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25 Program Information about the program and the performers for this concert

2 A Note from the Board Chair and President

A welcoming message from Board of Trustees Chair Mary Louise Gorno and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association President Jeff Alexander

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A Long-Awaited Reunion

After some nineteen months of separation due to the COVID pandemic, Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra reunited for three weeks of memorable concerts this fall.

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41 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association below: January 27 and 29, Riccardo Muti conducts various concertos by Vivaldi featuring CSO musicians, including (from left to right) Principal Flute Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, Concertmaster Robert Chen, Associate Concertmaster Stephanie Jeong, and Assistant Concertmasters David Taylor and Yuan-Qing Yu.

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a note from the chair and the president Happy New Year and welcome to Symphony Center, home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Symphony Center Presents, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and Negaunee Music Institute. We are eager to make sure your 2022 is filled with rich, live musical experiences. We happily find Riccardo Muti, the CSO’s Zell Music Director, back in Chicago to begin the year with three weeks of performances in Orchestra Hall as well as two community concerts at Chodl Auditorium at Morton East High School in Cicero and Apostolic Church of God in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. In Muti’s words, these concerts embody the CSOA’s commitment to “focusing on discovering beauty and culture again,” and are an “invitation for all Chicagoans to share in the joy, power, and harmony of music. The first of these three programs in January is part of Muti’s ongoing survey of Beethoven’s symphonies with the CSO, with performances of the Fifth and Eighth symphonies in addition to his Coriolan Overture. Next, Muti and the CSO perform suites from Tchaikovsky’s ballets Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, Johann Strauss, Jr.’s Emperor Waltz, and the Overture to Donna Diana by Reznicek. A baroque program with the first suite from Handel’s Water Music and three concertos by Vivaldi, featuring CSO musicians as soloists, are Muti’s last concerts before he returns in late February. Next, Marin Alsop leads the Orchestra in works by Barber and Elgar and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto performed by Lukáš Vondráček. The CSO at the Movies series also continues with the classic film Casablanca conducted by Richard Kaufman. Symphony Center Presents greatly expands its offerings in the new year beginning with SCP Piano series performances by Igor Levit, Jan Lisiecki, and Daniil Trifonov, while the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble with Branford Marsalis explores the intersection of jazz and classical music in a special concert. The SCP Jazz series presents the double bill of Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science and Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Hero Trio. The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, conducted by Rossen Milanov, presents two free concerts at the South Shore Cultural Center and Symphony Center in January, and in February, the Civic Orchestra’s Principal Conductor Ken-David Masur leads the orchestra in works by Bacewicz, Janáček, and Bartók. We hope you join us often in 2022 for the broad range of incredible performances by the world’s leading musicians here at Symphony Center and beyond.

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A Long-Awaited Reunion When Riccardo Muti joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on September 21 for its first rehearsal of the 2021–22 season, it was a symbolic and joyful moment marking the end of a long physical separation. The three weeks of performances that followed indicated that the artistic connection between Muti and the Orchestra was as strong as ever. Emotion, energy, and an eagerness to perform live for Chicago audiences defined this long-awaited reunion in concerts that marked a homecoming for listeners as well. The following pictures, accolades, and remarks capture a celebration that will be remembered for years to come.

this page, f ro m to p: The CSO’s Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti leads his first rehearsal on the Armour Stage since the pandemic began, September 21, 2021. CSO horn James Smelser visits Muti in his dressing room to welcome him back to Chicago. o ppo site page, clo ckwise f ro m to p lef t: Members of the CSO brass section perform in the Michigan Avenue lobby to welcome audiences back to Symphony Center. Concertmaster Robert Chen shakes Muti’s hand as the Orchestra gives him a heartfelt welcome back to the podium. Audiences return to Symphony Center with tickets and vaccination records in hand.

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In these first performances together since February 2020, Muti led the CSO in Beethoven’s stirring Eroica Symphony. The program opened with the Orchestra’s first performances of the Overture to the opera L’Amant anonyme by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the Guadeloupeborn eighteenth-century composer, violinist, and champion fencer whose music is receiving renewed attention. The program also included the Andante moderato by Florence Price, the first African American woman to have her music performed by a major American orchestra—the CSO in 1933.

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“ If there was a protagonist in this interpretation, it was Muti’s nextto-telekinetic rapport with the CSO musicians. It’s been just two years since orchestra and director last united to perform Eroica, in September 2019, but what a long two years it’s been. . . . Thursday’s concert collapsed that span like an accordion file.” THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

clockwi s e f ro m to p l e f t : To mark the momentous occasion of the first concerts together since the beginning of the pandemic, on September 23, Muti opened the evening by addressing the vitality of culture. Those in attendance demonstrated their support of the CSO with warm applause and ovations.

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Before beginning the concert on September 23, Riccardo Muti marked the occasion by addressing the audience. What follows is a selection of those remarks.

“Tonight, of course, is a very special occasion. . . . Because English is not my first language, I have to find the right words that can correspond to the feelings that I have and that reflect the feelings of the musicians. This is a special day, a special evening, because [it is] after nineteen or twenty months of separation and twenty months of a disaster in the world that has killed many people, killed the economy that affects the physical part of our life, killed the culture. Culture affects our soul, our mind, and the interrelationships between people. We always forget how much the lack of culture can damage a society. That’s the reason why it is very special tonight, and that’s the reason why I am playing the Eroica: because of musicians of the Chicago Symphony and the musicians around the world—and the actors, and the singers, and the composers, the painters. They have been heroic, because not only did they have to make their professions silent but also they could not communicate what is the real reason of their lives: to give you, to the public, enrichment and beauty. The world is going in a very tragic way because of the lack of culture. I’m insisting on fighting; I’ve been fighting all my life. Culture is not entertainment. You are not here tonight because you did not know how to spend your evening. You are here tonight because you need music. You need to hear live your fantastic musicians. That is the reason why we are here. We are here to give you emotions, to give you the sound of beauty, of harmony—that sound that the world is forgetting. Without music the world will become more and more savage. So, I am so happy to see all of you in this historic hall, in front of an orchestra that is more than 125 years old, that has given beauty and music and enrichment to many generations. So, I’m asking you to stay close to the Orchestra. To tell your friends, your colleagues, to come to hear the Orchestra, not just to hear the music, but to receive through music beauty, harmony, and, as Beethoven said, brotherhood. This is what I wanted to tell you.” Riccardo Muti Zell Music Director Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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The second week of concerts paired

Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77, performed by violinist Leonidas Kavakos, with Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92.

“ Kavakos earned an extended standing ovation, which probably came as much from his fine playing as it did from the audience’s sheer joy in hearing a soloist perform with the orchestra at Orchestra Hall for the first time in some nineteen months.” C H I C A G O S U N -T I M E S

from top : Members of the string section prepare to take the stage during the CSO’s second week of performances during the 2021–22 season. Violinist Leonidas Kavakos and the CSO receive an ovation following the September 30 performance of Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Muti invites the woodwind section to stand for a bow.

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The third week of concerts opened with Missy Mazzoli’s These Words In Us,

a meditation on her father’s experiences as a soldier in Vietnam inspired by a poem by James Tate. While Mazzoli served as Mead Composer-inResidence (July 2018–June 2021), circumstances made these concerts the first realized orchestral performances of her music. Also on the program were Liadov’s The Enchanted Lake and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 6 in B minor, op. 74, known as the Pathétique.

“ Mazzoli is one of the finest and most consistent composers of our time and one looks forward to the longbelated CSO premiere of Orpheus Undone in spring.” W T T W.C O M

fro m to p: On October 7, Muti invites Missy Mazzoli to the stage during the rehearsal of her composition These Words In Us. That same night, Muti conducts the CSO’s first performance of the work in addition to Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony.

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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICCARDO MUTI Zell Music Director Thursday, February 10, 2022, at 7:30 Saturday, February 12, 2022, at 8:00

Marin Alsop Conductor Lukáš Vondráček Piano barber rachmaninov

Symphony No. 1, Op. 9

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Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18

Moderato Adagio sostenuto Allegro scherzando

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Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), Op. 36

Theme (Andante) 1. C.A.E. (Andante) 2. H.D.S.-P. (Allegro) 3. R.B.T. (Allegretto) 4. W.M.B. (Allegro di molto) 5. R.P.A. (Moderato) 6. Ysobel (Andantino) 7. Troyte (Presto) 8. W.N. (Allegretto) 9. Nimrod (Adagio) 10. Intermezzo (Dorabella). (Allegretto) 11. G.R.S. (Allegro di molto) 12. B.G.N. (Andante) 13. *** Romanza (Moderato) 14. Finale. E.D.U. (Allegro)

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Born March 9, 1910; West Chester, Pennsylvania Died January 23, 1981; New York City

Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 Samuel Barber was one of the lucky ones. His talent was discovered early and nourished by an unusually musical family. He began playing piano at the age of six and composing at seven. When, at nine, he informed his parents he intended to be a composer—words parents seldom greet with joy or sympathy—he was encouraged. “Dear Mother,” his confession begins, I have written to tell you my worrying secret. . . . To begin with I was not meant to be an athlet [sic]. I was meant to be a composer and will be I am sure. I’ll ask you one more thing— Don’t ask me to try and forget this unpleasant thing and go and play football. At fourteen, he became a charter student at the new Curtis Institute of Music. He studied briefly with Fritz Reiner, who said he had no talent for conducting. Several of his student compositions, however, were the work of an advanced composer, and a few, including Dover Beach and the Cello Sonata, have earned permanent places in the repertory. Success came early to Samuel—he was only twenty-three years old when the Philadelphia Orchestra gave the world premiere of his first orchestral score, the Overture to The School for Scandal; his next, Music for a Scene from Shelley, was introduced by the New York Philharmonic two years later. The Symphony no. 1 that opens this program was the first music by an American performed at the Salzburg Festival, in 1937. (Later, Vanessa was the first American opera staged there.) Barber’s music was performed and championed by some of the most celebrated figures of his day—Vladimir Horowitz introduced the Piano Sonata; Arturo Toscanini the First Essay for Orchestra and the famous Adagio for Strings; Leontyne Price regularly sang many of the songs; Barber wrote Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for Eleanor Steber, and his ballet, Medea, for Martha Graham. For many years, Barber’s career was marked by continued popular and critical success, international acclaim, important honors—two Pulitzer prizes, for the Piano Concerto

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composed 1935–36 f i rst p e rf o rm a n c e December 13, 1936; Rome, Italy i n st ru m e n tat i o n two flutes with piccolo, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, harp, strings a p p roxi m at e p e rf o rm a n c e t i m e 20 minutes f i rst c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s November 25 and 26, 1937. Hans Lange conducting m o st re c e n t c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s November 13, 14, and 15, 1997, Orchestra Hall. Christopher Wilkins conducting

a b o v e : Samuel Barber, 1938. New York World Telegram and Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division o p p o s i t e pa g e : Aaron Copland (1900–1990), Samuel Barber, and Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007), Bernardsville, New Jersey, 1945. Photo by Victor Kraft (1915–1976), Music Division, Library of Congress

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and Vanessa—and the abundant, unchallenged desire and ability to write music. Barber had never known real failure until Antony and Cleopatra, ironically the most prestigious commission of his life, which opened the new Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center in 1966. But that was a failure so grand and so public that Barber never fully recovered from the shock. He left almost at once for Italy, where he remained for several years. He stopped writing music completely for a while, and when he started up again, his old confidence was gone. In 1971, Barber admitted, with a growing defiance, “it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn’t matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.” Although Barber’s entire career had been built on this same courage to write what came naturally, regardless of the many fads and the daring new directions music had taken, he now seemed less certain. In his remaining years, Barber wrote little music, much of it insignificant. His last work was the Canzonetta salvaged from an unfinished oboe concerto. It is lovely music, but a sad ending to a once bright and rich career. But in the years since his death, it has grown increasingly clear that Barber’s creative power was not

so much diminished as overcome by the composer’s suspicion that he had become old-fashioned in a rapidly changing musical climate. Today that verdict seems far from certain. The First Symphony was begun in Maine during the summer of 1935 and finished the following year in Italy, during Barber’s residency at the American Academy as winner of the Prix de Rome. It comes from the same year, and occasionally from the same poignant vein, as the slow movement of his String Quartet—the music that is today one of the most beloved adagios in all music, and still Barber’s best-known work. (In its arrangement for string orchestra, made at Toscanini’s suggestion, it has often memorialized heads of state, as well as the unknown soldiers in Oliver Stone’s Platoon.) The First Symphony is dedicated to Gian Carlo Menotti, who was his friend, kindred spirit, and partner for more than four decades.

Samuel Barber on Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 The form of my Symphony in One Movement is a synthetic treatment of the four-movement classical symphony. It is based on the three themes of the initial Allegro ma non troppo, which retain throughout the work their fundamental character. The Allegro ma non troppo opens with the usual exposition of a main theme, a more lyric second theme, and a closing theme. After a brief development of the three themes, instead of the customary recapitulation, the first theme in diminution forms the basis of a scherzo section (Vivace). The second theme (oboe over muted strings) then appears in augmentation in an extended Andante tranquillo. An intense crescendo introduces the finale, which is a short passacaglia based on the JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2022

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first theme (introduced by violoncellos and contrabasses), over which, together with figures from other themes, the closing theme is woven, thus serving as a recapitulation for the entire symphony. The composer’s careful description does not prepare one for the intensely lyrical and dramatic character of the piece. That quality is the essence of Barber’s gift, even in his symphonic compositions. When once asked about his method in writing abstract music, Barber said, “I write what I feel”—words that satisfied his

advocates and inflamed his detractors at a time when intellectual systems had come to replace such clean, homespun logic. That same impulse would ultimately generate the Symphony no. 2, written in 1944 while Barber served in the air force. Twenty-four years later, when Barber began to suffer his first self-doubts, he decided to withdraw his Second Symphony, and subsequently destroyed the manuscript and all performance materials. The late conductor Andrew Schenck finally secured a score and parts, obtained permission from the Barber estate, and brought the work to light in 1989.

sergei rachmaninov

Born April 1, 1873; Semyonovo, Russia Died March 28, 1943; Beverly Hills, California

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 All his life, Rachmaninov was prone to anxiety and depression, a condition often reflected in his sour expression—“a six-and-ahalf-foot scowl,” Stravinsky called him. Family and friends knew a warmer, more outgoing personality, but they also encountered a crippling, dark side of his nature the public never saw. The low point—one so debilitating that it nearly robbed us of some of the most popular music ever written—came in the last years of the nineteenth century, just as his career was getting started. Rachmaninov enjoyed great public success early on, both as pianist and composer. The brooding piano prelude in C-sharp minor he composed in 1892, at the age of nineteen, immediately became the calling card of a young artist’s dreams—and eventually a burden as well. Audiences wouldn’t let him leave the stage until a b o v e : Sergei Rachmaninov, photograph ca. 1901

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he played the work he eventually referred to dismissively as “it.” With the premiere of his First Symphony in Saint Petersburg in 1897, under the baton of Alexander Glazunov, Rachmaninov’s confidence and momentum—if not his entire career—suddenly seemed to fizzle. The performance must have been appalling—Rachmaninov called it the most agonizing hour of my life.” He hid in a stairwell, with his hands over his ears. (Glazunov was later said to have been drunk when he walked onstage.) And the opening-night review, by composer César Cui, could hardly have been worse— the symphony, Cui concluded, “would have brought ecstasy to the inhabitants of hell.” For the next three years, Rachmaninov wrote nothing— sketches for a new symphony were abandoned and work on an opera, Francesca da Rimini, was shelved. He continued to perform, and even undertook a concert tour to London in 1898, but day after day he found that he was unable to compose. As he grew more

