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At this festive time of year, we hope you make Symphony Center your musical home. Great music thrives inside Orchestra Hall in concerts performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and guests of the Symphony Center Presents series as well as in programs produced by the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute. We would like to highlight just a few of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association’s extraordinary offerings occurring in the days and months ahead.

In December, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra welcomes four guest conductors—Thomas Søndergård, Dalia Stasevska, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, and Alastair Willis. In addition, CSO Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn returns to Chicago to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus performs Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and is also featured on the CSO’s holiday program, Merry, Merry Chicago!

To begin the new year, conductor Marin Alsop leads the CSO in works by contemporary composers: This Midnight Hour by former Mead Composer-inResidence Anna Clyne, Rounds by current Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery, and Her Story, a CSO co-commission by Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe. Her Story pays tribute to the pursuit of equal rights, representation, and access to democracy for women in America.

In mid-January, Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti and the CSO embark on a tour of the U.S. and Canada. We are delighted that the CSO can resume touring this season following a two-year hiatus. Soon after the Orchestra returns to Chicago, Klaus Mäkelä conducts the U.S. premiere of another CSO co-commission, Aino, by Jimmy López Bellido.

The Symphony Center Presents series brings several outstanding programs in December, including the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, Itzhak Perlman and guests in The Fiddler’s House, Chanticleer (at Fourth Presbyterian Church), and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass. In January and February, SCP wel comes the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and the young musicians of Mutter Virtuosi, Mavis Staples with special guest Celisse, and acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Flórez. On Valentine’s Day, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, celebrat ing its centennial season, makes its Symphony Center debut with its new music director, Gustavo Gimeno.

We send our warmest wishes for a music-filled, happy, and healthy new year and look forward to seeing you at Symphony Center soon.

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OFFICERS

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Sylvia Neil Gerald Pauling Col. Jennifer N. Pritzker

Dr. Don M. Randel

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Walter Snodell Dr. Eugene Stark Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr. Scott Swanson Nasrin Thierer Liisa Thomas Terrence J. Truax

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Joseph B. Glossberg Richard C. Godfrey William A. Goldstein Mary Louise Gorno Howard L. Gottlieb Chester A. Gougis Mary Winton Green Dietrich Gross

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ALL THE RIGHT NOTES

Of all the music Riccardo Muti has conducted during his tenure as music director, there are certain composers and works that stand out to musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

As part of an ongoing series, CSO musicians reflect on Muti’s artistry and the experience of working closely with him by sharing which of his interpretations from the podium they cherish most. In addition, learn how you can experience these performances in and away from Orchestra Hall.

“I have loved performing the Verdi operas with Maestro Muti. Many of us had never played these works before, and it was a joy to learn them with Maestro Muti, who has a consummate knowledge of Verdi’s texts and scores. What a sublime treat for the Orchestra and Chicago audiences!”

Susan Synnestvedt Violin

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CSO Resound Verdi: Otello

“ The depth and power of Maestro Muti’s interpretations of Verdi are simply astounding. I feel privileged to have experienced these moments in time.”

Daniel Gingrich Associate Principal Horn

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CSO Resound Verdi: Messa da Requiem and additional performances on CSOradio

“Maestro is aware of the time in which he lives, and wants, in my opinion, to teach the next generation of musicians and conductors to appreciate this music—works that are rarely performed but especially new compositions.”

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

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World premiere CSO commission by Jessie Montgomery, May 11–13 and 16, 2023; Robert Kraft’s Timpani Concerto No. 1, May 25–27, 2023; as well as performances of other contemporary works available on CSOradio

below: Muti conducted the world premiere of Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery’s Hymn for Everyone on April 28, 2022. Photo by Todd Rosenberg

JEWELRY THAT SHINES AS BRIGHT AS THE CHICAGO SKYLINE. HANDMADE AT PISTACHIOS.

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When performing the idiosyncratic music of Mason Bates’s Alternative Energy, Maestro Muti assuredly guided the Orchestra with pinpoint control, expertly weaving between motoric electronic club beats and nuanced musical expression. His level of preparation for these new commissions has always been extraordinary, further gaining the respect from musicians and emblematic of this incredible partnership which has yielded so many unforgettable performances.”

Oto Carrillo Horn

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CSO Resound Riccardo Muti Conducts Mason Bates and Anna Clyne and CSO Resound Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology in addition to performances on CSOradio

“I love the few pieces we have done by Puccini with Maestro Muti and know the regard he has for Puccini. I particularly remember the Intermezzo from act 3 of Manon Lescaut—probably because I was working on performing a transcription of it on tuba at the time. Muti gave it wings that went far beyond my imagination. It was truly inspiring.”

Gene

Principal Tuba

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CSO Resound Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masterworks in addition to performances on CSOradio

“Maestro Muti is well known as the world’s most profound Verdi interpreter. He is no less masterful in Germanic repertoire that eludes even some of the most brilliant conductors. Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, and Bruckner are great strengths of his—for example Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and the Mass in E-flat of Schubert. We are very excited about Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, one of the most notoriously challenging works in the entire repertoire.”

Michael Mulcahy Trombone

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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on YouTube, CSO Resound Bruckner: Symphony No. 9, as well as performances of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, and Schubert on CSOradio. Performances of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, June 23–25, 2023

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League members are passionate ambassadors, volunteering for a wide range of activities. The League’s work supports the artistic goals of and fosters a strong relationship with the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Visit cso.org/league for membership information, event listings, and other details.

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Lindsey Sharpe. (Photo by Todd Rosenberg) League members seen enjoying the 2021 Fall in Love with Music event, hosted by the League, which included a performance by CSO Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn, and a discussion with the Vice President of Artistic Planning Cristina Rocca following an elegant lunch.

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The Negaunee Music Institute’s Lasting Partnership with the Irene Taylor Trust

In 1995, the family of the late Irene Taylor established a U.K.-based charity with the intent to bridge two fields about which she and her husband, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, cared deeply: prison reform and music. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Sara Lee, the Irene Taylor Trust’s inaugural program, Music in Prisons, developed workshops to support pris oners in composing, performing, and recording original music.

For over twenty-five years, the trust has expanded with additional songwriting programs for at-risk young people and ex-prisoners, all with the goal of using collaborative music-mak ing to help individuals develop confidence, transferable skills and ambitions for the future.

teens incarcerated at the Illinois Youth CenterChicago, pregnant women and young parents through the Lullaby Project, and families that have lost children to gun violence through the Notes for Peace project. This season, projects take place at the Illinois Youth Center-Chicago, where youth will compose and perform orig inal music supported by musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Notes for Peace concluded its most recent project with a per formance at Epiphany Center for the Arts on November 20 of seven new songs dedicated to the memory of those lost to gun violence.

“The Irene Taylor Trust has shown us the power of collaborative songwriting,” said Jonathan McCormick, director of education and the NMI. “Our work together over the years has enabled the CSOA to engage with and serve communities across Chicago in ways we never could have imagined or implemented on our own.”

from left: A Notes for Peace performance by Purpose Over Pain member Patricia Porter. Sara Lee speaks to a group of young men at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

The Irene Taylor Trust became a partner of the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2013, when Sara Lee and Nick Hayes of ITT joined NMI staff and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a weeklong songwriting project, modeled on the Music in Prisons program, with youth at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. In the years since, the partnership between the two orga nizations has yielded more than 150 original pieces of music, includ ing songs written by

Adapted from “The Irene Taylor Trust, a longtime NMI partner, turns 25,” by Emily McClanathan, and available on cso.org/experience.

For more on the Negaunee Music Institute’s work with the Irene Taylor Trust, visit cso.org/nmi. These programs are generously sponsored by Megan and Steve Shebik, Lisa and Paul Wiggin, and Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs.

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ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SECOND SEASON CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

RICCARDO MUTI Zell Music Director

Thursday, December 1, 2022, at 7:30

Friday, December 2, 2022, at 1:30 Saturday, December 3, 2022, at 8:00 Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 7:30

Thomas Søndergård Conductor Francesco Piemontesi Piano Chicago Symphony Chorus Jean-Sébastien Vallée Guest Director

stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Exaudi orationem meam— Expectans expectavi Dominum— Alleluia chicago symphony chorus

beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19 Allegro con brio Adagio Rondo: Molto allegro francesco piemontesi intermission

sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

Allegretto Andante, ma rubato Vivacissimo— Finale: Allegro moderato

These concerts are generously sponsored by the Zell Family Foundation. The appearance of the Chicago Symphony Chorus has been made possible by a generous gift from The Grainger Foundation.

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is grateful to the Zell Family Foundation for sponsoring these performances.

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by phillip huscher

igor stravinsky

Born June 17, 1882; Oranienbaum, Russia Died April 6, 1971, New York City

Symphony of Psalms

“The trick, of course,” Stravinsky once told Robert Craft, “is . . . to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commis sioned afterwards.” In the case of the Symphony of Psalms, commissioned for the Boston Symphony Orchestra before Stravinsky had composed a note, he wrote what he wanted to anyway, calling it a “symphony” partly to appease those who thought they had ordered an orchestral work. Stravinsky also refers back to the original meaning of the word as a simple and powerful gathering together of sounds, here “a choral and instrumental ensemble in which the two elements should be on an equal footing, neither of them outweighing the other.” Stravinsky’s orchestra inhabits a unique sound world: there is an unusual concentration of flutes and trumpets, but no clarinets, violins, or violas. Stravinsky’s own account of the composition of this great work follows, and needs no addenda. But since composers don’t always point out their greatest master strokes, here are a few additional comments. Listen closely to the first chord—it recurs several times during the opening minutes of the first movement— for although it is a simple E minor triad, in Stravinsky’s hands even a conventional chord becomes dis tinctive. In assigning the triad’s notes to the from top: Igor Stravinsky, portrait, ca. 1930s. George Grantham Bain Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Palais des Beaux-Arts, completed 1929, Brussels, Belgium, where Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms was premiered December 13, 1930. Designed by architect Victor Horta (1861–1947)

composed 1930

first performance December 13, 1930; Brussels, Belgium

instrumentation mixed chorus; five flutes and piccolo, four oboes and english horn, three bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, five trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, harp, two pianos, cellos, basses

approximate performance time 22 minutes

first cso performances March 28, April 6, and 7, 1933, Orchestra Hall. Chicago A Cappella Choir (Noble Cain, director), Frederick Stock conducting July 30, 1953, Ravinia Festival. Northwestern University Summer Chorus (George Howerton, director), William Steinberg conducting most recent cso performances June 27, 1993, Ravinia Festival. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Margaret Hillis, director), James Levine conducting January 24, 25, 26, and 27, 2008, Orchestra Hall. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director), Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting cso recordings 1989. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Margaret Hillis, director), James Levine conducting. CSO (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: The First 100 Years)

1997. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director), Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus (Emily Ellsworth, director), Sir Georg Solti conducting. London

2000. Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director), Pierre Boulez conducting. CSO (From the Archives, vol. 22: Chicago Symphony Chorus: A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration)

instruments of the orchestra, Stravinsky hands out twice as many Gs as Es or Bs—contrary to what textbooks teach—and then concentrates these pitches either in the high reaches of the flutes, oboes, harp, and pianos, or in the low reg ister of the bassoons, trombones, and basses— with nothing in between. Moreover, Stravinsky marks the chord not fortissimo, as one would expect, but plain mezzo-forte—having learned long ago that he didn’t have to raise his voice to speak with force and power. (The predomi nant G of Stravinsky’s first chord, incidentally, prepares our ears for the end of the first move ment, when the music lifts upward to a brilliant G major triad.)

The conclusion of the Symphony of Psalms, with the pianos, harp, and timpani moving slowly back and forth through three notes (E-flat, B-flat, F) like the solemn tolling of church bells, while the chorus intones its words of praise, is one of the most celebrated passages in Stravinsky’s output. It is all the more impressive for being slow, quiet, austere, and repetitive. When E-flat finally rises to E-natural and the music sinks into C major, Stravinsky achieves a simple power rare in music of any century.

The Symphony of Psalms was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Koussevitzky fell ill the week of the premiere, which was then postponed until later in the month; in the meantime, Koussevitzky gave per mission for the European premiere to go ahead according to schedule, thus making that the world premiere.

