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PROGRAM March 22, 23 & 24 program................................................................. 13 March 22, 23 & 24 program notes...................................................... 14 Leonard Slatkin biography.................................................................. 20 Emanuel Ax biography........................................................................ 23 Mason Bates biography....................................................................... 25 April 5, 6 & 7 program.......................................................................... 26 April 5, 6 & 7 program notes............................................................... 27 Jeannette Sorrell biography................................................................ 31 Noah Bendix-Balgley biography........................................................ 32 Lorna McGhee biography.................................................................... 32 Jennifer Conner biography................................................................. 33 Randolph Kelly biography................................................................... 33 Marylène Gingras-Roy biography...................................................... 34 Cynthia Koleda DeAlmeida biography.............................................. 34
TABLE OF CONTENTS \ 2012-2013 SEASON
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.
George Vosburgh biography............................................................... 35 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. 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.
FEATURE Introducing the 2013-2014 season......................................................3 EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL Individuals.............................................................................................. 36 Foundations & Public Agencies.......................................................... 41 Corporations ......................................................................................... 42 Legacy of Excellence............................................................................. 43 Commitment to Excellence Campaign............................................. 45 INDIVIDUALS & HEINZ HALL INFORMATION Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians........................................2 Board of Trustees & Chairman’s Council...............................................5 Jack Heinz Society....................................................................................6
TO ADVERTISE IN THE PROGRAM
New Leadership Board............................................................................6
Contact: Elaine Nucci at 412.471.6087, or email: nucci@culturaldistrict.org
Pittsburgh Symphony Association........................................................6
ONLINE PROGRAM
Many PSO program books are also available for viewing online at: pittsburghsymphony.org/programs
Friends of the PSO....................................................................................6 Administrative Staff.............................................................................. 10 Heinz Hall Information......................................................................... 64
PROGRAM REUSE
If you do not wish to keep your program, please return them to the ushers for reuse at a later performance.
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Dennis O’Boyle X Laura Motchalov WILLIAM & SARAH GALBRAITH CHAIR
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Manfred Honeck ENDOWED BY THE VIRA I. HEINZ ENDOWMENT
PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR
Eva Burmeister Carolyn Edwards Andrew Fuller Lorien Benet Hart Claudia Mahave Peter Snitkovsky Albert Tan Yuko Uchiyama B Rui-Tong Wang VIOLA
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VIRGINIA CAMPBELL CHAIR
Charles Lirette h
Gretchen Van Hoesen j FLUTE
JACKMAN PFOUTS FLUTE CHAIR
TROMBONE
HILDA M. WILLIS FOUNDATION CHAIR
PICCOLO
Rhian Kenny j FRANK & LOTI GAFFNEY CHAIR
VICTOR DESABATA GUEST CONDUCTOR CHAIR
Tatjana Mead Chamis d DR. WILLIAM LARIMER Joen Vasquez X MELLON, JR. CHAIR Marylène Gingras-Roy Scott Bell Penny Anderson Brill MR. & MRS. WILLIAM E. Cynthia Busch RINEHART CHAIR Erina LarabyENGLISH HORN Goldwasser Harold Smoliar j Paul Silver JOHANNES & MONA L. COETZEE
RESIDENT CONDUCTOR
Lawrence Loh
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ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Fawzi Haimor FIRST VIOLIN
Noah Bendix-Balgley 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 B Jennifer Orchard RON & DOROTHY CHUTZ CHAIR
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Shanshan Yao THE ESTATE OF OLGA T. GAZALIE
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Adam Liu X GEORGE & EILEEN DORMAN CHAIR
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Louis Lowenstein Hampton Mallory Lauren Scott Mallory MR. & MRS. MARTIN G. MCGUINN CHAIR
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Donald H. Evans, Jr. d Betsy Heston X Jeffrey Grubbs Peter Guild Micah Howard STEPHEN & KIMBERLY KEEN CHAIR
John Moore Aaron White
EDWARD D. LOUGHNEY CHAIR
Damian Bursill-Hall h Jennifer Conner
Lorna McGhee j
Leonard Slatkin Gianandrea Noseda
MARTHA BROOKS ROBINSON CHAIR
Neal Berntsen Chad Winkler
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George Vosburgh j
OBOE
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MEMORIAL CHAIR
CLARINET
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Edward Stephan j BARBARA WELDON PRINCIPAL TIMPANI CHAIR
Christopher Allen d JAMES W. & ERIN M. RIMMEL CHAIR
PERCUSSION
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FRETTED INSTRUMENTS Irvin Kauffman j LIBRARIANS
Joann Ferrell Vosburgh j JEAN & SIGO FALK CHAIR
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PRINCIPAL CO-PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL LAUREATE ONE YEAR ABSENCE
Commissioned works by Pittsburgh composers, ...and Renaissance vocal music “rock stars” The Tallis Scholars, highlight the 2013-2014 BNY Mellon Grand Classics Season. Other highlights include: Oscar-winning film West Side Story with orchestra, Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra, three world premieres, six Pittsburgh premieres, The Planets with NASA footage, Mozart Festival and Mahler’s 9th Symphony. Concerts featuring Carl Orff’s well-known and popular Carmina Burana begin the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-2014 BNY Mellon Grand Classics season, which includes a Mozart Festival, commissioned works by Pittsburgh composers, a screening of West Side Story with orchestra, and Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra, most famously used by filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in the opening to his sci-fi masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The season marks the PSO’s sixth under the leadership of Music Director Manfred Honeck, and the 118th since its founding. Honeck conducts ten of the 21-week BNY Mellon Grand Classics subscription concerts, including performances of Carmina Burana, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, highlights from Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, and Gustav Holst’s The Planets, featuring awe-inspiring footage from NASA. Victor de Sabata Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda will lead the PSO in two subscription weekends. Concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley and Principal Horn William Caballero will be featured soloists, with BendixBalgley playing Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy (Oct. 25 & 27, 2013), and Caballero performing Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 1 (April 2527, 2014). Honeck will lead the PSO in its first concert of 2013-2014 at Heinz Hall: The “Once Upon a Time” gala on Friday, Sept. 27, with Yo-Yo Ma, performing Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme and Andante Cantabile. The PSO will celebrate the Year of the Pittsburgh Composers in 2013-2014, with the orchestra performing works by eight Pittsburgh composers, including two world premieres. “We are eagerly looking forward to another brilliant season for Manfred Honeck and the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,” PSO President and CEO James A. Wilkinson said. “I have no doubt our patrons will be thrilled not only by the varied and exciting repertoire, but also by the world-renowned and immensely talented guest artists who will be gracing the Heinz Hall.” “I will be starting my sixth season with this wonderful orchestra,” Honeck said. “I love this orchestra, I love this beautiful city, and I cannot wait to give our loyal audiences many more unforgettable performances of Mahler, Mozart, Beethoven, Bruckner, the Strauss Family, and many more great composers.” In 2013-2014, the PSO will launch a new series, “Behind the Notes,” where the conductor and the PSO will spend the first half of the concert demonstrating the secrets behind the music. After intermission, the audience will hear the entire performance of the music with an enriched understanding of the piece. The two “Behind the Notes” concerts will be Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014, when Christoph König conducts Also Sprach Zarathustra, and Saturday, March 15, 2014, when Leonard Slatkin conducts four works by Maurice Ravel – Alborada del gracioso, Pavane pour une infant défunte, Menuet antique and Boléro. Eight conductors popular with Pittsburgh audiences – Leonard Slatkin, Donald Runnicles, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Juraj Valcuha, Christoph König, Nicholas McGegan, and Nikolaj Znaider – will return in 2013-2014. Among the many highlights next season are the PSO debuts of ten exciting guest soloists: pianists Yulianna Avdeeva, Daniil Trifonov, Till Fellner, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Michel Camilo and Robert Levin, violinist Ye-Eun Choi, soprano Lisette Oropesa, tenor Andrey Nemzer, and The Tallis Scholars, dubbed by The New York Times continued on page 4
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The first subscription weekend features Orff’s Carmina Burana, and the world premiere of Stock’s Symphony No. 6. The concert will feature Oropesa, making her PSO debut, as well as Nemzer, baritone Hugh Russell, and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, directed by Betsy Burleigh. Among other guest artists gracing the Heinz Hall stage next season are violinist Joshua Bell, as well as other violinists, Arabella Steinbacher, and Stefan Jackiw, pianists Rudolf Buchbinder, Hélène Grimaud, Stephen Hough and soprano Hila Plitmann. The 2013-2014 season will mark the fifth season in which Honeck and the PSO continue their journey through Beethoven’s impressive body of orchestral works. This season will feature his Piano Concerto No. 4, the Overture to Fidelio and Symphony No. 4. Also, Honeck and the PSO will continue celebrating the music by Gustav Mahler, with his Symphony No. 9. The Explore and Engage Program reflects the PSO’s commitment to enabling patrons to have a more meaningful and personally relevant
connection to the PSO and its repertoire. Collaborations with area arts organizations and companies enhance the PSO’s musical offerings, giving insights to the music, artists, and programs through lobby displays, video and interactive installations, audience engagement workshops and pre-concert discussions. The PSO also teams with WQED Multimedia & WQED-FM, and the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh to present the PSO Book Club, as part of these activities. The PSO will continue using Patron Services Representatives (PSR) for all BNY Mellon Grand Classics subscribers. This service grants each subscriber a PSR to assist with ticket exchanges, subscription renewals and Annual Fund contributions, as well as advance notice of upcoming specials and Explore and Engage activities surrounding the concerts. Subscriptions, ranging from seven concerts ($117-$621.25) to the entire 21-concert season ($262.25-$1,695.75), are available by calling the Heinz Hall box office at 412.392.4900, or visitingpittsburghsymphony.org.
SPRING 2013
Mason Bates & Ion Sound MARCH 21 THURSDAY 8PM AT
The Warhol
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TICKET PRICE:
$18 $15
GENERAL MEMBERS (CMP & PSO)/STUDENTS
FOR TICKETS CALL 412.237.8300 OR VISIT warhol.org
117 Sandusky Street Pittsburgh, PA 15212
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Ebène Quartet Monday, April 15, 2013 • 7:30 PM Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland
Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society
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University of Pittsburgh Petersen Events Center
7:30 PM The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will open the inaugural Music for the Spirit Festival in grand fashion with “Singing City,” a large-scale, historic concert event at the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center. Joining Music Director Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will be an ensemble of over 2,500 voices from the Pittsburgh region and surrounding areas. Repertoire highlights include the Chorale Finale of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection,” as well as the world premiere of a newly commissioned work for a cappella choir by Pittsburgh native, Jonny Priano.
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FESTIVAL E VENTS
4.21
2:00 PM
4.21
Pittsburgh Opera presents:
SPIRITUAL SONGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD LUCIS – MUSIC OF LIGHT
with organist Paul Jacobs in 7:30 PM collaboration with the Pittsburgh
4.22
8:00 PM
History and Landmarks Founda-
JACOBS
Robert Morris University Pittsburgh Speaker Series presents:
NANDO PARRADO
Miracle survivor of the infamous plane crash in the Andes Mountains
Heinz Hall
4.23
7:30 PM
PARRADO
CELEBRATING THE NEXT GENERATION
Performance uniting the Duquesne University Orchestra and Choirs with the Carnegie Mellon University Choir and Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra Heinz Hall
4.24 4.28
MUSIC FOR THE SPIRIT BOOK CLUB
(Free event)
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks 7:00 PM 4.24 – Frick Art Museum: An exploration with lively discussion tied to the Frick Art & History Center exhibitions. 4.28 Heinz Hall Grand Tier Lounge: Book Club discussion 1:30 PM led by–moderator Jim Cunningham and a PSO musician.
