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
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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.
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ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THIRD SEASON
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
KLAUS MÄKELÄ Zell Music Director Designate
RICCARDO MUTI Music Director Emeritus for Life
Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 7:30
Saturday, April 20, 2024, at 7:30
Sunday, April 21, 2024, at 3:00
Tugan Sokhiev Conductor
Yulianna Avdeeva Piano
PANUFNIK Heroic Overture
First Chicago Symphony performances
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11
Allegro maestoso
Romanze
Rondo
YULIANNA AVDEEVA
INTERMISSION
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13 (Winter Dreams)
Daydreams of a Winter Journey: Allegro tranquillo
Land of Desolation, Land of Mists: Adagio cantabile ma non tanto
Scherzo: Allegro scherzando giocoso
Finale: Andante lugubre—Allegro maestoso
This performance is sponsored by the Bonnie Ann Barber Endowment Fund.
The appearance of Yulianna Avdeeva is made possible by the Grainger Fund for Excellence.
United Airlines is the Official Airline of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
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This performance is sponsored by the Bonnie Ann Barber Endowment Fund, which recognizes the importance of the CSO to Chicago and aims to preserve and support the CSO’s legacy for future generations.
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by Phillip Huscher
ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK
Born September 24, 1914; Warsaw, Poland
Died October 27, 1991; London, England
Heroic Overture
Panufnik’s musical life began in storybook fashion. His father, an engineer who made violins on the side, and his mother, a violinist, encouraged his interest in music. He began piano lessons with his grandmother, started to compose at the age of nine, and entered the Warsaw Conservatory as a piano student at eleven. Eventually— and despite a temporary decision to become an aircraft designer—composition became his life. A piano trio he wrote in 1934—he was nineteen—was his first significant composition: “If I had given my works opus numbers,” he wrote in his autobiography, “I would have designated it as opus 1.” After graduation from the conservatory in 1936, Panufnik continued his studies in Vienna—he was eager to hear the works of the Second Viennese School there, but found to his dismay that not one work by Schoenberg, Berg, or Webern was played during his first year in the city—and then in Paris and London. He returned to Warsaw in 1939, just before war overtook his country.
During the occupation, Panufnik formed a piano duo with his compatriot, Witold Lutosławski. Together, these two musicians, who would one day both be known as important composers, arranged and performed more than two hundred works around Warsaw, often secretly, to raise funds for Resistance workers and Jewish artists. During the war, Panufnik decided to move with his mother, who was in poor health, out of the city and into the suburbs. At that point, he left all his compositions behind in the apartment of a new friend, Stazka Litewska. But when he finally returned to the city in the spring of 1945, he learned that Stazka had thrown all his manuscripts away. Overnight, Panufnik was a thirty-year-old composer without a single work to his name.
Panufnik started over. In 1945 he reconstructed from memory his piano trio as well as a symphony he had written in 1939 (he later withdrew it from his catalog). Little by little he began to add new works, including a new symphony, now called his First, inspired by the intricate paper cutouts made by Polish peasants on long winter nights. (He used fragments of Polish folk songs in the score.) And, as he watched Warsaw rebuild, he
COMPOSED
1952, revised 1969
FIRST PERFORMANCE
May 16, 1952; Warsaw, Poland
INSTRUMENTATION
two flutes with piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets with bass clarinet, two bassoons with contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, percussion, strings
APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME
6 minutes
These are the first Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances.
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above: Andrzej Panufnik at his London flat, 1957. (Photo by Erich Auerbach (1911–1977)/Getty Images)
began to think about the vast repertoire of early Polish music that was completely unknown and decided to compose new scores based on old traditions. Within a few years, Panufnik would be recognized by his own composer’s voice, influenced but not dictated by tradition, and he would be one of twelve composers commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to write music honoring its centennial. Panufnik came to Chicago to conduct the CSO in the premiere of his Symphony no. 10 in February 1990.
Andrzej Panufnik on the Heroic Overture
My idea for Heroic Overture, with its triumphant conclusion, came to me in 1939 in Warsaw, after the Germans first attacked and met with the most heroic resistance from the Polish nation. At once my thoughts turned to the rousing, widely sung patriotic song, “Warszawianka,” which seemed to embody the desperate yet still optimistic spirit of the moment. I did not wish to actually quote the melody or even to use elements of it in my overture—but I wanted to allow its spirit to pervade my own invention.
My first step was to find a harmonic-contrapuntal-rhythmic spine which could have been used to “accompany” the song, but which I was going to take as my basic material. Onto this rhythmic background, as a second step, I wrote the first theme of the overture—a counterpoint to “Warszawianka,” which thus remains un-cited, but is represented in this way as the driving power “behind the notes.”
Unfortunately, however, I got no further than the outline sketches. Just at that time, Poland was unexpectedly stabbed in the back by the Stalin-Hitler pact (in September 1939), so that I lost all my optimism about immediate defeat of the Nazis, and my idea to compose a work with a victorious conclusion disintegrated.
The scene in Poland rapidly became much more tragic than heroic: in my native city, where
I subsisted throughout the War, we were every day terrorized by the German occupiers and sometimes at night attacked by Russian bombers. Wanting to be active in the Resistance, and my only weapon being music, I composed rousing patriotic songs under a pseudonym, and took part as a pianist in many illegal concerts organized secretly by the Polish Underground Movement, performing amongst others, works by Polish, Russian, and Jewish composers, which were banned by the Nazis.
However, in 1952 I found my thoughts returning to the heroic theme of early September 1939—I was wanting again, suffering a different sort of foreign occupation, to express my faith in my people and their ability to survive as a nation. Obviously, I could not openly express this purpose, so I wrote Heroic Overture ostensibly for the pre-Olympic Competition in Warsaw. It won first prize and was passed as suitable to show off Polish music abroad, and I was sent to Helsinki to conduct the first performance, but it was emphatically condemned inside Poland as “formalistic” and “decadent,” and failed the special audition for inclusion in concert programs in my native country. (Perhaps the politically “trusty” members of the jury sensed that the trumpets at the beginning came in not from the “socialist camp!”)
