“The only concerts the orchestra played were classical concerts it was Thor who started the ‘Kinder’ Concerts and he also asked me to do arrangements of orchestra music for concerts that featured puppets.” Kinder Concerts later became Young People’s Concerts (YPCs), and of course Pops, Ballet, Opera and even small school ensembles were added in those next 30 years. There weren’t many recording musicians yet,” according to Gene. In its first 10 years the NSO was “made up of lawyers, folks from Clarksville and Cookeville, faculty and students from Peabody, and townspeople. Gene retired from the Nashville Symphony at the end of the 1993-94 season after 40 years, having worked with five Music Directors: Guy Taylor, Willis Page, Thor Johnson, Michael Charry, and Kenneth Schermerhorn. Mary Anne was a versatile player-both string bass and tuba-and Gene admitted, “I had to carry both.” Mary Anne’s cousin Robert Ridley was the NSO’s first tubist Mary Anne was its second and served in that position through the 1977-78 season for 25 years. Gene Mullins left the Army in 1953 to attend Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt) where he met his wife Mary Anne Ridley Mullins, and joined the Nashville Symphony as Second Trombone during the 1953-54 season. Thanks to you-our Nashville family-for 75 years of support!Ĭlockwise from top – Brass Quartet: Gary Armstrong (trumpet), Bob Heuer (french horn), Gil Long (tuba) and Gene Mullins (trombone).
We presented concerts during every single work stoppage because we understand the importance of community service, and it was members of our own community that helped support and present many of those efforts. Despite everything-a seven-week strike in 1985, an eight-month shutdown in 1988, or cancellation of an entire season in 2020-21 due to COVID-our Musicians continued to perform for the community. The one constant these past 75 years has been our Musicians, who are part of the Nashville community. We thank them for graciously sharing some of their special memories of how the Nashville Symphony has changed and flourished through the decades. and numerous foreign countries to make Middle Tennessee their home, these four Musicians-Gene Mullins, Bill Wiggins, Ann Richards, and Gilbert Long-are native Nashvillians who also had a spouse connected to the orchestra, either as an NSO Musician or chorus member. While Nashville Symphony’s Musicians have come from across the U.S.
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The Musicians of the Nashville Symphony wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate by sharing memories and stories from a few of our former members plus one current member all four of these Musicians spent 40 or more years performing for Nashville audiences. (TN Tribune)–It’s been five months since we celebrated the Nashville Symphony’s first concert 75 years ago on Decemat War Memorial Auditorium.
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