PSO Program Book - March 23 - April 1, 2012

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March 23 & 25: Program................................................................13 March 23 & 25: Program Notes ....................................................14 Yan Pascal Tortelier: Biography ..................................................18 Sarah Chang Biography ................................................................20 March 30, 31 & April 1: Program ................................................27 March 30, 31 & April 1: Program Notes......................................28 Leonard Slatkin: Biography ..........................................................32 Stephen Hough: Biography ..........................................................34

It is the mission of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to provide musical experiences at the highest level of expression to enrich the community and satisfy the needs and preferences of our audiences.

We will achieve this mission by working together to support an internationally recognized orchestra and by ensuring a viable long-term financial future; a fulfilling environment for our orchestra, staff, volunteers; and the unsurpassed satisfaction of our customers.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performances are brought to the community in part by generous support from the Allegheny Regional Asset District and corporations, foundations and individuals throughout our community. The PSO receives additional funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Art Works.

Annual Fund Donors: Individuals..............................................36 Foundations & Public Agencies ..................................................43 Corporations .................................................................................. 44 Legacy of Excellence: Steinberg Society ....................................46 Legacy of Excellence: Sid Kaplan Tribute Program ................47 Legacy of Excellence: Endowed Chairs ....................................47 Commitment to Excellence Campaign ..........................................48

Radio station WQED-FM 89.3 and WQEJ-FM 89.7 is the official voice of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Tune in Sundays at 8 p.m. for “Pittsburgh Symphony Radio” concert broadcasts hosted by Jim Cunningham.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians ..............................2

TO ADVERTISE IN THE PROGRAM, CONTACT: Elaine Nucci at 412.471.6087, or email: nucci@culturaldistrict.org

Jack Heinz Society ............................................................................6

Board of Trustees & Chairman’s Council ....................................4

New Leadership Board....................................................................6 Pittsburgh Symphony Association................................................6 Friends of the PSO ............................................................................6 Administrative Staff..........................................................................8 Heinz Hall Information & FAQ ..................................................52

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2011-2012 SEASON

SECOND VIOLIN

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G. CHRISTIAN LANTZSCH & DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY CHAIR

Louis Lev

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THE MORRISON FAMILY CHAIR

Dennis O’Boyle Michael Davis 1 Carolyn Edwards Linda Fischer Lorien Benet Hart Claudia Mahave Laura Motchalov Peter Snitkovsky Albert Tan Yuko Uchiyama Rui-Tong Wang

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MUSIC DIRECTOR

Manfred Honeck

ENDOWED BY THE VIRA I. HEINZ ENDOWMENT

PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR

Marvin Hamlisch

ENDOWED BY HENRY AND ELSIE HILLMAN

PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR

Leonard Slatkin

VICTOR deSABATA GUEST CONDUCTOR CHAIR

Gianandrea Noseda

RESIDENT CONDUCTOR

Lawrence Loh

VIRGINIA KAUFMAN RESIDENT CONDUCTOR CHAIR

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Thomas Hong FIRST VIOLIN

Noah Bendix-Balgley CONCERTMASTER RACHEL MELLON WALTON CONCERTMASTER CHAIR

Mark Huggins

ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER BEVERLYNN & STEVEN ELLIOTT CHAIR

Huei-Sheng Kao ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Hong-Guang Jia ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Jeremy Black Ellen Chen-Livingston Irene Cheng Sarah Clendenning Alison Peters Fujito David Gillis

SELMA WIENER BERKMAN MEMORIAL CHAIR

Sylvia Kim Jennifer Orchard

RON & DOROTHY CHUTZ CHAIR

Susanne Park Christopher Wu

NANCY & JEFFERY LEININGER CHAIR

Shanshan Yao

THE ESTATE OF OLGA T. GAZALIE

Kristina Yoder

VIOLA

Randolph Kelly j CYNTHIA S. CALHOUN CHAIR

Tatjana Mead Chamis d Joen Vasquez x Marylène Gingras-Roy Penny Anderson Brill Cynthia Busch Erina Laraby-Goldwasser Paul Silver

MR. & MRS.WILLARD J.TILLOTSON, JR. CHAIR

Stephanie Tretick Meng Wang Andrew Wickesberg CELLO

Anne Martindale Williams j PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION CHAIR

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DONALD I. & JANET MORITZ AND EQUITABLE RESOURCES, INC. CHAIR

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GEORGE & EILEEN DORMAN CHAIR

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CARYL & IRVING HALPERN CHAIR

Lauren Scott Mallory

MR. & MRS. MARTIN G. MCGUINN CHAIR

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Jeffrey Turner j TOM & DONA HOTOPP CHAIR

Donald H. Evans, Jr. d Betsy Heston x Ronald Cantelm Jeffrey Grubbs

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IRVING (BUDDY) WECHSLER CHAIR

Ronald Schneider

STEPHEN & KIMBERLY KEEN CHAIR

John Moore Aaron White

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Joseph Rounds

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SUSAN S. GREER MEMORIAL CHAIR

TROMBONE

Peter Sullivan j

Rebecca Cherian h James Nova

FRANK AND LOTI GAFFNEY CHAIR

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Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida j

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Murray Crewe j TUBA

Craig Knox j

Scott Bell

MR. & MRS.WILLIAM E. RINEHART CHAIR

TIMPANI

Harold Smoliar

BARBARA WELDON PRINCIPAL TIMPANI CHAIR

ENGLISH HORN

JOHANNES & MONA L. COETZEE MEMORIAL CHAIR

JAMES W. & ERIN M. RIMMEL CHAIR

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Michael Rusinek j

MR. & MRS. AARON SILBERMAN CHAIR

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Richard Page j BASSOON

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CONTRABASSOON

James Rodgers j HORN

William Caballero j ANONYMOUS DONOR CHAIR

Stephen Kostyniak d Zachary Smith x

THOMAS H. & FRANCES M.WITMER CHAIR

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE PERRY & BEE JEE MORRISON STRING INSTRUMENT LOAN FUND 2 pittsburghsymphony.org

MARTHA BROOKS ROBINSON CHAIR

TOM & JAMEE TODD CHAIR

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James Gorton

George Vosburgh j EDWARD D. LOUGHNEY CHAIR

Lorna McGhee j

PICCOLO

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Andrew Reamer j ALBERT H. ECKERT CHAIR

Jeremy Branson d Christopher Allen

JAMES W. & ERIN M. RIMMEL CHAIR

FRETTED INSTRUMENTS

Irvin Kauffman j LIBRARIANS

Joann Ferrell Vosburgh j JEAN & SIGO FALK CHAIR

Lisa Gedris

STAGE TECHNICIANS

Ronald Esposito John Karapandi OPEN CHAIRS

WILLIAM & SARAH GALBRAITH FIRST VIOLIN CHAIR

MR. & MRS. BENJAMIN F. JONES III KEYBOARD CHAIR

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The PSO is grateful toThe Perry and BeeJee Morrison Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and the Ruth Rankin McCullough Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation for their generous support of this book.

2011-2012 SEASON

Richard P.Simmons

Larry T.Brockway

VICE CHAIR

FINANCE COMMITTEE

CHAIRMAN

Beverlynn Elliott

Richard J.Johnson VICE CHAIR

James A.Wilkinson PRESIDENT & CEO

Jeffery L.Leininger SECRETARY & TREASURER

Joan Apt Benno A.Bernt Constance Bernt Michael E.Bleier Diana Block Theodore N.Bobby Donald W.Borneman Larry T.Brockway Michael A.Bryson Bernita Buncher Rae R.Burton Ronald E.Chutz Estelle F.Comay Basil M.Cox L.Van V.Dauler,Jr. Robert C.Denove David W.Christopher Mrs.Frank J.Gaffney Mrs.Henry J.Heinz,II Annabelle Clippinger CHAIR, NEW LEADERSHIP BOARD

Jared L.Cohon,Ph.D.

PRESIDENT, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

Diana Block

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE

Ronald E. Chutz MODERN TRANSPORTATION

Kimberly Fleming HEFREN-TILLOTSON

J. Brett Harvey CONSOL ENERGY, INC.

David Iwinski

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CORPORATE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Michael A.Bryson Rae R.Burton AUDIT COMMITTEE

L.Van V.Dauler,Jr. PARTNERSHIP COMMITTEE

Donald W.Borneman INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

Roy G.Dorrance,III

Beverlynn Elliott

Deborah L.Rice

Thomas B.Hotopp

JACK HEINZ SOCIETY

MAJOR GIFTS COMMITTEE**, TOUR FUNDING TASK FORCE

EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Barbara Jeremiah ARTISTIC COMMITTEE

Jeffery L.Leininger MAJOR GIFTS COMMITTEE**

Alicia McGinnis

MARKETING COMMITTEE

James W.Rimmel Thomas Todd

GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE

Helge H.Wehmeier

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY TASK FORCE

Rachel Wymard DIVERSITY COMMITTEE

PATRON DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

**co-chair

HEINZ HALL COMMITTEE

Mildred S.Myers

William S.Dietrich* Roy G.Dorrance,III Albert H.Eckert Beverlynn Elliott Sigo Falk Terri Fitzpatrick Elizabeth H.Genter Ira H.Gordon Peter S.Greer Ira J.Gumberg Caryl A.Halpern Gregory Hempfling John H.Hill Thomas B.Hotopp Barbara Jeremiah Richard J.Johnson J.Craig Jordan

Robert W.Kampmeinert Clifford E.Kress Jeffery L.Leininger Robert W.McCutcheon Alicia McGinnis Devin B.McGranahan BeeJee Morrison Mildred S.Myers Elliott Oshry John R.Price Richard E.Rauh Deborah L.Rice James W.Rimmel Frank Brooks Robinson,Sr. Steven T.Schlotterbeck David S.Shapira Max W.Starks,IV

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Howard M.Love* Donald I.Moritz David M.Roderick

Richard P.Simmons Thomas Todd

Gregory G.Dell'Omo,Ph.D.

