Program Book - Mahler 4

A NOTE FROM THE CHAIR AND THE PRESIDENT

Welcome to Symphony Center.

During the months of March and April, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is joined by an exciting roster of guest conductors and soloists to perform works ranging from romantic tone poems to jazz arrangements and baroque concertos to world premieres. Any music lover’s interest is sure to be piqued again and again by the expressive range of the Orchestra.

March opens with the CSO debut of conductor Petr Popelka in Beethoven’s Seventh and Schubert’s Sixth symphonies. Next, Jakub Hrůša leads two weeks of subscription concerts, the first of which features Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, and Gil Shaham playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto; the second includes Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Martinů’s Violin Concerto no. 1 with Josef Špaček in his CSO debut. Susanna Mälkki conducts four performances of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, including one at Wheaton College, in addition to the newly commissioned flute concerto by Lowell Liebermann, written for and performed by Principal Flute Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson. The following week, Concertmaster Robert Chen leads a program of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, plus a Sinfonia in E-flat major by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. Principal Oboe William Welter joins Chen as soloist in J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor.

In April, Klaus Mäkelä returns to conduct the U.S. premiere of Sauli Zinovjev’s Batteria as well as Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony and Bartók’s Piano Concerto with soloist Yuja Wang. Next is one of the most anticipated events of the season for devotees of the Chicago Symphony Chorus—Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah, conducted by James Conlon and featuring soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, mezzo-soprano Ashley Dixon, tenor Issachah Savage, and baritone Lucas Meachem in the title role; Eugene Rogers is the guest chorus director. The following week, Tugan Sokhiev conducts concerts at Symphony Center and at Wheaton College with Yulianna Avdeeva, who performs Chopin’s First Piano Concerto. At the end of April, the CSO joins forces with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis for a rousing jazz-meets-classical event conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero and featuring Marsalis’s Swing Symphony.

The 2024–25 Season was recently announced, and we encourage you to visit cso.org or to pick up a brochure in the lobby to view all the season has to offer and to learn about subscriber benefits and packages. A preview article begins on page 8 of your program.

We look forward to seeing you often at Symphony Center this season and next.

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

Jeff Alexander President Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS

Mary Louise Gorno Chair

Chester A. Gougis Vice Chair

Steven Shebik Vice Chair

Helen Zell Vice Chair

Renée Metcalf Treasurer

Jeff Alexander President

Kristine Stassen Secretary of the Board

Stacie M. Frank Assistant Treasurer

Dale Hedding Vice President for Development

HONORARY TRUSTEES

The Honorable Richard M. Daley

The Honorable Lori Lightfoot

TRUSTEES

John Aalbregtse

Peter J. Barack

H. Rigel Barber

Randy Lamm Berlin

Roderick Branch

Kay Bucksbaum

Robert J. Buford

Johannes Burlin

Leslie Henner Burns

Debra A. Cafaro

Marion A. Cameron-Gray

George P. Colis

Keith S. Crow

Stephen V. D’Amore

Timothy A. Duffy

Brian W. Duwe

Charles Emmons, Jr.*

Judith E. Feldman*

Graham C. Grady

John Holmes

Lori Julian

Neil T. Kawashima

Geraldine Keefe

Donna L. Kendall

Thomas G. Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner

Patty Lane

Susan C. Levy

Vikram Luthar

Renée Metcalf

Britt M. Miller

Sharon Mitchell*

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

Mary Pivirotto Murley

Sylvia Neil

Gerald Pauling

LTC. Jennifer N. Pritzker, USA (Ret.)

Dr. Don M. Randel

Dr. Mohan Rao

Melissa M. Root

Burton X. Rosenberg

E. Scott Santi

Steven Shebik

Marlon R. Smith

Walter Snodell

Dr. Eugene Stark

Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr.

Scott Swanson

Nasrin Thierer

Liisa Thomas

Frederick H. Waddell

Paul S. Watford

Craig R. Williams

Robert Wislow

Ann Marie Wright

Helen Zell

Gifford R. Zimmerman

LIFE TRUSTEES

William Adams IV

Mrs. Robert A. Beatty

Arnold M. Berlin

Laurence O. Booth

William G. Brown

Dean L. Buntrock

Bruce E. Clinton

Richard Colburn

Richard H. Cooper

Anthony T. Dean

Debora de Hoyos

Charles Douglas †

John A. Edwardson

Thomas J. Eyerman

James B. Fadim

David W. Fox, Sr.

Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.

H. Laurance Fuller †

Mrs. Robert W. Galvin

Paul C. Gignilliat

Joseph B. Glossberg

Richard C. Godfrey

William A. Goldstein

Mary Louise Gorno

Howard L. Gottlieb

Chester A. Gougis

Mary Winton Green

Dietrich Gross †

David P. Hackett

Joan W. Harris

John H. Hart

Thomas C. Heagy

Jay L. Henderson

William R. Jentes

Paul R. Judy

Richard B. Kapnick

Donald G. Kempf, Jr.

Mrs. John C. Kern

Robert Kohl

Josef Lakonishok

Charles Ashby Lewis

Eva F. Lichtenberg

John S. Lillard †

John F. Manley

Ling Z. Markovitz

R. Eden Martin

Arthur C. Martinez

Judith W. McCue

Lester H. McKeever

David E. McNeel

John D. Nichols †

James J. O’Connor †

William A. Osborn

Mrs. Albert Pawlick

Jane DiRenzo Pigott

John M. Pratt

Dr. Irwin Press

John W. Rogers, Jr.

Jerry Rose

Frank A. Rossi

Earl J. Rusnak, Jr. †

John R. Schmidt

Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Robert C. Spoerri

Carl W. Stern

William H. Strong

Louis C. Sudler, Jr.

Richard L. Thomas

Richard P. Toft

Penny Van Horn

Paul R. Wiggin

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

A journey through musical stories

BEETHOVEN Eroica | DVOŘÁK The Wild Dove

R. STRAUSS Don Juan and Don Quixote

TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake | RAVEL Daphnis and Chloe

BARTÓK Bluebeard’s Castle | BERLIOZ The Damnation of Faust

SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS

Extraordinary talent. Thrilling collaborations. Unforgettable moments.

Anne-Sophie Mutter | Evgeny Kissin

Julia Fischer | Leonidas Kavakos | Mao Fujita

Plus, special appearances by Lang Lang, John Williams and more Subscribers get priority access to these exclusive events. Subscribe today to secure your seats.

Daniil Trifonov Lang Lang

Anne-Sophie Mutter and John Williams

CULTURE SHAPING SOUL STIRRING O NE OF A KIND

Artistic Highlights of the 2024–25 Season

Anticipation surrounds the mid-winter announcement of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association’s upcoming season, and this year’s, on February 28, was no exception.

The cover of the 2024–25 season brochure reads “Many legends, one sound” in reference to the incomparable musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the world-class guest artists who come to Symphony Center, and the season's repertoire, which includes many vivid stories told in music. Works such as the blustering tone poems Don Quixote and Don Juan by Strauss, Grieg’s vivid Peer Gynt, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, and Bartók’s ethereal Bluebeard’s Castle are sure to stir listeners’ imaginations.

One of the season’s most spellbinding offerings is Hector Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, a légende dramatique inspired by Goethe’s Faust, to be conducted by CSO Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti at the season’s conclusion. A remarkable roster of soloists joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for one of Muti’s signature operas in concert and a performance of one of the most compelling nineteenth-century French works. Riccardo

These Berlioz performances conclude one of two Chicago residencies for the Italian maestro. His first program, beginning October 31, features Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 5 (Emperor), performed by Mitsuko Uchida, and Third Symphony (Eroica). Muti’s next concert includes Verdi’s Four Seasons from I vespri siciliani and the world premiere of former CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Osvaldo Golijov’s Megalopolis Suite, distilled from his score to Francis Ford Coppola’s 2024 film. Completing the program are works inspired by the landscapes and culture of Spain, specifically Chabrier’s España and Falla’s Suite no. 2

Mitsuko Uchida

Esteban Batallán

from The Three-Cornered Hat. For Muti’s first June 2025 concerts, he conducts Joseph Haydn’s Symphony no. 48 (Maria Theresa) and Schubert’s Fourth Symphony (Tragic), as well as concertos by Michael Haydn and Telemann with Principal Trumpet Esteban Batallán in his CSO debut as soloist.

The CSOA celebrates significant composer milestones during the Orchestra’s 134th season: the 200th and 150th anniversaries of the births of Anton Bruckner and Maurice Ravel, respectively, and the eightieth anniversary of the death of Béla Bartók. Guest conductor Marek Janowski leads Bruckner’s Third Symphony, and Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker perform Bruckner’s Symphony no. 5 in Chicago as part of a 2024 North American tour on the Symphony Center Presents series. Concertmaster Robert Chen is the soloist for performances of Ravel’s Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra, conducted by Dame Jane Glover, and two weeks later, Gustavo Gimeno conducts both Ravel’s Rapsodie

For complete information, visit cso.org or the box office to pick up a season brochure.

espagnole and Suite no. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe. Bartók’s music is at the core of a two-week residency led by conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen that includes the virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra and a concert performance of his 1918 one-act opera, Bluebeard’s Castle.

Next season also offers multiple opportunities to hear Gustav Mahler’s compositions. Fabien Gabel conducts Songs of a Wayfarer with baritone Konstantin Krimmel in his CSO debut. Klaus Mäkelä leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, as well as contralto Wiebke Lehmkuhl and Uniting Voices Chicago, in Mahler’s Third Symphony. Jaap van Zweden, a frequent guest on the CSO podium, offers an exclusive preview of the CSO’s appearance as the only U.S. orchestra to perform at the 2025 Mahler Festival at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw with Mahler’s symphonies nos. 6 and 7.

Robert Chen

Marin Alsop

The Wizard of Oz

The Joffrey Ballet and CSO join forces again next season for an exciting collaboration on the Armour Stage. For these performances, Harry Bicket conducts Haydn’s Symphony no. 45 (Farewell) and the CSO’s first performances of Symphony no. 1 of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, on a program that also features newly commissioned ballets by choreographers Amy Hall Garner and Nicolas Blanc set to the music of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Darius Milhaud.

In addition to the newly commissioned ballets, the CSO-commissioned concerto Indigo Heaven, written by American composer Christopher Theofanidis for Principal Clarinet Stephen Williamson, receives its world premiere, as will Osvaldo Golijov’s Megalopolis Suite. Other CSO first performances of note are Florence Price’s previously lost Violin Concerto no. 2 with soloist Randall Goosby in his CSO debut and a recent work for organ and orchestra by Esa-Pekka Salonen with the composer conducting and organist Iveta Apkalna—one of two organists for whom the work was written—making her CSO debut. Ravinia Festival Chief Conductor Marin Alsop also leads the first CSO performances of James Lee III’s Chuphshah! Harriet’s Drive to Canaan, inspired by the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, in October.

Randall Goosby

The Joffrey Ballet

Janai Brugger

Dame Jane Glover

Christian Tetzlaff

Internationally renowned pianist Daniil Trifonov has been announced as CSO Artist-inResidence for the 2024–25 season. His activities include three appearances: in November on the Symphony Center Presents Piano series, in recital with violinist Leonidas Kavakos on a Symphony Center Presents Chamber Music concert in March 2025, and as soloist in Brahms’s Piano Concerto no. 2 with the CSO conducted by Klaus Mäkelä in May 2025. As part of his Chicago residencies, Trifonov also leads master classes and participates in engagement activities with CSO affiliate and volunteer groups.

Special events include the annual Symphony Ball concert on September 21, which welcomes international piano star Lang Lang as soloist in a program conducted by Andrés OrozcoEstrada, and an evening with John Williams as he conducts his own Violin Concerto no. 2 commissioned and performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter. The concert on October 22 also features selections from some of Williams’s best-known film scores.

In addition to the aforementioned performances of Mahler’s Third Symphony and Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, the Chicago Symphony Chorus performs Mozart’s Mass in C major (Coronation), conducted by Nicholas Kraemer, and Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with Manfred Honeck. The Chorus is also featured in the annual holiday concerts, Merry, Merry Chicago!

Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Hilary Hahn

Jaap van Zweden

Chicago Symphony Chorus

Daniil Trifonov

Symphony Center Presents

Building on years of presenting exceptional performances by visiting ensembles and the world’s most renowned artists in solo and chamber music recitals, Symphony Center Presents continues its tradition of inviting audiences to experience extraordinary musical artistry in a mustsee lineup of concerts for the coming season.

The SCP Chamber Music series opens with Jordi Savall and his instrumental and vocal ensembles, Hespèrion XXI and La Capella Reial da Catalunya, to perform a radiant program entitled Monteverdi: A Baroque Revolution The Tears and the Fire of the Muses. New CSO Artist-inResidence Daniil Trifonov and violinist Leonidas Kavakos collaborate for a recital of sonatas by Beethoven, Poulenc, and Brahms, as well as the Rhapsody no. 1 of Bartók. Violinist Julia Fischer and pianist Jan Lisiecki perform a recital of works by Mozart, Schumann, and Beethoven in March. The series closes with a trio performance by cellist Pablo Ferrández, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, and pianist Yefim Bronfman.

The SCP Piano series opens with Daniil Trifonov in recital, followed by distinguished returning artists Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Emanuel Ax, Evgeny Kissin, Maria João Pires, and Víkingur Ólafsson. Debut performers include Alexandre Kantorow and Mao Fujita, both winners at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Leonidas Kavakos

Zakir Hussain

Alexandre Kantorow

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Wynton Marsalis

There are many other special performers returning to Symphony Center. Vocalist Lila Downs brings her Día de los Muertos program, celebrating Mexican traditions with music, dance, and colorful folklórico costumes in October. During December, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass, led by CSO Trombone Michael Mulcahy, is featured in its annual concert of selections for brass ensemble. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis makes its annual visit to Symphony Center for a two-day residency in January. The virtuosic Japanese taiko drumming ensemble Kodo performs in February, as does Pink Martini, with vocalist China Forbes, as part of its thirtieth-anniversary tour. Also in February, the eighteen-member Sphinx Virtuosi orchestra performs masterpieces by prominent Black and Latino composers in its Symphony Center debut. In April, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, as well as Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion, come to Symphony Center for concerts.

More Symphony Center Presents Jazz programs will be announced in April.

Subscriptions for the 2024–25 Season are now available for renewal or purchase online at cso.org; at the Symphony Center Box Office; or by phone at 312-294-3000.

Kodo

Pink Martini

Emanuel Ax

Sphinx Virtuosi

EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT

RENÉE METCALF, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, DIVISION PERFORMANCE EXECUTIVE, PRIVATE BANK MIDWEST AND MID ATLANTIC DIVISIONS Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Bank of America is proud to continue its long-standing support of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Our partnership not only delivers artistic quality but also helps to create meaningful connections with a diverse audience base in Chicago and around the world.