At last, getting this overture onto paper, I was able to resuscitate from my memory its 1939 structure: not only the first thematic idea but also the second one, which is introduced by the violins, with woodwinds entering two bars later with the same melodic line but inverted. These two voices build up together—and then return to the point of departure in reverse: all the time on the rhythmical pattern of the basic theme, but augmented to 3/2 meter. Following a succession of sharply dissonant clashes played fortissimo by the whole orchestra, at the end the victorious climax finally emerges in “heroic” E-flat major chords.
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FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Born March 1, 1810; Żelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, Poland
Died October 17, 1849; Paris, France
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11
In September 1831 Chopin arrived in Paris, the home of Berlioz, Rossini, and Liszt; writers Honoré de Balzac and Victor Hugo; and painters Jean-Baptiste Corot and Eugène Delacroix. He entered the company of giants and quietly took the city by storm.
Few composers have hit their stride so early. Chopin was already something of a celebrity when he moved to Paris at the age of twenty-one, leaving behind his native Poland and his baptismal name, Fryderyk Franciszek (he quickly switched to Frédéric). Three months after Chopin arrived, Robert Schumann wrote a review of the young composer’s newly published variations on “Là ci darem la mano” from Mozart’s Don Giovanni that included the now-famous line, “Hats off, gentlemen—a genius!” Chopin had not yet played a single note for the Parisian public.
Chopin taught himself how to play the piano as a small boy. He made up his own music almost at once, quickly recognizing the intimate relationship between improvising and composing. At the time he was seven, Chopin’s first teacher wrote down one of his improvisations, a polonaise, and had it published. His next teacher, Józef Elsner, showed him how to notate on paper the music he invented at the keyboard; op. 1, a rondo for solo piano, was published in June 1825.
When Chopin gave the premiere of his F minor piano concerto—the one known as no. 2, although it was written before the E minor concerto—in the first public concert of his own music in Warsaw, on March 17, 1830, he was immediately acclaimed as a national hero. His first appearance in Paris, on February 26, 1832, again performing this concerto, drew the city’s most discriminating musicians—both Liszt and Mendelssohn attended and were full of praise.
Chopin’s reputation as a pianist is based on just thirty or forty concerts. Today he would be a public relations nightmare: he disdained all the trappings of the concert world; he saw no need for posters or program books, and he disliked playing to large crowds and in big concert halls. Once he settled in Paris, Chopin rarely performed in public more than twice a year; despite—or perhaps because of that—his fame and fortune
COMPOSED 1830
FIRST PERFORMANCE
October 11, 1830; Warsaw, Poland, the composer as soloist
INSTRUMENTATION
solo piano, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, trombone, timpani, strings
APPROXIMATE
PERFORMANCE TIME
39 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
February 23, 1892, Auditorium Theatre. Frances Striegel as soloist, Theodore Thomas conducting
July 24, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Tomford Harris as soloist, Ernest Ansermet conducting
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
January 10, 11, 12, and 13, 2007, Orchestra Hall. Lang Lang as soloist, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducting
June 28, 2010, Ravinia Festival. Garrick Ohlsson as soloist, James Conlon conducting
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above: Frédéric Chopin, sketch portrait by German artist Jakob Götzenberger (1802–1866), 1838
only seemed to grow. It’s difficult to imagine the impact of Chopin’s piano playing from the comments that were written at the time, but it’s clear that his way of playing, with its extraordinary sensitivity to touch and color, delicately shaded dynamics, and inimitable tempo fluctuations, was unique.
“Invention came to his piano, sudden, complete, sublime,” wrote George Sand, the woman whose importance as a writer is now dwarfed by her celebrated cross-dressing and by her intense relationship with the composer. Chopin always drew a very fine line between playing and composing. Karl Flitsch, however, noted one crucial distinction:
thought of composing a symphony, and only in his two piano concertos did he attempt to write for orchestra in the conventional large forms. And yet his impact on the composers of the day and his influence on the music of the future is incalculable.
The other day I heard Chopin improvise at George Sand’s house. It is marvelous to hear Chopin compose in this way: his inspiration is so immediate and complete that he plays without hesitation as if it could not be otherwise. But when it comes to writing it down and recapturing the original thought in all its details, he spends days of nervous strain and almost terrible despair.
Of all the developments in music after Beethoven, none is more unlikely than Chopin’s success. Within a decade of Beethoven’s death, Chopin made a major international career writing mostly small-scale piano pieces. (Every one of his compositions includes the piano. He is unique among major composers; even Liszt, the other outstanding pianist-composer of the nineteenth century, eventually wrote significant orchestral and choral music.) Chopin never
Chopin’s two piano concertos were composed, unapologetically, as showcases for a traveling virtuoso. Both are youthful works, characterized by piano writing of such imagination and beauty that Chopin’s inexperience writing for the orchestra is immaterial. Under the circumstances, it is difficult to explain how these two works, written when he was just nineteen and twenty (first the one in F minor, then the E minor score that is played at these concerts) reveal such emotional depth and range.
Chopin didn’t set out to make something new of standard concerto form; both inexperience and a lifelong disinterest in symphonic thought stood in his way. His models were the recent concertos by Johann Nepomuk Hummel—popular, effective, utterly workmanlike scores that were, themselves, updated knockoffs of Mozart’s concertos. For a great innovator, Chopin was a man of surprisingly conservative tastes. The only composers he admired without reservation were Mozart and Bach He disliked most contemporary music: he had no use for Berlioz or Liszt, and he once said that Schumann’s Carnaval, which includes an affectionate parody of Chopin’s style, was not music at all. Although the great painter Delacroix was arguably his best friend, Chopin nonetheless preferred the more traditional work of David and Ingres.
