Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin
Lohengrin was the first opera Ludwig II of Bavaria ever attended. As an introduction to opera, Richard Wagner’s four-hour drama is a risky choice, particularly for a fifteen-year-old boy, but in the case of the future king, it made him a fanatic overnight. As Wagner put it—with characteristic modesty—the performance “affected him so deeply that from that moment onward he based his own education upon a study of my works and writings, with the result that, as he openly admits to those around him, and now admits to one, it is I who have really been his one and only mentor and teacher.” Wagner remembered their first meeting as “one great love scene,” although in later years it was clear that Wagner was enamored chiefly of Ludwig’s unconditional devotion, political clout, and interest-free loans. Ludwig attended Lohengrin in Munich on February 2, 1861. By a peculiar turn of fate, Wagner didn’t see Lohengrin staged until May of that year in Vienna, even though he had completed the score more than a decade earlier, in 1848. Wagner missed the
COMPOSED 1846–48
FIRST PERFORMANCE
August 18, 1850; Weimar, Germany
INSTRUMENTATION
3 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, strings
APPROXIMATE
PERFORMANCE TIME 4 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
November 9, 14, December 7, and 12, 1891, Auditorium Theatre. Auguste Vianesi (November 9, 14, and December 7) and Louis Saar (December 12) conducting (complete opera)
October 26 and 27, 1894, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting
July 12, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Hans Lange conducting
MOST RECENT
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February 26, 27, and 28, 1987, Orchestra Hall. Michael Tilson Thomas conducting
July 17, 2013, Ravinia Festival. James Conlon conducting February 7, 2013, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea. Lorin Maazel (performed as an encore)
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1930. Frederick Stock conducting. RCA
1948. Artur Rodziński conducting. CSO (Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Twentieth Century: Collector’s Choice)
1994. Daniel Barenboim, conducting. Teldec
from top: Richard Wagner, ca. 1840, as drawn by Julius Ernst Benedikt Kietz (1815–1890), Paris, France | Stage design by Alfred Roller (1864–1935), 1905, depicting the bridal chamber for act 3 of Wagner’s Lohengrin for the Vienna State Opera premiere in February 1906
IN THE PIT FOR THE METROPOLITAN
Following the third subscription week of its first season, the Chicago Orchestra (as we were then known) was in the pit of the Auditorium Theatre for performances by the Metropolitan Opera Company from November 9 until December 12, 1891.
The first opera given was Wagner’s Lohengrin—sung in Italian—led by Auguste Vianesi, the Orchestra’s first guest conductor. That performance featured no less than five singers making their U.S. debuts: soprano Emma Eames, mezzo-soprano Giulia Ravogli, baritone Antonio Magini-Coletti, and tenor and bass brothers Jean and Édouard de Reszke.
On November 10, 1891, the Chicago Daily Tribune reported that even though several patrons were late in arriving due to “the fact that carriages approached in single file and the process of unloading was rather slow . . . [they] failed to dismay Sig. Vianesi, who began his calisthenic exercise with the baton promptly at eight. Eighty-five musicians of the Chicago Orchestra played the graceful Lohengrin prelude in a style which in the show-bill style was ‘alone worth the price of admission.’”
In the title role, Jean de Reszke “has the dignity and aplomb of an artist to the manner born and the glittering armor of the Knight of the Grail becomes him well. . . . [He] is an artist to the tips of his mailed boots and gloves. He has immense personal magnetism, and when he casually conveyed to Elsa the information, ‘Io t’amo,’ there was a responsive thrill under many a pretty corsage bouquet.”
Regarding Edouard de Reszke as Heinrich, the New York Times affirmed that he was “endowed with a voice which for power and quality, richness and warmth, range and volume, has seldom been equaled. He displayed the highest art in the use of it. His acting also was artistic, and dignified, and his impersonation was in every respect a regal one.”
The advance notice for the November 9, 1891, performance of Lohengrin included the names of producers, principal singers, conductor, and stage manager, but not the accompanying orchestra.
Additional singers who appeared during the residency were among the most famous of the day, including sopranos Emma Albani, Lilli Lehmann, and Marie Van Zandt; mezzo-soprano Sofia Scalchi; tenor Fernando Valero; baritones Edoardo Camera and Jean Martapoura; and bass Jules Vinché. A staggering number of operas were performed, including Bellini’s Norma and La sonnambula; Flotow’s Martha; Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice; Gounod’s Faust and Romeo and Juliet; Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana; Meyerbeer’s Dinorah and Les Huguenots; Mozart’s Don Giovanni; Thomas’s Mignon; and Verdi’s Aida, Otello, and Rigoletto.
The final offering of the monthlong residency on December 12 was a fourth performance of Lohengrin, and changes in the cast included Valero in the title role, Albani as Elsa, and Vinché as Heinrich; Louis Saar conducted. Two days later, on December 14, the company was back in New York for the Metropolitan Opera’s season opening: Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet featuring Eames and the de Reske brothers with Vianesi on the podium. Founder and first music director Theodore Thomas and his Chicago Orchestra resumed the regular season with the fourth subscription week at the Auditorium on December 18.
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premiere, in August 1850, because he was living as a political exile in Switzerland, where he had gone in the aftermath of the May 1849 Dresden insurrection. Even though he realized he would not be able to return to Germany for the performance, Wagner urged his friend Franz Liszt, director of the Weimar Court Opera, to stage the premiere of Lohengrin a soon as possible. Wagner claimed that Liszt was the only man to whom he could entrust the job, though when he wrote to Liszt after the premiere, his few perfunctory words of gratitude were outnumbered by grumblings, quibbles, and thoughts on how it might have been done better. (Still, when the score was published, Wagner dedicated it to Liszt.)
In January 1852 Wagner wrote from Zurich that he had abandoned plans for a concert of his music there that would have given him his
JEAN SIBELIUS
Born December 8, 1865; Tavastehus, Finland
Died September 20, 1957; Järvenpää, Finland
first opportunity to hear selected portions of Lohengrin. The following year, when Wagner’s music was performed in three concerts in Zurich, the program included several excerpts from Lohengrin, and Wagner got the chance to assess portions of his most recent opera before beginning to compose the music of the Ring.
The prelude to the third act, which is performed at this week’s concerts, is one of Wagner’s most brilliantly exultant orchestral pieces, with a brass melody bursting through surging string music. There is no hint of the tragedy that will eventually follow; this is music of bright anticipation, and it is followed in the opera by the well-known wedding march for Lohengrin and Elsa, whose promise never to ask about Lohengrin’s name and background will soon be broken, to disastrous effect.
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
Unlike many composers who wrote famous violin concertos, Sibelius himself was a violinist. The violin was his first instrument, and his earliest composition was a little piece for violin and cello called Water Drops, which he wrote when he was ten years old. After he began serious violin study at the age of fourteen, he was hooked: “The violin took me by storm, and for the next ten years it was my dearest wish, my overriding ambition, to become a great virtuoso.” When he moved to Vienna in 1890 to study composition, Sibelius played in the conservatory orchestra and ultimately couldn’t resist auditioning for the philharmonic. He broke down and wept when he got back to his room, then went to the piano and
began practicing scales. Even as late as 1915, long after he had put the violin aside and was a highly regarded composer, he wrote in his diary: “Dreamt I was twelve years old and a virtuoso.”
Sibelius was a natural to write violin concertos, but in the end he wrote only one, and he spent enormous time and energy on it before he was satisfied. No doubt it was, in some deep sense, his own concerto, even though he would never attempt to play it. Perhaps this explains not only the great pains he took in writing the piece, but also the way he treated the man who had asked him for it. Willy Burmester had known Sibelius briefly in Finland before his career as a violin virtuoso took off. It was Burmester who persuaded Sibelius to write the concerto in the first place; the piece was tailor-made for him, and he assumed he would give the premiere. Sibelius began the score in 1902 and finished a draft in
the autumn of 1903. He sent the work to Burmester, who responded: “Wonderful! Masterly! Only once before have I spoken in such terms to a composer, and that was when Tchaikovsky showed me his concerto.”
But when Burmester suggested that he needed time to master the work, Sibelius hired Viktor Nováček, a musician of no particular distinction who is remembered only for this one day in his life, to give the first performance. After the premiere, Burmester again offered to play the concerto, promising that “all my twenty-five-years’ stage experience, my artistry and insight will be placed to serve this work.” But Sibelius, who had extensively reworked the concerto, picked Karl Halir, a former member of the Joachim Quartet, to give the premiere of the revised version in October 1905 under the baton of Richard Strauss. And when the score was published, it was dedicated to Ferenc von Vecsey, a Hungarian violinist who was one of the concerto’s first champions.
