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GRIEG
Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt, Op. 46
Morning Mood
Åse’s Death
Anitra’s Dance
In the Hall of the Mountain King
LUTOSŁAWSKI Cello Concerto
(in four movements, played without pause)
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RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 13
Grave—Allegro ma non troppo
Allegro animato
Larghetto
Allegro con fuoco
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COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher, Steven Stucky
EDVARD GRIEG
Born June 15, 1843; Bergen, Norway
Died September 4, 1907; Bergen, Norway
Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt, Op. 46
Peer Gynt made Grieg unexpectedly famous. Whenever he attended a performance of the play, he would find that he was applauded again and again throughout the evening for the music he had written to be included in Ibsen’s verse drama. Like Ravel and his Bolero, Grieg grew to resent the sweeping popularity of Peer Gynt—he later said that he wrote it only for the money, calling Ibsen’s play the “most unmusical of subjects.”
From the start, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg were mismatched, both in personality and artistic inclination, and the passage of time has only emphasized their differences: today Grieg has come to seem even tamer as a composer, while Ibsen is viewed as a kind of visionary. Ibsen approached Grieg, requesting incidental music for an 1876 production of his new drama (the letter, dated January 23, 1874, is a model of unfeeling formality: “I propose to adapt Peer Gynt, which is soon going into its third printing, for the stage. Will you compose the music that will be required?”). Although Grieg apparently agreed
COMPOSED
May 1874—September 1875 (incidental music) 1888 (Suite no. 1)
FIRST PERFORMANCE
February 24, 1876; Christiania (now Oslo), Norway
INSTRUMENTATION
2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, strings
APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME 13 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
April 15 and 16, 1892, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
November 30, December 1, 2, and 3, 2017, Orchestra Hall. John Storgårds conducting
this page, clockwise from top: Edvard Grieg, signed cabinet-card portrait, 1888, by Joseph Elliott (1835–1903) and Clarence Fry (1840–1897); London, England. Grieg Collection, Bergen Public Library, Norway Henrik Klausen (1844–1907) as the aged Peer Gynt for the play’s premiere at Christiania Theater in 1876. Photo by Ernst Emil Aubert, Oslo Museum, Norway Henrik Klausen as the young Peer Gynt and Sofie Parelius (1823–1902) as his mother Åse for the premiere of Henrik Ibsen’s play at Christiania Theater in 1876. Photo by Ernst Emil Aubert (1834–1913). Oslo Museum, Norway opposite page: Witold Lutosławski, portrait, 1972. Photo by Imagno/ Getty Images
without hesitation, he found writing the music slow-going and uninspiring. Neither man was entirely satisfied with the final product. But from 1876 on, their names were linked forever.
As Ibsen wrote to his publisher when he sent him the first three of the play’s five acts, Peer Gynt “was a real person who lived in the Gudbrandsdalen, probably around the end of the last century or the beginning of this one” (meaning sometime around 1800). Ibsen’s version follows him from young manhood to old age as he wanders several continents, after abandoning his wife Solveig in search of his innermost self. He returns four decades later to find her faithful and waiting. In Ibsen’s words, Peer’s grand adventure is “a process of spiritual liberation and catharsis.”
Grieg composed twenty-six numbers for the 1876 production—more than an hour of music. (Grieg’s original full score, long believed lost, was discovered in the 1980s.) He later arranged two suites of excerpts for the
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI
Born January 25, 1913; Warsaw, Poland
Died February 7, 1994; Warsaw, Poland
Cello Concerto
Witold Lutosławski is widely considered Poland’s greatest composer since Chopin. Born to an influential family of intellectuals and politicians in Warsaw in 1913, he studied violin and piano as a boy and began composing at the age of nine. He took mathematics at Warsaw University, but soon switched full time to music, studying composition under Witold Maliszewski, himself a student of Rimsky-Korsakov, and graduating from the Warsaw Conservatory in both piano (1936) and composition (1937).
concert hall, which—along with his enduring piano concerto, composed even earlier—continued to perpetuate his fame. (The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed the First Suite, the one played this week, during its very first season.)
Morning Mood (the prelude to act 4) depicts dawn over the North African desert. (Grieg said the sun breaks through at the first forte.) The death of Peer’s mother, Åse, is a somber dirge (act 3)—a lament for strings alone. In Anitra’s Dance (act 4), an Arab girl, whom Peer encounters during his wanderings in Africa, dances a “mazurka.” In the Hall of the Mountain King (act 2) finds the ruler of the trolls seeking vengeance on Peer for seducing one of their maidens (in Ibsen, the chorus cries “Kill him!”). Grieg found this insistent, ultimately hair-raising music so grotesque that he claimed he could barely stand to listen to it.
—Phillip Huscher
Lutosławski’s music can be thought of as falling into three style periods. Of the early works to about 1956, often summarized under the inadequate label “neoclassic,” the Paganini Variations for two pianos, the Concerto for Orchestra, and Musique funèbre are best known. Through much of this early period, he pursued two independent styles—one for functional music, often folk-inspired (Concerto for Orchestra), the other experimental and driven by an insatiable urge to perfect a personal, independent, modernist musical language (First Symphony, Overture for Strings, Musique funèbre). The turbulent events shaping Polish life in the first half of the century affected the composer’s life and music again and
again. He was taken prisoner by the German army early in the Second World War, later led a precarious existence in occupied Warsaw, and after the war was subjected to official censure by the Stalinist government in Poland for his modernist tendencies, an action that drove his experimental works underground.
Lutosławski’s middle period, from 1956 to 1979, likewise corresponds to a chapter in his country’s history, from the partial easing of political and artistic repression in the 1950s to the unrest that spawned the Solidarity movement twenty years later. The works from these years typically feature a limited use of chance techniques to create elaborately colorful rhythms combined with rich harmonies based chiefly on twelve-note chords. In these works, texture, instrumentation, and timbre often assume leading roles. After about 1979, however, Lutosławski adopted still another approach, now stressing thinner, simpler textures and harmonies, and lucid, even neoclassic melodic and rhythmic lines—elements that in turn create obvious connections with his early works. Among the best-known compositions of the late period are the monumental Third Symphony (commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and premiered here under Sir Georg Solti in 1983), the great violin works Partita (1984, for Pinchas Zukerman) and Chain 2 (1985, for Anne-Sophie Mutter, for whom Lutosławski was also writing an unfinished concerto at the time of his death), the Piano Concerto (1988, for Krystian Zimerman), and the Fourth Symphony (1992, for the Los Angeles Philharmonic).
It is already clear that a number of Lutosławski’s pieces, from each of his three style periods, have achieved that rare distinction for a late-twentieth-century composer: a secure place in the repertory. These would surely include Musique funèbre, Dance Preludes, the Concerto for Orchestra, the String Quartet, and the Third Symphony. The Piano Concerto and Fourth Symphony are showing signs of staying power, too. And—with such exponents as Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Natalia Gutman, Heinrich Schiff, and Lynn Harrell—the Cello Concerto has long been a staple of the cello repertory.
The idea of a cello concerto was planted by Rostropovich himself in the early 1960s, while the opportunity to realize it came in 1968 when a commission arrived from the Royal Philharmonic Society in London, supported by funds from the Gulbenkian Foundation. Work on the score occupied all of 1969 and the first part of 1970.
All the hallmarks of the middle-period style are at their peak in the concerto: the lively rhythmic textures, the masterly orchestral colors, the rich and complex harmonies, the deep urge for humane communication, and the flair for high
COMPOSED 1969–70
FIRST PERFORMANCE
October 14, 1970; London, England
INSTRUMENTATION
solo cello, 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 3 oboes, 3 clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, percussion (timpani, xylophone, frusta, tom-toms, vibraphone without motor, suspended cymbals, tam-tam, wood blocks, bass drum, tenor drums, chimes, tambourine), harp, piano, celesta, strings
APPROXIMATE
PERFORMANCE TIME 23 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
March 28, 29, 30, and April 2, 2002, Orchestra Hall. Lynn Harrell as soloist, Williams Eddins conducting
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
February 28, March 1, and 2, 2013, Orchestra Hall. Yo-Yo Ma as soloist, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting
drama. Indeed, it is “drama” that comes to mind in the Cello Concerto, driven in no small part by the outsize personality of its first protagonist. Lutosławski himself was always on guard against interpreting his works according to external programs; both by personal temperament and by philosophy he was an old-school defender of the notion of “absolute” music, in which all the meaning is embodied in the purely musical relationships. Yet in this work, extramusical associations are frankly unavoidable. The composer himself sent the solo part to Rostropovich page by page as the work progressed, with explanations couched largely in terms of a scenario in which the solo cello and orchestra confront each other as adversaries. This concept appealed strongly to the cellist, and he developed a deep identification with the dramatic persona represented in the solo part. The first performance was given by Rostropovich and the Bournemouth Symphony in London on October 14, 1970. Rostropovich was scheduled to repeat the work in Moscow in May 1971 and in Warsaw in September 1971, but outside events soon lent additional drama: in punishment for his defiant letter to Soviet authorities protesting the vilification of writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and recalling similar attacks on Shostakovich and Pasternak, Rostropovich was fired from his teaching post at the Moscow Conservatory and forbidden to travel, and the Moscow concert was canceled. Even when the Russian premiere finally took place in December 1972, greeted by a massive ovation in the concert hall, no mention of the concert was permitted in the Soviet press.
Lutosławski’s approach to the concerto genre was not to revive its traditional nineteenth-century rhetorical or formal patterns, but to reformulate its essential principles in an original way. Thus, although the solo part presents formidable technical challenges, it has no empty virtuosity for its own sake. There is no cadenza. The music runs without pause for about twenty-three minutes, but it falls into four clearly defined movements: an introductory monologue for the soloist; a series of dialogues between
the cellist and the orchestra; a slow movement; and finally, the “main event,” an extended finale. While (opening monologue aside) these movements reflect the usual fast-slow-fast pattern of older concertos, their functions have been drastically altered to suit Lutosławski’s rather different needs.
