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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety’’ for Piano and Orchestra After W.H. Auden

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Born on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts; died on October 14, 1990, in New York City Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety” For Piano and Orchestra Composed: 1947-49; revised in 1965 First performance: April 8, 1944, with Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony and the composer as the piano soloist First Nashville Symphony performance: December 2 & 3, 1994, with Music Director Kenneth Schermerhorn and pianist Susan Starr Estimated length: 38 minutes

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part work for orchestra and solo piano. Boston’s long-term music director, Serge Koussevitsky, the Symphony’s dedicatee, was a pivotal mentor to Bernstein and conducted the premiere, with the composer as soloist. Despite the piano’s prominent role, Bernstein insists that his Second Symphony is “no concerto, in the virtuosic sense.” Instead, “the pianist provides an almost autobiographical mirror in which he sees himself, analytically in the modern ambiance.”

That premiere marked the culmination of a remarkable gestation period. Biographer Humphrey Burton has documented that Bernstein drew on a number of his earlier unpublished pieces for some of the musical material. The characters in Auden’s poem travel through a “dream-odyssey” involving various places; Bernstein himself composed the bulk of the work on the road between 1948 and spring 1949.

Following a high-profile European tour, he spent a brief retreat at the Taos ranch of the writer D.H. Lawrence’s widow, where he celebrated his milestone 30th birthday. He subsequently traveled for two months under wartime conditions in the newly created state of Israel (a tour that included leading the Israel Philharmonic in concert in defiance of air raid warnings). Bernstein then completed the Second Symphony while on another tour across the United States, all the while juggling the first ideas for a musical that would eventually become known as West Side Story.

Auden’s allegorical poem narrates how three men and a woman meet in a bar in New York during wartime and try to come to terms with deep feelings of loss in the context of a fragmented, meaningless world. Their respective insecurities reinforce the loneliness each feels, even when together. Attempts to escape through alcohol fuel the narrative with a sense of underlying despair. They are having, as Bernstein puts it, “the kind of good time which one hour later is horrible.”

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R The Second Symphony’s division into six movements, each with its own subtitle, parallels Auden’s structure in The Age of Anxiety. These six divisions are grouped into two larger parts, each of roughly equal length. The Prologue’s clarinet duet introduces an atmosphere of somber

The pianist reviews the musical journey in a solo cadenza that Bernstein added in 1965. Then the full orchestra joins together with a transformation of the trumpet motif into a passionate assent to life, whatever anxieties it may entail.

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Born on September 8, 1841, in the village of Nelahozeves, just north of Prague; died on May 1, 1904, in Prague Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (“From the New World”) Composed: 1893 First performance: December 16, 1893, at Carnegie Hall in New York, with Anton Seidel conducting the New York Philharmonic First Nashville Symphony performance: November 21, 1950, with Music Director William Strickland Estimated length: 45 minutes

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In addition to solo piano, the Second Symphony is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, 2 harps (if possible), pianino (= celesta) and strings.

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reflection. At its close, a lengthy scalar descent — a key motif heard throughout the Symphony, here performed by the flute — leads us “into the realm of the unconscious,” Bernstein writes.

There follow two sets of seven variations each. The first set, “The Seven Ages,” involves not a theme per se, but various fragments of the material from the Prologue in different configurations: piano solo, piano with the ensemble, and orchestra alone. With its unstable rhythmic energies, the fourth variation (corresponding to the age Auden associates with “the clown’s cosmos”) ushers in a strain of nervous humor. A haunting reprise of the Prologue, expanded beyond the clarinets, informs the seventh variation, before the piano leads the descent further into the unconscious.

The second set of variations, “The Seven Stages,” traces the collective dream of the characters in their search for meaning. Auden prefaced his poem with a stanza from the Dies Irae, which perhaps is echoed in the first three notes of the six-note passacaglia theme dominating this section. The use of neo-Baroque elements here, including a fugato and chorale-like textures, also seems to pay homage to Auden’s use of formal verse to express modernist alienation.

Part One ends with curiously emphatic but hollow assertions.

The three sections of Part Two present striking contrasts. “The Dirge” derives its main theme from a 12-tone row representing a vain search for authority — what Auden calls “the colossal Dad.” Shades of the neo-Classical Stravinsky meet up with Brahms in the pianodominated middle section. This eventually dissolves into “The Masque,” which spins the rhythmically dynamic aspects of the first part into a full-blown jazz scherzo. With its dazzling syncopations, “The Masque” — scored for just piano, harp, celesta and percussion — also highlights the marvels of Bernstein’s orchestral imagination.

After the scherzo’s ghostly disintegration, a four-note figure from the trumpet signals a return to sober reality in “The Epilogue.” This motif of lingering hope, first in the trumpet and then the woodwinds, plays out against the strings and their reprisal of the somber music from The Prologue.

DVORÁK’S AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS ne question that has never been decisively settled since the first performance of the “New World” Symphony is just how “American” it really is. Himself a minority within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Czech Dvorák was particularly sensitive to the spirit of what he considered indigenous American folk music. Soon after arriving in New York, he observed that America possessed rich material in its own folk idioms, remarking that “the future music of this country must be founded on what are called Negro melodies.” One of his students at the National Conservatory of Music exposed him to a range of African-American spirituals, and he encountered such (admittedly spurious) sources as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. ^

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t the same time, Dvorák disclaimed quoting actual American melodies in this score. Instead, the composer pointed out, he wrote “original themes” flavored by indigenous American elements, but treated this folk-inspired music with all the “modern” resources of symphonic writing. Ironically, the Symphony’s best-known tune, introduced by the English horn in the Largo movement, sounds so much like a spiritual that one of Dvorák’s students later penned lyrics to it (“Goin’ Home”), creating a version that became known as a latter-day spiritual. And the famous flute tune in the first movement, which seems to quote “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” is actually derived from the main theme. ^

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that the Conservatory welcomed women, the underprivileged, African-Americans and other minorities as students.

Dvořák’s American sojourn led to feelings of intense homesickness, but it also had tremendous artistic payoff and helped to expand the composer’s reputation (as well as his fortune, since Thurber offered a fabulously generous salary). Dvořák had reached a moment in his career when it proved to his advantage to have a reprieve from “certain artistic pressures in Europe,” as biographer Michael B. Beckerman writes in New Worlds of Dvořák. He had become typecast as the successor to Brahms, which is to say as an exponent of “absolute” music — music understood to be self-contained, as opposed to being representative of concrete images and narratives.

Dvořák, observes Beckerman, was nevertheless “ready to move in a different direction.” Scholars continue to ponder evidence of hidden subtexts from literature and the composer’s own life woven into the Symphony No. 9 and the Cello Concerto alike. His nostalgia for Bohemia and the stimulation of his new American surroundings (musical, social and scenic) thus blended together with extraordinarily fertile results. While the “New World” Symphony is often discussed in terms of Native- and African-

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works of the symphonic repertory ever since its sensational world premiere in New York City.

By the 1890s, Dvořák’s international fame made him among the most highly regarded of living composers. Yet despite his identification as the epitome of Czech music — not to mention his deep-seated fear of traveling — he undertook the lengthy voyage to the New World for a sojourn in the United States that lasted from 1892 to 1895 (with one five-month interlude back home). The encounter proved to be of enormous significance, both for the composer and for his host country. It inspired, among other works, the Symphony No. 9 (tagged by Dvořák himself as music “From the New World”) and the Cello Concerto.

So how did the pre-eminent Czech composer of the day end up in America? Dvořák had been invited to direct the new National Conservatory of Music, located in New York City’s Lower East Side. The Conservatory was the brainchild of music enthusiast and patron Jeannette Thurber.

Her millionaire husband had amassed a fortune from his success in the grocery business, enabling Thurber to realize her ambitious dream of founding a national musical center to foster an authentically American art — this in a Eurocentric era when anyone desiring a serious career in music typically traveled abroad for training. Thurber’s progressive ideas meant

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American influences (see sidebar), Dvořák’s characteristic Bohemian flavors pervade the score.

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The Symphony No. 9 is scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals 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 LAWRENCE FOSTER, conductor Since 2013 Lawrence Foster has held the position of Music Director of l’Opéra de Marseille and l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, with which he toured in the summer of 2014. This season sees him leading opera productions of The Flying Dutchman and Falstaff, among others.

Highlights of the 2014/15 season include engagements as guest conductor with l’Orchestre National de Lyon, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Beijing Music Festival and Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Foster will also return InConcert

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Dvořák launches the first movement with hints of the work’s epic breadth, yet his gestures are concise and concentrated. After a brief introduction and a burst of almost Beethovenian fury, the main theme erupts from the horns.

With an easily recognizable upward-downward direction, this motif will recur in each movement and even spawns the additional themes here, including the closing flute theme, which seems to evoke a different, rustic world. Dvořák then develops this small store of musical material with tremendous dramatic verve.

One particularly American angle emerges in the two middle movements. We know that Dvořák was intrigued by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1854 poem, The Song of Hiawatha. He even remarked that the Largo grew from a sketch for an operatic treatment of the epic that was never realized, while the Scherzo had been inspired by a scene “where the Indians dance.” In Beckerman’s view, a host of images from Hiawatha pervades the score, from Longfellow’s pastoral evocations of the landscape to the tragic passage of Minnehaha’s forest funeral. This is music of deeply engaging beauty, framed by magical harmonic modulations at the outset. It’s astonishing how much emotional resonance Dvořák evokes from the Largo’s ultrafamous but simple English horn melody (folklike and pentatonic), clothing it in a variety of orchestral colors.

The Scherzo boils over with Dvořák’s signature rhythmic drive. He works in the firstmovement theme to surprising effect in the transition to the middle section and again at the close. A rousing brass fanfare launches the finale with powerful momentum. Material from the preceding movements reappears, including the Largo tune in more dramatic guises. Dvořák makes space for his richly melodic gift while at

the same time shaping a thrillingly urgent climax.

Yet in the final moments, as the main themes recombine, “victory” hardly seems to be the point.

Dvořák commentator David Hurwitz describes the ending as a “tragic finale,” noting that “even that very American-sounding boogie-woogie bass line and last-minute turn to the major key can’t efface the sadness that lingers as the final chord fades slowly and gently to triple piano.” The truly American sound of the blues isn’t far off.

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to the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig. In the summer of 2014 he conducted the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, with Ute Lemper, at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich at the Grafenegg Festival.

Foster has been appointed Conductor Laureate of the Gulbenkian Orchestra following a hugely successful 10-year tenure as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor. Over the past 10 years, he and the orchestra toured extensively with appearances at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest and the Kissinger Sommer Festival, as well as major tours to numerous summer venues in Germany and Spain, with outstanding artists such as Lang Lang and Evgeny Kissin. His discography with the Orchestra includes a number of recordings for PentaTone Classics. In 2013, he was awarded L’Orfée d’Or from L’Académie National du Disque Lyrique for his recording of Vincent D’Indy’s L’Etranger with Opera et Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon.

Foster previously held Music Directorships with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Aspen Music Festival and School. He was Music Director of Orchestre et Opéra National de Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon from 2009-12.

Born in 1941 in Los Angeles to Romanian parents, Foster has been a major champion of the music of Georg Enescu, serving as Artistic Director of the Georg Enescu Festival from 1998 to 2001. In January 2003 he was decorated by the Romanian President for services to Romanian Music.

KIRILL GERSTEIN, piano Kirill Gerstein is the sixth recipient of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, presented every four years to an exceptional pianist who possesses broad and profound musicianship. Since

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receiving the award in 2010, he has shared his prize through the commissioning of boundarycrossing new works by Oliver Knussen, Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau and others. He was also awarded First Prize at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv, and he received a 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award and a 2010 Avery Fisher Grant.

