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I look forward to all the music we will make together and to feeling your presence at concerts throughout the season.
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Welcome to Symphony Center, home of the great Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As one who has advo cated for the preservation of culture and championed music as a universal language all my life, nothing pleases me more than to see you at concerts before this orchestra that has given beauty and cultural enrichment to generations.
From start to finish, this season includes music of personal significance. When I first led the CSO, at the Ravinia Festival in 1973, it was in Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, a work we revisit this October. At that first con cert, the Orchestra made a profound impression on me, as I realized it was an ensemble without limits. I am grateful to the musicians of all the orches tras that I have conducted around the world, but the CSO is truly unique and continues to amaze me. The way the musicians have responded to my musi cal ideas and sense of family that we immediately created together is what inspired me to accept this prestigious commitment. We love each other very much, and the years have gone by very, very fast.
We close the season with Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, which I have often compared to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel—not only for its monumentality but also as a symbol of our humanity approaching the divine. Perhaps it is more than a coincidence that my first score to Missa solemnis is dated 1973, the same year I was introduced to this great orchestra.
It is our pleasure to welcome you to Symphony Center for the opening weeks of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 132nd season.Thisseason pays tribute to Riccardo Muti as we cele brate his artistry, which has profoundly moved audiences during his past twelve seasons as music director. During the week of concerts, Muti conducts the U.S. premiere of a rediscovered work by composer Samuel ColeridgeTaylor and marks his 500th concert with the CSO since his debut at the Ravinia Festival in 1973. The following week, Maestro Muti and the CSO mark seventy years since the death of Sergei Prokofiev, a composer who has a special history with the Orchestra, in performances of his Symphony no. 5. For his third subscription program, Muti conducts Franck’s Le chasseur maudit and Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, which he conducted on his debut concert with the CSO. Yefim Bronfman joins Muti and the CSO during the opening concerts and Symphony Ball, perform ing as soloist in Brahms’s Piano Concerto no. 1 and Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 22, respectively.Thisfall,theCSO is joined by esteemed guest conductors including Constantine Kitsopoulos, Christian Thielemann, Xian Zhang, Edward Gardner, Harry Bicket, and Manfred Honeck. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff, pianist Simon Trpčeski, and cellist Gautier Capuçon are featured soloists. In October, there are four performances of the 1984 Academy Award–winning film Amadeus with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and we are pleased to welcome the Joffrey Ballet to Orchestra Hall for three performances, including the world premieres of two ballets. In addition, the CSO returns to Wheaton College in November. Marking both the start of the twenty-fifth season of CSO MusicNOW and its return to Symphony Center, Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery and musicians from the CSO perform two concerts of contemporary works this fall.
The Symphony Center Presents season opens its Jazz series with pianist and composer Chucho Valdés in La Creación (The Creation), an SCP co-commission for big band, Afro-Cuban percussion, and vocals. Next, violinist Midori and pia nist Jean-Yves Thibaudet perform a duo recital to begin the SCP Chamber Music series, while David Fray launches the SCP Piano series with works by Schubert and Liszt. A highlight of the season is the return of the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Kirill Petrenko, for its first appearance in Chicago since 2009.
We look forward to seeing you at many concerts in the season ahead and remain grateful for your support of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.
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“ The Muti/CSO partnership has certainly blossomed over time, but an extraordinary magical musical connection was obvious on day one.”
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What is it like to be conducted by Riccardo Muti? To answer this, members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra would argue they have the best seat in the house.
from top: Riccardo Muti smiles toward the Orchestra from the side of the Armour Stage, January 10, 2022. Muti leads the CSO in rehearsal, November 15, 2019.
Susan Synnestvedt Violin
opposite page, from top: Maestro Muti invites the woodwind section to take a bow, September 30, 2021. Muti with Wendy Koons Meir’s daughters at a rehearsal at the Musikverein in Vienna during the fall of 2014 European Tour
PHOTOS
BY TODD ROSENBERG
Daniel Gingrich Associate Principal Horn
As part of an ongoing series, CSO musicians reflect on the artistry, experience, and myriad qualities Riccardo Muti has contributed since becoming music director in 2010. Here, musicians share insights on aspects of their unique artistic partnership with the maestro and his remarkable style of leadership on and off the podium.
“Like no other conductor I’ve worked with, Maestro Muti has an incredible ability to show us with his conducting exactly what we need when we need it. He doesn’t waste gestures when we’re in a groove, but we can always count on his help through difficult transitions or while performing unfamiliar pieces.”
“As a member of the CSO woodwind section, I want to shed light on a wonderful fact. Maestro Muti has appointed many of us—all of the principal winds as well as section members— and because of his love and commitment to the ever-growing talent of this orchestra, he leaves us with a great sense of pride as we will always strive to be one of the greatest orchestras in the world. His trust in us speaks volumes to his legacy and his incredible dedication to choosing great musicians to carry the torch for generations to come.”
Michael Mulcahy Trombone
Stephen Williamson Principal Clarinet
Mihaela Ionescu Violin
Wendy Koons Meir Violin
“Maestro Muti‘s consistent drive for excellence and the highest standard of music coincide with generosity, humanity,hisand true love and care for the members of the Chicago Symphony and their families. One of the things that has impressed me about Maestro Muti beyond his capabilities and expertise on the podium is his kindness and compassion as a human being and family man. From the time he started and his wife Cristina bounced my eighteenmonth-old on her lap, he has consistently inquired, ‘How are the bambini?,’ wanting to know if they’re coming to concerts and for them to come and say, ‘hello.’ ”
“Maestro Muti tenaciously insists on constantly deepening our dedication to artistic discipline and refinement. Dolce, cantabile, and sostenuto are integral elements of a truly great ensemble that keep the CSO in the vanguard of the world’s elite symphony orchestras.”
“Maestro Muti is the most trusted conductor that we collaborate with because he is always prepared, knowing what he is asking us to do, and how to gesture to get the desired outcome. He also expects the best of us in rehearsal and concert.”
“ We are very sensitive to his gestures and facial expressions. From the moment he walks onto the podium, we have a sense of how the performance might go, but with us, he always becomes calm, content, and energetic. His mood gets lighter during the concert, although he’s tough when he hears or sees something that should not happen. We like to please his good taste.”
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“I joined the Chicago Symphony in 1962 and have had the immense honor and privilege of performing under some of the world’s most brilliant and acclaimed conductors. It is my humble opinion that Maestro Muti is ‘NONPAREIL.’ Maestro Muti’s extraordinary combination of musicianship, humanity, and artistic vision makes every concert he conducts a truly remarkable occasion. He has taken the Orchestra to new heights and has given the city of Chicago an invaluable gift.”
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“He genuinely cares about doing justice to this music, getting to the depth of it rather than just an on-the-surface, generic interpretation. That is really inspiring to see and to be a part of.”
“Maestro Muti has come to enjoy friendships with each member of the Orchestra. These are friendships based on the joy of making music together. We collaborate with him in the most collegial manner. He loves being with all musicians, sharing stories and experiences that enhance our relationship to him.”
Keith Buncke Principal Bassoon
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“His unique personality has been the perfect match, in addition to his exquisite conducting and inspirational leadership of one of the most iconic orchestras in the world. I feel extremely lucky to be able to share the stage with him and to learn from his unique spirit. Without any doubt, he will always be ‘The Maestro’ for me.”
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“Maestro Muti quickly realized that his musicians not only understood him but also greatly appreciated his musicianship, and hence were open to his leadership. This has resulted in growth in the performance level of the Orchestra. Now we can quickly understand the musical language of composers from Mozart to Verdi to Varèse.”
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Muti leads the Chicago Symphony and Civic orchestras in rehearsal on the stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, September 20, 2018.
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tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32
coleridge-taylor Solemn Prelude
Riccardo Muti Conductor Yefim Bronfman Piano
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Born August 15, 1875; Holborn, London, England Died September 1, 1912; Croydon, Surrey, England
Thomas programmed the aria from Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha cantata, a rhapsodic setting of poetry by Longfellow—it was for many years in the repertoire of every tenor—in the Orchestra’s ninth season. The Boston Symphony Orchestra would introduce Coleridge-Taylor to its audiences with the aria two years later, and the New York Philharmonic, again with the same music, in 1912. Four months after the Chicago premiere, the Tribune ran a dispatch from its London correspondent, reporting on the first performance there of the complete Hiawatha cantata, calling it “the musical sensation of the London season.” The paper said that the composer had married an Englishwoman and become the father of a son. “He has followed Wagner’s example of naming his first born after one of his heroes, and the boy will go through life to the name of Hiawatha Coleridge-Taylor.” A photo of the composer was headed “New Idol of London Music World.”
composed 1899
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samuel coleridge-taylor
When Theodore Thomas founded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1891, he was widely known as America’s great program-maker, a conductor with a particular flair for putting on concerts that mixed the classics and popular favorites with unknown works by interesting new composers. As a result, Chicago became one of the first American cities to hear the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The week before the Orchestra’s performance of the big tenor aria from Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, in January 1900, the Chicago Tribune reported that “Mr. Coleridge-Taylor is a young negro composer residing in England, who has claimed the attention, first, of British musicians, and, latterly, of the musical world at large, by reason of his extraordinary gifts as a composer.” Samuel’s parents were a white Englishwoman and a medical student from Sierra Leone who met in London. As the paper pointed out, Samuel had already produced a long list of works, including a clarinet quintet that was introduced to Germany by the great violinist Joseph Joachim—the man who premiered Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Coleridge-Taylor was just twenty-five years old.
The Solemn Prelude that is receiving its U.S. premiere this week in Orchestra Hall is not the first work by Coleridge-Taylor
above: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, photo ca. 1893
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instrumentation two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, two trombones and bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion, strings
first performance September 13, 1899; Worcester, England
September 22 and 23, 2022, Orchestra Hall. Riccardo Muti conducting (United States premiere)
Solemn Prelude
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Like the Ballade, the Solemn Prelude was commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival. The composer led the first performance, in 1899, a year after the Ballade; Elgar conducted his Enigma Variations on the same program. A piano reduction of the Solemn Prelude was published at that time, but a full score was never printed, and the orchestral materials were lost. The work was forgotten. Then recent detective work by the festival confirmed that the composer’s manuscript was housed in the British Library in London. Faber Music prepared an edition of the work based on the manuscript, and the Solemn Prelude was revived at the Three Choirs Festival in July 2021, on a program with Elgar’s Enigma Variations—a second performance one hundred twenty-two years after the first.
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A footnote on the composer and America. Coleridge-Taylor did not visit Chicago when he came to the United States in 1904, but he enjoyed great success on his first American venture. He had been warned that he might encounter discrimination. “I can assure you that no one will be able to stop me from paying you my long deferred visit,” he wrote to his spon sor. “As for prejudice, I am well prepared for it. Surely that which you and many others have lived in for so many years will not quite kill me. . . . I am a great believer in my race, and I never lose an opportunity of letting my white friends here know it.” Coleridge-Taylor was treated like vis iting royalty in America—President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to the White House—and he returned to this country in 1906 and 1910. He quickly became a staple of American culture. A group of Black singers in Washington, D.C., founded the Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society. Public schools in Baltimore and Louisville were named for him.
to be introduced to this country by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. On February 13, 1903, Thomas and the Orchestra gave the U.S. pre miere of Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade, which had been commissioned for London’s Three Choirs Festival at the recommendation of Edward Elgar, who was forced to decline the offer: “I wish, wish, wish you would ask ColeridgeTaylor to do it. He still wants recognition, and he is far and away the cleverest fellow going amongst the young men.” He had been intro duced to Coleridge-Taylor by the celebrated publisher August Jaeger—the “Nimrod” of Elgar’s Enigma Variations. (The Orchestra per formed the Ballade again in November 2021 and August 2022.)
