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JANUARY 2020
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YOUR NASHVILLE SYMPHONY • LIVE AT THE SCHERMERHORN
Prokofiev’s
ROMEO
& JULIET
January 10 to 12
Let Freedom Sing
January 19
Guerrero Conducts
NFM Wrocław
Philharmonic
January 21
The Times They Are
A-Changin’: The Words
and Music of Bob Dylan
January 26
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Your Nashville Symphony
Live at the Schermerhorn
ROMANTIC
RHAPSODIES
in concert
January 30 to February 1
February 6 to 9
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
A DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY LOVE STORY IN SONG
Valentine's with
Patti
LaBelle
February 13
February 14
Beethoven’s
Birthday
Bash
February 20 to 23
DEE DEE
BRIDGEWATER
with BILL CHARLAP
February 28*
APPALACHIAN
SPRING
March 6 & 7
March 8*
*Presented without the Nashville Symphony.
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A PUBLICATION OF THE NASHVILLE SYMPHONY
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Orchestra Roster
7
Conductors
19
CLASSICAL SERIES
Prokofiev’s
Romeo & Juliet
January 10 to 12
28
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE
Coral Kingdoms and
Empires of Ice
with Photographers
David Doubilet & Jennifer Hayes
January 14
31
FIRSTBANK POPS SERIES
Foreigner
with the Nashville Symphony
January 16 to 18
33
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT
Let Freedom Sing
January 19
37
PRESENTATION
Guerrero Conducts
NFM Wrocław Philharmonic
January 21
40
SPECIAL EVENT
The Times They Are
A-Changin’: The Words
and Music of Bob Dylan
with the Nashville Symphony
& Chorus
January 26
42
Board of
Directors Roster
42
Annual Fund:
Individuals
58
Annual Fund:
Corporations
60
Capital Funds Donors
62
Legacy Society
63
Staff Roster
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2019/20 NASHVILLE
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GIANCARLO GUERRERO
Music Director
Martha & Bronson Ingram Music Director Chair
NATHAN ASPINALL
Assistant Conductor
ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ
Principal Pops Conductor
TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE
Chorus Director
FIRST VIOLINS*
Jun Iwasaki, Concertmaster
Walter Buchanan Sharp Chair
Erin Hall,
Acting Associate Concertmaster
Gerald Greer,
Acting Assistant Concertmaster
Mary Kathryn
Van Osdale,
Concertmaster Emerita
Denise Baker
Kristi Seehafer
John Maple
Alison Hoffman
Paul Tobias
Beverly Drukker
Anna Lisa Hoepfinger
Kirsten Mitchell
Isabel Bartles
Alicia Enstrom+
Bruce Christensen
Michelle Lackey Collins
Christopher Farrell
Tony Parce
Melinda Whitley
Clare Yang
CELLOS*
Kevin Bate, Principal
James Victor Miller Chair
Xiao-Fan Zhang,
Acting Assistant Principal
Anthony LaMarchina,
Principal Cello Emeritus
Bradley Mansell
Lynn Marie Peithman
Stephen Drake
Christopher Stenstrom
Keith Nicholas
Andrew Dunn+
OBOES
Titus Underwood, Principal
Ellen Menking,
Assistant Principal
Roger Wiesmeyer
ENGLISH HORN
Roger Wiesmeyer
CLARINETS
James Zimmermann,
Principal
Katherine Kohler,
Assistant Principal
Daniel Lochrie
E-FLAT CLARINET
Katherine Kohler
BASS CLARINET
Daniel Lochrie
TROMBONES
Paul Jenkins, Principal ◊
Derek Hawkes,
Assistant Principal
BASS TROMBONE
Steven Brown
TUBA
Gilbert Long, Principal
TIMPANI
Joshua Hickman, Principal
PERCUSSION
Sam Bacco, Principal ◊
Richard Graber,
Acting Principal
HARP
Licia Jaskunas, Principal
SECOND VIOLINS*
Carolyn Wann Bailey,
Principal
Jessica Blackwell
Annaliese Kowert+
Jimin Lim
Zoya Leybin+
Benjamin Lloyd
Louise Morrison
Laura Ross
Esther Sanders+
Jung-Min Shin
Johna Smith+
VIOLAS*
Daniel Reinker, Principal
Shu-Zheng Yang,
Assistant Principal
Judith Ablon
Hari Bernstein ◊
Emilio Carlo+
BASSES*
Joel Reist, Principal
Glen Wanner,
Assistant Principal
Matthew Abramo
Kevin Jablonski
Katherine Munagian
Tim Pearson+
FLUTES
Érik Gratton, Principal
Anne Potter Wilson Chair
Leslie Fagan,
Assistant Principal
Gloria Yun
Norma Grobman Rogers Chair
PICCOLO
Gloria Yun
Norma Grobman Rogers Chair
BASSOONS
Julia Harguindey, Principal
Dawn Hartley,
Assistant Principal
Gil Perel
CONTRA BASSOON
Gil Perel
HORNS
Leslie Norton, Principal
Beth Beeson
Patrick Walle,
Associate Principal/3rd Horn
Hunter Sholar
Radu V. Rusu,
Assistant Principal/Utility Horn
TRUMPETS
Jeffrey Bailey, Principal
Patrick Kunkee, Co-Principal
Alexander Blazek
KEYBOARD
Robert Marler, Principal
LIBRARIANS
Jennifer Goldberg,
Principal
Luke Bryson, Librarian
David Jackson,
Library Assistant
ORCHESTRA
PERSONNEL
MANAGER
John Wesolowski
ORCHESTRA
PERSONNEL
ASSISTANT
Joseph Demko
STAGE MANAGER
W. Paul Holt
* Seating Section Revolves + Replacement ◊ Leave of Absence
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CONDUCTORS
MUSIC DIRECTOR
GIANCARLO
GUERRERO
Martha & Bronson Ingram Music Director Chair
Giancarlo Guerrero is a six-time GRAMMY®
Award-winning conductor now in his 11th
season as Music Director of the Nashville
Symphony. Guerrero is also Music Director of the
Wrocław Philharmonic at the National Forum of
Music in Poland and Principal Guest Conductor of
the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal. He
has been praised for his “charismatic conducting
and attention to detail” (Seattle Times) in “viscerally
powerful performances” (Boston Globe) that are
“at once vigorous, passionate and nuanced”
(BachTrack).
Through commissions, recordings and world
premieres, Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony
have championed the works of American composers
who are defining today’s musical landscape,
making Nashville a destination for contemporary
orchestral music. Guerrero has presented 11 world
premieres with the Nashville Symphony, including
the GRAMMY®-winning performance of Michael
Daugherty’s Tales of Hemingway and Terry Riley’s
The Palmian Chord Ryddle.
Guerrero’s rich discography with the Nashville
Symphony numbers 17 recordings, including
the 2019 Naxos release of Jonathan Leshnoff’s
Symphony No. 4 “Heichalos.” The work was
commissioned by the Nashville Symphony for the
Violins of Hope, a collection of restored instruments
that survived the Holocaust. This recording marks
the first time the instruments have been heard
on a commercially available album. Other albums
have been dedicated to the music of composers
as diverse as Jennifer Higdon, Richard Danielpour,
Joan Tower and Béla Fleck.
During the 2019/20 season, Naxos will release
recordings of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Symphony No. 4
and Christopher Rouse’s Concerto for Orchestra,
both recorded with the Nashville Symphony. As
part of his commitment to fostering contemporary
music, Guerrero, together with composer Aaron Jay
Kernis, guided the creation of Nashville Symphony’s
biennial Composer Lab & Workshop for young and
emerging composers.
Guerrero’s 2019/20 season will include return
engagements with the Boston Symphony,
Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo,
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberg
Symphony, Frankfurt Opera and Museums
Orchestra, and the New Zealand Symphony. In
January 2020, Guerrero will conduct the Wrocław
Philharmonic on a 12-city North American tour.
Guerrero has appeared with prominent
North American orchestras, including those of
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas,
Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles,
Milwaukee, Montréal, Philadelphia, Seattle,
Toronto and Vancouver, as well as the National
Symphony Orchestra. He has developed a strong
international guest-conducting profile and has
worked in recent seasons with the Frankfurt Radio
Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Deutsches
Radio Philharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique
de Radio France, Netherlands Philharmonic,
Residentie Orkest, NDR in Hannover, Orquesta
Sinfónica de Galicia and the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, as well as the Queensland Symphony
and Sydney Symphony in Australia. Guerrero
was honored as the keynote speaker at the 2019
League of American Orchestras conference,
where his address on transforming “inspiration
and innovation into meaningful action” was met
with a unified standing ovation.
Guerrero made his debut with Houston Grand
Opera in 2015 conducting Puccini's Madama
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Butterfly. Early in his career, he worked regularly
with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera and has conducted
new productions of Carmen, La bohème and
Rigoletto. In 2008 he gave the Australian premiere
of Osvaldo Golijov's one-act opera Ainadamar at
the Adelaide Festival.
Guerrero previously held posts as the Principal
Guest Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra
Miami (2011-2016), Music Director of the Eugene
Symphony (2002-2009), and Associate Conductor
of the Minnesota Orchestra (1999-2004).
Born in Nicaragua, Guerrero immigrated during
his childhood to Costa Rica, where he joined
the local youth symphony. As a promising young
student, he came to the United States to study
percussion and conducting at Baylor University in
Texas; he earned his master’s degree in conducting
at Northwestern, where he studied with Victor
Yampolsky. Given his beginnings in civic youth
orchestras, Guerrero is particularly engaged with
conducting training orchestras and has worked
with the Curtis School of Music, Colburn School
in Los Angeles, and Yale Philharmonia, as well
as with the Nashville Symphony’s Accelerando
program. In recent years, he has also developed
a relationship with the National Youth Orchestra
(NYO2) in New York, created and operated by the
Weill Institute of Music at Carnegie Hall.
ENRICO
LOPEZ-YAÑEZ
Principal Pops Conductor
Enrico Lopez-Yañez is the Principal Pops
Conductor of the Nashville Symphony.
Appointed in 2019, he leads the Symphony’s
Pops Series and Family Series. Since working
with the Nashville Symphony, Lopez-Yañez has
conducted concerts with a broad spectrum
of artists, including Toby Keith, Richard Marx,
Jennifer Nettles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Megan
Hilty, Hanson, Kenny Loggins and more.
During the 2019/20 season, Lopez-Yañez will
make appearances with the San Diego Symphony,
Indianapolis Symphony and Edmonton Symphony,
and return performances with the Detroit
Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and Sarasota
Orchestra. He has appeared with orchestras
throughout the United States, including the Utah
Symphony, Omaha Symphony and Oklahoma City
Philharmonic.
As artistic director and co-founder of Symphonica
Productions, LLC, Lopez-Yañez curates and leads
programs designed to cultivate new audiences. An
enthusiastic proponent of innovating the concert
experience, he has created exciting education,
classical and pops concerts for orchestras across
the United States.
Sharing an equal love for opera, Lopez-Yañez
served as Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master
for the Berkshire Opera Festival, where his work
was met with rave reviews. He has led opera
gala concerts in San Diego and Aguascalientes
(Mexico), as well as a production of Madama
Butterfly with Main Street Opera in Chicago.
Lopez-Yañez is an active producer, composer
and arranger whose work can be heard on
numerous albums, including the UNESCO benefit
Action Moves People United and the children’s
music collection The Spaceship That Fell in My
Backyard, winner of the John Lennon Songwriting
Contest, Global Music Awards, Hollywood Music
and Media Awards, and more.
Lopez-Yañez previously held the position of
Assistant Conductor with the Nashville Symphony
and Omaha Symphony. He holds a Master’s in
Music from the University of Maryland and received
a Master’s in Music and his Baccalaureate from
UCLA, where he graduated summa cum laude.
For more information, visit
www.enricolopezyanez.com.
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NATHAN ASPINALL
Assistant Conductor
Nathan Aspinall
begins his role as
Assistant Conductor
of the Nashville Symphony with the 2019/20
season. Previously, he was Assistant Conductor
of Jacksonville Symphony. On a tour of South
Florida with pianist Bezhod Abduraimov, he
led performances of Shostakovich’s Symphony
No. 5 and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.
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Jacksonville Symphony in two masterworks
subscription programs and a tour with organist
Cameron Carpenter. He was selected as one of
two conducting fellows at the Tanglewood Music
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Festival during the summer of 2019.
Formerly, Aspinall held the position of Young
Conductor with the Queensland Symphony
Orchestra in Australia, where he assisted Chief
Conductor Johannes Fritzsch and visiting guest
conductors, and where he conducted concerts
for the orchestra’s education series. He studied
French horn and conducting at the University of
Queensland and upon graduation was awarded
the Hugh Brandon Prize. In 2012, he attended
the Aspen Music Festival, where he was awarded
the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize.
Aspinall has guest-conducted several symphony
orchestras, as well as the Queensland Conservatorium
Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances and
masterclasses have included the Cabrillo Festival
of Contemporary Music, Oregon Bach Festival
and the Tanglewood Music Center Conducting
Seminar. He studied Orchestral Conducting at
New England Conservatory in Boston.
Now entering his
fourth season as
director of the Nashville
Symphony Chorus,
Dr. Tucker Biddlecombe has raised the bar of
excellence for Nashville’s premier choral ensemble
through intense musical preparation, diverse
programming and community building. Under
his direction, the Chorus has expanded to 170
members and recently toured Prague, Czech
Republic, performing Orff’s Carmina Burana. He
also serves as Associate Professor and Director
of Choral Studies at Vanderbilt University’s Blair
School of Music, where he directs the Vanderbilt
Chorale and Symphonic Choir and teaches courses
in choral conducting and music education.
Biddlecombe’s work with the Nashville
Symphony has included chorus preparation for
the world-premiere recording of John Harbison’s
Requiem (Naxos) and concert performances of
choral orchestral masterworks by Stravinsky, Ravel,
Haydn, Verdi, Handel and Mahler. He conducts
the orchestra and chorus in performance during
the annual Voices of Spring concert. In 2018
the Vanderbilt Chorale released its first solo
TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE
Chorus Director
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with Gramophone UK noting that the Chorale
“launch into each track with the earnest passion
that only university music students can innocently
and genuinely provide.” Biddlecombe made his
Carnegie Hall debut in 2019 conducting Morten
Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna.
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a veteran teacher, Biddlecombe is active in school
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Blair Children’s Chorus.
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CLASSICAL SERIES
PROKOFIEV’S
ROMEO & JULIET
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 & 11, AT 8 PM
SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, AT 2 PM
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY
JOANN FALLETTA, conductor
YULIANNA AVDEEVA, piano
MAURICE RAVEL
La Valse - 12 minutes
FRANZ LISZT
Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major for Piano and Orchestra - 19 minutes
Allegro maestoso
Quasi adagio - Allegretto vivace
Allegro marziale animato
Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
– INTERMISSION –
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Suite from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64bis, Op.64ter - 38 minutes
The Montagues and Capulets
Young Girl Juliet
Dance
Friar Laurence
Masks
Romeo and Juliet Before Parting
The Death of Tybalt
Dance of Antilles Girls
Romeo at the Grave of Juliet
This concert will last one hour and 50 minutes,
including a 20-minute intermission.
This concert will be recorded live for future broadcast.
Please keep noise to a minimum to ensure the highest-quality recording.
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PROGRAM SUMMARY
“At the close of World War I, Maurice Ravel recorded…the violent death of the 19th-century
world,” cultural historian Carl Schorske writes of La Valse. “The waltz, the symbol of gay
Vienna, became in the composer’s hands a frantic danse macabre.” Although Ravel himself
denied any reference to a “dance of death” or a symbolic depiction of a civilization’s demise,
La Valse is one of his most fascinating and daring scores.
Ravel’s initial dramatic idea for the ballet version of La Valse was to set it in 1855. This
was the very year in which Franz Liszt, an archetypal Romantic, presented his First Piano
Concerto. Liszt came to fame as a prodigy virtuoso who stirred up a wave of hysterical
adulation, coined Lisztomania, with his feats at the keyboard. But his First Piano Concerto
goes beyond such grandstand performances and turns the genre into a synthesis of the
virtuoso concerto with the organically unified symphony.
Like Liszt, Sergei Prokofiev remade his image. The former bad boy of music, who escaped
to the West in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, decided to return to his homeland, just
as Stalin was cracking down on fellow composers like Shostakovich. Prokofiev believed he
had developed a new style more accessible to the common people — a style he called the
“New Simplicity.” It was through such works as his ballet score Romeo and Juliet that he
perfected this new approach, with results that continue to cast a spell over audiences today.
MAURICE RAVEL
La Valse
Born on March 7, 1875,
in Ciboure, France
Died on December 28, 1937,
in Paris
First performance:
December 12, 1920, in Paris, with
Camille Chevillard conducting
the Lamoureux Orchestra
Composed:
1919-20
Estimated
length:
12 minutes
First Nashville Symphony
performance:
February 18, 1958, with music
director Guy Taylor
After World War I, Serge Diaghilev
commissioned Maurice Ravel to write
another ballet for his company in Paris
— having previously collaborated with the
French composer for Daphnis et Chloé. Ravel
returned to a piece he had started at least more
than a decade before, in which he intended
to pay tribute to the Viennese waltz of the
19th century.
