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Welcome to this Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performance! Whether you have joined us just for this performance or if you’ve been on the journey with us all season, we are glad you’re here. You are an essential part of the artistic experience.
As we look back on the season, some of the programs that inevitably stand out are the dramatic large-scale choral works featuring the mighty Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Composed of 190 volunteer members who adhere to the highest standards of artistry and professionalism, it has been led with expertise, gusto and heart for a full quarter of a century by its esteemed director Norman Mackenzie. Norman first came to the ASO 40 years ago to assist then-music director Robert Shaw, still revered as one of the great choral directors in the world.
It takes a unique person to step into the shoes of someone as legendary as Shaw. Norman has carried on the legacy of Shaw with fanatical dedication, flexing to fit the needs of the many orchestral conductors who have worked with the Chorus in the past 25 years. What strikes me in Norman’s work is his ability to hold the Chorus accountable to the highest standards while serving as “encourager in chief.” After each performance, he sends the most glowing, encouraging and exhortative letters to the Chorus, and greets them backstage with his signature booming, ringing voice and ebullient laugh. It would be hard to find someone who more clearly loves his job, loves music, loves the ASO, and loves the members of the Chorus. What he does not love, crave or need, is recognition. Preparing the Chorus for extremely challenging repertoire for some of the most demanding conductors in the world is hard— and it’s a job in which your work goes toward making someone else look very good. Norman is selfless; not only does he not require recognition, he actively avoids it (and he’s probably cringing as he reads this!)
So, I beg Norman’s forgiveness for shining a bright light on him and telling him, on behalf of all of us at the ASO, all of the members of the Chorus, and all of us in the audience who enjoy the fruits of his labor, BRAVO! Keep up the good work, and thank you.
May the music you hear tonight transport and inspire you!
With gratitude,
Jennifer Barlament, Executive Director
Nathalie Stutzmann is the Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the second woman in history to lead a major American orchestra. She was Principal Guest Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 2021 to 2024.
Nathalie made big news in the opera pit in 2023 with her debut at the Bayreuth Festival with Wagner's Tannhäuser. The performances resulted in her being named 'Best Conductor' of the year in the 2024 Oper! Awards. She returned to Bayreuth in 2024 for a revival of Tannhäuser and will be back in 2026 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Festival, conducting a new production of Rienzi.
Her opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2023 was declared by The New York Times as “the coup of the year.”
With several notable debuts including the Czech Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and her conducting debut at the Musikverein with Wiener Symphoniker; her current season also includes returns to the New York Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and Philadelphia Orchestra. In June 2025 she will return to Bruxelles La Monnaie to conduct Carmen.
Nathalie Stutzmann has signed an exclusive recording contract with Warner Classics/ Erato and her first symphonic recording for the label of Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 and American Suite with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra was released in August 2024.
Awarded the 2023 Opus Klassik
“Concerto Recording of the Year” for her recording of Glière and Mosolov Harp concertos with Xavier de Maistre and WDR Sinfonieorchester, 2022 also saw the release of complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recorded with Haochen Zhang and The Philadelphia Orchestra.
Nathalie started her studies at a very young age in piano, bassoon, cello and studied conducting with the legendary Finnish teacher Jorma Panula.
As one of today’s most esteemed contraltos, she has made more than 80 recordings and received the most prestigious awards. Nathalie was named “Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur”, France’s highest honor; and “Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French government.
Recently, Nathalie conducted Shostakovich and Schumann with the Philadelphia Orchestra, featuring cellist Edgar Moreau, who appeared with the ASO in September. Nathalie also returned to the Orchestre de Paris in her interpretation of The Ring Without Words to high praise. "Nathalie Stutzmann at the top of her game. Stutzmann's superb interpretation offers the audience an incisive, driving Wagner..." (cult. news). Díapason reported "Her conducting impresses with its poise, clear-sightedness and elegance." Her commitment to Beethoven this season (in his Fourth Piano Concerto with Emanuel Ax) was also a part of that engagement.
William R. Langley
resident conductor & atlanta symphony youth
orchestra music director
The Zeist Foundation Chair
CLARINET
Jesse McCandless
principal
The Robert Shaw Chair
Ted Gurch*
associate principal
Ivan Valbuena
associate principal
Julianna Darby
Marci Gurnow*
Alcides Rodriguez
E-FLAT CLARINET
Ted Gurch*
Ivan Valbuena
BASS CLARINET
Alcides Rodriguez
BASSOON
Cameron Bonner principal
The Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation Chair
Anthony Georgeson
associate principal
Laura Najarian
Juan de Gomar
CONTRABASSOON
Juan de Gomar
HORN
Ryan Little principal
The Betty Sands Fuller Chair
Andrew Burhans
associate principal
Kimberly Gilman
Bruce Kenney
Norman Mackenzie
director of choruses
The Frannie & Bill Graves Chair
Michael Tiscione
acting / associate principal
Finan Jones conducting fellow
The Madeline & Howell Adams Chair
Mark Maliniak
acting associate principal
William Cooper
Ian Mertes
TROMBONE
Nathan Zgonc
acting / associate principal
The Terence L. Neal Chair, Honoring his dedication & service to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
The Home Depot Veterans Chair
Jason Patrick Robins
BASS TROMBONE
Vacant
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TUBA
Michael Moore principal
The Delta Air Lines Chair
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TIMPANI
Michael Stubbart
acting / assistant principal
The Walter H. Bunzl Chair
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Joseph Petrasek
principal
The Julie & Arthur
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Michael Jarrett
assistant principal
The William A. Schwartz Chair
Michael Stubbart
The Connie & Merrell
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HARP
Elisabeth Remy Johnson
principal
The Sally & Carl Gable Chair
KEYBOARD
The Hugh & Jessie Hodgson
Memorial Chair
Sharon Berenson †
LIBRARY
Joshua Luty principal
The Marianna & Solon
Patterson Chair
Sara Baguyos
associate principal
James Nelson
Neil and Sue Williams Chair
Patrick Viguerie chair
Janine Brown immediate past chair
Bert Mills treasurer
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Phyllis Abramson
Keith Adams
Juliet M. Allan
Susan Antinori
Rona Gomel Ashe
Andrew Bailey
Jennifer Barlament*
Keith Barnett
Paul Blackney
Janine Brown
Betsy Camp
Lisa Chang
Susan Clare
Russell Currey
Sheila Lee Davies
Carlos del Rio, M.D. FIDSA
Lisa DiFrancesco, M.D.
Lynn Eden
Yelena Epova
Angela Evans
Craig Frankel
Sally Bogle Gable
Anne Game
Rod Garcia-Escudero
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Robert Glustrom
Julie Goosman
Bonnie B. Harris
Charles Harrison
Michael Hoffman
Tad Hutcheson, Jr.
