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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Kodo Pink Martini Emanuel Ax
Sphinx Virtuosi
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NINETY-THIRD SEASON
SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 8:00
Jazz Series
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
A Night Commemorating the 125th Anniversary of Duke Ellington’s Birth
Wynton Marsalis Music Director, Trumpet
Ryan Kisor Trumpet
Kenny Rampton Trumpet
Marcus Printup Trumpet
Nathaniel Williford Trumpet
Chris Crenshaw Trombone THE GOLKIN FAMILY CHAIR
Elliot Mason Trombone
Jacob Melsha Trombone
Sherman Irby Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
Ted Nash Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
Chris Lewis Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Abdias Armenteros Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet
Paul Nedzela Baritone and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Dan Nimmer Piano THE ZOU FAMILY CHAIR
Carlos Henriquez Bass THE MANDEL FAMILY CHAIR IN HONOR OF KATHLEEN B. MANDEL
Obed Calvaire Drums
The program will be announced from the stage.
There will be no intermission.
Artists subject to change
Funding for educational programs during the 2023–24 Season of SCP Jazz has been generously provided by Dan J. Epstein, Judith Guitelman, and the Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation. The CSOA thanks the Epstein Family Foundation for ten consecutive years of generous, innovative support for the SCP Jazz Education program.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council. DownBeat magazine, WDCB, and WBEZ Chicago are media partners for this program.
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra thanks Citadel and Citadel Securities for generously sponsoring the CSO x Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis concerts.
Additional support provided by Diana and Bruce Rauner and an anonymous donor
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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 25, 2024, at 7:30
Friday, April 26, 2024, at 7:30
Saturday, April 27, 2024, at 7:30
Giancarlo Guerrero Conductor
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
ADAMS The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)
SHOSTAKOVICH Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1 (arr. Atovmyan)
March (Giocoso. Alla marcia)
Dance 1 (Presto)
Dance 2 (Allegretto scherzando)
Little Polka (Allegretto)
Lyrical Waltz (Allegretto)
Waltz 1 (Sostenuto)
Waltz 2 (Allegretto poco moderato)
Finale (Allegro moderato)
INTERMISSION
ELLINGTON Works to be announced from the stage
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
PROKOFIEV Selections from Romeo and Juliet
Montagues and the Capulets (Suite No. 2, No. 1 | CSO)
The Child–Juliet (JLCO | arr. Sherman Irby)
Minuet (Suite No. 1, No. 4 | CSO)
Folk Dance (JLCO | arr. Carlos Henriquez)
Romeo and Juliet (Suite No. 1, No. 6 | CSO)
Masks (JLCO | arr. Chris Crenshaw)
Dance (JLCO | arr. Vincent Gardner)
Death of Tybalt (Suite No. 1, No. 7 | CSO)
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
MARSALIS
All-American Pep from Swing Symphony
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
This program is generously sponsored by Citadel and Citadel Securities. United Airlines is the Official Airline of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council. DownBeat magazine, WDCB, and WBEZ Chicago are media partners for this program.
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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher and Richard E. Rodda
JOHN ADAMS
Born February 15, 1947; Worcester, Massachusetts
The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)
Today, it doesn’t seem unlikely that a composer with as presidential a name as John Adams would write an opera about Richard Nixon. But in 1987 Nixon in China was a shocker: a boldly colored, minimalist opera about a recent U.S. president and a controversial living figure. It earned Adams a sure place in operatic history and jump-started his career.
Early on, Adams was attracted to the stripped-down purity of the minimalist landmarks. (He became a convert in 1974, when he heard Steve Reich and Musicians perform Reich’s Drumming—ninety minutes of musings on a single twelvebeat rhythmic pattern.) A generation younger than Reich and Philip Glass, the composers most identified with the movement, Adams quickly began to move beyond pure minimalism. His own works borrowed the repetitive language and insistent primary-color harmonies, but almost from the start, Adams was trying to say more complicated things. (He once said, famously, “I’m a minimalist who is bored with minimalism.”)
Adams is one of the few composers to have made the transition from minimalism to an individual, not-easy-to-categorize style. In an early composition like the softly undulating Shaker Loops for strings (1978), Adams used what he found most appealing in the minimalist vocabulary: “a sure and fleet sense of pulsation, generously unfolding fields of harmony and timbre, and gradually evolving musical architectures.” But the characteristic shimmering woodwind figures and rippling piano arpeggios of Grand Pianola Music, a major score composed in 1982, are merely the backdrop for a big romantic tune, Beethovenian cadences, gospel harmonies, Valhalla brass, banging drums, and a bracing shot of over-the-top vulgarity. Even though Adams quickly tired of minimalism, he still said that it was “the only really interesting important stylistic development” of the late twentieth century—“As much as people would like to deny it, it is responsible for a revolution in music.
COMPOSED 1985
FIRST PERFORMANCE
January 31, 1986; Milwaukee, Wisconsin
INSTRUMENTATION
two flutes and two piccolos, two oboes, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, two trombones and tuba, percussion, timpani, piano, harp, strings
APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME
12 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
July 3, 2004, Ravinia Festival. Marin Alsop conducting
December 19, 20, 21, and 22, 2019, Orchestra Hall. Edo de Waart conducting
from top: John Adams, photo by Deborah O’Grady
One night in 1982, at a performance of Shaker Loops, Adams met the director Peter Sellars, who had just finished reading
Chiang Ch’ing (1914–1991) and Mao Zedong (1893–1976) in Yenan, China, 1943
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Nixon’s memoirs, and the idea for Nixon in China was born. The opera opened in 1987, and, although it divided the critics, it immediately struck a nerve with the public. Nixon in China drew a great deal of attention, partly because its main characters were famous living people (it covers Nixon’s three-day visit to Beijing in February 1972), and it left an indelible impression. Nixon in China has since played to sold-out houses around the world (although Nixon himself never did see it), making Adams a celebrity, a condition for which he, like most composers, was quite unprepared. (At the time, he was featured in People magazine, alongside Dolly Parton and Indira Gandhi.)
Adams’s subsequent work has enriched the minimalist vocabulary almost beyond recognition, although traces of its hallmarks continue to make appearances in his scores. But Nixon in China is still his watershed score, and one of the few landmarks in music from the last decades of the twentieth century.
