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February 10 & 12: Program ..........................................................13 February 10 & 12: Program Notes ................................................14 Manfred Honeck: Biography........................................................20 Lars Vogt: Biography......................................................................22 February 17, 18 & 19: Program ....................................................31 February 17, 18 & 19: Program Notes..........................................32 Nikolaj Znaider: Biography ..........................................................38
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A TRIBUTE TO BILL DIETRICH
William (Bill) S. Dietrich II (1938-2011) proudly served on the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Board of Trustees from 1998 -2011. “I respected and admired Bill. He was a valued member of our Board who will long be remembered for his work as chairman of our Investment Committee. The PSO is a stronger organization and Southwestern Pennsylvania is a stronger region because of Bill. We are grateful for his stalwart service and generosity,” said Richard P. Simmons, Chairman of the PSO Board of Trustees. Dietrich was born in Pittsburgh, the son of Marianna Brown Dietrich and Kenneth P. Dietrich on May 13, 1938. He was named after his grandfather. He earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 1955 and remained a lifelong supporter of the Boy Scouts of America. In 1999, he received The Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. Dietrich graduated from Conneaut Lake High School in 1956 and went on to earn a degree from Princeton University in 1960. After active duty in United States Marine Corps Reserve, he joined his father at Dietrich Industries, Inc., which was at that time a small steel warehouse and distribution business located east of Pittsburgh. He would return to the classroom in the early 80s for an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh. As former chairman of Dietrich Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Worthington Industries, Inc., Dietrich grew the company into the nation's largest manufacturer of light metal framing for the construction industry. Dietrich Industries was sold in 1996 to Worthington Industries, Inc., where he remained a director until 2008. Dietrich’s long-standing commitment to Western Pennsylvania included active service on the boards of many regional institutions: Carnegie Mellon University, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and the UPMC Health System and the University of Pittsburgh, where he served as chairman of the board of trustees. Bill is dearly missed by his many friends at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. In recognition of Bill’s generosity, the Dietrich Endowment for PSO Educational Programs has been created. This endowment will allow the PSO to continue providing free, high-quality education programs that impact thousands of children every year. THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S PERFORMANCE ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF LONGTIME PSO TRUSTEE WILLIAM S. DIETRICH II.
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Mozart’s Requiem
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Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
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BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS | HEINZ HALL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 AT 8:00 PM SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 AT 2:30 PM
PRE-CONCERT one hour prior
MANFRED HONECK, LARS VOGT,
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
WOLFGANG AMADÉ MOZART
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI Played without pause
OTTORINO RESPIGHI Played without pause
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CONCERT PRELUDE ON STAGE WITH PSO ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR THOMAS HONG
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Symphony No. 1 in C major, Opus 21
I. II. III. IV.
Adagio molto — Allegro con brio Andante cantabile con moto Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace Finale: Adagio — Allegro molto e vivace
Concerto No. 16 in D major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 451
I. Allegro assai II. Andante III. Allegro di molto MR. VOGT LOBBY EXHIBITS
The Fountains of Rome
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The Pines of Rome I. II. III. IV.
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ON-STAGE PERFORMANCE: BEETHOVEN’S STRING QUARTET IN C MINOR, OP. 18, NO. 4 [EXCERPTS], WITH CHRIS WU, VIOLIN; SYLVIA KIM, VIOLIN; PAUL SILVER, VIOLA; ANNE MARTINDALE WILLIAMS, CELLO
This weekend’s performances by Music Director Manfred Honeck are made possible, in part, through the generous Annual Fund support of the R.P. Simmons Family. This weekend's performances by Piano Soloist Lars Vogt are made possible, in part, through the generous Annual Fund support of Helge & Erika Wehmeier. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s performance on Friday, February 10 is dedicated to the memory of longtime PSO Trustee William S. Dietrich II.
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Opus 21 (1799-1800) The year of the First Symphony — 1800 — was a crucial time in Beethoven’s development. By then, he had achieved a success good enough to write to his old friend Franz Wegeler in Bonn, “My compositions bring me in a good deal, and may I say that I am ABOUT THE COMPOSER: offered more commissions than it is possible for me to Born 16 December 1770 in Bonn; carry out. People no longer come to an arrangement died 26 March 1827 in Vienna with me. I state my price, and they pay.” Behind him PREMIERE OF WORK: Vienna, 2 April 1800 were many works, including the Opus 18 Quartets, Hoftheater the first two piano concertos and the “Pathétique” Ludwig van Beethoven, conductor Sonata, that bear his distinctive imprint. At the time of PSO PREMIERE: this gratifying recognition of his talents, however, the 3 November 1897 Carnegie Music Hall first signs of his fateful deafness appeared, and he Frederic Archer, conductor began the titanic struggle that became one of the gravINSTRUMENTATION: itational poles of his life. Within two years, driven woodwinds, horns and trumpets in from the social contact on which he had flourished by pairs, timpani and strings the fear of discovery of his malady, he penned the APPROXIMATE DURATION: “Heiligenstadt Testament,” his cri de coeur against 25 minutes this wicked trick of the gods. The C major Symphony stands on the brink of that great crisis in Beethoven’s life. Beethoven’s music of the 1790s showed an increasingly powerful expression that mirrored the maturing of his genius. The First Symphony, though, is a conservative, even a cautious work. In it, he was more interested in exploring the architectural than the emotional components of the form, and relied on the musical language established by Haydn and Mozart in composing it. In its reliance on a thoroughly logical, carefully conceived structure, this work also set the formal precedent for his later music: though Beethoven dealt with vivid emotional states, the technique of his music was never founded upon any but the most solid intellectual base. The First Symphony begins with a most unusual slow introduction. The opening chord is a dissonance, a harmony that seems to lead away from the main tonality, which is normally established immediately at the beginning of a classical work. Though not unprecedented (the well-known and influential Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian’s Son No. 2, consistently took even more daring harmonic flights), it does reinforce the sense of striving, of constantly moving toward resolution that underlies Beethoven’s finest works. The sonata form proper begins with the quickening of the tempo and the presentation of the main theme by the strings. More instruments enter, tension accumulates, and the music arrives at the second theme following a brief silence — a technique he derived from Mozart to emphasize this important formal junction. The woodwinds hold forth here, and the remainder of the exposition is given over to two large paragraphs of rising intensity, each punctuated by a firm cadence. The development section deals exclusively with the main theme. The recapitulation follows the events of the exposition, but presents them in heightened settings. 14 pittsburghsymphony.org
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The Andante, another sonata form, has a canonic main theme and a delicate secondary melody. The development employs the melodic leaps of the subordinate theme; the recapitulation is enriched by the addition of contrapuntal accompanying lines. The third movement is the most innovative in the Symphony. Though marked “Menuetto,” its tempo indication, “very fast and lively,” precludes the staid gait of the traditional courtly dance. This is rather one of those whirlwind packets of rhythmic energy that, beginning with the Second Symphony, Beethoven labeled “Scherzo.” Its tripartite form (minuet–trio–minuet) follows the classical model, with strings dominant in the outer sections and winds in the central episode. The Finale begins with a short introduction comprising halting scale fragments that preview the movement’s vivacious main theme. Yet another excursion in sonata form, this bustling movement is indebted to the sparkling style of Haydn, and even gives off much of the brilliant wit associated with that composer. All is brought to an end with ribbons of scales rising through the orchestra and the emphatic concluding measures.
WOLFGANG AMADÉ MOZART Concerto No. 16 in D major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 451 (1784)
When Mozart returned to Vienna in November 1783 from his visit to Salzburg to try (vainly) to convince his father, Leopold, of the wisdom of his recent marriage and the suitability of his new wife, his head was full of plans for an opera buffa on a libretto by Abbé G.B. ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Varesco. However, Mozart sketched only eight numBorn 27 January 1756 in Salzburg; bers before abandoning L’oca del Cairo (The Goose of died 5 December 1791 in Vienna Cairo, assembled, with other music from Mozart’s PREMIERE OF WORK: Vienna, 31 March 1784 uncompleted operas, by the Swiss composer Hans Trattnerhof Erismann in 1952 into the three-act Don Pedro) Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, soloist because, he informed Papa Leopold in Salzburg, “I PSO PREMIERE: have works which at the moment are bringing in 22 November 1957 Syria Mosque money.” The money was to come from a series of subWilliam Steinberg, conductor scription concerts he had scheduled for the Lenten Rudolf Serkin, piano season, when the Church’s proscription of opera and INSTRUMENTATION: theater performances made Vienna’s halls available flute, pairs of oboes, bassoons, for instrumental programs. horn and trumpets, timpani and strings Mozart arranged to present his Lenten concerts of APPROXIMATE DURATION: 1784 at a salon in the residence of the court printer 25 minutes and publisher, Johann Thomas von Trattner (Frau Therese von Trattner was a piano student of Mozart and the dedicatee of the Sonata and Fantasia in C minor, K. 457 and 475), on the last three Wednesdays of the season — March 17th, 24th and 31st — and he was overjoyed to have as subscribers 174 of the most genteel representatives of the Austrian aristocracy, the worlds of finance, government and scholarship, foreign diplomats and other wealthy patrons of music. For this glittering assemblage, PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA
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Mozart put forward his best effort, creating four new concertos (K. 449, 450, 451, 453) within just eight weeks, a feat that Alfred Einstein called “in no way less extraordinary than the miracle of the three symphonies [Nos. 39-41] of 1788.” One of the signs of Mozart’s development as a concerto composer was the increasing integration of soloist and orchestra in music of broad expressive range, richly varied sonority and large sophisticated structures to create the sort of work that is sometimes categorized as “symphonic.” The Concerto No. 16 in D major (K. 451), dated 22 March 1784 and first performed at the Trattnerhof concert of March 31st, was among the earliest of Mozart’s “symphonic” concertos. It opens with a ringing martial volley from the full orchestra. The marching motives continue through the main theme, and are contrasted by the subsidiary subject, a tiny, arch-shaped phrase given by the horns and oboes and answered by a pert rejoinder from flute and violins. Other thematic ideas tumble forth in the closing passages of the orchestral introduction, perhaps the most arresting of which is a curious syncopated motive suspended above a walking bass line. Vigorous cadences announce the entry of the soloist, who embroiders the themes from the introduction with tasteful filigree upon their repetition. A broad statement by the orchestra leads to the movement’s brief central section, in which the rich colors of the winds are used as a foil for the coruscating arpeggios of the piano. The recapitulation proceeds apace, allowing the opportunity for a cadenza, one version of which Mozart wrote down and sent to his sister, Nannerl, also a talented pianist, the summer after the work was premiered. The Andante is a gracious song built from the limpid, winding thematic cell provided at the beginning by the violins. Complementary episodes separate the two returns of the main motive. The finale is a jocular rondo, much in the style of Haydn, with whom Mozart’s friendship became fast in the months preceding the creation of this Concerto. (The six quartets dedicated to Haydn were written between 1782 and 1785.) The last appearance of the rondo theme is given in a bounding triple-meter transformation.
