Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, October 2025

ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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DEAR FRIENDS,

Thank you for spending your evening with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! As we plan our season, every concert provides an opportunity for storytelling and connection. Whether it’s in showcasing the unparalleled talent from our ASO members or guest artists, or in finding inspiration from our community, each performance has something novel to discover.

This month we present two exceptional opportunities to invite our community into Symphony Hall to share an immersive cultural experience, with special activities before and after the performance. On October 23/25, the Visions of India Festival will fill the Azadi Galleria with Indian food vendors, local artist showcase, henna artists, traditional dancers, and more. The concert program features Hindustani violinist Kala Ramnath and closes with Gustav Holst’s sonic rendering of celestial bodies, his ever-popular work The Planets.

Just a few days later, we welcome the community to our annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival, prior to our first Movies in Concert this season, Disney’s Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Last year’s Día de los Muertos festival featured mariachi music, dance performances, and thematic vendors. Come join us for this colorful celebration of Mexican culture!

Next month, we welcome France Atlanta for a concert led by music director Nathalie Stutzmann with legendary French pianist Hélène Grimaud on November 21 in a celebration of French culture.

Our community festivals are great ways for us to celebrate the many cultures that make Atlanta a vibrant and colorful place to live. Our team is passionate about widening the scope of the symphony’s impact beyond what you see and hear on stage. I hope you’ll join us!

With gratitude,

Jennifer Barlament, Executive Director

ASO | NATHALIE STUTZMANN

Nathalie Stutzmann is the Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the second woman in history to lead a major American orchestra. She was Principal Guest Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra from 2021-2024.

Nathalie’s 2025-26 season includes major debuts with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Berlin, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. She also returns to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Oslo Philharmonic.

Named Best Conductor of the Year at the 2024 Oper! Awards, she earned acclaim for Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival in 2023 and 2024, with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praising her as “a genius who makes music irresistible”. In 2026, she returns for the festival’s 150th anniversary with a new production of Rienzi, and debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper conducting Faust. She also opens the 2025–26 season at Dutch National Opera with Tosca

An exclusive recording artist with Warner Classics/Erato, Nathalie’s first symphonic release—Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 and American Suite with Atlanta Symphony— earned her cover recognition on Gramophone magazine. The album was highlighted by The New York Times as one of “5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now”, and received OPUS Klassik nominations for Best Conductor and Best Symphonic Recording of The Year.

This followed her 2023 OPUS Klassik win for Concerto Recording of The Year, for her album featuring Glière and Mosolov harp concertos with Xavier de Maistre and WDR Sinfonieorchester. In 2022, she released the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Haochen Zhang and The Philadelphia Orchestra, which Gramophone hailed as “a brilliant collaboration”.

Nathalie started studies at a young age in piano, bassoon, and cello, and studied conducting with legendary Finnish teacher Jorma Panula. As one of the world’s most celebrated contraltos, she has made over 80 recordings and received numerous international accolades. Named “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” and “Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French government, she is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music.

MUSIC DIRECTOR'S CORNER

Recently, Nathalie led the Dutch National Opera in a production of Tosca to great acclaim. Trouw praised Stutzmann's dedication to Puccini, describing it as "stunning sound with stunning visuals, opera at its best."

Opera Gazet added, "Nathalie Stutzmann fully understands Puccini, and demonstrated this with delight in every detail."

Nathalie also led the Dutch National Opera in a production of Carmen in June and was recently appointed an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music.

2025/26 Musician Roster

FIRST VIOLIN

David Coucheron concertmaster

The Mr. & Mrs. Howard R. Peevy Chair

Justin Bruns*

associate concertmaster

The Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair

Lauren Roth

acting associate / assistant concertmaster

Jun-Ching Lin*

assistant concertmaster

Kevin Chen

Carolyn Toll Hancock

The Wells Fargo Chair

Juan R. Ramírez Hernández

Kelly Kanai

John Meisner

Christopher Pulgram

Olga Shpitko

Kenn Wagner

Lisa Wiedman Yancich

Jin Wook Suk

Sissi Yuqing Zhang

SECTION VIOLIN ‡

Judith Cox

Raymond Leung

The Carolyn McClatchey Chair

SECOND VIOLIN

Anastasia Agapova

principal

The Atlanta Symphony Associates Chair

Sou-Chun Su

associate principal

The Frances Cheney Boggs Chair

Jay Christy

assistant principal

Rachel Ostler*

Robert Anemone

Noriko Konno Clift

Paolo Dara

David Dillard

Paul Halberstadt

Eun Young Jung

Eleanor Kosek

Julia Su

Yaxin Tan

VIOLA

Zhenwei Shi* principal

The Edus H. & Harriet H.

Warren Chair

Catherine Lynn

acting principal / assistant principal

Paul Murphy

associate principal

The Mary & Lawrence

Gellerstedt Chair

Marian Kent

Yang-Yoon Kim

Yiyin Li

Lachlan McBane

Jessica Oudin

Madeline Sharp

Nathalie Stutzmann

music director

The Robert Reid Topping Chair

CELLO

Daniel Laufer

acting / associate principal

The Miriam & John Conant Chair

Karen Freer

acting associate / assistant principal

The Livingston Foundation Chair

Thomas Carpenter

Joel Dallow

The UPS Foundation Chair

Ray Kim

Isabel Kwon

Nathan Mo

Brad Ritchie

BASS

Joseph McFadden

principal

The Marcia & John Donnell Chair

Gloria Jones Allgood

associate principal

The Lucy R. & Gary Lee Jr. Chair

Karl Fenner

Michael Kurth

The Jane Little Chair

Jungsu Lee

Nicholas Scholefield

Daniel Tosky

FLUTE

Christina Smith

principal

The Jill Hertz Chair

The Mabel Dorn Reeder

Honorary Chair

Robert Cronin

associate principal

C. Todd Skitch

Gina Hughes

PICCOLO

Gina Hughes

William R. Langley

resident conductor & atlanta symphony youth orchestra music director

The Zeist Foundation Chair

OBOE

Elizabeth Koch Tiscione principal

The George M. & Corrie Hoyt Brown Chair

Zachary Boeding

associate principal

The Kendeda Fund Chair

William Dunlop

Emily Brebach

ENGLISH HORN

Emily Brebach

CLARINET

Jesse McCandless principal

The Robert Shaw Chair

Iván Valbuena associate principal

Alcides Rodriguez

E-FLAT CLARINET

Iván Valbuena

BASS CLARINET

Alcides Rodriguez

BASSOON

Cameron Bonner principal

The Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation Chair

Anthony Georgeson associate principal

Laura Najarian

Juan de Gomar

CONTRABASSOON

Juan de Gomar

Norman Mackenzie director of choruses

The Frannie & Bill Graves Chair

HORN

Ryan Little principal

The Betty Sands Fuller Chair

Andrew Burhans

associate principal

Kimberly Gilman

Reese Farnell

Scott Sanders

TRUMPET

Michael Tiscione

acting / associate principal

Finan Jones conducting fellow

The Madeline & Howell Adams Chair

Mark Maliniak acting associate principal

William Cooper

TROMBONE

Nathan Zgonc acting / associate principal

The Terence L. Neal Chair, Honoring his dedication & service to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

The Home Depot Veterans Chair

Jason Patrick Robins

TUBA

Michael Moore principal

The Delta Air Lines Chair

TIMPANI

Michael Stubbart

acting principal / assistant principal

The Walter H. Bunzl Chair

Players in rotating sections are listed alphabetically.

PERCUSSION

Joseph Petrasek principal

The Julie & Arthur

Montgomery Chair

Michael Jarrett

assistant principal

The William A. Schwartz Chair

Michael Stubbart

The Connie & Merrell Calhoun Chair

HARP

Elisabeth Remy Johnson principal

The Sally & Carl Gable Chair

KEYBOARD

The Hugh & Jessie Hodgson

Memorial Chair

Sharon Berenson †

LIBRARY

Emma Luty principal

The Marianna & Solon Patterson Chair

Sara Baguyos associate principal

James Nelson

GUEST CONDUCTOR

Neil and Sue Williams Chair

ASO | LEADERSHIP | 2025/26 Board of Directors

OFFICERS

Angela Evans chair

Patrick Viguerie immediate past chair

Joia Johnson treasurer

Galen Oelkers secretary

DIRECTORS

Phyllis Abramson

Keith Adams

Juliet M. Allan

Susan Antinori

Rona Gomel Ashe

Andrew Bailey

Jennifer Barlament*

Keith Barnett

Paul Blackney

Janine Brown

Betsy Camp

Lisa Chang

Susan Clare

Russell Currey

Sheila Lee Davies

Carlos del Rio, M.D. FIDSA

Lisa DiFrancesco, M.D.

Lynn Eden

Yelena Epova

Angela Evans

Craig Frankel

Sally Bogle Gable

Anne Game

Rod Garcia-Escudero

Sally Frost George

Robert Glustrom

Julie Goosman

Bonnie B. Harris

Charles Harrison

Tad Hutcheson, Jr.

Roya Irvani

Joia M. Johnson

Carrie Kurlander

Scott Lampert

James H. Landon

Daniel Laufer*

Donna Lee

Janine Brown vice chair

Lynn Eden vice chair

Grace Lee, M.D.

Sukai Liu

Kevin Lyman

Deborah Marlowe

Arthur Mills IV

Molly Minnear

Hala Moddelmog*

Caroline Moïse

Anne Morgan

Terence L. Neal

Galen Lee Oelkers

Dr. John Paddock

Margie Painter

Cathleen Quigley

Doug Reid

James Rubright

Ravi Saligram

William Schultz

June Scott

BOARD OF COUNSELORS

Neil Berman

Benjamin Q. Brunt

John W. Cooledge, M.D.

John R. Donnell, Jr.

Jere A. Drummond

Carla Fackler

Charles B. Ginden

John T. Glover

Dona Humphreys

Aaron J. Johnson, Jr.

James F. Kelley

Patricia Leake

Karole F. Lloyd

Meghan H. Magruder

LIFE DIRECTORS

Howell E. Adams, Jr.

John B. White, Jr.

* Ex-Officio Board Member

^ On Sabbatical

V Scott

Charles Sharbaugh

Gayle Sheppard

Fahim Siddiqui

W. Ross Singletary, II

John Sparrow

Elliott Tapp

Yannik Thomas

Maria Todorova

Ben Touchette

S. Patrick Viguerie

Kathy Waller

Chris Webber

Richard S. White, Jr.

Mack Wilbourn

Kevin E. Woods, M.D., M.P.H.

Shelley McGehee

Penelope McPhee

Howard D. Palefsky

Patricia H. Reid

Joyce Schwob

John A Sibley, III

H. Hamilton Smith

Connie Calhoun

Azira G. Hill

G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr.

Michael W. Trapp

Ray Uttenhove

Chilton Varner

Adair M. White

Sue Sigmon Williams

Ben F. Johnson, III

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Advisory Council is a group of passionate and engaged individuals who act as both ambassadors & resources for the ASO Board and staff. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra extends heartfelt gratitude to the members listed on this page.

