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In the years since its first Nashville Symphony performance in 1963, Handel’s Messiah has become a holiday-season tradition for local audiences.

As in past years, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will come together this month to present Handel’s masterpiece, but what’s unique this season is that the chorus will be featured in two other December concerts.

Within the span of just a few weeks, the singers will also perform music by Russian composers Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, along with a host of wellloved holiday tunes.

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We want everyone to experience a sense of awe and wonder when they come to a Nashville Symphony concert, and this month especially, we hope you leave the Schermerhorn feeling moved, inspired and excited about the new year to come.

ecember always seems to bring with it a particular mix of excitement and exhaustion. The holidays are almost here, and a much-needed break is in sight — and yet there’s so much to get done before we can enjoy some time with family and friends. With this in mind, I hope that your experience at Schermerhorn Symphony Center this month offers a welcome moment of respite from the worries and pressures that tend to build up this time of year.

We’ve got a variety of events coming up designed to help you celebrate the holiday season, but our SunTrust Classical Series concerts this month promise to be just as stirring. On December 3-5, the Nashville Symphony Chorus will join the orchestra to perform Rachmaninoff ’s The Bells and Dominick Argento’s Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe — both inspired by the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe — along with Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. From the liturgical texts and unusual scoring of Stravinsky’s breathtaking piece to Rachmaninoff ’s exploration of the cycles of life, the music in this concert gets at the heart of what it means to be human, an idea richly underscored by the voices of the chorus.

Most of our December concerts will showcase the Nashville Symphony Chorus, who are the subject of a feature story on page 12 of this month’s InConcert. The 146-member vocal ensemble will return on December 10 to share the stage with the orchestra for Home for the Holidays, which includes a festive sing-along of familiar holiday tunes, and they’ll perform with the orchestra again at our annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah on December 17-19. This Baroque-era oratorio has become a holiday tradition for many concertgoers, but there’s also loads of interesting historical context behind this magnificent music, and you can read all about it in Thomas May’s informative program notes, which begin on page 46.

We close the month with Happy Holidays! A Winter Wonderland, the second concert in The Ann & Monroe Carell Family Trust Pied Piper Series, on December 19. Along with a program of music intended to help conjure the sense of wonder and anticipation that children feel during the holidays, this family-friendly concert will also feature a special appearance by WSMVChannel 4 anchor Demetria Kalodimos, who will narrate a performance of “The Night Before Christmas,” along with another piece that communicates the importance of treating all people with kindness.

As a parent myself, I love bringing my son to concerts at the Schermerhorn.

His awe at the surroundings and his enthusiasm for the music reminds me just how lucky I am to work in such a beautiful building with such gifted musicians.

We want everyone to have that kind of experience when they come to a Nashville Symphony concert, and especially this month, we hope you leave the Schermerhorn feeling moved, inspired and excited about the new year to come.

If you have questions, comments or suggestions about InConcert, feel free to contact me at jmarx@nashvillesymphony.org.

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Whatever your shopping needs, the Symphony Store is here to help. Come on a concert night, when the store opens two hours prior to performance and closes 30 minutes after the concert has ended. Or make a special visit during the daytime, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Friday — and while you’re here, take a few minutes to enjoy lunch or coffee and a pastry at the Symphony Café.

Coming soon: the Nashville Symphony’s 2010/11 season announcement

In just a few weeks, the Nashville Symphony will announce the lineup for its 2010/11 season. It promises to be another exciting year’s worth of concerts at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, with a dynamic mix of guest performers, inspiring music and one-of-a-kind special events. For more information about the upcoming season announcement, call our box office at 615.687.6400 or visit NashvilleSymphony.org on January 11.

Symphony presents ‘Peter and the Wolf’ en Español

On February 20, Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony will present a bilingual performance of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf as a special addition to The Ann & Monroe Carell Family Trust Pied Piper Series concert that day. At 11 a.m., audiences can hear this classic work with narration in English, and then at 12:30, the orchestra will host a second performance of the piece with narration in Spanish by Guerrero’s wife, Shirley. Joining the orchestra will be puppeteers from the Nashville Public Library, who are creating puppets especially for the performances.

In the years since its 1936 premiere in Moscow, this tale of a boy who outsmarts a hungry wolf has helped introduce young listeners to the various instruments of the orchestra. Under Guerrero’s direction, the musicians of the Nashville Symphony will conjure visions of Peter (represented by the strings), a flighty bird (flute), a plaintive duck (oboe), a nimble cat (clarinet) and, of course, the sharpfanged wolf (horns). It promises to be a special day of music for listeners of all ages. Tickets for the Spanish-language performance are only $5. For more information, call the Schermerhorn Symphony Box Office at 615.687.6400 or visit NashvilleSymphony.org.

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Singing Praises

Nashville Symphony Chorus takes the spotlight in three varied programs at the Schermerhorn this month

By Maria Browning

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he Nashville Symphony Chorus was first organized in 1963 for a December performance of Messiah, and in the years since, the concert has become a Nashville Symphony tradition. As in past seasons, the orchestra and chorus will come together this month to present Handel’s masterpiece, with three performances on December 17-19 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center. What is unique about this season is that the chorus will be featured in two other December concerts that demonstrate these singers’ remarkable range — both vocally and stylistically. Within the span of a few weeks, the chorus will perform music not just by Handel, but also by Russian composers Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, along with a host of well-loved holiday tunes.

Not surprisingly, Messiah remains one of the ensemble’s most high-profile performances. After so many years, it has become a cherished ritual of the holiday season for many Nashville Symphony patrons — and, according to Chorus Director George Mabry, the music gives just as much pleasure to the men and women in the choral loft. Although the Nashville Symphony George Mabry Chorus employs a small group of paid singers, most of its members are what Mabry calls “avid volunteers,” and the opportunity to perform the oratorio is one of the things that brings them to the group. “There are familiar works that choristers love to sing, and that’s one of the drawing cards for them,” he says.

“Certainly, Messiah is among the top drawing cards.”

In most years, the chorus presents Messiah with a full complement of singers. Since the opening of Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2006, that has meant 146 voices — the number of seats in Laura Turner Concert Hall’s choral loft, which is located directly behind the stage. Last year’s performance varied the tradition by presenting Messiah with a much smaller version of the Nashville Symphony Chorus under the direction of Baroque specialist Nicholas McGegan. Mabry notes that it gave audiences a chance to hear the work as Handel conceived it. “Handel would never have known the idea of having 146 singers do his Messiah. He probably had 32 to 35 singers doing it when he was alive.”

This year’s Messiah will again utilize the full choir, in part because Mabry wants to give more of the chorus a chance to perform. “We’re doing it with 146 singers, or as many as we can get in it this year,” he says. “I love to put as many folks up there as I possibly can.”

One of those folks will be tenor Jonathan Yeaworth, who has been with the chorus since 2001. He relishes the opportunity to re-explore Messiah year after year, calling this challenging favorite “tiring but not tired.” The piece demands both stamina and finesse from singers, he notes, adding that it

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“reveals a little more of itself with each and every performance.” Alto Debbie Reyland, who just completed her 10th season with the chorus and has sung Messiah each year, says the work requires intense preparation no matter how many times a singer has performed it, a process she describes as “always a learning experience.”

The challenges of Messiah are just a part of the learning experience for Nashville Symphony choristers this fall, as they prepare to present Rachmaninoff ’s The Bells and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms together in a program on December 3-5, as part of the SunTrust Classical Series. “The Rachmaninoff is very challenging for the singers, harmonically speaking,” says Mabry.

“It’s very dense, with a very full orchestra, and it requires a lot of resonance and power to cut through the orchestra.” With its unconventional, often understated approach to the symphonic form, the Stravinsky work presents its own set of challenges as well.

Reyland and Yeaworth are encountering The Bells and Symphony of Psalms for the first time, and while they concede the difficulties, they are enthusiastic about learning both works. “Being exposed to music that is new to us is a treat,” says Yeaworth. “Inevitably, we grow to love what we sing, thanks to wise choices in literature and great leadership.” Reyland describes herself as “already in love” with Symphony of Psalms. As for the Rachmaninoff piece, she says, “I have a feeling that The Bells will come together for me when we

join the orchestra. Often the pieces that are most difficult in rehearsal and most puzzling initially have been the most rewarding in concert, both for the chorus and the audience.”

Chorus members connect with music, each other This December’s slate of performances also includes Home for the Holidays, a holiday pops program on December 10. That makes the chorus a major time commitment for the volunteer singers, most of whom are juggling jobs and families as well as the social and faith obligations of the holiday season. Rehearsals begin in September, with a two-hour session every Monday night, along with “homework” utilizing CDs and the Internet. Regular attendance at rehearsals is expected — and necessary, given the amount of material to be mastered.

“You have to get a whole lot done in those two hours,” says Mabry. “It’s very intense, very concentrated. But people come to this because they want to be there.” There’s no question about that for Yeaworth, whose work as a video producer takes him out of town frequently. He nevertheless finds a way to make time for the chorus. “There have been times when I travel back to Nashville for the sole purpose of attending a rehearsal,” he says. “I don’t regret a little sacrifice because I get so much in return from being a part of the chorus.” Reyland is a married mother of two and works for an audio production company.

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In addition to regularly performing with the chorus, she just completed a two-year term as its president. “Like anything else,” she says, “you make time for what is important to you, and the Nashville Symphony Chorus is high on my list.”

The chorus’ performance schedule has expanded considerably over the past few years — in addition to the three concerts this month, it will also perform Bach’s Mass in B minor in March and a special “Voices of Spring” choral concert in May. During Mabry’s 12-year tenure, the chorus has also done five recordings, including Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. It all makes for a lot of time together for the singers, and they try to connect with each other socially as well as musically. There are newmember receptions, occasional parties and an annual member recognition event. The singers frequently go out together after the final night of a performance. “We are very much a ‘work hard, play hard’ kind of group,” says Reyland.

Ultimately, though, the Nashville Symphony Chorus is driven by a pure and powerful love of music. Yeaworth and Reyland have both been

devoted to music since early childhood. They each describe the experience of singing Messiah as “transcendent,” and it’s clear that they take deep satisfaction in the outstanding quality of the group’s performances. “The love of music is what brings us together,” says Yeaworth, “but our bond is created when we see what we can accomplish together.”

Just as the singers acknowledge the challenges of learning the choral repertoire, Mabry admits that directing a large, non-professional chorus is a huge undertaking. It is also, he says, uniquely gratifying. “You have 140 or so people who are there because they want to contribute and make music together. The end result is overpowering from an emotional, aesthetic and even intellectual standpoint when they come up with a fine performance time after time.”

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

If you’re interested in joining the Nashville Symphony Chorus, please contact auditions@ nashvillesymphonychorus.org for more information.

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Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Nashville Symphony Chorus George Mabry, chorus director Twyla J. Robinson, soprano Bryan Griffin, tenor Darren K. Stokes, bass-baritone

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Classical

Rachmaninoff & Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

IGOR STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms Psalm 38 Psalm 39 Psalm 150 DOMINICK ARGENTO Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe Suite for Orchestra

(from the opera The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe) Introduction The Valley of the Many Colored Grass The Maelstrom The Sepulchre The Sea Bryan Griffin, tenor

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Igor Stravinsky Born on June 18, 1882, in Oranienbaum, Russia; died on April 6, 1971, in New York City Symphony of Psalms The Symphony of Psalms was commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony, then under conductor Serge Koussevitzsky.

Stravinsky, who was living in France at the time, began the work in January 1930 and completed it on August 15, revising the score in 1948. Because Koussevitzsky was indisposed, the world premiere that had originally been planned for Boston took place in Europe instead, on December 13, 1930, with Ernest Ansermet conducting the Brussels Philharmonic. The American premiere followed in Boston on December 19. The Nashville Symphony’s first and only prior performance of the work was in April 1977.

The Symphony of Psalms is usually performed with mixed chorus, although Stravinsky suggested a children’s choir for the female voices if possible. (In practice, on his own recordings, he used a traditional four-part chorus.) In addition to the chorus, the score calls for 5 flutes (one doubling piccolo), 4 oboes, English horn, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 5 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, harp, 2 pianos, cellos and double basses. estimated length: 22 minutes Stravinsky went through as many metamorphoses during his long career as Picasso did. He made a style of changing styles, shaking up his image with a variety of artistic makeovers — or that’s how his contemporaries tended to view Stravinsky’s seemingly restless shape-shifting. What had been the opulence of his breakthrough ballet The Firebird was replaced by a revolutionary “primitivism” and then, even more shockingly, a coolly “objective” attitude that appeared to do an about-face on the avantgarde, play-acting with 18th-century musical props.

Yet all of these phases are in fact stamped by Stravinsky’s unmistakable voice, reflecting an untiring creative urge. With its interplay of stark, neoclassical economy and sacred texts, the Symphony of Psalms — one of the most fascinating masterpieces in Stravinsky’s entire output — must have astonished its first audiences. Moreover, most of the music for which he was known up to that point was connected in some way with the theater.

The commission from Boston Symphony con-

ductor Serge Koussevitzsky was open-ended as to the form it might take.

It was Stravinsky who opted for a choralorchestral work setting excerpts from three of the Psalms. In Igor Stravinsky the 1920s, he had begun to re-explore the Russian Orthodox faith in which he had been raised, composing an a cappella setting of the Lord’s Prayer in 1926. Biographer Stephen Walsh suggests that the worldwide Depression — which forced a rude awakening from the giddy exuberance of the 1920s — may have left its mark, too.

Here is how Stravinsky inscribed his score: “This symphony, composed to the glory of GOD, is dedicated to the Boston Symphony Orchestra on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its existence.”

Sacred and secular are casually intermingled, the first of numerous indications that nothing is to be taken for granted with the Symphony of Psalms. Indeed, Stravinsky defies expectations on every level.

Despite the allusion to the genre of the symphony, the three-movement Symphony of Psalms is at a far remove from classical archetypes. The epic choral symphony as pioneered by Beethoven in his Ninth, moreover, finds its virtual antithesis in Stravinsky’s compact structure and emotional reserve — the polar opposite of the hyper-expressive individualism that the preceding century had idolized.

Thus the sonic signature devised by Stravinsky leaves out whole layers of the expected orchestral apparatus. What’s omitted is as important as what he uses: the absence of clarinets and upper strings removes the traditional source of what we hear as a “warm” blend with voices. Instead, a sense of division between the chorus and instrumental ensemble brings a unique and sometimes chilly clarity to the sound; it also engenders an austere beauty.

The use of Latin from the Vulgate translation of the Psalms is well-suited to this sound world.

(Initially, Stravinsky had intended to set the texts in Old Church Slavonic.) An acerbic E minor chord, which sets the orchestral introduction to the first movement into motion, alternates with a rushing pattern of notes. The first movement proceeds as a march-like supplication from the chorus for divine DECEMBER

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assistance: lost humanity wandering in the wilderness. Stravinsky’s music intensifies the prayer, ending in G major.

The sense of wandering continues in the second movement, now in the form of a double fugue (a fugue with two themes). The first theme is instrumental, while the second, in the chorus, works downward from sopranos to basses. Stravinsky describes this movement as an “overt use of musical symbolism” in three stages, setting three verses from Psalm 39 (which expresses a state of “waiting for the Lord”) as “an upside-down pyramid of fugues.” The architecture, Stravinsky observes, builds from the instrumental to the “next and higher stage” in the “human fugue.” The climactic outburst in the final minute (the “third stage,” corresponding to the psalm’s “new song” of praise) “unites the two fugues.”

To the words of praise from Psalm 150, the last movement presents this “new song” as yet another set of surprises in the Symphony of Psalms. Once again, Stravinsky defies expectations and avoids the sort of music conventionally associated with rejoicing, most obviously by his use of contrasting tempos. The distant serenity of the slow opening chorus yields to a faster passage based on an obsessively repeated rhythmic figure — the first music Stravinsky conceived for the piece, in fact. This faster music echoes The Rite of Spring (a reminder of the fundamental continuity amid all this composer’s stylistic shifts). There are even hints of a circus atmosphere — another of the juxtaposition of opposites at the heart of the Symphony of Psalms.

The slow music returns, followed again by the fast intrusion. Stravinsky later wrote that the latter was meant to depict Elijah ascending to heaven with his horses and chariot. Its “agitation is followed by the calm of praise” in the final hymn, which “must be thought of as issuing from the skies.” This concluding section traces a new repetitive pattern: three simple notes around which the chorus rotates in its praise, alighting on an unforgettably sounded chord of C major. Sweeping away all the preceding contradictions, this is Stravinsky’s final, awe-inspiring surprise in the Symphony of Psalms.

TEXT FOR STRAVINSKY’S SYMPHONY OF PSALMS 1. Psalm 38, verses 13 and 14 Exaudi orationem meam, Domine, et deprecationem meam. Auribus percipe lacrimas meas. Ne sileas, ne sileas.

Quoniam advena ego sum apud te et peregrinus, sicut omnes patres mei.

Remitte mihi, prius quam abeam et amplius non ero.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with Thine ears consider my calling: hold not Thy peace at my tears.

For I am a stranger with Thee: and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

O spare me a little that I may recover my strength: before I go hence and be no more seen.

2. Psalm 39, verses 2, 3 and 4 Expectans expectavi Dominum, et intendit mihi.

Et exaudivit preces meas; et exudit me da lacu miseriae, et de lato faecis.

Et statuit super petram pedes meos: et direxis gressus meos.

Et immisit in os meum canticum novrum, carmen Deo nostro.

Videbunt multi, videbunt et timabunt: et aperabunt in Domino.

I waited patiently for the Lord: and He inclined unto me, and heard my calling.

He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay: and set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings.

And He hath put a new song in my mouth: even a thanksgiving unto our God. Many shall see it and fear: and shall put their trust in the Lord.

3. Psalm 150 Alleluia.

Laudate Dominum in sanctis Ejus.

Laudate Erum firmamentis virtutis Ejus.

Laudate Dominum.

Laudate Eum in virtutibus Ejus Laudate Eum secundum multitudinem magnitudinis Ejus.

Laudate Eum in sono tubae.

Laudate Eum. Alleluia. Laudate Dominum. Laudate Eum. Laudate Eum in timpano et choro, Laudate Eum in cordis et organo; Laudate Eum in cymbalis bene jubilantionibus.

Laudate Eum, omnis spiritus laudate Dominum.

Alleluia.

Alleluja.

O praise God in His holiness: Praise Him in the firmament of His power.

Praise Him in His noble acts: Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.

Praise Him in the sound of the trumpet: Praise Him upon the lute and harp.

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Dominick Argento Born on October 27, 1927, in York, Pennsylvania; currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe is a suite based on Dominick Argento’s 1976 opera The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe. Commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the suite was completed in December 1985. David Zinman led the Baltimore Symphony in the premiere on February 27, 1986.

Argento dedicates Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe to Randolph S. Rothschild and Joseph Meyerhoff.

This is the Nashville Symphony’s first performance.

Argento’s score calls for offstage voice (tenor), 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, suspended cymbal, tam-tam, tom-toms, temple blocks, triangle, metal wind chimes, bell tree, chimes, cymbals, glockenspiel, wind machine, vibraphone, xylophone, harp and strings. estimated length: 18 minutes Best known for his body of 13 operas, Dominick Argento is a dean of American neoRomanticism. Even when incorporating elements of postwar modernism, he writes in an essentially tonal medium. His aesthetic credo is to remain “committed to working with characters, feelings and emotions.”

Argento often chooses literary sources for his operas, each of which has a notably distinctive flavor. He composed The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe between 1975 and 1976 to a libretto by Charles M. Nolte that is replete with experimental theatrical devices. Argento’s score depicts a phantasmagorical, surreal vision of the tormented writer, whose perceptions are distorted by drugs and alcohol. The opera’s narrative, framed by his mysterious death, traces a series of hallucinatory sequences in which Poe’s writings become intertwined with incidents from his own life, including the death of his young bride Virginia (Poe’s cousin, who was only 13 when they married). To his horror, Poe stands accused

of desiring her suffering as a source for his creative drive before he himself dies during the opera’s imaginary journey on a ghostlike ship heading to Baltimore.

Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe (“The Tomb of Edgar Poe”) uses material from the earlier opera but is a self-contained suite of five interlinked sections.

Argento takes his new title from a sonnet that French Symbolist Stéphane Mallarmé penned for a monument dedicated in 1875 at the site of Poe’s grave in Baltimore. French writers since Baudelaire showed a particular susceptibility to Poe’s influence, and Mallarmé’s “Le Tombeau” defended the poet as a prophetic voice against the slander of his enemies, who proclaimed him a hapless drunk.

Argento’s musical memorial, for its part, references Poe’s own poetry: specifically, “Annabel Lee,” the ballad Poe famously published just days before his death in 1849. Here, “Annabel Lee” serves as a poetic figure not only for Virginia, but also for her effect as a ghostlike muse for her husband. In the Introduction, to gloomy intonings deep in the orchestra, there emerges the melody of a moody ballad. The sepulchral contrabassoon underlying it exudes a wonderfully disorienting atmosphere. Sung as if from a distance (the score leaves the choice of singer open to soprano or tenor), this tune is threaded throughout Le Tombeau.

The second section’s title, The Valley of the Many Colored Grass, comes from a passage in the opera in which Virginia describes a vision of the world on the other side of death. It combines a brisk decorative figure in the woodwinds, first heard in the introduction, with a melodic contour that grows impassioned. After a brief tolling of bells, the music accelerates into a longer section, The Maelstrom. In the calm eye of the storm — which is also a figure for the “wind [that] blew out of a cloud by night / Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee” — the ballad-voice returns.

Midway through, Argento builds the full orchestral ensemble into a frenzy of Richard Strauss-like realism.

Bells toll as, with dark coloring from the tuba, we are led into The Sepulchre, the piece’s fourth section. Argento’s treatment of the ballad is by turns mournful and exultant, with hints of a funeral march that imitate an ebb-and-flow effect. A lone trumpet lofts its melody in the final section, The Sea, expanding into a full orchestral peroration for the dead bride. A last iteration of the ballad echoes forth as the piece draws to its close.

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TEXT FOR DOMINICK ARGENTO’S LE TOMBEAU D’EDGAR POE Taken from Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee”

Sergei Rachmaninoff Born on April 1, 1873, in Semyonovo, Russia; died on March 28, 1943, in Beverly Hills, California.

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

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But we loved with a love that was more than love — a love coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom here by the sea, That a wind blew out of a cloud by night Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful, beautiful Annabel Lee. And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling — my darling — my life and my bride, In her tomb by the side of the sea.

In January 1913, Rachmaninoff began composing The Bells, based on a Russian translation of the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. He completed the score in August and conducted the premiere on December 13 of that year in Saint Petersburg. Rachmaninoff dedicated The Bells to conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, with whom he had performed as piano soloist. This is the Nashville Symphony’s first performance.

In addition to the soprano, tenor and bass soloists and mixed choir, the score calls for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, tubular bells, glockenspiel, triangle, tambourine, cymbals, snare drum, bass drum, tam-tam, piano, celesta, harp, organ (ad lib) and strings. estimated length: 35 minutes

Edgar Allan Poe provided the inspiration as well for one of the most remarkable of Sergei Rachmaninoff ’s works — his unnumbered choral Sergei Rachmaninoff symphony The Bells. Indeed, the Russian composer treasured this as his favorite creation, even above the beloved pieces he wrote for himself as a piano virtuoso. He programmed it on the final concert he conducted, with the Chicago Symphony, in 1941.

Rachmaninoff was also highly partial to another of his choral works, the All-Night Vigil or Vespers, which he wrote two years later (in 1915). These scores embody different aspects of the rituals and sounds of his youth and of a long since vanished Russia. With Proustian vividness, Rachmaninoff could recall persistent memories of Russian Orthodox liturgies as a boy accompanied by his grandmother. While the piano may be the instrument that first comes to mind at mention of his name, the sounds of chant and tolling ceremonial bells were firmly lodged in his imagination. “The sound of church bells dominated all the cities of Russia I used to know,” Rachmaninoff observed in his memoirs. “They accompanied every Russian from childhood to the grave, and no composer could escape their influence.”

The connection between Poe and Rachmaninoff, however, was triggered by a third, anonymous party.

In the winter of 1913, the composer was mailed a copy of Poe’s “The Bells” in a translation by the Russian Symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont. The letter arrived with an entreaty that Rachmaninoff consider setting this text, since he would find it congenial. Long after the fact, a friend and former fellow student of the composer revealed that the instigator had been a young female cellist, a fan of both composer and poet.

Poe’s “The Bells,” possibly written in 1848, was published posthumously. It’s often singled out as an ingenious example of onomatopoeia — the use of words to imitate the sounds being described.

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onomatopoeic, although Balmont’s translation in fact inserts some lines that rather tame the terror central to Poe’s vision and also reduces the amount of manic repetition found in the original.)

Rachmaninoff adds a new dimension by exploring this resonance in musical terms, using timbre, text setting, various combinations of chorus and orchestra, and recurring thematic ideas.

Moreover, the four stanzas of Poe’s original poem are dramatically contrasted. We find four different stages of a universal life course rung out, from birth to death. Rachmaninoff persuasively structures these as four distinct movements of a symphony, each characterized by a unique atmosphere and a corresponding sequence of signature bell sounds. Thus the opening Allegro concerns the optimistic and sweet sound of “silver bells.” In addition to the carefree joys of youth, these bells also foreshadow the “universal slumber” of death that is waiting beyond their promise.

Rachmaninoff works this all-important duality into his score by contrasting the lighthearted timbres and mirthful music of the opening minutes — given to tenor and chorus — with a gently hummed, wordless choral passage to suggest the “generations past all number” who have gone before and remain as echoes. It’s one of the most magical moments of The Bells. As the joyful mood returns, Rachmaninoff also introduces a descending, softly rocking motif in the upper strings that will become a unifying device for the remaining movements.

This melodic idea is easy to notice, as it returns at the start of the slow movement and is woven into the warmly lyrical ode that follows, now given to soprano solo and chorus. Rachmaninoff builds to a midpoint of utter rapture — the scoring here omits percussion — and his harmonies are beguiling. The “golden” happiness of wedding bells is not entirely unclouded, however. Rachmaninoff ’s music also conveys a sense of fateful, solemn ritual, even suggesting at moments a funereal aspect — a counterpart to the bride’s soaring raptures.

The timbral balance of chorus and orchestra is particularly beautiful here.

Rachmaninoff conceives Poe’s stanza on the bells of alarm — which signal a nighttime fire — as an energetic scherzo at breakneck speed. Symbolizing the anxieties of adult life and approaching infirmity, these “brazen” bells ring in different superimposed cycles at the beginning.

There is no solo voice, only the collective terror of the crowd to add to the din of panic. Even when the

momentum subsides, the underlying sense of fear only re-pools, gathering for fresh outbursts.

Most extraordinary of all is the lengthy final movement. Rachmaninoff — like Mahler a few years before, in his Ninth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde — looks to the model of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony (Pathétique). Tchaikovsky had introduced the radically unsettling idea of a slow movement to seal his last symphony — rather than a conventionally affirmative, fast-paced finale. So, too, Rachmaninoff, in following Poe’s description of the “mournful” bells whose “stern monody” rings out the fate of all, resorts to a slow finale (marked lento lugubre — “lugubriously slow”).

This movement of death knells, associated with

the sound of iron, begins with a desolate orchestral introduction that features an inconsolable solo for English horn. The voice of the bass is most appropriate here, shadowed by the chorus, in the sort of melancholy music with which Rachmaninoff is often thought to be most at home. The music passes into a worried Allegro — notice the harsh reworking of the first movement’s “tolling” motif — and slows again, with another passage of choral humming. In the final pages, though, for orchestra alone, Rachmaninoff allows a consoling glimmer of transcendence.

—Thomas May is the program annotator for the Nashville Symphony and writes regularly about music and theater. His books include Decoding Wagner and The John Adams Reader.

TEXT FOR RACHMANINOFF’S THE BELLS, OP. 35 Russian poem by K. Balmont, adapted from “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe; English translation by Fanny S. Copeland I. Listen, hear the silver bells!

Silver bells:

Hear the sledges with the bells, How they charm our weary senses with a sweetness that compels, In the ringing and the singing that of deep oblivion tells

Hear them calling, calling calling, Rippling sounds of laughter falling

On the icy midnight air;

And a promise, they declare,

That beyond Illusion’s cumber

Births and lives beyond all number, Waits an universal slumber — deep and sweet past all compare

Hear the sledges with the bells

Hear the silver throated bells; See, the stars bow down to hearken, what their melody foretells,

With a passion that compels, And their dreaming is a gleaming that a perfumed air exhales,

And their thoughts are but a shining

And a luminous divining Of the singing and the ringing, that a dreamless peace foretells II.

Hear the mellow wedding bells,

Golden bells!

What a world of tender passion their melodious voice foretells!

Through the night their sound entrances,

Like a lover’s yearning glances,

That arise On a wave of tuneful rapture to the moon within the skies

From the sounding cells upwinging

Flash the tones of joyous singing Rising, falling brightly calling; from a thousand happy throats

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Roll the glowing golden notes,

And an amber twilight gloats While the tender vow is whispered that great happiness foretells, To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells, the golden bells!

III.

Hear them, hear the brazen bells,

Hear the loud alarum bells!

In their sobbing in their throbbing what a tale of horror dwells!

How beseeching sounds their cry

’Neath the naked midnight sky,

Through the darkness wildly pleading

In affright,

Now approaching, now receding

Rings their message through the night

And so fierce is their dismay

And the terror they portray, That the brazen domes are riven, and their tongues can only speak In a tuneless jangling wrangling as they shriek, and shriek, and shriek,

Till their frantic supplication

To the ruthless conflagration

Grows discordant, faint and weak

But the fire sweeps on unheeding,

And in vain is all their pleading

With the flames!

From each window, roof and spire,

Leaping higher, higher, higher,

Every lambent tongue proclaims:

I shall soon, Leaping higher, still aspire, till I reach the crescent moon; Else I die of my desire in aspiring to the moon!

O despair, despair, despair,

That so feebly ye compare With the blazing, raging horror, and the panic, and the glare, As your unavailing clang and clamour mournfully proclaims

And in hopeless resignation

Man must yield his habitation

To the warring desolation!

Yet we know

By the booming and the clanging,

By the roaring and the twanging, How the danger falls and rises like the tides that ebb and flow And the progress of the danger every ear distinctly tells By the sinking and the swelling in the clamour of the bells IV.

Hear the tolling of the bells,

Mournful bells!

Bitter end to fruitless dreaming their stern monody foretells!

What a world of desolation in their iron utterance dwells!

And we tremble at our doom,

As we think upon the tomb,

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Glad endeavour quenched for ever in the silence and the gloom

With persistent iteration

They repeat their lamentation,

Till each muffled monotone

Seems a groan,

Heavy, moaning,

Their intoning,

Waxing sorrowful and deep, Bears the message, that a brother passed away to endless sleep

Those relentless voices rolling

Seem to take a joy in tolling

For the sinner and the just That their eyes be sealed in slumber, and their hearts be turned to dust

Where they lie beneath a stone But the spirit of the belfry is a sombre fiend that dwells

In the shadow of the bells,

And he gibbers, and he yells,

As he knells, and knells, and knells,

Madly round the belfry reeling,

While the giant bells are pealing,

While the bells are fiercely thrilling,

Moaning forth the word of doom,

While those iron bells, unfeeling,

Through the void repeat the doom: There is neither rest nor respite, save the quiet of the tomb!

Artist Bios

TWYLA J. ROBINSON, soprano Twyla J. Robinson has consistently earned praise for her consummate musicianship, dramatic sensibility and ravishing vocal beauty. She has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Staatskapelle, the Cleveland Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic, singing under such conductors as Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Franz Welser-Möst, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Tilson Thomas. Regarding her performances of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Pierre Ruhe of the Atlanta JournalConstitution said: “Soprano Twyla Robinson is a major catch. With perfect diction,

Twyla J. Robinson

crisply articulated consonants and a warm, wide vibrato, she purred and comforted…. Bliss.”

Robinson begins the current season in performances of Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, conducted

by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

She opens the season of the Cleveland Orchestra in a gala performance of Beethoven’s

Symphony No. 9 with Franz Welser-Möst and then joins Arizona Opera as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. She will perform a recital at Stephen F. Austin University in East Texas and will be heard in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Bochum, Germany.

Further orchestra performances include Strauss’ Four Last Songs with Rochester Philharmonic and Verdi’s Requiem with National Symphony Orchestra.

BRYAN GRIFFIN, tenor Tenor Bryan Griffin is a recent graduate of the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (formerly the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists). He made his Lyric Opera debut as Edmondo in Olivier Tambosi’s new production of Manon Lescaut under Maestro Bruno Bartoletti,

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with Karita Mattila and Vladimir Galouzine. Griffin’s other roles at the Lyric Opera of Chicago have been Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Fenton in Falstaff and Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette.

Concert engagements for the 2009/10 season include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, the world premiere of Cary Ratcliff ’s Ode to Common Things with the Austin Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem with the Phoenix Symphony, and a concert tribute to Irish tenor John McCormack, presented by Boston College.

Griffin will also appear as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with Toledo Opera.

In concert, Griffin has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space under Kent Tritle, Rachmaninoff ’s The Bells with Helena Symphony, and a premiere by Michael Torke with Grant Park Music Festival; he recently returned to Lincoln Center in New York City Ballet’s presentation of Ravel’s Les Noces.

DARREN K. STOKES, bass-baritone Darren K. Stokes is a former ensemble member

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with the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Highlights of his career include debut performances of Rachmaninoff ’s The Bells with the Grant Park Music Festival; Calkas (Troilus and Cressida) for Opera Theater of St. Louis; Ferrando (Il Trovatore) for Indianapolis Opera; Commendatore (Don Giovanni) for Eugene Opera; a return to

the Lyric Opera of Chicago stage as a guest artist in Porgy and Bess; and Méphistophélès (Faust) and Parson Alltalk and Producer #2 (Treemonisha) with Opera Memphis.

Other important debuts include the Washington National Opera singing Jake in Porgy and Bess, Boston Lyric Opera and this month’s debut with Nashville Symphony.

Other distinguished organizations with which Stokes has performed include Chicago Opera Theater, Ravinia Festival and the Cincinnati May Festival. A gifted performer on both the operatic and concert stages, Stokes has added 41 roles to his repertoire since embarking on a singing career in 2002 following a career in chemistry.

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December 18 & 19, 2009 at 8 p.m.

Nashville Symphony Nashville Symphony Chorus George Mabry, conductor & chorus director Jennifer Casey Cabot, soprano Theodora Hanslowe, mezzo-soprano Scott Ramsay, tenor Philip Cutlip, baritone GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Messiah

Symphony PART I Accompagnato: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people Air: Ev’ry valley shall be exalted Chorus: And the glory, the glory of the Lord Accompagnato: Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts Air: But who may abide the day of His coming Chorus: And He shall purify Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive Air and Chorus: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion Accompagnato: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth.

Air: The people that walked in darkness Chorus: For unto us a Child is Born Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) Recitative: There were shepherds abiding in the field Accompagnato: And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them Recitative: And the angel said unto them Accompagnato: And suddenly, there was with the angel Chorus: Glory to God in the Highest Air: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind be open’d Duet: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd Chorus: His yoke is easy, and His burthen is light

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PART II Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God Air: He was despised Chorus: Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows Chorus: And with His stripes we are healed Chorus: All we like sheep have gone astray Accompagnato: All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn Chorus: He trusted in God Accompagnato: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart Arioso: Behold and see if there be if there be any sorrow Accompagnato: He was cut off out of the land of the living Air: But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell Chorus: Lift up your heads Air: How beautiful are the feet of them Air: Why do the nations so furiously rage together Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder Recitative: He that dwelleth in heaven Air: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron Chorus: Hallelujah PART III Air: I know that my Redeemer liveth Chorus: Since by man came death Accompagnato: Behold, I tell you a mystery Air: The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be rais’d Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb, that was slain

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George Frideric Handel Born on February 23, 1685, in Halle, Germany; died on April 14, 1759, in London, England Messiah Handel famously composed the first version of Messiah in just a little over three weeks — between August 22 and September 14, 1741. The work’s first official performance took place in the Great Music Hall in Dublin on April 13, 1742, following a public rehearsal on April 9. Handel continued to make changes to the score during numerous subsequent revivals of Messiah. The Nashville Symphony’s first performance of Messiah took place in 1963.

For these performances, conductor and chorus director George Mabry follows the Watkins Shaw edition of the vocal score, incorporating details from the Bärenreiter edition prepared by John Tobin. In addition to four vocal soloists and four-part chorus, these performances call for an orchestra of 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings and continuo. estimated length: 2 hours and 20 minutes in performance, with a 20-minute intermission The entire career of George Frideric Handel might be seen as an illustration of that favorite symbol of 18th-century England: the wheel of fortune.

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Italian, his reputation reached delirious heights, but then the tide turned against him and Handel found himself on the brink of ruin. Still, he managed to reinvent himself by developing the English oratorio (essentially, opera without the costumes) and soared again.

Ironically, Messiah posed a new set of risks on account of its subject matter and initially threatened to alienate some of Handel’s London audiences. Yet by the end of his life, Messiah was poised to take its place as the most representative of Handel’s creations, eclipsing his other oratorios, his several dozen operas and his instrumental music. In fact, its never-waning popularity ensured Messiah’s status well before the idea of a core repertory for classical music had emerged.

Messiah belongs to the crucial transition point in Handel’s career when he shifted his focus away from the style of tragic opera (opera seria) on which his London career had largely been based. Opera seria was set to Italian librettos portraying mythological or historical figures and showcased the star singers of the era. By the late 1730s, it was becoming an unsustainable business model, thanks in part to the high costs of production, but also to a shift in public taste.

After Messiah, Handel ceased writing Italian operas altogether and concentrated mostly on oratorios in English.

Oratorio originated in Italy at the same time as opera and 2009

similarly presents a kind of musical drama. But the stories it recounts tend to be biblical in nature, and they are performed without costumes or scenery.

The chorus, too, which usually has a very minor role in the aria-centered opera seria, takes on a far more prominent role.

“Oratorio” comes from the Italian for a hall of prayer, but

by Handel’s time works of this genre were performed in secular venues as a substitute for opera.

Handel began introducing his style of English oratorio to the public in a string of works throughout the 1730s.

A neat definition of Handel’s approach to oratorio appears in the preface to Samson (a “twin” to Messiah, on which the composer embarked just two weeks after completing the latter). An oratorio, writes Samson’s librettist Newburgh Hamilton, is “a musical drama, whose subject must be Scriptural, and in which the Solemnity of Church-Musick is agreeably united with the most pleasing Airs of the Stage” — a genre, in other words, that can have it both ways. A sense of moral uplift comes with the entertainment value of opera (but without its expense and fussy, overpaid egos).

But this association with the sphere of secular performance generated some initial resistance to Messiah.

Scholars continue to debate whether Handel composed the work specifically for the nine-month season that he was invited to spend in Dublin

George Frideric Handel

in 1741/42. In any case, after producing a highly successful subscription series of oratorio and opera there, he chose to cap it by giving the world premiere of Messiah in the spring of 1742. Despite its acclaim by the Dublin audience, back in London — where Handel introduced Messiah under the title “New Sacred Oratorio” in

1743 — it became the subject of controversy in a debate that raged in the press. Messiah’s method of setting actual scriptural texts and delineation of Jesus within a secular genre that could be performed “for diversion and amusement” even triggered charges of blasphemy — although these were leveled against the secular context of the performances rather than Handel’s music itself.

