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Season No. 38 Issue II Anno 2020

TPO – Celebrating Our 38th Season • 1981 – 2020

The 2019-2020 Season

TPO Program I 2019-2020 2.qxp_MSO Program 2/13/20 11:43 AM

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Table of Contents Ad Index Beard Financial 13 Bill Jakes Realty 21 Breakfast Rotary 8 Dick Curl Properties

Inside Front Cover

Edward Jones Back Cover Fann's Heating & Air 22

Flipse Dentistry 5

Fountains at Gateway 11

Hooper Fence 21

Jane McNulty 19

Kattine Aestethica 9

Kevin McNulty 19

Leslie Haines Design 20 Lory Breckler Realtor 7

Michael Craig 18

Milnar Organ Company 22

MTSU 18

Rion Flowers Coffe and Gifts 20 Roscoe Brown 1

Tennessee Arts 22

The Guild 23

Walnut House 18 Wax Family Printing

Inside Back Cover

Wilson Bank 7

A Note from the Board 3 Letter from Mayor of Rutherford County 4 The Musicians 6 Having the Time of Your Life 8 The Green Tie Affair & Casino Night 10 Showtime on Broadway 12 The First Librarian 14 The Guild 16 TPO Donor List 19 On the cover: Violinists Teresa Hargrove and Natalie Wright

Orchestra Staff Music Director/Conductor Dan Allcott Director of Operations Fran Campbell Office Assistant Karen Bradford Personnel Managers Greg Lawson Wilson Sharpe

Librarian/Orchestra Mgr. Greg Lawson Production Manager Jesse Hanks Project Director Ken Norberg Development Director Andrea Norberg Education/Community Outreach Coordinator Wilson Sharpe

Board of Directors President Jane McNulty Vice President Dr. Terry Goodin Secretary Ray Singer Treasurer Rob Sands

Board Members Lory Breckler Daren Chamblee Dr. Ann Collette Eric Farmer Nancy Sharber Donna Tenpenny Butch Vaughn Pat Ward

Executive Advisors to The Board Richard Curl Dr. Lawrence Harvin

The Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) magazine/program is published by Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra. For more information about us, please visit our website: www.TNPphil.org Director of Operations Fran Campbell Email: [email protected] Tel: 615-898-1862

Office address: 201 East Main Street Suite 106 Murfreesboro TN 37130 www.TNphil.org


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A Note from the Board On behalf of the Board of Directors, Musicians and Staff, I bring you the Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra’s 38th Season! We are launching the 38th season by reclaiming our original name, the “Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra.” This year’s theme “Timeless Treasures” focuses on this symphony remaining rooted in our history while branching into the future with new vision. The decision to return to our original name expresses our desire to reach music lovers in the entire Middle Tennessee region and beyond. And given feedback we have received from cities surrounding Murfreesboro, without question, there is an audience for quality live orchestral music. The 2019-2020 season is robust, with five exciting Mainstage Concerts featuring familiar music you didn’t know you knew, a Veterans celebration of music through the generations, the Holidays marked with traditional favorites, Having the Time of Your Life Jazz and finally having fun with Showtime on Broadway. We will also celebrate with our two fundraisers, Swinging at the View with “Music City Swing Orchestra” and our Green Tie Affair and Casino Night. But it gets even better and more exciting in this new season. With great delight and anticipation we also welcome our new conductor, Maestro Dan Allcott. For the past quarter century, Maestro Allcott has built a reputation for conducting daring collaborations and orchestrating outstanding symphonic concerts. He has worked with internationally known stars in many opera and ballet productions. He has expressed with great enthusiasm his desire to journey with us toward our new vision and to help us build on our longstanding legacy. It has been our mission for the past 37 years to foster and encourage the appreciation of music through live performances and educational programs that are diverse, enriching and of the highest quality. However, reaching this goal would not be possible without the work of our Board and administrative colleagues, The Symphony Guild, our corporate sponsors, individual donors . . . and most importantly you, the patron. Your enthusiasm and generosity are the reasons we are able to continue our fine tradition of classical, pops and educational performances for present and future generations. So as we like to say, please sit back, relax and enjoy the season of wonderful music by your Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jane E. McNulty, President, Board of Directors