The work Burmester inspired but never played is a violinist’s dream. In fact, the first version was particularly criticized for the way the solo part consistently
opposite page: Jean Sibelius, portrait, 1905, by Paul Heckscher. Finnish Heritage Agency, Helsinki, Finland | th is page, from left: Willy Burmester (1869–1933), ca. 1910s, first dedicatee of the violin concerto he encouraged Sibelius to write but which he never performed. Postcard photo by Marie Boehm (1863–1953) of Becker and Maass in Berlin, published by the London branch of Breitkopf and Härtel | Karl Halir (1859–1909), a former member of the Joachim Quartet, premiered the revised version of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in October 1905. Photo by Friedrich Wilhelm Hertel (1831–1918), ca. 1890s. Weimar, Germany | ne xt page: Ferenc von Vecsey (1893–1935), at the age of twelve in 1905 with Joseph Joachim (1831–1907), the year Sibelius rededicated the Violin Concerto to him, a work he later championed
COMPOSED 1902–04
FIRST PERFORMANCE
February 8, 1904; Helsinki, Finland
INSTRUMENTATION
solo violin, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, strings
APPROXIMATE
PERFORMANCE TIME
32 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
January 25 and 26, 1907, Orchestra Hall. Maud Powell as soloist, Frederick Stock conducting
July 28, 1960, Ravinia Festival. Jaime Laredo as soloist, Walter Susskind conducting
MOST RECENT
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July 20, 2017, Ravinia Festival. Vadim Repin as soloist, Susanna Mälkki conducting
May 16, 17, 18, and 21, 2019, Orchestra Hall. Hilary Hahn as soloist, Marin Alsop conducting
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1959. Jascha Heifetz as soloist, Walter Hendl conducting. RCA
1996. Maxim Vengerov as soloist, Daniel Barenboim conducting. Teldec
1997. Maxim Vengerov as soloist, Daniel Barenboim conducting. Arthaus Musik (video)
overshadowed the orchestra, and much of Sibelius’s subsequent reworking tried to restore that balance. Still, from the very first measures, it is the solo voice, rather than its dialogue with orchestra, that commands our attention. In September 1902 Sibelius had written to his wife about “a marvelous opening idea” for the concerto. What he ultimately put on paper is truly unforgettable, with the violin entering almost at once on a sustained mezzo-forte G quite at odds with the orchestra’s shimmering D minor. From there, the violin takes off on a long, rhapsodic theme; allows the orchestra one extended statement of its own; and then banishes it entirely from the central development section, which Sibelius, against all tradition, treats as a brilliant cadenza. This is but one masterstroke in a bold and inventive design. Though less imaginatively conceived, the Adagio is deeply haunting: a broad melody begins low in the violin register and then takes off. (It is particularly lovely how Sibelius later
accompanies that melody, now in the clarinet and bassoon, with pianissimo scales.) Decades ago, musicologist Sir Donald Tovey somewhat dismissively called the spirited finale “a polonaise for polar bears.” The folksy main theme, over an excited drumbeat, comes from a very early string quartet that Sibelius did not publish. The way the violin dances around the melody, however, teasing its insistent rhythms and recklessly walking the high wire, turns circus music into high art.
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Born September 13, 1874; Vienna, Austria
Died July 13, 1951; Brentwood, California
Pelleas and Melisande, Symphonic Poem, Op. 5
In April 1902 Arnold Schoenberg met Richard Strauss, the widely famous composer of Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, and, most recently, Ein Heldenleben—an outpouring of tone poems so great no one guessed it had already run its course. Schoenberg, with a young wife and three-month-old baby at home, was struggling to make a living and had taken a job as a copyist. One of his first tasks was to prepare the parts for Strauss’s new cantata Taillefer, and so the two eventually met. Strauss often showed enormous sympathy to less-fortunate composers, and he offered to take a look at the sprawling Gurrelieder Schoenberg was hoping to finish. We don’t know what he thought of the extraordinary pages of Gurrelieder— they stretch the language and capacity of music as much as anything he himself had written—but he agreed to help Schoenberg, and even found him a decent teaching job.
Strauss also gave Schoenberg a copy of Maeterlinck’s play, Pelleas and Melisande, suggesting that it would make a good opera. Debussy had thought that too, ever since the night he attended the premiere of the play in 1893, and his opera first appeared onstage the same month Strauss and Schoenberg met. Was either of them aware of Debussy’s opera, today recognized as a landmark? Years later, in February 1950, when Schoenberg introduced a broadcast of his symphonic poem, he claimed: “I had first planned to convert Pelleas and Melisande into an opera, but I gave up this plan, though I did not know that Debussy was working on his opera at the same time.” Whether that was really true, or whether by 1950 Schoenberg’s memory was shaky or merely conveniently loose with the facts, he did not proceed with his plan to write an opera.
Long before 1950, Schoenberg also had erased the image of Richard Strauss from his memory, for within the decade after their first meeting, Strauss retreated from the brink of modern
above: Arnold Schoenberg in his apartment at Liechtensteinstraße 68–70, Vienna, Austria, 1907. Arnold Schoenberg Center, Vienna (resp. Belmont Music Publishers, Los Angeles)
COMPOSED
July 4, 1902; score completed on February 28, 1903
FIRST PERFORMANCE
January 25, 1905; Vienna, Austria. The composer conducting
INSTRUMENTATION
3 flutes and 2 piccolos, 3 oboes and 2 english horns, 3 clarinets, E-flat clarinet and 2 bass clarinets, 3 bassoons and contrabassoon, 8 horns, 4 trumpets, 5 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, large field drum, tam-tam, glockenspiel, two harps, strings
APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME 44 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
January 25, 26, and 27, 1973, Orchestra Hall. Daniel Barenboim conducting
July 27, 2001, Ravinia Festival. Christoph Eschenbach conducting
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
February 23 and 25, 2006, Orchestra Hall. Daniel Barenboim conducting
CSO RECORDING 1991. Pierre Boulez conducting. Erato
music for the comforts of the eighteenth century in his opera Der Rosenkavalier. Each chose his own path, and they were roads that would never meet. In 1913 Strauss wrote to Alma Mahler, “Only a psychiatrist can help poor Schoenberg now . . . . He would do better shoveling snow instead of scribbling on music paper.” The following year, when Schoenberg was asked to say something to honor Strauss’s fiftieth birthday, he replied, “He is no longer of the slightest artistic interest to me, and whatever I may once have learned from him, I am thankful to say I misunderstood.”
The path Schoenberg chose in 1902, however, was one Strauss had cleared for him: the large orchestral tone poem. It wasn’t entirely unfamiliar to Schoenberg, for his Transfigured Night, written for string sextet just before the beginning of the last century, is in essence the same sort of music, as Schoenberg himself acknowledged when he rescored it for full string orchestra in 1917. “It was around 1900,” Schoenberg later wrote, “when Maurice Maeterlinck fascinated composers, stimulating them to create music to his dramatic poems. What attracted all was his art of dramatizing eternal problems of humanity in the form of fairy tales, lending them timelessness without adhering to imitation of ancient styles.” By 1902, when Schoenberg took up the book Strauss gave him, Maeterlinck’s Pelleas had attracted not only Debussy, who took nearly a decade to produce his opera, but also Gabriel Fauré, who wrote incidental music for an 1898 production in London. The advantage of Schoenberg’s approach to Maeterlinck—the symphonic poem—is that unlike either Debussy’s or Fauré’s, it is not so dependent on the text and is free to make its own points.
In his 1950 remarks, Schoenberg still expressed some regret that he did not make an opera of Pelleas:
It would have differed from Debussy’s. I might have missed the wonderful perfume of the poem; but I might have made my characters more singing. On the other hand, the symphonic poem helped me, in that it
taught me to express moods and characters in precisely formulated units, a technique which an opera would perhaps not have promoted so well.
Schoenberg’s symphonic poem is a single movement. In 1920 Alban Berg wrote an analysis showing how it is also a continuous four-movement symphony, with a large sonata movement, a scherzo, a slow movement, and a finale that recapitulates much of the previous music. Maeterlinck’s three main characters provide Schoenberg with his three central themes. Regarding the drama, Schoenberg said that he “tried to mirror every detail of it, with only a few omissions and slight changes in the order of the scenes. Perhaps, as frequently happens in music, there is more space devoted to the love scenes.”
The story is a simple triangle: the helpless, childlike Melisande; Golaud, who rescues and marries her; and Pelleas, Golaud’s young stepbrother, who falls in love with her. The emotions are complex and varied: love, jealousy, betrayal, heartbreak, murder, and forgiveness coming too late. The tone is one of suggestion and unreality. Schoenberg spoke of the poem’s perfume, and much of its greatness is that elusive. He nonetheless attempted to capture not only its character and atmosphere, but the deeper psychological meaning as well. As for Schoenberg’s characters—even though wordless, they do sing.
As the music opens, Schoenberg introduces Fate in a four-note cry from the clarinet. Golaud, pictured by a theme that first appears in the horns, discovers Melisande in the forest. She is represented by a gentle, descending melody that, like Melisande herself, undergoes many changes in response to various events. Golaud takes Melisande to his castle to become his wife. Pelleas enters, “contrasted distinctly by the youthful and knightly character of his motif,” in Schoenberg’s own words. Now the drama begins. As the “scherzo” opens, Melisande plays with her wedding ring, tossing it in the air; it falls into the fountain. “The scene where Melisande lets her hair hang out of the window is richly illustrated,” writes Schoenberg of a magical passage for
flutes and clarinets imitating each other. “When Golaud leads Pelleas to the frightening subterranean tombs, a musical sound is produced which is remarkable in many respects; especially, because here, for the first time in musical literature, is used a hitherto unknown effect: a glissando of the trombones.” The love scene for Pelleas and Melisande is an expansive, ecstatic adagio. Eventually Golaud, who has been hiding in the shadows, rushes out and kills Pelleas.
The finale begins as a recapitulation, and then, with the measured step of the servants, brings a premonition of the death of Melisande, who has given birth to a daughter. An epilogue suggests transfiguration and closes with the music of Fate.
The premiere of Pelleas and Melisande did not go well. Nearly half a century later, Schoenberg still remembered that “reviews were unusually violent and one of the critics suggested putting me in an asylum and keeping music paper out of my reach.” The music he wrote after Pelleas and Melisande fared even less well in the marketplace. In work after work, Schoenberg carved for himself an even more remote and difficult
A fair copy of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande, op. 5, courtesy of the Schoenberg Center in Vienna, Austria, which has provided access to a variety of primary resources related to the composer and his tone poem in honor of the 150th anniversary of his birth. To view, visit cso.org/experience
place, and one that casual listeners and egotistical performers have seldom wished to visit. Still, Schoenberg didn’t give in—or give up. As he wrote of Alban Berg, but would never have boasted of himself, “Making the belief in ideas one’s own destiny is the quality which makes the great man.” In 1948 he did write, by way of explanation: “I was not destined to continue in the manner of Transfigured Night or Gurrelieder or even Pelleas and Melisande. The Supreme Commander had ordered me on a harder road.”
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James J. O’Sullivan, Jr.
