre and Playhouse 90. His more recent contributions to television music include the well-known theme for NBC Nightly News (“The Mission”), the theme for what has become network television’s longestrunning series, NBC’s Meet the Press, and a new theme for the prestigious PBS arts showcase Great Performances.

In addition to his activity in film and television, Williams has composed numerous works for the concert stage, among them two symphonies and concertos for flute, violin, clarinet, viola, oboe and tuba. His cello concerto was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and premiered by Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood in 1994. Williams also has filled commissions by several of the world’s leading orchestras, including The Five Sacred Trees bassoon concerto for the New York Philharmonic,

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rgentinian-born bassoonist Julia Harguindey joined the Nashville Symphony as Principal Bassoon at the beginning of the 2016/17 season. She is also the newly appointed Principal Bassoon of the Santa Fe Opera. She has performed extensively as guest principal bassoon with Les Violons du Roy (Québec) and has previously played with the Métropolitain Orchestra, the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Fe Chamber Festival. She has also been guest principal of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and will be a guest principal for The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s upcoming season.

work Soundings was performed at the celebratory opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In the world of sport, he has contributed musical themes for the 1984, 1988 and 1996 Summer Olympic Games, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games and the 1987 International Summer Games of the Special Olympics. In 2006, Williams composed the theme for NBC’s presentation of NFL Football.

Williams holds honorary degrees from 22 American universities, including Harvard University, The Juilliard School and Boston College. He is a recipient of the 2009 National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States Government.

In 2016, Williams received the 44th Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute — the first composer in history to receive this honor. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order, the IOC’s highest honor, for his contributions to the Olympic movement.

He served as the Grand Marshal of the 2004 Rose Parade in Pasadena and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in December 2004. Williams was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009, and in January of that same year he composed and arranged “Air and Simple Gifts” especially for the first inaugural ceremony of President Barack Obama.

Harguindey is the first-prize winner at the 2015 Prix d’Europe Woodwind Category, secondprize winner at the 2014 OSM Standard Life Competition and a recipient of the 2012 and 2014 Sylva Gelber Foundation career grant. She has toured with the Pacific Music Festival, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Americas. She was recently invited by the Curtis Institute of Music to participate in a joint collaboration between Curtis and the Fundación Azteca in a series of concerts and master classes throughout Mexico.

Following immigration to Montréal, Canada, in 1991, Harguindey studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal and subsequently at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Her teachers have included Daniel Matsukawa, Mathieu Harel and Eugene Izotov.

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a trumpet concerto for The Cleveland Orchestra and a horn concerto for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Seven for Luck, a seven-piece song cycle for soprano and orchestra based on the texts of former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, was premiered by the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood in 1998. At the opening concert of its 2009/10 season, James Levine led the Boston Symphony in the premiere of Williams’ On Willows and Birches, a concerto for harp and orchestra.

In January 1980, Williams was named 19th music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, succeeding the legendary Arthur Fiedler. He currently holds the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor, which he assumed following his retirement in December 1993, after 14 highly successful seasons. He also holds the title of Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood.

One of America’s best known and most distinctive artistic voices, Williams has composed music for many important cultural and commemorative events. “Liberty Fanfare” was composed for the rededication of the Statue of Liberty in 1986. “American Journey,” written to celebrate the new millennium and to accompany the retrospective film The Unfinished Journey by director Steven Spielberg, was premiered at the “America’s Millennium” concert in Washington, D.C., on New Year’s Eve, 1999. His orchestral

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CLAUDE DEBUSSY Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune [Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun]

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EDWARD MACDOWELL Concerto No. 2 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 23 I. Larghetto calmato II. Presto giocoso III. Largo - Molto allegro INTERMISSION KIP WINGER Conversations with Nijinsky Chaconne de feu Waltz Solitaire Souvenir Noir L’Immortal IGOR STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1919 revision) I. Introduction and Dance of the Firebird II. Dance of the Princesses III. Infernal Dance of King Kastchei IV. Berceuse V. Finale

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TONIGHT’S CONCERT AT A GLANCE CLAUDE DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun • Inspired by French writer Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem, Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faun is a single-movement piece in which Debussy evokes the source material through lush woodwind colors. The iconic flute theme gently sets the scene for an impressionistic musical tableau of a faun playing the panpipes in the woods. The metric ambiguity of the piece, along with sparing use of brass and percussion, adds to the distinctive feel.

• The composer’s musical interpretation pleased Mallarmé, who praised the work, saying, “The music prolongs the emotion of the poem and fixes the scene more vividly than colors could have done.”

EDWARD MACDOWELL Piano Concerto No. 2 • American composer MacDowell spent the early part of his training and career in Europe, which can be heard in his compositional style. He attended the Paris Conservatoire, overlapping with Debussy’s studies there, and premiered his first concerto with the help of Franz Liszt. He eventually settled in New York City, finding inspiration there and in his New Hampshire summer home, which later became an artists’ colony.

• MacDowell is perhaps best known for his Piano Concerto No. 2. The first two movements are shuffled from the traditional order, beginning with a strong slow movement followed by a livelier, virtuosic second. The finale brings back themes from the first movement and ends powerfully.

C.F. KIP WINGER Conversations with Nijinsky • Nashville’s own C.F. Kip Winger is a member of the late ’80s/early ’90s rock band Winger — and an accomplished classical musician and composer. His GRAMMY®-nominated Conversations with Nijinsky reached the top of the Billboard Classical Chart. Though best known for his work as a rock musician, including a stint as bass player for Alice Cooper, Winger has spent the past two decades exploring his interest in classical music and has studied with several notable composers, including Blair School of Music professor Michael Kurek.

• The Nijinsky referenced in the work’s title is the celebrated choreographer who collaborated with both Stravinsky and Debussy, choreographing the latter’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. While working on the piece, Winger read about Nijinsky and saw the piece as the “unseen dances of Nijinsky – had he not gone insane.”

IGOR STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite • Originally a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes in 1910, The Firebird was Stravinsky’s breakthrough piece and catapulted him to stardom.

• Inspired by a Russian folktale, the plot of the ballet follows Prince Ivan’s defeat of the evil Kastchei, who has imprisoned 13 princesses. A magical creature, the Firebird, aids Ivan in overcoming Kastchei and freeing the princesses through enchanted feathers and spellbinding dances.

• After the work’s successful premiere in Paris, Diaghilev continued to commission works from Stravinsky, including Petrushka and The Rite of Spring.

While the composer’s compositional style evolved, these ballets showcase his characteristic use of driving rhythm, folk music and chromaticism.

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Born on August 22, 1862, in Saint-Germain-enLaye, France; died on March 25, 1918, in Paris

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Composed: 1894 First performance: December 22, 1894, in Paris, with Gustave Doret conducting First Nashville Symphony performance: December 6, 1955, at War Memorial Auditorium with Music Director Guy Taylor Estimated length: 10 minutes

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n the eve of the 100th anniversary of his death, Claude Debussy retains the power to enchant with his musical innovations, which have not lost their freshness despite being absorbed and assimilated by an enormous variety of later composers. This is a quality he shares with Stravinsky — not surprisingly, the two mutually influenced one another.

Debussy’s first important work for orchestra, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun is often cited as the point of origin of his revolutionary thinking, and just as often it’s associated with the Impressionist style from the visual arts. Debussy disliked that analogy, however, preferring to point to the literary source behind this piece: Stéphane Mallarmé’s Symbolist poem from 1876, L’Aprèsmidi d’un faune (“The Afternoon of a Faun”). The poem is a dramatic monologue whose ancient pastoral setting is the backdrop for the erotic fantasies entertained by a faun (a mythic rural deity who is half-man, half-goat) as he recalls his attempts to seduce beautiful nymphs. The faun evokes the seductive spell of music by playing his reed pipes. Debussy initially envisioned an orchestral triptych based on the poem but completed only the first part (which is why he gave it the otherwise puzzling qualifier “Prelude”).

With Faun, Debussy leaves behind the Romantic world of emotional subjectivity and enters a nebulous, twilit sphere that resounds with harmonic and rhythmic ambiguities. This emerges from the opening bars in the gauzily chromatic flute solo (a reference to the faun’s iconic piping), which oscillates between a C-sharp and a G below — an interval known as the tritone.

This harmonic outline upsets the conventional patterns of major or minor and thus casts its tantalizingly ambiguous spell on ears accustomed to predictably defined harmonies.

Debussy abandons the principle of conventional thematic development as well, but he does use thematic and harmonic recall throughout the piece for his own expressive ends. Faun thus veers away from the narrative structure of Romantic tone poems, offering a selfcontained meditation on Mallarmé’s ode to sex and art. The composer’s musical process is closer to the hazy logic of dreams. The score’s breathlike gestures and exquisite instrumental coloring hint at the borderline state between dreaming and consciousness. Debussy’s precision and nuance of gesture convey the ebb and flow of lust and longing — and opened the door to a new century of musical experimentation.

It’s understandable that this music, and its source poem by Mallarmé, held great allure for the dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.

Nijinsky was a star of the Ballets Russes, the expat company that impresario Sergei Diaghilev formed in 1909 in Paris, where it served as an experimental lab for composers, dancers and other theater and visual artists. Eager to expand his work as a dancer to include choreography, in 1912 Nijinsky turned to Debussy’s score to create a pioneering early modern ballet. The following year he would change history by doing the same with The Rite of Spring. In fact, the oft-stated claim that Rite triggered a riot at its premiere has to do much more with Nijinksy’s radical choreographic concept than with Stravinsky’s score. (We’ll also encounter Nijinsky later in the program, in C.F. Kip Winger’s imaginative new work.)

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun is scored for 3 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 crotales (“antique cymbals”), 2 harps and strings.

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E DWA R D A L E X A N D ER M ACD OWEL L Born on December 18, 1860, in New York City; died on January 23, 1908, in New York City Prelude to the Afternoon a Faun Piano Concerto No. 2 in Dof minor, Op. 23 Composed: 1885 First performance: March 5, 1889, in New York, with the composer as soloist and Theodore Thomas conducting the New York Philharmonic First Nashville Symphony performance: November 23, 1948, with Music Director William Strickland Estimated length: 27 minutes

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owadays, within the classical music world, the name “MacDowell” is likely to conjure an image of the idyllic artists’ colony in New Hampshire. When the colony was founded in 1907 by pianist Marian MacDowell, her husband (who would die prematurely the following year) was internationally renowned, one of the first celebrity composers from the United States.

Edward MacDowell was chosen to represent music as one of the very first members of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (established in 1904) and was commemorated with a postage stamp in 1940.

But by the mid-20th century his reputation went on a rapid decline, and his music came to be dismissed as an example of hopelessly outdated Romanticism. Still, important figures continued to champion MacDowell, who, as the composer and critic Virgil Thomson put it, “left to American composers an example of clear thought and objective workmanship that has been an inspiration to us all.”

Like so many other well-off 19th-century Americans in the visual arts and music, MacDowell went abroad to learn European tradition. As a teenager, he studied at the Paris Conservatory — where Debussy was a fellow student — and then moved on to Germany to continue his training with a former pupil of

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Mendelssohn and Schumann. MacDowell came to the attention of Franz Liszt, who helped him launch his career as a composer, and wrote his two piano concertos while still living in Germany; eventually, though, he resettled in Boston and made the rounds as a concert pianist to earn income. He had several notable triumphs performing his Second Concerto, including at the 1889 Paris Exposition. MacDowell later moved back to New York, where he founded the Music Department at Columbia University, influencing a new generation before academic politics forced him to depart.

MacDowell had a special gift for the miniature — his eloquent solo landscape pieces are still treasured by piano students — but the Second Piano Concerto, clearly rooted in the Central European tradition, greatly impressed contemporaries and actually shared the bill with the New York premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony when MacDowell gave the first performance in New York’s Chickering Hall.

Dating from his early period, the Second Concerto is MacDowell’s only large-scale work to have kept a toehold in the repertoire: Van Cliburn chose it as the vehicle for his professional debut at the age of 18, and André Watts has remained one of its most eloquent champions.

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he Second Piano Concerto, written by the 20-something MacDowell shortly after his marriage, is an ambitious work, generally recognized to be of similar vintage to the virtuoso Romantic concertos of Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Grieg. Its form is, however, somewhat unusual, beginning with a slowish movement (Larghetto calmato), while the second is a very brief Scherzo (Presto giocoso) and the third has a slow, brooding introduction before segueing into a waltz-spirited, major-key finale.