Within just a few years, the fretting subsided, and during his last decade, Handel conducted annual performances that became a highlight of the season. These were always given in the spring, at Eastertide. It was only after his death that the association of Messiah with the Christmas season took root.

Handel also introduced changes

at several of these revivals (substitutions or rewrites of arias, for the most part). They reflected practical performance conditions, taking into account the limitations or strengths of the particular soloists on hand.

For example, for the revival of 1750 he had the castrato alto Gaetano Guadagni on hand and recast “But who may abide the day of his coming” to include a dizzyingly virtuosic setting of the image of “a refiner’s fire” — one of many remarkable instances of Handelian word painting.

There is, simply put, no “gold standard” or final version of Messiah’s score, since it was so often altered. Add to this a rich but complicated history of performance traditions in the 250-plus years since the first Messiah — including a

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tendency to expand both choral and orchestral forces — and you can see that the first step in interpreting the work involves significant decisions about what precisely to perform. Recently, there has been a vogue to recreate a particular version as closely as possible. More typically, as in the performance we hear tonight, one of the scholarly editions published in the 20th century is used as the basis, with cuts usually made in the second and especially third parts.

Although we tend to think of Messiah as the quintessential English oratorio, its text represents an unusual approach to the genre. Librettist Charles Jennens juxtaposes extracts from both the Old and New Testaments to represent the basic narrative of Christian redemption. Rather than a biographical sketch of the life of Jesus, Messiah concerns the very idea of divinity becoming manifest in human history (hence the lack of a definite article — “The Messiah” — in its title).

There is very little dramatic impersonation of characters: The narrative is indirect and suggestive — and, as has been often noted, downright confusing to anyone not familiar with the implied events involving the life of Jesus.

Jennens divides the libretto into three acts (although he calls them “parts”), much like the organization of a Baroque opera. Part One centers around prophecy and the nativity of Jesus, ending with his miracles.

(This is the part of the oratorio

most closely tied to the Christmas season.) Following its evocation of hope comes a taut version of the Passion story of sacrifice in Part Two. Part Three concludes with the implications of Christ’s redemption of humanity from the fall of Adam.

Yet Handel’s musical expression homes in on the universal emotions that underlie each stage of the Christian redemption narrative. He was above all a man of the theater, and his “operatic” genius for establishing the mood to suit a given situation is everywhere apparent. In opera, Handel typically accomplishes this through a lengthy chain of arias. The structure of Messiah deploys greater diversity: Part One establishes a pattern of recitative, aria and chorus, which then allows for further variation in the other two parts.

Handel moreover draws on the gamut of international styles of his era, mixing highly wrought, thrilling counterpoint alongside simple Italianate lyricism and homophonic choruses. And with great economy of means, he presents an astonishing range of colors in his development of accompanying textures. Notice, for example, how he withholds the trumpets in Part One until “Glory to God” and then keeps them silent again until the “Hallelujah!” chorus at the end of Part Two (which, incidentally, refers not to the moment of Christ’s resurrection but to the triumph of redemption).

Consider, too, the compelling psychological range

Handel explores, encompassing in Part One alone the fathomless darkness of waiting for a savior, the oasis-like calm of the instrumental “Pastoral Symphony” (Pifa refers to the music of shepherds) and the dancing exuberance of “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion.” Handel continually finds inventive ways to “paint” the words through music — witness the “straying” lines of “All we like sheep” — but subtler surprises are often hidden within as well. The same chorus shifts from a cheerful demeanor into the tragic minor when the consequences of human failure are addressed.

By the end of Part Three, amid all this variety, Handel has traced a trajectory that will later become familiar in the symphonies of Beethoven: the passage from darkness to enlightenment and final victory.

Even after the seemingly unstoppable “Hallelujah!” chorus, there is glorious music yet to follow: the soaring certainty of “The trumpet shall sound” and the progression of the choral finale, with its fugal setting of “Amen.” As the voices weave their threads together, that final word becomes all-encompassing in its resonance — a serenely chanted, transporting “Om.” —Thomas May is the program annotator for the Nashville Symphony and writes regularly about music and theater. His books include Decoding Wagner and The John Adams Reader.

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Jennifer Casey Cabot

Theodora Hanslowe

Artist Bios Please note: A roster for the Nashville Symphony Chorus can be found on p. 43.

JENNIFER CASEY CABOT, soprano Jennifer Casey Cabot’s 2009/10 season includes the role of Giulietta in Casanova’s Homecoming with Minnesota Opera, and performing as soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In 2008/09 she returned to the Metropolitan Opera roster and to San Diego Opera as Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes; she also debuted with Minnesota Opera as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and sang as soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music with Columbus Symphony Orchestra.

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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mahler’s Symphonies No. 4 and No. 8, and Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate, among others. Recently, she performed the role of Konstanze in a concert version of Die Entführung aus dem Serail with National Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin. She has performed in concert with Megaron Orchestra at Athens (Greece) Concert Hall under Sir Neville Marriner; Masterwork Chorale in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with Saint Louis Symphony; and in Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras, both with Norwalk Symphony.

Cabot is featured on the Naxos label’s eight-volume collection of Charles Ives songs in the “American Classics” series.

THEODORA HANSLOWE, mezzo-soprano In 2009/10 Theodora Hanslowe again joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera and performs Mahler’s Das Lied von 2009

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der Erde with Sinfonietta of Riverdale. She sang Flora in La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera in 2008/09 and for its Opening Night Gala, broadcast live to cinemas internationally.

Recently, she performed the demanding title role in the final performance of Santa Fe Opera’s American premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater; sang as soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music, both with Columbus Symphony Orchestra; in Reynaldo Hahn’s Tomorrow, with Doug Varone and Dancers (Joyce Theatre, New York); and in Lawrence Dillon’s Still Point, at Mannes School of Music.

In summer 2009, Hanslowe appeared as soloist with Salt Bay Chamberfest in a world premiere of songs

by Pulitzer Prize nominee Tamar Muskal. On concert stages, she sang Haydn’s Harmoniemesse at Berkshire Choral Festival and as soloist with such orchestras as

Boston Symphony Orchestra (André Previn), San Francisco Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas), St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony (Raymond Leppard), the Huntsville and Dallas symphony orchestras, and Cathedral Choral Society at National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Hanslowe made her Carnegie Hall debut singing Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été with St. Louis Symphony.

SCOTT RAMSAY, tenor Scott Ramsay’s 2009/10 season includes Ferrando in Così fan tutte at Arizona Opera, his return to Opera New Jersey as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Fritz in La GrandDuchesse de Gérolstein with Opera Boston, and Rodolfo in La bohème at Duluth Festival Opera. On concert stages, he appears as soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with both Louisville Orchestra and Bel Canto Chorus in Milwaukee; and Mozart’s Requiem with Music of the Baroque and with Pasadena Symphony Orchestra.

In 2008/09 Ramsay returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago as The Painter in Lulu, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis; sang Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with both Michigan Opera Theatre and Opera Grand Rapids; Roméo in Roméo et Juliette with Syracuse Opera;

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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Carmina Burana at Berkshire Choral Festival; Lita Grier’s Songs from Spoon River at Ravinia Festival; Messiah with Pacific Symphony Orchestra; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Pasadena Symphony Orchestra. He also sang several Bach Cantatas with Bach-Collegium Stuttgart; an Opera Gala Concert and Carmina Burana with Springfield Symphony Orchestra; Mozart’s Requiem with Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra; and Verdi’s Requiem with Berkshire Festival Chorus, conducted by Murry Sidlin, at the Terezín Memorial Commemoration in Prague.

PHILIP CUTLIP, baritone In 2009/10 Philip Cutlip sings the title role in Glass’ Orphée with Portland Opera; Zurga in Les Pêcheurs de perles with Minnesota Opera; Ariodate in Serse with Houston Grand Opera; Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with Jacksonville Opera

Theatre; and Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia with Toledo Opera. His 2008/09 season included Count in Utah Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro, Zurga with Opera Columbus and Zoroastro in Handel’s Orlando with Moscow State Philharmonic Society. He also performed as soloist in Haydn’s The Creation with Phoenix Symphony; in Messiah with the Nashville, San Diego and Richmond symphonies; in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Choral Art Society of Portland (ME); in Mozart’s Requiem with Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra; in Fauré’s Requiem with Charlotte Symphony; in

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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Oregon Symphony; in Dvořák’s Te Deum and excerpts from Jacobin with Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and in Bach cantatas with Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In addition, he made his Glimmerglass Opera debut as Glass’ Orphée, and he made his return to the New York Festival of Song, to Gran Teatre del Liceu as Mandarin in Turandot and as Mathieu in Andrea Chénier, and to Seattle Opera as Marcello in La bohème.

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text for ‘MESSIAH’ SYMPHONY Part One ACCOMPAGNATO: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people (Tenore) Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God; speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplish’d, that her iniquity is pardon’d. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make straight in the desert a highway for our God. AIR: Ev’ry valley shall be exalted (Tenore) Every valley shall be exalted, and ev’ry mountain and hill made low, the crooked straight and the rough places plain.

CHORUS: And the glory, the glory of the Lord And the glory, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

ACCOMPAGNATO: Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts (Basso) Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; Yet once, a little while, and I will shake the heav’ns and the earth, the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all nations; and the desire of all nations shall come. The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His

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temple, ev’n the messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts.

AIR: But who may abide the day of His coming (Alto) But who may abide the day of His coming, and who shall stand when He appeareth? For He is like a refiner’s fire.

CHORUS: And He shall purify And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

ACCOMPAGNATO: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth (Basso) For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

RECITATIVE: Behold, a virgin shall conceive (Alto) Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call his name Emmanuel, “God with us.”

AIR: The people that walked in darkness (Basso) The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. And they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

AIR AND CHORUS: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Alto) O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! Arise,

CHORUS: For unto us a Child is born For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace!

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PIFA (Pastoral Symphony) RECITATIVE: There were shepherds abiding in the field (Soprano) There were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

ACCOMPAGNATO: And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them (Soprano) And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.

RECITATIVE: And the angel said unto them (Soprano) And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

cometh unto thee: He is the righteous Saviour, and He shall speak peace unto the heathen.

RECITATIVE: Then shall the eyes of the blind be open’d (Alto) Then shall the eyes of the blind be open’d, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing.

DUET: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd (Alto, Soprano) He shall feed His flock like a shepherd, and He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead those that are with young. Come unto Him, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and He will give you rest. Take His yoke upon you, and learn of Him, for He is meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

ACCOMPAGNATO: And suddenly there was with the angel (Soprano) And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heav’nly host, praising God, and saying,

CHORUS: His yoke is easy, His burthen is light His yoke is easy, His burthen is light.

CHORUS: Glory to God in the highest Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, goodwill towards men.

CHORUS: Behold the Lamb of God Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.

AIR: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Soprano) Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King

AIR: He was despised (Alto) He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

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CHORUS: Surely, He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows Surely, He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. CHORUS: And with His stripes we are healed And with His stripes we are healed.

CHORUS: All we like sheep have gone astray All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned ev’ry one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

ACCOMPAGNATO: All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn (Tenore) All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn; they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying: CHORUS: He trusted in God He trusted in God that He would deliver Him, let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him. ACCOMPAGNATO: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart (Tenore) Thy rebuke hath broken His heart; He is full of heaviness: He looked for some to have pity on Him, but there was no man, neither found He any to comfort Him.

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ARIOSO: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow (Tenore) Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow!

ACCOMPAGNATO: He was cut off out of the land of the living (Tenore) He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of Thy people was He stricken.

AIR: But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell (Tenore) But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell; nor didst Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption.

CHORUS: Lift up your heads Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in! Who is the King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in!

Who is the King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.

AIR: How beautiful are the feet of them (Soprano) How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things.

AIR: Why do the nations so furiously rage together (Basso) Why do the nations so

furiously rage together: why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His anointed.

CHORUS: Let us break their bonds asunder Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us.

RECITATIVE: He that dwelleth in heaven (Tenore) He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision.

AIR: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron (Tenore) Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

CHORUS: Hallelujah Hallelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever.

King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. Hallelujah!

Part Three AIR: I know that my Redeemer liveth (Soprano) I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.

And tho’ worms destroy this

body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep.

CHORUS: Since by man came death Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

ACCOMPAGNATO: Behold, I tell you a mystery (Basso) Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be chang’d in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

AIR: The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be rais’d (Basso) The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be chang’d.

CHORUS: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honour, glory and pow’r, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Happy Holidays!

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Nashville Symphony Kelly Corcoran, conductor Philip Cutlip, baritone Demetria Kalodimos, narrator Blair Children’s Chorus Hazel Somerville, artistic director LEROY ANDERSON

Sleigh Ride

JOHN WILLIAMS & LESLIE BRICUSSE

“Somewhere in My Memory” from Home Alone

ALBERT HAGUE & DR. SEUSS “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” arr. Matthew Naughtin from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas Philip Cutlip, baritone KIM SCHARNBERG Moozie’s Kind Adventure story by Jane Morton Demetria Kalodimos, narrator ROBERT KAPILOW Chris van Allsburg’s Polar Express Philip Cutlip, baritone VINCE GUARALDI & LEE MENDELSON arr. David Pugh

“Christmas Time Is Here” from A Charlie Brown Christmas

RANDOL BASS The Night Before Christmas story by Clement Moore Demetria Kalodimos, narrator Various Christmas Sing Along arr. John Finnegan Jingle Bells Joy to the World It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Silent Night Away in a Manger Deck the Hall O Come, All Ye Faithful media partner: The Official Vehicle of the Nashville Symphony:

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Artist Bios BLAIR CHILDREN’S CHORUS Hazel Somerville, artistic director GIRL CHORISTERS Caitlin Dobbins Sophia Ellingham Canon Henderson Sophia Howard Ragan Hummel Anna Hunley Isobelle Kabiling Marie Kottenstette Erin Lewis Maria Rapisarda Ellen Roberston Illyana Runnels Jessica Schreiber Peyton Smith Rebecca Sullivant Emily Vick Clara Warford Kate Whitley CONCERT CHOIR Jessie Benenson Katherine Best

Alison Binch Hannah Bobinger Amelia Hammons Rhiannon Hansing Jennifer Hawkins Abby Hemenway Elena Hibbs Rachael Junard Nathania Kabiling Janet Lee Katie Leis Kelsey Madill Alexa Rowe Meagan Shaw Chelle Tippit Elyse Wiser Larisa Yackow NASHVILLE BOYCHOIR AT BLAIR Preston Abraham Garrett Abraham Will Blaufuss David Blaufuss Sykes Cargile Walker Harrison Caleb Hibbs Josh Howard Lane Hutchison Ty Jackson

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In 2007, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Illinois Wesleyan.

She began her TV career at WICD, Champaign, Ill., as an anchor/reporter. In 1984, she was chosen in a nationwide search to join Dan Miller on the anchor desk at WSMVChannel 4. Kalodimos is now the longest continuous evening news anchor in WSMV history and is consistently voted a favorite in local reader polls. In more than 24 years at Channel 4, she has won 15 Emmys, two National Headliner Awards, two Investigative Reporters and Editors National Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting and two national citations from American Women in Radio and Television.

In 1996, she was chosen Tennessee Associated Press Broadcaster of the Year.

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Text for christmas sing along JINGLE BELLS (refrain) Jingle bells! Jingle bells!

Jingle all the way!

Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh!

Jingle bells! Jingle bells!

Jingle all the way!

Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh!

Dashing through the snow, In a one-horse open sleigh; O’er the fields we go, Laughing all the way; Bells on bobtail ring, Making spirits bright; What fun it is to ride and sing A sleighing song tonight! (repeat refrain) JOY TO THE WORLD Joy to the world!

The Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room, And heav’n and nature sing, And heav’n and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven and nature sing.

IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold: “Peace on the earth, good will to men, From heaven’s all gracious King.”

The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing.

HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING Hark! The herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn King!

Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!

Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies; With th’ angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem!

Hark! The herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King.

SILENT NIGHT Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and Child.

Holy Infant so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace.

AWAY IN A MANGER Away in a manger, No crib for His bed, The little Lord Jesus Laid down His sweet head.

The stars in the sky, Looking down where He lay, The little Lord Jesus Asleep in the hay.

The cattle are lowing, The poor Baby wakes, But little Lord Jesus, No crying He makes.

I love Thee Lord Jesus, Look down from the sky, And stay by my cradle ’Til morning is nigh.

DECK THE HALL Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la la. ’Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la la.

Don we now our gay apparel, Fa la la la la la la la la.

Troll the ancient Yuletide carol, Fa la la la la la la la la.

O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL O come, all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem; Come and behold Him, Born the King of angels; (refrain) O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.

Sing choirs of angels, Sing in exultation, Sing, all ye citizens of heav’n above; Glory to God in the highest; (repeat refrain)

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Conductors

Giancarlo Guerrero, music director

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The Nashville Symphony’s 2009/10 season marks Giancarlo Guerrero’s first as music director of the Nashville Symphony.

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iancarlo Guerrero’s 09/10 season marks his first as music director of the Nashville Symphony. A champion of new music, Guerrero has collaborated with and conducted the music of several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty and Roberto Sierra. A new CD on Naxos of music by Michael Daugherty, with Guerrero conducting the Nashville Symphony, is scheduled for release in September 2009.

Guerrero’s guest conducting engagements in the 09/10 season include appearances with the symphony orchestras of Milwaukee, New Jersey and Fort Worth; the Pacific Symphony in Costa Mesa; and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in Philadelphia. Abroad, he conducts the Symphony Orchestras of Vancouver and Edmonton in the fall and the Slovenian Philharmonic in the spring.

As a guest conductor, Guerrero recently made two important debuts abroad: his European debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, where he was immediately invited to return, and his U.K. Debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has also recently made successful debuts with several major American orchestras, including the Baltimore Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra (where he was invited back for a subscription week and tour), the Seattle Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Other recent orchestral engagements in North America include appearances with the orchestras of Columbus, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Phoenix, San Antonio and San Diego; the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.; and at the Grant Park Festival.

Also in demand in Central and South America, Guerrero conducts regularly in Venezuela with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, with which he has had a special relationship for many years. His debut at the Casals Festival with Yo-Yo Ma and the Puerto Rico Symphony in 2005 was followed by return engagements in 2006 and 2007. He also made his debut at the Teatro Colón in Argentina in 2005.

Elsewhere, he is a regular guest conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand.

Equally at home with opera, Guerrero works regularly with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera and in recent seasons has conducted new productions of Carmen, La bohème and most recently a new production of Rigoletto. In February 2008, he gave the Australian premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s one-act opera Ainadamar at the Adelaide Festival, to great acclaim.

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

Guerrero holds degrees from Baylor and Northwestern universities. He was most recently music director of the Eugene Symphony. From 1999 to 2004, he served as associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra. Prior to his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra, he served as music director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.

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Conductors Albert-George Schram, resident conductor

Kelly Corcoran, assistant conductor

Albert-George Schram, a native of the Netherlands, has served as resident conductor of the Nashville Symphony since August 2005 and is concurrently staff conductor of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. He also holds regular guest-conducting Photo by Amy Dickerson positions with the Tucson Symphony and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.

When the Nashville Symphony opened Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2006, Schram was invited to become the orchestra’s resident conductor. While he has conducted on all series the orchestra offers, Schram is primarily responsible for its Bank of America Pops Series.

Maestro Schram’s longest tenure has been with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, where he has worked in a variety of capacities since 1979 and is an audience favorite for all series he conducts, including Pops and the CSO’s summer season. As a regular guest conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Schram in 2002 opened the orchestra’s new permanent summer home, Symphony Park. He has regularly conducted the Charlotte Symphony for nine consecutive years.

