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NOVEMBER 2011 49 Mahler’s Fourth

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Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

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GRAMMY® Award winner Hila Plitmann, soprano, featured in the world premiere of Richard Danielpour’s Darkness in the Ancient Valley

10 High Notes 12 Backstage: November 3, 4 & 5 Violist Michelle Lackey Collins 46 2011/12 Season Calendar 62 Conductors Special Event Drumline Live

67 Orchestra Roster November 8 68 Board of Directors 69 Staff Roster InTune: Grand Avenue BANK of america popS series 71 Mike Eldred:

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91 Legacy Society November 13 92 Guest & Facility Information 94 Building Map

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Just as we consider you an integral part of who we are, I hope that you think of the Nashville Symphony as an indispensable part of your own lives.

November is a time of anticipation. The holidays are right around the corner, and a new year soon begins. We make our lists and check off the items one by one: gifts for family and friends, cards in the mail, family outings, New Year’s resolutions. The Symphony makes its list as well: Messiah, our annual holiday Pied Piper presentation, Home for the Holidays with LeAnn Rimes, A Skaggs Family Christmas, Asleep at the Wheel.

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It is also a time that reminds us to find the goodness in each other and in our community.

Just as we consider you an integral part of who we are, I hope that you think of the Nashville Symphony as an indispensable part of your own lives. In addition to working hard to ensure that your experience with us in the hall is fun and completely rewarding, we place just as much importance on serving everyone in our

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community, which we do through a wide array of music education programs, community partnerships and free concerts that reach more than 200,000 Middle Tennesseans annually. Last year, our musicians devoted more than 14,000 hours of their time to performing, teaching and speaking at these programs.

How does this happen? You. People just like you who believe that our city needs an orchestra that serves the community with its heart.

An orchestra of such high caliber, such musical dynamism, that it is the finale of the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall in May 2012. An orchestra that provides more than $33 million in economic impact to the area, helping to make our city one of the most thriving communities anywhere in the country. In a recent study measuring the creative vitality of cities across the United States, Nashville placed fourth in the nation, behind only New York City, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. We’re proud of that, and immensely proud to be YOUR orchestra.

As 2011 winds to a close, and you’re thinking about your annual giving, I hope you remember the Nashville Symphony. Your support allows us to contribute in so many ways to the remarkable quality of life we enjoy here in Nashville.

So, here we are, in this beautiful hall, sharing music with our friends, family and community.

How lucky we are. How deeply thankful. We’ve found it. . .goodness. Check.

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Symphomoney works like a gift certificate — only with even better value, because each voucher can be traded in for the best seats available in the house at the time of redemption. That means your initial purchase price of $55 could be worth as much as a $125 ticket! If it isn’t redeemed during the 2011/12 season, Symphomoney can still be used as a $55 credit toward the purchase of a full-price ticket for Nashville Symphony events taking place after July 2012. For more information, call 615.687.6400 or visit the Schermerhorn box office.

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With the holiday season just around the corner, now is the perfect opportunity to plan your holiday outing — and Schermerhorn Symphony Center is the perfect place to host it! Whether you’re organizing a holiday office party, a festive celebration for family and friends, or an intimate get-together, we’ll make it an evening to remember. Our versatile building contains a wide variety of gathering spaces, and our Catering and Events Team will do all the work to help you plan and execute a first-rate event.

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MICHELLE LACKEY COLLINS Member of the Nashville Symphony since: 1994 Hometown: South Bend, Indiana Nashville Symphony is heading back to Carnegie Hall after performing there in 2000. You were there for the first trip. Could you talk about what it means to be going back? It’s quite an honor that we were invited to come. It’s such an eclectic program that I think going to Carnegie Hall will be one experience, and playing the program will be a whole other experience. This will be my third time to play at Carnegie Hall, but one thing that makes this time special is that my Dad is going. He’s a tuba player and conductor, and he taught public school band and orchestra for 40 years, and he’s never been there before. My sister and I have both performed there, so I’m excited for him to see one of his daughters get to play at Carnegie Hall.

What do you like best about playing viola?

I love playing the harmony, and I love being in the middle of the orchestra and hearing everything surrounding me.

How do you define the viola’s role in the orchestra? It’s one of those intangible things — if you didn’t have the violas, you’d miss them; and

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when you do have the violas, they complete the sound of the orchestra. The timbre of the instrument is warm, and it rounds out the lower and the higher sounds of the other strings, so we blend really well. We’ve gotten used to not being the stars, and we’re OK with that. Which means that when we do get a moment to shine, we can really belt it out.

Who has had the greatest influence on you as a musician? My parents. They taught me how to love music, and when they saw that I was serious about pursuing it, they were very clear about the realities of what it would take to get a job.

When you’re not rehearsing or performing, what do you like to listen to? I have a 2-and-a-halfyear-old and an 8-month-old, so we listen to a lot of children’s music at home. When I’m in the car, I listen to news and talk radio so that I can catch up on what’s happening in the world.

If you weren’t an orchestra musician, what would you be doing? I would be a mommy to my daughters.

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Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

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Karen Gomyo, violin

PROGRAM ALEXANDER BORODIN Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor PYOTR ILYICH Concerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 35 TCHAIKOVSKY Allegro moderato

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Karen Gomyo, violin

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Danse légère et gracieuse de Daphnis

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Danse lente et mystérieuse des Nymphes

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Borodin composed the opera Prince Igor on and off for nearly two decades starting in 1869, but left the score unfinished at his death. He had sketched out the Polovtsian Dances for a sequence in the opera’s second act by 1875 and was encouraged to complete their orchestration (with assistance from fellow composers Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Liadov) for independent concert performance. Borodin’s Dances employ aromatic melodies and vigorous, aggressive rhythms to evoke a folkloric vision of Russia’s distant past.

ALEXANDER BORODIN Born on November 12, 1833, in St. Petersburg, Russia; died on February 27, 1887, in St. Petersburg

First performance: March 11, 1879, in St. Petersburg, in a concert conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov, though the posthumously completed opera Prince Igor was not premiered until November 4, 1890.

First Nashville Symphony performance: October 28, 1947, with Music Director William Strickland.

Estimated length: 12 minutes Recommended listening and reading: The remastered account on Sony by the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell is thrilling and includes several other Russian concert favorites, but the entire opera Prince Igor is an experience not to miss. For that, turn to the Kirov’s lavish production under Valery Gergiev (Philips DVD).

Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor

Although he completed only a small body of work, Alexander Borodin was a significant player in the movement to cultivate an autonomously Russian approach to composition in the second half of the 19th century. He belonged to the St. Petersburg-based circle of maverick composers who rejected preconceived Western European patterns in their quest for an authentically Russian art. (Known as “the Mighty Five,” this group also included Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, César Cui and Mily Balakirev.)

Borodin exemplified their preference for selftraining and the passion of the amateur over a polished conservatory education. Indeed, his own official training was in medicine and chemistry, and his research as a biochemist made lasting contributions to the field.

Between his scientific career and frequent bouts of ill health, little time was left for composition. Even so, Borodin became a pioneer of Russian instrumental music, as well as a major link in the development of Russian opera through

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his work on Prince Igor. The topic had been suggested by Vladimir Stasov, a powerful critic who served as a sort of guru for the Mighty Five and who also influenced some of Tchaikovsky’s compositional choices. Borodin crafted his own libretto, using a scenario drawn from The Lay of Igor’s Host, an anonymously written medieval Slavic epic poem centered on the conflict between Russians and the nomadic Polovtsian warriors from the Central Asian steppes. (Scholars continue to debate whether the manuscript, which was discovered in the 18th century, is authentic or a forgery.)

The epic inspired Borodin to conduct his own folk music research to evoke a sense of Russia’s distant past. Prince Igor became a never-ending musical project, and frequent interruptions prevented its completion before Borodin’s sudden death in 1887. From the welter of sketches left behind, Rimsky-Korsakov and his student Alexander Glazunov prepared and orchestrated a complete performing edition.

Text for Polovtsian Dances

Prince Igor is set in the year 1185 and recounts the fate of the title hero, ruler of a principality in present-day Ukraine, who leads a military expedition against Khan Konchak and his marauding Polovtsi. He fails and is captured, but escapes to rejoin his people and rouse them toward eventual victory. The Polovtsian Dances occur at the end of the second act, after the Russians have been taken prisoner, and represent the “exotic” music of the enemy. The Khan, who admires Igor’s courage, treats him with hospitality and orders his slaves to entertain him with a series of dances.

The Dances begin with a gently dreamy introduction. This leads directly into the best-known music — a tender but “exotically” ornamented melody that became a hit tune in the 1950s, when it was repurposed for the Tony Awardwinning musical Kismet, as the love song “Stranger in Paradise.” (Much of Kismet’s score, in fact, was adapted from Borodin.)

The present performance gives us a chance to hear the choral scoring that is part of the Dances in their original operatic context, with the female slaves singing here of homesickness for their native lands. Then, introduced by florid piping from the woodwinds against a folk-like drone, comes the “Dance of the Savage Men.” This is followed by the aggressive, muscular accents of a “General Dance” for the men and women as the chorus glorifies the Khan. A fourth dance pulses at breakneck speed. Earlier dance themes are reprised and juxtaposed before a swirling frenzy takes over in the thrilling final section.

Alexander Borodin, translated by David Lloyd-Jones

The Polovtsian Dances are scored for 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, glockenspiel, harp, strings and mixed chorus.

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What to listen for

Fly away on gentle breezes; Fly swiftly, songs of love, to greet our homeland Where once we lived in hope and knew no sorrow, Where once we sang, rejoicing in our freedom.

There beneath the burning sky Languid breezes cooled us, There the cloud capp’d mountains Dream above the silver sea; There our days were long and carefree Amid the sunlit hills and shady meadows, And there the scent of roses in the valleys Once filled the sultry air with sweetest perfume, There the skylarks sing.

Fly away, our songs of freedom! ~~~ Glory, honor, praises to our Khan!

Fearless, mighty, ruthless warrior, hail!

Sing his praise! Great Konchak, praise him!

Fiercer than the scorching midday sun!

None can equal him in splendor, none!

Slaves and captives…all acclaim him, Slaves and captives…all acclaim his glorious name. ~~~ Look at those slaves of mine, aren’t they beautiful?

Captives I took from the tribes of the Caspian.

They can make you forget all your loneliness, Choose any who attracts you, and she shall be yours. ~~~ Braver far than all before you, great Khan Konchak!

Braver far than all before mighty Khan, great Konchak!

Praise our Khan, Khan Konchak!

Dance and sing for Konchak’s pleasure, Let all people praise him singing!

Let all people please him dancing!

Offer songs of homage to our glorious Khan Khonchak!

Praise Khan Konchak!

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CLASSICAL SERIES PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Born on May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk, Russia; died on November 6, 1893, in St. Petersburg, Russia Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35 Tchaikovsky wrote his only violin concerto in less than a month in the spring of 1878, while abroad in Switzerland.

Though the violinist for whom it was intended originally rejected it, the Concerto’s irresistible blend of lyricism, epic breadth and festive energy has made it one of the composer’s most beloved scores and a cornerstone of the violin repertory.

First performance: December 4, 1881, in Vienna, with Adolph Brodsky as the soloist and Hans Richter conducting.

First Nashville Symphony performance: December 6, 1955, with Music Director Guy Taylor and soloist Ivry Gitlis.

Estimated length: 34 minutes Recommended listening: One of the standout recordings in a crowded field is by Boston Symphony Orchestra with Seiji Ozawa and soloist Viktoria Mullova (Philips).

In his early years, Tchaikovsky had an ambivalent rapport with the Mighty Five but ended up following his own path as he mixed national Russian elements with techniques and forms from Western tradition. Unlike Borodin, he underwent conservatory training and began to prepare his career methodically. But all his careful planning could not have prepared the composer for the events of 1877 and the turmoil they would cause.

One of the handsome bachelor’s most ill-fated decisions had been his attempt to offset gossip about his sexuality by agreeing to marry a lovesick former student, Antonina Miliukova. Soon after the marriage, Tchaikovsky abandoned his bride and fled to a temporary exile in Western Europe, where he at last experienced a period of relative emotional calm while sojourning in the 24

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Swiss town of Clarens. The following spring he composed the Violin Concerto in a whirlwind of inspiration that seemed to underscore his sense of recovery from what the composer described to his brother as his “brief insanity.”

Another catalyst, as biographer David Brown points out, was purely musical: Tchaikovsky’s recent discovery of Édouard Lalo’s violin-centric Symphonie espagnole. What Tchaikovsky admired in the Lalo, he wrote, was the focus on “musical beauty” instead of the routines of “established traditions.” And the young violinist who brought Lalo’s score to his attention, a recent student named Iosif Kotek, provided a further impetus. Possibly a former lover, Kotek served as a very practical muse by advising the composer on technical matters about the solo part. To give

CLASSICAL SERIES The Violin Concerto is carefully attuned to the solo violin’s characteristic modes of expression, ranging from elevated lyricism to rhythmic vivacity.

maximal advantage to its prospects, however, Tchaikovsky dedicated the Concerto to celebrity violinist Leopold Auer. Though he later became the concerto’s eloquent advocate, Auer initially rejected the score as “unviolinistic” and declined to premiere it.

Despite Auer’s reservations, the Violin Concerto is carefully attuned to the solo violin’s characteristic modes of expression, ranging from elevated lyricism to rhythmic vivacity. In a sense, Tchaikovsky may have found relief in wearing the “mask” of the violin in the framework of a genre that could showcase his obvious gift for sustained melody. The music clearly steps back from the emotional turbulence and soul-searching attitude of the contemporaneous Fourth Symphony, though to be sure it exhibits an extroverted theatricality of its own.

What to listen for Tchaikovsky integrates a considerable arsenal of technical challenges for the soloist with a deliciously juicy, unhurried lyricism that somehow also manages to touch on the epic. Although darker undercurrents occasionally intrude, the stereotype of the hyper-emotive, crisis-ridden Tchaikovsky takes a holiday; instead, we encounter an almost Mediterranean gracefulness. Beneath all the pyrotechnics, meanwhile, is a wealth of inventive reimagining of the material. The first theme, for example, cleverly emerges from what seems to be a free-flight improvisation, while

all three themes in the exposition play up various aspects of the solo instrument’s personality.

Like Mendelssohn in his highly influential Violin Concerto, Tchaikovsky positions his cadenza earlier than usual, at the end of the development. Its music represents an intriguing synthesis of thematic splicing and showy technical hurdles.

As a contrast to the opening Mediterranean character, the other two movements, observes David Brown, seem suddenly to inject the composer’s “Russian voice.” The Canzonetta was actually a replacement (composed in a single day!) for an earlier slow movement Tchaikovsky intuited didn’t feel right for the piece. In this simple, light song, the soloist indeed seems to vocalize a gently muted, melancholy aria of pristine emotion.

Because it’s directly linked, the finale comes as even more of a surprise, rapidly disrupting the Canzonetta’s soulful spell. Here the ethereal soloist becomes an earthy fiddler, playing with bloodrushing abandon. In his notoriously vicious review of the world premiere (given in Vienna, in the composer’s absence), critic Eduard Hanslick wrote disparagingly of the scene of “vulgar and savage faces,” “crude curses” and the smell of cheap booze the finale conjured for him. Most audiences, however, have been more than happy to be guests at this village party.

In addition to solo violin, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto calls for 2 flutes, 2 oboes,2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings.

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CLASSICAL SERIES MAURICE RAVEL Born on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, France; died on December 28, 1937, in Paris Daphnis et Chloé Ravel composed Daphnis et Chloé between 1909 and 1910 but continued to refine the final scene until 1912. In April 1911, he introduced the first of two concert suites he would extract from the full-length score. The longest of Ravel’s compositions, Daphnis et Chloé is a remarkably unified “choreographic symphony” and features some of the composer’s most imaginatively orchestrated passages.

First performance: June 8, 1912, in Paris in a production by the Ballets Russes, with Pierre Monteux conducting.

First Nashville Symphony performance: The orchestra’s first complete performance of the ballet took place January 17 & 18, 1992, with Music Director Kenneth Schermerhorn.

Estimated length: 50 minutes Recommended listening: Pierre Boulez and the Berlin Philharmonic convey Ravel’s vision with wonderful nuance and color in a recording of the full-length ballet (Deutsche Grammophon).

