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PROGRAM May 10 & 12 program.................................................................... 11 May 10 & 12 program notes......................................................... 12 Kazem Abdullah biography......................................................... 16 Nicola Benedetti biography......................................................... 18 May 17, 18 & 19 program.............................................................. 23 May 17, 18 & 19 program notes................................................... 24 Yan Pascal Tortelier biography..................................................... 30 Valentina Lisitsa biography.......................................................... 32

EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL 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.

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Individuals....................................................................................... 34 Foundations & Public Agencies................................................... 39

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 longterm financial future; a fulfilling environment for our orchestra, staff, volunteers; and the unsurpassed satisfaction of our customers.

Corporations .................................................................................. 40 Legacy of Excellence...................................................................... 42 Commitment to Excellence Campaign...................................... 44

INDIVIDUALS & HEINZ HALL INFORMATION Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians................................ 2 Board of Trustees & Chairman’s Council....................................... 4 Jack Heinz Society............................................................................ 6 New Leadership Board.................................................................... 6 Pittsburgh Symphony Association................................................ 6 Friends of the PSO............................................................................ 6 Administrative Staff......................................................................... 8 Heinz Hall Information.................................................................. 48

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JOHANNES BRAHMS

Tragic Overture, Opus 81 (1880) ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 7 May 1833 in Hamburg; died 3 April 1897 in Vienna PREMIERE OF WORK

Vienna, 20 December 1880; Vienna Philharmonic; Hans Richter, conductor PSO PREMIERE

21 March 1941; Syria Mosque; Fritz Reiner, conductor INSTRUMENTATION

piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani and strings DURATION

13 minutes PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

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Many of Brahms’ works were produced in pairs: Piano Sonatas, Opus 1 and Opus 2; Piano Quartets, Opus 25 and Opus 26; String Quartets, Opus 51; Clarinet Sonatas, Opus 120; even the first two Symphonies, the sets of Liebeslieder Waltzes and the Serenades. These twin pieces seem to have been the result of a surfeit of material — as Brahms was working out his ideas for a composition in a particular genre, he produced enough material to spin off a second work of similar type.

Though the two orchestral overtures of 1880, Academic Festival and Tragic, were also written in tandem, they have about them more the quality of complementary balance than of continuity. Academic Festival is bright in mood and lighthearted in its musical treatment of some favorite German student drinking songs. The Tragic Overture, on the other hand, is somber and darkly heroic. Of them, Brahms wrote to his biographer Max Kalbeck, “One overture laughs, the other weeps.” And further, to his friend and publisher, Fritz Simrock, “Having composed this jolly Academic Festival Overture, I could not refuse my melancholy nature the satisfaction of composing an overture for a tragedy.” Brahms never gave any additional clues to the nature of the Tragic Overture.

The Tragic Overture is comparable in form and expression to the first movement of a symphony. Its sonata structure commences with a stern summons of two chords immediately preceding the austere arching main theme in D minor. Brahms’ characteristically dark orchestral sonority, emphasizing low strings and low woodwinds, does much to supply the solemn mood of the work. The first theme gives way to a hushed transitional section employing the sepulchral sounds of trombones and tuba over a quivering string accompaniment. A contrasting theme is presented in the relatively tranquil tonality of F major by violins, but the stormy disposition of the opening is not kept long at bay. The compact development restores the tempestuous mood. The recapitulation is a considerably altered version of the exposition’s musical events, which here receive further exploration of their expressive potentials. The sense of heroic struggle which forms the dominant emotional world of the Tragic Overture remains undiminished to the end.

PAUL HINDEMITH

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 16 November 1895 in Hanau, near Frankfurt; died 28 December 1963 in Frankfurt PREMIERE OF WORK

Berlin, 12 March 1934; Berlin Philharmonic; Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor PSO PREMIERE

1 November 1946; Syria Mosque; Fritz Reiner, conductor INSTRUMENTATION

woodwinds in pairs plus piccolo, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings DURATION

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Hindemith’s opera Mathis der Maler (“Matthias the Painter”), based on the life and work of the artist Matthias Grünewald, is set in Germany during the time of the Peasants’ Revolt in 1524-1525. The Revolt, partly fueled by the strong sectarian allegiances of the early years of the Reformation, has brought bloodshed and turmoil to Germany. Against this background of political and social strife, Mathis reflects on the ease and pleasure of his painting, questioning the value of his art during a time of upheaval. Feeling he might find an answer as a man of action, he joins the peasants in their struggle against oppression by the nobility. His idealism, however, is shattered by the peasants’ acts of atrocity. Having failed to better the world as a militant, the artist flees to the Odenwald Forest, where he experiences visions that inspire him to return to painting and undertake the work that became his masterpiece — the altarpiece for the monastery church of St. Anthony in Isenheim, Alsace. Mathis, convinced that the obligation imposed by his God-given talent can best be fulfilled in the studio rather than in the political arena, resumes work with a frantic zeal to fix his visions on canvas. Exhausted by his labor but satisfied that he has completed his mission, he bids a quiet farewell to his friends, and, as the curtain falls, packs away his painter’s tools for the last time.

