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4 A Note from the Board Chair and President
A welcoming message from Board of Trustees Chair Mary Louise Gorno and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association President Jeff Alexander
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A View from the Podium
Phillip Huscher places the music selected for Riccardo Muti’s final season as music director in context and interviews the Maestro.
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c o v e r : Riccardo Muti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on January 14, 2022 b e l o w : CSO Associate Concertmaster Stephanie Jeong joins conductor, violinist, and violist Julian Rachlin to perform Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante on May 12–14.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Center Presents
A look at artistic highlights of the upcoming season
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Learn about the 2022 Chicago Youth in Music Festival and National Pathways Summit, which come to a close with an open rehearsal led by the CSO’s Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti on April 11.
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Meet the Musicians
Profile featuring the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lina González-Granados
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Recognition of our generous donors and volunteers
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a note from the chair and the president Welcome to Symphony Center. We are delighted that you have joined us this spring for an array of exceptional performances. At the end of March, Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti returns to Chicago to conduct the world premiere of Orpheus Undone by the CSO’s former Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli; Bruckner’s Second Symphony; and Mahler’s beautiful RückertLieder, as sung by mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča in her CSO debut and for the annual Symphony Ball concert. The following week, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes joins Muti and the CSO in Britten’s Piano Concerto. When he returns in late April, Muti leads the world premiere of current Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery’s Hymn for Everyone, in addition to Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony and Bottesini’s Double Bass Concerto no. 2, featuring CSO Principal Bass Alexander Hanna as soloist. For Muti’s final residency of the season, in June, he and the Orchestra perform Brahms’s First Symphony and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist. These concerts are followed by the highly anticipated performances of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, featuring an incredible cast of singers and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and is not be missed. The CSO and Muti conclude the season with a special free-admission Concert for Chicago at Millennium Park on June 27. In addition to concerts with Maestro Muti, the Orchestra welcomes returning guest conductors Jaap van Zweden, Julian Rachlin, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and James Gaffigan, and Klaus Mäkelä and Karina Canellakis in their debuts. The Symphony Center Presents Piano series features Yuja Wang, Yefim Bronfman, Evgeny Kissin, and Denis Kozhukhin in his debut. The SCP Jazz series continues with performances by Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, and Brian Blade in A MoodSwing Reunion and double-bill performances by vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and pianist Bill Charlap with the Artemis jazz ensemble and Sean Jones’s Dizzy Spellz with the Thaddeus Tukes Quintet. Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant rounds out the season. In this program book, you will find an introduction to our upcoming 2022–23 season. By subscribing, you can guarantee your best options to attend remarkable concerts planned for Maestro Muti’s final season as music director. We look forward to seeing you at many concerts in 2022 and in the season ahead.
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A View from the Podium The 2022–23 season is a celebration of Riccardo Muti’s remarkable musical partnership with the CSO. By Phillip Huscher
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iccardo Muti’s final season as music director pays tribute to his remarkable bond with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and celebrates the communicative power of his music making that has galvanized Chicago audiences over these past thirteen years. Muti’s concerts combine classics with discoveries, and reunite him with longtime colleagues and friends. Each program highlights a different aspect of the acclaimed Muti-CSO partnership, now at its peak after playing some 500 concerts together—reviving signature pieces, showcasing the Orchestra’s principal players, and inviting beloved guest artists back to our stage. Throughout the season, Muti will conduct key works from his Chicago years—Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, which capped his first concert with the Orchestra fifty years ago
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next summer; and Respighi’s Pines of Rome, the dazzling finale of his first concert as music director, in Millennium Park in 2010. Muti will return to music by Schubert and Tchaikovsky, whose complete symphonies he surveyed so memorably with the Orchestra. And he is reuniting with pianist Yefim Bronfman, violinist Julia Fischer, and pianist Maurizio Pollini, who makes his first appearance with the Orchestra in a decade. Continuing his annual tradition of showcasing the Orchestra’s principal players, Muti joins Concertmaster Robert Chen in Mozart, longtime Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny in the concerto Lalo Schifrin wrote with him in mind, and David Herbert, one of Muti’s earliest principal appointments, in William Kraft’s First Timpani Concerto. For the first time in Chicago, Muti will lead Rachmaninov’s haunting Second Symphony and Prokofiev’s dazzling Fifth. He will give
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o p p o s i t e pa g e : Riccardo Muti looks out from the podium into Orchestra Hall at the January 20 performance with the CSO, featuring performances of Reznicek’s Overture to Donna Diana, J. Strauss, Jr.’s Emperor Waltz, and Tchaikovsky’s suites from The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. a b o v e : Muti conducting the CSO in one of this season’s opening concerts, which included former Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds In Us, Liadov’s The Enchanted Lake, and Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony
In February, Phillip Huscher met with Riccardo Muti to discuss upcoming performances as well as reflections on his time as music director and his enduring relationship with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Here is an excerpt from their conversation. Phillip Huscher: In September, I was so struck that after a year and a half, it took one rehearsal with the Orchestra to get back to where you left off, like best friends who haven’t seen each other in a long time. Riccardo Muti: Sì, my years with this orchestra have been twelve years of beautiful musical life. Never friction. Everything was always very natural, very friendly, and the atmosphere has been unique. I love this orchestra. PH: You have appointed twenty-five players. RM: Twenty-five? I didn’t remember the number, but one thing I know, twenty-five fantastic players. Every time a music director, together with the committee, chooses a new player, it is a huge responsibility. It means that you are choosing a player for the next thirty, forty years. I think that in this case, I have chosen—together with my colleagues—twenty-five wonderful musicians. (continued)
PH: Emerging from COVID, what are your thoughts now on performances in the concert hall versus streaming and recording? RM: Of course, the future is bringing new media—new possibilities. There is some advantage to that. For example, you can do a concert in Chicago, or in Berlin, or Vienna, and it can be seen immediately in every part of the world. That means you don’t have only 2,000 or 3,000 people that listen to the concert, but, theoretically, endless people. This is something that culturally can be an advantage. But music should be experienced live, directly. Because the presence of the public is very important to give a certain energy, positive or negative, to the performers. . . . We play for them. Without the public, we have no reason to exist. PH: The bond you have with the CSO is very strong. What are your hopes for the Orchestra?
a b o v e : Riccardo Muti at the CSO’s Community Concert at Morton East High School in Cicero on January 14
RM: My dream for the future is that this orchestra can speak to the world from Chicago, and not only to the Chicago audience. . . . The world wants to have the Chicago Symphony, so this is a responsibility that important people— culturally speaking and economically speaking—must keep in mind. It is a responsibility to have this great orchestra here and to make it possible for this orchestra to speak to the world every day. It is a dream. It is a need for the new generations.
the U.S. premiere of the recently discovered Solemn Prelude by the British composer of African descent Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and unveil a new work by Jessie Montgomery, the sixth Mead Composer-in-Residence to be appointed by Muti. At the season’s end, he will lead his first Chicago performances of Beethoven’s sublime Missa solemnis, a towering work of sacred vocal music that is a testament to the very soul and spirit of music. Program after program is designed to demonstrate our tenth music director’s unique passion for communicating the solace and joy that music alone can deliver. In Muti’s hands, these are pieces that draw us in with their quiet depth, or thrill us with unexpected drama and
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lyrical power. With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at his fingertips, Muti makes music soar and sing as only the greatest of musical partnerships can. Muti’s last year as music director offers a panoramic view of music that reflects our complex world and speaks to the very qualities that make us human. With these unmissable programs, Riccardo Muti concludes one of the most extraordinary chapters in our Orchestra’s history.
Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987. He is also its scholar-in-residence.
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Announcing the 2022/23 Season
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Highlights of the 2022–23 Season of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Center Presents On March 29, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association announced its programming for the 2022–23 season. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 132nd season celebrates the musical legacy of Riccardo Muti and his thirteen seasons as the CSO’s tenth music director. This important chapter in the CSO’s history has been defined by a profound artistic connection between the Maestro and Orchestra that has resulted in exceptional music making admired by listeners in Chicago and around the world. For details on Riccardo Muti’s concerts with the CSO during the 2022–23 season, refer to the article on page 6.
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PREMIERES AND NEW WORKS Throughout the 2022–23 season, the CSO performs a wide variety of repertoire, including several works receiving their U.S. premiere or first CSO performances. Riccardo Muti will conduct the world premiere of a CSO Commission by Mead Composerin-Residence Jessie Montgomery and the U.S. premiere of ColeridgeTaylor’s Solemn Prelude. Other U.S. premieres include the CSO co-commissioned works Diary of a Madman, a cello concerto by Lera Auerbach, written for and performed by Gautier Capuçon and conducted by Manfred Honeck, and Aino by Jimmy López, conducted by Klaus Mäkelä. Primal Message by American composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama receives its first CSO performances, with Xian Zhang conducting. Other first CSO performances include works by
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OTHER SEASON HIGHLIGHTS The CSO also performs notable works from
the twentieth century including Mahler’s Fifth and Ninth symphonies, Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, Shostakovich’s Fifth and Seventh symphonies, Debussy’s La mer, and Sibelius’s Second Symphony, among others.
CSO Musicians performing concertos this
season include Robert Chen (Mozart’s Violin Concerto), David Herbert (Kraft’s First Timpani Concerto), Gene Pokorny (Schifrin’s Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra), and Stephen Williamson (Copland’s Clarinet Concerto).
Distinguished returning conductors include
David Afkham, Giovanni Antonini, Herbert Blomstedt, Jakub Hrůša, Vladimir Jurowski, Bernard Labadie, Thomas Søndergård, Christian Thielemann, and Bramwell Tovey, among others. Conductors Thomas Adès, Fabien Gabel, Lahav Shani, Dalia Stasevska, and Thomas Wilkins make their CSO subscription debuts.
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CSO Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn appears
twice with the Orchestra this season, in addition to an SCP Chamber Music recital, performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and later Sarasate’s Fantasy on Bizet’s Carmen and Deux Sérénades by Rautavaara (completed by K. Aho). I n addition to Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, the Chicago Symphony Chorus performs Orff’s Carmina Burana, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, and Vivaldi’s Magnificat, Kyrie (RV 587), and Gloria in D major in addition to Amadeus Live and Merry, Merry Chicago!
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SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS Symphony Center Presents (SCP) includes concerts highlighting the artistry of internationally recognized musicians in a variety of genres. The SCP Orchestra series returns in the 2022–23 season, offering Chicago audiences the opportunity to hear performances by other great orchestras from around the world. The season includes performances by the Berliner Philharmoniker, which has not appeared in Chicago in a dozen years, with its Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, with its new music director Gustavo Gimeno and violin soloist Maria Dueñas, as part of its centennial season tour. This year’s SCP Chamber Music series celebrates exceptional string players and ensembles. Violinist Midori collaborates with pianist JeanYves Thibaudet performing three of Beethoven’s violin sonatas including the Kreutzer. AnneSophie Mutter returns with the Mutter Virtuosi, an ensemble of talented Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation scholarship recipients. Violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Daniil Trifonov perform a recital in March, and later that month, CSO Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn performs solo works for violin by J.S. Bach. The distinguished violinist and violist Pinchas Zukerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth join the Jerusalem Quartet to perform string sextets by Dvořák and Brahms. The SCP Chamber Music series finale in June features the acclaimed Emerson String Quartet before it retires from the concert stage after nearly fifty years. Pianist Emanuel Ax joins the quartet for a special guest appearance. The SCP Piano series includes the return of David Fray, Leif Ove Andsnes, Marc-André Hamelin, Emanuel Ax, and Evgeny Kissin. Two remarkable young talents make their series debuts in spring recitals, including Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson and South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho. The series finale provides a rare opportunity to hear acclaimed Chopin specialist Maria João Pires. In addition to the aforementioned SCP series, special concerts include Itzhak Perlman’s In the Fiddler’s House, an exploration of traditional
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Klezmer music featuring Perlman performing with instrumentalist Hankus Stenky and Andy Statman, along with ensembles Brave Old World and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Next, tenor Juan Diego Flórez presents a recital with pianist Vincenzo Scalera. Finally, SCP and Lyric Opera of Chicago collaborate to bring together soprano Renée Fleming and pianist Evgeny Kissin in a unique recital program that features songs by Rachmaninov in honor of the composer’s 150th birthday anniversary. World music offerings include Kodo, the Japanese taiko drumming ensemble, and tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion. Chanticleer and the CSO Brass will also perform their annual December concerts. The acclaimed SCP Jazz series opens with Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdés performing an SCP Jazz co-commission, his four-movement suite La Creación (The Creation) for big band, Afro-Cuban percussion, and vocals. Other artists include the Brubeck Brothers Quartet with vocalist Catherine Russell, tenor saxophonist Camille Thurman, and Hammond B-3 organist Joey DeFrancesco; the Maria Schneider Orchestra; pianist, composer, and social activist Danilo Pérez; NEA Jazz Master and bassist Dave Holland with pianist Kenny Barron, guitarist Kevin Eubanks, and drummer Obed Calvaire; and saxophonist Branford Marsalis. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will have a two-day residency. In addition, the Monterey Jazz Festival tours to Chicago with vocalists Dee Dee Bridgewater and Kurt Elling; saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin; and pianist Christian Sands, who directs and performs with his trio members, bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Clarence Penn.
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negaunee music institute at the cso Chicago Youth in Music Festival Forges Nationwide Partnerships By Emily McClanathan
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or young musicians, the experience of gathering with like-minded peers and being mentored by professionals from the classical-music field offers a priceless opportunity for learning and growth. Since it began in 2009, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association’s Chicago Youth in Music Festival has taken this twofold approach, bringing together students from school orchestras and bands, community youth ensembles, and music schools to participate in coaching sessions, rehearsals, and performances with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and prominent conductors such as the CSO’s Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti. After being canceled in 2021 due to the pandemic, the festival returns in April 2022 with an ambitious nationwide partnership spanning ten cities and with a focus on supporting extraordinary young musicians from backgrounds underrepresented in classical music. A new component this year is a summit that invites music teachers, administrators, and families of music students to participate in strategic conversation and collaboration. In partnership with the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative and the National Instrumentalist Mentoring and Advancement Network, the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute presents the 2022 Chicago Youth in Music Festival and National Pathways Summit. The Negaunee Music Institute is a cofounder and member of the advisory council for the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative, launched in the 2019–20 season, with the mission of preparing young musicians from underrepresented backgrounds to attend top music schools and thus, ultimately helping to diversify American orchestras. The National Instrumentalist Mentoring and Advancement Network is, “a national coalition that works to align, promote, and develop equitable opportunities and
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inclusive environments to advance BIPOC [Black, indigenous, and people of color] instrumentalists to thrive in classical music.” Representatives of similar programs from cities across the United States have eagerly agreed to participate. The fifty-two students selected for the 2022 Festival Orchestra were identified through a competitive audition process and represent programs in Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Nashville, San Antonio, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Washington, D.C. According to Director of Education and the Negaunee Music Institute Jonathan McCormick, it’s important for students, “to engage with peers who have similar dreams, aspirations, and challenges. The Youth in Music Festival will be a rigorous musical experience and a social event as well, so the orchestra can really bond.” From April 9 to 11, students participate in sectional rehearsals and coaching sessions with musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and Chicago Sinfonietta in addition to attending a CSO concert conducted by Riccardo Muti. Lina González-Granados, the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice of the CSO, conducts the Festival Orchestra in rehearsals. By rehearsing with professional musicians, younger musicians experience firsthand the high level of technique and artistry to which they may aspire. “It’s so meaningful to play alongside a musician who is more advanced than you are,” McCormick said. “This can really accelerate a student’s growth.” Lina González-Granados is the featured speaker at a keynote event for the National Pathways Summit at the Merit School of Music, where she also conducts the Festival Orchestra in Valerie Coleman’s Seven O’Clock Shout, a work commissioned in 2020 by the Philadelphia Orchestra to honor frontline workers of the pandemic. PHOTOS BY TODD ROS EN BERG
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The Festival and Summit concludes with an open rehearsal led by Riccardo Muti on April 11 at 7:00 p.m. The rehearsal, featuring Liszt’s Les préludes, is free and open to the public, with reservations required. “It will be a peak musical experience for the students to work with Maestro Muti,” said CMPI Project Advisor Adrienne Thompson. Summing up his anticipation of the 2022 Chicago Youth in Music Festival and National Pathways Summit, NIMAN Board Chair Stanford Thompson said, “I look forward to watching our next generation of classical musicians have the opportunities to be inspired by their peers and professional musicians in this unique side-by-side festival and connecting with my counterparts across the country to discover new ways to sustain our programs and increase our impact.”
f r o m t o p : A member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and a participant pose for a photo during the 2020 Chicago Youth in Music Festival. A member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago gives some pointers on timpani mallets to a participant in the 2020 Chicago Youth in Music Festival. Riccardo Muti leads an open rehearsal during the 2015 Chicago Youth in Music Festival.
Emily McClanathan is the Manager of Strategic Development Communications for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.
To read the complete article, originally published in January 2022, visit cso.org/experience/ youthinmusic.