After Ravel completed the orchestral score
in 1920 — having also prepared a two-piano
version that was, appropriately, premiered
in Vienna — Diaghilev turned it down on
the grounds that it was more “the portrait
of a ballet” than an actual ballet. For that
reason, the full orchestral score was first heard
as part of a concert, though Ravel later
collaborated with another choreographer,
Ida Rubinstein, who produced both La Valse
and Boléro as ballets.
The biographer Arbie Orenstein observes
that “the motif of death recurs insistently in
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[Ravel’s] oeuvre.” The composer described La
Valse as “a sort of apotheosis of the Viennese
waltz, mingled with…the impression of a
fantastic, fatal whirling.”
WHAT TO LISTEN FOR
In La Valse, Ravel radically reimagines the
associations conjured by the waltz. The
profound cataclysm of World War I had
imbued the popular dance with an unexpected,
haunting resonance. Even if the widespread
interpretation of this music as a metaphor
for the breakdown of faith in European
civilization was not his intention, contemporary
composer George Benjamin argues that the
score’s “one-movement design plots the birth,
decay and destruction of a musical genre.”
Ravel envisioned this music to accompany
the originally intended ballet, whose scenario
he described as follows: “Swirling clouds afford
glimpses, through rifts, of waltzing couples.
The clouds scatter little by little; one can
distinguish an immense hall with a whirling
crowd. The scene grows progressively brighter.
The light of the chandeliers bursts forth at the
fortissimo. An imperial court, about 1855.”
Ravel exploits the most refined technical
means in his treatment of harmony, rhythmic
accents, dynamics, timbres and even allusions
to the musical past to weave what he described
as a choreographic poem for orchestra.
Opening with the mysterious, indeterminate
sound of muted double basses, the piece
also calls to mind the suddenly varying
perspectives of cinema. Strains of various
waltzes shift in and out of focus.
Midway through, an apparent quotation
of the rhythmic motto of the Scherzo from
Beethoven’s Ninth intrudes with primal
force. What we might have expected as a
recapitulation filters all that has gone
before through a strange new lens, and the
circling momentum of the waltz collapses in
violent entropy.
Ravel’s score calls for 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo),
3 oboes (3rd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets,
bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns,
3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion
(triangle, tambourine, snare drum, cymbals, bass
drum, castanets, tam-tam, glockenspiel, crotales),
2 harps and strings.
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CLASSICAL
FRANZ LISZT
Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major for Piano and Orchestra
Born on October 22, 1811,
in Raiding, Hungary
Died on July 31, 1886,
in Bayreuth, Germany
First performance:
February 17, 1855, with Liszt as
the soloist and Hector Berlioz
conducting the Weimar Court
Orchestra
Composed:
1830-1853;
revised 1855-56
Estimated
length:
19 minutes
First Nashville Symphony
performance:
March 5, 1957, with soloist
Eugene List and music director
Guy Taylor
The search for extreme experience that
transcends the ordinary is a cornerstone
of Romanticism. With his astounding
virtuosity and his declaration that the piano
represented “the microcosm of music,” Franz
Liszt embodied this worldview. His feats
whipped up a frenzied, hysterical response from
audiences — famously coined “Lisztomania”
by the poet Heinrich Heine. Over a century
later, the director Ken Russell borrowed the
term to title his 1975 film starring The Who’s
Roger Daltrey as the amorous musical hero.
Capable of transforming his instrument
into a veritable orchestra and playing whole
programs from memory, Liszt even titled
one series of fiercely difficult piano pieces
Transcendental Études. And the influence
of his pianism spread far and wide. Take
Ravel: though he is often characterized as
quintessentially French, several of his piano
works show inspiration from Liszt, the
Hungarian purveyor (along with his son-inlaw
Richard Wagner) of the so-called “New
German School.”
Ironically, it was not until Liszt had retired
from his career as a touring virtuoso soloist
that his two concertos for the instrument took
final shape. These works are vintage products
of the years when Liszt determined to focus
on his mission as a composer and a guru to a
new generation of composers. Thus the long
revision process before he felt ready to unveil
the First Piano Concerto, whose first inspiration
dates back to 1830, when he was 19. By 1834,
Liszt had finished a preliminary version, but
he remained unsatisfied and never performed
it, opting in 1839 to begin a wholesale rewrite,
which proceeded in fits and starts alongside his
numerous other projects for another decade
and a half. He was by then also working on
his Second Piano Concerto as well as many
other pieces for solo piano and orchestra,
such as the marvelous Totentanz, inspired by
the “dance of death” depicted on a medieval
Italian fresco. A little over three decades ago,
archives revealed remnants of a third piano
concerto that Liszt never completed.
The long gestation of the First Piano
Concerto helps explain the disparate identities
embedded in this work. Liszt the virtuoso
superhero coexists with the avant-garde
composer striving to evolve novel compositional
techniques. While he was working on the final
form of this concerto, Liszt developed further
his more radical concept of the orchestral
symphonic poem. Wagner declared that purely
orchestral music was a dead end and that the
path of the future demanded a breakdown of
established genres and artistic disciplines to
create a new, text-based synthesis of music
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and drama. Even though he was an advocate
of Wagner’s music, Liszt pursued his own
vision of the “music of the future” in these
wordless symphonic poems.
Using his idea of what he called “thematic
transformation,” Liszt evolved a forwardlooking
technique for his instrumental works.
The transformation in question goes far
beyond the conventional process of theme
and variations. It involves the subtle reworking
and development of a small set of thematic
ideas to generate the musical substance of a
work. The very character of the theme itself
can be heard to change as it is presented in
varying contexts.
Such thematic transformation has some
kinship with the “idée fixe” or obsessive
(musical) idea that Berlioz developed in his
Symphonie fantastique. It was actually Berlioz
who conducted the world premiere of the First
Piano Concerto, as part of a Berlioz Festival
that Liszt had organized in Weimar, where he
was serving as the court’s music director. The
year of the premiere, 1855, is, incidentally, the
same year Ravel imagined as the setting for
his original scenario for La Valse.
WHAT TO LISTEN FOR
Though it lacks the kinds of programmatic
associations with an outside literary text
or work of art that are an essential feature of
symphonic poems, the First Piano Concerto
shares with them the concern for organic unity.
Thus, like Liszt’s great Piano Sonata in B minor
from the early 1850s, the Concerto contains
multiple movements that are interconnected
and played as a single vast movement, with
only brief pauses to separate them. Viewed
independently, the Concerto’s four movements
suggest the outline of a symphony: an opening
Allegro maestoso, a slow movement, a Scherzo
and a finale. Liszt’s writing throughout does not
stint on virtuoso demands. But such displays
are integrated within the innovative design —
concerto symphonique was one of his preferred
terms for this type of piece, implying a synthesis
of concerto and symphony.
The concept of thematic transformation
drives the entire work. Liszt introduces the
main thematic idea in rawest form right at the
start: an imperious seven-note motto stated by
the string body, followed by a curt two-note
response from the woodwinds. Liszt — or,
more likely, his champion Hans von Bülow —
jokingly fit words to this motto mocking the
composer’s critics: Das versteht ihr alle nicht,
haha! (“Not a single one of you gets it, haha!”)
It is fascinating to trace Liszt’s transformations
— in timbre, mood, interaction and so on —
of this tight chromatic motto. From its first
entrance, the pianist intensifies it into a dazzling
mini-cadenza, for example, which then takes
shape as a melancholy duet with solo clarinet,
another major protagonist in this work. The
slow movement is closer in spirit to Italian bel
canto singing. (If your ear conjures Chopin
during this movement, recall that this form
of opera was an abiding inspiration to him as
well.) In the Scherzo section, Liszt’s use of the
triangle stirred controversy — not just from
conservative critics, but even from Wagner,
who complained to Liszt’s daughter (and, later,
Wagner’s wife) Cosima about its “vulgarity.”
Music from preceding sections is continually
rethreaded into the fabric, with the spirited
finale providing a summation. In its final
pages, Liszt supplies a coda of assertive,
even manic energy — as if wrapping up an
ordinary virtuoso concerto rather than the
unusual vision to which we have just been
made witnesses.
In addition to solo piano, the First Concerto is
scored for 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets,
2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones,
timpani, cymbals, triangle and strings.
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CLASSICAL
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Born on April 23, 1891, in
Sontsovka, Ukraine (part of the
Russian Empire at the time)
Died on March 5, 1953,
in Moscow
Composed:
1935
(complete ballet)
Estimated
length:
38 minutes
Sergei Prokofiev emerged as one of the
icons of early 20th-century Modernism.
He cultivated this image while living a life of
voluntary exile from his Russian homeland in
the 1920s, first trying (without much success)
to conquer the United States and then moving
around Paris and other parts of Western
Europe. But after nearly two decades abroad
in the West, Prokofiev longed to return to
Russia, which of course was a vastly different
place under Stalin’s control.
Soviet authorities sweetened the allure for
the nomadic composer by ensuring special
privileges, such as a roomy Moscow apartment
and permission to keep his beloved blue Ford
as private property. The ballet Romeo and
Juliet originated during this period and was
an undertaking of enormous importance,
since it would mark Prokofiev’s first major
work specifically intended for the Soviet
stage. And so in 1936 a “prodigal son” came
back to the socialist paradise. But in January
of that year, Pravda’s notorious attack on
the young Dmitri Shostakovich signaled an
ominous change. His offense? Daring to write
“Formalist” music (in other words, in a style
deemed insufficiently accessible). The official
reprimand foreshadowed a long-lasting era
of harshly repressive cultural politics which
discouraged innovation.
On his own, Prokofiev had begun to turn
First performance:
The complete ballet was first performed
on December 30, 1938, in Brno (part
of what was then Czechoslovakia). The
first two Concert Suites were premiered
before the ballet: November 24, 1936, in
Moscow (Suite No. 1) and April 15, 1937,
in Leningrad (Suite No. 2).
First Nashville Symphony
performance:
October 12-14, 1978, with music
director Michael Charry
away from his former avant-garde stance in
favor of what he called a “new simplicity.” By
this he meant a stylistic direction that avoided
novelty for the sake of novelty but, at the same
time, was not merely a return to “old-fashioned”
forms and ideas. The ballet Romeo and Juliet,
which Prokofiev composed in the white heat
of inspiration during the summer of 1935,
brims with the newfound lyricism and
directness of this “new simplicity” and remains
one of Prokofiev’s best-loved achievements.
For the scenario, he collaborated with the
adventurous director Sergei Radlov, who
had introduced important avant-garde
works in the years just after the Bolshevik
Revolution (including The Love for Three
Oranges, Prokofiev’s operatic mating of
commedia dell’arte with Surrealism). Together,
they tailored Shakespeare’s play into a ballet
of 52 mostly brief scenes. The biographer
Harlow Robinson notes that this fleetingly
episodic, “montage-like dramatic structure”
likely was inspired by Prokofiev’s recent forays
into film music.
The original Prokofiev/Radlov scenario,
however, devised a “happy ending” simply by
altering the timing of Romeo’s return in the
tomb scene — possibly a politically cautious
bow to the doctrine of “Socialist Realism,”
with its insistence on conveying an optimistic,
upbeat tone. But Prokofiev came to realize
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that his music contradicted this false happy
ending — how could the strains of “Romeo
at the Tomb of Juliet” do otherwise? — and
Shakespeare’s tragic conclusion was restored.
As it turned out, internal developments did
interfere with the reception of Romeo and Juliet.
In the tense aftermath of the Shostakovich
affair, the Bolshoi Theater broke its contract to
produce the premiere. The dancers complained
about the difficulties of negotiating Prokofiev’s
complex meters. What later earned recognition
as a great classic of the Soviet era and of the
last century in general was thus initially staged
outside the Soviet Union — in Brno (in what
was then Czechoslovakia), in 1938. This was an
abridged version in just one act, and Prokofiev
was not allowed to attend. But it proved to be
a great triumph.
Meanwhile, Prokofiev fashioned two
orchestral suites so he could present his music
to the Russian public in the concert hall. He
also prepared a piano suite called Ten Pieces
for Piano. The belated Soviet premiere of
the ballet occurred on January 11, 1940, at
the Kirov Theater in Leningrad and actually
won the composer a Stalin Prize. Prokofiev
introduced a third suite in 1946 as well. The
complete ballet score itself runs close to three
hours in duration.
WHAT TO LISTEN FOR
Many conductors have responded to the
challenge of representing the essence
of Romeo and Juliet by devising their own
arrangements, mixing and matching excerpts
from the three suites. For this performance,
guest conductor JoAnn Falletta has selected
nine numbers from Suites 1 and 2.
The darkly ominous “Montagues and
Capulets” (Suite 2, No. 1) centers on the
prideful strutting of the “Dance of the Knights”
from the first act; perhaps the score’s most
famous number, this piece sets up the violent
context in which this young love so improbably,
and yet so inevitably, blossoms. Prokofiev
deftly portrays the innocence of Juliet, while
the tenderness shared between her and Romeo
never falters into cheap sentimentality. The
music of the ball where they meet evokes
Prokofiev’s neoclassical vein.
The more consciously “populist” style
Prokofiev adopts does not prevent him from
introducing harsh dissonances or surprising
tonal shifts. He cleverly contrasts his portrayal
of the humble, trustworthy Friar Laurence
— the kindhearted Franciscan who hopes
to make lasting peace by joining the two in
marriage — with the decorous passion of
the lovers. The score’s most incandescent
lyricism is reserved for the lengthy balcony
scene, as the winds chirp like a celestial clock
for the lovers who want time to stand still.
After Mercutio is fatally wounded in his duel
with Tybalt, Romeo fatefully seeks to avenge
him and slays Tybalt in a scene of bloodcurdling,
violent emotion that anticipates
aspects of West Side Story. The so-called
“Dance of the Antilles Girls” — Juliet’s servants
— refers to a passage that is not found in
Shakespeare but somehow made its way into the
Russian treatment.
At the conclusion of this Suite, we discover
Romeo at Juliet’s tomb. Here Prokofiev takes
advantage of music’s unique capacity to summon
memories in an instant, bringing out the
inconsolable sadness of the encounter. Unlike
the ironic poses of his earlier experimental
years, the composer remains directly invested
in the feelings being evoked onstage — and in
the primacy of that experience, made present
through his economical use of leitmotifs and
richly satisfying orchestration.
The Romeo and Juliet Suite is scored for 2 flutes,
piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass
clarinet, tenor saxophone, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon,
4 horns, 2 trumpets, cornet, 3 trombones,
tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, celesta
and strings.
— Thomas May is the Nashville Symphony’s
program annotator.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
JO ANN
FALLETTA
conductor
GRAMMY®-winning
conductor JoAnn
Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Virginia
Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor
of the Brevard Music Center and artistic adviser
of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra.
Falletta has guest-conducted more than 100
orchestras in North America and many of the
most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia,
South America and Africa. In 2019/20 she
guest-conducts orchestras in Ireland, Sweden,
Germany, Mexico, Brazil and across the U.S.
Upon her appointment as music director
of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became
the first woman to lead a major America
ensemble. Celebrating her 20th anniversary
this season, she has been credited with bringing
the Philharmonic to an unprecedented level
of national and international prominence.
The orchestra has become one of the leading
recording orchestras for Naxos and returned
twice to Carnegie Hall.
With a discography of more than 115
titles, Falletta is a leading recording artist for
Naxos. In 2019, she won her first individual
GRAMMY® Award, as conductor of the London
Symphony, in the category of Best Classical
Compendium for Spiritualist, her fifth world
premiere recording of music of Kenneth Fuchs.
Her Naxos recording of John Corigliano’s Mr.
Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan
received two GRAMMY® Awards in 2008.
Falletta is a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served
by presidential appointment as a member of
the National Council on the Arts during the
Bush and Obama administrations. In March
2019, she was named Performance Today’s
2019 Classical Woman of the Year.
YULIANNA
AVDEEVA
piano
Yulianna Avdeeva
gained international
recognition when she won First Prize in the
Chopin Competition in 2010. Her artistic
integrity is rapidly ensuring her a place among
the most distinctive artists of her generation.
Following her Los Angeles Philharmonic
debut with Gustavo Dudamel in May
2019, she ventures on a dynamic 2019/20
season that includes debuts with Orchestra
Philharmonique de Radio France under the
baton of Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop, and
a return to Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
under Sir Mark Elder’s direction.Further
highlights include collaborations with SWR
Symphonieorchester, Gürzenich Orchestra
Cologne, Dresden Philharmonic and Sinfonie
Orchester Basel.
A regular performer throughout the Asia-
Pacific region, Avdeeva makes her debut
with BBC Scottish Symphony and Thomas
Dausgaard, joining them for the inaugural
BBC Proms Japan in 2019. Most recently, she
debuted with Sydney and Melbourne symphony
orchestras and worked with New Japan
Philharmonic and NHK Symphony Orchestra,
as well as with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester
Berlin and Bamberger Symphoniker, on tours
of Japan. Recent highlights have included
Avdeeva’s debuts at the Salzburg Festival, Alte
Oper Frankfurt, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg,
Boulez Saal and Lucerne Festival.
Avdeeva’s Chopin performances have drawn
particular praise, marking her as one of the
composer’s foremost interpreters who brings
out the strength as well as the refinement of
his music. In addition to her Chopin prize,
Avdeeva has won honors at the Bremen Piano
Contest, the Concours de Genève and the
Arthur Rubinstein Competition.
