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Experience Experience Experience Experience Marian Shaffer, harp, in the music room at Graceland Mansion Photo: Maria Benton VolumeVOLUME 2 • 2011|20122012|2013 SeaSEASONSon Experience_Vol 2_0912.indd 1 9/19/12 10:11 AM B:6.5” T:6” S:5.5” The BMW 3 Series roadshowbmw.com 901-365-2584 B:9.5” S:8.5” T:9” INNOVATION DOESN’T SKIP A GENERATION. With a fuel-effi cient, TwinPower Turbo 240-hp, 4-cylinder engine, the 3 Series propels you from 0 to 60 in 5.9 seconds while still giving you 33 mpg* highway. Meanwhile, the Head-Up Display and the ConnectedDrive infotainment system bring the outside world within arm’s reach. The next generation 3 Series is here. We only make one thing. The Ultimate Driving Machine.® THE BMW 3 SERIES. Roadshow BMW 405 N. Germantown Parkway Cordova, TN 38018 901-365-2584 roadshowbmw.com * Acceleration claim based on BMW AG test results. Figures based on 23 mpg city/33 mpg hwy for 328i with 8-speed Automatic Transmission. 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Pub List org (NO proof) Contents Volume 2 • 2012|2013 SeaSon Concert Experience • MSO Board of Directors, Staff, League Board • Shostakovich 5 & Chorus Board ............................................68 November 17 & 18 .......................................23 • Memphis Symphony League ........................70 • Home for the Holidays • Sponsors & Foundations ..............................72 December 8 ...................................................30 • Membership Benefits ....................................74 • Aloha Elvis®! January 5 ....................................................... 41 • Contributors ..................................................75 • Innovation: Beethoven & Bernstein • Honorariums & Memorials ..........................86 January 12 & 13 ...........................................49 • Patron/Ticket Information ..........................88 • Bach & Mozart January 18 ....................................................57 Symphony Gallery • Mei-Ann Chen, Music Director ...................64 • Mei-Ann’s Circle of Friends ........................... 8 • Conner Gray Covington, Assistant Conductor .65 • Meet the Musicians ......................................18 • Orchestra Roster ............................................66 Community Experience Patron Experience • Symphony Soul Project: • Advertiser Listing ..........................................59 New Concert Venue ..............................12 • Facing History and Ourselves: Music and Human Conflict ......................16 The Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Inc., is a qualified 501(c)(3) deductible organization funded by gifts from you, ticket sales and contracted services. We are recipients of grants from ArtsMemphis and the Tennessee Arts Commission. ©2012|2013 Memphis Symphony Orchestra • 585 S. Mendenhall Rd., Memphis, TN 38117 Your attendance constitutes consent for use of your likeness and/or voice on all video and/or audio recordings and in photographs made during Symphony events. For tickets (901) 537-2525 | memphisSymphony.org Follow the memphis Symphony! For Tickets 901-537-2525 3 2012-2013 SeaSOn IT’S HAPPENING AT GPAC JaZZ Dance chick corea and Gary Burton The Theater of Needless Talents with the Harlem String Quartet Spectrum Dance Theater sunday, september 30 wednesday, november 14 The chucho Valdés Quintet Cinderella sunday, 0ctober 21 Russian national Ballet Theatre Jane Monheit with sunday, january 6 special guest Mark O’connor Savion Glover’s SoLe Sanctuary sunday, february 17 friday, january 25 Monterey Jazz Festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of 55th anniversary Tour The Rite of Spring sunday, april 21 tuesday, april 23 FaMILY SPecIaL eVenTS “Sleeping Beauty” The Secret Sisters with David Gonzalez, storyteller friday, september 7 sunday, october 7 capitol Steps Cirque Chinois friday, september 14 national circus of the Van cliburn Gala People’s Republic of china saturday, march 16 sunday, october 14 Cinderella Russian national Ballet Theatre sunday, january 6 The Black Watch and The Band of the Scots Guards sunday, february 10 The Voca People sunday, march 24 erth’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo™ friday, april 26-28 GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Call 901-751-7500 or visit www.GPACweb.com Scheidt Milton Schaeffer Family Foundation 4 www.MemphisSymphony.org Shop Tennessee’s largest selection online! www.BustersLiquors.com Shop Online . Check Prices . Place Orders 191 S. Highland @ Poplar | P. 901.458.0929 | F. 901.324.3983 Open Monday - Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. | www.bustersliquors.com Symphony No Bleed Curves.pdf 1 8/29/2012 10:51:47 AM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K For Tickets 901-537-2525 Follow the Memphis Symphony! 