The Mathis der Maler Symphony comprises three excerpts from the opera that, in the words of the German critic Heinrich Strobel, “endeavor to approximate by musical means that emotional state which is aroused in the onlooker by Grünewald’s famous altarpiece” rather than to depict specific events. Each of the movements was inspired by a single panel of the Isenheim polyptych. The opening movement, Engelkonzert (“Angelic Concert”), is the prelude to the opera. It is based on the richly detailed Nativity scene in which a gathering of seraphic beings serenade the Madonna and Child with music of heavenly sweetness. The movement, in traditional sonata form, opens with an introduction utilizing a 16thcentury folksong, Es sungen drei Engel (“Three Angels Sang”), chanted by the trombones. The flutes and violins present the main theme of the movement, a gently dancing strain with several piquant harmonic inflections. A solitary note on the horn serves as the bridge to the second theme, a legato melody given by violins with a simple accompaniment in the lower strings. The closing theme is a sparkling refrain tossed off by the solo flute. Hindemith’s awesome mastery of thematic manipulation and contrapuntal ingenuity are displayed less in the brief development section than in the recapitulation of the themes that follows. As the trombones intone Es sungen drei Engel, the high woodwinds simultaneously recall the second theme and the clarinets the main theme. Further enriching the texture of this virtuoso display of musical craftsmanship is an obbligato in the upper strings and a steady, descending line in the basses. Quiet reminiscences of the main theme in the woodwinds, another traversal of the closing theme by the flute, and various thematic fragments followed by stentorian chords from the full orchestra bring this superb “Angelic Concert” to a stirring close.

The second movement, Grablegung (“Entombment”), is the music from near the end of the opera with which Mathis takes leave of his friends. The music is associated with Grünewald’s moving portrayal of

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Mathis der Maler, Symphony (1933-1935)

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Christ’s piteous burial. The sobbing main theme of this haunting elegy, given immediately by the string choir, is complemented by a stark melody presented by the solo oboe. The mood of intense, introverted grief is broken only by a long crescendo rising to a single, sunlit chord spread across the full orchestra. With all emotion spent, the coda paints a resigned, bitter acceptance of the awesome tragedy in music of ethereal simplicity.

The finale is based on Grünewald’s painting inspired by the most fearsome of his visions in the forest — Versuchung des heiligen Antonius (“Temptation of St. Anthony”). The artist showed the saint being cruelly tortured by horrific creatures of the most hideous visages.

An introductory theme initiated by the unison strings summons the weird beasts. They assemble, slithering about with grotesque movements to music of no fixed meter. The snapping chords in the brass imitate their chilling barks.

The temptation scene unfolds with a fury and terror driven as if by the very hounds of Hell. In the Symphony’s closing pages the woodwinds sing the melody of an ancient chant, Lauda Sion Salvatorem. The holy song dispels the terrors of the night, and a closing brass chorale on the “Alleluia” Pictured here and above: Isenheim altar, heralds the glorious rising sun.

Matthias Grünewald, 1512-1516

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Concerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 35 (1878)

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 7 May 1840 in Votkinsk; died 6 November 1893 in St. Petersburg PREMIERE OF WORK

Vienna, 4 December 1881; Vienna Philharmonic; Hans Richter, conductor; Adolf Brodsky, soloist

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In the summer of 1877, Tchaikovsky undertook the disastrous marriage that lasted less than three weeks and resulted in his emotional collapse and attempted suicide. He fled from Moscow to his brother Modeste in St. Petersburg, where he recovered his wits and discovered that he could find solace in his work. He spent the late fall and winter completing his Fourth Symphony and the opera Eugene Onégin. The brothers decided that travel outside of Russia would be an additional balm to the composer’s spirit, and they duly installed themselves at Clarens on Lake Geneva in Switzerland soon after the first of the year.

In Clarens, Tchaikovsky had already begun work on a piano sonata when he was visited by Joseph Kotek, a talented young violinist who had been a student in one of his composition classes at the Moscow Conservatory, who brought with him a score for the recent Symphonie Espagnole for Violin and Orchestra by the French composer Edouard Lalo. They read through the piece, and Tchaikovsky was so excited by the possibilities of a work for solo violin and orchestra that he set aside the gestating piano sonata and immediately began a concerto of his own.

He worked quickly, completing the present slow movement in a single day when he decided to discard an earlier attempt. (This abandoned piece Carnegie Music Hall; ended up as the first of the three Meditations for Violin and Piano, Opus Victor Herbert, conductor; 42.) By the end of April the Concerto was finished. Tchaikovsky sent the Alicia de Larrocha, violin manuscript to Leopold Auer, a friend who headed the violin department at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and who was also Court Violinist to the Czar, hoping to have him premiere the work. Much to the composer’s INSTRUMENTATION regret, Auer returned the piece as “unplayable,” and apparently spread woodwinds in pairs, four that word with such authority to other violinists that it was more than horns, two trumpets, timpani three years before the Violin Concerto was heard in public. and strings

It was Adolf Brodsky, a former colleague of Tchaikovsky at the Moscow Conservatory, who first accepted the challenge of this Concerto.

DURATION After having “taken it up and put it down,” in his words, for two years, he 34 minutes finally felt secure enough to give the work a try, and he convinced Hans Richter to include it on the concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1881.

PROGRAM NOTES BY Brodsky must have felt that he was on something of a crusade during the DR. RICHARD E. RODDA preparations for the performance. There was only a single full rehearsal allotted for the new work, and most of that was taken up with correcting the parts, which were awash with copyist’s errors. Richter wanted to make cuts. The orchestra did not like the music, and at the performance played very quietly so as not to enter with a crashing miscue. Brodsky deserves the appreciation of the music world for standing pat in his belief in the Concerto amid all these adversities. When the performance was done, the audience felt that way as well and applauded him. The piece itself, however, was roundly hissed. The critical barrage was led by that powerful doyen of Viennese conservatism, Eduard Hanslick, whose tasteless summation (“Music that stinks in the ear”) irritated Tchaikovsky until the day he died. Despite its initial reception, Brodsky remained devoted to the Concerto, and he played it throughout Europe. The work soon began to gain in popularity, as did the music of Tchaikovsky generally, and it has become one of the most famous concertos in the literature. It is a revealing side-note that Leopold Auer, who had initially shunned the work, eventually came to include it in his repertory, and even taught it to his students, some of whom — Seidel, Zimbalist, Elman, Heifetz, Milstein — became its greatest exponents in the 20th century.