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Twenty-two years after Borodin’s death, the dances from Prince Igor helped establish the reputation of the Ballets Russes, an expatriate opera and dance company that had set up shop in Paris, where a craze for all things Russian held sway. After their success with the second act from Prince Igor in 1909, the company’s colorful director, Serge Diaghilev, embarked on a series of bold new commissions, including music by the era’s leading French composers. One result was Ravel’s most ambitious work, the ballet Daphnis et Chloé.

The source for Daphnis et Chloé is a romance from late antiquity attributed to the secondcentury Greek writer Longus. Ultimately a story of the triumph of love, the ballet’s narrative alternates between atmospheric scenes, character-defining set dances and action sequences that advance the story line (see sidebar). Ravel declared that his idea was to compose “a vast musical fresco, less concerned with archaism than with faithfulness to the Greece of my dreams, which is similar to that imagined and painted by French artists at the end of the 18th century.”

Indeed, the ballet’s scale is larger than that of any other Ravel composition, and the music was clearly conceived as part of a carefully integrated whole, along with the choreography of Michel Fokine and the set design of Léon Bakst. The unique dance style of Vaslav Nijinsky (who created the role of Daphnis) inspired particular musical gestures. Ravel painted his “fresco” with the most subtle blends of colors and harmonies from an extended orchestral apparatus, including the use of a wordless chorus.

The music is usually encountered in heavily abridged form, without chorus, in the second of the two concert suites extracted by Ravel. But even when performed outside its original theatrical context, the full-length ballet is a marvel of compositional design. In another famous characterization of the work, Ravel called it a “choreographic symphony.” Its deft, economic construction from a small group of motifs and harmonic ideas stands as a counterpart to the score’s dazzling spectrum of colors and sonorities.

The ballet’s three parts are seamlessly linked together. In Part One, undulating harmonies — enhanced by the chorus — form one of the central motivic ideas of the score, while the flute plays a theme of fluid rhythms associated with the nymphs and Pan. A solo horn then outlines the couple’s love theme. In the contrasting sequence of dances that follow, the grotesque movements of the interloper Dorcon are sharply characterized, as is the ensemble’s mocking laughter. A lilting meter accompanies the graceful dance of Daphnis. Ravel’s shimmering orchestration captures the ecstasy of his love, pitting this against the erotic dance of Lyceion, marked by clarinet figurations. After Chloé’s abduction comes a “nocturne” of moody, exotic sonorities (including the sound of a wind machine) as the nymphs and Pan enter the scene.

An unaccompanied chorus serves as a transition to Part Two, which features the menacing music of the pirates. Chloé then dances in supplication, her plaintive state evoked by English horn, and tries to escape her captors. Ravel contrasts the fleeing pirates with the awe-inspiring sounds of Pan’s timely intervention. His depiction of nature in the “Daybreak” sequence that opens Part Three is especially celebrated. (This begins the familiar music from the Second Suite.) Using divided strings, Ravel instructs the players to remove their mutes one by one as woodwinds mimic birdcalls.

The chorus intensifies the impression of shafts of sunlight dispelling all darkness and worry.

Daphnis and Chloé now dance together for the first time, in pantomime, with the flute representing Daphnis/Pan’s role as a passionate suitor of his beloved nymph. A rapturous development of their love music abruptly segues into the orgiastic concluding dance.

Daphnis et Chloé calls for a large orchestra of 2 flutes, alto flute, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, military drum, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam, castanets, tambourine, triangle, wind machine, crotales, celesta, xylophone, glockenspiel, 2 harps, strings, and mixed chorus, as well as offstage piccolo, E-flat clarinet, horn and trumpet.

Scenario of the Ballet Companions since childhood, Daphnis and Chloé are innocent foundlings who have been raised in a peaceful, pastoral landscape. On a spring afternoon, young men and women pause from tending their sheep to worship before an altar representing three nymphs.

Shepherdesses then dance around Daphnis and trigger the first stirrings of jealousy in his beloved Chloé, who in turn naively responds to the lustful advances of Dorcon, an oafish cowherd. Dorcon engages in a dance contest with Daphnis but loses and is ridiculed by the assembled group.

After embracing Chloé, Daphnis is left alone, but is unexpectedly tempted by the seductive dance of another shepherdess, Lyceion. Pirates have meanwhile stolen on the scene, and Daphnis rushes off to protect Chloé, but is too late. A sandal left behind is evidence that the pirates have abducted her.

Giving in to despair, Daphnis is comforted by the trio of nymphs, whose religious statues mysteriously come to life. They summon the form of Pan, god of the wild and protector of shepherds.

Part Two cuts to the pirates’ camp on the seacoast. We see their warlike dance, and their leader orders Chloé to dance before claiming her for himself. Pan intervenes through his army of satyrs, and the miscreants flee in terror. A transition takes us back to the opening setting for Part Three, in which Daphnis is joyfully reunited with Chloé. The couple dance a symbolic pantomime that reenacts the story of Pan’s passion for the nymph Syrinx. Their dance becomes more passionate, and the country folk eventually join in for a general dance that ends the ballet in “joyful commotion.”

— Thomas May is the Nashville Symphony’s program annotator. He writes extensively about music and theater.

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About the soloist KAREN GOMYO, violin Born in Tokyo, violinist Karen Gomyo grew up in Montreal and New York. Recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2008, she has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “a first-rate artist of real musical command, vitality, brilliance and intensity,” and described by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as “captivating, honest and soulful, fueled by abundant talent but not a vain display of technique.”

Gomyo is deeply interested in the Nuevo Tango music of Astor Piazzolla, and in March 2012, along with Piazzolla cohorts Pablo Ziegler (piano), Hector del Curto (bandoneon), Claudio Ragazzi (electric guitar) and Pedro Giraudo (double bass), plus classical pianist Alessio Bax, she will tour a unique program featuring the music of Piazzolla and the classical composers who influenced him. Other upcoming highlights include debuts with the Sydney Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Munich Bach Collegium, Orchestre National

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Gomyo’s engagements as soloist have included those with The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and Tokyo Symphony, as well as the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the National Symphony of Washington, D.C. In Europe, she has performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Norwegian Opera Orchestra and Den Haag Residentie Orkest, among others. She has worked with such conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Andrew Litton, Hans Graf, Louis Langrée, James Gaffigan, Pinchas Zukerman, Vasily Petrenko and Jakub Hrůša.

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2010 Alexis Tocqueville Society, Alpha Chapter Members Mr. and Mrs. Kent Adams, 6 Mr. and Mrs. David G. Anderson, 12 Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Arthur, 5 Jim and Janet Ayers, 16 Dr. Jeffrey R. Balser, 3 Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II, 17 Carol and Barney Barnett, 8 Mr. Russell W. Bates, 8 Mr. and Mrs. James S. Beard, 15 Dr. and Mrs. Robert Daniel Beauchamp, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Bedard, 8 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Belser, 8 Mr. and Mrs. Phil and Amberly Billington, 6 Mr. and Mrs. W. Perry Blandford, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Blank, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Brad Blevins, 9 Mr. and Mrs. J. William Blevins, 16 Michael and Resha Blivens, 1 Linda and David Bohan, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Jack O. Bovender, Jr., 21 Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Bracken, 14 Mrs. James C. Bradford, Jr., 23 Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Braman, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Bray, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Laurance H. Brewster, 3 David and Jenny Briggs, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay Bright III, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Brown, 24 Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Bumstead, 10 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Burch, 24 Julie and Matt Burnstein, 5 Diane and Kyle Callahan, 10 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Campbell III, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Victor Campbell, 19 David and Elizabeth Cannady, 4 Mrs. Monroe J. Carell, Jr., 14 Bill and Trudy Carpenter, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Carter, 5 Mr. and Mrs. William J. Carver, Jr., 6 Mr. Fred J. Cassetty, 7 Yonnie and Curt Chesley, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cigarran, 11 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Clay, Jr., 16 Mr. and Mrs. William S. Cochran, 25 Mr. J. Chase Cole, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Wiley B. Coley III, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cook, Jr., 17 Mr. and Mrs. John H. Crosslin, 5 Kevin and Katie Crumbo, 5 Harvey and Helen Cummings, 19 Mr. and Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., 30 Professor Richard Daft and Dorothy Marcic, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daniels III, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Davis, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Dean, 12 Mayor Karl F. Dean and Ms. Anne Davis, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis T. Delaney, 11 Elizabeth and Robert Dennis, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. DeVane, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Dewey, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Dobyns, 3 Margaret and Steve Dolan, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Cullen E. Douglass, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Eads, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Eddy, 12 Cassie and Tom Edenton, 12

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Elcan, 16 Mr. and Mrs. Jason Epstein, 4 Mrs. Irwin B. Eskind, 27 Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind, 16 Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Ezell, Jr., 18 Mr. and Mrs. Mark V. Ezell, 4 Bob and Amanda Farnsworth, 9 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Felts, Jr., 3 Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ferguson, 8 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund B. Fitzgerald, 21 Mr. and Mrs. Gene Fleming, 17 Tom and Judy Foster, 6 Mr. Sam O. Franklin III, 16 Mr. and Mrs. David Freeman, 4 Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Frist, 19 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Frist, Jr., 30 The Honorable and Mrs. William H. Frist, 19 Mr. and Mrs. William R. Frist, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Fritch, 6 Mr. Mario J. Gabelli, 8 Mr. and Mrs. John Gawaluck, 11 Mr. and Mrs. Gerard V. Geraghty, 7 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Gerdesmeier, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gordon, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Joel C. Gordon, 30 Robert and Julie Gordon, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Green, 4 Kristen and Chad Greer, 6 Steve Groom, 2 Landis B. Gullett Lead Annuity Trust, 16 Mr. and Mrs. James S. Gulmi, 10 Scott and Kathy Hadfield, 3 JB and Shawn Haile, 1 Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hailey, 17 Mr. Charles J. Hall, 4 Russ and Elvia Harms, 8 Robert L. and Caitlin S. Harris, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Hays, 19 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel N. Hazen, 11 Mrs. Phyllis G. Heard, 2 Mr. and Mrs. E. Anthony Heard III, 9 Drs. Robert and Alexandra Hendricks, 2 Ms. Sherri M. Henry, 6 Mr. J. Reginald Hill, 10 Damon and Carrie Hininger, 6 Mr. and Mrs. James D. Hinton, 12 Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. Hogan, 6 Ms. Angela Rene Hoke, 1 Mr. and Mrs. William Holleman, 3 Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Holliday, Jr., 1 Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Hooker, 30 The Houghland Foundation, 29 Carol and Ad Hudler, 1 Ms. Angela H. Humphreys, 4 Mr. Franklin Y. Hundley, Jr., 3 Mr. and Mrs. James V. Hunt, Sr., 9 Mr. and Mrs. David B. Ingram, 14 Martha R. Ingram, 30 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ingram, 15 Mr. and Mrs. Orrin H. Ingram, 16 Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Inman, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Israel, 19 Mr. and Mrs. Clay T. Jackson, 14 Mr. and Mrs. Granbery Jackson III, 11 Mr. and Mrs. Clint Jennings, 2 Mr. and Mrs. James L. Johnson, 17 Mr. and Mrs. R. Milton Johnson, 12 Roy and Marty Jordan, 7 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Kindig, 3

Robin and Bill King, 24 Mr. and Mrs. Larry Kloess, 8 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Knox, Jr., 14 Mr. Kumar Kolin, 1 Mr. Kevin P. Lavender, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby, 23 Irving E. Lingo, Jr. and Karin Demler, 3 Mr. Robert S. Lipman, 14 Sam and Mary Ann Lipshie, 3 Estate of Clare H. Loventhal, 10 Mr. and Mrs. C. Stephen Lynn, 16 Barbara and Kenny Lyons, 8 Mr. and Mrs. Myles A. MacDonald, 5 Mr. and Mrs. David J. Malone, Jr., 19 Mr. and Mrs. Chip Manning, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Masie, 3 Ms. Cheryl White Mason, 5 Mrs. Jack C. Massey, 30 Ms. Margaret C. Mazzone, 3 Ms. Maeve E. McConville, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. McGregor, 3 Betsy Vinson McInnes, 12 Mr. and Mrs. Robert McNeilly, Jr., 9 Mr. and Mrs. R. Clayton McWhorter, 24 Mr. and Mrs. Scott McWilliams, 8 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Meadows, Jr., 11 Lynn and Ken Melkus, 17 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin S. Millen, 2 Andrew Woodfin Miller Foundation, 20 Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Miller, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller, 3 Ms. Mary Mirabelli and Mr. Steven Cristanus, 6 Mr. Kevin N. Monroe, 2 Mr. Donald R. Moody, 5 Mr. and Mrs. A. Bruce Moore, Jr., 14 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Moore, 19 Mr. and Mrs. William P. Morelli, 10 Gregg F. and Cathy T. Morton, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Nash, 8 Troy and Kimberly Nunn, 4 Philip and Carolyn Orr, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Paisley, 6 Mr. and Mrs. James N. Parrott, 6 Ms. Mary Parsons, 6 Mr. and Mrs. William V. Parsons, Jr., 9 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Martin Paslick, 5 Mr. Steven A. Pate, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Hal N. Pennington, 10 Mr. and Mrs. James W. Perkins, Jr., 29 Mr. and Mrs. Clay Petrey, 3 Craig E. Philip and Marian T. Ott, 11 Leigh and David Pickett, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Sid Pilson, 13 Mr. and Mrs. Marshall T. Polk III, 9 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Pruett, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Mel Purcell, 4 Mr. Larry Quinlan, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Art Rebrovick, 13 Mr. and Mrs. Ben L. Rechter, 7 Mr. and Mrs. Ben R. Rechter, 29 Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Rechter, 7 Mr. and Mrs. Colin Reed, 5 Bonnie and Gary Reid, 2 Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Rein, 4 Ken and Michelle Rideout, 3 Dr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Riley, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Riven, 20 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Roberts, 27 Mr. and Mrs. Bailey P. Robinson III, 16

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Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rochford III, 16 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Rohleder, 6 Mr. Anthony A. Rose, 22 W. Andrew and Sabrina Ruderer, 2 Anne and Joe Russell, 22 Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rutan, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Bill B. Rutherford, 9 Mr. and Mrs. William Paul Rutledge, 10 The Scarlett Family Foundation, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Joe Scarlett, 11 Tim and Beth Scarvey, 6 Mr. and Mrs. James Schmitz, 4 Mr. and Mrs. David G. Sehrt, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Shallcross, 10 Michael and Lisa Shmerling, 13 Mr. and Mrs. W. Lucas Simons, 23 R. Timothy Sinks, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Barry R. Smith, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Smith, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne T. Smith, 10 Grant and Suzanne Smothers, 1 Joe and Joanne Sowell, 2 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Spieth, 6 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sprintz, 10 Mr. and Mrs. Joe N. Steakley, 14 Mr. John M. Steele, 12 John and Beth Stein, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Stinnett, 5 Mr. and Mrs. Don Street, Jr., 12 Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Sullivan, 9 David and Mona Tehle, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Steve Thomas, 6 Mrs. Kim Bradley Thomason, 3 Robin and Overton Thompson, 1 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Tishler, 3 Ms. Claire Whitfield Tucker, 12 Mr. and Mrs. Cal Turner, 24 James Stephen Turner Family Foundation, 3 Juan and Elizabeth Vallarino, 2 Mr. and Mrs. Lee F. Van Dyke, 3 Mr. and Mrs. David T. Vandewater, 16 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Viehmann, 18 Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wallace, 12 Mr. and Mrs. Johnson B. Wallace, Jr., 12 Brian and Christy Waller, 6 Ms. Leigh Walton, 1 Mr. Brian Ampferer Ward, 9 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Waterman, 14 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Weaver, 9 Marti and Brian Webster, 1 Colleen and Ted Welch, 18 Betty and Bernard Werthan Foundation, 30 Mrs. John Warner White, 24 Mr. and Mrs. David Williams II, 4 Ms. Noel B. Williams, 13 Mr. and Mrs. Ridley Wills II, 30 Dan Wilson and Linda Dickert Wilson, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Brad Withrow, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Witt, 4 Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Yuspeh, 11 Mrs. Robert K. Zelle, 28 Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, 3 Raymond and Etta Zimmerman, 30 Dana A. Zukierski, 1

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Thursday, November 10, at 7 p.m.

Friday & Saturday, November 11 & 12, at 8 p.m.

