Program Book - Muti Conducts The Firebird

A NOTE FROM THE CHAIR AND THE PRESIDENT

Welcome to Symphony Center for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 133rd season.

Riccardo Muti returns to open the season and continue his artistic collaboration with the CSO in his new role as music director emeritus for life, announced last June, following thirteen seasons of celebrated partnership with the Orchestra as music director. Muti has conducted the Orchestra in transformative performances in Chicago, across the country, and around the world, creating musical experiences for audiences that are forever changed by his impact. We are delighted that he has accepted our invitation to continue leading CSO concerts and maintaining artistic continuity and excellence during this new chapter for the Orchestra. We express our deep gratitude to Maestro Muti for taking on this important role.

His three-week residency in September and October features three concert programs in Chicago, including the annual Symphony Ball, and two at Carnegie Hall, including the renowned venue’s season opening gala concert. The anticipated world premiere of a CSO commission by Philip Glass, The Triumph of the Octagon, opens the season’s second program, and Muti and the CSO will perform the work at Carnegie Hall and in several European venues on tour later in the season.

Following the Orchestra’s Carnegie Hall concerts, the CSO returns to Chicago and welcomes guest conductors Jaap van Zweden, James Gaffigan, Nikolaj SzepsZnaider, Daniel Harding, John Storgårds, and Phillipe Jordan, as well as guest artists including baritone Christian Gerhaher, pianist Conrad Tao, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, and cellist Jian Wang.

These orchestral programs are enhanced by the diverse offerings of the Symphony Center Presents series, which brings exceptional classical recitalists as well as chamber music, world music, and jazz performances to Chicago, and the CSO’s educational wing, the Negaunee Music Institute. To learn more about these exceptional programs, please visit cso.org.

Thank you for supporting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. We look forward to seeing you at many, many concerts this season.

Mary Louise Gorno Chair, Board of Trustees Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Jeff Alexander President Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

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OFFICERS

Mary Louise Gorno Chair

Chester A. Gougis Vice Chair

Steven Shebik Vice Chair

Helen Zell Vice Chair

Renée Metcalf Treasurer

Jeff Alexander President

Kristine Stassen Secretary of the Board

Stacie M. Frank Assistant Treasurer

Dale Hedding Vice President for Development

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ALL PHOTOS BY TODD ROSENBERG

Riccardo Muti Named Music Director Emeritus for Life

Riccardo Muti is now the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s music director emeritus for life. The new artistic title was announced during an onstage ceremony on June 23 at Orchestra Hall, after the first of three concerts of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, which marked his final subscription program following thirteen seasons as the CSO’s tenth music director.

“I am honored to stay with the musicians of the CSO as their music director emeritus for life,” Muti said in a statement. “Our artistic collaboration has been one of the great joys of my life and created deep bonds of friendship across my years in Chicago. I look forward to returning regularly to share great music with audiences in the city and on tour.”

Throughout his postconcert remarks, Muti stressed his devotion to the Orchestra. He recalled that he still keeps some sixty letters CSO musicians sent him in 2007, after his first sessions with the Orchestra since 1975. “Since then [and] when I came back and became music director, nothing has changed between me and the Orchestra. I mean, the human relationship. And when the human relationship is very tight, very deep, the music becomes even better. We have had together thirteen really wonderful years of music making.”

“I want to thank all of the musicians; they will remain in my heart, but you don’t get to get rid of me,” he added in jest. “Over the last two years, they would wonder, ‘Is he going away? Is it the end?’ And then in September, they would say, ‘Oh, he’s here again.’ ” After warm laughter and sustained applause, Muti smiled and announced with his signature goodbye wave, “That’s it.”

clockwise from top: Riccardo Muti conducts soloists and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. Seen here is the June 23 performance, after which his new title was announced. | The proclamation, which declares Muti as music director emeritus for life, is presented in an onstage ceremony. | Muti holds the framed proclamation, as Jeff Alexander and Mary Louise Gorno, chair of the CSOA Board of Trustees, lead the applause.

Muti begins his new role in September, conducting two weeks of concerts in Chicago to open the Orchestra’s 133rd season, followed by two performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall on October 4 and 5. In January, Muti leads the CSO on a three-week European tour with announced performances in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, and Italy. It has been confirmed that during the 2024–25 season Muti will lead six weeks of concerts: four in Chicago and two additional tour performances to be announced in the future. Details regarding subsequent seasons will be forthcoming.

More information about programs featuring Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is available at cso.org.

Championing New Music during the 2023–24 Season

Championing new music has always been an essential component of the CSO’s artistic legacy, and it continues that proud tradition during the 2023–24 season with four commissioned works by American composers that will receive their world premieres.

September 28–30

PHILIP GLASS The Triumph of the Octagon

Riccardo Muti CONDUCTOR

In February 2022, Muti and the CSO performed Glass’s Symphony no. 11, which marked the Orchestra’s first performance of a symphony by the composer. As a follow-up to that milestone, the CSO commissioned this work. Glass has had a lifelong fascination with mathematics and patterns, and he drew inspiration for this work from the octagon found in the design of Castel del Monte, a thirteenth-century citadel that has been a longtime source of inspiration for Muti, who first encountered the fortress as a child in his native Italy.

The Triumph of the Octagon is commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the Helen Zell Commissioning Program.

clockwise from top left: Riccardo Muti and Philip Glass embrace on the Armour Stage in Orchestra Hall following the CSO’s February 18, 2022, performance of his Symphony no. 11.

Principal Clarinet

Stephen Williamson

Principal Flute

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

Principal Percussion

Cynthia Yeh

November 9–11

CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS Indigo Heaven

John Storgårds CONDUCTOR

Stephen Williamson CLARINET

In addition to serving on the music faculty at Yale University, Theofanidis is composerin-residence and director of the composition program at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado. His orchestral work Rainbow Body (2000) has been performed by more than 150 orchestras worldwide. The CSO commissioned this work for Principal Clarinet Stephen Williamson.

March 21–24

LOWELL LIEBERMANN Flute Concerto No. 2

Susanna Mälkki CONDUCTOR

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson FLUTE

Liebermann, who teaches at the Mannes School of Music in New York City, has written more than 140 works in a variety of forms, with many showing his particular affinity for the flute, including three pieces for soloist James Galway. This latest work is written for Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, the CSO’s principal flute since 2015.

May 30–31 and June 1

JESSIE MONTGOMERY Percussion Concerto

Manfred Honeck CONDUCTOR

Cynthia Yeh PERCUSSION

Named by Musical America as its 2023 Composer of the Year, Montgomery continues her stratospheric rise in the classical-music world. As part of her three-year tenure as the CSO’s Mead Composer-in-Residence, the CSO has commissioned three works, including this latest piece for Principal Percussion

Cynthia Yeh.

More new music caps the season in June with the Orchestra giving two Chicago premieres. Grammy Award–winning violinist Joshua Bell has commissioned and is soloist in The Elements (June 13–15). It features music of American composers

Jake Heggie, Jennifer Higdon, Edgar Meyer, Jessie Montgomery, and Kevin Puts, inspired by the natural elements of fire, air, space, water, and earth. In a season finale program, Daniil Trifonov is soloist in the Piano Concerto by former CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates with Israeli conductor Lahav Shani on the podium (June 20–23).

Adapted from a February 2023 Experience CSO article by Kyle MacMillan. Full article available at cso.org/experience

Along with those debuts, the CSO will present its first performances of several other contemporary works, including Nina Shekhar’s Lumina conducted by Jaap van Zweden (October 12–15); the late Kaija Saariaho’s Ciel d’hiver (Winter Sky) led by Hannu Lintu (February 22–24 and 27); and Sauli Zinovjev’s Batteria under the baton of Klaus Mäkelä (April 4–6). The CSO will present the U.S. premiere of the latter work, which was commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

CSO MusicNOW

CSO MusicNOW, the Orchestra’s contemporary music series, includes two ensemble programs, curated by Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery, and two concerts with the full Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The series consists of two Sunday performances at 4:30 p.m., and two Saturday programs at 7:30 p.m., all at Orchestra Hall. The MusicNOW experience includes preconcert events and postconcert parties to mix and mingle with the artists and fellow concertgoers.

Major support for CSO MusicNOW is generously provided by the Zell Family Foundation, the Sargent Family Foundation, the Sally Mead Hands Foundation, and the Julian Family Foundation.

December 3

Montgomery and the Blacknificent 7

The opening of the 2023–24 CSO MusicNOW season illuminates works by a dynamic collective of Black composers, the Blacknificent 7. Highlights include a world premiere of a new work by Jasmine Barnes, Damien Geter’s Annunciation—featuring tenor Russell Thomas—and Dave Ragland’s Eight Tones for Elijah, a loving tribute to young violinist Elijah McClain, who was killed by the police on his walk home. Nimble and accomplished improvisers, Jessie Montgomery and Carlos Simon perform of-the-moment interludes, woven between each piece on the program.

A preconcert panel is presented by Chicago Humanities in collaboration with the CSOA.

March 3

Jessie Montgomery & Curtis Stewart

Chicago Opera Theater Music Director Lidiya Yankovskaya leads musicians from the CSO in a program dedicated to composer-performers: three-time Grammy Award–nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart; composer, conductor, and educator Tania León; composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey; and Jessie Montgomery. The program features two world premieres: Resonance by Stewart and a new work by Montgomery.

CSO MusicNOW continues with performances on the orchestral concert series including Montgomery’s Percussion Concerto (June 1) and The Elements with Joshua Bell (June 15).

Jessie Montgomery takes a bow during a CSO MusicNOW concert conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya, on October 24, 2022.

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Bank of America is proud to continue its long-standing support of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Our partnership not only delivers artistic quality but also helps to create meaningful connections with a diverse audience base in Chicago and around the world.

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United is pleased to serve the CSO as its official airline and proudly supports its remarkable contributions to the performing arts community here in Chicago and beyond. With the CSO, we celebrate the energy that performers and audiences alike bring to our hometown and to the global stage.

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Allstate applauds the CSO for its commitment to enrich community and educational programs in our hometown of Chicago. We are a proud supporter of the Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO, as we believe that good starts young.

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maestro residency presenter

ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THIRD SEASON CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

RICCARDO MUTI Music Director Emeritus for Life

Thursday, September 21, 2023, at 7:30

Friday, September 22, 2023, at 7:30

Tuesday, September 26, 2023, at 7:30

Riccardo Muti Conductor

LIADOV The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62

STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird

Introduction and Dance of the Firebird

Dance of the Princesses

Infernal Dance of King Kashchei

Berceuse— Finale INTERMISSION

BRAHMS

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

Allegro non troppo

Adagio non troppo

Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino)

Allegro con spirito

These performances are generously sponsored by the Zell Family Foundation. Bank of America is the Maestro Residency Presenter.

United Airlines is the Official Airline of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is grateful to WBBM Newsradio 780 and 105.9 FM for its generous support as media partner for this performance.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra thanks the Zell Family Foundation for generously sponsoring these performances.

COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher

ANATOLY LIADOV

Born May 11, 1855; Saint Petersburg, Russia

Died August 28, 1914; Polïnovka, Novgorod District, Russia

The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62

Anatoly Liadov regularly surfaces in music histories not as the composer of a handful of exquisitely crafted orchestral pieces, including The Enchanted Lake, but as the man who blew his chance to write The Firebird, which of course turned out to be a career-maker for Igor Stravinsky—and which follows on this week’s program.

According to the most familiar—though unsubstantiated—version, Liadov had only just gotten around to buying his manuscript paper when the first installment of the score was due, forcing Sergei Diaghilev, who was staging the ballet, to fire him from the job.

Early on, Liadov had earned a reputation as a slacker. He regularly cut classes at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory—“he simply could not be bothered,” said Rimsky-Korsakov, who was his teacher and found him “irresponsible.” Sergei Prokofiev, who later studied with Liadov and admired him greatly, admitted in his memoirs that “Laziness was [his] most remarkable feature.” But from the start of his career, Liadov also had drawn attention for the boldness and orchestral brilliance of his compositions. As early as 1873—the time of his first songs, eventually published as his op. 1—Mussorgsky described his talent as “new, unmistakable, original.”

