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12 ‘Conducting the Atlanta Symphony is Like Driving a Ferrari.’

19 The concert’s program and notes

Robert Abbado returns to the ASO for a two-week residency.

38 Player Profiles

New ASO ConcertmasterDesignate David Coucheron discusses his most challenging role yet .

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tlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Spano is recognized internationally as one of the most imaginative conductors of his generation. Since 2001, he has invigorated and expanded the ASO’s repertoire through a creative programming mix, recordings and visual enhancements, such as the Theater of a Concert — the continuing exploration of different formats, settings and enhancements for the musical performance experience. Mr. Spano also champions the Atlanta School of Composers, his commitment to nurturing and championing music through multi-year partnerships, defining a new generation of American composers.

Mr. Spano has conducted the great orchestras of North America, including those in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco.

Overseas, he has led the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Czech Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Sinfonie Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic and Tonhalle Orchester. He has conducted the Chicago, Houston, Santa Fe, Royal Opera at Covent Garden and Welsh National Operas. In August 2005, he conducted Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at Seattle Opera, and returned for the cycle in August 2009. With a discography of 12 critically acclaimed recordings for Telarc and Deutsche Grammophon made over six years, Robert Spano has garnered six Grammy Awards.

Musical America’s 2008 Conductor of the Year, Mr. Spano was Artistic Director of the Ojai Festival in 2006, Director of the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center in 2003 and 2004, and from 1996 to 2004 was Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Head of the Conducting Fellowship Program at Tanglewood Music Center from 1998-2002, he has served on the faculties of Bowling Green State University, Curtis Institute and Oberlin Conservatory. Mr. Spano lives in Atlanta.

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Robert Abbado, one of today’s most sought-after guest maestros, returns to one of his favorite orchestras for a two-week residency.

BY KARL SCHNITTKE

“ Conducting the Atlanta Symphony is

like driving a Ferrari.”

Comparing the musicians of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to the legendary racecar of his native Italy is an apt metaphor for the dynamic Roberto Abbado. The conductor is a relentless road warrior, traveling far and wide to conduct the world’s finest orchestras.

“The ASO musicians are very responsive, as supremely tuned as any great ensemble must be,” says Mr. Abbado. Popular with the players and the public since his ASO debut, Mr. Abbado is back on the podium in February for a pair of much anticipated dates.

The first concert couples Mozart’s serene Coronation Mass with the ASO premiere of his Church Sonatas No. 12 and 13, and Beethoven’s First Symphony, Thursday and Saturday, February 11 and 13. Mr. Abbado, regarded as an eloquent interpreter of Mozart among other composers, is eager to once again collaborate

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with the ASO Chorus in the sunny Coronation (a work far removed from the composer’s dark and dramatic final Requiem). ASO concertgoers may recall that Mr. Abbado led the chorus in a searing performance of Beethoven’s Ninth several years ago.

Mr. Abbado’s second week, Thursday through Saturday, January 18-20, is as rich as his first as he imparts his charm and vigor to Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, justly known as the “Great C-Major.” The luminous Leila Josefowicz is the evening’s soloist, gracing the warmly expressive First Violin Concerto by Prokofiev.

“Prokofiev felt the arts and music in particular should ultimately uplift people,” says Mr. Abbado, “and the First does this eloquently.”

Mozart’s Overture to La clemenza di Tito opens the program, and it should be noted here that Mr. Abbado was recently honored for a performance of the full work.

In April 2009, he received the highly prized Franco Abbiati Prize for Conductor by the Italian National Association of Music Critics, largely because of a bring-down-the-house reading of La clemenza di Tito at the famed Italian opera house, Teatro Regio Turino. The critics applauded his “maturity of interpretation and for his breadth and curiosity of repertoire, in which he has delivered remarkable results and an intensity which was manifested in La clemenza di Tito by Mozart using classical period performance practices.”

The award was well deserved according to Evans Mirageas, the director of artistic planning for the ASO. “Maestro Abbado brings to his art a wonderful combination of dramatic fire and deep thoughtfulness,” says Mr. Mirageas. “Balancing his year between the opera house and the concert hall, he is able to inspire orchestras to find the lyric heart of symphonic repertoire and choruses to sing with the verve of opera stars!”

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Such praise is almost routine for the in demand conductor. Commenting on a recent Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert led by Mr. Abbado, the Chicago Tribune music critic wrote: “He had the musicians playing at the edge of their chairs, as if every note mattered deeply to them. That’s a feat no ordinary guest conductor can achieve with our exacting orchestra.” Britain’s usually mild Guardian was similarly effusive following the conductor’s appearance with the Royal Liverpool Symphony: “Abbado maintained a knife-edge tension throughout; even the lyrical passages had a restless ebb and flow…”

Contrast these reviews with those that greeted the maestro at the beginning of his career, the ones that invariably led with the fact that he is the nephew of the esteemed conductor Claudio Abbado. (Some profiles even mentioned his cousin, Daniele Abbado, a wellknown stage and set director of opera.) Rather than chafe under the enormous pressure, the aspiring Abbado embraced his pedigree yet followed his own singular path to the top.

A steady arc of triumphant live and recorded performances has earned him an enviable reputation as an international maestro.

Having turned 55 on December 30, 2009, Mr. Abbado is undisputedly at the top of his game and thoroughly enjoys his “have baton, will travel” freedom. But his name is always on the short list when leading music directors are rumored to be leaving their positions.

The conductor’s most extensive relationship is currently as an artistic partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and with the ASO, where he has conducted 10 times since Robert Spano’s arrival in 2001. Mr. Abbado’s calls the ASO Music Director “a generous friend,” playfully adding, “He never lets me pick up a lunch tab.”

Karl Schnittke is ASO Publications Editor.

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FIRST VIOLIN VIOLA William Pu Reid Harris Associate/Acting Concertmaster Principal

BASS Ralph Jones

The Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair*

The Edus H. and Harriet H. Warren Chair*

Principal The Marcia and John Donnell Chair  *

Justin Bruns

Paul Murphy

Gloria Jones

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Associate Principal The Mary and Lawrence Gellerstedt Chair *

Jun-Ching Lin

Catherine Lynn

Carolyn Toll Hancock

Wesley Collins Robert Jones Marian Kent Yang-Yoon Kim Lachlan McBane Heidi Nitchie Ardath Weck

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Martha Reaves Head John Meisner Alice Anderson Oglesby Lorentz Ottzen Christopher Pulgram Carol Ramirez Juan Ramirez Olga Shpitko Denise Berginson Smith Kenn Wagner Lisa Wiedman Yancich SECOND VIOLIN David Arenz

Assistant Principal

Paul Brittan

The Georgia Power Foundation Chair

Carl David Hall PICCOLO Carl David Hall OBOE Elizabeth Koch

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ENGLISH HORN Patrick McFarland

Associate Principal The Livingston Foundation Chair

Assistant Principal Emeritus

Eleanor Arenz Sharon Berenson David Braitberg Noriko Konno Clift Judith Cox David Dillard Raymond Leung Ruth Ann Little Thomas O’Donnell Ronda Respess Sanford Salzinger Frank Walton

Joseph Conyers Michael Kenady Michael Kurth Douglas Sommer Thomas Thoreson

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Karen Freer

Jay Christy

Jane Little

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CELLO Christopher Rex

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FLUTE Christina Smith

Assistant Principal

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Jere Flint, S taff Conductor; Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra The Zeist Foundation Chair *

Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses, The Frannie and Bill Graves Chair

CLARINET Laura Ardan

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HORN Brice Andrus

Ted Gurch

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William Rappaport

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Associate Principal

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Alcides Rodriguez

Thomas Witte Richard Deane

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Bruce Kenney

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Elizabeth Burkhardt

The UPS Community Service Chair

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Joseph Walthall

Juan de Gomar

Stephen Wilson

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William Wilder

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William Wilder Assistant Principal

William A. Schwartz Chair*

Charles Settle

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Peter Marshall † Beverly Gilbert † Sharon Berenson LIBRARY Rebecca Beavers Principal

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John Wildermuth

Michael Tiscione TROMBONE Colin Williams

The Pricewaterhouse ­Coopers Chair

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HARP Elisabeth Remy Johnson

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ASOprogram Atlanta Symphony Orchestra A founding member of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center Robert Spano, Music Director Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor

Delta classical Series Concerts

Thursday and Saturday, February 11 and 13, 2010, at 8 p.m.

Roberto Abbado, Conductor Kiera Duffy, Soprano Krisztina Szabó, Mezzo-Soprano Colin Balzer, Tenor Matthew Burns, Bass Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Church Sonata in C Major, K. 328 (317c) (1779)

Mass in C Major, K. 317 (“Coronation”) (1779) I. Kyrie II. Glora

Church Sonata in C Major, K. 278 (271e) (1777) III. Credo IV. Sanctus V. Benedictus VI. Agnus Dei

Kiera Duffy, Soprano

Krisztina Szabó, Mezzo-Soprano

Colin Balzer, Tenor

Matthew Burns, Bass

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Opus 21 (1800) I. Adagio molto; Allegro con brio

II. Andante cantabile con moto III. Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace IV. Adagio; Allegro molto e vivace “Inside the Music” preview of the concert, Thursday at 7 p.m., presented by Ken Meltzer, ASO Insider and Program Annotator.