Highlights of his 2014/15 season include performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit, the Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Seguin and the San Francisco Symphony with composer/conductor Thomas Adès. This season he will make debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra and the New Jersey Symphony, and he will appear in recital on Carnegie Hall’s Keyboard Virtuosos series.

Internationally, Gerstein has played with the Czech, Munich, Rotterdam and London Philharmonics, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, Dresden Staatskappelle, Tonkünstler Orchestra Vienna, the Zurich Tonhalle and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.

Born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, Gerstein studied piano at a music school for gifted children and taught himself to play jazz by listening to his parents’ extensive record collection. At age 14, he came to the United States to study jazz piano as the youngest student ever to attend Boston’s Berklee College of Music. After completing his studies in three years and following his second summer at the Boston University program at Tanglewood, Gerstein turned his focus back to classical music and moved to New York City to attend the Manhattan School of Music, where he earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees by age 20.

An American citizen since 2003, Gerstein now divides his time between the U.S. and Germany, where he has been a professor of piano at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart since 2006.

In September 2014, he was named Artist-inResidence in the Piano Department at Berklee College of Music and joined the piano and chamber music faculty at Boston Conservatory.

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“Beautiful” simply does not describe the incomparable force known to the world as Patti LaBelle. This soulful songbird’s name has become synonymous with grace, style, elegance and class.

Known and revered for her versatility, she can belt out classic rhythm and blues renditions, pop standards and spiritual sonnets. In 2009, she reunited with Sarah Dash and Nona Hendryx for the first time in 30 years for the critically acclaimed Labelle reunion album, Back to Now. It’s a small wonder that Patti has time for anything else in between recording and touring.

In November 2008, she released her fifth book and third cookbook, Recipes for the Good Life, and an instructional cooking DVD, In the Kitchen with Miss Patti. The cookbook features recipes and anecdotes that reflect her philosophy that good cooking and the love of entertaining come from the heart. More recently, she introduced a line of signature sauces and marinades called Patti’s Good Life and launched a designer bedding collection, Patti LaBelle Home.

In addition to her amazing career as an entertainer and entrepreneurial success, Patti’s

work as a humanitarian is just as legendary.

She remains an advocate for adoption, foster care, Big Sisters and the United Negro College Fund, among many other initiatives. While her celebrated 50-plus year career is respected worldwide, she has also endured and survived personal strife. Within a 10-year period, she lost her mother, three sisters and best friend to diabetes and cancer. In 1994, Patti was diagnosed with diabetes and shortly thereafter became a spokesperson for the American Diabetes Association.

The same motivation that had Patricia Louise Holte blossom from a choir member to lead vocalist for Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles and later Labelle, to a solo artist is the same energy that keeps her fire burning. “Each year I grow, and that’s a blessing from God. I do what I can do. I do what I feel God has given me the energy to do, so I just go out there and I do it…. It’s not about making money, because I don’t need money, but I need to sing. With a voice or without, I’ve got to get on that stage.”

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Emilie Bienne, vocalist Brittney Leigh Morton, vocalist Paige Sabo, swing dancer/vocalist Ryan N. Phillips, vocalist, narrator Dan Faber, vocalist Luke H. Jacobs, swing dancer, vocalist STRING OF PEARLS ORCHESTRA Tom Dupin, drums Walter Stinson, bass Jim Hayward, lead alto saxophone Gene Thorne, alto saxophone Marc Schwartz, tenor sax Joe Jenkins, baritone saxophone

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ACT I The 1940s, a time when all of America was listening and dancing to the same kind of music!

St. Louis Blues March (Handy, arr. Gray) Yes, Indeed (Oliver) Well All Right (Faye, Kapp, Raye) In the Mood (Garland) Big Band Medley Swinging on a Star (Van Heusen, Burke) Jeepers Creepers (Warren, Mercer) That Old Feeling (Fain, Brown) Taking a Chance on Love (Duke, Latouche, Fetter) Ain’t We Got Fun (Egan, Kahn, Whiting) Elmer’s Tune (Albrecht, Gallop, Jurgens) Chattanooga Choo Choo (Warren, Gordon) Well, Git It! (Oliver) I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (Bassman) Moonlight Serenade (Miller, Parish) Dream (Mercer) I Can’t Get Started (Duke, I. Gershwin) Begin the Beguine (Porter) Serenade in Blue (Warren, Gordon) Hey! Ba Ba Re Bop (Hamner, Hampton) Skylark (Carmichael, Mercer) / Mood Indigo (Bigard, Mills, Ellington) Say That We’re Sweethearts Again (Brent) Tuxedo Junction (Dash, Feyne, Hawkins, Johnson) Continued on next page InConcert

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This was the time when music moved the nation’s spirit!

It Don’t Mean a Thing (Ellington, Mills) The Sisters and Brothers Medley Over There (Cohan) La Vie En Rose (Piaf, Guigliemi, Eng. Lyrics David) The Last Time I Saw Paris (Kern, Hammerstein II) All the Things You Are (Kern, Hammerstein II) What Do You Do in the Infantry? (Loesser) Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (Prince, Raye) He’s 1A in the Army, A1 in My Heart (Evans) This Is Worth Fighting For (DeLange, Stepf) Bugle Call Rag (Meyers, Pettis) I’ll Be Seeing You (Fain, Kahal) We’ll Meet Again (Charles, Ross) When the Lights Go on Again (Benjamin, Marcus, Seiler) The White Cliffs of Dover (Burton, Kent) It’s Been a Long, Long Time (Styne, Cahn) A Military Salute In the Mood Reprise (Garland) On the Sunny Side of the Street (McHugh, Fields) Program subject to change

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ABOUT IN THE MOOD We are very pleased to be in your venue for our 2015 tour. Much more than a concert, In the Mood features the In the Mood Singers & Dancers and the sensational String of Pearls Orchestra. Now in its 21st year of touring, our show has performed in major performing arts centers, arenas, state fairs, prestigious corporate events and an Inaugural Ball for President Clinton’s second term. By re-creating the best popular music and songs of the late 1930s and the 1940s, In the Mood aspires to promote the memory of this most significant time in American history.

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Starting in 1993, World USO selected In the Mood to be an official entertainment for the 50th Commemoration of World War II. From 1994 to 2013, this show has traveled to 48 states, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and Australia for dozens of sold out performances. Each year our tour continues to build momentum by adding performances in more cities across the country, and we are delighted with international invitations and opportunities.

In the Mood is a production of Bud Forrest Entertainment, Inc. For more information, please visit www.InTheMoodLive.com.

IN THE MOOD SINGERS AND DANCERS seen at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, in the new show London Rocks! Before that, he sailed throughout the Bahamas on the Disney Dream cruise ship, spending much time with his great friends Quasimodo and Aladdin. Favorite credits include The Pirates of Penzance (Frederic), Urinetown: The Musical (Bobby Strong), Man of La Mancha (José), Almost, Maine (Easy/Randy/ Dave), FIFTY*FOUR*FOREVER (DJ/Judge) and The Drowsy Chaperone (Superintendent). He’s been privileged to work with some truly great actors and directors, including Tommy Tune, Terrence Mann, Nilo Cruz and Pat Sajak. Ryan is a trained stage combatant and a member of the Society of American Fight Directors.

Dan Faber (vocalist), originally from Cherry Hill, N.J., is a New York City-based singer/actor.

He has his Bachelor of Music from the University of Delaware (Presser Scholar, Summa Cum Laude, Honors Program). Past credits include the national tour of Cirque Dreams Holidaze (Vocalist) and regional tours of Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat (Pharoah) and Hello, Dolly! (Waiter/Cornelius understudy) with Texas Family Musicals. Regional credits include Grease (Kenickie), Hairspray (Fender, Corny Collins understudy) and South Pacific (Soldier) with the Summer Theatre of New Canaan; A Fireside Christmas (Vocalist) with the Fireside Theatre; and Footloose! (Ren McCormack), Edges: A Song Cycle and Crazy For You (Bela Zangler) with the Harrington Theatre Arts Company. Dan is returning to In the Mood for the second time after last year’s tour of the U.S. and Australia.

Luke H. Jacobs (swing dancer, vocalist) is a San Diego native and holds his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theater from California State University at Fullerton. Credits include the national tourtour of All Up! Up! Regional credits the national of Shook All Shook Regional credits include DamesatatSea Sea(Lucky), (Lucky),Pippin Pippin(Fastrada), (Fastrada),A include Dames A Chorus Line (Don Kerr), New Brain (Richard, Chorus Line (Don Kerr), A A New Brain (Richard, the nice nurse) and The Man Who Came to Dinner (Beverly Carlton). Luke spent 16 months at sea with Holland America Line as the lead singer/dancer.

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Emilie Bienne (vocalist) got her start as an acting intern at the Looking Glass Theatre and a backup vocalist for Brother Joscephus and the Love Revolution. She has earned respect from fans and fellow performers as a passionate artist and dedicated professional. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory, she has traveled the world starring in productions with Royal Caribbean Productions and with Disney’s Big Band Beat in Tokyo. Emilie resides in New York City, where she is a resident actor at The Flea Theater and 3V Theatre, and is working on writing her own music.

Brittney Leigh Morton (vocalist) is originally from Salamanca, N.Y., and is now a New York City-based singer/actress/dancer/songwriter. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theater from Baldwin-Wallace University’s Conservatory of Music. Past regional credits include Little Women (Jo), White Christmas (Judy) and Shrek (Fiona) at the Crown Uptown Dinner Theatre in Wichita, Kansas; Grease (Sandy) at the Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater, Michigan; and Grease (Cha-Cha), The Sound of Music (Sister Margaretta) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Jacob’s Wife) at the Bucks County and Pocono Playhouses. In 1999, she sang the National Anthem for the Buffalo Bills. She would like to dedicate this tour to her late sister, Andrea, for always having a song in her heart and a passion for the stage.

Paige Sabo (swing dancer/vocalist) is originally from Seattle and now based out of New York City. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from the University of Arizona, where she had the opportunity to perform with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. She has also been seen in dance revues throughout the United States and Canada, including the ABBA tribute Dancing Queen. New York credits include multiple performances at New York Fashion Week and Galapagos Art Space.

Ryan N. Phillips (vocalist, narrator), originally from Virginia Beach, Va., is a New York City-based actor. Having attended the University of Miami, he was most recently

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS The six men comprising Styx have committed to rocking the Paradise together with audiences far and wide by entering their second decade of averaging over 100 shows a year, and each one of them is committed to making the next show better than the last. Styx draws from over four decades of barn-burning chart hits, joyous singalongs and hard-driving deep cuts.

Like a symphony that builds to a satisfying crescendo, a Styx set covers a wide range of stylistic cornerstones. From the progressively

sweeping splendor that is “The Grand Illusion” to the hunker-down fortitude of all that is the “Blue Collar Man,” from the regal, reach-for-the-stars bravado of “Come Sail Away” to the grainy allin gallop of that rugged “Renegade” who had it made, the band draws on an unlimited cache of ways to immerse one’s mind and body in their signature sound.

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“It all comes back to the chemistry,” says bassist/vocalist Ricky Phillips.

“The legacy of this band will be that it brought joy to millions of people,” notes drummer Todd Sucherman. Styx hopes it’s a wave that never crests.

“Every night, we go on that magic carpet ride together,” observes original bassist Chuck Panozzo, who joins the band on tour as often as he can.

“Music is this amazing force that comes from a higher place. I’m humbled for this band to have the great success that it has,” says co-founding guitarist/vocalist James “JY” Young.

“We just want to keep on doing this,” asserts Tommy. “We want to let life take its course and let this music continue to be the soundtrack to it. And this band will continue to evolve as long as we live and play this music.” The jig is up, the news is out: The Esprit de Styx is alive and well, and now it’s time to see for yourself. Welcome to the Grand Evolution.