Roya Irvani
Joia M. Johnson
Chris Kopecky
Carrie Kurlander
Scott Lampert
James H. Landon
Daniel Laufer*
Donna Lee
Susan Antinori vice chair
Lynn Eden vice chair
Grace Lee, M.D.
Sukai Liu
Kevin Lyman
Deborah Marlowe
Shelley McGehee
Arthur Mills IV
Bert Mills
Molly Minnear
Hala Moddelmog*
Caroline Moïse
Anne Morgan
Terence L. Neal
Galen Lee Oelkers
Dr. John Paddock
Margie Painter
Howard D. Palefsky
Cathleen Quigley
Doug Reid
James Rubright
Ravi Saligram
Neil Berman
Benjamin Q. Brunt
John W. Cooledge, M.D.
John R. Donnell, Jr.
Jere A. Drummond
Carla Fackler
Charles B. Ginden
John T. Glover
Dona Humphreys
Aaron J. Johnson, Jr.
James F. Kelley
Patricia Leake
Karole F. Lloyd
Meghan H. Magruder
Howell E. Adams, Jr.
John B. White, Jr.
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^ On Sabbatical
James Rubright vice chair
William Schultz
V Scott
Charles Sharbaugh
Fahim Siddiqui
W. Ross Singletary, II
John Sparrow
Elliott Tapp
Brett Tarver^
Valerie Thadhani, M.D.
Yannik Thomas
Maria Todorova
Ben Touchette
S. Patrick Viguerie
Kathy Waller
Chris Webber
Richard S. White, Jr.
Mack Wilbourn
Kevin E. Woods, M.D., M.P.H.
Penelope McPhee
Patricia H. Reid
Joyce Schwob
John A Sibley, III
H. Hamilton Smith
G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr.
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Connie Calhoun Azira G. Hill
Ray Uttenhove
Chilton Varner
Adair M. White
Sue Sigmon Williams
Ben F. Johnson, III
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harles Cottingham was a charter member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. In 1969, friends invited him and his roommate to hear a “Christmas with Robert Shaw” program. He was familiar with Shaw’s reputation as a choral conductor, and soon after he was invited to audition for the new choral group Shaw was organizing. He remained in the chorus for 54 years, a dedicated member beloved by his fellow choristers. Charlie loved travelling with the Chorus and was part of the historic 1988 European tour, which included a performance in East Berlin.
Originally from Dillon, SC, Charlie graduated from Clemson University with a degree in mathematics, then obtained a master’s degree from the University of Michigan. He worked for Bell Labs for almost 3 decades, and for a few years at the Center for Disease Control. In 1973, his wife died tragically of encephalitis after only 13 months of marriage; he never remarried.
Charlie was an avid outdoorsman and a leader in the Atlanta Outdoor Club and the Over-the-Hill hiking club. He led over 1000 hikes, participating in many more, including an event he helped organize which involved climbing the highest peaks in 5 states, all in one day.
Music was a large part of Charlie’s life. In addition to the ASO Chorus, he sang in two choirs at Oak Grove UMC in Atlanta. He was a songwriter and played the guitar, trombone, and French horn.
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My method,” he explains, “is to prepare so thoroughly that the technical demands of a piece disappear. You are wiping a window clean, and after you are done you should not see the window, only what is inside.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which will conclude ASO Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann’s Beethoven Project in November, provides an opportunity to explore Mackenzie’s approach. “The Ninth is a screamer,” he describes. “If there isn’t blood on the stage, the chorus has done something wrong. One of the great challenges of the Beethoven is that the chorus sits for 45 minutes before opening their mouths, which is death to vocal cords, then the first thing they sing is this booming ‘Freude!’. You do not want to prepare by attacking with dynamics, pitches, and rhythms all in place. What you do is reduce the information the composer has given you to its building blocks.”
Mackenzie utilizes Shaw’s emblematic method of “count singing” in which language is replaced with the number of the beat on which it occurs. “You don’t sing ‘Seid umschlungen Millionen,’ you sing ‘one and two, and one and two and’, quietly and poco staccato,” he explains. “It drives everybody nuts; but soon you get this incredible precision and metrical integrity.” He will then take specific pitches away, and have his singers intone passages on a four-part chord monotone. “Then, and only then, you increase the dynamics, add color, and put the language back in with pitch. What is revealed is what Beethoven wrote without undue strain on your singers.”
When it comes to Bach’s Mass in B minor, which will be heard in March of 2026, Mackenzie cautions “Bach does not dance with so heavy a foot as Beethoven. The entire aesthetic of the period is different. Big crescendi and diminuendi are not so important. What is important is texture and clarity in this contrapuntal writing. Every line is a melody, and important, but you must decide what is the principal material and ensure that the other things do not obscure it. With Bach it’s all about clarity, being bright, light, and effortless, so that even a firsttime listener can identify the miracle of what is going on in Bach’s head.”
The sweeping Romanticism of the Schubert Mass No. 2 in G major, which will be heard next January, and the Mahler Symphony No. 2 (the
The 4,150th and 4,151st concerts of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Atlanta Symphony Hall
STÉPHANE DENÈVE, CONDUCTOR
KIRILL GERSTEIN, PIANO
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JACQUES IBERT (1890-1962)
Escales (Ports of Call) (1922) 14 MINS
I. Rome–Palermo
II. Tunis–Nefta
III. Valencia
MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (1929-1930) 19 MINS
Kirill Gerstein, piano
INTERMISSION
20 MINS
DARIUS MILHAUD (1892-1974) La création du monde, Op. 81 (The Creation of the World) (1923) 16 MINS
Overture
1e tableau: The Chaos Before Creation
2e tableau: The Slowly Lifting Darkness
3e tableau: Man and Woman Created
4e tableau: The Desire of Man and Woman
5e tableau: Coda–The Man and Woman Kiss
GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898-1937)
An American in Paris (1928) 19 MINS
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by Noel Morris Program Annotator
Notes to Know
• Darius Milhaud fell into a group of composer friends who came to be known as “Les Six.” Coming of age in the early 20th century, they carved out a lighter musical niche, diverging from the Impressionists and the German heavies, such as Wagner.
• Maurice Ravel wrote his two piano concertos simultaneously after returning from America. Having spent time in Harlem, he fell in love with jazz and imported the sound into both piano concertos.
• George Gershwin’s An American in Paris loosely depicts a tourist soaking in the sights and sounds of the French capital—with a bout of homesickness in the middle.