Joseph Rounds ORCHESTRA MEMBER,PSO

The Honorable Rich Fitzgerald

PRESIDENT,POINT PARK UNIVERSITY

PRESIDENT, PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION

CHAIR,FRIENDS OF THE PSO

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Paul Hennigan,Ed.D. Harold Smoliar ORCHESTRA MEMBER,PSO

PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

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James W. Rimmel

CHAIRMAN

Annabelle Clippinger VICE CHAIRMAN

Elizabeth Etter SECRETARY

Ronald Smutny TREASURER

Alexis Unkovic McKinley

MEMBERS

Todd Izzo Rodrick O. McMahon Gerald Lee Morosco Abby L. Morrison Gabriel Pellathy Victoria Rhoades-Carrero

Barbara A. Scheib William Scherlis James Slater John A.Thompson Rachel M.Wymard

UNIVERSITY RELATIONS CHAIR

MEMBERS

Andrew Swensen Rev. Debra Thompson

Bernie S. Annor Jensina Chutz Jeffrey J. Conn Gavin H. Geraci Robert F. Hoyt Daniel Pennell

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES CHAIR

Lynn Broman

EDUCATION & OUTREACH CHAIR

Elizabeth Etter

MEMBERSHIP CHAIR

Janice Jeletic

PRESIDENT

Alexandra Kusic

VICE PRESIDENT FINANCE

Margaret Bovbjerg

PRESIDENT ELECT

VICE PRESIDENT OF FUND DEVELOPMENT

EX-OFFICIO PRESIDENT

BOUTIQUE CHAIRS

Margaret Bovbjerg Linda Stengel

SECRETARY AND PARLIAMENTARIAN

Cheryl Redmond

NOMINATING CHAIR

Linda Stengel

VICE PRESIDENTS OF AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT

Doris Cope, M.D. Reshma Paranjpe, M.D. VICE PRESIDENT COMMUNICATIONS

Cissy Rebich NEWSLETTER

Peg Fitchwell-Hill VICE PRESIDENT EDUCATION

Gillian Cannell

MUSIC 101 CHAIR

Susie Prentiss CO-CHAIRS

Kathy & David Maskalick FOUNDING CHAIRS

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MIllie Ryan

Linda Stengel Michele Talarico

FINE INSTRUMENT FUND CHAIR

Chris Thompson

VICE PRESIDENTS MEMBERSHIP

Jennifer Martin Carolyn Maue

VICE PRESIDENT EVENTS

Francesca Peters

FALL ANNUAL MEETING/LUNCHEON CHAIRS

Fran Peters Alex Kusic

HOLIDAY LUNCHEON CHAIRS

Bernie S. Annor Cynthia DeAlmeida Antonia Franzinger Alice Gelormino Susan Johnson David Knapp Dawn Kosanovich James Malezi Bridget Meacham Lily Pietryka SPRING LUNCHEON CHAIRS

Jan Chadwick Susie Prentiss Patty Snodgrass

PSA NIGHT AT THE SYMPHONY CHAIRS

Doris Cope, M.D. Reshma Paranjpe, M.D.

ORCHESTRA APPRECIATION CHAIRS

Millie Ryan Frances Pickard Chris Thompson

AFFILIATES' DAY CHAIRS

Mary Ann Craig Cheryl Redmond

AFFILIATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SYMPHONY NORTH PRESIDENT

Clare Hoke

SYMPHONY EAST PRESIDENT

Robert Kemper

Frances Pickard Thea Stover Mary Lloyd Thompson Linda Blum Cynthia & Bill Cooley Stephanie & Albert Firtko Millie Myers & Bill Frederick Andy & Sherry Klein Joan & Cliff Schoff

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Joan Apt Grace M. Compton* Betty Flecker Caryl A. Halpern Drue Heinz Elsie Hillman Jane S. Oehmler* Sandra H. Pesavento Janet Shoop Kathy Kahn Stept Jane C.Vandermade Elizabeth B.Wiegand Joan A. Zapp *Deceased FOR INFORMATION ABOUT PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY

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BOOK CLUB

in partnership with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh & Classical WQED-FM 89.3

Join us in an exploration of themes from the 2011-2012 Season through books ranging from historical fiction to biography and cultural history. Read the book and join WQED-FM’s Jim Cunningham and PSO musicians in an afternoon of lively discussion! Meetings are held at 1:30pm 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

Sunday, June 10, 2012, 1:30 pm

The Student Conductor

by Robert Ford

Richard Strauss: AMusical Life by Raymond Holden

With Jeffrey Turner, bass

With Louis Lev, violin

Call 412.392.4876 or email explore @pittsburghsymphony.org to register.

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. AVAILABILITY IS LIMITED.

2011-2012 SEASON

PRESIDENT & CEO

James A.Wilkinson

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & COO

Michael E. Bielski

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF EDUCATION & STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION

Suzanne Perrino

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE & CFO

Scott Michael

VICE PRESIDENT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

James R. Barthen

VICE PRESIDENT OF AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT & SALES

Yu-Ling Cheng

VICE PRESIDENT OF HEINZ HALL

Carl A. Mancuso

VICE PRESIDENT, DONOR RELATIONS

Mary Ellen Miller

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF ARTISTIC PLANNING & AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

Robert B. Moir

GENERAL MANAGER & VICE PRESIDENT OF ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS

Marcie Solomon

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF DONOR RELATIONS & DIRECTOR OF THE MAJOR CAMPAIGN

Jodi Weisfield

ADMINISTRATION

Dawn Cercone

SECRETARY TO THE BOARD/FINANCE & MUSIC DIRECTOR ASSISTANT

Lisa G. Donnermeyer

MANAGING ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT

Ashley Pappal

MANAGER OF PARTNERSHIPS

ARTISTIC PLANNING & AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

Yonca Karakilic

MANAGER OF ARTISTIC PLANNING, AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT & FESTIVALS

Erik Thogerson

MANAGER OF ARTISTIC PLANNING & AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT & SALES

Sally Denmead SALES MANAGER

Jim D. Deuchars

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SALES

Claire Ertl

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

Jessica Hummel

DONOR RELATIONS & MAJOR CAMPAIGN

Richard Crawford

INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL FUND MANAGER

BUILDING OPERATIONS MANAGER

Katie Andary

Jennifer Birnie

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT COORDINATOR

Shannon Capellupo DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EVENTS

Jan Fleisher

MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Lizz Helmsen

DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE & PARTNERSHIP SUPPORT

Lisa Herring

MANAGER OF SPECIAL EVENTS

Alfred O. Jacobsen SPONSORSHIP MANAGER

Kimberly Mauersberg MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Lori J. McCann

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT MANAGER

Tracey Nath-Farrar MANAGER OF FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

Camilla Brent Pearce

DIRECTOR OF INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT

Brian Skwirut

DIRECTOR OF FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

Lauren Vermilion

MAJOR CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR

Jessica D.Wolfe DATA COORDINATOR

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Lisa Hoak

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Gloria Mou

MANAGER OF EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

FINANCE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

Michelle Balionis

MANAGER OF ACCOUNTING

T.C. Brown

ANNUITY DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Kevin DeLuca

Robbin Nelson MAINTENANCE

James E. Petri STAGE TECHNICIAN

Mary Sedigas

MAINTENANCE STAFF SUPERVISOR

William Weaver STAGE TECHNICIAN

Stacy Weber

CENTRAL SCHEDULING MANAGER

Eric Wiltfeuer ENGINEER

ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS

Ronald Esposito STAGE TECHNICIAN

Shelly Stannard Fuerte

DIRECTOR OF POPULAR PROGRAMMING

Kelvin Hill

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER

Rachel Joseph

MANAGER OF POPULAR PROGRAMMING

John Karapandi STAGE TECHNICIAN

Sonja Winkler

DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS & TOURING

PATRON SERVICES

Shannon Kensky

PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

Aleta King

DIRECTOR OF PATRON SERVICES

Victoria Maize

PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

Jennifer McDonough

PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

Andrew Seay

PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

Cody Sweet

PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

DIRECTOR OF IMAGE

Eric Quinlan

CASH MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT

Fidele Niyonzigira SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Chrissy Savinell MULTIMEDIA MANAGER

GROUP SALES

Elise Clark

GROUP SALES COORDINATOR

Erin Lynn

DIRECTOR OF GROUP SALES

ENGINEER

Kevin Berwick

Mark Cieslewicz CHIEF ENGINEER

Raymond Clover SOUND TECHNICIAN

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STAGE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & E-COMMERCE MARKETING MANAGER

Michael Karapandi

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Joanne Kowalok

HEINZ HALL

Monica Meyer

Susan M. Jenny

DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SUBSCRIPTION MARKETING

Trish Imbrogno

MAINTENANCE

Deborah Cavrak

Giancarlo D’Andrea GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Jessica Kaercher GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Ramesh Santanam

DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS

SUBSCRIBER & TICKETING SERVICES

Alison Altman

MANAGER OF SUBSCRIBER & TICKETING SERVICES

Stacy Corcoran

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SUBSCRIBER & TICKETING SERVICES

Lori Cunningham

SUBSCRIBER & TICKETING SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

Bill Van Ryn

SUBSCRIBER & TICKETING SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

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The Paris Festival: The City of Light celebrates the music, art and culture born out of the early 20th century artistic revolution in Paris.