Igor Stravinsky on the Symphony of Psalms

The commissioning of the Symphony of Psalms began with the publisher’s routine suggestion that I write something popular. I took the word, not in the publisher’s meaning of “adapting to the understanding of the peo ple,” but in the sense of “something universally admired,” and I even chose Psalm 150 in part for its popularity, though another and equally compelling reason was my eagerness to counter

the many composers who had abused these mag isterial verses as pegs for their own lyrico-sen timental “feelings.” The psalms are poems of exaltation, but also of anger and judgment, and even of curses. Although I regarded Psalm 150 as a song to be danced, as David danced before the Ark, I knew that I would have to treat it in an imperative way. My publisher had requested an orchestral piece without chorus, but I had had the psalm symphony idea in mind for some time, and that is what I insisted on composing. All of the music was written in Nice and in my summer home at Echarvines. I began with Psalm 150 and my first notation was the figure that bears such a close family resemblance to Jocasta’s “Oracula, oracular” [from Oedipus rex]. After finishing the fast-tempo sections of the psalm, I went back to compose the first and second movements. The “Alleluia” and the slow music at the beginning of Psalm 150, which is an answer to the question in Psalm 40, were written last.

I was much concerned, in setting the psalm verses, with problems of tempo. To me, the rela tion of tempo and meaning is a primary question of musical order, and until I am certain that I have found the right tempo, I cannot compose. Superficially, the texts suggested a variety of speeds, but this variety was without shape. At first, and until I understood that God must not be praised in fast, forte music, no matter how often the text specifies “loud,” I thought of the final hymn in a too-rapid pulsation. This is the manner question again, of course. Can one say the same thing in several ways? I cannot, in any case, and to me the only possible way could not be more clearly indicated among all the choices if it were painted blue. I also cannot say whether a succes sion of choices results in a “style,” but my own description of style is tact-in-action, and I prefer to talk about the action of a musical sentence than to talk about its style.

The first movement, “Hear my prayer, O Lord,” was composed in a state of religious and musi cal ebullience. The sequences of two minor thirds joined by a major third, the root idea of the whole work, were derived from the trumpet-harp motive at the beginning of the allegro in Psalm 150. I was not aware of Phrygian modes, Gregorian chants, Byzantinisms, or anything of the sort, while composing this music, though, of course, influences said to be denoted by such scriptwriters’ baggage-stickers may very well have been operative. Byzantium was a source of Russian culture, after all, and according to cur rent indexing [1963] I am classifiable as a Russian, but the little I know about Byzantine music was learned from [musicologist Egon] Wellesz long after I had composed the Symphony of Psalms. I did start to compose the psalms in Slavonic, though, and only after coming a certain dis tance did I switch to Latin (just as I worked with English the same time as Hebrew in Abraham and Isaac).

The “Waiting for the Lord” psalm makes the most overt use of musical symbolism in any of my music before The Flood. An upside-down pyramid of fugues, it begins with a purely instru mental fugue of limited compass and employs only solo instruments. The restriction to treble range was the novelty of this initial fugue, but the limitation to flutes and oboes proved its most difficult compositional problem. The subject was developed from the sequence of thirds used as an ostinato in the first movement. The next and higher stage of the upside-down pyramid is the human fugue, which does not begin without instrumental help for the reason that I modi fied the structure as I composed and decided to overlap instruments and voices to give the material more development, but the human choir is heard a cappella after that. The human fugue also represents a higher level in the architectural symbolism by the fact that it expands into the bass register. The third stage, the upside-down foundation, unites the two fugues.

Though I chose Psalm 150 first, and though my first musical idea was the already quoted rhythmic figure in that movement, I could not

compose the beginning of it until I had writ ten the second movement. Psalm 40 is a prayer that a new canticle may be put into our mouths. The “Alleluia” is that canticle. (The word alleluia still reminds me of the Hebrew galosh-merchant Gurian who lived in the apartment below ours in Saint Petersburg, and who on High Holy Days would erect a prayer tent in his living room and dress himself in an Ephod. The hammering sounds as he built this tent and the idea of a cos mopolitan merchant in a Saint Petersburg apart ment simulating the prayers of his forefathers in the desert impressed my imagination almost as profoundly as any direct religious experience of my own.) The rest of the slow-tempo intro duction, the “Laudate Dominum,” was originally composed to the words of the Gospodi pomiluy. This section is a prayer to the Russian image of the infant Christ with orb and scepter. I decided to end the work with this music, too, as an apo theosis of the sort that had become a pattern in my music since the epithalamium at the end of Les noces. The allegro in Psalm 150 was inspired by a vision of Elijah’s chariot climbing the heav ens; never before had I written anything quite so literal as the triplets for horns and piano to suggest the horses and chariot. The final hymn of praise must be thought of as issuing from the skies, and agitation is followed by “the calm of praise,” but such statements embarrass me. What I can say is that in setting the words of this final hymn, I cared above all for the sounds of the syl lables, and I have indulged my besetting pleasure of regulating prosody in my own way. I really do tire of people pointing out that “Dominum” is one word and that its meaning is obscured the way I respirate it, like the “Alleluia” in the Sermon [A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer], which has reminded everybody of the Psalms. Do such people know nothing about word-splitting in polyphonic music? One hopes to worship God with a little art if one has any, and if one hasn’t, and cannot recognize it in others, then one can at least burn a little incense.

From Dialogues and a Diary, by Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft. Published by Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1963

SYMPHONY OF PSALMS

I.

Exaudi orationem meam, Domine, et deprecationem meam. Auribus percipe lacrimas meas. Ne sileas, quoniam advena ego sum apud te et peregrinus, sicut omnes patres mei. Remitte mihi, ut refrigerer Prius quam abeam et amplius non ero.

—Psalm 39:13, 14

II.

Expectans expectavi Dominum, et intendit mihi.

Et exaudivit preces meas; et eduxit me de lacu miseriae, et de luto faecis.

Et statuit super petram pedes meos: et direxit gressus meos. Et immisit in os meum canticum novum, carmen Deo nostro. Videbunt multi, et timebunt, et sperabunt in Domino.

—Psalm 40: 2, 3, 4 III. (Alleluia.)

Laudate Dominum in sanctis Ejus.

Laudate Eum in firmamento virtutis Ejus. Laudate Eum in virtutibus Ejus. Laudate Eum secundum multitudinem magnitudinis Ejus.

Laudate Eum in sono tubae; [laudate Eum in psalterio et cithara.]

Laudate Eum in timpano et choro; laudate Eum in cordis et organo.

Laudate Eum in cymbalis bene sonantibus; laudate Eum in cymbalis jubilationibus. Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum! Alleluia.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be not silent: for I am a stranger before you, and a pilgrim like all my fathers. Oh, forgive me, that I may find respite before I depart, and be no more.

With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me. And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps. And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord. (Alleluia.)

Praise the Lord in his sanctuary, Praise him in the firmament of his strength. Praise him for his mighty deeds, Praise him for his sovereign majesty.

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: [Praise him with lyre and harp.] Praise him with timbrel and choir: Praise him with strings and organs. Praise him on high-sounding cymbals: Praise him on cymbals of joy: Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Alleluia.

(Stravinsky omits the line in brackets.)

ludwig van beethoven

Born December 16 1770; Bonn, Germany Died March 26, 1827; Vienna, Austria

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19

Although it is known as no. 2, the B-flat major piano concerto is the earliest of Beethoven’s five well-known works in the great classical form. In fact, it’s not even the composer’s first attempt at writing a concerto for himself. When he was only fourteen years old, Beethoven composed a piano concerto in E-flat major, and, although only the solo part has survived, it clearly reveals that the teenage Beethoven thought himself a great virtuoso. (The concerto was reconstructed and performed for the first time in 1943.) But, sometime over the next six years, Beethoven wisely shelved that score and began a new piano concerto in B-flat, over which he struggled on and off for several more years until he felt it was ready for the public. The teenage show-off had become a perfectionist.

In 1792, the year Beethoven left Bonn and settled in Vienna, he wrote out a fresh copy of this concerto, perhaps to show his new teacher, Joseph Haydn, whom he would soon dismiss, leaving neither man with kind words for the other. At the first chance to play the work in public, Beethoven evidently dropped the original finale (discovered among his papers after his death and now known as the Rondo, WoO 6) and wrote a new one. He also revised the slow movement. This is probably the concerto he played at the charity concert on March 29, 1795—his first official public appearance in this great music capital—although by then he had written another one, in C major—the one we know as no. 1. (Beethoven’s old friend Franz Gerhard Wegeler recalls that the composer finished the finale at the very last moment, while suffering from a bad stomachache, but the evi dence suggests that he was remembering a different perfor mance and a different concerto.)

Beethoven continued to work on the B-flat score. He sketched, and then discarded, a new slow movement in D major. For a performance in Prague in 1798, he brushed up both the outer movements and added a coda to the Adagio. Still, he was dissatisfied. In fact, when he wrote to the publisher Breitkopf and Härtel in 1801, Beethoven hadn’t a good thing to say about either of his piano concertos:

composed 1790–95, revised 1801

first performance March 29, 1795, the composer as soloist instrumentation solo piano, flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, strings

approximate performance time 28 minutes

first cso performances March 12 and 13, 1926, Orchestra Hall. Harold Samuel as soloist, Frederick Stock conducting

July 11, 1946, Ravinia Festival. Leon Fleisher as soloist, William Steinberg conducting

most recent cso performances July 15, 2010, Ravinia Festival. Jorge Federico Osorio as soloist, James Conlon conducting October 25, 27, and 30, 2018, Orchestra Hall. Paul Lewis as soloist, Bernard Haitink conducting

cso recordings 1972. Vladimir Ashkenazy as soloist, Sir Georg Solti conducting. London 1983. Alfred Brendel as soloist, James Levine conducting. Philips

1801

above: Ludwig van Beethoven, oil portrait of the composer as a young man painted by Carl Traugott Riedel (1769–1832),

I wish to add that one of my first concertos, and therefore not one of the best of my com positions, is to be published by Hofmeister, and that Mollo is to publish a concerto which, indeed, was written later, but which also does not rank among the best of my works in this form.

In truth, both of these concertos reflect Mozart’s influence—in their design, in the bal ance of piano and orchestra, and in the piano writing itself—but, from the day he arrived in Vienna, Beethoven was impatient to establish himself as a new force to be reckoned with, not as the next Mozart. Moreover, by 1801 he had already completed another concerto—the Third—that decisively broke away from the classical model and pointed in a completely new direction. That was the composer Beethoven wanted the power brokers at Breitkopf to notice. Nonetheless, he thought both of his first con certos fit to print, and they were published that year, in the “wrong” order—the C major concerto

in March, and the earlier one in B-flat major in December.

For all its classical decorum, there’s some thing explosive and rebellious about Beethoven’s earliest piano concerto. In the very opening orchestral tutti, for example, Beethoven swerves unexpectedly into D-flat major, at the same time pulling back from fortissimo to pianissimo to emphasize the jolt, in a way that is quite un-Mozartean. Once the piano enters, we are in the presence of a new person ality. By all accounts, the young Beethoven was a thrilling performer of a very different sort than Mozart—the newspaper reports praise his power, “unheard-of bravura and facility,” and sheer intensity of feeling—and his concertos reflect these musical sensibilities, as well as his new style of piano playing.

Mozart’s shadow still falls across the elegantly designed first movement, despite evidence of the subversive young Beethoven in the details. The bold and lovely slow movement (revised for the 1795 premiere) is one of his earliest attempts to display both his true original ity and the range of his emotional compass. The finale is light and witty, with a wonder ful syncopated theme that the pianist finally “corrects,” putting the off-beat material on the beat shortly before the ending. The boisterous spirit of Vienna’s new self-appointed musi cal king is apparent in every measure.

above: Gathering at the coffee houses in Vienna’s Prater by Laurenz Janscha (1749–1812), print ca. 1793

jean sibelius

Born December 8, 1865; Tavastehus, Finland

Died September 20, 1957; Järvenpää, Finland

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

The spell of Italy often has a salutary effect on artists from the North. Goethe regularly recommended making the trip to Italy— Mendelssohn took his advice and returned with his Italian Symphony. Berlioz toured Italy against his better judgment and ended up staying fifteen months, addicted to the countryside (Harold in Italy is the souvenir he brought us). Wagner claimed he got the idea for the opening of Das Rheingold in La Spezia on the western seacoast. Tchaikovsky later nursed a broken spirit in Italy and took home his Capriccio italien, as untroubled as any music he ever wrote.

Jean Sibelius went to Italy in 1901. Even then, his name suggested northern lights and bitter cold to people who had not yet heard his music. To those who had—in particular the overly popular Finlandia, first performed at a nationalistic pageant in 1899—Sibelius was the voice of Finland. But in Italy, Sibelius’s thoughts turned away from his homeland, and he contemplated a work based on Dante’s Divine Comedy. While staying in the sun-drenched seaside town of Rapallo, he toyed with a four-movement tone poem, Festival, based on the same “Stone Guest” theme that Mozart had treated in Don Giovanni. Nothing ever came of these ideas, but he did begin his Second Symphony, which he finished once back in Finland.

