March 2022 | Atlanta Master Chorale Concert Program

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THE WAYS OF STARS ERIC NELSON, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JONATHAN EASTER, PIANO, ORGAN

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022 | 8PM SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2022 | 8PM

Emerson Concert Hall Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Atlanta, Georgia

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The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts is a place where teaching, learning, and performance merge to create a vital arts presence for the entire community. The concert hall was funded by and is named after Atlanta scientist Cherry Logan Emerson who earned both a BA and MA from Emory in the 1930s. It houses a 14-ton Werner Wortsman Memorial Organ built by top North American builder Daniel Jaeckel, which was installed in 2005.

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A C C E SS I B I L I T Y:

PROGRAM Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars (1998).................................................Jonathan Dove Lux Aeterna (1996)......................................... Edward Elgar (1857–1934); Arr. John Cameron a choral setting of Nimrod from the Enigma Variations Three Nocturnes (2008)........................................................................................ Dan Forrest I. Stars II. Lightly stepped a yellow star III. ...Thou motive of the stars Percussion Ensemble: Courtney MacDonald-Bottoms, Joel Morris, Lisa Angert Morris, Scott Pollard Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (2013)..................................... French Melody; Arr. Daniel Elder Goodnight Moon (2017).................................................................................... Eric Whitacre There Will Be Rest (2000)...................................................................................Frank Ticheli Choose Something Like a Star (1959)................................... Randall Thompson (1899–1984) No. 7 from Frostiana The Ways of Stars (2020)....................................................................................Jake Runestad .

Jesse Gilbert, soprano solo Scott Pollard and Courtney MacDonald-Bottoms, percussion

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SEEK HIM THAT MAKETH THE SEVEN STARS Music: Jonathan Dove, © 1998 Faber Music Ltd Text: Amos 5:8; Psalm 139

Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion and turneth the shadow of death into the morning.

Alleluia, yea, the darkness shineth as the day, the night is light about me.

Amen.

LUX AETERNA

A choral setting of Nimrod from the Enigma Variations Music: Edward Elgar (1857–1934); Arr. John Cameron, © 1996 Novello & Company Limited Text: From the Requiem Mass Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine: Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, Quia pius es.

Let perpetual light shine upon them, O Lord, with your saints forever, for you are merciful.

Requiem aeternam, dona eis, Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.

Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.

THREE NOCTURNES Music: Dan Forrest © 2008 Hinshaw Music

I. Stars Text: Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) Alone in the night On a dark hill With pines around me Spicy and still, And a heaven full of stars Over my head, White and topaz, And misty red: Myriads with beating Hearts of fire That aeons Cannot vex or tire; Up the dome of heaven Like a great hill I watch them marching Stately and still, And I know that I Am honored to be Witness Of so much majesty.

II. Lightly stepped a yellow star Text: Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) Lightly stepped a yellow star To its lofty place — Loosed the Moon her silver hat From her lustral Face — All of Evening softly lit As an Astral Hall — Father, I observed to Heaven, You are punctual.

III. …Thou motive of the stars Text: Walt Whitman (1819–1892) 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.

O Thou transcendent, Light of the light, shedding forth universes, thou centre of them, Thou mightier centre of the true, the good, the loving, Thou moral, spiritual fountain—affection’s source—thou reservoir, Thou pulse—thou motive of the stars, suns, systems, That, circling, move in order, safe harmonious, Across the shapeless vastnesses of space.

TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR Music: French Melody, Arr. Daniel Elder, © 2013 GIA Publications, Inc. Text: Jane Taylor (1783–1824) Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky, In the dark blue sky you keep, often through my curtains peep, for you never shut your eye till the sun is in the sky: Though I know not what you are, twinkle, twinkle, little star.

GOODNIGHT MOON

Music: Eric Whitacre, © 2017 Shadow Water Music Text: Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952), © 1947 Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., Renewed © 1975 by Roberta Brown Rauch In the great green room There was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of The cow jumping over the moon And there were three little bears sitting on chairs And two little kittens And a pair of mittens And a little toy house And a young mouse And a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush And a quiet old lady who was whispering “hush” Goodnight room Goodnight moon Goodnight cow jumping over the moon Goodnight light And the red balloon Goodnight bears Goodnight chairs Goodnight kittens And goodnight mittens Goodnight clocks And goodnight socks Goodnight little house And goodnight mouse Goodnight comb And goodnight brush Goodnight nobody Goodnight mush And goodnight to the old lady whispering “hush” Goodnight stars Goodnight air Goodnight noises everywhere.

