Program Book - The Planets by Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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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.

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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

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

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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

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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March 3

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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Daniel Harding Conductor Chicago Symphony Chorus Jenny Wong Guest Director SCHUMANN

Overture to Manfred, Op. 115

BRAHMS

Schicksalslied, Op. 54 C H I C A G O SY M P H O N Y C H O R U S

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HOLST

The Planets, Op. 32

Mars, the Bringer of War Venus, the Bringer of Peace Mercury, the Winged Messenger Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age Uranus, the Magician Neptune, the Mystic C H I C A G O SY M P H O N Y C H O R U S

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COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher ROBERT SCHUMANN

COMPOSED

Born June 8, 1810; Zwickau, Saxony, Germany Died July 29, 1856; Endenich, near Bonn, Germany

1848–49, incidental music FIRST PERFORMANCE

Overture to Manfred, Op. 115

March 14, 1852; Leipzig, Germany. The composer conducting I N S T R U M E N TAT I O N

Robert Schumann’s father August was a respected publisher who made a tidy sum printing pocket editions of works by Goethe, Schiller, and Byron, among others. Like his father, Robert was shy and bookish as a boy; he grew up reading the classics and showed great interest in becoming a writer himself. Although he occasionally worked for his father, Robert wanted to perform and compose music, and he was the only one of four brothers who eventually quit the family business. Long after he had made a name for himself as a pianist, composer, and critic, Robert continued to read voraciously, often by dim, flickering candlelight at bedtime. The powerful effects of literature may even have contributed to his frequent sleepless nights—a diary entry from 1829 reads “Bed-lecture: Manfred by Byron—terrible night.” Schumann always had a special affection for the British writer and, in 1840, he set one of Byron’s poems to music as part of the song cycle Myrthen. Years later, Joseph von Wasielewski, Schumann’s concertmaster in Düsseldorf, remembered that when the composer read aloud from Byron’s Manfred “his voice suddenly failed him, tears started from his eyes, and he was so overcome that he could read no further.” Two years before Robert and his wife Clara moved to Düsseldorf in 1850, Schumann composed incidental music for a production of Manfred. He was thrilled and inspired by the challenge, commenting at the time that he had never before committed himself “with such love and outlay of force to any composition as to that of Manfred.” Throughout his life, Schumann identified with tragic literary figures, and he may have seen something of himself in Byron’s tormented hero, who wanders the Alps contemplating suicide and seeking oblivion. (Byron began his dramatic poem in 1816, shortly after visiting the Shelleys in the Swiss Alps, where eighteen-year-old Mary

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two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, timpani, strings A P P R OX I M AT E PERFORMANCE TIME

12 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

January 1 and 2, 1892, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting July 12, 1975, Ravinia Festival. James Levine conducting MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

August 1, 1981, Ravinia Festival. Jésus López-Cobos conducting May 26, 27, 28, and 31, 2011, Orchestra Hall. Bernard Haitink conducting CSO RECORDINGS

1956. Bruno Walter conducting. CSO (Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Twentieth Century: Collector’s Choice) 1977. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Deutsche Grammophon

t h i s pa g e , f r o m t o p : Robert Schumann at the age of forty. Daguerreotype by Johann Anton Völlner, Hamburg, Germany, 1850 August Schumann (1773–1827), father of the composer. An 1826 engraving by Friedrich Fleischmann (1791–1834) after an 1810 portrait by Gotthelf Leberecht Glaeser (1784–1851) o p p o s i t e pa g e : Johannes Brahms, portrait, ca. 1876, by Fritz Luckhardt (1833–1894)

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was hard at work on Frankenstein.) Schumann wrote an overture and incidental music for fifteen scenes; he began work on August 5, 1848, the day after he finished his only, ill-fated, opera Genoveva. Although it is often said that Schumann had no genuine theatrical talent and that he was inept at writing for orchestra, the powerful overture he composed for Manfred proves otherwise. From its quick curtain-raiser beginning (three rushed,

offbeat chords), Schumann’s overture is masterfully and economically scored, and an unerringly paced musical drama. It immediately casts a spell, setting the scene for the action to follow. Schumann has composed a character sketch in dark, unsettled music that grows in passion and urgency, then slowly collapses in the final pages. This is a magnificent and satisfying piece of music on its own, though, like any effective overture, it makes us eager to hear more.

