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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
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Jeff Alexander President Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association
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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 HONOR ARY 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
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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
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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.” c l o c k w i s e f r o m t o p : Riccardo Muti conducts Muti begins his new role in September, consoloists and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and ducting two weeks of concerts in Chicago to Chorus in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. Seen here open the Orchestra’s 133rd season, followed is the June 23 performance, after which his new title was announced. | The proclamation, which by two performances at New York’s Carnegie declares Muti as music director emeritus for life, is Hall on October 4 and 5. In January, Muti leads presented in an onstage ceremony. | Muti holds the CSO on a three-week European tour with the framed proclamation, as Jeff Alexander and Mary Louise Gorno, chair of the CSOA Board of announced performances in Belgium, France, Trustees, lead the applause. 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.
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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 C O N D U C T O R
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.
c l o c k w i s e f r o m t o p l e f t: 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
The Triumph of the Octagon is commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the Helen Zell Commissioning Program.
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November 9–11
May 30–31 and June 1
CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS Indigo Heaven
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Percussion Concerto
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.
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.
John Storgårds C O N D U C T O R Stephen Williamson C L A R I N E T
March 21–24 LOWELL LIEBERMANN Flute Concerto No. 2
Susanna Mälkki C O N D U C T O R Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson F L U T E 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.
Adapted from a February 2023 Experience CSO article by Kyle MacMillan. Full article available at cso.org/experience
Manfred Honeck C O N D U C T O R Cynthia Yeh P E R C U S S I O N
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ore 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). 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.
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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. Jessie Montgomery takes a bow during a CSO MusicNOW concert conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya, on October 24, 2022.
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Montgomery and the Blacknificent 7
Jessie Montgomery & Curtis Stewart
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.
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.
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SO MusicNOW continues with performances on the orchestral concert series including Montgomery’s Percussion Concerto (June 1) and The Elements with Joshua Bell (June 15).
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James Gaffigan Conductor Conrad Tao Piano BARBER
Overture to The School for Scandal
GERSHWIN
Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra Allegro Adagio—Andante con moto Allegro agitato C O N R A D TA O
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Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
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COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher SAMUEL BARBER
COMPOSED
Born March 9, 1910; West Chester, Pennsylvania Died January 23, 1981; New York City
1931
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Overture to The School for Scandal
August 30, 1933; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania I N S T R U M E N TAT I O N
Samuel Barber was one of the lucky ones. His talent was discovered early and nourished by an unusually musical family. (His aunt was the distinguished Metropolitan Opera contralto Louise Homer.) He began playing piano at the age of six and composing at seven. When, at nine, he informed his parents he intended to be a composer—words parents seldom greet with joy or sympathy—he was encouraged. “Dear Mother,” his confession begins, I have written to tell you my worrying secret. . . . To begin with I was not meant to be an athlet [sic]. I was meant to be a composer and will be I am sure. I’ll ask you one more thing—Don’t ask me to try and forget this unpleasant thing and go and play football.” At the age of fourteen, Samuel became a charter student at the new Curtis Institute of Music, with a triple major: piano, voice, and composition. He studied conducting briefly with Fritz Reiner (later music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), who said he had no talent on the podium. Several of his student compositions, however, were the work of an advanced composer, and a few, including Dover Beach and the Cello Sonata, have earned permanent places in the repertoire. His very first orchestral score, the Overture to The School for Scandal performed to open this concert, was an immediate hit—and when the Philadelphia Orchestra gave the world premiere in 1933, Barber was just twenty-three years old. Success followed success. In 1937 his Symphony no. 1 was the first music by an American to be performed at the Salzburg Festival. (Later, his Vanessa was the first American opera to be staged there.) Barber’s music was performed and championed by some of the most celebrated figures of his day—Vladimir t h i s pa g e , f r o m t o p : Samuel Barber, seated, making notes on his music, 1938. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. Portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) by John Hoppner (1758–1810), ca. 1788–92. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia o p p o s i t e pa g e : The School for Scandal (Thalia’s [the muse of comedy] Frolick or the Drury Lane Bug’a’boo!), a humerous sketch—by Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827) and Henry Wigstead (ca. 1745–1793)—from the play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816). Google Art Project. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
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two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, celesta, strings A P P R OX I M AT E PERFORMANCE TIME
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FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
March 7 and 8, 1940, Orchestra Hall. Frederick Stock conducting July 15, 1954, Ravinia Festival. Alfred Wallenstein conducting MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES
July 15, 2012, Ravinia Festival. James Conlon conducting April 17, 18, 19, and 22, 2014, Orchestra Hall. Leonard Slatkin conducting CSO RECORDING
1966. Thomas Schippers conducting. CSO (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: The First 100 Years)
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Horowitz introduced the Piano Sonata; Arturo Toscanini the First Essay for Orchestra and the famous Adagio for Strings; Leontyne Price regularly sang many of the songs; Barber wrote Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for Eleanor Steber and his ballet Medea for Martha Graham. Bruno Walter, the great Austrian conductor, first heard Barber’s music courtesy of Toscanini, and he was so impressed that he commissioned Barber to write a Second Essay for Orchestra, as a companion to the one Toscanini had premiered.