Three spectacular concert weekends at Heinz Hall anchor the festival. When attending these concerts, be sure to arrive early and stay after to enjoy pre-concert lectures and film screenings as well as post-concert musical performances and a festival closing party on Friday, May 11.

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ET-A G S I R A P FOR TWO L! STIVA E FE AT TH VISIT

Also, during the festival, take notice of special touches throughout the Hall giving it a distinctive Parisian flare and creating the perfect ambiance for you to immerse yourself in the music.

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MAGIC OF PARIS

FRIDAY, APRIL 27 - SUNDAY, APRIL 29 • HEINZ HALL Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

NOSEDA

HONECK

Respighi: La Boutique fantasque Debussy: Ibéria Falla: Three-Cornered Hat Suites Nos. 1&2

DEBUSSY & RAVEL’S BOLÉRO FRIDAY, MAY 4 & SATURDAY, MAY 5 • HEINZ HALL

DE LA SALLE

Manfred Honeck, conductor Lise de la Salle, piano Andrew Ostrowski, lighting designer Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh

Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Boulanger: Psalm 130 Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major Ravel: Boléro

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS FRIDAY, MAY 11 & SUNDAY, MAY 13 • HEINZ HALL HONECK

Manfred Honeck, conductor Anne Martindale Williams, cello Attack Theatre

Stravinsky: Pétrouchka Honegger: Cello Concerto Gershwin: An American in Paris Milhaud: La Creation du Monde

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BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS | HEINZ HALL FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012 AT 8:00 PM SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012 AT 2:30 PM

PRE-CONCERT one hour prior

CONCERT PRELUDE ON STAGE WITH PSO ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR THOMAS HONG

YAN PASCAL TORTELIER, SARAH CHANG,

VIOLIN

MORTON GOULD

CONDUCTOR

Spirituals for Orchestra

I. II. III. IV. V.

LEONARD BERNSTEIN (ARR. & ADPT. DAVID NEWMAN)

Proclamation Sermon A Little Bit of Sin Protest Jubilee

West Side Story for Violin and Orchestra MS. CHANG

INTERMISSION

LOBBY EXHIBITS

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Symphony No.1 in E minor, Opus 39

I. II. III. IV.

Andante, ma non troppo — Allegro energico Andante, ma non troppo Scherzo: Allegro Finale (quasi una Fantasia): Andante — Allegro molto

This weekend’s performances by Guest Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier are made possible, in part, through the generous Annual Fund support of Mr. & Mrs. Ira Gordon.

This weekend's performances by Violin Soloist Sarah Chang are made possible, in part, through the generous Annual Fund support of Mrs. Marcia Gumberg and Richard E. Rauh.

This weekend's performances by Violin Soloist Sarah Chang have been made possible, in part, by support from the BNY Mellon Artistic Excellence Fund.

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MORTON GOULD

Spirituals for Orchestra (1941)

Morton Gould, composer, conductor, pianist, arranger and administrator, was born on December 10, 1913 in New York City. By the age of four, he was playing the piano and composing; at six, he had one of his first compositions published (a waltz called, appropriately, Just Six); by the time he was eight, he had played piano on broadcasts of WOR Radio in ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Born 10 December 1913 in New New York. In 1932, when he was 19, he became staff York City; died 21 February 21 in pianist at Radio City Music Hall. After a brief stint with Orlando NBC, Gould was engaged as composer, arranger and PREMIERE OF WORK: conductor by WOR, where he did a weekly broadNew York City, 19 February 1941 WNYC Festival of American Music cast; from 1942 to 1945, he performed the same Morton Gould, conductor duties for the Cresta Blanca Carnival and Chrysler PSO PREMIERE: Hour programs on CBS. In addition to his light com4 November 1949 positions for radio, Gould wrote for film Syria Mosque Victor de Sabata, conductor (Windjammer), television (the World War I series, Holocaust and Celebration), ballet (Fall River INSTRUMENTATION: woodwinds in pairs plus piccolo Legend), Broadway (Billion Dollar Baby and Arms and bass clarinet, four horns, three and the Girl), orchestra, symphonic band, chamber trumpets, three trombones, tuba, ensembles and chorus. He was also a Grammy-wintimpani, percussion, harp, piano and strings ning conductor. In 1994, Gould was one of five recipAPPROXIMATE DURATION: ients of the Kennedy Center Honors, the highest 19 minutes award given by the United States to its artists; the following year he received the Pulitzer Prize for his Stringmusic. In addition to his careers as composer, performer, arranger and conductor, Morton Gould was also president of ASCAP from 1986 to 1994. He died on February 21, 1996, while in Orlando to conduct seminars at the Disney Institute.

Spirituals for Orchestra, the work that established Gould’s reputation as a concert composer, was introduced under the composer’s direction at the WNYC Festival of American Music in New York on February 9, 1941. Soon after Spirituals was premiered, Gould wrote of it, “I have tried to compose music the way one speaks. I tried to make it as direct and simple as possible. Part of the Jubilee section, for example, is in boogie-woogie pattern. Of course, many contemporary jazz effects coincide with certain rhythmic patterns in our spirituals. The White and Negro spirituals make a tremendous body of folk material. One group ties into another. That is, our White songs are influenced by our Negro songs, and the other way around. What I tried to do was to synthesize some of these features. My starting premise was that our spirituals develop a wide gamut of emotions, musically. These emotions are specifically American. The songs range from strictly spiritual ones that are escapist in feeling, or light and gay, to those having tremendous depth and tragic impact. My idea was to get five moods, widely contrasted in feeling. Although most of the work is original as far as thematic material goes, I have used fragments of folk tunes here and there. The first movement (Proclamation) has a dramatic-religious intensity. The second movement (Sermon) is a simple narrative — a sort of lyrical folk tale. The third movement (A Little Bit of Sin) is humorous and good-natured. The fourth movement (Protest) is bitter, grim and crying-out. The last movement (Jubilee) is a festive and dance-like piece.”

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN

West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra, Arranged and adapted by David Newman (1957, arr. 2011) Leonard Bernstein, a native of Boston, had a productive fascination with New York City for much of his career. Beside being linked with that city’s major orchestra for many years as conductor and music ABOUT THE COMPOSER: director, the great metropolis also served as the inspiBorn 25 August 1918 in Lawrence, ration for several of his original stage compositions — Massachusetts; died 14 October 1990 in New York City the ballet Fancy Free (1944), the musicals On the PREMIERE OF MUSICAL: Town (1944) and Wonderful Town (1952), the score New York City, 26 September 1957 for Elia Kazan’s film On the Waterfront (1954) and the Winter Garden Theatre epochal West Side Story. The idea for West Side Story Max Goberman, conductor was suggested to Bernstein as early as 1949 by the THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE choreographer Jerome Robbins, who envisioned a OF THIS SUITE modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic Romeo INSTRUMENTATION: and Juliet set in New York City. Bernstein was fascitwo flutes, two oboes, English horn, nated with the idea, but could not find time to work three clarinets, bass clarinet, two on the project until the middle 1950s, beginning combassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three tromposition as soon as he had finished the brilliant score bones, tuba, timpani, percussion, for the operetta/musical Candide. Stephen Sondheim, harp, celesta and strings in his Broadway debut, supplied the lyrics, Arthur APPROXIMATE DURATION: Laurents wrote the book and Robbins staged the 19 minutes show, which was finally completed in 1957. After tryouts in Washington and Philadelphia, West Side Story was unveiled on Broadway on September 26th and ran for almost two years. After a tenmonth road tour, it returned to New York and closed on April 27, 1960 after a total of 732 Broadway performances. It was made into a film in 1961 that swept 10 Oscars, including Best Picture, and has since entered into the pantheon of the American theater as one of the greatest musicals ever created.

West Side Story was one of the first musicals to explore a serious subject with wide social implications. More than just the story of the tragic lives of ordinary people in a small, grubby section of New York, it was concerned with urban violence, juvenile delinquency, clan hatred and young love. The show was criticized as harshly realistic by some who advocated an entirely escapist function for the musical, depicting things that were not appropriately shown on the Broadway stage. Most, however, recognized that it expanded the scope of the musical through references both to classical literature (Romeo and Juliet) and to the pressing problems of modern society. Brooks Atkinson, the distinguished critic of The New York Times, noted in his book Broadway that West Side Story was “a harsh ballad of the city, taut, nervous and flaring, the melodies choked apprehensively, the rhythms wild, swift and deadly.” West Side Story, like a very few other musicals — Show Boat, Oklahoma, Pal Joey, A Chorus Line, Sunday in the Park with George, Rent — provides more than just an evening’s pleasant diversion. It is a work that gave an entirely new vision and direction to the American musical theater.