The introduction finds the cellist, as if an actor alone in an empty theater, musing absentmindedly to himself, trying on now one character, now another. Finally, he is interrupted by the brusque intrusion of trumpets playing what the composer called an “irascible” phrase. This very first utterance from the ranks of the orchestra serves immediate notice of the hostile, disruptive role the orchestra will assume—a role that will be fully developed later, in the dramatic confrontations of the finale. Though the cellist attempts to continue his soliloquy, the trumpets intrude again and again, erupting finally in an extended statement.
Now the cellist tries a different tack. Having failed to sustain his monologue, he tries to engage the orchestra in dialogue. Each of the four episodes that comprise this second movement unfolds in the same way: the cellist issues a kind of invitation in isolated pizzicato notes, and a colloquy ensues between soloist and small groups of instruments, at first halting but gradually becoming more fluent. Throughout these exchanges, the cellist continues to explore a kaleidoscopic range of manners, by turns gentle, brilliant, playful, pathetic, lyrical, comic. The brasses, excluded from these dialogues, continue to play the disruptive outside force, breaking in fortissimo to cut each episode short before it has fully developed. The last such intrusion, marking the end of the second movement, is an extended and virulent one like that which ended the introduction.
In the slow, expressive third movement, the orchestral strings join with the cellist in an eloquent cantilena of a type that Charles Bodman Rae has aptly called “the dolente [sorrowful] melody,” recognizable by its “sobbing” grace-note figures and its almost folk-song–like adherence to a few simple melodic intervals. (The form
COMMENTS
of this melody in the Cello Concerto became a prototype for similar melodies in a number of later works, including the Third Symphony.) In form, the slow movement is like a da capo aria: cantilena, contrasting middle section, return of the cantilena. The final string unison accelerates, becomes urgent, seems to bode a climax—but again is ruthlessly cut short, this time by the entire brass section, and the finale, in which the real action of the concerto will transpire, is rudely underway.
Now the other orchestral groups join in a series of attacks against the struggling soloist. Eventually the soloist mounts a furious countercharge, leading to a series of skirmishes in which
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Born April 1, 1873; Semyonovo, Russia
Died March 28, 1943; Beverly Hills, California
Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 13
smaller groups of instruments seem to taunt him. The orchestra, apparently victorious, reaches a climax, delivering eleven ferocious blows; vanquished, the cellist can only whimper in reply. Before the premiere, Rostropovich confessed to Lutosławski that he always wept during this passage. “It is my death,” he said. “But Slava,” replied the composer, “you will triumph in the end!” So he shall. For in the short coda the soloist rises, indomitable, ascending brilliantly from the bottom of his instrument to its very top, proclaiming with his final, insistent cries a transcendent message: the individual will to survive.
—Steven Stucky
Rachmaninov would have become famous if he had done nothing but play the piano. But his true aspiration was to become a composer. At the Moscow Conservatory, his teacher Nikolai Zverev encouraged him to stick to the piano instead of writing music and resented his taking composition classes with Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky. After Rachmaninov tried his hand at composing some piano pieces—he even started an opera, Esmeralda—he realized that he was unable to choose between composition and performance, and so ultimately decided to pursue both (eventually becoming a fine conductor as well).
In 1889, the year he and Zverev parted ways, he sketched and abandoned a piano concerto, but the one he began the following year is his first major work—the one that became his op. 1. This is the score that sealed his fate as a composer, and it was completed in a rush of passion and elation, with Rachmaninov working from five in the morning until eight in the evening and scoring the last two movements in just two and a half days. Rachmaninov played the first movement with orchestra in a concert of student works at the conservatory in March
COMPOSED 1895
FIRST PERFORMANCE
March 27, 1897; Saint Petersburg, Russia
INSTRUMENTATION
3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (triangle, cymbals, snare drum, bass drum, tam-tam), strings
APPROXIMATE
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FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
February 25, 26, 27, and March 2, 2010, Orchestra Hall. Gianandrea Noseda conducting
July 28, 2010, Ravinia Festival. James Conlon conducting
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
November 15, 17, and 18, 2018, Orchestra Hall; November 16, 2018, Edman Memorial Chapel, Wheaton College. Thomas Søndergård conducting
1892. (He played it with the Chicago Symphony when he made his debut in Orchestra Hall on December 3, 1909—the first of his eight appearances with the Orchestra.)
Rachmaninov quickly began to draw attention as a composer. The brooding piano prelude in C-sharp minor he composed in 1892, at the age of nineteen, immediately became the calling card of a young artist’s dreams (and eventually a burden as well: audiences wouldn’t let him leave the stage until he played the work he eventually referred to dismissively as “it”). In 1893 Tchaikovsky, who was already impressed with Rachmaninov’s talent, interrupted work on his final symphony, the Pathétique, to attend the premiere of Rachmaninov’s first opera, Aleko, based on Pushkin’s poem The Gypsies.
But the real mark of a nineteenth-century composer was the symphony. And so, at the age of twenty-two—and in the same decade as Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique, Brahms’s Fourth, Saint-Saëns’s Organ, Mahler’s First, Bruckner’s Eighth, and Dvořák’s New World—Rachmaninov set out to write a symphony. In truth, he had already tested the waters, first with an orchestral scherzo he wrote at the age of thirteen, then with an Allegro composed shortly after his first piano
concerto. He was now ready to join the company of the great romantic symphonists, and as he began a new symphony in D minor, he was filled with excitement and assurance. Work went well, ideas came to him swiftly, and his enthusiasm did not wane.
But with the premiere of his First Symphony in Saint Petersburg in 1897, under the baton of the composer Alexander Glazunov, Rachmaninov’s confidence and momentum—if not his entire career—suddenly seemed to fizzle. The performance must have been appalling—Rachmaninov called it “the most agonizing hour of my life.” He hid in a stairwell, with his hands over his ears. (Glazunov was later said to have been drunk when he walked onstage.) And the opening-night review, by composer César Cui (the only member of the so-called Russian Five whose music is never performed today), could hardly have been worse—the symphony, Cui concluded, “would have brought ecstasy to the inhabitants of hell.”
The audience response was scarcely warmer, though many listeners that night may have suspected what Rachmaninov had already learned the hard way: for all his prestige in Russian musical circles, Glazunov was a lousy conductor. “How could so great a musician as Glazunov
opposite page: Sergei Rachmaninov, at the piano, ca. 1910s | th is page, from left: Nikolai Zverev (1833–1893) with students, ca. 1880s: from left to right, Samuelson, Alexander Scriabin, Leonid Maximov, Sergei Rachmaninov, Chernyaev, Fyodor Kenemann, and Matvei Pressman | Friends Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), left, and Sergei Rachmaninov, ca. 1890
conduct so badly?” Rachmaninov later asked. “It is not even a question of his conducting technique, poor as that is, but of his musicianship; he beats time as if he had no feeling for music at all.” Nevertheless, the damage had been done, and Rachmaninov could not recover his nerve or his musical ambitions. Much later he recalled: “The despair that filled my soul would not leave me. My dreams of a brilliant career lay shattered. My hopes and confidence were destroyed.” Rachmaninov withdrew the symphony and refused to have it published, as if suppressing the score would also erase the memory.
For the next three years he wrote nothing— sketches for a new symphony were abandoned, and work on an opera, Francesca da Rimini, was shelved. He continued to perform, and even undertook a concert tour to London in 1898, but day after day, he found that he was unable to compose. As he grew more despondent, his friends began to recommend various remedies. Twice he visited Leo Tolstoy, once by himself and once with the bass Fyodor Chaliapin, hoping that contact with the great novelist would shake him out of his slump and jump-start his creativity, but the writer’s self-serving platitudes discouraged him even more. (“You must work,” Tolstoy told him. “I work every day.”) When he and Chaliapin performed one of Rachmaninov’s songs, Tolstoy wasted no words in conveying how much he disliked it.
Finally, fearing that Rachmaninov was trapped in a serious depression, his family suggested that he consult Dr. Nikolai Dahl, a Paris internist who had become a specialist in curing alcoholism through hypnosis. At the end of 1899, after months of almost daily sessions, Rachmaninov was again able to face the challenge of writing a large-scale orchestral work, and he began a new piano concerto. But, even with the wild success of his Second Piano Concerto—one of the most popular and beloved works in the form—the idea of composing a symphony still haunted and terrified him. When he did unveil a second symphony, ten years after the First, Rachmaninov swore it would be his last. Then, twenty-eight years later, he started work on the
Third Symphony that did, in fact, turn out to be the final one of his career.
The four movements of Rachmaninov’s First Symphony are unified by a single idea, introduced immediately after the slow introduction to the first movement, that echoes the shape of the Dies irae—the familiar melody from the sequence for the Gregorian Mass for the Dead that would recur in several of Rachmaninov’s most important works over the years, including The Isle of the Dead. Each of the subsequent movements opens with a reference to this motto. The second-movement scherzo is fleet and lightfooted. The expansive Larghetto is the prototype of the great slow movements in the symphonies and concertos yet to come. The finale is grand, festive, occasionally flamboyant, and sometimes menacing, and here Rachmaninov’s signature melody comes closest to actually quoting the Dies irae theme. The entire score is strong, highly individual, and self-assured. It is the work of a young talent overflowing with ideas, not an artist paralyzed by failure.