THERE WILL BE REST

Music: Frank Ticheli, © 2000 by Hindon Publications Text: Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), from “The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale”, © 1933

by Macmillan Publishing Co. There will be rest, and sure stars shining Over the roof-tops crowned with snow, A reign of rest, serene forgetting, The music of stillness holy and low.

I will make this world of my devising, Out of a dream in my lonely mind, I shall find the crystal of peace, above me Stars I shall find.

CHOOSE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR

No. 7 from Frostiana Music: Randall Thompson (1899–1984), © 1959 and 1960 by E.C. Schirmer Music Company, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Group Text: Robert Frost (1874–1963), from “Steeple Bush,” © 1947 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. O Star (the fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud— It will not do to say of night, Since dark is what brings out your light.

Some mystery becomes the proud.

But to be wholly taciturn In your reserve is not allowed.

Say something to us we can learn By heart and when alone repeat.

Say something! And it says, ‘I burn.’

But say with what degree of heat.

Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.

Use language we can comprehend.

Tell us what elements you blend.

It gives us strangely little aid, But does tell something in the end.

And steadfast as Keats’ Eremite, Not even stooping from its sphere, It asks a little of us here.

It asks of us a certain height, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

THE WAYS OF STARS

Commissioned by the Atlanta Master Chorale, Eric Nelson, artistic director Music: Jake Runestad, © 2020 Jake Runestad Music LLC Text: Writings by Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), collected and adapted by the composer The morning was as beautiful as morning could be.

Our instruments consisted of an equatorially mounted telescope of four inches aperture, a small one of two and a half inches, and a perfect little instrument of three inches.

We must try colored glasses; we must examine clamps; we must test screws; we must adjust focus.

The moon was expected to appear at a point 122 degrees from the vertex of the sun.

There were seconds of breathless suspense, and then the inky blackness appeared on the burning limb of the sun.

Born a woman—born with the average brain of humanity— born with more than the average heart— if you are mortal, what higher destiny could you have?

No matter where you are nor what you are, you are a power.

As the moon moved on, the crescent sun became a narrower golden curve of light.

Light clouds drifted toward the sun; a sickly green spread over the landscape; Venus shone brightly on one side of the sun, and as the last rays of sunlight disappeared… the corona burst forth, it encircled the sun and sent streamers for millions of miles into space!

We rejoiced with Nature, we loved the light!

“Give me the ways of wandering stars to know the depths of heaven above and the earth below.” (Virgil)

2021-2022 CHORISTERS SOPRANOS Amy Arnold Casey Bagby Amy Baker Claire Berger Jesse Gilbert Lisa Hayes Perry Houck Amy Kuhn Elizabeth Lamback Katie Leverett Caitlin Norton Megan Schuitema

ALTOS Natalie Boehnlein Holly Botella Emily Boyle Calissa Dauterman Samantha Frischling Stephanie Gilbert Jean Goffaux Amelia Gregory Ava Maalouf Ivy Overcash Joy Putney Meredith Starks Kathryn Stone Sylvia Ware

TENORS Brandon Baker Huston Collings Michael Devine Ameya Gangal Ryan Koter Bronson Lee Paul McClung Andrew McLeod James Ranson James Rashaad Turner

BASSES Nick Almand David Bonaker Justin Bowen Jeffrey Clanton Jared Duncan Justin Han Richard Holz James Jones Mark Lamback Joseph Legaspi Joseph Ripley Wade Thomas Spence Whitehead

AMC BOARD OF DIRECTORS Stephanie Watkins, Board Chair Raymond Chenault, Vice-Chair Cheryl Bachelder Eric Nelson, Artistic Director Charles Beaudrot, Counsel to the Board Raymond Payne Sydney Cleland Alexander (Sandy) Purdie Jamie Clements Stan Segal Sam Hagan Mary Slaughter Tommy Herrington Kathryn Stone, Secretary Marianna Magee Julie Thompson, Treasurer James Verrecchia, Executive Director

