Program Book - Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich by Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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A NOTE FROM THE CHAIR AND THE PRESIDENT

Dear Friends, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra recently returned from its sixty-fourth international tour—one that included fourteen concerts in eleven cities in seven countries across Europe. On page 6, you will find a travelogue documenting the activities of the Orchestra as it created lasting memories in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, all under the baton of Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti, as well impactful visits by members of the Orchestra in community settings. Our reputation as one of the world’s finest ensembles preceded us at each destination, where we were met with sold-out performances, extremely enthusiastic audiences, and glowing reviews. The quality of the performances met expectations night after night, impressing upon a global audience that Chicago is a world-class cultural center. February represents a happy homecoming as the CSO resumes a robust and diverse set of concerts in our fair city. First, conductor Gemma New makes her subscription debut in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony, Aaron Jay Kernis’s Musica Celestis, and Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto performed by Seong-Jin Cho. Next, Paavo Järvi conducts Beethoven’s Leonore Overture no. 3, Nielsen’s powerful Fifth Symphony, and Elgar’s Cello Concerto performed by Sheku Kanneh-Mason in his CSO debut. The CSO, Järvi, and Kanneh-Mason also perform together at the Apostolic Church of God in the Orchestra’s annual free community concert on February 16. At the end of the month, Hannu Lintu returns to Chicago to conduct works by Saariaho, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky—his First Piano Concerto with soloist Behzod Abduraimov in his CSO debut. This program will also be performed at Krannert Center at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Also this month, the CSO at the Movies series continues with a performance of An American in Paris featuring the music of George Gershwin. In addition to subscription concerts, we encourage you to visit our website and box office to learn more about the many other performances presented by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association on our Symphony Center Presents series and as part of the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute. We look forward to enjoying music with you time and again in the days ahead.

Mary Louise Gorno Chair, Board of Trustees Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

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Jeff Alexander President Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS

Mary Louise Gorno Chair Chester A. Gougis Vice Chair Steven Shebik Vice Chair Helen Zell Vice Chair Renée Metcalf Treasurer Jeff Alexander President Kristine Stassen Secretary of the Board Stacie M. Frank Assistant Treasurer Dale Hedding Vice President for Development HONOR ARY TRUSTEES

The Honorable Richard M. Daley The Honorable Lori Lightfoot TRUSTEES

John Aalbregtse Peter J. Barack H. Rigel Barber Randy Lamm Berlin Roderick Branch Kay Bucksbaum Robert J. Buford Johannes Burlin Leslie Henner Burns Debra A. Cafaro Marion A. Cameron-Gray George P. Colis Keith S. Crow Stephen V. D’Amore Timothy A. Duffy Brian W. Duwe Charles Emmons, Jr.* Judith E. Feldman* Graham C. Grady John Holmes Lori Julian Neil T. Kawashima Geraldine Keefe Donna L. Kendall Thomas G. Kilroy Randall S. Kroszner Patty Lane Susan C. Levy Vikram Luthar Renée Metcalf Britt M. Miller Sharon Mitchell*

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery Mary Pivirotto Murley Sylvia Neil Gerald Pauling LTC. Jennifer N. Pritzker, USA (Ret.) Dr. Don M. Randel Dr. Mohan Rao Melissa M. Root Burton X. Rosenberg E. Scott Santi Steven Shebik Marlon R. Smith Walter Snodell Dr. Eugene Stark Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr. Scott Swanson Nasrin Thierer Liisa Thomas Frederick H. Waddell Paul S. Watford Craig R. Williams Robert Wislow Ann Marie Wright Helen Zell Gifford R. Zimmerman LIFE TRUSTEES

William Adams IV Mrs. Robert A. Beatty Arnold M. Berlin Laurence O. Booth William G. Brown Dean L. Buntrock Bruce E. Clinton Richard Colburn Richard H. Cooper Anthony T. Dean Debora de Hoyos Charles Douglas † John A. Edwardson Thomas J. Eyerman James B. Fadim David W. Fox, Sr. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr. H. Laurance Fuller † Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Paul C. Gignilliat Joseph B. Glossberg Richard C. Godfrey

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

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William A. Goldstein Mary Louise Gorno Howard L. Gottlieb Chester A. Gougis Mary Winton Green Dietrich Gross † David P. Hackett Joan W. Harris John H. Hart Thomas C. Heagy Jay L. Henderson William R. Jentes Paul R. Judy Richard B. Kapnick Donald G. Kempf, Jr. Mrs. John C. Kern Robert Kohl Josef Lakonishok Charles Ashby Lewis Eva F. Lichtenberg John S. Lillard John F. Manley Ling Z. Markovitz R. Eden Martin Arthur C. Martinez Judith W. McCue Lester H. McKeever David E. McNeel John D. Nichols † James J. O’Connor † William A. Osborn Mrs. Albert Pawlick Jane DiRenzo Pigott John M. Pratt Dr. Irwin Press John W. Rogers, Jr. Jerry Rose Frank A. Rossi Earl J. Rusnak, Jr. John R. Schmidt Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Robert C. Spoerri Carl W. Stern William H. Strong Louis C. Sudler, Jr. Richard L. Thomas Richard P. Toft Penny Van Horn Paul R. Wiggin

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PASSPORT TO EUROPE A travelogue: the first two weeks of the CSO’s 64th international tour

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o p p o s i t e pa g e , c l o c k w i s e f r o m t o p l e f t: On Monday, January 8, the CSO departs from Chicago headed to the tour’s first destination, Brussels, Belgium. | The Grand-Place of Brussels is the city’s famous central square surrounded by guild houses, the City Hall, and the Maison du Roi. | CSO Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti leads the CSO for the 550th time in a sold-out concert featuring the European premiere of Philip Glass’s The Triumph of the Octagon, as well as symphonies by Mendelssohn and Prokofiev, in Henry Le Bœuf Hall at the Palais des Beaux Arts. | In preparation for the tour, stage technician Todd Snick rolls two trunks of horns through Symphony Center on the way to the loading dock. Nearly twenty tons of instruments, wardrobes, and equipment are packed into 141 trunks for the tour. | t h i s pa g e : Asylum seekers from across the world who have arrived in Belgium assemble at Petite Chateau for a free concert featuring members of the CSO. Seen here, Associate Principal Concertmaster Stephanie Jeong, violin Matous Michal, and viola Danny Lai perform a selection of string trios.

Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) embarked on their eighth European tour together in January 2024, marking the Orchestra’s thirty-fifth tour to Europe and its sixty-fourth international tour. With concerts in Brussels, Paris, Essen, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Budapest, Vienna, Turin, Milan, and Rome, the Orchestra visited seven countries between January 11 and 29 to perform an impressive fourteen concerts. During the tour, members of the CSO also participated in a variety of community programs and master classes supported by the Negaunee Music Institute. The 2024 European Tour repertoire featured works by American composers —T H E T I M E S Florence Price and Philip Glass—specifically Price’s Symphony no. 3 and Glass’s The Triumph of the Octagon,* a CSO-commission that received its world premiere here in September. Price was the first Black female composer to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra, when her Symphony no. 1 received its world premiere by the CSO in 1933. Muti made it a point to perform her music on many occasions, including the Orchestra’s critically acclaimed

first performances of the Third Symphony in May 2022. Also in 2022, Glass attended one of the February performances of his Symphony no. 11—the CSO’s first performances of one of his symphonies. The successful collaboration led the CSO to commission Glass to write this new work, which the composer dedicated to Muti. Additional tour repertoire included works performed throughout Muti’s tenure as the CSO’s distinguished tenth music director (2010–23), such as Mendelssohn’s Symphony no. 4 (Italian) and Strauss’s symphonic poem Aus Italien, as well as Stravinsky’s 1919 Suite from The Firebird, Liadov’s The Enchanted Lake, Brahms’s Symphony no. 2, and Prokofiev’s Symphony no. 5. Muti and the CSO also treated enthusiastic audiences to encores such as the Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut by Puccini and the Overture to Giovanna d’Arco by Verdi.

“ The orchestra is on tour with its venerable director and sounds superb.”

The 2024 European Tour is generously sponsored by the Zell Family Foundation. *The Triumph of the Octagon was co-commissioned through the generous support of the Helen Zell Commissioning Program.

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January 8–10

TRAVEL TO BRUSSELS, MASTER CLASSES, AND COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE January 11

CONCERT AT PALAIS DES BEAUX ARTS January 12

MASTER CLASSES IN PARIS January 13

CONCERT AT PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS January 14

CONCERT AT PHILHARMONIE ESSEN January 15–16

CONCERTS AT PHILHARMONIE LUXEMBOURG January 18–19

CONCERTS AT ALTE OPER IN FRANKFURT

The January 19 concert in Frankfurt was sponsored by ITW. January 20

CONCERT AT KÖLNER PHILHARMONIE IN COLOGNE January 22–23

CONCERTS AT MUSIKVEREIN IN VIENNA** January 24

CONCERT AT NATIONAL CONCERT HALL AT MÜPA BUDAPEST January 26

CONCERT AT AUDITORIUM LINGOTTO IN TURIN January 27

CONCERT AT TEATRO ALLA SCALA IN MILAN Sponsored by Bank of America January 29

CONCERT AT TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA **For additional coverage of concerts beyond this date, visit cso.org/tour.

“ The old master came with ‘his’ Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The audience experienced a triumph of music culture.” — F R A N K F U R T E R A L LG E M E I N E Z E I T U N G

t h i s pa g e : Master classes led by CSO brass players were held for students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Pictured are Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny and Principal Trumpet Esteban Batallán. | o p p o s i t e pa g e , c l o c k w i s e f r o m t o p : The Philharmonie de Paris’s main concert hall, the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, was designed in such a way that no seat is farther than thirty-two meters from the conductor’s podium. | The CSO’s performance in Alfried Krupp Hall at Philharmonie Essen on Sunday evening brought the audience to their feet. | A trip to Germany calls for a visit to a traditional beer hall. From left to right, flute Emma Gerstein, Principal Bass Alexander Hanna, Assistant Principal Bass Alexander Horton and his wife, Hillary Horton, each enjoy a pint with their schnitzel. | Riccardo Muti smiles at the audience at the conclusion of the first half of the Paris concert.

“ The audience listens and reflects with tears in their eyes, to the quintessence of Italiana in music.” —LE MONDE

f r o m t o p : The two concerts in Frankfurt, Germany, are held at the Alte Oper. The building originally opened in 1880 and underwent a major restoration and renovation after the roof and interior were destroyed by bombs during World War II. The hall reopened in 1981. | The interior architecture of the Kölner Philharmonie is highlighted in this photo featuring cello Brant Taylor warming up onstage prior to the concert. This hall is constructed like an amphitheater, with the stage and seats creating concentric circles. | The Musikverein gleams on a chilly night in Vienna. Posters for the CSO‘s concerts outside read ”Ausverkauft” or ”sold out.”

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A Notes for Peace Celebration MARCH 19, 2024, AT 7:00 SYMPHONY CENTER Launched in March 2018 in partnership with Purpose Over Pain, the Notes for Peace project empowers parents who have lost children to gun violence to create original songs of tribute. On March 19, musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, musicians from the Irene Taylor Trust, parents of Purpose Over Pain, and professional vocalists come together for what is sure to be a moving and heartfelt concert featuring a dozen songs written over the last six years. CSO Artist-in-Residence and renowned violinist Hilary Hahn will also participate in the performance, a continuation of her support and involvement in the CSOA’s social impact initiatives. Since Notes for Peace began, 100 songs have been written through the program, which was developed in collaboration with the U.K.-based Irene Taylor Trust and Purpose Over Pain, a nonprofit support and advocacy group for Chicagoarea families who have lost loved ones to gun

violence. The ongoing songwriting workshops, led by Civic Orchestra of Chicago Fellows and alumni, with guidance from Sara Lee and Rex Horan of the Irene Taylor Trust, empower people to honor their loved ones, express their emotions, and process their grief in their journey of healing. The songs composed during these sessions have been performed in concert by professional singers and are recorded at studios around the city to be posted on notesforpeace.org. This concert is generously sponsored by Paul and Lisa Wiggin. Support for the 2023–24 Notes for Peace program is provided by the Clinton Family Fund, Megan and Steve Shebik, Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs, John D. and Leslie Henner Burns, and an anonymous donor. To learn more, please visit cso.org/notesforpeace.

f r o m l e f t: Meagan McNeal performs ”I Love You More Than Life” by Kimberly and Stephen Porter. | Civic Fellows, Sara Lee, and Sarah Ponder perform alongside Purpose Over Pain parent Sherita May at Austin Town Hall.

