Sinfonia concertante for Organ and Orchestra
Chicago audiences first knew Esa-Pekka Salonen as a conductor (for his Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut in 1988, he led music by Haydn, Bartók, and Nielsen). Salonen didn’t conduct one of his own scores here until 2003, when he gave the U.S. premiere of Insomnia, a dark and turbulent nocturne he had composed the year before. Since then, we have learned to identify him as one of the few major musical figures today who is both a composer and a conductor of distinction—a combination that was once a staple of the music world but has become increasingly rare.
When Salonen entered the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in the 1970s, it was to study horn and composition. He enrolled in Jorma Panula’s conducting class because he felt that young composers should learn to lead their own works. Composing remained Salonen’s focus: in Helsinki, he studied with the visionary Einojuhani Rautavaara; in the early 1980s, he worked with Niccolò Castiglioni in Milan and in the Finnish Broadcasting Company studios. His earliest large-scale orchestral works date from this time. Then, after leading an acclaimed performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony on short notice in London in 1983, Salonen soon became an internationally known conductor for whom composing was a sideline. More than a decade passed before he found the time to complete another major work: the LA Variations, written to showcase the Los Angeles Philharmonic, of which he was music director at the time of its premiere in 1997.
Salonen continues to negotiate balancing the two sides of his musical life. It is a battle that has been famously fought before—by figures as different in their solutions and in the music they wrote as Gustav Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, and Pierre Boulez. (Boulez said his conducting career followed a bell curve: it started as a sideline, grew until it nearly overtook his composing, and finally settled into a more comfortable balance.) After Salonen took a year’s sabbatical from conducting in 2000 in order to devote himself full time to writing music, he admitted that he felt it impossible to “work on both sides simultaneously.” But the past few years have also erased any doubts that one cannot excel at both—the age-old suspicion Salonen
COMPOSED 2022
FIRST PERFORMANCE
January 13, 2023; Katowice, Poland. Iveta Apkalna as soloist, the composer conducting May 18, 2023; Los Angeles. U.S. premiere. Iveta Apkalna as soloist, the composer conducting
INSTRUMENTATION
solo organ, 3 flutes (two doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (third doubling english horn), 2 clarinets and bass clarinet, 2 bassoons and contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (glockenspiel, vibraphone, tuned gongs, bongos, taikos [Japanese drums], tom-toms, floor tom, bass drum, tam-tam), 2 harps, strings
APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME 34 minutes
These are the first Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances.
above: Esa-Pekka Salonen, photo by Benjamin Suomela
has often encountered “that if you do two things, one must be fake, surely, because nobody can do two things well.” As he told the New York Times, “It’s a strange statement to make, because you go a hundred years back, and every musician was also a composer.”
In recent years, Salonen has conducted many of his major works in Chicago, including three concertos (played here by their original performers: pianist Yefim Bronfman in 2008, violinist Leila Josefowicz in 2011, and Yo-Yo Ma in the world premiere of the Cello Concerto in 2017), as well as Nyx in 2014, Foreign Bodies in 2016, and Gemini in 2022. When he was awarded the prestigious Nemmers Prize in Music Composition by the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in 2014, he said, in his acceptance remarks, that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra “has long been a musical home away from home for me.”
Esa-Pekka Salonen on Sinfonia concertante for Organ and Orchestra
Istarted developing material for the Sinfonia concertante in the lockdown spring of 2020. It took me a while to get over the first, obvious hurdle: the organ can cover the entire scope of a symphony orchestra in every way. It has the same or wider pitch, dynamics, and color ranges. How does one write a piece for essentially two orchestras without creating redundancy issues?
After a lot of thinking and, at times, agonizing, I had the Columbus’s egg moment: why not just write the music and orchestrate it for those two rich and complex instruments, the organ and the orchestra?
I decided to call the composition Sinfonia concertante instead of concerto, as the function of the organ keeps changing constantly over the course of the thirty-minute journey. Sometimes it plays alone, often as the soloist in the traditional sense, or as a chamber-music partner to wind instruments. A few times it becomes part of the orchestra as a member of the collective in a supporting role. I cannot think of any
other instrument with the same chameleonlike flexibility.
The long history of the organ inspired me to imagine “old” music from a hypothetical world, an alternate universe, still mine but slightly alien. I decided to use old forms, such as the slow, courtly pavane in the first movement. There is only one actual quote in the Sinfonia concertante: the famous Ars Antiqua four-part organa, “Viderunt omnes” by Pérotin (fl. ca. 1200), which I reharmonized and orchestrated for full orchestra and the solo organ. (I have been a Pérotin fan since my teen years.)
Here’s a short map of the three movements.
Movement 1: Pavane and Drones
After a dreamy opening section, the solo organ introduces the Pavane, my take on the stately Renaissance court dance. The strings join after a while; the organ decorates their phrase.
A semitone trill drone sounds throughout the new, more unsettled section where the filigree lines of the organ are sometimes accompanied by the woodwind instruments. The Pavane returns in a different guise in the bassoons and later in the horns. The semitone trill has grown to a whole tone, which in my mind grew into a major dramaturgical moment, a real peripeteia.
After another filigree solo passage, the Pavane returns suddenly, this time forte, played by the full orchestra. After a massive culmination, the unsettled organ filigree is heard for the last time.
The dreamy opening music returns, orchestrated very sparingly. The organ plays the melodic line, accompanied by long glissandos of two solo violins. The movement ends in stillness.