The Concerto opens quietly with a tentative introductory tune. A foretaste of the main theme soon appears in the violins, around which a quick crescendo is mounted to usher in the soloist. After a few unaccompanied measures, the violin presents the movement’s lovely main theme above a simple string background. After an elaborated repetition of this melody, a transition follows that eventually involves the entire orchestra and gives the soloist the first of many opportunities for pyrotechnical display. The second theme is the beginning of a long dynamic and rhythmic buildup that leads into the development with a sweeping, balletic presentation of the main theme by the full orchestra. The soloist soon steals back the attention with breathtaking leaps and double stops. The grand balletic mood returns, giving way to a brilliant cadenza as a link to the recapitulation. The flute sings the main theme for four measures before the violin takes it over, and all then follows the order of the exposition. An exhilarating coda asks for no fewer than four tempo increases, and the movement ends in a brilliant whirl of rhythmic energy.

The slow middle movement begins with a chorale for woodwinds that is heard again at the end of the movement to serve as a frame around the musical picture inside. On the canvas of this scene is displayed a soulful melody intoned by the violin with the plaintive suggestion of a Gypsy fiddler. The finale is joined to the slow movement without a break. With the propulsive spirit of a dashing Cossack trepak, the finale flies by amid the soloist’s dizzying show of agility and speed. Like the first movement, this one also races toward its final climax.

After playing the Concerto’s premiere, Adolf Brodsky wrote to Tchaikovsky that the work was “wonderfully beautiful.” He was right.

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/// KAZEM ABDULLAH A vibrant, versatile and compelling presence on the podium, American conductor Kazem Abdullah is one of the most watched, up-andcoming talents on the international stage. He assumed the post of Generalmusikdirektor of the City of Aachen, Germany, in August 2012, leading both the orchestral and operatic seasons. His predecessors include Fritz Busch, Herbert von Karajan and Wolfgang Sawallisch.

In his first season in Aachen, Kazem conducted four productions: Carmen, Hänsel und Gretel, Simon Boccanegra and Die Zauberflöte. He also led several subscription concerts and conducted Mozart’s Requiem in the Aachener Dom. As Generalmusikdirektor in Aachen, Abdullah also serves as the artistic director of the 3rd International Aachen Chor Bienalle where he leads several concerts with choirs from Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, Iceland and Brasil. Kazem Abdullah is also the Honorary Patron of the Accordate Chamber Music series, and the Honorary Patron for the the Aachen-Maastrict bid to be the European capital of Culture in 2018.

A passionate advocate of new music as well as established repertoire, Maestro Abdullah continues to develop relationships with national and international orchestras and opera houses. Among his orchestral credits are the Berliner Kammerphilharmonie, Philharmonisches Orchester der Stadt Nürnburg, Staatskapelle Weimar, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, Oregon Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Huntsville Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Napa Valley Symphony, Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, and the National Arts Center Orchestra of Ottawa.

During the 2011-2012 season, Maestro Abdullah has guest conducted performances with the Sinfonieorchester Aachen and Nürnberger Philharmoniker in Germany and the Michigan Opera Theater, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (Houston, Texas) and a return reengagement with Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Of special note are three acclaimed orchestral engagements from the 2009-2010 16

season: leading the Orquestra de São Paulo, one of Brazil’s most celebrated classical music ensembles, on its third U.S. coast-to-coast tour; conducting the New World Symphony’s 2009 Ives Festival by special invitation from Michael Tilson Thomas; and substituting on very short notice to conduct the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group. Maestro Abdullah has guested with such esteemed opera companies as the Atlanta Opera, where he conducted Cosi fan tutte, and the Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris, where he led sold-out performances of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha.

Abdullah made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2009 conducting Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. The New York Times lauded this first performance at the Metropolitan Opera as “...a confident performance… impressively responsive to the singers during their long stretches of orchestra-accompanied recitative.”

Born in Indiana, Kazem Abdullah began his music studies at the age of ten. He graduated from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, with a Bachelor of Music in clarinet. He then studied at the University of Southern California before joining The New World Symphony as a clarinetist under Michael Tilson Thomas for two seasons, after which he continued his musical studies at The Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University. Abdullah served as Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a three-year post to which he was appointed by Music Director James Levine. While at the Met he also worked with conductors such as Louis Langree, Kirill Petrenko, Lorin Maazel and Fabio Luisi. A recipient of a prestigious 2010 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, Abdullah was named #4 by The Daily Beast on its 2009 list of “Young Rock Stars of the Conducting World.”

Abdullah’s conducting teachers include Jorma Panula, Gustav Meier, Stefan Asbury, Bernard Haitink and James Levine.

For more information on Maestro Abdullah, to download publicity photos, view his calendar and other materials, please visit his website at kazemabdullah.com.

These performances mark Kazem Abdullah’s debut with the PSO.

