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Suite from Billy the Kid The Open Prairie Street in a Frontier Town Card Game at Night Running Gun Battle Celebration on Billy’s Capture Billy’s Death The Open Prairie Again

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MAX BRUCH Concerto No. 2 in D minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 44

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Born on September 6, 1938, in New Rochelle, New York; currently resides in Annandale-onHudson, New York Chamber Dance Composed: 2006 First performance: May 6, 2006, by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York First Nashville Symphony performance: October 20-21, 2006, with guest conductor Anu Tali Estimated length: 16 minutes

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he Nashville Symphony and Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero have a close connection to the music of Joan Tower. In honor of the composer’s 75th birthday (celebrated just last month), the program launches their latest Tower recording project, which is devoted to three works that have never been previously recorded. Along with Chamber Dance, the new recording — to be

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released worldwide on the Naxos label — will include Tower’s Stroke and Violin Concerto. The last two works can be heard alongside Beethoven’s Eroica in concerts at the Schermerhorn on November 21-23. In 2008 the Nashville Symphony won three GRAMMY® Awards for Made in America (Naxos), a compilation of orchestral music by Joan Tower led by Leonard Slatkin.

Tower’s career represents an uncommon success story — not just as a woman in the male-dominated classical repertory, but as a contemporary composer whose work has won favor with a wide audience. Tower spent part of her youth in Bolivia, where her father was engaged in projects as a mining engineer. Her exposure to South American music enhanced the feeling for vibrant color and percussion that became one characteristic of Tower’s work.

Back in the United States, she studied piano and composition, and she cofounded the Da Capo Chamber Players, a new-music group, in 1969, performing with them as pianist until the mid1980s.

Tower’s own compositions were initially oriented more toward the postwar avant-garde and focused on chamber ensemble. Her debut orchestral work, Sequoia (1981), opened up a new path, and in 1990 Tower was the first woman to win the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Silver Ladders. She wrote the latter as composerin-residence for the St. Louis Symphony, where Leonard Slatkin became one of her foremost champions. Tower is also active as a conductor and educator and has been teaching for nearly three decades at Bard College in upstate New York.

Among her major influences, Tower points to Beethoven, Stravinsky, Debussy and jazz.

She is passionately committed to reestablishing lines of communication between contemporary composers and audiences. Aaron Copland, who addressed the same issue following an early phase of modernist experimentalism in his own work, served as the point of departure for her series of Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman, which rank among her most frequently performed compositions. Chamber Dance, which Tower dedicated “to the intrepid and wonderful Orpheus

Chamber Orchestra,” inhabits a sphere poised between chamber and orchestral writing.

ste p h en pa u l u s Born on August 24, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey; currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra Composed: 2004 First performance: April 1, 2004, with Bradley Hunter Welch as organist and Marc Albrecht leading the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

First Nashville Symphony performance: July 6, 2012, as part of the American Guild of Organists’ annual convention Estimated length: 21 minutes

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tephen Paulus has also become a familiar name to Nashville Symphony audiences as a result of the orchestra’s advocacy under Maestro Guerrero of the vibrant creativity of living American composers. The Grand Organ Concerto is being recorded as well during these performances for future release on Naxos.

Paulus has written music with a wide range of both performers and listeners in mind. “I am pleased to have been a composer who can satisfy all kinds, somewhat in the fashion of a Benjamin Britten,” he remarked a few years ago during an interview for a retrospective of his career by Minnesota Public Radio. Paulus’ remarkably versatile and prolific catalogue — the full tally already exceeds 450 — encompasses large-scale orchestral and choral works, operas and chamber

pieces, as well as pieces for community groups and young musicians. And new compositions are continually being added, such as the Third Violin Concerto, which was premiered last fall by Guerrero and The Cleveland Orchestra.

Aside from his own creative work, Paulus has found time to be a powerful advocate for fellow composers. In 1973 he cofounded the American Composers Forum, the largest composer service organization in the world, and he also serves as Concert Music Representative on the ASCAP Board of Directors.

The much sought-after Paulus has been commissioned by such leading institutions as the New York Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber

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Joan Tower provides the following description of Chamber Dance: “It is chamber music in the sense that I always thought of Orpheus as a large chamber group, interacting and ‘dancing’ with one another the way smaller chamber groups do. Like dancers, the members of this large group have to be very much

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in touch with what everyone else is doing, and allow for changing leadership to guide the smaller and bigger ensembles. Chamber Dance weaves through a tapestry of solos, duets and ensembles where the oboe, flute and violin are featured as solos, and the violin and clarinet, cello and bassoon, two trumpets, and unison horns step out of the texture as duets. The ensemble writing is fairly vertical and rhythmic in its profile, thereby creating an ensemble that has to ‘dance’ well together.”

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Music Society of Lincoln Center. A significant composer of opera as well, Paulus, who studied with Dominick Argento at the University of Minnesota, has already created a dozen works for the stage. His frequently revived The Postman Always Rings Twice (1982) was the first American production to be presented at the Edinburgh International Festival. Last year Paulus introduced a one-act opera, The Shoemaker, based on a Leo Tolstoy short story and with a libretto by longtime collaborator Michael Dennis Browne.

Paulus’ inherent gift for dramatic music also comes through in the effective use of contrasts and juxtapositions in his concertos. The Grand Concerto, explains Paulus, is representative of his overall style in its use of melodic material “sometimes in short strands and at other times in long arches,” in “the interplay of different key juxtapositions and sometimes sudden changes or unusual combinations,” and in its “rhythmic and kinetic energy in forward-moving phrases.”

of my father who used to improvise on the same tune. In the Mormon musical liturgy it is known as ‘All Is Well, Osh,’ and it is a tune that the great organist Alexander Schreiner used to improvise on during Sunday morning radio broadcasts from the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Both my father and I listened to these broadcasts many, many times.

“In the third and final movement, after a brief orchestral opening, I give center stage to the organ with a large section of chords oscillating between the right and left hands. Over this is eventually woven a high melody in the violins, which is based on the tune ‘Waly, Waly,’ also known as ‘The Water Is Wide.’ ”

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What to listen for Paulus composed the Grand Concerto for Organ on a commission from Mr. and Mrs. William H. Moore III for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. It was written for organist Bradley Hunter Welch, in recognition of his victory in the Dallas International Organ Competition in 2003. The third of four concertos for organ by a recognized master of the genre, the Grand Concerto takes its name from the dramatic contrasts, rhythmic energy and rich use of melodic material that define the work. The work is cast in three movements: I. Vivacious and Spirited; II. Austere; foreboding; and III. Jubilant.

Paulus provides the following description “The title was selected to indicate that the work employs full orchestra and some wide, sweeping gestures and melodic ideas. The movement titles are descriptive of the musical activity within each movement. There is a wide array of mood shifts, with great contrasts and texture in each movement.

“In the second movement, towards the end, a portion of the hymn tune ‘Come, Come Ye Saints’ appears in the organ part. This is a tradition that I have incorporated into almost every organ work that I have written, in honor

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Born January 6, 1838, in Cologne, Germany; died on October 2, 1920, near Berlin

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 44 Composed: 1877-78 First performance: November 4, 1878, in London, with Pablo de Sarasate as the soloist and the composer conducting First Nashville Symphony performance: This is the orchestra’s first performance.

Estimated length: 24 minutes

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W h at to listen fo r The first movement, which so rankled Brahms, became a favorite child of the composer, who at one point even considered detaching it to make a stand-alone work for violin and orchestra.

Fifield points out that Sarasate’s scenario evoked the grim setting of a battlefield freshly covered with corpses and dying soldiers, with a young woman searching among them for her beloved.

The orchestra swells in a chord of moody D minor, after which the violin (the grieving woman?) sings out its doleful melody. The test here, and in the brightening second theme, is for the soloist to sustain and color the expressive arc of this music. Rather impressionistically, reminders of battle emerge in another fanfarelike idea just before the second theme. Later come hints of a solemn procession, as in a heroic funeral march.

The brief middle movement is also unusual in form. Bruch calls it a “recitative,” invoking the world of opera, with the violin imagined as a solo singer in dialogue with the orchestra. This might also be thought of as the big cadenza normally placed near the end of the opening movement (though accompanied), and it leads directly, via its fanfare idea, into the finale. Here Bruch comes closest to the more conventional notion of a violin concerto with his showy elaborations by the soloist on the lightly tripping main theme. Firmly in the major, the finale races along on a rhythm, writes Fifield, which “allegedly depicts the tumult of a cavalry regiment.”

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the Spanish civil wars of the 19th century. The essentially lyrical impulse of the First Concerto is therefore replaced in the Second by a conception “in dramatic terms.”

Joachim joined Sarasate to offer advice on sprucing up the finalized score, but Brahms nastily dismissed it on account of Bruch’s unusual choice to begin with a slow movement, even sniping in a letter to their mutual publisher that there might need to be a law against “any more first movements being written as an Adagio. That is intolerable for normal people.” Bruch, for his part, harbored a grudge against Brahms’ success and wrote to the same publisher, “If I meet with Brahms in heaven, I shall have myself transferred to hell!”

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ogether with Pachelbel (he of the famous Canon) and the arena-rock group Survivor (“Eye of the Tiger”), the German composer Max Bruch has joined the circle inhabited by “one-hit wonders” and is nowadays almost exclusively known for the first of his three violin concertos, the much-loved Concerto in G minor.

But, as with the Baroque composer Pachelbel (and with apologies to fans of Survivor), the disproportionate fame of a single piece unfairly overshadows a productive — and in the case of Bruch, remarkably long—career that should be remembered for more than a lone composition.

Bruch started out early and was a protégé of Ferdinand Hiller, a leading German musical personality who had close ties to Mendelssohn and Schumann. Bruch first gained notice as an opera composer and was also widely known for his choral works, but he is now associated above all with the Brahmsian wing of German Romanticism. The early success of the G minor Concerto, which also shows the influence of Mendelssohn’s great Violin Concerto in E minor, has typecast Bruch as a composer of wellconstructed instrumental works not intended to illustrate extramusical stories or ideas.

The constant craving for that first concerto eventually grew annoying. To his publisher Bruch groused, “Nothing compares to the laziness, stupidity, and dullness of German violinists. Every fortnight another one comes to me wanting to play the first Concerto...I tell them, ‘Go away and once and for all play the other Concertos, which are just as good, if not better.’”

While the First Concerto was steeped in Brahms’ milieu — for the final published version, Bruch consulted with the violinist Joseph Joachim, an ally of Brahms — the Second veers off on a different path. This time the Spanish virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate served as the composer’s principal inspiration. Sarasate, who had helped make the First Concerto an international phenomenon and who became the dedicatee of Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, even suggested a programmatic backdrop for the new work. Despite his alleged stance against program music, according to biographer Christopher Fifield, “Bruch was impressed by a scenario offered by Sarasate himself suggesting the aftermath of a battle” in

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Born on November 14, 1900, in Brooklyn, New York; died on December 2, 1990, in North Tarrytown, New York

Suite from Billy the Kid Composed: 1938 First performance: The complete ballet was premiered on October 16, 1938, in Chicago by the Ballet Caravan Company.

First Nashville Symphony performance: November 13-15, 1980, with Music Director Michael Charry Estimated length: 20 minutes

n his memoir Hallelujah Junction, the American composer John Adams memorably describes seeing Aaron Copland conduct Appalachian Spring at a Tanglewood concert half a century ago, “his thin Ichabod Crane body jerking awkwardly with the music.” Elsewhere Adams compares the orchestral music of this pivotal figure, who is credited with defining a quintessential “American sound”—albeit just one among the rich array of musical sounds that capture the American spirit—to “pieces of Shaker furniture, simple to

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the point of being humble, but sturdy and effective and free of excess emotional baggage.”