Bruce L. Ottley
Pamela Papas
Mr. Bruno A. Pasquinell
Joseph Paszczyk
Mr. Timothy J. Patenode
Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Michael Payette
Mrs. Richard S. Pepper †
Jean E. Perkins
Mr. Michael A. Perlstein
Bonnie Perry
Dr. William Peruzzi
Robert C. Peterson
Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.
Sue N. Pick †
Betsey N. Pinkert
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
Harvey R. Plonsker
Mr. John F. Podjasek, III
Andrew Porte
Charlene H. Posner
Stephen Potter
Carol Prins
Elizabeth H. Pritchard
Maridee Quanbeck
Stephen K. Racker
Mrs. Lynda Rahal
Diana Mendley Rauner
Susan Regenstein
Mari Yamamoto Regnier
Mary Thomson Renner
Hilda Richards
Burton R. Rissman
Charles T. Rivkin
Carol Roberts
Mr. John H. Roberts
William Roberts
David Robin
Dr. Diana Robin
Chauncey H. Robinson
Bob Rogers
Kevin M. Rooney
Harry J. Roper
Saul Rosen
Sheli Z. Rosenberg
Dr. Ricardo T. Rosenkranz
Michael Rosenthal
Doris Roskin
Lisa Ross
Jean Rothbarth
Maija Rothenberg
Helen Rubenstein
Roberta H. Rubin
Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz
Sandra K. Rusnak
David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg
Richard O. Ryan
Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan
Dr. Christine Rydel
Norman K. Sackar
Anthony Saineghi
Mr. Agustin G. Sanz
Inez Saunders
Libby Savner
Karla Scherer
David M. Schiffman
Judith Feigon Schiffman
Rosa Schloss
Al Schriesheim
Elizabeth Schroeder
Donald L. Schwartz
Susan H. Schwartz
Dr. Penny Bender Sebring
Chandra Sekhar
Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior
Ilene W. Shaw
Pam Sheffield
James C. Sheinin, M.D.
Richard W. Shepro
Jessie Shih
Junia Shlaustas
Caroline Orzac Shoenberger
Stuart Shulruff
Adele Simmons
Linda Simon
Mr. Larry Simpson
Craig Sirles
Miyam Slater
Christine A. Slivon
Valerie Slotnick
Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.
Charles F. Smith
Louise K. Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Stephen R. Smith
Mrs. Ralph Smykal
Naomi Pollock and David Sneider
Diane Snyder
Kimberly Snyder
Kathleen Solaro
Ms. Elysia M. Solomon
Dr. Stuart Sondheimer
Orli Staley
William D. Staley
Helena Stancikas
Grace Stanek
Ms. Denise M. Stauder
Leonidas Stefanos
Penelope Steiner
Mrs. Richard J. Stern
Liz Stiffel
Mr. John Stover
Mary Stowell
Lawrence E. Strickling
Patricia Study
Cheryl Sturm
BISCO Foundation
Mrs. Robert Szalay
Mr. Gregory Taubeneck
Chris Thomas
James E. Thompson
Dr. Robert Thomson
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
Joan Thron
David Timm
Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr.
William R. Tobey, Jr. †
Bruce Tranen †
James M. (Mack) Trapp
John T. Travers
David Trushin
Dr. David A. Turner
Robert W. Turner
Judy Tuszynski
Janet Underwood
Zalman Usiskin
Mrs. James D. Vail III
John Van Horn
Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice
Thomas D. Vander Veen
Jennifer Vianello
Dr. Michael Viglione
Catherine M. Villinski
Charles Vincent
Mr. Christian Vinyard
Theodore Wachs
Mark A. Wagner
Beth Ann Waite
Bernard T. Wall
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Jeffrey J. Webb
Mrs. Jacob Weglarz
Chickie Weisbard
Richard Weiss
Robert G. Weiss
Dr. Marc Weissbluth
Rebecca West
Carmen Wheatcroft
Leah Williams
M.L. Winburn
Peter Wolf
Laura Woll
Joseph Wolnski
Dr. Hak Yui Wong
Courtenay R. Wood
Michael H. Woolever
Ms. Debbie Wright
Nancy G. Wulfers
Ronald Yonover
Owen Youngman
Priscilla Yu
David J. Zampa
Dr. John P. Zaremba
Karen Zupko
For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.
† Deceased
Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
Corporate Partners
MAESTRO RESIDENCY PRESENTER Bank of America
OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO
United Airlines
$100,000–$199,999
Abbott
Abbott Fund
Allstate Insurance Company
CIBC Private Wealth
Citadel and Citadel Securities
ITW
Northern Trust
$50,000–$99,999
Anonymous (1)
BMO
DIOR
Jenner & Block LLP
PNC Bank
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
$25,000–$49,999
AAR CORP.
Altair Advisers LLC
Anonymous (1)
Kinder Morgan
Latham & Watkins LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
S&C Electric Company Fund
Sidley Austin LLP
Walgreens
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
$10,000–$24,999
ADM
Deloitte
Gage Hospitality Group
GCM Grosvenor
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Huron Consulting Group
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
McGuireWoods LLP
McKinsey & Company
Millennium Garages
Peoples Gas Community Fund
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
TravTours, Inc.
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
$5,000–$9,999
Ariel Investments
Baird
Dentons
Fellowes, Inc.
Global Verification Network
Italian Village Restaurants
Mars Snacking
Scott Byron & Co., Inc.
Segal Consulting
The Law Offices of Jonathan N. Sherwell
Starshak & Winzenburg
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
Weiss Financial
$1,000–$4,999
American Agricultural Insurance Company
Amsted Industries Incorporated
AspireUp
Central Building & Preservation L.P.
Chicago Blackhawks Foundation
DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.
Nascar Events and Entertainment, LLC
Parkway Elevators
Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation
Show Services
Smith Hulsey & Busey
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
Foundations and Government Agencies
$100,000 AND ABOVE
Julius N. Frankel Foundation
JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation
The Negaunee Foundation
Sargent Family Foundation
TAWANI Foundation
Zell Family Foundation
$50,000–$99,999
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
The Brinson Foundation
The Chicago Community Trust
The Clinton Family Fund
Robert and Joanne Crown Income
Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
John R. Halligan Charitable Fund
Sally Mead Hands Foundation
Illinois Arts Council
National Endowment for the Arts
Polk Bros. Foundation
$25,000–$49,999
Crain-Maling Foundation
The Crown Family
Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation
Irving Harris Foundation
Bowman C. Lingle Trust
The Maval Foundation
Pritzker Traubert Foundation
Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation
$10,000–$24,999
Anonymous
Barker Welfare Foundation
Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation
The Buchanan Family Foundation
Darling Family Foundation
William M. Hales Foundation
Leslie Fund, Inc.
Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation
The George L. Shields Foundation
$5,000–$9,999
The Allyn Foundation, Inc.
Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation
Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation
Hoellen Family Foundation
Hunter Family Foundation
Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation
Kovler Family Foundation
E. Nakamichi Foundation
Dr. Scholl Foundation
$1,000–$4,999
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music
Geraldi Norton Foundation
Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation
Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust
Annual Support
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through December 2024. To learn more, please call Allison Szafranski Director, Leadership Gifts, at 312-294-3143.
$150,000 AND ABOVE
Anonymous
Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin
Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel and Citadel Securities
Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes
Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation
Margot and Josef Lakonishok
The Negaunee Foundation
Megan and Steve Shebik
In honor and loving memory of Alice Welsh Skilling
Gene and Jean Stark
Zell Family Foundation
$100,000–$149,999
Anonymous (4)
Nancy Dehmlow
Michael and Kathleen Elliott
Mr. & Ms. Lawrence Elman
Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim
James and Brenda Grusecki
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz
COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)
Ruth Ann and Neil K. Quinn Family
Ms. Cecelia Samans
SEMPRE
This fundraising initiative provides the secure footing needed to promote the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s preeminent role as a cultural icon showcasing musical brilliance, leadership, and innovation. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the generous donors who have shown tremendous support for this strategic initiative.
$20,000,000 AND ABOVE Zell Family Foundation
The Negaunee Foundation
$10,000,000–$19,999,999
The Grainger Foundation TAWANI Foundation
$5,000,000–$9,999,999
Anonymous
Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation
Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz
$2,500,000–$4,999,999
Anonymous
Mary Louise Gorno
Estate of Esther G. Klatz
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Megan and Steve Shebik
Richard and Helen Thomas
$1,000,000–$2,499,999
Anonymous (3)
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck
Ann Blickensderfer and Roger Blickensderfer
Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown
Kay Bucksbaum
Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock
J. Douglas Donenfeld
Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert
Michael and Kathleen Elliott
Erika Gross
Estates of Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak
Jim † and Kay Mabie
Estate of Gloria Miner
The Oberman Family Charitable Trust
Cathy and Bill Osborn
Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger
Judith and Paul Tuszynski
Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell
$500,000–$999,999
Patricia and Laurence Booth
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray
D & R Charitable Fund
The Davee Foundation
David and Janet Fox
Howard Gottlieb †
ITW
Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley
Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg
Betty W. Smykal*
Laura and Terrence Truax^
$250,000–$499,999
Ruth and Roger Anderson
Family Foundation
Wayne D. and Nancy M. Boberg
Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car
George and Minou Colis
Nancy Dehmlow
Mimi Duginger
Alice and Richard Godfrey
Jennifer Amler Goldstein, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein
Merle L. Jacob
Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman
James and Renée Metcalf
Estate of Donald V. Peck
Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Susan and Bob Wislow
Estate of Rita Zralek
$100,000–$249,999
Cynthia Bates* in honor of Kevin Rock
Merrill and Judy Blau
William A. and Anne Goldstein
Timothy and Joyce Greening*
John Hart and Carol Prins
Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson
Mr. † & Mrs. Paul R. Judy
Judy and Scott McCue
Estate of Donald Powell
Andra and Irwin Press
Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy
Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark
Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern
Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.
