Program Book - Jaap van Zweden Conducts Beethoven 5

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

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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

HONORARY TRUSTEES

The Honorable Richard M. Daley

The Honorable Lori Lightfoot

TRUSTEES

John Aalbregtse

Peter J. Barack

H. Rigel Barber

Randy Lamm Berlin

Roderick Branch

Kay Bucksbaum

Robert J. Buford

Johannes Burlin

Leslie Henner Burns

Debra A. Cafaro

Marion A. Cameron-Gray

George P. Colis

Keith S. Crow

Stephen V. D’Amore

Timothy A. Duffy

Brian W. Duwe

Charles Emmons, Jr.*

Judith E. Feldman*

Graham C. Grady

John Holmes

Lori Julian

Neil T. Kawashima

Geraldine Keefe

Donna L. Kendall

Thomas G. Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner

Patty Lane

Susan C. Levy

Vikram Luthar

Renée Metcalf

Britt M. Miller

Sharon Mitchell*

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

Mary Pivirotto Murley

Sylvia Neil

Gerald Pauling

Col. Jennifer N. Pritzker

Dr. Don M. Randel

Dr. Mohan Rao

Melissa M. Root

Burton X. Rosenberg

E. Scott Santi

Steven Shebik

Marlon R. Smith

Walter Snodell

Dr. Eugene Stark

Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr.

Scott Swanson

Nasrin Thierer

Liisa Thomas

Terrence J. Truax

Frederick H. Waddell

Paul S. Watford

Craig R. Williams

Robert Wislow

Ann Marie Wright

Helen Zell

Gifford R. Zimmerman

LIFE TRUSTEES

William Adams IV

Mrs. Robert A. Beatty

Arnold M. Berlin

Laurence O. Booth

William G. Brown

Dean L. Buntrock

Bruce E. Clinton

Richard Colburn

Richard H. Cooper

Anthony T. Dean

Debora de Hoyos

Charles Douglas †

John A. Edwardson

Thomas J. Eyerman

James B. Fadim

David W. Fox, Sr.

Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.

H. Laurance Fuller †

Mrs. Robert W. Galvin

Paul C. Gignilliat

Joseph B. Glossberg

Richard C. Godfrey

William A. Goldstein

Mary Louise Gorno

Howard L. Gottlieb

Chester A. Gougis

Mary Winton Green

Dietrich Gross

David P. Hackett

Joan W. Harris

John H. Hart

Thomas C. Heagy

Jay L. Henderson

William R. Jentes

Paul R. Judy

Richard B. Kapnick

Donald G. Kempf, Jr.

Mrs. John C. Kern

Robert Kohl

Josef Lakonishok

Charles Ashby Lewis

Eva F. Lichtenberg

John S. Lillard

John F. Manley

Ling Z. Markovitz

R. Eden Martin

Arthur C. Martinez

Judith W. McCue

Lester H. McKeever

David E. McNeel

John D. Nichols †

James J. O’Connor †

William A. Osborn

Mrs. Albert Pawlick

Jane DiRenzo Pigott

John M. Pratt

Dr. Irwin Press

John W. Rogers, Jr.

Jerry Rose

Frank A. Rossi

Earl J. Rusnak, Jr.

John R. Schmidt

Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Robert C. Spoerri

Carl W. Stern

William H. Strong

Louis C. Sudler, Jr.

Richard L. Thomas

Richard P. Toft

Penny Van Horn

Paul R. Wiggin

* Ex-officio Trustee † Deceased List as of August 2023

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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EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT

RENÉE METCALF, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, DIVISION PERFORMANCE EXECUTIVE, PRIVATE BANK MIDWEST AND MID ATLANTIC DIVISIONS Bank of America Merrill Lynch

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.

SCOTT KIRBY, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER United Airlines

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.

e. scott santi, chairman and chief executive officer

ITW

ITW is proud to support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and its long tradition of excellence in providing extraordinary classical music performances for audiences here in Chicago and around the world.

tom wilson, chair, president, and chief executive officer

The Allstate Corporation

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.

michael g. o’grady, chairman, president and chief executive officer Northern Trust

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is rightly regarded as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. Northern Trust is committed to serving our communities and the arts, and we are proud to support—as we have for more than a half century—the CSO’s extraordinary tradition of musical excellence.

terrence j. truax, partner Jenner & Block LLP

Jenner & Block is proud to share the CSO’s passion for creativity, innovation, and the pursuit of excellence. As a longtime CSO supporter, the firm looks forward to continuing to participate in the symphony’s rich tradition of musical excitement and unfolding artistry in Chicago and the many communities it touches in the United States and around the world.

maestro residency presenter

ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THIRD SEASON

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

RICCARDO MUTI Music Director Emeritus for Life

Thursday, October 12, 2023, at 7:30

Friday, October 13, 2023, at 1:30

Saturday, October 14, 2023, at 7:30

Sunday, October 15, 2023, at 3:00

Jaap van Zweden Conductor

Christian Gerhaher Baritone

SHEKHAR

Lumina

First Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances

MAHLER Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Rheinlegendchen

Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

Revelge

Der Tamboursg’sell

Urlicht

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER

INTERMISSION

BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

Allegro con brio

Andante con moto

Allegro—

Allegro—Presto

These performances are generously sponsored by the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Family Fund for the Canon.