2025/26 CHAIRS

Jane Morrison advisory council chair

Justin Im

internal connections task force co-chair

Robert Lewis, Jr.

internal connections task force co-chair

Frances A. Root patron experience task force chair

Tiffany Rosetti

community connections & education task force co-chair

Otis Threatt

community connections & education task force co-chair

MEMBERS

Dr. Marshall & Stephanie Abes

Krystal Ahn

Kristi & Aadu Allpere

Logan Anderson & Ian Morey

Evelyn Babey

Asad & Sakina Bashey

Meredith W. Bell

John Blatz

Jane Blount

Carol Brantley & David Webster

Johanna Brookner

Mrs. Amy B. Cheng & Dr. Chad A. Hume, Ph.D

Kate Cook

DePorres & Barbara Cormier

Daniel I. DeBonis

Donald & Barbara Defoe

Paul & Susan Dimmick

Bernadette Drankoski

John & Catherine Fare Dyer

Jerry H. Evans

Mary Ann Flinn

Bruce & Avery Flower

Annie Frazer

John D. Fuller

Alex Garcias

Dr. Paul Gilreath

Nadeen Green

Elizabeth Hendrick

Mia Frieder Hilley

Caroline Hofland

Justin Im

Dr. Lillian Ivansco

Frank & Janice

Johnston

Baxter Jones & Jiong Yan

Lana Jordan

Jennifer B. Kahnweiler

Rosthema Kastin

Andrea Kauffman

Brian & Ann Kimsey

Jason & Michelle Kroh

Jeff & Pam Kuester

Van & Elizabeth Lear

Dr. Fulton Lewis III &

Mr. Neal Rhoney

Robert Lewis, Jr.

Eunice Luke

Erin Marshall

Alfredo Martin

Belinda Massafra

Catherine Massey

Doug & Kathrin Mattox

Ed & Linda McGinn

Suneel Mendiratta

Keyeriah Miles

Berthe & Shapour Mobasser

Bert Mobley

Sue Morgan

Bill Morrison & Beth Clark-Morrison

Jane Morrison

Gary Noble

Regina Olchowski

Bethani Oppenheimer

Joseph Owen, Jr.

Ralph & Suzanne Paulk

Ann & Fay Pearce

Jonathan & Lori Peterson

Dr. John B. Pugh

Eliza Quigley

Joseph Rapanotti

Leonard Reed

Dr. Jay & Kimberley

Rhee

Vicki Riedel

Felicia Rives

David Rock

Frances A. Root

Maurice & Tricia Rosenbaum

Tiffany & Rich Rosetti

Noelle Ross

Thomas & Lynne Saylor

Beverly & Milton Shlapak

Suzanne Shull

Baker Smith

Cindy Smith

Janice Smith

Victoria Smith

Peter & Kristi

Stathopoulos

Tom & Ani Steele

Deann Stevens

Beth & Edward Sugarman

Stephen & Sonia Swartz

George & Amy Taylor

Bob & Dede Thompson

Otis Threatt Jr.

Roxanne Varzi

Robert & Amy Vassey

Juliana Vincenzino

Emily C. Ward

Dr. Nanette K. Wenger

Kiki Wilson

Camille Yow

For more information about becoming an Advisory Council member, please contact Beth Freeman at beth.freeman@atlantasymphony.org or 404.733.4532.

DONOR PROFILE

Dr. Rose Mary Kolpatzki

ASO Receives Major Bequest from Innovative Music Educator

Dr. Rose Mary Kolpatzki was an accomplished pianist and an innovative educator who served for 28 years as Supervisor of Music for DeKalb County elementary schools. In the 1960’s, she created and starred in the televised music class Sing and Play with Mrs. K. A pioneering program broadcast statewide, it was a forerunner of the virtual programming now produced by the ASO and made available to music teachers across Georgia. Originally from Virginia and Tennessee, Dr. Kolpatzki earned music degrees from the University of Tennessee and Columbia University as well as a doctorate from the University of Georgia. After teaching in Tennessee, she came to Atlanta to work as a consultant for Silver Burdett Company, a music publisher, a position she held until she began her tenure with DeKalb schools. She was married to Lothar Jürgen H. Kolpatzki for 26 years until his death in 1991, embracing his German heritage and becoming a fluent German speaker. She was an active member of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer.

ASO education icon Suzanne Shull began her teaching career under Dr. Kolpatzki’s supervision. “She was a consummate professional,” she explained, “my colleagues and I were lucky for the encouragement and opportunities we received.” According to Suzanne, “Rose Mary made sure that every child in the county was able to attend an ASO Young Peoples Concert.”

As an active volunteer with Atlanta Symphony Associates, a faithful donor and regular subscriber, Dr. Kolpatzki cherished the Orchestra. She died in February, leaving the ASO a substantial bequest. As part of the ASO endowment, her gift will help ensure that generations of music students benefit from the ASO’s educational outreach.

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ASO Musicians Take Center Stage in New 'Behind the Curtain' Series

By Jon Ross

Yang-Yoon Kim knows all about the supporting cast. In the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s viola section, she rarely plays the melody of the piece, instead propping up the action as a hardworking, and crucial, part of the ensemble.

It’s been that way for her 15-year tenure with the ASO.

“The viola section is like Emily Blunt for Meryl Streep, you know?,” she says, referencing the 2006 movie The Devil Wears Prada. “So stepping into that solo role — finding that voice — is very challenging.”

Kim recently emerged from her regular spot in the ensemble to perform Max Bruch’s nine-minute “Romanze for Viola and Orchestra.”

It’s all part of a new “Behind the Curtain Digital Series” video highlighting solo turns from orchestral section players. The recording, now streaming at aso.watch.org, also highlights solos from violinists Eun Young Jung and Robert Anemone, and flutist Robert Cronin. They’re all accompanied by their ASO colleagues.

Jung has a long history with her “Behind the Curtain” selection, Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto. After learning the composer’s fifth concerto as a young student, she gravitated toward the earlier work while in her first year at Ewha Womans University in South Korea. It also didn’t hurt that the concerto is in D Major, her favorite key.

“I remember it being pretty challenging to make it sound beautiful, light and lively — which is how it should sound,” says the violinist, who joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 2022. “But it’s definitely a piece that has both depth and energy.”

Anemone knows that although he’ll be in front of his colleagues when he plays the first movement of Barber’s Violin Concerto, he’s not there to be the boss. He sees concertos as a duet between soloist and ensemble. It’s all about establishing a musical partnership.

He approaches his soloist role as a fan of the music, especially with this piece, which isn’t as angst-ridden as many other violin concertos, he says.

“The Barber certainly has some tumult,” he adds. “But the first movement, at the end of the day, is really just a beautiful piece. It’s generous, it’s warm, and you can sink into just the feeling of beautiful music.”

Though he’s taught Barber’s concerto to numerous students and listened to countless recordings and live performances of the work, it’s his first time performing the work.

“It’s a piece my mother has been wanting me to perform for a long time — she’s always saying, 'Oh, when are you going to play the Barber?' So I’ll be thinking of my parents when I play it with this orchestra.”

A folkloric spirit pervades Robert Cronin’s “ASO Behind the Curtain” solo selection, “Pastoral Suite” by Gunnar de Frumerie. Calling the composer “the Swedish Copland or Bernstein,” Cronin, who has been a member of the ASO flute section since 1999, describes the piece as a simple, highly emotional work.

“It’s very chordal; very basic,” he says. “But something about how he wrote it — it just shows you that great music doesn’t have to be complicated.”

Cronin may be new to the solo spotlight, but he’s accustomed to juggling multiple roles while performing with the orchestra. For more than 15 years, he ran a side business fabricating concrete countertops in addition to his work with the ASO. These days, when he’s not performing, Cronin is probably playing or thinking about golf, but he might also be reading, brushing up on the classics he missed in school.

In his spare time away from the ensemble, you might find Anemone in his woodworking studio. (He’s made most of the furniture in his house!) Kim balances out her ASO ensemble playing with a pervasive love of all things design. This fascination translates to a lot of gardening, interior decorating and fashion.

“I just love all aspects of design — finding balance, choosing a focal point. And I think that’s actually a lot like orchestra playing,” she says. “There’s a main melody, and everything else is there to support it. If everyone tries to be the star, it becomes chaos.”

But then, for some ASO musicians, it’s all about the music, all the time. Music, and performing in the violin section with the ASO, has long since become Jung’s career — and her livelihood.

“At first I felt bad about that — like I should have other interests — but then I asked my friends and colleagues, and realized most of them are the same way,” Jung says.

“So now I just say: I love music, and that’s OK.”

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The 4,155th 4,156th and 4,157th concerts of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Friday, October 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Atlanta Symphony Hall

NATHALIE STUTZMANN, conductor

ALISA WEILERSTEIN, cello

The use of cameras or recording devices during the concert is strictly prohibited. Please be kind to those around you and silence your mobile phone and other hand-held devices.

AARON COPLAND (1900-1990)

Fanfare for the Common Man (1942) 3 MINS

EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)

Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 85 (1919) 31 MINS

I. Adagio. Moderato—

II. Lento. Allegro molto

III. Adagio

IV. Allegro. Moderato. Allegro ma non troppo Alisa Weilerstein, cello

INTERMISSION

RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)

20 MINS

Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 (A Hero’s Life) 1897-1898) 45 MINS

by Noel Morris Program Annotator

Notes to Know

• Copland’s arresting Fanfare was played at the 1984 Olympic Games, the dedication of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, as wake-up music for space shuttle astronauts, and at the closing of Shea Stadium.

• Aaron Copland is a staple of Independence Day concerts, where orchestras perform his Fanfare, his cowboy ballets, his Lincoln Portrait, and other works Ironically, this deeply patriotic composer once landed on a McCarthy-era blacklist.

• By his 40th birthday, Richard Strauss had written most of his tone poems. After that, he focused mainly on opera and became even more famous.

COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man

In 1942, America was at war, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the midst of a massive campaign to rally the armed forces and civilian population. As millions deployed overseas, “the war effort” became the catchphrase for mobilization at home—higher taxes, war bonds, victory gardens, scrap metal drives, and moving women onto the assembly line. Roosevelt borrowed from his 1941 “Four Freedoms” speech for his public relations blitz. In it, he championed freedom of speech, freedom of belief, freedom from fear, and freedom from want.

First ASO performance: October 24, 1976

Many creative people got behind the war effort. Norman Rockwell created illustrations of the Four Freedoms. And in 1942, conductor Eugene Goossens approached eighteen composers to write patriotic fanfares for brass and percussion. They included Darius Milhaud, Walter Piston, William Grant Still, Howard Hanson, Morton Gould, Virgil Thomson, and others. Out of that came “Fanfare for Airmen,” “Fanfare for Paratroopers,” and more. But only one remains popular today: Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man.

Robert Shaw, conductor

Most recent ASO performance: November 20, 2021

Robert Spano, conductor

After writing the piece, Copland toyed with different titles, including “Fanfare for the Spirit of Democracy” and “Fanfare for the Four Freedoms.” But then he turned on the radio to hear a speech by Vice President Henry Wallace, who

declared: “Some have spoken of the ‘American Century.’ I saw that the century on which we are entering—the century which will come into being after this war—can be and must be the century of the common man.”

Years later, Copland reasoned, “It was the common man, after all, who was doing all the dirty work in the war and the army. He deserved a fanfare.”

Copland missed his deadline. He needed another month, so Goossens chose tax season. (At the time, folks felt the squeeze of the 1942 Revenue Act.) Goossens conducted the first performance of Fanfare for the Common Man in Cincinnati on March 12, 1943.

First ASO performance: October 9, 1969

Robert Shaw, conductor Leonard Rose, cello

Most recent ASO performance: April 27, 2019

Carlos Kalmar, conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

ELGAR Cello Concerto

In July 1904, Edward Elgar, the son of a piano tuner, knelt before King Edward VII. The king raised his sword and tapped the composer’s shoulders, elevating him to knighthood.

Edwardian England recalls a playboy King Edward who hopped around Europe attending glamorous parties. The British Empire stretched around the globe. Technological advances brought electric lighting, indoor plumbing, and refrigerators. In fiction, we know the Edwardians from Sherlock Holmes, Downton Abbey, and Mary Poppins.

