Nashville Symphony

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The Nashville Symphony is an American symphony orchestra based in Nashville . The orchestra gives around 140 concerts a year.

history

In 1920, some amateur musicians and professionals formed an ensemble called Nashville Banner , for which they were able to win the music critic and Vanderbilt University professor Pullen Jackson in Nashville as president and manager. Despite an increase in the orchestra's qualitative repertoire in the first decade, it then fell victim to the consequences of the depression . It was not until 1945 that the Nashville Symphony was founded on the initiative of World War II veteran Walter Sharp, who was born in Nashville, in order to establish an orchestra for classical music in the middle of the US state of Tennessee . A small group of other music lovers helped Sharp persuade the Nashville authorities of this need.

Sharp hired the young New York conductor William Strickland as the first chief conductor and music director. The orchestra gave its first concert in the fall of 1946 at the War Memorial Auditorium in downtown Nashville. During the five years under his leadership, Strickland ensured a significant increase in the artistic quality of the ensemble. Strickland followed Guy Taylor (1951–1959), Willis Page (1959–1967), Thor Johnson (1967–1975) and Michael Charry (1976–1982) as music directors. During Charry's tenure, the Symphony moved from the War Memorial Auditorium to Jackson Hall at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center .

In 1983 Kenneth Schermerhorn took over the orchestra as music director and chief conductor for more than two decades until his death in April 2005 and left his mark on the ensemble. Schermerhorn increased the prestige of the Nashville Symphony with recordings, television broadcasts and a tour of the east coast of the USA with the climax of a performance on November 25, 2000 at Carnegie Hall .

In August 2006 Leonard Slatkin succeeded Schermerhorn as artistic advisor with a three-year contract. In September 2006, the $ 123 million Schermerhorn Symphony Center opened. Slatkin conducted the orchestra in the newly built concert venue for the first time on September 9, 2006 with compositions by Shostakovich , Barber and Mahler and the world premiere of a triple concert by Béla Fleck , Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer .

In September 2007, the orchestra announced the engagement of the Costa Rican conductor Giancarlo Guerrero as the seventh music director of the Nashville Symphony from 2009 onwards, initially for a period of five years. Under his direction, the orchestra won several awards, including two ASCAP awards in 2011 and 2013 for the performance of contemporary music and a recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts for the services the orchestra has made to American music. In addition, the orchestra won ten Grammys and was nominated for fifteen other Grammys.

Music directors

Sound carrier

The orchestra has recorded more than 20 recordings for the Naxos music label since 2000. Fifteen CDs were nominated for a Grammy. In 2008, a CD with the composition Made in America by Joan Tower won three Grammys, including best contemporary classical composition, best classical album and best orchestral performance. This was followed in 2011 by winning three Grammys for the recording of Deus Ex Machina by Michael Daugherty and in 2012 a Grammy for Christopher Rouses Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra . The orchestra won the last three Grammys under the direction of Giancarlo Guerrero on February 12, 2017 with the recording of Michael Daugherty's Tales Of Hemingway , as best classical instrumental solo, best classical collector's program and best contemporary classical composition.

Teaching and public engagement

Since April 2007 the members of the orchestra have been involved in an initiative they founded called Music Education City , with which they want to arouse interest in classical music for a broad audience in Nashville and central Tennessee. The program is based on the pillars

  • Publicity
  • Children's concerts
  • music-lesson
  • Family and adult education
  • Professional development
  • Tour instructions

As part of the Music Education City , a specially tailored program for schools called "One Note, One Neighborhood" was integrated, which, in cooperation with the Metro School System, teaches children in Nashville's primary schools how to use musical instruments and not just use them The Nashville Symphony plans to expand this commitment even further.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen E. Young: Nashville. (No longer available online.) In: Grove Music Online ed. Oxford University Press, formerly original ; Retrieved February 6, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.grovemusic.com  
  2. ↑ Ben Mattison: Kenneth Schermerhorn, Longtime Nashville Symphony Conductor, Dies at 75. In: Playbill Arts. April 19, 2005, accessed September 8, 2007 .
  3. ↑ Vivien Schweitzer: Leonard Slatkin Joins Nashville Symphony as Artistic Advisor While Music Director Search Continues. In: Playbill Arts. August 24, 2006, accessed September 8, 2007 .
  4. ↑ Kevin Shihoten: Nashville Symphony Appoints Music Director. In: Playbill Arts. September 7, 2007, accessed September 8, 2007 .
  5. ^ League of American Orchestras: "ASCAP 'Adventurous Programming' Awards Presented at League of American Orchestras Conference in Minneapolis" , accessed July 21, 2011
  6. ↑ Nashville Symphony website: "Nashville Symphony Earns ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming" ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed January 11, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nashvillesymphony.org
  7. ↑ Nashville Symphony website: "Nashville Symphony Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant" ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 11, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nashvillesymphony.org
  8. ^ Giancarlo Guerrero & the Nashville Symphony win three Grammy Awards. Intermusica, February 13, 2017, accessed February 27, 2017 .
  9. ^ Music Education. (No longer available online.) Nashville Symphony, archived from the original on June 22, 2017 ; accessed on February 20, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nashvillesymphony.org