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to score four triple-Platinum albums in a row: The Grand Illusion (1977), Pieces of Eight (1978), Cornerstone (1979) and Paradise Theater (1981).

Over the ensuing decade, Styx weathered the shifting winds of the public’s musical taste, reconvening for a highly successful 1996 Return to Paradise tour. With a little help from their many friends in Cleveland’s Contemporary Youth Orchestra, One With Everything (2006) became a hybrid orchestral rock blend for the ages. And on The Grand Illusion/Pieces of Eight Live (2011), the band performed at its peak when tackling every track from a pair of their finest t albums back to back. Not only that, but the band rerecorded two discs’ worth of its classic material with much finesse and musculature, aptly known as Regeneration Volume I & II (2011 & 2012).

After more than a decade together on the road, this incarnation of Styx is looking forward to performing as many shows as it can as long as it can.

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GUSTAV MAHLER

Symphony No. 9 in D major Andante comodo Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers Rondo - Burleske Adagio

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Born on July 7, 1860, in Kalischt, Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic); died on May 18, 1911, in Vienna

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Symphony No. 9 in D major

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rom the very beginning of his career, Gustav Mahler incorporated images of death and transcendence into his music. The rhetoric of the funeral march recurs frequently in his symphonies — and in strikingly varied guises. In the First Symphony, for example, it takes on an ironically grotesque aspect, while in the opening movement of the composer’s next symphony it becomes grandiloquently tragic, setting the stage for a work that will go on to grapple with no less a subject than resurrection.

Mahler’s symphonic cycle also depicts a range of celestial visions, of Paradise glimpsed and even momentarily captured — whether in the childlike heaven that ends the Fourth Symphony, or in the Eighth Symphony’s setting of beatific imagery from Goethe’s Faust.

This preoccupation with mortality is in keeping with Mahler’s philosophical ambitions for the symphonic genre. Even more, it has roots in the legacy of Romanticism, with its conflation of love and death — of desire and yearning so extreme that only quietus can bring fulfillment.

Certainly, these ideas were were shared across the arts in Vienna during the early 20th century.

Yet Mahler’s music expresses the fundamental vulnerability of mortality — above all, our human awareness of it — with a moving authenticity that has made his music stand apart for later generations.

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this piece, he referred to his own psychological challenges in a letter to protégé Bruno Walter, who would conduct the Ninth’s posthumous premiere in Vienna in June 1912: “I’ll just tell you that at a blow I have simply lost all the clarity and quietude I ever achieved and that I stood vis-àvis de rien, and now at the end of life am again a beginner who must find his feet.” Acceptance of the impermanence of life itself emerges as the emotional core of the work.

S I GN I FI C AN C E O F T H E N U MBE R N I N E That the Ninth was the last symphony Mahler completed before his own death in May 1911 has saddled the work with considerable mystique.

To some extent this has to do with events from the composer’s personal life, to which he alluded in his letter to Walter. In 1907, two years before composing the Ninth, his beloved older daughter Maria had died as a result of scarlet fever. The family crisis drove a wedge between Mahler and his wife Alma. Meanwhile, his own health was found to be precarious when he received a diagnosis of a grave heart condition — with orders to abstain from his beloved walks and exercise. Mahler took this as a death sentence.

This tragic backdrop sometimes conjures a misleading image of Mahler composing the Ninth from his deathbed. On the contrary, as biographer Henry-Louis de La Grange emphasizes, Mahler was more actively engaged than ever when he composed the Ninth in the summer of 1909. His love-hate relationship with the Vienna Opera

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of thought went, made nine a terminal number for one’s symphonic legacy. No significant composer had managed to surpass it since Beethoven. Bruckner had died only a dozen years before and had left his Ninth incomplete after its third movement, an Adagio he even titled “Farewell to Life.” As if to underscore the superstition, Mahler didn’t survive to hear his own Ninth performed. Yet his work was far from done, and he lived long enough to draft out his Tenth Symphony.

It is true that gestures of leave-taking permeate the Ninth’s musical landscape. Yet it would be an oversimplification to perceive these merely as expressing the composer’s brand of world-weariness. The score of the Ninth contains far more depth and variety, for in it Mahler distills his accumulated musical wisdom. Highly imaginative and coherent in its architectural plan and endlessly fascinating in its details, the Ninth is a masterpiece of organic musical creativity that benefits from the composer’s most refined art of orchestration.

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came to an end in that fateful year of 1907, but Mahler had replaced it with a prestigious (and lucrative) assignment at the Metropolitan Opera that brought him fascinating new experiences in America.

Indeed, Mahler enjoyed a fresh creative outburst beginning with Das Lied von der Erde in 1908 — the work immediately preceding the Ninth. It introduced some of the musical language the Ninth would continue to explore.

Mahler completed his draft of the Ninth’s complex score in a single summer; this required superconcentrated effort, as his normal pattern was to spend two or even more summers breaking the back of a new symphony. For all the portents of death, Mahler — who was only 49 when he wrote this music — seemed to be benefiting from a resurgence of vitality.

Also feeding into the Ninth’s mystique is the superstition around the number nine for orchestral composers — one to which Mahler himself subscribed. The paradigm established by Beethoven with his nine symphonies, so this train

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In his study of Mahler, Walter astutely points out that the Ninth marries the technical advances of the composer’s purely instrumental middleperiod symphonies with the “deeply subjective and emotional mood” of his early Wunderhorn symphonies (which draw inspiration from the folk poetry collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn).

It’s even possible to discern aspects of Mahler’s entire life work woven into this symphony.

For example, the Ninth seems to revert to the darkness of his previous four-movement symphony (the Sixth), yet eventually it transcends that darkness. The composer himself pointed to a key parallel with the trajectory of his Fourth Symphony: both works embark from a sense of innocence that by the end is regained, albeit in dramatically different ways. Moreover, the Ninth encodes references to musical history that held significance for Mahler, from the polyphony of Bach and Beethoven’s spiritually intense lateperiod music to the love-death of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.

W HAT TO LISTE N F OR One more possible reference is another symphony associated with final things: the Sixth Symphony (Pathétique) of Tchaikovsky, his last. Both works defy convention by ending with a weighty slow movement, and both feature inner movements that suggest certain conceptual parallels. But Mahler sets himself an extraordinary challenge by writing a vast opening movement (Andante comodo) — perhaps his most perfect in design, and one of great emotional complexity. The Ninth’s Adagio finale, of similar proportions, serves as its counterweight. The two middle movements are relatively shorter and introduce critical elements of irony and parody, giving the work an overall arch-like symmetry.

Mahler begins with a montage of three brief motifs: a three-note halting rhythm, a fournote bell-like knell on harp, and a five-note call on stopped horn. Then there emerges the first theme proper, breathtaking in its beauty, which unfolds from a simple two-note cell that forms a descending cadence. Like Beethoven, Mahler proceeds to reveal unfathomable depths in this unassuming material, which suggests a theme of farewell.

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But the sense of leave-taking is only one strand of the musical thought that generates the entire movement. Switching from D major to minor, a new theme voiced by the violins strives upward; its sound is as angular and passionate as the first theme was serene. The rest of this enormous movement builds from the opening motifs and the two longer themes, transforming and recombining them into numerous complexes.

The composer Alban Berg made one of the most perceptive observations about the Ninth when he wrote that the first movement “expresses an extraordinary love of this earth, for Nature; the longing to live on it in peace, to enjoy it completely, to the very heart of one’s being, before death comes, as irresistibly it does.” The “premonition of death” recurs in the three large climaxes that structure the movement, while Mahler’s metamorphosis of his material mirrors the essential process of life and continual change.

Following the final climax, Mahler foreshadows the Adagio as he introduces a remarkable sense of spaciousness, or expanded time, in the solo-centered writing of the coda. The musical fabric gently dissolves into thin strands, at last concluding the descending cadence of the first theme.

We have yet to abandon the earthly realm, however. This returns with a vengeance in the three dance-based musical ideas that form the second movement, albeit in mockingly exaggerated terms. First comes a lumpy ländler country dance, followed by a fast-paced, funhouse waltz. Last is a gentler ländler that echoes the first movement’s “farewell” theme but is overshadowed by the first two dances. After this the Ninth makes a foray into darkly savage irony in the Rondo Burleske, which Mahler dedicates “to my brothers in Apollo” (i.e., the critics who attempted to humiliate him throughout his career). The music manages to feel both frantically busy and sardonic.

A prolonged episode at the center of the third movement unexpectedly opens onto a new dimension, warding off the parody for a spell.

This visionary idyll — a kind of remembered innocence — focuses on the unassuming motif of a melodic “turn” — a note around which neighboring notes are sounded quickly in a

soft to the point of inaudibility. The melodic “turn” — an ornament from the musical past transfigured into something far beyond its normally decorative function — expires in a last breath. “There is no more irony, no sarcasm, no resentment whatever,” Mahler said of this music.

“There is only the majesty of death.”

—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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The Ninth Symphony is scored for piccolo, 4 flutes, 4 oboes (4th doubling English horn), E-flat clarinet, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 4 bassoons (4th doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani (2 players), percussion, 2 harps and strings.

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decorative pattern. The same motif, which had been sounded in passing in the first movement, emerges as the signature gesture of the closing Adagio.

Like the opening Andante, the Adagio contrasts two distinctive thematic ideas that seem to contradict each other: the first is a full-voiced chorale hymned by the strings, while the second is an eerily hollow ascending phrase on the bassoon. The “premonition of death” returns in one of the most movingly sustained meditations ever conveyed through music. Mahler revisits the essential conflict of the Andante — the pull toward love of life and the knowledge of death’s inevitability — but now from a more distanced perspective. Even the tonic reference point has lowered a half-step, to D-flat, though the harmonies slide in ways that deny easy reassurance.

In the Symphony’s final pages, the music steadily dissolves, becoming even slower, thinning out in texture to the strings alone, and growing

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CONDUCTO RS MUSIC DIRECTOR

GIANCARLO GUERRERO

G

iancarlo Guerrero is Music Director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of Cleveland Orchestra Miami.

Guerrero has established himself with many of the major North American orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, among others. He is also known to audiences of large summer festivals such as the Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles) and Blossom Music Festival (Cleveland). Equally at home in operatic repertoire, Guerrero makes his debut with the Houston Grand Opera in 2014/15 conducting Puccini’s Madame Butterly.

He has conducted new productions of Carmen, La bohème and Rigoletto; in 2008, he gave the Australian premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s one-act opera Ainadamar at the Adelaide Festival to great acclaim.

Guerrero is cultivating an increasingly visible profile in Europe, where his recent debuts include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Copenhagen Philharmonic and Frankfurt Radio Symphony. In the 2014/15

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season, he makes debuts with the Orchestre National de France, Tonkünstler Orchester and Residentie Orkest (The Hague Philharmonic).

For many years, Guerrero has maintained a close association with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Brazil, as well as with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and El Sistema in Venezuela.

Guerrero’s recordings with Nashville Symphony won GRAMMY® Awards in 2011 and 2012, including Best Orchestral Performance.

A fervent advocate of contemporary music and composers, he has championed works by several of America’s foremost composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Roberto Sierra and Richard Danielpour.

A native of Costa Rica, Guerrero gained early experience with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera, and later spent time in Venezuela as Music Director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra. Upon moving to the U.S., he studied conducting and percussion at Baylor and Northwestern universities. He served as Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra from 1999-2004 and was Music Director of the Eugene Symphony in Oregon from 2002-09.