SCOTT C. SWANSON, PRESIDENT PNC Bank Illinois

At PNC, we recognize the importance of the arts in contributing to a dynamic, vibrant, and successful community. We applaud the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s achievements as a cornerstone of our local arts community, and look forward to another exciting year of world-class performances.

robert b. ford, chairman and chief executive officer Abbott

Abbott and Abbott Fund are proud to support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the world’s best orchestras and a highlight of our city. We are honored to continue our long legacy of partnership to bring inspirational music to the world.

john m. holmes, chairman, president, and chief executive officer AAR CORP.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays an important role connecting people with opportunities through world-class music. AAR is a proud supporter of the CSO, sharing a commitment to enriching communities in Chicago and worldwide.

shawn beber, senior executive vicepresident and group head, u.s. region CIBC

The arts help us build rich, vibrant communities. That’s why we’re pleased to support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which showcases the best in Chicago’s music scene. This partnership truly exemplifies bringing our purpose to life by actively supporting incredible organizations like the CSO in the communities we serve.

jason m. laurie, chief investment officer Altair Advisers LLC

As a private, independent wealth advisory firm headquartered in Chicago, Altair is proud to be affiliated with the CSO. Classical music is an eternal art form that connects us to the past while fostering interpretation and creativity. Supporting the CSO is one way of demonstrating our philanthropic commitment to the performing arts in our community.

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Your goals, center stage

You‘ve got your eye focused on the big picture, and CIBC is the bank with expert advice and tailored solutions to help make your ambitions real. For over 155 years, we’ve helped clients like you achieve their unique goals. CIBC proudly sponsors the Chicago Symphony Orchestra because they too recognize that ambition deserves to be center stage.

ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THIRD SEASON

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

RICCARDO MUTI Music Director Emeritus for Life

Thursday, March 21, 2024, at 7:30

Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 7:30

Sunday, March 24, 2024, at 3:00

Susanna Mälkki Conductor

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson Flute

Ying Fang Soprano

WAGNER

LIEBERMANN

Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin

Flute Concerto No. 2, Op. 142

Largo—Moderato Largo—Movendo— Animato

World premiere. CSO commission S TEFÁN RAGNAR HÖSKULDSSON

INTERMISSION

MAHLER

Symphony No. 4 in G Major Deliberately, without rushing In easy motion, without haste

Serene (Poco adagio) Very leisurely

YING FANG

United Airlines is the Official Airline of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.

COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher

RICHARD WAGNER

Born May 22, 1813; Leipzig, Germany

Died February 13, 1883; Venice, Italy

Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin

Lohengrin was the first opera Ludwig II of Bavaria ever attended. As an introduction to opera, Richard Wagner’s four-hour drama is a risky choice, particularly for a fifteen-year-old boy, but in the case of the future king, it made him a fanatic overnight. As Wagner put it—with characteristic modesty—the performance

. . . affected him so deeply that from that moment onward he based his own education upon a study of my works and writings, with the result that, as he openly admits to those around him, and now admits to one, it is I who have really been his one and only mentor and teacher.

Wagner remembered their first meeting as “one great love scene,” although in later years it was clear that Wagner was enamored chiefly of Ludwig’s unconditional devotion, political clout, and interest-free loans.

Ludwig attended Lohengrin in Munich on February 2, 1861. By a peculiar turn of fate, Wagner didn’t see Lohengrin staged until May of that year in Vienna, even though he had completed the score more than a decade earlier, in 1848. Wagner missed the premiere, in August 1850, because he was living as a political exile in Switzerland, where he had gone in the aftermath of the May 1849 Dresden insurrection. Even though he realized he would not be able to return to Germany for the performance,

COMPOSED

1846–48

FIRST PERFORMANCE

August 18, 1850; Weimar, Germany

INSTRUMENTATION

three flutes, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, three bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME

9 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

November 9, 14, and December 12, Auditorium Theatre; December 7, 1891, Amphitheatre Auditorium, Louisville, Kentucky. Auguste Vianesi conducting (complete opera with the Metropolitan Opera on tour)

February 19 and 20, 1892, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting

July 12, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Hans Lange conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

July 17, 2013, Ravinia Festival. James Conlon conducting

December 14, 15, 16, and 19, 2017, Orchestra Hall. Jaap van Zweden conducting

CSO RECORDINGS

1916. Frederick Stock conducting. Columbia

this page, from top: Richard Wagner, 1842 portrait by Julius Ernst Benedikt Kietz (1815–1890), Paris, France | Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886), Wagner’s patron and friend, dressed in uniform and coronation robes in the painting by Ferdinand von Piloty (1828–1895), 1865 | op posite page: Act 1, scene 1 stage design for Wagner’s Lohengrin by Alfred Roller (1864–1935), 1905, for the February 1906 Vienna State Opera (formerly the Court Opera) premiere

1960. Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA

1994. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Teldec

Wagner urged his friend Franz Liszt, director of the Weimar Court Opera, to stage the premiere of Lohengrin a soon as possible. Wagner claimed that Liszt was the only man to whom he could entrust the job, though when he wrote to Liszt after the premiere, his few perfunctory words of gratitude were outnumbered by grumblings, quibbles, and thoughts on how it might have been done better. (Still, when the score was published, Wagner dedicated it to Liszt.)

In January 1852 Wagner wrote from Zurich that he had abandoned plans for a concert of his music there. “When I first thought of this concert,” he continued, “my only wish was to be able to hear the prelude to Lohengrin.” The following year, Wagner’s music was performed in three concerts in Zurich. The program included several excerpts from Lohengrin, which finally gave Wagner the chance to assess portions of his most recent opera before beginning to compose the music of the Ring. At a morning rehearsal in late May 1853, Wagner heard the prelude to Lohengrin for the first time.

As a piece of pure music, the prelude is one of Wagner’s most inspired creations. It begins with the shimmer of strings alone: four solo violins rise and soar above the rest of the violins, which are divided into four separate parts. Winds join in a quarter of the way through; the brass and low strings enter at the midpoint. The prelude is one gradual, inexorable crescendo to a powerful climax, followed by a slow retreat to the sounds of the opening.

The prelude to Lohengrin was composed after Wagner had completed the opera. Like the prelude to Tristan and Isolde, it introduces music that will return at a crucial moment in the drama; here it accompanies the revelation, in the final act, of Lohengrin’s true identity as a member of the Holy Grail at Monsalvat. Wagner suggested that the music should “pour out light like a benediction.” At the first performance of Lohengrin that Wagner attended, in Munich on May 15, 1861, the effect was so great that the audience turned to Wagner’s box at the prelude’s end and applauded the composer long and loudly.

A postscript. Wagner met with King Ludwig for the last time on November 10, 1880. Two days

IN THE PIT FOR THE METROPOLITAN

Following the third subscription week of its first season, the Chicago Orchestra (as we were then known) was in the pit of the Auditorium Theatre for performances by the Metropolitan Opera Company from November 9 until December 12, 1891.

The first opera given was Wagner’s Lohengrin—sung in Italian—led by Auguste Vianesi, the Orchestra’s first guest conductor. That performance featured no less than five singers making their U.S. debuts: soprano Emma Eames, mezzo-soprano Giulia Ravogli, baritone Antonio Magini-Coletti, and tenor and bass brothers Jean and Édouard de Reszke.

On November 10, 1891, the Chicago Daily Tribune reported that even though several patrons were late in arriving due to “the fact that carriages approached in single file and the process of unloading was rather slow . . . [they] failed to dismay Sig. Vianesi, who began his calisthenic exercise with the baton promptly at eight. Eighty-five musicians of the Chicago Orchestra played the graceful Lohengrin prelude in a style which in the show-bill style was ‘alone worth the price of admission.’”

In the title role, Jean de Reszke “has the dignity and aplomb of an artist to the manner born and the glittering armor of the Knight of the Grail becomes him well. . . . [He] is an artist to the tips of his mailed boots and gloves. He has immense personal magnetism, and when he casually conveyed to Elsa the information, ‘Io t’amo,’ there was a responsive thrill under many a pretty corsage bouquet.”

Regarding Edouard de Reszke as Heinrich, the New York Times affirmed, that he was “endowed with a voice which for power and quality, richness and warmth, range and volume, has seldom been equaled. He displayed the highest art in the use of it. His acting also was artistic, and dignified, and his impersonation was in every respect a regal one.”

The advance notice for the November 9, 1891, performance of Lohengrin included the names of producers, principal singers, conductor, and stage manager, but not the accompanying orchestra.

Additional singers who appeared during the residency were among the most famous of the day, including sopranos Emma Albani, Lilli Lehmann, and Marie Van Zandt; mezzo-soprano Sofia Scalchi; tenor Fernando Valero; baritones Edoardo Camera and Jean Martapoura; and bass Jules Vinché. A staggering number of operas were performed, including Bellini’s Norma and La sonnambula; Flotow’s Martha; Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice; Gounod’s Faust and Romeo and Juliet; Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana; Meyerbeer’s Dinorah and Les Huguenots; Mozart’s Don Giovanni; Thomas’s Mignon; and Verdi’s Aida, Otello, and Rigoletto.

The final offering of the month-long residency on December 12 was a fourth performance of Lohengrin, and changes in the cast included Valero in the title role, Albani as Elsa, and Vinché as Heinrich; Louis Saar conducted. Two days later, on December 14, the company was back in New York for the Metropolitan Opera’s season opening: Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet featuring Eames and the de Reske brothers with Vianesi on the podium. Founder and first music director Theodore Thomas and his Chicago Orchestra resumed the regular season with the fourth subscription week at the Auditorium on December 18.

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

later, he conducted a private performance of the Parsifal prelude—the opera had not yet been staged—for the king, who sat in the royal box. Ludwig arrived late and asked that the music be repeated. He then demanded the prelude to Lohengrin—the first music by Wagner he had

LOWELL LIEBERMANN

Born February 22, 1961, New York City

Flute Concerto No. 2, Op. 142

ever heard—for the sake of comparison. Wagner handed the baton to a colleague and stormed out of the theater. Although they continued to exchange cordial—indeed, extravagantly florid— letters, they never spoke again.

Weeks after the triumphant premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s highly engaging first flute concerto in St. Louis in the fall of 1992, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave the U.S. premiere of Continuo by the Italian avant-garde figurehead Luciano Berio. It was a watershed time for new music in this country, as giants of post-World War II modernism such as Berio were being faced with a new world of composers who would become known as neo-tonalists or neoromantics or postmodernists—labels that did not begin to encompass the range of their richly expressive, highly personal music. It was necessary, they seemed to be saying, to move on to a new kind of musical language that was rooted in traditional tonality and no longer indebted to the strict academic systems, including serialism, they were being taught.

For Liebermann, who quickly became one of the leading figures in this unnamed movement, the revelation came early in the 1980s, when he was a piano and composition student at the Juilliard School. “I was studying Berio and Nono,” he later recalled, “and learning to play the Boulez Second Sonata, and suddenly I said to myself, ‘I’m really not enjoying this music.’ ” Once he found his own voice as a composer, Liebermann caused a stir, both in serious academic circles, where his music was dismissed as reactionary, and with the general public, where he was enthusiastically admired. (In 2002, when ABC correspondent Sam Donaldson asked Van Cliburn to list composers he liked from the past one hundred years, the first name he mentioned was Liebermann.)

Liebermann’s first flute concerto was the earliest work that stamped him as one of the leading composers who had graduated from the strictures of modernist thinking. In place of his

COMPOSED 2023

INSTRUMENTATION

solo flute, two flutes with piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons with contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (snare drum, bass drum, suspended cymbal, crash cymbal, temple blocks, cowbell, tambourine, triangle, tubular bells, glockenspiel, xylophone, marimba, vibraphone), harp, piano, celesta, strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME 20 minutes

These are the world premiere performances.

above: Lowell Liebermann, photo by Joseph Moran

“self-consciously modern” student works—“I felt pressure to stick wrong notes into a passage to make it sound modern, or otherwise be accused of being old-fashioned”—he began to write scores that embrace traditional forms and harmony. And he began to assign his pieces opus numbers, a largely outmoded gesture from the past: “It was a statement that I saw myself as part of the continuum of the Western classical tradition.” It is a tradition Liebermann knows unusually well. At the Juilliard School, where he was a student from 1979 through 1987, earning bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, he read through the school’s entire library of scores, often at two pianos with a fellow composition student. “For a long, long time, Bach for me was the beginning and end of music,” he has said. He was drawn to a large swath of music history— Britten; Copland; the late works of Shostakovich for their economy; Busoni for his rich harmonic language; and, above all, Beethoven. It was his teacher David Diamond who insisted he study Beethoven’s famous sketchbooks to see how the composer would take a tiny thematic idea and write dozens of variations on it as a form of creative discipline—and then insisted Liebermann keep his own sketchbooks as a kind of training ground.

The language that Liebermann has made his own over the years brings all these resources together. Although he long ago rejected the pure twelve-tone system, for example, he admits some of its central ideas into his music. His first opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray, given its U.S. premiere by the Florentine Opera Company in Milwaukee in 1999, is based on a twelve-note row: each of its twelve scenes is written in the tonality of the consecutive pitches of the row. “I like that kind of ambiguity of using a non-tonal theme to generate all this tonal music,” he once said. Today, at Mannes School of Music at the New School in New York, where Liebermann teaches composition in a radically changed musical climate from the one he grew up in, his students know that tonality is no longer a suspect word.

In 1987 Liebermann wrote a flute sonata that became highly popular, particularly after it was taken up by the renowned James Galway, inspiring a cluster of compositions: the first flute concerto of 1992, a concerto for flute and harp in 1995, and a piccolo concerto in 1996. At first, Galway wanted Liebermann to orchestrate the sonata, but that idea turned into the flute concerto, which Galway premiered in St. Louis, with Leonard Slatkin conducting. It soon became one of the most frequently performed concertos for flute in the repertoire, joining the select company of those by Mozart and Nielsen, and it has been recorded some twenty times. Liebermann has since written many concertos—for violin piano, clarinet, cello, trumpet, and, most recently organ (premiered in September with Paul Jacobs and the Jacksonville Symphony). But it has taken more than three decades for him to come around to composing a second flute concerto.

The Flute Concerto no. 2, which is having its premiere this week, grew out of Liebermann’s acquaintance with Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson while he was principal flute in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (the position he left in 2016 to come to Chicago). Over time, the idea of a new flute concerto began to take shape, resulting finally in the commission from the Chicago Symphony. In 1992, when people did not know what to make of Liebermann’s unexpected musical style, they could only judge his music against other earlier composers (it was regularly said that the opening of the first flute concerto sounded like Prokofiev). Now, as perhaps the greatest evidence that we live in a fresh new musical world— one where Liebermann’s music is regularly performed and admired—Liebermann simply sounds like himself.