ADVISORY BOARD Rodger Herndon Dr. James T. Laney Toni Myers

H. Hamilton Smith William & Carol Yadlosky Ellen & John Yates

STAFF Eric Nelson, Artistic Director Jonathan Easter, Pianist/Organist James Verrecchia, Executive Director Amy Kuhn, Administrative Manager

ATLANTA MASTER CHORALE has touched people’s hearts and spirits with the transformative power of choral music for more than 35 years. Renowned for our transcendent choral sound, we infuse each performance with emotional depth and a rare expressiveness as part of our mission to “inspire and enrich the lives of our community through choral artistry.” The Chorale’s exquisite blend of pitch, rhythm, text, and voice reaches beyond the stage, drawing listeners into a shared space where music touches spirit.

Our awards include the prestigious 2013 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence from Chorus America and the 2014 Prudential Leadership Award for Exceptional Nonprofit Boards presented by BoardSource. We are also the recipient of a 2018-2019 grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies and 2018 recipient of a Leadership DeKalb Community Outreach Project.

Atlanta Master Chorale has performed at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, and at conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), Music Educators National Conference (MENC), Choristers Guild, and American Guild of Organists (AGO). We were also proud to be one of fewer than 30 choirs selected nationwide to perform at ACDA’s National Conference in Minneapolis, March 2017.

Our exciting repertoire has been called “the musical language of the deeper soul” and includes treasures drawn from a broad spectrum of choral music. The Chorale performs concerts in the Atlanta area and throughout the Southeast featuring music from nearly every period and genre including newly commissioned works. Our choral series, published by MorningStar Music/ECS Publishing Group, captures new repertoire premiered by the ensemble, helping to add vibrant original music to the choral field. With our dedicated board, staff, and a roster of skilled volunteer choristers, Atlanta Master Chorale is proud to be a part of the Atlanta arts community.

ERIC NELSON is artistic director of Atlanta Master Chorale and professor of choral studies at Emory University. Dr. Nelson’s choirs have performed throughout the world, including London, Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Seoul, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Sydney Opera House. He has conducted choirs at eight American Choral Directors Association conferences, including Atlanta Master Chorale’s performance at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis for the National Conference in March 2017 and the Emory Concert Choir’s performance at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall for the National Conference in 2011.

Dr. Nelson’s ensembles are characterized by their variety of repertoire and for their ability to fuse technical precision with warmth of musical expression.

He appears regularly as clinician, lecturer, and guest conductor for honor choirs, conventions, symposiums, workshops, and all-state festivals.

Dr. Nelson’s choral compositions and arrangements are sung regularly by ensembles throughout the United States. He is the editor of the Atlanta Master Chorale Choral Series, published by MorningStar Music/ECS Publishing Group.

His compositions are also published by Colla Voce and Ausburg Fortress. He holds degrees in voice and conducting from Houghton College, Westminster Choir College, and Indiana University.

JONATHAN EASTER, Piano, Organ | Known for his musicality and expressivity across multiple instruments, Easter is increasingly sought after as a collaborative organist and pianist. As a collaborative artist, Easter has performed at ACDA and AGO conventions at the regional and national levels. He also performs regularly with the Atlanta Master Chorale and Emory University’s Concert Choir as their accompanist and assistant conductor. As an organist, Easter has performed solo and collaborative recitals at Peachtree Road UMC; Jacoby Symphony Hall in Jacksonville, Florida; the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Augustine, Florida; and Spivey Hall. He can be heard on multiple CDs with the Atlanta Master Chorale, University of North Florida Chamber Singers, and an upcoming CD with trumpet players from around the country. In addition to his work with choral ensembles, he has worked on multiple occasions with solo artists including world-famous mezzo-soprano, Jamie Barton.

Easter currently serves as director of fine arts and organist at Saint Mark UMC in Atlanta, a predominantly LGBTQ congregation in the heart of Midtown.