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
The Fountains of Rome (1916) and The Pines of Rome (1923-1924) The Fountains of Rome is the earliest of the Roman trilogy of symphonic poems by which Respighi is primarily represented in the world’s concert halls. (The Pines of Rome followed in 1924, Roman Festivals in 1929.) It was also his first great public success, though his notoriety was not achieved without a certain difficulty. Toscanini had agreed to conduct the premiere of the Fountains, late in 1916. Germany and Italy were at war then, and there had been recent bombings of Italian towns that resulted in heavy casualties. Despite heated anti-German feelings, however, Toscanini refused to drop from his programs selections by that arch Teuton Richard Wagner. When he began Siegfried’s Funeral March on one November concert, grumbling arose in the audience and erupted with a shout from the balcony: “This piece is for the Paduan dead.” The infuriated Toscanini hurled his baton at the unruly audience and stormed off the stage and out of Rome. Plans for the premiere of The Fountains of Rome were therefore delayed, and the work had to wait until the following March to be heard in a concert conducted by Antonio Guarnieri. Respighi’s wife, Elsa, reported that the premiere was not a success. Indeed, the composer, whose music had not yet found much favor, expected as much. Trying to make light of the possibility of failure, he warned one of his friends to “take your umbrella and galoshes” to the premiere of this modern-day “Water Music.” It was with Toscanini’s performances in Milan and Rome of the following year that The Fountains of Rome — and Respighi’s reputation — were established. Respighi prefaced the orchestral score of The Fountains of Rome with the following description of the music: “In this symphonic poem, the composer has endeavored to give expression to the sentiments and visions suggested to him by four of Rome’s fountains contemplated at the hour in which their character is most in harmony with the surrounding landscape, or in which their beauty appears most impressive
ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Born 9 July 1879 in Bologna; died 18 April 1936 in Rome PREMIERE OF THE FOUNTAINS OF ROME: Rome, 11 March 1917 Augusteum Antonio Guarnieri, conductor PSO PREMIERE OF THE FOUNTAINS OF ROME: 1 December 1929 Syria Mosque Eugene Goossens, conductor
INSTRUMENTATION: piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, two harps, celesta, piano, organ and strings APPROXIMATE DURATION: 15 minutes
PREMIERE OFTHE PINES OF ROME: Rome, 14 December 1924 Augusteum Bernardino Molinari, conductor PSO PREMIERE OF THE PINES OF ROME: 12 April 1931 Syria Mosque Eugene Goossens, conductor
INSTRUMENTATION: piccolo, three flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three offstage trumpets, three trombones, three offstage trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, celesta, piano, organ and strings APPROXIMATE DURATION: 26 minutes
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to the observer. “The first part of the poem, inspired by the fountain of Valle Giulia, depicts a pastoral landscape: droves of cattle pass and disappear in the fresh damp mists of a Roman dawn. “A sudden loud and insistent blast of horns above the whole orchestra introduces the second part, The Triton Fountain. It is like a joyous call, summoning troops of naiads and tritons, who come running up, pursuing each other and mingling in a frenzied dance between the jets of water. “Next there appears a solemn theme borne on the undulations of the orchestra. It is the fountain of Trevi at mid-day. The solemn theme, passing from the woodwind to the brass instruments, assumes a triumphal character. Trumpets peal: across the radiant surface of the water there passes Neptune’s chariot drawn by sea-horses, and followed by a train of sirens and tritons. The procession then vanishes while faint trumpet blasts resound in the distance. “The fourth part, The Villa Medici Fountain, is announced by a sad theme which rises above a subdued warbling. It is the nostalgic hour of sunset. The air is full of the sound of tolling bells, birds twittering, leaves rustling. Then all dies peacefully into the silence of the night.”
Of The Pines of Rome, the second work of Respighi’s trilogy on Roman subjects, the composer wrote (in the third person): “While in his preceding work, The Fountains of Rome, the composer sought to reproduce by means of tone an impression of nature, in The Pines of Rome he uses nature as a point of departure, in order to recall memories and visions. The centuries-old trees which dominate so characteristically the Roman landscape become testimony for the principal events in Roman life.” Respighi supplied the following synopsis of the four continuous sections of The Pines of Rome: “1. The Pines of the Villa Borghese. Children are at play in the pine grove of the Villa Borghese, dancing the Italian equivalent of ‘Ring around the Rosy’; mimicking marching soldiers and battles; twittering and shrieking like swallows at evening; and they disappear. Suddenly the scene changes to ... “2. The Pines near a Catacomb. We see the shadows of the pines, which overhang the entrance of a catacomb. From the depths rises a chant which reechoes solemnly, like a hymn, and is then mysteriously silenced. “3. The Pines of the Janiculum. There is a thrill in the air. The full moon reveals the profile of the pines of Gianicolo’s Hill. A nightingale sings. “4. The Pines of the Appian Way. Misty dawn on the Appian Way. The tragic country is guarded by solitary pines. Indistinctly, incessantly, the rhythm of innumerable steps. To the poet’s fantasy appears a vision of past glories; trumpets blare, and the army of the Consul advances brilliantly in the grandeur of a newly risen sun toward the Sacred Way, mounting in triumph the Capitoline Hill.”
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MANFRED HONECK Manfred Honeck was born in Austria and studied music at the Academy of Music in Vienna. An accomplished violinist and violist, he spent more than ten years as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. It is this experience that has heavily influenced his conducting and has helped give it a distinctive stamp. Manfred Honeck was appointed the ninth Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in January 2007 and began his tenure at the start of the 2008-2009 season. Only two years later his contract was extended until 2016. Following their successful European Tour in 2010 and the European Festival Tour 2011 with appearances at the major music festivals, such as BBC Proms, Lucerne, Grafenegg, Rheingau, SchleswigHolstein or Musikfest Berlin, Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will return to Europe in October/November 2012. Manfred Honeck’s successful work in Pittsburgh is captured on CD by the Japanese label Exton. So far, Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 and 4, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben have been released to critical acclaim. From 2007 to 2011, Manfred Honeck was Music Director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart where he conducted premieres including Berlioz’s Les Troyens, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Verdi’s Aida, Richard Strauss’ Rosenkavalier, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and Wagner’s Lohengrin and Parsifal as well as numerous symphonic concerts. His operatic guest appearances include Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Royal Opera of Copenhagen, the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, the Salzburg Festival and the Verbier Festival. Honeck commenced his conducting career as assistant to Claudio Abbado at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Vienna. Subsequently, he was engaged by the Zurich Opera House from 1991-1996, where he was awarded the prestigious European Conductor’s Award in 1993. In 1996, 20 pittsburghsymphony.org
Honeck began a three-year stint as one of three main conductors of the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, and in 1997, he served as Music Director at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo for a year. A highly successful tour of Europe with the Oslo Philharmonic marked the beginning of a close collaboration with this orchestra, which consequently appointed him Principal Guest Conductor, a post he held from 1998-2004. From 2000 to 2006, Maestro Honeck was Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2011. As a guest conductor, Manfred Honeck has worked with such major European orchestras as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Vienna Philharmonic, and in the U.S. with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Washington and Boston Symphony Orchestra. In the 2011-2012 season, will see him return to his earlier places of activity in Stockholm, Oslo, Prague and Stuttgart and he will also conduct other prestigious orchestras including Staatskapelle Dresden, Bamberg Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Chicago Symphony. He will also appear at the Beijing Music Festival and return to Verbier. In 2010, Manfred Honeck earned an honorary doctorate from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Apart from his numerous tasks as conductor, he has been artistic director of the “International Concerts Wolfegg” in Germany for more than 15 years.
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LARS VOGT
Lars Vogt has rapidly established himself as one of the leading pianists of his generation. Born in the German town of Düren in 1970, he first came to public attention when he won second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition and has since gone on to give major concerto and recital performances throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and North and South America. An EMI recording artist, Lars Vogt has made 15 discs for the label, including the Hindemith Kammermusik No. 2 with the Berlin Philharmonic/Claudio Abbado, the Schumann, Grieg and the first two Beethoven Concertos with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle, who has described him as “one of the most extraordinary musicians of any age group that I have had the fortune to be associated with.” Recent recordings include solo Schubert for CAvimusic and Mozart Concerti with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra for Oehms. In September 2010, he released a solo Liszt and Schumann disc on the Berlin Classics label. During the 2011-2012 season, Lars Vogt will make several appearances in North America, performing with orchestras in Toronto, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Seattle and undertaking an extensive tour with Christian Tetzlaff to New York, Philadelphia and other major cities. Concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra feature prominently both with Vladimir Jurowski in London and on tour in the UK and Germany with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Other concerto engagements include the New Japan Philharmonic/Daniel Harding, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/MyungWhun Chung, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Rotterdam Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Spain and orchestras in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Milan, Florence and Copenhagen. Recital appearances feature the International Piano Series in London and the Konzerthaus, Vienna.
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Lars Vogt opened the 2010-2011 season with two appearances at the BBC Proms: a solo recital and the Grieg Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Other orchestral appearances included the Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Frankfurt Radio, Bayerische Rundfunk, Finnish Radio, Swedish Radio and Boston Symphony. In Summer 2011, he returned to the BBC Proms in duo with Christian Tetzlaff, toured with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and performed at the Salzburg, Verbier, Schwarzenberg and Montreux Festivals. Lars Vogt’s special relationship with the Berlin Philharmonic has continued following his appointment as their first ever “Pianist in Residence” in 2003-2004. Other highlights over the past three seasons have included a residency at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg with the Vienna Philharmonic/Christoph Eschenbach and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Harding; as well as appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, NHK Symphony, London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bayerische Staatsorchester, Dresden Staatskapelle and Santa Cecilia in Rome. Lars Vogt enjoys a high profile as a recitalist and chamber musician and recent appearances include London, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Rome and New York. In June 1998, he founded his own festival in Heimbach, Germany. Known as “Spannungen,” its huge success has been marked by the release of ten live recordings on EMI. He enjoys regular partnerships with colleagues such as Christian Tetzlaff and Thomas Quasthoff and collaborates occasionally with actor Klaus-Maria Brandauer and comedian Konrad Beikircher. In 2005, he founded “Rhapsody in School,” which has become a high profile education project across Germany.
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ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF RACHEL CARSON’S SILENT SPRING
The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s world changing book, Silent Spring. It is fitting to celebrate this occasion through music, with a renewal of our collective commitment to preserving the natural environment – fresh air, clean water and fertile ground-our life support system. In 1962, when Silent Spring was published, the postWorld War II explosion of invention and industrial dominance had launched the age of consumerism. In this heyday of industrial production, amidst the smoke and grime of the factories that marked the cities, and the clouds of pesticides that covered agricultural lands, rose the quiet, RACHEL CARSON, C. 1960 CREDIT: U.S. FISH eloquent voice of Rachel Carson. She was a child of the AND WILDLIFE SERVICE Allegheny River, born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, in 1907, when the riverside still sported wading cows. Through her mother, Maria Carson, who taught piano and allowed Rachel the liberty to learn from the woods, fields and streams, Rachel developed a deep appreciation for music. The rhythms and melody of the natural world run through her writing. She initially studied writing, then completed a degree in Biology from The Pennsylvania College for Women, now Chatham University, in the class of 1929. In her time living in Pittsburgh from 1907 to 1929, she saw the industrial revolution manifest in the proliferation of factories making steel, glass, chemicals and power. She also experienced the effects of this activity on the natural world she loved. Her reflection in one of her last public speeches notes: In spite of the truly marvelous inventiveness of the human brain, we are beginning to wonder whether our power to change the face of nature should not have been tempered with wisdom for our own good, and with a greater sense of responsibility for the welfare of generations to come. (1963 lecture to the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Permanente Medical Group of San Francisco, in Lost Woods: the Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson. Ed. Linda Lear. Beacon Press 2004.)
Rachel Carson stands as one of the most significant thought leaders of the twentieth century. The publication of Silent Spring in September 1962 unleashed a tidal wave of concern and captured the attention of citizens, politicians and industry magnates all over the world. The environmental movement worldwide took inspiration from Rachel Carson’s eloquence in fusing science with action. She carried her message of precaution and preventive care for the Earth to the halls of Congress, and set in motion the groundwork for environmental protection in law. In the wake of Silent Spring also grew a persisting body of oversimplifications, myths and caricatures of her work. Controversy has followed the path of Rachel Carson. She had the courage to challenge pollution in our time and the passion to plead for those who could not speak – the living things of the Earth we all share, and the generations who come after us. Patricia M. DeMarco, Ph.D. Director, Rachel Carson Institute 24 pittsburghsymphony.org
an interview with steven stucky
WQED’S JIM CUNNINGHAM INTERVIEWS PSO COMPOSER OF THE YEAR STEVEN STUCKY JC: Pittsburgh Symphony Composer of the Year Steven Stucky is with us at Heinz Hall once again. He’s written a new piece, a world premiere on commission from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It’ll be done here and in New York when the orchestra is on tour at Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall. What’s it sound like Steven? We haven’t heard a bit of it yet: Silent Spring with inspiration from Rachel Carson.
SS: I haven’t heard it yet either. In my head, it sounds like a very dramatic tone poem that takes a long emotional journey from quiet music to very intense music and back to quiet. It is written in honor of Rachel Carson and the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring, but it’s not pictorial music, that is, it doesn’t attempt to portray insects or dying trees … in a Richard Strauss[ian] way. It is really about the emotional life of us individual listeners as we take one of these musical journeys. And in that sense, the book Silent Spring and Rachel Carson’s heroic status here in Pittsburgh and all over this country is as good a way into that process as any.