this page, from left: Oil portrait of George Sand (1804–1876) by Auguste Charpentier (1813–1880), 1838. Museum of Romantic Life, Paris, France | Lithograph portrait of Karl Flitsch (1830–1845) by Josef Kriehuber (1800–1876), 1844. A child prodigy, Flitsch studied with Chopin, among others, including Liszt, and performed the op. 11 piano concerto conducted by the composer. | opposite pa ge: Pyotr Tchaikovsky, as photographed by Zakharin, 1865. Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Chopin’s own boldness and daring were apparent only when he turned to the keyboard. In the first movement of the E minor concerto, the music comes to life with the entrance of the piano. Suddenly, the same material that sounded unexceptional and a tad dutiful when played by the orchestra seems distinctive, poetic, and endlessly inventive. In Chopin’s exquisite hands, the concerto is a monologue; it has little of the chamber-music intimacy between solo and ensemble that characterizes Mozart’s works or the heroic dialogue between forces in Beethoven’s. The orchestra is master of ceremonies, accompanist, and indispensable partner—introducing material, lending
color and support—but the piano commands center stage. In passage after passage, Chopin writes music for it that is brilliant, virtuosic, and richly ornamented, yet never trivial. The first movement is grand and eloquent. The second, with muted strings, is one of Chopin’s early nocturnes, without a single dramatic outburst to disturb its glossy, serene surface. This is Chopin at his most operatic, spinning a seamless, highly decorated, bel canto melody over the merest thread of accompaniment. The finale is a polka of sorts, and as always with the dances Chopin remembered from his youth, it brings out the most robust and spirited side of his quiet genius.
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Born May 7, 1840; Votkinsk, Russia
Died November 6, 1893; Saint Petersburg, Russia
Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13 (Winter Dreams)
In 1866, the year Tchaikovsky wrote his First Symphony, a middle-aged Anton Bruckner finally finished his own first symphony, after fifteen months of tough going and with two earlier efforts left abandoned and unfinished. Johannes Brahms had already been working quietly on his first symphony for a decade—and it would take another ten years before he was satisfied with it. But Tchaikovsky, in his mid-twenties and fresh from the conservatory, launched his symphonic career with little anxiety or experience, turning out this Symphony no. 1 in a matter of months.
For most nineteenth-century composers, writing symphonies was serious business, particularly after Beethoven’s watershed cycle of nine works, and, in the second half of the century, starting a first symphony was a genuine
act of courage. Unlike Brahms, Tchaikovsky clearly did not suffer from the fear of following Beethoven’s example—without apparent difficulty, he composed a setting of Schiller’s “An die Freude” (which Beethoven set as the finale of his Ninth Symphony) to mark his graduation from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in the fall of 1865. Straight out of school, with a silver medal and fine recommendations, Tchaikovsky set off for Moscow in January 1866, where he had accepted a teaching post at Nikolai Rubinstein’s Russian Musical Society (later the Moscow Conservatory). The move at first proved difficult, but Tchaikovsky soon fell into the pattern of teaching; reported “an unusually sympathetic relationship with the Moscow ladies whom I teach”; made many new friends, including his future publisher, Pyotr Jürgenson; discovered Dickens (The Pickwick Papers made him laugh aloud); and benefitted from the domineering presence of Rubinstein, who not only oversaw
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Tchaikovsky’s musical affairs and dictated his musical tastes, but also bought him an entire new wardrobe.
Tchaikovsky arrived in Moscow with no experience writing for orchestra beyond his student efforts—an overture, The Storm, and the An die Freude cantata. Once settled, he finished the orchestration of a Concert Overture in C, which Rubinstein greatly disliked, and revised an Overture in F, which was successfully performed on March 16. By then, he had begun his first symphony, apparently at Rubinstein’s urging. Work went smoothly at first, at least until Tchaikovsky’s progress was derailed by the first artistic setback of his career. César Cui, still known to music students today as the spokesman of the Five— the group of Russian composers including Borodin, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov who banded together in 1875 to foster a national school of music—published a belated review of Tchaikovsky’s An die Freude, which he dismissed as “utterly feeble.” Tchaikovsky was devastated:
When I read that frightful judgment, I don’t know what I did with myself. My vision grew dark, my head spun, and I ran out of the café like a madman. I didn’t realize what I was doing, nor where I was. All day I wandered aimlessly through the city, repeating “I’m sterile, insignificant, nothing will come out of me, I’m ungifted.”
But Tchaikovsky went back to work on the symphony, which occupied several hours of each day and night. By May, he reported that it was going “sluggishly”; he was having trouble sleeping and began to fear death. For the rest of his life, he avoided composing at night because it reminded him of this painful time. That summer, when he went to visit his sister, he suffered from nervous attacks, numbness in his hands and feet, and hallucinations. Not for the last time in his life, a doctor pronounced him “one step from insanity.”
When Tchaikovsky went back to Saint Petersburg in August, he showed the score to his former teachers, Nikolai Zaremba and Anton Rubinstein (Nikolai’s brother), who both criticized the music harshly. Tchaikovsky returned to Moscow and to work on the symphony, no doubt incorporating some of their suggestions. The piece was introduced to the public in stages. In December, the scherzo alone was played publicly in Moscow, without apparent success. Two months later, both the Adagio and the scherzo were performed to enthusiastic applause, and at least one decent review: “It is melodious to the highest degree, and excellently scored.” The entire symphony was given, under Nikolai Rubinstein’s baton, a year later, though it was not heard again for fifteen years. By then, Tchaikovsky had
COMPOSED
1866 (revised 1874)
FIRST PERFORMANCES
December 22, 1866; Moscow, Russia (scherzo)
February 23, 1867; Saint Petersburg, Russia (adagio)
February 15, 1868; Moscow, Russia (complete symphony)
INSTRUMENTATION
two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, cymbals, bass drum, timpani, strings
APPROXIMATE
PERFORMANCE TIME
43 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
January 5, 1957, Orchestra Hall. John Weicher conducting
July 5, 1969, Ravinia Festival. Seiji Ozawa conducting
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
July 12, 1991, Ravinia Festival. Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting
February 14, 16, and 17, 2019, Orchestra Hall. Pablo Heras-Casado conducting
CSO RECORDING
1991. Claudio Abbado conducting. Sony
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Winter, landscape in oil by Arseny Meshchersky (1834–1902), 1878. Tretyakov Gallery Collection, Moscow, Russia
written many of the works for which he would long be remembered— Romeo and Juliet, the B-flat piano concerto, his only violin concerto, Swan Lake, the great opera Eugene Onegin, the 1812 Overture—and he had made great strides as a symphonist, with four already under his belt. Before the First Symphony was published in 1874, Tchaikovsky made a few minor adjustments. (Bruckner, on the other hand, revised his First Symphony in 1868, 1877, and 1884, and made even more extensive changes in 1890 and 1891.) At the time his First Symphony was performed in this final version, in Moscow in 1883, Tchaikovsky told a friend, “I have a soft spot for it, for it is a sin of my sweet youth.”