In 2008 Maestro Schram was invited to conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Bolivia in La Paz and the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo 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 made return appearances to his native Holland to conduct the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Netherlands Broadcast Orchestra.

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. His training was completed at the University of Washington.

The 2009/10 season marks Kelly Corcoran’s third season as assistant conductor of the Nashville Symphony. During this time, she has conducted a variety of programs, including the Symphony’s SunTrust Classical Series and Bank of America Photo by Amy Dickerson 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 recent CD with Riders In The Sky, ‘Lassoed Live’ at the Schermerhorn.

Corcoran debuts this season with the Naples (Fla.) Philharmonic, the Charlotte Symphony and the Memphis Symphony. She has conducted orchestras throughout the country, including the Detroit Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, she made her South American debut as a guest conductor with the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. She has developed a reputation for exciting, energized performances. The Tennessean hailed her work on the podium as “lively” and “fresh.”

Named as Honorable Mention for the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, Corcoran conducted the Bournemouth (UK) Symphony in January 2008 and studied with Marin Alsop. 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 Cleveland-area Heights Chamber Orchestra.

In 2004, Corcoran participated in the selective National Conducting Institute, where she studied with her mentor, Leonard Slatkin. She has held additional posts as assistant music director of the Nashville Opera and founder/music director of the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra.

Originally from Massachusetts and a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for 10 years, Corcoran received her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from The Boston Conservatory. She received her Master of Music in instrumental conducting from Indiana University. She currently serves on the conducting faculty at Tennessee State University.

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Conductors George Mabry, chorus director and conductor George Mabry, who has directed the Nashville Symphony Chorus since 1998, is Professor Emeritus of Music at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville.

He served as Director of its 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, Mabry 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 also 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. In 2003, he received the Governor’s Award in the Arts for Arts Leadership in 10/28/09 10:11 AM Page Tennessee and the Spirit BlairPAM10_ad:Layout of Tennessee Award 1from the Tennessee Arts 1Academy.

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Orchestra

Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero Music Director

Albert-George Schram Resident Conductor

First Violins* Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, Concertmaster Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair Gerald C. Greer, Associate Concertmaster Erin Hall, Assistant Concertmaster Denise Baker Kristi Seehafer John Maple Deidre Fominaya Bacco Alison Gooding Paul Tobias Beverly Drukker Anna Lisa Hoepfinger Kirsten Mitchell Erin Long Isabel Bartles second Violins* Carolyn Wann Bailey, Principal Zeneba Bowers, Assistant Principal Jeremy Williams Laura Ross Louise Morrison Kenneth Barnd Benjamin Lloyd Lisa Thrall Rebecca Cole Rebecca J Willie Radu Georgescu Jessica Blackwell Keiko Nagayoshi+ violas* Daniel Reinker, Principal Shu-Zheng Yang, Assistant Principal Judith Ablon Bruce Christensen Michelle Lackey Collins Christopher Farrell Mary Helen Law Rebecca O’Boyle Melinda Whitley Clare Yang

Kelly Corcoran Assistant Conductor

cellos* Anthony LaMarchina, Principal Julia Tanner, Assistant Principal James Victor Miller Chair Bradley Mansell Lynn Marie Peithman Stephen Drake Michael Samis Matthew Walker Christopher Stenstrom Keith Nicholas Xiao-Fan Zhang basses* Joel Reist, Principal Glen Wanner, Assistant Principal Elizabeth Stewart Gary Lawrence, Principal Emeritus Kristen Bruya Tim Pearson flutes Erik Gratton, Principal Anne Potter Wilson Chair Ann Richards, Assistant Principal Norma Grobman Rogers piccolo Norma Grobman Rogers oboes Bobby Taylor, Principal Ellen Menking, Assistant Principal Roger Wiesmeyer english horn Roger Wiesmeyer clarinets James Zimmermann, Principal Cassandra Lee, Assistant Principal Daniel Lochrie

George L. Mabry Chorus Director

e-flat clarinet Cassandra Lee, Assistant Principal

timpani William G. Wiggins, Principal

bass clarinet Daniel Lochrie

percussion Sam Bacco, Principal Richard Graber, Assistant Principal

bassoons Cynthia Estill, Principal Dawn Hartley, Assistant Principal Gil Perel contra bassoon Gil Perel horns Leslie Norton, Principal Beth Beeson Joy Worland,+ Associate Principal Radu V. Rusu, Assistant 1st Horn Hunter Sholar trumpets Patrick Kunkee, Co-Principal Jeffrey Bailey, Co-Principal Gary Armstrong, Assistant Principal trombones Lawrence L. Borden, Principal Susan K. Smith, Assistant Principal bass trombone Steven Brown tuba Gilbert Long, Principal

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harp Licia Jaskunas, Principal keyboard Robert Marler, Acting Principal ORGAN Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator librarians D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian orchestra personnel manager Anne Dickson Rogers Carrie Marcantonio, Assistant

*Section seating revolves +Leave of Absence

The Nashville Symphony would like to acknowledge generous contributions that have made the following fine instruments available to our musicians: Daniel Reinker plays a Grancino viola, circa 1698.

Anthony LaMarchina plays a Goffriller cello, circa 1700.

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Board of Directors

2009/10 BOARD OF DIRECTORS James C. Gooch Board Chair

Officers James C. Gooch, Board Chair Robert E. McNeilly III, Board Chair-Elect Lee A. Beaman, Immediate Past Board Chair John T. Rochford, Board Vice Chair Julie G. Boehm, Board Secretary David Williams II, Board Treasurer Directors Alan D. Valentine* President and CEO Janet Ayers Julian B. Baker Jr. Russell W. Bates Scott Becker James L. Beckner Rob Bironas Jack O. Bovender Jr. William H. Braddy III, CFP Anastasia Brown Virginia Byrn Pamela L. Carter Ramon Cisneros Dawn Cole** Michelle Lackey Collins* Greg Daily 68

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Marty G. Dickens David Steele Ewing John Ferguson Judy Foster* John Gawaluck Edward Goodrich Amy Grant Gerald C. Greer* Carl Grimstad Francis S. Guess Kathleen R. Guion Billy Ray Hearn C. Keith Herron Dan W. Hogan Martha R. Ingram Lee Ann Ingram Clay Jackson Harry R. Jacobson Ruth E. Johnson Elliott W. Jones Larry J. Larkin Kevin P. Lavender Zachary Liff Robert S. Lipman Daniel Lochrie* Donald M. MacLeod Richard Maradik Jr. Ellen Harrison Martin* Robert A. McCabe Jr. Eduardo Minardi Gregory Morton Hal N. Pennington Pamela K. Pfeffer 2009

Joseph K. Presley Charles Pruett Wayne J. Riley Doyle Rippee Norma Rogers* Anne L. Russell* Kristi Seehafer* Mark Silverman Beverly K. Small Patti Smallwood Wyatt Smith** Stephen Sparks* Christopher Stenstrom* Howard Stringer Bruce D. Sullivan Louis B. Todd Jay Turner Steve Turner David T. Vandewater Johnna Watson William Wiggins* Sadhna V. Williams* Jeremy Williams* Betsy Wills William M. Wilson Clare Yang* Derek Young Shirley Zeitlin *Indicates Ex Officio **Indicates Young Leaders Council Intern

Staff

2009/10 Nashville Symphony Staff Alan D. Valentine President and CEO

Executive Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO Laura Faust, Executive Assistant to 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 Michael Kirby, V.P. of Finance and Administration and CFO Mitchell Korn, V.P. of Education and Community Engagement Jim Mancuso, V.P. of Artistic Administration Jonathan Norris, SPHR, V.P. of Human Resources Susan W. Plageman, CFRE, V.P. of External Affairs Emmaline McLeod, Assistant to the V.P. of External Affairs Annual Campaign Stacy Eaton-Carter, CFRE, Director of Annual Campaign Charles Stewart, Corporate Relations Manager Maribeth Stahl, Sponsorship Coordinator Kathleen McCracken, Annual Campaign Coordinator Joel Rice, Annual Campaign Coordinator Artistic Administration Tanya Davis, Manager of Artistic Administration Valerie Pullen, Artistic Administration Assistant Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator Box Office/Ticketing Kimberly Darlington, Director of Ticket Services Rodney Irvin, Assistant Director of Ticket Services Meaghan Callahan, Ticket Services Specialist Tina Messer, Ticket Services Specialist Missy Hubner, Ticket Services Assistant Communications Alan Bostick, Sr. Director of Communications Jared Morrison, Website and Multimedia Manager

Jonathan Marx, Publications Manager Mark McCormack, Public Relations Associate Barbara Hoffman, Archivist and Historian Data Standards Kent Henderson, Director of Data Standards Sheila Wilson, Sr. Database Associate Mark McCormack, Database Associate Grant Cooksey, Patron Services Analyst Education Michelle Lin Doane, Education and Community Engagement Manager Sara Trikalsaransukh, Education and Community Engagement Assistant Event Services Ellen Baum Hollis, Director of Event Services Allison Huber, Event Services Manager Heather Martin, Event Services Manager Bruce Pittman, Catering Manager Lori Scholl, Event Services Assistant Ellen Kasperek, House Manager Finance Karen Warren, Controller Mildred Payne, Accounts Payable and Payroll Manager Sheri Switzer, Food and Beverage Accountant Steven McNeal, Finance Assistant Debra Hollenbeck, Buyer/Retail Manager Food & Beverage Steve Perdue, Director of Food and Beverage Roger Keenan, Executive Chef David Bolton, Sous Chef Lacy Lusebrink, Food and Beverage Manager Angela Gutheridge, Food and Beverage Supervisor Sherman Hughes, Banquet Captain

Anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager Jody Sweet, Beverage Manager Human Resources Ashley Skinner, Human Resources Generalist Martha Bryant, Receptionist-Office Assistant I.T. Greg Thomas, Director of Information Technology Andrew Grady, Software Applications Administrator Maren Smith, Technical Support Specialist Marketing Ronda Combs Helton, Sr. Director of Marketing Becca Hadzor, Graphic Designer Misty Cochran, Advertising and Promotions Manager Emily Shannon, Group Sales Specialist Production and Orchestra Operations Tim Lynch, Sr. Director of Operations 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 Gary Call, Audio Engineer Marc Estrin, Audio Engineer W. Paul Holt, Stage Manager Patron Services Kristen Oliver, Director of Patron Services Michael Backes, Patron Services Specialist Darlene Boswell, Patron Services Specialist Aaron Coleman, Patron Services Specialist Sarah Conwell, Patron Services Specialist

DECEMBER

Sara Davenport, Patron Services Specialist Daniel Tonelson, Patron Services Specialist Judith Wall, Patron Services Specialist Jackie Knox, Manager of Marketing Associates Linda Booth, Marketing Associate Ryan Byrne, Marketing Associate Bonnie Carden, Marketing Associate James Calvin Davidson, Marketing Associate Andrea Flowers, Marketing Associate Lynn Green, Marketing Associate Gina Haining, Marketing Associate Mark Haining, Marketing Associate Lloyd Harper, Marketing Associate Rick Katz, Marketing Associate Deborah King, Marketing Associate Cassie Morazzi, Marketing Associate Scott Torgeson, Marketing Associate Planned Giving & Grants Susan D. Williams, CFRE, CVA, Sr. Director of Special Campaigns and Planned Giving Janice Crumpacker, CFRE, Director of Special Campaigns 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 Volunteer Services Stacie Taylor, Director of Nashville Symphony Orchestra League

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Annual Fund Individuals

Elliott & Marilyn Jones, Robert & Jennifer Gonzales

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 October 27, 2009.

Virtuoso Society Gifts of $10,000+ Mr. & Mrs. Lee A. Beaman Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. Martin Brown Family Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick Janine & Ben Cundiff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Curb Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Greg & Collie Daily Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hayes

Mr. & Mrs. John Ingram Mrs. Martha R. Ingram Robin & Bill King The Martin Foundation Ellen Harrison Martin Mr. & Mrs. Clayton McWhorter The Melkus Family Foundation Andrew Woodfin Miller Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Cano Ozgener Ragsdale Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Carol & John T. Rochford

Anne & Joe Russell David Sampsell Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III Mr. & Mrs. Rusty Siebert Maestro Leonard Slatkin & Ms. Linda Hohenfeld Barbara & Les Speyer Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Sullivan Margaret & Cal Turner Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson Mr. & Mrs. William M. Wilson

Stradivarius Society Gifts of $5,000+ Anonymous (1) Mr. James Ayers J. B. & Carylon Baker Russell W. Bates Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bottorff Richard & Judith Bracken Pamela & Michael Carter Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Chasanoff Kelly & Bill Christie Hilton & Sallie Dean Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis Marty & Betty Dickens Alan & Linda Dopp Mike & Carolyn Edwards The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Marilyn & Bill Ezell

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Frist Jr. Allis Dale & John Gillmor James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Mrs. Landis B. Gullett Mrs. Harold Hassenfeld Jim Hastings Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Helen & Neil Hemphill Mr. & 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 Mr. & Mrs. Brad M. Kelley

Christine Konradi & Stephan Heckers Ralph & Donna Korpman Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby Karen & Jim Lewis Mr. Zachary B. Liff Robert Straus Lipman Clare & Samuel Loventhal Mrs. Jack Carroll Massey Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Richard & Sharalena Miller Christopher & Patricia Mixon Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Patton Hal & Peggy Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer

Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett The Roros Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus Mary Ruth & Bob Shell Nelson & Sheila Shields Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Jay Steere Earl & Sue Swensson Robert & Regina Swope Dominique Thormann Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. The Vandewater Family Foundation Peggy & John Warner Mr. & Mrs. Ted H. Welch David & Gail Williams Shirley Zeitlin Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth

Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques Norm & Barb Johnson Thomas & Darlene Klaritch Anne Knauff Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. Kevin P. & May Lavender John T. Lewis LifeWorks Foundation Gina & Dick Lodge Frances & Eugene Lotochinski F. Max & Mary A. Merrell Edward D. & Linda F. Miles Anne & Peter Neff

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Dr. Terryl A. Propper Eric Raefsky, M.D. & Ms. Victoria Heil Anne & Charles Roos Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Scott Ronald & Diane Shafer Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small Dr. Michael & Tracy Stadnick Pamela & Steven Taylor Dr. John B. Thomison Stacy Widelitz

Golden Baton Society Gifts of $2,500+ Anonymous (2) Clint & Kali Adams Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Shelley Alexander Allison & John Beasley Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup Julie & Dr. Frank Boehm Dr. & Mrs. H. Victor Braren Mr. & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Mr. & Mrs. Harold J. Castner Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Richard & Kathy Cooper

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Mr. & Mrs. James H. Costner Carroll & Dell Crosslin Barbara & Willie K. Davis Dee & Jerald Doochin Patrick & Kitty Moon Emery Jere & Linda Ervin Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind John & Carole Ferguson Bob & Judy Fisher Harris A. Gilbert Carl & Connie Haley Robert & Ann Howe Hilton Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel

DECEMBER

2009

Shari & Red Martin

Conductor’s Circle Gifts of $1,500+ Anonymous (6) James & Martha Ackerman James & Glyna Aderhold Dr. Alice Arnemann & Richard C. Arnemann Dr. & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr. Barbara & Mike Barton Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey K. Belser Bernice Amanda Belue Barbara Bennett & Peter Miller Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Blakeman Dennis & Tammy Boehms Mr. & Mrs. C. Dent Bostick Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells Vic Briggs & Family Dan & Mindy Brodbeck

George deZevallos, Janet Carroll

Mr. & Mrs. Tony E. Brown Ann & Frank Bumstead Betty & Lonnie Burnett Chuck & Sandra Cagle Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Ann & Sykes Cargile Fred Cassetty Barbara & Eric Chazen Sigourney & Jim Cheek Renée A. Chevalier Mr. & Mrs. John J. Chiarmonte Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher Drs. Keith & Leslie Churchwell Mr. & Mrs. David F. Clark Mr. & Mrs. John M. Clark Mr. & Mrs. John W. Clay Jr. Mr. & Mrs. G. William Coble II Dorit & Don Cochron Esther & Roger Cohn

Chase Cole Marjorie & Allen Collins Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Cook III Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan Robert C. Crosby Kimberly L. Darlington John & Natasha Deane The Rev. Canon & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Devlin Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden E.B.S. Foundation Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Robert Eisenstein David Ellis & Barry Wilker Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Dr. Neil Price & Nancy M. Falls T. Aldrich Finegan John David & Mary Dale Trabue Fitzgerald

Don & Connie Ansley John & Cindy Watson Ford Chloe Fort Tom & Judy Foster Danna & Bill Francis William H. & Babs Freeman Ann D. Frisch Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Larry & Felicia Gates John & Lorelee Gawaluck Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III Frank Ginanni Ed & Nancy Goodrich Tony & Teri Gosse Kate R. W. Grayken Francis S. Guess Kathleen & Harvey Guion Mr. & Mrs. Arthur S. Hancock Dr. Edward Hantel Jay & Stephanie Hardcastle

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Neil & Helen Hemphill

Mr. & Mrs. Tom Harrington Kay & Karl Haury Bill & Robin Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Philip & Amber Hertik Mr. Austin Hill Lucia & Don Hillenmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey N. Hinson Judith Hodges Mr. & Mrs. Dan W. Hogan Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Linda & Doug Howard Donna & Ronn Huff Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Judith & Jim Humphreys Marsha & Keel Hunt Bud Ireland Donald L. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Adam W. James Louis Johnson M.D. Mary Evelyn & Clark Jones Jan Jones & Steve Williams Mr. & Mrs. Russell A. Jones Jr. Richard Kephart Mr. & Mrs. Bill G. Kilpatrick Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Kirby The Kirkland Foundation/ Chris & Beth Kirkland Mr. Richard B. Kloete William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Gene & Bettye Koonce Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Bob & Mary LaGrone Larry & Martha Larkin Jon & Elaine Levine Sally M. Levine Drs. Thomas J. & Lee E. Limbird Dr. & Mrs. Scott Little Robert A. Livingston Donald M. & Kala W. MacLeod Mr. & Mrs. Richard Maradik Shari & Red Martin Sheila & Richard McCarty Scott & Jennifer McClellan Tommy McEwen Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. McRae III Dr. Arthur M. Mellor Don & Carolyn Midgett Dr. & Mrs. F. Michael Minch

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David Morgan, Candice Dove Mr. & Mrs. William T. Minkoff Jr. Ms. Lucy H. Morgan Matt & Rhonda Mulroy Mr. & Mrs. Leonard B. Murray Jr. Lannie W. Neal Mr. & Mrs. F.I. Nebhut Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John C. Neff Ms. Agatha L. Nolen Representative & Mrs. Gary L. Odom Patricia J. Olsen Michelle Boucher & Bob Palardy Ms. Mary E. Pinkston David & Adrienne Piston Susan & Bob Plageman Judith & John Poindexter Charles H. Potter Jr. William W. & Julie C. Pursell Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Carol & Neil Rasmussen III Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Raths Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Mr. & Mrs. David H. Richmond Drs. Wayne & Charlene Riley Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Roberts Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation Charles & Jean Robison James & Patricia Russell Mr. & Mrs. John J. Sangervasi Dr. Norman Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Deborah & Albert-George Schram Dr. & Mrs. John Selby Max & Michelle Shaff Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Mark Silverman Mr. & Mrs. Martin Simmons Susan & Luke Simons William & Cyndi Sites Joanne & Gary Slaughter Drs. Walter Smalley & Louise Hanson Mr. & Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood Ms. Jennifer L. Smith Suzanne & Grant Smothers K. C. & Mary Smythe Jack & Louise Spann Mickey & Kathleen Sparkman Dan & Cynthia Spengler Michael & Grace Sposato Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell Mr. & Mrs. John Stein