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despondent, his friends began to recommend various remedies. Twice he visited Leo Tolstoy, once by himself and once with the bass Fyodor Chaliapin, hoping that contact with the great novelist would shake him out of his slump and jumpstart his creativity, but the writer’s self-serving platitudes discouraged him even more. (“You must work,” Tolstoy told him. “I work every day.”) When he and Chaliapin performed one of Rachmaninov’s songs, Tolstoy wasted no words in conveying how much he disliked it. Finally, fearing that Rachmaninov was trapped in a serious depression, his family suggested that he consult Dr. Nikolai Dahl, a Paris internist who had become a specialist in curing alcoholism through hypnosis. (Undone by Glazunov’s drunken butchery of his First Symphony, Rachmaninov had begun to drink heavily himself.) In January 1900, he began to see Dahl, who was also a gifted amateur violinist and cellist (he had started his own string quartet). The main objective was to get Rachmaninov back on track—to restore his appetite and improve his sleep, to curtail his drinking, to revive his morale, and to get him composing again. The immediate assignment, which Dahl took very seriously, was for Rachmaninov to write a new piano concerto. (He had promised one to the London Philharmonic when he appeared with the orchestra in 1898.) Through a combination of enlightened discussion and rudimentary hypnosis (“You will begin your concerto . . . it will be excellent,” was one of the mantras), Dahl succeeded. “Although it may seem incredible,” Rachmaninov wrote many years later, “this cure helped me. New musical ideas began to stir within me—far more than I needed for my concerto.” In April, Rachmaninov felt well enough to accompany Chaliapin to Yalta, where they visited Chekhov, and on to Italy, where the singer made his La Scala debut in Boito’s Mefistofele. By July, when Rachmaninov was ready to go home—“bored without Russians and Russia”—and get to work, he had a stack of sketches to pack, including advanced drafts for two movements of a new piano concerto in C minor. Those movements—the ones we know as the second and third—were finished in the fall and premiered at a benefit concert in early December. Although

composed 1900–01 f i rst p e rf o rm a n c e November 9, 1901; Moscow, Russia. The composer as soloist i n st ru m e n tat i o n solo piano, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, strings a p p roxi m at e p e rf o rm a n c e t i m e 32 minutes f i rst c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s December 3 and 4, 1909, Orchestra Hall. The composer as soloist, Frederick Stock conducting July 23, 1938, Ravinia Festival. Gitta Gradova as soloist, Eugene Goossens conducting m o st re c e n t c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s July 28, 2010, Ravinia Festival. Denis Matsuev as soloist, James Conlon conducting December 14, 15, 16, and 19, 2017, Orchestra Hall. Denis Kozhukhin as soloist, Jaap van Zweden conducting c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s , t h e c o m p o s e r a s s o lo i st January 12, 1932, Orchestra Hall. Frederick Stock conducting c s o re c o rd i n g s 1956. Artur Rubinstein as soloist, Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA 1962. Van Cliburn as soloist, Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA 1983. Cecile Licad as soloist, Claudio Abbado conducting. CBS

a b o v e : Bass Fyodor Chaliapin (1873–1938) and Rachmaninov, ca. 1890s

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Rachmaninov came down with a cold the day before the concert—and despite drinking mulled wine to cure it—he played magnificently. In the spring, he wrote the opening movement, a highly original piece of music that seemed to confirm his recovery. Then, just five days before the premiere of the complete concerto, Rachmaninov suffered a temporary setback and was paralyzed by fears that his new work was worthless. The premiere, with the composer at the keyboard, was a major triumph, nevertheless, and the concerto quickly became Rachmaninov’s greatest hit, nearly replacing the beloved C-sharp minor prelude in the public’s affection. The C minor concerto was his new calling card, and he performed it around the world. He played it with the Chicago Symphony when he made his debut in Orchestra Hall on December 3, 1909—the first of his eight appearances with the Orchestra. (The last was in 1943, little more than a month before his death.) With this concerto, Rachmaninov not only overcame writer’s block, but he also found a new voice as a composer—one with a perfect knack for unforgettable tunes, dazzling pianistic effects, an effortless flow of ideas, and a very suave sense of style. Stravinsky, his close contemporary—and antithesis, as well—later called it a switch from a very young composer to a very old one, not meaning it as a compliment. The C minor concerto is proudly old-fashioned, particularly for 1901—the heyday of wild and radical new music by Debussy, Mahler, Stravinsky, Strauss, Ives, and Schoenberg. It’s one of the crowning works of the nineteenth century, despite the calendar, and, to the chagrin of the avant-garde, it quickly became the most beloved concerto of the twentieth.

he C minor concerto begins memorably, with a soft tolling in the piano that grows to a grand fortissimo. The entire first theme, introduced by the strings and clarinet, seems in retrospect a very sumptuous

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introduction to the big moment when the orchestra falls silent and the piano solo takes the spotlight with a grand melody. It’s a perfectly calculated effect, but it’s one of the things that worried Rachmaninov in the days before the premiere (“When I begin the second theme no fool would believe it to be a second theme,” he wrote to a former classmate. “Everybody will think this is the beginning of the concerto.”) For all the piano’s continuous bravura, however, its role throughout this movement is more often that of ensemble player, accompanist, or even member of the orchestra, than star soloist. This is one of Rachmaninov’s subtlest and most tightly knit movements. The Adagio is in the distant key of E major. (Beethoven, ever the pioneer, used the same unexpected key relationship between the first two movements of his Third Piano Concerto, written exactly a hundred years earlier.) Once again, the piano moves easily between its roles of soloist and accompanist (the clarinet has a big solo early on). The relationship between piano and orchestra is unusually delicate throughout, and the scoring is often as transparent as chamber music. The finale, beginning in E major and quickly swinging around to C minor, has many wonderful moments, but it’s usually remembered as the brilliant setting of Rachmaninov’s most famous tune, the one that made a fortune for Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman (and not a penny for Rachmaninov) as “Full Moon and Empty Arms.” (The young Sinatra made his classic recording in 1945, two years after Rachmaninov’s death.) Rachmaninov was the first to recognize the melody’s worth, and he uses it three times in the finale, each time freshening it with new touches, the last and grandest of them inspiring countless Hollywood composers. (Ironically, Rachmaninov, who ultimately moved to Beverly Hills, never wrote for films, even though his style was the industry standard for years.) The last word is given to the piano, in an outburst of glittering bravura.

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edward elgar

Born June 2, 1857; Broadheath, near Worcester, England Died February 23, 1934; Broadheath, England

Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), Op. 36 The temptation to improvise at the piano after a hard day’s work surely never produced greater results than on an October evening in the Worcestershire countryside in 1898. Tired out from hours of teaching violin and writing music that would never make him famous, Edward Elgar began to play a tune that caught his wife’s ear. Alice asked what it was. “Nothing,” he replied, “but something might be made of it.” And then, to prove—or perhaps, test—his point, he began to play with it. “Powell would have done this, or Nevinson would have looked at it like this,” he commented as he went, drawing on the names of their friends. Alice said, “Surely you are doing something that has never been done before!” Alice wasn’t quite right, in terms of historical fact— Schumann’s Carnaval, for example, depicts a number of characters, real and imagined—but she obviously sensed that her husband had hit upon something important—not only to his own faltering career, but also for music itself. And so what was begun “in a spirit of humor” was soon “continued in deep seriousness,” as Elgar later recalled of the music that would make him famous, along with Powell, Nevinson, and a number of the composer’s other friends. On October 24, he wrote to August Jaeger, the closest of all those friends, . . . I have sketched a set of Variations (orkestra) on an original theme: the Variations have amused me because I’ve labeled ’em with the nicknames of my particular friends—you are Nimrod. That is to say, I’ve written the variations each one to represent the mood of the “party”—I’ve liked to imagine the “party” writing the var: him (or her) self and have written what I think they wd. have written—if they were asses enough to compose—it’s a quaint idea & the result is amusing to those behind the scenes & won’t affect the hearer who “nose nuffn.” The work went well. On November 1, Elgar played at least six variations for Dora Penny, now known as Dorabella, or variation 10. On January 5, Elgar wrote to Jaeger: “I say—those variations—I like ’em.” By February 22, he told Dorabella that

composed October 1898–February 19, 1899 f i rst p e rf o rm a n c e June 19, 1899; London, England. Hans Richter conducting i n st ru m e n tat i o n two flutes with piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, side drum, triangle, bass drum, cymbals, organ, strings a p p roxi m at e p e rf o rm a n c e t i m e 29 minutes f i rst c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s January 3 and 4, 1902, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting (U.S. premiere) June 30, 1939, Ravinia Festival. Sir Adrian Boult conducting m o st re c e n t c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s July 18, 2017, Ravinia Festival. Edward Gardner conducting January 10, 11, and 12, 2019, Orchestra Hall. Bramwell Tovey conducting c s o re c o rd i n g s 1974. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London 1986. Sir Georg Solti conducting. CSO (From the Archives, vol. 21: Soloists of the Orchestra III) (Nimrod)

a b o v e : Edward Elgar, ca. 1900

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the variations were done, “and yours is the most cheerful. . . . I have orchestrated you well.” The orchestration of the piece took the two weeks from February 5 to 19, 1899. Elgar then sent the score off to Hans Richter, the great German conductor known for championing both Wagner and Brahms. Elgar waited a long, nervous month for a response, but Richter recognized the quality of this music and agreed to give the premiere in London. For Elgar, already in his forties and not yet a household name, even in England, Richter’s advocacy was decisive. The first performance was a great success for both Elgar and for British music. The critics recognized the work as a landmark, and although one was aggravated that the dedication “To my friends pictured within” didn’t name names, he was at least honest enough to admit that the music stood handsomely on its own. The friends have long ago been identified, but a greater question still remains. At the time of the premiere, Elgar wrote: The enigma I will not explain—its “dark saying” must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the Variations and the Theme is often of the slightest texture; further, through and over the whole set another and larger theme

“goes,” but is not played—so the principal Theme never appears, even as in some late dramas—e.g., Maeterlinck’s L’intruse and Les sept princesses—the chief character is never on the stage. Those are words Elgar later came to regret, for the public’s curiosity often overshadowed the music. Elgar himself only made matters worse by divulging that the “larger theme” fit in counterpoint with his original theme, by telling Arthur Troyte Griffith (variation 7) that the theme “is so well known that it is extraordinary that no one has spotted it,” and by admonishing Dorabella that she, of all people, had not guessed it. Several melodies have been favored over the years, including “God Save the King,” “Rule, Britannia!,” and, most often, “Auld lang syne,” but to date the Enigma still maintains its place in Elgar’s title. (Dorabella and her husband Richard Powell once asked Elgar outright about “Auld lang syne” and he denied it, but by then he was so tired of the whole mystery that many doubted the sincerity of his answer.) For full descriptions of the “friends pictured within,” we are indebted to the invention of the piano roll; when the Aeolian Company later issued the Enigma Variations in this newfangled format, Elgar contributed his own comments

t o p : Edward and Caroline Alice Elgar just after their marriage b o t t o m , l e f t t o r i g h t: Hew David Steuart-Powell, Variation 2; Richard Baxter Townshend, Variation 3; William Meath Baker, Variation 4; Richard Penrose Arnold, Variation 5

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on this circle of men and women in his life. Here, then, follows the portrait gallery, with some of Elgar’s remarks. Theme. This is an original melody, as Elgar’s title boasts, born that October night in 1898 and without connections to anyone in the composer’s life. (It has been suggested that those important first four notes perfectly set the composer’s own name, but, as we shall see, Elgar saves himself for last.) It’s worth remembering, however, that when he wrote The Music Makers (an autobiographical, Ein Heldenleben–kind of work) in 1912, he recalled this theme to represent the loneliness of the creative artist. 1. (C.A.E.) Caroline Alice Elgar was the composer’s wife. “The variation,” Elgar writes, “is really a prolongation of the theme with what I wished to be romantic and delicate additions; those who knew C.A.E. will understand this reference to one whose life was a romantic and delicate inspiration.” She was his muse; after Alice died in 1920, Elgar never really worked again. The little triplet figure in the oboe and the bassoon at the very beginning mimics the whistle with which Elgar signaled Alice whenever he came home. 2. (H.D.S.-P.) Hew David Steuart-Powell played chamber music with Elgar. “His characteristic diatonic run over the keys before beginning to play is here humorously travestied in the semiquaver [sixteenth note] passages; these should suggest a toccata, but chromatic beyond H.D.S.-P.’s liking.” (Their frequent partner was Basil Nevinson, variation 12.) 3. (R.B.T.) Richard Baxter Townshend, who regularly rode through the streets of Oxford on his bicycle with the bell constantly ringing, is here remembered for his “presentation of an old man in some amateur theatricals—the low voice flying off occasionally in ‘soprano’ timbre.” (Dorabella also recognized the bicycle bell in the pizzicato strings.) 4. (W.M.B.) William Meath Baker was “a country squire, gentleman, and scholar. In the

days of horses and carriages, it was more difficult than in these days of petrol to arrange the carriages for the day to suit a large number of guests. This variation was written after the host had, with a slip of paper in his hand, forcibly read out the arrangements for the day and hurriedly left the music room with an inadvertent bang of the door.” 5. (R.P.A.) Richard Penrose Arnold was a son of Matthew Arnold and “a great lover of music which he played (on the pianoforte) in a selftaught manner, evading difficulties but suggesting in a mysterious way the real feeling.” In the middle section we learn that “his serious conversation was continually broken up by whimsical and witty remarks.” 6. (Ysobel) Isabel Fitton was an amateur violist. “The opening bar, a phrase made use of throughout the variation, is an ‘exercise’ for crossing strings—a difficulty for beginners; on this is built a pensive, and for a moment, romantic movement.” 7. (Troyte) Arthur Troyte Griffith, an architect, was one of Elgar’s closest friends. “The uncouth

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rhythm of the drums and lower strings was really suggested by some maladroit essays to play the pianoforte; later the strong rhythm suggests the attempts of the instructor (E.E.) to make something like order out of chaos, and the final despairing ‘slam’ records that the effort proved to be in vain.” 8. (W.N.) Winifred Norbury lived at Sherridge, a country house, with her sister Florence. The music was “really suggested by an eighteenth-century house. The gracious personalities of the ladies are sedately shown”— especially Winifred’s characteristic laugh. 9. (Nimrod) Nimrod is the “mighty hunter” named in Genesis 10; August Jaeger (“Jaeger” is German for “hunter”) was Elgar’s greatest and dearest friend. That is apparent from this extraordinary music, which is about the strength of ties and the depth of human feelings. These

forty-three bars of music have come to mean a great deal to many people; they are, for that reason, often played in memoriam, when common words fail and virtually all other music falls short. The variation records “a long summer evening talk, when my friend discoursed eloquently on the slow movements of Beethoven.” The music hints at the slow movement of the Pathétique Sonata, though it reaches the more rarefied heights of Beethoven’s last works. Dorabella remembered that Jaeger also spoke of the hardships Beethoven endured, and he urged Elgar not to give up. Elgar later wrote to him: “I have omitted your outside manner and have only seen the good lovable honest SOUL in the middle of you. The music’s not good enough: nevertheless it was an attempt of your E.E.” Jaeger died young, in 1909. Twenty years later Elgar wrote: “His place has been occupied but never filled.”

TRACKING DOWN THE ENIGMA In 1953, the Saturday Review sponsored a contest for the best solution to the identity of Elgar’s “enigma.” The top prizes (the composer’s daughter Carice Elgar Blake was one of the judges) were awarded to the Agnus Dei from Bach’s B minor mass, the trio “Una bella serenata” from Mozart’s Così fan tutte, the slow movement of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony, and “God Save the Queen.” None, however, seemed particularly convincing, and the search continued. In 1976, Theodore Van Houten proposed “Rule, Britannia!,” which includes a phrase that’s nearly identical to the opening of the Enigma and should have been obvious to Dora Penny, “of all people,” as Elgar remarked, because the British penny was engraved with the figure of Britannia. In 1984, Derek Hudson showed even more persuasively how a phrase of “Auld lang syne” fits Elgar’s theme and many of the variations. In 1991, Joseph Cooper, a British pianist, proposed a new

solution. He claimed he had stumbled upon the answer thirty years earlier at a performance of Mozart’s Prague Symphony in Royal Festival Hall in London, but chose to keep it a secret. As he followed a score during that long-ago concert, Mr. Cooper noticed, midway through the slow movement, echoes of the opening of Elgar’s Enigma Variations. The two passages aren’t identical rhythmically—moreover, Mozart is in G major, Elgar in G minor—but they are strikingly similar. There are other connections: two weeks before Elgar invented his theme at the piano, he had heard the Prague Symphony. Mozart’s symphony also was the closing work on the concert of June 19, 1899, when the Enigma Variations were given their first performance. Although Elgar authority Jerrold Northrop Moore hailed Cooper’s solution, other scholars, Elgar lovers, and puzzle fanatics remain unconvinced. The detective game continues. In 2017, a Cleveland police officer

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claimed that nineteen symbols written by Elgar into the margin of an 1886 program for a concert of Liszt’s music is a code for the solution, which through a convoluted deciphering process, connects the first six measures of the Enigma Variations with Liszt’s Les préludes. That same year, Bob Padgett, from Plano, Texas, made news with his carefully developed theory that the secret tune is “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” which fits perfectly in counterpoint with Elgar’s theme—if you use three different versions of Martin Luther’s hymn (those by Luther, Bach, and Mendelssohn) and play it backwards. Elgar scholars have remained uniformly skeptical. More recently, Ed Newton-Rex, formerly a member of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, has proposed an underlying bass line in Pergolesi’s Stabat mater as the secret counterpoint, though that solution too has failed to win converts. P.H.