4.25 4.28 4.26 4.27 4.28
7:30 PM
Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival presents:
THE DYBBUK: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The classic tale of love and mystical possession in a new adaptation New Hazlett Theater
7:30 PM
8:00 PM
BNY Mellon Grand Classics
BEETHOVEN’S NINTH: “ODE TO JOY”
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck, conductor, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, 8:00 PM Angela Meade, Kelley O’Connor, Anthony Griffey, Alexander Vinogradov 2:30 PM
Heinz Hall
BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS TITLE SPONSOR
HONECK
SINGING CITY PRESENTED BY
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Lisa Hoak
Sally Denmead
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION &
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I. Broom of the System II. Aerosol Melody (Hanalei) III. Gemini in the Solar Wind — IV. Temescal Noir — V. Warehouse Medicine Mr. Bates
Wolfgang Amade Mozart Concerto No. 25 in C major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 503 I. Allegro maestoso
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Intermission Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Opus 100 I. Andante II. Allegro moderato III. Adagio IV. Allegro giocoso
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MASON BATES, 2012-2013 PSO COMPOSER OF THE YEAR
The B-Sides (Five Pieces for Orchestra and Electronica) (2009)
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 23 January 1977 in Philadelphia PREMIERE OF WORK
San Francisco, 20 May 2009; Davies Symphony Hall; San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE
INSTRUMENTATION
piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, E-flat clarinet, two clarinets, two bass clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, electronica, harp, piano, celesta and strings DURATION
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Mason Bates brings not only his own fresh talent to the concert hall but also the musical sensibilities of a new generation — he is equally at home composing “for Lincoln Center,” according to his web site (www. masonbates.com), as being the “electronica artist Masonic® who moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from New York City, where he was a lounge DJ at such venues as The Frying Pan — the floating rave ship docked off the pier near West 22nd Street.” Bates was born in Philadelphia in 1977 and started studying piano with Hope Armstrong Erb at his childhood home in Richmond, Virginia. He earned degrees in both English literature and music composition in the joint program of Columbia University and the Juilliard School, where his composition teachers included John Corigliano, David Del Tredici and Samuel Adler, and received his doctorate in composition from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 as a student of Edmund Campion and Jorge Lidermann. Bates was Resident Composer with the California Symphony from 2008 to 2011, Project San Francisco Artistin-Residence with the San Francisco Symphony in 2011-2012, and began a continuing residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in September 2010; he is Composer of the Year with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2012-2013. Bates’ rapidly accumulating portfolio of orchestral, chamber, vocal, theatrical and electronic compositions includes commissions and performances by the major orchestras of London, Lisbon, New York, Washington, Atlanta, Toronto, Phoenix, San Francisco, Oakland, Annapolis, Los Angeles, Miami and Detroit, the Tanglewood, Aspen, Cabrillo and Spoleto USA festivals, Biava Quartet, Chanticleer and New Juilliard Ensemble. In 2010, Bates was commissioned to write Mothership for the second concert of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble composed of musicians from around the world who were selected through on-line auditions by Michael Tilson Thomas, the project’s director and conductor, and assembled in Sydney, Australia for rehearsals and a live concert on March 20, 2011 streamed on the internet; the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra concert was held in New York in 2009. Bates’ many honors include a Charles Ives Scholarship and Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Fellowship, Jacob Druckman Memorial Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, ASCAP and BMI awards, a Fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center, Rome Prize, Berlin Prize and a two-year Composer Residency with Young Concert Artists. Bates wrote of The B-Sides, commissioned in 2009 by the San Francisco Symphony, “It was between Tchaikovsky and Brahms that [SFS Music Director] Michael Tilson Thomas, surprisingly mellow in his dressing room during one intermission, broached the idea of a new work. Fresh off the podium after the concerto, and apparently undistracted by the looming symphony in the second half, he suggested a collection of five pieces focusing on texture and sonority — perhaps like Schoenberg’s
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Five Pieces for Orchestra. Since my music had largely gone in the other direction — large works that bathed the listener in immersive experiences — the idea intrigued me. I had often imagined a suite of concise, off-kilter symphonic pieces that would incorporate the grooves and theatrics of electronica in a highly focused manner. So, like the forgotten bands from the flipside of an old piece of vinyl, The B-Sides offers brief landings on a variety of peculiar planets, unified by a focus on fluorescent orchestral sonorities and the morphing rhythms of electronica. “The first stop is the dusky, circuit-board landscape of Broom of the System. To the ticking of a future clock, our broom — brought to life by sandpaper blocks and, at one point, an actual broom — quietly and anonymously keeps everything running, like a chimney-sweep in a huge machine. The title is from a short-story collection by David Foster Wallace, though one could place the fairy-like broom in Borges’ Anthology of Fantastic Zoology. “The ensuing Aerosol Melody (Hanalei) blooms on the north shore of the island of Kauai in Hawaii, where a gentle, bending melody evaporates at cadence points. Djembe [a rope-tuned, skin-covered, goblet-shaped drum played with the hands] and springy pizzicati populate the strange fauna of this purely acoustic movement. The lazy string glissandi ultimately put the movement, beachside, to sleep. “Gemini in the Solar Wind is a re-imagination of the first American spacewalk, using actual communication samples from the 1965 Gemini IV voyage provided by NASA. In this re-telling, clips of words, phrases and static from the original are rearranged to show Ed White, seduced by the vastness and mystery of space, deliriously unhooking from the spacecraft to drift away blissfully. “White’s final vision of the coast of Northern California drops us down close to my home. The initial grit of Temescal Noir, like the Oakland neighborhood of the title, eventually shows its subtle charm in hazy, jazz-tinged hues. Unbothered by electronics, this movement receives some industrious help in the rhythm department from a typewriter and an oil drum. At its end, the broom returns in a cameo, again altering the tempo, and this propels us into Warehouse Medicine. An homage to techno’s birthplace — the empty warehouses of Detroit — the final stop on The B-Sides gives no quarter. Huge brass swells and out-of-tune pizzicati emulate some of the visceral sonorities of techno, and on this pounding note The B-Sides bows out.”
WOLFGANG AMADÉ MOZART
Concerto No. 25 in C major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 503 (1786)
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 27 January 1756 in Salzburg; died 5 December 1791 in Vienna
By the end of 1786, the time of the majestic C major Concerto (K. 503), Mozart had begun the decline into illness, debt and overwork that would cut his life short at the age of 35. He was beginning to dread the knock on the door for fear of finding a bill collector there; he was having difficulty meeting the rental cost of his apartment in the Schulerstrasse; his family medical bills were piling up; a new son, Johann Thomas Leopold, was born on October 18th and died less than a month later; and the revenues from The Marriage of Figaro, on which he had pinned such great hope, were disappointing, his opera virtually driven from the Viennese stage by the popularity of Martin y Soler’s Una cosa rara (which he quoted, perhaps ironically, in Don Giovanni the following year.) Mozart considered 15
PREMIERE OF WORK
Vienna, 4 December 1786; Trattner Casino; Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, conductor & soloist PSO PREMIERE 10 April 1953; Syria Mosque; William Steinberg, conductor; Rudolf Serkin, piano
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flute, pairs of oboes, bassoons, horns and trumpets, timpani and strings DURATION
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moving to England to try to better his fortunes, but he was frustrated in that venture by his tattered financial situation and the refusal of his father to take care of his son Karl in Salzburg. (Papa Leopold was still miffed at Wolfgang’s choice of a marriage partner, besides which he, a widower, was already in charge at that time of another grandchild, his daughter Nannerl’s son Leopold.) Having made a sensation when he moved to Vienna only five years before, Mozart saw much of his public slip away during the months of 1786, confused and put off by the disturbing depth of expression in his recent works. Still, Mozart persisted in writing as he wanted, perhaps escaping from the difficulties of his personal life and the demands of the fickle crowd through his compositions. Some of his greatest works date from that year: Figaro, The Impresario, the K. 496 and K. 502 Piano Trios, the Clarinet Trio (K. 498), the Symphony No. 38 (“Prague”), and three surpassing piano concertos: K. 488, 491 and 503. Mozart entered the Concerto No. 25 (K. 503) into his list of compositions on December 4, 1786, only two days before he completed the “Prague” Symphony. The Concerto was apparently written for his own use at one of the Advent concerts he had scheduled at the Trattner Casino in Vienna. The Concerto opens with a sense of spaciousness and grandeur unsurpassed in late-18th-century music. The bright nobility of the prevailing C major tonality is frequently clouded, however, by brief excursions into darker harmonic areas as the thematic material is presented. A succinct motive of four short repeated notes appears in the violins soon after the beginning, and serves as the thematic kernel from which much of the movement grows. The soloist’s entrance bridges to the repeat of the principal themes from the orchestral introduction with elaborations from the piano. (Many performers rank this among Mozart’s most difficult concertos to play.) The richly textured development section is built largely from the repeated-note motive presented in the Concerto’s opening measures. The movement’s themes are further elaborated in the recapitulation in the suave, unerring manner that vivifies Mozart’s finest works. The graceful opening theme sets the mood for the Andante, a fully worked-out sonata-concerto form in moderately slow tempo, with the soloist providing precisely the right amount of decorative embellishment as the music unfolds. The theme of the finale is an almost literal copy of a gavotte in the ballet music of Mozart’s 1781 opera, Idomeneo, which he was considering revising in 1786. The movement retains the sparkling quality usually associated with its rondo form, while adding to it a certain seriousness of thought that was such an integral component of Mozart’s compositional language in the works of his later years.