The simplicity and directness of Copland’s best-loved works from the 1930s and 1940s — with the iconic trio of ballets that includes Appalachian Spring, Rodeo and Billy the Kid — can give the illusion that these scores were called into being as almost spontaneous acts of expression. In fact, Copland carefully cultivated this so-called “populist” style only after an adventurous period of experimenting with his own brand of modernism (e.g., his Symphonic Ode) and with “symphonic jazz” (as in the marvelous Piano Concerto, a piece well worth seeking out). But as the Great Depression lingered, it intensified the desire Copland felt, like many of his artistic peers, to communicate with a broader audience.

Another pragmatic basis for the development of Copland’s uniquely American sonic signature can be found in the contexts for which he was writing. It was largely in tandem with collaborative projects involving specifically American subject matter that Copland evolved this sound. Billy the Kid marked a significant breakthrough, paving the way for the later ballets. Within a year of its premiere in 1938, he had made his entrée into writing film scores as well. Copland himself wrote that he approached the prospect of this “folk-ballet” with “a firm resolve to write simply,” believing that, as part of a stage work, “music should play a modest role, helping when help is needed, but never injecting itself as if it were the main business of the evening.”

Yet in the process Copland produced music that has held its own as a beloved concert staple.

The familiar orchestral suite extracts some twothirds of the original ballet score. The ambitious young impresario Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) had proposed the idea of Billy the Kid for his newly formed Ballet Caravan, a touring company that was a forerunner of the New York City Ballet.

Playing a sort of American Serge Diaghilev, Kirstein fixed on Copland as his Stravinsky, intent on establishing an indigenous ballet distinct from Franco-Russian traditions.

Copland initially took on the scenario for Billy the Kid with some reluctance — uncertain, as the Brooklyn-bred composer remarked, “about

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About the artists NATHAN J. LAUBE, organ A star among young classical musicians, concert organist Nathan J. Laube has quickly earned a place among the organ world’s elite performers. His brilliant playing and gracious demeanor have thrilled audiences and presenters across the United States and in Europe, and his creative programming of repertoire spanning five centuries, including his own virtuoso transcriptions of orchestral works, has earned high praise from critics and peers alike.

In addition to his busy performing schedule, Laube is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of young organists, and beginning in the fall of 2013 he joins the faculty of The Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, as Assistant Professor of Organ.

Recent and upcoming performances by Laube include major venues in the United States and Europe: Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Washington National Cathedral, The Mother Church (Boston), Stiftskirche (Stuttgart, Germany) and the collegiate chapels of Stanford University, Harvard University, and The University of Chicago. In Europe, Laube has performed five tours of the United Kingdom. In 2013 he will perform at the 18th annual Orléans International Organ Festival in France, at the Lapua Festival in Finland, and at the Stuttgart Internationaler Orgelsommer.

In June 2013 Laube will receive his Master’s Degree in Organ Performance from the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, Germany, under the auspices of a German DAAD Fellowship Study Scholarship. A recipient of a William Fulbright Grant, Laube earned his Bachelor of Music Degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

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Billy the Kid was designed as a one-act ballet based on a semi-fictional treatment of the notorious outlaw, with choreography by Eugene Loring. Born Henry McCarty (1859?-1881) — a.k.a. William H. Bonney — Billy appears as a quasi-mythical figure, a romanticized emblem of the passions and dangers of the Wild West.

Copland frames the story with widely spaced harmonies that vividly conjure a sense of the open prairie and its loneliness, as well as the vast scale of migration westward.

“Street in a Frontier Town,” the most extensive section of the suite, in which we first encounter Billy as a boy of twelve, cleverly recomposes bits of cowboy tunes in a way that adds much more than “flavor.” To suggest the lively scene of the Southwest town, Copland essentially devises his own version of the montage technique Stravinsky had used for the crowd scenes in Petrushka. For example, he adds unexpected harmonic colorings and clashes of key, while metrical asymmetries and crossrhythms build excitement until the scene erupts in chaos. During a drunken brawl, Billy witnesses his mother accidentally being shot in the crowd and instantly stabs those responsible.

This sets the pattern for Billy’s criminal career as an adult, and the ballet then jump-cuts to representative episodes. “Card Game at Night” establishes a lonely, reflective mood “under the stars.” In dramatic contrast, violence erupts once more in the percussion-heavy “Running Gun Battle,” as Billy is ambushed by his former friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. In a local saloon, complete with out-of-tune piano, a tipsy crowd celebrates the outlaw’s capture. The suite omits the ballet’s episode of Billy escaping from jail into the desert, where he romances his sweetheart, but cuts to the scene of Billy’s death after he has been caught for the last time. A re-orchestrated version of the

opening prairie music — looking ahead to the bold rhetoric of the Fanfare for the Common Man — is meant, observes Copland, “to convey the idea of a new dawn breaking.”

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my own capabilities as a ‘cowboy composer’ — but the musical possibilities soon engaged his imagination so thoroughly that he found himself working out the sounds for the ballet’s “frontier town” while summering in the distant milieu of Paris.

As a church musician, Nathan currently serves as Artist-in-Residence at the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris, France.

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JUN IWASAKI, violin Jun Iwasaki was appointed concertmaster of the Nashville Symphony

by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero at the beginning of the 2011/12 season.

A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music’s prestigious Concertmaster Academy, he has been hailed for his combination of dazzling technique and lyrical musicianship. In a review of Iwasaki’s performance at the Mimir Chamber Music Festival, the Fort Worth Star Telegram called him “the magician of the evening. He

could reach into his violin and pull out bouquets of sound, then reach behind your ear and touch your soul.”

Prior joining the Nashville Symphony, Iwasaki served as concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony from 2007-2011, and he performed with that ensemble at the first annual Spring for Music Festival in 2011. Throughout his career, he has appeared with numerous other orchestras, including the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Blossom Festival Orchestra, Rome (Georgia) Philharmonic, New Bedford Symphony, Canton Symphony, Richardson Symphony, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Plano Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. In addition, he has served as concertmaster of Asian Artists and Concerts Orchestra (AAC), guest concertmaster of the Santa Barbara Symphony in 2010, and guest concertmaster of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa in 2006. He served in the same position with the Canton (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra from 2005-07.

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Born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany; died on March 26, 1827 in Vienna, Austria Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 112

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he so-called “heroic” period of Ludwig van Beethoven — roughly the decade beginning while the Eroica Symphony was underway in 1803 — typically refers to the muscular, affirmative style the composer cultivated at that time, but the sheer productivity of those years, as Beethoven crafted one masterpiece after another, certainly represents a kind of heroic achievement in itself.

Still, by around 1812, this powerful creative momentum slowed down dramatically and was succeeded by a fallow period lasting several years. As he worked his way through personal crisis, Beethoven was also beginning to forge the synthesis of elements that would define the radically far-reaching style of his final decade in the late piano sonatas and string quartets.

Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is one of the few compositions Beethoven managed to complete in 1815. There’s a good chance most listeners haven’t encountered this work in concert before. The larger choral forces required for such a short composition make it more of a challenge to program, but it’s a fascinating example of Beethoven’s evolving style and a miniature masterpiece in its own right. Within the span of just 8 minutes, this intensely compact cantata traverses a thrilling emotional span. Biographer Maynard Solomon observes that it “treats one of Beethoven’s favorite subjects — tranquility penetrated by agitation, dissolving into joyful triumph….”

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Composed: 1814-15 First performance: December 25, 1815, in Vienna First Nashville Symphony performance: These are the orchestra’s first performances.

Estimated length: 8 minutes

For his text, Beethoven chose two separate poems by Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the great man of German letters at the time.

Beethoven had already set Goethe’s words to music several times before — including, most famously, in his incidental music to the play Egmont, one of his quintessentially heroic scores.

In 1812 he had even met the great poet in person in the spa town of Teplitz. Goethe described the composer as “an utterly untamed personality” and never bothered to acknowledge Beethoven’s dedication of Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage to him, though Beethoven personally sent Goethe a copy of the published score with an inscription from Homer, and sent a follow-up letter, as well.

W h at to listen fo r To modern ears, Meerestille and Glückliche Fahrt, the German titles of Goethe’s two poems (from 1795) which Beethoven combines to form a single piece, don’t obviously elicit the dramatic contrast that they did in Beethoven’s time — the contrast of eerie stillness with joyfully swelling motion that suggested to him such an ideal pairing for a musical composition. In that earlier era of seafaring, however, a calm sea could mean dangerous delay and even death (as in the phrase “dead calm”). Indeed the “tranquility” of the opening measures, with the chorus singing pianissimo and accompanied by sustained string harmonies, contains implications of dread.

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Beethoven adapts the age-old tradition of word-painting to extraordinary theatrical effect as he stretches out the sense of suspense and evokes the hopelessness of the windless distant horizon. The scholar Barry Cooper writes that Beethoven painstakingly sketched out some 37 variants before he arrived at the huge vocal leaps (simultaneously upward and downward)

to embody the image of space conveyed by Goethe’s words “in der ungeheuern Weite” (“in the monstrous expanse”). The sensibility here touched on anticipates something of the Missa Solemnis, while the music of “Prosperous Voyage,” depicting the arrival of the winds and new hope, looks ahead to the jubilant spirit of the Ninth Symphony’s finale.

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he idea behind “crossover” music isn’t necessarily tied to a crass, commercial incentive, and it’s nothing new. Mingling vocabularies from different musical spheres has actually always been one of the great sources of innovation. Francis Poulenc, who died 50 years ago this year, initially became known for his sly charm and debonair, easy-going modernism, insouciantly mixing tunes and musical gestures from popular song and even the circus with highhanded classical formality. Poulenc’s magic was to craft what might seem to be a recklessly eclectic modus operandi into an inimitable style all his own.

Style is the key word for Poulenc’s musical personality, particularly in the earlier phase of his career, which was capped by the delicious Concerto for Two Pianos. This was style not in the superficial sense, suggesting lack of depth, but

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as a serious credo: namely, that the ultimate aim of music is to provide pleasure. The style Poulenc cultivated reflected an important aspect of the attitude in Europe between the wars — an era that had grown impatient with what was considered the self-deception, trumpery and misguided idealism of the Romantic aesthetic. With his famous phrase confessing a taste for “adorable bad music” — inherited from his mother, who was the first to teach her gifted son piano — Poulenc characteristically seems to wink at the charges of superficiality so often lobbed his way.

The composer had a taste for luxury and the finer things of life, as well. His grandfather’s successful business in the pharmaceutical industry ensured him a comfortable upbringing and a well-rounded education, though the latter included relatively little formal training in composition. Poulenc, however, readily absorbed

The medium of two pianos is in keeping with Poulenc’s anti-Romantic attitude and offers a nod to the neo-Classical (and neo-Baroque) tendencies encouraged by his infatuation with Stravinsky’s music. A few years earlier, Poulenc had triumphed with a harpsichord concerto, the Concerto champêtre, and he had performed as one of the keyboardists in the premiere of Stravinsky’s Les Noces in 1923. But in lieu of a streamlined, “pure” neo-Classicism, Poulenc mixes up a wild variety of ideas, as is immediately clear from the first movement. This is not a composer bound to the conventional presentation and rigorous development of themes. The Concerto’s manner is rather one of juxtaposition and jump-cutting.

The array of influences include Mozart, Liszt (evidence he still had his susceptibilities to Romanticism) and Ravel, but they extend to jazz and even non-Western music.