MacDowell calls for unrelenting virtuosity from the soloist (perhaps a little too much virtuosity is a recurrent critique), beginning with one of several cadenzas after the solemn orchestral introduction. A fragrant breeze of F-major melody offers calm contrast to the theatricality of the main D-minor material. The first movement swells and crests in various powerful cadenzas, ending

Along with solo piano, the Second Piano Concerto is scored for pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 3 trombones; timpani; and strings.

CH A R L ES F. KIP WIN G E R Born on June 21, 1961, in Denver, Colorado; currently resides in Nashville

Conversations with Nijinsky Composed: 2012-13 First performance: March 16, 2016, by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra First Nashville Symphony performance: These concerts mark the first performances by the Nashville Symphony.

Estimated length: 25 minutes

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any music lovers know Kip Winger as a bass guitarist and songwriter who collaborated with Alice Cooper and other legends before forming his own band, Winger. But the classical music world was also a passion early on for Winger, who grew up in a family of jazz musicians. “I studied dance and was in a ballet company when I was a kid,” he recalls. “I always wanted to compose but got sidetracked into a rock band.” Over the past decade, he has returned to that earlier dream of composition for orchestra,

receiving commissions from the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra (Ghosts) and the Sun River Music Festival (Windrunner for classical guitar and orchestra and A Parting Grace).

The San Francisco Ballet commission led to a collaboration with the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, for whom Winger came up with the idea of a new dance work inspired by the figure of Vaslav Nijinsky. Although that project has not yet materialized as a ballet, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra’s recording of Winger’s score was nominated for this year’s GRAMMY® Awards in the category of Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

“At first I was writing a piece with no name, but around that time I had also become deeply immersed in reading a lot of books about Nijinsky,” Winger recalls. “About halfway through the piece, I realized I was in a sense conversing with this great artist from the past and imagining what might have happened if his career had not been short due to illness. He suffered from schizophrenia. Nowadays you could have probably treated him with prescription meds. I wondered, what would he have danced to? So the piece became the accompaniment to these unseen dances of Nijinsky.

“Particularly when I read Nijinsky’s Diaries, I felt both disoriented and inspired. The Diaries reminded me that creating art can feel like a dangerous, psychologically unstable enterprise: long stretches of nonsensical meandering may be followed by small moments of searing lucidity.

My reading inspired me to imagine all the ways Nijinsky would have fulfilled his artistic expression through dance, had he not had his illness.”

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onversations with Nijinsky is in four movements, each of which represents a different mood or aspect of Nijinsky. Regarding his own musical vocabulary, Winger refers to these inspirational models: Arthur Honegger (Third Symphony), Lili Boulanger (Vieille prière bouddhique), Paul Hindemith (The Four Temperaments), John Adams (Short Ride in a Fast Machine) and Henryk Górecki (Third Symphony).

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in near inaudibility. For the whirling second movement, MacDowell drew on material he had sketched for piano duo after seeing the famous actress Ellen Terry perform the heroine Beatrice in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

MacDowell also proves to be an effective orchestrator in this Concerto: notice the reshaping of material from the first movement by the brass in the finale. He finds new ways in the last movement to bedazzle with the pianist’s virtuosity, as the soloist’s scintillating gestures brush aside all intimations of tragedy from the first movement to bring the concerto to its animated conclusion.

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“Another angle is that I come from the rock world,” Winger adds, “And so I’m always trying to find ways to make the orchestra have a lot of power. So the piece starts the way a rock band would start, with a bold, urgent introduction, and then turns to what could be considered a rock ’n’ roll riff in the cellos and basses.”

This first movement (“Chaconne de feu”) imagines Nijinsky “jumping out from the curtain into this blazing solo of a dance” and is “harmonized with 20th-century dissonance.” The second movement (“Waltz Solitaire”) is a solo dance “rooted in 3/4 time but whose harmonies are disturbing and make you feel on edge — as if conversing with the crazier side of Nijinsky.”

A movement of deep introspection follows (“Souvenir Noir”), depicting Nijinsky “in his darkest moments, but then lifted into the light.”

The low notes of the double bass introduction become transformed in the orchestra’s upper voices “to build a crescendo of enlightenment.”

IG O R ST R AVIN SKY Born on June 17, 1882, in Oranienbaum, Russia; died on April 6, 1971, in New York City

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ven though there exists an enormous amount of documentation detailing Stravinsky’s long life — correspondence, interviews, film clips, memoirs by the composer and his associates — this is a figure whose identity steadfastly resists the kind of psychological or even straightforward cultural-historical analysis routinely applied to so many other artists. As the author Paul Griffiths puts it, Stravinsky “is more like a character in a Nabokov novel than one from Tolstoy: a little unreal, a little constructed.”

The Firebird is the work that gave young Igor his breakthrough to international success in 1910.

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As a finale (“L’Imortal”), Winger wanted his homage to culminate in a summation of “what Nijinsky represented for me.” The vibraphone has a major role here, while Winger’s harmonic language is a variation on the “exotic” scale Stravinsky used in works like The Firebird.

Winger’s score kindled a friendship with the dancer’s daughter, Dame Tamara Nijinsky. “Kip Winger has captured my father’s heart and soul,” she writes. “Many have been inspired by Nijinsky in words and dance, but no one, until now, in music. Nijinsky was inspired by music he heard, and now Kip Winger reminds us of Nijinsky’s genius with his work.”

Conversations with Nijinsky is scored for 3 flutes, 3rd doubling on piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, 2 percussionists, piano and strings.

Composed: 1909-10; revised in 1919 to create this concert suite First performance: June 25, 1910, in Paris, as part of the Ballets Russes season (complete ballet) First Nashville Symphony performance: April 8 & 9, 1968, with guest conductor Michael Semantizky Estimated length: 20 minutes

ballet for his Paris-based company. In fact, Stravinsky wasn’t his first choice for The Firebird but turned out to be a reliable backup. Diaghilev’s shows capitalized on the Parisian craze for all things Russian, and the enthusiastic reception to the new ballet won international fame for Stravinsky, who till that point had merely been one of numerous “promising” Russian composers.

Stravinsky would later become very controlling about all aspects of his collaborative efforts, but in this case he was given a ready-made scenario to work with. Based on a stylized version of Russian folklore, The Firebird recounts the powerful menace and downfall of an ogre-like figure of evil, the Immortal Kastchei, through the intervention of a beautiful rare bird — the enchanting character of the title. Diaghilev would not allow Nijinsky

of Russian folk music to yield a spellbinding atmosphere that also tells a compelling story.

The composer remained particularly fond of The Firebird and returned to it on various occasions to craft three different concert versions that he often conducted. This was also a smart move on account of copyright laws, because it opened up additional sources of income for one of his most beloved works. The Suite from 1919 uses less than half of the original ballet score and also simplifies some of the originally lavish orchestration Diaghilev had permitted Stravinsky to use for the original ballet.

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he Firebird’s musical language juxtaposes gestures to illustrate the “exotic” and supernatural dimension with the sing-song simplicity of folk song to represent the humans.

The supernatural material is based on the non-Western scale to which Kip Winger’s Conversations with Nijinsky makes reference (the perfectly symmetrical “octatonic” scale, in which whole and half-steps alternate across an octave).

The Suite opens with a spooky conjuring, low in the strings, of Kastchei’s magical garden, which is based on illusion. Here Prince Ivan encounters the Firebird, which is depicted with opulent colors and radiant trills. A peaceful pastoral section is the backdrop for Prince Ivan to catch sight of the captive princesses as they perform a ritual folk dance. Naturally, he falls in love with the one destined to be his bride.

To protect Ivan, the Firebird casts a spell over Kastchei and his menacing aides. Whipped into motion by Stravinsky’s frenetic rhythms, they are compelled to dance themselves to exhaustion in a savage “Infernal Dance” (foreshadowing the

violence of The Rite of Spring to come three years later). Their spasms subside, while a serene lullaby (“Berceuse”) lulls the hypnotized Kastchei to sleep, its lazy tune first given by the bassoon.

Ivan is instructed to destroy a giant egg containing Kastchei’s soul, and his power vanishes. A solo horn, intoning a brightly hopeful folk tune, announces the arrival of sunlight.

Together with Ivan and his betrothed, the rescued captives celebrate with music that swells and rings out in glorious triumph.

The Firebird Suite of 1919 is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano/celesta and strings.

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

ABOUT THE ARTISTS ANDRÉ WATTS PIANO

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ndré Watts burst upon the music world at age 16, when Leonard Bernstein

chose him to make his debut with the New York Philharmonic on one of the orchestra’s Young People’s Concerts, broadcast nationwide on CBS-TV. Only two weeks later, Bernstein asked him to substitute at the last minute for the ailing Glenn Gould in performances of Liszt’s E-flat INCONCERT

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to perform the role but assigned it to a ballerina who, as Nijinsky later would recall, fell out with the impresario; so the role was created by Tamara Karsavina, wearing a fabulous costume designed by Léon Bakst to signify the Firebird’s miraculous qualities. Kastchei holds a number of young princesses captive in his magic garden; any knights who attempt their rescue are turned to stone. Prince Ivan is the hero who will break this spell and destroy Kastchei, by using the aid of the Firebird.

The Firebird’s score blends the orchestral wizardry Stravinsky had learned as a student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov with the vitality

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Concerto with the New York Philharmonic, thus launching his career in storybook fashion. More than half a century later, André Watts remains one of America’s most distinguished and celebrated performing artists.

A perennial favorite with orchestras throughout the U.S., Watts is also a regular guest at the major summer music festivals. Recent and upcoming engagements include appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia and on tour, the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Baltimore, Indianapolis and Nashville symphonies, among others. In celebration of the Liszt bicentennial in 2011, Watts played all-Liszt recitals throughout the U.S., while recent international engagements have included concerto and recital appearances in Japan, Hong Kong, Germany and Spain. In the fall of 2017, he tours with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with performances at the University of Nebraska, Purdue University and the Norton Center in Danville, K.Y., as well as at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Carnegie Hall.

Watts has had a long and frequent association with television, having appeared on numerous programs produced by PBS, the BBC and the Arts and Entertainment Network, performing with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, among others. His 1976 New York recital for Live From Lincoln Center was the first full-length recital broadcast in the history of television, while his performance at the 38th Casals Festival in Puerto Rico was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cultural Programming. Watts’ most recent television appearances are with the Philadelphia Orchestra on the occasion of the orchestra’s 100th Anniversary Gala and a performance of the Brahms Concerto No. 2 with the Seattle Symphony for PBS.

Watts’ extensive discography includes recordings of works by Gershwin, Chopin, Liszt and Tchaikovsky for CBS Masterworks; recital CDs of works by Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin for Angel/EMI; and recordings featuring the concertos of Liszt, MacDowell, Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns on the Telarc label.

He is also included in the Great Pianists of the 20th Century series for Philips. In May 2016, Sony Classical released André Watts — The Complete Columbia Album Collection, which features all of the concerto and solo recordings Watts has made for Columbia Masterworks. The 12-CD set includes his legendary recordings of concertos by Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Liszt with conductors Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Erich Leinsdorf and Thomas Schippers, and solo works by Liszt, Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Chopin and Gershwin.

A much-honored artist who has played before royalty in Europe and heads of government all over the world, Watts received a 2011 National Medal of Arts, given by the president of the United States to individuals deserving of special recognition for their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts in the U.S. In June 2006, he was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl of Fame to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his debut (with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 10), and he is also the recipient of the 1988 Avery Fisher Prize. At age 26 Watts was the youngest person ever to receive an Honorary Doctorate from Yale University, and he has since received numerous honors from schools including the University of Pennsylvania, Brandeis University, The Juilliard School of Music and his alma mater, the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University.

Watts was appointed to the Jack I. and Dora B. Hamlin Endowed Chair in Music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in May 2004, and in 2017 he was named a Distinguished Professor, the highest academic rank the university bestows upon its faculty.

Watts received a 2011 National Medal of Arts, given by the president of the United States to individuals deserving of special recognition for their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts in the U.S.