Pops Series

MIKE ELDRED:

THE VERY BEST OF JOHN DENVER

Nashville Symphony Albert-George Schram, conductor Mike Eldred, vocals

PROGRAM JOHN WILLIAMS Liberty Fanfare HANS ZIMMER Pearl Harbor: War

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Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

Richard Hayman Servicemen on Parade GEORGE M. COHAN American Fantasy: A Tribute to the Patriotism of George M. Cohan arr. Bruce Healey

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Mike Eldred, vocals

Jeff Steinberg, piano/arranger

John Mock, guitar

Bob Mater, drums

Craig E. Nelson, bass

Jim Horn, woodwinds

Renée Armand, background vocals

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About the program By any measure, John Denver was one of the great singer/songwriters of the pop era, with a roster of hits that included tender ballads, soaring anthems and the occasional foot-stomping country number. Renowned vocalist Mike Eldred brings Nashville audiences a rich selection of that body of work, while the Nashville Symphony opens the program with some stirring selections chosen in recognition of Veteran’s Day. The first half of the evening starts with John Williams’s “Liberty Fanfare,” a work commissioned for the 1986 centennial celebration of the Statue of Liberty. With its blend of heroic brass, sweeping strings and evocative woodwinds, Williams’s fanfare pays homage to the history and spirit of American music, and to America’s great composers. In contrast, Hans Zimmer’s “War” — taken from the soundtrack to the 2001 motion picture Pearl Harbor — is somber and dramatic, evoking the intensity of wartime life. The score of another film, a 1942 British production called The First of the Few, was the source of William Walton’s popular “Spitfire Prelude and Fugue.” In a more overtly patriotic vein, the Symphony will offer Richard Hayman’s “Servicemen on Parade,” a medley of traditional armed forces theme songs that includes “The Marines’ Hymn,” “Anchors Aweigh” and “Semper Paratus.” The first half of the evening will come to a rousing conclusion with

About the artist MIKE ELDRED Since he was a young boy, Mike Eldred has been inspired by John Denver’s soaring tenor voice, and by the beautiful melodies and poignant lyrics of his songs, which capture the majesty of the mountains, the West and the sky. Eldred is thrilled to perform the soul-transforming music of John Denver with the Nashville Symphony and to debut his CD of these celebrated songs.

Eldred is one of North America’s most indemand and beloved tenors, thrilling audiences in concert halls, on Broadway, and on recordings, radio and television. He appeared on Broadway in Les Misérables as Jean Valjean, and in the

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“American Fantasy: A Tribute to the Patriotism of George M. Cohan,” a piece that incorporates Cohan classics such as “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “You’re a Grand Old Flag.”

The second half of the program will take on a gentler flavor with Eldred’s tribute to the musical genius of John Denver. Eldred will perform some of Denver’s timeless ballads, including “My Sweet Lady” and “Annie’s Song,” as well as Denver’s first triumph as a songwriter, “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” which became an enormous 1969 hit for Peter Paul and Mary. Those who are partial to Denver in his folksier mode can look forward to “Grandma’s Feather Bed” and “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” — two songs penned by other songwriters that Denver made entirely his own. Denver was the author of the 1973 mega-hit “Rocky Mountain High,” an irresistible paean to the beauty of the mountainous West that has become an official state song of Colorado. The song’s simple melody, meaningful lyrics and tender spirit make it quintessential Denver. Eldred’s smooth yet powerful tenor is the perfect vehicle to convey this extraordinary song, as well as Denver’s other unforgettable classics.

– Nashville-based freelance writer Maria Browning is pops program annotator for the Nashville Symphony.

Eldred is one of North America’s most in-demand and beloved tenors, thrilling audiences in concert halls, on Broadway, and on recordings, radio and television.

Handel’s Messiah Rocks. He starred as Tony in the Nashville Symphony’s production of West Side Story, earning international praise as “arguably the best Tony on record.” The cast recording featuring Eldred was released on Naxos.

Eldred was featured in the PBS Soundstage

concert and DVD entitled “Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx, Live with Symphony Orchestra.” He has won numerous performance awards, including The Tennessean’s Actor of the Year and Nashville Scene’s Best Musical Theater Performer, and was nominated as Nashville Music Awards Male Vocalist of the Year.

Eldred has performed in concert with many of North America’s symphony orchestras, including Seattle, Toronto, Indianapolis, Dallas, Baltimore, Kansas City, Long Beach, Chicago, Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, Houston, Fort Worth and Edmonton. He has shared the concert stage with award-winning recording artists, including Stevie Wonder, Garth Brooks, Amy Grant, Trisha Yearwood, Jim Brickman, Luther Vandross, Vince Gill, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Michael Bolton and Dennis DeYoung.

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SunTrust Classical Series

November 3, 4 & 5, 2011 Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto November 17, 18 & 19, 2011 Mahler’s Fourth

December 1, 2 & 3, 2011 Brahms’s First

January 5, 6 & 7, 2012 Tianwa Yang Returns

January 26, 27 & 28, 2012 Ohlsson Plays Chopin

February 9, 10 & 11, 2012 Dr. Atomic & Mr. Haydn February 23, 24 & 25, 2012 Mozart & Copland

March 8, 9 & 10, 2012 Russian Masters

March 29, 30 & 31, 2012 Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody

April 19, 20 & 21, 2012 Brahms & Sierra’s Sinfonía May 3, 4 & 5, 2012 Tracy Silverman Premieres Terry Riley

May 31, June 1 & 2, 2012 Carmina Burana

Bank of America Pops Series November 10, 11 & 12, 2011 MIKE ELDRED­—THE VERY BEST OF JOHN DENVER

January 12, 13 & 14, 2012 WICKED DIVAS

February 2, 3 & 4, 2012 MARVIN HAMLISCH

March 22, 23 & 24, 2012 KATHY MATTEA

April 5, 6 & 7, 2012 AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH STEVE WARINER Featuring a Tribute to Chet Atkins

May 17, 18, 19, 2012 CHRIS BOTTI

Jazz Series

January 20, 2012 BRANFORD MARSALIS March 2, 2012 CASSANDRA WILSON

The Ann & Monroe Carell Family Trust Pied Piper Series

December 17, 2011 THE HOLIDAY MUSIC INSTRUMENT WORKSHOP February 18, 2012 MUSIC, NOISE & SILENCE April 14, 2012 PIED PIPER FANTASY

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November 22, 2011

December 8, 2011

December 15, 16 & 17, 2011

December 18, 2011

December 20, 2011

December 22, 2011

January 21, 2012

February 14, 2012

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February 21, 2012

March 4, 2012

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DRUMLINE LIVE NATALIE MERCHANT KINGS OF SALSA HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Featuring LeAnn Rimes HANDEL’S MESSIAH ORGAN RECITAL with ISABELLE DEMERS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL: Santa Loves to Boogie A SKAGGS FAMILY CHRISTMAS KENNY ROGERS with Nashville Symphony VALENTINE’S with JOHNNY MATHIS BRUCE HORNSBY ORGAN RECITAL with JAMES O’DONNELL VOICES OF SPRING featuring NASHVILLE SYMPHONY CHORUS TAO: THE WAY OF THE DRUM STEVEN WRIGHT CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA ORGAN RECITAL with DAVID HIGGS PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND with Del McCoury Band LILY TOMLIN ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

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SPECIAL EVENT

Sunday, November 13, at 7 p.m.

NATALIE MERCHANT Nashville Symphony James Bagwell, conductor Natalie Merchant, vocals Gabriel Gordon, guitar Uri Sharlin, piano & accordion Selections to be announced from the stage

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About the ARTIST NATALIE MERCHANT

Merchant began her musical career as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the pop group 10,000 Maniacs, releasing two Platinum and four Gold records with the group between 1981 and 1993.

Together with artists like R.E.M., 10,000 Maniacs created the first wave of alternative rock bands.

In 1994, Merchant began her solo career with a self-produced debut album, Tigerlily. She subsequently released Ophelia (1998), Natalie Merchant Live (1999) and Motherland (2001). In 2003, Merchant released an album of American and British folk music, The House Carpenter’s Daughter, on her own label, Myth America

Natalie Merchant has earned a place among America’s most respected recording artists, with a reputation as both a prolific songwriter and a unique, captivating performer.

In her 30-year career, Natalie Merchant has earned a place among America’s most respected recording artists, with a reputation as both a prolific songwriter and a unique, captivating performer. With her latest and highly acclaimed Nonesuch recording, Leave Your Sleep, Merchant embarks on a new artistic path, creating literaryinspired songs composed for expanded musical ensembles and orchestra. Live performances of her new music have been enthusiastically received by both longtime fans and new audiences. In conjunction with her next orchestral recording, due to be released in 2012, Merchant will undertake an extensive touring project, performing with symphony orchestras throughout the world.

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Records. In 2005, she curated a collection of her own work for a double album, Retrospective, and another for her former band, Campfire Songs.

Merchant has collaborated with a wide range of artists including Philip Glass, Wynton Marsalis, David Byrne, The Chieftains, Mavis Staples, Daniel Lanois, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Tracy Chapman, Billy Bragg and Wilco. Throughout her career, she has also been dedicated to supporting a variety of nonprofit organizations by lending financial support and raising public awareness. Scenic Hudson, The Center for Constitutional Rights, Doctors Without Borders, Tibet House, Greenpeace, The Southern Center for Human Rights and Planned Parenthood are among the social justice groups to which she has been devoted. Merchant has also served as an appointed member of the prestigious New York State Council on the Arts.

Thursday, November 17, at 7 p.m.

Friday & Saturday, November 18 & 19, at 8 p.m.

Classical Series

MAHLER’S FOURTH

Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Hila Plitmann, soprano

PROGRAM ANTON VON WEBERN

Passacaglia, Op. 1

RICHARD DANIELPOUR Darkness in the Ancient Valley Lamentation Desecration Benediction Scherzo

Finale: Consecration

Hila Plitmann, soprano

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CLASSICAL SERIES ANTON WEBERN Born on December 3, 1883, in Vienna; died on September 15, 1945, in Mittersill, Austria Passacaglia, Op. 1 Webern composed his Passacaglia in 1908 as a rite of passage on his way toward independence as a composer. The first official opus by one of the seminal figures of musical modernism, the Passacaglia nevertheless draws on a revered form that carries the weight of centuries of tradition.

First performance: November 4, 1908, in Vienna, with the composer conducting.

First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances.

Estimated length: 11 minutes Recommended listening: Pierre Boulez leads an authoritative performance by the Berlin Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon).

Along with his colleagues Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, Anton Webern’s name has become synonymous with the modernist revolution represented by atonality. Indeed, Webern’s aesthetic of intense condensation and attention to minute detail wielded an especially powerful effect on avant-garde composers of the postwar decades. Yet for all his revolutionary influence, Webern himself remained profoundly connected to musical tradition. His respect for the past was reinforced by Schoenberg, who became his teacher in 1904. Webern wrote a doctoral thesis on Renaissance music, and even in his most

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overtly modernist phase, he often resorted to such “archaic” forms as canons.

So it’s not surprising that to signal the official commencement of his life as a professional composer (his “Opus 1”), Webern chose the form of the passacaglia. The piece was conceived as a graduation exercise following four years of intensive private study with Schoenberg. After earlier experiments with program music, Webern deliberately chose a structure that would enforce abstract discipline on his imagination.

The passacaglia was originally a dance in triple time but had developed connotations of solemnity and even tragic gravitas. Its format is, at first sight, as straightforward as a blues progression At the same time, Webern’s large and varied orchestra reflects the contemporary influence of Mahler.

What to listen for The theme is initially plucked by the strings.

Silences fill the spaces between its eight notes. Only the fourth note (A-flat) strays from the home key of D minor — the music is clearly tonal. Thus Webern establishes the framework for a kaleidoscopic array of 23 variations. Some of these variations arise from the countermelody played by the flute in the very first variation, where it is juxtaposed against the main theme on trumpet. Instead of the triple meter associated with a passacaglia, Webern develops a duple, march-like momentum that suggests a Mahlerian cortège. (The composer was grieving the recent loss of his mother at the time.)

The tempo speeds up for the first of several climaxes that demarcate three larger structural subsections. In each, the pace quickens and then slackens. The mood grows calm and languid as a series of variations in D major follow. Two more climaxes lie ahead, linked by passages of exquisitely chamber-like orchestration. After the 23rd variation, a lengthy coda of gentle resignation suggests an eerie farewell.

Passacaglia is scored for 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, bass drum, triangle, tam-tam, harp and strings.

RICHARD DANIELPOUR Born on January 28, 1956 in New York City, where he currently resides Darkness in the Ancient Valley Danielpour composed Darkness in the Ancient Valley, which was commissioned jointly by the Nashville Symphony and the Pittsburgh Symphony, in 2011 and completed the score on August 7. It is subtitled “Symphony in Five Movements.”

First performance: With these concerts the Nashville Symphony is giving the world premiere of Darkness in the Ancient Valley.

Estimated length: 30 minutes Recommended listening: A great place to begin exploring Danielpour’s music is Yo-Yo Ma’s Grammy Award-winning recording of his Cello Concerto No. 1 (Sony). Also recommended are An American Requiem, featuring the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and Chorale under Carl St. Clair (Reference Recordings), and the composer’s two song cycles based on poetry of Rilke: Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus (Sony).

Born to parents of Iranian-Jewish heritage, Richard Danielpour grew up in southern Florida and taught himself to play piano at the age of 12.

He initially imagined a performance career as a pianist but decided to devote himself to composition when he discovered a natural gift for writing music. Danielpour studied at the New England

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Conservatory and at The Juilliard School.

Vincent Persichetti and Peter Mennin were his most important mentors. He has become a sought-after composition teacher himself, and serves on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the Curtis Institute.

Danielpour’s own music embraces the familiar language of tonality from a contemporary perspective. It draws eclectically on the European tradition — Mozart, Britten, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, for example — but is firmly rooted in such notable American influences as Copland, Gershwin, Barber and Bernstein. The Beatles and jazz are among the vernacular inspirations for Danielpour’s music.

Personal and historical memory also serve as important sources of inspiration for Danielpour.

This is especially the case with Darkness in the Ancient Valley, which draws on reflections and feelings triggered by the composer’s recent reencounter with his Iranian heritage. Danielpour is also motivated by the emotional power of the human voice in song and once referred to his earlier music as the work of “an opera composer in disguise.” Darkness in the Ancient Valley synthesizes the worlds of symphony and song by incorporating the human voice in the last of its five movements (subtitled “Consecration”).

Danielpour wrote the vocal part specifically for soprano Hila Plitmann, setting a poem by the 13th-century Persian poet and mystic Rumi.

Danielpour has kindly provided the following guide to his new work: “The text comes from an English translation of a Rumi poem (Divan 1559) and involves a woman who refuses to retaliate against her husband, or lover, in spite of his abusive and cruel behavior. The voice of this woman is, for me, a metaphor for the voice of the people of Iran, who have endured much under the present regime, but who nonetheless refuse to retaliate with violence.

“This 30-minute work was inspired by recent events in Iran, in particular the way the people of Iran, especially the women, have been brutalized. This is of particular interest to me because my parents were born in Iran and my family lineage on both sides goes back for well over 20

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“While this is clearly the music of a 21stcentury American composer, it is the music of an American composer with a Middle Eastern memory.”

generations. Born in the U.S., I spent a year in Iran (1963-64), and although I was just a child, I remember much about that year. In addition to learning Farsi, that time laid the bedrock of my understanding about the world which deepened as I matured.

“Sadly, the experience in Iran was for various reasons an unpleasant one, and I had fallen in love with Western Music and culture, so as I grew into adulthood I kept my Persian heritage at a distance. In recent years, however, I have become engrossed in this ancestral legacy and deeply interested in the way the people of Iran and the whole of the Middle East are pleading to be heard in the face of oppressive regimes.

“The work is in its way a kind of Secular Liturgy (Lamentation - Desecration - Benediction - Profanation - Consecration), with much of the music drawing from sources stemming from Persian folk melodies and Sufi rhythms.

And while this is clearly the music of a 21stcentury American composer, it is the music of an American composer with a Middle Eastern memory.”

Darkness in the Ancient Valley is scored for 3 flutes (2nd doubling alto flute, 3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets (1st doubling piccolo trumpet), 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (vibraphone, mounted African drums, xylophone, suspended cymbal, glockenspiel, tomtoms, large cowbell, chimes, bongos, high and large wood blocks, guiro, tam-tam, snare drum, brake drum, chimes, bass drum, tambourine, slapstick, vibraslap, ratchet, conga drums), piano (doubling celesta), harp and strings, as well as a soprano solo in the fifth movement.