Although Rachmaninov never destroyed his score of the First Symphony, leaving it behind when he left Russia to settle in the West, eventually it was given up for lost. After the composer’s death, a two-piano transcription of the symphony surfaced in Moscow, followed by a set of orchestral parts at the conservatory in Saint Petersburg. In March 1945 the symphony was performed in Moscow for the first time since its 1897 premiere. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra played it for the first time in February 2010.
—Phillip Huscher
Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.
Steven Stucky (1949–2016) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and author of Lutosławski and His Music. Stucky’s Pinturas de Tamayo (Paintings of Tamayo) was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and given its world premiere in Orchestra Hall under Michael Gielen on March 28, 1996.
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Wayne J. Holman III
Fred E. Holubow †
Mr. James Holzhauer
Carol Honigberg
Janice L. Honigberg
Mrs. Nancy A. Horner
Mrs. Arnold Horween
Frances G. Horwich
Dr. Mary L. Houston
Patricia J. Hurley
Michael Huston
Barbara Ann Huyler
Ms. Sandra Ihm
Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs
Dr. Todd Janus
John Jawor
Ms. Justine Jentes
Brian Johnson
George E. Johnson
Raymonda 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. Leonard Klein
Dr. Elaine H. Klemen
Carol Evans Klenk
Mrs. Janet Knauff
Mr. Henry L. Kohn
Evangel A. Kokkino
Dr. Mark Kozloff
Dr. Michael Krco
Eldon Kreider
David Kreisman
MaryBeth Kretz
Dr. Vinay Kumar
Mr. Rubin Kuznitsky
Mr. John LaBarbera
Dr. Lynda Lane
Frederick and Virginia Langrehr
Stephen and Maria Lans
William J. Lawlor III
Sunhee Lee
Dr. Anu Leemann
Dean Leff
Jonathon Leik
Sheila Fields Leiter
Jeffrey Lennard
Zafra Lerman
Jerrold Levine
Laurence H. Levine
Mrs. Bernard Leviton
Gregory M. Lewis
Carolyn Lickerman
Mrs. Paul Lieberman
Jane Loeb
Gabrielle Long
Amy Lubin
Anna Lysakowski
Carol MacArthur
Mrs. Duncan MacLean
Jacen Maleck
Dr. Michael S. Maling
Sharon L. Manuel
David A. Marshall
Judith Partipilo Marth
Patrick A. Martin
Ryan Martin
BeLinda I. Mathie
Charles McCall
Scott McCue
Ann Pickard McDermott
Dr. James L. McGee
Dr. John P. McGee †
Mrs. Lester McKeever
John A. McKenna
Mrs. Peter McKinney
James Edward McPherson
Sheila Medvin
Mr. Paul Meister
Dr. Ellen Mendelson
Mara Mills Barker
Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery
David H. Moscow
John H. Mugge
Daniel R. Murray
Mr. Stuart C. Nathan
Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr.
Edward A. Nieminen
Dr. Zehava L. Noah
Kenneth R. Norgan
Martha C. Nussbaum
William A. Obenshain
Shelley Ochab
Maria Ochs
Mrs. James J. O’Connor
Eric Oesterle
Wallace Olliver
Mrs. Katherine Olson
Joy O’Malley
Michael Oman
Kathleen Field Orr
Mr. Gerald A. Ostermann
James J. O’Sullivan, Jr.
Bruce L. Ottley
Pamela Papas
Mr. Bruno A. Pasquinelli
Mr. Timothy J. Patenode
Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Michael Payette
Mrs. Richard S. Pepper †
Jean E. Perkins
Mr. Michael A. Perlstein
Bonnie Perry
Dr. William Peruzzi
Robert C. Peterson
Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.
Sue N. Pick †
Betsey N. Pinkert
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
Harvey R. Plonsker
Mr. John F. Podjasek, III
Andrew Porte
Charlene H. Posner
Stephen Potter
Carol Prins
Elizabeth H. Pritchard
Maridee Quanbeck
Stephen K. Racker
Mrs. Lynda Rahal
Diana Mendley Rauner
Susan Regenstein
Mari Yamamoto Regnier
Mary Thomson Renner
Hilda Richards
Burton R. Rissman
Charles T. Rivkin
Carol Roberts
Mr. John H. Roberts
William Roberts
David Robin
Dr. Diana Robin
Chauncey H. Robinson
Bob Rogers
Kevin M. Rooney
Harry J. Roper
Saul Rosen
Sheli Z. Rosenberg
Dr. Ricardo T. Rosenkranz
Michael Rosenthal
Doris Roskin
Lisa Ross
Jean Rothbarth
Maija Rothenberg
Helen Rubenstein
Roberta H. Rubin
Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz
Sandra K. Rusnak
David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg
Richard O. Ryan
Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan
Dr. Christine Rydel
Norman K. Sackar
Anthony Saineghi
Mr. Agustin G. Sanz
Inez Saunders
Libby Savner
Karla Scherer
David M. Schiffman
Judith Feigon Schiffman
Rosa Schloss
Al Schriesheim
Elizabeth Schroeder
Donald L. Schwartz
Susan H. Schwartz
Dr. Penny Bender Sebring
Chandra Sekhar
Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior
Ilene W. Shaw
Pam Sheffield
James C. Sheinin, M.D.
Richard W. Shepro
Jessie Shih
Junia Shlaustas
Caroline Orzac Shoenberger
Stuart Shulruff
Adele Simmons
Linda Simon
Mr. Larry Simpson
Craig Sirles
Miyam Slater
Christine A. Slivon
Valerie Slotnick
Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.
Charles F. Smith
Louise K. Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Stephen R. Smith
Mrs. Ralph Smykal
Naomi Pollock and David Sneider
Diane Snyder
Kimberly Snyder
Kathleen Solaro
Ms. Elysia M. Solomon
Dr. Stuart Sondheimer
Orli Staley
William D. Staley
Helena Stancikas
Grace Stanek
Ms. Denise M. Stauder
Leonidas Stefanos
Penelope Steiner
Mrs. Richard J. Stern
Liz Stiffel
Mr. John Stover
Mary Stowell
Lawrence E. Strickling
Patricia Study
Cheryl Sturm
BISCO Foundation
Mrs. Robert Szalay
Mr. Gregory Taubeneck
Chris Thomas
James E. Thompson
Dr. Robert Thomson
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
Joan Thron
David Timm
Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr.
William R. Tobey, Jr. †
Bruce Tranen †
James M. (Mack) Trapp
John T. Travers
David Trushin
Dr. David A. Turner
Robert W. Turner
Janet Underwood
Zalman Usiskin
Mrs. James D. Vail III
John Van Horn
Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice
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
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Jeffrey J. Webb
Mrs. Jacob Weglarz
Chickie Weisbard
Richard Weiss
Robert G. Weiss
Dr. Marc Weissbluth
Rebecca West
Carmen Wheatcroft
Leah Williams
M.L. Winburn
Peter Wolf
Laura Woll
Joseph Wolnski
Dr. Hak Yui Wong
Courtenay R. Wood
Michael H. Woolever
Ms. Debbie Wright
Nancy G. Wulfers
Ronald Yonover
Owen Youngman
Priscilla Yu
David J. Zampa
Dr. John P. Zaremba
Karen Zupko
For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.
† Deceased
Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
Corporate Partners
MAESTRO RESIDENCY PRESENTER Bank of America
OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO
United Airlines
$100,000–$199,999
Abbott Fund
Allstate Insurance Company
CIBC Private Wealth
Citadel and Citadel Securities
ITW
Northern Trust
$50,000–$99,999
Abbott Anonymous (1)
BMO
DIOR
Jenner & Block LLP
PNC Bank
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
$25,000–$49,999
AAR CORP.
Altair Advisers LLC
Anonymous (1)
Kinder Morgan
Latham & Watkins LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
S&C Electric Company Fund
Sidley Austin LLP
Walgreens
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
$10,000–$24,999
ADM
Deloitte
Gage Hospitality Group
GCM Grosvenor
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Huron Consulting Group
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
McGuireWoods LLP
McKinsey & Company
Millennium Garages
Peoples Gas Community Fund
TravTours, Inc.
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
$5,000–$9,999
Ariel Investments
Baird
Dentons
Fellowes, Inc.
Global Verification Network
Italian Village Restaurants
Mars Snacking
Scott Byron & Co., Inc.
Segal Consulting
The Law Offices of Jonathan N. Sherwell
Starshak & Winzenburg
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
$1,000–$4,999
American Agricultural Insurance Company
Amsted Industries Incorporated
AspireUp
Central Building & Preservation L.P.
Chicago Blackhawks Foundation
DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.
Nascar Events and Entertainment, LLC
Parkway Elevators
Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation
Show Services
Smith Hulsey & Busey
Foundations and Government Agencies
$100,000 AND ABOVE
Julius N. Frankel Foundation
JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation
The Negaunee Foundation
Sargent Family Foundation
TAWANI Foundation
Zell Family Foundation
$50,000–$99,999
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
The Brinson Foundation
The Chicago Community Trust
Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
Leslie Fund, Inc.
Sally Mead Hands Foundation
Illinois Arts Council
National Endowment for the Arts
Polk Bros. Foundation
$25,000–$49,999
Crain-Maling Foundation
The Crown Family
Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation
John R. Halligan Charitable Fund
Irving Harris Foundation
Bowman C. Lingle Trust
The Maval Foundation
Pritzker Traubert Foundation
Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation
$10,000–$24,999
Anonymous
Barker Welfare Foundation
Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation
The Buchanan Family Foundation
The Clinton Family Fund
Darling Family Foundation
William M. Hales Foundation
Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation
The George L. Shields Foundation
$5,000–$9,999
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music
The Allyn Foundation, Inc.
Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation
Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation
Hoellen Family Foundation
Hunter Family Foundation
Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation
Kovler Family Foundation
E. Nakamichi Foundation
Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation
Dr. Scholl Foundation
$1,000–$4,999
Franklin Philanthropic Foundation
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 October 2024. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.