The Jazz Age
During World War I, the 369th “Harlem Hellfighters,” an all-Black regiment, stormed the continent, gaining fame for military conquests and a regimental band that pollinated Europe with the sound of jazz. After the war, culture makers flocked to Paris, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Marc Chagall, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Coco Chanel, and Josephine Baker. The Montmartre neighborhood became a legendary jazz hub free from Prohibition and Jim Crow. Across the Atlantic, the Harlem Renaissance was in full bloom with figures like Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday, Ma Rainey, Duke Ellington, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
IBERT Escales
“My mother wanted me to become a famous, romantic violinist with long, flowing hair,” laughed Jacques Ibert.
She was an excellent pianist, but her father had stopped her from having a music career (it was considered unladylike). Ibert’s mom poured her thwarted ambition into her son, who wiled away the hours plinking out his piano improvisations. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1910.
World War I interrupted his studies. He set sail as a naval officer, demobilized in 1919, and returned to school. Almost
First ASO performance: November 27-28, 1971
Milton Katims, conductor
Most recent ASO performance: April 9-11, 1992
Eduardo Mata, conductor
immediately, he won the Prix de Rome and got married. Ibert and his bride headed to Rome via a Mediterranean cruise. Settling into the Villa Medici, the former navy man composed a set of musical postcards.
Escales (Ports of Call) is a symphonic poem from the cruiser’s perspective.
I. “Rome-Palerme,” Ibert conjures a Debussystyle roiling sea with a wild tarantella from Southern Italy.
II. “Tunis-Nefta” A stop in North Africa brings a folk melody from Tunisia played on the oboe. With a nod to Moorish roots, the tune utilizes a scale (double harmonic) associated with Middle Eastern music. Ibert alternates between 3/4 and 4/4 to create a lopsided desert groove. String players pluck their instruments and strike the strings with the wood of the bow to add percussion.
III. “Valencia” finishes the piece with a lively Spanish fiesta.
First ASO performance:
March 4, 1952
Henry Sopkin, conductor
Robert Casadesus, piano
Most recent ASO performance:
March 31-April 2, 2016
Thomas Søndergård, conductor
Alexandre Tharaud, piano
Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein had just made his solo debut when WWI broke out. Called into service, he headed to the Russian front only to be shot in the elbow. Russian doctors amputated his right arm. After the war, Wittgenstein returned home, determined to resume his piano career. With the backing of a huge family fortune, he approached a series of prominent composers to write lefthanded piano concertos (Strauss, Prokofiev, Britten, etc.) but rejected them for various reasons. He approached Ravel in 1929.
Ravel had just returned from a successful American tour. On his trip, he spent happy evenings at Harlem jazz clubs with George Gershwin and returned to Paris with their sound in his head. Determined to return to America, Ravel started working on a piano concerto to play on a second tour. After Wittgenstein commissioned
the Concerto for the Left Hand, Ravel worked on both pieces simultaneously.
He loved to solve puzzles. In this case, he set out to create a five-fingered piece that was worthy of any piano concerto, with a meaty and balanced solo part. Clearly, a bit of Harlem rubbed off on him. Wittgenstein complained about Ravel’s “jazz effects.” He also complained about the cadenza and ultimately made unauthorized changes to the score, which infuriated the composer.
As the commissioning entity, Wittgenstein retained legal rights to all the concertos written for him. As a result, many didn’t see the light of day until after he died. Ravel published his concerto without Wittgenstein’s changes.
Maurice Ravel was a magician who used musical instruments to spin sounds and colors previously unimagined. In the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, notice what he doesn't do. This concerto doesn't announce itself as a dazzling showoff piece for a pianist. Instead, it opens like a creature emerging from the primordial ooze. Ravel achieved that effect with a contrabassoon solo. In fact, that arresting solo is such a feat for the player that orchestras often require it from people auditioning for the job. Alternating between lyricism and bugling, this harrowing solo demands precision mixed with impeccable musicianship.
MILHAUD La création du monde, Op. 81
Darius Milhaud grew up in a Jewish enclave of Aixen-Provence, an historic ethnic community dating back to at least 1238. He left to study at the Paris Conservatory in 1909 but was at odds with the school’s musical orthodoxy. He knew his inner voice would take him in a different direction, but it would have to wait.
First ASO performance: March 23, 1969
Robert Shaw, conductor
Most recent ASO performance: October 25-27, 2007
Robert Spano, conductor
of French taxi horns,” Braggiotti wrote. Gershwin told him, “‘I’m looking for the right horn pitch for the street scene of a ballet I’m writing. Calling it An American in Paris. Lots of fun.’”
Gerswin’s piece morphed into a symphonic poem, famously danced by Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in a 1951 film of the same name. The score requires four taxi horns pitched A, B, C, and D.
Stéphane Denève is Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.
With a special affinity for the music of his native France and a passion for music of our own time, he is a much sought-after guest conductor—appearing at major concert venues worldwide with the world’s greatest orchestras and soloists.
Denève’s recent and upcoming highlights include appearances in the Americas with the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the São Paulo Symphony; in Europe with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, DSO Berlin, Vienna Symphony, BBC Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France and the Czech Philharmonic; in Asia with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Seoul Philharmonic; and in Australasia with the Sydney Symphony and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
As a pianist, curator, educator, and artistic collaborator, Kirill Gerstein’s exploration of repertoire has nourished relationships with many of the world’s leading orchestras, conductors, instrumentalists, singers, composers, festivals, recording labels, and media platforms.
Most recently, Gerstein was Artist-in-Residence with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Spotlight Artist with the London Symphony Orchestra, Resident Artist at the Festival Aix-en-Provence, and curated a three-part Busoni and His World concert series at London’s Wigmore Hall. He released an acclaimed album with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko and his latest media project entitled Music in Time of War, pairs late piano works by Claude Debussy with pieces by Armenian priest, musicologist, and composer Vardapet Komitas. Gerstein’s world première recording of Thomas Adès’ Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Boston Symphony was nominated for three Grammys and received the 2020 Gramophone Award.
Highlights of the current season include performances with Musikfest Berlin, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, among others.
Born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, Gerstein taught himself to play jazz at home by listening to his parents’ record collection. Following a chance encounter with Gary Burton in St. Petersburg when he was 14, he was invited as the youngest student to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. At the age of 16, Gerstein completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at New York’s Manhattan School of Music, followed by further studies with Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid and Ferenc Rados in Budapest. First Prize winner at the 10th Arthur Rubinstein Competition, in 2010, Gerstein received the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, as well as an Avery Fisher Career Grant. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music in 2021.
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by Noel Morris Program Annotator
Notes to Know
• Mahler and Shostakovich parodied older musical styles in these works, adding wry commentary for the audience to discover.
• Mahler wrote the Seventh Symphony on vacation in 1904-5. Because he had a noisy young family, he wrote the piece in a private studio in the woods behind his house.
• These two works represent snapshots of Mahler and Shostakovich writing at happy and optimistic times in their lives.