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meet the musicians
Lina González-Granados Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice Lina González-Granados, the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, grew up in Colombia, where she was surrounded by music: “dance music, salsa, Latin music, classical music—all kinds of music,” she says. Her early fascination with classical music came as a surprise to her family, none of whom are musicians, but her parents supported her interest. As she approached her teenage years, music grew into a more serious pursuit as, “the situation in the country got worse,” González-Granados Lina González-Granados, Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice of the explains. For her parents, “it was a Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is seen here conducting the Civic Orchestra matter of survival to keep me in music of Chicago in Orchestra Hall before their concert together that evening at lessons, because it was dangerous to Kenwood Academy High School on February 28. go out.” Her pivot from piano to conducting April 2022, she works with young musicians from came at age seventeen, when she began to desire ten U.S. cities during the Chicago Youth in Music a career in music that involved more interaction Festival (see page 18). “I think one of my main with fellow musicians. Now that she has made a purposes in life is that wherever I go, no matter career of conducting, González-Granados knows how little, I can make a difference,” she says. that the profession also involves plenty of soli“I’ve been so grateful to receive all these opportary work. “If you want to take it seriously, you tunities for myself, and I feel like [this festival] is spend so many hours with your scores alone,” a way to give back.” she says. “But I live for those moments when González-Granados is effusive as she I’m in rehearsal. . . . Those are the moments describes working with Maestro Muti. She when I think ‘Yes, this is why all of this waiting is says, “He’s such a profound person and such a worth it.’” committed musician, that he puts everyone to The hard work is certainly paying off for shame, really, in the way that he is so prepared, González-Granados, who won the CSO’s fourth with scores that are so incredibly difficult. . . . Sir Georg Solti International Conducting I’m lucky to see someone like that—to see that Competition and began her role as the Solti you cannot aspire to anything less. The baseline Conducting Apprentice in February 2020. In the should be absolute commitment and passion.” role, González-Granados experiences mentorGonzález-Granados continues in the role of ship from CSO Zell Music Director Riccardo Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice through Muti, attending rehearsals and performances June 2022, when she will begin a three-year during each of his Chicago residencies. appointment as resident conductor of LA Opera. The apprenticeship also includes conducting engagements with the Civic Orchestra of To read the complete article by Emily McClanathan, Chicago and involvement with educational prooriginally published in February 2022, visit cso.org/ experience/lina. grams of the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute. In
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volunteer and support opportunities The programs of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association are made possible each season thanks in part to our dedicated volunteers and donors. Support the music you love by getting involved in the following ways. GOVERNING MEMBERS are business, cultural, and civic leaders who serve as essential advocates for the CSO, both in Chicago and around the world, and participate in many significant activities at Symphony Center. Email governingmembers@cso.org for more information. The LE AGUE works on fundraising events, educational programs, and social activities to support the CSO while building camaraderie with fellow members. Email Bill Ward at wardw@cso.org for further information. The WOMEN’S BOARD promotes the CSO’s artistic excellence and exemplary educational programming by engaging women leaders in advocacy and fundraising efforts, including the CSO’s annual Symphony Ball. Email Kim Duffy at duffyk@cso.org for further information. The OVERTURE COUNCIL is a dynamic group of Chicago young professionals aged 21–45 who have a love of music and a desire to learn more about how to support the CSO. Email overturecouncil@cso.org for more information.
AUXILIARY VOLUNTEERS provide invaluable support in a
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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICCARDO MUTI Zell Music Director Thursday, May 19, 2022, at 7:30 Friday, May 20, 2022, at 1:30 Saturday, May 21, 2022, at 8:00 Sunday, May 22, 2022, at 3:00
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comments by phillip huscher augusta read thomas
Born April 24, 1964; Glen Cove, New York
Brio Augusta Read Thomas would often pop into Orchestra Hall to sit in on a rehearsal when she was our composer-in-residence (from 1997 until 2006, the longest tenure of our ten resident composers to date). It was a way of getting to know, in intimate musical detail, what the musicians could do. (It helped that she eventually lived in the neighborhood.) Always a busy and richly productive composer—at that time she would regularly fly from O’Hare, sometimes as often as weekly, to be present for a performance of one of her pieces—she wrote nearly a dozen works for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and its pioneering MusicNOW series. Today she continues to compose every day of the year—starting at 4:00 a.m. “An artist is an artist twenty-four hours a day,” she says. “Even as one tries to sleep, one is dreaming about what they are making.” Her publisher lists more than 150 scores currently available, more than fifty of them for orchestra. (Thomas withdrew hundreds of early works that no longer satisfied her.) “To spend one’s life standing at a drafting table, imagining and notating orchestra sounds is pure joy,” she has said. She remembers as a child lying underneath her mother’s piano and listening to her play. She began to write music when she was six years old. Composing, as she once put it, “has always defined who I am.” She studied with Alan Stout and William Karlins at Northwestern University, with Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood, Jacob Druckman at Yale University, and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Later, Thomas taught composition herself, first at the Eastman School of Music and then at Northwestern University. She is now professor of composition at the University of Chicago and director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition. Thomas has always written music oblivious of the fads around her, which makes her particularly difficult to pigeonhole. Even her working method is refreshingly “old-fashioned”: she hears the music in her head and then sits down and writes it out, using pen and manuscript paper. Despite her independent musical spirit—and at the same time, because of it—she has been lavished with honors and commissions. “I like music with protein and vitamins,” she told me at the time the Chicago
composed 2018 f i rst p e rf o rm a n c e March 24, 2018; Des Moines, Iowa i n st ru m e n tat i o n two flutes with piccolo, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, celesta, strings a p p roxi m at e p e rf o rm a n c e t i m e 11 minutes These are the first Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances.
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Symphony played her Tangle in 2004. She justified this surprising metaphor with the example of J.S. Bach: “a top-quality multivitamin—a power-pack dosage, with added calcium and protein.” The pieces to which Thomas is most attracted—at that time she mentioned The Rite of Spring, Mahler’s Fourth and Fifth symphonies, Debussy’s Jeux, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge—are high-energy works—compositions characterized by an abundance of ideas, clarity of thought, a lack of “fat,” and the sheer momentum of musical discourse. “That an inevitable sense of motion naturally propels the music,” Thomas said, “and that this motion be the result of the elegant transformations of its materials, is key to me.” Thomas’s commitment to composition is total (she is even married to a composer, Bernard Rands, one of our finest). “I feel blessed to devote my life to music,” she says. The music that has influenced Thomas over the years ranges from the English Renaissance composer William Byrd through Haydn and Mozart, Schumann and Chopin, to twentieth-century giants Ravel, Bartók, Varèse, Berg, Berio, Boulez—and includes the recordings of Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, “the flair and zest of big-band music,” and “jazz of all kinds.” Thomas’s fascination with jazz has had a powerful influence on her own way of working: “Taking risks as an artist is important,” she writes, . . . and I use improvisation as an integrated part of my creative process. Often improvisation leads me to a risky decision, which I would not have otherwise heard, if I had not sung, danced, internalized the sounds. She has written several pieces with the Chicago orchestra in mind, including Orbital Beacons (1997), which reseated the Orchestra as seven small chamber ensembles and two chamber orchestras; Ceremonial (1999), the first work the Chicago Symphony played in the new millennium; and Aurora (1999), with a solo piano part for then music director Daniel Barenboim. Brio is one of dozens of works Thomas has written since
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her Chicago Symphony days, and although it was written for another orchestra, it bears all the hallmarks of Thomas’s mature and distinctive, yet ever-evolving, style. “Music’s eternal quality is its capacity for change, transformation, and renewal,” Thomas wrote when Brio premiered in 2018. “No one composer, musical style, school of thought, technical practice, or historical period can claim a monopoly on music’s truths.” Although it was commissioned for the Des Moines Symphony, Brio has a strong Chicago connection: it was written to honor Chicagoan Carolyn (Kay) Bucksbaum, whom Thomas identifies as an “arts devotee, innovator, philanthropist, and dear friend.” To explain the title and the aptness of the word to her dedicatee, she turned to Webster’s Dictionary: “vigor, vivacity, gusto, verve, zest, enthusiasm, vitality, dynamism, animation, spirit, energy.” The rest of Thomas’s program note follows.
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care about craft, clarity, and passion. My works are organic and, at every level, concerned with transformations and connections. The carefully sculpted musical materials of Brio are agile and energized, and their flexibility allows a way to braid harmonic, rhythmic, and contrapuntal elements that are constantly transformed— at times whimsical and light, at times jazzy, at times layered and reverberating. Across Brio’s eleven-minute duration, it unfolds a labyrinth of musical interrelationships and connections that showcase the musicians . . . in a virtuosic display of rhythmic agility, counterpoint, skill, energy, dynamic range, clarity, and majesty. Throughout the kaleidoscopic journey, the work passes through many lively and colorful episodes and, via an extended, gradual crescendo, reaches a full-throttle, sparkling intensity—imagine a coiled spring releasing its energy to continuously propel the musical discourse. Vivid, clangorous, brassy, and blazing, Brio culminates in music of enthusiastic, intrepid (almost Stravinsky-like) spirits while never losing its sense of dance, caprice, and effervescence.
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robert schumann
Born June 8, 1810; Zwickau, Saxony, Germany Died July 29, 1856; Endenich, near Bonn, Germany
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 When, in 1828, at the age of eighteen, Robert Schumann began his piano studies with Friedrich Wieck, Wieck’s daughter Clara was just nine years old and already a prodigy. Perhaps she peeked in on her father’s lessons as Robert played Hummel’s A minor concerto, his first assignment. Eighteen years later, Robert Schumann would unveil his own A minor piano concerto, played by his young bride, the same Clara, now grown up and a major talent. We wouldn’t know from this effortless and exuberant music that their wedding in September 1840 met with her father’s fierce disapproval, or that Schumann had been struggling to write a concerto for nearly twenty years. As early as 1827, Schumann’s diary mentions the “beginnings of a piano concerto in F minor.” That piece was completed in 1830 in a version for piano alone and published as his op. 1, the Abegg Variations (named for the young woman who held Robert’s affections before Clara). There’s evidence of work on another piano concerto, in D minor, the year before his marriage to Clara. Then, secure in the strength of his love, following the extraordinary outpouring of song in the months surrounding his wedding, Schumann dashed off a fantasy in A minor for piano and orchestra—a one-movement work written in little more than a week. Clara played through the piece at a reading rehearsal in the Leipzig Gewandhaus in August 1841. (She gave birth to their first child, Marie, barely two weeks later, establishing the from top : Robert Schumann, lithograph portrait by Josef Kriehuber (1800–1876), 1839, Vienna
composed 1841 (first movement) 1845 (movements 2 and 3) f i rst p e rf o rm a n c e January 1, 1846; Leipzig, Germany. Clara Schumann as soloist i n st ru m e n tat i o n solo piano, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, strings a p p roxi m at e p e rf o rm a n c e t i m e 31 minutes f i rst c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s February 23, 1892, Auditorium Theatre. Maude Quivey as soloist, Theodore Thomas conducting (I. Allegro affettuoso) April 19, 1893; Old City Hall, Pittsburgh. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler as soloist, Theodore Thomas conducting April 22 and 23, 1898, Auditorium Theatre. Laura Sanford as soloist, Theodore Thomas conducting July 3, 1937, Ravinia Festival. José Iturbi as soloist, Sir Ernest MacMillan conducting m o st re c e n t c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s July 18, 2013, Ravinia Festival. Jorge Federico Osorio as soloist, James Conlon conducting March 20, 21, and 22, 2014, Orchestra Hall. Mitsuko Uchida as soloist, Riccardo Muti conducting c s o re c o rd i n g s 1959. Byron Janis as soloist, Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA 1960. Van Cliburn as soloist, Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA 1967. Artur Rubinstein as soloist, Carlo Maria Giulini conducting. RCA
Lithograph portrait of Clara Wieck (1819–1896) by Andreas Staub (1806–1839), ca. 1839
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balance of career and family she would maintain for many years.) The first year of his marriage was a remarkably productive period for Schumann—within a matter of weeks he wrote his first two symphonies, began other orchestral works, and turned his attention to opera and then chamber music, while the fantasy sat on a shelf, unpublished, for some time. In the summer of 1845, Schumann composed a rondo-finale and a middle movement to go with the fantasy to complete the piece we now know as his Piano Concerto in A minor. Clara gave the first performance of the concerto at the Leipzig Gewandhaus on New Year’s Day, 1846.
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his A minor concerto owes a debt to the concertos by Moscheles and Hummel rather than to the Viennese models of Mozart and Beethoven. Schumann calls it “something between symphony, concerto, and grand sonata.” It’s not any of those, but an extensive work for piano solo with an indispensable orchestral commentary. Schumann ignores the powerful drama and delicate balance of orchestra and piano favored by Mozart and Beethoven—his orchestration is conveniently transparent, allowing the spotlight to fall on the piano in the opening measures and never shift thereafter. The concerto reflects the ebullient, unforced lyricism that marks Schumann’s work at its best. It is, in Donald Tovey’s admiring opinion, “recklessly pretty.” Although it relies on sonata form, the first movement was written as a fantasy, not as the opening of a concerto, and so it doesn’t feature the double exposition (one for orchestra alone, another in which the solo joins) common to early nineteenth-century concertos. It opens with a flamboyant piano flourish that establishes the prominence of the piano solo and continues with a plaintive four-note descending motif that will tie all three movements together. Although this
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is essentially the same motif often associated with longing and farewell in Schumann’s other music from this period, here it finds a home in one of the sunniest, most untroubled works ever written in a minor key. The texture is a tapestry of brilliant, endless filigree in the piano part woven with the strong strands of melody that periodically emerge in other instruments. After the first orchestral outburst, the piano ventures into the unexpected key of A-flat to meditate at length on the first motif, now as expansive and eloquent as a Chopin nocturne (Schumann had already done an outright Chopin imitation in one section of Carnaval). After a fairly standard recapitulation, the piano gathers momentum and plays on, right through music designed for orchestra alone, into a grand, written-out cadenza. Finally, orchestra and piano march off together with a snappy version of the main theme, which retreats into the distance, though the piano lingers to provide the final cadence. The second movement begins with awkward exchanges between piano and orchestra—the halting, careful conversation of recent acquaintances. A lovely, swinging theme that appears in the cello brings the movement to life. The conversation starts up again, but is interrupted by ghostly reminders of the concerto’s opening four-note motif, and then, without pause, by the full force of the finale’s rondo theme. The finale has nearly a thousand measures of music, but it flies by as one coherent, nearly breathless statement. In addition to the boldly assertive rondo theme itself, Schumann tosses out a number of felicitous tunes, some, like his most characteristic melodies, rhythmically playful enough to discourage a tapping foot. After a final orchestral reprise of the rondo theme, the piano launches an extensive coda, which seems quite reluctant to bring such exuberance to an end.
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FANNIE BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER AND SCHUMANN’S PIANO CONCERTO With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, no one has performed Schumann’s Piano Concerto more than Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler. Born in Austria on July 16, 1863, Fannie Blumenfeld and her family immigrated to the U.S. in 1867 and settled in Chicago, where she gave her first concert on February 26, 1875. She returned to Vienna in 1878 to study with Theodor Leschetizky before returning to the U.S. in 1883 (and anglicizing her name to Bloomfield). She soon auditioned for Theodore Thomas, then music director for the New York Philharmonic as well as his eponymous Theodore Thomas Orchestra. It was too late to hire her for his upcoming seasons, but, inspired by her playing, Thomas provided letters of recommendation to help her secure other engagements. Bloomfield made her professional debut in Chicago’s Central Music Hall in January 1884, in the first movement of Henselt’s Piano Concerto under Carl Wolfsohn. Her New York debut occurred the following year under Frank Van der Stucken and his orchestra, again in Henselt’s concerto. In October 1885, she married Sigmund Zeisler (who later served on the defense counsel for the anarchists responsible for the onset of the Haymarket Square riot), and the couple had three sons. Zeisler made her debut with the Chicago Orchestra during the ensemble’s first season, in Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto at the Auditorium Theatre
in March 1892. Later that spring, she joined Thomas and the Orchestra on tour through Omaha; Louisville; and Kansas City, Missouri. The following season, she appeared on subscription concerts in December and on tour on five occasions, including concerts in Pittsburgh and Buffalo in April that featured the ensemble’s first performances of Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Soon thereafter, Zeisler was one of only two pianists—along with Ignace Paderewski—chosen by Thomas to perform with the Orchestra at the World’s Columbian Exposition; on June 9, 1893, she was soloist in Schumann’s concerto. Over the next thirty years, Zeisler was a frequent and favorite soloist, performing not only Schumann’s concerto, but also works by Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Henselt, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Moszkowski, Mozart, Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, and Weber. In February 1925, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra—and before the public—one last time, in a concert celebrating her fiftieth year as a concert artist and featuring her eighth performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the ensemble. She died in Chicago on August 21, 1927. Frank Villella is the director of the Rosenthal Archives. For more information, please visit cso.org/fromthearchives.