Athe stage for the main melody, were borrowed from his student overture, The Storm.
ll his life, Tchaikovsky was painfully aware of his deficiencies as a composer—weaknesses that have never stood in the way of enormous public favor. By 1883 he had enough experience with the problems of symphonic form to recognize how naive he was to tackle a symphony in his sweet youth, but the work is hardly a sin. Even in 1866, Tchaikovsky had a sense of drama and orchestral color, and a way with melody that was far in advance of most other composers of the day. And he had already found his own voice. Listen to the opening of the symphony: an oddly distinctive melody in the flutes and bassoons over a mysterious rustle from the violins. The whole first movement, despite some spotty seam work, is remarkably fresh in its melodic outline and scoring—there is a moment at the start of the development section, when distant chords from the horns dance quietly over low strings, that previews the Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker, written two decades later.
Not only is the oboe melody in the Adagio one of the earliest characteristic Tchaikovsky tunes, but the way it is echoed by the bassoon and encouraged by glistening scales from the flute would quickly become one of his signature effects. The first eight measures, serenely setting
Tchaikovsky wrote the scherzo first, reusing material originally intended for a piano sonata in C-sharp minor and demonstrating how much he had learned from the scores by Mendelssohn that he admired (the Italian Symphony was a particular favorite). The music for the trio midsection is new—Tchaikovsky’s first great orchestral waltz. There is wonderfully evocative and fiery dramatic music in the finale—enough to disguise Tchaikovsky’s uncertainty in bringing a symphony to a satisfying conclusion, the challenge that had troubled nearly every composer since Beethoven. A rather labored fugue sits where heavy-duty development ought to take place, and there is a bit more bombast at the end than even Tchaikovsky could sustain, but there are many splendid moments, and the lasting impression is of a composer who was born to write symphonies.
A final word about the nickname, Winter Dreams, which Tchaikovsky himself invented, with no apparent programmatic idea in mind. He intended to give titles to all four movements, but got no farther than the Adagio before he decided to let the music stand on its own.
Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.
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PROFILES
Tugan Sokhiev Conductor
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
March 21, 22, 23, and 24, 2013, Orchestra Hall. Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia, Khachaturian’s Flute Concerto with Mathieu Dufour, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 4
Internationally renowned conductor Tugan Sokhiev divides his time between the symphonic and lyric repertoires, guest conducting the most prestigious orchestras around the world.
Tugan Sokhiev regularly leads orchestras of the caliber of the Vienna, Berlin, and Munich philharmonics; the orchestras of the Dresden and Berlin Staatskapellen; the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; the Philharmonia Orchestra in London; and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
He is invited to the finest U.S. orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and spends several weeks each season with the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.
As music director of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse from 2008 to 2022, Tugan Sokhiev headed numerous successful concert seasons, including several world premieres and numerous tours abroad, propelling the orchestra to international prominence. Passionate about his work with singers, from 2014 to 2022 he was music director and chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, with many new productions and premieres. He has guest conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and he received enormous critical acclaim for his performance of Prokofiev’s The Love for Three
Oranges with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In 2021 he conducted a highly praised new production of Strauss’s Salome at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Highlights of the 2023–24 season include tours to Japan, Taiwan, and Korea with the Vienna Philharmonic; European tours with the Munich Philharmonic and the Dresden Staatskapelle; concerts at the Enescu and Evian festivals with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; and performances with the Berlin Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Tugan Sokhiev also returns to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
Tugan Sokhiev has a rich and varied discography, including recordings with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse on Naïve and Warner Classics, winning the Diapason d’Or in 2020. His recordings with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, where he was principal conductor from 2012 to 2016, have been released on Sony Classical. He has collaborated with EuroArts on a series of DVDs with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and the Berlin Philharmonic.
One of the last students of the legendary Ilya Musin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Tugan Sokhiev is eager to share his expertise with future generations of musicians, leading him to found a conducting academy in Toulouse and to work with the young musicians of the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic. He is honored to be a patron of the Philharmonic Brass Education System and proud to collaborate with musicians of the Philharmonic Brass on their first recording, Overture!
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Yulianna Avdeeva Piano
These concerts mark Yulianna Avdeeva’s debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
A pianist of fiery temperament and virtuosity, Yulianna Avdeeva is the first-prize winner of the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition, which launched her to international fame. Avdeeva plays with power, conviction, and sensibility, having won over audiences all over the world.
She is a favorite artist in Europe, with recurring concert engagements at the Warsaw Philharmonic and Rudolfinum in Prague, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. In addition, she has given concerts for Ukrainian relief, including one with Anne-Sophie Mutter at the Lucerne Chamber Music Festival.
Highlights of Avdeeva’s 2023–24 season include a solo recital at Pierre Boulez Saal featuring the late piano works of Liszt and Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 4 with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne (Manfred Honeck) and with the Pacific Symphony (Tianyi Lu); an all-Liszt recital at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie; Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 23 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (James Conlon); Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto no. 3 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Petr Popelka); Chopin’s Piano Concerto no. 2 with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (Stephanie Childress); Bernstein’s Symphony no. 2 (The Age of Anxiety) with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Robert Treviño); and Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (Jaime Martín).
A recording artist, Avdeeva released Resilience in 2023 (Pentatone), performing music by Władysław Szpilman, Mieczysław Weinberg,
Shostakovich, and Prokofiev, who endured in times of great political instability. The focal point of the album is Szpilman, a Polish Jew who survived World War II, and the title hero of Roman Polanski’s Palme d’Or–winning film, The Pianist.
In the fall of 2023, Avdeeva launched #YuliannasMusicalDialogues—an online initiative that provides an open space for her followers and all aficionados of the art of the piano to share their passion for music.
Avdeeva’s 2022–23 season began with a Tippet Rise festival recital in Montana, followed by her Carnegie Hall debut recital. She performed with the Vienna Symphony and toured again with the SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart and Teodor Currentzis. She also returned to Japan; made concerto appearances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (Andris Poga), RAI National Symphony (Juraj Valčuha), Bergen Philharmonic (Petr Popelka), Basque National Orchestra in Spain (Robert Treviño), and Camerata Salzburg (Finnegan Downie Dear); and gave recitals in Leipzig, Florence, Madrid, Barcelona, Aarhus, and Naples.