Lowell Liebermann on Flute Concerto No. 2

Ihave had the pleasure and honor of counting Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson as a colleague and friend for many years now. During that time, I have had the joy of hearing him perform many of my works. He made a superlative recording of my Sonata for Flute and Piano and premiered my Air

for Flute and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with the New York Youth Symphony. It was something of a dream for both of us that I would one day write a new concerto for Stefán, so when he called to say that the CSO would commission it, I was absolutely thrilled. Like my First Flute Concerto,

GUSTAV MAHLER

Born July 7, 1860; Kalischt, Bohemia

Died May 18, 1911; Vienna, Austria

Symphony No. 4 in G Major

the Second Concerto is in three movements, but in this case, the second and third movements are performed without break. Like most of my music, it has no programmatic or extramusical inspiration: it is simply about the notes and the abstract emotions that they evoke in the listener.

The worlds of song and symphony are regularly intertwined in the work of Gustav Mahler. We are not surprised when his symphonies break into song, and we know that certain purely instrumental movements are arrangements of earlier songs.

One of his last works, Das Lied von der Erde, is indeed both song and symphony— the inevitable climax of a career that continually shuffled and blended genres in its search for the ideal form to say what Mahler alone had to tell us.

Still, it is hard to understand how one small song—“Das himmlische Leben” (Heavenly Life), the one that serves as the finale for this symphony—can have inspired, influenced, and shaped so much important music. At one point, Mahler remarked that “Das himmlische Leben” had given birth to five different symphonic movements, but even that statement doesn’t suggest the central role the song played in his output over the span of a decade.

Although it is the last music we hear in this symphony, the song was Mahler’s starting point. We must first turn to Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, who, in the early years of the nineteenth century, published an anthology of 700 traditional German poems known as Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn). Carl Maria von Weber was one of the first composers to see the musical potential of this collection, and, by coincidence, it was his copy of the Wunderhorn poems that Mahler picked up one day in 1887, while he was visiting the home of the composer’s grandson. Although it was the

COMPOSED

June 1899–April 1901

FIRST PERFORMANCE

November 25, 1901; Munich, Germany. The composer conducting

INSTRUMENTATION

soprano solo (in the fourth movement), four flutes with two piccolos, three oboes with english horn, three clarinets with E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet, three bassoons wtih contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, timpani, bass drum, triangle, sleigh bells, glockenspiel, cymbals, tam-tam, harp, strings

APPROXIMATE

PERFORMANCE TIME

55 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

March 3 and 4, 1916, Orchestra Hall. Marcella Craft as soloist, Frederick Stock conducting

July 24, 1971, Ravinia Festival. Elly Ameling as soloist, István Kertész conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

April 14, 15, 16, 22, and 24, 2016, Orchestra Hall. Rosa Feola as soloist, Riccardo Muti conducting

July 22, 2021, Ravinia Festival. Julia Bullock as soloist, Marin Alsop conducting

CSO RECORDINGS

1958. Lisa Della Casa as soloist, Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA

1974. Judith Blegen as soloist, James Levine conducting. RCA

1983. Kiri Te Kanawa as soloist, Sir Georg Solti conducting. London

above: Gustav Mahler, portrait by Leonard Berlin-Bieber (1841–1931), 1892

grandson’s lovely wife Marion who captured Mahler’s attention that year, this book of old folk poetry had the more lasting impact. He picked a few poems and set them to music at once. For the next fourteen years, Mahler used Des Knaben Wunderhorn as the source for all but one of his song texts. On February 10, 1892, he completed a setting for voice and piano of the poem “Der Himmel hängt voll Geigen” (Heaven is Hung with Violins), a child’s naive picture of celestial bliss. Mahler wrote his own title, “Das himmlische Leben,” at the top of the page. A month later, he finished the orchestral version, colored by the sounds of a harp and the tinkling of bells. Mahler had a special affection for the song, and he often included it in concerts of his music. But when it came time to publish his Wunderhorn settings, “Das himmlische Leben” was held back.

Mahler had decided to use the song as the finale of his Third Symphony instead. The rest of that symphony was conceived as a sequence of answers to life’s questions, concluding with “What the child tells me,” or “Das himmlische Leben.” But as work neared completion, Mahler lopped off the finale and carried it with him to his next symphony; however, one can easily find music in the Third Symphony that predicts and prepares us for the song that is no longer there. The fifth movement, for example— another Wunderhorn text, scored for children’s voices— originally was intended as a companion piece to “Das himmlische Leben,” and it comes from the same world of angels and bells.

And so it became the role of the Fourth Symphony to finish the story of the Third. That

now meant placing “Das himmlische Leben” as the last chapter of the Fourth Symphony—the finale not of one, but, in a sense, of two symphonies. However, to think of the Fourth as a sequel to the Third is to limit our understanding of two works related in complex ways. Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, like all his major scores, reflects and draws on other music he was writing around the same time. The Fourth Symphony not only looks back at the Third, but glances ahead to the Kindertotenlieder, the five Rückert songs, and the opening of the Fifth Symphony. These are all members of an extended family, and each casts its own shadow on the others.

In planning his Fourth Symphony—much more so than the Third—Mahler relied on “Das himmlische Leben” as the governing material, both of the music and of the overall idea—the story behind the notes in the score. Mahler knew how his piece would end before he wrote his first page; he then had to work backwards

this page: Frontispiece and title page from the third edition of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, published in 1808 by Achim von Arnim (1781–1831) and Clemens Brentano (1778–1842) | op posite page: Im Walde. Des Knaben Wunderhorn (In the Forest. The Youth’s Magic Horn), painting by Moritz von Schwind (1804–1871), 1848. Found in the collection of Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

in a sense, so that his song would appear as the logical destination of the three new movements. With this goal in sight, he conceived a symphony that would explore the road from experience to innocence, from complexity to simplicity, and from earthly life to heaven. This symphony, unlike his previous three, was never saddled with an explanatory text that the composer would later regret (and ultimately suppress); Mahler was already moving toward an inner drama that could be expressed exclusively in musical terms.

To convey the journey toward innocence, Mahler’s first three movements gradually diminish in complexity as they approach the pure and serene threshold of the finale. The key scheme also supports the drama, beginning in G major and then moving into the fresh world of E major for the finale, an unexpected—yet preordained—destination.

Mahler suggests his goal with the symphony’s very opening bars, scored for the sleigh bells and piping flutes that will

later greet us in heaven. In a work full of flashbacks and fast-forwards, this is a momentary glance and no more. Mahler quickly introduces a lovely melody, “childishly simple and quite unselfconscious,” in his own words, that, like many simple materials in music, will lead to the most complex developments. The movement is one of Mahler’s most brilliant large-scale canvases, a perfect foil to the naïveté of the ending.

Here Mahler is writing with a newfound clarity—a transparency that allows us to hear everything on the page, even in the most complex polyphonic passages. The climaxes are still dense and staggering (despite the smallest orchestra of any Mahler symphony), but the surrounding landscape is lean and exposed. At the movement’s turning point, events unfold almost too quickly to follow: there is a snatch of the song of heavenly life, the trumpet suggests the march we now know from the Fifth Symphony, the symphony’s opening melody returns unexpectedly, and the recapitulation begins before the development is even over. Mahler has compressed time in a way that is virtually new to music. The childishly simple melody, left hanging by a thread, now continues as if undisturbed.

Although Mahler left no titles for the movements in this symphony, fearing “their banal misunderstandings,” we know that the second movement originally was inscribed “Friend Hein Strikes Up,” after a character in German folklore, a sinister pied piper who plays his violin and leads his victims toward death. Mahler assigns the central role to the solo violin, instructs him to tune his instrument up a whole tone (to give it a harsher sound), and to play it “wie ein Fiedel”— like the fiddle one knows from the street, not the concert hall. The two ländler-like trios hint at the music of “Das himmlische Leben” to come.

Mahler once admitted that the slow movement, a spacious and magnificent set of variations, was inspired by “a vision of a tombstone on which was carved an image of the departed, with folded arms, in eternal sleep.” There is one immense uproar near the end that would surely raise the dead, however, and when this great wave erupts from G major and plants us for the first time

squarely in E major, the gates of heaven are within sight. But first we sink back into G major to await the song from which this music sprang.

And then, with a few bucolic phrases from the winds and the gentle plucking of the harp and strings, we hear the human voice for the first time in this symphony. A soprano sings of an innocent pastoral world and Mahler’s pen

DAS HIMMLISCHE LEBEN

Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden, D’rum tun wir das Irdische meiden.

Kein weltlich’ Getümmel

Hört man nicht im Himmel!

Lebt alles in sanftester Ruh’!

Wir führen ein englisches Leben!

Sind dennoch ganz lustig daneben!

Wir tanzen und springen, Wir hüpfen und singen!

Sanct Peter im Himmel sieht zu!

Johannes das Lämmlein auslasset, Der Metzger Herodes d’rauf passet!

Wie führen ein geduldig’s, Unschuldig’s, geduldig’s, Ein liebliches Lämmlein zu Tod!

Sanct Lucas den Ochsen tät schlachten

Ohn’ einig’s Bedenken und Achten; Der Wein kost’ kein Heller

Im himmlischen Keller; Die Englein, die backen das Brot.

Gut’ Kräuter von allerhand Arten

Die wachsen im himmlischen Garten!

Gut’ Spargel, Fisolen, Und was wir nur wollen!

Ganze Schüsseln voll sind uns bereit!

Gut’ Äpfel, gut’ Birn’, und gut Trauben!

Die Gärtner, die alles erlauben!

Willst Rehbock, willst Hasen?

Auf offener Strassen Sie laufen herbei!

sketches cloudless blue skies and the eternity of E major. Angels bake bread, the singer reports, Saint Peter fishes in a pond stocked daily by God, and “There’s no music at all on the earth / Which can ever compare with ours.”

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

HEAVENLY LIFE

We revel in heavenly pleasures, Leaving all that is earthly behind us. No worldly turmoil

Is heard in heaven; We all live in sweetest peace.

We lead an angelic existence, And so we are perfectly happy. We dance and leap, And skip and sing;

Saint Peter in heaven looks on!

Saint John has let out his lambkin, And butcher Herod is lurking: We lead a patient, Guiltless, patient, Darling lambkin to death!

Saint Luke is slaying the oxen, Without the least hesitation; Wine costs not a farthing

In the heavenly tavern; The angels bake the bread.

Fine sprouts of every description

Are growing in heaven’s garden!

Fine asparagus, fine herbs, And all we desire!

Huge platefuls for us are prepared!

Fine apples, fine pears, and fine grapes, The gardeners let us pick freely.

You want venison, hare?

In the open streets

They go running around!

Sollt’ ein Festtag etwa kommen, Alle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen!

Dort läuft schon Sanct Peter

Mit Netz und mit Köder,

Zum himmlischen Weiher hinein.

Sanct Martha die Köchin muss sein!

Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden, Die uns’rer verglichen kann werden.

Elftausend Jungfrauen

Zu tanzen sich trauen!

Sanct Ursula selbst dazu lacht!

Cäcilia mit ihren Verwandten

Sind treffliche Hofmusikanten!

Die englischen Stimmen

Ermuntern die Sinnen!

Dass alles für Freuden erwacht.

From Des Knaben Wunderhorn

And when there’s a holiday near,

All the fishes come joyfully swimming!

And off runs Saint Peter

With net and with bait,

Toward the celestial pond:

Saint Martha will have to be cook!

There’s no music at all on the earth

Which can ever compare with ours.

Eleven thousand virgins

Are set dancing!

Saint Ursula herself laughs to see it!

Saint Cecilia with her companions

Are splendid court musicians!

The angelic voices

Delight the senses!

For all things awake to joy.

Translation by Deryck Cooke Copyright © Mrs. Jacqueline Cooke, 1980, 1988

Dietrich Gross (1933–2024)

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association remembers Life Trustee Dietrich Gross, who passed away in January 2024. Dietrich served as a CSOA Governing Member from 1978 to 2002, a CSOA Trustee from 2002 to 2014, a Life Trustee from 2014, and on the CSOA’s Artistic and Finance committees. He and his wife Erika have supported the CSOA for nearly fifty years, sponsoring numerous concerts and special projects. In 2012 they endowed the Erika and Dietrich M. Gross Principal Flute Chair.

Dietrich Gross, a native of Berlin, Germany, immigrated to the United States following the Second World War, eventually settling in Wilmette, Illinois, where he started his first company, Mercury Stainless Corporation. He was founder, chairman, and CEO of both Jupiter Aluminum Corporation and Jupiter Oxygen Corporation.

In addition to his service on the CSOA board, Dietrich Gross also served on the boards of Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Solti Foundation U.S.

PROFILES

Susanna Mälkki Conductor

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

October 13, 14, 15, and 18, 2011, Orchestra Hall. Ives’s The Unanswered Question and Three Places in New England, Musgrave’s Autumn Sonata with J. Lawrie Bloom, and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra

July 16, 2014, Ravinia Festival. Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Midori and a suite from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

June 15, 16, and 17, 2017, Orchestra Hall. Bizet’s Symphony in C; Fauré’s Pavane and Williams’s Escapades from Catch Me If You Can with Branford Marsalis; Melinda Wagner’s Proceed, Moon; and Debussy’s Ibéria

July 21, 2017, Ravinia Festival. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3 with Kirill Gerstein and Sibelius’s Symphony no. 2

Susanna Mälkki is sought-after by orchestras and opera houses at the highest level worldwide. She appears regularly with top ensembles throughout Europe and North America: the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, where she is chief conductor emeritus and was chief conductor from 2016 until 2023; Los Angeles Philharmonic as principal guest conductor from 2017 until 2022; the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras; New York Philharmonic; Chicago

Symphony Orchestra; Boston Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; the Munich and Vienna philharmonics; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; and the Berlin Philharmonic. By invitation of Pierre Boulez, Mälkki was also music director of the Ensemble intercontemporain from 2006 until 2013.

Equally in demand with major opera houses, Mälkki’s past notable appearances include the Opéra national de Paris, Teatro alla Scala Milan, the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) in London. Operatic titles this season and beyond show her versatility in the art form: Janáček’s The Makropulos Case, Debussy’s Pelleas and Melisande, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Fauré’s Penelope, and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde.

Recognized for her significant contributions to music, Susanna Mälkki was awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland—one of Finland’s highest honors—in 2011. In France, she has been named an Officer (2014) and Commander (2022) of the Order of Arts and Letters and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2016. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm. In 2017 she was named Musical America’s Conductor of the Year and was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize.