This was Edward Elgar’s world, when he reached his zenith. People considered him the greatest English composer of the past 100 years, and orchestras worldwide played his works. But the Edwardian era was brief. The king died in 1910, and war followed in 1914.

In just four years, the Great War spilled the blood of a generation, leaving a million Englishmen dead and another two million with disabilities. The Spanish Flu wiped out tens of millions worldwide. The tumult forged a new world order. America emerged as a political and economic power while Britain began to recede.

After the war, the music scene changed, too. 62-yearold Edward Elgar became a has-been. He wrote his Cello Concerto in 1919, a piece that is, to many ears, a lament for a lost world.

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

Ein Heldenleben means “a hero’s life,” which plays into our loose conception of a hero, from firefighters to ball players to rock stars.

19th-century creatives liked the idea of an artist as a hero, someone gifted with intuition, who gains access to higher truths and shares them with the world. At first, the artist feels lonely and misunderstood. But the fire in the belly grows ever stronger until the artist risks everything—financial security, rejection, disapproval, and social isolation to glean those higher truths.

History offers famous examples of hero-artists, from Goethe’s Young Werther to Beethoven, who overcame deafness to write the Ninth Symphony It’s the essence of Romanticism—individualism, personal struggle, and the triumph of the spirit.

First ASO performance: March 10, 1965

Robert Mann, conductor

Most recent ASO performance: October 19, 2019

Richard Strauss contributed to the genre with Ein Heldenleben, complete with epic battles, true love, and public affirmation. When Strauss conducted the first performance, most everyone figured out his hero’s identity: himself.

“He was not conceited,” insisted a family friend. “But he knew his force—that he was a somebody.”

Indeed, he was. Richard Strauss enjoyed a long run as (arguably) the world’s most popular musician and composer. He was a wunderkind conductor, landing a job at the Munich Court Opera at 22. He added rocket fuel to his career with the tone poem Don Juan at 23, then scored one hit after another (pun intended).

Strauss believed the tone poem would replace the symphony as the go-to standard orchestral composition. Of course, this notion played into his uncanny ability to describe things using musical instruments. As he wrote Ein Heldenleben (1894), he added verbal cues as if scoring a movie, writing things like, “he bestirs himself and looks and sinks back into Gb.”

Since then, fans have made a sport of sleuthing all the Strauss tunes embedded in the piece, from Don Juan to Don Quixote The dramatic arc follows the composer, his wife, Pauline, and

Edo de Waart, conductor

his adversaries—the carping critics played by squawking woodwinds.

Strauss wrote Ein Heldenleben for Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw, where they carved his name into the Great Hall in giant gold letters. To this day, people snort at Strauss’s act of immodesty. On the other hand, he lived to witness the manifestation of heroism gone awry during the world wars.

“Our future lies in art, especially in music,” he said. “In times when spiritual goods are rarer than material ones, and egoism, envy, and hatred govern the world, music will do much to reestablish love among mankind.”

Perhaps we all need heroes like that.

INSIDE THE SCORE

Richard Strauss beefed up the orchestra for this hero’s tale, with extra winds and brass, including English horn, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, and tenor tuba. The second violins have one note off the scale, so they must tune their G strings down to an F#. In the orchestra world, the violin solos often appear on audition lists for the concertmaster’s job.

ALISA WEILERSTEIN, cello

Alisa Weilerstein is one of the foremost cellists of our time. Known for her consummate artistry, emotional investment, and rare interpretive depth, she was recognized with a MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship in 2011. Today her career is truly global in scope, taking her to the most prestigious international venues for solo recitals, chamber concerts, and concerto collaborations.

With her multi-season solo cello project, “FRAGMENTS,” Weilerstein aims to reimagine the concert experience. Comprising six programs, each an hour long, the series sees her weave together the 36 movements of Bach’s solo cello suites with 27 new commissions in a multisensory production by Elkhanah Pulitzer. In the 2024-25 season, she premiered FRAGMENTS 3 at San Diego’s Jacobs Music Center, gave the New York premieres of FRAGMENTS 2 and 3 at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and performed the complete cycle at Charleston’s Spoleto Festival USA.

Versatile across the cello repertoire’s full breadth, she is a leading exponent of its greatest classics and an ardent proponent of contemporary music, who has premiered important new concertos by Pascal Dusapin, Matthias Pintscher, and Joan Tower. In 2024-25, she brought to life three more concertos, premiering Thomas Larcher’s with the New York Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Symphony, Richard Blackford’s with the Czech Philharmonic, and Gabriela Ortiz’s with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at L.A.’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, Bogotá’s Teatro Mayor, and Carnegie Hall. Her other 2024-25 highlights include season-opening concerts with the San Diego and Kansas City Symphonies; returns to the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras; and duo recitals with Inon Barnatan at Stanford University and in Boston’s Celebrity Series.

Her discography includes a best-selling recording of Bach’s solo suites for Pentatone, chart-topping albums and the winner of BBC Music’s “Recording of the Year” award.

The 4,158th and 4,159th concerts of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Friday, October 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Atlanta Symphony Hall

NATHALIE

STUTZMANN, conductor

PAVEL KOLESNIKOV, piano

The use of cameras or recording devices during the concert is strictly prohibited. Please be kind to those around you and silence your mobile phone and other hand-held devices.

Thursday's concert is dedicated to PATTY AND DOUG REID in honor of their extraordinary support of the 2024/25 Annual Fund.

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

Cantata No. 150, “Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich” BWV 150 ("For Thee, O Lord, I Long") (1709)

15 MINS

I. Sinfonia

II. Chorus: “Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich”

III. Aria: “Doch bin und bleibe ich vergnügt”

IV. Chorus: “Leite mich in deiner Wahrheit”

V. Trio: “Zedern müssen von den Winden”

VI. Chorus: “Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn”

VII. Chorus: “Meine Tage in den Leiden”

Wanda Yang Temko, soprano

Ana Baida, alto

Justin Cornelius, tenor

William Borland, bass

ASO Chamber Chorus

EDVARD GRIEG (1843-1907)

Concerto in A minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 16 (1868) 31 MINS

I. Allegro molto moderato

II. Adagio

III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

INTERMISSION 20 MINS

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (1884-1885)

I. Allegro non troppo

II. Andante moderato

III. Allegro giocoso

IV. Allegro energico e passionato

39 MINS

by Noel Morris Program Annotator

Notes to Know

• Edvard Grieg remains one of Norway’s most beloved composers, and the feeling is mutual. He once wrote, “The traditional way of life of the Norwegian people, together with Norway’s legends, Norway’s history, Norway’s natural scenery, stamped itself on my creative imagination from my earliest years.”

• J.S. Bach may have written as many as 300 cantatas, although a third of those are missing. The Cantata BWV 150 might be his first one.

• Even though he was a successful composer, Johannes Brahms had a hang-up about writing symphonies. He started trying to write them in his 20s but didn’t complete one until age 44. The second, third, and fourth symphonies came much more easily.

BACH Cantata BWV 150

Johann Sebastian Bach was the youngest of eight. Growing up in a home filled with music, he studied with his father until tragedy struck. His parents died eight months apart. At 10, Sebastian went to live with his brother Christoph, a church organist who stood in as music teacher. When young Bach turned 15, he went on a 200-mile journey to attend choir school.

Parishioners complained about his “many strange tones.” He got in a public brawl with a smart-alecky bassoonist and took an unscheduled vacation to visit the famous organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude. Bach bounced from one provincial town to the next for the first years of his career.

This is the first ASO performance.

Scholars believe the Cantata BWV 150 comes from this itinerant time (ca. 1707-1708). It might be his earliest sacred cantata. Its movements alternate between lines from Psalm 25 and a poem by an unknown author. It uses bare-bones accompaniment, including two violins, bassoon, and basso continuo (a bassline that sometimes fills out the harmonies).

For the Cantata’s last movement, Bach wrote a chaconne, which spins a yarn over a repeated 4-bar bassline. Almost 200 years later, his chaconne cast a spell over Johannes Brahms, who built his 4th Symphony using this same 4-bar bassline.

First ASO performance:

January 30, 1949

Henry Sopkin, conductor

Margarethe Parrott, piano

Most recent ASO performance:

January 30, 2022

David Danzmayr, conductor

Saleem Ashkar, piano

GRIEG

Piano Concerto

Edvard Grieg was a poor student as a child. He zoned out in school and failed to complete assignments.

“Why not begin by remembering the wonderful, mystical satisfaction of stretching one’s arms up to the piano and bringing forth—not a melody,” said the boy. “Far from it! No, it had to be a chord. First a third, then a fifth, then a seventh. And finally, both hands helping— Oh joy!” His mother taught him the piano, and the kids at school nicknamed him “Mozak” (a mispronunciation of Mozart).

If this tale has a fairy godmother, it came in the form of Uncle Ole—the violin virtuoso Ole Bull, who visited the family in 1858. After listening to 15-year-old Edvard’s compositions, Ole declared, “You are going to Leipzig to become an artist.”

Bull was a mover and shaker among Europe’s musical elite. He’d known Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn, who, among other things, founded the Leipzig Conservatory. Bull escorted his nephew to the prestigious school and signed him up. And Grieg began to make his way.

In those days, Clara Schumann (Robert’s widow) was a dominant force in music. A single mother of seven, she supported her family by touring and used her husband’s Piano Concerto as her signature piece. Grieg heard her play it in 1858.

“Inspired from beginning to end, it stands unparalleled in music literature,” he wrote in 1903. In his essay “My First Success,” he described negotiations to get his hands on a handwritten score of the Schumann Concerto.

“‘I will give you my score of Schumann’s Concerto,’ [a friend] said to me one day, ‘if you will give me your quartet.’ It was impossible for me to resist,” wrote Grieg. He swapped his string quartet for the Schumann score. Now the quartet is lost.

Inspired by Schumann’s piece, Grieg started writing a piano concerto ten years later, and it bears some similarity to

the earlier work. Both concertos are in A minor. They both begin with an explosive flourish before landing on a hushed woodwind theme and share a likeness in spirit. Similarities aside, Grieg presents a clear and original voice in his concerto, echoing sounds that were popular in Norwegian folksong. With its premiere in April of 1869, the Grieg Piano Concerto became an instant success.

BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

Imagine a futuristic world where a guy unearths a mostly forgotten TV show and becomes a fanatic. He connects with other superfans who piece together everything they can about the show and its creators. That’s what happened with the life of J.S. Bach. Bach fell out of fashion. And as his music faded from memory, hardcore fans carried his torch. Johannes Brahms was one of them.

After years of making aborted attempts at writing symphonies, Brahms issued his First in 1876. By that time, he had it made. He was a famous composer, a confirmed bachelor, and had plenty of money. Unencumbered, he chose to compose at resort towns during the summer. Brahms otherwise lived in Vienna, where he gave concerts and supervised his publications. He also pursued hobbies, including editing Bach’s music for print.

First ASO performance: March 10, 1952

Henry Sopkin, conductor

Most recent ASO performance: May 28, 2022

Nicola Luisotti, conductor

In the summer of 1884, Brahms traveled to the mountain village of Mürzzuschlag, where he registered with the local police as an “itinerant musician.” He rented rooms on the main street, befriended people in the local tavern, and took daily hikes. His landlady said she often heard him pacing the room and humming. Out of that came the first two movements of his Fourth Symphony. He returned to the village the following summer and wrote the last two. Brahms looked to one of his heroes for some added inspiration: Johann Sebastian Bach.

“On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings,” gushed Brahms.