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The MusiciansMusic Director & Conductor Dan Allcott Sponsored by The MSO Guild Violin I Stefan Petrescu* Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Owens Susan Mullen** Sponsored by Dr. & Mrs. Laurence Harvin Teresa Hargrove Sponsored by MSO Guild David Johnson Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Phil Breckler Charis Mackrell Natalie Wright Violin II Cheri Drummond§ Sponsored by Mr. Jack Campbell & Dr. Ann Collette Lisa Green Jennifer Warren Mira Burton Viola Linda Davis§ Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Kevin McNulty Joshua Shepherd Mary Alice Rouslin Sponsored by Ms. Ellen Buckner Alexander Yonovitch Cello Elizabeth Brown-Robinson Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Dick Curl Margie Way-Kiani Alice Lloyd Nancy Los Bass Ike Harris Charlie Hickerson

Flute Deanna Little§ Sponsored by Dr. John & Mrs. Bobbie Duke Donna Wehofer Sponsored by Ms. Donna Tenpenny Piccolo Peggy Mather Oboe Grace Woodworth§ Sponsored by Mr. Ray & Dr. Pam Singer Nicole McVey Sponsored by Dr. & Mrs. Steven Payne English Horn Michael Adduci Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Ken Norberg Clarinet Greg Lawson§ Sponsored by Mr. James & Mrs. Judith Smythe Hara Hackett Sponsored by MSO Guild Bass Clarinet Rachel Grasso Sponsored by Mr. Keith Carlson & Mrs. Dorothy Gehrke Bassoon Harold Skelton§ Wilson Sharpe Sponsored by The MSO Guild Horn Cristian Codreanu§ Kristen Bowers Greg Danner Robyn Ryan Sponsored by Ms. Ellen Buckner

Trumpet Alan Suska§ Sponsored by Dr. & Mrs. Steven Payne Chris McCormick Sponsored by MSO Guild Shannon Stewart Sponsored by Ms. Carole Reynolds Trombone Brent Gerlach§ Sponsored by Dr. Terry Goodin Fred Nelson Bass Trombone Greg Cox Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Burgess Tuba Marcus Arnold§ Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Don Witherspoon Timpani Jeff Mulvihill§ Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Matt Ward Percussion Chris Nelsen§ Sponsored by MSO Guild Mark Winn Sponsored by Mr. Rob Sands Jonathan Wright Harp Sarah Crocker Sponsored by Ms. Carole Reynolds * concertmaster ** associate concertmaster § principal


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Having the Time of Your Life

A mainstage concert, featuring jazz from the “Great American Songbook”

In the Mood by Joe Garland arr. by Jeff Tyzik All of Me by Gerald Marks/Seymoore Simons arr. by Lennie Niehaus MC Potts, vocalist I Get a Kick Out of You by Cole Porter arr. by Dave Wolpe The Way You Look Tonight by Jerome Kern arr. by Nelson Riddle/Matt Amy Karl Wingruber, vocalist Tickle Toe by Lester Young arr. by Dave Wolpe St. Louis Blues by WC Handy arr. by Victor Goines Chattanooga Choo-Choo by Harry Warden/Mack Gordon arr. by Jeff Hest Music City

Swing Quartet, vocals

Intermission But Not For Me by George & Ira Gershwin arr. by Scott Ragsdale MC Potts, vocalist Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk/Cootie Williams arr. by Dave Wolpe Sentimental Journey by Les Brown arr. by Paul Weston The Music City