PHOTO

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson Flute

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

November 29, 30, December 1, and 4, 2018, Orchestra Hall. Mozart’s Flute Concerto no. 2, Robert Chen leading from the violin

MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

January 27 and 29, 2022, Orchestra Hall. Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto in G minor, Riccardo Muti conducting January 28, 2022, Apostolic Church of God. Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto in G minor, Riccardo Muti conducting

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson is principal flute of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as a distinguished international soloist and chamber musician. He was appointed to the post in 2015 by then Music Director Riccardo Muti. Prior to joining the CSO, he served as principal flute of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 2008 to 2016. A native of Iceland, Höskuldsson has been praised by the New York Times for his agility and warmth of expression.

Höskuldsson has performed widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan under the direction of such conductors as Fabio Luisi, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Barenboim, Seiji Ozawa, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Riccardo Muti. He has frequently appeared at Carnegie Hall with the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, and in 2009 he was featured as a soloist in Pierre Boulez’s Mémoriale, . . . explosante-fixe . . . . Höskuldsson has collaborated in performances and recordings with such artists as pianists Evgeny Kissin,

Alfred Brendel, and Yefim Brofman; violinist Gil Shaham; and sopranos Diana Damrau and Anna Netrebko. As a member of the MET Opera Orchestra, Höskuldsson received two Grammy awards in the Best Opera Recording category for Wagner’s Ring cycle and Thomas Ades’s The Tempest.

His extensive solo performances include engagements with the Pacific Music Festival Sapporo, concertos with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, recitals at the Galway International Flute Festival in Lucerne, and a live radio broadcast with BBC Radio 3’s In Tune program in London. He regularly appears as a concerto soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Höskuldsson has been a Pacific Music Festival faculty member since 2010. He also has given master classes at the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and Mannes School of Music at the New School in New York, and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He currently is on the faculty of DePaul University School of Music in Chicago.

Höskuldsson attended the Reykjavík School of Music in Iceland, where he studied with Bernhard Wilkinson. Following his graduation, he attended the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, as a student of Peter Lloyd and Wissam Boustany.

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson has recorded for Castle Classics and the Naxos label’s American Classics series. In 2015 he released his debut solo album, Solitude, on the Delos label.

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson holds the Erika and Dietrich M. Gross Principal Flute Chair.

Ying Fang Soprano

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCE

July 23, 2016, Ravinia Festival. Mahler’s Symphony no. 2, James Levine conducting

These concerts mark Ying Fang’s subscription concert debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Ying Fang has received critical praise in such publications as the New York Times and the Financial Times.

In the 2023–24 season, Fang returns to the Opéra national de Paris as Zerlina in Don Giovanni conducted by Antonello Manacorda, Dutch National Opera as Poppea in Agrippina and Pamina in The Magic Flute conducted by Riccardo Minasi, and in role debuts as Euridice in Orfeo at the Metropolitan Opera and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at Santa Fe Opera. On the concert stage, she reunites with conductor Raphaël Pichon in Mozart’s Requiem on tour with Ensemble Pygmalion, a project that also features a recording on the Harmonia Mundi label, and for Mozart’s Mass in C minor in her debut with the Munich Philharmonic.

In addition, she joins the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra in Groningen for Brahms’s German Requiem and sings Carmina Burana with the St. Louis Symphony under the baton of Stéphane Denève and with the Orchestra of St. Lukes and Tito Muñoz at Carnegie Hall.

Last season, Fang made her Vienna State Opera debut as Susanna in Barrie Kosky’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro conducted by Philippe Jordan, a role which she reprised with Pichon for the Handel and Haydn Society

in Boston. She returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Ilia in Idomeneo under the direction of Manfred Honeck and as Zerlina in a new production of Don Giovanni led by Nathalie Stutzmann. She also revisited the San Francisco Symphony for Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with Robin Ticciati, debuted with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Sir Donald Runnicles in Brahms’s German Requiem, and performed Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Handel’s Messiah with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra led by Honeck. Recital appearances with pianist Ken Noda included the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Cal Performances in Berkeley, and the Dallas Opera.

In the 2021–22 season, among other highlights, the soprano made debuts at the Opéra national de Paris and the Matsumoto Festival in Japan and returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Pamina and to Dutch National Opera in her role debut as Ännchen in Der Freischütz in a new production by Kirill Serebrennikov. She also made her Tanglewood Festival debut and her role debut as Oscar in Un ballo in maschera at the Verbier Festival led by Gianandrea Noseda.

A native of Ningbo, China, Ying Fang is the recipient of the Martin E. Segal Award, Hildegard Behrens Foundation Award, Rose Bampton Award of the Sullivan Foundation, Opera Index Award, and first prize of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition. In 2009 she was one of the youngest singers ever to win the China Golden Bell Award for Music, one of the country’s most prestigious.

She holds a master’s degree and an artist diploma in opera study from the Juilliard School and a bachelor’s degree from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She is a former member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

PHOTO © BY DARIO ACOSTA

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra—consistently hailed as one of the world’s best—marks its 133rd season in 2023–24. The history of the ensemble began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, the leading conductor in America and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra. Thomas’s aim to build a permanent orchestra of the highest quality was realized at the first concerts in October 1891 in the Auditorium Theatre. Thomas served as music director until his death in January 1905, just three weeks after the dedication of Orchestra Hall, the Orchestra’s permanent home designed by Daniel Burnham.

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

Three conductors headed the Orchestra during the following decade: Désiré Defauw was music director from 1943 to 1947, Artur Rodzinski in 1947–48, and Rafael Kubelík from 1950 to 1953. The next ten years belonged to Fritz Reiner, whose recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are still considered hallmarks. Reiner invited Margaret Hillis to form the Chicago Symphony Chorus in 1957. For five seasons from 1963 to 1968, Jean Martinon held the position of music director.

Sir Georg Solti, the Orchestra’s eighth music director, served from 1969 until 1991. His arrival launched one of the most successful musical partnerships of our time. The CSO made its first overseas tour to Europe in 1971 under his direction and released numerous award-winning recordings. Beginning in 1991, Solti held the title of music director laureate and returned to conduct the Orchestra each season until his death in September 1997.

Daniel Barenboim became the Orchestra’s ninth music director in 1991, a position he held until 2006. His tenure was distinguished by the opening

of Symphony Center in 1997, appearances with the Orchestra in the dual role of pianist and conductor, and twenty-one international tours. Appointed by Barenboim in 1994 as the Chorus’s second director, Duain Wolfe served until his retirement in 2022.

Pierre Boulez’s long-standing relationship with the Orchestra led to his appointment as principal guest conductor in 1995. He was named Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus in 2006, a position he held until his death in January 2016. Only two others have served as principal guest conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini was named to the post in 1969, serving until 1972; Claudio Abbado held the position from 1982 to 1985. From 2006 to 2010, Bernard Haitink was the Orchestra’s first principal conductor.

In 2010, Riccardo Muti became the Orchestra’s tenth music director. During his tenure, the Orchestra deepened its engagement with the Chicago community, nurtured its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians and composers, and collaborated with visionary artists. In September 2023, Muti became music director emeritus for life.

Jessie Montgomery was appointed Mead Composer-in-Residence in 2021. She follows ten highly regarded composers in this role, including John Corigliano and Shulamit Ran—both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In addition to composing works for the CSO, Montgomery curates the contemporary MusicNOW series. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma served as the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant from 2010 to 2019. Violinist Hilary Hahn became the CSO’s first Artist-in-Residence in 2021.

The Orchestra first performed at Ravinia Park in 1905 and appeared frequently through August 1931, after which the park was closed for most of the Great Depression. In August 1936, the Orchestra helped to inaugurate the first season of the Ravinia Festival, and it has been in residence nearly every summer since.

Since 1916, recording has been a significant part of the Orchestra’s activities. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus— including recent releases on CSO Resound, the Orchestra’s independent recording label launched in 2007—have earned sixty-five Grammy awards from the Recording Academy.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti Music Director Emeritus for Life

Jessie Montgomery Mead Composer-in-Residence

Hilary Hahn Artist-in-Residence

VIOLINS

Robert Chen Concertmaster

The Louis C. Sudler

Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor

Stephanie Jeong

Associate Concertmaster

The Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair

David Taylor*

Assistant Concertmaster

The Ling Z. and Michael C.

Markovitz Chair

Yuan-Qing Yu ‡

Assistant Concertmaster

So Young Bae

Cornelius Chiu

Gina DiBello

Kozue Funakoshi

Russell Hershow

Qing Hou

Matous Michal

Simon Michal

Sando Shia

Susan Synnestvedt

Rong-Yan Tang

Baird Dodge Principal

Danny Yehun Jin

Assistant Principal

Lei Hou

Ni Mei

Hermine Gagné

Rachel Goldstein

Mihaela Ionescu

Sylvia Kim Kilcullen

Melanie Kupchynsky

Wendy Koons Meir

Joyce Noh

Nancy Park

Ronald Satkiewicz

Florence Schwartz

VIOLAS

Catherine Brubaker

Youming Chen

Sunghee Choi

Wei-Ting Kuo

Danny Lai

Weijing Michal

Diane Mues

Lawrence Neuman

Max Raimi

CELLOS

John Sharp Principal

The Eloise W. Martin Chair

Kenneth Olsen §

Assistant Principal

The Adele Gidwitz Chair

Karen Basrak

The Joseph A. and Cecile

Renaud Gorno Chair

Loren Brown ‡

Richard Hirschl

Daniel Katz

Katinka Kleijn

Brant Taylor

BASSES

Alexander Hanna Principal

The David and Mary Winton

Green Principal Bass Chair

Alexander Horton

Assistant Principal

Daniel Carson

Ian Hallas

Robert Kassinger

Mark Kraemer

Stephen Lester

Bradley Opland

Andrew Sommer

HARP

Lynne Turner

FLUTES

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

Principal

The Erika and Dietrich M.

Gross Principal Flute Chair

Yevgeny Faniuk

Assistant Principal

Emma Gerstein

Jennifer Gunn

PICCOLO

Jennifer Gunn

The Dora and John Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair

OBOES

William Welter Principal

The Nancy and Larry Fuller

Principal Oboe Chair

Lora Schaefer

Assistant Principal

Scott Hostetler

ENGLISH HORN

Scott Hostetler

CLARINETS

Stephen Williamson Principal

John Bruce Yeh

Assistant Principal

Gregory Smith

E-FLAT CLARINET

John Bruce Yeh

BASSOONS

Keith Buncke Principal

William Buchman

Assistant Principal

Miles Maner

HORNS

Mark Almond Principal

James Smelser

David Griffin

Oto Carrillo

Susanna Gaunt

Daniel Gingrich

TRUMPETS

Esteban Batallán Principal

The Adolph Herseth

Principal Trumpet Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor

Mark Ridenour

Assistant Principal

John Hagstrom

The Bleck Family Chair

Tage Larsen

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library Chair

TROMBONES

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 CSO’s music director position is endowed in perpetuity by a generous gift from the Zell Family Foundation.

The Paul Hindemith Principal Viola, Gilchrist Foundation, and Louise H. Benton Wagner chairs currently are unoccupied.

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

Justin Vibbard Principal

Carole Keller

Mark Swanson

CSO FELLOWS

Gabriela Lara Violin

The Michael and Kathleen Elliott Fellow

Jesús Linárez Violin

Olivia Reyes Bass

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

John Deverman Director

Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel

STAGE TECHNICIANS

Christopher Lewis

Stage Manager

Blair Carlson

Paul Christopher

Ryan Hartge

Peter Landry

Joshua Mondie

Todd Snick

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically.

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION

GOVERNING MEMBERS

The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, founded in 1894. Its support funds the CSOA’s artistic excellence and community engagement. In return, members enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition. For more information, please contact 312-294-3337 or governingmembers@cso.org.

GOVERNING MEMBERS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Charles Emmons, Jr. Chair

Michael Perlstein Immediate Past Chair

Merrill and Judy Blau Vice Chairs of Member Engagement

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

Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership

GOVERNING MEMBERS

Anonymous (8)

Dora J. Aalbregtse

Floyd Abramson

Ms. Patti Acurio

Fraida Aland

Sandra Allen

Gary Allie

Robert Alsaker

Cat Anderson

Megan P. Anderson

Dr. Edward Applebaum

David Arch

Dr. Kent Armbruster

Dr. Carey August

Hillary August

Susan Baird

Ms. Judith Barnard

Merrill Barnes

Peter Barrett †

Roberta Barron

Roger Baskes

Ms. Sandra Bass

Cynthia Bates

Deborah Baughman

Robert H. Baum

Mrs. Robert A. Beatty

Daniel Bedford

Kirsten Bedway

Gail Eisenhart Belytschko

Edward H. Bennett III

Meta S. Berger

D. Theodore Berghorst

Ann Berlin

Phyllis Berlin

Mr. William E. Bible

Mrs. Arthur A. Billings

Joyce Black

Dianne Blanco

Judy Blau

Merrill Blau

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Ann Blickensderfer

Terry Boden

Fred Boelter

† Deceased

Peter Borich

Mrs. Suzanne Borland

James G. Borovsky

Adam Bossov

Janet S. Boyer

John D. Bramsen

Ms. Jill Brennan

Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Sue Brubaker

Mrs. Patricia M. Bryan

Gilda Buchbinder

Rosemarie Buntrock

Elizabeth Nolan Buzard

Ms. Lutgart Calcote

Thomas Campbell

Ms. Vera Capp

Wendy Alders Cartland

Mrs. William C. Childs

Linton J. Childs

Frank Cicero, Jr.

Patricia A. Clickener

Mitchell Cobey

Jean M. Cocozza

Carol Cohen

Robin Tennant Colburn

Mrs. Jane B. Colman

Eileen Conaghan

Dr. Thomas H. Conner

Ms. Cecilia Conrad

Beverly Ann Conroy

Jenny L. Corley

Nancy Corral

Ms. Sarah Crane

Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven

Mr. Richard Cremieux

R. Bert Crossland

Rebecca E. Crown

Daniel R. Cyganowski

Catherine Daniels

Mrs. Robert J. Darnall

Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Roxanne Decyk

Ms. Nancy Dehmlow

Mrs. Suzanne Demirjian

Duane M. DesParte

Janet Wood Diederichs

Doug Donenfeld

Mrs. William F. Dooley

Sara L. Downey

Ms. Ann Drake

David Dranove

Robert Duggan

Mimi Duginger

Mr. Frank A. Dusek, CPA

Mrs. David P. Earle III

Eric Easterberg and Cindy Pan

Judge Frank H. Easterbrook

Mrs. Dorne Eastwood

Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Louis M. Ebling III

Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten

Jon Ekdahl

Kathleen H. Elliott

Charles Emmons, Jr.

Scott Enloe

Dr. James Ertle

William Escamilla

Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri

Neil Fackler

Melissa Sage Fadim

Jeffrey Farbman

Mr. Don Fehrs

Signe Ferguson

Hector Ferral, M.D.