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

CHORUS DIRECTOR

VINAY PARAMESWARAN

KELLY CORCORAN The 2014/15 season marks Kelly Corcoran’s eighth season with the Nashville Symphony. As Associate Conductor for seven seasons, she conducted the Nashville Symphony in hundreds of performances, including the Symphony’s Classical and Pops Series, and served as the primary conductor for the orchestra’s education and community engagement concerts. In 2013, Corcoran was named Director for the Nashville Symphony Chorus.

Always interested in creating something new and collaborating with others, Corcoran plans to unveil her latest project, Intersection, an exciting new music ensemble with concerts for all ages. Corcoran created and founded the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra 11 years ago and continues to serve on the board.

Corcoran has appeared as a guest conductor with many major orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee and National Symphonies and the Louisville Orchestra, often with return engagements. Abroad, Corcoran has conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, and the Bournemouth (UK) Symphony. Interested in many musical styles, she has worked with a range of artists, including Béla Fleck, Brad Paisley, Amy Grant and Chris Botti, and has conducted the film scores to many movies in live performance screenings.

Originally from Massachusetts and a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for more than 10 years, Corcoran received her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from The Boston Conservatory and her Master of Music in instrumental conducting from Indiana University. She made her professional conducting debut in 2004 with the National Symphony Orchestra where she studied with her primary mentor, Leonard Slatkin. Corcoran studied with Marin Alsop as Honorable Mention for the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship.

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As Assistant Conductor of the Nashville Symphony, Vinay Parameswaran works closely with Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and conducts the symphony in classical, pops and education and community concerts. During the 2013/14 season, Parameswaran conducted an acclaimed concert with Itzhak Perlman at Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

He also returned to the Curtis Opera Theater in a production of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore.

During the 2012/13 season, Parameswaran conducted Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with the Curtis Opera Theatre, followed by appearances with the Vermont Symphony conducting three doubleconcertos with distinguished violinists Jamie Laredo and Jennifer Koh. He concluded the season with East Coast tour appearances at the Perelman Theater (Kimmel Center), the Kennedy Center and Miller Theater, also featuring Jamie Laredo and Jennifer Koh, as part of the “Curtis on Tour” program.

In the summer of 2012, Parameswaran was one of seven out of more than 130 applicants to be selected as a participant in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Workshop’s Conductors Institute, headed by Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier. In May of that year, he served as the cover conductor to Robert Spano in the Curtis Symphony Orchestra’s tour to Dresden, Germany, as well as the cover conductor to Miguel Harth-Bedoya with the Fort Worth Symphony.

As an opera conductor, Parameswaran made his Curtis Opera Theater debut conducting a doublebill of works by Davies and Handel. He served as the assistant conductor of Curtis Opera Theater productions of Les Mamelles de Tirésias, The Cunning Little Vixen and Elegy for Young Lovers.

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.

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Concertmaster Emerita (1989)

SECOND VIOLINS*

Kathryn Ladner,

Principal (1996)

Zeneba Bowers,

since 2009

VINAY PARAMESWARAN Assistant Conductor

since 2014

KELLY CORCORAN Chorus Director

since 2013

Erik Gratton, Principal

BASS TROMBONE Steven Brown (1998)

Assistant Principal (1977)

TUBA

Norma Grobman Rogers Chair (2012)

TIMPANI

Ann Richards,

Kathryn Ladner,

PICCOLO

Norma Grobman Rogers Chair (2012)

OBOES

VIOLAS*

Cassandra Lee,

Assistant Principal (1989) Judith Ablon (1995) Hari Bernstein (2012) Bruce Christensen (1984) Michelle Lackey Collins (1994) Christopher Farrell (1999) Mary Helen Law (1982) Melinda Whitley (1999) Clare Yang (1995) CELLOS*

James Button, Principal (2011) Ellen Menking, Assistant Principal (1993) Roger Wiesmeyer (2001) ENGLISH HORN

Roger Wiesmeyer (2001) CLARINETS

James Zimmermann, Principal (2008)

Assistant Principal (1979) Daniel Lochrie (1992) E-FLAT CLARINET Cassandra Lee (1979) BASS CLARINET Daniel Lochrie (1992) BASSOONS

Assistant Principal (1991)

Gil Perel (2003)

Xiao-Fan Zhang,

CONTRA BASSOON Gil Perel (2003)

Acting Assistant Principal James Victor Miller Chair (2003) Bradley Mansell (1984) Lynn Marie Peithman (1985) Stephen Drake (1984) Matthew Walker (1999) Christopher Stenstrom (1999) Keith Nicholas (1999) Julia Tanner (1978)

Gilbert Long, Principal (1978) William G. Wiggins, Principal (1969)

PERCUSSION Sam Bacco, Principal (1983)

Richard Graber,

Assistant Principal (2006)

HARP

Licia Jaskunas,

Principal (1998)

KEYBOARD

Robert Marler,

Principal (2010)

LIBRARIANS

D. Wilson Ochoa+, Principal (2002)

Jennifer Goldberg,

Acting Principal (2006)

Jared Rex,

Librarian (2014)

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER

Carrie Marcantonio (2008)

Cynthia Estill, Principal (1975) Dawn Hartley,

Anthony LaMarchina, Principal (1990)

Assistant Principal (1994)

Susan K. Smith,

Anne Potter Wilson Chair (1997)

Assistant Principal (1999) Kenneth Barnd (1999) Jessica Blackwell (2009) Rebecca Cole (2000) Radu Georgescu (1996) Adrienne Harmon ++ (2014) Benjamin Lloyd (1981) Louise Morrison (2007) Laura Ross (1984) Jeremy Williams (1998) Rebecca J Willie + (2002)

Daniel Reinker, Principal (2002) Shu-Zheng Yang,

TROMBONES Paul Jenkins, Principal (2014)

*Section seating revolves +Leave of Absence (year member joined the orchestra)

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Leslie Norton, Principal (1990) Beth Beeson (2000) Patrick Walle, Associate Principal/3rd Horn (2013)

Hunter Sholar (2007) Radu V. Rusu,

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Preston Bailey, Acting

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GIANCARLO GUERRERO Music Director

Principal Emeritus (1980) Kevin Jablonski (2010) Katherine Munagian (2014)

Jeffrey Bailey, Principal (1979) Patrick Kunkee,

ORC H EST RA

Assistant Concertmaster (1998)

Mary Kathryn Van Osdale,

Assistant Principal (1989)

Elizabeth Stewart (1991) Gary Lawrence,

TRUMPETS

DIRECTO RS

Associate Concertmaster (1991)

Erin Hall,

Joel Reist, Principal (1998) Glen Wanner,

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FIRST VIOLINS* Jun Iwasaki, Concertmaster Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair (2011)

2014/15 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

DIRECTORS

B OARD

James Seabury III Board Chair Mark Peacock Board Chair Elect

O F DIRECTO RS

Jeffery Walraven Board Treasurer Jennifer H. Puryear Board Secretary Alan D. Valentine * President & CEO

John Bailey III Russell Bates Scott Becker David Black Vic Braren Keith Churchwell Rebecca Cole * Michelle R. Collins * Kevin Crumbo Ben Cundiff Frank Daniels Jana Davis Robert Dennis Mary Falls Benjamin Folds Judy Foster Becky Gardenhire Vince Gill Edward A. Goodrich

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ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF EXECUTIVE

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Ms. Pamela Casey Fred Cassetty Dr. Elizabeth Cato Mr. Philip M. Cavender Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler Donna R. Cheek Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Clark Mr. & Mrs. John M. Clark Dorit & Donald Cochron Ed & Pat Cole Marjorie & Allen* Collins Mr. Brian Cook Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Daley III "David" Dr. & Mrs. Ben Davis John & Natasha Deane Dr. & Mrs. Alan Dopp Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Robert D. Eisenstein David Ellis & Barry Wilker Dr. Noelle Daugherty & Dr. Jack Erter Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild Dr. Lee A. Fentriss T. Aldrich Finegan Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas R. Ganick Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Harris A. Gilbert Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Gnyp Jr. Mr. John Green Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Hagood Mr. & Mrs. John Halsell Mr. & Mrs. Arthur S. Hancock Janet & Jim Hasson Mr. & Mrs. Monty D. Hatcher Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Suzy Heer Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Ms. Victoria Heil Hemphill Family Foundation Ken & Pam Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Scott Hoffman Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III "David" Rodney Irvin Family Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel Donald L. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (9) Jerry Adams Eric & Shannon Adams Jeff & Tina Adams James & Glyna Aderhold Carol M. Allen Gerry & Lisa Altieri Jeremy & Rebecca Atack Barbara & Mike Barton Mrs. Brenda Bass Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass Ned Bates Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Ms. Marilyn Bell Bernice Amanda Belue Frank M. Berklacich, MD Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills Mr. David Blackbourn & Ms. Celia Applegate Randolph & Elaine Blake Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Bob & Marion Bogen Mr. & Mrs. Gene Bonfoey Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Berry & Connie Brooks Mr. James Beach & Dr. Shervondalonn Brown

Mr. Scott Bryant Jean & David Buchanan Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Mr. & Mrs. John R. Burch Sr. Mrs. Patricia B. Buzzell Ms. Marguerite E. Callahan Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Mrs. Anissa Nelson-Carlisle & Charlie Carlisle Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III Valleau & Robert M. Caruthers Anita & Larry Cash Mary & Joseph Cavarra Dr.* & Mrs. Robert Chalfant Mr.* & Mrs. James W. Chamberlain Erica & Doug Chappell Dr. David M. Chatman Barbara & Eric Chazen Mr. & Mrs. James H. Cheek III Mrs. John Hancock Cheek Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher David & Starling Clark George D. Clark Jr. Jay & Ellen Clayton Sallylou & David Cloyd Esther & Roger Cohn Ms. Christina A. Coleman

Charles J. Conrick III Joe & Judy Cook Paul & Alyce Cooke Mike & Sandy Cooper Mr. William P. Cooper Kathy & Scott Corlew Teresa Corlew & Wes Allen Nancy Krider Corley Roger & Barbara Cottrell Drs. Paul A. & Dorothy Valcarcel Craig Dr. & Mrs. W. Morgan Crawford, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie Mr. & Mrs. Daryl Demonbreun LeeAnne & Carl Denney Alice & Walton Denton Peter & Kathleen Donofrio Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Doochin Myrtianne Downs Joe & Shirley Draper Mr. Michael L. Duffer Laura L. Dunbar Ms. Margaret R. Dunn Michael & Beverly Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden Mr. & Mrs. John W. Eakin Jr. E.B.S. Foundation Melissa Eckert Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr.

