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JAZZ SERIES 8 p.m. Friday, May 2 J A Z Z S E R I ES

DIANNE REEVES Dianne Reeves, vocals Peter Martin, piano Romero Lubambo, guitar Reginald Veal, bass Terreon Gully, drums

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ABOUT THE ARTIST DIANNE REEVES In her first studio album in five years, Dianne Reeves delivers what is destined to become a souljazz classic. Beautiful Life is comprised of 12 songs that have touched Reeves’ spirit in different ways.

Mixing in her love of collaboration, the fourtime GRAMMY® Award-winning vocalist has now teamed up with a stunning array of peers, including Esperanza Spalding, Robert Glasper, George Duke, Gregory Porter, Gerald Clayton, Lalah Hathaway, Richard Bona and her producer Terri Lyne Carrington.

The album simmers and smolders throughout, starting off with a mesmerizing makeover of the Marvin Gaye classic, “I Want You.” The choice for this song was influenced by the music Reeves grew up listening to at a time when categories and boundaries were not as finite

as they are today. In collaboration with Robert Glasper, Reeves breathes new life into Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams, delivering a beautiful rendition of the rock classic that is haunting and suspenseful.

While Ani Difranco’s self-empowering “32 Flavors” had been in Reeves’ live repertoire for some time, this is the first time she has recorded it. “The song is about people doing amazing things that nobody sees,” says Reeves. “It speaks to how we should be more conscious of those around us — those who populate and contribute to our lives.”

Also included is a brilliant version of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler’s standard “Stormy Weather,” a song that harkens back to Ethel Waters, Lena Horne and Billie Holiday — all of whom brought the song mainstream and put their stamp on it. The original composition “Tango”

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“I wanted to celebrate that which can be easily overlooked,” Reeves says.

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is a wordless tour-de-force that celebrates the great non-English singers whose passion Reeves profoundly felt — without understanding the lyrics. “I perform this song throughout the world, and wherever I go the spirit of my improvised vocals are completely understood. I have been so inspired and enthralled by so many singers whose lyrics I didn’t comprehend, like Celia Cruz, Miriam Makeba, Elis Regina, Angelique Kidjo, Cesaria Evora and the list goes on.”

A multiple GRAMMY® winner, Reeves has recorded and performed extensively with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis. She has also recorded with the Chicago

Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim and was a featured soloist with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. In addition, she was the first Creative Chair for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the first singer to ever perform at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

In what has been a storied, extraordinary career, Beautiful Life features some of the most engaging songs Reeves has ever offered. “Even in a world with much sadness,” says Reeves, “at its essence, life is beautiful, and I wanted to celebrate that which can be easily overlooked.”

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ABOUT THE ARTIST NEIL SEDAKA Singer. Songwriter. Composer. Pianist.

Author. These are just a few of the titles that can be used to describe Neil Sedaka. His impressive 50-year career ranges from being one of the first teen pop sensations of the ’50s, a relevant songwriter for himself and other artists in the ’60s, and a superstar in the ’70s, remaining a constant force in writing and performing presently. This is all thanks to the countless songs he has written, performed and produced that continue to inspire artists and audiences around the world.

Neil Sedaka was born on March 13, 1939. His interest in music began at age 8. It was not rock ’n’ roll but classical music that would shape him into the musician he is today. By the time he was 9, he had already begun his intensive classical piano training at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music. At 16, Arthur Rubinstein voted him as one

of the best New York high school pianists. Eager to gain acceptance from his peers at Abraham Lincoln High School, Sedaka began performing rock ’n’ roll outside of his classical training. It was his introduction to his young neighbor Howard Greenfield that began one of the most prolific songwriting partnerships of the last half-century, which sold 40 million records between 1959-63.

Sedaka and Greenfield became two of the original creators of the “Brill Building” sound in the late ’50s and early ’60s when they were the first to sign with Don Kirshner and Al Nevins at Aldon Music. Sedaka catapulted into stardom after Connie Francis recorded his “Stupid Cupid,” followed by Sedaka and Greenfield’s “Where the Boys Are.” Rhythm and blues stars Clyde McPhatter and LaVern Baker also scored hits with his songs. As a result, Sedaka was able to sign a contract with RCA as a writer and performer of his own material. He soon recorded the chart

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The accolades showered on Neil Sedaka have been numerous.

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toppers “Oh! Carol,” “Calendar Girl,” “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen” and “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and his music became distinguished for a unique recording style involving multi-tracking his own voice.

Due to his many talents as a songwriter, Sedaka was able to prevail during the British Invasion, writing hit songs for Frank Sinatra (“The Hungry Years”), Elvis Presley (“Solitaire”), Tom Jones (“Puppet Man”) and The Fifth Dimension (“Workin’ on a Groovy Thing”).

His journey continued with the release of his album Emergence in 1972. This was the first step of redefining himself as a solo artist. His comeback was further heralded by two songs co-written with Phil Cody, “Bad Blood” and the quintessential “Laughter in the Rain,” both reaching No. 1 on the music charts. He rereleased “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” as a ballad in 1975 and made music history when it reached No. 1 on the charts, becoming the first song recorded in two different versions by the same artist to reach No. 1.

The accolades showered on Sedaka have been numerous. He has been inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, has had a street named after him in his hometown of Brooklyn, and was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Sedaka has been married for 50 years to his wife, Leba, and they have two children: Daughter Dara is a recording artist and vocalist for television and radio commercials, and son Marc is a successful screenwriter in Los Angeles. He has three grandchildren: twin granddaughters Amanda and Charlotte, and grandson Michael.

Sedaka has returned to his classical roots, composing his first symphonic piece, Joie De Vivre, and his first piano concerto, Manhattan Intermezzo. In October 2010, he recorded these two pieces with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London at the famed Air Studios in London.

Laughter in the Rain, the critically acclaimed musical that chronicles Sedaka’s rise, fall and rise again, just concluded its tour through the United

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Kingdom. Produced by Bill Kenwright and Laurie Mansfield, Laughter in the Rain garnered exceptional reviews for Philip Norman’s book and Wayne Smith’s star-making performance in the starring role.

JEFFREY REED, conductor Known for concerts that delicately combine the best in classical and popular music, Jeffrey Reed is generating excitement throughout the entertainment industry for his ability to breathe new life into orchestral programming.

In Seth Godin’s book Small Is the New Big, the bestselling author and marketing guru called Reed’s programming “clever” and praised him for the “totally different way” he approaches orchestral programming. Reed is the creatorproducer of 16 retro concerts, which bring to life popular recordings from the ’40s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s through the use of singers, rock band and orchestra.

In his capacity as a conductor, Reed has worked with a diverse group of entertainers, including Neil Sedaka, Keith Emerson, Glen Campbell, Sandi Patty and Chuck Barris. He has appeared with the Royal Philharmonic at London’s Royal Albert Hall and the symphonies of St. Petersburg, Russia; Busan, South Korea; and Charleston, Alabama and Louisville. In the 2013/14 season, he will conduct the Omaha and Winston-Salem symphonies, and Symphony Orchestra Augusta. Neil Sedaka has invited him to return to London in October 2014 for a repeat engagement with the Royal Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall.

Reed is the founder, music director and conductor of Orchestra Kentucky, and serves as music director of the North Charleston Pops.

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BRANFORD MARSALIS PLAYS JOHN WILLIAMS Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Branford Marsalis, saxophone Timothy McAllister, saxophone

JOHN ADAMS City Noir

The City and Its Double

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Born on February 15, 1947, in Worcester, Massachusetts; currently resides in Berkeley, California City Noir Composed: 2009 First performance: October 8, 2009, in Los Angeles, with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances.

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ity Noir was commissioned as part of Gustavo Dudamel’s high-profile inaugural concert officially marking the start of his tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The score demands an extraordinary degree of technical perfection and virtuosity from its vast ensemble, not to mention unrelentingly focused communication between conductor and orchestra. Just to get it down on paper, Adams needed two manuscript pages (each of 24 staves) to cover the full complement of orchestral parts.

Adams considers City Noir to form the third part of “a triptych of orchestral works that have as their theme the California experience, its landscape and its culture.” The second was an innovative concerto for electric violin, The Dharma at Big Sur, which Adams supplied the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2003 for the opening 24

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of the orchestra’s new, Frank Gehry-designed Disney Concert Hall. El Dorado — a work reflecting on human encroachment on the natural environment, written for San Francisco Symphony in 1991 — represents the first part of this expansive Californian triptych. The experience of writing for the saxophone in City Noir in turn led to Adams’ decision to write his recent Saxophone Concerto for sax player Tim McAllister, who premiered it last August in Sydney.

The composer’s longtime collaborator, the director and librettist Peter Sellars, has referred to The Dharma at Big Sur as Adams’ “first complete California piece, where the final traces of the East Coast are gone.” The result is a portrayal of “the open road in California: artistically, spiritually, socially.”

In contrast to Dharma’s “open road” and El Dorado’s expanses of nature, City Noir finds its impetus in the fevered, sexy, often nocturnally mysterious urban landscape, as well as in the stylishly dangerous images of the city depicted in Hollywood’s post-World War II film noir productions. Adams writes that he found inspiration from reading American historian Kevin Starr’s multi-volume series Americans and the California Dream, in particular the “Black Dahlia” chapter in the volume Embattled Dreams. Starr depicts a milieu of “sensational journalism” and “the dark, eerie chiaroscuro of the Hollywood films that have come to define the period sensibility” of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

As for the “aura” he wanted to capture in City Noir, Adams points specifically to this description by Starr of postwar Los Angeles: “Still, for all its shoddiness, the City of Angels possessed a certain sassy, savvy energy. It was, among other things, a Front Page kind of town where life was lived by many on the edge, and that made for good copy and good film noir.”

At the same time, City Noir is about much more than the sort of atmosphere we might associate with soundtracks to classic films like Kiss Me Deadly or Angel Face. Its ambitious design accommodates an intricate symphonic journey over three movements in which, as Adams puts it, “pockets of high energy…are nested among areas of a more leisurely — one

Adams considers City Noir to form the third part of “a triptych of orchestral works that have as their theme the California experience, its landscape and its culture.”

