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Opening Session: Every City, Music City

Wednesday, June 20, 4:00pm-6:00pm
Ryman Auditorium

How does every city become a music city?
This opening session looks at the essential role orchestras can play in their communities. How do we earn, grow, and maintain a vital civic role? Where do we fit across a spectrum of artistic genres? This opening session takes a look at orchestras both "from the outside in" and “from the inside out"—all to the goal of ensuring that our orchestras take their places as critical—and multifaceted—contributors to vibrant community life.

Fisk University Jubilee Singers®, Paul T. Kwami, musical director

Welcomes
Henry Fogel, president, American Symphony Orchestra League
Alan D. Valentine, president and CEO, Nashville Symphony
Vince Gill & Amy Grant, Grammy® Award-winning Nashville artists
Laura Brownell, executive director, Symphonic Services Division, American Federation of Musicians
Martha Ingram, chair, Nashville Symphony

Community Connection
Panel: "The Role of Arts and Culture in the Creation of Smart/Destination Cities and Communities"
Adrian Ellis, moderator, founder and principal, AEA Consulting
The Honorable Bill Purcell, mayor of Nashville
Austin Kiplinger, Kiplinger Washington Editors
Elizabeth Burmaster, president, Council of Chief State School Officers
Mac Crawford, Chairman, CVS/Caremark

Curb Youth Orchestra, Carol Nies, music director: Celebration Overture by Christopher Lowry

Keynote Address: "Defining Community and Maximizing Opportunity"
Marin Alsop, music director, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

The Music In Me: Children’s Recitals From Classical to Latin, Jazz to Zydeco
Winner of the 66th Annual Peabody Award
Leslie Stifelman, executive director
Dolores Morris, vice president, HBO family development, production and acquisition, and
supervising producer
Nathan Chan, cello, San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (Film Clip)
Maddie Denton, fiddle
Marcia Denton, tenor guitar and mom
Greg Denton, standard guitar and dad
Jim Wood, bass fiddle and teacher
Traditional Dusty Miller, Fiddlepatch

Closing
Henry Fogel

Curb Youth Orchestra: Copland "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo

Opening Session sponsored by NAMM

HBO® FAMILY Presents
The Music in Me: Children's Recitals from Classical to Latin, Jazz to Zydeco
The Music in Me: A Family Special
Debuting on HBO June 2007