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No. 1
“The name of Dmitri Shostakovich will vainly be searched for in the dictionaries of musical biography.”
—Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert program, 1928
In 1928, orchestras around the United States began playing a symphony by a 22-year-old Soviet no-name. Seemingly overnight, that no-name became a musical giant.
When he wrote the symphony, Dmitri Shostakovich was 18, studying at the Petrograd Conservatory. In Lenin’s Russia, civil war and bad policies led to widespread starvation. The school’s director, Alexander Glazunov, petitioned to increase “Mitya’s” rations because he strongly believed in the boy. Meanwhile, the teenage Shostakovich played piano for silent movies to help support his mother and sisters. He shivered through brutal winters in unheated classrooms. After graduation, his symphony and brilliant piano playing gave him a leg up.
First ASO performance: September 14-16, 1995
Yoel Levi, conductor
Olli Mustonen, piano
James Thompson, trumpet
Most recent ASO performance: April 12-14, 2018
Christian Arming, conductor
Conrad Tao, piano
Biographer Laurel E. Fay quoted one critic: "What an artist sees when he paints a picture, Shostakovich hears when he performs a piece. In both cases, the work of art precedes its realization in the mind of its creator... With most pianists, it works just the opposite—they learn the piece technically and then sometimes manage to create its musical image in the soul. This is why when you listen to
First ASO performance: March 6-8, 1980
Louis Lane, conductor
Most Recent ASO performance: November 9-11, 2017
Robert Spano, conductor
pianists like Shostakovich, you forget about technique, and you enter into the spiritual content of the music."
As much as he hated his job at the local cinema, he fell into the nascent film industry, writing music for one of Russia’s first talkies (Alone, 1931). Busy with music for film and stage, five years passed before he returned to composing for his own instrument, writing his First Piano Concerto between March and July 1933.
With the knowledge that Shostakovich had spent so many hours at the piano in a frigid movie theatre, the Concerto feels like a string of jump cuts. The music moves between parody, slapstick, tragedy, and a rollicking potpourri of remixes of Beethoven, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, and even the Broadway hit “California, Here I Come.”
In this work, a special shoutout goes to the solo trumpet. According to one source, the composer said the piece had begun life as a trumpet concerto, but something moved him to add the piano. Given that he was a brilliant player, the keyboard stole the spotlight, but the trumpet enhances the circus atmosphere of this piece, showing off one snarky and extraordinarily gifted 26-year-old.
Gustav Mahler used to say he was thrice homeless: “as a Bohemian among the Austrians, an Austrian among the Germans, and a Jew in the entire world.” But he wasn’t alone in that miasma. By 1900, a chasm stood between neighbors, friends, colleagues, employers, and workers. Some longed to turn back the clock. They hated the infusion of foreign elements into their beloved Vienna.
Through the end of the 19th century, the city’s population quintupled, fueled by non-Germanspeaking immigrants. Seemingly overnight, Vienna had more Czech people than any city but Prague. Along came Karl Lueger, who founded the Austrian Christian Social Party. A brilliant propagandist, he stirred racial hatred to gain
support. Promising to restore “Old Vienna,” Lueger swept the mayoral election of 1897. He soon made a lasting impression on a young artist named Hitler. But that’s a story for another day.
1897 happened to be the year that the Jewish Czech conductor Gustav Mahler became Director of the Vienna Court Opera. Although he spoke German and converted to Catholicism, many hiccuped at the appointment. But Mahler had proven himself. He’d climbed the ranks of regional opera houses and scored a series of artistic triumphs. In Budapest, he turned a budget deficit into a profit. He was the obvious choice for Vienna.
Perched at the pinnacle of German musical life, Mahler transformed the opera world. He moved the orchestra into the pit, revolutionized lighting, acting, set design, and social customs (he prohibited latecomers from entering the house until intermission), raised performance standards within his orchestras, and made enemies. (Again, not every Viennese person welcomed change.)
Summer break offered his only chance to write music. In 1904, he retreated to his villa in Maiernigg, on the shores of the Wörthersee. His beloved Alma gave birth to their second daughter in June, and Mahler found happiness.
Between bike rides and dips in the lake, he finished his Sixth Symphony and set about work on the Seventh—or rather, he intended to. Sequestered in his little studio in the woods, Mahler stared at a blank page and finally told Alma it was a lost cause. Instead of worrying about writer’s block, he took a climbing trip in the Dolomites. On the way home, he hopped on a rowboat to cross the Wörthersee, and that’s when it hit him. With oars pumping against the water, he heard the opening of the Seventh Symphony. Before summer’s end, he wrote the two Nachtmusik (night music) movements and finished the symphony the following summer.
Acknowledging the mixed reactions to his music, Mahler famously said, “My time will come.” Artistically, he was very
with beloved masterpieces alongside music written by living composers. Throughout his 14-year tenure as Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, which concluded in 2018, he reinvigorated the orchestra with acclaimed innovative programming, artistic collaborations, extensive audience growth, national and international tours and several outstanding recordings, including Vaughan Williams’ Orchestral Works, which garnered a Grammy nomination and a Juno Award. Under his leadership, the Symphony underwent a transformation that significantly strengthened its presence in the world.
From 2012-2018, Oundjian served as Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, where he led the RSNO on several international tours, including North America, China, and a European festival tour with performances at the Bregenz Festival, the Dresden Festival as well as in Innsbruck, Bergamo, Ljubljana, and others. His final appearance with the orchestra as their Music Director was at the 2018 BBC Proms where he conducted Britten’s epic War Requiem.
Oundjian was Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 2005 to 2008 and Artistic Director of the Caramoor International Music Festival in New York from 1997 to 2007. He was also the Music Director of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta from 1998-2002. Throughout his conducting career, Oundjian has appeared as guest conductor with the country’s leading orchestras, including Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and San Francisco Symphonies, among others. In addition to his conducting duties in Colorado, during the 2024-2025 season Oundjian leads subscription weeks with the Sarasota Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Oundjian has been a visiting professor at Yale University’s School of Music since 1981 and has received honorary doctorates from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
MICHAEL TISCIONE, trumpet
Michael Tiscione, a native of Monroe, NY, is currently the Acting Principal Trumpet of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, a role he assumed in 2022. He began his tenure with the ASO in 2002 as Utility Trumpet and was appointed Second Trumpet in 2010. In 2017, he was promoted to Associate Principal Trumpet. During the 2010–2011 season, he served as Second Trumpet with the San Francisco Symphony.
Mr. Tiscione has performed with many of North America's leading orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Utah Symphony, and Indianapolis Symphony. He has a regular presence at premier summer festivals such as the Sun Valley Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, The Strings Festival, Festival Mozaic, and Arizona MusicFest.