—Phillip Huscher
John
Adams on The Chairman Dances
The Chairman Dances was an “outtake” of act 3 of Nixon in China. Neither an “excerpt” nor a “fantasy on themes from,” it was in fact a kind of warmup for embarking on the creation of the full opera. At the time, 1985, I was obliged to fulfill a long-delayed commission for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, but having already seen the scenario to act 3 of Nixon in China, I couldn’t wait to begin work on that piece. So The Chairman Dances began
as a “foxtrot” for Chairman Mao and his bride, Chiang Ch’ing, the fabled “Madame Mao,” firebrand, revolutionary executioner, architect of China’s calamitous Cultural Revolution, and (a fact not universally realized) a former Shanghai movie actress. In the surreal final scene of the opera, she interrupts the tired formalities of a state banquet, disrupts the slow-moving protocol, and invites the Chairman, who is present only as a gigantic forty-foot portrait on the wall, to “come down, old man, and dance.” The music takes full cognizance of her past as a movie actress. Themes, sometimes slinky and sentimental, at other times bravura and bounding, ride above in bustling fabric of energized motives. Some of these themes make a dreamy reappearance in act 3 of the actual opera, en revenant [returning], as both the Nixons and Maos reminisce over their distant pasts. A scenario by Peter Sellars and Alice Goodman, somewhat altered from the final one in Nixon in China, is as follows:
Chiang Ch’ing, a.k.a. Madame Mao, has gatecrashed the Presidential Banquet. She is first seen standing where she is most in the way of the waiters. After a few minutes, she brings out a box of paper lanterns and hangs them around the hall, then strips down to a cheongsam, skin-tight from neck to ankle and slit up the hip. She signals the orchestra to play and begins dancing by herself. Mao is becoming excited. He steps down from his portrait on the wall, and they begin to foxtrot together. They are back in Yenan, dancing to the gramophone. . . .
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Born September 25, 1906; Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died August 9, 1975; Moscow, Russia
Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1 (Arranged
by Levon Atovmyan)
Dmitri Shostakovich was a modern master of music’s most profound forms— symphony, concerto, quartet, opera, ballet—but he was equally adept at the popular genres of his day. In 1928 he made an orchestral arrangement of “Tea for Two” (called Tahiti Trot in Russia) from Vincent Youmans’s 1925 Broadway hit, No, No, Nanette (in just forty-five minutes, on a dare from conductor Nikolai Malko!), and three years later provided the music for a Leningrad vaudeville piece titled Declared Dead, concocted by the Russian jazzman, actor, and former acrobat Leonid Utyosov. (The caustically satirical show—a succession of surreal scenes involving a citizen “declared dead” for refusing to participate in a practice air raid drill—was closed down within days.) In 1934 Shostakovich agreed to serve on a commission sponsoring a jazz competition in Leningrad, for which he composed the Jazz Suite no. 1, which includes a waltz, polka, and foxtrot (blues); he wrote a Suite no. 2 four years later for the newly formed State Orchestra for Jazz. The Jazz Suite no. 1 survives intact, but the Suite no. 2 apparently disappeared during World War II.
In the spirit and style of those jazz suites, sometime in the late 1950s, Shostakovich’s friend Levon Atovmyan (1901–1973), a composer, one-time musical assistant to famed Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold (who was arrested in 1939 and executed the following year for his non-conformist productions), and administrator in various composers’ and music associations, arranged the eight-movement Suite for Variety Orchestra no. 1 (there is no “no. 2”) from movie and ballet scores composed between 1934 and 1956. In December 1988 Mstislav Rostropovich conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in the suite’s premiere, but the score was not generally available until it was published in Germany in 2003.
The March, Waltz 1, and Finale in the Suite for Variety Orchestra no. 1 (whose title refers to the inclusion of accordion and a full complement of saxophones in the scoring) were adapted from Shostakovich’s score to the 1940 comedy film Korzinkina’s Adventures (1940). Dance 1 was arranged from the score to the film The Gadfly (1955), and Dance 2 from the
COMPOSED
1934–56
arranged 1950s
FIRST PERFORMANCE
December 1, 1988; Barbican Hall, London, England
INSTRUMENTATION
piccolo, two flutes, oboe, four clarinets, four saxophones, bassoon, three horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, guitar, accordion, celesta, two pianos, accordion, strings
APPROXIMATE
PERFORMANCE TIME
25 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCE
August 13, 1994, Ravinia Festival. Riccardo Chailly conducting
These are the first subscription concert performances of Shostakovich’s Suite for Variety Orchestra no. 1.
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above: Dmitri Shostakovich, photographed by Holger Eklund during his visit to Helsinki, Finland, in 1958
ballet The Limpid Stream (1934–35). The Little Polka, Lyric Waltz, and Waltz 2 come from Shostakovich’s score and his subsequent orchestral suite from the war movie The First Echelon (1956), some of which director Stanley Kubrick
EDWARD KENNEDY “DUKE” ELLINGTON
Born April 29, 1899; Washington, D.C.
Died May 24, 1974, New York City
Duke Ellington was working on Three Black Kings when he died in a New York hospital in May 1974. Weeks before, he had an electric piano moved into his room so that he could keep composing. His son Mercer, who had been helping him with the score during those last weeks, finished the piece later that year and asked Luther Henderson to arrange it for big band and orchestra. Mercer’s job was daunting primarily because, as he explained, “Pop had many superstitions, and one of them was never to finish writing a piece until the day of its initial performance.” Mercer studied Three Black Kings, “trying to figure out how he intended to end it, but it wasn’t easy, because he left me no clues.” Still, Mercer knew his father’s musical nature as well as anyone, and he had regularly talked to him about the origins of this last piece: “He intended it as a eulogy for Martin Luther King, and he decided to go back into myth and history to include other black kings.”
Duke Ellington knew a thing or two about royalty himself. Of all the jazz greats known, curiously, by European titles of nobility— kings, counts, ladies—none wore his crown with greater assurance than Edward Kennedy Ellington, the Duke. His upbringing was plain
borrowed for his final feature, the 1999 Eyes Wide Shut.
—Richard E. Rodda
and middle-class—his father James was a butler, and his mother Daisy was the daughter of a policeman—but he was raised in a house of high ideals and grand aspirations. As a boy, Edward would exclaim, “I am the grand, noble Duke.” Ellington’s father wanted him to become a painter, but music was Edward’s true love. He was trained not by textbooks and theory classes as much as by records and piano rolls—he would slow down the roll of James P. Johnson’s “Carolina Shout” and put his fingers on the piano’s depressed keys again and again until he could play it by himself—and ultimately by making music night and day.
Ellington began playing piano in his hometown of Washington, D.C., and then moved to New York, where he organized a ten-piece band, that, despite gradual personnel changes, remained his “voice,” his true “instrument,” for the next fifty years. By the late 1920s, Ellington had started freely using dissonance and polytonality, suggesting that eventually he would, in the words of jazz critic Ted Gioia, make “progressive composition and popular music share the same stage.” Musicians noticed unusual parallels between Ellington’s works and the classical tradition. In 1932 the conservatory-trained critic R.D. Darrell wrote a study of Ellington’s music that singled out his “noble, spontaneous, unforced melodies . . . which spring into being as simply, as naturally as those of Mozart or Schubert.” That
this page: Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, ca. 1946; Aquarium, New York City. William P. Gottlieb Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress | opposite pa ge: Sergei Prokofiev, autographed pencil sketch on paper, 1935, by Hilda Wiener (1877–1940)
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November, when the composer Percy Grainger invited Ellington and the band to play for his music class at New York University, he compared Ellington’s work to that of Bach and Delius. (Grainger also called him the only original mind in American music.)