The use of cameras or recording devices during the concert is strictly prohibited.

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ASOprogram Notes on the Program

By Ken Meltzer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, on January 27, 1756, and died in Vienna, Austria, on December 5, 1791.

Mass in C Major, K. 317 (“Coronation Mass”) (1779) The “Coronation Mass” is scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, mixed chorus, two oboes, bassoon, two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, organ, first and second violins, cellos and double-basses. Approximate performance time (including Church Sonatas K. 328, and K. 278) is thirty-five minutes.

Church Sonata in C Major, K. 328 (317c) (1779) The Church Sonata in C Major, K. 328, is scored for organ, first and second violins, cellos, and double-basses. Approximate performance time is five minutes.

The Church Sonata in C Major, K. 278 (271e) (1777) The Church Sonata in C Major, K. 278, is scored for two oboes, two trumpets, timpani, organ, first and second violins, cellos, and double-basses. Approximate performance time is four minutes.

These are the first ASO Classical Subscription performances of the above works.

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n September of 1777, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart left his native Salzburg and began an 18-month journey to Munich, Augsburg, Mannheim and Paris. Mozart felt his talents were not appreciated in Salzburg, and hoped his travels would lead to new employment opportunities. As Mozart wrote to his father Leopold from Paris: “You know there is nothing I desire more than a good appointment, good in its standing and good in money — no matter where — provided in be in a Catholic country.”

The composer’s mother, Anna Maria, accompanied Mozart on this trip. On July 3, 1778, while in Paris, Anna Maria Mozart died, at the age of 57. In a letter to his friend, Abbé Bullinger, Mozart revealed: Her life flickered out like a candle. Three days before her death she made her confession, partook of the Sacrament and received Extreme Unction. During the last three days, however, she was constantly delirious, and today at twenty-one minutes past five o’clock the death agony began and she at once lost all sensation and consciousness. I pressed her hand and spoke to her — but she did not see me, she did not hear me, and all feeling was gone. She lay thus until she expired five hours later at twenty-one minutes past ten.

When Mozart returned to Salzburg in January of 1779, he had failed to secure the appointment he so desired. And so, Mozart accepted the position of court organist to the Archbishop of Salzburg. Mozart’s duties required him “to serve the Court and the Church with new compositions made by him.” Mozart remained in Salzburg for two more years before finally staking his independence in Vienna in the spring of 1781.

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On March 23, 1779, two months after his return to Salzburg, Mozart completed his Mass in C Major, K. 317. The work, scored for a quartet of vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra, is known as the “Coronation Mass.” It was long believed that the nickname derived from a performance of the work, held in celebration of a miraculous crowning of a statue of the Virgin Mary at Plain, near Salzburg. In fact, the nickname refers to a 1791 performance of the Mass in Prague for the Coronation of Emperor Leopold II, conducted by Antonio Salieri.

In accordance with contemporary practice, these performances of the “Coronation Mass” include two of Mozart’s Church (or Epistle) Sonatas, K. 328 (1779) and 278 (1777). Between the years 1772-1780, Mozart composed a total of seventeen Church Sonatas, specifically designed to be included in presentations of masses in Salzburg. These purely instrumental works are brief by design. As Mozart explained in a September 4, 1776 letter to Italian composer Padre Giovanni Battista Martini: Our church music is very different from that of Italy, since a mass with the whole Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Epistle sonata, the Offertory or Motet, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei must not last longer than three-quarters of an hour.

This applies even to the most Solemn Mass said by the Archbishop himself. So you see that a special study is required for this kind of composition. At the same time, the mass must have all the instruments — trumpets, drums, and so forth.

Typical of Mozart, he was able to work within the conventions (even the restrictions) of his time, and produce a masterpiece, a brilliant, joyous and inspirational synthesis of vocal and orchestral forces. Also of interest are the premonitions in the “Coronation Mass” of future Mozart operatic compositions. Perhaps the most obvious example is the similarity of the soprano’s solo in the Agnus Dei to the aria, “Dove sono,” in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, where the Countess laments the loss of her husband’s love. Like many great composers, Mozart believed that fervent, heartfelt expression had its place in both secular and sacred works.

Church Sonata in C Major, K. 328 (317c) (1779) Mass in C Major, K. 317 (“Coronation Mass”) (1779) I. Kyrie Kyrie eleison.

Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

Lord, have mercy.

Christ, have mercy.

Lord, have mercy.

II. Gloria Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.

Laudamus te, benedicimus te. adoramus te, glorificamus te!

Glory to God in the highest.

And on earth peace, to people of good will.

We praise You, we bless You We worship You, we glorify You!

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ASOprogram Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam.

Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.

Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe.

Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, filius Patris.

We give thanks to You because of Your great glory.

Lord God, Heavenly King, God the Father Almighty, Lord, the only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father.

Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.

Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram.

Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.

You who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

You who take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.

You who sits at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.

Quoniam tu Solus Sanctus. tu solus Dominus. tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe. cum sancto spiritu, in gloria Dei Patris. Amen.

For only You are holy, and only You are Lord.

Only You most high, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

Church Sonata in C Major, K. 278 (271e) (1777) III. Credo Credo in unum Deum.

Patrem omnipotentem, factorem caeli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium.

I believe in one God. The Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

Et in unum Dominum, Jesum Christum, Filium Dei unigenitum, et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula.

Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero. genitum, non factum, con substantialem Patri, per quem omnia facta sunt.

And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, only begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all generations.

God from God, light from light, true God from true God. Begotten, not made, one in substance with the Father: by whom everything was made.

Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis.

Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven.

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Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est.

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, passus, et sepultus est.

And was made flesh by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.

And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate: suffered, and was buried.

Et resurrexit tertia die, secundum scripturas.

Et ascendit in coelum, sedet ad dexteram Patris.

Et iterum venturus est cum Gloria judicare vivos et mortuos, cujus regni non erit finis.

And He was resurrected on the third day according to the scriptures.

And ascended into heaven, sitting at the right hand of the Father And He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, His kingdom shall have no end.

Et in Spiritum sanctum Dominum et vivificantem, qui ex Patre et Filio procedit.

Qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur, qui locutus est per prophetas.

And (I believe in) the Holy Spirit Lord and giver of life: Who proceeds from the Father and the Son Who with the Father and Son is equally worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets.

Et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam.

Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum.

Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen.

And (I believe) in one holy catholic and apostolic church.

I acknowledge one baptism in the remission of sins.

And I wait for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

IV. Sanctus Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth.

Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Hosts.

Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.

Osanna in excelsis.

Heaven and earth are full of Your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.

V. Benedictus Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Osanna in excelsis.

Hosanna in the highest.

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ASOprogram VI. Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Opus 21 (1800) Ludwig van Beethoven was baptized in Bonn, Germany, on December 17, 1770, and died in Vienna, Austria, on March 26, 1827. The first performance of the Symphony No. 1 took place at the Burgtheater in Vienna on April 2, 1800, with the composer conducting. The Symphony No. 1 is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings. Approximate performance time is twenty-five minutes.

First ASO Classical Subscription Performance: December 1, 1946, Henry Sopkin, Conductor.

Most Recent ASO Classical Subscription Performances: May 21, 22, 23 and 24, 1992, Yoel Levi, Conductor.

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udwig van Beethoven completed the first of his Nine Symphonies in 1800. This was one of the happiest periods in Beethoven’s life, a time when the young musician was dazzling Vienna with his unique and remarkable talents as a composer and piano virtuoso.

The Symphony No. 1 premiered on April 2, 1800, at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The concert, organized by the composer for his own benefit, also featured a Mozart symphony, an aria and duet from Haydn’s oratorio, The Creation, as well as Beethoven performing one of his Piano Concertos (either No. 1 or 2) and a keyboard improvisation.

“A danger to the musical art” Many view Beethoven’s First Symphony as the composer’s homage to the elegant works of his Classical-era predecessors, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). That is an opinion shared by the author of the 1802 guide, Historic Pocketbook with Special Regard to Austria: Beethoven has written his First Symphony in C Major. It is a masterpiece which does honor to this power of invention and his musical skill. It is as beautiful and excellent in design as in execution; a clear and radiant order reigns, and the work is marked by such a stream of the most pleasant melodies, as well as such a rich but never fatiguing instrumentation, that this symphony can be rightly considered the equal of any by Mozart or Haydn.

Nevertheless, more than a few of Beethoven’s contemporaries perceived the First in a far different light. One German critic characterized the Symphony as “a caricature of Haydn pushed Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 25

to absurdity.” A Parisian musician lamented the work’s “astonishing success,” which he characterized as “a danger to the musical art…It is believed that a prodigal use of the most barbarous dissonances and a noisy use of all instruments will make an effect. Alas, the ear is only stabbed; there is no appeal to the heart.”