Ms. Constance M. Filling

Mr. Daniel Fischel

Jenny Fischer

Henry Fogel

Mrs. John D. Foster

David S. Fox

Mr. Paul E. Freehling

Mitzi Freidheim

Marjorie Friedman Heyman

Malcolm M. Gaynor

Robert D. Gecht

Frank Gelber

Mrs. Lynn Gendleman

Dr. Mark Gendleman

Rabbi Gary S. Gerson

Dr. Bernardino Ghetti

Karen Gianfrancisco

Ellen Gignilliat

Mr. James J. Glasser †

Madeleine Glossberg

Mrs. Judy Goldberg

Mrs. Mary Anne Goldberg

Anne Goldstein

Jerry A. Goldstone

Mary Goodkind

Dr. Alexia Gordon

Mr. Michael D. Gordon

Donald J. Gralen

Ruth Grant

Mrs. Hanna H. Gray

Mary L. Gray

Dana Green Clancy

Freddi L. Greenberg

Delta A. Greene

Joyce Greening

Dr. Jerri Greer

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

Kendall Griffith

Jerome J. Groen

Jacalyn Gronek

John P. Grube

James P. Grusecki

Dongqi Guo

Anastasia Gutting

Lynne R. Haarlow

Joan M. Hall

Dr. Howard Halpern

Mrs. Richard C. Halpern

Anne Marcus Hamada

Josephine Hammer

Joel L. Handelman

John Hard

James W. Haugh

Thomas Haynes

James Heckman

Mrs. Patricia Herrmann Heestand

Marilyn P. Helmholz

Richard H. Helmholz

Dr. Arthur L. Herbst

Jeffrey W. Hesse

Konstanze L. Hickey

Thea Flaum Hill

Dr. Richard Hirschmann

Suzanne Hoffman

Anne Hokin

Wayne J. Holman III

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

Fred E. Holubow †

Mr. James Holzhauer

Carol Honigberg

Janice L. Honigberg

Mrs. Nancy A. Horner

Mrs. Arnold Horween

Frances G. Horwich

Dr. Mary L. Houston

Patricia J. Hurley

Michael Huston

Barbara Ann Huyler

Ms. Sandra Ihm

Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs

Dr. Todd Janus

John Jawor

Ms. Justine Jentes

Brian Johnson

George E. Johnson

Ronald B. Johnson

Dr. Patricia Collins Jones

Edward T. Joyce

Mrs. Carol K. Kaplan †

Claudia Norris Kapnick

Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin

Barry D. Kaufman

Kenneth Kaufman

Marie Kaufman

Don Kaul

Molly Keller

Jonathan Kemper

Nancy Kempf

Elizabeth I. Keyser

Leslie Kiesel

Emmy King

Susan Kiphart

Carol Kipperman

Dr. Leonard Klein

Dr. Elaine H. Klemen

Carol Evans Klenk

Mrs. Janet Knauff

Mr. Henry L. Kohn

Dr. Mark Kozloff

Dr. Michael Krco

Eldon Kreider

David Kreisman

MaryBeth Kretz

Dr. Vinay Kumar

Mr. Rubin Kuznitsky

Mr. John LaBarbera

Dr. Lynda Lane

Frederick and Virginia Langrehr

Stephen and Maria Lans

William J. Lawlor III

Sunhee Lee

Dr. Anu Leemann

Dean Leff

Jonathon Leik

Sheila Fields Leiter

Jeffrey Lennard

Zafra Lerman

Jerrold Levine

Laurence H. Levine

Mrs. Bernard Leviton

Gregory M. Lewis

Carolyn Lickerman

Mrs. Paul Lieberman

Jane Loeb

Gabrielle Long

Amy Lubin

Anna Lysakowski

Carol MacArthur

Mrs. Duncan MacLean

Jacen Maleck

Dr. Michael S. Maling

Sharon L. Manuel

David A. Marshall

Judy Marth

Patrick A. Martin

BeLinda I. Mathie

Charles McCall

Scott McCue

Ann Pickard McDermott

Dr. James L. McGee

Dr. John P. McGee †

Mrs. Lester McKeever

John A. McKenna

Mrs. Peter McKinney

James Edward McPherson

Sheila Medvin

Mr. Paul Meister

Dr. Ellen Mendelson

Mara Mills Barker

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

David H. Moscow

John H. Mugge

Daniel R. Murray

Mr. Stuart C. Nathan

Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr.

Edward A. Nieminen

Dr. Zehava L. Noah

Kenneth R. Norgan

Martha C. Nussbaum

William A. Obenshain

Shelley Ochab

Maria Ochs

Mrs. James J. O’Connor

Eric Oesterle

Wallace Olliver

Mrs. Katherine Olson

Joy O’Malley

Michael Oman

Kathleen Field Orr

Mr. Gerald A. Ostermann

James J. O’Sullivan, Jr.

Bruce L. Ottley

Pamela Papas

Mr. Bruno A. Pasquinelli

Mr. Timothy J. Patenode

Robert J. Patterson, Jr.

Mr. Michael Payette

Mrs. Richard S. Pepper †

Jean E. Perkins

Mr. Michael A. Perlstein

Bonnie Perry

Dr. William Peruzzi

Robert C. Peterson

Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.

Sue N. Pick

Betsey N. Pinkert

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

Harvey R. Plonsker

Mr. John F. Podjasek, III

Andrew Porte

Charlene H. Posner

Stephen Potter

Carol Prins

Elizabeth H. Pritchard

Maridee Quanbeck

Mrs. Lynda Rahal

Diana Mendley Rauner

Susan Regenstein

Mari Yamamoto Regnier

Mary Thomson Renner

Hilda Richards

Burton R. Rissman

Charles T. Rivkin

Carol Roberts

Mr. John H. Roberts

William Roberts

David Robin

Dr. Diana Robin

Chauncey H. Robinson

Bob Rogers

Kevin M. Rooney

Harry J. Roper

Saul Rosen

Sheli Z. Rosenberg

Dr. Ricardo T. Rosenkranz

Michael Rosenthal

Doris Roskin

Lisa Ross

Maija Rothenberg

Roberta H. Rubin

Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz

Sandra K. Rusnak

David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg

Richard O. Ryan

Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan

Dr. Christine Rydel

Norman K. Sackar

Anthony Saineghi

Mr. Agustin G. Sanz

Inez Saunders

Libby Savner

Karla Scherer

David M. Schiffman

Judith Feigon Schiffman

Rosa Schloss

Al Schriesheim

Elizabeth Schroeder

Donald L. Schwartz

Susan H. Schwartz

Dr. Penny Bender Sebring

Chandra Sekhar

Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior

Ilene W. Shaw

Pam Sheffield

James C. Sheinin, M.D.

Richard W. Shepro

Jessie Shih

Junia Shlaustas

Caroline Orzac Shoenberger

Stuart Shulruff

Adele Simmons

Linda Simon

Mr. Larry Simpson

Craig Sirles

Miyam Slater

Christine A. Slivon

Valerie Slotnick

Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.

Charles F. Smith

Louise K. Smith

Mary Ann Smith

Stephen R. Smith

Mrs. Ralph Smykal

Naomi Pollock and David Sneider

Diane Snyder

Kimberly Snyder

Kathleen Solaro

Ms. Elysia M. Solomon

Dr. Stuart Sondheimer

Orli Staley

William D. Staley

Helena Stancikas

Grace Stanek

Ms. Denise M. Stauder

Leonidas Stefanos

Penelope Steiner

Mrs. Richard J. Stern

Liz Stiffel

Mr. John Stover

Mary Stowell

Lawrence E. Strickling

Patricia Study

Cheryl Sturm

BISCO Foundation

Mrs. Robert Szalay

Mr. Gregory Taubeneck

Chris Thomas

James E. Thompson

Dr. Robert Thomson

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

Joan Thron

David Timm

Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr.

William R. Tobey, Jr. †

Bruce Tranen †

James M. (Mack) Trapp

John T. Travers

David Trushin

Dr. David A. Turner

Robert W. Turner

Janet Underwood

Zalman Usiskin

Mrs. James D. Vail III

John Van Horn

Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice

Thomas D. Vander Veen

Jennifer Vianello

Catherine M. Villinski

Charles Vincent

Mr. Christian Vinyard

Theodore Wachs

Mark A. Wagner

Beth Ann Waite

Bernard T. Wall

Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Jeffrey J. Webb

Mrs. Jacob Weglarz

Chickie Weisbard

Richard Weiss

Robert G. Weiss

Dr. Marc Weissbluth

Rebecca West

Carmen Wheatcroft

Leah Williams

M.L. Winburn

Peter Wolf

Laura Woll

Dr. Hak Yui Wong

Courtenay R. Wood

Michael H. Woolever

Ms. Debbie Wright

Nancy G. Wulfers

Ronald Yonover

Owen Youngman

Priscilla Yu

David J. Zampa

Dr. John P. Zaremba

Karen Zupko

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

† Deceased

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

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Corporate Partners

$200,000 AND ABOVE

Bank of America

ITW

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO

United Airlines

$100,000–$199,999

Abbott

Allstate Insurance Company

CIBC Private Wealth

Citadel and Citadel Securities

Northern Trust

$50,000–$99,999

Anonymous (1)

BMO

Jenner & Block LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

PNC Bank

Sidley Austin LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

$25,000–$49,999

AAR CORP.

Abbott Fund

Altair Advisers LLC

Kinder Morgan

Latham & Watkins LLP

Mayer Brown LLP

S&C Electric Company Fund

Walgreens

$10,000–$24,999

ADM

Anonymous (1)

Deloitte

Exelon

GCM Grosvenor

Goldman Sachs & Co.

HARIBO of America

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

McGuireWoods LLP

McKinsey & Company

Peoples Gas

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Winston & Strawn LLP

$5,000–$9,999

Ariel Investments

Dentons

Fellowes, Inc.

Italian Village Restaurants

Mesirow Financial

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Segal Consulting

The Law Offices of Jonathan N. Sherwell

Starshak & Winzenburg

Weiss Financial

$1,000–$4,999

American Agricultural Insurance Company

Amsted Industries Incorporated AspireUp

Carey’s Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc.

Central Building & Preservation L.P.

DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.

Etnyre International Ltd

FeX Group of Companies

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Parkway Elevators

Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation

Scott & Kraus, LLC

Show Services

William Blair

Foundations and Government Agencies

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

The Chicago Community Trust

Julius N. Frankel Foundation

JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation

Sargent Family Foundation

State of Illinois

TAWANI Foundation

Zell Family Foundation

$50,000–$99,999

The Brinson Foundation

Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation

Sally Mead Hands Foundation

Illinois Arts Council Agency

National Endowment for the Arts Polk Bros. Foundation

$25,000–$49,999

Crain-Maling Foundation

The Crown Family

Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation

John R. Halligan Charitable Fund

Irving Harris Foundation

Leslie Fund, Inc.

Bowman C. Lingle Trust

Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation

$10,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation

The Buchanan Family Foundation

The Clinton Family Fund

Darling Family Foundation

William M. Hales Foundation

The Maval Foundation

Pritzker Traubert Foundation

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation

The George L. Shields Foundation

$5,000–$9,999

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music

The Allyn Foundation, Inc.

Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Hoellen Family Foundation

Hunter Family Foundation

Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation

Kovler Family Foundation

Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation

Dr. Scholl Foundation

$2,500–$4,999

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

$1,000–$2,499

Franklin Philanthropic Foundation

MEB Charitable Foundation

Geraldi Norton Foundation

Stephen Philibosian Foundation

Roberts Family Foundation

Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust

Annual Support

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through December 2023. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.

$150,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous

Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin

Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel and Citadel Securities

Mr. † & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross

Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation

Margot and Josef Lakonishok

The Negaunee Foundation

LTC. Jennifer N. Pritzker, USA (Ret.)

Megan and Steve Shebik

Zell Family Foundation

$100,000–$149,999

Anonymous (4)

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim

James and Brenda Grusecki

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz

$75,000–$99,999

Anonymous

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

John Hart and Carol Prins

Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock

Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation

Gene and Jean Stark

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

$50,000–$74,999

Anonymous

Mrs. Janet R. Bauer

Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz

Kay Bucksbaum

Dean L. and Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund

Ms. Nancy Dehmlow

Dr. Eugene F. and Mrs. SallyAnn D. Fama

The Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Frances and Franklin † Horwich

Judy and Scott McCue

Cathy and Bill Osborn

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †

Michael and Linda Simon

SEMPRE

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

$20,000,000 AND ABOVE

Zell Family Foundation

$10,000,000–$19,999,999

The Grainger Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation

$5,000,000–$9,999,999

Anonymous

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation

Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz

$2,500,000–$4,999,999

Anonymous

Mary Louise Gorno

Estate of Esther G. Klatz

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Megan and Steve Shebik

Richard and Helen Thomas

$1,000,000–$2,499,999

Anonymous

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Kay Bucksbaum

Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock

Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Joseph † and Rebecca Jarabak †

Jim † and Kay Mabie

Estate of Gloria Miner

The Oberman Family Charitable Trust

Cathy and Bill Osborn

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$500,000–$999,999

Patricia and Laurence Booth

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray

D & R Charitable Fund

The Davee Foundation

David and Janet Fox

Howard Gottlieb

ITW

Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley

Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg

UP TO $500,000

Anonymous

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Patricia Ames

Ruth and Roger Anderson

Family Foundation

Peter and Elise Barack

Merrill and Judy Blau

Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor

Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car

George and Minou Colis

Ms. Nancy Dehmlow

Mimi Duginger

Charles* and Carol Emmons

Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall

Robert D. Gecht

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

Alice and Richard Godfrey

Liz Stiffel

Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$35,000–$49,999

Anonymous

Sharon and Charles † Angell

Peter † and Betsy Barrett

Mr. & Mrs. Johannes Burlin

Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation

Mary Winton Green

Mr. Collier Hands

Ms. Geraldine Keefe

Ms. Renee Metcalf

Dr. Charles Morcom

William A. and Anne Goldstein

Jennifer Amler Goldstein, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Mr. Graham C. Grady

Timothy and Joyce* Greening

John Hart and Carol Prins

The Heestand Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson

Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy

Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman

Karen and Neil Kawashima

Ms. Geraldine Keefe

Anne Kern

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson

Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg

Judy and Scott McCue

Mr. David E. McNeel

Mr. Robert Meeker

James and Renée Metcalf

Dr. Sharon D. Michalove

John H. Mugge

Mr. Daniel R. Murray

Estate of Donald V. Peck

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Charlene H. Posner*

Estate of Donald Powell

Andra and Irwin Press

Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi

James S. Rostenberg

Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim

Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Mr. † & Mrs.* John Simmons

Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern

Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.