We should not credit Italy alone with the warmth and ease of Sibelius’s Second Symphony, for years later he would return there only to write Tapiola, the bleakest of all his works. But Sibelius did love Italy (he later admitted it was second only to his native Finland), and his extended stay there in 1901 certainly had a profound effect on Finland’s first great composer. His sketchbooks con firm that ideas conceived in Rapallo turn up through out the Second Symphony, and even Sibelius himself admitted that Don Juan stalks the second movement.

from top: Jean Sibelius, portrait painted by his brother-in-law Eero Järnefelt (1863–1937), 1892 Eero Järnefelt’s Landscape from Kangasala, oil on canvas, 1891. Järvenpää Art Museum, Finland

composed 1902

first performance March 8, 1902; Helsinki, Finland; the composer conducting

instrumentation

two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, strings approximate performance time 44 minutes

first cso performances January 1 and 18, 1904, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting (U.S. premiere)

August 2, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Werner Janssen conducting most recent cso performances March 17, 18, and 19, 2016, Orchestra Hall. Michael Tilson Thomas conducting July 21, 2017, Ravinia Festival. Susanna Mälkki conducting

Sibelius is more interesting as a composer than as a national voice. Ultimately, the qualities that give his music its own quite singular cast— the bracing sonorities and craggy textures, and the quirky but compelling way his music moves forward—are the product of musical genius, not Finnish heritage. It is true that he devel oped an abiding interest in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, as a schoolboy, and that he knew, loved, and sometimes remembered his native folk song when writing music. But he did not even learn Finnish until he was a young man (having grown up in a Swedish-speaking household), and his patriotism was fueled not so much by landscape and congenital pride but by marriage into a powerful and politically active family. It is precisely because Sibelius’s music is not outwardly nationalistic (of the picture-post card variety) that it is so profound—specific and evocative, yet also timeless and universal.

The symphony was the most important genre for Sibelius’s musical thoughts at a time when the form didn’t seem to suit most composers. Strauss, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Bartók, for example, all wrote symphonies of various kinds, but their pioneering work was done elsewhere. The one contemporary of Sibelius whose sym phonies are played today, Gustav Mahler, took the symphony to mean something quite differ ent. Sibelius and Mahler met in Helsinki in 1907, and their words on the subject, often quoted, suggest that this was the only time their paths would ever cross, literally or figuratively. Sibelius always remembered their encounter:

When our conversation touched on the essence of symphony, I said that I admired its severity and style and the profound logic that created an inner connection between all the motives. This was the experience I had come to in composing. Mahler’s opinion was just the reverse. “Nein, die Symphonie müss sein wie die Welt. Sie müss alles umfassen.” (No, the symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.)

Those lines have often been repeated to explain why Mahler’s symphonies sprawl and sing, resembling no others ever written, but they are just as useful in seeing Sibelius’s point of view. By 1907 Sibelius had fixed his vision on symphonic music of increasing austerity; his Third Symphony, completed that summer, marks the turning point. That same summer, Mahler put the final touches on his Eighth Symphony, scored for eight vocal soloists, cho rus, boys’ choir, and huge orchestra; taking as its text a medieval hymn and the closing scene from Goethe’s Faust; and lasting nearly two hours—the work we know as the Symphony of A Thousand. Five years earlier, in 1902, the year Sibelius’s Second Symphony was first performed, Mahler had unveiled his third, which lasts longer than Sibelius’s first two symphonies combined.

Sibelius’s Second Symphony is a bold, unconventional work. We know too many of his later works, and too much later music in general, perhaps, to see it that way, but at the time—the time of Schoenberg’s luscious Transfigured Night, not Pierrot lunaire; of Stravinsky’s academic E-flat symphony, not The Rite of Spring—it staked out new territory to which Sibelius alone would return. The first movement, like much of his most characteristic music, makes something whole and compel ling out of bits and pieces. As Sibelius would later write: “It is as if the Almighty had thrown down the pieces of a mosaic for heaven’s floor and asked me to put them together.” Heaven’s floor turns out to be designed in a familiar sonata form, but this isn’t readily apparent. (Commentators seldom agree on the beginning of the second theme, for example.) Certainly any symphony that begins in pieces can’t afford to dissect things further in a traditional develop ment section. In fact, for Sibelius, development often implies the first step in putting the music back together. (Once, when asked about these technical matters, Sibelius cunningly chose to speak about “a spiritual development” instead.)

There is true, sustained lyricism in the slow second movement, but that is not how it opens.

Sibelius begins with a timpani roll and restless pizzicato strings from which a bassoon tune struggles to emerge. Melody eventually does take wing, but what we remember most is the wonderful series of adventures encountered in the process.

The scherzo is brief, hurried (except for a sorrowful woodwind theme inspired not by Finland’s fate, as commentators used to insist, but by the suicide of Sibelius’s sister-in-law), and expectant. When, after about five minutes, it

leads straight into the broad first chords of the finale, we realize that this is what we were wait ing for all along. From there the fourth move ment unfolds slowly, continuously, and with increasing power and majesty. It rises and soars in ways denied the earlier movements, and that, of course, is Sibelius’s way: heaven’s floor visible at last.

SIBELIUS’S SECOND SYMPHONY AND CHICAGO’S “GREAT SADNESS”

During the Chicago Orchestra’s last full season at the Auditorium Theatre, music director Theodore Thomas had programmed the U.S. premiere of Sibelius’s Second Symphony for January 1 and 2, 1904, during the ninth subscription week.

On November 23, 1903, the 1,600seat Iroquois Theatre (located on the north side of West Randolph Street, between State and Dearborn) opened its doors with a production of Mr. Blue Beard starring Eddie Foy. Barely a month later, the December 30 matinee of the popular musical had a standing-room audience of well over 2,000, mostly women and children on holiday break. An additional 300 actors, technicians, and stagehands were backstage.

Just after the beginning of the second act, sparks from a stage light set fire to a muslin curtain and began to spread to the fly space. Very quickly, sections of burning curtains and set pieces began to fall to the stage, and even though Foy attempted to calm the audience, panic ensued. Patrons rushed to the exits—none of which were identified by illuminated signage and some were even hidden behind curtains—only to find that many opened inwardly or had been locked to prevent gatecrashers.

Over 600 people lost their lives—more than twice as many casualties as the Great Chicago Fire in 1871—in this, the deadliest single-building fire in U.S. history.*

“Had Mr. Thomas known some six weeks ago of the great sadness that was to rest like a pall over the city of Chicago on New Year’s Day he could scarcely have arranged a program better suited to the occasion than was that which he and the Chicago Orchestra offered yesterday afternoon at the Auditorium,” wrote the critic

in the Chicago Tribune on January 2, referring also to the Funeral March from Elgar’s Grania and Diarmid as well as the Transformation Scene and Glorification from Wagner’s Parsifal.

“The new symphony of Sibelius— [no. 2] in D major, and which yes terday was played for the first time in America—proved a composition heavy with the mournful melancholy of the northern land whence its writer comes. . . . Mr. Thomas and his men threw themselves with exceptional enthusiasm and vigor into the perfor mance of the new composition, which is of uncommon difficulty in many places, and the result was a rendition technically com plete and interpretatively powerful.”

The Saturday evening concert on January 2 was canceled, as Mayor Carter Harrison had ordered all the aters closed for mandatory inspection. The Orchestra’s next concerts were given on January 15 and 16, since the Auditorium Theatre only needed minor modifica tions to meet the regulations. The January 2 concert was rescheduled for Monday, January 18, and Sibelius’s Symphony no. 2 received its second performance.

In spite of the tragedy, the trustees of the Orchestral Association continued with plans for the construction of Orchestra Hall—ground was broken on May 1 and the hall opened on December 14, 1904. The Iroquois reopened as the Colonial Theatre in October 1905, but in 1924 it was torn down to make way for the Oriental, which opened in 1926. It was renamed the Nederlander in 2019.

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

* The tragedy at the Iroquois Theatre was a catalyst for the implementation of increased safety standards and ordinances for public buildings, including clearly marked exits, doors of egress that open outward, and doors equipped with “crash” or “panic” bars.

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

Chicago Tribune, January 3, 1904

Thomas Søndergård

first cso performances

Conductor

November 15, 17, and 18, 2018, Orchestra Hall. Sibelius’s Nocturne and Ballad from King Christian II, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1 with Alexander Gavryluk, and Rachmaninov’s Symphony no. 1

November 16, 2018, Edman Memorial Chapel, Wheaton College. Sibelius’s Nocturne and Ballad from King Christian II, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1 with Alexander Gavryluk, and Rachmaninov’s Symphony no. 1

Thomas Søndergård is the current music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), following six seasons as principal guest conductor. In July 2022 it was announced that he would succeed Osmo Vänskä as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, becoming music director designate from the current season and assuming the full music director role from 2023–24. Between 2012 and 2018, he served as principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW), after stepping down as principal conductor and musical advisor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

He has appeared with many notable orches tras in such leading European centers as Berlin (Berlin Philharmonic and Berlin Radio Symphony and Mahler Chamber orches tras); Leipzig (Gewandhaus Orchestra); Paris (Orchestre National de France); London (London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, London Symphony, and Philharmonia Orchestra); Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Netherlands and Rotterdam philharmonics); and he is a familiar figure in Scandinavia. North American appear ances have included the symphony orchestras of Minnesota, Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Seattle, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. He also has made highly successful tours to China, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.

The 2022–23 season sees Søndergård return to the Edinburgh International Festival (Mahler’s

Symphony no. 3) and the BBC Proms with the RSNO. The two Proms performances were centered around Wynton Marsalis’s Violin Concerto, performed by Nicola Benedetti. Plans for the RSNO main season include a full cycle of Brahms’s symphonies, Britten’s War Requiem, and further European touring. He makes extensive guest appearances in the United States, including debuts with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, alongside returns to the Minnesota Orchestra and the Houston Symphony. On the operatic stage, the conductor revisits the Royal Danish Opera to lead Strauss’s Elektra. Also in his native Denmark, he returns to the Danish National Symphony to conduct the world pre miere of Rune Glerup’s Violin Concerto with Isabelle Faust as soloist.

Following his debut with the Royal Danish Opera (Kafka’s Trial), Søndergård has returned regularly in a broad repertoire, including Die Walküre, which won the 2022 Reumert Award for Best Opera. He has also enjoyed successful collaborations with Norwegian Opera and Royal Swedish Opera. His Stockholm productions of Tosca and Turandot (both with Nina Stemme) led to his Bavarian State Opera debut, and most recently for the opera’s Academy Concert series. He made his Deutsche Oper Berlin debut with the world premiere of Andrea Scartazzini’s Edward II. His discography covers a broad range, includ ing Sibelius’s symphonies and tone poems with BBC NOW and works by Prokofiev and Strauss with RSNO for Linn Records; Vilde Frang’s celebrated debut recording (WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne for EMI); Poul Ruders (Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, and Royal Danish Opera [Kafka’s Trial] for Da Capo and Bridge Records); and concer tos by Lutosławski and Dutilleux with cellist Johannes Moser and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Pentatone).

In January 2022, Thomas Søndergård was decorated with the prestigious Royal Order of Chivalry, the Order of Dannebrog by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

PHOTO BY MARTIN BUBANDT

Francesco Piemontesi Piano

These concerts mark Francesco Piemontesi’s debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Francesco Piemontesi is a pianist of exceptional refinement of expression. Widely renowned for his interpretation of music by Mozart and the early romantic repertoire, he also has a close affinity with the later nineteenth- and twentieth-century repertoire of Brahms, Liszt, Dvořák, Ravel, Debussy, Bartók, and beyond.

The 2021–22 season led him to such ensem bles as the London Philharmonic Orchestra with which he played the opening concerts of the new concert halls in Ankara and Istanbul under Robin Ticciati, followed by engagements with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Philharmonia Zurich, Vienna Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra under the baton of Constantinos Carydis. Recital engagements took him to the Ruhr Piano Festival, L’Aquila, Paris, Monte-Carlo, Vienna Konzerthaus, Basel, Las Palmas, and Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.

Recent highlights include Piemontesi’s residency at the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, marking the first-ever residency the orchestra has named, as well as his debut

appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic. He regularly appears with major ensembles world wide, among them the London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under the direction of such conductors as Charles Dutoit, Daniel Harding, Manfred Honeck, Marek Janowski, Neeme Järvi, Emmanuel Krivine, Ton Koopman, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Antonio Pappano, and Yuri Temirkanov.

Piemontesi also performs chamber music with a variety of partners, including Leif Ove Andsnes, Yuri Bashmet, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Leonidas Kavakos, Stephen Kovacevich, Heinrich Schiff, Christian Tetzlaff, Jörg Widmann, Tabea Zimmermann, and the Emerson Quartet.

In 2019 Piemontesi released a disc entitled Schubert: Last Piano Sonatas on Pentatone. Previous recordings include Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage, Mozart’s piano concertos with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Andrew Manze on Linn, and Debussy’s preludes and Mozart’s solo piano works for Naïve.