JC: Rachel Carson grew up here. She’s a graduate of Chatham University. And you’ve read through Silent Spring and some of her other pieces too…
SS: I’ve read quite a bit to get myself into the mindset, and that was my second reading of Silent Spring. The first time I read, it was a new book… I was probably a high school student, and it was on everybody’s, you know, to-do list in the 1960s… And so I was very much aware of it, and forty-some year passed and I read it again.
JC: She was one of the first to raise the flag or a question mark regarding pesticides…
SS: That’s right. I was very struck by what a poetic writer she was. There is real science in these
books, but there is also a lot of poetry. Poetry is easier than science for a composer to latch onto. So I took phrases from the book Silent Spring and from other writings of Rachel Carson and used them as section titles in my piece to suggest different emotional landscapes. Some quiet music and some very intense music… And then [there is]the final section called “Silent Spring” in which it is as if all the voices of the string section in the orchestra are singing their hearts out but they fall silent… and we’re left with near silence at the end. JC: ... You’ve gotten to know the city a little better in the three visits so far… What does it mean to be the Composer of the Year with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and how’s it going for you?
SS: I’m having a wonderful season of it. I’m beginning to think I really know the orchestra pretty well, some of them as individuals, but particularly the style of playing…the sound of the hall, some members of the audience…That is the great thing about this Composer of the Year program, there is time to become part of the community and to make real relationships.
JC: Well, thanks for making Pittsburgh a stop…and we are delighted to have you as Composer of the Year and we’ll look forward to hearing Silent Spring… and all the rest of your music that is coming this season.
SS: Thank you Jim and it is always good to talk to you.
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BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS | HEINZ HALL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012 AT 8:00 PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012 AT 8:00 PM SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2012 AT 2:30 PM
PRE-CONCERT one hour prior
MANFRED HONECK, NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER,
CONCERT PRELUDE ON STAGE WITH PSO COMPOSER OF THE YEAR STEVEN STUCKEY
CONDUCTOR
VIOLIN
Silent Spring
STEVEN STUCKY
The Sea Around Us — The Lost Wood — Rivers of Death — Silent Spring WORLD PREMIERE COMMISSIONED BY THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Concerto in D minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 47
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I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio di molto III. Allegro ma non tanto MR. ZNAIDER
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 74, “Pathétique” I. II. III. IV.
Adagio — Allegro non troppo Allegro con grazia Allegro molto vivace Finale: Adagio lamentoso
This weekend’s performances by Music Director Manfred Honeck are made possible, in part, through the generous Annual Fund support of the R.P. Simmons Family. Steven Stucky's Composer of the Year residency is made possible, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works. PHOTOGRAPHY
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STEVEN STUCKY Silent Spring (2011)
Steven Stucky is one of America’s most highly regarded and frequently performed composers. Born in Hutchinson, Kansas on 7 November 1949 and raised in Abilene, Texas, he studied at Baylor and Cornell universities, where his teachers in composition included Richard Willis, Robert Palmer, Karel Husa ABOUT THE COMPOSER: and Burrill Phillips. Stucky taught at Lawrence Born 7 November 1949 in University in Wisconsin from 1978 to 1980, and has Hutchinson, Kansas since been on the faculty of Cornell University, where THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE WORLD PREMIERE: he founded the new music group Ensemble X and is Commissioned by the Pittsburgh now Given Foundation Professor of Composition; he Symphony Orchestra in commemohas also taught at the Aspen Festival, Eastman School ration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s of Music and University of California at Berkeley. “Silent Spring“ Stucky’s compositions have been widely perINSTRUMENTATION: formed throughout the United States and abroad by piccolo, three flutes, alto flute, two leading chamber ensembles and symphony orchesoboes, English horn, E-flat clarinet, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bastras, and he has fulfilled commissions from the orchessoons, contrabassoon, four horns, tras of Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, Singapore, three trumpets, three trombones, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Baltimore, Cincinnati and tuba, percussion, harp, piano (doubling celesta), strings St. Louis, as well as from the National Endowment for APPROXIMATE DURATION: the Arts, Yale University, Boston Musica Viva, Cornell 17 minutes University and other distinguished organizations. He was one of ten composers selected internationally to contribute a work to the centennial celebration of New York’s Carnegie Hall; Angelus was premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in that celebrated auditorium on 27 September 1990. Stucky was composer-in-residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1988 to 2009, and hosted the New York Philharmonic’s Hear & Now concert series from 2005 until 2009. His other residencies include the American Academy in Rome, Princeton University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotà, Colombia, Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and National University of the Arts in Taipei. In addition to composing, Stucky is also active as a conductor, writer, lecturer and contributor to music journals in America and Britain; he won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Prize for his 1981 book, Lutosławski and His Music. Among his other honors are the ASCAP Victor Herbert Prize and First Prize from the American Society of University Composers, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra. He is a trustee of the American Academy in Rome, chair of the American Music Center, a board member of the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The composer writes, “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was serialized in The New Yorker beginning in June 1962, then published in book form that September. It was not 28 pittsburghsymphony.org
the celebrated marine biologist’s first bestseller: that had been The Sea Around Us in 1951. But with Silent Spring, the Pittsburgh-area native and Chatham College alumna galvanized public opinion and earned a permanent place in twentieth-century American history. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with the Rachel Carson Institute, is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the publication by commissioning this new work for orchestra. “Those years around 1960 saw an intense intersection between scientific progress and public discourse: the incontrovertible link between smoking and lung cancer (first established in 1950, but widely known a few years later); the first manned space flights in 1961 by Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepherd; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed in 1963. The world view of my own generation, just coming of age in those years, was strongly shaped by these discourses, including of course the one about conservation and the environment, still ongoing, that Rachel Carson helped so forcefully to launch. “I was delighted, therefore, to be asked to create this musical tribute. But I was perplexed, too: how to make a connection between science and music, or more to the point between her science and my music? I reread “Silent Spring” and Carson’s other work, and I reveled again in the distinctive mixture of hard science and eloquent lyricism that defines her voice. But how to make music about that? “I didn’t try to. Instead, I gathered together four of Carson’s own titles: ‘The Sea Around Us; The Lost Wood’ and ‘Rivers of Death’ (both chapter titles in Silent Spring); and ‘Silent Spring’ itself. With these phrases as cues, I could fashion a one-movement orchestral tone poem in four sections that tries to create its own dramatic and emotional journey from beginning to end, without referring specifically to any scientific details. “The result is music at once ‘abstract’ and ‘programmatic’ (admittedly fuzzy terms). ‘The Sea Around Us’ is murky water music: it rises from the depths of the orchestra until it reaches a grand but melancholy chorale evoking the vast expanses of the sea. ‘The Lost Wood’ calls forth a desolate chaconne (i.e., a set of variations over a cyclic chord progression). The somber atmosphere grows more and more intense until it leads to a short, scathing scherzo, ‘Rivers of Death.’ This diabolical ‘death scherzo,’ too, escalates until it cannot go any further, instead bursting into the ecstatic mass singing that begins the final section, ‘Silent Spring.’ But — like the insects and birds that Rachel Carson wrote about — one by one those ecstatic orchestral voices fall quiet. We are left with nearsilence. “Rachel Carson’s trenchant writing gave us facts and figures, gave us marching orders, gave us the heart to change some of our habits. But, like all great writing, it also gave us the spiritual and psychological space in which to contemplate our own thoughts about the world around us, about our own place in that world, about our own hopes and fears. Music can aspire to do the same. It cannot — should not attempt to — explain, preach, proselytize, comment on external life. Its domain is emotional life, not ‘real’ life. It is non-specific, non-semantic, nonrepresentational. But music aspires to (and my Silent Spring aspires to) grant us access to our deepest emotional planes, to that region where — beyond words, beyond numbers, beyond theories and proofs — we live our fullest lives.” PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA
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Concerto in D minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 47 (1903, revised 1905) By 1903, when he was engaged on his Violin Concerto, Sibelius had already composed Finlandia, Kullervo, En Saga, the Karelia Suite, the four Lemminkäinen Legends (including The Swan of Tuonela) and the first two symphonies, the works that ABOUT THE COMPOSER: established his international reputation. He was comBorn 8 December 1865 in posing so easily at that time that his wife, Aïno, wrote Hämeenlinna, Finland; died 20 September 957 in Järvenpää, to a friend that he would stay up far into the night to Finland record the flood of excellent ideas that had come PREMIERE OF WORK: upon him during the day. There were, however, some Helsinki, 8 February 1904 disturbing personal worries threatening his musical Jean Sibelius, conductor Viktor Novácek, soloist fecundity. PSO PREMIERE: Just after the premiere of the Second Symphony 2 February 1945 in March 1902, Sibelius developed a painful ear infecSyria Mosque tion that did not respond easily to treatment. Thoughts Fritz Reiner, conductor Jacsha Heifetz, violin of the deafness of Beethoven and Smetana plagued INSTRUMENTATION: him, and he feared that he might be losing his hearwoodwinds in pairs, four horns, two ing. (He was 37 at the time.) In June, he began having trumpets, three trombones, timpani, trouble with his throat, and he jumped to the concluand strings sion that his health was about to give way, even wonAPPROXIMATE DURATION: 31 minutes dering how much time he might have left to work. Though filled with fatalistic thoughts at that time, he put much energy into the Violin Concerto. The ear and throat ailments continued to plague him until 1908, when a benign tumor was discovered. It took a dozen operations until it was successfully removed, and the anxiety about its return stayed with him for years. (Sibelius, incidentally, enjoyed sterling health for the rest of his days and lived to the ripe age of 91, a testament to the efficacy of his treatment.) The Violin Concerto’s opening movement employs sonata form, modified in that a succinct cadenza for the soloist replaces the usual development section. The exposition consists of three theme groups — a doleful melody announced by the soloist over murmuring strings, a yearning theme initiated by bassoons and cellos with rich accompaniment, and a bold, propulsive strophe in march rhythm. The development-cadenza is built on the opening motive and leads directly into the recapitulation of the exposition themes. The second movement could well be called a “Romanza,” a descendant of the longlimbed lyricism of the Andantes of Mozart’s violin concertos. It is among the most avowedly Romantic music in any of Sibelius’ works for orchestra. The Finale launches into a robust dance whose theme the esteemed English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey thought could be “a polonaise for polar bears.” A bumptious energy fills the movement, giving it an air reminiscent of the Gypsy finales of many 19th-century violin concertos. The form is sonatina, a sonata without development, here employing two large theme groups.
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Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 74, “Pathétique” Tchaikovsky died in 1893, at the age of just 53. His death was long attributed to the accidental drinking of a glass of unboiled water during a cholera outbreak, but that theory has been questioned in recent years ABOUT THE COMPOSER: with the alternate explanation that he was forced to Born 7 May 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia; died 6 November 1893 in take his own life because of a homosexual liaison St. Petersburg with the underage son of a noble family. Though the PREMIERE OF WORK: manner of Tchaikovsky’s death is incidental to the St. Petersburg, 28 October 1893 place of his Sixth Symphony in music history, the fact Orchestra of the Imperial Russian Music Society of it is not. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, conductor Tchaikovsky conducted his B minor Symphony PSO PREMIERE: for the first time only a week before his death. It was 17 November 1899 given a cool reception by musicians and public, and Carnegie Music Hall Tchaikovsky’s frustration was multiplied when discusVictor Herbert, conductor sion of the work was avoided by the guests at a dinINSTRUMENTATION: piccolo, three flutes, two oboes, two ner party following the concert. Three days later, howclarinets, two bassoons, four horns, ever, his mood seemed brighter, and he told a friend four trumpets, three trombones, that he was not yet ready to be snatched off by death, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings “that snubbed-nose horror. I feel that I shall live a long APPROXIMATE DURATION: 45 minutes time.” He was wrong. The evidence of the manner of his death is not conclusive, but what is certain is the overwhelming grief and sense of loss felt by music lovers in Russia and abroad as the news of his passing spread. Memorial concerts were planned. One of the first was in St. Petersburg on November 18th, only 12 days after he died. Eduard Napravnik conducted the Sixth Symphony on that occasion, and it was a resounding success. The “Pathétique” was wafted by the winds of sorrow across the musical world, and became — and remains — one of the most popular symphonies ever written, the quintessential expression of tragedy in music. The title “Pathétique” was suggested to Tchaikovsky by his elder brother, Modeste. In his biography of Pyotr, Modeste recalled that they were sitting around a tea table one evening after the premiere, and the composer was unable to settle on an appropriate designation for the work before sending it to the publisher. The sobriquet “Pathétique” popped into Modeste’s mind, and Tchaikovsky pounced on it immediately: “Splendid, Modi, bravo. ‘Pathétique’ it shall be.” This title has always been applied to the Symphony, though the original Russian word carries a meaning closer to “passionate” or “emotional” than to the English “pathetic.” The Symphony opens with a slow introduction dominated by the sepulchral intonation of the bassoon, whose melody, in a faster tempo, becomes the impetuous first theme of the exposition. Additional instruments are drawn into the symphonic argument until the brasses arrive to crown the movement’s first climax. The tension subsides into silence before the yearning second theme appears, “like a recollection of happiness in time of pain,” according to Edward Downes. The tempestuous development section, intricate, pittsburghsymphony.org 31
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brilliant and the most masterful thematic manipulation in Tchaikovskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s output, is launched by a mighty blast from the full orchestra. The recapitulation is more condensed, vibrantly scored and intense in emotion than the exposition. The major tonality achieved with the second theme is maintained until the hymnal end of the movement. Tchaikovsky referred to the second movement as a scherzo, though its 5/4 meter gives it more the feeling of a waltz with a limp. The third movement is a boisterous march. The tragedy of the Finale is apparent immediately at the outset in its somber contrast to the whirling explosion of sound that ends the third movement. A profound emptiness pervades the Symphonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closing movement, which maintains its slow tempo and mood of despair throughout.