JOHANNES BRAHMS Born May 7, 1833; Hamburg, Germany Died April 3, 1897; Vienna, Austria

Schicksalslied for Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 54 In the summer of 1868, Brahms joined several of his friends on an excursion to view the North Sea naval base at Wilhelmshaven. “Our friend, usually so cheery,” the conductor and composer Albert Dietrich later recalled, “was silent and serious on the journey. He told us how, early that morning, . . . he had found Hölderlin’s poems in the bookcase and been profoundly stirred by Hyperion’s Song of Destiny.” Later, as the group rested by the sea, they noticed Brahms sitting at a distance on the beach, writing. “It was the first sketch for the Schicksalslied,” Dietrich wrote. Brahms read Hölderlin for the first time earlier that decade. Born in 1770, the same year as Beethoven, Hölderlin was a contemporary of the philosopher Hegel, his classmate at the University of Tübingen. Schiller became his friend and published his works—his poetry appeared in print for the first time in 1791—but when Brahms picked up the Song of Destiny, Hölderlin was still largely unknown. (His discovery is a twentieth-century phenomenon, largely due to the influence of Stefan George

and Rainer Maria Rilke. Decades after Brahms, his poetry inspired several other composers, including Benjamin Britten, Carl Orff, and Kaija Saariaho.) The novel Hyperion, the source of the Schicksalslied, was published in two parts in 1797 and 1799. Hölderlin’s subject was the contemporary Turkish oppression of the Greeks. The Song of Destiny is Hyperion’s despondent reflection on the disparity between man’s troubled life in the present and the ever-glorious image of ancient Greece. The opening of Brahms’s Schicksalslied is one of the most inspired passages in all his music—a glorious melody, given to muted violins, unfolds over dark chords and the quiet pounding of the timpani. Brahms marks it “Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll” (slowly and yearning)—an unusually expressive direction from this most poised of composers. By the time the alto voices of the chorus finally enter, singing the first lines of the poem, we are deep in the heavenly, radiant world that Hölderlin depicts. Brahms sets the first two stanzas of the poem in simple, yet rich, four-part choral harmony—a hymn to celestial wonders. With a single pianissimo chord in the winds, however, the mood changes dramatically. The third stanza shifts from idyll to fury and S E P T E M B E R– NOV E M B E R 2 0 2 3

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COMPOSED

1870–71

FIRST PERFORMANCE

October 18, 1871; Karlsruhe, Germany. The composer conducting I N S T R U M E N TAT I O N

four-part chorus, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, strings A P P R OX I M AT E PERFORMANCE TIME

15 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

May 25, 1894; Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati May Festival Chorus (William L. Blumenschein, director), Theodore Thomas conducting February 10, 1953, Orchestra Hall. Chicago Musical College Chorus (Ernst Lévy, director), Illinois State Normal University Choir (Emma Knudson, director), and Illinois Wesleyan University Collegiate Choir (Lloyd Pfautsch, director); George Schick conducting June 26, 1975, Ravinia Festival. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Margaret Hillis, director), James Levine conducting

from E-flat major to C minor. The music rages and plummets into the “vague abyss.” At first, Brahms didn’t know how the Schicksalslied should end. Hölderlin leaves us at the abyss. Brahms, sensing that music and literature operate differently, returns to the calm beauty of his orchestral opening—the music is now in C major and reorchestrated (the solo flute has the grand, searching melody), and the original “Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll” marking has been replaced by the simple Italian “adagio.” That instinct seemed right, but Brahms still wasn’t satisfied, and he drafted a new ending that added the chorus, intoning the first lines of the poem. (He also considered asking the chorus simply to sing “ah”—“something like a drone.”) He quickly gave up that idea, but he worried that audiences wouldn’t be prepared for a long instrumental ending to a choral work, and so, for the premiere, he insisted that “orchestral postlude” be printed in the program after the last lines of Hölderlin’s poem. Brahms continued to

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MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

March 15, 16, and 17, 2012, Orchestra Hall. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director), Riccardo Muti conducting

a b o v e : Image of Theodore Thomas (1835–1905) and the Orchestra at the 1894 Cincinnati May Festival, when they first performed Brahms’s Schicksalslied

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struggle over his decision to return to the luminous music with which the piece began. “I simply say something the poet doesn’t say,” he finally wrote to a conductor friend. But this unexpected touch neither alters nor contradicts Hölderlin’s point of view; instead, it simply leaves us with an image of Brahms, sitting alone on the shore at Wilhelmshaven, contemplating the tragic fate of man.