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.

These performances are generously sponsored by the

Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Family Fund for the Canon.

COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher

NINA SHEKHAR

Born 1995, Detroit, Michigan

Lumina

Growing up in suburban Detroit as the child of parents who emigrated from India in the 1980s, Nina Shekhar stood apart, from the color of her skin to the anxieties caused by undiagnosed obsessivecompulsive disorder. Her own nickname for herself, Quirkhead, would later become the title of a 2017 composition for soprano and string quartet. She has said that the music she writes is a hybrid, like the family meals when she was growing up, where palak paneer sat on the same table with mashed potatoes.

Shekhar (pronounced like “shaker”) studied at the University of Michigan, where she earned dual degrees in music composition and chemical engineering. “I loved how engineers think so differently than artists do,” she said in an interview in 2021. As evidence of her own hybrid experience, she worked on research and development for Bounty paper towels as part of an internship with Procter & Gamble, while her own voice as a composer was coming into focus. Shekhar then did graduate work at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where Lumina was premiered by the school’s Thornton Symphony in 2020. Lumina won her the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Award and has since been performed in the United States and in Europe. She is currently a PhD candidate in music composition at Princeton University. “Composing is a way for me to express myself, my identity, and emotions in a way that I couldn’t in engineering.” She also performs as a flutist, pianist, and saxophonist. On her website, Shekhar calls herself a composer and multimedia artist “who explores the intersection of identity, vulnerability, love, and laughter.”

Lumina was partly inspired by Hindustani raags (ragas). Shekhar says that traditional Hindustani performers often start by hovering over a note or two before moving upward to the full scale. “Lumina follows this similar structure, also incorporating glissandi, pitch bends, and grace-note patterns to mimic traditional ornamentation,” she says. “I also incorporated significant use of microtonality to create dense clouds and contrast dark and bright scenes, mimicking light versus shadows.” Shekhar has called Lumina an exploration of the spectrum of light and dark as well as the “murkiness” between. “Using swift contrasts

COMPOSED 2020

FIRST PERFORMANCE

February 28, 2020, University of Southern California

INSTRUMENTATION

two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, percussion, harp, piano, strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME

11 minutes

These are the first Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances.

above: Nina Shekhar, photo by Shervin Lainez

between bright, sharp timbres and cloudy textures and dense harmonies, the piece captures

GUSTAV MAHLER

Born July 7, 1860; Kalischt, Bohemia

Died May 18, 1911; Vienna, Austria

sudden bursts of radiance amongst the eeriness of shadows.”

Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

In 1806, the year Napoleon crushed the Prussian army at Jena, two young poets in Heidelberg, Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano (close friends who would soon become brothers-in-law), published the first volume of Des Knaben Wunderhorn. A collection of old German folk poems (the title, The Youth’s Magic Horn, comes from the first poem in the book), Des Knaben Wunderhorn reminded the German people of their great heritage at a time when the country desperately needed a strong sense of national identity. The collection, quickly followed by two more volumes, was dedicated to Germany’s greatest living poet, Goethe, who correctly predicted that these simple texts would “gradually be carried from ear to ear and from mouth to mouth,” and that they would be returned “to the people, in the course of time, glorified and filled with new life.”

It was not long before some of Germany’s greatest composers, including Carl Maria von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann, set several of these poems to music, giving Des Knaben Wunderhorn a new life beyond even what Goethe envisioned. It was Weber’s own worn copy of Des Knaben Wunderhorn that Gustav Mahler discovered

one day many years later, in the Leipzig home of the composer’s grandson Karl, with whose wife Marion Mahler had been carrying on a passionate affair. Mahler had known Des Knaben Wunderhorn since childhood, but the chance encounter with it that day in 1887 seems to have taken hold of him in a powerful way—and suggested a new direction for his still-young career as a composer. His love for Marion von Weber would soon fade, but, for the next dozen years or so, Mahler wrote little that was not in some way inspired by Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Mahler began by setting nine Wunderhorn texts for voice and piano—a prelude, a kind of warm-up to the great outpouring of music that would soon follow. When he decided to set more Wunderhorn texts early in 1892, he composed them in versions for both piano and orchestra, leading him into largely unexplored territory, for the orchestral song was a novelty at the time. (Mahler’s few models included Berlioz’s cycle Les nuits d’étè [Summer Nights], although those songs were conceived with piano and orchestrated much later.) In fact, Mahler recognized that these works were so individual that he didn’t even know what to call them at first (his original choice was not song but “humoresque”).

Mahler’s main output during his Wunderhorn years included three enormous, revolutionary symphonies—his second, third, and fourth—each containing a single Wunderhorn song, and twelve

independent settings of poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Not even the briefest of the songs was less important to Mahler than his grandest symphony. In fact, all these pieces—the songs and the various symphonic movements—were so inextricably linked in his mind at the time that they form one great magnum opus—a large, extended family of relatives, some close and others more distant.