Thierer Family Foundation

Penny and John Van Horn

Dr. Catherine L. Webb*

Craig and Bette Williams

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow

Mr. Gifford Zimmerman

Estate of Rita Zralek

Ms. Karen Zupko*

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

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley

Margo and Michael Oberman

Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow

Sidley Austin LLP

Walter and Kathleen Snodell

Terrence and Laura Truax

Craig and Bette Williams

$25,000–$34,999

Anonymous

Nancy A. Abshire

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV

Altair Advisers LLC

Carey and Brett August

Peter and Elise Barack

Julie and Roger Baskes

Patricia and Laurence Booth

Mr. Roderick Branch

Robert J. Buford

Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray

Mr. & Dr. George Colis

Mrs. Barbara Flynn Currie

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen V. D’Amore

Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson

Ms. Ann Drake

Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy

Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil

Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

William A. and Anne Goldstein

Mary Louise Gorno

Howard L. Gottlieb and Barbara G. Greis

Mr. Graham C. Grady

Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris

Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson

Ronald B. Johnson

Mr. † & Mrs. Burton Kaplan

Karen and Neil Kawashima

Ms. Donna L. Kendall

Tom and Betsy Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner

Susan and Rick Levy

Mr. Terrance Livingston and Ms. Debra Cafaro

Mr. Vikram Luthar

Ms. Britt Miller

Daniel R. Murray

John D. † and Alexandra C. Nichols

Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation

Dr. Mohan Rao

Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch

Susan Regenstein

Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg

Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi

Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy

Bill and Orli Staley Foundation

Mary Stowell

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan

Thierer Family Foundation

Susan and Bob Wislow

Mr. Gifford Zimmerman

$20,000–$24,999 Anonymous

Arnie and Ann Berlin

Tom and Dianne Campbell

Joyce Chelberg

Nancy and Bernard Dunkel

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe

Ellen and Paul Gignilliat

Richard and Alice Godfrey

Sue and Melvin Gray

Halasyamani/Davis Family

Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman

Anne and John † Kern

Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family

Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin

Jim † and Kay Mabie

Ms. Martha C. Nussbaum

Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

John and Merry Ann Pratt

Diana and Bruce Rauner

Ms. Courtney Shea

Rebecca West

Dr. Marylou Witz

Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation

$15,000–$19,999 Anonymous (3)

Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Henry and Gilda Buchbinder

Robert D. Carone

Ann and Richard Carr

Sue and Jim Colletti

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood

John and Fran Edwardson

Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy

Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz

Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III

Janice L. Honigberg

Mrs. Janet Kanter

Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Klein

Nancy and Sanfred Koltun

Ms. Betsy Levin

Mr. Philip Lumpkin

Mr. David E. McNeel

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

Edward and Gayla Nieminen

Kathleen Field Orr

Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli

Family Foundation

LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor

Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte

Andra and Irwin Press

D. Elizabeth Price

Jerry Rose

Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern

Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft

Penny and John Van Horn

Mr. Christian Vinyard

Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung

David Woodhouse

$11,500–$14,999

Fraida and Bob Aland

Cynthia Bates and Kevin Rock

Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan

Merle L. Jacob

Stephen and Maria Lans

Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall

The Osprey Foundation

Leslie and Tom Silverstein

Dr. Stuart Sondheimer, M.D. and Ms. Bonnie Lucas

Carol S. Sonnenschein

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson

Ksenia A. and Peter Turula

Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs

Caroline Foulke Wettersten

Mr. & Ms. Richard Williams

$7,500–$11,499

Anonymous (5)

Ms. Patti Acurio

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Geoffrey A. Anderson

Ms. Miah Armour

Mr. Robert C. Austin and Dr. Kathryn C. Gamble

Ms. Judith Barnard

Mrs. Gail Belytschko

Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck

Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof

Merrill and Judy Blau

Mr. & Mrs. Fred Boelter

Cassandra L. Book

Mr. & Mrs. John Borland

Adam Bossov

Janet S. Boyer

Ms. Danolda Brennan

Mr. Ray Capitanini

Patricia A. Clickener

Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel

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

Mr. Lawrence Corry

Mr. Marc DeMoss

Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley

Mr. † & Mrs. Charles W. Douglas

Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle

Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan

Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

Charles and Carol Emmons

Judith E. Feldman

Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Ms. Hazel Fisher

Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

Camillo and Arlene Ghiron

Mr. † & Mrs. James J. Glasser

Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone

Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon

Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory

Lynne R. Haarlow

Joan M. Hall

Mrs. Richard C. Halpern

Anne Marcus Hamada

John and Sally Hard

Pati and O.J. † Heestand

Richard † and Joanne Hoffman

Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson III

Fred † and Sandra Holubow

Michael and Leigh Huston

Howard E. Jessen Family Trust

Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller

The King Family Foundation

Dr. June Koizumi

Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff

Dr. Michael Krco

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck

Mr. John LaBarbera

Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler

Dr. Lynda Lane

Mr. Jeffrey Lennard

Mr. Michael Leppen

Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation

Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman

Mr. † & Mrs. John Lillard

Jane and Peter Loeb

Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

Francine R. Manilow

Robert † and Judy Marth

Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Sheila Medvin

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley

Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor

Emilie Morphew, M.D.

Ms. Susan Norvich

Eric and Carolyn Oesterle

Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson

Jim O’Sullivan

Richard and Frances Penn

Sue N. Pick

Mary and Joseph Plauché

Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn

Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman

Mr. Richard Ryan

Rita † and Norman Sackar

Mr. Agustin G. Sanz

Karla Scherer

David and Judy Schiffman

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl

Joan and George Segal

The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation

Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho

Julia M. Simpson

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro

Cheryl Sturm

Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.

Ms. Bernadette Y. Tang

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck

Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

TravTours, Inc.

Tully Family Foundation in honor of Helen Zell

Mr. † & Mrs. William C. Vance

Frances S. Vandervoort

Mr. David J. Varnerin

Catherine M. Villinski

M.L. Winburn

Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever

Ms. Karen Zupko

$4,500–$7,499 Anonymous (15)

Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker

Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein

Cat Anderson

Megan P. and John L. Anderson

Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews

Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei

David and Suzanne Arch

Dr. & Mrs. Kent Armbruster

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Baird

Mr. William Baker and Ms. Rita Corley-Baker

Paul and Robert Barker Foundation

Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes

Joseph Bartush

Ms. Sandra Bass

Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen

Deborah Baughman

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Bedford

Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler

Mr. Ken Belcher

Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst

Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible

Mrs. Arthur A. Billings

Mr. † & Mrs. Dennis Black

Jim † and Dianne Blanco

Ann Blickensderfer

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block

Ms. Terry Boden

Mr. Edward Boehm III

Mr. Virgil Bogert

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Borich

Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky

Mr. Donald Bouseman

Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen

Ms. Jill Brennan

Cindy Marie Brito and Anthony Costello

Mrs. Sue Brubaker

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum

Ms. Lutgart Calcote

Ms. Vera Capp

Wendy Alders Cartland

Mia Celano and Noel Dunn

Mr. James Chamberlain

Linton J. Childs

Ms. Jue H. Chung

Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy

Nancy J. Clawson

Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali

Ms. Jean Cocozza

Douglas and Carol Cohen

Jane and John C. † Colman

E. and V. Combs Foundation

Mrs. Eileen Conaghan

Dr. Thomas H. Conner

Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy

Mr. Robert Cook

Nancy R. Corral

Ms. Jane Cox

Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux

R. Bert Crossland

Daniel Cyganowski and Judith Metzger

Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian

Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider

Janet Wood Diederichs

Mr. Doug Donenfeld

David and Deborah Dranove

Ingrid and Richard Dubberke

Mimi Duginger

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek

Judge Frank Easterbrook

Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng

Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten

Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp

Thomas Eller

Mr. & Mrs. Victor Elting III

Scott and Lenore Enloe

Dr. & Mrs. † James Ertle

William Escamilla

Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D.

Neil Fackler

Dr. Gail Fahey

Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein

Donald and Signe Ferguson

Hector Ferral, M.D.

John and Geraldine Fiedler

Mr. Conrad Fischer

Dean and Jenny Fischer

Thea Flaum/Hill Foundation

Mrs. Donna Fleming

Mrs. John D. Foster

David and Janet Fox

Arthur L. Frank, M.D.

Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann

Susan and Paul Freehling

Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.

Judy and Mickey Gaynor

Robert D. Gecht

Sandy and Frank Gelber

Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson

Bernardino and Caterina Ghetti

Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco

Mr. Lionel Go

Judy and Bill Goldberg

Lyn Goldstein

Robert and Marcia Goltermann

Mary and Michael Goodkind

Dr. Alexia Gordon

Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon

Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French

Donald J. Gralen

Hanna H. Gray

Richard † and Mary L. Gray

Ms. Freddi Greenberg

Thomas † and Delta Greene

Timothy and Joyce Greening

Dr. Jerri E. Greer

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen

Jacalyn Gronek

Ann and John Grube

Mr. Dongqi Guo

Anastasia and Gary † Gutting

Stephanie and Howard Halpern

Ms. Josephine Hammer

Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan

James W. Haugh

Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes

James and Lynne † Heckman

Mr. Hirad Hedayat

Mr. Dale C. Hedding

Scott Helm

Dr. † & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst

Jeffrey W. Hesse

Marjorie Friedman Heyman

The Hickey Family Foundation

William B. Hinchliff

Dr. Richard Hirschmann

Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith †

Mr. William J. Hokin †

James and Eileen Holzhauer

Mr. † & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg

James and Mary Houston

Carter Howard and Sarah Krepp

Tex and Susan Hull

Hunter Family Foundation

Ms. Patricia Hurley

Frances and Phillip Huscher

Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins

Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs

Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin

Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus

Mr. John Jawor

Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna

Joni and Brian Johnson

Dr. Patricia Collins Jones

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation

Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck

Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin

Barry D. Kaufman

Larry † and Marie Kaufman

Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul

Peter and Stephanie Keehn

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser

John and Judy Keller

Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel

Carol Kipperman

Dr. Elaine Klemen

Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk

Mr. Thomas Kmetko

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff

Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin

Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn

Eldon and Patricia Kreider

David and Susan Kreisman

Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar

Mr. & Mrs. Rubin P. Kuznitsky

Mr. William Lawlor, III

Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann

Mr. & Mrs. Dean Leff

Sheila Fields Leiter

Ms. Zafra Lerman

Mr. Jerrold Levine

Mary and Laurence Levine

Averill and Bernard † Leviton

Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek

Mr. † and Mrs. Howard Lickerman

The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust

Mrs. Gabrielle Long

Dr. Anna Lysakowski

Carol MacArthur

Mr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLean

Eileen Madden

Jacen Maleck

Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling

Sharon L. Manuel

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin

Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez

Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag

Igor and Olga Matlin

Charles and Clara McCall

Ann Pickard McDermott

Dr. & Mrs. James McGee

Dr. † & Mrs. John McGee II

John and Etta McKenna

Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney

James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray †

Mrs. Leoni McVey

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meister

Dr. Ellen Mendelson

Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.

Jim and Ginger Meyer

Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad

David H. Moscow

Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek

John H. Mugge

Jo Ann and Stuart Nathan

Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman

David † and Dolores Nelson

Dr. Zehava L. Noah

Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard

Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar

Kenneth R. Norgan

Mark and Gloria Nusbaum

Bill and Penny Obenshain

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs

Sarah and Wallace Oliver

John and Joy O’Malley

Mr. Michael Oman and Mrs. Patricia Wakeley

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann

Mr. Timothy J. Patenode

Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.

Mr. Michael Payette

Dr. & Mrs. † Ray Pensinger

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Bonnie Perry

Dr. William Peruzzi

Mr. Robert Peterson

Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.

Richard Phillips

Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert

Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker

John F. Podjasek III Charitable Fund

Charlene H. Posner

Stephen and Ann Suker Potter

Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard

Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett

Harper Reed

Dr. Hilda Richards

Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards

Mary K. Ring

Charles and Marilynn Rivkin

Ms. Carol Roberts

William and Cheryl Roberts

Dr. Diana Robin

Bob Rogers Travel

Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio

Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper

Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg

Michael Rosenthal

D.D. Roskin

Ms. Lisa Ross

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi

Maija Rothenberg

Ms. Roberta H. Rubin

Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz

Mrs. Martha Sabransky † and Dr. Paul Glickman

Anthony Saineghi

Mr. David Sandfort

Raymond and Inez Saunders

Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht

Mr. † and Mrs. Nathan Schloss

Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig

Gerald and Barbara Schultz

Susan H. Schwartz

Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz

Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar

Diana and Richard Senior

David and Judith L. Sensibar

Ms. Mary Beth Shea

Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts

Mrs. Junia Shlaustas

Mr. & Ms. Alan Shoenberger

Stuart and Leslie Shulruff

Ms. Ann Silberman

Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons

Mr. Larry Simpson

Craig Sirles

Christine A. Slivon

Valerie Slotnick

Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.

Louise K. Smith

Mary Ann Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith

Naomi Pollock and David Sneider

James and Diane Snyder

Kimberly M. Snyder

In Memory of Timothy Soleiman

Elysia M. Solomon

Mrs. Linda Spain

Robert and Emily Spoerri

Helena Stancikas

Ms. Denise Stauder

Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos

Dr. Dusan Stefoski, M.D. and Mr. Craig Savage

Carol D. Stein

Penelope R. Steiner

Roger † and Susan Stone

Family Foundation

Laurence and Caryn Straus

Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong

Ms. Minsook Suh

Mr. Mitchell Suter and Ms. Hillary August

Mr. Chris Thomas

Mr. James Thompson

Joan and Michael Thron

David and Beth Timm

Bill and Anne Tobey

Ayana Tomeka

Bruce † and Jan Tranen

James M. and Carol Trapp

John T. and Carrie M. Travers

Joan and David Trushin

Dr. & Mrs. David Turner

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner

Ms. Judith Tuszynski

Zalman and Karen Usiskin

Mr. Peter Vale

Jim and Cindy Valtman

Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D.

Mr. † & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice

Ms. Jennifer Vianello

Ms. Raita Vilnins

Charles Vincent

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner

Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward

Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Mr. & Mrs. David Weber

Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz

Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss

Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft

Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Whellan

Peter and Marlee Wolf

Ms. Lois Wolff

Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman

Michael † and Laura Woll

Dr. Hak Wong

Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr.

Ms. Debbie Wright

Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers

Mari Yamamoto Regnier

Ms. Janice Young

Owen and Linda Youngman

Paul and Mary Yovovich

In memory of Anthony C. Yu

David and Eileen Zampa

Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba

Ms. Camille Zientek

Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross

Jennifer Zobair and Chuck Smith

$3,500–$4,499

Anonymous

Ms. Doris Angell

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Barber

Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez

Ms. Susan Bridge

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brightfelt

Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr

Margery al Chalabi

Ms. Anne Chien

Ms. Juli Crabtree

Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris

Mr. † & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker

Ms. Louise Dixon

Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III

Dr. & Mrs. James L. Downey

Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson

Hill and Cheryl Hammock

Dr. Robert A. Harris

Ms. Dawn E. Helwig

Ms. Anna Hertsberg

Dr. Ashley Jackson

Maryl Johnson, M.D.