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hile Barber was still a student, he decided to write this concert overture based on Sheridan’s comedy of manners, The School for Scandal, while he was vacationing on the shores of Lake Lugano in northern Italy. The Curtis Institute accepted it as his graduation thesis but made no effort to help Barber get it performed. After the overture won Columbia University’s Bearns Prize, the Philadelphia Orchestra surprised both Barber
and the music world by deciding to play it at a Robin Hood Dell concert—a first orchestral score by an unknown composer premiered by one of the country’s leading orchestras. The overture is so brilliant and assured that it is hard to remember that it is the work of a twenty-one-year-old student. It was Barber’s idea to capture the wit and spirit of the eighteenth-century play rather than suggest the narrative thrust of Sheridan’s comedy. After an introductory flourish, Barber begins with delightfully animated music—it breathes the air of the theater, even though this music was never intended as part of a staging of the play—and follows with the earliest of his grand lyrical orchestral themes. The overture is cannily paced and masterfully structured—there is a quick, dazzling coda to wrap things up. It is a work of considerable promise, but more surprisingly, one that stands firmly on its own, even in the light of all the music that was soon to follow. S E P T E M B E R– NOV E M B E R 2 0 2 3
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GEORGE GERSHWIN Born September 26, 1898; Brooklyn, New York Died July 11, 1937; Hollywood, California
Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra In 1919, when George Gershwin scored his first big hit with the song “Swanee,” and the arch-modernist Arnold Schoenberg was developing the twelve-tone system, it seemed unlikely that these two men would ever cross paths. In fact, they became friends. Each recognized that the other had made an indelible impact on twentiethcentury music. In 1937, when Gershwin died of a brain tumor at the age of thirty-eight, Schoenberg wrote: Music to him was the air he breathed, the food which nourished him, the drink that refreshed him. Music was what made him feel, and music the feeling he expressed. Directness of this kind is given only to great men, and there is no doubt that he was a great composer. Gershwin’s true greatness was in the natural way he closed the gap between commercial and serious music, and he was talented enough to succeed brilliantly in both worlds. As Schoenberg once noted, surely with a touch of envy, Gershwin was the rare composer “whose feelings actually coincide with those of the ‘average man in the street.’ ” After the success of “Swanee,” Gershwin had a steady stream of hits (and made the kind of money that is unheard of in the classical-music business), but he was determined to write serious music that was equally popular. He even asked Ravel and Stravinsky for lessons. Ravel declined; when Stravinsky learned that Gershwin earned $100,000 a year, he allegedly suggested that Gershwin give him lessons instead. For all their jazzy rhythms, bluesy harmonies, and big Broadway melodies, Gershwin’s most important—and beloved— works are written in the traditional European forms. An American in Paris is really a tone poem for orchestra (Gershwin gives it that subtitle on the first page of the orchestral manuscript), and Porgy and Bess is an opera. The most classical of all Gershwin’s works is the Concerto in F for piano and orchestra, written in the form established by Mozart and Beethoven. It was commissioned by the conductor Walter Damrosch, who, astonished by the originality and brilliance of Rhapsody in Blue,
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July 22–November 10, 1925 FIRST PERFORMANCE
December 3, 1925, New York City. The composer as soloist I N S T R U M E N TAT I O N
piano, two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, slapstick, xylophone, strings A P P R OX I M AT E PERFORMANCE TIME
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FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
June 14, 1933, Auditorium Theatre. The composer as soloist, William Daly conducting (Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress International Exposition) July 25, 1936, Ravinia Festival. The composer as soloist, William Daly conducting March 15 and 16, 1945, Orchestra Hall. Oscar Levant as soloist, Désiré Defauw conducting MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES
May 25, 27, and 30, 2017, Orchestra Hall. Inon Barnatan as soloist, Jesús López-Cobos conducting July 13, 2019, Ravinia Festival. Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist, Andrew Litton conducting CSO RECORDING
1976. Lorin Hollander as soloist, James Levine conducting. CSO (From the Archives, vol. 18: A Tribute to James Levine)
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immediately asked Gershwin for a concerto “proper.” Gershwin’s first biographer, Isaac Goldberg, claimed that after accepting Damrosch’s commission, Gershwin went out to buy a book on musical form to see how a concerto was constructed. (Gershwin may have wanted a refresher course, but he was far from untrained; for several years he had studied harmony, orchestration, and musical form with Edward Kilenyi.) But Gershwin had talents no other American composer at the time could touch: he possessed a phenomenal gift for melody and a natural feeling for dramatic pacing that no textbook could ever teach him, and he seemed to know innately what audiences would like, remember, and want to hear again.