Movement 2: Variations and Dirge
Solo viola and the english horn play a slow, nostalgic melody, accompanied by quiet, calmly ascending and descending lines. Those scales will be returning soon.
The organ plays the first cadenza. It begins like an innocuous baroque siciliano but grows more frenzied in expression as it progresses.
A short variation of the up-and-down movement heard in the beginning, this time at breakneck speed.
The second cadenza. The siciliano music is now in the pedal, low and powerful.
The third variation of the scales: a long adagio, which culminates when the unison strings reach the highest point of the melody.
A dirge for the organ alone. My mother died during the last stages of the composition process. I decided to write an epilogue in her memory. It doesn’t sound sad; more like a big ship sailing away.
Movement 3: Ghost Montage
Noisy music inspired by the organ riffs heard in NHL ice hockey games in the United States. Echoes of Beethoven’s Seventh also, I believe.
Old music from my imagined world, played by woodwinds mostly.
BÉLA BARTÓK
The organ joins, and we hear a quieter variation of the opening carnival music, this time with pizzicato strings.
Long solo episode for the organ. The complex chords in the beginning give way to another version of the “old” music.
The carnival returns, this time intertwined with the “old” music.
Another long organ solo, which leads to the Pérotin sequence.
A sudden, loud tutti leads to the first cadenza. Massive chords over a pedal point on B natural.
Another tutti outburst and a second cadenza, this time a virtuoso moment for the pedal.
The opening music returns, faster than before. The organ and the orchestra have changed places: the organ plays what the orchestra played earlier and vice versa. Out of the massive B-flat major chord emerges another, alien chord that ends the entire piece, pianissimo. Another ghost.
Born March 25, 1881; Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary (now Sânnicolau Mare, Romania)
Died September 26, 1945; New York City
Concerto for Orchestra
For all the prestige his music commands today among American orchestras, Béla Bartók was unhappy and largely ignored during the last four years of his life, which he spent in this country. The sad departure from his native Hungary in late 1940, to escape the Nazi invasion, was a nightmare itself for both Bartók and his wife, Ditta, with a furtive night-train trip through Italy to Switzerland; passage by bus through France; a
merciless customs inspection at the Spanish border; a night spent wandering through Lisbon in search of a place to sleep; and, finally, a rough crossing on an American cargo ship, with all luggage left behind. The first weeks in New York were little better—the English language was a minefield, and home was now a spartan hotel room. The Bartóks were perplexed by American ways, like eating cracked wheat for breakfast, and they were dumbfounded by a subway system so vast they once spent three hours wandering underground before they emerged, shamefaced, into the sunlight.
this page: Béla Bartók, portrait, 1939, France: Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images | n ext page: Bartók with his wife, Ditta Pásztory-Bartók (1903–1982), in the composer’s final portrait, 1945. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Bartók complained of “creative impotence,” and, in truth, he wrote nothing of substance during his first two years here. He played a few scattered concerts, including a duo recital with his wife in Chicago that got very bad reviews—one “as bad as I never got in my life,” according to the composer, his mastery of our tongue still as uncertain as his verdict on life in America. In April 1942 Bartók’s health took a turn for the worse; several medical examinations proved inconclusive. There were good days and bad, periods of high fever, and occasional hospital stays. Pain in his joints made walking difficult. It was, truly, the beginning of the end. And then, like the miracle great music always is, a masterpiece was born. In May 1943 Serge Koussevitzky, music director of the Boston Symphony, visited Bartók in his hospital room, prepared to write a check for $500, half payment for an orchestral piece he wished to commission in memory of his late wife, Natalie. Bartók was reluctant, fearing he wouldn’t be able to complete the work, but he finally accepted the offer—and Koussevitzky’s check. Had Bartók known the truth, he never would have agreed. The suggestion for the commission had not come directly from Koussevitzky (never a champion of Bartók before), but from Joseph Szigeti and Fritz Reiner, who greatly admired Bartók’s music and knew him well enough to know that he would refuse any effort he viewed as charity.
COMPOSED
August 15–October 8, 1943
FIRST PERFORMANCE
December 1, 1944; Boston, Massachusetts
INSTRUMENTATION
3 flutes with piccolo, 3 oboes with english horn, 3 clarinets with bass clarinet, 3 bassoons with contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, side drum, bass drum, tam-tam, cymbals, triangle, two harps, strings
APPROXIMATE
PERFORMANCE TIME
35 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
December 2 and 3, 1948, Orchestra Hall. George Szell conducting
June 30, 1955, Ravinia Festival. Eduard van Beinum conducting
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
July 12, 2006, Ravinia Festival. Yoel Levi conducting
December 8, 9, and 10, 2022, Orchestra Hall. Dalia Stasevska conducting
CSO RECORDINGS
1955. Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA
1969. Seiji Ozawa conducting. Angel
1981. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London
The Bartóks spent the summer at Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks. At first, Bartók busied himself prowling around the local library—he read an English translation of Don Quixote with no apparent difficulty. By mid-August, he was ready to put pen to paper and found to his surprise that he was working “practically day and night” on the Koussevitzky commission. At least temporarily, his health improved, and when he returned to New York in October, he took the finished score with him. “Perhaps it is due to this improvement,” he had written to Szigeti “(or it may be the other way around) that I have been able to finish the work that Koussevitzky commissioned.” Koussevitzky, who conducted the first performance with the Boston Symphony in December 1944, called the Concerto
1989. James Levine conducting. Deutsche Grammophon
1990. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London (video)
1992. Pierre Boulez conducting. Deutsche Grammophon
for Orchestra “the best orchestral piece of the last twenty-five years,” an assessment few were to challenge. George Szell led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the local premiere of the score on December 2, 1948. (Felix Borowski, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, was oddly muted in his appraisal, merely calling it “of more than ordinary worth.”) In October 1955, two years after Reiner became the Chicago Symphony’s
BARTÓK IN CHICAGO
Béla Bartók’s name was hardly known here when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave the U.S. premiere of his Second Piano Concerto in March 1939. The Orchestra had played only two works—the Suite for Orchestra and the Dance Suite—in the 1920s, and nothing since. That would eventually change. Bartók came to Chicago in April 1940. By then, many of the important creative musicians of prewar Europe had moved to America; after Bartók’s departure from his native Hungary in late 1940, to escape the Nazi invasion, he joined them.