A dedicated chamber musician, Mr. Tiscione has been a member of the Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet since 2005. He also performs and records with Burning River Brass, has toured China with the Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet, and appears frequently with the Atlanta Chamber Players. In addition to his performing career, he serves as an Artist Affiliate at Emory University.
Mr. Tiscione earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University and a Master of Music from Northwestern University. Mr. Tiscione is married to the Principal Oboist of the ASO, Elizabeth Koch Tiscione.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra continues to prosper thanks to the support of our generous patrons. The list below recognizes the donors who have made contributions since June 1, 2023. Their extraordinary generosity provides the foundation for this worldclass institution.
Donna Lee & Howard Ehni
$15,000+
$1,000,000+
A Friend of the Symphony
$100,000+
Sheila Lee Davies & Jon Davies
Barney M. Franklin & Hugh W.
Burke Charitable Fund
$50,000+
The Antinori Foundation
Ms. Lynn Eden
Ms. Angela L. Evans∞
John D. Fuller
The Gable Foundation
Robert & Roberta** Setzer
Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr.°∞
$35,000+
Cari K. Dawson & John M. Sparrow
Sally & Walter George
Sally & Pete Parsonson ∞
Patty & Doug Reid
Mary & Jim Rubright
June & John Scott∞
Slumgullion Charitable Fund
Kathy Waller & Kenneth Goggins
Patrick & Susie Viguerie
$25,000+
John & Juliet Allan
Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney
Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr.
Connie & Merrell** Calhoun
John W. Cooledge
Sally** & Larry Davis
Mr. Richard H. Delay & Dr.
Francine D. Dykes∞
Paulette Eastman & Becky Pryor Anderson**
Jeannette Guarner, MD & Carlos
del Rio, MD∞
Bonnie & Jay Harris
Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Harrison
John & Linda Matthews∞
John R. Paddock, Ph.D. & Karen
M. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Ms. Margaret Painter
Bill & Rachel Schultz°
Mrs. Edus H. Warren
$17,500+
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bailey
Jennifer Barlament & Kenneth
Potsic∞
Ms. Elizabeth W. Camp
Wright** & Alison Caughman
Ms. Lisa V. Chang
Ms. Yelena Epova & Mr. Neil Chambers
Florencia & Rodrigo Garcia Escudero
Dick & Anne Game°
Pam & Robert Glustrom
Ms. Joia M. Johnson
Dr. & Mrs. Scott I. Lampert
Dr. Jennifer Lyman & Mr. Kevin Lyman
Ms. Deborah A. Marlowe & Dr. Clint Lawrence
Ms. Molly Minnear
Caroline & Phil Moïse
Moore Colson, CPAs & Bert & Carmen Mills
Terence L. & Jeanne Perrine Neal°
Victoria & Howard Palefsky
Martha M. Pentecost
Joyce & Henry Schwob
Mr. Fahim Siddiqui & Ms. Shazia Fahim
Ross & Sally Singletary
Mr. G. Kimbrough Taylor & Ms.
Triska Drake
Dr. Ravi & Dr. Valerie Thadhani
John & Ray Uttenhove
Mrs. Sue S. Williams
Drs. Kevin & Kalinda Woods
Phyllis Abramson, Ph. D.
Madeline** & Howell E. Adams, Jr.
Mr. Keith Adams & Ms. Kerry Heyward°
Aadu & Kristi Allpere°
Mr. Neil Ashe & Mrs. Rona Gomel Ashe
Keith Barnett
Mr. David Boatwright
Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Clare
Russell Currey & Amy Durrell
Mr. & Mrs. Erroll B. Davis, Jr.∞
Lisa DiFrancesco, MD & Darlene Nicosia
Eleanor & Charles Edmondson
Craig Frankel & Jana Eplan
In Memory of Betty Sands Fuller
Roya & Bahman Irvani
Sarah & Jim Kennedy
Brian & Carrie Kurlander∞
James H. Landon
Drs. Joon & Grace Lee
Mr. Sukai Liu & Dr. Ginger J. Chen
Mr. & Mrs. David Goosman
John F.** & Marilyn M. McMullan
Carla & Arthur Mills IV
Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley
Galen Oelkers
Ms. Regina Olchowski & Mr. Edward Potter
Barbara & Andrew Paul
Ms. Cathleen Quigley
Mr. and Mrs. Ravi Saligram
V Scott
Beverly & Milton Shlapak
Mr. John A. Sibley, III
Elliott & Elaine Tapp°
Judith & Mark K. Taylor
Mr. Yannik Thomas
Maria Todorova
Carol & Ramon Tomé Family Fund
Mr. Ben Touchette
Adair & Dick White
Mr. Mack Wilbourn
$10,000+
A Friend of the Symphony
Paul & Melody Aldo∞
Mr. & Mrs. Calvin R. Allen
Farideh & Al Azadi Foundation
Estate of Elizabeth Ann Bair
Jack & Helga Beam∞
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald R. Benjamin
Kelley O. & Neil H. Berman
Karen & Rod Bunn
Lisa & Russ Butner∞
John Champion & Penelope Malone
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Chubb III
Ms. Tena Clark & Ms. Michelle LeClair
Janet & John Costello
Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Culpepper
Donald & Barbara Defoe°
Peter & Vivian de Kok
Marcia & John Donnell
Dr. John Dyer & Mrs. Catherine Faré Dyer
Marina Fahim
Dr. & Mrs. Leroy Fass
Dr. V. Alexander Garcias
Dr. Paul Gilreath
Mr. Max M. Gilstrap
The Graves Foundation
The Hertz Family Foundation, Inc.
Azira G. Hill
Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Hill
Clay & Jane Jackson∞
Ann A. & Ben F. Johnson III°
James Kieffer
Ann & Brian Kimsey∞
Stephen & Carolyn Knight
Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Mattox
Jane Morrison∞
Gretchen Nagy & Allan Sandlin
Mr. & Mrs. Solon P. Patterson
Margaret H. Petersen
David F. & Maxine A.** Rock
Ms. Frances A. Root
Thomas & Lynne Saylor
Ms. Barbara S. Schlefman
Tom & Ani Steele
John & Yee-Wan Stevens
Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Stroetz, Jr.
Stephen & Sonia Swartz
George & Amy Taylor∞
Carolyn C. Thorsen
Mr. & Mrs. Benny Varzi
Drs. Jonne & Paul Walter
Dr. & Mrs. James O. Wells, Jr.
Camille W. Yow
$7,500+
Dr. Marshall & Stephanie Abes
Carol Brantley & David Webster
Ms. Johanna Brookner
Judith D. Bullock
Patricia & William Buss∞
Mark Coan & Family
Ms. Diane Durgin
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Flinn
Grace Taylor Ihrig**
Jason & Michelle Kroh
Dr. Fulton D. Lewis III & S. Neal Rhoney
Mr. Robert M. Lewis, Jr. & G.