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n the first movement, Gershwin’s lively, abundant ideas and classical sonata form are sometimes an uneasy fit (the development section, in particular, is mostly variation and vamping). But the material is inspired throughout, and Gershwin, like a great actor or comedian, has an uncanny knack for timing. The slow central movement combines song form with the classically defined rondo. It is really a big blues number for piano, with a wonderfully sultry solo for the muted trumpet. The third movement is a brief rondo that reprises themes from the earlier movements and ends, in the best Broadway
fashion, with a “grandioso” return of the main theme of the opening movement. The Concerto in F stands as one of the high points in the merger of European sensibilities with the freedom, rhythmic excitement, and bravado of jazz and American musical theater—a new tradition fostered alike by the Europeans Stravinsky and Milhaud (both of whom scooped
o p p o s i t e pa g e : George Gershwin, ca. 1920s–early 1930s. Bain News Service, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. | t h i s pa g e : In conjunction with the 1933 World’s Fair, several concerts were given at the Auditorium Theatre under the auspices of the Chicago Friends of Music. The first concert of the series, on June 14, was a celebration of American music and featured not only Gershwin’s debut but also the Orchestra’s first performance of the composer’s Concerto in F, An American in Paris, and Rhapsody in Blue.
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Gershwin in their efforts, but could not match his success) and the Americans Copland and Bernstein. The true significance of Gershwin’s achievement was too little appreciated at the time. Only a week before his death, Gershwin complained to a friend about the indifference he encountered in Hollywood: “I had to live for this?” he asked. “That Sam Goldwyn should
say to me: ‘Why don’t you write hits like Irving Berlin?’ ” But few composers were as widely loved during their lifetime as Gershwin. His premature death came as a shock to the American public—the novelist John O’Hara said, “I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to”—and it was recognized, even then, as an incalculable loss to American music.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Born August 25, 1918; Lawrence, Massachusetts Died October 14, 1990, New York City
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Originally it was the story of a Jew and a Catholic falling in love during the time of Easter and Passover. Later, when the subject was switched to ethnic gang warfare in New York City, it was (in all seriousness) called Gangway! But when it opened on Broadway in 1957 as West Side Story, the shape of American musical theater was changed forever, just as Leonard Bernstein had predicted. The initial idea came from Jerome Robbins, whose smart and flashy choreography would contribute so decisively to the final product. In 1949, while Robbins was coaching actor Montgomery Clift on how to play Romeo in a more contemporary manner, Robbins began to envision an updated version of the Shakespeare play. Bernstein’s own log suggests that he realized the show’s broader implications, as well as its enormous challenges, as soon as Robbins contacted him—on January 6, 1949, he wrote:
Jerry R. called today with a noble idea: a modern version of Romeo and Juliet set in slums at the coincidence of Easter-Passover celebrations. . . . But it’s all much less important than the bigger idea of making a musical that tells a tragic story in musicalcomedy terms, using only musical-comedy techniques, never falling into the “operatic” trap. Can it succeed? It hasn’t yet in our country. I’m excited. If it can work—it’s the first. But various postponements and interruptions (a musical version of Candide among them), several creative impasses, and Bernstein’s increasingly busy schedule kept the modern Romeo off the boards for another eight years. Finally, on February 1, 1957, Bernstein wrote in his diary: “Candide is on and gone; the philharmonic has been conducted; back to Romeo. From here on, nothing shall disturb the project.” And this time he was right. By then the working title was East Side Story, but when it was discovered that the tenements on that side of Manhattan had all
t h i s pa g e : Leonard Bernstein, portrait, ca. 1950s | o p p o s i t e pa g e : Earl Wilson (1907–1987), Arthur Laurents (1917–2011), Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome Robbins (1918–1998) outside Sardi’s restaurant on opening night of West Side Story, September 26, 1957. (Photo by Ben Martin/Getty Images)
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been razed, the setting was switched to the gang-dominated stretches of the Upper West Side. West Side Story opened on Broadway on September 26, 1957. Although the reviews were not entirely enthusiastic—Harold Clurman, writing in The Nation, found it “phony,” and accused Bernstein and his colleagues of slumming to make money— nearly everyone seemed to agree that fresh air had at last blown through Broadway. West Side Story ran for nearly two years (tallying 722 performances), toured nationally for another year, and then returned to New York City for an additional 253 performances. Bernstein’s music became overwhelmingly popular throughout the country almost at once, and over the next few years his publisher was kept busy printing editions of songs, selections, and highlights from the score as well as arrangements for guitar, Baldwin organ, and even accordion. In 1961, shortly after they had completed the scoring for the film version of the musical, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal prepared a suite of symphonic dances from West Side Story under the composer’s supervision. (Ramin and Kostal proposed a list of numbers and Bernstein determined a running order.) The principal sections are a prologue, depicting the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks; “Somewhere,” in which the gangs unite in friendship; a scherzo depicting a visionary world of open space, fresh air, and sun; a combative mambo; a cha-cha treatment of “Maria”; the lovers’ first meeting; a fugue on “Cool”; the climactic gang rumble; and the tragic finale, based on “I Have a Love.” Like the musical, the suite ends with a haunting, unresolved chord.