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 5, Opus 100
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 23 April 1891 in Sontzovka, Russia; died 5 March 1953 in Moscow PREMIERE OF WORK
Moscow, 13 January 1945; Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory; USSR State Symphony Orchestra; Sergei Prokofiev, conductor PSO PREMIERE 28 November 1947, Syria Mosque; Fritz Reiner, conductor
INSTRUMENTATION
piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, E-flat clarinet, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, piano, harp and strings DURATION
46 minutes PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA
“In the Fifth Symphony I wanted to sing the praises of the free and happy man — his strength, his generosity and the purity of his soul. I cannot say I chose this theme; it was born in me and had to express itself.” The “man” that Prokofiev invoked in this description of the philosophy embodied in this great Symphony could well have been the composer himself. The work was written in the summer of 1944, one of the happiest times he knew. His home life following marriage to his second wife four years earlier was contented and fulfilling; he was the most famous and often-performed of all Soviet composers; and Russia was winning the war. In fact, the success of the premiere of this work was buoyed by the announcement immediately before the concert that the Russian army had just scored a resounding victory on the River Vistula. The composer’s mind was reflected in the fluency and emotional depth of his music. Prokofiev never hinted that there was a program underlying the Fifth Symphony except to say that “it is a symphony about the spirit of man.” During the difficult years of World War II, Soviet music, according to Boris Schwartz, “was meant to console and uplift, to encourage and exhort; nothing else mattered.” Though some, like Martin Bookspan, find “ominous threats of brutal warfare” lurking beneath the surface of Prokofiev’s music, there is really nothing here to match such symphonies born of the violence of war as Shostakovich’s Seventh and Vaughan Williams’ Fourth. Rather it is a work that reflects the composer’s philosophy after he returned to Russia in the 1930s from many years of living in western Europe and America. In his 1946 autobiographical sketch, he wrote, “It is the duty of the composer, like the poet, the sculptor or the painter, to serve his fellow men, to beautify human life and point the way to a radiant future. Such is the immutable code of art as I see it.” The Symphony’s opening movement is a large sonata form in moderate tempo that begins without introduction. The wide-ranging main theme is presented simply by flute and bassoon before being taken up by the strings; flute and oboe sing the lyrical second theme. Two brief motives close the exposition. One, characterized by its dotted rhythms, arrives on the crest of the movement’s first climax; the other is an angular, skittish fragment tossed off by high woodwinds, violins and cellos. The development gives prominence in its first portion to the opening theme and the skittish motive from the end of the exposition; it later focuses on the second theme and the arch-shaped complementary melody. The recapitulation is heralded by the stentorian sounds of the brass choir announcing the main theme. The second-movement scherzo is one of those pieces that Prokofiev would have classified as “motoric”: an incessant two-note rhythmic motive drives the music forward through its entire first section. The movement’s central section is framed by a bold, strutting phrase from the woodwinds adorned with the piquant “wrong notes” that spice so much of Prokofiev’s quick music. The brooding third movement is in a large three-part design. The
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outer sections are supported by the deliberate rhythmic tread of the low instruments used as underpinning for a plaintive melody initiated by the clarinets. A sweeping theme begun by the tuba serves as the basis for the middle section. The finale opens with a short introduction comprising two gestures based on the main theme of the first movement: a short woodwind phrase answered by the strings, and a chorale for cellos. The main body of the movement is a sonata-rondo structure propelled by an insistent rhythmic motive. The movement accumulates a large amount of thematic material as it progresses, though it is the solo clarinet playing the main theme which begins each of the important structural sections of the form. A furious, energetic coda ignites several of the movement’s themes into a grand closing blaze of orchestral color.
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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 of 2008. He was recently named Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL), France, beginning with the 20112012 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 included 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 Aspen, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Saratoga, and 20
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. Mr. 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, American-Soviet 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. He is the author of a book, Conducting Business, published by Amadeus Press. Born in Los Angeles to a distinguished musical family, his parents were the conductorviolinist Felix Slatkin and cellist Eleanor Aller, founding members of the famed Hollywood String Quartet. 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. Slatkin last conducted the PSO in April 2012. 21
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Born in Lvov, Poland, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. He studied at The Juilliard School and Columbia University capturing public attention in 1974 when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. Highlights of the current season include return visits to the orchestras of Cleveland, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Atlanta and Toronto, as well as a number of recitals culminating in a series of three at Lincoln Center focused on the music of Schubert. In recognition of the bicentenaries of Chopin and Schumann in 2010 and in partnership with London’s Barbican, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, Mr. Ax commissioned new works from composers Thomas Adés, Peter Lieberson and Stephen Prutsman for three recital programs presented in each of those cities with colleagues Yo-Yo Ma and Dawn Upshaw.
In addition to this large-scale project, recent tours included performances in Asia with the New York Philharmonic on their first tour with Music Director Alan Gilbert and European tours with both the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and James Conlon as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony with Manfred Honeck. Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. He has received GRAMMY® Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas and has also made a series of GRAMMY®winning recordings with Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. Mr. Ax resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Yoko Nozaki, and their two children. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Yale and Columbia Universities. For more information, visit www.EmanuelAx. com. Emanuel Ax last performed with the PSO in March 2012.
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The music of Mason Bates fuses innovative orchestral writing, imaginative narrative forms, the harmonies of jazz and the rhythms of techno. His symphonic music has been the first to receive widespread acceptance for its expanded palette of electronic sounds, and it is championed by leading conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Leonard Slatkin. He has become a visible advocate for bringing new music to new spaces, whether through institutional partnerships such as his residency with the Chicago Symphony, or through his classical/DJ project Mercury Soul, which has transformed spaces ranging from commercial clubs to Frank Gehry-designed concert halls into exciting, hybrid musical events drawing over a thousand people. Carnegie Hall’s 2012-2013 season opened with Riccardo Muti leading the Chicago Symphony in Alternative Energy, an “energy symphony” that spans four movements and hundreds of years. Premiered last season to rave reviews, the work subsequently toured California and received its Canadian premiere by the Toronto Symphony. This season, the Houston Ballet premiered a major new ballet to The B-Sides, a dance suite that has been performed around the country since its San Francisco Symphony premiere. And the Phoenix Symphony presents two of his works this season — Desert Transport, which conjures a helicopter trip over the Arizona landscape, and a new song cycle for soprano and orchestra. While Bates often performs the electronica onstage with orchestras, dozens of repeat performances of his symphonic music happen without him – demonstrating how electronics can act as a
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new section in the orchestra with little logistical effort. A good example is Mothership, which premiered at the Sydney Opera House by the YouTube Symphony to an online audience of 1.8 million: appearing on symphonic programs across the country this season. Many purely acoustic works complement his diverse catalogue, such as Sirens, an a cappella work touring with the superstar chorus Chanticleer. The solo piano work White Lies for Lomax, commissioned by Tanglewood Music Center, won the Van Cliburn Composers Invitational and is heard regularly on recitals. A new string quartet premiered by the Del Sol Quartet at the 2012 Cabrillo Festival receives its Bay Area premiere this December. A great deal of his music has been performed by the musicians of Young Concert Artists, the acclaimed New York organization where he served as composer-in-residence. Bringing classical music to new audiences is a central part of Bates’ activities as a curator, be it through residencies with institutions such as the Chicago Symphony’s MusicNOW series, or in alternative spaces with Mercury Soul. A collaboration with Director Anne Patterson and Maestro Benjamin Shwartz, Mercury Soul embeds sets of classical music into an evening of DJ-ing and immersive stagecraft. Sold-out performances from San Francisco’s famed Mezzanine club to Miami’s New World Symphony have brought a new vision of the listening experience to widespread audiences, and this season, it returns to Chicago’s Metro with members of the Chicago Symphony, as well as to Pittsburgh’s Static nightclub in the Strip. For more info, go to masonbates.com. Mason Bates last appeared with the PSO in December 2012.
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Jeannette Sorrell, conductor & harpsichord Pre-concert Johann Sebastian Bach
Concert Prelude with Assistant Conductor Fawzi Haimor
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 I. [Allegro] II. Adagio III. Allegro IV. Menuetto – Trio I – Polacca – Trio II Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
I. [Allegro] II. [Adagio] III. Allegro
I. Allegro II. Andante III. Presto Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin Lorna McGhee, flute Jennifer Conner, flute
Intermission Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051
I. Allegro II. Affettuoso III. Allegro Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin Lorna McGhee, flute Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord
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II. Adagio ma non tanto III. Allegro Randolph Kelly, viola Marylène Gingras-Roy, viola
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047
I. [Allegro] II. Andante III. Allegro assai Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin Lorna McGhee, flute Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, oboe George Vosburgh, trumpet
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
The Six Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051 (1721)
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born in Eisenach on 21 March 1685 and died in Leipzig on 28 July 1750 PSO PREMIERE OF CONCERTO NO. 1
16 January 1998; Andrés Cárdenes, conductor PSO PREMIERE OF CONCERTO NO. 2
16 January 1998; Andrés Cárdenes, conductor PSO PREMIERE OF CONCERTO NO. 3
2 December 1904; Emil Paur, conductor PSO PREMIERE OF CONCERTO NO. 4
28 March 1964; William Steinberg, conductor PSO PREMIERE OF CONCERTO NO. 5
7 February 1941; Fritz Reiner, conductor PSO PREMIERE OF CONCERTO NO. 6
18 November 1982; André Previn, conductor
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In March of 1719, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kapellmeister to the Prince of Köthen, travelled to Berlin on an errand to purchase a two-manual harpsichord. Always on the lookout for career opportunities, he took out time while in Berlin to perform for a certain Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg. The Margrave was so delighted with Bach’s playing that he commissioned Bach to write several pieces for him. Two years later, the Margrave received a beautifully bound manuscript, dedicated to him, and containing the six magnificent pieces which he called Six Concerts avec plusieurs d’instruments. We know them as the Brandenburg Concerti, but they were not, in fact, composed specifically for the Margrave. Rather, these are six individual pieces that Bach had written at various times for use with his orchestra at Köthen, and possible Weimar. Being a busy man and a practical one, he simply collected six concerti which represented his best work, and copied them out for the Margrave. Apparently the Margrave did not have the musical personnel necessary to perform these works; thus, he never used the score, never sent Bach a fee, and never thanked him. So much for the Margrave. The fact that these concertos were composed at different times for different occasions--not to mention the extremely diverse instrumentation (each one requires a different group of players)--demonstrates that the six concerti were never intended to be performed as a set. To perform all six is impractical from the point of view of musical personnel. Moreover, the structural coherence that Bach always instilled in pieces that he composed as a set (i.e., key relationships, form, instrumentation, etc.) does not exist between the six Brandenburgs. Rather, each one is an individual gem--a sparkling and perfectly-structured entity on its own. Music writers in the 18th century often talked about the goal of musical performance: to move the Affections (moods, emotions) of the listener. The Brandenburg concertos have proven their extraordinary power to move, delight and captivate audiences for 250 years. But what is it that gives them that power – that greatness that we all intuitively sense? To start with, most of Bach’s instrumentations are unique and daring. Take, for example, Concerto No. 1 – the aristocratic piccolo violin of the courtly ballroom meets the raucous hunting horns from the woods. Or Concerto No. 2 - violin, recorder and trumpet?! The uniquely dark palette of Concerto No. 6 is also extraordinary, with the violins banished from the ensemble while two dueling violas take the spotlight amidst the colorful sonority of viola da gamba and bass instruments. Bach uses both texture and form in unprecedented ways, blending the solo concerto and group concerto (concerto grosso) forms. Concertos No. 2, 4, 5 and 6 feature primarily one solo instrument (trumpet, violin, harpsichord, and a pair of violas, respectively), but also feature groups of solo instruments in contrast. The density and polyphonic complexity of Bach’s compositional textures (far exceeding the concertos of Vivaldi) is
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surely one of the qualities that makes us feel we hear something new and different each time we listen. He also achieves extraordinary textural variety: the slow movements take us into a chamber music environment, where the pool of light centers on the soloists and their continuo players, while themes unfold with expressive individuality and a timeless sense of measured order. Above all, there is a sense of exhilaration that all of us feel from performing the Brandenburgs. Some of that is due to sheer virtuosity: the featured solo instrument(s) in each piece requires a level of virtuosity that is literally athletic. For example, Concerto No. 2, which strikes awe, if not fear, into most trumpet players, is certainly the most challenging piece in the trumpet repertoire. Not only does Bach expect the trumpet to play real melodies rather than the usual simple fanfares, but he takes the instrument up to the note g”--a note requiring fifty pounds per square inch air pressure! The musical and physical challenges of this piece make live performances rare events. And then there is that exuberant celebration of democracy in music: the Concerto No. 3, where each individual string player is an equal soloist. Designed to showcase the virtuoso musicians of Bach’s orchestra at Köthen, the piece remains a thrilling workout for any ensemble today. Bach composed two substantial movements for this concerto, leaving the players to improvise a transitional second movement, for which he provided only two chords. Concerto No. 4 features revolutionary pyro-technics for the violin and the recorder parts are rather devilish as well. The triumphant counterpoint of the finale proves once and for all that that fugal writing can be fun. Concerto No. 5 requires from the harpsichordist a level of speed in the scalar passages that far exceeds anything else in the repertoire. One has to train for this piece the same way one trains for an athletic event. Also, the unusual role of the harpsichord in this Concerto--starting off playing basso continuo (easy), then playing solo melodies in dialogue with the flute and violin (moderately difficult), then getting carried away into virtuoso scales (very difficult), and finally leaving the others in the dust as one contemplates the universe in a huge solo cadenza (mountaintop experience)--makes this piece a unique emotional experience each time one plays it. What makes them so great, in the end, is best understood through Bach’s words as a teacher of how to play basso continuo: “The aim and reason of the basso continuo, as of all music, should be none else but the glory of God and the refreshing of the mind.”