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10. (Dorabella) Dora Penny, later Mrs. Richard Powell, and to the Elgars, always Dorabella, from Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Her variation, entitled Intermezzo, is shaded throughout by “a dancelike lightness,” and delicately suggests the stammer with which she spoke in her youth. 11. (G.R.S.) Dr. George R. Sinclair was the organist of Hereford Cathedral, though it’s his beloved bulldog Dan who carries the music, first falling down a steep bank into the River Wye, then paddling upstream to a safe landing. Anticipating the skeptics, Elgar writes “Dan” in bar five of the manuscript, where Dr. Sinclair’s dog barks reassuringly (low strings and winds, fortissimo). 12. (B.G.N.) Basil G. Nevinson was a fine cellist who regularly joined Elgar and Hew David Steuart-Powell (variation 2) in chamber music. The soaring cello melody is “a tribute to a very dear friend whose scientific and artistic attainments, and the whole-hearted way they were put at the disposal of his friends, particularly endeared him to the writer.” 13. (***) The only enigma among the portraits: just asterisks in place of initials, and “Romanza” at the top of the page. The clarinet quoting from Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage midway through points to Lady Mary Lygon, who supposedly was crossing the sea to Australia as Elgar wrote this music (she wasn’t). “The drums suggest the distant throb of a liner,” Elgar writes.

Although Elgar eventually confirmed the attribution, it has never entirely satisfied a suspicious public. Dorabella claimed that in the composer’s mind, the asterisks stood for “My sweet Mary.” 14. (E.D.U.) Edu was Alice’s nickname for her husband. This is his self-portrait, written “at a time when friends were dubious and generally discouraging as to the composer’s musical future.” Alice and Jaeger, two who never lost their faith in him, make brief appearances. The music is forceful, even bold. It’s delivered with an unusual strength known best to late bloomers, the defiance of an outsider intent on finding an audience, and the confidence of a man who has always wished to be more than another variation on a theme. A parting word about the title. The work wasn’t at first called Enigma. Elgar used the word for the first time in a letter to Jaeger written at the end of May 1899, three months after the score was finished. Enigma is written on the title page of the autograph manuscript, but it’s written in pencil and not by Elgar. When the Chicago Symphony introduced this music to the United States in 1902, the program page listed it only as “Variations, op. 36.”

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

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profiles Marin Alsop Conductor f ir st cso performa nces July 12, 2002, Ravinia Festival. Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto no. 1 with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances November 27, 28, and 29, 2015, Orchestra Hall. Clyne’s Masquerade, Barber’s Essay no. 2, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Jon Kimura Parker, and Dvořák’s Symphony no. 7 most r ecent cso perfo r m a n ces May 16, 17, 18, and 21, 2019, Orchestra Hall. Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture, Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn, and Rachmaninov’s Symphony no. 2 July 23, 2021, Ravinia Festival. Haydn’s Symphony no. 60, Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with Anthony McGill, and Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Haydn

One of the foremost conductors of our time, Marin Alsop represents a powerful and inspiring voice. The first woman to serve as the head of a major orchestra in the United States, South America, Austria, and Britain, she is internationally recognized for her innovative approach to programming and audience development, her deep commitment to education, and her advocacy for music’s importance in the world. Alsop currently serves as chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the first music director of the University of Maryland’s National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI+F), and the first chief conductor and curator of the Ravinia Festival, where she conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s summer residencies. She is also conductor of

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honor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) in Brazil and music director laureate and OrchKids founder at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra after recently concluding a fourteen-year tenure as its music director. In addition to enjoying longstanding relationships with the London Philharmonic and London Symphony orchestras, she regularly guest conducts such major international ensembles as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; the Orchestre de Paris; and the Cleveland, Filarmonica della Scala–Milan, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Philadelphia, and Royal Concertgebouw–Amsterdam orchestras. An ardent champion of new composition, she was music director of California’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music for twenty-five years. Last season, in collaboration with YouTube, Google Arts and Culture, and a host of the world’s leading arts organizations, she spearheaded the #GlobalOdeToJoy, a crowd-sourced video project to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth and to amplify his Ninth Symphony’s call for tolerance, unity, and joy. The first and only conductor to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Marin Alsop has also been honored with the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum and numerous honorary doctorates. Recognized with Grammy, Classical BRIT, and Gramophone awards, her extensive discography includes recordings for the Decca, Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, and Sony Classical labels. To promote and nurture the careers of her fellow female conductors, in 2002 she founded the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, now renamed in her honor as the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship. The Conductor, an award-winning documentary about her life, premiered at New York’s 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.

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Lukáš Vondráček Piano f ir st cso performa nce July 17, 2021, Ravinia Festival. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 5 (Emperor), Marin Alsop conducting

Following recent debuts with the Chicago, Pittsburgh, and London symphony orchestras, Lukáš Vondráček has enjoyed a season packed with highlights. He debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl and returned to such renowned orchestras as the Baltimore Symphony under the baton of Marin Alsop. In addition, he appeared with the Orchestre National de Lille conducted by Lionel Bringuier, the Warsaw Philharmonic under Andrzej Boreyko, and with the Turku and Malmö symphony orchestras. Recital projects have led him to the Rudolf Firkušný Piano Festival at the Rudolfinum in Prague and the Kissinger Summer Festival. His residency with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra extends into the next season, and he continues his recording cycle of Rachmaninov’s piano concertos with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Over the last decade, Lukáš Vondráček has traveled the world in collaborations with such

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ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Tasmanian and Sydney symphony orchestras, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Recitals have led him to Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, the Flagey in Brussels, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; and to such renowned festivals as Menuhin Festival Gstaad, PianoEspoo in Finland, Prague Spring Festival, and the Lille Piano Festival. Lukáš Vondráček made his first public appearance at the age of four. He has achieved worldwide recognition as the recipient of many international awards, foremost among them the grand prize at the 2016 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels; first prizes at the Hilton Head, San Marino, and Unisa (Pretoria, South Africa) international piano competitions; and the Raymond E. Buck Jury Discretionary Award at the 2009 International Van Cliburn Piano Competition. facebook.com/LVondracekPiano twitter.com/lvondracekpiano instagram.com/lukame09 open.spotify.com/ artist/413M3te4L8lvvt5GdpMkzI

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chicago symphony orchestra The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the world’s leading orchestras, and in September 2010, renowned Italian conductor Riccardo Muti became its tenth music director. During his tenure, the Orchestra has deepened its engagement with the Chicago community, nurtured its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians and composers, and collaborated with visionary artists. The history of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, then the leading conductor in America and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra here. Thomas’s aim to build a permanent orchestra with performance capabilities of the highest quality was realized at the first concerts in October 1891 in the Auditorium Theatre. Thomas served as music director until his death in January 1905—just three weeks after the dedication of Orchestra Hall, the Orchestra’s 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 eminent conductors headed the Orchestra during the following decade: Désiré Defauw was music director from 1943 to 1947; Artur Rodzinski assumed the post in 1947–48; and Rafael Kubelík led the ensemble for three seasons from 1950 to 1953. The next ten years belonged to Fritz Reiner, whose recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are still considered performance hallmarks. It was Reiner who invited Margaret Hillis to form the Chicago Symphony Chorus in 1957. For the five seasons from 1963 to 1968, Jean Martinon held the position of music director. Sir Georg Solti, the Orchestra’s eighth music director, served from 1969 until 1991. His arrival launched one of the most successful musical partnerships of our time, and the CSO made its first overseas tour to Europe in 1971 under his direction, along with numerous award-winning recordings. Solti then held

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the title of music director laureate and returned to conduct the Orchestra for several weeks each season until his death in September 1997. Daniel Barenboim was named music director designate in January 1989, and he became the Orchestra’s ninth music director in September 1991, a position he held until June 2006. His tenure was distinguished by the opening of Symphony Center in 1997, highly praised operatic productions at Orchestra Hall, numerous appearances with the Orchestra in the dual role of pianist and conductor, twenty-one international tours, and the appointment of Duain Wolfe as the Chorus’s second director. Pierre Boulez’s long-standing relationship with the Orchestra led to his appointment as principal guest conductor in 1995. He was named Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus in 2006, a position he held until his death in January 2016. Only two others have served as principal guest conductors: Carlo Maria Giulini, who appeared in Chicago regularly in the late 1950s, was named to the post in 1969, serving until 1972; Claudio Abbado held the position from 1982 to 1985. From 2006 to 2010, Bernard Haitink was the Orchestra’s first principal conductor. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma served as the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant from 2010 to 2019. Hilary Hahn currently is the CSO’s Artist-in-Residence, a role that brings her to Chicago for multiple residencies each season. Jessie Montgomery is the current Mead Composerin-Residence. She follows ten highly regarded composers in this role, including John Corigliano and Shulamit Ran—both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music—and Missy Mazzoli, who completed her threeyear tenure in June 2021. In addition to composing works for the CSO, Montgomery curates the contemporary MusicNOW series. The Orchestra first performed at Ravinia Park in 1905 and appeared frequently through August 1931, after which the park was closed for most of the Great Depression. In August 1936, the Orchestra helped to inaugurate the first season of the Ravinia Festival, and it has been in residence nearly every summer since. Since 1916, recording has been a significant part of the Orchestra’s activities. Current releases on CSO Resound, the Orchestra’s independent recording label, include the Grammy Award–winning release of Verdi’s Requiem led by Riccardo Muti. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have earned sixty-three Grammy awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti Zell Music Director

Duain Wolfe Chorus Director and Conductor Jessie Montgomery Mead Composer-in-Residence Hilary Hahn Artist-in-Residence violins Robert Chen Concertmaster The Louis C. Sudler Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor Stephanie Jeong Associate Concertmaster The Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair David Taylor Assistant Concertmaster* The Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Chair Yuan-Qing Yu Assistant Concertmaster* So Young Bae Cornelius Chiu Alison Dalton Gina DiBello § Kozue Funakoshi Russell Hershow Qing Hou Matous Michal Simon Michal Blair Milton ‡ Sando Shia Susan Synnestvedt Rong-Yan Tang Baird Dodge Principal Lei Hou Ni Mei Fox Fehling Hermine Gagné Rachel Goldstein Mihaela Ionescu Sylvia Kim Kilcullen Melanie Kupchynsky Wendy Koons Meir Aiko Noda Joyce Noh Nancy Park Ronald Satkiewicz Florence Schwartz viol as Li-Kuo Chang Acting Principal The Paul Hindemith Principal Viola Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor 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 David Sanders Gary Stucka Brant Taylor basses Alexander Hanna Principal The David and Mary Winton Green Principal Bass Chair Daniel Armstrong Robert Kassinger Mark Kraemer Stephen Lester Bradley Opland harp Lynne Turner flutes Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson Principal The Erika and Dietrich M. Gross Principal Flute Chair Emma Gerstein § Jennifer Gunn piccolo Jennifer Gunn The Dora and John Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair oboes William Welter Principal The Nancy and Larry Fuller Principal Oboe Chair Michael Henoch Assistant Principal The Gilchrist Foundation Chair Lora Schaefer Scott Hostetler

english horn Scott Hostetler cl arinets Stephen Williamson Principal John Bruce Yeh Assistant Principal Gregory Smith e-fl at cl arinet John Bruce Yeh bassoons Keith Buncke Principal William Buchman Assistant Principal Dennis Michel Miles Maner

tuba Gene Pokorny Principal The Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld timpani David Herbert Principal The Clinton Family Fund Chair Vadim Karpinos Assistant Principal percussion Cynthia Yeh Principal Patricia Dash Vadim Karpinos James Ross librarians Peter Conover Principal Carole Keller Mark Swanson

contrabassoon Miles Maner horns David Cooper Principal Daniel Gingrich Associate Principal James Smelser David Grifﬁn Oto Carrillo Susanna Gaunt

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

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

stage technicians Christopher Lewis Stage Manager Blair Carlson Paul Christopher Ramon Echevarria Ryan Hartge Peter Landry Todd Snick

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

* Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. ‡ On sabbatical § On leave The Louise H. Benton Wagner Chair currently is 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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Muti Conducts Montgomery & Beethoven Pastoral APRIL 28 – MAY 3 Riccardo Muti conductor Alexander Hanna bass MONTGOMERY Hymn for Everyone cso commission, world premiere

BOTTESINI Double Bass Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral)

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This program is supported in part by awards from:

Montgomery Hymn for Everyone, World Premiere, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the Helen Zell Commissioning Program. These concerts are generously sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross.

Artists, prices and programs subject to change.

chicago symphony orchestra association board of trustees OFFICERS

Mary Louise Gorno Chair Chester A. Gougis Vice Chair Steven E. 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 Lori Lightfoot, Honorary Chair The Honorable Richard M. Daley TRUSTEES

John Aalbregtse Peter J. Barack H. Rigel Barber Randy Lamm Berlin Roderick Branch Kay Bucksbaum Robert J. Buford 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 Judith E. Feldman* Graham C. Grady Lori Julian Neil T. Kawashima

Geraldine Keefe Donna L. Kendall Thomas G. Kilroy James Kolar Randall S. Kroszner Patty Lane Renée Metcalf Britt M. Miller Mary Pivirotto Murley Sylvia Neil Gerald Pauling Michael A. Perlstein* Col. Jennifer N. Pritzker Dr. Don M. Randel Dr. Mohan Rao Burton X. Rosenberg Kristen C. Rossi E. Scott Santi Steven E. Shebik Marlon R. Smith Walter Snodell Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr. Scott Swanson Nasrin Thierer Liisa Thomas Terrence J. Truax Frederick H. Waddell William Ward* Paul S. Watford Craig R. Williams Robert Wislow 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. Richard J. Franke Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr. H. Laurance Fuller Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Paul C. Gignilliat Joseph B. Glossberg Richard C. Godfrey 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 Mrs. Roger B. Hull † Judith A. Istock William R. Jentes Paul R. Judy Richard B. Kapnick

Donald G. Kempf, Jr. George D. Kennedy Mrs. John C. Kern Robert Kohl Josef Lakonishok Charles Ashby Lewis Eva F. Lichtenberg John S. Lillard Donald G. Lubin 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. Cynthia M. Sargent John R. Schmidt Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Robert C. Spoerri Carl W. Stern Roger W. Stone † William H. Strong Louis C. Sudler, Jr. Richard L. Thomas Richard P. Toft Penny Van Horn Paul R. Wiggin

* Ex-officio Trustee † Deceased List as of November 3, 2021

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chicago symphony orchestra association governing members The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, which celebrated its 125th anniversary in the 2019–20 season. Its support funds the CSOA’s artistic excellence and community engagement. In return, members enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition. For more information, please contact 312-294-3337 or governingmembers@cso.org. GOVERNING MEMBERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Michael Perlstein Chair Jared Kaplan † Immediate Past Chair Nancy Dehmlow Vice Chair of Member Engagement Charles Emmons, Jr. Vice Chair of the Annual Fund Jay Rothenberg † Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership GOVERNING MEMBERS Anonymous (5) Dora J. Aalbregtse Floyd Abramson Ms. Patti Acurio Fraida Aland Sandra Jo Allen Robert A. Alsaker Megan P. Anderson Dr. Edward Applebaum David Arch Dr. Kent F. Armbruster Dr. Andrew J. Aronson Carey August Marta Holsman Babson Ed Bachrach Mara Mills Barker Judith Barnard Merrill Barnes Peter Barrett Roberta Barron Roger S. Baskes Robert H. Baum Dr. Robert A. Beatty Arlene Bennett † Edward H. Bennett III Meta S. Berger D. Theodore Berghorst Ann Berlin Phyllis Berlin Ronald Bevil William E. Bible Mrs. Arthur A. Billings Tomás G. Bissonnette Dianne Blanco Judy Blau Merrill Blau Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Ann Blickensderfer Terry Boden Suzanne Borland James G. Borovsky Adam Bossov Janet S. Boyer