Swing Quartet, vocals Satin Doll by Duke Ellington/Johnny Mercer/Billy Strayhorn arr. by Dave Wolpe It Don’t Mean a Thing by Duke Ellington arr. by Dave Wolpe Kelli Cox, vocalist C-Jam Blues by Duke Ellington arr. by Dave Wolpe A-Train by Billy Strayhorn arr. by Dave Barduhn Saxophones/Bobby Chandler, Wilson Sharpe, Brad Warren, Kyle Morgan, Harold Skelton, Ed Grooms Trumpets/Alan Suska, Chris McCormick, Shannon Stewart, Tyler Jaeger Trombones/Scott Kinney, Brent Gerlach, Fred Nelson, Greg Cox Rhythm Section/Kelli Cox/piano, Ike Harris/bass, Jeff Mulvihill/drums Representing the Ethos Jazz Ensemble: Shelby Craven, Landon Frazier, Nader Hanna, Asher Humphrey, Penelope Johnson, Andrew Ledford, Elijah Pedigo, Aidan Thornhill and Noah Williams, Director Bob Chandler.

Best Wishes for a Successful Season

Your Friends at Breakfast Rotary

February 13, 2020


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The Green Tie Affair & Casino Night

TPO Fundraising

The third “Green Tie Affair & Casino Night” – a huge fundraising event for the orchestra – takes place March 14, 2020. This year the event happens at the fabulous The View at Foun-tains in Murfreesboro.

The event has been a sell-out the past two years, and we ex-pect it to be even more so this year at the new venue.

Come join us for an evening of games, fun, dancing, food

and prices, while helping support the orchestra, our outreach to school children and other community events.

If you want to help plan the event, donate wine or silent auc-tions items, or be a sponsor of a casino table, contact our office at 615-898-1862.

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Showtime on BroadwayApril 16, 2020

Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra Dan Allcott, Conductor

Lindsey Duggin, soprano Collin Peterson, tenor

A mainstage concert, with music borrowed from Broadway!

Broadway Tonight Bruce Chase Everything’s Coming Up Roses, Soon It’s Gonna Rain My Favorite Things, Try To Remember That’s Entertainment, People

“Andante Notturno” from String Quartet in D Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor Borodin

Selections from West Side Story Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

arr. Jack Mason

Intermission

Selections from Phantom of the Opera Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948) arr. Calvin Custer

from Phantom of the Opera

“Music of The Night”

“All I Ask of You” Lindsey Duggin, soprano

Collin Peterson, tenor

Suite from Hamilton Lin Manuel Miranda arr. Jerry Brubaker

Collin Peterson is a choir teacher at Two Rivers Mid-dle School in Nashville, Ten-nessee. He earned his degrees in Vocal Perform-ance and Music Education at Middle Tennessee State Uni-versity. He is also an avid

musical theater enthusiast. Some of his favorite roles included “Tony” in West Side Story, “Lord Farquad” in Shrek the Musical, and “Roger” in RENT. He is very excited to return to the stage with the Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra.

Lindsey Mapes Duggin has been performing on stage in the Nashville theatre community since she was 8 years old. She graduated from MTSU in 2014 with a degree in theatre and a minor in vocal performance. She has performed profession-

ally with companies including the Cumberland County Playhouse, Nashville Repertory Theatre, and Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre. She is cur-rently the Director of Education at the Arts Cen-ter of Cannon County. She is thrilled to perform with the Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra.