In the opening minutes of “The City and Its Double,” as Adams titles the first movement, we encounter jittery arabesques of woodwinds and sax amid a changing soundscape, at times expansive and fierce, at others retreating into a private corner to carry on the party with the help of a jazz drummer. It’s impossible to predict what will come next, as the strings beguile with their fitful quest for lyrical effusion but are then overtaken by a thrilling accumulation of momentum at the movement’s climax. Adams says his title refers to the writings of avant-garde

City Noir is scored for piccolo, 3 flutes (3rd doubling 2nd piccolo), 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet), bass clarinet, alto saxophone, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tube, timpani, 5 percussionists, piano celesta, 2 harps and strings.

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theater artist Antonin Artaud, who stressed the vitality of experience as a foil to convention.

“Hence my ‘city,’ ” writes the composer, “can be imagined not just as geographic place or even as a social nexus, but rather as a source of inexhaustible sensual experience.”

A sudden drop in the fever pitch leads to the slow second movement, “The Song Is for You,” a kind of riff on Adams’ notion of longlimbed “hyper-melody” — melody that builds incrementally and flows at extravagant, leisured length. The sax yields to bluesy, sensual solo trombone for what Adams describes as “a ‘talking’ solo, in the manner of the great Ellington soloists Lawrence Brown and Britt Woodman (both, fittingly enough, Angelenos).” A contrast emerges in a shorter “pocket” of roiling energy before space is made for additional soliloquies, this time by smoky viola and horn.

One classic L.A. cinematic reference Adams evokes in the final movement, “Boulevard Night,” is the Chinatown-like trumpet solo that lofts itself from the reflective nocturnal shimmering of the first minute or so. But this is a movement of distinctly contradictory impulses. Soon Adams is recalling the seismic pulsations and jagged accents of The Rite of Spring, while the solo sax tries to tame this raw energy with a refrain of theatrical seduction: night music in a city where night is equally erotic and threatening. “The music should have the slightly disorienting effect of a very crowded boulevard peopled with strange characters, like those of a David Lynch film,” writes Adams, “the kind who only come out very late on a very hot night.”

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could even say “cinematic” — lyricism.”

The composer adds that one stylistic reference point is “the bona fide genre of jazz-inflected symphonic music, a fundamentally American orchestral style and tradition that goes back as far as the early 1920s.” Two Georges who come to mind are George Gershwin, naturally, but also George “Bad Boy of Music” Antheil and his polystylistic A Jazz Symphony of 1925. Moreover, Adams calls for an enormous instrumental palette, with five percussionists and a jazz drummer presiding over what amounts to a miniature orchestra of their own, including tuned gongs, vibraphones, chimes and so on. His mastery of orchestration allows for the layered effect of City Noir in its most energetic passages — multiple simultaneous currents of energy — as well as a wealth of solo spotlights, with the alto saxophone contributing a signature flavor to the score.

Along with these elements, Adams continues to develop the dense, expressive harmonic language and rhythmic complexity explored in his 2005 opera Doctor Atomic and its orchestral spinoff, the Doctor Atomic Symphony. The improvisatory feeling of certain passages in City Noir — especially in the second movement — belies the careful tailoring of Adams’ unique formal design, which here revolves around his dramatically attuned pacing of activity and climax, as well as shifting orchestral textures.

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Born on March 5, 1887, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; died on November 17, 1959, in Rio de Janeiro Fantasia for Saxophone and Small Orchestra Composed: 1948 First performance: November 17, 1951, in Rio de Janeiro, with Waldemar Szilman as the soloist and the composer conducting.

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

Estimated length: 12 minutes

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t wasn’t until the year after Heitor Villa-Lobos was born that his native Brazil legally abolished slavery. It’s therefore easy to imagine what an era of revolutionary change was under way as the young musician came of age in Rio de Janeiro.

Villa-Lobos absorbed the idioms of everyday, popular music as an active participant: He earned a living playing cello as a cafe musician for a time. As early as 1905 — a few years before Béla Bartók began his own field research — VillaLobos began collecting examples of folk music in the northeastern states of his native Brazil.

His excursions there provided fodder for endless colorful tales of adventure, including his alleged capture by cannibals. (These tales have met with a good share of skepticism.)

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Villa-Lobos liked to play up the nonacademic aspect of his approach to composition, despite the fact that he did study at the National Institute of Music in Rio and later even became the architect of a system of music education that has had a profound impact on Brazil’s cultural life.

“My music is natural, like a waterfall” is a typical pronouncement.

The quest to integrate indigenous Brazilian elements fueled Villa-Lobos across his stunningly prolific career. At times this led to innovative approaches to form as well as function as he sought alternatives to European classical tradition.

Villa-Lobos did, however, suffer a blow to his reputation by devoting his services as a musical patriot to the authoritarian regime of the dictator Getúlio Vargas.

Still, in the 1940s Villa-Lobos was riding a wave of international recognition and paid several important visits to the United States. He had dealings with Hollywood (later writing music that was used in the film score for the Audrey Hepburn film Green Mansions), and in 1948 his musical/folk operetta Magdalena opened on Broadway. It was the most expensive show to have been produced on Broadway up to that time, but it was forced to close early on account of a musicians’ strike. That same year saw the composition of the Fantasia. Curiously, he wrote it, without a commission, for the French classical saxophonist Marcel Mule (its dedicatee), who seems to have been uninterested in the work.

Even so, the Fantasia has become one of the most popular pieces in the literature for saxophone and has attracted quite a few advocates from the world of jazz.

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R Villa-Lobos’ title suggests a free-form fantasy, though he casts the work in three brief movements along the lines expected for a concerto (fast — slow — fast). Originally written for soprano saxophone, it was premiered (and transposed down a tone) by a soloist using a tenor instrument. The Fantasia showcases different aspects of the saxophone, from the passagework of rapid ascending and descending gestures for the first theme to the richly expressive legato of

This time he starts low in the strings with the dance-like, rhythmically catching main theme, splayed over a 7/4 meter. He ends with something like a musical joke, as all this energy finally slams up against a defiantly unresolved triple-fff chord.

In addition to solo saxophone, the Fantasia is scored for a chamber ensemble of 3 horns and strings.

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J OH N TOWN E R WIL L IAM S Born on February 8, 1932, in Floral Park, New York; currently resides in Los Angeles Escapades Composed: 2002 First performance: March 21, 2003, with Carl Topilow conducting the Cleveland Pops Orchestra First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances.

Estimated length: 13 minutes

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he music of John Williams figures somewhere in the soundtrack of many of our lives. To have escaped hearing the themes from Star Wars, Jaws, the Indiana Jones films, E.T., the Harry Potter series and so many other movies over the past several decades would have essentially required living in a cave, shut off from all contact with the culture at large. His long-term partnership with Steven Spielberg has resulted in many iconic scores, while Williams’ entire catalogue of film scores adds up to more than 100; he has an even larger number of television scores to his credit. In 2005 the American Film Institute named his score for the first Star Wars the greatest American film score of all time. (He holds three positions on their top 25 list — more than any of his peers.)

Williams grew up with the sounds of jazz

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the second theme, which gets the lion’s share of attention in the first movement and is later ornamented with more fleet-fingered gestures.

The chromatically slithering melody introduced at the slow movement’s outset by solo viola is passed on to the saxophone, establishing a languid, nocturnal mood. The horn harmonies and tapping string rhythms underscore the echoes here of French Impressionism. Without pause, Villa-Lobos leads into the highly animated finale.

as part of his regular musical environment. His father was a percussionist with the Raymond Scott Quintette. (Music has continued to be a professional occupation for two more generations of the Williams family.) After studying in Los Angeles and a stint conducting and arranging music for the U.S. Air Force Band while in the services, Williams continued training at Juilliard.

He kept the paychecks coming in by playing jazz piano in city nightclubs.

Alongside his incredibly productive career writing music for Hollywood — where he started in the late 1950s — Williams has flourished as a composer of concert music and as a conductor, enjoying an especially close tie with the Boston Pops Orchestra as their music director and (currently) laureate conductor. Concertos figure prominently among his concert works, many

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of them inspired by particular musicians he has worked with. The saxophonist Dan Higgins, for example, played on the soundtrack recording of Catch Me If You Can, the source for Escapades.

Starring Leonardo Di Caprio as the dazzling young con artist Frank Abagnale, the 2002 Spielberg film Catch Me If You Can recounts Frank’s real-life adventures eluding an FBI agent eager to nab him. (It also recently spawned a nonWilliams project, a musical with the same name as the film, which hit Broadway in 2011.) Escapades, therefore, braids together Williams’ work as a film and concert composer. Whether you regard it as a condensed saxophone concerto or a concert suite featuring solo alto saxophone, Escapades draws from his Academy Award-nominated score for the film and features the distinctive jazz sound found there, in contrast to the more neo-romantic scores for which Williams is so well known.

W H AT TO LIST E N F OR Like John Adams, Williams was inspired to evoke an earlier era through recognizable sound signatures — in this case, “the now nostalgically tinged 1960s,” as he writes, which he sought to tap into by composing “a sort of impressionistic memoir of the progressive jazz movement that was then so popular. The alto saxophone seemed the ideal vehicle for this expression.”

He continues: “In ‘Closing In’ [the first of three movements], we have music that relates to the often humorous sleuthing which took place in the story, followed by ‘Reflections,’ which refers to the fragile relationships in Abagnale’s broken family. Finally, in ‘Joy Ride,’ we have the music that accompanied Frank’s wild flights of fantasy that took him all around the world before the law finally reined him in.”

In addition to solo saxophone, Escapades is scored for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, optional tenor saxophone, 2 bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussionists, harp, piano and strings.

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GEORGE GERSHWIN

Born on September 26, 1898, in Brooklyn, New York; died on July 11, 1937, in Los Angeles, California An American in Paris Composed: 1928 First performance: December 13, 1928, in New York, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony First Nashville Symphony performance: February 16, 1954, with Music Director Guy Taylor Estimated length: 16 minutes

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ong before record companies had dreamed up crossover marketing strategies, George Gershwin was applying his vast talent across the musical spectrum, from American popular song to the concert hall and opera house. Gershwin’s superb gift for melody had led some to pigeonhole him as a songwriter who wasn’t at ease with the larger forms of classical music. (A century before that, the composer Franz Schubert, who had also first become recognized for his songwriting skills, faced a very similar situation.) But a crucial aspect of Gershwin’s legacy was to marry a personal style that had been shaped by popular idioms with

title includes a sly comment on his own musical journey as an American attempting to take on the great classical traditions. But, as Gershwin pointed out, his intent isn’t to force the listener to picture specific images: “The rhapsody is programmatic only in a general impressionistic way, so that the individual listener can read into the music such as his imagination pictures for him.”