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2019
SYMPHONY
BALL
A Spectacular Night of Music & Elegance
Supporting the Nashville Symphony
The Symphony Ball is one of two fundraisers held
each year to support the Nashville Symphony. This year
marked the 35th annual event, with a sold-out crowd
filling a sparkling Laura Turner Hall on December 14 for
an evening of dining and dancing expertly executed by
2019 Symphony Ball chairmen Laura Kimbrell and Amy
Jackson Smith.
At each Symphony Ball, the Nashville Symphony presents
the Harmony Award to an individual who exemplifies the
harmonious spirit of Nashville’s musical community. This
year’s Ball was especially momentous, as the award was
presented twice in one evening: first to Nashville Symphony
president and CEO Alan D. Valentine, in recognition of
his 20 years of service to the organization, and then to
country star and Tennessee native Kelsea Ballerini. After
receiving her award, Ballerini showcased her gorgeous
vocals on a trio of selections accompanied by members
of the orchestra.
The Symphony Ball is an important part of the Symphony’s
annual fundraising efforts, with proceeds sustaining the
organization’s mission to inspire, educate, entertain and
serve the Middle Tennessee community.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE!
SPEAKER SERIES
CORAL KINGDOMS
AND EMPIRES OF ICE
with Photographers David Doubilet
and Jennifer Hayes
TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, AT 7 PM
This presentation will last approximately 65 to 70 minutes,
followed by a Q&A with the photographers.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
DAVID
DOUBILET
David Doubilet has a
long and intimate
vision into the sea. He
began snorkeling at age 8 at summer camp
in the Adirondacks, and by 12, he was taking
pictures underwater using a Brownie Hawkeye
camera stuffed into a rubber anesthesiologist
bag. The bag always filled with air and the
pictures were barely recognizable. But Doubilet
has long since mastered the techniques of
working with water and light to become one
of the world’s most celebrated underwater
photographers and a contributing photographer
for National Geographic magazine, which has
published nearly 70 of his stories since his
first assignment in 1971.
Doubilet has spent five decades under the
surface in the far corners of the world — from
interior Africa, remote tropical coral reefs
and rich temperate seas, to recent projects in
the northern and southern ice. His personal
challenge is to create a visual voice for the
world’s oceans and to connect people to
the incredible beauty and silent devastation
happening within the invisible world below.
Doubilet is also a contributing editor for
several publications and an author of 12
titles, including the award-winning Water
Light Time. His photographic awards include
numerous Picture of the Year, BBC Wildlife,
Communication Arts and World Press
awards. He is a member of the Academy of
Achievement, Royal Photographic Society,
International League of Conservation
Photographers, International Diving Hall of
Fame and a Trustee of the Shark Research
Institute. Doubilet was named a National
Geographic Contributing Photographer-in-
Residence in 2001 and is honored to be to be
a Rolex Ambassador, as well as the recipient
of the prestigious Explorers Club Lowell
Thomas Award and Lennart Nilsson Award
for Scientific Photography.
Doubilet lives with his wife and photographic
partner, Jennifer Hayes, in Clayton, New York,
a small river town in the Thousand Island
region of the St. Lawrence River.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE!
SPEAKER SERIES
JENNIFER
HAYES
Jennifer Hayes is an
aquatic biologist
and photojournalist
specializing in natural history and marine
environments. Jennifer and husband David
Doubilet collaborate as a photographic team
above and below water on project development,
story production, feature articles and books.
National Geographic assignments have
taken the couple around the globe — to
Africa’s Okavango Delta, through tropical
and temperate seas, and to the poles. Recent
projects have found them in the remote corners
of the Great Barrier Reef, under oil and gas
rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, swimming among
congregations of 500-pound goliath grouper,
and submerged in the ice with harp seal mother
and pups.
Jennifer is the editor and author of numerous
articles on marine environments, with images
appearing in countless books, advertising
campaigns and publications such as National
Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Sport Diver,
DIVE Magazine, Diver, People, Alert Diver
and Ocean Geographic. She is co-author and
photographer for Face to Face with Sharks by
National Geographic Books, and an honorary
editor for Ocean Geographic magazine.
Jennifer’s passion for the study and
conservation of primitive fishes led to graduate
degrees in zoology and marine biology. Her
research has included shark exploitation and
finning in the western North Atlantic, and
the life history and population dynamics
of sturgeon species. She is a Trustee for the
Shark Research Institute and a Fellow National
member of the Explorers Club.
Jennifer and David co-own their studio
and stock photography company, Undersea
Images Inc., located on the St. Lawrence River
in Clayton, New York.
VIEW FROM
ABOVE
SPEAKER
SERIES
Terry Virts
APRIL 7
615.687.6400
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FIRSTBANK POPS SERIES
FOREIGNER
with the Nashville Symphony
THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, AT 7 PM | FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 & 18, AT 8 PM
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY
ERNST VAN TIEL, conductor
MEMBERS OF THE
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY CHORUS
TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE, chorus director
FOREIGNER
MICK JONES, lead guitar, keys, backing vocals
KELLY HANSEN, lead vocals, percussion
TOM GIMBEL, guitars, saxophone, flute,
backing vocals
JEFF PILSON, bass, backing vocals
MICHAEL BLUESTEIN, keyboards,
backing vocals
BRUCE WATSON, lead guitar, guitar,
backing vocals
CHRIS FRAZIER, drums, percussion
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
FOREIGNER
With 10 multi-
Platinum albums
and 16 Top 30 hits,
Foreigner is universally
hailed as one of the
most popular rock acts in the world, with a
formidable musical arsenal that continues to
propel sold-out tours and album sales, now
exceeding 80 million.
Founded in 1976, Foreigner is responsible
for some of rock ’n’ roll’s most enduring
anthems, including “Juke Box Hero,” “Cold
as Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” “Waiting For a Girl Like
THANK YOU TO OUR
POPS SERIES PARTNER
This concert will last approximately two
hours, including a 20-minute intermission.
Selections to be announced from the stage.
You,” “Feels Like the First Time,” “Urgent,”
“Head Games,” “Say You Will,” “Dirty White
Boy,” “Long, Long Way From Home” and the
worldwide No. 1 hit “I Want to Know What
Love Is.” The band continues to rock the charts
more than 40 years into the game with massive
airplay and continued Billboard Top 200 album
success, while streams of Foreigner’s hits are
approaching 10 million per week.
At Foreigner’s core is founder and
Songwriters Hall of Fame member Mick
Jones, the visionary maestro whose stylistic
songwriting, indelible guitar hooks and multilayered
talents continue to escalate the band’s
influence. Foreigner’s lineup also includes
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respected lead singer Kelly Hansen, multiinstrumentalist
Tom Gimbel, Dokken bassist
Jeff Pilson, Michael Bluestein on keyboards,
guitarist Bruce Watson and Chris Frazier on
drums.
Following a brief hiatus in 2002, the band
returned to the Billboard charts with both
the 2005 release of their live Greatest Hits
album, Extended Versions, and 2009’s Can’t
Slow Down. That was followed by the three-disc
set Feels Like the First Time, which included
an acoustic disc with intimate and unique
reinterpretations of many Foreigner classics,
studio re-records by the new lineup, and a live
performance DVD.
A major milestone came in October 2016,
when Foreigner performed for the first time
at New York’s iconic Carnegie Hall, which
highlighted the band’s relationship with the
GRAMMY® Museum’s initiative to promote
music education in our nation’s schools. For
Foreigner’s 40th anniversary in 2017, Warner
Music Group released the double CD set 40,
which includes 40 songs recorded between
1977 and 2017 and two new tracks.
In April 2018, Foreigner topped the
Billboard Classic Album Charts for the first
time with a live recording of the group’s firstever
orchestral shows in Lucerne, Switzerland,
and the band went on to headline orchestral
shows in the U.S., Europe, Australia and New
Zealand, including sold-out appearances at
London’s Royal Albert Hall and the iconic
Sydney Opera House.
Double Vision: Then & Now, a DVD/CD
package that celebrates the 40th anniversary of
Foreigner’s iconic second album, was released
in November 2019 and features a stunning
reunion concert that brings together the
current and original band members playing
all the hits at the top of their game.
ERNST
VAN TIEL
conductor
Dutchman Ernst van
Tiel has compiled
an extensive career
in classical, jazz and film music, and has
led ensembles such as the Rotterdam
Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra,
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre
National de Lyon, Moscow State Symphony
Orchestra and Russian National Orchestra.
Van Tiel studied conducting with Franco
Ferrara, Gary Bertini, Jean Fournet and Lucas
Vis, and he was also an assistant to Valery
Gergiev, who invited him to conduct Elektra,
Lucia di Lammermoor, Rigoletto and other
operas at the Mariinsky Theatre.
With the Brussels Philharmonic, van Tiel
recorded the original score for Ludovic Bource’s
film The Artist, which won five Academy Awards
and three Golden Globes and is now touring
internationally with a live orchestra under
his direction. A specialist in film concerts, he
has also conducted performances of movie
favorites such as Alexander Nevsky, Star Wars,
Vertigo and Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
as well as several Harry Potter films.
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FREE COMMUNITY EVENT
LET FREEDOM SING
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, AT 7 PM
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY
DR. HENRY PANION III, conductor
CELEBRATION CHORUS | DAVE RAGLAND, chorus master
CELEBRATION YOUTH CHORUS | MARGARET CAMPBELLE-HOLMAN, director
RODERICK GEORGE, tenor
J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON /
ARR. ROLAND CARTER
Lift Every Voice and Sing
TRADITIONAL /
ARR. HENRY PANION
Ride on King Jesus
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
When You Believe from The Prince of Egypt
JIM PAPOULIS /
ARR. FRANCISCO J. NUÑEZ /
ORCH. HENRY PANION
Give Us Hope
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
How Long?
The Lord Is My Shepherd, Alleluia
RODERICK GEORGE, TENOR
BRYSON FINNEY /
ORCH. JERRY LACKEY
We Are Nashville
ARR. MARGARET BONDS
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
RODERICK GEORGE, TENOR
MARGARET BONDS
III. March from Montgomery Variations
TRADITIONAL | ARR. ROY RINGWALD
We Shall Overcome
GEORGE WALKER
Lyric for Strings
Program order subject to change
This concert will last approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.
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COMMUNITY EVENT
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
DR. HENRY PANION III, conductor
Henry Panion III, PhD,
is well known for
his work as a conductor
and arranger for Stevie
Wonder, leading many of the world’s top
orchestras on the superstar’s performances and
recordings. He has also served as conductor/
arranger for Aretha Franklin, Chet Atkins,
Chaka Khan, Kirk Franklin, Robin Thicke,
India.Arie and LeAnn Rimes.
Panion’s compositions have been
programmed by many major U.S. orchestras,
and his work as a producer, composer, arranger
and orchestrator has produced two GRAMMY®
Awards, two Dove Awards and a host of other
national music awards and nominations. The
creative force behind Gospel Goes Classical
featuring Juanita Bynum, Jonathan Butler
and the GGC Symphony Orchestra and
Choir, Panion also made history by topping
Billboard’s Gospel and Classical Crossover
Charts simultaneously.
From 1994 to 2000, Panion was chair of
the Department of Music at the University
of Alabama at Birmingham, and he serves
as president and founder of Audiostate 55
Recording Studios & Entertainment Company
and the Gospel Symphony Collection. His
numerous awards and recognitions include
induction into both the Alabama Jazz Hall
of Fame and Alabama Arts Hall of Fame, the
Congressional Black Caucus’ Civic and Cultural
Advancement Award, and appointment to
the post of cultural ambassador for the city
of Birmingham.
Panion holds degrees in music education and
music theory from Alabama A&M University
and Ohio State University, respectively.
CELEBRATION CHORUS
Founded in 1994 by Diana Poe and Odessa Settles, the Celebration Chorus is a community
chorus comprised of singers from across Middle Tennessee who come together every year
in harmony for the Nashville Symphony’s Let Freedom Sing concert.
The chorus is comprised of members of various church choirs, school choruses and musical
organizations, and also includes members of the Nashville Symphony Chorus. The Celebration
Chorus has shared the stage with Melinda Doolittle, Bobby Jones, Yolanda King, The Princely
Players, The Settles Connection, Donnie Ray Albert, William Warfield and Inversion Vocal
Ensemble, among others.
Macy Brown
Gary Burke
Adrianna Clemons
Susan Compton
Sheri Dewald
Kellee Halford
Byron Harvey
Kay Higgs
Dylan Holder
Johna Jackson
Maxine Jones
Tiffany King
Kristine LaLonde
Brittany Lewis-Williams
Lisa Love
Natasha Maclin
Terry Mahoney
Marquan Martin
Terrance McBride
Valerie Ross
Tesia Rucker
Xavier Rucker
Victoria Sanders
Beverly Scott
Gene Shade
Nicole Simone
Kenton Smith
Robert Smith Jr.
Torshia Suggs
Sarah Sultan
Marva Swann
David Thomas
Lauren
Thomas-Williams
Cedric Townsend
Mark Vanden Berge
Ben Whitehouse
Sylvia Wynn
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COMMUNITY EVENT
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY MEISTERSINGERS
SOPRANO ALTO
TENOR
BASS
Alysha Hinton
Amaya Thompkins
Lauren Wallace
Augtonia Coleman
Jasmin Conway
Katelynn Virgou
Ashur Hailey
Chavonne Gault
Clea Jackson
Meleena Waters
Elaishe Stone
Deosha Dowdy
Alivia Malone
Trinity Palms
Isaiah Batey
Herman Joseph
Mayson Harris
William Manning
Kedrick Noel
Jacob Taylor
Madison Brown
DeAngelo Davidson
Kendall Warner
Kendall Watkins
LaCario Alexander
Keeshaun Brown
Zion Johnson
DAVE RAGLAND, chorus master
Dave Ragland is a
composer, vocalist,
pianist and conductor who
has been hailed as “ubertalented”
by the Nashville Scene. He received
Emmy nominations for composition and music
direction for the Frist Art Museum’s “Nick
Cave Feat. Nashville,” and for his musical
collaboration with the Nashville Ballet’s Gerald
Watson and violinist Chandler Custer.
Additional compositional credits
include the Nashville Symphony, Nashville
Ballet, Memphis Symphony Orchestra,
Intersection and ALIAS Chamber Ensemble.
Ragland was also nominated for Best Director
of a Musical by First Night Honors for
Wildcard Productions’ run of Lady Day at
Emerson’s Bar & Grill.
Ragland is the artistic director of Inversion
Vocal Ensemble, a regionally touring vocal
collective that has performed with Brandi
Carlile, GRAMMY® nominee Ruby Amanfu,
Marcus Hummon and Levi Hummon,
and has also shared the stage with Rivers
Rutherford, the Fairfield Four and Tanya
Tucker. Previous engagements with Inversion
include the National Civil Rights Museum, the
National Museum of African American Music,
Ryman Auditorium, Tennessee Arts Academy,
Cheekwood, the Nashville Symphony’s Free
Day of Music and Let Freedom Sing in 2019.
Ragland is a composer mentor for
91Classical’s inaugural Student Composer
Fellowship.
CELEBRATION YOUTH CHORUS
Celebration Youth Chorus (CYC) is proud to commemorate its 22nd season with Nashville
Symphony during Let Freedom Sing. CYC is anchored by Choral Arts Link’s MET Singers
and MET Academy Singers. Both ensembles serve choral development in Nashville public schools,
but also include home-school, private-school and charter-school singers.
This season CYC is joined by MET Alumni Singers. These alumni serve as rehearsal mentors,
guiding singers in the professionalism that is a hallmark of our performance decorum. We are
proud to have the opportunity to partner with the Davidson County Relative Caregivers Program
of Family and Children’s Services. This partnership expands opportunities to new singers.
Celebration Youth Chorus Artistic Team
Barb Santoro
Cedric Townsend**
Angela Pinnock**
Allen Christian**
Kyla Mahaffey*
* Senior ** Alumni
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MARGARET CAMPBELLE-HOLMAN
Celebration Youth Chorus Director
Margaret Campbelle-
Holman is founder
of the MET Singers and
executive director of Choral Arts Link. Toward
the end of her 29 years in public schools,
she founded the MET Singers (1997), which
evolved to her current status as executive
director of Choral Arts Link (2004), a nonprofit
devoted to fostering choral legacies for Middle
Tennessee singers. She is author of two K-8
music series and two eBooks on Tennessee
music published by McGraw-Hill Education.
Campbelle-Holman was recently called a
paradigm shifter; her arts access collaborations
and creative resource partnerships have
effectively linked singers to Nashville cultural
institutions. Through this network-building,
the MET Singers have performed as the
Celebration Youth Chorus during Nashville
Symphony’s Let Freedom Sing concert since
1998.
Her vision and strategic planning continue
leading the way, offering Middle Tennessee
a model of choral artistry for children and
youth that meets and exceeds the Nashville
Symphony’s high standards.
RODERICK GEORGE, tenor
Distinguished
American tenor
Roderick George made his
New York Lincoln Center
debut as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah at David
Geffen Hall with the National Chorale, and he
has appeared at Carnegie Hall as a featured
soloist for the Gotham Sings Choral Showcase.