$150,000 AND ABOVE
Anonymous
Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin
Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel and Citadel Securities
Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes
Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation
Margot and Josef Lakonishok
The Negaunee Foundation
COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)
Megan and Steve Shebik
Gene and Jean Stark
Zell Family Foundation
SEMPRE
This $175 million fundraising effort provides the secure footing needed to promote the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s preeminent role as a cultural icon showcasing musical brilliance, leadership, and innovation. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the generous donors who have shown tremendous support for this strategic initiative. Contact Al Andreychuk at 312-294-3150 for more information.
$20,000,000 AND ABOVE
Zell Family Foundation
The Negaunee Foundation
$10,000,000–$19,999,999
The Grainger Foundation TAWANI Foundation
$5,000,000–$9,999,999
Anonymous
Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation
Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz
$2,500,000–$4,999,999
Anonymous
Mary Louise Gorno
Estate of Esther G. Klatz
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Megan and Steve Shebik
Richard and Helen Thomas
$1,000,000–$2,499,999
Anonymous (3)
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck
Ann Blickensderfer and Roger Blickensderfer
Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown
Kay Bucksbaum
Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock
Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert
Michael and Kathleen Elliott
Erika Gross
Estates of Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak
Jim † and Kay Mabie
Estate of Gloria Miner
The Oberman Family Charitable Trust
Cathy and Bill Osborn
Judith and Paul Tuszynski
Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger
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
D & R Charitable Fund
The Davee Foundation
David and Janet Fox
Howard Gottlieb †
ITW
Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley
Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg
Betty W. Smykal*
Laura and Terrence Truax^
$250,000–$499,999
Anonymous
Ruth and Roger Anderson
Family Foundation
Wayne D. and Nancy M. Boberg
Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car
George and Minou Colis
Nancy Dehmlow
Mimi Duginger
Alice and Richard Godfrey
Jennifer Amler Goldstein, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein
Merle L. Jacob
Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman
James and Renée Metcalf
Estate of Donald V. Peck
Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Susan and Bob Wislow
Estate of Rita Zralek
$100,000–$249,999
Cynthia Bates* in honor of Kevin Rock
Merrill and Judy Blau
William A. and Anne Goldstein
Timothy and Joyce Greening*
John Hart and Carol Prins
Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson
Mr. † & Mrs. Paul R. Judy
Judy and Scott McCue
Estate of Donald Powell
Andra and Irwin Press
Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy
Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark
Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern
Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.
Thierer Family Foundation
Penny and John Van Horn
Craig and Bette Williams
Mr. Gifford Zimmerman
UP TO $100,000
Jeff and Keiko Alexander
Patricia Ames
Peter and Elise Barack
Ms. Elizabeth Berry^ and Mr. Philip S. Revzin
Lizbeth Branch^
Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor
Ms. Vera Capp*
Charles and Carol Emmons*
Judith E. Feldman^
Mrs. Donna Fleming^
Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall
Robert D. Gecht
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Mr. Graham C. Grady
The Heestand Foundation
Karen and Neil Kawashima
Ms. Geraldine Keefe
Anne Kern
Tom and Betsy Kilroy
Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson
Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin*
Mr. David E. McNeel
James Edward McPherson*
Mr. Robert Meeker
Dr. Sharon D. Michalove
John H. Mugge
Mr. Daniel R. Murray
Sarah and Wallace Oliver*
Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan*
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein
Charlene H. Posner*
Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel
Ms. Carol Roberts*
Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi
James S. Rostenberg
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †^
Ms. Courtney Shea^
Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons*
Ms. Lynn B. Singer^
Cheryl Sturm^
Dr. Catherine L. Webb*
Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung*
Ms. Karen Zupko*
*Commitment to the Governing Members Chair, a collective initiative to sponsor a revolving musician chair of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
^Commitment to the Women’s Board Guest Artist Endowment Fund, which will annually support the appearance of a guest artist, conductor, or composer.
† Deceased
$100,000–$149,000
Anonymous (4)
Nancy Dehmlow
Michael and Kathleen Elliott
Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim
James and Brenda Grusecki
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz
Ruth Ann and Neil K. Quinn Family
Ms. Cecelia Samans
$75,000–$99,999
John Hart and Carol Prins
Cathy and Bill Osborn
Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation
Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
$50,000–$74,499
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV
Mrs. Janet R. Bauer
Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz
Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin
Kay Bucksbaum †
Dean L. and Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation
Dr. Eugene F. and Mrs. SallyAnn D. Fama
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Frances and Franklin † Horwich
Ms. Geraldine Keefe
Judy and Scott McCue
Ms. Deborah K. McNeil
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †
Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation
Sidley Austin LLP
Michael and Linda Simon
Liz Stiffel
Ms. Beth Ann Waite
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
$35,000–$49,999
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Mr. Roderick Branch
Mr. & Mrs. Johannes Burlin
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Mr. Philip Darling
Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation
Mr. Collier Hands
Ms. Renee Metcalf
Charles Morcom
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley
Ms. Martha C. Nussbaum
Margo and Michael Oberman
Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow
Walter and Kathleen Snodell
Ms. Lisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt
Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas
David and Marsha Woodhouse
Mr. Gifford Zimmerman
$25,000–$34,999
Anonymous
Nancy A. Abshire
Altair Advisers LLC
Sharon and Charles † Angell
Carey and Brett August
Peter and Elise Barack
Julie and Roger Baskes
Patricia and Laurence Booth
Robert J. Buford
Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray
Mr. & Dr. George Colis
Mrs. Barbara Flynn Currie
Mr. Stephen V. D’Amore
Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson
Ms. Ann Drake
Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy
Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.
Ellen and Paul Gignilliat
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg
William A. and Anne Goldstein
Mary Louise Gorno
Howard L. Gottlieb † and Barbara G. Greis
Mr. Graham C. Grady
Ms. Helen Han
Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris
Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson
Mr. John Holmes
Ronald B. Johnson
Karen and Neil Kawashima
Ms. Donna L. Kendall
Tom and Betsy Kilroy
Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson
Susan and Rick Levy
Mr. & Mrs. Vikram Luthar
Ms. Britt Miller
Daniel R. Murray
John D. † and Alexandra C. Nichols
Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation
Dr. Mohan Rao
Susan Regenstein
Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch
Melissa and Joseph Root
Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi
Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy
Shure Charitable Trust
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan
Thierer Family Foundation
TravTours, Inc.
Laura and Terrence Truax
Craig and Bette Williams
Susan and Bob Wislow
Ms. Ann Marie Wright
$20,000–$24,499
Anonymous (2)
Nancy and Bernard Dunkel
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe
Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans
Mary and Lionel Go
Richard and Alice Godfrey
Mary Winton Green
Halasyamani/Davis Family
Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman
Anne and John † Kern
Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family
Mr. † & Mrs. John Lillard
Mr. Philip Lumpkin
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
D. Elizabeth Price
Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro
Dr. Marylou Witz
$15,000–$19,999 Anonymous (3)
Fraida and Bob Aland
Merrill and Judy Blau
Fred and Phoebe Boelter
Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown
Robert D. Carone
Joyce Chelberg
Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund
Sue and Jim Colletti
John and Fran Edwardson
Anthony and Karin Gambell
Sue and Melvin Gray
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy
Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz
Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard
Mr. & Mrs. David Hilliard
Mrs. Janet Kanter †
Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Klein
Stephen and Maria Lans
Ms. Betsy Levin
Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin
Mr. David E. McNeel
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery
Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli
Family Foundation
Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick
LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor
Andra and Irwin Press
Jerry Rose
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern
Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft
Penny and John Van Horn
$11,500–$14,999
Jeff and Keiko Alexander
Ann and Richard Carr
Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford
Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan
Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng
Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall
Jim † and Kay Mabie
The Osprey Foundation
Leslie and Tom Silverstein
Carol S. Sonnenschein
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson
Ksenia A. and Peter Turula
Caroline Foulke Wettersten
$7,500–$11,499
Anonymous (4)
Ms. Patti Acurio
Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein
Mr. Robert C. Austin and Dr. Kathryn C. Gamble
Ms. Judith Barnard
Mrs. Gail Belytschko
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck
Arnie and Ann Berlin
Mr. † & Mrs. Dennis Black
Cassandra L. Book
John and Suzanne Borland
Adam Bossov
Janet S. Boyer
Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen
Ms. Danolda Brennan
Mr. Ray Capitanini
Patricia A. Clickener
Dr. Thomas H. Conner
Mr. Lawrence Corry
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian
Mr. Marc DeMoss
Mimi Duginger
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood
Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III
Charles and Carol Emmons
Mr. Fred Eychaner
Judith E. Feldman
Ms. Hazel Fisher
Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin
Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman
Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone
Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon
Richard † and Mary L. Gray
Pati and O.J. † Heestand
Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson III
Fred † and Sandra Holubow
Tex and Susan Hull
Merle L. Jacob
Howard E. Jessen Family Trust
Ms. Librada Killian
Klein Family Fund
Dr. June Koizumi
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck
Ms. Margaret Kuhajek
Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler
Sheila Fields Leiter
Mr. Jeffrey Lennard
Mr. Michael Leppen
Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation
Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman
Mrs. Gabrielle Long
Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl
Judith Partipilo Marth
Dr. Ellen Mendelson
Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley
Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor
Emilie Morphew, M.D.