For those familiar with the path-breaking music of Beethoven’s later Symphonies, such reactions seem misplaced, if not downright odd. The Beethoven First is a work overflowing with wit and high spirits. The scoring and architecture of the Symphony reflect the 18th century tradition.

Beethoven even designates the Symphony’s third movement as a “Minuet”—traditionally, an elegant court dance that appears in virtually every mature Haydn and Mozart Symphony.

In 1802, Beethoven proclaimed to his friend, Wenzel Krumpholz: “I am not satisfied with my works up to the present time. From today I mean to take a new road.” In terms of the Symphonies, that “new road” is most clearly first revealed in the Third (“Eroica”), Opus 55 (1803) (ASO Concerts of April 15, 16 and 17, 2010). Nevertheless, Beethoven’s First Symphony, for all of its homage to the past, offers more than a few hints that the revolution was just around the corner.

Musical Analysis I. Adagio molto; Allegro con brio — The First Symphony begins with a slow introduction (Adagio molto). Despite its generally graceful nature, the ambiguous, shifting harmonies of the opening measures must have been unsettling to audiences of Beethoven’s time. Finally, an ascending and descending string passage leads to the principal Allegro con brio, and the first violins’ presentation of the vivacious initial theme. After a dynamic orchestral cadence, the flute and oboe present the movement’s second theme. The development of these themes concludes with a piano, descending wind passage, leading directly to the orchestra’s fortissimo recapitulation of the opening theme. Throughout this movement, sharp attacks and pungent dynamic contrasts provide energy and drama. The coda, prominently featuring the brass and timpani, brings the opening movement to a powerful close.

II. Andante cantabile con moto — The second violins, soon joined by the violas and cellos, sing the slow movement’s charming principal melody. Generally, the mood evokes the grace and elegance of the Classical era. Still, the timpani’s hushed but insistent interjections toward the exposition’s close hint at a more troubled mood that continues into the ensuing central episode. The second violins’ recapitulation of the opening theme now features a lovely cello obbligato. A brief coda rounds out the slow movement.

III. Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace — The fleet tempos and violent orchestral attacks reveal that the third movement is a Minuet in name only. It is, in fact, a Scherzo (the Italian word for “joke”), a vibrant, energetic alternative to the Minuet that appears in all of Beethoven’s Symphonies, save the Eighth. As such, this movement constitutes the First Symphony’s most radical departure from those of Haydn and Mozart. The first violins present the Menuetto’s ascending principal theme that finally erupts in a fortissimo orchestral explosion. The central

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ASOprogram Trio, prominently featuring the winds, has a more relaxed and rustic quality. The movement concludes with a reprise of the Menuetto.

IV. Adagio; Allegro molto e vivace — The Symphony’s concluding movement reflects Beethoven’s more humorous side. The finale begins with a slow introduction (Adagio). After a grand, fortissimo orchestral chord, the first violins begin to introduce the movement’s principal theme. They do so quietly and tentatively, building the theme one note at a time. Finally, the violins gather their courage to play the theme in its entirety, and the central Allegro molto e vivace is off and running. The violins also present the second theme, based upon a series of descending intervals. The brief, vigorous development combines both central themes. The first violins launch the finale’s recapitulation. A dramatic fanfare and brief pause set the stage for the First Symphony’s rousing conclusion.

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Roberto abbado, Conductor

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cclaimed as “a conductor you want to hear again and again,” Roberto Abbado’s crisp, dramatic music-making, instinctive lyricism and evocative command of varied composers and styles have made him an esteemed conductor among orchestras and opera companies today. He is both a sophisticated and energetic conductor, which combined with superb communicative skills have made him a favorite among musicians and the public alike.

Roberto Abbado

Mr. Abbado is the recent recipient of the Franco Abbiati award of the National Association of Italian Music Critics. The Association honored Mr. Abbado with the title Conductor of the Year for 2008, “for the maturity of interpretation and for his breadth and curiosity of repertoire, in which he has delivered remarkable results and an intensity which was manifested in La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart (Teatro Regio Torino), executed using classical period performance practices; in the contemporary opera Phaedra by Hans Werner Henze (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino); in Rossini’s Ermione (Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro); and for the rare Der Vampyr of Heinrich Marschner (Teatro Comunale Bologna).”

A popular figure in the U.S., Mr. Abbado has performed regularly with the Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra, and maintains continuing relationships with the San Francisco, St. Louis, Atlanta and Houston symphony orchestras, as well as New York City’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Notably, his most extensive relationship is currently with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO), where he is one of its first artistic partners, a position that has been extended for a second, three-year term.

Mr. Abbado began the 2009-10 season in a concert with Teatro Maggio Musicale of Florence at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, Romania, performing the rarely heard Enescu Symphony No. 2, in a program also featuring Mahler, Symphony No. 1. In October, he leads performances with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, followed by a five city Swiss tour with that orchestra, including concerts in Bern, Geneva, St. Gallen, Zurich and Basel, before heading to the U.S. to conduct the Chicago Symphony.

Abroad, his season includes a return to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for a series of concerts featuring two different programs in Tel Aviv and Haifa; and in Italy, performances with the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, for two programs, and the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI, in Torino. In the U.S., he makes a return to the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, St. Louis and Seattle, in addition to his continuing collaboration with the SPCO. During his five weeks with the SPCO, he will explore symphonic music by Robert Schumann, combined with American and Italian contemporary composers. Additionally, he will take part in the Stravinsky Festival, where he will conduct both the SPCO and the Minnesota Orchestra in the same evening. Mr. Abbado concludes the season at the Paris Opera with a new production by Luis Pascual of Rossini’s La Donna del Lago.

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ASOprogram Mr. Abbado’s 2008-09 season saw him conduct the first Italian performance on stage in Pierluigi Pizzi’s new production of Marschner’s Der Vampyr at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. In Opera elsewhere, Mr. Abbado led a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Teatro Real in Madrid in June; followed by the festival opening night of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, with a new production of Rossini’s Zelmira, staged by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti. He returned to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for concerts in Glasgow and Edinburgh; to Italy for performances with the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna at Teatro Manzoni and the Maggio Musicale Orchestra in Florence’s Teatro Comunale; and to St. Paul, Atlanta and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Born into a dynastic musical family, Mr. Abbado’s grandfather was a famous pedagogue of violin, his father was director of the Milan Conservatory and his uncle is Claudio Abbado, the famous maestro. He studied with famed conducting teacher Franco Ferrara at Venice’s La Fenice and Rome’s Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where he was the only student in Accademia history to be invited to conduct the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia. As Chief Conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra (1991-98), he made seven recordings with the orchestra, and has worked extensively elsewhere in Europe, including the Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Dresden Staatskapelle, Gewandhaus Orchester (Leipzig), NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hamburg), Vienna Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras. In his native Italy, he has strong relationships with the great orchestras and regularly conducts the Filarmonica della Scala (Milan), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Orchestra del Maggio Musicale (Florence) and the RAI Orchestra (Turin).

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kiera duffy, Soprano

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inner of a 2008 Sullivan Foundation grant and a finalist in the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, American soprano Kiera Duffy is recognized for both her gleaming high soprano and insightful musicianship.

She is enjoying a flourishing concert and operatic career in repertoire that spans from Handel and Praetorius to the new sounds of Elliott Carter and John Zorn.

Kiera Duffy

Kiera Duffy returns to the New York Philharmonic in the 2009-10 season as Venus in György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, under the baton of newly appointed musical director Alan Gilbert; and to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as part of the Green Umbrella concert series in Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. She will be seen in several exciting 20th century operatic works, including John Corigliano’s Ghosts of Versailles at the Wexford Opera Festival; the Center for Contemporary Opera’s new production of Morton Feldman’s only “anti-opera”; Neither at the Wien Modern; and Benjamin Britten’s Rape of Lucretia at Toledo Opera. This season, Ms. Duffy also will make her Atlanta Symphony debut with Mozart’s Coronation Mass; sing Michael Praetorius’ Christmas Vespers with Cleveland’s award-winning Apollo’s Fire; and appear in several performances Carmina Burana with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ms. Duffy’s other notable appearances include her New York Philharmonic debut in Pierre Boulez’s Pli selon pli: Improvisation II sur Mallarmé, under the baton of music director Lorin Maazel, and her performance of György Ligeti’s seminal works, Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She debuted at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in Carmina Burana with music director Andreas Delfs, and joined the Pacific Symphony Orchestra as soprano soloist in Messiah before she returned to the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra for that same work. Duffy sang her first Bach Mass in B minor with the Ft. Smith Symphony, and returned to the early music ensemble, Apollo’s Fire, for performances and a recording of Handel’s music written for the British monarchy. On the operatic stage, Duffy was seen as Queen Tye in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten for her Atlanta Opera debut, and Elvira in L’Italiana in Algeri for Opera Company of Philadelphia.