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BOOK CLUB
in partnership with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh & Classical WQED-FM 89.3
PSO BOOK CLUB COMES TO HEINZ HALL! Join us in an exploration of major themes from the 2011-2012 season through a variety of books genres. Read the book and join WQED-FM’s Jim Cunningham and PSO musicians in an afternoon of lively discussion! PSO Book Club meetings are held at 1:30 pm prior to select BNY Mellon Grand Classics Sunday afternoon performances in the Dorothy Porter Simmons Regency Rooms at Heinz Hall. FREE and open to all ticket holders to the afternoon’s performance.
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 1:30 pm
The Student Conductor by Robert Ford With Jeffrey Turner, bass
Sunday, June 10, 2012, 1:30 pm
Richard Strauss: A Musical Life by Raymond Holden With TBD Call 412.392.4876 or email explore@pittsburghsymphony.org to register. ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. AVAILABILITY IS LIMITED.
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NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER Nikolaj Znaider is not only celebrated as one of the foremost violinists of today, but is fast becoming one of the most versatile artists of his generation uniting his talents as soloist, conductor and chamber musician. This season, Nikolaj Znaider was invited by Valery Gergiev to become Principal Guest Conductor of the Mariinsky Orchestra in St. Petersburg where he will conduct a production of Marriage of Figaro and a number of symphonic concerts. He is a regular guest conductor with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Russian National Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Swedish Radio Orchestra and Gothenburg Symphony. The 2011-2012 season sees Znaider as Artist in Residence with the Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra and in 2012-2013 making his conducting debut with the Concertgebouw Orkest, Santa Cecilia Rome and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, Znaider works regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Mariss Jansons, Charles Dutoit, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Ivan Fischer and Gustavo Dudamel. In recital and chamber music, he appears at all the major concert halls. In the 2012-2013 season, the London Symphony Orchestra will present an Artist Portrait of Znaider when he will play two concerti with Sir Colin Davis, conduct a largescale symphonic programme and play cham34 pittsburghsymphony.org
ber music with the principals of the orchestra. An exclusive RCA Red Seal recording artist, Znaider’s most recent addition to his discography is the Elgar Violin Concerto with Sir Colin Davis and the Dresden Staatskapelle. His award winning recordings of the Brahms and Korngold Violin Concerti with the Vienna Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev, the Beethoven and Mendelssohn Concerti with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic and Prokofiev No. 2 and Glazunov Concerti with Mariss Jansons and the Bayerische Rundfunk have been greeted with great critical acclaim, as was his release of the complete works for violin and piano of Johannes Brahms with Yefim Bronfman. For EMI Classics, he has recorded the Mozart Piano Trios with Daniel Barenboim and the Nielsen and Bruch Concertos with the London Philharmonic. Znaider is passionate about the education of musical talent and was for ten years Founder and Artistic Director of the Nordic Music Academy, an annual summer school whose vision it was to create conscious and focused musical development based on quality and commitment. Nikolaj Znaider plays the “Kreisler” Guarnerius “del Gesu” 1741 on extended loan to him by The Royal Danish Theater through the generosity of the Velux Foundations and the Knud Højgaard Foundation.
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NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER LAST PERFORMED WITH THE PSO IN MARCH 2009
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Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brooks Robinson Alece & David Schreiber
Robert D. Mierley Family Foundation Morby Family Charitable Foundation $5,000 - $7,499 Betty & Granger Morgan Anonymous (2) Gerald Lee Morosco & Paul Alan L. & Barbara B. Ackerman Ford, Jr. Dan & Kay Barker Mildred S. Myers & William C. Noah Bendix-Balgley Frederick Ted & Kathie Bobby Elliott S. Oshry Ms. Spencer Boyd Shelley, Dana, & Arthur Palmer Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Brent Dr. & Mrs. William R. Poller in Larry & Tracy Brockway honor of our four grandsons Dr. & Mrs. Sidney N. Busis Mr. & Mrs. John R. & Svetlana S. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Calihan Price James C. Chaplin Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Mr. & Mrs. E. V. Clarke Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer Mr.* & Mrs. Eugene Cohen Millie & Gary Ryan Estelle Comay & Bruce Rabin Nancy Schepis Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Robert & Janet Squires Ruby A. Cunningham Marcia & Dick Swanson Alison H. & Patrick D. Deem Mrs. Carol H. Tillotson Philip J. & Sherry S. Dieringer Jane F. Treherne-Thomas William S. Dietrich, II* Thomas L. & Bonnie W. Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher VanKirk Donahue Dr. Michael J. White & Mr. Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas J. Donnelly Richard LeBeau Mr. William J. Fetter Nozomi Williams in Honor of Mr. & Mrs. Milton Fine Sally Webster & Susan Bassett Terri H. Fitzpatrick Rachel & Franny Wymard Robert & Jeanne Gleason AMBASSADORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CIRCLE Marjorie Burns Haller $2,500 - $4,999 Gail & Gregory Harbaugh Anonymous (8) Mr. & Mrs. J. Brett Harvey Christiane & Manfred Honeck Barbara & Marcus Aaron, II Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. Balog Mrs. Milton G. Hulme Dr. & Mrs. John C. Barber Elizabeth S. Hurtt Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Jamison, Jr. Philip & Melinda Beard Dr. & Mrs. David Beaudreau Eugene F. & Margaret Moltrup Michael & Sherle Berger Jannuzi Foundation David Blair & Marianne Mr. & Mrs. Craig Jordan Bokan-Blair Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Kahn Marian & Bruce Block Mr. & Mrs. R. Drew Kistler Diana Block & Christopher Kiehl D. H. Lee, Jr. Mrs. William A. Boyd Anne Lewis Sally Minard & Walter Limbach Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Brand Gary & Judy Bruce Doris L. Litman Charles* & Patricia Burke Mr. & Mrs. Thomas James & Margaret Byrne McConomy Mr. & Mrs. Frank V. Cahouet Robert & Dana McCutcheon Devin & Shannon McGranahan Gail & Rob Canizares Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Roger & Judy Clough Charles C. Cohen & Michele M. Dr. Kenneth & Mrs. Tracey McKenney Melani Bill & Cynthia Cooley Marilyn & Allan H. Meltzer Cyert Family Foundation Sam Michaels Mr. & Mrs. G. A. Davidson, Jr.
Ms. Jamini Davies Ada & Stanford Davis Jim & Peggy Degnan June & Barry Dietrich Elaine A. Dively Dr. James H. Duggan & Mary E. Duggan Mr. Frank R. Dziama Frederick & Ruth Egler Marlene & Louis Epstein Ms. Kelly G. Estes & Mr. Hank Snell Henry & Ann Fenner Mr. & Mrs. Hans Fleischner Kimberly & Curtis Fleming J. Tomlinson Fort Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot Gary & Joanne Garvin Mrs. Merle Gilliand Nancy Goeres & Michael Rusinek Kenneth & Lillian Goldsmith Mrs. Lee C. Gordon George & Jane Greer Mr. & Mrs. George V. Grune, Jr. Mr. & Mrs.* Charles H. Harff Carolyn Heil Dr. & Mrs. Allen Hogge Dorothy A. Howat Leo & Marge Kane Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. Sydelle Kessler Charles & Kathleen Kovac Cliff & Simi Kress Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lane Judith & Lester* Lave Arthur S. Levine, M.D. & Linda S. Melada In Memory of Elliot (Bud) Lewis Barry Lhormer & Janet Markel Tom & Gail Litwiler Mr.* & Mrs. Howard M. Love Mary Lou & Ted N. Magee Jeanne R. Manders* Lucine & John Marous James C. & Jennifer Martin Dave & Kathy Maskalick Victoria & Alicia McGinnis George & Bonnie Meanor Mary Ellen Miller Montgomery IP Associates Betty & John Mussler Barbara & Eugene Myers Maurice & Nancy Nernberg Eliza & Hugh Nevin Fritz Okie Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. M.D. & Linda E. Shooer pittsburghsymphony.org 37
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Robert & Lillian Panagulias Drs. J. Parrish & C. Siewers Richard E. & Alice S. Patton Eric & Sharon Perelman Mr. & Mrs. William C. Pohlmann Richard E. Rauh Dr. Tor Richter in memory of Elizabeth W. Richter James W. & Erin M. Rimmel Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Riordan Mr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Rooney Abby & Reid Ruttenberg Donald D. Saxton, Jr. in memory of Barbara Morey Saxton Karen Scansaroli Mrs. Virginia W. Schatz Leonard & Joan Scheinholtz Michael Shefler Kay L. Shirk Dr. Marcia Landy & Dr. Stanley Shostak Dr. Ralph T. Shuey & Ms. Rebecca L. Carlin Paul & Linda Silver Mr. & Mrs. Harry Steele Lowell & Jan Steinbrenner Drs. Michael & Beverly Steinfeld Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Stept Theodore & Elizabeth Stern Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Stroebel Margaret Tarpey & Bruce Freeman Richard & Sandra Teodori Dorothea & Gerald* Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Thompson, II Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Ticknor John & Nancy Traina Konrad & Gisela Weis Carolyn & Richard Westerhoff Seldon & Susan Whitaker Dr.* & Mrs. George R. White Mary Jo Winokur Drs. Barry Wu & Iris Tsung in Honor of Louise Wu Naomi Yoran Harvey & Florence Zeve Dorothea K. Zikos Robert P. Zinn & Dr. Darlene Berkovitz ENCORE CLUB $1,500 - $2,499 Anonymous (7) Mrs. Ernest Abernathy Andrew & Michelle Aloe Dr. Madalon Amenta 38 pittsburghsymphony.org
Joan Frank Apt Mrs. Jane Callomon Arkus Mr. & Mrs. David J. Armstrong Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Mr. & Mrs. Robert Barensfeld Mrs. Barbara C. & Mr. Ralph J. Bean, Jr. Fred & Sue Bennitt Jeanne & Richard F. Berdik Dr. Michael & Barbara Bianco Mr. Michael E. Bielski Philip & Bernice Bollman Donald W. & Judith L. Borneman Betsy Bossong Dr. Carole B. Boyd Bozzone Family Foundation Gary & Connie Brandenberger Hugh & Jean Brannan Mr. & Mrs. James H. Bregenser Lawrence R. Breletic & Donald C. Wobb Jill & Chuck Brodbeck Myron David Broff Roger & Lea Brown Howard & Marilyn Bruschi David L. Buchta & Harmon K. Ziegler William Burchinal Dr. & Mrs. John A. Burkholder Gene & Sue Burns Dr. Bernadette G. Callery & Dr. Joseph M. Newcomer Susan S. Cercone Mrs. Arthur L. Coburn, III Christine & Howard Cohen Mark & Sherri Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Alan Cope Rose & Vincent A. Crisanti Marion S. Damick Jerry & Mimi Davis Alfred R. de Jaager Armand C. Dellovade James N. Dill, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James R. Drake John & Gertrude Echement Linda & Robert Ellison Donna & Bob Ferguson Marvin Fields & Kate Brennan Albert L. Filoni Mr. & Mrs. James A. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Fisher Chauncey & Magdaline Frazier Dina & Jerry Fulmer Dr. & Mrs. J. William Futrell Keith & Susan Garver Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Gebhardt Ali Gelormino Mr. & Mrs. David C. Genter