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Text for Darkness in the Ancient Valley

Poem by Jalaluddin Rumi (Divan 1559) Translation by Raficq Abdulla Again with burning lips I swore An oath in last night’s heart.

I confess with a sigh again I swore An oath on your ruby blood.

I swore that I would fix My longing gaze on your chaste smile.

I swore that I would not flinch Even if you struck me with a blade.

My faith in you is green and strong It would rise again unscathed. I suffer.

My heart is torn from your breast Which none can cure but you.

You may willfully cast me into fire But I am an ingot glowing for you.

I swear I am dust, dry powder Rising from your bath, as hapless atom, A circling world held by your gravity I turn and turn in your wake.

From Words of Paradise by Raficq Abdulla Published by Frances Lincoln Ltd., ©2000 Reproduced by permission of Frances Lincoln Ltd.

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GUSTAV MAHLER Born on July 7, 1860, in Kalischt, Bohemia; died on May 18, 1911, in Vienna Symphony No. 4 Mahler composed the song which he eventually used as the finale to his Symphony No. 4 as early as 1892, but wrote the rest of the work between 1899 and 1901, continuing to revise the score until the year he died.

The Fourth features some of Mahler’s most transparent scoring and is thought by many to represent an ideal entrée into the composer’s enormously complex symphonic world.

First performance: November 25, 1901, with Mahler conducting the Kaim Orchestra of Munich.

First Nashville Symphony performance: February 2 & 4, 1984, with guest conductor Jahja Ling and soprano Judith Nicosia.

Estimated length: 55 minutes Recommended listening: One of the most compelling recent accounts can be found in Michael Tilson Thomas’s recording with the San Francisco Symphony and soprano Laura Claycomb (released on the orchestra’s independent label).

Like Danielpour’s new composition, a song setting for solo soprano and orchestra also forms the destination point of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. Mahler, in fact, composed the final movement as an independent song several years before he conceived the larger idea of his Fourth Symphony.

Mahler was especially fond of this song and even recorded the piece on a piano roll. Brief snatches of it also appear in the fifth movement of the Third Symphony. He had even envisioned using “Das Himmlische Leben” (“The Heavenly Life”) to conclude the Third but eventually decided to build the Fourth Symphony around the song.

The Fourth has a reputation for being Mahler’s sunniest, most optimistic and most user-friendly symphony, ending as it apparently does with a simple song of innocence. But beneath its surface beauties, this is also a work of fascinating tensions. In each of his first three symphonies, Mahler had repeated the core pattern established

by Beethoven: the symphony as a metaphysical journey tracing a struggle from darkness to light.

He had even directly emulated Beethoven’s Ninth in his own Second Symphony when he added soloists and chorus to the finale as part of an apocalyptic drama of resurrection.

But suddenly, with the Fourth, Mahler appears to be changing tack. Here he ends with a sweet lullaby that evokes childhood. This is the first symphony in which Mahler renounces the sort of blazing affirmation that sends audiences home with triumph ringing in their ears. The Fourth has a “happy ending,” but it concludes with a barely audible note deep in the bass. On the way there, we encounter all kinds of strange juxtapositions that are never really resolved.

What to listen for Chirping high flutes against sleigh bells open the symphony with a sound that conjures the lost innocence of childhood. It’s one of the most startling beginnings of any symphony in the literature and has been compared to frame-setting quotation marks, as if Mahler were suggesting the musical equivalent of “once upon a time.” That gesture applies not only to childhood, but also to a lost golden age of classical tradition.

Mahler consciously invokes the spirit and humor of Haydn in particular, ratcheting the musical development to an almost manic level of inventiveness as he manipulates his motivic and rhythmic ideas. The music continually pokes,

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prods and tweaks its thematic material, disclosing an almost absurd level of fertility in what are rather economical ideas. For example, the simple three-note pattern that we hear early on in the horns, separated by a decorative flourish, will actually dominate wide swaths of the movement’s progression.

The effect mixes reverence for classical tradition with an implied parody of it. Similarly, the song of the final movement operates both as a sincerely childlike utterance and as a send-up of Romanticism’s rhetorically grandiose conclusions. But even as parody, Mahler’s Fourth reveals a newfound neo-Classical sensibility and

Mahler’s Fourth reveals a newfound neo-Classical sensibility and marks a crucial change of direction from the all-encompassing rhetoric of his earlier symphonies. marks a crucial change of direction from the allencompassing rhetoric of his earlier symphonies.

This neo-Classicism is also manifest in the amazing transparency of the orchestration, in which Mahler dispenses with the heavier brass of trombones and tuba.

The Scherzo features a solo violin deliberately “mistuned” so as to sound like a drunken rustic fiddler — another example of the richly paradoxical nature of the Fourth. Mahler described this music by referring to a self-portrait by Arnold Böcklin in which Death appears as a skeleton fiddling into the painter’s ear. Yet along with its surrealism — which points ahead to the unsettling imagery of the poem sung in the last movement — the Scherzo is interrupted by gentle passages and, toward the end, veers into a visionary episode of harp and string glissandos that all but erases the macabre. Is this, we are made to wonder, a mere sonic hallucination?

This helps prepare the ground for the lengthy Adagio, which Mahler especially prized.

Patterned as a set of variations, it emulates the lofty eloquence of Beethoven’s late-period adagios (in the Ninth and the string quartets, above all).

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But along with this serenity comes intense sadness in the form of a contrasting minor theme.

Eventually there is a breakthrough, as this most serene movement in the symphony also contains the work’s most dramatic climax. In an arrestingly beautiful modulation, in which Mahler almost seems to evoke an out-of-body experience, the music subsides to set the stage for the child’s song of the afterlife.

But if we have been transported to the gates of paradise, what strange music Mahler writes to depict “the heavenly life”! The chief melody — which was proclaimed minutes before, in the climax of the Adagio — is beguiling in its songful form, with its lilting, lullaby-like repeated figures.

Yet the havoc that periodically breaks out in the orchestra returns us to the beginning of the work and foregrounds the rather earthy images of feasting and celebration of the text.

Referring to the poem, Mahler was intrigued by its “roguishness, combined with the deepest mysticism,” where “everything is turned on its head.” And his music introduces its own topsyturvy aspects into this heaven, where, we are told, “no worldly turmoil is to be heard.” Several times the singer’s calmly descending refrain is rudely interrupted by boisterous and violent versions of the tinkling sleigh bells from the beginning.

Instead of presenting a triumphant “Ode to Joy,” the symphony ends by simply ignoring these contradictions. Mahler concludes the song and Symphony with a barely perceptible postlude that gently rocks in the bass before evaporating into silence, pointing ahead to the truly revolutionary dissolutions that will mark his final masterpieces.

In addition to solo soprano, Mahler scores Symphony No. 4 for 4 flutes (3rd and 4th doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd doubling English horn), 5 clarinets (2nd doubling E-flat clarinet and 3rd doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, timpani, bass drum, triangle, sleigh bells, glockenspiel, cymbals, tam-tam, harp and strings.

— Thomas May is the Nashville Symphony’s program annotator. He writes extensively about music and theater.

Mahler is famous for composing vast, far-ranging symphonies. Yet he was also a master of the miniature form of the song. In fact, these two worlds intersect in his preoccupation with the early-19th-century anthology of German folk poetry known as Des Knaben Wunderhorn (“The Youth’s Magic Horn”).

It is the source of the text for the Fourth’s final movement, “Das Himmlische Leben” (“The Heavenly Life”). Mahler likely encountered Des Knaben Wunderhorn as a child but turned to it with renewed interest in 1887. For the next decade-and-a-half, he drew on Des Knaben Wunderhorn and set two dozen texts as songs. Some of these he incorporated as entire movements within the Second, Third and Fourth Symphonies.

Wir genießen die himmlischen Freuden, D’rum tun wir das Irdische meiden.

Kein weltlich’ Getümmel Hört man nicht im Himmel!

Lebt alles in sanftester Ruh’.

Wir führen ein englisches Leben, Sind dennoch ganz lustig daneben; Wir tanzen und springen, Wir hüpfen und singen, Sanct Peter im Himmel sieht zu.

We enjoy heavenly pleasures and therefore avoid earthly ones.

No worldly tumult is to be heard in heaven.

All live in greatest peace.

We lead angelic lives, yet have a merry time of it besides.

We dance and we spring, We skip and we sing.

Saint Peter in heaven looks on.

Johannes das Lämmlein auslasset, Der Metzger Herodes d’rauf passet.

Wir führen ein geduldig’s, Unschuldig’s, geduldig’s, Ein liebliches Lämmlein zu Tod. Sanct Lucas den Ochsen tät schlachten Ohn’ einig’s Bedenken und Achten.

Der Wein kost’ kein Heller Im himmlischen Keller; Die Englein, die backen das Brot.

John lets the lambkin out, and Herod the Butcher lies in wait for it.

We lead a patient, an innocent, patient, dear little lamb to its death.

Saint Luke slaughters the ox without any thought or concern.

Wine doesn’t cost a penny in the heavenly cellars; The angels bake the bread.

Gut’ Kräuter von allerhand Arten, Die wachsen im himmlischen Garten, Gut’ Spargel, Fisolen Und was wir nur wollen.

Ganze Schüsseln voll sind uns bereit!

Gut’ Äpfel, gut’ Birn’ und gut’ Trauben; Die Gärtner, die alles erlauben.

Willst Rehbock, willst Hasen, Auf offener Straßen Sie laufen herbei!

Good greens of every sort grow in the heavenly vegetable patch, good asparagus, string beans, and whatever we want.

Whole dishfuls are set for us!

Good apples, good pears and good grapes, and gardeners who allow everything!

If you want roebuck or hare, on the public streets they come running right up.

Sollt’ ein Fasttag etwa kommen, Alle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen!

Dort läuft schon Sanct Peter Mit Netz und mit Köder Zum himmlischen Weiher hinein.

Sanct Martha die Köchin muß sein.

Kein’ Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden, Die unsrer verglichen kann werden.

Elftausend Jungfrauen Zu tanzen sich trauen.

Sanct Ursula selbst dazu lacht.

Kein’ Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden, Die unsrer verglichen kann werden.

Cäcilia mit ihren Verwandten Sind treffliche Hofmusikanten!

Die englischen Stimmen Ermuntern die Sinnen, Daß alles für Freuden erwacht.

Should a fast day come along, all the fishes at once come swimming

with joy.

There goes Saint Peter running with his net and his bait to the heavenly pond.

Saint Martha must be the cook.

There is just no music on earth that can compare to ours.

Even the 11,000 virgins venture to dance, and Saint Ursula herself has to laugh.

There is just no music on earth that can compare to ours.

Cecilia and all her relations make excellent court musicians.

The angelic voices gladden our senses, so that all awaken for joy.

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Text and translation for ‘Das Himmlische Leben’

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About the ARTIST HILA PLITMANN, soprano GRAMMY® Award-winning soprano Hila Plitmann is known worldwide for her astonishing musicianship and gossamer voice.

She regularly premieres works by today’s leading composers while maintaining a vibrant professional life in film music, musical theater and songwriting.

This season, Plitmann’s concert engagements include a Richard Danielpour world premiere, Peace Oratorio, performed with Pacific Symphony, along with David Del Tredici’s Final Alice with the Detroit Symphony. She has worked with many of today’s leading conductors, including Leonard Slatkin, Kurt Masur, Robert Spano and Marin Alsop. She has appeared with

the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic and numerous other orchestras and ensembles in the United States and abroad.

In 2007, Plitmann originated the role of Exstasis in Eric Whitacre’s groundbreaking electro-musical Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings. For her work in the show, she received nominations for Best Actress in a Musical from the Los Angeles Ovation Awards and The L.A. Ticketholder Awards. She has recorded on the Decca, Telarc, Naxos, CRI, Reference Recordings and Disney labels. In 2009, she won the GRAMMY® for Best Classical Vocal Performance for her work on the Naxos recording of John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Born and raised in Jerusalem, Plitmann received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, with high honors, from The Juilliard School of Music, and has been awarded the Sony ES Prize for her outstanding contribution to the vocal arts.

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Creators’ note

The Kings of Salsa pays homage to all the great Cuban performers, composers and dance styles that have been born from this incredible island with a cool contemporary twist showing young Cuba today. We hope you enjoy the show!!!

About the artist

Roclan has an unrivalled understanding of the folkloric roots of salsa and Cuban dance, which he blends with breathtaking contemporary moves.

ROCLAN GONZÁLEZ CHAVEZ, choreographer/artistic director Roclan González Chavez is one of the most original and inventive choreographers working in Cuba today. He studied contemporary and folkloric dance at the prestigious Cuban National Art School in Havana, graduating with distinction in 1996. He was then the only person in his year to be awarded a postgraduate scholarship to study choreography.

Since then, he has worked with most of Cuba’s best-known music and dance groups, including Omara Portuondo, Compay Segundo, salsa big band Los Van Van, and the world-renowned Tropicana Cabaret. He is the main choreographer for Cuban Television Ballet, which performs regularly on television and at state events.

For the last five years, Roclan has choreographed the national Cuban music awards and many music videos for top Cuban bands. His recent engagements include choreographing the hit shows Lady Salsa and The Kings of Salsa, which have toured internationally for the last seven years in Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States to great critical acclaim. He has also worked extensively in Latin America and studied many styles from this region, including Brazilian samba, contemporary ballet and Argentinean tango.

Roclan has an unrivalled understanding of the folkloric roots of salsa and Cuban dance, which he blends with breathtaking contemporary moves, producing a unique dance fusion.

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conductors music director

Giancarlo Guerrero

Now entering his third season as its Music Director, Giancarlo Guerrero continues to flourish with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO). In autumn 2011, Guerrero also begins his new appointment as Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency.

A fervent advocate of new music and contemporary composers, Guerrero has collaborated with and championed the works of several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Daugherty and Roberto Sierra. His first recording with the Nashville Symphony, on Naxos, of Michael Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony and Deux Ex Machina, won three 2011 GRAMMY® Awards, including the category of Best Orchestral Performance. In 2010/11, Guerrero and the NSO released two more recordings on Naxos — one featuring the music of Argentine legend Astor Piazzolla and another featuring the music of American composer Joseph Schwantner.

In 2011/12, Guerrero will debut several world premieres with the Nashville Symphony, including a new work by Richard Danielpour, a banjo concerto by Béla Fleck and a concerto for electric violin by Terry Riley, which the NSO will bring to Carnegie Hall as part of the Spring for Music festival. With The Cleveland Orchestra, where Guerrero first appeared in May 2006, he will conduct subscription concerts in both Severance Hall and for Miami Residency performances

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at the Arsht Center, as well as plan and engage in education and community programs in the Miami-Dade area. Also this season, he returns to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and makes his debut with the Pacific Symphony.

Internationally, highlights of this season include his first European tour with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, concerts with the Slovenian and Strasbourg Philharmonics, the BBC Scottish and BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestras, and a return to the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra.

In summer 2011, Guerrero again led the Philadelphia Orchestra in concert at Mann Center, and in addition conducted the orchestra in their summer residencies at Vail and Saratoga.

This followed a busy 2010/11 season that included guest-conducting engagements in five continents: Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and South America. He now returns annually to Caracas, Venezuela, to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar and to work with young musicians in the country’s much-lauded El Sistema music education program.

In recent seasons he has appeared with many of the major North American orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and the National Symphony in Washington, D.C. He has also appeared at several major summer festivals, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Festival, and Indiana University’s summer orchestra festival.

In June 2004, Guerrero was awarded the Helen M. Thompson Award by the American Symphony Orchestra League, which recognizes outstanding achievement among young conductors nationwide.

He holds degrees from Baylor and Northwestern universities. Guerrero was formerly the music director of the Eugene Symphony (2001-2008), associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra (1999-2004) and music director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.

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resident conductor

Albert-George Schram

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Schram is primarily responsible for the Nashville Symphony’s Bank of America Pops Series.

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Albert-George Schram, a native of the Netherlands, has served as resident conductor of the Nashville Symphony since 2006. While he has conducted on all series the orchestra offers, Schram is primarily responsible for its Bank of America Pops Series.

Schram’s longest tenure has been with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, where he has worked in a variety of capacities since 1979.