DECEMBER

2009

Vicki & Pat McGuigan

Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III Ann & Bob Street Mr. & Mrs. William S. Stuard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Keith Summar Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor Rev. & Mrs. Tim Taylor Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Dr. & Mrs. C. S. Thomas Jr. Candy Toler Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Christi & Jay Turner Jenna Milam Unutmaz Alan D. & Connie F. Valentine Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund Kris & G. G. Waggoner Deborah & Mark Wait Mrs. W. Miles Warfield Mr. & Mrs. Martin H. Warren Bill & Ruth Wassynger Robert & Michelle Way Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. B. Wheelock Charles Hampton White David W. White Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White Mr. Donald E. Williams Judy S. Williams Sadhna & Jim Williams Shane & Laura Willmon Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills III Ms. Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Rev. Donald Orin* & Janet B. Wiseman Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Robert L. Wood

Encore Circle Gifts of $1,000+ Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Andrews Jr. Mark & Niki Antonini Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Mrs. Brenda Bass Betty C. Bellamy Dr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Biller Alan & Katherine Bostick

Jean & David Buchanan Dr. & Mrs. Robert Burcham John E. Cain III Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III Anita & Larry Cash Erica & Doug Chappell Mrs. John H. Cheek Jr. Ed & Pat Cole Mr. & Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Mr. & Mrs. Joe C. Cook Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Lindsey W. Cooper Sr. Mrs. Andrea Pace Cope James L. & Sharon H. Cox Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Dale III Stephen Drake Mr. & Mrs. Mike Dye Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. David Ewing & Alice Randall Mr. & Mrs. DeWitt Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild Mr. & Mrs. Gene Fleming Lois & Gilbert Fox Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Frist Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Gould Mr. & Mrs. William M. Gracey Mr. & Mrs. Christopher C. Guerin Dr. Charlene Harb Mrs. Charles Hawkins III Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Mr. James L. Horne III Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson Victor Johnson Foundation Ruth E. Johnson George & Shirley Johnston Mr. & Mrs. William S. Jones Thomas J. & Sally J. Killian Mitchell Korn Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lea IV Mrs. Ken Lester Dr. & Mrs. T. A. Lincoln Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Lind Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lipman Tim Lynch James Mancuso Mr. & Mrs. Stephen S. Mathews Lynn & Jack May Jim & Judi McCaslin Kevin P. & Deborah A. McDermott Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. McNeilly III

Jim & Glenda Milliken Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli Ann & Denis O’Day Richard & Inka Odom Mr. & Mrs. William C. O’Neil Jr. Alex S. Palmer Dr. & Mrs. W. Faxon Payne Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Prill John & Tracy Rankin Mr. & Mrs. David Rawlings John & Nancy Roberts Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins Georgianna W. Russell Dr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Shack Nita & Mike Shea Bill & Sharon Sheriff Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Singleton Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Small Julie & George Stadler Hope & Howard Stringer Fridolin & Johanna Sulser James B. & Patricia B. Swan Joe & Ellen Torrence Dr. & Mrs. Alexander S. Townes Bill & Cathy Turner Michael & Kari Waggoner Elaine & Mike Walker William G. Wiggins & Gay Hollins-Wiggins Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Williams

ConcertMaster Gifts of $500+ Anonymous (10) Gerald Adams Jeff & Tina Adams Mr. & Mrs. James B. Alcott Mr. & Mrs. David G. Anderson Jeremy & Rebecca Atack Don & Beverly Atwood James E. & Judith M. Auer Mr. & Mrs. Brian C. Austin Jeff & Carrie Bailey Mr. & Mrs. John H. Bailey III Ms. Peggy S. Mayo Bailey Virginia Bain Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Bainbridge Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Ms. Katrin Bean Tom & Marilynn Benim Mike & Kathy Benson Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Black Ralph & Jane Black Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dr. & Mrs. Marion Bolin Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Jeff & Jeanne Bradford Joseph & Bethany Bradford Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Mr. Keith Brent Berry & Connie Brooks

Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Brown H. Carey Brown Mr. & Mrs. James A. Brown Gene & Jamie Burton Sharon Lee Butcher John & LuAnnette Butler Virginia Byrn Mr. & Mrs. Cabot J. & Angelia Cameron Mike & Linda Carlson James T. & Ruth A. Carroll Mr. & Mrs. D. Michael Carter Mr. & Mrs. John L. Chambers M. Wayne Chomik Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Mr. & Mrs. M. Thomas Collins Charles J. Conrick III Marion Pickering Couch Richard & Marcia Cowan Janice Crumpacker Buddy & Sandra Curnutt Mr. Dan Daley Carolyn & Jim Darke Julian & Alma de la Guardia M. Maitland DeLand, M.D. Sandra & Daryl Demonbreun Mrs. Edwin DeMoss Mark & Barbara Dentz Mr. & Mrs. Arthur DeVooght George deZevallos Dr. Alan W. Dow II Tere & David Dowland

Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Dr.* & Mrs. Lloyd C. Elam Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Michael & Jeannine Engel Robert & Cassandra Estes Dr. & Mrs. John H. Exton Dr. & Mrs. Roy C. Ezell Toni & Jim Foglesong Randy & Melanie Ford Patrick & Kimberly Forrest Mr. & Mrs. David B. Foutch Ms. Elizabeth A. Franks Robert & Peggy Frye Mrs. Jeanne K. Gardiner Drs. G. Waldon & Renee Garriss Kathy & Marbut Gaston Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Mr. & Mrs. H. Steven George Jennifer George Ted M. George Bryan D. Graves Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Green Mr. Thomas A. Greene Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin Mr. James H. Griggs Dr. & Mrs. W. H. Hackman Mr. & Mrs. J. Todd Hagely Mr. & Mrs. Elden Hale Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hamilton Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Hanselman Dr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hardy H. Clay & Mary Harkleroad

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Kent & Becky Harrell Sue Ann & John Hart Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hartzog Janet & Jim Hasson Lisa & Bill Headley Ronda & Hank Helton Kent & Melinda Henderson Keith & Kelly Herron John Reginald Hill Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Mr. & Mrs. Bill Hodde Dr. George W. Holcomb Jr. Vicki & Rick Holton Ray Houston Margie & Nick Hunter Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Scott & Amy Jacky Dr. Robert Cameron Jamieson Lee & Pat Jennings Bob & Virginia Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Samuel L. Johnson Mr. Regi Jones Sarah & Walter Lee Jordan Bill & Susan Joy Mrs. Robert N. Joyner Dr. Barbara F. Kaczmarska Drs. Spyros Kalams & Lisa Mendes Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kanak Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane Marion & Peter Katz Mr. & Mrs. Christopher P. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. James Kelso Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy John & Eleanor Kennedy Jane Kersten Jerry & Bonnie Knapper Dale & Jim Knight Ms. Janet Kurtz & Mr. Ronald Gobbell Dr. & Mrs. John William Lamb Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Paul & Dana Latour Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Drs. Walter & Shannon Little The Howard Littlejohn Family Drs. Amy & George Lynch Jeffrey C. Lynch Drs. George & Sharon Mabry James & Jene Manning James & Patricia Martineau Leon & Mimsye May Robert P. Maynard Mr. & Mrs. Ken P. McDonald Dr. & Mrs. James B. McKee Jr.

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Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Miles II Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. Jere Mitchum Beth & Paul Moore Cynthia & Richard Morin Steve & Laura Morris Margaret & David Moss Cliff Myles, M.D. Lucille C. Nabors Larry & Marsha Nager Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Neal Ruth & Roger Neal Joyce & Robert Ness Jane K. Norris Jonathan R. Norris & Jennifer L. Carlat Virginia O’Brien D. Wilson Ochoa Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr. David & Pamela Palmer Terry & Wanda Palus Mr. & Mrs. M. Forrest Parmley John W. & Mary Patterson Dr. & Mrs. Joel Q. Peavyhouse Mr. & Mrs. John S. Perry Linda & Carter Philips Drs. Sherre & Daniel Phillips Faris & Bob Phillips Dr. & Mrs. James L. Potts George & Joyce Pust Dr. James Quiggins Ray & Ruth Randolph Dr. Philip & Mrs. Deborah Rosenthal Dr. & Mrs. Mace Rothenberg Mr. & Mrs. Edmund P. Routon Ms. Jo Rutherford Mr. & Mrs. Dick Sammer John R. Sanders Jr. Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson Philip & Jane Sanderson Ruble & Brenda Sanderson Paula & Kent Sandidge Nancy & Alan* Saturn Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul Don Schlitz Pam & Roland Schneller Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle Drs. Carl & Mary Schofield Anna W. Roe & Kenneth E. Schriver Mr. & Mrs. Julian Scruggs

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2009

Victoria Grider

Ms. Patricia B. Selle Odessa L. Settles Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Sharbel Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Pamela Sixfin Charles R. & Vernita Hood-Smith Smith Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith Richard & Molly Dale Smith Drs. Robert M. Smith & Barbara K. Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Ms. Maggie P. Speight Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Christopher & Maribeth Stahl Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Gloria & Paul Sternberg Lana & Jerry Stewart Dr. & Mrs. William R. Stewart Mr. Russell P. Stover Jean Stumpf James & Becky Summar Dianne & Craig Sussman Norman & Marilyn Tolk Larry & Gigi Tomich Martha J. Trammell Mr. & Mrs. James M. Usdan Dr. F. Karl VanDevender Mr. & Mrs. Gay E. Vick III John & Ann Waddle Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner Dr. & Mrs. John J. Warner Talmage M. Watts Dr. Medford S. Webster Beth & Arville Wheeler Dr. & Mrs. William Whetsell Harvey & Joyce White Adam & Laura Wilczek Mr. Craig P. Williams Gary & Cathy Wilson Elizabeth R. Witsil* Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wood Sr. Chancellor & Mrs. Joe B. Wyatt Pam & Tom Wylly Mr. & Mrs. Julian Zander Jr. Dr. Michael Zanolli & Julie K. Sandine Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Zelle Roy & Ambra Zent

First Chair Gifts of $250+ Anonymous (26) Judith Ablon Ben & Nancy Adams Dr. & Mrs. John Algren Carol M. Allen Dr. Joseph H. Allen Newton & Burkley Allen Ruth G. Allen Ms. Adrienne Ames William J. & Margery Amonette Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple Mr. & Mrs. James Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins Dr. Philip Autry Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Averbuch Frederick C. Ayers Janet B. Baggett Ms. Susie M. Baird Jerry E. Baker Drs. Ferdinand & Eresvita Balatico Susan & Paul Ballard Ms. René Balogh & Mr. Michael Hinchion Dr. Beth S. Barnett Dr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Barr Joseph & Dorothy Barrett Susan O. Belcher Ron & Sheryl Bell Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Mr. & Mrs. Earl Bentz Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Best Frazier K. Beverly Drs. William & Wanda Bigham Cherry & Richard Bird Dr. Joel S. Birdwell Mr. William Blackford Randolph & Elaine Blake Joan Bledsoe David L. Bone David Bordenkircher Jerry & Donna Boswell Robert Bosworth Mr. Brian Boxer Don & Deborah Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Douglas G. Bradbury III Mr. & Mrs. James F. Brandenburg Mr. Jere T. Brassell Henry & Linda Cato Brendle Dr. & Mrs. Phillip Bressman

Miss Sandra J. Brien Betty & Bob Brodie Kathy & Bill Brosius Burnece Walker Brunson Eileen Tomson Bryan & Betty Tomson John & Karyn Bryant Linda & Jack Burch Vira Burcham Mr. & Mrs. David G. Buttrick Geraldine & Wilson Butts Drs. Robert & Mirna Caldwell Mrs. Julia C. Callaway Bratschi Campbell Patricia & Winder Campbell Mr. Gary Canaday Charles & Vicki Carlisle Karen Carr Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Carter Kent Cathcart Dr. Elizabeth Cato Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Cavarra Martin & Mitzi Cerjan Mr. & Mrs. John P. Chaballa Evelyn L. Chandler Marti & Fred Chapman Mr. & Mrs. Dean F. Chase Gladys M. Chatman Ernest & Carolyn Cheek Catherine Chitwood Ms. Dorothy H. Chitwood Ms. Celita Christman Neil Christy & Emily Freeman Mr. George D. Clark Jr.

Mr. T. Henry Clark & Ms. Betty C. Nixon Mr. & Mrs. Roy E. Claverie Sr. Jay & Ellen Clayton David & Sallylou Cloyd Mr. & Mrs. Wiley B. Coley Ms. Peggy B. Colson Bill & Peg Connor Ms. Sheila M. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Paul Cooke Charley & Arlene Cooper Dr. Jackie Corbin & Jan Gressman Elizabeth Corley Elizabeth Cormier David & Sally Costello Joseph P. Cowden Mr. & Mrs. Rob Crichton R. Barry & Kathy Cullen Katherine C. Daniel Andrew Daughety & Jennifer Reinganum Calvin & Elizabeth Davidson Adelaide S. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Davis Joan & Mac Davis Jr. Robert & Leriel Davis Dr. & Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Mr. Lamont Dennis Mr. & Mrs. J. William Denny Ann Deol Dr. Jayant Deshpande & Ms. Patricia Scott Ann & Grady Devan Dr. Gursheel Dhillon

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Gary & Gloria Scott Drs. Fernando & Elena Segovia Mr. Gene A. Shade Richard & Marilyn Shadinger Mrs. Jack W. Shepherd Ms. Ann M. Shipp & Mr. Roger N. Higgins Sue & Nicholas Sieveking Mr. Brian D. Siewert Keith & Kay Simmons Mr. Michael Simpson Dr. & Mrs. Manuel Sir Betty B. Sisk Dr. & Mrs. David Slosky David & Robin Small Mrs. Madison Smith Dr. Dallas & Jo Ann Smith Mr. & Mrs. Brian Smokler Dan & Siri Speegle Nan E. Speller Thomas F. Spiggle Mr. M. Clark Spoden Mrs. Randolph C. St. John Caroline Stark & Lane Denson Janice & Charley Stefl Michael Samis & Christopher Stenstrom John & Jane Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Lemuel Stevens Jr. Richard & Jennifer Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Charles V Stewart III Mr. & Mrs. David B. Stewart Elizabeth Stewart & James Grosjean Mr. J. Cyril Stewart Jane Lawrence Stone Lois & Larry Stone Charles & Deborah Story Mr. Harry E. Stratton Mr. & Mrs. William T. Stroud Mr. John Graham Sugg Gayle Sullivan Mrs. T. C. Summers Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Svennevik Dr. Esther & Mr. Jeff Swink Bishop Frederick Hilborn Talbot Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Taylor Dr. Paul E. Teschan Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Thackston Ms. Harriett Thomas Lisa G. Thomas Billy H. & Alice Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Bob F. Thompson Dr. Charles B. Thorne* Richard & Shirley Thrall Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Thurman Mr. Michael P. Tortora DECEMBER

Elizabeth & Robert Dennis Dr. Anthony E. & Dr. Mona Trabue Tripp Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull Ms. Deborah F. Turner Larry & Brenda Vickers Kimberly Dawn Vincent Richard Wager Mrs. Deborah W. Walker Victoria C. Walker Kay & Larry Wallace Fran Wallas Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Warner Jr. Lawrence & Karen Washington Shirley Marie Watts Jane & Frank Wcislo Randall Weaver H. Martin & Joyce Weingartner Ann Harwell Wells Mr. & Mrs. Ted Wells Mr. Kevin L. Welsh Kim & Jason West Linda West Franklin & Helen Westbrook J Peter R. Westerholm Fred & Pauline Wheeler Ms. Harriett C. Whitaker Mrs. Barbara Bransford White Linda & Raymond White Ms. Judith B. Wiens Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Marie Holman Wiggins Mr. Robert S. Wilkinson Jeremy Williams Dr. Joyce E. Williams Paul & Dena Williamson Dr. Carl R. Willis Raleigh & Lesley Willson Carol Ann & Tommy Wilson The Wing Family Jerry & Julia Wingler Edward & Mary E. Womack Mr. & Mrs. Matthew W. Wright Richard A. & Vivian R. Wynn Jane & Tom Yount Donna B. Yurdin Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Zeitlin Jerry Zhao *denotes donors who are deceased

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Annual Fund

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 October 27, 2009.

Season Presenters Gifts of $100,000+

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

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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Mayor Karl F. Dean

Metropolitan Council

Barry Cook, Harrell Odom

Orchestra Partners Gifts of $10,000+ AT&T Atticus Trust Caterpillar Financial Services Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated Gaylord Entertainment Foundation Genesco Inc. The Houghland Foundation LifeWay Worship Neal & Harwell Publix Super Markets Charities Mary C. Ragland Foundation Target The Wachovia Foundation Wilkes & McHugh, P.A.

Sharon & Bill Sheriff

Artistic Underwriters Gifts of $5,000+ Aladdin Industries, LLC The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Corrections Corporation of America Cracker Barrel Foundation The Danner Foundation Dell Foundation Ford Motor Company Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Hastings Architecture Associates, LLC The HCA Foundation Interior Design Services, Inc. Odom’s Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc.

The Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor Charitable Foundation Tennessee Christian Medical Foundation Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP Business Partner Gifts of $2,500+ AMSURG Blevins, Inc. City of Brentwood Delta Dental of Tennessee First Baptist Church Nashville Gould Turner Group, P.C. Dave Nemo Entertainment Sandra Schatten Foundation Washington Foundation

Hope & Howard Stringer Business Council Gifts of $1,500+ Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP Cooper Steel Custom Packaging, Inc. Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation H. G. Hill Realty Company, LLC J. Alexander’s Corporation MJM Architects, LLC Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris Architects, Inc. WASCO, Inc.

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Business Leader Gifts of $1,000+ Anonymous (1) ASCAP Barrett Johnston & Parsley Bio Ventures, Inc. Carter-Haston Holdings, LLC Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation Neely Coble Company Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co. DZL Management Direct Solutions Economy Pen & Pencil Co. Enfinity Engineering, LLC Heidtke & Company, Inc. David M. Schwarz Architectural Services, Inc. Wallboard & Supply Co. William Morris Agency, Inc.

Business Associates Gifts of $500+ American Drywall Co. APEX - Atlas Van Lines Agent Black Box Network Services Mark Boughton Photography R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation Branstetter, Stranch & Jennings, PLLC Broadcast Music, Inc. Buford Lewis Co. Capitol Records The Celebration D.F. Chase, Inc. Chesley The Cleaner Contractors & Industrial Supply Co., Inc. Country Music Association Daily’s Convenience Stores Direct Connect Solutions Embassy Suites Nashville Airport Fabricators CAD Service, Inc. Haber Corporation R D Herbert & Sons Co. J & J Interiors, Inc. Liddle Brothers Contractors, Inc. Eddie Lunn Magellan Midstream Partners McIntosh-Murphy Co., Inc.

Hunt Oliver – Nashville Carpet Center Nashville Commercial / Cushman & Wakefield Alliance Northgate Gallery, Inc. Paramore|Redd Online Marketing PICA Group Prime Properties, Inc. RD Plastics Co., Inc. SESAC, Inc. Stansell Electric Co., Inc. Sysco Nashville The Tennessee Credit Union Volunteer Barge & Transport, Inc. WBUZ Buzz 102.9 / WPRT Party 102.5 Business Friend Gifts of $300+ A-1 Appliance Company V. Alexander & Co., Inc. Alpha Delta Omega Foundation Altissimo! Records & Distribution Apple Barn Cider Bar – Opry Mills Mall Batten & Shaw, Inc. BB&T Cooper, Love, Jackson, Thornton & Harwell Insurance Services, Inc. Bloom Electric Supply BMW-MINI of Nashville Bradshaw Collision Repair Centers Bryan, Ward & Elmore, Inc. Case Selects Wine and Spirits CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Courtyard by Marriott J.E. Crain & Son, Inc. Dancy’s, Nancy June Brandon DataMarketing Network, Inc. Demos’ Steak & Spaghetti House Ellis Moving & Storage, LLC emma Feldhaus Memorial Chapel Freeman Webb Company Realtors, Inc. GML, LLC Hoge Motor Company Horrell Realty and Investments Hunter Marine IBIS Communications, Inc.

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Import Auto Maintenance, LLC integrity events, inc.