As soon as it was announced that Bartók would be coming to this country to give the U.S. premiere of his Rhapsody no. 1 with violinist Joseph Szigeti at the Library of Congress in Washington (D.C.), the Arts Club of Chicago, which had already hosted both Arnold Schoenberg and Paul Hindemith, invited him for a dinner-recital evening. At the Arts Club, which was then housed in the Wrigley Building, Bartók joined John Weicher, the Chicago Symphony’s concertmaster, in the rhapsody only six days after the Washington premiere, and played selections from his newest work for piano, Mirkokosmos—“so new that it is just being published today,” the Tribune reported on April 10. The pianist Artur Rubinstein, who was in Chicago a week earlier, told the Tribune that Bartók was one of the very few great pianist-composers of our time.
sixth music director, he and the Orchestra made their classic recording of the score.
Aword about Bartók’s title—Concerto for Orchestra. Bartók’s work wasn’t the first, but only the most celebrated example to bear this seemingly paradoxical title, which focuses the spotlight not on one solo instrument, but on the orchestra itself. Paul Hindemith, Walter Piston, and Bartók’s fellow
still not been played in any other U.S. city. The New York Philharmonic did not add the work to its repertoire until 1951, the Boston Symphony Orchestra eleven years after that. In the meantime, the Chicago Symphony had already programmed all three of Bartók’s piano concertos, the first of the American orchestras to do so.
In the years after Bartók’s death in 1945, his music slowly gained ground in the Chicago orchestra’s repertoire, particularly under music directors Fritz Reiner and Sir Georg Solti, who both studied with the composer at the Budapest Academy of Music early in the twentieth century and became among his most important champions. It was Reiner, along with Joseph Szigeti, who talked Serge Koussevitzky into offering Bartók the $1,000 fee for the landmark 1943 Concerto for Orchestra, which has become one of the anchors of the Chicago Symphony’s twentieth-century repertoire (it was recorded by the Orchestra under both Reiner and Solti). Six months after Solti’s death in 1997, his cremated remains were interred in a Budapest cemetery next to Bartók’s plot.
Bartók returned in November 1941 to make his debut as a pianist with the Chicago Symphony, conducted by second music director Frederick Stock. The work once again was the Second Piano Concerto, a score that had
By now, the Chicago Symphony plays Bartók’s music nearly every season, and certain pieces—the three piano concertos; the Second Violin Concerto; music from The Miraculous Mandarin; Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; even the opera, Bluebeard’s Castle—are performed with a regularity the composer never lived to see.
—P.H.
Béla Bartók at Rambleside, Fritz and Carlotta Reiner’s summer home in Westport, Connecticut (ca. 1941) (Fritz Reiner photo)
Hungarian—and dear friend—Zoltán Kodály had written concertos for orchestra before him, just as Michael Tippett, Witold Lutosławski, Elliott Carter, Shulamit Ran, and Augusta Read Thomas would after his great success. The concerto for orchestra is a particularly twentieth-century idea—a reflection of the unprecedented virtuosity of the modern orchestra and of the desire to pour new wine into old bottles.
With no traditional form to follow, Bartók picked one he often favored: a symmetrical, mirrorlike arrangement of five movements, with a large, dark-hued andante at the center; light, quicker interludes on either side; and a powerful fast movement to anchor each end. The first sounds we hear are full of mystery and gloom, which don’t begin to suggest the sunlight, dancing, and outright humor that are right around the corner. The tone of both the opening movement and the central Elegia is stern, even tragic. The second and fourth movements will disrupt the mood, but only the life-asserting finale can dispel it.
The Giuoco delle coppie is one of Bartók’s most celebrated creations, in which pairs (coppie, couples) of instruments take turns presenting an unprepossessing little tune launched by two bassoons at the interval of the sixth, and followed by oboes in thirds, clarinets in sevenths, flutes in fifths, and muted trumpets in major seconds. The Elegia for Natalie Koussevitzky is, in Bartók’s words, a “lugubrious death-song.” It’s also a prime example of the composer’s “night music,” full of haunting, evocative sounds, and, ultimately, a deep calm.
The Intermezzo interrotto is exactly that—an interrupted intermezzo—the disruption being the march tune of Shostakovich’s Leningrad
Symphony. Bartók first heard the symphony on the radio in Saranac Lake and thought the marching theme so banal he couldn’t resist saying so—in music that dissects the tune and then holds it up to the ridicule of the entire orchestra. Bartók had long questioned Koussevitzky’s championship of Shostakovich’s music at the neglect of his own. Bartók wasn’t a vindictive man, but surely he enjoyed having the last laugh. The finale is dance music, brilliant and lively— especially in its perpetuum mobile sections— based on a straightforward, singable tune and constructed with the contrapuntal dexterity of a master craftsman. It is, above all, a life-affirming statement from a man close to death.