The Schicksalslied remains among the least performed of Brahms’s major works. Our founder and first music director, Theodore Thomas, who was one of Brahms’s greatest champions, gave the first U.S. performance in Boston three years after the premiere, and he programmed it with the new Chicago Orchestra only once, at the Cincinnati May Festival in 1894. Six decades would pass before the Orchestra again turned to the Schicksalslied.

SCHICKSALSLIED

SONG OF DESTINY

Ihr wandelt droben im Licht Auf weichem Boden, selige Genien! Glänzende Götterlüfte Rühren Euch leicht, Wie die Finger der Künstlerin Heilige Saiten.

You walk above in the light, Weightless tread a soft floor, blessed genii! Radiant the gods’ mild breezes Gently play on you As the girl artist’s fingers On holy strings.

Schicksallos, wie der schlafende Säugling, atmen die Himmlischen; Keusch bewahrt In bescheidner Knospe Blühet ewig Ihnen der Geist, Und die seligen Augen Blicken in stiller, Ewiger Klarheit.

Fateless, the Heavenly breathe Like an unweaned infant asleep; Chastely preserved In modest bud For ever their minds Are in flower, And their blissful eyes Eternally tranquil gaze, Eternally clear.

Doch uns ist gegeben, Auf keiner Stätte zu ruhn; Es schwinden, es fallen Die leidenden Menschen Blindlings von einer Stunde zur andern, Wie Wasser von Klippe Zu Klippe geworfen, Jahrlang ins Ungewisse hinab.

But we are fated To find no foothold, no rest; And suffering mortals Dwindle and fall Headlong from one Hour to the next, Hurled like water From ledge to ledge Downward for years To the vague abyss.

—Friedrich Hölderlin

Translated by Michael Hamburger

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COMMENTS

GUSTAV HOLST

COMPOSED

Born September 21, 1874; Cheltenham, England Died May 25, 1934; London, England

1914–16

FIRST PERFORMANCE

The Planets, Suite for Large Orchestra, Op. 32

November 15, 1920; London, England

After World War I, Frederick Stock, the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, resumed his old habit of taking his summer vacations in Europe, where he could seek out important new music— attend performances of pieces he didn’t know, gather up scores that weren’t available in the United States. “One of the novelties I brought from London,” he wrote to Frances Glessner in September 1920, “is called The Planets, composed by Gustav (von) Holst, who by the way is a cousin of our mutual friend Hermann von Holst in Chicago.” John and Frances Glessner, whose pioneering H.H. Richardson house on Prairie Avenue is now considered one of the landmarks of residential architecture, had enjoyed unusually close ties to Chicago’s orchestra since it was founded in 1891. They were given Box M, the center box, when Orchestra Hall was built in 1904, and after the death of Theodore Thomas, the Orchestra’s founder and first music director, the following year, they established a bond with Stock, his successor, that transcended a conventional conductor-patron relationship. Frances was one of the few Chicagoans Stock felt he could talk with candidly about music. The Holst that the Glessners and Stock knew was one of Chicago’s leading Prairie School architects. Beginning in 1902 he had designed several buildings for the Glessners’ summer place in New Hampshire; later he (along with Stock, John Glessner, and the Chicago composer John Alden Carpenter) was one of the founding members of the Cliff Dwellers club that soon settled atop Orchestra Hall; and in 1909 he agreed to oversee Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural practice when Wright and his mistress, Mamah Cheney, skipped town for Europe. t h i s pa g e , f r o m t o p : Gustav Holst, sketch by William Rothenstein (1872–1945). Included in Music & Letters (Oxford University Press), vol. 1, no. 3 (July 1920) o p p o s i t e pa g e : Detail of the cover of the score to Holst’s The Planets used by Frederick Stock for the U.S. premiere performances (3296 was the catalog number assigned to the work by the Orchestra’s librarians)

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four flutes, two piccolos and bass flute, three oboes, bass oboe and english horn, three clarinets and bass clarinet, three bassoons and contrabassoon, six horns, four trumpets, two tenor trombones and bass trombone, tenor tuba and bass tuba, timpani, triangle, snare drum, tambourine, cymbals, bass drum, gong, bells, glockenspiel, xylophone, celesta, two harps, organ, strings, and, in the final movement only, an offstage choir A P P R OX I M AT E PERFORMANCE TIME

51 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

December 31, 1920, and January 1, 1921, Orchestra Hall. Frederick Stock conducting (U.S. premiere) August 11, 1977, Ravinia Festival. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Margaret Hillis, director), Lawrence Foster conducting MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