The Solemn Prelude is a confident and master ful work, promising a long, rich composing life. But that was not to be. In 1912, Coleridge-Taylor composed a violin concerto for Maud Powell, the Illinois native who had made her debut under Theodore Thomas in 1885 and played with him and the Chicago Orchestra at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. It turned out to be his last major score. He died of pneumonia three months after the premiere, at the age of thirty-seven—scarcely older than Mozart at the
Too young to die: his great simplicity, his happy courage in an alien world, his gentle ness, made all that knew him love him.
A second footnote, on the passing down of names and traditions. Just as Samuel was named after the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his own name was the source for ColeridgeTaylor Perkinson, the composer, conductor, and pianist who was born in New York City in 1932, and eventually moved to Chicago, where he was the artistic director of the performance pro gram at the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College until his death in 2004.
time of his premature death. It is impossible to know how Coleridge-Taylor’s flourishing career might have continued. He was buried in Brandon Hill Cemetery in London. Four measures from Hiawatha are inscribed on his tombstone, along with a tribute from his close friend, the poet Alfred Noyes:
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Entered in Mozart’s catalog on December 16, 1785
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The three concertos of the Figaro winter are Mozart’s first to include clarinets, his favorite wind instrument, and they dominate the E-flat work as they do no other piano concerto.
Mozart’s piano concertos were his main performing vehicles—as well as his primary source of income. From 1782, the year after he moved to Vienna, until 1786, Mozart wrote fifteen piano concertos—an incredible outpouring of import ant music that corresponds, not coincidentally, to his heyday as a performer. When Leopold Mozart visited Wolfgang in Vienna early in 1785, he saw that his son’s life was a whirlwind of public appearances, complicated immeasurably by the con vention of hauling one’s own instrument along to each perfor mance. “Since my arrival,” he wrote to Nannerl, “your brother’s fortepiano has been taken at least a dozen times from the house to the theater or to some other house.”
Died December 5, 1791; Vienna, Austria
March 14 and 15, 1924, Orchestra Hall. Wanda Landowska as soloist, Frederick Stock conducting July and, 1955, Ravinia Festival. Rudolf Serkin as Eduard van Beinumsoloist,conducting most recent cso performances July 24, 2005, Ravinia Festival. Emanuel Ax as soloist, James Conlon conducting April 28, 29, and 30, 2016, Orchestra Hall. Till Fellner as soloist, Bernard Haitink conducting
First movement: Paul Badura-Skoda
above: Wolfgang Mozart, portrait by Joseph Lange (1751–1831), 1782, brother-in-law of the composer. Mozart Museum Salzburg
solo piano, flute, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, strings
December 23, 1785; Vienna, Austria, with the composer as soloist
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Mozart wrote three piano concertos while he worked on The Marriage of Figaro during the winter of 1785–86. This was the most productive period in his life, and the only reasonable way to explain the enor mous and varied output of these six months is to assume that the intense work on the complicated musical and dramatic structures of the opera set his mind racing with more ideas than a single four-act opera could contain. Neither the challenge of the purely mechanical task of writing it all down, nor the infinitely greater one of conceiving so much glorious music, appears to have inconvenienced Mozart in the least. Throughout the winter, he kept to his regular routine of teaching and performing, while also maintaining a full social calendar. The only activity that seems to have suffered was his correspondence, and so we have only a sketchy account of his daily life at the time.
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There are passages for the piano in the E-flat major concerto he wrote that hectic Figaro winter that are not fully written out, because Mozart was then, more than ever, short of time. (Besides, he composed the concerto expressly for his own use.) Those fragmentary measures speak not of carelessness, but merely impatience; they also remind us that Mozart regularly improvised and ornamented certain phrases as he played.
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K. 482composed
he first movement benefits from the exceptional richness and variety of Mozart’s scoring, for its primary material is little more than boilerplate ceremonial music, decked out with fanfares and trumpet-anddrums heroics. Yet at every turn, Mozart invests anonymous gestures with personality and inter est. Listen, for example, to the opening six mea sures, with its horn duet answered by bassoons; Mozart then repeats the passage, giving the duet to clarinets, and the response not to another of
The finale begins as genial hunting music, only to have the hunt frozen in place by the interjec tion of a courtly minuet, with its wistful echoes of the Andante and still more glorious writing for the winds. This mixture of ballroom and sunny outdoors, of high spirits and quiet introspection, is typically Mozartean, and it gives the finale an unexpected depth.
above: The Kohlmarkt in Vienna, a drawing of a portion of the city center by Carl Schütz (1745–1800), 1786
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(It is the first concerto to have been conceived with clarinets in mind; the next in the series, K. 488, was actually begun earlier, but with oboes instead; Mozart switched to clarinets when he completed the score in 1786.) In fact, the E-flat concerto is saturated with the sound of wood winds; even the bassoon often catches the ear with ripe melodic interjections.
Thesolos.firstViennese audi ence applauded the C minor Andante so insistently that Mozart played it again. It is one of his finest slow move ments, launched by a simple, yet indescribably poignant theme. Mozart writes three increas ingly elaborate variations on the opening theme, the first two for the piano with only the most dis creet accompaniment. Around the second varia tion, Mozart wraps two episodes, one for winds alone, the other a duet for flute and bassoon. The final variation is expansive and dramatic, surpris ing in its details—listen for the glint of C major in a C minor world—and endlessly complicated in its emotional progress.
the winds, but to the violins. The entire movement is enliv ened by that kind of careful, imaginative detail. As always in Mozart’s concertos, the interplay between instru ments, and between piano and orchestra, suggests the intimacy of chamber music; here the effect is heightened in particular by the number of wind
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Tchaikovsky first considered writing an opera about Francesca da Rimini, a suggestion from the critic Herman Laroche. But when he learned that the proposed libret tist, Konstantin Zvantsov, had grand Wagnerian ambitions, Tchaikovsky quickly lost his enthusiasm and changed direc tion. In early August of that summer, he wrote to his brother Modest, “This evening in my coach I read the [5th] canto of the Inferno, and was inflamed with a desire to write a symphonic poem on Francesca.” For Tchaikovsky, contemplating the taboo
above: Pyotr Tchaikovsky, photo by Alfred Lorens (1830–1896), 1874
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first cso performances November 6 and 7, 1896, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting July 29, 1938, Ravinia Festival. Eugene Ormandy conducting most recent cso performances July 16, 2017, Ravinia Festival. Dima Slobodeniouk conducting April 19, 20, and 21, 2018, Orchestra Hall. Riccardo Muti conducting cso recording 1981. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Deutsche Grammophon
instrumentation three flutes with piccolo, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets and two cornets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, strings
Rimini sits on Italy’s Adriatic coast, little more than thirty miles south of Ravenna and two hours to the east of Florence by fast train. Its history is long and distin guished, with rich cultural associations. The city’s opera house, the Teatro Nuovo Comunale, was inaugurated by the pre miere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aroldo in 1857 (the house was severely bombed during World War II). Federico Fellini, the great filmmaker, is Rimini’s most famous son, but no one’s name is more closely associated with the seacoast town than Francesca, who appears for the first time in canto 5 of Dante’s Divine Comedy. It is Francesca who utters one of the most poignant lines in Dante’s work: Nessun maggior dolore / Che recordarsi del tempo felice / Nella miseria—There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of a happy time in Tchaikovskymisery.turned his attention to Dante in 1876, the same year he made a trip to Bayreuth, where he attended the first performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle. It was Dante who had the greater impact on Tchaikovsky in the end, though he, like nearly everyone else at the time, temporarily fell at least partly under the spell of the Wagnerian world. Tchaikovsky had heard a performance of Franz Liszt’s Dante Symphony the previous year, and although he thought the score showed great imag ination in portraying the underworld, he was disappointed by Liszt’s rather generalized treatment of Francesca and her forbidden love, Paolo, dismissing their music as “too similar to many other such episodes in Liszt’s works.” Perhaps it was then that Tchaikovsky realized he was destined to do something with Dante’s doomed lovers.
Died November 18, 1893; Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Born May 7, 1840; Votkinsk, Russia
Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32
composed 1876
first performance March 9, 1877; Moscow, Russia
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The manuscript for Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini includes the following prose program he wrote to accompany the music.
of Francesca and Paolo spinning in each other’s embrace. Shocked by the soul-searing sight of these two young shades, Dante summons them and asks them to relate the crime for which they have been prescribed so terrible a punishment. Dissolving in tears, the shade of Francesca tells her sad tale. She loved Paolo but was, against her will, given in marriage “to the hateful brother of her beloved, the hunch-backed, deformed, jealous tyrant, Rimini.”
above: Dante and Virgil Meet Paolo and Francesca, oil on canvas by Giuseppe Frascheri (1809–1886), 1846. Civic Gallery of Modern Art, Savona, Italy
Dante, accompanying the shade of Virgil, descends to the second circle of hell’s abyss. The air here is filled with groans, wails, and cries of despair. In the sepulchral gloom a storm blows up and rages. Furiously, the hellish whirlwind races along, bearing in its wild whirling the spirits of mortals whose reason in life was clouded by amo rous passion. From the countless human souls spinning there, Dante’s attention is specifically drawn to the two lovely shades
Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.
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The bonds of a forced marriage could not drive from Francesca’s heart her tender passion for Paolo. Once they were reading together the romance of Lancelot. “We were alone,” Francesca narrates, “and were reading with apprehension. More than once we blanched, and our confused glances met. But one instant destroyed us both. When, finally, the fortunate Lancelot gained the first kiss of love, he, from whom nothing will now separate me, kissed my trembling mouth, and the book that had revealed to us for the first time the secret of love fell from our hands.”
From its earliest per formances the next year, Francesca da Rimini was acclaimed as Tchaikovsky’s first great work of program music. Tchaikovsky even admitted that Wagner’s musical language had man aged to work its way into his score: “Isn’t it strange,” he wrote, “that I should have fallen under the influence of a work of art for which I feel, on the whole, a marked antipathy?” Francesca da Rimini is filled with magnificent touches, from the ambiguous Wagnerian brass harmonies of the introduction to the eloquent clarinet solo depict ing Francesca and the raging whirlwind that, as Tchaikovsky said, recalled the tortured depiction of the couple in Gustave Doré’s celebrated illus trations for Dante’s tale.
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At that moment, Francesca’s husband had entered unexpectedly, and killed both her and Paolo with blows form his dagger. And, having said this, Francesca is borne away in the embrace of her Paolo by the furiously and wildly raging whirlwind.
of his own homosexuality and about to enter into a precipitous and disastrous marriage within the year, the tragic tale of Francesca and Paolo’s forbidden love struck a nerve. He wrote the piece in just three weeks.
Muti has received numerous international honors over the course of his career. He is Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Italian Republic and a recipient of the German Verdienstkreuz. He received the decoration of Officer of the Legion of Honor from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was made an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. The Salzburg Mozarteum awarded him its silver medal for his contribution to Mozart’s music, and in Vienna, he was elected an honorary member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna Hofmusikkapelle, and Vienna State Opera. The State of Israel has hon ored him with the Wolf Prize in the arts. In July 2018, President Petro Poroshenko presented Muti with the State Award of Ukraine during the Roads of Friendship concert at the Ravenna Festival in Italy following earlier performances in Kiev. In October 2018, Muti received the prestigious Praemium Imperiale for Music of the Japan Arts Association in Tokyo.