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CLAUDE DEBUSSY Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune [Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun]

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inger-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens is the co-founder of the GRAMMY®-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, in which she also plays banjo and fiddle. She began gaining recognition as a solo artist when she stole the show at the T Bone Burnett-produced Another Day, Another Time concert at New York City’s Town Hall in 2013. The elegant bearing, prodigious voice and fierce spirit that brought the audience to its feet that night is also abundantly evident on Giddens’ critically acclaimed solo debut, the GRAMMY®-nominated album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, which masterfully blends American musical genres like gospel, jazz, blues and country, showcasing her extraordinary emotional range and dazzling vocal prowess.

Giddens’ follow-up album, Freedom Highway, was released in February 2017. It includes nine original songs that she wrote or co-wrote, along with a traditional song and two civil rights-era songs, “Birmingham Sunday” and the Staple Singers’ well-known “Freedom Highway,” from

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Giddens’ recent televised performances include The Late Show, Austin City Limits, Later…with Jools Holland and both CBS Saturday and Sunday Morning, among numerous other notable media appearances. She performed for President Obama and the First Lady on a White House tribute to gospel, along with Aretha Franklin and Emmylou Harris; the program was televised on PBS. Giddens duets with country superstar Eric Church on his powerful anti-racism song “Kill a Word,” and the two have performed the song on The Tonight Show and the CMA Awards, among other programs. She received the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Singer of the Year and has won the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Bluegrass and Banjo in 2016.

Giddens, who studied opera at Oberlin, recently made her acting debut with a recurring role on the television drama Nashville, playing the role of Hanna Lee “Hallie” Jordan, a young social worker with “the voice of an angel.”

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TREY ANASTASIO NASHVILLE SYMPHONY STEVEN REINEKE, conductor DON HART, arranger Selections to be announced from the stage.

There will be a 20-minute intermission.

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ver the past three decades, composer/ guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio has forged a multifaceted career, winning acclaim in rock, classical and theatrical circles. Anastasio joins the Nashville Symphony for a one-night-only performance that will feature orchestrations of classic Phish songs and solo Anastasio compositions.

He is a founding member of Phish, one of today’s most successful and innovative rock bands.

This summer, Phish completed a residency at the world-renowned Madison Square Garden in New York — an unprecedented 13-night stand known as The Baker’s Dozen. The residency brought Phish’s total performances at the famed arena to 52.

Anastasio has received GRAMMY® nominations for his work with Phish and as a solo

artist. He also received a Tony nomination for Best Original Score for the Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody. In the summer of 2015, Anastasio joined the surviving four members of the Grateful Dead for five stadium shows, which celebrated the band’s 50th anniversary.

The New York Times hailed his Carnegie Hall performance with the New York Philharmonic as “that rarest of rarities, a classical-rock hybrid that might please partisans from both constituencies.”

In 2014, Anastasio debuted a new piece for guitar and orchestra, Petrichor, on a West Coast orchestral tour that concluded with a performance at the Hollywood Bowl, marking his second performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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He previously held the posts of Principal Pops Conductor of the Long Beach and Modesto Symphony Orchestras and Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.

Reineke is a frequent guest conductor with the Philadelphia Orchestra and has been on the podium with the Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia. His extensive North American conducting appearances include Seattle, Edmonton and Pittsburgh.

Onstage, Reineke has created programs and

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on Hart is an awardwinning musician with expertise in arranging, composing and producing music for live events, recordings and print. His extensive list of clients includes Trey Anastasio, Martina McBride, Collective Soul, Lyle Lovett, Amy Grant, Brandi Carlile, The Mavericks, Bill Frisell, Darrell Scott, Tim O’Brien, Soweto Gospel Choir, Ricky Kej, Wouter Kellerman, Wynonna, Act of Congress, Randy Travis, Pam Mark Hall, Sam Bush, Andy Williams, John Jorgenson, Nanci Griffith and many others.

Hart received a GRAMMY® nomination in

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collaborated with a range of leading artists from the worlds of hip-hop, Broadway, television and rock, including Common, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Cheyenne Jackson, Wayne Brady, Peter Frampton and Ben Folds, among others. In 2017 he was featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered leading the National Symphony Orchestra — in a first for the show's 45-year history — performing live music excerpts between news segments.

As the creator of more than 100 orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Reineke’s work has been performed worldwide and can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings on the Telarc label. His symphonic works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently in North America. His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands around the world.

A native of Ohio, Reineke is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned Bachelor of Music degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition.

2006 for his arrangement of “Scary Things” from the award-winning children’s album Kid Pan Alley Nashville and wrote the string arrangements on Randy Travis’ 2005 GRAMMY®-winning album Worship and Praise. Seen on the 2003 CMA awards telecast, he provided the string arrangement on Martina McBride’s iconic single, “In My Daughter’s Eyes.” He has also been honored with advertising’s Clio Award and the Gospel Music Association’s Dove award.

Hart first collaborated with Trey Anastasio for a show at the 2004 Bonnaroo Music Festival.

Since then, he has contributed arrangements for live shows and recordings, including numerous orchestral settings of Phish classics such as “You Enjoy Myself,” “Stash” and “The Divided Sky.” Hart lives in Nashville with his wife, Kathy, and their dog, Renji.

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POPS SERIES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, AT 7 PM | FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 & 30, AT 8 PM

KENNY LOGGINS, artist, guitar and vocals SCOTT BERNARD, guitars and vocals RICK COWLING, bass and vocals

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NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ, conductor Selections to be announced from the stage.

This concert will run without intermission.

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enny Loggins’ remarkable four-decade-plus career has brought him from the top of the charts to the toast of the GRAMMY® Awards.

He’s had smash hits on Hollywood’s favorite soundtracks, rocked worldwide stages and found his way into children’s hearts while bringing his smooth, beautiful voice to Platinum albums of a stunning variety of genres. His gift for crafting deeply emotional music is unparalleled, and it’s been a part of his life as long as he can remember.

When Loggins was 7 years old, he watched his two older brothers struggle to write a song, “and I remember thinking, it just can’t be that hard,” he laughs. Around a year later, inspired by the film Yankee Doodle Dandy, he realized songwriting was his future. “It’s a moment that sticks with you,” he says. “I knew deep inside that this is something I should do.”

Once he started doing it, he never stopped.

Loggins, who was born in Everett, Washington,

and moved to the Los Angeles area as a young child, began singing and playing guitar in high school and scored a job as a songwriter for ABC/ Wingate out of college for $100 a week after a brief, unlikely stint as a guitarist for psych-rock band the Electric Prunes. “I went in and sang a bunch of the songs I’d already written, and they signed me right there,” he recalls. One of the first tunes he offered up was the beloved “House at Pooh Corner,” which became one of several Loggins-penned hits the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band recorded for 1970’s Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy. “I wrote it during finals as a senior in high school,” he says. “We were coming on graduation, and it reminded me of the last chapter of the book House at Pooh Corner, where Christopher Robin is about to head out and leave the Hundred Acre Wood behind.”

Halfway through his three-year gig as a Wingate staffer, Loggins met the man who would help

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“I feel very lucky that this is the way I make my living, and not a lot of people can say that,” Loggins says. “I’ve been lucky that I love what I do and I get to keep doing it.”

shape the early part of his career: Jim Messina.

“I knew that Jimmy had worked with Buffalo Springfield, and that was one of my favorite acts,” Loggins says of the producer and onetime Poco member. The two started to work on Loggins’ solo debut with Messina behind the boards, and Kenny fell in love with a track his producer had penned called “Same Old Wine.” Before he knew it, the pair of creative partners had morphed into a duo, and Loggins and Messina was born.

Their first album, Kenny Loggins With Jim Messina Sittin’ In, came out in 1971, featuring Loggins’ own version of “Pooh Corner” and the beautiful ballad “Danny’s Song,” which he’d written when his brother’s wife gave birth to the couple’s first child. “That was the beginning of his family,” Loggins remembers, “and many of those lyrics were taken right from a letter he wrote me.”

The prolific recording and touring duo released a studio album every year from 1971 to 1976, wrapping with Native Sons. The time had come for Loggins to cast off on his own.

“When I recorded Celebrate Me Home, I was very excited, I was like an arrow pulled back in a bow,” Loggins says. His 1977 Phil Ramoneproduced solo debut went Platinum and included “I Believe in Love,” the song he’d written for Barbra Streisand to perform in the film A Star Is Born. The album came out just in time for Loggins to score a gig opening for Fleetwood Mac on the Rumours tour, and he went from playing large rooms to arenas overnight. He struck up a friendship with Stevie Nicks, who generously offered to sing on one of his songs. Loggins found the right tune — “Whenever I Call You Friend” from his 1978 LP Nightwatch — which he credits as “the moment that launched my solo career.”

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The hits just kept on coming. Loggins pulled up for a songwriting session at Michael McDonald’s house and heard the opening melody of “What a Fool Believes” coming out of the door. “He stopped playing, but my imagination kept going.

So I like to say we were writing before we met.”

The pair won a Best Song GRAMMY® — Loggins’ first — for the tune in 1979. The following year, the pair picked up a second GRAMMY® for “This Is It,” off Loggins’ third consecutive Platinum solo album, Keep the Fire. As the decade progressed, Loggins kept expanding his musical range, impressively exploring new textures of jazz, rock and pop with ambitious production.

In the 1980s, Loggins earned a new title: king of the movie soundtrack. Film producer Jon Peters called him in to see a rough cut of Caddyshack, and Loggins provided the cult classic’s smash “I’m Alright.” When a pal asked Loggins to write a few songs for an as-yet-unmade picture called Footloose, he whipped up a No. 1 blockbuster: “I had a little up-tempo thing I’d been messing with that I probably wouldn’t have written if it hadn’t have been for the movie,” Loggins says. He scored a track on Tom Cruise’s Top Gun (“Playing With the Boys”) and performed that movie’s indelible hit “Danger Zone.”

While Loggins continued to record albums that were deeply personal and introspective (from 1985’s Vox Humana to 1988’s Back to Avalon), he also began looking outward, contributing to 1985’s landmark charity single “We Are the World.” “I was fortunate that Michael Jackson and I had become friends, so he invited me to join in,” Loggins says. “It was a long night, and there was a really good vibe in the room.”

Several years later, Loggins — a deeply

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The group released its debut album, Finally Home, on its own record label, 3Dream Records, in January 2013 and is currently working on its second album, Why Not. Though he’s got 12 Platinum albums, a pair of GRAMMY® Awards, and hits on almost all the Billboard charts under his belt, Loggins is far from done. With a children’s book in the works, he’s still looking forward to what’s next. “I feel very lucky that this is the way I make my living, and not a lot of people can say that,” Loggins says. “I’ve been lucky that I love what I do and I get to keep doing it.”

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committed environmentalist with a long history of advocating for the planet and green parenting — wrote a passionate plea for change called “Conviction of the Heart” that appeared on his 1991 album Leap of Faith. The song was so powerful, it caught the ear of Al Gore, who later called it the “unofficial anthem of the environmental movement.”

After a stunning run of solo discs, a Christmas album and two LPs for children (Return to Pooh Corner and More Songs From Pooh Corner), Loggins reunited with his former partner Jim Messina for the Sittin’ in Again Tour in 2005 (followed by another tour in 2009). Playing live has always been — and remains — a key part of Loggins’ life. “It’s an experience I don’t have anywhere else. It is time-travel,” he explains. “I make a connection with the audience that is special to me and unique in my life.”

Since 2010, Loggins has also been onstage with a country trio, Blue Sky Riders, which features Nashville powerhouse Gary Burr and gifted vocalist and singer/songwriter Georgia

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The Nashville Symphony is deeply grateful to the following individuals who support its concert season and its services to the community through their generous contributions to the Annual Fund. Donors as of August 9, 2017.