July 13, 2016, Ravinia Festival. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director), Cristian Măcelaru conducting November 21, 23, and 24, 2019, Orchestra Hall. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director), Juanjo Mena conducting November 22, 2019; Edman Memorial Chapel, Wheaton College. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director), Juanjo Mena conducting CSO RECORDING

1989. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Margaret Hillis, director), James Levine conducting. Deutsche Grammophon

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When he wrote to Frances Glessner, Stock had not yet heard The Planets—in fact, the premiere was still two months away (it had been privately performed in September 1918 in London), but he brought the score back to Chicago with him intent on introducing the work to America, which he did on New Year’s Eve, six weeks after the London premiere. “It came as a surprise to us,” wrote the reviewer for the Chicago American, “for it had been unheralded and Holst is virtually unknown to the average American music lover.” “The Planets should be a most dependable and successful addition to the orchestra repertoire,” Ruth Miller wrote in the Tribune, but she was skeptical of its genuine worth: “It contains all the platitudes of greatness.” Stock considered it the most effective of the season’s novelties, however, and he revisited three of the movements—Mars, Venus, and the mighty Jupiter—in the season’s last concert. In the 1920s, the swift, overwhelming success of The Planets both surprised and irritated Holst—much as Bolero would come to embarrass Ravel—who insisted that it wasn’t his best work. But the public was captivated by the combination of music and astrology—the music of the spheres made manifest. It was Clifford Bax, the brother of composer Arnold Bax, who introduced Holst to astrology shortly after they met in 1913. Like countless people since—from true scientists to supermarket tabloid fans—Holst was fascinated by the movements of the heavenly bodies and their influence on everyday people. Before beginning work on The Planets in 1914, Holst wrote to a friend: I only study things that suggest music to me. Recently the character of each planet suggested lots to me, and I have been studying astrology fairly closely. It’s a pity we make such a fuss about these things. On one side there is nothing but abuse and ridicule, with the natural result that when one is brought

face to face with overwhelming proofs, there is a danger of going to the other extreme. Whereas, of course, everything in this world is just one big miracle. Or rather, the universe itself is one. During his two years of work on The Planets, Holst became, in his own words, “a skilled interpreter of horoscopes,” and privately admitted that casting horoscopes for friends was a “pet vice.” (The Planets took two years to complete because of Holst’s teaching commitments at Saint Paul’s Girls’ School; he could only compose on weekends and during the August vacation, when he locked himself in the stifling soundproof room of the school’s new music wing and wrote without interruption.) Holst had long shown an interest in exotic subjects—he became interested in Hindu literature and philosophy as a student, taught himself Sanskrit, and set his own translations of Sanskrit texts to music. It was his settings of verses from the Rig Veda that introduced Holst’s music to Clifford Bax in 1913, and, in turn, inspired Bax to bring up the subject of astrology.

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At the time of the first complete performance of The Planets in 1920, Holst was nervous that the public would read too much into his new work: These pieces were suggested by the astrological significance of the planets; there is no program music in them, neither have they any connection with the deities of classical mythology bearing the same names. If any guide to the music is required, the subtitle to each piece will be found sufficient, especially if it can be used in a broad sense.

hen the score was published the following year, Holst was careful to give it the plain subtitle “Suite for Large Orchestra,” again suggesting that The Planets should be considered as music first and last. Holst’s daughter Imogen, a musician herself, remembered that at the first private performance in 1918, the audience felt certain that the first movement, Mars, the Bringer of War—with its horrible pounding rhythm, ungainly march (in an unmarchable 5/4 time), and noisy brass fanfares—was a description of the war that was still going on, but, in fact, Holst had finished Mars early in the summer of 1914, before the outbreak of war that August. “After two mechanized wars,” Imogen later wrote, “it would be easy to take it for granted that [Mars] had been commissioned as background music for a documentary film of a tank battle, but Holst had never heard a machine gun when he wrote it, and the tank had not yet been invented.” Even in 1919, peace could not have sounded more seductive than it does in the second movement, Venus, with its celestial wind chords, calm harp strumming, and floating violin melodies. Mercury begins as a scherzo of Mendelssohnian lightness, though it includes instruments like the bass oboe Mendelssohn never heard, and eventually reaches a climax that is very modern in its orchestral ingenuity. (Holst’s choice of instrumental colors is always keen, a reminder that when his own musical schooling disappointed him, he read Berlioz’s exhaustive,