Ellington expressed his ambivalence about the word jazz as early as the 1920s—he once said, “Jazz is only a word and has no meaning . . . I don’t know how such great extremes as now
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Born April 23, 1891; Sontsovka, Ukraine
Died March 5, 1953; Moscow, Russia
Selections from Romeo and Juliet
During Sergei Prokofiev’s last trip to Chicago, in January 1937, he led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in selections from his new, still-unstaged ballet, Romeo and Juliet. This was the composer’s fifth visit to Chicago, and he clearly felt at home: shortly after he arrived in town, he sat down with a Tribune reporter and talked freely while eating apple pie at a downtown luncheonette. He was staying in the same hotel room where he had lived for several months during his Chicago visit in 1921, when he presided over preparations for the world premiere of his opera The Love for Three Oranges. He told the Tribune that his Romeo and Juliet featured the kind of “new melodic line” that he thought would prove to be the salvation of modern music—one, he said, that would have immediate appeal, yet sound like nothing written before. “Of all the moderns,” the Herald Examiner critic wrote after hearing Romeo and Juliet later in the week, “this tall and boyish Russian has the most definite gift of melody, the
exist can be contained under the one heading”— and liked to be known best as an artist “beyond category.” Most of the time, Ellington was simply dubbed a bandleader, and, as the jazz critic Gary Giddins points out, that “is like calling Bach an organist, which, of course, is precisely how they were known to their contemporaries.”
—Phillip Huscher
most authentic contrapuntal technic [sic], and displays the subtlest and most imaginative use of dissonance.”
Chicago was the first American city to hear music from Romeo and Juliet (following recent performances in Moscow and Paris), and, not for the only time in Prokofiev’s career, orchestral excerpts were premiered before the ballet itself had been staged. The idea for a ballet version of Shakespeare’s play came from the director Sergei Radlov, who was a friend of Prokofiev and had mounted the first Russian production of The Love for Three Oranges. He and Prokofiev worked together to flesh out a scenario early in 1935, and the composer began to write the music that summer. But the Kirov Ballet, which had commissioned the work, unexpectedly backed out, and the Bolshoi Theatre took over the project. There were further problems with the score itself, including Prokofiev’s initial insistence on a happy ending—“Living people can dance,” he later wrote in defense of the decision, “but the dead cannot dance lying down.” The end was ultimately changed to match Shakespeare’s, but then the Bolshoi staff pronounced Prokofiev’s music “unsuitable to dance” and dropped out
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as well. The premiere of Romeo and Juliet eventually was given in Brno, Czechoslovakia, without Prokofiev’s participation (he didn’t attend the opening in December 1938) and the ballet wasn’t staged in Russia until January 1940. In the meantime, Prokofiev made two orchestral suites of seven excerpts each, and it was the first of these that he conducted in Chicago.
Although no other play by Shakespeare has inspired as many musical treatments as Romeo and Juliet, including more than twenty operas (Gounod’s, which the teenage Prokofiev saw in Saint Petersburg, is the most enduring), Prokofiev’s is the first large-scale ballet. It’s one of his most important works, merging the primitive style of his radical earlier music, a newfound classicism, and the sumptuous lyricism of which he was so proud.
This week’s excerpts, played alternately by the Chicago Symphony and Jazz at Lincoln Center orchestras, begin with music depicting the warring families of the Montagues and Capulets. From the powerful opening chords to the familiar marching theme, the tone is one of sorrow and inevitable tragedy, offset by Juliet’s lovely dance with Paris as its centerpiece—the moment Romeo catches his first glimpse of the girl who will quickly steal his heart. From there we have a number of character pieces, including a portrait of Juliet as a young girl and music from the masked ball in the Capulet’s ballroom, as well as Romeo and Juliet’s celebrated, passionate balcony scene. We conclude with the great cinematic scene that cuts from the high-bravado duel between Tybalt and Mercutio to the subsequent encounter between Romeo and Tybalt, who fight wildly to the death, ending with a grand funeral procession.
—Phillip Huscher
COMPOSED
1935, complete ballet
FIRST PERFORMANCE
December 30, 1938; Brno, Czechoslovakia (complete ballet)
INSTRUMENTATION
two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets and piccolo trumpet, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, celesta, strings
APPROXIMATE
PERFORMANCE TIME
33 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
January 21 and 22, 1937, Orchestra Hall. The composer conducting (U.S. premiere of Suite no. 1)
June 27, 1944, Ravinia Festival. Pierre Monteux conducting
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
December 15, 16, 17, and 18, 2016, Orchestra Hall. Michael Tilson
Thomas conducting
February 13, 2020; Frances Pew Hayes Hall, Artis-Naples, Naples, Florida. Riccardo Muti conducting
July 29, 2022, Ravinia Festival. Marin Alsop conducting
CSO RECORDINGS
1982. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London
2010. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass, Dale Clevenger conducting.
CSO Resound (Three scenes)
2013. Riccardo Muti conducting.
CSO Resound
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WYNTON MARSALIS
Born October 18, 1961; New Orleans, Louisiana
All-American Pep from Swing Symphony
Wynton Marsalis knows, perhaps better than anyone, how the worlds of jazz and so-called classical music have lived side-by-side and influenced each other over the years. As signposts, he points to Paul Whiteman’s 1924 Aeolian Hall concert, when Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was given its premiere, and Benny Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. “Both,” Marsalis writes, “include a sequence of pieces representing the bandleaders’ understandings of the history of jazz from its beginnings to that date.” Duke Ellington’s 1943 Carnegie Hall concert, which featured the premiere of his landmark Black, Brown and Beige, marked a turning point. “It told a tonal history of Afro-American music (from work songs to blues to modern swing, including the Afro-Latin tradition) while also presenting Duke’s concept of the social advancement of American Negroes from slavery to the early 1940s.” Marsalis’s own output picks up the story from there, with his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music, and All Rise (his Symphony no. 1) of 1999, which was followed by Swing Symphony and The Jungle. Swing Symphony focuses on Afro- and Anglo-American music, as Marsalis says.
It also uses harmonic progressions from some of the most successful songs in jazz and popular music to create a unique conception of form as history. The piece embraces the tradition of integrating jazz with symphonic orchestras (from the concert hall to the Broadway stage). It traces the evolution of the swing rhythm from ragtime to this very moment in order to unite diverse instrumental techniques, musical personalities, song forms, dance grooves, and historic eras.
—Phillip Huscher
Wynton Marsalis on All-American Pep
The drum set is the embodiment of American practicality, ingenuity, and sass. You only have to pay one person to do five things. And the four limbs plus all of them together
COMPOSED 2010
FIRST PERFORMANCE
June 10, 2010; Berlin, Germany
INSTRUMENTATION
three flutes, three oboes, three clarinets, three bassoons with contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, percussion, strings, jazz band
APPROXIMATE
PERFORMANCE TIME
11 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCE
March 3, 2017, Orchestra Hall.