Edward and Gayla Nieminen
Ms. Susan Norvich
Mary and Joseph Plauché
Charlene H. Posner
Harper Reed
Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman
Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan
Mr. Agustin G. Sanz
David and Judy Schiffman
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl
Joan and George Segal
Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil
Diana and Richard Senior
David and Judith L. Sensibar
The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation
Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho
Julia M. Simpson
Cheryl Sturm
Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
John T. and Carrie M. Travers
Mr. David J. Varnerin
Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
Rebecca West
M.L. Winburn
Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers
$4,500–$7,499
Anonymous (9)
Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow
Cat Anderson
Megan P. and John L. Anderson
Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews
Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei
David and Suzanne Arch
Dr. & Mrs. Kent Armbruster
Joseph Bartush
Sandra Bass
Deborah Baughman
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Bedford
Mr. Ken Belcher
Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof
Jim † and Dianne Blanco
Ann Blickensderfer
Kovler Family Foundation
Mr. Edward Boehm III
Mr. Donald Bouseman
Ms. Jill Brennan
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Breu
Cindy Marie Brito and Anthony Costello
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum
Scott Byron & Co.
Ms. Lutgart Calcote
Ms. Vera Capp
Wendy Alders Cartland
Mia Celano and Noel Dunn
Mr. & Mrs. Candelario Celio
Margery al Chalabi
Mr. James Chamberlain
Linton J. Childs
Ms. Jue H. Chung
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy
Nancy J. Clawson
Ms. Jean Cocozza
David Colburn
E. and V. Combs Foundation
Mrs. Taylor Corbitt and Mr. Christopher Sweeney
Nancy R. Corral
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux
R. Bert Crossland
Daniel Cyganowski and Judith Metzger
Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta
Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph DiBello
Janet Wood Diederichs
Mr. William Dietz, Jr.
Mr. Doug Donenfeld
Ms. Phyllis Dougherty
Ingrid and Richard Dubberke
Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert
Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten
Thomas Eller
Mr. Matthew Ellison
Mr. & Mrs. Victor Elting III
Scott and Lenore Enloe
Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D.
Neil Fackler
Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein
Hector Ferral, M.D.
John and Geraldine Fiedler
Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad
Mr. Conrad Fischer
Dean and Jenny Fischer
Leo and Kim Flynn
David and Janet Fox
Arthur L. Frank, M.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann
Susan and Paul Freehling
Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson
Camillo and Arlene Ghiron
Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco
Judy and Bill Goldberg
Lyn Goldstein
Mary and Michael Goodkind
Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French
Hanna H. Gray
Ms. Freddi Greenberg
Timothy and Joyce Greening
Dr. Jerri E. Greer
Jacalyn Gronek
Mr. Dongqi Guo
Anastasia and Gary † Gutting
Stephanie and Howard Halpern
Anne Marcus Hamada
Mrs. John M. Hartigan
Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan
Dr. Dane Hassani
James and Lynne † Heckman
Mr. Hirad Hedayat
Mr. Dale C. Hedding
Scott Helm
Ms. Dawn E. Helwig
Dr. † & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst
Marjorie Friedman Heyman
The Hickey Family Foundation
William B. Hinchliff
Richard † and Joanne Hoffman
Ms. Patricia Hurley
Frances and Phillip Huscher
Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins
Mr. & Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu
Ian and Valerie Jacobs
Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin
Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus
Mr. John Jawor
Dr. & Mrs. Hulon Johnson
Dr. Patricia Collins Jones
Mr. † & Mrs. Saul Kadin
Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck
Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans
Barry D. Kaufman
Peter and Stephanie Keehn
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser
Dr. Elaine Klemen
Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk
Mr. Thomas Kmetko
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin
Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn
Evangel Kokkino and Francesca Johns
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff
Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar
Mr. William Lawlor, III
Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann
Ms. Zafra Lerman
Averill and Bernard † Leviton
Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek
Mr †. and Mrs. Howard Lickerman
The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust
Dr. Anna Lysakowski
Jacen Maleck
Francine R. Manilow
Sharon L. Manuel
Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez
Dr. & Mrs. Walter Massey
Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag
Charles and Clara McCall
Dr. & Mrs. James McGee
Bill McIntosh
John and Etta McKenna
Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney
Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey
Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.
Jim and Ginger Meyer
Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad
Paul and Robert Barker Foundation
Dr. Katherine L. Griem
Stephen and Rumi Morales
Mrs. Frank Morrissey
Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek
John H. Mugge
Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl
Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman
David † and Dolores Nelson
Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar
Kenneth R. Norgan
Mark and Gloria Nusbaum
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs
Eric and Carolyn Oesterle
Mr. Timothy J. Patenode
Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. † Ray Pensinger
Dr. William Peruzzi
Mr. Robert Peterson
Mr. Paul Phillips, Jr. † and Mr. Lloyd Palmiter
Lee Ann and Savit Pirl
Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker
Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte
Mrs. Mary Jo Potts and Mr. Jim Selsor
John and Merry Ann Pratt
Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett
Mrs. Lynda Rahal
Dr. Hilda Richards
Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards
Ms. Carol Roberts
William and Cheryl Roberts
Dr. Diana Robin
Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen
Mr. John W. Rogers, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen
Michael Rosenthal
D.D. Roskin
Ms. Lisa Ross
Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi
Maija Rothenberg
Ms. Roberta H. Rubin
Tina and Buzz Ruttenburg
Anthony Saineghi
Mr. David Sandfort
Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht
Mr. † and Mrs. Nathan Schloss
Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz
Ruth Grant and Howard Schwartz
Mrs. Junia Shlaustas
Alan and Margaret Silberman
Ms. Ann Silberman
Mr. Larry Simpson
Lynn B. Singer
Craig Sirles
Valerie Slotnick
Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.
Louise K. Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith
Naomi Pollock and David Sneider
In Memory of Timothy Soleiman
Elysia M. Solomon
Mrs. Linda Spain
Robert and Emily Spoerri
Helena Stancikas
Ms. Denise Stauder
Dr. Dusan Stefoski, M.D. and Mr. Craig Savage
Carol D. Stein
Penelope R. Steiner
Roger † and Susan Stone
Family Foundation
Ms. Donna L. Strand
Ms. Minsook Suh
Mr. Chris Thomas
Mr. James Thompson
David and Beth Timm
Ayana Tomeka
Bruce † and Jan Tranen
James M. and Carol Trapp
Joan and David Trushin
Dr. & Mrs. David Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner
Judith and Paul Tuszynski
Mr. Peter Vale
Jim and Cindy Valtman
Mr. † & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice
Mr. James Vardiman
Henrietta Vepstas
Dr. Michael Viglione
Charles Vincent
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung
Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz
Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman
Mr. Louis Weiss
Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss
Marc Weissbluth in memory of Linda Weissbluth
Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft
Ms. Lois Wolff
Mr. Joseph Wolnski and Ms. Jane Christino
Dr. Hak Wong
Ms. Debbie Wright
Mari Yamamoto Regnier
Ms. Janice Young
Owen and Linda Youngman
David and Eileen Zampa
Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba
Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross
Ms. Karen Zupko
$3,500–$4,499
Anonymous
Ms. Doris Angell
Mrs. Barbara Asner
Ms. Marlene Bach
Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block
Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr
Ms. Anne Chien
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clusen
Joe and Judy Cosenza
Ms. Sarah Crane
Ms. Louise Dixon
Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III
Ms. Sarah Good
Hill and Cheryl Hammock
Dr. Robert A. Harris
Ms. JoAnn Joyce
Ms. Ethelle Katz
Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt
Dr. Michael Krco
Mr. Laurance C. Martin
Margaret and Michael McCoy
Ms. Claretta Meier
Miss Marija Michalczyk
Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.
Noteable Notes Music Academy/ Wheaton, IL
Rita Petretti
Mary Rafferty
Dorothy V. Ramm
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig
Gerald and Barbara Schultz
Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields
Jack and Barbara Simon
Joel and Beth Spenadel
Laurence and Caryn Straus
Ms. Joanne Tremulis
Eric Vaang
Hilary and Barry Weinstein
Ms. Mary Zeltmann
Ms. Camille Zientek
Mike Zimmerman
$2,500–$3,499 Anonymous (4)
Mr. Frank Ackerman
Dr. & Mrs. Carl H. Albright
Ms. Sharon Alter
Mrs. Evelyn Alter
Catherine Baker and Timothy Kent
Connor Ballgae
Larry and Sarah Barden
Ms. Barbara Barzansky
Ms. Patricia Bayerlein
Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin
Mr. James Borkman
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener
Chris Brezil
Ms. Susan Bridge
Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman
Linda S. Buckley
Mr. & Mrs. John Butler
Curtis W. Cassel
Ms. Margaret Chaplan †
Lisa Chessare
Ms. Melinda Cheung
Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes
Mr. Robert Cook
Mr. John Crosby
Mr. Frank R. Davis III
Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker
Mr. Matthew Denk
Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung
Mrs. Kelli Gardner Emery † and Mr. Peter Emery
Debra Fienberg
Sandra E. Fienberg
Ms. Nona Flores
Ms. Irene Fox
Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson
Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III
James and Rebecca Gaebe
Jane Gaines and Andy Kenoe
Ms. Nancy Garfien
Mr. Stanford Goldblatt
Isabelle Goossen
Merle Gordon
Dr. & Mrs. Alan Graham
Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory
Mrs. and Mr. Christina Greviskes
Mr. Adam Grymkowski
Suzanne Hales
Ronald and Diane Hamburger
Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman
Grant P. Haugen
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick
Ms. Nancy Hess
James and Megan Hinchsliff
Ms. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph Doherty
Dr. & Mrs. James Holland
Mr. Stephen Holmes
Mr. & Mrs. R. Howell, Jr.
Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton
Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin
Joshua and Faye Jacobs
Ms. Kathleen Jordan
Daniel P. and Barbara J. Justus
Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan
Mr. Thomas Lad
Ms. Pamela Larsen
Jules M. Laser
Ms. Leah Laurie
Dona Le Blanc
Mr. Jonathon Leik
Mr. Philip Lesser
Sherry and Mel Lopata
Ronald and Carlotta Lucchesi
Ms. Janice Magnuson
Mr. Timothy Marshall
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass
Igor and Olga Matlin
Mr. Donald P. Maves
Ms. Marilyn Mccoy
Rosa and Peter McCullagh
Mr. Charles McKee
Mr. Zarin Mehta
Ms. Maryrose Murphy
Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.