Regularly engaged as a soloist in major concert
and oratorio works, his repertoire spans from
Bach’s Magnificat and Mozart’s Requiem,
through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and
Rossini’s Stabat Mater, to Carl Orff 's Carmina
Burana and contemporary works by Adolphus
Hailstork and H. Leslie Adams.
George’s 2019/20 engagements include a
return to the Alabama Symphony for Messiah,
Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes for his
debut with the Nashville Symphony, Messiah
with the Shoals Symphony, and Dett’s Chariot
Jubilee for the Eighth National Convention of
the National Collegiate Choral Organization
in Baltimore, Maryland.
George has made appearances at numerous
international festivals and venues, including
Festival Internacional de Musica Sacra in
Ecuador, La Folle Journée in France, Festival
Internacional de la Porta Ferrada and Festival
Internacional de Santander in Spain, the
Cayman Arts Festival of the Grand Cayman
Islands, Notre-Dame Cathedral and the
American Cathedral in Paris, Lensoveta Palace
of Culture in St. Petersburg, the Royal Dublin
Society and Wexford Opera House in Ireland.
He has performed a diversity of leading lyric
tenor opera roles.
A champion of American art song and an
avid song recitalist, George specializes in art
song repertoire set to the texts of Paul Laurence
Dunbar and Langston Hughes.
THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
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AND HARD OF HEARING
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GUERRERO CONDUCTS
NFM WROCŁAW
PHILHARMONIC
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, AT 7:30 PM
NFM WROCŁAW PHILHARMONIC
GIANCARLO GUERRERO, conductor
PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI, piano
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Concert Overture in E Major, Op. 12 - 16 minutes
BÉLA BARTÓK
Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127 - 23 minutes
I. Allegretto
II. Adagio religioso –
Poco più mosso – Tempo I
III. Allegro vivace
Piotr Anderszewski, piano
– INTERMISSION –
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI
Concerto for Orchestra - 28 minutes
I. Intrada
II. Capriccio notturno e arioso
III. Passacaglia, toccata e corale
This concert will last approximately
one hour and 40 minutes, including
a 20-minute intermission.
The tour of the NFM Wrocław
Philharmonic is kindly supported
by Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego.
Piotr Anderszewski appears
by arrangement with Arts
Management Group.
NFM WROCŁAW PHILHARMONIC
NFM Wrocław Philharmonic was founded
in 1945. Until 1949, the orchestra was
both a symphony and an opera orchestra,
next to become the State Opera in Wrocław’s
orchestra. In 1954, it became an independent
symphony orchestra. In 1994, it adopted the
name of Witold Lutosławski in memory of
the great composer, and on the opening of
Wrocław’s new concert hall, the National Forum
of Music in 2015, it became the NFM Wroclaw
Philharmonic. The impressive architectural
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design by Kuryłowicz & Associates and praised
acoustics and theater design by Artec (now
Arup) have created a unique home for the
orchestra, in which during the first two seasons
NFM Wrocław Philharmonic performed for
almost 100,000 people.
As a principal resident ensemble of the
National Forum of Music, the orchestra
participates in a huge range of projects each
season, including subscription concerts,
educational programs, open-air performances
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PRESENTATION
and recording sessions. The orchestra’s
involvement in educational activities does
not only focus on concerts for schoolchildren
and youth, but also extends to collaborations
with the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music,
as well as participating in its own programs:
Orchestral Academy and Choral Academy.
Thanks to its collaborations with festivals
presented by the National Forum of Music
such as Jazztopad and Musica Electronica
Nova, the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic enjoys
regular collaborations with some leading avant
garde and jazz artists. In recent seasons, these
included John Zorn, Wynton Marsalis with
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Terje
Rypdal. A CD featuring the NFM Wrocław
Philharmonic’s concert with Rypdal was
released on the prestigious ECM label.
The orchestra enjoyed a long collaboration
with Jacek Kaspszyk, who, during his sevenyear
tenure as principal conductor and artistic
director (2006-13), contributed greatly to
the ensemble’s development. Subsequently,
between 2013-16, the orchestra worked with
Benjamin Shwartz, with whom the ensemble
began a recording series dedicated to the
work of contemporary Polish composers. The
first disc with the symphonic works of Paweł
Mykietyn was released in the spring of 2017.
Well known for its commitment to
presenting the 20th- and 21st-century
symphonic repertoire, the NFM Wrocław
Philharmonic regularly performs works
commissioned by and for the National Forum
of Music. The orchestra is currently recording
the complete works of its patron, Witold
Lutosławski, for the CD Accord label. A
recording of Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 conducted
by Jacek Kaspszyk won a Fryderyk award of
the Polish Phonographic Academy in 2011;
this was followed in 2013 with Symphony No.
1 and the Concerto for Orchestra, conducted
by Stanisław Skrowaczewski. The orchestra
regularly performs in prominent venues in
Poland, as well as touring Europe and the U.S.
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FIRST VIOLIN
Radosław Pujanek, first concertmaster
Marcin Danilewski, concertmaster
Dariusz Blicharski
Bartosz Bober
Dorota Bobrowicz
Maria Brzuchowska
Ewa Dragon
Danuta Drogowska
Beata Dziekańska
Jowita Kłopocka
Malwina Kotz
Sylwia Puchalska
Beata Solnicka
Dorota Tokarek
Anna Undak
Andrzej Woźnica
SECOND VIOLIN
Wojciech Hazuka, concertmaster
Tomasz Bolsewicz
Wioletta Porębska
Tomasz Kwieciński
Wojciech Bolsewicz
Alicja Iwanowicz
Marzanna Kałużny
Lilianna Koman-Blicharska
Małgorzata Kosendiak
Anita Koźlak
JANUARY 2020
Andrzej Michna
Alicja Ptasiński
Anna Szufłat
Anna Wałek
VIOLA
Artur Tokarek
Magdalena Dobosz
Bożena Nawojska
Paweł Brzychcy
Bogusława Dmochowska
Marlena Grodzicka-Myślak
Ewa Hofman
Wojciech Koczur
Marzena Malinowska
Michał Mazur
Wiktor Rudzik
Aleksandra Wiśniewska
CELLO
Maciej Młodawski, first concertmaster
Maciej Kłopocki, concertmaster
Jan Skopowski
Ewa Dymek-Kuś
Lidia Broszkiewicz
Miłosz Drogowski
Radosław Gruba
Anna Korecka
Dorota Kosendiak
Robert Stencel
BASS
Janusz Musiał, concertmaster
Damian Kalla
Czesław Kurtok
Jacek Sosna, personnel manager
Jan Galik
Marek Politański
Tomasz Iwanek
Jan Kołacki
FLUTE
Jan Krzeszowiec
Małgorzata Świętoń
Henryk Rymarczuk
OBOE
Wojciech Merena
Aleksandra Majda
OBOE/ENGLISH HORN
Stefan Małek
CLARINET
Maciej Dobosz
Mariola Molczyk
Michał Siciński
Arkadiusz Kwieciński
PRESENTATION
BASSOON
Alicja Kieruzalska
Józef Czichy
Bernard Mulik
FRENCH HORN
Mateusz Feliński
Adam Wolny
Łukasz Łacny
Czesław Czopka
Jan Grela
Robert Wasik
TRUMPET
Aleksander Kobus
Aleksander Zalewski
Paweł Spychała
Justyna Maliczowska
TROMBONE
Eloy Panizo-Padron
Wojciech Nycz
Mariusz Syrowatko
TUBA
Piotr Kosiński
PERCUSSION
Miłosz Rutkowski
Camille Bialas
Adrian Schmid
Krystyna Wojciechowska
TIMPANI
Diego Yanez Busto
HARP
Malwina Lipiec-Rozmysłowicz
Krzysztof Waloszczyk
PIANO
Agnieszka Kopacka-
Aleksandrowicz
CELESTA
Katarzyna Falana
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PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI, piano
Piotr Anderszewski
is regarded as one
of the outstanding
musicians of his
generation. He appears regularly in recital at
such concert halls as the Wiener Konzerthaus,
Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Carnegie
Hall, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the
Concertgebouw Amsterdam. His collaborations
with orchestra have included appearances
with the Berlin Philharmonic and Berlin
Staatskapelle orchestras, the London Symphony
and Philharmonia orchestras, and the NHK
Symphony Orchestra. He has also placed
special emphasis on playing and directing,
working with orchestras such as the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of
Europe and Camerata Salzburg.
In the 2019/20 season, Anderszewski will
appear with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre
de Paris. His play/direct collaborations will
include concerts with his regular partners the
Scottish Chamber Orchestra and a European
tour with the Kammerorchester Basel. In recital
he can be heard at the Elbphilharmonie in
Hamburg, the Philharmonie in Cologne, the
Alte Oper Frankfurt, and the Tchaikovsky
Concert Hall in Moscow.
Anderszewski has been an exclusive artist
with Warner Classics/Erato since 2000. His
first recording for the label was Beethoven’s
Diabelli Variations, which went on to receive
a number of prizes. He has also recorded
GRAMMY®-nominated discs of Bach’s Partitas
1, 3 and 6, and Szymanowski’s solo piano
works, the latter also receiving a Gramophone
Award in 2006. His recording devoted to works
by Robert Schumann received BBC Music
Magazine’s Recording of the Year Award in
2012. Anderszewski’s disc of Bach’s English
Suites Nos. 1, 3 and 5, released in November
2014, went on to win both a Gramophone
Award and an ECHO Klassik in 2015.
Recognized for the intensity and originality
of his interpretations, Anderszewski has
been a recipient of the Gilmore Award, the
Szymanowski Prize and a Royal Philharmonic
Society Award. He has also been the subject
of several documentaries by the filmmaker
Bruno Monsaingeon.
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SPECIAL EVENT
THE TIMES THEY ARE
A-CHANGIN': THE WORDS
AND MUSIC OF BOB DYLAN
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, AT 7:30 PM
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY CHORUS
STEVE HACKMAN, conductor
TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE, chorus director
THANK YOU TO
OUR CONCERT
PARTNER
Selections to be announced from the stage.
This concert will last approximately 75 minutes.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
STEVE
HACKMAN
conductor
Steve Hackman is a
daring voice leading
a new generation of classical musicians intent
on redefining the genre. His breadth of musical
fluency and technique is uncanny — he is
at once a composer, conductor, producer, DJ,
arranger, songwriter, singer, pianist and rapper.
Hackman’s unique style of musical
metamorphosis sees modern musical
techniques applied to the classical repertoire
and vice versa. The result is evocative hybrid
works that are derivative yet wholly original —
he synthesizes Brahms and Radiohead, Bartók
and Björk, and Tchaikovsky and Drake into
orchestral tone-poems; reimagines Stravinsky
and Shostakovich into orchestral-electronic
concept albums; samples Verdi and Debussy
and interpolates them into hip-hop tracks.
Recent highlights include the October
2018 debut of his newest creation, West Side
X West Side, an orchestral/hip-hop synthesis
of Bernstein’s West Side Story and the music
of rappers Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Ice
Cube, Warren G and Kendrick Lamar. And
last January, Hackman premiered his choral
treatment of Bob Dylan — a 15-song anthology
entitled The Times They Are A-Changin’, with
the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh.
Hackman has worked as a composer and
arranger for a number of artists and choral
ensembles — including the string trio Time
for Three and violinist Joshua Bell — and
his orchestrations for Time for Three, Arlo
Guthrie, The Five Browns and others have
been performed by major American orchestra.
Hackman studied counterpoint, composition
and improvisation under Dr. Ford Lallerstedt
at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia;
received an advanced diploma in conducting
at Curtis under Otto-Werner Mueller; and
studied with David Zinman at the American
Academy of Conducting at Aspen.
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NASHVILLE SYMPHONY CHORUS
TUCKER BIDDLECOMBE, Chorus Director
SOPRANO
Beverly Anderson†
Katie Arata
Esther Bae
Amie Bates
Jill Boehme
Stephanie Breiwa
Christine Brosend
Daphne Bugelli
Sara Jean Curtiss
Claire Delcourt
Katie Doyle
Kacie Dunham
Allison Espada
Becky Evans-Young
Amy Frogge
Kelli Gauthier
Rebecca Greer
Grace J. Guill†
Ally Hard
Stacey Haslam
Vanessa D. Jackson*
Katie Lawrence
Jennifer Lynn
Alisha Austin Menard
Jean Miller
Jessie Neilson
Angela Pasquini Clifford
Samantha Petry
Kristine Phillips
Beth Pirtle Ring
Renita J.
Smith-Crittendon
Ashlinn Snyder
Paige Stinnett
Clair Susong
Marva A. Swann
Marjorie Taggart
Angie Thomas*
Ashley Vance
Jan Staats Volk†
Camille Winton
Sylvia Wynn
Callie Zindel
ALTO
Carol Armes
Kathy Bearden
Tessa Berger
Mary Bond
Vinéecia Buchanan
Mary Callahan*
Cathi Carmack†
Kelsey Christian
Lisa Cooper†
Helen Cornell
Carla M. Davis†
Amanda Leigh Dier
Erin Elgass
Cara Frank
Dana Purser Gary
Katherine Gillett
Elizabeth Gilliam†
Debra L. Greenspan
Bevin Gregory
Judith Griffin
Leah Handelsman
Sidney Hyde
Liza Marie Johnston
Valerie Kamen
Leah Koesten
Stephanie Kraft
Emily Longenecker
Shelly McCormack
Asha Moody
Jessica Moore
Stephanie Moritz
Shelia Mullican
Valerie Nelson
Lisa Pellegrin
Annette Phillips
Stacy L. Reed
Debbie Reyland
Anna Lea Ritchie
Allie Senyard
Hannah Sims
Anjali Sivaainkaran
Madalynne Skelton
Caroline Kimbrey Talbert*
Deanna Talbert
Kathryn Whitaker
Maggie Zeillmann
TENOR
Anthony R. Barta
Robert Bennett
Eric Boehme
Kevin Brenner
Brett Cartwright
Taylor Chadwick
Joe A. Fitzpatrick
Fred Garcia
Danny Gordon*
Kory Henkel
William F. Hodge†
Ron Jensen
Mitchell Lane
Scott Lee
Lynn McGill
Don Mott
Devin Mueller
Ryan Norris
John Perry
Keith Ramsey
David M. Satterfield†*
Zach Shrout
Daniel Sissom
Eddie Smith
Stephen Sparks†
Joel Tellinghuisen
Christopher Thompson
Benjamin Tyrrel
Richard Colby White
Richard Wineland
Scott Wolfe
John Logan Wood
Jonathan Yeaworth
BASS
Gilbert Aldridge
James Cortner
Nick Davidson
Dustin Derryberry
Frank Ellsworth
Mark Filosa
Ian M. Frazier
Stuart Garber
George Goetschel
Tim Goodenough
Duane Hamilton
Andrew Hard
Luke Harnish
Richard Hatfield†
Carl Johnson
Kenneth Keel
Justin Kirby
William Loyd
Taylor Lucy
Rob Mahurin
Adam Mamula
Bruce Meriwether
Andrew Miller
Christopher Mixon
Chandler Montgomery
Steve Myers
Alec Oziminski
Steve Prichard
Daniel Silva
Merv Snider
William E. Squires
Larry Strachan
David B. Thomas†*
Alex Tinianow
Brian Warford*
Eric Wiuff
Hunter Yates
* Section Leader
† 25+ year members
Andrew Miller, president
Sara Crigger, librarian
Jeff Burnham, accompanist
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INDIVIDUALS
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 and support for Special
Events. Donors as of December 4, 2019.
MARTHA RIVERS INGRAM SOCIETY Gifts of $50,000 +
Mr. Newman & Mr. Johnathon Arndt ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Jack O. Bovender Jr.
Mr. Michael Carter, Sr. &
Mrs. Pamela Carter ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin W. Crumbo ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Giacobone ◊
Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram ◊
Donna & Ralph Korpman
Richard & Sharalena Miller ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Olsen ◊
Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock ◊
Mr. & Mrs. James C. Seabury III ◊
WALTER SHARP SOCIETY Gifts of $25,000 - $49,999
Mr. & Mrs. James Ayers
Mr. Russell W. Bates ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bottorff ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Carlton
The Rev. & Mrs. Fred Dettwiller
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Giarratana
Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero ◊
Mr.* & Mrs. Spencer Hays ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Humphreys
Mr. Orrin Henry Ingram II
Mr. & Mrs. T. K. Kimbrell ◊
The Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter ◊
Mr. Ronald P. Soltman,
in memory of Judith Cram ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Tillinger ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Turner ◊
David* & Gail Williams ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Joel Williams ◊
VIRTUOSO SOCIETY Gifts of $15,000 - $24,999
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bailey
Mr. & Mrs. Ward A. Baker
Mrs. Melinda S. & Dr. Jeffrey R. Balser ◊
H. Victor Braren, M.D. ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Brown Sr.*
Mr. & Mrs. Colin A. Butler ◊
Mr. & Mrs. John Chadwick
Carol & Frank Daniels III ◊
Tommy & Julie Frist
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gravette
Ms. Gail Danner Greil ◊
Brenda & David Griffin ◊
Patricia & H. Rodes Hart ◊
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Haslam III
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Haslam II
Vicki & Rick Horne ◊
Drs. Edmund & Lauren Parker Jackson ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Howard S. Kirshner ◊
Mr. Neil B. Krugman and
Ms. Leona M. Pratt
Ellen Harrison Martin ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. McCabe Jr. ◊
Mr. & Mrs. David K. Morgan ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Mark E. Nicol ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Pfeffer ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus A. Puryear IV ◊
Anne & Joe Russell ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Rick Scarola
Ron & Diane Shafer ◊
Mr. Robert J. Turner & Mr. Jay Jones ◊
Alan D. & Jan L. Valentine ◊
Jonathan & Janet Weaver ◊
The Harris Widener Family Fund ◊
2019/20 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
DIRECTORS
Mark Peacock
Board Chair
Pamela Carter
Chair Elect
Kevin Crumbo
Immediate Past Chair
Rev. Dexter
Sutton Brewer
Vice Chair
Russell Bates
Treasurer
Hank Ingram
Secretary
Alan D. Valentine
President & CEO
+ Indicates Young Leaders Intern
Newman Arndt
Melinda Balser
Dr. H. Victor Braren
Mary Cavarra
Michelle Collins
Carol Daniels
Nick Deidiker
James Edward
Demont, II +
Christopher Farrell
Andrew Giacobone
Edward A. Goodrich
Brenda P. Griffin
Derek Hawkes
Michael W. Hayes
Christopher T. Holmes
Vicki Horne
Emily Humphreys
Lee Ann Ingram
Martha R. Ingram
Dr. Edmund Jackson
Jay Jones
Laura Kimbrell
Sandra Lipman
Cynthia Clark
Matthews
Andy Miller
Richard L. Miller
Pat Murphy
Bob Olsen
Victoria Pao
Jeremie Papin
W. Brantley
Phillips, Jr.