MARTHA RIVERS INGRAM SOCIETY Mr. Newman & Mr. Johnathon Arndt ◊ Mr. Russell W. Bates & Mr. Oguz E. Bates ◊ David & Diane Black ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Mr. Martin S. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Carlton Mr. Michael Carter Sr. and Mrs. Pamela Carter ◊

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DIRECTORS

Mark Peacock Board Chair

Newman Arndt John Bailey III Russell Bates H. Victor Braren, MD Thallen Brassel Rev. Dexter Sutton Brewer Pamela Carter Frank Daniels Judy Foster Andy Giacobone Edward A. Goodrich Debra Greenspan* Brenda Griffin David Gwin Michael W. Hayes Christopher Holmes Vicki Horne

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Jonathan Weaver Bethany Whelan James W. White Betsy Wills* Clare Yang* Shirley Zeitlin * Indicates Ex Officio + Indicates Young Leaders Intern

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Ric Potenz, Chair Emeritus Brenda Griffin, Chair

Rhonda Mulroy, Chair, Engagement Jay Jones, Vice Chair, Ambassadors

STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY Anonymous (3) Judy & Joe Barker ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup ◊ Annie Laurie & Irvin* Berry Mr. & Mrs. Harold Brewer ◊ Ann & Frank Bumstead ◊ Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt ◊ John E. Cain III Michael & Jane Ann Cain ◊ Ms. Pamela Casey ◊ Fred Cassetty ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Chasanoff Christ The King Church Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Clark ◊ Dorit & Donald Cochron ◊ Brian & Haden Cook ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Justin Dell Crosslin ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Ansel L. Davis Hilton & Sallie Dean ◊ Nick Deidiker & Connie Richardson ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis ◊ Marty & Betty Dickens ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Doochin ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Burton Dye ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Jere Mann Ervin Mrs. Annette S. Eskind ◊

The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation ◊ Marilyn Ezell John & Lorelee Gawaluck James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith ◊ Carl & Connie Haley ◊ Carolyn Hamby ◊ Dick & Vicki Hammer ◊ Gregory Hersh ◊ Mr. Timothy Hertel Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Irby Sr. ◊ Drs. Edmund & Lauren Parker Jackson ◊ Keith & Nancy* Johnson Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones ◊ Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee ◊ Jim & Kimberly Lewis Robert Straus Lipman ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Ryan C. Lipscomb Myles & Joan MacDonald ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. ◊ Sheila & Richard McCarty ◊ Tommy & Cat McEwen ◊ The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt ◊ Edward D. & Linda F. Miles ◊ Christopher & Patricia Mixon ◊ Michael & Karen Musick ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Odom ◊

GOLDEN BATON SOCIETY Anonymous (3) Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Shelley Alexander Dr. & Mrs. Gregg P. Allen ◊ Jeremy & Rebecca Atack ◊ Jon K. & Colleen Atwood ◊ Grace & Carl Awh ◊ Dr. Tamie Babb ◊

Brian & Beth Bachmann ◊ David Baldwin ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Billy R. Ballard ◊ Ned Bates and Brigette Anschuetz ◊ Elisabetha Baugh ◊ Mr. Michael V. Beard ◊ Mr. Wesley P. Belden Betty C. Bellamy ◊

ANNUAL FUND

Governing Members are those who attend at least four performances and make a contribution of $2,500+ to the Annual Fund each season. The program provides opportunities for recognition, special access and institutional influence. Call 615.687.6615 to become a Governing Member today!

John Halsell, Vice Chair, Ambassadors

Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 Barron Patterson & Burton Jablin ◊ Peggy & Hal Pennington Joelle & Brant Phillips CW Pinson, M.D., MBA ◊ Carol & John T. Rochford ◊ Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins Mr. Mitchell A. Ross ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Scott C. Satterwhite Joe & Dorothy Scarlett ◊ Elaina & the Late Ronnie Scott ◊ The Shields Family Foundation ◊ Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Matthew K. Taylor ◊ Louis B. Todd & Patricia C. Todd* ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Tucker Mr. & Mrs. James F. Turner Jr. ◊ Mr. Robert J. Turner & Mr. Jay Jones ◊ Peggy & John Warner ◊ Mr.* & Mrs. Ted H. Welch ◊ Art* & Lisa Wheeler ◊ Jerry & Ernie Williams ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly Barbara & Bud Zander ◊ Shirley Zeitlin ◊

Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Frank H. Boehm ◊ Dennis & Tammy Boehms ◊ Gene & Donna Bonfoey ◊ Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells ◊ Mr. Alandis Brassel Mary Lawrence Breinig ◊ Chanelle Acheson & David Bridgers ◊ * denotes donors who are deceased

2017/18 BOARD OF ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS OFFICERS Hank Ingram Chair Bethany Whelan Past Chair Allison Reed Chair Elect

DIRECTORS Brian Cook Andrew Hard Lauren Parker Jackson Laura Kimbrell Ryan Lipscomb Drew Martin

Melissa Moss Cassie Petty James Richfield Ginny Stalker Clayton Wraith

Nick Deidiker Secretary

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Steven & Cassandra Brosvik ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Steve R. Brubaker ◊ Chuck & Sandra Cagle ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun ◊ Kirk & Darlene Campbell ◊ Ann & Sykes Cargile ◊ Crom & Kathy Carmichael ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Carr ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Carter ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler ◊ Erica & Doug Chappell ◊ Donna R. Cheek* ◊ Terry & Holly Clyne ◊ Ed & Pat Cole ◊ Marjorie & Allen* Collins ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. ◊ Kathy & Scott Corlew ◊ Teresa Corlew & Wes Allen ◊ Mr. & Mrs. James H. Costner ◊ Roger & Barbara Cottrell David Coulam & Lucy A. Visceglia ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert ◊ Dr. & Mrs. James Crafton ◊ Janine Cundiff Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Daley III ◊ Mr. M. Bradshaw Darnall III ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Ben Davis ◊ John & Natasha Deane ◊ Dr. Shana R. Dowell ◊ Myrtianne Downs ◊ Kathryn Duffer Laura & Wayne Dugas ◊ Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington ◊ Robert D. Eisenstein Drs. James & Rena Ellzy ◊ Mr. Owen T. Embry ◊ Dr. Noelle Daugherty & Dr. Jack Erter ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind ◊ Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild ◊ Mr. Dave Felipe & Mrs. Mary Jennings ◊ Dr. Lee A. Fentriss ◊ T. Aldrich Finegan ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Will Fischer ◊ Mr. Brian T. Fitzpatrick ◊ Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer & Family ◊ John & Barbara Fletcher ◊ Drs. Robert* & Sharron Francis ◊ Cathey & Wilford Fuqua ◊ Peter & Debra Gage ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gann ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Ryan W. Gardenhire Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins ◊ Harris A. Gilbert ◊

Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III ◊ Andrew & Alene Gnyp ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Goad Jr. Mr. John Mack Green ◊ Gerald C. Greer & Scott Hoffman MD ◊ Ms. Gail Danner Greil ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin D. Griffin ◊ Karen & Daniel Grossman & Family ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Hagood ◊ John & Melissa Halsell ◊ Mrs. Robbie J. Hampton ◊ Andrew & Ally Hard ◊ Janet & Jim Hasson ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Hatef ◊ Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes ◊ Everly Heeren & Gregory Suhayda ◊ Helen & Neil Hemphill ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin H. Hill ◊ Drs. Robert Hines & Mary Hooks ◊ Dr. Jan Van Eys & Judith Hodges ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Scott Hoffman ◊ Ms. Cornelia B. Holland ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Christopher T. Holmes Susan Holt & Mark Patterson ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Hank Ingram ◊ Rodney Irvin Family ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson ◊ Donald L. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques ◊ Janet & Philip Jamieson ◊ George & Shirley Johnston ◊ Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kestner ◊ Tom & Darlene Klaritch ◊ Anne Knauff ◊ Walter & Sarah Knestrick ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. ◊ William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch ◊ Ms. Pamela L. Koerner ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach ◊ Ms. Nona Kroha ◊ Mr. Paul H. Kuhn, Jr. ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Spencer N. Lambright Robert & Carol Lampe ◊ Mr. Edward Lanquist ◊ Martha & Larry Larkin ◊ Drs. Paul & Dana Latour ◊ Kevin & May Lavender Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lavender Mr. & Mrs. John M. Leap ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Lentini ◊

Sally M. Levine ◊ Ms. Natalie C. Lévy-Sousan ◊ Marye & Bill Lewis ◊ George & Cathy Lynch ◊ Andrea & Helga Maneschi ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Dan J. Marcum ◊ Red & Shari Martin ◊ Steve & Susie Mathews Shawn & Vida Mathis ◊ Lynn & Jack May ◊ Jayne Menkemeller ◊ F. Max & Mary A. Merrell ◊ Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Miller ◊ Ms. Stephanie Miller & Ms. Carla Moring Dr. Dina & Mr. Rami Mishu ◊ Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli ◊ Mr. Wayne E. Morris ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Kelvin A. Moses ◊ Matt & Rhonda Mulroy ◊ James & Patricia Munro ◊ Mr. Chase Neely Mr. Aaron Connolly & Dr. Kenneth Niermann ◊ Dr. Agatha L. Nolen ◊ Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat ◊ Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook ◊ Dr. Christopher J. Ott & Mr. Jeremy R. Simons ◊ Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict ◊ David & Pamela Palmer ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Laurence M. Papel Chelsea & Jason Parker ◊ Grant & Janet Patterson ◊ Mr. & Mrs. John Francis Paul ◊ Catherine & John Perry ◊ Ms. Cassandra E. Petty ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Edgar H. Pierce Jr. ◊ Mr. Charles H. Potter Jr. ◊ Donna and Tom Priesmeyer ◊ Dr. Terryl A. Propper ◊ Dr. Zeljko & Tanya Radic ◊ Mr. & Mrs. W. Edward Ramage ◊ Allison Reed & Sam Garza ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Riven ◊ Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation Misha Robledo ◊ Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland ◊ Anne & Charles Roos ◊ Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke ◊ Ms. Mary Frances Rudy ◊ Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter ◊

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Anonymous (12) Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Abelman Jerry Adams Jeff & Tina Adams Mr. & Mrs. Roger Allbee Carol M. Allen Lisa & Gerry Altieri Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Andrews Jr. 60

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Ms. Deborah Arvin David A. & Stephanie Bailey Ms. Peggy Mayo Bailey Richard & Ada Baker Mr. Bradford Baldauf Mrs. Brenda Bass Mr. & Mrs. John Baxter Craig & Angela Becker Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner

Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell ◊ Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Mr. Tim Scarvey ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle ◊ Peggy C. Sciotto ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Seale ◊ Joan Blum Shayne ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Steve Shelton ◊ Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard ◊ Bill & Sharon Sheriff ◊ William & Cyndi Sites ◊ George & Mary Sloan ◊ David & Niki Smith ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith ◊ K.C. & Mary Smythe ◊ Clark Spoden & Norah Buikstra ◊ Christopher & Maribeth Stahl ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Jack Stalker ◊ Gregory W. Stasko Dr. Virginia & Mr. Robert J. Stewart ◊ Deborah & James Stonehocker ◊ Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III ◊ Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor ◊ Jeremy & Carrie* Teaford Mr. & Mrs. David B. Thomas Sr. ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes ◊ Risë & Laurence Tucker George & Margaret Uribe Mr. James N. Vickers & Mr. Brian Schafer ◊ Larry & Brenda Vickers ◊ Mr. Vince Vinson ◊ Mr. & Mrs. William H. Wade ◊ Kris & G. G. Waggoner ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner ◊ Mark Wait ◊ James & Greta Walsh ◊ Mrs. W. Miles Warfield ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen ◊ Talmage M. Watts & Debra Greenspan Watts ◊ Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle ◊ Mr. James L. White ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer ◊ Donald E. Williams ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joel Williams ◊ Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie ◊ Ms. Deborah L. Winkler ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe ◊ Dr. Artmas L. Worthy ◊ Donna B. Yurdin ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Victor L. Zirilli ◊

Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499

Bernice Amanda Belue Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills David Blackbourn & Celia Applegate Randolph & Elaine Blake Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III

Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Drs. James P. & Andrea C. Bracikowski Dr. Joe P. Brasher Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Dr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Bressman Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Mr. James I. Brown & Ms. Lindella Johnson

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Greg & Mary Jo Cote Drs. Paul A. & Dorothy Valcarcel Craig Ms. R. Suzanne Cravens Charles & Angela Curtiss Drs. Maria Gabriella Giro & Jeffrey M. Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Daryl Demonbreun Drs. Clint & Jessica Devin Ms. Teri I. DeVires Dr. Tracey E. Doering Carol & Harold Donaldson Peter & Kathleen Donofrio Michael Doochin & Linda Kartoz-Doochin John & Diana Doss Claudia Douglass Stephen & Kimberly Drake Joe & Shirley Draper Laura L. Dunbar Margaret & James Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden E.B.S. Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Chris & Lori Edwards Dr. James E. & Mrs. Beverly Edwards Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Laurie & Steven Eskind Bill & Dian S. Ezell Mr. & Mrs.* DeWitt Ezell Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ezrin Scott & Dawn Farris