from l e ft : Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (ca. 1893) Program book detail for Zeisler’s Golden Jubilee Concert, given on February 25, 1925
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richard strauss
Born June 11, 1864; Munich, Germany Died September 8, 1949; Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 In 1898, after lending music of lasting brilliance to heroes taken from the pages of Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and Cervantes, and to two great legendary characters— Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel—Richard Strauss could think of no other subject more suitable than himself. At the top of his last great tone poem he wrote “Ein Heldenleben” (A Hero’s Life, or A Heroic Life), leaving little doubt of the title character’s identity. As Strauss told Romain Rolland, “I do not see why I should not compose a symphony about myself; I find myself quite as interesting as Napoleon or Alexander.” The mention of Napoleon was no coincidence, for Ein Heldenleben was Strauss’s response to the Eroica, Beethoven’s Napoleon-inspired symphony—“admittedly without a funeral march, but yet in E-flat, with lots of horns, which are always a yardstick of heroism.” Those who knew Strauss thought him an unlikely hero. There was nothing about him—apart from his own dazzling music— to compare with the bold and fearless character who throws open the first page of this score and then holds our attention for one enormous paragraph of music—the 116 measures of nonstop orchestral exhibitionism that Strauss labels The Hero. The moment of silence that follows is broken by the squabbling of the woodwinds, introducing The Hero’s Adversaries. This is Strauss’s depiction of his critics, and it is rendered with such hatred (Strauss requests “snarling” oboes and “hissing” cymbals) that we would think he had never received a good review in his life. (In fact, aside from his first opera Guntram, Strauss probably had read more glowing reviews of his music than any major composer of the day.) Next we meet Strauss’s wife, Pauline Strauss de Ahna, an accomplished soprano who sings here with the voice of a solo violin. Richard had met Pauline de Ahna in the summer of 1887, when his uncle suggested he give lessons to the neighbors’ daughter, a young woman with a generous voice and a boisterous temperament. She needed coaching and discipline; she found romance instead. Pauline was a complex woman—wildly abov e : Richard Strauss, portrait by Edward Steichen (1879–1973), New York, 1904
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composed 1897–December 1898 f i rst p e rf o rm a n c e March 3, 1899; Frankfurt, Germany. The composer conducting i n st ru m e n tat i o n three flutes with piccolo, four oboes and english horn, two clarinets, E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet, three bassoons and contrabassoon, eight horns, two piccolo trumpets and three trumpets, three trombones, two tubas, timpani, tam-tam, triangle, cymbals, snare drum, tenor drum, bass drum, two harps, strings (including a prominent violin solo) a p p roxi m at e p e rf o rm a n c e t i m e 46 minutes f i rst c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s March 9 and 10, 1900, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting (U.S. premiere) August 3, 1939, Ravinia Festival. Artur Rodzinski conducting m o st re c e n t c s o p e rf o rm a n c e s July 24, 1998, Ravinia Festival. Edo de Waart conducting January 7, 8, and 9, 2016, Orchestra Hall. Jonathan Nott conducting c s o re c o rd i n g s 1954. Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA 1990. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Erato 2008. Bernard Haitink conducting. CSO Resound
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impetuous and often fractious and stubborn— but Richard quickly realized he couldn’t live without her. She gave him advice and encouragement, and she was the only critic who mattered to him. “She is the spice that keeps me going,” the composer later told his son Franz. As Strauss admitted, Pauline was a “very complicated” subject to portray, “different each minute from what she was a minute earlier.” The Hero’s Companion, as Strauss calls this mercurial section, is a full-length portrait, and it is not always complimentary. Certainly Pauline noticed that her husband painted himself in a warm, flattering light, while “her” violin solo is marked, at various points: “flippant,” “angry,” and “nagging.” But no one who knew Pauline ever took issue with Richard’s appraisal, though many wondered why she put up with such treatment. (Years later, when she was portrayed in an even less complimentary way in the opera Intermezzo, she told the soprano Lotte Lehmann, who sang her role, “I don’t give a damn.”) Nevertheless, theirs was a great love match, and sumptuous love music soon overpowers her voice and encompasses the entire orchestra. The hero’s adversaries again raise their sharp voices, and he prepares to attack. The Battle Scene is noisy and thrillingly chaotic for a very long stretch, and for many years, this was one of the most notoriously difficult passages in all music; the technical advances of the ensuing decades have scarcely softened its impact. Gradually the hero is strengthened by thoughts
of love, and he rises above his adversaries. A broad ascent to victory is marked by the return of the opening theme, now at full cry, and the Eroica horns Strauss promised. (The way they dart around the big tune is particularly bold.) At the climax, the horns let loose with the great, vaulting signature tune from Don Juan, prompting the appearance of other themes from Don Juan and Also sprach Zarathustra before the music gradually fades. In a quiet daydream (a gently swaying barcarole), Strauss recalls music from all his previous tone poems as well as many of his songs, and even (or perhaps most pointedly) the failed Guntram. These are The Hero’s Works of Peace. (“Of course I haven’t taken part in any battles,” Strauss wrote to his publisher years later, “but the only way I could express works of peace was through themes of my own.”) The critics
f r o m l e f t: Portrait of Pauline Strauss (1863–1950), noted soprano and wife of the composer. Sport and Salon, Illustrated Magazine, 1902 Richard Strauss with his family in Berlin, 1904. Portrait by Albert Zander (1864–1897) & Siegmund Labisch (1863–1942)
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reappear briefly; Strauss rises up against them in one last tirade. The final section is labeled The Hero’s Escape from the World and Fulfillment. The music now slips into a simple pastorale, with an english horn calling out over a quiet drum tap. The violins repeatedly hint at a new theme, which finally rises from total silence—a melody so noble and disarming that we do not recognize it as the same sequence of notes first uttered rather ineloquently by Pauline. It’s one of Strauss’s greatest themes, all the more moving for coming so near the end, like a grand benediction. There is one last, disruptive assault from the critics, and then the loving voice of Pauline, obviously quite undone by some of her husband’s most sublime music. Ein Heldenleben wasn’t the last of Strauss’s family portraits. Five years later, with the Domestic Symphony, he became the twentieth century’s first great realist painter, depicting life at home with Pauline—bathing the baby, making love, quarreling—with surgical precision and in painstaking detail. (Strauss boasted that he had reached the point where he could differentiate musically between a knife and a fork.) And with the operatic comedy Intermezzo, even Strauss wondered if he had gone too far, blurring the
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line between public and private in ways that made audiences uncomfortable and angered his own family. Today, of course, it’s easier to view Ein Heldenleben as an innocent orchestral fantasy— simply to enjoy its abundant musical pleasures. Strauss’s hero and his companion are still vividly real, but they aren’t real-life people to us. As the art historian Ernst Gombrich wrote, “The consummate artist conjures up the image of a human being that will live on in the richness of its emotional texture when the sitter and his vanities have long been forgotten.” Both Richard and Pauline Strauss have now been dead for nearly three-quarters of a century. Their son Franz and his two children are also all gone, leaving virtually no one who would care how the family is portrayed in Ein Heldenleben. For the rest of us, this music holds the same fascination as any great portrait—for a few moments we feel we actually know these people, we enjoy the thrill of peering into another time and place, and then we return to our own lives.
Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.
profiles Karina Canellakis Conductor These concerts mark Karina Canellakis’s debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Internationally acclaimed for her emotionally charged performances, technical command, and interpretive depth, Karina Canellakis has become one of the most in-demand conductors of her generation. She is chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. The 2021–22 season has included concerts with some of the finest European and U.S. orchestras, including her debuts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and returns to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Orchestre de Paris. During the summer of 2021, she made debuts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival, and the Orchestre national de France at the Saint-Denis Festival and led Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Vienna Symphony as the culminating performance of Beethoven– The European Tour. Nine Symphonies, Nine Cities live on ARTE. On the operatic stage, she conducted a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris with
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the Orchestre national de France. She enjoys opera in concert, and led the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam for Janáček’s Kát’a Kabanová, the second act of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, and the Vienna Symphony at the Bregenz Festival in the third act of Wagner’s Siegfried. In past seasons, she has conducted critically acclaimed productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, and The Marriage of Figaro in addition to David Lang’s The Loser and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s The Hogboon. Since winning the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award in 2016, Canellakis has become a guest conductor with leading ensembles around the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal; and the Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto, Cincinnati, Minnesota, and Detroit symphony orchestras. She was the first woman to conduct the First Night of the BBC Proms in London in 2019, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 2018, she was also the first woman to conduct the Nobel Prize Concert with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. Already known to many in the classical music world for her virtuosic violin playing, Karina Canellakis was initially encouraged to pursue conducting by Sir Simon Rattle while she was playing regularly in the Berlin Philharmonic for two years as a member of its OrchesterAkademie. She performed for many years as a soloist, guest leader, and chamber musician, spending her summers at the Marlboro Music Festival, until conducting eventually became her focus. She was born and raised in New York City.
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Kirill Gerstein Piano f ir st cso performa nces June 28, 2002, Ravinia Festival. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1, Christoph Eschenbach conducting March 4, 5, and 6, 2010, Orchestra Hall. Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto no. 2, Charles Dutoit conducting most r ecent cso perfo r m a n ces July 21, 2017, Ravinia Festival. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3, Susanna Mälkki conducting November 16, 17, 18, and 21, 2017, Orchestra Hall. Suite from Strauss’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme and Brahms’s Piano Concerto no. 1 with Riccardo Muti conducting
Kirill Gerstein’s heritage combines the traditions of Russian, American, and central European music making with an insatiable curiosity. These qualities, and the relationships that he has developed with orchestras, conductors, instrumentalists, singers, and composers, have led him to explore a huge spectrum of repertoire, both new and old. Born in the former Soviet Union, Kirill Gerstein is an American citizen based in Berlin. His career is similarly international, with worldwide performances ranging from concerts with the Chicago and Boston symphony orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Vienna and Berlin philharmonic orchestras, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra to recitals in London, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and New York. He is currently on the faculty of the Kronberg Academy and professor of piano at Berlin’s Hanns Eisler School of Music. Under the auspices of Kronberg Academy, his series of free and open online seminars, Kirill Gerstein Invites, is now in its fifth season. Over the last year, Gerstein’s decade-long relationship with Thomas Adès has resulted in the release of the world premiere of Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra written especially for him, released on Deutsche Grammophon; and a compendium of Adès’s works for piano on myrios P H OTO BY MARCO B O RGGRE VE
classics. Both discs garnered accolades that included a 2021 International Classical Music Award, a 2020 Gramophone Award, and three Grammy Award nominations. In May 2021, in Amsterdam, Gerstein premiered another concerto written especially for him by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher. Kirill Gerstein’s latest release is a recording of Mozart’s four-hand piano sonatas with his mentor Ferenc Rados on myrios classics. Through the partnership, he has realized many thoughtfully curated projects, including Strauss’s Enoch Arden with Bruno Ganz, recorded shortly before the actor’s death in 2019; Busoni’s monumental Piano Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo; and The Gershwin Moment with the St. Louis Symphony, David Robertson, Gerstein’s jazz mentor Gary Burton, and Storm Large. Gerstein has additionally recorded music by Scriabin with the Oslo Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko for LAWO Classics and by Tchaikovsky with the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov as part of The Tchaikovsky Project, released by Decca Classics. Born in Voronezh, Russia, Kirill Gerstein attended a music school for gifted children and taught himself to play jazz by listening to his parents’ record collection. Following a chance encounter with Gary Burton in St. Petersburg when he was fourteen years old, he was invited as the youngest student ever to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied jazz piano in tandem with his classical studies. At sixteen, he decided to focus on classical music and completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees with Solomon Mikowsky at New York’s Manhattan School of Music, followed by further studies with Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid and Ferenc Rados in Budapest. Gerstein is the sixth recipient of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, first-prize winner at the Tenth Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant holder. In May 2021, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music. kirillgerstein.com MARCH–JULY 2022
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chicago symphony orchestra The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the world’s leading orchestras, and in September 2010, renowned Italian conductor Riccardo Muti became its tenth music director. During his tenure, the Orchestra has deepened its engagement with the Chicago community, nurtured its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians and composers, and collaborated with visionary artists. The history of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, then the leading conductor in America and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra here. Thomas’s aim to build a permanent orchestra with performance capabilities of the highest quality was realized at the first concerts in October 1891 in the Auditorium Theatre. Thomas served as music director until his death in January 1905—just three weeks after the dedication of Orchestra Hall, the Orchestra’s permanent home designed by Daniel Burnham. Frederick Stock, recruited by Thomas to the viola section in 1895, became assistant conductor in 1899 and succeeded the Orchestra’s founder. His tenure lasted thirty-seven years, from 1905 to 1942—the longest of the Orchestra’s music directors. Dynamic and innovative, the Stock years saw the founding of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the first training orchestra in the United States affiliated with a major symphony orchestra, in 1919. Stock also established youth auditions, organized the first subscription concerts especially for children, and began a series of popular concerts. Three eminent conductors headed the Orchestra during the following decade: Désiré Defauw was music director from 1943 to 1947; Artur Rodzinski assumed the post in 1947–48; and Rafael Kubelík led the ensemble for three seasons from 1950 to 1953. The next ten years belonged to Fritz Reiner, whose recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are still considered performance hallmarks. It was Reiner who invited Margaret Hillis to form the Chicago Symphony Chorus in 1957. For the five seasons from 1963 to 1968, Jean Martinon held the position of music director. Sir Georg Solti, the Orchestra’s eighth music director, served from 1969 until 1991. His arrival launched one of the most successful musical partnerships of our time, and the CSO made its first overseas tour to Europe in 1971 under his direction, along with numerous award-winning recordings. Solti then held
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the title of music director laureate and returned to conduct the Orchestra for several weeks each season until his death in September 1997. Daniel Barenboim was named music director designate in January 1989, and he became the Orchestra’s ninth music director in September 1991, a position he held until June 2006. His tenure was distinguished by the opening of Symphony Center in 1997, highly praised operatic productions at Orchestra Hall, numerous appearances with the Orchestra in the dual role of pianist and conductor, twenty-one international tours, and the appointment of Duain Wolfe as the Chorus’s second director. Pierre Boulez’s long-standing relationship with the Orchestra led to his appointment as principal guest conductor in 1995. He was named Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus in 2006, a position he held until his death in January 2016. Only two others have served as principal guest conductors: Carlo Maria Giulini, who appeared in Chicago regularly in the late 1950s, was named to the post in 1969, serving until 1972; Claudio Abbado held the position from 1982 to 1985. From 2006 to 2010, Bernard Haitink was the Orchestra’s first principal conductor. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma served as the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant from 2010 to 2019. Hilary Hahn currently is the CSO’s Artist-in-Residence, a role that brings her to Chicago for multiple residencies each season. Jessie Montgomery is the current Mead Composerin-Residence. She follows ten highly regarded composers in this role, including John Corigliano and Shulamit Ran—both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music—and Missy Mazzoli, who completed her threeyear tenure in June 2021. In addition to composing works for the CSO, Montgomery curates the contemporary MusicNOW series. The Orchestra first performed at Ravinia Park in 1905 and appeared frequently through August 1931, after which the park was closed for most of the Great Depression. In August 1936, the Orchestra helped to inaugurate the first season of the Ravinia Festival, and it has been in residence nearly every summer since. Since 1916, recording has been a significant part of the Orchestra’s activities. Current releases on CSO Resound, the Orchestra’s independent recording label, include the Grammy Award–winning release of Verdi’s Requiem led by Riccardo Muti. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have earned sixty-three Grammy awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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Jessie Montgomery Mead Composer-in-Residence Hilary Hahn Artist-in-Residence violins Robert Chen Concertmaster The Louis C. Sudler Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor Stephanie Jeong Associate Concertmaster The Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair David Taylor Assistant Concertmaster* The Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Chair Yuan-Qing Yu Assistant Concertmaster* So Young Bae Cornelius Chiu Alison Dalton Gina DiBello Kozue Funakoshi Russell Hershow Qing Hou Matous Michal Simon Michal Blair Milton ‡ Sando Shia Susan Synnestvedt Rong-Yan Tang Baird Dodge Principal Lei Hou Ni Mei Fox Fehling § Hermine Gagné Rachel Goldstein Mihaela Ionescu Sylvia Kim Kilcullen Melanie Kupchynsky Wendy Koons Meir Aiko Noda § Joyce Noh Nancy Park Ronald Satkiewicz Florence Schwartz viol as Li-Kuo Chang Acting Principal The Paul Hindemith Principal Viola Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor Catherine Brubaker Youming Chen Sunghee Choi Wei-Ting Kuo Danny Lai Weijing Michal
Diane Mues Lawrence Neuman Max Raimi cellos John Sharp Principal The Eloise W. Martin Chair Kenneth Olsen Assistant Principal The Adele Gidwitz Chair Karen Basrak The Joseph A. and Cecile Renaud Gorno Chair Loren Brown Richard Hirschl Daniel Katz Katinka Kleijn David Sanders Gary Stucka Brant Taylor basses Alexander Hanna Principal The David and Mary Winton Green Principal Bass Chair Daniel Armstrong ‡ Robert Kassinger Mark Kraemer Stephen Lester Bradley Opland harp Lynne Turner flutes Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson Principal The Erika and Dietrich M. Gross Principal Flute Chair Emma Gerstein Jennifer Gunn piccolo Jennifer Gunn The Dora and John Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair oboes William Welter Principal The Nancy and Larry Fuller Principal Oboe Chair Michael Henoch Assistant Principal The Gilchrist Foundation Chair Lora Schaefer Scott Hostetler
english horn Scott Hostetler cl arinets Stephen Williamson Principal John Bruce Yeh Assistant Principal Gregory Smith e-fl at cl arinet John Bruce Yeh bassoons Keith Buncke Principal William Buchman Assistant Principal Dennis Michel Miles Maner contrabassoon Miles Maner horns David Cooper Principal Daniel Gingrich Associate Principal James Smelser David Griffin Oto Carrillo Susanna Gaunt trumpets Esteban Batallán Principal The Adolph Herseth Principal Trumpet Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor Mark Ridenour Assistant Principal John Hagstrom The Pritzker Military Museum & Library Chair Tage Larsen
tuba Gene Pokorny Principal The Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld timpani David Herbert Principal The Clinton Family Fund Chair Vadim Karpinos Assistant Principal percussion Cynthia Yeh Principal Patricia Dash Vadim Karpinos James Ross librarians Peter Conover Principal Carole Keller Mark Swanson orchestra personnel John Deverman Director Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel stage technicians Christopher Lewis Stage Manager Blair Carlson Paul Christopher Ramon Echevarria Ryan Hartge Peter Landry Todd Snick
trombones Jay Friedman Principal The Lisa and Paul Wiggin Principal Trombone Chair Michael Mulcahy Charles Vernon bass trombone Charles Vernon
* Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. ‡ On sabbatical § On leave The Louise H. Benton Wagner Chair currently is unoccupied. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically.