Born in Philadelphia, Kiera Duffy was an accomplished pianist before pursuing singing and holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College. She is the recipient of numerous awards and recognition from the Metropolitan Opera National Council, Philadelphia Orchestra Greenfield Competition, Young Concert Artists International Competition and Astral Artistic Services. As a member of Central City Opera’s Bonfils-Stanton Young Artist Program and Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s Gerdine Young Artist Program, Ms. Duffy covered the roles of Gilda (Rigoletto), Madame Mao (Nixon in China), and Elvira (L’italiana in Algeri), in addition to performing the roles of the Lay Sister in Suor Angelica, Fatmé in Zémire et Azor, and Isabel and Madeline in Henry Mollicone’s The Face on the Barroom Floor.

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ASOprogram krisztina szabó, Mezzo-Soprano

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ungarian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó has become highly sought after in both North America and Europe as an artist of supreme musicianship and stagecraft. The Chicago Tribune exclaimed, “Krisztina Szabó stole her every scene with her powerful, mahogany voice and deeply poignant immersion in the empress’ plight” after her performance of Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea. She made her Lincoln Center debut as Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Krisztina Szabó Mostly Mozart Festival, where she was praised in the New York Times for being “clear, strong, stately and an endearingly vulnerable Dorabella.”

In 2009-10, Ms. Szabó sings as Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo with Canadian Opera Company; returns to Wexford Festival Opera as Susanna in The Ghosts of Versailles; and performs as Meg in Little Women with Calgary Opera. She also will appear as a featured artist with Toronto Masque Theatre, Off-Centre Music Salon, Ottawa’s Thirteen Strings and as a soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Atlanta Symphony, under Roberto Abbado.

Ms. Szabó sings frequently at the Canadian Opera Company and has been seen in diverse roles such as, Musetta (La bohème); the Double-Offred in the Time Before (The Handmaid’s Tale); and Nancy (Albert Herring). In 2006, she helped christen the company’s new opera house in their critically acclaimed Ring Cycle as Wellgunde (Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung), and Siegrune (Die Walküre). Canadian audiences have also seen Ms. Szabó as Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) with the Calgary Opera, Edmonton Opera and L’Opéra de Québec; Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte) with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Bernard Labadie; Nerone (Agrippina) with L’Opéra de Montréa; and as the title role in Iphigénie en Tauride with Opera Atelier. Outside of Canada, Ms Szabó has performed a wide variety of roles including: Rosalind (The Mines of Sulphur) for the Wexford Festival Opera (company début); Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) — all with Chicago Opera Theater; Magnolia (Showboat) with L’Opéra National du Rhin; the title role in Charpentier’s Médée with Le Concert Spirituel in Paris; the Queen of the Fairies in Ana Sokolovic’s hilarious new opera, The Midnight Court, with Queen of Puddings Music Theatre’s tour to England; Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos) with Stadttheater Klagenfurt; and Bianca (Mercadante’s Il giuramento) with Washington Concert Opera.

Krisztina Szabó is a frequent performer of recital, concert and chamber repertoire. She has recently appeared as a soloist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Mozart’s Mass in C minor), L’Orchestre Symphonique de Québec (Bach’s Mass in B minor), the San Antonio Symphony (Handel’s Messiah), the Talisker Players in Toronto for an evening of chamber music, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Mendelssohn’s Elijah), the Elora Festival Orchestra (Verdi’s Requiem), Les Violons du Roy’s U.S. tour (Haydn’s cantata Arianna a Naxos), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (staged production of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion) and the Oregon Symphony (Mozart Requiem).

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colin balzer, Tenor

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ith assured musicality and the varied tonal palette of a lieder specialist, Canadian lyricist Colin Balzer’s 2009-10 season includes his recital debut at Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; appearances in Messiah with the Toronto and Edmonton Symphonies; a return to Early Music Vancouver for Christmas Cantatas; and an appearance with Mto. Minkowski for Idomeneo at the Salzburg Festival.

Colin Blazer

Mr. Balzer’s 2008-09 season included the title role of Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Edmonton; Haydn’s Die Schoepfung with Yoav Talmi and the Quebec Symphony; Haendel’s Messiah with the Calgary Philharmonic; the Mozart Requiem with the National Philharmonic; Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Early Music Vancouver; Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass throughout Belgium with Philippe Herregweghe and Collegium Vocale Ghent; a European tour of Haendel’s Brockes Passion with Marcus Creed and the Akademie fuer alte Musik; and the role of Sacerdote in Mozart’s Idomeneo under Marc Minkowski at the Aix-enProvence Festival.

Recent seasons have included concerts with the Het Brabants Orkest, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Luxembourg Symphony, Munich Bach Choir, Leipzig Baroque Orchestra, Toronto’s Tafelmusik, Quebec’s Les Violons du Roy, the Victoria, Quebec, Indianapolis, Ann Arbor, Oregon and New Jersey Symphonies. In addition, he sang Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch at Finland’s Savonlinna Festival, Acis in Handel’s Acis and Galatea at Festival Vancouver, and Mattheson’s Boris Goudenow and Lully’s Psyche at the Boston Early Music Festival. He frequently collaborates with such distinguished conductors as Leopold Hager, Bernard Labadie, Helmuth Rilling, Simone Young, Simon Preston, Gabriel Chmura, Christof Perick, Mario Venzago and Kenneth Montgomery.

Particularly esteemed as a recitalist, Mr. Balzer has been welcomed at London’s Wigmore Hall (accompanied by Graham Johnson), the Britten Festival in Aldeburgh, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, the Wratislavia Cantans in Poland and at the Festspielhaus in BadenBaden. Recordings to date include Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch and Eisler and Henze song anthologies. A prizewinner of Holland’s ‘s-Hertogenbosch Competition, the U.K.’s Wigmore Hall Song Competition, Stuttgart, Germany’s Hugo Wolf Competition and Munich’s 55th International ARD Competition, Mr. Balzer holds the rare distinction of earning the Gold Medal at the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau with the highest score in 25 years. Born in British Columbia, he received his formal musical training at the University of British Columbia with David Meek and with Edith Wiens at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg/Augsburg.

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ASOprogram matthew burns, Bass

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he New York Times declared that Matthew Burns “has a beautiful bass-baritone voice ... He manages the tricky feat of portraying Blitch as both sympathetic and credibly bad” following recent performances of Susannah.

In the 2009-10 season, Matthew Burns performs Paolo in Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten with Los Angeles Opera, Leporello in Don Giovanni with Opera Cleveland, Collatinus in The Rape Matthew Burns of Lucretia with Toledo Opera, sings as soloist in Messiah with Princeton Pro Musica, in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and in Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Atlanta Symphony, under Roberto Abbado. In 2008-09 he joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, sang the title role in Don Giovanni in his Arizona Opera debut, Leporello with Boston Lyric Opera, the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance with Kentucky Opera, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera New Jersey, and Agrippa in Antony and Cleopatra in his sixth season with New York City Opera.

Recent highlights include a return to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis to perform the role of Tita in Martín y Soler’s Una Cosa Rara, the title role in Le nozze di Figaro at Opera Grand Rapids, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Grandpa Moss in The Tender Land for the Southeastern Festival of Song with the Charleston Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Albany Symphony, a return to Boston Lyric Opera as Colline in La bohème, and his Dayton Opera debut as Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Other highlights include his return to New York City Opera as Colline in La bohème, the title role in Le nozze di Figaro for Chattanooga Opera, Pallante in Agrippina with Virginia Opera, Colline with Opera Birmingham, Schaunard in La bohème with New Orleans Opera, and his return to Opera Theater of Saint Louis as Pish Tush in The Mikado and Walton in I puritani.

Since his New York City Opera debut as Masetto in Don Giovanni, he has been reengaged by the company in such roles as Zuniga in Carmen, Il Mandarino in Turandot, Angelotti in Tosca, Major Murgatroyd in Patience, Junius in The Rape of Lucretia, Marco in Gianni Schicchi, Yamadori in Madama Butterfly, Il Talpa in Il tabarro, Marquis in La traviata, and Guard and Motorcycle Cop in Dead Man Walking.

Mr. Burns made his Florida Grand Opera debut with his first performances of Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia and has performed a number of leading roles with Wolf Trap Opera including the title role in Mozart’s Impresario, Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Teucer in Rameau’s Dardanus. He has performed two seasons at the Bard SummerFest, portraying several roles in Shostakovich’s The Nose, as well as roles in both Offenbach’s Ba-Ta-Clan and L’Ile du Tulipatan.

In addition, Mr. Burns has sung Angelotti in Tosca with the New Jersey Symphony and appeared in recital with the Art Song Festival of Williamsburg. As a member of the Juilliard Opera Center he performed Blitch in Floyd’s Susannah, La Voce Nettuno in Idomeneo, and created the villainous role of William de Champeaux in Stephen Paulus’ Heloise and Abelard.

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THE ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses, The Frannie and Bill Graves Chair Jeffrey Baxter, Choral Administrator Todd Skrabanek, Accompanist

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cclaimed for the beauty, precision and expressive qualities of their singing, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Choruses have been an important part of the Orchestra’s programming since their founding by the late Robert Shaw. Both the ASO Chorus and Chamber Chorus are composed entirely of volunteers, who meet weekly Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus for rehearsals and perform with the ASO several times each season. They also are featured on the majority of the ASO’s recordings, having garnered 14 Grammy awards (nine for Best Choral Performance; four for Best Classical Recording and one for Best Opera Recording).