Bartók attended the triumphant premiere of the Concerto for Orchestra in December 1944, perhaps detecting the first signs of a new wave of enthusiasm for his music. In the remaining months of his life, he completed all but the last few measures of the Third Piano Concerto. He left a viola concerto commissioned by William Primrose in a pile of sketches (later reconstructed by Tibor Serly). Bartók was unable to begin a seventh string quartet commissioned by Ralph Hawkes.
Bartók died at West Side Hospital, in New York City in September 1945; he was buried, without ceremony or speeches, in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. His widow, Ditta, moved back to Budapest the following year and continued to play recitals of her husband’s music. She died in November 1982. In July 1988 the remains of Béla Bartók were returned to his native Hungary for a state burial.
Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.
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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
Judy Tuszynski
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
Abbott Fund
Allstate Insurance Company
CIBC Private Wealth
Citadel and Citadel Securities
ITW
Northern Trust
$50,000–$99,999
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
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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
Weiss Financial
$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
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
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
The Clinton Family Fund
Robert and Joanne Crown Income
Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
John R. Halligan Charitable Fund
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
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
Darling Family Foundation
William M. Hales Foundation
Leslie Fund, Inc.
Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation
The George L. Shields Foundation
$5,000–$9,999
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
Dr. Scholl Foundation
$1,000–$4,999
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music
Geraldi Norton Foundation
Benjamin J. Rosenthal 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 December 2024. To learn more, please call Allison Szafranski Director, Leadership Gifts, at 312-294-3143.
$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
Megan and Steve Shebik
In honor and loving memory of Alice Welsh Skilling
Gene and Jean Stark
Zell Family Foundation
$100,000–$149,999
Anonymous (4)
Nancy Dehmlow
Michael and Kathleen Elliott
Mr. & Ms. Lawrence Elman
Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim
James and Brenda Grusecki
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz
COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)
Ruth Ann and Neil K. Quinn Family
Ms. Cecelia Samans
SEMPRE
This fundraising initiative 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.
$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
J. Douglas Donenfeld
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
Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger
Judith and Paul Tuszynski
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
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
Sharon Angell^
Patricia Ames
Peter and Elise Barack
Mr. & Mrs.^ Christopher Barber
Gail Eisenhart Belytschko*
Ms. Elizabeth Berry^ and Mr. Philip S. Revzin
Lizbeth Branch^
Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Burlin
Ms. Vera Capp*
Dr. Thomas H. Conner*
Ms. Juli Crabtree^
Charles and Carol Emmons*
Judith E. Feldman^
Mrs. Donna Fleming^
Leo and Kim Flynn^
Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall
Robert D. Gecht
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab^
Mr. Graham C. Grady
Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris^
Helen Han^ and Dan Pan
Ms. Kyle Harvey^
The Heestand Foundation
Karen and Neil Kawashima
Ms. Geraldine Keefe
Anne Kern
Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn*
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy
Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson
Ms. Leah Laurie^
Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg
Ms. Mirjana Martich^ and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin*
Mr. David E. McNeel
James Edward McPherson*
Dr. Ellen Mendelson*
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*
Mary Rafferty^
Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel
Ms. Carol Roberts*
Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi
James S. Rostenberg
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †^
Mr. & Mrs.^ Michael Scholl
Susan H. Schwartz*
Ms. Courtney Shea^
Ms. Kim Shepherd^
Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons*
Ms. Lynn B. Singer^
Cheryl Sturm^ David and Beth Timm*
Dr. Catherine L. Webb*
Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung*
Ms. Janice Young
Ms. Karen Zupko*
*Commitment to the Governing Members Chair, a collective initiative to endow 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
$75,000–$99,999
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
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–$74,999
Anonymous (2)
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
Ms. Sarah Crane
Dr. Eugene F. and Mrs. SallyAnn D. Fama
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
Frances and Franklin † Horwich
Mr. Jonathan K. Karoly
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
Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas
Ms. Beth Ann Waite
David and Marsha Woodhouse
$35,000–$49,999
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Ms. Kay Boehme
Mr. Roderick Branch
Mr. & Mrs. Johannes Burlin
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund
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. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt
Mr. Gifford Zimmerman
$25,000–$34,999
Anonymous (2)
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. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood
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
Janice L. Honigberg
Ronald B. Johnson
Karen and Neil Kawashima
Ms. Donna L. Kendall
Tom and Betsy Kilroy
Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson
Mr. Jason M. Laurie
Susan and Rick Levy
Mr. & Mrs. Vikram Luthar
Ms. Britt Miller
Daniel R. Murray
John D. † and Alexandra C. Nichols
Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation
Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation
Dr. Mohan Rao
Diana and Bruce Rauner
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
Bill and Orli Staley Foundation
Mary Stowell
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–$24,999
Anonymous
Peter † and Betsy Barrett
Tom and Dianne Campbell
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
Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
D. Elizabeth Price
Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro
Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung
Dr. Marylou Witz
Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation
$15,000–$19,999
Anonymous (4)
Fraida and Bob Aland
Mr. & Mrs. John Baldwin
Merrill and Judy Blau
Fred and Phoebe Boelter
Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown
Henry and Gilda Buchbinder
Robert D. Carone
Joyce Chelberg
Sue and Jim Colletti
Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford
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
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck
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
Edward and Gayla Nieminen
Kathleen Field Orr
Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli
Family Foundation
Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick
LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor
Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte
Andra and Irwin Press
Jerry Rose
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Penelope R. Steiner
Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern
Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft
Penny and John Van Horn
Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
$11,500–$14,999
Jeff and Keiko Alexander
Ann and Richard Carr
Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan
Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng
Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin
Jim † and Kay Mabie
The Osprey Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl
Leslie and Tom Silverstein
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson
Mr. Chris Thomas
Ksenia A. and Peter Turula
Ms. Judith Tuszynski
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
Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin
Mr. † & Mrs. Dennis Black
Cassandra L. Book
Mr. & Mrs. John 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
Rachel Cowen
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian
Mr. Marc DeMoss
Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley
Mimi Duginger
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle
Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan
Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III
Charles and Carol Emmons
Mr. Fred Eychaner
Judith E. Feldman
Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr.