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classic treatise on instrumentation from cover to cover.) With its dancing tempo and cheerful theme, Jupiter is a friendly and inviting planet (at the first rehearsal of this movement, the cleaning women in the corridors of the Queen’s Hall reportedly put down their mops and began to dance). A few years later, Holst brought Jupiter down to earth by turning its big central melody into the patriotic anthem “I vow to thee, my country.” Saturn is remote and mysterious, suggesting the slow but relentless march of time and making humankind seem very small and insignificant. (Holst said it was his favorite movement.) Uranus, the Magician throws out a handful of notes, then continues to toss them around the orchestra, all the while inventing new themes, combining materials, switching meters, and sidestepping any firm sense of central key. Neptune, the planet farthest from the earth, offers an astonishing glimpse of eternity. Holst’s music, characterized not by melody or harmony but by unforgettable chilling sounds and colors, owes much to Debussy, although Holst claimed he wasn’t a fan—he admired Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun, liked the nocturnes, “was never very happy about anything else,” and “hated” Pelleas and Melisande. Holst took the idea of a wordless female chorus from Debussy’s Sirens, but puts it offstage. Beginning pianissimo (the original manuscript suggested pppp), it concludes this astrological tour with a single measure of music, repeated, each time more quietly, until the sound is virtually lost in silence. A footnote. Despite Stock’s enthusiasm—and its huge popularity elsewhere—The Planets did not immediately become a repertoire favorite in Chicago: it was played just three more times under Stock’s baton, and then not at all for thirty-seven years. Although Holst conducted the Chicago Symphony himself, at the University of Michigan’s annual May Festival in 1923 and 1932 in several of his lesser scores, he never led the Orchestra in his most celebrated work. Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.

PROFILES Daniel Harding Conductor FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

November 10, 11, and 12, 2005, Orchestra Hall. Berlioz’s Corsair Overture, Grieg’s Piano Concerto with Lars Vogt, and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben November 13, 2005, Orchestra Hall. Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (Beyond the Score) MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

October 26 and 28, 2006, Orchestra Hall. Dvořák’s Slavonic Dance in D-flat major and The Golden Spinning Wheel and act 2 from Janáček’s Jenůfa with Anja Silja, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Christopher Ventris, and Kurt Streit

Daniel Harding is music and artistic director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He formerly was music director of the Orchestre de Paris (2016–19) and principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (2007–17). He is conductor laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with which he has worked for over twenty years. In 2024 he takes on music directorships of the Youth Music Culture, the Greater Bay Area in Hong Kong and the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome. He is a regular visitor to the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Vienna and Berlin philharmonics, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. In this country, he has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. Harding has conducted, among others, Ariadne auf Naxos, Don Giovanni, and Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic; The Turn of the Screw and Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden); Pelleas and Melisande and Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci at the Vienna State Opera; and P H OTO © BY J U L I A N H A R G R E AV E S

Wozzeck at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. He also has led new productions including Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, La traviata, and Eugene Onegin at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. His recordings of Mahler’s Symphony no. 10 with the Vienna Philharmonic and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bavarian Radio Symphony on Deutsche Grammophon have received widespread critical acclaim. His discography on Virgin/EMI includes Mahler’s Symphony no. 4 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Brahms’s symphonies nos. 3 and 4 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Grammy Award–winning Billy Budd with the London Symphony, and works by Lutosławski with Solveig Kringelborn and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and by Britten with Ian Bostridge and the Britten Sinfonia. For BR Klassik, he has released critically acclaimed recordings of Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, Mahler’s Symphony no. 6, and Holst’s The Planets. His performances of Mahler’s Symphony no. 1 and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann are available on the Berlin Philharmonic label. His latest recordings with the Swedish Radio Symphony on the Harmonia Mundi label include The Wagner Project with Matthias Goerne, Mahler’s symphonies nos. 5 and 9, Brahms’s Requiem, and a newly released disc of Britten’s music. The 2023–24 season sees Daniel Harding return to the Berlin Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestre de Paris, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony. He embarks on tours to Europe with the Vienna and Munich philharmonics and the Swedish Radio Symphony. On the opera podium he leads Turandot at La Scala. Daniel Harding was awarded the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2002 by the French government. In 2012 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2021. He is a qualified airline pilot. S E P T E M B E R–NOV E M B E R 2 0 2 3