From 1892 to 1901—the most concentrated period of Wunderhorn composition—Mahler’s drafting of symphonies and songs was interwoven in a way unprecedented in music. In 1892 Mahler composed his first four orchestral songs on Wunderhorn texts. The following year—when he established the routine of composing only during his summer holiday— he wrote three more songs and began work on his Second Symphony (a score that itself would ultimately include one Wunderhorn song as its fourth movement and a scherzo based on yet another). And so it went, year after year, as the trilogy of so-called Wunderhorn symphonies—each of which included a song as one of its movements—and the collection of orchestral Wunderhorn songs was gradually compiled. As Mahler worked simultaneously on these two oddly matched genres, each form benefited and learned from the other—the songs took on a nearly symphonic stature, while the symphonies borrowed ideas from neighboring songs. Mahler finished the last of the symphonies—the Fourth, in G major—in 1900, and then wrote one final song, “Der Tamboursg’sell,” the following

COMPOSED

COMMENTS

January 1892–August 1901

FIRST PERFORMANCE

date unknown

INSTRUMENTATION

two flutes and two piccolos, three oboes and two english horns, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, trombone, tuba, timpani, triangle, side drum, bass drum, cymbals, rute, tam-tam, harp, strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME

29 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

Selections, January 11 and 12, 1929, Orchestra Hall. Claire Dux as soloist, Frederick Stock conducting

Selections, July 28, 1974, Ravinia Festival. Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart as soloists, Franz Allers conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

Selections, July 14, 1996, Ravinia Festival. Frederica von Stade as soloist, Semyon Bychkov conducting

Selections, October 28 and 29, 2010, Orchestra Hall. Measha Brueggergosman as soloist, Jaap van Zweden conducting

Selections, October 30, 2010, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois. Measha Brueggergosman as soloist, Jaap van Zweden conducting

CSO RECORDING

Selections, 1970. Yvonne Minton as soloist, Georg Solti conducting. London

summer, just three months before he met Alma Schindler. By 1902, the year he and Alma married and had their first child, the Wunderhorn chapter was closed for good—ending as abruptly as it had begun.

Mahler clearly never thought of these songs, written over the span of a decade, as a cycle—a strictly ordered whole— despite their close relationship. He invited singers to pick and choose from the collection, to perform songs in keys that suited them, and in whatever order they wished. “I ask at the very least that you determine the sequence of the songs yourself,” he wrote to the baritone Johannes Messchaert in 1906. Not all of the songs are suited to the same voice, and Mahler expected that some would be sung by men, others by women. (The recent fashion of performing the “dialogue” songs with two singers, each taking the part of a different character, was never sanctioned by the composer.)

The homespun Wunderhorn texts seem to have unlocked Mahler’s imagination in ways that more complex, sophisticated poetry could not. As he told Ida Dehmel, the wife of the poet Richard Dehmel, these poems were not complete in themselves, but blocks of marble waiting to be perfected. In fact, Mahler freely adapted the texts to suit his needs before he wrote a note of music (much as Arnim and Brentano had “improved” the folk poetry they published). “With songs,” he once explained to Natalie Bauer-Lechner, “you can express so much more in the music than the words directly say. The text is actually a mere indication of the deeper significance to be extracted from it, of concealed treasure.”

Each of the Wunderhorn settings is a symphonic miniature, more closely related, in scope and scale, to movements from symphonies than to art songs. The orchestral writing is sharp and graphic throughout—a wondrously apt response to each line of text (even though Mahler later admitted to Anton Webern that he didn’t understand everything in the poems). The

orchestra that Mahler calls for is never large—the instrumentation varies from song to song—and it is always used like a chamber ensemble, each strand exposed and indispensable. (When Mahler conducted the first performances, he intentionally chose small halls and modest-sized ensembles.) This week’s performances include one Wunderhorn setting better known as a symphonic movement, the hymnlike “Urlicht,” although it too was first conceived as an independent song and only later incorporated into the Second Symphony as the prelude to its finale.

The last two Wunderhorn songs that Mahler composed are among his most powerful creations. Mahler loved to tell his friends how the inspiration for “Revelge” came to him while he was sitting on the toilet, and that he emerged with the song completely sketched in his head—a typical Mahler tale in its merger of the everyday and the sublime. Whatever its origin, “Revelge” is a magnificent achievement, driven by a fierce and obsessive rage, and the day he finished orchestrating it, Mahler said it was the most successful and important of all his songs. He composed “Der Tamboursg’sell” while resting by a stream one day after lunch; he was surprised to discover later that the music perfectly fit the poem he had only half-remembered. It is the last of the Wunderhorn songs, written the fateful summer he began the Kindertotenlieder, with which it shares the same horrible pain, exposed for all to experience, like a raw nerve. “It hurt one to write them,” he said at the time, “and I grieve for the world which will one day have to hear them, so sad is their content.”

Whatever the subject, from the seemingly trivial to life’s darkest sorrows, Mahler made something deeply personal of each song, elevating plain folk material to the realm of art—turning humble vignettes into unsettling revelations. In the end, Mahler brilliantly realized Goethe’s own sense of wonder on first reading the Wunderhorn poems, that “a limited situation reveals a particular happening to be part of an infinite whole, so that we believe that in that small space, we are looking at the whole world.”