A dedicated chamber musician, Yulianna Avdeeva has toured regularly throughout Europe with violinists Julia Fischer and Gidon Kremer, and she is a regular guest at Festival Chopin Warsaw and the International Piano Festival of La Roque d’Anthéron.
Avdeeva’s recordings of Chopin’s concertos with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen (2013); her three solo albums featuring works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, and Prokofiev (2014, 2016, 2017, respectively); and her collaboration with Gidon Kremer in Weinberg’s chamber music (2017 and 2019) comprise a formidable record of her art, topped off by a Deutsche Grammophon (2019) solo recording as part of a collection dedicated to Chopin Competition gold medalists.
Piano aficionados also enjoy Avdeeva’s educational online streaming project, #AvdeevaBachProject, which she started during the COVID-19 lockdown, gaining more than half a million views.
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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra—consistently hailed as one of the world’s best—marks its 133rd season in 2023–24. The ensemble’s history 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. Stock founded the Civic Orchestra of Chicago— the first training orchestra in the U.S. affiliated with a major orchestra—in 1919, 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 CSO 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 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.
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.
In April 2024, Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä was announced as the Orchestra’s eleventh music director and will begin an initial five-year tenure as Zell Music Director in September 2027.
Carlo Maria Giulini was named the Orchestra’s first principal guest conductor in 1969, serving until 1972; Claudio Abbado held the position from 1982 to 1985. Pierre Boulez was appointed as principal guest conductor in 1995 and was named Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus in 2006, a position he held until his death in January 2016. From 2006 to 2010, Bernard Haitink was the Orchestra’s first principal conductor.
Jessie Montgomery was appointed Mead Composer-in-Residence in 2021. She follows ten 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 recording label launched in 2007— have earned sixty-five Grammy awards from the Recording Academy.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä Zell Music Director Designate
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.
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 Paul Hindemith Principal Viola, Gilchrist Foundation, and Louise H. Benton Wagner chairs currently are unoccupied. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically.
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ADMINISTRATION
Jeff Alexander President
PRESIDENT’S OFFICE
Kristine Stassen Executive Assistant to the President & Secretary of the Board
Mónica Lugo Executive Assistant to the Music Director
Human Resources
Lynne Sorkin Director
Dijana Cirkic Coordinator
ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION
Cristina Rocca Vice President
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Chair
Guillermo Muñoz Küster Artistic Planning Coordinator
James M. Fahey Senior Director, Programming, Symphony Center Presents
Randy Elliot Director, Artistic Administration
Monica Wentz Director, Artistic Planning & Special Projects
Lena Breitkreuz Artist Manager, Symphony Center Presents
Caroline Eichler Artist Coordinator, CSO
Phillip Huscher Scholar-in-Residence & Program Annotator
Pietro Fiumara Artists Assistant
Chorus
Shelley Baldridge Manager
Olive Haugh Assistant Manager & Librarian
ORCHESTRA AND BUILDING OPERATIONS
Vanessa Moss Vice President
Heidi Lukas Director
Michael Lavin Assistant Director, Operations, SCP & Rental Events
Jeffrey Stang Production Manager, CSO
Joseph Sherman Production Manager, SCP & Rental Events
Jiwon Sun Manager, Audio Media & Audio-Visual Operations
Jenise Sheppard House Manager
Charlie Post Audio Engineer
Logan Goulart Operations Assistant
Rosenthal Archives
Frank Villella Director
Orchestra Personnel
John Deverman Director
Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions & Orchestra Personnel
Facilities
John Maas Director Engineers
Tim McElligott Chief Engineer
Michael McGeehan
Kevin Walsh
Erik O’Carroll
Electricians
Robert Stokas Chief Electrician
Doug Scheuller
Stage Technicians
Christopher Lewis Stage Manager
Blair Carlson
Paul Christopher
Ryan Hartge
Peter Landry
Joshua Mondie
Todd Snick
Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO
Jonathan McCormick Director, Education & the Negaunee Music Institute
Katy Clusen Associate Director, CSO for Kids
Rachael Cohen Program Manager
Antonio Padilla Denis Manager, Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Katie Eaton Coordinator, School Partnerships
Mona Wu Operations Coordinator, Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Jackson Brown Program Assistant
Carol Kelleher Assistant, CSO for Kids
FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
Stacie Frank Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Renay Johansen Slifka Executive Assistant Accounting
Sam Pincich Controller
Kerri Gravlin Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
Hyon Yu, Janet Kosiba Assistant Controllers
Janet Hansen Payroll Manager
Marianne Hahn Accounting Manager
Javier Ayala Senior Accountant
Christopher Biemer Accountant
Cynthia Maday Accounts Payable Manager
Elizabeth Tyska Payroll Assistant
Information Technology
Daniel Spees Director
Douglas Bolino Client Systems Administrator
Jackie Spark Lead Technologist
Kirk McMahon Technologist, Tessitura Systems Analyst
SALES AND MARKETING
Ryan Lewis Vice President
Erika Nelson Director, Institutional Marketing & Revenue Management
Alyssa Greenberg Manager, Audience Engagement
Digital Content and Engagement
Dana Navarro Director
Laura Emerick Digital Content Editor
Peter Breithaupt Manager, Digital Content
Steve Burkholder Web Manager
Megan Ireland Manager, Digital Engagement
Zoe Carter Associate, Digital Engagement: Social Media
Program Marketing and Operations
Amy Brondyke Director
Alex Demas Marketing Manager, Classical Programs
Tommy Crawford Marketing Manager, Jazz, World & Popular Programs
Kate McDuffie Manager, Community & Family Programs
Jessica Reinhart Advertising & Promotions Manager
Amanda Swanson Marketing Analyst
Jesse Bruer Marketing & Promotions Associate
Andrew Hilgendorf Email Marketing Associate