Jack Cawthon/Jack’s Bar B Que Lankford Hardware & Supply Company MAC Presents Modular Designs Musgrave Pencil Company, Inc. National Toxicology Specialists Inc. The Oxford Shop Parthenon Chapter of the Links, Inc. David L. Battis / Edwin B. Raskin Company Riley Warnock & Jacobson Sam & Zoe’s/Star Bagel Cafe The Scotlyn Group, Inc. Servitech Industries, Inc. Southern Light Inc. Sunrise of Nashville Trickett Honda Monte Turner/Turner and Associates Realty, Inc. Walker Lumber & Hardware Company Youth About Business IN-KIND American Airlines American Tuxedo AT&T Real Yellow Pages Courier Printing The Glover Group Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Nashville, 4th Avenue The Ivy Basket Florist McQuiddy Printing Miller’s Florist Steinway Piano Gallery Target WTVF-TV, Channel 5 Honorary & Memorial Gifts In memory of Carol Ainsworth In memory of Moshe Alexandroni In loving memory of Jessica Bloom

In memory of Pearl Bottiggi In memory of Jerome Buc In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn’s marriage (2) In memory of T. Earl Hinton & Nora Gardner Smith Hinton (2) In memory of James Warner Hofstead In memory of Lillian Hunt In honor of Martha Rivers Ingram (2) In memory of Mrs. Ann Rita Jameson In memory of Mrs. Nancy M. Johnson In memory of Mark Alan Lewis In honor of Mother’s Day for Clare Loventhal In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Loventhal’s anniversary In honor of Richard & Cynthia Morin’s 50th anniversary In memory of Catherine (Cate) Myer (7) In memory of Mildred J. Oonk In memory of Lisa Renegar In memory of Catherine Hunter Sadler In memory of Robert K. Sharp (2) In memory of Lillian Vann In memory of James Crawford Ward Jr.

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.

Changes as of November 9, 2009.

Founders Gifts of $1,000,000+ Laura Turner Dugas AmSouth Foundation The Frist Foundation James W. Ayers - FirstBank The Grimstad and Stream Families Bank of America Patricia and H. Rodes Hart The Beaman Family Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff & Family Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Hays HCA — Hospital Corporation of America Mr.* and Mrs. Monroe Carell Jr. Ingram Charitable Fund CaremarkRx Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Inman Caterpillar Inc. and Its Employees Ellen Harrison Martin The Community Foundation of Charles N. Martin Jr. Middle Tennessee The Martin Foundation Mike Curb Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. R. Clayton McWhorter Mr. and Mrs. Greg Daily The Memorial Foundation Dollar General Corporation Leadership Gifts Gifts of $500,000+ Anonymous Mr. Tom Black Giarratana Development / Novare Group Holdings

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County Anne* and Dick Ragsdale & Family Mr. and Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Margaret and Cal Turner Jr. The James Stephen Turner Family Vanderbilt University The Vandewater Family Foundation Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson Colleen and Ted Welch The Anne Potter Wilson Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Hayes HCA Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Regions Bank

Gifts of $250,000+ American Retirement Corp.

The Cigarran Family E.B.S. Foundation

Harry and Jan Jacobson The Judy and Noah Liff Foundation Robert Straus Lipman

SunTrust Bank Laura Anne Turner Anne H. and Robert K. Zelle

Gifts of $100,000+ Mr. and Mrs. Dale Allen Phyllis and Ben* Alper American Constructors, Inc. Andrews Cadillac/Land Rover Nashville Averitt Express Barbara B. and Michael W. Barton Marty and Betty Dickens-BellSouth Julie and Frank Boehm Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, PLC Richard and Judith Bracken Mr. and Mrs. James C. Bradford Jr. The Very Rev Robert E & Linda M Brodie The Charles R. Carroll Family Fred J. Cassetty Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Chasanoff CLARCOR The William Sherrard Cochran Family

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fite Cone Corrections Corporation of America Deloitte & Touche LLP The Rev. Canon & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Michael D. and Carol E. Ennis Family ESa Design Team: Earl Swensson Associates Inc. I.C. Thomasson Associates Inc. KSi/Structural Engineers Annette and Irwin* Eskind Jane and Richard Eskind and Family Mr. and Mrs. Steven B. Franklin Frost Brown Todd LLC Drs. Priscilla and Pedro Garcia Gordon and Constance Gee Genesco Inc.

Amy Grant and Vince Gill Mr. and Mrs. Joel Charles Gordon Guardsmark, LLC Billy Ray and Joanie* Hearn The Hendrix Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Hooker and Family Walter and Sarah Knestrick Lattimore, Black, Morgan & Cain, PC Mrs. Jack C. Massey Lynn and Ken Melkus Andrew Woodfin Miller Foundation Nashville Symphony Chorus Nashville Symphony Orchestra League Pat and John W. Nelley Jr. O’Charley’s Bonnie and David Perdue Pamela K. Pfeffer & Philip M. Pfeffer

DECEMBER

Mr. and Mrs. Dale W. Polley Mary C. Ragland Foundation The John M. Rivers Jr. Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rochford III Anne and Joseph Russell and Family Daniel and Monica Cintado-Scokin Bill and Sharon Sheriff Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Luke and Susan Simons Irvin and Beverly Small The Henry Laird Smith Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Smith Barbara and Lester Speyer The Starr Foundation Hope and Howard Stringer Louis B. and Patricia C. Todd Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Viehmann Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Wendell Mr. David M. Wilds

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Major Gifts Gifts of $50,000+ Adams and Reese / Stokes Bartholomew LLP The Law Firm of Baker Donelson Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Baker Mr. and Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Dr. and Mrs. T. B. Boyd III Dr. Ian and Katherine* Brick Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Brown Mr. and Mrs. R. Michael Cain The Danner Foundation Dee and Jerald Doochin Ernst & Young Mr. and Mrs. David Steele Ewing Ezell Foundation & Purity Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Sam M. Fleming Gannett Foundation / The Tennessean Letty-Lou and Joseph Gilbert Jr. Ruth Ann and William F. Harnisch Hastings Architecture Associates, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Clay T. Jackson KPMG LLP Mrs. Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiehl Lazenby Gilbert Stroud Merritt David K. Morgan Musicians of the Nashville Symphony Esen and Cano Ozgener Ponder & Co. Eric Raefsky, M.D. and Ms. Victoria Heil Ro’s Oriental Rugs, Inc. Rosalie Buxbaum Delphine and Ken Roberts Mrs. Dan C. Rudy Mary Ruth and Bob Shell Stites & Harbison, PLLC Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Sullivan Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis Nicholas S. Zeppos & Lydia A. Howarth Gifts of $25,000+ AmSurg Corp.

The Bank of Nashville Bass, Berry and Sims PLC Tom and Wendy Beasley Phil Bredesen and Andrea Conte Iris and Arthur H. (“Mike”) Buhl III Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Doug and Sondra Cruickshanks Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. DeDee The Eisenstein Family John and Carole Ferguson Tom and Judy Foster Mr. and Mrs. Keith Frazier and Family John and Lorelee Gawaluck Jim and Jeannie* Hastings Hawkins Partners, Inc. Landscape Arch.

Hemphill Family Foundation Hilton Nashville Downtown Dr. and Mrs.* George W. Holcomb Jr. Nancy Leach and Bill Hoskins

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Hudson Family Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John F. Jacques Ms. Mercedes Elizabeth Jones Mr. and Mrs. Randy Kinnard KraftCPAs PLLC Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Lipman The Howard Littlejohn Family Mimsye and Leon May Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. McDermott Rock and Linda Morphis Anne and Peter Neff Carole and Ed Nelson Odom’s Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc. Larry D. Odom, Chairman/CEO Hal N. and Peggy S. Pennington Celeste Casey* and James Hugh Reed III Renasant Bank Lavona and Clyde Russell Kenneth D. Schermerhorn* Family of Kenneth Schermerhorn Lucy and Wilbur Sensing Nelson W. and Sheila A. Shields Lisa and Mike Shmerling Joanne and Gary Slaughter Dr. and Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Hans and Nancy Stabell Ann and Bob Street Mr. and Mrs. William J. Tyne Alan D. and Connie Linsler Valentine Janet and Alan Yuspeh Mr.* and Mrs. Martin L. Zeitlin Special Gifts Gifts of $15,000+ Kent and Donna Adams Aladdin Ind. Foundation / V.S. Johnson Leigh and Hunter Atkins Mr. and Mrs. Albert Balestiere Baring Industries Jane and Jim Beard June and Boyd Bogle John Auston Bridges Terry W. Chandler Community Counselling Service (CCS) Barbara and Willie K. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. DeVooght Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Hughes Dobson V Donna Scott and John Eley Larry P. and Diane M. English Ms. Nancy M. Falls and Dr. Neil M. Price Beatriz Perez and Paul Knollmaier Richard and Delorse Lewis Frances and Eugene Lotochinski The Loventhal and Jones Families Mr.* & Mrs. Robert C. H. Mathews Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James L. McGregor Dr. and Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Dr. Arthur M. Mellor Christopher and Patricia Mixon Piedmont Natural Gas Dr. Clifford and Mrs. Sharon Roberson Anne and Charles Roos

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Joan Blum Shayne Eli and Deborah Tullis Mr. and Mrs. James M. Usdan Betty and Bernard Werthan Foundation Mr. and Mrs. W. Ridley Wills II

Dr. and Mrs. John Brown Thomison Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Trammell Jr. Louise B. Wallace Foundation David, Gail, Sam and Nick Williams Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Dr. and Mrs. Artmas L. Worthy

Gifts of $10,000+ Ruth Crockarell Adkins American Brokerage Company, Inc. American Paper & Twine Company Mr. and Mrs. William F. Andrews Mr. and Dr. Richard C. Arnemann Sue G. Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Brenda C. Bass Mr. and Mrs. John S. Beasley II Frank and Elizabeth Berklacich Ann and Jobe* Bernard Mr. and Mrs. Roger T. Briggs Jr. Cathy and Martin Brown Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Bumstead Patricia and Manny Buzzell Ann and Gerry Calhoun Chase Cole Dr. and Mrs. Lindsey W. Cooper Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Crawford Rita Bennett* and Steve Croxall Janine and Ben Cundiff Marty and Betty Dickens Ellen and Townes Duncan Mike and Carolyn Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Martin Emmett Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind Bob and Judy Fisher Karen and Eugene C. Fleming Cathey and Wilford Fuqua Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Gaeto Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC Heidtke Charitable Foundation Robert C. Hilton Dr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Franklin Y. Hundley Jr. Margie and Nick Hunter Sandra and Joe Hutts Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. David B. Johnson The Russell A. Jones Jr. Family Fund Pamela and Michael Koban Jr. Robert A. Livingston Jack and Lynn May Betsy Vinson McInnes Mary and Max Merrell Donald J. and Hillary L. Meyers NewsChannel 5 Network Susan and Rick Oliver David and Adrienne Piston Charles H. Potter Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Mr. Scott L. Probasco Jr. Linda and Art Rebrovick Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Robinson Jr. Ron Rossmann Mr. and Mrs. Irby C. Simpkins Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood Murray and Hazel Somerville Southwind Health Partners® Dr. Steve A. Hyman and Mark Lee Taylor

Gifts of $5,000+ Anonymous Elizabeth M. Adams & David B. Scott Mr. Jerry Adams James and Glyna Aderhold American Airlines Mr. and Mrs. David G. Anderson Joël Anquetil DeVan D. Ard & Renée A. Chevalier The Arrants Family Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Bainbridge Dr. and Mrs. Elbert W. Baker Jr. Dr. and Mrs. R. Daniel Beauchamp Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bell Annie Laurie and Irvin Berry Dr. Marion and Tricia Bolin Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Bradbury III Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Bradford Dr. and Mrs. Victor Braren Mr. William V. Briggs and Family Richard Fitzgerald Bryan J. Burts Bryant Jr. Michael and Sarah Buckland Dr. and Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Hillary and Jimmy Bynum Ann and Sykes Cargile Mr. and Mrs. Clint Carter Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Casa Santa Central Business Group / Space Saver Mr. and Mrs. James A. Charron Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Chasanoff Barbara and Eric Chazen In memory of John Hancock Cheek Jr. Drs. Keith and Leslie Churchwell CIC Foundation, Inc. Marion S. and Roy C. Clark Esther and Roger Cohn Mrs. Peggy Wemyss Connor Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Craig Laura, Brad, Anna Linn and Nate Currie Kimberly L. Darlington In memory of Joe Davis Drs. Carla and Dick Davis Mr. and Mrs. J. William Denny Carol and Tom DePauw Mr. Mark Deutschmann Jane Davis Doggett Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Doochin Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Eastwood Jr. Dr. and Mrs. E. Mac Edington Sylvia and Robert H. Elman Kitty and Patrick Emery Mr. T. Aldrich Finegan Mr. & Mrs. John David Fitzgerald Jr. Mr.* and Mrs. Gerald Fleischer Mr. and Mrs. Steve G. Fridrich Dr. and Mrs. John R. Furman Mr. and Mrs. Landy Gardner

Adrienne Piston, Peter & Anne Neff, Dave Piston Timothy J. Gilbreath Fred and Deana Goad Mr. Edward and Mrs. Nancy Goodrich Gerald C. Greer and Dr. Scott Hoffman Jennifer and Daniel Gremillion Dale and Nancy Grimes Doug and Rose Grindstaff Jim and Paula Grout Sylvia Hyman and Arthur Gunzberg John and Freda Hall Mark Hann R. Rick Hart Mr. and Mrs. James K. Hasson Jr. Bill and Robin Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. John Burton Hayes In memory of Macon Hilton Judith and Mark* Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. Hogan Sally A. Holland Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Keel and Marsha Mason Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Davis Hunt Mr. and Mrs. David C. Huseman Toshinari and Emiko Ishii Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Israel Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jackson Jr. Mr. Erin Matthew Johnson Mr. and Mrs. George T. Johnston Journal Communications, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Kane Jackie & Marshall Karr, Price & Morgan Cornelia S. Kelly Buddy Killen* Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Klaritch Neil Krugman Thomas and Randi Land Larry J. Larkin Sally M. Levine and Family Mr. and Mrs. Irving Levy Zach Liff Drs. Thomas J. and Lee E. Limbird In loving memory of Weng-Teh Lin Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas J. Lippolis Mrs. Roberta D. Lochte-Jones Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Lovett William R. and Maria T. MacKay Mark IV In honor of Mercedes E. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Hill McAlister Karen C. and Charles R. McCarty Richard and Sheila McCarty Mr. and Mrs. J. David McClain Mr. and Mrs. Mark McDonald

Barbara Murphy, Bruce Tripp

Mrs. Leatrice B. McKissack James Victor Miller* Richard L. and Sharalena Miller Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Molteni Mrs. Margaret E. Moorhead Mr. and Mrs. William P. Morelli Mr. and Mrs. John J. Morris Lee and Ingeborg Mountcastle J. Philip Moyers, M.D. Nashville Symphony Players Assembly Mr. and Mrs. F.I. Nebhut Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ralls Niewold Mr. and Mrs. Marvin J. Nischan Oakwood the Greener Cleaner The O’Briant Family Hunt Oliver Nashville Carpet Center Lucius and Freida Outlaw David and Pamela Palmer Pan South Productions Parking Management Company Tom Patterson and Mike Eldred Dr. and Mrs. Joel Peavyhouse Nancy Sanders Peterson Paul and Valery Prill Production Resource Group Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Michael and Jan Reeves John and Nancy Roberts Charles, Jean and Paisley Robison Ed* and Teena Rodgers and Family Charles B. and Margaret G. Rush Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. Russ Mr. and Mrs. P. Michael Saint David F. Sampsell Dr. Paula Sandidge & Kent Sandidge III James A. Scandrick Jr. In memory of Emanuel Schatten Cooper and Helen Schley In memory of Kenneth Schermerhorn Dr. and Mrs. John R. Schottland Dr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Scobey Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Scott Dr. and Mrs. Max Shaff Mr. and Mrs. R. Patrick Shepherd Dr. John R. and Betty Benroth Sisk Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Small Dr. and Mrs. Brent A. Soper Karen Spacek Mr. and Mrs. Mickey M. Sparkman Ms. Maggie P. Speight Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sposato Edward and Sally Stack

John and Beth Stein William Robert & Cheryl Anne Stewart Cyndi Stover Mr. and Mrs. James G. Stranch III Sunset Grill - Midtown Cafe CABANA Tracy Tajbl and Neil Kent Jones Brad Thomason Candy Toler and Bob Day Dr. Rubye P. Torrey Byron and Aleta Trauger Larry and Brenda Vickers Bayard H. and Rosemary Lab Walters James Crawford Ward Sr. & Irene Ward Nancy and Marty Warren Drs. Mark and Sally Watson and Billy Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie D. White Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Frank and Mareca Williams John and Anne Williams Gary and Catherine Wilson Marilyn Shields & Theodore E. Wiltsie Tim and Mary Wipperman Richard A. and Vivian R. Wynn Ms. Donna B. Yurdin Mr. and Mrs. Julian Zander Jr. GENERAL GIFTS Gifts of $2,500+ Anonymous In memory of Ann Canfield Arnett Mr. Frederick C. Ayers Joanne and Clay Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. Bauguess Dr. and Mrs. Cliff B. Bennett Patricia and Richard Bibb Drs. William and Wanda Bigham Randolph and Elaine Blake Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Blakeman Flora, Stephanie and Erin Blocker Dr. Richard G. Bruehl and Dr. Nancy J. Stott Cole Burgess Daniel and Rosalie Buxbaum Janet C. Camp Kent S. Cathcart Ben Cavalier Family Cavarra Family Fletch and Bill Coke Everett and Katheryne Cowan

DECEMBER

Jim Radford, Beth Sharp

Dr. and Mrs. George H. Crossley III Janice Crumpacker Donna and Dan Daniel Mr. and Mrs. Jay Dawson Dr. and Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Daryl and Sandra Demonbreun Dr. Robert F. Dendy & Ms. Lisa R. Silver Mr. and Mrs. Michael Devlin Mr. and Mrs. Ken Downey Carol and Michael Barton Dye Gloria Laird and Colin Maxwell Elliot Sam and Laura Faust Beverly K. Feldman Kevin and Susan Foley Family Faith and Ron Galbraith Joaquin and Barbara Garcia John and Eva Gebhart Kate R. W. Grayken Ms. Holly Beth Greene Matthew T. Grimm Charles and Carol Hankla and Family Sondra and George Harris Ron and Carolyn Harris Dr. and Mrs. James A. Hefner Dr. Richard and Rev. Paula C. Hoos Mary Ann and Calvin Houghland Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hull Hunt Family Foundation of Nashville TN Dr. Anna M. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Jones Harold G. and Robbie H. Jones Sam and Nancy Jones Mr. and Mrs. Kazuhiko Kawamura Brenda and Ronnie Kelly Teresa F. Kersey Wayne and Marilyn King Judge and Mrs. William C. Koch Jr. Philip and Leslie Kulp Mr. and Mrs. F. Kurzynske Nancy and Vaden Lackey Mrs. Douglas E. Leach Dorothy and Jim Lesch Elaine and Jon Levine LifeWorks Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Lind Jay and Debbie Lowenthal Mr. and Mrs. Alphonso C. Mance Mr. and Mrs. James P. Manning Mr. and Mrs. James L. Martineau Dr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Mathews Sally and Joe Matlock Jackson Brim McCall and Family

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John Hudson, Pamela & Dr. John Worrell