SONGS FROM DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN

RHEINLEGENDCHEN

Bald gras’ ich am Neckar, bald gras’ ich am Rhein; bald hab’ ich ein Schätzel, bald bin ich allein!

Was hilft mir das Grasen, wenn d’Sichel nicht schneid’t, was hilft mir ein Schätzel, wenn’s bei mir nicht bleibt!

So soll ich denn grasen am Neckar, am Rhein; so werf’ ich mein goldenes Ringlein hinein!

Es fließet im Neckar und fließet im Rhein, soll schwimmen hinunter in’s Meer tief hinein!

Und schwimmt es, das Ringlein, so frißt es ein Fisch! Das Fischlein soll kommen auf’s Königs sein Tisch!

Der König tät fragen, wem’s Ringlein sollt’ sein? Da tät mein Schatz sagen: “Das Ringlein g’hört mein!”

Mein Schätzlein tät springen bergauf und bergein, tät mir wied’rum bringen das Goldringlein fein!

Kannst grasen am Neckar, kannst grasen am Rhein! Wirf du mir nur immer dein Ringlein hinein!

RHINE LEGEND

Now I mow by the Neckar, now I mow by the Rhine; now I have a sweetheart, now I’m alone!

What good is mowing if the sickle doesn’t cut; what good is a sweetheart, if she doesn’t stay with me!

So should I then mow by the Neckar, by the Rhine, then I will throw my little gold ring in!

It will float in the Neckar and float in the Rhine, it shall swim right down into the deep sea.

And when it swims, the little ring, then a fish will eat it! The fish will land on the king’s table!

The king would ask, whose ring can it be? Then my sweetheart would say: “The ring belongs to me!”

My sweetheart would spring uphill and downhill, would bring back to me the fine little gold ring!

You can mow by the Neckar, you can mow by the Rhine! You can always toss in your little ring to me!

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WO DIE SCHÖNEN TROMPETEN BLASEN

Wer ist denn draußen und wer klopfet an, der mich so leise wecken kann?

Das ist der Herzallerliebste dein, steh’ auf und laß mich zu dir ein! Was soll ich hier nun länger steh’n?

Ich seh’ die Morgenröt’ aufgeh’n, die Morgenröt’ zwei helle Stern’. Bei meinem Schatz da wär’ ich gern’, Bei meinem Herzallerlieble!

Das Mädchen stand auf und ließ ihn ein; sie heißt ihn auch willkommen sein. Willkommen, lieber Knabe mein, so lang hast du gestanden!

Sie reicht’ ihm auch die schneeweiße Hand. Von ferne sang die Nachtigall; das Mädchen fing zu weinen an.

Ach weine nicht, du Liebste mein, auf’s Jahr sollst du mein Eigen sein. Mein Eigen sollst du werden gewiß, wie’s keine sonst auf Erden ist! O Lieb’ auf grüner Erden.

Ich zieh’ in Krieg auf grüne Haid’, die grüne Haide, die ist so weit! Allwo dort die schönen Trompeten blasen, da ist mein Haus, mein Haus von grünem Rasen!

REVELGE

Des Morgens zwischen drei’n und vieren, da müssen wir Soldaten marschieren, das Gäßslein auf und ab, trallali, trallaley, trallalera, mein Schätzel sieht herab!

Ach, Bruder, jetzt bin ich geschossen, die Kugel hat mich schwere, schwer getroffen, trag’ mich in mein Quartier! Trallali, trallaley, trallalera, es ist nicht weit von hier!

WHERE THE FAIR TRUMPETS SOUND

Who then is outside and who is knocking, that can so softly awaken me?

It is your dearest darling, get up and let me come to you! Why should I go on standing here? I see the red of morn arise, the red of morn, two bright stars. I long to be with my sweetheart! With my dearest darling.

The maiden got up and let him in; she bade him welcome, too.

Welcome, my dear lad! You have been standing so long!

She offered him too her snow-white hand. From far away the nightingale sang, then the maiden began to weep.

Ah, do not weep, beloved mine, after a year you will be my own. My own you shall certainly become, as is no other on earth! O love on the green earth.

I’m off to war, on the green heath, the green heath is so far away! Where there the fair trumpets sound, there is my home, my house of green grass!

REVEILLE

In the morning between three and four, we soldiers must march up and down the alley, trallali, trallaley, trallalera, my sweetheart looks down!

O brother, now I’ve been shot, the bullet has struck me hard. Carry me to my billet, trallali, trallaley, trallalera, it isn’t far from here!

Ach, Bruder, ich kann dich nicht tragen, die Feinde haben uns geschlagen! Helf’ dir der liebe Gott!

Trallali, trallaley, trallalera, ich muß marschieren bis in Tod!

Ach, Brüder, ihr geht ja mir vorüber, als wär’s mit mir vorbei!

Trallali, trallaley, trallalera, ihr tretet mir zu nah!

Ich muß wohl meine Trommel rühren, trallali, trallaley, sonst werd’ ich mich verlieren, trallali, trallaley, trallala. Die Brüder, dick gesät, sie liegen wie gemäht.

