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PROGRAM November 23, 24 & 25 program......................................................... 15 November 23, 24 & 25 program notes............................................. 16 Manfred Honeck biography................................................................ 26 Yefim Bronfman biography................................................................. 28 Gregg Baker biography........................................................................ 30 November 30 & December 2 program.............................................. 33 November 30 & December 2 program notes................................... 34 Michael Rusinek biography................................................................. 38 Mason Bates biography....................................................................... 40 FEATURES 2012 European Residency Tour.............................................................4 Corporate Spotlight.............................................................................. 11
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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It is the mission of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to provide musical experiences at the highest level of expression to enrich the community and satisfy the needs and preferences of our audiences. We will achieve this mission by working together to support an internationally recognized orchestra and by ensuring a viable long-term financial future; a fulfilling environment for our orchestra, staff, volunteers; and the unsurpassed satisfaction of our customers.
Individuals.............................................................................................. 42 Foundations & Public Agencies.......................................................... 47 Corporations ......................................................................................... 48 Legacy of Excellence............................................................................. 50 Commitment to Excellence Campaign............................................. 52 INDIVIDUALS & HEINZ HALL INFORMATION Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians........................................2 Jack Heinz Society....................................................................................8 New Leadership Board............................................................................8 Pittsburgh Symphony Association........................................................8 Friends of the PSO....................................................................................8 Administrative Staff.............................................................................. 10
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European Residency Tour october 25 - November 10
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Manfred Honeck, just returned from a successful 12-concert tour of Europe, which included a week-long residency at the prestigious Musikverein in Vienna. The tour, from October 25 to November 10, took Honeck and the PSO to Barcelona, Madrid, Vienna, Paris, Luxembourg, and Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. The PSO also continued its partnership, now entering its seventh year, with the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (PRA) to promote the Pittsburgh region in Europe. BNY Mellon is a supporting sponsor of the 2012 European Residency Tour. PSO international touring is made possible, in part, by the Henry L. Hillman Endowment for International Performances.
MANFRED HONECK, MUSIC DIRECTOR
Violist Marylène Gingras-Roy and cellist Mikhail Istomin backstage before the concert in Madrid.
The PSO opened at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.
The PSO at the Musikverein in Vienna, where the orchestra performed four concerts.
Violist Penny Andreson Brill and cellist Adam Liu performed for patients and staff at St. Anna Children’s Hospital in 4 Vienna as part of the PSO’s Music and Wellness Program.
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“Color was also the determining element in Honeck’s interpretation of Dvořák’s ‘Symphony from the New World’: the brass was brilliant in the first and last movements, a real joy, and the strings presented themselves in finely gradated color shading. The alternating mix of the two instrumental sections created a real thrill.”
-XAVIER PUJOL, EL PAÍS
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“With over a hundred musicians on stage, and masterly conducted by Austrian-born Manfred Honeck, the orchestra discovered the footprints of an identity shared by the big US orchestras: robust sound supported by the extremely powerful metal and percussion sections and outstanding ‘piano’ in the most lyrical moments by the not less stellar string section. This is music with capital letters, of the kind that communicates a flood of emotion and greatness. “
“A brilliantly compact orchestra: in the very opening piece you experience at the Wiener Musikverein in how disciplined and controlled a fashion the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra can unleash.”
-CÉSAR LOPEZ ROSELL, EL PERIODICO, BARCELONA
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“It was the second of two evenings with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at the Wiener Musikverein, and it was certainly a concert unencumbered by the ordinary.”
“The tremendous finale did have a truly American imprint, with part of the brass section standing up and with every single musician playing with brilliance, strength and consistency of the best kind.”
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“Honeck’s conducting abounded in extreme dynamic contrast, with deafening crests that transformed the Palau into a pressure cooker where there was not enough air for the sound to expand, and with delicate pianissimi that capitalised on the proximity – intimacy, even – the Palau favoured between the musicians and the audience.”
-JOSÉ LUIS VIDAL, EL MUNDO
Music Director Manfred Honeck conducted the PSO in Stuttgart.