To build his Fourth Symphony finale, he lifted a 4-bar bassline from the last movement of Bach’s Cantata BWV 150, a chaconne. Adding a couple of half-steps to the line, Brahms expanded it into eight bars. He then laid thirty variations atop repetitions of the line, in the style of a chaconne. After the premiere, critics made snarky comments about the oldfashioned finale. Nevertheless, the Fourth Symphony circled the globe and made it to New York City within a year.

Fast-forward to the spring of 1897, Brahms attended his last concert. It was a performance of his Fourth Symphony in Vienna. According to witnesses, people craned their necks to get a look at him and broke into a thunderous applause after each movement. He died less than a month later.

PAVEL KOLESNIKOV, piano

Following performances with the London Symphony Orchestra at Classical Pride this summer, the 24/25 season saw Pavel give recitals at Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Brugges, Spivey Hall and Severance Music Center as part of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Piano Series. He also returned to The Hallé, Bournemouth Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and debuts with Adelaide Symphony.

Highlights of the 23/24 season included concertos with the Danish National Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic and at the BBC Proms with the BBC Scottish Symphony, collaborating with conductors Susanna Mälkki, Manfred Honeck, Sir Mark Elder, Alpesh Chauhan, Gemma New, Alexander Bloch and Vasily Petrenko.

Pavel’s seven-concert residency at the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival showcased the breadth of his artistic vision. In addition to recitals and concertos with the Britten Sinfonia and Sinfonia of London, Pavel gave immersive performances with partner and pianist Samson Tsoy. The duo have since performed at Carnegie Hall, Barbican Centre and BOZAR.

Aldeburgh also saw the premiere of “Celestial Navigation” — a sequence of music featuring projections by architect Sophie Hicks and text by Martin Crimp. Pavel’s other cross-genre collaborations include his realization of Bach’s Goldberg Variations with dancer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker which has been staged over fifty times across Europe.

Pavel won the 2012 Honens Piano Competition and was a BBC New Generation Artist between 2014-16. He was artistin-residence at Wigmore Hall during the 20/21 season, and has performed at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Klavier-Festival Ruhr and La Roque-d’Anthéron and Piano aux Jacobins festivals. His discography includes music by Reynaldo Hahn, Louis Couperin and Chopin.

ASO CHAMBER CHORUS

Acclaimed for the beauty, precision and expressive qualities of its singing, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus has been an important part of the orchestra's programming since its founding by the late Robert Shaw. The Chamber Chorus, which debuted on December 14, 1967, is composed of 40-60 volunteers selected by audition from the ranks of the ASO Chorus, who meet for extra rehearsals and perform with the ASO each season. The Chamber Chorus performs music of the Baroque and Classical eras, as well as works by modern masters such as Golijov, Tavener, Pärt, Paulus, Theofanidis and Britten. Highlights of the ASO Chamber Chorus’s history include a residency with the ASO and Robert Spano for California’s Ojai Festival, participation with the ASO in recordings of masterworks by Bach, Golijov, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Vivaldi and a 2005 a cappella recording that features the Vaughan Williams Mass under Norman Mackenzie. Their Carnegie Hall appearances include performances of Bach's B-Minor Mass, Rachmaninoff Vespers, Stravinsky’s Nightingale and Mozart's Requiem.

Norman Mackenzie

director of choruses

The Frannie & Bill Graves Chair

SOPRANO

Juliana Bolaño

Tierney Breedlove

Hanan Davis

Khadijah Davis

Liz Dean

Megan Littlepage

Arietha Lockhart

Mindy Margolis

Joneen Padgett

Mary Martha Penner

Marianna Schuck

Lydia Sharp

Anne-Marie Spalinger

Brianne Turgeon

Lacy Wilder

Wanda Yang Temko

Marcia Chandler chorus administrator

ALTO

Ana Baida

Angelica Blackman

Keim

Marcia Chandler

Katherine Fisher

Unita Harris

Kathleen Kelly

George

Virginia Little

Katie MacKenzie

Linda Morgan

Kathleen Poe Ross

Laura Rappold

Anna Ree

Dock Anderson series accompanist

TENOR

Christian Bigliani

David Blalock

Matthew Borkowski

Jack Caldwell

Daniel Compton

Justin Cornelius

Matthew Gavilanez

Leif Gilbert Hansen

John Harr

Keith Langston

Michael Parker

Timothy Parrott

Christopher Patton

Mark Warden

BASS

Dock Anderson

Philip Barreca

Trey Clegg

Joel Craft

Michael Cranford

Timothy Gunter

Peter MacKenzie

Jason Maynard

Benjamin Temko

Joel Terning

Edgie Wallace Jr.

NORMAN MACKENZIE, DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES

Norman Mackenzie’s abilities as musical collaborator, conductor and concert organist have brought him international recognition. As Director of Chorus for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) since 2000, he was chosen to help carry forward the creative vision of legendary founding conductor Robert Shaw. During his tenure, the Chorus has made numerous tours and garnered several GRAMMY® awards, including "Best Classical Album" and "Best Choral Performance." At the ASO, he prepares the Choruses for all concerts and recordings, works closely with Nathalie Stutzmann on the commissioning and realization of new choral-orchestral works and conducts holiday concerts.

In his 14-year association with Mr. Shaw, he was keyboardist for the ASO, principal accompanist for the ASO Choruses and ultimately assistant choral conductor. In addition, he was musical assistant and accompanist for the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, the Robert Shaw Institute Summer Choral Festivals in France and the United States and the famed Shaw/ Carnegie Hall Choral Workshops. He prepared the ASO Chorus for its acclaimed 2003 debut and successive 2008 and 2009 performances in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic, in Britten’s War Requiem, Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, respectively.

The 4,160th and 4,161st concerts of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Atlanta Symphony Hall

VINAY PARAMESWARAN, conductor

KALA RAMNATH, Hindustani violin

ASO CHORUS WOMEN

NINA SHEKHAR

Lumina (2020) 11 MINS

REENA ESMAIL/KALA RAMNATH

Concerto for Hindustani Violin and Orchestra (2022) 25 MINS

I. आकाश (Aakash) - Space

II. वायू (Vayu) - Air

III. आिग्ग (Agni) - Fire

IV. जाल (Jal) - Water

V. िप्रथ्वी (Prithvi) - Earth

Postlude: Atonement

Kala Ramnath, Hindustani violin

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GUSTAV HOLST (1874-1934)

The Planets, Op. 32 (1914-1916) 51 MINS

I. Mars, the Bringer of War

II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger

IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age

VI. Uranus, the Magician

VII. Neptune, the Mystic

ASO Chorus Women

by Noel Morris Program Annotator

Notes to Know

• The Hindustani violin tradition prizes spontaneity and improvisation within the framework of the raag and taal. Part of the artistry comes from the application of ornaments and microtones.

• Gustav Holst composed The Planets after taking a deep dive into astrology. Although he later moved on to other things, he continued to cast horoscopes for his friends.

NINA SHEKHAR Lumina

Detroit native Nina Shekhar is the daughter of Indian immigrants who gave her a unique musical vocabulary, from Bollywood songs to Carnatic and Hindustani music to classic rock. Through this lens, thoughts on identity became potent in the music Shekhar would write. She started composing for piano as a child. Then, in high school, her band director encouraged her to write music for her fellow students. She went on to earn degrees from Michigan, USC, and Princeton.

Along the way, Shekhar (pronounced "shaker") met composer Reena Esmail, who became a valued mentor. Speaking to Musical America, Shekhar said Esmail was “the first Indian composer I’d ever met—before her, I didn’t know of anybody else that looked like me.”

Shekhar wrote Lumina for Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic. As musicians often borrow adjectives from the art and visual world to describe music, Shekhar folds these descriptors back into her compositional process.

“Lumina explores the spectrum of light and dark and the murkiness in between,” she wrote. “Using swift contrasts between bright, sharp timbres and cloudy textures and dense harmonies, the piece captures sudden bursts of radiance amongst the eeriness of shadows.”

NINA SHEKHAR, composer

Nina Shekhar explores the intersection of identity, vulnerability, love, and laughter to create bold and intensely personal works.  Described as “tart and compelling” (New York Times) and an “orchestral supernova” (LA Times), her music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird, International Contemporary Ensemble, The Crossing, and Alarm Will Sound.  Her work has been featured by Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Kennedy Center, and Library of Congress.  Current projects include performances by the New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and Grand Rapids Symphony.  She is currently Composer-in-Residence of Young Concert Artists.

REENA ESMAIL/KALA RAMNATH,

Concerto for Hindustani Violin and Orchestra

Composer Reena Esmail is no stranger to cultural mashups. She grew up in Southern California, the child of Indian immigrants who practiced different religions (Catholicism and Islam).

The Concerto for Hindustani Violin builds a natural bridge between her worlds through a symphony orchestra.

The violin came to India through colonialism, but its sweet vocal qualities quickly became popular among Indian classical musicians. Typically, Indian classical violinists sit on the floor or a podium. They hold the instrument in front of their bodies and vary the tuning of the strings, depending on the raag.

A Northern Indian tradition, Hindustani music builds on a raag and taal—a set melodic and rhythmic scheme that indicates pitch, emphasis, timbre, ornamentation, tempo, and more. In Indian classical music, much of the magic happens between the notes—pitches we call microtones.

A note from Reena Esmail:

“This Violin Concerto explores the ancient concept of the Five Elements (space, air, fire, water, and earth), through the modern lens of climate change. Each of these elements can be so uniquely beautiful and awe-inspiring when they are in balance with one another—and yet when they are out of balance, they can cause boundless destruction. This work is a celebration of the incredible ecosystem we call home, a tough look down the road of destruction of that home, and a prayer of atonement and hope for the restoration.

I was incredibly honored to collaborate with Kala Ramnath on this concerto—we each brought our unique body of knowledge into creating something that reached further than either of us could have conceived alone. It was Kala who first came to me with the concept for this work, and it is her melodies, with their unique raag and taal, and lively rhythmic interplay, that form the backbone of this concerto. I expanded out those melodies into orchestra, surrounding Kala and creating a work that allowed musicians from both cultures to meet one another and step into each others’ expressive worlds.

These issues that affect our natural world are so broad—they cross countries and cultures. It is our hope that this work brings us together and allows us to have these difficult discussions from a place of mutual respect and understanding.”

REENA ESMAIL, composer

Composer Reena Esmail bridges the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, bringing communities together through equitable musical spaces.

Esmail’s work has been commissioned by ensembles including the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Kronos Quartet, Imani Winds, Baltimore Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Town Music Seattle, Albany Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Girls Choir, Conspirare, Juilliard415, and Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Esmail was the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 2020–2023 Swan Family Artist in Residence, and Seattle Symphony’s

2021–22 Composer-in-Residence. Recordings of her work have been released on major labels including Hyperion Records, Delos Music and Cedille Records.

First ASO performance: November 13, 1975

Robert Shaw, conductor

Most recent ASO performance: February 3, 2024

Gemma New, conductor

HOLST The Planets

British composer Gustav Holst had an appetite for the arcane. In his 20s, he learned Sanskrit to study Hindu literature in its native tongue. In 1913, he learned to cast horoscopes while studying astrology.

Holst had been a sickly child. Neuritis in his hands forced him to give up the piano. With the outbreak of war in 1914, he attempted to enlist but failed the physical. Burdened with poor eyesight and asthma, he channeled his energy into a piece about the planet Mars, the celestial body associated with war. By 1916, he’d written six more planets, excluding the Earth. Calling these compositions “mood pieces,” he conceived them as character portraits reflecting each planet’s personality traits or astrological qualities. Not to be confused with astronomy, Holst ordered his planets according to the houses of the zodiac (rather than their distance from the sun).