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Friday, February 23, 2024, at 7:30 Saturday, February 24, 2024, at 7:30 Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at 7:30

Hannu Lintu Conductor Behzod Abduraimov Piano SAARIAHO

Ciel d’hiver First Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances

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Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23

Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso—Allegro con spirito Andantino semplice Allegro con fuoco B E H ZO D A B D U R A I M OV

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Prelude to Khovanshchina (orch. Shostakovich)

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Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70 Allegro Moderato Presto— Largo— Allegretto

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COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher and Daniel Jaffé KAIJA SAARIAHO Born October 14, 1952; Helsinki, Finland Died June 2, 2023; Paris, France

Ciel d’hiver One of Finland’s most acclaimed composers since Sibelius, Saariaho rarely lived in Finland. After graduating from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, she went to Freiburg, Germany, to study with British composer Brian Ferneyhough, and then in 1982 she moved to Paris, where she was living when she died last year. The move to France proved liberating. “It was like leaving your parents’ home for the second time,” she said. I love our culture, but in every domain there was always one wise old guy with a bald head—the male authority whose aesthetics or politics ruled. In music there was Sibelius, in architecture Alvar Aalto, and then there was President Kekkonen, who led the country for twenty-five years. I felt squeezed to be something that I’m not. In Paris, Saariaho became the composer she wanted to be—one who mixed, in an unusually personal way, the bracing austerity of the Nordic musical tradition with the delicacy and supple textures of French art. Saariaho initially went to Paris to work at IRCAM, the hotbed of musical experimentation set up by Pierre Boulez, and it opened a new chapter in her composing life. She began to explore the subtleties of musical color and, with the assistance of computer technology, to study what makes sound work, a preoccupation that continued throughout her career. During this time, she started writing works that mixed acoustic and electronic music in provocative ways. In Freiburg, Saariaho had become something of an ascetic, caught up in a disciplined regimen of composition. The richness of life in Paris shocked her at first, and she couldn’t believe the excitement and pleasure Parisians found in their city— “even the busiest people take one and a half hours for lunch,” she noted with dismay. The experience of living there began to change her, “loosening [her] horribly strict tendencies.” Her music grew more complicated, but also richer, as she began to develop a singular style that reflected not only her background and training, but also her identity as a composer fully engaged with the modern world. “Perhaps it has something to do with

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FIRST PERFORMANCE

April 7, 2014; Paris, France I N S T R U M E N TAT I O N

two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons with contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, two trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, celesta, harp, piano, strings A P P R OX I M AT E PERFORMANCE TIME

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These are the first Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances.

t h i s pa g e : Kaija Saariaho, photo © by Christoph Abramowitz o p p o s i t e pa g e : The constellation Orion. A print of the copperplate engraving for the star atlas Uranometria, 1661, by Johann Bayer (1572–1625). Collection of the National Library of Poland

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the landscape,” she says, “but Finland is a very uniform country, whereas in Paris I felt good about how diverse the city was. There was a possibility for me to exist as I am.” In later years, Saariaho started writing for voice, a shift in direction that culminated in her first opera, L’amour de loin (Love from Afar), which premiered to great acclaim at the Salzburg Festival in 2000 in a production by Peter Sellars (and in its American premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in 2002) and won Saariaho the prestigious Grawemeyer Award. In April 2008 Northwestern University School of Music named Kaija Saariaho the winner of the Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, citing her achievement in “transforming avant-garde techniques into a world of luminous, shifting color and emotional depth, mirroring the human experience.” Saariaho’s fifth and final opera, Innocence, about a shooting incident at an international school in Helsinki, premiered at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival to great acclaim. Ciel d’hiver (Winter Sky) is an arrangement of the second movement from Orion, which the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed in 2010. Composed in 2002, shortly after L’amour de loin, Orion was the largest piece of purely orchestral music Saariaho had written at the time. (In 2002, the Chicago Symphony played Du cristal, her first work for orchestra, dating from 1989.) Written in three movements, Orion takes as its subject the adventurous hunter of

Greek mythology who was placed in the sky as a constellation after his death. In the three-movement score, Saariaho explores the dualities of the two Orions—the myth of the murdered son of Neptune and the constellation that bears his name, the kinetic hunter and the fixed heavenly body. Ciel d’hiver, based on Saariaho’s second movement, is a tapestry of individual voices, beginning with the piccolo. Saariaho regularly writes for the orchestra as if it were a mirror of modern society: “It’s such a concentration of human culture, energy, and history in all its aspects, and extremely detailed,” she once said, “eighty to one hundred musicians, all with their own experience of music making.” The music remains serene and contemplative, even as the orchestral textures thicken into densely woven polyphony—a night sky cluttered with stars. —Phillip Huscher

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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY Born May 7, 1840; Viatka, Russia Died November 18, 1893; Saint Petersburg, Russia

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 In a famously wrong snap judgment, Nikolai Rubinstein said that Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto—a concerto the composer wanted him to play—was worthless and, in fact, unplayable. Rubinstein, director of the Moscow Conservatory and normally an ardent champion of Tchaikovsky’s works (he conducted the world premieres of the early symphonies and Romeo and Juliet), was “not only the best pianist in Moscow, but also a first-rate all-round musician,” Tchaikovsky later said, explaining why he had approached Rubinstein in the first place. Tchaikovsky met with Rubinstein at the Moscow Conservatory on December 24, 1874. After playing through the first movement for him, the composer was greeted with complete silence. “If only you knew,” he later wrote to Nadezhda von Meck, “what a foolish and unbearable situation it is to offer a friend a dish one has cooked oneself and to have that friend eat and say nothing!” Undeterred, though clearly rattled, Tchaikovsky played on to the end of the concerto. Then Rubinstein didn’t mince words, declaring that the concerto was “impossible to play, that the passages were hackneyed, clumsy, and so awkward that there was no way even to correct them, that as a composition it was bad, vulgar.” Except for two or three pages, Rubinstein ventured, the score had to be completely redone. Angry and deeply wounded, Tchaikovsky left the room without responding. Later that evening, Rubinstein went to see him at home and, without softening his original appraisal, proposed that if the composer made numerous radical changes, he would reconsider performing it. Tchaikovsky replied, “I will not change a single note and will publish it exactly as it is now!” On January 9 Tchaikovsky wrote to his brother Anatoly that he had fallen into a “great depression” over the holidays. “There is no one here whom I might call a friend in the true sense of the word,” he continued, pointedly referring to Rubinstein, whom t h i s pa g e : Pyotr Tchaikovsky, cabinet-card portrait by Alfred Lorens (1830–1896), 1874, Saint Petersburg, Russia | o p p o s i t e pa g e : Hans von Bülow (1830–1894), noted conductor and pianist who premiered Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1 in Boston on October 25, 1875. Photo by Fritz Luckhardt (1843–1894), Vienna, Austria

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November 1874–February 21, 1875 FIRST PERFORMANCE

October 25, 1875; Boston, Massachusetts I N S T R U M E N TAT I O N

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

33 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

October 16 and 17, 1891, Auditorium Theatre. Rafael Joseffy as soloist, Theodore Thomas conducting. July 29, 1943, Ravinia Festival. Artur Rubinstein as soloist, George Szell conducting MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

November 15, 17, and 18, 2018, Orchestra Hall. Alexander Gavrylyuk as soloist, Thomas Søndergård conducting August 20, 2023, Ravinia Festival. Kevin Murphy as soloist, George Stelluto conducting CSO RECORDINGS

1955. Emil Gilels as soloist, Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA 1982. Cecile Licad as soloist, Sir Georg Solti conducting. Clarion (video) 1985. András Schiff as soloist, Sir Georg Solti conducting. London 2003. Lang Lang as soloist, Daniel Barenboim conducting. Deutsche Grammophon

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until recently he had considered one of his closest friends, and he admitted that he was still recovering from the blow to his composer’s pride. That winter, however, he sent the piano concerto to Hans von Bülow, a pianist and conductor best known for his championship of Wagner’s music (he led the premieres of both Tristan and Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). “The ideas are so original, so noble, so powerful,” Bülow wrote back, “and the details so interesting; though there are many of them, they do not impair the clearness and unity of the work. The form is mature, ripe, and distinguished in style.” Although Bülow had retired from the concert stage during the 1860s (after his wife, Cosima, left him for Wagner) and had only recently resumed his career, he now became the dedicatee of the concerto and agreed to play the premiere of the work in Boston, where it was advertised as a Grand Concerto. “To Boston is reserved the honor of its initial representation, and the opportunity to impress the first verdict on a work of surpassing musical interest,” the local announcement boasted, unaware that Rubinstein had already done so. The day after the premiere, Bülow sent what is thought to have been the first cable ever dispatched from Boston to Moscow, telling Tchaikovsky of the concerto’s undisputed triumph with the Boston public. The concerto has been overwhelmingly popular ever since, and in 1941 it even inspired a hit song, “Tonight We Love,” which was rather unscrupulously hacked from its broad opening phrases.

he concerto’s celebrated introduction, with its radiant string melody riding over the piano’s thunderous chords, is both its best-known and most-puzzling concept. After a dramatic horn call, Tchaikovsky establishes the “wrong” key of D-flat major and then introduces a theme so splendid, so complete, and so satisfying as it stands that, despite audience expectations, it will never return. Although this

makes for a potentially lopsided design (with the most familiar music over before the concerto proper begins), Tchaikovsky’s subsequent material is of such dazzling color, flair, and orchestral brilliance that the remainder of the score is not a letdown, even after such a breathtaking opening chapter. The main body of the first movement—it begins with nervous, jumpy passagework—introduces a clarinet melody Tchaikovsky said he heard played by an itinerant musician at a local fair. This is a large, finely detailed movement, filled with characteristic Tchaikovskian touches like the barrages of quadruple octaves in the piano solo, and capped by an expansive cadenza. The remaining two movements are brief in comparison. The Andantino is part slow movement, part scherzo; it’s all lightness and effortless charm. The main theme of the playful midsection is based on “Il faut s’amuser et rire” (Laugh and Enjoy Yourself), a chanson associated with Belgian soprano Désirée Artôt, whom Tchaikovsky courted in the late 1860s, and, at least for a few days, even thought of marrying. The finale includes a Russian dance derived from a Ukrainian melody and ends with a majestic coda that manages to match the grandeur and sweep of the concerto’s opening without once recalling its main theme. A postscript on first impressions. It didn’t take long for Nikolai Rubinstein to admit his mistake, and shortly after the premiere he began to play the concerto with great success—“What was impossible in 1875 became thoroughly possible in 1878,” Tchaikovsky observed. He quickly became a celebrated interpreter of the work, and the composer and the pianist-conductor renewed their friendship. After Rubinstein’s death in 1881, Tchaikovsky composed a piano trio in his honor and dedicated it “to the memory of a great artist.” —Phillip Huscher

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RAFAEL JOSEFFY

“No pianist, with the exception of Chopin, has paralleled his mastery of the nuance.” For the Chicago Orchestra’s* inaugural concerts on Chicago debut, giving a recital at McCormick Hall on October 16 and 17, 1891, founder and first music director November 9, 1879. Theodore Thomas led Wagner’s A Faust Overture, With Thomas, Joseffy made his New York Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Dvořák’s Husitská Philharmonic debut on February 21, 1880, performOverture, and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, ing Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto at the Academy featuring Rafael Joseffy (1852–1915). of Music. Over the next decade, the two collaborated Following the first Friday afternoon on numerous occasions, both with matinee, the reviewer in the Chicago the philharmonic and the Theodore Tribune noticed that Joseffy “brought Thomas Orchestra, Thomas’s no raiment from New York but an evetraveling ensemble. ning suit and a light gray make-up for With a strong affinity for teaching, the street, so he committed the glaring Joseffy was head of the piano facfaux pas of appearing in a swallow-tail, ulty at the National Conservatory of vest, etc., before six o’clock in the Music of America in New York City afternoon. [This] was a matter of little between 1888 and 1906, where his colimportance, however, after he began to leagues included Antonín Dvořák and play. . . . Joseffy was distinctly the feaVictor Herbert. ture of the concert, and he was recalled Joseffy appeared in Chicago only three times.” once more, in March 1895, and was “Rafael Joseffy was the master who warmly received, “[proving] his touched the keys and an orchestra able absence had served to increase rather to reveal the beauties of the difficult than diminish his hold on the public,” score gave support,” continued the according to the Chicago Tribune. He reviewer after the Saturday evening performed Brahms’s Second Piano Rafael Joseffy, ca. 1880s performance. “His mastery of every Concerto with the Chicago Orchestra lithograph portrait. New York Public Library Digital Collections detail of the technique of his art was and Thomas, and “the sympathy displayed in the first and the last movebetween pianist, conductor, and ments of the work; in the climax of the orchestra . . . was notable [and] the latter his rapidity and ease of chord and octave playing poetry which marks the andante was reflected in admibeing especially excellent. The middle division of the rable spirit, and the allegro, in delicacy, taste, and polish, great composition he read with more poetry and feeling proved perfection.” than have been revealed by him at any previous appearSoon thereafter, Joseffy shied away from concertance in this city.” izing and touring and devoted his time to composing, A native of Hungary, Rafael Joseffy studied with teaching, and writing. For G. Schirmer, he was the editor Carl Tausig at the Berlin Conservatory and Franz Liszt of multivolume editions of works by Chopin and Liszt and in Weimar before moving to New York in early 1879. He author of School of Advanced Piano Playing, a book of made his U.S. debut on October 13 in Chickering Hall in etudes that includes the entire range of piano technique. New York City under Leopold Damrosch, performing the He never made any recordings. first piano concertos of Chopin and Liszt. “A cool, silvery touch of penetrating sweetness was Joseffy toured soon thereafter and appeared in Joseffy’s, a comminglement of magic and moonlight,” Boston on November 6, again in Chopin’s E minor conwrote James Huneker in Joseffy’s New York Times certo. “His pianissimo is something absolutely wonobituary. “No pianist, with the exception of Chopin, has derful with its delicacy, purity of tone, and sweetness,” paralleled his mastery of the nuance.” wrote a reviewer for the Musical Review. “It is difficult to imagine the composer himself imparting a more Frank Villella is the director of the Rosenthal Archives. For perfect elegance.” Three days later, Joseffy made his more information, please visit cso.org/archives.