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Ellen Buckner


The First LibrarianEllen Buckner is all about music, all the way. Her life has revolved around it since she was growing up in Atlantic, Iowa, a small town of around 7,000 people in be-tween Omaha and Des Moines. She came from a family that loved music. Her mom, a registered nurse, sang in high school operettas and her dad, a butcher, had a beautiful bass voice, but he couldn’t read music. Her younger brother played trumpet. And so began a musical journey that ended up in Murfreesboro, where she now lives, and where she, decades ago, helped start the orchestra Guild and became the orchestra librarian. “There was always music in our home,” she recalls. Nowadays she can always be found on one of the front rows when the Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra per-forms, and she soaks it up with her fel-low concert goers and friends. Her journey out of Atlantic started with a voice scholarship to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. There, a friend who got a music scholarship at Eastern New Mexico University was able to convince her professor to also give her friend – Ellen Buckner – a scholarship. She got one in French horn and voice, and soon her brother followed to the desert of New Mexico on his own trumpet schol-arship. The year was 1950. “I received a master’s degree in voice, the first one there apparently, so they had to figure out a curriculum for me. I had a semester each in viola, cello, obo, bassoon, percussion choral conducting, and band directing. By the time I was singing with symphonies and orchestras some years later, I was well acquainted with the instruments,” she says. Ellen Buckner is modest about her ac-complishments, and not sure she wants to be called “multi-talented,” but she once was proficient in all these instru-ments and sang opera in the US, Ger-many and England. She got married,

and along with her husband they taught school in Carlsbad, New Mexico. But not for long. Her husband went into the Army and they started travelling; Fort Benning, Fort Bragg and Germany. “I did a lot of singing in Germany, di-rected a choir and started a woman’s group to stay involved in music. I sang with Bad Tolz orchestra in Bavaria, and I ended up singing several places in Eng-land before we returned to the US. “While in Washington DC I took more voice lessons, this time from Todd Dun-can who was the first Porgy in Porgy and Bess. He was a wonderful teacher and man. And I started a group of singers, while there,” she recalls. “We went around to elementary schools and did opera excerpts for them, wear-ing costumes, and one of the most emo-tional experiences we had was when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassi-nated. That weekend was horrible in DC, fires were started downtown, and we were scheduled to visit an elemen-tary school in the area that was hardest hit by the unrest. “We called the principal to see if we per-haps shouldn’t come. But he said please come, “the children need something to di-vert their attention,” she recalls. It was a wonderful experience to see the children enjoy the visit during a very tense time. From there it was back to Germany, where her husband served in the Special Forces, and Buckner was under contract with the Heidelberg Opera. They later moved to West Berlin, where she per-formed three concerts in the West Berlin Philharmonic with the Hohenfelds Or-chestra, and an audience of 4,500. “I’d rather sing for 4,500 people than 12,” she says, recalling how she and her brother were “made” to sing at family events back in Iowa as kids.

When her husband retired, they moved stateside, ended up in Chattanooga in 1986, and she got involved in the Sym-phony Guild. A few years later, she moved to Murfreesboro, and immediately got involved with The Guild that she had helped start almost two decades earlier while teaching at MTSU. In Murfrees-boro they visited schools with packets of coloring books and cassettes to introduce the students to Peter and the Wolf that they later performed for the students. “It was highly successful, and we did this for years,” she recalls. In 2005 she became the first librarian for Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra. “Back then all the music was in file draw-ers. We decided to computerize every-thing, and with some Guild members we put the music on computers. Later we had to scan the scores so we could email-parts to the musicians. At the time we didn’t have any money to mail the mate-rial out, so email was the only solution. “Most musicians were fine with the scores via email, but a few insisted on hardcopies,” she recalls. A few years later she retired from the ac-tive duties of the orchestra. But she never misses a concert and listens to music all the time. “Music is soothing. Right after 9-11, times were tense, just like when Martin Luther King was assassinated, and we were debating cancelling the upcoming concert. But the decision was made not to, and people truly needed and appreci-ated the concert to divert from the col-lapse of the Twin Towers and the horrible things that week. “We started with The Star-Spangled Banner, and the whistles and shouts USA, USA, almost tore the roof off Tucker Hall. That was a great and moving event,” she says.