Born in Locarno, Italy, Francesco Piemontesi studied with Arie Vardi before working with Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Cécile Ousset, and Alexis Weissenberg. He rose to international prominence with prizes at several major com petitions, including the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Since 2012 Piemontesi has been artistic director of the Settimane Musicali di Ascona.

Chicago Symphony Chorus

World premieres featuring the Chorus have included Ned Rorem’s Goodbye My Fancy, John Harbison’s Four Psalms, and Bernard Rands’s apókryphos. With visiting orchestras, the Chorus has collaborated with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Zubin Mehta, and the Staatskapelle Berlin under Barenboim.

The Chicago Symphony Chorus regularly performs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Orchestra Hall and at the Ravinia Festival.

The history of the Chorus began in 1957, when sixth music director Fritz Reiner invited Margaret Hillis to establish a chorus to equal the quality of the Orchestra. Hillis accepted the challenge, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus debuted in March and April 1958, in Mozart’s Requiem under Bruno Walter and Verdi’s Requiem under Reiner. Hillis served the Chorus for thirty-seven years, until her retirement in 1994; ninth music director Daniel Barenboim appointed Duain Wolfe as her successor in June of that year.

The Chorus first performed in Carnegie Hall in 1967 in Henze’s Muses of Sicily and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe under seventh music director Jean Martinon, and most recently in 2015 with Riccardo Muti for Scriabin’s Prometheus and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. Touring interna tionally with the Orchestra, the Chorus trav eled to London and Salzburg in 1989 with Sir Georg Solti for performances of Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust and to Berlin in 1999 with Barenboim for Brahms’s A German Requiem and Pierre Boulez for Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron.

Since first recording commercially in 1959— Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky under Reiner— the Chorus has amassed a discography that includes hallmarks of the choral repertoire and several complete operas. The Chorus most recently received a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for Verdi’s Requiem, led by Riccardo Muti on CSO Resound. The Chorus has received an additional nine Grammy awards for Best Choral Performance for Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Brahms’s A German Requiem, Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, Haydn’s Creation, and Bach’s Mass in B minor with Solti; Brahms’s Requiem and Orff’s Carmina Burana with James Levine; and Bartók’s Cantata profana with Boulez.

The Chorus also has appeared on two movie soundtracks with the Orchestra: Fantasia 2000 led by Levine and John Williams’s score for Lincoln conducted by the composer. Recordings on CSO Resound featuring the Chorus include Mahler’s Second and Third symphonies, Poulenc’s Gloria, and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe under Bernard Haitink; and Berlioz’s Lélio, Verdi’s Otello, Schoenberg’s Kol Nidre, choruses by Verdi and Boito’s Prologue to Mefistofele, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 13 (Babi Yar) with men of the Chorus, and most recently Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana under Riccardo Muti.

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Jean-Sébastien Vallée Guest Chorus Director

Canadian American conductor Jean-Sébastien Vallée is an internationally recognized musician, scholar, and pedagogue with a focus on vocal, choral, and orchestral repertoire. Vallée has conducted ensembles in North America, Europe, and Asia, and he frequently collaborates with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Toronto Symphony, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.

Vallée is artistic director of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and associate professor of music, director of choral studies, and coordinator of the Ensembles and Conducting Area at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal. He has also served as director of choral studies at California State University–Los Angeles and was on the choral faculty of the University of Redlands. He holds degrees from Laval and Sherbrooke universities in Quebec and the University of California–Santa Cruz, and a doctorate in conducting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

As a scholar, Vallée has focused his research interests primarily on Renaissance French music; the oratorical works of Michael Tippett; and conducting pedagogy, more specifically the connection between audiation and gestural communication. He has been invited to present his research at several national and interna tional conferences in North America, Europe, and Asia: among them the American Choral Directors Association conventions; Festival 500 in Newfoundland; the National Collegiate Choral Organization Conference; Podium (the national convention of Choral Canada); the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities; and the World Symposium on Choral Music in Spain (2017), New Zealand (2020), and Portugal (2022).

Jean-Sébastien Vallée’s work is broadcast internationally and can be heard on his albums Lux (ATMA, 2017), Requiem (ATMA, 2018: works by Fauré and Duruflé), and Distance (ATMA, 2021).

Recent engagements include concerts at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest; a tour with the National Youth Choir of Canada; concerts with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; and workshops as part of the World Choral EXPO in Lisbon, Portugal.

Chicago Symphony Chorus

Cheryl Frazes Hill Interim Director

Jennifer Kerr Budziak Assistant Director

Andrew Lewis Assistant Director Benjamin Rivera Assistant Director

Michele Braché Agpalo

Geoffrey Agpalo

Alicia Monastero Akers

Melissa Arning

Laura Boguslavsky

Madison Bolt

Michael Boschert

Michael Brauer

Matthew Brennan Terry L. Bucher

Jennifer Kerr Budziak

Hannah Busch

Diane Busko Bryks*

Katherine Buzard

Anastasia Cameron Balmer*

Michael Cavalieri

Joan Cinquegrani

Joseph Cloonan

Natalie Conseur Ryan J. Cox Sandra Cross

Angela De Venuto

Leah Dexter Chris DiMarco

Micah A. Dingler

Katarzyna Dorula Kathryn Kinjo Duncan

Ashley Eason Stacy Eckert Nicholas Falco Andrew Fisher

Leigh Folta Kirsten Fyr-Searcy

Ace T. Gangoso

Klaus Georg Liana Gineitis

Dimitri German Jennifer Gingrich*

David Govertsen

Mary Lutz Govertsen Nida Grigalaviciute

Kimberly Gunderson

Amy Gwinn-Becker

Elizabeth Haley

Kevin Michael Hall Ashlee Hardgrave Ruth Heald Adam Lance Hendrickson Megan Hendrickson Daniel Julius Henry, Jr. Jianghai Ho Betsy Hoats

Ingrid Israel Mikolajczyk Margaret Izard Carla Janzen Garrett Johannsen* Alison Kelly Robin A. Kessler Jess Koehn Susan Krout Alexandra Kunath Mathew Lake Rosalind Lee Katelyn Lee Kristin Lelm Lee Lichamer* Nicholas Lin Thereza Lituma

Amanda Compton LoPresti Suzanne Ma-Ebersole Kathleen Madden* Bill McMurray Mark James Meier Eric Miranda Rebecca S. Moan Keith A. Murphy Lillian Murphy Máire O’Brien Nathan S. Oakes Wha Shin Park Clarissa Parrish Short Steven Michael Patrick Douglas Peters Cassandra Petrie

Cari Plachy

Sarah Ponder

Elvira Ponticelli

Robert J. Potsic Brett Potts

Angela Presutti Emily Price

Ian R. Prichard Nicholas Pulikowski Margaret Quinnette Leo Radosavljevic Stephen Richardson Alexia Rivera

Ellen Robtertson Cole Seaton Andrew Seymour Emlynn Shoemaker Aaron Short Cassidy Smith Joseph Smith Alannah Spencer Sean Stanton* Avery Sujkowski Alan Taylor Paul W. Thompson* Scott Uddenberg Aaron Wardell

Peter Wesoloski Eric West Debra Wilder Juan Zapata

chorus manager Shelley Baldridge

assistant chorus manager and librarian Heather Anderson

rehearsal pianists John Goodwin Sharon Peterson

The Chorus was prepared for these performances by Jean-Sébastien Vallée. * Section leader

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 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.

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

Three 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 title of music director laureate and returned to conduct the Orchestra for several weeks each season until his death in September 1997.

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.

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 each season.

Jessie Montgomery was appointed Mead Composer-in-Residence in 2021. She follows ten highly regarded composers in this role, including John Corigliano and Shulamit Ran—both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In addition to composing works for the CSO, Montgomery curates the contem porary MusicNOW series.

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

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti Zell Music Director

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

violins

Robert Chen Concertmaster

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

Stephanie Jeong Associate Concertmaster

The Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair David Taylor* Assistant Concertmaster

The Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Chair Yuan-Qing Yu* Assistant Concertmaster

So Young Bae

Cornelius Chiu Alison Dalton § Gina DiBello Kozue Funakoshi Russell Hershow Qing Hou Matous Michal

Simon Michal Blair Milton § Sando Shia Susan Synnestvedt Rong-Yan Tang ‡

Baird Dodge Principal Lei Hou Ni Mei

Hermine Gagné

Rachel Goldstein

Mihaela Ionescu

Sylvia Kim Kilcullen Melanie Kupchynsky Wendy Koons Meir Aiko Noda § Joyce Noh Nancy Park

Ronald Satkiewicz Florence Schwartz

violas

Li-Kuo Chang ‡ Assistant Principal Catherine Brubaker Beatrice Chen Youming Chen Sunghee Choi § Wei-Ting Kuo

Danny Lai Weijing Michal Diane Mues

Lawrence Neuman Max Raimi

cellos

John Sharp Principal

The Eloise W. Martin Chair

Kenneth Olsen Assistant Principal

The Adele Gidwitz Chair

Karen Basrak

The Joseph A. and Cecile Renaud Gorno Chair Loren Brown Richard Hirschl Daniel Katz

Katinka Kleijn David Sanders § Gary Stucka Brant Taylor

basses

Alexander Hanna Principal

The David and Mary Winton Green Principal Bass Chair Daniel Armstrong Daniel Carson Robert Kassinger ‡ Mark Kraemer Stephen Lester Bradley Opland harp Lynne Turner

flutes

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson Principal

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

piccolo Jennifer Gunn The Dora and John Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair

oboes

William Welter Principal

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

english horn Scott Hostetler

clarinets

Stephen Williamson Principal John Bruce Yeh Assistant Principal Gregory Smith

e-flat clarinet John Bruce Yeh bassoons Keith Buncke Principal William Buchman Assistant Principal Miles Maner

contrabassoon Miles Maner

horns

David Cooper Principal Daniel Gingrich Associate Principal James Smelser David Griffin Oto Carrillo Susanna Gaunt

trumpets

Esteban Batallán Principal The Adolph Herseth Principal Trumpet Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor Mark Ridenour Assistant Principal John Hagstrom

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library Chair Tage Larsen

trombones

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

bass trombone Charles Vernon tuba

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

timpani

David Herbert Principal

The Clinton Family Fund Chair Vadim Karpinos Assistant Principal

percussion Cynthia Yeh Principal Patricia Dash Vadim Karpinos James Ross

librarians

Peter Conover Principal Carole Keller Mark Swanson

cso fellow Gabriela Lara Violin

orchestra personnel John Deverman Director Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel

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

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

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

chicago symphony orchestra association governing members

The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, which celebrated its 125th anni versary in the 2019–20 season. Its support funds the CSOA’s artistic excellence and community engagement. In return, members enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition. For more information, please contact 312-294-3337 or governingmembers@cso.org.

GOVERNING MEMBERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Charles Emmons, Jr. Chair

Michael Perlstein Immediate Past Chair

Merrill and Judy Blau Vice Chairs of Member Engagement

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

Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership

GOVERNING MEMBERS

Anonymous (8)

Dora J. Aalbregtse

Floyd Abramson

Ms. Patti Acurio

Fraida Aland

Sandra Allen Gary Allie

Robert Alsaker

Megan P. Anderson

Dr. Edward Applebaum

David Arch Dr. Kent Armbruster

Dr. Andrew Aronson Ms. Judith Barnard

Merrill Barnes

Peter Barrett

Roberta Barron

Roger Baskes

Cynthia Bates

Robert H. Baum

Mrs. Robert A. Beatty

Kirsten Bedway

Gail Eisenhart Belytschko

Edward H. Bennett III

Meta S. Berger D. Theodore Berghorst

Ann Berlin

Phyllis Berlin

Mr. William E. Bible

Mrs. Arthur A. Billings

Dianne Blanco

Judy Blau

Merrill Blau

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Ann Blickensderfer

Terry Boden

Mrs. Suzanne Borland

James G. Borovsky

Adam Bossov

Janet S. Boyer

John D. Bramsen

Ms. Jill Brennan

Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Sue Brubaker

Mrs. Patricia M. Bryan

Gilda Buchbinder

Samuel Buchsbaum

Rosemarie Buntrock

Elizabeth Nolan Buzard

Ms. Lutgart Calcote

Thomas Campbell

Ms. Vera Capp

Wendy Alders Cartland Mrs. William C. Childs Linton J. Childs

Frank Cicero, Jr.