PROGRAM NOTES: “The Ways of Stars” Notes from the Composer, Jake Runestad: In August of 1869, American astronomer Maria (muh-rye-uh) Mitchell and a cohort of her students from Vassar College traveled to Burlington, Iowa to observe a total solar eclipse (when the moon passes in front of our view of the sun). Mitchell, a respected educator and an important mind in the astronomical community, was the first woman to become a world-renowned professional astronomer and the first woman elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She discovered a comet at the age of 29, which awarded her a gold medal prize from King Christian VIII of Denmark. She was an official calculator for the Nautical Almanac of the United States and an endlessly-curious Renaissance woman. In October of 1869, Mitchell published her account of the eclipse in the popular monthly Hours at Home. This account serves as the main source of text for “The Ways of Stars,” along with additional quotes and writings by Mitchell.

December 14, 2020 was the final total solar eclipse of a tumultuous year and, fittingly, the day I completed this piece. I was glued to the live stream of the eclipse and struck by the metaphors swirling in my brain — of Maria Mitchell, of wonder, of challenges, of the global pandemic, of covered light, and the continued fight for equality. Mitchell’s life was a constant battle for equal rights of women, and she inspired countless students to push beyond society’s boundaries to be their very best and brightest. Through it all, she continued to wonder, to work, and to shine her light.

“You are a power, your influence is incalculable.”

–Maria Mitchell Who Was Maria Mitchell? (biography provided by the Maria Mitchell Association) The woman who does her work better than every woman did before helps all woman kind, not only now, but in all the future, she moves the whole race no matter if it is only a differential movement, it is growth. –Maria Mitchell In a small house on Nantucket Island, America’s first woman astronomer was born and raised in a Quaker family of ten children who were surrounded by books, supported in learning, encouraged to inquire, to ramble, and to investigate the natural world around them. Science ran rampant through the household with an astronomer and teacher father, a librarian mother. A happy house, filled with color where it could be found – as such a thing was frowned upon by the Friends (Quakers). All the children learned to assist their father in his astronomical work, but Maria seemed to take to it much more – her first love being mathematics.

Outside the doors of their home, Maria had the unique opportunity to be raised on a heavily Quaker-influenced island where she saw women at work in a time where women were most often relegated to the sphere of domesticity. The first twenty-eight years of life, spent on tiny, isolated and independent Nantucket and raised in a Quaker family that highly valued education and inquiry, would shape Maria for a future of hard work and major scientific and

social accomplishment. Her life off the island would be one of further exploration, life on the world-stage, and a long tenure of educating the future women scientists and educators of the world.

While her discovery of a telescopic comet on October 1, 1847, would launch her onto the world stage and bring her a gold medal from the King of Denmark – the first American and first woman to receive the honor – Maria was a woman who was among the first in many things. One of the first women to work for the US federal government, the second woman to be inducted into the American Philosophical Society, the first woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and one of the first to be inducted into the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was the first professor – female or male – who was hired by Vassar College (founded 1863, opened 1865) making her the first woman professor of astronomy in the United States. And, she was the founder of the Association for the Advancement of Woman – including its president for a term and the founder of its Science Committee which she chaired for the remainder of her life. She was also a founder of SOROSIS – a national women’s organization.

Maria Mitchell’s influence reached far and wide and remained strong through many generations of not just her own students but the students of her students. Her immediate galaxy was of course the women who took her astronomy and mathematics classes at Vassar. She instilled in her students a lifelong love of learning and learning-by-doing and the knowledge that as women, they had the power, strength, and knowledge to be the future of women scientists and educators of the world. Some would go on to great accomplishments, and some would go on to quietly influence other young learners of the world – spreading Maria’s legacy farther afield. Her students became: the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University, one of the first women to be admitted to MIT, a “computer” at the Harvard College Observatory, the founder of the home economics movement, astronomy professors, one of the first women admitted to the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, teachers, doctors, influencers of girls and women for generations beyond Mitchell’s life.

ATLANTA MASTER CHORALE CHORAL SERIES Our Atlanta Master Chorale Choral Series, published by MorningStar/ECS Publishing Group, captures new repertoire premiered by the ensemble, helping to add vibrant original music to the choral field. The series features original works and arrangements composed by Eric Nelson, Atlanta Master Chorale’s artistic director, in addition to pieces commissioned

by Atlanta Master Chorale from composers Ivo Antognini, Joel Thompson, and Stacey Gibbs. Pieces included in the series are chosen for their technical and expressive qualities. We hope all who sing them will find those places “where music touches spirit.”