Dr. Robert Joel Gluckman & Susan Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Sanford A. Gordon Rick & Stephanie Green Mr. & Mrs. William H. Gullborg William & Victoria Guy Mr. & Mrs. George K. Hanna Dr. Samuel & Rev. Diana Harbison Lauren Harder & Jason Kass Jay Frey & Michael Hires Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Hiteshew Alysia & Robert Hoyt Dr. & Mrs. John W. Hoyt Micki Huff Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hunley Phillip Injeian Mary Lee & Joe Irwin Alice Jane & Paul R. Jenkins Barbara Johnstone Jackie & Ley Jones Mr. & Mrs. Jayant Kapadia Mr. & Mrs. David N. Kaplan Gerri Kay Judge William Kenworthy & Mrs. Lucille Kenworthy Gloria Kleiman James & Jane Knox Ms. Dawn Kosanovich George & Alexandra Kusic Dr. Joseph & AnnaMae Lenkey Dr. Michael Lewis & Dr. Katia Sycara Roslyn M. Litman George & Jane Mallory Dr. Richard Martin in Memory of Mrs. Lori Martin Carolyn Maue & Bryan Hunt Jean H. McCullough Mary A. McDonough Margaret J. McGowan Alan & Marilyn McIvor Sherman & Sue McLaughlin Susan Lee Meadowcroft Muriel R. Moreland Jim & Susan Morris in Honor of Kay Stolarevsky Abby L. Morrison Lesa B. Morrison, Ph..D. Dr. & Mrs. Etsuro K. Motoyama Gerd D. & Helen Mueller Dr. Cora E. Musial Mr. & Mrs. Patrick M. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell H. Ward & Shirley Olander Dr. Karl R. Olsen & Dr. Martha E. Hildebrandt
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Ellen Ormond Warren & Rena Ostlund Mr. & Mrs. James Parker Seth & Pamela Pearlman Connie & Mike Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Edward V. Randall, Jr. Cheryl & James Redmond Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Mr. Stephen Robinson Dr. Lee A. & Rosalind* Rosenblum Mr. & Mrs. Stanley C. Ruskin Drs. Guy & Mary Beth Salama Mr. David M. Savard Thomas & Perri Schelat Joseph Schewe, Jr. Esther Schreiber Dr. Allan & Mrs. Brina D. Segal Preston & Annette Shimer Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Shoop, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Dennis P. Slevin Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Manny H. & Ileane Smith Marisa & Walter C. Smith Mrs. Alice R. Snyder Sandy & Mr. Edgar Snyder Hon. & Mrs. William L. Standish Lewis M. Steele & Ann Labounsky Steele Mr. & Mrs. James E. Steen Barbara & Lou Steiner Jeff & Linda Stengel Fred & Maryann Steward Dick & Thea Stover C. Dean Streator Mr. & Mrs. Frank Talenfeld Dr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Walter W. Turner Bob & Denise Ventura Jim Walker & Jonnie Viakley Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Vismor Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Vogel Dr. Ronald J. & Patricia J. Wasilak Ms. Sally Webster & Ms. Susan Bassett Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Mr. & Mrs. Thomas White Elizabeth B. & Frank L. Wiegand, III Sarah C. Williams & Joseph Wilson, III Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Witmer Hugh D. & Alice C. Young Miriam L. Young Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zellefrow
SYMPHONY CLUB $500 - $1,499 Anonymous (29) Mr. & Mrs. Gary Abbs Frederic & Deborah Acevedo Mary Beth Adams Dr. Lawrence Adler & Ms. Judith Brody R. Ward Allebach & Lisa D. Steagall Mr. Christopher D. Allen & Ms. Claudia Mahave David & Andrea Aloe Donald D. Anderson Mrs. Doris Anderson Craig & Dawn Andersson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Angerman The Rev. Drs. A. Gary & Judy Angleberger Mr. & Mrs. Charles Armitage James & Susanne Armour Geraldine Armstrong Ruth Bachman in Memory of James Bachman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Y. Ball Lorraine E. Balun Dr. Esther L. Barazzone Richard C. Barney Robert & Loretta Barone Robert C. Barry, Jr. & Nancy L. Bromall Robert Bastress & Barbara Fleischauer Barbara N. Baur Vitasta Bazaz & Sheen Sehgal Fund in Memory of Dr. Kuldeep Sehgal Dorothy Becker Kenneth & Elsa Beckerman Nick & Dottie Beckwith Mr. & Mrs. G. Nicholas Beckwith, III Yu-Ling & Gregg Behr Vange & Nick Beldecos Judith Bell Edgar & Betty Belle Bendix-Balgley Fund of the Tides Foundation Rudy & Barbara Benedetti Eleanor H. Berge Ms. Evelyn Berger Dr. Peter & Judy Berkowitz Mrs. Georgia Berner & Mr. James Farber Nancy Bernstein & Robert Schoen
Robert S. Bernstein & Ellie K. Bernstein Fund Don Berry Dr. & Mrs. Albert W. Biglan Harry S. Binakonsky, M.D. Franklin & Bonnie Blackstone W. Gerald & Carolyn E. Blaney Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Blansett, Jr. Diane C. Blanton Richard & Susan Bloom Joseph & Shirley Bonner Mr. Albert Bortz Dana & Margaret Bovbjerg Dr. & Mrs. A’Delbert Bowen Matthew & Leslie Braksick Robert N. Brand Mr. & Mrs. William H. Brandeis Gerda & Abe Bretton Mary & Russell Brignano Mary L. Briscoe Suzy & Jim Broadhurst Suzanne Broughton & Richard Margerum Nicholas Brown Rick & Beth Brown Nancy & John Brownell Mr. & Mrs. David A. Brownlee Timothy & Linda Burke Mr. & Mrs. James Burnham Rev. Glen H. & Carol Burrows Barbara & David Burstin James & Judith Callomon Andrés Cárdenes & Monique Mead Dr. & Mrs. Albert Caretto, Jr. Charles & Donna Cashdollar Janet E. Chadwick Dr. Thomas S. Chang Monsignor Willliam G. Charnoki, P.A. Peggy & Joe Charny Craig D. Choate Kenneth & Celia Christman Dr. & Mrs. Albert E. Chung David Clark & Janese Abbott in Memory of Perry Morrison Mr. & Mrs. William Clarkson William & Elizabeth Clendenning Mrs. Sarah Clendenning & Mr. Un Kim Mr. & Mrs. Philip Coachman Stuart & Cathryn Coblin Jared L. & Maureen B. Cohon Alan & Lynne Colker Dale Colyer Mr. & Mrs. Jack Cornelius pittsburghsymphony.org 39
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Barton & Teri Cowan Susan & George Craig Susan O. Cramer Melvin R. Creeley David & Marian Crossman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel G. Crozier John D. & Laurie B. Culbertson Susan Campbell & Patrick Curry Zelda Curtiss Cynthia Custer Dr. & Mrs. Richard Daffner Joan & Jim Darby Mr. & Mrs. William J. Darr Norina H. Daubner Janis A. Davis Joan Clark Davis Marlene & Richard Davis Bruce & Rita Decker Charles S. Degrosky Captain Ronald M. Del Duca, USN (ret.) Dr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Dellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Omo Mr. & Mrs. Lynn & David DeLorenzo Dr. Jau-Shyong Deng Mr. & Mrs. Edward DePersis Mr. & Mrs. Victor J. DiCarlo Mrs. Tika Dickos Richard & Joan DiSalle Docimo Family Mr. & Mrs. Todd Donovan Dr. Jane Donovan & Dr. W. G. Donovan Anthony V. Dralle Mary Jo Dressel Mary A. Duggan Jeff & Wendy Dutkovic Mr. & Mrs. Wm. F. Edsall Mary Jane Edwards Christopher & Gretchen Elkus Eugene & Katrin Engels Arnold & Eva Engler Dr. Timothy Evans Tibey & Julian Falk Dr. & Mrs.* John H. Feist Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Madelyn & John Fernstrom Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Ms. Janet Fesq Dr. Joseph Fine Mr. & Mrs. David Fitzsimmons Mr. Mark F. Flaherty Jane Flanders* Jan Fleisher Suzanne Flood Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Foley 40 pittsburghsymphony.org
Mrs. Barbara E. Forrester Janice & Larry Foulke Mr. & Mrs. K. H. Fraelich, Jr. Mrs. Natalie H. Friedberg Friends of the PSO John & Elaine Frombach Mr. & Mrs. Frank B. Fuhrer, III Lorie Fuller Normandie Fulson Ann & Bruce Gabler Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Gallagher Gamma Investment Corporation Marlene E. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Gaudelli Joan & Stuart Gaul Pete Geissler Dr. & Mrs. Brian Generalovich Dr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Gerber Mr. & Mrs. William P. Getty Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Getze Josie & Geoff Gibson Jane N. Gilbert Revs. Gaylord & Catherine Gillis Mike & Cordy Glenn Daniel & Marcia Glosser Fund Dolores Gluck Mr. & Mrs. Ted Goldberg Walter I. Goldburg Samuel H. Golden Mr. Thomas W. Golightly & Rev. Carolyn J. Jones Dr. & Mrs. C. B. Good Mr. James Gorton & Mrs. Gretchen Van Hoesen The Graf Family Laurie Graham Ms. Rosanne Granieri & David Macpherson David & Nancy Green Charlotte T. Greenwald Dr. & Mrs. M. Joseph Grennan Mr. & Mrs. Steven Gridley Hanna Gruen Mr. Matteo Gruelle Ira & Anita Gumberg Dr. & Mrs.* Alberto Guzman Jerome P. & Claire B. Hahn Marnie & Jim Haines Mr. & Mrs. Van Beck Hall Mr. & Mrs. Henry E. Haller Marjorie Burns Haller Jim & Mary Hamilton Jeanne M. Hanchett Susan & David Hardesty Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Harris Ms. Christine A. Hartung Mr. & Mrs. Calvin R. Hastings
Mr. & Mrs. Jack W. Hausser Jana & Fil Hearn Cathy & John Heggestad Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Heidenreich Ms. Martha S. Helmreich in Honor of my mother, Anne J. Schaff Eric & Lizz Helmsen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Hepler Bob & Georgia Hernandez Marianne & Marshall Hess Douglas & Antionette Hill Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hill Dr. Joseph & Marie Hinchcliffe Mr. Carlyle Hoch Ms. Donna Hoffman & Mr. Richard Dum Clare & Jim Hoke Philo & Erika Holcomb Katherine Holter Dr. & Mrs. Elmer J. Holzinger Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Hooton Mr. & Mrs. G.T. Horne Thomas O. Hornstein Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Hope H. Horst Drs. Mary & John Hotchkiss Anne K. Hoye Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Huffman Mr. & Mrs. Elwood T. Hughes Jean & Richard Humphreys Robert & Gail Hunter Joan M. Hurrell Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Hyland, Jr. George L. Illig, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David Iwinski, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Vincent J. Jacob Dr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Jacobs Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Willcox Jenkins Richard C. Alter & Eric D. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Johnson Tom & Cathie Johnson Mrs. Barbara B. Johnston Tom & Wendy Jones in Honor of Chris Wu Dr. Raymond M. Juriga Richard & Barbara Kahlson Alice & Richard Kalla Daniel & Carole Kamin Julie & Jeffrey Kant Dr. & Mrs. Peter D. Kaplan Flo & Bob Kenny Rhian Kenny
individual donors
Ruth Ann & Eugene Klein Lynn & Milton Klein Peggy C. Knott Hetty* & James Knox Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Kobus Ms. Marilyn Koch Nancy & Bill Koch Dr.* & Mrs. Kian S. Kooros William B.* & Karen M. Kost Stephen Kostyniak Carly, Catherine & Kim Koza Andrew J. Kozusko, III, Esq. & Kristin M. Kozusko Madeline Kramer in Memory of Fred Kramer Helen Aldisert & William L. Krayer Alice & Lewis Kuller Robert A. & Alice Kushner Betty Lamb Dr. Michael Landay Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. Lang A. Lorraine Laux Earl & Marilyn Latterman Marvin & Gerry Lebby Joan Lee Joon & Grace Lee Mr. David W. Lendt Father Ronald P. Lengwin Robert W. Lenker Sally Levin Claire & Larry Levine Dr. & Mrs. Herbert & Barbara Levit Mrs. William E. Lewellen, III Phillip & Leslie Liebscher Robert & Janet Liljestrand Elsa Limbach Mr. & Mrs. Kurt L. Limbach Mr. & Mrs. James T. Linaberger Constance T. Long Don & Hanne Lorch Mrs. Sybil S. Lowy Francis & Debbie Lynch Rosemarie & Jeffrey Lynn Pat & Don MacDonald William & Nora MacDonald Neil & Ruth MacKay Prof. Heather MacLean Hank Mader John K. Maitland Mr. & Mrs. Robert Malnati Carl & Alexis Mancuso Pam & Charley Mansell Mr. & Mrs. Bernard S. Mars Thomas & Elizabeth Massella Helen F. Mathieson
Dr. William Matlack & Leslie Crawford Matlack Kenneth & Dr. Carol N. Maurer Ms. Sidney F. McBride Mr. & Mrs. Jon W. McCarter McCarthy Rail Insurance Managers, Inc. Mr. Samuel A. McClung Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Mary C. McCormick Margaret S. McCoy Paula & Bob McCracken Mrs. Samuel K. McCune Keith McDuffie Mary & R. Lee McFadden Mr. & Mrs. Michael H. McGarry Carol Jean McKenzie Jean & John McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. William P. Meehan Mr. David Givens & Mr. Stephen Mellett Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Mellon Barbara Sachnoff Mendlowitz In Memory of William C. Menges Robert & Elizabeth Mertz Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Mrs. William Metcalf, III Mr. & Mrs. Roger F. Meyer Bridget & Scott Michael Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton Robert & Miriam Miller Mr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Miller Dr. & Mrs. Vincent P. Miller, Jr. Dr. Samuel* & Nessa Mines Catherine Missenda Phyllis S. Mizel* Paul & Connie Mockenhaupt Mr. Jason Mooney Amy & Ira M. Morgan Connie & Bruce Morrison Dr. & Mrs. William S. Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Morrow Frank & Brenda Moses Mr. & Mrs. Richard Munsch David & Joan Murdoch Mary & Jim Murdy Terrence H. Murphy Mr. & Mrs.* Albert C. Muse Dr. & Mrs. Donald D. Naragon Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Nathanson Dr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Nebel Constance Nelson Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Rev. Robert & Mrs. Suzanne Newpher