John D. Bramsen Roderick Branch Jill Brennan Bob Brink † Mrs. William Gardner Brown John D. Brubaker † Sue Brubaker Patricia M. Bryan Gilda Buchbinder Samuel Buchsbaum Lisa Dollar Buehler Rosemarie Buntrock Elizabeth Nolan Buzard Lutgart Calcote Thomas Campbell Vera Capp Mary Anne Carpenter Wendy Alders Cartland Judy Castellini Tina Chapekis Mrs. William C. Childs Linton J. Childs Frank Cicero, Jr. Dana Green Clancy Patricia A. Clickener Mitchell Cobey Jean M. Cocozza Mrs. Douglas Cohen Robin Tennant Colburn Lew Collens Jane B. Colman Mrs. Earle M. Combs III † Dr. Thomas H. Conner Cecilia Conrad Jenny L. Corley Patricia Cox Mrs. William A. Crane Sarah Crane Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven R. Bert Crossland Rebecca E. Crown Catherine Daniels Mrs. Robert J. Darnall Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta Michael C. Dawson Roxanne Decyk Nancy Dehmlow Duane M. DesParte Janet Wood Diederichs Paul Dix Mr. J. Donenfeld Mrs. William F. Dooley Sara L. Downey Ann Drake Dr. David Dranove Robert R. Duggan Frank A. Dusek Judge Frank H. Easterbrook Dorne Eastwood Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Louis M. Ebling III Jon Ekdahl Kathleen H. Elliott Mrs. Samuel H. Ellis Charles Emmons, Jr. Janice Engle Scott Enloe Dr. James Ertle Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri Tarek Fadel

Melissa Sage Fadim Jeffrey S. Farbman Sally S. Feder Signe Ferguson Hector Ferral, M.D. Harve Ferrill † Constance M. Filling Daniel Fischel Jennifer J. Fischer Adrian Radmore Foster David S. Fox Rhoda Lea Frank Paul E. Freehling Mitzi Freidheim Philip M. Friedmann Malcolm M. Gaynor Robert D. Gecht Frank Gelber Lynn Gendleman Dr. Mark Gendleman Rabbi Gary S. Gerson Karen Gianfrancisco Ellen Gignilliat James J. Glasser Madeleine Condit Glossberg Judy Goldberg Mary Anne Goldberg Anne Goldstein Jerry A. Goldstone Marcia Goltermann Mary Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen Dr. Ruth Grant Mary L. Gray Freddi L. Greenberg Joyce Greening Dr. Jerri Greer D. Kendall Griffith Jerome J. Groen Jacalyn Gronek Mrs. John Growdon John P. Grube James P. Grusecki Joel R. Guillory, Jr., M.D. Dr. John W. Gustaitis, Jr. Anastasia Gutting Gary Gutting † Lynne R. Haarlow Mrs. Ernst A. Häberli Joan M. Hall Dr. Howard Halpern Mrs. Richard C. Halpern Anne Marcus Hamada Joel L. Handelman John Hard Mrs. William A. Hark Dr. Dane Hassani James W. Haugh Thomas Haynes James Heckman Patricia Herrmann Heestand Mary Mako Helbert Dr. Scott W. Helm Marilyn P. Helmholz Richard H. Helmholz Dr. Arthur L. Herbst Jeffrey W. Hesse Marjorie Friedman Heyman

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

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Konstanze L. Hickey Thea Flaum Hill Mary P. Hines Suzanne Hoffman Anne Hokin William J. Hokin † Wayne J. Holman III Richard S. Holson III Fred Holubow James Holzhauer Carol Honigberg Janice L. Honigberg Nancy A. Horner Mrs. Arnold Horween Frances G. Horwich Dr. Mary L. Houston Patricia J. Hurley Barbara Ann Huyler Michael L. Igoe Sandra Ihm Craig T. Ingram Verne G. Istock Nancy Witte Jacobs Dr. Todd Janus John Jawor Justine Jentes Brian Johnson George E. Johnson Ronald B. Johnson Dr. Patricia Collins Jones Edward T. Joyce Carol K. Kaplan † Jared Kaplan † Claudia Norris Kapnick Lonny H. Karmin Barry D. Kaufman Kenneth V. Kaufman Marie Kaufman Don Kaul Ellen Kelleher Molly Keller Jonathan Kemper Nancy Kempf Linda J. Kenney, Ph.D. John C. Kern † Elizabeth I. Keyser Leslie Kiesel Emmy King Susan Kiphart Carol Evans Klenk Jean Klingenstein Janet L. Knauff Henry L. Kohn, Jr. Joseph Konen Jack Kozik Dr. Mark Kozloff David Kravitz Dr. Michael Krco David Kreisman MaryBeth Kretz Dr. Vinay Kumar Rubin P. Kuznitsky John LaBarbera Dr. Lynda Lane Maria Lans Stephen M. Lans William Lawlor Flora Lazar Sunhee Lee Eleanor Leichenko

GOVERNING MEMBERS

Sheila Fields Leiter Jeffrey P. Lennard Laurence H. Levine Mrs. Bernard Leviton Dr. Edmund J. Lewis Gregory M. Lewis Carolyn Lickerman Mrs. Paul Lieberman Dr. Philip R. Liebson Patricia M. Livingston John S. Lizzadro, Sr. Jane Loeb Renée Logan Amy Lubin Anna Lysakowski Carol MacArthur Mrs. Duncan MacLean Dr. Michael S. Maling Sharon L. Manuel David A Marshall Judy Marth Patrick A. Martin BeLinda I. Mathie Howard M. McCue III Ann Pickard McDermott Dr. James L. McGee Dr. John P. McGee II † Sharon McGee Mrs. Lester McKeever John McKenna Mrs. Peter McKinney Mrs. James M. McMullan † James E. McPherson Paul Meister Mary Mittler Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery Charles A. Moore Emilie Morphew, M.D. Kate Morrison Christopher Morrow Daniel R. Murray Eileen M. Murray Stuart C. Nathan Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr. Edward A. Nieminen Dr. Zehava L. Noah Kenneth R. Norgan Gerard M. Nussbaum Martha C. Nussbaum William A. Obenshain Shelley Ochab Maria Ochs Mrs. James J. O’Connor Eric A. Oesterle Mrs. Norman L. Olson Joy O’Malley Thomas Orlando Beatrice F. Orzac † Gerald Ostermann James J. O’Sullivan, Jr.

Bruce L. Ottley China I. Oughton † Evelyn E. Padorr Dr. Pamela Papas Bruno A. Pasquinelli Timothy J. Patenode Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Michael Payette Frances Penn Mrs. Richard S. Pepper Jean E. Perkins Michael A. Perlstein Bonnie Vaughn Perry Dr. William Peruzzi Robert C. Peterson Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Sue N. Pick Stanley M. Pillman Virginia Johnson Pillman Betsey N. Pinkert Julia Vander Ploeg Harvey R. Plonsker John F. Podjasek III Judy Pomeranz Stephen Potter Carol Prins Elizabeth R. B. Pruett John Wells Puth Duane Quaini Diana Mendley Rauner Susan Regenstein Mari Yamamoto Regnier Ruth Anne Rehfeldt Emilysue Pinnell-Reichardt Mary Thomson Renner Burton R. Rissman Charles T. Rivkin Carol Roberts John H. Roberts William C. Roberts David Robin Dr. Diana Robin Bob Rogers Kevin M. Rooney Harry J. Roper Saul Rosen Sheli Z. Rosenberg Michael Rosenthal Dr. Roseanne Rosenthal Betsy Rosenzweig Doris Roskin Lisa Ross Dr. H. Jay Rothenberg † Roberta H. Rubin Susan B. Rubnitz Sandra K. Rusnak David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg Mary A. Ryan Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan Richard O. Ryan

William G. Ryan Norman K. Sackar Anthony Saineghi Agustin G. Sanz Inez Saunders David A. Savner Karla Scherer David M. Schiffman Judith Feigon Schiffman Rosita Schloss Shirley Schlossman Douglas M. Schmidt Al Schriesheim Donald L. Schwartz Dr. Penny Bender Sebring Chandra Sekhar Dr. Ronald A. Semerdjian Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Ilene W. Shaw Pam Sheffield Dr. James C. Sheinin Richard W. Shepro Jessie Shih Elizabeth Shoemaker Morrell McK. Shoemaker, Jr. † Stuart Shulruff Honorable Richard J. Siegel, Ret. Adele Simmons Linda B. Simon Larry G. Simpson Craig Sirles Miyam Slater Valerie Slotnick Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr. Charles F. Smith Diane W. Smith Louise K. Smith Mary Ann Smith Stanton Kinnie Smith, Jr. Stephen R. Smith Mrs. Ralph Smykal David A. Sneider Diane Snyder Kimberly Snyder Kathleen Solaro Ida N. Sondheimer † Orli Staley William D. Staley Helena Stancikas Grace Stanek Dr. Eugene Stark Leonidas Michael Stefanos Carol Stein Momoko Steiner † Mrs. Richard J. Stern Liz Stiffel Mary Stowell Lawrence E. Strickling Patricia Study Cheryl Sturm

Nancy K. Szalay Gregory Taubeneck James E. Thompson David A. Thomson † Dr. Robert Thomson Scott Thomson † Carla M. Thorpe Joan Thron David Timm Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr. Anne Coulter Tobey John T. Travers David Trushin Paula Turner Robert W. Turner Henry J. Underwood Zalman Usiskin Mrs. James D. Vail III Dr. Cynthia M. Valukas † John E. Van Horn Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice Mrs. Herbert A. Vance † William C. Vance Thomas D. Vander Veen Dr. Michael Viglione Catherine M. Villinski Charles Vincent Christian Vinyard Theodore Wachs Mark Wagner Bernard T. Wall Nicholas Wallace Paul S. Watford Dr. Catherine L. Webb Jeffrey Webb Mrs. Jacob Weglarz Mrs. Joseph M. Weil † Dr. Jamie Weiner Chickie Weisbard Richard Weiss Barbara Weller Barbara H. West † Carmen Wheatcroft Mrs. H. Blair White M. L. Winburn Stephen R. Winters Peter Wolf Laura Woll Dr. Hak Yui Wong Courtenay R. Wood Michael H. Woolever Debbie K. Wright Ronald Yonover Owen Youngman David J. Zampa Dr. John P. Zaremba Anne Zenzer Richard E. Ziegler † Karen Zupko

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

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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 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 Heather Anderson Assistant Manager and Librarian ORCHESTR A 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 Charles Braico House Manager Michael Manning Manager, Audio Media & Operations Charlie Post Audio Engineer 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 Kyle Hendle Electricians Robert Stokas Chief Electrician Doug Scheuller Stage Technicians Christopher Lewis Stage Manager Blair Carlson Paul Christopher Ramon Echevarria Ryan Hartge Peter Landry Todd Snick

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Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO Jonathan McCormick Director, Education & the Negaunee Music Institute Jon Weber Director, School & Family Programs Molly Walker Orchestra Manager, Civic Orchestra of Chicago Katy Clusen Manager, School & Family Programs Sarah Vander Ploeg Coordinator, School & Community Partnerships Antonio Padilla Denis Operations Coordinator, Civic Orchestra of Chicago Rachael Cohen Programs 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 Kerri Gravlin Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Sarah Lombardi Controller Paulette Jean Volf, Janet Kosiba Assistant Controllers Janet Hansen Payroll Manager Marianne Hahn Accounting Manager Hyon Yu General Ledger Manager Cynthia Maday Accounts Payable Manager Ted Sofios Payroll Assistant Information Technology Daniel Spees Director Douglas Bolino Client Systems Administrator Jackie Spark Lead Technologist Kirk McMahon Technologist SALES AND MARKETING Ryan Lewis Vice President Content Marketing and Digital Experience Elisabeth Madeja Director Dana Navarro Associate Director, Digital Content & Producer Laura Emerick Digital Content Editor Steve Burkholder Web Manager Landon Hegedus Coordinator, Digital Engagement Niky Crawford Coordinator, Digital Content Program Marketing and Operations Alex Demas Marketing Manager, CSO Jerry Downey Associate Manager, Marketing Operations Kate McDuffie Coordinator, Community Marketing Amanda Swanson Marketing Associate, Data & Operations Dana DeBofsky Marketing Associate Creative Todd Land Director Sophie Weber Creative Services Manager Eddie Limperis Designer Emily Herrington Design Associate Content Frances Atkins Director Gerald Virgil Senior Content Editor Kristin Tobin Designer & Print Production Manager

Communications and Public Relations Eileen Chambers Director 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 Steve Paulin Assistant Manager, Box Office Patrice Fumbanks Supervisor, Patron Services, Hospitality Lead Aislinn Gagliardi Supervisor, Patron Services, Patron Loyalty Lead 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 Charles Palys Major Gifts Officer & Administrator Tori Ramsay Major Gifts Officer Dakota Williams Associate Director, Education & Community Engagement Giving Richard Riedl Manager, Governing Member Gifts Karen Bippus Manager, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving Emily McClanathan Manager, Strategic Development Communications Erin Gernon Prospect Research Specialist & Moves Management Coordinator Neomia Harris Senior Assistant, Individual Giving Programs & Planned Giving Institutional Advancement Susan Green Director, Foundation & Government Relations Nick Magnone Director, Corporate Development Jennifer Urevig Manager, Corporate Development Jennifer Harazin Grant Writer Donor Engagement and Development Operations Liz Heinitz Senior Director, Development Operations & Annual Giving Lisa McDaniel Director, Donor Engagement Caitlyn Cushing Associate Director, Donor & Development Services Kimberly Duffy Senior Donor Engagement Manager Jocelyn Weberg Manager, Annual Giving Kevin Gupana, Ariana Strahl Managers, Donor Engagement Jamie Forssander Coordinator, Donor Engagement Bri Baiza, Emily Werner Coordinators, Donor Services

honor roll of donors Corporate Partners M A E S T R O R E S I D E N CY P R E S E N T E R

foundation spotlight

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The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Bank of America United Airlines

$ 1 0 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E

Allstate Insurance Company ITW Northern Trust $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9

Anonymous (1) Abbott Exelon Jenner & Block LLP Kinder Morgan PNC Bank Sidley Austin LLP

$ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9

Abbott Fund Aon Chicago Capital, LLC Mayer Brown LLP S&C Electric Company Fund Tiffany & Co. Walgreens $ 1 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9

Archer Daniels Midland Company Deloitte GCM Grosvenor Goldman Sachs & Co. Latham & Watkins LLP McKinsey & Company Oxford Bank $ 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 9, 9 9 9

Baird Entercom Chicago Fellowes, Inc. Grant Thornton LLP Italian Village Restaurants Segal Consulting Starshak & Winzenburg Ventas Weiss Financial $ 1,0 0 0 – $ 4 , 9 9 9

American Agricultural Insurance Company Amsted Industries Incorporated Central Building & Preservation L.P. Parkway Elevators Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Shetland Limited Partnership Shure Incorporated Vienna Beef Vomela

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and Civic Orchestra of Chicago are honored to recognize The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation as the 2021–22 Civic Orchestra of Chicago season sponsor. One of Chicago’s nonprofit leaders in arts support, the Foundation has been a longtime and generous supporter of the Civic Orchestra. The CSOA and Civic Orchestra of Chicago are deeply grateful for the extraordinary generosity of The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, whose directors are committed to celebrating Ms. Cheney’s legacy through the philanthropic support of the arts.