Thierer Family Foundation
Penny and John Van Horn
Craig and Bette Williams
Mr. Gifford Zimmerman
UP TO $100,000
Jeff and Keiko Alexander
Sharon Angell^
Patricia Ames
Peter and Elise Barack
Mr. & Mrs.^ Christopher Barber
Gail Eisenhart Belytschko*
Ms. Elizabeth Berry^ and Mr. Philip S. Revzin
Lizbeth Branch^
Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Burlin
Ms. Vera Capp*
Dr. Thomas H. Conner*
Ms. Juli Crabtree^
Charles and Carol Emmons*
Judith E. Feldman^
Mrs. Donna Fleming^
Leo and Kim Flynn^
Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall
Robert D. Gecht
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab^
Mr. Graham C. Grady
Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris^
Helen Han^ and Dan Pan
Ms. Kyle Harvey^
The Heestand Foundation
Karen and Neil Kawashima
Ms. Geraldine Keefe
Anne Kern
Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn*
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy
Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson
Ms. Leah Laurie^
Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg
Ms. Mirjana Martich^ and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin*
Mr. David E. McNeel
James Edward McPherson*
Dr. Ellen Mendelson*
Mr. Robert Meeker
Dr. Sharon D. Michalove
John H. Mugge
Mr. Daniel R. Murray
Sarah and Wallace Oliver*
Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan*
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein
Charlene H. Posner*
Mary Rafferty^
Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel
Ms. Carol Roberts*
Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi
James S. Rostenberg
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †^
Mr. & Mrs.^ Michael Scholl
Susan H. Schwartz*
Ms. Courtney Shea^
Ms. Kim Shepherd^
Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons*
Ms. Lynn B. Singer^
Cheryl Sturm^ David and Beth Timm*
Dr. Catherine L. Webb*
Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung*
Ms. Janice Young
Ms. Karen Zupko*
*Commitment to the Governing Members Chair, a collective initiative to endow a revolving musician chair of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
^Commitment to the Women’s Board Guest Artist Endowment Fund, which will annually support the appearance of a guest artist, conductor, or composer.
† Deceased
$75,000–$99,999
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
John Hart and Carol Prins
Cathy and Bill Osborn
Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation
Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
$50,000–$74,999
Anonymous (2)
Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV
Mrs. Janet R. Bauer
Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz
Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin
Kay Bucksbaum †
Dean L. and Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation
Ms. Sarah Crane
Dr. Eugene F. and Mrs. SallyAnn D. Fama
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
Frances and Franklin † Horwich
Mr. Jonathan K. Karoly
Ms. Geraldine Keefe
Judy and Scott McCue
Ms. Deborah K. McNeil
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †
Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation
Sidley Austin LLP
Michael and Linda Simon
Liz Stiffel
Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas
Ms. Beth Ann Waite
David and Marsha Woodhouse
$35,000–$49,999
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Ms. Kay Boehme
Mr. Roderick Branch
Mr. & Mrs. Johannes Burlin
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund
Mr. Philip Darling
Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation
Mr. Collier Hands
Ms. Renee Metcalf
Charles Morcom
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley
Ms. Martha C. Nussbaum
Margo and Michael Oberman
Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow
Walter and Kathleen Snodell
Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt
Mr. Gifford Zimmerman
$25,000–$34,999
Anonymous (2)
Nancy A. Abshire
Altair Advisers LLC
Sharon and Charles † Angell
Carey and Brett August
Peter and Elise Barack
Julie and Roger Baskes
Patricia and Laurence Booth
Robert J. Buford
Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray
Mr. & Dr. George Colis
Mrs. Barbara Flynn Currie
Mr. Stephen V. D’Amore
Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson
Ms. Ann Drake
Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood
Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.
Ellen and Paul Gignilliat
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg
William A. and Anne Goldstein
Mary Louise Gorno
Howard L. Gottlieb † and Barbara G. Greis
Mr. Graham C. Grady
Ms. Helen Han
Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris
Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson
Mr. John Holmes
Janice L. Honigberg
Ronald B. Johnson
Karen and Neil Kawashima
Ms. Donna L. Kendall
Tom and Betsy Kilroy
Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson
Mr. Jason M. Laurie
Susan and Rick Levy
Mr. & Mrs. Vikram Luthar
Ms. Britt Miller
Daniel R. Murray
John D. † and Alexandra C. Nichols
Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation
Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation
Dr. Mohan Rao
Diana and Bruce Rauner
Susan Regenstein
Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch
Melissa and Joseph Root
Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi
Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy
Shure Charitable Trust
Bill and Orli Staley Foundation
Mary Stowell
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan
Thierer Family Foundation
TravTours, Inc.
Laura and Terrence Truax
Craig and Bette Williams
Susan and Bob Wislow
Ms. Ann Marie Wright
$20,000–$24,999
Anonymous
Peter † and Betsy Barrett
Tom and Dianne Campbell
Nancy and Bernard Dunkel
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe
Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans
Mary and Lionel Go
Richard and Alice Godfrey
Mary Winton Green
Halasyamani/Davis Family
Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman
Anne and John † Kern
Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family
Mr. † & Mrs. John Lillard
Mr. Philip Lumpkin
Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
D. Elizabeth Price
Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro
Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung
Dr. Marylou Witz
Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation
$15,000–$19,999
Anonymous (4)
Fraida and Bob Aland
Mr. & Mrs. John Baldwin
Merrill and Judy Blau
Fred and Phoebe Boelter
Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown
Henry and Gilda Buchbinder
Robert D. Carone
Joyce Chelberg
Sue and Jim Colletti
Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford
John and Fran Edwardson
Anthony and Karin Gambell
Sue and Melvin Gray
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy
Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz
Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard
Mr. & Mrs. David Hilliard
Mrs. Janet Kanter †
Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Klein
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck
Stephen and Maria Lans
Ms. Betsy Levin
Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin
Mr. David E. McNeel
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery
Edward and Gayla Nieminen
Kathleen Field Orr
Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli
Family Foundation
Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick
LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor
Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte
Andra and Irwin Press
Jerry Rose
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Penelope R. Steiner
Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern
Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft
Penny and John Van Horn
Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
$11,500–$14,999
Jeff and Keiko Alexander
Ann and Richard Carr
Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan
Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng
Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin
Jim † and Kay Mabie
The Osprey Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl
Leslie and Tom Silverstein
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson
Mr. Chris Thomas
Ksenia A. and Peter Turula
Ms. Judith Tuszynski
Caroline Foulke Wettersten
$7,500–$11,499
Anonymous (4)
Ms. Patti Acurio
Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein
Mr. Robert C. Austin and Dr. Kathryn C. Gamble
Ms. Judith Barnard
Mrs. Gail Belytschko
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck
Arnie and Ann Berlin
Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin
Mr. † & Mrs. Dennis Black
Cassandra L. Book
Mr. & Mrs. John Borland
Adam Bossov
Janet S. Boyer
Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen
Ms. Danolda Brennan
Mr. Ray Capitanini
Patricia A. Clickener
Dr. Thomas H. Conner
Mr. Lawrence Corry
Rachel Cowen
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian
Mr. Marc DeMoss
Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley
Mimi Duginger
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle
Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan
Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III
Charles and Carol Emmons
Mr. Fred Eychaner
Judith E. Feldman
Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr.
Ms. Hazel Fisher
David and Janet Fox
Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.
Robert D. Gecht
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman
Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone
Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon
Richard † and Mary L. Gray
Lynne R. Haarlow
Joan M. Hall
Mrs. Richard C. Halpern
John and Sally Hard
Pati and O.J. † Heestand
Janet Helman
Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson III
Fred † and Sandra Holubow
Tex and Susan Hull
Michael and Leigh Huston
Merle L. Jacob
Howard E. Jessen Family Trust
Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller
Ms. Librada Killian
The King Family Foundation
Klein Family Giving Fund
Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk
Dr. June Koizumi
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek
Ms. Margaret Kuhajek
Mr. John LaBarbera
Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler
Sheila Fields Leiter
Mr. Jeffrey Lennard
Mr. Michael Leppen
Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation
Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman
Mrs. Gabrielle Long
Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl
Judith Partipilo Marth
Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic
Sheila Medvin
Dr. Ellen Mendelson
Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley
Dr. Katherine L. Griem
Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor
Emilie Morphew, M.D.
David † and Dolores Nelson
Ms. Susan Norvich
Mr. Christopher A. O’Herlihy
Eric and Carolyn Oesterle
Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson
Jim O’Sullivan
Richard and Frances Penn
Sue N. Pick †
Mary and Joseph Plauché
Charlene H. Posner
Harper Reed
Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman
Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan
Mr. Agustin G. Sanz
Karla Scherer
David and Judy Schiffman
Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen
Joan and George Segal
Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil
Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar
Diana and Richard Senior
David and Judith L. Sensibar
The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation
Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho
Julia M. Simpson
Dr. Stuart Sondheimer, M.D. and Ms. Bonnie Lucas
Cheryl Sturm
Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.
Mr. † & Mrs. Michael Supera, in honor of
Helen Zell
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
John T. and Carrie M. Travers
Mr. Bill Tyree
Mr. David J. Varnerin
Rebecca West
M.L. Winburn
Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever
Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers
$4,500–$7,499
Anonymous (13)
Elaine and Floyd Abramson
Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker
Mrs. Evelyn Alter
Cat Anderson
Geoffrey A. Anderson
Megan P. and John L. Anderson
Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews
Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei
David and Suzanne Arch
Dr. & Mrs. Kent Armbruster
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Baird
Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes
Joseph Bartush
Sandra Bass
Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen
Cynthia Bates and Kevin Rock †
Deborah Baughman
Ms. Patricia Bayerlein
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Bedford
Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler
Mr. Ken Belcher
Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst
Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez
Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible
Mrs. Arthur A. Billings
Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof
Jim † and Dianne Blanco
Ann Blickensderfer
Kovler Family Foundation
Ms. Terry Boden
Mr. Edward Boehm III
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Borich
Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky
Mr. Donald Bouseman
Ms. Jill Brennan
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Breu
Cindy Marie Brito and Anthony Costello
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum
Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard
Ms. Lutgart Calcote
Ms. Vera Capp
David † and Orit Carpenter
Wendy Alders Cartland
Mia Celano and Noel Dunn
Mr. & Mrs. Candelario Celio
Margery al Chalabi
Mr. James Chamberlain
Linton J. Childs
Ms. Jue H. Chung
Jan and Frank † Cicero, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy
Nancy J. Clawson
Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali
Ms. Jean Cocozza
David Colburn
Jane B. Colman
E. and V. Combs Foundation
Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy
Mrs. Taylor Corbitt and Mr. Christopher Sweeney
Jenny L. Corley in memory of Dr. W. Gene Corley
Nancy R. Corral
Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux
R. Bert Crossland
Daniel Cyganowski and Judith Metzger
Dr. † & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta
Mr. Frank R. Davis III
Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation
Mary Dedinsky and William Carlisle Herbert
Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider
Owen Deutsch and Rona Talcott
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph DiBello
Janet Wood Diederichs
Mr. William Dietz, Jr.