*Founded in 1891 as the Chicago Orchestra, the ensemble changed its name to the Theodore Thomas Orchestra in April 1905, in memory of its founder. In February 1913, the board of trustees resolved that a new name would “associate the Orchestra with the city and people of Chicago” and voted to change the name to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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MODEST MUSSORGSKY

COMPOSED

Born March 21, 1839; Karevo, Russia Died March 28, 1881; Saint Petersburg, Russia

begun in 1872, unfinished at composer’s death

Prelude to Khovanshchina

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(Orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich)

February 21, 1886; Saint Petersburg, Russia (Rimsky-Korsakov edition) I N S T R U M E N TAT I O N

On the evening of February 23, 1881, Mussorgsky suffered a severe fit of alcoholic epilepsy; three more attacks followed the next day. On February 26 he was taken to the Nikolayevsky Military Hospital in Saint Petersburg, where he was given a sunny room with large windows. On March 14 Mussorgsky was visited by Ilya Repin, an artist who had wanted to paint the celebrated composer’s portrait for many years. Mussorgsky posed in a hospital chair. Repin, working without an easel, painted on a tabletop. Repin’s famous portrait, finished in just four days, reveals the face of a sad and disturbed man. Mussorgsky appears unkempt and bleary-eyed; his face is clouded by the troubles of a man sick from a life of heavy drinking. On Mussorgsky’s birthday, March 21, a hospital attendant disobeyed doctor’s orders and obtained a bottle of cognac for the composer. Mussorgsky died a week later. During the last year of his life, Mussorgsky worked simultaneously on two operas, Khovanshchina and Sorochintsy Fair, and as a result he finished neither. The latter, based on a comic short story by Gogol, was begun in 1874. Khovanshchina, an epic retelling of the conflicts that beset Russia in the late seventeenth century, had been in the works even longer. Mussorgsky started research and preliminary sketching in the summer of 1872; much of the score was written by 1876. Progress on Khovanshchina often was interrupted by Sorochintsy Fair, and as Mussorgsky’s drinking grew worse, lengthy and productive periods of composition became rare. Of the seven operas that Mussorgsky began during his lifetime, only Boris Godunov was finished before his death. It was left to Rimsky-Korsakov to oversee Mussorgsky’s musical estate, which meant not only collecting and organizing sketches and manuscripts, but also completing his friend’s work. Although Rimsky-Korsakov acknowledged Mussorgsky’s genius—“full of so much that was new and vital”—he felt that a great deal of the music needed editing and correcting. (Mussorgsky always knew that his talent was too unconventional to be understood by the musical establishment; the

three flutes, two oboes and english horn, three clarinets, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, tam-tam, chimes, two harps, celesta, piano, strings A P P R OX I M AT E PERFORMANCE TIME

5 minutes

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November 1 and 2, 1929, Orchestra Hall. Frederick Stock conducting (Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration) July 4, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Ernest Ansermet conducting (Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration) MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

July 23, 2015, Ravinia Festival. James Conlon conducting (Shostakovich orchestration) March 8, 9, 10, and 11, 2018, Orchestra Hall. Emmanuel Krivine conducting (Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration) C S O R E C O R D I N G S ( R I M S KYKO R S A KO V O R C H E S T R AT I O N )

1957. Fritz Reiner conducting. CSO (From the Archives, vol. 11: The Reiner Era II)

1961. George Szell conducting. VAI (video) 1977. Sir Georg Solti conducting. C Major Entertainment (video) 1997. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London

a b o v e : Modest Mussorgsky, 1865 portrait by R.K. Shirinyan

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autobiographical sketch he prepared in 1880, written in the third person, says: “Mussorgsky cannot be classed with any existing group of musicians, either by the character of his compositions or by his musical views.”) The first and most important of RimskyKorsakov’s assignments as trustee of Mussorgsky’s works was the completion and orchestration of Khovanshchina, which was left in a particularly chaotic state. RimskyKorsakov spent the first six months of 1882 sifting through the manuscripts. A vocal score was published in 1883, and the opera was staged in Saint Petersburg on February 21, 1886. Other famous hands soon busied themselves with Khovanshchina: for the first Paris production in 1913, both Stravinsky and Ravel orchestrated passages that Rimsky-Korsakov

had omitted; Stravinsky even rewrote the final chorus. Since then, scholars and musicians, dissatisfied with Rimsky-Korsakov’s efforts, have attempted to reconstruct Mussorgsky’s original. The orchestration of the prelude performed at these concerts was prepared in 1958 by Dmitri Shostakovich. The prelude to act 1 is dated September 1874 in Mussorgsky’s manuscript. The music depicts the sun rising over Moscow, illuminating Red Square, the Kremlin, and Saint Basil’s Cathedral. A single melody is repeated, touched each time by the changing light of dawn; the great bells of Saint Basil’s begin to ring as the sun breaks through. —Phillip Huscher

f r o m l e f t: The composer, in hospital, shortly before his death in March 1881, in the famous painting by Ilya Repin (1844–1930). The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia | Red Square in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century, painting in oil by Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856–1933), 1925. Museum of Moscow, Russia

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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Born September 25, 1906; Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Russia Died August 9, 1975; Moscow, Russia

Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70 By the end of the Second World War, Shostakovich was not only a national hero, but he also was an international celebrity, due to his Seventh Symphony, the Leningrad. Famously written (mostly) in Leningrad during the city’s first year of siege, its propaganda value was instantly recognized. Copies of the score were flown from the Soviet Union to such high-profile conductors as Sir Henry Wood (then chief conductor of London’s Proms) and Arturo Toscanini. The work was even heard in Leningrad itself, still under siege after eleven months and with several thousand having died from starvation: a scratch symphony orchestra was recruited for a performance broadcast on August 9, 1942, demonstrating that the city’s spirit had not been crushed. Shostakovich’s next symphony, the bleak and ferocious Eighth, disappointed Soviet officials, who had hoped for a more triumphant sequel, since the war’s tide had turned in the Red Army’s favor. Realizing that the nightmarish world of the Eighth needed to be counterbalanced, as early as the spring of 1944, Shostakovich told a Moscow journalist of his plans for the Ninth: “I would like to employ not only full orchestra but a choir and soloists, if I can find a suitable text; in any case, I don’t want to be accused of drawing presumptuous analogies.” What Shostakovich had in mind, of course, was Beethoven’s mighty Choral Symphony. In subsequent interviews, he further intimated that his Ninth was

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1945

FIRST PERFORMANCE

November 3, 1945; Leningrad, Russia I N S T R U M E N TAT I O N

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

27 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

October 10 and 11, 1946, Orchestra Hall. Désiré Defauw conducting August 10, 1947, Ravinia Festival. Pierre Monteux conducting MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

July 25, 2012, Ravinia Festival. James Conlon conducting May 29 and 30, 2014, Orchestra Hall. Jaap van Zweden conducting

f r o m t o p : Dmitri Shostakovich, 1950, attending the Bach Celebration of July 28, 1950. Photo by Roger (1929–2006) and Renate Rössing (1929–2005). Deutsche Fotothek Leipzig, Germany Soviet ski troops advancing to the front line in Leningrad during World War Two, passing through the great porch of the New Hermitage Museum, with its iconic granite atlantes supporting the roof. Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents

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to be the triumphal final part to a symphonic trilogy begun by the Leningrad. Expectations were high, and, indeed, it seemed Shostakovich was to fulfill them when, in January 1945, he demonstrated to his Moscow Conservatory students the exposition of a new orchestral work. A week later, when asked about the work’s progress, he explained that he was making slow progress, as the symphony opened with a big tutti and he was writing straight into full score. That month he admitted to his friend, Isaak Glikman: I am not composing anything, since I live in such appalling conditions. From 6.00 to 18.00 I am deprived of two basic forms of convenience: water and light. It’s particularly difficult without these conveniences between 15.00 and 18.00—it’s already dark by then. Kerosene lamps give little light, and my eyesight is bad. My nerves go to pieces because of this darkness . . . then at 18.00 they turn on the light, but by that joyful moment my nerves are so tautly wound up that I cannot pull myself together. Even so, in late April, Shostakovich played about ten minutes of the work on the piano to Glikman, who recalled it as “majestic in scale, in pathos, in its breathtaking motion.” Then, in July, Shostakovich scrapped that symphony and embarked on writing a draft score of the Ninth as we know it. By August 2 he was in Moscow writing a fair copy of the first movement, completing this three days later. He composed the other four movements—first in draft, then in fair copy—at the composers’ House of Creativity in Ivanovo, completing the whole work on August 30.

possible clue to Shostakovich’s frame of mind is provided in the diary of Daniil Zhitomirsky, who witnessed Shostakovich composing the Ninth in the garden of his quarters at Ivanovo, on “a board nailed down on top of poles driven into the ground.” Zhitomirsky had met Shostakovich and his wife at the Ivanovo rail station:

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On the way back here, Dmitri Dmitriyevich first told me about the “uranium” bomb, of the inconceivable, terrible catastrophe of Hiroshima. . . . He spoke in short quick phrases; the husky, pinched tone of his voice, his absent gaze, and pallid complexion all transmitted his distress. We then walked in silence to his little dacha. I thought in bewilderment about Hiroshima, of the complexities of this moment in time (even though the war had ended for us), and wondered what the near future had in store. I started to give voice to my despondency, but Dmitri Dmitriyevich, his eyes fixed on some point overhead, quickly cut short my lamentations: “Our job is to rejoice!” Clearly news of Hiroshima’s bombing, which had taken place on August 6, made the prospect of writing a conventional celebratory work even harder to stomach. Yet, it is known that Shostakovich drafted the score of what became the Ninth Symphony in July, some weeks before. Possibly he had written this as a break from the strain of writing a work on which so much expectation was riding; the news of Hiroshima had then resolved him to making this his Ninth Symphony instead of the grandiose work he had hitherto promised.

he opening of its first movement was described approvingly by one of Shostakovich’s colleagues as “Mozart-like,” though its forebear is clearly that of Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony. Its second subject is a strutting march, led by piccolo, whose apparently innocent theme gains a darker and more sinister character as it is increasingly taken up by the brass as the movement develops. The slow second movement starts with a wan clarinet solo supported by cello and bass pizzicato. The strings take up this theme, and the movement becomes increasingly Mahlerian, with Nachtmusik-style horn fanfares. In complete contrast is the following scherzo, sparkling and light-footed in the tradition of Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony or Berlioz’s

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Queen Mab Scherzo. Something of the quality of Italian comic opera is introduced by a swaggering trumpet solo. This leads without a break into the Largo, pompously started by low trombones and tuba. A solo bassoon, rambling like a morose drunkard, plays a melody vaguely reminiscent of the second movement’s wan lament. Finally, the bassoon appears to pull itself together, launching the finale with a perky and apparently lighthearted theme. Like the first movement’s piccolo theme, this is eventually—after the strings and a curiously oriental-sounding episode played by woodwinds—taken up by the brass to darkly menacing effect. Yet its peroration ends up more

like something from a circus ring than a magnificent procession, and the movement finally races to a hectic end. —Daniel Jaffé

Daniel Jaffé is a regular contributor to BBC Music Magazine and a specialist in English and Russian music. He is the author of a biography of Sergei Prokofiev (Phaidon) and the Historical Dictionary of Russian Music (Scarecrow Press). Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.