In 1918, he accepted a military assignment to go to Greece and organize musical activities for the troops.

As a send-off, his friends gathered at Queen’s Hall for a private performance of The Planets conducted by Adrian Boult. The first public performance of the complete Planets took place in 1920.

Mars, the Bringer of War

Characterized by aggression and anger, the secondsmallest planet takes its name from the Roman god of war. Mars represents primal energy and a desire to dominate. According to Boult, Mars was the composer’s commentary on the “stupidity of war.”

Venus, the Bringer of Peace

Due to a runaway greenhouse effect, Venus is the warmest planet with a surface temperature of around 900 degrees Fahrenheit. Named for the Roman goddess of love, Venus is associated with love, beauty, and harmony.

Mercury, the Winged Messenger

Closest to the sun, Mercury speeds through the solar system, making four trips around the sun for every Earth year. Associated with information, Mercury got its name from the deity who served as messenger to the gods.

Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

A gas giant named for the king of the gods, the largest planet represents optimism, prosperity, and generosity. Sometimes called Jove, the Roman god gave us the word jovial. The chorale from this movement later became the patriotic hymn “I Vow to Thee, My Country.”

Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age

The most distant, which is clearly visible with the naked eye, the ancients thought the ringed planet to be the outermost. Astrologers associate Saturn with limitations, illness, depression, and restrictions.

Uranus, the Magician

Orbiting the sun on its side, one season on Uranus lasts 21 Earth years. Ironically, its astrological profile drives change, upheaval, innovation, and discovery. Uranus rules outer space and the higher mind.

Neptune, the Mystic

Invisible to the naked eye, early astronomers predicted Neptune using mathematics and later confirmed its existence with a telescope. It takes 165 Earth years—two human lifetimes—to complete its orbit around the sun. Neptune reigns over things unseen, intuition, dreams, and the subconscious. An off-stage women’s choir wordlessly adds to the music’s ethereal quality.

INSIDE THE SCORE

Gustav Holst added some rarities to his orchestration of The Planets, including alto flute, bass oboe, tenor tuba, organ, women’s chorus, and an extra set of timpani.

VINAY PARAMESWARAN, conductor

Internationally recognised for his energetic presence, imaginative programming, and compelling musicianship, Vinay Parameswaran is one of the most exciting and versatile young conductors on the podium today.

Highlights of the 2024/25 season included UK debuts with the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras, alongside US debuts with the Seattle Symphony and Chicago Sinfonietta. In 2025/26 he debuts with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, returns to the Cleveland Orchestra and Symphony San Jose and leads opera projects at Curtis Institute of Music (Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and the Manhattan School of Music.

Other recent guest appearances include Phoenix, San Antonio, Knoxville, Charlotte, Houston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Louisville, North Carolina, Grant Park, Milwaukee, Jacksonville, and the National Symphony Orchestras, with re-invitations from Nashville, Eugene, and Rochester Philharmonic.

From 2017 to 2022, Parameswaran served as Assistant and later Associate Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. Previously Associate Conductor of the Nashville Symphony, he conducted more than 150 performances.

Equally at home in the concert hall, opera house, and recording studio, he has conducted productions with the Curtis Opera Theater (The Magic Flute, The Elixir of Love, The Cunning Little Vixen), assisted Franz Welser-Möst in Cleveland, and recorded with the Curtis Ensemble 20/21.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he studied at Brown University and the Curtis Institute of Music and was a Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood. He is currently based in Vancouver, BC.

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KALA RAMNATH, HINDUSTANI VIOLIN + COMPOSER

Kala Ramnath stands among the world’s most inspirational instrumentalists. Her playing has been featured on the GRAMMY®-nominated Miles from India project. Compositions of hers have appeared on the GRAMMY®-winning albums In 27 Pieces (Hilary Hahn), the Kronos Quartet’s  50 For The Future, in the Oscar-nominated soundtrack Blood Diamond and more.

Born into a dynasty of prodigious violin legends, Ramnath’s technique manifested early. She became a preeminent disciple of the legendary vocalist Pandit Jasraj who helped shape Ramnath’s approach to vocalized Hindustani violin technique, naming it the “Singing Violin”.

Ramnath incorporates elements of classical, jazz, flamenco and traditional African music into her repertoire, having performed with the London Symphony and London Philharmonic Orchestras and world music legends like George Brooks, Kai Eckhart, Béla Fleck among others. Ramnath is actively a part of the following ensembles, The Kala Ramnath Collective, Raga Afrika, Global Conversation and Elements.

ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, founded in 1970 by former Music Director, Robert Shaw, is an allvolunteer, auditioned ensemble that performs on a regular basis with the Orchestra and is featured on many of its recordings. Led by Director of Choruses, Norman Mackenzie, the chorus is known for its precision and expressive singing quality. Its recordings have garnered 14 GRAMMY® Awards (nine for “Best Choral Performance”; four for “Best Classical Recording” and one for “Best Opera Recording”). In addition, the Chorus has been involved in the creation and shaping of numerous world-premiere commissioned works.

NORMAN MACKENZIE, DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES

See pg. 33 for Norman Mackenzie’s biography.

meettheartists

ASO CHORUS WOMEN

Norman Mackenzie

director of choruses

The Frannie &

Bill Graves Chair

SOPRANO 1

Juliana Bolaño

Hanan Davis

Khadijah Davis

Liz Dean

Anna Floyd

Laura Foster

Erin Harris

Erin Jones

Arietha Lockhart

Mindy Margolis

Katie O’Brien

Joneen Padgett

Rachel Paul

Mary Martha Penner

Susan Ray

Samaria Rodriguez

Emily Salmond

Kristian Samuel

Lydia Sharp

Alexandra Slusarenko

Stacey Tanner

Chelsea Toledo

Brianne Turgeon

Rebecca Van Rooyen

Wanda Yang Temko

Marcia Chandler chorus administrator

Dock Anderson series accompanist

SOPRANO 2

Meghann Ashey

Debbie Ashton

Sloan Atwood

Jessica Barber

Saskia de Boon

Tierney Breedlove

Haley Brown

Barbara Brown

Mary Claire Buchanan

Martha Craft

Gina Deaton

Mary Goodwin

Corrina Guadalupe

Heidi Hayward

Amy Lea

Megan Littlepage

Melissa Mack

Lindsay Patten Murray

Chantae Pittman

Tramaine Quarterman

Kate Roberts

Kelli Roberts

Elizabeth Shaver

Anne-Marie Spalinger

ALTO 1

Pamela Amy-Cupp

Alison Autry

Emily Campbell

Jessica Crowe

Patti Dinkins Matthews

Alexandra Dolgashev

Katherine Fisher

Beth Freeman

Bridgette Gifford

Unita Harris

Beverly Hueter

Janet Johnson

Kathleen Kelly George

Virginia Little

Alina Luke

Sara McKlin

Linda Morgan

Katherine Murray

Lillian Nittler

Kathleen Poe Ross

Elizabeth Qian

Anna Ree

Noelle Ross

Rachel Schiffer

Rachel Stewart

Nancy York

ALTO 2

Nancy Adams

Ana Baida

Angelica Blackman

Keim

Elizabeth Borland

Emily Boyer

Marcia Chandler

Carol Comstock

Meaghan Curry

Michele Diament

Cynthia Goeltz DeBold

Emily Halbert

Luanne Harms

Joia Johnson

Sally Kann

Nicole Khoury

Katie MacKenzie

Lalla McGee

Rachel Meyer

Laura Rappold

Caroline Roberts

Duhi Park Schneider

Sharon Simons

Campaign for the

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has begun an ambitious campaign to generate new endowment funding. Our Campaign for the Next Era will allow the ASO to achieve its vision while maintaining its financial health and ensuring long-term sustainability.

This Campaign will create sustainable funding to:

• Enable the ASO to continue to attract and retain the finest musicians in the world,

• Maintain and expand our community-wide education programs

• Fully fund our nationally-recognized Talent Development Program

Investments in the Campaign for the Next Era will help the ASO continue to enrich our beloved community with brilliant performances and music education for decades to come.

CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is grateful to the following donors and volunteers who have supported our Campaign for the Next Era Endowment Campaign.

CAMPAIGN CHAIRS:

Kathy Waller

John B. White, Jr.

CAMPAIGN CABINET:

Bert Mills

Anne Morgan

Jim Rubright

For more information about the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Campaign for the Next Era, please contact Grace Sipusic, Vice President of Development at grace.sipusic@atlantasymphony.org or 404.733.5061.

Ross Singletary

Ray Uttenhove

Patrick Viguerie

$1,000,000+

A Friend of the Symphony (3)

Mr. Eric Bressner

The Family of Ann Grovenstein Campbell

The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

$500,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

The Farideh and Al Azadi Foundation

Emerald Gate Charitable Trust

Kathy Waller & Kenneth Goggins

$250,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Kauffman

Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley

Mary & Jim Rubright

Patrick & Susie Viguerie

$100,000+

Balloun Foundation

Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr.

$100,000+ continued

Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney

Ms. Elizabeth W. Camp

Sheila Lee Davies & Jon Davies

Marcia & John Donnell

Cari K. Dawson & John M. Sparrow

Ms. Angela L. Evans

Dick & Anne Game

Mr. Fahim Siddiqui & Ms. Shazia Fahim

Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr.

$50,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

The Antinori Foundation

Jeannette Guarner, MD & Carlos del Rio, MD

Bonnie & Jay Harris

James H. Landon

Ms. Molly Minnear

Bert & Carmen Mills

John R. Paddock, Ph.D. & Karen M. Schwartz

Patty & Doug Reid

Ross & Sally Singletary

Slumgullion Charitable Fund

John & Ray Uttenhove

Up to $50,000

A Friend of the Symphony (2)

Phyllis Abramson, Ph. D.

Mr. Keith Adams & Ms. Kerry Heyward

Juliet & John Allan

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bailey

Wright* & Alison Caughman

Ms. Lisa V. Chang

Lisa DiFrancesco, MD & Darlene Nicosia

The Gable Foundation

Craig Frankel & Jana Eplan

Florencia & Rodrigo Garcia Escudero

Sally & Walter George

Georgia Power Company

Pam & Robert Glustrom

Elizabeth & Sheffield Hale

Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Harrison

Tad & Janin Hutcheson

Brian & Carrie Kurlander

Donna Lee & Howard Ehni

Dr. Jennifer Lyman & Mr. Kevin Lyman

Ms. Deborah A. Marlowe & Dr. Clint Lawrence

Massey Charitable Trust

Carla & Arthur Mills IV

Galen Oelkers

Victoria & Howard Palefsky

Bill & Rachel Schultz

Joyce & Henry Schwob

Charlie & Donna Sharbaugh

Elliott & Elaine Tapp

ASO | SUPPORT

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra continues to prosper thanks to the support of our generous patrons. The list below recognizes the donors who have made contributions since June 1, 2024. Their extraordinary generosity provides the foundation for this worldclass institution.

$1,000,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

$100,000+

Barney M. Franklin & Hugh W.

Burke Charitable Fund

The Family of Ann Grovenstein

Campbell

Sheila Lee Davies & Jon Davies

$50,000+

The Antinori Foundation

Connie & Merrell** Calhoun

Ms. Lynn Eden

Ms. Angela L. Evans ∞

John D. Fuller

The Gable Foundation

Ms. Margaret Painter

Mr. Robert L. Setzer

Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr. ° ∞

$35,000+

Ms. Krystal Ahn

Sally & Walter George

Sally & Pete Parsonson ∞

Patty & Doug Reid

Mary & Jim Rubright

June & John Scott ∞

Patrick & Susie Viguerie

Kathy Waller & Kenneth Goggins

$25,000+

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bailey

Mr. Keith Barnett

Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney

Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr.