Edwin Outwater conducting
These are the first subscription concert performances of Marsalis’s All-American Pep from Swing Symphony.
this page: Wynton Marsalis, photo by Piper Ferguson
next page: Wynton Marsalis—along with his eponymous quartet—making his debut with the Chicago Symphony with guest conductor Andrew Litton on April 19, 1986, in a concert to benefit the Orchestra’s annual Marathon fundraiser. Terry’s Photography
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equals five. Here, I apply the progression and rhythm of the song “Charleston.” That rhythm is syncopated in many different ways, and both Jason (our jazz drummer) and the orchestra’s percussion section play “trick” or “junk” drums, using everything but the kitchen sink. A transition with rhythm breaks takes us into a slow, Argentinian tango based on the progression of popular song “El día que me quieras.” Tango has a fantastic string orchestra tradition and there are many natural and easy connections with jazz. The habanera bass ostinato and straight four-four time are a couple of fundamentals tango shares with New Orleans jazz. This section makes use of sweet, romantic violins with contrapuntal underpinnings and internal voice leadings that I always loved hearing my father play on the piano. It transitions through the singing trombone (á la Tommy Dorsey) and goes into a big, upbeat final section—an optimistic, post-Depression, “Happy Days Are Here Again” mood fit for Broadway. There’s the “Seventy-Six Trombones” raucousness of our two juxtaposed trombone sections, the powerful french horns, and the woodwinds dancing all around up high. It is inspired by
Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride,” another great piece that had probably been played by everyone on the stage (and has been heard at every high school band Christmas concert that has ever been played in America).
Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.
Richard E. Rodda, a former faculty member at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, provides program notes for many American orchestras, concert series, and festivals.
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PROFILES
Giancarlo Guerrero Conductor
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
May 23, 24, 25, and 26, 2019, Orchestra Hall. Ginastera’s Four Dances from Estancia, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, Chabrier’s España, and Piazzolla’s Sinfonía Buenos Aires with Daniel Binelli
MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES
November 18, 19, 20, and 21, 2021, Orchestra Hall. Chávez’s arrangement of Buxtehude’s Chaconne in E minor, Piazzola’s Aconcagua Concerto with Daniel Binelli, and Beethoven’s Symphony no. 1
Giancarlo Guerrero is a six-time Grammy Award–winning conductor and music director of the Nashville Symphony. Through commissions, recordings, and world premieres, Guerrero has championed the works of prominent American composers. He has led the Nashville Symphony in eleven world premieres and fifteen recordings of American music, including works by Michael Daugherty, Terry Riley, and Jonathan Leshnoff, and most recently the Grammy-nominated recording, John Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives, and Harmonielehre.
As part of his commitment to fostering the work of contemporary composers, Guerrero, together with composer Aaron Jay Kernis, guided the creation of Nashville Symphony’s biannual Composer Lab and Workshop for young and emerging composers.
Guerrero has also appeared in recent seasons with such prominent North American orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra in Washington (D.C.), and the San Francisco Symphony; and those of Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Montreal, Philadelphia, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Houston. Internationally, he has worked with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris,
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam, NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover, Deutsches Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, and the Sydney and Queensland symphony orchestras in Australia.
He recently completed a six-season tenure as music director of the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic. With that orchestra, Guerrero made three recordings, including the Billboard chart-topping Bomsori: Violin on Stage on Deutsche Grammophon and albums of repertoire by Brahms, Poulenc, and Jongen.
Guerrero previously held posts as principal guest conductor of both the Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency and the Gulbenkian Symphony in Lisbon, music director of the Eugene Symphony in Oregon, and associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis.
Born in Nicaragua, Giancarlo Guerrero immigrated during his childhood to Costa Rica, where he joined the local youth symphony. He studied percussion and conducting at Baylor University in Texas and earned a master’s degree in conducting at Northwestern University. Guerrero is engaged with conducting training orchestras, and he has worked with the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia; Colburn School in Los Angeles; National Youth Orchestra (NYO2) at Carnegie Hall; Yale Philharmonia; and the Nashville Symphony’s Accelerando program, which provides an intensive music education to promising young students from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) comprises fifteen of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today. Led by Music Director Wynton Marsalis, JLCO performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center–commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and others, including several current and former JLCO members.
Since 1998, the ensemble has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra and spends over a third of the year on tour across the world. Jazz at Lincoln Center produces thousands of performance, education, and broadcast events each season in its home in New York City— Frederick P. Rose Hall, “The House of Swing”— and around the world, for people of all ages. Jazz at Lincoln Center is led by Chairman Clarence Otis, Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, and Executive Director Greg Scholl.
Throughout the last decade, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York, Los Angeles, Czech, and Berlin philharmonics; the Cleveland and Philadelphia
orchestras; the Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, London, Sydney, and Melbourne symphony orchestras; and many others. Marsalis’s three major works for symphony orchestra and jazz orchestra, All Rise (1999), Swing Symphony (2010), and The Jungle (2016), continue to be the focal point of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s symphonic collaborations.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has also been featured in several education and performance residencies, including those in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia; Chautauqua, New York; Prague, Czech Republic; Vienna, Austria; London, England; and São Paulo, Brazil. Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s mission; its educational activities are coordinated with concert and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra tour programming. Jazz at Lincoln Center educational programs reach over 110,000 students, teachers, and general audience members.
In 2015 Jazz at Lincoln Center launched Blue Engine Records, a platform to make its vast archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere. The label is dedicated to releasing new studio and live recordings as well as archival recordings from past Jazz at Lincoln Center performances, and its first record—Live in Cuba, recorded on a historic trip to Havana in 2010 by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis—was released in 2015. Subsequent releases include The Abyssinian Mass (2016), The Music of John Lewis (2017), and the JLCO’s Handful of Keys (2017). Blue Engine’s United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas features the Wynton Marsalis Septet and special guests. Blue Engine’s most recent album releases include 2020’s A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration and 2021’s The Democracy Suite featuring the JLCO Septet with Wynton Marsalis.
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Wynton Marsalis Music Director, Trumpet
Wynton Marsalis is the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a musical family, Marsalis was gifted his first trumpet at the age of six by Al Hirt. By the age of eight, he was playing in the famed Fairview Baptist Church Band led by Danny Barker. Yet it was not until he turned twelve years old that he began his formal training on trumpet. Subsequently, he began performing in bands all over the city, from the New Orleans Philharmonic and New Orleans Youth Orchestra to a funk band called the Creators. His passion for music rapidly escalated. In 1979, fresh out of high school, he moved to New York City to study classical music at the Juilliard School. Once there, however, he found that jazz was calling him. His career quickly launched when he traded Juilliard for Art Blakey’s band, the Jazz Messengers. By nineteen, he’d hit the road with his own band, and he has been touring the world ever since. Marsalis made his recording debut as a leader in 1982 and has since recorded 110 jazz and classical albums and four alternative records and released five DVDs. Marsalis is the winner of nine Grammy awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He’s the only musician to win a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories during the same year (1983–84).
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed performer, composer, bandleader, educator, and advocate for American culture. His works include over 600 original songs, eleven ballets, four symphonies, eight suites, two chamber pieces, a string quartet, two masses, and concertos for violin and tuba. Included in this rich body of compositions is Sweet Release; Jazz: Six Syncopated Movements; Jump Start and Jazz; Citi Movement/Griot New York; At the Octoroon
Balls; In This House, On This Morning; and Big Train. As part of his work at Jazz at Lincoln Center, he has produced and performed countless new collaborative compositions, including the ballet Them Twos for New York City Ballet in 1999. That same year, he premiered the monumental All Rise, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic along with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Morgan State University Choir. All Rise was performed with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra as part of the centennial anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre in June 2021. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra have released seven albums and four singles on Blue Engine Records.