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R Unlike Rhapsody, Gershwin orchestrated An American in Paris himself — even including such unusual elements as a trio of saxophones and taxi horns, which the composer painstakingly procured to bring back with him for the premiere.

The busily striding rhythms opening the piece drop us into the scene instantly (with those taxi horns soon adding authentic local color). The brash energy of the start seems to suggest we are indeed seeing things from the American’s point of view. Gershwin plays with his main thematic ideas, mixing in snatches of French popular song from these giddy pre-Depression years.

Sometimes they take a more reflective or — in an alluring passage for solo violin and celesta — seductive turn. Paris puts all its charms on display.

The music then takes a turn toward the blues, unmistakably announced by the wailing trumpet and a new rhythmic pattern underneath.

Gershwin tells us that “our American friend, perhaps after strolling into a café and having a couple of drinks, has succumbed to a spasm of homesickness.” The harmonies appropriately become more emotion-drenched. Gershwin builds this blues interlude to a magnificent climax.

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ambitious formats associated with the classical orchestra and — in his crowning achievement, Porgy and Bess — with opera.

It’s all the more amazing to realize that Gershwin pursued his concert music on one track while simultaneously creating a string of works for the musical theater —a pattern that Leonard Bernstein would repeat a few decades later. As a classical composer, Gershwin had exploded onto the scene in 1924 with the enormous public success of Rhapsody in Blue, which mixes jazz and classical elements. Gershwin originally composed Rhapsody for solo piano and jazz band. (The more familiar version was orchestrated by another composer, Ferde Grofé.) Walter Damrosch, a legendary director of the New York Philharmonic, was so impressed he immediately commissioned a full-scale piano concerto, the Concerto in F. An American in Paris followed in 1928, and was likewise a commission from the New York Philharmonic. It drew on the composer’s recent experiences living abroad. Gershwin, largely selftaught, had decided to go to Paris — at the time an epicenter of creativity and innovative thinking in classical music — to study classical traditions, having struck up a friendship with composer Maurice Ravel (who was in turn directly inspired by the young American).

Gershwin decided to fulfill his new symphony commission with a one-movement work in the manner of a tone poem — that is, a piece for orchestra in which the music is related to an external narrative, usually literary or autobiographical. This form allowed Gershwin free play to write what he styled a “rhapsodic ballet” so as “to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris, as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.” The work’s

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decidedly less nostalgic reappearance. Gershwin then notes that “the homesick American, having left the café and reached the open air, has disowned his spell of the blues and once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life.” The cheerfully extroverted music from the opening returns, while Gershwin mixes in the blues tune one more time, and the American heads back into the bright city lights.

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An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes (3rd doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 3 saxophones, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, celesta, 4 taxi horns and strings.

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

ABOUT THE ARTISTS BRANFORD MARSALIS, saxophone NEA Jazz Master, renowned GRAMMY® Award‐winning saxophonist and Tony Award® nominee Branford Marsalis is one of the most revered instrumentalists of his time. Leader of one of the finest jazz quartets today, and a frequent soloist with classical ensembles, Maralis has become increasingly sought after as a featured soloist with such acclaimed orchestras as the Chicago, Detroit, Düsseldorf and North Carolina Symphonies and the Boston Pops, with a growing repertoire that includes compositions by Copland, Debussy, Glazunov, Ibert, Mahler, Milhaud, Rorem and Vaughn Williams. Making his first appearance with the New York Philharmonic in the summer of 2010, Marsalis was again invited to join them as soloist in their 2010/11 concert series, where he unequivocally demonstrated his versatility and prowess, bringing “a gracious poise and supple tone…and an insouciant swagger” (The New York Times). Whether onstage, in the recording studio, in the classroom or in the community, Marsalis embodies a commitment to musical 30

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excellence and a determination to keep music at the forefront.

Marsalis’ propensity for innovative and forward-thinking compels him to seek new and challenging works by modern classical composers such as Scottish composer Sally Beamish, who, after hearing him perform her composition The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone at the 2006 North Sea Jazz Festival, was inspired to reconceive a piece in progress, Under the Wing of the Rock, which he premiered as part of the Celtic Connections festival in Beamish’s home country of Scotland in January 2009.

Having gained initial acclaim through his work with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and his brother Wynton’s quintet in the early 1980s, Marsalis also performed and recorded with a who’s-who of jazz giants including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins. He has also collaborated with such diverse artists as Sting, the Grateful Dead and Bruce Hornsby. His expansive interests are further reflected in his explorations in film, radio and television. Dedicated to music education, Marsalis has shared his knowledge at such universities as Michigan State, San Francisco State, Stanford and North Carolina Central, where his full quartet participated in an innovative extended residency.

Marsalis continues to be an artist-in-residence on the NCCU campus.

TIMOTHY MCALLISTER, saxophone Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the foremost saxophonists of his generation,” Timothy McAllister is a champion of contemporary music, credited with more than 150 premieres of new compositions by eminent and emerging composers worldwide. His solo, orchestral and chamber music recordings appear on the Naxos, Albany, Stradivarius, Summit, OMM, New Focus Recordings, Centaur, Equilibrium and Innova labels. He has been featured on National Public Radio, Dutch National Radio, BBC, WQXR-NYC, WFMTChicago and various PBS affiliates throughout the United States.

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in the Deutsche Grammophon DVD release of the world premiere of John Adams’ City Noir, filmed as part of Gustavo Dudamel’s inaugural concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

In August 2013, he presented the World Premiere of John Adams’ Saxophone Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer in the Sydney Opera House, with subsequent U.S. premieres with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and St. Louis Symphony, and a recording on the Nonesuch label. Upcoming solo engagements include the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony, among others.

An accomplished teacher of his instrument, McAllister serves as professor of saxophone and co-director of the Institute for New Music at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music in Evanston/Chicago, and has enjoyed visiting positions at the University of Michigan School of Music, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris and Tokyo’s Kunitachi College of Music.

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Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Nashville Symphony Chorus Kelly Corcoran, chorus director Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano Stephen Powell, baritone Nolan Harvel, boy soprano LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms

Psalm 108: 2; Psalm 100

Psalm 23; Psalm 2: 1-4

Psalm 131; Psalm 133: 1

Nolan Harvel, boy soprano Nashville Symphony Chorus

SAMUEL BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano INTERMISSION

Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 [A German Requiem]

Selig sind, die da Leid tragen

[Blessed are they that mourn]

Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras

[For all flesh is as grass]

Herr, lehre doch mich, daß ein Ende mit mir haben muß

[Lord, make me to know mine end,

and the measure of my days]

Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth!

[How lovely is thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts]

Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit

[And ye now therefore have sorrow]

Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt

[For here we have no continuing city]

Selig sind die Toten, die in dem Herrn sterben

[Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord

from henceforth] Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano Stephen Powell, baritone Nashville Symphony Chorus

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Born on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts; died on October 14, 1990, in New York City Chichester Psalms Composed: 1965 First performance: July 15, 1965, in New York, with Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic First Nashville Symphony performance: March 11-12, 1968, with Music Director Thor Johnson and boy alto Willis Farris Estimated length: 18 minutes

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n his series of Norton Lectures delivered in the 1970s at Harvard University, Leonard Bernstein referred at great length to “the crisis in music” — the struggle between 20th-century modernism and the centuries of Western tradition that had built a shared musical civilization. Bernstein likened this to the “crisis of faith” he regarded as likewise emblematic of our tormented modern era. Chichester Psalms is a work that joyfully manages to find a way beyond both crises, if only as a brief respite in a troubled time.

In 1965 Bernstein took a sabbatical from his post leading the New York Philharmonic to focus on composition; the last work he’d managed to complete had been the somber Symphony No. 3

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(“Kaddish”) in 1963, dedicated to the memory of the recently slain President Kennedy. Interestingly, both that work and Chichester Psalms set Hebrew texts to music. Bernstein’s intention had been to return to the theater by composing a new Broadway musical based on Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Skin of Our Teeth, but that project fell through, enabling him to accept a commission from the dean of Chichester Cathedral in Sussex, England, for its 1965 music festival. Dean Walter Hussey wrote to Bernstein suggesting he write in his popular style, feeling free to include “a hint of West Side Story.”

Bernstein responded with a setting of Psalms 100, 23 and 131, with additional excerpts from Psalms 108, 2 and 133 to frame them. His original working title, Psalms of Youth, points to the rejuvenating aspects of the score. The preface states that “the soprano and alto parts are written with boys’ voices in mind” (though he does allow for performances with women’s voices), and that the long solo in the middle movement should be sung “by a boy or a countertenor.”

During the sabbatical, Bernstein felt compelled to shoehorn his voice into the “experimental” 12-tone style the “serious” composers of the time were supposed to be producing. But he ended up tossing out what he came up with. “It just wasn’t my music; it wasn’t honest,” he later explained. “The end result was the Chichester Psalms, which is the most accessible, B-flat majorish tonal piece I’ve ever written.”

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R Chichester Psalms reconciles Bernstein’s “serious” and “popular” styles, with frequent overt references to the jazzy energy of Broadway.

The dean’s request for a whiff of West Side Story is granted with a vengeance in the second movement’s setting of Psalm 23 (“The Lord is my shepherd”), when the chorus rudely bursts in with lines from Psalm 2 (“Why do the nations rage?”) set to familiar snatches from that musical. In addition, Bernstein found a place for the unused Skin of Our Teeth sketches in the lyrical solo here.

Each movement becomes longer than the one preceding. The compact first movement begins with an angular phrase that —perhaps

prominence in the instrumental prelude to the third movement. Suddenly Bernstein evokes the reassurance of a Bachian, Lutheran chorale in the a cappella passage before concluding Chichester Psalms with a sustained note of hope in place of crisis — and a plea for universal peace.