P ROF ILES

Chicago Symphony Chorus

The Chicago Symphony Chorus regularly performs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Orchestra Hall and at the Ravinia Festival. The history of the Chorus began in 1957, when sixth music director Fritz Reiner invited Margaret Hillis to establish a chorus to equal the quality of the Orchestra. Hillis accepted the challenge, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus debuted in March and April 1958, in Mozart’s Requiem under Bruno Walter and Verdi’s Requiem under Reiner. Hillis served the Chorus for thirty-seven years, until her retirement in 1994; ninth music director Daniel Barenboim appointed Duain Wolfe as her successor in June of that year. The Chorus first performed in Carnegie Hall in 1967 in Henze’s Muses of Sicily and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe under seventh music director Jean Martinon, and most recently in 2015 with Riccardo Muti for Scriabin’s Prometheus and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. Touring internationally with the Orchestra, the Chorus traveled to London and Salzburg in 1989 with Sir Georg Solti for performances of Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust and to Berlin in 1999 with Barenboim for Brahms’s A German Requiem and Pierre Boulez for Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron.

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World premieres featuring the Chorus have included Ned Rorem’s Goodbye My Fancy, John Harbison’s Four Psalms, and Bernard Rands’s apókryphos. With visiting orchestras, the Chorus has collaborated with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Zubin Mehta, and the Staatskapelle Berlin under Barenboim. Since first recording commercially in 1959— Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky under Reiner— the Chorus has amassed a discography that includes hallmarks of the choral repertoire and several complete operas. The Chorus most recently received a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for Verdi’s Requiem, led by Riccardo Muti on CSO Resound. The Chorus has received an additional nine Grammy awards for Best Choral Performance for Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Brahms’s A German Requiem, Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, Haydn’s Creation, and Bach’s Mass in B minor with Solti; Brahms’s Requiem and Orff’s Carmina Burana with James Levine; and Bartók’s Cantata profana with Boulez. The Chorus also has appeared on two movie soundtracks with the Orchestra: Fantasia 2000 led by Levine and John Williams’s score for Lincoln conducted by the composer. Recordings on CSO Resound featuring the Chorus include Mahler’s Second and Third symphonies, Poulenc’s Gloria, and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe under Bernard Haitink; and Berlioz’s Lélio, Verdi’s Otello, Schoenberg’s Kol Nidre, choruses by Verdi and Boito’s Prologue to Mefistofele, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 13 (Babi Yar), and most recently Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana under Riccardo Muti.

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Jenny Wong Guest Chorus Director A native of Hong Kong based in Los Angeles, Jenny Wong is the newly appointed chorus director of the San Francisco Symphony and the associate artistic director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Recent external conducting engagements include the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the Industry, Long Beach Opera, Pasadena Symphony and Pops, Phoenix Chorale, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. This season, Wong makes her debut with the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra. In 2022 Wong’s performance of Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir with the Los Angeles Master Chorale was praised by Alex Ross in the New Yorker. Together with Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Wong was also awarded the American Prize in Choral Performance, Professional Division. In 2021 Wong was one of nine national recipients of OPERA America’s inaugural Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors. Staged and opera works include Peter Sellars’s staging of di Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro (Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Festival Internacional Cervantino, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico, and in the United States); the opera Sweet Land (2021 Award for Best New Opera by the Music Critics’ Association) by Du Yun and Raven Chacon, directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska

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Luger; and Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire and Kate Soper’s Voices from the Killing Jar in collaboration with WildUp. Wong has prepared choruses for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel; San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen; the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki; Osmo Vänskä; Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Jaime Martín; Eric Whitacre; María Guinand; and Music Academy of the West, including Mahler’s Symphony no. 8 released by Deutsche Grammophon, winner of the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, and the U.S. premiere of Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion. Most recently, Wong was assistant producer of the Master Chorale’s latest album, Whitacre’s The Sacred Veil, on Signum Classics. Wong received her doctor of musical arts and master of music degrees from the University of Southern California. She earned her undergraduate degree in voice performance from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. She has been a conducting fellow for the Oregon Bach Festival; Baltimore Chamber Orchestra; Norfolk Chamber Music Festival; Distinguished Concerts International New York; and Hong Kong SingFest, for which she conducted the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra. Wong has won two consecutive world champion titles at the World Choir Games (China, 2010) and the International Johannes Brahms Choral Competition (Germany, 2011) conducting the Diocesan Girls’ School Choir from Hong Kong.