THE SIX BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS PERFORMED BY FIRST VIOLIN
Noah Bendix-Balgley Mark Huggins Irene Cheng Alison Peters Fujito Susanne Park Christopher Wu SECOND VIOLIN
Jennifer Ross Dennis O’Boyle Andrew Fuller Lorien Benet Hart Claudia Mahave
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Randolph Kelly Marylène Gingras-Roy Paul Silver Meng Wang CELLO
Anne Martindale Williams David Premo Gail Czajkowski BASS
Jeffrey Turner John Moore
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René Schiffer Patricia Halverson
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David Sogg HORN
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Lorna McGhee Jennifer Conner
William Caballero Robert Lauver TRUMPET
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Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida James Gorton Cindy Anderson
George Vosburgh HARPSICORD
Jeannette Sorrell John McKean
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Jeannette Sorrell has quickly gained international attention as a leading voice among the new generation of early music conductors. Following a series of CD releases in Europe during 2010, her London debut soldout. The London Times hailed the concert as a discovery: “an unusually star-studded night at the Wigmore Hall, for one of early music’s better-kept secrets.” Sorrell is the Music Director of the acclaimed Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra in Cleveland, which she founded in 1992. The ensemble tours internationally, with her 2011 engagements includint stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, Madrid, Lisbon and Bordeaux. In 2010, Sorrell led Apollo’s Fire in an eleven-concert U.S. tour of the Monteverdi Vespers. On their series in Cleveland, Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire enjoy one of the largest audiences of any baroque orchestra in the country. Sorrell has been credited by the U.K.’s BBC Music Magazine for forging “a vibrant, life-affirming approach to the re-making of early music… a seductive vision of musical authenticity.” Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire record for the British label AVIE RECORDS, and have released seventeen commercial CDs, including the complete Brandenburg Concerti and harpsichord concerti (with Sorrell as harpsichord soloist and director), which was praised by the London Times as “a swaggering version, brilliantly played by Sorrell.” She has also released four discs of Mozart, and was hailed as “a near-perfect Mozartian” by Fanfare Record Magazine. Her 2010 CD release of the Monteverdi Vespers debuted in the Top 10 on the classical Billboard chart.
This was followed by the 2011 release of Sorrell’s crossover/folk program, Come to the River: An Early American Gathering. This too debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard. Sorrell has attracted national attention and awards for creative programming. She is twice the recipient of the prestigious “American Masterpieces” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, for the research and production of Come to the River. Her awards include an honorary doctorate from Case Western University, the Bodky Award from the Cambridge Society of Early Music and the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society. Born in the U.S. of Swiss and American parents, Sorrell was one of the youngest students ever accepted to the prestigious conducting courses of the Aspen and the Tanglewood music festivals. She studied conducting under Robert Spano, Roger Norrington and Leonard Bernstein, and harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. She won both the First Prize and the Audience Choice Award in the 1991 Spivey International Harpsichord Competition, competing against over 70 harpsichordists from Europe, Israel, the U.S., and the Soviet Union. Sorrell’s guest engagements include the Handel & Haydn Society in Boston, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis with the St. Louis Symphony, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Elgin Symphony in Illinois, the Windsor Symphony in Ontario, the Akron Symphony, and the Cleveland Orchestra. Passionate about guiding the next generation of performers, Sorrell has led many baroque projects for Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music. These performances mark her debut with the PSO.
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NOAH BENDIX-BALGLEY Noah Bendix-Balgley was appointed Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2011. He has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Belgian National Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony among others. A top laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the Long Thibaud Competition, he also won first prizes at the Vibrarte Competition (Paris) and Andrea Postacchini Competition (Italy). His Pittsburgh debut recital in January 2012 was named the Best Classical Concert of 2012 by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Mr. Bendix-Balgley is a passionate and experienced chamber musician. He has performed with artists such as the Miro String Quartet, Yuri Bashmet, Ralph Kirshbaum and Gary Hoffman and frequently Bendix-Balgley graduated from the Indiana University performs at festivals in the US and in Europe. He also Jacobs School of Music and the Munich Hochschule. enjoys playing klezmer music. Born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1984, he began playing violin at age four.
LORNA MCGHEE Scottish-born Lorna McGhee has performed as guest principal with the Chicago Symphony, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Academy of StMartin-in-the-Fields, Minnesota Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Before immigrating to Canada in 1998, she was co-principal flute of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, England. As a soloist, Lorna has given concerto performances with the London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the UK, and Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Philharmonia, & Victoria Symphony in Canada, and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra and Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra in the U.S. As a chamber musician and recitalist, she has performed such venues as London’s Wigmore Hall, Barge Music in New York, the Louvre, Paris and the Schubertsaal of Vienna’s Konzerthaus. Lorna is regularly featured in chamber music festivals in Canada and the States. Her performances have been broadcast on CBC Radio in Canada, BBC Radio, NPR (U.S.), Netherlands Radio and ABC (Australia). She has made chamber music recordings for EMI, Decca ASV, Naxos and Meridian. Along with Duo partner Heidi Krutzen, Lorna has released two CDs on Skylark Music: Taheke, 20th century Masterpieces for flute and harp and Canada, New Works for flute and harp. As a member of Trio Verlaine, Lorna has most recently 32
recorded Fin de Siècle for Skylark Music. As a teacher, Lorna holds a visiting teaching post at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music as the “International Fellow in Flute.” Having served on the faculty of the University of Michigan, she is currently teaching at the University of British Columbia. She has given master classes at major universities, conservatoires and flute festivals in the UK, USA and Canada. She has performed for the National Flute Convention, British Flute Convention and Austrian Flute Society. Lorna has been a resident artist/teacher at the Banff International Centre for the Arts. Lorna studied with David Nicholson at the RSAMD and with William Bennett at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence. She has recently been given the honorary title of “Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.’”
Described by critics as “thoroughly delightful, with remarkable tone in every register,” Jennifer Conner enjoys a dynamic career as both an orchestral musician for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and as a chamber player for several ensembles, including the acclaimed Pittsburgh Chamber Music Project at the Andy Warhol Museum. Previous to her appointment as Second Flute by former PSO Music Director Lorin Maazel, Conner performed for five seasons as Principal Flute with the Charleston Symphony in South Carolina. While working towards her Bachelor’s degree at the Juilliard School, Conner was afforded the luxury of studying with world-renowned flutists Jeanne Baxtresser and Julius Baker. Conner has performed numerous recitals in both the United States and Asia, and in 1987, was awarded first prize in the first annual Flute Talk magazine competition. In addition to her current position as Second Flute, Conner has made several appearances as soloist with the PSO. Outside of performing, Conner continues to show her dedication to training the next generation of flutists
through her long associations with Carnegie Mellon, Indiana (Bloomington), and Duquesne Universities, as a volunteer for the PSO’s Early Childhood Pilot Project, as an adjudicator for the National Flute Association, and as a contributing author for Flute Talk magazine.
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MARYLÉNE GINGRAS-ROY A native of Québec City, Canada, Marylène Gingras-Roy joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra viola section in 1997, and in 2004 was promoted to fourth chair. She studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec with Douglas McNabney and François Paradis and graduated in 1993 with unanimous First Prizes in both in viola and chamber music. She was then the recipient of Canada and Québec Arts Councils’ Scholarship Grants, enabling her to attend the Harid Conservatory with Victoria Chiang and the renowned Curtis Institute of Music with Karen Tuttle and Joseph DePasquale, where she earned an Artist Diploma in 1997. Marylène has participated in many festivals, including the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, the Solti Project at Carnegie Hall, the Jerusalem Music Festival, the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, where she served as Principal violist, and since 2000 she is a member of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho. She is heard regularly in chamber music concerts and maintains a full teaching schedule at Duquesne
University, privately and is the viola coach for the Three Rivers Young People Orchestra. Marylène has also taught at summer music festivals such as: Domaine Forget, Québec, Interharmony Festival in Germany and Italy and Advanced Chamber Music Seminar in Pittsburgh and will be teaching at Zodiac Festival in France this summer.
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RANDOLPH KELLY Hired by André Previn in 1976, Randolph Kelly is the principal violist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. A highlight of Kelly’s tenure with the PSO was performing the world premiere, PSO commission, of a viola concerto written for him by Samuel Adler. Kelly has collaborated with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Pinchas Zukerman and Truls Mörk. He has recorded and toured with the Los Angeles Piano Quartet. Kelly has been invited to perform as a guest artist at chamber music festivals in Japan, Australia, Europe, China, Taiwan and Russia. As a soloist, Kelly performed the New York premiere of Sir Michael Tippet’s Triple Concerto in Carnegie Hall. He made his European solo debut when Lorin Maazel invited him to play the Walton Concerto with the National Orchestra of France. James DePriest conducted the Oregon Symphony when Kelly played the Bartók Viola Concerto.
Kelly has recorded a wide range of music for the Albany, Naxos and Music Masters labels. He also appeared on national TV, performing Don Quixote as part of a series entitled “Previn and The Pittsburgh.” Randolph Kelly is a graduate of The Curtis Institute, where he worked closely with the esteemed violist Joseph DePasquale.