Er schlägt die Trommel auf und nieder, er wecket seine stillen Brüder, trallali, trallaley, sie schlagen und sie schlagen ihren Feind, trallali, trallaley, trallalerallala, ein Schrecken schlägt den Feind!

Er schlägt die Trommel auf und nieder, da sind sie vor dem Nachtquartier schon wieder, trallali, trallaley! In’s Gäßlein hell hinaus, sie zieh’n vor Schätzleins Haus, trallali, trallaley, trallalera, sie ziehen vor Schätzleins Haus, trallali!

Des Morgens stehen da die Gebeine in Reih’ und Glied, sie steh’n wie Leichensteine; die Trommel steht voran, daß sie ihn sehen kann, trallali, trallaley, trallalera, daß sie ihn sehen kann!

O brother, I can’t carry you, the enemy has beaten us. May the dear God help you! Trallali, trallaley, trallalera, I must march on until death!

O brothers, you go on past me as if I were done with! Trallali, trallaley, trallalera, you’re treading too near to me!

I must nevertheless beat my drum, trallali, trallaley, otherwise I will lose myself, trallali, trallaley, trallala. My brothers, thickly covering the ground, lie as if mown down.

Up and down he beats the drum, he wakes his silent brothers, trallali, trallaley, they battle and they strike their enemy, trallali, trallaley, trallalerallala, a terror smites the enemy!

Up and down he beats the drum, there they are again before their billets, trallali, trallaley! Clearly out into the alley, they draw before sweetheart’s house, trallali, trallaley, trallalera, they draw before sweetheart’s house, trallali!

In the morning there stand the skeletons in rank and file, they stand like tombstones. The drum stands in front, so that it can see him. Trallali, trallaley, trallalera, so that it can see him!

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COMMENTS

DER TAMBOURSG’SELL

Ich armer Tamboursg’sell!

Man führt mich aus dem G’wölb!

Wär ich ein Tambour blieben, dürft’ ich nicht gefangen liegen!

O Galgen, du hohes Haus, du siehst so furchtbar aus!

Ich schau dich nicht mehr an!

Weil i weiß, daß i g’hör d’ran!

Wenn Soldaten vorbei marschier’n, bei mir nit einquartier’n; wenn sie fragen, was i g’wesen bin: Tambour von der Leibkompanie!

Gute Nacht! Ihr Marmelstein!

Ihr Berg’ und Hügelein!

Gute Nacht, ihr Offizier, Korporal und Musketier!

Gute Nacht!

Gute Nacht ihr Offizier!

Korporal und Grenadier!

Ich schrei mit heller Stimm: von Euch ich Urlaub nimm!

Gute Nacht!

URLICHT

O Röschen rot!

Der Mensch liegt in größter Not!

Der Mensch liegt in größter Pein!

Je lieber möcht’ ich im Himmel sein!

Da kam ich auf einen breiten Weg. Da kam ein Engelein und wollt’ mich abweisen.

Ach nein, ich ließ mich nicht abweisen!

Ich bin von Gott, und will wieder zu Gott!

Der liebe Gott wird mir ein Lichtchen geben, wird leuchten mir bis in das ewig selig Leben!

THE DRUMMER BOY

I, poor drummer boy! They are leading me out of the dungeon! If I’d remained a drummer, I would not lie imprisoned!

O gallows, you tall house, you look so frightening! I don’t look at you any more! Because I know that’s where I belong!

When soldiers march past, that are not billeted with me, when they ask who I was: drummer of the first company!

Good night, you marble rocks! You mountains and hills! Good night, you officers, corporals, and musketeers! Good night!

Good night, you officers! Corporals and grenadiers!

I cry out with a clear voice: I take leave of you! Good night!

ORIGINAL LIGHT

O little red rose! Man lies in greatest need! Man lies in greatest pain! Even more would I rather be in heaven!

There I came upon a broad path. There came an angel and wanted to turn me away.

Ah no, I would not be turned away!

I am from God and want to return to God! The loving God will give me a little of the light, will illuminate me to the eternal blessed life!

—Translations © 2002, Dr. Renate Stark-Voit and Thomas Hampson

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Born December 16, 1770; Bonn, Germany

Died March 26, 1827; Vienna, Austria

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

This is the symphony that, along with an image of Beethoven, looking agitated and disheveled, has come to represent greatness in music. In fact, many people know only the very opening seconds, just as they may remember vividly and accurately no more than the Mona Lisa’s smile, or the first ten words of Hamlet’s soliloquy. It’s hard to know how so few notes, so plainly strung together, could become so popular. There are certainly those who would argue that this isn’t even Beethoven’s greatest symphony, just as the Mona Lisa isn’t Leonardo’s finest painting—Beethoven himself preferred his Eroica to the Fifth Symphony. And yet, it’s hardly famous beyond its merits, for one can’t easily think of another single composition that, in its expressive range and structural power, better represents what music is all about.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony has spoken forcefully and directly to many listeners—trained and untrained—over the years; we each listen and understand in our own way. We can probably find ourselves somewhere here, among the characters of E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End:

Whether you are like Mrs. Munt, and tap surreptitiously when the tunes come—of course not so as to disturb the others; or like Helen, who can see heroes and shipwrecks in the music’s flood; or like Margaret, who can only see the music; or like Tibby, who is profoundly versed in counterpoint, and holds the full score open on his knee; or like their cousin, Fräulein Mosebach, who remembers all the time that Beethoven is “echt Deutsch”; or like Fräulein Mosebach’s young man, who can remember nothing but Fräulein Mosebach: in any case, the passion of your life becomes more vivid, and you are bound to admit that such a noise is cheap at two shillings.