SAMUEL BARBER Born on March 9, 1910, in West Chester, Pennsylvania; died on January 23, 1981, in New York City Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 Composed: 1947 First performance: April 9, 1948, with soprano Eleanor Steber and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky First Nashville Symphony performance: March 13, 1951, with Music Director William Strickland and soprano Eileen Farrell.

Estimated length: 16 minutes

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amuel Barber’s most-famous piece of music, the Adagio for Strings (which is actually an arrangement of the slow movement from his first string quartet), is a fixture on iTunes’ top seller lists in classical music. It has also been used to great effect in a number of films to convey a sense of unfathomable tragedy. This ongoing attraction to Barber’s musical language makes sense. His compositions make use of familiar elements and skillfully weave together a powerful web of emotions in unpredictable ways. Most important of all, they sound authentic and sincere, undiluted by cheap sentimentality.

Knoxville: Summer of 1915 was created almost a decade after the first radio broadcast of the Adagio for Strings made Barber a musical star.

In 1947, when he composed Knoxville, the stillfresh trauma of World War II may have directed his thoughts toward the comparative innocence of childhood and of a younger America. (Barber belongs to the subset of composers who served in the military; he was a corporal in the Air Force.)

Barber’s source text is an evocative prose-poem published in 1938 by the writer and film critic James Agee, who was born in Knoxville in 1909.

This had appeared as an independent short story but has since become famous as the preface to Agee’s autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, which was published posthumously in 1957.

Agee made a point of writing this memorypiece as an experiment in improvisation,

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unconsciously — alludes to another great musical work addressing the issue of faith: the opening of Mahler’s choral Eighth Symphony. This thematic cell recurs in the last movement and helps unify the entire choral suite. And while Bernstein relies on well-known choral sonorities and bedrock tonality, he infuses the music with unusually vibrant rhythms.

The hint of menace in the choral outburst of the second movement is overcome by the serene return of the soloist’s melody as the voice of faith wins out. Yet those darker undertones come to

Agee’s piece takes the shape of an almost stream-of-consciousness series of memories of a quiet summer evening in the South, as recalled from an innocent young child’s point of view.

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declaring that he committed it to paper in 90 minutes. Barber similarly chose to approach his musical setting as a “lyric rhapsody.” He wanted the overall design to suggest a relatively informal, spontaneous work, one in which the music shifts easily from one mood to another.

Agee’s piece takes the shape of an almost streamof-consciousness series of memories of a quiet summer evening in the South, as recalled from an innocent young child’s point of view. At times, however, the child seems to meet up with his mature self, who recalls a past now vanished. It’s interesting to note that both Barber and Agee were separated by just a few months in age.

Though the former was a Yankee who grew up in Pennsylvania, Agee’s memories of the era must have struck a familiar chord.

Years before creating Knoxville, Samuel Barber set James Agee’s poem “Sure on This Shining Night” as the final number of his Four Songs, Op. 13, published in 1940. The biographer Barbara Heyman notes that this song remained so popular that Barber was able to convince a New York City telephone operator of his identity — he had just moved into a new apartment in 1979 and needed to find out the new number assigned him — by singing the song’s opening, one of her favorites.

Barber didn’t meet the Tennessee-born poet until after he had composed Knoxville, but the two struck up a friendship. The composer even hoped to collaborate with Agee on an opera. He later recalled that Agee “had certain ideas that were interesting, but [he] could never get them down on paper…. I never could pin him down.

Then he became awfully interested in films.”

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sequence of contrasting feelings. At the same time, Barber subtly reinforces connections among the child’s remembered impressions through recurrent thematic ideas. Knoxville begins with a solemn, prayer-like passage for the woodwinds, which later returns when the child/narrator prays for his family. It soon leads into a reassuringly rocking melody. Note Barber’s ongoing musical commentary on Agee’s precise images. For example, he not only illustrates the image of the “people who sit on their porches, rocking gently” but turns this into the backdrop for the soprano’s fresh melody.

When the music suddenly speeds up, it becomes agitated. The soloist reenters the soundscape with a memory of “a streetcar raising its iron moan.” Barber underscores this symbol of modernism encroaching on an idyllic past through the use of intrusive and impatient rhythms and a wider harmonic range. But the singer then assumes an air of serenity, and the reassuring, lullaby-like rocking returns.

The woodwinds then develop a poignant new melodic idea, bringing back the “prayer” music that opened Knoxville. The child’s vision of his small body against the stars leads to cosmic thoughts of aloneness in the universe. Barber’s own father was dying as he wrote this score, and he introduces a heartfelt tone of pathos at the words “my father who is good to me.” Here the older self confronts the child just beginning to contemplate the possibility of death.

Barber again returns to the rocking melody for the final section. The weightier guise he gives this now familiar melody touchingly suggests the child’s dawning sense that the blissful memory of togetherness — the source of security in the prose-poem — is destined to endure only as a memory.

Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is scored for solo soprano, flute (doubling piccolo), oboe (doubling English horn), clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, trumpet, harp and strings.

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Born on May 7, 1833, in Hamburg, Germany; died on April 3, 1897, in Vienna Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op. 45

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he 19th century in general was a flourishing era for choral music, particularly in the milieu in which Johannes Brahms came of age. Singing in choral societies provided a significant outlet for a rapidly expanding middle class of music enthusiasts. In fact, besides his image as a concert pianist, it was his work as a choral conductor that provided scaffolding for the young Brahms to build up a reputation. Eventually this led to appointments to serve as the conductor of the influential Singakademie and Singverein choral societies in Vienna.

The conductor and musicologist Leon Botstein remarks that “of all the major composers in the history of music, Brahms was perhaps the only one to have distinguished himself as a choral conductor.” These choral activities also made a strong imprint on Brahms’ emerging identity as a composer. A German Requiem, in fact, represents the largest-scale work with which Brahms gifted posterity. After an initial misstep in a partial earlier unveiling, the world premiere of the mostly complete Requiem in Bremen in 1868 gave Brahms’ fame as a composer a meteoric boost.

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Composed: 1865-68, drawing on some material from the 1850s First performance: Following a performance of six movements in Bremen on April 10, 1868 (Good Friday), the complete seven-movement work was premiered in Leipzig on February 18, 1869, with Carl Reinecke conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Chorus.

First Nashville Symphony performance: March 29, 1949, with Music Director William Strickland, the Nashville Choral Society, soprano Mary Ragland and baritone Richard Rivers.

Estimated length: 70 minutes

just as well have titled A German Requiem “a human Requiem” — and, we might add, a “personal” Requiem. This masterwork of sacred music for the secular concert hall could also be defined as an idiosyncratic cantata that follows an independent formal design. Brahms obviously refers to the liturgical tradition of the Requiem as a way to honor the deceased with music, yet there isn’t a single movement in A German Requiem that corresponds directly to the musical settings familiar from the Latin Mass for the dead. Instead, using Luther’s muscular German translation of the Bible, Brahms crafted his own libretto from an eclectic choice of scriptural and apocryphal sources: the Psalms, Isaiah, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus and the New Testament.

Not that this in itself was unprecedented.

Handel’s Messiah, after all, is the best-known example of a similar approach. (Messiah’s librettist Charles Jensen used scriptural selections to trace the overall Christian narrative of the nativity, passion and resurrection of Jesus.) Similar strategies can be found in Bach and, even earlier, in the Musikalische Exequien of Heinrich Schütz

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(1585-1672), which also anticipates Brahms’ method of selecting texts for a musical memorial.

But Brahms culls his sources in such as way as to steer emphatically clear of dogma.

Just how potentially troubling this was for the orthodox point of view can be gleaned from the advice of Karl Reinthaler, organist of the Bremen Cathedral. Despite his admiration for the Requiem, Reinthaler anxiously remarked: “For the Christian mind, however, there is lacking the point on which everything turns, namely, the redeeming death of Jesus.” A German Requiem turns the focus to consolation of the living rather than pleading for the dead — in other words, to acceptance of the impermanence that is the human condition.

A German Requiem’s genesis was, typically for Brahms, a lengthy one. The original impetus is usually linked to the death in 1856 of his great mentor/father figure, Robert Schumann. Some of Brahms’ ambitious early projects also worked their way into the score, such as the foreboding march music of the second movement, which had once been intended for the epic work that became the D minor Piano Concerto. Later, after the death of his mother in 1865, Brahms added a new movement, which became the fifth movement, for solo soprano.

Meanwhile, Brahms’ work on the score furthered both his intensive involvement in choral conducting and his close study of counterpoint and the musical past. Both Handel and Bach serve as clear musical models for Brahms, and he had also begun to delve further back into history, past the high Baroque, in keeping with his deep reverence for the achievements of the past. The ultimate consolation for human impermanence turns out to be the durability of art, as Brahms would later express in his setting of Schiller’s wonderful line from the choral funeral ode Nänie: “Even to be a song of lament on the lips of a loved one is glorious.” It all makes for a fascinating comparison with Samuel Barber’s vision of living memory in Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

W H AT TO L I ST E N FO R Instead of a heavy encyclopedia of old forms or procedures, this is music that appeals just as much to the heart as it does to the head. There’s no doubt of Brahms’ mastery of formal design here, and this design makes a deep impression.

The chorus first enters, for example, with a simple three-note motif (F-A-B-flat), which functions as a unifying device throughout the score. When, in the final moments, the music of consolation from the first movement boomerangs back, this gesture carries a tremendously moving emotional significance, as if to lift the spirit of the mourners with the promise of memory — a shadow, at least, of immortality in this life.

Brahms enriches this music through his assured balance of reposeful lyricism — could there be a more beautiful example than the solo soprano’s music in the fifth movement? — with drama such as the slow-motion apocalypse of the second-movement march. He turns from homophonic textures to thrillingly animated counterpoint with the knowingness of a master painter brandishing different brush techniques.

His gestures of reassurance avoid sentimental pathos. It’s often pointed out that the fear of damnation expressed by the traditional Dies irae is conspicuously absent here, yet Brahms makes room for its powerful moment of existential dread in the climactic section of the sixth movement.

Steinberg writes eloquently of the synthesis Brahms achieves here between public and private expressions of grief. “The Requiem sets a musical agenda of reconciliation that will inform Brahms’ music from this moment on…,” he writes. “This is the reconciliation of the maternal and the paternal, and of the masculine and the feminine, of the north and the south. It is a cultural achievement as well as a musical one.”