The next time you hear someone complaining that modern composers can’t write like Mozart, tell them to listen to the slow movement of this Concerto.

The next time you hear someone complaining that modern composers can’t write like Mozart, tell them to listen to the slow movement of this Concerto. The Larghetto is Poulenc’s homage to Mozart (one of his idols) and looks to the slow movements of his piano concertos as a model.

An accelerated middle section intervenes before allowing a graceful, truncated reprise of the opening.

The finale reintroduces some of the mock drama from the first movement and then segues into a rapid-fire, jaunty tune for both pianos that reminds us that Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was beloved by Parisian composers of the era.

(Ravel’s Gershwin-inspired Concerto in G had just been unveiled at the beginning of 1932.)

Throughout this movement, perhaps as a way of continuing the gamelan idea, Poulenc plays the rhythmic energies of the two pianos off each other and uses contrasts of register to wonderful effect. His indisputable gift for melody is also in full blossom. The gamelan music from the first movement eventually reappears in a speeded-up version to bring the Concerto to a dazzling close.

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The outburst of pianistic fireworks in the opening measures, punctuated by chordal attacks from the ensemble, rapidly give way to a saucy staccato motif that’s passed back and forth from keyboards to orchestra. Mock struggles are staged before a lugubrious procession suddenly takes the spotlight. Just as suddenly, and with a few slick phrases — this is quintessential Poulenc — the serious mood dissipates. Then comes a more mystery-infused music as the two pianos sound off each other in imitation of a Balinese gamelan.

The unexpected mirage is exquisite, recalling an inspiration Poulenc had encountered during the previous year’s International Colonial Exposition in Paris.

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what was in the air in his native Paris during the heady first decades of the 20th century. This included not just musical currents but, for the urbane Poulenc, developments in the other arts, such as the work of playwright and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Poulenc became involved in the avant-garde circle around maverick Eric Satie, who had made a career of puncturing holes in the armor of seriousness and the notion of music as a higher calling that was part of the Romantic legacy. The young French artist and five of his colleagues were labeled “Les Six” (from a critic’s witty epithet, referring to a famous group of Russian maverick composers from the previous century known as “The Five”). These six composers were in fact quite different from one another but did share a generally cheeky, antiacademic attitude toward music-making.

By the time Poulenc, himself a pianist, wrote his Concerto for Two Pianos in 1932, he was coming to the end of his period of youthful experimenting. The essential hallmarks of the early Poulenc style abound in the Concerto. It was commissioned by a friend, the American-born Princess Edmonde de Polignac (who not only sounds like a character from Proust but whose marriage was actually arranged by the real-life model for Proust’s Baron de Charlus).

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Born on October 12, 1872 in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England; died on August 26, 1958, in London, England Symphony No. 1 “A Sea Symphony”

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Composed: 1903-09 First performance: October 12, 1910, at the Leeds Festival, with the composer conducting the Leeds Festival Orchestra and Chorus First Nashville Symphony performance: February 14-15, 1972, with Music Director Thor Johnson, soprano Shirley Zielinski and baritone Czeslaw Zielinski Estimated length: 65 minutes

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long with its obvious thematic link to the Beethoven cantata, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony has a subtle French connection as well: The composer paid a visit to Paris to study with Maurice Ravel while he was still working out details of the score. And like Beethoven’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, A Sea Symphony is far less concerned with exploiting music’s pictorial powers — its ability to elicit the kind of churning, stormy seascape that we find, say, in Wagner’s thrilling score for The Flying Dutchman — than with composing music to depict the sea’s metaphorical and even metaphysical dimensions as a mirror of the human condition and of the longing for the infinite.

Though he began to study music at a young age, it wasn’t until his late 30s that Vaughan Williams managed to establish his real voice and gain widespread recognition as a composer. His composing was especially slow-going at first.

He started A Sea Symphony as early as 1903, beginning with sketches for the two middle movements, but took six years to complete the score. Once he tasted success, however, he became prolific and would continue writing into his 80s.

His breakthrough success came with Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. Its first performance, in September 1910, was followed less than a month later by the premiere of A Sea Symphony at the

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Leeds Festival, a major venue for choral music.

Vaughan Williams’ immediate predecessors in the British music scene included such figures as Edward Elgar, the Irish-born Charles Villiers Stanford, and Hubert Parry (the last two numbered among his teachers), and, given the prominence of recent triumphs featuring choral music, it’s not surprising that Vaughan Williams turned toward this medium for an ambitious new work. Curiously, though, for a composer so closely associated with the modern rebirth of an English national spirit in music, A Sea Symphony finds inspiration in the work of that quintessentially American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892).

Vaughan Williams headed off to Paris in 1908 to polish his skills in orchestration by studying with Ravel for a few weeks. An influence of the whole-tone scale — the harmonic device associated with Debussy in particular — can be heard at certain points in the score. In fact, Debussy’s La Mer, one of the greatest evocations of the sea in orchestral music, was premiered in 1905. A Sea Symphony also comes in the wake of a series of sea-oriented compositions by Elgar (Sea Pictures) and Stanford (Songs of the Sea).

Though cast in the familiar pattern of four movements, A Sea Symphony boldly veers away from the dominant German instrumental model.

While A Sea Symphony might be described as a hybrid of symphony, cantata, song cycle and even oratorio, the composer finally settled on calling it a symphony.

While A Sea Symphony might be described as a hybrid of symphony, cantata, song cycle and even oratorio, the composer finally settled on calling it a symphony. “The plan for the work is symphonic rather than narrative or dramatic,” Vaughan Williams wrote, “and this may be held to justify the frequent repetition of important words and phrases which occur in the poem.

The words as well as the music are thus treated symphonically. It is also notable that the orchestra has an equal share with the chorus and soloists in carrying out the musical ideas.”

The first movement, “A Song for All Seas, All Ships,” launches the work with an arresting opening gesture. Immediately after a fanfare for horns and trumpets alone, the chorus enters a cappella, repeating the fanfare’s solemn chords of B-flat minor, but then, like the sun bursting onto open waters, proclaiming “the sea itself ” on a dazzling D major chord, on which the full orchestra joins in. Following this harmonic motif (harmonies separated by a third) comes a rising-and-falling motif to the words “and on its limitless heaving breast,” with a distinctive melodic and rhythmic contour. Both ideas — the harmonic one and the melodic/rhythmic one — are, according to the composer, the key musical elements that bind together the entire sprawling canvas of A Sea Symphony. This first movement

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

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continues with a section for the baritone solo and chorus to evoke the hard brave life of sailors, followed by a salute, led by the soprano, to the parade of passing ships with their “separate flags of nations.” Passages of brilliant grandeur alternate with subdued mystery and reflection, and the movement ends with supremely beautiful writing for the chorus and soloists.

That attunement to the sea’s mystery comes to the fore in “On the Beach at Night, Alone,” a slow movement and nocturne for solo baritone, chorus and orchestra, in which the “mystical” Vaughan Williams is also evident. His delicately scored harmonies capture the sense of suspended time and the poet’s ecstatic vision of “this vast similitude.” The third movement, “Scherzo: The Waves,” is the most immediately descriptive, as Vaughan Williams translates the heaving, “undulating waves” into exciting rhythmic and chromatic figures, with the orchestra overlapping the chorus. This section is also remarkably challenging on a technical level.

“The Explorers,” the longest movement of A Sea Symphony, is also its most wide-ranging in musical ideas and philosophical vision, setting parts of the mystically oriented, pantheistic “Passage to India” section from Leaves of Grass.

Vaughan Williams weaves these reflections on the ultimate questions into a moving composition knit together by recurrent musical emblems.

This final movement at last affirms the soul’s imperative to continue voyaging, “for we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go.”

In the score’s inspired final section, Vaughan Williams hints at the endless horizon by forgoing a triumphal conclusion in favor of a gentle oscillation of chords, as primal as the sea itself.

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And while the prototype for the choral symphony, Beethoven’s Ninth, had reserved the chorus for its finale, Vaughan Williams makes prominent use of the chorus throughout all four movements. It’s an intriguing coincidence that Gustav Mahler, who had previously used solo voice and/or chorus for particular symphonic movements, also for the first time composed a choral symphony from start to finish in his Eighth, which was premiered in Munich to great success just a month before A Sea Symphony.

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CHRISTINA & MICHELLE NAUGHTON, piano Christina and Michelle Naughton have been hailed by the San Francisco Examiner for their “stellar musicianship, technical mastery and aweinspiring artistry.” The Naughtons made their European debut at Herkulesaal in Munich, where the Sueddeutsche Zeitung proclaimed them “an outstanding piano duo.” They made their Asian debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, where the Sing Tao Daily said of their performance, “Joining two hearts and four hands at two grand pianos, the Naughton sisters created an electrifying and moving musical performance.”

An appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra led the Philadelphia Inquirer to characterize their playing as “paired to perfection,” while the Saarbrueker-Zeitung exclaimed “this double star could soon prove to be a supernova.”

Upcoming orchestral engagements include the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Buffalo and Madison Symphonies, as well as abroad with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Kiel Philharmonic, and a tour with the Cameristi della Scala of Milan.

Upcoming recital appearances include New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge, the Detroit Chamber Music Society, Harriman-Jewell Series, Boston’s Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum, Germany’s Bad Kissingen Festival, Munich’s Herkulesaal, Berlin’s Kammermusiksaal, Zurich’s Tonhalle, and the Sociedad de Conciertos de Valencia.

The Naughtons recorded their first album at the Sendesaal in Bremen, which was released worldwide by ORFEO. Christina and Michelle are graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music, where they were each awarded the Festorazzi Prize. They are Steinway Artists and currently reside in New York City.

KELLY NASSIEF, soprano “If the angels in heaven really sing, please let them do it like Nassief. Her voice combines the best of two worlds: It has bel canto size, warmth and height, and yet is svelte, with a youthful sparkle.” So wrote the Leipziger Volkszeitung when Kelley Nassief sang Elijah with the Gewandhausorchester and Kurt Masur on the occasion of the sesquicentennial of Mendelssohn’s death. Her critically acclaimed and exquisite 36

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performances on symphonic stages across the globe have established Nassief as one of the world’s leading concert artists.

In 2012/13 Nassief reprised Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony in her debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming engagements include singing as soprano soloist with Richmond Symphony in Verdi’s Requiem.

Her prolific career as a gifted concert artist has seen her appear with the world’s leading conductors and symphonies. She has performed Beethoven’s Ah, perfido! with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, Peer Gynt with Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Seiji Ozawa at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Brahms’ Requiem with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra under Neemi Järvi, and several appearances with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic to sing Peer Gynt, Elijah and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

Nassief is a 2001 winner of the Sullivan Foundation Grant, a 1996 Laureate of the Leonard Bernstein Jerusalem International Oratorio and Song Competition, a 1997 winner of a Richard Tucker Career Grant, and a winner of the 1995 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

RUSSELL BRAUN, baritone Renowned for his luminous voice, “capable of the most powerful explosions as well as the gentlest covered notes” (Toronto Star), baritone Russell Braun rightfully claims his place on the concert, opera and recital stages of the world. His intelligent and thoughtful portrayals of Chou Enlai, Billy Budd, Prince Andrei, Figaro, Papageno, Count Almaviva, Don Giovanni, Pelléas, Eugene Onegin and The Traveller have captivated audiences at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, l’Opéra de Paris, the State Opera in Vienna, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Los Angeles Opera, La Scala in Milan and the Glyndebourne Festival.

Braun’s 2013/14 season features his role debut as the Duke of Nottingham in the Canadian Opera Company’s premiere production of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, a reprisal of his highly acclaimed role of Jaufré Rudel in Saariaho’s

Offenbach’s comic opera Fantasio, which will be recorded for future release.