Riccardo Muti is one of the world’s preeminent conduc tors. In 2010, he became the tenth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Muti’s leadership has been distinguished by the strength of his artistic partnership with the Orchestra; his dedication to performing great works of the past and present, including thirteen world premieres to date; the enthusiastic reception he and the CSO have received on national and international tours; and eight recordings on the CSO Resound label, with three Grammy awards among them. In addition, his contributions to the cultural life of Chicago— with performances throughout its many neigh borhoods and at Orchestra Hall—have made a lasting impact on the city.
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Born in Naples, Riccardo Muti studied piano under Vincenzo Vitale at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella, graduating with distinction. He subsequently received a diploma in compo sition and conducting from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan under the guidance of Bruno Bettinelli and Antonino Votto.
He first came to the attention of critics and the public in 1967, when he won the Guido Cantelli Conducting Competition, by unanimous vote of the jury, in Milan. In 1968, he became principal conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, a position he held until 1980. In 1971, Muti was invited by Herbert von Karajan to conduct at the Salzburg Festival, the first of many occasions, which led to a celebration of fifty years of artistic collaboration with the Austrian festival in 2020. During the 1970s, Muti was chief conductor of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra (1972–1982), succeeding Otto Klemperer. From 1980 to 1992, he inherited the position of music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra from Eugene Ormandy.
Over the course of his extraordinary career, Riccardo Muti has conducted the most import ant orchestras in the world: from the Berlin Philharmonic to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and from the New York Philharmonic to the Orchestre National de France; as well as the Vienna Philharmonic, an orchestra to which he is linked by particularly close and important ties, and with which he has appeared at the Salzburg Festival since 1971. When Muti was invited to lead the Vienna Philharmonic’s 150th-anniversary concert, the orchestra pre sented him with the Golden Ring, a special sign of esteem and affection, awarded only to a few select conductors. In 2021, he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the New Year’s Concert for the sixth time.
From 1986 to 2005, he was music director of Teatro alla Scala, and during that time, he directed major projects such as the three
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Mozart/Da Ponte operas and Wagner’s Ring cycle in addition to his exceptional contribu tions to the Verdi repertoire. His tenure as music director of Teatro alla Scala, the longest in its history, culminated in the triumphant reopen ing of the restored opera house on December 7, 2004, with Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta.
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Following these concerts, Muti and the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra launched a five-concert tour that began at Slovenia’s Ljubljana Festival. On July 25, between concerts in Bari and Ravello, he received the 2022 Premio Segreti d’Autore (Author’s Secrets Prize) in honor of his commitment to young musicians.
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On July 11 and 14, Riccardo Muti conducted concerts at two of Europe’s most significant holy sites, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France and the Basilica of the Holy House of Loreto in Italy, places of pilgrimage for millions each year seeking healing at shrines to the Virgin Mary.
Passionate about teaching young musi cians, Muti founded the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra in 2004 and the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in 2015. The purpose of the Italian Opera Academy—which takes place in Italy, as well as in Japan since 2019 as part of a multi-year collaboration with the Tokyo Spring Festival—is to pass on Muti’s expertise to young musicians and to foster a better understanding of the complex journey to the realization of an opera. Through Le vie dell’Amicizia (The Roads of Friendship), a project of the Ravenna Festival in Italy, he has conducted in many of the world’s most troubled areas in order to bring attention to civic and social issues. The label RMMUSIC is responsible for Riccardo Muti’s recordings.
In September 2010, Riccardo Muti became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was named 2010 Musician of the Year by Musical America. In 2011, Muti was selected as the recipient of the coveted Birgit Nilsson Prize. In 2011, he received the Opera News Award in New York City and Spain’s presti gious Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. That summer, he was named an honorary member of the Vienna Philharmonic and honorary director for life of the Rome Opera. In May 2012, he was awarded the highest papal honor: the Knight of the Grand Cross First Class of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI. In 2016, he was honored by the Japanese govern ment with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star. On August 15, 2021, Muti received the Great Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria, the highest possible civilian honor from the Austrian government.
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On Tuesday, August 30, on the island of Capri, Muti received the Twenty-seventh Faraglioni Prize for his lifelong contributions to music and culture. Presented by the mayor of Capri, the distinguished Faraglioni Prize is a silver sculpture depicting the famous coastal rock formations on the island’s southern coast. For further details on Riccardo Muti’s summer activities, please visit cso.org/experience.
Muti’s highly anticipated annual concerts at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic, August 14–16, opened with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 6 followed by Liszt’s From the Cradle to the Grave and Boito’s Prologue to Mefistofele. The headlines in the Salzburger Nachtrichten described Muti’s concerts as “a bedrock of the Salzburg summer and indispensable, too.”
These performances—part of the Roads of Friendship, an annual project of the Ravenna Festival that has brought the healing power of music to symbolic locations every year since 1997—were dedicated to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the city of Mary, and the victims of all wars. The concert in Loreto began with a special greeting sent by Pope Francis followed by a speech from Yaroslav Melnyk, the Ukrainian ambassador to the Italian Republic, who presented Muti with an award as a foreign member of the Ukrainian National Academy of the Arts.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Emmanuel Pahud, amongWidelyothers.praised for his recordings, Bronfman has been nominated for six Grammy awards, winning in 1997 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen for their recording of Bartók’s three piano concertos. His prolific discography also includes also his most recent releases, Magnus Lindberg’s Grammynominated (2014) Piano Concerto no. 2, commis sioned for him and performed with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert on the Da Capo label; Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony under Mariss Jansons; a recital disc, Perspectives, complementing Bronfman’s designation as a Carnegie Hall “Perspectives” artist for the 2007–08 season; and Beethoven’s five piano concertos and Triple Concerto with violinist Gil Shaham, cellist Truls Mørk, and the TonhalleOrchester Zürich under Zinman for the Arte Nova/BMG label.
Internationally recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman stands among a handful of artists regularly sought by festivals, orchestras, conductors, and recital series.
Now available on DVD are his perfor mances of Liszt’s Piano Concerto no. 2 with the Vienna Philharmonic and Welser-Möst from Schönbrunn Palace, 2010, on Deutsche Grammophon; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 5 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Nelsons from the 2011 Lucerne Festival; Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto no. 3 with the Berlin Philharmonic and Rattle on the EuroArts label; and Brahms’s two concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra and Welser-Möst (2015).
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Yefim Bronfman Piano
Born in Tashkent in the Soviet Union, Yefim Bronfman in 1973 immigrated to Israel, where he was a student of Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. In the United States, he studied at the Juilliard School, Marlboro School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music under Rudolf Firkušný, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin. A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, he was further honored with the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from Northwestern University in 2010 and an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music in 2015.
August 1, 2019, Ravinia Festival. Brahms’s Piano Concerto no. 1, Rafael Payare conducting September 22 and 23, 2022, Orchestra Hall. Brahms’s Piano Concerto no. 1, Riccardo Muti conducting
August 9, 1984, Ravinia Festival. Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto no. 3, Michael Tilson Thomas conducting November 21, 22, and 23, 1985, Orchestra Hall. Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto no. 2, Neeme Järvi conducting
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Following summer festival appearances in Verbier and Salzburg and on tour with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, his 2022–23 season includes returns to the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra; and to the Pittsburgh, Houston, New World, Pacific, Madison, New Jersey, Toronto, and Montreal symphony orchestras. In Europe, he tours with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and is heard with the Berlin Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Munich) in addition to the Bamberg, Dresden Staatskapelle, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and Zurich Opera orchestras.
Bronfman works regularly with an illustri ous group of conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowski, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, and David Zinman. Always keen to explore chamber music repertoire, he has collaborated with such partners as Pinchas Zukerman, Martha Argerich,
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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 popularThreeconcerts.eminent conductors headed the Orchestra during the following decade: Désiré Defauw was music director from 1943 to 1947, Artur Rodzinski assumed the post in 1947–48, and Rafael Kubelík led the ensemble for three seasons from 1950 to 1953. The next ten years belonged to Fritz Reiner, whose recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are still considered performance hallmarks. It was Reiner who invited Margaret Hillis to form the Chicago Symphony Chorus in 1957. For the 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 partner ships of our time, and the CSO made its first overseas tour to Europe in 1971 under his direction, along with numerous award-winning recordings. Solti then held
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. Releases on CSO Resound, the Orchestra’s independent recording label, include the Grammy Award–winning release of Verdi’s Requiem led by Riccardo Muti. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have earned sixty-three Grammy awards from the Recording Academy.
The history of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, then the leading conductor in America and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra here. Thomas’s aim to build a permanent orchestra with performance capabilities 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 per manent home designed by Daniel Burnham.
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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 conductors: Carlo Maria Giulini, who appeared in Chicago regularly in the late 1950s, 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. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma served as the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant from 2010 to 2019. Hilary Hahn became the CSO’s first Artist-in-Residence in 2021, a role that brings her to Chicago for multiple residencies eachJessieseason.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 contem porary MusicNOW series.
Daniel Barenboim was named music director des ignate in January 1989, and he became the Orchestra’s ninth music director in September 1991, a position he held until June 2006. His tenure was distinguished by the opening of Symphony Center in 1997, highly praised operatic productions at Orchestra Hall, numerous appearances with the Orchestra in the dual role of pianist and conductor, twenty-one interna tional tours, and the appointment of Duain Wolfe as the Chorus’s second director.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the world’s leading orchestras, and in September 2010, renowned Italian conduc tor Riccardo Muti became its tenth music director. During his tenure, the Orchestra has deepened its engagement with the Chicago community, nur tured its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians and composers, and collaborated with visionary artists.
the title of music director laureate and returned to conduct the Orchestra for several weeks each season until his death in September 1997.
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McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor GCM LathamGrosvenor&Watkins LLP
BRONZE SPONSORS
SILVER PATRONS
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
John and Leslie Henner Burns Suzanne and Charles Demirjian Judith E. Feldman
Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Stacie and Eric Kuhlman Mirjana Martich and Zoran Lazarevic Elizabeth Parker and Keith Crow Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell
John JonathonLaurenKamilleDunsonFajardoHuefnerLeik
Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil Lori Julian
Craig and Bette Williams
GOLD GRAND PATRONS
BRONZE PATRONS
SEPTEMBER–NOVEMBER 2022 32C symphony ball individual tickets
Peter and Elise Barack Katie and Christopher Barber Sue and Nick Bridge Juli Crabtree and Donald Horvath Donna and David Fleming
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Mary Louise Gorno Elisa Harris and Ivo Daalder Leigh Ann and Casey Herman
Dr. Ashley
Rene LynnSebastianJudyJudyNeilHowardJoelAngelaAlphonseD’AversaDryerGottliebandKarenKawashimaandJoeKonenMarthPatinoSinger
PLATINUM GRAND PATRONS
Lois Wolff
Dr.LindaElysiaKimKatherineRuthieMaryKennethVictoriaIanSaulBlake-AnthonyJacksonJohnsonJuskaitisandRobynMoncriefNeePojeandTilliePaniaguaandScottRaffertyandRichRyanShepherdShepherdSolomonandBillWardBrendaA.DarrellandMr.Paul S. Watford
Alexander J. Wayne and Dr. Lynne Copp Lawrence and Connie Wechter
CONTRIBUTORS
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Murley Shelley Ochab and Chester Gougis Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Cynthia and Michael Scholl Courtney Shea Cheryl Sturm
Betsy Brace Blum
OVERTURE COUNCIL
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Boeckelman Mr. and Mrs. William Dooley Chuck and Carol Emmons Graham Grady Kyle Mr.MerleDominikaAnnaHarveyHertsbergHertsbergL.JacobandMrs.Thomas Kilroy Leah SheliJamesLaurieRendelZ.andBurton X. Rosenberg
Symphony Ball SAVE THE DATE! CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 5:30 PM Preconcert red-carpet experience throughout Symphony Center Preconcert VIP reception for gala sponsors and gala patrons 6:30 PM Concert featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Postconcert Gala Gala sponsors and patrons will be transported to the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago for dinner, dancing and festivities. For more information, please email Kim Duffy at duffyk@cso.org or call 312-294-3162. Saturday, September 23, 2023 This is a fundraising project of
Mrs. Lynn Gendleman Dr. Mark Gendleman
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen
Patrick A. Martin
John D. Bramsen
Suzanne Hoffman
Dr. Mary L. Houston
Mrs. Richard C. Halpern Anne Marcus Hamada
Thea Flaum Hill
Dr. Andrew Aronson
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Dr. James Ertle William Escamilla Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri Neil MelissaFacklerSage Fadim Jeffrey Farbman Signe HectorFergusonFerral,M.D.