CYNTHIA KOLEDO DEALMEIDA Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida has been Principal Oboe of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1991. Prior to her PSO position, she was Associate Principal Oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra. DeAlmeida has been the featured soloist in concertos by Bach, Haydn, Vaughan-Williams, Strauss, and Mozart and has collaborated with Pinchas Zukerman, Andres Cardenes, and Vladimir Spivakov. In 1993, she premiered and recorded a commissioned concerto by Leonardo Balada with the PSO and Lorin Maazel for New World Records. In 2006, she premiered PSO commission “The Clearing” by composer Lucas Richman, later performing it with the Knoxville Symphony. She has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Haddonfield Symphony, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, and the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic. As an educator and chamber musician, DeAlmeida teaches as a faculty member of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA. Her performances there have been broadcast nationally on NPR’s Performance Today. In 2010, she performed chamber concerts at the Steamboat Springs Festival (CO). DeAlmeida has been a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon University since 1991. She was an adjunct faculty member of Temple University in Philadelphia and Trenton State College (NJ), and has also been a faculty member of the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland. 34
In 2002, DeAlmeida released her first solo CD Classic Discoveries for Oboe on the Boston Records label. Mist Over the Lake on the Crystal Record label was released in 2006. She can be heard on Crystal Records’ recording of Sonata for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano with Sir Andre Previn. In 2009, she performed and recorded the German Requiem of Brahms with Marek Janowski and the Radio Orchestra of Berlin (RSB). In 2003, DeAlmeida was featured on national television on the CBS Early Show in a story relating to the oboe and its remarkable health benefits for asthma sufferers. DeAlmeida received the Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan, studying with Arno Marriotti, and the Master of Music degree from Temple University, as a student of Richard Woodhams.
George Vosburgh, celebrated soloist and lecturer, is internationally acclaimed for his virtuosity on the trumpet in recordings, concerts and recitals, as well as guest performances for Bonn Festival at Rolandsek, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, and the Curs Internacional de Musica in Valencia, Spain. In 1992, he joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as Principal Trumpet. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded Vosburgh “Best New Classical Artist” in 1985 for the reference recording of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat with Chicago Pro Musica. He is a Bavarian Radio International Music competition prize winner and a Gold Record recipient for his work with the New Age music ensemble Mannheim Steamroller. In 2003, he was invited to become Principal Trumpet of the World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev, Music Director. Recent recordings include Trumpeter’s Heritage with the Czech Philharmonic under Arnie Roth; Trumpet Masterworks with Alaine Fink, piano; Four Trumpet Concerti with the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz, all featured on the Four Winds label. As an educator, Vosburgh has appeared at universities including Northwestern, University of Michigan, U.C.L.A., Tokyo Music Academy, as well as the Tanglewood Fellowship program. He has lectured at the International Trumpet Guild’s annual conference, and has published a critical edition of the Bohme Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E minor under
Vosburgh Music, Inc. He is currently on the faculty of Duquesne University and Carnegie Mellon University. Vosburgh is a graduate of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, where he was Principal Trumpet and soloist with the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He began his orchestral career at age 19 as third trumpet and assistant principal of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra under David Zinman. He later joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Sir Georg Solti as the youngest member of that orchestra’s world-famous brass section. George Vosburgh holds the Martha Brooks Robinson Chair and is an active member on various PSO committees.
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Alece & David Schreiber James & Janet Slater
Dr. Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. & Linda Shooer Osial Robert & Lillian Panagulias Drs. James Parrish & Chris Siewers Eric & Sharon Perelman Pat & Bill Pohlmann Doctors Mary & Raymond Pontzer Richard E. Rauh James W. & Erin M. Rimmel Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Riordan Mr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Rooney Abby & Reid Ruttenberg Drs. Guy & Mary Beth Salama Donald D. Saxton, Jr. in memory of Barbara Morey Saxton Karen Scansaroli Leonard & Joan Scheinholtz Kay L. Shirk Dr. Stanley Shostak & Dr. Marcia Landy Lowell & Jan Steinbrenner Drs. Michael & Beverly Steinfeld Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Stept Theodore & Elizabeth Stern Margaret Tarpey & Bruce Freeman Dr. Sharon Taylor & Dr. Philip Rabinowitz Richard & Sandra Teodori Judith & Steve Thomas Dr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Thompson, II John & Nancy Traina Mr. & Mrs. Walter W. Turner Jim Walker & Jonnie Viakley Dr. Konrad & Mrs. Konrad M. Weis Carolyn & Richard Westerhoff Seldon & Susan* Whitaker Dr.* & Mrs.* George R. White Mary Jo Winokur Drs. Barry Wu & Iris Tsung in honor of Louise Wu Naomi Yoran Harvey & Florence Zeve Dorothea K. Zikos ENCORE CLUB $1,500 - $2,499
Anonymous (4) Mrs. Jane Callomon Arkus Mr. & Mrs. David J. Armstrong
Ms. Elizabeth Bakoss Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. Balog Dr. Barbara Barnes & Mr. Richard Ley Mrs. Barbara C. & Mr. Ralph J. Bean, Jr. Fred & Sue* Bennitt Jeanne & Richard F. Berdik Dr. Michael & Barbara Bianco Mr. Michael E. Bielski Philip & Bernice Bollman Betsy Bossong Dr. Carole B. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. James H. Bregenser Lawrence R. Breletic & Donald C. Wobb Jill & Chuck Brodbeck Myron David Broff Roger & Lea Brown Howard & Marilyn Bruschi David L. Buchta & Harmon K. Ziegler Dr. Bernadette G. Callery* & Dr. Joseph M. Newcomer Susan S. Cercone Ms. Jensina A. Chutz Mrs. Arthur L. Coburn, III Patricia Cover Rose & Vincent A. Crisanti Marion S. Damick Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Dell Michelle Ann Duralia John & Gertrude Echement Linda & Robert Ellison Ms. Kelly G. Estes & Mr. Hank Snell Henry & Ann Fenner Mr. & Mrs. James A. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Fisher Mr. William R. Forsythe Chauncey & Magdaline Frazier Dr. & Mrs. J. William Futrell Keith & Susan Garver Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Gebhardt Alice V. Gelormino Mr. & Mrs. David C. Genter Kenneth & Lillian Goldsmith Dr. & Mrs. Sanford A. Gordon Rick & Stephanie Green Dr. Alberto M. Guzman Mr. & Mrs.* George K. Hanna Rev. Diana D. Harbison Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Hiteshew Natalie & Bill Hoffman Clare & Jim Hoke
Alysia & Robert Hoyt Dr. & Mrs. John W. Hoyt Micki Huff Mary Lee & Joe Irwin Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Jamison, Jr. Mrs. Alice Jane Jenkins Barbara Johnstone Jackie & Ley Jones Mr. & Mrs. Jayant Kapadia Gerri Kay Judge William Kenworthy & Mrs. Lucille Kenworthy Gloria Kleiman James & Jane Knox Alice & Lewis Kuller George & Alexandra Kusic Father Ronald P. Lengwin Sally Levin Claire & Larry Levine Dr. Michael Lewis & Dr. Katia Sycara Roslyn M. Litman George & Jane Mallory Dr. Richard Martin in memory of Mrs. Lori Martin Carolyn Maue & Bryan Hunt Jean H. McCullough Alan & Marilyn McIvor Sherman & Sue McLaughlin Susan Lee Meadowcroft William J. Mehaffey Jim & Susan Morris in Honor of Kay Stolarevsky Abby L. Morrison Lesa B. Morrison, Ph. D Dr. & Mrs. Etsuro K. Motoyama Constance Nelson Maurice & Nancy Nernberg Charles & Lois* Norton Mr. & Mrs. Patrick M. O’Donnell Dr. Karl R. Olsen & Dr. Martha E. Hildebrandt Ellen Ormond Warren & Rena Ostlund Dr. Paul M. Palevsky & Dr. Sharon R. Roseman Mr. & Mrs. James Parker Seth & Pamela Pearlman Dale & Michele Perelman Connie & Mike Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Edward V. Randall, Jr. Cheryl & James Redmond Stephen G. Robinson Dr. Lee A. & Rosalind* Rosenblum Dr. Joel S. Rozen Rich & Linda Ruffalo
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Mr. & Mrs. Frank V. Cahouet Gail & Rob Canizares Roger* & Judy Clough Charles C. Cohen & Michele M. McKenney Bill & Cynthia Cooley Cyert Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. G. A. Davidson, Jr. Ms. Jamini Davies Ada & Stanford* Davis Barry & June Dietrich James N. Dill, Jr. Mr. Frank R. Dziama Marlene & Louis Epstein Donna & Bob Ferguson Kim Tillotson Fleming J. Tomlinson Fort Janet M. Frissora Dina & Jerry Fulmer Gary & Joanne Garvin Mrs. Merle Gilliand Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. & Susan Gluckman Nancy Goeres & Michael Rusinek George & Jane Greer Mr. & Mrs. George V. Grune, Jr. William & Victoria Guy Mr. & Mrs.* Charles H. Harff Carolyn Heil Dr. & Mrs. Allen Hogge Dorothy A. Howat Hyman Family Foundation Leo & Marge Kane Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. Sydelle Kessler Charles F. & Kathleen R. Kovac Cliff & Simi Kress Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lane Judith & Lester* Lave Dr. Joseph & AnnaMae Lenkey Arthur S. Levine, M.D. & Linda S. Melada Barry Lhormer & Janet Markel Doris L. Litman Tom & Gail Litwiler Ted & Mary Lou Magee James C. & Jennifer Martin Dave & Kathy Maskalick Victoria & Alicia McGinnis George & Bonnie Meanor Mary Ellen Miller Barbara & Eugene Myers Dr. & Mrs. Michael L. Nieland Fritz Okie H. Ward & Shirley Olander
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Judy & Stanley Ruskin Dr. James R. Sahovey Juerg X. Saladin Thomas & Perri Schelat Joseph Schewe, Jr. Mr.* & Mrs. K. George Schoeppner Esther Schreiber Jolie Schroeder Dr. Nicholas Schulz & Dr. Brigitte Schmidt Dr. Allan & Mrs. Brina D. Segal Preston & Annette Shimer Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Shoop, Jr. Dr. Ralph T. Shuey & Ms. Rebecca L. Carlin Paul & Linda Silver Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Dr. & Mrs. Dennis P. Slevin Manny H. & Ileane Smith Marisa & Walter C. Smith Mrs. Alice R. Snyder Sandy & Mr. Edgar Snyder Hon. & Mrs. William L. Standish Lewis M. Steele & Ann Labounsky Steele Barbara & Lou Steiner Jeff & Linda Stengel Fred & Maryann Steward Dick & Thea Stover C. Dean Streator Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Stroebel Mr. & Mrs. Frank Talenfeld Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Ticknor Dorothea & Gerald* Thompson Drs. Ben Van Houten & Victoria Woshner Bob & Denise Ventura Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Vismor Dr. Ronald J. & Patricia J. Wasilak Ms. Sally Webster & Ms. Susan Bassett Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Mr. & Mrs. Thomas White Elizabeth & Frank L. Wiegand, III Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Witmer Ellie & Joe Wymard Miriam L. Young Mr. & Mrs. Isaias Zelkowicz Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zellefrow SYMPHONY CLUB $500 - $1,499
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Frederic & Deborah Acevedo Mary Beth Adams Dr. & Mrs. Siamak Adibi Judy Brody & Lawrence Adler Dr. Madalon Amenta Donald & Kathleen Anderson Mrs. Doris Anderson Craig & Dawn Andersson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Angerman Joan Frank Apt Yoshio Arai Warren J. Archer & Madeline C. Archer Janice Argabright & Nicholas Brown James & Susanne Armour Mrs. Alicia Avery Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Ruth Bachman in Memory of James Bachman Mrs. Donna L. Balewick Mr. & Mrs. Robert Y. Ball Lorraine E. Balun Dr. Esther L. Barazzone Richard C. Barney Robert & Loretta Barone Robert Bastress & Barbara Fleischauer Martin & Bridgett Bates Dr. & Mrs. R.C. Bauer Robert W. & Janet W. Baum John & Betsy Baun David & Gail Becker Kenneth & Elsa Beckerman Nick & Dotty Beckwith Yu-Ling & Gregg Behr Vange & Nick Beldecos Judith Bell Edgar & Betty Belle Rudy & Barbara Benedetti Eleanor H. Berge Dr. Peter & Judy Berkowitz Mrs. Georgia Berner & Mr. James Farber Ms. Robin Joan Bernstein & Mr. H. Siegle Don Berry Dr. & Mrs. Albert W. Biglan Harry S. Binakonsky, M.D. Franklin & Bonnie Blackstone Gerald & Carolyn Eberly Blaney Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Blansett, Jr. Paul E. Block Joseph A. & Shirley H. Bonner Dr. & Mrs. A’Delbert Bowen Bozzone Family Foundation