Patricia A. Clickener

Mitchell Cobey

Jean M. Cocozza

Robin Tennant Colburn

Dr. Edward A. Cole

Mrs. Jane B. Colman

Dr. Thomas H. Conner

Ms. Cecilia Conrad

Beverly Ann Conroy

Jenny L. Corley

Ms. Sarah Crane

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 Dranove

Robert Duggan Mimi Duginger

Mr. Frank A. Dusek, CPA Mrs. David P. Earle III

Judge Frank H. Easterbrook Mrs. Dorne Eastwood Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Louis M. Ebling III

Jon Ekdahl

Kathleen H. Elliott

Charles Emmons, Jr. Scott Enloe Dr. James Ertle William Escamilla Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri

Neil Fackler

Melissa Sage Fadim

Jeffrey Farbman

Signe Ferguson

Hector Ferral, M.D. 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 Freidheim

Marjorie Friedman Heyman

Mr. Agustin G. Sanz

Malcolm M. Gaynor

Robert D. Gecht

Frank Gelber

Mrs. Lynn Gendleman Dr. Mark Gendleman Rabbi Gary S. Gerson

Karen Gianfrancisco

Ellen Gignilliat Mr. James J. Glasser Madeleine Glossberg Mrs. Judy Goldberg Mrs. Mary Anne Goldberg Anne Goldstein

Jerry A. Goldstone

Mary Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon Mr. Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen

Ruth Grant

Mrs. Hanna H. Gray

Mary L. Gray

Dana Green Clancy Freddi L. Greenberg Delta A. Greene

Joyce Greening Dr. Jerri Greer Dr. Katherine L. Griem

Kendall Griffith Jerome J. Groen Jacalyn Gronek John P. Grube

James P. Grusecki

Anastasia Gutting Lynne R. Haarlow

Joan M. Hall Dr. Howard Halpern Mrs. Richard C. Halpern Anne Marcus Hamada

Josephine Hammer Joel L. Handelman

John Hard Mrs. William A. Hark Dr. Dane Hassani James W. Haugh

Thomas Haynes

James Heckman

Mrs. Patricia Herrmann Heestand Dr. Scott W. Helm

Marilyn. P. Helmholz

Richard H. Helmholz Dr. Arthur L. Herbst

Jeffrey W. Hesse

Konstanze L. Hickey

Thea Flaum Hill Dr. Richard Hirschmann

Suzanne Hoffman Anne Hokin

Wayne J. Holman III

Fred E. Holubow

Mr. James Holzhauer

Carol Honigberg

Janice L. Honigberg

Mrs. Nancy A. Horner Mrs. Arnold Horween

Frances G. Horwich Dr. Mary L. Houston

Patricia J. Hurley

Michael Huston

Barbara Ann Huyler

Mr. Verne G. Istock

Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs

Dr. Todd Janus

John Jawor

Ms. Justine Jentes

Brian Johnson

George E. Johnson

Ronald B. Johnson

Dr. Patricia Collins Jones

Edward T. Joyce Mrs. Carol K. Kaplan †

Claudia Norris Kapnick Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin

Barry D. Kaufman

Kenneth Kaufman Marie Kaufman

Don Kaul

Molly Keller

Jonathan Kemper

Nancy Kempf

Elizabeth I. Keyser

Leslie Kiesel

Emmy King

Susan Kiphart

Carol Kipperman

Dr. Jay Kleiman

Dr. Elaine H. Klemen

Carol Evans Klenk

Mrs. Janet Knauff

Mr. Henry L. Kohn

Sanfred Koltun

Dr. Mark Kozloff

Dr. Michael Krco Eldon Kreider

David Kreisman

MaryBeth Kretz

Dr. Vinay Kumar

Mr. John LaBarbera Dr. Lynda Lane Stephen Lans William J. Lawlor III Sunhee Lee

Jonathon Leik

Sheila Fields Leiter

Jeffrey Lennard

Zafra Lerman

Jerrold Levine

Laurence H. Levine

Mrs. Bernard Leviton

Gregory M. Lewis

Carolyn Lickerman

Mrs. Paul Lieberman Dr. Philip R. Liebson

Patricia M. Livingston

Jane Loeb

Renée Logan

Amy Lubin

Anna Lysakowski

Carol MacArthur

Mrs. Duncan MacLean

Dr. Michael S. Maling

Sharon L. Manuel

David A. Marshall

Judy Marth

Patrick A. Martin

BeLinda I. Mathie

Scott McCue

Ann Pickard McDermott

Dr. James L. McGee Dr. John P. McGee †

† Deceased

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

Mrs. Lester McKeever

John A. McKenna

Mrs. Peter McKinney

James Edward McPherson

Mr. Paul Meister Dr. Ellen Mendelson

Mara Mills Barker

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

Daniel R. Murray Mr. Stuart C. Nathan

Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr. Edward A. Nieminen

Dr. Zehava L. Noah

Kenneth R. Norgan

Martha C. Nussbaum

Mrs. James J. O’Connor

Joy O’Malley

James J. O’Sullivan, Jr.

William A. Obenshain

Shelley Ochab

Maria Ochs

Eric Oesterle

Mrs. Norman L. Olson

Kathleen Field Orr

Mr. Gerald A. Ostermann

Bruce L. Ottley

Pamela Papas

Mr. Bruno A. Pasquinelli

Mr. Timothy J. Patenode

Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. Michael Payette

Mrs. Richard S. Pepper †

Jean E. Perkins

Mr. Michael A. Perlstein

Bonnie Perry

Dr. William Peruzzi

Robert C. Peterson

Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.

Sue N. Pick

Stanley M. Pillman

Virginia Johnson Pillman

Betsey N. Pinkert

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

Harvey R. Plonsker

Mr. John F. Podjasek, III Andrew Porte

Stephen Potter

Carol Prins

Maridee Quanbeck Mrs. Lynda Rahal

Diana Mendley Rauner

Susan Regenstein

Mari Yamamoto Regnier

Mary Thomson Renner

Burton R. Rissman

Charles T. Rivkin

Carol Roberts

Mr. John H. Roberts

William Roberts David Robin

Dr. Diana Robin Chauncey H. Robinson

Kevin M. Rooney

Harry J. Roper

Saul Rosen

Sheli Z. Rosenberg

Dr. Ricardo T. Rosenkranz

Michael Rosenthal

Doris Roskin

Lisa Ross

Maija Rothenberg

Roberta H. Rubin Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz Sandra K. Rusnak

David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg Richard O. Ryan Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan Norman K. Sackar

Anthony Saineghi

Inez Saunders Karla Scherer

David M. Schiffman

Judith Feigon Schiffman Rosa Schloss

Al Schriesheim Donald L. Schwartz Susan H. Schwartz Dr. Penny Bender Sebring Chandra Sekhar Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior Ilene W. Shaw Pam Sheffield

James C. Sheinin, M.D.

Richard W. Shepro

Jessie Shih

Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemaker

Caroline Orzac Shoenberger

Stuart Shulruff

Adele Simmons

Linda Simon Mr. Larry Simpson Craig Sirles

Miyam Slater

Valerie Slotnick Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr. Charles F. Smith Diane W. Smith

Louise K. Smith Mary Ann Smith

Stephen R. Smith Mrs. Ralph Smykal

Naomi Pollock and David Sneider

Diane Snyder

Kimberly Snyder Kathleen Solaro Ms. Elysia M. Solomon Orli Staley William D. Staley

Helena Stancikas Grace Stanek

Ms. Denise M. Stauder Leonidas Stefanos Mrs. Richard J. Stern Liz Stiffel

Mary Stowell

Lawrence E. Strickling

Patricia Study

Cheryl Sturm BISCO Foundation Mrs. Robert Szalay Mr. Gregory Taubeneck James E. Thompson Dr. Robert Thomson Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Joan Thron David Timm Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr. William R. Tobey, Jr.

Bruce Tranen †

James M. (Mack) Trapp

John T. Travers

David Trushin

Dr. David A. Turner

Robert W. Turner

Zalman Usiskin

Mrs. James D. Vail III

John Van Horn

Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice

William C. Vance

Thomas D. Vander Veen

Jennifer Vianello Dr. Michael Viglione Catherine M. Villinski

Charles Vincent Mr. Christian Vinyard Theodore Wachs

Mark A. Wagner

Beth Ann Waite

Bernard T. Wall

Nicholas Wallace

Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Jeffrey J. Webb

Mrs. Jacob Weglarz

Chickie Weisbard

Richard Weiss

Robert G. Weiss

Dr. Marc Weissbluth

Carmen Wheatcroft M.L. Winburn

Peter Wolf

Laura Woll

Dr. Hak Yui Wong

Courtenay R. Wood

Michael H. Woolever

Ms. Debbie Wright

Ronald Yonover

Owen Youngman

Priscilla Yu

David J. Zampa Dr. John P. Zaremba Karen Zupko

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

honor roll of donors

Corporate Partners

MAESTRO RESIDENCY

Bank of America

PRESENTER

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO United Airlines

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Abbott

Allstate Insurance Company CIBC Private Wealth Citadel and Citadel Securities ITW Northern Trust

$50,000–$99,999 Anonymous (1) Jenner & Block LLP PNC Bank

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Sidley Austin LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

$25,000–$49,999 Abbott Fund Aon Bulgari Corrugated Supplies Company, LLC Kinder Morgan Mayer Brown LLP S&C Electric Company Fund

$10,000–$24,999 Anonymous (1)

Advanced Technology Services Archer Daniels Midland Company Deloitte Exelon Fifth Third Bank GCM Grosvenor Goldman Sachs & Co. HARIBO of America Havi Group JPMorgan Chase & Co. King & Spalding Latham & Watkins LLP McDermott Will & Emery McKinsey & Company Oxford Bank Readerlink LLC UL, Inc.

Underwriters Laboratories Walgreens Winston & Strawn LLP

$5,000–$9,999

Accenture

ArentFox Schiff LLP

Baird Burwood Group Fellowes, Inc. Grant Thornton LLP The Hallstar Company Italian Village Restaurants

Law Offices of Jonathan N. Sherwell

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc. Mesirow Financial Segal Consulting Starshak & Winzenburg Steiner Electric Company Supreme Lobster and Seafood Company Ventas Weiss Financial

$1,000–$4,999

American Agricultural Insurance Company

Amsted Industries Incorporated

Central Building & Preservation L.P. Chapman and Cutler LLP Columbia Capital Management

Etnyre International Parkway Elevators

Readerlink

Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Shetland Limited Partnership Show Services Shure Incorporated

Vienna Beef Vomela

Foundations and Government Agencies

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Julius N. Frankel Foundation

Walter E. Heller Foundation, in memory of Alyce DeCosta

JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation Sargent Family Foundation TAWANI Foundation

U.S. Small Business Administration Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Zell Family Foundation

$50,000–$99,999

The Brinson Foundation

The Chicago Community Trust Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Sally Mead Hands Foundation

Illinois Arts Council Agency National Endowment for the Arts Polk Bros. Foundation

$25,000–$49,999

Barker Welfare Foundation

The Clinton Family Fund Crain-Maling Foundation Crown Family Philanthropies

Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation John R. Halligan Charitable Fund

Irving Harris Foundation

Kovler Family Foundation

Bowman C. Lingle Trust

Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation

$10,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation

The Buchanan Family Foundation

Darling Family Foundation

Leslie Fund, Inc.

Pritzker Traubert Foundation

Roy and Irene Rettinger Foundation

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation

The George L. Shields Foundation Tully Family Foundation

$5,000–$9,999

The Allyn Foundation, Inc.

Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Hoellen Family Foundation

Hunter Family Foundation

Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation

Music Performance Trust Fund Dr. Scholl Foundation

$2,500–$4,999

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

Franklin Philanthropic Foundation

William M. Hales Foundation Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation

$1,000–$2,499

Geraldi Norton Foundation

Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust

Annual Support

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through November 2022. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.

$150,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous (2)

Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund

Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross

Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes

The Julian Family Foundation

Margot and Josef Lakonishok

The Negaunee Foundation

Megan and Steve Shebik

Zell Family Foundation

$100,000–$149,999

Anonymous (3)

James and Brenda Grusecki Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Cathy and Bill Osborn Cynthia M. Sargent † Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$75,000–$99,999

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab John Hart and Carol Prins Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock Judy and Scott McCue Ms. Renee Metcalf

$50,000–$74,999

Anonymous (3)

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Julie and Roger Baskes Mrs. Janet R. Bauer Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Kay Bucksbaum Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Ms. Sarah Crane Ms. Nancy Dehmlow Dr. Eugene F. and Mrs. SallyAnn D. Fama Rhoda Lea † and Henry S. † Frank Ms. Susan Goldschmidt COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Michael and Linda Simon Mr. Irving Stenn, Jr. Liz Stiffel Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas

$35,000–$49,999 Sharon and Charles Angell Mr. Roderick Branch Mr. & Dr. George Colis Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Mr. Collier Hands Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow

THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

This $175 million fundraising effort provides the secure footing needed to promote the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s preeminent role as a cultural icon showcasing musical brilliance, leadership, and innovation. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the generous donors who have shown tremendous support for this strategic initiative. These commitments make it possible for the CSO’s many facets to thrive today, tomorrow, and always. Contact Al Andreychuk at 312-294-3150 for more information.