Ms. JoAnn Joyce

Joseph and Judith Konen

Eric Kuhlman

Robert O. Middleton

Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.

Ms. Victoria Nee

Mr. Bruce Ottley

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn

Howard and Sheila Pizer

Mary Rafferty

Dorothy V. Ramm

Mrs. Enid Rieser

Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan

Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields

Lynn B. Singer

Joel and Beth Spenadel

Mr. James Vardiman

Ms. Mary Walsh

Samuel † and Chickie Weisbard

$2,500–$3,499

Anonymous (3)

Mr. Frank Ackerman

Ms. Rene Alphonse

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Asner †

Ms. Marlene Bach

William and Marjorie Bardeen

Larry and Sarah Barden

James and Bartha Barrett

Ms. Patricia Bayerlein

Meta S. and Ronald † Berger Family Foundation

Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin

Mr. James Borkman

Mr. Douglas Bragan †

Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener

Chris Brezil

Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman

Linda S. Buckley

Mr. & Mrs. John Butler

Curtis W. Cassel

Ms. Margaret Chaplan

Lisa Chessare

Ms. Melinda Cheung

Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes

Joe and Judy Cosenza

Mr. John Crosby

Ms. Angela D’Aversa

Mr. Frank R. Davis III

Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung

Mrs. Kelli Gardner Emery † and Mr. Peter Emery

Debra Fienberg

Sandra E. Fienberg

Kenneth M. Fitzgerald and Ruby Carr

Ms. Nona Flores

Ms. Irene Fox

Mr. Ray Frick

Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III

James and Rebecca Gaebe

Jane Gaines and Andy Kenoe

Mr. Stanford Goldblatt

Ms. Sarah Good

Isabelle Goossen

Merle Gordon

Mr. Adam Grymkowski

Ronald and Diane Hamburger

Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman

Mrs. John M. Hartigan

James and Megan Hinchsliff

Dr. & Mrs. James Holland

Mr. Stephen Holmes

Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton

Saul Juskaitis

Ms. Ethelle Katz

Mr. & Mrs. Frank Klapperich, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt

Mr. Matthew Kusek

Mr. Thomas Lad

Ms. Pamela Larsen

Jules M. Laser

Dr. Gerald † and Darlene Lee

Mr. Jonathon Leik

Mr. Philip Lesser

Mr. Michael J. Liccar

Robert † and Joan Lipsig

Mr. Melvin Loeb

Sherry and Mel Lopata

Ronald and Carlotta Lucchesi

Ms. Janice Magnuson

Mr. Timothy Marshall

Robert and Doretta Marwin

Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass

Margaret and Michael McCoy

Ms. Marilyn Mccoy

Rosa and Peter McCullagh

Ric D. McDonough

Bill McIntosh

Mr. & Mrs. Lester McKeever

Mr. Zarin Mehta

Ms. Claretta Meier

Ian and Robyn Moncrief

Mrs. Frank Morrissey

Ms. Maryrose Murphy

Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl

Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.

Noteable Notes Music Academy/ Wheaton, IL

Mrs. Janis Notz

Beatrice F. Orzac †

Mr. Sebastian Patino

Kingsley Perkins †

Rita Petretti

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper

Lee Ann and Savit Pirl

Dr. Joe Piszczor

Kenneth J. Poje

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker

Ms. Constance Rajala

Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel

Mr. Jeffrey Rappin

Neal Reenan

Patricia Richter

Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen

Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross

John Francis Sarwark

Ms. Saslow

Shirley and John † Schlossman

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil

Mr. James Selsor

Mrs. Phyllis Shafron

Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro

Carolyn M. Short

Ellen and Richard Shubart

Margaret and Alan Silberman

Jack and Barbara Simon

The Honorable John B. Simon and Millie Rosenbloom

Nancy J. Smith

Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein

Mr. Michael Sprinker

Ms. Sue Stealey

Carole Stone and Arthur Susman

Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.

Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Mrs. Jeanne Sullivan

Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft

Ms. Alison Thomas

Ms. Joanne Tremulis

Henrietta Vepstas

Robert J. Walker

Alexander J. Wayne

Mr. Lawrence Wechter

Mr. Michael Welsh and Ms. Linda Brummer-Welsh

Robert J. Wilczek † and Shirley Pfenning

Mr. Kenneth Witkowski

Barbara and Steven Wolf

Mr. Joseph Wolnski and Ms. Jane Christino

Dr. Nanajan Yakoub

Ms. Mary Zeltmann

Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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

$150,000 AND ABOVE

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation

$100,000–$149,999

Anonymous

Allstate Insurance Company

$75,000–$99,999

John Hart and Carol Prins

Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation

Megan and Steve Shebik

$50,000–$74,999

Anonymous

BMO

Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Judy and Scott McCue

Polk Bros. Foundation

Michael and Linda Simon

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

$35,000–$49,999

Bowman C. Lingle Trust

National Endowment for the Arts

The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc. Shure Charitable Trust

$25,000–$34,999

Anonymous

Abbott Fund

Carey and Brett August

Crain-Maling Foundation

Kinder Morgan

Margo and Michael Oberman

Gene and Jean Stark

$20,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Mary Winton Green

Halasyamani/Davis Family

Illinois Arts Council Agency

Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family

PNC

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation

$15,000–$19,999

Nancy A. Abshire

Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.

The Buchanan Family Foundation

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund

Sue and Jim Colletti

Mr. Philip Lumpkin

The Maval Foundation

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †

Dr. Marylou Witz

$11,500–$14,999

Barker Welfare Foundation

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan

Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Ksenia A. and Peter Turula

$7,500–$11,499

Anonymous

Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz

Mr. Lawrence Corry

Nancy and Bernard Dunkel

Ellen and Paul Gignilliat

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

Ms. Susan Norvich

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

D. Elizabeth Price

LTC. Jennifer N. Pritzker, USA (Ret.)

Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation

Ms. Courtney Shea

Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt

Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$4,500–$7,499

Anonymous

Joseph Bartush

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Ann and Richard Carr

Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Mr. Lionel Go

Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr.

Dr. June Koizumi

Dr. Lynda Lane

Francine R. Manilow

Mrs. Leoni McVey

Jim and Ginger Meyer

Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek

The Osprey Foundation

Dr. Scholl Foundation

$3,500–$4,499

Anonymous

Arts Midwest Gig Fund

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker

Judith E. Feldman

Camillo and Arlene Ghiron

Ms. Dawn E. Helwig

Ms. Ethelle Katz

Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards

Mr. Peter Vale

Ms. Mary Walsh

$2,500–$3,499

Anonymous

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

David and Suzanne Arch

Mr. James Borkman

Adam Bossov

Mr. Douglas Bragan †

Mr. Ray Capitanini

Lisa Chessare

Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes

Patricia A. Clickener

Ms. Nancy Dehmlow

Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng

William B. Hinchliff

Michael and Leigh Huston

Italian Village Restaurants

Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Mrs. Frank Morrissey

David † and Dolores Nelson

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper

Lee Ann and Savit Pirl

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker

Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen

Mr. David Sandfort

Gerald and Barbara Schultz

Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro

Carol S. Sonnenschein

Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein

Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis

Mr. Kenneth Witkowski

Ms. Camille Zientek

$1,500–$2,499

Ms. Marlene Bach

Ms. Barbara Barzansky

Mr. Lawrence Belles

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible

Cassandra L. Book

Mr. Donald Bouseman

Ms. Danolda Brennan

Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman

Darren Cahr

Bradley Cohn

Charles and Carol Emmons

Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of the Civic horn section

Mr. Conrad Fischer

Ms. Lola Flamm

David and Janet Fox

Ronald and Diane Hamburger

Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick

Thomas and Reseda Kalowski

Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin

Dona Le Blanc

Adele Mayer

Mr. Aaron Mills

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Morales

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley

Mr. Alexander Ripley

Ms. Mary Sauer

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza

Jane A. Shapiro

Mrs. Julie Stagliano

Michael and Salme Steinberg

Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust

Ayana Tomeka

Ms. Betty Vandenbosch

Abby and Glen Weisberg

M.L. Winburn

Irene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin

Dr. & Mrs. Larry Zollinger

$1,000–$1,499

Anonymous

Duffie A. Adelson

John Albrecht

Ms. Rochelle Allen

Ms. Margaret Amato

Allen and Laura Ashley

Howard and Donna Bass

Daniel and Michele Becker

Ann Blickensderfer

Mr. Rowland Chang

David Colburn

Mr. & Mrs. Bill Cottle

Alan R. Cravitz

Mr. & Mrs. Barnaby Dinges

Tom Draski

DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.

Ms. Sharon Eiseman

Richard Finegold, M.D. and Ms. Rita O’Laughlin

Foxman Family Foundation

Eunice and Perry Goldberg

Enid Goubeaux

Mrs. Susan Hammond

Dr. Robert A. Harris

Mr. David Helverson

Clifford Hollander and Sharon Flynn Hollander

Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger

Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin

Mr. Ray Jones

Charles Katzenmeyer

Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer

Randolph T. Kohler and Scott Gordan

Ms. Foo Choo Lee

Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin

Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus

Timothy Lubenow

Sharon L. Manuel

Rosa and Peter McCullagh

Mr. & Mrs. William McNally

Robert O. Middleton

Stephen W. and Kathleen J. Miller

Geoffrey R. Morgan

Mrs. MaryLouise Morrison

Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.

Lewis Nashner

William H. Nichols

Ms. Sylvette Nicolini

Edward and Gayla Nieminen

Mr. Bruce Oltman

Ms. Joan Pantsios

Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler

Ms. Dona Perry

James † and Sharon Phillips

Christine and Michael Pope

Quinlan & Fabish

Mr. George Quinlan

Susan Rabe

Dr. Hilda Richards

Dr. Edward Riley

Mary K. Ring

Christina Romero and Rama Kumanduri

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross

Mr. David Samson

Peter Schauer

Mr. David M. Schiffman

Barbara and Lewis Schneider

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schuette

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Mr. Rahul and Mrs. Shobha Shah

Mr. & Mrs. James Shapiro

Dr. Rebecca Sherrick

Mr. Larry Simpson

Dr. Sabine Sobek

Ms. Denise Stauder

Mrs. Pamela Stepansky

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Stepansky

Donna Stroder

Sharon Swanson

Dr. Douglas Vaughan

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Waxman

Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman

Joni Williams

Jane Stroud Wright

ENDOWED FUNDS

Anonymous (3)

Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth Concert Fund

Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund

Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund

CNA

The Davee Foundation

Frank Family Fund

Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund

Jennifer Amler Goldstein Fund, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein

Mary Winton Green

William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Community Engagement

Richard A. Heise

Peter Paul Herbert Endowment Fund

Julian Family Foundation Fund

The Kapnick Family

Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust

The Malott Family School Concerts Fund

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

The Negaunee Foundation

Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends

Shebik Community Engagement Programs Fund

Toyota Endowed Fund

The Wallace Foundation

Zell Family Foundation

Theodore Thomas Society

Mary Louise Gorno Chair

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

STRADIVARIAN ASSOCIATES

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individuals for generously creating a revocable bequest of $100,000 or more, or an irrevocable life-income trust or annuity of $50,000 or more, to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, as of December 2023.

Anonymous (11)

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Lisa J. Adelstein

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Evy Johansen Alsaker

Robert A. Alsaker

Geoffrey A. Anderson

Louise E. Anderson

Brett and Carey August

Marlene Bach

Dr. Jeff Bale

Mr. Neal Ball

Sally J. Becker

Marlys A. Beider

Dr. C. Bekerman

Martha Bell

Mike and Donna Bell

Julie Ann Benson

K. Richard and Patricia M. Berlet

Merrill and Judy Blau

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Ann Blickensderfer

Danolda Brennan

Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr.

Mitchell J. Brown

Marion A. Cameron-Gray

Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong

Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark

Patricia A. Clickener

Judith and Stephen F. Condren

Anita Crocus

David L. Curry

Mimi Duginger

Harry and Jean Eisenman

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Dr. Marilyn Ezri

David S. and Janet M. Fox

Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.

Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson

Mary J. and Ronald P. Frelk

Penny and John Freund

Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat

Merle Gordon

Mary Louise Gorno

Dr. & Mrs. David Granato

Mary L. Gray

Mary Winton Green

Dr. Jon Brian Greis

John and Patricia Hamilton

John Hart and Carol Prins

Mr. William P. Hauworth II

Thomas and Linda Heagy

Mr. R.H. Helmholz

Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder

Concordia Hoffmann

Stephen D. and Catherine N. Holmes

Frank and Helen Holt

Mark and Elizabeth Hurley

Frances and Phillip Huscher

Ms. Darlene Johnson

Ronald B. Johnson

Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy

Lori Julian

Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan

Howard Kaspin

James Kemmerer

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Edwin and Karen Kramer

Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka

Jonathon Leik

Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring

Robert Alan Lewis

Dr. Valerie Lober

Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl

Sheldon H. Marcus

James Edward McPherson

Janet L. Melk

Dr. Frederick K. Merkel

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor

Craig and Rose Moore

Mrs. Mario A. Munoz

John H. Nelson

Muriel Nerad

Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen

Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer

Diane Ososke

Dr. Joan E. Patterson

Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger

Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn

Judy Pomeranz

Maridee Quanbeck

Neil K. Quinn

Randall and Cara Rademaker

Constance A. Rajala

Al and Lynn Reichle

Ann and Bob † Reiland

Wendy Reynes

Dr. Edward O. Riley

Charles and Marilynn Rivkin

David and Kathy Robin

Jerry Rose

Mr. James S. Rostenberg

Richard O. Ryan

John A. Salkowski

Cecelia Samans

A. Wm. Samuel

Franklin Schmidt

Mr. Craig Sirles

Betty W. Smykal

Annette and Richard Steinke

Mrs. Deborah Sterling

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong

Mrs. Gloria B. Telander

Karin and Alfred Tenny

Richard and Helen Thomas

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

Dr. Richard Tresley

Paula Turner

Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner

Mr. & Mrs. John E. Van Horn

Mr. Christian Vinyard

Craig and Bette Williams

Florence Winters

Stephen R. Winters and Don D. Curtis

Dr. Robert G. Zadylak

Helen Zell

MEMBERS

Anonymous (36)

Valerie and Joseph Abel

Louise Abrahams

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Patrick Alden

Richard and Elynne Aleskow

Judy L. Allen

Carlos Almeida and Dr. Matthew Sweeney

Ann S. Alpert

Patricia Ames

Ms. Judith L. Anderson

Steven Andes, Ph.D.