two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets, E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet, alto saxophone, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, percussion (pitched drums, jazz drum set, snare drums, bass drum, conga drum, cymbals, suspended cymbals, finger cymbals, tambourine, gourds, maracas, cowbells, woodblock, tom-toms, bongos, triangle, timbales, tam-tam, police whistle, xylophone, vibraphone, chime, glockenspiel), timpani, harp, piano, celesta, strings A P P R OX I M AT E PERFORMANCE TIME
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FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
October 27, 1962, Orchestra Hall. Arthur Fiedler conducting (selections)
August 12, 1967, Ravinia Festival. Seiji Ozawa conducting MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES
January 18 and 20, 2018, Orchestra Hall. Rafael Payare conducting August 3, 2022, Ravinia Festival. Wayne Marshall conducting CSO RECORDINGS
1997. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Teldec 1998. Renée Fleming and Plácido Domingo as soloists, Daniel Barenboim conducting. London (Prologue, “Tonight,” Rumble, and “Somewhere”)
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SILVESTRE REVUELTAS Born December 31, 1899; Durango, Mexico Died October 5, 1940; Mexico City, Mexico
Sensemayá Born on the last day of the nineteenth century, Silvestre Revueltas helped to lead the music of Mexico into a new era. His was a brief, difficult, and colorful life. He lived and worked in Mexico City; Mobile, Alabama; San Antonio, Texas; and Chicago. He fought for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, periodically spent time in mental institutions, and died of alcoholism at the age of forty. Revueltas did not begin to compose seriously until the last ten years of his life, and his career is largely one of unfulfilled promise. He is something of a tragic figure, like the alcoholic hero of Under the Volcano, the Mexican novel by Malcolm Lowry, who lived in Cuernavaca during Revueltas’s final years. “I do not think I was a child prodigy,” Revueltas has written, “but I showed some inclination for music quite early, as the result of which I became a professional musician.” Silvestre started to play the violin at the age of seven, and at thirteen, he went to Mexico City to study violin and composition. Three years later, he decided to further his studies abroad—not in Europe, but in the United States, first at Saint Edward College in Austin, Texas, and then, for two years beginning in 1918, at Chicago Musical College, where he studied violin under Leon Sametini and composition under Felix Borowski, who also was the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony. (The Orchestra did not play Revueltas’s music until after Borowski’s death in 1956, denying him the pleasure of writing about his own student’s progress.) Revueltas returned to Mexico in 1920, and, although he later spent more time in Chicago and elsewhere in this country, Mexico remained his home for the rest of his life. In 1929 Carlos Chávez, an influential composer, conductor, and pianist, asked Revueltas to serve as assistant conductor of the Mexico t h i s pa g e : Silvestre Revueltas, ca. 1930 o p p o s i t e pa g e : The Five-cent Café, watercolor on paper, 1930, by Fermín Revueltas (1903–1935), who was a student at the Art Institute of Chicago while his elder brother Silvestre attended Chicago Musical College during the period they lived in the city. Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico. Google Art Project
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two flutes and two piccolos, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets, E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet, three bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, piano, strings A P P R OX I M AT E PERFORMANCE TIME
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FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
July 16, 1959, Ravinia Festival. Carlos Chávez conducting
December 16, 17, and 18, 2010, Orchestra Hall. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble, Michael Mulcahy conducting (arranged for brass by Bruce Roberts) MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES
December 18, 19, and 20, 2014, Orchestra Hall. Carlos Miguel Prieto conducting CSO RECORDING
2010. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass, Michael Mulcahy conducting (arranged for brass by Bruce Roberts). CSO Resound
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Symphony Orchestra. (They had toured together in the mid-1920s, giving twenty-six recitals of music for violin and piano.) Revueltas settled in Mexico City, became one of the principal players in the development of musical life there, and began to devote more of his time to serious composition.