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/// NICOLA BENEDETTI Violinist Nicola Benedetti has captivated audiences and critics alike with her musicality and poise. Throughout her career, Nicola’s desire to perform a broad variety of repertoire and reach a wide audience has shown her to be one of Britain’s most innovative and creative violinists. Nicola’s choice of the Szymanowski Violin Concerto for the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2004 was just the beginning of her focus on less-often programmed repertoire. She has recorded newly commissioned works by John Tavener and James Macmillan, worked on jazz-influenced repertoire with Wynton Marsalis and others, and explored authentic baroque performance.

A highly sought performer on the world platform, Nicola is fiercely dedicated to music education. Through her work with such organizations as Sistema Scotland, she has helped to demonstrate the power that music has in transforming the lives of young people.

In recent seasons, Nicola has performed with virtually all of the U.K.’s major orchestras, including the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National, Hallé, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras.

Outside of the U.K., she has played with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Symphony Orchestra in Berlin, Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich, Russian National Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, KBS Symphony, Simon Bolivar Symphony in Caracas, and Japan Philharmonic, as well as the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and Vancouver Symphony orchestras, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.

Nicola has worked with a number of conductors, such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Stéphane Denève, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Jakub Hrusa, Louis Langrée, Andrew Litton, Jiří Bělohlávek, Sir Neville Marriner, Diego Matheuz, 18

Kristjan Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Mikhail Pletnev, Donald Runnicles, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Mario Venzago, Pinchas Zukerman and Jaap van Zweden.

Nicola’s 2012-2013 season was immediately preceded by a performance at BBC’s Last Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jiří Bělohlávek. Other highlights include a tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and performance with the MDR Leipzig Orchestra, both with Miguel Harth-Bedoya.

She also appears with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra with James Gaffigan, Danish Radio Orchestra with Hugh Wolff, Royal Scottish National Orchestra with Peter Oundjian, Hong Kong Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden, and Singapore Symphony with Neeme Järvi. She also returns to the Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras.

Nicola is also a devoted chamber musician and often gives concerts with her trio, both in the U.K. and further afield.

Along with cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk, she toured Scotland in March 2013, including performances at the Edinburgh Usher Hall and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Nicola and her trio have also performed at LSO St Luke’s, Istanbul Festival, Schloss Elmau, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, and at the Ravinia Festival. Nicola has also played chamber music at the festivals of Verbier, Moritzburg, Lockenhaus, Prussia Cove, and Tuscan Sun in Cortona with JeanYves Thibaudet.

Winner of Best Female Artist at the 2012 Classical BRIT Awards, as well as the Young British Classic Performer Award in 2008, Nicola has released five CDs with Universal/Deutsche Grammophon. In 20112012, she released her first recording on the Decca Classics label, a disc of baroque violin masterpieces, entitled Italia. Her most recent recording, Silver Violin, was released in 2012 and features the Korngold Violin Concerto along with cinematic-inspired pieces by Shostakovich, Korngold and Mahler. Nicola’s debut Universal/Deutsche Grammophon album included Szymanowski, Saint-Saëns,

photo credit: Simon Fowler

Massenet and Brahms with the London Symphony Orchestra, followed by a second release featuring works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert and Macmillan with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

Nicola’s third album was comprised of newly commissioned works by Tavener and Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the fourth featured works by Sarasate, Fauré, Rachmaninov, Pärt and Ravel. The fifth, featured Tchaikovsky and Bruch concerti with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Jakub Hrusa.

Appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours, Nicola has taken part in many prestigious events, including performances at Windsor Castle for Her Majesty the Queen, the 2012 Ryder Cup Handover Ceremony, opening of the Scottish Parliament, the G8 Summit at Gleneagles and for Comic Relief’s “Classic Relief” concert. In addition to her performance and recording activities, Nicola has devoted herself to humanitarian causes and is a UNICEF Celebrity Supporter. Nicola is also widely

respected for her commitment to working with young people. Since 2005, she has visited schools throughout the U.K. in conjunction with the CLIC Sargent Practice-a-thon, in which she encourages pupils of all ages to pick up their instruments and enjoy classical music. In 2010, she became involved in Sistema Scotland’s Big Noise project, a music initiative partnered with Venezuela’s El Sistema (Fundación Musical Simón Bolívar).

As a Board Member and the programme’s official musical “Big Sister,” Nicola makes regular visits to Raploch, Scotland to conduct masterclasses and work closely with children.

Born in Scotland of Italian heritage, Nicola began violin lessons at the age of five.

In 1997, she entered the Yehudi Menuhin School, where she studied with Natasha Boyarskaya. Upon leaving, she continued her studies with Maciej Rakowski and then Pavel Vernikov, and continues to work with multiple acclaimed teachers and performers.

Nicola plays the Gariel Stradivarius (1717), courtesy of Jonathan Moulds.

She last performed with the PSO in March 2011.

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Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor Valentina Lisitsa, piano Pre-concert

Concert Prelude with Assistant Conductor Fawzi Haimor

Osvaldo Golijov

Sidereus

Edvard Grieg

Concerto in A minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 16

co-commissioned by the pittsburgh symphony orchestra

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I. Allegro molto moderato II. Adagio — III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato Ms. Lisitsa

Intermission Maurice Ravel

Rapsodie espagnole

Edward Elgar

In the South, Opus 50, “Alassio”

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Artist chat on stage with Valentina Lisitsa

I. II. III. IV.

Prélude à la nuit Malagueña Habanera Feria

This weekend’s performances by Valentina Lisitsa, piano, are made possible in part, through the Annual Fund support of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Usher.