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PROFILES Hannu Lintu Conductor FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

February 27 and 29, 2020, Orchestra Hall. Sibelius’s Finlandia, Nielsen’s Violin Concerto with Pekka Kuusisto and Helios Overture, and Sibelius’s Symphony no. 5 February 28, 2020, Edman Memorial Chapel, Wheaton College. Sibelius’s Finlandia, Nielsen’s Violin Concerto with Pekka Kuusisto and Helios Overture, and Sibelius’s Symphony no. 5 MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

December 2, 3, and 4, 2021, Orchestra Hall. Lindberg’s Serenades, Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra with Ray Chen, and Brahms’s Symphony no. 4

The recipient of much praise in such publications as Bachtrack and the Washington Post, Hannu Lintu maintains his reputation as one of the world’s finest conductors. This season, he takes up the baton as music director of Orquestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon while continuing his tenure as chief conductor of Finnish National Opera and Ballet, proving himself a master of both symphonic and operatic repertoire. The appointments follow a stream of successful concerts with Orquestra Gulbenkian and productions with Finnish National Opera and Ballet including Strauss’s Salome, Puccini’s Turandot, and Britten’s Billy Budd. This season also will see the completion of the house’s Ring cycle with Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, as well as productions of Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Highlights of the 2023–24 season include debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian State Opera, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, and SWR Symphony Orchestra, and returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Minnesota Orchestra,

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Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, and the George Enescu International Festival. Recent years have seen Lintu conduct the New York Philharmonic (concluding with an immediate re-invitation from the orchestra to perform at Bravo! Vail Festival), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Radio France, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hilversum, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthaus Berlin, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal alongside the likes of such artists as Gil Shaham, Kirill Gerstein, Daniil Trifonov, and Sergei Babayan. Lintu has made several recordings for the Ondine, BIS Records, Naxos, Avie Records, and Hyperion Records labels. His diverse discography includes Magnus Lindberg’s orchestral works, Beethoven’s piano concertos with Stephen Hough, and Lutosławski’s symphonies nos. 1–4, all with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. His work boasts two International Classical Music awards and several nominations for Gramophone and Grammy awards in recognition of recording projects such as Bartók’s violin concertos with Christian Tetzlaff, works by Sibelius featuring Anne Sofie von Otter, Rautavaara’s Kaivos, and the violin concertos of Sibelius and Thomas Adès with Augustin Hadelich and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Hannu Lintu studied cello and piano at the Sibelius Academy (now University of the Arts Helsinki), where he also later studied conducting with Jorma Panula. He participated in master classes with Myung-Whun Chung at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and took first prize at the Nordic Conducting Competition in Bergen in 1994.

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Behzod Abduraimov Piano These concerts mark Behzod Abduraimov’s debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Behzod Abduraimov’s performances combine an immense depth of musicality with phenomenal technique and breathtaking delicacy. He performs with renowned orchestras worldwide, including the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, San Francisco Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Czech Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra with such prestigious conductors as SanttuMatias Rouvali, Gustavo Dudamel, Semyon Bychkov, Gianandrea Noseda, Juraj Valčuha, Vasily Petrenko, and Constantinos Carydis. Performances this season include appearances with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra of Norway including a tour of Spain, and the Belgian National Orchestra performing at the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He also performs with the Adelaide and Sydney symphony orchestras in Australia. In recital, Abduraimov has often appeared at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He has recently been presented by Alte Oper Frankfurt, Toppan Hall in Tokyo, and Teatro alla Scala and the Society of Concerts Foundation in Milan. This season, he appears twice at Carnegie Hall— returning to the Stern Auditorium for a solo recital followed by a duo recital with violinist Daniel Lozakovich at the Weill Auditorium.

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The duo presents recitals elsewhere in North America, including Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University and the Vancouver Recital Society series. He also gives recitals at the Seoul Arts Centre, Shanghai Concert Hall, Amare Hall in The Hague, and at the Tuesday Evening Concert Series in Charlottesville (VA). Regular festival appearances include Aspen, Verbier, Rheingau, La Roque d’Anthéron, Lucerne, and Ravello. His second recording for Alpha Classics, featuring works by Ravel, Prokofiev, and Uzbek composer Dilorom Saidaminova, was released on January 12, 2024. The album won the Gramophone Editor’s Choice Award and was named one of Apple Music’s Ten Classical Albums You Must Hear This Month of February 2024. The year 2021 saw the release of his first recital album for Alpha Classics, based on a program of miniatures. In 2020 recordings included Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under James Gaffigan, recorded on Rachmaninov’s own piano from Villa Senar for Sony Classical and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto no. 3 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for the RCO Live label. Both recordings were nominated for the 2020 Opus Klassik awards in multiple categories. A DVD of his BBC Proms debut in 2016 with the Munich Philharmonic was released in 2018. His 2012 debut CD of music by Liszt, Saint-Saëns, and Prokofiev for Decca won the Choc de Classica and Diapason Découverte, and his first concerto disc for the label featured Prokofiev’s Third and Tchaikovsky’s First. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Behzod Abduraimov began studying piano at the age of five as a pupil of Tamara Popovich at Uspensky State Central Lyceum in Tashkent. In 2009 he won first prize at the London International Piano Competition. In addition, he studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch at the International Center for Music at Park University, Missouri, where he is artist-in-residence.

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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Chicago Symphony Orchestra—consistently hailed as one of the world’s best—marks its 133rd season in 2023–24. The history of the ensemble began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, the leading conductor in America and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra. Thomas’s aim to build a permanent orchestra of the highest quality was realized at the first concerts in October 1891 in the Auditorium Theatre. Thomas served as music director until his death in January 1905, just three weeks after the dedication of Orchestra Hall, the Orchestra’s permanent home designed by Daniel Burnham. Frederick Stock, recruited by Thomas to the viola section in 1895, became assistant conductor in 1899 and succeeded the Orchestra’s founder. His tenure lasted thirty-seven years, from 1905 to 1942—the longest of the Orchestra’s music directors. Dynamic and innovative, the Stock years saw the founding of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago— the first training orchestra in the United States affiliated with a major symphony orchestra—in 1919. Stock also established youth auditions, organized the first subscription concerts especially for children, and began a series of popular concerts. Three conductors headed the Orchestra during the following decade: Désiré Defauw was music director from 1943 to 1947, Artur Rodzinski in 1947–48, and Rafael Kubelík from 1950 to 1953. The next ten years belonged to Fritz Reiner, whose recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are still considered hallmarks. Reiner invited Margaret Hillis to form the Chicago Symphony Chorus in 1957. For five seasons from 1963 to 1968, Jean Martinon held the position of music director. Sir Georg Solti, the Orchestra’s eighth music director, served from 1969 until 1991. His arrival launched one of the most successful musical partnerships of our time. The CSO made its first overseas tour to Europe in 1971 under his direction and released numerous award-winning recordings. Beginning in 1991, Solti held the title of music director laureate and returned to conduct the Orchestra each season until his death in September 1997. Daniel Barenboim became the Orchestra’s ninth music director in 1991, a position he held until 2006. His tenure was distinguished by the opening

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of Symphony Center in 1997, appearances with the Orchestra in the dual role of pianist and conductor, and twenty-one international tours. Appointed by Barenboim in 1994 as the Chorus’s second director, Duain Wolfe served until his retirement in 2022. Pierre Boulez’s long-standing relationship with the Orchestra led to his appointment as principal guest conductor in 1995. He was named Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus in 2006, a position he held until his death in January 2016. Only two others have served as principal guest conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini was named to the post in 1969, serving until 1972; Claudio Abbado held the position from 1982 to 1985. From 2006 to 2010, Bernard Haitink was the Orchestra’s first principal conductor. In 2010, Riccardo Muti became the Orchestra’s tenth music director. During his tenure, the Orchestra deepened its engagement with the Chicago community, nurtured its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians and composers, and collaborated with visionary artists. In September 2023, Muti became music director emeritus for life. Jessie Montgomery was appointed Mead Composer-in-Residence in 2021. She follows ten highly regarded composers in this role, including John Corigliano and Shulamit Ran—both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In addition to composing works for the CSO, Montgomery curates the contemporary MusicNOW series. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma served as the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant from 2010 to 2019. Violinist Hilary Hahn became the CSO’s first Artist-in-Residence in 2021. The Orchestra first performed at Ravinia Park in 1905 and appeared frequently through August 1931, after which the park was closed for most of the Great Depression. In August 1936, the Orchestra helped to inaugurate the first season of the Ravinia Festival, and it has been in residence nearly every summer since. Since 1916, recording has been a significant part of the Orchestra’s activities. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus— including recent releases on CSO Resound, the Orchestra’s independent recording label launched in 2007—have earned sixty-five Grammy awards from the Recording Academy.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti Music Director Emeritus for Life

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

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

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

CELLOS

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

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

Lynne Turner FLUTES

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

ENGLISH HORN

Scott Hostetler CLARINETS

Stephen Williamson Principal John Bruce Yeh Assistant Principal Gregory Smith E - F L AT C L A R I N E T

John Bruce Yeh BASSOONS

Keith Buncke Principal William Buchman Assistant Principal Miles Maner HORNS

Mark Almond Principal James Smelser David Grifﬁn Oto Carrillo Susanna Gaunt Daniel Gingrich TRUMPETS

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

Jennifer Gunn The Dora and John Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair

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

OBOES

BASS TROMBONE

PICCOLO

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

TUBA

Gene Pokorny Principal The Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld T I M PA N I

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

Cynthia Yeh Principal Patricia Dash Vadim Karpinos James Ross LIBRARIANS

Justin Vibbard Principal Carole Keller Mark Swanson CSO FELLOWS

Gabriela Lara Violin The Michael and Kathleen Elliott Fellow Jesús Linárez Violin Olivia Reyes Bass ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

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

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

Charles Vernon

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

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

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Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO Jonathan McCormick Director, Education & the Negaunee Music Institute Katy Clusen Associate Director, CSO for Kids Rachael Cohen Program Manager Antonio Padilla Denis Manager, Civic Orchestra of Chicago Katie Eaton Coordinator, School Partnerships Mona Wu Operations Coordinator, Civic Orchestra of Chicago Jackson Brown Program Assistant F I N A N C E A N D A D M I N I S T R AT I O N Stacie Frank Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Renay Johansen Slifka Executive Assistant Accounting Sam Pincich Controller Kerri Gravlin Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Hyon Yu, Janet Kosiba Assistant Controllers Janet Hansen Payroll Manager Marianne Hahn Accounting Manager Javier Ayala Senior Accountant Christopher Biemer Accountant Cynthia Maday Accounts Payable Manager Elizabeth Tyska Payroll Assistant Information Technology Daniel Spees Director Douglas Bolino Client Systems Administrator Jackie Spark Lead Technologist Kirk McMahon Technologist, Tessitura Systems Analyst SALES AND MARKETING Ryan Lewis Vice President Erika Nelson Director, Institutional Marketing & Revenue Management Alyssa Greenberg Manager, Audience Engagement Content Marketing and Digital Experience Dana Navarro Associate Director, Digital Content & Producer Laura Emerick Digital Content Editor Peter Breithaupt Manager, Digital Content Steve Burkholder Web Manager Megan Ireland, Zoe Carter Associates, Digital Engagement, Social Media Andrew Hilgendorf Associate, Digital Engagement, Email Program Marketing and Operations Amy Brondyke Director Alex Demas Marketing Manager, Classical Programs Tommy Crawford Marketing Manager, Jazz, World & Popular Programs Jessica Reinhart Advertising & Promotions Manager Kate McDuffie Coordinator, Community Marketing Amanda Swanson Marketing Associate, Data & Operations Jesse Bruer Marketing & Promotions Associate Creative Jaime Hotz Director Sophie Weber Creative Services Manager Emily Herrington Designer Fattah Mulya Design Associate

Content Frances Atkins Director Gerald Virgil Senior Content Editor Kristin Tobin Designer & Print Production Manager Communications and Public Relations Eileen Chambers Director Hannah Sundwall Publicist Clay Baker Coordinator Sales and Patron Experience Joseph Fernicola III Director Pavan Singh Manager, Patron Services Brian Koenig Manager, Preferred Services Robert Coad Manager, VIP Services Joseph Garnett Manager, Box Office Aislinn Gagliardi Assistant Manager, Patron Services Carmen Ringhiser Assistant Manager, Preferred Services Fernando Vega Assistant Manager, Box Office The Symphony Store Tyler Holstrom Manager DEVELOPMENT Dale Hedding Vice President Jeremiah Strickler Executive Assistant Bobbie Rafferty Director, Individual Giving & Affiliated Donor Groups Allison Szafranski Director, Leadership Gifts Alfred Andreychuk Director, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving Tori Ramsay, Richard Riedl Major Gifts Officers Kevin Gupana Associate Director, Giving, Educational and Engagement Programs Jeremiah Pickett Manager, Governing Member Gifts Brian Nelson Manager, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving Emily McClanathan Manager, Strategic Development Communications Victoria Barbarji Manager, Strategic Giving Neomia Harris Senior Assistant, Individual Giving Programs & Planned Giving Institutional Advancement Susan Green Director, Foundation & Government Relations Nick Magnone Director, Corporate Development Mary Grace Corrigan Manager, Grants & Institutional Giving Donor Engagement and Development Operations Liz Heinitz Senior Director, Development Operations & Annual Giving Lisa McDaniel Director, Donor Engagement Alyssa Hagen Associate Director, Donor & Development Services Kimberly Duffy Associate Director, Donor Engagement Jocelyn Weberg Senior Manager, Annual Giving Jamie Forssander, Brent Taghap Managers, Donor Engagement John Heffernan Coordinator, Donor Engagement Hope Oester Prospect & Donor Research Specialist Bri Baiza, Victoria Menendez Coordinators, Donor Services