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n many ways, Revueltas was a self-made composer. Despite his training in conservatories in Mexico City and Chicago, he always said he never learned much there, but later “found better teachers in the Mexican people and my country.” He remained indifferent to many of the conventions of music and musical form. The novelist and composer Paul Bowles has remarked how Revueltas epitomized the true revolutionary to a younger generation of Mexican musicians, because he “went straight toward the thing to be said, paying as little attention as possible to the means of saying it.” Revueltas’s musical style draws from many sources. “I like all kinds of music,” he said. “I can even stand some of the classics, and some of my own works, but I prefer the music of the people of the ranches and villages of my country.” The way his compositions reflect the music of Mexico and the spirit of its people has always attracted notice. “I have never used popular or folkloric themes,” he said by way of clarification, “but most of the tunes, or rather motifs, that I have used have a popular character.” Like the great Spaniard Manuel de Falla, Revueltas’s absorption of his country’s indigenous style is complete. As Paul Bowles wrote, “there was an intuition functioning that transformed folk music into art music with a minimum of purity lost.”
Revueltas’s major works all date from the 1930s (he completed his first orchestral score, Cuauhnáhuac, in 1930). This was an unusually rich and exciting time for the Mexican arts, with the painter Diego Rivera, recently married to Frido Kahlo, at the height of his powers, and the country’s young film industry particularly active and adventuresome. Sensemayá, composed for small orchestra in 1937 and expanded into a fullscale orchestral work the following year, is the piece that brought Revueltas to international attention—though not until Leopold Stokowski recorded it in New York in 1947. At the time of his death in 1940, Revueltas still remained largely unknown outside Mexico.
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ensemayá is based on the Afro-Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén’s poem about a ceremony for the sacrifice of a serpent. Revueltas’s thumping ostinato is the musical echo of Guillén’s refrain: “mayombé, bombe, mayombé.” With its thrilling, obsessive rhythmic thrust—it is written throughout in 7/8 or 7/16—and powerfully dissonant harmonies, this extraordinary little score is as original as anything in European music of the time, but it owes nothing to those distant schools or celebrated composers. It represents one of the signal moments when American music unmistakably came into its own. “All his music seems preceded by something that is not joy and exhilaration, as some believe, or satire and irony, as others
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believe,” the Mexican poet Octavio Paz wrote of Revuletas’s output. That element, better and more pure . . . is his deep-felt but also joyful concern for man, animal, and things. It is the profound empathy with his surrounding which makes the works of this man, so naked, so defenseless, so hurt by the heavens and the people, more significant than those of many of his contemporaries.
Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.