Sue Mrs.BrubakerPatriciaM. Bryan Gilda RosemarieSamuelBuchbinderBuchsbaumBuntrock
or more).
Joyce Greening
Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven Mr. Richard Cremieux R. Bert Crossland Rebecca E. Crown 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 Mr.MimiRobertDranoveDugganDugingerFrankA.Dusek, CPA
Mr. Agustin G. Sanz Malcolm M. Gaynor Robert D. Gecht Frank Gelber
James P. Grusecki
Charles Emmons, Jr. Chair
Anonymous (8)
Roberta Barron Roger Baskes
Mrs. David P. Earle III Judge Frank H. Easterbrook Mrs. Dorne Eastwood Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Louis M. Ebling III Jon KathleenEkdahlH. Elliott Charles Emmons, Jr. Scott Enloe
Dana Green Clancy
Dr. Howard Halpern
Mrs. William A. Hark
Thomas Haynes
Jerome J. Groen Jacalyn Gronek
Mrs. Nancy A. Horner
Ann Pickard McDermott
Patricia J. Hurley
Robert Alsaker
Mrs. Patricia Herrmann Heestand Dr. Scott W. Helm Marilyn. P. Helmholz
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.
Dr. Edward Applebaum
James Heckman
Barry D. KennethKaufmanKaufman
Gregory M. Lewis
Mrs. Arnold Horween
Janet S. Boyer
EdwardDr.RonaldGeorgeJohnsonE.JohnsonB.JohnsonPatriciaCollinsJonesT.Joyce
Frances G. Horwich
Claudia Norris Kapnick
Kirsten Bedway
Ruth Grant
Mr. Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen
Anastasia Gutting
John P. Grube
John Hard
Dr. Dane Hassani
Dr. Philip R. Liebson
Mrs. Robert A. Beatty
Ms. Constance M. Filling Mr. Daniel Fischel Mrs. Dean Fischer Henry Fogel Mrs. John D. Foster David and Janet Fox Mr. Paul E. Freehling Mitzi MarjorieFreidheimFriedman Heyman
Robert H. Baum
Mrs. Paul Lieberman
Peter Barrett
Jerry A. Goldstone
Dianne Blanco
Michael Huston
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
Mrs. Lester McKeever
Carolyn Lickerman
Carol JaniceHonigbergL.Honigberg
Richard H. Helmholz
Dora J. Aalbregtse
BeLinda I. Mathie Scott McCue
Dr. Thomas H. Conner
Michael Perlstein Immediate Past Chair
Mr. James J. Glasser Madeleine Glossberg
Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs
Mrs. Mary Anne Goldberg Anne Goldstein
Don Mrs.LaurenceJerroldZafraJeffreySheilaJonathonSunheeWilliamMariaDr.Mr.Dr.MaryBethDavidEldonDr.Dr.SanfredMr.Mrs.CarolDr.Dr.CarolSusanEmmyLeslieElizabethNancyJonathanMollyKaulKellerKemperKempfI.KeyserKieselKingKiphartKippermanJayKleimanElaineH.KlemenEvansKlenkJanetKnauffHenryL.KohnKoltunMarkKozloffMichaelKrcoKreiderKreismanKretzVinayKumarJohnLaBarberaLyndaLaneLansJ.LawlorIIILeeLeikFieldsLeiterLennardLermanLevineH.LevineBernardLeviton
Lynne R. Haarlow
Joel L. Handelman
Gail Eisenhart Belytschko
David Arch
chicago symphony orchestra association governing members years
Ms. Judith Barnard
Ms. Jill Brennan
Wayne J. Holman III
Brian
Mrs. Peter McKinney
Anne Hokin
Edward H. Bennett III
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Dr. Jerri Greer Kendall Griffith
Merrill and Judy Blau Vice Chairs of Member Engagement
Ann Mr.PhyllisBerlinBerlinWilliamE. Bible
Judy Dr.MerrillBlauBlauPhyllisC. Bleck
Mary Goodkind
Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin
Fraida
John A. McKenna
Jeffrey W. Hesse Konstanze L. Hickey
Patricia M. Livingston Jane
Floyd Abramson
Meta S. Berger
James G. Borovsky
Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership
Cynthia Bates
Dr. Kent Armbruster
Mrs. Jane B. Colman
Mrs. Carol K. Kaplan †
GOVERNING MEMBERS
Fred E. Holubow
Mr. James Holzhauer
GarySandraAlandAllenAllie
JudyDavidSharonDr.Mrs.CarolAnnaAmyRenéeLoebLoganLubinLysakowskiMacArthurDuncanMacLeanMichaelS.MalingL.ManuelA.MarshallMarth
Ms. Cecilia Conrad Beverly Ann Conroy Jenny L. Corley
Barbara Ann Huyler
Ms. Patti Acurio
GOVERNING MEMBERS
Rabbi Gary S. Gerson Karen Gianfrancisco Ellen Gignilliat
Mrs. Judy Goldberg
Mrs. Hanna H. Gray Mary L. Gray
Adam Bossov
Marie Kaufman
Megan P. Anderson
John Jawor Ms. Justine Jentes
Ms. Sarah Crane
James W. Haugh
Mr. Verne G. Istock
Ann Mrs.TerryBlickensderferBodenSuzanneBorland
Dr. James L. McGee
Dr. Alexia Gordon
Dr. Arthur L. Herbst
Mrs. William Gardner Brown
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Vice Chair of the Annual Fund
Robin Tennant Colburn Dr. Edward A. Cole
Dr. Todd Janus
Freddi L. Greenberg Delta A. Greene
Merrill Barnes
Mrs. Arthur A. Billings
Dr. John P. McGee †
The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, which celebrated its 125th anni versary in the 2019–20 season.
Joan M. Hall
D. Theodore Berghorst
Mr. John F. Podjasek, III Andrew StephenPortePotter
Dr. Ellen Mendelson
Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr. Edward A. Nieminen
Joy O’Malley
Bonnie Perry
Carol Prins
David M. Schiffman Judith Feigon Schiffman Rosa Schloss Al ChandraDr.SusanDonaldSchriesheimL.SchwartzH.SchwartzPennyBenderSebringSekhar
Maria Ochs
Mrs. Norman L. Olson
Roberta H. Rubin
James E. Thompson
Diane W. Smith Louise K. Smith
Daniel R. Murray
Mr. Gerald A. Ostermann
Mr. Timothy J. Patenode
Betsey N. Pinkert
Stephen R. Smith
Bruce L. Ottley
Bruce Tranen † James M. (Mack) Trapp
Beth Ann Waite
Dr. Marc Weissbluth Carmen Wheatcroft M.L. PeterWinburnWolf
Jean E. Perkins
Karen Zupko
Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery
Linda Simon
John T. Travers
Laura Woll Dr. Hak Yui Wong
Courtenay R. Wood Michael H. Woolever Ms. Debbie Wright Ronald Yonover Owen Dr.DavidPriscillaYoungmanYuJ.ZampaJohnP.Zaremba
Mr. Michael Payette
For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.
Mr. Paul Meister
William Roberts David Robin Dr. Diana
Jeffrey J. Webb Mrs. Jacob Weglarz Chickie Weisbard
Kenneth R. Norgan
James J. O’Sullivan, Jr.
Dr. Michael Viglione Catherine M. Villinski
Eric Oesterle
Mrs. Ralph Smykal Naomi Pollock and David Sneider Diane Ms.KathleenKimberlySnyderSnyderSolaroElysiaM.Solomon
Mr. John H. Roberts
Mrs. Richard S. Pepper †
Kathleen Field Orr
Maridee Quanbeck Mrs. Lynda Rahal Diana Mendley Rauner Susan Regenstein Mari Yamamoto Regnier Mary Thomson Renner Burton R. Rissman Charles T. Rivkin Carol Roberts
Dr. Zehava L. Noah
MaijaLisaDorisMichaelDr.SheliSaulHarryKevinChaunceyRobinH.RobinsonM.RooneyJ.RoperRosenZ.RosenbergRicardoT.RosenkranzRosenthalRoskinRossRothenberg
David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg Richard O. Ryan
Richard Weiss
34 †GOVERNINGCSO.ORGMEMBERS
Charles Vincent Mr. Christian Vinyard Theodore Wachs Mark A. Wagner
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Joan DavidThronTimm
Nicholas Wallace Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan Norman K. Sackar Anthony Saineghi Inez KarlaSaundersScherer
Mr. Bruno A. Pasquinelli
Shelley Ochab
ItalicsDeceasedindicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
Mara Mills Barker
Robert C. Peterson
Robert G. Weiss
Mrs. Robert Szalay Mr. Gregory Taubeneck
Dr. Robert Thomson
Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.
Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz Sandra K. Rusnak
Mr. Larry Simpson Craig ValerieMiyamSirlesSlaterSlotnick
Bernard T. Wall
Mrs. James J. O’Connor
William A. Obenshain
Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Dr. William Peruzzi
Pamela Papas
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
Mr. Michael A. Perlstein
Sue N.
Lawrence E. Strickling Patricia Study
Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr. William R. Tobey, Jr.
David Trushin Dr. David A. Turner Robert W. Turner Zalman Usiskin Mrs. James D. Vail III John Van Horn Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice William C. Vance Thomas D. Vander Veen Jennifer Vianello
Martha C. Nussbaum
Mr. Stuart C. Nathan
Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior Ilene W. Shaw Pam JamesSheffieldC.Sheinin, M.D.
VirginiaStanleyPickM.PillmanJohnsonPillman
Richard W. Shepro Jessie Shih Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemaker Caroline Orzac Shoenberger Stuart Shulruff Adele Simmons
Mary Ann Smith
Cheryl Sturm BISCO Foundation
Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr. Charles F. Smith
James Edward McPherson
Harvey R. Plonsker
Orli WilliamStaleyD. Staley Helena Stancikas Grace Stanek Ms. Denise M. Stauder Leonidas Stefanos Mrs. Richard J. Stern Liz Stiffel Mary Stowell
McDermott Will & Emery McKinsey & Company Oxford WinstonWalgreensUnderwritersUL,ReaderlinkBankLLCInc.Laboratories&StrawnLLP
Irving Harris Foundation
Kovler Family Foundation
$25,000–$49,999
$100,000 AND ABOVE
The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Julius N. Frankel Foundation
Walter E. Heller Foundation in memory of Alyce DeCosta
FifthExelonDeloitteThird Bank
OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO United Airlines
U.S. Small Business Administration Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Zell Family Foundation
The Allyn Foundation, Inc.