Dr. Edward L. Applebaum

Catherine Aranyi

Dr. Susan Arjmand

Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba

Mara Mills Barker

Shirley Baron

Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty

Joan I. Berger

Robert M. Berger

Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky

John L. Browar

Catherine Brubaker

Joseph Buc

Edward J. Buckbee

Michelle Miller Burns

Mr. Robert J. Callahan

Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Car

Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael

Dr. Marlene E. Casiano

Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy

Sharon Conway

Ron and Dolores Daly

Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels

Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson

Sylvia Samuels Delman

Mrs. David A. DeMar

Ms. Phyllis Diamond

Janet Wood Diederichs

Mrs. William Dooley

Nancy Schroeder Ebert

Robert J. Elisberg

Richard Elledge

Charles and Carol Emmons

Lu and Philip Engel

Tarek and Ann Fadel

James B. Fadim

Leslie Farrell

Donna Feldman

Frances and Henry Fogel

Ray Frick

Susan Fuchs

Nancy and Larry † Fuller

Dileep Gangolli

Maurice Garnier

Miss Elizabeth Gatz

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Ghielmetti

Steve and Lauran Gilbreath

Mr. Daniel Gilmour, III

Mr. Joseph Glossberg

Ms. Georgean Goldenberg

Adele Goldsmith

Douglas Ross Gortner

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Ms. Elizabeth A. Gray

Ms. Claire Annette Green

Delta A. Greene

Mrs. Barbara Gundrum

Lynne R. Haarlow

Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley

Mr. Tom Hall

Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett

William B. Hinchliff

Marcia M. Hochberg

Mr. Thomas Hochman

Jack and Colleen Holmbeck

Richard J. Hoskins

James and Mary Houston

Mr. James Humphrey

Merle L. Jacob

Ms. Jessica Jagielnik

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

Ann B. Kaplan

Marshall Keltz

Valerie Kennedy

Anne Kern

Paul Keske

Helen Kessler

Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr.

Mrs. LeRoy Klemt

Sally Jo Knowles

Mrs. Russell V. Kohr

Ms. Barbara Kopsian

Liesel E. Kossmann

Catherine Grochowski Kranz

Eugene Kraus

John C. and Carol Anderson Kunze

Thomas and Annelise Lawson

Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey

Ms. Nicole Lehman

Barbara W. Levin

Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy

Ms. Sally Lewis

Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg

Mr. Michael Licitra

Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson

Bonnie Glazier Lipe

Alma Lizcano

Candace Loftus

Heidi Lukas and Mr. Charles Grode

Suzette and James Mahneke

Ann Chassin Mallow

Sharon L. Manuel

Mrs. John J. Markham

Deborah McCabe

Judy and Scott McCue

John McFerrin

Mr. William McIntosh

Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey

Dorothe Melamed

Marcia Melamed

Dr. Sharon D. Michalove

Dale and Susan Miller

Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten

Thomas R. Mullaney

Daniel R. Murray

Dolores D. Nelson

Jeffrey Nichols

Franklin Nussbaum

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr.

Wallace and Sarah Oliver

Lynn Orschel

Helen and Joseph Page

Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Elizabeth Anne Peters

Mr. Lewis D. Petry

Judy C. Petty

Karen and Dick Pigott

Lois Polakoff

Charlene H. Posner

D. Elizabeth Price

Dorothy V. Ramm

Donald F. Ransford

Jeanne Reed

Edgar C. Reihl

Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones

Karen L. Rigotti

Don and Sally Roberts

Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal

Dr. Virginia C. Saft

Craig Samuels

Sue and William Samuels

Leslie A. Sanders

Paul and Kathleen Schaefer

Lawrence D. Schectman

Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt

Mr. & Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro

David Shayne

Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Anne Sibley

Larry Simpson

Thomas G. Sinkovic

Rosalee Slepian

Mary Soleiman

Jim Spiegel

Julie Stagliano

Denise M. Stauder

Karen Steil

Charles Steinberg

Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale

Mr. John Stokes

Richard and Lois Stuckey

Jeffrey and Linda Swoger

Mr. John C. Telander

Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Thorson

Karen Hletko Tiersky

Myron Tiersky

Jacqueline A. Tilles

Mr. James M. Trapp

Mr. Donn N. Trautman

John L. Turner

Mike and Mary Valeanu

Gerrit Vanderwest

Frank Villella

Mr. Milan Vydareny

Dr. Malcolm Vye

Adam R. Walker and BettyAnn Mocek

Mr. Frank Walschlager

Louella Krueger Ward

Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Karl Wechter

Claude M. Weil

Joan Weiss

Mr. Thomas Weyland

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

Linda and Payson S. Wild

Joyce S. Wildman

Kayla Anne Wilson

Robert A. Wilson

Nora M. Winsberg

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf

Beth Wollar

Lev Yaroslavskiy

IN MEMORIAM

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

Anonymous (9)

Hope A. Abelson

Richard Abrahams

Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson

Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos

Elizabeth M. Ashton

Jacqueline and Frank Ball

Wayne Balmer

Paul Barker

Arlene and Marshall Bennett

Judith and Dennis Bober

Naomi T. Borwell

Kathryn Bowers

Howard Broecker

Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown

George and Jacqueline Brumlik

Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger

Norma Cadieu

Wiley Caldwell

Nelson D. Cornelius

Anita J. Court, Ph.D.

Christopher L. Culp

Barbara DeCoster

Azile Dick

James F. Drennan

Robert L. Drinan, Jr.

Evelyn Dyba

Richard Eastline

Marian Edelstein

Dr. Edward Elisberg

Kelli Gardner Emery

Joseph R. Ender

Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson

Mrs. Greta Wiley Flory

Leslie Fogel

Herbert and Betty Forman

Richard Foster

Elaine S. Frank

Martin and Francey Gecht

Isak Gerson

Mrs. Willard Gidwitz

Lyle Gillman

Marvin Goldsmith

William B. Graham

Richard Gray

David Green

Nancy Griffin

Ernest A. Grunsfeld III

Betty and Lester Guttman

A. William Haarlow III

Carolyn Hallman

CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret.

Marguerite DeLany Hark

Polly and Donald Heinrich

Mary Mako Helbert

Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth

Mrs. Diane Hoban

Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr.

Barbara Isserman

Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak

Mrs. Marian Johnson

Ms. Janet Jones

Phyllis A. Jones

James Joseph

Joseph M. Kacena

Jared Kaplan

Morris A. Kaplan

Roberta Kapoun

George Kennedy

Esther G. Klatz

Russell V. Kohr

Karen Kuehner

Evelyn and Arnold Kupec

Robert B. Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts

Rebecca Jarabak

Caressa Y. Lauer

Patricia Lee

Christine D. Letchinger

William C. Lordan

Tula Lunsford

Iris Maiter

Arthur G. Maling

Bella Malis

Kathleen W. Markiewicz

Walter L. Marr III and Marilyn G. Marr

Eloise Martin

Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal

Eunice H. McGuire

Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick

Jack L. Melamed, M.D.

Lois G. and Hugo J. Melvoin

Richard Menaul

Susan Messinger

Phillip Migdal

Gloria Miner

Bill Moor

Charles A. Moore

David A. Moore

Marietta Munnis

David H. Nelson

Helen M. Nelson

Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld

David Niwa

Raymond and Eloise Niwa

Carol Rauner O’Donovan

T. Paul B. O’Donovan

Mary and Eric Oldberg

Bruce P. Olson

David G. Ostrow

Donald Peck

Charles J. Pollyea

Miriam Pollyea

Donald D. Powell

Samuel Press

Alfred and Maryann Putnam

Christine Querfeld

Ruth Ann Quinn

Kenneth Recu

Walter Reed

Bob Reiland

Paul H. Resnik

J. Timothy Ritchie

Virginia H. Rogers

Jill N. Rohde

Elaine Rosen

Ben J. Rosenthal

Anthony Ryerson

Cynthia Mead Sargent

Mrs. Milton Scheffler

Richard P. Schieler

Beverly and Grover Schiltz

Robert W. Schneider

Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr.

Nancy Seyfried

Muriel Shaw

Mr. Morrell A. Shoemaker

Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure

Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel

Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel

Joanne Silver

Rita Simó and Tomás Bissonnette

Allen R. Smart

Walter Chalmers Smith

Peggy E. Smith-Skarry

Karen A. Sorensen

Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel

Vito Stagliano

Mrs. Zelda Star

Charles J. Starcevich

Curtis D. Stensrud

Franklin R. St. Lawrence

Ruth Miner Swislow

Robert Sychowski

Lester G. Telser

Andrew and Peggy Thomson

Sue Tice

Beatrice B. Tinsley

C. Phillip Turner

Ted Utchen

Lois and James Vrhel

Louise Benton Wagner

Nancy L. Wald

Josephine Wallace

Marco Weiss

Barbara Huth West

The Whateley Trust, in memory of Baron Whateley

Max and Joyce Wildman

Joyce Hadley Williams

Arnold and Ann Wolff

Ronald R. Zierer

Rita A. Zralek

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Tribute Program

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

MEMORIAL GIFTS

In memory of Alfred Balandis

Mr. Robert Callahan

In memory of Luise Baldin

Antoinette Baldin

Dr. & Mrs. Enrique Beckmann

Mr. † & Mrs. Gershon Berg

Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Ms. Marilyn Hamburger

Joseph and Judith Konen

Ms. Claretta Meier

Mrs. Frances Naal

Gail Price

Ms. Janice Young

In memory of Glory Bechtold

Mr. Greg Davis

In memory of Bud Beyer

Ms. Jean Flaherty

In memory of John R. Blair

Mrs. Barbara J. Blair

In memory of Doug Bragan and Tom Boodell

Ms. Denise Stauder

In memory of Lin Brehmer

Franklin Brehmer and Sara Farr

In memory of Jerome Brosnan, M.D.

Ms. Gisela Brodine-Brosnan

In memory of Amelia Di Luccia Carretti

Mr. Robert Coad and Mr. David Ellis

In memory of Suhail al Chalabi

Margery al Chalabi

In memory of Dr. Minkyu Cho

Robert Callahan

In memory of Christopher L. Culp

Laura Yergesheva

In memory of Gary A. Davis and Graham Hemsley

Dr. Steven Andes

In memory of Heather DeBuhr

Anderson and Janet Stover Mallot

Kenje Mallot

In memory of Eddie Druzinsky

Mr. & Mrs. Barnaby Dinges

In memory of Susan K. Gordy Epstein

Mr. David Epstein

In memory of Martha Glickman

Michelle Alvord

Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Hoffman

Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin

Mr. & Mrs. Myron Shapiro

Ms. Renee Zellner

In memory of Joseph Guastafeste and Gordon B. Peters

Mark Swanson and Nancy Pifer

In memory of Zave Gussin

Mr. Nathan Kahn

In memory of Dr. Robert Hazelrigg

Robert and Irene Wegehoft

In memory of Andy Hedberg

Mr. and Mrs. John Jansson

In memory of J. Paul Hunter

Kristin H. Jensen

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

Howard E. Jessen Family Trust

In memory of Malcom L. Jones

Pinkey Auster

Schribner and Kimberly Ochsenschlager

In memory of Herbert A. Loeb III

Ms. Hillary A. Loeb

In memory of Jim and Nancy Loewenberg

Mr. Michael Berger

In memory of Dr. David and Renée Lubell

Mrs. Barbara Asner

Mrs. Lisa Edelson

In memory of Mary A. Lyons

Chris Martinez

In memory of Evelyn G. Meine

Mr. Curt Meine

In memory of Dr. Peter Michalove

Dr. Sharon D. Michalove

In memory of William Miller

Suzanne Johnson

In memory of Charles F. Moles

Ms. Kathleen Harrington

In memory of Anthony G. Montag

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

In memory of Martin O’Donnell

Ms. Anne T. Posner

Ms. Naomi M. Stanhaus

In memory of Thomas Owen

Maureen Obermeier

Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Van Vliet

In memory of Eul-Soo Pang

Dr. Laura Pang

In memory of George Pepper, M.D.

Mary Ann Smith

In memory of Kingsley Perkins

Ms. Susan Thomas

In memory of Ruth Ann Quinn

Ms. Carolyn Quinn

In memory of Bennett Reimer

Elizabeth A. Hebert

In memory of Al Rose

Mrs. Marian Rose

In memory of Seymour M. Sabesin, M.D.

Ms. Marcia Sabesin

In memory of Erica Schewe

Anonymous Mimi Duginger

In memory of Joanne Silver

Ms. Betty Winer

In memory of Michael Silverstein

Ms. Mara Tapp

In memory of Zan and Blossom Skolnick

Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Hafter

In memory of Mona Stern

Mr. Larry Simpson

In memory of Marjorie Stone

Dr. Arvey Stone

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

In memory of William C. Vance

Margaret H. Walker

In memory of my beautiful sister, Lynne Wachowski and her husband Ron Wachowski

Peggy Ryan

In memory of George Mitchell Williams

Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor

In memory of Donald Woulfe and Tom Boodell

Margo and Michael Oberman

In memory of Don Woulfe

Ms. Janice Young

In memory of Dick Wright

Ms. Janice Young

In memory of Woon-Young and Hyo-Kyoung

B. Seo-Pero

HONOR GIFTS

In honor of Dora Aalbregtse’s birthday

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †

In honor of Marcia Baylin

Mr. Marc Baylin

In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Boodell for their 50+ years of CSO support Ms. Denise Stauder

In honor of Charles Braico and Robert Coad for outstanding customer service

Ms. Denise Stauder

In honor of Robert Coad

Mr. Kevin Hinton

Mr. and Mrs. † David Shayne

Ms. Ann Silberman

Mr. † & Mrs. Marco Weiss

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

In honor of Judy Feldman and the Women’s Board of the CSO

Mr. & Mrs. Steven W. Scheibe

In honor of front of house staff Mr. Richard Boyum

In honor of Dr. Victoria E. Ingram Dr. Paul Navin

In honor of Brian Koenig for 25+ years with the CSO

The Koenig Family

In honor of Scott and Judy McCue and John Schmidt

Mr. Graham C. Grady

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

In honor of Dr. Robert McSay

Ms. Lois Wolff

In honor of Patricia Meyers

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Meyers, Jr.

In honor of Diane Mues

Cynthia Kirk

In honor of Maestro Muti

Ms. Kathryn Collier

Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation

In honor of Fr. Ed Shea

OFM, Ms. Sally B. Berkhia

In honor of Steve Shebik

Howard and Julie Hayes Family Fund

In honor of Richard and Ellen Shubart on their 60th anniversary

Mr. Alan Rosenthal

In honor of Lynne Turner

Dr. Hilda Richards

In honor of Bill Ward

Mrs. Mary Dietrick

In honor of Helen Zell

Mr. Rowland Chang

† Deceased

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

Being there

FROM THE BEGINNING

will always be our reason for being

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As communities, we’re only as strong as our most vulnerable. And with every promising newborn, a promise for a brighter future also needs to be delivered.