PROFILES James Gaffigan Conductor FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
February 21 and 24, 2009, Orchestra Hall. Root’s The Battle Cry of Freedom; Payne and Bishop’s Home, Sweet Home; Awakening from Harris’s Symphony no. 6 (Gettysburg); Selections from Bennett’s Abraham Lincoln; Copland’s Lincoln Portrait with James Earl Jones; and Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5 MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES
June 10 and 11, 2022, Orchestra Hall. Saint-Saëns’s Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah, Chausson’s Poème for Violin and Orchestra and Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo capriccioso with Lisa Batiashvili, Mussorgsky’s A Night on Bald Mountain, and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet
Recognized worldwide for his natural ease and collaborative spirit, James Gaffigan has attracted international attention for his prowess as a conductor of both symphony orchestras and opera. Gaffigan is general music director of the Komische Oper Berlin, a post that commenced this season, and in his third season as music director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, Spain, where he has led acclaimed productions of Wozzeck, La bohème, and Tristan and Isolde. In addition, he serves as music director of the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra. The 2022–23 season marked Gaffigan’s last as principal guest conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and Opera. In 2021 Gaffigan finished his tenure as chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for ten years, raising the orchestra’s international profile with recordings and tours abroad. This season, Gaffigan returns to the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis symphony orchestras. In the summer of 2023, he led the Metropolitan Opera in La bohème, the Orchestra de Paris with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and the P H OTO © BY M I G U E L LO R E N ZO – L E S A R T S VA L E N C I A
Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra. In his first season with the Komische Oper Berlin, Gaffigan leads productions of Eugene Onegin, The Golden Cockerel, The Flying Dutchman, and The Marriage of Figaro, as well as special programming for children throughout the season. Recent orchestral appearances include the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Orchestre de Paris, Vienna Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Czech Philharmonic, and the Lucerne Symphony. In North America, Gaffigan regularly works with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Detroit and Toronto symphony orchestras, among others. A regular at the Metropolitan Opera, Bavarian State Opera, and Opéra national de Paris, Gaffigan has also conducted the Zurich Opera, the Vienna and Hamburg state operas, Dutch National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Santa Fe Opera. Gaffigan was first-prize winner of the 2004 Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition. In 2009 he completed a threeyear tenure as associate conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, a position created for him by Michael Tilson Thomas. Prior to that, he was assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, where he worked with Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. Gaffigan is an alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival’s Aspen Conducting Academy and the Tanglewood Music Center. A product of New York City’s public school system, James Gaffigan studied at the LaGuardia High School of Music and Art before pursuing his conducting studies. He believes that access to music education is the method by which America’s concert halls will finally begin to reflect our community and shrink the racial and gender gaps that exist in performing arts today. S E P T E M B E R– NOV E M B E R 2 0 2 3
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Conrad Tao Piano FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
August 5, 2022, Ravinia Festival. Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, Carlos Miguel Prieto conducting These concerts mark Conrad Tao’s subscription concert debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Conrad Tao has appeared worldwide as a pianist and composer, receiving high praise in such publications as New York magazine and the New York Times. He has been a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his compositions have been performed by orchestras throughout the world. His first large-scale work, Everything Must Go, received both its world and European premieres with the New York Philharmonic and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, respectively. He is a recipient of a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for Outstanding Sound Design / Music Composition for his work on More Forever, a collaboration with tap dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher. He also holds the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and was named a Gilmore Young Artist. This season, Tao returns to the New York Philharmonic as soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 17. Meanwhile, he celebrates the hundredth anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with multiple performances of the work and a new companion piece commissioned from him by the Santa Rosa Symphony. Other return engagements include the Cincinnati Symphony
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and Matthias Pintscher; the Oregon Symphony alongside David Danzmayr; and the Seattle Symphony, which he play-directs in Conrad Tao’s Playlist, weaving Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 24 into a program of music by Stravinsky, Purcell, Linda Catlin Smith, and Morton Feldman. As part of the celebration of Rachmaninov’s 150th birthday anniversary, Tao brings his Rachmaninov Songbook to the 92nd Street Y and Germany’s Klavier-Festival Ruhr, presenting a direct line from Rachmaninov to the music of Billy Strayhorn, Harold Arlen, and Stephen Sondheim. In a program he curated, Tao invites the UK-based new-music collective Distractfold to make its New York City debut at Kaufman Music Center with the world premiere of Andrew Greenwald’s A Thing Made Whole VIII, along with music by Jürg Frey, Hanna Hartman, and Mauricio Pauly. This season also includes performances with Caleb Teicher in the duo’s Counterpoint program, which synthesizes the art forms of piano and tap dance. More collaborations include a multi-city tour with the Junction Trio at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the group’s Detroit debut, among others. Tao is a Warner Classics recording artist. His debut disc, Voyages, received critical praise, and his next album, Pictures, with works by David Lang, Takemitsu, Carter, Mussorgsky, and Tao himself, was hailed by the New York Times. His third album, American Rage, featuring works by Julia Wolfe, Rzewski, and Copland, was released in 2019. In 2021 Tao and the Westerlies released Bricolage, an album of improvisations and experiments recorded in a cabin in rural New Hampshire in 2019. Conrad Tao was born in Urbana, Illinois. He studied piano with Emilio del Rosario in Chicago and with Yoheved Kaplinsky in New York and composition with Christopher Theofanidis.