Recent highlights include debuts as Conte di Luna in Verdi’s Il Trovatore with the Canadian Opera Company, as Chou En-lai in John Adams’ Nixon in China at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and as Olivier alongside Renée Fleming in Capriccio, also at The Met.

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Nashville Symphony Chorus KELLY CORCORAN, Chorus Director SOPRANO Beverly Anderson Karen Argent Esther Bae Elizabeth Belden Jessica Boeglin Caitlin Brand Stephanie Breiwa Anna Caldwell Rose Christian Amanda Leigh Dier Katie Doyle Heather Eddy Becky Evans-Young Abbey Francis Delphine Gentry Ambralin Griggs Grace Guill Jane Harrison Carlie Hill Sarah Hoffman Jamie Hormuth Vanessa Jackson Carla Jones Young-Soon Kang Alesia Kelley Barbara Laifer Heather Lannan Megan Latham Jennifer Laws-Woolf Jennifer Lynn Janet Macdonald Jean Miller Jessica Moore Linda Naron Carolyn Naumann Iris Walton Perez Lauren Price Debbie Schrauger Vigdis Sigurdartdottir Jennifer Stevens Mallory Street Brandi Surface Marva Swann Marla Thompson Jan Volk

Janelle Waggener Sarah Warner Debra Waters Kathryn Whitaker Becky Young

ALTO Carol Armes Caroline Barry Sarah Boone Mary Callahan Cathi Carmack Terry Cissell Lisa Cooper Jaci Cordell Kaitlin Crofford Beth Cyrus Janet Davies Carla Davis Leriel Davis June Dye Liz Gilliam Debbie Greenspan Judy Griffin Stefanie Griffith Leah Handelsman Marah Harrington Alyssa Harris Sallie Hart Gay Hollins-Wiggins Leah Koetsen Emma Litton Shelly McCormack Sarah Miller Katherina Nowotny-Boles Grace Partin Lisa Pellegrin Lauren Ramey Gerda Resch Debbie Reyland Ursula Roden Amy Russo Pat Sharp Carissa Shockley Laura Sikes Carla Simpson

Jordan Smith Emily Stubbs Katherine Swett Allison Thompson Christina Van Regenmorter Alicia Webb Sarah Wilson

TENOR Irving Basañez Carson Burch David Carlton Christon Carney James Cortner Andrew Cyrus John Dugger Joe Fitzpatrick Mike Handley David W. Hayes Michael Harrison William F. Hodge Cory Howell John Manson Lynn McGill Mark Naumann Bill Paul John Perry David W. Piston Gary Rabideau Keith Ramsey Adrian Romero David Russell David M. Satterfield Bill Seminerio Eddie Smith Steve Sparks Samuel Ritter Zach Thompson Ben Trotter III James W. White Bruce Williams Scott Wolfe Jonathan Yeaworth

BASS Gary Adams Gilbert Aldridge Robert A. Anderson Bradley Bahr Tony Barta Kenton Dickerson Scott Edwards John Ford Richard Hatfield Charles Heimermann Cork Heyning Kentaro Hirama Mike Hopfe Stanley Jenkins Carl Johnson Clinton Johnson Josh Lindsay Bill Loyd Ben McKeown W. Bruce Meriwether Andrew Miller Dwayne Murray Steve D. Prichard Greg Ray Andrew Riehle J. Paul Roark Fred Rowles Matthew Smedberg Larry Strachan Chad Stuible David B. Thomas Brian Warford David Binns Williams Eric Wiuff

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l’Amour de loin with the Oslo Philharmonic, Britten’s War Requiem with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Faure’s Requiem with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. He performs at London’s Royal Festival Hall as Le Prince with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted

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CALM SEA & PROSPEROUS JOURNEY

A SEA SYMPHONY Text by Walt Whitman

Meeres Stille Tiefe Stille herrscht im Wasser, Ohne Regung ruht das Meer, Und bekümmert sieht der Schiffer Glatte Fläche ringsumher.

Keine Luft von keiner Seite!

Todesstille fürchterlich!

In der ungeheuern Weite Reget keine Welle sich.

I. A Song for all Seas, all Ships

GLÜCKLICHE FAHRT Die Nebel zerreißen, Der Himmel ist helle, Und Äolus löset Das ängstliche Band.

Es säuseln die Winde, Es rührt sich der Schiffer.

Geschwinde! Geschwinde!

Es teilt sich die Welle, Es naht sich die Ferne; Schon seh ich das Land!

CALM SEA Deep stillness rules the water Without motion lies the sea, And sadly the sailor observes Smooth surfaces all around.

No air from any side!

Deathly, terrible stillness!

In the immense distances not a single wave stirs.

PROSPEROUS JOURNEY The fog is torn, The sky is bright, And Aeolus releases The fearful bindings.

The winds whisper, The sailor begins to move.

Swiftly! Swiftly!

The waves divide, The distance nears; Already, I see land!

Book XIII: Song of the Exposition (from verse 8) Behold, the sea itself, And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships; See, where their white sails, bellying in the wind, speckle the green and blue, See, the steamers coming and going, steaming in or out of port, See, dusky and undulating, the long pennants of smoke.

Book XIX: Sea-Drift: Song for All Seas, All Ships Today a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal, Of unnamed heroes in the ships — of waves spreading and spreading far as the eye can reach, Of dashing spray, and the winds piping and blowing, And out of these a chant for the sailors of all nations, Fitful, like a surge.

Of sea-captains young or old, and the mates, and of all intrepid sailors, Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay.

Pick’d sparingly without noise by thee old ocean, chosen by thee, Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse, embodying thee, Indomitable, untamed as thee.

Flaunt out O sea your separate flags of nations!

Flaunt out visible as ever the various ship-signals!

But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,

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A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death, Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates, And all that went down doing their duty, Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid captains young or old, A pennant universal, subtly waving all time, o’er all brave sailors, All seas, all ships.

II. On the Beach at Night, Alone Book XIX: Sea-Drift: On the Beach at Night Alone On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song, As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.

A vast similitude interlocks all, All distances of place however wide, All distances of time, All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, All nations, All identities that have existed or may exist All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future, This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d, And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.

III. (Scherzo) The Waves Book XIX: Sea-Drift: After the SeaShip After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds,

Book XXVI: Passage to India (from verse 5) O vast Rondure, swimming in space, Cover’d all over with visible power and beauty, Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness, Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above, Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees, With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention, Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.

Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating, Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them, Wandering, yearning, curious, with restless explorations, With questionings, baffled, formless, feverish, with never-happy hearts, With that sad incessant refrain, Wherefore unsatisfied soul? and Whither O mocking life?

Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out, Perhaps even now the time has arrived.

After the seas are all cross’d, (as they seem already cross’d,) After the great captains and engineers have accomplish’d their work, After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist, Finally shall come the poet worthy that name, The true son of God shall come singing his songs. (from verse 8) O we can wait no longer, We too take ship O soul, Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas, Fearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail, Amid the wafting winds, (thou pressing me to thee, I thee to me, O soul,) Caroling free, singing our song of God, Chanting our chant of pleasant exploration.

O soul thou pleasest me, I thee, Sailing these seas or on the hills, or waking in the night, Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death, like waters flowing, Bear me indeed as through the regions infinite, Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear, lave me all over,

Bathe me O God in thee, mounting to thee, I and my soul to range in range of thee.

O Thou transcendent, Nameless, the fibre and the breath, Light of the light, shedding forth universes, thou centre of them.

Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God, At Nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death, But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me, And lo, thou gently masterest the orbs, Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death, And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses of Space.

Greater than stars or suns, Bounding O soul thou journeyest forth; (from verse 9) Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!

Cut the hawsers — haul out — shake out every sail!

Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me, Sail forth — steer for the deep waters only, For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

O my brave soul!

O farther farther sail!

O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God? O farther, farther, farther sail!

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IV. The Explorers

Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?

Who Justify these restless explorations?

Who speak the secret of impassive earth?

Who bind it to us? what is this separate Nature so unnatural?

What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours, Cold earth, the place of graves.)

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After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad waves hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship, Waves of the ocean bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying, Waves, undulating waves, liquid, uneven, emulous waves, Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves, Where the great vessel sailing and tacking displaced the surface, Larger and smaller waves in the spread of the ocean yearnfully flowing, The wake of the sea-ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome under the sun, A motley procession with many a fleck of foam and many fragments, Following the stately and rapid ship, in the wake following.

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About the artist Two notes. That’s all it takes to recognize the voice of Michael McDonald. Distinctive and soulful, it is one of the most yearningly emotive instruments of our times. To this add formidable songwriting and keyboard skills, and you have an artist who has been a singular musical presence for four decades. Along with his musical contributions, McDonald has long been an active humanitarian. Over the years, he has lent his talents and energies to many causes and benefits, including MusiCares, the National Council of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, and the

7UP Grammy Signature Schools Program. In April 2011, he was part of a star-studded lineup at Kokua for Japan, a concert that raised $1.6 million for tsunami relief.

Born into a musical family in St. Louis on February 12, 1952, McDonald started singing when he was 4 years old. After tinkering with banjo and guitar, he found his true passion at the piano. Determined to pursue music fulltime, McDonald moved to L.A in the early ’70s, where he honed his skills as a session musician and singer. That soon led to an invitation to join InConcert

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Steely Dan. Over the course of four classic albums, McDonald became an integral part of the group’s sound, singing background vocals on FM staples like “Black Friday” and “Peg.” In the mid-’70s, McDonald joined The Doobie Brothers, helping the band redefine their funky R&B sound as a singer, keyboardist and songwriter on such Top 40 singles as “Takin’ It to the Streets” and “What a Fool Believes.”

His distinct vocal style has also made him one of the world’s most sought-after session singers. Beyond his hits with the Doobies, McDonald has lent his voice to records by an A-Z of artists, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Joni Mitchell and Vince Gill.

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Giancarlo Guerrero

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iancarlo Guerrero is the Music Director of the Nashville Symphony and concurrently holds the position of Principal Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency.

His recordings with Nashville Symphony won GRAMMY® Awards in 2011 and 2012, including Best Orchestral Performance. A fervent advocate of contemporary music and composers, Guerrero has championed works by several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty, Roberto Sierra and Richard Danielpour.

In the 2013/14 season, Guerrero will make several European debuts, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Copenhagen Philharmonic. In North America, he takes The Cleveland Orchestra on tour and returns to the symphony orchestras of Cincinnati and Detroit. For many years he has maintained a close association with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Brazil, as well as with the Simón

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Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and El Sistema in Venezuela.

In recent seasons Guerrero has established himself with many of the major North American orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Toronto and Vancouver, among others. He is also known to audiences of large summer festivals including the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Blossom Music Festival in Cleveland. He is also cultivating an increasingly visible profile in Europe, where his recent debuts included BBC Symphony Orchestra and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

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

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Kelly Corcoran

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he 2013/14 season marks Associate Conductor Kelly Corcoran’s seventh season with the Nashville Symphony. During this time, she has conducted a variety of programs and has served as the primary conductor for the orchestra’s education and community engagement concerts. She also conducted the Nashville Symphony’s CD with Riders In The Sky, ‘Lassoed Live’ at the Schermerhorn, and made her Carnegie Hall conducting debut in May 2012 with the Nashville Symphony during the Spring For Music Festival. In May 2013, Corcoran was named director of the Nashville Symphony Chorus.