Igor Stravinsky, who owed his overnight fame to Liadov’s withdrawing, later said he liked Liadov’s music, but that he “could never have written a long and noisy ballet like The Firebird.” (“He was more relieved than offended, I suspect, when I accepted the commission,” Stravinsky said.) Throughout his life, Stravinsky was quick to defend Liadov, claiming that he was a charming and cultured man—“He always carried books under his arm—Maeterlinck, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Andersen: he liked tender, fantastical

from top: Anatoly Liadov, portrait in oil by Ilya Repin (1844–1930), 1902. State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Postage stamp marking the hundredth anniversary of Liadov’s birth, issued in July 1955, including a portrait of the composer and a fragment of his Eight Russian Folk Songs. Art by A. Zavyalov

COMPOSED

1909

FIRST PERFORMANCE

February 1909; Saint Petersburg, Russia

INSTRUMENTATION

three flutes, two oboes, three clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, timpani, percussion, harp, celesta, strings

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

November 24 and 25, 1911, Orchestra Hall. Frederick Stock conducting

August 9, 1947, Ravinia Festival. Pierre Monteux conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

June 29, 2002, Ravinia Festival. Christoph Eschenbach conducting October 7, 8, and 9, 2021, Orchestra Hall. Riccardo Muti conducting March 2, 2023; Artis–Naples, Naples, Florida. Riccardo Muti conducting

things”—and, above all, that he was “the most progressive of the musicians of his generation.” Liadov had championed Stravinsky’s own early works before others saw his genius, and once, in Stravinsky’s presence, he defended Scriabin, whose music had not yet found an audience. It’s hard to know what Stravinsky really thought of Liadov as a composer; he wrote admiringly of his sense of harmony and instrumental color, but he also called him “shortwinded”—that is to say, in words that Stravinsky could not bring himself to use, a master of the miniature. (This was, after all, the era of the Big Piece: Mahler’s Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth symphonies; Strauss’s Sinfonia domestica; and Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande all date from the first decade of the twentieth century, the time of Liadov’s major works.)

Liadov’s catalog is slight: several songs and piano pieces, a handful of choral compositions, and less than a dozen small works for orchestra.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Born June 17, 1882; Oranienbaum, Russia

Died April 6, 1971, New York City

Suite from The Firebird

The Firebird opened on June 25, 1910; on June 26, Stravinsky was a famous man. The great impresario Sergei Diaghilev had predicted as much—at one of the final dress rehearsals he pointed to Stravinsky and said, “Mark him well; he is a man on the eve of celebrity.” Diaghilev was a good judge of such things, for in 1910 his circle included many of the most famous creative artists of the time. He was also, perhaps, excessively proud, for he had discovered Igor Stravinsky—or, to be more accurate, he was the

His most successful compositions are the three brief descriptive orchestral pieces based on Russian fairy tales—Baba-Yaga, Kikimora, and The Enchanted Lake—and they clearly demonstrate his mastery, precisely in an art form where Stravinsky made little headway.

Liadov called The Enchanted Lake a fabletableau. “How picturesque it is,” he wrote to a friend, “how clear, the multitude of stars hovering over the mysteries of the deep . . . only nature—cold, malevolent, and fantastic as a fairy tale.” Liadov’s music vividly suggests the serenity and delicate shadings of the night scene. “One has to feel the change of the colors, the chiaroscuro, the incessantly changeable stillness and seeming immobility.” It may not be the music of a composer ideally suited for The Firebird, but as a miniature landscape of unusual intimacy and finesse, it is close to perfection.

one who put Stravinsky in the right place at the right time. The rest was all Stravinsky’s doing.

The place was Paris in 1910. By chance, Diaghilev had heard Stravinsky’s music for the first time just two years before, at a concert in Saint Petersburg. He immediately invited the twenty-six-year-old composer to assist in orchestrating music for the 1909 ballet season in Paris. Stravinsky wasn’t Diaghilev’s first choice to compose his new ballet based on the Russian legend of the Firebird. He initially gave the job to Nikolai Tcherepnin, who promptly had a falling out with the choreographer Mikhail Fokine; then to Anatoly Liadov, the prominent though modestly talented composer of the opening work of this week’s program, The Enchanted Lake; as well

as Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Sokolov, who both declined. Finally, Diaghilev turned to the young, untested Stravinsky.

The Firebird was a spectacular success. (See Stravinsky’s account, which follows.) According to Ravel, the Parisian audience wanted a taste of the avant-garde, and this dazzling music by the daring young Russian fit the bill. The Firebird was Stravinsky’s first large-scale commission, and, being an overnight hit, it was quickly followed by two more. The first, Petrushka, enhanced his reputation; the second, The Rite of Spring, made him the most notorious composer alive.

Both of those works were more revolutionary than The Firebird—less indebted to folk melody and the gestures of other masters—and spoke in a voice of greater individuality. But The Firebird is one of the most impressive calling cards in the history of music—a work of such brilliance that, if Stravinsky had written nothing else, his name would still be known to us today.

Stravinsky later called the Firebird orchestra “wastefully large” (even though he used it with formidable clarity and imagination), and in 1919, when he made his second concert suite from the complete ballet, he cut down the number of performers without lessening the music’s impact or daring. (That is the version performed this week.) “For me,” Stravinsky wrote, “the most striking effect in The Firebird was the natural-harmonic

opposite page: Youthful portrait of Igor Stravinsky, ca. 1910

this page:

COMMENTS

COMPOSED

November 1909–May 1910

FIRST PERFORMANCE

June 25, 1910; Paris, France (complete ballet)

INSTRUMENTATION

suite (1919): two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, percussion, piano, celesta, harp, strings

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

February 11 and 12, 1921, Orchestra Hall. Frederick Stock conducting

July 3, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Ernest Ansermet conducting

CSO PERFORMANCES, THE COMPOSER CONDUCTING

February 20 and 21, 1925, Orchestra Hall

January 14, 1935; Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

January 17, 18, and 22, 1935, Orchestra Hall

February 27, 1940, Orchestra Hall

November 7, 8, and 12, 1940, Orchestra Hall

January 12, 14, and 15, 1954, Orchestra Hall

July 21, 1962, Ravinia Festival

MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

July 13, 2019, Ravinia Festival. Andrew Litton conducting

April 14 and 15, 2022, Orchestra Hall. Klaus Mäkelä, conducting (complete)

CSO RECORDINGS

1969. Carlo Maria Giulini conducting

1992. Pierre Boulez conducting. Deutsche Grammophon (complete)

1996. James Levine conducting. Disney (selections)

2000. Pierre Boulez conducting. EuroArts (complete, video)

A watercolor sketch of scenery for The Firebird, 1910, by Aleksandr Golovine (1863–1930). State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

string glissando near the beginning, which the bass chord touches off like a catherine wheel. I was delighted to have discovered this, and I remember my excitement in demonstrating it to Rimsky’s violinist and cellist sons. I remember, too, Richard Strauss’s astonishment when he heard it two years later in Berlin.” The score is filled with delicious details, though none as novel as the one Stravinsky rightfully claimed as his own, and, in the closing pages, a magnificent sweep unmatched by much music written in the previous century and little since.

With The Firebird, Stravinsky found instant and enduring fame. “And, oh yes, to complete the picture,” he later wrote, “I was once addressed by a man in an American railway dining car, and quite seriously, as ‘Mr. Fireberg.’ ”

Igor Stravinsky on The Firebird

Ihad already begun to think about The Firebird when I returned to Saint Petersburg from Ustilug, in the autumn of 1909, though I was not yet certain of the commission (which, in fact, did not come until December, more than a month after I had begun to compose; I remember the day Diaghilev telephoned me to say go ahead, and my telling him I already had). Early in November, I moved from Saint Petersburg to a dacha belonging to the Rimsky-Korsakov family about seventy miles southeast of the city. I went there for a vacation, a rest in birch forests and snow-fresh air, but instead began to work on The Firebird. Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov (son of the composer) was with me at the time, and he often was during the following months; because of this, The Firebird is dedicated to him. The introduction up to the bassoon and clarinet figure at bar six was composed in the country, as well as notations for later parts. I returned to Saint Petersburg in December and remained there until, in March, I had finished the composition. The orchestra score was ready a month later, and the complete music mailed to Paris by mid-April. (The score is dated May 18, but by that time, I was merely retouching details.)

The Firebird did not attract me as a subject. Like all story ballets, it demanded descriptive music of a kind I did not want to write. I had not yet proved myself as a composer, and I had not earned the right to criticize the aesthetics of my collaborators, but I did criticize them, and arrogantly, though perhaps my age (twenty-seven) was more arrogant than I was. Above all, I could not abide the assumption that my music would be imitation Rimsky-Korsakov, especially as by that time I was in such revolt against poor Rimsky. However, if I say I was less than eager to fulfill the commission, I know that, in truth, my reservations about the subject were also an advance defense for my not being sure I could. But Diaghilev, the diplomat, arranged everything. He came to call on me one day, with Fokine, Nijinsky, Bakst, and Benois. When the five of them had proclaimed their belief in my talent, I began to believe, too, and accepted.

Fokine is credited as the librettist of The Firebird, but I remember that all of us, and especially Bakst, who was Diaghilev’s principal adviser, contributed ideas to the plan of the scenario; I should also add that Bakst was as much responsible for the costumes as Golovine. My own “collaboration” with Fokine means nothing more than that we studied the libretto together, episode by episode, until I knew the exact measurements required of the music. In spite of Fokine’s wearying homiletics, delivered at each meeting, on the role of music as an accompaniment to dance, he taught me much, and I have worked with choreographers somewhat in the same way ever since. I like exact requirements.

I was flattered, of course, at the promise of a performance of my music in Paris, and my excitement on arriving in that city, from Ustilug, towards the end of May, could hardly have been greater. These ardors were somewhat cooled, however, at the first rehearsal. The words “for Russian export” seemed to be stamped everywhere, both on the stage and in the music. The mimic scenes were especially obvious in this sense, but I could say nothing about them, as they were what Fokine liked best. I was also deflated to discover that not all of my musical

remarks were held to be oracular, and Pierné, the conductor, disagreed with me once in front of the whole orchestra. I had written “non crescendo,” a precaution common enough in the music of the last fifty years, but Pierné said, “Young man, if you do not want a crescendo, then do not write anything.”

The first-night audience glittered indeed, but the fact that it was heavily perfumed is more vivid in my memory; the gaily elegant London audience, when I came to know it later, seemed almost deodorized by comparison. I sat in Diaghilev’s box, where, at intermission, artists, dowagers, aged Egerias of the Ballet, “intellectuals,” balletomanes, appeared. I met for the first time Proust, Giraudoux, Paul Morand, SaintJohn Perse, Claudel (with whom, years later, I nearly collaborated on a musical treatment of the Book of Tobit) at The Firebird, though I cannot remember whether at the premiere or at subsequent performances. At one of the latter, I also met Sarah Bernhardt. She was thickly veiled, sitting in a wheelchair in her private box, and seemed terribly apprehensive lest anyone should recognize her. After a month of such society, I was happy to retire to a sleepy village in Brittany.

A moment of unexpected comedy occurred near the beginning of the performance. Diaghilev had had the idea that a procession of real horses should march onstage—in step with, to be exact, the last six eighth notes of bar eight. The poor

animals did enter on cue all right, but they began to neigh and whinny, and one of them, a better critic than an actor, left a malodorous calling card. The audience laughed, and Diaghilev decided not to risk a repetition in future performances. That he could have tried it even once seems incredible to me now—but the incident was forgotten in the general acclaim for the new ballet afterwards.

I was called to the stage to bow at the conclusion, and was recalled several times. I was still onstage when the final curtain had come down, and I saw Diaghilev coming towards me, and a dark man with a double forehead, whom he introduced as Claude Debussy. The great composer spoke kindly about the music, ending his words with an invitation to dine with him. Some years later, when we were sitting together in his box at a performance of Pelléas, I asked him what he really thought of The Firebird. He said, “Que voulez-vous, il fallait bien commencer par quelque chose” [Well, what do you want, you had to start with something]. Honest, but not extremely flattering. Yet shortly after The Firebird premiere, he gave me his well-known photo (in profile) with a dedication “à Igor Stravinski en toute sympathie artistique.” I was not so honest about the work we were then hearing. I thought Pelléas a great bore as a whole, and in spite of many wonderful pages.

THE FIREBIRD: A SYNOPSIS OF THE COMPLETE BALLET

Fokine’s adaptation of the fairy tale pits the Firebird, a good fairy, against the ogre Kashchei, whose soul is preserved as an egg in a casket. A young prince, Ivan Tsarevich, wanders into Kashchei’s magic garden in pursuit of the Firebird. When he captures her, she pleads for her release and gives him one of her feathers, whose magic will protect him from harm. He then meets thirteen princesses, all under Kashchei’s spell, and falls in love with one of them. When he

tries to follow them into the magic garden, a great carillon sounds an alarm and he is captured. Kashchei is about to turn Ivan to stone when the prince waves the feather; the Firebird appears. Her lullaby puts Kashchei to sleep, and she then reveals the secret of his immortality. Ivan opens the casket and smashes the egg, killing Kashchei. The captive princesses are freed, and Ivan and his beloved princess are betrothed.

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Born May 7, 1833; Hamburg, Germany

Died April 3, 1897; Vienna, Austria

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

Within months after the long-awaited premiere of his First Symphony, Brahms produced another one. The two were as different as night and day—logically enough, since the first had taken two decades of struggle and soul-searching and the second was written over a summer holiday. If it truly was Beethoven’s symphonic achievement that stood in Brahms’s way for all those years, nothing seems to have stopped the flow of this new symphony in D major. Brahms had put his fears and worries behind him.