Foundations and Government Agencies $ 1 0 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Julius N. Frankel Foundation Walter E. Heller Foundation in memory of Alyce DeCosta National Endowment for the Arts The Negaunee Foundation Sargent Family Foundation TAWANI Foundation Zell Family Foundation $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9

The Brinson Foundation The Chicago Community Trust Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown Sally Mead Hands Foundation Illinois Arts Council Agency Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9

Barker Welfare Foundation The Clinton Family Fund Crain-Maling Foundation Crown Family Philanthropies Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Irving Harris Foundation Bowman C. Lingle Trust $ 1 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation The Buchanan Family Foundation Darling Family Foundation Leslie Fund, Inc. Pritzker Traubert Foundation

Roy and Irene Rettinger Foundation Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation The George L. Shields Foundation Tully Family Foundation $ 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 9, 9 9 9

The Allyn Foundation, Inc. Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Hoellen Family Foundation Hunter Family Foundation JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundaiton Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation $2,500–$ 4,999

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation Franklin Philanthropic Foundation William M. Hales Foundation Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation $ 1,0 0 0 – $ 2 , 4 9 9

Brown-Monson Foundation Geraldi Norton Foundation Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the Patrons Circle for Un ballo in maschera for its generous support. Zell Family Foundation Walter E. Heller Foundation Marion A. Cameron-Gray Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Gifts listed as of October 22, 2021

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

T H E C A M PA I G N F O R T H E C H I C A G O S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the donors who have made a generous commitment in support of the future of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as of November 2021. Anonymous (5) Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Jeff and Keiko Alexander Ruth and Roger Anderson Family Foundation Peter and Elise Barack Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown Kay Bucksbaum Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock John D. and Leslie Henner Burns George and Minou Colis The Davee Foundation Richard and Alice Godfrey William A. and Anne Goldstein Mary Louise Gorno Howard Gottlieb

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Mr. Graham C. Grady Heestand Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes Julian Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy Estate of Esther G. Klatz Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg Jim † and Kay Mabie Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Mr. Robert Meeker James and Renée Metcalf Estate of Gloria Miner Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Mr. Daniel R. Murray

Cathy and Bill Osborn Andra and Irwin Press Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy Megan and Steve Shebik Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern Thierer Family Foundation Richard and Helen Thomas Penny and John Van Horn Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell Craig and Bette Williams Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow Helen and Sam Zell Estate of Rita Zralek

Annual Support

Jim † and Kay Mabie Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz The James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation Robert E. † and Cynthia M. Sargent Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

Ms. Renee Metcalf Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Susan Regenstein Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Shure Charitable Trust Michael and Linda Simon Betty W. Smykal Mr. Irving Stenn, Jr. Liz Stiffel Terrence and Laura Traux

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through October 22, 2021. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165. $ 1 5 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E

Anonymous (2) Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross The Julian Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation Cathy and Bill Osborn COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired) Megan and Steve Shebik Zell Family Foundation $ 1 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 1 4 9, 9 9 9

Anonymous (3) Ms. Nancy Dehmlow James and Brenda Grusecki Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

$ 75 ,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab John Hart and Carol Prins Pamela Kelley Hull † and Roger B. Hull † Judy and Scott McCue Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Lisa and Paul Wiggin $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 74 , 9 9 9

Anonymous Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Patricia and Laurence Booth Kay Bucksbaum Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim Dr. Eugene Fama Rhoda Lea and Henry S. † Frank Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock Mrs. Janet Kanter

$ 3 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9

Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund John and Fran Edwardson Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation Walter and Kathleen Snodell Mary Stowell Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas Penny and John Van Horn

† 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 October 22, 2021

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$ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 3 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Peter and Elise Barack Julie and Roger Baskes Mrs. Janet R. Bauer Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin Robert J. Buford Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Mr. & Dr. George Colis Mr. & Mrs. Stephen V. D’Amore Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson Ms. Ann Drake Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe Neil Fackler Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Richard and Alice Godfrey William A. and Anne Goldstein Mr. Graham C. Grady Mr. Collier Hands Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes Ms. Geraldine Keefe Ms. Donna L. Kendall Anne and John † Kern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy Sidney Kohl Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James Kolar Randall S. Kroszner Long Story Short Media Ms. Britt Miller Dr. Charles Morcom Daniel R. Murray Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow Mr. & Mrs. Don Phillips Mary and Joseph Plauché Andra and Irwin Press Dr. Mohan Rao Diana and Bruce Rauner Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman 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 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan Thierer Family Foundation Mr. † & Mrs. H. Blair White Craig and Bette Williams Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow Mr. Gifford Zimmerman $ 2 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous (2) Nancy A. Abshire Arnie and Ann Berlin Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Mary Louise Gorno

Sue and Melvin Gray Ronald B. Johnson Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Alexandra and John Nichols Mr. & Mrs. John Pratt Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar Ida N. Sondheimer † and Family, in memory of Joseph Sondheimer Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft Ms. Rebecca West $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 1 9, 9 9 9

Anonymous (3) Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Ms. Sarah Crane Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III The King Family Foundation Kay and Fred † Krehbiel Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck Ms. Betsy Levin Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin Mr. Philip Lumpkin Mr. David E. McNeel Charles A. Moore Edward and Gayla Nieminen D. Elizabeth Price Mr. † & Mrs. David Savner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Marlon Smith and Dominique Brewer Mrs. Carol S. Sonnenschein Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern Mr. & Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. Christian Vinyard Dr. Marylou Witz $ 1 1, 5 0 0 – $ 1 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Ann and Richard Carr Mr. Philip Darling Ms. Shawn M. Donnelley and Dr. Christopher M. Kelly Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle Halasmani/Davis Family Marguerite DeLany Hark Pati and O.J. † Heestand Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall Emilie Morphew, M.D. Jerry Rose David and Judy Schiffman $ 7, 5 0 0 – $ 1 1, 4 9 9

Anonymous (4) Mrs. Rosa Acevedo and Mr. Jose Luis Prado

Jeff and Keiko Alexander Geoffrey A. Anderson Peter and Betsy Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Richard Benck Henry R. Berghoef and Leslie Lauer Berghoef Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Merrill and Judy Blau Ms. Terry Boden Adam Bossov Mr. Donald Bouseman Tom and Dianne Campbell Joyce Chelberg Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Sue and Jim Colletti Dr. Thomas H. Conner Mr. Lawrence Corry Janet Wood Diederichs Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Dunkel Charles and Carol Emmons Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr. David and Janet Fox Nancy and Larry Fuller Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Paul Gray Kendall Griffith Lynne R. Haarlow Joan M. Hall Mrs. Richard C. Halpern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Richard and Joanne Hoffman Fred and Sandra Holubow Janice L. Honigberg Miriam U. Hoover Foundation Carter Howard and Sarah Krepp Tex and Susan Hull Ms. Patricia Hurley Merle L. Jacob Mr. & Mrs. † Howard Jessen Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Joyce Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller Mr. Alfred Kelley Kohn and Mitchell Family Foundation Dr. June Koizumi Nancy and Sanfred Koltun Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler Mr. Stephan Lans Mr. Jeffrey Lennard Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. John Lillard Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Robert † and Judy Marth Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag Mr. & Mrs. Lester McKeever Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley

† 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 October 22, 2021

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Mrs. Frank Morrissey Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr. Ms. Susan Norvich Ms. Martha Nussbaum Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson Mr. Bruce Oltman The Osprey Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James O’Sullivan, Jr. Pasquinelli Family Foundation Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick Richard and Frances Penn Roxy and Richard † Pepper Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Ms. Emilysue Pinnell Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker Mr. Rudolph Rasin † Mr. John W. Rogers, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper Jay † and Maija Rothenberg Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan Mr. Richard Ryan Rita † and Norman Sackar Mr. David Sandfort Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Joan and George Segal David and Judith L. Sensibar The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Ms. Courtney Shea Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Julia M. Simpson Mr. Larry Simpson Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro Roger † and Susan Stone Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck Kelly Thedinger Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Mrs. Elizabeth Twede Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs Peggy White Dr. Nanajan Yakoub Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation David and Eileen Zampa $ 4 , 5 0 0 – $ 7, 4 9 9

Anonymous (13) Elaine and Floyd Abramson Ms. Patti Acurio Fraida and Bob Aland Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein 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

Drs. Iris and Andrew Aronson Mrs. Jeanne B. Aronson Marta Holsman Babson Mr. Neal Ball Ms. Bonnie Barber Ms. Judith Barnard Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes Ms. Sandra Bass Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen Donna and Mike Bell Mr. Lawrence Belles Mrs. Gail Belytschko Mr. Thomas Berg Meta S. and Ronald † Berger Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin Mr. Howard Bernick Mrs. Arthur A. Billings Jim † and Dianne Blanco Ann Blickensderfer Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block Mr. & Mrs. John Borland Janet S. Boyer Ms. Jill Brennan John D. Brubaker † Mrs. Sue Brubaker Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum Linda S. Buckley Ms. Lutgart Calcote Ms. Vera Capp Wendy Alders Cartland Mia Celano and Noel Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Candelario Celio Mr. James Chamberlain Ms. Margaret Chaplan Linton J. Childs Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy Mr. & Ms. Keith Clayton Patricia A. Clickener Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali Ms. Jean Cocozza Douglas and Carol Cohen Lewis Collens Jane and John C. Colman The Comer Foundation Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Jenny L. Corley in memory of Dr. W. Gene Corley Nancy R. Corral Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven R. Bert Crossland Constance Cwiok Dancing Skies Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider

Mr. J. Donenfeld Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Douglas Dr. & Mrs. James L. Downey David and Deborah Dranove Mr. Robert R. Duggan Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek Mr. & Mrs. David P. Earle III Judge Frank Easterbrook Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III Charles and Lois Edwards Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Elden Thomas Eller Michael and Kathleen Elliott La and Philip Engel Scott and Lenore Enloe Dr. & Mrs. James Ertle Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein Donald and Signe Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Dean Fischer Mrs. Roslyn K. Flegel Mrs. John D. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks Susan and Paul Freehling Dr. † & Mrs. Uwe Freese Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr. Robert D. Gecht Sandy and Frank Gelber Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Dr. & Mrs. Richard Gieser Mr. & Mrs. James J. Glasser Judy and Bill Goldberg Lyn Goldstein Mary and Michael Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen Hanna H. Gray Ms. Freddi Greenberg Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory Mr. & Mrs. John P. Grube Anastasia and Gary † Gutting Stephanie and Howard Halpern Anne Marcus Hamada Hill and Cheryl Hammock John and Sally Hard Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan Dr. Dane Hassani James W. Haugh Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes James and Lynne † Heckman Mr. Dale C. Hedding David Hefter Scott Helm Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Hesse

† 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 October 22, 2021

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The Hickey Family Foundation Robert A. Hill and Thea Flaum Hill William B. Hinchliff Dr. Richard Hirschmann James and Eileen Holzhauer Frances and Franklin † Horwich James and Mary Houston Michael and Leigh Huston Michael L. Igoe Mr. Craig T. Ingram Ian and Valerie 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 Dolores Kohl Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin Ms. Ethelle Katz Barry D. Kaufman Larry † and Marie Kaufman Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser Jim and Ellen Kelleher Mrs. Elizabeth Keyser Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn Joseph and Judith Konen Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff Eldon and Patricia Kreider David and Susan Kreisman Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar Mr. & Mrs. Rubin P. Kuznitsky Mr. John LaBarbera Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Langrehr Mr. William Lawlor III Mr. & Mrs. Dean Leff Anne E. Leibowitz Fund Sheila Fields Leiter Mary and Laurence Levine Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Mr †. & Mrs. Howard Lickerman Dr. Philip R. Liebson and Mrs. Carole F. Liebson Robert † and Joan Lipsig Jane and Peter Loeb The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust Renée Logan Dr. Anna Lysakowski Carol MacArthur Mr. & Mrs. † Barry MacLean Sharon L. Manuel Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin Ann Pickard McDermott Dr. † & Mrs. John McGee II John and Etta McKenna

Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray † Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meister Mr. Gregory and Dr. Alice Melchor Dr. Ellen Mendelson Jim and Ginger Meyer Mr. Robert O. Middleton Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman David † and Dolores Nelson Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar Bill and Penny Obenshain Margo and Michael Oberman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs John and Joy O’Malley Mr. & Mrs. William J. O’Neill Kathleen Field Orr Dr. Stephanie Pace and Robert Marshall Mrs. Evelyn E. Padorr Minsok Pak and Carrie Shuchart Ms. Pamela Papas Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. Michael Payette Bonnie Perry Dr. William Peruzzi Mr. Robert Peterson Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Stanley M. and Virginia Johnson Pillman Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert John F. Podjasek III Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte Stephen and Ann Suker Potter Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett Mr. & Mrs. John Puth Mr. Duane Quaini Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn Ms. Helen Reed Ruth Anne Rehfeldt Dr. Rutbert D. Reisch Dr. Hilda Richards Mary K. Ring Burton and Francine † Rissman Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Ms. Carol Roberts William and Cheryl Roberts Dr. Diana Robin Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg D.D. Roskin Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz Tina and Buzz Ruttenburg William and Mary Ryan Anthony Saineghi Raymond and Inez Saunders Karla Scherer

Mr †. & Mrs. Nathan Schloss Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz Ruth Grant and Howard Schwartz Diana and Richard Senior Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields Stuart and Leslie Shulruff Dr. & Mrs. Richard J. Siegel Ms. Ann Silberman Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons Craig Sirles Valerie Slotnick Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr. Charles F. Smith Mrs. Diane W. Smith Louise K. Smith Mary Ann Smith Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith David A. Sneider James and Diane Snyder Kimberly M. Snyder Robert and Emily Spoerri Helena Stancikas Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Carol D. Stein Ms. Momoko Steiner † Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Stoll Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong Cheryl Sturm Ms. Minsook Suh Mr. & Mrs. Robert Szalay Mr. James Thompson Joan and Michael Thron David Timm Ray † and Mary Ann Tittle Bill and Anne Tobey James M. and Carol Trapp John T. and Carrie M. Travers Mrs. Robert Trotter Joan and David Trushin Dr. & Mrs. David Turner Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner Zalman and Karen Usiskin Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice Dr. Michael Viglione Catherine M. Villinski Ms. Raita Vilnins Charles Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall Dr. Catherine L. Webb Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz Abby and Glen Weisberg Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Marc Weissbluth in memory of Linda Weissbluth Bert and Barbara Weller Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft M.L. Winburn Stephen R. Winters

† 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 October 22, 2021

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Peter and Marlee Wolf Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Michael † and Laura Woll Dr. Hak Wong Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr. Stephanie Wood Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever Mari Yamamoto Regnier Mr. Laird Zacheis and Ms. Sunhee Lee Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba Ms. Karen Zupko $ 3,500–$ 4,499

Anonymous (6) Ms. Doris Angell Carey and Brett August Ed Bachrach Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Bachrach Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Roberta and Harold S. Barron Martin and Jill Baumgaertner Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Mr. Ken Belcher Cassandra L. Book Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen Mr. Charles Capwell Peter and Hedy Ciocci Ms. Jane Cox Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall In loving memory of Alice Furumoto-Dawson Ms. Marilyn Duginger Mr. & Mrs. Samuel H. Ellis Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Dr. Gail Fahey Judith E. Feldman Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad Ms. Irene Fox Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Judy and Mickey Gaynor Timothy and Joyce Greening Dr. Jerri E. Greer Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen Jacalyn Gronek Dr. Robert A. Harris Ms. Dawn E. Helwig Marjorie Friedman Heyman James and Margot Hinchliff Mrs. Edwin P. Hoffman Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith Dr. & Mrs. James Holland Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger Mrs. Caryn Jacobs and Mr. Daniel Cedarbaum Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs Dr. Patricia Collins Jones Jonathan and Nancy Lee Kemper Mr. Thomas Kmetko Averill and Bernard † Leviton

Dr. Herbert and Francine Lippitz Patricia M. Livingston Mr. Daniel Macken and Mr. Merlyn Harbold Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic Dr. & Mrs. Walter Massey Dr. & Mrs. James McGee Bill McIntosh Jane and Bruce † McLagan Eileen M. Murray Ms. Victoria Nee Kenneth R. Norgan Mrs. Janis Notz Mr. Thomas Orlando Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann Mr. Bruce Ottley Mr. Timothy J. Patenode Dr. & Mrs †. Ray Pensinger Mr. Ed Platcow Mary Rafferty Dorothy V. Ramm Ms. Evelyn R. Richer Jerry and Carole Ringer David and Kathy Robin Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross Ms. Roberta H. Rubin Mr. Agustin G. Sanz Shirley and John † Schlossman Douglas M. Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Elizabeth and John Shoemaker Mr. & Mrs. Frederic Smies Joel and Beth Spenadel Mr. Michael Sprinker Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos Mrs. Marjorie H. Stephan Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Henry and Janet Underwood Eric Vaang Mr. Peter Vale Ms. Julia Vander Ploeg Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D. Mr. David J. Varnerin Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner Nicholas and Jessica Wallace Mr. Lawrence Wechter Samuel † and Chickie Weisbard David E. and Kerstin Wellbery Ms. Lois Wolff Ms. Debbie Wright Owen and Linda Youngman $2,500–$ 3,499