Ric J. Potenz
Jennifer H. Puryear
Dr. Janice Riley-Burt
E. Kelly Sanford
Carolyn W. Schott
James C. Seabury III
Luis Solana
Karl Sprules
Mark Tillinger
Glen Wanner
Jonathan G. Weaver
James W. White
Peri Widener
Betsy Wills
Clare Yang
Alan R. Yuspeh
Shirley Zeitlin
2019/20 ASSOCIATE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
DIRECTORS
Nicholas Deidiker
Chair
Allison Reed
Past Chair
Hank Ingram
Chair Emeritus
Andrew Hard
Secretary
Andrew Martin
Treasurer
Amanda Kane
Communications Chair
Victor Evans
Membership Chair
Kayla Counts
Events Chair
Catherine Grace
Spirits of Summer Chair
Lenai Augustine
Samantha Breske
Brian Cook
Sarah Kendrick
Laura Kimbrell
Megan Koch
Ryan Lipscomb
Jason Palmer
Cassandra Petty
James Richfield
Ginny Stalker
Taylor Vickery
42 JANUARY 2020
INDIVIDUAL PATRONS
Governing Members receive access to Founders Hall donor lounge,
complimentary drinks, special access, exclusive invitations and
behind-the-scenes experiences. Membership is offered with an annual
gift of $3,000 and purchase of 4+ concerts.
Jay Jones, Chair
Ric Potenz, Chair Emeritus
Visit NashvilleSymphony.org/GoverningMembers for more information.
◊ denotes donors who are Governing Members
MUSICIANS CIRCLE Gifts of $10,000 - $14,999
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bailey III
Mr. and Mrs. Ward A. Baker
Clara and Wesley Belden ◊
Blevins, Inc. ◊
Mrs. J.C. Bradford Jr. ◊
Ann & Frank Bumstead ◊
Drs. Rodney & Janice Burt ◊
Mrs. William Sherrard Cochran Sr.
Mr.* & Mrs. W. Ovid Collins
Ben & Julie Cundiff ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Brownlee O. Currey Jr.
Hilton & Sallie Dean ◊
Nick & Connie Deidiker ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Doochin ◊
Tom & Judy Foster ◊
Allis Dale & John Gillmor ◊
Mr. & Mrs. F. David Haas ◊
Dick & Vicki Hammer ◊
Gregory T. Hersh ◊
Mr. Robert C. Hilton ◊
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Holloway
Hank Ingram ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Irby Sr. ◊
Mr. and Mrs. R. Milton Johnson
Retired COL's, Steve & Julie Lomax ◊
The Melkus Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mendes
Victoria & William Pao ◊
Mr. Randy Bernard
Ms. Carolyn W. Schott
Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus ◊
David & Niki Smith ◊
Mr. Karl Sprules
Margaret* & Cal Turner ◊
Mr. & Mrs. James F. Turner Jr. ◊
Mr. & Mrs. James W. White ◊
Jimmie D. & Patricia L. White ◊
Mrs. Shirley A. Zeitlin
STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY Gifts of $5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous
Dr. & Mrs. Gregg P. Allen ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory T. Allen
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy W. Arnold
Judy & Joe Barker ◊
Ned Bates and Brigette Anschuetz ◊
Michael V. and Sharry D. Beard ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Earl Bentz
Ms. Erin L. Bishop ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Frank H. Boehm ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Boyd IV
Mr. & Mrs. Harold Brewer
Chuck & Sandra Cagle ◊
John E. Cain III
Mike & Jane Ann Cain ◊
Ms. Pamela Casey ◊
Fred Cassetty ◊
Dr. Elizabeth Cato
Mary & Joseph Cavarra ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Clark ◊
Dorit & Donald Cochron ◊
Brian & Haden Cook ◊
Ms. Amy J. Smith and
Mr. Michael A. Cronin
Mr. and Mrs. Justin Dell Crosslin
Drs. Michael S. and Rowena D. Cuffe
Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradford Currie
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory S. Daily
BioVentures, Inc. ◊
Mr. Robert J. Deal and
Mr. Jason T. Bradshaw
Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dennis ◊
Marty & Betty Dickens ◊
Laura & Wayne* Dugas ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Burton Dye ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Jere Mann Ervin
Mrs. Annette S. Eskind ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Eskind ◊
The Jane & Richard Eskind &
Family Foundation ◊
Laurie & Steven Eskind
Marilyn Ezell
Jennifer & Billy Frist
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey D. Fuller
Ed & Nancy Goodrich ◊
Kate R. W. Grayken
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Griffin
Carl & Connie Haley ◊
Carolyn N. and Terry W. Hamby ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Harrington ◊
Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hayes
Dr. Jan Van Eys & Judith Hodges ◊
Steven & Catherine Hoffman
Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Huddleston
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Ingram
Barron Patterson & Burton Jablin ◊
Keith & Nancy* Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott W. Jones Sr.
Ms. Sarah Kendrick ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Stewart Koch
Mr. and Mrs. David Kretschmer
Heloise Werthan Kuhn ◊
Dr. and Mrs. Cregan Laborde
Drs. Paul & Dana Latour
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Ledbetter Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. George R. Lee ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Ryan C. Lipscomb ◊
Mr. Mark E. Lopez & Mr. Patrick J. Boggs ◊
Myles & Joan MacDonald ◊
Red & Shari Martin ◊
Dr. Shawn Mathis & Mrs. Vida Mathis ◊
Ms. Jennifer McCoy & Mr. JT Dominick ◊
Jayne Menkemeller ◊
Edward D. & Linda F. Miles ◊
Christopher & Patricia Mixon ◊
Mr. & Mrs. A. Bruce Moore Jr.
Mrs. Gwen Noe ◊
Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Odom ◊
Dr. Christopher J. Ott &
Mr. Jeremy R. Simons
Ms. Aylin Ozgener and Mr. Scott Hethcox
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Papel
Todd & Diandra Peacock ◊
Peggy & Hal Pennington
Joelle & Brant Phillips
CW Pinson, M.D., MBA ◊
DeDe Priest ◊
Mrs. Donna L. Richardson
Carol & John T. Rochford ◊
Mr. & Mrs. David L. Rollins
Mr. & Mrs. John B. Rosen ◊
Dr. Norm Scarborough &
Ms. Kimberly Hewell ◊
Joe & Dorothy Scarlett ◊
Dr. & Mrs. John Schneider ◊
Mrs. J. Ronald Scott ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson W. Shields
The Shields Family Foundation ◊
Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons
Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Small ◊
Michael & Grace Sposato ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Jack Stalker ◊
Carol A. Tate ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Matthew K. Taylor ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley D. Thacker
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Tomlin Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Turner Jr.
Peggy & John Warner ◊
Mrs. Lisa W. Wheeler ◊
Mrs. Holly Anderson Wilds
Jerry & Ernie Williams ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Toby S. Wilt
Janet & Alan Yuspeh
Barbara & Bud* Zander ◊
Mr. Nicholas S. Zeppos and
Ms. Lydia A. Howarth
* denotes donors who are deceased ◊ denotes donors who are Governing Members
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GOLDEN BATON SOCIETY Gifts of $3,000 - $4,999
Anonymous (5)
Mr. & Mrs. John V. Abbott ◊
Mr. & Mrs.
Stephen M. Abelman ◊
Shelley Alexander ◊
Mr. and Mrs. C. Dale Allen
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Andrews
Mr. and Mrs. David F. Arnholt
Jeremy & Rebecca Atack ◊
Jon K. & Colleen Atwood ◊
Grace & Carl Awh ◊
Brian & Beth Bachman
David Baldwin &
Melissa K. Moss ◊
Elisabetha Baugh ◊
Dr. & Mrs. John Baxter ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Robert O. Begtrup ◊
Betty C. Bellamy ◊
Dr. and Mrs. Randy Bellows ◊
Dr. Eric & Elaine Berg ◊
Celia Applegate &
David Blackbourn ◊
Dennis & Tammy Boehms ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry D. Bostelman
Jamey Bowen & Norman Wells ◊
Randal & Priscilla Braker ◊
Mary Lawrence Breinig ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Phillip L. Bressman ◊
Steven & Cassandra Brosvik ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Steve R. Brubaker ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Del R. Bryant
Dr. Melinda and
Mr. John B. Buntin
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Bynum
Ms. Betsy Calabrace ◊
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Campbell III
Mary Taylor Gallagher &
Chris Cardwell ◊
Sykes & Ann Cargile ◊
David L. Carlton ◊
Crom & Kathy Carmichael ◊
Tom & Kathi Carr ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Dennis C. Carter ◊
Mr. and Mrs.
George E. Cassady III
Mrs. Joanne G. Cato
Mr. & Mrs. Cooper Chilton ◊
Catherine Chitwood ◊
David & Starling Clark
Jay & Ellen Clayton ◊
Terry & Holly Clyne ◊
Ed & Pat Cole ◊
Mr. and Mrs. H. Rhea Cole
Marjorie Collins ◊
Dr. Michael E. Conver
Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr. ◊
Kathy & Scott Corlew ◊
Teresa Corlew & Wes Allen ◊
Roger & Barbara Cottrell ◊
David Coulam & Lucy A.
Visceglia ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Covert
Joel* & Charlotte Covington ◊
Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Cox III
Mrs. Kim Crafton
Dr. Leslie J. Crofford
Janine Cundiff ◊
Angela & Charles Curtiss ◊
Dr. and Mrs.
Charles E. Daley III ◊
Mr. M. Bradshaw Darnall III
Myrtianne Downs ◊
Stephen & Kimberly Drake ◊
Mr.* & Mrs. Glenn Eaden
Dr. Mac & Brenda Edington
Drs. James & Rena Ellzy ◊
Mr. Owen T. Embry ◊
Dr. Noelle Daugherty &
Dr. Jack Erter ◊
Victor Evans
Dr. Meredith A. Ezell
Ms. Paula Fairchild ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Farley
Mr. & Mrs. Will Fischer ◊
Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer
& Family ◊
John & Barbara Fletcher ◊
Dr. Sharron H. Francis
Mr. & Mrs. Pete Franks ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Steven G. Fridrich
Mrs. Karyn M. Frist
Cathey & Wilford Fuqua ◊
Dr. Ronald E. Galbraith &
Mrs. Faith H. Galbraith ◊
Ms. Harper Ganick
Ms. Kathryn Ganier
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gann ◊
Harris A. Gilbert ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Roy J. Gilleland III ◊
Mr. Amos R. Glass ◊
Andrew & Alene Gnyp ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Joel C. Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Gordon
Mr. Gerald C. Greer and
Dr. Scott Hoffman
Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin D. Griffin
Mrs. Anna M. Grizzle
Karen & Daniel Grossman
& Family ◊
Ms. Tracy Guarino
John & Libbey Hagewood ◊
Mrs. Robbie J. Hampton ◊
Ted Hanson ◊
Dr. Edward Hantel ◊
Suzy Heer ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Henry ◊
Ms. Cornelia B. Holland ◊
Mr. and Mrs.
Christopher T. Holmes
Drs. Robert Hines* &
Mary Hooks ◊
Rodney Irvin Family ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Israel ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Clay T. Jackson ◊
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Jacques ◊
Janet & Philip Jamieson ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Lou Jennings ◊
George & Shirley Johnston ◊
Mr. Mountaine M. Jonas ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Joyce
Ms. Amanda K. Kane ◊
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Kendall
Mrs. Edward C. Kennedy
William Killebrew
Tom & Darlene Klaritch ◊
Mr. & Mrs. David J. Klintworth ◊
Anne Knauff ◊
Walter & Sarah Knestrick ◊
Mr. William E. Knestrick
Jack T. & Sophie Knott ◊
Mr. & Mrs.
Michael A. Koban Jr. ◊
Ms. Pamela L. Koerner ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Kovach ◊
Mrs. Nona Jane Kroha ◊
Kevin & Nicole Krushenski ◊
Mr. Paul H. Kuhn, Jr. ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Mike LaDouceur ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Land
Mr. Edward Lanquist ◊
Martha & Larry Larkin ◊
Kevin & May Lavender
Dr. Michelle Law ◊
Ms. Ellen E. Lehman
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Lentini ◊
Hon. & Mrs. Thomas R. Lewis ◊
Marye & Bill Lewis ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Lippolis ◊
Mr. Brent D. Longtin &
Mr. Douglas A. Darsow ◊
Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd R. Lowry III
Mr. & Mrs.*
George Luscombe II ◊
Mr. John M. Lutz
Mr. John Maddux ◊
Ms. Orlene Makinson ◊
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Manning
Lynn & Jack May ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. McCarty
Mr. and Mrs. Cary A. McClure
Mr. & Mrs. Chet Melvin ◊
Dr. Mark & Mrs.
Theresa Messenger ◊
Ms. Jennifer L. Michaeli
Laurie Miller ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Miller
Mr. David K. Mitchell ◊
Mr. & Mrs. S. Moharreri ◊
Mr. & Mrs. James Moore ◊
Bill & Cindy Morelli
Mr. Wayne E. Morris ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Kelvin A. Moses ◊
Matt & Rhonda Mulroy ◊
James & Patricia Munro ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Nave Jr. ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Neal
Leslie & Scott Newman ◊
Dr. Agatha L. Nolen ◊
Mr. & Mrs.*
Robert J. Notestine ◊
Dr. John A. Oates Jr.* &
Meredith S. Oates ◊
David & Pamela Palmer ◊
Dr. and Mrs. Grant T. Patterson
Susan Holt & Mark Patterson ◊
Drs. Teresa & Phillip Patterson ◊
Mr. Richard M. Patterson
Dr. & Mrs. Dale Pilkinton
Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Pohlman
Donna and Tom Priesmeyer ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Queener
Dr. Zeljko & Tanya Radic ◊
Mr. & Mrs. W. Edward Ramage ◊
Mr. James H. Reed IV and
Mr. Jack Arnold
Mr. & Mrs. Alexander T. Renfro ◊
Mr. James E. Richfield
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Riven ◊
Dr. Robert & Taylor Robinson ◊
Misha Robledo
Anne & Charles Roos ◊
Ms. Sara L. Rosson &
Ms. Nancy Menke ◊
Ms. Mary Frances Rudy ◊
Samuel A. Santoro &
Mary M. Zutter ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Eric M. Saul ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Schoettle
Peggy C. Sciotto ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Seale ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Sewell ◊
Joan Blum Shayne ◊
Steve & Holly Shelton ◊
Allen Spears* &
Colleen Sheppard
Bill & Sharon Sheriff ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Brian S. Smallwood
Dr. Neil & Ruth Smith ◊
K.C. & Mary Smythe ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Brandt N. Snedeker
Mr. Jason P. Somerville &
Mr. Eric Cook ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Sowell III
Clark Spoden &
Norah Buikstra ◊
Christopher & Maribeth Stahl ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Joe N. Steakley
Mr. & Mrs. Barry Steele ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Steele
Robert & Virginia Stewart ◊
Deborah &
James Stonehocker ◊
Mr. & Mrs.