The ASO Chorus, 200 voices strong, made its debut on September 24, 1970. It performs large choral-symphonic works with the full orchestra, under the batons of ASO Music Director Robert Spano and ASO Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles. The Chorus also has sung for guest conductors such as John Adams, Roberto Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Alan Gilbert, Bernard Labadie, John Nelson and William Fred Scott.

The ASO Chorus made its Carnegie Hall debut in 1976 with a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and has returned to perform there on a number of subsequent occasions, most recently on April 5, 2008 with the ASO and Robert Spano to perform their 2005 commissioned work, The Here and Now by Christopher Theofanidis. It performed in the Kennedy Center for President-elect Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural Concert in 1977. In 1988, it accompanied the Orchestra on its first European tour, performing in New York, East Berlin, Zürich, Ludwigsburg, Paris, Bristol and London. It has appeared with the ASO for televised concerts on several occasions, including the 1995 national broadcast of the orchestra’s 50th-anniversary celebration, in which it was conducted by both Yoel Levi and Robert Shaw, and the statewide telecast honoring the Chorus’s own 25th anniversary. With the ASO it appeared in the Opening Ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games, broadcast worldwide. The Choruses have been featured twice at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago: in June 2003, the ASOC, ASO and Robert Spano opened the festival with a critically acclaimed performance of John Adams’ oratorio El Niño, followed by a 2006 visit by the women of the Chamber Chorus, the ASO and Robert Spano for Golijov’s opera Ainadamar.

The ASO Chorus also has three times traveled to Germany to be a special guest of the Berlin Philharmonic at their home, the Berlin Philharmonie: in December 2003 with a series of three triumphant performances of Britten’s War Requiem, in May 2008 for three Berlioz Requiem concerts, and in December 2009 for a trio of Brahms deutsches Requiem performances — all trips with conductor Donald Runnicles.

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ASOprogram Soprano 1 JoAnn Alexander Erin Bourg Liz Dean Kelly Eggers Erin Fink Amber Harris Cristina Herrera Colleen Kingston Arietha Lockhart * Constance Mack Mindy Margolis Patricia Nealon * Joneen Padgett Kristi Pass Donna Ross Courtney Stanley Rachel Stewart ** Brianne Turgeon Kara Mia Wray Natalie York Soprano 2 June Abbott* Sloan Atwood Chantrice Barnes Pamela Barnette ** Deanna Campbell Claudia Corriere Martha Craft Ellen Dukes ** Elise Harvey Kathleen Kelly-George Natalie Lee Marie Little Eda Mathews * Rachel O’Dell Vickie Orme Nicole Pringle Sydney Smith-Rikard Paula Snelling Camilla Springfield * Tommie Storer Kelly Thomas Cheryl Thrash Donna Weeks Jennifer Zuiff

Alto 1 Ana Baida Deborah Boland * Donna Carter-Wood * Christa Joy Chase Laurie Cronin Patricia Dinkins-Matthews Pamela Drummond Beth Freeman Beverly Hueter Janet Johnson * Virginia Little Staria Lovelady Allison Lowe Paige Mathis * Frances McDowell * Linda Morgan ** Dominique PetiteChabukswar Kathleen Poe Norma Raybon Andrea Seeney Cheri Snyder Diana Strommen Sharon Vrieland * Nancy York Alto 2 Nancy Adams Melissa Anderson Marcia Chandler Meaghan Curry Cynthia Goeltz DeBold * Michèle Diament Janet Hubler ** Katherine Johnson Sally Kann Nicole Khoury Becky Kurtz Nancy Llamazales * Julie Northup Brenda Pruitt * Debra Samuelson Sharon Simons Patricia Sinback Virginia Thompson Cheryl Vanture Sarah Ward Kiki Wilson * Diane Woodard *

Tenor 1 Jeffrey Baxter * David Blalock ** John Brandt Jack Caldwell * Daniel Cameron Clifford Edge * Steven Farrow * Wayne Gammon Kirt Greenburg Leif Hansen Thomas LaBarge Keith Langston Jamie Mells Clinton Miller Christopher Patton David Ritter Stephen Rotz Keith Smith Mark Warden Tenor 2 Matthew Allemani Sutton Bacon Curt Bisges Nicholas Cavaliere Charles Cottingham ‡ Phillip Crumbly Jeffrey Daniel Joseph Few Hamilton Fong Earl Goodrich * John Goodson Keith Jeffords Steven Johnstone John Kenemer Mark Lester * Nathan Osborne Marshall Peterson * Phillip Rodefer Brent Runnels Clifton Russell Scott Stephens * Wesley Stoner Robert Wilkinson Amir Zaheri

Bass 1 Robert Bolyard Richard Brock Russell Cason * Trey Clegg Steven Darst * David Forbes Chad Gough Jon Gunnemann Joseph Guthridge David Hansen * Gregory Hucks Nick Jones ‡ Peter MacKenzie Charles McClellan * Mark Russell Kendric Smith ‡ John Stallings Ike Van Meter Edgie Wallace Scott Walters Edward Watkins ** Andrew Westerhaus Bass 2 Shaun Amos Brian Brown John Cooledge ‡ Joel Craft * Paul Fletcher Andrew Gee Timothy Gunter Christopher Hornsby Ben Howell Philip Jones Eric Litsey * Sam Marley Owen Mathews Evan Mauk Eckhart Richter * John Ruff John Smith Jonathan Smith Timothy Solomon * Benjamin Temko David Webster ** Gregory Whitmire * Keith Wyatt

* 20+ years of service ‡

** 30+ years of service Charter member (1970)

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ASOprogram NORMAN MACKENZIE, Director of Choruses

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orman Mackenzie’s abilities as musical collaborator, conductor and concert organist have brought him international recognition. As Director of Choruses for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and holder of its endowed Frannie and Bill Graves Chair, he was chosen to help carry forward the creative vision of legendary founding conductor Robert Shaw to a new generation of music lovers. His leadership was rewarded in 2003 with Grammy awards for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance for the ASO and Chorus Norman Mackenzie recording of A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams; in 2005, with another Best Choral Performance Grammy for the Berlioz Requiem; and in 2007 for Best Opera Recording with Golijov’s Ainadamar. Mackenzie also serves as Director of Music and Fine Arts for Atlanta’s Trinity Presbyterian Church, and pursues an active recital and guest conducting schedule.

Mr. Mackenzie has been hailed by The New York Times as Robert Shaw’s “designated successor.”

In his 14-year association with Shaw (1985-99), he was keyboardist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, principal accompanist for the ASO Choruses, and ultimately assistant choral conductor. In addition, he was musical assistant and accompanist for the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, the Robert Shaw Institute Summer Choral Festivals in France and the U.S. and the famed Shaw/ Carnegie Hall Choral Workshops. In 1996, Mr. Mackenzie made his New York conducting debut in a concert sponsored by Carnegie Hall, leading the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers in a critically acclaimed performance at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, substituting for Shaw on short notice. In 1999, he was chosen by Shaw to prepare the Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus for Charles Dutoit, and he was choral clinician for the first three annual workshops after Shaw’s passing.

A native of suburban Philadelphia, Mr. Mackenzie made his debut as a pianist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 12, and as an organist at age 20. He made his New York recital debut at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. He holds degrees from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Westminster Choir College. He has prepared choruses for performance under Robert Spano, Donald Runnicles, John Adams, Roberto Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Labadie, Nicholas McGegan, John Nelson, Alan Gilbert, Yoel Levi, Robert King, James Conlon and Sir Neville Marriner. A frequent recitalist and clinician for conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the American Choral Directors Association, he also has been featured on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” and Minnesota Public Radio’s “Pipedreams” broadcasts.

Mackenzie’s acclaimed Telarc recording of a cappella sacred music (featuring the Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G-Minor) represents the ASO Chamber Chorus’ first recording apart from the orchestra.

In November 2009, he returned with the Chamber Chorus, ASO and Robert Spano to Carnegie Hall for a concert performance of Stravinsky’s The Nightingale. Mackenzie also prepared the ASO Chorus for its acclaimed 2003 debut and successive 2008 and 2009 performances in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic (in Britten’s War Requiem, Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, respectively), conducted by ASO Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles.

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ASOsupport Ray Uttenhove, Appassionato Chair

Ap-pas’-si-o-na’-to – adv., Passionately, with strong emotion The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is privileged to receive annual contributions from individuals throughout the southeast.

Appassionato was inaugurated in 2000 & welcomes annual givers of $10,000 & above. Appassionato members provide the Symphony with a continuous & strong financial base in support of our ambitionous aritistic & education initiatives.