Anonymous (13) Ms. Susan Adler Dr. & Mrs. Carl H. Albright Dr. Diane Altkorn

Sharon and Charles Angell Mychal P. Angelos †, in memory of Dorothy A. Angelos Mr. & Mrs. Peter Ascoli Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Asner Ms. Marlene Bach Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Barber Mr. Carroll Barnes James and Bartha Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Berner, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof Mrs. Nancy Blum Ms. Virginia Boehme Mr. James Borkman Mr. Douglas Bragan Ms. Susan Bridge Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman Jack M. Bulmash Jack Buoscio Ms. Jeanne Busch Robert D. Carone Mrs. Eileen Conaghan Mr. Howard Conant Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Matt and Carrie Cotter Ms. Juli Crabtree Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris Thomas E. II and Barbara C. Donnelley Family Fund Ingrid and Richard Dubberke Josephine Lewis and Morton Dubman Linda Dykes Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten Ms. Shirley Evans-Wofford Mr. Conrad Fischer Mrs. Donna Fleming Ginny and Peter Foreman Lee Francis and Michelle Gittler Mr. & Mrs. Louis Freidheim, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III James and Rebecca Gaebe Dr. & Mrs. Paul B. Glickman Mr. David Glueck Isabelle Goossen Michelle and Gerald M. Gordon Merle Gordon Mr. Andrew Gore Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French Thomas † and Delta Greene BHD Kozloff Family Fund Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Handler Mr. Joseph Harmon Mrs. John M. Hartigan Ms. Kyle Harvey Mr. Bradley J. Henderson Ms. Leigh Ann Herman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hill The Rev. Melinda Hinners-Waldie and Mr. Benjamin Waldie Ms. Eloise Hirschey

† 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 October 22, 2021

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Ms. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph Doherty Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton Cynthia Jamison-Marcy Peter and Stephanie Keehn Ms. Helen Kessler Mr. & Mrs. † W. K. Ketchum Anne G. Kimball and Peter Stern Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin Akiko and Shohei Koide Mr. Ken Krantz Mrs. Leona Krompart Bob and Marian Kurz Mr. Michael Licitra Mrs. Gabrielle Long Sherry and Mel Lopata Ms. Jean Lorenzen Daniel and Karen Maki Ms. Barbara Malott Dan and Lynne Mapes-Riordan Barbara and Larry Margolis Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez Mr. † & Mrs. Lowell Mason, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass Igor and Olga Matlin Mr. † & Mrs. George Maze Ms. Marilyn Mccoy Mr. & Mrs. William McDowell, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Mcleod Sheila and Harvey Medvin Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Mr. Carl and Maria Moore Mr. Vijai Moses Shankar and Katharine Nair Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James Nowacki Sarah and Wallace Oliver Ms. Diane Ososke Ms. Lynne Ostfeld Garry and Joanne Owens Mr. & Mrs. Norman Perman Mr. Christopher Pickering Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards Lyn Ridgeway Roberts Family Foundation Thomas Roberts and Teresa Grosch Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Rusnak, Jr. John Jeral Sabl Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Ms. Cecelia Samans Ms. Judy Saslow Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig Gerald and Barbara Schultz Susan and Charles Schwartz Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil Ms. Gail Seidel

Ms. Mary Beth Shea Ellen and Richard Shubart Margaret and Alan Silberman Jack and Barbara Simon Dr. Stuart Sondheimer Charles and Joan Staples Steinway & Sons Mrs. Marjorie Moretz Stinespring Laurence and Caryn Straus Barry and Winnifred Sullivan Wan Suwandi Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft Ayana Tomeka Howard † and Paula † Trienens Mr. Jay Tunney Mr. & Mrs. Allan Vagner Jim and Cindy Valtman Robert J. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Robert Watson Barbara and Steven Wolf Peggy and Ted Wolff Ms. Camille Zientek Drs. Donald Zimmerman and Susan Pearlson Mr. Gerald A. Zimmerman For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.

$ 1 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 1 4 9, 9 9 9

Allstate Insurance Company The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The James † and Madeleine † McMullan Family Foundation $ 75 ,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9

John Hart and Carol Prins National Endowment for the Arts $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 74 , 9 9 9

Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund Kinder Morgan Judy and Scott McCue Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal † Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Megan and Steve Shebik Shure Charitable Trust Michael and Linda Simon Mr. Irving Stenn, Jr. $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9

John and Fran Edwardson Bowman C. Lingle Trust $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 3 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous (2) Abbott Fund Barker Welfare Foundation Crain-Maling Foundation Leslie Fund, Inc. $ 2 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9

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 Dakota Williams, Associate Director, Education and Community Engagement Giving, at williamsd@cso.org or 312-294-3156. $ 1 5 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E

The Julian Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation

Anonymous Illinois Arts Council Agency Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family PNC Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 1 9, 9 9 9

Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Mr. Philip Lumpkin D. Elizabeth Price Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Lisa and Paul Wiggin Dr. Marylou Witz $ 1 1, 5 0 0 – $ 1 4 , 9 9 9

Nancy A. Abshire Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Halasmani/Davis Family $ 7, 5 0 0 – $ 1 1, 4 9 9

Archer Daniels Midland Company Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz

† 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 October 22, 2021

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Mr. Lawrence Belles The Buchanan Family Foundation Sue and Jim Colletti Mr. Lawrence Corry Mr. & Mrs †. Allan Drebin Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geraghty Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Richard and Alice Godfrey Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Ms. Susan Norvich Robert E. † and Cynthia M. Sargent Mrs. Carol S. Sonnenschein Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt Penny and John Van Horn Dr. Nanajan Yakoub $ 4 , 5 0 0 – $ 7, 4 9 9

Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Ann and Richard Carr Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Dunkel John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Dr. June Koizumi Anne E. Leibowitz Fund Jim and Ginger Meyer Mr. Robert Middleton Dr. Scholl Foundation Segal Consulting Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs $ 3,500–$ 4,499

Ms. Patti Acurio Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation Mr. & Ms. Keith Clayton Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger The Osprey Foundation Mary and Joseph Plauché $2,500–$ 3,499

Anonymous (2) Mr. James Borkman Mr. Douglas Bragan Mrs. Roslyn K. Flegel William B. Hinchliff Italian Village Restaurants Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino David † and Dolores Nelson Margo and Michael Oberman Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation Mr. David Sandfort Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Mr. Larry Simpson

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Abby and Glen Weisberg $ 1, 5 0 0 – $ 2 , 4 9 9

Anonymous Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Howard and Donna Bass Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Adam Bossov Mr. Donald Bouseman Patricia A. Clickener Edward and Nancy Eichelberger Charles and Carol Emmons Judith E. Feldman Lee Francis and Michelle Gittler Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks James and Rebecca Gaebe Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Gregory Grobarcik Dr. & Mrs. James Holland Michael and Leigh Huston Thomas and Reseda Kalowski Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer Mr. John Lansing Sharon L. Manuel Mr. & Mrs. William McDowell, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Ms. Carol Rech Ruth Anne Rehfeldt Mary K. Ring Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust Mrs. Florence and Ron Testa David E. and Kerstin Wellbery Jamie Wigglesworth AIA Mr. Robert Winn $ 1 ,0 0 0 – $ 1 , 4 9 9

Anonymous (4) John Albrecht Dr. Diane Altkorn Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein Dr. & Mrs. Robert Arensman Ms. Marlene Bach Jon W. and Diane Balke Mr. Peter Barrett Ms. Elaine Baumann Ann Blickensderfer Mr. Thomas Bookey Mr. & Mrs. Donald Bowey, Jr. Ms. Danolda Brennan Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman Jack M. Bulmash The Chicago Community Foundation Mr. Howard Conant Matt and Carrie Cotter William and Janice Cutler Robert Allen Daugherty

Mr. Adam Davis Mr. Robert Deoliveira Ms. Amy Dickinson and Mr. James Futransky Mrs. Susan F. Dickman Dr. Thomas Durica and Sue Jacob Lori Eich Elk Grove Graphics Ms. Lola Flamm David and Janet Fox Ms. Elizabeth Friedgut Peter Gallanis Dr. & Mrs. Paul B. Glickman Goodman Law Group Chicago Brooks and Wanza Grantier George F. and Catherine S. Haber Mrs. Zahraa Hajjiri Mr. & Mrs. John Hales Charlotte Hampton Dr. Robert A. Harris Ms. Dawn E. Helwig Mr. Felipe Hillard Ms. Sharon Flynn Hollander Ms. Kasey Jackson Egill and Ruth Jacobsen Dr. Jay and Georgianna Kleiman Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin Mr. Jerrold Levine Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus Robert Losik Mr. Daniel Macken and Mr. Merlyn Harbold Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic Marilyn and Myron Maurer Marilyn Mitchell Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Phyllis and Zane Muhl Edward and Gayla Nieminen Mr. & Mrs. Delano O’Banion Mr. Bruce Oltman Ms. Joan Pantsios Ms. Audrey Paton Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Dorothy V. Ramm Dr. Hilda Richards Cristina Romero Mr. Nicholas Russell Mr. Laurence Saviers Mr. & Mrs. Eric Scheyer Gerald and Barbara Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Xiaokui Katie Shan Dr. & Mrs. Richard Snow Dr. Sabine Sobek Mr. George Speck Joel and Beth Spenadel Mrs. Julie Stagliano Ms. Denise Stauder

† 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 October 22, 2021

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Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Stepansky Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Stoll Sharon Swanson Ms. Deborah Tate Terry Taylor Ayana Tomeka Dr. Joyce Van Cura Henrietta Vepstas Dr. Pietro Veronesi Mrs. Hempstead Washburne Ms. Christine Wilson Irene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin ENDOWED FUNDS

Anonymous (3) Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth Concert Fund Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund CNA The Davee Foundation Frank Family Fund Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund Mary Winton Green William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Community Engagement Richard A. Heise Peter Paul Herbert Endowment Fund The Kapnick Family Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust The Malott Family Very Special Promenades 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 Toyota Endowed Fund Virginia C. Vale † The Wallace Foundation Zell Family Foundation CIVIC ORCHESTR A OF CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIPS

Members of the Civic Orchestra receive an annual stipend to help offset some of their living expenses during their training in Civic. The following donors have generously underwritten a Civic musician(s) for the 2021–22 season. Thirteen Civic members participate in the Civic Fellowship program, a rigorous artistic and professional development curriculum that supplements their membership in the full orchestra. Major funding for this program is generously provided by The Julian Family Foundation.

The 2021–22 Civic season is sponsored by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation. To learn more, please contact Dakota Williams, Associate Director, Education and Community Engagement Giving, at williamsd@cso.org or 312-294-3156. Nancy A. Abshire Shannon Merciel, cello Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund Rachel Mostek, viola Mr. Lawrence Belles and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Michael Stevens, horn Sue and Jim Colletti Bethany Pereboom,** viola Lawrence Corry Wesley Jones bass Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund Edin Agamenoni, bassoon Irina Chang, clarinet James Jihyun Kim, oboe Jacob Medina, horn Sofia Nikas, viola Charlotte Ullman, cello Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Alyssa Primeau,** flute Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Benjamin Foerster, bass Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geraghty and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Haley Slaugh, cello Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat Ye Jin Goo, viola Benjamin Wagner, viola Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Michael Leavens, trumpet Richard and Alice Godfrey Robbie Herbst, violin Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Liam Jackson, bassoon Mary Winton Green Isaac Polinsky, bass

Jane Redmond Haliday Chair Hana Takemoto, cello The Julian Family Foundation Taylor Hampton, percussion Nelson Mendoza,** violin Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust Miles Link, cello Crystal Qi, violin Daniel Solowey, clarinet Holly Wagner, violin John Wagner, trumpet Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett John Heffernan, violin League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Lindsey Sharpe,** cello Leslie Fund Inc. Joseph Bricker,** percussion Tabitha Oh, violin Phillip G. Lumpkin Dylan Feldpusch,** violin Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Abigail Monroe, cello Judy and Scott McCue and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Luke Lentini,** violin Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal † Diego Diaz, violin Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Olivia Reyes, bass Ms. Susan Norvich Eleanor Kirk, harp Sandra and Earl J. Rusnak Jr. Teddy Schenkman, viola Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Jarrett McCourt, tuba Nelson Ricardo Yovera Perez, horn The George L. Shields Foundation Inc. Phillip Bergman, cello Laura Schafer, violin Seth Van Embden, viola The David W. and Lucille G. Stotter Chair Joshua Burca, violin

† Deceased ** Fellow § Partial sponsor Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of October 22, 2021

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Ruth Miner Swislow Charitable Fund Nick DeLaurentis, bass Lois and James Vrhel Endowment Fund Caleb Edwards, bass Dr. Marylou Witz Hee Yeon Kim,** violin Anonymous Hugo Saavedra,** trombone Anonymous Francisco Malespin,** cello Rannveig Sarc, violin

Theodore Thomas Society

Mary Louise Gorno Chair Listed below are generous donors who have made commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their wills, trusts, and other estate plans, including life-income arrangements. The Society honors their generosity, which helps to ensure the long-term financial stability and artistic excellence of the CSOA. To learn more, please contact Al Andreychuk, Director of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3150. S T R A D I VA 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 November 2021. Anonymous (7) 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 Carey and Brett August Marlene Bach Dr. Jeff Bale Mr. Neal Ball Sally J. Becker Marlys A. Beider Dr. C. Bekerman Martha Bell Mike and Donna Bell Celine Bendy Julie Ann Benson

K. Richard and Patricia M. Berlet Merrill and Judy Blau Ann Blickensderfer Danolda Brennan Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr. Mitchell J. Brown Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark Patricia A. Clickener Judith and Stephen F. Condren Anita Crocus Harry and Jean Eisenman Dr. Marilyn Ezri Mrs. William M. Flory Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. 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 Nancy Griffin 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 Michael L. Igoe, Jr. Ms. Darlene Johnson Ronald B. Johnson Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy Lori Julian Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Howard Kaspin James Kemmerer Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Edwin and Karen Kramer Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka Robert B. Kyts Memorial Fund Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring Robert Alan Lewis Dr. Valerie Lober Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl Sheldon H. Marcus Marilyn G. Marr James Edward McPherson Janet L. Melk Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor Charles Moore

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 Donald Peck Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn Judy Pomeranz Neil K. Quinn Randall and Cara Rademaker Constance A. Rajala Al and Lynn Reichle Ann and Bob † Reiland Wendy Reynes Dr. Edward O. Riley Charles and Marilynn Rivkin David and Kathy Robin Jerry Rose Mr. James S. Rostenberg Richard O. Ryan John A. Salkowski Cecelia Samans A. Wm. Samuel Franklin Schmidt Joanne Silver Mr. Craig Sirles Betty W. Smykal Annette and Richard Steinke Mrs. Deborah Sterling Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong Mrs. Gloria B. Telander Karin and Alfred Tenny Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Dr. Richard Tresley Paula Turner Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner Penny and John 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 (31) Valerie and Joseph Abel Louise Abrahams Patrick Alden Richard and Elynne Aleskow Judy L. Allen Ann S. Alpert Ms. Judith L. Anderson Steven Andes, Ph.D. Catherine Aranyi Dr. Susan Arjmand Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba

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Mara Mills Barker Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty Joan I. Berger Robert M. Berger John L. Browar Catherine Brubaker Joseph Buc Edward J. Buckbee Michelle Miller Burns Mr. Robert J. Callahan Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Car Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael Dr. Marlene E. Casiano Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy Sharon Conway Mr. Jerry J. Critser Ron and Dolores Daly Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson Sylvia Samuels Delman Mrs. David A. DeMar Ms. Phyllis Diamond Mr. Richard L. Eastline Nancy Schroeder Ebert Robert J. Elisberg Richard Elledge Charles and Carol Emmons La and Philip Engel Tarek and Ann Fadel James B. Fadim Leslie Farrell Donna Feldman Frances and Henry Fogel Allen J. Frantzen Nancy and Larry Fuller Dileep Gangolli Miss Elizabeth Gatz Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Steve and Lauran Gilbreath Mr. Daniel Gilmour III Mr. Joseph Glossberg Adele and Marvin † Goldsmith Douglas Ross Gortner Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Ms. Elizabeth A. Gray Delta A. Greene Mrs. Barbara Gundrum Lynne R. Haarlow Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley Mr. Tom Hall Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett Dr. Donald Heinrich William B. Hinchliff Mr. Thomas Hochman Jack and Colleen Holmbeck Mrs. Walter Horban James and Mary Houston Mr. James Humphrey Merle L. Jacob Ms. Jessica Jagielnik Joseph and Rebecca † Jarabak Mrs. Marian Johnson

