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2016/17 NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

GIANCARLO GUERRERO Music Director

VINAY PARAMESWARAN Associate Conductor

TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE Interim Chorus Director

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

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GIANCARLO GUERRERO

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iancarlo Guerrero is Music Director of the Nashville Symphony, having taken up the post in 2009. A natural and instinctive musician, Guerrero is a charismatic presence on the podium.

He is a strong advocate of contemporary music and has championed the works of several of America’s most respected composers. He has presented eight world premieres with the Nashville Symphony and has led the orchestra to several GRAMMY® wins in recent years, including in 2016 for his recording of works by Stephen Paulus.

In the 2016/17 season, Guerrero will lead performances with The Cleveland Orchestra in Miami, Charlotte Symphony, Yale Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, Brussels Philharmonic, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Frankfurter Opernand Museumsorchester, Orchestre National de France, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. For many years Guerrero has maintained a close association with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Brazil and will spend three weeks with the orchestra in the summer of 2017. In addition, he has been re-invited to lead a summer residency with Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute’s NYO2 project, culminating in a concert with the young musicians alongside the Philadelphia Orchestra at Verizon Hall.

Guerrero’s recent debuts include the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera conducting Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, and, in Europe, with the NDR Hanover, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, and Tonkünstler Orchester.

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Maestro Guerrero has appeared with many of the prominent North American orchestras, including those of Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Montreal, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., among others. He is also known to audiences of major summer festivals such as the Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles) and Blossom Music Festival (Cleveland). He has developed a strong guest-conducting profile in Europe and has worked with great success in recent seasons with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.

A passionate proponent of new music and contemporary composers, Guerrero has performed and recorded the works of John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Roberto Sierra, and Richard Danielpour. With the Nashville Symphony, he has made recordings of music by Danielpour and Sierra for the Naxos label, and Béla Fleck’s Banjo Concerto for Deutsche Grammophone. Guerrero also recently developed and guided the creation of Nashville Symphony’s Composer Lab & Workshop initiative, together with composer Aaron Jay Kernis, to foster and promote new American orchestral music.

Giancarlo Guerrero previously held posts as the Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami (2013-2016), Music Director of the Eugene Symphony (2002-2009), and Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra (19992004).

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VINAY PARAMESWARAN ctive as both an orchestra and opera conductor, Vinay Parameswaran currently serves as Associate Conductor of the Nashville Symphony, where he works closely with Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and conducts the Symphony in classical, pops, education, and community concerts.

In his tenure as Associate Conductor, Parameswaran has conducted the Nashville Symphony in over 100 performances.

In the 2016/17 season, Parameswaran will make his debuts with the Rochester Philharmonic and Tucson Symphony. He will also make his Aegis Sciences Classical Series debut with the Nashville Symphony conducting works by Gabriella Smith, Grieg, and Prokofiev.

During the 2015/16 season, Parameswaran made his debuts with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra. During the 2014/15 season, he made his debut with the Eugene Symphony, and he was one of four conductors selected to participate in the David Zinman Conductor Workshop with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada. He was also one of 24 conductors selected to participate in the Malko Competition in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Parameswaran conducted the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble on the album Two x Four, featuring violinists Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh. Along with works by Bach, David Ludwig, and Philip Glass, the recording included Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds, which received a 2014 GRAMMY® nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. In the summer of 2012, Parameswaran was one of seven out of over 130 applicants to be selected as a participant in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s Conductors Workshop, headed by Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Parameswaran holds a Bachelor of Arts in music and political science from Brown University, where he graduated with honors. At Brown, he began his conducting studies with Paul Phillips. He received a diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Otto-Werner Mueller, distinguished conducting pedagogue, as the Albert M. Greenfield Fellow.

TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE

r. Tucker Biddlecombe currently serves as Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where he directs the Vanderbilt Chorale and Symphonic Choir. Through creative programming and community building, Biddlecombe has reinvigorated choral activities at the Blair School.

Concert highlights have included Haydn’s Creation, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Brahms’ Schicksalslied, Fauré’s Requiem, and Rutter’s Mass of the Children, which was performed for Blair’s 50th Anniversary celebration. Biddlecombe has served as a clinician to choirs in 22 states and has conducted all-state choruses in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and New York. He has participated in master classes for Chorus America, Eastman’s Choral Institute, and the Oregon Bach Festival.

A passionate advocate of music education, Biddlecombe achieved National Board Teacher Certification and was awarded Teacher of the Year at Lawton Chiles High School in Tallahassee. At Vanderbilt, he serves as director of Blair’s five-year Bachelor of Music/Teacher Education degree (Ma5) program. Ensembles under his direction have toured nationally and internationally.

Off the podium, Biddlecombe is active as a tenor and keyboardist. He is chief collaborator in Collegium, a professional choir based at Vanderbilt, and has guest-conducted performances with Music City Baroque and the Nashville Early Music Festival.

He can also be heard as tenor soloist and conductor on And the Time Is, a recording of the music of Jack Stamp featuring the Vanderbilt Chorale and Wind Symphony. His online initiative Nashville Choral Consortium (nashchor.org) tracks each choral ensemble and performance throughout the season and serves as a hub for community, university, and church choral performance throughout Middle Tennessee.

Biddlecombe holds an MM and Ph.D. in Music Education and Choral Conducting from Florida State University, and he holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam.

He is a native of Buffalo, New York, and resides in Nashville with his wife Mary Biddlecombe, Artistic Director of the Blair Children’s Chorus.

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HECTOR BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture • Berlioz adapted his Roman Carnival Overture from music he originally composed for his opera Benvenuto Cellini, about the Renaissance artist and goldsmith. The opera had a disastrous premiere in 1838, and it took several years for Berlioz to revisit this music for a new piece.

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Concerto for Piano No. 2 in G minor • French composer Saint-Saëns was born in 1835, just a decade after Beethoven’s death. He showed talent as a very young child, performing his first public recital at age 10. By 18, he’d premiered his First Symphony.

• The Second Piano Concerto emerged from his professional relationship with conductor and pianist Anton Rubinstein, who had performed as a soloist with Saint-Saëns at the podium. At Rubinstein’s suggestion, their roles were reversed, and Saint-Saëns wrote a concerto for himself to perform with Rubinstein as conductor.

• It took only 17 days for Saint-Saëns to complete the concerto. He compared his own style to that of Chopin, but the music also shows the influence of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. The work isn’t structured like a typical concerto, opening with a slow movement and then building in tempo. Even more in defiance of convention at the time, the solo piano — and not the orchestra — opens the piece.

SAMUEL BARBER Symphony No. 1 (Symphony in One Movement) • Barber’s Symphony No. 1 was the first American piece to be performed at the prestigious Salzburg Festival. It was there that Arturo Toscanini first heard the young composer’s music and decided to commission him to write several pieces.

• The composer worked on the score in the mid-1930s, while he was living in Italy as a recipient of the American Prix de Rome. The piece is also called Symphony in One Movement because he synthesizes four traditional classical symphony movements into one compact, 20-minute piece, tying it together by bringing his opening theme into the pathos-filled finale.

OTTORINO RESPIGHI Pines of Rome • While two of the composers on this program drew inspiration from traveling to Italy, Italian composer Respighi’s own music was shaped by his travels to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he performed in the Imperial Theater orchestra and studied with Rimsky-Korsakov.

• As with Barber’s Symphony No. 1, Pines of Rome is a single-movement work divided into four sections, each representing a different location and time of day. The piece opens with a scene of children at play in the pines of one of Rome’s celebrated villas, then moves to a catacomb and to the scenic Janiculum hill, before closing with a musical portrait of dawn on the Appian Way — one of the most memorable passages in classical music.

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Born on December 11, 1803, in La Côte-SaintAndré, France; died on March 8, 1869, in Paris

Le carnaval romain, Ouverture pour Orchestre (Roman Carnival Overture), Op. 9 Composed: 1843-44 (using material from Berlioz’s 1838 opera Benvenuto Cellini) First performance: February 3, 1844, in Paris First Nashville Symphony performance: February 17, 1953, at War Memorial Auditorium with Music Director Guy Taylor Estimated length: 10 minutes

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n his early breakthrough work, the Symphonie fantastique (1830), Hector Berlioz drew on his experience with unrequited love to depict the fate of the artist. But the following year brought another important source of inspiration when the composer headed to Rome for a lengthy sojourn and traveled widely throughout the country — resulting in the first of our program’s several musical adventures to Italy.

The stimulus of being abroad provided Berlioz with ideas for several new compositions, including his first completed opera. He became fascinated by the Renaissance phenomenon Benvenuto Cellini — a Florentine sculptor, goldsmith, musician, and soldier — and saw operatic potential in Cellini’s autobiography, in which art and love together prove triumphant. Berlioz’s own Memoirs, however, recount the fiasco of the opera’s premiere in 1838 — a humiliation which Berlioz compared to being “stretched on the rack.”

A main reason for the opera’s failure was the incompetent performance led by conductor François-Antoine Habeneck, which effectively sabotaged the piece. Berlioz recalled that Habeneck refused to follow the tempo prescribed for the vivacious rhythm (in a very fast triple

meter) he uses to depict the rollicking festivity of Roman Carnival (i.e., Mardi Gras) celebrations that figure in the opera’s plot. In an attempt to salvage some of the excellent music from the operatic score, Berlioz later crafted Le Carnaval romain as an independent concert overture.

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he wildly festive music that had proved so problematic in the opera is exactly what Berlioz chose to launch the Overture. This material also provides important ideas for the remainder of the piece. The fiery opening is brief, suddenly yielding to an introspective, wistful strain scored for solo English horn. This melody — quintessential Berlioz — represents Cellini’s love for Teresa, whose father has promised her hand to a rival sculptor. An expanded version of the boisterous carnival music follows. In the opera, Cellini finally completes his commission for the famous bronze statue of Perseus against all odds, and is thus able to marry his beloved Teresa.

Berlioz symbolizes the artist’s double victory by weaving the love theme into the somersaulting carnival music in a swirling, vivacious climax.

The Roman Carnival Overture is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 cornets, 3 trombones, timpani, cymbals, 2 tambourines, triangle, and strings.

The stimulus of being abroad provided Berlioz with ideas for several new compositions. He became fascinated by the Renaissance phenomenon Benvenuto Cellini and saw potential in the sculptor’s autobiography. This inspiration would lead, in a roundabout way, to the Roman Carnival Overture.