He is an audience favorite for all series he conducts there, including Pops and the CSO’s summer season. As a regular guest conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Schram in 2002 opened the orchestra’s new permanent summer home, Symphony Park. He has regularly conducted the Charlotte Symphony since then.

From 1990 to 1996, Schram served as resident conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. Under his artistic guidance of three of the orchestra’s four subscription series, these series enjoyed exceptional growth. The former Florida Philharmonic Orchestra appointed Schram as resident conductor beginning with the 2002/03 season.

His conducting duties encompass participation in all of the FPO’s series from Miami to Palm Beach.

In 2008 Schram was invited to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Bolivia in La Paz and the Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. His other foreign conducting engagements have included the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the Taegu Symphony Orchestra in Korea, and the Orchester der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft Luzern in Switzerland.

He has returned to his native Holland to conduct the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Netherlands Broadcast Orchestra.

In the U.S., his recent and coming guest conducting appearances include the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Shreveport Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Allentown Symphony and the Mansfield Symphony.

Schram’s studies have been largely in the European tradition under the tutelage of Franco Ferrara, Rafael Kubelik, Abraham Kaplan and Neeme Järvi. He received the majority of his initial training at the Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands.

He later moved to Canada to undertake studies at the universities of Calgary and Victoria. His training was completed at the University of Washington.

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Kelly Corcoran Kelly serves as the primary conductor for the orchestra’s education and community engagement concerts.

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The 2011/12 season marks Associate Conductor Kelly Corcoran’s fifth season with the Nashville Symphony. During this time, she has conducted a variety of programs, including the Symphony’s SunTrust Classical Series and Bank of America Pops Series, and has served as the primary conductor for the orchestra’s education and community engagement concerts. She also conducted the Nashville Symphony’s CD collaboration with Riders In The Sky, ‘Lassoed Live’ at the Schermerhorn.

Corcoran has conducted major orchestras throughout the country, including the Colorado, Houston and Utah Symphonies and the Louisville Orchestra. She has had return engagements with the Charlotte, Detroit, Memphis, Milwaukee and National Symphonies and the Naples (FL) Philharmonic. In 2009, she made her successful South American debut as a guest conductor with the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, and returned for multiple subscription programs in 2011. She has developed a reputation for exciting, energized performances.

The Tennessean hailed her work on the podium as “lively” and “fresh,” while Green Bay PressGazette noted that “her smooth conducting style flashed dynamism.”

Named as Honorable Mention for the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, Corcoran studied with Marin Alsop and shared performances with her and the Bournemouth (UK) Symphony and Colorado Symphony. Prior to her position in Nashville, she completed three seasons as assistant conductor for the Canton Symphony Orchestra in Ohio and music director of the Canton Youth Symphony and the Clevelandarea Heights Chamber Orchestra. Corcoran has competed in the VIII Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition in Spain, worked with the Cleveland Opera and attended the Lucerne Festival’s master class in conducting, focusing on contemporary orchestral literature with Pierre Boulez.

In 2004, Corcoran participated in the selective National Conducting Institute, where she studied with her mentor, Leonard Slatkin. She has held past posts as assistant music director of the Nashville Opera, founder/music director of the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra and fellow with the New World Symphony, where she worked with Michael Tilson Thomas.

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 she received her Master of Music in instrumental conducting from Indiana University. She currently serves on the conducting faculty at the New York Summer Music Festival and Tennessee State University.

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chrorus director and conductor

George Mabry

George Mabry has directed the Nashville Symphony Chorus since 1998 and is professor emeritus of music at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He served as director of the school’s Center for the Creative Arts and director of choral activities at the university until his retirement in 2003.

While at Austin Peay, Mabry’s choirs performed for national and regional conventions of the Music Educators National Conference and the American Choral Directors Association. A native Tennessean, he holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University and master of music and doctor of philosophy degrees from George Peabody College for Teachers at Vanderbilt University. Mabry is active as a choral clinician and festival adjudicator. He has conducted All-State choirs in Kentucky and Virginia.

Mabry is a published composer and arranger. In addition to his choral and instrumental compositions, he has written and produced musical shows for entertainment parks around the country. He was formerly director of entertainment for Opryland U.S.A. in Nashville. While at Opryland, his musical shows toured the Soviet Union under the auspices of the U.S. State Department and were performed three times for the President of the United States at the White House.

In 1983, Mabry was honored as the first Austin Peay faculty member to receive both the Distinguished Professor Award and the Richard M. Hawkins Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievement. In 2003, he received the Governor’s Award in the Arts for Arts Leadership in Tennessee and the Spirit of Tennessee Award from the Tennessee Arts Academy.

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2011/12 Nashville Symphony orchestra Giancarlo Guerrero Music Director Albert-George Schram Resident Conductor Kelly Corcoran Associate Conductor George L. Mabry Chorus Director

First Violins* Jun Iwasaki, Concertmaster Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair Gerald C. Greer, Associate Concertmaster Erin Hall, Assistant Concertmaster Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, Concertmaster Emerita Denise Baker Kristi Seehafer John Maple Deidre Fominaya Bacco Alison Gooding Paul Tobias Beverly Drukker Anna Lisa Hoepfinger Kirsten Mitchell Erin Long Isabel Bartles

Cellos* Christopher Stenstrom Keith Nicholas Xiao-Fan Zhang

Second Violins* Carolyn Wann Bailey, Principal Zeneba Bowers, Assistant Principal Kenneth Barnd Jessica Blackwell Rebecca Cole Radu Georgescu Benjamin Lloyd Louise Morrison Laura Ross Lisa Thrall Jeremy Williams Rebecca J Willie

Piccolo Norma Grobman Rogers

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Violas* Daniel Reinker, Principal Shu-Zheng Yang, Assistant Principal Judith Ablon Hari Bernstein Bruce Christensen Michelle Lackey Collins Christopher Farrell Mary Helen Law Melinda Whitley Clare Yang Cellos* Anthony LaMarchina, Principal Julia Tanner, Assistant Principal James Victor Miller Chair Bradley Mansell Lynn Marie Peithman Stephen Drake Michael Samis Matthew Walker

Basses* Joel Reist, Principal Glen Wanner, Assistant Principal Elizabeth Stewart Gary Lawrence, Principal Emeritus Kevin Jablonski Joe Ferris II Flutes Erik Gratton, Principal Anne Potter Wilson Chair Ann Richards, Assistant Principal Norma Grobman Rogers

Oboes James Button, Principal Ellen Menking, Acting Co-Principal Roger Wiesmeyer, Acting Co-Principal English Horn Roger Wiesmeyer Clarinets James Zimmermann, Principal Cassandra Lee, Assistant Principal Daniel Lochrie E-flat Clarinet Cassandra Lee Bass Clarinet Daniel Lochrie Bassoons Cynthia Estill, Principal Dawn Hartley, Assistant Principal Gil Perel Contra Bassoon Gil Perel Horns Leslie Norton, Principal Beth Beeson

Horns Kelly Cornell, Associate Principal/3rd Horn Hunter Sholar Radu V. Rusu, Assistant 1st Horn Trumpets Jeffrey Bailey, Principal Patrick Kunkee, Co-Principal Gary Armstrong, Assistant Principal Trombones Lawrence L. Borden+, Principal Susan K. Smith, Assistant Principal Prentiss Hobbs, Acting Assistant Principal Bass Trombone Steven Brown Tuba Gilbert Long, Principal Timpani William G. Wiggins, Principal Percussion Sam Bacco, Principal Richard Graber, Assistant Principal Trent Leasure Harp Licia Jaskunas, Principal Keyboard Robert Marler, Principal Librarians D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian Orchestra Personnel Managers Anne Dickson Rogers Carrie Marcantonio, Assistant *Section seating revolves +Leave of Absence

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2011/12 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers

Directors

James C. Gooch Board Chair

Janet Ayers Julian B. Baker, Jr. Russell W. Bates Scott Becker James L. Beckner Rob Bironas David L. Black Julie Boehm James B. Boles Jack O. Bovender, Jr. William H. Braddy III, CFP Anastasia Brown Ann Carell Rebecca Cole * Lisa Cooper * Susannah C. Culbertson * Ben L. Cundiff Carol Daniels Bob Dennis David Steele Ewing Bob Ezrin John D. Ferguson Ben Folds John Gawaluck Amy Grant Carl Grimstad Carl Haley, Jr.

Edward Goodrich Board Chair Elect John T. Rochford Board Vice Chair Lee A. Beaman * Immediate Past Board Chair David Williams II Board Treasurer Betsy Wills Board Secretary Alan D. Valentine * President & CEO

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Billy Ray Hearn C. Keith Herron Lee Ann Ingram Martha R. Ingram Clay Jackson Ruth E. Johnson Elliott Warner Jones, Sr. Larry Larkin Kevin P. Lavender Mary Helen Law * Zachary Liff Ellen Harrison Martin * Robert A. McCabe, Jr. Robert E. McNeilly III Eduardo Minardi Gregg Morton Peter Neff Victoria Chu Pao Charles R. Pruett Jennifer Puryear Jesse B. Register Wayne J. Riley Norma Rogers * Anne L. Russell Michael Samis * Mike Schatzlein, M.D. James C. Seabury III

Kristi Seehafer * Nelson Shields Beverly K. Small Renata Soto Bruce D. Sullivan Brett Sweet Louis B. Todd Van Tucker Jay Turner Steve Turner Mark Wait Jeffery Walraven Johnna Watson Ted Houston Welch William Greer Wiggins * Jeremy Williams * William M. Wilson Clare Yang * Shirley Zeitlin James Zimmermann* Young Leaders Council Intern Amy Richardson *Indicates Ex Officio

2011/12 Nashville Symphony Staff Executive Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO Karen Fairbend, Executive Assistant to the President and CEO Mark A. Blakeman, V.P. of Orchestra and Building Operations and General Manager Sarah Jones, Assistant to the V.P. of Orchestra and Building Operations Andrea Dillenburg, V.P. of External Affairs Polly Rembert, Assistant to the V.P. of External Affairs Michael Kirby, V.P. of Finance and Administration and CFO Jim Mancuso, V.P. of Artistic Administration Jonathan Norris, SPHR, V.P. of Human Resources Artistic Administration Emma Smyth, Manager of Artistic Administration Valerie Nelson, Manager of Pops & Special Programs Ellen Kasperek, Artistic Administration Assistant Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator Box Office/Ticketing Kimberly Darlington, Director of Ticket Services Emily Shannon, Box Office Manager Tina Messer, Ticket Services Specialist Missy Hubner, Ticket Services Assistant Communications Jonathan Marx, Director of Communications Laurie Davis, Publicist Nancy VanReece, Social Media and Website Manager Data Standards Kent Henderson, Director of Data Standards Sheila Wilson, Sr. Database Associate

Development Erin Wenzel, Sr. Director of Development Susan D. Williams, CFRE, CVA, Sr. Director of Endowment Giving Hayden Pruett, Major Gifts Officer Maribeth Stahl, Director of Corporate Relations and Grants Holly Noble, Grants Manager Charles Stewart, Director of Individual Giving Kristy Reuter, Benefit Fulfillment Coordinator Sara Hanahan, Development Events Manager Education Blair Bodine, Director of Education and Community Engagement Andy Campbell, Education and Community Engagement Program Manager Kelley Bell, Education and Community Engagement Assistant Finance Karen Warren, Controller Mildred Payne, Accounts Payable and Payroll Manager Sheri Switzer, Senior Accountant Steven McNeal, Staff Accountant Debra Hollenbeck, Buyer/Retail Manager Food, Beverage and Events Steve Perdue, Director of Food, Beverage and Events Roger Keenan, Executive Chef David Bolton, Sous Chef Bruce Pittman, Sales Manager Lori Scholl, Catering and Events Manager Kayanne Jones, Catering and Events Manager Lacy Lusebrink, Food and Beverage Manager Collin Husbands, Food, Beverage and Events Coordinator Angela Gutheridge, Food and Beverage Supervisor

Sherman Hughes, Banquet Captain Anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager Jody Sweet, Beverage Manager Human Resources Ashley Skinner, PHR Human Resources Manager Kathleen McCracken, Volunteer Manager Martha Bryant, Receptionist and Human Resources Assistant I.T. Dan Sanders, Director of Information Technology Trenton Leach, Software Applications Developer Chris Beckner, Desktop Support Specialist Marketing Ronda Combs Helton, Sr. Director of Marketing Misty Cochran, Director of Advertising and Promotions Sarah Vickery, Sales Manager Meredith Benning, Promotions & Sales Coordinator Jessi Menish, Graphic Designer Ashley May, Graphic Design Associate Production and Orchestra Operations Tim Lynch, Sr. Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager Anne Dickson Rogers, Orchestra Personnel Manager Carrie Marcantonio, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal Librarian Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian John Sanders, Chief Technical Engineer Brian Doane, Production Manager Mitch Hansen, Lighting Director Gary Call, Audio Engineer Mark Dahlen, Audio Engineer W. Paul Holt, Stage Manager

Josh Walliser, Stage and Production Assistant Patron Services Kristen Oliver, Director of Patron Services Darlene Boswell, Patron Services Specialist Dennis Carter, Patron Services Specialist Aaron Coleman, Patron Services Specialist Daniel Tonelson, Patron Services Specialist Judith Wall, Patron Services Specialist Jackie Knox, Manager of Marketing Associates Eric Adams, Assistant Manager of Marketing Associates Linda Booth, Marketing Associate Toni Conn, Marketing Associate James Calvin Davidson, Marketing Associate Gina Haining, Marketing Associate Mark Haining, Marketing Associate Lloyd Harper, Marketing Associate Rick Katz, Marketing Associate Deborah King, Marketing Associate Cassie Nowels, Marketing Associate Misha Robledo, Marketing Associate Jesse Rosas, Marketing Associate Dustin Skilbred, Marketing Associate Venue Management Eric Swartz, Associate V.P. of Venue Management Craig Colunga, Director of Security Danny Covington, Chief Engineer Raay Creech, Facility Maintenance Technician Kenneth Dillehay, Facility Maintenance Technician Wade Johnson, Housekeeping Manager Kevin Butler, Housekeeper Veronica Morales, Housekeeper Tony Meyers, House Manager

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Individuals

The Nashville Symphony is deeply grateful to the following individuals who support its concert season and its services to the community through their generous contributions to the Annual Fund. Donors as of September 28, 2011.

Virtuoso Society Gifts of $10,000+ Anonymous (2) Judy & Joe Barker David & Diane Black Mr. James B. Boles Richard & Judith Bracken Mr.* & Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick Janine & Ben Cundiff Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr.