This music was composed at the picture-postcard village of Pörtschach, on the Wörthersee, where Brahms had rented two tiny rooms for his summer holiday. The rooms apparently were ideal for composition, even though the hallway was so narrow that Brahms’s piano couldn’t be moved up the stairs. “It is delightful here,” Brahms wrote to Fritz Simrock, his publisher, soon after arriving, and the new symphony bears witness to his apparent delight. Later that summer, when Brahms’s friend Theodor Billroth, an amateur musician, played through the score for the first time, he wrote to the composer at once: “It is all rippling streams, blue sky, sunshine, and cool green shadows. How beautiful it must be at Pörtschach.” Eventually listeners began to call this Brahms’s Pastoral Symphony, again raising the comparison with Beethoven. But if Brahms’s Second Symphony has a true companion, it is the violin concerto he would write the following summer in Pörtschach—cut from the same D major cloth and reflecting the mood and even some of the thematic material of the symphony.

When Brahms sent off the first movement of his new symphony to Clara Schumann, she predicted that this music would fare better with the public than the tough and stormy First, and she was right. The first performance, on December 30, 1877, in Vienna under Hans Richter, was a triumph, and the third

COMPOSED

1877, summer

FIRST PERFORMANCE

December 30, 1877; Vienna, Austria

INSTRUMENTATION

two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, strings

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

November 23 and 24, 1894, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting

July 10, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Hans Lange conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

August 9, 2016, Ravinia Festival. David Zinman conducting

March 5, 6, and 7, 2020, Orchestra Hall. Herbert Blomstedt conducting

CSO RECORDINGS

1976. James Levine conducting. RCA

1979. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London

1993. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Erato

this page, from top: Johannes Brahms, 1876, portrait by Fritz Luckhardt (1843–1894)

Theodor Billroth (1829–1894), Brahms’s friend and a talented amateur musician, was also a famous doctor credited with advances in modern abdominal surgery.

opposite page: Pörtschach on the Wörthersee in Carinthia, AustroHungary, where Brahms summered while writing his Second Symphony. Engraving of a drawing by Markus Pernhart (1824–1871)

movement had to be repeated. When Brahms conducted the second performance, in Leipzig just after the beginning of the new year, the audience was again enthusiastic. But Brahms’s real moment of glory came late in the summer of 1878, when his new symphony was a great success in his native Hamburg, where he had twice failed to win a coveted music post. Still, it would be another decade before the Honorary Freedom of Hamburg—the city’s highest honor—was given to him, and Brahms remained ambivalent about his birthplace for the rest of his life. In the meantime, the D major symphony found receptive listeners nearly everywhere it was played.

From the opening bars of the Allegro non troppo—with their bucolic horn calls and woodwind chords—we prepare for the radiant sunlight and pure skies that Billroth promised. And, with one soaring phrase from the first violins, Brahms’s great pastoral scene unfolds before us. Although another of Billroth’s letters to the composer suggests that “a happy, cheerful mood permeates the whole work,” Brahms knows that even a sunny day contains moments of darkness and doubt—moments when pastoral serenity threatens to turn tragic. It’s that underlying tension—even drama—that gives this music its remarkable character. A few details stand out: two particularly bracing passages for the three trombones in the development section, and much later, just before the coda, a wavering horn call that emerges, serene and magical. This is followed, as if it were the most logical thing in the world, by a jolly bit of dance-hall waltzing before the music flickers and dies.

Eduard Hanslick, one of Brahms’s champions, thought the Adagio “more conspicuous for the development of the themes than for the worth of the themes themselves.” Hanslick wasn’t the first critic to be wrong—this movement has

very little to do with development as we know it—although it’s unlike him to be so far off the mark when dealing with music by Brahms. Hanslick did notice that the third movement has the relaxed character of a serenade. It is, for all its initial grace and charm, a serenade of some complexity, with two frolicsome presto passages (smartly disguising the main theme) and a wealth of shifting accents.

The finale is jubilant and electrifying; the clouds seem to disappear after the hushed opening bars, and the music blazes forward, almost unchecked, to the very end. For all Brahms’s concern about measuring up to Beethoven, he seldom mentioned his admiration for Haydn and his ineffable high spirits, but that’s who Brahms most resembles here. There is, of course, the great orchestral roar of triumph that always suggests Beethoven. But many moments are pure Brahms, like the ecstatic clarinet solo that rises above the bustle only minutes into the movement, or the warm and striding theme in the strings that immediately follows. The extraordinary brilliance of the final bars—as unbridled an outburst as any in Brahms—was not lost on his great admirer, Antonín Dvořák, when he wrote his Carnival Overture.

Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is grateful to Bank of America for its generous support as the Maestro Residency Presenter.

The

Riccardo Muti Conductor

Riccardo Muti is one of the world’s preeminent conductors. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s distinguished tenth music director from 2010 until 2023, Muti was recently named music director emeritus for life beginning with the 2023–24 season.

His leadership has been distinguished by the strength of his artistic partnership with the Orchestra; his dedication to performing great works of the past and present, including sixteen world premieres to date; the enthusiastic reception he and the CSO have received on national and international tours; and twelve recordings on the CSO Resound label, with three Grammy awards among them. In addition, Muti’s contributions to the cultural life of Chicago—with performances throughout its many neighborhoods and at Orchestra Hall—have made a lasting impact on the city.

Born in Naples, Riccardo Muti studied piano under Vincenzo Vitale at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella, graduating with distinction. He subsequently received a diploma in composition and conducting from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan under the guidance of Bruno Bettinelli and Antonino Votto.

He first came to the attention of critics and the public in 1967, when he won the Guido Cantelli Conducting Competition, by unanimous vote of the jury, in Milan. In 1968, he became principal conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, a position he held until 1980. In 1971, Muti was invited by Herbert von Karajan to conduct at the Salzburg Festival, the first of many occasions, which led to a celebration of fifty years of artistic collaboration with the Austrian festival in 2020. During the 1970s, Muti was chief conductor of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra (1972–1982), succeeding Otto Klemperer. From 1980 to 1992, he inherited the position of music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra from Eugene Ormandy.

From 1986 to 2005, he was music director of Teatro alla Scala, and during that time, he directed major projects such as the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas and Wagner’s Ring cycle in addition to his exceptional contributions to the Verdi repertoire. His tenure as music director of Teatro alla Scala, the longest in its history, culminated in the triumphant reopening of the restored opera house on December 7, 2004, with Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta.

Over the course of his extraordinary career, Riccardo Muti has conducted the most important orchestras in the world: from the Berlin Philharmonic to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and from the New York Philharmonic to the Orchestre National de France; as well as the Vienna Philharmonic, an orchestra to which he is linked by particularly close and important ties, and with which he has appeared at the Salzburg Festival since 1971. When Muti was invited to lead the Vienna Philharmonic’s 150th-anniversary concert, the orchestra presented him with the Golden Ring, a special sign of esteem and affection, awarded only to a few select conductors. In 2021, he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the New Year’s Concert for the sixth time.

Muti has received numerous international honors over the course of his career. He is Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Italian Republic and a recipient of the German Verdienstkreuz. He received the decoration of Officer of the Legion of Honor from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was made an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. The Salzburg Mozarteum awarded him its silver medal for his contribution to Mozart’s music, and in Vienna, he was elected an honorary member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna Hofmusikkapelle, and Vienna State Opera. The State of Israel has honored him with the Wolf Prize in the arts. In July 2018, President Petro Poroshenko presented Muti with the State Award of Ukraine during the Roads of Friendship concert at the Ravenna Festival in Italy following earlier performances in Kyiv. In October 2018, Muti received the

PHOTO BY TODD ROSENBERG

prestigious Praemium Imperiale for Music of the Japan Arts Association in Tokyo.

In September 2010, Riccardo Muti became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was named 2010 Musician of the Year by Musical America. In 2011, Muti was selected as the recipient of the coveted Birgit Nilsson Prize. Also that year, he received the Opera News Award in New York City and Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. That summer, he was named an honorary member of the Vienna Philharmonic and honorary director for life of the Rome Opera. In May 2012, he was awarded the highest papal honor: the Knight of the Grand Cross First Class of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI. In 2016, he was honored by the Japanese government with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star. On August 15, 2021, Muti received the Great Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria, the highest possible civilian honor from the Austrian government.

Passionate about teaching young musicians, Muti founded the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra in 2004 and the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in 2015. The purpose of the Italian Opera Academy—which takes place in Italy, as well as in Japan since 2019 as part of a multi-year collaboration with the Tokyo Spring Festival—is to pass on Muti’s expertise to young musicians and to foster a better understanding of the complex journey to the realization of an opera. Through Le vie dell’Amicizia (The Roads of Friendship), a project of the Ravenna Festival in Italy, he has conducted in many of the world’s most troubled areas in order to bring attention to civic and social issues.

The label RMMUSIC is responsible for Riccardo Muti’s recordings.

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Riccardo Muti’s Summer Concerts and Special Initiatives

Riccardo Muti began his summer with concerts steeped in historical and diplomatic significance conducting three concerts for Roads of Friendship as part of the Ravenna Festival 2023. The program of music by Bellini, Gluck, and Brahms was first presented in Ravenna, Italy, and repeated in Jerash, Jordan, on July 9 in the ancient Roman theater known as the “Pompeii of the East,” and again on July 11 in the Teatro Grande of Pompeii. On all three stages, Muti was joined by the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, Cremona Antiqua Choir, Jordanian musicians from the National Music Conservatory of Amman, and vocal soloists. The Ravenna concert supported restoration projects following spring floods in the Emilia-Romagna region. Before the concert in Jerash, Muti went to the Zaatari refugee camp for a special concert in his honor presented by amateur Syrian musicians. He presented them with a handsome oud guitar, among other instruments, which were warmly received.

At the Salzburg Festival, guided by the festival’s over-all theme of “Lux Aeterna,” or “Eternal Light,” Muti led the Vienna Philharmonic in three sold-out performances featuring Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony and two selections from Verdi’s Quattro pezzi sacri (Four Sacred Pieces), which were performed with the Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus and featuring soprano soloist Serafina Starke.

At the end of August, Muti celebrated the passage of an important law for the enhancement of touring military bands in the Apulian region with concerts and ceremonies in Conversano, near Bari. Muti is an enthusiastic champion of the new law, which he hopes will become a national initiative.

Among his many concerts this summer with the Luigi Cherubini Orchestra was a special “Viva Verdi” performance at Piacenza’s municipal theater on September 8, the eve of the hall’s 220th anniversary. Proceeds of the concert supported the reopening of Villa Verdi, also known as the Villa Sant’Agata, the composer’s home from 1848 until his death in 1901. Muti and the Cherubini Orchestra next participated in the celebrations of the Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023 project with a concert at the Teatro Donizetti. Visit cso.org/experience and riccardomuti.com for more on Maestro Muti’s recent activities.

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra—consistently hailed as one of the world’s best—marks its 133rd season in 2023–24. The history of the ensemble began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, the leading conductor in America and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra. Thomas’s aim to build a permanent orchestra of the highest quality was realized at the first concerts in October 1891 in the Auditorium Theatre. Thomas served as music director until his death in January 1905, just three weeks after the dedication of Orchestra Hall, the Orchestra’s permanent home designed by Daniel Burnham.

Frederick Stock, recruited by Thomas to the viola section in 1895, became assistant conductor in 1899 and succeeded the Orchestra’s founder. His tenure lasted thirty-seven years, from 1905 to 1942—the longest of the Orchestra’s music directors. Dynamic and innovative, the Stock years saw the founding of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago— the first training orchestra in the United States affiliated with a major symphony orchestra—in 1919. Stock also established youth auditions, organized the first subscription concerts especially for children, and began a series of popular concerts.

Three conductors headed the Orchestra during the following decade: Désiré Defauw was music director from 1943 to 1947, Artur Rodzinski in 1947–48, and Rafael Kubelík from 1950 to 1953. The next ten years belonged to Fritz Reiner, whose recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are still considered hallmarks. Reiner invited Margaret Hillis to form the Chicago Symphony Chorus in 1957. For five seasons from 1963 to 1968, Jean Martinon held the position of music director.

Sir Georg Solti, the Orchestra’s eighth music director, served from 1969 until 1991. His arrival launched one of the most successful musical partnerships of our time. The CSO made its first overseas tour to Europe in 1971 under his direction and released numerous award-winning recordings. Beginning in 1991, Solti held the title of music director laureate and returned to conduct the Orchestra each season until his death in September 1997.

Daniel Barenboim became the Orchestra’s ninth music director in 1991, a position he held until 2006. His tenure was distinguished by the opening

of Symphony Center in 1997, appearances with the Orchestra in the dual role of pianist and conductor, and twenty-one international tours. Appointed by Barenboim in 1994 as the Chorus’s second director, Duain Wolfe served until his retirement in 2022.