Sidley Austin LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Kinder Morgan Mayer Brown LLP S&C Electric Company Fund
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
$1,000–$2,499
honor roll of donors
Crain-Maling Foundation
Music Performance Trust Fund Dr. Scholl Foundation
Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation
Hunter Family Foundation
Corporate Partners
$5,000–$9,999
$25,000–$49,999
The Buchanan Family Foundation Darling Family Foundation Leslie Fund, Inc.
Barker Welfare Foundation
$100,000 AND ABOVE AllstateAbbott Insurance Company CIBC Private Wealth Citadel and Citadel Securities NorthernITW Trust
The Brinson Foundation
The Clinton Family Fund
Pritzker Traubert Foundation
Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation Franklin Philanthropic Foundation William M. Hales Foundation Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation
John R. Halligan Charitable Fund
$5,000–$9,999 ArentFoxAccentureSchiff LLP
WeissVentasFinancial
$50,000–$99,999
The Chicago Community Trust Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown
Abbott Fund
Roy and Irene Rettinger Foundation Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
MAESTRO RESIDENCY PRESENTER Bank of America
Geraldi Norton Foundation Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust
VomelaViennaShureShowShetlandSaharaReaderlinkParkwayEtnyreColumbiaChapmanCentralAmstedInsuranceAgriculturalCompanyIndustriesIncorporatedBuilding&PreservationL.P.andCutlerLLPCapitalManagementInternationalElevatorsEnterprises,Inc.LimitedPartnershipServicesIncorporatedBeef
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
BurwoodBaird Fellowes,EntercomGroupChicagoInc.
$50,000–$99,000 Anonymous (1)
Advanced Technology Services Archer Daniels Midland Company
Crown Family Philanthropies
$10,000–$24,999
Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation
Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation
$1,000–$4,999
Grant Thornton LLP
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Jenner & Block LLP PNC PricewaterhouseCoopersBank LLP
GCM GoldmanGrosvenorSachs & Co. Havi JPMorganGroupChase & Co. King & LathamSpalding&Watkins LLP
Foundations and Government Agencies
Bowman C. Lingle Trust
$2,500–$4,999
Annual Support
The Hallstar Company
The Negaunee Foundation Sargent Family Foundation TAWANI Foundation
$10,000–$24,999 Anonymous (1)
Sally Mead Hands Foundation Illinois Arts Council Agency National Endowment for the Arts Polk Bros. Foundation
Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Hoellen Family Foundation
JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation
$150,000 AND ABOVE Anonymous (2) Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund
Italian Village Restaurants Law Offices of Jonathan N. Sherwell Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc. Mesirow Financial Segal
American
SupremeSteinerStarshakConsulting&WinzenburgElectricCompanyLobsterandSeafood Company
CorrugatedBulgariAon Supplies Company, LLC
RobertAnonymous&Isabelle Bass Foundation
The George L. Shields Foundation Tully Family Foundation
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through August 2022. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.
The Grainger Foundation
Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor George and Minou Colis Mimi Duginger 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 Ms. Geraldine Keefe 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 Mr. Daniel R. Murray 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. Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern Thierer Family Foundation Penny and John Van Horn Craig and Bette Williams Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow Estate of Rita Zralek
The Julian Family Foundation Margot and Josef Lakonishok Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal † The Negaunee Foundation COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG Megan(Retired)and Steve Shebik Zell Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross
JulianAnonymousFamily Foundation
Sharon and Charles Angell Julie and Roger Baskes Mrs. Janet R. Bauer Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Kay RosemarieBucksbaumandDean L. Buntrock Ms. Sarah Ms. NancyCraneDehmlow
James and Brenda Grusecki Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes
Anonymous (2) Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown Kay RosemarieBucksbaumandDean L. Buntrock Jim † and Kay Mabie Estate of Gloria Miner Cathy and Bill Osborn Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell
UP TO $500,000 JeffAnonymousandKeiko Alexander Ruth and Roger Anderson Family Foundation Peter and Elise Barack Merrill and Judy Blau
$50,000–$74,999 Anonymous (2)
$500,000–$999,999 Patricia and Laurence Booth John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray The Davee Foundation Howard Gottlieb
The Negaunee Foundation
$2,500,000–$4,999,999
$75,000–$99,999 Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab John Hart and Carol Prins Judy and Scott McCue Ms. Renee Metcalf
Estate of Esther G. Klatz
Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Mr. & Mrs. William A. Osborn Cynthia M. Sargent Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell
$20,000,000 AND ABOVE Zell Family Foundation
$5,000,000–$9,999,999
Megan and Steve Shebik Richard and Helen Thomas
Mr. &ITW
$100,000–$149,000 Anonymous (3)
$1,000,000–$2,499,999
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
Dr. Eugene F. and SallyAnn D. Fama Rhoda Lea † and Henry S. † Frank Ms. Susan Goldschmidt Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Shure Charitable Trust
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.
Mrs. † William R. Jentes Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg
$10,000,000–$19,999,999
THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
MaryAnonymousLouise Gorno
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Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
$20,000–$24,999 Arnie and Ann Berlin Richard and Alice Godfrey Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman Anne and John † Kern Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Mr. Donald W. Nelson Alexandra and John Nichols LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor Mr. & Mrs. John Pratt Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar Marlon Smith and Dominique Brewer Dr. Stuart Sondheimer Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft Ms. Rebecca West Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation
$15,000–$19,999 Anonymous (2) Carey and Brett August Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Ann and Richard Carr Joyce Chelberg Sue and Jim Colletti Nancy and Bernard Dunkel John and Fran Edwardson Sue and Melvin Halasyamani/DavisGrayFamily
Mr. & Dr. George Colis Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Mr. Collier Hands
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans
Diana and Bruce Rauner Susan Regenstein
Mr. Irving Stenn, Jr. Liz Ms. LiisaStiffelM. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt
Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy Carol S. Sonnenschein Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Mary Stowell Thierer Family Foundation Craig and Bette Williams Susan and Bob Wislow Mr. Gifford Zimmerman
$7,500–$11,499 Anonymous (2) Ms. Patti Acurio Fraida and Bob Aland Jeff and Keiko Alexander Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Baker Peter and Betsy Barrett Mr. Lawrence Belles Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Merrill and Judy Blau Ms. Lutgart Calcote Tom and Dianne Campbell Patricia A. Dr. ThomasDr. EdwardClickenerA.ColeandDr. ChristineA.RydelH.Conner
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Daniel R. Murray Andra and Irwin Press Dr. Mohan Rao
Ms. Geraldine Keefe
$25,000–$34,999 Anonymous (4) Peter and Elise Barack Patricia and Laurence Booth Robert J. Buford
Mr. Graham C. Grady Mary Winton Green
Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Levy
Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley Edward and Gayla Nieminen Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte Jerry Rose Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark Dr. Dusan Stefoski, M.D. and Mr. Craig Savage Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern Penny and John Van Horn Mr. & Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. Christian Vinyard Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
Debra A. Cafaro
Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. Ellen and Paul Gignilliat William A. and Anne Goldstein Mary Louise Gorno
Mr. Lawrence Corry Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Douglas Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle Mr. Eric Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Pan Polly Eldringhoff La and Philip Engel William Escamilla Mr. Fred Ms. NancyEychanerFelton-Elkins and Larry Elkins
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy Mr. & Mrs. James Kolar Randall S. Kroszner
Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Mr. Joel Mrs. JanetHorowitzKanter
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Walter and Kathleen Snodell Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas Terrence and Laura Truax Lisa and Paul Wiggin
Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Mr. Roderick Branch
The James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation Ms. Britt Miller Dr. Charles Morcom
Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow Ms. Courtney Shea
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen V. D’Amore Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson
Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson Ronald B. Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. Neil Kawashima Ms. Donna L. Kendall
The King Family Foundation Dr. Lynda Lane Ms. Betsy Levin Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin Mr. Philip Lumpkin Mr. David E. McNeel
Michael and Linda Simon
$35,000–$49,999 Anonymous
$11,500–$14,999 Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Mrs. Gail Belytschko Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan Mr. & Mrs. Michael Madigan Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall Jim and Ginger Meyer Charles A. Moore † Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Silverstein Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson Ksenia A. and Peter Turula
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Ms. Ann Drake
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
Mrs. John D. Foster David and Janet Fox Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann Susan and Paul Freehling Nancy and Larry Fuller James and Rebecca Gaebe Judy and Mickey Gaynor Robert D. Gecht Sandy and Frank Gelber Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson Bernardino and Caterina Ghetti
Dr. June Koizumi
Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin Mrs. Arthur A. Billings Jim † and Dianne Blanco Ann Ms. TerryBlickensderferBoden
David and Judy Schiffman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl Susan H. Schwartz David and Judith L. Sensibar The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Mr. Jack Simpson Ms. Elysia M. Solomon Cheryl Sturm Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Peggy White M.L. MichaelWinburnH.and Mary K. Woolever
Merle L. Jacob
Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei David and Suzanne Arch Dr. & Mrs. Kent Armbruster Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Asner Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes Roberta and Harold S. Barron Joseph Ms. SandraMs. BarbaraBartushBarzanskyBass
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman
Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn Dr. Diana RitaMr. RichardRobinRyan † and Norman Sackar Ms. Cecelia Samans Mr. Agustin G. Sanz
Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson
Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson Kathleen Field Orr
Mr. † & Mrs. † Howard Jessen
Marguerite DeLany Hark Pati and O.J. † Heestand Ms. Anna Hertsberg Fred and Sandra Holubow Janice L. Honigberg
Mr. † & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg Tex and Susan Hull
Mr. † & Mrs. David Savner Karla Scherer
$4,500–$7,499 Anonymous (14) Elaine and Floyd Abramson Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie Ms. Rene Alphonse Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker Geoffrey A. Anderson Megan P. and John L. Anderson Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews
Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen Cynthia Bates and Kevin Rock Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Meta S. and Ronald † Berger Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Candelario Celio Mr. James Chamberlain Chicago Human Rhythm Project Linton J. Childs Harriett and Myron Cholden Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy John Clarke Mr. & Ms. Keith Clayton Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali Ms. Jean Cocozza Jane and John C. Colman E. and V. Combs Foundation Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Nancy R. Corral Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux R. Bert Crossland Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris Dancing Skies Foundation Mr. & Mrs. C. Daniels Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider Janet Wood Diederichs Mr. Doug Donenfeld David and Deborah Dranove Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek Mr. & Mrs. David P. Earle III Judge Frank Easterbrook Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp Thomas Eller Michael and Kathleen Elliott Charles and Carol Emmons Scott and Lenore Enloe Dr. & Mrs. James Ertle Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Neil Fackler