James G. Stranch III ◊
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Strang IV
Mr. James E. Sutter
Dr. Steve A. Hyman &
Mr. Mark Lee Taylor ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Thomson ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Thursby ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Townes ◊
Martha J. Trammell ◊
Mrs. Catherine W. Turner
Mr. James N. Vickers &
Mr. Brian Schafer ◊
Ms. Joyce A. Vise
Mr. and Mrs. Randy J. Wachtler
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Wade ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Martin H. Wagner ◊
James & Greta Walsh ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Wathen ◊
Talmage M. Watts &
Debra Greenspan Watts ◊
44 JANUARY 2020 * denotes donors who are deceased ◊ denotes donors who are Governing Members
INDIVIDUAL PATRONS
Carroll Van West &
Mary Hoffschwelle ◊
Mr. James L. White ◊
Stacy Widelitz ◊
Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills III
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Wilson
Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph J. Wimberly IV
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Wire II
Mr. & Mrs. Marvin L. Wood ◊
Ira Work ◊
Dr. Artmas L. Worthy ◊
Dr. Burton Elrod and
Ms. Carol H. Yarbrough
Donna B. Yurdin ◊
Mr. Craig Zimberg &
Ms. Tara Sawdon ◊
Dr. & Mrs. Victor L. Zirilli ◊
CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Gifts of $1,500 - $2,999
Anonymous (7)
Jeff & Tina Adams
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Adams IV
Drs. Wendell S. & Paige Akers
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Allbee
Ms. Elizabeth Allen
Lisa & Mr. Gerry Altieri
Mr. and Mrs. Sterling R. Ambrose
Dr. and Mrs. John E. Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Craig J. Andreen
Mr. Frank M. Andrews
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Andrews
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ansley
Ms. Teresa Broyles-Aplin &
Mr. Don Aplin
Ms. Jennifer McNew Appelt
Mr. and Mrs. DeVan D. Ard Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John K. Aron
Ms. Deborah Arvin
Mr. Bruce G. Aubrey
Ms. Peggy Mayo Bailey
Richard & Ada Baker
Mr. Ron Balcarras
Mr. and Mrs. Keith M. Barry
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Basile
Mr. & Mrs. John Bearden
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra C. Beasley III
Craig & Angela Becker
Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Bender
Mrs. Raymond P. Bills
Randolph & Elaine Blake
Dr. & Mrs. Marion G. Bolin
Gene & Donna Bonfoey
Mr. and Mrs. Alandis Brassel
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Braun
Dan & Mindy Brodbeck
Berry & Connie Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bryan III
Ms. Caroline Brzozowicz
Jean & David Buchanan
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey G. Bunting
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bussard
Drs. Robert F. and
Mirna Caldwell
Dr. and Mrs.
Alfred S. Callahan III
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Cammack
Mr. Brian Carden
Dr. Robert J. Carroll
Bill & Chris Carver
Vickie & Buzz Cason
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Chadwell
David & Pam Chamberlin
Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Chandler
Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Weston Chapman
Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas B. Chappell
Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Chasanoff
Barbara & Eric Chazen
Mr. J. D. Pickslay Cheek Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Sam E. Christopher
Drs. Keith and Leslie Churchwell
Mr. and Mrs. David C. Cloyd
Cindy & Doug Cobb
Dr. and Mrs.
Robert Deaver Collins Jr.
Amy & Overton Colton
Greg & Mary Jo Cote
Mr. Thomas F. Cowhey and
Ms. Cynthia E. Lasker
Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Crook
Katherine C. Daniel
Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Davidson
Mr. and Mrs. Ansel L. Davis
Linda & Ben Davis
Dr. & Mrs. Eric Delpire
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Dial
Mr. Michael S. Dixon and
Mr. Brian D. Setzer
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Dolan
Carol & Harold Donaldson
Peter & Kathleen Donofrio
Ms. Linda Kartoz-Doochin &
Mr. Michael Doochin
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Douglas III
Kathryn Applegate Duffer
Mr. and Mrs. M. Gavin Duke
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Eakin Jr.
Mr. & Mrs.* DeWitt Ezell
Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Falk
John & Debbie Farringer
Dr. Luis G. Fernandez and
Dr. Viviana A. Lavin
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Fincher
Mr. and Mrs.
James A. Fitzgerald Jr.
John David &
Mary Dale Trabue Fitzgerald
Mr. and Mrs.
Brennon A. Fitzpatrick
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew H. Fones
Ann D. Frisch
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Frist Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Frohsin
Mr. and Mrs. G. Robert Frost
Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Fulk II
Dr. & Mrs. John R. Furman
Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Gage
Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Ganier III
Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Garber
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Gardner
Carlene Hunt & Marshall Gaskins
John & Lorelee Gawaluck
Dr. and Ms. Richard J. Geer
Mr. Norman B. Gillis
Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Glisson
Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Goad Jr.
James C. Gooch & Jennie P. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Grace
Richard A. Green
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gregg
Mr. Lance W. Gruner and
Mr. Shawn Wilson
Dr. Gary S. Gutow
John & Melissa Halsell
The Evelyn S. &
Jim Horne Hankins Foundation
Jim & Stephanie Hastings
Mr. & Mrs. John Burton Hayes
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel N. Hazen
Lisa & Bill Headley
Mrs. Nancy P. Hearn
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Heeren
Mr. & Mrs. Marion W. Hickerson III
Mr. Kevin E. Hickman
Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin H. Hill
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Hite
Dr. Elisabeth Dykens &
Dr. Robert Hodapp
Mr. and Mrs.
Hampton A. Holcomb Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay M. Hollomon
Mrs. Henry W. Hooker*
Mr. & Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover III
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Houff
Bruce & Diane Houglum
Hudson Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. John Huie
Bud Ireland
Mr. and Mrs. Toshinari Ishii
Donald L. Jackson
G. Brian Jackson & Roger E. Moore
Mr. David James &
Ms. Jeri Thomson
Barry & Suzanne Jennings
Mary Loventhal Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Russell A. Jones Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kelley
Mr. & Mrs. W Evans Kemp Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Kestner
Mr. and Mrs. David C. Kloeppel
William C. &
Deborah Patterson Koch
Linda R. Koon
Mr. Neil W. Kunkel Jr. and Ms.
Paula D. Walker
Ms. Janet Kurtz and Mr. Ronald
V. Gobbell
Mr. and Mrs.
Christopher F. Kyriopoulos
Mr. and Mrs. Marc F. Lagasse
Mr. & Mrs. Randolph M. LaGasse
Robert & Carol Lampe
Mr. & Mrs.* Samuel W. Lavender
John & Barbara Lawless
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Leap
Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Leeper
Sally M. Levine
Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Liedtke
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Lipman
Katherine C. Follin and
Robert Straus Lipman
Mr. Kenneth B. Lock and
Dr. Susan Sharpe
Mrs. Travis B. Loller &
Mr. James A. Nichols
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan R. Lund
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O. MacLellan
Mrs. Charles Taxon Malott
Andrea & Helga Maneschi
Captain Nathan Marsh
Metro Fire Fighter
Mr. Andrew Martin
Ms. Helen J. Mason
Steve & Susie Mathews
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Mayes
Ms. Kathryn McDaniel
Mr. and Mrs. William D. McDowell
Dr. Hassane Mchaourab
Mr. & Mrs. Michael McIlwain
Dr. and Mrs. Dailey A. McPeak
Dr. Susan M. Menking
Mr. Steve Merryman
Ingrid Meszoely MD
Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Moody
Joseph & Julia Moore
Mr. & Mrs.Timothy L. Morris
Kaatz, Binkley, Jones & Morris
Architects, Inc.
Margaret & David Moss
Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Murfree
Anne & Peter Neff
Mary & Gudger Nichols
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Niewold
Mr. and Mrs. Lee F. Noel
Virginia O'Brien
Mr. & Mrs.* Douglas Odom Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ohlinger
Dr. Eleanor and Mr. Eric Osborne
Dr. and Mrs. Bryan D. Oslin
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Ossolinski
Judy Oxford & Grant Benedict
David Oxley, MD FACS
Mr. and Mrs. Murat Ozgener
Mr. Timothy J. Pagliara
Mr. Michael L. Peacock and
Ms. Tara Scarlett
Catherine & John Perry
Claude Petrie Jr.
Robert & Laura Pittman
Carol Armes & Bob Pitz
Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Plato
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Poe
Mr. Charles H. Potter Jr.*
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Potter
Mr. and Mrs. David Preston
Brad S. Procter
Nancy Ray
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Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn C. Raymer
Allison Reed & Sam Garza
Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Reynolds
Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas R. Richardson
Delphine and Kenneth Roberts
Ms. Courtney Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Rogers V
David & Karin Roland
Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Rolfe
Barry & Melissa Rose Peoples
Mr. and Mrs. Rod Roudi
Robert Lawrence Sadler, Sr.
Mr. Edward K. Sanford
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Sangervasi
Mr. L. Jonathan Savage
Paul H. Scarbrough
Mr. and Mrs. Fraser G. Schaufele III
Judy & Hank Schomber
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Scott
Mr.* & Mrs. John L. Seigenthaler
Mrs. Alexandrino Severino
Dr. and Mrs. Ashish S. Shah
Anita & Mike Shea
Mr. and Mrs. Dean G. Short III
Tom & Sylvia Singleton
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Sloan
Mrs. Richard M. Small
Drs. Walter E. Smalley Jr. &
Louise Hanson
Mrs. Ione Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Scott Smith
Nan E. Speller & Dan Eisenstein
Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell T. Speyer
Stuart & Shirley Speyer
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Spradley Jr.
Sid Stanley
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Stearns
Dr. Catherine V. Stober and
Mr. James McAteer
Mr. and Mrs. Barry L. Stowe
Mr. Max Goldberg
Mr. and Mrs.
Edward L. Stringfellow
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Susano
Pamela & Steven Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. T. Stephen C. Taylor
Mr. & Mrs. David B. Thomas Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Thorne
Larry & Paula Throneberry
Ms. Janice E. Ticich
Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Tigrett
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Todd
Norman & Marilyn Tolk
Mila & Bill Truan
Thomas L. & Judith A.* Turk
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tyrrell
Mr. Paul D. Vasterling and
Mr. Jason Facio
Rodney Irvin Family
Larry & Brenda Vickers
Kris & G. G. Waggoner
Mike & Elaine Walker
Dr. and Mrs. Ming X. Wang
Kevin & Elizabeth Warren
Mr. & Mrs. Derek West
Mrs. John W. White
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Wiesmeyer
Dr. Kenny F. Williard and Ms.
Debra J. Dement
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Williams
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Williams
Mr. and Mrs.
David G. Williamson III
Mr. & Mrs. Ridley Wills II
Mr. and Mrs. David K. Wilson III
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Wilson
Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie &
Dr. Theodore E. Wiltsie
Mr. Robert H. Wolle Jr.
Wood Family Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wright
Berje Yacoubian &
Kathy Wade-Yacoubian
Mr. and Mrs. Darryl Yochem
Dr. and Dr. John York
Mr. Jeffery A. Zeitlin
Glenn & Heather Zigli
Mr. Christopher B. Zimmer and
Mr. Joshua T. Bulla
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Zonarich
ENCORE CIRCLE Gifts of $1,000 - $1,499
Anonymous (9)
Jerry Adams
Carol M. Allen
Adrienne Ames
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Apperson
Candy Burger & Dan Ashmead
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Atkins
Mr. & Mrs. J. Oriol Barenys
Mrs. Brenda Bass
Dr. & Mrs. David M. Bayer
Katrin T. Bean
Annie Laurie & Irvin* Berry
Dr. Diane Rae & Mr. Greg Berty
Dr. and Mrs. Brian S. Biesman
Mr.* & Mrs. Robert Boyd Bogle III
Ms. Christa M. Bowdish
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Braden
Robert & Barbara Braswell
Mr. James I. Brown &
Ms. Lindella Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Brown Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Eugene N. Bulso Jr.
Gina & Sam Burnette
Mr. & Mrs. William F. Carpenter III
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Cate
Dean & Sandy Chase
Renée Chevalier
Dr. Amy Chomsky
Ms. Christine Quinn
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Clevenger III
Teri & Alan Cohen
Esther & Roger Cohn
Chase Cole
Joe & Judy Cook
Nancy Krider Corley
Ms. R. Suzanne Cravens
Dr. & Mrs. Glen W. Davidson
Drs. Maria Gabriella Giro &
Jeffrey M. Davidson
Barbara* & Willie K. Davis
Dr. & Mrs. Henry A. DePhillips
Mr. & Mrs. Rodger Dinwiddie
Dr. Tracey E. Doering
Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Drake
Joe & Shirley Draper
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Driggins
Laura L. Dunbar
Mr & Mrs. Mike Dungan
Melissa Eckert
Mr. & Mrs.
Thomas S. Edmondson Sr.
Susan H. Edwards
Dr.* & Mrs.
William H. Edwards Sr.
Bill & Dian S. Ezell
Dr. Kimberly D. Ferguson
Mr. & Mrs. Keith D. Frazier
John C. Frist Jr., M.D.
Chris & Mandy Genovese
Gregory George &
Mary E. Fortugno
Mr. and Mrs. Scott F. Ghertner
Erin Gillaspie
Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner
Dr. & Mrs. John D. Hainsworth
Elinor Hall
Pam Hamrick
Andrew & Ally Hard
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Havens
Michael & Catherine Hayes
Dr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Heimburger
Ms. Doris Ann Hendrix
Mr. Bradley Hickman
Mr. and Mrs. Winston C. Hickman
Ms. Jere R. Hinman
Sonny Gichner
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hommrich
Drs. Richard T. & Paula C.* Hoos
Ken & Beverly Horner
Mr. David Huckabee
Donna & Ronn* Huff
Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Huljak
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Hulme
Mr. & Mrs. David Huseman
Mr. & Mrs. Steven L. Jackson
Margaret & Richard Bruce
Jennings
Susan & Evan Johnston
Mr. & Mrs. Tarpley Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kane
George C. King
William & Bethany Kroemer
Dr. Karen Duffy &
Mr. Henry E. Kromer
Tim Kyne
Joyce K. Laben*
Mr. Jerry Lackey
Rob & Julia Ledyard
John & Mary Leinard
Mr.* & Mrs. Irving Levy
Ms. Jana J. Lisle Parham
Ms. Theresa MacDonald
William R. & Maria T. MacKay
Mr. & Mrs. Ben T. Martin
Dr. & Mrs.* Raymond S. Martin
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Martineau
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Marx
Mr. Leon May
Bob Maynard
Dr. Wendell McAbee
Mr. and Mrs.
Martin F. McNamara III
Ron & Karen Meers
Eric & Denise Mericle
Bruce & Bonnie Meriwether
F. Max & Mary A. Merrell
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Meyers
Mr. Michael Mishu
Rev. Dr. & Mrs.*
Charles L. Moffatt
Mr. and Mrs. J. Steven Moll
Ms. Gay Moon
James & April Moore
Lynn Morrow
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Motley
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Mueller
Mr. Reginald Murphy
Mr. Chase Neely
Neil Krugman and Leona Pratt,
Annette Eskind, Donna and Jeff Eskind
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Symphony Ball Chairmen –
Amy Jackson Smith & Laura Kimbrell
Jeff Balser, Anne and Joe Russell
INDIVIDUAL PATRONS
Mr. Robert O'Quin
Ms. Susan Palmer
Mr. & Mrs. Tim & Sue Palmer
James & Jeanne Pankow
Janie E. Parmley
Clint Parrish
Cassie Petty
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Peyton
Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Powell Jr.
Ms. Julia W. Powell
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Presley
Ms. Deborah Putnam
Tom & Chris Rashford
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Reisner
Paul & Gerda Resch
Candace Mason Revelette
Mr. Allen Reynolds
Don* & Connie Richardson
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley C. Richter
Dr. & Mrs. Jorge Rojas
Richard Rosenthal &
Audrey Anderson
Ms. Caroline Rudy
G. Kyle Rybczyk
David Sampsell
Mr. Paul Sanderson
Mrs. Cooper Schley
Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J.
Schultenover
Dr. & Mrs. John S. Sergent
Mrs. Lillian C. Sharp
Hon. Wayne C. Shelton
Mr. and Mrs.
William Lucas Simons
Mr. and Mrs. James Sipes
Ms. Diane M. Skelton
Ashley N. Skinner
George & Mary Sloan
Susan Diane Sloan
Dr. & Mrs. Norman Spencer
E.B.S. Foundation
Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Stein
Dr. Martha Walker-Stratton
Hope & Howard* Stringer
Bruce & Elaine Sullivan
Craig & Dianne Sussman
Dr. Paul E. Teschan
Clay & Kimberly Teter
Torrence Family Fund
Mr. Michael P. Tortora
Dr. & Mrs. Michael Tyler
Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Wahl
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wallick
Dr. & Mrs. John J. Warner
Dr. & Mrs. J. J. Wendel
Ms. Libby R. Werthan
Dr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wieck
Marie Holman Wiggins
Diana T. Wilker
Craig P. Williams &
Kimberly Schenk
Mr. & Mrs. Rick Wilson
Mr. & Mrs. William (Dan) F. Wolf
Brian & Mary Jessica Woodrum
Mary Yarbrough &
Terry Wharton
Dr. & Mrs. Donald Yurdin
Ms. Jane Zeigler
CONCERTMASTER SOCIETY Gifts of $500 - $999
Anonymous (18)
Henry J. Abbott
Ben & Nancy* Adams
Jeffrey H. Adams
Ms. Arnelle S. Adcock
Dr. James and Dr. Rachel Ailor
Newton & Burkley Allen
Mr. Geoff Amateau
Mr. and Mrs. David Bruce Amiot
Betty Anderson
Newell Anderson &
Lynne McFarland
Judith Andrews
Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle D. Apple
Geralda M. Aubry
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Auer
Philip E. Autry, DMA
Dr. Joseph Awad & Jane Gilliam
Lawrence E. Baggett
Mr. Omar S. Bakeer
Mr. Bradford Baldauf
Ms. Emiko S. Baldwin
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Banker
Dr. & Mrs. Jere Bass
Mr. & Mrs. David L. Bata
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bateman
Mr. & Mrs. Royce A. Belcher
Rick & Stephanie Belcher
Ms. Mariel Bentz
Carl W. Berg
Mr. Calvin Bishop
Rick & Abby Blahauvietz
Marilyn Blake
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Boswell
Mr. Kevin L. Bowden &
Candice Ethridge
Mr. Jeffery B. Bowlin
Don & Deborah Boyd
Dr. Scott B. Boyd
Mr.* & Mrs. William E. Boyte
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Bracken
Ms. Linda W. Bramblett
Beverly J. Brandenburg-Scott
Dr. Joe P. Brasher
Bob & Linda Brewer
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Brown
Pamela Brown & Lynn McCraney
Bob & Leslie Brown
Steven & Jill Brown
David Bruce
Richard Bruehl & Nancy Stott
Martha S. Bryant
Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Buckspan
Mr. & Mrs. G. Rhea Bucy
Mr. Gary W. Bullard
Ben F. Burns III
Howard & Karen Burris
Mr. & Mrs. Carl Bush
Ms. Constance L. Caldwell
Ms. Marguerite E. Callahan
Mrs. Julia C. Callaway
Dr. & Mrs. W. Barton Campbell
Mr. & Mrs. Luther Cantrell Jr.