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CA M IL L E S A IN TSAËNS Born on October 9, 1835, in Paris, France; died on December 16, 1921 in Algiers, Algeria Concerto for Piano No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 Composed: 1868 First performance: December 13, 1868, in Paris, with the composer as soloist and Anton Rubinstein conducting First Nashville Symphony performance: February 4, 1992, at TPAC with conductor Enrique Bátiz Estimated length: 25 minutes

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he epic lifespan of Camille Saint-Saëns took him from the heyday of Romanticism through the birth pangs of Modernism and the trauma of World War I. It overlapped with the musical revolutions spearheaded by Liszt and Wagner, the innovations of his compatriots Debussy and Ravel, and Schoenberg’s introduction of atonality. Somewhat like the similarly long-lived poet William Wordsworth, Saint-Saëns himself fell victim to the changing tides of musical fashion. In his final decades, he was cast as an archconservative and remained bitterly opposed to the sea changes of the early 20th century. Of his enormous output, which ranges across all the major genres (he even pioneered film music), only a handful of works is frequently heard today, and most of those are limited to a relatively brief span of his career when he was at the peak of his fame.

Saint-Saëns was barely out of diapers when his prodigious musical gifts began to manifest themselves. At 2, according to his own recollection, he was dissecting household sounds with uncanny attentiveness and imagining compositions made of chiming clocks and the whistling of the tea kettle. Saint-Saëns began performing at 4, playing the piano parts of Beethoven’s violin sonatas. As he put it, he took to composition as naturally — and fruitfully 22

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— as an apple tree bears apples, tackling the symphony in his teens. After destroying an earlier attempt, he waited until the ripe old age of 18 to introduce his First Symphony to the public.

Berlioz, who died the year after the Second Piano Concerto was composed, declared that his young colleague had one noticeable weakness: “He lacks inexperience.”

For all his productivity, an outlook of restless curiosity beyond the realm of music distinguishes Saint-Saëns from composers who live and breathe nothing but notes. His remarkable intellect spurred him to roam through an encyclopedic range of interests: philosophy, archeology, mathematics, botany, lepidoptery, stamp collecting, classical drama, and painting — and not just in a “cocktail conversation” sense. He also became an inveterate and enthusiastic traveler, writing his last piano concerto (nicknamed “The Egyptian”) while vacationing among the temples in Luxor.

The Second Piano Concerto, however, is firmly rooted in the traditions of 19th-century Europe.

Not surprisingly, Saint-Saëns was a formidable pianist himself (and was also legendary for his skills as an organist). For his first public recital at the age of 10, he performed piano concertos

by Mozart and Beethoven, and he eventually introduced all five of the Beethoven piano concertos to his native Paris, where they were still little-known.

The impetus behind the Second Concerto came from another composer and celebrity pianist, the Russian Anton Rubinstein, who had recently performed as concerto soloist under Saint-Saëns’ baton. He suggested reversing the roles and conducting a new concerto to be played by his colleague.

Saint-Saëns had no difficulty producing the score in less than a month, though he was underrehearsed for the exceptionally challenging solo part he had written for himself. The impression made by the premiere was muted as a result.

Rubinstein later became a major champion of the work and helped secure its popularity.

The Concerto’s overall design swerves away from the conventional expectations of a fast-slow-fast format.

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egarding their complementary musical personalities, Saint-Saëns compared Rubinstein to the more extroverted Liszt and himself to Chopin. The Second Concerto actually amalgamates elements of both composers’ styles, along with fluid references to Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Yet while Saint-Saëns shows strong neo-Classical affinities in several other works, his approach to classical formal models here is relaxed.

The Concerto’s overall design swerves away from the conventional expectations of a fastslow-fast format. Instead of a lively Allegro, Saint-Saëns begins with the slowest of the work’s three movements. And another surprise is in store: the solo piano sets the piece in motion on its own, without any curtain raising, in a lengthy passage that morphs from a very serious-sounding, Bach-like keyboard toccata to a full-fledged cadenza. This leads to the dramatic entry of the full orchestra — a reversal of the usual sequence wherein the orchestra builds suspense before the soloist takes the spotlight.

The piano introduces the moody first theme (which Saint-Saëns lifted from his student Gabriel Fauré) and dominates in other passages of this movement, but the scintillating choreography of its exchanges with the orchestra are characteristic of the Concerto as a whole. Notice, for example, the collaborative delineation of the second, heart-onsleeve theme (a moment to be savored, since SaintSaëns neglects to reprise it).

An obviously Liszt-influenced style of muscular, hammering piano octaves emerges as the music develops. After another extended cadenza, the opening toccata-like music returns — this time with discreet orchestral accompaniment — before the dramatic close of this movement.

Having begun with an Andante in the minor, Saint-Saëns now proceeds with an impish, scherzolike movement in E-flat major. The Concerto in its entirety is easy to follow on a first hearing, but this movement is especially ingratiating. Saint-Saëns transforms an idea from Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, in which the timpanist briefly takes the spotlight, and lets the drums introduce the skipping rhythm of the first theme. The music frolics along with call-and-response patterns and lightning-flash interjections from the woodwinds.

Saint-Saëns continues to accelerate the momentum in the finale, which is a whirling dervish of a presto requiring nimble synchronization between soloist and orchestra.

Despite the return to G minor, the atmosphere is closer to the animated energy of the preceding movement than the somber gestures of the opening.

In addition to solo piano, the Second Piano Concerto is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, cymbals (optional), and strings.

SAMUE L BARB E R Born on March 9, 1910, in West Chester, Pennsylvania; died on January 23, 1981, in New York City

Symphony No. 1 (Symphony in One Movement) Composed: 1935-36; revised 1942 First performance: Bernardino Molinari led the premiere with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome on December 13, 1936 First Nashville Symphony performance: April 1, 2010, at Schermerhorn Symphony Center with Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero Estimated length: 20 minutes

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ike Berlioz, Samuel Barber imbibed inspiration from his travels to Italy as a young artist. His years as a prodigy student at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia foreshadowed a brilliant career, and Barber soon made good on that promise. In his 20s, the composer produced a series of compositions that established his name internationally. These early works already revealed his distinctive voice, which is characterized by an intense lyricism that seems to come directly from the heart.

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Barber’s brand of American Romanticism proved increasingly at odds with the taste of his modernist contemporaries, though the pendulum has since swung back in his favor. In his later years, he followed a tragic downward spiral, a recluse beset by depression and heavy drinking.

But Barber rose quickly to the top as a young composer. His Symphony No. 1 became the first piece by an American to be played at the ultraprestigious Salzburg Festival in 1937.

It was on that occasion that Arturo Toscanini — not known for his advocacy of new American music — first heard this highly gifted young composer. Deeply impressed, Toscanini requested some new pieces to perform with the fledgling NBC Symphony radio orchestra. One of these was the Adagio for Strings, whose premiere over the radio waves in November 1938 solidified his fame.

Also known as the Symphony in One Movement, the Symphony No. 1 is the work of an American abroad. Barber composed the score while living in Italy as a recipient of the American Prix de Rome. His confidence in working with a full orchestral canvas is remarkable. Barber was notoriously painstaking as a composer, and his previous experience writing for orchestra had been limited to the sparkling Overture to The School for Scandal (1931) and the tone poem Music for a Scene from Shelley (1933). Despite its reference to “number one,” this is now the only “official” symphony in Barber’s catalogue, which also includes three symphony-like pieces he called Essays for Orchestra. Barber did write a Second Symphony in 1944 and even recorded it, but later decided to disown that work (though he did recycle some of its music for his piece Night Flight).

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hen Barber was composing this work, the obvious model for a compact, singlemovement symphony was the Seventh Symphony of Sibelius, premiered a decade earlier, and there’s a Sibelian majesty to some of the rhetoric here.

Barber deftly reconfigures the conventional sonata form for the first movement of a symphony so that it presents, as the composer wrote, “a synthetic treatment of the four-movement classical symphony.” The Symphony begins with a dramatic call to attention, leading immediately into a first theme that will prove easily malleable in later contexts.

Two more themes follow: one mournful and inward (first intoned by English horn and viola) and the other an exhortation punctuated by brassy splendor. An eventful development builds in excitement, but rather than resolve into the recapitulation, Barber’s orchestra cascades into the equivalent of a scherzo, whipped into shape with fragments of the opening theme.

This segues into a serene but moody section (marked Andantino in the score), which is based on a drawn-out manifestation of the second theme. Barber’s orchestration highlights the oboe (uncannily prefiguring his sublime final work, the Canzonetta for Oboe) and displays the composer’s affinity for elegiac lyricism. The music grows to a climax and then subsides for the finale, which is formulated as a passacaglia — a brief motif persistently repeated in the bass — drawn from the ever-malleable first theme. On top of this, Barber introduces a progression of ideas, including the third of the opening themes, to complete the postponed recapitulation. The Symphony ends where it began, in a grand and tragic gesture of E minor.

The score calls for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, harp, and strings.

Born on July 9, 1879, in Bologna, Italy; died on April 18, 1936, in Rome

Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) Composed: 1923-24 First performance: Bernardino Molinari led the premiere with the Augusteo Orchestra in Rome on December 14, 1924 First Nashville Symphony performance: November 27, 1956, at War Memorial Auditorium with Music Director Guy Taylor Estimated length: 23 minutes

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t the turn of the last century, while he was still a student, Ottorino Respighi landed a job as violist with the orchestra of the Imperial Theater in St. Petersburg. He left his native Italy for a few seasons and benefited from the adventure by taking lessons from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the great masters of orchestration. A very influential teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov most famously left his stamp on the young Stravinsky, among many others; Stravinsky’s breakthrough ballet The Firebird bears many traces of the revered mentor’s sound world.

After a few seasons in Russia, the itinerant Respighi ended up in Berlin and also traveled to other musical centers in Germany. He came under the spell of such contemporary composers as Richard Strauss, whose orchestral brilliance by then encompassed the concert hall and opera house alike.

Although the prolific Respighi wrote operas, ballets, and other theater works, his reputation rests overwhelmingly on the sequence of three symphonic poems in which he evoked the spirit of his beloved Rome. Having lived in Bologna before his years abroad, Respighi settled in Rome in 1913 to take up a position as composition professor, and he made the Eternal City home for the rest of his life.

Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome),

composed not long after the move to Rome (191516), was a major success and put Respighi on the international map. He created two “sequels” in the following decade: Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) and Feste Romane (Roman Festivals). Each of the three symphonic poems, which provide varying perspectives on Rome and its richly layered history, is divided into four sections, mimicking the four movements of a symphony, though the effect is more like a transition from one cinematic scene to the next.

Respighi’s astonishingly vivid portraits in sound are as effective as any stage work in conjuring a sense of atmosphere. For example, Fountains of Rome makes a quartet of celebrated Baroque fountains its “protagonists,” while at the same time conveying impressions of the city at different times of the day. The lengthy Roman Festivals (1928) juxtaposes the ancient arenas of the gladiators and martyred Christians with images of pilgrims, harvest time, and the Rome of the composer’s own era. Pines of Rome has become the most frequently performed of the three and culminates in one of the most colossal climaxes in the orchestral literature.

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espighi provided his own commentary on the piece: The Pines of the Villa Borghese (Allegretto vivace): Children are at play in the pine-grove of the Villa Borghese, dancing the Italian version of “Ring around-a-rosy.” They mimic marching soldiers and battles, twitter and shriek like swallows at evening, coming and going in swarms.

Suddenly the scene changes to: The Pines Near a Catacomb (Lento): We see the shadows of the pines, which overhang the entrance of a catacomb. From the depths rises a chant that echoes solemnly, sonorously, like a hymn, and is then mysteriously silenced.

The Pines of the Janiculum (Lento, with a piano cadenza): There is a thrill in the air. The full moon reveals the profile of the pines of Gianicolo’s Hill. A nightingale sings. [For this moment Respighi incorporated, in a “multimedia” gesture unprecedented in the history of the concert hall, a phonograph recording of an actual nightingale’s song to be played with the live orchestra.]

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Respighi’s astonishingly vivid portraits in sound are as effective as any stage work in conjuring a sense of atmosphere.

The Pines of the Appian Way (Tempo di Marcia): Misty dawn on the Appian Way. The tragic country is guarded by solitary pines. Indistinctly, incessantly, the rhythm of unending steps.

The poet has a fantastic vision of past glories.

Trumpets blare, and the army of the Consul bursts forth in the grandeur of a newly risen sun toward the Sacred Way, mounting the Capitoline Hill in triumph.

Respighi’s Pini di Roma is scored for a very large orchestra of 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2

bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, celesta, piano, organ, and strings, along with the pre-recorded song of a nightingale and an offstage complement of six buccine (a circular brass instrument used by the ancient Roman army and regarded as the ancestor to the trumpet and trombone).

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

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dynamic presence in the conducting world, Torontoborn conductor Peter Oundjian is renowned for his probing musicality, collaborative spirit, and engaging personality.

Oundjian’s appointment as music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) in 2004 reinvigorated the orchestra thanks to numerous recordings, tours, and acclaimed innovative programming, as well as extensive audience growth, all of which have significantly strengthened the ensemble’s global presence.

In August 2014, he led the TSO on a tour of Europe, which included a sold-out performance at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the first performance of a North American orchestra at Reykjavik’s Harpa Hall.

Oundjian was appointed music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) in 2012. Under his baton, the orchestra has enjoyed

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several successful tours, including one to China, and has continued its relationship with Chandos Records. This season, Oundjian and the RSNO opened the Edinburgh Festival with the innovative Harmonium Project to great critical and audience acclaim.

Few conductors bring such musicianship and engagement to the world’s great podiums — from Berlin, Amsterdam, and Tel Aviv, to New York, Chicago, and Sydney. He has also appeared at some of the great annual gatherings of music and musiclovers, including the BBC Proms, the Prague Spring Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, and the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Mozart Festival, where he served as artistic director from 2003 to 2005.

Oundjian was principal guest conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010 and artistic director of the Caramoor International Music Festival in New York between 1997 and 2007. Since 1981, he has been a visiting professor at the Yale School of Music and was awarded the university’s Sanford Medal for distinguished service to music in 2013.

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avier Perianes’ flourishing international career spans five continents and has taken him to some of the world’s most prestigious halls, including Carnegie Hall, the Barbican, Royal Festival and Wigmore Halls in London, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Berlin’s Philarmonie, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has performed with a host of today’s leading conductors and appeared at festivals such as Lucerne, La Roque d’Anthéron, Grafenegg, San Sebastian, Granada, and Ravinia.

This season Perianes returns to the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, and his upcoming debuts include the Philharmonia Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic,

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Hamburger Symphoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieonieorchester Berlin, and the Finnish and Swedish radio symphony orchestras.

Recent and upcoming recitals include performances in London, Leipzig, St. Petersburg, Paris, Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Madrid, Barcelona, Mexico City, Auckland, and Hong Kong. Other highlights include international tours with Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and Orquesta Nacional de España, as well as a month-long tour with orchestras in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and North and South America.

Perianes records exclusively for harmonia mundi, and his diverse releases have earned acclaim from press and public alike. His Grieg Piano Concerto and a selection of lyric pieces was widely praised by critics, described as “a new benchmark” by Classica and named Editor’s Choice in Gramophone and Maestro in Pianiste magazine.

This season, Perianes returns to the studio to record Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat Major, D.960 and Sonata in A Major D.664, as well as a recording of Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Münchner Philharmoniker and Pablo Heras-Casado.

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est known as music director/ conductor/arranger and keyboardist for the iconic Frankie Valli since 1978, Robby Robinson has carved out an impressive résumé, working with timeless artists such as Tom Jones and Liza Minnelli,

Reiner’s romantic comedy And So It Goes, starring Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton, and on Hawaii 5-0. Earlier this year, his mega-hit “Big Girls Don’t Cry” was inducted into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame 2015, and in May Dan Rather profiled the legend for his series, The Big Interview.

pop icons The Beach Boys and The Turtles, R&B superstars The Commodores and The Four Tops, as well as blues legend Albert King, and jazz great Eddie Harris, to name a few. As a conductor, he has wielded the baton for many prominent orchestras, including the London, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, BBC, and National symphony orchestras From Royal Albert Hall to Broadway, from The Tonight Show to American Idol, along with dozens of records, movie scores, and TV shows, as well as decades of touring, it’s been quite a ride for Robby Robinson.

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n essential component of the original Motown machine, The Temptations began their musical life in Detroit in the early ’60s.

It wasn’t until 1964, however, that the Smokey Robinson-written and -produced “The Way You Do the Things You Do” turned them into stars.

An avalanche of hits followed: “My Girl,” “It’s Growing,” “Since I Lost My Baby,” “Get Ready,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep,” “I Wish It Would Rain,” and more.

The classic lineup was Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, and David Ruffin. Beyond the fabulous singing, The Temps became known for smooth stepping and flawless presentations. When the ’60s and ’70s turned political, The Temps got serious. They changed their tone, dress, and music. Producer

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The 1995 album For Lovers Only, a collection of love standards, was termed an instant classic by critics and remains among the most cherished of Temptations recordings. Released in 1998, Phoenix Rising was a Platinum-plus mega-hit featuring “Stay,” the Narada Michael Waldenproduced chart-topper. The 2005 collection Reflections earned a GRAMMY® nomination and brought to the world The Temptations’ versions of some of Motown’s greatest songs. Now comes the news that a stage musical about The Temptations is in the works.

The band’s current lineup consists of Otis Williams, Ron Tyson, Terry Weeks, Larry Braggs, and Willie Greene Jr. “The Temps have always been known for great lead singers,” says Williams.

“Today we have four of the greatest leads in the proud history of the group.”

“The more we change,” says Tyson, now a veteran member, “the more we stay true to ourselves. We’re about singing straight-up soul.

It’s a style that will live on forever.”

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Weeks grew up in Alabama and spent eight years in the Air Force before his chance encounter with Williams — after an a cappella audition on a Hollywood street corner, the bandleader was so impressed that he brought Weeks into The Temptations family.

A two-time GRAMMY®-nominated artist, Braggs has a three-octave vocal range over three octaves and a command of the stage like no other.

Bass vocalist Greene first saw The Temptations on The Lloyd Thaxton Show in the early 1960s.

“They sang ‘The Way You Do the Things You Do’ and ‘Get Ready,’ ” he recalls. “Even though I was just a child, I knew that I was a Temptation forever!”

“Our challenge,” says Williams, “is to live in the present while respecting the past. Our past is filled with riches only a fool would discard. At the same time, we thrive on competition. As a Motowner, I grew up in the most competitive musical atmosphere imaginable. But we also understand that for a group with history, no matter how glorious that history might be, reinvention is the name of the game.”

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TONIGHT’S CONCERT AT A GLANCE DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE Chaconne in E minor (orch. By Carlos Chávez) • During his lifetime in the 17th and early 18th centuries, Buxtehude was widely regarded as a master of the organ. Johann Sebastian Bach reportedly traveled 250 miles on foot to hear Buxtehude perform, and Handel also made a pilgrimage to hear the composer.

• In 1937, Mexican composer Carlos Chávez marked the 300th anniversary of Buxtehude’s birth by arranging his solo organ work Chaconne in E minor for a full orchestra. Chávez was drawn to the work, in part, because the Chaconne originated as a dance in Latin America. The form is based on a repeating motif, here in triple meter, that becomes the springboard for a wide variety of musical treatments.

TERRY RILEY At the Royal Majestic • Riley is frequently celebrated as one of the pioneers of Minimalism, thanks to his landmark 1964 work In C, which consists of a series of short musical phrases that can be played in any order and in any combination.

Riley and his work — which also includes the electric piano improvisation A Rainbow in Curved Air — have made a huge impact on popular music, most notably on artists including The Who and Brian Eno. • To be recorded for a forthcoming release on Naxos, At the Royal Majestic is a much more recent work inspired by Riley’s encounter with the pipe organ at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, which he nicknamed “Hurricane Mama” in honor of its sheer force. Riley’s musical language extends far beyond Minimalism, and this three-movement concerto shows the sheer breadth of his expression, which encompasses everything from American jazz and R&B to Indian classical music to ancient Greek modes.

IGOR STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring • One of the most influential works in the history of modernism, The Rite of Spring is legendary in part because of the riot it provoked at its premiere at Paris’ Théâtre Champs-Élysées in 1913. Though best known as a concert work today, the piece was originally conceived as a ballet, and the crowd’s reaction was more likely caused by Vaslav Nijinksy’s unusual choreography, which evoked the inherent brutality of the music.