$50,000+

Mrs. Anne Cox Chambers

Ms. Joni Winston

$35,000+

Robert Spano $25,000+ Madeline & Howell E. Adams, Jr. Stephanie & Arthur Blank Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Currey, Jr. Marcia & John Donnell Catherine Warren Dukehart

Terence L. & Jeanne P. Neal* Victoria & Howard Palefsky Mrs. Charles A. Smithgall, Jr. Ray & John Uttenhove Morgan & Chilton Varner Susan & Thomas Wardell

Mark & Rebekah Wasserman Adair & Dick White Mr. & Mrs. John B. White, Jr.* Sue & Neil Williams*

Mr. Donald F. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Garcia Charles & Mary Ginden* Jim & Pam Henry Clay & Jane Jackson Ann A. & Ben F. Johnson III Mr. & Mrs. James C. Kennedy Michael & Cindi Lang Donna Lee & Howard C. Ehni Lucy R. & Gary Lee, Jr.

Meghan & Clarke Magruder Mr. Jeff Mango Patty & Doug Reid Margaret & Bob Reiser John & Kyle Rogers Mr. Thurmond Smithgall Marsha Johnson – Southern Company Mr. & Mrs. Edus H. Warren, Jr. Camille W. Yow

Mr. James F. Fraser Mary D. Gellerstedt Nancy D. Gould The Graves Foundation Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Fund Mr. Jennings M. Hertz, Jr. * * Mr. Tad Hutcheson Roya & Bahman Irvani Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley* Philip I. Kent Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Keough Amy & Mark Kistulinec Family of Thomas B. Koch Larry L. Lanier Mr. & Mrs. John M. Law John & Patrice Lewis Printpack Inc. & The Gay & Erskine Love Foundation Massey Charitable Trust

John F. & Marilyn M. McMullan Mr. Kenneth & Dr. Carolyn Meltzer Mr. & Mrs. Harmon B. Miller III Morgens West Foundation Lynn & Galen Oelkers Mr. & Mrs. Solon P. Patterson* Dennis & JoAnne Sadlowski Bill & Rachel Schultz Joyce & Henry Schwob Mr. John A. Sibley III John Sparrow Loren & Gail Starr Mary Rose Taylor Carol & Ramon Tome The Michael W. Trapp Family Mike & Liz Troy Turner Foundation, Inc. Neal & Virginia Williams

$15,000+ AGCO Corporation, Martin Richengagen Pinney L. Allen & Charles C. Miller III Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney Mr. & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun Christopher S. & Ana P. Crommett Mary Helen & Jim Dalton Lynne and Richard Dorfman Gary & Nancy Fayard* $10,000+ Anonymous (2) Ron & Susan Antinori Betty & Robert Balentine The Balloun Family* Lisa & Joe Bankoff Barnes & Thornburg LLP Ms. Diana J. Blank The Walter & Frances Bunzl Foundation Cynthia & Donald Carson Shannon & Philip Cave Dr. John W. Cooledge In Honor of Norman Mackenzie

by Janet Davenport Cari Katrice Dawson Eleanor & Charles Edmondson In memory of Polly Ellis by Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Fackler

*We are grateful to these donors for taking the extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers. **Deceased.

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ASOsupport Judy Hellriegel, Chair

The Insider’s Experience for Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Members The Patron Partnership of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is the society of donors who have given $1,750 or more and comprise a vital extension of the ASO family through their institutional leadership and financial support.

$5,000+ John & Helen Aderhold* Aadu & Kristi Allpere Anonymous (3) Mr. & Mrs. William Atkins Jan & Gus Bennett Kelley O. & Neil H. Berman Mr. David Boatwright Ms. Suzanne Dansby Bollman Breman Foundation Dr. Robert L. & Lucinda W. Bunnen Ann and Jeff Cramer* Triska Drake & G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr. Jere & Patsy Drummond Rosi & Arnoldo Fiedotin Mr. David L. Forbes

Betty Sands Fuller Sally & Carl Gable Ruth Gershon & Sandy Cohn Dick & Ann Goodsell John E. Graham Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Grathwohl Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Gross Joe Guthridge & David Ritter Sharon & Michael Hodgson C. Tycho & Marie Howle Foundation John Hunsinger James H. Landon George H. Lanier* Pat & Nolan Leake John & Linda Matthews

Mr. & Mrs. Darrell J. Mays Penelope & Raymond McPhee* Brenda & Charles Moseley Margaret H. Petersen Mr. George E. Peterson Hamilton & Mason Smith* Irene & Howard Stein Lynne & Steven Steindel* Charlie Wade & M.J. Conboy Gertrude & William C. Wardlaw Fund, Inc. Russell Williamson & Shawn Pagliarini Suzanne Bunzl Wilner T & H Yamashita*

Mr. & Mrs. T.J. Lavallee, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. William C. Lester* Deborah & William Liss* Dr. & Mrs. James T. Lowman Gino & Belinda Massafra Dr. & Mrs. William McClatchey Walter W. Mitchell Dr. & Mrs. Mark P. Pentecost, Jr.

Elise T. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Rezin Pidgeon, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joel F. Reeves Edward G. Scruggs** Morton & Angela Sherzer Sydney Simons Amy & Paul Snyder Mrs. C. Preston Stephens

Mr. & Mrs. Dan Cathy Mrs. Hugh Chapman Lavon & Dennis Chorba Honor C. Cobbs Lucy & John Cook Robert Cronin & Christina Smith Mona & Leonard** Diamond Mr. Michael E. Dickens Mr. & Mrs. Christopher S. Edmonds George T. & Alecia H. Ethridge Mr. & Mrs. Todd Evans Ken Felts & Richard Bunn Mr. & Mrs. Howard Feinsand Mr. Joseph M. & Pronda Few Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. M. Garland Ms. Alma Garrette Dr. Mary G. George & Mr. Kenneth Molinelli Mr. & Mrs. John T. Glover

Ben & Lynda Greer Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Hale Mr. Steven & Mrs. Caroline Harless Sally W. Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hellriegel Mr. Haywood (Robin) Hendrix Deedi Henson In Memory of Carolyn B. Hochman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Hollums Mr. & Mrs. Harry C. Howard Ms. Joy G. Howard Linda & Richard Hubert Dr. William M. Hudson Mr. & Mrs. William C. Humphreys, Jr. JoAnn Hall Hunsinger Aaron & Joyce Johnson Mr. & Mrs. W. F. Johnston Dr. Maurice J. Jurkiewicz

$3,500+ Julie M. Altenbach Ms. Carol F. Comstock & Mr. James L. Davis Sally & Larry Davis Dr. & Mrs. C.R. Harper Ms. Cynthia Jeness Hazel & Herb Karp Dr. & Mrs. James T. Laney* $2,250+ Mr. & Mrs. Phillip E. Alvelda* Mr. Albert S. Anderson Marian & Paul Anderson Anonymous Dr. David & Julie Bakken Jack & Helga Beam Neale M. Bearden Penelope B. Berk Shirley & Sol** Blaine Rita & Herschel Bloom Mr. & Mrs. Merritt S. Bond* Margo Brinton & Eldon Park Jacqueline A. & Joseph E. Brown, Jr. Maj. Gen. & Mrs. Robert Bunker Dr. Aubrey M. Bush & Dr. Carol T. Bush Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Canipe Mrs. Thalia Carlos Mr. & Mrs. Beauchamp Carr John & Adrienne Carr

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ASOsupport $2,250+ (continued) Mr. & Mrs. John H. Kauffman Mr. & Mrs. L. Michael Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. King Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey Mr. & Mrs. Sean Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Mabry Ruth & Paul Marston Birgit & David McQueen Ms. Molly Minnear & Mr. Craig H. Seibert Richard S. & Winifred B. Myrick Dr. & Mrs. R. Daniel Nable Mr. & Mrs. J. Vernon O’Neal, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Albert N. Parker Mr. & Mrs. Andreas Penninger Dr. John B. Pugh Realan Foundation, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. W. Harrison Reeves, Sr. In memory of Nora A. Richardson S. A. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Rodgers Mrs. William A. Schwartz Dr. Paul Seguin Elizabeth S. Sharp Dr. Kay R. Shirley Beverly & Milton Shlapak

Helga Hazelrig Siegel Lewis Silverboard Mr. & Mrs. Baker A. Smith Peter James Stelling John & Yee-Wan Stevens Burton Trimble Mr. William C. Voss Mr. Thomas P. Walbert Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Walker Dr. & Mrs. James O. Wells, Jr. Ms. Mary Lou Wolff Mr. & Mrs. John C. Yates Mr. Michael H. Zimmerman

Dorothy Jackson Mary & Wayne James Veronique & Baxter Jones Lana M. Jordan Mr. Thomas J. Jung Paul & Rosthema Kastin Dick & Georgia Kimball* Dr. Rose Mary Kolpatzki Mr. & Mrs. David E. Krischer Dr. Leslie Leigh Dr. J. Bancroft Lesesne Dr. Fulton D. Lewis III & Mr. Stephen Neal Rhoney Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Lutz* Barbara & Jim MacGinnitie Mr. & Mrs. James H. Matthews, Jr. Martha & Reynolds McClatchey Captain & Mrs. Charles M. McCleskey Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. McGhee Angela & Jimmy Mitchell* Judy & Gregory Moore Carter & Hampton Morris Mrs. Gene Morse Mr. & Mrs. Vernon J. Nagel Mr. & Mrs. Victor A. Nilson Sanford & Barbara Orkin Keith & Dana Osborn Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Palay Mr. & Mrs. Emory H. Palmer Mr. & Mrs. William A. Parker, Jr. Ms. Susan B. Perdew Mr. & Mrs. William John Petter Dr. & Mrs. Frank S. Pittman III Provaré Technology