Marsalis is also a globally respected teacher and spokesperson for music education. He led the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home—Frederick P. Rose Hall—the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in 2004. He conducts educational programs for students of all ages and hosts the popular Jazz for Young People concerts produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. He also is the founding director of jazz studies at the Juilliard School. He has written and is the host of the video series Marsalis on Music, the radio series Making the Music, and a weekly conversation series titled Skain’s Domain. He has written and co-written nine books, including two children’s books, Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! and Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits, both illustrated by Paul Rogers. He is the recipient of accolades including his appointment as a Messenger of Peace by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2001), the National Medal of Arts (2005), and the National Medal of Humanities (2016). In 2021 Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center were awarded the Key to New York City by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Marsalis has received honorary doctorates from thirty-nine universities and colleges throughout the United States, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Tulane.
Wynton Marsalis’s core beliefs and foundation for living are based on the principles of jazz. He
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promotes individual creativity (improvisation), collective cooperation (swing), gratitude and good manners (sophistication), and faces adversity with persistent optimism (the blues).
Ryan Kisor Trumpet
Ryan Kisor was born in Sioux City, Iowa, and began playing trumpet at the age of four. In 1990 he won first prize at the Thelonious Monk Institute’s first annual Louis Armstrong Trumpet Competition. Kisor enrolled in the Manhattan School of Music in 1991, where he studied with trumpeter Lew Soloff. He has performed and/or recorded with the Mingus Big Band, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan and Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Philip Morris Jazz All-Stars, and others. In addition to being an active sideman, Kisor has recorded several albums as a leader, including Battle Cry (1997), The Usual Suspects (1998), and Point of Arrival (2000). He has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 1994.
Kenny Rampton Trumpet
Kenny Rampton is a New York City–based trumpeter, arranger, and composer, and a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis since 2010. He is also the trumpet voice on the television series Sesame Street. Rampton’s many performance credits include the Ray Charles Orchestra, Illinois Jacquet, Lionel Hampton, Gunther Schuller, the Christian McBride Big Band, the Chico O’Farrill AfroCuban Jazz Orchestra, Bebo Valdés’s Afro-Cuban
All-Stars, and the Mingus Big Band. He has performed in several Broadway productions, including Anything Goes, Finian’s Rainbow, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Wiz, Young Frankenstein, The Color Purple, Spamalot, The Producers, In the Heights, and Chicago, and collaborated with pop artists such as Katy Perry, Matchbox Twenty, and Chaka Khan. His composition “Until Next Time,” from his first solo album, Moon Over Babylon (2013), was featured in the 2017 Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation.
In 2015 Rampton collaborated with blues artist Bill Sims, Jr., on the music for the play Paradise Blue. He later expanded his music into The Paradise Blue Suite, which he premiered with the Kenny Rampton Octet at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Rampton enjoys teaching private students from all over the world and has taught as an adjunct faculty member at the New School in New York City, in addition to being founder and artistic director of his own nonprofit educational organization, Jazz Outreach Initiative, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, his hometown.
Marcus Printup Trumpet
Marcus Printup was born and reared in Conyers, Georgia. His first musical experiences included hearing the fiery gospel music his parents, grandparents, and older sister sang in church. While attending the University of North Florida on a music scholarship, he won the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Trumpet Competition. In 1991 Printup’s life changed when he met his mentor, the great pianist Marcus Roberts, who introduced him to Wynton Marsalis. That meeting led to Printup joining the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 1993, the same year he was invited to join the inaugural iteration of Betty Carter’s prestigious Jazz Ahead program. Printup has recorded with Betty Carter, Dianne Reeves,
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Guru, Madeleine Peyroux, Ted Nash, Diane Schuur, Cyrus Chestnut, Wycliffe Gordon, and Marcus Roberts, among many others. He has recorded more than fifteen albums as a bandleader, including his most recent, Gentle Rain (2020), featuring his wife Riza on harp. He made a big-screen appearance in 1999’s Playing by Heart and recorded on the film’s soundtrack. A passionate educator, Printup is a clinician for middle schools, high schools, and colleges across the United States and an adjunct professor of music at Montclair State University. August 22 has been declared “Marcus Printup Day” in his hometown.
Nathaniel Williford Trumpet
Nathaniel Williford, a trumpeter from Kissimmee, Florida, is currently in his first year pursuing a bachelor’s degree in jazz trumpet at the Juilliard School in New York. He was a student of the late Dan Miller and is currently studying with Tatum Greenblatt. Other mentors include Wynton Marsalis, Sean Jones, Bobby Shew, and Roger Ingram. Williford began playing trumpet at twelve years old after playing trombone for a year and continues on both instruments. In high school, he participated in the Essentially Ellington Competition and Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Osceola County School for the Arts under the direction of Jason Anderson and won first place in 2022 and 2023. He was the first and only recipient of the Snooky Young Award, given to the outstanding soloist and lead trumpet, and won outstanding trumpet both years. He then participated in Carnegie Hall’s NYO Jazz under the direction of Sean Jones as lead trumpet, performing alongside Jazzmeia Horn in 2022 and returning in 2023 with Dee Dee Bridgewater. The group toured North America in 2022 and Europe in 2023. Since high school, Williford has performed and/or recorded
with such artists as the Count Basie Orchestra, Lauryn Hill and the Fugees, Helen Sung Big Band, Igmar Thomas and his Revive Big Band, the Roy Hargrove Big Band, and more.
Nathaniel Williford makes his debut with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on this tour. Now a local on the New York scene, he plays with many of the city’s big bands as a sideman, and soon as a bandleader. He is a performing artist for LOTUS Trumpets, which includes Ryan Kisor (JLCO), Marcus Printup (JLCO), Nicholas Payton, Ashlin Parker, and many others.
Chris Crenshaw Trombone
Born in Thomson, Georgia, Chris Crenshaw has been driven and surrounded by music since childhood. He started playing piano at three years old, which led to his first gig with Echoes of Joy, his father’s gospel quartet group. Crenshaw began playing trombone at the age of eleven and graduated from Thomson High School, receiving numerous honors and awards along the way. He studied jazz performance at Valdosta State University and received a bachelor’s degree with honors in 2005 and went on to study with Douglas Farwell and Wycliffe Gordon at the Juilliard School in New York, where he completed a master’s degree in jazz studies in 2007. He appeared as a sideman on fellow JLCO trumpeter Marcus Printup’s Ballads All Night (2010). He joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2006. Since then, he has been commissioned to write the spiritually focused work God’s Trombones (2012) and The Fifties: A Prism (2017), both premiered by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Crenshaw also released an album with his own group, the Georgia Horns, titled Live at Dizzy’s Club, in 2019.