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administration Jeff Alexander President PRESIDENT’S OFFICE Kristine Stassen Executive Assistant to the President & Secretary of the Board Mónica Lugo Executive Assistant to the Music Director Human Resources Lynne Sorkin Director Dijana Cirkic Coordinator A R T I S T I C A D M I N I S T R AT I O N Cristina Rocca Vice President The Richard and Mary L. Gray Chair Guillermo Muñoz Küster Artistic Planning Coordinator James M. Fahey Senior Director, Programming, Symphony Center Presents Randy Elliot Director, Artistic Administration Monica Wentz Director, Artistic Planning & Special Projects Lena Breitkreuz Artist Manager, Symphony Center Presents Caroline Eichler Artist Coordinator, CSO Phillip Huscher Scholar-in-Residence & Program Annotator Pietro Fiumara Artists Assistant Chorus Shelley Baldridge Manager Heather Anderson Assistant Manager and Librarian ORCHESTR A AND B U I L D I N G O P E R AT I O N S Vanessa Moss Vice President Heidi Lukas Director Michael Lavin Assistant Director, Operations, SCP & Rental Events Jeffrey Stang Production Manager, CSO Joseph Sherman Production Manager, SCP & Rental Events Charles Braico House Manager Charlie Post Audio Engineer Rosenthal Archives Frank Villella Director Orchestra Personnel John Deverman Director Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions & Orchestra Personnel Facilities John Maas Director Engineers Tim McElligott Chief Engineer Michael McGeehan Kevin Walsh Kyle Hendle Electricians Robert Stokas Chief Electrician Doug Scheuller Stage Technicians Christopher Lewis Stage Manager Blair Carlson Paul Christopher Ramon Echevarria Ryan Hartge Peter Landry Todd Snick
Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO Jonathan McCormick Director, Education & the Negaunee Music Institute Katy Clusen Manager, School & Family Programs Sarah Vander Ploeg Coordinator, School & Community Partnerships Antonio Padilla Denis Operations Coordinator, Civic Orchestra of Chicago Rachael Cohen Programs Assistant F I N A N C E A N D A D M I N I S T R AT I O N Stacie Frank Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Renay Johansen Slifka Executive Assistant Accounting Kerri Gravlin Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Paulette Jean Volf, Janet Kosiba Assistant Controllers Janet Hansen Payroll Manager Marianne Hahn Accounting Manager Linda Long Accountant Hyon Yu General Ledger Manager Cynthia Maday Accounts Payable Manager Ted Sofios Payroll Assistant Information Technology Daniel Spees Director Douglas Bolino Client Systems Administrator Jackie Spark Lead Technologist Kirk McMahon Technologist SALES AND MARKETING Ryan Lewis Vice President Erika Nelson Director, Institutional Marketing & Revenue Management Content Marketing and Digital Experience Elisabeth Madeja Director Dana Navarro Associate Director, Digital Content & Producer Laura Emerick Digital Content Editor Steve Burkholder Web Manager Landon Hegedus Coordinator, Digital Engagement Niky Crawford Coordinator, Digital Content Megan Ireland Associate, Digital Engagement, Social Media Sasha Aleksandra Associate, Digital Engagement, Email Program Marketing and Operations Amy Brondyke Director Alex Demas Marketing Manager, CSO Tommy Crawford Associate Manager, Marketing Operations Kate McDuffie Coordinator, Community Marketing Amanda Swanson Marketing Associate, Data & Operations Jessica Reinhart Advertising & Promotions Specialist Creative Todd Land Director Sophie Weber Creative Services Manager Eddie Limperis Designer Emily Herrington Design Associate
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Content Frances Atkins Director Gerald Virgil Senior Content Editor Kristin Tobin Designer & Print Production Manager Communications and Public Relations Eileen Chambers Director Clay Baker Coordinator Sales and Patron Experience Joseph Fernicola III Director Pavan Singh Manager, Patron Services Brian Koenig Manager, Preferred Services Robert Coad Manager, VIP Services Joseph Garnett Manager, Box Office Aislinn Gagliardi Assistant Manager, Patron Services Carmen Ringhiser Assistant Manager, Preferred Services Steve Paulin Assistant Manager, Box Office The Symphony Store Tyler Holstrom Manager DEVELOPMENT Dale Hedding Vice President Jeremiah Strickler Executive Assistant Bobbie Rafferty Director, Individual Giving & Affiliated Donor Groups Allison Szafranski Director, Leadership Gifts Alfred Andreychuk Director, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving Charles Palys Major Gifts Officer & Administrator Tori Ramsay Major Gifts Officer Dakota Williams Associate Director, Education & Community Engagement Giving Richard Riedl Manager, Governing Member Gifts Emily McClanathan Manager, Strategic Development Communications Victoria Cottrell Manager, Strategic Giving Erin Gernon Prospect Research Specialist & Moves Management Coordinator Neomia Harris Senior Assistant, Individual Giving Programs & Planned Giving Institutional Advancement Susan Green Director, Foundation & Government Relations Nick Magnone Director, Corporate Development Jennifer Urevig Manager, Corporate Development Jennifer Harazin Grant Writer Donor Engagement and Development Operations Liz Heinitz Senior Director, Development Operations & Annual Giving Lisa McDaniel Director, Donor Engagement Caitlyn Cushing Associate Director, Donor & Development Services Kimberly Duffy Senior Donor Engagement Manager Jocelyn Weberg Manager, Annual Giving Kevin Gupana, Ariana Strahl Managers, Donor Engagement Jamie Forssander Coordinator, Donor Engagement Bri Baiza, Emily Werner Coordinators, Donor Services
chicago symphony orchestra association board of trustees OFFICERS
Mary Louise Gorno Chair Chester A. Gougis Vice Chair Steven Shebik Vice Chair Helen Zell Vice Chair Renée Metcalf Treasurer Jeff Alexander President Kristine Stassen Secretary of the Board Stacie M. Frank Assistant Treasurer Dale Hedding Vice President for Development HONOR ARY TRUSTEES
The Honorable Lori Lightfoot, Honorary Chair The Honorable Richard M. Daley TRUSTEES
John Aalbregtse Peter J. Barack H. Rigel Barber Randy Lamm Berlin Roderick Branch Kay Bucksbaum Robert J. Buford Leslie Henner Burns Debra A. Cafaro Marion A. Cameron-Gray George P. Colis Keith S. Crow Stephen V. D’Amore Timothy A. Duffy Brian W. Duwe Judith E. Feldman* Graham C. Grady Lori Julian Neil T. Kawashima
Geraldine Keefe Donna L. Kendall Thomas G. Kilroy James Kolar Randall S. Kroszner Patty Lane Susan C. Levy Renée Metcalf Britt M. Miller Mary Pivirotto Murley Sylvia Neil Gerald Pauling Michael A. Perlstein* Col. Jennifer N. Pritzker Dr. Don M. Randel Dr. Mohan Rao Burton X. Rosenberg Kristen C. Rossi E. Scott Santi Steven Shebik Marlon R. Smith Walter Snodell Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr. Scott Swanson Nasrin Thierer Liisa Thomas Terrence J. Truax Frederick H. Waddell William Ward* Paul S. Watford Craig R. Williams Robert Wislow Helen Zell Gifford R. Zimmerman
LIFE TRUSTEES
William Adams IV Mrs. Robert A. Beatty Arnold M. Berlin Laurence O. Booth William G. Brown Dean L. Buntrock Bruce E. Clinton Richard Colburn Richard H. Cooper Anthony T. Dean Debora de Hoyos Charles Douglas John A. Edwardson Thomas J. Eyerman James B. Fadim David W. Fox, Sr. Richard J. Franke Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr. H. Laurance Fuller Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Paul C. Gignilliat Joseph B. Glossberg Richard C. Godfrey William A. Goldstein Mary Louise Gorno Howard L. Gottlieb Chester A. Gougis Mary Winton Green Dietrich Gross David P. Hackett Joan W. Harris John H. Hart Thomas C. Heagy Jay L. Henderson Mrs. Roger B. Hull † Judith A. Istock William R. Jentes Paul R. Judy Richard B. Kapnick
Donald G. Kempf, Jr. George D. Kennedy Mrs. John C. Kern Robert Kohl Josef Lakonishok Charles Ashby Lewis Eva F. Lichtenberg John S. Lillard Donald G. Lubin John F. Manley Ling Z. Markovitz R. Eden Martin Arthur C. Martinez Judith W. McCue Lester H. McKeever David E. McNeel John D. Nichols James J. O’Connor William A. Osborn Mrs. Albert Pawlick Jane DiRenzo Pigott John M. Pratt Dr. Irwin Press John W. Rogers, Jr. Jerry Rose Frank A. Rossi Earl J. Rusnak, Jr. Cynthia M. Sargent John R. Schmidt Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Robert C. Spoerri Carl W. Stern Roger W. Stone † William H. Strong Louis C. Sudler, Jr. Richard L. Thomas Richard P. Toft Penny Van Horn Paul R. Wiggin
* Ex-officio Trustee † Deceased List as of November 3, 2021
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chicago symphony orchestra association governing members The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, which celebrated its 125th anniversary in the 2019–20 season. Its support funds the CSOA’s artistic excellence and community engagement. In return, members enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition. For more information, please contact 312-294-3337 or governingmembers@cso.org. GOVERNING MEMBERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Michael Perlstein Chair Jared Kaplan † Immediate Past Chair Nancy Dehmlow Vice Chair of Member Engagement Charles Emmons, Jr. Vice Chair of the Annual Fund Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership GOVERNING MEMBERS Anonymous (5) Dora J. Aalbregtse Floyd Abramson Ms. Patti Acurio Fraida Aland Sandra Jo Allen Gary Allie Robert A. Alsaker Megan P. Anderson Dr. Edward Applebaum David Arch Dr. Kent F. Armbruster Dr. Andrew J. Aronson Marta Holsman Babson Ed Bachrach Mara Mills Barker Judith Barnard Merrill Barnes Peter Barrett Roberta Barron Roger S. Baskes Robert H. Baum Dr. Robert A. Beatty Arlene Bennett † Edward H. Bennett III Meta S. Berger D. Theodore Berghorst Ann Berlin Phyllis Berlin Ronald Bevil William E. Bible Mrs. Arthur A. Billings Tomás G. Bissonnette Dianne Blanco Judy Blau Merrill Blau Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Ann Blickensderfer Terry Boden Suzanne Borland James G. Borovsky Adam Bossov Janet S. Boyer
John D. Bramsen Jill Brennan Bob Brink † Mrs. William Gardner Brown John D. Brubaker † Sue Brubaker Patricia M. Bryan Gilda Buchbinder Samuel Buchsbaum Lisa Dollar Buehler Rosemarie Buntrock Elizabeth Nolan Buzard Lutgart Calcote Thomas D. Campbell Vera Capp Mary Anne Carpenter Wendy Alders Cartland Judy Castellini Tina Chapekis Mrs. William C. Childs Linton J. Childs Frank Cicero, Jr. Dana Green Clancy Patricia A. Clickener Mitchell Cobey Jean M. Cocozza Mrs. Douglas Cohen Robin Tennant Colburn Lew Collens Jane B. Colman Mrs. Earle M. Combs III † Dr. Thomas H. Conner Cecilia Conrad Jenny L. Corley Beverly Ann Conroy Patricia Cox Mrs. William A. Crane Sarah Crane Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven R. Bert Crossland Rebecca E. Crown Catherine Daniels Mrs. Robert J. Darnall Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta Michael C. Dawson Roxanne Decyk Nancy Dehmlow Duane M. DesParte Janet Wood Diederichs Paul Dix Mr. J. Donenfeld Mrs. William F. Dooley Sara L. Downey Ann Drake Dr. David Dranove Robert R. Duggan Frank A. Dusek Virginia Earle Judge Frank H. Easterbrook Dorne Eastwood Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Louis M. Ebling III Jon Ekdahl Kathleen H. Elliott Mrs. Samuel H. Ellis Charles Emmons, Jr. Janice Engle Scott Enloe Dr. James Ertle Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri
Tarek Fadel Melissa Sage Fadim Jeffrey S. Farbman Sally S. Feder Signe Ferguson Hector Ferral, M.D. Harve Ferrill † Constance M. Filling Daniel Fischel Jennifer J. Fischer Henry and Frances Fogel Adrian Radmore Foster David S. Fox Jody Frank Rhoda Lea Frank † Paul E. Freehling Mitzi Freidheim Philip M. Friedmann Malcolm M. Gaynor Robert D. Gecht Frank Gelber Lynn Gendleman Dr. Mark Gendleman Rabbi Gary S. Gerson Karen Gianfrancisco Ellen Gignilliat James J. Glasser Madeleine Condit Glossberg Judy Goldberg Mary Anne Goldberg Anne Goldstein Jerry A. Goldstone Marcia Goltermann Mary Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen Dr. Ruth Grant Hanna Gray Mary L. Gray Freddi L. Greenberg Joyce Greening Dr. Jerri Greer D. Kendall Griffith Jerome J. Groen Jacalyn Gronek Mrs. John Growdon John P. Grube James P. Grusecki Joel R. Guillory, Jr., M.D. Dr. John W. Gustaitis, Jr. Anastasia Gutting Gary Gutting † Lynne R. Haarlow Mrs. Ernst A. Häberli Joan M. Hall Dr. Howard Halpern Mrs. Richard C. Halpern Anne Marcus Hamada Joel L. Handelman John Hard Mrs. William A. Hark Dr. Dane Hassani James W. Haugh Thomas Haynes James Heckman Patricia Herrmann Heestand Dr. Scott W. Helm Marilyn P. Helmholz Richard H. Helmholz
† Deceased Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
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Dr. Arthur L. Herbst Jeffrey W. Hesse Marjorie Friedman Heyman Konstanze L. Hickey Thea Flaum Hill Suzanne Hoffman Anne Hokin William J. Hokin † Wayne J. Holman III Richard S. Holson III Fred Holubow James Holzhauer Carol Honigberg Janice L. Honigberg Nancy A. Horner Mrs. Arnold Horween Frances G. Horwich Dr. Mary L. Houston Patricia J. Hurley Michael Huston Barbara Ann Huyler Sandra Ihm Craig T. Ingram Verne G. Istock Nancy Witte Jacobs Dr. Todd Janus John Jawor Justine Jentes Brian Johnson George E. Johnson Ronald B. Johnson Dr. Patricia Collins Jones Edward T. Joyce Carol K. Kaplan † Jared Kaplan † Claudia Norris Kapnick Lonny H. Karmin Barry D. Kaufman Kenneth V. Kaufman Marie Kaufman Don Kaul Ellen Kelleher Molly Keller Jonathan Kemper Nancy Kempf Linda J. Kenney, Ph.D. John C. Kern † Elizabeth I. Keyser Leslie Kiesel Emmy King Susan Kiphart Carol Kipperman Carol Evans Klenk Jean Klingenstein Janet L. Knauff Henry L. Kohn, Jr. Joseph Konen Jack Kozik Dr. Mark Kozloff David Kravitz Dr. Michael Krco David Kreisman MaryBeth Kretz Dr. Vinay Kumar Rubin P. Kuznitsky John LaBarbera Lynda Lane Maria Lans Stephen M. Lans William Lawlor
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Flora Lazar Sunhee Lee Sheila Fields Leiter Frederick Lengrehr Jeffrey P. Lennard Laurence H. Levine Mrs. Bernard Leviton Dr. Edmund J. Lewis Gregory M. Lewis Carolyn Lickerman Mrs. Paul Lieberman Dr. Philip R. Liebson Patricia M. Livingston John S. Lizzadro, Sr. Jane Loeb Renée Logan Amy Lubin Anna Lysakowski Carol MacArthur Mrs. Duncan MacLean Brooke MacLean Dr. Michael S. Maling Sharon Manuel David A Marshall Judy Marth Patrick A. Martin BeLinda I. Mathie Howard M. McCue III Ann Pickard McDermott Dr. James L. McGee Dr. John P. McGee II † Sharon McGee Mrs. Lester McKeever John McKenna Mrs. Peter McKinney Mrs. James M. McMullan † James E. McPherson Paul Meister Mary Mittler Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery Charles A. Moore Emilie Morphew, M.D. Kate Morrison Christopher Morrow Daniel R. Murray Eileen M. Murray Stuart C. Nathan Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr. Edward A. Nieminen Dr. Zehava L. Noah Kenneth R. Norgan Gerard M. Nussbaum Martha C. Nussbaum Mrs. James J. O’Connor Joy O’Malley James J. O’Sullivan, Jr. William A. Obenshain Shelley Ochab Maria Ochs Eric A. Oesterle Mrs. Norman L. Olson
Thomas Orlando Kathleen Orr Beatrice F. Orzac † Gerald Ostermann Bruce L. Ottley China I. Oughton † Dr. Pamela Papas Bruno A. Pasquinelli Timothy J. Patenode Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Michael Payette Mrs. Richard S. Pepper Jean E. Perkins Michael A. Perlstein Bonnie Vaughn Perry Dr. William Peruzzi Robert C. Peterson Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Sue N. Pick Stanley M. Pillman Virginia Johnson Pillman Betsey N. Pinkert Emilysue Pinnell-Reichardt Harvey R. Plonsker John F. Podjasek III Judy Pomeranz Stephen Potter Carol Prins Elizabeth R. B. Pruett John Wells Puth Duane Quaini Maridee Quanbeck Diana Mendley Rauner Susan Regenstein Mari Yamamoto Regnier Ruth Anne Rehfeldt Mary Thomson Renner Burton R. Rissman Charles T. Rivkin Carol Roberts John H. Roberts William C. Roberts David Robin Dr. Diana Robin Bob Rogers Kevin M. Rooney Harry J. Roper Saul Rosen Sheli Z. Rosenberg Ricardo Rosenkranz Michael Rosenthal Dr. Roseanne Rosenthal Doris Roskin Lisa Ross Dr. H. Jay Rothenberg † Roberta H. Rubin Susan B. Rubnitz Sandra K. Rusnak David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg Mary A. Ryan Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan
Richard O. Ryan William G. Ryan † Norman K. Sackar Anthony Saineghi Agustin G. Sanz Inez Saunders David A. Savner † Karla Scherer David M. Schiffman Judith Feigon Schiffman Rosita Schloss Shirley Schlossman Douglas M. Schmidt Al Schriesheim Donald L. Schwartz Dr. Penny Bender Sebring Chandra Sekhar Dr. Ronald A. Semerdjian Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Ilene W. Shaw Pam Sheffield Dr. James C. Sheinin Richard W. Shepro Jessie Shih Elizabeth Shoemaker Morrell McK. Shoemaker, Jr. † Stuart Shulruff Honorable Richard J. Siegel, Ret. Adele Simmons Linda B. Simon Larry G. Simpson Craig Sirles Miyam Slater Valerie Slotnick Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr. Charles F. Smith Diane W. Smith Louise K. Smith Mary Ann Smith Stanton Kinnie Smith, Jr. Stephen R. Smith Mrs. Ralph Smykal David A. Sneider Diane Snyder Kimberly Snyder Kathleen Solaro Ida N. Sondheimer † Orli Staley William D. Staley Helena Stancikas Grace Stanek Dr. Eugene Stark Leonidas Michael Stefanos Carol Stein Momoko Steiner † Mrs. Richard J. Stern Liz Stiffel John Stover Mary Stowell Lawrence E. Strickling Patricia Study
Cheryl Sturm Nancy K. Szalay Gregory Taubeneck James E. Thompson David A. Thomson † Dr. Robert Thomson Scott Thomson † Carla M. Thorpe Joan Thron David Timm Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr. Anne Coulter Tobey John T. Travers David Trushin Paula Turner Robert W. Turner Henry J. Underwood Zalman Usiskin Mrs. James D. Vail III Dr. Cynthia M. Valukas † John E. Van Horn Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice Mrs. Herbert A. Vance † William C. Vance Julia Vander Ploeg Thomas D. Vander Veen Jennifer Vianello Dr. Michael Viglione Catherine M. Villinski Charles Vincent Christian Vinyard Theodore Wachs Mark Wagner Ms. Beth Ann Waite Bernard T. Wall Nicholas Wallace Dr. Catherine L. Webb Jeffrey Webb Mrs. Jacob Weglarz Mrs. Joseph M. Weil † Dr. Jamie Weiner Chickie Weisbard Richard Weiss Barbara Weller Barbara H. West † Carmen Wheatcroft M. L. Winburn Stephen R. Winters Peter Wolf Laura Woll Dr. Hak Yui Wong Courtenay R. Wood Michael H. Woolever Debbie K. Wright Ronald Yonover Owen Youngman David J. Zampa Dr. John P. Zaremba Anne Zenzer Richard E. Ziegler † Karen Zupko
† Deceased Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
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foundation spotlight
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The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation
Bank of America United Airlines
$ 1 0 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E
Abbott Allstate Insurance Company CIBC Private Wealth ITW Northern Trust $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9
Anonymous (1) Exelon Jenner & Block LLP Kinder Morgan PNC Bank Sidley Austin LLP
$ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9
Abbott Fund Aon Chicago Capital, LLC Corrugated Supplies Company, LLC Mayer Brown LLP S&C Electric Company Fund Tiffany & Co. Walgreens $ 1 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9
Anonymous (1) Advanced Technology Services Archer Daniels Midland Company Deloitte GCM Grosvenor Goldman Sachs & Co. Latham & Watkins LLP McDermott Will & Emery McKinsey & Company Oxford Bank Readerlink LLC UL, Inc. Underwriters Laboratories $ 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 9, 9 9 9
Baird Entercom Chicago Fellowes, Inc. Grant Thornton LLP The Hallstar Company Italian Village Restaurants Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc. Segal Consulting Starshak & Winzenburg Steiner Electric Company Supreme Lobster and Seafood Company Ventas Weiss Financial
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and Civic Orchestra of Chicago are honored to recognize The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation as the 2021–22 Civic Orchestra of Chicago season sponsor. One of Chicago’s nonprofit leaders in arts support, the Foundation has been a longtime and generous supporter of the Civic Orchestra. The CSOA and Civic Orchestra of Chicago are deeply grateful for the extraordinary generosity of The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, whose directors are committed to celebrating Ms. Cheney’s legacy through the philanthropic support of the arts.