Creative
Jaime Hotz Director
Sophie Weber Associate Director, Project & Digital Asset Management
Emily Herrington Lead Designer
Fattah Mulya Design Associate
Content
Frances Atkins Director
Gerald Virgil Senior Content Editor
Kristin Tobin Designer & Print Production Manager
Communications and Public Relations
Eileen Chambers Director
Hannah Sundwall Publicist
Clay Baker Coordinator
Sales and Patron Experience
Joseph Fernicola III Director
Pavan Singh Manager, Patron Services
Brian Koenig Manager, Preferred Services
Robert Coad Manager, VIP Services
Joseph Garnett Manager, Box Office
Aislinn Gagliardi Assistant Manager, Patron Services
Carmen Ringhiser Assistant Manager, Preferred Services
Fernando Vega Assistant Manager, Box Office
The Symphony Store
Tyler Holstrom Manager
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Dale Hedding Vice President
Jeremiah Strickler Executive Assistant
Bobbie Rafferty Director, Individual Giving & Affiliated Donor Groups
Allison Szafranski Director, Leadership Gifts
Alfred Andreychuk Director, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving
Tori Ramsay, Richard Riedl Major Gifts Officers
Kevin Gupana Associate Director, Giving, Educational and Engagement Programs
Jeremiah Pickett Manager, Governing
Member Gifts
Brian Nelson Manager, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving
Emily McClanathan Manager, Strategic Development Communications
Victoria Barbarji Manager, Strategic Giving
Institutional Advancement
Susan Green Director, Foundation & Government Relations
Nick Magnone Director, Corporate Development
Mary Grace Corrigan Manager, Grants & Institutional Giving
Donor Engagement and Development Operations
Liz Heinitz Senior Director, Development Operations & Annual Giving
Lisa McDaniel Director, Donor Engagement
Alyssa Hagen Associate Director, Donor & Development Services
Kimberly Duffy Associate Director, Donor Engagement
Jocelyn Weberg Senior Manager, Annual Giving
Jamie Forssander, Brent Taghap Managers, Donor Engagement
John Heffernan Coordinator, Donor Engagement
Hope Oester Prospect & Donor
Research Specialist
Bri Baiza, Victoria Menendez Coordinators, Donor Services
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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
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Suzanne Hoffman
Anne Hokin
Wayne J. Holman III
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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
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Dr. Vinay Kumar
Mr. Rubin Kuznitsky
Mr. John LaBarbera
Dr. Lynda Lane
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Jerrold Levine
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Mrs. Bernard Leviton
Gregory M. Lewis
Carolyn Lickerman
Mrs. Paul Lieberman
Jane Loeb
Gabrielle Long
Amy Lubin
Anna Lysakowski
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Mrs. Duncan MacLean
Jacen Maleck
Dr. Michael S. Maling
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David A. Marshall
Judy Marth
Patrick A. Martin
BeLinda I. Mathie
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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
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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
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William Roberts
David Robin
Dr. Diana Robin
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Harry J. Roper
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Michael Rosenthal
Doris Roskin
Lisa Ross
Maija Rothenberg
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Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz
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Richard O. Ryan
Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan
Dr. Christine Rydel
Norman K. Sackar
Anthony Saineghi
Mr. Agustin G. Sanz
Inez Saunders
Libby Savner
Karla Scherer
David M. Schiffman
Judith Feigon Schiffman
Rosa Schloss
Al Schriesheim
Elizabeth Schroeder
Donald L. Schwartz
Susan H. Schwartz
Dr. Penny Bender Sebring
Chandra Sekhar
Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior
Ilene W. Shaw
Pam Sheffield
James C. Sheinin, M.D.
Richard W. Shepro
Jessie Shih
Junia Shlaustas
Caroline Orzac Shoenberger
Stuart Shulruff
Adele Simmons
Linda Simon
Mr. Larry Simpson
Craig Sirles
Miyam Slater
Christine A. Slivon
Valerie Slotnick
Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.
Charles F. Smith
Louise K. Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Stephen R. Smith
Mrs. Ralph Smykal
Naomi Pollock and David Sneider
Diane Snyder
Kimberly Snyder
Kathleen Solaro
Ms. Elysia M. Solomon
Dr. Stuart Sondheimer
Orli Staley
William D. Staley
Helena Stancikas
Grace Stanek
Ms. Denise M. Stauder
Leonidas Stefanos
Penelope Steiner
Mrs. Richard J. Stern
Liz Stiffel
Mr. John Stover
Mary Stowell
Lawrence E. Strickling
Patricia Study
Cheryl Sturm
BISCO Foundation
Mrs. Robert Szalay
Mr. Gregory Taubeneck
Chris Thomas
James E. Thompson
Dr. Robert Thomson
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
Joan Thron
David Timm
Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr.
William R. Tobey, Jr. †
Bruce Tranen †
James M. (Mack) Trapp
John T. Travers
David Trushin
Dr. David A. Turner
Robert W. Turner
Janet Underwood
Zalman Usiskin
Mrs. James D. Vail III
John Van Horn
Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice
Thomas D. Vander Veen
Jennifer Vianello
Catherine M. Villinski
Charles Vincent
Mr. Christian Vinyard
Theodore Wachs
Mark A. Wagner
Beth Ann Waite
Bernard T. Wall
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Jeffrey J. Webb
Mrs. Jacob Weglarz
Chickie Weisbard
Richard Weiss
Robert G. Weiss
Dr. Marc Weissbluth
Rebecca West
Carmen Wheatcroft
Leah Williams
M.L. Winburn
Peter Wolf
Laura Woll
Dr. Hak Yui Wong
Courtenay R. Wood
Michael H. Woolever
Ms. Debbie Wright
Nancy G. Wulfers
Ronald Yonover
Owen Youngman
Priscilla Yu
David J. Zampa
Dr. John P. Zaremba
Karen Zupko
For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.
† Deceased
Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
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GOVERNING MEMBERS
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
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$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.
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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
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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.