In addition to solo soprano and baritone and a mixed chorus, A German Requiem is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, organ, harp and strings.

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

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STEPHEN POWELL, baritone The dynamic American baritone Stephen Powell brings his “rich, lyric baritone, commanding presence and thoughtful musicianship” (Wall Street Journal) to a wide range of music, from Monteverdi and Handel through Verdi and Puccini to Sondheim and John Adams.

In 2013/14 Powell returns to Los Angeles Opera as Enrico in Lucia di Lammmermoor; to San Diego Opera as Tonio in I Pagliacci; to Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Britten’s War Requiem (also at Carnegie Hall); and to St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Also in 2013/14, he makes his role debut as Falstaff in his debut with Virginia Opera, and he sings Germont in La traviata with Michigan Opera Theatre and with Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.

Stephen Powell’s concert career has seen him perform as soloist in Carmina Burana, Messiah, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Missa Solemnis, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Verdi’s Requiem, Haydn’s The Creation and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Das klagende Lied with such notable organizations as the San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, Dallas, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Rochester symphony orchestras, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, Handel and Haydn Society, and Cathedral Choral Society of Washington, among others.

He has sung under the distinguished batons of such noted conductors as Andrew Litton, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Edo de Waart, Carlos Kalmar, David Zinman and Michael Tilson Thomas. He created the role of Felipe Nuñez in the world premiere of The Conquistador with San Diego Opera, and performed and recorded Bach’s Magnificat with Boston Baroque.

As a recitalist, Powell performs frequently with his wife, soprano Barbara Shirvis, offering three recital programs they created together: “Hearts Afire: Love Songs through the Ages,” “Bellissimo Broadway!” and “American Celebration,” as well as master classes at universities across the U.S. He is an alumnus of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists.

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HEIDI GRANT MURPHY, soprano A shimmering soprano with enchanting stage presence, Heidi Grant Murphy is one of the outstanding vocal talents of her generation.

She has appeared with many of the world’s finest opera companies and symphony orchestras, notably the Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, Frankfurt Opera, Netherlands Opera, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Opera National de Paris and Santa Fe Opera. She has been engaged as soloist with the Vienna, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics; Cleveland, Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras; and Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Atlanta, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Montreal, National and Dallas Symphonies.

Murphy has worked with such esteemed conductors as Roberto Abbado, Christoph Eschenbach, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart, Pinchas Zukerman and the late Robert Shaw.

Murphy’s nearly 25-year-long career with the Metropolitan Opera has seen her play such signature roles as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Sister Constance in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Servilia in Clemenza di Tito and Nanetta in Falstaff. European highlights have included the roles of Anne Truelove in the Netherlands Opera production of The Rake’s Progress; Celia in Lucio Silla at both the Salzburg Festival and Frankfurt Opera; and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Adina in L’Elisir d’Amor and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at the Opera Nationale de Paris.

Murphy has recorded for Koch International, New World, the New York Philharmonic’s private label, Naxos, Delos and Deutsche Grammophon.

In August 2011, she was appointed to the faculty of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music as an adjunct professor of practice. In October 2012, she received an honorary doctorate from Western Washington University, where she pursued a bachelor’s degree in music performance. Murphy resides in Bloomington, Indiana, with her husband Kevin Murphy and their four children.

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KELLY CORCORAN 2013/14 marks Kelly Corcoran’s first season as director of the Nashville Symphony Chorus, following seven seasons with the Nashville Symphony as Associate Conductor. She leads the Chorus during its 50th anniversary, which includes performances of Handel’s Messiah and Brahms’ A German Requiem, along with a guest appearance at the Cincinnati May Festival performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. A member of the Advisory Council for Music Makes Us, Corcoran is spearheading the launch of the Chorus’ new education and community engagement initiative.

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San Francisco Bay Area native Vinay Parameswaran is a 2013 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Otto-Werner Mueller as the Albert M. Greenfield Fellow. This season, he conducted the Curtis Opera Theater in a production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.

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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 March 31, 2014.

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MARTHA RIVERS INGRAM SOCIETY Gifts of $25,000 + David & Diane Black Mr. & Mrs.* Martin S. Brown Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick Mr. & Mrs. Kevin W. Crumbo

Janine & Ben Cundiff Carol & Frank Daniels III Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram Richard & Sharalena Miller

Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III Ms. Taylor Swift

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WALTER SHARP SOCIETY Gifts of $15,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (1) Judy & Joe Barker Russell W. Bates Richard & Judith Bracken Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero

Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Dr. & Mrs. Howard S. Kirshner Dr. Harrell Odom II & Mr. Barry W. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Cano Ozgener

Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth

VIRTUOSO SOCIETY Gifts of $10,000-$14,999 Anonymous (2) Dale & Julie Allen Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey R. Balser Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. Mr.* & Mrs. W. Ovid Collins Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jere M. Ervin

Allis Dale & John Gillmor James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith Ed & Nancy Goodrich Carl & Connie Haley Ellen C. Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Ralph & Donna Korpman Myles & Joan MacDonald

Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt Mr. & Mrs. William Minkoff Jr. Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer Mr. & Mrs. Michael Shmerling

STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. James Ayers Brian & Beth Bachmann J. B. & Carolyn Baker Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup Annie Laurie & Irvin* Berry Mark & Sarah Blakeman Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bottorff Dr. & Mrs.* H. Victor Braren Ann & Frank Bumstead Kelly & Bill Christie Drs. Keith & Leslie Churchwell Mr. & Mrs. Justin Dell Crosslin Hilton & Sallie Dean Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis The Rev. & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller Marty & Betty Dickens Dee & Jerald Doochin Mr. and Mrs. Burton Dye Mr. & Mrs. John W. Eakin Jr. Mrs. Annette S. Eskind The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Marilyn Ezell Ms. Johnna Benedict Ford Tom & Judy Foster

John & Lorelee Gawaluck Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone Mr. & Mrs. C. David Griffin Francis S. Guess Jack & Jill Harmuth William Hester & Titus Daniels Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilton Judith Hodges Mrs. V. Davis Hunt Mr. & Mrs. David B. Ingram Lee Ann & Orrin Ingram Keith & Nancy Johnson Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Anne Knauff Mr. & Mrs. Fred W. Lazenby Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee Jim Lewis John T. Lewis Zachary Liff Robert Straus Lipman Ellen Harrison Martin Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. Sheila & Richard McCarty Edward D. & Linda F. Miles Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Musick Anne & Peter Neff

Mr. Mark E. Nicol Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Odom The Paisley Family Victoria & William Pao Dr. Barron Patterson & Mr. Burton Jablin Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Patton Peggy & Hal Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Eric Raefsky, M.D. & Ms. Victoria Heil Anne & Joe Russell Mr. & Mrs. Scott C. Satterwhite Joe & Dorothy Scarlett Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Schatzlein Mr.* & Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus Ronald & Diane Shafer The Shields Family Foundation Nelson & Sheila Shields Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small Hope & Howard Stringer Mr. & Mrs. Earl S. Swensson Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. Alan D. & Jan L. Valentine Peggy & John Warner Jonathan & Janet Weaver Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin

GOLDEN BATON SOCIETY Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous (2) Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Drs. W. Scott & Paige Akers Shelley Alexander Jon K. & Colleen Atwood Sallie & John Bailey Dr. & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Billy R. Ballard Betty C. Bellamy Mr. & Mrs. Louie A. Belt 54

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Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Dr. & Mrs. Frank H. Boehm Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells Randal & Priscilla Braker Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Buijsman Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt Chuck & Sandra Cagle John E. Cain III Michael & Jane Ann Cain Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack

Jan & Jim* Carell Ann & Sykes Cargile Mr. David Carlton Dr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Carter Michael & Pamela Carter Fred Cassetty Mr. Philip M. Cavender Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler Catherine Chitwood Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Clark

Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons William & Cyndi Sites George & Mary Sloan K. C. & Mary Smythe Jack & Louise Spann Mr. & Mrs. Clark Spoden & Norah Buikstra Christopher & Maribeth Stahl Deborah & James Stonehocker Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III Brett & Meredythe Sweet Mr. & Mrs. Matthew K. Taylor Pamela & Steven Taylor Rich & Carol Thigpin Julie & Scott Thomas Candy Toler Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes Risë & Laurence Tucker Mr. Robert J. Turner Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund Mr. Vince Vinson Kris & G. G. Waggoner Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner Deborah & Mark Wait Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery C. & Dayna L. Walraven Mrs. W. Miles Warfield Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle Art & Lisa Wheeler Mr. Thomas G. B. Wheelock Charles Hampton White Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Jerry & Ernie Williams Mr.& Mrs. Joel Williams Ms. Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Dr. Artmas L. Worthy

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Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach Robert & Carol Lampe Larry & Martha Larkin Mr. & Mrs. John M. Leap Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Ledbetter Jr. Sally M. Levine Red & Shari Martin Ms. Amanda Mathis Tommy & Cat McEwen Mr. & Mrs. Martin F. McNamara III Dr. Arthur M. Mellor F. Max & Mary A. Merrell Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger Mr. & Mrs. Eduardo H. Minardi Christopher & Patricia Mixon Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli Mr. David K. Morgan Ms. Lucy H. Morgan Matt & Rhonda Mulroy James & Patricia Munro Dr. Agatha L. Nolen Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat Dr. Edgar H. Pierce Jr. David & Adrienne Piston Keith & Deborah Pitts Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Priesmeyer Dr. Terryl A. Propper Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus A. Puryear IV Ms. Allison R. Reed & Mr. Sam Garza Jeff & Kim Rice Anne & Charles Roos Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Scott Stephen K. & Patricia L. Seale Dr. & Mrs. John Selby Joan Blum Shayne Bill & Sharon Sheriff

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Dorit & Donald Cochron Ed & Pat Cole Marjorie & Allen* Collins Mr. Brian Cook Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Richard & Sherry Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Daley III Dr. & Mrs. Ben Davis John & Natasha Deane Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington Robert D. Eisenstein David Ellis & Barry Wilker Dr. Noelle Daugherty & Dr. Jack Erter Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ezrin Ms. Paula Fairchild T. Aldrich Finegan Danna & Bill Francis Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas R. Ganick Harris A. Gilbert William & Helen Gleason Kate R. W. Grayken Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Hagood Mr. & Mrs. Arthur S. Hancock Suzy Heer Hemphill Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Scott Hoffman Ken & Pam Hoffman Ms. Cornelia B. Holland Dr. & Mrs. Stephen L. Houff Rodney Irvin Family Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel Donald L. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kestner Robin & Bill King Tom & Darlene Klaritch Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Koban Jr. Ms. Pamela L. Koerner