Pierre Boulez’s long-standing relationship with the Orchestra led to his appointment as principal guest conductor in 1995. He was named Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus in 2006, a position he held until his death in January 2016. Only two others have served as principal guest conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini was named to the post in 1969, serving until 1972; Claudio Abbado held the position from 1982 to 1985. From 2006 to 2010, Bernard Haitink was the Orchestra’s first principal conductor.

In 2010, Riccardo Muti became the Orchestra’s tenth music director. During his tenure, the Orchestra deepened its engagement with the Chicago community, nurtured its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians and composers, and collaborated with visionary artists. In September 2023, Muti became music director emeritus for life.

Jessie Montgomery was appointed Mead Composer-in-Residence in 2021. She follows ten highly regarded composers in this role, including John Corigliano and Shulamit Ran—both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In addition to composing works for the CSO, Montgomery curates the contemporary MusicNOW series. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma served as the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant from 2010 to 2019. Violinist Hilary Hahn became the CSO’s first Artist-in-Residence in 2021.

The Orchestra first performed at Ravinia Park in 1905 and appeared frequently through August 1931, after which the park was closed for most of the Great Depression. In August 1936, the Orchestra helped to inaugurate the first season of the Ravinia Festival, and it has been in residence nearly every summer since.

Since 1916, recording has been a significant part of the Orchestra’s activities. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus— including recent releases on CSO Resound, the Orchestra’s independent recording label launched in 2007—have earned sixty-four Grammy awards from the Recording Academy.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is grateful to United Airlines for its generous support as the Official Airline of the CSO.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti Music Director Emeritus for Life

Jessie Montgomery Mead Composer-in-Residence

Hilary Hahn Artist-in-Residence

VIOLINS

Robert Chen Concertmaster

The Louis C. Sudler Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor

Stephanie Jeong

Associate Concertmaster

The Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair

David Taylor*

Assistant Concertmaster

The Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Chair

Yuan-Qing Yu ‡

Assistant Concertmaster

So Young Bae

Cornelius Chiu

Gina DiBello

Kozue Funakoshi

Russell Hershow

Qing Hou

Matous Michal

Simon Michal

Blair Milton

Sando Shia

Susan Synnestvedt

Rong-Yan Tang

Baird Dodge Principal

Danny Yehun Jin

Assistant Principal

Lei Hou

Ni Mei

Hermine Gagné

Rachel Goldstein

Mihaela Ionescu

Sylvia Kim Kilcullen

Melanie Kupchynsky

Wendy Koons Meir

Joyce Noh

Nancy Park

Ronald Satkiewicz

Florence Schwartz

VIOLAS

Catherine Brubaker

Youming Chen

Sunghee Choi

Wei-Ting Kuo

Danny Lai

Weijing Michal

Diane Mues

Lawrence Neuman

Max Raimi

CELLOS

John Sharp Principal

The Eloise W. Martin Chair

Kenneth Olsen

Assistant Principal

The Adele Gidwitz Chair

Karen Basrak

The Joseph A. and Cecile

Renaud Gorno Chair

Loren Brown ‡

Richard Hirschl

Daniel Katz

Katinka Kleijn

David Sanders

Brant Taylor

BASSES

Alexander Hanna Principal

The David and Mary Winton Green Principal Bass Chair

Daniel Carson

Ian Hallas

Alexander Horton

Robert Kassinger

Mark Kraemer

Stephen Lester

Bradley Opland

Andrew Sommer

HARP

Lynne Turner

FLUTES

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

Principal

The Erika and Dietrich M. Gross Principal Flute Chair

Yevgeny Faniuk

Assistant Principal

Emma Gerstein

Jennifer Gunn

PICCOLO

Jennifer Gunn

The Dora and John Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair

OBOES

William Welter Principal

The Nancy and Larry Fuller

Principal Oboe Chair

Lora Schaefer

Scott Hostetler

ENGLISH HORN

Scott Hostetler

CLARINETS

Stephen Williamson Principal

John Bruce Yeh

Assistant Principal

Gregory Smith

E-FLAT CLARINET

John Bruce Yeh

BASSOONS

Keith Buncke Principal

William Buchman

Assistant Principal

Miles Maner

HORNS

Mark Almond Principal

James Smelser

David Griffin

Oto Carrillo

Susanna Gaunt

Daniel Gingrich

TRUMPETS

Esteban Batallán Principal

The Adolph Herseth Principal Trumpet Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor

Mark Ridenour ‡

Assistant Principal

John Hagstrom

The Bleck Family Chair

Tage Larsen

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library Chair

TROMBONES

Jay Friedman Principal

The Lisa and Paul Wiggin

Principal Trombone Chair

Michael Mulcahy

Charles Vernon

BASS TROMBONE

Charles Vernon

TUBA

Gene Pokorny Principal

The Arnold Jacobs Principal

Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld

TIMPANI

David Herbert Principal

The Clinton Family Fund Chair

Vadim Karpinos

Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION

Cynthia Yeh Principal

Patricia Dash

Vadim Karpinos

James Ross

LIBRARIANS

Justin Vibbard Principal

Carole Keller

Mark Swanson

CSO FELLOWS

Gabriela Lara Violin

Jesús Linárez Violin

Olivia Reyes Bass

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

John Deverman Director

Anne MacQuarrie

Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel

STAGE TECHNICIANS

Christopher Lewis Stage Manager

Blair Carlson

Paul Christopher

Ryan Hartge

Peter Landry

Joshua Mondie

Todd Snick

* Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. ‡ On sabbatical § On leave

The CSO’s music director position is endowed in perpetuity by a generous gift from the Zell Family Foundation.

The Paul Hindemith Principal Viola, Gilchrist Foundation, and Louise H. Benton Wagner chairs currently are unoccupied. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically.

ADMINISTRATION

Jeff Alexander President

PRESIDENT’S OFFICE

Kristine Stassen Executive Assistant to the President & Secretary of the Board

Mónica Lugo Executive Assistant to the Music Director

Human Resources

Lynne Sorkin Director

Dijana Cirkic Coordinator

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION

Cristina Rocca Vice President

The Richard and Mary L. Gray Chair

Guillermo Muñoz Küster Artistic Planning Coordinator

James M. Fahey Senior Director, Programming, Symphony Center Presents

Randy Elliot Director, Artistic Administration

Monica Wentz Director, Artistic Planning & Special Projects

Lena Breitkreuz Artist Manager, Symphony Center Presents

Caroline Eichler Artist Coordinator, CSO

Phillip Huscher Scholar-in-Residence & Program Annotator

Pietro Fiumara Artists Assistant

Chorus

Shelley Baldridge Manager

Heather Anderson Assistant Manager and Librarian

ORCHESTRA AND BUILDING OPERATIONS

Vanessa Moss Vice President

Heidi Lukas Director

Michael Lavin Assistant Director, Operations, SCP & Rental Events

Jeffrey Stang Production Manager, CSO

Joseph Sherman Production Manager, SCP & Rental Events

Jiwon Sun Manager, Audio Media & Audio-Visual Operations

Jenise Sheppard House Manager

Charlie Post Audio Engineer

Logan Goulart Operations Assistant

Rosenthal Archives

Frank Villella Director

Orchestra Personnel

John Deverman Director

Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions & Orchestra Personnel

Facilities

John Maas Director

Engineers

Tim McElligott Chief Engineer

Michael McGeehan

Kevin Walsh

Kyle Hendle

Electricians

Robert Stokas Chief Electrician

Doug Scheuller

Stage Technicians

Christopher Lewis Stage Manager

Blair Carlson

Paul Christopher

Ryan Hartge

Peter Landry

Joshua Mondie

Todd Snick

Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO

Jonathan McCormick Director, Education & the Negaunee Music Institute

Katy Clusen Senior Manager, School & Family Programs

Antonio Padilla Denis Manager, Civic Orchestra of Chicago

Rachael Cohen Coordinator, Institute Programs

Emory Freeman Operations Coordinator, Civic Orchestra of Chicago

Katie Eaton Coordinator, School Partnerships

Jackson Brown Programs Assistant

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

Stacie Frank Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Renay Johansen Slifka Executive Assistant

Accounting

Sam Pincich Controller

Kerri Gravlin Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Hyon Yu, Janet Kosiba Assistant Controllers

Janet Hansen Payroll Manager

Marianne Hahn Accounting Manager

Javier Ayala Senior Accountant

Christopher Biemer Accountant

Cynthia Maday Accounts Payable Manager

Information Technology

Daniel Spees Director

Douglas Bolino Client Systems Administrator

Jackie Spark Lead Technologist

Kirk McMahon Technologist, Tessitura Systems Analyst

SALES AND MARKETING

Ryan Lewis Vice President

Erika Nelson Director, Institutional Marketing & Revenue Management

Alyssa Greenberg Manager, Audience Engagement

Content Marketing and Digital Experience

Elisabeth Madeja Director

Dana Navarro Associate Director, Digital Content & Producer

Laura Emerick Digital Content Editor

Steve Burkholder Web Manager

Megan Ireland, Zoe Carter Associates, Digital Engagement, Social Media

Andrew Hilgendorf Associate, Digital Engagement, Email

Program Marketing and Operations

Amy Brondyke Director

Alex Demas Marketing Manager, Classical Programs

Tommy Crawford Marketing Manager, Jazz, World & Popular Programs

Jessica Reinhart Advertising & Promotions Manager

Kate McDuffie Coordinator, Community Marketing

Amanda Swanson Marketing Associate, Data & Operations

Jesse Bruer Marketing & Promotions Associate

Creative

Sophie Weber Creative Services Manager

Emily Herrington Designer

Mason Brown Design Associate

Content

Frances Atkins Director

Gerald Virgil Senior Content Editor

Kristin Tobin Designer & Print

Production Manager

Communications and Public Relations

Eileen Chambers Director

Hannah Sundwall Publicist

Clay Baker Coordinator

Sales and Patron Experience

Joseph Fernicola III Director

Pavan Singh Manager, Patron Services

Brian Koenig Manager, Preferred Services

Robert Coad Manager, VIP Services

Joseph Garnett Manager, Box Office

Aislinn Gagliardi Assistant Manager, Patron Services

Carmen Ringhiser Assistant Manager, Preferred Services

Fernando Vega Assistant Manager, Box Office

The Symphony Store

Tyler Holstrom Manager

DEVELOPMENT

Dale Hedding Vice President

Jeremiah Strickler Executive Assistant

Bobbie Rafferty Director, Individual Giving & Affiliated Donor Groups

Allison Szafranski Director, Leadership Gifts

Alfred Andreychuk Director, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving

Tori Ramsay, Richard Riedl Major Gifts Officers

Kevin Gupana Associate Director, Giving, Educational and Engagement Programs

Jeremiah Pickett Manager, Governing Member Gifts

Brian Nelson Manager, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving

Emily McClanathan Manager, Strategic Development Communications

Victoria Barbarji Manager, Strategic Giving

Neomia Harris Senior Assistant, Individual Giving Programs & Planned Giving

Institutional Advancement

Susan Green Director, Foundation & Government Relations

Nick Magnone Director, Corporate Development

Mary Grace Corrigan Manager, Grants & Institutional Giving

Donor Engagement and Development Operations

Liz Heinitz Senior Director, Development

Operations & Annual Giving

Lisa McDaniel Director, Donor Engagement

Alyssa Hagen Associate Director, Donor & Development Services

Kimberly Duffy Associate Director, Donor Engagement

Jocelyn Weberg Senior Manager, Annual Giving

Jamie Forssander Manager, Donor Engagement

John Heffernan Coordinator, Donor Engagement

Hope Oester Prospect & Donor Research Specialist

Bri Baiza, Emily Werner Coordinators, Donor Services

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION

GOVERNING MEMBERS

The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, founded in 1894. Its support funds the CSOA’s artistic excellence and community engagement. In return, members enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition. For more information, please contact 312-294-3337 or governingmembers@cso.org.

GOVERNING MEMBERS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Charles Emmons, Jr. Chair

Michael Perlstein Immediate

Past Chair

Merrill and Judy Blau Vice Chairs of Member Engagement

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Vice Chair of the Annual Fund

Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership

GOVERNING MEMBERS

Anonymous (8)

Dora J. Aalbregtse

Floyd Abramson

Ms. Patti Acurio

Fraida Aland

Sandra Allen

Gary Allie

Robert Alsaker

Cat Anderson

Megan P. Anderson

Dr. Edward Applebaum

David Arch

Dr. Kent Armbruster

Susan Baird

Ms. Judith Barnard

Merrill Barnes

Peter Barrett

Roberta Barron

Roger Baskes

Cynthia Bates

Robert H. Baum

Mrs. Robert A. Beatty

Kirsten Bedway

Gail Eisenhart Belytschko

Edward H. Bennett III

Meta S. Berger

D. Theodore Berghorst

Ann Berlin

Phyllis Berlin

Mr. William E. Bible

Mrs. Arthur A. Billings

Dianne Blanco

Judy Blau

Merrill Blau

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Ann Blickensderfer

Terry Boden

Fred Boelter

Peter Borich

Mrs. Suzanne Borland

James G. Borovsky

Adam Bossov

Janet S. Boyer

John D. Bramsen

† Deceased

Ms. Jill Brennan

Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Sue Brubaker

Mrs. Patricia M. Bryan

Gilda Buchbinder

Rosemarie Buntrock

Elizabeth Nolan Buzard

Ms. Lutgart Calcote

Thomas Campbell

Ms. Vera Capp

Wendy Alders Cartland

Mrs. William C. Childs

Linton J. Childs

Frank Cicero, Jr.