$ 1,0 0 0 – $ 4 , 9 9 9
American Agricultural Insurance Company Amsted Industries Incorporated Central Building & Preservation L.P. Chapman and Cutler LLP Columbia Capital Management Etnyre International Parkway Elevators Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Shetland Limited Partnership Shure Incorporated Vienna Beef Vomela
Foundations and Government Agencies $ 1 0 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Julius N. Frankel Foundation Walter E. Heller Foundation in memory of Alyce DeCosta The Negaunee Foundation Sargent Family Foundation TAWANI Foundation Zell Family Foundation $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9
The Brinson Foundation The Chicago Community Trust Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Sally Mead Hands Foundation Illinois Arts Council Agency National Endowment for the Arts Polk Bros. Foundation $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9
Barker Welfare Foundation The Clinton Family Fund Gifts listed as of January 13, 2022
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Crain-Maling Foundation Crown Family Philanthropies Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Irving Harris Foundation Bowman C. Lingle Trust $ 1 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9
Anonymous Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation The Buchanan Family Foundation Darling Family Foundation Leslie Fund, Inc. Pritzker Traubert Foundation Roy and Irene Rettinger Foundation Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation The George L. Shields Foundation Tully Family Foundation $ 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 9, 9 9 9
The Allyn Foundation, Inc. Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Hoellen Family Foundation Hunter Family Foundation JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation Kovler Family Foundation Music Performance Trust Fund Dr. Scholl Foundation $2,500–$ 4,999
Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation Franklin Philanthropic Foundation William M. Hales Foundation Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation $ 1,0 0 0 – $ 2 , 4 9 9
Brown-Monson Foundation Geraldi Norton Foundation Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust
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T H E C A M PA I G N F O R T H E C H I C A G O S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the donors who have made a generous commitment in support of the future of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as of January 2022. Anonymous (5) Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Jeff and Keiko Alexander Ruth and Roger Anderson Family Foundation Peter and Elise Barack Merrill and Judy Blau Patricia and Laurence Booth Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown Kay Bucksbaum Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock John D. and Leslie Henner Burns George and Minou Colis The Davee Foundation Alice and Richard Godfrey William A. and Anne Goldstein Mary Louise Gorno Howard Gottlieb
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the Patrons Circle for Un ballo in maschera for its generous support. Zell Family Foundation Randy L. and Melvin R.† Berlin Walter E. Heller Foundation Anonymous Julie and Roger Baskes Marion A. Cameron-Gray Julian Family Foundation Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Ann and John Grube Frank Modruson and Lynne Shigley
Annual Support
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through January 13, 2022. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.
Mr. Graham C. Grady The Heestand Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes Julian Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy Estate of Esther G. Klatz Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg Jim † and Kay Mabie Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Judy and Scott McCue Mr. David E. McNeel Mr. Robert Meeker James and Renée Metcalf Estate of Gloria Miner Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Mr. Daniel R. Murray Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Cathy and Bill Osborn Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Andra and Irwin Press Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy Megan and Steve Shebik Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern Thierer Family Foundation Richard and Helen Thomas Penny and John Van Horn Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell Craig and Bette Williams Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow Helen and Sam Zell Estate of Rita Zralek
$ 1 5 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E
$ 75 ,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9
Anonymous (2) Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes The Julian Family Foundation Margot and Josef Lakonishok The Negaunee Foundation Cathy and Bill Osborn COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired) Megan and Steve Shebik Zell Family Foundation $ 1 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 1 4 9, 9 9 9
Anonymous (3) Ms. Nancy Dehmlow James and Brenda Grusecki Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Jim † and Kay Mabie Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Cynthia M. Sargent Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab John Hart and Carol Prins Pamela Kelley Hull † and Roger B. Hull † Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock Judy and Scott McCue Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Lisa and Paul Wiggin $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 74 , 9 9 9
Anonymous Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Carey and Brett August Julie and Roger Baskes Mrs. Janet R. Bauer Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Patricia and Laurence Booth Kay Bucksbaum Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock Ms. Sarah Crane Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim Dr. Eugene Fama Rhoda Lea † and Henry S. † Frank Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation Mrs. Janet Kanter Ms. Renée Metcalf
† 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 January 13, 2022
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Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Susan Regenstein Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Shure Charitable Trust Michael and Linda Simon Mr. Irving Stenn, Jr. Liz Stiffel $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9
Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund John and Fran Edwardson Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil Mr. Collier Hands Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow Walter and Kathleen Snodell Mary Stowell Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas Penny and John Van Horn $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 3 4 , 9 9 9
Anonymous (3) Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Peter and Elise Barack Robert J. Buford Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Mr. & Dr. George Colis Mr. & Mrs. Stephen V. D’Amore Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson Ms. Ann Drake Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans Neil Fackler Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Richard and Alice Godfrey William A. and Anne Goldstein Mr. Graham C. Grady Mary Winton Green Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson Ronald B. Johnson Ms. Geraldine Keefe Ms. Donna L. Kendall Anne and John † Kern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy Sidney Kohl Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James Kolar Randall S. Kroszner Long Story Short Media
The James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation Ms. Britt Miller Dr. Charles Morcom Daniel R. Murray Mr. & Mrs. Don Phillips Mary and Joseph Plauché Andra and Irwin Press Dr. Mohan Rao Diana and Bruce Rauner Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy Ms. Courtney Shea Carol S. Sonnenschein Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan Thierer Family Foundation Terrence and Laura Truax In memory of Joan White † Craig and Bette Williams Susan & Bob Wislow Mr. Gifford Zimmerman $ 2 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9
Anonymous (2) Nancy A. Abshire Arnie and Ann Berlin Mary Louise Gorno Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Mr. Michael Leppen Mr. Donald W. Nelson Alexandra and John Nichols Mr. & Mrs. John Pratt Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar Ida N. Sondheimer † & Family, in memory of Joseph Sondheimer Dr. Stuart Sondheimer Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft Ms. Rebecca West $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 1 9, 9 9 9
Anonymous (3) Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Sue and Jim Colletti Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Dunkel Sue and Melvin Gray Halasyamani/Davis Family Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III The King Family Foundation Kay and Fred † Krehbiel Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck Dr. Lynda Lane Ms. Betsy Levin Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin
Mr. Philip Lumpkin Mr. David E. McNeel Charles A. Moore Edward and Gayla Nieminen Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte D. Elizabeth Price Jerry Rose Mr. † & Mrs. David Savner Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Marlon Smith and Dominique Brewer Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern Mr. & Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. Christian Vinyard Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs Dr. Marylou Witz $ 1 1, 5 0 0 – $ 1 4 , 9 9 9
Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Ann and Richard Carr Mr. Philip Darling Ms. Shawn M. Donnelley and Dr. Christopher M. Kelly Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle Marguerite DeLany Hark Pati and O.J. † Heestand Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall Jim and Ginger Meyer Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley Emilie Morphew, M.D. David and Judy Schiffman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Silverstein Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson Ksenia A. and Peter Turula $ 7, 5 0 0 – $ 1 1, 4 9 9
Anonymous (4) Mrs. Rosa Acevedo and Mr. Jose Luis Prado Ms. Patti Acurio Fraida and Bob Aland Jeff and Keiko Alexander Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein Geoffrey A. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Baker Peter and Betsy Barrett Mr. Lawrence Belles Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck Henry R. Berghoef and Leslie Lauer Berghoef Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Merrill and Judy Blau Ms. Terry Boden Adam Bossov
† 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 January 13, 2022
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Mr. Donald Bouseman Mr. Roderick Branch Tom and Dianne Campbell Joyce Chelberg Patricia A. Clickener Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Dr. Thomas H. Conner Mr. Lawrence Corry Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford Janet Wood Diederichs Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Douglas Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin Charles and Carol Emmons La and Philip Engel Ms. Nancy Felton-Elkins and Larry Elkins Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr. David and Janet Fox Rosemary Framburg Nancy and Larry Fuller Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geraghty Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Sue and Melvin Gray Mr. & Mrs. Paul Gray Kendall Griffith Ann and John Grube Lynne R. Haarlow Joan M. Hall Mrs. Richard C. Halpern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Ms. Anna Hertsberg Richard and Joanne Hoffman Fred and Sandra Holubow Janice L. Honigberg Mr. † & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg Miriam U. Hoover Foundation Carter Howard and Sarah Krepp Tex and Susan Hull Ms. Patricia Hurley Merle L. Jacob Mr. † & Mrs. † Howard Jessen Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Joyce Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller Mr. Alfred Kelley Kohn and Mitchell Family Foundation Dr. June Koizumi Nancy and Sanfred Koltun Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler Mr. Stephan Lans Dr. † & Mrs. H. Leichenko Mr. Jeffrey Lennard Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. John Lillard Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Robert † and Judy Marth
Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag Mr. & Mrs. Lester McKeever Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor Mrs. Frank Morrissey Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr. Ms. Susan Norvich Ms. Martha Nussbaum Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson Mr. Bruce Oltman Kathleen Field Orr Dr. Edward S. Orzac Foundation The Osprey Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James O’Sullivan, Jr. Pasquinelli Family Foundation Richard and Frances Penn Roxy and Richard † Pepper Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Sue and Thomas † Pick Ms. Emilysue Pinnell Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn Mr. Rudolph Rasin † Mr. John W. Rogers, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper Jay † and Maija Rothenberg Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan Mr. Richard Ryan Rita † and Norman Sackar Mr. David Sandfort Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl Joan and George Segal David and Judith L. Sensibar The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Julia M. Simpson Mr. Larry Simpson Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro Ms. Elysia Solomon Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Roger † and Susan Stone Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck Kelly Thedinger Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Mrs. Elizabeth Twede Peggy White M.L. Winburn Dr. Nanajan Yakoub Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation David and Eileen Zampa $ 4 , 5 0 0 – $ 7, 4 9 9
Anonymous (15) Elaine and Floyd Abramson Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie Ms. Rene Alphonse Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker
Megan P. and John L. Anderson Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei David and Suzanne Arch Dr. & Mrs. Kent Armbruster Drs. Iris and Andrew Aronson Mrs. Jeanne B. Aronson Marta Holsman Babson Mr. Neal Ball Ms. Bonnie Barber Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Ms. Judith Barnard Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes Roberta and Harold S. Barron Ms. Sandra Bass Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen Donna and Mike Bell Mrs. Gail Belytschko Mr. Thomas Berg Meta S. and Ronald † Berger Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin Mr. Howard Bernick Mrs. Arthur A. Billings Jim † and Dianne Blanco Ann Blickensderfer Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block Mr. & Mrs. John Borland Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky Janet S. Boyer Ms. Jill Brennan John D. Brubaker † Mrs. Sue Brubaker Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum Linda S. Buckley Lisa Dollar Buehler and Bill Escamilla Butler Family Foundation Ms. Lutgart Calcote Ms. Vera Capp Wendy Alders Cartland Mia Celano and Noel Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Candelario Celio Mr. James Chamberlain Ms. Margaret Chaplan Linton J. Childs Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy John Clarke Mr. & Ms. Keith Clayton Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali Ms. Jean Cocozza Douglas and Carol Cohen Lewis Collens Jane and John C. Colman E. and V. Combs Foundation The Comer Foundation Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy
† 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 January 13, 2022
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Jenny L. Corley in memory of Dr. W. Gene Corley Nancy R. Corral Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux R. Bert Crossland Constance Cwiok Dancing Skies Foundation Mr. & Mrs. C. Daniels Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider Mr. J. Donenfeld Dr. & Mrs. James L. Downey David and Deborah Dranove Mr. Robert R. Duggan Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek Mr. & Mrs. David P. Earle III Judge Frank Easterbrook Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III Charles and Lois Edwards Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Elden Thomas Eller Michael and Kathleen Elliott Scott and Lenore Enloe Dr. & Mrs. James Ertle Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein Donald and Signe Ferguson Hector Ferral, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad Mr. & Mrs. Dean Fischer Ms. Hazel Fisher Mrs. Roslyn K. Flegel Mrs. John D. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks Susan and Paul Freehling Dr. † & Mrs. Uwe Freese Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr. Judy and Mickey Gaynor Robert D. Gecht Sandy and Frank Gelber Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Dr. & Mrs. Richard Gieser Mr. & Mrs. James J. Glasser Judy and Bill Goldberg Lyn Goldstein Mary and Michael Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen Hanna H. Gray Ms. Freddi Greenberg
Thomas † and Delta Greene Dr. Jerri E. Greer Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen Anastasia and Gary † Gutting Stephanie and Howard Halpern Anne Marcus Hamada Hill and Cheryl Hammock John and Sally Hard Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan Dr. Dane Hassani James W. Haugh Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes James and Lynne † Heckman Mr. Dale C. Hedding David Hefter Scott Helm Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Hesse Marjorie Friedman Heyman The Hickey Family Foundation Robert A. Hill and Thea Flaum Hill William B. Hinchliff Dr. Richard Hirschmann Mr. William J. Hokin † James and Eileen Holzhauer Frances and Franklin † Horwich James and Mary Houston Frances and Phillip Huscher Michael and Leigh Huston Michael L. Igoe † Mr. Craig T. Ingram Ian and Valerie Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus Mr. John Jawor Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna Joni and Brian Johnson Dolores Kohl Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans Ms. Ethelle Katz Barry D. Kaufman Larry † and Marie Kaufman Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Mr. & Mrs. Neil Kawashima Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser Jim and Ellen Kelleher Mrs. Elizabeth Keyser Carol Kipperman Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel Dr. Jay and Georgianna Kleiman Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk Mr. Thomas Kmetko Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek Joseph and Judith Konen