Mr. and Mrs. Dale McCulloch Mr. James F. McGrath Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Meadows Robert W. Meyer and Family Mr. D. Mark Moore Philip and Lechelle Moore and Family Mr. and Mrs. Russell F. Morris III William and Jennifer Moseley To honor Prof. & Mrs. Alfred Mosemiller Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Neal Craig and Linda Nelson Judy Oxford and Grant Benedict Gary and Nancy Pack Ms. Patricia Paiva Dr. Mary Witherspoon Parks Susan and Bob Plageman and Family Ms. Elizabeth M. Queener Dr. James G. Quiggins Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ransom Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Raths Mr. and Mrs. David L. Raybin Martha and J. Buist Richardson III Miss Margaret L. Riegel Kathleen H. Rivers Georgianna W. Russell Dr. and Mrs. Henry P. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Sammer Nancy and Alan* Saturn Caren A. Shaffer Dana and Nicole Shockley James T. and Judith Smythe Clark Spoden Mr. and Mrs. Roland R. Strickert Drs. Reid C. Thompson and Lorraine B. Ware Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trost and Family Kenneth and Jean Tyree M. Andrew Valentine and Nancy Coleman Mary Kathryn and Gary Van Osdale Drs. Robert and Nancy Wahl Estate of Kenneth Allen Walkup David and Karen Walton Joyce* and David Ward Mr. and Mrs. Talmage Watts Marie Holman Wiggins Judy S. Williams Mrs. Mary K. Wolf Donald and Trudi Yarbrough Peter G. Youngman

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Pauline Palmer, Shelley Alexander, Hugh Palmer Gifts of $1,000+ Anonymous Bassel and Rima Abou-Khalil The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Abstein Aerial Innovations of Tennessee, Inc. Clint and Kali Adams Rob and Linda Allen David and Kathy Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Andrews Jr. Mr. Carl D. Apple Mary Candice Burger and Dan Ashmead Mr. and Mrs. Sam D. Bacco Carolyn Wann Bailey Jeffrey Bailey Mike and Debbie Ballard Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Barber Dr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Barr Clisby Hall Barrow Mr. and Mrs. E. Warner Bass Jack and Melinda Bass Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Batson Nader and Barbara Baydoun and Family Carol L. Crowell-Bayer and William Bayer Ted and Beverly Beckwith Sarah Elizabeth Beeson Ronald E. Bell and Family Lori and Jeff Belser Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bender Mr. and Mrs. W. Todd Bender David, Erin and Caitlin Berndt Charlotte Bialeschki Dr. Joel S. Birdwell Diana and Phil Bittle Ralph and Jane Black Rob and Julie Blagojevich Drs. Mary Anne Blake & Judson E. Rogers John and Jeanette Bliss Dr. and Mrs. George C. Bolian Mr. and Mrs. Perry J. Bolton Bone McAllester Norton, PLLC Sandra Boone Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Booth John and Teri Bosio Don and Deborah Boyd Mr. and Mrs. James K. Brahaney Jere T. Brassell Phil and Pat Bressman Mr. James J. Breuss Sandra Jean Brien Dr. and Mrs. Marcellus Brooks

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Dr. and Mrs. Gaylan W. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Tony E. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Bryan Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bryan Jr. David, Jean and Jane Buchanan Mr. William R. Buckley Melissa and Rod Buffington Donah and Roger Burgess Jamie and Gene D. Burton Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Caldwell Brenda and Edward Callis Kathryn H. Campbell Dr. W. Barton and Audrey Campbell Mike, Linda, Rick and Lauren Carlson David and Teddy Jo Carson Karen D. Casey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Cassilly Ms. Gladys Chatman Barbara Richards and Stanley Chervin Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Childress Sam and Alice Childs Mr. Won S. Choi Elsie Harper Clark Mr. George D. Clark Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Clement Mr. Penn B. Cobb Marcia and Steve Colburn Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Cole Sam Coleman and Phillip Stewart Colliers Turley Martin Tucker Annamarie Collins Mr. and Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Don and Mary Gail Compton Mr. Peter Condiles Robert and Gail Merritt Congdon The Honorable and Mrs. Lew Conner Terry and Joani Cook Paul and Alyce Cooke Dr. Michael Cooper and Ms. Bethany Jackson Sharon and Jim Cox Mr. and Mrs. John T. Crain D. Robert Crants III Suzanne Cherry Cravens Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Crawford John and Rosalie Crispin Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Crouch Ida Kay Cothron Crowder Joann Cruthirds

Sarah & Walter Knestrick The Honorable and Mrs. J. Dewey Daane Katherine C. Daniel Mrs. Donald L. Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Mark Davenport Mr. W. T. Davidson Dr. and Mrs. Ben Davis Mrs. Raymond (Margaret L.) Davis Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Dawson Martha Lou Deacon Mrs. Edwin F. DeMoss Anne R. Dennison William T. DePriest Don Dey Mr. and Mrs. G. Orion Dickson Mr. and Mrs. Matthew H. Dobson IV Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Doeg Ms. Amy Dorfman and Mr. Donald Capparella Lynn Dorris Karen and Ted Dreier Dr. Raymond and Lisa A. DuBois Mrs. Jane Anderson Dudley and Mr. Dwayne Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Duffield Mr. and Mrs. William D. Duke Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Dunnington Mr. and Mrs. John W. Eakin Jr. Susan Sheppard Edwards Eric and Nena Egli Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Elkin Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Elsesser Coni Ely and Chris Guerin Mrs. Ervin M. Entrekin Mrs. Alice D. Epperson Ann Epperson Betty East Esslinger Dr. and Mrs. Roy C. Ezell Kerry L. Fair Lois B. Faison Ms. Rebecca Ferguson Jacob W. and Lois A. Flaker Fletcher Rowley Chao Riddle Inc. Dr. Edward and Mrs. Janet Foley Elizabeth Givens Folsom Mrs. Patricia A. Fredericksen Mr. James C. Free Jesse and Julia Freeman Alexander and Makiko Freeman Anita and Scott Freistat Hubert and Wendy Freund Mary Carol and Charles Friddell Dr. and Mrs. Steven G. Gabbe Jose E. Garcia and Carol Scales Ms. Pamela B. Garrett

Mr. and Mrs. Tim K. Garrett Carlene Hunt and Marshall Gaskins Mr. and Mrs. Marbut G. Gaston Jr. David and Patsy Gaw Gaylord Entertainment Company Ms. Sally Ann Gentry Mr. and Mrs. V. Carl George Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Gerace Harry E. Gibson Mr. Terrence L. Gibson Elizabeth Gilliam Dr. Joseph Awad & Ms. Jane E. Gilliam Frank Ginanni Lyndi Ann Crowder Goodall Vice President and Mrs. Albert A. Gore Jr. Gerald and Shelley Gotterer Jay Grannis Dr. and Mrs. Herschel A. Graves Jr. Mr. William J. Green Ms. Thelma L. Grimsley and Family Mr. and Mrs. Russell D. Groff Daniel J. Guill Sara E. Guill John R. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Maurice M. Hallum III Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hamilton Edward and Kathryn* Hantel Dr. Charlene Harb Mr. and Mrs. John B. Hardcastle Jr. George and Cindy Harper Paul and Senator Thelma Harper Scott and Carol Harris Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Harrison Jr. Jay and Dawn Hartley Dorothy M. Hartman* James S. Hartman Lane and Hugh Harvey Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harvey Sedley and Chris Hassel Mr.* and Mrs. Marion J. Hatchett David and Judith Slayden Hayes Bill and Lisa Headley Peter and Gini Heller Kent and Melinda Henderson Mr. William I. Henderson Doris Ann Hendrix Mr. and Mrs. David A. Herlitzka Mr. and Mrs. Marion W. Hickerson III Ms. Martha Sue Highfill* Doris M. Hill Mitchell and Betsy Hilt Eileen R. Holloran Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. House Dee and Fran Howell Mr. and Mrs. L. Wearen Hughes Judith and Jim Humphreys In honor of the birthday of Mrs. Martha R. Ingram In honor of Martha R. Ingram Ingram Micro Inc. Rodney Irvin Dr. and Mrs. Albert P. Isenhour Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Edward I. Isibor J & J Interiors, Inc. Claudia S. Jack Donald L. Jackson Patricia Marie Jansen Mr. John Barlow Jarvis

Charles and Edeltraut Jenkins Mrs. Mary Grey Jenkins Dr. and Mrs. Gary F. Jensen Jo’s Custom Cakes and Catering Inc. Keith and Nancy Johnson Mary and Doug Johnston Jane and Cecil Jones Mr. and Mrs. Sydney L. Jones Jr. Ann and Thomas Kahn Dr. and Mrs. Martin Katahn Christopher and Ginger Kelly and Family The Kelly Family Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kennedy Patrick B. Kennedy & Jaime S. Amos & Riley & Eden Bruce and Maryann Kilbourn and Family Mr. and Mrs. Bill G. Kilpatrick Dr. Edward M. and Bonita D. Kimbrell Don R. and Kathleen Matteuzzi King Jim and Bunny King and Family Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kinser Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Kirby Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Kitchell Mr. and Mrs. James A. Knestrick Ms. Linda R. Koon Bob and Cathy Krumm Doctor and Mrs. John W. Lamb Sterling S. Lanier III* Robert M. Latimer* Mr. and Mrs. Danny Law Frances A. Lawson James E. and Judith G. Lawson Richard G. & Sandra M. Lenz and Family In memory of Dr. Virgil Shields LeQuire Sam and Lee Levine and Family Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Lewis Mary Fancis Schmitt Ligon Rhea and Marie Little Drs. Walt and Shannon Little Stephen R. and Jean N. Locke Kaye Lockwood Douglas and Denise Lokken David and Nancy Loucky Johnny & Lindalu Lovier Mr. James Edgar Lowe William and Evelyn Luetzow Dr. and Mrs. John N. Lukens Jr. Ms. Nina B. Lunn Mrs. Robert P. Mace Mrs. Robert R. MacKenzie Mr. and Mrs. Boyce C. Magli Helga and Andrea Maneschi Mark and Kelly Manning Bradley D. Mansell John Maple Mr. and Mrs. Michael Marchetti Annette B. Martin Ben T. and Loy W. Martin Dr. and Mrs. Raymond S. Martin III Mr. and Mrs. Jack N. Matheson III Ms. Cynthia Clark Matthews Ms. Sonje K. Hubsch Mayo Ms. Jocelynne I. McCall Jennifer and Shane McClure

Rev. Stanley L. McCormick Larry and Karen McCoy George and Linda McCulloch Lisa H. McDonald Ms. Josephine McLeod Mr. and Mrs. Walter Douglas McMahan Michael and Mary Jane McWherter Mr. Ronald S. Meers Ellen Menking Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Mewbourne Jr. Dr. and Mrs. J. Berry Middleton Mr. Anthony P. Migliore Cedric and Delberta Miller Dan and Karen Miller Jim and Glenda Milliken Diana and Jeffrey Mobley Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Moench Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Moench Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Molnar Jr. Margaret W. Moore Cynthia and Richard Morin The Morphett Family Mr. and Mrs. Rogers H. Morrison Sr. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Mullins Nashville Advertising and Promotions Lannie W. Neal Mr. and Mrs. John C. Neff James and Irene Neilan Dr. and Mrs. I. Armistead Nelson Lee and Emily Noel Chuck Norman Jonathan R. Norris D. Wilson Ochoa Dr. Samuel O. Okpaku The Honorable Hazel R. O’Leary Jo Ellen L. Olson Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Oman Hansi D. Orgain Dr. and Mrs. Harry L. Page Mrs. John Gray Palmer Mr. Clint Parrish Dr. and Mrs. Earl Q. Parrott Mr. Richard D. Parrottino Doug and Lisa Pasto-Crosby Jack and Jeannie Patterson John W. and Mary E. Patterson Mr. Stephen D. Patton Dr. W. Faxon and Frances W. Payne Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Pennington Elizabeth and Phil Perkins Dr. L.O.P.* and Rosetta Miller Perry Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Peterson Frances and Kathryn Petrocelli Dr. James A. Petty Mrs. Patsy C. Petway Charles and Mary Phy Robert S. Poole Mr. and Mrs. Joel Ayers Pope Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pope Mr. and Mrs. James Pratt Ms. Rhonda M. Prevatt Charles W. Rager II and Amber Culverhouse Dr. Hal R. Ramer Jennifer and David Rawlings Jeff and T Reese Sandra L. Reeves

DECEMBER

William Boatner Reily III Steven and Ellen Resnick Family Trust Brooke and Jason Reusch and Family Kay and Byung-Hyun Rhee Kellye and Jeff Rice Ms. Ann Richards and Mr. Glen Wanner Woodrow and Cemele Richardson Carolyn Fludd Ridley Dr. and Mrs. Russell Ries Mrs. Roscoe R. Robinson Anne D. Rogers Fran C. Rogers Norma and Bruce Rogers Sydney and Buddy Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Tate Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Clark B. Rollins III Judith R. Roney Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Ropelewski Lynne and Rodney Rosenblum Laura Ann Ross Joyce and Mace Rothenberg Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Roy Dwight and Margaret Rucker and Family Warren T. Runion and Catherine J. Holsen Ms. Jean W. Russell Ms. Patricia Russell Mr. and Mrs. Jason Saling Michael Samis and Christopher Stenstrom John R. Sanders Jr. Sam and Barbara Sanders Ms. Suzanne Sanders James and Susan Sandlin Pauline and Robert Satterfield Wm. B. and Toni C. Saunders and Family In memory of Kenneth Schermerhorn Molly and Richard Schneider Jim and Mary Schumacher Dr. Marvin and Claire Schwartz Gary and Gloria Scott Mr. and Mrs. Terry R. Sears Charles and Bettye Seivers Dr. and Mrs. John S. Sergent Odessa L. Settles John and Nanette Shand Dr. and Mrs. Steven B Shankle Mr. and Mrs. Alfred D. Sharp III Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Tricia Sharp Ms. Kenya Sharp Beverly P. Sharpe and Devin C. Sharpe Nita and Mike Shea Mrs. Jack W. Shepherd Mr. and Mrs. Ernest D. Shepherd Gerald “Buzz” and Lex Ann Sheridan Jr. David and Nancy Shurson Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Sigmund Ms. Sandra Simpson Michael and Susanne Sims Dr. and Mrs. Manuel Sir Pamela Sixfin Ms. Diane M. Skelton The Sloatman Family

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ADVERTISING SUCCESS STORIES

Performing Arts Magazines Presents

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—Mike Carey General Manager • Design Gallery Homes by Drees www.Dreeshomes.com

In a good economy, the audiences who frequent and support the arts in Nashville are a great audience to reach with your advertising message. However, when the economy slows, this audience becomes even more important to reach because of their affluence and discretionary incomes.

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John W. Todd Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Tolk Dr. and Mrs. Alexander S. Townes Claire and Reece Whitfield Tucker Lizette M. Tucker Mr. and Mrs. John A. Turnbull Donna and Robert Vaughn Victor R. and Suzanne Vaughn Mr. Wayne Vaught Joyce A. Vise Robert C. and Mary M. Vowels Martin H. Wagner M.D. and Family Patricia W. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Walton Mr.* and Mrs. James M. Ward Leslie P. Ware W. Miles* and Sharon Warfield C. Brian and Alison H. Warford Karen Marie Warren Cheryl and Mark Wathen Dr. and Mrs. Gates J. Wayburn Jr. Jane and Frank Wcislo Mr.* and Mrs. William C. Weaver III Mr.* and Mrs. James A. Webb Jr. Bob, Gail, Collin and Graham Webb Mr. Stephen Webb H. Martin and Joyce Weingartner William* and Raylene Welch Charles Hampton White James W. White Linda and Raymond White Don and Maureen Whitehead Mr. and Mrs. Adam Wieck Mr. and Mrs. William G. Wiggins Faith Lansing Wikoff Mr. and Mrs. J. Denny Wilkening Jimmy D. and Malinda E. Williams Ms. Vicki Gardine Williams Rod and Phyllis Williamson Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Williamson Eleanor Lawson Willis Blythe Wilson, Elysabeth Lackey Jerry and Julia Wingler Scott and Ellen Wolfe and Family In honor of the Irving Wolfe Family Dale and Carol Womack Ms. Lisa A. Wood Paul Gambill and Joy Worland James and Jan Yarbrough Mr. and Mrs. Julian Zander Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Barry Zeitlin Michael and Margaret Zibart Dr. Thomas F. Zimmerman Gifts of $500+ Anonymous Judith Ablon Vicky Abney and daughter Lesley Voltz Jeff, Tina, Jennifer & Jonathan Adams Mr. Howard D. Adcock Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey K. Adkisson Elke, Bridget and Lex Aita George Alexander and Family Joyce Price Allen Ms. Patricia B. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Ron Alley William J. and Margery Amonette Paul and Nancy Anderson Family Robert Alden Anderson Samuel F. Anderson

In honor of Maestro Kenneth Andrews Peggy A. Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Argo Mr. and Mrs. James C. Armistead Jr. Aaron Armstrong Debi and Katrina Armstrong Mr. Joseph B. Armstrong Dr. Jane Bacon and Timothy Artist Pamela R. Atkins Geralda M. Aubry Mr. Albert Austin The Brian C. Austin Family Dr. Philip Autry Dr. Elizabeth M. Backus Al and Judy Baer Mr. and Mrs. Herb Baggett Lawrence E. Baggett Sallie and John Bailey Mr. David S. Baily Ralph B. Ballou Jr.* Scott M. Bane Alice Ann Vaughan Floyd Barge Kenneth Barnd Jonnie and Barbara Barnett Christal E. Barrow Oliver and Lisa Barry Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Bayless Dr. and Mrs. Charles B. Beck Dr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Bergstrom Dr. and Mrs. Roy Berkon Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Berry Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Best Robert C. and Jane B. Blakey Ron, Sandra, Ethan and Erica Block Familia Boero Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Bolton Andi Bordick Dr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Boskind Mr. and Mrs. C. Dent Bostick Nancy and Dewey Boswell Ms. Michelle Boucher Zeneba Bowers Mr.* and Mrs. James E. Boyd Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bransford Jr. Mr. Keith Brent Mr. and Mrs. John F. Brewer III Libby and David Broadhurst Mr. and Mrs. Danny E. Broadway Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Brockman Jr. Berry and Connie Brooks Vernice Oakley Bryan Gino and Kathy Bulso Wyeth and Edward Burgess Dr. and Mrs. Ian M. Burr Mr. and Mrs. Todd A. Burr Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Callis Dr. and Mrs. Tracy Q. Callister Jeanne Camara Bratschi Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Campbell MariLynn and Mike Canterbury Luther E. Cantrell Jr. David L. Carlton David S. Carter Mr. and Mrs. D. Michael Carter J. R. Caryl Jim and Shirley Casselberry Mr. and Mrs. Dean F. Chase Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Chickey Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry

Robert* and Mary Churchwell Sr. Teresa Harper Cissell Mr. and Mrs. Gary Clardy Shelton and Catherine Clark Mr. and Mrs. John J. Claxton II Jacquelyn L. Clevenger Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Cobb Mr. and Mrs. Neely Coble Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Alan G. Cohen Joan and Charlie Coker Rebecca Cole John and Rita Collett Mr. and Mrs. M. Thomas Collins Mr. Charles J. Conrick III Ms. Catherine Cook Mr. and Mrs. Robert William Coon Mrs. Elizabeth F. Cormier Dr. Will Kendrick and Ms. Marymac Cortner Natalie Corwin Mr. and Mrs. James M. Costello James and Amy Cotton Jennifer A. Coyle Ms. Ann S. Cross Mr. Will R. Crowthers Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Cullen Mr. Thomas Cullen and Ms. Wray Estes Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Cummins Buddy and Sandy Curnutt Louis and Kathy D’Angelo Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Davenport Robert G. Davis and Leriel Davis Jeremy Dawkins* In memory of Jeremy Dawkins Mr. and Mrs. E. Mandell de Windt Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Debelak Ms. Jean Dedman Mr. and Mrs. Brett A. DeFore Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Delk Dr. and Mrs. James L. Dickson Mary Sue Dietrich and Family Wally and Lee Lee Dietz Martin L. Donner Jim and Ramsey Doran Rebecca Dorcy Robert and Kathryn Dortch Mr. and Mrs. David Dowland James and Julie Duensing Janet Ivey Duensing Greg Dugdale and Family Felicia and Charles Duncan Bob and Nancy Dunkerley Mr. Blair P. Durham Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Dwelle Lynne M. Cushing and S. June Dye Frances and Bill Earthman Susan Eason* Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Eggleston Mr. David R. Elkins Ms. Helen C. Elkins Mr. and Mrs. Dan H. Elrod Mr. and Mrs. Martin Emrath Mary Ella Eubanks Mr. and Mrs. Ross I. Evans Duncan Eve Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Evers III Mr. and Mrs. Mark Farrington Bryan and Rachel Fay Anthony J. Ferrara Walter and Rebecca G. Ferris DECEMBER