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION GOVERNING MEMBERS The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, founded in 1894. Its support funds the CSOA’s artistic excellence and community engagement. In return, members enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition. For more information, please contact 312-294-3337 or governingmembers@cso.org. GOVERNING MEMBERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Charles Emmons, Jr. Chair Michael Perlstein Immediate Past Chair Merrill and Judy Blau Vice Chairs of Member Engagement Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Vice Chair of the Annual Fund Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership GOVERNING MEMBERS Anonymous (8) Dora J. Aalbregtse Floyd Abramson Ms. Patti Acurio Fraida Aland Sandra Allen Gary Allie Robert Alsaker Cat Anderson Megan P. Anderson Dr. Edward Applebaum David Arch Dr. Kent Armbruster Dr. Carey August Hillary August Susan Baird Ms. Judith Barnard Merrill Barnes Peter Barrett Roberta Barron Roger Baskes Ms. Sandra Bass Cynthia Bates Deborah Baughman Robert H. Baum Mrs. Robert A. Beatty Daniel Bedford Kirsten Bedway Gail Eisenhart Belytschko Edward H. Bennett III Meta S. Berger D. Theodore Berghorst Ann Berlin Phyllis Berlin Mr. William E. Bible Mrs. Arthur A. Billings Joyce Black Dianne Blanco Judy Blau Merrill Blau Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Ann Blickensderfer Terry Boden Fred Boelter

Peter Borich Mrs. Suzanne Borland James G. Borovsky Adam Bossov Janet S. Boyer John D. Bramsen Ms. Jill Brennan Mrs. William Gardner Brown Sue Brubaker Mrs. Patricia M. Bryan Gilda Buchbinder Rosemarie Buntrock Elizabeth Nolan Buzard Ms. Lutgart Calcote Thomas Campbell Ms. Vera Capp Wendy Alders Cartland Mrs. William C. Childs Linton J. Childs Frank Cicero, Jr. Patricia A. Clickener Mitchell Cobey Jean M. Cocozza Carol Cohen Robin Tennant Colburn Mrs. Jane B. Colman Eileen Conaghan Dr. Thomas H. Conner Ms. Cecilia Conrad Beverly Ann Conroy Jenny L. Corley Nancy Corral Ms. Sarah Crane Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven Mr. Richard Cremieux R. Bert Crossland Rebecca E. Crown Daniel R. Cyganowski Catherine Daniels Mrs. Robert J. Darnall Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta Roxanne Decyk Ms. Nancy Dehmlow Mrs. Suzanne Demirjian Duane M. DesParte Janet Wood Diederichs Doug Donenfeld Mrs. William F. Dooley Sara L. Downey Ms. Ann Drake David Dranove Robert Duggan Mimi Duginger Mr. Frank A. Dusek, CPA Mrs. David P. Earle III Eric Easterberg and Cindy Pan Judge Frank H. Easterbrook Mrs. Dorne Eastwood Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Louis M. Ebling III Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten Jon Ekdahl Kathleen H. Elliott Charles Emmons, Jr. Scott Enloe Dr. James Ertle William Escamilla Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri Neil Fackler Melissa Sage Fadim

Jeffrey Farbman Mr. Don Fehrs Signe Ferguson Hector Ferral, M.D. Ms. Constance M. Filling Mr. Daniel Fischel Jenny Fischer Henry Fogel Mrs. John D. Foster David S. Fox Mr. Paul E. Freehling Mitzi Freidheim Marjorie Friedman Heyman Malcolm M. Gaynor Robert D. Gecht Frank Gelber Mrs. Lynn Gendleman Dr. Mark Gendleman Rabbi Gary S. Gerson Dr. Bernardino Ghetti Karen Gianfrancisco Ellen Gignilliat Mr. James J. Glasser † Madeleine Glossberg Mrs. Judy Goldberg Mrs. Mary Anne Goldberg Anne Goldstein Jerry A. Goldstone Mary Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon Mr. Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen Ruth Grant Mrs. Hanna H. Gray Mary L. Gray Dana Green Clancy Freddi L. Greenberg Delta A. Greene Joyce Greening Dr. Jerri Greer Dr. Katherine L. Griem Kendall Griffith Jerome J. Groen Jacalyn Gronek John P. Grube James P. Grusecki Dongqi Guo Anastasia Gutting Lynne R. Haarlow Joan M. Hall Dr. Howard Halpern Mrs. Richard C. Halpern Anne Marcus Hamada Josephine Hammer Joel L. Handelman John Hard James W. Haugh Thomas Haynes James Heckman Mrs. Patricia Herrmann Heestand Marilyn P. Helmholz Richard H. Helmholz Dr. Arthur L. Herbst Jeffrey W. Hesse Konstanze L. Hickey Thea Flaum Hill Dr. Richard Hirschmann Suzanne Hoffman Anne Hokin Wayne J. Holman III

Fred E. Holubow Mr. James Holzhauer Carol Honigberg Janice L. Honigberg Mrs. Nancy A. Horner Mrs. Arnold Horween Frances G. Horwich Dr. Mary L. Houston Patricia J. Hurley Michael Huston Barbara Ann Huyler Ms. Sandra Ihm Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs Dr. Todd Janus John Jawor Ms. Justine Jentes Brian Johnson George E. Johnson Ronald B. Johnson Dr. Patricia Collins Jones Edward T. Joyce Mrs. Carol K. Kaplan † Claudia Norris Kapnick Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin Barry D. Kaufman Kenneth Kaufman Marie Kaufman Don Kaul Molly Keller Jonathan Kemper Nancy Kempf Elizabeth I. Keyser Leslie Kiesel Emmy King Susan Kiphart Carol Kipperman Dr. Leonard Klein Dr. Elaine H. Klemen Carol Evans Klenk Mrs. Janet Knauff Mr. Henry L. Kohn Dr. Mark Kozloff Dr. Michael Krco Eldon Kreider David Kreisman MaryBeth Kretz Dr. Vinay Kumar Mr. Rubin Kuznitsky Mr. John LaBarbera Dr. Lynda Lane Frederick and Virginia Langrehr Stephen and Maria Lans William J. Lawlor III Sunhee Lee Dr. Anu 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

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

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GOVER NING M EM BERS

Carol MacArthur Mrs. Duncan MacLean Jacen Maleck Dr. Michael S. Maling Sharon L. Manuel David A. Marshall Judy Marth Patrick A. 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 Mrs. Lynda Rahal Diana Mendley Rauner Susan Regenstein Mari Yamamoto Regnier Mary Thomson Renner Hilda Richards Burton R. Rissman Charles T. Rivkin Carol Roberts Mr. John H. Roberts William Roberts David Robin Dr. Diana Robin Chauncey H. Robinson Bob Rogers Kevin M. Rooney Harry J. Roper Saul Rosen Sheli Z. Rosenberg Dr. Ricardo T. Rosenkranz Michael Rosenthal Doris Roskin Lisa Ross Maija Rothenberg Roberta H. Rubin Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz Sandra K. Rusnak David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg Richard O. Ryan Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan 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 Catherine M. Villinski Charles Vincent Mr. Christian Vinyard Theodore Wachs Mark A. Wagner Beth Ann Waite Bernard T. Wall Dr. Catherine L. Webb Jeffrey J. Webb Mrs. Jacob Weglarz Chickie Weisbard Richard Weiss Robert G. Weiss Dr. Marc Weissbluth Rebecca West Carmen Wheatcroft Leah Williams M.L. Winburn Peter Wolf Laura Woll Dr. Hak Yui Wong Courtenay R. Wood Michael H. Woolever Ms. Debbie Wright Nancy G. Wulfers Ronald Yonover Owen Youngman Priscilla Yu David J. Zampa Dr. John P. Zaremba Karen Zupko

For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.

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

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS Corporate Partners $ 2 00,000 A N D A B OV E

Bank of America ITW

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO

United Airlines

$ 10 0,0 0 0 – $ 19 9,9 9 9

Abbott Allstate Insurance Company CIBC Private Wealth Citadel and Citadel Securities Northern Trust $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9,9 9 9

Anonymous (1) BMO Jenner & Block LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP PNC Bank Sidley Austin LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP $ 2 5,0 0 0 – $ 4 9,9 9 9

AAR CORP. Abbott Fund Altair Advisers LLC Kinder Morgan Latham & Watkins LLP Mayer Brown LLP S&C Electric Company Fund Walgreens $ 10,000 – $ 2 4,9 9 9

ADM Anonymous (1) Deloitte Exelon GCM Grosvenor Goldman Sachs & Co. HARIBO of America JPMorgan Chase & Co. McDermott Will & Emery LLP McGuireWoods LLP McKinsey & Company Peoples Gas Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Underwriters Laboratories Inc. Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Winston & Strawn LLP $ 5,0 0 0 – $ 9,9 9 9

Ariel Investments Dentons Fellowes, Inc. Italian Village Restaurants Mesirow Financial PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Segal Consulting The Law Offices of Jonathan N. Sherwell Starshak & Winzenburg Weiss Financial

$1,000 –$ 4,999

American Agricultural Insurance Company Amsted Industries Incorporated AspireUp Carey’s Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. Central Building & Preservation L.P. DS&P Insurance Services, Inc. Etnyre International Ltd FeX Group of Companies Greenberg Traurig, LLP Parkway Elevators Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Scott & Kraus, LLC Show Services William Blair

Foundations and Government Agencies $ 100,000 A N D A B OV E

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation The Chicago Community Trust Julius N. Frankel Foundation JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation The Negaunee Foundation Sargent Family Foundation State of Illinois TAWANI Foundation Zell Family Foundation $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9,9 9 9

The Brinson Foundation Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation Sally Mead Hands Foundation Illinois Arts Council Agency National Endowment for the Arts Polk Bros. Foundation $ 2 5,0 0 0 – $ 4 9,9 9 9

Crain-Maling Foundation The Crown Family Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Irving Harris Foundation Leslie Fund, Inc. Bowman C. Lingle Trust Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation $ 10,000 – $ 2 4,9 9 9

Anonymous Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation The Buchanan Family Foundation The Clinton Family Fund Darling Family Foundation William M. Hales Foundation The Maval Foundation Pritzker Traubert Foundation

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation The George L. Shields Foundation $ 5,0 0 0 – $ 9,9 9 9

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music The Allyn Foundation, Inc. Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Hoellen Family Foundation Hunter Family Foundation Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation Kovler Family Foundation Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation $2,500–$4,999

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation $1,000 –$2,4 99

Franklin Philanthropic Foundation MEB Charitable Foundation Geraldi Norton Foundation Stephen Philibosian Foundation Roberts Family 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 2023. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165. $ 15 0,000 A N D A B OV E

Anonymous Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel and Citadel Securities Mr. † & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation Margot and Josef Lakonishok The Negaunee Foundation LTC. Jennifer N. Pritzker, USA (Ret.) Megan and Steve Shebik Zell Family Foundation $ 10 0,0 0 0 – $ 1 4 9,9 9 9

Anonymous (4) Michael and Kathleen Elliott Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim James and Brenda Grusecki Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz

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H ONOR ROLL OF DONORS

$ 75,0 0 0 – $ 9 9,9 9 9

Anonymous Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse John Hart and Carol Prins Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Gene and Jean Stark Lisa and Paul Wiggin $ 5 0 , 0 0 0 – $ 74 , 9 9 9

Anonymous Mrs. Janet R. Bauer Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Kay Bucksbaum

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. $ 2 0,000,000 A N D A B OV E

Zell Family Foundation

$ 10,0 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 19,9 9 9,9 9 9

The Grainger Foundation The Negaunee Foundation

$ 5,0 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 9,9 9 9,9 9 9

Anonymous Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz $ 2 ,5 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 4,9 9 9,9 9 9

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

$ 1,0 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 , 4 9 9,9 9 9

Anonymous Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Dean L. and Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund Ms. Nancy Dehmlow Dr. Eugene F. and Mrs. SallyAnn D. Fama The Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Frances and Franklin † Horwich Judy and Scott McCue Cathy and Bill Osborn Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Michael and Linda Simon

Liz Stiffel Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown Kay Bucksbaum Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Michael and Kathleen Elliott Joseph † and Rebecca Jarabak † Jim † and Kay Mabie Estate of Gloria Miner The Oberman Family Charitable Trust Cathy and Bill Osborn Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