Ms. Liesel Kossmann Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff Eldon and Patricia Kreider David and Susan Kreisman Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar Mr. & Mrs. Rubin P. Kuznitsky Mr. John LaBarbera Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Langrehr Mr. William Lawlor, III Mr. & Mrs. Dean Leff Anne E. Leibowitz Fund Sheila Fields Leiter Mary and Laurence Levine Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Mr. † and Mrs. Howard Lickerman Dr. Philip R. Liebson and Mrs. Carole F. Liebson Robert † and Joan Lipsig Jane and Peter Loeb The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust Renée Logan Dr. Anna Lysakowski Carol MacArthur Mr. & Mrs. † Barry MacLean Mr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLean Eileen Madden Sharon L. Manuel Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin 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 † Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meister Mr. Gregory and Dr. Alice Melchor Dr. Ellen Mendelson Mr. Robert O. Middleton Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Jo Ann and Stuart Nathan Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman David † and Dolores Nelson Dr. Zehava L. Noah Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar Mark and Gloria Nusbaum Bill and Penny Obenshain Margo and Michael Oberman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs Eric and Carolyn Oesterle John and Joy O’Malley Mr. & Mrs. William J. O’Neill Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann Dr. Stephanie Pace and Robert Marshall Mrs. Evelyn E. Padorr Minsok Pak and Carrie Shuchart
† 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 January 13, 2022
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Ms. Pamela Papas Mr. Timothy J. Patenode Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. Michael Payette Bonnie Perry Dr. William Peruzzi Mr. Robert Peterson Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Richard Phillips Stanley M. and Virginia Johnson Pillman Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert John F. Podjasek III Charitable Fund Stephen and Ann Suker Potter Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett Mr. & Mrs. John Puth Mr. Duane Quaini Ms. Helen Reed Ruth Anne Rehfeldt Dr. Rutbert D. Reisch Dr. Hilda Richards Mary K. Ring Burton and Francine † Rissman Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Ms. Carol Roberts William and Cheryl Roberts Dr. Diana Robin Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg Dr. & Mrs. Ricardo Rosenkranz D.D. Roskin Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi Ms. Roberta H. Rubin Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz Tina and Buzz Ruttenburg William † and Mary Ryan Anthony Saineghi Raymond and Inez Saunders Karla Scherer Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht Mr. † and Mrs. Nathan Schloss Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz Ruth Grant and Howard Schwartz Diana and Richard Senior Ms. Mary Beth Shea Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields Stuart and Leslie Shulruff Dr. & Mrs. Richard J. Siegel Ms. Ann Silberman Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons Craig Sirles Valerie Slotnick Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr. Charles F. Smith Mrs. Diane W. Smith Louise K. Smith Mary Ann Smith Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith Naomi Pollock and David Sneider James and Diane Snyder Kimberly M. Snyder
Robert and Emily Spoerri Helena Stancikas Ms. Mary Clare and Mr. Joseph Starshak Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos Carol D. Stein Ms. Momoko Steiner † Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Stoll Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong Cheryl Sturm Ms. Minsook Suh Mr. & Mrs. Robert Szalay Mr. James Thompson Joan and Michael Thron David Timm Ray † and Mary Ann Tittle Bill and Anne Tobey James M. and Carol Trapp John T. and Carrie M. Travers Mrs. Robert Trotter Joan and David Trushin Dr. & Mrs. David Turner Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner Henry and Janet Underwood Zalman and Karen Usiskin Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice Ms. Jennifer Vianello Dr. Michael Viglione Catherine M. Villinski Ms. Raita Vilnins Charles Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall Nicholas and Jessica Wallace Dr. Catherine L. Webb Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz Abby and Glen Weisberg Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Marc Weissbluth in memory of Linda Weissbluth Bert and Barbara Weller Ms. Caroline Wettersten Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft Stephen R. Winters Peter and Marlee Wolf Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Michael † and Laura Woll Dr. Hak Wong Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr. Stephanie Wood Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever Mari Yamamoto Regnier Owen and Linda Youngman Paul and Mary Yovovich Mr. Laird Zacheis and Ms. Sunhee Lee Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross Ms. Karen Zupko
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Anonymous (6) Ms. Doris Angell Ed Bachrach Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Bachrach Martin and Jill Baumgaertner Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Mr. Ken Belcher Cassandra L. Book Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen Mr. Charles Capwell Peter and Hedy Ciocci Ms. Jane Cox Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall Michael Dawson in loving memory of Alice Furumoto-Dawson Mr. Guy DeBoo and Ms. Susan Franzetti Ms. Marilyn Duginger Mr. & Mrs. Samuel H. Ellis Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Dr. Gail Fahey Judith E. Feldman Fidelity Charitable Gift Funds Ms. Irene Fox Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Timothy and Joyce Greening Jacalyn Gronek Dr. Robert A. Harris Ms. Dawn E. Helwig James and Margot Hinchliff Mrs. Edwin P. Hoffman Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith Dr. & Mrs. James Holland Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger Mrs. Caryn Jacobs and Mr. Daniel Cedarbaum Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs Dr. Patricia Collins Jones Jonathan and Nancy Lee Kemper Averill and Bernard † Leviton Dr. Herbert and Francine Lippitz Patricia M. Livingston Mr. Daniel Macken and Mr. Merlyn Harbold Dr. & Mrs. Walter Massey Bill McIntosh Jane and Bruce † McLagan Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Eileen M. Murray Ms. Victoria Nee Kenneth R. Norgan Mrs. Janis Notz Mr. Thomas Orlando Mr. Bruce Ottley Dr. & Mrs. † Ray Pensinger Mr. Ed Platcow Mary Rafferty Dorothy V. Ramm Ms. Evelyn R. Richer Jerry and Carole Ringer David and Kathy Robin Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen
† 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 January 13, 2022
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Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross Mr. Agustin G. Sanz Shirley and John † Schlossman Douglas M. Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Elizabeth and John Shoemaker Mr. & Mrs. Frederic Smies In memory of Timothy Soleiman Joel and Beth Spenadel Mr. Michael Sprinker Mrs. Marjorie H. Stephan Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Eric Vaang Mr. Peter Vale Ms. Julia Vander Ploeg Mr. David J. Varnerin Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner Mr. Lawrence Wechter Samuel † and Chickie Weisbard David E. and Kerstin Wellbery Mr. Alfred White Ms. Lois Wolff Ms. Debbie Wright Mike Zimmerman $2,500–$ 3,4 49
Anonymous (7) Ms. Susan Adler Dr. & Mrs. Carl H. Albright Dr. Diane Altkorn Sharon and Charles Angell Mychal P. Angelos, † in memory of Dorothy A. Angelos Mr. & Mrs. Peter Ascoli Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Asner Ms. Marlene Bach Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Baird Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Barber Mr. Carroll Barnes James and Bartha Barrett Mr. & Mrs. † Robert L. Berner, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof Mrs. Nancy Blum Ms. Virginia Boehme Mr. & Mrs. Fred Boelter Mr. James Borkman Mr. Douglas Bragan Ms. Susan Bridge Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman Jack M. Bulmash Jack Buoscio Ms. Jeanne Busch Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard Robert D. Carone Mr. Thomas Clewett Mrs. Eileen Conaghan Mrs. Howard Conant † Matt and Carrie Cotter Ms. Juli Crabtree Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker
Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III Thomas E. II and Barbara C. Donnelley Family Fund Ingrid and Richard Dubberke Josephine Lewis and Morton Dubman Janet Duffy Linda Dykes Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten Ms. Shirley Evans-Wofford Mr. Conrad Fischer Mrs. Donna Fleming Henry and Frances Fogel Ginny and Peter Foreman Lee Francis and Michelle Gittler Mr. & Mrs. Louis Freidheim, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III James and Rebecca Gaebe Dr. & Mrs. Paul B. Glickman Mr. David Glueck Ms. Barbara Gold Isabelle Goossen Michelle and Gerald M. Gordon Mr. Jacques Gordon Merle Gordon Mr. Andrew Gore Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French Brooks and Wanza Grantier BHD Kozloff Family Fund Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Handler Mr. Joseph Harmon Mrs. John M. Hartigan Ms. Kyle Harvey Mr. Bradley J. Henderson Ms. Leigh Ann Herman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hill James and Megan Hinchsliff The Rev. Melinda Hinners-Waldie and Mr. Benjamin Waldie Ms. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph Doherty Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton Cynthia Jamison-Marcy Maryl Johnson, M.D. Ms. Joann Joyce Peter Keehn Peter and Stephanie Keehn Ms. Helen Kessler Mr. & Mrs. † W. K. Ketchum Anne G. Kimball and Peter Stern Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin Akiko and Shohei Koide Mr. Ken Krantz Mrs. Leona Krompart Bob and Marian Kurz Mr. Jonathon Leik Mr. Philip Lesser Mr. Michael Licitra Mrs. Gabrielle Long Sherry and Mel Lopata
Ms. Jean Lorenzen Daniel and Karen Maki Ms. Barbara Malott Dan and Lynne Mapes-Riordan Barbara and Larry Margolis Mr. Timothy Marshall Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez Mr. † & Mrs. Lowell Mason, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass Igor and Olga Matlin Mr. † & Mrs. George Maze Ms. Marilyn Mccoy Mr. & Mrs. William McDowell, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Mcleod Sheila and Harvey Medvin Mr. Zarin Mehta Ms. Claretta Meier Mr. Carl and Maria Moore Mr. Vijai Moses Shankar and Katharine Nair Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James Nowacki Sarah and Wallace Oliver Ms. Diane Ososke Ms. Lynne Ostfeld Garry and Joanne Owens Kingsley Perkins † Mr. & Mrs. Norman Perman Mr. Christopher Pickering Dr. Joe Piszczor Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard Ms. Constance Rajala Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards Lyn Ridgeway Mrs. Enid Rieser Roberts Family Foundation Thomas Roberts and Teresa Grosch Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Rusnak, Jr. John Jeral Sabl Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Ms. Cecelia Samans Ms. Judy Saslow Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig Gerald and Barbara Schultz Susan and Charles Schwartz Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil Ms. Gail Seidel Mr. James Selsor Dr. Lemuel Shaffer Mrs. Phyllis Shafron Carolyn M. Short Ellen and Richard Shubart Margaret and Alan Silberman Jack and Barbara Simon Lynn B. Singer
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Charles and Joan Staples Steinway & Sons Mrs. Marjorie Moretz Stinespring Laurence and Caryn Straus Barry and Winnifred Sullivan Wan Suwandi Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft Ayana Tomeka Howard † and Paula † Trienens Mr. Jay Tunney Mr. & Mrs. Allan Vagner Jim and Cindy Valtman Robert J. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Robert Watson Judge Eugene Wedoff Mr. Kenneth Witkowski Barbara and Steven Wolf Peggy and Ted Wolff Ms. Camille Zientek Drs. Donald Zimmerman and Susan Pearlson
$ 75 ,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9
John Hart and Carol Prins National Endowment for the Arts Megan and Steve Shebik $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 74 , 9 9 9
Anonymous Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Kinder Morgan Judy and Scott McCue Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal † Polk Bros. Foundation Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Shure Charitable Trust Michael and Linda Simon Mr. Irving Stenn, Jr. $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9
John and Fran Edwardson For complete donor listings, please Bowman C. Lingle Trust visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery. $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 3 4 , 9 9 9 Anonymous (2) Abbott Fund Barker Welfare Foundation Crain-Maling Foundation
The Negaunee Music Institute connects individuals and communities to the extraordinary musical resources of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The following donors are gratefully acknowledged for making a gift in support of these educational and engagement programs. To make a gift or learn more, please contact Dakota Williams, Associate Director, Education and Community Engagement Giving, at williamsd@cso.org or 312-294-3156. $ 1 5 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E
Julian Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation $ 1 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 1 4 9, 9 9 9
Allstate Insurance Company The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation
Archer Daniels Midland Company Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Mr. Lawrence Belles Mr. Lawrence Corry Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Dunkel Ms. Nancy Felton-Elkins and Larry Elkins Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geraghty Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Richard and Alice Godfrey Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek Ms. Susan Norvich Robert E. † and Cynthia M. Sargent Carol S. Sonnenschein Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt Liisa Thomas Penny and John Van Horn Dr. Nanajan Yakoub $ 4 , 5 0 0 – $ 7, 4 9 9
Anonymous Illinois Arts Council Agency Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Leslie Fund, Inc. PNC Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.
Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Ann and Richard Carr Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin Dr. June Koizumi Anne E. Leibowitz Fund Jim and Ginger Meyer Mr. Robert Middleton Dr. Scholl Foundation Segal Consulting
$ 1 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 1 9, 9 9 9
$ 3,500–$ 4,499
$ 2 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9
Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
$ 7, 5 0 0 – $ 1 1, 4 9 9
The Buchanan Family Foundation Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund Sue and Jim Colletti Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Mary Winton Green Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Mr. Philip Lumpkin D. Elizabeth Price Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Lisa and Paul Wiggin Dr. Marylou Witz $ 1 1, 5 0 0 – $ 1 4 , 9 9 9
Nancy A. Abshire Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans Halasyamani/Davis Family Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
Ms. Patti Acurio Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation Mr. & Ms. Keith Clayton Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger The Osprey Foundation Mary and Joseph Plauché $2,500–$ 3,499
Anonymous (2) Ms. Sandra Bass Mr. James Borkman Mr. Douglas Bragan Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker Mrs. Roslyn K. Flegel William B. Hinchliff Italian Village Restaurants Mrs. Gabrielle Long Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino David † and Dolores Nelson Margo and Michael Oberman
† 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 January 13, 2022
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Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation Mr. David Sandfort David and Judith L. Sensibar Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Margaret and Alan Silberman Mr. Larry Simpson Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Abby and Glen Weisberg $ 1, 5 0 0 – $ 2 , 4 9 9
Anonymous Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Howard and Donna Bass Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Adam Bossov Mr. Donald Bouseman Patricia A. Clickener Edward and Nancy Eichelberger Ms. Paula Elliott Charles and Carol Emmons Judith E. Feldman Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of the Civic Horn Section Lee Francis and Michelle Gittler Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks James & Rebecca Gaebe Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Brooks and Wanza Grantier Gregory Grobarcik James and Megan Hinchsliff Dr. & Mrs. James Holland Michael and Leigh Huston Thomas and Reseda Kalowski Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer Mr. John Lansing Sharon L. Manuel Mr. & Mrs. William McDowell, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Moffat Mrs. Frank Morrissey Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Edward and Gayla Nieminen Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Ms. Carol Rech Ruth Anne Rehfeldt Mary K. Ring Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen Ms. Cecelia Samans Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust Mrs. Florence and Ron Testa David E. and Kerstin Wellbery Jamie Wigglesworth AIA M.L. Winburn Mr. Robert Winn $ 1 ,0 0 0 – $ 1 , 4 9 9
Anonymous (5) John Albrecht Dr. Diane Altkorn
Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein Dr. & Mrs. Robert Arensman Ms. Marlene Bach Jon W. and Diane Balke Mr. Peter Barrett Ms. Elaine Baumann Ann Blickensderfer Mr. Thomas Bookey Mr. & Mrs. Donald Bowey, Jr. Ms. Danolda Brennan Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman Jack M. Bulmash Jacqui Cheng The Chicago Community Foundation Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes Mr. Howard Conant Matt and Carrie Cotter In memory of Ira G. Woll William and Janice Cutler Constance Cwiok Robert Allen Daugherty Mr. Adam Davis Mr. Robert Deoliveira Ms. Amy Dickinson and Mr. James Futransky Mrs. Susan F. Dickman Dr. Thomas Durica and Sue Jacob Lori Eich Elk Grove Graphics Ms. Lola Flamm David and Janet Fox Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Ms. Elizabeth Friedgut Peter Gallanis Dr. & Mrs. Paul B. Glickman Goodman Law Group Chicago George F. and Catherine S. Haber Mrs. Zahraa Hajjiri Mr. & Mrs. John Hales Charlotte Hampton Dr. Robert A. Harris Ms. Dawn E. Helwig Mr. Felipe Hillard Ms. Sharon Flynn Hollander Ms. Kasey Jackson Egill and Ruth Jacobsen Mr. Matt James Dr. Jay and Georgianna Kleiman Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin Mr. Steven Kukalis Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin Mr. Jerrold Levine Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus Robert Losik Mr. Daniel Macken and Mr. Merlyn Harbold Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic Marilyn and Myron Maurer Marilyn Mitchell
Mrs. MaryLouise Morrison Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Phyllis and Zane Muhl Mr. & Mrs. Delano O’Banion Mr. Bruce Oltman Ms. Joan Pantsios Ms. Audrey Paton Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper Susan Rabe Dorothy V. Ramm Dr. Hilda Richards Cristina Romero Mr. Nicholas Russell Mr. Laurence Saviers Mr. & Mrs. Eric Scheyer Gerald and Barbara Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Xiaokui Katie Shan Jane A. Shapiro Richard Sikes Dr. & Mrs. Richard Snow Dr. Sabine Sobek Mr. George Speck Joel and Beth Spenadel Mrs. Julie Stagliano Ms. Denise Stauder Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Stepansky Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Stoll Sharon Swanson Ms. Deborah Tate Terry Taylor Ayana Tomeka Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis Dr. Joyce Van Cura Henrietta Vepstas Dr. Pietro Veronesi Mrs. Hempstead Washburne Ms. Christine Wilson William Zeng Irene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin ENDOWED FUNDS