The West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra was arranged in 2011 for Sarah PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

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Chang by David Newman, who belongs to one of Hollywood’s most distinguished musical families: his father was Alfred Newman, composer of 230 film scores, nine of which won Oscars; one uncle, conductor-composer Lionel, headed the music department at 20th Century Fox; another uncle, Emil, scored more than 50 films; his brother is singer and songwriter Thomas Newman and his cousin is Randy Newman, one of Hollywood’s busiest composers. David Newman was born in Los Angeles in 1954, and started working as a studio musician even before receiving degrees in violin and conducting from the University of Southern California. He began composing for films with a song (the appetizing The Worm Eaters) for the 1977 You’ll End Up Eating Worms, and scored his first complete features with Vendetta and Critters (1986). He has since provided the music for nearly 100 films, including Throw Momma from the Train, The War of the Roses, The Mighty Ducks, Hoffa, Honeymoon in Vegas, Operation Dumbo Drop, The Phantom and Out to Sea. He has shown a remarkable skill in writing for comedies and animated features in recent years, scoring such movies as The Nutty Professor, Scooby Doo, The Cat in the Hat, Daddy Day Care, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, 102 Dalmatians, Ice Age and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel. David Newman has also served as music director of the Sundance Institute, music director and conductor of the Los Angeles Pops Orchestra, and a guest conductor with the Utah Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra (New York), National Orchestra of Belgium, New Japan Philharmonic and London’s Royal Philharmonic. He received his first Academy Award nomination in 1998 for Anastasia, in 2007 he was elected president of the Film Music Society, and two years later was honored with BMI’s Richard Kirk Award, given annually for significant contributions to film and television music.

JEAN SIBELIUS

Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Opus 39 (1898-1899)

By the time he was 34, when he finished his First Symphony, Sibelius was already a feted national hero.

He came to maturity when his native Finland was searching for its national cultural and political identity after centuries of domination by Sweden and Russia, and his music gave vent to the aspirations of his countrymen at the time when the Czar’s representatives forbade inflammatory, patriotic words. To invest his works with a powerful nationalistic message, he turned for inspiration to the epic compilation of Finnish legends, the Kalevala. A series of stirring works based on those old stories preceded the First Symphony — En Saga and Kullervo (1892), Karelia Suite (1893) and Four Legends, which include the haunting Swan of Tuonela (1893-1895). Finlandia was born in the same year — 1899 — as the E minor Symphony. As early as 1897, Sibelius was granted an annual sustenance stipend from the Finnish Senate as recognition of his contribution to the life of the nation so that he would be free to continue his creative work.

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ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Born 8 December 1865 in Hämeenlinna, Finland; died 20 September 1957 in Järvenpää, Finland PREMIERE OF WORK: Helsinki, 16 April 1899 Jean Sibelius, conductor

PSO PREMIERE: 25 November 1934 Antonio Modarelli, conductor Syria Mosque

INSTRUMENTATION: woodwinds in pairs plus two piccolos, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and strings

APPROXIMATE DURATION: 38 minutes

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The First Symphony shows the influence both of Sibelius’ study of German music in Berlin and of the Russian dominance of Finland’s artistic life. Coming, as it does, in the last year of the Romantic century, the Symphony looks back for its formal precedents to the orchestral works of the great masters of the German tradition, specifically Beethoven and Brahms. In melodic material, instrumentation and certain points of style, however, it turns further east, to the music of Borodin and, especially, Tchaikovsky, whose Sixth Symphony had been composed only six years before and performed in Helsinki in 1894 and 1897.

Sibelius even told his wife, Aïno, of Tchaikovsky that “there is much in that man that I recognize in myself.” Against this Russo-German background, Sibelius placed his own strong musical personality in establishing himself as a symphonist with a work given to broad emotions and dramatic gestures in an expansive, Romantic mood.

The first movement is introduced by a bardic clarinet solo played above a timpani pedal point. (It is with such orchestral touches that Sibelius admitted trying to evoke the topography of his homeland, in this case, the solitary reddish granite blocks jutting from the sea along Finland’s Baltic coast.) The sonata form proper is begun with the entry of the strings proclaiming the main theme, a typically Sibelian melody begun with a sustained note intensifying to a quick rhythmic flourish. A richly lyrical theme for violins and cellos follows. The second theme, related to the main theme in shape and rhythm, is given by the woodwinds. The development section utilizes the thematic material heard in the exposition, to which are added the stern brass chords so characteristic of Sibelius’ orchestral technique. The recapitulation includes most of the material from the exposition given in a heightened setting.

The Andante, warm and lyrical, opens with a nostalgic melody for violins and cellos.

The central section is led by the horn choir playing a serene theme above the undulating accompaniment of the harp and strings. The long closing section elaborates the opening theme. The Scherzo, in traditional three-part form (A–B–A), comprises brassy, energetic outer sections surrounding a slow, sustained, contrasting trio. The finale begins with the solo clarinet melody that opened the Symphony. Though the movement is marked “Quasi una Fantasia,” it follows sonata form, with an expressive second theme for strings in slower tempo. The functions of development and recapitulation are fused.

PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

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YAN PASCAL TORTELIER Yan Pascal Tortelier is principal conductor of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and enjoys a distinguished career as a guest with the world’s most prestigious orchestras.

He began his musical career as a violinist and, at 14, won first prize for violin at the Paris Conservatoire and also made his debut as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Following general musical studies with Nadia Boulanger, Tortelier studied conducting with Franco Ferrara at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and, from 1974 to 1983, he was associate conductor of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Further positions have included Principal Conductor and artistic director of the Ulster Orchestra (1989-1992) and principal guest conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (20052008). Following his outstanding work as chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic between 1992 and 2003, including annual appearances at the BBC Proms and a very successful tour of the US to celebrate the orchestra's 60th anniversary season, he has been given the title of Conductor Emeritus and continues to work with the orchestra regularly. He also holds the position of principal guest conductor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Tortelier has collaborated with major orchestras including the London Symphony and London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras, Czech Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala Milan, and in North America, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Boston, Chicago and Montreal Symphony Orchestras.

Further afield, he has collaborated with the Melbourne Symphony, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and the Hong Kong and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras.

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Recent highlights have included return visits to the Minnesota Orchestra, Royal Flemish Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, and a major European tour with the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, visiting a number of prestigious venues including the Vienna Musikverein, Salzburg Festspielhaus, the Frankfurt Alte Oper and the Cologne Philharmonie.

Highlights of the 2011-2012 season and beyond include UK concerts and a tour of China with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a tour of South America with the Sao Paulo Symphony, return visits to the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Danish National, St. Louis and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras.

Tortelier has enjoyed a long association with Chandos Records, resulting in an extensive catalogue of recordings, notably with the BBC Philharmonic and Ulster Orchestras, and including award-winning cycles of the orchestral music of Debussy, Ravel (featuring his own orchestration of Ravel's Piano Trio), Franck, Roussel and Dutilleux. He has also conducted critically acclaimed discs of repertoire ranging from Hindemith and Kodaly to Lutoslawski and Karlowicz. Recent releases for Chandos include the Ravel piano concertos coupled with Debussy’s Fantaisie, with pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, and a disc of works by Florent Schmitt with the Sao Paulo Symphony.

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YAN PASCAL TORTELIER LAST CONDUCTED THE PSO IN MARCH 2011

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SARAH CHANG

Sarah Chang is recognized as one of the world’s great violinists. Since her debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of eight she has performed with the greatest orchestras, conductors and accompanists internationally in a career spanning more than two decades. In 2012, she will have recorded exclusively for EMI Classics for 20 years.

Chang tours extensively throughout the year. 2012 highlights in Canada and the U.S. include appearances with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic the Boulder Philharmonic and the Calgary Philharmonic. 2011 saw Chang in performance with orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She will also perform in Norway, Romania, Austria, Canada, Poland and Denmark. Ms. Chang appears regularly in the Far East and returns to Seoul for concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and to Guangzhou to perform with the Symphony Orchestra as part of the Asian Games Opening Festival.

In recital, Chang regularly travels internationally and her last season tour included visits to cities such as London, Zurich, Dublin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Moscow and St. Petersburg. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with such artists as Pinchas Zukerman, Wolfgang Sawallish, Yefim Bronfman, Leif Ove Andsnes, Yo-Yo Ma, the late Isaac Stern and members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Chang’s most recent recording for EMI Classics, performances of Brahms and Bruch violin concertos with Kurt Masur and the Dresdner Philharmonie was received to excellent critical and popular acclaim and was her 20th album for the label. Her 2007 recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons attracted international commendation, with BBC Music Magazine stating: “She has never made a finer recording.”

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Philharmoniker under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Fire and Ice, an album of popular shorter works for violin and orchestra with Placido Domingo conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker; the Dvořák concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis; as well as several chamber music and sonata discs with artists including pianists Leif Ove Andsnes and Lars Vogt.