William A. and Anne Goldstein Jennifer Amler Goldstein, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Mr. Graham C. Grady Timothy and Joyce* Greening John Hart and Carol Prins The Heestand Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman Karen and Neil Kawashima Ms. Geraldine Keefe Anne Kern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg Judy and Scott McCue Mr. David E. McNeel Mr. Robert Meeker James and Renée Metcalf Dr. Sharon D. Michalove John H. Mugge Mr. Daniel R. Murray Estate of Donald V. Peck Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Charlene H. Posner* Estate of Donald Powell Andra and Irwin Press Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi James S. Rostenberg Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Mr. † & Mrs.* John Simmons 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 Dr. Catherine L. Webb* Craig and Bette Williams Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow Mr. Gifford Zimmerman Estate of Rita Zralek Ms. Karen Zupko*

$ 5 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9 9,9 9 9

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 U P TO $ 5 00,000

Anonymous Jeff and Keiko Alexander Patricia Ames Ruth and Roger Anderson Family Foundation Peter and Elise Barack Merrill and Judy Blau Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car George and Minou Colis Ms. Nancy Dehmlow Mimi Duginger Charles* and Carol Emmons Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall Robert D. Gecht Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Alice and Richard Godfrey

$ 3 5,0 0 0 – $ 4 9,9 9 9

Anonymous Sharon and Charles † Angell Peter † and Betsy Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Johannes Burlin Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Mary Winton Green Mr. Collier Hands Ms. Geraldine Keefe Ms. Renee Metcalf Dr. Charles Morcom

*Governing Members who have made a commitment to the Governing Members Chair, a collective initiative of the Campaign to sponsor a revolving musician chair of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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H ON OR ROL L OF D ON ORS

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Margo and Michael Oberman Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow Sidley Austin LLP Walter and Kathleen Snodell Terrence and Laura Truax Craig and Bette Williams $25,000 –$ 3 4,999

Anonymous Nancy A. Abshire Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Altair Advisers LLC Carey and Brett August Peter and Elise Barack Julie and Roger Baskes Patricia and Laurence Booth Mr. Roderick Branch Robert J. Buford Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Mr. & Dr. George Colis Mrs. Barbara Flynn Currie Mr. & Mrs. Stephen V. D’Amore Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson Ms. Ann Drake Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg William A. and Anne Goldstein Mary Louise Gorno Howard L. Gottlieb and Barbara G. Greis Mr. Graham C. Grady Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson Ronald B. Johnson Mr. † & Mrs. Burton Kaplan Karen and Neil Kawashima Ms. Donna L. Kendall Tom and Betsy Kilroy Randall S. Kroszner Susan and Rick Levy Mr. Terrance Livingston and Ms. Debra Cafaro Mr. Vikram Luthar Ms. Britt Miller Daniel R. Murray John D. † and Alexandra C. Nichols Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation Dr. Mohan Rao Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch Susan Regenstein Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Mary Stowell Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan Thierer Family Foundation

Susan and Bob Wislow Mr. Gifford Zimmerman $ 2 0,000 – $ 2 4,9 9 9

Anonymous Arnie and Ann Berlin Tom and Dianne Campbell Joyce Chelberg Nancy and Bernard Dunkel Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Richard and Alice Godfrey Sue and Melvin Gray Halasyamani/Davis Family Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman Anne and John † Kern Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin Jim † and Kay Mabie Ms. Martha C. Nussbaum Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick Ms. Emilysue Pinnell John and Merry Ann Pratt Diana and Bruce Rauner Ms. Courtney Shea Rebecca West Dr. Marylou Witz Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation $ 15,0 0 0 – $ 19,9 9 9

Anonymous (3) Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Robert D. Carone Ann and Richard Carr Sue and Jim Colletti Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood John and Fran Edwardson Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III Janice L. Honigberg Mrs. Janet Kanter Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Klein Nancy and Sanfred Koltun Ms. Betsy Levin Mr. Philip Lumpkin Mr. David E. McNeel Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery Edward and Gayla Nieminen Kathleen Field Orr Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli Family Foundation LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte Andra and Irwin Press D. Elizabeth Price Jerry Rose Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern

Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft Penny and John Van Horn Mr. Christian Vinyard Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung David Woodhouse $11,500–$14,999

Fraida and Bob Aland Cynthia Bates and Kevin Rock Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Merle L. Jacob Stephen and Maria Lans Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall The Osprey Foundation Leslie and Tom Silverstein Dr. Stuart Sondheimer, M.D. and Ms. Bonnie Lucas Carol S. Sonnenschein Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs Caroline Foulke Wettersten Mr. & Ms. Richard Williams $ 7, 5 0 0 – $ 1 1 , 4 9 9

Anonymous (5) Ms. Patti Acurio Jeff and Keiko Alexander Geoffrey A. Anderson Ms. Miah Armour Mr. Robert C. Austin and Dr. Kathryn C. Gamble Ms. Judith Barnard Mrs. Gail Belytschko Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof Merrill and Judy Blau Mr. & Mrs. Fred Boelter Cassandra L. Book Mr. & Mrs. John Borland Adam Bossov Janet S. Boyer Ms. Danolda Brennan Mr. Ray Capitanini Patricia A. Clickener Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Jenny L. Corley in memory of Dr. W. Gene Corley Mr. Lawrence Corry Mr. Marc DeMoss Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley Mr. † & Mrs. Charles W. Douglas Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III Charles and Carol Emmons Judith E. Feldman Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad

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Ms. Hazel Fisher Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Mr. † & Mrs. James J. Glasser Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory Lynne R. Haarlow Joan M. Hall Mrs. Richard C. Halpern Anne Marcus Hamada John and Sally Hard Pati and O.J. † Heestand Richard † and Joanne Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson III Fred and Sandra Holubow Michael and Leigh Huston Howard E. Jessen Family Trust Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller The King Family Foundation Dr. June Koizumi Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff Dr. Michael Krco Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck Mr. John LaBarbera Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler Dr. Lynda Lane Mr. Jeffrey Lennard Mr. Michael Leppen Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. John Lillard Jane and Peter Loeb Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Francine R. Manilow Robert † and Judy Marth Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic Sheila Medvin Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor Emilie Morphew, M.D. Ms. Susan Norvich Eric and Carolyn Oesterle Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson Jim O’Sullivan Richard and Frances Penn Sue N. Pick Mary and Joseph Plauché Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Mr. Richard Ryan Rita † and Norman Sackar Mr. Agustin G. Sanz Karla Scherer David and Judy Schiffman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl Joan and George Segal The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation

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Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Julia M. Simpson Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro Cheryl Sturm Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr. Ms. Bernadette Y. Tang Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt Ms. Carla M. Thorpe TravTours, Inc. Tully Family Foundation in honor of Helen Zell Mr. † & Mrs. William C. Vance Frances S. Vandervoort Mr. David J. Varnerin Catherine M. Villinski M.L. Winburn Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever Ms. Karen Zupko $ 4 , 5 0 0 – $ 7, 4 9 9

Anonymous (15) Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein Cat Anderson Megan P. and John L. Anderson Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei David and Suzanne Arch Dr. & Mrs. Kent Armbruster Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Baird Mr. William Baker and Ms. Rita Corley-Baker Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes Joseph Bartush Ms. Sandra Bass Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen Deborah Baughman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Bedford Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Mr. Ken Belcher Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Mrs. Arthur A. Billings Mr. † & Mrs. Dennis Black Jim † and Dianne Blanco Ann Blickensderfer Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block Ms. Terry Boden Mr. Edward Boehm III Mr. Virgil Bogert Mr. & Mrs. Peter Borich Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky Mr. Donald Bouseman Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen Ms. Jill Brennan Cindy Marie Brito and Anthony Costello Mrs. Sue Brubaker

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum Ms. Lutgart Calcote Ms. Vera Capp Wendy Alders Cartland Mia Celano and Noel Dunn 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 Douglas and Carol Cohen Jane and John C. † Colman E. and V. Combs Foundation Mrs. Eileen Conaghan Dr. Thomas H. Conner Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Mr. Robert Cook Nancy R. Corral Ms. Jane Cox Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux R. Bert Crossland Daniel Cyganowski and Judith Metzger Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider Janet Wood Diederichs Mr. Doug Donenfeld David and Deborah Dranove Ingrid and Richard Dubberke Mimi Duginger Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek Judge Frank Easterbrook Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp Thomas Eller Mr. & Mrs. Victor Elting III Scott and Lenore Enloe Dr. & Mrs. † James Ertle William Escamilla Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Neil Fackler Dr. Gail Fahey Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein Donald and Signe Ferguson Hector Ferral, M.D. John and Geraldine Fiedler Mr. Conrad Fischer Dean and Jenny Fischer Thea Flaum/Hill Foundation Mrs. Donna Fleming Mrs. John D. Foster David and Janet Fox Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann Susan and Paul Freehling Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.

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Judy and Mickey Gaynor Robert D. Gecht Sandy and Frank Gelber Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson Bernardino and Caterina Ghetti Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco Mr. Lionel Go Judy and Bill Goldberg Lyn Goldstein Robert and Marcia Goltermann Mary and Michael Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French Donald J. Gralen Hanna H. Gray Richard † and Mary L. Gray Ms. Freddi Greenberg Thomas † and Delta Greene Timothy and Joyce Greening Dr. Jerri E. Greer Dr. Katherine L. Griem Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen Jacalyn Gronek Ann and John Grube Mr. Dongqi Guo Anastasia and Gary † Gutting Stephanie and Howard Halpern Ms. Josephine Hammer Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan James W. Haugh Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes James and Lynne † Heckman Mr. Hirad Hedayat Mr. Dale C. Hedding Scott Helm Dr. † & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Jeffrey W. Hesse Marjorie Friedman Heyman The Hickey Family Foundation William B. Hinchliff Dr. Richard Hirschmann Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith † Mr. William J. Hokin † James and Eileen Holzhauer Mr. † & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg James and Mary Houston Carter Howard and Sarah Krepp Tex and Susan Hull Hunter Family Foundation Ms. Patricia Hurley Frances and Phillip Huscher Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus Mr. John Jawor Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna Joni and Brian Johnson Dr. Patricia Collins Jones Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck

Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin Barry D. Kaufman Larry † and Marie Kaufman Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Peter and Stephanie Keehn Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser John and Judy Keller Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel Carol Kipperman Dr. Elaine Klemen Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk Mr. Thomas Kmetko Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn Eldon and Patricia Kreider David and Susan Kreisman Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar Mr. & Mrs. Rubin P. Kuznitsky Mr. William Lawlor, III Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann Mr. & Mrs. Dean Leff Sheila Fields Leiter Ms. Zafra Lerman Mr. Jerrold Levine Mary and Laurence Levine Averill and Bernard † Leviton Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Mr. † and Mrs. Howard Lickerman The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust Mrs. Gabrielle Long Dr. Anna Lysakowski Carol MacArthur Mr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLean Eileen Madden Jacen Maleck Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling Sharon L. Manuel Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag Igor and Olga Matlin Charles and Clara McCall Ann Pickard McDermott Dr. & Mrs. James McGee Dr. † & Mrs. John McGee II John and Etta McKenna Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray † Mrs. Leoni McVey Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meister Dr. Ellen Mendelson Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc. Jim and Ginger Meyer Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad David H. Moscow Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek John H. Mugge Jo Ann and Stuart Nathan Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman David † and Dolores Nelson Dr. Zehava L. Noah

Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard 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. Timothy J. Patenode Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. Michael Payette Dr. & Mrs. † Ray Pensinger Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Bonnie Perry Dr. William Peruzzi Mr. Robert Peterson Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Richard Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker John F. Podjasek III Charitable Fund Charlene H. Posner Stephen and Ann Suker Potter Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett Harper Reed Dr. Hilda Richards Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards Mary K. Ring Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Ms. Carol Roberts William and Cheryl Roberts Dr. Diana Robin Bob Rogers Travel Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg Michael Rosenthal D.D. Roskin Ms. Lisa Ross Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi Maija Rothenberg Ms. Roberta H. Rubin Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz Mrs. Martha Sabransky † and Dr. Paul Glickman Anthony Saineghi Mr. David Sandfort Raymond and Inez Saunders Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht Mr. † and Mrs. Nathan Schloss Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig Gerald and Barbara Schultz Susan H. Schwartz Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar Diana and Richard Senior David and Judith L. Sensibar Ms. Mary Beth Shea Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin

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Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Mrs. Junia Shlaustas Mr. & Ms. Alan Shoenberger Stuart and Leslie Shulruff Ms. Ann Silberman Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons Mr. Larry Simpson Craig Sirles Christine A. Slivon 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 Kimberly M. Snyder In Memory of Timothy Soleiman Elysia M. Solomon 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 Penelope R. Steiner Roger † and Susan Stone Family Foundation Laurence and Caryn Straus Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong Ms. Minsook Suh Mr. Mitchell Suter and Ms. Hillary August Mr. Chris Thomas Mr. James Thompson Joan and Michael Thron David and Beth Timm Bill and Anne Tobey Ayana Tomeka Bruce † and Jan Tranen James M. and Carol Trapp John T. and Carrie M. Travers Joan and David Trushin Dr. & Mrs. David Turner Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner Ms. Judith Tuszynski Zalman and Karen Usiskin Mr. Peter Vale Jim and Cindy Valtman Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D. Mr. † & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice Ms. Jennifer Vianello Ms. Raita Vilnins Charles Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward Dr. Catherine L. Webb Mr. & Mrs. David Weber Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss

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Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Whellan Peter and Marlee Wolf Ms. Lois Wolff Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Michael † and Laura Woll Dr. Hak Wong Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr. Ms. Debbie Wright Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers Mari Yamamoto Regnier Ms. Janice Young Owen and Linda Youngman Paul and Mary Yovovich In memory of Anthony C. Yu David and Eileen Zampa Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba Ms. Camille Zientek Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross Jennifer Zobair and Chuck Smith $3,500–$4,499

Anonymous Ms. Doris Angell Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Barber Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez Ms. Susan Bridge Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brightfelt Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr Margery al Chalabi Ms. Anne Chien Ms. Juli Crabtree Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris Mr. † & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker Ms. Louise Dixon Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III Dr. & Mrs. James L. Downey Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson Hill and Cheryl Hammock Dr. Robert A. Harris Ms. Dawn E. Helwig Ms. Anna Hertsberg Dr. Ashley Jackson Maryl Johnson, M.D. Ms. JoAnn Joyce Joseph and Judith Konen Eric Kuhlman Robert O. Middleton Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Ms. Victoria Nee Mr. Bruce Ottley Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn Howard and Sheila Pizer Mary Rafferty Dorothy V. Ramm Mrs. Enid Rieser Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields Lynn B. Singer Joel and Beth Spenadel Mr. James Vardiman Ms. Mary Walsh Samuel † and Chickie Weisbard

$2,500–$3,499

Anonymous (3) Mr. Frank Ackerman Ms. Rene Alphonse Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Asner † Ms. Marlene Bach William and Marjorie Bardeen Larry and Sarah Barden James and Bartha Barrett Ms. Patricia Bayerlein Meta S. and Ronald † Berger Family Foundation Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin Mr. James Borkman Mr. Douglas Bragan † Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener Chris Brezil 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 Joe and Judy Cosenza Mr. John Crosby Ms. Angela D’Aversa Mr. Frank R. Davis III Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung Mrs. Kelli Gardner Emery † and Mr. Peter Emery Debra Fienberg Sandra E. Fienberg Kenneth M. Fitzgerald and Ruby Carr Ms. Nona Flores Ms. Irene Fox Mr. Ray Frick Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III James and Rebecca Gaebe Jane Gaines and Andy Kenoe Mr. Stanford Goldblatt Ms. Sarah Good Isabelle Goossen Merle Gordon Mr. Adam Grymkowski Ronald and Diane Hamburger Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman Mrs. John M. Hartigan James and Megan Hinchsliff Dr. & Mrs. James Holland Mr. Stephen Holmes Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton Saul Juskaitis Ms. Ethelle Katz Mr. & Mrs. Frank Klapperich, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt Mr. Matthew Kusek Mr. Thomas Lad Ms. Pamela Larsen Jules M. Laser Dr. Gerald † and Darlene Lee Mr. Jonathon Leik

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Mr. Philip Lesser Mr. Michael J. Liccar Robert † and Joan Lipsig Mr. Melvin Loeb Sherry and Mel Lopata Ronald and Carlotta Lucchesi Ms. Janice Magnuson Mr. Timothy Marshall Robert and Doretta Marwin Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass Margaret and Michael McCoy Ms. Marilyn Mccoy Rosa and Peter McCullagh Ric D. McDonough Bill McIntosh Mr. & Mrs. Lester McKeever Mr. Zarin Mehta Ms. Claretta Meier Ian and Robyn Moncrief Mrs. Frank Morrissey Ms. Maryrose Murphy Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr. Noteable Notes Music Academy/ Wheaton, IL Mrs. Janis Notz Beatrice F. Orzac † Mr. Sebastian Patino Kingsley Perkins † Rita Petretti Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper Lee Ann and Savit Pirl Dr. Joe Piszczor Kenneth J. Poje Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker Ms. Constance Rajala Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel Mr. Jeffrey Rappin Neal Reenan Patricia Richter Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross John Francis Sarwark Ms. Saslow Shirley and John † Schlossman Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil Mr. James Selsor Mrs. Phyllis Shafron Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro Carolyn M. Short Ellen and Richard Shubart Margaret and Alan Silberman Jack and Barbara Simon The Honorable John B. Simon and Millie Rosenbloom Nancy J. Smith Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein Mr. Michael Sprinker Ms. Sue Stealey Carole Stone and Arthur Susman Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan Mrs. Jeanne Sullivan

Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft Ms. Alison Thomas Ms. Joanne Tremulis Henrietta Vepstas Robert J. Walker Alexander J. Wayne Mr. Lawrence Wechter Mr. Michael Welsh and Ms. Linda Brummer-Welsh Robert J. Wilczek † and Shirley Pfenning Mr. Kenneth Witkowski Barbara and Steven Wolf Mr. Joseph Wolnski and Ms. Jane Christino Dr. Nanajan Yakoub Ms. Mary Zeltmann

Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Negaunee Music Institute connects individuals and communities to the extraordinary musical resources of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The following donors are gratefully acknowledged for making a gift in support of these educational and engagement programs. To make a gift or learn more, please contact Kevin Gupana, Associate Director of Giving, Educational and Engagement Programs, 312-294-3156.

$25,000 –$ 3 4,999

Anonymous Abbott Fund Carey and Brett August Crain-Maling Foundation Kinder Morgan Margo and Michael Oberman Gene and Jean Stark $ 2 0,000 – $ 2 4,9 9 9

Anonymous Mary Winton Green Halasyamani/Davis Family Illinois Arts Council Agency Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family PNC Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation $ 15,0 0 0 – $ 19,9 9 9

Nancy A. Abshire Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. The Buchanan Family Foundation John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund Sue and Jim Colletti Mr. Philip Lumpkin The Maval Foundation Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Dr. Marylou Witz $11,500–$14,999

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation

Barker Welfare Foundation Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans Ksenia A. and Peter Turula

$ 10 0,0 0 0 – $ 1 4 9,9 9 9

$ 7, 5 0 0 – $ 1 1 , 4 9 9

$ 15 0,000 A N D A B OV E

Anonymous Allstate Insurance Company $ 75,0 0 0 – $ 9 9,9 9 9

John Hart and Carol Prins Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Megan and Steve Shebik $ 5 0 , 0 0 0 – $ 74 , 9 9 9

Anonymous BMO Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Judy and Scott McCue Polk Bros. Foundation Michael and Linda Simon Lisa and Paul Wiggin $ 3 5,0 0 0 – $ 4 9,9 9 9

Bowman C. Lingle Trust National Endowment for the Arts The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Shure Charitable Trust

Anonymous Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Mr. Lawrence Corry Nancy and Bernard Dunkel Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab JPMorgan Chase & Co. The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Ms. Susan Norvich Ms. Emilysue Pinnell D. Elizabeth Price LTC. Jennifer N. Pritzker, USA (Ret.) Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation Ms. Courtney Shea Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell $ 4 , 5 0 0 – $ 7, 4 9 9

Anonymous Joseph Bartush

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Ann and Richard Carr Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Mr. Lionel Go Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr. Dr. June Koizumi Dr. Lynda Lane Francine R. Manilow Mrs. Leoni McVey Jim and Ginger Meyer Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek The Osprey Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation $3,500–$4,499

Anonymous Arts Midwest Gig Fund Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker Judith E. Feldman Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Ms. Dawn E. Helwig Ms. Ethelle Katz Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards Mr. Peter Vale Ms. Mary Walsh $2,500–$3,499

Anonymous Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse David and Suzanne Arch Mr. James Borkman Adam Bossov Mr. Douglas Bragan † Mr. Ray Capitanini Lisa Chessare Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes Patricia A. Clickener Ms. Nancy Dehmlow Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng William B. Hinchliff Michael and Leigh Huston Italian Village Restaurants Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic Mrs. Frank Morrissey David † and Dolores Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper Lee Ann and Savit Pirl Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen Mr. David Sandfort Gerald and Barbara Schultz Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro Carol S. Sonnenschein Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis Mr. Kenneth Witkowski Ms. Camille Zientek

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Ms. Marlene Bach Ms. Barbara Barzansky Mr. Lawrence Belles Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Cassandra L. Book Mr. Donald Bouseman Ms. Danolda Brennan Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman Darren Cahr Bradley Cohn Charles and Carol Emmons Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of the Civic horn section Mr. Conrad Fischer Ms. Lola Flamm David and Janet Fox Ronald and Diane Hamburger Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick Thomas and Reseda Kalowski Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin Dona Le Blanc Adele Mayer Mr. Aaron Mills Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Morales Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Mr. Alexander Ripley Ms. Mary Sauer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza Jane A. Shapiro Mrs. Julie Stagliano Michael and Salme Steinberg Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust Ayana Tomeka Ms. Betty Vandenbosch Abby and Glen Weisberg M.L. Winburn Irene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin Dr. & Mrs. Larry Zollinger $1,000 –$1,4 99

Anonymous Duffie A. Adelson John Albrecht Ms. Rochelle Allen Ms. Margaret Amato Allen and Laura Ashley Howard and Donna Bass Daniel and Michele Becker Ann Blickensderfer Mr. Rowland Chang David Colburn Mr. & Mrs. Bill Cottle Alan R. Cravitz Mr. & Mrs. Barnaby Dinges Tom Draski DS&P Insurance Services, Inc. Ms. Sharon Eiseman Richard Finegold, M.D. and Ms. Rita O’Laughlin Foxman Family Foundation Eunice and Perry Goldberg Enid Goubeaux Mrs. Susan Hammond Dr. Robert A. Harris

Mr. David Helverson Clifford Hollander and Sharon Flynn Hollander Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin Mr. Ray Jones Charles Katzenmeyer Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer Randolph T. Kohler and Scott Gordan Ms. Foo Choo Lee Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus Timothy Lubenow Sharon L. Manuel Rosa and Peter McCullagh Mr. & Mrs. William McNally Robert O. Middleton Stephen W. and Kathleen J. Miller Geoffrey R. Morgan Mrs. MaryLouise Morrison Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Lewis Nashner William H. Nichols Ms. Sylvette Nicolini Edward and Gayla Nieminen Mr. Bruce Oltman Ms. Joan Pantsios Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Ms. Dona Perry James † and Sharon Phillips Christine and Michael Pope Quinlan & Fabish Mr. George Quinlan Susan Rabe Dr. Hilda Richards Dr. Edward Riley Mary K. Ring Christina Romero and Rama Kumanduri Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross Mr. David Samson Peter Schauer Mr. David M. Schiffman Barbara and Lewis Schneider Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schuette Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Mr. Rahul and Mrs. Shobha Shah Mr. & Mrs. James Shapiro Dr. Rebecca Sherrick Mr. Larry Simpson Dr. Sabine Sobek Ms. Denise Stauder Mrs. Pamela Stepansky Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Stepansky Donna Stroder Sharon Swanson Dr. Douglas Vaughan Mr. & Mrs. Richard Waxman Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman Joni Williams Jane Stroud Wright

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ENDOWED FUNDS

Anonymous (3) Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth Concert Fund Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund CNA The Davee Foundation Frank Family Fund Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund Jennifer Amler Goldstein Fund, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein Mary Winton Green William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Community Engagement Richard A. Heise Peter Paul Herbert Endowment Fund Julian Family Foundation Fund The Kapnick Family Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust The Malott Family School Concerts Fund The Eloise W. Martin Endowed Fund in support of the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Negaunee Foundation Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends Shebik Community Engagement Programs Fund Toyota Endowed Fund The Wallace Foundation Zell Family Foundation

Theodore Thomas Society Mary Louise Gorno Chair

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

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individuals for generously creating a revocable bequest of $100,000 or more, or an irrevocable life-income trust or annuity of $50,000 or more, to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, as of December 2023. 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 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 Danolda Brennan Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr. Mitchell J. Brown Marion A. Cameron-Gray Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark Patricia A. Clickener Judith and Stephen F. Condren Anita Crocus David L. Curry Mimi Duginger Harry and Jean Eisenman Michael and Kathleen Elliott Dr. Marilyn Ezri David S. and Janet M. Fox Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson Mary J. and Ronald P. Frelk Penny and John Freund Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat Merle Gordon Mary Louise Gorno Dr. & Mrs. David Granato Mary L. Gray Mary Winton Green Dr. Jon Brian Greis John and Patricia Hamilton John Hart and Carol Prins Mr. William P. Hauworth II Thomas and Linda Heagy Mr. R.H. Helmholz Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Concordia Hoffmann Stephen D. and Catherine N. Holmes Frank and Helen Holt Mark and Elizabeth Hurley Frances and Phillip Huscher Ms. Darlene Johnson Ronald B. Johnson Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy Lori Julian Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Howard Kaspin James Kemmerer Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Edwin and Karen Kramer

Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka Jonathon Leik Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring Robert Alan Lewis Dr. Valerie Lober Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl Sheldon H. Marcus James Edward McPherson Janet L. Melk Dr. Frederick K. Merkel Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor Craig and Rose Moore Mrs. Mario A. Munoz John H. Nelson Muriel Nerad Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer Diane Ososke Dr. Joan E. Patterson Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn Judy Pomeranz Maridee Quanbeck Neil K. Quinn Randall and Cara Rademaker Constance A. Rajala Al and Lynn Reichle Ann and Bob † Reiland Wendy Reynes Dr. Edward O. Riley Charles and Marilynn Rivkin David and Kathy Robin Jerry Rose Mr. James S. Rostenberg Richard O. Ryan John A. Salkowski Cecelia Samans A. Wm. Samuel Franklin Schmidt Mr. Craig Sirles Betty W. Smykal Annette and Richard Steinke Mrs. Deborah Sterling Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong Mrs. Gloria B. Telander Karin and Alfred Tenny Richard and Helen Thomas Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Dr. Richard Tresley Paula Turner Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner Mr. & Mrs. John E. Van Horn 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

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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. Dr. Edward L. Applebaum Catherine Aranyi Dr. Susan Arjmand Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba Mara Mills Barker Shirley Baron Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty Joan I. Berger Robert M. Berger Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky John L. Browar Catherine Brubaker Joseph Buc Edward J. Buckbee Michelle Miller Burns Mr. Robert J. Callahan Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Car Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael Dr. Marlene E. Casiano Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy Sharon Conway 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 Mrs. William Dooley Nancy Schroeder Ebert Robert J. Elisberg Richard Elledge Charles and Carol Emmons Lu and Philip Engel Tarek and Ann Fadel James B. Fadim Leslie Farrell Donna Feldman Frances and Henry Fogel Ray Frick Susan Fuchs Nancy and Larry † Fuller Dileep Gangolli Maurice Garnier Miss Elizabeth Gatz Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Mr. and Mrs. 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

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Mrs. Barbara Gundrum Lynne R. Haarlow Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley Mr. Tom Hall Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett William B. Hinchliff Marcia M. Hochberg Mr. Thomas Hochman Jack and Colleen Holmbeck Richard J. Hoskins James and Mary Houston Mr. James Humphrey Merle L. Jacob Ms. Jessica Jagielnik Nathan Kahn, in memory of Zave H. Gussin and in honor of Robert Gussin Ann B. Kaplan Marshall Keltz Valerie Kennedy Anne Kern Paul Keske 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 Candace Loftus Heidi Lukas and Mr. Charles Grode Suzette and James Mahneke Ann Chassin Mallow Sharon L. Manuel Mrs. John J. Markham 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 Thomas R. Mullaney Daniel R. Murray Dolores D. Nelson Jeffrey Nichols Franklin Nussbaum Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr. Wallace and Sarah Oliver

Lynn Orschel Helen and Joseph Page Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Elizabeth Anne Peters Mr. Lewis D. Petry Judy C. Petty Karen and Dick Pigott Lois Polakoff Charlene H. Posner D. Elizabeth Price Dorothy V. Ramm Donald F. Ransford Jeanne Reed Edgar C. Reihl Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones Karen L. Rigotti Don and Sally Roberts Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal Dr. Virginia C. Saft Craig Samuels Sue and William Samuels Leslie A. Sanders Paul and Kathleen Schaefer Lawrence D. Schectman Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro David Shayne Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Anne Sibley Larry Simpson Thomas G. Sinkovic Rosalee Slepian Mary Soleiman Jim Spiegel Julie Stagliano Denise M. Stauder Karen Steil Charles Steinberg Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale Mr. John Stokes Richard and Lois Stuckey Jeffrey and Linda Swoger Mr. John C. Telander Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Thorson Karen Hletko Tiersky Myron Tiersky Jacqueline A. Tilles Mr. James M. Trapp Mr. Donn N. Trautman John L. Turner Mike and Mary Valeanu Gerrit Vanderwest Frank Villella Mr. Milan Vydareny Dr. Malcolm Vye Adam R. Walker and BettyAnn Mocek Mr. Frank Walschlager Louella Krueger Ward Dr. Catherine L. Webb Karl Wechter Claude M. Weil Joan Weiss Mr. Thomas Weyland Lisa and Paul Wiggin

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Linda and Payson S. Wild Joyce S. Wildman Kayla Anne Wilson Robert A. Wilson Nora M. Winsberg Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf Beth Wollar Lev Yaroslavskiy IN MEMORIAM

Listed below are individuals who were Theodore Thomas Society members and patrons who made exceptional commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their estates. They are remembered with gratitude for their generosity and visionary support. Anonymous (9) Hope A. Abelson Richard Abrahams Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos Elizabeth M. Ashton Jacqueline and Frank Ball Wayne Balmer Paul Barker Arlene and Marshall Bennett Judith and Dennis Bober Naomi T. Borwell Kathryn Bowers Howard Broecker Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown George and Jacqueline Brumlik Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger Norma Cadieu Wiley Caldwell Nelson D. Cornelius Anita J. Court, Ph.D. Christopher L. Culp Barbara DeCoster Azile Dick James F. Drennan Robert L. Drinan, Jr. Evelyn Dyba Richard Eastline Marian Edelstein Dr. Edward Elisberg Kelli Gardner Emery Joseph R. Ender Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson Mrs. 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. Marguerite DeLany Hark Polly and Donald Heinrich Mary Mako Helbert Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth Mrs. Diane Hoban Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr. Barbara Isserman Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak Mrs. Marian Johnson Ms. Janet Jones Phyllis A. Jones James Joseph Joseph M. Kacena Jared Kaplan Morris A. Kaplan Roberta Kapoun George Kennedy Esther G. Klatz Russell V. Kohr Karen Kuehner Evelyn and Arnold Kupec Robert B. Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts Rebecca Jarabak Caressa Y. Lauer Patricia Lee Christine D. Letchinger 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 Gloria Miner Bill Moor Charles A. Moore David A. Moore Marietta Munnis David H. Nelson Helen M. Nelson 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

Donald Peck 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 Paul H. Resnik J. Timothy Ritchie Virginia H. Rogers Jill N. Rohde Elaine Rosen Ben J. Rosenthal Anthony Ryerson 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 Mr. Morrell A. Shoemaker Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel Joanne Silver Rita Simó and Tomás Bissonnette Allen R. Smart Walter Chalmers Smith Peggy E. Smith-Skarry Karen A. Sorensen Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel Vito Stagliano Mrs. Zelda Star Charles J. Starcevich Curtis D. Stensrud Franklin R. St. Lawrence 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 Marco Weiss Barbara Huth West The Whateley Trust, in memory of Baron Whateley Max and Joyce Wildman Joyce Hadley Williams Arnold and Ann Wolff Ronald R. Zierer Rita A. Zralek

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Tribute Program

The Tribute Program provides an opportunity to celebrate milestones such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and graduations. It also can serve as a way to honor the memory of friends and family. An Honor or Memorial Gift enables you to express your feelings in a truly distinctive and memorable way. Contributions may be any amount and are placed in the Orchestra’s Endowment Fund. For more information regarding this program, please call 312-294-3100. Listed below are Honor and Memorial Gifts of $100 or more received from June 2022 through December 2023. MEMORIAL GIFTS

In memory of Alfred Balandis Mr. Robert Callahan In memory of Luise Baldin Antoinette Baldin Dr. & Mrs. Enrique Beckmann Mr. † & Mrs. Gershon Berg Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Ms. Marilyn Hamburger Joseph and Judith Konen Ms. Claretta Meier Mrs. Frances Naal Gail Price Ms. Janice Young In memory of Glory Bechtold Mr. Greg Davis In memory of Bud Beyer Ms. Jean Flaherty

In memory of Gary A. Davis and Graham Hemsley Dr. Steven Andes In memory of Heather DeBuhr Anderson and Janet Stover Mallot Kenje Mallot In memory of Eddie Druzinsky Mr. & Mrs. Barnaby Dinges In memory of Susan K. Gordy Epstein Mr. David Epstein In memory of Martha Glickman Michelle Alvord Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin Mr. & Mrs. Brian Hoffman Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin Mr. & Mrs. Myron Shapiro Ms. Renee Zellner In memory of Joseph Guastafeste and Gordon B. Peters Mark Swanson and Nancy Pifer In memory of Zave Gussin Mr. Nathan Kahn In memory of Dr. Robert Hazelrigg Robert and Irene Wegehoft In memory of Andy Hedberg Mr. and Mrs. John Jansson In memory of J. Paul Hunter Kristin H. Jensen

In memory of John R. Blair Mrs. Barbara J. Blair

In memory of Howard E. Jessen and Susanne C. Jessen Howard E. Jessen Family Trust

In memory of Doug Bragan and Tom Boodell Ms. Denise Stauder

In memory of Malcom L. Jones Pinkey Auster Schribner and Kimberly Ochsenschlager

In memory of Lin Brehmer Franklin Brehmer and Sara Farr

In memory of Herbert A. Loeb III Ms. Hillary A. Loeb

In memory of Jerome Brosnan, M.D. Ms. Gisela Brodine-Brosnan

In memory of Jim and Nancy Loewenberg Mr. Michael Berger

In memory of Amelia Di Luccia Carretti Mr. Robert Coad and Mr. David Ellis

In memory of Dr. Peter Michalove Dr. Sharon D. Michalove In memory of William Miller Suzanne Johnson In memory of Charles F. Moles Ms. Kathleen Harrington In memory of Anthony G. Montag Dr. Katherine L. Griem In memory of Martin O’Donnell Ms. Anne T. Posner Ms. Naomi M. Stanhaus In memory of Thomas Owen Maureen Obermeier Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Van Vliet In memory of Eul-Soo Pang Dr. Laura Pang In memory of George Pepper, M.D. Mary Ann Smith In memory of Kingsley Perkins Ms. Susan Thomas In memory of Ruth Ann Quinn Ms. Carolyn Quinn In memory of Bennett Reimer Elizabeth A. Hebert In memory of Al Rose Mrs. Marian Rose In memory of Seymour M. Sabesin, M.D. Ms. Marcia Sabesin In memory of Erica Schewe Anonymous Mimi Duginger In memory of Joanne Silver Ms. Betty Winer In memory of Michael Silverstein Ms. Mara Tapp In memory of Zan and Blossom Skolnick Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Hafter

In memory of Suhail al Chalabi Margery al Chalabi

In memory of Dr. David and Renée Lubell Mrs. Barbara Asner Mrs. Lisa Edelson

In memory of Dr. Minkyu Cho Robert Callahan

In memory of Mary A. Lyons Chris Martinez

In memory of Marjorie Stone Dr. Arvey Stone

In memory of Christopher L. Culp Laura Yergesheva

In memory of Evelyn G. Meine Mr. Curt Meine

In memory of Dr. Armondo Susmano Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin

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In memory of Mona Stern Mr. Larry Simpson

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In memory of William C. Vance Margaret H. Walker In memory of my beautiful sister, Lynne Wachowski and her husband Ron Wachowski Peggy Ryan

In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Boodell for their 50+ years of CSO support Ms. Denise Stauder In honor of Charles Braico and Robert Coad for outstanding customer service Ms. Denise Stauder

In memory of George Mitchell Williams Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor In honor of Robert Coad Mr. Kevin Hinton In memory of Donald Woulfe and Mr. and Mrs. † David Shayne Tom Boodell Ms. Ann Silberman Margo and Michael Oberman Mr. † & Mrs. Marco Weiss In memory of Don Woulfe Ms. Janice Young

In honor of Dr. Leon and Carol Dragon Ms. Arden Nagler

In memory of Dick Wright Ms. Janice Young

In honor of Judy Feldman and the Women’s Board of the CSO Mr. & Mrs. Steven W. Scheibe

In memory of Woon-Young and Hyo-Kyoung B. Seo-Pero HONOR GIFTS

In honor of Dora Aalbregtse’s birthday Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. In honor of Marcia Baylin Mr. Marc Baylin

In honor of front of house staff Mr. Richard Boyum In honor of Dr. Victoria E. Ingram Dr. Paul Navin In honor of Brian Koenig for 25+ years with the CSO The Koenig Family

In honor of Dr. Robert McSay Ms. Lois Wolff In honor of Patricia Meyers Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Meyers, Jr. In honor of Diane Mues Cynthia Kirk In honor of Maestro Muti Ms. Kathryn Collier Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation In honor of Fr. Ed Shea OFM, Ms. Sally B. Berkhia In honor of Steve Shebik Howard and Julie Hayes Family Fund In honor of Richard and Ellen Shubart on their 60th anniversary Mr. Alan Rosenthal In honor of Lynne Turner Dr. Hilda Richards In honor of Bill Ward Mrs. Mary Dietrick In honor of Helen Zell Mr. Rowland Chang

In honor of Scott and Judy McCue and John Schmidt Mr. Graham C. Grady

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of December 2023

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