Robert N. Brand Gary & Connie Brandenberger David Braun Gerda & Abe Bretton Mary & Russell Brignano Mary L. Briscoe Mr. Randy & Mrs. Deborah Broker Mr. Stephen Bronder Suzanne Broughton & Richard Margerum Alan M. Brown Mr. & Mrs.* Earle O. Brown, Jr. Timothy R. Brown & Heidi K. Bartholomew Nancy & John Brownell Mr. & Mrs. David A. Brownlee Lois R. Brozenick John T. Buckley & Emily J. Rosenthal Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Burchfield William Burchinal Timothy & Linda Burke Dr. & Mrs. John A. Burkholder Mr. & Mrs. James Burnham Rev. Glen H. & Carol Burrows Dr. Stuart S. Burstein Michael F. Butler James & Judith Callomon Susan Campbell & Patrick Curry Andrés Cárdenes & Monique Mead Dr. & Mrs. Albert Caretto, Jr. Richard & Jeanne* Carter Charles & Donna Cashdollar James P. Cassaro Sue Challinor & Matt Teplitz Dr. Thomas S. Chang Peggy & Joe Charny Craig D. Choate Kenneth & Celia Christman Dr. & Mrs. Albert E. Chung Mr. & Mrs. William Clarkson William & Elizabeth Clendenning Stuart & Cathryn Coblin Christine & Howard Cohen Mr.* & Mrs. Eugene Cohen Jared L. & Maureen B. Cohon Alan & Lynne Colker In Loving Memory of Johnathan Heath College Dale Colyer Linda Cook Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Alan Cope Barton & Teri Cowan Susan & George Craig Susan O. Cramer
David & Marian Crossman John D. & Laurie B. Culbertson Zelda Curtiss Cynthia Custer Mrs. John C. Cutler* Dr. & Mrs. Richard H. Daffner Mr. & Mrs. Walter Damian Joan & Jim Darby Mr. & Mrs. William J. Darr Norina H. Daubner Joan Clark Davis Joan & David Dawson Alfred R. de Jaager Bruce & Rita Decker Jim* & Peggy Degnan Charles S. Degrosky Captain Ronald M. Del Duca, USN (ret.) Dr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Dell’Omo Lynn & David DeLorenzo Ms. Alice Demmler Mr. & Mrs.* Edward DePersis Valerie DiCarlo Mr. & Mrs. Victor J. DiCarlo Mrs. Tika Dickos Elaine A. Dively Jerome A. Dixon Mr. & Mrs. Todd Donovan Mr. & Mrs. James R. Drake Anthony V. Dralle Mary Jo Dressel Robert & Lora Lee Duncan Mary Jane Edwards Eugene & Katrin Engels Roger & Beverly Engle Arnold & Eva Engler Richard Epstein & Mindy Frazer Tibey & Julian Falk Donald & Judith Feigert Dr. & Mrs.* John H. Feist Joan P. Feldman & Hilary Feldman Madelyn & John Fernstrom Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Janet Fesq Marvin C. Fields Albert L. Filoni Dr. Joseph Fine Nancy A. Fitch Paul & Joanna Fitting Warren & Joan Fitzpatrick Ms. Ann P. Flaherty Mr. & Mrs. James Flanigan Jan Fleisher Suzanne Flood Edward L. Foley, M.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Hepler Thelma & Andrew Herlich 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 Philo & Erika Holcomb Katherine Holter Dr. & Mrs. Elmer J. Holzinger Ms. Madeleine Hombosky Thomas O. Hornstein Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Hope H. Horst Beth Hovanec Anne K. Hoye Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Huffman Mr. & Mrs. Elwood T. Hughes Jean & Richard Humphreys Joan M. Hurrell Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Hyland, Jr. George L. Illig, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Vincent J. Jacob Lynne & Blair Jacobson David & Terry Jancisin Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Willcox Jenkins Dawn M. Johnson Tom & Wendy Jones in Honor of Chris Wu Greg & Ellen Jordan Richard & Barbara Kahlson Alice & Richard Kalla Daniel & Carole Kamin Julie & Jeffrey* Kant Mr. & Mrs. David N. Kaplan Dr. & Mrs. Peter D. Kaplan Martin & Donna Keane Flo & Bob Kenny Rhian Kenny Ruth Ann & Eugene Klein Peggy C. Knott Ms. Marilyn Koch Ms. Dawn Kosanovich Madeline Kramer in Memory of Fred Kramer Mr. & Mrs. A. Frederick Kroen Mr. & Mrs. John Krolikowski Robert A. & Alice Kushner Mr. Nicholas Kyriazi Betty Lamb Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. Lang Ronald & Lida Larsen
Earl & Marilyn Latterman A. Lorraine Laux Marvin & Gerry Lebby Drs. Grace and Joon Lee Diana K. Lemley MD & Paul L. Shay MD Mr. David W. Lendt Robert W. Lenker Dr. Herbert & Barbara Levit Mrs. William E. Lewellen, III Philip & Leslie Liebscher Robert & Janet Liljestrand Elsa Limbach Mr. & Mrs. Kurt L. Limbach Mr. & Mrs. James T. Linaberger Ken & Hope Linge Lawrence & Jacqueline Lobl Margery J. Loevner Don & Hanne Lorch Francis & Debbie Lynch Daphne & John Lynn William & Helen Lyons Mrs. Guinevere R. Mabunay Pat & Don MacDonald William & Nora MacDonald Hank & June Mader Mrs. George J. Magovern, Jr. John K. Maitland Mr. & Mrs. Robert Malnati Carl & Alexis Mancuso Drs. Ellen Mandel & Lawrence Weber Mr. & Mrs. Bernard S. Mars Mr. & Mrs. John Mary 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. Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. McChesney Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Mary C. McCormick Paula & Bob McCracken Mrs. Samuel K. McCune Mary A. McDonough Keith McDuffie Kent & Martha McElhattan Mary & R. Lee McFadden Margaret J. McGowan Carol Jean McKenzie Jean & John McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. William P. Meehan Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Mellon
Barbara Sachnoff Mendlowitz In Memory of William C. Menges Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Merriman Robert & Elizabeth Mertz Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Roger F. Meyer Bridget & Scott Michael Dr. & Mrs. Milton M. Michaels Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton Ms. Laurie Miller Dr. & Mrs. Vincent P. Miller, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William H. Miller Nessa Green Mines Catherine Missenda Paul & Connie Mockenhaupt Chuck & Karen Moellenberg Amy & Ira* M. Morgan Mr. Gary Morrell Connie & Bruce* Morrison Dr. & Mrs.* William S. Morrison Frank & Brenda Moses Carol J. Mueller Theodor & Inge Mueller Mr. & Mrs. Richard Munsch David & Joan Murdoch Mary & Jim Murdy James & Marlee Myers Dr. & Mrs. Donald D. Naragon Dr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Nebel Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Rev. Robert & Mrs. Suzanne Newpher Patricia K. Nichols Mr. & Mrs. David Nimick Susan Noffke & Robert Wickesberg Mark & Nikki Nordenberg Heidi Novak Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Maureen S. O’Brien Dr. & Mrs. Kook Sang Oh Paul & Nancy O’Neill Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Orr Dee Jay Oshry & Bart Rack John A. Osuch Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Doug & Suzanne Owen Dr. & Mrs. A. H. Panahandeh Pamela & Ronald Pape Mr. & Mrs. William A. Partain Dr. Anthony William Pasculle John & Joan Pasteris
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Mr. & Mrs. Edward Fortwangler Mr. & Mrs. K. H. Fraelich, Jr. Friends of the PSO John & Elaine Frombach Dr. Janet Fromkin & Dr. Ronald Stiller F. Thomas Fruehstorfer Dr. & Mrs. Freddie H. Fu Lorie Fuller Normandie Fulson Bruce & Ann Gabler Louise Gaffney-Gross Dr. & Mrs. R. Kent Galey Gamma Investment Corporation Keith & Christine Garbutt Mr. & Mrs. Phil Gasiewicz Joan & Stuart Gaul Pete Geissler Dr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Gerber Mr. & Mrs. William P. Getty Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Getze Revs. Gaylord & Catherine Gillis Mr. David Givens & Mr. Stephen Mellett Mike & Cordy Glenn Daniel & Marcia Glosser Fund Mr. & Mrs. H. M. Goern Mr. & Mrs. Ted Goldberg Walter L. Goldburg Bernard Goldstein, M.D. & Russellyn Carruth Thomas W Golightly & Rev. Dr. Carolyn J Jones Dr. & Mrs. C. B. Good Richard E. Gordon & June F. Swanson Mr. James Gorton & Mrs. Gretchen Van Hoesen The Graf Family Laurie Graham Dr. Lora D. Graves & Dr. Bryan D. Dye Charlotte T. Greenwald Mr. & Mrs. Steven Gridley Ms. E. A. Gundelfinger Kristine Haig & John Sonnenday Mr. & Mrs. Van Beck Hall Susan & David Hardesty Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Harris Mrs. Mary O. Harrison Ms. Christine A. Hartung Donna & Cal Hastings Cathy & John Heggestad Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Heidenreich Ms. Emily Heidish Eric & Lizz Helmsen
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Camilla B. Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Pellett Daniel M. Pennell Ms. Irina A. Peris Dr. Jeffrey & Francesca Peters Ms. Dorothy Philipp Mr. & Mrs. Jon R. Piersol Edward & Mary Ellen Pisula Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Porkolab David & Marilyn Posner Mrs. Mildred M. Posvar Shirley Pow Ann & Malvern Powell Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Prus Mercedes & John Pryce Mrs. Jean Purvis Robert & Mary Jo Purvis Liberty & Andrew Pyros Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Queenan, Jr. Fran Quinlan Dr.* & Mrs. Donald H. Quint Ms. Barbara Rackoff Betty Radvak-Shovlin James D. & Carol L. Randolph Barbara M. Rankin Dave & Joan Reale Mr. Joseph J. Regna, Jr. Paul & Dorothy Reiber Eric & Frances Reichl Ms. Diana Reid Mr. & Mrs. John Renton Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Mavis & Norman Robertson Edgar R. & Betty A. Robinson Mr. William M. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. James E. Rohr Mr. & Mrs. C. Arthur Rolander Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Rom Janice G. Rosenberg Dr. Pinchas Rosenberg Shoshana & Jerry Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Byron W. Rosener, III Mrs. Louisa Rosenthal Carol & Scott Rotruck Dr. & Mrs. Wilfred T. Rouleau Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Rubenstein Mr. R. Douglas Rumbarger Mr. Robert Rupp Shirley & Murray Rust
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Mrs. John M. Sadler Tamiko Sampson Dr. & Mrs. Isamu Sando Dr. Carlos R. Santiago Mr. & Mrs. Ferd Sauereisen Sally & Keith Saylor Albert & Kathleen Schartner Ann & Bill Scherlis Dr. Melvin & Catherine Schiff Mr. & Mrs. George Schneider Shirley Schneirov Marvin & Fran Schreiber Bernie & Cookie Soldo Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Harry W. Schurr, II Urban Schuster Mary Ann Scialabba Louise & Franco Sciannameo Urban Schuster Robert J. & Sharon E. Sclabassi George & Marcia Seeley Mr. & Mrs. David P. Segel Anne Selinger & Nyles Charon Aleen Mathews Shallberg & Richard Shallberg Mrs. Sue Shapera 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 Mr. Frank Simpkins Marilyn & Norman A. Sindler Lois & Bill Singleton Kathleen Opat Smith Margaret C. 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 Drs. Horton C. & Jannene M. Southworth Henry Spinelli Janet H. Staab
Mr. & Mrs. James C. Stalder Patricia D. Staley Gary & Charlene Stanich Dr. James G. Staples Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Stayer Bronna & Harold Steiman Edward & Rebecca Stephan Jerry Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Bernard P. Stoehr & Family Dr. & Mrs. Ron Stoller In Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Mona & E.J. Strassburger Mr. Peter Su Peter Sullivan Richard A. Sundra, in Loving Memory of Patricia Sundra Jan & Leslie Swensen Stuart & Liz Symonds Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Szejko Carol L. Tasillo Mr. & Mrs. William H. Taylor, Jr. Gordon & Catherine Telfer Mr. Paul Teplitz Mr. Doug Thomas Mary Lloyd & George Thompson Bob & Bette Thomson Gail & Jim Titus Denny & Colleen Travis Mr. & Mrs. Clifton C. Trees Rosalyn & Albert Treger Jane F. Treherne-Thomas Mr. Albert Trezza Paul A. Trimmer Jeff & Melissa Tsai Eric & Barbara Udren Diane & Dennis Unkovic Ms. Phyllis Vail Theo & Pia Van De Venne Suzan M. Vandertie Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Vest Dr. & Mrs. Carey T. Vinson, III Cate & Jerry Vockley John & Linda Vuono Bill & Sue Wagner Judy Wagner & Mike LaRue Wagner Family Charitable Trust
Suzanne & Richard Wagner C. Robert Walker Mr. W.L. & Dr. B.H. Ward Tony & Pat Waterman Marvin & Dot Wedeen Drs. John & Carla Weidman Elaine Weil William C. Weil Jodi & Andrew Weisfield Norman & Marilyn Weizenbaum Mr. & Mrs. James P. Welch Jim & Jinny Welker Frank & Heide Wenzel Mrs. Louis A. Werbaneth Nancy Werner Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Westerberg Rebecca M. Wharton James Whitehead Dr. Philip M. Wildenhain & Dr. Sarah L. Wildenhain Dr. Bruce L. Wilder Robert & Carole Williams Ruth Williams in honor of Anne M. Williams and her parents Mr. & Mrs. Miles C. Wilson James & Ramona Wingate Sheryl & Bruce Wolf Sidney & Tucky Wolfson Rufus J. Wysor Mark & Judy Yogman Marlene & John Yokim Alice L. Young Hugh D. & Alice C. Young Dr. & Mrs. Richard E. Young Mark C. Zemanick, MD Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ziatek 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 13, 2013 *deceased