Cassandra L. Book Mr. & Mrs. John Borland Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky Adam Bossov Janet S. Boyer Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen Ms. Jill Brennan Ms. Dominique Brewer Mrs. Sue Brubaker Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan Butler Family Foundation Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard Ms. Vera Capp Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr Mia Celano and Noel Dunn
Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr. Rosemary Framburg
Joan M. Mrs. RichardHall C. Halpern
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff
Mr. Duane Quaini †
Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller
Mr. & Mrs. Carl Gilmore Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Ann and John Grube Lynne R. Haarlow
Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein Donald and Signe Ferguson Hector Ferral, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad Mr. & Mrs. Dean Fischer Ms. Hazel Mrs. DonnaMrs. RoslynFisherK.FlegelFleming
Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Joyce Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler Stephen and Maria Lans Dr. † & Mrs. H. Leichenko Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. John Lillard Jim † and Kay Mabie Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Make It Better Kohn and Mitchell Family Foundation Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor Mrs. Frank Morrissey Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek Ms. Susan Norvich Ms. Martha Nussbaum
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Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geraghty
Dr. Edward S. Orzac Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James O’Sullivan, Jr. Pasquinelli Family Foundation Richard and Frances Penn Sue and Thomas † Pick Ms. Emilysue Pinnell D. Elizabeth Price
Mr. & Mrs. James J. Glasser Judy and Bill Goldberg Lyn Goldstein
Hanna H. ThomasMs. FreddiGrayGreenberg
Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst
Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk Mr. Thomas Kmetko Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek Joseph and Judith Konen Mr. Brian Ms. LieselKosekKossmann
Mr. & Mrs. Don Phillips Richard Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert Mary and Joseph Plauché Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker John F. Podjasek III Charitable Fund Stephen and Ann Suker Potter Mr. John Potts and Ms. Ann Nguyen Mrs. Lynda Rahal Mary Rafferty Mary K. Ring Burton and Francine † Rissman Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Ms. Carol Roberts William and Cheryl Roberts David and Kathy Robin Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen Dr. & Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz Michael Rosenthal D.D. Mr. &Ms. LisaRoskinRossMrs. Frank A. Rossi
Jay † and Maija Rothenberg Ms. Roberta H. Rubin Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz Tina and Buzz Ruttenburg William † and Mary † Ryan Anthony RaymondSaineghiandInez Saunders
Mary and Michael Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon
Mr. Joseph Doherty
Dr. Michael Krco Eldon and Patricia Kreider David and Susan Kreisman Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar Mr. John LaBarbera Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Langrehr Mr. William Lawlor, III Sheila Fields Leiter Zafra Lerman Mr. Jerrold Levine Mary and Laurence Levine Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Mr. † & Mrs. Howard Lickerman The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust Dr. Anna Lysakowski Carol MacArthur Mr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLean Eileen Madden Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling Sharon L. Manuel Robert † and Judy Marth Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin 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 Ms. Carlette McMullan James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray † Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meister Mr. Gregory and Dr. Alice Melchor Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia DavidDr. Toni-MarieConradMontgomeryH.Moscow
Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen Jacalyn AnastasiaGronekandGary † Gutting Anne Marcus Hamada John and Sally Hard Dr. Dane Hassani James W. Haugh Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes
Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht Mr. † & Mrs. Nathan Schloss Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz Dr. Howard Schwartz and Dr. Ruth Grant Diana and Richard Senior Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin
HONOR
The Osprey Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann Ms. Lynne Ostfeld Ms. Pamela Papas Mr. Timothy J. Patenode Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Pauling II Mr. Michael Payette Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Bonnie LornaMr. RobertDr. WilliamPerryPeruzziPetersonandEllardPfaelzer, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin Barry D. Kaufman
Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen
Scott Helm
Mr. & Ms. Alan Shoenberger Stuart and Leslie Shulruff Ms. Ann Silberman
Julia M. Simpson Mr. Larry Simpson Craig Mrs. JacksonValerieSirlesSlotnickW. Smart, Jr. Charles F. Smith
† and Delta Greene
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Hesse Marjorie Friedman Heyman The Hickey Family Foundation Robert A. Hill and Thea Flaum Hill Dr. Richard Ms. GretchenHirschmannHoffmann and
ROLL OF DONORS
Larry † and Marie Kaufman Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser Mrs. Elizabeth Keyser Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel Carol Dr. JayKippermanandGeorgianna Kleiman
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Timothy and Joyce Greening Dr. Jerri E. Greer
Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Jo Ann and Stuart Nathan Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman David † and Dolores Nelson Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr. Dr. Zehava L. Noah Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar Mark and Gloria Nusbaum Bill and Penny Obenshain Margo and Michael Oberman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs Eric and Carolyn Oesterle Sarah and Wallace Oliver John and Joy O’Malley
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy James and Lynne † Heckman
Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory Kendall Griffith
Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
Mr. William J. Hokin † James and Eileen Holzhauer Frances and Franklin † Horwich James and Mary Houston Pamela Kelley Hull † and Roger B. Hull † Ms. Patricia Hurley Frances and Phillip Huscher Michael and Leigh Huston Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus Mr. John Ms. JustineJaworJentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna Joni and Brian Johnson
Mr. Dale C. Hedding
Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco
Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Baird
Dr. Jana French Brooks and Wanza Grantier Richard † and Mary L. Gray Dr. Michael Greenwald David B. Gross and Denise C. Kozloff Mr. & Mrs. Errol Halperin Amber Halvorson Hill and Cheryl Hammock Mrs. John M. Hartigan Ms. Kyle
Mr. & Mrs. † Robert L. Berner, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block Mr. Edward Boehm III Mr. & Mrs. Fred Boelter Mr. & Mrs. Fred P. Bosselman Mr. Douglas Bragan Linda S. Buckley
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
Mr. Bruce Ottley Shirley and John † Schlossman Dr. John Schneider Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil In Memory of Timothy Soleiman Joel and Beth Spenadel Mr. Michael Sprinker Mr. & Mrs. Wallace Stenhouse Ms. Sara Szold
Mr. & Mrs. John Butler
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
Mary Ann Smith
Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong Ms. Minsook Suh Mr. & Mrs. Robert Szalay Mr. James Thompson Joan and Michael Thron David and Beth Timm Ray † and Mary Ann Tittle Bill and Anne Tobey Bruce † and Jan Tranen James M. and Carol Trapp John T. and Carrie M. Travers Joan and David Trushin Dr. & Mrs. David Turner Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner Mrs. Elizabeth Twede Henry and Janet Underwood Zalman and Karen Usiskin Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice Mr. David J. Varnerin Ms. Jennifer Vianello Mr. † & Mrs. Vincent Villinski Ms. Raita Vilnins Charles Vincent
Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Philip Friedmann Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III Drs. Henry and Susan Gault Ms. Barbara Gold Isabelle
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall Mr. Guy DeBoo and Ms. Susan Franzetti Dr. & Mrs. James L. Downey Ingrid and Richard Dubberke Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten Dr. Gail Fahey Judith E. Feldman Fidelity Charitable Gift Funds Ms. Anita D. Flournoy Dr. Robert A. Harris Ms. Dawn E. Helwig Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith Mr. Stephen Holmes Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger Ian and Valerie Jacobs Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs Maryl Johnson, M.D. Dr. Patricia Collins Jones Ms. Ethelle Katz Jonathan and Nancy Lee Kemper Ms. Mary Mr. GeorgeSanfordDr. LeoBillMr. &Mr. PeterMrs.Mr. ThomasKlyasheffLadBernardLevitonLittlewoodMs. StevenMarcusMcIntoshandCatherineMiserendinoandMonicaMorgansteinMurphy
Stefanos Roger † and Susan Stone Family Dr. FrancisFoundationH.StrausII †
Mr. PeterMerleMr. JacquesGoossenGordonGordonGotschand
Dr. & Mrs. Whitney Addington Ms. Marlene Bach
David and Eileen Zampa Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross $3,500–$4,499 Anonymous PrueMr. &Ms. DorisMs. Rochelle(2)AllenAngellMrs. EdgarBachrachandFrankBeidler Mr. Ken Belcher Mr. Virgil Mr. RobertBogertClatanoff
$2,500–$3,499 Anonymous (6)
Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall Nicholas and Jessica Wallace Dr. Catherine L. Webb Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Marc Weissbluth in memory of Linda Weissbluth Ms. Caroline Wettersten Peter and Marlee Wolf Ms. Lois Wolff Michael † and Laura Woll Dr. Hak CourtenayWongR. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr. Ms. Debbie Wright Dr. Nanajan Yakoub Mari Yamamoto Regnier Paul and Mary Yovovich In memory of Anthony C. Yu Mr. Laird Zacheis and Ms. Sunhee Lee
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith Naomi Pollock and David Sneider James and Diane Snyder Kimberly M. Snyder
Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro Mrs. Linda Spain Robert and Emily Spoerri Helena Mr. &Ms. DeniseStancikasStauderMrs. Leonidas
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Barber Paul Becker and Nancy Becker Marjorie Benton
Robert D. SandraMs. PatriciaMs. PaulaMimiJanetMr. &Mr. StephenMr. &MaryMr. &Ms. JuliMr. ThomasMs. MelindaMs. MargaretCaroneChaplanCheungClewettCrabtreeMrs. DwightDeckerDedinskyandWilliamCarlisleHerbertMrs. JamesW.DeYoungDissetteMrs. OttoDoeringIIIDuffyDugingerElliottEricksonE.Fienberg
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Mr. & Mrs. David Weber Mr. Lawrence Wechter Judge Eugene Wedoff Samuel † and Chickie Weisbard Mr. Alfred White Barbara and Steven Wolf David Woodhouse Mike Zimmerman Ms. Karen Zupko
Henry and Frances Fogel Ms. Irene Fox
Mr. &Mr. &Mr. WayneMr. &Ms. LiliaAnneMr. AlfredPeterMs. JoannMr. HarryJamesMs. LeighHarveyAnnHermanandMeganHinchsliffHundermanandMs. DeborahSlatonJoyceKeehnKelleyG.KimballandPeterSternKiselevMrs. LeRoyKlemtKoepkeMrs. NormanKoglinMrs. HowardLandon
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 Dakota Williams, Associate Director, Education and Community Engagement Giving, at williamsd@cso.org or 312-294-3156.
Mr. & Mr. C. Daniel Simpson
Mr. & Mrs. Frederic Smies
$50,000–$74,999
Sharon and Lee Oberlander
Jerry and Carole Ringer Thomas Roberts and Teresa Grosch Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg
Roxy and Richard † Pepper Kingsley Perkins †
The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.
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ROLL OF DONORS
John Mugge
Anonymous Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family CharlesPNC and M. R. Shapiro Foundation
Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Mr. Lawrence Belles Mr. Lawrence Corry Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan
Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl
The Acorn Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward Abby and Glen Weisberg Mr. Kenneth Witkowski Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Ms. CamilleShulkinZientek
Nancy A. Abshire Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans Jim and Ginger Meyer Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
Negaunee Music Institute at the Symphony OrchestraChicago
Ms. Marilyn Mccoy
The Buchanan Family Foundation Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund Sue and Jim Colletti Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Mary Winton Green Illinois Arts Council Agency
Shea
Mr. TimothyMs. BarbaraMs. JeanSherryMrs. GabrielleRobertDr. &Dr. &Mr. PhilipMr. JonathonLaurieLeikLesserMrs. StuartLevinMrs. RobertLevy†andJoanLipsigLongandMelLopataLorenzenMalottMarshall
Jack and Barbara Simon
Carolyn M. Short Margaret and Alan Silberman
Mr. Jeffrey Rappin Dr. & Mrs. Pradeep Rattan Dr. Hilda Richards
MaryMrs. PhyllisDr. LemuelMr. JamesSeidelSelsorShafferShafronandCharlesM.
$15,000–$19,999
Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass
$7,500–$11,499 Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig Ms. Marcia Schneider Gerald and Barbara Schultz Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Joan and George Segal Ms. Gail
Mr. Arne Olson
HONOR
Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan Bettylu and Paul Saltzman
Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez
Ms. Leah
Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.