Pre-concert at the Philharmonie in Cologne, Germany
The PSO’s final concert of the tour took place in Luxembourg. Read the PSO tour blog at: blogs.pittsburghsymphony.org/ontour. Reviews from the tour are available at pittsburghsymphony.org/eurotour. The PSO performed at the Alte Oper, Frankfurt.
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CORPORATE SPOTLIGHT J. Craig Jordan
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Concert Prelude on stage with Music Director Manfred Honeck and Senior VP of Artistic Planning & Audience Engagement, Robert B. Moir
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 73, “Emperor”
I. Allegro II. Adagio un poco mosso III. Rondo: Allegro
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BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS | HEINZ HALL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2012 AT 8:00 PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012 AT 8:00 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2012 AT 2:30 PM
Mr. Bronfman
Intermission Johann Strauss, Jr.
Overture to Eine Nacht in Venedig (“A Night in Venice”)
Josef Strauss
Moulinet (“Little Mill Pond”), Polka française, Opus 57 Eislauf (“Ice Skating”), Polka Schnell, Opus 261
Johann Strauss, Jr.
An der schönen blauen Donau (“On the Beautiful Blue Danube”), Waltzes, Opus 314
Franz Lehár
Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (“You are My Heart’s Delight”) from Das Land des Lächelns Mr. Baker
Wolgalied (“Volga Song”) from Der Zarewitsch Mr. Baker
Eduard Strauss
Telefon-Polka, Opus 165
Henry Mancini (arr. marty gold)
“Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s Mr. Baker
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Unter Donner und Blitz (“Thunder and Lightning”), Polka Schnell, Opus 324 OFFICIAL AIRLINE OFFICIAL AIRLINE
Franz Lehár
Ol’ Man River music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Orchestration by Russell Bennett
This weekend’s performances by Piano Soloist Yefim Bronfman are made possible, in part, through the generous Annual Fund support of the Mr. and Mrs. Ira Gordon. This weekend’s performances by Music Director Manfred Honeck are made possible, in part, through the generous Annual Fund support of the R.P. Simmons Family.
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 73, “Emperor” (1809) ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 16 December 1770 in Bonn; died 26 March 1827 in Vienna PREMIERE OF WORK
Leipzig, 11 November 1811; Johann Philipp Schulz, conductor; Friedrich Schneider, soloist PSO PREMIERE
Carnegie Music Hall; 2 December 1897; Frederic Archer, conductor; WIlliam H. Sherwood, piano INSTRUMENTATION
woodwinds in pairs, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings DURATION
38 minutes
PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA
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The year 1809 was a difficult one for Vienna and for Beethoven. In May, Napoleon invaded the city with enough firepower to send the residents scurrying and Beethoven into the basement of his brother’s house. The bombardment was close enough that he covered his sensitive ears with pillows to protect them from the concussion of the blasts. On July 29th, he wrote to the publisher Breitkopf und Härtel, “We have passed through a great deal of misery. I tell you that since May 4th, I have brought into the world little that is connected; only here and there a fragment. The whole course of events has affected me body and soul.... What a disturbing, wild life around me; nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts.” Austria’s finances were in shambles, and the annual stipend Beethoven had been promised by several noblemen who supported his work was considerably reduced in value, placing him in a precarious pecuniary predicament. As a sturdy tree can root in flinty soil, however, a great musical work grew from those unpromising circumstances — by the end of that very year, 1809, Beethoven had completed his “Emperor” Concerto. The sobriquet “Emperor” attached itself to the E-flat Concerto very early, though it was not of Beethoven’s doing. If anything, he would have objected to the name. “Emperor” equaled “Napoleon” for Beethoven, as for most Europeans of the time, and anyone familiar with the story of the “Eroica” Symphony will remember how that particular ruler had tumbled from the great composer’s esteem. “This man will trample the rights of men underfoot and become a greater tyrant than any other,” he rumbled to his young friend and pupil Ferdinand Ries. The Concerto’s name may have been tacked on by an early publisher or pianist because of the grand character of the work, or it may have originated with the purported exclamation during the premiere by a French officer at one particularly noble passage, “C’est l’Empereur!” The most likely explanation, however, is that the Viennese premiere took place at a celebration of the Emperor’s birthday. The Concerto opens with broad chords for orchestra answered by piano before the main theme is announced by the violins. The following orchestral tutti embraces a rich variety of secondary themes leading to a repeat of all the material by the piano accompanied by the orchestra. A development ensues with “the fury of a hail-storm,” wrote Sir Donald Tovey. A recapitulation of the themes and a cadenza close the movement. The Adagio begins with a chorale for strings. Sir George Grove dubbed this movement a sequence of “quasi-variations,” with the piano providing a coruscating filigree above the orchestral accompaniment. This Adagio leads directly into the finale, a vast rondo with sonata elements.