Contact info@AtlantaMasterChorale.org for more details including ordering information.

SEASON DONORS A heartfelt thank you to all of our supporters who donated to help Atlanta Master Chorale bridge the gap to live performances.

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($10,000+) A & J Fund of the Ayco Charitable Foundation Collings Family Giving Fund CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($5,000+) Anonymous Sydney and Craig Cleland Patty Dontje Mrs. Cleo Mansour Susan and James McCabe Toni and Gary Myers COMPOSER’S CIRCLE ($1,000+) Anne Marie Alexander Mr. and Mrs. John Alexander Mark Barilla Charles Beaudrot Carol and Michael Bohannon Emily and T.J. Boyle Jan and Clyde Buchanan Pat and Ted Campbell Caterpillar Foundation Jamie Clements Barbara and Donald Defoe Cindy and Gary Frischling Sandy and Tom Gay Toni and Hardy Gregory Marti and Sam Hagan Doug Hand Carol and Jack Head Peggy and Rodger Herndon Berta and James Laney Mary Margaret Oliver Larry Owens and Travis Clark Simmons Betsy and Dave Polstra Georgia and Stan Segal Mary Slaughter Connie and Buddy Snipes Jane and Alan Stevenson Anthony Thomas

James L. Waits Stephanie Watkins Carol and Bill Yadlosky SOLOIST’S CIRCLE ($500+) June Adkinson Sally Angevine Karen and Tommy Beman Lua Blankenship and Dennis Kemp Teresa and Thomas Coffey Faith and Victor Dupuis Lawrence Easter Sally and Walter George Sharon and Duncan Harle Susan Hoy and Mike Tsurutis Rita and Chris Johnston Katheryn Klimko Deborah and Edward Laity Arina Meeuwsen Toni and Ray Payne Louise Reaves Mary and Wendell Reilly Sally Rhoden John Sartain and Michael Nifong Hamilton and Mason Smith Jim Stovall Richard Stumm Becky and Sunny Sundquist Julie Thompson Ann White Morton Ellen and John Yates CHORISTER’S CIRCLE ($250+) Neely and Nick Almand Mona and John Armstrong Jon Bauer Ruth and Jimmy Brown Peggy and Moe Clements Kathleen and Bernie Cleveland Sylvia and Joel Creel Marge and Gray Crouse Christine and Ben Fuller

Katie and Harry Gilbert Margaret and Thomas Gose Betty and Travis Halford Richard Henneman Tammy and Tommy Herrington Bill Hoffman Amy and Chris Kuhn Dolores Malvitz Beth and Mark Roberson Virginia Schenck Jan and Greg Smith Cynthia Taylor Angela Verrecchia Nancy and Jim Verrecchia Candy and Darrel Yoder A CAPELLA CIRCLE (up to $249) Anonymous Janet Abraham Ann Aichinger Ann Alperin Carol and James Aton Casey and Chris Bagby Jennifer Barnes Gary Beard Claire Berger and Branislav Marinkovic Glenda Berthelot Diana Blair Jonathan Blalock Susan Booth Michael Borkowski Holly Botella Jo Ann Bowdoin-Aynsley Elaine Bradley Andrew Budhu JD Burnett Diane and Dave Busse Holly and Gary Campbell Stven Carlberg Tom Carswell Beth and Ray Chenault David Clark-Stuart Delia Coleman Darlene and Chip Conrad Susan and Jose Couvillion Katy Covington Bruce I. Crabtree III and B J Erb