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Elliot Mason Trombone
Elliot Mason was born into a family of jazz musicians in England. He began studying trumpet at the age of four with his father, who was a trumpet and trombone player and educator. At the age of seven, struck with an overwhelming curiosity in his father’s trombone, Mason soon switched his focus and received a full-tuition scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston at sixteen. After graduating at nineteen, Mason moved to New York City, where he distinguished himself as a respected and in-demand trombonist and bass trumpeter. In 2007 Elliot Mason was invited to become a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra directed by Wynton Marsalis. While continuing to perform with the JLCO, Mason co-leads the Mason Brothers Quintet with his brother Brad and leads his own band, Cre8tion. Since 2016, Elliot Mason has been a faculty member at the Juilliard School of Music. He also runs his own private music studio in New York City. He is endorsed by BAC Musical Instruments and currently plays on his own signature-series line of custom trombones that he codesigned.
Jacob Melsha Trombone
Jacob Melsha, a twenty-fiveyear-old New York City–based trombonist, bass trombonist, tubist, educator, and composer, is one of the finest young forces on the scene today. Since moving from St. Louis to New York in 2017 to pursue a bachelor’s degree in jazz studies at the Juilliard School, Melsha has enjoyed working throughout the city in a variety of ensembles, bringing music to such venues as Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center,
Smalls, Blue Note Jazz Club, the Village Vanguard, Birdland, and more. He’s had the pleasure of playing with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Victor Goines, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon, Benny Benack, the Future of Jazz Orchestra, the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, and his own small ensembles. Melsha has also enjoyed recording on film and television soundtracks on Netflix and Apple TV, playing with the Jonas Brothers on Broadway, and recording for Dove Cameron’s 2022 American Music Awards performance as Best New Artist. He graduated with a master’s degree in jazz studies from Juilliard in 2022 and currently freelances in New York. He has played on a custom BAC (Best American Craftsmen) trombone since 2019.
Sherman Irby Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
Born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Sherman Irby found his musical calling at the age of twelve. He graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a bachelor of arts degree in music education. After relocating to New York City in 1994, he recorded his first two albums, Full Circle (1996) and Big Mama’s Biscuits (1998) on Blue Note Records. Irby was a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra from 1995 to 1997. During that tenure, he also recorded and toured with Marcus Roberts, was part of Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead program, and played in Roy Hargrove’s ensemble. After that, Irby focused on his own group, along with being a member of Elvin Jones’s ensemble and Papo Vázquez’s Pirates Troubadours. From 2003 to 2011, Irby was the regional director for JazzMasters Workshop, which mentors young children. He has served as artist-in-residence for Jazz Camp West and as an instructor for the Monterey Jazz Festival Band
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Camp. He formed Black Warrior Records and most recently released Cerulean Canvas (2017) and Live at the Otto Club (2009) on the label. Since rejoining the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2005, Irby has been commissioned to compose many works, including Twilight Sounds (2010), his Dante-inspired ballet Inferno (2012), and Musings of Cosmic Stuff (2020). Apart from the orchestra, Irby performs regularly with his own group, Momentum.
Ted Nash Alto and Soprano
Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
Ted Nash enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, writer, and educator. Born in Los Angeles, Nash started his interest in music at an early age, encouraged by his father, trombonist Dick Nash, and uncle, reedman
Ted Nash—both well-known studio and jazz musicians. Ted Nash has been a composer since the age of fifteen. His album Portrait in Seven Shades, for which he received his first Grammy Award nomination as best arranger, was released by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2010 and was the ensemble’s first to feature original music by a band member other than bandleader Wynton Marsalis. His work often addresses and embraces themes of cultural and social importance. Nash’s parents, in addition to being wonderful musicians, were civil rights activists whose work helped improve the lives of many. Nash’s recording Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom and its “Spoken at Midnight” won 2017 Grammy awards in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble and Best Instrumental Composition categories, respectively. His arrangement of “We Three Kings,” featured on the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis’s Big Band Holidays album, was nominated for a 2017 Grammy Award. That same
year, Nash received the Composer of the Year Award from the Jazz Journalists Association.
Chris Lewis Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Chris Lewis has quickly established himself as an in-demand saxophonist and educator on both coasts of the United States. He has played and worked with such artists as Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Michael Bublé, Eric Reed, Terell
Stafford, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, John Beasley’s MONK’estra, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and the Count Basie Orchestra, in addition to being featured on soundtracks and seen on camera with shows on Amazon Prime and HBO/CNN films. Lewis has taught clinics on small- and large-ensemble playing, as well as harmony and improvisation at numerous camps, festivals, and universities, including the University of Melbourne and the UCLA Summer Jazz Intensive Workshop, and has served as a guest clinician for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Regional Essentially Ellington Festival.
Chris Lewis currently resides in New York City, where he maintains a busy playing and teaching schedule.
Abdias Armenteros Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet
Abdias Armenteros is a native of Miami, Florida, where he attended New World School of the Arts High School. He began playing saxophone at the age of eight, and jazz in the ninth grade. After getting into New World, he was able to travel to New York City to compete in events
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with the jazz band, including Essentially Ellington (2016 winner) and Kagoshima, Japan, representing the city of Miami and the United States in the Kagoshima Asian Arts Youth Festival. He also has participated in various summer programs, including the Brubeck Jazz Summit, Pacific Summer Jazz Colony, and the Summer Jazz Academy with Jazz at Lincoln Center. Armenteros is currently in the first year of his master’s program as a jazz studies major at the Juilliard School, where he completed his bachelor’s degree. Since moving to New York, he has shared the bandstand with world-renowned artists including Wynton Marsalis, Ben Vereen, Aloe Blacc, Victor Lewis, and Arlo Parks, and he regularly performs at a variety of clubs and venues in the city with other well-known musicians.
Paul Nedzela Baritone and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
New York City native Paul Nedzela has performed with many renowned artists and ensembles, including Rubén Blades, Bill Charlap, Chick Corea, Paquito D’Rivera, Kenny Garrett, Benny Golson, Branford Marsalis, Christian McBride, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Wayne Shorter, Frank Sinatra, Jr., and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He has performed in Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show, Come Fly Away, as well as in major festivals around the world, including the Monterey, Newport, and Detroit jazz festivals; the Banff Music Festival; the International Montreal Jazz Festival; the iLoveJazz Festival in Brazil; the Valencia Jazz Festival in Spain; the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy; and the American Festival of the Arts in Doha, Qatar. A recipient of the Samuel L. Jackson Scholarship Award, Nedzela completed a master’s degree at the Juilliard School in 2008. He joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
in 2014, and released his debut album, Introducing Paul Nedzela, in 2019.
Dan Nimmer Piano
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dan Nimmer began his classical piano studies at a young age before becoming interested in jazz. After graduating from high school, he studied music at Northern Illinois University and began performing regularly on the Chicago jazz scene. In 2005, a year after moving to New York City, Nimmer became a member of both the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Quintet. He has performed and recorded with Jimmy Cobb, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Renée Fleming, Houston Person, Fareed Haque, George Benson, Lewis Nash, and many others. He has released six of his own albums with his trio on the Japan-based Venus label.
Carlos Henriquez Bass
Born in the Bronx, New York, Carlos Henriquez began studying music at a young age, played guitar through junior high school, and took up the bass while enrolled in the Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program. He entered LaGuardia High School of Music and Arts and Performing Arts and was a member of the LaGuardia Concert Jazz Ensemble, which went on to win first place in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival in 1996.