This season, Corcoran has return guestconducting engagements with The Cleveland Orchestra and the Naples Philharmonic, as well as a debut with the Charleston Symphony. She has conducted major orchestras throughout the country, including performances with the Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee and National Symphonies, often with return engagements. In 2009, she made her South American debut as a guest conductor with the Orquesta Sinfónica UNCuyo in Mendoza,

Argentina, and returned for multiple programs in 2011. Corcoran has developed a reputation for exciting, energized performances. Critic Tim Page of the Washington Post hailed her conducting as “sure and sensitive.”

Named as Honorable Mention for the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, Corcoran studied with Marin Alsop. Prior to her position in Nashville, she completed three seasons as assistant conductor for the Canton Symphony Orchestra in Ohio and music director of the Canton Youth Symphony and the Cleveland-area Heights Chamber Orchestra.

In 2004, Corcoran participated in the National Conducting Institute, where she studied with Leonard Slatkin. Originally from Massachusetts and a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for more than 10 years, she received her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from The Boston Conservatory and her Master of Music in instrumental conducting from Indiana University. She currently serves on the conducting faculty at the New York Summer Music Festival.

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2013/14 Nashville Symphony orchestra Basses*

Concertmaster Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair

Principal

Jun Iwasaki,

Principal

Associate Concertmaster

Elizabeth Stewart Gary Lawrence,

Preston Bailey,

Assistant Concertmaster

Kevin Jablonski

Trombones

Concertmaster Emerita

Flutes

Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, Denise Baker Kristi Seehafer John Maple Deidre Fominaya Bacco Alison Gooding Paul Tobias Beverly Drukker Anna Lisa Hoepfinger Kirsten Mitchell Erin Long Isabel Bartles Second Violins*

Carolyn Wann Bailey, Principal

Zeneba Bowers,

Assistant Principal

Kenneth Barnd Jessica Blackwell Rebecca Cole Radu Georgescu Benjamin Lloyd Louise Morrison Laura Ross Jeremy Williams Rebecca J Willie Violas*

Assistant Principal Principal Emeritus

Erik Gratton,

Principal Anne Potter Wilson Chair

Ann Richards,

Assistant Principal

Kathryn Ladner

Norma Grobman Rogers Chair

Piccolo

Kathryn Ladner,

Norma Grobman Rogers Chair

Oboes

James Button, Principal

Ellen Menking,

Assistant Principal

Roger Wiesmeyer

English Horn

Roger Wiesmeyer Clarinets

James Zimmermann, Principal

Cassandra Lee,

Assistant Principal

Daniel Reinker,

Daniel Lochrie

Shu-Zheng Yang,

E-flat Clarinet

Principal

Assistant Principal

Judith Ablon + Hari Bernstein Bruce Christensen Michelle Lackey Collins Christopher Farrell Mary Helen Law Melinda Whitley Clare Yang

Cassandra Lee

Bass Clarinet

Daniel Lochrie Bassoons

Cynthia Estill, Principal

Dawn Hartley,

Assistant Principal

Cellos*

Gil Perel

Principal

Contra Bassoon

Acting Assistant Principal James Victor Miller Chair

Horns

Anthony LaMarchina, Xiao-Fan Zhang,

Bradley Mansell Lynn Marie Peithman Stephen Drake Michael Samis + Matthew Walker Christopher Stenstrom Keith Nicholas Julia Tanner

Co-Principal

Acting Assistant Principal

Vacant,

Principal

Susan K. Smith,

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Erin Hall,

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Glen Wanner,

Gerald C. Greer,

Giancarlo Guerrero Music Director

Joel Reist,

Acting Principal

Bass Trombone

Steven Brown Tuba

Gilbert Long, Principal

Timpani

William G. Wiggins, Principal

Percussion

Sam Bacco, Principal

Richard Graber,

Assistant Principal

Harp

Licia Jaskunas, Principal

Keyboard

Robert Marler, Principal

Librarians

D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal

Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian

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Leslie Norton, Principal

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2013/14 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Officers

Directors

Edward A. Goodrich Board Chair

Janet Ayers John Bailey III Russell Bates Scott Becker David Black Jack Bovender Jr. Anastasia Brown Keith Churchwell Rebecca Cole * Michelle R. Collins * Ben Cundiff Carol Daniels Robert Dennis Robert Ezrin Benjamin Folds Judy Foster Alison Gooding * Amy Grant Carl Haley Jr. Michael W. Hayes

James Seabury III Board Chair Elect Kevin Crumbo Board Treasurer Betsy Wills * Board Secretary Alan D. Valentine * President & CEO

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Lee Ann Ingram Martha R. Ingram * Elliott Warner Jones Sr. Larry Larkin * John T. Lewis John Manson * Richard Miller Eduardo Minardi William Minkoff David Morgan Mike Musick Peter Neff Harrell Odom Cano Ozgener Victoria Chu Pao Mark Peacock Pam Pfeffer Deborah Pitts Jennifer H. Puryear Nelson Shields

Renata Soto Brett Sweet Van Tucker Mark Wait Jeffery Walraven Ted Houston Welch Melinda Whitley * Roger Wiesmeyer * William Greer Wiggins * David Williams II Harry Williams Jr. * Jeremy Williams * Clare Yang * Donna Yurdin * Shirley Zeitlin James Zimmermann * *Indicates Ex Officio

Finance Karen Warren, Controller Pam Lindemann, Payroll and Accounts Payable Manager Sheri Switzer, Senior Accountant

Artistic Administration Laurence Tucker, Director of Artistic Administration Ellen Kasperek, Manager of Artistic Administration Maiken Knudsen, Manager of Artistic Administration D. Wilson Ochoa, Principal Librarian Jennifer Goldberg, Librarian Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator

Human Resources Ashley Skinner, SPHR, Director of Human Resources Kathleen Conwell, Human Resources Coordinator Kathleen McCracken, Volunteer Manager and League Liaison

Data Standards Tony Exler, Director of Data Standards Sheila Wilson, Sr. Database Associate Development Erin Wenzel, CFRE, Sr. Director of Special Campaigns Maribeth Stahl, Sr. Director of Annual Campaigns M. Wade Kelley, CFRE, Major Gifts Officer Jason Parker, Grants and Research Manager Dan Tonelson, Corporate Development Manager Mary Dadej, Corporate Development Associate Eric Adams, Director of Patron Services Patron Services Specialists: Dennis Carter, Gina Haining, Paul Shearer, Judith Wall Education Blair Bodine, Director of Education and Community Engagement Andy Campbell, Education and Community Engagement Program Manager Kelley Bell, Education and Community Engagement Assistant

Food, Beverage and Events Hays McWhirter, Catering and Events Manager Johnathon McGee, Food and Beverage Supervisor Schuyler Thomas, Food and Beverage Supervisor Anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager

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Executive Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO Karen Fairbend, Executive Assistant to the President and CEO Myles MacDonald, Interim COO Mark A. Blakeman, Senior Vice President, General Manager Katy Lyles, Assistant to the Senior Vice President and General Manager Michael Kirby, V.P. of Finance and Administration and CFO Jonathan Norris, V.P. of Development Delaney Gray, Assistant to the V.P. of Development Jonathan Marx, V.P. of Communications

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I.T. Trenton Leach, Software Applications Developer Chris Beckner, Technical Support Specialist Marketing & COMMUNICATIONS Misty Cochran, Director of Advertising and Promotions Laurie Davis, Publicist Britanie Knapp, Website and Social Media Community Manager Jessi Menish, Graphic Designer Sean Shields, Graphic Design Associate Production and Orchestra Operations Tim Lynch, Sr. Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager Carrie Marcantonio, Orchestra Personnel Manager John Sanders, Chief Technical Engineer Brian Doane, Production Manager Mitch Hansen, Lighting Director Michelle Griesmer, Assistant Lighting Director Gary Call, Audio Engineer Mark Dahlen, Audio Engineer W. Paul Holt, Stage Manager Josh Walliser, Stage and Production Assistant Venue Management Eric Swartz, Associate V.P. of Venue Management Danny Covington, Chief Engineer Kenneth Dillehay, Facility Maintenance Technician Wade Johnson, Housekeeping Manager Tony Meyers, Director of Security and Front of House Alan Woodard, Security Guard

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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 August 29, 2013

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David & Diane Black Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick

Carol & Frank Daniels III Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram

Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III

Walter Sharp Society Gifts of $15,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (1) Judy & Joe Barker

Martin Brown Family 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

Virtuoso Society Gifts of $10,000-$14,999 Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr. Richard & Judith Bracken Mr.* & Mrs. J. C. Bradford Jr. Janine & Ben Cundiff Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr.

Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero Carl & Connie Haley Patricia & H. Rodes Hart Jan & Daniel Lewis Myles & Joan MacDonald The Melkus Family Foundation

The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt Richard & Sharalena Miller Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer

Stradivarius Society Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999 Mr. & Mrs. James Ayers J. B. & Carylon Baker Russell W. Bates Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup Annie Laurie & Irvin* Berry Ann & Frank Bumstead Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Carlton Fred Cassetty Kelly & Bill Christie Mr. & Mrs. Tom F. Cone Mr. & Mrs. Kevin W. Crumbo Hilton & Sallie Dean Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis Marty & Betty Dickens Dee & Jerald Doochin Laura & Wayne Dugas Mr. & Mrs. Jere M. Ervin Annette S. Eskind The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Marilyn Ezell John & Lorelee Gawaluck Allis Dale & John Gillmor Ed & Nancy Goodrich Jack & Jill Harmuth

Mr. & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn Helen & Neil Hemphill Mrs. V. Davis Hunt Mr. & Mrs. David B. Ingram Keith & Nancy Johnson Elliott Warner Jones & Marilyn Lee Jones Anne Knauff Christine Konradi & Stephan Heckers Ralph & Donna Korpman 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. William T. Minkoff Jr. Anne & Peter Neff Dr. Barron Patterson & Mr. Burton Jablin

Hal & Peggy Pennington Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Anne & Joe Russell Mr. & Mrs. Scott C. Satterwhite Joe & Dorothy Scarlett Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Schatzlein Dr. & Mrs. John Selby Mr.* & Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus Ronald & Diane Shafer The Shields Family Foundation Nelson & Sheila Shields Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small Mr. & Mrs. Earl S. Swensson Dr. John B. Thomison* Mr. & Mrs. Louis B. Todd Jr. Alan D. & Jan L. Valentine Peggy & John Warner Ms. Johnna Benedict Watson Mr. & Mrs. Ted H. Welch Barbara & Bud Zander Shirley Zeitlin Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos & Ms. Lydia A. Howarth

Golden Baton Society Gifts of $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous (2) Clint & Kali Adams Mrs. R. Benton Adkins Jr. Drs. W. Scott & Paige Akers Shelley Alexander Jon K. & Colleen Atwood Dr. & Mrs. Elbert Baker Jr.