Along with Pete Sampras, Wynton Marsalis and Tom Brady, Chang has been a featured artist in Movado’s global advertising campaign “The Art of Time.” In 2006, Chang was honored as one of 20 Top Women in Newsweek Magazine’s “Women and Leadership, 20 Powerful Women Take Charge” issue. In March 2008, Chang was honored as a Young Global Leader for 2008 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) for her professional achievements, commitment to society and potential in shaping the future of the world.

In 2005, Yale University dedicated a chair in Sprague Hall in Sarah Chang’s name. For the June 2004 Olympic games, she was given the honor of running with the Olympic Torch in New York, and that same month, became the youngest person ever to receive the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame award. Also in 2004, Chang was awarded the Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana Prize in Siena, Italy. She is a past recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Gramophone’s “Young Artist of the Year” award, Germany’s “Echo” Schallplattenpreis, “Newcomer of the Year” honors at the International Classical Music Awards in London, and Korea’s “Nan Pa” award. In 2011, Chang was named a Cultural Envoy by the United States Embassy.

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SARAH CHANG LAST PERFORMED WITH THE PSO IN OCTOBER 2010

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Over his year-long residency, Composer of the Year Steven Stucky visits several area universities to present lectures and work with composition students in workshop settings. He has selected one work by young composers at the University of Pittsburgh (Jonghee Kang), Carnegie Mellon University (Matthew Samson), Duquesne University (Judy Bruce), and West Virginia University (Ah Reum Han) and coached students throughout the residency. Hear these new works unfold as the residency culminates in a reading session on stage at Heinz Hall with the PSO, accompanied by feedback and insights from Mr. Stucky, and conducted by PSO Resident Conductor Lawrence Loh.

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BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS | HEINZ HALL FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 8:00 PM SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012 8:00 PM SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 2012 2:30 PM

PRE-CONCERT one hour prior

LEONARD SLATKIN, STEPHEN HOUGH,

CONCERT PRELUDE ON STAGE WITH PSO COMPOSER OF THE YEAR STEVEN STUCKEY

CONDUCTOR

PIANO

STEVEN STUCKY

Son et lumière

Concerto No. 5 in F major for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 103, “Egyptian”

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

I. Allegro animato II. Andante III. Molto allegro MR. HOUGH

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Suite from Cinderella

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

POST-CONCERT friday & saturday

Introduction The Father The Merchants and the Sisters’ New Clothes The Dancing Lesson Second Appearance of the Fairy Godmother Variation of the Spring Fairy The Interrupted Departure Clock Scene Cinderella’s Departure for the Ball Court Dance Cinderella’s Arrival at the Ball Grand Waltz Entertainment of the Guests Duet of the Sisters with the Oranges Duet of the Prince and Cinderella Waltz Coda Midnight The Prince Finds Cinderella Amoroso

ARTIST CHAT ON STAGE WITH LEONARD SLATKIN & STEPHEN HOUGH

This weekend's performances of Steven Stucky's Son et Lumiere are made possible, in part, through the generous Annual Fund support Elizabeth Burnett & Lawrence Tamburri.

This weekend's performances by Piano Soloist Stephen Hough are made possible, in part, through the annual fund support of the Gerald McGinnis 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.

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STEVEN STUCKY Son et Lumière (1989)

Steven Stucky is one of America’s most highly regarded and frequently performed composers. Born in Hutchinson, Kansas on November 7, 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 and ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Burrill Phillips. Stucky taught at Lawrence University in Born 7 November 1949 in Wisconsin from 1978 to 1980, and has since been on Hutchinson, Kansas the faculty of Cornell University, where he founded PREMIERE OF WORK: Baltimore, 18 May 1989 the new music group Ensemble X and is now Given Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Foundation Professor of Composition; he has also David Zinman, conductor taught at the Aspen Festival, Eastman School of Music THESE PERFORMANCES and University of California at Berkeley.

MARK THE PSO PREMIERE Stucky’s compositions have been widely perINSTRUMENTATION: two piccolos, three flutes, alto flute, formed throughout the United States and abroad by three oboes, English horn, E-flat clarleading chamber ensembles and symphony orchesinet, three clarinets, bass clarinet, tras, and he has fulfilled commissions from the orchestwo bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, four trumpets, three tromtras of Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, Singapore, bones, tuba, timpani, percussion, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Baltimore, Cincinnati and St. piano, celesta, harp and strings Louis, as well as from the National Endowment for the APPROXIMATE DURATION: Arts, Yale University, Boston Musica Viva, Cornell 9 minutes University and other distinguished organizations. He was one of 10 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 September 27, 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.

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artists’ colony in Saratoga Springs. David Zinman conducted the work’s first performance, in Baltimore on May 18, 1989. In 2000, the League of American Orchestras named Son et Lumière a ‘Millennium Work,’ and the score was recorded on Albany Records by the Albany Symphony under conductor David Alan Miller.

“Son et Lumière (‘Sound and Light’), the title for this piece intended as an orchestral entertainment whose subject is the play of colors, bright surfaces and shimmery textures, is borrowed from the kind of show staged for tourists at historic sites or famous buildings. I tried in this music to recapture the élan and immediacy that regular meters and repetitive rhythms make possible — the sort of thing forbidden during the mid-20th-century modernist regime but later restored in the ‘minimalist’ work of composers like John Adams, Steve Reich and many others. Throughout its brief nine minutes, therefore, Son et Lumière is built almost exclusively from short, busy ostinato figures — my attempt, I suppose, to achieve the rhythmic vitality of minimalism without giving in to the over-simple harmonic language that sometimes comes with it.

“Surprisingly, the musical materials wanted to shape themselves into an approximation of 19th-century sonata form. There is an introduction, a first theme (based on triadic broken chords), a second theme (beginning with the flute solo), and a closing theme (two piccolos). In a sort of development section, these materials are recombined in new ways; in a recapitulation, both the first and second themes are recalled more or less intact (part of the second theme is actually repeated quite literally).

“Then, in the coda, a second surprise: as if another music has all the while been lurking behind the shiny surface, the strings now unexpectedly emerge to assert a new, more passionate, more ‘serious’ voice in an attempt to transcend the external show of sound and light.”

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

Concerto No. 5 in F major for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 103, “Egyptian” (1896) At the age of two, Camille Saint-Saëns climbed up onto the piano bench and spent a large part of the rest of his life there. To perform, of course, meant to tour, and travel became one of Saint-Saëns’ chief pastimes.

He went to the corners of the earth, from Singapore to San Francisco, but he tried to spend his winters in the baking sun and relative anonymity of Algiers, away from the drab Parisian weather. His fondness for North Africa carried him on at least two occasions to Egypt, each visit inspiring a work for piano and orchestra: Africa, of 1891, based on native songs, and the Fifth Piano Concerto (“Egyptian”), composed at Luxor in 1896. The composer was the soloist in the premiere of the Concerto on June 2, 1896 in Paris at a concert celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his debut as a pianist.

The Concerto’s opening movement follows the traditional sonata-concerto structure, with a chordal PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Born 9 October 1835 in Paris; died 16 December 1921 in Algiers PREMIERE OF WORK: Paris, 2 June 1896 Camille Saint-Saëns, soloist

PSO PREMIERE: 29 March 1957 Syria Mosque William Steinberg, conductor Maria Tipo, piano

INSTRUMENTATION: woodwinds in pairs plus piccolo, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, gong and strings APPROXIMATE DURATION: 28 minutes

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main theme and a complementary, dance-like subordinate melody. “The second movement,” Saint-Saëns wrote, “takes us on a journey to the East and even, in one section, to the Far East. The G major passage is a Nubian love song which I heard sung by the boatmen on the Nile as I went down the river in a dahabieh.” The finale is a breathtaking tourde-force of keyboard technique, proof that Saint-Saëns had lost none of his piano facility during the half-century of his performing career. Arthur Hervey, one of the composer’s early biographers, interpreted the incessant rhythmic motion of the finale as Saint-Saëns’ attempt “to describe his experiences on the sea voyage” home from Egypt. “A note of realism,” Hervey continued, “is introduced by the sound of the propeller, while the serenity of the voyage is interrupted by a short storm.” Storms, propellers and voyages there well may be, but the real point of this music is its dazzling display for the soloist in one of SaintSaëns’ great, unsinkable exercises in virtuosity.

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

Suite from Cinderella (1941-1944) Immediately after the belated triumph in Russia of his Romeo and Juliet with its production by the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad in 1940, Prokofiev was commissioned by that company to write another full-length ballet; Cinderella was suggested as the topic. Prokofiev jumped at the idea, and he began ABOUT THE COMPOSER: the piece early the following year. He worked Born 23 April 1891 in Sontzovka, Russia; died 5 March 1953 in quickly, and had largely finished the first two acts in Moscow short score by early summer. Then, however, bitter PREMIERE OF WORK: reality burst into his fantasy world. “On 22nd June Moscow, 21 November 1945 [1941],” he recalled in later years, “on a warm, Moscow Bolshoi Theater sunny morning, I was installed at my work table.

Yuri Fayer, conductor Suddenly, the watchman’s wife appeared and asked THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE OF THE SUITE me if it was true that the Germans were attacking us COMPILED BY SLATKIN and bombing our towns. The news staggered me.