• The Rite of Spring is divided into two parts: “The Adoration of the Earth” which is inspired by pagan rituals, and “The Sacrifice,” in which a young woman dies in a frenzy of dancing. So while the piece is hailed as a modernist classic, it’s also deeply rooted in Russian folklore. Along with the propulsive, lurching rhythms and the dense layers of sound, the piece is notable for its opening, in which the bassoon sets the scene by playing a sinuous melody in its upper register.

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he concerto’s three movements — two long panels framing a much shorter middle one — require the soloist “to explore many different roles,” writes Riley. The title At the Royal Majestic evokes “the mighty Wurlitzer housed in the grand movie palaces,” which are juxtaposed with “fragments of calliope, Baroque chorales, [the] occasional craggy dissonance of clashing pipes, and boogie.” The organist is also required occasionally “to coexist in a large orchestral soup with many parts having equal prominence.”

Another musical image the composer applies to the concerto overall is that of the “geometric formations seen in starling flight patterns.”

The first movement draws on unused material for The Saint Adolf Ring, Riley’s 1990 chamber opera based on the drawings and poetry of Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930), who spent his life confined to a psychiatric hospital. The movement’s title (“Negro Hall”) refers to a colored-pencil drawing of the same name by Wöffli.

“I was intrigued by what Wölfli, who never traveled outside of Switzerland…thought about Negro culture,” Riley writes. “I tried to imagine what a dance hall in the Waldorf Astoria in NYC in the 1930s might be like (from Wölfli’s perspective), a gaggle of black dancers in outlandish jitterbug and boogie-woogie routines in a polymetric, changing-tempo frenzy. I used Wölfli’s beautifully geometric mandalalike drawings to inspire my own composing process. The wish was to set down music with an identifiable pop/jazz framework of the 1930s but transformed by a dreamlike vision. A cosmic cartoon, if you will.”

Following the brief second movement (“The Lizard Tower Gang”), the finale refers to the pilgrimages annually made to the sacred site of Mount Kailash in Tibet, where the Hindu deity Shiva is believed to dwell.

Terry Riley has provided the following description of At the Royal Majestic: “The concerto begins simply with the organist playing a relaxed, gospel-flavored solo that eventually winds its way to a darker, edgier mood.

The orchestra joins the soloist and builds to a full crescendo just before polytonal block chords in

the organ give way to a slow-rocking minor-third pulse supporting a sinuous virtuosic bass clarinet duel. Following sections display quickly shifting metric pattern development, unveiling disjointed, psychedelic, jitterbug extravaganzas propelling the orchestra into sudden shifts in meter and tempo.

A slow A-B-A romantic waltz elbows its way into the plot, undergoes a quick development, and gives way to more polymetric patterns and unison crescendos before closing with punched-out syncopated chords. “ ‘The Lizard Tower Gang’ attempts to juggle chaos and symmetry in its opening statement, displaying a jagged alto saxophone solo, alternating Chinese gong pulses, water drum heartbeats, string glissandos, ripping elephant tubas, chattering flutes, bassoons, and trumpets.

The organ enters with rich chords punctuated over a suspended drone. A slow, ragtime-like sequence in the organ introduces part two, a grinding blues dirge giving way to the coda closing the movement.

“The opening theme of ‘Circling Kailash’ is first stated in the violas and cellos and then taken up by the organ, brass, and bassoons. It is interrupted by an 11-beat descending pattern passed around the orchestra before the opening theme returns and the section idles to a close. The second part of the movement is marked by a slow theme outlined by pizzicato basses. A variation of the theme is then turned into a chorale for organ and brass.

Crystalline C-major patterns led by the mallet instruments combine with a restating of the theme in diatonic clusters by the organ to announce the closing section. The C-major patterns pass around the orchestra as they undergo pan-modal coloration changes. The movement ends with a short, plaintive solo organ phrase over an E Phrygian modality.”

In addition to solo organ, At the Royal Majestic is scored for a large orchestra of 3 piccolos, 2 flutes, alto flute, 2 bass clarinets, alto saxophone, 5 bassoons, contrabassoon, 2 horns, 4 trumpets, flugelhorn, 2 trombones, 2 tubas, timpani, 5 percussionists, and strings.

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(especially percussion) previously relegated to a background role in the orchestra, while decentering the traditional “backbone” role played by the strings.

While Rite builds several times to a kind of brutalizing frenzy before its final meltdown, the music also explodes in moments of overwhelming — if impersonal — joy. The entire opening section has never been bettered in its depiction of the swarming, anarchic joie de vivre of spring awakening. This is perhaps the greatest paradox of this seminal score: Stravinsky’s ability to evoke a joyful, affirmative sense of the life force that underlies even the most violent, death-prone extremes of the music.

The Rite of Spring is scored for 2 piccolos, 4 flutes, alto flute, 4 oboes, 2 English horns, 2 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, 2 bass clarinets, 4 bassoons, 2 contrabassoons, 8 horns (7th & 8th doubling Wagner tuba), piccolo trumpet, 4 trumpets, bass trumpet, 3 trombones, 2 tubas, 2 timpani, bass drum guiro, cymbals, antique cymbals, gong, triangle, and strings.

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

ABOUT THE ARTISTS TOD D WILSON

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egarded across America and around the world as one of today’s finest concert organists, Todd Wilson is head of the Organ Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music and director of music at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, he is curator of the E.M. Skinner pipe organ at Severance Hall, home of The Cleveland Orchestra, and house organist for Aeolian organ at the Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron, Ohio.

Wilson has won numerous competitions, including the Grand Prix de Chartres (France) and the Ft. Wayne Competition. An active member of the American Guild of Organists, he holds the

Fellow and Choirmaster certificates. He has been a featured performer at numerous conventions of the American Guild of Organists, including the 1996 Centennial National Convention of the Guild in New York City, and at the 2012 Convention of the Guild in Nashville, where he previously performed with the Nashville Symphony.

Wilson has performed in many major cities throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including concerts at Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall, Philadelphia’s Verizon Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Dallas’ Meyerson Symphony Center, and Symphony Hall in Birmingham, England. In October 2004 he performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on the first orchestra subscription series concert featuring the new organ at Disney Hall. Other orchestral appearances include The Cleveland Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, and City of London Sinfonia.

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touching the earth, raising her up to the sky.

Rite’s propulsive, jagged rhythms are probably its best-known feature. Stravinsky’s innovations liberate meter and rhythm from the predictable, symmetrical patterns that had dominated Western classical music since the Baroque.

Stravinsky overlays differing metrical patterns, sometimes generating immense energy from the complex totality. The conclusion of each of the ballet’s two parts features a monstrous climax composed of multiple tracks of instrumentation and meter. Stravinsky stacks these together, creating a sense of tightly controlled complexity at the precipice of chaos. The radical perspectives of Cubism are often cited as a visual counterpart.

The composer’s radical rethinking of musical language works on many levels in Rite, though, paradoxically perhaps, folk music sources have been shown to be intimately embedded amid Stravinsky’s modernist innovations as well — a fact which the composer went to lengths to disguise. Stravinsky’s innovative use of the orchestra is another gripping feature of this music. In the opening, the bassoon plays at the high end of its register to suggest the rawness of untrained village singers. Throughout, Stravinsky mixes an unusual, dazzling palette of instrumental combinations, often spotlighting sections

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Rodney Irvin Family Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson ◊ Donald L. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques ◊ Janet & Philip Jamieson ◊ George & Shirley Johnston ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kestner ◊ Robin & Bill King Tom & Darlene Klaritch ◊ Anne Knauff ◊ Walter & Sarah Knestrick ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. ◊ William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch ◊ Ms. Pamela L. Koerner ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Spencer N. Lambright ◊ Robert & Carol Lampe ◊ Mr. Edward Lanquist ◊ Martha & Larry Larkin ◊ Drs. Paul & Dana Latour ◊ Kevin & May Lavender Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lavender Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby Mr. & Mrs. John M. Leap ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Lentini ◊ Sally M. Levine ◊ Marye & Bill Lewis ◊ George & Cathy Lynch ◊ Red & Shari Martin ◊ Rhonda A. Martocci & William S. Blaylock ◊ Steve & Susie Mathews Lynn & Jack May ◊ Tommy & Cat McEwen ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Mericle ◊ F. Max & Mary A. Merrell ◊ Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Miller ◊ Ms. Stephanie Miller & Ms. Carla Moring Christopher & Patricia Mixon ◊ Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Kelvin A. Moses ◊ Matt & Rhonda Mulroy ◊ James & Patricia Munro ◊ Dr. Barbara A. Murphy & Bruce Tripp ◊ Mr. Chase Neely Mr. Aaron Connolly & Dr. Kenneth Niermann ◊ Dr. Agatha L. Nolen ◊ Dr. Christopher J. Ott & Mr. Jeremy R. Simons Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict ◊ David & Pamela Palmer ◊ Chelsea & Jason Parker ◊ Grant & Janet Patterson ◊ Mr. & Mrs. John Francis Paul Catherine & John Perry ◊ Ms. Cassandra E. Petty ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Edgar H. Pierce Jr. ◊ Carol Len & Scott M. Portis Mr. Charles H. Potter Jr. ◊ Donna and Tom Priesmeyer ◊ Dr. Terryl A. Propper ◊ Mr. & Mrs. W. Edward Ramage ◊

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Richard & Ada Baker Barbara & Mike Barton Dr. Reca Barwin Mrs. Brenda Bass Craig & Angela Becker Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Mr. Wesley P. Belden Bernice Amanda Belue Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Frank M. Berklacich, MD*