Anonymous (3) Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth Concert Fund Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund CNA The Davee Foundation Frank Family Fund Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund Mary Winton Green William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Community Engagement Richard A. Heise Peter Paul Herbert Endowment Fund Julian Family Foundation Fund The Kapnick Family Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust
† 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 January 13, 2022
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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 CIVIC ORCHESTR A OF CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIPS
Members of the Civic Orchestra receive an annual stipend to help offset some of their living expenses during their training in Civic. The following donors have generously underwritten a Civic musician(s) for the 2021–22 season. Thirteen Civic members participate in the Civic Fellowship program, a rigorous artistic and professional development curriculum that supplements their membership in the full orchestra. Major funding for this program is generously provided by The Julian Family Foundation. The 2021–22 Civic season is sponsored by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation. To learn more, please contact Dakota Williams, Associate Director, Education and Community Engagement Giving, at williamsd@cso.org or 312-294-3156. Nancy A. Abshire Shannon Merciel, cello
Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund Edin Agamenoni, bassoon Irina Chang, clarinet James Jihyun Kim, oboe Jacob Medina, horn Sofia Nikas, viola Charlotte Ullman, cello Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Alyssa Primeau,** flute Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Benjamin Foerster, bass Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geraghty and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Haley Slaugh, cello Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat Ye Jin Goo, viola Benjamin Wagner, viola
Phillip G. Lumpkin Dylan Marshall Feldpausch,** violin Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Abigail Monroe, cello Judy and Scott McCue and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Luke Lentini,** violin Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal † Diego Diaz, violin Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Olivia Reyes, bass Ms. Susan Norvich Eleanor Kirk, harp
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Michael Leavens, trumpet
Sandra and Earl J. Rusnak Jr. Teddy Schenkman, viola
Richard and Alice Godfrey Robert Herbst, violin
Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Jarrett Girard McCourt, tuba Nelson Ricardo Yovera Perez, horn
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Liam Jackson, bassoon Mary Winton Green Isaac Polinsky, bass Jane Redmond Haliday Chair Hana Takemoto, cello The Julian Family Foundation Taylor Hampton, percussion Nelson Mendoza,** violin
Mr. Lawrence Belles and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Michael Stevens, horn
Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust Miles Link, cello Crystal Qi, violin Daniel Solowey, clarinet Holly Wagner, violin John Wagner, trumpet
Sue and Jim Colletti Bethany Pereboom,** viola
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett John Heffernan, violin
Lawrence Corry Wesley A. Jones, bass
League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Lindsey Sharpe,** cello
Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund Josephine Stockwell, viola
Leslie Fund Inc. Joseph Bricker,** percussion Tabitha Oh, violin
The George L. Shields Foundation Inc. Philip Bergman, cello Laura Schafer, violin Seth Van Embden, viola The David W. and Lucille G. Stotter Chair Joshua Burca, violin Ruth Miner Swislow Charitable Fund Nicholas Daniel DeLaurentis, bass Lois and James Vrhel Endowment Fund Caleb Edwards, bass Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs Katarina Ignatovica, flute Dr. Marylou Witz Hee Yeon Kim,** violin Anonymous Hugo Saavedra,** trombone Anonymous Francisco Malespin,** cello Rannveig Marta Sarc, violin
† Deceased ** Fellow § Partial sponsor Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of January 13, 2022
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Theodore Thomas Society
Mary Louise Gorno Chair Listed below are generous donors who have made commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their wills, trusts, and other estate plans, including life-income arrangements. The Society honors their generosity, which helps to ensure the long-term financial stability and artistic excellence of the CSOA. To learn more, please contact Al Andreychuk, Director of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3150. S T R A D I VA R I A N A S S O C I AT E S
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individuals for generously creating a revocable bequest of $100,000 or more, or an irrevocable life-income trust or annuity of $50,000 or more, to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, as of February 2022. Anonymous (8) 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 Celine Bendy Julie Ann Benson K. Richard and Patricia M. Berlet Merrill and Judy Blau Ann Blickensderfer James and Emily Borovsky Danolda Brennan Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr. Mitchell J. Brown Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark Patricia A. Clickener Judith and Stephen F. Condren Anita Crocus Harry and Jean Eisenman Dr. Marilyn Ezri Mrs. William M. Flory Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. Rhoda Lea Frank
Mary J. and Ronald P. Frelk Penny and John Freund Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat Merle Gordon Mary Louise Gorno Dr. & Mrs. David Granato Mary L. Gray Mary Winton Green Dr. Jon Brian Greis Nancy Griffin John and Patricia Hamilton John Hart and Carol Prins Mr. William P. Hauworth II Thomas and Linda Heagy Mr. R.H. Helmholz Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Concordia Hoffmann Stephen D. and Catherine N. Holmes Frank and Helen Holt Mark and Elizabeth Hurley Frances and Phillip Huscher Ms. Darlene Johnson Ronald B. Johnson Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy Lori Julian Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Howard Kaspin James Kemmerer Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Edwin and Karen Kramer Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka Robert B. Kyts Memorial Fund Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring Robert Alan Lewis Dr. Valerie Lober Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl Sheldon H. Marcus Marilyn G. Marr James Edward McPherson Janet L. Melk Dr. Frederick K. Merkel Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor Charles Moore Craig and Rose Moore Mrs. Mario A. Munoz John H. Nelson Muriel Nerad Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer Diane Ososke Dr. Joan E. Patterson Donald Peck Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn Judy Pomeranz Neil K. Quinn Randall and Cara Rademaker Constance A Rajala
Al and Lynn Reichle Ann and Bob † Reiland Wendy Reynes Dr. Edward O. Riley Charles and Marilynn Rivkin David and Kathy Robin Jerry Rose Mr. James S. Rostenberg Richard O. Ryan John A. Salkowski Cecelia Samans A. Wm. Samuel Franklin Schmidt Joanne Silver Mr. Craig Sirles Betty W. Smykal Annette and Richard Steinke Mrs. Deborah Sterling Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong Mrs. Gloria B. Telander Karin and Alfred Tenny 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 (34) Valerie and Joseph Abel Louise Abrahams Patrick Alden Richard and Elynne Aleskow Judy L. Allen Ann S. Alpert Ms. Judith L. Anderson Steven Andes, Ph.D. Catherine Aranyi Dr. Susan Arjmand Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba Mara Mills Barker Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty Joan I. Berger Robert M. Berger John L. Browar Catherine Brubaker Joseph Buc Edward J. Buckbee Michelle Miller Burns Mr. Robert J. Callahan Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Car Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael Dr. Marlene E. Casiano Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy Sharon Conway
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Mr. Jerry J. Critser Ron and Dolores Daly Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson Sylvia Samuels Delman Mrs. David A. DeMar Ms. Phyllis Diamond Wilma A. Dooley Mr. Richard L. Eastline 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 Allen J. Frantzen Nancy and Larry Fuller Dileep Gangolli Miss Elizabeth Gatz Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Steve and Lauran Gilbreath Mr. Daniel Gilmour, III Mr. Joseph Glossberg Adele and Marvin † Goldsmith Douglas Ross Gortner Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Ms. Elizabeth A. Gray Delta A. Greene Mrs. Barbara Gundrum Lynne R. Haarlow Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley Mr. Tom Hall Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett Dr. Donald Heinrich William B. Hinchliff Mr. Thomas Hochman Jack and Colleen Holmbeck Mrs. Walter Horban James and Mary Houston Mr. James Humphrey Merle L. Jacob Ms. Jessica Jagielnik Joseph and Rebecca † Jarabak Mrs. Marian Johnson Ms. Janet Jones Nathan Kahn, in memory of Zave H Gussin and in honor of Robert Gussin Marshall Keltz Valerie and George Kennedy Paul Keske Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr. Mrs. LeRoy Klemt Sally Jo Knowles Mrs. Russell V. Kohr Ms. Barbara Kopsian Liesel E. Kossmann Eugene Kraus John C and Carol Anderson Kunze
Thomas and Annelise Lawson Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey Ms. Nicole Lehman Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy Ms. Sally Lewis Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg Mr. Michael Licitra Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Bonnie Glazier Lipe Candace Loftus Suzette and James Mahneke Ann Chassin Mallow Sharon L. Manuel Mrs. John J. Markham Judy and Scott McCue John McFerrin Mr. William McIntosh Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey Dorothe Melamed Marcia Melamed Dale and Susan Miller Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten Thomas R. Mullaney Daniel R. Murray Dolores D. Nelson Franklin Nussbaum Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr. Wallace and Sarah Oliver Lynn Orschel Dr. David G. Ostrow and Mr. Rafael Gomez Helen and Joseph Page George R. Paterson Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Elizabeth Anne Peters Mr. Lewis D. Petry Judy C. Petty Karen and Dick Pigott Lois Polakoff D. Elizabeth Price Dorothy V. Ramm Jeanne Reed Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones Karen L. Rigotti Don and Sally Roberts Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal Dr. Virginia C. Saft Craig Samuels Sue and William Samuels Paul and Kathleen Schaefer Mrs. Milton Scheffler Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt David Shayne Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Anne Sibley Larry Simpson Thomas G. Sinkovic Rosalee Slepian Mary Soleiman Jim Spiegel Julie Stagliano Denise M. Stauder
Karen Steil Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale Mr. John Stokes 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 Mike and Mary Valeanu Frank Villella Mr. Milan Vydareny Dr. Malcolm Vye Adam R. Walker and BettyAnn Mocek Mr. Frank Walschlager Louella Krueger Ward Dr. Catherine L. Webb Karl Wechter Claude M. Weil Joan Weiss Mr. Thomas Weyland Lisa and Paul Wiggin Linda and Payson S. Wild Kayla Anne Wilson Robert A. Wilson Nora M. Winsberg Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf Beth Wollar IN MEMORIAM
Listed below are individuals who were Theodore Thomas Society members and patrons who made exceptional commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their estates. They are remembered with gratitude for their generosity and visionary support. Anonymous (9) Hope A. Abelson Elizabeth E. Abler Richard Abrahams Frances B. Abrahamson Donald Alderman Sara Anastaplo Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos Elizabeth M. Ashton Irwin Askow Jacqueline and Frank Ball Wayne Balmer Paul Barker Leland and Mary Bartholomew Patricia Anne Barton Barbara Burt Baumann Hortense K. Becker Arlene and Marshall Bennett Norma Zuzanek Bennett Sally J. Benson
† 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 January 13, 2022
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Harriet and Harry H. Bernbaum Lenore M. Berner Judith and Dennis Bober Naomi T. Borwell Kathryn Bowers Harriet B. Brady Marjorie L. Bredehorn Howard Broecker Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown George and Jacqueline Brumlik Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger Marie Kraemer Burnside Norma Cadieu Wiley Caldwell Elizabeth R. Capilupo Charles R. Casper Margaret G. Chamales Marcia S. Cohn Milton Colman Robert Cooke Nelson D. Cornelius Anita J. Court, Ph.D. Christopher L. Culp Barbara DeCoster Billie Dale Delevitt Robert L. Devitt Azile Dick Edison and Jane Warner Dick James F. Drennan William B. Drewry Robert L. Drinan, Jr. Daisy Driss William A. Dumbleton Evelyn Dyba Marian Edelstein Estelle Edlis Dr. Edward Elisberg Kelli Gardner Emery Joseph R. Ender Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson Shirley Mae Evans Mildred F. Fanslau Dr. James D. Fenters Leslie Fogel Robert B. Fordham Herbert and Betty Forman Richard Foster Etha Beatrice Fox Elaine S. Frank Henry S. Frank Herbert B. Fried Dr. Muriel S. Friedman Gustave D. Friesem Hynda and Maurice Gamze Florence Ganja Alan J. Garber William and Helene Gardner Martin and Francey Gecht Isak Gerson Betsy N. and James R. Getz Mrs. Willard Gidwitz Lyle Gillman
Marvin Goldsmith Elizabeth S. Graettinger William B. Graham Richard Gray David Green Allen J. Greenberger Dr. Robert A. Greendale Ann B. Grimes Ernest A. Grunsfeld III Elizabeth and Paul Guenzel Cecile Guthman Betty and Lester Guttman A. William Haarlow III Grace and Vernon Hajeck Clarine and James Hall Julie and J. Parker Hall Richard Halvorsen Leah C. and Robert J. Hamman CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret. Mrs. David J. Harris Polly Heinrich Mary Mako Helbert Lawrence J. Helstern Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth Marriane Deson Herstein Mary Jo Hertel Helen Hoagland Blanche Hoheisel Eugene P. Holland Allen H. Howard Hugh Johnston Hubbard Joseph H. Huebner Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr. Mrs. Henry Isham Barbara Isserman Robert Johnson Phyllis A. Jones James Joseph Joseph M. Kacena Stuart Kane Jared Kaplan Morris A. Kaplan Roberta Kapoun Paul Keske Esther G. Klatz Russell V. Kohr Jeffrey W. Korman William Kruppenbacher Karen Kuehner Evelyn and Arnold Kupec Rebecca Jarabak Ruth Lucie Labitzke Louise H. Landau Alice M. La Pert Sadie Lapinsky Caressa Y. Lauer Robert A. Leady Arthur E. Leckner, Jr. Patricia Lee Christine D. Letchinger Lena T. Levinson Richard Alan Livingston
Marion M. and Glen A. Lloyd Mary Longbrake William C. Lordan Iris Maiter Arthur G. Maling June Betty and Herbert S. Manning Kathleen W. Markiewicz Marilyn G. Marr Irl and Barbara Marshall Eloise Martin Virginia Harvey McAnulty Helen C. McDougal, Jr. Eunice H. McGuire Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick Lillian E. McLeod Carolyn and Bruce McPherson Jack L. Melamed, M.D. Hugo J. Melvoin Richard Menaul Susan Messinger Shirley R. Mesirow Phillip Migdal Kathryn and Edward Miller Micki Miller Gloria Miner Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Bill Moor Kathryn Mueller Marietta Munnis Leota Ann Meyer Murray David H. Nelson Helen M. Nelson Sydelle Nelson Otto Nerad John and Maynette Neundorf Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld Raymond and Eloise Niwa Joan Ruck Nopola Carol Rauner O’Donovan T. Paul B. O’Donovan Mary and Eric Oldberg Bruce P. Olson Suzanne and Brace Pattou Dorothy and William G. Paulick, Jr. Mary Perlmutter Bette G. Petersen Helen J. Petersen Madge and Neil Petersen Maxine R. Philipsborn Walter Placko Elaine and Harold H. Plaut Charles J. Pollyea Miriam Pollyea Virginia and Eugene Pomerance Donald D. Powell Halina J. Presley Samuel Press Alfred and Maryann Putnam Christine Querfeld Ruth Ann Quinn Muriel F. Reder Walter Reed
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Daniel Reichard Bob Reiland Paul H. Resnik Sheila Taaffe Reynolds Joan L. Richards J. Timothy Ritchie Dolores M. RixFanada David M. Roberts Rosemary Roberts Virginia H. Rogers Jill N. Rohde Elaine Rosen Irmgard Hess Rosenberger Ben J. Rosenthal Harriet Cary Ross Anthony Ryerson Margaret R. Sagers Beverly and Grover Schiltz Richard Schieler Erhardt Schmidt Muriel Schnierow Donald R. Schreiber Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr. Margaret and Edwin Seeboeck Nancy Seyfried Denise Selz Joseph J. Semrow Ingeborg Haupt Sennot Soretta and Henry Shapiro Muriel Shaw Mr. Morrell A. Shoemaker Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure William F. Sibley Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel Peter E. Sincox Allen R. Smart Walter Chalmers Smith Jean H. Smith Peggy E. Smith-Skarry Willis B. Snell Karen A. Sorensen Georgette Grosz Spertus Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel Vito Stagliano Mrs. Zelda Star Charles J. Starcevich Curtis D. Stensrud Lucille G. and David W. Stotter Helmut and Irma Strauss Franklin R. St. Lawrence Robert Sychowski Dr. Gerald Sunko Mr. & Mrs. Robert Swanson Ruth Miner Swislow Robert Sychowski Andrew and Peggy Thomson J. Ross Thomson Sue Tice Beatrice B. Tinsley C. Phillip Turner Paul D. Urnes
Ted Utchen Robert L. Volz Lois and James Vrhel Cecilia Sue and Burton J. Wade Louise Benton Wagner Michael Jay Walanka Nancy L. Wald Jeanne Walker Josephine Wallace Laurie Wallach Jean Angus and Ferre C. Watkins Virginia O. Weaver Ann Dow Weinberg Marco Weiss James M. Wells Barbara Huth West Joyce Hadley Williams Arnold & Ann Wolff Ronald R. Zierer Rita A. Zralek
In memory of Gerry Benyo Ms. Elisabeth Long In memory of Dr. David Bergson Gary and Carole Lauger In memory of Dr. David Berkson Dr. & Mrs. David Berkson In memory of Hector Berlioz Linda Spadlowski In memory of Bud Beyer Ms. Jean Flaherty In memory of John R. Blair Mrs. Barbara J. Blair In memory of Kettee J. Boling Mr. Thomas Boling
In memory of Barbara Borovsky Anonymous (2) Douglas Bade The Tribute Program provides an opporJim and Emily Borovsky tunity to celebrate milestones such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and Peter Borzak graduations. It also can serve as a way to Richard Bray honor the memory of friends and family. Robert Buchsbaum An Honor or Memorial Gift enables you to David Carmell express your feelings in a truly distinctive Melinda Cook and memorable way. Contributions may Mr. & Mrs. Dan Drexler Kristen Van Dyke be any amount and are placed in the Orchestra’s Endowment Fund. For more Mr. & Mrs. James Esser Terri Feldman information regarding this program, Mrs. Lisa Fisher please call 312-294-3100. Listed below are Honor and Memorial Gifts of $100 or Lee Frank Katie Froelich more received through July 2020. Charles Gofen William and Ethel Gofen MEMORIAL GIFTS Ms. Judy Golson Mark Goodman In memory of Dorothy Aalbregtse Leslie Grauer John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Renee Greenspon Juli Greenwald In memory of Claudio Abbado Jamie Haddad Mr. Daniel Balsam Chris Hamilton John Hammerschlag In memory of her loved ones Elaine Jacoby Ms. Laverne Alexander Steve Joung Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin In memory of Roy B. Alper Beth Kaufmann Mr. Jeffrey Alper Kathryn Kerr Bob and Peggy Kimble In memory of Heather DeBuhr Susan Koehler Anderson and Janet Stover Mallot Ms. Ann W. Krouse Kenje Mallot Scott Levee Daniel Libit In memory of Robin Beauchamp Marjorie Loeb Ms. Jacqueline Harper Jan Mathes Cary Mendelsohn In memory of Dr. & Mrs. Owen and Mr. & Mrs. Russel L. Miron Sylvia Belmont Myra Morris Chifan Belmont