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (11) Jerry Adams Eric & Shannon Adams James & Glyna Aderhold Jeremy & Rebecca Atack Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Barbara & Mike Barton Mrs. Brenda Bass Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Mrs. Norma M. Bell Bernice Amanda Belue Frank M. Berklacich, MD Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills Mr. David Blackbourn & Ms. Celia Applegate Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dennis & Tammy Boehms Bob & Marion Bogen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III Mr. & Mrs. Gene Bonfoey Jere & Crystal Brassell Berry & Connie Brooks Jean & David Buchanan Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Mrs. Patricia B. Buzzell Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III

Valleau & Robert M. Caruthers Ms. Pamela Casey Anita & Larry Cash Dr. Elizabeth Cato Mary & Joseph Cavarra Dr.* & Mrs. Robert Chalfant Erica & Doug Chappell Barbara & Eric Chazen Donna R. Cheek Mrs. John Hancock Cheek Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher George D. Clark Jr. Jay & Ellen Clayton Sallylou & David Cloyd Esther & Roger Cohn Chase Cole Charles J. Conrick III Joe & Judy Cook Paul & Alyce Cooke Teresa Corlew & Wes Allen Nancy Krider Corley Mr. & Mrs. James H. Costner Roger & Barbara Cottrell Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert Drs. Paul A. & Dorothy Valcarcel Craig Dr. & Mrs. W. Morgan Crawford, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie M. Maitland DeLand, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Daryl Demonbreun Mrs. Edwin DeMoss LeeAnne & Carl Denney Peter & Kathleen Donofrio Laura L. Dunbar Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden E.B.S. Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Dr. Christopher & Wendy Ellis Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Mr. Owen T. Embry Laurie & Steven Eskind Bill & Dian S. Ezell Mr. & Mrs. DeWitt Ezell Alex & Terry Fardon Mrs. Nancye Feistritzer Mr. & Mrs. John Ferguson W. Tyree Finch Ms. Deborah F. Turner & Ms. Beth A. Fortune Drs. Robert* & Sharron Francis Ms. Bettie D. Fuller Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Peter & Debra Gage

The Nashville Symphony would like to express sincere thanks and appreciation to the musicians and staff for their contributions. Through their extraordinary sacrifices, hard work and unwavering dedication, every member of our organization is helping to build a sustainable institution committed to serving our entire community through great music and education programs.

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Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins John & Eva Gebhart Ted M. George Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III Frank Ginanni Mr. & Mrs. Andrew W. Gnyp Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Goad Jr. Nancy & Gerry Goffinet Mr. C. Stanley Golden & Ms. Andrea J. Barrett Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Dr. & Mrs. James D. Green Dr. & Mrs. Allen F. Gwinn The Evelyn S. & Jim Horne Hankins Foundation Janet & Jim Hasson Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Ms. Doris Ann Hendrix Kem & Marilyn Hinton Dr. Elisabeth Dykens & Dr. Robert Hodapp Ms. Susan S. Holt Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Ray Houston Hudson Family Foundation Donna & Ronn Huff Albert C. Hughes Jr. & Charlotte E. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Huljak Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Marsha & Keel Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Irby Sr. Bud Ireland Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Ellen & Kenneth Jacobs Janet & Philip Jamieson Lee & Pat Jennings George & Shirley Johnston Mary Loventhal Jones Mrs. Robert N. Joyner Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Kelly Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Ms. Linda R. Koon Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Bob & Mary LaGrone Mr. Okey M. Landers Richard & Diane Larsen Kevin & May Lavender Sandi & Tom Lawless Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lea IV Jan & Daniel Lewis Don & Patti Liedtke Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lipman Mrs. John N. Lukens George & Cathy Lynch

William R. & Maria T. MacKay Joe & Anne Maddux James & Gene Manning Rhonda A. Martocci & William S. Blaylock Steve & Susie Mathews Lynn & Jack May Bob Maynard Joey & Beth McDuffee Mrs. Arlene McLaren Dr. Stephen Y. McLeod-Bryant Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. McRae III Ronald S. Meers Drs. Manfred & Susan Menking Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Mericle Diana & Jeff Mobley Dr. & Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt Patricia & Michael Moseley Juli & Ralph Mosley Margaret & David Moss Mrs. Betty W. Mullens Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. Lannie W. Neal Mr. & Mrs. F.I. Nebhut Jr. Robert Ness Leslie & Scott Newman Mr. & Mrs.* Douglas Odom Jr. Ms. Divina Ontiveros Dan & Helen Owens David & Pamela Palmer Mrs. Nan N. Parrish Grant & Janet Patterson Drs. Teresa & Phillip Patterson Linda & Carter Philips Mr. Charles H. Potter Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Potter Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Prill Brad S. Procter Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Franco & Cynthia Recchia Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Mr. & Mrs. John A. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland Mary Rolando Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins Georgianna W. Russell David Sampsell Paula & Kent Sandidge Mr. & Mrs. Jay Sangervasi Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter Mrs. Cooper M. Schley Peggy C. Sciotto Mr. & Mrs. John L. Seigenthaler Mr.* & Mrs. Robert K. Sharp Anita & Mike Shea Mr. & Mrs. Richard Shearer Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar

Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas A. Sieveking Sr. Luke & Susan Simons Tom & Sylvia Singleton Drs. Walter E. Smalley Jr. & Louise Hanson Dr. & Mrs. Geoffrey H. Smallwood Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith Suzanne & Grant Smothers Mr. & Mrs. James H. Spalding Mickey M. & Kathleen Sparkman Dr. & Mrs. Norman Spencer Dr. Michael & Tracy Stadnick Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Bill & Linda Suchman Bruce & Elaine Sullivan Gayle Sullivan Johanna & Fridolin Sulser James B. & Patricia B. Swan Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor William & Rebecca Taylor Dr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Thomas Marcus & Patti Thompson Mr. Dwight D. Thrash Mr. Mark Tillinger Dr. Gary Tizard Norman & Marilyn Tolk Joe & Ellen Torrence Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Martha J. Trammell Thomas L. & Judith A. Turk Mr. & Mrs. William E. Turner Jr. Bradley & Karen Vandermolen Larry & Brenda Vickers David Coulam & Lucy A. Visceglia Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Mr. David Walker Mike & Elaine Walker Mr. & Mrs. Martin H. Warren Talmage M. Watts Erin Wenzel Mr. & Mrs. James W. White Stacy Widelitz Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wieck Adam & Laura Wilczek Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenk Donald E. Williams Judy S. Williams Shane & Laura Willmon Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II Mr. & Mrs. D. Randall Wright Mr. Matthew W. Wyatt Gail & Richard Yanko Mr. Payton H. Young Ms. Jane Zeigler Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Zigli

CONCERTMASTER Gifts of $500 - $999 Anonymous (21) Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Abelman Jeff & Tina Adams Eddie & RenĂŠ Alexander Carol M. Allen Ken Altman Andy & Karen Anderson Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Geralda M. Aubry Mr. & Mrs. James E. Auer Richard W. Baker Mr. Randall B. Ball Susan F. & Paul J. Ballard Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Mr. & Mrs. Craig Becker Mr. Jason Bennett Mike & Kathy Benson Dr. Joel Birdwell Ralph & Jane Black Mr. John Blanton 56

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Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Irma Bolster Mary K. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Beverly J. Brandenburg Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Mary Lawrence Breinig Dr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Bressman Anastasia Brown Bob & Leslie Brown Thomas K. Brown Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Mr. & Mrs. G. Rhea Bucy Mr. & Mrs. Edward A. Burgess Sharon Lee Butcher Dr. & Mrs. Grady Butler William & Mary Callahan Mr. & Mrs. David E. Campbell Mr. Thomas R. Campion Mr. & Mrs. Luther Cantrell Jr. Michael & Linda Carlson

Bill & Chris Carver Mr. & Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Mr.* & Mrs. James W. Chamberlain John & Susan Chambers M. Wayne Chomik Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen The Honorable & Mrs. Lewis H. Conner Mike & Sandy Cooper Elizabeth Cormier Marion Pickering Couch Richard & Marcia Cowan Chuck & Jackie Cowden Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Craig Dr. Robert Crants III Ms. R. Suzanne Cravens Mr. & Mrs. Rob Crichton Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Cruickshanks Jr. Ms. Susannah C. Culbertson Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Davenport

Paul & Gerda Resch Candace Mason Revelette Barbara Richards Mrs. Jean Richardson Mary Riddle Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Roberts Dr. Julie A. Roe Fran C. Rogers W. Don Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Dr. James Roth Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Rowan Dr.* & Mrs. Kenneth Rutherford Samuel L. & Barbara Sanders Philip & Jane Sanderson Dr. Glynis Sandler & Dr. Martin Sandler Molly & Richard Schneider Mr. & Mrs. Hank Schomber Dr. Kenneth E. Schriver & Dr. Anna W. Roe Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott Mr. Roderick Scruggs Drs. Fernando F. & Elena O. Segovia Odessa L. Settles Max & Michelle Shaff Paul & Celeste Shearer Mr. & Mrs. Alan Sielbeck Pamela Sixfin Ashley N. Skinner Mr. Wesley A. Skinner Smith Family Foundation Robert B. Smith Dr. Robert Smith & Barbara Ramsey Ruth & William Smith Mr. James E. Snider Jr. Marc & Lorna Soble Ms. Maggie P. Speight Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Ms. Karen G. Sroufe Mrs. Randolph C. St. John Gloria & Paul Sternberg Jr. CAPT & Mrs. Charles E. Stewart Jr. Catherine Stober & James McAteer Mr. & Mrs. William T. Stroud Craig & Dianne Sussman Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Taylor Eugene & Penny Te Selle Dr. Paul E. Teschan Mr. Michael P. Tortora Mr. Lloyd Townsend Jr. Mila & Bill Truan Monty Holmes & Van Tucker Christi & Jay Turner Ms. Tammi Turner Mr. & Mrs. Mike Vaden Ms. Rita R. Vann Curt & Kay Wallen Dr. & Mrs. John J. Warner Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Warner Jr. Lawrence & Karen Washington Gayle & David Watson Mrs. James A. Webb Jr. Dr. Medford S. Webster Beth & Arville Wheeler Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wheeler David W. White Linda & Raymond White Jonna & Doug Whitman Alyson Wideman Mrs. Marie Holman Wiggins Mr. & Mrs. David M. Wilds Mr. Robert S. Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Williams Vicki Gardine Williams Gary & Cathy Wilson The Rev. & Mrs. H. David Wilson Greg & Debbie Wolf Edward* & Mary E. Womack Mr. Peter Wooten & Ms. Renata Soto Gary & Marlys Wulfsberg Patrick & Phaedra Yachimski Dr. Michael Zanolli & Julie K. Sandine Roy & Ambra Zent