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR
Overture to Eine Nacht in Venedig (“A Night in Venice”) ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 25 October 1825 in Vienna; died there 3 June 1899 THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE
INSTRUMENTATION
woodwinds in pairs plus piccolo, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, percussion, harp and strings DURATION
eight minutes
“A Night in Venice” ultimately proved to be one of Strauss’ most popular stage works, but it had a rocky start. He was eager to follow the success of Der lustige Krieg (“The Merry War”) in 1881 with another stage work, and pressed his librettists for Krieg, Camillo Walzel (nom de plume: F. Zell) and Richard Genée, for another book, so they cobbled an 1870 French comedy, Le Château-Trompette by Jules Cormon and Michel Carré, into a risqué and improbable story involving masked balls, switched identities and imperiled fidelity set in Venice during Carnival. “Zell” and Genée sent Strauss the lyrics for the songs (but only barest outline of the plot), and he proceeded to write one of his luscious scores around them. The premiere was set for October 1883, not in Vienna, however, but at the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtisches Theater in Berlin. (Lili, Strauss’ second wife, had just left him to move in with Franz Steiner, director of the Theater-an-der-Wien, for which eight of his nine earlier operettas had been written.) When the collaborators assembled in Berlin for rehearsals, Strauss was aghast at what the librettists had wrought. “The book … is a scatterbrained, bombastic affair without a trace of action,” he complained. “I never saw the dialogue, only the words of the songs… At the last rehearsals, where I discovered the whole story, I was simply horrified. No genuine feeling, no truth, no sense, nothing but tomfoolery.” Critics and audience at the opening, on October 3, 1883, agreed, though they did have some fun throughout the evening making howls and catcalls inspired by the tenor intoning the irresistible melody of the Lagoon Waltz to the remarkable line, “By night all cats look grey, and fondly sing ‘meow’ ...” The Viennese press sent reports of the Berlin debacle to their home papers, and major repairs were hastily made to plot and dialogue during the six days before the first performance in the composer’s hometown. The revisions worked at least well enough not to distract from Strauss’ score, and “A Night in Venice” became a hit in Vienna, playing (at the Theater-an-der-Wien) for 44 consecutive nights; the operetta was staged in New York just six months later. The show was revised extensively and frequently for subsequent productions, but the version that has proven to be the most successful (and durable) was done by screenwriter Ernst Marischka and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold for a revival at the Theater-an-der-Wien in 1923. The Overture is a delightful potpourri of the operetta’s most enchanting melodies, including some fine marches and polkas as well as the lighter-than-air Lagoon Waltz.