5 6 www.MemphisSymphony.org Involved in your community. If it’s important to you, it’s important to us. FedEx is proud to support the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. ©2012 FedEx. All rights reserved. For Tickets 901-537-2525 Follow the Memphis Symphony! 7 mei-ann’s Circle of Friends members of mei-ann’s Circle kicked off the season on September 19 with a reception at the home of Ritche Bowden MACF Leadership with Mei-Ann Chen, Gayle Rose, Ritche Bowden, Becky Wilson, Mary McDaniel Dale Kelman, Anita McLean, Cynthia Ham, Ritche Bowden 8 www.MemphisSymphony.org Kimmie Vaulx, Nicki Inman, Joyce Blackmon, Deborah Hester Harrison Jeanne Jemison, Jocie Wurzburg, Tommie Pardue Saryan Doucette, Louise Barden, Connie Abston, Barbara Perkins For Tickets 901-537-2525 9 mei-ann’s Circle of Friends Julia Manning, Kathleen Gardner, Dorothy Cleaves, Ann Vining Joey Beckford, Ellen Rolfes Lynda Shea, Nancy Hughes Coe, Buzzy Hussey, Julia Manning 10 www.MemphisSymphony.org Mary McDaniel, Sarah Carpenter, Beryl Brown, Buzzy Hussey, Nicki Inman Sandra Mays, Belinda Anderson Gloria Nobles, Ellen Klyce, Lillian Brown, Mary Lawrence Flinn For Tickets 901-537-2525 11 Symphony Soul Project: New Concert Venue To support community revitalization in historic Soulsville USA, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra is presenting a series of FREE concerts during 2012-2013 at the Memphis Music Magnet facility, located at 879 East McLemore Avenue. The MSO, in partnership with Community LIFT, received generous funding from ArtPlace to support this work. By now you may have heard the Memphis Symphony Orchestra will perform throughout the season in a vacant grocery store space built by the LeMoyne-Owen College Community Development Corporation. Located across the street from the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, this space is being re-imagined as venue for bringing vibrant music and new activity to Soulsville USA – a first step in creative placemaking. Once the MSO residency is underway, the Memphis Music Magnet will begin hosting additional performances and exchanges from other Memphis cultural organizations at the venue. Preparing a vacant grocery store space for the Symphony Soul Project has stretched the MSO and its project partners in unexpected ways. Most people think about orchestra performance without ever considering how the venue itself must perform; but for classical music, which has a wide range of dynamics, acoustical quality of the space is very important. The audience gets a full listening experience when music is accurately projected. This happens routinely in acoustically excellent halls like Memphis’ Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. Unlike the audience, however, orchestra musicians have a different relationship with sound, and for them quality begins with their ability to hear themselves. As individual players, musicians constantly monitor their own sounds and they must precisely hear their own instruments and each other to interact and adjust for good timing and balance. These interactive processes – listening and correcting – are at the heart of classical music. For the professional orchestra, no field of physical dynamics is more important than acoustics. 12 www.MemphisSymphony.org To affect high quality, orchestras tend to favor performance spaces with good acoustics, where random problems can be solved with minor adjustments by the production crew or musicians themselves. Repurposing a vacant grocery store into a space suitable for performing classical music is challenging, but the team is determined to create a venue that provides an excellent musical experience
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