Patricia K. Nichols Renee K. Nicholson Mr. & Mrs. James Niece Mr. & Mrs. David Nimick Dr. Sean Nolan Nan R. Norris Charles & Lois Norton Heidi Novak Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Maureen S. O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Jack Offenbach Dr. & Mrs. Kook Sang Oh Paul & Nancy O’Neill Vince Ornato Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Orr Dee Jay Oshry & Bart Rack John A. Osuch Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Dr. & Mrs. Henry Overbeck Doug & Suzanne Owen Dr. Paul M. Palevsky & Dr. Sharon R. Roseman Mr. & Mrs. William A. Partain Dr. Anthony William Pasculle Patricia Passeltiner John & Joan Pasteris Kenneth Patterson Camilla B. Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Pellett Daniel M. Pennell Dr. Jeffrey & Francesca Peters Ms. Dorothy Philipp Mr. & Mrs. Jon R. Piersol Drs. Robert & Kathy Piston Edward & Mary Ellen Pisula Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Porkolab David & Marilyn Posner Mrs. Mildred M. Posvar Eberhard Pothmann Mrs. Shirley Pow Ann & Malvern Powell Ms. Mary Alice Price Myrna & Gerald Prince Mercedes & John Pryce Robert & Mary Jo Purvis Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Queenan, Jr. Fran Quinlan Dr. * & Mrs. Donald H. Quint James & Carol Randolph Barbara M. Rankin Drs. Bruce & Jane Raymond Dr. & Mrs. John A. Redfield Mr. Joseph J. Regna, Jr. Paul & Dorothy Reiber Eric & Frances Reichl Ms. Victoria Rhoades Carraro Dr. & Mrs. J. Merle Rife pittsburghsymphony.org 41
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Mavis & Norman Robertson Edgar R. & Betty A. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. James E. Rohr Mr. & Mrs. C. Arthur Rolander Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Rom Elaine Rosecrans Janice G. Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Byron W. Rosener, III Mrs. Louisa Rosenthal Carol & Scott Rotruck Dr. & Mrs. Wilfred T. Rouleau Joseph Rounds Melvin & Jeanne Rudov Mr. & Mrs. Edmund S. Ruffin, III Mr. R. Douglas Rumbarger Mr. Robert Rupp Mr. Leo P. Russell Murray & Shirley Rust Mrs. John M. Sadler Dr. James R. Sahovey Merrilee H. Salmon Tamiko Sampson Dr. & Mrs. Isamu Sando Dr. Carlos R. Santiago Bill McAllister & Janet Sarbaugh Stephen & Susan Sargent Sally & Keith Saylor Charlie Ward & Marita Schardt Albert & Kathleen Schartner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Schelat Ann & Bill Scherlis Dr. Melvin & Catherine Schiff Mr. & Mrs. George Schneider Mr. & Mrs. K. George Schoeppner Bernie & Cookie Soldo Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Harry W. Schurr, II Mary Ann Scialabba George & Marcia Seeley Mr. & Mrs. David P. Segel Sharon Semenza Aleen Mathews Shallberg & Richard Shallberg Richard F. & Linda W. Shaw Judith D. Shepherd Mr. & Mrs. Raymond V. Shepherd, Jr. Dr. Charles H. Shultz Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Shure Rhoda & Seymour Sikov Marjorie K. Silverman Marilyn & Norman A. Sindler Ms. Ann Slonaker Wallace & Patricia Smith Elaine & William Smith 42 pittsburghsymphony.org
Bill & Patty Snodgrass Marjorie A. Snyder Marcie Solomon & Nathan Goldblatt David Solosko & Sandra Kniess Fund Kristine Haig & John Sonnenday Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Sorr in support of music and wellness Dr. Horton C. Southworth Samuel & Judith Spanos R. Palmer Spierling Richard C. Spine & Joyce Berman Henry Spinelli Janet H. Staab Jim & Judy Stalder Patricia D. Staley Gary & Charlene Stanich Dr. James Staples Shirley & Sidney Stark, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Terence Starz Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Stayer William H. Steele Bronna & Harold Steiman Gene & Charlene Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Bernard P. Stoehr and Family Dr. & Mrs. Ron Stoller in Memory of Joanne Smaldino In Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Mona & E.J. Strassburger Richard A. Sundra, in Loving Memory of Patricia Sundra C.J. Sylak, Jr. Stuart & Liz Symonds Carol L. Tasillo Mr. & Mrs. William H. Taylor, Jr. Gordon & Catherine Telfer Sue Challinor & Matt Teplitz Mr. Philip C. Thackaray Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Thompson Mr. & Mrs. George H. Thompson Bob & Bette Thomson Gail & Jim Titus Denny & Colleen Travis Rosalyn & Albert Treger Paul A. Trimmer Jeff & Melissa Tsai Eric & Barbara Udren Diane & Dennis Unkovic Theo & Pia Van De Venne Suzan M. Vandertie Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Vest Edward L. & Margaret Vogel John & Linda Vuono
Wagner Family Charitable Trust Suzanne & Richard Wagner Bill & Sue Wagner C. Robert Walker John & Irene Wall Mr. & Mrs. John Wandrisco Mr. W.L. & Dr. B.H. Ward Tony & Pat Waterman Marvin & Dot Wedeen Elaine Weil William C. Weil Jodi & Andrew Weisfield Bill Weiss Norman & Marilyn Weizenbaum Mr. & Mrs. James P. Welch Nancy Welfer J.B. Weller Frank & Heide Wenzel Mrs. Louis A. Werbaneth Nancy Werner Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Westerberg Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Wettach James Whitehead Ruth O. Williams Dr. Ann G. Wilmoth Mr. & Mrs. Miles C. Wilson James & Ramona Wingate Marie & Daniel Winschel Sheryl & Bruce Wolf Sidney & Tucky Wolfson Ellie & Joe Wymard Rufus J. Wysor Mark & Judy Yogman Marlene & John Yokim Dr. & Mrs. Jack Yorty Dr. Mark C. Zemanick Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ziatek Simone Ziegler The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra would like to thank the generous individuals whose gifts we cannot recognize due to space constraints. Please read their names on our website at pittsburghsymphony.org. Current as of January 9, 2012
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foundations & public agencies
FOUNDATIONS & PUBLIC AGENCIES
Anonymous (1) Allegheny County Allegheny Regional Asset District The Almira Foundation Bessie F. Anathan Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Benjamin and Fannie Applestein Charitable Trust Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation Meyer & Merle Berger Family Foundation, Inc. Allen H. Berkman and Selma W. Berkman Charitable Trust The Louis & Sandra Berkman Foundation H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust Maxine and William Block Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Paul and Dina Block Foundation Bruce Family Foundation Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of The Buhl Foundation The Jack Buncher Foundation Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable and Educational Trust Compton Family Foundation The Rose Y. and J. Samuel Cox Charitable Fund Cyert Family Foundation Kathryn J. Dinardo Fund Peter C. Dozzi Family Foundation Eden Hall Foundation Mary McCune Edwards Charitable Lead Trust Lillian Edwards Foundation Eichleay Foundation Jane M. Epstine Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Fair Oaks Foundation, Inc. Falk Foundation The Fine Foundation The Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation, Inc. Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Goldberg Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Grable Foundation Hansen Foundation The Heinz Endowments Elsie H. Hillman Foundation The Emma Clyde Hodge Memorial Fund May Emma Hoyt Foundation Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation Roy A. Hunt Foundation Hyman Family Foundation Eugene F. and Margaret Moltrup Jannuzi Foundation Roy F. Johns, Jr. Family Foundation Howard G. and Frances Y. Jones Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Thomas Marshall Foundation Massey Charitable Trust Ruth Rankin McCullough Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Richard King Mellon Foundation R.K. Mellon Family Foundation Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International Howard and Nell E. Miller Foundation Millstein Charitable Foundation The Charles M. Morris Charitable Trust National Endowment for the Arts Vernon C. Neal & Alvina B. Neal Fund The Norbell Foundation A.J. & Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust Parker Foundation The Lewis A. and Donna M. Patterson Charitable Foundation W. I. Patterson Charitable Foundation The Lewis A. and Donna M. Patterson Charitable Foundation Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development Anna L. & Benjamin Perlow Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Pauline Pickens Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh Symphony Association The Platt Family Foundation Norman C. Ray Trust The Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation The William Christopher & Mary Laughlin Robinson Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Rossin Foundation Ryan Memorial Foundation The H. Glenn Sample Jr. MD Memorial Trust James M. & Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation The Mrs. William R. Scott Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Scott Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Snavely Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Alexander C. and Tillie S. Speyer Foundation Symphony East Symphony North Symphony South Tippins Foundation Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust Wallace Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Weiner Family Foundation Samuel and Carrie Arnold Weinhaus Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Robert and Mary Weisbrod Foundation Hilda M. Willis Foundation Phillip H. and Betty L. Wimmer Family Foundation Current as of January 23, 2012 pittsburghsymphony.org 43
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CORPORATIONS Includes annual corporate donations and sponsorships BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION SIGNATURE CIRCLE $75,000 AND ABOVE Acusis Allegheny Technologies Incorporated BNY Mellon EQT Corporation Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield PNC DIAMOND CIRCLE $40,000 - $74,999 Bobby Rahal Automotive Group PPG Industries Foundation PLATINUM CIRCLE $20,000 - $39,999 Alcoa Foundation Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company Delta Air Lines Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Giant Eagle H. J. Heinz Company Foundation LANXESS Corporation MSA Charitable Foundation Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. Peoples Natural Gas Thorp Reed & Armstrong LLP Triangle Tech Group United States Steel Corporation UPMC & UPMC Health Plan GOLD CIRCLE $10,000 - $19,999 Anonymous American Eagle Outfitters Foundation Bayer USA Foundation Citigroup Clearview Federal Credit Union Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Dollar Bank Ernst & Young LLP Fairmont Pittsburgh & Habitat Restaurant 44 pittsburghsymphony.org
The Frank E. Rath-Spang & Company Charitable Trust Hefren-Tillotson Macy’s Foundation Sarris Candies, Inc. SILVER CIRCLE $5,000 - $9,999 AlphaGraphics in the Cultural District American Environmental Services, Inc. Ansaldo STS USA, Inc. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Calgon Carbon Corporation Chesapeake Energy Corporation The Common Plea Catering Inc. Deloitte Eat’n Park Restaurants Federated Investors, Inc. Gleason, Inc. Heritage Valley Health System KPMG LLP Levin Furniture MEDRAD Morgan Stanley Mozart Management Mylan Pharmaceuticals Oliver Wyman PwC Reed Smith LLP Ruth’s Chris Steak House Schreiber Industrial Development Co. SYCOR Trombino Piano Gallerie West Penn Allegheny Health System BRONZE CIRCLE $2,500 - $4,999 A.C. Dellovade, Inc. Angelo, Gordon & Co. Bank of America Merrill Lynch Burrell Group, Inc. Cipriani & Werner PC Dominion Resources ELG Haniel Metals Corporation Elite Coach Transportation Fort Pitt Capital Group