John W. Cooledge

Sally** & Larry Davis

Mr. Richard H. Delay & Dr. Francine D. Dykes ∞

Paulette Eastman & Becky Pryor Anderson**

Pam & Robert Glustrom

Jeannette Guarner, MD & Carlos del Rio, MD ∞

Bonnie & Jay Harris

Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Harrison

Donna Lee & Howard Ehni

Massey Charitable Trust

John & Linda Matthews ∞

John R. Paddock, Ph.D. &

Karen M. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Tyler Perry

Bill & Rachel Schultz °

Ms. Gayle S. Sheppard

Slumgullion Charitable Fund

Cari K. Dawson & John M. Sparrow

Mrs. Edus H. Warren

Mr. Mack Wilbourn

$17,500+

Jennifer Barlament & Kenneth Potsic ∞

Ms. Elizabeth W. Camp

Russell Currey & Amy Durrell

Florencia & Rodrigo Garcia Escudero

Dick & Anne Game °

Ms. Joia M. Johnson

Dr. & Mrs. Scott I. Lampert

Dr. Jennifer Lyman & Mr. Kevin Lyman

Ms. Deborah A. Marlowe & Dr. Clint Lawrence

Ms. Molly Minnear

Caroline & Phil Moïse

Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley

Terence L. & Jeanne Perrine Neal °

Ralph Paulk & Suzanne Redmon Paulk

Martha M. Pentecost

Ross & Sally Singletary

Mr. Fahim Siddiqui & Ms. Shazia Fahim

Mr. G. Kimbrough Taylor & Ms. Triska Drake

Dr. Ravi & Dr. Valerie Thadhani

John & Ray Uttenhove

Mrs. Sue S. Williams

$15,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

Phyllis Abramson, Ph. D.

Madeline** & Howell E. Adams, Jr.

Mr. Keith Adams & Ms. Kerry Heyward °

John & Juliet Allan

Aadu & Kristi Allpere °

Mr. Neil Ashe & Mrs. Rona Gomel Ashe

Mr. David Boatwright

Wright** & Alison Caughman

Ms. Lisa V. Chang

Mr. & Mrs. Erroll B. Davis, Jr.

Lisa DiFrancesco, MD & Darlene Nicosia

Dr. John Dyer & Mrs. Catherine Faré Dyer

Eleanor & Charles Edmondson

Ms. Yelena Epova & Mr. Neil Chambers

Craig Frankel & Jana Eplan

Mr. & Mrs. David Goosman

Roya & Bahman Irvani

Sarah & Jim Kennedy

Stephen & Carolyn Knight

Brian & Carrie Kurlander ∞

James H. Landon

Drs. Joon & Grace Lee

Mr. Sukai Liu & Dr. Ginger J. Chen

John F.** & Marilyn M. McMullan

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Mills IV

Moore Colson, CPAs & Bert & Carmen Mills

Galen Oelkers

Mr. Edward Potter & Ms. Regina Olchowski

Victoria & Howard Palefsky

Ms. Cathleen Quigley

Mr. & Mrs. Ravi Saligram

V Scott

Mr. John A. Sibley, III

Elliott & Elaine Tapp °

Judith & Mark K. Taylor

Mr. Yannik Thomas

Ms. Maria Todorova

Carol & Ramon Tomé Family Fund

Mr. Ben Touchette

Adair & Dick White

Drs. Kevin & Kalinda Woods

$10,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

Mr. Allen Phinney

Mr. & Mrs. Calvin R. Allen

Farideh & Al Azadi Foundation

Jack & Helga Beam ∞

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald R. Benjamin

Kelley O. & Neil H. Berman

Mr. & Mrs. Marc Brown

Lisa & Russ Butner ∞

John Champion & Penelope Malone

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Chubb III

Janet & John Costello

Mr. & Mrs. Warren L. Culpepper

Peter & Vivian de Kok

Mr. Christopher J. Decoufle & Ms. Karen Freer

Donald & Barbara Defoe °

Marcia & John Donnell

Ms. Diane Durgin

Dr. & Mrs. Leroy Fass

Mr. Nigel Ferguson

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Flinn

Dr. V. Alexander Garcias

Dr. Paul Gilreath

Richard & Linda Hubert

Clay & Jane Jackson ∞

James Kieffer

Ann & Brian Kimsey ∞

Meghan & Clarke Magruder

Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Mattox

Mr. Cesar Moreno & Mr. Greg Heathcock

Jane Morrison ∞

Margaret H. Petersen

Mr. Joseph Rapanotti

Vicki & Joe Riedel

David F. & Maxine A.** Rock

Ms. Frances A. Root

Thomas & Lynne Saylor

Ms. Barbara S. Schlefman

Beverly & Milton Shlapak

Tom & Ani Steele

John & Yee-Wan Stevens

Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Stroetz, Jr.

Carolyn C. Thorsen

Mr. & Mrs. Benny Varzi

Drs. Jonne & Paul Walter

Dr. & Mrs. James O. Wells, Jr.

Camille W. Yow

$7,500+

Dr. Marshall & Stephanie Abes

Judith D. Bullock

Patricia & William Buss ∞

Mark Coan & Family

Grace Taylor Ihrig**

Jason & Michelle Kroh

Dr. Fulton D. Lewis III &

S. Neal Rhoney

Mr. Robert M. Lewis, Jr. &

G. Wesley Holt

Elvira & Jay Mannelly

Ed & Linda McGinn °

Berthe & Shapour Mobasser

Sue Morgan ∞

Ms. Eliza Quigley ∞

Mr. Ron Raitz

Leonard Reed

Mr. & Mrs. Joel F. Reeves

George & Amy Taylor ∞

Ms. Juliana T. Vincenzino

Alan & Marcia Watt

Carol Brantley & David Webster

Kiki Wilson

Mr. David J. Worley & Ms. Bernadette Drankoski

$5,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

Louis J. Alrutz

Mr. Logan Anderson

Dr. Evelyn R. Babey

Lisa & Joe** Bankoff

Asad & Sakina Bashey

Meredith Bell

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Bell, Jr.

Mr. John Blatz

Rita & Herschel Bloom

Jane & Greg Blount

Dr. & Mrs. Jerome B. Blumenthal

Mrs. Robert C. Boozer

Ms. Jane F. Boynton

Ms. Johanna Brookner

Jacqueline A. & Joseph E. Brown, Jr.

Karen & Rod Bunn

Mrs. Amy B. Cheng & Dr. Chad A. Hume, Ph.D

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis M. Chorba

Malcolm & Ann Cole

Ned Cone & Nadeen Green

Matt & Kate Cook

Mary Carole Cooney & Henry R. Bauer, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. DePorres Cormier

Carol Comstock & Jim Davis

Daniel & Kelly DeBonis

Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Dimmick ∞

Mr. & Mrs. William S. Duffey , Jr.

Xavier Duralde & Mary Barrett

Jerry H. Evans & Stephen T. Bajjaly

Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Fackler

Ellen & Howard Feinsand

Bruce W. & Avery C. Flower ∞

Mr. David L. Forbes

Annie Frazer & Jen Horvath

Gaby Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Goodsell

Sally W. Hawkins

The Reverend Elizabeth H. Hedrick

Hilley & Frieder

Tad & Janin Hutcheson

Mr. Justin Im & Dr. Nakyoung Nam

Lillian Kim Ivansco & Joey Ivansco

Ann A. & Ben F. Johnson III °

Mr. W. F. & Dr. Janice Johnston

Mr. & Mrs. Baxter Jones

Cecile M. Jones

Lana M. Jordan ∞

Dr. Jennifer Kahnweiler & Dr. William M. Kahnweiler

Paul** & Rosthema Kastin

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Kauffman

Mona & Gilbert Kelly °

Mr. Charles R. Kowal

For information about giving to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Annual Fund, please contact William Keene at 404.733.4839 or william.keene@ atlantasymphony.org.

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Kuester

Pat & Nolan Leake

Mr. & Mrs. Van R. Lear

Ms. Cynthia Smith

Ms. Eunice Luke

In Memoriam: Betty (B.J.) Malone

Ms. Erin M. Marshall

Mr. Alfredo Martin & Mr. Beau Martin

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher D. Martin

Belinda & Gino Massafra

Catherine Massey

Ms. Darla B. McBurney

Fred and Sue McGehee Family

Charitable Fund

Mr. & Mrs. Suneel Mendiratta

Mr. Dale Metz & Ms. Lisa Williams

Key Miles

Mr. Bert Mobley ∞

Mr. William Morrison & Mrs. Elizabeth Clark-Morrison

Ms. Bethani Oppenheimer

Margo Brinton & Eldon Park

Mr. & Mrs. Solon P. Patterson

Mr. & Mrs. Edmund F. Pearce, Jr.

Jonathan & Lori Peterson

In Memory of Dr. Frank S. Pittman

III

Dr. & Mrs. John P. Pooler

Dr. John B. Pugh

John H. Rains

Dr. Jay Rhee & Mrs. Kimberley Rhee ∞

Ms. Felicia Rives ∞

Robert S. Elster Foundation

Tiffany & Rich Rosetti ∞

Ms. Noelle Ross & Mr. Tim Dorr

John T. Ruff

Dr. & Mrs. Rein Saral

Dr. Robert D. Schreiner & Dr. Patricia M. Simone

Katherine Scott

Suzanne Shull ∞

Baker & Debby Smith

Janice B. Smith

Ms. Victoria Smith

Ms. Lara Smith-Sitton

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Stathopoulos

Ms. Deann Stevens

Beth & Edward Sugarman

Stephen & Sonia Swartz

Dede & Bob Thompson

Trapp Family

Dr. Brenda G. Turner

Chilton & Morgan** Varner

Amy & Robert Vassey

Emily C. Ward

Ruthie Watts

Mr. & Mrs. Chris Webber

Dr. Nanette K. Wenger

In memory of Elizabeth B. Stephens by Powell, Preston & Sally ∞

John F. Wieland, Jr.

Suzanne B. Wilner

Mr. & Mrs. M. Beattie Wood

$3,500+

A Friend of the Symphony (2)

Anthony Barbagallo & Kristen Fowks ∞

Liz & Charlie Cohn °

Jean & Jerry Cooper

Mr. David S. Dimling

Dr. Karen A. Foster

Molly McDonald & Jonathan Gelber

Sandra & John Glover

Mr. Jeff Harms & Mr. Peter MacLean

CBH International, Inc

Barbara M. Hund

Cameron H. Jackson

Ms. Rebecca Jarvis

Mrs. Gail Johnson

Wolfgang** & Mariana Laufer

Thomas & Marianne Mabry

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Owen, Jr.

Ms. Kathy Powell

Mrs. Susan H. Reinach

S.A. Robinson

Ms. Donna Schwartz

Gerald & Nancy Silverboard

Ms. Martha Solano

Mrs. Dale L. Thompson

David & Martha West

Judy Zaban-Miller & Lester Miller**

$2,000+

A Friend of the Symphony (4)

Paul & Melody Aldo ∞

Mr. James L. Anderson

Atlanta Symphony Associates

Herschel Beazley

Dr. & Ms.** Bruce Beeber

Dr. & Mrs. Joel E. Berenson

Susan & Jack Bertram

Mr. & Mrs. Xavier Bignon

Leon & Joy Borchers

Mr. & Mrs. Sam Boyte

Martha S. Brewer

Harriet Evans Brock

Benjamin Q. Brunt

Dr. Aubrey Bush & Dr. Carol Bush

Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Canipe

Betty Fuller Case

Mr. Jeffery B. Chancellor & Mr. Cameron England

Mr. Michael J. Clifford &

Ms. Sandra L. Murray

Mr. James Cobb

Susan S. Cofer

Ralph** & Rita Connell

William & Patricia Cook

Dr. & Mrs. John E. Cooke

Mrs. Nancy Cooke

Mr. William R. Cranshaw

R. Carter & Marjorie A. Crittenden Foundation

Claire & Alex Crumbley

Dr. & Mrs.** F. Thomas Daly, Jr.