Ms. Hazel Fisher
David and Janet Fox
Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.
Robert D. Gecht
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman
Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone
Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon
Richard † and Mary L. Gray
Lynne R. Haarlow
Joan M. Hall
Mrs. Richard C. Halpern
John and Sally Hard
Pati and O.J. † Heestand
Janet Helman
Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson III
Fred † and Sandra Holubow
Tex and Susan Hull
Michael and Leigh Huston
Merle L. Jacob
Howard E. Jessen Family Trust
Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller
Ms. Librada Killian
The King Family Foundation
Klein Family Giving Fund
Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk
Dr. June Koizumi
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek
Ms. Margaret Kuhajek
Mr. John LaBarbera
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
Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic
Sheila Medvin
Dr. Ellen Mendelson
Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley
Dr. Katherine L. Griem
Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor
Emilie Morphew, M.D.
David † and Dolores Nelson
Ms. Susan Norvich
Mr. Christopher A. O’Herlihy
Eric and Carolyn Oesterle
Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson
Jim O’Sullivan
Richard and Frances Penn
Sue N. Pick †
Mary and Joseph Plauché
Charlene H. Posner
Harper Reed
Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman
Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan
Mr. Agustin G. Sanz
Karla Scherer
David and Judy Schiffman
Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen
Joan and George Segal
Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil
Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar
Diana and Richard Senior
David and Judith L. Sensibar
The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation
Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho
Julia M. Simpson
Dr. Stuart Sondheimer, M.D. and Ms. Bonnie Lucas
Cheryl Sturm
Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.
Mr. † & Mrs. Michael Supera, in honor of
Helen Zell
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
John T. and Carrie M. Travers
Mr. Bill Tyree
Mr. David J. Varnerin
Rebecca West
M.L. Winburn
Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever
Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers
$4,500–$7,499
Anonymous (13)
Elaine and Floyd Abramson
Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker
Mrs. Evelyn Alter
Cat Anderson
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. Stephen Baird
Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes
Joseph Bartush
Sandra Bass
Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen
Cynthia Bates and Kevin Rock †
Deborah Baughman
Ms. Patricia Bayerlein
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Bedford
Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler
Mr. Ken Belcher
Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst
Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez
Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible
Mrs. Arthur A. Billings
Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof
Jim † and Dianne Blanco
Ann Blickensderfer
Kovler Family Foundation
Ms. Terry Boden
Mr. Edward Boehm III
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Borich
Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky
Mr. Donald Bouseman
Ms. Jill Brennan
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Breu
Cindy Marie Brito and Anthony Costello
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum
Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard
Ms. Lutgart Calcote
Ms. Vera Capp
David † and Orit Carpenter
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
Jan and Frank † Cicero, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy
Nancy J. Clawson
Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali
Ms. Jean Cocozza
David Colburn
Jane B. Colman
E. and V. Combs Foundation
Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy
Mrs. Taylor Corbitt and Mr. Christopher Sweeney
Jenny L. Corley in memory of Dr. W. Gene Corley
Nancy R. Corral
Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux
R. Bert Crossland
Daniel Cyganowski and Judith Metzger
Dr. † & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta
Mr. Frank R. Davis III
Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation
Mary Dedinsky and William Carlisle Herbert
Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider
Owen Deutsch and Rona Talcott
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph DiBello
Janet Wood Diederichs
Mr. William Dietz, Jr.
Mr. Doug Donenfeld
Ms. Phyllis Dougherty
David and Deborah Dranove
Ingrid and Richard Dubberke
Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek
Judge Frank Easterbrook
Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert
Ms. Paula Ebert
Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten
Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp
Thomas Eller
Mr. Matthew Ellison
Mr. & Mrs. Victor Elting III
Scott and Lenore Enloe
Dr. & Mrs. † James Ertle
William Escamilla
Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D.
Neil Fackler
Tarek and Ann Fadel
Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein
Steven and Carol Felsenthal
Hector Ferral, M.D.