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OSVALDO GOLIJOV Sidereus (2010)

CO-COMMISSIONED BY THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 5 December 1960 in La Playa, Argentina PREMIERE OF WORK

Memphis, Tennessee, 16 October 2010; Memphis Symphony Orchestra; Mei-Ann Chen, conductor THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE

INSTRUMENTATION

two flutes, oboe, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, two horns, piccolo trumpet, two trumpets, two trombones, tuba, timpani and strings DURATION

8 minutes PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

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In our increasingly interconnected world, the multi-cultural music of Osvaldo Golijov speaks in a voice that is powerful yet touching, contemporary yet timeless. Golijov’s parents, a piano teacher mother and a physician father, emigrated from Russia to Argentina, where Osvaldo was born on December 5, 1960 in La Playa, thirty miles from Buenos Aires, into a rich artistic environment in which he was exposed from infancy to such varied musical experiences as classical chamber music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the tango nuevo of Astor Piazzolla. He studied piano and composition at the local conservatory before moving in 1983 to Jerusalem, where he entered the Rubin Academy as a composition student of Mark Kopytman and immersed himself in the colliding musical traditions of that city.

Golijov came to the United States in 1986 to do his doctoral work with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent summers at Tanglewood on fellowship studying with Lukas Foss and Oliver Knussen. In 1990, he won Tanglewood’s Fromm Commission, which resulted in Yiddishbbuk, premiered by the St. Lawrence String Quartet at Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music in July 1992 and winner the following year of the prestigious Kennedy Center Friedheim Award.

Golijov’s works, with their syntheses of European, American and Latin secular cultures and their deep spirituality drawn from both Judaism and Christianity, have brought him international notoriety and, in 2003, a coveted MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.” He was named Musical America’s “2005 Composer of the Year,” and in January and February 2006, Lincoln Center in New York presented a festival called “The Passion of Osvaldo Golijov.” He is currently working on a commission for the Metropolitan Opera. Golijov has been on the faculty of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts since 1991; he also teaches at the Boston Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Center.

Golijov’s Sidereus was commissioned by a consortium of 35 orchestras in honor of the recently retired Henry Fogel, who was the President of the League of American Orchestras from 2003 to 2008 after having served as Orchestra Manager of the New York Philharmonic, Executive Director of the National Symphony Orchestra and President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The piece reworks some material on which Golijov collaborated with composer, accordionist and friend Michael Ward-Bergeman for the soundtrack of Francis Ford Coppola’s 2009 film Tetro. Golijov and Ward-Bergeman agreed that each could use ideas from the score in other works: Golijov transformed them in Sidereus and Ward-Bergeman expanded them for Barbeich for accordion and ensemble.

Sidereus takes its title and inspiration from Sidereus Nuncius (“Starry Messenger”), the epochal treatise that Galileo Galilei published in March

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1610 to announce his unprecedented observations of the heavens through a telescope and his theory that the earth revolves around the sun, a notion that was condemned in 1632 by the Catholic Church “as false and contrary to Scripture.” The Inquisition found Galileo “vehemently suspect of heresy” and sentenced him to house arrest for the last ten years of his life after he was forced to recant his theory.

Golijov wrote of his Sidereus, “The observations of Galileo included new discoveries on the surface of the moon. With these discoveries, the moon was no longer the province of poets exclusively. It had also become an object of inquiry: Could there be water there? Life? If there was life, then the Vatican was scared, because, as Cardinal Bellarmino wrote to Galileo: How were the people there created? How would their souls be saved? What do we do about Adam? Wasn’t he supposed to be the first man? How do we explain the origin of possible life elsewhere? What about his rib? It’s the duality: the moon is still good for love and lovers and poets, but a scientific observation can lead us to entirely new realizations.

“In Sidereus, the melodies and the harmony are simple, so they can reveal more upon closer examination. For the ‘Moon’ theme, I used a melody with a beautiful, open nature, a magnified scale fragment that my good friend and longtime collaborator accordionist Michael Ward Bergeman came up with some years ago when we both were trying to develop ideas for a musical depiction of the sky in Patagonia. I then looked at that theme as if through the telescope and under the microscope, so that the textures, the patterns from which the melody emerges and into which it dissolves, point to a more molecular, atomic reality — like Galileo with his telescope…. There is a dark theme that opens the piece and reappears in the middle.

It’s sort of an ominous question mark that tears the fabric of a work, which is essentially spacious and breathes with a strange mixture of melancholy and optimism.”

EDVARD GRIEG

Concerto in A minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 16 (1868) ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 15 June 1843 in Bergen, Norway; died there on 4 September 1907 PREMIERE OF WORK

Copenhagen, 3 April 1869; Holger Simon Paulli, conductor; Edmund Neupert, soloist

Grieg completed his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1863.

Rather than heading directly home to Norway, however, he settled in Copenhagen to study privately with Niels Gade, at that time Denmark’s most prominent musician and generally regarded as the founder of the Scandinavian school of composition. Back in Norway, Grieg’s creative work was concentrated on the large forms advocated by his Leipzig teachers and by Gade. By 1867, he had produced the Piano Sonata, the first two Violin and Piano Sonatas, a Symphony (long unpublished and made available only as recently as 1981) and the concert overture In Autumn. He also carried on his work to promote native music, and gave an unprecedented concert exclusively of Norwegian compositions in 1866. Grieg arranged to have the summer of 1868 free of duties, and he returned to Denmark for an extended vacation at a secluded retreat at Sölleröd, where he began his Piano Concerto. He thoroughly 25

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2 March 1900; Carnegie Music Hall; Victor Herbert, conductor; Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, piano INSTRUMENTATION

pairs of woodwinds plus piccolo, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings DURATION

30 minutes PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

enjoyed that summer, sleeping late, taking long walks, eating well, and tipping a glass in the evenings with friends at the local inn. The sylvan setting spurred his creative energies, and the new Concerto was largely completed by the time he returned to Norway in the fall.