Mrs. Janis Notz
Dr. Linda Novak
Marjory Oliker
Mrs. Ann Oros
Peg Gould and Howard Owen
Kingsley Perkins †
Mrs. Victorina Peterson
Mr. † & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn
Richard Phillips
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper
Dr. Susan Rabe
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker
Ms. Constance Rajala
Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel
Mr. Jeffrey Rappin
Dr. Jennifer Reenan
Patricia Richter
Dr. Anita Robbins
Charles Peter Rogers M.D.
Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross
Mrs. Martha Sabransky † and Dr. Paul Glickman
JF Sarwark M.D.
Michael and Judith Sawyier
Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin
Shirley and John † Schlossman
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza
Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott
Mary and Charles M. † Shea
Carolyn M. Short
Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein
Mr. Michael Sprinker
Carole Stone and Arthur Susman
Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.
Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft
Ms. Alison Thomas
Margaret Trumbull
Mr. John Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Allan Vagner
Ms. Ellen Werner
Mr. Howard White
Mr. Eric Wicks and Ms. Linda Baker
Robert J. Wilczek † and Shirley Pfenning
Jennifer D. Williams
Mr. Kenneth Witkowski
Barbara and Steven Wolf
Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Negaunee Music Institute connects individuals and communities to the extraordinary musical resources of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The following donors are gratefully acknowledged for making a gift in support of these educational and engagement programs. To make a gift or learn more, please contact Kevin Gupana, Associate Director of Giving, Educational and Engagement Programs, 312-294-3156.
$150,000 AND ABOVE
Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation
The Negaunee Foundation
$100,000–$149,999
Abbott Fund
Allstate Insurance Company
Megan and Steve Shebik
$75,000–$99,999
John Hart and Carol Prins
Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation
$50,000–$74,999
Anonymous BMO
Robert and Joanne Crown Income
Charitable Fund
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Judy and Scott McCue
Ms. Deborah K. McNeil
Polk Bros. Foundation
Michael and Linda Simon
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
$35,000–$49,999
Bowman C. Lingle Trust
National Endowment for the Arts
$25,000–$34,999
Anonymous
Carey and Brett August
Crain-Maling Foundation
Nancy Dehmlow
Kinder Morgan
The Maval Foundation
Margo and Michael Oberman
Ms. Cecelia Samans
Shure Charitable Trust
Gene and Jean Stark
$20,000–$24,999
Anonymous
Mary and Lionel Go
Halasyamani/Davis Family
Illinois Arts Council Agency
Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family
Mr. Philip Lumpkin
PNC
D. Elizabeth Price
Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation
The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.
Dr. Marylou Witz
$15,000–$19,999
Nancy A. Abshire
Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.
Sue and Jim Colletti
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †
$11,500–$14,999
Barker Welfare Foundation
Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan
Nancy and Bernard Dunkel
Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation
Ksenia A. and Peter Turula
$7,500–$11,499
Anonymous
Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz
Fred and Phoebe Boelter
The Buchanan Family Foundation
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Mr. Lawrence Corry
Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans
Ellen and Paul Gignilliat
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Mary Winton Green
The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association
Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl
Ms. Susan Norvich
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
Mary and Joseph Plauché
Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt
Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
$4,500–$7,499
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation
Ann and Richard Carr
Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation
CIBC
Ms. Dawn E. Helwig
Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans
Dr. June Koizumi
Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey
Jim and Ginger Meyer
Stephen and Rumi Morales
Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek
The Osprey Foundation
Lee Ann and Savit Pirl
Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro
Laura and Terrence Truax
Mr. Paul R. Wiggin
$3,500–$4,499
Anonymous (2)
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clusen
Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng
Charles and Carol Emmons
Judith E. Feldman
Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic
Mr. Bruce Oltman
$2,500–$3,499
Anonymous
David and Suzanne Arch
Adam Bossov
Ms. Danolda Brennan
Mr. Ray Capitanini
Lisa Chessare
Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes
Patricia A. Clickener
Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker
David and Janet Fox
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick
William B. Hinchliff
Michael and Leigh Huston
Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin
Ronald E. Jacquart
David † and Dolores Nelson
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker
Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen
Mr. David Sandfort
Gerald and Barbara Schultz
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza
Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho
Carol S. Sonnenschein
Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein
Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis
Mr. Peter Vale
Mr. Kenneth Witkowski
Ms. Camille Zientek
$1,500–$2,499
John Albrecht
Mrs. Susan Alm
Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein
Ms. Marlene Bach
Ms. Barbara Barzansky
Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible
Cassandra L. Book
Mr. James Borkman
Mr. Donald Bouseman
Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman
Darren Cahr
Ms. Sharon Eiseman
Mr. Conrad Fischer
Ms. Lola Flamm
Arthur L. Frank, M.D.
Camillo and Arlene Ghiron
Merle L. Jacob
Mariko Kaneda-Niwa
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin
Dona Le Blanc
Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley
Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Susan Rabe
Dr. Edward Riley
Kathleen and Anthony Schaeffer
Mrs. Rebecca Schewe
Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil
Jane A. Shapiro
Mr. Larry Simpson
Mr. Thomas Simpson
Mrs. Julie Stagliano
Michael and Salme Steinberg
Walter and Caroline Sueske
Charitable Trust
Ayana Tomeka
Ms. Betty Vandenbosch
Dr. Douglas Vaughan
Ms. Mary Walsh
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Waxman
Abby and Glen Weisberg
Irene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin
$1,000–$1,499
Anonymous (3)
In memory of Martha and Bernie Adelson
Ms. Rochelle Allen
Altair Advisers LLC
Ms. Margaret Amato
Allen and Laura Ashley
Howard and Donna Bass
Paul Becker and Nancy Becker
Ann Blickensderfer
Dr. Martin Burke
Ms. Gwendolyn Butler
Mr. Mark Carroll
Mr. Rowland Chang
Dr. Cherise L. Cokley and Mr. Pascal Nyobuya
Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Cottle
Alan R. Cravitz
Claudia Dean
Tom Draski
DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dulski
Mr. Edward & Nancy Eichelberger
Neil Fackler
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Gallentine
Ms. Nancy Garfien
Alan and Nancy Goldberg
Mike and Mary Grady
Dr. Fred Halloran
Mrs. Susan Hammond
Dr. Dominic Harris
Dr. Robert A. Harris
Dr. Dane Hassani
Holy Trinity High School
Mr. Ray Jones
Charles Katzenmeyer
Randolph T. Kohler & Scott Gordon
Howard Korey and Sharon Pomerantz
Ms. Michele Kurlander
The Lee Family
Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus
Timothy Lubenow
Sharon L. Manuel
Jacqueline Mardell
Rosa and Peter McCullagh
Stephen W. and Kathleen J. Miller
Geoffrey R. Morgan
Mrs. MaryLouise Morrison
Ms. Sylvette Nicolini
Edward and Gayla Nieminen
Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer
Mr. † & Mrs. James Norr
Mr. & Mrs. Julian Oettinger
Ms. Joan Pantsios
Ms. Dona Perry
Ms. Loretta Peterson
Christine and Michael Pope
Quinlan and Fabish Music Company
Mr. George quinlan
Dr. Hilda Richards
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg
Mr. David Samson
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schuette
Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott
Christina Shaver
Dr. Rebecca Sherrick
Dr. Sabine Sobek
Ms. Adena Staben
Ms. Denise Stauder
Mrs. Pamela Stepansky
Sharon Swanson
Ms. Pamela Crutchfield
Ms. Cynthia Vahlkamp and Mr. Robert Kenyon
Mr. David J. Varnerin
Mrs. William White
Mr. Eric Wicks † and Ms. Linda Baker
Jennifer D. Williams
Joni Williams
Jane Stroud Wright
Ms. Patricia Zeglen
ENDOWED FUNDS
Anonymous (5)
Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund
Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund
Civic Orchestra Chamber Access Fund
The Davee Foundation
Frank Family Fund
Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund
Jennifer Amler Goldstein Fund, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein
Mary Winton Green
John Hart and Carol Prins Fund for Access
William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund
Richard A. Heise
Julian Family Foundation Fund
The Kapnick Family
Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Chair Fund
The Malott Family School Concerts Fund
Eloise W. Martin Endowed Funds
Murley Family Fund
The Negaunee Foundation
Margo and Michael Oberman Community Access Fund
Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends
Helen Regenstein Guest Conductor Fund
Edward F. Schmidt Family Fund
Shebik Community Engagement Programs Fund
The Wallace Foundation
Zell Family Foundation
Theodore Thomas Society
Mary Louise Gorno Chair
Listed below are generous donors who have made commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their wills, trusts, and other estate plans, including life-income arrangements, as of October 2024. 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 establishing a legacy bequest plan of $100,000 or more to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.
Anonymous (11)
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
Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba
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
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck
Ann Blickensderfer
Roger Blickensderfer
Wayne D. and Nancy M. Boberg
Danolda Brennan
Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr.
Mitchell J. Brown
Marion A. Cameron-Gray
Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong
Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car
Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark
Patricia A. Clickener
Judith and Stephen F. Condren
Anita Crocus
David L. Curry
Mimi Duginger
Harry and Jean Eisenman
Michael and Kathleen Elliott
Dr. Marilyn Ezri
Tarek and Ann Fadel
David S. and Janet M. Fox
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.
Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson
Mary J. and Ronald P. Frelk
Penny and John Freund
Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat
Merle Gordon
Mary Louise Gorno
Dr. & Mrs. David Granato
Mary L. Gray
Mary Winton Green
Dr. Jon Brian Greis
John and Patricia Hamilton
Mr. Michael Hansen and Ms. Nancy Randa
John Hart and Carol Prins
Mr. William P. Hauworth II
Thomas and Linda Heagy
Mr. R.H. Helmholz
Marcia M. Hochberg
Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder
Concordia Hoffmann
Stephen D. and Catherine N. Holmes
Frank and Helen Holt
Mark and Elizabeth Hurley
Frances and Phillip Huscher
Merle L. Jacob
Ms. Darlene Johnson
Ronald B. Johnson
Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson
Mary Ann Judy
Lori Julian
Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan
Howard Kaspin
James Kemmerer
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Edwin and Karen Kramer
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka
Jonathon Leik
Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring
Robert Alan Lewis
Dr. Valerie Lober
Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl
Sheldon H. Marcus
James Edward McPherson
Janet L. Melk
Dr. Frederick K. Merkel
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor
Craig and Rose Moore
Mrs. Mario A. Munoz
Eileen M. Murray
Jeffrey Nichols
John H. Nelson
Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen
Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer
Diane Ososke
Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger
Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn
Judy Pomeranz
Christoph G. Ptack Trust
Maridee Quanbeck
Neil K. Quinn
Randall and Cara Rademaker
Constance A. Rajala
Al and Lynn Reichle
Ann and Bob † Reiland
Wendy Reynes
Dr. Edward O. Riley
Daniel J. Riordan, in loving memory of Lynne D. Mapes-Riordan
Charles and Marilynn Rivkin
David and Kathy Robin
Jerry Rose
Mr. James S. Rostenberg
Richard O. Ryan
John A. Salkowski
Cecelia Samans
A. Wm. Samuel
Franklin Schmidt
Mr. Craig Sirles
Betty W. Smykal
Annette and Richard Steinke
Mrs. Deborah Sterling
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong
Gloria B. Telander
Karin and Alfred Tenny
Richard and Helen Thomas
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
Dr. Richard Tresley
Laura and Terrence Truax
John L. and Dyanne L. Turner
Paula Turner
Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner
Judith and Paul Tuszynski
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Van Horn
Mr. Christian Vinyard
Craig and Bette Williams
Florence Winters
Stephen R. Winters and Don D. Curtis
Dr. Robert G. Zadylak
Helen Zell
MEMBERS
Anonymous (36)
Valerie and Joseph Abel
Louise Abrahams
Richard J. Abram and Paul Chandler
Patrick Alden
Richard and Elynne Aleskow
Judy L. Allen
Carlos Almeida and Dr. Matthew Sweeney
Ann S. Alpert
Patricia Ames
Ms. Judith L. Anderson
Steven Andes, Ph.D.
Barbara Andrews
Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei
Catherine Aranyi
Dr. Susan Arjmand
Mara Mills Barker
Shirley Baron
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty
Joan I. Berger
Robert M. Berger
Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin
Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky
Candace Broecker
John L. Browar
Catherine Brubaker
Joseph Buc
Edward J. Buckbee
Michelle Miller Burns
Mr. Robert J. Callahan
Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael
Dr. Marlene E. Casiano
Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy
Mr. Robert L. Crawford
Ron and Dolores Daly
Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels
Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson
Sylvia Samuels Delman
Mrs. David A. DeMar
Ms. Phyllis Diamond
Janet Wood Diederichs
Barbara Doerner
Mrs. William Dooley
Mrs. Susan Duda
Nancy Schroeder Ebert
Robert J. Elisberg
Richard Elledge
Charles and Carol Emmons
Lu and Philip Engel
James B. Fadim
Leslie Farrell
Donna Feldman
Judith E. Feldman
Frances and Henry Fogel
Ray Frick
Susan Fuchs
Nancy and Larry † Fuller
Dileep Gangolli
Maurice Garnier
Miss Elizabeth Gatz
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman
Margaret and Patrick Ghielmetti
Steve and Lauran † Gilbreath
Mr. Daniel Gilmour, III
Mr. Joseph Glossberg
Ms. Georgean Goldenberg
Adele Goldsmith
Douglas Ross Gortner
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Ms. Elizabeth A. Gray
Ms. Claire Annette Green
Delta A. Greene
Mrs. Barbara Gundrum
Lynne R. Haarlow
Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley
Mr. Tom Hall
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett
William B. Hinchliff
Mr. Thomas Hochman
Jack and Colleen Holmbeck
Richard J. Hoskins
Mary Houston
Mr. James Humphrey
Ms. Jessica Jagielnik
Ansuk Jeong
Nathan Kahn, in memory of Zave H. Gussin and in honor of Robert Gussin
Ann B. Kaplan
Bonnie & Michael Kaufman
Valerie Kennedy
Anne Kern
Helen Kessler
Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr.
Mrs. LeRoy Klemt
Sally Jo Knowles
Mrs. Russell V. Kohr
Ms. Barbara Kopsian
Liesel E. Kossmann
Catherine Grochowski Kranz
Eugene Kraus
John C. and Carol Anderson Kunze
Thomas and Annelise Lawson
Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey
Ms. Nicole Lehman
Barbara W. Levin
Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy
Ms. Sally Lewis
Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg
Mr. Michael Licitra
Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson
Bonnie Glazier Lipe
Alma Lizcano
Heidi Lukas and Mr. Charles Grode
Suzette Mahneke
Ann Chassin Mallow
Sharon L. Manuel
Mrs. John J. Markham
Judith Partipilo Marth
Deborah McCabe
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
Virginia K. Moore
John H. Mugge
Thomas R. Mullaney
Daniel R. Murray
Dolores D. Nelson
Mariko Kaneda Niwa
Franklin Nussbaum
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr.
Wallace and Sarah Oliver
Lynn Orschel
Helen and Joseph Page
Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein
Elizabeth Anne Peters
Dr. Ann Peterson
Judy C. Petty
Karen and Dick Pigott
Lois Polakoff
Charlene H. Posner
D. Elizabeth Price
Dorothy V. Ramm
Donald F. Ransford
Jeanne Reed
Edgar C. Reihl
Ann and Bob † Reiland
Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones
Karen L. Rigotti
Don † and Sally Roberts
Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal
Craig Samuels
Suzanne G. Samuels
Leslie A. Sanders
Kathleen Schaefer
Lawrence D. Schectman
Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt
Dr. Byung-In Seo
Mr. & Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro
David Shayne
Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Ms. Elizabeth Shelly
Anne Sibley
Larry Simpson
Ms. Lynn B. Singer
Thomas G. Sinkovic
Rosalee Slepian
Rebecca G. Smith
Mary Soleiman
Jim Spiegel
Julie Stagliano
Denise M. Stauder
Karen Steil
Charles Steinberg
Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale
Richard and Lois Stuckey
Mark Swanson and Nancy Pifer
Jeffrey and Linda Swoger
Mr. John C. Telander
Liisa Thomas
Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Thorson
Karen Hletko Tiersky
Myron Tiersky
Jacqueline A. Tilles
Mr. James M. Trapp
Mr. Donn N. Trautman
Mike and Mary Valeanu
Gerrit Vanderwest
Mr. David J. Varnerin
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
Joan Weiss
Mr. Thomas Weyland
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
Linda and Payson S. Wild
Kayla Anne Wilson
Robert A. Wilson
Nora M. Winsberg
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf
Beth Wollar
Lev Yaroslavskiy
Ms. Karen Zupko
IN MEMORIAM
Listed below are individuals who were Theodore Thomas Society members or 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 (10)
Hope A. Abelson
Richard Abrahams
Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson
Ross C. Anderson
Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos
Elizabeth M. Ashton
Jacqueline and Frank Ball
Wayne Balmer
Paul Barker
Arlene and Marshall Bennett
Judith and Dennis Bober
Naomi T. Borwell
Howard Broecker
Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown
George and Jacqueline Brumlik
Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger
Norma Cadieu
Wiley Caldwell
David W. Carpenter
James D. Compton
Sharon Conway
Nelson D. Cornelius
Anita J. Court, Ph.D.
Christopher L. Culp
Azile Dick
James F. Drennan
Robert L. Drinan, Jr.
Evelyn Dyba
Richard Eastline
Marian Edelstein
Dr. Edward Elisberg
Kelli Gardner Emery
Joseph R. Ender
Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson
Greta Wiley Flory
Leslie Fogel
Herbert and Betty Forman
Richard Foster
Elaine S. Frank
Martin and Francey Gecht
Isak Gerson
Mrs. Willard Gidwitz
Lyle Gillman
Marvin Goldsmith
William B. Graham
Richard Gray
David Green
Nancy Griffin
Ernest A. Grunsfeld III
Betty and Lester Guttman
A. William Haarlow III
Carolyn Hallman
CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret.
Polly and Donald Heinrich
Mary Mako Helbert
Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth
Mrs. Diane Hoban
James Houston
Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr.
Barbara Isserman
Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak
Mrs. Marian Johnson
Janet Jones
Phyllis A. Jones
James Joseph
Paul R. Judy
Joseph M. Kacena
Jared Kaplan
Morris A. Kaplan
Roberta Kapoun
Carol W. Keenan
Marshall Keltz
George Kennedy
Paul Keske
Esther G. Klatz
Russell V. Kohr
Karen Kuehner
Evelyn and Arnold Kupec
Robert B. Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts
Caressa Y. Lauer
Gerald Lee
Patricia Lee
Christine D. Letchinger
Nancy R. Levi
Melynda K. Lopin
William C. Lordan
Tula Lunsford
Iris Maiter
Arthur G. Maling
Bella Malis
Kathleen W. Markiewicz
Walter L. Marr III and Marilyn G. Marr
Eloise Martin
Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal
Eunice H. McGuire
Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick
Jack L. Melamed, M.D.