Vicente del Rio

Ms. Suzanne Denton

Jerome J. Dobson

Mr. & Mrs. Graham Dorian

Mr. Christopher Drew

Gregory & Debra Durden

Mr. Trey Duskin & Ms. Noelle Albano

Mrs. Eve F. Eckardt

Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Edgar

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge

Dieter Elsner & Othene Munson

Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Farnham

Dr. Donald & Janet Filip

Tom & Cecilia Fraschillo

Dr. Elizabeth C. French

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Gaid

Mr. & Mrs. Sebastien Galtier ∞

Dr. & Mrs. John C. Garrett

Marty & John Gillin °

Mrs. Janet D. Goldstein

Dr. & Mrs. Martin I. Goldstein

Mr. Robert Golomb

Mr. James N. Grace

Mrs. Beverly Green

Richard & Debbie Griffiths

Mr. & Mrs. George Gundersen

Mr. & Mrs. Juanmarco Gutierrez

Deedee Hamburger

Ms. Ayonna Hammond

Phil & Lisa Hartley

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Hauser °

John** & Martha Head

Mr. & Mrs. John Hellriegel ∞

Bill & Babette Henagan

Ann J. Herrera & Mary M. Goodwin

Kenneth & Colleen Hey

Dr. Thomas High

Azira G. Hill

Sarah & Harvey Hill, Jr. °

Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Hill

Laurie House Hopkins & John D. Hopkins

James & Bridget Horgan °

Mrs. Nicole L. House

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Huband

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Huesken

Dona & Bill Humphreys

Ms. Olga Inozemtseva

Sally C. Jobe

Aaron & Joyce Johnson

Coenen-Johnson Foundation

Dr. & Mrs. Eike Jordan

Teresa M. Joyce, Ph.D

Mr. Alfred D. Kennedy & Dr. William R. Kenny

Ms. Alice Kwan

Dr. & Mrs. William C. Land, Jr.

Lillian Balentine Law

Mr. Andrew Liakopoulos & Mr. Mark Hawkins

Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey

Deborah & William Liss °

Barbara & Jim MacGinnitie

Dr. Marcus Marr

Marx & Marx LLC

In Memory of Pam McAllister

Mr. & Mrs. James McClatchey

Martha & Reynolds McClatchey

Mr. & Mrs. John G. McColskey

Mr. & Mrs. Robert McDuffie

Birgit & David McQueen

Anna & Hays Mershon

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Mimms, Jr.

Mr. Jamal Mohammad & Mr. Marcus Dean

Ms. Helen Motamen & Mr. Deepak Shenoy

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Muniz

Melanie & Allan Nelkin

Agnes V. Nelson

Mr & Mrs Denis Ng

Gary R. Noble, MD & Joanne Heckman

Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Ogburn

Mr. & Mrs. James Pack

Mr. Albert Palombo & Mrs. Linda E. Berggren

Mr. & Mrs. Al Pearson

Mr. Doug F. Powell

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas G. Riffey, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Roberts

Betsy & Lee Robinson

Dr. Judith C. Rohrer

Ms. Lili Santiago-Silva & Mr. Jim Gray

Drs. Lawrence & Rachel Schonberger

Dick Schweitzer

Mr. David C. Shih

Alan & Marion Shoenig

Helga Hazelrig Siegel

Diana Silverman

Hamilton & Mason Smith

Anne-Marie Sparrow

Elizabeth Morgan Spiegel

James & Shari Steinberg

Dr. Steven & Lynne Steindel °

Erica L. Parsons & J. Mark Stewart

Ms. Sandra Stine & Mr. Greg Burel

Dr. & Mrs. John P. Straetmans

Kay R Summers

Ms. Linda F. Terry

Johnny Thigpen & Clay Martin

Mr. & Ms. Nathaniel Thomas

Duane P. Truex III

Mr. Jerry Stacy Tucker

Bill & Judy Vogel

Dr. James L. Waits

Mr. Charles D. Wattles & Ms. Rosemary C. Willey

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Welch

Russell F. Winch & Mark B. Elberfeld

Mrs. Lynne M. Winship

Sandra L. Wong

Mr. Will Young

Zaban Foundation, Inc.

Herbert** & Grace Zwerner

** = deceased

* = We are grateful to these donors for taking the extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers.

∞ = Leadership Council

We salute these extraordinary donors who have signed pledge commitments to continue their support for three years or more.

Patron Leadership (PAL) Committee

We give special thanks to this dedicated group of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra donor-volunteers for their commitment to each year’s annual support initiatives:

Linda Matthews chair

Kristi Allpere

Helga Beam

Bill Buss

Pat Buss

Kristen Fowks

Deedee Hamburger

Judy Hellriegel

Belinda Massafra

Sally Parsonson

June Scott

Milt Shlapak

Lara Smith-Sitton

Kay Summers

Jonne Walter

Marcia Watt

CORPORATE PARTNERS

$1,000,000+

Delta Air Lines

$100,000+

1180 Peachtree, LLC

AAA Parking

Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Coca-Cola Company

Georgia Power Company

Graphic Packaging International, Inc.∞

The Home Depot Foundation

$75,000+

Alston & Bird LLP

The Norfolk Southern Corporation

$50,000+

Accenture LLP

Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta Google

PwC

The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University

$25,000+

AFFAIRS to REMEMBER

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

BlueLinx Corporation

Cadence Bank

Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda & Dan Cathy∞

Deloitte

Eversheds Sutherland

Grady Health System

King & Spalding LLP

KPMG LLP, Partners & Employees

Porsche Cars North America Inc.

Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc.

The QUIKRETE® Companies

Regions Bank

$15,000+

FleishmanHillard

Georgia-Pacific

Tony Brewer and Company

SouthState Bank

WABE 90.1 FM

Warner Bros. Media

FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

$250,000+

Lettie Pate Evans Foundation

Goizueta Foundation

$100,000+

Amy W. Norman Charitable Foundation

Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc.

Emerald Gate Charitable Trust

The Molly Blank Fund of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

$50,000+

The Halle Foundation

Georgia Department of Public Health

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

Robert & Polly Dunn Foundation, Inc.

$35,000+

City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs

Georgia Council for the Arts

The Hellen Plummer Charitable Foundation, Inc.

The Roy & Janet Dorsey Foundation

$25,000+

The Jim Cox, Jr. Foundation

Fulton County Arts & Culture

The Marcus Foundation, Inc.∞

Massey Charitable Trust

$15,000+

The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation

$10,000+

Buckhead Village

Costco Wholesale

Davis Broadcasting’s WJZA Smooth Jazz 101/100

Greenberg Traurig

Jazz 91.9 WCLK

La Fête du Rosé

Music Matters

WVEE-FM | V-103.3 FM

$5,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

Chef Craig Richards

Marietta Neonatology

Parker Poe

Perkins&Will

The St. Regis Atlanta

Yellow Bird Project Management

$2,000+

Allen Organ Studios

The Backline Company

Big Dome Promotions, LLC

EventWorks

Morehouse School of Medicine

The Piedmont National Family Foundation

Ticketmaster

$10,000+

The Graves Foundation

The Hertz Family Foundation, Inc.

The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation

In Memory of Betty Sands Fuller

$5,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

The Breman Foundation, Inc.

National Endowment for the Arts

$2,000+

2492 Fund

Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University

Paul and Marian Anderson Fund

The Parham Fund

HENRY SOPKIN CIRCLE

Named for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s founding Music Director, the HENRY SOPKIN CIRCLE celebrates cherished individuals and families who have made a planned gift to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. These special donors preserve the Orchestra’s foundation and ensure success for future generations.

A Friend of the Symphony (22)

Madeline* &

Howell E. Adams, Jr.

Mr.* & Mrs.* John E. Aderhold

Paul & Melody Aldo

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald R. Antinori

Elizabeth Ann Bair*

Dr. & Mrs. William Bauer

Helga Beam

Mr. Charles D. Belcher*

Neil H. Berman

Susan & Jack Bertram

Mr.* & Mrs.* Karl A. Bevins

The Estate of Donald S. & Joyce Bickers

Ms. Page Bishop*

Mr.* & Mrs.* Sol Blaine

John Blatz

Rita & Herschel Bloom

The Estate of Mrs. Gilbert H. Boggs, Jr.

W. Moses Bond

Mr.* & Mrs. Robert C. Boozer

Elinor A. Breman*

Carol J. Brown

James C. Buggs*

Hugh W. Burke*

Mr. & Mrs. William Buss

Wilber W. Caldwell

Mr.* & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun

Cynthia & Donald Carson

Mrs. Jane Celler*

Lenore Cicchese*

Dr. & Mrs. Grady S. Clinkscales, Jr.

Suzanne W. Cole Sullivan

Robert Boston Colgin

Mrs. Mary Frances

Evans Comstock*

Miriam* & John A.* Conant

Dr. John W. Cooledge

Dr. Janie Cowan

Mr. & Mrs. William R. Cummickel

Bob* & Verdery* Cunningham

Vivian & Peter de Kok

Mr. Richard H. Delay & Dr. Francine D. Dykes

John R. Donnell

Dixon W. Driggs*

Pamela Johnson Drummond

Mrs. Kathryn E. Duggleby*

Catherine Warren Dukehart*

Ms. Diane Durgin

Arnold & Sylvia Eaves

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge

Geoffrey G. Eichholz*

Elizabeth Etoll

Mr. Doyle Faler*

Brien P. Faucett

Dr. Emile T. Fisher*

Moniqua N Fladger

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce W. Flower

A. D. Frazier, Jr.*

Nola Frink*

Betty* & Drew* Fuller

Sally & Carl Gable

William & Carolyn Gaik

Dr. John W. Gamwell*

Mr.* & Mrs.* L.L. Gellerstedt, Jr.

Ruth Gershon & Sandy Cohn

Max Gilstrap

Mr. & Mrs. John T. Glover

Mrs. David Goldwasser*

Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Fund

Billie & Sig Guthman*

Betty G.* & Joseph* F. Haas

Dr. Charles H. Hamilton*

Sally & Paul* Hawkins

John* & Martha Head

Ms. Jeannie Hearn*

Barbara & John Henigbaum*

Ms. Elizabeth Hendrick

Jill* & Jennings* Hertz

Mr.* & Mrs. Charles K. Holmes, Jr.

Mr.* & Mrs.* Fred A. Hoyt, Jr.

Jim* & Barbara Hund

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Clayton F. Jackson

Mary B. James

Nancy Janet

Mr. Calvert Johnson & Mr. Kenneth Dutter

Joia M. Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. Baxter Jones

Deforest F. Jurkiewicz*

Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley

Bob Kinsey

James W.* & Mary Ellen* Kitchell.

Miss Florence Kopleff*

Mr. Robert Lamy

James H. Landon

Ouida Hayes Lanier

Lucy Russell Lee* & Gary Lee, Jr.

Ione & John Lee

Mr. Larry M. LeMaster

Mr.* & Mrs.* William C. Lester

Liz & Jay* Levine

Robert M. Lewis, Jr.

Carroll & Ruth Liller*

Ms. Joanne Lincoln*

Jane Little*

Mrs. J. Erskine Love, Jr.*

K Maier

John W. Markham*

Mrs. Ann B. Martin

Linda & John Matthews

Mr. Michael A. McDowell, Jr.