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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. S E P T E M B E R– NOV E M B E R 2 0 2 3
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Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO Jonathan McCormick Director, Education & the Negaunee Music Institute Katy Clusen Associate Director, CSO for Kids 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 F I N A N C E A N D A D M I N I S T R AT I O N 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 Elizabeth Tyska Payroll Assistant 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
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
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
† Deceased Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
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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).
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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS Corporate Partners $ 2 00,000 A N D A B OV E
Bank of America ITW
OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO
United Airlines
$ 10 0,0 0 0 – $ 19 9,9 9 9
Abbott Allstate Insurance Company CIBC Private Wealth Citadel and Citadel Securities Northern Trust $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9,9 9 9
Anonymous (1) Jenner & Block LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP PNC Bank Sidley Austin LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP $ 2 5,0 0 0 – $ 4 9,9 9 9
AAR CORP Abbott Fund Altair Advisers LLC Kinder Morgan Latham & Watkins LLP Mayer Brown LLP S&C Electric Company Fund Walgreens $ 10,000 – $ 2 4,9 9 9
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 $ 5,0 0 0 – $ 9,9 9 9
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
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
Foundations and Government Agencies
$1,000 –$2,4 99
$ 100,000 A N D A B OV E
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 $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9,9 9 9
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 $ 2 5,0 0 0 – $ 4 9,9 9 9
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 $ 5,0 0 0 – $ 9,9 9 9
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music The Allyn Foundation, Inc.
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. $ 15 0,000 A N D A B OV E
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 - $ 2 4,9 9 9
Franklin Philanthropic Foundation Geraldi Norton Foundation Stephen Philibosian Foundation Roberts Family Foundation Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust
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 $ 10 0,0 0 0 – $ 1 4 9,9 9 9
Anonymous (3) James and Brenda Grusecki Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz $ 75,0 0 0 – $ 9 9,9 9 9
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 $ 5 0 , 0 0 0 – $ 74 , 9 9 9
Anonymous (2) Mrs. Janet R. Bauer Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Kay Bucksbaum
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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
$ 3 5,0 0 0 – $ 4 9,9 9 9
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 $25,000 –$ 3 4,999
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 $ 1,0 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 , 4 9 9,9 9 9
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.
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 $ 5 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9 9,9 9 9
The Grainger Foundation The Negaunee Foundation
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
$ 5,0 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 9,9 9 9,9 9 9
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$ 2 0,000,000 A N D A B OV E
Zell Family Foundation
$ 10,0 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 19,9 9 9,9 9 9
Anonymous Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz $ 2 ,5 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 4,9 9 9,9 9 9
Anonymous Mary Louise Gorno Estate of Esther G. Klatz
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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
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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 $ 2 0,000 – $ 2 4,9 9 9
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 $ 15,0 0 0 – $ 19,9 9 9
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, 5 0 0 – $ 1 1 , 4 9 9
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
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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 , 5 0 0 – $ 7, 4 9 9
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
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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
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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
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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
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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. $ 15 0,000 A N D A B OV E
Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation $ 10 0,0 0 0 – $ 1 4 9,9 9 9
Anonymous Allstate Insurance Company $ 75,0 0 0 – $ 9 9,9 9 9
The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation John Hart and Carol Prins Megan and Steve Shebik $ 5 0 , 0 0 0 – $ 74 , 9 9 9
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 $ 3 5,0 0 0 – $ 4 9,9 9 9
Bowman C. Lingle Trust National Endowment for the Arts The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Lisa and Paul Wiggin $25,000 –$ 3 4,999
Anonymous Abbott Fund
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Carey and Brett August Crain-Maling Foundation Kinder Morgan Margo and Michael Oberman Shure Charitable Trust Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark
Dr. Lynda Lane Francine R. Manilow Jim and Ginger Meyer Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek The Osprey Foundation Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
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Anonymous Mary Winton Green Illinois Arts Council Agency PNC Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation $ 15,0 0 0 – $ 19,9 9 9
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, 5 0 0 – $ 1 1 , 4 9 9
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 , 5 0 0 – $ 7, 4 9 9
Anonymous Joseph Bartush Ann and Richard Carr Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr. Dr. June Koizumi
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
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
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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
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
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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.