Henriquez joined the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 1998, with which he has toured the world and been
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featured on more than twenty-five albums. He has performed with artists including Chucho Valdés, Paco de Lucía, Tito Puente, the Marsalis Family, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz, Marc Anthony, and many others. He has been a member of the music faculty at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music since 2008 and was music director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s cultural exchange with the Cuban Institute of Music with Chucho Valdés in 2010. His debut album as a bandleader, The Bronx Pyramid, was released in 2015 on Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records. His most recent album, The South Bronx Story, was nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award in the Best Latin Jazz Album category.
Obed Calvaire Drums
A Miami, Florida, native of Haitian descent, Obed Calvaire first moved to New York City in 2000 to attend the Manhattan School of Music, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Calvaire has performed and recorded with artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Seal, Eddie Palmieri, Vanessa Williams, Richard Bona, SFJAZZ Collective, David Foster, Mary J. Blige, Stefon Harris, the Clayton Brothers Quintet, Mike Stern, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Cincotti, Monty Alexander, Music Soulchild, Nellie McKay, Yellow Jackets, Joshua Redman, Steve Turre, and Lizz Wright. He has also performed with large ensembles including the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Metropole Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Roy Hargrove Big Band, and the Bob Mintzer Big Band.
Obed Calvaire currently performs with Dave Holland, Sean Jones, and Yosvany Terry, among others.
Funding for educational programs during the 2023–24 Season of SCP Jazz has been generously provided by Dan J. Epstein, Judith Guitelman, and the Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation.
The CSOA thanks the Epstein Family Foundation for ten consecutive years of generous, innovative support for the SCP Jazz Education program.
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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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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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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION GOVERNING MEMBERS
The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, founded in 1894. Its support funds the CSOA’s artistic excellence and community engagement. In return, members enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition. For more information, please contact 312-294-3337 or governingmembers@cso.org.
GOVERNING MEMBERS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Charles Emmons, Jr. Chair
Michael Perlstein Immediate Past Chair
Merrill and Judy Blau Vice Chairs of Member Engagement
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Vice Chair of the Annual Fund
Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership
GOVERNING MEMBERS
Anonymous (8)
Dora J. Aalbregtse
Floyd Abramson
Ms. Patti Acurio
Fraida Aland
Sandra Allen
Gary Allie
Robert Alsaker
Cat Anderson
Megan P. Anderson
Dr. Edward Applebaum
David Arch
Dr. Kent Armbruster
Dr. Carey August
Hillary August
Susan Baird
Ms. Judith Barnard
Merrill Barnes
Peter Barrett †
Roberta Barron
Roger Baskes
Ms. Sandra Bass
Cynthia Bates
Deborah Baughman
Robert H. Baum
Mrs. Robert A. Beatty
Daniel Bedford
Kirsten Bedway
Gail Eisenhart Belytschko
Edward H. Bennett III
Meta S. Berger
D. Theodore Berghorst
Ann Berlin
Phyllis Berlin
Mr. William E. Bible
Mrs. Arthur A. Billings
Joyce Black
Dianne Blanco
Judy Blau
Merrill Blau
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck
Ann Blickensderfer
Terry Boden
Fred Boelter
† Deceased
Peter Borich
Mrs. Suzanne Borland
James G. Borovsky
Adam Bossov
Janet S. Boyer
John D. Bramsen
Ms. Jill Brennan
Mrs. William Gardner Brown
Sue Brubaker
Mrs. Patricia M. Bryan
Gilda Buchbinder
Rosemarie Buntrock
Elizabeth Nolan Buzard
Ms. Lutgart Calcote
Thomas Campbell
Ms. Vera Capp
Wendy Alders Cartland
Mrs. William C. Childs
Linton J. Childs
Frank Cicero, Jr.
Patricia A. Clickener
Mitchell Cobey
Jean M. Cocozza
Carol Cohen
Robin Tennant Colburn
Mrs. Jane B. Colman
Eileen Conaghan
Dr. Thomas H. Conner
Ms. Cecilia Conrad
Beverly Ann Conroy
Jenny L. Corley
Nancy Corral
Ms. Sarah Crane
Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven
Mr. Richard Cremieux
R. Bert Crossland
Rebecca E. Crown
Daniel R. Cyganowski
Catherine Daniels
Mrs. Robert J. Darnall
Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta
Roxanne Decyk
Ms. Nancy Dehmlow
Mrs. Suzanne Demirjian
Duane M. DesParte
Janet Wood Diederichs
Doug Donenfeld
Mrs. William F. Dooley
Sara L. Downey
Ms. Ann Drake
David Dranove
Robert Duggan
Mimi Duginger
Mr. Frank A. Dusek, CPA
Mrs. David P. Earle III
Eric Easterberg and Cindy Pan
Judge Frank H. Easterbrook
Mrs. Dorne Eastwood
Mrs. Larry K. Ebert
Louis M. Ebling III
Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten
Jon Ekdahl
Kathleen H. Elliott
Charles Emmons, Jr.
Scott Enloe
Dr. James Ertle
William Escamilla
Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri
Neil Fackler
Melissa Sage Fadim
Jeffrey Farbman
Mr. Don Fehrs
Signe Ferguson
Hector Ferral, M.D.