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Dr. Christopher Edwards & Mrs. Lori Edwards Dr. & Mrs. James E. Edwards Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Dr. Christopher & Wendy Ellis Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Mr. Owen T. Embry Laurie & Steven Eskind Mr. Michael Exner Dr. John & Janet Exton Bill & Dian S. Ezell Alex & Terry Fardon Mr. & Mrs. John Ferguson Bela Fleck Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer & Family Robert & Barbara Flowers Ms. Deborah F. Turner & Ms. Beth A. Fortune Drs. Robert* & Sharron Francis Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Peter & Debra Gage Mr. and Mrs. Ryan W. Gardenhire John & Eva Gebhart Ted M. George Mr.* & Mrs. Stewart J. Gilchrist Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III Frank Ginanni Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Goad Jr. Nancy & Gerry Goffinet Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Dr. Cornelia R. Graves Richard A. Green Cathey & Doug Hall Ellen C. Hamilton The Evelyn S. & Jim Horne Hankins Foundation Terry Hardesty Kent & Becky Harrell Mr. & Mrs. James M. Harris Mary & Paul Harvey Janet & Jim Hasson Jim & Stephanie Hastings Dr. A. Clyde Heflin & Ms. Jodi L. Schrick Ms. Doris Ann Hendrix Kem & Marilyn Hinton Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Dr. Elisabeth Dykens & Dr. Robert Hodapp Ms. Susan S. Holt Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Ray Houston Hudson Family Foundation Donna & Ronn Huff Albert C. Hughes Jr. & Charlotte E. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. John Huie Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Huljak Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Judith S. & James R. Humphreys Bud Ireland Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Steven L. Jackson Ellen & Kenneth Jacobs Lee & Pat Jennings Keith & Nancy* Johnson Bob & Virginia Johnson Mary Loventhal Jones Mrs. Robert N. Joyner Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Kelly Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy John & Eleanor Kennedy Mr. & Mrs. Bill G. Kilpatrick Terry Kimbrell & Laura Covington Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. Jerry Lackey Mr. Daniel L. LaFevor Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Bob & Mary LaGrone Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Mr. Thomas S. Lannom Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lavender Sandi & Tom Lawless Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lea IV Don & Patti Liedtke Mrs. John N. Lukens Drs. Amy & George Lynch George & Cathy Lynch William R. & Maria T. MacKay Joe & Anne Maddux Drs. Thomas & Beverly Madron James & Gene Manning Captain Nathan Marsh Metro Fire Fighter James & Patricia Martineau

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Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Brad S. Procter Mr. Larry Quinlan Dr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Rankin Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Franco & Cynthia Recchia Ms. Allison R. Reed & Mr. Sam Garza Mr. William D. Reighard Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Mr. & Mrs. John A. Roberts Delphine and Kenneth Roberts Dr. Julie A. Roe Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins Georgianna W. Russell Dr. & Mrs. Henry P. Russell Paula & Kent Sandidge Mr. & Mrs. Jay Sangervasi Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter James A. Scandrick Jr. Mrs. Cooper Schley Dr. Kenneth E. Schriver & Dr. Anna W. Roe Ms. Jessica Schwieger Peggy C. Sciotto Alfred & Katherine Sharp Mr.* & Mrs. Robert K. Sharp Anita & Mike Shea Mr. & Mrs. Richard Shearer Mr. Michael Sheen Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas A. Sieveking Sr. Luke & Susan Simons Tom & Sylvia Singleton Drs. Walter E. Smalley Jr. & Louise Hanson Dr. & Mrs. Geoffrey H. Smallwood Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Suzanne & Grant Smothers Mr. & Mrs. James H. Spalding Mickey M. & Kathleen Sparkman Ms. Maggie P. Speight Dr. & Mrs. Norman Spencer Dr. Michael & Tracy Stadnick Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Mr. James McAteer & Dr. Catherine Stober Mr. & Mrs. William T. Stroud

Bruce & Elaine Sullivan Gayle Sullivan William & Rebecca Taylor Clay & Kimberly Teter Dr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Thomas Julie & Scott Thomas Marcus & Patti Thompson Mr. Mark Tillinger Dr. & Mrs. Todd Tolbert Torrence Family Fund Martha J. Trammell Thomas L. & Judith A. Turk Ms. Tammi Turner Mr. & Mrs. William E. Turner Jr. Souraya Uniejewski Dr. Jan van Eys Bradley & Karen Vandermolen Karl & Ann VanDevender Ms. Rita R. Vann Larry & Brenda Vickers Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Mr. David Walker Mike & Elaine Walker Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Walker James & Greta Walsh Mr. & Mrs. Martin H. Warren Talmage M. Watts Erin Wenzel Mr.* & Mrs. Fred Wheeler Stacy Widelitz Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wieck Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Adam & Laura Wilczek Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenk Donald E. Williams Judy S. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II Mr. & Mrs. Blair Wilson Gail & Richard Yanko Mr. Payton H. Young Donna B. Yurdin Ms. Jane Zeigler Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Zigli

CONCERTMASTER Gifts of $500 - $999 Anonymous (21) Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Abelman Eddie & RenĂŠ Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Roger Allbee Ken Altman Doug & Jessica Anderson Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple David & Marsha Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins Mr. Bruce G. Aubrey Geralda M. Aubry Mr. & Mrs. James E. Auer Mr. Christopher S. Aycock Lawrence E. Baggett Richard W. Baker Drs. Ferdinand & Eresvita Balatico Mr. John U. Basinger Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Katrin T. Bean Mr. & Mrs. Craig Becker Mr. Scott E. Becker Mark H. Bell Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Mr. Jason Bennett Mike & Kathy Benson James & Peggy Biagini Marilyn Blake Mr. John Blanton Jim & Sydney Boerner Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Irma Bolster Dr. Scott B. Boyd Beverly J. Brandenburg Jere & Crystal Brassell Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun 56

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Janet Keese Davies Mr. & Mrs. Steven Davis Steve Sirls & Allen DeCuyper Dr. & Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Mrs. Edwin DeMoss Anne R. Dennison Dr. & Mrs. Henry A. DePhillips Drs. Clint & Jessica Devin Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Dr. Dorothy J. Diveley Ms. Shirley J. Dodge Mr. Newton Dominey Mr. Eddie H. Doss Tere & David Dowland Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Drake Mr & Mrs. Mike Dungan Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Mr. Ronnie R. Edwards Dr. William E. Engel Robert & Cassandra Estes Dr. & Mrs. James Ettien Laurie & Ron Farris Mr. Steven Fast Dr. Kimberly D. Ferguson Ms. Fern Fitzhenry Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Forrester Mr. & Mrs. David B. Foutch Mr. Eric P. Fowlds Ms. Nelle L. Freemon John C. Frist Jr., M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Frist Jr. Robert & Peggy Frye Suzanne J. Fuller Tom & Jennifer Furtsch Bill & Ginny Gable Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Galbraith Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Galbraith

Mr. & Mrs. George C. Garden Mrs. Beth Garner Randolph Charitable Fund Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Mr. Norman B. Gillis Mark Glazer & Cynthia Stone Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Gould Dr. Antonio M. Granda Bryan D. Graves Brent & Pat Graves Alexander & Simone Gray Dr. Katrina Green Mr. & Mrs. Russell D. Groff Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Hakim Cindy Harper Frank & Liana Harrell Mrs. Edith Harris Dr. & Mrs. Jason Haslam David & Judith Slayden Hayes Lisa & Bill Headley Mr. & Mrs. Shannon Heil Doug & Becky Hellerson Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Heyman Mr. Kevin E. Hickman Mr. Dan E. Hippensteel Catherine J. Holsen Mr. & Mrs. Richard Holton Mrs. Barbara A. Hord Ken & Beverly Horner Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Horrell Diane & Bruce Houglum Samuel and Karan Howard Mr. & Mrs. William E. Hughes Margie Hunter Nelson Hunter & Becky Gardner Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Sandra & Joe Hutts Michael & Evelyn Hyatt Dr. & Mrs. Roger Ireson Haynie & Patsy Jacobs Mr. Andrew Jacobson James R. & Helen H. James Robert C. Jamieson MD Hal & Dona Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy K. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Jacob Jolly Ms. Beverly Jones Dr. Sonya N. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Tarpley Jones Mrs. Margaret H. Joyce Dr. Barbara F. Kaczmarska Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane Jane Kersten Peter & Courtney Kihlberg Bill & Becca Killebrew Mrs. Elizabeth D. Knight Ms. Linda R. Koon Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce Sanford & Sandra Krantz Mr. William W. Kroemer Mrs. Diane J. Kruse Tim Kyne Mr. & Mrs. John H. Laird Mrs. Martha W. Lawrence Judy & Lewis Lefkowitz Ted & Anne Lenz Ralph G. Leverett Michael & Ellen Levitt Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Mr. & Mrs. Ronald S. Ligon Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Lind Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Lippolis Ms. Leigh C. Little Drs. Walt & Shannon Little Keltner W. & Debra S. Locke Ms. Deborah Logsdon Mr. Rufus & Evelyn Long J. Edgar Lowe Jeffrey C. Lynch Michael & State Representative Susan Lynn Sharron Lyon Mr. & Mrs. Phil Lyons Herman & Dee Maass Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Macdonald Mrs. Jeannine G. Manes Andrea & Helga Maneschi Ms. Sheila Mann

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Dr. John F. Manning Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Manyik David & Leah Marcus Mr. & Mrs. Ben T. Martin Henry & Melodeene Martin Abraham, Lesley & Jonathan Marx Joanne Wallace McCall Mr. & Mrs. Guerry McComas Thomas & Eileen McGinn Mr. Brian L. McKinney Mrs. Heidi L. McKinney Mr. & Mrs. Rick McKnight Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Randy & Edina McMasters Catherine & Brian R. McMurray Ed & Tracy McNally Ms. Virginia J. Meece Mr. James A. Meyer & Ms. Lynne Link Mr. & Mrs. Rich Miles Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. Miller Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent B. Millspaugh Dr. Jere Mitchum Mr. & Mrs. Steven Moll Anthony & Ariane Montemuro Beth & Paul Moore Mr. Thomas P. Moran Ms. Ellen L. More Cynthia & Richard Morin Steve & Laura Morris Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Sarah Morse Dick & Mary Jo Murphy Johnny Mutina & Earl Lamons Mr. & Mrs. J. William Myers Lucille C. Nabors Teresa & Mike Nacarato Larry & Marsha Nager Dr. John Newman & Ms. Rebecca Lyford Mr. Christopher Newsom William & Kathryn Nicholson Mr. Brian M. Norris Jane K. Norris

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Virginia O'Brien Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr. Hunt & Debbye Oliver Mr. & Mrs. Jack Oman Mr. Sergio Ora Drs. Lucius & Freida Outlaw Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page Mrs. Janie E. Parmley Mr. & Mrs. John Francis Paul Dr. & Mrs. Joel Q. Peavyhouse Claude Petrie Jr. Mary & Joe Rea Phillips Faris & Robert Phillips Charles & Mary Phy CW Pinson, M.D., MBA Ms. Sheila F. Pirkle Mr. & Mrs. John H. Pope Dr. & Mrs. James L. Potts Mr. & Mrs. Alvin C. Powers Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Prill George & Joyce Pust Dr. James Quiggins Tom & Chris Rashford Mr. Edwin B. Raskin Dr. Amos Raymond Mrs. Ida D. Read Paul & Gerda Resch Candace Mason Revelette Mr. & Mrs. Tate Rich Don & Connie Richardson Mrs. Jean Richardson Mary Riddle Lowell & Sondra Roddy Mr. & Mrs. Doug Rogers Fran C. Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland Edgar & Susan Rothschild Jan & Ed Routon Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Rowan Ms. Terry S. Sadler David Sampsell

Samuel L. & Barbara Sanders Philip & Jane Sanderson Mr. & Mrs. David P. Sartor David M. Satterfield Ms. Elizabeth K. Scheibe Dr. Alex D. Schenkman & Melissa Musser Jean & Stuart Schmidt Pam & Roland Schneller Judy & Hank Schomber Jack Schuett Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Schultenover Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott Drs. Fernando F. & Elena O. Segovia Odessa L. Settles Max & Michelle Shaff Paul & Celeste Shearer Mrs. Jack W. Shepherd Pamela Sixfin Ashley N. Skinner Mr. Wesley A. Skinner Susan Diane Sloan David & Robin Small Smith Family Foundation Dr. Robert Smith & Barbara Ramsey Mr. James E. Snider Jr. Marc & Lorna Soble Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Mr. Michael E. Spitzer Ms. Karen G. Sroufe Mrs. Randolph C. St. John Hilary & Shane Stapleton Ms. Alice Stern Gloria & Paul Sternberg Jr. CAPT & Mrs. Charles E. Stewart Jr. Dr. & Mrs. William R. Stewart Craig & Dianne Sussman Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Taylor Ms. Kelly Taylor Dr. Paul E. Teschan Lisa G. Thomas David & Kathryn Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Wendol R. Thorpe Mr. Dwight D. Thrash, CPA, FCPA Dr. Gary Tizard Mr. & Mrs. Michael Todd Mr. Michael P. Tortora Mr. Lloyd Townsend Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Mila & Bill Truan Mr. Gerald L. Trudell Mr. & Mrs. James F. Turner Jr. Christi & Jay Turner Mr. & Mrs. Mike Vaden Ms. Rita R. Vann Kathryn G. Varnell Janice Kay Wagen Mr. Donald D. Warden II Dr. & Mrs. John J. Warner Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Warner Jr. Bill & Ruth Wassynger Gayle & David Watson Mrs. James A. Webb Jr. Dr. Medford S. Webster Dr. & Mrs. J. J. Wendel Mr. John W. West Beth & Arville Wheeler Linda & Raymond White Jonna & Doug Whitman Marie Holman Wiggins Mr. James L. Wilbanks Mr. & Mrs. David M. Wilds Diana T. Wilker Vicki Gardine Williams Mr. Kirby S. Willingham Amos & Etta Wilson Gary & Cathy Wilson Mary E. Womack Mr. Peter Wooten & Ms. Renata Soto Mr. Thomas L. Wynn Mr. & Mrs. Samuel C. Yeager Dr. Beverly Zak Roy & Ambra Zent William C. Zotti