Mr. Doug Donenfeld
Ms. Phyllis Dougherty
David and Deborah Dranove
Ingrid and Richard Dubberke
Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek
Judge Frank Easterbrook
Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert
Ms. Paula Ebert
Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten
Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp
Thomas Eller
Mr. Matthew Ellison
Mr. & Mrs. Victor Elting III
Scott and Lenore Enloe
Dr. & Mrs. † James Ertle
William Escamilla
Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D.
Neil Fackler
Tarek and Ann Fadel
Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein
Steven and Carol Felsenthal
Hector Ferral, M.D.
John and Geraldine Fiedler
Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad
Mr. Conrad Fischer
Dean and Jenny Fischer
Thea Flaum/Hill Foundation
Leo and Kim Flynn
Mrs. John D. Foster
Lee Francis and Michelle Gittler
Arthur L. Frank, M.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann
Susan and Paul Freehling
Judy and Mickey Gaynor
Sandy and Frank Gelber
Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson
Bernardino and Caterina Ghetti
Camillo and Arlene Ghiron
Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco
Mr. † & Mrs. James J. Glasser
Judy and Bill Goldberg
Lyn Goldstein
Robert and Marcia Goltermann
Mary and Michael Goodkind
Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon
Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French
Donald J. Gralen
Mr. Daniel Gray
Hanna H. Gray
Ms. Freddi Greenberg
Thomas † and Delta Greene
Timothy and Joyce Greening
Dr. Jerri E. Greer
Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen
Jacalyn Gronek
Ann and John Grube
Mr. Dongqi Guo
Anastasia and Gary † Gutting
Stephanie and Howard Halpern
Anne Marcus Hamada
Ronald and Diane Hamburger
Ms. Josephine Hammer
Mrs. John M. Hartigan
Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan
Hassani Family Foundation
James W. Haugh
Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes
James and Lynne † Heckman
Mr. Hirad Hedayat
Mr. Dale C. Hedding
Scott Helm
Ms. Dawn E. Helwig
Dr. † & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst
Marjorie Friedman Heyman
The Hickey Family Foundation
William B. Hinchliff
Richard † and Joanne Hoffman
Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith †
James and Eileen Holzhauer
Mr † & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg
James † and Mary Houston
Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton
Ms. Patricia Hurley
Frances and Phillip Huscher
Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins
Mr. & Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu
Ian and Valerie Jacobs
Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs
Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin
Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus
Mr. John Jawor
Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna
Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson
Dr. & Mrs. Hulon Johnson
Dr. Patricia Collins Jones
Mr. † & Mrs. Saul Kadin
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation
Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck
Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans
Barry D. Kaufman
Larry † and Marie Kaufman
Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul
Peter and Stephanie Keehn
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser
Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel
Mr. Thomas Kmetko
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin
Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn
Evangel Kokkino and Francesca Johns
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff
Dr. Michael Krco
Eldon and Patricia Kreider
Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar
Dr. Lynda Lane
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Langrehr
Mr. William Lawlor, III
Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann
Dean and Rebecca Leff
Ms. Zafra Lerman
Mr. Jerrold Levine
Mary and Laurence Levine
Averill and Bernard † Leviton
Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek
Mr. † & Mrs. Howard Lickerman
Jane and Peter † Loeb
The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust
Dr. Anna Lysakowski
Jacen Maleck
Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling
Francine R. Manilow
Sharon L. Manuel
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin
Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez
Dr. & Mrs. Walter Massey
Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag
Charles and Clara McCall
Ann Pickard McDermott
Dr. & Mrs. James McGee
Dr. † & Mrs. John McGee II
Bill McIntosh
John and Etta McKenna
Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney
James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray †
Leoni and Bill McVey
Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.
Jim and Ginger Meyer
Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad
Paul and Robert Barker Foundation
Mr. Jeremiah Moon
Stephen and Rumi Morales
Mrs. Frank Morrissey
David H. Moscow
Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek
John H. Mugge
Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl
Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman
Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar
Kenneth R. Norgan
Mark and Gloria Nusbaum
Bill and Penny Obenshain
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs
Sarah and Wallace Oliver
John and Joy O’Malley
Mr. Michael Oman and Mrs. Patricia Wakeley
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Paszczyk
Mr. Timothy J. Patenode
Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Michael Payette
Dr. & Mrs. † Ray Pensinger
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein
Dr. William Peruzzi
Mr. Robert Peterson
Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.
Mr. Paul Phillips, Jr. † and Mr. Lloyd Palmiter
Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert
Lee Ann and Savit Pirl
Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker
Stephen and Ann Suker Potter
Mrs. Mary Jo Potts and Mr. Jim Selsor
John and Merry Ann Pratt
Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard
Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett
Mrs. & Mr. Albert E. Pyott
Mrs. Lynda Rahal
Dr. Hilda Richards
Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards
Charles and Marilynn Rivkin
Ms. Carol Roberts
William and Cheryl Roberts
Dr. Diana Robin
Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen
Mr. John W. Rogers, Jr.
Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio
Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper
Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen
Michael Rosenthal
D.D. Roskin
Ms. Lisa Ross
Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi
Maija Rothenberg
Helen and Marc Rubenstein
Ms. Roberta H. Rubin
Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz
Tina and Buzz Ruttenburg
Anthony Saineghi
Mr. David Sandfort
Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht
Mr † & Mrs. Nathan Schloss
Susan H. Schwartz
Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz
Ruth Grant and Howard Schwartz
Scott Byron & Co.
Ms. Mary Beth Shea
Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin
Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts
Mrs. Junia Shlaustas
Mr. & Ms. Alan Shoenberger
Stuart and Leslie Shulruff
Alan and Margaret Silberman
Ms. Ann Silberman
Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons
Mr. Larry Simpson
Lynn B. Singer
Craig Sirles
Valerie Slotnick
Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.
Louise K. Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith
Naomi Pollock and David Sneider
James and Diane Snyder
In Memory of Timothy Soleiman
Elysia M. Solomon
Carol S. Sonnenschein
Mrs. Linda Spain
Robert and Emily Spoerri
Helena Stancikas
Ms. Denise Stauder
Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos
Dr. Dusan Stefoski, M.D. and Mr. Craig Savage
Carol D. Stein
Roger † and Susan Stone Family Foundation
Ms. Donna L. Strand
Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans
Mr. Gary Stucka
Ms. Minsook Suh
Mr. Mitchell Suter and Ms. Hillary August
Mr. James Thompson
David and Beth Timm
Bill and Anne Tobey
Ayana Tomeka
Bruce † and Jan Tranen
James M. and Carol Trapp
Ms. Joanne Tremulis
Joan and David Trushin
Dr. & Mrs. David Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner
Henry † and Janet Underwood
Zalman and Karen Usiskin
Mr. Peter Vale
Jim and Cindy Valtman
Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D.
Frances S. Vandervoort
Mr. † & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice
Mr. James Vardiman
Henrietta Vepstas
Ms. Jennifer Vianello
Dr. Michael Viglione
Catherine M. Villinski
Charles Vincent
Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz
Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman
Mr. Louis Weiss
Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss
Marc Weissbluth in memory of Linda Weissbluth
Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft
Mr. Paul R. Wiggin
Peter and Marlee Wolf
Ms. Lois Wolff
Michael † and Laura Woll
Mr. Joseph Wolnski and Ms. Jane Christino
Dr. Hak Wong
Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr.
Ms. Debbie Wright
Mari Yamamoto Regnier
Ms. Janice Young
Owen and Linda Youngman
David and Eileen Zampa
Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba
Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross
Ms. Karen Zupko
$3,500–$4,499
Anonymous
Ms. Rene Alphonse
Ms. Doris Angell
Mrs. Barbara Asner
Ms. Marlene Bach
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener
Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr
Ms. Anne Chien
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clusen
Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel
Joe and Judy Cosenza
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall
Ms. Louise Dixon
Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III
Ms. Sarah Good
Hill and Cheryl Hammock
Dr. Robert A. Harris
Ms. Anna Hertsberg
Jess D. Jordan
Ms. JoAnn Joyce
Ms. Ethelle Katz
Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt
Mr. Philip Lesser
Mr. Laurance C. Martin
Margaret and Michael McCoy
Ms. Claretta Meier
Miss Marija Michalczyk
Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.