Patricia A. Clickener

Mitchell Cobey

Jean M. Cocozza

Carol Cohen

Robin Tennant Colburn

Mrs. Jane B. Colman

Eileen Conaghan

Dr. Thomas H. Conner

Ms. Cecilia Conrad

Beverly Ann Conroy

Jenny L. Corley

Nancy Corral

Ms. Sarah Crane

Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven

Mr. Richard Cremieux

R. Bert Crossland

Rebecca E. Crown

Daniel R Cyganowski

Catherine Daniels

Mrs. Robert J. Darnall

Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Roxanne Decyk

Ms. Nancy Dehmlow

Mrs. Suzanne Demirjian

Duane M. DesParte

Janet Wood Diederichs

Doug Donenfeld

Mrs. William F. Dooley

Sara L. Downey

Ms. Ann Drake

David Dranove

Robert Duggan

Mimi Duginger

Mr. Frank A. Dusek, CPA

Mrs. David P. Earle III

Eric Easterberg and Cindy Pan

Judge Frank H. Easterbrook

Mrs. Dorne Eastwood

Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Louis M. Ebling III

Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten

Jon Ekdahl

Kathleen H. Elliott

Charles Emmons, Jr.

Scott Enloe

Dr. James Ertle

William Escamilla

Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri

Neil Fackler

Melissa Sage Fadim

Jeffrey Farbman

Mr. Don Fehrs

Signe Ferguson

Hector Ferral, M.D.

Ms. Constance M. Filling

Mr. Daniel Fischel

Jenny Fischer

Henry Fogel

Mrs. John D. Foster

David and Janet Fox

Mr. Paul E. Freehling

Mitzi Freidheim

Marjorie Friedman Heyman

Malcolm M. Gaynor

Robert D. Gecht

Frank Gelber

Mrs. Lynn Gendleman

Dr. Mark Gendleman

Rabbi Gary S. Gerson

Dr. Bernardino Ghetti

Karen Gianfrancisco

Ellen Gignilliat

Mr. James J. Glasser †

Madeleine Glossberg

Mrs. Judy Goldberg

Mrs. Mary Anne Goldberg

Anne Goldstein

Jerry A. Goldstone

Mary Goodkind

Dr. Alexia Gordon

Mr. Michael D. Gordon

Donald J. Gralen

Ruth Grant

Mrs. Hanna H. Gray

Mary L. Gray

Dana Green Clancy

Freddi L. Greenberg

Delta A. Greene

Joyce Greening

Dr. Jerri Greer

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

Kendall Griffith

Jerome J. Groen

Jacalyn Gronek

John P. Grube

James P. Grusecki

Anastasia Gutting

Lynne R. Haarlow

Joan M. Hall

Dr. Howard Halpern

Mrs. Richard C. Halpern

Anne Marcus Hamada

Josephine Hammer

Joel L. Handelman

John Hard

James W. Haugh

Thomas Haynes

James Heckman

Mrs. Patricia Herrmann Heestand

Marilyn P. Helmholz

Richard H. Helmholz

Dr. Arthur L. Herbst

Jeffrey W. Hesse

Konstanze L. Hickey

Thea Flaum Hill

Dr. Richard Hirschmann

Suzanne Hoffman

Anne Hokin

Wayne J. Holman III

Fred E. Holubow

Mr. James Holzhauer

Carol Honigberg

Janice L. Honigberg

Mrs. Nancy A. Horner

Mrs. Arnold Horween

Frances G. Horwich

Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).

Dr. Mary L. Houston

Patricia J. Hurley

Michael Huston

Barbara Ann Huyler

Ms. Sandra Ihm

Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs

Dr. Todd Janus

John Jawor

Ms. Justine Jentes

Brian Johnson

George E. Johnson

Ronald B. Johnson

Dr. Patricia Collins Jones

Edward T. Joyce

Mrs. Carol K. Kaplan †

Claudia Norris Kapnick

Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin

Barry D. Kaufman

Kenneth Kaufman

Marie Kaufman

Don Kaul

Molly Keller

Jonathan Kemper

Nancy Kempf

Elizabeth I. Keyser

Leslie Kiesel

Emmy King

Susan Kiphart

Carol Kipperman

Dr. Elaine H. Klemen

Carol Evans Klenk

Mrs. Janet Knauff

Mr. Henry L. Kohn

Dr. Mark Kozloff

Dr. Michael Krco

Eldon Kreider

David Kreisman

MaryBeth Kretz

Dr. Vinay Kumar

Mr. Rubin Kuznitsky

Mr. John LaBarbera

Dr. Lynda Lane

Frederick and Virginia Langrehr

Stephen and Maria Lans

William J. Lawlor III

Sunhee Lee

Dr. Anu Leeman

Dean Leff

Jonathon Leik

Sheila Fields Leiter

Jeffrey Lennard

Zafra Lerman

Jerrold Levine

Laurence H. Levine

Mrs. Bernard Leviton

Gregory M. Lewis

Carolyn Lickerman

Mrs. Paul Lieberman

Jane Loeb

Gabrielle Long

Amy Lubin

Anna Lysakowski

Carol MacArthur

Mrs. Duncan MacLean

Dr. Michael S. Maling

Sharon L. Manuel

David A. Marshall

Judy Marth

Patrick A. Martin

BeLinda I. Mathie

Scott McCue

Ann Pickard McDermott

Dr. James L. McGee

Dr. John P. McGee †

Mrs. Lester McKeever

John A. McKenna

Mrs. Peter McKinney

James Edward McPherson

Sheila Medvin

Mr. Paul Meister

Dr. Ellen Mendelson

Mara Mills Barker

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

David H. Moscow

John H. Mugge

Daniel R. Murray

Mr. Stuart C. Nathan

Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr.

Edward A. Nieminen

Dr. Zehava L. Noah

Kenneth R. Norgan

Martha C. Nussbaum

William A. Obenshain

Shelley Ochab

Maria Ochs

Mrs. James J. O’Connor

Eric Oesterle

Wallace Olliver

Mrs. Katherine Olson

Joy O’Malley

Michael Oman

Kathleen Field Orr

Mr. Gerald A. Ostermann

James J. O’Sullivan, Jr.

Bruce L. Ottley

Pamela Papas

Mr. Bruno A. Pasquinelli

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

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

Maija Rothenberg

Roberta H. Rubin

Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz

Sandra K. Rusnak

David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg

Richard O. Ryan

Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan

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

Janet Underwood

Zalman Usiskin

Mrs. James D. Vail III

John Van Horn

Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice

William C. Vance

Thomas D. Vander Veen

Jennifer Vianello

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

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).

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Corporate Partners

$200,000 AND ABOVE

Bank of America

ITW

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO

United Airlines

$100,000–$199,999

Abbott

Allstate Insurance Company

CIBC Private Wealth

Citadel and Citadel Securities

Northern Trust

$50,000–$99,999

Anonymous (1)

Jenner & Block LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

PNC Bank

Sidley Austin LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

$25,000–$49,999

AAR CORP

Abbott Fund

Altair Advisers LLC

Kinder Morgan

Latham & Watkins LLP

Mayer Brown LLP

S&C Electric Company Fund

Walgreens

$10,000–$24,999

Anonymous (1)

ADM

Deloitte

Exelon

GCM Grosvenor

Goldman Sachs & Co.

HARIBO of America

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

McDermott Will & Emery

McKinsey & Company

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Winston & Strawn LLP

$5,000–$9,999

Ariel Investments

Dentons

Fellowes, Inc.

Italian Village Restaurants

Mesirow Financial

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Segal Consulting

Starshak & Winzenburg

Weiss Financial

$1,000–$4,999

American Agricultural Insurance Company

Amsted Industries Incorporated

Carey’s Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc.

Central Building & Preservation L.P.

DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.

Etnyre International LTD

FeX Group of Companies

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Parkway Elevators

Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Fund at the Chicago Community Foundation

Scott & Kraus, LLC

Show Services

William Blair

Foundations and Government Agencies

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

The Chicago Community Trust

Julius N. Frankel Foundation

Illinois Emergency Management Agency

The Negaunee Foundation

Sargent Family Foundation

TAWANI Foundation

Zell Family Foundation

$50,000–$99,999

The Brinson Foundation

The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

The Clinton Family Fund

Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Sally Mead Hands Foundation

Illinois Arts Council Agency

National Endowment for the Arts

Polk Bros. Foundation

$25,000–$49,999

Crain-Maling Foundation

The Crown Family

Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation

John R. Halligan Charitable Fund

Irving Harris Foundation

The Walter E. Heller/Alyce DeCosta Fund at The Chicago Community Trust

Leslie Fund, Inc.

Bowman C. Lingle Trust

Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation

$10,000-$24,999

Anonymous

Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation

The Buchanan Family Foundation

Darling Family Foundation

The Maval Foundation

Pritzker Traubert Foundation

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation

The George L. Shields Foundation

$5,000–$9,999

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music

The Allyn Foundation, Inc.

Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Hoellen Family Foundation

Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation

Kovler Family Foundation

E. Nakamichi Foundation

Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation

$2,500–$4,999

Arts Midwest GIG Fund

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

William M. Hales Foundation

$1,000–$2,499

Franklin Philanthropic Foundation

Geraldi Norton Foundation

Stephen Philibosian Foundation

Roberts Family 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 July 2023. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.

$150,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous (2)

Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin

Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel and Citadel Securities

Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross

Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation

Margot and Josef Lakonishok

The Negaunee Foundation

COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)

Megan and Steve Shebik

Zell Family Foundation

$100,000–$149,999

Anonymous (3)

James and Brenda Grusecki

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz

$75,000–$99,999

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

John Hart and Carol Prins

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.

Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

$50,000–$74,999

Anonymous (2)

Mrs. Janet R. Bauer

Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz

Kay Bucksbaum

Dean L. and Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray

Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund

Ms. Nancy Dehmlow

Dr. Eugene F. and Mrs. SallyAnn D. Fama

The Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation, Jody Frank and Beth Ann Waite

Ms. Susan Goldschmidt

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Judy and Scott McCue

Cathy and Bill Osborn

Michael and Linda Simon

Liz Stiffel

Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

SEMPRE

This $175 million fundraising effort 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. These commitments make it possible for the CSO’s many facets to thrive today, tomorrow, and always. Contact Al Andreychuk at 312-294-3150 for more information.