Jim and Mary Flanagan Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Flautt Jeff and Margaret Flowers Sarah C. Fogel and Jane S. Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Fogelberg Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Forshee Julie Foss Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Francis Elizabeth A. Franks James C. Franks Family Jim W. Freeland Freeland Broadcasting Frist Center for the Visual Arts Sara N. Gaines William Joyce and Anderson Gaither Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Gannaway Glenna R. Gant Mr. and Mrs. Brian Garcia Grace D. Gardner Ms. Jane Gardner Dr. and Mrs. G. Waldon Garriss III Mr. Ronald Gash The Gassler Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Gideon Mr. Michael E. Giffin Norman and Cathy Gillis Girl Scout Council of Cumberland Valley Gary and Robin Glover Mr. and Mrs. William L. Godsey Terry and Nancy Goins Jay and Grace Goostree Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Gore Esther A. Gorny Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Gostowski Dr. & Mrs. CK Hiranya & Saraswathi Devi Gowda In memory of Edwin M. Gould Mrs. Jeanne S. Gower Betty and Lewis Graham Bryan D. Graves John and Mary France Gray Mrs. Max Greenberg Ms. Martha P. Gregory Ms. Gail W. Griffin Ms. Becky Griffith Mr. Thomas A. Grooms and Ms. Linda G. Ashford Mary Beth and Raul Guzman Dr. and Mrs. Allen F. Gwinn Jr. Joanne and Will Hackman Dr. and Mrs. Bill Halliday Dr. and Mrs. Charles Hambrick Dr. and Mrs. Edward D. Hamilton Dr. and Mrs.* James R. Hamilton Mrs. Vandella Hancock Mr. Fred G. Hardin Dr. and Mrs. F. Payne Hardison Jim, Ruth and Andrea Hayes Jim and Sandy Heatley Fred and Judy Helfer Ted and Mary Beth Helm Ernest and Nancy Henegar Father John C. Henrick Ms. Elizabeth W. Henson Karen Hickox Hicks Charitable Foundation Byron and Virginia Hillblom Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Hindalong Michelle E. C. Hinson 2009

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 17

DR. JOYCE JONES, Professor of Organ and Organist-in-Residence,

Baylor University

SUNDAY, APRIL 18 Hymn Festival with The King’s Brass

DR. ALBERT L. TRAVIS, Distinguished Professor

Emeritus of Organ, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

DR. J. SCOTT BENNETT, Organist & Master of the Music, Grace Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14

DR. CRAIG PHILLIPS, Associate Director of Music and Composer-in-Residence All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills, California

2010 THURSDAY BUSINESS LUNCH ORGAN RECITALS FEBRUARY 4

STEPHEN ABER, Senior Organ Performance Major, Belmont University

APRIL 1

KENNETH B. BREWER, Organist, restores antique keyboard instruments

FIRST BAPTIST NASHVILLE SEVENTH & BROADWAY

www.firstbaptistnashville.org

MAY 6

DR. WILMA JENSEN, Choirmaster/Organist Emerita, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville

OCTOBER 7

DR. J. GREGG BUNN, Organist, Brentwood United Methodist Church

DECEMBER 2

ELIZABETH SMITH, Assistant Organist, Nashville Symphony

Mrs. Johnnie K. Hodge Sandra D. Hollingsworth Jeanni Holmes William Paul Holt David F. and Barbara S. Howell Mr. and Mrs. A. Scott Hubbard SSG. Derrick W. Hudson and Mrs. Kerry Hudson Vickie J. Hudson Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hughes Jr. Mrs. Beverly Hyde Ms. Suzy C. Hyslip Robert Rowe & Peniruth Ingram-Rowe Mr. William C. Ireland Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Van T. Irwin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Jacobson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. James Judi and John N. Jaszcz Mr. and Mrs. Neil Jobe Mr. and Mrs. David A. Johnson Harley and Joyce Jones Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kacynski Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kazimi Mr.* and Mrs. George F. Kennedy Ronald Kidd and Yvonne Martin Kidd Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Knabe Mr. and Mrs. Wendell L. Knight Mr. and Mrs. Ronald F. Knox Jr. Karen Ward & Thomas K. Knox & Family In memory of Joe Kraft Morris Kraft Mr. and Mrs. James S. Kreider Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Kupferer Jr. Anthony and Wendy LaMarchina Ms. Andrea G. Landry Robert R. Laser Jr. Mr. Roger W. Latterell Steve and Martha Lawrence Cassandra Lee Judy and Lewis Lefkowitz Mrs. Vito F. LePore The LeQuire Family Paul and Susan Levy Rita Diane Lewis Daniel P. Lindstrom Mr. and Mrs. Ken Lingo Ms. Amanda Livsey Daniel Lochrie Carolyn S. Lockard In memory of H. A. Lockhart Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Loffi Gilbert and Erin Long Dr. and Mrs. William R. Long Mr. and Mrs. William B. Loyd Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lyles Betty and Pat Lynch Dr. and Mrs. George L. Mabry In honor of George and Sharon Mabry Malinda Mabry-Scott Ms. Alexandra T. MacKay Douglas L. MacKenzie Mr. and Mrs. James N. Maddox John and Laura and Patrick Maddux Miss Anne W. Magruder Rolin and Kristine Mains Shelia and Charles Majors Lucy and Larry Majors Mrs. Tommie C. Manning Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Mappes Carrie and Steve Marcantonio and Family Jeanne and Gino Marchetti Curt and Cynthia Masters Steve and Jean Matthews

Jennifer & Scott McClellan

Leslie H. Matkosky Mr. Mark Matson Linda Mattson Mary Helen Maupin Larry and Kathleen StarnesMaxwell Dr. Ingrid Mayer and Dr. Ricardo Fonseca Mr. and Mrs. John David McAlister Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. McAllister Mr. and Mrs. Randall McCathren Mr. and Mrs. Brian M. McClanahan Mr. and Mrs. E. Lamar McCoy Mr. and Mrs. Edward McCullough Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. McDougle Mr. R. David McDowell Timothy and Sally McFadden Mr. and Mrs. Neil McFarren James R. McGlocklin Mr. Garney McGregor Ms. Anne Elizabeth McIntosh Mr. and Mrs. Scott H. McKean Linda R. McLeod Mr. Alan Medders Herbert and Sharon Meltzer Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Merin Bruce and Bonnie Meriwether Lawrence and Donna Middleton Ms. Donna J. Mills James L. Mills Stephen A. and Karen R. Mitchell Tom and Joan Mitchell Robert and Marie Mobley Dr. and Mrs. Harold W. Morrison Theodore and Erin Morrison Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Morrow Linda and Harold Moses Mehran Mostajir and Dr. Mojdeh Mozayani Ms. Patricia Mraz Ms. Jennifer Murphy Tom* and Lucille Nabors Carolyn Heer Nash, Cali & Hayli Heer Mark and Carolyn Naumann Mr. Michael T. Neely Dr. and Mrs. Bryce A. Nelson Stephen Lee Nesbitt Keith Nicholas Robert Kinsley and Donna Nichols Paul Nicholson Phoenix Chicken Nicks Mrs. Marvin A. Nikolaus Chris and Leslie Norton James H. O’Neill Nancy and Frank Orr Rick and Penny Osgood

Darcy Walsh, Mac Edington, Stan Monter Mary J. Osthus Mr. Inman E. Otey Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Owen Jr. Ophelia and George Paine Aaron and Jennifer Painter Ms. Ellie Parchman The Rev. Dr.* and Mrs. J. Perry Parker Donna Patterson and Roger Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Peak Dan Peck Mr. and Mrs. Tim Pedigo Dr. Lisa C. Pellegrin Mr. and Mrs. James W. Perkins Ms. Melrose Faulkerson Perry Suevelyn W. Peters Carol A. Pike In loving memory of Charles M. Plaxico Mr. Paul A. Pomfret Stephanie L. Poole Mr. and Mrs. John C. Porter Billy, Connie and Will Powell Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Price Pamela L. Quayson Mrs. John Rainey Mr. and Mrs. Ross A. Rainwater Gayle Ray Ms. Kathleen G. Rayburn Douglas P. Raymont Dr. and Mrs. Paul S. Redelheim Ms. Charlotte A. Reichley James and Deborah Reyland Dr. William O. Richards Bob Richardson Rev. and Mrs. Robert P. Richardson Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Harris D. Riley Jr. Dave and Ramona Riling Harry and Deborah Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rodewald Elizabeth and John Alden Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Federico Rodriguez-Giacinti Kenneth E. Schriver and Anna W. Roe Mr. and Mrs. Don Rollins Jack E. and Sharon G. Rubey Ms. Lora Rucker Gary M. Russell Simona and Radu Rusu Scott Rye Irene Carter Sain Dr. & Mrs. Norman R. Saliba Sterling McCann Sanders Samuel A. Santoro and Mary M. Zutter David Martin Satterfield

Tracy Hunter, Janet Allan, Carolyn Hunter, Linda Morrow

Creston and Janice Saylors Carina and Roger Schecter In memory of Kenneth Schermerhorn Glenn R. and Carolyn J. Schirg The Robert Schnells Nelda and Kurt G. Schreiber In memory of Ola Mabel Webb Scott Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott Ms. Margaret D. Scruggs Ms. Amy Jeanece Seals Kristi L. Seehafer Dr. and Mrs. L. Ray Sells Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Shears Ms. Clela Sheppard Denver & Sandy Sherry, Symphony Chorus Adrienne and Stanton Shuler Richard L. Simmons Mr. Gene Simpson Dr.* and Mrs. T. A. Smedley Kathy J. Smith and Family Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Kevin S. Smith Reinhold E. Smith Susan and Bill Snyder Jack S. Sollner Southeastern Telecom, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Sperling Irma and Robert Spies Mr. and Mrs. William T. Spitz Butch and Sunny Spyridon Mr. Darryl Glenn Steele and Family Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Steele Mr. Robert H. Stephens Mrs. Frank W. Stevens* Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Stevens Storage Technologies Frank and Patricia Storz Joseph and Cheryl Strichik Mr. and Mrs. Richard Suddeath John Sujdak & Judy O’Guin Sujdak & Family Charles S. and Gayle A. Sullivan Matthew and Andrea Sullivan and Family Robert L. and Catherine Cate Sullivan James Marshall Summar Keith and Donna Dame Summar Mr. Frank Sutherland and Ms. Natilee M. Duning Greg, Rhonda and Erik Swanson Dr. Anna Szczuka Dr. Loyda C. Tacogue Jaclyn and Bruce Tarkington DECEMBER

Dr. Calvin M. Taylor Katherine Taylor Mary Curtis Taylor, Violin 1967-1991 Matthew W. Tays Christian and Grace Teal Ms. Laura Tek Michael Terry and Family Mr. and Mrs. Eugene TeSelle Lisa Thomas Mary Lee and Jim Thompson Donna K. Thurman Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Thurman Jr. Jeffrey Null Tiefermann and Family Mr. and Mrs. Don Tillman Dale and Doris Torrence Bill and Sharon Torrens Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Tosh Sr. Kita Mappin and Lloyd Townsend Jr. Thomas L. and Judith A. Turk Bradley and Karen Vander Molen Barbra B. Vaughn Ms. Susan C. Vincler Mr. Richard J. Waldrop Matt Walker Sarah Huddleston Walker Dr. and Mrs. Steve L. Walker Victoria C. Walker Mr.* and Mrs. Simon G. Waterlow Jerry and Brenda Weeks Ms. Rosemary D. Wesela John & Betsy Westfield Dr. and Mrs. Arville V. Wheeler Susan Hammonds-White and Walter H. White Mr. and Mrs. C. Parker Whitlock Roger M. Wiesmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Earl H. Williams Jr. Jeremy Williams Jo Anne Williams Ms. Cheryl L. Wilson Mrs. F. R. Wingo Sandra Wiscarson in memory of Kenneth Young Broadcasting Nashville - WKRN-TV Chris and Cindy Wood Mr. and Mrs. Lewis F. Wood Jr. Sidney and Richard M. Wooten Anne Allen Wright Dr. Patty W. Wright and Mr. Christopher J. Wright Gary and Marlys Wulfsberg Judge Randall and Kay Wyatt James Clayton Young Sr. Family *denotes donors who are deceased

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LegacySociety

Legacy Society The Legacy Society honors those patrons whose deep commitment to the future of the Nashville Symphony has inspired them to include the Symphony in their estate planning through bequests, life-income gifts or other deferred-giving arrangements.

Anonymous Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Julie & Frank Boehm Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Mrs. Barbara J. Conder Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert William M. and Mildred P.* Duncan Family and Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia Landis Bass Gullett* Judith Hodges Judith S. Humphreys Martha R. Ingram Heloise Werthan Kuhn

Sally M. Levine John T. Lewis Clare & Samuel Loventhal Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Cynthia and Richard Morin Anne T. & Peter L. Neff Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin Pamela K. and Philip Maurice Pfeffer Eric Raefsky, MD & Victoria Heil Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Simmons Irvin and Beverly Small Betsy Proctor Stratton* & Harry E. Stratton Dr. John B. Thomison Sr. Judy & Steve Turner Anne H. & Robert K. Zelle

*deceased

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

If you have that vision for the Nashville Symphony and have provided for its future through your estate planning, the Symphony would like to recognize you as a member of its Legacy Society. You can request an enrollment form or more information about tax-advantaged planned giving through Susan Williams in the Symphony Development Department at 615.687.6524 or swilliams@nashvillesymphony.org.

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Kate Spade Burberry Juicy Couture Louis Vuitton The Cheesecake Factory

Brooks Brothers Cole Haan Lacoste Sephora Tiffany & Co.

Introducing Complimentary Valet Parking The perfect complement for your shopping experience

GuestInformation

Arpeggio Arpeggio is a dining experience offered in the East Lobby. Open before all nighttime SunTrust Classical, Bank of America Pops, Adams and Reese Jazz Series concerts and most special performances, it 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. Doors open two hours before the performance.

Reservations are preferred; please call 615.687.6400. For updated menu information, please visit NashvilleSymphony.org.

THE CAFÉ AND LOBBY BARS The Café, located in the West Lobby, offers a bistro-style à la carte menu beginning two hours prior to all concerts. The Café is also open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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

SYMPHONY STORE The Symphony Store is located on the west side of the building near the West Atrium lobby and the Café. A variety of items, including a wide selection of classical CDs, are available at all price ranges.

Customers may also place special orders. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, and on all concert evenings from one hour prior to performance until 30 minutes after the performance has ended.

ACCOMMODATIONS 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. All restrooms are equipped for people with disabilities. Located on the Lounge Level, unisex restrooms are also available for disabled guests needing special assistance.

CAMERAS, CELL PHONES, RECORDERS, BEEPERS & WATCH ALARMS 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.

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COAT CHECK To enhance the acoustical experience inside Laura Turner Concert Hall, we ask that guests 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.

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.

CONCERT CONCIERGE Have a question, request or comment? Please visit our Concert Concierge on the northwest side of the Main Lobby. The Concierge is available to help you with anything you might need during your visit. Concert Concierge is open through the end of intermission.

TICKET SALES The Box Office is located at street level 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 for future performances and Will Call

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reservations are available by using one of the self-service kiosks located in the East and West Atrium lobbies or in the Box Office lobby. To speak with a customer service representative by phone, call 615.687.6400.

Tickets are also available for future Nashville Symphony concerts through the Nashville Symphony’s website (NashvilleSymphony.org).

ACCESSIBLE SEATING 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.

CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS Offered in the Balcony Lobby prior to each SunTrust Classical Series concert, these informal halfhour talks with our conductors and guest artists explore the evening’s program. Talks begin at 6 p.m. Thursday and at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

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, 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.

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.

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

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.

EVACUATION To ensure your safety in case of fire or other emergency, we ask that you note the exit route nearest your seat. Please follow the instructions of our ushers, who are specifically trained to assist you in case of an emergency.

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.

VALET Valet parking, provided by Parking Management Company, is available for all performances on Symphony Place, on the north side of the building between Third and Fourth avenues. We offer pre-paid valet parking for all performances. For more details, call 615.687.6401. shuttles For $10 cash per person, round-trip shuttle service is available for SunTrust Classical Series and Bank of America Pops Series concerts. First come, first served. The shuttles leave from Belle Meade Plaza and The Factory at Franklin. For more info, call 615.687.6541.

FREE PARKING

Thanks to the generosity of SunTrust, we offer all Nashville Symphony concertgoers FREE parking on all concert nights in the original SunTrust parking garage at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Commerce Street (between Church Street and Commerce Street). Free shuttles are also provided. Visit our website for full details.

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BuildingMap Exit

Restrooms

Stairs

Elevator

Coat check and main restrooms located half-floor down in Lower Lobby

Concert Concierge

East Atrium

West Atrium

Box Office

Bar

Bar

Symphony Store Symphony Cafe

Bar

arpeggio

Loge Hall Loge Boxes

West Lobby

Laura Turner Concert Hall

Loge Hall Loge Boxes

Martha Rivers Ingram Courtyard

East Lobby

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Food

WiFi Access

Concert Concierge Classical Conversations, additional bar and restrooms located in third-floor Balcony Lobby

East Grand Staircase

West Grand Staircase

Founders Circle

Green Room

Founders Boxes

Board Room

Founders Hall

Bar

Bar

Founders Boxes

Laura Turner Concert Hall

Orchestra View

Curb Room

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Thinking in Harmony

Finale

Country superstar and former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood will receive the Harmony Award at this year’s Symphony Ball, taking place December 12 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center. InConcert recently asked the singer her thoughts about Nashville, making music and her commitment to animal rights.

As a recipient of the Harmony Award, you’re being honored for representing the harmonious spirit of Nashville’s music community. What is it about Nashville that makes it such a great — and harmonious — place for making music?

Nashville is a warm and friendly community.

People love to work, but they also love their families.

I feel like values are strong in Nashville and those who live here are “normal.” They don’t seem to get too caught up in things that are unimportant. This makes it easy to get together with people and write about life.

What else do you like about Nashville?

I enjoy the weather (most of the time). I love how green it gets in the spring. I love that there are places to escape. There are some amazing parks and places outside of the city that you can go to relax. Of course, you can go just about anywhere downtown and hear some amazing music! People in Nashville also have a wonderful loyalty to it! I like that. There is a sense of community even though it is a big city.

What legendary country artists do you most admire?

I love the strong women who have come before me, women like Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn and Reba, just to name a few. They paved the way for people like me. They really learned how to juggle fame and life. I think they have always conducted themselves with class and beauty. They are true role models for those of us just starting out!

As a recording artist and an American Idol contestant, you’ve covered quite a few songs — and quite a variety at that. What song would you most like to cover, but haven’t yet?

I never know what I’m going to do next! I get the strangest urges to do some of the most unexpected songs! I always like to keep people guessing, and I like to show different sides of myself.

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If you weren’t a professional musician, what would you be doing?

My major in college was broadcast journalism.

I always hoped to work at a television station. I had no idea what I would do there, but I figured the good Lord would show me what I was supposed to do when it came time. And boy, did He ever!

I know that you’ve been a strong advocate for animals. What do you think human beings could stand to learn from our four-legged friends?

They don’t judge. They don’t care what you do, how much money you have, how popular you are, how pretty you are or aren’t, what you’ve done in the past or anything like that. They love you because you love them. My dog, Ace, is one of the best things in my life, and I wouldn’t trade him for all the money and fame in the world. We could all stand to think a little more like them. They don’t have a malicious bone in them. They are pure and precious!

If dreams came in shapes…

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