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The Guild

Behind every successful organization is a support group. The Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra is no exception. Since the orchestra’s beginning 38 seasons ago a group of music lovers have provided much-needed support for the organization. The Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra Guild (MSOG) works quietly and not so quietly behind the scene to ensure the or-chestra has the support it needs, while at the same time paving a path for young musicians who wants to develop their skills. “We are a group of volunteers dedicated to fine music in our area,” said Ruth Taylor, guild president, who has been in-

volved for many years. Every January they put on a jazz concert in Murfreesboro to raise funds for the work they do. This year’s “January Jazz” featured the Ethos Jazz Ensemble along with Stones River Jazz. Two hours of live music, with food and festivities, all in a very successful effort to raise money for their mission, drew over 90 patrons. On April 4th, the guild is having their annual “Music in the Morning” which is the largest public event, and it usually

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draws over 100 patrons who come to hear professional music. These two events typify the not so quiet work they do. The guild has a “Stay at Home Tea” fundraiser later in the year, where they mail tea bags to hundreds of people, asking them to have a cup of tea at home, and send a donation to the guild. It’s an easy way to take part in a fundraiser without leaving the home. That’s the quieter part of their work. “This has become a great source for us, both in raising funds and creating awareness of our work,” Taylor said.

In the end, all this work help support the Tennessee Philhar-monic Orchestra along with the Ethos Youth Ensembles and individual students through educational scholarships, while also creating awareness about the music offerings in Middle Tennessee. “We welcome anybody who loves fine music to join us,” said Taylor. The MSOG meets quarterly. For more information they can be reached at [email protected]

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Guild members from left: Linda Dansby, Ways and Means Advisor; Carole Reynolds, Immediate Past President; Marylou Turpin, Treasurer; Teresa Owens, Financial Advisor; Dee O’Bannon, Vice President; Christina Williams, Secretary, and Ruth Taylor, President of the Guild. Other pictures are from January Jazz, Ethos Jazz Ensemble and Music in the Morning.


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TPO DonorsMaestro(Conductor) Level $5000 + City of Murfreesboro, TN Ernest & Selma Rosenblum Fund for The Performing Arts of the Community Foundation of Middle TN Music Performance Trust Fund MSO Guild National Endowment for the Arts Richard Siegel Foundation TN Arts Commission Mr. & Mrs. Ken Norberg Mr. & Mrs. Matt Ward Bravo (Skillful) Level $1500-$4999 Mr. & Mrs. Dick Curl Dr. & Mrs. Laurence Harvin Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Owens Mr. Ray & Dr. Pam Singer Mr. & Mrs. Don Witherspoon Crescendo (Growing) Level $500-$1499 Mr. & Mrs. Phil Breckler Mr. William Bucher Ms. Ellen Buckner Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Burgess Ms. Joan Byrne Mr. Jack Campbell & Dr. Ann Collette Dr. John & Mrs. Bobbie Duke Mr. Keith Carlson & Mrs. Dorothy Gehrke Dr. Terry Goodin Mr. & Mrs. Kevin McNulty Dr. & Mrs. Steven Payne Ms. Carole Reynolds Richmond Designated Fund of the Community Foundation Mr. Rob Sands

Mr. James T. & Mrs. Judith M. Smythe Ms. Donna Tenpenny Ms. Jane Williams Con Amore (With Love) Level $250-$499 Kroger Plus Mr. & Mrs. Charles Pigg Mr. Shane Reeves Drs. David & Lorraine Singer Ms. Lois Wehofer Grazioso (Graciously) Level $100-$249 Ms. Dani Amendola Mr. & Mrs. Phil Barnett Ms. Karen Bradford Ms. Judy Dodson Ms. Rhonda Foley Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Fuchcar Ms. Mary Belle Ginanni Ms. Joyce Hanna Ms. Pennie Jekot Mr. & Mrs. David McGovern Ms. Nancy Sharber Mr. & Mrs. Eddy Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Peter Treutlein Mr. & Mrs. Mark Wilson Mr. Scott Zeller Dolce (Sweetly) Level $1 -$99 Amazon Smile Community Foundation of Middle TN Big Payback Dr. Charles Goodman, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Warren Langworthy Ms. Evelyn Schwartz Mr. John R. Stracener Mr. Thomas Womack


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