Wesley Holt
Elvira & Jay Mannelly
Belinda & Gino Massafra
Ed & Linda McGinn
Berthe & Shapour Mobasser
Mr. Cesar Moreno & Mr. Greg Heathcock
Sue Morgan∞
Ms. Eliza Quigley∞
Mr. Ron Raitz
Leonard Reed
Mr. & Mrs. Joel F. Reeves
Hamilton & Mason Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Toren
Ms. Juliana T. Vincenzino
Kiki Wilson
Mr. David J. Worley & Ms. Bernadette Drankoski
$5,000+
A Friend of the Symphony (2)
Mr. & Mrs. Louis Alrutz
Mr. Logan Anderson
Dr. Evelyn R. Babey
Lisa & Joe** Bankoff
Asad & Sakina Bashey
Herschel Beazley
Meredith Bell
Mr. John Blatz
Rita & Herschel Bloom
Jane & Greg Blount
Dr. & Mrs. Jerome B. Blumenthal
Mrs. Sidney W. Boozer
Ms. Jane F. Boynton
Margo Brinton & Eldon Park
Jacqueline A. & Joseph E. Brown, Jr.
CBH International, Inc
Ms. Stacey Chavis
Mrs. Amy B. Cheng & Dr. Chad A. Hume, Ph.D
Ned Cone & Nadeen Green
Malcolm & Ann Cole
Matt & Kate Cook
Carol Comstock & Jim Davis
DePorres & Barbara Cormier
Mr. & Mrs. DeBonis
Mr. Christopher J. Decoufle & Ms. Karen Freer
Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Dimmick∞
Xavier Duralde & Mary Barrett
Dieter Elsner & Othene Munson
Robert S. Elster Foundation
Jerry H. Evans & Stephen T. Bajjaly
Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Fackler
Ellen & Howard Feinsand
Bruce W. & Avery C. Flower∞
Mr. David L. Forbes
Annie Frazer & Jen Horvath
Gaby Family Foundation
Charles Ginden
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Goodsell
Mr. & Mrs. Louis Gump
Sally W. Hawkins
Ms. Elizabeth Hendrick
Hilley & Frieder
Richard & Linda Hubert
Erica Endicott & Chris Heisel
Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Farnham
Mr. Nigel Ferguson
Karen Foster
Dr. Donald & Janet Filip
Tom & Cecilia Fraschillo
Dr. Elizabeth C. French
Mr. & Mrs. Sebastien Galtier∞
Marty & John Gillin°
Mrs. Janet D. Goldstein
Mr. Robert Golomb
Mr. James N. Grace
Mrs. Beverly Green
Richard & Debbie Griffiths
Mr. & Mrs. George Gundersen
Deedee Hamburger
Phil & Lisa Hartley
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Hauser°
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hawk
Mr. & Mrs. John Hellriegel∞
Ann J. Herrera & Mary M. Goodwin
Kenneth & Colleen Hey
Sarah & Harvey Hill, Jr.°
Laurie House Hopkins & John D. Hopkins
James & Bridget Horgan°
Mrs. Nicole L. House
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Huband
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Huesken
Dona & Bill Humphreys
Silvey James & Rev. Jeanne
Simpson
Nancy & John Janet
Sally C. Jobe
Aaron & Joyce Johnson
Coenen-Johnson Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Eike Jordan
Teresa M. Joyce, Ph.D
Mr. Alfred D. Kennedy & Dr.
William R. Kenny
Mr. & Mrs. Randolph J. Koporc
Dr. & Mrs. William C. Land, Jr.
Lillian Balentine Law
Mr. & Mrs. Chris Le
Mr. & Mrs. Van R. Lear
Elizabeth J. Levine
Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey
Deborah & William Liss°
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Levingston
Thomas and Marianne Mabry
Barbara & Jim MacGinnitie
Dr. Marcus Marr
Marx & Marx LLC
Mrs. Sam Massell
In Memory of Pam McAllister
Mr. & Mrs. James McClatchey
Martha & Reynolds McClatchey
Birgit & David McQueen
Anna & Hays Mershon
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Mimms, Jr.
Mr. Jamal Mohammad and Mr. Marcus Dean
Ms. Helen Motamen & Mr. Deepak
Shenoy
Janice & Tom Munsterman
Melanie & Allan Nelkin
Agnes V. Nelson
Mr. and Mrs. Denis Ng
Gary R. Noble, MD & Joanne Heckman
Mr. & Mrs. Berk Nowak
Mr. & Mrs. James Pack
Dana & Jon Parness
Mr. Alex L. Pearson & Mrs. Martha M. Pearson
Mr. Doug F. Powell
Ms. Patricia U. Rich
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas G. Riffey, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Roberts
Betsy & Lee Robinson
Dr. Judith Rohrer
Ms. Lili Santiago-Silva & Mr. Jim Gray
Drs. Lawrence and Rachel Schonberger
Dick Schweitzer
Mr. David C. Shih
Alan & Marion Shoenig
Nick & Annie Shreiber
Helga Hazelrig Siegel
Diana Silverman
Ms. Charlotte Skidmore & Maj.
Gen. Arnold Fields
Anne-Marie Sparrow
Peggy & Jerry Stapleton
James & Shari Steinberg
Dr. & Mrs. John P. Straetmans
Kay R Summers
Ms. Linda F. Terry
Johnny Thigpen & Clay Martin
Duane P. Truex III
Ms. Cathryn van Namen
Wayne & Lee Harper Vason
Vogel Family Foundation
Dr. James L. Waits
Mr. Charles D. Wattles & Ms.
Rosemary C. Willey
Russell F. Winch & Mark B. Elberfeld
Mrs. Lynne M. Winship
Mr. Will Young
Herbert** & Grace Zwerner
We give special thanks to this dedicated group of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra donor-volunteers for their commitment to each year’s annual support initiatives:
Linda Matthews chair
Kristi Allpere
Helga Beam
Bill Buss
Pat Buss
Kristen Fowks
Deedee Hamburger
Judy Hellriegel
Belinda Massafra
Sally Parsonson
June Scott
Milt Shlapak
Lara Smith-Sitton
Kay Summers
Jonne Walter
Marcia Watt
° = We are grateful to these donors for taking the extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers.
** = Deceased
∞ = Leadership Council: We salute these extraordinary donors who have signed pledge commitments to continue their support for three years or more.