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Mrs. John Myers Mr. & Mrs. Scott Nierman John Hart and Carol Prins Julie Regan Mr. & Ms. Thomas Rein Daniel Reisner Elaine Lebhoff-Ries, M.D., and Michael Ries, M.D. Amy Saltzman Alison Salzman Gail Seidman Lynne Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sharfstein Bonnie Shlensky Mr. Daniel Sobol Nancy Swan Donna Zarcone In memory of John Bross Rev. Robert Wyatt In memory of Carol Mary Carruthers Marshall Johnson In memory of Robert Chaiken Mary Chaiken In memory of Mr. Myron Cholden Harriett and Myron Cholden In memory of Dale Clevenger Ms. Betty Henneman In memory of Dorothy Cohn Kim Lande In memory of Matthew Cook Ms. Veronica Cook In memory of Frank R. Crisafulli Mrs. Dorothy Crisafulli In memory of Lawrence Daker and the Reavis High School Administration Mr. Lawrence Daker In memory of Gary A. Davis Dr. Steven Andes In memory of Inge de la Camp Stephanie Wood In memory of Herb Drury Jill and Scott Gundy In memory of Ron Eisenhauer Mr. † & Mrs. Gershon Berg In memory of Marc and Carolyn Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Demetrios Moschandreas Rachel Silver
In memory of Susan K. Gordy Epstein Mr. David Epstein and Ms. Susan K. Gordy
In memory of Steve Harris H. Bruce Bernstein Sarah Harding Mr. Edward A. Hogikyan David and Barbara Slivnick Susie and Sam Tenenbaum
In memory of George Estevez Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Wilhelm
In memory of John Hayes Mr. John Hayes
In memory of Hazel S. Fackler Neil Fackler
In memory of OJ Heestand Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez Jane M. Gaines Ms. Barbara Malott The O’Connor Partnership Leila Shakkour and Michael Thorne
In memory of Lucille Marilyn Marks Ellison Ms. Nancy Friedman
In memory of Lyn Corbett Fitzgerald Ms. Nancy Kittle In memory of James Foy Ms. Lucienne Johnson In memory of John P. Flanzer Mrs. Gloria Flanzer In memory of Shirley Freilich Mr. & Mrs. Don Borzak Ms. Carol Dragon Dr. Gershon Locker In memory of Salah Galal and Yasser Mansour Hysam Galal In memory of Neil Gerdes Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Helm In memory of Isak Gereson Gabriel Gregoratos Bruce Johnson Lynne L. Kuehl In memory of David Lee Gibson Stephanie Jaeger Shannon Rusnak In memory of Dr. Jay M. Goldberg Dr. Anna Lysakowski In memory of Michael Cotter Greenfield Ms. Victoria Greenfield In memory of Dennis and Bridget Griffin Ms. Kathleen Griffin
In memory of Tom Hill Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hill In memory of Margaret Hillis Mrs. Leona Krompart In memory of Joel Honigberg Janice L. Honigberg In memory of Christopher Horsch Mr. † & Mrs. Christopher Horsch In memory of Kenneth Hummenyj Mr. Jerry Zitko In memory of Mary Ingmire Jann Ingmire In memory of Mrs. Estelle Wolowitz Jacobs Mr. Daniel Balsam In memory of Janet Jentes Anonymous Lynne R. Haarlow Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Mr. David E. McNeel Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Dr. Catherine L. Webb In memory of Howard E. Jessen and Susanne C. Jessen Mr. † & Mrs. † Howard Jessen In memory of Emil Johnson Dr. Christakes
In memory of Barbara Groves’s mother Ms. Barbara Groves
In memory of Shirley Kalnitz Mr. Nathan Linsk
In memory of Zave Gussin Mr. Nathan Kahn
In memory of Bernard E. Kane, M.D. Lisa DeVitto
In memory of Roger Harris Gail Shiner
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In memory of Jared Kaplan Mr. Jeffrey Jahns Tony Kempf Nancy Leizman Stephanie Silverman Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith
In memory of Kathleen and Joseph Madden Eileen Madden
In memory of Merrily Ketchum Lois Berger Wally and Carol Lennox Marijo Schneiderwind Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Smith Kelly Thedinger
In memory of Dr. Ronald Massarik Ms. Catherine Alvary
In memory of Len Kipnis Ms. Carol Septow In memory of Lawrence Klevan Ms. Jane Heron Mabel Menard Ayana Tomeka
In memory of Carol J Mason Jill C. Hawkes
In memory of William C. McConnell Mr. William and Karen McConnell In memory of Edith G. McLaren Mr. & Mrs. Robert Watson In memory of Dr. Donald J. and Nancy B. McNeil Elizabeth Gill
In memory of Adele Kornfeld Ms. Lois Weiss
In memory of Bruce and Carolyn McPherson Mr. Michael Berman Carolyn McPherson
In memory of Antoinette Lalagos Mr. Daniel Creed
In memory of Evelyn Meine Mr. Curt Meine
In memory of Caroll Seiser Laque Alison Small
In memory of June Merkel Susan Clifford Mike and Carol Connelly Andrew and Diana DaMiano Mr. Kevin Donnellon John Gehron Ms. Paula Hambrick Ms. Tara McKee Esperanza Morales Cynthia Scillitani Sue Swan Nancy Wiltgen
In memory of Abba and Eleanor Leifer Ms. Diana Leifer In memory of Ida Oiring Lessman Anonymous Jane Birenberg Jennifer Roth In memory of Lena Levinson Sherwin Levinson In memory of Richard S. Levy Mr. David Jordan In memory of Irene Lindau Mr. Kevin Rudd In memory of Richard A. Livingston Mr. & Mrs. Royce Eckhardt In memory of Jim Mabie Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman In memory of Earl J. Macey Eliot Konz In memory of Edith G. MacLaren Mr. & Mrs. Robert Watson
In memory of Mildred E. Mohr Mr. Dale Mohr In memory of Charles Francis Moles Ms. Kathleen Harrington In memory of Anthony G. Montag Dr. Anthony Montag † and Dr. Katherine Griem In memory of Clark and Joann Montgomery Ms. Susan Montgomery In memory of Emma Alice Mosely Ms. Erica Mosely In memory of Dorothy Moszynski Judith E. Feldman Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Ms. Sandra Morgan Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. In memory of Kay Nalbach Ms. Susann Ball In memory of Sooja Cho Nehrlich Ms. Louise Anderson Joan and David Trushin In memory of Gail Niwa Edward Inbusch Emi Matsuda Everett Zlatoff-Mirsky Jean Shin Nanjo Roycroft Chamber Music Festival In memory of Beatrice F. Orzac, violinist Dr. Edward S. Orzac Foundation
In memory of Leonard E. Meyers Ms. Julie Bromley Ximena Mora Y Olivan Gertrude Slowik Mr. & Ms. James Socke
In memory of Eul Soo Pang Dr. Laura Pang
In memory of Sharon Mitchell’s mom Margo and Michael Oberman
In memory of Charles Kingsley Perkins Ms. Susan Thomas
In memory of Barbara P. Millar Ms. Kola Kennedy
In memory of Selma Perlmutter Mr. Jerry Smith
In memory of Carol Mittleman Mr. & Mrs. Ted Banks Kelly Carter Gloria Gray Jeffrey Gray Karen Gray-Keeler Cynthia Kane Ms. Monica Tobler Shelley Ziack
In memory of Dyan Peterson Joe Bass
In memory of Carmen Perez Mr. Jeffrey Callison
In memory of Fay B. Photopulos Mark Gorgal In memory of Shelly Plager Mrs. Janice Pranger
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In memory of Justin Edwin Pregenzer Dr. Gerard Pregenzer In memory of Ruth Ann Quinn Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn In memory of Ted Rachofsky Susan Rachofsky In memory of Lynne Raimondo Lynne Raimondo and Family In memory of Florence Rand Elizabeth R. Fuller In memory of Charles Leonard Reddington Dr. Karol S. Reddington
In memory of Michael Silverstein from his family Ms. Mara Tapp In memory of Gene Simon Jay Simon In memory of Helga Singwi Anjali Oberai In memory of Gerard Smetana Michelle Israel Beth Smetana In memory of Frank S. So Frank So † and Deborah Huggett In memory of Hallie Stein Liz Radgowski
In memory of Kay Walsh Ms. Nancy Phelan In memory of Richard and Vanya Wang Eric Vaang In memory of Dr. William Warren Dr. & Mrs. Marshall D. Goldin In memory of Carol Wechter Mr. Lawrence Wechter In memory of Walter Whisler M.D., Ph.D. Laura Whisler In memory of Joan White Brian White
In memory of Marjorie Stone Anonymous
In memory of Rachel Nussbaum Wichert Gerd Wichert
In memory of Carol Strauss Mr. Edward Turkington
In memory of Dr. Kenneth F. Wieg Annette Wieg
In memory of Bennett Reimer Elizabeth A. Hebert
In memory of Terri Sweig Marjorie Friedman Heyman
In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Reuter Mr. Ulrich Sterzl
In memory of Richard Taft Mrs. Anne Taft
In memory of Wes Wildman Jessica Armour-Ardizzone Valerie Feldman Mr. James Franczek Karen Gallagher Susan Hastings Ann Leeds Charles Rose Mrs. Jennifer Wilson Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba
In memory of Mary Lee Reed Patricia A. Clickener In memory of Robert N. Reiland Eloise Hirschey Ann Reiland
In memory of Virginia H. Rogers and Arthur E. Leckner, Jr. Mr. Robert Wilson In memory of Edgar Rose Annie Lamb In memory of Robert Rosenman Mrs. Harriet Rosenman In memory of Jerry Roucka Sandra Koehler In memory of Delores Sarovich Mr. & Mrs. Steven Sarovich In memory of Earl V. Schuster Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Dam Mrs. Marcia Dam In memory of William Shapiro Marie Waite In memory of Charles M. Shea Nancy J. Clawson Ms. Martha Egeland In memory of Jean Shorr Pauline Taylor
In memory of Grandma Tita Ian Rubin In memory of Viktor Tomilov Ms. Anna Tomilova In memory of Feyga and Samuil Totodov Ms. Mariya Kalinovskiy In memory of Alex Trebek Ms. Rita Mendelsohn In memory of Denise Turcotte Annette Snyder In memory of Joan Turk Trevor Turk In memory of Mr. Donald C. Verlenden Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III In memory of John Vesevick Julie Molina In memory of Mary Anne Vestal Mr. Walter Vestal In memory of J. Michael Wagner Kim Wagner
In memory of Mrs. Sandra Wilkins Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Peterson In memory of Novella Winston Ms. Betty Henson In memory of Dale E. Woolley Ms. Regina Janes In memory of Edward T. Zasedil Mr. Larry Simpson HONOR GIFTS
In honor of Liz Adams Mr. Kevin Connellan In honor of Liz and Bill Adams Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Reilly In honor of Mr. & Mrs. David K. Adams James and Rebecca Gaebe
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In honor of Michael Adolph Mrs. Ann Oros In honor of Lucretia Aiello Lisa Aiello In honor of Jeff Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Alan Dennis In honor of Jeff and Keiko Alexander Dr. Abigail Sivan In honor of Elizabeth A. Allen Pat Allen In honor of Doris Angell Dr. Michael Angell In honor of Dolores Nathanson and Daniel Armstrong Norma Gilson In honor of Lev Aronson Travis Casper In honor of Esteban Batallán Mr. John Burson In honor of Randy and Mel Berlin Susan J. Moran and John M. McDonough In honor of Buddy Block Howard and Donna Bass In honor of Lawrie Bloom Ms. Catherine Stephenson In honor of Doug Bolino Wendy-Jo Toyama In honor of Boodell, Trop, Daley, Daley, Deneve, Little, Gottschall, Herbert, Krishnamoorthi, Papas, Preckwinkle, Thomas, Van Horn, Watts, Wislow The Clinton Family Fund In honor of Sue Bridge Ms. Renita M. Esayian Ms. Kathleen Jordan In honor of Deborah Brusveen John Brusveen In honor of Ricky Ray Byrd Donald Byrd In honor of Kevin Carroll Steph Svarz In honor of Virginia Chao’s brother Virginia Chao
In honor of Members of the Chicago Federation of Musicians (AFM 10-208) and IATSE 2 Mr. Michael Sprinker In honor of Ms. You Ming Chin Mrs. Mary Dietrick In honor of Charlene Chisek Marianne Nesler In honor of Sunghee Choi Mrs. Eileen Conaghan In honor of Robert Coad Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III Carol S. Sonnenschein
In honor of Mimi Elder and Dian Eller Penny and John Van Horn In honor of The Elliot Family Ruth Colegrove In honor of Cynthia Ellis Donna Maibusch In honor of Amy Fallon Erik Schwedhelm In honor of Elizabeth Fernandez Dr. & Mrs. Jack Faling In honor of Daniel Foster Anna Tyson
In honor of Dorothy Cohn Mr. Gary Cohn
In honor of Calvin Fultz Alison Madrigal
In honor of Richard W. Colburn Charles Katzenmeyer
In honor of Erin Gernon Charlene Gernon
In honor of Eileen Conaghan Mrs. Julie Stagliano
In honor of Emma Gerstein Mr. John Thorne
In honor of Sheila Conlon Ms. Mary Neville
In honor of George Gilkerson Ms. Linda Wallin
In honor of Esme Conour Stacy Fifer
In honor of Jim Gill Rosanne Thompson
In honor of Ruth and Evelyn Cvengros Kathleen Malone
In honor of William Goldstein Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman
In honor of John and Barbara Dabrowski Ms. Sara Dabrowski
In honor of Jan and Larry Goldstein’s 50th wedding anniversary Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Goldstein
In honor of Jim Dale Mr. Neil Harris
In honor of Richard Graef Ms. Greta Connor
In honor of design, program book, and marketing departments Gretchen Sauer
In honor of Madelyn Greenberger Mr. Jeffrey Greenberger
In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Dienstag Mr. Jerome Dienstag In honor of Baird Dodge Charles Granville Ms. Lori Mitchell In honor of Katy Donovan Emily Corbett In honor of Mimi Duginger The Julian Family Foundation In honor of Larry Ebert Pete Friedmann
In honor of Mary Winton Green Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Cohan In honor of Dale Griffith Ms. Lynn Friedman In honor of piano students from the studio of Helen Grosshans Ms. Helen Grosshans In honor of Jennifer Gunn Mr. John Thorne In honor of Mary Hagen Ms. Alyssa Hagen
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In honor of Taylor Hampton Charlotte Hampton
In honor of Blain and Debbie Keith Dr. Thomas Keith
In honor of Margot Martino Mr. Richard Martino
In honor of Neomia Harris Ms. Liesel Kossmann
In honor of Todd Kersh David Schroeder
In honor of Jonathan McCormick Emily Wright
In honor of O.J. Heestand Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Babson Ms. Linda Rosenzweig
In honor of Bob and Ruth Kinsman Mrs. Jeanne Girard
In honor of Lisa McDaniel and Kim Duffy Ms. Florence Connelly
In honor of Robert Hindsley Anita Hindsley In honor of Robert and Jane Hindsley Julia Byrne In honor of David Hines, Sr., M.D. Mr. David Hines, Jr. In honor of Joel Horwitz Katharine Horowitz In honor of Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, Michael Henoch, Jim Smelser, Esteban Batallán, David Herbert, Lei Hou, Ni Mei, Matous Michal, and Bill Buchman The Julian Family Foundation In honor of Lei Hou, Qing Hou, and Lawrence Neuman Richard Cohn In honor of Leland Hutchinson and Jean Perkins Ms. Pamela Baker In honor of Pamela Kelly Hull Mr. and Mrs. Allan Bulley III In honor of Mihaela Ionescu Ms. Lois Wolff In honor of Stephanie Jeong, Cornelius Chiu, Jennifer Gunn, Lynne Turner, Gene Pokorny, Patricia Dash, Miles Maner, Katinka Kleijn, Stephen Lester, Nancy Park, and David Sanders Ms. Marilyn Duginger In honor of Earl A. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Johnson In honor of Lori Julian’s 75th birthday Ms. Suzan Bramson Dr. Marcia A. Lewis Mr. † & Mrs. Marshall Matz In honor of Jared Kaplan Ms. Rosellen Monter
In honor of Howard Klapman Mr. Michael Alter In honor of Brian Koenig Paul Roskoph In honor of Robert Kohl Mr. Gregory Cameron In honor of Mark Kraemer Mr. David J. Varnerin In honor of Dr. & Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Christine Kuo In honor of Melanie Kupchynsky Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell
In honor of David McNeel Dr. Catherine L. Webb In honor of Leonard E. Meyers Alice Finn and John Finn In honor of Simon Michal Ms. Sarah Good In honor of Dr. Gordon Millichap Bridgette Hayes and Eric Hayes In honor of Lamont Moore, Rhoda Ward, and Margaret Dee Ms. Helen Sinn
In honor of Stephen Lester Ms. Helen Goldstein
In honor of Diane Mues Cynthia Kirk Paula Gorlitz Brae Korin Bill Loumpouridis and Melanie Loumpouridis
In honor of Ben Levy Ms. Jessica Jagielnik and Ms. Sam Kufta
In honor of Bob and Mimi Murley Suzanne Sennatt
In honor of Dezhong Liang Ms. Jingyi Liang
In honor of Bob and Mimi Murley Suzanne Sennatt
In honor of The Lincoln Quartet Bruce Gribens Bob and Marissa Happ Jonathan Maayan Hung Tzaw Tai
In honor of Alan and Elaine Muchin Mr. & Mrs. Richard Waxman
In honor of Ida Lessman Carol Depew
In honor of The Logas Family Mr. Daniel Logas In honor of Jeffrey London Stephanie Garry In honor of Hershey and MaryGene Longenecker Evelyne Manning In honor of Virginia Lorber Svetlana Rivilis In honor of Maggie and Tom Magarian Greta Wilkening
In honor of Musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Ms. Lois Wolff In honor of Heidi Musser Ms. Erika Musser In honor of Riccardo Muti Ms. Mary Neville In honor of Dolores Nathanson Noah Gilson In honor of Raymond, Eloise, and Gail Niwa Ms. Karen Visser In honor of NMI staff Dana M. Cook
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In honor of Michael J. O’Donnell Martin O’Donnell
In honor of Florence Schwartz Dr. & Mrs. Enrique Beckmann
In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Louis Sudler Mr. Neal Ball
In honor of Ken Olsen Dr. Charles Morcom
In honor of John Sharp Ms. Janice Young
In honor of Symphony Financial Scott Jonas
In honor of Bradley Opland Ms. Lois Wolff
In honor of The Shebik Family Giovanna Imbarrato
In honor of Craig Oxford Dr. Hebert and Sharon Meltzer
In honor of Amy Shevitz Ms. Jane Lippow
In honor of Susan Synnestvedt Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward
In honor of Kevin Pavao Jennifer Mislinski
In honor of our family Steven and Susan Sidell
In honor of Clark Pellett and Robert Kohl Dr. & Mrs. Louis Philipson
In honor of Lisa Simeone Elaine Murphy
In honor of Dane Philipsen Michael Philipsen In honor of Todd Rosenberg Rail Splitter Capital Management LLC In honor of James Ross Mr. & Mrs. David Weber
In honor of Ida N. Sondheimer Dr. Stuart Sondheimer In honor of Karen Sonderby Kate Sheehan In honor of Fran Spellman Ms. Jalene Szuba In honor of Charles Srstka Ms. Beth Hakamy
In honor of Ruthie Ryan Mr. & Mrs. David Heeren James Percifield Mr. & Mrs. Steven W. Scheibe
In honor of Judy and Karl Stadler Ms. Mary Dougherty
In honor of David Taylor Ms. Claretta Meier Dr. Steven Pierson In honor of Josie Tomes Li Rigler In honor of Penny Van Horn Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews In honor of Sondra Varco Mr. Gregory Nyczak In honor of Ann Wagener Mr. & Ms. Robert Savard In honor of Robert F. Wallwork Family Ms. Michele Packard In honor of Claude Weil Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro In honor of Wilfred Edward White Ms. Olive Dilworth
In honor of Heloisa and Emi Ryhal Luz Pinilla
In honor of Denise Stauder Mrs. Janet Duffy
In honor of David A. Samson Ken Samson
In honor of Momoko Steiner Ms. and Ms. Eri Iwakuni
In honor of David Sanders Mr. James Taylor
In honor of Irving Stenn, Jr. Mr. John Stiefel and Mrs. Lesa Ukman
In honor of Dean and Martha Sayles Ellen Sayles
In honor of Ray Still Debra and David Barford
In honor of Cynthia Yeh Mr. Thomas Libera Gabriel Villani Ms. Carla Williams
In honor of Will Schermer Mary Jane Schermer
In honor of Heather Storey Mr. Mark Mandich
In honor of So Young Bae Ms. Renita M. Esayian
In honor of Barbara Schneider Lewis Schneider
In honor of Ariana Strahl Mrs. Janet Duffy
In honor of Evan Schnurr Adam Baechler
In honor of Jean Stremmel Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Maughan
In honor of Helen Zell, in memory of Deborah Sobol Mr. Rowland Chang
In honor of Stephen Williamson, Joyce Noh, Hermine Gagné, Max Raimi, and Richard Hirschl Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward
In honor of Simon Zreczny Mr. Christopher Pickering
For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.
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