John and Geraldine Fiedler
Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad
Mr. Conrad Fischer
Dean and Jenny Fischer
Thea Flaum/Hill Foundation
Leo and Kim Flynn
Mrs. John D. Foster
Lee Francis and Michelle Gittler
Arthur L. Frank, M.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann
Susan and Paul Freehling
Judy and Mickey Gaynor
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
Robert and Marcia Goltermann
Mary and Michael Goodkind
Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon
Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French
Donald J. Gralen
Mr. Daniel Gray
Hanna H. Gray
Ms. Freddi Greenberg
Thomas † and Delta Greene
Timothy and Joyce Greening
Dr. Jerri E. Greer
Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen
Jacalyn Gronek
Ann and John Grube
Mr. Dongqi Guo
Anastasia and Gary † Gutting
Stephanie and Howard Halpern
Anne Marcus Hamada
Ronald and Diane Hamburger
Ms. Josephine Hammer
Mrs. John M. Hartigan
Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan
Hassani Family Foundation
James W. Haugh
Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes
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
Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith †
James and Eileen Holzhauer
Mr † & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg
James † and Mary Houston
Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton
Ms. Patricia Hurley
Frances and Phillip Huscher
Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins
Mr. & Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu
Ian and Valerie Jacobs
Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs
Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin
Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus
Mr. John Jawor
Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna
Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson
Dr. & Mrs. Hulon Johnson
Dr. Patricia Collins Jones
Mr. † & Mrs. Saul Kadin
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation
Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck
Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans
Barry D. Kaufman
Larry † and Marie Kaufman
Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul
Peter and Stephanie Keehn
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser
Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel
Mr. Thomas Kmetko
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin
Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn
Evangel Kokkino and Francesca Johns
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff
Dr. Michael Krco
Eldon and Patricia Kreider
Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar
Dr. Lynda Lane
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Langrehr
Mr. William Lawlor, III
Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann
Dean and Rebecca Leff
Ms. Zafra Lerman
Mr. Jerrold Levine
Mary and Laurence Levine
Averill and Bernard † Leviton
Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek
Mr. † & Mrs. Howard Lickerman
Jane and Peter † Loeb
The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust
Dr. Anna Lysakowski
Jacen Maleck
Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling
Francine R. Manilow
Sharon L. Manuel
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin
Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez
Dr. & Mrs. Walter Massey
Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag
Charles and Clara McCall
Ann Pickard McDermott
Dr. & Mrs. James McGee
Dr. † & Mrs. John McGee II
Bill McIntosh
John and Etta McKenna
Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney
James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray †
Leoni and Bill McVey
Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.
Jim and Ginger Meyer
Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad
Paul and Robert Barker Foundation
Mr. Jeremiah Moon
Stephen and Rumi Morales
Mrs. Frank Morrissey
David H. Moscow
Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek
John H. Mugge
Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl
Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman
Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar
Kenneth R. Norgan
Mark and Gloria Nusbaum
Bill and Penny Obenshain
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs
Sarah and Wallace Oliver
John and Joy O’Malley
Mr. Michael Oman and Mrs. Patricia Wakeley
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Paszczyk
Mr. Timothy J. Patenode
Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Michael Payette
Dr. & Mrs. † Ray Pensinger
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein
Dr. William Peruzzi
Mr. Robert Peterson
Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.
Mr. Paul Phillips, Jr. † and Mr. Lloyd Palmiter
Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert
Lee Ann and Savit Pirl
Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker
Stephen and Ann Suker Potter
Mrs. Mary Jo Potts and Mr. Jim Selsor
John and Merry Ann Pratt
Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard
Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett
Mrs. & Mr. Albert E. Pyott
Mrs. Lynda Rahal
Dr. Hilda Richards
Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards
Charles and Marilynn Rivkin
Ms. Carol Roberts
William and Cheryl Roberts
Dr. Diana Robin
Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen
Mr. John W. Rogers, Jr.
Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio
Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper
Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen
Michael Rosenthal
D.D. Roskin
Ms. Lisa Ross
Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi
Maija Rothenberg
Helen and Marc Rubenstein
Ms. Roberta H. Rubin
Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz
Tina and Buzz Ruttenburg
Anthony Saineghi
Mr. David Sandfort
Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht
Mr † & Mrs. Nathan Schloss
Susan H. Schwartz
Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz
Ruth Grant and Howard Schwartz
Scott Byron & Co.
Ms. Mary Beth Shea
Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin
Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts
Mrs. Junia Shlaustas
Mr. & Ms. Alan Shoenberger
Stuart and Leslie Shulruff
Alan and Margaret Silberman
Ms. Ann Silberman
Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons
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
James and Diane Snyder
In Memory of Timothy Soleiman
Elysia M. Solomon
Carol S. Sonnenschein
Mrs. Linda Spain
Robert and Emily Spoerri
Helena Stancikas
Ms. Denise Stauder
Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos
Dr. Dusan Stefoski, M.D. and Mr. Craig Savage
Carol D. Stein
Roger † and Susan Stone Family Foundation
Ms. Donna L. Strand
Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans
Mr. Gary Stucka
Ms. Minsook Suh
Mr. Mitchell Suter and Ms. Hillary August
Mr. James Thompson
David and Beth Timm
Bill and Anne Tobey
Ayana Tomeka
Bruce † and Jan Tranen
James M. and Carol Trapp
Ms. Joanne Tremulis
Joan and David Trushin
Dr. & Mrs. David Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner
Henry † and Janet Underwood
Zalman and Karen Usiskin
Mr. Peter Vale
Jim and Cindy Valtman
Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D.
Frances S. Vandervoort
Mr. † & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice
Mr. James Vardiman
Henrietta Vepstas
Ms. Jennifer Vianello
Dr. Michael Viglione
Catherine M. Villinski
Charles Vincent
Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
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
Mr. Paul R. Wiggin
Peter and Marlee Wolf
Ms. Lois Wolff
Michael † and Laura Woll
Mr. Joseph Wolnski and Ms. Jane Christino
Dr. Hak Wong
Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr.