$1,000,000+
Boston Consulting Group
Delta Air Lines
$100,000+
1180 Peachtree, LLC
AAA Parking
Bloomberg Philanthropies
The Coca-Cola Company
Georgia Power Company
Graphic Packaging International, Inc.∞
The Home Depot Foundation
$75,000+
Alston & Bird LLP
Norfolk Southern Foundation
$50,000+
Accenture∞
BlackRock
Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta Google
KPMG LLP, Partners & Employees
PwC
The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University
$25,000+
AFFAIRS to REMEMBER
Aspire Media Bank of America Charitable Foundation
BlueLinx Corporation
Cadence Bank∞
Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda & Dan Cathy∞
Eversheds Sutherland
Grady Health System
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP
Porsche Cars North America Inc.
Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc.
The QUIKRETE® Companies
Regions Bank
Troutman Pepper
$15,000+
Cisco
Council for Quality Growth
Deloitte
Georgia-Pacific
The Home Depot
Van Dang Fragrances
WABE 90.1 FM
Warner Bros. Discovery
$250,000+
Emerald Gate Charitable Trust
Lettie Pate Evans Foundation∞
Goizueta Foundation∞
The Halle Foundation
$100,000+
Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation∞
Amy W. Norman Charitable Foundation
Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc.
The Zeist Foundation, Inc.
$75,000+
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation∞
The Molly Blank Fund of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation∞
$50,000+
City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs
Robert and Polly Dunn Foundation, Inc.
National Endowment for the Arts
The Vasser Woolley Foundation, Inc.
$25,000+
Choate Bridges Foundation
The Jim Cox, Jr. Foundation
The Roy and Janet Dorsey Foundation
Fulton County Board of Commissioners
Georgia Council for the Arts
League of American Orchestras∞
The Marcus Foundation, Inc.∞
Massey Charitable Trust
$20,000+
The Ray M. & Mary Elizabeth Lee Foundation, Inc.
The Mark and Evelyn Trammell Foundation
$10,000+
Costco Wholesale
Davis Broadcasting's WJZA Smooth Jazz 101/100
Greenberg Traurig
Hamilton Capital Partners, LLC
Jazz 91.9 WCLK
King & Spalding LLP
La Fête du Rosé
WVEE-FM | V-103.3 FM
$5,000+
A Friend of the Symphony
Chickadee Photo Booth
Marietta Neonatology
Music Matters
Parker Poe
Perkins&Will
The St. Regis Atlanta
WhoBody Inc.
Yellow Bird Project Management
$2,000+
The Backline Company
Legendary Events
Morehouse School of Medicine
The Piedmont National Family Foundation
Ticketmaster
$10,000+
The Breman Foundation, Inc.
The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation
The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation∞
$5,000+
Azalea City Chapter of Links
The Fred & Sue McGehee Family Charitable Fund
The Hellen Plummer Charitable Foundation, Inc.
$2,000+
2492 Fund
Paul and Marian Anderson Fund
The Parham Fund
The Alex & Betty Smith DonorAdvised Endowment Fund
TEGNA Foundation
Named for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s founding Music Director, the HENRY SOPKIN CIRCLE celebrates cherished individuals and families who have made a planned gift to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. These special donors preserve the Orchestra’s foundation and ensure success for future generations.
A Friend of the Symphony (22)
Madeline* & Howell E. Adams, Jr.
Mr.* & Mrs.* John E. Aderhold
Paul & Melody Aldo
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald R. Antinori
Elizabeth Ann Bair*
Dr. & Mrs. William Bauer
Helga Beam
Mr. Charles D. Belcher*
Neil H. Berman
Susan & Jack Bertram
Mr.* & Mrs.* Karl A. Bevins
The Estate of Donald S. & Joyce Bickers
Ms. Page Bishop*
Mr.* & Mrs.* Sol Blaine
John Blatz
Rita & Herschel Bloom
The Estate of Mrs. Gilbert H. Boggs, Jr.
W. Moses Bond
Mr.* & Mrs. Robert C. Boozer
Elinor A. Breman*
Carol J. Brown
James C. Buggs*
Mr. & Mrs.* Richard H. Burgin
Hugh W. Burke*
Mr. & Mrs. William Buss
Wilber W. Caldwell
Mr. & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun
Cynthia & Donald Carson
Mrs. Jane Celler*
Lenore Cicchese*
Margie & Pierce Cline
Dr. & Mrs. Grady S. Clinkscales, Jr.
Suzanne W. Cole Sullivan
Robert Boston Colgin
Mrs. Mary Frances
Evans Comstock*
Miriam* & John A.* Conant
Dr. John W. Cooledge
Dr. Janie Cowan
Mr. & Mrs. William R. Cummickel
Bob* & Verdery* Cunningham
Vivian & Peter de Kok
Mr. Richard H. Delay & Dr. Francine D. Dykes
John R. Donnell
Dixon W. Driggs*
Pamela Johnson Drummond
Mrs. Kathryn E. Duggleby
Catherine Warren Dukehart*
Ms. Diane Durgin
Arnold & Sylvia Eaves
Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge
Geoffrey G. Eichholz*
Elizabeth Etoll
Mr. Doyle Faler
Brien P. Faucett
Dr. Emile T. Fisher*
Moniqua N Fladger
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce W. Flower
A. D. Frazier, Jr.*
Nola Frink*
Betty* & Drew* Fuller
Sally & Carl Gable
William & Carolyn Gaik
Dr. John W. Gamwell*
Mr.* & Mrs.* L.L. Gellerstedt, Jr.
Ruth Gershon & Sandy Cohn
Micheline & Bob Gerson
Max Gilstrap
Mr. & Mrs. John T. Glover
Mrs. David Goldwasser
Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Fund
Billie & Sig Guthman
Betty G.* & Joseph* F. Haas
Ms. Alice Ann Hamilton
Dr. Charles H. Hamilton*
Sally & Paul* Hawkins
John* & Martha Head
Ms. Jeannie Hearn*
Barbara & John Henigbaum
Ms. Elizabeth Hendrick
Jill* & Jennings* Hertz
Mr. Albert L. Hibbard
Richard E. Hodges
Mr.* & Mrs. Charles K. Holmes, Jr.
Mr.* & Mrs.* Fred A. Hoyt, Jr.
Jim* & Barbara Hund
Clayton F. Jackson
Mary B. James
Nancy Janet
Mr. Calvert Johnson & Mr. Kenneth Dutter
Joia M. Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. Baxter Jones
Deforest F. Jurkiewicz*
Herb* & Hazel Karp
Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley
Bob Kinsey
James W.* & Mary Ellen*
Kitchell
Paul Kniepkamp, Jr.
Miss Florence Kopleff*
Mr. Robert Lamy
James H. Landon
Ouida Hayes Lanier
Lucy Russell Lee* & Gary Lee, Jr.
Ione & John Lee
Mr. Larry M. LeMaster
Mr.* & Mrs.* William C. Lester
Liz & Jay* Levine
Robert M. Lewis, Jr.