Michael & Rosemary Fedele Dr. Kimberly D. Ferguson John David & Mary Dale Trabue Fitzgerald Béla Fleck Mr. & Mrs. Pete Franks Mr. & Mrs. Keith D. Frazier Ann D. Frisch Mr. & Mrs. David B. Fruetel Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Galbraith Larry & Felicia Gates Chris & Mandy Genovese Sonny Gichner Frank Ginanni Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Mr. Mark Graziano & Ms. Alyson Young Richard A. Green Mr. & Mrs. Gene Gwyn Drs. Steven & Ruth Haley Elinor Hall Ellen C. Hamilton The Evelyn S. & Jim Horne Hankins Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hardy Ms. Pamela Harris Dr. & Mrs. Jason Haslam Jim & Stephanie Hastings Lisa & Bill Headley Suzy Heer Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Ms. Victoria Heil

Dr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Heimburger Ms. Doris Ann Hendrix Philip & Amber Hertik Mr. & Mrs. Winston C. Hickman Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Dr. Elisabeth Dykens & Dr. Robert Hodapp Mr.* & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Ray Houston Hudson Family Foundation Donna & Ronn Huff Albert C. Hughes Jr. & Charlotte E. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. John Huie Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Judith S. & James R. Humphreys Bud Ireland Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii G. Brian Jackson & Roger E. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Steven L. Jackson Lee & Pat Jennings Charles & Adrienne Johnson Hal & Dona Johnson Stephen Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy K. Johnson Dr. & Mrs. David S. Jones Pat & Howard Jones Mary Loventhal Jones Joseph Judkins Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kanak

THE SYMPHONY EXPERIENCE — ENHANCED. ALLEN WALTER WATSON, SR. FOUNDERS HALL Socialize with passionate Nashville Symphony supporters in our VIP patron lounge, open before the concert and during intermission on all series concert evenings.

Enjoy spirits, wine, coffee and light bites while meeting fellow music lovers and talking about your favorite “Schermerhorn moments”!

BECOME A VIP Founders Hall access begins with a gift of $1,000. Call 615.687.6494 for more information.

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Jean & David Buchanan Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Gina & Sam Burnette Dr. & Mrs. Howard A. Burris Mrs. Patricia B. Buzzell David L. & Chigger J. Bynum Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Mr. David Carlton T. James Carmichael Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III Dr. Robert J. Carroll Clint & Patty Carter Bill & Chris Carver Dr. Elizabeth Cato Mary & Joseph Cavarra Dr.* & Mrs. Robert Chalfant David Chamberlin Barbara & Eric Chazen Renée Chevalier Mr. & Mrs. Cooper Chilton Catherine Chitwood Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher David & Starling Clark George D. Clark Jr. Mr. & Dr. Brian & Anna Clayton Jay & Ellen Clayton Mr. Ernest Clevenger III Sallylou & David Cloyd Cindy & Doug Cobb Esther & Roger Cohn Chase Cole Joe & Judy Cook Nancy Krider Corley

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Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Kelly Jane S. Kersten William Killebrew The Kimball Family Mrs. Daisy King George C. King Linda R. Koon Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce Bethany & William Kroemer Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Barbara Lawless & John Lawless Sandi & Tom Lawless Daniel Lewis Ms. Delorse A. Lewis Hon. & Mrs. Thomas R. Lewis Don & Patti Liedtke Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Lippolis Keltner W. & Debra S. Locke Mr. Mark E. Lopez & Mr. Patrick J. Boggs Mr. & Mrs. George Luscombe III Mr. & Mrs. Phil Lyons William R. & Maria T. MacKay Mr. John Maddux Joe & Anne Maddux Ms. Orlene Makinson James & Gene Manning David & Leah Marcus Ms. Brenda Lee Marero Captain Nathan Marsh Metro Fire Fighter Mr. Sean J. Martin James & Patricia Martineau Ms. Helen J. Mason Dr. Nancy Brown & Mr. Andrew May

Bob Maynard Dr. Wendell McAbee Judi McCaslin Mr. & Mrs. Cary A. McClure Ms. Virginia J. Meece Ronald S. Meers Drs. Manfred* & Susan Menking Steven Meranze & Irene Feurer Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether Rev. Dr. & Mrs.* Charles L. Moffatt Ms. Gay Moon Joseph & Julia Moore Lynn Morrow Monica L. Mosesso Juli & Ralph Mosley Margaret & David Moss Mary Jo & Dick Murphy Larry & Marsha Nager Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. Mr. & Mrs. F.I. Nebhut Jr. Anne & Peter Neff Leslie & Scott Newman Dr. John A. Oats Jr. & Meredith S. Oates Mr. & Mrs.* Douglas Odom Jr. Drs. Lucius & Freida Outlaw Mr. & Mrs. Cano Ozgener Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page Mr. & Mrs. Tim & Sue Palmer Janie Parmley Drs. Teresa & Phillip Patterson Mr. & Mrs. William C. Pfaender Linda & Carter Philips Robert & Laura Pittman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Potter Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Mr. Franklin M. Privette

Brad S. Procter Ms. Deborah Putnam Mr. Mason Revelette Mr. & Mrs. Dudley C. Richter Delphine and Kenneth Roberts Richard Rosenthal & Audrey Anderson Edgar & Susan Rothschild Ed & Jan Routon Ms. Caroline Rudy Ms. Diane L. Sackl David Sampsell Paula & Kent Sandidge Mr. & Mrs. Jay Sangervasi Mrs. Cooper Schley Pam & Roland Schneller Mr.* & Mrs. John L. Seigenthaler Dr. & Mrs. John S. Sergent Alfred & Katherine Sharp Mrs. Lillian C. Sharp Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Luke & Susan Simons Mr. & Mrs. Christopher M. Simonsen Tom & Sylvia Singleton Ashley N. Skinner Susan Diane Sloan Drs. Walter E. Smalley Jr. & Louise Hanson Dr. Neil & Ruth Smith Dr. & Mrs. Norman Spencer Steve & Misty Standley Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Stein Mr. James McAteer & Dr. Catherine Stober Hope* & Howard Stringer Ann & Noel Sullivan

Bruce & Elaine Sullivan Craig & Dianne Sussman Dr. & Mrs. Richard Tayrien Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Dr. Paul E. Teschan Rich* & Carol Thigpin Julie & Scott Thomas Lorraine Ware & Reid Thompson Larry & Paula Throneberry Dr. & Mrs. Todd Tolbert Norman & Marilyn Tolk Torrence Family Fund Mr. Michael P. Tortora John & Charlotte Trainer Martha J. Trammell Mila & Bill Truan Thomas L. & Judith A. Turk Mr. & Mrs. William E. Turner Jr. Mrs. Jennifer von der Heiden Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Mike & Elaine Walker Dr. Medford S. Webster Mr. & Mrs. Derek West Linda & Raymond White Stacy Widelitz Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenk Judy S. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II Mr. & Mrs. Blair Wilson Mr. & Mrs. William (Dan) F. Wolf Mr. & Mrs. Marvin L. Wood Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Woosley III Berje Yacoubian & Kathy Wade-Yacoubian Ms. Jane Zeigler Glenn & Heather Zigli

Governing Members are highly engaged patrons who have a desire to influence the future of the Nashville Symphony.

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overning Members receive access to Founders Hall donor lounge, complimentary drinks, special access, exclusive invitations and behind-thescenes experiences

UPCOMING EVENTS

Membership is offered with an annual gift of $2,500 and purchase of 4+ concerts.

September 29 at 5:30 pm: Pops Series Pre-Concert Dinner A social opportunity for Governing Members to gather at The Diner prior to Kenny Loggins.

September 16: Post-Toast Backstage Join us as we celebrate the opening of the Nashville Symphony’s 71st season! This intimate toast will take place backstage with your Nashville Symphony musicians.

October 5-7: Pre-Concert German Beer Tasting Join us for special German beer options in Founders Hall in honor of Beethoven and his masterful Fifth Symphony.

October 2017: Insiders’ Access Event: House Concert Join us for an opportunity exclusively for Governing Members.

Meet and mingle with fellow members and enjoy an evening of music in an intimate setting.

Get involved and gain access!

Contact Kathryn Wroth, Director of Annual Fund, at 615.687.6615 or kwroth@nashvillesymphony.org

Anonymous (22) Ben & Nancy* Adams Mr. Jeffrey H. Adams Drs. Wendell S. & Paige Akers Neil & Leslie Alexander Adrienne Ames Ken & Jan* Anderson Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple David & Marsha Armstrong Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins Mr. Bruce G. Aubrey Geralda M. Aubry Mr. & Mrs. James E. Auer Lawrence E. Baggett Dr.* & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr. Drs. Ferdinand & Eresvita Balatico J.E. & Doris Barlow Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Katrin T. Bean Scott & Dawn Becker Fran & Sandy Bedard Ms. Carmen Bellos Mike & Kathy Benson Carl W. Berg Dr. Diane Rae & Mr. Greg Berty Mr. Calvin Bishop Mr. & Mrs. Robert Blackwell Marilyn Blake Jim & Sydney Boerner Irma Bolster Mr. Kevin L. Bowden & Candice Ethridge Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Beverly J. Brandenburg-Scott Jere & Crystal Brassell Gene & Delane Brewer Mr. Sean Brobston Berry & Connie Brooks Ms. Catherine Brown Dr. Pamela E. Brown Ms. Ruth Ann Brown Steven & Jill Brown Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Mr. & Mrs. G. Rhea Bucy Mr. & Mrs. Eugene N. Bulso Jr. Sharon Lee Butcher Marcus Butler Dr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Buxbaum Ms. Betsy Calabrace Ms. Constance L. Caldwell Ms. Marguerite E. Callahan Dr. W. Barton Campbell & Mrs. Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Luther Cantrell Jr. Mr. Jeffrey C. Cartwright Mr. & Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Vickie & Buzz Cason Mr. Andrew I. Castillo Mr.* & Mrs. James W. Chamberlain Dean & Sandy Chase Ms. Wendy P. Cheney Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Dr. Karla G. Christian Dr. & Mrs. André L. Churchwell Charles & Agenia Clark

Ms. Donna P. Clark Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Colonel (ret.) Dr. & Mrs. James R. (Conra) Collier Paul & Alyce Cooke William & Sabrina Coopman Elizabeth Cormier Marion Pickering Couch Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Rob Crichton Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Cruickshanks Jr. R. Barry & Kathy Cullen Buddy & Sandra Curnutt Mr. Timothy D. Curtis & Adam N. Castellarin Andrew Daughety & Jennifer Reinganum Janet Keese Davies Steve & Julie Davis Ms. Donna M. Dean Dr. & Mrs. Darryl T. Deason Dr.* & Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Mrs. Edwin DeMoss Ms. Laura Denison Anne R. Dennison Dr. & Mrs. Henry A. DePhillips Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Bob Dozier Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Drake Elizabeth Tannenbaum & Carl Dreifuss Mr & Mrs. Mike Dungan Ms. Vickie Bevels-Eatherly Shervin & Georgette Eftekhari Dr. William E. Engel Mr. Timothy W. Estes Dr. & Mrs. James Ettien John & Deborah Farringer Anita Schmid & W. Tyree Finch Dr. & Mrs. Jack Fisher Mr. & Mrs. David B. Foutch John C. Frist Jr., M.D. Robert & Peggy Frye Tom & Jennifer Furtsch Bill & Ginny Gable Ms. Mary T. Gallagher Ray & Ruth Randolph Charitable Fund Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Dodie & Carl George Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Giles Dr. Mark Glazer & Cindy Stone Linda & Joel Gluck Kathleen Gould Brent & Pat Graves Judith & Peter Griffin Steve & Anna Grizzle John & Libbey Hagewood Dr. & Mrs. John D. Hainsworth Cathey & Doug Hall Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Hamilton H. Clay & Mary Harkleroad Cindy Harper Frank & Liana Harrell Peggy R. Hays Stephen & Deborah Hays Mr. & Mrs. Shannon Heil Doug & Becky Hellerson Mr. James D. Hennessy & Mrs. Deanna Watters Patricia Ann Hester Gerald Hill