Lois G. and Hugo J. Melvoin
Richard Menaul
Susan Messinger
Phillip Migdal
Mollyann Miller
Gloria Miner
Bill Moor
Charles A. Moore
David A. Moore
Marietta Munnis
David H. Nelson
Helen M. Nelson
Muriel Nerad
Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld
David Niwa
Raymond and Eloise Niwa
Carol Rauner O’Donovan
T. Paul B. O’Donovan
Mary and Eric Oldberg
Bruce P. Olson
David G. Ostrow
Dr. Joan E. Patterson
Donald Peck
Mr. Lewis D. Petry
Charles J. Pollyea
Miriam Pollyea
Donald D. Powell
Samuel Press
Alfred and Maryann Putnam
Christine Querfeld
Ruth Ann Quinn
Kenneth Recu
Walter Reed
Bob Reiland
Evelyn Richer
J. Timothy Ritchie
Virginia H. Rogers
Jill N. Rohde
Elaine Rosen
Ben J. Rosenthal
Anthony Ryerson
Dr. Virginia C. Saft
Cynthia Mead Sargent
Mrs. Milton Scheffler
Richard P. Schieler
Beverly and Grover Schiltz
Robert W. Schneider
Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr.
Nancy Seyfried
Muriel Shaw
Morrell A. Shoemaker
Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure
Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel
Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel
Joanne Silver
Rita Simó and Tomás Bissonnette
Allen R. Smart
Walter Chalmers Smith
Karen A. Sorensen
Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel
Vito Stagliano
Charles J. Starcevich
Curtis D. Stensrud
Franklin R. St. Lawrence
Mr. John Stokes
Ruth Miner Swislow
Robert Sychowski
Lester G. Telser
Andrew and Peggy Thomson
Sue Tice
Beatrice B. Tinsley
C. Phillip Turner
Ted Utchen
Lois and James Vrhel
Louise Benton Wagner
Nancy L. Wald
Josephine Wallace
Claude M. Weil
Marco Weiss
Barbara Huth West
The Whateley Trust, in memory of Baron Whateley
Max and Joyce Wildman
Joyce Hadley Williams
Larisa Zhizhin
Tribute Program
The Tribute Program provides an opportunity to celebrate milestones such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and graduations. It also can serve as a way to honor the memory of friends and family. An Honor or Memorial Gift enables you to express your feelings in a truly distinctive and memorable way. Contributions may be any amount and are placed in the Orchestra’s Endowment Fund. For more information regarding this program, please call 312-294-3100. Listed below are Honor and Memorial Gifts of $100 or more received from October 2023 through October 2024.
MEMORIAL GIFTS
In memory of Carl Albright
William and Marjorie Bardeen
Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten
Croissy Sans Frontières
Dr. Manfred Lindner
In memory of David W. Alm
Mrs. Susan Alm
In memory of Theodore Asner
Mrs. Barbara Asner
In memory of Luis Baldin
Mrs. Frances Naal
In memory of Alfred Balandis
Mr. Robert Callahan
In memory of Angie Bannister
Robin Johnson
In memory of Edwin J. Bell
Mr. Edwin Bell
In memory of Lawrence L. Belles
Judy and Scott McCue
In memory of John R. Blair
Fidelity Charitable Gift Funds
In memory of Mark William Damisch
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Ruter
In memory of Ray T. Dillon
Ms. Cristina Rocca
In memory of Karl Eisenberg
Ms. Patricia Erens
Matt Morozovsky
Roger † and Susan Stone
Family Foundation
Laura Solon
Ms. Rachel Zimmerman
In memory of Linda Eisenhauer
Mr. † & Mrs. Gershon Berg
Don Eisenhauer
Ms. Janice Young
In memory of Agnes Gupana
Margo and Michael Oberman
In memory of Zave Gussin
Mr. Nathan Kahn
In memory of Adolph “Bud” Herseth, Dale Clevinger, and Arnold Jacobs
Mr. Esteban Batallan
In memory of Marie Kukalis and Harold Homans
Mr. Steven Kukalis
In memory of Alex and Sally Jacob
Merle L. Jacob
In memory of Richard and Kathleen Joiner
Mr. & Mrs. Lee D. Joiner
In memory of Janet Kanter
Anonymous
Ms. Judith J. Crampton
Ms. Andrea Kanter
Ms. Michelle Renner
Kacy Vega
In memory of Charles Kingsley Perkins
Ms. Susan Thomas
In memory of George N. Kohler
Mr. David Curry
In memory of Dr. Steven M. Lewis
Ms. Heather E. Lewis
In memory of John S. Lillard
Red Bird Hollow Foundation
In memory of Carol Wordsworth
Malley
Dr. Karol Sue Reddington
In memory of Joseph Hanson Mayne
Ms. Fox Fehling
In memory of Dr. Jal Mistri
Mrs. Zenobia Mistri
In memory of Francis (Joe) Nolan
Ms. Vera Capp
In memory of Al Payson
Mr. Paul Dickinson
Susan Reinecke-Masak
In memory of Paul Phillips
Dr. & Mrs. Michael Thompson
In memory of William H. Phillips
Richard Phillips
In memory of Bennett Reimer
Elizabeth A. Hebert
In memory of Kevin Rock
Cynthia Bates
In memory of Adrienne Samuels
Anonymous
Scott A. Hein
Abby Newman
In memory of Doris Shayne and Chauncey Griffith
Mr. and Mrs. † David Shayne
In memory of Susie Stein
Mrs. Barbara Asner
Ms. Victoria Dorgan
In memory of Lynne and Ron Wachowski
Peggy Ryan
In memory of Dr. Alan J. Ward, Ph.D., ABPP
Ms. Louella Ward
In memory of Claude M. Weil
Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro
In memory of Claude Weil
Kik and S. I. Gilman
In memory of Mary Evelyn Williams
Mrs. William White
In memory of Frank Koch Wolfinger
Charles J. Linn
In memory of Edward T. Zasadil
Mr. Larry Simpson
HONOR GIFTS
In honor of Michael Adolph
Mrs. Ann Oros
In honor of Jeffrey and Keiko
Alexander
Mr. Dean Solomon
In honor of Esteban Batallán and John Hagstrom
Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin
Lizbeth Branch
Ms. Angela D’Aversa
Ms. Joan Dattel
Mrs. Mary Dietrick
Mrs. Mary Dietrick
Dr. & Mrs. Heratch Doumanian
Mrs. Allisa Gam
Fred Garzon
Ms. Sarah Good
Mary and Michael Goodkind
Mary Ann Harting
Ms. Bobbie Huskey
Ansuk Jeong
The Julian Family Foundation
Ms. Claretta Meier
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell
Margo and Michael Oberman
Dr. Juan Solana
John Garret Van Weezel
Ms. Janice Young
John Zimnie and Linda Zimnie
In honor of David Cooper
Daniel P. and Barbara J. Justus
In honor of Mary Beth Dietrick
Ms. Renita M. Esayian
In honor of Phyllis Bleck
Anonymous
The Julian Family Foundation
Margo and Michael Oberman
In honor of Judy Boem
Betty Signer
In honor of Liz Branch
Ms. Sarah Good
In honor of Sue Bridge
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward
In honor of Robert Coad
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker
Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard
Mr. and Mrs. † David Shayne
In honor of the lengendary
CSO Brass section
Mr. Esteban Batallán-Cons
In honor of Mimi Duginger
Mr. J. C. Costen and Dr. Sarah F. Orwig
In honor of Jessica Erickson
Ms. Sarah Good
In honor of Jay Friedman
Mr. Peter Bouchard
In honor of Allisa Gam
Ms. Sarah Good
In honor of Sarah Good
Ms. Barbara Zutovsky
In honor of Joseph Koerner
Robin F. Davies
In honor of Sharon Mitchell
Ms. Renita M. Esayian
Sebastian P. Mitchell
In honor of Joan Nemickas
Mary and Michael Goodkind
In honor of Gay and Richard Nicholus
Mary Mercante
In honor of Margo and Michael Oberman
Mr. Stuart Fried and Mrs. Susan Fried
In honor of Frances L.A. Penn
Dr. David M. Asher
In honor of Sharon Quigley
Ms. Renita M. Esayian
In honor of Neil Quinn
Ms. Carolyn Quinn
In honor of Cynthia Scholl
Donna Spagnola
In honor of John Sharp, Lei Hou, Qing Hou, William Welter, and Victoria Barbarji
Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan
In honor of Richard and Ellen Shubart
Jeffrey Leeds
In honor of Dr. Eugene and Gene Stark Anonymous
In honor of Ted Tabe
Ms. Renita M. Esayian
In honor of Brent Taghap
Ms. Cheryl Anderman
Ms. Sarah Good
In honor of Frank Villella and the Rosenthal Archives
Mr. Paul Phillips, Jr. † and Mr. Lloyd Palmiter
In honor of William Ward
Ms. Susan Bridge
In honor of Patty Weber
Ms. Sarah Good
In honor of Helen Zell
Mr. Rowland Chang
Mr. Robert S. Levinson and Ms. Laura Sage
In honor of Jerrold Zisook
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Schimberg
“This is the season when we’re reminded that there’s no gift greater than those who’ve been there through it all.”
- Maurice Smith, HCSC President, CEO & Vice Chair
We all know who they are. The few who’ve stood by us from the beginning. Through the good times and the challenging ones. The ones who inspire us to do the same for others. At Blue Cross and Blue Shield, we always take our lead from the passion and commitment of our members and the communities we share. That’s why we forever pledge to be a forcemultipier for better health, wellness and
opportunity across all zip codes and walks of life. From neighborhood wellness clinics and mobile health care services to advancing maternal and preventive care technology, we will continue to invest in the future of all communities. Because the more doors we can open toward a healthier tomorrow, the more everyone can come through for each other.