$20,000,000 AND ABOVE

Zell Family Foundation

$10,000,000–$19,999,999

The Grainger Foundation The Negaunee Foundation

$5,000,000–$9,999,999

Anonymous Julian Family Foundation Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz

$2,500,000–$4,999,999

Anonymous Mary Louise Gorno Estate of Esther G. Klatz Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Megan and Steve Shebik

Richard and Helen Thomas

$1,000,000–$2,499,999 Anonymous (2) Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown Kay Bucksbaum Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Michael and Kathleen Elliott Jim † and Kay Mabie Estate of Gloria Miner Cathy and Bill Osborn Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$500,000–$999,999 Patricia and Laurence Booth John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray The Davee Foundation Howard Gottlieb ITW

Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg

UP TO $500,000

Anonymous Jeff and Keiko Alexander Ruth and Roger Anderson Family Foundation Peter and Elise Barack Merrill and Judy Blau 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 Karen and Neil Kawashima Ms. Geraldine Keefe Anne and John † Kern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg Judy and Scott McCue Mr. David E. McNeel Mr. Robert Meeker James and Renée Metcalf 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

Walter and Kathleen Snodell

Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark Terrence and Laura Truax Lisa and Paul Wiggin

$25,000–$34,999 Anonymous (4)

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Peter and Elise Barack Patricia and Laurence Booth

Robert J. Buford Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen V. D’Amore Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson

Ms. Ann Drake

Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. Ellen and Paul Gignilliat William A. and Anne Goldstein Mary Louise Gorno Mr. Graham C. Grady Mary Winton Green

Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson

Ronald B. Johnson

Mr. † & Mrs. Burton Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Neil Kawashima Ms. Donna L. Kendall

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy Mr. & Mrs. James Kolar Randall S. Kroszner

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Levy Mr. Terrance Livingston and Ms. Debra Cafaro

The James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation Ms. Britt Miller

Dr. Charles Morcom

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Daniel R. Murray Andra and Irwin Press

Dr. Mohan Rao

Diana and Bruce Rauner

Susan Regenstein

Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg

Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy Ms. Courtney Shea Bill and Orli Staley Foundation

Mary Stowell Thierer Family Foundation Craig and Bette Williams Susan and Bob Wislow Mr. Gifford Zimmerman

$20,000–$24,999

Peter and Betsy Barrett Arnie and Ann Berlin

Elizabeth Crown and Bill Wallace Nancy and Bernard Dunkel Richard and Alice Godfrey Mrs. Carolyn Hallman

Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman Anne and John † Kern Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Mr. Michael Leppen Mr. Donald W. Nelson Alexandra and John Nichols LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor Mr. & Mrs. John Pratt Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar

The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. 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 (3) Carey and Brett August Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown

The Buchanan Family Foundation Henry and Gilda Buchbinder John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Robert D. Carone Ann and Richard Carr Joyce Chelberg Sue and Jim Colletti John and Fran Edwardson Sue and Melvin Gray Halasyamani/Davis Family Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Mr. Joel Horowitz Mrs. Janet Kanter Ms. Geraldine Keefe

The King Family Foundation Dr. Lynda Lane Ms. Betsy Levin Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin Mr. Philip Lumpkin Mr. David E. McNeel Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley Edward and Gayla Nieminen Pasquinelli Family Foundation Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte Roy and Irene Rettinger Foundation Jerry Rose Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. 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 Dr. Marylou Witz

$11,500–$14,999 Anonymous Nancy A. Abshire Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Cynthia Bates and Kevin Rock Mrs. Gail Belytschko Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan Stephen and Maria Lans 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 Mr. & Ms. Richard Williams

$7,500–$11,499 Anonymous (3) Ms. Patti Acurio Fraida and Bob Aland Jeff and Keiko Alexander Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Baker Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Merrill and Judy Blau Ms. Lutgart Calcote Tom and Dianne Campbell Patricia A. Clickener Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Dr. Thomas H. Conner Mr. Lawrence Corry Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Douglas Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle Mr. Eric Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Pan Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood Polly Eldringhoff La and Philip Engel William Escamilla Mr. Fred Eychaner Ms. Nancy Felton-Elkins and Larry Elkins Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr. Rosemary Framburg Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Mr. & Mrs. Carl Gilmore Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Ann and John Grube Lynne R. Haarlow Joan M. Hall Mrs. Richard C. Halpern

Anne Marcus Hamada

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

Merle L. Jacob

Mr. † & Mrs. † Howard Jessen

Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Joyce Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller

Dr. June Koizumi

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler Dr. † & Mrs. H. Leichenko Mr. Jeffrey Lennard

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

Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Kohn and Mitchell Family Foundation Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor

Mrs. Frank Morrissey

Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek Ms. Susan Norvich

Ms. Martha Nussbaum Margo and Michael Oberman Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson

Kathleen Field Orr

Dr. Edward S. Orzac Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. James O’Sullivan, Jr. Richard and Frances Penn Sue N. Pick

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

D. Elizabeth Price

Mr. Duane Quaini †

Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn Dr. Diana Robin Mr. Richard Ryan Rita † and Norman Sackar Ms. Cecelia Samans

Mr. Agustin G. Sanz

Mr. † & Mrs. David Savner

Karla Scherer

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

Elysia M. Solomon

Cheryl Sturm

Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

Frances S. Vandervoort

Peggy White M.L. Winburn

Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever Ms. Karen Zupko

$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 Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei David and Suzanne Arch Dr. & Mrs. Kent Armbruster Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Asner † Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Ms. Judith Barnard Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes Roberta and Harold S. Barron

Joseph Bartush Ms. Barbara Barzansky Ms. Sandra Bass

Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen

Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Mr. Ken Belcher Meta S. and Ronald † Berger

Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin Mrs. Arthur A. Billings Jim † and Dianne Blanco Ann Blickensderfer Ms. Terry Boden 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 Wendy Alders Cartland Mia Celano and Noel Dunn

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

Nancy R. Corral

Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux R. Bert Crossland

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. Robert R. Duggan

Mimi Duginger

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek Mr. & Mrs. David P. Earle III

Judge Frank Easterbrook 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

Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein Judith E. Feldman Donald and Signe Ferguson Hector Ferral, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad Mr. & Mrs. Dean Fischer Ms. Hazel Fisher Mrs. Roslyn K. Flegel Mrs. John D. Foster David and Janet Fox Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann Susan and Paul Freehling Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr. 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 Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco Mr. & Mrs. James J. Glasser Judy and Bill Goldberg Lyn Goldstein Mary and Michael Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen Hanna H. Gray

Ms. Freddi Greenberg

Thomas † and Delta Greene Timothy and Joyce Greening Dr. Jerri E. Greer

Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory Kendall Griffith Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen Jacalyn Gronek Anastasia and Gary † Gutting Ms. Josephine Hammer John and Sally Hard Dr. Dane Hassani

James W. Haugh Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy James and Lynne † Heckman Mr. Dale C. Hedding Scott Helm

Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Hesse Marjorie Friedman Heyman

The Hickey Family Foundation Robert A. Hill and Thea Flaum Hill William B. Hinchliff

Dr. Richard Hirschmann Ms. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph Doherty 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 Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus Mr. John Jawor

Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna Joni and Brian Johnson Dr. Patricia Collins Jones Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation

Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin

Barry D. Kaufman

Larry † and Marie Kaufman Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser

John and Judy Keller

Mrs. Elizabeth Keyser

Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel Carol Kipperman

Dr. Jay and Georgianna Kleiman

Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk

Mr. Thomas Kmetko

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff

Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek

Mr. Brian Kosek

Ms. Liesel Kossmann

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 Mr. Jerrold Levine Mary and Laurence Levine

Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Mr. † and Mrs. Howard Lickerman

The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust Mrs. Gabrielle Long Dr. Anna Lysakowski

Carol MacArthur

Mr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLean Eileen Madden

Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling Sharon L. Manuel

Robert † and Judy Marth Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin 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 Dr. Ellen Mendelson Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery David H. Moscow

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 Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs Eric and Carolyn Oesterle Sarah and Wallace Oliver John and Joy O’Malley

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 Perry

Dr. William Peruzzi

Mr. Robert Peterson Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. 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 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. Roskin Ms. Lisa Ross Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi Maija Rothenberg Ms. Roberta H. Rubin Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz Tina and Buzz Ruttenburg William † and Mary † Ryan

Anthony Saineghi Raymond and Inez Saunders

Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht Mr † and Mrs. Nathan Schloss

Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz Ruth Grant and Howard Schwartz Diana and Richard Senior Ms. Mary Beth Shea Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin

Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields Mr. & Ms. Alan Shoenberger Stuart and Leslie Shulruff Ms. Ann Silberman Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons

Julia M. Simpson Mr. Larry Simpson

Craig Sirles

Valerie Slotnick Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr. Charles F. Smith

Louise K. Smith Mary Ann Smith

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 Stancikas Ms. Denise Stauder Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos Roger † and Susan Stone

Family Foundation Dr. Francis H. Straus II † 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 Mr. Peter Vale Jim and Cindy Valtman

Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice Mr. David J. Varnerin Ms. Jennifer Vianello Catherine M. Villinski Ms. Raita Vilnins Charles Vincent 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 Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft Mr. Alfred White Peter and Marlee Wolf Ms. Lois Wolff Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Michael † and Laura Woll Dr. Hak Wong Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr. Ms. Debbie Wright Dr. Nanajan Yakoub Mari Yamamoto Regnier Owen and Linda Youngman Paul and Mary Yovovich In memory of Anthony C. Yu Mr. Laird Zacheis and Ms. Sunhee Lee David and Eileen Zampa Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross

$3,500–$4,499

Anonymous (4) Ms. Rochelle Allen Ms. Doris Angell Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Bachrach Prue and Frank Beidler Mr. Virgil Bogert Mr. Robert Clatanoff 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 Fidelity Charitable Gift Funds Mrs. Donna Fleming Ms. Anita D. Flournoy Dr. Robert A. Harris Ms. Dawn E. Helwig Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith Mr. Stephen Holmes Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger Dr. Ashley Jackson Ian and Valerie Jacobs Maryl Johnson, M.D. Ms. Ethelle Katz

Jonathan and Nancy Lee Kemper Ms. Mary Klyasheff Joseph and Judith Konen Eric Kuhlman Mr. Thomas Lad Mr. & Ms. Steven Marcus Bill McIntosh Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Sanford and Monica Morganstein John Mugge Mr. George Murphy Mr. Bruce Ottley Mary Rafferty 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. David Weber Mr. Lawrence Wechter Judge Eugene Wedoff Samuel † and Chickie Weisbard Barbara and Steven Wolf David Woodhouse Mike Zimmerman

$2,500–$3,499 Anonymous (6) Dr. & Mrs. Whitney Addington Ms. Marlene Bach Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Baird Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Barber James and Bartha Barrett Paul Becker and Nancy Becker Marjorie Benton

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 Ms. Danolda Brennan Ms. Susan Bridge

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brightfelt Linda S. Buckley Mr. & Mrs. John Butler Ms. Margaret Chaplan Ms. Melinda Cheung

Mr. Thomas Clewett Ms. Juli Crabtree

Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker Mary Dedinsky and William Carlisle Herbert Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III Janet Duffy Ms. Paula Elliott Sandra E. Fienberg Henry and Frances Fogel Ms. Irene Fox

Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Philip Friedmann Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III Drs. Henry and Susan Gault Ms. Barbara Gold Isabelle Goossen Mr. Jacques Gordon Merle Gordon

Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French Brooks and Wanza Grantier Richard † and Mary L. Gray Dr. Michael Greenwald BHD Kozloff Family Fund Mr. † & Mrs. Errol Halperin Amber Halvorson Hill and Cheryl Hammock Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman Mrs. John M. Hartigan Ms. Kyle Harvey Ms. Leigh Ann Herman James and Megan Hinchsliff Carter Howard and Sarah Krepp Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton Ms. Joann Joyce Saul Juskaitis Peter Keehn Mr. Alfred Kelley Anne G. Kimball and Peter Stern Ms. Lilia Kiselev Mr. & Mrs. Frank Klapperich, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt Mr. Wayne Koepke Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin Ms. Leah Laurie Mr. Jonathon Leik Mr. Philip Lesser Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin Dr. & Mrs. Robert Levy Robert † and Joan Lipsig Sherry and Mel Lopata Ms. Jean Lorenzen Ms. Barbara Malott Mr. Timothy Marshall Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass Adele Mayer Larry and Donna Mayer Ms. Marilyn Mccoy Ric D. McDonough Mr. & Mrs. Lester McKeever Sheila and Harvey Medvin Mr. Zarin Mehta

Ms. Claretta Meier

Ian and Robyn Moncrief

Mr. Carl and Maria Moore

Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.

