February 2018 InConcert

INCONCERT

A PUBLICATION OF THE NASHVILLE SYMPHONY

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2018 ORCHESTRA ROSTER

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MEET OUR MUSICIANS: PRINCIPAL CLARINET JAMES ZIMMERMANN

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CONDUCTORS

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JAZZ SERIES

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STACEY KENT QUINTET February 9

THE ANN AND MONROE CARELL FAMILY TRUST PIED PIPER SERIES

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MUSIC & MAGIC with the Nashville Symphony February 10

HCA/TRISTAR HEALTH LEGENDS OF MUSIC SERIES

DIANA KRALL with the Nashville Symphony

CONTACT US | Feedback? Questions? Concerns?

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February 13 & 14

FIRSTBANK POPS SERIES

THE MUSIC OF JOURNEY with the Nashville Symphony

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February 15 to 17

BLAKEFORD COFFEE AND CLASSICS SERIES

BEETHOVEN'S SECOND PIANO CONCERTO

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BEETHOVEN’S SECOND PIANO CONCERTO

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February 23 & 24 SPECIAL EVENT

SIMPLY SINATRA with the Nashville Symphony

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February 23

AEGIS SCIENCES CLASSICAL SERIES

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March 2

SPECIAL EVENT

VOICES OF SPRING

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March 4

BOARD OF DIRECTORS ROSTER

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ANNUAL FUND: Individuals

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ANNUAL FUND: Corporations

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CAPITAL FUNDS DONORS

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LEGACY SOCIETY

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STAFF ROSTER

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MEET OUR MUSICIANS

ME E T O UR MUS IC IA NS JAMES ZIMMERMANN PRINCIPAL CLARINET Hometown: Hillsborough, N.J. | Joined the Nashville Symphony in 2008 What inspired you to pursue a career in music?

My parents are musicians, and they spent a lot of time playing for musicals. So my roots were in Broadway, not classical music. My dad was a woodwind player in his youth, so we had a clarinet and a saxophone in the house. I said, “Dad, I want to play the saxophone.” And in his best bit of fatherly advice of all time, he said, “Do not play the saxophone first. Play the clarinet first, and when you have mastered that to a certain degree, I will let you play the saxophone because you can pick it up and learn it in 10 minutes, but it doesn’t work the other way.”

When did you discover your love of classical music?

I realized when I was 17 that I had promise as a musician. I envisioned myself at age 60 wondering if I would look back on my life saying, “I wish I had tried to be a musician,” instead of some steady job like business or law. And I was motivated by that fear. So I said, I can try this now, and if it goes sideways I will never be able to say I didn’t try. I also thought, I want to have a family someday. I want to have stability. I want to have a kind of normal life like the one I grew up in. What is a good way to do that? And I thought an orchestra would be the best of all those worlds. So that’s when I started to pursue playing clarinet in an orchestra. And I went to college for it and became single-minded about it.

What’s the most unusual thing that’s happened while you were performing?

We recently played Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony, and the third movement of that piece is very quiet and very thin and kind of distant.

And then the fourth movement starts with a very loud, surprising bang. When we got to that part, someone knocked over a table in a box seat. They had obviously fallen asleep and got jolted awake and knocked over a table. Their glass crashed, and the whole orchestra had to stifle a huge laugh.

People in the audience drop stuff all the time, but that was definitely the best.

How do you see this orchestra and its role in the community?

If you look at orchestras around the United States, especially in some of the bigger cities like Chicago or New York, they pretty much stick to classical music. But here, while we are a great orchestra for classical music, we can do stuff that nobody else can do. And our mission as an orchestra in Music City is to bridge with everybody, from country singers to rock singers. We are really a more diverse and exploratory orchestra than anywhere else I have seen in this country. I have friends in the business everywhere, and we just do more, and we do not spread ourselves too thin. We can play anything with anybody when we have the right pieces in place.

Favorite Composer?

Maurice Ravel.

Favorite piece of music?

Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite.

Favorite non-classical musician?

Aphex Twin.

Favorite Venue?

Hollywood Bowl.

Favorite Sports Team?

USC Trojans and N.Y. Knicks.

Favorite Movie?

The Princess Bride.

Favorite Movie Score?

The Fifth Element.

Read more interviews at NashvilleSymphony.org/meet-our-musicians

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N A S H V I L L E SY M P H O N Y P R ES E N TS

Voices of Hope

7 PM MONDAY, MARCH 26 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER Voices of Hope is the second annual Schermerhorn invitational choral festival, presented this year in partnership with the Tennessee Holocaust Commission as part of Violins of Hope Nashville. This year’s festival will convene student choirs from local public schools, private schools and religious organizations under the direction of Dr. Tamara Freeman, an internationally acknowledged Holocaust ethnomusicologist.

PARTICIPATING CHOIRS INCLUDE • Akiva School

• Hillwood High School

• Antioch High School

• Choral Arts Link

• I.T. Creswell Middle Prep

• Hillsboro High School

• MET Singers

• East Nashville High School

• Nashville School for the Arts

TICKETS AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 26 NashvilleSymphony.org | 615.687.6400