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PROFILES

Chicago Symphony Chorus

Cheryl Frazes Hill Associate Director Jennifer Kerr Budziak Assistant Director Benjamin Rivera Assistant Director Michele Braché Agpalo Alicia Monastero Akers Melissa Arning Laura Boguslavsky Madison Bolt Michael Boschert Michael Brauer Evan Bravos Matthew Brennan Terry L. Bucher Diane Busko Bryks* Katherine Buzard Michael Cavalieri Joan Cinquegrani Joseph Cloonan* Magaly Cordero Ryan J. Cox Sandra Cross Beena David Angela De Venuto Leah Dexter Katarzyna Dorula Kathryn Kinjo Duncan Stacy Eckert Nicholas Falco Andrew Fisher Leigh Folta Kirsten Fyr-Searcy Ace T. Gangoso Klaus Georg Dimitri German Liana Gineitis Jennifer Gingrich* David Govertsen Nida Grigalaviciute Kimberly Gunderson

Amy Gwinn-Becker Elizabeth Haley Kevin Michael Hall Ashlee Hardgrave Megan Hendrickson Miya Higashiyama Betsy Hoats Alexandra Ioan Carla Janzen Garrett Johannsen James Judd Alison Kelly Robin A. Kessler Jess Koehn Susan Krout Mathew Lake Katelyn Lee Rosalind Lee Kristin Lelm Lee Lichamer* Amanda Compton LoPresti Kathleen Madden* Suzanne Ma-Ebersole Dorian McCall Bill McMurray Eric Miranda Rebecca S. Moan Stephen Mollica Lillian Murphy Ian Murrell Nathan S. Oakes Máire O’Brien Samantha Thielen Pak Wha Shin Park Clarissa Parrish Short Douglas Peters*

The Chorus was prepared for these performances by Jenny Wong. *Section leader

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Cassandra Petrie Cari Plachy* Sarah Ponder Elvira Ponticelli Robert J. Potsic Brett Potts Angela Presutti Ian R. Prichard Nicholas Pulikowski Leo Radosavljevic Lauren Randolph Stephen Richardson Alexia Rivera Cole Seaton Joe Shadday Aaron Short Cassidy Smith Joseph Smith Heidi Jo Stirling Alan Taylor Paul W. Thompson* Scott Uddenberg William Vallandigham Rebecca Watts Peter Wesoloski Eric West Debra Wilder Megan Wilhelm CHORUS MANAGER

Shelley Baldridge

REHEARSAL PIANISTS

John Goodwin Sharon Peterson Chuck Foster

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

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is grateful to

United Airlines for its generous support as the Official Airline of the CSO.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti Music Director Emeritus for Life

Jessie Montgomery Mead Composer-in-Residence Hilary Hahn Artist-in-Residence VIOLINS

Robert Chen Concertmaster The Louis C. Sudler Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor Stephanie Jeong Associate Concertmaster The Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair David Taylor* Assistant Concertmaster The Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Chair Yuan-Qing Yu ‡ Assistant Concertmaster So Young Bae Cornelius Chiu Gina DiBello Kozue Funakoshi Russell Hershow Qing Hou Matous Michal Simon Michal Sando Shia Susan Synnestvedt Rong-Yan Tang Baird Dodge Principal Danny Yehun Jin Assistant Principal Lei Hou Ni Mei Hermine Gagné Rachel Goldstein Mihaela Ionescu Sylvia Kim Kilcullen Melanie Kupchynsky Wendy Koons Meir Joyce Noh Nancy Park Ronald Satkiewicz Florence Schwartz VIOLAS

Catherine Brubaker Youming Chen Sunghee Choi Wei-Ting Kuo Danny Lai Weijing Michal Diane Mues Lawrence Neuman Max Raimi

CELLOS

John Sharp Principal The Eloise W. Martin Chair Kenneth Olsen Assistant Principal The Adele Gidwitz Chair Karen Basrak The Joseph A. and Cecile Renaud Gorno Chair Loren Brown ‡ Richard Hirschl Daniel Katz Katinka Kleijn David Sanders § Brant Taylor BASSES

Alexander Hanna Principal The David and Mary Winton Green Principal Bass Chair Alexander Horton Assistant Principal Daniel Carson Ian Hallas Robert Kassinger Mark Kraemer Stephen Lester Bradley Opland Andrew Sommer HARP

Lynne Turner FLUTES

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson Principal The Erika and Dietrich M. Gross Principal Flute Chair Yevgeny Faniuk Assistant Principal Emma Gerstein Jennifer Gunn