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Judy and Mickey Gaynor
Robert D. Gecht
Sandy and Frank Gelber
Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson
Bernardino and Caterina Ghetti
Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco
Mr. Lionel Go
Judy and Bill Goldberg
Lyn Goldstein
Robert and Marcia Goltermann
Mary and Michael Goodkind
Dr. Alexia Gordon
Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon
Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French
Donald J. Gralen
Hanna H. Gray
Richard † and Mary L. Gray
Ms. Freddi Greenberg
Thomas † and Delta Greene
Timothy and Joyce Greening
Dr. Jerri E. Greer
Dr. Katherine L. Griem
Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen
Jacalyn Gronek
Ann and John Grube
Mr. Dongqi Guo
Anastasia and Gary † Gutting
Stephanie and Howard Halpern
Ms. Josephine Hammer
Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan
James W. Haugh
Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes
James and Lynne † Heckman
Mr. Hirad Hedayat
Mr. Dale C. Hedding
Scott Helm
Dr. † & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst
Jeffrey W. Hesse
Marjorie Friedman Heyman
The Hickey Family Foundation
William B. Hinchliff
Dr. Richard Hirschmann
Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith †
Mr. William J. Hokin †
James and Eileen Holzhauer
Mr. † & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg
James and Mary Houston
Carter Howard and Sarah Krepp
Tex and Susan Hull
Hunter Family Foundation
Ms. Patricia Hurley
Frances and Phillip Huscher
Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins
Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs
Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin
Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus
Mr. John Jawor
Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna
Joni and Brian Johnson
Dr. Patricia Collins Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation
Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck
Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin
Barry D. Kaufman
Larry † and Marie Kaufman
Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul
Peter and Stephanie Keehn
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser
John and Judy Keller
Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel
Carol Kipperman
Dr. Elaine Klemen
Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk
Mr. Thomas Kmetko
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin
Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn
Eldon and Patricia Kreider
David and Susan Kreisman
Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar
Mr. & Mrs. Rubin P. Kuznitsky
Mr. William Lawlor, III
Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann
Mr. & Mrs. Dean Leff
Sheila Fields Leiter
Ms. Zafra Lerman
Mr. Jerrold Levine
Mary and Laurence Levine
Averill and Bernard † Leviton
Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek
Mr. † and Mrs. Howard Lickerman
The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust
Mrs. Gabrielle Long
Dr. Anna Lysakowski
Carol MacArthur
Mr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLean
Eileen Madden
Jacen Maleck
Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling
Sharon L. Manuel
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin
Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez
Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag
Igor and Olga Matlin
Charles and Clara McCall
Ann Pickard McDermott
Dr. & Mrs. James McGee
Dr. † & Mrs. John McGee II
John and Etta McKenna
Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney
James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray †
Mrs. Leoni McVey
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meister
Dr. Ellen Mendelson
Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.
Jim and Ginger Meyer
Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad
David H. Moscow
Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek
John H. Mugge
Jo Ann and Stuart Nathan
Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman
David † and Dolores Nelson
Dr. Zehava L. Noah
Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard
Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar
Kenneth R. Norgan
Mark and Gloria Nusbaum
Bill and Penny Obenshain
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs
Sarah and Wallace Oliver
John and Joy O’Malley
Mr. Michael Oman and Mrs. Patricia Wakeley
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann
Mr. Timothy J. Patenode
Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Michael Payette
Dr. & Mrs. † Ray Pensinger
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein
Bonnie Perry
Dr. William Peruzzi
Mr. Robert Peterson
Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.
Richard Phillips
Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert
Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker
John F. Podjasek III Charitable Fund
Charlene H. Posner
Stephen and Ann Suker Potter
Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard
Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett
Harper Reed
Dr. Hilda Richards
Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards
Mary K. Ring
Charles and Marilynn Rivkin
Ms. Carol Roberts
William and Cheryl Roberts
Dr. Diana Robin
Bob Rogers Travel
Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio
Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper
Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg
Michael Rosenthal
D.D. Roskin
Ms. Lisa Ross
Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi
Maija Rothenberg
Ms. Roberta H. Rubin
Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz
Mrs. Martha Sabransky † and Dr. Paul Glickman
Anthony Saineghi
Mr. David Sandfort
Raymond and Inez Saunders
Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht
Mr. † and Mrs. Nathan Schloss
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig
Gerald and Barbara Schultz
Susan H. Schwartz
Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz
Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar
Diana and Richard Senior
David and Judith L. Sensibar
Ms. Mary Beth Shea
Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin
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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
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Mr. Philip Lesser
Mr. Michael J. Liccar
Robert † and Joan Lipsig
Mr. Melvin Loeb
Sherry and Mel Lopata
Ronald and Carlotta Lucchesi
Ms. Janice Magnuson
Mr. Timothy Marshall
Robert and Doretta Marwin
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass
Margaret and Michael McCoy
Ms. Marilyn Mccoy
Rosa and Peter McCullagh
Ric D. McDonough
Bill McIntosh
Mr. & Mrs. Lester McKeever
Mr. Zarin Mehta
Ms. Claretta Meier
Ian and Robyn Moncrief
Mrs. Frank Morrissey
Ms. Maryrose Murphy
Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl
Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.
Noteable Notes Music Academy/ Wheaton, IL
Mrs. Janis Notz
Beatrice F. Orzac †
Mr. Sebastian Patino
Kingsley Perkins †
Rita Petretti
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper
Lee Ann and Savit Pirl
Dr. Joe Piszczor
Kenneth J. Poje
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker
Ms. Constance Rajala
Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel
Mr. Jeffrey Rappin
Neal Reenan
Patricia Richter
Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen
Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross
John Francis Sarwark
Ms. Saslow
Shirley and John † Schlossman
Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott
Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil
Mr. James Selsor
Mrs. Phyllis Shafron
Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro
Carolyn M. Short
Ellen and Richard Shubart
Margaret and Alan Silberman
Jack and Barbara Simon
The Honorable John B. Simon and Millie Rosenbloom
Nancy J. Smith
Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein
Mr. Michael Sprinker
Ms. Sue Stealey
Carole Stone and Arthur Susman
Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.
Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Mrs. Jeanne Sullivan
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft
Ms. Alison Thomas
Ms. Joanne Tremulis
Henrietta Vepstas
Robert J. Walker
Alexander J. Wayne
Mr. Lawrence Wechter
Mr. Michael Welsh and Ms. Linda Brummer-Welsh
Robert J. Wilczek † and Shirley Pfenning
Mr. Kenneth Witkowski
Barbara and Steven Wolf
Mr. Joseph Wolnski and Ms. Jane Christino
Dr. Nanajan Yakoub
Ms. Mary Zeltmann
Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Negaunee Music Institute connects individuals and communities to the extraordinary musical resources of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The following donors are gratefully acknowledged for making a gift in support of these educational and engagement programs. To make a gift or learn more, please contact Kevin Gupana, Associate Director of Giving, Educational and Engagement Programs, 312-294-3156.