Jeanne Cunis-Young and Richard Young Donna and Steven Dauterman Sharyn Dowd Adelia Ann Dozier Laura Dyer Peggy Easter Elizabeth and Robert Edge Claudia Anne Fedarko and Stephen Hadler Ruth Feicht Janet and Donald Filip Gayla Foscue Ann and Lewis Freedman French Arthur Family Trust Samantha Frischling Ellen Gaffney Jill Garrett Phillip Garrett Susan Garrett Matt Golden Meg Granum James Green Janet Gross Sarah and Steven Guthrie John Haberlen Barbara Haig Nancy Hamilton Faye and Tom Hammett Barbara P. Hammond Leila Hartley and James Costlow Joy Hartsfield Patricia and Kenneth Hepburn Cynthia Hizer Cynthia Hoffner Kathryn Hogan Joanne and Richard Holz Edith Howington Celia Hughes Rodney Hunter Pamela Ingram Margaret Dallas Jackson Joan and Phillip Jacobs First Benita Johnson Audriana and William Johnson Barbara Johnson Oren Johnson Margery Kellar Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM Jessica Kuipers

Jake Lambert Joan Lankford Keith Lauer Sally and George Lee June Lester Laura Letbetter Marsha and Neil Little Janet Locke Kevin MacHarg Rhonda Maddox Alison Main Kay and David Mainor Lynn Marlow Rex Matthews Lockey McDonald Linda McPherson Betty Merriman Lew Miller Sandra and Simon Miller Caroline Moise Dorie Moore Carol Morgan Lisa and Joel Morris Susan and Eric Nelson Susan and Mark Newell Matthew Newton Kaaren and Stephen Nowicki Zachary Nyein Kathleen O’Conner Anne Olson Megan Otte Ketti and Davey Overcash Vicki and Howard Palefsky Allen Pannell Robert Paterson Hilda and Pat Patrick Helen and John Patton Jacob Paul Penn High School Class of 1973 Tom Pitman Angelika Pohl Anne and Ken Powell Janette Pratt Teresa and Peter Psyhogios Edith and Sandy Purdie

Debra and Scott Pyron Sharon and Dan Rankin Carolyn Rea Megan Rikard Maria Rispoli Cynthia Runyon Saint Anne’s Terrace Don Saliers Sue Sandell Miriam and Aston Sanson Sarah Sarratt Ellen Scerbo Jessica Schultz Kay Schwenk Karen Sedatole Lynne Segall Richard Shackelford Susan Sheldon Nancy Shober Sunny Skobel Sidney Stapleton Cammie Stephens Charlita Stephens Scott Stewart Caryn and Terry Stofko Kathryn Stone Gayle and Robert Suggs Anne and Don Teddlie Terri Theisen David Thierry Anna Thomas Karen Thorborg Laura Thruston Pam Tipton Barbara Warren Betty Watkins Belva White Aiko Whiting Kara Wilkes Jerry and Tolly Williamson Donna and Bill Woolf JoeAnn Wright KC Burgess Yakemovic Carolyn and Max Yost Charles Zapf

DEDICATIONS & MEMORIALS Janet Abraham in honor of Jeffrey Clanton French Arthur Family Trust in honor of Dorie Moore French Arthur Family Trust in honor of Sally Rhoden Claire Berger and Branislav Marinkovic in memory of Yovan Marinkovic Charles Beaudrot in honor of Toni Myers Jan and Clyde Buchanan in memory of Helen Anderson Ted Campbell in memory of Patricia Campbell Sydney and Craig Cleland in memory of Caleb Hulsey, Heather Hulsey, Mackay Hulsey, and Kirstin Wright Sydney and Craig Cleland in honor of the birth of Felicity Susan Nelson Sydney and Craig Cleland in memory of Julia Smith Sydney and Craig Cleland in honor of Jim Verrecchia Sydney and Craig Cleland in memory of Virginia Verrecchia Delia Coleman in honor of Stephanie Watkins Sharyn Echols Dowd in honor of Eric Nelson Cindy and Gary Frischling in honor of Eric Nelson and all the AMC Singers Christine and Ben Fuller in honor of Eric and Susan Nelson Susan Garrett in honor of James Turner Keith Hand in honor of Doug Hand Barbara Johnson in memory of Michael Corrie Berta and James Laney in memory of Fentress B. Waits Joan Lankford in memory of Doug Lankford Kay and David Mainor in honor of Susan Nelson Lynn Marlow in honor of Lisa Hayes and Casey Bagby Allen Pannell in honor of Amy Foster and Holly Botella Penn High School Class of 1973 in memory of Patricia Florian-Campbell Betsy and Dave Polstra in honor of Bill and Carol Yadlosky Sally Rhoden in honor of Dorie Moore Connie and Buddy Snipes in memory of Bonnie Ulman Goodrich Nancy and Jim Verrecchia in memory of Mary H. Coffey and in memory of Virginia M. Verrecchia Betty Watkins in honor of Stephanie Watkins Stephanie Watkins in honor of Benita Johnson Ellen and John Yates in honor of Louise Cobb, Paul Yates, and Charles Beaudrot We welcome the opportunity to honor individuals. Please consider a gift to honor a family member or friend. Dedications and memorials will remain in concert programs for one year from the donation date.