Mr. Christopher D. Rex & Dr. Martha Wilkins Ms. Mary Roemer & Ms. Susan Robinson The Gary W. & Ruth M. Rollins Foundation John T. Ruff Dr. & Mrs. Rein Saral Nancy & Henry Shuford Alida & Stuart Silverman Sandy & Paul Smith* Mr. & Mrs. Raymond F. Stainback, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Michael D. Stargel Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Steagall Mrs. James R. Stow Kay & Alex Summers Elvira Tate Mr. & Mrs. George B. Taylor, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mark Taylor Mr. & Mrs. William M. Tipping Frank Vinicor, M.D. Mr. J.H. Walker III Jonne & Paul Walter Mr. & Mrs. Terry R. Weiss Drs. Julius & Nanette Wenger David & Martha West Mrs. Thomas R. Williams Mark & Ruthelen Williamson Jan & Beattie Wood Dorothy & Charlie Yates Family Fund Mike & Marguerite York Chuck & Pat Young The Zaban Foundation, Inc. Grace & Herbert Zwerner

$1,750+ Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. William B. Astrop Mr. & Mrs. Ron H. Bell Ms. Laura J. Bjorkholm & Mr. John C. Reece II Leon & Linda Borchers Mr.** & Mrs. Eric L. Brooker Tony & Norma Jean Bueschen Mr. & Mrs. Russell E. Butner* Dr. & Mrs. Grady S. Clinkscales, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. R. Barksdale Collins* Mr. & Mrs. Burton K. Davis Mrs. H. Frances Davis Mr. & Mrs. P. Brantley Davis Elizabeth & John Donnelly Mr. Bruce E. Dunlap Ms. Diane Durgin Dr. Francine D. Dykes & Mr. Richard Delay Mary Frances Early Drs. Bryan & Norma Edwards Heike & Dieter Elsner Judge & Mrs. Jack Etheridge Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Fullilove* Representative Pat Gardner & Mr. Jerry Gardner Bill & Susan Gibson Joseph W. & Beth M. Gibson* Carol & Henry Grady Duncan & Judy Gray Kenneth R. Hey Thomas J. High Mr. Thomas Hooten Dr. & Mrs. James M. Hund

*We are grateful to these donors for taking the extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers. **Deceased.

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ASOsupport

Corporate sponsors $100,000+

Classical Title Sponsor Classic Chastain Title Sponsor Family and SuperPOPS Presenting Sponsor

Holiday Title Sponsor Muhtar Kent President and Chief Operating Officer

Richard Anderson Chief Executive Officer 1180 Peachtree * Perimeter Summit * Riverwood

Delta Classic Chastain Presenting Sponsor

Delta Classic Chastain Presenting Sponsor

Delta Classic Chastain Presenting Sponsor

Philip I. Kent Chief Executive Officer

David W. Scobey President & Chief Executive Officer - AT&T - Southeast

jerome j. byers, II Atlanta Regional President

$50,000+ AGCO Corporation and Vendors AT&T The Real Yellow Pages GE Energy Oliver Wyman

$35,000+

$20,000+

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC Porsche Cars North America Publix Super Markets Charities

Official Coffee of Delta Classic Chastain Free Parks Title Sponsor Lisa Compton Regional Vice President

Owned by an affiliate of the General Electric Pension Trust – advised by GE Asset Management

Supporter of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jerry Karr Managing Director GE Asset Management

$10,000+

CNN en EspaĂąol Sutherland, LLP Target Corporation

Turner Construction AlixPartners, LLP The Boston Consulting Company Verizon Wireless Group

foundation and government support $100,000+ The Goizueta Foundation The Halle Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation The Vasser Woolley Foundation, Inc. The Zeist Foundation

$25,000+ Anne and Gordon Getty Foundation League of American Orchestras The Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc. MetLife Music for Life Initiative

$5,000+

$10,000+ The Aaron Copland Fund For Music, Inc. The Arnold Foundation The Green Foundation Hellen Ingram Plummer Charitable Foundation The Kendeda Fund

Atlanta Federation of Musicians Fraser-Parker Foundation Robert S. Elster Foundation The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation

Major funding for this organization is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council.

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National Endowment for the Arts

Office of Cultural Affairs: Major support is provided by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.

Special Gifts The ASCAP Foundation Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Foundation Kathy Griffin Memorial Endowment Livingston Foundation Reiman Charitable Foundation William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund

This program is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

ASOsupport Recognizing planned gifts that benefit the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Madeline & Howell E. Adams, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John E. Aderhold William & Marion Atkins Dr. & Mrs. William Bauer Neil H. Berman Fred & Bettye Betts Mr. & Mrs.* Karl A. Bevins Mr.* & Mrs. Sol Blaine Frances Cheney Boggs* W. Moses Bond Robert* & Sidney Boozer Elinor A. Breman William Breman* James C. Buggs, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Burgin Hugh W. Burke Wilber W. Caldwell Mr. & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun Cynthia & Donald Carson Margie & Pierce Cline Dr. & Mrs. Grady Clinkscales, Jr. Miriam & John A. Conant* Dr. John W. Cooledge Mr. & Mrs. William R. Cummickel* John R. Donnell Dixon W. Driggs* Catherine Warren Dukehart Ms. Diane Durgin Arnold & Sylvia Eaves

Elizabeth Etoll John F. Evans Doyle Faler* Rosi & Arnoldo Fiedotin Dr. Emile T. Fisher A. D. Frazier, Jr. Betty & Drew* Fuller Carl & Sally Gable William H. Gaik Kay Gardner* Mr.* & Mrs. L. L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Ruth Gershon & Sandy Cohn Micheline & Bob Gerson Mr. & Mrs. John T. Glover Mrs. Irma G. Goldwasser* Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Billie & Sig* Guthman Betty G. & Joseph* F. Haas James & Virginia Hale Miss Alice Ann Hamilton Ms. Jeannie Hearn Jill* & Jennings Hertz Albert L. Hibbard, Jr.* Richard E. Hodges Mr. & Mrs. Charles K. Holmes, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Hoyt, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. James M. Hund Mary B. James deForest F. Jurkiewicz* Herb & Hazel Karp

Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley Bob Kinsey James W. & Mary Ellen* Kitchell Paul Kniepkamp, Jr. Miss Florence Kopleff Ouida Hayes Lanier Liz & Jay* Levine Jane Little Mrs. J. Erskine Love, Jr. Nell Galt & Will D. Magruder K Maier John W. Markham, III Ann Bernard Martin* Mr. Michael McDowell* Dr. Michael S. McGarry Mr. & Mrs. Richard McGinnis Vera A. Milner* Mr. & Mrs. Bertil D. Nordin Roger B. Orloff Dr. Bernard & Sandra Palay Bill Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Rezin E. Pidgeon, Jr. Janet M. Pierce Reverend Neal P. Ponder, Jr. William L. & Lucia Fairlie Pulgram Carl J. Reith* Edith Goodman Rhodes* Vicki J. & Joe A. Riedel Dr. Shirley E. Rivers

Mr. & Mrs. Martin H. Sauser Mr. Paul S. Scharff & Ms. Polly G. Fraser Edward G. Scruggs Dr. & Mrs. George P. Sessions W. Griggs Shaefer, Jr.* Mr. & Mrs. Robert Shaw* Charles H. Siegel* Mr. & Mrs. H. Hamilton Smith Mrs. Lessie B. Smithgall Margo Sommers* Elliott Sopkin Elizabeth Morgan Spiegel Daniel D. Stanley* Peter James Stelling C. Mack* & Mary Rose Taylor Jed Thompson Steven R. Tunnell Mary E. Van Valkenburgh Mrs. Anise C. Wallace* Mr. & Mrs. John B. White, Jr. Richard S. White, Jr. Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr. Sue & Neil Williams Mrs. Frank L. Wilson, Jr. Elin M. Winn* Joni Winston George & Camille Wright Mr.* & Mrs. Charles R. Yates Anonymous (12)

*Deceased

THE LEARNING COMMUNITY Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, Talent Development Program, Azira G. Hill Scholarship Endowment Fund, Concerts for Young People, Family Concerts, Conversations of Note

$250,000+

The Goizueta Foundation The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

$50,000+

GE Energy John H. & Wilhelmina D. Harland Foundation

$25,000+

Bank of America The Coca-Cola Company William Randolph Hearst Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Hill, Jr. MetLife Music for Life Initiative Monica (Kaufman) Pearson & John E. Pearson, Sr. Hellen Ingram Plummer Charitable Foundation Publix Super Markets & Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. Margaret & Bob Reiser Jay & Arthur Richardson