$20,000,000 AND ABOVE

Zell Family Foundation

$10,000,000–$19,999,999

The Grainger Foundation

The Negaunee 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

$35,000–$49,999

Sharon and Charles † Angell

Peter and Betsy Barrett

Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation

Mary Winton Green

Mr. Collier Hands

Dr. Charles Morcom

Margo and Michael Oberman

Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow

Walter and Kathleen Snodell

Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt

Terrence and Laura Truax

Craig and Bette Williams

$25,000–$34,999

Anonymous

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV

Peter and Elise Barack

Patricia and Laurence Booth

Mr. Roderick Branch Robert J. Buford

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Megan and Steve Shebik

Richard and Helen Thomas

$1,000,000–$2,499,999

Anonymous

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Kay Bucksbaum

Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock

Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Jim † and Kay Mabie

Estate of Gloria Miner

The Oberman Family Charitable Trust

Cathy and Bill Osborn

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

The Davee Foundation

David S. and Janet M. Fox

Howard Gottlieb

ITW

Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley

Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg

UP TO $500,000

Anonymous

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Patricia Ames

Ruth and Roger Anderson Family Foundation

Peter and Elise Barack

Merrill and Judy Blau

Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor

Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car

Mr. & Mrs. Johannes Burlin

Mr. & Dr. George Colis

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen V. D’Amore

Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson

Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy

Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim

Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil

Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

William A. and Anne Goldstein

Mary Louise Gorno

Howard L. Gottlieb and Barbara G. Greis

Mr. Graham C. Grady

Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris

Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson

Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock

Ronald B. Johnson

Mr. † & Mrs. Burton Kaplan

Ms. Donna L. Kendall

George and Minou Colis

Ms. Nancy Dehmlow

Mimi Duginger

Charles and Carol Emmons

Robert D. Gecht

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

Alice and Richard Godfrey

William A. and Anne Goldstein

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Mr. Graham C. Grady

John Hart and Carol Prins

The Heestand Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson

Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy

Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman

Karen and Neil Kawashima

Ms. Geraldine Keefe

Anne Kern

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson

Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg

Judy and Scott McCue

Mr. David E. McNeel

Mr. Robert Meeker

James and Renée Metcalf

John H. Mugge

Mr. Daniel R. Murray

Estate of Donald V. Peck

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Estate of Donald Powell

Andra and Irwin Press

Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim

Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern

Thierer Family Foundation

Penny and John Van Horn

Craig and Bette Williams

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow

Mr. Gifford Zimmerman

Estate of Rita Zralek

Tom and Betsy Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner

Susan and Rick Levy

Mr. Terrance Livingston and Ms. Debra Cafaro

Ms. Renee Metcalf

Ms. Britt Miller

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley

Daniel R. Murray

John D. † and Alexandra C. Nichols

Dr. Mohan Rao

Susan Regenstein

Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg

Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi

Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy

Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust

Shure Charitable Trust

Bill and Orli Staley Foundation

Mary Stowell

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan

Thierer Family Foundation

Susan and Bob Wislow

$20,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Arnie and Ann Berlin

Joyce Chelberg

Elizabeth Crown and Bill Wallace

Nancy and Bernard Dunkel

Ellen and Paul Gignilliat

Richard and Alice Godfrey

Sue and Melvin Gray

Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman

Anne and John † Kern

Jim † and Kay Mabie

Ms. Martha Nussbaum

Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

John and Merry Ann Pratt

Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation

Ms. Courtney Shea

Rebecca West

Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation

$15,000–$19,999

Anonymous (4)

Carey and Brett August

Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Henry and Gilda Buchbinder

Ann and Richard Carr

Sue and Jim Colletti

John and Fran Edwardson

Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz

Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III

Mrs. Janet Kanter

Ms. Geraldine Keefe

Nancy and Sanfred Koltun

The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Ms. Betsy Levin

Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin

Mr. Philip Lumpkin

Mr. David E. McNeel

Edward and Gayla Nieminen

Kathleen Field Orr

Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli

Family Foundation

LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor

Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte

Andra and Irwin Press

D. Elizabeth Price

Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch

Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern

Penny and John Van Horn

Mr. Christian Vinyard

Dr. Marylou Witz

$11,500–$14,999

Fraida and Bob Aland

Cynthia Bates and Kevin Rock

Robert D. Carone

Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan

Merle L. Jacob

Stephen and Maria Lans

Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall

Jerry Rose

Leslie and Tom Silverstein

Dr. Stuart Sondheimer, M.D. and Ms. Bonnie Lucas

Mrs. Carol S. Sonnenschein

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson

Ksenia A. and Peter Turula

Mr. & Ms. Richard Williams

$7,500–$11,499

Anonymous

Ms. Patti Acurio

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Geoffrey A. Anderson

Ms. Miah Armour

Mrs. Gail Belytschko

Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck

Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof

Merrill and Judy Blau

Mr. & Mrs. Fred Boelter

Cassandra L. Book

Mr. & Mrs. John Borland

Tom and Dianne Campbell

Patricia A. Clickener

Jenny L. Corley in memory of Dr. W. Gene Corley

Mr. Lawrence Corry

Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley

Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Douglas

Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle

Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood

Judith E. Feldman

Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad

Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

Camillo and Arlene Ghiron

Mr. † & Mrs. James J. Glasser

Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone

Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon

Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory

Lynne R. Haarlow

Halasyamani/Davis Family

Joan M. Hall

Mrs. Richard C. Halpern

Anne Marcus Hamada

John and Sally Hard

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy

Pati and O.J. † Heestand

Richard † and Joanne Hoffman

Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson III

Fred and Sandra Holubow

Janice L. Honigberg

Howard E. Jessen Family Trust

Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller

The King Family Foundation

Dr. June Koizumi

Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff

Dr. Michael Krco

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck

Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler

Dr. Lynda Lane

Mr. Jeffrey Lennard

Mr. Michael Leppen

Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation

Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman

Mr. & Mrs. John Lillard

Jane and Peter Loeb

Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

Francine R. Manilow

Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Sheila Medvin

Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley

Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor

Emilie Morphew, M.D.

Ms. Susan Norvich

Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson

The Osprey Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. James O’Sullivan, Jr.

Richard and Frances Penn

Sue N. Pick

Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn

Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman

Mr. Richard Ryan

Rita † and Norman Sackar

Mr. Agustin G. Sanz

Karla Scherer

David and Judy Schiffman

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl

The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation

Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro

Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.

Ms. Bernadette Y. Tang

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Tully

Mr. & Mrs. William C. Vance

Frances S. Vandervoort

Mr. David J. Varnerin

Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs

Ms. Caroline Wettersten

M.L. Winburn

Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever

Ms. Karen Zupko

$4,500–$7,499

Anonymous (15)

Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker

Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein

Cat 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. William Baker and Ms. Rita Corley-Baker

Paul and Robert Barker Foundation

Joseph Bartush

Ms. Sandra Bass

Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen

Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler

Mr. Ken Belcher

Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst

Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible

Mrs. Arthur A. Billings

Jim † and Dianne Blanco

Ann Blickensderfer

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block

Ms. Terry Boden

Mr. Edward Boehm III

Mr. Virgil Bogert

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Borich

Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky

Adam Bossov

Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen

Ms. Danolda Brennan

Ms. Jill Brennan

Cindy Marie Brito and Anthony Costello

Mrs. Sue Brubaker

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan

Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard

Ms. Lutgart Calcote

Ms. Vera Capp

Mia Celano and Noel Dunn

Mr. & Mrs. Candelario Celio

Mr. James Chamberlain

Linton J. Childs

Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy

Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali

Ms. Jean Cocozza

Douglas and Carol Cohen

Jane and John C. † Colman

E. and V. Combs Foundation

Mrs. Eileen Conaghan

Dr. Thomas H. Conner

Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy

Mr. Robert Cook

Nancy R. Corral

Ms. Jane Cox

Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux

R. Bert Crossland

Daniel Cyganowski and Judith Metzger

Dancing Skies Foundation

Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian

Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider

Janet Wood Diederichs

Mr. Doug Donenfeld

David and Deborah Dranove

Ingrid and Richard Dubberke

Mimi Duginger

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek

Judge Frank Easterbrook

Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten

Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp

Thomas Eller

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Mr. & Mrs. Victor Elting III

Charles and Carol Emmons

Scott and Lenore Enloe

Dr. & Mrs. † James Ertle

William Escamilla

Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D.

Neil Fackler

Dr. Gail Fahey

Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein

Donald and Signe Ferguson

Hector Ferral, M.D.

Mr. Conrad Fischer

Dean and Jenny Fischer

Mrs. Donna Fleming

Mrs. John D. Foster

David Fox

Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann

Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.

Judy and Mickey Gaynor

Robert D. Gecht

Sandy and Frank Gelber

Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson

Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco

Judy and Bill Goldberg

Lyn Goldstein

Robert and Marcia Goltermann

Mary and Michael Goodkind

Dr. Alexia Gordon

Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon

Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French

Donald J. Gralen

Hanna H. Gray

Richard † and Mary L. 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

Stephanie and Howard Halpern

Ms. Josephine Hammer

Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan

James W. Haugh

Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes

James and Lynne † Heckman

Mr. Dale C. Hedding

Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Hesse

Marjorie Friedman Heyman

The Hickey Family Foundation

Robert A. Hill † and Thea Flaum Hill

William B. Hinchliff

Dr. Richard Hirschmann

Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith †

Mr. William J. Hokin †

James and Eileen Holzhauer

Mr. † & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg

Frances and Franklin † Horwich

James and Mary Houston

Carter Howard and Sarah Krepp

Tex and Susan Hull

Ms. Patricia Hurley

Frances and Phillip Huscher

Michael and Leigh Huston

Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins

Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs

Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin

Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus

Mr. John Jawor

Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna

Joni and Brian Johnson

Dr. Patricia Collins Jones

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation

Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck

Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin

Ms. Ethelle Katz

Barry D. Kaufman

Larry † and Marie Kaufman

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser

John and Judy Keller

Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel

Carol Kipperman

Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk

Mr. Thomas Kmetko

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff

Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin

Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn

Eldon and Patricia Kreider

David and Susan Kreisman

Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar

Mr. & Mrs. Rubin P. Kuznitsky

Mr. John LaBarbera

Mr. William Lawlor, III

Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann

Mr. & Mrs. Dean Leff

Sheila Fields Leiter

Zafra Lerman

Mr. Jerrold Levine

Mary and Laurence Levine

Averill and Bernard † Leviton

Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek

Mr. † & Mrs. Howard Lickerman

The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust

Mrs. Gabrielle Long

Dr. Anna Lysakowski

Carol MacArthur

Mr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLean

Eileen Madden

Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling

Sharon L. Manuel

Robert † and Judy Marth

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin

Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez

Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag

Igor and Olga Matlin

Ann Pickard McDermott

Dr. & Mrs. James McGee

Dr. † & Mrs. John McGee II

John and Etta McKenna

Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney

James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray †

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meister

Dr. Ellen Mendelson

Jim and Ginger Meyer

Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad

Dr. Anthony Montag † and Dr. Katherine Griem

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

David H. Moscow

Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek

John H. Mugge

Jo Ann and Stuart Nathan

Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman

David † and Dolores Nelson

Dr. Zehava L. Noah

Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar

Kenneth R. Norgan

Bill and Penny Obenshain

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs

Eric and Carolyn Oesterle

Sarah and Wallace Oliver

John and Joy O’Malley

Mr. Michael Oman and Mrs. Patricia Wakeley

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann

Mr. Timothy J. Patenode

Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.

Mr. Michael Payette

Dr. & Mrs. † Ray Pensinger

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Bonnie Perry

Dr. William Peruzzi

Mr. Robert Peterson

Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.

Richard Phillips

Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert

Mary and Joseph Plauché

Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker

John F. Podjasek III Charitable Fund

Charlene H. Posner

Stephen and Ann Suker Potter

Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard

Dr. Hilda Richards

Mary K. Ring

Charles and Marilynn Rivkin

Ms. Carol Roberts

William and Cheryl Roberts

Dr. Diana Robin

Bob Rogers Travel

Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper

Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg

Michael Rosenthal

D.D. Roskin

Ms. Lisa Ross

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi

Maija Rothenberg

Ms. Roberta H. Rubin

Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz

Tina and Buzz Ruttenburg

Mrs. Martha Sabransky † and Dr. Paul Glickman

Anthony Saineghi

Mr. David Sandfort

Raymond and Inez Saunders

Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht

Mr. † & Mrs. Nathan Schloss

Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig

Gerald and Barbara Schultz

Susan H. Schwartz

Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar

Diana and Richard Senior

David and Judith L. Sensibar

Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin

Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts

Mrs. Junia Shlaustas

Mr. & Ms. Alan Shoenberger

Stuart and Leslie Shulruff

Ms. Ann Silberman

Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons

Julia M. Simpson

Mr. Larry Simpson

Christine A. Slivon

Valerie Slotnick

Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.

Jennifer Zobair and Chuck Smith

Mary Ann Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith

Naomi Pollock and David Sneider

James and Diane Snyder

Kimberly M. Snyder

Elysia M. Solomon

Mrs. Linda Spain

Robert and Emily Spoerri

Helena Stancikas

Ms. Denise Stauder

Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos

Penelope R. Steiner

Roger † and Susan Stone Family Foundation

Laurence and Caryn Straus

Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong

Cheryl Sturm

Ms. Minsook Suh

Mr. Chris Thomas

Mr. James Thompson

Joan and Michael Thron

David and Beth Timm

Bill and Anne Tobey

Bruce † and Jan Tranen

John T. and Carrie M. Travers

Joan and David Trushin

Dr. & Mrs. David Turner

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner

Zalman and Karen Usiskin

Mr. Peter Vale

Jim and Cindy Valtman

Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D.

Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice

Ms. Jennifer Vianello

Mr. † & Mrs. Vincent Villinski

Ms. Raita Vilnins

Charles Vincent

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner

Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward

Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung

Mr. & Mrs. David Weber

Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss

Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft

Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Whellan

Peter and Marlee Wolf

Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman

Michael † and Laura Woll

Dr. Hak Wong

Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr.

Ms. Debbie Wright

Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers

Mari Yamamoto Regnier

Ms. Janice Young

Owen and Linda Youngman

Paul and Mary Yovovich

In memory of Anthony C. Yu

David and Eileen Zampa

Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba

Ms. Camille Zientek

Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross

$3,500–$4,499 Anonymous (2)

Ms. Doris Angell

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Barber

Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez

Mr. Donald Bouseman

Ms. Susan Bridge

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brightfelt

Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr

Ms. Juli Crabtree

Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker

Dr. & Mrs. James L. Downey

Arthur L. Frank, M.D.

Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson

Hill and Cheryl Hammock

Dr. Robert A. Harris

Ms. Dawn E. Helwig

Ms. Anna Hertsberg

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Dr. Ashley Jackson

Maryl Johnson, M.D.