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 The Association for Recorded Sound Collections 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 Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of The Buhl Foundation 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 Kathryn J. Dinardo Fund Peter C. Dozzi Family Foundation Eden Hall Foundation 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 Mildred B. & Malcolm Goldsmith 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 Thomas Marshall Foundation Massey Charitable Trust Ruth Rankin McCullough Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation William V. and Catherine A. McKinney Charitable Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Richard King Mellon Foundation
Howard and Nell E. Miller Foundation Phyllis and Victor Mizel Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation National Endowment for the Arts New Music USA 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 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 Norman C. Ray Trust The Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation The William Christopher & Mary Laughlin Robinson Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Ryan Memorial Foundation Salvitti Family Foundation The H. Glenn Sample Jr. MD Memorial Trust Scaife Family Foundation James M. & Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation The Frank L. and Ruth R. Schwarz Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh The Mrs. William R. Scott Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Alexander C. and Tillie S. Speyer Foundation Symphony East Symphony North Tippins Foundation Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Hilda M. Willis Foundation Phillip H. and Betty L. Wimmer Family Foundation
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FOUNDATIONS & PUBLIC AGENCIES
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CORPORATIONS (Includes corporate annual fund contributions and sponsorships) Business Leadership Association SIGNATURE CIRCLE $75,000 and above Allegheny Technologies Incorporated BNY Mellon EQT Corporation Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield PNC
Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. Nordstrom Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. Trumbull Corporation and P.J. Dick Incorporated
SILVER CIRCLE $5,000 - $9,999 AlphaGraphics in the Cultural District Ansaldo STS USA DIAMOND CIRCLE Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC $40,000 - $74,999 Calgon Carbon Corporation First National Bank of Pennsylvania Chesapeake Energy Corporation PPG Industries Foundation The Common Plea Catering Inc. PLATINUM CIRCLE Eat’n Park Restaurants $20,000 - $39,999 Ernst & Young LLP Acusis Huntington Bank Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Federal Home Loan Bank of KPMG LLP Levin Furniture Pittsburgh MEDRAD First Niagara Morgan Stanley Giant Eagle Mylan Pharmaceuticals H. J. Heinz Company Foundation Oliver Wyman Macy’s Foundation PwC MSA Reed Smith LLP Peoples Natural Gas Ruth’s Chris Steak House Triangle Tech Group Schreiber Industrial Development Co. Trib Total Media Sycor Americas Inc. United States Steel Corporation UPMC & UPMC Health Plan BRONZE CIRCLE $2,500 - $4,999 GOLD CIRCLE A.C. Dellovade, Inc. $10,000 - $19,999 Angelo, Gordon & Co. Anonymous Bank of America Merrill Lynch American Eagle Outfitters Cipriani & Werner PC American Environmental Services, Inc. Deloitte LLP Bayer USA Foundation ELG Haniel Metals Corp. Bobby Rahal Automotive Elite Coach Transportation Group Koppers Citigroup Lighthouse Electric Delta Air Lines, Inc. Company, Inc. Dollar Bank MARSH USA Inc. Fairmont Pittsburgh & Mascaro Construction Habitat Restaurant Company Federated Investors, Inc. Mozart Management The Frank E. Rath-Spang & NexTier Bank Company Charitable Trust Northwest Savings Bank 42
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 Big Burrito Restaurant Group Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. ESB Bank First Commonwealth Bank FISERV Hughes Television Productions Income Research & Management The Jas H. Matthews Educational & Charitable Trust Jendoco Construction Corporation Jennison Associates LLC Jennmar Corporation Kerr Engineered Sales Company McKamish, Inc. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Nocito Enterprises, Inc. PGT Trucking Rothman Gordon PC Schneider Downs Six Penn Kitchen Stringert, Inc. Trebuchet Consulting LLC United Safety Services, Inc. Vallozzi’s Pittsburgh Wampum Hardware Inc. Woman’s Club of Upper Saint Clair
PARTNER LEVEL $500 - $999 Allegheny Valley Bank Bombardier Bridges & Company, Inc. Cantor & Pounds Dental Associates Consolidated Communications Crawford Ellenbogen LLC Fancy’s Folly Flaherty & O’Hara, P.C. General Wire Spring Co. Goehring, Rutter & Boehm Hamill Manufacturing Company Hertz Gateway Center, LP The Hite Company Hoffman Electric Inc. Horovitz, Rudoy & Roteman LLC K&I Sheet Metal, Inc. Lucas Systems, Inc. Marstrand Industries, Inc. Metso Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP Attorneys at Law Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Modany-Falcone, Inc. Modern Reproductions, Inc. Neville Chemical Company Pittsburgh Wool Company Inc. Pzena Investment Management, LLC Scott Metals Inc. Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Triad USA Tube City IMS, LLC Wagner Agency, Inc. Wells Fargo Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research, Inc. We would like to thank all corporations that contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Please see our website at pittsburghsymphony.org for a complete listing. Current as of Feb. 26, 2013
LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE
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 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, please call Jan Fleisher at 412.392.3320. STEINBERG SOCIETY Anonymous (14) 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 Joan Feldman & William Adams Mrs. Loti Gaffney Keith & Susan Garver The Estate of Olga T. Gazalie Mr.* & Mrs.* William H. Genge Ken & Lillian Goldsmith Mr. & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon C. Ruth Gottesman* Anna R. Greenberg* Lorraine M. Gross* May Hanson* Elizabeth Anne Hardie Charles & Angela Hardwick Carolyn Heil 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 Leo and Marge Kane 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* Mildred Koetting* John W. Kovic, Jr.* Raymond Krotec* Mr.* & Mrs.* G. Christian Lantzsch Stanley & Margaret Leonard Frances F. Levin Margaret M. Levin* Martha Mack Lewis* Edith H. Lipkind 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 * Ms. Jean L. Misner 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* Rose Noon* Rhonda & Dennis Norman 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 Harvey and Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Ryan Virginia Schatz Nancy Schepis Dr. Charles H. Shultz 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
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 SID KAPLAN TRIBUTE PROGRAM Jean & Sigo Falk Principal Librarian Chair The Sid Kaplan Memorial Hallway given by David Endowed Principal Piccolo Kaplan in appreciation Chair, given to honor of generous gifts Frank and Loti Gaffney commemorating family William & Sarah Galbraith and friends Second Violin Chair In Honor of Dr. Raymond The Estate of Olga T. Gazalie Stept from his loving First Violin Chair family Ira & Nanette Gordon In Honor of Mariss & Irina – The Gracky Fund for Jansons and friendship Education & Community from Dr. Laibe* & Sydelle Engagement Kessler Susan S. Greer Memorial Honoring my dear friend, Trumpet Chair, given by Marvin Hamlisch, from Peter Greer Mina Kulber William Randolph Hearst In Loving Memory of Endowed Fund for Martin Smith, PSO Horn, Education 1980-2005, from his siblings Todd Smith, Judy Vira I. Heinz Music Director Chair Dupont, & Susan Noble Principal Pops Conductor Chair Endowed by Henry & Elsie Hillman 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 Estate of John & Betty Weiland 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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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 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 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 13, 2013 *deceased
COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE
$1,000,000+
Michael & Carol Bleier Sidney & Sylvia Busis Ann & Frank Cahouet Ron & Dorothy Chutz $100,000-$249,999 Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Anonymous (4) Estate of Olga T. Gazalie Wendy & David Barensfeld Marvin* & Terre Hamlisch in memory of Dr. Robert E. Estate of Eleanor Hurtt Herlands Kathryn & Michael Bryson Estate of Florence M. Jacob Robert W. & Elizabeth C. Rae & Jane Burton Kampmeinert Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Calihan Devin & Shannon The Estate of Johannes McGranahan Coetzee A. W. Mellon Foundation Randi & L.Van V. Dauler, James & Joan Moore Jr., Emma Clyde Hodge Memorial Fund Donald I. & Janet Moritz EQT Corporation Mildred S. Myers & William C. Frederick Falk Foundation & Sigo & Jean Falk Elliott S. Oshry Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot Pittsburgh Post-Gazette $500,000-$999,999 Goldman Sachs Gives Reed Smith LLP Anonymous (1) Ira & Anita Gumberg Abby & Reid Ruttenberg Dollar Bank Hansen Foundation John P. & Elizabeth L. Surma Roy & Susan Dorrance William Randolph Hearst Jill & Craig Tillotson Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Foundation Jacquelin G. Wechsler Maxwell Hefren-Tillotson Catharine M. Ryan & John H.J Heinz Company $25,000-$49,999 T. Ryan III Foundation Anonymous (1) Tom & Jamee Todd Barbara Jeremiah Alan L. & Barbara B. Rick & Laurie Johnson Ackerman $250,000-$499,999 Nancy & Jeff Leininger Astorino Allegheny Technologies Edward D. Loughney* Larry & Tracy Brockway Incorporated The Estate of Beatrice Robert C. Denove Claude Worthington Malseed Benedum Foundation The Estate of Joan Dillon Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. Jim & Carolyn Bouchard Pamela R. & Kenneth B. McGuinn Dunn Edward S. & Jo-Ann M. Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Churchill Martin & Lisa Earle Rachel Mellon Walton Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Eichleay Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Donahue Foundation Ernst & Young LLP Lillian Edwards Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William E. Nancy Goeres & Michael Esmark Rinehart Rusinek Mr. & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon Bill* & Carol Tillotson Ms. Anna Greenberg* Drue Heinz Trust United States Steel Stephen & Kimberly Keen Corporation Tom & Dona Hotopp Mrs. H.J. Levin The Estate of Donald F. G. Christian Lantszch* Michael Baker Corporation Wahl Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Betty & Granger Morgan Samuel & Carrie Arnold McConomy The Pittsburgh Foundation Weinhaus Fund Steve & Brenda James & Susanne Wilkinson The Estate of Dorothy Schlotterbeck Rairigh Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Usher Hilda M. Willis Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brooks $50,000-$99,999 Jon & Carol Walton Robinson Benno & Constance Bernt Anonymous (1) BNY Mellon The Buncher Family Foundation Eden Hall Foundation Beverlynn & Steven Elliott The Giant Eagle Foundation 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 & Barbara Weldon
Helge & Erika Wehmeier Thomas H. & Frances M. Witmer
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 Milton & Nancy Washington Harvey & Florence Zeve Dr. & Mrs. Merrill F. Wymer $10,000-$24,999
Anonymous (1) William & Frances Aloe Charitable Foundation AlphaGraphics in the Cultural District 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 Chester A. Davies Trust The Estate of Jane I. Johnson Ruth Feldman* & Emil Feldman First National Bank of Pennsylvania FRG Group Elizabeth H. Genter 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 Greg & Ellen Jordan Rhian Kenny
EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL \ 2012-2013 SEASON
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.