Allison Reed & Sam Garza ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Riven ◊ Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation ◊ Misha Robledo ◊ Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland ◊ Anne & Charles Roos ◊ Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke ◊ Ms. Mary Frances Rudy ◊ Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson ◊ Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul ◊ Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell ◊ Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Mr. Tim Scarvey ◊ Peggy C. Sciotto Stephen K. & Patricia L. Seale ◊ Dr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Shack Joan Blum Shayne ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Steve Shelton ◊ Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard ◊ Bill & Sharon Sheriff ◊ William & Cyndi Sites ◊ George & Mary Sloan ◊ David & Niki Smith ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith ◊ K.C. & Mary Smythe ◊ Clark Spoden & Norah Buikstra ◊ Christopher & Maribeth Stahl ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Jack Stalker ◊ Gregory W. Stasko Deborah & James Stonehocker ◊ Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III ◊ Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor ◊ Jeremy & Carrie Teaford Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes ◊ Risë & Laurence Tucker Mr. & Mrs. James F. Turner Jr. ◊ George & Margaret Uribe ◊ Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund ◊ Mr. James N. Vickers & Mr. Brian Schafer ◊ Larry & Brenda Vickers ◊ Mr. & Mrs. William H. Wade ◊ Kris & G. G. Waggoner ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner ◊ Mark Wait ◊ James & Greta Walsh ◊ Mrs. W. Miles Warfield ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen ◊ Talmage M. Watts & Debra Greenspan Watts ◊ Mr.& Mrs. Kevin Welty and Jasmine ◊ Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle ◊ Mr. James L. White ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer ◊ Donald E. Williams ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joel Williams ◊ Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie ◊ Ms. Deborah L. Winkler ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe ◊ Dr. Artmas L. Worthy ◊ Donna B. Yurdin ◊

Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills David Blackbourn & Celia Applegate Randolph & Elaine Blake Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Dr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Bressman Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Jean & David Buchanan Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Gina & Sam Burnette

Dr. & Mrs. Howard A. Burris Sharon Lee Butcher Mrs. Patricia B. Buzzell David L. & Chigger J. Bynum John E. Cain III Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Mr. David Carlton Don Carmody Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Carr Clint & Patty Carter Valleau & Robert* M. Caruthers Bill & Chris Carver Mary & Joseph Cavarra Dr.* & Mrs. Robert Chalfant Barbara & Eric Chazen Renée Chevalier Catherine Chitwood Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher David & Starling Clark George D. Clark Jr. Mr. & Dr. Brian & Anna Clayton Jay & Ellen Clayton Mr. Ernest Clevenger III Sallylou & David Cloyd Cindy & Doug Cobb Esther & Roger Cohn Chase Cole Joe & Judy Cook Mike & Sandy Cooper Nancy Krider Corley Greg & Mary Jo Cote Drs. Paul A. & Dorothy Valcarcel Craig Ms. R. Suzanne Cravens Charles & Angela Curtiss James & Maureen Danly Drs.Maria Gabriella Giro & Jeffrey M. Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Daryl Demonbreun Drs. Clint & Jessica Devin Ms. Teri I. DeVires Dr. Tracey E. Doering Carol & Harold Donaldson Peter & Kathleen Donofrio Michael Doochin & Linda Kartoz-Doochin John & Diana Doss Claudia Douglass Joe & Shirley Draper Laura L. Dunbar Margaret & James Dunn E.B.S. Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Chris & Lori Edwards Dr. James E. & Mrs. Beverly Edwards Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Laurie & Steven Eskind Bill & Dian S. Ezell Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ezrin Alex & Terry Fardon Dawn L. Farris Michael & Rosemary Fedele Dr. Kimberly D. Ferguson John David & Mary Dale Trabue Fitzgerald Béla Fleck Mr. & Mrs. Pete Franks Ann D. Frisch Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Galbraith Larry & Felicia Gates John* & Eva Gebhart Chris & Mandy Genovese Frank Ginanni Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin R. Goldberg Richard A. Green Mr. & Mrs. Gene Gwyn Drs. Steven & Ruth Haley Elinor Hall

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Ellen C. Hamilton The Evelyn S. & Jim Horne Hankins Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hardy Mr. & Mrs. James M. Harris Ms. Pamela Harris Jim & Stephanie Hastings Lisa & Bill Headley Suzy Heer Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Ms. Victoria Heil Philip & Amber Hertik Mr. & Mrs. Winston C. Hickman Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Dr. Elisabeth Dykens & Dr. Robert Hodapp Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Ray Houston Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious Hudson Family Foundation Donna & Ronn Huff Albert C. Hughes Jr. & Charlotte E. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. John Huie Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Huljak Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Bud Ireland Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii G. Brian Jackson & Roger E. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Steven L. Jackson Lee & Pat Jennings Mr. & Mrs. Timothy K. Johnson Mary Loventhal Jones Pat & Howard Jones Joseph Judkins Dr. Barbara F. Kaczmarska Mr. & Mrs. Lon D. Keele Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Kelly Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy Jeffrey & Layle Kenyon Mrs. Daisy King Linda R. Koon Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce Bethany & William Kroemer Ms. Nona Kroha Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Barbara Lawless & John Lawless Sandi & Tom Lawless Ms. Natalie C. Lévy-Sousan Daniel Lewis Ms. Delorse A. Lewis Hon. & Mrs. Thomas R. Lewis Don & Patti Liedtke Burk & Caroline Lindsey Keltner W. & Debra S. Locke Mr. Mark E. Lopez & Mr. Patrick J. Boggs William R. & Maria T. MacKay Mr. John Maddux

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CONCERTMASTER SOCIETY Anonymous (23) Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Abelman Mr. Jeffrey H. Adams Drs. Wendell S. & Paige Akers Ken & Jan* Anderson Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple David & Marsha Armstrong Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins Mr. Bruce G. Aubrey Geralda M. Aubry Mr. & Mrs. James E. Auer 62

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Delphine and Kenneth Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Doug Rogers Ms. Caroline Rudy David Sampsell Paula & Kent Sandidge Mr. & Mrs. Jay Sangervasi James A. Scandrick Jr. Mrs. Cooper Schley Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle Susan Seabury Alfred & Katherine Sharp Mrs. Lillian C. Sharp Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas A. Sieveking Sr. Luke & Susan Simons Tom & Sylvia Singleton Susan Diane Sloan Drs. Walter E. Smalley Jr. & Louise Hanson Dr. Neil & Ruth Smith Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Dr. & Mrs. Norman Spencer Dr. Michael & Tracy Stadnick Steve & Misty Standley Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. David M. Bayer Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Stein Mr. & Mrs. David B. Stewart Mr. James McAteer & Dr. Catherine Stober Hope & Howard Stringer Bella & Pete Stringer Ann & Noel Sullivan Bruce & Elaine Sullivan Craig & Dianne Sussman Dr. & Mrs. Richard Tayrien Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Clay & Kimberly Teter Rich* & Carol Thigpin Julie & Scott Thomas Larry & Paula Throneberry Dr. & Mrs. Todd Tolbert Norman & Marilyn Tolk Torrence Family Fund Mr. Michael P. Tortora Martha J. Trammell Thomas L. & Judith A. Turk Mr. & Mrs. William E. Turner Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Mike & Elaine Walker Stacy Widelitz Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wieck Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenk Judy S. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II Mr. & Mrs. Blair Wilson Mr. & Mrs. William (Dan) F. Wolf Berje Yacoubian & Kathy Wade-Yacoubian Ms. Jane Zeigler Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Zigli Dr. & Mrs. Victor L. Zirilli

Gifts of $500 - $999

Lawrence E. Baggett Dr.* & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr. J.E. & Doris Barlow Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Elisabetha Baugh Katrin T. Bean Scott & Dawn Becker Mike & Kathy Benson Carl W. Berg Dr. Diane Rae & Mr. Greg Berty Mr. & Mrs. Robert Blackwell Marilyn Blake

Jim & Sydney Boerner Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Ben & Regina Boswell Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Drs. James P. & Andrea C. Bracikowski Beverly J. Brandenburg-Scott Dr. Joe P. Brasher Jere & Crystal Brassell Berry & Connie Brooks Alan & Kim Brosché Bob & Leslie Brown Ms. Ruth Ann Brown

Mr. & Mrs. Steve R. Brubaker Drs. Nancy J. Scott & Richard G. Bruehl Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Mr. & Mrs. G. Rhea Bucy Mr. & Mrs. Eugene N. Bulso Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Horatio B. Buntin Dr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Buxbaum Ms. Betsy Calabrace Ms. Constance L. Caldwell Ms. Marguerite E. Callahan Claire Ann Calongne Ms. Eva Cantrell Mr. & Mrs. Luther Cantrell Jr. Mr.& Mrs. John Carr Mr. Jeffrey C. Cartwright Mr. & Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Vickie & Buzz Cason Mr. Patrick L. Cassady Mr.* & Mrs. James W. Chamberlain Evelyn LeNoir Chandler Mrs. John Hancock Cheek Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Cooper Chilton Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Charles & Agenia Clark Ms. Donna P. Clark Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Paul & Alyce Cooke Elizabeth Cormier Marion Pickering Couch Charles G. Crane Mr. & Mrs. Rob Crichton Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Cruickshanks Jr. Buddy & Sandra Curnutt Andrew Daughety & Jennifer Reinganum Edgar & Barbara Davenport Janet Keese Davies Mr. Frank C. Davis Steve & Julie Davis Dr.* & Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Mr. & Mrs. Joe H. Delk Mrs. Edwin DeMoss Ms. Laura Denison Anne R. Dennison Dr. & Mrs. Henry A. DePhillips Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Ms. Katie Doyle Bob Dozier Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Drake Elizabeth Tannenbaum & Carl Dreifuss Mr & Mrs. Mike Dungan Bob & Nancy Dunkerley Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden Shervin & Georgette Eftekhari Enfinity Engineering Dr. William E. Engel Mr. Timothy W. Estes Dr. & Mrs. James Ettien Mr. & Mrs. David W. Evans Mr. & Mrs.* DeWitt Ezell John & Deborah Farringer Anita Schmid & W. Tyree Finch Mr. & Mrs. David B. Foutch John C. Frist Jr., M.D. Robert & Peggy Frye Tom & Jennifer Furtsch Bill & Ginny Gable Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Galbraith Ms. Mary T. Gallagher Ray & Ruth Randolph Charitable Fund Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Dodie & Carl George Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Giles Mr. & Mrs. John Gillespie Mr. Norman B. Gillis Mark Glazer & Cindy Stone Linda & Joel Gluck