Noteable Notes Music Academy/ Wheaton, IL
Mr. Bruce Oltman
Mrs. Ann Oros
Mr. Bruce Ottley
Rita Petretti
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker
Mary Rafferty
Dorothy V. Ramm
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig
Gerald and Barbara Schultz
Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields
Carolyn M. Short
Jack and Barbara Simon
Joel and Beth Spenadel
Laurence and Caryn Straus
Eric Vaang
Hilary and Barry Weinstein
Abby and Glen Weisberg
Ms. Mary Zeltmann
Ms. Camille Zientek
Mike Zimmerman
$2,500–$3,499 Anonymous (4)
Mr. Frank Ackerman
Dr. † & Mrs. Carl H. Albright
Ms. Sharon Alter
Catherine Baker and Timothy Kent
Connor Ballgae
Larry and Sarah Barden
Ms. Barbara Barzansky
Meta S. and Ronald † Berger
Family Foundation
Mr. James Borkman
Chris Brezil
Ms. Susan Bridge
Ms. Rosalind Britton
Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman
Linda S. Buckley
Mr. & Mrs. John Butler
Curtis W. Cassel
Ms. Margaret Chaplan †
Lisa Chessare
Ms. Melinda Cheung
Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes
Mr. Robert Cook
Ms. Juli Crabtree
Mr. John Crosby
Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker
Mr. Matthew Denk
Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung
Mr. Stephen Diamond
Mrs. Kelli Gardner Emery † and Mr. Peter Emery
Debra Fienberg
Sandra E. Fienberg
Mrs. Donna Fleming
Ms. Nona Flores
Ms. Irene Fox
Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson
Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III
James and Rebecca Gaebe
Jane Gaines and Andy Kenoe
Ms. Nancy Garfien
Mr. Stanford Goldblatt
Isabelle Goossen
Merle Gordon
Dr. & Mrs. Alan Graham
Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory
Mrs. & Mr. Christina Greviskes
Mr. Bruce G. Amsterdam and Ms. Ilene K. Grossman
Mr. Adam Grymkowski
Suzanne Hales
Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman
Dr. Dominic Harris
Grant P. Haugen
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick
Alex Hemmer
Ms. Nancy Hess
James and Megan Hinchsliff
Ms. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph Doherty
Dr. & Mrs. James Holland
Mr. Stephen Holmes
Mr. & Mrs. R. Howell, Jr.
Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin
Joshua and Faye Jacobs
Egill and Ruth Jacobsen
Ronald E. Jacquart
Ms. Stephanie Jones
Ms. Kathleen Jordan
Daniel P. and Barbara J. Justus
Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan
Mr. Matthew W. Kasper
Mr. Thomas Lad
Ms. Pamela Larsen
Jules M. Laser
Ms. Leah Laurie
Dona Le Blanc
Mr. Jonathon Leik
Sherry and Mel Lopata
Ronald and Carlotta Lucchesi
Ms. Janice Magnuson
Mr. Timothy Marshall
Dr & Mrs. Daniel Mass
Igor and Olga Matlin
Mr. Donald P. Maves
Ms. Marilyn Mccoy
Rosa and Peter McCullagh
Mr. Charles McKee
Mr. Zarin Mehta
Ms. Maryrose Murphy
Mr. Robert Napier
Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.
Mrs. Janis Notz
Dr. Linda Novak
Marjory Oliker
Peg Gould and Howard Owen
Kingsley Perkins †
Mrs. Victorina Peterson
Mr. † & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn
Richard Phillips
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper
Howard and Sheila Pizer
Ms. Rebecca Preston
Dr. Susan Rabe
Ms. Constance Rajala
Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel
Mr. Jeffrey Rappin
Dr. Jennifer Reenan
Patricia Richter
Dr. Anita Robbins
Charles Peter Rogers M.D.
Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross
Mrs. Martha Sabransky † and Dr. Paul Glickman
Rita † and Norman Sackar
JF Sarwark M.D.
Michael and Judith Sawyier
Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin
Shirley and John † Schlossman
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza
Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott
Dr. Lemuel Shaffer
Mary and Charles M. † Shea
Christine A. Slivon
Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein
Juliet and Bram Spector
Mr. Michael Sprinker
Sue Stevens
Carole Stone and Arthur Susman
In memory of Marjorie Stone
Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.
Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft
Mr. Yuki and Mrs. Kazusa Tanemura
Ms. Alison Thomas
Margaret Trumbull
Mr. John Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Allan Vagner
Judge Eugene Wedoff
Cynthia and Ben Weese
Ms. Ellen Werner
Mr. Howard White
Mr. Eric Wicks † and Ms. Linda Baker
Robert J. Wilczek † and Shirley Pfenning
Jennifer D. Williams
Mr. Kenneth Witkowski
Barbara and Steven Wolf
Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Negaunee Music Institute connects individuals and communities to the extraordinary musical resources of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The following donors are gratefully acknowledged for making a gift in support of these educational and engagement programs. To make a gift or learn more, please contact Kevin Gupana, Associate Director of Giving, Educational and Engagement Programs, 312-294-3156.
$150,000 AND ABOVE
Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation
The Negaunee Foundation
$100,000–$149,999
Abbott Fund
Allstate Insurance Company
Megan and Steve Shebik
$75,000–$99,999
John Hart and Carol Prins
Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation
$50,000–$74,999
Anonymous
BMO
Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Judy and Scott McCue
Ms. Deborah K. McNeil
Polk Bros. Foundation
Michael and Linda Simon
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
$35,000–$49,999
Bowman C. Lingle Trust
National Endowment for the Arts
Margo and Michael Oberman
$25,000–$34,999
Anonymous
Carey and Brett August
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Crain-Maling Foundation
Nancy Dehmlow
Kinder Morgan
The Maval Foundation
Ms. Cecelia Samans
Shure Charitable Trust
Gene and Jean Stark
$20,000–$24,999
Anonymous
Mary and Lionel Go
Halasyamani/Davis Family
Illinois Arts Council Agency
Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family
Mr. Philip Lumpkin
PNC
D. Elizabeth Price
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †
Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation
The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.
Dr. Marylou Witz
$15,000–$19,999
Nancy A. Abshire
Mr. & Mrs. John Baldwin
Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.
Sue and Jim Colletti
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
$11,5000–$14,999
Barker Welfare Foundation
Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan
Nancy and Bernard Dunkel
Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation
Ksenia A. and Peter Turula
$7,500–$11,499
Anonymous
Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz
Fred and Phoebe Boelter
The Buchanan Family Foundation
Mr. Lawrence Corry
Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans
Ellen and Paul Gignilliat
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Mary Winton Green
The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association
Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl
Ms. Susan Norvich
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
Mary and Joseph Plauché
Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt
Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
$4,500–$7,499
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Joseph Bartush
Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation
Ann and Richard Carr
Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation
CIBC
Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford
Tarek and Ann Fadel
Ms. Dawn E. Helwig
Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans
Dr. June Koizumi
Leoni and Bill McVey
Jim and Ginger Meyer
Stephen and Rumi Morales
Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek
David † and Dolores Nelson
The Osprey Foundation
Lee Ann and Savit Pirl
Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro
Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis
Laura and Terrence Truax
Mr. Paul R. Wiggin
$3,500–$4,499
Anonymous (2)
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clusen
Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng
Charles and Carol Emmons
Judith E. Feldman
Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic
Mr. Bruce Oltman
$2,500–$3,499
Anonymous
David and Suzanne Arch
Adam Bossov
Ms. Danolda Brennan
Ms. Rosalind Britton
Mr. Ray Capitanini
Lisa Chessare
Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes
Patricia A. Clickener
Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker
David and Janet Fox
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick
William B. Hinchliff
Michael and Leigh Huston
Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin
Ronald E. Jacquart
Ms. Stephanie Jones
Dr. Linda Novak
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker
Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen
Mr. David Sandfort
Gerald and Barbara Schultz
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza
Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho
Carol S. Sonnenschein
Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein
Mr. Peter Vale
Mr. Kenneth Witkowski
Ms. Camille Zientek
ENDOWED FUNDS
Anonymous (5)
Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund
Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund
Civic Orchestra Chamber Access Fund
The Davee Foundation
Frank Family Fund
Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund
Jennifer Amler Goldstein Fund, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein
Mary Winton Green
John Hart and Carol Prins Fund for Access
William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund
Richard A. Heise
Julian Family Foundation Fund
The Kapnick Family
Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Chair Fund
The Malott Family School Concerts Fund
Eloise W. Martin Endowed Funds
Murley Family Fund
The Negaunee Foundation
Margo and Michael Oberman Community Access Fund
Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends
Helen Regenstein Guest Conductor Fund
Edward F. Schmidt Family Fund
Shebik Community Engagement
Programs Fund
The Wallace Foundation
Zell Family Foundation
Theodore Thomas Society
Mary Louise Gorno Chair
Listed below are generous donors who have made commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their wills, trusts, and other estate plans, including life-income arrangements, as of January 2025. The Society honors their generosity, which helps to ensure the long-term financial stability and artistic excellence of the CSOA. To learn more, please contact Brian Nelson, Manager of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3192.
STRADIVARIAN ASSOCIATES
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individuals for generously establishing a legacy bequest plan of $100,000 or more to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.
Anonymous (11)
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Lisa J. Adelstein
Jeff and Keiko Alexander
Evy Johansen Alsaker
Robert A. Alsaker
Geoffrey A. Anderson
Louise E. Anderson
Brett and Carey August
Marlene Bach
Dr. Jeff Bale
Mr. Neal Ball
Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba
Sally J. Becker
Marlys A. Beider
Dr. C. Bekerman
Martha Bell
Mike and Donna Bell
Julie Ann Benson
K. Richard and Patricia M. Berlet
Merrill and Judy Blau
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck
Ann Blickensderfer
Roger Blickensderfer
Wayne D. and Nancy M. Boberg
Danolda Brennan
Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr.
Mitchell J. Brown
Marion A. Cameron-Gray
Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong
Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car
Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark
Patricia A. Clickener
Judith and Stephen F. Condren
Anita Crocus
David L. Curry
J. Douglas Donenfeld
Mimi Duginger
Harry and Jean Eisenman
Michael and Kathleen Elliott
Dr. Marilyn Ezri
Tarek and Ann Fadel
David S. and Janet M. Fox
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.
Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson
Mary J. and Ronald P. Frelk
Penny and John Freund
Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat
Merle Gordon
Mary Louise Gorno
Dr. & Mrs. David Granato
Mary L. Gray
Mary Winton Green
Dr. Jon Brian Greis
John and Patricia Hamilton
Mr. Michael Hansen and Ms. Nancy Randa
John Hart and Carol Prins
Mr. William P. Hauworth II
Thomas and Linda Heagy
Mr. R.H. Helmholz
Marcia M. Hochberg
Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder
Concordia Hoffmann
Stephen D. and Catherine N. Holmes
Frank and Helen Holt
Mark and Elizabeth Hurley
Frances and Phillip Huscher
Merle L. Jacob
Ms. Darlene Johnson
Ronald B. Johnson
Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson
Mary Ann Judy
Lori Julian
Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan
Howard Kaspin
James Kemmerer
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Edwin and Karen Kramer
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka
Jonathon Leik
Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring
Robert Alan Lewis
Dr. Valerie Lober
Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl
Sheldon H. Marcus
James Edward McPherson
Janet L. Melk
Dr. Frederick K. Merkel
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor
Craig and Rose Moore
Eileen M. Murray
Jeffrey Nichols
John H. Nelson
Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen
Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer
Diane Ososke
Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger
Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn
Judy Pomeranz
Christoph G. Ptack Trust
Jo Ann & Joe Paszczyk
Maridee Quanbeck
Neil K. Quinn
Randall and Cara Rademaker
Constance A. Rajala
Al and Lynn Reichle
Ann and Bob † Reiland
Wendy Reynes
Dr. Edward O. Riley
Daniel J. Riordan, in loving memory of Lynne D. Mapes-Riordan
Charles and Marilynn Rivkin
David and Kathy Robin
Jerry Rose
Mr. James S. Rostenberg
Richard O. Ryan
John A. Salkowski
Cecelia Samans
A. Wm. Samuel
Franklin Schmidt
Mr. Craig Sirles
Betty W. Smykal
Annette and Richard Steinke
Mrs. Deborah Sterling
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong
Gloria B. Telander
Karin and Alfred Tenny
Richard and Helen Thomas
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
Dr. Richard Tresley
Laura and Terrence Truax
John L. and Dyanne L. Turner
Paula Turner
Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner
Judith and Paul Tuszynski
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Van Horn
Mr. Christian Vinyard
Craig and Bette Williams
Florence Winters
Stephen R. Winters and Don D. Curtis
Dr. Robert G. Zadylak
Helen Zell
MEMBERS
Anonymous (36)
Valerie and Joseph Abel
Louise Abrahams
Richard J. Abram and Paul Chandler
Patrick Alden
Richard and Elynne Aleskow
Judy L. Allen
Carlos Almeida and Dr. Matthew Sweeney
Ann S. Alpert
Patricia Ames
Ms. Judith L. Anderson
Steven Andes, Ph.D.
Barbara Andrews
Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei
Catherine Aranyi
Dr. Susan Arjmand
Mara Mills Barker
Shirley Baron
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty
Joan I. Berger
Robert M. Berger
Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin
Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky
Candace Broecker
John L. Browar
Catherine Brubaker
Joseph Buc
Edward J. Buckbee
Michelle Miller Burns
Mr. Robert J. Callahan
Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael
Dr. Marlene E. Casiano
Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy
Mr. Robert L. Crawford
Ron and Dolores Daly
Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels
Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson
Sylvia Samuels Delman
Mrs. David A. DeMar
Ms. Phyllis Diamond
Janet Wood Diederichs
Barbara Doerner
Mrs. William Dooley
Mrs. Susan Duda
Nancy Schroeder Ebert
Robert J. Elisberg
Richard Elledge
Charles and Carol Emmons
Lu and Philip Engel
James B. Fadim
Leslie Farrell
Donna Feldman
Judith E. Feldman
Frances and Henry Fogel
Ray Frick
Susan Fuchs
Nancy and Larry † Fuller
Dileep Gangolli
Maurice Garnier
Miss Elizabeth Gatz
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman
Margaret and Patrick Ghielmetti
Steve and Lauran † Gilbreath
Mr. Daniel Gilmour, III
Mr. Joseph Glossberg
Ms. Georgean Goldenberg
Adele Goldsmith
William A. and Anne Goldstein
Douglas Ross Gortner
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Ms. Elizabeth A. Gray
Ms. Claire Annette Green
Delta A. Greene
Mrs. Barbara Gundrum
Lynne R. Haarlow
Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley
Mr. Tom Hall
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett
William B. Hinchliff
Mr. Thomas Hochman
Jack and Colleen Holmbeck
Richard J. Hoskins
Mary Houston
Mr. James Humphrey
Ms. Jessica Jagielnik
Ansuk Jeong
Nathan Kahn, in memory of Zave H. Gussin and in honor of Robert Gussin
Ann B. Kaplan
Bonnie & Michael Kaufman
Valerie Kennedy
Anne Kern
Helen Kessler
Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr.
Mrs. LeRoy Klemt
Sally Jo Knowles
Mrs. Russell V. Kohr
Ms. Barbara Kopsian
Liesel E. Kossmann
Catherine Grochowski Kranz
Eugene Kraus
John C. and Carol Anderson Kunze
Thomas and Annelise Lawson
Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey
Ms. Nicole Lehman
Barbara W. Levin
Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy
Ms. Sally Lewis
Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg
Mr. Michael Licitra
Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson
Bonnie Glazier Lipe
Alma Lizcano
Heidi Lukas and Mr. Charles Grode
Suzette Mahneke
Ann Chassin Mallow
Sharon L. Manuel
Mrs. John J. Markham
Judith Partipilo Marth
Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic
Deborah McCabe
Judy and Scott McCue
John McFerrin
Mr. William McIntosh
Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey
Dorothe Melamed
Marcia Melamed
Dr. Sharon D. Michalove
Dale and Susan Miller
Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Moeller
Virginia K. Moore
John H. Mugge
Thomas R. Mullaney
Daniel R. Murray
Dolores D. Nelson
Mariko Kaneda Niwa
Franklin Nussbaum
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr.
Wallace and Sarah Oliver
Lynn Orschel
Helen and Joseph Page
Robert W. Parsons, M.D.
Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein
Elizabeth Anne Peters
Dr. Ann Peterson
Judy C. Petty
Karen and Dick Pigott
Lois Polakoff
Charlene H. Posner
D. Elizabeth Price
Dorothy V. Ramm
Donald F. Ransford
Jeanne Reed
Edgar C. Reihl
Ann and Bob † Reiland
Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones
Karen L. Rigotti
Don † and Sally Roberts
Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal
Craig Samuels
Suzanne G. Samuels
Leslie A. Sanders
Kathleen Schaefer
Lawrence D. Schectman
Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt
Dr. Byung-In Seo
Mr. & Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro
David Shayne
Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Ms. Elizabeth Shelly
Anne Sibley
Larry Simpson
Ms. Lynn B. Singer
Thomas G. Sinkovic
Rosalee Slepian
Rebecca G. Smith
Mary Soleiman
Jim Spiegel
Julie Stagliano
Denise M. Stauder
Karen Steil
Charles Steinberg
Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale
Richard and Lois Stuckey
Mark Swanson and Nancy Pifer
Jeffrey and Linda Swoger
Mr. John C. Telander
Liisa Thomas
Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Thorson
Karen Hletko Tiersky
Myron Tiersky
Jacqueline A. Tilles
Mr. James M. Trapp
Mr. Donn N. Trautman
Mike and Mary Valeanu
Gerrit Vanderwest
Mr. David J. Varnerin
Frank Villella
Mr. Milan Vydareny
Dr. Malcolm Vye
Adam R. Walker and BettyAnn Mocek
Mr. Frank Walschlager
Louella Krueger Ward
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Karl Wechter
Joan Weiss
Mr. Thomas Weyland
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
Linda and Payson S. Wild
Kayla Anne Wilson
Robert A. Wilson
Nora M. Winsberg
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf
Beth Wollar
Lev Yaroslavskiy
Ms. Karen Zupko
IN MEMORIAM
Listed below are individuals who were Theodore Thomas Society members or patrons who made exceptional commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their estates. They are remembered with gratitude for their generosity and visionary support.
Anonymous (10)
Hope A. Abelson
Richard Abrahams
Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson
Ross C. Anderson
Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos
Elizabeth M. Ashton
Jacqueline and Frank Ball
Wayne Balmer
Paul Barker
Arlene and Marshall Bennett
Judith and Dennis Bober
Naomi T. Borwell
Howard Broecker
Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown
George and Jacqueline Brumlik
Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger
Norma Cadieu
Wiley Caldwell
David W. Carpenter
James D. Compton
Sharon Conway
Nelson D. Cornelius
Anita J. Court, Ph.D.
Christopher L. Culp
Azile Dick
James F. Drennan
Robert L. Drinan, Jr.
Evelyn Dyba
Richard Eastline
Marian Edelstein
Dr. Edward Elisberg
Kelli Gardner Emery
Joseph R. Ender
Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson
Greta Wiley Flory
Leslie Fogel
Herbert and Betty Forman
Richard Foster
Elaine S. Frank
Martin and Francey Gecht
Isak Gerson
Mrs. Willard Gidwitz
Lyle Gillman
Marvin Goldsmith
William B. Graham
Richard Gray
David Green
Nancy Griffin
Ernest A. Grunsfeld III
Betty and Lester Guttman
A. William Haarlow III
Carolyn Hallman
CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret.
Polly and Donald Heinrich
Mary Mako Helbert
Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth
Mrs. Diane Hoban
James Houston
Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr.
Barbara Isserman
Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak
Mrs. Marian Johnson
Janet Jones
Phyllis A. Jones
James Joseph
Paul R. Judy
Joseph M. Kacena
Jared Kaplan
Morris A. Kaplan
Roberta Kapoun
Carol W. Keenan
Marshall Keltz
George Kennedy
Paul Keske
Esther G. Klatz
Russell V. Kohr
Karen Kuehner
Evelyn and Arnold Kupec
Robert B. Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts
Caressa Y. Lauer
Gerald Lee
Patricia Lee
Christine D. Letchinger
Nancy R. Levi
Melynda K. Lopin
William C. Lordan
Tula Lunsford
Iris Maiter
Arthur G. Maling
Bella Malis
Kathleen W. Markiewicz
Walter L. Marr III and Marilyn G. Marr
Eloise Martin
Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal
Eunice H. McGuire
Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick
Jack L. Melamed, M.D.