INSTRUMENTATION: We went to [Sergei] Eisenstein’s place [the director piccolos, two flutes, two oboes, of Alexander Nevsky, with whom Prokofiev had English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabasdeveloped a close association after writing the score soon, four horns, three trumpets, for that monumental film], and discovered that it three trombones, tuba, timpani, perwas perfectly true. On 22nd June, 1941, the cussion, piano, celesta, harp and strings German Fascists attacked Soviet Russia.” Under the APPROXIMATE DURATION: circumstance, Cinderella seemed frivolous and 45 minutes unpatriotic, and Prokofiev put the score away in favor of work on some military marches and an opera based on War and Peace, Tolstoy’s epic that uses an earlier European invasion of Russia as its backdrop. Prokofiev and other artists were evacuated to the relative safety of Nalchik in the Caucasus Mountains and then to Tiflis, the capital of Georgia, for the next two years, where, in addition to War and Peace, he composed his well-known Seventh Piano Sonata, the Sonata for Flute and Piano and 30 pittsburghsymphony.org

the music for Eisenstein’s movie Ivan the Terrible. The difficulty of the war years, however, had not expunged Cinderella from the Kirov’s plans and, in 1943, Prokofiev was invited to join the company at its temporary home in Perm. Despite the cramped conditions and personnel limitations in Perm, the Kirov was still staging productions (Khachaturian’s Gayne had been premiered there the preceding December), and its administrators told Prokofiev that they would like to mount his ballet before the end of the year. He worked throughout the summer in close collaboration with the librettist Nikolai Volkov and the choreographer Konstantin Sergeyev (who had danced Romeo in the Kirov’s 1940 production of Prokofiev’s masterwork), but the ballet proved to be too elaborate for the facilities available at Perm, and it was postponed. The orchestration was completed during the summer of 1944 at a retreat house in Ivanovo, near Moscow, where Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Glière, Miaskovsky and other important composers had been moved as the conditions of war ameliorated. Cinderella was premiered with great success on November 21, 1945, not by the Kirov in Leningrad, however, but by the Bolshoi in Moscow, since Galina Ulanova, the ballerina for whom the title role was created, had recently transferred from one company to the other.

“The main thing I wanted to convey in the music of Cinderella,” wrote Prokofiev, “was the poetic love of Cinderella and the Prince — the inception and flowering of the emotion, the obstacles in its way, the realization of a dream. A major role in my work on Cinderella was played by the fairy-tale nature of the subject, which faced me as the composer with a number of interesting problems — the mysteriousness of the good grandmother fairy, the fantasy of the 12 dwarfs leaping at midnight from the clock and beating out a tap-dance reminding Cinderella to return home, the swift alternation of the countries of the world visited by the Prince in search of Cinderella, the vivid and poetic breath of nature in the figures of the four fairies of the seasons of the year and their attendants…. Besides the dramatic structure, it was very important to me that the ballet Cinderella should be most danceable, that the dances should flow from the design of the plot, be varied, and that the artists in the ballet should have sufficient measure of opportunity to dance and display their art. I wrote Cinderella in the traditions of the old classical ballet; it contains a pas-de-deux, an adagio, a gavotte, several waltzes, a pavane, a passepied, a bourrée, a mazurka, a galop.

Every personage has his variation. Although the fairy tale of Cinderella is found among many peoples, I wanted to take it up as a genuine Russian fairy story.”

More than just a children’s story or a bit of theatrical escapism, Cinderella touches on deeper meanings and more universal themes. The work’s librettist, Nikolai Volkov, said that “new images of the Prince and the drudge [Cinderella] rose before my eyes. The Prince acquired the features of a passionate and impetuous youth who longed to escape from the confining influence of the stagnant court life…. In our imagination, Cinderella was shrouded in the mists of dreams, a girl who lived on the foretaste of love. The result of this interpretation of the chief characters was that the ballet acquired the features of a love story. The fairy tale, while preserving its mood of fantasy, was filled with a psychological and lyrical content.” In his biography of Prokofiev, Israel V. Nestyev wrote, “The underlying idea of the ballet is Cinderella’s modesty, industry and spiritual purity over the greed, heartlessness and crass arrogance of her stepmother and stepsisters. Following the original story, the cruel characters are derided and humbled, and the good Cinderella is chosen by the Prince. Pure love is the central theme of both the libretto and the music of the ballet.”

PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

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LEONARD SLATKIN Internationally acclaimed American conductor Leonard Slatkin began his appointment as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in September 2008. He was recently named Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL), France, beginning with the 2011-2012 season. In addition, Slatkin continues to serve as Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, a post that began in the fall of 2008.

Following a 17-year tenure as Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Slatkin became Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. in 1996. Other positions in the United States have included Principal Guest Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, where he founded their “Sommerfest”; first Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra’s summer series at the Blossom Music Festival, a post he held for nine years; Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl for three seasons; and additional positions with the New Orleans Philharmonic and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.

His engagements for the 2011-2012 include Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Seoul Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, a tour of Germany with the Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, the New World and National Symphony (Washington, D.C.) Orchestras.

Most recently he has enjoyed return appearances with the Dresden Staatskapelle, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, L’Orchestre National de Lyon, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Orquesta Nacional de Espana (Madrid) and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona. He his consistently re-engaged with many leading North American ensembles including the Saint Louis Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and of course, Detroit.

Since his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1974, Slatkin has led virtually all of the major orchestras in the United States, including those of Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Cleveland and Philadelphia. He is a regular guest at major summer festivals such as 32 pittsburghsymphony.org

Aspen, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Saratoga, and New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival. In Great Britain he served as Principal Guest Conductor of London’s Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic and was Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Slatkin has conducted most of the world’s major orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Bayerische Symphony Orchestra and all the prominent ensembles in Paris and London. He has also appeared on podiums throughout the Far East.

Opera performances have taken him to many of the leading stages in the U.S. and abroad, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Bastille, Vienna Staatsoper, Stuttgart and Washington National Opera. He has also led summer productions in Orange, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Santa Fe. Slatkin’s more than 100 recordings have been recognized with seven Grammy awards and 64 nominations. He has recorded with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. European ensembles that he has recorded with include practically all the major London orchestras as well as those in Munich, Paris, Prague, Stockholm and Berlin.

Throughout his career, Slatkin has demonstrated a continuing commitment to arts education and to reaching diverse audiences. He is the founder and director of the National Conducting Institute, an advanced career development program for rising conductors. Additionally, Mr. Slatkin founded the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra and has also worked with student orchestras across the United States, including those at the Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and the Eastman School of Music. He works frequently with youth orchestras across America and abroad, including the D.C. Youth Orchestra, Midwest Youth Symphony Orchestra, AmericanSoviet Youth Orchestra, European Community Youth Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago and

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American Youth Philharmonic. He also reaches out to younger musicians and music teachers through the NSO American Residencies program and regularly addresses and mentors public and private school students of all ages.

Slatkin has received many honors and awards, including the 2003 National Medal of Arts (the highest award given to artists by the United States Government), the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Gold Baton for service to American music, ASCAP awards with both the National and Saint Louis Symphonies, an honorary doctorate from his alma mater The Juilliard School, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the D.C. Mayor’s Arts Awards, and the prestigious Declaration of Honor in Silver from the Austrian

ambassador to the United States for outstanding contributions to cultural relations. Slatkin is the Arthur R. Metz Foundation Conductor at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and beginning with the 2007-2008 season, the Distinguished Artist in Residence at the American University.

Born in Los Angeles to a distinguished musical family, his parents were the conductor-violinist Felix Slatkin and cellist Eleanor Aller, founding members of the famed Hollywood String Quartet. Mr. Slatkin began his musical studies on the violin and studied conducting with his father, followed by Walter Susskind at Aspen and Jean Morel at The Juilliard School. He is the proud parent of a teenage son, Daniel. pittsburghsymphony.org 33

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STEPHEN HOUGH

With a singular vision that transcends musical fashions and trends, Stephen Hough is widely regarded as one of the most important and distinctive pianists of his generation. In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, joining prominent scientists, writers and others who have made unique contributions to contemporary life.

He received the 2008 Northwestern University School of Music's Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance and was recently named winner of the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award.

Hough has appeared with most of the major American and European orchestras and plays recitals regularly in the important halls and concert series around the world. Recent engagements include recitals in London, Paris, Madrid, Hong Kong, Sydney and on the main stage of Carnegie Hall; performances with the New York, London, Los Angeles and Czech Philharmonics, the Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Boston, St. Louis, Toronto and Atlanta symphonies, the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Minnesota and Russian National Orchestras; and a worldwide televised performance with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle.

Hough is also a regular guest at festivals such as Salzburg, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, and the BBC Proms, where he has made more than 15 concerto appearances. In the summer of 2009, he played all of the works for piano and orchestra of Tchaikovsky more than four Prom concerts, three of which were broadcast live on BBC television.

During the summer of 2010, he returned to the Hollywood Bowl and the Blossom, Aspen, Grand Teton and Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festivals.

Highlights of Hough's 2011-2012 season include return engagements with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Pittsburgh, National, Seattle and St. Louis symphonies, the world premiere of the orchestrated version of his Mass with the Indianapolis Symphony; recitals in San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Paris, Stockholm, and Santa Fe; an extensive tour of recitals and concerto appearances throughout Australia; and orchestral appearances with the London Philharmonic,

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Finnish Radio, Netherlands Philharmonic and Leipzig Radio Orchestra, and a residency with the Singapore Symphony.