The Concerto’s first movement opens with a bold summons by the soloist. The main theme is given by the woodwinds and taken over almost immediately by the piano. A flashing transition, filled with skipping rhythms, leads to the second theme, a tender cello melody wrapped in the warm harmonies of the trombones. An episodic development section, launched by the full orchestra playing the movement’s opening motive, is largely based on the main theme in dialogue. The recapitulation returns the earlier themes, after which the piano displays a tightly woven cadenza. The stern introductory measures are recalled to close the movement. The Adagio begins with a song filled with sentiment and nostalgia played by the strings and rounded off by touching phrases in the solo horn. The soloist weaves elaborate musical filigree above the simple accompaniment before the lovely song returns in an enriched setting. The themes of the finale’s outer sections are constructed in the rhythms of a popular Norwegian dance, the halling. The movement’s central portion presents a wonderful melodic inspiration, introduced by the solo flute, that derives from the dreamy atmosphere of the preceding movement.

MAURICE RAVEL

Rapsodie espagnole (1907-1908) ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 7 March 1875 in Ciboure, Basses-Pyrénées, France; died 28 December 1937 in Paris PREMIERE OF WORK

Paris, 15 March 1908; Concerts Colonne; Edouard Colonne, conductor PSO PREMIERE

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In the years immediately following his failure to win the Prix de Rome in 1905, Ravel enjoyed a burst of creativity probably fueled by his freedom from academic restraints for the first time in his life. In the late summer of 1907, when he first took up the Rapsodie espagnole, he was bothered by the street noises bombarding his apartment in Paris, and some friends offered him the use of their yacht moored at Valvins. He gladly accepted, and soon took up the life of a recluse, seeing no one except the boat’s gruff but likable captain, with whom he shared his meals. Ravel worked quickly, and he as soon able to return to Paris with the finished score.

Rather than a single span of music, the Rapsodie espagnole is a miniature suite of three dances with a prelude. Ravel described the first section of the Rapsodie, Prélude à la nuit (“Prelude to the Night”), as “voluptuously drowsy and ecstatic.” The Malagueña was based on a genre that was initially a Spanish courting dance which had developed into a

INSTRUMENTATION

two piccolos, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, three bassoons, contrabassoon,

virtuoso vehicle for the café singers of the 19th century. The Habanera, whose rhythm is similar to that of the tango, is an orchestration of Ravel’s piano piece of 1895, subtitled in both versions Au pays parfumé que le soleil caresse (“In the fragrant land caressed by the sun”). The Feria (“Festival”) is an exhilarating depiction of a sun-splashed Iberian holiday.

four horns, three trumpets, PROGRAM NOTES \ 2012-2013 SEASON

three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, celesta, two harps and strings DURATION

17 minutes PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

EDWARD ELGAR

In the South, Opus 50, “Alassio” (1904) ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 2 June 1857 in Broadheath, England; died 23 February 1934 in Worcester PREMIERE OF WORK

London, 16 March 1904; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Hallé Orchestra; Edward Elgar, conductor PSO PREMIERE

8 January 1998; Heinz Hall; Donald Runnicles, conductor

As a restorative for body and spirit during the damp British winter, Elgar and his devoted wife, Alice, left London for the Mediterranean coastal town of Bordighera, just east of Monte Carlo, on November 21,1903. Elgar found Bordighera “lovely but too Cockney for me,” and on December 11th, the couple travelled up the coast to Alassio to take rooms at the Villa San Giovanni, from which Elgar reported that he could see “streams, flowers, hills, with the distant snow mountains in one direction and the blue Mediterranean in the other.”

On one sunny afternoon, the Elgars made an outing to an old church in the village of Moglio, the sound of whose name so appealed to Elgar that he repeated it over and over to himself until it had generated a musical motive in his mind. He added this fragment to the other sketches he was accumulating for an overture, called tentatively In the South, but it was not until an excursion to the Vale of Andorra four days later that the finished shape and content of the new work became clear to him. “I was by the side of an old Roman way,” he recalled. “A peasant shepherd stood by an old ruin, and in a flash it all came to me — the conflict of armies in that very spot long ago, where now I stood — the contrast of the ruin and the shepherd — and then, all of a sudden, I came back to reality. In that time I had ‘composed’ the overture — the rest was merely writing it down.” The score of In the South, to which Elgar appended the subtitle Alassio, was finished in London on February 21, 1904, allowing barely enough time to prepare the orchestral parts and arrange rehearsals 27

INSTRUMENTATION

piccolo, three flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, two harps and strings DURATION

19 minutes PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

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before the premiere was given under the composer’s direction at an Elgar Festival on March 16th. The work’s success confirmed his reputation as the leader of English music, and he was knighted four months later.

Though Elgar called In the South an overture, its scale, orchestral expansiveness, evocative episodes and even its form make it, in effect, a symphonic poem. Its allusive qualities are indicated by two poetic excerpts that the composer placed at the head of the score. The first is from Tennyson: What hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine, In lands of palm, of orange blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine. The other excerpt was culled from Byron’s Childe Harold, the literary inspiration for Berlioz’s Harold in Italy: ... a land Which was the mightiest in its old command And is the loveliest ...