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Judy & Lewis Lefkowitz Mr. David C. Lehman Jr. Michael & Ellen Levitt Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Lind Dr. & Mrs. John L. Lloyd Mr. & Mrs. Denis Lovell J. Edgar Lowe Drs. Amy & George Lynch Michael & State Representative Susan Lynn Mr. & Mrs. Phil Lyons Herman & Dee Maass Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Macdonald Mr. & Mrs. Don MacLachlan Mrs. Jeannine G. Manes Dr. John F. Manning Jr. David & Leah Marcus Lee Marsden James & Patricia Martineau Abraham, Lesley & Jonathan Marx Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Mr. & Mrs. Henry C. McCall Joanne Wallace McCall Peg & Al McCree Mary & Don McDowell Mr. Brian L. McKinney Mrs. Heidi L. McKinney Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Randy & Edina McMasters Catherine & Brian R. McMurray Ed & Tracy McNally Sam & Sandra McSeveney Ms. Virginia J. Meece Linda & Ray Meneely Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether Dr. & Mrs. Philip G. Miller Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent B. Millspaugh Dr. Jere Mitchum Anthony & Ariane Montemuro Ms. Gay Moon Beth & Paul Moore Mr. Thomas P. Moran Cynthia & Richard Morin Steve & Laura Morris Lynn Morrow Dick & Mary Jo Murphy Lucille C. Nabors Teresa & Mike Nacarato Larry & Marsha Nager William & Kathryn Nicholson Mr. Brian M. Norris Jane K. Norris Virginia O'Brien Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr. Mr. Sergio Ora Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page James & Jeanne Pankow Dr. C. Lee Parmley Mr. & Mrs. M. Forrest Parmley Dr. & Mrs. C. Leon Partain Ms. Lisa Pasho-Coughlin John W. & Mary Patterson Dr. & Mrs. Joel Q. Peavyhouse Dr. & Mrs. A. F. Peterson Jr. Claude Petrie Jr. Mary & Joe Rea Phillips Faris & Robert Phillips CW Pinson, M.D., MBA Ms. Sheila F. Pirkle Gaynelle Pitner* Mr. John Pope Dr. & Mrs. James L. Potts Mr. & Mrs. Alvin C. Powers John & Fiona Prine Ms. Belinda A. Pulley George & Joyce Pust Dr. James Quiggins Mr. Edwin B. Raskin Dr. Amos Raymond Mrs. Ida D. Read Ms. Bonnie D. Reagan

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Maria Gabriella Giro & Jeff Davidson Janet Keese Davies Steve Sirls & Allen DeCuyper Mr. Daniel A. DeFigio Anne R. Dennison Drs. Clint & Jessica Devin Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Tom & Leslie DiNella Karen & Steven Good Mr. Newton Dominey Josephine Doubleday Tere & David Dowland Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Drake Mrs. Sheila D. Duke Michael & Beverly Dunn Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Dr. & Mrs. James E. Edwards Mrs. Clara Elam Mr. & Mrs. William H. Eskind Robert & Cassandra Estes Dr. & Mrs. James Ettien Edgar & Kim Evins Jr. Dr. John & Janet Exton Ms. Marilyn Falcone Laurie & Ron Farris Dr. Kimberly D. Ferguson Ms. Fern Fitzhenry Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer & Family Denise Foote Mr. & Mrs. David B. Foutch Ann D. Frisch Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Frist Jr. Robert & Peggy Frye Suzanne J. Fuller Bill & Ginny Gable William Joyce & Anderson Gaither Mr. & Mrs. George C. Garden Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Mr. & Mrs. Stewart J. Gilchrist Mark Glazer & Cynthia Stone Mr. Benjamin L. Gordon Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Gould Bryan D. Graves Roger & Sherri Gray Richard A. Green Cathey & Doug Hall Dr. & Mrs. Carl Hampf Dr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hardy Cindy Harper Kent & Becky Harrell Mary & Paul Harvey Mr. & Mrs. Evans Harvill Dr. & Mrs. Jason Haslam Dr. Gerald & Mary Hausman David & Judith Slayden Hayes Lisa & Bill Headley Doug & Beth Heimburger Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Heyman Mr. Kevin E. Hickman Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt Frances Holt Mr. & Mrs. Richard Holton Ken & Beverly Horner Diane & Bruce Houglum Margie Hunter Nelson Hunter & Becky Gardner Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Sandra & Joe Hutts Michael & Evelyn Hyatt James R. & Helen H. James Robert C. Jamieson MD Bob & Virginia Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Karr John & Eleanor Kennedy Jane Kersten Ms. Janet Kleinfelter Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce Mr. Daniel L. LaFevor Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Paul & Dana Latour Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lavender Mrs. Martha W. Lawrence

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Anonymous (34) The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. W. Robert Abstein Ben & Nancy Adams Maryle & Tom Albin Chip Alford Mr. & Mrs. Roger Allbee Dr. Joseph H. Allen Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Michael & Charlene Alvey Adrienne Ames Betty Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Harry Anderson Dr. & Mrs. John E. Anderson Professor Kathryn Anderson Ken & Jan Anderson Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple Mr. Robert L. Appleby Mr. David E. Armstrong Todd & Barbara Arrants Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins The Brian C. Austin Family Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Averbuch Janet B. Baggett* Lawrence E. Baggett David A. & Stephanie Bailey Charles & Marjorie Bain Ms. Carolyn C. Baker Drs. Ferdinand & Eresvita Balatico Mr. & Mrs. J. Oriol Barenys Dr. Beth S. Barnett Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Barr Mr. & Mrs. Jack Bass, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James Bauchiero Mr. Curtis L. Baysinger Ms. Michelle L. Beauvais Susan O. Belcher Mr. Wesley P. Belden Mark H. Bell Mr. Carl W. Berg Cherry & Richard Bird Bill & Donna Bissell Mr. & Mrs. Scott & Rebekah Blackburn Ms. Helen R. Blackburn-White Rick & Abby Blahauvietz Marilyn Blake Joan Bledsoe Mr. John Bliss Phil & Carol Boeing Jim & Sydney Boerner Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. Bolger David L. Bone Mr. & Mrs. Seton J. Bonney Mr. & Mrs. Roger Borchers David Bordenkircher Robert E. Bosworth Carolyn J. Bowlds Don & Deborah Boyd Jeff & Jeanne Bradford Robert & Barbara Braswell Jamie A. Brewer Mr. Michael F. Brewer Ms. Alexis Bright Betty & Bob Brodie Mr & Mrs. Larry J. & Julia Brooks Ms. Roxanne Brown Tom Bruce Drs. Nancy J. Scott & Richard G. Bruehl Burnece Walker Brunson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Bryant Mrs. Susan S. Buck T. Mark & D. K. Buford Mr. & Mrs. John R. Burch Sr.

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Mr. & Mrs. George S. Burke Sr. Evan & Jennifer Burton Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Butler Mr. & Mrs. David R. Buttrey Jr. Geraldine & Wilson Butts David L. & Chigger J. Bynum Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Byrd Ms. Betsy Calabrace Bratschi Campbell Mr. Kenneth L. Campbell Robert & Melanie Cansler Mr. Mark J. Cappellino Mr. T. James Carmichael Earl & Elizabeth Carnahan Mr. Colin J. Carnahan Karen Carr Ronald* & Nellrena Carr Amy Carter Ms. Shalonda Cawthon Evelyn LeNoir Chandler Mr. Caldwell Charlet Dr. Walter J. Chazin Mr. Arthur C. Cheney Mrs. Robert L. Chickey Mr. & Mrs. Cooper Chilton Teresa C. Cissell Councilman & Mrs. Phil Claiborne Charles & Agenia Clark Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clarkson Mr. & Mrs. Roy Claverie Sr. Keith N. Clayton Terry & Holly Clyne Dr. Clifford Cockerham & Ms. Sherry Cummings Mark & Robin Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan J. Cole Ms. Danah Coleman Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Coleman Mr. & Mrs. Wiley B. Coley Alma Jean Colley Colonel (ret.) Dr. & Mrs. James R. (Conra) Collier Dr. Clyde E. Collins Mr. & Mrs. Jerry C. Collins Ms. Peggy B. Colson James H. Conger Mr. Troy E. Cook Donna Cookson Ms. Anne G. Cooper Arlene & Charley Cooper Dr. Jackie D. Corbin & Jan Gressman Kathy & Scott Corlew Ms. Adrienne L. Corn Allie & Landford Correll Paula & Bob Covington Dr. Charles Cox & Dr. Joy Cox Mr. and Ms. Joseph B. Crace Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David Crecraft Will R. & Jean Crowthers R. Barry & Kathy Cullen The Daly-Ark Family Katherine C. Daniel William N. Daniel Jr. Ms. Aurora A. Daniels James & Maureen Danly Andrew Daughety & Jennifer Reinganum Mr. Frederick L. Davidson Ms. Luda E. Davies Frank C. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Davis Steve & Julie Davis Mrs. Alyce L. Daws Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Daws Ms. Gloria Deaner