Carroll & Ruth Liller
Ms. Joanne Lincoln*
Jane Little*
Mrs. J. Erskine Love, Jr.*
Nell Galt & Will D. Magruder
K Maier
John W. Markham*
Mrs. Ann B. Martin
Linda & John Matthews
Mr. Michael A. McDowell, Jr.
Dr. Michael S. McGarry
Richard & Shirley McGinnis
John & Clodagh Miller
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Mills, IV
Ms. Vera Milner
Mrs. Gene Morse*
Hal Matthew Mueller* and Constance Lombardo
Ms. Janice Murphy*
Mr. & Mrs. Bertil D. Nordin
Mrs. Amy W. Norman*
Galen Oelkers
Roger B. Orloff
Barbara D. Orloff
Mr. & Mrs. Joe Owen
Dr. Bernard* & Sandra Palay
Sally & Pete Parsonson
James L. Paulk
Ralph & Kay* Paulk
Dan R. Payne
Bill Perkins
Mrs. Lela May Perry*
Mr.* & Mrs. Rezin E. Pidgeon, Jr.
Janet M. Pierce*
Reverend Neal P. Ponder, Jr.
Dr. John B. Pugh
William L.* & Lucia Fairlie*
Pulgram
Ms. Judy L. Reed*
Carl J. Reith*
Mr. Philip A. Rhodes
Vicki J. & Joe A. Riedel
Helen & John Rieser
Dr. Shirley E. Rivers*
David F. & Maxine A.* Rock
Glen Rogerson*
Tiffany & Richard Rosetti
Mr.* & Mrs.* Martin H. Sauser
Bob & Mary Martha Scarr
Mr. Paul S. Scharff &
Ms. Polly G. Fraser
Dr. Barbara S. Schlefman
Bill & Rachel Schultz
Mrs. Joan C. Schweitzer
June & John Scott
Edward G. Scruggs*
Dr. & Mrs. George P. Sessions
Mr. W. G. Shaefer, Jr.
Charles H. Siegel*
Mr. & Mrs. H. Hamilton Smith
Mrs. Lessie B. Smithgall*
Ms. Margo Sommers
Elliott Sopkin
Elizabeth Morgan Spiegel
Mr. Daniel D. Stanley
Gail & Loren Starr
Peter James Stelling*
Ms. Barbara Stewart
Beth & Edward Sugarman
C. Mack* & Mary Rose* Taylor
Isabel Thomson*
Jennings Thompson IV
Margaret* & Randolph* Thrower
Kenneth & Kathleen Tice
Mr. H. Burton Trimble, Jr.*
Mr. Steven R. Tunnell
Mr. & Mrs. John B. Uttenhove
Mary E. Van Valkenburgh
Mrs. Anise C. Wallace
Diane Woodard & Bruce
Wardrep
Mr. Robert Wardle, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John B. White, Jr.
Adair & Dick White
Mr. Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr.*
Sue & Neil* Williams
Mrs. Frank L. Wilson, Jr.
Mrs. Elin M. Winn
Ms. Joni Winston
George & Camille Wright
Mr.* & Mrs.* Charles R. Yates
*Deceased
The Woodruff Arts Center’s unprecedented $67 million capital campaign will bring new life to our campus, expand access to our proven educational programming, and secure our place as Atlanta’s center for the arts.
Scan the QR code to learn more about Experience Atlanta, Experience Woodruff.
$1,000,000+
Anonymous
The Coca-Cola Foundation
James M. Cox Foundation
Delta Air Lines
The Goizueta Foundation
Douglas J. Hertz Family Foundation
$500,000 - $999,999
Acuity Inc. Anonymous
$250,000 - $499,999
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda & Dan Cathy
The Fraser-Parker Foundation
$100,000 - $249,999
A friend of the Woodruff Arts Center
Stephanie Blank*
Thomas & Aimee Chubb
Ann & Jeff Cramer*
$10,000 - $99,999
Annie Adams
Anonymous
H. Ross & Claire Arnold
Janine Brown & Alex Simmons
Tony Conway, Legendary Events
Johnson & Margaret Cook
Cousins Properties
Lee and Warren Culpepper
Mike & Nancy Doss
Mike & Mindy Egan
Vicki Escarra
Candace Steele Flippin
Georgia Council for the Arts
Cultural Facilites Grant
Patrick Gunning & Elizabeth Pelypenko
Rand & Seth Hagen
Terrence Hahn
Philip Harrison & Susan Stainback
Julia Houston
The Home Depot Foundation
The Imlay Foundation
Sarah & Jim Kennedy
The Marcus Foundation
Norfolk Southern
PNC Bank
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Georgia Power Foundation
The Fay S. and W. Barrett Howell
Family Foundation
Phil & Jenny Jacobs
Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation
Margaret & Bob Reiser*
Emerald Gate Charitable Trust
Harland Charitable Foundation
The Hearst Foundations
Joia M. Johnson
Robin & Hilton Howell
The Kilberg Family Foundation
KPMG
The Dennis Lockhart and Mary Rose Taylor Memorial Fund
*
Alfredo Martin
Barry & Jean Ann McCarthy*
John F. McMullan
Richard & Wimberly McPhail
Kavita & Ashish Mistry
Pat Mitchell & Scott Seydel
Hala & Steve Moddelmog*
Kent & Talena Moegerle
The Sara Giles Moore Foundation
Kenneth Neighbors & Valdoreas May
Galen Oelkers
Chuck & Kathie Palmer
Mark & Jennifer Pighini
The Rockdale Foundation
Experience Atlanta, Experience Woodruff is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Patty and Doug Reid Family Foundation*
The Tomé Foundation
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
The Zeist Foundation
Kelin Foundation
Truist Trusteed Foundations: Harriet McDaniel Marshall Trust, The Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund and the Woolford Charitable Trust
Sartain Lanier Family Foundation
Truist Charitable Fund
Kathy Waller & Kenny Goggins*
Lauren & Andrew Schlossberg
Tim and Lauren Schrager Family Foundation
June and John Scott
Southface Institute
Dave Stockert & Cammie Ives
The Mark and Evelyn Trammell
Foundation, Inc.
Tull Charitable Foundation
D. Richard Williams & Janet Lavine
David, Helen, and Marian
Woodward Fund
The Vasser Woolley Foundation, Inc.
Patrick & Susan Viguerie
Sally and Mel Westmoreland
John Wieland
John & Ellen Yates
*Denotes additional support for the Alliance
We are grateful to our dedicated Annual Fund donors for ensuring that everyone in Atlanta can experience the power of the arts. Their gifts support the arts and education work of the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and High Museum of Art.
$1,000,000+
A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
$500,000 - $999,999
A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Anonymous
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