Ms. Sophie Cape
Mrs. Lucie M. Carroll
Dr. & Mrs. Michael A. Carter
Mr. & Mrs.
Christopher John Casa Santa
Mrs. Gay Chamberlain
Mrs. Sharon Charney
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Cheek III
Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Christenberry
Dr. & Mrs. André L. Churchwell
Donna P. Clark
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Clay Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. T. Kent Cochran
Colonel (ret.) Dr. &
Mrs. James R. (Conra) Collier
Marion Pickering Couch
Mr. & Mrs. Donald L. Counts, III
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Courtney
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Cowden Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Brennis Craddock
Mr. & Mrs. George Crawford Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Buddy R. Curnutt
Mr. Timothy D. Curtis &
Adam N. Castellarin
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Y. Dale
Dr. & Mrs. Brett W. Darwin
Andrew Daughety &
Jennifer Reinganum
Thomas G. Davidson
Janet Keese Davies
Mr. Frank C. Davis
Steve & Julie Davis
Mr. and Mrs. W. Kirby Davis Jr.
William Davis & Catherine Colbert
Dr. and Mr. John A. Deane
Dr. & Mrs. Ben Dehner
Mr. & Mrs. Joe H. Delk
Mr. and Mrs. Daryl R. Demonbreun
Mrs. Keith C. DeMoss
Ms. Laura Denison
Anne R. Dennison
Mr. & Mrs.* J. William Denny
Mr. and Mrs. Walton Denton
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. DiNella
Bob Dozier
Mr. Carl Dreifuss &
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Tannenbaum
Dr. Robert E. Dudley
Mr. Michael L. Duffer
Mr. & Mrs. John C. Egyed
Mrs. Clara Elam
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Elcan
The S. Brent Elliott Family
Mrs. Glenda A. Emery
Dr. William E. Engel
Dr. & Mrs. James Ettien
David & René Evans
Dr. John & Janet Exton
Frank & Shirley Fachilla
Alex & Terry Fardon
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Fell
Anita Schmid & Tyree Finch
Béla Fleck
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Fleming
Dr. Evon Flesberg &
Mr. Norm Nelson
Andrew & Mary Foxworth Sr.
Judson & Leah Fredrickson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frey
Dr. Alex B. Fruin
Dr. Paul O. Gaddis
Ms. Anne W. Gaither
Kathy & Marbut Gaston
Gatewood Consulting Services
Dr. & Mrs. Harold L. Gentry
Rick & Sara Getsay
Dr. Mark Glazer & Cindy Stone
Ms. Jennifer Goetz
Dr. and Mrs. Michael H. Gold
Dr. James R. Goldenring &
Ms. Barbara M. Fingleton
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Gordon
Wes Gordon
Kathleen Gould
Brent & Pat Graves
Dr. Cornelia R. Graves
Mr. Michael P. Griffin
Judith & Peter Griffin
Mr. Willard W. Griffin Jr.
Richard & Carol Ann Haglund
Mr. Christopher Hamby
Walter H. White III &
Dr. Susan Hammonds-White
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hardy
H. Clay & Mary Harkleroad
Cindy Harper
Drs. Liana and Frank Harrell
Mr. & Mrs. J. George Harris
Ms. Jane Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Harvey
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey B. Harwell Jr.
Jason & Carrie Haslam
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Hasson Jr.
Mr. Donald B. Hastings
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Hastings
Dr. Christopher H. Hawkins
Veronica Hawkins
H. Carl Haywood
Dr. James L. Head &
Dr. Anita R. Head
Doug & Becky Hellerson
Dennis & Leslie Henson
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hertik
Mr. Cameron R. Hicks
Mr. Clint Higham and
Mr. Matthew Donahoe
Gerald Hill
Robert C. & Shirley M. Hilmer
Dr. Elena M. Hines
Mr. and Mrs. Damon T. Hininger
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hitt
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hofe
Robert Hoffman
Frances Holt
* denotes donors who are deceased ◊ denotes donors who are Governing Members
INCONCERT
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INDIVIDUAL PATRONS
Hank Ingram, Cha Alexander,
Martha Ingram, Mark and Nancy Peacock
Ashley Rosen and Betsy Wills
FirstBank guests: Lenai Augustine, Emily
Seivers, Susan and Chris Holmes
Mr. Richard D. Holtz
Mrs. Teressa A. Honnoll
Allen, Lucy & Paul Hovious
Mrs. Charlotte E. Hughes
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hull
Mr. & Mrs. David Hunt
Margie Hunter
Dr. & Mrs. Timothy Hutchison
Mrs. Lee Ann Ingram
Roger T. Jenkins & Gayle Jenkins
Ms. Janice A. Jennings
Richard W. Jett
Hal & Dona Johnson
Bob & Virginia Johnson
Stephen Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy K. Johnson
Mary & Doug Johnston
Dr.* & Mrs. Sam Jones
Byron and Carolyn Kamp
Mr. and Mrs. Duane A. Kavka
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Scott Kendrick
John & Eleanor Kennedy
Patrick B. Kennedy & Jamie S. Amos
Jane S. Kersten
Mr. & Mrs. Brock Kidd
The Kimball Family
Mr. & Mrs. Kurt W. Koehn
Dr. Valentina Kon &
Dr. Jeffrey L. Hymes
Mr. Daniel Kula
Mr. Daniel L. LaFevor
Drs. Cheryl Laffer & Fernando
Elijovich
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Lawrence
Mr. Joseph Y. Lee &
Ms. Erica Fetterman
Mr. Talmage Lefler
Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy R. Lemmon
Ted & Anne Lenz
Dorothy & Jim Lesch
Michael & Ellen Levitt
Ms. Delorse A. Lewis
Dr. Christopher & Melissa Lind
Burk & Caroline Lindsey
Jeffrey & Lori Lipscomb
Richard & Tad Lisella
Mr. and Mrs. Keltner W. Locke
Chris & Elizabeth Long
Kim & Bob Looney
Mr. Enrico Lopez-Yanez
Mr. and Mrs. P. Jeffery Loring
Mr. & Mrs. Denis Lovell
Kenyatta & Tracey Lovett
Mr. & Mrs. Jay Lowenthal
Jim & Debbie Lundy
Drs. Amy & George Lynch
Michael & State Representative
Susan Lynn
Herman & Dee Maass
Dr. & Mrs. Mark A. Magnuson
Ms. Sheila Mann
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Manning Jr.
Mr. Troy B. Marden & Jerome Farris
Dr. Dana R. Marshall
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald C. Marston
Henry & Melodeene Martin
Curt & Cynthia Masters
John H. Mather M.D.
Dr. Nancy Brown & Mr. Andrew May
Drs. Ricardo Fonseca &
Ingrid Mayer
Mr. and Mrs. Alan W. Mayes
Dr. James S. McBride
Mr. and Mrs.
Dewitt K. McCluggage
Ms. Mary Ann McCready
Mr. and Mrs. John McLarty
Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod
Linda & Ray Meneely
Peter & Mecky Meschter
David & Lisa Minnigan
Dr. & Mrs. Guy B. Mioton
Dr. & Mrs. William M. Mitchell
Dr. Bret C. Mobley and
Dr. Allison J. Smith
Diana & Jeff Mobley
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Monk
Marian R. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Moore
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Morphett
Mr. and Mrs. Will Morrow
Andrew Moyer
Mary Jo & Dick Murphy
Mr. & Mrs. B. Dwayne Murray Jr.
Ms. Sheryl A. Mustain
Mr. and Mrs. J. William Myers
Teresa & Mike Nacarato
Ms. Kenya Nelson Stevens
Dr. & Mrs. Harold Nevels
Mrs. Beth Newell
Drs. John* & Margaret Norris
Mr. David W. Oglesby
Hunt* & Debbye Oliver
Karl M. Olsen
Mrs. Argie C. Oman
Frank & Betty Orr
Drs. Lucius & Freida Outlaw
Dr. & Mrs. Aydin Ozan
Dr. & Mrs. Harry L. Page
Mrs. Douglas J. Parsons
Mr. & Mrs. James Patricelli
Ms. Diane T. Payne
Ms. Jennifer C. Peters
Faris & Bob Phillips
Charles & Mary Phy
Mr. and Mrs. Craig E. Plattner
Mr. and Mrs. Roy T. Plummer
Mr. and Mrs. Dale W. Polley
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Poole
Ms. Elizabeth M. Potocsnak
Ms. Cynthia M. Powell
Dr. & Mrs. Tim Powers
Mr. and Mrs.
Benjamin S. Purser Jr.
George & Joyce Pust
Ross & Suzanne Rainwater
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Raney
Charles H. & Eleanor L. Raths
Mr. & Mrs. J. David Rawle
Drs. Wesley and Kecia Ray
Jack & Susan Reagan
David Reynolds & Shei Dewald
Drs. Jeff & Kellye Rice
Barbara Richards
Mrs. Jane H. Richmond
Ms. Linda N. Rittenhouse
Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Robbins
Mr. & Mrs. John A. Roberts
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Robertson
Julie Roe, PhD
Marc R. Rogers
Rodney & Lynne Rosenblum
Ed & Jan Routon
Lauren & Christopher Rowe
Mr. Stephen Sachs
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Samuels
Mr. Bradley T. Sanderson
Mr. & Mrs.William B. Saunders
& Family
Robert Schlafly & Teri Arney
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Schneller
Jack Schuett
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott
Mr. Michael A. Seiler
Odessa L. Settles
Max & Michelle Shaff
Mr. and Mrs. Terrence B. Shirey Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Sielbeck
Faye Silva
Ms. Stephanie J. Silva
Mr. Heber Simmons III
Mr. & Mrs. John C. Slater
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Slipkovich
Mr. Charles L. Smith
Dr. Robert Smith & Barbara Ramsey
Mr. & Mrs. S. Douglas Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Grant T. Smothers
Mr. Robert Sneed
Mr. James H. Spalding
Dr. & Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. William T. Spitz
Ms. Karen G. Sroufe
Dr. Ernest D. Standerfer
Ward Stein
Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel B. Stevens Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Glenn C. Stophel
Gayle Sullivan
Frank Sutherland & Natilee Duning
Dr. Becky E. Swanson
Eric & June Swartz
Mark S. Tallent
Mr. Philip S. Tatum
Mr. Terry D. Taylor
Mr. & Mrs. Daryle Teague
James Temple
Jeanne & Steve Thomas
Mr. & Mrs. Wendol R. Thorpe
Walter & Cindy Tieck
Mrs. Stephen C. Tippens
Dr. & Mrs. Todd Tolbert
Mr. Lloyd Townsend Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John A. Turnbull
Miss Laura Anne Turner
Frances Anne Varallo
Candace & William Wade
Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Walker
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wallace
Kay & Larry Wallace
Mr. Kenneth F. Walters
Major & Yong Wang
Ms. Karen M. Warren
Gayle & David Watson
Ms. Joni P. Werthan
Franklin & Helen Westbrook
Linda & Raymond White
Jonna & Doug Whitman
Ms. Eleanor D. Whitworth
James L. Wilbanks III
Mr. & Mrs. David M. Wilds
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne P. Wilkinson
Judy S. Williams
Ben Williamson
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Williamson
Amos & Etta Wilson
Mary E. Womack
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Wood Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. H. Lee Woosley III
Pam & Tom Wylly
Vivian R. & Richard A. Wynn
Mr. Richard S. Yadach
Mr. Mark A. Young
Dr. Michael Zanolli &
Julie K. Sandine
Roy & Ambra Zent
Mrs. Barbara J. Zipperian
Mrs. Nancy O. Zoretic
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INDIVIDUAL PATRONS
HONORARY
In honor of Cynthia Arnholt
In honor of
Newman and Johnathon Arndt
In honor of Jane Asperelli
In honor of Ms. Bettie Berry
on her 91st Birthday
In honor of Jack Briner
In honor of Henry Byington
In honor of Katie Crumbo
In honor of Nathan William Davis
In honor of Eric Gratton
In honor of Brenda & David Griffin
In honor of Erin Hall
In honor of Steven M. Hoffman
In honor of Martha Rivers Ingram
In honor of Jay Jones' Birthday
In honor of
Elizabeth Nickerson "Tutter" McCabe
In honor of Kathleen McCracken
In honor of the awesome
Nashville Symphony Chorus
In honor of Gayley and Bob Patterson
In honor of Mark Peacock
In honor of Maya Stone
In honor of Anna Szczuka
In honor of Brian Uhl
In honor of Meghan Vosberg
MEMORIAL
In memory of Linda G. Allison, MD, MPH
In memory of Joan Strait Applegate
In memory of James R. (Pete) Austin
In memory of Benjamin Patrick Belden
In memory of Jessica Bloom
In memory of Frederic Blumberg
In memory of Harold Cruthirds
In memory of Gene Dietz
In memory of Philip Dikeman
In memory of Glenn Eaden
In memory of
Antoinette "Toni" and Arnold Foglesong
In memory of Al Hacker
In memory of
Harold & Rita Dee Hassenfeld
In memory of Roger D. Hayes
In memory of Gary Kenneth Hughes
In memory of Dr. Martin Katahn
In memory of Gary Kelly
In memory of Martha Lamprecht
In memory of Sara Harris Moffatt
In memory of Thelma L. Moffatt
In memory of
Lt Cmdr Alan A. Patterson, USN
In memory of Charles Howell Potter, Jr.
In memory of Prince
In memory of Edgar Arthur Reed
In memory of John L. Seigenthaler
In memory of Fred Simon
In memory of Leah (Simer) Stufflebam
In memory of Robert Polk Thomson
In memory of H. Martin Weingartner
In memory of James Kenneth Williamson
In memory of David Williams
In memory of
Professor Vicki Gardine Williams
LAWRENCE S. LEVINE MEMORIAL FUND
George E. Barrett*
John Auston Bridges
Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III
Harris A. Gilbert
Allis Dale & John Gillmor
Dr. Fred & Martha Goldner
Ellen Harrison Martin
Mr. & Mrs.
Martin F. McNamara III
Dr. & Mrs.
Anderson Spickard, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stein
Barbara & Eric Chazen
Donna R. Cheek*
Dr. & Mrs. Alan G. Cohen
Esther & Roger Cohn
Wally & Lee Lee Dietz
Dee & Jerald* Doochin
Robert D. Eisenstein*
Mrs. Annette S. Eskind
Laurie & Steven Eskind
Mr.* & Mrs. Billy Ray Hearn
Judith Hodges
Judith S.* &
James R. Humphreys
Walter & Sarah Knestrick
Sheldon Kurland
Ellen C. Lawson
Sally M. Levine
Frances & Eugene Lotochinski
Cynthia* & Richard* Morin
Dr. Harrell Odom II &
Mr. Barry W. Cook
Mr. and Mrs. Craig E. Philip
Anne & Charles Roos
Mr.* & Mrs.
John L. Seigenthaler
Joan B. Shayne
Vicky & Bennett Tarleton
Mr.* & Mrs.* Louis B. Todd, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Byron Trauger
Betty & Bernard* Werthan
Mr. Mark Zimbicki and
Ms. Wendy Kurland
Alice A. Zimmerman
CORPORATE MATCHING COMPANIES
Arcadia Healthcare
American General Life
& Accident
American International
Group, Inc.
Atmos Energy
AT&T Higher Education
/Cultural Matching
Gift Program
Bank of America
BCD Travel
Becton Dickinson & Co.
BLR
CA Matching Gifts Program
Caterpillar Foundation
Cigna Foundation
Community Health
Systems Foundation
Eaton Corporation
ExxonMobil Foundation
First Data Foundation
GE Foundation
General Mills Foundation
Hachette Book Group
IBM Corporation
Illinois Tool Work Foundation
McKesson Foundation
Merrill Lynch & Co
Foundation, Inc.
Microsoft Matching
Gifts Program
Nissan Gift Matching Program
P&G Fund Matching
Gifts Program
PulteGroup
Regions
Scottrade
Square D Foundation
Matching Gifts Program
Shell Oil Company Foundation
Starbucks Matching
Gifts Program
The Aspect Matching
Gifts Program
The HCA Foundation
The Meredith Corporation
Foundation
The Prudential Foundation
The Stanley Works
UBS
United Health Group
U.S. Bancorp Foundation
Williams Community Relations
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CORPORATE,
FOUNDATION &
GOVERNMENT
PARTNERS
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
their contributions. Donors as of December 4, 2019.