The James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin Nancy and Bernard Dunkel Ms. Nancy Felton-Elkins and Larry Elkins Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geraghty Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Halasyamani/Davis Family Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek Ms. Susan Norvich
$20,000–$24,999
Larry and Donna Mayer
Adele Mayer
Mother Richard McDonough Mr. Zarin
Mr. CarlMs. ClarettaMehtaMeierandMaria Moore
$35,000–$49,999 Kinder BowmanMorganC.Lingle Trust National Endowment for the Arts
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
Noteable Notes Music Academy/ Wheaton, IL Mrs. Janis Notz
Lynn B. Singer
$100,000–$149,999
$25,000–$34,999 Anonymous Abbott Fund Barker Welfare Foundation Crain-Maling Foundation
The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Mr. Philip Lumpkin Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt Lisa and Paul Wiggin
$11,500–$14,999
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Perman Dr. Joe Piszczor
$150,000 AND ABOVE The Julian Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation
Mrs. Diane W. Smith Mr. & Mrs. George Spindler Ms. Corinne Steede Laurence and Caryn Straus Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Barry and Winnifred Sullivan Mr. Jerome Taxy Mr. Peter Vale Robert J. Walker Ms. Joni Wall
Allstate Insurance Company The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation $75,000–$99,999 John Hart and Carol Prins Megan and Steve Shebik
Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards Mrs. Enid Rieser
Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Judy and Scott McCue Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal † Polk Bros. Foundation Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Shure Charitable Trust Michael and Linda Simon Mr. Irving Stenn, Jr.
Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard Ms. Constance Rajala Ms. Ginevra R. Ralph
$3,500–$4,499
Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin Dr. June Dr. SchollKoizumiFoundation
Margo and Michael Oberman Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation David and Judith L. Sensibar Margaret and Alan Silberman Mr. Larry Simpson
Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Ann and Richard Carr Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Italian Village Restaurants
$1,000–$1,499 Anonymous (3) David and Suzanne Arch Jon W. and Diane Balke Mr. & Mrs. John Barnes Marjorie Benton Ann Blickensderfer Mr. Thomas Bookey Mr. James Mr. LeeMs. DanoldaMr. DonaldBorkmanBousemanBrennanM.BrownandMs. Pixie
Toyota Endowed Fund
Mr. & Ms. Keith Clayton Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Morales Mrs. Mary Louise Morrison Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Mr. George Murphy Ms. Joan Pantsios Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Pauling II Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler
Robert E. † and Cynthia M. Sargent Carol S. Sonnenschein
Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro Ms. Salme Steinberg Sharon IreneWilliamMs. ZitaMr. &Ms. JoanneMs. JoanneSwansonTaraziC.TremulisMs. TerrenceWalshWheelerZengZiayaandPaulChaitkin
Edward and Gayla Nieminen Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen Ms. Cecelia Samans Mr. David Samson Ms. Denise Stauder Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust Abby and Glen Weisberg M.L. Winburn
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Jane A. Dr. SabineRichardShapiroSikesSobek
Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Elk Grove Graphics Charles and Carol Emmons Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of the Civic horn section Mrs. Roslyn K. Flegel Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Amber Halvorson James and Megan Hinchsliff Ms. Sharon Flynn Hollander Michael and Leigh Huston Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Moffat
Patricia A. Clickener
$1,500–$2,499 Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Richard J. Abram and Paul Chandler Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara
and Rama Kumanduri Mr. Nicholas Russell Gerald and Barbara Schultz
ENDOWED FUNDS
Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker Ms. Paula Elliott Brooks and Wanza Grantier William B. DavidMr. ZarinMrs. GabrielleHinchliffLongMehta†andDolores
Bob and Marian Kurz Dr. Herbert and Francine Lippitz Ms. Molly Martin Adele Mrs. FrankMayerMorrissey
Peter Paul Herbert Endowment Fund Julian Family Foundation Fund
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
Mr. CarrollMs. MarleneJones-AmreinBachBarnes
Mr. DouglasMs. SandraAnonymousBassBragan
Quinlan & Fabish Susan ChristinaMaryDr. HildaRabeRichardsK.RingRomero
Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends Shebik Community Engagement Programs Fund
CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIPS
Joseph Bartush John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
D. Elizabeth Price
Nelson
$4,500–$7,499
Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
$2,500–$3,499
Mary Winton Green William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Community Engagement Richard A. Heise
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Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Dr. Nanajan Yakoub
Newman
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
Ms. Jeanne Busch Robert and Darden Carr Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr Mr. Rowland Chang Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes Mr. & Mrs. Bill Cottle In memory of Ira G. Woll Constance Cwiok Mr. Adam Davis Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dulski Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng Judith E. Feldman Ms. Lola Flamm David and Janet Fox Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Mr. Robert Frisch Peter Gallanis Mr. & Mrs. John Hales Dr. Robert A. Harris Dr. & Mrs. Jerome Hoeksema Mr. Matt Mr. RandolphJamesT. Kohler Mr. Steven Kukalis Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin Diane and William F. Lloyd Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus Sharon L. Manuel
The Wallace Foundation Zell Family Foundation
Thirteen Civic members participate in the Civic Fellowship program, a rigorous artistic and professional development curriculum that sup plements their membership in the full orchestra. Major funding for this program is generously provided by
Anonymous (3) Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth Concert Fund
Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund TheCNADavee Foundation
The Kapnick Family
Frank Family Fund Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Richard and Alice Godfrey Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Mary Winton Green Jane Redmond Haliday Chair
Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Ms. Susan Norvich
Theodore Thomas Society
John H. Nelson Muriel Nerad Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer Diane MaryDr. JoanOsoskeE.PattersonT.†andDavidR. Pfleger Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn Judy Pomeranz Neil K. RandallQuinnandCara Rademaker Constance A Rajala Al and Lynn Reichle Ann and Bob † Reiland Wendy CharlesDr. EdwardReynesO.RileyandMarilynn Rivkin
The George L. Shields Foundation
The David W. and Lucille G. Stotter Chair Ruth Miner Swislow Charitable Fund Lois and James Vrhel Endowment Fund
Mr. † & Mrs. David Donovan
Mary Louise Gorno Chair
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. Rhoda Lea Frank 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
Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
The following donors have generously underwritten a stipend for a Civic musician(s). To learn more, please contact Dakota Williams, Associate Director, Education and Community Engagement Giving, at williamsd@cso.org or 312-2974-3156.
H. Adelson Fund
STRADIVARIAN ASSOCIATES
Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr. Mitchell J. Brown Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark Patricia A. Clickener Judith and Stephen F. Condren Anita Crocus Mimi HarryDugingerandJean Eisenman Dr. Marilyn Mrs. WilliamEzriM. Flory
Lawrence Corry
David and Kathy Robin Jerry Rose Mr. James S. Rostenberg Richard O. Ryan
Mr. Craig Sirles Betty W. Smykal Annette and Richard Steinke Mrs. Deborah Sterling
John A. JoanneFranklinA.CeceliaSalkowskiSamansWm.SamuelSchmidtSilver
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Mr. Lawrence Belles and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Sue and Jim Colletti
Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund
The Julian Family Foundation Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Phillip G. Lumpkin
James Edward McPherson Janet L. Dr. FrederickMelk K. Merkel Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor Craig and Rose Moore Mrs. Mario A. Munoz
HONOR
ROLL OF DONORS
League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Leslie Fund Inc.
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 MikeMarthaDr. C.MarlysSallyMr. NealBaleBallJ.BeckerA.BeiderBekermanBellandDonna Bell Julie Ann Benson K. Richard and Patricia M. Berlet Merrill and Judy Blau Ann Blickensderfer Danolda Brennan
Sandra and Earl J. Rusnak Jr. Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation
The Julian Family Foundation, which also sponsors the 2022–23 Civic Orchestra season.
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
Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat
Marcia M. StephanieHochbergandAllen 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 MarideeJulianQuanbeck Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Howard Kaspin James Kemmerer Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Edwin and Karen Kramer Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka Robert B. Kyts Memorial Fund Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring Robert Alan Lewis Dr. Valerie Lober Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl Sheldon H. Marcus
Dr.NancyAnonymousA.Abshire&Mrs.Bernard
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 August 2022.
Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal †
contact Al Andreychuk, Director of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3150.
Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky
Dorothy V. Ramm
Jeanne Mrs. MiltonPaulSueCraigDr. VirginiaMrs. BenDonKarenMs. OksanaReedRevenko-JonesL.RigottiandSallyRobertsJ.RosenthalC.SaftSamuelsandWilliamSamuelsandKathleenSchaeferScheffler
Kunze Thomas and Annelise Lawson Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey Ms. Nicole Lehman Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy Ms. Sally Lewis Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg Mr. Michael Licitra Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Bonnie Glazier Lipe Candace Loftus Suzette and James Mahneke Ann Chassin Mallow Sharon L. Manuel Mrs. John J. Markham Judy and Scott McCue John LeoniMr. WilliamMcFerrinMcIntoshZverowMcVeyand
Mr. &Dr. SusanCatherineStevenMs. JudithAlpertL.AndersonAndes,Ph.D.AranyiArjmandMrs. RandyBarba
Shirley Baron
Karin and Alfred Tenny Richard and Helen Thomas Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
Valerie and Joseph Abel Louise Abrahams Patrick RichardAldenandElynne Aleskow
AdamDr. MalcolmMr. MilanFrankMikeMr. DonnMr. JamesJacquelineTierskyA.TillesM.TrappN.TrautmanandMaryValeanuVillellaVydarenyVyeR.WalkerandBettyAnn Mocek
Helen Zell
MEMBERS Anonymous (33)
Donna FrancesFeldmanandHenry Fogel
Richard Elledge Charles and Carol Emmons
Mr. John Stokes Richard and Lois Stuckey Jeffrey and Linda Swoger Mr. John C. Telander
Robert J. Elisberg
Florence Winters
Allen J. Frantzen Nancy and Larry Fuller Dileep Gangolli Miss Elizabeth Gatz Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Steve and Lauran Gilbreath Mr. Daniel Gilmour, III Mr. Joseph Glossberg Adele DouglasGoldsmithRossGortner Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Ms. Elizabeth A. Gray Delta A. Greene Mrs. Barbara Gundrum Lynne R. Haarlow Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley Mr. Tom Hall Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett Dr. Donald Heinrich William B. Mrs. WalterJackMr. ThomasHinchliffHochmanandColleenHolmbeckHorban
Mrs. LeRoy Klemt Sally Jo JohnEugeneLieselMs. BarbaraMrs. RussellKnowlesV.KohrKopsianE.KossmannKrausCandCarolAnderson
Mrs. Gloria B. Telander
Stockdale
Dr. Robert G. Zadylak
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty Joan I. RobertBergerM.Berger
James and Mary Houston Mr. James Humphrey Merle L. JosephMs. JessicaJacobJagielnikandRebecca † Jarabak
Lu and Philip Engel Tarek and Ann Fadel
Ann S.