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Henry & Melodeene Martin Abraham, Lesley & Jonathan Marx Mr. & Mrs. Donnie H. Masters Ms. Amanda Mathis Mr. Leon May Mr. Zachary McCormick Kathleen McCracken Mr. & Mrs. Lynn D. McGill Mr. Brian L. McKinney Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Randy & Edina McMasters Catherine & Brian R. McMurray Mr. & Mrs. Gregory G. McNair Prof. Samuel T. & Sandra J. McSeveney Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. McWherter Linda & Ray Meneely Dr. Karen S. Meredith Andrew Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent B. Millspaugh Mr. Michael Mishu Diana & Jeff Mobley Mr. & Mrs. Steven Moll Anthony & Ariane Montemuro James & April Moore Dr. Kelly L. Moore Mrs. Laura Moran & Mr. Thomas Moran Karen Morgan Monica L. Mosesso Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Mueller Dick & Mary Jo Murphy Mickeye Murphy Mr. & Mrs. B. Dwayne Murray Jr. Johnny Mutina & Earl Lamons Mr. & Mrs. J. William Myers Lucille C. Nabors Miss Darlene Y. Nall Dr. & Mrs. Harold Nevels Ms. Iris A. Nolan Drs. John* & Margaret Norris Virginia O'Brien Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr. Karl M. Olsen Mr. & Mrs. Jack Oman Mr. Sergio Ora Mrs. Janie E. Parmley Clint Parrish Mr.* & Mrs. Douglas Parsons Lisa & Doug Pasto-Crosby Dr. & Mrs. Joel Q. Peavyhouse Claude Petrie Jr. Kenneth C. Petroni MD Faris & Bob Phillips Craig & Raelynn Plattner Mr. & Mrs. John H. Pope Ms. Elizabeth M. Potocsnak Mr. & Mrs. Ronald P. Powell Jr. Mr. Tim Powers Cammy Price Mr. Franklin M. Privette Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Nancy Ray Franco & Cynthia Recchia Paul & Gerda Resch Mr. Mason Revelette Mr. Allen Reynolds Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Barbara Richards Don & Connie Richardson John H. Roark Mr. David Roberts Lowell & Sondra Roddy Dr. Julie A. Roe Marc R. Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Rodney & Lynne Rosenblum Ed & Jan Routon Ms. Terry S. Sadler

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Mr. Edmundo J. Cepeda John & Susan Chambers Gladys M. Chatman Dr. Walter J. Chazin Mr. William T. Cheek III & Ms. Kathryn E. Barnett Ms. Wendy P. Cheney Dr. Amy Chomsky Mark & Bette Christofersen Neil Christy & Emily Freeman Dr. & Mrs. André L. Churchwell Teresa C. Cissell Drs. Walter K. Clair & Deborah Webster-Clair Mr. & Mrs. Roy Claverie Sr. Mark A. Clay Dr. Mary Ellen Clinton-Wade Mr. & Mrs. Neely B. Coble III Misty & Joshua Swann Mark & Robin Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Wiley B. Coley Alma Jean Colley Colonel (ret.) Dr. & Mrs. James R. (Conra) Collier Ms. Peggy B. Colson John O. Colton Mr. & Mrs. Randy Cook Ms. Sheila M. Cook Arlene & Charley Cooper Ted Cooper Renette I. Corenswet Dr. Adrienne Corn & Mr. Darwin Melnyk Ms. Nina Cornelsen Mr. & Mrs. James H. Costner Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Craig Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr. Mr. Jonathan I. Creamer Mr. & Mrs. David Crecraft Mr. Howard R. Crockett Jack & Ruth Cronk Ms. Pauline C. Cross R. Barry & Kathy Cullen Mr. Timothy D. Curtis & Adam N. Castellarin Katherine C. Daniel William N. Daniel Jr. Jessica David Dr. & Mrs. Glen W. Davidson James Calvin & Elizabeth Davidson Mr. Jerry W. Davidson Ms. Joni M. Davidson Deborah Davies Adelaide S. Davis* William Davis & Catherine Colbert Ms. Martha Lou Deacon Dr. & Mrs. Darryl T. Deason Steve Sirls & Allen DeCuyper Mrs. Elizabeth C. DeFrancesco Mr. Wayne Detring Ms. Kathy Devine Mr. & Mrs. Arthur DeVooght Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dortch David Dubose Judith A. Dudley Carl & Francie Duffield Greg Dugdale Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Dugger Harold & Lou Anne Dulaney Michael & Beverly Dunn Mr. Karl Dupre & Ms. Katherine Tange-Dupre Mr. & Mrs. Jim Eades Jr. Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Braces by Dr. Ruth Sherie Lea Edwards Drs. Timothy & Stephanie Eidson

Gifts of $250 - $499 Ms. Rosana Eisenberg Mrs. Clara Elam Mr. James H. Eldridge Dan & Zita Elrod Ms. Martha C. Elzen Mr. Ray Enochs & Mrs. Lee Emerson Michael D. & Carol Ennis Robert & Cassandra Estes Ms. Claire Evans Mark Ewald Tony & Shelley Exler Frank & Shirley Fachilla Ms. Marilyn Falcone Dale C. Farran Ms. LuAnn R. Fell Glenn & Susan Ferguson Janie & Richard Finch Mr. & Mrs. Donald Fish Mr. & Mrs. James Fishel Dr. & Mrs. Jack Fisher Doris T. Fleischer Cathy & Kent Fourman Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Fox III Andrew & Mary Foxworth Sr. Ms. Elizabeth A. Franks Mrs. Cynthia Franzen Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Freas Judson & Leah Fredrickson Emily & Randy Frey Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Debra Frey Ms. Linda Friend Al Fuller Mobile Music Adademy William S. Joyce & Anderson C. Gaither Mr. Russell C. Gallagher W. David Gann Mr. & Mrs. Joaquin Garcia Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Garrett Rev. Phillip W. Garvey Alan & Jeannie Gaus Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Gaw Nancy & Ken Gentry Mr. Joe W. Giles Mrs. Lucie A. Glass Ms. Beverly Jean Godwin Zachary & Martha Goodyear Dr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Gotterer Bill & Jane Gray Roger & Sherri Gray Austin & Delaney Gray Shirley C. Greenberg Ms. Lynn Gregory Ms. Rebecca Grim R. Dale & Nancy G. Grimes Mr. & Mrs. David C. Guth Jr. Rev. & Mrs. Gerald R. Hager David & Nancy Hale Katherine S. Hall Pamela Hamrick Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Hanselman Dickie* & Joyce Harris Ron & Carolyn Harris Dr. Laurie A. Harris-Ford & Scott Ford George Harrison Mr. James S. Hartman Mr. Jonathan Harwell David & Judith Slayden Hayes Mr. & Mrs. John C. Hayes III Bob & Judy Haynes Stephen & Deborah Hays H. Carl Haywood Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton Hazlehurst Mr. & Mrs. Allen W. Head

Dr. James L. Head & Dr. Anita R. Head Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey C. Heeren Dr. & Mrs. James A. Hefner Cricket F. Henderson Jack & Shirley Henry Dennis & Leslie Henson Steve Hesson Patricia Ann Hester Dr. & Mrs. Gerald B. Hickson Dr. & Mrs. George A. Hill Gerald Hill Ronald & Nancy Hill Robert C. & Shirley M. Hilmer Ms. Mary C. Hinton Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hofe Aurelia L. Holden Dr. Nan Holland & Dr. R. Duane Holland Mr. & Mrs.* James G. Holleman William Hollings & Michael Emrick Dr. and Mrs. Doy Hollman Savina Hollman Mr. & Mrs. Jay M. Hollomon Steve & Leslie Holman Dale & Willa Holmer Ms. Carolyn W. Holmes Mr. & Mrs. George Hornberger Samuel and Karan Howard William & Kari Hubbard Mrs. Carol Hudler Leslie & David Hudson The Hunt Family Foundation Ms. Karen L. Ingram Mr.* & Mrs. Billy C. Jack Greg & Patti James Mr. & Mrs.* Alan R. Javorcky Joetter Smith Jenkins Roger T. Jenkins & Gayle Jenkins Mr. Casey Jennings Dr. James T. John & Dr. Brenda J. Butka Carl & Mine Johnson Erica Johnson Susan & Evan Johnston Mr. Rhori Johnston Jane & Cecil Jones Drs. Ramon & Cathy Jrade Ms. Carolyn Kamp Cathy Couey & Richard Kasnick Carol & Sol Katz Mr. Mike Keenan Jane S. Kersten Mr. & Mrs. Brock Kidd Peter & Courtney Kihlberg The Kimball Family George McCulloch & Linda Knowles Diane Knox David & Judy Kolzow Ms. Sherry E. Male & Terry Komp Kenneth R. Kraft & Luci Crow Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Krantz Joyce K. Laben Mr. John E. Land Mr. Howard Landman Tom Langford Ms. Deborah A. Lannigan-Macara Mr. & Mrs. Leo K. Lannom Mr. Robert J. Laub Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Dr. & Mrs. James W. Lea Jr. Ms. Kelly Lebow Rob & Julia Ledyard Dr. & Mrs. Donald Lee Mr. Joseph Y. Lee & Ms. Erica Fetterman Martin & Eileen Leinwand Dorothy & Jim Lesch Ralph G. Leverett Mr. & Mrs. Ronald S. Ligon

* denotes donors who are deceased

Alice & John Lindahl Mack & Katherine Linebaugh Gabriela Lira Richard & Tad Lisella Mr. & Mrs. James H. Littlejohn Jean & Steve Locke Kim & Mike Lomis Chris & Elizabeth Long Mr. Thomas H. Loventhal Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal Mr. & Mrs. James C. Lundy Jr. Mr. George Luscombe Patrick & Betty Lynch Sharron Lyon Mr. Michael J. MacDonald Theresa MacDonald Mr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Mack Mr. & Mrs. James N. Maddox Dr. & Mrs. Mark A. Magnuson Mr. & Mrs. Robin L. Majors Robert & Heather Mangeot Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Manno Lee Marsden Dr. & Mrs. Harry D. Marsh Dr. Dana R. Marshall Dr. & Mrs. Raymond S. Martin Ms. Jane M. Massey Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Massie Sue & Herb Mather John H. Mather M.D. Eva Mathis Ms. Mitzi Matlock Ms.Margery L. Mayer & Ms. Carolyn Oehler Sonje K. Mayo Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. McAllister Dr. James S. McBride Timothy & Shirlee McCleskey Andy McCloud

Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. McClure John & Mary McCullough Mr. Patrick J. McHale Mr. & Mrs. Durand McIntosh Scott & Karen McKean Dr. Joy H. McKee Mrs. Catherine G. McMurtry Dr. & Mrs. Timothy E. McNutt Sr. Ms. Martha Mecke Mrs. Norma L. Merced Mr. Julius E. Meriweather Jr. Peter Meschter Dr. Ron V. Miller Dr. Michael F. Montijo & Mrs. Patricia A. Jamieson-Montijo Livingfield More Dr. & Mrs. Joe M. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Sarah Morse Mr. Neal R. Morse Mrs. Sucitra B. Mukherji Drs. Russell & Lizabeth Mullens Dr. Michael J. Murphy Mr. & Mrs. James R. Neal Jim & Irene Neilan Beverly Nelson Ms. Diana Nelson Ms. Regina V. Nelson Mr. Hunter S. Neubert Dr. John Newman & Ms. Rebecca Lyford Mike & Jeanne Newton Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Nicholas Rev. Alice Nichols Mark & Kaye Nickell Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Mr. Jake W. Null Mrs. Edith M. Oathout Mary O'Kelly

ANNUAL FUND

Hunt & Debbye Oliver Chris & Tricia Olson Mr. Robert O'Quin Frank & Nancy* Orr A. Wayne Overby Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Overfield Dan & Helen Owens Dr. & Mrs. Aydin Ozan Dr. & Mrs. James Pace Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Terry & Wanda Palus Doria Panvini Dr. & Mrs. Earl Q. Parrott Dr. Gregory W. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Randall K. Patton Dr. Brandyn Payne Diane Duley Payne Joyce D. Peacock John & Lori Pearce Ms. Linda Pegues Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Pendleton Anne & Neiland Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Steve Petersen Mr. Scott C. Peterson Ms. Sara L. Pettit Mr. & Mrs. James D. Peyton Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Maurice W. Pinson Mr. Bradley K. Place Ms. Julie B. Plexico Rick & Diane Poen Dr. Clair S. Poff Phil & Dot Ponder Mr. & Mrs. Charles Poole Mr. & Mrs. Sherwood L. Powers Ms. Lisa M. Price Mr. & Mrs. John E. Prine Mr. & Mrs. Brooks A. Quin F. Leon Rader & Jewell McGhee-Rader Dr. & Mrs. Ivan N. Raley Mr. & Mrs. William C. Randle Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths Mr. & Mrs. J. David Rawle Mr. Ray T. Register Mr. & Mrs. Al J. Rhodes Dr. John S. Rich Charles Richardson Mrs. Jane H. Richmond Mrs. Paul E. Ridge Margaret Riegel Ms. Linda N. Rittenhouse Dr. & Mrs. Timothy R. Roads Mr. & Mrs. Brian Roark Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Robbins Sharon A. Roberts Judith R. Roney Dr. & Mrs. Charles Ross Lauren & Christopher Rowe Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Roy Mr. John W. Russell Mr. Arthur C. Rutledge Judith Ann Sachs Mr. Stephen Sachs Diane Sacks Rebecca Slaughter

Michael Samis & Christopher Stenstrom Mr. Hal R. Sanders LaRhea D. Sanford Eleanor* & Rudy Saperstein Mr. & Mrs.William B. Saunders & Family Michael Savona Mr. Donald D. Savoy Mr. Frank J. Scanlon Walter & Mary Schatz Mr. Bob Schlafly Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth P. Schnaars Molly & Richard Schneider Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Schwab Mr. Paul C. Scott Mr. Carl A. Sedgeman Ms. Patricia B. Selle Gene A. & Linda M. Shade John Shafer & Lisa Getfrid Mr. & Mrs. Stephen B. Shanklin Shannon Family Mr. & Mrs. Michael Sharpe Mr. Wayne C. Shelton Keith & Kay Simmons Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir Alice Sisk Ms. Diane M. Skelton Elisabeth Small Scott Smieja & Leilani Mason Mr. Brian J. Smith Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Mr. Edd Smith Gail S. Smith Mrs. Ione Smith Kenric & Suzette Smith Ms. Kelly J. Smits Mr. Robert Sneed Dr. & Mrs. Marcus Solomon Mr. Brandon T. Sory Nan E. Speller Mrs. Karen E. Speyer Robert & Irma Spies Michael & Kelly Sponsler Jane L. Stafford Lelan & Dr. Yolanda Statom Dr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Stearns Dr. & Mrs. James D. Stefansic Dr. C. Thomas & Cheryl Steiner Mr. Donald L. Stephenson Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens Dr. Virginia & Mr. Robert J. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Glenn C. Stophel Mr. & Mrs. William T. Stroud Mr. Gregory J. Suhayda Dewayne & Kristy Sullivan Frank Sutherland & Natilee Duning Don D. & Louise McKee Swain Dr. Becky E. Swanson-Hindman Eric & June Swartz Mr. Richard J. Swoboda Dr. Anna & Mr. Jaroslaw Szczuka Bishop & Mrs. Melvin G. Talbert Ray & Janet Tarkington Mr. Philip S. Tatum Lynne Taylor

Ms. Sylvia E. Taylor Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Thackston Bob & Mary Battle Thompson Mr.& Mrs. James A. Thorpe Richard & Shirley Thrall Mr. Dwight D. Thrash, CPA, FCPA Mr. Walter Tieck Scott & Nesrin Tift Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Tippens Mr. Carlos Tirres Mr. Mark G. Tobin Mr. & Mrs. Lewis J. Tomiko Mr. Anthony E. Tomlinson Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Trusty Mr. & Mrs. John F. Tures Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull Ms. Jesse W. Van Volkenburg Frances Anne Varallo Kimberly Dawn Vincent Jessica & Daniel Viner Mrs. Bridget S. von Weisenstein Mrs. Emily L.Martin Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wall Jr. Kay & Larry Wallace Mr. & Mrs. John M. Wallick Mr. & Mrs. Robin Walsh Major & Yong Wang Ryan Ward Dot & Jerry Warren Mrs. Lynn S. Waterman Shirley Marie Watts Frank & Jane Wcislo Mr. Michael T. Whitler & Mr. Mark Weber Mr. Joseph D. Weekly H. Martin* & Joyce Weingartner Linda C. West Mr. & Mrs. Larry Whitehead Ms. Judith B. Wiens Mr. & Mrs. James M. Williams John & Anne Williams Dr. Joyce E. Williams Mr. & Mrs. John W. Williamson Ms. Donna Wilson Gary & Cathy Wilson Tommy & Carol Ann Wilson Ms. Sandra Wiscarson Jeff & Karen Witte Scott & Ellen Wolfe Lea Womack Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Wood Susan Woods Linda Workman Todd K. Wortman Kathryn & Roy Wroth Mr. & Mrs. Gary P. Wulfsberg Kay & Randall Wyatt Pam & Tom Wylly Vivian R. & Richard A. Wynn Mr. & Mrs. Michael Yarbrough Dr. Michael Zanolli & Julie K. Sandine Ms. Shirley Zent Mr. George R. Zepp Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Zibart Dr. Thomas F. Zimmerman, M.D.

In honor of Bob Eisenstein In honor of Jason Frazier In honor of Andy Giacobone's 50th Birthday In honor of Maestro Guerrero's appearance at the Centennial Club In honor of John Halsell In honor of Michael Hayes In honor of Everly Heeren

In honor of Bo Hillard In honor of Martha Ingram In honor of the Ingram Family Planned Giving Council of Middle Tennessee in honor of Steve Manno In honor of Bill & Elizabeth Minkoff In honor of Jeff Moles In honor of Dr. Ken Niermann

HONORARY In honor of Jane & Jim Beasley's 50th wedding anniversary In honor of Jessica Blackwell In honor of Julie Boehm In honor of Audrey Campbell In honor of Kelly Corcoran In honor of Marion P. Couch In honor of Patrick Deal 68

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In honor of Sarah Reisner In honor of Evelyn Richmond In honor of John L. Seigenthaler In honor of Cassidy Thomason In honor of Roger Weismeyer

In honor of Paulette Wells-Harris In honor of Scott Wolfe

In memory of Gerry Daniel In memory of Jean Lorraine Lieber Eskind In memory of Doris Emogene Estes In memory of Sanford "Tex" Payne Fagadau In memory of Catherine "Cathy" Ann Fleming In memory of Jim Foglesong In memory of Mary Ruth Gould In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Harold Hassenfeld In memory of J.W. Hastings and Therese Wilson In memory of Billy Ray Hearn In memory of Robert E. Hershey In memory of Rodney Irvin In memory of Nancy Hall Mason Johnston

In memory of Ilona and Jozef In memory of Barbara Knott In memory of Jim McCaslin In memory of Thomas J. Morgan In memory of Mrs. J.C. Norris In memory of Mildred J. Oonk In memory of Lt Cmdr Alan A. Patterson, USN In memory of Mary Ruth Shell In memory of Glenn E. Smith In memory of Robert VanWyck In memory of H. Martin Weingartner In memory of Arthur "Art" P. Wheeler

MEMORIAL Jerry Adams - In memory of Carole Slate Adams In memory of Jan Anderson In memory of James R. (Pete) Austin In memory of Andrew G. Bachmann In memory of Jessica Bloom In memory of Flora Borloz In memory of Mary Katherine "Kitty" Boyd In memory of James F. Brandenburg In memory of W. Ovid Collins Jr. In memory of Judith Cram Mr. Ronald P. Soltman, in memory of Judith Cram In memory of Leisa Crane

LAWRENCE S. LEVINE MEMORIAL FUND George E. Barrett* John Auston Bridges Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Barbara & Eric Chazen Donna R. Cheek* Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Esther & Roger Cohn Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Dee & Jerald* Doochin Robert D. Eisenstein Mrs. Annette S. Eskind Laurie & Steven Eskind Harris A. Gilbert Allis Dale & John Gillmor

Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Mr.* & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Judith Hodges Judith S. & James R. Humphreys Walter & Sarah Knestrick Sheldon Kurland Ellen C. Lawson Sally M. Levine In honor of Judith & Jim Humphreys Frances & Eugene Lotochinski Ellen Harrison Martin Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Cynthia* & Richard* Morin Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook

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

* denotes donors who are deceased

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

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overning Members receive access to Founders Hall donor lounge, complimentary drinks, special access, exclusive invitations and behind-thescenes experiences Membership is offered with an annual gift of $2,500 and purchase of 4+ concerts.

UPCOMING EVENTS February 10: Backstage Post-Concert Toast February 27: Insiders’ Access Event: Emerging from the Flood March 9-11: Pre-Concert Whiskey Tasting – The Chieftains March 15: Insiders’ Access Event: All About Laura Turner Concert Hall March 18: Pre-Concert Dinner at Merchants Learn more: Kathryn Wroth, Sr. Patron Engagement Officer, 615.687.6615 or kwroth@nashvillesymphony.org.