SEASON PRESENTERS & OFFICIAL PARTNERS
THE
ANDREW W.
MELLON
FOUNDATION
PREMIER PARTNERS
Ann and Gordon Getty
Foundation
LEAD PARTNERS
MIKE CURB FAMILY
FOUNDATION
WASHINGTON
FOUNDATION
MARY C. RAGLAND
FOUNDATION
GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT
OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY
MAYOR JOHN COOPER
58 JANUARY 2020
ANNUAL FUND
ORCHESTRA PARTNERS
THE ESTATE AT
CHEROKEE DOCK
SAMUEL M. FLEMING
FOUNDATION
HENDRIX
FOUNDATION
ANN HARDEMAN AND
COMBS L. FORT FOUNDATION
MUSICIAN PARTNERS
American Paper and Twine
BDO USA, LLP
Carter Haston Real Estate
Hans and Nancy Stabell
HUB International Mid-South
Chet Atkins Music Education Fund
of The Community Foundation of
Middle Tennesse
Cumberland Trust & Investment Co.
Cumberland University
Ensworth School
Flavor Catering
I.C. Thomasson Associates Inc.
NAXOS
Parking Management Companies
Robert K. & Anne H. Zelle Fund
for Fine and Performing Arts of
The Community Foundation of
Middle Tennessee
Ryman Hospitality
Properties Foundation
The Houghland Foundation
The Cupcake Collection
CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION PARTNERS
AmazonSmile Foundation
Café Intermezzo
Craft Brewed
Jimmy Choo USA
Midtown Corkdork Wine Spirits Beer
Nashville First Baptist
SONY ATV
Tennsco Corporation
The Game 102.5 / Game2 94.9
Tiffs Treats
101.1 THE VILLE
Mix 92.9
The Cockayne Fund Inc.
92.1 Q
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CAPITAL FUNDS
The Nashville Symphony wishes to acknowledge and thank the following individuals, foundations and corporations
for their commitment to the Symphony. This list recognizes donors who contributed $15,000 or more to one of the
Symphony’s endowment or capital campaigns. These capital campaigns make it possible to ensure a sustainable
future for a nationally recognized orchestra worthy of Music City.
$1M+
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
$500,000+
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
Mr. & Mrs. Philip Maurice Pfeffer
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
Frost 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. Dale W. Polley
Mary C. Ragland Foundation
The John M. Rivers Jr. Foundation Inc.
Carol & John Rochford
Mr. & Mrs. Alex A. Rogers
Anne & Joseph Russell & Family
Daniel & Monica Scokin
Bill & Sharon Sheriff
Mr.* & Mrs. Martin E. Simmons
Luke & Susan Simons
Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Smith
Barbara & Lester* Speyer
The Starr Foundation
Hope & Howard* Stringer
Louis B.* & Patricia C.* Todd Jr.
Lillias & Fred* Viehmann
The Henry Laird Smith Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. E.W. Wendell
Mr. David M. Wilds
Mr. & Mrs. W. Ridley Wills III
Mr.* & Mrs. David K. Wilson
$50,000+
Adams and Reese / Stokes
Bartholomew LLP
American Airlines
American General Life & Accident
Insurance Company
Baker, Donelson, Bearman,
Caldwell & Berkowitz
J B & Carylon Baker
Dr. & Mrs. T.B. Boyd III
William H. Braddy III
Dr. Ian* & Katherine* Brick
Mr. & Mrs.* Martin S. Brown Sr.
Michael & Jane Ann Cain
Mike Curb/Curb Records Inc.
The Danner Foundation
Dee & Jerald* Doochin
Ernst & Young
Mr. & Mrs. David S. Ewing
Ezell Foundation / Purity Foundation
Mr.* & Mrs.* Sam M. Fleming
In Memory of Kenneth Schermerhorn
60 JANUARY 2020
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. & Mrs. David K. Morgan
Musicians of the Nashville Symphony
Anne & Peter Neff
Cano & Esen Ozgener
Ponder & Co.
Eric Raefsky, M.D.* & Ms. Victoria Heil
Delphine & Ken Roberts
Ro’s Oriental Rugs, Inc.
Mrs. Dan C. Rudy*
Mary Ruth* & Bob Shell
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Speer
Stites & Harbison, PLLC
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Sullivan
Alan D. Valentine
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP
Estate of Christine Glenn Webb
David* & Gail Williams
Nicholas S. Zeppos & Lydia A. Howarth
$25,000+
AMSURG
Family of Kenneth Schermerhorn
The Bank of Nashville
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
Tom & Wendy Beasley
The Bernard Family Foundation
The Honorable Philip Bredesen &
Ms. Andrea Conte
The Very Rev. Robert E. &
Linda M. Brodie
Mr.* & Mrs. Arthur H. Buhl III
Mr. & Mrs. Frank M. Bumstead
Community Counselling
Service Co., Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Cook Jr.
Doug & Sondra Cruickshanks
Mr. & Mrs. Robert V. Dale
Gail & Ted DeDee
In Memory of Ann F. Eisenstein
Enco Materials, Inc./
Wilber Sensing Jr., Chair Emeritus
Nancy Leach & Bill Hoskins
John & Carole Ferguson
Estate of Dudley C. Fort
Mr. & Mrs. F. Tom Foster Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Keith D. Frazier
John & Lorelee Gawaluck
Giancarlo & Shirley Guerrero
Mr. & Mrs. James Earl Hastings
Hawkins Partners, Inc.
Landscape Architects
Neil & Helen Hemphill
Hilton Nashville Downtown
In Memory of Ellen Bowers Hofstead
Hudson Family Foundation
Iroquois Capital Group, LLC
John F. & Jane Berry Jacques
Mercedes E. Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Randall L. Kinnard
KraftCPAs PLLC
Estate of Barbara J. Kuhn
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Lipman
The Howard Littlejohn Family
The Loventhal and Jones Families
Mimsye* & Leon May
Kevin P. & Deborah A. McDermott
Rock & Linda Morphis
Carole & Ed* Nelson
Nissan North America, Inc.
Odom’s Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc.
Larry D. Odom, Chairman/CEO
Hal N. & Peggy S. Pennington
Celeste Casey* & James Hugh Reed III*
Renasant Bank
Jan & Stephen S. Riven
Lavona & Clyde Russell
Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Schatzlein
Kenneth D. Schermerhorn*
Lucy & Wilbur Sensing
Nelson & Sheila Shields
Michael & Lisa Shmerling
Joanne & Gary Slaughter
Doug & Nan Smith
Hans & Nancy Stabell
Ann & Robert H. Street
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Tyne
Washington Foundation, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. W. Ridley Wills II
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Wimberly
Janet & Alan Yuspeh
Shirley Zeitlin
$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
Mr. & Mrs. Irby C. Simpkins, Jr.
Patti & Brian Smallwood
Murray & Hazel Somerville
Southwind Health Partners®
The Grimstad & Stream Families
Dr. Steve A. Hyman & Mark Lee Taylor
John B. & Elva Thomison
Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Trammell Jr.
Eli & Deborah Tullis
Mr. & Mrs. James M. Usdan
Louise B. Wallace Foundation
Mr.* & Mrs. George W. Weesner
Ann & Charles* Wells
In Memory of Leah Rose B. Werthan
Mr.* & Mrs.* Albert Werthan
Betty & Bernard* Werthan Foundation
Olin West, Jr. Charitable Lead Trust
Mr. & Mrs. Toby S. Wilt
Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence K. Wolfe
Dr. Artmas L. Worthy
Mr. & Mrs. Julian Zander Jr.
* denotes donors who are deceased
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NASHVILLE SYMPHONY
LEGACY SOCIETY
LEAVING A LEGACY, BUILDING A FUTURE
The Nashville Symphony is grateful to those donors who have remembered the orchestra in their
estate plans. Legacy gifts to the Nashville Symphony help Middle Tennessee’s resident orchestra
achieve its mission of making beautiful music, reaching diverse audiences and improving life in our
community for generations to come through the following:
– World-class performances of enduring orchestral music, from Bach to Beethoven to Bernstein
– Affordable ticket prices for music lovers of all ages and backgrounds
– Commissions and recordings of America’s leading composers, who are keeping classical music
relevant for 21st-century audiences
– Life-changing education programs that provide inspiration, instruction and mentorship for
students from kindergarten through high school
– The acoustical brilliance of Schermerhorn Symphony Center, a venue
built to serve the entire community
Be “instrumental” in our success by sharing your passion for music with future generations.
For more information on the many creative ways to make a planned gift, please visit
NashvilleSymphony.org/plannedgiving or call Andrew Shafer at 615.687.6484.
Anonymous (4)
Stephen Abelman &
Robin Holab-Abelman
Barbara B. & Michael W. Barton
Russell Bates
Elisabetha C. Baugh
Ann Bernard
Congressman Diane Black &
Dr. David L. Black
Julie G. & Frank H. Boehm, MD
Ellen & Roger Borchers
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis C Bottorff
H. Victor Braren, M.D.
Charles W. Cagle
Mr. and Mrs.
Christopher John Casa Santa
Paul Catt and Linda Etheredge
Donna & Steven* Clark
George D. Clark Jr.
Dr. Cliff Cockerham &
Dr. Sherry Cummings
Barbara J.* and John J.* Conder
Marianne Connolly
Kelly Corcoran & Joshua Carter
Mr. & Mrs. Roy Covert
Kevin and Katie Crumbo
Janet Keese Davies
Andrea Dillenburg
The William M.* and Mildred P.*
Duncan Family and Deborah
Annette & Irwin* Eskind
Paula Fairchild
Judy and Tom Foster
Henry S. Fusner*
Dr. Priscilla Partridge de Garcia* &
Dr. Pedro E. Garcia*
Harris Gilbert
Allis Dale & John Gillmor
James C. Gooch
Ed & Nancy Goodrich
Landis Bass Gullett*
Connie & Carl T. Haley, Jr.
Martin Todd Harris
David & Judith S. Hayes
Billy Ray Hearn*
Eric Raefsky, M.D. & Victoria Heil
Gregory T. Hersh
Judith Hodges
Mr. & Mrs. Bennett F. Horne
Judith Simmons Humphreys*
Martha R. Ingram
Elliott Warner Jones &
Marilyn Lee Jones
Anne Knauff
Heloise Werthan Kuhn
Paul Kuhn
Barry S. Lapidus
Sally M. Levine
John T. Lewis
Todd M. Liebergen
Clare* & Samuel* Loventhal
Ernestine M. Lynfoot
Ellen Harrison Martin
Thomas McAninch
Dr. Arthur McLeod Mellor
James Victor Miller*
Sharalena & Dick Miller
Rev. Dr. Charles L. Moffatt, III
Ellen Livingfield More
Cynthia* & Richard* Morin
Patricia W. & James F. Munro
Anne T. & Peter L. Neff
Jonathan Norris & Jennifer Carlat
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nowlin
Harry & Shelley Page
Juanita M. Patton*
Drs. Mark & Nancy Peacock
Pamela K. & Philip Maurice Pfeffer
Joseph Presley
Dr. Zeljko Radic &
Tanya Covington Radic
David & Edria Ragosin
Nancy Ray
Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Rechter
Fran C. Rogers
Judith A. Sachs
Mr. James A. Scandrick Jr.*
Kristi Lynn Seehafer
Mr. Martin E.* &
Mrs. Judy F. Simmons
Irvin & Beverly Small
Mary & K.C. Smythe
Dr. and Mrs. Anderson Spickard Jr.
Maribeth & Christopher Stahl
Betsy Proctor Stratton* &
Harry E. Stratton*
Patricia Mlcuch Strickland
Dr. Esther & Mr. Jeffery Swink
Steve Alan Hyman &
Mark Lee Taylor
Dr. John Brown Thomison, Sr.*
Mr. Robert J. Turner &
Mr. Jay Jones
Alan D. & Janet L. Valentine
Mrs. Johnna Benedict Watson
Dr. Colleen Conway Welch*
Jimmie D. & Patricia Lee White
Lalah Gee Williams
Dr. Patricia B. Willoughby
Donna B. Yurdin
Barbara & Bud Zander
Shirley Zeitlin
Anne H. & Robert K.* Zelle
*denotes donors who are deceased
62 JANUARY 2020
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
EXECUTIVE
Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO
Steven Brosvik, COO
Marye Walker Lewis, CPA, CFO
Heather Romero, Executive Assistant
ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION
Jessica Slais, V.P. of Artistic Administration
Ellen Kasperek,
Senior Manager of Artistic Administration
Eleanor Roberts,
Manager of Artistic Administration
Harrison Bryant, Artistic Coordinator
Jennifer Goldberg, Principal Librarian
Luke Bryson, Librarian
David Jackson, Assistant Librarian
Andrew Risinger, Organ Curator
COMMUNICATIONS
Jonathan Marx, V.P. of Communications
Dave Felipe,
Publicist & Communications Manager
Justin Bradford, Director of Digital Media
Diana Rosales, Digital Media Coordinator
Sean Shields, Art Director
Alina Van Oostrom,
Graphic Design Associate
DATA SERVICES
Tara Shirer, Manager of Data Services
Sheila Wilson, Sr. Database Associate
Tatyana Bristol, PT Database Associate
DEVELOPMENT
Jonathan Norris, V.P. of Development
Maribeth Stahl, Sr. Director of Development
Kortney Toney,
Corporate Partnerships Manager
Trianne Newbrey,
Corporate Partnerships Officer
Ashlinn Snyder,
Development Programs Manager
Dennis Carter, Patron Engagement Officer
Judith Wall, Patron Engagement Officer
Jacob Tudor, Patron Engagement Officer
Andrew Shafer, Planned Giving Manager
Brooke Stuart,
Development Events Manager
Celine Thackston, Grants Manager
Jesse Strauss, Grants Assistant
Samantha Solatka,
Stewardship Coordinator
EDUCATION
Kimberly Kraft McLemore,
Director of Education and
Community Engagement
Kelley Bell, Education and Community
Engagement Program Manager
Kristen Freeman, Education and
Community Engagement Program Manager
FINANCE
Karen Warren, Controller
Bobby Saintsing, A/P & Payroll Manager
Sheri Switzer, Senior Accountant
Charlotte Schweizer,
Retail Manager and Buyer
FOOD, BEVERAGE
AND EVENTS
Johnathon McGee,
Senior Event Sales Manager
Schuyler Thomas, Senior Event Manager
Lee Ann Eaton, Event Facilitator
Anderson S. Barns, Beverage Manager
HUMAN RESOURCES
Ashley Skinner, SPHR, SHRM-SCP,
V.P. of Human Resources
Nakisha Hicks,
Human Resources and Equity Manager
Catherine Royka,
Manager of Volunteer Services
I.T.
Trenton Leach,
Director of Information Technology
MARKETING
Daniel B. Grossman, V.P. of Marketing
Misty Cochran, Director of Marketing
Lindsay Bergstrom,
Director of Ticket Services
Gena Staib, Box Office Manager
Rachael Downs,
Assistant Box Office Manager
Rich Bartkowiak, Marketing Supervisor
Missy Hubner, Ticket Services Assistant
Sarah Rose Peacock,
Marketing & Communications Coordinator
Marketing Associates: Henry Byington,
Jim Davidson, Kimberly DePue,
Rick Katz, Misha Robledo
Ticket Services Supervisors:
Jesse Baker, Jean-Marie Clark,
Peter Donnelly, Melissa Messerr
Ticket Services Specialists:
Erin Caby, Tyrone Cadogan,
Kaitlyn Elsen, Lindsey George,
Rachael Greenman, Casandra Nevils,
Mary Self, Elizabeth Singer,
Lindsey Smith-Trostle
PRODUCTION & ORCHESTRA
OPERATIONS
Sonja Thoms, Sr. Director of Operations
and Orchestra Manager
John Wesolowski,
Orchestra Personnel Manager
Erin Ozment, Orchestra Personnel Assistant
Mark Dahlen, Audio Engineer
Emily Yeakle, Sr. Lighting Director
Trey Franklin, Lighting Director
W. Paul Holt, Stage Manager
Josh Walliser, Production Manager
Trevor Wilkinson, Recording Engineer &
Assistant Production Manager
Larry Bryan, Audio Engineer &
Assistant Production Manager
Katy Lyles, Operations Coordinator
VENUE MANAGEMENT
Eric Swartz, V.P. of Venue Management
John Sanders, Chief Technical Engineer
Kenneth Dillehay, Chief Engineer
Wade Johnson, Housekeeping Manager
James Harvell, Housekeeper
Tony Meyers,
Director of Security and Front of House
Alan Woodard, Security Manager
Sam Harrington,
Facility Maintenance Technician
Gregory Weiss,
Facility Maintenance Technician
INCONCERT
63
STUDENTS INVITED TO APPLY FOR
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY’S
ACCELERANDO PROGRAM
Music education program is designed to cultivate
diversity in American orchestras
Apply/more info: NashvilleSymphony.org/accelerando
Questions? Email accelerando@nashvillesymphony.org
or call 615.687.6587
Leadership Funding Provided By
THE
ANDREW W.
MELLON
FOUNDATION
Official Education Partner
Esther Kim, M.D.
Cardiologist
Jessica
Gordonsville, TN
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