Koppers Lighthouse Electric Company, Inc. Marsh USA Inc. Mascaro Construction Company Pittsburgh Corning Corporation Pittsburgh Valve & Fitting Co. Silhol Builders Supply The Techs WPXI-TV BUSINESS PARTNERS PEWTER LEVEL $1,000 - $2,499 Berner International Corp Bowles Rice Attorneys at Law Bridges & Company, Inc. Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. ESB Bank Elements Contemporary Cuisine Ellwood Group, Inc. FISERV Hughes Television Productions Jendoco Construction Corporation Kerr Engineered Sales Company Lidia’s Italy Pittsburgh MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, Inc. McKamish Inc. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Nocito Enterprises, Inc. Oxford Development Company Rothman Gordon PC Six Penn Kitchen Stringert, Inc. Trebuchet Consulting LLC Tube City IMS, LLC United Safety Services, Inc. Wampum Hardware Inc PARTNER LEVEL $500 - $999 Allegheny Valley Bank Big Burrito Restaurant Group Bombardier The Buncher Company
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Cantor and Pounds Dental Associates Consolidated Communications Crawford Ellenbogen LLC Enterprise Bank General Wire Spring Co. Goehring, Rutter & Boehm Hamill Manufacturing Company Hertz Gateway Center, LP Hoffman Electric, Inc. Horovitz, Rudoy & Roteman The Jas H. Matthews Educational & Charitable Trust John B. Conomos, Inc. K&I Sheet Metal, Inc. Lucas Systems, Inc. Marstrand Industries Inc. Metso Minerals Industries, Inc. Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP Attorneys at Law
Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Modany-Falcone, Inc. Modern Reproductions, Inc. Neville Chemical Company O’Neal Steel, Inc. PGT Trucking Pzena Investment Management, LLC Scott Metals Inc. Triad USA Wagner Agency, Inc. Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research, Inc. We would like to thank all corporations that contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Please see our website for a complete listing at pittsburghsymphony.org. Current as of January 24, 2012
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In addition to income from the Annual Fund, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is dependent on a robust Endowment to assure its financial stability. Gifts from Legacy of Excellence programs are directed to the endowment account to provide for the PSO's future. The Steinberg Society honors donors who have advised the PSO in writing that they have made a provision for the orchestra through their estate plans. Members of the Sid Kaplan Tribute program have made a planned gift to the endowment of $10,000 or more to commemorate a particular person or event. Endowed Naming Opportunities for guest artists, musicians' chairs, concert series, educational programs or designated spaces allow donors to specify a name or tribute for ten years, twenty years or in perpetuity. For additional information, call 412.392.3320.
STEINBERG SOCIETY Anonymous (13) Siamak and Joan Adibi Rev. Drs. A. Gary & Judy Angleberger The Joan & Jerome* Apt Families Francis A. Balog Robert & Loretta Barone Patricia J. Bashioum* Scott J. Bell Mr.* & Mrs.* Allen H. Berkman Dr. Elaine H. Berkowitz Benno & Constance Bernt Marilee Besanceney* Michael Bielski Ruth M. Binkley* Thomas G. Black Barbara M. Brock Gladys B. Burstein Helen B. Calkins * Janet T. Caputo* Bernard Cerilli* Judy & Michael Cheteyan Educational/Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David W. Christopher Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Churchill Dr. Johannes Coetzee* Mr.* & Mrs. Eugene S. Cohen Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Rose Y. Cox* Chester* & Caroline* Davies Jean Langer Davis* Katherine M. Detre* Dr.* & Mrs*. Daniel J. Dillon In memory of Stuart William Discount Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas J. Donnelly Mrs. Philip D'Huc Dressler* Frank R. Dziama Steven G. & Beverlynn Elliott Jane M. Epstine* Emil & Ruth* Feldman Mrs. Loti Gaffney Keith and Susan Garver The Estate of Olga T. Gazalie Mr.* & Mrs.* William H. Genge Ken & Lillian Goldsmith C. Ruth Gottesman* Anna R. Greenberg May Hanson* Elizabeth Anne Hardie Charles & Angela Hardwick Carolyn Heil 46 pittsburghsymphony.org
Eric & Lizz Helmsen Mr.* & Mrs.* Benson Henderson Mr. John H. Hill Doris M. Hunter, M.D.* Mr.* & Mrs.* William C. Hurtt Philo & Erika Holcomb Ms. Seima Horvitz* Florence M. Jacob* Esther G. Jacovitz Eugene F. and Margaret Moltrup Jannuzi Foundation Patricia Prattis Jennings Jane I. Johnson* Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Kahn Mr. Sid Kaplan* Lois S. Kaufman Miss Virginia Kaufman* Stephen & Kimberly Keen Mr. Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. Ms. Bernadette Kersting Dr. Laibe A.* & Sydelle Kessler Walter C. Kidney* John W. Kovic, Jr.* Mildred Koetting* Raymond Krotec* Mr.* & Mrs.* G. Christian Lantzsch Stanley & Margaret Leonard Frances F. Levin Margaret M. Levin* Martha Mack Lewis* Doris L. Litman Penny Locke Edward D. Loughney* Lauren & Hampton Mallory Beatrice Malseed* Jeanne R. Manders* Dr. Richard Martin in memory of Mrs. Lori Martin* Dr. Marlene McCall Elizabeth McCrady* J. Sherman and Suzanne S. McLaughlin George E. Meanor Mary K. Michaely * Catherine Missenda Dr. Mercedes C. Monjian Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Mooney Dr. Michael Moran Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Mildred S. Myers Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Eda M. Nevin*
Rhonda & Dennis Norman Rose Noon* Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. M.D. Irene G. Otte* Mrs. Dorothy R. Rairigh* Barbara M. Rankin Richard E. Rauh Cheryl & James Redmond Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Yvonne V. Riefer* Martha Robel* Donald & Sylvia Robinson Mr. & Mrs. David M. Roderick Mr.* & Mrs. William R. Roesch Charlotta Klein Ross Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Ryan Virginia Schatz Nancy Schepis In Memory of Isaac Serrins from Mrs. Isaac Serrins Michael Shefler Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Simmons Audrey I. Stauffer* Dr. & Mrs. Leonard A. Stept In Honor of Dr. Raymond Stept from His Loving Family Mrs. Margaret Stouffer in memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore In Loving Memory of Father and Grandfather William Steinberg from Silvia Tennenbaum & Family Richard C. Tobias* Tom & Jamee Todd Mr. & Mrs. Gideon Toeplitz Mrs. Jane Treherne-Thomas Eva & Walter J. Vogel Mr. & Mrs. George L. Vosburgh In Memory of Isaac Serrins from Mr. & Mrs. Ira Weiss David G. Weiss* Brian Weller Donald Frederick Wahl* Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Sara Cancelliere Wiegand * James & Susanne Wilkinson Mr.* & Mrs.* Arnold D. Wilner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Witmer Patricia L. Wurster Rufus J. Wysor Naomi Yoran Miriam L. Young
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SID KAPLAN TRIBUTE PROGRAM
The Sid Kaplan Memorial Hallway given by David Kaplan in appreciation of generous gifts commemorating family and friends In Honor of Dr. Raymond Stept from his loving family
In Honor of Mariss & Irina Jansons and friendship from Dr. Laibe* & Sydelle Kessler Honoring my dear friend, Marvin Hamlisch, from Mina Kulber
ENDOWED CHAIRS Principal Horn Chair, given by an Anonymous Donor First Violin Chair, given by Allen H. Berkman in memory of his beloved wife, Selma Wiener Berkman Michael & Carol Bleier Horn Chair given in memory of our parents, Tina & Charles Bleier and Ruth & Shelley Stein Jane & Rae Burton Cello Chair Cynthia S. Calhoun Principal Viola Chair Virginia Campbell Principal Harp Chair Ron & Dorothy Chutz First Violin Chair Johannes & Mona L. Coetzee Memorial Principal English Horn Chair George & Eileen Dorman Assistant Principal Cello Chair Albert H. Eckert Associate Principal Percussion Chair Beverlynn & Steven Elliott Associate Concertmaster Chair Jean & Sigo Falk Principal Librarian Chair Endowed Principal Piccolo Chair, given to honor Frank and Loti Gaffney William & Sarah Galbraith First Violin Chair The Estate of Olga T. Gazalie First Violin Chair Ira & Nanette Gordon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Gracky Fund for Education & Community Engagement Susan S. Greer Memorial Trumpet Chair, given by Peter Greer Caryl & Irving Halpern Cello Chair William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Vira I. Heinz Music Director Chair
Principal Pops Conductor Chair Endowed by Henry & Elsie Hillman Tom & Dona Hotopp Principal Bass Chair Milton G. Hulme, Jr. Guest Conductor Chair given by Mine Safety Appliances Company Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Jones III, Principal Keyboard Chair Virginia Kaufman Resident Conductor Chair, Lawrence Loh Stephen & Kimberly Keen Bass Chair G. Christian Lantzsch & Duquesne Light Company Principal Second Violin Chair Mr. & Mrs. William Genge and Mr. & Mrs. James E. Lee Principal Bassoon Chair Nancy & Jeffery Leininger First Violin Chair Edward D. Loughney Co-Principal Trumpet Fiddlesticks Family Concert Series Endowed by Gerald & Audrey McGinnis Honoring The Center for Young Musicians Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Cello Chair Dr. William Larimer Mellon, Jr. Principal Oboe Chair, given by Rachel Mellon Walton Messiah Concerts Endowed by the Howard and Nell E. Miller Chair Donald I. & Janet Moritz and Equitable Resources, Inc. Associate Principal Cello Chair The Perry & BeeJee Morrison String Instrument Loan Fund The Morrison Family Associate Principal Second Violin Chair Mildred S. Myers & William C. Frederick Co-Principal Oboe Chair
In Loving Memory of Martin Smith, PSO Horn, 1980-2005, from his siblings Todd Smith, Judy Dupont, & Susan Noble
Jackman Pfouts Principal Flute Chair, given in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Jackman by Barbara Jackman Pfouts Pittsburgh Symphony Association Principal Cello Chair Reed Smith Chair honoring Tom Todd Horn Chair James W. & Erin Rimmel Percussion Chair Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Oboe Chair Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation Guest Conductor Chair Martha Brooks Robinson Principal Trumpet Chair Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Silberman Principal Clarinet Chair Mr. and Mrs. Willard J. Tillotson Jr. Viola Chair Tom & Jamee Todd Principal Trombone Chair Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair, given by Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife Jacqueline Wechsler Horn Chair given in memory of Irving (Buddy) Wechsler Barbara Weldon Principal Timpani Chair Hilda M. Willis Foundation Flute Chair Thomas H. & Frances Witmer Assistant Principal Horn Chair The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra wishes to thank individuals who have made gifts or provisions through the Legacy of Excellence programs. If you find that your name has not been listed and should be, or if you would like additional information about making gifts to the endowment, please call 412.392.3320. Current as of January 24, 2012 *deceased pittsburghsymphony.org 47
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COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is grateful to our Commitment to Excellence Campaign donors and is pleased to acknowledge the following members of our donor family who have made gifts of $1,000 or more to the Commitment to Excellence Campaign. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy; however, if we have not listed you correctly, please call 412.392.2887.