Ms. Janet Jones Nathan Kahn, in memory of Zave Hillel Gussin and in honor of Robert Gussin Marshall Keltz Valerie and George Kennedy Paul Keske Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr. Mrs. LeRoy Klemt Sally Jo Knowles Mrs. Russell V. Kohr Ms. Barbara Kopsian Liesel E. Kossmann Eugene Kraus John C. and Carol Anderson Kunze Thomas and Annelise Lawson Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey Ms. Nicole Lehman Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy Ms. Sally Lewis Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg Mr. Michael Licitra Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Bonnie Glazier Lipe Candace Loftus Suzette and James Mahneke Ann Chassin Mallow Sharon L. Manuel Mrs. John J. Markham Judy and Scott McCue Mr. William McIntosh Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey Dorothe Melamed Marcia Melamed Dale and Susan Miller Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten Thomas R. Mullaney Daniel R. Murray Dolores D. Nelson Franklin Nussbaum Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr. Wallace and Sarah Oliver Lynn Orschel Dr. David G. Ostrow and Mr. Rafael Gomez Helen and Joseph Page George R. Paterson Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Elizabeth Anne Peters Mr. Lewis D. Petry Judy C. Petty Karen and Dick Pigott Lois Polakoff D. Elizabeth Price Dorothy V. Ramm Jeanne Reed Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones Karen L. Rigotti Don and Sally Roberts Ms. Elaine Rosen Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal Dr. Virginia C. Saft Craig Samuels

Sue and William Samuels Paul and Kathleen Schaefer Mrs. Milton Scheffler Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt David Shayne Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Anne Sibley Larry Simpson Thomas G. Sinkovic Rosalee Slepian Mary Soleiman Jim Spiegel Julie Stagliano Denise M. Stauder Karen Steil Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale Mr. John Stokes Mr. & Mrs. Richard Stuckey Jeffrey and Linda Swoger Mr. John C. Telander Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Thorson Karen Hletko Tiersky Myron Tiersky Jacqueline A. Tilles Mr. James M. Trapp Mr. Donn N. Trautman Mike and Mary Valeanu Frank Villella Mr. Milan Vydareny Dr. Malcolm Vye Adam R. Walker and BettyAnn Mocek Mr. Frank Walschlager Louella Krueger Ward Dr. Catherine L. Webb Karl Wechter Claude M. Weil Joan Weiss Mr. Thomas Weyland Lisa and Paul Wiggin Linda and Payson S. Wild Kayla Anne Wilson Robert A. Wilson Nora M. Winsberg Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf Beth Wollar 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 Elizabeth E. Abler Richard Abrahams Frances B. Abrahamson Donald Alderman Sara Anastaplo

† 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 October 22, 2021

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Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos Elizabeth M. Ashton Irwin Askow Jacqueline and Frank Ball Wayne Balmer Paul Barker Leland and Mary Bartholomew Patricia Anne Barton Barbara Burt Baumann Hortense K. Becker Arlene and Marshall Bennett Norma Zuzanek Bennett Sally J. Benson Harriet and Harry H. Bernbaum Lenore M. Berner Judy and Dennis Bober Naomi T. Borwell Kathryn Bowers Harriet B. Brady Marjorie L. Bredehorn Howard Broecker Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown George and Jacqueline Brumlik Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger Marie Kraemer Burnside Norma Cadieu Wiley Caldwell Elizabeth R. Capilupo Charles R. Casper Margaret G. Chamales Marcia S. Cohn Milton Colman Robert Cooke Nelson D. Cornelius Anita J. Court, Ph.D. Christopher L. Culp Barbara DeCoster Billie Dale Delevitt Robert L. Devitt Azile Dick Edison and Jane Warner Dick James F. Drennan William B. Drewry Robert L. Drinan, Jr. Daisy Driss William A. Dumbleton Evelyn Dyba Marian Edelstein Estelle Edlis Dr. Edward Elisberg Kelli Gardner Emery Joseph R. Ender Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson Shirley Mae Evans Mildred F. Fanslau Dr. James D. Fenters Leslie Fogel Robert B. Fordham Herbert and Betty Forman Richard Foster Etha Beatrice Fox

Elaine S. Frank Rhoda Lee and Henry S. Frank Herbert B. Fried Dr. Muriel S. Friedman Gustave D. Friesem Hynda and Maurice Gamze Florence Ganja Alan J. Garber William and Helene Gardner Martin and Francey Gecht Isak Gerson Betsy N. and James R. Getz Mrs. Willard Gidwitz Lyle Gillman Marvin Goldsmith Elizabeth S. Graettinger William B. Graham Richard Gray David Green Allen J. Greenberger Dr. Robert A. Greendale Ann B. Grimes Ernest A. Grunsfeld III Elizabeth and Paul Guenzel Cecile Guthman Betty and Lester Guttman A. William Haarlow III Grace and Vernon Hajeck Clarine and James Hall Julie and J. Parker Hall Richard Halvorsen Leah C. and Robert J. Hamman CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret. Mrs. David J. Harris Polly Heinrich Mary Mako Helbert Lawrence J. Helstern Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth Marriane Deson Herstein Mary Jo Hertel Helen Hoagland Blanche Hoheisel Eugene P. Holland Allen H. Howard Hugh Johnston Hubbard Joseph H. Huebner Helen Igoe Mrs. Henry Isham Barbara Isserman Robert Johnson Phyllis A. Jones Joseph M. Kacena Stuart Kane Jared Kaplan Morris A. Kaplan Roberta Kapoun Paul Keske Esther G. Klatz Russell V. Kohr Jeffrey W. Korman William Kruppenbacher Karen Kuehner

Evelyn and Arnold Kupec Rebecca Jarabak Ruth Lucie Labitzke Louise H. Landau Alice M. La Pert Sadie Lapinsky Caressa Y. Lauer Robert A. Leady Arthur E. Leckner, Jr. Patricia Lee Christine D. Letchinger Lena T. Levinson Richard Alan Livingston Marion M. and Glen A. Lloyd Mary Longbrake William C. Lordan Iris Maiter Arthur G. Maling June Betty and Herbert S. Manning Kathleen W. Markiewicz Ellen and Robert C. Marks Irl and Barbara Marshall Eloise Martin Virginia Harvey McAnulty Helen C. McDougal, Jr. Lillian E. McLeod Eunice H. McGuire Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick Carolyn and Bruce McPherson Jack L. Melamed, MD Hugo J. Melvoin Richard Menaul Susan Messinger Shirley R. Mesirow Phillip Migdal Kathryn and Edward Miller Micki Miller Gloria Miner Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Bill Moor Kathryn Mueller Marietta Munnis Leota Ann Meyer Murray David H. Nelson Helen M. Nelson Sydelle Nelson Otto Nerad John and Maynette Neundorf Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld Raymond and Eloise Niwa Joan Ruck Nopola Carol Rauner O’Donovan T. Paul B. O’Donovan Mary and Eric Oldberg Bruce P. Olson Suzanne and Brace Pattou Dorothy and William G. Paulick, Jr. Mary Perlmutter Bette G. Petersen Helen J. Petersen Madge and Neil Petersen Maxine R. Philipsborn

† 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 October 22, 2021

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Walter Placko Elaine and Harold H. Plaut Charles J. Pollyea Miriam Pollyea Virginia and Eugene Pomerance Halina J. Presley Samuel Press Alfred and Maryann Putnam Christine Querfeld Ruth Ann Quinn Muriel F. Reder Walter Reed Daniel Reichard Bob Reiland Paul H. Resnik Sheila Taaffe Reynolds Joan L. Richards J. Timothy Ritchie Dolores M. RixFanada David M. Roberts Rosemary Roberts Virginia H. Rogers Jill N. Rohde Irmgard Hess Rosenberger Ben J. Rosenthal Harriet Cary Ross Anthony Ryerson Margaret R. Sagers Beverly and Grover Schiltz Erhardt Schmidt Muriel Schnierow Donald R. Schreiber Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr. Margaret and Edwin Seeboeck Nancy Seyfried Denise Selz Joseph J. Semrow Ingeborg Haupt Sennot Soretta and Henry Shapiro Muriel Shaw Mr. Morrell A. Shoemaker Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure William F. Sibley Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel Peter E. Sincox Allen R. Smart Walter Chalmers Smith Jean H. Smith Peggy E. Smith-Skarry Willis B. Snell Karen A. Sorensen Georgette Grosz Spertus Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel Vito Stagliano Mrs. Zelda Star Charles J. Starcevich Curtis D. Stensrud Lucille G. and David W. Stotter Helmut and Irma Strauss Franklin R. St. Lawrence Robert Sychowski

Dr. Gerald Sunko Mr. & Mrs. Robert Swanson Ruth Miner Swislow Robert Sychowski Andrew and Peggy Thomson J. Ross Thomson Sue Tice Beatrice B. Tinsley C. Phillip Turner Paul D. Urnes Ted Utchen Robert L. Volz Lois and James Vrhel Cecilia Sue and Burton J. Wade Louise Benton Wagner Michael Jay Walanka Nancy L. Wald Jeanne Walker Josephine Wallace Laurie Wallach Jean Angus and Ferre C. Watkins Virginia O. Weaver Ann Dow Weinberg Marco Weiss James M. Wells Barbara Huth West Joyce Hadley Williams Arnold & Ann Wolff Ronald R. Zierer Rita A. Zralek

In memory of Heather DeBuhr Anderson and Janet Stover Mallot Kenje Mallot

Tribute Program

In memory of Kettee J. Boling Mr. Thomas Boling

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 through July 2020. MEMORIAL GIFTS

In memory of Claudio Abbado Mr. Daniel Balsam In memory of her loved ones Ms. Laverne Alexander In memory of Roy B. Alper Mr. Jeffrey Alper In memory of Frank Alschuler Mr. † & Mrs. † Frank Alschuler

In memory of Marjorie Baker Jean LaVelle In memory of Robin Beauchamp Ms. Jacqueline Harper In memory of Dr. & Mrs. Owen and Sylvia Belmont Chifan Belmont In memory of Gerry Benyo Ms. Elisabeth Long In memory of Dr. David Bergson Gary and Carole Lauger In memory of Dr. David Berkson Dr. & Mrs. David Berkson In memory of Hector Berlioz Linda Spadlowski In memory of Bud Beyer Ms. Jean Flaherty In memory of John R. Blair Mrs. Barbara J. Blair

In memory of Ruth Bolotin Dr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Anger In memory of Mr. Robert A. Borich Mr. & Mrs. Peter Borich In memory of Barbara Borovsky Anonymous (2) Douglas Bade Jim and Emily Borovsky Peter Borzak Richard Bray Robert Buchsbaum David Carmell Melinda Cook Mr. & Mrs. Dan Drexler Kristen Van Dyke Mr. & Mrs. James Esser Terri Feldman Mrs. Lisa Fisher Lee Frank Katie Froelich William and Ethel Gofen Charles Gofen Ms. Judy Golson Mark Goodman Leslie Grauer

† 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 October 22, 2021

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Renee Greenspon Juli Greenwald Jamie Haddad Chris Hamilton John Hammerschlag Elaine Jacoby Steve Joung Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin Beth Kaufmann Kathryn Kerr Bob and Peggy Kimble Susan Koehler Ms. Ann W. Krouse Scott Levee Daniel Libit Marjorie Loeb Jan Mathes Cary Mendelsohn Mr. & Mrs. Russel L. Miron Myra Morris Mrs. John Myers Mr. & Mrs. Scott Nierman John Hart and Carol Prins Julie Regan Mr. & Ms. Thomas Rein Daniel Reisner Lebhoff-Ries, M.D., and Michael Ries, M.D. Amy Saltzman Alison Salzman Gail Seidman Lynne Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sharfstein Bonnie Shlensky Mr. Daniel Sobol Nancy Swan Donna Zarcone In memory of John Bross Rev. Robert Wyatt In memory of Elfrida Bruk Samantha Scalabrino In memory of Carol Mary Carruthers Marshall Johnson In memory of Robert Chaiken Mary Chaiken In memory of Chee-jun Chan Mr. & Mrs. Sai-Kit Chan In memory of Shu-yuan Chiang You-Chien Chiang In memory of Mr. Myron Cholden Harriett and Myron Cholden Mrs. and Dr. Diane Levy In memory of Donald Cohen Mr. Donald McKay

In memory of Dorothy Cohn Kim Lande

In memory of James Foy Ms. Lucienne Johnson

In memory of Matthew Cook Ms. Veronica Cook

In memory of Shirley Freilich Mr. & Mrs. Don Borzak Ms. Carol Dragon Dr. Gershon Locker

In memory of Joseph Creed Mr. Daniel Creed In memory of Frank R. Crisafulli Mrs. Dorothy Crisafulli

In memory of Salah Galal and Yasser Mansour Hysam Galal

In memory of Dr. Christopher Culp Neal Lenhoff

In memory of Neil Gerdes Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Helm

In memory of Lawrence Daker and the Reavis High School administration Mr. Lawrence Daker

In memory of Isak Gereson Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III Gabriel Gregoratos Bruce Johnson Lynne L. Kuehl

In memory of Gary A. Davis Dr. Steven Andes In memory of Inge de la Camp Stephanie Wood

In memory of David Lee Gibson Stephanie Jaeger Shannon Rusnak

In memory of Herb Drury Jill and Scott Gundy

In memory of Dr. Jay M. Goldberg Dr. Anna Lysakowski

In memory of Ron Eisenhauer Mr. † & Mrs. Gershon Berg

In memory of Michael Cotter Greenfield Ms. Victoria Greenfield

In memory of Marc and Carolyn Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Demetrios Moschandreas Mr. & Mrs. William Rapp Rachel Silver In memory of Lucille Marilyn Marks Ellison Ms. Nancy Friedman In memory of Susan K. Gordy Epstein Mr. David Epstein and Ms. Susan K. Gordy In memory of George Escarra Emily A. Escarra In memory of George Estevez Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Wilhelm In memory of Hazel S. Fackler Neil Fackler In memory of Rudolf Fahsbender Ms. Jeanne Cohen In memory of Lyn Corbett Fitzgerald Ms. Nancy Kittle In memory of John P. Flanzer Mrs. Gloria Flanzer

In memory of Dennis and Bridget Griffin Ms. Kathleen Griffin In memory of Barbara Groves’s mother Ms. Barbara Groves In memory of Zave Gussin Mr. Nathan Kahn In memory of Edith Hamilton Michael Hacker In memory of Roger Harris Gail Shiner In memory of John Hayes Mr. John Hayes In memory of O.J. Heestand Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez Mr. Mimis Cohen and Mrs. Andrea Biel-Cohen Carol Drummond Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim Emily Fillingham Mrs. Penny Freund Jane M. Gaines Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins Marian Jacobson

† 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 October 22, 2021

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Gail Krejci Mr. William Lawlor, III Ms. Barbara Malott Miss Robin Moore The O’Connor Partnership Charles Riepe Thomas Romano Leila Shakkour and Michael Thorne Liz Stiffel Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Walter

In memory of Lawrence Klevan Ms. Jane Heron Mabel Menard Ayana Tomeka

In memory of Tom Hill Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hill

In memory of Antoinette Lalagos Mr. Daniel Creed

In memory of Margaret Hillis Mrs. Leona Krompart

In memory of Abba and Eleanor Leifer Ms. Diana Leifer

In memory of Christopher Horsch Mr. † & Mrs. Christopher Horsch

In memory of Lena Levinson Sherwin Levinson

In memory of Mary Ingmire Jann Ingmire

In memory of Irene Lindau Mr. Kevin Rudd

In memory of Mrs. Estelle Wolowitz Jacobs Mr. Daniel Balsam

In memory of Richard A. Livingston Mr. & Mrs. Royce Eckhardt

In memory of Angel Jaramillo Margarita Gallegos In memory of Janet Jentes Anonymous Lynne R. Haarlow Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Mr. David E. McNeel Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. In memory of Emil Johnson Dr. Christakes In memory of Edward Jones Mr. Jim Fitzgerald In memory of Shirley Kalnitz Mr. Nathan Linsk In memory of Bernard E. Kane, M.D. Lisa DeVitto In memory of Jared Kaplan Mr. Jeffrey Jahns Tony Kempf Nancy Leizman Stephanie Silverman Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith In memory of Merrily Ketchum Lois Berger Wally and Carol Lennox Marijo Schneiderwind Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Smith Kelly Thedinger

In memory of Caryn Knott Jenoa Washmon In memory of Adele Kornfeld Ms. Lois Weiss

In memory of June Merkel Susan Clifford Mike and Carol Connelly Andrew and Diana DaMiano Mr. Kevin Donnellon John Gehron Ms. Paula Hambrick Ms. Tara McKee Esperanza Morales Cynthia Scillitani Sue Swan Nancy Wiltgen In memory of Leonard E. Meyers Ms. Julie Bromley Ximena Mora Y Olivan Gertrude Slowik Mr. & Ms. James Socke In memory of Barbara P. Millar Ms. Kola Kennedy

In memory of Earl J. Macey Eliot Konz

In memory of Carol Mittleman Mr. & Mrs. Ted Banks Kelly Carter Gloria Gray Jeffrey Gray Karen Gray-Keeler Cynthia Kane Ms. Monica Tobler Shelley Ziack

In memory of Edith G. MacLaren Mr. & Mrs. Robert Watson

In memory of Mildred E. Mohr Mr. Dale Mohr

In memory of Carol J. Mason Jill C. Hawkes

In memory of Charles Francis Moles Ms. Kathleen Harrington and Mr. Charlie Moles †

In memory of Jim Mabie Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

In memory of Dr. Ronald Massarik Ms. Catherine Alvary In memory of William C. McConnell Mr. William and Karen McConnell In memory of Edith G. McLaren Mr. & Mrs. Robert Watson In memory of Dr. Donald J. and Nancy B. McNeil Elizabeth Gill

In memory of Anthony G. Montag Dr. Anthony Montag † and Dr. Katherine Griem In memory of Clark and Joann Montgomery Ms. Susan Montgomery In memory of Emma Alice Mosely Ms. Erica Mosely

In memory of Bruce and Carolyn McPherson Mr. Michael Berman Carolyn McPherson

In memory of Dorothy Moszynski Judith E. Feldman Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Ms. Sandra Morgan Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.