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. Rene Alphonse
Ms. Doris Angell
Mrs. Barbara Asner
Ms. Marlene Bach
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener
Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr
Ms. Anne Chien
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clusen
Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel
Joe and Judy Cosenza
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall
Ms. Louise Dixon
Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III
Ms. Sarah Good
Hill and Cheryl Hammock
Dr. Robert A. Harris
Ms. Anna Hertsberg
Jess D. Jordan
Ms. JoAnn Joyce
Ms. Ethelle Katz
Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt
Mr. Philip Lesser
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
Mr. Bruce Oltman
Mrs. Ann Oros
Mr. Bruce Ottley
Rita Petretti
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker
Mary Rafferty
Dorothy V. Ramm
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig
Gerald and Barbara Schultz
Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields
Carolyn M. Short
Jack and Barbara Simon
Joel and Beth Spenadel
Laurence and Caryn Straus
Eric Vaang
Hilary and Barry Weinstein
Abby and Glen Weisberg
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
Catherine Baker and Timothy Kent
Connor Ballgae
Larry and Sarah Barden
Ms. Barbara Barzansky
Meta S. and Ronald † Berger
Family Foundation
Mr. James Borkman
Chris Brezil
Ms. Susan Bridge
Ms. Rosalind Britton
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
Ms. Juli Crabtree
Mr. John Crosby
Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker
Mr. Matthew Denk
Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung
Mr. Stephen Diamond
Mrs. Kelli Gardner Emery † and Mr. Peter Emery
Debra Fienberg
Sandra E. Fienberg
Mrs. Donna Fleming
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. & Mr. Christina Greviskes
Mr. Bruce G. Amsterdam and Ms. Ilene K. Grossman
Mr. Adam Grymkowski
Suzanne Hales
Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman
Dr. Dominic Harris
Grant P. Haugen
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick
Alex Hemmer
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.
Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin
Joshua and Faye Jacobs
Egill and Ruth Jacobsen
Ronald E. Jacquart
Ms. Stephanie Jones
Ms. Kathleen Jordan
Daniel P. and Barbara J. Justus
Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan
Mr. Matthew W. Kasper
Mr. Thomas Lad
Ms. Pamela Larsen
Jules M. Laser
Ms. Leah Laurie
Dona Le Blanc
Mr. Jonathon Leik
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. Robert Napier
Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.
Mrs. Janis Notz
Dr. Linda Novak
Marjory Oliker
Peg Gould and Howard Owen
Kingsley Perkins †
Mrs. Victorina Peterson
Mr. † & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn
Richard Phillips
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper
Howard and Sheila Pizer
Ms. Rebecca Preston
Dr. Susan Rabe
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
Rita † and Norman Sackar
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
Dr. Lemuel Shaffer
Mary and Charles M. † Shea
Christine A. Slivon
Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein
Juliet and Bram Spector
Mr. Michael Sprinker
Sue Stevens
Carole Stone and Arthur Susman
In memory of Marjorie Stone
Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.
Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft
Mr. Yuki and Mrs. Kazusa Tanemura
Ms. Alison Thomas
Margaret Trumbull
Mr. John Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Allan Vagner
Judge Eugene Wedoff
Cynthia and Ben Weese
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
Margo and Michael Oberman
$25,000–$34,999
Anonymous
Carey and Brett August
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Crain-Maling Foundation
Nancy Dehmlow
Kinder Morgan
The Maval Foundation
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
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †
Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation
The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.
Dr. Marylou Witz
$15,000–$19,999
Nancy A. Abshire
Mr. & Mrs. John Baldwin
Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.
Sue and Jim Colletti
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
$11,5000–$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
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
Joseph Bartush
Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation
Ann and Richard Carr
Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation
CIBC
Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford
Tarek and Ann Fadel
Ms. Dawn E. Helwig
Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans
Dr. June Koizumi
Leoni and Bill McVey
Jim and Ginger Meyer
Stephen and Rumi Morales
Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek
David † and Dolores Nelson
The Osprey Foundation
Lee Ann and Savit Pirl
Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro
Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis
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
Ms. Rosalind Britton
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
Ms. Stephanie Jones
Dr. Linda Novak
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
Mr. Peter Vale
Mr. Kenneth Witkowski
Ms. Camille Zientek
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 January 2025. 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 Brian Nelson, Manager of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3192.
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
J. Douglas Donenfeld
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
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
Jo Ann & Joe Paszczyk
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
William A. and Anne Goldstein
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
Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic
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
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Moeller
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
Robert W. Parsons, M.D.
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
Mrs. Mario Munoz
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, from both the CSOA Tribute Fund and League Tribute Fund, of $100 or more received from October 2023 through December 2024.
MEMORIAL GIFTS
In memory of Carl Albright
Mrs. Cynthia A. Albright
William and Marjorie Bardeen
Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten
Dorothy Flanagan
Croissy Sans Frontières
Dr. Manfred Lindner
Mr. & Mrs. Paul MacKenzie
In memory of David W. Alm
Mrs. Susan Alm
In memory of Charles T. Angell
Dr. Michael Angell
In memory of Theodore Asner
Mrs. Barbara Asner^
In memory of Alfred Balandis
Mr. Robert Callahan
In memory of Angie Bannister
Robin Johnson
In memory of John R. Blair
Fidelity Charitable Gift Funds
In memory of Lin Brehmer
Franklin Brehmer and Sara Farr
In memory of Carolyn “Kay” Bucksbaum
Ms. Kathleen Cahill
In memory of David Carpenter
Orit Carpenter
In memory of Frank Cicero, Jr.