Ms. JoAnn Joyce

Mr. & Mrs. Neil Kawashima

Joseph and Judith Konen

Eric Kuhlman

Robert O. Middleton

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.

Ms. Victoria Nee

Mr. Bruce Ottley

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn

Howard and Sheila Pizer

Mary Rafferty

Dorothy V. Ramm

Mrs. Enid Rieser

Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan

Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields

Joel and Beth Spenadel

Mr. James Vardiman

Ms. Mary Walsh

Samuel † and Chickie Weisbard

Ms. Lois Wolff

$2,500–$3,499 Anonymous (3)

Mr. Frank Ackerman

Ms. Rene Alphonse

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Asner †

Ms. Marlene Bach

William and Marjorie Bardeen

James and Bartha Barrett

Mr. James Borkman

Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener

Chris Brezil

Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman

Linda S. Buckley

Mr. & Mrs. John Butler

Ms. Margaret Chaplan

Ms. Melinda Cheung

Joe and Judy Cosenza

Ms. Angela D’Aversa

Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung

Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III

Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng

Mrs. Kelli Gardner Emery † and Mr. Peter Emery

Kenneth M. Fitzgerald and Ruby Carr

Ms. Nona Flores

Ms. Irene Fox

Mr. Ray Frick

Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III

James and Rebecca Gaebe

Jane Gaines and Andy Kenoe

Mr. Stanford Goldblatt

Isabelle Goossen

Merle Gordon

Mr. Adam Grymkowski

Ronald and Diane Hamburger

Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman

Mrs. John M. Hartigan

Mr. Hirad Hedayat

James and Megan Hinchsliff

Dr. & Mrs. James Holland

Mr. Stephen Holmes

Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton

Saul Juskaitis

Peter and Stephanie Keehn

Mr. & Mrs. Frank Klapperich, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt

Mr. Matthew Kusek

Mr. Thomas Lad

Ms. Pamela Larsen

Jules M. Laser

Dr. Gerald Lee

Mr. Jonathon Leik

Mr. Philip Lesser

Mr. Michael J. Liccar

Robert † and Joan Lipsig

Mr. Melvin Loeb

Sherry and Mel Lopata

Ms. Janice Magnuson

Mr. Timothy Marshall

Robert and Doretta Marwin

Ms. Marilyn Mccoy

Ric D. McDonough

Bill McIntosh

Mr. & Mrs. Lester McKeever

Mr. Zarin Mehta

Ms. Claretta Meier

Ian and Robyn Moncrief

Mrs. Frank Morrissey

Luigi H. Mumford

Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl

Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.

Noteable Notes Music Academy

Mrs. Janis Notz

Beatrice F. Orzac †

Mr. Sebastian Patino

Kingsley Perkins †

Rita Petretti

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper

Dr. Joe Piszczor

Kenneth J. Poje

Ms. Constance Rajala

Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel

Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards

Patricia Richter

Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen

Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross

Ms. Saslow

Shirley and John † Schlossman

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil

Mr. James Selsor

Mrs. Phyllis Shafron

Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro

Carolyn M. Short

Ellen and Richard Shubart

Margaret and Alan Silberman

Jack and Barbara Simon

The Honorable John B. Simon and Millie Rosenbloom

Lynn B. Singer

Nancy J Smith

Mr. Michael Sprinker

Ms. Sue Stealey

Carol D. Stein

Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.

Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Mrs. Jeanne Sullivan

Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft

Henrietta Vepstas

Robert J. Walker

Alexander J. Wayne

Mr. Lawrence Wechter

Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman

Mr. Michael Welsh and Ms. Linda Brummer-Welsh

Mr. Kenneth Witkowski

Barbara and Steven Wolf

Dr. Nanajan Yakoub

Ms. Mary Zeltmann

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

Anonymous

Allstate Insurance Company

$75,000–$99,999

The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

John Hart and Carol Prins

Megan and Steve Shebik

$50,000–$74,999

Anonymous

Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Judy and Scott McCue

Polk Bros. Foundation

Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation

Michael and Linda Simon

$35,000–$49,999

Bowman C. Lingle Trust

National Endowment for the Arts

The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

$25,000–$34,999

Anonymous

Abbott Fund

Carey and Brett August

Crain-Maling Foundation

Kinder Morgan

Margo and Michael Oberman

Shure Charitable Trust

Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark

$20,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Mary Winton Green

Illinois Arts Council Agency

PNC

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation

$15,000–$19,999

Nancy A. Abshire

Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.

The Buchanan Family Foundation

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund

Sue and Jim Colletti

Mr. Philip Lumpkin

The Maval Foundation

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.

Dr. Marylou Witz

$11,500–$14,999

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan

Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Ksenia A. and Peter Turula

$7,500–$11,499

Anonymous

Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz

Mr. Lawrence Corry

Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin

Nancy and Bernard Dunkel

Ellen and Paul Gignilliat

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Halasyamani/Davis Family

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

Ms. Susan Norvich

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

D. Elizabeth Price

COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)

Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation

Ms. Courtney Shea

Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$4,500–$7,499

Anonymous

Joseph Bartush

Ann and Richard Carr

Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr.

Dr. June Koizumi

Dr. Lynda Lane

Francine R. Manilow

Jim and Ginger Meyer

Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek

The Osprey Foundation

Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs

$3,500–$4,499

Anonymous

Arts Midwest Gig Fund

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker

Camillo and Arlene Ghiron

Ms. Ethelle Katz

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

Mr. Peter Vale

Ms. Mary Walsh

$2,500–$3,499

Anonymous

David and Suzanne Arch

Mr. James Borkman

Mr. Douglas Bragan †

Mr. Ray Capitanini

Patricia A. Clickener

Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng

William B. Hinchliff

Italian Village Restaurants

Mrs. Frank Morrissey

David † and Dolores Nelson

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper

Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen

Mr. David Sandfort

Gerald and Barbara Schultz

Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro

Carol S. Sonnenschein

Mr. Kenneth Witkowski

$1,500–$2,499

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Ms. Marlene Bach

Mr. Lawrence Belles

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible

Cassandra L. Book

Adam Bossov

Mr. Donald Bouseman

Ms. Danolda Brennan

Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman

Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes

Bradley Cohn

Charles and Carol Emmons

Judith E. Feldman

Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of the Civic horn section

Mr. Conrad Fischer

Ms. Lola Flamm

David and Janet Fox

Ronald and Diane Hamburger

Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick

Michael and Leigh Huston

Thomas and Reseda Kalowski

Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin

Dona Le Blanc

Adele Mayer

Mr. Aaron Mills

Mr. Alexander Ripley

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza

Jane A. Shapiro

Michael and Salme Steinberg

Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust

Abby and Glen Weisberg

M.L. Winburn

Dr. & Mrs. Larry Zollinger

$1,000–$1,499

Anonymous (4)

Ms. Margaret Amato

Allen and Laura Ashley

Howard and Donna Bass

Daniel and Michele Becker

Ann Blickensderfer

Darren Cahr

Mr. Rowland Chang

Lisa Chessare

David Colburn

Mr. & Mrs. Bill Cottle

Mr. & Mrs. Barnaby Dinges

Tom Draski

DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.

Ms. Sharon Eiseman

Richard Finegold, M.D. and Ms. Rita O’Laughlin

Eunice and Perry Goldberg

Enid Goubeaux

Dr. Robert A. Harris

Mr. David Helverson

Clifford Hollander and Sharon Flynn Hollander

Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger

Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer

Mr. Randolph T. Kohler

Ms. Foo Choo Lee

Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin

Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus

Timothy Lubenow

Sharon L. Manuel

Mr. & Mrs. William McNally

Robert O. Middleton

Stephen W. and Kathleen J. Miller

Mrs. MaryLouise Morrison

Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.

Lewis Nashner

William H. Nichols

Edward and Gayla Nieminen

Mr. Bruce Oltman

Ms. Joan Pantsios

Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler

Ms. Dona Perry

James † and Sharon Phillips

Quinlan & Fabish

Mr. George Quinlan

Susan Rabe

Dr. Hilda Richards

Dr. Edward Riley

Mary K. Ring

Christina Romero and Rama Kumanduri

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross

Mr. David Samson

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Ms. Mary Sauer

Peter Schauer

Mr. David M. Schiffman

Barbara and Lewis Schneider

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schuette

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Mr. Rahul and Mrs. Shobha Shah

Mr. & Mrs. James Shapiro

Dr. Rebecca Sherrick

Mr. Larry Simpson

Ms. Denise Stauder

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Stepansky

Donna Stroder

Sharon Swanson

Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman

Joni Williams

Irene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin

ENDOWED FUNDS

Anonymous (3)

Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth Concert Fund

Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund

Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund

CNA

The Davee Foundation

Frank Family Fund

Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund

Mary Winton Green

William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Community Engagement

Richard A. Heise

Peter Paul Herbert Endowment Fund

Julian Family Foundation Fund

The Kapnick Family

Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust

The Malott Family School Concerts Fund

The Eloise W. Martin Endowed Fund in support of the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Negaunee Foundation

Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends

Shebik Community Engagement Programs Fund

Toyota Endowed 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. 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 Al Andreychuk, Director of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3150.

STRADIVARIAN ASSOCIATES

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individuals for generously creating a revocable bequest of $100,000 or more, or an irrevocable life-income trust or annuity of $50,000 or more, to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, as of July 2023.

Anonymous (9)

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

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

Ann Blickensderfer

Danolda Brennan

Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr.

Mitchell J. Brown

Marion A. Cameron-Gray

Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong

Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark

Patricia A. Clickener

Judith and Stephen F. Condren

Anita Crocus

Mimi Duginger

Harry and Jean Eisenman

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Dr. Marilyn Ezri

David S. and Janet M. Fox

Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.

Rhoda Lea Frank

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

John Hart and Carol Prins

Mr. William P. Hauworth II

Thomas and Linda Heagy

Mr. R.H. Helmholz

Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder

Concordia Hoffmann

Stephen D. and Catherine N. Holmes

Frank and Helen Holt

Mark and Elizabeth Hurley

Frances and Phillip Huscher

Ms. Darlene Johnson

Ronald B. Johnson

Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. 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

Mrs. Mario A. Munoz

John H. Nelson

Muriel Nerad

Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen

Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer

Diane Ososke

Dr. Joan E. Patterson

Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger

Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn

Judy Pomeranz

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

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

Mrs. Gloria B. Telander

Karin and Alfred Tenny

Richard and Helen Thomas

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

Dr. Richard Tresley

Paula Turner

Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner

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

Patrick Alden

Richard and Elynne Aleskow

Judy L. Allen

Carols Almedia and Dr. Matthew Sweeney

Ann S. Alpert

Patricia Ames

Ms. Judith L. Anderson

Steven Andes, Ph.D.

Dr. Edward L. Applebaum

Catherine Aranyi

Dr. Susan Arjmand

Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba

Mara Mills Barker

Shirley Baron

Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty

Joan I. Berger

Robert M. Berger

Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky

John L. Browar

Catherine Brubaker

Joseph Buc

Edward J. Buckbee

Michelle Miller Burns

Mr. Robert J. Callahan

Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Car

Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael

Dr. Marlene E. Casiano

Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy

Sharon Conway

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

Mrs. William Dooley

Mr. Richard L. Eastline

Nancy Schroeder Ebert

Robert J. Elisberg

Richard Elledge

Charles and Carol Emmons

Lu and Philip Engel

Tarek and Ann Fadel

James B. Fadim

Leslie Farrell

Donna Feldman

Frances and Henry Fogel

Ray Frick

Susan Fuchs

Nancy and Larry † Fuller

Dileep Gangolli

Miss Elizabeth Gatz

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

Steve and Lauran Gilbreath

Mr. Daniel Gilmour, III

Mr. Joseph Glossberg

Ms. Georgean Goldenberg

Adele Goldsmith

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

Marcia M. Hochberg

Mr. Thomas Hochman

Jack and Colleen Holmbeck

James and Mary Houston

Mr. James Humphrey

Merle L. Jacob

Ms. Jessica Jagielnik

Joseph and Rebecca † Jarabak

Nathan Kahn, in memory of Zave H. Gussin and in honor of Robert Gussin

Marshall Keltz

Valerie Kennedy

Anne Kern

Paul Keske

Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr.

Mrs. LeRoy Klemt

Sally Jo Knowles

Mrs. Russell V. Kohr

Ms. Barbara Kopsian

Liesel E. Kossmann

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

Candace Loftus

Heidi Lukas and Mr. Charles Grode

Suzette and James Mahneke

Ann Chassin Mallow

Sharon L. Manuel

Mrs. John J. Markham

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

Thomas R. Mullaney

Daniel R. Murray

Dolores D. Nelson

Franklin Nussbaum

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr.