That is why we still go to concerts, and, whether we see shipwrecks or hear dominant sevenths, we may well agree, when

COMPOSED

1804–08

FIRST PERFORMANCE

December 22, 1808; Vienna, Austria

INSTRUMENTATION

two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons and contrabassoon, two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME

36 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

October 16 and 17, 1891, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting

July 18, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Willem van Hoogstraten conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

August 1, 2019, Ravinia Festival. Rafael Payare conducting

January 13 and 15, 2022, Orchestra Hall. Riccardo Muti conducting

January 14, 2022, Chodl Auditorium, Morton East High School. Riccardo Muti conducting

CSO RECORDINGS

1944. Désiré Defauw conducting. CSO (From the Archives, vol. 17: Beethoven)

1959. Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA

1961. George Szell conducting. VAI (video)

1968. Seiji Ozawa conducting. RCA

1973. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London

1986. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London

1990. Sir Georg Solti conducting. CBS/Sony (video)

1994. James Levine conducting. Disney (excerpts from the first movement for Fantasia 2000)

above: Ludwig van Beethoven, portrait in oil by Joseph Willibrord Mähler (1778–1860), 1804. Archive for Art and History, Berlin, Germany

caught up in a captivating performance, “that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”

For a while, this piece was somewhat overshadowed by the Ninth Symphony, which seemed to point the way to the rest of the nineteenth century and emboldened generations of composers to think differently of the symphony, or of music in general. But the Fifth has never really lost its appeal. Robert Schumann, whose musical predictions have often come true, wrote that “this symphony invariably wields its power over men of every age like those great phenomena of nature. . . . This symphony, too, will be heard in future centuries, nay, as long as music and the world exist.” It is surely no coincidence that Theodore Thomas, the first music director of the Chicago Symphony, included this symphony on the Orchestra’s inaugural concert in 1891, as well as the concert given in 1904 to dedicate Orchestra Hall. “I care not from what the station in life come the thousands who sit before me,” Thomas once told a reporter. “Beethoven will teach each according to his needs.”

A familiarity earned by only a handful of pieces in any century has largely blunted much of the work’s wild power for our ears today. And, knowing the many works that couldn’t have been written without this as their example has blinded us to the novelty of Beethoven’s boldest strokes: the cross-reference between the famous opening and the fortissimo horn call in the scherzo, the way the scherzo passes directly—and dramatically—into the finale, and the memory of the scherzo that appears unexpectedly in the finale—all forging the four movements of the symphony into one unified design. The idea of a symphony tracing the journey from strife to victory is commonplace today, but Beethoven’s Fifth was an entirely new kind of symphony in his day.

There’s no way to know what the first audience thought. For one thing, that concert, given at the Theater an der Wien on December 22, 1808, was

so inordinately long (even by nineteenth-century standards), and jammed with so much important new music, that no one could truly have taken it all in. Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who shared a box with Prince Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz, later wrote: “There we sat from 6:30 till 10:30 in the most bitter cold, and found by experience that one might have too much even of a good thing.”

Reichardt and Lobkowitz stayed till the end, their patience frequently tried not by the music— to which these two brought more understanding than most—but by the performance, which was rough and unsympathetic. Surely some in the audience that night were bowled over by what they heard, though many may well have fidgeted and daydreamed, uncomprehending, or perhaps even bored. Beethoven’s was not yet the most popular music ever written, and even as great a figure as Goethe would outlive Beethoven without coming to terms with the one composer who was clearly his equal. As late as 1830, Mendelssohn tried one last time to interest the aging poet in Beethoven’s music, enthusiastically playing the first movement of the Fifth Symphony at the piano. “But that does not move one,” Goethe responded, “it is merely astounding, grandiose.”

Take the celebrated opening, which Beethoven once, in a moment he surely regretted, likened to Fate knocking at the door. It is bold and simple, and like many of the mottoes of our civilization, susceptible to all manner of popular treatments, none of which can diminish the power of the original. Beethoven writes eight notes, four plus four—the first ta-ta-ta-TUM falling from G down to E-flat, the second from F to D. For all the force of those hammer strokes, we may be surprised that only strings and clarinets play them. Hearing those eight notes and no more, we can’t yet say for certain whether this is E-flat major or C minor. As soon as Beethoven continues, we hear that urgent knocking as part of a grim and driven music in C minor. But when the exposition is repeated, and we start over from the top with E-flat major chords still ringing in our ears, those same ta-ta-ta-TUM

BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH: AN INAUGURAL FAVORITE

In early 1889, Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay encountered Theodore Thomas—then one of the most famous conductors in the United States—in New York. Thomas had fallen on hard times, his wife gravely ill, and his eponymous touring orchestra recently disbanded. According to Fay in the February 1910 Outlook, “My thoughts went back to those ten years of Summer Garden Concerts [in Chicago], and to some powerful and devoted friends of Mr. Thomas and his music at home, and I asked, ‘Would you come to Chicago if we could give you a permanent orchestra?’