ENGLISH HORN

TUBA

Scott Hostetler CLARINETS

Stephen Williamson § Principal John Bruce Yeh Assistant Principal Gregory Smith John Bruce Yeh BASSOONS

PERCUSSION

HORNS

LIBRARIANS

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Keith Buncke Principal William Buchman Assistant Principal Miles Maner Mark Almond Principal James Smelser David Grifﬁn Oto Carrillo Susanna Gaunt Daniel Gingrich TRUMPETS

Esteban Batallán Principal The Adolph Herseth Principal Trumpet Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor Mark Ridenour ‡ Assistant Principal John Hagstrom The Bleck Family Chair Tage Larsen The Pritzker Military Museum & Library Chair TROMBONES

Jennifer Gunn The Dora and John Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair OBOES

BASS TROMBONE

William Welter Principal The Nancy and Larry Fuller Principal Oboe Chair Lora Schaefer Scott Hostetler

T I M PA N I

David Herbert Principal The Clinton Family Fund Chair Vadim Karpinos Assistant Principal

Jay Friedman Principal The Lisa and Paul Wiggin Principal Trombone Chair Michael Mulcahy Charles Vernon

PICCOLO

Gene Pokorny Principal The Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld

Cynthia Yeh Principal Patricia Dash § Vadim Karpinos James Ross Justin Vibbard Principal Carole Keller Mark Swanson CSO FELLOWS

Gabriela Lara Violin Jesús Linárez Violin Olivia Reyes Bass ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

John Deverman Director Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel S TA G E T E C H N I C I A N S

Christopher Lewis Stage Manager Blair Carlson Paul Christopher Ryan Hartge Peter Landry Joshua Mondie Todd Snick

Charles Vernon

* Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. ‡ On sabbatical § On leave The CSO’s music director position is endowed in perpetuity by a generous gift from the Zell Family Foundation. The Paul Hindemith Principal Viola, Gilchrist Foundation, and Louise H. Benton Wagner chairs currently are unoccupied. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the ﬁrst desk (ﬁrst two desks in the violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically.

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ADMINISTRATION Jeff Alexander President PRESIDENT’S OFFICE Kristine Stassen Executive Assistant to the President & Secretary of the Board Mónica Lugo Executive Assistant to the Music Director Human Resources Lynne Sorkin Director Dijana Cirkic Coordinator A R T I S T I C A D M I N I S T R AT I O N Cristina Rocca Vice President The Richard and Mary L. Gray Chair Guillermo Muñoz Küster Artistic Planning Coordinator James M. Fahey Senior Director, Programming, Symphony Center Presents Randy Elliot Director, Artistic Administration Monica Wentz Director, Artistic Planning & Special Projects Lena Breitkreuz Artist Manager, Symphony Center Presents Caroline Eichler Artist Coordinator, CSO Phillip Huscher Scholar-in-Residence & Program Annotator Pietro Fiumara Artists Assistant Chorus Shelley Baldridge Manager Heather Anderson Assistant Manager and Librarian ORCHESTRA AND B U I L D I N G O P E R AT I O N S Vanessa Moss Vice President Heidi Lukas Director Michael Lavin Assistant Director, Operations, SCP & Rental Events Jeffrey Stang Production Manager, CSO Joseph Sherman Production Manager, SCP & Rental Events Jiwon Sun Manager, Audio Media & Audio-Visual Operations Jenise Sheppard House Manager Charlie Post Audio Engineer Logan Goulart Operations Assistant Rosenthal Archives Frank Villella Director Orchestra Personnel John Deverman Director Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions & Orchestra Personnel Facilities John Maas Director Engineers Tim McElligott Chief Engineer Michael McGeehan Kevin Walsh Kyle Hendle Electricians Robert Stokas Chief Electrician Doug Scheuller Stage Technicians Christopher Lewis Stage Manager Blair Carlson Paul Christopher Ryan Hartge Peter Landry Joshua Mondie Todd Snick

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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, Brent Taghap Managers, 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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GOVER NING M EM BERS

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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H ONOR ROLL OF DONORS

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

U P TO $ 5 00,000

$ 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

H ON OR ROL L OF D ON ORS

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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$3,500–$4,499

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

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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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H ONOR ROLL OF DONORS

In memory of Arline Rose Sands Mr. & Mrs. David Baron In memory of Norman S. Santos Raquel Costa Jerry and Janet Curto Mrs. Minerva B. Flojo In memory of Dr. Eric Sasso Exai Bio In memory of Mrs. Eve Gaymont Sparberg Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III Ronald N. Mora

In 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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