Robert C. & Shirley M. Hilmer Robert Hoffman Savina Hollman Frances Holt Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hommrich Drs. Richard T. & Paula C.* Hoos Ken & Beverly Horner Bruce & Diane Houglum Mr. David Huckabee Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Huljak Mr. & Mrs. David Hunt Mr. & Mrs. V. Davis Hunt Margie Hunter Nelson Hunter & Becky Gardner Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Dr. & Mrs. Timothy Hutchison Dr. & Mrs. Roger Ireson Ms. Janice A. Jennings Richard W. Jett Mr. Deron Johnson Bob & Virginia Johnson Mr. & Mrs.* Donald M. Johnston Susan & Evan Johnston Frank & Audrey Jones Mr. & Mrs. Tarpley Jones John & Eleanor Kennedy Dr. Valentina Kon & Dr. Jeffrey L. Hymes Mark J. Koury & Daphne C. Walker Mr. Daniel L. LaFevor Mrs. Martha W. Lawrence J. Mark Lee Lewis & Judy Lefkowitz John & Mary Leinard Dr. Emiko J. LeJeune Ted & Anne Lenz Michael & Ellen Levitt Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Lind Drs. Walt & Shannon Little The Howard Littlejohn Family Dr. & Mrs. John L. Lloyd Kenyatta & Tracey Lovett Bruce & Penny Lueckenhoff Mr. & Mrs. James C. Lundy Jr. Jeffrey C. Lynch Michael & State Representative Susan Lynn Herman & Dee Maass Mr. Michael J. MacDonald Theresa MacDonald Dr. Mark A. Magnuson & Lucile Houseworth Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mahoney Dr. John F. Manning Jr. Mr. Danny Maples Mr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Marston Mr. & Mrs. Ben T. Martin Henry & Melodeene Martin Abraham, Lesley & Jonathan Marx Ms. Amanda Mathis Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Mr. & Mrs. Henry C. McCall Kathleen McCracken John & Mary McCullough Bob McDill & Jennifer Kimball Joey & Beth McDuffee Mr. & Mrs. Lynn D. McGill Mr. Brian L. McKinney Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod

Gifts of $500 - $999 Randy & Edina McMasters Catherine & Brian R. McMurray Mr. & Mrs. Gregory G. McNair Prof. Samuel T. & Sandra J. McSeveney Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. McWherter Linda & Ray Meneely Mr. & Mrs. Robert Menish Dr. Karen S. Meredith Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent B. Millspaugh David & Lisa Minnigan Mr. Michael Mishu Diana & Jeff Mobley Mr. & Mrs. Steven Moll Anthony & Ariane Montemuro James & April Moore Dr. Kelly L. Moore Mrs. Laura Moran & Mr. Thomas Moran Ms. Ellen L. More Karen Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Mueller Mr. & Mrs. B. Dwayne Murray Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. William Myers Lucille C. Nabors Miss Darlene Y. Nall Dr. & Mrs. Harold Nevels Mary & Gudger Nichols Jane K. Norris Drs. John* & Margaret Norris Virginia O'Brien Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr. Karl M. Olsen Mr. & Mrs. Jack Oman Mr. Sergio Ora Frank & Nancy* Orr David Oxley, MD FACS James & Jeanne Pankow Clint Parrish Mr.* & Mrs. Douglas Parsons Lisa & Doug Pasto-Crosby Dr. Gregory W. Patterson Diane Duley Payne Mr. Scott C. Peterson Claude Petrie Jr. Kenneth C. Petroni MD Faris & Bob Phillips Charles & Mary Phy Craig & Raelynn Plattner Rick & Diane Poen Gary* & Poli Hughes Phil & Dot Ponder Mr. & Mrs. Charles Poole Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin K. Poulose Mr. Tim Powers Cammy Price Mr. & Mrs. Brooks A. Quin Mr. & Mrs. J. David Rawle Franco & Cynthia Recchia Paul & Gerda Resch Mr. Allen Reynolds Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Don & Connie Richardson Mr. David Roberts Mr. & Mrs. John A. Roberts Sharon A. Roberts Dr. Julie A. Roe Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Lauren & Christopher Rowe Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Roy INCONCERT

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Anonymous (34) Henry J. Abbott & Rita J. Bradley Judith Ablon The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. W. Robert Abstein Mrs. Christine W. Acklen Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Adamson Mr.* & Mrs. Charles E. Allen Jr. Newton & Burkley Allen Mr. & Mrs. John Allpress Mr. Geoff Amateau Betty Anderson Mrs. Floretta H. Anderson Drs. Ron & Mary Ann Arildsen Mr. Aaron Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. Phil Arnold Mr. & Mrs. Timothy W. Arnold Dr. & Mrs. Peter Arrowsmith Mr. & Mrs. Kevin W. Atenhan The Brian C. Austin Family Richard C. Bailey Ms. Emiko S. Baldwin Mr. & Mrs. J. Oriol Barenys Mr. Richard M. Barry Mrs. Edith McBride Bass Mr. & Mrs. Frank M. Bass II Mr. & Mrs. James Bauchiero Charles & Sandra Baugh Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Bay Mr. & Mrs. Mathew Beaubouef Mr. Brandon Begarly Mark H. Bell Ms. Reba Bellar

Mr. & Mrs. Wentworth Caldwell, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Callighan Claire Ann Calongne Charlie Caldwell Mr. Jonathan S. Carlton Karen Carr Dr, & Mrs. Mike Carrigan Mr. Rick D. Casebeer Mr. Patrick L. Cassady Mr. Edmundo J. Cepeda John & Susan Chambers Gladys M. Chatman Dr. Walter J. Chazin Dr. Amy Chomsky Mark & Bette Christofersen Neil Christy & Emily Freeman Teresa C. Cissell Drs. Walter K. Clair & Deborah Webster-Clair Mr. & Mrs. Roy Claverie Sr. Dr. Mary Ellen Clinton-Wade Mr. & Mrs. Neely B. Coble III Misty & Joshua Swann Mr. & Mrs. T. Kent Cochran Alma Jean Colley Ms. Peggy B. Colson John O. Colton Dr. Michael Conver Mr. & Mrs. Randy Cook Ms. Sheila M. Cook Arlene & Charley Cooper Donna M. Corbin

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Bennett Jr. Mr. Bradley Bills Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell Walter Bitner & Melanie Delvalle Melvin Black Ms. Helen R. Blackburn-White Linda Blake Dr. & Mrs. Glenn H. Booth Jr. David Bordenkircher Don & Deborah Boyd Jeff & Jeanne Bradford Eli Bradley Robert & Barbara Braswell Anna-Short-Bridgers Mr. & Mrs. Iain Briggs Betty* & Bob Brodie Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Brown Bob & Leslie Brown Mr. James Beach & Dr. Shervondalonn Brown Ms. Tonia K. Brown Drs. Nancy J. Scott & Richard G. Bruehl Dr. & Mrs. John Bruno Dr. Steven M. Brunwasser Martha S. Bryant Mr. Ernest R. Buchi Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George A. Burke Sr. Mrs. Jonina L. Butler Mr. & Mrs. David R. Buttrey Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Byrd Mrs. James W. Byrdsong

Ms. Nina Cornelsen Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Craig Charles G. Crane Mr. & Mrs. David Crecraft Mr. Howard R. Crockett Jack & Ruth Cronk Ms. Pauline C. Cross Ms. Rebecca S. Cross Katherine C. Daniel James & Maureen Danly Dr. & Mrs. Brett W. Darwin Jessica David Dr. & Mrs. Glen W. Davidson James Calvin & Elizabeth Davidson Ms. Caroline A. Davis Mr. Frank C. Davis William Davis & Catherine Colbert Mrs. Julian de la Guardia Mr. Philip M. DeBusk Jean Dedman Mrs. Elizabeth C. DeFrancesco Mr. & Mrs. Joe H. Delk Ms. Stephanie Dennis Ms. Kathy Devine Mr. & Mrs. Arthur DeVooght Mr. Rodger Dinwiddie Ms. Naoma Donnelley Mr. Eddie H. Doss Judith A. Dudley Dr. Robert E. Dudley Carl & Francie Duffield

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Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Dugger Kathleen & Stephen Dummer Ms. Nancy M. Duncan Mr. Karl Dupre & Ms. Katherine Tange-Dupre Dr. & Mrs. Ryszard Dworski Mr. & Mrs. Jim Eades Jr. Kathryn & Webb Earthman Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Sherie Edwards Ms. Rosana Eisenberg Mrs. Clara Elam The S. Brent Elliott Family Dan & Zita Elrod Ms. Martha C. Elzen Mr. Ray Enochs & Mrs. Lee Emerson Robert & Cassandra Estes Tom & Becky Estes Dr. & Mrs. Randolph Evans Mark Ewald Tony & Shelley Exler Dr. John & Janet Exton Frank & Shirley Fachilla Mrs. Jessica P. Fain Ms. Marilyn Falcone Alex & Terry Fardon Dale C. Farran Ms. Paula S. Felps Glenn & Susan Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. James Fishel Mrs. Victoria Fitzgibbon Doris T. Fleischer Dr. Evon Flesberg & Mr. Norm Nelson Cathy & Kent Fourman Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Fox III Andrew & Mary Foxworth Sr. Ms. Elizabeth A. Franks Mrs. Cynthia Franzen Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Freas Judson & Leah Fredrickson Emily & Randy Frey Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Debra Frey Ms. Linda Friend Al Fuller Dr. & Mrs.* Paul O. Gaddis Mobile Music Adademy William S. Joyce & Anderson C. Gaither W. David Gann Mr. & Mrs. Joaquin Garcia Rev. Phillip W. Garvey Alan & Jeannie Gaus Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Gaw Nancy & Ken Gentry Mr. Joe W. Giles Mr. & Mrs. John Gillespie Mrs. Lucie A. Glass Ms. Beverly Jean Godwin Caroline Goedicke Ms. Jennifer Goetz Zachary & Martha Goodyear Dr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Gotterer Mrs. Herschel A. Graves Roger & Sherri Gray Austin & Delaney Gray Mr. Timothy J. Greenhalgh Ms. Lynn Gregory Ms. Rebecca Grim R. Dale & Nancy G. Grimes Mr. & Mrs. David C. Guth Jr. David & Nancy Hale Katherine S. Hall

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Jim & Mary Lee Hall Mr. Ben H. Harris Mr. James H. Harris, III Ron & Carolyn Harris Dr. Laurie A. Harris-Ford & Scott Ford Mr. James S. Hartman Mark & Sylvia Hartzog David & Judith Slayden Hayes H. Carl Haywood Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton Hazlehurst Mr. & Mrs. Allen W. Head Dr. James L. Head & Dr. Anita R. Head Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey C. Heeren Cricket F. Henderson Jack & Shirley Henry Dennis & Leslie Henson Mr. Matthew S. Herrmann & Ms. Nicole Long Steve Hesson Mr. & Mrs. Marion W. Hickerson III Dr. & Mrs. George A. Hill Ronald & Nancy Hill Ms. Mary C. Hinton Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hofe Aurelia L. Holden Lynn Holland Mr. & Mrs.* James G. Holleman William Hollings & Michael Emrick Mr. & Mrs. Jay M. Hollomon Wayne Hollowell Steve & Leslie Holman Dale & Willa Holmer Ms. Carolyn W. Holmes Mr. & Mrs. George Hornberger Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious Samuel and Karan Howard Mr. & Mrs. Ron L. Howes William & Kari Hubbard Leslie & David Hudson The Hunt Family Foundation Ms. Karen L. Ingram Mrs. Dawn M. Iverson Mr.* & Mrs. Billy C. Jack Greg & Patti James Mr. & Mrs.* Alan R. Javorcky Joetter Smith Jenkins Mr. Casey Jennings Wilma Jensen Carl & Mine Johnson Erica Johnson Mary & Doug Johnston Mr. Rhori Johnston Jane & Cecil Jones Drs. Ramon & Cathy Jrade Ms. Carolyn Kamp Cathy Couey & Richard Kasnick Carol & Sol Katz Mr. Mike Keenan Ron & Janice Kempf Ms. Jessica Kennedy & Mr. Sam Gabbita Mr. & Mrs. Brock Kidd Peter & Courtney Kihlberg Mr. James A. King Mr. Matthew D. Kirkegaard Mr. Kristan T. Kivilan Diane Knox Mr. & Mrs. Stewart Koch David & Judy Kolzow Mr. Brian M. Kownacki and Ms. Kaitlyn Magnotte