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Ms. Marilyn Bell Betty C. Bellamy Mr. & Mrs. Louie A. Belt Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg Mark & Sarah Blakeman Dr. & Mrs. Frank H. Boehm Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells

Dr. & Mrs. H. Victor Braren Dan & Mindy Brodbeck Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Buijsman Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt Michael & Jane Ann Cain Mr. Philip M. Cavender Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler

Geoffrey & Sandra Sanderson Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Scott Stephen K. & Patricia L. Seale Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons K.C. & Mary Smythe Jack & Louise Spann Christopher & Maribeth Stahl Pamela & Steven Taylor Rich & Carol Thigpin Scott & Julie Thomas Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes Risë & Laurence Tucker Mr. Robert J. Turner Drs. Pilar Vargas & Sten H. Vermund Mr. Vince Vinson Kris & G. G. Waggoner Deborah & Mark Wait Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery C. & Dayna L. Walraven Mrs. W. Miles Warfield Jonathan & Janet Weaver Carroll Van West & Mary Hoffschwelle Art & Lisa Wheeler Mr. Thomas G. B. Wheelock Ms. Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie & Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie Charles Hampton White Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie D. White Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly Dr. Artmas L. Worthy

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CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Gifts of $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (12) Jerry Adams Jeff & Tina Adams James & Glyna Aderhold Mark & Niki Antonini Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin Jeremy & Rebecca Atack Grace & Carl Awh Sallie & John Bailey Dr. & Mrs. Billy R. Ballard Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Barbara & Mike Barton Mrs. Brenda Bass Mr. & Mrs. James Beckner Mrs. Norma M. Bell Frank M. Berklacich, MD Mr.* & Mrs. Harold S. Bernard Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Bills Mr. David Blackbourn & Ms. Celia Applegate Dennis & Tammy Boehms Bob & Marion Bogen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bottorff Randal & Priscilla Braker Jere & Crystal Brassell Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Brown Jean & David Buchanan Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III Sharon Lee Butcher Chuck & Sandra Cagle John E. Cain III Mr. & Mrs. Gerald G. Calhoun Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack Jan & Jim* Carell Ann & Sykes Cargile Mr. David Carlton Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III Clint & Patty Carter Dr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Carter Michael & Pamela Carter

Anita & Larry Cash Dr. Elizabeth Cato Mary & Joseph Cavarra Erica & Doug Chappell Barbara & Eric Chazen Donna R. Cheek James H. Cheek III Mrs. John Hancock Cheek Jr. M. Wayne Chomik Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher David & Starling Clark George D. Clark Jr. Mr. Terry Clyne Esther & Roger Cohn Ed & Pat Cole Chase Cole Mr. Brian Cook Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Cook III Joe & Judy Cook Teresa Corlew & Wes Allen Nancy Krider Corley Roger & Barbara Cottrell Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. A. Cowan James L. & Sharon H. Cox Dr. & Mrs. James Crafton Drs. Paul A. & Dorothy Valcarcel Craig Dr. & Mrs. William A. Crosby Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie Greg & Collie Daily Mr. Charles E. Daley M. Maitland DeLand, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Daryl Demonbreun LeeAnne & Carl Denney Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Doochin Stephen & Kimberly Drake Laura L. Dunbar E.B.S. Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Eaden Dr. & Mrs. E. Mac Edington

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Edmondson Sr. Dr. & Mrs. William H. Edwards Sr. Robert D. Eisenstein Drs. James & Rena Ellzy Dr. Jack W. Erter Laurie & Steven Eskind Robert & Cassandra Estes Mr. Matthew Evers Mr. & Mrs. DeWitt Ezell Dr. Meredith A. Ezell Ms. Paula Fairchild Mrs. Nancye Feistritzer Mr. & Mrs. John Ferguson W. Tyree Finch T. Aldrich Finegan John & Cindy Watson Ford Ms. Deborah F. Turner & Ms. Beth A. Fortune Drs. Robert & Sharron Francis Ms. Bettie D. Fuller Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas R. Ganick Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III Frank Ginanni Nancy & Gerry Goffinet Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner Dr. & Mrs. James D. Green Dr. & Mrs. Allen F. Gwinn The Evelyn S. & Jim Horne Hankins Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes Ms. Doris Ann Hendrix Carrie & Damon Hininger Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey N. Hinson Judith Hodges Ken & Pam Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Holton Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Hooker Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III Vicki & Rick Horne

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Ray Houston Hudson Family Foundation Donna & Ronn Huff Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Huljak Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Judith S. & James R. Humphreys Marsha & Keel Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Irby Sr. Bud Ireland Rodney Irvin Family Mr. & Mrs. Toshinari Ishii Ellen & Kenneth Jacobs Lee & Pat Jennings George & Shirley Johnston Jan Jones & Steve Williams Mary Loventhal Jones Mrs. Robert N. Joyner Ray & Rosemarie Kalil Mr. & Mrs. James Kelso Michael & Melissa Kirby Tom & Darlene Klaritch Walter & Sarah Knestrick William C. & Deborah Patterson Koch Ms. Pamela L. Koerner Ms. Linda R. Koon Heloise Werthan Kuhn Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse Bob & Mary LaGrone Mr. Okey M. Landers Larry & Martha Larkin Richard & Diane Larsen Kevin & May Lavender Sandi & Tom Lawless Dr. & Mrs. John W. Lea IV Don & Patti Liedtke Dr. & Mrs. T. A. Lincoln Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Lipman Joe & Anne Maddux Rhonda A. Martocci & William S. Blaylock Steve & Susie Mathews Lynn & Jack May Bob Maynard Joey & Beth McDuffee Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNeilly Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. McRae III Drs. Manfred & Susan Menking Dr. Mark & Mrs. Theresa Messenger Diana & Jeff Mobley Mr. & Mrs. William P. Morelli Patricia & Michael Moseley

Mrs. Betty W. Mullens Matt & Rhonda Mulroy Leonard Murray & Jacqueline Marschak Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. Robert Ness Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Odom Jr. Representative & Mrs. Gary L. Odom Dan & Helen Owens The Paisley Family David & Pamela Palmer Victoria & William Pao Grant & Janet Patterson Dr. Edgar H. Pierce Jr. Mr. Charles H. Potter Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph K. Presley Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Prill Brad S. Procter Dr. Gipsie B. Ranney Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Riven Mr. & Mrs. John A. Roberts Margaret Ann & Walter Robinson Foundation Mary Rolando Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins Ms. Sara L. Rosson & Ms. Nancy Menke Georgianna W. Russell James & Patricia Russell David Sampsell Paula & Kent Sandidge Mr. & Mrs. John J. Sangervasi Samuel A. Santoro & Mary M. Zutter Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul Dr. Norm Scarborough & Ms. Kimberly Hewell Mr. Paul H. Scarbrough Mrs. Cooper M. Schley Dr. & Mrs. R. Bruce Shack Joan B. Shayne Anita & Mike Shea Allen Spears* & Colleen Sheppard Bill & Sharon Sheriff Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Shinar Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas A. Sieveking Sr. Luke & Susan Simons Tom & Sylvia Singleton William & Cyndi Sites George & Mary Sloan Drs. Walter E. Smalley Jr. & Louise Hanson

Suzanne & Grant Smothers Mr. & Mrs. James H. Spalding Dr. & Mrs. Norman Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Hans Stabell Dr. Michael & Tracy Stadnick Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein Mr. & Mrs. David B. Stewart Jane Lawrence Stone Mr. & Mrs. James G. Stranch III Ann & Bob Street Mrs. Susan & Volker Striepe M.D. Bill & Linda Suchman Bruce & Elaine Sullivan Johanna & Fridolin Sulser James B. & Patricia B. Swan Brett & Meredythe Sweet Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mr. Mark Lee Taylor Ann M. Teaff & Donald McPherson III Dr. Paul E. Teschan Dr. & Mrs. William Thetford Dr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Thomas Mr. Dwight D. Thrash Dr. Gary Tizard Candy Toler Norman & Marilyn Tolk Joe & Ellen Torrence Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Thomas L. & Judith A. Turk Christi & Jay Turner Mr. & Mrs. William E. Turner Jr. Larry & Brenda Vickers Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl Mike & Elaine Walker Mr. & Mrs. Martin H. Warren Talmage M. Watts Erin Wenzel Mr. & Mrs. James W. White Stacy Widelitz Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer Mr. & Mrs. William G. Wiggins Mr. & Mrs. David M. Wilds Craig P. Williams & Kimberly Schenk Judy S. Williams Shane & Laura Willmon Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe Mr. & Mrs. D. Randall Wright Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Zigli

CONCERTMASTER Gifts of $500 - $999 Anonymous (24) Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Abelman Mrs. Pamela Alexander Carol M. Allen Andy & Karen Anderson Geralda M. Aubry Jeff & Carrie Bailey Dr. Houston A. Baker Richard W. Baker Mr. Randall B. Ball Susan F. & Paul J. Ballard George E. Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Edwin R. Barton Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman Katrin T. Bean Marti Bellingrath Bernice Amanda Belue Mike & Kathy Benson

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Dr. Joel Birdwell Ralph & Jane Black Randolph & Elaine Blake Mr. John Blanton Mr. & Mrs. Bill Blevins Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin Irma Bolster Mary K. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. William E. Boyte Mrs. Beverly J. Brandenburg Robert* & Barbara Braswell Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun Dr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Bressman Berry & Connie Brooks Anastasia Brown Dr. Pamela E. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Edward A. Burgess Mr. Peter L. Bush Dr. & Mrs. Grady Butler

James Button William & Mary Callahan Mr. Thomas R. Campion Michael & Linda Carlson Bill & Chris Carver Mr. & Mrs. Christopher John Casa Santa Ms. Pamela Casey John & Susan Chambers Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry Jay & Ellen Clayton Sallylou & David Cloyd Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen The Honorable & Mrs. Lewis H. Conner William & Margaret Connor Paul & Alyce Cooke Elizabeth Cormier Marion Pickering Couch

Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page Ms. Jeanne E. Pankow Mr. & Mrs. M. Forrest Parmley Dr. & Mrs. C. Leon Partain Ms. Lisa Pasho-Coughlin John W. & Mary Patterson Drs. Teresa & Phillip Patterson Dr. & Mrs. Joel Q. Peavyhouse Dr. & Mrs. A. F. Peterson Jr. Linda & Carter Philips Faris & Robert Phillips CW Pinson, M.D., MBA Gaynelle Pitner Ms. Julie B. Plexico Rick & Diane Poen Mr. John Pope Dr. & Mrs. James L. Potts John & Fiona Prine J. Hayden Pruett George & Joyce Pust Dr. James Quiggins Mr. Edwin B. Raskin Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths Mrs. Ida D. Read Ms. Bonnie D. Reagan Franco & Cynthia Recchia Paul & Gerda Resch Candace Mason Revelette Mr. Cliff N. Rhodes Mary Riddle Susan B. Ridley Mrs. Julie A. Roe Mr. & Mrs. Doug Rogers W. Don Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas Mr. & Mrs. David C. Roland Laura Ross Dr. James Roth Dr.* & Mrs. Kenneth Rutherford Samuel L. & Barbara Sanders Philip & Jane Sanderson Dr. Glynis Sandler & Dr. Martin Sandler Mr. & Mrs. Charles & Robin Schlacter Pam & Roland Schneller Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle Dr. Kenneth E. Schriver & Dr. Anna W. Roe Peggy C. Sciotto Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott Mr. Roderick Scruggs Drs. Fernando F. & Elena O. Segovia Odessa L. Settles Max & Michelle Shaff Mr.* & Mrs. Robert K. Sharp Mr. & Mrs. Richard Shearer Mr. & Mrs. Alan Sielbeck Smith Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith Robert B. Smith Dr. Robert Smith & Barbara Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith Ruth & William Smith Mr. James E. Snider Jr. Mr.& Mrs. James M. Sohr Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Sohr Mickey M. & Kathleen Sparkman Ms. Maggie P. Speight Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr. Mr. M. Clark Spoden Ms. Karen G. Sroufe Gloria & Paul Sternberg Jr. Dr. & Mrs. William R. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. James P. Stonehocker Mr. & Mrs. William T. Stroud Mr. & Mrs. James E. Summar Sr.