MONTHLY SUSTAINING DONORS Carol and Michael Bohannon Jamie Clements Kathleen and Bernie Cleveland

Lawrence Easter Doug Hand Amy and Chris Kuhn

We invite you to consider becoming a monthly sustaining donor, spreading your gift over the year.

DIVERSE TAPESTRY of CHORAL SINGING GRANT DONORS

Ann Alperin Cheryl and Chris Bachelder Casey and Chris Bagby Claire Berger and Branislav Marinkovic Michael Borkowski Emily and TJ Boyle Holly and Gary Campbell Ted Campbell Stven Carlberg Tom Carswell Beth and Ray Chenault David Clark-Stuart Sydney and Craig Cleland Kathleen and Bernie Cleveland Teresa and Tom Coffey Marge and Gray Crouse Patty Dontje Sharyn Dowd Adelia Ann Dozier Jill Garrett Phillip Garrett Susan Garrett James Green Marti and Sam Hagan Faye and Tom Hammett Peggy and Rodger Herndon Joanne and Richard Holz Susan Hoy and Mike Tsurutis Rodney Hunter Barbara Johnson Benita Johnson Deborah and Ed Laity Berta and James Laney June Lester Kevin MacHarg Rhonda Maddox Alison Main Lynn Marlow

Rex Matthews Lockey McDonald Betty Merriman Dorie Moore Lisa and Joel Morris Eric and Susan Nelson Mark and Susan Newell Zachary Nyein Kathleen O’Conner Anne Olson Megan Otte William Owens Allen Pannell Robert Paterson Angelika Pohl Edith and Sandy Purdie Sally Rhoden Maria Rispoli John Sartain and Michael Nifong Ellen Scerbo Stan and Georgia Segal Richard Shackelford Susan Sheldon Nancy Shober Sunny Skobel Mary Slaughter Alan and Jane Stevenson Cynthia Taylor Anne and Don Teddlie Julie Thompson Karen Thorborg Angela Verrecchia Betty Watkins Stephanie Watkins Jerry and Tolly Williamson JoeAnn Wright John and Ellen Yates Charles Zapf

These donors gave to support Atlanta Master Chorale in our efforts to develop a more inclusive choral community. We are planning a three-part initiative to further our outreach to a wider and more diverse audience. These initiatives include outreach to underserved students in our local community, collaboration with diverse arts organizations, and assisting in furthering the career of a composer of color.

Mark Barilla Sydney and Craig Cleland Susan and Jose Couvillion Donna and Steven Dauterman Laura Dyer Cindy and Gary Frischling

Samantha Frischling Sally and Walter George Celia Hughes Audriana and William Johnson Don Saliers Ann White Morton

Full details on the Eric Nelson Artistic Fund including how to donate are listed later in this program.

Donor list reflects gifts from March 1, 2021 – February 17, 2022.

We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of this listing.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS For their generosity and support this season ATLANTA MASTER CHORALE would like to thank:

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Jake Runestad, Composer & Conductor www.JakeRunestad.com (Photo Credit: Travis Anderson)

Maria Mitchell Association www.MariaMitchell.org

If your company would like to sponsor a concert or a season or if you have goods or services to donate, please contact Jim Verrecchia, Executive Director, for more information: ExecutiveDirector@AtlantaMasterChorale.org | 404.853.9309

JOIN US FOR THE FINAL CONCERT OF OUR SEASON! Visit www.AtlantaMasterChorale.org/concerts or call 404.727.5050 to purchase tickets.

W E ’ L L S E E YO U S O O N !