Kenneth R. Kraft & Luci Crow Dr. Marvin W. Kronenberg Joyce K. Laben Jantzen Lambert Mr. John E. Land Mr. Howard Landman Mr. Calvin J. Lane II & Ms. Richelle Desire Tom Langford Mr. & Mrs. Leo K. Lannom Mr. & Mrs. William Lassiter Mr. Robert J. Laub Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Ellen C. Lawson Dr. & Mrs. James W. Lea Jr. Ms. Kelly Lebow Rob & Julia Ledyard Dr. & Mrs. Donald Lee Mr. Joseph Y. Lee & Ms. Erica Fetterman Dorothy & Jim Lesch Mr. & Mrs. Neil Letson Mack & Katherine Linebaugh Richard & Tad Lisella Ms. Jana J. Lisle Parham Mr. & Mrs. James H. Littlejohn Mrs. Janet LLoyd Jean & Steve Locke Chris & Elizabeth Long Mr. Thomas H. Loventhal Dr. & Mrs. Newton Lovvorn Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal Patrick & Betty Lynch Robert & Heather Mangeot Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Manno Lee Marsden Dr. & Mrs. Harry D. Marsh Dr. Dana R. Marshall Ms. Jane M. Massey Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Massie Sue & Herb Mather John H. Mather M.D. Eva Mathis Ms. Mitzi Matlock Ms.Margery L. Mayer & Ms. Carolyn Oehler Alan & Deborah Mayes Sonje K. Mayo Dr. James S. McBride Jocelynne McCall Timothy & Shirlee McCleskey Andy McCloud Ms. Mary C. McCluggage & Mr. Ryan Keith Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. McClure Mr. Patrick J. McHale Mr. & Mrs. Durand McIntosh Scott & Karen McKean Dr. Joy H. McKee Dr. & Mrs. Timothy E. McNutt Sr. Ms. Martha Mecke Mr. Marco Medici & Mrs. Petra Krick Ms. Jenna D. Kozlowski Alice Mellette Mr. Julius E. Meriweather Jr. Peter Meschter Andrew Miller Mr. & Mrs. Jon Miller Dr. Ron V. Miller Livingfield More Dr. & Mrs. Joe M. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett Dr. Bruce T. Morrill Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Sarah Morse

Mr. Neal R. Morse Emily Moynihan Drs. Russell & Lizabeth Mullens Dr. Michael J. Murphy Leonard Murray & Jacqueline Marschak Mr. & Mrs. James R. Neal John Paul Nefflen Jim & Irene Neilan Ms. Regina V. Nelson Mr. Hunter S. Neubert Dr. John Newman & Ms. Rebecca Lyford Mike & Jeanne Newton Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Nicholas Bill & Sandie Nichols Mark & Kaye Nickell Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Mr. Jake W. Null Hunt & Debbye Oliver Chris & Tricia Olson Dr. Thomas W. Onstott Mr. Robert O'Quin Ms. Geri Ordway A. Wayne Overby Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Overfield Dr. & Mrs. Aydin Ozan Dr. & Mrs. James Pace Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Terry & Wanda Palus Mr. & Mrs.* Chris Panagopoulos Doria Panvini Frank & Elaine Parker Dr. & Mrs. Earl Q. Parrott Mr. Richard M. Patterson Mr. Tommy Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Randall K. Patton Dr. Brandyn Payne John & Lori Pearce Ms. Linda Pegues Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Pendleton Anne & Neiland Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Rod A. Petak Mr. & Mrs. Steve Petersen Ms. Ryann Petit-Frere Ms. Sara L. Pettit Daniel Pfeifer Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Phillips Mary & Joe Rea Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Maurice W. Pinson Dr. Clair S. Poff Mr. & Mrs. Sherwood L. Powers Ms. Lisa M. Price Mr. & Mrs. John E. Prine F. Leon Rader & Jewell McGhee-Rader Mr. Ray T. Register Dr. John S. Rich Mrs. Jane H. Richmond Margaret Riegel Dr. & Mrs. Timothy R. Roads Mr. & Mrs. Brian Roark Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Robbins Mr. Paul Robertson Marc R. Rogers Rodney & Lynne Rosenblum Dr. & Mrs. Charles Ross Mr. & Mrs. Richmond P. Ross Mr. John W. Russell Mr. Arthur C. Rutledge Mr. G. Kyle Rybczyk Judith Ann Sachs Mr. Stephen Sachs Michael Samis & Christopher Stenstrom

Kenric & Suzette Smith Ms. Kelly J. Smits Mr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Snyder Dr. & Mrs. Marcus Solomon Mrs. Martha A. Sorrell Mr. Brandon T. Sory Mr. & Mrs. Joshua M. Southards Mr. & Mrs. Robert Speight Mrs. Karen E. Speyer Michael & Kelly Sponsler Mrs. Randolph C. St. John Stacy Harris Jane L. Stafford Dr. Ernest D. Standerfer Lelan & Dr. Yolanda Statom Dr. C. Thomas & Cheryl Steiner Richard & Jennifer Stevens Mr. Gregory J. Suhayda Mr. & Mrs. Don D. Swain Dr. Becky E. Swanson-Hindman Mr. Richard J. Swoboda Dr. Anna & Mr. Jaroslaw Szczuka Dr. & Mrs. S. Bobo Tanner Bruce & Jaclyn Tarkington Ray & Janet Tarkington Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence E. Taylor Lynne Taylor Ms. Sylvia E. Taylor The Children Freedom Choir Mr. William Taylor & Mr. Richard D. Bird Jr. James Temple Eleanor H. Templeton Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Thackston Ms. Prema Thiagarajah Bob & Mary Battle Thompson Mr. Michael P. Thompson Jr.

ABOUT US The Crescendo Club is a dynamic group of Nashville-area young professionals ages 21-40 who share a love of music and a desire to support the Nashville Symphony’s artistic and educational mission. Join Crescendo Club to network, enjoy amazing performances at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, and get behind-the-scenes access to the Nashville Symphony.

Mr.& Mrs. James A. Thorpe Richard & Shirley Thrall Mr. Dwight D. Thrash, CPA, FCPA Walter & Cindy Tieck Scott & Nesrin Tift Mr. Carlos Tirres Mr. Mark G. Tobin Mr. & Mrs. Lewis J. Tomiko Mr. Anthony E. Tomlinson Mr. Lloyd Townsend Jr. Mr. Thomas Tracy Stephen Treon Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Trusty Mr. & Mrs. John F. Tures Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull Barbara S. Turner Dr. Lelia M. & Mr. John A. Udick Ms. Jesse W. Van Volkenburg Frances Anne Varallo Mr. Anthony J. Viglietti Kimberly Dawn Vincent Jessica & Daniel Viner Charles & Susan Vining Mr. & Mrs. Douglas K. Voise Mrs. Bridget S. von Weisenstein Mrs. Emily L.Martin Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wall Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wallace Kay & Larry Wallace Mr. & Mrs. John M. Wallick Mr. Kenneth F. Walters Major & Yong Wang Ryan Ward Jon Warkentin Dot & Jerry Warren Mr. & Mrs. Greg Watts Shirley Marie Watts

Mr. Michael T. Whitler & Mr. Mark Weber Mr. Joseph D. Weekly H. Martin* & Joyce Weingartner Dr. Jay Weiss Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Weiss Dr. & Mrs. J. J. Wendel Joni Werthan Linda C. West Ms. Judith B. Wiens Donna Williams John & Anne Williams Dr. Joyce E. Williams Mr. & Mrs. John W. Williamson Ms. Donna Wilson Gary & Cathy Wilson Ms. Sandra Wiscarson Scott & Ellen Wolfe Lea Womack Ira Work Linda Workman Kathryn & Roy Wroth Mr. & Mrs. Gary P. Wulfsberg Kay & Randall Wyatt Pam & Tom Wylly Mr. & Mrs. Michael Yarbrough Charles Yearta Dr. Michael Zanolli & Julie K. Sandine Ms. Shirley Zent Mr. George R. Zepp Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Zibart *denotes donors who are deceased

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Mr. & Mrs. Bryce Sanders Mr. Paul Sanderson Mr. & Mrs.William B. Saunders & Family Michael Savona Mr. Frank J. Scanlon Ms. Sandra A. Schatten Dr. Charles W. Scheib Teris K. Schery Mr. Bob Schlafly Molly & Richard Schneider Debbie & Albert-George Schram Kurt Schreiber & Nelda Schreiber Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Schwab Mr. Paul C. Scott Mr. Thomas M. Seabolt Ms. Amy Jeanece Seals Mr. Carl A. Sedgeman Ms. Patricia B. Selle Mrs. Alexandrino Severino Gene A. & Linda M. Shade John Shafer & Lisa Getfrid Shannon Family Mr. & Mrs. Michael Sharpe Mr. Wayne C. Shelton Keith & Kay Simmons Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir Rebecca Slaughter Scott Smieja & Leilani Mason Mr. Brian J. Smith Mr. Charles Smith Charles R. Smith & Vernita Hood-Smith Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Mrs. Ione Smith Smith Family Foundation

HONORARY

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In honor of Nancy Allen, Coordinator of Musical Theatre, Belmont University In honor of Jessica Blackwell In honor of Julie Boehm In honor of Marion P. Couch In honor of Patrick Deal In Honor of Kimberly DePue In honor of Karen Fairbend In honor of David Goodridge In honor of David Hall In honor of John Halsell

In honor of Michael Hayes In honor of Judith Hodges In honor of Mark Patterson & Susan Holt In Honor of Martha Rivers Ingram In honor of the Ingram Family In honor of Anne Knauff Planned Giving Council of Middle Tennessee in honor of Steve Manno In honor of Jeff Moles

In honor of the 45th Wedding Anniversary of Bill and Bonnie Myers In honor of Dr. Ken Niermann In honor of Kenneth Niermann and Aaron Connolly In honor of Mark Peacock In honor of Mark Peacock's work as board chair In honor of Ruth Rahenkamp In honor of Carey Rutledge In honor or Jim & Laurie Seabury

In honor of John L. Seigenthaler In honor of Tamara Senibaldi In honor of Lee Steelman In honor of Symphony Volunteers In honor of Alan Valentine In honor of Scott Wolfe Memorial

In memory of Gerry Daniel In memory of The Honorable Douglas and Mrs.Lolly Henry In memory of Wayne Dugas In memory of Doris Emogene Estes In memory of Jean Lorraine Lieber Eskind In memory of Jim Foglesong In memory of Fr. Charles Giacosa In memory of Mary Ruth Moore Gould In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Harold Hassenfeld

In memory of J.W.Hastings and Therese Wilson In memory of Robert E. Hershey In memory of Gary Kenneth Hughes In memory of Rodney Irvin In memory of Jim McCaslin In memory of Sara Harris Moffatt In memory of Sara Moffatt, a lady who loved and enjoyed sharing music with others.

In memory of Thomas J. Morgan In memory of Mrs. Joan Neff In memory of Mrs. J.C. Norris

In memory of Mildred J. Oonk In memory of Lt Cmdr Alan A. Patterson, USN In memory of Tony Sendrowski In memory of Mary Ruth Shell In memory of Hayes Springer, support of Youth Music Program In memory of Howard Stringer In memory of Robert VanWyck In memory of H. Martin Weingartner

In honor of Judith & Jim Humphreys Frances & Eugene Lotochinski Ellen Harrison Martin Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Cynthia* & Richard* Morin Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Mr. and Mrs. Craig E. Philip Anne & Charles Roos

Mr.* & Mrs. John L. Seigenthaler Joan B. Shayne Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Vicky & Bennett Tarleton Mr. & Mrs.* Louis B. Todd Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Byron Trauger Betty & Bernard Werthan Mr. Mark Zimbicki and Ms. Wendy Kurland Alice A. Zimmerman

McKesson Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co Foundation, Inc. Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Nissan Gift Matching Program P&G Fund Matching Gifts Program Regions Scottrade Square D Foundation Matching Gifts Program

Shell Oil Company Foundation Starbucks Matching Gifts Program The Aspect Matching Gifts Program The HCA Foundation The Meredith Corporation Foundation The Prudential Foundation The Stanley Works U.S. Bancorp Foundation Williams Community Relations

MEMORIAL Jerry Adams - In memory of Carole Slate Adams In memory of Ruth Anschuetz In memory of James R. (Pete) Austin In memory of Andrew G. Bachmann In memory of Jessica Bloom In memory of Frederic Blumberg In memory of James F. Brandenburg In memory of W. Ovid Collins Jr. In memory of Judith Cram Mr. Ronald P. Soltman, in memory of Judith Cram

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Laurie & Steven Eskind Harris A. Gilbert Allis Dale & John Gillmor Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Mr.* & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Judith Hodges Judith S. & James R. Humphreys Walter & Sarah Knestrick Sheldon Kurland Ellen C. Lawson Sally M. Levine

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CORPORATE , FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

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 their contributions.