Jan Cicero
In memory of Henry Cohler
Mrs. Evelyn Alter
In memory of Mark William Damisch
Mr. & Mrs. Allan Ruter
In memory of Gary A. Davis
Dr. Steven Andes
In memory of Mary Paula Dix
Anonymous
In memory of Karl Eisenberg
Laura Solon
In memory of Linda Eisenhauer
Ms. Janice Young^
In memory of Agnes Gupana
Margo and Michael Oberman
In memory of Tapas Das Gupta
Ms. Angela Schmeltekopf
In memory of Zave Gussin
Mr. Nathan Kahn
In memory of Adolph “Bud” Herseth, Dale Clevenger, and Arnold Jacobs
Mr. Esteban Batallán
In memory of Alex and Sally Jacob
Merle L. Jacob^
In memory of Howard E. Jessen and Susanne C. Jessen
Howard E. Jessen Family Trust
In memory of Janet Kanter
Ms. Judith J. Crampton
In memory of John and Kerma Karoly
Mr. Jonathan K. Karoly
In memory of Walfrid Kujala
Tiffany B. Carmona
Ms. Johanna Hauki and Mr. Diamond Mendonides
Cynthia Henricks
In memory of Marie Kukalis and Harold Homans
Mr. Steven Kukalis
In memory of of Jon Lassa
Mr. Robert Coad and Mr. David Ellis
In memory of Nicole Lehman
Ms. Marlene Bach
In memory of Dr. Steven M. Lewis
Ms. Heather E. Lewis
In memory of John S. Lillard
Red Bird Hollow Foundation
In memory of Peter A. Loeb
Mr. Robert Naegele
In memory of Rita Loew
Ms. Kathleen Cahill
Ms. Sandra Hebenstreit
Janice S. Kaplan
Gina Propp-Schmarak
Cynthia Riedl
Christine Sampson
A H. Scott
In memory of Jim and Nancy Loewenberg
Mr. Michael Berger
In memory of Mera Lome
Dr. and Mrs. Leon Lome, M.D.
In memory of Carol Wordsworth Malley
Dr. Karol Sue Reddington
In memory of Edith McDonald
Ms. Rebecca Preston
In memory of Bonnie McGrath
Mimi Duginger^
In memory of Dr. Jal Mistri
Mrs. Zenobia Mistri
In memory of George Mitchell Williams
Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor^
In memory of Anthony G. Montag
Dr. Katherine L. Griem
In memory of Francis (Joe) Nolan
Ms. Vera Capp
In memory of Eul-Soo Pang
Dr. Laura Pang
In memory of Charles Kingsley Perkins
Ms. Susan Thomas
In memory of William H. Phillips
Richard Phillips
In memory of William A. Pollak
Don and Martha Pollak
In memory of Bennett Reimer
Elizabeth A. Hebert
In memory of Al Rose
Mimi Rose
In memory of Woon-Young and Hyo-Kyoung Seo B. Seo-Pero
In memory of Phyllis Shulman
Ms. Susan Gumbiner
In memory of Michael Silverstein
Ms. Mara Tapp
In memory of Susie Stein
Mrs. Barbara Asner^
Ms. Victoria Dorgan
Mrs. Marguerite Guido^
In memory of Sandra J. Tybor
Michael B. Meyer
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
Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro
In memory of Eric Wicks and Walfrid Kujala
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Koss
In memory of Mary Evelyn Williams
Mrs. William White
Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor
In memory of Novella Winston
Ms. Betty Henson
HONOR GIFTS
In honor of Michael Adolph
Mrs. Ann Oros
In honor of Jeffrey and Keiko Alexander
Mr. Dean Solomon
In honor of Al Andreychuk
Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III
In honor of Esteban Batallán and John Hagstrom
Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin^
Lizbeth Branch^
Ms. Joan Dattel^
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 Phyllis Bleck
The Julian Family Foundation^
In honor of Sue Bridge
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward^
In honor of Jeannine Burnier
Mr. Franz Burnier, Jr.
In honor of Robert Coad
Anonymous^
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker
Mrs. David DeMar
Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard
Diana and Richard Senior
Mr. & Mrs. † David Shayne
Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba
In honor of CSOA Box Office Staff
Ms. Diane Falk
In honor of the legendary CSO Brass section
Mr. Esteban Batallán-Cons
In honor of Mimi Duginger
Mr. J. C. Costen and Dr. Sarah F. Orwig^
In honor of the flute section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mr. John Thorne
In honor of Jay Friedman
Mr. Peter Bouchard^
In honor of Allisa Gam^
Ms. Sarah Good
In honor of Mary Lou Gorno
Mr. Graham C. Grady
In honor of Carol Honigberg
Janice L. Honigberg
In honor of Lori Julian
Mr. Robert Napier
In honor of Neil Kawashima
Mr. Bill Tyree
In honor of Joseph Koerner
Robin F. Davies
In honor of Sharon Mitchell
Sebastian P. Mitchell
In honor of Diane Mues
Cynthia Kirk
In honor of Joan Nemickas
Mary and Michael Goodkind^
In honor of Richard C. Riedl
Cynthia Riedl
In honor of Martha and Dean Sayles
Ellen Sayles
In honor of Charlie Vernon, Jennifer Gunn, Lora Schaefer, and Vadim Karpinos
Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer^
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
Mr. † & Mrs. Michael Supera
In honor of Jerrold Zisook
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Schimberg
† Deceased | ^Part of the League Tribute Fund Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of December 2024