An exclusive Hyperion recording artist, many of Hough's catalogue of over 50 CDs have garnered international prizes, including the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d'or, Monde de la musique, four Grammy nominations, and eight Gramophone Magazine Awards, including Record of the Year in 1996 and 2003.

His recording of the complete Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concertos was named best recording of the past 30 years at the Gramophone “Gold Disc” Awards in 2008, while his 2005 live recording of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos became the fastest selling recording in Hyperion's history.

Hough's most recent releases are the Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra by Tchaikovsky with the Minnesota Orchestra led by Osmo Vänskä, Chopin's “Late Masterpieces,” the complete Chopin Waltzes and the Grieg and Liszt Concertos with the Bergen Philharmonic.

Hough is also an avid writer and composer.

He has written for The Guardian, The Times, and was invited by the Telegraph Media Group in 2008 to start what has become one of the most popular cultural blogs. He has also written extensively about theology for the print media and his book, The Bible as Prayer, was published in the U.S. and Canada by Paulist Press in 2007.

Hough's recent compositions include a cello concerto, The Loneliest Wilderness; two choral works - Mass of Innocence and Experience and Missa Mirabilis - which were performed at London's Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral respectively; a trio, Was mit den Tränen geschieht, commissioned by members of the Berlin Philharmonic; and a sonata for piano, Broken Branches, which premiered in 2011 at Wigmore Hall. Hough has also published numerous compositions with Josef Weinberger Ltd. A resident of London, Hough is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at his alma mater, the Royal Northern College in Manchester.

For further information please visit stephenhough.com.

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EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is pleased to acknowledge the following members of our donor family who have made generous gifts of $500 or above to the Annual Fund in the past year. Those who have made a new gift or increased their previous gift are listed in italics. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy; however, if we have not listed you correctly, please call Thank You! 412.392.4842.

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SYMPHONY CLUB $500 - $1,499 Anonymous (30) Mr. & Mrs. Gary Abbs Frederic & Deborah Acevedo Mary Beth Adams Dr. & Mrs. Siamak Adibi Dr. Lawrence Adler & Ms. Judith Brody R. Ward Allebach & Lisa D. Steagall Mr. Christopher D. Allen & Ms. Claudia Mahave David & Andrea Aloe Craig & Dawn Anderson Donald D. Anderson Mrs. Doris Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Angerman The Rev. Drs. A. Gary & Judy Angleberger Warren J. Archer & Madeline C. Archer Mr. & Mrs. Charles Armitage James & Susanne Armour Gerry & Jack* Armstrong Ruth Bachman in Memory of James Bachman Ms. Elizabeth Bakoss Mr. & Mrs. Robert Y. Ball Lorraine E. Balun Dr. Esther L. Barazzone Richard C. Barney Robert & Loretta Barone Robert Bastress & Barbara Fleischauer Barbara N. Baur Vitasta Bazaz & Sheen Sehgal Fund in Memory of Dr. Kuldeep Sehgal Dorothy Becker Kenneth & Elsa Beckerman Nick & Dotty Beckwith 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 Robert S. Bernstein & Ellie K. Bernstein Fund Don Berry

Dr. & Mrs. Albert W. Biglan Harry S. Binakonsky, M.D. Franklin & Bonnie Blackstone Mr. & Mrs. W. Gerald Blaney Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Blansett, Jr. Diane C. Blanton Joseph & Shirley Bonner Mr. Albert Bortz Betsy Bossong 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 Mr. Stephen Bronder Suzanne Broughton & Richard Margerum Timothy R. Brown & Heidi K. Bartholomew Nancy & John Brownell John T. Buckley & Emily J. Rosenthal Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Burchfield 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. Richard & Jeanne Carter Charles & Donna Cashdollar James P. Cassaro Janet E. Chadwick Sue Challinor & Matt Teplitz Dr. Thomas S. Chang Monsignor Willliam G. Charnoki, P.A. Peggy & Joe Charny Craig D. Choate Kenneth & Celia Christman David Clark & Janese Abbott 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 Ms. Patricia Cover 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 Joan Clark Davis Marlene & Richard Davis Bruce & Rita Decker Charles S. Degrosky Captain Ronald M. Del Duca, USN (ret.)

Dr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Dell’Omo Lynn & David DeLorenzo Dr. Jau-Shyong Deng Mr. & Mrs. Edward DePersis Valerie DiCarlo 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 Mary Jane Edwards Christopher & Gretchen Elkus Eugene & Katrin Engels Arnold & Eva Engler Dr. Timothy Evans Tibey & Julian Falk Tony Farah, MD Dr. & Mrs.* John Feist Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Madelyn & John Fernstrom Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Ms. Janet Fesq Dr. Joseph Fine Mr. & Mrs. David Fitzsimmons Ms. Ann P. Flaherty Mr. Mark F. Flaherty Jane Flanders* James & Ellen Flanigan Jan Fleisher Suzanne Flood Mrs. Barbara E. Forrester 40 pittsburghsymphony.org

Janice & Larry Foulke Mr. & Mrs. K. H. Fraelich, Jr. Mrs. Natalie H. Friedberg Friends of the PSO John & Elaine Frombach 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 Revs. Gaylord & Catherine Gillis Mike & Cordy Glenn Daniel & Marcia Glosser Fund Dolores Gluck Mr. & Mrs. Ted Goldberg Walter L. 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 Mr. & Mrs. Frank Grebowski Charlotte T. Greenwald Dr. & Mrs. M. Joseph Grennan Mr. & Mrs. Steven Gridley Mr. Matteo Gruelle Hanna Gruen Ira & Anita Gumberg Dr. Alberto M. Guzman Jerome P. & Claire B. Hahn Kristine Haig & John Sonnenday Marnie & Jim Haines Jim & Mary Hamilton Jeanne M. Hanchett Rev. Diana D. Harbison Tom & Kathy Harrick Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Harris Ms. Christine A. Hartung 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 Paul Hennigan 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. Dr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Jacobs Lynne & Blair Jacobson Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Willcox Jenkins Dawn M. Johnson 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 Ruth Ann & Eugene Klein Lynn & Milton Klein Peggy C. Knott

individual donors

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 Madeline Kramer in Memory of Fred Kramer Helen Aldisert & William L. Krayer Mr. & Mrs. John Krolikowski Alice & Lewis Kuller Robert A. & Alice Kushner Betty Lamb Dr. Michael Landay Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. Lang Earl & Marilyn Latterman A. Lorraine Laux Marvin & Gerry Lebby Drs. Grace and Joon 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 Lawrence & Jacqueline Lobl Constance T. Long Don & Hanne Lorch Mrs. Sybil S. Lowy Francis & Debbie Lynch Pat & Don MacDonald William & Nora MacDonald Neil & Ruth MacKay Prof. Heather MacLean Hank & June Mader Mrs. George J. Magovern, Jr. John K. Maitland Mr. & Mrs. Robert Malnati Carl & Alexis Mancuso 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. David & Carol McClenahan Mr. Samuel A. McClung Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Mary C. McCormick Margaret S. McCoy Mrs. Samuel K. McCune Keith McDuffie Kent & Martha McElhattan 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 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 Paul & Connie Mockenhaupt Mr. Jason Mooney Amy & Ira M. Morgan Gary L. Morrell 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 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 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 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 Ms. Mary Alice Price Myrna & Gerald Prince Mercedes & John Pryce Robert & Mary Jo Purvis Liberty & Andrew Pyros Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Queenan, Jr. Fran Quinlan Dr. * & Mrs. Donald H. Quint Barbara Rackoff James & Carol Randolph Barbara M. Rankin Drs. Bruce & Jane Raymond Dave & Joan Reale 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 Carol & Patrick R. Riley Mavis & Norman Robertson Edgar R. & Betty A. Robinson Mr. William M. Robinson Sharon & Jim Rohr Mr. & Mrs. C. Arthur Rolander Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Rom Elaine Rosecrans Janice G. Rosenberg pittsburghsymphony.org 41

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Mr. & Mrs. Byron W. Rosener, III Mrs. Louisa Rosenthal Carol & Scott Rotruck Dr. & Mrs. Wilfred T. Rouleau Joseph Rounds Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Edmund S. Ruffin, III Mr. R. Douglas Rumbarger Mr. Robert Rupp Mr. Leo P. Russell Mrs. John M. Sadler Dr. James R. Sahovey Tamiko Sampson Dr. & Mrs. Isamu Sando Dr. Carlos R. Santiago Bill McAllister & Janet Sarbaugh Stephen & Susan Sargent Sally & Keith Saylor Eric Schaffer & Michelle GraySchaffer Charlie Ward & Marita Schardt Albert & Kathleen Schartner 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 Robert & Sharon Sclabassi George & Marcia Seeley Mr. & Mrs. David P. Segel 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. Herbert J. Shure Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Shure Rhoda & Seymour Sikov Marjorie K. Silverman Marilyn & Norman A. Sindler Ms. Ann Slonaker Nancy N. Smith Elaine & William Smith Wallace & Patricia Smith Bill & Patty Snodgrass Marcie Solomon & Nathan Goldblatt David Solosko & Sandra Kniess Fund Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Sorr in support of music & wellness 42 pittsburghsymphony.org