Ms. Constance M. Filling
Mr. Daniel Fischel
Jenny Fischer
Henry Fogel
Mrs. John D. Foster
David S. Fox
Mr. Paul E. Freehling
Mitzi Freidheim
Marjorie Friedman Heyman
Malcolm M. Gaynor
Robert D. Gecht
Frank Gelber
Mrs. Lynn Gendleman
Dr. Mark Gendleman
Rabbi Gary S. Gerson
Dr. Bernardino Ghetti
Karen Gianfrancisco
Ellen Gignilliat
Mr. James J. Glasser †
Madeleine Glossberg
Mrs. Judy Goldberg
Mrs. Mary Anne Goldberg
Anne Goldstein
Jerry A. Goldstone
Mary Goodkind
Dr. Alexia Gordon
Mr. Michael D. Gordon
Donald J. Gralen
Ruth Grant
Mrs. Hanna H. Gray
Mary L. Gray
Dana Green Clancy
Freddi L. Greenberg
Delta A. Greene
Joyce Greening
Dr. Jerri Greer
Dr. Katherine L. Griem
Kendall Griffith
Jerome J. Groen
Jacalyn Gronek
John P. Grube
James P. Grusecki
Dongqi Guo
Anastasia Gutting
Lynne R. Haarlow
Joan M. Hall
Dr. Howard Halpern
Mrs. Richard C. Halpern
Anne Marcus Hamada
Josephine Hammer
Joel L. Handelman
John Hard
James W. Haugh
Thomas Haynes
James Heckman
Mrs. Patricia Herrmann Heestand
Marilyn P. Helmholz
Richard H. Helmholz
Dr. Arthur L. Herbst
Jeffrey W. Hesse
Konstanze L. Hickey
Thea Flaum Hill
Dr. Richard Hirschmann
Suzanne Hoffman
Anne Hokin
Wayne J. Holman III
Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
Fred E. Holubow †
Mr. James Holzhauer
Carol Honigberg
Janice L. Honigberg
Mrs. Nancy A. Horner
Mrs. Arnold Horween
Frances G. Horwich
Dr. Mary L. Houston
Patricia J. Hurley
Michael Huston
Barbara Ann Huyler
Ms. Sandra Ihm
Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs
Dr. Todd Janus
John Jawor
Ms. Justine Jentes
Brian Johnson
George E. Johnson
Ronald B. Johnson
Dr. Patricia Collins Jones
Edward T. Joyce
Mrs. Carol K. Kaplan †
Claudia Norris Kapnick
Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin
Barry D. Kaufman
Kenneth Kaufman
Marie Kaufman
Don Kaul
Molly Keller
Jonathan Kemper
Nancy Kempf
Elizabeth I. Keyser
Leslie Kiesel
Emmy King
Susan Kiphart
Carol Kipperman
Dr. Leonard Klein
Dr. Elaine H. Klemen
Carol Evans Klenk
Mrs. Janet Knauff
Mr. Henry L. Kohn
Dr. Mark Kozloff
Dr. Michael Krco
Eldon Kreider
David Kreisman
MaryBeth Kretz
Dr. Vinay Kumar
Mr. Rubin Kuznitsky
Mr. John LaBarbera
Dr. Lynda Lane
Frederick and Virginia Langrehr
Stephen and Maria Lans
William J. Lawlor III
Sunhee Lee
Dr. Anu Leemann
Dean Leff
Jonathon Leik
Sheila Fields Leiter
Jeffrey Lennard
Zafra Lerman
Jerrold Levine
Laurence H. Levine
Mrs. Bernard Leviton
Gregory M. Lewis
Carolyn Lickerman
Mrs. Paul Lieberman
Jane Loeb
Gabrielle Long
Amy Lubin
Anna Lysakowski
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Carol MacArthur
Mrs. Duncan MacLean
Jacen Maleck
Dr. Michael S. Maling
Sharon L. Manuel
David A. Marshall
Judy Marth
Patrick A. Martin
BeLinda I. Mathie
Charles McCall
Scott McCue
Ann Pickard McDermott
Dr. James L. McGee
Dr. John P. McGee †
Mrs. Lester McKeever
John A. McKenna
Mrs. Peter McKinney
James Edward McPherson
Sheila Medvin
Mr. Paul Meister
Dr. Ellen Mendelson
Mara Mills Barker
Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery
David H. Moscow
John H. Mugge
Daniel R. Murray
Mr. Stuart C. Nathan
Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr.
Edward A. Nieminen
Dr. Zehava L. Noah
Kenneth R. Norgan
Martha C. Nussbaum
William A. Obenshain
Shelley Ochab
Maria Ochs
Mrs. James J. O’Connor
Eric Oesterle
Wallace Olliver
Mrs. Katherine Olson
Joy O’Malley
Michael Oman
Kathleen Field Orr
Mr. Gerald A. Ostermann
James J. O’Sullivan, Jr.
Bruce L. Ottley
Pamela Papas
Mr. Bruno A. Pasquinelli
Mr. Timothy J. Patenode
Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Michael Payette
Mrs. Richard S. Pepper †
Jean E. Perkins
Mr. Michael A. Perlstein
Bonnie Perry
Dr. William Peruzzi
Robert C. Peterson
Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.
Sue N. Pick
Betsey N. Pinkert
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
Harvey R. Plonsker
Mr. John F. Podjasek, III
Andrew Porte
Charlene H. Posner
Stephen Potter
Carol Prins
Elizabeth H. Pritchard
Maridee Quanbeck
Mrs. Lynda Rahal
Diana Mendley Rauner
Susan Regenstein
Mari Yamamoto Regnier
Mary Thomson Renner
Hilda Richards
Burton R. Rissman
Charles T. Rivkin
Carol Roberts
Mr. John H. Roberts
William Roberts
David Robin
Dr. Diana Robin
Chauncey H. Robinson
Bob Rogers
Kevin M. Rooney
Harry J. Roper
Saul Rosen
Sheli Z. Rosenberg
Dr. Ricardo T. Rosenkranz
Michael Rosenthal
Doris Roskin
Lisa Ross
Maija Rothenberg
Roberta H. Rubin
Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz
Sandra K. Rusnak
David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg
Richard O. Ryan
Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan
Dr. Christine Rydel
Norman K. Sackar
Anthony Saineghi
Mr. Agustin G. Sanz
Inez Saunders
Libby Savner
Karla Scherer
David M. Schiffman
Judith Feigon Schiffman
Rosa Schloss
Al Schriesheim
Elizabeth Schroeder
Donald L. Schwartz
Susan H. Schwartz
Dr. Penny Bender Sebring
Chandra Sekhar
Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior
Ilene W. Shaw
Pam Sheffield
James C. Sheinin, M.D.
Richard W. Shepro
Jessie Shih
Junia Shlaustas
Caroline Orzac Shoenberger
Stuart Shulruff
Adele Simmons
Linda Simon
Mr. Larry Simpson
Craig Sirles
Miyam Slater
Christine A. Slivon
Valerie Slotnick
Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.
Charles F. Smith
Louise K. Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Stephen R. Smith
Mrs. Ralph Smykal
Naomi Pollock and David Sneider
Diane Snyder
Kimberly Snyder
Kathleen Solaro
Ms. Elysia M. Solomon
Dr. Stuart Sondheimer
Orli Staley
William D. Staley
Helena Stancikas
Grace Stanek
Ms. Denise M. Stauder
Leonidas Stefanos
Penelope Steiner
Mrs. Richard J. Stern
Liz Stiffel
Mr. John Stover
Mary Stowell
Lawrence E. Strickling
Patricia Study
Cheryl Sturm
BISCO Foundation
Mrs. Robert Szalay
Mr. Gregory Taubeneck
Chris Thomas
James E. Thompson
Dr. Robert Thomson
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
Joan Thron
David Timm
Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr.
William R. Tobey, Jr. †
Bruce Tranen †
James M. (Mack) Trapp
John T. Travers
David Trushin
Dr. David A. Turner
Robert W. Turner
Janet Underwood
Zalman Usiskin
Mrs. James D. Vail III
John Van Horn
Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice
Thomas D. Vander Veen
Jennifer Vianello
Catherine M. Villinski
Charles Vincent
Mr. Christian Vinyard
Theodore Wachs
Mark A. Wagner
Beth Ann Waite
Bernard T. Wall
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Jeffrey J. Webb
Mrs. Jacob Weglarz
Chickie Weisbard
Richard Weiss
Robert G. Weiss
Dr. Marc Weissbluth
Rebecca West
Carmen Wheatcroft
Leah Williams
M.L. Winburn
Peter Wolf
Laura Woll
Dr. Hak Yui Wong
Courtenay R. Wood
Michael H. Woolever
Ms. Debbie Wright
Nancy G. Wulfers
Ronald Yonover
Owen Youngman
Priscilla Yu
David J. Zampa
Dr. John P. Zaremba
Karen Zupko
For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.
† Deceased
Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
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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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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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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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Being there
Randall Goosby
The Joffrey Ballet
Janai Brugger
Dame Jane Glover
Christian Tetzlaff