$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
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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
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ENDOWED FUNDS
Anonymous (3)
Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth Concert Fund
Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund
Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund
CNA
The Davee Foundation
Frank Family Fund
Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund
Jennifer Amler Goldstein Fund, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein
Mary Winton Green
William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Community Engagement
Richard A. Heise
Peter Paul Herbert Endowment Fund
Julian Family Foundation Fund
The Kapnick Family
Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust
The Malott Family School Concerts Fund
The Eloise W. Martin Endowed Fund in support of the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Negaunee Foundation
Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends
Shebik Community Engagement Programs Fund
Toyota Endowed Fund
The Wallace Foundation
Zell Family Foundation
Theodore Thomas Society
Mary Louise Gorno Chair
Listed below are generous donors who have made commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their wills, trusts, and other estate plans, including life-income arrangements. The Society honors their generosity, which helps to ensure the long-term financial stability and artistic excellence of the CSOA. To learn more, please contact Al Andreychuk, Director of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3150.
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
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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
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Linda and Payson S. Wild
Joyce S. Wildman
Kayla Anne Wilson
Robert A. Wilson
Nora M. Winsberg
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf
Beth Wollar
Lev Yaroslavskiy
IN MEMORIAM
Listed below are individuals who were Theodore Thomas Society members and patrons who made exceptional commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their estates. They are remembered with gratitude for their generosity and visionary support.
Anonymous (9)
Hope A. Abelson
Richard Abrahams
Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson
Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos
Elizabeth M. Ashton
Jacqueline and Frank Ball
Wayne Balmer
Paul Barker
Arlene and Marshall Bennett
Judith and Dennis Bober
Naomi T. Borwell
Kathryn Bowers
Howard Broecker
Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown
George and Jacqueline Brumlik
Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger
Norma Cadieu
Wiley Caldwell
Nelson D. Cornelius
Anita J. Court, Ph.D.
Christopher L. Culp
Barbara DeCoster
Azile Dick
James F. Drennan
Robert L. Drinan, Jr.
Evelyn Dyba
Richard Eastline
Marian Edelstein
Dr. Edward Elisberg
Kelli Gardner Emery
Joseph R. Ender
Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson
Mrs. Greta Wiley Flory
Leslie Fogel
Herbert and Betty Forman
Richard Foster
Elaine S. Frank
Martin and Francey Gecht
Isak Gerson
Mrs. Willard Gidwitz
Lyle Gillman
Marvin Goldsmith
William B. Graham
Richard Gray
David Green
Nancy Griffin
Ernest A. Grunsfeld III
Betty and Lester Guttman
A. William Haarlow III
Carolyn Hallman
CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret.
Marguerite DeLany Hark
Polly and Donald Heinrich
Mary Mako Helbert
Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth
Mrs. Diane Hoban
Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr.
Barbara Isserman
Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak
Mrs. Marian Johnson
Ms. Janet Jones
Phyllis A. Jones
James Joseph
Joseph M. Kacena
Jared Kaplan
Morris A. Kaplan
Roberta Kapoun
George Kennedy
Esther G. Klatz
Russell V. Kohr
Karen Kuehner
Evelyn and Arnold Kupec
Robert B. Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts
Rebecca Jarabak
Caressa Y. Lauer
Patricia Lee
Christine D. Letchinger
William C. Lordan
Tula Lunsford
Iris Maiter
Arthur G. Maling
Bella Malis
Kathleen W. Markiewicz
Walter L. Marr III and Marilyn G. Marr
Eloise Martin
Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal
Eunice H. McGuire
Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick
Jack L. Melamed, M.D.
Lois G. and Hugo J. Melvoin
Richard Menaul
Susan Messinger
Phillip Migdal
Gloria Miner
Bill Moor
Charles A. Moore
David A. Moore
Marietta Munnis
David H. Nelson
Helen M. Nelson
Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld
David Niwa
Raymond and Eloise Niwa
Carol Rauner O’Donovan
T. Paul B. O’Donovan
Mary and Eric Oldberg
Bruce P. Olson
David G. Ostrow
Donald Peck
Charles J. Pollyea
Miriam Pollyea
Donald D. Powell
Samuel Press
Alfred and Maryann Putnam
Christine Querfeld
Ruth Ann Quinn
Kenneth Recu
Walter Reed
Bob Reiland
Paul H. Resnik
J. Timothy Ritchie
Virginia H. Rogers
Jill N. Rohde
Elaine Rosen
Ben J. Rosenthal
Anthony Ryerson
Cynthia Mead Sargent
Mrs. Milton Scheffler
Richard P. Schieler
Beverly and Grover Schiltz
Robert W. Schneider
Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr.
Nancy Seyfried
Muriel Shaw
Mr. Morrell A. Shoemaker
Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure
Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel
Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel
Joanne Silver
Rita Simó and Tomás Bissonnette
Allen R. Smart
Walter Chalmers Smith
Peggy E. Smith-Skarry
Karen A. Sorensen
Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel
Vito Stagliano
Mrs. Zelda Star
Charles J. Starcevich
Curtis D. Stensrud
Franklin R. St. Lawrence
Ruth Miner Swislow
Robert Sychowski
Lester G. Telser
Andrew and Peggy Thomson
Sue Tice
Beatrice B. Tinsley
C. Phillip Turner
Ted Utchen
Lois and James Vrhel
Louise Benton Wagner
Nancy L. Wald
Josephine Wallace
Marco Weiss
Barbara Huth West
The Whateley Trust, in memory of
Baron Whateley
Max and Joyce Wildman
Joyce Hadley Williams
Arnold and Ann Wolff
Ronald R. Zierer
Rita A. Zralek
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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
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In memory of William C. Vance
Margaret H. Walker
In memory of my beautiful sister, Lynne Wachowski and her husband
Ron Wachowski
Peggy Ryan
In 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
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
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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
Being there
Randall Goosby
The Joffrey Ballet
Janai Brugger
Dame Jane Glover
Christian Tetzlaff