Drs. Horton C. & Jannene M. 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 & 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 Mr. Philip C. Thackaray Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Thompson Mr. & Mrs. George H. Thompson Bob & Bette Thomson Gail & Jim Titus 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 Cate & Jerry Vockley Edward L. & Margaret Vogel Linda & Don Wagenheim Wagner Family Charitable Trust Bill & Sue Wagner Suzanne & Richard Wagner C. Robert Walker John & Irene Wall Mr. & Mrs. John Wandrisco Mr. W.L. & Dr. B.H. Ward Tony & Pat Waterman Ellen Mandel & Lawrence Weber

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 James Whitehead Dr. Philip M. Wildenhain & Dr. Sarah L. Wildenhain Mr. Robert E. Williams Ruth Williams in Honor of Anne M. Williams and her parents Philip R. Wills Dr. Ann G. Wilmoth Mr. & Mrs. Miles C. Wilson James & Ramona Wingate Marie & Daniel Winschel Sheryl & Bruce Wolf Sidney & Tucky Wolfson Rufus J. Wysor Mark & Judy Yogman Ms. Susan Yohe Marlene & John Yokim Dr. & Mrs. Jack Yorty Hugh D. & Alice C. Young Dr. Mark C. Zemanick Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ziatek Simone Ziegler Mrs. Patricia M. Zimba 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 March 1, 2012

*deceased

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 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 March 2, 2012

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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 Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company Delta Air Lines, Inc. Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Giant Eagle H. J. Heinz Company Foundation LANXESS Corporation MSA Charitable Foundation Peoples Natural Gas Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. Thorp Reed & Armstrong LLP Triangle Tech Group United States Steel Corporation UPMC & UPMC Health Plan

The Frank E. Rath-Spang & Company Charitable Trust Hefren-Tillotson Macy’s Foundation 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 Mozart Management Mylan Pharmaceuticals Oliver Wyman PwC Reed Smith LLP Ruth’s Chris Steak House Schreiber Industrial Development Co. SYCOR West Penn Allegheny Health System

BRONZE CIRCLE $2,500 - $4,999 A.C. Dellovade, Inc. GOLD CIRCLE Angelo, Gordon & Co. $10,000 - $19,999 Bank of America Merrill Lynch Anonymous Burrell Group, Inc. American Eagle Outfitters Cipriani & Werner PC Foundation Dominion Resources Bayer USA Foundation ELG Haniel Metals Corp.

Citigroup Elite Coach Transportation Clearview Federal Credit Fort Pitt Capital Group Union Koppers Dollar Bank Lighthouse Electric Ernst & Young LLP Company, Inc. Fairmont Pittsburgh & Habitat Marsh USA Inc. Restaurant

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Mascaro Construction Company Pittsburgh Corning Corporation Pittsburgh Valve & Fitting Co. Sarris Candies, Inc. 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 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 Schneider Downs Six Penn Kitchen Stringert, Inc. Trebuchet Consulting LLC United Safety Services, Inc. Wampum Hardware Inc. PARTNER LEVEL $500 - $999 Allegheny Valley Bank Big Burrito Restaurant Group Bombardier The Buncher Company Cantor and Pounds Dental Associates Consolidated Communications Crawford Ellenbogen LLC Enterprise Bank General Wire Spring Co.

corporations

Goehring, Rutter & Boehm Hamill Manufacturing Company Hertz Gateway Center, LP The Hite Company Hoffman Electric Inc. 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. Modern Reproductions, Inc. Neville Chemical Company O’Neal Steel, Inc. PGT Trucking L

Pittsburgh Wool Company Inc. Pzena Investment Management, LLC Scott Metals Inc. Steptoe & Johnson PLLC 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 March 13, 2012

Pictured: William Steinberg & Family

Laughter. Family. Music.

Keep the legacy alive. Remember the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in your estate plans.

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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 & 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 Lois R. Brozenick 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 & 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 Ms. Judith Hess 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. & 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 & 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. & 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

In Loving Memory of Martin Smith, PSO Horn, 1980-2005, from his siblings Todd Smith, Judy Dupont, & Susan Noble

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 – 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

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.

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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 (4) Wendy and David Barensfeld in memory of Dr. Robert E. Herlands Kathryn & Michael Bryson 48 pittsburghsymphony.org

Rae & Jane Burton 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

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reed Smith LLP Abby & Reid Ruttenberg John P. & Elizabeth L. Surma Jacquelin G. Wechsler

$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 Marvin & Terre Hamlisch 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

$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

$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

commitment to excellence David & Nancy Green Caryl & Irving Halpern 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 Betsy Bossong 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 Richard & Alice Kalla Jack & Virginia Kerr 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 Marcie Solomon & Nathan Goldblatt 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 Mr. Stuart Bloch Marian & Bruce Block Nadine R. 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 Dr. Rebecca J. Caserio 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 Hyman Family Foundation 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. Mary Lou & Ted N. Magee Carl & Alexis Mancuso pittsburghsymphony.org 49

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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 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 March 6 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 CEO’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 March 6, 2012 50 pittsburghsymphony.org

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HEINZ HALL BOX OFFICE Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday from Noon to 4 p.m. Weekend hours vary based on performance times. Tickets may be purchased by calling 412.392.4900 and are also available at Theater Square Box Office.

THE LATECOMER’S GALLERY, located behind the Main Floor, affords patrons who arrive after the beginning of a concert the opportunity to enjoy the performance until they can be seated.

Latecomers will be seated at suitable intervals during the program, at the discretion of the conductor. The Latecomer’s Gallery is also available for parents with younger children.

THE MOZART ROOM AT HEINZ HALL Just seconds away from your seats, enjoy an all new dining experience with The Common Plea. pittsburghsymphony.org/mozartroom Reservations at 412.392.4879.

SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS, such as requests for wheelchair accessible locations, may be made when purchasing tickets.

Hearing assistance devices are available in the Entrance Lobby.

Doormen and ushers are also available for assistance with these needs.

RESTROOMS are located on the Lower, Grand Tier and Gallery levels and off the Garden and Overlook rooms; a wheelchair-accessible restroom is on the Main Floor.

FOR LOST AND FOUND ITEMS, call 412.392.4844 on weekdays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

THE ELEVATOR is located next to the Grand Staircase.

HEINZ HALL IS A NON-SMOKING BUILDING AND HAS A NO SMOKING POLICY.

AN ATTENDED COAT CHECKROOM is available in the Dorothy Porter Simmons Family Regency Room, located on the Lower Level or in the Grand Lobby. Coin-operated lockers are located on the Lower, Grand Tier and Gallery levels.

REFRESHMENT BARS are located in the Garden and Overlook rooms and in the Grand Tier Lounge. Intermission beverages may be ordered prior to performances. Water cups are available in the restrooms.

FIRE EXITS are to be used ONLY in case of an emergency. If the fire alarm is activated, follow the direction of Heinz Hall ushers and staff to safely evacuate the theater.

CONCIERGE SERVICE, in the Entrance Lobby, is available to assist with information about Heinz Hall, the Cultural District and area attractions and to help with dining, hotel, entertainment and transportation concerns.

THE EMERGENCY REGISTRY BOOK, for the convenience of physicians and others who may be called in an emergency, is located at the concierge desk. Please turn off cellular phones and pagers upon entering the theater and refer all emergency calls to 412.392.2880.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AT CONCERTS: Penny Vennare, Event Supervisor; Tina Castrodale, Concierge; Ron Ogrodowski, Concierge.

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Can I organize a group for a concert?

Absolutely. With a group ticket purchase you receive discounted tickets, priority seats, personalized service and free reception space. For more information, call 412.392.4819 or visit our website at pittsburghsymphony.org/groups

What time should I arrive for concerts? You may want to arrive at least 20 minutes prior to concert start time to allow time for parking, entering the hall and finding your seat. BNY Mellon Grand Classics patrons have the opportunity to attend Concert Preludes, which begin one hour before the concert in the auditorium.

What should I wear to concerts?

There is no official dress code for events in Heinz Hall. Many patrons wear business attire, and many prefer to be more casual. Wear whatever makes you feel comfortable.

May I bring my children? Introducing small children to music is important to the PSO and we welcome young children to our youth concerts and Fiddlesticks Family Series. Children, approximately age six and over, are welcome at all performances with a purchased ticket. The Latecomer’s Gallery and lobby video monitors are always options for restless children.

May I take pictures? All still and video photography, or audio recording are strictly prohibited at all times.

How will I find parking? Pittsburgh’s Cultural District can be very busy but guaranteed prepaid parking is available to all ticketholders in the Sixth & Penn garage across from Heinz Hall. Ask about prepaid parking when you order your tickets.

What can I do to support the PSO? Your ticket purchase supports the PSO and we thank you! However, ticket sales only cover a portion of our operating costs. To make a tax-deductible gift to the PSO, contact our Donor Relations department at 412.392.4880 or visit us online at pittsburghsymphony.org How can I get someone from the PSO to speak at our event? The volunteers of the Speakers Bureau would like to share their passion for the PSO with the community by providing a speaker for you and your organization. If you are interested, please call 412.392.2235.

The Arts Open Our Minds.

Every performance reminds us that you are one of our community’s most valued natural resources.

Begin your own tradition.

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