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Dr. Elisabeth Dykens & Dr. Robert Hodapp Frances Holt Ms. Susan S. Holt Dr. Jian Huang Albert C. Hughes Jr. & Charlotte E. Hughes Margie Hunter Nelson Hunter & Becky Gardner Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman Sandra & Joe Hutts Michael & Evelyn Hyatt Bob & Virginia Johnson Dr. Barbara F. Kaczmarska Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy John & Eleanor Kennedy Jane Kersten & Ray Sissom Ms. Janet Kleinfelter Mr. & Mrs. Gene C. Koonce Nancy & Edd Lancaster Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land Mr. & Mrs. Samuel W. Lavender Mrs. Martha W. Lawrence Mr. David C. Lehman Jr. Ted & Anne Lenz Michael & Ellen Levitt Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Mr. & Mrs. John Lillie Burk & Caroline Lindsey Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Lippolis Drs. Walt & Shannon Little The Howard Littlejohn Family Drs. Amy & George Lynch George & Cathy Lynch Tim Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Phil Lyons Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Macdonald William R. & Maria T. MacKay Mr. & Mrs. Don MacLachlan James & Gene Manning Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Manno Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Markus Lee Marsden Mr. Henry Martin James & Patricia Martineau Drs. Ricardo Fonseca & Ingrid Mayer Peg & Al McCree Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod Randy & Edina McMasters Catherine & Brian McMurray Ed & Tracy McNally Sam & Sandra McSeveney Ronald S. Meers Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Mericle Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether Cedric & Delberta Miller Dr. & Mrs. Philip G. Miller Drs. Randolph & Linda Miller Dr. & Mrs. Kent B. Millspaugh Dr. Jere Mitchum Dr. & Mrs. Charles L. Moffatt Ms. Gay Moon Cynthia & Richard Morin Steve & Laura Morris Margaret & David Moss Dick & Mary Jo Murphy Lucille C. Nabors Larry & Marsha Nager Leslie & Scott Newman Lonnie & Allene Newton William & Kathryn Nicholson Mr. Brian M. Norris Jane K. Norris D. Wilson Ochoa Mr. & Mrs. Russell Oldfield Jr.

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Richard & Marcia Cowan Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Craig Dr. Robert Crants III Mr. & Mrs. Rob Crichton Ms. Susannah C. Culbertson James & Maureen Danly Kimberly L. Darlington Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Davenport Maria Gabriella Giro & Jeff Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Davis Steve Sirls & Allen DeCuyper Mr. Daniel A. DeFigio Mrs. Edwin DeMoss Anne R. Dennison Wally & Lee Lee Dietz Tom & Leslie DiNella Karen & Steven Good Peter & Kathleen Donofrio Josephine Doubleday Tere & David Dowland Ms. Katie Doyle Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Drake Joe & Shirley Draper Mrs. Sheila D. Duke Dr. Jane Easdown & Dr. James Booth Dr. James E. Edwards Mrs. Clara Elam Dr. Christopher & Wendy Ellis Mr. Owen T. Embry Mr. & Mrs. William H. Eskind Edgar & Kim Evins Jr. Dr. John & Janet Exton Bill & Dian S. Ezell Ms. Marilyn Falcone Laurie & Ron Farris Michael & Rosemary Fedele Ms. Fern Fitzhenry Bela Fleck Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer & Family Denise Foote Dr. & Mrs. Armando C. Foronda Patrick & Kimberly Forrest Mr. & Mrs. David B. Foutch Robert & Peggy Frye Suzanne J. Fuller Bill & Ginny Gable William Joyce & Anderson Gaither John & Eva Gebhart Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry Mr. & Mrs. H. Steven George Mr. & Mrs. Stewart J. Gilchrist Mr. Benjamin L. Gordon Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Gould Mr. & Mrs. Richard Grant Bryan D. Graves Roger & Sherri Gray Richard & Randi Green Mr. Michael Grillot RenĂŠe & Tony Halterlein Dr. & Mrs. Carl Hampf Jay & Stephanie Hardcastle Dr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Hardy Kent & Becky Harrell Jean & Dick Hart Mark & Sylvia Hartzog Mr. & Mrs. Evans Harvill Dr. & Mrs. Jason Haslam Janet & Jim Hasson Dr. Gerald & Mary Hausman Mr. & Mrs. Philip F. Head Doug & Beth Heimburger Keith & Kelly Herron Mr. David Hilley Dr. Becky E. Swanson-Hindman Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt

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Craig & Dianne Sussman Dr. & Mrs. J. D. Taylor Eugene & Penny Te Selle Gilbert Thibedore Mr. Marcus W. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. William D. Tidwell Mr. Michael P. Tortora Martha J. Trammell Mr. & Mrs. Ray Troop Mila & Bill Truan Monty Holmes & Van Tucker Bradley & Karen Vandermolen Karl & Ann VanDevender Ms. Rita R. Vann Kathryn G. Varnell

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Lois J. Wagner & Barbara M. Lonardi Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner Curt & Kay Wallen Mr. Donald D. Warden II Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Warner Jr. Lawrence & Karen Washington Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen Mrs. James A. Webb Jr. Dr. Medford S. Webster Beth & Arville Wheeler Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wheeler Alyson Wideman Joe Wieck Mrs. Marie Holman Wiggins Adam & Laura Wilczek

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 Patrick & Phaedra Yachimski Mr. Payton H. Young Dr. Michael Zanolli & Julie K. Sandine Ms. Jane Zeigler Roy & Ambra Zent

Ms. Helen R. Blackburn-White Rick & Abby Blahauvietz Marilyn Blake Joan Bledsoe Mr. John Bliss Ms. Mimi Bliss Phil & Carol Boeing Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. Bolger David L. Bone Mr. Paine Bone Mr. & Mrs. Roger Borchers David Bordenkircher Jerry & Donna Boswell Robert E. Bosworth Carolyn J. Bowlds Don & Deborah Boyd Jeff & Jeanne Bradford Mr. Charles Brasher Mary Lawrence Breinig Ms. Alexis Bright Betty & Bob Brodie Mr & Mrs. Larry J. & Julia Brooks Kathy & Bill Brosius Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Brown Robert Brown Tom Bruce Burnece Walker Brunson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Bryant Mr. Nicholas M. Buda T. Mark & D. K. Buford Mrs. Robert Bundy Mr. & Mrs. John R. Burch Sr. Mr. & Mrs. David R. Buttrey Jr. Geraldine & Wilson Butts Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Byrd Ms. Betsy Calabrace Mr. Richard Callahan Mrs. Julia C. Callaway Mr. Oscar Calles Claire Ann Calongne Mr. Richard A. Calvin Bratschi Campbell Mr. Kenneth L. Campbell Gary E. Canaday 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 Valleau & Robert M. Caruthers Ms. Shalonda Cawthon Evelyn LeNoir Chandler Mr. Caldwell Charlet Dr. Walter J. Chazin Mrs. Robert L. Chickey

Barry & Janie Childers Mr. Won S. Choi Mr. Joseph B. Christy Dr. AndrĂŠ & Ms. Doreatha H. Churchwell Teresa C. Cissell Councilman & Mrs. Phil Claiborne Drs. Walter & Deborah Clair Charles & Agenia Clark Steven* & Donna Clark Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clarkson Mr. & Mrs. Roy Claverie Sr. Keith N. Clayton Mr. & Mrs. Neely B. Coble III Dr. Clifford Cockerham & Ms. Sherry Cummings Mark & Robin Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan J. Cole Ms. Danah Coleman Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Coleman Shirley Coleman Mr. & Mrs. Wiley B. Coley Colonel (ret.) Dr. & Mrs. James R. (Conra) Collier Mr. & Mrs. Jerry C. Collins Ms. Peggy B. Colson F. Michael Combs Mr. & Mrs. Randy Cook Mr. Troy E. Cook Donna Cookson Ms. Anne G. Cooper Mike & Sandy Cooper Kathy & Scott Corlew Ms. Adrienne L. Corn Allie & Landford Correll Dr. Charles Cox & Dr. Joy Cox Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Jeff L. Creasy Mr. & Mrs. David Crecraft Will R. & Jean Crowthers Ms. Kathleen M. Cullen R. Barry & Kathy Cullen The Daly-Ark Family Ms. Margaret M. DAngelo Katherine C. Daniel William N. Daniel Jr. Ms. Aurora A. Daniels Mr. M. Bradshaw Darnall III Andrew Daughety & Jennifer Reinganum Janet Keese Davies Frank C. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Daws Ms. Gloria Deaner Doug & Marie DeGraaf Dr. & Mrs. Roy L. DeHart Wade & Jeanine Denney Mr. & Mrs. J. William Denny

FIRST CHAIR Gifts of $250 - $499 Anonymous (29) Drs. Oran Aaronson & Shannon Snyder Judith Ablon The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. W. Robert Abstein Ben & Nancy Adams Eric & Shannon Adams Maryle & Tom Albin Mr. George E. Alexander Dr. & Mrs. John Algren Mr. & Mrs. Roger Allbee Dr. Joseph H. Allen Newton & Burkley Allen Ruth G. Allen Mr. & Mrs. John Allpress Michael & Charlene Alvey Adrienne Ames Wm. J. & Margery Amonette Betty Anderson Dr. & Mrs. John E. Anderson Professor Kathryn Anderson Ken & Jan Anderson Newell Anderson & Lynne McFarland Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple Patricia & Jay Armstrong Todd & Barbara Arrants Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins The Brian C. Austin Family Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Averbuch Dr. & Mrs. J. Kelley Avery Lawrence E. Baggett Charles & Marjorie Bain Ms. Carolyn C. Baker Drs. Ferdinand & Eresvita Balatico Mr. & Mrs. J. Oriol Barenys Dr. Beth S. Barnett A. S. Barns Dr.* & Mrs. Thomas C. Barr Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Barr Mr. & Mrs. Jack Bass, Jr. Mr. Curtis L. Baysinger Ms. Michelle L. Beauvais Dr. Sammy F. Becdach Susan O. Belcher Mr. Wesley P. Belden Mark H. Bell Ron & Sheryl Bell Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender Mr. Carl W. Berg Ms. Margaret P. Bernado Dr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Berry Ms. Tyler Berry Cherry & Richard Bird Dr. & Mrs. Ben J. Birdwell Bill & Donna Bissell Mr. & Mrs. Scott & Rebekah Blackburn 54

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The Farris & Martin Family Mr. Edward Fedorovich Ms. Karen A. Fentress Dr. Robert G. Ferland Mr. Matt H. Ferry Vince & Dorothy Fesmire Billy & Donna Fields Jerry & Mary Ann Fife Janie & Richard Finch Ms. Jennifer Finger Dr. & Mrs. Jack Fisher Doris T. Fleischer Nellie Folsom Mr. Kent T. Forward Cathy & Kent Fourman Mrs. Katherine H. Fox Andrew & Mary Foxworth Sr. William H. & Babs Freeman Ms. Nelle L. Freemon Scott & Anita Freistat Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Debra Frey Tom & Jennifer Furtsch Dr. Henry Fusner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Galantowicz Dr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Galbraith Ms. Elham Galyon Mr. William Gann Mr. & Mrs. Philip Ganske Mr. & Mrs. Craig E. Gardella Mr. & Mrs. George C. Garden Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Garrett Alan & Jeannie Gaus Nancy & Ken Gentry Miss Lindsay A. George Em J. Ghianni Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Glassford Mark Glazer & Ms. Cynthia Stone

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Eustace Denton Dr. & Mrs. Henry A. DePhillips Mrs. John S. Derryberry Ms. Molly E. Devine Mr. & Mrs. Arthur DeVooght Mr. John I. Dickson Jr. Dr. Joseph & Ambassador Rachel Diggs Dominick & Lynette Dimeola Mr. Guy R. Dinwiddie Ms. Shirley J. Dodge Ms. Angelica M. Dones Kevin J. & Ellen Donovan Mr. & Mrs. William A. Dortch Jr. Mr. Eddie H. Doss Clark & Peggy Druesedow Judith A. Dudley Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Dugger Kathleen & Stephen Dummer Mr & Mrs. Mike Dungan Bob & Nancy Dunkerley Dr. & Mrs. D.W. Durrett Burton Dye Mr. & Mrs. Jim Eades Jr. Kathryn & Webb Earthman Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Ebert Braces by Dr. Ruth Thomas D. Edmonds DVM Bonnie Edwards Dan & Zita Elrod Mr. Steven Eppinger Dr. & Mrs. James Ettien Ms. Claire Evans Bobby & Dawn Evans Tony & Shelley Exler Christopher Farrell & Kathryn Beasley