Doug & Marie DeGraaf Dr. & Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Mr. & Mrs. Joe H. Delk Mr. MocTavius D. Demonbreum Ms. Betty H. Dennis Mr. & Mrs. J. William Denny Eustace Denton Ms. Molly E. Devine Mr. & Mrs. Arthur DeVooght Mr. John I. Dickson Jr. Dr. Joseph & Ambassador Rachel Diggs Dr. Tom D. Dillehay Dominick & Lynette Dimeola Ms. Shirley J. Dodge Ms. Angelica M. Dones Kevin J. & Ellen Donovan Michael Doochin & Linda Kartoz-Doochin Mr. & Mrs. William A. Dortch Jr. Mr. Eddie H. Doss Henry & Anna Dowler Clark & Peggy Druesedow Judith A. Dudley Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Dugger Kathleen & Stephen Dummer Mr & Mrs. Mike Dungan Bob & Nancy Dunkerley Mr. & Mrs. Jim Eades Jr. Melissa Eckert Braces by Dr. Ruth Thomas D. Edmonds DVM Bonnie Edwards Dan & Zita Elrod Mr. Ray Enochs & Mrs. Lee Emerson Mr. Vince Emmett Ms. Kaaren Engel Mr. Timothy W. Estes Ms. Claire Evans Bobby & Dawn Evans Tony & Shelley Exler The Farris & Martin Family Mr. Steven Fast Mr. Edward Fedorovich Ms. Karen A. Fentress Dr. Robert G. Ferland Mr. Matt H. Ferry Vince & Dorothy Fesmire Janie & Richard Finch Ms. Jennifer Finger Doris T. Fleischer Mr. Joseph B. Fleming III Toni Foglesong Nellie Folsom Mr. Kent T. Forward Cathy & Kent Fourman Mr. Eric P. Fowlds Mrs. Katherine H. Fox Andrew & Mary Foxworth Sr. Robert Franz & Nancy Zambito Ms. Nelle L. Freemon Scott & Anita Freistat Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Debra Frey John C. Frist Jr., M.D. Tom & Jennifer Furtsch Lois & Peter Fyfe Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Galbraith Ms. Elham Galyon Mr. William Gann Mr. & Mrs. Craig E. Gardella Alan & Jeannie Gaus Christopher & Amanda Genovese Nancy & Ken Gentry Miss Lindsay A. George Dodie & Carl George The Geraghty Family

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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 March 31, 2014.

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Care Foundation of America, Inc.

DIRECTORS’ ASSOCIATES Gifts of $50,000+

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

Mary C. Ragland Foundation Washington Foundation

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BUSINESS PARTNER Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 American Brokerage Company, Inc. AmSurg BioVentures, Inc. Blevins, Inc. Carter Haston Real Estate Services Inc. City of Brentwood Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co., Inc. The Crichton Group Delta Dental of Tennessee First Baptist Nashville Gould Turner Group, P.C. Harmon Group, Inc. Parking Management Company Renasant Bank Tennsco Corporation

CAPT & Mrs. Charles E. Stewart Jr. Nashville Symphony Volunteer Auxiliary NAXOS OSHi Floral DĂŠcor Studio Premier Parking of Tennessee

BUSINESS ASSOCIATES Gifts of $500 - $1,249 Anonymous (1) A-1 Appliance Company V. Alexander & Co., Inc. R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation Burger Up Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre D.F. Chase, Inc. Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation Creative Artists Agency The Buzz 102.9 / The Game 102.5/ Game2 94.9 / The LIGHT 102.1 Enfinity Engineering, LLC Haber Corporation Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville INDUSCO Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris Architects, Inc. RD Plastics Co., Inc. Richard Fletcher of 511 Group Inc. Riley Warnock & Jacobson PLC Stansell Electric Company, Inc. The Tennessee Credit Union Volunteer Barge & Transport, Inc. VSA Arts Tennessee Walmart DC 6062

MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES American General Life & Accident American International Group, Inc. Atmos Energy AT&T Higher Education/Cultural Matching Gift Program Bank of America BCD Travel Becton Dickinson & Co. CA Matching Gifts Program Caterpillar Foundation Cigna Foundation Community Health Systems Foundation Eaton Corporation ExxonMobil Foundation First Data Foundation First Tennessee The Frist Foundation GE Foundation Hachette Book Group IBM Corporation Illinois Tool Works Foundation McKesson Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co Foundation, Inc. Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Nissan Gift Matching Program Regions Scottrade Square D Foundation Matching Gift Program Shell Oil Company Foundation Starbucks Matching Gifts Program The Aspect Matching Gifts Program The HCA Foundation The Meredith Corporation Foundation The Prudential Foundation The Stanley Works U.S. Bancorp Foundation Williams Community Relation

IN-KIND AAARP Tennessee Ajax Turner Co., Inc. American Airlines American Tuxedo Crowe Horwath LLP Dulce Desserts Stephen M. Emahiser The Glover Group Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Nashville, Hilton Nashville Downtown Just Love Coffee Roasters Ms. Sally M. Levine Lipman Brothers McQuiddy Printing

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ARTISTIC UNDERWRITERS Gifts of $5,000- $9,999 A.C. Entertainment Inc. BDO Chet Atkins Music Education Fund Of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated The Cockayne Fund Inc. Cracker Barrel Foundation Samuel M. Fleming Foundation Freeman Webb, Inc. Landis B. Gullett Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville Downtown KraftCPAs PLLC OSHi Floral Decor Studio PwC Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation SunTrust Wells Fargo

BUSINESS LEADER Gifts of $1,250 - $2,499 Calsonic Kansei Gannett Foundation/The Tennessean J. Alexander's Corporation William Morris Endeavor Entertainment

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ORCHESTRA PARTNERS Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Caterpillar Financial Services Corrections Corporation of America Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Griffin Technology The HCA Foundation Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation The Hendrix Foundation Neal & Harwell, PLC Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc.

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The Nashville Symphony wishes to acknowledge and thank the following individuals, foundations and corporations for their commitment to the Symphony. This list recognizes donors who contributed $15,000 or more to one of the Symphony’s endowment or capital campaigns. These capital campaigns make it possible to ensure a sustainable future for a nationally recognized orchestra worthy of Music City. $1M+

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

$100,000+

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

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

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

$50,000+

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

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

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

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

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

$25,000+

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

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

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

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

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

NewsChannel 5 Network Susan & Rick Oliver Piedmont Natural Gas David & Adrienne Piston Charles H. Potter Jr. Joseph & Edna Presley Nancy M. Falls & Neil M. Price Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Linda & Art Rebrovick Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Dr. & Mrs. Clifford Roberson Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Robinson Jr. Anne & Charles Roos Ron Rossmann Joan Blum Shayne Mr. & Mrs. Irby C. Simpkins, Jr. Patti & Brian Smallwood Murray & Hazel Somerville Southwind Health Partners® The Grimstad & Stream Families Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mark Lee Taylor John B. & Elva Thomison Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Jr. Eli & Deborah Tullis Mr. & Mrs. James M. Usdan Louise B. Wallace Foundation Mr.* & Mrs. George W. Weesner Ann & Charles* Wells In Memory of Leah Rose B. Werthan Mr.* & Mrs.* Albert Werthan Betty & Bernard Werthan Foundation Olin West, Jr. Charitable Lead Trust Mr. & Mrs. Toby S. Wilt Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Dr. Artmas L. Worthy Mr. & Mrs. Julian Zander Jr. InConcert

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

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

N A S H V I L L E S Y M P H O N Y LEGACY SOCIETY LEAVING A LEGACY, BUILDING A FUTURE L E GACY SO CI E T Y

Principal clarinet James Zimmermann is one of many NSO musicians who are passing along the gift of music to a younger generation.

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

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

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

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

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

Be “instrumental” in our success by sharing your passion for music with future generations. For more information on the many creative ways to make a planned gift, please visit www.nashvillesymphony.org/plannedgiving or call Wade Kelley at 615.687.6615.

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

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

A Gift That Costs You Nothing During Your Lifetime For as long as the Nashville Symphony has enriched people’s lives through the power of music, it has relied on the generosity and vision of friends to ensure its legacy for generations. Your planned gift can benefit you, your family, the Nashville Symphony and thousands who will experience extraordinary performances and numerous education and community programs in the years to come.

A planned gift may be either a bequest or a life-benefit gift. A bequest is a gift made at death through your will or revocable trust. A life-benefit gift allows you to retain some benefit, such as income or use of your residence while you are living. Such a gift can benefit you or your heirs by postponing or eliminating tax liabilities. Upon your death, the Nashville Symphony receives the full benefit of your gift.

If you already have a will, you can add the Nashville Symphony as a beneficiary simply by amending your will with a document known as a codicil. To learn more, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/GiftsFromWills

If you do not have a will, please call Wade Kelley at the number above to obtain your free, no-obligation copy of Your Guide to Will and Estate Planning. A will is your opportunity to help the people and organizations that mean the most to you; to sort out your investments, real estate and other property; and to save taxes for your heirs. It’s the most important opportunity you’ll get in your life to tell the world what you want and how you want it done.

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VISTING THE SCHERMERHORN COAT CHECK

Guests are invited to check their coats at one of several complimentary coat check locations on each seating level. The most convenient is on the Lounge Level, located one floor below the Main Lobby.

CAMERAS, CELL PHONES & OTHER DEVICES

Videocameras and recording devices are strictly prohibited in the concert hall or in any other space where a performance or rehearsal is taking place, but photographs are permitted anytime the house lights are illuminated. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off once the performance starts.

LATE SEATING

As a courtesy to performers and audience, each performance will have designated breaks when latecomers are seated. Those arriving after a performance begins will be asked to wait until the appropriate break to be seated.

SERVICES FOR GUESTS WITH DISABILITIES

Schermerhorn Symphony Center meets or exceeds all criteria established by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Interior signage and all elevators make use of Braille lettering. An infrared hearing system is available for guests who are hearing impaired; headsets may be retrieved from

the Lounge Level coat-check area and from the Concert Concierge. Unisex restrooms are available on the Lounge Level for disabled guests needing special assistance.

Accessible and companion seating are available at all seating and price levels. Transfer seating is also available to allow guests in wheelchairs to transfer easily to seats in the hall. Please arrange in advance for accessible seating by calling a customer service representative at 615.687.6400.

EMERGENCY MESSAGES

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

LOST AND FOUND

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

CONCERT CONCIERGE

Have a question, request or comment? Please visit our Concert Concierge, which is available to help you with anything you might need during your visit.

Located in the Main Lobby, Concert Concierge is open through the end of intermission.

PARKING NEW! FREE PARKING!

FREE parking is available in Lot R at LP Field, with shuttles running to and from the lot for just $3 per person roundtrip. This shuttle service is available for all SunTrust Classical, Bank of America Pops and Jazz Series concerts, along with many special events. For more information, call our Box Office at 615.687.6400.

VALET

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

PARKING AT THE PINNACLE

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

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