SEASON PRESENTERS & OFFICIAL PARTNERS THE ANDREW W.

MELLON

AEGIS

SCIENCES FOUNDATION

FOUNDATION

EST. 2013

DIRECTORS’ ASSOCIATES Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation

PRINCIPAL PLAYERS

MIKE CURB FAMILY FOUNDATION

MARY C. RAGLAND FOUNDATION

WASHINGTON FOUNDATION

GOVERNMENT METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT

OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY

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CORPORATE PARTNER FAMILY ADEX! Homesellers Aladdin Industries, LLC American Paper & Twine AmSurg Ann Hardman and Combs L. Fort Foundation Aston Martin, Maserati, Rolls-Royce & Bentley of Nashville BDO BioVentures, Inc. Blevins, Inc. BMI Bonnaroo Works Fund Comminity Foundation of Middle Tennessee California Closets Carter Haston Real Estate Services Inc. Chet Atkins Music Education Fund-Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee City of Brentwood Clint Newman, DDS Community Health Systems CoreCivic

Creation Gardens, Inc. Crowe Horwath LLP Cumberland Trust Cupcake Collection Dan Hatef, M.D. DBS & Associates Engineering, Inc. Downtown Nashville Nissan Ensworth School Flavor Catering GM-Spring Hill Manufacturing Gould Turner Group, P.C. Hampton Inn& Suites Nashville Downtown Hans and Nancy Stabell Hilton Nashville Downtown Hoskins & Company, P.C. Humphreys and Partners Architects INDUSCO J. Alexander's Corporation James and Valorie Cole Jason and Chelsea Parker KraftCPAs PLLC Laurence and Rise Tucker Made in Network

MarketStreet Enterprises Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation Mednikow Jewelers NAXOS Pancake Pantry Parking Management Company Partners Healthcare Group Peace Communications Piedmont Natural Gas Pinnacle Financial Partners Premier Parking Provence Breads and Café Puckett’s Grocery and Restaurant RD Plastics Co., Inc. Rebel Hill Florist Renesant Bank Riley Warnock & Jacobson PLC Robert K. Zelle Fund-Community Foundation of MiddleTennessee Ryman Hospitality Foundation Sally Levine Sambuca Restaurant Samuel M. Fleming Foundation

Sotheby’s International Realty Stansell Electric Company Inc. Sysco Nashville Tennsco Corporation The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. The Buzz 102.9 / The Game 102.5 / Game2 94.9 / The LIGHT 102.1 The Cockayne Fund Inc. The Edwards Pharris Group at Morgan Stanley The Glover Group The Goddard School The Hendrix Foundation The Heritage at Brentwood The Village Fund Tokio Marine Management Travelink UBS Vanderbilt University Walker Lumber & Hardware Company Wiseman Ashworth Law Group PLC

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

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

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

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

$500,000+

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

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

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

$250,000+

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

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

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

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

$100,000+

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

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

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

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

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

Mr. & Mrs.* Martin S. Brown Sr. Michael & Jane Ann Cain Mike Curb/Curb Records Inc. The Danner Foundation Dee & Jerald* Doochin Ernst & Young

$1M+

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Mrs. Heloise Werthan Kuhn John T. Lewis Gilbert Stroud Merritt Mr. & Mrs. David K. Morgan Musicians of the Nashville Symphony Anne & Peter Neff Cano & Esen Ozgener Ponder & Co. Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Ms. Victoria Heil Delphine & Ken Roberts Ro’s Oriental Rugs, Inc. Mrs. Dan C. Rudy*

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

$25,000+ AMSURG

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

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

$15,000+ Kent & Donna Adams

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

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

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

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

*denotes donors who are deceased

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C A P I TA L F U N D S

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

NASHVILL E SYMPHONY

C A P I TA L F U N D S

LEGACY SOCIETY LEAVING A LEGACY

BUILDING A FUTURE

T

he Nashville Symphony is grateful to those donors who have remembered the orchestra in their estate plans. Legacy gifts to the Nashville Symphony help Middle Tennessee’s resident orchestra achieve its mission of making beautiful music, reaching diverse audiences and improving life in our community for generations to come through the following:

• World-class performances of enduring orchestral music, from Bach to Beethoven to Bernstein • Affordable ticket prices for music lovers of all ages and backgrounds • Commissions and recordings of America’s leading composers, who are keeping classical music relevant for 21st-century audiences • Life-changing education programs that provide inspiration, instruction and mentorship for students from kindergarten through high school • The acoustical brilliance of Schermerhorn Symphony Center, a venue built to serve the entire community

Be “instrumental” in our success by sharing your passion for music with future generations.

For more information on the many creative ways to make a planned gift, please visit NashvilleSymphony.org/plannedgiving or call Maribeth Stahl at 615.687.6532.

Anonymous (4) Stephen Abelman & Robin Holab-Abelman Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Russell & Oguz Bates Elisabetha C. Baugh Ann Bernard Congressman Diane Black and Dr. David L. Black Julie G. & Frank H. Boehm, MD Ellen & Roger Borchers Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Mr. and Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Paul Catt and Linda Etheredge George D. Clark Jr. Donna & Steven* Clark Dr. Cliff Cockerham & Dr. Sherry Cummings W. Ovid Collins, Jr.* Barbara J.* and John J.* Conder Marianne Connolly Kelly Corcoran Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert Kevin & Katie Crumbo Janet Keese Davies The William M.* & Mildred P.* Duncan Family & Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Paula Fairchild Judy & Tom Foster Henry S. Fusner* Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia &

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Dr. Pedro E. Garcia Harris A. Gilbert Allis Dale & John Gillmor James C. Gooch Ed & Nancy Goodrich Landis Bass Gullett* Connie & Carl T. Haley, Jr. David W. & Judith S. Hayes Billy Ray Hearn* Gregory T. Hersh Judith Hodges Mr. & Mrs. Bennett F. Horne Judith Simmons Humphreys Steve Alan Hyman & Mark Lee Taylor Martha Rivers Ingram Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Anne Knauff Heloise Werthan Kuhn Sally M. Levine John T. Lewis Todd M. Liebergen Claire* & Samuel* Loventhal Ernestine M. Lynfoot Ellen Harrison Martin Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Sharalena & Dick Miller Ellen Livingfield More Cynthia* & Richard* Morin Patricia W. & James F. Munro Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Harry & Shelley Page

Juanita M. Patton * Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Pamela K. and Philip Maurice Pfeffer and the Pfeffer Foundation Joseph Presley Dr. Zeljko Radic & Tanya Covington Radic Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Victoria Heil David & Edria Ragosin Dr. Gipsie Ranney* Nancy Ray Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Fran C. Rogers Kristi Lynn Seehafer Mr. Martin E.* & Mrs. Judy F. Simmons Irvin & Beverly Small Mary & K.C. Smythe Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard, Jr. Maribeth & Christopher Stahl Dr. Patricia Mlcuch Strickland Dr. Esther & Mr. Jeffery Swink Dr. John B. Thomison, Sr.* Mr. & Mrs.* Louis B. Todd, Jr. Judy & Steve Turner Robert Turner Alan D. & Janet L. Valentine Johnna Benedict Watson Dr. Colleen Conway Welch Jimmie D. & Patricia Lee White Lalah Gee Williams Dr. Patricia B. Willoughby Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Anne H. & Robert K.* Zelle

*denotes donors who are deceased

C A P I TA L F U N D S

N AS HV I L LE SYM PH ONY ADM I NI ST RATIVE STA FF EXECUTIVE

Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO Karen Fairbend, Executive Assistant to President and CEO Steven Brosvik, COO Katy Lyles, Operations Coordinator Marye Walker Lewis, CPA, CFO

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION

Ellen Kasperek, Senior Manager of Artistic Administration Eleanor Roberts, Manager of Artistic Administration Harrison Bryant, Artistic Coordinator Jennifer Goldberg, Principal Librarian Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator Kelsey Lamb, Acting Librarian Kelly deHaven, Library Assistant

COMMUNICATIONS Jonathan Marx, V.P. of Communications Dave Felipe, Publicist Justin Bradford, Website and Social Media Community Manager Sean Shields, Art Director Jessica Whitehouse, Graphic Design Associate

DATA STANDARDS

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

DEVELOPMENT Jonathan Norris, V.P. of Development Kathy Devine, Sr. Director of Corporate Partnerships Maribeth Stahl, Sr. Director

of Development Delaney Gray, Director of Development Events Kathryn Wroth, Director of Annual Fund Celine Thackston, Grants and Research Manager Dennis Carter, Patron Engagement Officer Gina Haining, Patron Engagement Officer

Judith Wall, Patron Engagement Officer Ashlinn Snyder, Patron Engagement Officer Cori Rodery, Development Events Manager Lenai Augustine, Corporate Partnerships Manager Haley Hanneman, Stewardship Coordinator

EDUCATION

Walter Bitner, Director of Education and Community Engagement Kelley Bell, Education and Community Engagement Program Manager Kimberly Kraft McLemore, Accelerando Manager Kristen Freeman, Education and Community Engagement Coordinator

Lindsay Bergstrom, Box Office Manager Gena Staib, Assistant Box Office Manager Rich Bartkowiak, Marketing Supervisor Missy Hubner, Ticket Services Assistant Sarah Rose Peacock, Marketing and Communications Coordinator Marketing Associates: Henry Byington, Jim Davidson, Kimberly DePue, Rick Katz, Misha Robledo, Cody Smith, Carrie Tillis Ticket Services Specialists: Jesse Baker, Maggie Chafee, Jean-Marie Clark, Steven Gadzinski, Jeff Hoehne, Sarah Jordan, Simon Knudtson, Brett Mitchell, Emily Perino, Jesse Rosas, Matt Siffert, Geoff Sullivan

PRODUCTION & ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS

Johnathon McGee, Senior Event Sales Manager Schuyler Thomas, Senior Event Manager Anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager Brandon Hogan, Event Supervisor

Sonja Winkler, Sr. Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager Erin Ozment, Orchestra Personnel Assistant John Sanders, Chief Technical Engineer Gary Call Hanley, Recording and Audio Engineer Mark Dahlen, Audio Engineer Mitch Hansen, Lighting Director W. Paul Holt, Stage Manager Josh Walliser, Production Manager Trevor Wilkinson, Assistant Production Manager Emily Yeakle, Assistant Lighting Director

HUMAN RESOURCES

VENUE MANAGEMENT

FINANCE

Karen Warren, Controller Bobby Saintsing, A/P & Payroll Manager Sheri Switzer, Senior Accountant Charlotte Schweizer, Retail Manager and Buyer

FOOD, BEVERAGE AND EVENTS

Ashley Skinner SPHR, SHRM-SCP, V.P. of Human Resources Annie Paul, Human Resources Generalist Kathleen McCracken, Director of Volunteer Services and League Liaison

I.T.

Trenton Leach, Director of Information Technology

Eric Swartz, V.P. of Venue Management Kenneth Dillehay, Chief Engineer Wade Johnson, Housekeeping Manager James Harvell, Housekeeper Tony Meyers, Director of Security and Front of House Alan Woodard, Security Manager Larry Maday, Facility Maintenance Technician

MARKETING Daniel B. Grossman, V.P. of Marketing Misty Cochran, Director of Marketing Emily Shannon, Director of Sales

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Four local students have been selected for the second class of Accelerando, the Nashville Symphony’s music education initiative designed to facilitate the studies of gifted young musicians from diverse backgrounds. All from Middle Tennessee, the students are:

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