FIRST CHAIR Gifts of $250 - $499 Anonymous (37) Mr. Jeffrey A. Abell Bassel & Rima Abou-Khalil The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. W. Robert Abstein Mr. Sari Acra Ben & Nancy Adams Mrs. Nancy R. Adlington Mrs. Jessica D. Aeschliman Nancy & Bruce Alexander Dr. J Neil Alexander Chip Alford Dr. Joseph H. Allen Mr. Mac Allen Newton & Burkley Allen Mr. John D. Allison Mr. & Mrs. John Allpress Adrienne Ames William & Margery Amonette Andy & Karen Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Harry Anderson Professor Kathryn Anderson Ken & Jan Anderson Drs. William X. & Claudia S. Andrews Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Mr. Robert L. Appleby Heidi M. Arata Drs. Ron & Mary Ann Arildsen Mr. Aaron Armstrong Mr. Robert Arnold Todd & Barbara Arrants Ms. Deborah Arvin Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead Mrs. Melissa Atherton Mr. Leonard Aurora The Brian C. Austin Family Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Averbuch David A. & Stephanie Bailey Charles & Marjorie Bain Ms. Carolyn C. Baker Mr. & Mrs. J. Oriol Barenys Dr. Fatima Barnes Dr. Beth S. Barnett Dr.* & Mrs. Thomas C. Barr Ms. Patricia W. Barrett Ms. Rose C. Barton Ken & Debbie Bason Mr. & Mrs. James Bauchiero Fran & Sandy Bedard Susan O. Belcher Susan & Yancy Belcher Mr. Wesley P. Belden Carl W. Berg Dr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Berry Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Besand Mr. Samuel C. Bessey Ms. Teresa Bianco Mr. Kenneth E. Bigsby Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell Dr. Joel Birdwell Bill & Donna Bissell Ms. Helen R. Blackburn-White Dr. Lacy R. Blackwell Mimi Bliss & Dwayne Barrett Mrs. Andrea Boely Mr. Delmas L. Bogus Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. Bolger Mr. & Mrs. Seton J. Bonney Mr. Henry Booker Dr. & Mrs. Glenn H. Booth Jr. David Bordenkircher Robert E. Bosworth Mr. Kevin L. Bowden Don & Deborah Boyd Mr. Howard L. Boyd Ms. LaDonna Y. Boyd Drs. James P. & Andrea C. Bracikowski Jeff & Jeanne Bradford Eleanor & Harold Bradley Dr. Joel F. Bradley Dr. & Mrs. James M. Brakefield Robert & Barbara Braswell Mary Lawrence Breinig Gene & Delane Brewer Jamie A. Brewer Basia Brock Betty & Bob Brodie Mr & Mrs. Larry J. & Julia Brooks

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Mr. Kelly E. Gatewood Dr. Carrie C. Gauchat Alan & Jeannie Gaus Christopher & Amanda Genovese Miss Lindsay A. George Dodie & Carl George Em J. Ghianni Ms. Stephanie R. Gibbs Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Giles Mr. Mark S. Giovetti Mr. Andre L. Gist Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Glassford Mrs. Megan G. Glosson Linda & Joel Gluck Ms. Beverly Jean Godwin Caroline Goedicke Susan T. Goodwin Jeff & Dolores Goold Dr. & Mrs. Gerald S. Gotterer Kathleen Gould Mrs. Sarah D. Governale Tom & Carol Ann Graham Mr. & Mrs. Richard Grant Roger & Sherri Gray Austin & Delaney Gray Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Green Mr. & Mrs. George G. Green III Judith & Peter Griffin Mr. Michael Grillot Mr. James H. Grimes R. Dale & Nancy G. Grimes Eric & Martha Grindeland Karen & Daniel Grossman Sandra M. Gurgone Mr. & Mrs. David C. Guth Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Allen F. Gwinn Ms. Elaine J. Hackerman John & Libbey Hagewood Dr. & Mrs. John D. Hainsworth John Hall Dr. Mary L. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Harry M. Hanna Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Hanselman Mrs. Axel Hansen Mr. Stephen R. Hardin Mr. Daniel J. Harper Dickie & Joyce Harris Eric Harrison Jean & Dick Hart Mr. James S. Hartman Mark & Sylvia Hartzog Mr. & Mrs. Dan D. Haskins Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John C. Hayes III Ms. Valerie Hayes Peggy R. Hays Stephen & Deborah Hays H. Carl Haywood Mr. & Mrs. Allen W. Head Michael & Theda Head Ms. Cornelia Heard-Meyer & Mr. Edgar A. Meyer Jr. Dr. & Mrs. James A. Hefner Dr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Heimburger Dr. Frances D. Henderson Jack & Shirley Henry Dr. Regina S. Henry Dennis & Leslie Henson Mr. & Mrs. Gregory M. Herman Gregory Hersh Steve Hesson Ms. Nancy M. Hewett Dr. & Mrs. Gerald B. Hickson Ms. Cheryl L. Hiers Ronald & Nancy Hill Ms. Mary C. Hinton Dr. & Mrs. M. Bruce Hirsch Mr. Corey Hodges Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hofe Aurelia L. Holden Mr. David L. Holeton Ms. Cyndi S. Holland Dr. Nan Holland & Dr. R. Duane Holland Mr. & Mrs.* James G. Holleman William Hollings & Michael Emrick Dr. and Mrs. Doy Hollman Dr. & Mrs. Russell Holman Mr. & Mrs. Dale A. Holmer 62

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Don & Deb Holmes Frances Holt Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hommrich Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Hooper Drs. Richard T. & Paula C. Hoos Ms. Linda T. Horner Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. House Mr. Seth C. Houser Mrs. Winifred Howell Mr. Steven M. Hub Mr. David Huckabee Bill Hudgins Mrs. Carol Hudler Dr. & Mrs. Louis C. Huesmann II Marcia Hughes Kevin Hunsinger Mr. & Mrs. David Hunt The Hunt Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Mel A. Ibarra Ms. Karen L. Ingram Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Irlinger Ms. Anna K. Iversen Ms. Chamika R. Jackson Frances C. Jackson Ms. Theressa C. Jackson Gregory & Patricia James Mr. & Mrs.* Alan R. Javorcky Dr. Carl H. Johnson & Mrs. Mine Yoshizawa Dr. & Mrs. Charles Johnson John T. & Kerrie Johnson Ms. Michaelene Johnson Ms. Pamela D. Johnson Susan & Evan Johnston Pat & David Jones Frank & Audrey Jones Pat & Howard Jones Mr. Jeffrey A. Jones Mr. & Mrs. John Jones Dr. Vicky Jones Drs. Ramon & Cathy Jrade Mr. & Mrs. David A. Kacynski Dr. & Mrs. Herman J. Kaplan Cathy Couey & Richard Kasnick Carol & Sol Katz Hal & Peggy Kearns Mr. Mike Keenan Mr. Antonio Keith Jamie & Wade Kelley Ron & Janice Kempf Mr. & Mrs. Brock Kidd Mr. Harlon J. Kimbro Jr. George C. King Marsha Kline Jack T. & Barbara E. Knott David & Judy Kolzow Mrs. Rachel Korine Mr. & Mrs. Carl Kornmeyer Mark J. Koury & Daphne C. Walker Joyce K. Laben Dr. Kristine L. LaLonde Mr. John E. Land Mr. Howard Landman Mr. & Mrs. Keith H. Landry Danny & Jan Law Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Dr. & Mrs. Donald Lee J. Mark Lee Ms. Nora Lee Mr. Kyle Lehning Dorothy & Jim Lesch Mr. Matthew Leverton Jeff & Lynn Levy E. A. Lewis Mr. Michael A. Lewis Mack & Katherine Linebaugh Richard & Tad Lisella The Howard Littlejohn Family Mr. & Mrs. James H. Littlejohn Jean & Steve Locke Kim & Mike Lomis Kim & Bob Looney Mr. Mark E. Lopez & Mr. Patrick J. Boggs Frances & Eugene Lotochinski David & Nancy Loucky Mr. Thomas H. Loventhal Kenyatta & Tracey Lovett

Donald & Phyllis Lowe Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal Mr. & Mrs. William B. Loyd Drs. Bo Lu & Jia Bi Bruce & Penny Lueckenhoff Ms. Frances B. Lumbard Patrick & Betty Lynch Mr. Michael J. MacDonald Dr. Susan R. MacKenzie Mr. John Maddux Mr. Eric J. Mader Mr. & Mrs. John D. Madole Dr. & Mrs. Mark A. Magnuson Sam & Betty Marney Dr. & Mrs. Harry D. Marsh Ms. Anne B. Marshall Dr. Dana R. Marshall Ms. Stephanie K. Martin Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Massie Mr. & Mrs. Donnie H. Masters Sue & Herb Mather Eva Mathis Ms. Mitzi Matlock Mr. & Mrs. John M. Mauldin Ms.Margery L. Mayer & Ms. Carolyn Oehler Sonje K. Mayo Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. McAllister Mr. Paul Lorczak & Janet McCabe Ron & Suzanne McCafferty Jocelynne McCall Ms. Carolyn McClerkin Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. McClure Mr. Zachary McCormick Thomas B. McCoy Kathleen McCracken Mr. Robert L. McCreary Mary & John McCullough Bob McDill & Jennifer Kimball Ed & Carla McDougle Edward W. McFadden Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. McGrew Jr. Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy E. McIntosh Jr. Ms. Ashley M. Mcmahan Dr. & Mrs. Timothy E. McNutt Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. McWherter Mr. David W. Mead Mr. Julius E. Meriweather Jr. Mr. Jack E. Meyer Sheila & Alan Miller Dr. & Mrs. Philip G. Miller Dr. Ron V. Miller Mrs. Sherri M. Miller David & Lisa Minnigan Mr. Robert D. Minton Dr. Fernando Miranda & Dr. Patricia Bihl-Miranda Mr. Trent J. Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Scott Moffett Shirley & Felix Montgomery Dr. Michael F. Montijo & Mrs. Patricia A. JamiesonMontijo Jerry E. & Gleedell J. Moody James & April Moore Dr. Kelly L. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Morris Mr. Neal R. Morse Monica L. Mosesso Dr. Matthew K. Mosteller Mr. & Mrs. John C. Moulton Dr. J. Philip Moyers Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Mueller Mrs. Elizabeth Murphy Mr. & Mrs. B. Dwayne Murray Jr. Capt. Bryan Clinton Neal Mr. James R. Neal Gerald & Jennifer Neenan Mr. Fred S. Nelson Jennifer Nelson Dr. & Mrs. Harold Nevels Stephen & Barbara Nichol Ms. Alice Nichols Mark & Kaye Nickell Drs. John* & Margaret Norris Mr. Thomas H. North Judy M. Norton Mr. & Mrs. William A. Norton Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin

Bill Tidwell Scott & Nesrin Tift Ms. Shari L. Tish Mr. Mark G. Tobin Mr. Erik Todd Ms. Emily Todoran Mr. & Mrs. Lewis J. Tomiko Leon Tonelson Mr. & Mrs. Sean Torr Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Trusty Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull Mr.* & Mrs. Jimmy L. Turner Dr. & Mrs. Michael Tyler Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Vandever Frances Anne Varallo Mr. & Mrs. Gay E. Vick III Kimberly Dawn Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Douglas K. Voise Mrs. Bridget S. von Weisenstein Ms. Maria Voss Mr. & Mrs. William W. Wade Ms. Brenda Walker Mrs. Emily L.Martin Lynn S. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wallace Kay & Larry Wallace Dr. & Mrs. Gary L. Waltemath Ms. Judith Walter Mr. Allen P. Ward Dr. Jane Warren Bob Watson & Beth Mallen Shirley Marie Watts Mr. James C. Way Frank & Jane Wcislo H. Martin* & Joyce Weingartner Ms. Amy Wells Ms. Donna M. Werner Ms. Joni P. Werthan & Mr. Larry S. Jessen Mrs. Julia West Linda C. West Franklin & Helen Westbrook Mr. Angelo White Mr. & Mrs. Larry Whitehead Ms. Judith B. Wiens Mr. Jonathan N. Wike Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Wiley Frank & Marcy Williams Ms. Jannie C. Williams John & Anne Williams Dr. Joyce E. Williams Mr. John A. Willis Ms. Donna Wilson The Rev. & Mrs. H. David Wilson Tommy & Carol Ann Wilson Ms. Emily J. Windham Ms. Barbara W. Winstead Ms. Sandra Wiscarson Mr. Robert E. Wise Mr. & Mrs. William F. Wolf Scott & Ellen Wolfe Mr. Casey R. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Wood Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wood Sr. Miss Jessica Woodard Ms. Nerene G. Wray Kathryn & Roy Wroth Mr. & Mrs. Gary P. Wulfsberg Dr. Mary Yarbrough Mr. & Mrs. Michael Yarbrough Ms. Laura L. Yeager Ms. Faith Adams Young Mr. Anthony Zahorik Ms. Shirley Zent Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Zibart Dr. Thomas F. Zimmerman, M.D. Rev. & Mrs. A. Jackson Zipperer Jr. Ms. Wilma Zonn

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Alan & Ann Sanders Mr. & Mrs. Bryce Sanders Ms. Teri I. Sanders Mr. Bradley T. Sanderson Mr. & Mrs.William B. Saunders & Family Mr. Donald D. Savoy Bob & Lisa Schatz Diane Scher Ms. Carol Schlafly Mr. Bob Schlafly Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth P. Schnaars Molly & Richard Schneider Drs. Carl & Wendy Schofield Kurt Schreiber & Nelda Schreiber Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Schwab Mr. Paul C. Scott Mr. & Mrs. Harold Seavey Mr. Carl A. Sedgeman Mrs. Adrianne Seifert Gene A. & Linda M. Shade Mr. & Mrs. Stephen B. Shanklin Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Shea Ms. Laura E. Sikes Keith & Kay Simmons Mr. & Mrs. William L. Simmons Mr. & Mrs. Wilson Sims Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir Alice Sisk Ms. Diane M. Skelton Dr. & Mrs. David Slosky Scott Smieja & Leilani Mason Mrs. Madison Smith Ms. Cara Smith Mr. Charles Smith Charles R. Smith & Vernita Hood-Smith Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Mr. Edd Smith Mr. & Mrs. Kenric Smith James T. & Judith M. Smythe Dr. & Mrs. Marcus Solomon Ms. Rejane Soucy Mr. Stuart S. Southard Nan E. Speller Mrs. Karen E. Speyer Tom Spiggle Mr. & Mrs. Charles Sprintz Tom Squires Nancy & Lily Stalls Sid Stanley Caroline Stark Lelan & Yolanda Statom Dr. & Mrs. James D. Stefansic Dr. C. Thomas & Cheryl Steiner Mr. Donald L. Stephenson Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens Mr. Phillip M. Stewart Bob & Tammy Stewart Ms. Allison Stillwell Young Dr. Christie E. St-John Kent & Judy Stockton Mr. & Mrs. Glenn C. Stophel Mr. & Mrs. Warner A. Stringer III Ricky & Carol Sullivan Frank Sutherland & Natilee Duning Don D. & Louise McKee Swain Greg & Rhonda Swanson Dr. Becky E. Swanson-Hindman Rev. Justin Sweatman Ms. Carolyn C. Swinney Dr. Anna & Mr. Jaroslaw Szczuka Bishop & Mrs. Melvin G. Talbert Dr. Thomas R. Talbot Bruce & Jaclyn Tarkington Mr. and Mrs. James D. Tashie Dianne Tatara Mr. Lawrence E. Taylor Eugene & Penny Te Selle Jeremy & Carrie Teaford Dr. & Mrs. David L. Terrell Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Thackston Mr. & Mrs. Richard Theiss Dr. & Mrs. William Thetford Rev. C. Steve Thomas Bob & Mary Battle Thompson Mr. Larry C. Thornton Richard & Shirley Thrall

ANNUAL

John & Meredith Oates Ms. Laura B. O'Connell Patricia J. Olsen Mr. Brendan O'Malley Frank & Nancy Orr Philip & Carolyn Orr Wayne Overby Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Overfield Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Overstreet Mr. Stephen N. Owens Dr. & Mrs. Aydin Ozan Mr. Joshua D. Ozment Ophelia & George Paine Terry & Wanda Palus Doria Panvini Jason & Chelsea Parker Clint Parrish Dr. & Mrs. Earl Q. Parrott Ms. Lisa Pasho-Coughlin Lisa & Doug Pasto-Crosby Ms. Anupama A. Patel Ms. Rebecca Selove Diane Payne Dr. & Mrs. W. Faxon Payne Joyce D. Peacock Mr. & Mrs. John O. Pearce Ms. Linda Pegues Anne & Neiland Pennington Dr. & Mrs. A. F. Peterson Jr. Dr. & Mrs. William M. Petrie Kenneth C. Petroni MD Ms. Sonya M. Petway-Edwards Mr. Donald L. Pickard Mr. Maurice W. Pinson Ms. Julie B. Plexico Rick & Diane Poen Mr. Timothy J. Polaschek Ms. Carol Polston Phil & Dot Ponder Katherine M. Poole Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Kathleen Poole Stanley D. Poole Ms. Elizabeth M. Potocsnak Cammy Price Mr. & Mrs. John E. Prine Mr. Franklin M. Privette Mr. & Mrs. James Puckett Mr. & Mrs. Brooks A. Quin Mr. Daniel L. Rader & Mrs. Leah R. Jensen-Rader Mrs. Tanya C. Radic CDR Helen F. Ragan, NC, USNR Edria & David Ragosin Mr. & Mrs. Ross Rainwater Dr. & Mrs. Ivan N. Raley Mr. & Mrs. William C. Randle Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths Nancy Ward Ray Mr. Hugh M. Rayhab Mrs. Dawn D. Redlin Mr. Roger H. Reed Charlotte A. Reichley Mr. Allen Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Al J. Rhodes Mr. Cliff N. Rhodes Dr. John S. Rich Barbara Richards Mrs. Jane H. Richmond Mrs. Paul E. Ridge Mr. & Mrs. James Riley Mr. & Mrs. Brian Roark Rev. Robin Robertson Marc R. Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Rogers Alice & Michael Rolli Judith R. Roney Dr. & Mrs. Hal M. Roseman Rodney & Lynne Rosenblum Mrs. Ruth S. Roten Lauren & Christopher Rowe Mr. Jeffery M. Roy Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Roy Mrs. Denise Ruiz Dr.* & Mrs. Kenneth Rutherford Judith Ann Sachs Mr. & Mrs. John Saidy Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Sams Ron & Lynn Samuels

HONORARY

In honor of the marriage of Celia Applegate & David Blackbourn In honor of Ms. Bettie Berry In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Milton Hay Brown In honor of Dr. Glenn & Mrs. Suzanne Buckspan In honor of Keelan Farrell & Ben Gager In honor of Jennifer Goldberg

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In honor of Martha Ingram In honor of Wilhelmina Johnson In honor of Frank P. Lavarre In honor of Peggy Loughran's birthday In honor of Robert (Bob) McNeilly In honor of Harrell Odom In honor of Roger Wiesmeyer

MEMORIAL

ANNUAL GUIDE

Celebrating the Best of Nashville NINTH ANNUAL EDITION — Fall/Winter 2014 - 2015

FALL/WINTER 2014 – 2015

DISPLAY UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2014

From the performing arts to sports, Nashville Arts & Entertainment Magazine celebrates the thriving, creative spirit of one of the most exciting cities in the nation.

A work of art unto itself, the magazine is your ultimate source for exclusive interviews, news, and information, including a calendar of events. The perfect-bound annual glossy is a beauty, exclusively distributed in the 800 rooms at the Omni Convention Center Hotel, in addition to other select locations. Of course, you’ll want one for your coffee table, too.

The brand new edition includes a fun piece that takes you backstage at TPAC, the Nashville Symphony, the Grand Ole Opry, and Ryman Auditorium. New this year, Nashville Arts & Entertainment will honor five remarkable Nashvillians whose lives have impacted our city in countless ways. Nashville Arts & Entertainment Honors is pleased to make a donation of $1,000 to each of five different charities these honorees support in recognition of their tremendous spirit of giving and encouragement. Read all about it!

Get your copy at Barnes & Noble, Costco, Hudson News Gift Shops at the airport, Kroger, Publix, and finer newsstands throughout middle Tennessee or purchase online at NAEmag.com.

The magazine is also distributed by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development.

Nashville Arts & Entertainment Magazine is published by Glover Group Entertainment. For information about advertising in the magazine — or the Performing Arts Magazine you received at today’s performance — visit GloverGroupEntertainment.com or call 615-373-5557.

In memory of Carole Slate Adams In memory of James R. Austin In memory of Jessica Bloom In memory of James F. Brandenburg In memory of Nathan Alexander Brooks In memory of W. Ovid Collins Jr. In memory of Mr. Bruce Crabtree Jr. In memory of Lucille David In memory of Mr. Walter Joseph Diehl Jr. In memory of James J. (Bucky) Doster In memory of Mort L. Downey In memory of Mrs. Sue Doyle In memory of Jackson Harris MD In memory of Adolphus "Dolph" Henry Hatcher III In memory of Nora & T. Earl Hinton In memory of Sandra Elizabeth Gray Hunt In memory of Rodney Irvin In memory of Mark Alan Lewis In memory of Clare & Samuel Loventhal In memory of Samuel C. Loventhal In memory of Lt Cmdr Alan A. Patterson, USN In memory of Susan Plageman In memory of Alyce M. Priesmeyer In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor In memory of William Satterwhite In memory of Betty Jo Shafer In memory of Louise "Weezie" Hodges Sherwood In memory of Mr. Buddy Skinner In memory of James R. Surface In memory of Mr. Charles Richard Treadway In memory of James E. Ward In memory of John Barnett Waterman In memory of H. Martin Weingartner

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

Encore Dining 1808 Grille

Sophisticated, yet casual, 1808 Grille’s seasonal menus blend traditional Southern dishes with global flavors. Award-winning wine list, as well as full bar and bar menu.