$1,000,000+ Anonymous (1) BNY Mellon The Buncher Family Foundation Eden Hall Foundation Beverlynn & Steven Elliott The Heinz Endowments Elsie & Henry Hillman The Estate of Virginia Kaufman The Richard King Mellon Foundation PNC R.P. Simmons Family Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program Arthur and Barbara Weldon $500,000 - $999,999 Anonymous (1) Dollar Bank Roy & Susan Dorrance The Giant Eagle Foundation Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Maxwell Catharine M. Ryan & John T. Ryan III Tom & Jamee Todd $250,000 - $499,999 Allegheny Technologies Incorporated Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation Edward S. & Jo-Ann M. Churchill Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Donahue Mr. & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon Drue Heinz Trust Tom & Dona Hotopp G. Christian Lantszch* Lillian Edwards Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McConomy Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Usher Jon & Carol Walton Thomas H. and Frances M. Witmer $100,000 - $249,999 Anonymous (3) Wendy & David Barensfeld in Memory of Robert E. Herlands Kathryn & Michael Bryson Rae & Jane Burton 48 pittsburghsymphony.org
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Calihan The Estate of Johannes Coetzee Randi & L.Van V. Dauler, Jr., Emma Clyde Hodge Memorial Fund EQT Corporation The Estate of Beatrice Malseed The Estate of Donald F. Wahl Falk Foundation & Sigo and Jean Falk Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot Goldman Sachs Gives Ira & Anita Gumberg Hansen Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation Hefren-Tillotson Rick & Laurie Johnson Nancy & Jeff Leininger Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Samuel and Carrie Arnold Weinhaus Fund Edward D. Loughney* Bill* & Carol Tillotson Helge & Erika Wehmeier James & Susanne Wilkinson Hilda M. Willis Foundation $50,000 - $99,999 Estate of Florence M. Jacob Benno & Constance Bernt Michael & Carol Bleier Sidney & Sylvia Busis Ann & Frank Cahouet Ron & Dorothy Chutz Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Estate of Olga T. Gazalie Barbara Jeremiah Robert W. & Elizabeth C. Kampmeinert A. W. Mellon Foundation James & Joan Moore Donald I. & Janet Moritz Mildred S. Myers & William C. Frederick Elliott S. Oshry Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reed Smith LLP
Abby & Reid Ruttenberg John P. & Elizabeth L. Surma Jacquelin G. Wechsler $25,000-$49,999 Anonymous (1) Alan L. & Barbara B. Ackerman Astorino Larry & Tracy Brockway Robert C. Denove Pamela R. & Kenneth B. Dunn Martin & Lisa Earle Eichleay Foundation Ernst & Young LLP Nancy Goeres & Michael Rusinek Ms. Anna Greenberg Stephen & Kimberly Keen Mrs. H.J. Levin Betty & Granger Morgan The Pittsburgh Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brooks Robinson Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer Stan & Carole Russell Karen Scansaroli James M. & Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation Schreiber Industrial Development Co. Mr. & Mrs. James E. Steen The Estate of Joan Dillon Milton & Nancy Washington Harvey & Florence Zeve $10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (1) William & Frances Aloe Charitable Foundation The Louis & Sandra Berkman Foundation Michael E. Bielski Estate of Ruth M. Binkley Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Booker AndrĂŠs CĂĄrdenes & Monique Mead James C. Chaplin Virginia K. Cicero The Estate of Richard C. Tobias The Estate of Jane I. Johnson Greg & Ellen Jordan Ruth Feldman* & Emil Feldman Elizabeth H. Genter David & Nancy Green Caryl & Irving Halpern
commitment to excellence David G. Hammer The Walt Harper Memorial Fund W.S. & Linda J. Hart Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Karen & Thomas Hoffman Ms. Seima Horvitz Mark Huggins & Bonnie Siefers David & Melissa Iwinski Eric & Valerie Johnson Rhian Kenny Judith & Lester* Lave Carolyn Maue & Bryan Hunt Douglas B. McAdams Alicia & Victoria McGinnis Mary Ellen Miller Maureen S. O'Brien Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. O'Brien Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. M.D. & Linda E. Shooer Robert & Lillian Panagulias Mr. & Mrs. John R. Price Deborah Rice James W. & Erin M. Rimmel Max & Tiffany Starks Estate of Audrey I. Stauffer Elizabeth Burnett & Lawrence Tamburri The Chester A. Davies Trust Edward L. & Margaret Vogel Mrs. Evette Wivagg Rachel W. Wymard Seldon & Susan Whitaker Dr. & Mrs. Merrill F. Wymer $5,000-$9,999 Jim & Jane Barthen Scott Bell Allan J. & Clementine K. Brodsky Roger & Judy Clough Estelle Comay & Bruce Rabin Philip J. & Sherry S. Dieringer Mr. & Mrs. David Ehrenwerth Mr. Ian Fagelson Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Gebhardt Gail & Gregory Harbaugh Mr. & Mrs.* Charles H. Harff Eric & Lizz Helmsen Hyman Family Foundation Richard & Alice Kalla Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. Douglas W. Kinzey Cliff & Simi Kress Betty L. Lamb Jeanne R. Manders* Scott & Bridget Michael Mr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Miller
Robert Moir & Jennifer Cowles Mary & Jim Murdy Mr. & Mrs. Hale Oliver Mr. & Mrs. Michael B. Pollack Tor Richter in memory of Tibbie Richter Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Stept Dick & Thea Stover Becky & Herb Torbin Jane F. Treherne-Thomas Dr. Michael J. White & Mr. Richard L. LeBeau Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Wright Robert P. Zinn & Dr. Darlene Berkovitz $1,000 - $4,999 Anonymous (7) Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen, Sr. Mr. Thomas L. Allen David & Andrea Aloe Joan & Jerome* Apt & Family John H. Ashton Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Kathleen & Joseph Baird Richard C. Barney Robert W. & Janet W. Baum Philip & Melinda Beard Yu-Ling and Gregg Behr Patti & Sandy Berman Georgia Berner Ms. Mary Biagini Drs. Barbara & Albert Biglan Marian & Bruce Block Nadine E. Bognar Betsy Bossong Jim & Debbie Boughner Mr. & Mrs. David A. Brownlee Lois R. Brozenick Howard & Marilyn Bruschi Doug Burns Burrell Group, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Cameron Mr. & Mrs. Brian and Shannon Capellupo Gloria R. Clark Mr. Ray Clover Dr. Richard L. & Sally B. Cohen Bill & Cynthia Cooley Stacy Corcoran Rose & Vincent Crisanti Patricia Criticos Donna Dierken Dado Ada & Stanford Davis Dr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Dell'Omo Valerie DiCarlo June & Barry Dietrich Lisa Donnermeyer
John & Gertrude Echement Francis & Gene Fairman III In Honor of Ruth Feldman* & Emil Feldman Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Jan Fleisher Mr. & Mrs. Joseph U. Frye Friends & Family of Stanford P. Davis Bruce & Ann Gabler Dr. R. Kent Galey & Dr. Karen Roche Gamma Investment Corporation Kathleen Gavigan & William B. Dixon Mr. & Mrs. James Genstein Bernard Goldstein, M.D. & Russellyn Carruth Mr. Thomas W. Golightly & Rev. Carolyn J. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Graham John F. Gray Mr. & Mrs. Frank T. Guadagnino Kristine Haig & John Sonnenday Deirdre & Brian Henry Carol E. Higgins Adam & Allison Hill Kelvin Hill Esther & Terry Horne Mr. & Mrs. Thomas O. Hornstein David & Mary Hughes Mary Lee & Joe Irwin Vincent J. Jacob Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Jacobs, Jr. Maureen Jeffrey Trust Susan & Wyatt Jenny Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur S. Jones Leo & Marge Kane Joan M. Kaplan Mr. Navroz J. Karkaria Judge William Kenworthy & Mrs. Lucille Kenworthy Jan & Guari Kiefer Aleta J. & Paul King Carly, Catherine & Kim Koza Elaine & Carl Krasik In Memory of Jack Larouere Mike LaRue & Judy Wagner A. Lorraine Laux Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Leech John Lenkey III Dr. Joseph & AnnaMae Lenkey Frances F. Levin Ken & Hope Linge Tom & Gail Litwiler E.D. Loughney MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, Inc. pittsburghsymphony.org 49
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Mary Lou & Ted N. Magee Carl & Alexis Mancuso In Memory of Elizabeth & Leonard Martin Dave & Kathy Maskalick Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Massaro, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Water T. McGough, Jr. George & Bonnie Meanor Marilyn & Allan Meltzer Merrills Family Burl J. F. Moone, III Arthur J. Murphy, Jr. Terrence H. Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Perry Napolitano Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Nussbaum Roger & Sarah Parker John & Joan Pasteris Richard E. & Alice S. Patton Camilla B. Pearce and Dan Gee* Joseph & Suzanne Perrino Ms. Mary Alice Price Symphony East Barbara Rackoff Bruce S. Reopolos Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts
Betty & Edgar R. Robinson Mr. William M. Robinson Bruce & Susy Robison Dr. Lee A. & Rosalind* Rosenblum Charlotta Klein Ross Joseph Rounds Millie & Gary Ryan Gail Ryave & Family Mary Sedigas Mrs. Virginia W. Schatz Allyn R. Shaw, William M. Shaw III & Family, Susan Wambold Michael Shefler Mr. & Mrs. Raymond V. Shepherd, Jr. Dr. Ralph T. Shuey & Rebecca L. Carlin Paul & Linda Silver Laurie & Paul Singer Lois & Bill Singleton Marjorie A. Snyder Marcie Solomon & Nathan Goldblatt Martin Staniland & Alberta Sbragia
Shirley & Sidney Stark, Jr. Sarah & Thomas St. Clair Jeff & Linda Stengel Stringert, Inc. Peter Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Frank Talenfeld Dorothea & Gerald* Thompson Jeff & Melissa Tsai Drs. Ben Van Houten & Victoria Woshner John and Linda Vuono Jim* & Mary Jo Winokur Scott & Stacy Weber Marvin & Dot Wedeen Jodi & Andrew Weisfield Mr. & Mrs. Richard Zahren We would like to thank all of our donors to the Commitment to Excellence Campaign. A complete listing can be found on our website at pittsburghsymphony.org Current as of January 23, 2012 *deceased
SPECIAL NAMED GIFTS BNY Mellon ........................................Recordings & Electronic Media and Artistic Excellence Programs Benno & Constance Bernt ......................................................................................................Stage Right Door Rae & Jane Burton ........................................................................................................................Garden Bench Randi & L. Van V. Dauler, Jr. ........................................................Mozart Room Elevator & Garden Bench William S. Dietrich, II* ............................................................Endowment for PSO Educational Programs Dollar Bank ..............................................................................................Community Engagement Concerts Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Donahue ................................................................................Music for the Spirit Roy & Susan Dorrance ..................................................................................................Music for the Spirit EQT Corporation ..................................Community Engagement & EQT Student Side-By-Side Program Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot ..........................................................................................................Grand Piano Goldman Sachs Gives ........................................................................Community Engagement Concerts Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield ..................................................................Music and Wellness Program Elsie & Henry Hillman ..................The Henry L. Hillman Endowment for International Performances Ms. Seima Horvitz ........................................................................................................................Garden Bench David & Melissa Iwinski ..........................................................................................................Stage Left Door Lillian Edwards Foundation..........................................................................................Heartstrings Program Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Maxwell ......................................................................President and CEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ................................................................................Grand Tier Door - Right Center PNC ..................................................................................PNC Walkway at Heinz Hall and PNC Tiny Tots Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart ................................................................................................Grand Piano Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer....................................................................................................Garden Bench Catharine M. Ryan & John T. Ryan III ............................................................................Music for the Spirit Alece & David Schreiber ............................................................................................................Garden Bench Harvey & Florence Zeve ........................................................................................................Garden Bench Current as of January 23, 2012 50 pittsburghsymphony.org
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