Noteable Notes Music Academy/ Wheaton, IL

Mrs. Janis Notz Sharon and Lee Oberlander Mr. Arne Olson

Beatrice F. Orzac † Mr. Sebastian Patino Roxy and Richard † Pepper Kingsley Perkins † Mr. & Mrs. Norman Perman Dr. Joe Piszczor

Kenneth J. Poje Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard Ms. Constance Rajala Ms. Ginevra R. Ralph Dorothy V. Ramm Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel Mr. Jeffrey Rappin Dr. & Mrs. Pradeep Rattan Dr. Hilda Richards

Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards Mrs. Enid Rieser

Jerry and Carole Ringer

Thomas Roberts and Teresa Grosch Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg

Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan

Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Ms. Saslow

Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin

Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig Ms. Marcia Schneider Gerald and Barbara Schultz Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Joan and George Segal Ms. Gail Seidel Mr. James Selsor Dr. Lemuel Shaffer Mrs. Phyllis Shafron

Mary and Charles M. Shea

Carolyn M. Short Margaret and Alan Silberman Jack and Barbara Simon

The Honorable John B. Simon and Millie Rosenbloom

Lynn B. Singer

Christine A. Slivon

Mr. & Mrs. Frederic Smies

Mrs. Diane W. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. George Spindler Ms. Corinne Steede

Carol D. Stein

Laurence and Caryn Straus

Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan Mr. Jerome Taxy

Robert J. Walker

Ms. Joni Wall

Ms. Mary Walsh The Acorn Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward Alexander J. Wayne Abby and Glen Weisberg Mr. Kenneth Witkowski Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers Ms. Camille Zientek

Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Negaunee Music Institute connects individuals and communities to the extraordinary musical resources of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The following donors are gratefully acknowl edged for making a gift in support of these educational and engagement programs. To make a gift or learn more, please contact Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.

$150,000 AND ABOVE The Julian Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation

$100,000–$149,999 Allstate Insurance Company The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

$75,000–$99,999 John Hart and Carol Prins Megan and Steve Shebik

$50,000–$74,999

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.

$35,000–$49,999 Kinder Morgan Bowman C. Lingle Trust National Endowment for the Arts

$25,000–$34,999

Anonymous Abbott Fund Barker Welfare Foundation Crain-Maling Foundation The James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation

$20,000–$24,999

Anonymous Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family PNC

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation

The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.

$15,000–$19,999 Carey and Brett August 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

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 Dr. Marylou Witz

$11,500–$14,999 Nancy A. Abshire Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans Jim and Ginger Meyer Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs

$7,500–$11,499

Anonymous (2) Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Mr. Lawrence Belles Mr. Lawrence Corry 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 D. Elizabeth Price COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)

Robert E. † and Cynthia M. † Sargent Carol S. Sonnenschein

$4,500–$7,499

Anonymous Joseph Bartush John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Ann and Richard Carr

Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Italian Village Restaurants

Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin Dr. June Koizumi Dr. Lynda Lane Margo and Michael Oberman

Dr. Scholl Foundation

Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Dr. Nanajan Yakoub

$3,500–$4,499

Mr. & Ms. Keith Clayton Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger Ms. Ethelle Katz Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

$2,500–$3,499

Patricia A. Clickener Ms. Sandra Bass Mr. Douglas Bragan Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker Ms. Paula Elliott Brooks and Wanza Grantier William B. Hinchliff Mrs. Gabrielle Long Mr. Zarin Mehta David † and Dolores Nelson Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation David and Judith L. Sensibar Margaret and Alan Silberman Mr. Larry Simpson Ms. Mary Walsh Mr. Kenneth Witkowski

$1,500–$2,499

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Richard J. Abram and Paul Chandler

Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein Ms. Marlene Bach Mr. Carroll Barnes Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Ms. Danolda Brennan Bradley Cohn Elk Grove Graphics Charles and Carol Emmons Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of the Civic horn section Mrs. Roslyn K. Flegel David and Janet Fox Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Amber Halvorson

James and Megan Hinchsliff Ms. Sharon Flynn Hollander Michael and Leigh Huston

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Moffat Bob and Marian Kurz

Dona Le Blanc

Dr. Herbert and Francine Lippitz Ms. Molly Martin

Mr. Aaron Mills Mrs. Frank Morrissey 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

Mr. & Mrs. Salme Steinberg Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust Mr. Peter Vale Abby and Glen Weisberg M.L. Winburn

$1,000–$1,499

Anonymous (4) David and Suzanne Arch Jon W. and Diane Balke Mr. & Mrs. John Barnes Howard and Donna Bass Marjorie Benton

Ann Blickensderfer Mr. Thomas Bookey Mr. James Borkman Mr. Donald Bouseman Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman Ms. Jeanne Busch

Robert and Darden Carr Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr Mr. Rowland Chang

Lisa Chessare Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes Mr. & Mrs. Bill Cottle In Memory of Ira G. Woll Constance Cwiok Mr. Adam Davis Mr. & Mrs. Barnaby Dinges Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dulski Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng Judith E. Feldman Ms. Lola Flamm

Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Mr. Robert Frisch Peter Gallanis

Enid Goubeaux Mr. & Mrs. John Hales Dr. Robert A. Harris Dr. & Mrs. Jerome Hoeksema Mr. Matt James Mr. Randolph T. Kohler Mr. Steven Kukalis Ms. Foo Choo Lee Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin Diane and William F. Lloyd Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus Sharon L. Manuel

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Morales Mrs. MaryLouise Morrison

Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Mr. George Murphy Mr. Bruce Oltman

Ms. Joan Pantsios

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Pauling II Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Quinlan & Fabish

Susan Rabe

Dr. Hilda Richards

Mary K. Ring

Christina Romero and Rama Kumanduri Mr. Nicholas Russell † Gerald and Barbara Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Jane A. Shapiro

Mr. & Mrs. James Shapiro

Richard Sikes Dr. Sabine Sobek

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro

Sharon Swanson

Ms. Joanne Tarazi Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis

Mr. & Ms. Terrence Walsh Ms. Zita Wheeler

William Zeng Irene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin

ENDOWED FUNDS

Anonymous (3)

Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth Concert Fund

Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund

Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund

CNA

The Davee Foundation

Frank Family Fund

Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund

Mary Winton Green

William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Community Engagement

Richard A. Heise

Peter Paul Herbert Endowment Fund

Julian Family Foundation Fund

The Kapnick Family

Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust

The Malott Family School Concerts Fund

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

The Negaunee Foundation

Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends Shebik Community Engagement Programs Fund

Toyota Endowed Fund

The Wallace Foundation Zell Family Foundation

CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIPS

Members of the Civic Orchestra receive an annual stipend to help offset some of their living expenses during their training in Civic. The following donors have generously underwritten a Civic musician(s) for the 2022–23 season.

Eleven Civic members participate in the Civic Fellowship program, a rigorous artistic and professional development curriculum that supplements their membership in the full orchestra. Major funding for this program is generously provided by The Julian Family Foundation

Nancy A. Abshire

Amanda Kellman, viola

Dr. † & Mrs. † Bernard H. Adelson Megan Yeung, viola

Mr. Lawrence Belles and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation+ Michael Stevens, horn

Sue and Jim Colletti Hee Yeon Kim,** violin Lawrence Corry Jonah Kartman, violin

Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund

Irina Chang, clarinet Kunjing Dai, viola Antoni Garrasi, clarinet James Jihyun Kim, oboe David Miller, timpani Bennett Norris, bass

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Jacob Medina, horn

Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Benjamin Foerster, bass

Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat Larissa Mapua, viola

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Michael Leavens, trumpet Richard and Alice Godfrey Robbie Herbst, violin

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Liam Jackson, bassoon

Mary Winton Green Victor Stahoviak, bass

Jane Redmond Haliday Chair Hana Takemoto, cello

The Julian Family Foundation Nelson Mendoza,** violin Ryan Williamson, horn

Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust

Jaime An, cello Isaac Hopkins, trumpet Miles Link, cello Jake Platt, bass Crystal Qi, violin

League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Lindsey Sharpe,** cello

Leslie Fund Inc. Francisco Malespin,** cello Aalia Hanif, flute

Phillip G. Lumpkin Dylan Feldpausch,** violin

Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Abigail Monroe, cello

Judy and Scott McCue Andrew Port,** oboe

Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal † Emily Nardo, violin

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Olivia Reyes, bass

Ms. Susan Norvich Nick Collins, tuba Benjamin Poirot, tuba

Sandra and Earl J. Rusnak, Jr. Sylvia Denecke, horn

Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Alexander Mullins, bass trombone Hugo Saavedra,** trombone

The George L. Shields Foundation Inc. Stephanie Block, viola Laura Schafer, violin Haley Slaugh, cello

The David W. and Lucille G. Stotter Chair Grace Walker, violin

Ruth Miner Swislow Charitable Fund Kimberly Bill, violin

Lois and James Vrhel Endowment Fund Caleb Edwards, bass

Dr. Marylou Witz Marian Mayuga,** violin

Anonymous Diane Yang,** violin Anonymous Kina Ono, violin

Theodore Thomas Society Mary Louise Gorno Chair

Listed below are generous donors who have made commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their wills, trusts, and other estate plans, including life-income arrangements. The Society honors their generosity, which helps to ensure the long-term financial stability and artistic excellence of the CSOA. To learn more, please contact Al Andreychuk, Director of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3150.

STRADIVARIAN ASSOCIATES

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individuals for generously creating a revocable bequest of $100,000 or more, or an irrevocable life-income trust or annuity of $50,000 or more, to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, as of November 2022.

Anonymous (9)

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Lisa J. Adelstein

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Evy Johansen Alsaker

Robert A. Alsaker

Geoffrey A. Anderson

Louise E. Anderson

Brett and Carey August Marlene Bach

Dr. Jeff Bale

Mr. Neal Ball

Sally J. Becker Marlys A. Beider Dr. C. Bekerman Martha Bell

Mike and Donna Bell Julie Ann Benson K. Richard and Patricia M. Berlet Merrill and Judy Blau Ann Blickensderfer Danolda Brennan Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr. Mitchell J. Brown Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark Patricia A. Clickener Judith and Stephen F. Condren Anita Crocus Mimi Duginger

Harry and Jean Eisenman Michael and Kathleen Elliott Dr. Marilyn Ezri Mrs. William M. Flory 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

Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder

Concordia Hoffmann

Stephen D. and Catherine N. Holmes Frank and Helen Holt Mark and Elizabeth Hurley Frances and Phillip Huscher

Ms. Darlene Johnson

Ronald B. Johnson

Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy

Lori Julian

Maridee Quanbeck

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

James Edward McPherson

Janet L. Melk

Dr. Frederick K. Merkel

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor

Craig and Rose Moore Mrs. Mario A. Munoz

John H. Nelson

Muriel Nerad

Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer

Diane Ososke

Dr. Joan E. Patterson

Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn Judy Pomeranz

Neil K. Quinn

Randall and Cara Rademaker

Constance A Rajala Al and Lynn Reichle Ann and Bob † Reiland

Wendy Reynes

Dr. Edward O. Riley

Charles and Marilynn Rivkin David and Kathy Robin

Jerry Rose Mr. James S. Rostenberg Richard O. Ryan

John A. Salkowski Cecelia Samans A. Wm. Samuel

Franklin Schmidt Joanne Silver

Mr. Craig Sirles

Betty W. Smykal

Annette and Richard Steinke Mrs. Deborah Sterling Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong Mrs. Gloria B. Telander

Karin and Alfred Tenny

Richard and Helen Thomas Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

Dr. Richard Tresley

Paula Turner

Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner Mr. & Mrs. John E. Van Horn Mr. Christian Vinyard

Craig and Bette Williams

Florence Winters

Stephen R. Winters and Don D. Curtis Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Helen Zell

MEMBERS

Anonymous (33) Valerie and Joseph Abel Louise Abrahams

Patrick Alden

Richard and Elynne Aleskow Judy L. Allen Ann S. Alpert Ms. Judith L. Anderson

Steven Andes, Ph.D. Catherine Aranyi Dr. Susan Arjmand Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba Mara Mills Barker

Shirley Baron

Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty Joan I. Berger

Robert M. Berger Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky John L. Browar

Catherine Brubaker Joseph Buc Edward J. Buckbee

Michelle Miller Burns Mr. Robert J. Callahan Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Car Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael Dr. Marlene E. Casiano Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy Sharon Conway Mr. Jerry J. Critser Ron and Dolores Daly Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson Sylvia Samuels Delman Mrs. David A. DeMar Ms. Phyllis Diamond Mrs. William Dooley Mr. Richard L. Eastline Nancy Schroeder Ebert Robert J. Elisberg

Richard Elledge Charles and Carol Emmons Lu and Philip Engel Tarek and Ann Fadel James B. Fadim