Lois G. and Hugo J. Melvoin
Richard Menaul
Susan Messinger
Phillip Migdal
Mollyann Miller
Gloria Miner
Bill Moor
Charles A. Moore
David A. Moore
Mrs. Mario Munoz
Marietta Munnis
David H. Nelson
Helen M. Nelson
Muriel Nerad
Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld
David Niwa
Raymond and Eloise Niwa
Carol Rauner O’Donovan
T. Paul B. O’Donovan
Mary and Eric Oldberg
Bruce P. Olson
David G. Ostrow
Dr. Joan E. Patterson
Donald Peck
Mr. Lewis D. Petry
Charles J. Pollyea
Miriam Pollyea
Donald D. Powell
Samuel Press
Alfred and Maryann Putnam
Christine Querfeld
Ruth Ann Quinn
Kenneth Recu
Walter Reed
Bob Reiland
Evelyn Richer
J. Timothy Ritchie
Virginia H. Rogers
Jill N. Rohde
Elaine Rosen
Ben J. Rosenthal
Anthony Ryerson
Dr. Virginia C. Saft
Cynthia Mead Sargent
Mrs. Milton Scheffler
Richard P. Schieler
Beverly and Grover Schiltz
Robert W. Schneider
Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr.
Nancy Seyfried
Muriel Shaw
Morrell A. Shoemaker
Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure
Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel
Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel
Joanne Silver
Rita Simó and Tomás Bissonnette
Allen R. Smart
Walter Chalmers Smith
Karen A. Sorensen
Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel
Vito Stagliano
Charles J. Starcevich
Curtis D. Stensrud
Franklin R. St. Lawrence
Mr. John Stokes
Ruth Miner Swislow
Robert Sychowski
Lester G. Telser
Andrew and Peggy Thomson
Sue Tice
Beatrice B. Tinsley
C. Phillip Turner
Ted Utchen
Lois and James Vrhel
Louise Benton Wagner
Nancy L. Wald
Josephine Wallace
Claude M. Weil
Marco Weiss
Barbara Huth West
The Whateley Trust, in memory of Baron Whateley
Max and Joyce Wildman
Joyce Hadley Williams
Larisa Zhizhin
Tribute Program
The Tribute Program provides an opportunity to celebrate milestones such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and graduations. It also can serve as a way to honor the memory of friends and family. An Honor or Memorial Gift enables you to express your feelings in a truly distinctive and memorable way. Contributions may be any amount and are placed in the Orchestra’s Endowment Fund. For more information regarding this program, please call 312-294-3100. Listed below are Honor and Memorial Gifts, from both the CSOA Tribute Fund and League Tribute Fund, of $100 or more received from October 2023 through December 2024.
MEMORIAL GIFTS
In memory of Carl Albright
Mrs. Cynthia A. Albright
William and Marjorie Bardeen
Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten
Dorothy Flanagan
Croissy Sans Frontières
Dr. Manfred Lindner
Mr. & Mrs. Paul MacKenzie
In memory of David W. Alm
Mrs. Susan Alm
In memory of Charles T. Angell
Dr. Michael Angell
In memory of Theodore Asner
Mrs. Barbara Asner^
In memory of Alfred Balandis
Mr. Robert Callahan
In memory of Angie Bannister
Robin Johnson
In memory of John R. Blair
Fidelity Charitable Gift Funds
In memory of Lin Brehmer
Franklin Brehmer and Sara Farr
In memory of Carolyn “Kay” Bucksbaum
Ms. Kathleen Cahill
In memory of David Carpenter
Orit Carpenter
In memory of Frank Cicero, Jr.
Jan Cicero
In memory of Henry Cohler
Mrs. Evelyn Alter
In memory of Mark William Damisch
Mr. & Mrs. Allan Ruter
In memory of Gary A. Davis
Dr. Steven Andes
In memory of Mary Paula Dix
Anonymous
In memory of Karl Eisenberg
Laura Solon
In memory of Linda Eisenhauer
Ms. Janice Young^
In memory of Agnes Gupana
Margo and Michael Oberman
In memory of Tapas Das Gupta
Ms. Angela Schmeltekopf
In memory of Zave Gussin
Mr. Nathan Kahn
In memory of Adolph “Bud” Herseth, Dale Clevenger, and Arnold Jacobs
Mr. Esteban Batallán
In memory of Alex and Sally Jacob
Merle L. Jacob^
In memory of Howard E. Jessen and Susanne C. Jessen
Howard E. Jessen Family Trust
In memory of Janet Kanter
Ms. Judith J. Crampton
In memory of John and Kerma Karoly
Mr. Jonathan K. Karoly
In memory of Walfrid Kujala
Tiffany B. Carmona
Ms. Johanna Hauki and Mr. Diamond Mendonides
Cynthia Henricks
In memory of Marie Kukalis and Harold Homans
Mr. Steven Kukalis
In memory of of Jon Lassa
Mr. Robert Coad and Mr. David Ellis
In memory of Nicole Lehman
Ms. Marlene Bach
In memory of Dr. Steven M. Lewis
Ms. Heather E. Lewis
In memory of John S. Lillard
Red Bird Hollow Foundation
In memory of Peter A. Loeb
Mr. Robert Naegele
In memory of Rita Loew
Ms. Kathleen Cahill
Ms. Sandra Hebenstreit
Janice S. Kaplan
Gina Propp-Schmarak
Cynthia Riedl
Christine Sampson
A H. Scott
In memory of Jim and Nancy Loewenberg
Mr. Michael Berger
In memory of Mera Lome
Dr. and Mrs. Leon Lome, M.D.
In memory of Carol Wordsworth Malley
Dr. Karol Sue Reddington
In memory of Edith McDonald
Ms. Rebecca Preston
In memory of Bonnie McGrath
Mimi Duginger^
In memory of Dr. Jal Mistri
Mrs. Zenobia Mistri
In memory of George Mitchell Williams
Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor^
In memory of Anthony G. Montag
Dr. Katherine L. Griem
In memory of Francis (Joe) Nolan
Ms. Vera Capp
In memory of Eul-Soo Pang
Dr. Laura Pang
In memory of Charles Kingsley Perkins
Ms. Susan Thomas
In memory of William H. Phillips
Richard Phillips
In memory of William A. Pollak
Don and Martha Pollak
In memory of Bennett Reimer
Elizabeth A. Hebert
In memory of Al Rose
Mimi Rose
In memory of Woon-Young and Hyo-Kyoung Seo B. Seo-Pero
In memory of Phyllis Shulman
Ms. Susan Gumbiner
In memory of Michael Silverstein
Ms. Mara Tapp
In memory of Susie Stein
Mrs. Barbara Asner^
Ms. Victoria Dorgan
Mrs. Marguerite Guido^
In memory of Sandra J. Tybor
Michael B. Meyer
In memory of Lynne and Ron Wachowski
Peggy Ryan
In memory of Dr. Alan J. Ward, Ph.D., ABPP
Ms. Louella Ward
In memory of Claude M. Weil
Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro
In memory of Claude Weil
Kik and S. I. Gilman
Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro
In memory of Eric Wicks and Walfrid Kujala
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Koss
In memory of Mary Evelyn Williams
Mrs. William White
Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor
In memory of Novella Winston
Ms. Betty Henson
HONOR GIFTS
In honor of Michael Adolph
Mrs. Ann Oros
In honor of Jeffrey and Keiko Alexander
Mr. Dean Solomon
In honor of Al Andreychuk
Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III
In honor of Esteban Batallán and John Hagstrom
Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin^
Lizbeth Branch^
Ms. Joan Dattel^
Mrs. Mary Dietrick^
Dr. & Mrs. Heratch Doumanian^
Mrs. Allisa Gam^
Fred Garzon^
Ms. Sarah Good^
Mary and Michael Goodkind^
Mary Ann Harting^
Ms. Bobbie Huskey^
Ansuk Jeong^
The Julian Family Foundation^
Ms. Claretta Meier^
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino^
Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell^
Margo and Michael Oberman^
Dr. Juan Solana^
John Garret Van Weezel^
Ms. Janice Young^
John Zimnie and Linda Zimnie^
In honor of Phyllis Bleck
The Julian Family Foundation^
In honor of Sue Bridge
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward^
In honor of Jeannine Burnier
Mr. Franz Burnier, Jr.
In honor of Robert Coad
Anonymous^
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker
Mrs. David DeMar
Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard
Diana and Richard Senior
Mr. & Mrs. † David Shayne
Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba
In honor of CSOA Box Office Staff
Ms. Diane Falk
In honor of the legendary CSO Brass section
Mr. Esteban Batallán-Cons
In honor of Mimi Duginger
Mr. J. C. Costen and Dr. Sarah F. Orwig^
In honor of the flute section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mr. John Thorne
In honor of Jay Friedman
Mr. Peter Bouchard^
In honor of Allisa Gam^
Ms. Sarah Good
In honor of Mary Lou Gorno
Mr. Graham C. Grady
In honor of Carol Honigberg
Janice L. Honigberg
In honor of Lori Julian
Mr. Robert Napier
In honor of Neil Kawashima
Mr. Bill Tyree
In honor of Joseph Koerner
Robin F. Davies
In honor of Sharon Mitchell
Sebastian P. Mitchell
In honor of Diane Mues
Cynthia Kirk
In honor of Joan Nemickas
Mary and Michael Goodkind^
In honor of Richard C. Riedl
Cynthia Riedl
In honor of Martha and Dean Sayles
Ellen Sayles
In honor of Charlie Vernon, Jennifer Gunn, Lora Schaefer, and Vadim Karpinos
Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer^
In honor of Frank Villella and the Rosenthal Archives
Mr. Paul Phillips, Jr. † and Mr. Lloyd Palmiter
In honor of William Ward
Ms. Susan Bridge^
In honor of Patty Weber
Ms. Sarah Good^
In honor of Helen Zell
Mr. Rowland Chang
Mr. Robert S. Levinson and Ms. Laura Sage
Mr. † & Mrs. Michael Supera
In honor of Jerrold Zisook
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Schimberg
† Deceased | ^Part of the League Tribute Fund Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of December 2024