Wherein were cast ... the men of Rome! Thou art the garden of the world.

Elgar contained his vision within a modified sonata form, which was made to accommodate two atmospheric episodes in place of the usual development section. An entire procession of fine melodic ideas occupies the first theme area: a heroic leaping motive; a striding downward melody marked with the composer’s most characteristic performance instruction, Nobilmente; and a gentle, limpid strain led by the clarinet. The formal second theme, assigned to the strings, is quiet and almost passionately lyrical. The center of In the South holds two of Elgar’s most evocative sound pictures. The first is a bold depiction inspired by his vision of ancient Roman armies, a stern passage whose open fifth-based harmonies make it one of the most daring episodes in all of Elgar’s works. The second picture grows from a haunting bucolic melody entrusted to the solo viola, the principal instrument of Berlioz’s Harold in Italy. (So distinct in character, mood and melody is this passage that Elgar arranged it separately as a piece for small orchestra titled Canto Popolare and as a song called In Moonlight with a text borrowed from Shelley’s An Ariette for Music,) a recapitulation of the full complement of themes from the exposition rounds out In the South.

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/// YAN PASCAL TORTELIER Yan Pascal Tortelier enjoys a distinguished career as a guest with the world’s most prestigious orchestras. He began his musical career as a violinist and at fourteen won first prize for violin at the Paris Conservatoire and also made his debut as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Following general musical studies with Nadia Boulanger, Tortelier studied conducting with Franco Ferrara at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and from 1974 to 1983 he was Associate Conductor of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Further positions have included Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Ulster Orchestra (19891992) and Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (2005-2008).

He was Principal Conductor of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, from 2009-2011, and currently holds the position of Guest Conductor of Honour, in which capacity he returns to the orchestra a number of times each season.

Following his outstanding work as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic between 1992 and 2003, including annual appearances at the BBC Proms and a very successful tour of the U.S. to celebrate the orchestra’s 60th anniversary season, he was given the title of Conductor Emeritus and continues to work with the orchestra regularly. He also holds the position of Principal Guest Conductor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

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

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

Recent highlights have included return visits to the Minnesota Orchestra and Royal Flemish Philharmonic, UK concerts and a tour of China with the London Philharmonic, and tours of South America and Europe with the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, visiting a number of prestigious venues including the Vienna Musikverein, Salzburg Festspielhaus, the Frankfurt Alte Oper and the Cologne Philharmonie.

Highlights of the 2012-2013 season and beyond include return visits to the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and Hallé Orchestras, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St Louis, Cincinnati and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras. He also undertakes a long-awaited return to Australia, for performances with the Melbourne, Adelaide and West Australian Symphony Orchestras.

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

Yan Pascal Tortelier last conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in March 2012.

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BIOGRAPHY \ 2012-2013 SEASON

/// VALENTINA LISITSA With her multi-faceted playing described as “dazzling,” Valentina Lisitsa is at ease in a vast repertoire ranging from Bach and Mozart to Shostakovich and Bernstein. Her orchestral repertoire alone includes more than forty concerti. She admits to having a special affinity for the music of Rachmaninoff and Beethoven and continues to add to her vast repertoire each season.

In May 2010, Valentina Lisitsa performed the Dutch premiere of Rachmaninoff’s “New 5th” Concerto in her debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and in August 2011 made her debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica Brasileira under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel. In June 2012, Ms. Lisitsa had her recital debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The performance was streamed live on her YouTube channel and a recording of the concert was released on iTunes as well as on DVD by Decca Classics.

Previous highlights include debuts with the Chicago Symphony, Seattle Symphony, WDR Cologne, Seoul Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and the Pittsburgh Symphony, collaborating with conductors Manfred Honeck, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste, among others. Her 20112012 season featured debut performances with the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Colorado Symphony and recitals at Ravinia, Festival of the Arts Boca, Teatro de Colon in Buenos Aires and the Casals Festival.

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Lisitsa has recorded three independently released DVDs, including her best-selling set of Chopin’s 24 Etudes, which long held the coveted #1 spot on the Amazon music video list. A champion in the use of new media, Ms. Lisitsa pushes traditional boundaries to reach out to audiences around the globe. With more than 30 million YouTube channel views, Valentina Lisitsa is one of the most soughtafter classical musicians on the Web. Last summer, thousands of music fans worldwide witnessed bedazzled the live broadcast of Ms. Lisitsa’s practice sessions, allowing her to show a different aspect of her artistic persona.

For two weeks, world audiences watched Ms. Lisitsa learn and prepare to the utmost detail almost 4 hours of new music in daily 14 hour long sessions. Similar initiatives followed for the recording sessions of her upcoming CDs, receiving the enthusiastic approval and support from fans around the world. In addition, Ms. Lisitsa has recently completed recordings of the complete concerti of Rachmaninoff and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the London Symphony Orchestra under conductor Michael Francis.

Valentina Lisitsa records exclusively for Decca Classics and is represented worldwide

by Tanja Dorn at IMG Artists. For more information, please visit valentinalisitsa.com.

Valentina Lisitsa last performed with the PSO in May 2010.