Wallace and Sarah Oliver

Lynn Orschel

Helen and Joseph Page

Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Elizabeth Anne Peters

Mr. Lewis D. Petry

Judy C. Petty

Karen and Dick Pigott

Lois Polakoff

D. Elizabeth Price

Dorothy V. Ramm

Donald F. Ransford

Jeanne Reed

Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones

Karen L. Rigotti

Don and Sally Roberts

Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal

Dr. Virginia C. Saft

Craig Samuels

Sue and William Samuels

Paul and Kathleen Schaefer

Lawrence D. Schectman

Mrs. Milton Scheffler

Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt

David Shayne

Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Anne Sibley

Larry Simpson

Thomas G. Sinkovic

Rosalee Slepian

Mary Soleiman

Jim Spiegel

Julie Stagliano

Denise M. Stauder

Karen Steil

Charles Steinberg

Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale

Mr. John Stokes

Richard and Lois Stuckey

Jeffrey and Linda Swoger

Mr. John C. Telander

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

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

Claude M. Weil

Joan Weiss

Mr. Thomas Weyland

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

Linda and Payson S. Wild

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Joyce S. Wildman

Kayla Anne Wilson

Robert A. Wilson

Nora M. Winsberg

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf

Beth Wollar

Lev Yaroslavskiy

IN MEMORIAM

Listed below are individuals who were Theodore Thomas Society members and 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 (9)

Hope A. Abelson

Richard Abrahams

Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson

Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos

Elizabeth M. Ashton

Jacqueline and Frank Ball

Wayne Balmer

Paul Barker

Leland and Mary Bartholomew

Arlene and Marshall Bennett

Norma Zuzanek Bennett

Judith and Dennis Bober

Naomi T. Borwell

Kathryn Bowers

Howard Broecker

Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown

George and Jacqueline Brumlik

Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger

Norma Cadieu

Wiley Caldwell

Nelson D. Cornelius

Anita J. Court, Ph.D.

Mr. Jerry J. Critser

Christopher L. Culp

Barbara DeCoster

Azile Dick

James F. Drennan

Robert L. Drinan, Jr.

Daisy Driss

William A. Dumbleton

Evelyn Dyba

Mr. Richard Eastline

Marian Edelstein

Estelle Edlis

Dr. Edward Elisberg

Kelli Gardner Emery

Joseph R. Ender

Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson

Leslie Fogel

Mrs. Greta Wiley Flory

Robert B. Fordham

Herbert and Betty Forman

Richard Foster

Elaine S. Frank

Florence Ganja

Martin and Francey Gecht

Isak Gerson

Mrs. Willard Gidwitz

Lyle Gillman

Marvin Goldsmith

William B. Graham

Richard Gray

David Green

Nancy Griffin

Ann B. Grimes

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

Mary Jo Hertel

Mrs. Diane Hoban

Allen H. Howard

Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr.

Barbara Isserman

Mrs. Marian Johnson

Ms. Janet Jones

Phyllis A. Jones

James Joseph

Joseph M. Kacena

Stuart Kane

Jared Kaplan

Morris A. Kaplan

Roberta Kapoun

George Kennedy

Esther G. Klatz

Russell V. Kohr

Karen Kuehner

Evelyn and Arnold Kupec

Robert B. Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts

Rebecca Jarabak

Ruth Lucie Labitzke

Sadie Lapinsky

Caressa Y. Lauer

Arthur E. Leckner, Jr.

Patricia Lee

Christine D. Letchinger

William C. Lordan

Tula Lunsford

Iris Maiter

Arthur G. Maling

Bella Malis

June Betty and Herbert S. Manning

Kathleen W. Markiewicz

Walter L. Marr III and Marilyn G. Marr

Eloise Martin

Virginia Harvey McAnulty

Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal

Eunice H. McGuire

Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick

Lillian E. McLeod

Jack L. Melamed, M.D.

Lois G. and Hugo J. Melvoin

Richard Menaul

Susan Messinger

Phillip Migdal

Kathryn and Edward Miller

Micki Miller

Gloria Miner

Beth Ann Alberding Mohr

Bill Moor

Charles A. Moore

David A. Moore

Kathryn Mueller

Marietta Munnis

Leota Ann Meyer Murray

David H. Nelson

Helen M. Nelson

Sydelle Nelson

John and Maynette Neundorf

Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld

David Niwa

Raymond and Eloise Niwa

Joan Ruck Nopola

Carol Rauner O’Donovan

T. Paul B. O’Donovan

Mary and Eric Oldberg

Bruce P. Olson

David G. Ostrow

Donald Peck

Mary Perlmutter

Charles J. Pollyea

Miriam Pollyea

Donald D. Powell

Samuel Press

Alfred and Maryann Putnam

Christine Querfeld

Ruth Ann Quinn

Kenneth Recu

Walter Reed

Daniel Reichard

Bob Reiland

Paul H. Resnik

Sheila Taaffe Reynolds

Joan L. Richards

J. Timothy Ritchie

Dolores M. RixFanada

Virginia H. Rogers

Jill N. Rohde

Elaine Rosen

Ben J. Rosenthal

Anthony Ryerson

Cynthia Mead Sargent

Richard P. Schieler

Beverly and Grover Schiltz

Erhardt Schmidt

Robert W. Schneider

Muriel Schnierow

Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr.

Nancy Seyfried

Muriel Shaw

Mr. 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

Peggy E. Smith-Skarry

Karen A. Sorensen

Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel

Vito Stagliano

Mrs. Zelda Star

Charles J. Starcevich

Curtis D. Stensrud

Helmut and Irma Strauss

Franklin R. St. Lawrence

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Swanson

Ruth Miner Swislow

Robert Sychowski

Lester G. Telser

Andrew and Peggy Thomson

J. Ross Thomson

Sue Tice

Beatrice B. Tinsley

C. Phillip Turner

Ted Utchen

Robert L. Volz

Lois and James Vrhel

Louise Benton Wagner

Michael Jay Walanka

Nancy L. Wald

Josephine Wallace

Laurie Wallach

Ann Dow Weinberg

Marco Weiss

Barbara Huth West

The Whateley Trust, in memory of Baron Whateley

Max and Joyce Wildman

Joyce Hadley Williams

Arnold and Ann Wolff

Ronald R. Zierer

Rita A. Zralek

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 of $100 or more received from June 2022 through July 2023.

MEMORIAL GIFTS

In memory of Frank Alschuler

Ms. Mimi Alschuler and Mr. Lawrence Stark

In memory of Alfred Balandis

Robert Callahan

In memory of Bud Beyer

Ms. Jean Flaherty

In memory of John R. Blair

Fidelity Charitable Gift Funds

In memory of Dr. Jerome Brosnan

Gisela Brodin-Brosnan

In memory of Dr. Minkyu Cho

Robert Callahan

In memory of Muller Davis

Lynn Straus

In memory of Ray T. Dillon

Ms. Cristina Rocca

In memory of Frederick L. Dunn, M.D.

Holly Weis

In memory of Hazel S. Fackler

Neil Fackler

In memory of Janet Faulhaber

Leona Schoen

In memory of John Flakne

Ms. Rebecca A. Lotsoff

Willeen V. Smith

In memory of Martha Glickman

Ms. Carole Gutter

Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk

Karen and Bill Rubinsky

Ms. Mondira Sengupta

Julie Spector

In memory of Dr. Erwin P Gomez, M.D.

Ms. Julia Bendikas

Rajiv Chopra

Dr. Oscar Delapaz

Mrs. Lourdes Dennison

Mr. V. Porapaiboon

Amanda Reyes

M.D., Shou-Yeh L. Ling

In memory of Mary Gray

Kimberly Ewing

In memory of Tony Grosch

Mr. & Mrs. David Russ

In memory of James O. Hamilton

Ms. Kathleen Jurek

In memory of Richard Harris

Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Adler

In memory of Dr. Robert Hazelrigg

Robert Wolf

In memory of Lynne Heckman

Mr. James Heckman

In memory of Dr. Carl A. Hedberg

Anonymous

Dr. Philip R. Liebson and Mrs. Carole F. Liebson

In memory of Graham Hemsley

Dr. Steven Andes

In memory of Betty W. Henneman

Jeffrey and Jeannie Beech

Alice Boreani

The Hogan Family and Jane B. Hogan

Park Ridge Civic Orchestra

Janet Sirabian

In memory of Sharon Hochman

Martyn Adelberg

In memory of Alan Kaufman

Ms. Rosie Nassani

In memory of Mary Kaye

Ms. Josephine Hammer

Alexandra Thornton

In memory of Jack F. Klecka Jr.

Mrs. Terry Klecka

In memory of Mr. George C. McKann

Mrs. Alice T. McKann

In memory of Lorraine T. McNally

Mr. & Mrs. William McNally

In memory of Jal Mistri

Dr. Carolyn Boiarsky

In memory of Jules Moniak

Mrs. Margaret A. Ross

In memory of Dolores Nathanson

Anonymous

DeAnn Gardner

Lexy Gore

Lynne Gugenheim

LC Center, Inc.

Dr. Stacey Marguerite

Wayne and Cindy Pichler

Judith O. Roman

Marilyn Slodki

Rotary Club Of Thompson Valley

Ryan Wang

Kate A. Wealton

In memory of Anthony A. Nichols

Mrs. Marianne Nichols

In memory of Benjamin D. Olson

Nathan Olson

In memory of Jon Pegis

Jil Deheeger

In memory of William A. Pollak

Don and Martha Pollak

In memory of Bennett Reimer

Elizabeth A. Hebert

In memory of Seymour M. Sabesin, M.D.

Ms. Marcia Sabesin

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

In memory of Arline Rose Sands

Mr. & Mrs. David Baron

In memory of Norman S. Santos

Raquel Costa

Jerry and Janet Curto

Mrs. Minerva B. Flojo

In memory of Dr. Eric Sasso

Exai Bio

In memory of Mrs. Eve Gaymont

Sparberg

Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

Ronald N. Mora

In memory of Armando Susmano

Mr. † & Mrs. Sherman Rosen

In memory of Mabel C. Tung

Don and Martha Pollak

In memory of Lynne and Ron Wachowski

Peggy Ryan

In memory of Dr. Alan J. Ward

Ms. Louella Kruger Ward

In memory of Diane Prichett-Willis

Ms. Adrienne Harrison

In memory of Novella Winston

Ms. Betty Henson

In memory of Henry P. Wolff

Ms. Elaine Stern

In memory of Edward T. Zasadil

Mr. Larry Simpson

In memory of Jerome J. Zekas

Cris William and Teresa W. Kodiak

Geri Rennhack

In memory of Sam Zell

Mr. & Mrs. Don Borzak

Merle Gordon

John Hart and Carol Prins

HONOR GIFTS

In honor of Dr. Carl Albright for his 90th birthday

Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten

In honor of John Aler

Drew Stewart and Anna Hargreaves

In honor of Jeanne Aronson’s 95th birthday

Deborah Aronson

In honor of Kay Bucksbaum

Scott Yonover

In honor of Robert Coad

Paul and Robert Barker Foundation

Ms. Florence Connelly

Fredric and Nikki Stein

Liz Stiffel

In honor of William Conaghan

Mary and Michael Goodkind

In honor of Robyn Dalba’s birthday

Mary Weiland

In honor of Mimi Duginger

Margo and Michael Oberman

In honor of Jamey Fadim’s 80th birthday

John Hart and Carol Prins

In honor of Judy Feldman, Women’s Board President

Mrs. Robert Glick

Carol S. Sonnenschein

In honor of John and Ann Grube

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

In honor of Rita Hasner

Dawn C. Farruggio

In honor of Dale Hedding and all of his efforts on behalf of the CSO

David Connell

In honor of Terri Hemmert

Janet Duffy

In honor of Mihaela Ionescu

Ms. Lois Wolff

In honor of Anne Kern

Dr. Mary Davidson

Mrs. David DeMar

Ms. Josephine Hammer

Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin

Mr. & Mrs. John Lopatka

Mr. † & Mrs. Mario Munoz

Louise K. Smith

In honor of Sharon Mitchell

Sebastian P. Mitchell

In honor of Maureen G. Mullally

Kevin Mullally

In honor of Riccardo Muti

Stephen Philibosian Foundation

Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts

In honor of 81st birthday of Frances L.A. Penn

Dr. David M. Asher

In honor of Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

Mr. John Thorne

In honor of Pearl Rieger’s birthday

Carol S. Sonnenschein

In honor of John Sharp, Lei Hou, Qing Hou, William Welter, and Victoria Barbarji

Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan

In honor of John Sharp

Ms. Jessica Jagielnik and Ms. Sam Kufta

In honor of Pavan Singh

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mills

In honor of Karen Sonderby

Kate Sheehan

In honor of Catherine W. Stephenson’s 70th birthday

Ms. Olga Pierce

In honor of Ariana Strahl

Margo and Michael Oberman

In honor of Lynne Turner Anonymous

In honor of Bill Ward for his leadership these past two years

Margo and Michael Oberman

In honor of Patty Weber and Eileen Conaghan

Margo and Michael Oberman

† Deceased | Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. | Gifts listed as of July 2023

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