Forbes Four-Star. Complimentary valet. 1808 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203 Ph: (615) 340-0012 www.1808grille.com

Bob’s Steak & Chop House

The prime place for prime steak Located inside the Omni Nashville Hotel, Bob’s Steak & Chop House is a nationally renowned steak house specializing in the finest corn-fed, Midwestern prime beef. Our menu formula is simple: incredible meat, gigantic shrimp, fabulous salads and decadent desserts. Classic steak house food prepared and presented in a manner that Bon Appétit calls “the kind of fare you’ll want to go back for again and again.” 250 5th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203 Ph: (615) 761-3707

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar

Fleming’s Nashville is an ongoing celebration of exceptional food & wine, featuring the finest prime steak and an award-winning wine list. We are located across from Centennial Park at 2525 West End Ave.

Ph: (615) 342-0131 www.flemingssteakhouse.com/locations/tn/nashville

Goozy Dessert Bar and Café

Nashville’s first dessert bar, featuring molten chocolate cakes, housemade gelato, inventive desserts, artisan grilled cheeses, gourmet coffee, wine, craft beer and cocktails.

Located in Green Hills across from Orvis and Noshville.

Visit www.gotogoozy.com for hours and directions. Ph: (615) 297.0274

Kitchen Notes

Authentic Southern Flavor Enjoy traditional Southern dishes handed down from generation to generation at Kitchen Notes, offering sustainable dishes made from treasured family recipes. This innovative farm-to-table concept incorporates using the freshest ingredients to create great food and a casual dining experience. While you’re here, don’t miss out on our famous Biscuit Bar, serving biscuits throughout the day! 250 5th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203 Ph: (615) 761-3700

Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Nashville

On the corner of Fourth & Broadway, Margaritaville has everything… authentic southern food, the best bars & the caliber of music that’s expected in Nashville.

Ph: 615-208-9080 / www.MargaritavilleNashville.com / Sales@MargaritavilleNashville.com

The Melting Pot - a Fondue Restaurant

Where fun is cooked up fondue style. Join us for Cheese and Chocolate fondue or the full 4-course experience. Casually elegant – Always Fun. Open 7 Days for dinner.

Sundays after the Matinee. Valet Parking. Ph: (615)742-4970. 166 Second Ave. N.

Reservations Recommended. www.meltingpot.com/nashville

Prime 108

Prime 108 was named a Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star restaurant, offering contemporary American cuisine with new menus each season and an extensive wine list.

Located inside the historic Union Station Hotel. 1001 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203

Ph: (615) 620-5665 for reservations www.prime108.com

Rodizio Grill - The Brazilian Steakhouse

Enjoy the authentic flavors, style and warm alegria of a Brazilian Churascarria (Steakhouse). Rodizio Grill features unlimited appetizers, gourmet salads, side dishes and a continuous rotation of over a dozen different meats carved tableside by our Gauchos. Banquet seating and private dining available. Valet Parking .

Ph: (615)730-8358. 166 Second Ave. N. Reservations Accepted. www.rodiziogrill.com/nashville

Stock-Yard Restaurant

One of the top 10 Prime Steakhouses in the U.S.! Private dining is available from 10130. Complimentary shuttle service from every hotel in the city! Make your reservations today! 901 Second Ave. N. Nashville, TN 37201 Ph: 615.255.6464 www.stock-yardrestaurant.com

For Advertising Information Call: Glover Group Entertainment 615-373-5557

ANNUAL

CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

The Nashville Symphony is deeply grateful to the following corporations,foundations and government agencies that support its concert season and its services to the community through generous contributions to the Annual Fund. Donors as of December 31, 2014.

FUND

SEASON PRESENTERS Gifts of $100,000+

AEGIS

SCIENCES FOUNDATION EST. 2013

Care Foundation of America, Inc.

DIRECTORS’ ASSOCIATES Gifts of $50,000+

PRINCIPAL PLAYERS Gifts of $25,000+ Mike Curb Family Foundation

Mary C. Ragland Foundation

Washington Foundation

GOVERNMENT Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County

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Metropolitan Council

BUSINESS PARTNER Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 AmSurg BioVentures, Inc. Carter Haston Real Estate Services Inc. City of Brentwood Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co., Inc. Delta Dental of Tennessee

BUSINESS LEADER Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (1) Beaman Automotive Group R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation The Crichton Group Creative Artists Agency DBS & Associates Engineering, Inc. Enfinity Engineering, LLC Gannett Foundation/The Tennessean Haber Corporation J. Alexander's Corporation Nashville Predators Foundation Nashville Symphony Crescendo Club RD Plastics Co., Inc. Vannatta Farms' family: Linda Vannatta, Tracy & Teri Vannatta; Troy & Elizabeth Vannatta; Ralph & Sharon Edwards VSA Arts Tennessee Walker Lumber & Hardware Company BUSINESS ASSOCIATES Gifts of $500 - $999 ADEX! Homesellers Cooper Steel The Buzz 102.9 / The Game 102.5 / Game2 94.9 / The LIGHT 102.1 Nancy June Brandon, Dancy's Hoskins & Company, P.C. INDUSCO Osher Lifelong Learning Institute At Vanderbilt Riley Warnock & Jacobson PLC Stansell Electric Company, Inc. Sysco Nashville The Tennessee Credit Union Women's Philharmonic Advocacy IN-KIND AARP Tennessee Crowe Horwath LLP Stephen M. Emahiser The Glover Group

Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Nashville, Hilton Nashville Downtown Just Love Coffee Roasters Ms. Sally M. Levine Lipman Brothers & R.S. Lipman Company McQuiddy Printing Puckett'S Grocery & Restaurant CAPT & Mrs. Charles E. Stewart Jr. Nashville Symphony Volunteer Services NAXOS OSHi Floral DĂŠcor Studio Premier Parking of Tennessee 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 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 Relation

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ARTISTIC UNDERWRITERS Gifts of $5,000- $9,999 A.C. Entertainment Inc. The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Aladdin Industries, LLC BDO Blevins, Inc. Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Chet Atkins Music Education Fund Of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated The Cockayne Fund Inc. Cracker Barrel Foundation Samuel M. Fleming Foundation Freeman Webb, Inc. Landis B. Gullett Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville Downtown KraftCPAs PLLC NAXOS OSHi Floral Decor Studio PwC Ernest and Selma Rosenblum Fund for the Performing Arts Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation SunTrust Vanderbilt University Wiseman Ashworth Law Group PLC WME and Becky Gardenhire

Direct Solutions First Baptist Nashville Gould Turner Group, P.C. Harmon Group, Inc. Just Love Coffee Roasters Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris Architects, Inc. Pancake Pantry Parking Management Company Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation Tennsco Corporation Tokio Marine Management

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ORCHESTRA PARTNERS Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 Caterpillar Financial Services Corrections Corporation of America Frost Brown Todd LLC FTB Advisors Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Griffin Technology Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation The Hendrix Foundation Mid-Tennessee Hyundai Dealers Neal & Harwell, PLC Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. Renasant Bank Travelink American Express Travel

CAPITAL FUNDS

CAPITAL

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. $1M+

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

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

$50,000+

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

FUNDS

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

$500,000+

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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 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.

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 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

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. *denotes donors who are deceased InConcert

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Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson KPMG LLP Mrs. Heloise Werthan Kuhn John T. Lewis Gilbert Stroud Merritt Mr. 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

CAPITAL

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.

N A S H V I L L E SY M P H O N Y LEGAC Y

LEGACY SOCIETY LEAVING A LEGACY, BUILDING A FUTURE

SO C IET Y Violinist Erin Hall is one of many Nashville Symphony musicians who are passing along the gift of music to the next generation.

Pictured is the commemorative lapel pin given exclusively to members of the Nashville Symphony Legacy Society.

Anonymous (3) Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Ann R. Bernard Diane and David L. Black Julie & Frank Boehm Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Mr. & Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Donna & Steven* Clark George D. Clark, Jr. Dr. Cliff Cockerham & Dr. Sherry Cummings W. Ovid Collins, Jr.* Mrs. Barbara J. Conder* Kelly Corcoran Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert Janet Keese Davies William M. & Mildred P.* Duncan Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Mrs. Johnna Benedict Ford Judy & Tom Foster Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia 70

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The Nashville Symphony is committed to serving Nashville with world-class music and education programs not just for today, but for generations to come. If you share the same vision for your orchestra and your community, please consider making a planned gift to the Nashville Symphony. Your gift will leave a lasting impact on Middle Tennessee and beyond!

You can make a gift that costs you nothing during your lifetime — it’s true! By making the Nashville Symphony the beneficiary of your will, trust, retirement plan, life insurance policy or other estate planning vehicle, you’ll help guarantee our financial strength tomorrow without affecting your cash flow or your family’s financial stability today.

The Legacy Society honors those who include a gift to the Nashville Symphony in their estate plans. Accepting our offer of membership allows us to honor your future gift and to say “thank you” now.

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 www.nashvillesymphony.org/plannedgiving or call Maribeth Stahl at 615.687.6532.

Harris Gilbert James C. Gooch Ed & Nancy Goodrich Landis Bass Gullett* Carl T. Haley, Jr. David W. & Judith S. Hayes Billy Ray Hearn Judith Hodges Judith S. Humphreys Martha R. Ingram Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Anne T. Knauff Heloise Werthan Kuhn Sally M. Levine John T. Lewis Todd M. Liebergen Clare* & Samuel* Loventhal Ellen Harrison Martin Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Richard L. Miller Cynthia & Richard Morin Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Harry & Shelley Page

Pamela K. & Philip Maurice Pfeffer Joseph Presley Eric Raefsky*, MD & Victoria Heil David & Edria Ragosin Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Fran C. Rogers Kristi Lynn Seehafer Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Irvin & Beverly Small Mary & K.C. Smythe Dr. & Mrs. W. Anderson Spickard Jr. Maribeth & Christopher Stahl Dr. John B. Thomison Sr.* Louis B. Todd Judy & Steve Turner Alan D. & Jan L. Valentine Dr. Colleen Conway Welch & Mr. Ted Houston Welch* Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Anne H. & Robert K.* Zelle *deceased

H i s s e c r e t t o a b l i s s f u l m a r r i a g e?

To t a l h i p r e p l a c e m e n t .

And a shared passion.

Nothing shall be impossible.

Share in their passion at STHealth.com/joint

MUSIC EDUCATION FOR MUSIC CITY

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usic makes life better, whether you’re learning an instrument, performing for an audience or listening for pure enjoyment. Your Nashville Symphony makes music accessible to everyone in Middle Tennessee through quality education programs for students of all ages and skill levels, and through free engagement opportunities that reach people where they live, work and play in every corner of our community.

WE OFFER MORE THAN 20 FREE PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO EDUCATE, MOTIVATE AND INSPIRE, INCLUDING: Young People’s Concerts for students in grades K-12, with accompanying classroom curriculum materials Suzuki Violin Lessons that set up students for lifetime success through holistic, family-based learning opportunities.

Free concert tickets for students and their parents through Classroom Classics The opportunity for students to learn directly from Nashville Symphony musicians through Sectionals, Side-By-Side Rehearsals and Master Classes After-school enrichment for at-risk middle school students through our partnership with Nashville After Zone Alliance Partnerships with Metro Nashville Public Schools, Conexión Americas, W.O. Smith Music School, local youth orchestras and numerous other organizations Community Concerts in public parks across the city and in neighboring communities A chance to enjoy music and interact with musicians through free OnStage chamber music performances Free Day of Music, which invites the entire community to enjoy a full day of concerts at Schermerhorn Symphony Center EXPLORE, EXPERIENCE AND MAKE MUSIC WITH US. LEARN MORE AT NASHVILLESYMPHONY.ORG/EDUCATION OR CALL 615.687.6398.

Interested in supporting our education and community engagement programs through making a gift or volunteering your time?

Visit NashvilleSymphony.org/Support.

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