Dr. Michael S. McGarry

Richard & Shirley McGinnis*

John & Clodagh Miller

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Mills, IV

Ms. Vera Milner

Mrs. Gene Morse*

Hal Matthew Mueller* & Constance Lombardo

Ms. Janice Murphy*

Mr. & Mrs. Bertil D. Nordin

Mrs. Amy W. Norman*

Galen Oelkers

Roger B. Orloff

Barbara D. Orloff

Mr. & Mrs. Joe Owen

Dr. Bernard* & Sandra Palay

Sally & Pete Parsonson

James L. Paulk

Ralph & Kay* Paulk

Dan R. Payne

Bill Perkins

Mrs. Lela May Perry*

Mr.* & Mrs. Rezin E. Pidgeon, Jr.

Janet M. Pierce*

Reverend Neal P. Ponder, Jr.

Dr. John B. Pugh

William L.* & Lucia Fairlie* Pulgram

Ms. Judy L. Reed*

Carl J. Reith*

Vicki J. & Joe A. Riedel

Helen & John Rieser

Dr. Shirley E. Rivers*

David F. & Maxine A.* Rock

Glen Rogerson*

Tiffany & Richard Rosetti

Mr.* & Mrs.* Martin H. Sauser

Bob & Mary Martha Scarr

Mr. Paul S. Scharff &

Ms. Polly G. Fraser

Dr. Barbara S. Schlefman

Bill & Rachel Schultz

Mrs. Joan C. Schweitzer*

June & John Scott

Edward G. Scruggs*

Dr. & Mrs. George P. Sessions

Mr. W. G. Shaefer, Jr.

Charles H. Siegel*

Mr. & Mrs. H. Hamilton Smith

Mrs. Lessie B. Smithgall*

Ms. Margo Sommers

Elliott Sopkin

Elizabeth Morgan Spiegel

Mr. Daniel D. Stanley*

Gail & Loren Starr

Peter James Stelling*

Ms. Barbara Stewart*

Beth & Edward Sugarman

C. Mack* & Mary Rose* Taylor

Isabel Thomson*

Jennings Thompson IV

Margaret* & Randolph* Thrower

Kenneth & Kathleen Tice

Mr. H. Burton Trimble, Jr.*

Mr. Steven R. Tunnell

Mr. & Mrs. John B. Uttenhove

Mrs. Anise C. Wallace*

Diane Woodard & Bruce Wardrep

Mr. Robert Wardle, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. John B. White, Jr.

Adair & Dick White

Mr. Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr.*

Sue & Neil* Williams

Mrs. Frank L. Wilson, Jr.

Mrs. Elin M. Winn

Ms. Joni Winston

George & Camille Wright

Mr.* & Mrs.* Charles R. Yates

ASO | STAFF

EXECUTIVE

Jennifer Barlament

executive director

Lizzy Clements

executive assistant, senior management

Alvinetta Cooksey executive & finance assistant

ARTISTIC

Gaetan Le Divelec vice president, artistic planning

Ebner Sobalvarro artistic administrator

RaSheed Lemon

artistic coordinator

Marcia Chandler chorus administrator EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Sarah Grant

vice president of education & community engagement

Ryan Walks

atlanta symphony youth orchestra & teen programs manager

Elena Gagon Dunn family programs & community engagement manager

Michael Kralik manager of school engagement

Jadonna Brewton

interim talent development program manager OPERATIONS

Emily Liao Master vice president & general manager

Emma Luty principal librarian

Sara Baguyos associate principal librarian

James Nelson assistant librarian

David Lesser director of orchestra personnel

Meagan Rwambaisire orchestra personnel

Melissa Nabb orchestra hr & finance partner

Paul Barrett director of production

Justin Richardson manager of production administration

Richard Carvlin

senior stage manager

Dasha Allen

stage manager

Jeremy Tusz

audio recording engineer & producer

Harold Abbott head flyman/carpenter

Jacob Scott

lighting designer & stage electrician

Daniel Stupin stagehand

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Ashley Mirakian vice president, marketing & communications

Camille McClain director of marketing & communications

Matt Dykeman director of digital content

Adam Fenton director of multimedia technology

Delle Beganie content & production manager

Mia Jones-Walker marketing manager

Whitney Hendrix creative services manager, aso

Amy Godwin communications manager

Sean David video editor

Bob Scarr archivist & research coordinator

SALES & REVENUE MANAGEMENT

Russell Wheeler vice president, sales & revenue management

Nancy James front of house supervisor

Erin Jones senior director of sales & audience development

Jesse Pace

senior manager of ticketing & patron experience

Dennis Quinlan manager, business insights & analytics

Robin Smith guest services coordinator

Jake Van Valkenburg

group sales & audience development supervisor

Anna Caldwell guest services associate

ATLANTA SYMPHONY HALL LIVE

Nicole Panunti vice president, atlanta symphony hall live

Will Strawn director of marketing

Christine Lawrence director of ticketing & parking

Lisa Eng creative services manager

Caitlin Buckers marketing manager

Dan Nesspor

ticketing manager, atlanta symphony hall live

Liza Palmer

event manager

Nicole Jurovics

booking & contract manager

Meredith Chapple

marketing coordinator, live

Maria Austin

marketing coordinator, live

Steven Thompson event coordinator, live

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

Susan Ambo executive vice president & cfo

Kimberly Hielsberg vice president of finance

April Satterfield controller

Brandi Reed staff accountant

DEVELOPMENT

Grace Sipusic vice president of development

William Keene senior director of development

James Paulk senior annual giving officer

Renee Contreras director of development, institutional giving

Beth Freeman senior manager of major gifts

Sharveace Cameron senior development associate

Rachel Bender manager of individual giving

Sarah Wilson manager of development operations

Jenny Ricke manager, grants and development communications

Matthew Enfinger manager, corporate relations

AJ McCurry development associate

ASO | CORPORATE & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

The Woodruff Arts Center’s unprecedented $67 million capital campaign will bring new life to our campus, expand access to our proven educational programming, and secure our place as Atlanta’s center for the arts. Scan the QR code to learn more about Experience Atlanta, Experience Woodruff.

$1,000,000+

Anonymous

The Coca-Cola Foundation

James M. Cox Foundation

The Delta Air Lines Foundation

The Goizueta Foundation

Douglas J. Hertz Family Foundation

$500,000 - $999,999

Acuity Inc.

Anonymous

$250,000 - $499,999

Bank of America

Chick-fil-A Foundation |

Rhonda & Dan Cathy

The Fraser-Parker Foundation

$100,000 - $249,999

A Friend of the Woodruff Arts Center

Liz and Frank Blake

Stephanie Blank*

Thomas and Aimee Chubb

$10,000 - $99,999

Ann A. Adams

Anonymous

Yum and Ross Arnold

Ed Bastian

Ken Bernhardt and Cynthia Currence

Tony Conway, Legendary Events

Johnson and Margaret Cook

Cousins Properties

Lee and Warren Culpepper

Mike and Nancy Doss

Mike and Mindy Egan

Vicki Escarra

Georgia Council for the Arts

Cultural Facilities Grant

Patrick Gunning and Elizabeth Pelypenko

Rand and Seth Hagen

Terrence Hahn

Philip Harrison and Susan Stainback

The Home Depot Foundation

The Imlay Foundation

Sarah and Jim Kennedy

The Marcus Foundation

Norfolk Southern PNC Bank

Cisco Systems

Georgia Power Foundation

The Fay S. and W. Barrett Howell

Family Foundation

Phil and Jenny Jacobs

Margaret and Bob Reiser*

Ann and Jeff Cramer*

Harland Charitable Foundation

The Hearst Foundations

Joia M. Johnson

S. Jack and Michal Hart Hillman

Julia Houston

Robin and Hilton Howell

The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation

The Kilberg Family Foundation

KPMG LLP

*

The Dennis Lockhart and Mary Rose

Taylor Memorial Fund

Beau and Alfredo Martin

The Barry & Jean Ann McCarthy Family*

John F. McMullan**

Richard and Wimberly McPhail

Kavita and Ashish Mistry

Pat Mitchell Seydel and Scott O. Seydel

Hala and Steve Moddelmog*

Kent and Talena Moegerle

Kenneth Neighbors and Valdoreas May

Galen Oelkers

Chuck and Kathie Palmer

Experience Atlanta, Experience Woodruff is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Patty and Doug Reid Family Foundation*

The Tomé Foundation

Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

Zeist Foundation

Kelin Foundation

Truist Trusteed Foundations: Harriet McDaniel Marshall Trust, The Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund and the Woolford Charitable Trust

Sartain Lanier Family Foundation

The Selig, Lewis, Shoulberg Families

Truist Charitable Fund

Kathy Waller and Kenneth Goggins*

The Pighini Family

The Rockdale Foundation

Lauren and Andrew Schlossberg

Lauren and Tim Schrager

June and John Scott

Southface Institute

Candace Steele Flippin

Dave Stockert and Cammie Ives

The Mark and Evelyn Trammell Foundation, Inc.

Tull Charitable Foundation

The Vasser Woolley Foundation, Inc.

Patrick and Susie Viguerie

Sally and Mel Westmoreland

John Wieland

D. Richard Williams and Janet Lavine

David, Helen, and Marian

Woodward Fund

John and Ellen Yates

*Denotes additional support for the Alliance Theatre’s Imagine Campaign ** In memoriam

THE WOODRUFF CIRCLE

Thank you to the Woodruff Arts Center’s dedicated Annual Fund donors whose gifts support the arts and education work at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and High Museum of Art.

$1,000,000+

A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra • A Friend of the High Museum of Art

Lauren Amos • Mr. Joseph H. Boland, Jr.* • Mr. & Mrs.* Shouky A. Shaheen

$500,000 - $999,999

Anonymous

Art Bridges Foundation

$250,000 - $499,999

Accenture

Farideh and Al Azadi Foundation

Bank of America

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Chick-fil-A Foundation |

Rhonda and Dan Cathy

The Sara Giles Moore Foundation

Google

Reverend Ruth T. Healy*

$100,000 - $249,999

1180 Peachtree

AAA Parking

Alston & Bird

Atlantic Station

Sandra and Dan Baldwin

Helen Gurley Brown Foundation

Cadence Bank

The Chestnut Family Foundation

City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Sheila Lee Davies and Jon Davies

Emerald Gate Charitable Trust

Barney M. Franklin and Hugh W.

Burke Charitable Fund

Mr. James E. Gay*

Georgia Power Foundation

The Home Depot Foundation Zeist Foundation

Sarah and Jim Kennedy

E. Mcburney Trust

Norfolk Southern Foundation

Novelis, Inc.

The Rich’s Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

Smurfit Westrock

Alfred A Thornton Venable Trust

Truist Trusteed Foundations:

Harriet McDaniel Marshall Trust,

The Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund and the Woolford Charitable Trust

UPS

Georgia Council for the Arts

Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning

Georgia-Pacific

Estate of Burton M. Gold

Graphic Packaging International, Inc.

Hazel Hale Trust

The Hertz Family Foundation, Inc.

M. Douglas and V. Kay Ivester Foundation

King & Spalding, Partners & Employees

KPMG LLP, Partners & Employees

The Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc.

The Marcus Foundation, Inc.

Amy W. Norman

Charitable Foundation

Northside Hospital PNC

Garnet and Dan Reardon

Patty and Doug Reid

Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc.

Southern Company Gas

Carol and Ramon

Tomé Family Fund

Warner Bros. Discovery

Mrs. Harriet Warren

Rod and Kelly Westmoreland