THANK

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Daniels III James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hayes Mrs. Martha R. Ingram Dr. & Mrs. Howard Kirshner LifeWorks Foundation The Martin Foundation

Ellen Harrison Martin The Melkus Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Cano Ozgener Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Anne & Joe Russell Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III Margaret & Cal Turner Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner Mr. & Mrs. Ted H. Welch

Stradivarius Society Gifts of $5,000+ Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. James Ayers J. B. & Carylon Baker Mr. & Mrs. Lee A. Beaman Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Carlton Pamela & Michael Carter Kelly & Bill Christie Mr. & Mrs. Tom F. Cone Hilton & Sallie Dean Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis Marty & Betty Dickens Dee & Jerald Doochin Jere & Linda Ervin The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Marilyn Ezell Allis Dale & John Gillmor

Mrs. Harold Hassenfeld Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Helen & Neil Hemphill Mrs. V. Davis Hunt Mr. & Mrs. David B. Ingram Lee Ann & Orrin Ingram Gordon & Shaun Inman Keith & Nancy Johnson Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Christine Konradi & Stephan Heckers Ralph & Donna Korpman Karen & Jim Lewis Mr. Zachary B. Liff Robert Straus Lipman Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Sheila & Richard McCarty

Dr. Ron McDow The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt Christopher & Patricia Mixon Mr. & Mrs. Sam Z. Moore Gregg & Cathy Morton Anne & Peter Neff Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Burton Jablin & Barron Patterson Hal & Peggy Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Carol & John T. Rochford Dorothy & Joe Scarlett Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Schatzlein Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus Ronald & Diane Shafer Nelson & Sheila Shields

Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small Michael & Grace Sposato The Roros Foundation Bruce & Elaine Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Earl S. Swensson Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. Alan D. & Connie F. Valentine Peggy & John Warner David & Gail Williams Mr. & Mrs. Julian Zander Jr. Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth

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Golden Baton Society Gifts of $2,500+ Anonymous (1) Clint & Kali Adams Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Shelley Alexander Dr. & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr. Russell W. Bates Allison & John Beasley Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup Julie & Dr. Frank Boehm Dr. & Mrs. H. Victor Braren Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Ann & Frank Bumstead Mrs. Patricia B. Buzzell Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler James H. Cheek III Richard & Kathy Cooper

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Charles & Andrea Cope Mr. & Mrs. James H. Costner Mr. & Mrs. Justin Dell Crosslin Barbara & Willie K. Davis John & Natasha Deane Andrea Dillenburg & Ted Kraus Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind John & Carole Ferguson Bob & Judy Fisher Amy Grant & Vince Gill Kate R. W. Grayken Carl & Connie Haley Suzy Heer Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilton Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel

Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques Anne Knauff Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. Mitchell Korn Kevin P. & May Lavender Gina & Dick Lodge Dr. Arthur M. Mellor F. Max & Mary A. Merrell Edward D. & Linda F. Miles Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Eric Raefsky, M.D. & Ms. Victoria Heil Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Risk Mr. & Mrs. John A. Roberts Anne & Charles Roos Debbie & Albert-George Schram

Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Scott Mr. & Mrs. Rusty Siebert Dr. Michael & Tracy Stadnick Pamela & Steven Taylor Dr. John B. Thomison The Vandewater Family Foundation Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery C. & Dayna L. Walraven Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle Dr. & Mrs. Artmas L. Worthy

JoAnne Hayes, Judy Barker

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Gifts of $1,500+

Anonymous (6) James & Glyna Aderhold Dr. Alice & Mr. Richard C. Arnemann Jon K. & Colleen Atwood James M. Bailey Jr. Barbara & Mike Barton Betty C. Bellamy Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey K. Belser Barbara Bennett Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Frank M. Berklacich, MD Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mark & Sarah Blakeman Dennis & Tammy Boehms Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III Mr. Jamey Bowen & Mr. Norman Wells Mr. & Mrs. William H. Braddy III Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Buijsman Betty & Lonnie Burnett Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt Chuck & Sandra Cagle Michael & Jane Ann Cain Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Brenda & Edward Callis Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Jan & Jim Carell Ann & Sykes Cargile Clint & Patty Carter Anita & Larry Cash Fred Cassetty Barbara & Eric Chazen Mr. & Mrs. John J. Chiaramonte Jr. Catherine Chitwood M. Wayne Chomik Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher Drs. Keith & Leslie Churchwell Mr. George D. Clark Jr. Dorit & Don Cochron Esther & Roger Cohn Ed & Pat Cole Chase Cole Marjorie & Allen* Collins Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan James L. & Sharon H. Cox Kimberly L. Darlington The Rev. & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller DJMD Philanthropic Fund Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden E.B.S. Foundation Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Robert D. Eisenstein David Ellis & Barry Wilker Dr. Meredith A. Ezell T. Aldrich Finegan John David & Mary Dale Trabue Fitzgerald

John & Cindy Watson Ford Tom & Judy Foster Danna & Bill Francis Ann D. Frisch Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins John & Lorelee Gawaluck Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone Harris A. Gilbert Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III Frank Ginanni Ed & Nancy Goodrich Tony & Teri Gosse Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin Francis S. Guess Kathleen & Harvey Guion Mr. & Mrs. Arthur S. Hancock Dr. Edward Hantel Janet & Jim Hasson Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Philip & Amber Hertik Lucia & Don Hillenmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey N. Hinson Judith Hodges Ken & Pam Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Dan W. Hogan Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Judith & Jim Humphreys Marsha & Keel Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Irby Sr. Rodney Irvin Family Donald L. Jackson Ellen & Kenneth Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Adam W. James Louis Johnson M.D. George & Shirley Johnston Mary Evelyn & Clark Jones Dr. & Mrs. David S. Jones Jan Jones & Steve Williams Drs. Spyros Kalams & Lisa Mendes Ray & Rosemarie Kalil Mr. & Mrs. Bill G. Kilpatrick Michael & Melissa Kirby Tom & Darlene Klaritch Mr. Richard B. Kloete William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Bob & Mary LaGrone Robert & Carol Lampe Martha & Larry Larkin Sandi & Tom Lawless Jon & Elaine Levine Sally M. Levine John T. Lewis Margaret & Bill Lindberg Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Lippolis Robert A. Livingston

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YOU Bill & Georgia Kilpatrick

David & Brenda Griffin

Jun Iwasaki, Billy Ray & Nancy Hearn

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Jim & Elizabeth Mancuso Shari & Red Martin Rhonda A. Martocci & William S. Blaylock Scott & Jennifer McClellan Tommy & Cat McEwen Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. McNeilly III Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. McRae III Mr. & Mrs. William T. Minkoff Jr. Ms. Lucy H. Morgan Matt & Rhonda Mulroy James & Patricia Munro Leonard Murray & Jacqueline Marschak Lannie W. Neal Pat & John W. Nelley Jr. Ms. Agatha L. Nolen Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat Representative & Mrs. Gary L. Odom Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Ms. Mary E. Pinkston David & Adrienne Piston Susan & Bob Plageman Charles H. Potter Jr. Dr. Neil Price & Nancy M. Falls Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths Sharon Hels & Brad Reed Dr. Jesse B. Register Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Drs. Wayne & Charlene Riley Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Roberts Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke James & Patricia Russell Mr. & Mrs. John J. Sangervasi Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Mrs. Wendy F. Sensing Dr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Shack Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Tom & Sylvia Singleton William & Cynthia Sites Joanne & Gary Slaughter George & Mary Sloan Drs. Louise Hanson & Walter Smalley Suzanne & Grant Smothers K. C. & Mary Smythe Jack & Louise Spann

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Mickey M. & Kathleen Sparkman Dan & Cynthia Spengler Stuart & Shirley Speyer Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell Christopher & Maribeth Stahl Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III Ann & Bob Street Fridolin & Johanna Sulser Andrew Keith & Donna Dame Summar Mr. & Mrs. Brett Sweet Dr. & Mrs. John Tapp Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor Rev. & Mrs. Tim Taylor Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Dr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Thomas Scott & Julie Thomas Candy Toler Christi & Jay Turner Kris & G. G. Waggoner Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Deborah & Mark Wait Mr. & Mrs. Martin H. Warren Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. B. Wheelock Charles Hampton White Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White Stacy Widelitz Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenck Mr. Donald E. Williams Jim & Sadhna Williams Shane & Laura Willmon Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills III Ms. Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe

Sandra & Daryl Demonbreun Kimberly & Stephen Drake Mr. & Mrs. Mike Dye Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Robert & Cassandra Estes Mr. & Mrs. DeWitt Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild Drs. Robert & Sharron Francis Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Ted M. George Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Gould Mr. & Mrs. Tom Harrington Mrs. Charles Hawkins III Keith & Kelly Herron Mr.* & Mrs. John B. Hickox Carrie & Damon Hininger Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Ray Houston Hudson Family Foundation Donna & Ronn Huff Bud Ireland Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson Peter & Marion Katz Walter & Sarah Knestrick Rachel & John Kuchtey Dr. & Mrs. David G. Lalka Richard & Diane Larsen Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lea IV Dr. & Mrs. T. A. Lincoln Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Lind Burk & Caroline Lindsey Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lipman Drs. Amy & George Lynch Tim Lynch Dr. & Mrs. Joe MacCurdy Mr. & Mrs. Stephen S. Mathews Lynn & Jack May Jim & Judi McCaslin Emily & Jonathan McDevitt Mr. & Mrs. W. P. Morelli Robert Ness Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Nischan Dr. Casey Noble Ann & Denis O’Day Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Odom Jr. Inka & Richard Odom Mr. & Mrs. William C. O’Neil Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James E. Orgain Alex S. Palmer David & Pamela Palmer Don & Chris Portell Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Prill Mr. Edwin B. Raskin Susan B. Ridley Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins Georgianna W. Russell David Sampsell Paula & Kent Sandidge

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Encore Circle

Gifts of $1,000+

Anonymous (7) Jeff & Tina Adams Mark & Niki Antonini Ms. Peggy Mayo Bailey Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Mrs. Brenda Bass Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills Bob & Marion Bogen Mr. Michael F. Brewer Jean & David Buchanan Sharon Lee Butcher John E. Cain III Dr. Elizabeth Cato Erica & Doug Chappell Mrs. Johns Hancock Cheek Jr. Mr. & Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Joe C. Cook III Mr. & Mrs. Joe C. Cook Jr. Greg & Collie Daily Mr. & Mrs. Julian de la Guardia

Dr. & Mrs. John S. Sergent Nita & Mike Shea Bill & Sharon Sheriff Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Susan & Luke Simons Matt & Kristen Slocum Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood Jane Lawrence Stone Hope & Howard Stringer James B. & Patricia B. Swan William & Rebecca Taylor Joe & Ellen Torrence Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes Thomas L. & Judith A. Turk Bill & Cathy Turner Mike & Elaine Walker Jonathan & Janet Weaver Mr. & Mrs. William G. Wiggins Judy S. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Williams Shirley Zeitlin

Mr. Kirk C. Campbell Mr. Thomas R. Campion Michael & Linda Carlson Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III Mary & Joseph Cavarra Mr. & Mrs. John L. Chambers Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Jay & Ellen Clayton Sallylou & David Cloyd Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Charles J. Conrick III Paul & Alyce Cooke Marion Pickering Couch Richard & Marcia Cowan Ms. Susannah C. Culbertson MariaGabriella Giro & Jeff Davidson Dr. & Mrs. Ben Davis Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Davis Mark & Barbara Dentz Suzanne Day Devine Mr. & Mrs. Arthur DeVooght Mr. & Mrs. Kenton Dickerson Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Tere & David Dowland Laura L. Dunbar Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Emily & Mark Eberle Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Dr.* & Mrs. Lloyd C. Elam Dr. Christopher & Wendy Ellis Laurie & Steven Eskind Carolyn Evertson Dr. John & Janet Exton Bill & Dian S. Ezell Ms. Marilyn Falcone Francisco P. Ferraraccio Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer & Family Art & Charlotte Fogel Randy & Melanie Ford Patrick & Kimberly Forrest Ms. Deborah F. Turner & Ms. Beth A. Fortune Mr. & Mrs. David B. Foutch Ms. Elizabeth A. Franks Robert & Peggy Frye Suzanne J. Fuller Dr. David & Kimberly Furse John & Eva Gebhart Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Mr. & Mrs. H. Steven George Bryan D. Graves Richard & Randi Green R. Dale & Nancy G. Grimes Mr. & Mrs. Elden Hale Jr. Jay & Stephanie Hardcastle Dr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hardy Kent & Becky Harrell Dr. & Mrs. Jason Haslam

Lisa & Bill Headley Ronda & Hank Helton Kent & Melinda Henderson John Reginald Hill Dr. Anne L. Hillegas & Mr. Donald Hill Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Mr. & Mrs. Richard Holton Ken & Beverly Horner Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious Margie & Nick* Hunter Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Sandra & Joe Hutts James R. & Helen H. James Robert C. Jamieson MD Lee & Pat Jennings Bob & Virginia Johnson Ruth E. Johnson Mary Loventhal Jones Mrs. Robert N. Joyner Dr. Barbara F. Kaczmarska Dr. & Mrs. Michael Kaminski Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane Thomas Keenan Mr. & Mrs. James Kelso Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy John & Eleanor Kennedy Jane Kersten Ms. Linda R. Koon Patricia Lee & Orville Kronk Betty S. Lamar Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lavender Ted & Anne Lenz Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Mr. & Mrs. Don R. Liedtke Mr. & Mrs. John Lillie Drs. Walt & Shannon Little The Howard Littlejohn Family Carolyn & Fred Loeffel Mr. & Mrs. Denis Lovell Samuel C. Loventhal Drs. George & Sharon Mabry William R. & Maria T. MacKay Donald M. & Kala W.* MacLeod James & Gene Manning Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Manno Mr. & Mrs. Richard Maradik Steve & Carrie Marcantonio & Family Lee Marsden James & Patricia Martineau Mimsye & Leon May Robert P. Maynard Joey & Beth McDuffee Mary G. McGrath Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Catherine & Brian McMurray Ed & Tracy McNally Patty Meeks Herbert & Sharon Meltzer Dr. & Mrs. Berry Middleton Mr. & Mrs. Rich Miles

THANK Concertmaster

Gifts of $500+

Anonymous (14) Jerry Adams Don & Judi Arnold Jeremy & Rebecca Atack Don & Beverly Atwood Mr. & Mrs. James E. Auer Mr. & Mrs. Brian C. Austin Jeff & Carrie Bailey Sallie & John Bailey Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Bainbridge Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Barton Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Ms. Katrin Bean Scott & Dawn Becker Marti Bellingrath Bernice Amanda Belue Mike & Kathy Benson Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell Ralph & Jane Black Randolph & Elaine Blake Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Irma Bolster Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Keith & Lisa Brent Berry & Connie Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Brown Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert Burcham Dr. Roger & Mrs. Donah Burgess Mr. & Mrs. Richard Burks Gene & Jamie Burton John & LuAnnette Butler James Button Virginia Byrn Mr. & Mrs. Cabot J. & Angelia Cameron Janet C. Camp

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Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent B. Millspaugh Dr. Jere Mitchum Diana & Jeff Mobley Dr. & Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt Ms. Gay Moon Cynthia & Richard Morin Steve & Laura Morris Margaret & David Moss Dick & Mary Jo Murphy Lucille C. Nabors Larry & Marsha Nager Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. Jane K. Norris Chris & Leslie Norton Virginia O’Brien D. Wilson Ochoa Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr. Philip & Marilyn Ollila Patricia J. Olsen Dan & Helen Owens Frank & Pamela Owsley Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page Mr. Steven C. Page Mr. & Mrs. M. Forrest Parmley John W. & Mary Patterson Drs. Teresa & Phillip Patterson Theresa G. Payne Dr. & Mrs. Joel Q. Peavyhouse Steve A. Perdue Linda & Carter Philips Drs. Sherre & Daniel Phillips Mr. Edward B. Phillips Faris & Bob Phillips Mr. John Pope Dr. & Mrs. James L. Potts Mr. & Mrs. John Prine George & Joyce Pust Dr. James Quiggins Nancy & Harry Ransom Franco & Cynthia Recchia Candace Mason Revelette Martha & Buist Richardson Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Margaret H. Rollins Laura Ross Mr. & Mrs. Dick Sammer John R. Sanders Jr. Samuel L. & Barbara Sanders Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson Cooper* & Helen Schley Pam & Roland Schneller Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle Drs. Carl & Wendy Schofield Dr. Kenneth E. Schriver & Dr. Anna W. Roe Peggy C. Sciotto Dolores & John Seigenthaler Odessa L. Settles Max & Michelle Shaff Patrick & Judy Sharbel Joan Blum Shayne Allen Shoffner Crea & Alan Sielbeck 80

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Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas A. Sieveking Sr. Betty B. Sisk Pamela Sixfin David & Robin Small Smith Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith Richard & Molly Dale Smith Dr. Robert Smith & Barbara Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smyth Mr. & Mrs. James H. Spalding Ms. Maggie P. Speight Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Gloria & Paul Sternberg Elizabeth Stewart & James Grosjean Dr. & Mrs. William R. Stewart Jean Stumpf Craig & Dianne Sussman Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Taylor Lorraine Ware & Reid Thompson Norman & Marilyn Tolk Martha J. Trammell Larry & Brenda Vickers Kay & Larry Wallace Dr. & Mrs. John J. Warner Bill & Ruth Wassynger Talmage M. Watts Mrs. William C. Weaver III Mr. & Mrs. James Webb III Dr. Medford S. Webster Beth & Arville Wheeler Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wheeler Harvey & Joyce White Adam & Laura Wilczek Vicki Gardine Williams Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II Gary & Cathy Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wood Sr. Mr. & Mrs. D. Randall Wright Shu-Zheng & Li Li Yang Jane Yount Roy & Ambra Zent