$10,000+

AGL Resources Edith H. & James E. Bostic, Jr. Family Foundation Marcia & John Donnell Cree & Frazer Durrett The Green Foundation Livingston Foundation, Inc. The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc. The Pittulloch Foundation John C. Portman, Jr. Primerica Simmons Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Yellowlees

$5,000+

Mr. & Mrs. Henry Aaron EZ Agape Foundation Dr. Margo A. Brinton & Mr. Eldon Park Cynthia & Donald Carson Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Ginden Mr. & Mrs. David Gould

Ms. Joy G. Howard Aaron & Joyce Johnson Mr. & Mrs. William Lamar, Jr. Ms. Malinda C. Logan Mr. & Mrs. Howatt E. Mallinson Dr. Emily A. Massey Dr. Joanne R. Nurss $2,500+ Dr. & Mrs. Travis Paige Elinor Rosenberg Breman* Mr. & Mrs. Howard Palefsky Lincoln Financial Foundation Ms. Margaret H. Petersen Links Inc., Azalea City Chapter Ms. Elise T. Phillips Alison & Mike Rand $1,000+ Erich & Suzette Randolph Anonymous Mr. Herman J. Russell, Sr. Madeline & Howell E. Adams, Jr. Michael & Lovette Russell Claire & Hubie Brown Stephanie & H. Jerome Russell Dr. Eric & Nancy Brown Mr. & Mrs. Johnathan H. Short Suzanne & Willard Shull Dr. Sheri D. Campbell Sharon, Lindsay & Gordon Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Sullivan Dr. John O. Gaston Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Troy & Dr. Gloria S. Gaston Mr. & Mrs. Raul F. Trujillo Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Greer Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Wasserman The Honorable Judge Glenda Mr. Mack Wilbourn A. Hatchett

Mrs. Mary C. Gramling Kraft Foods, Inc. Isaiah & Hellena Huntley Tidwell The Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Ms. Joni Winston

* Scholarships for Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra tuition are made possible through the Elinor Rosenberg Breman Fellowship.

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ASOsupport The volunteer organization of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 2009-2010 Board Kathleen (Suzy) Wasserman President Leslie Petter Advisor Judy Schmidt Parliamentarian Alison Mimms Secretary

Belinda Massafra Treasurer Joanne Lincoln Historian Janis Eckert Nominating Chair Elba McCue VP Adminstration Honey Corbin VP Public Relations

Glee Lamb VP Membership Martha Perrow Decorators’ Show House & Gardens Sylvia Davidson VP Youth Education Yetty Arp & Martha Perrow ASA Spring Luncheon

Events

April Conaway & Annie York Trujillo ASA Night at the Symphony Camille Kesler Newsletter Editor Sylvia Davidson & Dr. Mary Francis Early Target Family Day Brooke Merrill Fall Membership Party

Pat King Directory Editor Nancy Levitt Ambassador’s Desk Camille Yow & Leslie Petter VP Annual Fund Dr. Mary Francis Early VP Outreach

2009 Decorators’ Show House & Gardens Diamond Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Platinum Bovis Lend Lease St. Regis Atlanta Ticket Sponsor Springer Mountain Farms

Gold Boxwoods Comcast Encore Atlanta Magazine Jackson Spalding Mercedes-Benz of Buckhead Silver Phipps Plaza

Bronze Closets & More Conceirge Services of Atlanta Designer Previews Flora by John Grady Burns Laubmann Rector, Inc. Landscape Architecture & Land Planning

Olde Savannah Flooring, Inc Preprint Rabun Rasche Rector & Reece Architects Swoozie’s

2009 Atlanta Symphony Ball corporate Sponsors

Silver table hosts Amanda & Greg Gregory

special contributors

Phoenix AirTran Airways

Bronze Global Payments, Inc. Genuine Parts

Table Hosts Mr. & Mrs. William M. Graves Patty & Doug Reid

Platinum The Coca-Cola Company wine sponsors Invesco Savi Urban Market Capasaldo Silver Rosenblum Vineyards AGL Resources Sterling Vineyards Alston & Bird CISCO National Distributing Company King and Spalding Parties to Die For Media sponsor Printpack, Inc. & The Atlantan the Gay & Erskine Love Foundation Siemens Energy & Automation Southern Company St. Regis Atlanta Verizon Wireless

patrons Mr. & Mrs. Carleton Allen Mr. & Mrs. Charles Allen Ron & Susan Antinori Yetty & Charlie Arp Lyn & Rick Asbill Kimberly & Joel Babbit Mr. & Mrs. Smith Baker Joe & Lisa Bankoff Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney Stephanie & Arthur Blank Dr. Yamma Brown & Mr. Brandon Culpepper Mr. & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun Mr. & Mrs. Philip P. Cave

Dr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Dawkins Richard & Lynne Dorfman Eilleen & Bo Dubose Carla & Carl Fackler Bill & Frannie Graves Harald R. Hansen Merrel & Willem Hattink Jim & Pam Henry Gerry & Patricia Hull Baxter & Veronique Jones Mark S. Lange Mr. & Mrs. Larry Lanier Pat & Nolan Leake Elizabeth Levine Belinda & Gino Massafra Mr. & Mrs. Harmon B. Miller, III Lawrence E. Mock, Jr. Ann Morgan & Jim Kelly Victoria & Howard Palefsky Leslie & Skip Petter Patty & Doug Reid

Jay & Arthur Richardson D. Jack Sawyer & William Torres Selig Foundation Thurmond Smithgall Susan & Stuart Snyder Gail & Loren Starr Mr. & Mrs. Howard Stein Steven & Lynne Steindel Mary Rose Taylor Annie-York Trujillo & Raul F. Trujillo Kryst & James Voyles Suzy & Steve Wasserman Adair & Dick White Sue & Neil Williams Joni & David Winston Camille Yow

Hole Sponsor: Asurion ATC Associates, Inc. Cosentini Associates Credit Suisse Cushman & Wakefield Dennis Taylor & Co., Inc. Gwinnett Chamber Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. Morgan Stanley Nordmark Consulting Group

North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Pathbuilders, Inc. Sasaki Associates, Inc. The Shumacher Group Troutman Sanders LLP Wilmington Trust

2009 AIRTRAN ASO Golf Classic Tournament title Sponsor AirTran Airways Reception Sponsors Blackberry Verizon Wireless Four-person Team & Hole Sponsor Atlanta Braves Radio Network Atlanta Falcons The Coca-Cola Company

Four-person Team Sponsor Auburn ISP Sports Network Beck EMC Corporation HKS Architects Signal Point System Turner Construction Two-person Team & Hole Sponsor: ZWJ Investment Counsel

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Player Profiles

BY KARL SCHNITTKE

New ASO Concertmaster-Designate

David Coucheron, who officially assumes the position next season, discusses his most challenging role yet

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“I’m very happy to be a member of the Atlanta Symphony“ said the Norwegian violinist, who auditioned in seven ASO concerts over nine months in 2009, most recently at Carnegie Hall last November.

Mr. Coucheron admits his youth was “a bit of a challenge” when he began the rigorous

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Mr. Coucheron decided not to worry about what he couldn’t control and instead focused on preparation and performance. Now that his dream has been realized, the young virtuoso knows what he has to do. “The leader I want to be is somebody who leads by example, who’s always prepared, and who gets respect by showing respect,” he says.

Mr. Coucheron obviously impressed Music Director Robert Spano and Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles. The co-architects of the ASO’s Creative Partnership, now entering its second decade, are of one mind about the new concertmaster.

“Mr. Coucheron impressed us through this long and detailed search process,” confides Mr. Spano. “It is very exciting to have such a vital and dynamic talent join us. We eagerly anticipate welcoming him to Atlanta.”

The noted violinist and educator Aaron Rosand worked with Mr. Coucheron for five years at the Curtis Institute of Music. “I am just delighted for him,” says Mr. Rosand.

“David is a gifted and thorough musician, and resonates qualities of leadership, presence, and a very gentle character with a wonderful demeanor. I think he is the ideal person for this position, and I know the ASO’s audience will love him.”

Originally from Oslo, Mr. Coucheron began playing violin at the age of three. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music, his Master of Music from The Juilliard School and his Master of Musical Performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has appeared with some of today’s leading conductors and orchestras and has released several recordings, most notably with his sister Julie, a concert pianist.

David Coucheron shakes hands with Donald Runnicles following a performance of Brahms’s German Requiem last October at Symphony Hall.

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Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles and the ASO Chorus returned by special invitation to perform with the fabled Berlin Philharmoniker, December 19-20. Their presentation of Brahms’s German Requiem received a standing ovation.

GÜT SHOW Maestro Runnicles (left), Marnite Calder, the executive director of the Halle Foundation, and Joe Bankoff, the president and CEO of the Woodruff Arts Center, were all smiles following a rehearsal.

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BACK AT SYMPHONY HALL On January 6, Mr. Runnicles (far right) addressed the ASO musicians, and members of the board and staff following Board Chair Ben Johnson’s announcement that the conductor had extended his contract through the 2011-2012 season.

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