The answer, grim and sincere, and entirely destitute of intentional humor, came back like a flash: ‘I would go to hell if they gave me a permanent orchestra.’ ”

Fay returned to Chicago and quickly found support for a new orchestra. The Orchestral Association first met on December 17, 1890, and less than a year later, on October 16 and 17, 1891 (and 132 years ago next week), the Chicago Orchestra gave its first performances at the Auditorium Theatre under Thomas’s baton. The centerpiece of those concerts was our founder’s favorite work, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, along with Wagner’s A Faust Overture, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with Rafael Joseffy, and Dvořák’s Husitská Overture.

“It has been stated that the Orchestral Association’s contract with Mr. Thomas stipulated that he should in the Chicago Orchestra give to the city an organization the peer of the finest in the United States. Yesterday’s public rehearsal at the Auditorium by that orches tra showed that Mr. Thomas has filled his contract,” reported the Chicago Tribune on October 17. “Thomas has long been known for his ability to quickly bring newly formed orchestras into condition for satisfactory work, but in this instance he has fairly surpassed himself, the results being simply astonishing. . . . The body of the tone produced is superb, possessing a vitality, a

Orchestra’s centennial and 125th seasons by Sir Georg Solti in 1991 and Riccardo Muti in 2015, respectively; and the opening of Symphony Center on October 4, 1997, led by Daniel Barenboim.

Frank Villella is the director of the Rosenthal Archives. For more information, please visit cso.org/archives

above: Program cover for the Chicago Orchestra’s inaugural concerts on October 16 and 17, 1891

patterns sound like they belong to E-flat major. That ambiguity and tension are at the heart of this furious music—just as the struggle to break from C minor, where this movement settles, into the brilliance of C major—and will carry us to the end of the symphony.

If one understands and remembers those four measures, much of what happens during the next thirty-odd minutes will seem both familiar and logical. We can hear Fate knocking at the door of nearly every measure in the first movement. The forceful horn call that introduces the second theme, for example, mimics both the rhythm and the shape of the symphony’s opening. (We also can notice the similarity to the beginning of the Fourth Piano Concerto—and, in fact, ideas for both works can be found in the same sketchbooks, those rich hunting grounds where brilliance often emerges in flashes from a disarray matched by the notorious condition of the composer’s lodgings.)

Although the first movement is launched with the energy and urgency of those first notes, its progress is stalled periodically by echoes of the two long-held notes in the first bars; in the recapitulation a tiny, but enormously expressive oboe cadenza serves the same purpose. The extensive coda is particularly satisfying not because it effectively concludes a dramatic and powerful movement, but because it uncovers still new depths of drama and power at a point when that seems unthinkable.

The Andante con moto is a distant relative of the theme and variations that often turn up as slow movements in classical symphonies. But unlike the conventional type, it presents two different themes, varies them separately, and then trails off into a free improvisation that covers a wide range of thoughts, each springing almost spontaneously from the last. The sequence of events is so unpredictable, and the meditative tone so seductive that, in the least assertive movement of the symphony, Beethoven commands our attention to the final sentence.

Beethoven was the first to notice his scherzo’s resemblance to the opening of the finale of

Mozart’s great G minor symphony—he even wrote out Mozart’s first measures on a page of sketches for this music—but while the effect there is decisive and triumphant, here it is clouded with half-uttered questions. Beethoven begins with furtive music, inching forward in the low strings, then stumbling on the horns, who let loose with their own rendition of Fate at the door. At some point, when Beethoven realized that the scherzo was part of a bigger scheme, he decided to leave it unfinished and move directly, through one of the most famous passages in music—slowly building in tension and drama, over the ominous, quiet pounding of the timpani—to an explosion of brilliant C major. Composers have struggled ever since to match the effect, not just of binding movements together—that much has been successfully copied—but of emerging so dramatically from darkness to light. The sketchbooks tell us that these fifty measures cost Beethoven considerable effort, and, most surprisingly, that they weren’t even part of the original plan. Berlioz thought this transition so stunning that it would be impossible to surpass it in what follows. Beethoven, perfectly understanding the challenge—and also that of sustaining the victory of C major once it has been achieved—adds trombones (used in symphonic music for the first time), the piccolo, and the contrabassoon to the first burst of C major and moves forward toward his final stroke of genius.

That moment comes amid general rejoicing, when the ghost of the scherzo quietly appears, at once disrupting C major with unexpected memories of C minor and leaving everyone temporarily hushed and shaken. Beethoven quickly restores order, and the music begins again as if nothing has happened. But Beethoven still finds it necessary to end with fifty-four measures of the purest C major to remind us of the conquest, not the struggle.

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

PROFILES

Jaap van Zweden Conductor

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

October 9, 10, 11, and 14, 2008, Orchestra Hall. Bruckner’s Symphony no. 5

July 7, 2012, Ravinia Festival. Mahler’s Symphony no. 6

MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

April 21, 22, 23, and 24, 2022, Orchestra Hall. Mahler’s Symphony no. 6

Jaap van Zweden began his tenure as the twenty-sixth music director of the New York Philharmonic in 2018. Also music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic since 2012, he becomes music director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in 2024. He has conducted orchestras on three continents and has made guest appearances in Europe and in the United States.