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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
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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 MEMBERS Delta A. Greene Anonymous (36) Mrs. Barbara Gundrum Valerie and Joseph Abel Lynne R. Haarlow Louise Abrahams Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley Patrick Alden Mr. Tom Hall Richard and Elynne Aleskow Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett Judy L. Allen Carols Almedia and Dr. Matthew Sweeney William B. Hinchliff Marcia M. Hochberg Ann S. Alpert Mr. Thomas Hochman Patricia Ames Jack and Colleen Holmbeck Ms. Judith L. Anderson James and Mary Houston Steven Andes, Ph.D. Mr. James Humphrey Dr. Edward L. Applebaum Merle L. Jacob Catherine Aranyi Ms. Jessica Jagielnik Dr. Susan Arjmand Joseph and Rebecca † Jarabak Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba Nathan Kahn, in memory of Mara Mills Barker Zave H. Gussin and in honor of Shirley Baron Robert Gussin Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty Marshall Keltz Joan I. Berger Valerie Kennedy Robert M. Berger Anne Kern Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky Paul Keske John L. Browar Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr. Catherine Brubaker Mrs. LeRoy Klemt Joseph Buc Sally Jo Knowles Edward J. Buckbee Mrs. Russell V. Kohr Michelle Miller Burns Ms. Barbara Kopsian Mr. Robert J. Callahan Liesel E. Kossmann Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Car Eugene Kraus Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael John C and Carol Anderson Kunze Dr. Marlene E. Casiano Thomas and Annelise Lawson Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey Sharon Conway Ms. Nicole Lehman Ron and Dolores Daly Barbara W. Levin Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson Ms. Sally Lewis Sylvia Samuels Delman Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg Mrs. David A. DeMar Mr. Michael Licitra Ms. Phyllis Diamond Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Janet Wood Diederichs Bonnie Glazier Lipe Mrs. William Dooley Alma Lizcano Mr. Richard L. Eastline Candace Loftus Nancy Schroeder Ebert Heidi Lukas and Mr. Charles Grode Robert J. Elisberg Suzette and James Mahneke Richard Elledge Ann Chassin Mallow Charles and Carol Emmons Sharon L. Manuel Lu and Philip Engel Mrs. John J. Markham Tarek and Ann Fadel Judy and Scott McCue James B. Fadim John McFerrin Leslie Farrell Mr. William McIntosh Donna Feldman Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey Frances and Henry Fogel Dorothe Melamed Ray Frick Marcia Melamed Susan Fuchs Dr. Sharon D. Michalove Nancy and Larry † Fuller Dale and Susan Miller Dileep Gangolli Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten Miss Elizabeth Gatz Thomas R. Mullaney Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Daniel R. Murray Steve and Lauran Gilbreath Mr. Christian Vinyard Craig and Bette Williams Florence Winters Stephen R. Winters and Don D. Curtis Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Helen Zell
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
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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
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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
H ON OR ROL L OF D ON ORS
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 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 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 Jack F. Klecka Jr. Mrs. Terry Klecka
In memory of John Flakne Ms. Rebecca A. Lotsoff Willeen V. Smith
In memory of Mr. George C. McKann Mrs. Alice T. McKann
In memory of Martha Glickman Ms. Carole Gutter Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk Karen and Bill Rubinsky Ms. Mondira Sengupta Julie Spector
In memory of Lorraine T. McNally Mr. & Mrs. William McNally In memory of Jal Mistri Dr. Carolyn Boiarsky
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 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 Alan Kaufman Ms. Rosie Nassani In memory of Mary Kaye Ms. Josephine Hammer Alexandra Thornton
In memory of Janet Faulhaber Leona Schoen
In memory of Mary Gray Kimberly Ewing
In memory of Sharon Hochman Martyn Adelberg
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
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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 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 memory of Armando Susmano Mr. † & Mrs. Sherman Rosen
In honor of Robyn Dalba’s birthday Mary Weiland
In memory of Mabel C. Tung Don and Martha Pollak
In honor of Mimi Duginger Margo and Michael Oberman
In memory of Lynne and Ron Wachowski Peggy Ryan
In honor of Jamey Fadim’s 80th birthday John Hart and Carol Prins
In memory of Dr. Alan J. Ward Ms. Louella Kruger Ward
In honor of Judy Feldman, Women’s Board President Mrs. Robert Glick Carol S. Sonnenschein
In memory of Diane Prichett-Willis Ms. Adrienne Harrison In memory of Novella Winston Ms. Betty Henson
In honor of John and Ann Grube Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
In memory of Henry P. Wolff Ms. Elaine Stern
In honor of Rita Hasner Dawn C. Farruggio
In memory of Edward T. Zasadil Mr. Larry Simpson
In honor of Dale Hedding and all of his efforts on behalf of the CSO David Connell
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 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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