Leslie Farrell

Donna Feldman

Frances and Henry Fogel 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 Ms. Georgean Goldenberg Adele Goldsmith

Douglas Ross Gortner

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. Hinchliff Marcia M. Hochberg Mr. Thomas Hochman Jack and Colleen Holmbeck Mrs. Walter Horban James and Mary Houston Mr. James Humphrey Merle L. Jacob

Ms. Jessica Jagielnik Joseph and Rebecca † Jarabak Mrs. Marian Johnson Ms. Janet Jones

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

Marshall Keltz

Valerie Kennedy Anne Kern

Paul Keske Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr. Mrs. LeRoy Klemt

Sally Jo Knowles

Mrs. Russell V. Kohr Ms. Barbara Kopsian Liesel E. Kossmann

Eugene Kraus

John C and Carol Anderson Kunze Thomas and Annelise Lawson Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey Ms. Nicole Lehman 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 McFerrin

Mr. William McIntosh

Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey Dorothe Melamed Marcia Melamed Dr. Sharon D. Michalove Dale and Susan Miller

Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten Thomas R. Mullaney Daniel R. Murray Dolores D. Nelson Franklin Nussbaum Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr. Wallace and Sarah Oliver Lynn Orschel Helen and Joseph Page

George R. Paterson

Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Elizabeth Anne Peters Mr. Lewis D. Petry

Judy C. Petty Karen and Dick Pigott Lois Polakoff D. Elizabeth Price

Dorothy V. Ramm

Jeanne Reed Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones Karen L. Rigotti

Don and Sally Roberts Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal Dr. Virginia C. Saft

Craig Samuels

Sue and William Samuels Paul and Kathleen Schaefer Mrs. Milton Scheffler

Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt

David Shayne

Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Anne Sibley

Larry Simpson Thomas G. Sinkovic Rosalee Slepian Mary Soleiman

Jim Spiegel

Julie Stagliano Denise M. Stauder

Karen Steil

Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale Mr. John Stokes

Richard and Lois Stuckey Jeffrey and Linda Swoger Mr. John C. Telander

Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Thorson

Karen Hletko Tiersky

Myron Tiersky

Jacqueline A. Tilles

Mr. James M. Trapp

Mr. Donn N. Trautman

Mike and Mary Valeanu

Frank Villella

Mr. Milan Vydareny Dr. Malcolm Vye

Adam R. Walker and BettyAnn Mocek Mr. Frank Walschlager

Louella Krueger Ward Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Karl Wechter

Claude M. Weil

Joan Weiss

Mr. Thomas Weyland

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

Linda and Payson S. Wild

Joyce S. Wildman

Kayla Anne Wilson

Robert A. Wilson

Nora M. Winsberg

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf

Beth Wollar

Lev Yaroslavskiy

IN MEMORIAM

Listed below are individuals who were

Theodore Thomas Society members and patrons who made exceptional commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their estates. They are remembered with gratitude for their generosity and visionary support.

Anonymous (9)

Hope A. Abelson

Richard Abrahams Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos

Elizabeth M. Ashton

Jacqueline and Frank Ball Wayne Balmer

Paul Barker

Leland and Mary Bartholomew Arlene and Marshall Bennett Norma Zuzanek Bennett

Judith and Dennis Bober Naomi T. Borwell

Kathryn Bowers

Howard Broecker

Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown George and Jacqueline Brumlik Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger Norma Cadieu Wiley Caldwell

Nelson D. Cornelius

Anita J. Court, Ph.D. Christopher L. Culp Barbara DeCoster Azile Dick James F. Drennan Robert L. Drinan, Jr. Daisy Driss William A. Dumbleton Evelyn Dyba Marian Edelstein Estelle Edlis Dr. Edward Elisberg Kelli Gardner Emery Joseph R. Ender Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson Leslie Fogel

Robert B. Fordham Herbert and Betty Forman

Richard Foster Elaine S. Frank Henry S. Frank

Florence Ganja Martin and Francey Gecht

Isak Gerson

Mrs. Willard Gidwitz Lyle Gillman Marvin Goldsmith William B. Graham

Richard Gray David Green Nancy Griffin Ann B. Grimes

Ernest A. Grunsfeld III

Betty and Lester Guttman A. William Haarlow III

CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret. Mrs. David J. Harris

Polly Heinrich Mary Mako Helbert

Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth

Mary Jo Hertel

Allen H. Howard

Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr. Barbara Isserman

Phyllis A. Jones

James Joseph Joseph M. Kacena

Stuart Kane

Jared Kaplan

Morris A. Kaplan

Roberta Kapoun

George Kennedy Esther G. Klatz

Russell V. Kohr

Karen Kuehner

Evelyn and Arnold Kupec

Rebecca Jarabak

Ruth Lucie Labitzke

Sadie Lapinsky

Caressa Y. Lauer

Arthur E. Leckner, Jr. Patricia Lee

Christine D. Letchinger

William C. Lordan

Tula Lunsford

Iris Maiter

Arthur G. Maling

Bella Malis

June Betty and Herbert S. Manning

Kathleen W. Markiewicz

Walter L. Marr III and Marilyn G. Marr

Eloise Martin

Virginia Harvey McAnulty

Helen C. McDougal, Jr. Lillian E. McLeod

Eunice H. McGuire

Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick Jack L. Melamed, M.D. Hugo J. Melvoin

Richard Menaul

Susan Messinger

Phillip Migdal

Kathryn and Edward Miller

Micki Miller

Gloria Miner

Beth Ann Alberding Mohr

Bill Moor

Charles A. Moore

Kathryn Mueller

Marietta Munnis

Leota Ann Meyer Murray

David H. Nelson

Helen M. Nelson

Sydelle Nelson

John and Maynette Neundorf

Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld

Raymond and Eloise Niwa

Joan Ruck Nopola

Carol Rauner O’Donovan

T. Paul B. O’Donovan Mary and Eric Oldberg

Bruce P. Olson

David G. Ostrow

Donald Peck

Mary Perlmutter

Charles J. Pollyea

Miriam Pollyea

Donald D. Powell

Samuel Press

Alfred and Maryann Putnam

Christine Querfeld

Ruth Ann Quinn

Walter Reed

Daniel Reichard

Bob Reiland

Paul H. Resnik

Sheila Taaffe Reynolds

Joan L. Richards

J. Timothy Ritchie

Dolores M. RixFanada

Virginia H. Rogers

Jill N. Rohde

Elaine Rosen

Ben J. Rosenthal

Anthony Ryerson

Beverly and Grover Schiltz

Richard Schieler

Erhardt Schmidt

Muriel Schnierow

Robert W. Schneider

Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr. Nancy Seyfried

Muriel Shaw

Mr. Morrell A. Shoemaker

Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure

Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel

Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel

Rita Simó and Tomás Bissonnette

Allen R. Smart

Walter Chalmers Smith

Peggy E. Smith-Skarry

Karen A. Sorensen

Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel

Vito Stagliano

Mrs. Zelda Star

Charles J. Starcevich

Curtis D. Stensrud

Helmut and Irma Strauss

Franklin R. St. Lawrence

Robert Sychowski

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Swanson

Ruth Miner Swislow

Robert Sychowski

Andrew and Peggy Thomson

J. Ross Thomson

Sue Tice

Beatrice B. Tinsley

C. Phillip Turner

Ted Utchen

Robert L. Volz

Lois and James Vrhel

Louise Benton Wagner

Michael Jay Walanka

Nancy L. Wald

Josephine Wallace

Laurie Wallach

Ann Dow Weinberg

Marco Weiss

Barbara Huth West

The Whateley Trust, in memory of Baron Whateley Max and Joyce Wildman Joyce Hadley Williams Arnold and Ann Wolff Ronald R. Zierer Rita A. Zralek

Tribute Program

The Tribute Program provides an 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 from June through November 2022.

MEMORIAL GIFTS

In memory of Theodore Asner

Barbara Asner Ms. Barbara J. Dwyer

In memory of Alfred Balandis Mr. Robert Callahan

In memory of Dr. Thomas F. Coad Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

In memory of Michael Cohen Mr. Gregg Mandell Antonella Sassano Mr. Mark Schechter

In memory of Gary A. Davis Dr. Steven Andes

In memory of Lynn B. Evans Mr.* & Mrs. Gershon Berg

In memory of Hazel S. Fackler Neil Fackler

In memory of Annie Louise Fuller Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin

In memory of Zave Gussin Mr. Nathan Kahn

In memory of Edwin Hochman Martyn Adelberg Sherry Caro Janet Ostrowski Mrs. Lydia A. Ronning Mr. & Mrs. Mark Stern

In memory of Wayne Janda Julia Janda

In memory of Jerry J. Kaganove Mrs. Arlene Kaganove

In memory of George N. Kohler Mr. David Curry

In memory of Ida O. Lessman Ms. Sylvia Lessman

In memory of Joan W. Levy Northern Trust Lee Ann Raikes Earl Rubinoff

In memory of Frank Little Ms. Peggy Ryan

In memory of Janelle Pepper Morse Mr. Robert Lockner

In memory of Patricia Grignet Nott, Dean of Students, New World Symphony Ms. Mary Walsh

In memory of Dr. George Pepper Mr. Tyson Bosier Mary D. Brawley Ms. Margaret Neff Sara Poss Julie Trost-Rekich Beth Walker

In memory of Charles Kingsley Perkins Ms. Susan Thomas

In memory of Duane C. Quaini Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk

In memory of Ruth Ann Quinn Neil Quinn

In memory of James (Jim) Reilly Mrs. Linda Moreen

In memory of Bennett Reimer Ms. Elizabeth A. Hebert

In memory of Cynthia Sargent Mr. David E. McNeel

In memory of Cindy Sargent COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)

In memory of Lee I. Schlesinger, from his friends Joe Gordon and Mark Bauer

In memory of John N. Seaton Ms. Janet Neiman Reed

In memory of David Shuman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Weiland

In memory of Joan Sims Edith and Hakim Lys Rex A. Marbach Emily and Alec Sims Aaron Weil

In memory of Frank S. So Ms. Deborah Huggett

In memory of Marjorie Stone Brookfield Stone Charitable Fund

In memory of Stephen Straus Ms. Caryl Lasko Mal and Mickey Poland

In memory of Raymond A. Sutter MaryAnne Himmes Judy Vito

In memory of Lynne and Ron Wachowski Ms. Peggy Ryan

In memory of Dr. Alan J. Ward, Ph.D., ABPP Ms. Louella Ward

In memory of Walter W. Whisler, M.D., Ph.D. Laura Whisler

In memory of Helen A. Woodruff Ms. Diane Brown

In memory of Dale E. Woolley Regina Janes and Charles Woolley

In memory of Erna Yackel Lisa Hack

In memory of Howard Zimmerman, with love Sandra and Hugh Silverberg

HONOR GIFTS

In honor of Dora and John Aalbregtse Sandra and Bob Morgan Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.

In honor of Jeffrey Alexander Mr. Dean Solomon

In honor of the Carey & Brett August Young Pianists Fund Mr. George Ucko

In honor of Marion Cameron and Doug Gray Anonymous

In honor of Robert Coad Diana and Richard Senior

In honor of Peter Conover, Principal Librarian Mr. John Thorne

In honor of Bill Donaldson Mr. David Oei

In honor of Eddie Druzinksy Mr. & Mrs. Barnaby Dinges

In honor of Hazel S. Fackler Neil Fackler

In honor of Judy Feldman Ms. Lynda Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Steven W. Scheibe

In honor of Karen Guerra Anonymous

In honor of Mr. John Hagstrom Ms. Susan Bridge

In honor of Margie Heyman Mrs. Doris Fine

In honor of Dr. C. T. Kang and Dr. Li-Yin Lin Christopher Kang

In honor of Howard Kastel Dr. & Mrs. Jordan Topel

In honor of Kordt Larsen Ms. Fran Faller

In honor of Chicago Symphony Orchestra Latino Alliance Henry Johanet

In honor of Roger May Harve Tucker

In honor of Patricia E. Meyers Thomas Meyers

In honor of Dennis Michel and David Griffin Ms. Polly Novak

In honor of Riccardo Muti Anonymous Ms. Kathryn Collier Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation

In honor of Frances (Hoppie) Penn Dr. David M. Asher Dr. Shirley Asher Brody Family Fund

In honor of Tom Philipsborn’s birthday Betty Philipsborn

In honor of John Sharp Mr. Eric Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Pan

In honor of The Shebik Family Howard and Julie Hayes Family Fund Mr. Robert Frisch Mrs. Christina Hwang

In honor of Susie Stein for her faithful support of the League of the CSOA and for serving as the best co-chair of Corporate Night 2022 Mr. & Mrs. David Weber

In honor of Patty Weber and Susie Stein Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews

Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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