In 2023–24 Jaap van Zweden, in his final season with the New York Philharmonic, celebrates his bond with the orchestra’s musicians by directing performances in which six of them appear as soloists. Until the end of his tenure, which includes the reopening of the rebuilt David Geffen Hall, he leads the orchestra in world, U.S., and New York premieres of thirty-one works, among them those commissioned as part of Project 19, which celebrates the centenary of the Nineteenth Amendment with new works by nineteen women composers.

Highlights of the 2022–23 season with the New York Philharmonic included SPIRIT, a musical expression of the trials and triumphs of the human spirit, with performances of Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie and Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, as well as EARTH, a response to the climate crisis with Julia Wolfe’s unearth and John Luther Adams’s Become Desert.

Jaap van Zweden’s recordings with the New York Philharmonic include the world premiere

of David Lang’s Prisoner of the State (2020) and Wolfe’s Grammy Award–nominated Fire in my mouth (2019), both released on the Decca Gold label. He led the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in the Hong Kong premiere of Wagner’s Ring cycle, released on the Naxos label. His acclaimed performances of Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal—for which he received the prestigious Edison Award for Best Opera Recording in 2012—are available on CD and DVD.

Born in Amsterdam, Jaap van Zweden was appointed the youngest concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the age of nineteen and began his conducting career almost twenty years later, in 1996. In April 2023 van Zweden received the Concertgebouw Prize for exceptional contributions to the orchestra’s artistic profile. He is conductor emeritus of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and honorary chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, of which he was chief conductor from 2005 to 2013. He was also principal conductor of the Royal Flanders Orchestra (2008–11) and music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (2008–18). Under his direction, the Hong Kong Philharmonic was named Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year 2019. He was named Conductor of the Year by Musical America in 2012 and was the subject of a CBS 60 Minutes portrait in 2018 to mark the start of his tenure with the New York Philharmonic.

In 1997 Jaap van Zweden and his wife Aaltje founded the Papageno Foundation to support families of children with autism. The foundation, which provides at-home music therapy through a nationwide network in the Netherlands, opened the Papageno House in 2015, where young adults with autism can live, work, and participate in the community, and recently launched the TEAMPapageno app, which allows children with autism to communicate with each other through music composition.

PHOTO BY © BRAD TRENT

Christian Gerhaher Baritone

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

May 3, 5, and 8, 2007, Orchestra Hall. Brahms’s A German Requiem, Kent Nagano conducting May 4, 2007; Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin. Brahms’s A German Requiem, Kent Nagano conducting

During his studies under Paul Kuën and Raimund Grumbach, German baritone Christian Gerhaher attended the Opera School of the Academy of Music in Munich, where he studied lieder interpretation with Friedemann Berger. In addition to studying medicine, he perfected his vocal training in master classes given by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Inge Borkh. At present, Gerhaher, with his regular accompanist, Gerold Huber, holds a class in lieder interpretation at the Munich Academy of Music and Theatre and occasionally teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Together with Huber, Gerhaher has devoted himself to lieder for well over thirty years, in concerts and recordings, and they have been awarded several major prizes, among them the Gramophone Award, the BBC Music Award, and the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award. This season, Gerhaher and Huber can be heard in recital in Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Milan, Hamburg, Essen, Cologne, Berlin, and at the festivals in Munich and Salzburg. He returned as guest with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko, this time in the Song Scene from Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Sodom and Gomorrah, based on texts from Jean Giraudoux’s

drama of the same name; as well as at Sir Simon Rattle’s inaugural concerts as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also appears in Stockholm, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Prague and Jakub Hrůša.

In the field of opera, Gerhaher received the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award as well as the theater prize, Der Faust. In his key roles of Wolfram and Wozzek he is a regular guest at the most prestigious opera houses of the world, including the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) in London, the Bavarian State Opera, the Salzburg Easter Festival, and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. At the end of 2023, he makes his Metropolitan Opera debut. The Bavarian Radio Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, and the Wigmore Hall in London have all chosen the baritone as artist-in-residence.

Christian Gerhaher is an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist. With Gerold Huber, song cycles by Schubert, Schumann, and Mahler, among others, are available on the label. In 2021 the duo released all of Schumann’s songs in a box set entitled Schumann: Alle Lieder, a coproduction with Bavarian Radio and Heidelberg Frühling. In 2022 the recordings of Othmar Schoeck’s Elegy with the Basel Chamber Orchestra and Holliger, Holliger’s Lunea (on ECM), and Rihm’s Stabat mater with Tabea Zimmermann, as well as Gerhaher’s Lyric Diary (a collection of essays on song interpretation), were published by C.H. Beck-Verlag. Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, with tenor partner Piotr Beczała and Huber at the piano, was released in May 2023.

Christian Gerhaher and his wife live with their three children in Munich.

PHOTO BY © GREGOR HOHENBERG

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

* 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.

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

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 Manager, 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

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 Coordinator, 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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