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EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL

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

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Morby Family Charitable Foundation Betty & Granger Morgan Gerald Lee Morosco & Paul Ford, Jr. Mildred S. Myers & William C. Frederick Elliott S. Oshry Shelley, Dana, & Arthur Palmer Steve & Tami Pederson Dr. & Mrs. William R. Poller in honor of our four grandsons Mr. & Mrs. John R. & Svetlana S. Price Ms. Mary Alice Price Dr. Tor Richter in memory of Elizabeth W. Richter Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer Millie & Gary Ryan Mrs. Virginia W. Schatz Nancy Schepis Michael Shefler Robert & Janet Squires Marcia & Dick Swanson Mrs. Carol H. Tillotson Dr. Michael J. White & Mr. Richard LeBeau Rachel & Franny Wymard Robert P. Zinn & Dr. Darlene Berkovitz AMBASSADOR’S CIRCLE $2,500 - $4,999

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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 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

Patricia & 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 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 Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Madelyn & John Fernstrom Janet Fesq Marvin C. Fields Albert L. Filoni Dr. Joseph Fine Nancy A. Fitch Paul & Joanna Fitting Warren & Joan Fitzpatrick Ms. Ann P. Flaherty Jan Fleisher Suzanne Flood Edward L. Foley, M.D. 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

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 Dr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Jacobs 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 Natalie W. Klein 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 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 Mrs. Howard M. Love Ann Quinn Lyle Francis & Debbie Lynch James & Cheryl Lyne 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. Donald Marinelli Mr. & Mrs. Bernard S. Mars Mr. & Mrs. John Mary Helen F. Mathieson Dr. William Matlack & Leslie Crawford Matlack Kenneth & Dr. Carol N. Maurer Mr. & Mrs. Jon W. McCarter McCarthy Rail Insurance Managers, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. McChesney Mr. Samuel A. McClung 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 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 Robert & Miriam 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 Charles & Lois* Norton Heidi Novak Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Maureen S. O’Brien Mr. Everett F. Oesterling & Mrs. Joyce Oesterling 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. Paul M. Palevsky & Dr. Sharon R. Roseman Dr. & Mrs. A. H. Panahandeh Pamela & Ronald Pape Mr. & Mrs. William A. Partain Dr. Anthony William Pasculle John & Joan Pasteris

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Bruce & Ann Gabler Louise Gaffney-Gross Dr. & Mrs. R. Kent Galey Gamma Investment Corporation Keith & Christine Garbutt Dr. & Mrs. Marc E. Garfinkel Mr. & Mrs. Randall Garloff Mr. & Mrs. Phil Gasiewicz Joan & Stuart Gaul Pete Geissler 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 Jim & Marnie Haines 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 Paul & Colleen Hennigan Thelma & Andrew Herlich Bob & Georgia Hernandez Marianne & Marshall Hess Douglas & Antionette Hill Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hill Dr. Joseph & Marie Hinchcliffe Mr. Carlyle Hoch

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Kenneth & Rose Patterson 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 Mr. & Mrs. E. Kears Pollock 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 Sandy Pysh & Rich Somplatsky 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 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. R. Douglas Rumbarger Mr. Robert Rupp Shirley & Murray Rust Mrs. John M. Sadler Tamiko Sampson Dr. & Mrs. Isamu Sando Dr. Carlos R. Santiago Mr. & Mrs. Ferd Sauereisen Sally & Keith Saylor Albert & Kathleen Schartner 38

Ann & Bill Scherlis Dr. Melvin & Catherine Schiff Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Schmitt 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 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 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 Albert R. Trezza & Megan A. 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 John & Linda Vuono Bill & Sue Wagner Judy Wagner & Mike LaRue Wagner Family Charitable Trust Suzanne & Richard Wagner C. Robert Walker Kevin & Jennifer 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* Dr. & Mrs. John A. Yauch 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 April 11, 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 Jean Hartley Davis and Nancy Lane Davis Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation 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 40

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. Marketing Support Network 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 United Hospital Center 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.

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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 42

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 & William C. Frederick Don & Peggy Neal 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

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

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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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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 Vira I. Heinz siblings Todd Smith, Judy 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

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 April 15, 2013 *deceased

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COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is grateful to our Commitment to Excellence Campaign donors and is pleased to acknowledge the following members of our donor family who have made gifts of $1,000 or more to the Commitment to Excellence Campaign. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy; however, if we have not listed you correctly, please call 412.392.2887. $1,000,000+

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 T. H.J Heinz Company $25,000-$49,999 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. Wahl Michael Baker Corporation G. Christian Lantszch* Samuel & Carrie Arnold Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Betty & Granger Morgan Weinhaus Fund McConomy James & Susanne Wilkinson The Pittsburgh Foundation Steve & Brenda Estate of Dorothy Schlotterbeck Hilda M. Willis Foundation The Rairigh Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Usher $50,000-$99,999 Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brooks Jon & Carol Walton Benno & Constance Bernt Robinson 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

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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 Judith & Lester* Lave

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

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 Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Allen, 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 Jim & Debbie Boughner Mr. & Mrs. Frank Grebowski 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

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 Patricia M. Kelley 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 Donn & Peggy Neal

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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 Jan & Anthony Tomasello The Estate of Richard C. Tobias Edward L. & Margaret Vogel Mrs. Evette Wivagg Rachel W. Wymard Seldon & Susan Whitaker

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Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Nussbaum Sandy & Gene Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 April 15, 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 CEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office Pittsburgh Post-Gazette................................................................................................................. Grand Tier Door - Right Center PNC...........................................................................................................................PNC Walkway at Heinz Hall and PNC Tiny Tots Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart ...................................................................................................................................... Grand Piano Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer........................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Catharine M. Ryan & John T. Ryan III ..................................................................................................................Music for the Spirit Alece & David Schreiber...............................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Harvey & Florence Zeve ............................................................................................................................................Garden Bench 46

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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.

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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.

sible during performances for this purpose.

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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