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Judith & Lester* Lave Carolyn Maue & Bryan Hunt Douglas B. McAdams Alicia & Victoria McGinnis Sam Michaels Mary Ellen Miller Maureen S. O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. O’Brien Orbital Engineering Dr. Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. & Linda Shooer Osial Robert & Lillian Panagulias Mr. & Mrs. John R. Price Deborah Rice James W. & Erin M. Rimmel Judy & Stanley Ruskin Snyder Charitable Foundation Max & Tiffany Starks Estate of Audrey I. Stauffer Elizabeth Burnett & Lawrence Tamburri The Estate of Richard C. Tobias Edward L. & Margaret Vogel Mrs. Evette Wivagg Rachel W. Wymard Seldon & Susan* Whitaker
Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Shannon Capellupo Dr. Rebecca 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 Susie & George Dull Mr. Frank R. Dziama John & Gertrude Echement Thomas J. Emmerling Francis & Gene Fairman, III $1,000-$4,999 In Honor of Ruth Feldman* Anonymous (8) & Emil Feldman Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen, Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Sr. Jan Fleisher Mr. Thomas L. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph U. Frye David & Andrea Aloe Friends & Family of Joan & Jerome* Apt & Stanford P. Davis Family Bruce & Ann Gabler Michele & Pat Atkins $5,000-$9,999 Dr. R. Kent Galey & Dr. Karen Ms. Linda M. DeArment Jim & Jane Barthen Roche John H. Ashton Scott Bell Gamma Investment Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Corporation Betsy Bossong Kathleen & Joseph Baird Kathleen Gavigan & Allan J. & Clementine K. Richard C. Barney William B. Dixon Brodsky Robert W. & Janet W. Baum Mr. & Mrs. James Genstein Roger* & Judy Clough Philip & Melinda Beard Bernard Goldstein, M.D. & Estelle Comay & Bruce Russellyn Carruth Rabin Yu-Ling & Gregg Behr Thomas W. Golightly & Rev. Philip J. & Sherry S. Patti & Sandy Berman Dr. Carolyn J. Jones Dieringer Georgia Berner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Mr. & Mrs. David Ms. Mary Biagini Graham Ehrenwerth Drs. Barbara & Albert John F. Gray Mr. Ian Fagelson Biglan Mr. & Mrs. Frank T. Farmers & Merchants Bank Mr. Stuart Bloch Guadagnino Of Western PA Paul E. Block Mrs. Ellen Hagerty Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Marian & Bruce Block Kristine Haig & John Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Sonnenday Nadine E. Bognar Gebhardt Deirdre & Brian Henry Mr. & Mrs. Frank Grebowski Jim & Debbie Boughner Carol E. Higgins Gail & Gregory Harbaugh Mr. & Mrs. David A. Brownlee Adam & Allison Hill Mr. & Mrs.* Charles H. Harff Lois R. Brozenick Kelvin Hill Eric & Lizz Helmsen Howard & Marilyn Bruschi Mr. Carlyle Hoch Richard & Alice Kalla Doug Burns Esther & Terry Horne Jack & Virginia Kerr Burrell Group, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas O. Douglas W. Kinzey Hornstein Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Cliff & Simi Kress Cameron David & Mary Hughes Betty L. Lamb 46
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
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 Daniel G. & Carole L. Kamin Leo & Marge Kane Joan M. Kaplan Mr. Navroz J. Karkaria Judge William Kenworthy & Mrs. Lucille Kenworthy Jan & Guari Kiefer Aleta J. & Paul King Karen & Margaret Klimczyk 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 Neil & Ruth MacKay MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, Inc. Mary Lou & Ted N. Magee Andrea & Glenn R. Mahone Carl & Alexis Mancuso Mr.* & Mrs. Perry Manypenny In Memory of Elizabeth & Leonard Martin James C. & Jennifer L. Martin Dave & Kathy Maskalick Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Massaro, Jr. Mr. Samuel A. McClung 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. & Mrs. Arthur Nussbaum
Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Roger & Sarah Parker John & Joan Pasteris Richard E. & Alice S. Patton Camilla B. Pearce & Dan Gee* Joseph & Suzanne Perrino Kears & Karen Pollock Ms. Mary Alice Price Symphony East Barbara Rackoff Bruce S. Reopolos* Rhoades-Carraro Family Don & Jenny Rhoten Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Betty & Edgar R. Robinson Mr. William M. Robinson Bruce & Susan Robison Dr. Lee A. & Rosalind* Rosenblum
Charlotta Klein Ross Joseph Rounds Millie & Gary Ryan Gail Ryave & Family Williams Saunders & Elizabeth Casman 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 William H. Steele Jeff & Linda Stengel Stringert, Inc. Peter Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Frank Talenfeld Mr. & Mrs. Llewellyn C. Thomas, III Dorothea & Gerald* Thompson Mrs. Rollie G. Thomas Ruth (Krysik) Thon Dennis L. Travis & Colleen Bryne Travis Jeff & Melissa Tsai Drs. Ben Van Houten & Victoria Woshner Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Vogel
John & Linda Vuono James R. Whitehead Sandra D. Williamson Jim* & Mary Jo Winokur Scott & Stacy Weber Marvin & Dot Wedeen Jodi & Andrew Weisfield Mr. & Mrs. Richard Zahren Simone J. Ziegler Dorothea K. Zikos Current as of Feb. 28, 2013 *deceased
SPECIAL NAMED GIFTS BNY Mellon ........................................................................... Recordings & Electronic Media and Artistic Excellence Programs Benno & Constance Bernt.......................................................................................................................................Stage Right Door Jim & Carolyn Bouchard, Esmark, Inc. ........................................................................................................... Schooltime Concerts Rae & Jane Burton........................................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Basil & Jayne Adair Cox................................................................................................................................................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, Paris Festival 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 47
Heinz Hall information
box office hours are 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 the Theater Square Box Office.
groups can 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 for information.
latecomer’s gallery is located behind the Main Floor to enjoy the performance until you children are encouraged to attend our youth concerts and Fid- can be seated. Latecomers will be dlesticks Family Concerts. Children seated at suitable intervals during the program, at the discretion of age six and over, are welcome at all performances with a purchased the conductor. The gallery is also ticket. The Latecomer’s Gallery and available for parents with restless children. lobby video monitors are always options for restless children. lockers are located on the coat check is available in the Grand Lobby or in the Dorothy Porter Simmons Family Regency Room on the lower level.
concierge service is available in the Entrance Lobby to assist with your questions and to help with dining, hotel, entertainment and transportation concerns. [Penny Vennare, Event Supervisor; Ron Ogrodowski, Concierge. dress code for all concerts is at your personal discretion and ranges from dress and business attire to casual wear. elevator is located next to the Grand Staircase. emergency calls can be referred to the concierge desk at 412.392.2880. 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. 48
photography, video, or audio recording of the performance is strictly prohibited at all times. pre-paid parking is available to all ticketholders in the Sixth & Penn garage across from Heinz Hall. Ask about prepaid parking when you order your tickets. 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.
restrooms are located on the Lower, Grand Tier, Gallery levels, Lower, Grand Tier and Gallery levels. and off the Garden and Overlook rooms; a wheelchair-accessible lost and found items restroom is on the Main Floor. can be retrieved by calling 412.392.4844 on weekdays from smoking is not permitted 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Heinz Hall. The garden is accesmobile devices should be turned off and put away upon entering the theater.
the mozart room is available for a grand dining experience catered by The Common Plea, just seconds away from your seats. For reservations: 412.392.4879, pittsburghsymphony.org/mozartroom.
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supporting the pso is critical to the financial future of the PSO. Ticket sales only cover a portion of our operating costs. To make a tax-deductible gift, please contact our Donor Relations department at 412.392.4880 or visit us online at pittsburghsymphony.org
the following accommodations are available for patrons with disabilities: • Level entrance and route to main floor of auditorium • Wheelchair seat locations with companion seats* • Portable assistive listening devices: Please see ushers for assistance. • Braille programs are available at the concierge desk for most BNY Mellon Grand Classics performances. *Please contact the box office for the location of these seats.
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