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H. Carl Haywood Fred & Judy Helfer Doug & Becky Hellerson Mr. Wayne Z. Henderson Jr. Michael & Karen Hernan John Reginald Hill Ronald & Nancy Hill Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hilmer Mr. William D. Hinton Ms. Christina M. Hirsch Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hofe Jim & Kim Holbrook Aurelia L. Holden Mr. & Mrs. James G. Holleman William Hollings Mr. James N. Hollingsworth Dr. and Mrs. Doy Hollman Catherine J. Holsen Drs. Richard T. & Paula C. Hoos Bethany ProductionsBethany & Tyson Hoppe Mr. Gregory R. Horne Ken & Beverly Horner Diane & Bruce Houglum Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. House Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious Samuel H. Howard William Howard Lilly Hsu Mrs. Carol Hudler Mr. Neal Hudson Dr. & Mrs. Louis C. Huesmann II Ms. Jean C. Hughes The Hunt Family Foundation Mr. Kyle Huser Cathy A. Hutchinson Mr. Narum Hyatt Gordon & Shaun Inman Dr. & Mrs. Roger Ireson Atat Israel

Dr. Anna M. Jackson Frances C. Jackson Haynie & Patsy Jacobs Gregory & Patricia James Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Javorcky Mr. Richard W. Jett Mr. & Mrs. Neil Jobe Mr. & Mrs. David A. Johnson John T. & Kerrie Johnson Susan & Evan Johnston Dr. Amos Jones Jr. Bridgette Jones Jane & Cecil Jones Frank & Audrey Jones Pat & Howard Jones Mr. Patrick D. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kanak Dr. & Mrs. Herman J. Kaplan Mrs. Michel G. Kaplan Carly Kear Mrs. Cynthia A. Keathley Jeffrey & Layle Kenyon Mr. Jason Kesler Petter & Courtney Kihlberg Mr. Patrick Kilby Bill & Becca Killebrew Mr. Patrick Killeen Mr. & Mrs. Monty Kimble Kathleen & Don King Drs. Thomas & Vicki King Mr. Alexander W. Kirk George McCulloch & Linda Knowles Mr. & Mrs. Rick Koelz David & Judy Kolzow Dr. Valentina Kon & Dr. Jeffrey L. Hymes Mr. & Mrs. Carl Kornmeyer Mark J. Koury

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*denotes donors who are deceased Honorary In honor of Emily & Ralph Buck In honor of Bonnie Myers In honor of Drake Calton In honor of Marion P. Couch In honor of Keelan Farrell & Ben Gager In honor of Judith & Jim Humphreys In honor of Roger T. May, Esq. In honor of Martha Rivers Ingram In honor of the marriage of Michael Thigpen & Kimhoung Nhep Memorial In memory of Carole Slate Adams In memory of James Bradshaw In memory of James F. Brandenburg In memory of Barbara Smith CagleWalker In memory of Miss Martha Carroll In memory of Steven A. Clark In memory of Ovid Collins In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Tom Crain In memory of Julian de la Guardia In memory of Ann Deol In memory of Joe Ervin In memory of T. Earl & Nora Smith Hinton In memory of Miles Stuart Hunter In memory of Mildred J. Oonk In memory of Willis Page In memory of Mrs.Bert (Emily) Parrish In memory of Lt Cmdr Alan A. Patterson, USN In memory of Katherine Ramage Love In memory of Mr. John Robert Sanders Sr. In memory of Martha B. Short In memory of Martin E. Simmons In memory of Frank Smith In memory of Dr. Sam Simon In memory of Alex Steele In memory of Caroline Suschnick In memory of Rosemary Thompson In memory of Joe Tobias In memory of Lera Van Eys In memory of Fred Viehmann In memory of Mary Lee Watson

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GET INVOLVED! VOLUNTEER

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The Nashville Symphony offers a wide variety of opportunities to engage volunteers from Nashville and surrounding communities.

Tasks include providing office support, assisting on concert nights and much more. You’ll have the opportunity to meet fellow music lovers and to help out behind the scenes at the Schermerhorn!

Volunteers can customize their schedules to fit their lifestyles.

For more information, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/volunteer.

NASHVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE

The Nashville Symphony Orchestra League (NSOL) is a membership-driven organization committed to supporting the work of the Nashville Symphony.

Members help make a difference in our community by assisting with the Nashville Symphony’s music education programs, presenting pre-concert talks, providing administrative support to the Symphony Spring Fashion Show and more. For more information, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/ NSOL. CRESCENDO CLUB

The Crescendo Club is a newly launched group of community leaders, philanthropists and music enthusiasts, ages 21 to 40-ish, who are interested in supporting the Nashville Symphony by participating in unique social events, fundraising initiatives and other music educational activities. For more information, visit NashvilleSymphony.org/ CrescendoClub.

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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 August 29, 2013

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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

Government Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County

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Artistic Underwriters Gifts of $5,000- $9,999 Chet Atkins Music Education Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee The Aaron Copland Fund For Music, Inc. BDO Corrections Corp. of America Cracker Barrel Foundation Samuel M. Fleming Foundation Freeman Webb Company Realtors, Inc. Landis B. Gullett Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Nashville Nashville Predators Foundation OSHi Floral Decor/ Studio PwC The Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor Charitable Foundation Tennessee Christian Medical Foundation Wells Fargo

Business Leader Gifts of $1,000 - $1,499 Anonymous (1) A-1 Appliance Company R. H. Boyd Publishing Corporation Marylee Chaski Charitable Corporation Enfinity Engineering, LLC RD Plastics Co., Inc. Richard Fletcher of 511 Group Inc. Walker Lumber & Hardware Company Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

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

Business Council Gifts of $1,500 - $2,499 Calsonic Kansei Gannett Foundation/The Tennessean Harmon Group, Inc. J. Alexander's Corporation Universal Lighting Technologies William Morris Endeavor Entertainment

Business Associates Gifts of $500 - $999 Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre D.F. Chase, Inc. Haber Corporation Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris Architects, Inc. Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Northgate Gallery, Inc. Quanta Computer Nashville SESAC, Inc. Stansell Electric Company, Inc. Stites & Harbison, PLLC Sysco Nashville Volunteer Barge & Transport, Inc. VSA Arts Tennessee Walmart DC 6062

Business Friend Gifts of $300 - $499 V. Alexander & Co., Inc. Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Nancy June Brandon, Dancy's DataMarketing Network, Inc. Frank C. Davis & Associates Hoskins & Company, P.C. Hunter Marine INDUSCO Jack Cawthon/Jack's Bar B Que Jesse Lee Jones of Robert's Western World Kappa Lambda Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Musgrave Pencil Company, Inc. Riley Warnock & Jacobson PLC IN-KIND AARP Tennessee Ajax Turner Co., Inc. American Airlines American Tuxedo Crowe Horwath LLP Dulce Desserts The Glover Group Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown Nashville, Stephen M. Emahiser Hilton Nashville Downton Ms. Sally M. Levine Lipman Brothers McQuiddy Printing Nashville Symphony Volunteer Auxiliary NAXOS OSHi Floral DĂŠcor Studio Premier Parking of Tennessee Mr. John R. Sanders

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Orchestra Partners Gifts of $10,000 - $24,999 Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Caterpillar Financial Services Chase Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated Griffin Technology Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Ann Hardeman and Combs L. Fort Foundation The HCA Foundation Neal & Harwell Nordstrom Community Giving Publix Super Markets Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation

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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 $10,000 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

$250,000+

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

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

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

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

$100,000+

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

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

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

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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. Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson KPMG LLP Mrs. Heloise Werthan Kuhn John T. Lewis Gilbert Stroud Merritt Mr. David K. Morgan Musicians of the Nashville Symphony

Anne & Peter Neff Cano & Esen Ozgener Ponder & Co. Eric Raefsky, M.D. & Ms. Victoria Heil Delphine & Ken Roberts 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. & Jan L. Valentine Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP Estate of Christine Glenn Webb David & Gail Williams Nicholas S. Zeppos & Lydia A. Howarth

$25,000+

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

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

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

$15,000+

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

Dr. & Mrs. Lindsey W. Cooper Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Andrew D. Crawford Barbara & Willie K. Davis Mr. & Mrs. Arthur C. DeVooght Mr. & Mrs. Matthew H. Dobson V Mike & Carolyn Edwards Mr. John W. Eley & Ms. Donna J. Scott Sylvia & Robert H. Elman Martin & Alice Emmett Larry P. & Diane M. English Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind Bob & Judy Fisher Karen & Eugene C. Fleming Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Barfield II Cathey & Wilford Fuqua Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Gaeto The Grimstad & Stream Families Heidtke & Company, Inc. Robert C. Hilton Dr. & Mrs. Stephen P. Humphrey Franklin Y. Hundley Jr. Margie & Nick* Hunter Joseph Hutts Mr. & Mrs. T.J. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. David B. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Russell A. Jones Jr. John Kelingos Education Fund Beatriz Perez & Paul Knollmaier Pamela & Michael Koban Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Langone Richard & Delorse Lewis Robert A. Livingston Frances & Eugene Lotochinski Mr.* & Mrs. Robert C.H. Mathews, Jr. Betsy Vinson McInnes Jack & Lynn May Mr. & Mrs. James Lee McGregor Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod MR. & Mrs. Robert E. McNeilly III Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor Mary & Max Merrell Donald J. & Hillary L. Meyers Christopher & Patricia Mixon NewsChannel 5 Network Susan & Rick Oliver Piedmont Natural Gas David & Adrienne Piston Charles H. Potter Jr. Joseph & Edna Presley Nancy M. Falls & Neil M. Price Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Pruett Linda & Art Rebrovick Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Rippee Dr. & Mrs. Clifford Roberson Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Robinson Jr. Anne & Charles Roos Ron Rossmann Joan Blum Shayne

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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 Dee & Jerald Doochin Ernst & Young

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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

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SOCI E T Y

Legacy Society leaving a legacy, building a future When Schermerhorn Symphony Center opened to the public in 2006, we envisioned our concert hall serving many generations for decades to come.

If you have that same vision for the Nashville Symphony, then a planned gift can become your ultimate demonstration of commitment and support. You can help us plan for our future — and your own — through this creative approach to philanthropy and estate planning, which allows you to make a significant contribution to the Nashville Symphony while also enjoying income and tax benefits for you and your family.

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

To find out more about planned giving opportunities, please visit NashvilleSymphony.org/plannedgiving, or call 615.687.6532

Anonymous (2) Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton Diane and David L. Black Julie & Frank Boehm Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff Charles W. Cagle Donna & Steven Clark Dr. Cliff Cockerham & Dr. Sherry Cummings Mrs. Barbara J. Conder Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert William M. & Mildred P.* Duncan Deborah Faye Duncan Annette & Irwin* Eskind Judy & Tom Foster Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia & Dr. Pedro E. Garcia Harris A. Gilbert James C. Gooch Ed & Nancy Goodrich Carl T. Haley, Jr. 66

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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 Mrs. Ernestine M. Lynfoot 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

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VISITING 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 Aegis Sciences 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.

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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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.

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THE O’JAYS

NOVEMBER 7-9

NOVEMBER 10

NOVEMBER 14-16

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