Newton & Burkley Allen Adrienne Ames Mark Amonett William J. & Margery Amonette Ken & Jan Anderson Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple Mr. & Mrs. James Armstrong Patricia & Jay Armstrong Mrs. Margaret Arnold Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Averbuch Janet B. Baggett Mr. & Mrs.* F. Clay Bailey Jr. Ms. Susie M. Baird Dr. & Mrs. Billy R. Ballard Susan F. & Paul J. Ballard Ms. Jenna Barbe Mr. & Mrs. J. Oriol Barenys Dr. Beth S. Barnett Dr.* & Mrs. Thomas C. Barr Dr. & Mrs. R. Daniel Beauchamp Susan O. Belcher Mark H. Bell Ron & Sheryl Bell Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Cynthia Bennett & Bill Grundy Mr. & Mrs. Earl Bentz Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Berry Mr. & Mrs. W. Irvin Berry Cherry & Richard Bird William W. Bivins Ms. Helen R. Blackburn-White William & Betty Blackford Joan Bledsoe David L. Bone Mr. James Bonner David Bordenkircher Ms. Donna R. Bostick Jerry & Donna Boswell Robert E. Bosworth Mr. Brian Boxer Mr. David G. Boyd Don & Deborah Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Douglas G. Bradbury III Jeff & Jeanne Bradford Mr. & Mrs. James F. Brandenburg Mr. Jere T. Brassell Robert & Barbara Braswell Mary Lawrence Breinig Phil & Pat Bressman Jamie A. Brewer Miss Sandra J. Brien Betty & Bob Brodie Kathy & Bill Brosius Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Brown Ms. Roxanne Brown

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First Chair Gifts of $250+ Anonymous (38) Henry J. Abbott & Rita J. Bradley Judith Ablon The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. W. Robert Abstein Ben & Nancy Adams Elizabeth Adams & David Scott Chip Alford Dr. & Mrs. John Algren Carol M. Allen Dr. Joseph H. Allen

Mr. S. Mark Brumbelow Burnece Walker Brunson Mrs. Margaret J. Bryson Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Linda & Jack Burch Mr. & Mrs. David G. Buttrick Geraldine & Wilson Butts Dr. & Mrs. Robert Byrd Drs. Robert & Mirna Caldwell Mrs. Julia C. Callaway Claire Ann Calongne Mrs. Bratschi Campbell Mr. Gary Canaday Dori & Byron Canaday Karen Carr Ronald & Nellrena Carr Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Carter Valleau & Robert M. Caruthers Bill & Chris Carver Kent Cathcart Martin & Mitzi Cerjan Mr. & Mrs. John P. Chaballa Evelyn LeNoir Chandler Dean & Sandy Chase Mrs. Robert L. Chickey Ms. Dorothy H. Chitwood Bette & Mark Christofersen Neil Christy & Emily Freeman Dr. André & Ms. Doreatha H. Churchwell Mr. Daryl Claggett Councilman & Mrs. Phil Claiborne Drs. Walter & Deborah Clair Bishop Roy C. Clark Steven & Donna Clark Mr. & Mrs. Roy Claverie Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Neely B. Coble III Misty Cochran & Josh Swann Cheryl M. Coffin & Ralph E. Topham Ms. Peggy B. Colson The Honorable & Mrs. Lewis H. Conner William & Margaret Connor Laura & Kyle Cooksey Arlene & Charley Cooper Elizabeth Cormier Ms. Laura Crafton-Sizemore Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Jeff Creasy Mr. & Mrs. Rob Crichton Mary & Jim Crossman Mr. Samuel B. Cruz Dr. A. Keith Cryar R. Barry & Kathy Cullen Julie & Peter Damp Katherine C. Daniel Kim & Roy Dano Andrew Daughety & Jennifer Reinganum Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Davenport Janet Keese Davies Adelaide S. Davis

Mr. Karl Dean & Ms. Anne Davis Mrs. Edwin DeMoss Wade & Jeanine Denney Mr. & Mrs. J. William Denny Ann Deol Dr. Joseph & Ambassador Rachel Diggs Ms. Shirley J. Dodge Peter & Kathleen Donofrio Michael Doochin & Linda Kartoz-Doochin Mr. Frank W. Drake Kristen & David Drake Elizabeth Tannenbaum & Carl Dreifuss Clark & Peggy Druesedow Mr. & Mrs. Carl Duffield Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Dugger Kathleen & Stephen Dummer Bob & Nancy Dunkerley Ms. Margaret R. Dunn Michael & Beverly Dunn Kathryn & Webb Earthman Patricia & Larry Eastwood Ms. Susan S. Edwards The Rev. Dr. Donna Scott & Dr. John Eley Dan & Zita Elrod Mr. Owen T. Embry Dr. & Mrs. Ronald B. Emeson Ms. Kaaren Engel Mr.* & Mrs.* Thomas E. Epperson Ms. Claire Evans Dr. Ann Evers & Dr. Gary Smith David Ewing & Alice Randall Drs. Charles & Evelyn Fancher Kathryn Beasley & Chris Farrell Laurie & Ron Farris Michael & Rosemary Fedele Mr. Vincent Fesmire Jill Denmark & William Fialkowski MD Janie & Richard Finch Ms. Deborah G. Flowers Mrs. Katherine H. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Andrew & Mary Foxworth Sr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Richard Franz Scott & Anita Freistat Emily & Randy Frey Ms. Heather Funderburg Tom & Jennifer Furtsch Dr. Henry Fusner Lois & Peter Fyfe Bill & Ginny Gable Jim & Michiko Gaittens Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Galbraith Mr. & Mrs. George C. Garden Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Garrett Alan & Jeannie Gaus Em J. Ghianni Mr. & Mrs. Stewart J. Gilchrist

Ms. Dianne R. Gillespie Mr. Andre L. Gist William & Helen Gleason Linda & Joel Gluck Carol A. Gnyp Mr. & Mrs. William M. Gracey Tom & Carol Ann Graham Antonio M. Granda M.D. Roger & Sherri Gray Mr. Joseph F. Green Mr. & Mrs. Luke Gregory John F. Gregory III Mary Beth & Raul Guzman Dr. & Mrs. John D. Hainsworth Byron & Antoinette Haitas Ms. Leigh Ann Hale Cathey & Doug Hall Scott, Kathy & Kate Hall John & Freda Hall Katherine S. Hall Renée & Tony Halterlein Walter H. White III & Dr. Susan Hammonds-White Mr. & Mrs. Clint Hanahan Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Hanselman Patty & Bill Harbison Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Hardison Jr. Joel T. Hargrove Frank & Liana Harrell Mrs. Edith Harris Dickie & Joyce Harris Mr. & Mrs. Jay Hartley Mr. James S. Hartman Mr. & Mrs. Ira Hartman Dr. Morel Enoch & Mr. E. Howard Harvey Robert & Nora Harvey Kay & Karl* Haury David & Judith Slayden Hayes Bob & Judy Haynes Judy & Fred Helfer Doug & Becky Hellerson Ms. Doris Ann Hendrix Ernest & Nancy Henegar Dr. Casilda I. Hermo Dr. & Mrs. George A. Hill Mr. David Hilley Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilmer Samuel & Melanie Hirt Anna Lisa Hoepfinger Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hofe Sean Hogan Jim & Kim Holbrook Aurelia L. Holden Dr. Nancy D. Holland James & Christa Holleman William Hollings Dale A. Holmer Paul Holt Drs. Richard T. & Paula C. Hoos Dr. Cherry L. Houston Samuel H. Howard

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Louis & Lyn Hoyt Dr. Jason R. Hubbard Mr. Adam L. Huddleston Dr. & Mrs. Louis C. Huesmann II Mr. & Mrs. William E. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Robert Huljak The Hunt Family Foundation Desda Passarella & Jim Hutchins Michael & Evelyn Hyatt Dr. & Mrs. Roger Ireson Dr. Anna M. Jackson Frances C. Jackson Ms. Laura R. Jackson Dr. & Mrs. G. Whit James Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Javorcky Joyce E. Johnson Mary & Doug Johnston Donald & Catherine Joiner Pat & David Jones Frank & Audrey Jones Sarah Rose Jones Jeffrey & Layle Kenyon Edward & Eunice Kern Robert Kerns Ms. Corinne B. Kidd Bill & Becca Killebrew Louise & Joe Kitchell James L & Dale Knight Edward & Rosemary Knish Mr. & Mrs. Rick Koelz David & Judy Kolzow Sanford & Sandra Krantz Ms. Geri Kristof Tim Kyne Anthony La Marchina Mr. Daniel L. LaFevor Dr. Kristine L. LaLonde Nancy & Edd Lancaster Don & Melanie Larson Mr. & Mrs. William Lassiter Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence Ms. Ellen C. Lawson Mrs. Douglas E. Leach Trenton & Shellie Leach Rob & Julia Ledyard Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee J. Mark Lee Richard & Deborah Lehrer Martin & Eileen Leinwand Dorothy & Jim Lesch Ralph G. Leverett Michael & Ellen Levitt John & Marge Lewis Mr. Marvin J. Liebergot Rick & Shirley Lievanos Mr. & Mrs. Mack S. Linebaugh Joanne L. Linn, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Linton Keltner W. & Debra S. Locke Jean & Steve Locke Kim & Mike Lomis Kim & Bob Looney Frances & Eugene Lotochinski Mr. & Mrs. David L. Loucky Thomas H. Loventhal J. Edgar Lowe Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal Mr. & Mrs. Ed Lowery 82

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Mr. & Mrs. James C. Lundy Jr. George & Cathy Lynch Jeffrey C. Lynch Patrick & Betty Lynch Sharron Lyon Ms. Francine K. Maas Mr. John Maddux Anne & Joe Maddux Dr. Mark A. Magnuson & Ms. Lucile Houseworth Mr. & Mrs. David J. Mahanes III Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Maier Mr. Mikal Malik Mr. & Mrs. Eric J. Manders Ms. Sheila F. Mann Beverly Darnall Mansfield David & Leah Marcus Robert & Debra Marler Jean W. Martin Abraham, Lesley & Jonathan Marx Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Massie Frank & Laura Mastrapasqua Sue & Herb Mather Lynn & Paul Matrisian Ralph & Lucia Maxson Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Mr. & Mrs. John D. McAlister Mrs. Joanne Wallace McCall Chris & John McCarthy Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. McCarty Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. McClure Kathleen McCracken Bob McDill & Jennifer Kimball Mr. & Mrs. Edwin A. McDougle Mr.* & Mrs. William Thomas McHugh Michael McKinley Mr. Brian L. McKinney Malcolm & Jamesina McLeod Dr. & Mrs. Timothy E. McNutt Sr. Sam & Sandra McSeveney Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. McWherter Mr. & Mrs. Martin L. Medley Ms. Virginia J. Meece Ronald S. Meers Janis Meinert Linda & Ray Meneely Manfred & Susan Menking Sara Meredith Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger Dr. & Mrs. Philip G. Miller Dr. Ron V. Miller Jim & Glenda Milliken Dr. Fernando Miranda & Dr. Patricia Bihl-Miranda Mr. & Mrs. Steven Moll Dr. & Mrs. Anthony Montemuro Dr. Michael F. Montijo & Mrs. Patricia A. Jamieson-Montijo Mr. James Elliott Moore James & April Moore Dr. Kelly L. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Steve Moore Mr. David K. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett

Dr. Erik B. Motsenbocker Lee & Ingeborg Mountcastle Dr. J. Philip Moyers Mr. & Mrs. Charles Murchison Mr. John Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Dwayne Murray Mr. & Mrs. J. William Myers Allen & Janice Naftilan Mr. James R. Neal Valerie Nelson Dr. & Mrs. Harold Nevels Dr. John Newman & Ms. Rebecca Lyford Leslie & Scott Newman John & Judy Nichols William & Kathryn Nicholson Al Nisley Mr. & Mrs. Lee F. Noel Mrs. Caroline T. Nolen Judy M. Norton Michael & Joanne Nowlin Mrs. Edith M. Oathout Hunt & Debbye Oliver Frank & Nancy Orr Philip & Carolyn Orr Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Overfield Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict Dr. & Mrs. James Pace Nancy & Gary Pack Mrs. Kimberly Williams Paisley Terry & Wanda Palus Mr. & Mrs. Chris Panagopoulos Doria Panvini Ms. Kathern W. Parker Lisa & Doug Pasto-Crosby Grant & Janet Patterson Dr. & Mrs. W. Faxon Payne John & Lori Pearce Anne & Neiland Pennington Ms. Rosetta Miller Perry Claude Petrie Jr. Mary & Joe Rea Phillips Charles & Mary Phy Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pickel Jr. David & Teresa Pitzer Ms. Julie B. Plexico Viv & Don Pocek Rick & Diane Poen Mr. Van G. Pond Jr. & Mr. David Glasgow Phil & Dot Ponder Stanley D. Poole Mr. Marico Portis Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Priesmeyer Ann Pushin Mr. & Mrs. John E. Ragan Edria & David Ragosin Mr. & Mrs. Ross Rainwater Mr. & Mrs. Randall A. Rawlings Nancy Ward Ray Mr. & Mrs. David R. Reeves Ms. Sandra L. Reeves Polly & Mark Rembert Allen Reynolds S. D. & Carole Reynolds Al & Laura Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. Tate Rich Barbara Richards

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Don & Connie Richardson Ann Richmond & Darrell Smith Mrs. Jane H. Richmond Mary Riddle Mrs. Paul E. Ridge Margaret Riegel Ms. Margot A. Riser Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Riven Ms. Stacie Robbins Mrs. Roscoe R. Robinson Albert & Donna Rodewald Mrs. Julie A. Roe Mr. & Mrs. Doug Rogers Fran C. Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland Rodney & Lynne Rosenblum Edgar & Susan Rothschild Jan & Ed Routon Lauren & Christopher Rowe Ms. Jean W. Russell Dr. & Mrs. Don Russo Robert & Karen Sams Ron & Lynn Samuels James & Susan Sandlin Jack & Diane Sasson Mr. Donald D. Savoy Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas W. Schlater III Jack Schuett Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Schultenover Gary & Becky Scott Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott Drs. Fernando F. & Elena O. Segovia Mr. & Mrs. J. Douglas Seiters Gene A. & Linda M. Shade Richard & Marilyn Shadinger Caroline & Danny Shaw Mrs. Jack W. Shepherd Russ Sims & Sophia Lee Mr. & Mrs. Steven Singleton Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir Alice Sisk Ashley N. Skinner Dr. & Mrs. David Slosky Charles R. & Vernita Hood-Smith Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Mrs. Myrtis F. Smith Joy & Richard Smith Mrs. Susan K. Smith & Mr. Joe Stegemann Mr. & Mrs. Brian Smokler Mr. & Mrs. Robert Sneed Mr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Snyder Marc & Lorna Soble Dan & Siri Speegle Nan E. Speller Thomas F. Spiggle Mr. M. Clark Spoden Mrs. Randolph C. St. John Caroline Stark & Lane Denson Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens CAPT & Mrs. Charles E. Stewart Jr.

THANK

Steve Turner, Sondra Cruickshanks, Meredith Peaden, Nathan Spiess, Doug Cruickshanks, Judy Turner

Mr. & Mrs. Charles V Stewart III Mr. & Mrs. David B. Stewart Mr. J. Cyril Stewart Bob & Tammy Stewart Lois & Larry Stone Tom & Gayle Stroud Jane & Sam Stumpf Jr. Gayle Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. James E. Summar Sr. Mrs. T. C. Summers Thomas & Sarah Summers Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Svennevik Dr. Esther & Mr. Jeff Swink Ms. Camille Terranova Dr. Paul E. Teschan Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Thackston Mr. & Mrs. Richard Theiss Dr. & Mrs. William Thetford Jennifer Kraus & family Mrs. Lillian D. Thomas* Mr. & Mrs. Bob F. Thompson David & Kathryn Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Wendol R. Thorpe Richard & Shirley Thrall Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Thurman Mr. & Mrs. William J. Tichi Mr. & Mrs. William D. Tidwell Scott & Nesrin Tift Leon Tonelson Mr. Michael P. Tortora Mila & Bill Truan Richard, Kimiko, Jennifer & Lindsey Tucker Dr. & Mrs. Michael Tyler Alan & Catherine Umstead Dr. Jan Van Eys Kimberly Dawn Vincent Crystal Walker Mrs. Bridgette K. Walsh Ms. Leslie P. Ware Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Warner Jr. Lawrence & Karen Washington Carolyn M. Wasleski Gayle & David Watson Shirley Marie Watts Frank & Jane Wcislo H. Martin & Joyce Weingartner Mr. Kevin L. Welsh J. Jason Wendel M.D. Erin Wenzel

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Joni Werthan George & Julie West Ms. Jo H. West Linda C. West Franklin & Helen Westbrook J Peter R. Westerholm Dr. & Mrs. Mark B. Whaley Ms. Harriett C. Whitaker Linda & Raymond White Mr. Michael T. Whitler & Mr. Mark Weber Jerrie Barnett-Whitlow Jonna & Doug Whitman Ms. Eleanor D. Whitworth Ms. Judith B. Wiens Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Roger M. Wiesmeyer Marie Holman Wiggins Mr. Robert S. Wilkinson Frank & Marcy Williams Jeremy S. Williams John & Anne Williams Dr. Pamela C. Williams Susan & Fred Williams Carol Ann & Tommy Wilson Mr. & Mrs. William M. Wilson The Wing Family Scott & Ellen Wolfe Ms. Marilyn V. Wolven Edward & Mary E. Womack Dr. Bob & Marilyn Wood Mr. Michael T. Woods Mr. & Mrs. Matthew W. Wright Gary & Marlys Wulfsberg Kay & Randall Wyatt Pam & Tom Wylly Richard A. & Vivian R. Wynn Patrick & Phaedra Yachimski Dr. Mary Yarbrough Mr. & Mrs. Mark Young Dr. Michael Zanolli & Julie K. Sandine Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Zeitlin Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Zibart James & Candice Zimmermann *denotes donors who are deceased

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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 September 28, 2011.