Leslie Farrell
Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Thorson Karen Hletko Tiersky
Mrs. William Dooley
Mara Mills Barker
Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt David Shayne Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Anne Sibley Larry Simpson Thomas G. Sinkovic Rosalee Slepian Mary Soleiman Jim TimothyKarenDeniseJulieSpiegelStaglianoM.StauderSteilandKathleen
Mr. Richard L. Eastline
James B. Fadim
Dr. Richard Tresley
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Mr. Frank Walschlager Louella Krueger Ward
Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner
Paula Turner
John L. Ms. PhyllisMrs. DavidSylviaMr. &Mr. &RonMr. JerrySharonBeverlyDr. MarleneMr. &Dr. &Mr. RobertMichelleEdwardJosephCatherineBrowarBrubakerBucJ.BuckbeeMillerBurnsJ.CallahanMrs. JosephR.CarMrs. WilliamP.CarmichaelE.CasianoAnnandPeterConroyConwayJ.CritserandDoloresDalyMrs. JohnDanielsMrs. ClydeH.DawsonSamuelsDelmanA.DeMarDiamond
Myron
Nancy Schroeder Ebert
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Van Horn
Mr. Lewis D. Petry Judy C. Petty Karen and Dick Pigott Lois Polakoff D. Elizabeth Price
Stephen R. Winters and Don D. Curtis
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
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Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong
Mr. Christian Vinyard Craig and Bette Williams
Mrs. Marian Johnson Ms. Janet Jones Nathan Kahn, in memory of Zave H Gussin and in honor of Robert Gussin Marshall Keltz Valerie Kennedy Paul Mr. &KeskeMrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr.
Bill McVey
Dorothe Melamed Marcia Melamed Dale and Susan Miller Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten Thomas R. Mullaney Daniel R. Murray Dolores D. Nelson Franklin Nussbaum Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr. Wallace and Sarah Oliver Lynn HelenOrschelandJoseph Page George R. Paterson Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Elizabeth Anne Peters
Judy L. Allen
S. Manning
Erhardt Schmidt
BethGloriaMillerMinerAnnAlberding
ROLL OF DONORS
Putnam
Walter L. Marr III and Marilyn G. Marr Eloise VirginiaMartinHarvey McAnulty
Kathryn LeotaMariettaMuellerMunnisAnnMeyer
Naomi T. Borwell
Mr. MorrellShawA. Shoemaker
Lisa and Paul Wiggin Linda and Payson S. Wild Joyce S. Wildman
IN MEMORIAM
Daniel Reichard
Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel Vito Mrs. ZeldaStaglianoStar
Kathryn Bowers
Bill Moor
Mary Jo Hertel Allen H. Howard Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr. Barbara Isserman Phyllis A. Jones James RobertaMorrisJaredStuartJosephJosephM.KacenaKaneKaplanA.KaplanKapoun
Howard Broecker
Walter Reed
Norma Cadieu
Hope A. Abelson
Bruce P. Olson
Muriel BarbaraRobertSchnierowW.SchneiderandIrvingSeaman, Jr.
Judith and Dennis Bober
Donald Peck Mary
AlfredSamuelDonaldMiriamCharlesPerlmutterJ.PollyeaPollyeaD.PowellPressandMaryann
Jacqueline and Frank Ball
Elaine S. Frank Henry S. Frank Florence Ganja Martin and Francey Gecht Isak Mrs. WillardGerson Gidwitz Lyle ErnestAnnNancyDavidRichardWilliamMarvinGillmanGoldsmithB.GrahamGrayGreenGriffinB.GrimesA.Grunsfeld III
Karl Mr. ThomasJoanClaudeWechterM.WeilWeissWeyland
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown George and Jacqueline Brumlik Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger
Kayla Anne Wilson
Wiley
Charles A. Moore
Jill N. BeverlyAnthonyBenElaineRohdeRosenJ.RosenthalRyersonandGrover
Betty and Lester Guttman A. William Haarlow III
HONOR
Richard Abrahams
Paul LelandBarkerand Mary Bartholomew Arlene and Marshall Bennett
Kathleen W. Markiewicz
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CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret. Mrs. David J. Harris Polly AdolphMaryHeinrichMakoHelbert“Bud”andAvis Herseth
Schiltz
Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure
Kathryn and Edward Miller
Ruth Ann Quinn
Murray
Christine Querfeld
Paul H. Resnik
Richard Schieler
Patricia ChristineLeeD. Letchinger
Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel
Walter Chalmers Smith Peggy E. Smith-Skarry Karen A. Sorensen
Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel Rita Simó and Tomás Bissonnette Allen R. Smart
Carol Rauner O’Donovan T. Paul B. O’Donovan Mary and Eric Oldberg
Helen C. McDougal, Jr. Lillian E. McLeod Eunice H. McGuire Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick Jack L. Melamed, M.D. Hugo J. PhillipSusanRichardMelvoinMenaulMessingerMigdal
David G. Ostrow
Muriel
J. Timothy Ritchie Dolores M. RixFanada Virginia H. Rogers
Elizabeth M. Ashton
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf
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.
Helen M. Nelson Sydelle Nelson John and Maynette Neundorf Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld Raymond and Eloise Niwa Joan Ruck Nopola
Micki
Bob Reiland
Robert A. Wilson Nora M. Winsberg
Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos
David H. Nelson
RichardHerbertRobertLeslieShirleyJosephKelliDr. EdwardEstelleMarianEvelynWilliamDaisyRobertJamesAzileBarbaraChristopherAnitaNelsonCaldwellD.CorneliusJ.Court,Ph.D.L.CulpDeCosterDickF.DrennanL.Drinan,Jr.DrissA.DumbletonDybaEdelsteinEdlisElisbergGardnerEmeryR.EnderL.andRobertEttelsonFogelB.FordhamandBettyFormanFoster
William C. Lordan Tula Lunsford Iris JuneBellaArthurMaiterG.MalingMalisBettyandHerbert
Nancy Seyfried
George Kennedy Esther G. Klatz Russell V. Kohr Karen EvelynKuehnerandArnold Kupec Rebecca Jarabak Ruth Lucie Labitzke Sadie ArthurCaressaLapinskyY.LauerE.Leckner, Jr.
Norma Zuzanek Bennett
Beth Wollar
Wayne Balmer
Mohr
Sheila Taaffe Reynolds Joan L. Richards
In memory of Dr. Ted Blecher; you were one of the best friends a man can have.
† ItalicsDeceasedindicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of August 2022
In memory of Annie Louise Fuller Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin
Max and Joyce Wildman
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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
J. Ross Thomson
in memory of Baron Whateley
Charles J. Starcevich
Ruth Miner Swislow
In memory of Helen A. Woodruff Ms. Diane Brown
In memory of Kathleen and Joseph Madden Eileen Madden
In honor of Jeff and Keiko Alexander Mr. Dean Solomon
In memory of Caroll Seiser Laque Alison Small
Robert AndrewSychowskiandPeggy Thomson
Joyce Hadley Williams
In memory of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Kempski Ms. Kristin Lipkowski
In memory of Al Schlachtmeyer Howard Newman
In memory of Martin Tiersky Harriett and Myron Cholden
In memory of Howard Zimmerman, with love Sandra and Hugh Sandra Silverberg
HONOR GIFTS
Nancy L. TheBarbaraMarcoAnnLaurieJosephineWaldWallaceWallachDowWeinbergWeissHuthWestWhateleyTrust,
In honor of Shuko Akune Dr. Stephen Hashioka and Ms. Patricia Sugano
In memory of Philip Applebaum Ms. Lois Wolff
In memory of Maestro Bernard Haitink Ms. Lutgart Calcote
In memory of Robert O. Rosenman Mrs. Harriet Rosenman
In memory of Bernice Geraldine (Arunno) Jones Ms. Pamela Hill
In memory of Terri Sweig Marjorie Friedman Heyman
In memory of Lynne and Ron Wachowsk Anonymous
In honor of the Carey and Brett August Young Pianists Fund Mr. George Ucko
In memory of Dale Clevenger Ms. Betty Henneman Mr. David Heyde and Ms. Angela Fuller
In memory of David Shuman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Weiland
In memory of Carol Rucks Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Rucks
In memory of Jerry J. Kaganove Anonymous
Sue BeatriceTice B. Tinsley
Franklin R. St. Lawrence
In memory of Judy McDonnell Ms. Rosemary McDonnell
In memory of Mr. Guillermo Duran Perez Ms. Ana Luz Perez Duran
In memory of John N. Seaton Ms. Janet Neiman Reed
In memory of CSO cellist, Jonathan Pegis Lisa A. Rensberger
In memory of Karl Timothy Weidmann Mary Strebel
C. Phillip Turner
In memory of Tenor Frank Little Lynne and Ron Wachowski
In memory of Marcia Petlin-Fowler Dr. Paul Lisnek John T. Saule Randi AyanaShimshakTomeka
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Swanson
Ronald R. Zierer
In memory of Dr. Jerome Brosnan Ms. Gisela Brodine-Brosnan
In memory of Jan Jentes Dr. Catherine L. Webb
In memory of Joe W. Turlow Joe S. Turlow
In memory of Ida O. Lessman Ms. Sylvia Lessman
In honor of Brett August’s 70th birthday Cathy Ms. BarbaraAndersonChevalier
Rita A. Zralek
In memory of Dian Gabriel Mr. Jack Simpson
Ted LoisRobertUtchenL.VolzandJames Vrhel
In memory of Alfred Balandis Mr. Robert J. Callahan
The Tribute Program provides an oppor tunity 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 through August 2022.
In memory of John R. Blair Anonymous
Helmut and Irma Strauss
Dr. & Mrs. Cyril Abrahams
In memory of Josephine Baskin Minow Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Lisa Weiss
Michael Jay Walanka
Arnold and Ann Wolff
Tribute Program
MEMORIAL GIFTS
Louise Benton Wagner
In memory of Silvia Garber Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wendrow
Curtis D. Stensrud
Robert Sychowski
In honor of Frances (Hoppie) Penn Dr. David M. Asher Dr. Shirley Asher
In honor of Todd Rosenberg Rail Splitter Capital Management LLC
In honor of Patty Weber and Susie Stein Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews
In honor of John Sharp
Thomas H. Thorelli
In honor of Steve and Megan Shebik Mr. Robert Frisch
In honor of Jon Weber
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In honor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Latino Alliance Henry Johanet
In honor of Ann Wagener Mr. & Ms. Robert Savard
In honor of Peter Principal LibrarianConover, Mr. John Thorne
In honor of Marilyn Fors’ 90th birthday Mr. Jerry Zitko
In honor of Howard Kastel Dr. & Mrs. Jordan Topel
In honor of Charles Katzenmeyer American Endowment Foundation
In honor of the ushering staff Mrs. Arthur A. Billings
HONOR
The Julian Family Foundation
In honor of Marion Cameron and Doug Gray Anonymous
In honor of Kozue Funakoshi, our favorite CSO musician John and Marlene McLeod
Dr. Lynda Lane
In honor of Boodell, Trop, Daley, Daley, Deneve, Little, Gottschall, Herbert, Krishnamoorthi, Papas, Preckwinkle, Thomas, Van Horn, Watts, Wislow Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund
In honor of Gene Pokorny Josue Jimenez Morales and Yin-Hsiu Chen
In honor of Jay Friedman Ms. Cheryl Flinn
In honor of Richard and Patricia Wier Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III
In honor of Carlo Maria Giulini Mr. Douglas Mohn
In honor of Robert C. and Clara Montgomery Mr. R. Montgomery
In honor of Marcia Petlin-Fowler Philip Miller
In honor of Helen Chan’s 80th birthday! Mrs. Sau-Wei Lau
In honor of the 95th birthday of Karl Eisenberg Roger † and Susan Stone Family Foundation
In honor of Nancy Robinson Ms. Caroline McMorrow
Ms. Karen Zupko
ROLL OF DONORS
Mr. Eric Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Pan
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