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welcome to the 2011/12 seAson world premieres, free music And educAtion
Along with these new works, we’ll mainThank you for being a part of our new season tain our commitment to exploring some of the at Schermerhorn Symphony Center! This is an greatest orchestral music ever written — pieces especially exciting month for us at the Nashville by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Prokofiev, Symphony. In addition to our Season Opening Tchaikovsky and much more. We’ll continue Celebration featuring the incomparable Yo-Yo to make our way through the complete cycle of Ma, we’re also launching our SunTrust Classical Mahler’s symphonies, with a performance of his Series with the world premiere of Béla Fleck’s Fourth in November, and we’ll also continue to Concerto for Banjo. We’ve had the pleasure of present the music of Anton Bruckner, whose working with Béla in the past, but until now he’s music is perfectly suited for the never written a concerto acoustics of the Schermerhorn. specifically designed to show With a full concert schedule, off his singular mastery of our musicians stay busy, but the banjo. This promises it’s important to all of us at the to be a musical experience Nashville Symphony that we are unlike any other, and we’ll be able to share the joy of music and recording the concert for a music education with everyone future release. in our community. This season, Béla’s piece really sets the thousands of schoolchildren will tone for our whole season, Béla’s piece really sets pass through our doors for our because we’ll be undertaking the tone for our whole Young People’s Concerts, and several other notable world many of our musicians will devote premieres and recordings. season, because we’ll be In November, we’ll be workundertaking several other hours of their time each week to teaching and performing for ing once again with Richard notable world premieres our free education and commuDanielpour, one of our counand recordings. nity engagement programs. Next try’s most distinctive commonth, on October 1, we look posers. And in May, we will forward to welcoming everyone to unveil a new piece by Terry Schermerhorn Symphony Center for our annual Riley, one of the most influential musical thinkRegions FREE Day of Music. ers to emerge in the last half-century. He’s writing All of this — our concerts, our premieres, our a concerto for electric violinist Tracy Silverman, education and engagement programs — is posa member of the Nashville community whose sible because of you. Thank you for supporting incredible musicianship has taken him to concert the Nashville Symphony. I hope you enjoy this halls all over the world. After we premiere Riley’s evening’s concert, and I look forward to seeing piece here at the Schermerhorn, we will take it to you at the Schermerhorn this season! Carnegie Hall’s Spring for Music festival on May GIANCARLO GUERRERO 12, 2012. We hope you can join us in New York! Music Director, Nashville Symphony
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