ANNUAL FUND

In honor of Laura Niewold In honor of board member Harrell Odom In honor of Mark Peacock In honor of Mark Peacock's work as board chair

ANNUAL FUND ORCHESTRA PARTNERS Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. American Constructors, Inc. Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation AT&T Bass Berry & Sims Blakeford California Closets Caterpillar Financial Services Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated Country Music Association Corrections Corporation of America Equitable Trust First Tennessee Bank Flavor Catering FTB Advisors The HCA Foundation The Hendrix Foundation Humphreys and Partners Architects Made In Network MarketStreet Enterprises Mednikow Jewelers Nashville Symphony Crescendo Club Neal & Harwell, PLC Peace Communications Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. Rebel Hill Florist Renasant Bank

Robert K. Zelle Fund to Support Children's Educational Programs Associated with Symphonic Music of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Premier Parking Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation UBS Vanderbilt University Wells Fargo Foundation Wiseman Ashworth Law Group PLC WME and Becky Gardenhire

ARTISTIC UNDERWRITERS Gifts of $5,000- $9,999 Aladdin Industries, LLC American Paper & Twine Aston Martin, Maserti, Rolls-Royce & Bentley of Nashville Bass Berry & Sims BDO USA, LLP Blevins, Inc. BMI Bonnaroo Works Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee The Cockayne Fund Inc. Chet Atkins Music Education Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Clarcor Foundation Community Health Systems Direct Travel The Edwards Pharris Group at Morgan Stanley Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville Downtown Dan Hatef, M.D. KraftCPAs PLLC Landis B. Gullett Charitable Lead Annuity Trust The Lipman Group Sotheby's International Realty M. Stratton Foster Charitable Foundation NAXOS Nordstrom Community Giving Parking Management Company Pinnacle Financial Partners

BUSINESS LEADER Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (1) DBS & Associates Engineering, Inc. GM-Spring Hill Manufacturing J. Alexander’s Corporation Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation RD Plastics Co., Inc. The Village Fund Walker Lumber & Hardware Company

BUSINESS PARTNER Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 AmSurg BioVentures, Inc. City of Brentwood Carter Haston Real Estate Services Inc. Chet Atkins Music Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Cumberland Trust Downtown Nashville Nissan First Baptist Church Nashville The Goddard School Gould Turner Group, P.C. Clint Newman, DDS Pancake Pantry Piedmont Natural Gas Tennsco Corporation Tokio Marine Management

BUSINESS ASSOCIATES Gifts of $500 - $999 ADEX! Homesellers The Buzz 102.9 / The Game 102.5 / Game2 94.9 / The LIGHT 102.1 Creation Gardens, Inc. The Heritage at Brentwood Hoskins & Company, P.C. INDUSCO Partners Healthcare Group Riley Warnock & Jacobson PLC Stansell Electric Company, Inc. Sysco Nashville Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy IN-KIND Crowe Horwath LLP Flavor Catering The Garage Coffee Company

The Glover Group Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville Downtown Hans and Nancy Stabell Hilton Nashville Downtown James and Valorie Cole Jason and Chelsea Parker Laurence and Risë Tucker Lipman Brothers, Inc. Made In Network NAXOS of America Inc. Peace Communications Premier Parking Provence Breads & Café Puckett’s Grocery And Restaurant Rebel Hill Florist Sally Levine Sambuca Restaurant MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES Arcadia Healthcare American General Life & Accident American International Group, Inc. Atmos Energy AT&T Higher Education/Cultural Matching Gift Program Bank of America BCD Travel Becton Dickinson & Co. CA Matching Gifts Program Caterpillar Foundation Cigna Foundation Community Health Systems Foundation Eaton Corporation ExxonMobil Foundation First Data Foundation First Tennessee The Frist Foundation GE Foundation General Mills Foundation Hachette Book Group IBM Corporation Illinois Tool Works Foundation McKesson Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co Foundation, Inc. Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Nissan Gift Matching Program P&G Fund Matching Gift Program Regions Scottrade Square D Foundation Matching Gift Program Shell Oil Company Foundation Starbucks Matching Gifts Program The Aspect Matching Gifts Program The HCA Foundation The Meredith Corporation Foundation The Prudential Foundation The Stanley Works U.S. Bancorp Foundation Williams Community Relations

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

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

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

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

$500,000+

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

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

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

$250,000+

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

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

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

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

$100,000+

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Ian* & Katherine* Brick Mr. & Mrs.* Martin S. Brown Sr. Michael & Jane Ann Cain Mike Curb/Curb Records Inc. The Danner Foundation

$1M+

$50,000+

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Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson KPMG LLP Mrs. Heloise Werthan Kuhn John T. Lewis Gilbert Stroud Merritt Mr. & Mrs. David K. Morgan Musicians of the Nashville Symphony Anne & Peter Neff Cano & Esen Ozgener Ponder & Co. Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Ms. Victoria Heil Delphine & Ken Roberts

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

$25,000+ AMSURG

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

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

$15,000+ Kent & Donna Adams

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

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

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

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

*denotes donors who are deceased

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C A P I TA L F U N D S

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

LEGACY SOCIETY

N A S H V I LLE SYMPH ONY

LEGACY SOCIETY LEAVING A LEGACY

BUILDING A FUTURE

T

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

• World-class performances of enduring orchestral music, from Bach to Beethoven to Bernstein

• Affordable ticket prices for music lovers of all ages and backgrounds • Commissions and recordings of America’s leading composers, who are keeping classical music relevant for 21st-century audiences

• Life-changing education programs that provide inspiration, instruction and mentorship for students from kindergarten through high school

• The acoustical brilliance of Schermerhorn Symphony Center, a venue built to serve the entire community

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

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

Anonymous (4) Stephen Abelman & Robin Holab-Abelman Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Russell & Oguz Bates Elisabetha C. Baugh Ann Bernard Congressman Diane Black and Dr. David L. Black Julie G. & Frank H. Boehm, MD Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Mr. and Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Paul Catt and Linda Etheredge George D. Clark Jr. Donna & Steven* Clark Dr. Cliff Cockerham & Dr. Sherry Cummings W. Ovid Collins, Jr.* Barbara J.* and John J.* Conder Marianne Connolly Kelly Corcoran Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert Kevin & Katie Crumbo Janet Keese Davies The William M.* & Mildred P.* Duncan Family & Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Paula Fairchild Judy & Tom Foster 78

FEBRUARY 2017

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

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

*denotes donors who are deceased

S TA F F R O S T E R

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

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

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION

Laurence Tucker, Vice President of Artistic Administration Maiken Knudsen, Director of Artistic Administration Ellen Kasperek, Manager of Artistic Administration Eleanor Roberts, Artistic Coordinator Melissa McCarthy Steinberg, Principal Librarian Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator

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

DATA STANDARDS

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

DEVELOPMENT Jonathan Norris, V.P. of Development Kathy Devine, Sr. Director of Corporate Development Maribeth Stahl, Sr. Director of Development Delaney Gray, Director of Development Events Kathryn Wroth, Director of Annual Fund Celine Thackston, Grants and Research Manager Michael Ceccarelli, Corporate Partnerships Officer

EDUCATION

Gena Staib, Assistant Box Office Manager Rich Bartkowiak, Marketing Supervisor Missy Hubner, Ticket Services Assistant Sarah Rose Peacock, Marketing and Communications Coordinator Marketing Associates - Henry Byington, Toni Conn, Jim Davidson, Kimberly DePue, Rick Katz, Misha Robledo, Cody Smith, Luke Watson Ticket Services Specialists - Liana Alpino, Jesse Baker, Harrison Bryant, Zac Cambria, Maggie Chafee, Jean-Marie Clark, Ashlinn Dowling, Steven Gadzinski, Jeff Hoehne, Brett Mitchell, Emily Perino, Jesse Rosas, Matt Siffert, Elena Sokol, David Swick, Geoff Sullivan, Lindsay Thomas

FINANCE

PRODUCTION & ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS

Dennis Carter, Patron Engagement Officer Gina Haining, Patron Engagement Officer Sam LoCascio, Patron Engagement Officer Judith Wall, Patron Engagement Officer Jami Frazier, Stewardship Coordinator Cori Rodery, Development Assistant Walter Bitner, Director of Education and Community Engagement Kelley Bell, Education and Community Engagement Program Manager Kimberly Kraft McLemore, Accelerando Manager Kristen Freeman, Education and Community Engagement Coordinator Karen Warren, Controller Bobby Saintsing, A/P & Payroll Manager Sheri Switzer, Senior Accountant Charlotte Schweizer, Retail Manager and Buyer

FOOD, BEVERAGE AND EVENTS

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

HUMAN RESOURCES

Ashley Skinner SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Vice President of Human Resources Katie Hoffman SHRM-CP, Human Resources Manager Kathleen McCracken, Director of Volunteer Services and League Liaison

I.T.

Trenton Leach, Director of Information Technology

MARKETING Daniel B. Grossman, V.P. of Marketing Misty Cochran, Director of Marketing Emily Shannon, Director of Sales Lindsay Bergstrom, Box Office Manager

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

VENUE MANAGEMENT

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

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ACCELERANDO Training young musicians for the future

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ccelerando is an intensive education program designed to prepare gifted young students of diverse ethnic backgrounds for pursuing music at the collegiate level and beyond. Participants receive:

• • • • • •

Year-round instruction from a Nashville Symphony musician or a highly qualified local instructor Solo recital and chamber performance opportunities Summer workshops and camps College and career guidance and counseling Complimentary tickets to Nashville Symphony Classical Series performances Assistance in applying for music school

INFORMATIONAL MEETING for prospective students and their families AUDITIONS

Thursday, February 16, 7-8:30 pm Casa Azafrán, 2195 Nolensville Pike A Spanish translator will be present Saturday, March 4 & 11 Nashville State Community College, 120 White Bridge Rd.

The deadline to apply for auditions is February 17.

Visit NashvilleSymphony.org/accelerando for application materials and audition requirements in English and in Spanish.

Questions? Email accelerando@nashvillesymphony.org.

Leadership Funding Provided By THE ANDREW W.

MELLON FOUNDATION

Official Education Partner