Season Presenters Gifts of $100,000+

The Martin Foundation President’s Council Gifts of $75,000+ TM

Directors’ Associates Gifts of $50,000+

Principal Players Gifts of $25,000+ Mike Curb Family Foundation

Government Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County

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Metropolitan Council

Orchestra partners Gifts of $10,000+ ArtNowNashville.com AT&T Blevins, Inc. Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Caterpillar Financial Services The Cockayne Fund Inc. Gaylord Entertainment Foundation Hastings Architecture Associates, LLC The HCA Foundation The Hermitage Hotel KraftCPAs PLLC Neal & Harwell Publix Super Markets Charities Mary C. Ragland Foundation VSA – The International Organization on Arts and Disability/ MetLife Foundation Wells Fargo artistic underwriters Gifts of $5,000+

In fact, we require it. Lipscomb was presidential lecture earns rave reviews the first university in the U.S. to require for the arts influencers it brings to the its music majors to sit for Britain’s community. Experience it yourself. acclaimed Associated Board of the Royal There are very few times when there Schools of Music exams. And that’s just is not an arts event on campus, open one of our musical accomplishments in to the public and enjoyed at little or no the arts. In theater, Lipscomb’s director charge. Go to events.lipscomb.edu was named one of Nashville’s top ten to see what’s happening. We’d like directors in 2010. And in visual arts, our to treat you royally as well.

We give music students the royal treatment.

Academy of Country Music Lifting Lives Aladdin Industries, LLC Anchor Trailways & Tours BDO Clarcor Inc. Chet Atkins Music Education Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Corrections Corporation of America Cracker Barrel Foundation Dan McGuinness Irish Pub David Yurman Ford Motor Company Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Landis B. Gullett Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Heidtke & Company, Inc. Hi Fi Buys Interior Design Services, Inc. Monell’s Restaurants OSHi Flowers The Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor Charitable Foundation Tennessee Christian Medical Foundation Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP

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business partner Gifts of $2,500+ American General Life & Accident Insurance Company AmSurg Corp City of Brentwood Dave Nemo Entertainment Delta Dental of Tennessee First Baptist Nashville Nashville Symphony Chorus VOGUE Washington Foundation

Stansell Electric Co., Inc. Sysco Nashville WBUZ Buzz 102.9 / WPRT The Game 102.5 business friend Gifts of $300+ A-1 Appliance Company ACPspecialT’s V. Alexander & Co., Inc. Alpha Delta Omega Foundation Altissimo Entertainment Bloom Electric Supply Bradshaw Collision Repair Centers Case Selects Wine and Spirits CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Cooper Steel Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Dancy’s, Nancy June Brandon DataMarketing Network, Inc. DBS & Associates Engineering, Inc. Demos’ Steak & Spaghetti House Freeman Webb Company Realtors, Inc. Hoge Motor Company Hunter Marine IBIS Communications, Inc. INDUSCO integrity events, inc.

J & J Interiors, Inc. Jack Cawthon/Jack’s Bar B Que National Toxicology Specialists Inc. Nitetrain Coach Prime Properties, Inc. Robert’s Western World David L. Battis / Edwin B. Raskin Company Riley Warnock & Jacobson Servitech Industries, Inc. Trickett Honda Monte Turner/Turner and Associates Realty, Inc. Volunteer Barge & Transport, Inc. Walker Lumber & Hardware Company

honorary In honor of Lin Andrews In honor of Bette Berry In honor of Fredric Blumberg’s 80th Birthday In honor of Eric Chazen’s 80th birthday In honor of Marion P. Couch In honor of Jeanne Crossnoe In honor of Laurie Davis & Meredith Benning In honor of Gov. Winfield C. Dunn In honor of Bob Eisenstein’s 95th birthday In honor of Giancarlo Guerrero In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn In honor of Martha Ingram In honor of Mitchell Korn In honor of Robert Ness In honor of J. Kirby Pate M.D. In honor of Tom Patterson & Mike Eldred’s wedding In honor of James Robinson & Andrea Hatcher In honor of Steve & Judy Turner for their civic leadership In honor of Jerry L. Warren In honor of Dr. Lawrence K. Wolfe’s birthday

THANK business council Gifts of $1,500+ BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Community Trust BioVentures, Inc. The Glover Group H. G. Hill Realty Company, LLC The Hendrix Foundation J. Alexander’s Corporation WASCO, Inc.

YOU business leader Gifts of $1,000+ Anonymous (1) Barrett Johnston Bryan Symphony Orchestra at TTU Carter-Haston Holdings, LLC Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation Neely Coble Company Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co., Inc. Direct Solutions DZL Management Economy Pencil Co. J&J’s Market & Cafe Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris Architects, Inc. Purity Dairies, Inc. Stor-N-Lock William Morris Endeavor Entertainment

business associates Gifts of $500+ APEX & Robert E. Lee Moving & Storage, Inc. Black Box Network Services BMW-MINI of Nashville R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation Broadcast Music, Inc. Buford Lewis Co. Capitol Records CedarStone Bank The Celebration D.F. Chase, Inc. Cornerstone Commercial Real Estate Services Country Music Association Fabricators CAD Service, Inc. Haber Corporation Pam Lewis & PLA Media Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Northgate Gallery, Inc. PICA Group RD Plastics Co., Inc. SESAC, Inc. Sigma Alpha Iota – Vanderbilt Chapter

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IN-KIND Ajax Turner Company, Inc. American Airlines American Paper & Twine Co. American Tuxedo Big Events, Inc. Branches Dulce Desserts The Glover Group Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Nashville, 4th Avenue Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn McQuiddy Printing Nashville Symphony Volunteer Auxiliary Omni Beverage Co. Performance Studios Mr. James C. Seabury III Steinway Piano Gallery Mr. Thomas L. Turner Tyson Foods

memorial In memory of Elizabeth Carré-Pirtle In memory of Scott Clayton, CLU In memory of Catherine Cook In memory of Beverly Newman Creel In memory of Gerry Daniel In memory of Allen Eskind In memory of Eva R. Garfinkle In memory of John Barker Hickox In memory of T. Earl & Nora Smith Hinton In memory of Davis Hunt

In memory of Rodney Irvin (2) In memory of Edna B. Kurzynske In memory of Mildred J. Oonk In memory of Ron Portell In memory of Lisa Renegar In memory of Lillie Hollabaugh Rhame In memory of Betty Richards (2) In memory of Lenore S. Schermerhorn In memory of Samuel Terranova In memory of Stanley Udell In memory of Ed Wanner In memory of Sandra Whipple In memory of Barbara Wiles

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ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN

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A Time For Greatness Campaign

A Time for Greatness, the Nashville Symphony’s endowment campaign, ensures a brilliant future for the orchestra. Funds raised through A Time for Greatness are used to increase the orchestra’s financial capacity to support continuing artistic growth and program development, and sustain the orchestra’s expanded operations in Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

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founders Gifts of $1,000,000+

AmSouth Foundation James W. Ayers - FirstBank Bank of America Alvin & Sally Beaman Foundation Lee A. Beaman, Trustee / Kelley Beaman, Trustee Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff Ann & Monroe* Carell CaremarkRx Caterpillar Inc. & Its Employees The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Mike Curb Family Foundation Greg & Collie Daily Dollar General Corporation Laura Turner Dugas The Frist Foundation The Grimstad & Stream Families Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Hays HCA

Ingram Charitable Fund Gordon & Shaun Inman Ellen Harrison Martin Charles N. Martin Jr. The Martin Foundation Mr. & Mrs. R. Clayton McWhorter The Memorial Foundation Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County Anne* & Dick Ragsdale Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter The Grimstad & Stream Families 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

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Nashville Symphony Legacy Society leaving a legacy, building a future

When Schermerhorn Symphony Center opened to the public in 2006, we envisioned our concert hall serving many generations for decades to come. If you have that same vision for the Nashville Symphony, then a planned gift can become your ultimate demonstration of commitment and support. You can help us plan for our future — and your own — through this creative approach to philanthropy and estate planning, which allows you to make a significant contribution to the Nashville Symphony while also enjoying income and tax benefits for you and your family.

Great orchestras, like all great cultural institutions throughout history, are gifts to posterity; they are built and bestowed to succeeding generations by visionary philanthropists.

To find out more about planned giving opportunities, please visit: NashvilleSymphony.org/plannedgiving.

The Nashville Symphony Legacy Society honors those patrons who have included the Symphony in their estate planning

thank you

Anonymous Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Julie & Frank Boehm Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Donna & Steven Clark Mrs. Barbara J. Conder Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert Andrea Dillenburg & Ted Kraus William M. & Mildred P.* Duncan Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Judy & Tom Foster Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia James C. Gooch Billy Ray Hearn Judith Hodges Judith S. Humphreys Martha R. Ingram Heloise Werthan Kuhn Sally M. Levine

John T. Lewis Clare* & Samuel Loventhal Ellen Harrison Martin Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Cynthia & Richard Morin Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Pamela K. & Philip Maurice Pfeffer Joseph Presley Eric Raefsky, MD & Victoria Heil David and Edria Ragosin Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Fran C. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Irvin & Beverly Small Dr. John B. Thomison Sr. Judy & Steve Turner Mrs. Johnna Benedict Watson Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Anne H. & Robert K.* Zelle

*deceased

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DINING AT THE SCHERMERHORN

ARPEGGIO

Open before all nighttime series concerts and most special events, Arpeggio features a sumptuous four-course buffet including appetizer, soup station, four entrées and dessert. The price is $38 with water and tea, not including tax and gratuity. Arpeggio is located in the East Lobby, and doors open two hours before the performance. Reservations are preferred; please call 615.687.6400. For more information, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/Arpeggio.

SYMPHONY CAFÉ

Located in the West Lobby, the Symphony Café offers breakfast and lunch on weekdays and casual pre-concert dining in the evenings. Choose from a selection of gourmet soups, artisan sandwiches and fresh salads in addition to Seattle’s Best coffee and espresso. Symphony Café is open 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. On concert evenings, the Café opens two hours prior to the performance. Free Wi-Fi is available.

BARS

Seven bars are located throughout the building offering premium spirits, cocktails, wine, beer, soft drinks and bottled water.

VISTING THE SCHERMERHORN RESTROOMS & WATER FOUNTAINS

CAMERAS, CELL PHONES & OTHER DEVICES

Restrooms and water fountains are available on the Lounge Level, located one floor below the Main Lobby; on the east and west sides of the Founders and Balcony Levels; and outside the Mike Curb Music Education Hall on the Founders Level. Located on the Lounge Level, unisex restrooms are available for disabled guests needing special assistance.

Cameras or audio recording equipment may not be brought into any space where a rehearsal, performance or lecture is taking place. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms must be turned off prior to the start of any event.

COAT cHECK

To enhance the acoustical experience inside Laura Turner Concert Hall, guests are invited to check their coats at one of several complimentary coat-check locations on each seating level. The most convenient is on the Lounge Level, located one floor below the Main Lobby.

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LATE SEATING

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members, each performance will have designated breaks when latecomers are seated.

Those arriving after a performance begins will be asked to remain outside the entrance door nearest their ticketed seats until the appropriate break.

HOW MAY WE ASSIST YOU?

PARKING & TRANSPORTATION

Have a question, request or comment?

Please visit our Concert Concierge, which is available to help you with anything you might need during your visit. Located in the Main Lobby, Concert Concierge is open through the end of intermission.

Located directly across Third Avenue from the Schermerhorn, the Pinnacle at Symphony Place offers Symphony patrons pre-paid parking at a discount! To purchase, please call 615.687.6401.

CONCERT CONCIERGE

SERVICES FOR GUESTS WITH DISABILITIES

Schermerhorn Symphony Center has been carefully designed to be barrier-free and meets or exceeds all criteria established by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). All public spaces, restrooms, meeting rooms, offices, backstage dressing rooms and orchestra lounge, and production control rooms will accommodate performers, staff and guests with disabilities. Interior signage and all elevators make use of Braille lettering for directional signs in both public and backstage areas, including all room signs.

An infrared hearing system is available for guests who are hearing impaired. Headsets are available at no charge on a first-come, firstserved basis from the coat-check area on the Lounge Level, and from the Concert Concierge.

Accessible and companion seating are available at all seating and price levels with excellent acoustics and sight lines to the stage. Transfer seating is also available to allow guests in wheelchairs to transfer easily to seats in the hall.

Please arrange in advance for accessible seating by calling a customer service representative at 615.687.6400.

EMERGENCY MESSAGES

Guests expecting urgent calls may leave their name and exact seat information (seating level, door number, row and seat number) with any usher. Anyone needing to reach guests during an event may call the Security Desk at 615.687.6610.

LOST AND FOUND

Please check with the House Manager’s office for any items that may have been left in the building. The phone number for Lost and Found is 615.687.6450.

PARKING AT THE PINNACLE

VALET

Valet parking, provided by Parking Management Company, is available on Symphony Place, on the north side of the building between Third and Fourth avenues. We also offer pre-paid valet parking; for more details, call 615.687.6401.

CHAUFFEURED TRANSPORTATION

Grand Avenue, the official transportation provider for the Nashville Symphony, offers town cars, sedans, limousines and bus transport for individuals and groups of all sizes. To make a reservation, please contact GrandAvenueLimo.com or 615.714.5466.

TICKET SALES The Box Office is on the Fourth Avenue side of the building closest to Symphony Place. Tickets may be purchased with MasterCard, VISA, American Express, Discover, cash or local personal checks. Limited 15-minute parking is available on Fourth Avenue just outside the Box Office.

Regular Hours:

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday Hours on Concert Days:

10 a.m. to intermission Monday-Saturday Call for hours on Sunday Tickets are also available by visiting NashvilleSymphony.org or by phoning the Box Office at 615.687.6400.

CAN’T MAKE A CONCERT?

If you are unable to use your tickets, you may exchange them for another performance, availability permitting, or you may donate them for a tax deduction. Tickets must be exchanged or donated by 6 p.m. on the day before the performance.

Some restrictions may apply. Call 615.687.6401.

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MAP

Orchestra Level Low 1st Floor

Concert Concierge

East Atrium

West Atrium

Box Office

Bar

Symphony Store

Bar

Symphony Cafe

Security

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Bar

West Lobby

Loge Hall Loge Boxes

Arpeggio Laura Turner Concert Hall

Loge Hall Loge Boxes

Martha Rivers Ingram Courtyard

East Lobby

Founders Level 2nd Floor

Restrooms

Exit West Grand Staircase

East Grand Staircase

Stairs

Classical Conversations, additional bar & restrooms located in third-floor Balcony Lobby

Elevator

Founders Boxes

Board Room

Laura Turner Concert Hall

Founders Boxes

Founders Hall

Bar

Bar

Founders Circle

Coat Check

Food

Orchestra View

WiFi Access

Curb Room

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Holidays at the Schermerhorn

PRESENTED BY

DEC. 8

Home for the Holidays

DEC. 15-17

Handel’s Messiah

DEC. 17

Music Instrument Workshop

DEC. 18

Holiday Pipes: Organ Recital with Isabelle Demers

BUY TICKETS AT NashvilleSymphony.org 615.687.6400

Starring LeAnn Rimes

A Nashville treasure

Kids will love it

Magnificent

DEC. 20 Asleep at the Wheel: Santa Loves to Boogie

A rollicking good time

DEC. 22

A Skaggs Family Christmas

Family fun