In memory of Evelyn Meine Mr. Curt Meine

In memory of Kay Nalbach Ms. Susann Ball In memory of Sooja Cho Nehrlich Ms. Louise Anderson Joan and David Trushin

† 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 October 22, 2021

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

In memory of Raymond Niwa David and Kyoko Greim Richard Klein Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk Mr. & Mrs. David Wojtowicz In memory of Gail Niwa Edward Inbusch Emi Matsuda Everett Zlatoff-Mirsky Jean Shin Nanjo Roycroft Chamber Music Festival In memory of Matthew Olson Mrs. Patricia Olderr

In memory of Charles Leonard Reddington Dr. Karol S. Reddington

In memory of Gerard Smetana Michelle Israel Beth Smetana

In memory of Robert Reiland Eloise Hirschey Ann Reiland

In memory of Frank S. So Frank So † and Deborah Huggett

In memory of Bennett Reimer Elizabeth A. Hebert In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Reuter Mr. Ulrich Sterzl

In memory of Rosalie Aaron Ovson Ms. Janice Aaron

In memory of Virginia H. Rogers and Arthur E. Leckner, Jr. Mr. Robert Wilson

In memory of Eul Soo Pang Dr. Laura Pang

In memory of Edgar Rose Annie Lamb

In memory of Carmen Perez Mr. Jeffrey Callison

In memory of Robert Rosenman Mrs. Harriet Rosenman

In memory of Selma Perlmutter Mr. Jerry Smith

In memory of Jerry Roucka Sandra Koehler

In memory of Dyan Peterson Joe Bass

In memory of Delores Sarovich Mr. & Mrs. Steven Sarovich

In memory of Fay B. Photopulos Mark Gorgal

In memory of Tommy Sarwark JF Sarwark, M.D.

In memory of Shelly Plager Mrs. Janice Pranger

In memory of Earl V. Schuster Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Dam Mrs. Marcia Dam

In memory of Elaine Prag Myrna Goldman Mr. Daniel Roos Carol W. Whited In memory of Justin Edwin Pregenzer Dr. Gerard Pregenzer

In memory of Charlotte G Schwartz Ms. Terry Schwartz In memory of William Shapiro Marie Waite

In memory of Hallie Stein Liz Radgowski In memory of Marjorie Stone Anonymous In memory of Carol Strauss Mr. Edward Turkington In memory of Dr. Jeannette Switzer Hill and Cheryl Hammock David Patton In memory of Anne Teeple Mrs. Julie Jaeger In memory of Grandma Tita Ian Rubin In memory of Viktor Tomilov Ms. Anna Tomilova In memory of Feyga and Samuil Totodov Ms. Mariya Kalinovskiy In memory of Alex Trebek Ms. Rita Mendelsohn In memory of Richard Trueheart Martha Trueheart In memory of Denise Turcotte Annette Snyder In memory of Joan Turk Trevor Turk

In memory of Ruth Ann Quinn Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn

In memory of Charles M. Shea Nancy J. Clawson Ms. Martha Egeland

In memory of Ted Rachofsky Susan Rachofsky

In memory of Jean Shorr Pauline Taylor

In memory of Mr. Donald C. Verlenden Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

In memory of Lynne Raimondo Lynne Raimondo and family

In memory of Michael Silverstein from his family Ms. Mara Tapp

In memory of John Vesevick Julie Molina

In memory of Florence Rand Elizabeth R. Fuller In memory of Elizabeth Reda Robert Reda

In memory of Gene Simon Jay Simon In memory of Helga Singwi Anjali Oberai

In memory of Virginia C. Vale Mr. Peter Vale

In memory of Mary Anne Vestal Mr. Walter Vestal In memory of Janet Wacholz Lillian McNeil

† 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 October 22, 2021

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In memory of Lynne and Ron Wachowski Ms. Peggy Ryan In memory of J. Michael Wagner Kim Wagner In memory of Richard and Vanya Wang Eric Vaang In memory of Dr. William Warren Dr. & Mrs. Marshall D. Goldin In memory of Carol Wechter Mr. Lawrence Wechter In memory of Walter Whisler, M.D., Ph.D. Laura Whisler In memory of Rachel Nussbaum Wichert Gerd Wichert In memory of Dr. Kenneth F. Wieg Annette Wieg In memory of Wes Wildman Jessica Armour-Ardizzone Valerie Feldman Mr. James Franczek Karen Gallagher Susan Hastings Ann Leeds Charles Rose Mrs. Jennifer Wilson Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba In memory of Mrs. Sandra Wilkins Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Peterson In memory of Bill Williams Dr. Joseph R. Hageman In memory of Dale E. Woolley Ms. Regina Janes In memory of Michael Wrona Robert Stephens In memory of Edward Zasadil Mr. Larry Simpson HONOR GIFTS

In honor of Liz Adams Mr. Kevin Connellan In honor of Liz and Bill Adams Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Reilly

In honor of Mr. & Mrs. David K. Adams James and Rebecca Gaebe

In honor of Ms. You Ming Chin Mrs. Mary Dietrick

In honor of Michael Adolph Mrs. Ann Oros

In honor of Charlene Chisek Marianne Nesler

In honor of Lucretia Aiello Lisa Aiello

In honor of Sunghee Choi Mrs. Eileen Conaghan

In honor of Jeff Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Alan Dennis

In honor of Robert Coad Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

In honor of Jeff and Keiko Alexander Dr. Abigail Sivan

In honor of Dorothy Cohn Mr. Gary Cohn

In honor of Elizabeth A. Allen Pat Allen

In honor of Richard W. Colburn Charles Katzenmeyer

In honor of Doris Angell Dr. Michael Angell

In honor of Eileen Conaghan Mrs. Julie Stagliano

In honor of Dolores Nathanson and Daniel Armstrong Norma Gilson

In honor of Sheila Conlon Ms. Mary Neville

In honor of Lev Aronson Travis Casper In honor of Esteban Batallán Mr. John Burson

In honor of Esme Conour Stacy Fifer In honor of Ruth and Evelyn Cvengros Kathleen Malone

In honor of Buddy Block Howard and Donna Bass

In honor of John and Barbara Dabrowski Ms. Sara Dabrowski

In honor of Lawrie Bloom Ms. Catherine Stephenson

In honor of Jim Dale Mr. Neil Harris

In honor of Doug Bolino Wendy-Jo Toyama

In honor of design, program book, and marketing departments Gretchen Sauer

In honor of Sue Bridge Ms. Renita M. Esayian Ms. Kathleen Jordan In honor of Deborah Brusveen John Brusveen In honor of Ricky Ray Byrd Donald Byrd In honor of Kevin Carroll Steph Svarz In honor of Virginia Chao’s brother Virginia Chao In honor of members of the Chicago Federation of Musicians (AFM 10-208) and IATSE 2 Mr. Michael Sprinker

In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Dienstag Mr. Jerome Dienstag In honor of Baird Dodge Charles Granville Ms. Lori Mitchell In honor of Katy Donovan Emily Corbett In honor of Mimi Duginger The Julian Family Foundation In honor of Larry Ebert Pete Friedmann In honor of Mimi Elder and Dian Eller Penny and John Van Horn In honor of the Elliot family Ruth Colegrove

† 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 October 22, 2021

JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2022

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

In honor of Cynthia Ellis Donna Maibusch

In honor of Robert Hindsley Anita Hindsley

In honor of Mark Kraemer Mr. David J. Varnerin

In honor of Amy Fallon Erik Schwedhelm

In honor of Robert and Jane Hindsley Julia Byrne

In honor of Melanie Kupchynsky Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell

In honor of Elizabeth Fernandez Dr. & Mrs. Jack Faling

In honor of David Hines, Sr., M.D. Mr. David Hines, Jr.

In honor of Stephen Lester Ms. Helen Goldstein

In honor of Daniel Foster Anna Tyson

In honor of Joel Horwitz Katharine Horowitz

In honor of Ben Levy Ms. Jessica Jagielnik and Ms. Sam Kufta

In honor of Calvin Fultz Alison Madrigal

In honor of Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, Michael Henoch, Jim Smelser, Esteban Batallán, David Herbert, Lei Hou, Ni Mei, Matous Michal, and Bill Buchman The Julian Family Foundation

In honor of Dezhong Liang Ms. Jingyi Liang

In honor of Erin Gernon Charlene Gernon In honor of Emma Gerstein Mr. John Thorne In honor of George Gilkerson Ms. Linda Wallin

In honor of Lei Hou, Qing Hou, and Lawrence Neuman Richard Cohn

In honor of the Lincoln Quartet Bruce Gribens Bob and Marissa Happ Jonathan Maayan Hung Tzaw Tai In honor of the Logas family Mr. Daniel Logas

In honor of Jim Gill Rosanne Thompson

In honor of Leland Hutchinson and Jean Perkins Ms. Pamela Baker

In honor of William Goldstein Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

In honor of Mihaela Ionescu Ms. Lois Wolff

In honor of Jan and Larry Goldstein’s 50th wedding anniversary Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Goldstein In honor of Richard Graef Ms. Greta Connor

In honor of Stephanie Jeong, Cornelius Chiu, Jennifer Gunn, Lynne Turner, Gene Pokorny, Patricia Dash, Miles Maner, Katinka Kleijn, Stephen Lester, Nancy Park, and David Sanders Ms. Marilyn Duginger

In honor of Madelyn Greenberger Mr. Jeffrey Greenberger

In honor of Earl A. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Johnson

In honor of Margot Martino Mr. Richard Martino

In honor of Mary Winton Green Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Cohan

In honor of Lori Julian’s 75th birthday Ms. Suzan Bramson Dr. Marcia A. Lewis Mr. † & Mrs. Marshall Matz

In honor of Jonathan McCormick Emily Wright

In honor of Dale Griffith Ms. Lynn Friedman In honor of piano students from the studio of Helen Grosshans Ms. Helen Grosshans In honor of Jennifer Gunn Mr. John Thorne In honor of Mary Hagen Ms. Alyssa Hagen In honor of Taylor Hampton Charlotte Hampton In honor of O.J. Heestand Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Babson Ms. Linda Rosenzweig

In honor of Blain and Debbie Keith Dr. Thomas Keith In honor of Todd Kersh David Schroeder In honor of Bob and Ruth Kinsman Mrs. Jeanne Girard In honor of Howard Klapman Mr. Michael Alter

In honor of Jeffrey London Stephanie Garry In honor of Hershey and MaryGene Longenecker Evelyne Manning In honor of Virginia Lorber Svetlana Rivilis In honor of Maggie and Tom Magarian Greta Wilkening

In honor of Lisa McDaniel and Kim Duffy Ms. Florence Connelly In honor of Leonard E. Meyers Alice Finn and John Finn In honor of Simon Michal Ms. Sarah Good In honor of Dr. Gordon Millichap Bridgette Hayes and Eric Hayes

In honor of Brian Koenig Paul Roskoph

In honor of Lamont Moore, Rhoda Ward, and Margaret Ms. Helen Sinn

In honor of Robert Kohl Mr. Gregory Cameron

In honor of Diane Mues Cynthia Kirk

† 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 October 22, 2021

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In honor of Diane Mues Paula Gorlitz Brae Korin Bill Loumpouridis and Melanie Loumpouridis

In honor of Heloisa and Emi Ryhal Luz Pinilla

In honor of Heather Storey Mr. Mark Mandich

In honor of David A. Samson Ken Samson

In honor of Ariana Strahl Mrs. Janet Duffy

In honor of Bob and Mimi Murley Suzanne Sennatt

In honor of David Sanders Mr. James Taylor

In honor of Jean Stremmel Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Maughan

In honor of Alaina Murphy Samantha Silva

In honor of Dean and Martha Sayles Ellen Sayles

In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Louis Sudler Mr. Neal Ball

In honor of musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Ms. Lois Wolff

In honor of Will Schermer Mary Jane Schermer

In honor of Symphony Financial Scott Jonas

In honor of Barbara Schneider Barbara and Lewis Schneider

In honor of Susan Synnestvedt Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward

In honor of Heidi Musser Ms. Erika Musser In honor of Riccardo Muti Ms. Mary Neville In honor of Dolores Nathanson Noah Gilson In honor of Raymond, Eloise, and Gail Niwa Ms. Karen Visser In honor of NMI staff Dana M. Cook In honor of Michael J. O’Donnell Martin O’Donnell In honor of Ken Olsen Dr. Charles Morcom In honor of Bradley Opland Ms. Lois Wolff In honor of Craig Oxford Dr. Hebert and Sharon Meltzer In honor of Kevin Pavao Jennifer Mislinski

In honor of Evan Schnurr Adam Baechler In honor of Florence Schwartz Dr. & Mrs. Enrique Beckmann In honor of John Sharp Ms. Janice Young In honor of the Shebik family Giovanna Imbarrato In honor of Amy Shevitz Ms. Jane Lippow In honor of Lisa Simeone Elaine Murphy In honor of Karen Sonderby Kate Sheehan In honor of Fran Spellman Ms. Jalene Szuba In honor of Charles Srstka Ms. Beth Hakamy In honor of Judy and Karl Stadler Ms. Mary Dougherty

In honor of David Taylor Ms. Claretta Meier Dr. Steven Pierson In honor of Josie Tomes Li Rigler In honor of Sondra Varco Mr. Gregory Nyczak In honor of Ann Wagener Mr. & Ms. Robert Savard In honor of Robert F. Wallwork family Ms. Michele Packard In honor of Claude Weil Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro In honor of Wilfred Edward White Ms. Olive Dilworth In honor of Stephen Williamson, Joyce Noh, Hermine Gagné, Max Raimi, and Richard Hirschl Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward

In honor of Denise Stauder Mrs. Janet Duffy

In honor of Cynthia Yeh Mr. Thomas Libera Gabriel Villani Ms. Carla Williams

In honor of Dane Philipsen Michael Philipsen

In honor of Momoko Steiner Ms. and Ms. Eri Iwakuni

In honor of So Young Bae Ms. Renita M. Esayian

In honor of James Ross Mr. & Mrs. David Weber

In honor of Irving Stenn, Jr. Mr. John Stiefel and Mrs. Lesa Ukman

In honor of Ruthie Ryan Mr. & Mrs. David Heeren James Percifield Mr. & Mrs. Steven W. Scheibe

In honor of Ray Still Debra and David Barford

In honor of Helen Zell, in memory of Deborah Sobol Mr. Rowland Chang

In honor of Clark Pellett and Robert Kohl Dr. & Mrs. Louis Philipson

In honor of Simon Zreczny Mr. Christopher Pickering

† 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 October 22, 2021

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