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JOSEF STRAUSS
Moulinet (“Little Mill”), Polka française, Opus 57 (1858) Eislauf (“Ice Skating”), Polka Schnell, Opus 261 (1869) ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 22 August 1827 in Vienna; died there 21 July 1870 THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE
MOULINET INSTRUMENTATION
woodwinds in pairs, four hours, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, percussion, harp and strings EISLAUF INSTRUMENTATION
piccolo, flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four hours, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings MOULINET DURATION
three minutes EISLAUF DURATION
two minutes
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Papa Johann Strauss tried to discourage his sons from following him into the music business, but only Josef, the second-born, initially took his advice. Though he did not join the military as his father wished, Josef did train as an engineer and architect and started a promising career in those fields. Older brother Johann, however, was working himself into a nervous exhaustion with his feverish activity with the Strauss Orchestra at the time — he came home late one night and collapsed at his mother’s feet. Young Eduard was only eighteen, so the sole choice seemed to be Josef. He was brought into the family discussion and at first refused to take over, pleading lack of training and ability, the duties of another occupation, and an awkward and unattractive personal appearance. Finally his objections were overcome when Johann, from his sickbed, told him, “You are the most talented of us all.” Josef acquiesced, and, after some lessons in music theory and violin, he made his debut as conductor of the Strauss Orchestra on July 23, 1853. For that initial appearance, he wrote his first set of waltzes called “Die Ersten und die Letzten” (“The First and the Last”). Hardly the last. He found a real talent for composition, and wrote some 283 works, including 222 waltzes, during the remaining seventeen years of his life. Strauss was trained as an engineer, and his first-hand knowledge of water works was reflected in the delightfully ticking polka française Moulinet (“Little Mill”) of 1858. The Strausses were as adept at marketing as they were at music, and they seldom let an opportunity pass to capitalize on the social life of Vienna in their performance engagements or their compositions. When the Vienna Skating Club was founded in 1867 and soon thereafter began producing the gala ball that was virtually mandatory for every club, organization or association in the city, usually during the winter Carnival season, the Strauss family was quick to offer the services of their orchestras to provide the musical entertainment. For the Skating Club’s ball in February 1869, Josef Strauss composed his exhilarating “fast polka” Eislauf (“Ice Skating”).
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR.
An der schönen blauen Donau (“On the Beautiful Blue Danube”), Waltzes, Opus 314 PSO PREMIERE
Carnegie Music Hall; 11 November 1904; Emil Paur, conductor INSTRUMENTATION
woodwinds in pairs plus piccolo, four horns, two trumpets, trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and strings DURATION
nine minutes
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“On the Beautiful Blue Danube” almost sank beneath the waves at its launching. Johann Herbeck, director of the Vienna Men’s Chorus, asked Strauss if he could provide a new piece for his ensemble, and Strauss responded with a melody inspired by a line from a poem of Karl Isidor Beck: “On the Danube, on the beautiful, blue Danube.” Herbeck assigned Josef Weyl, a police clerk who sang in the chorus and a poet-manqué, to concoct some verses to fit Strauss’ exquisite melody. “Vienna, be gay! And what for, pray? The light of the arc! Here it’s still dark!” was the best that Weyl could do. (Hans Fantel suggested that this doggerel may have been prompted by the carbon-electrode lights just beginning to sprout on Vienna’s street corners.) The press notices of this new choral number’s premiere on February 15, 1867 were not unkind, but Strauss judged the whole thing a marginal fiasco, and tucked “The Blue Danube” in his desk. Later that year, he was invited to take part in the International Exhibition that Napoleon III was staging in honor of himself in Paris. His music proved so successful in the French capital that he dusted off “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” and displayed it to the delirious Parisians. Within weeks, demand for the work had spread across the western world, and “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” has since come to be regarded as the quintessential expression of the Viennese waltz.
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FRANZ LEHÁR
Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (“You are My Heart’s Delight”) from Das Land des Lächelns (“The Land of Smiles”) (1929) ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 30 April 1870 in Komáron, Hungary; died 24 October 1948 in Bad Ischl THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE
INSTRUMENTATION
Woodwinds in pairs, four hours, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, percussion, harp, and strings DURATION
three minutes
In Das Land des Lächelns, Countess Lisa and the Chinese Prince SouChong fall in love during his visit to Vienna, and they return to his native land when he is called home to take up the position of prime minister. According to custom, Sou-Chong must take four wives, but he assures Lisa that she is his only true love in the magnificent aria Dein ist mein ganzes Herz. The operetta reaches a melancholy close when insurmountable cultural differences between European life and this land where feelings are hidden behind a polite smile drive the lovers apart and Lisa back to Vienna. You are my heart’s delight, And where you are I long to be! You make my darkness bright When like a star you shine on me! Shine, then, my whole night through, Your light divine bids me hope a-new That dreams of mine may perchance come true And I shall hear you whisper: “I love you!” In dreams, when night is falling, I seem to hear you calling! For you have cast a net around me, And ‘neath a magic spell have bound me Yours, yours alone! How wondrous fair is your beautiful hair! Bright as the summer skies Is the light in your eyes! Soft as the turtle dove’s Is the voice of my love! You are my heart’s delight, And where you are I long to be! You make my darkness bright When like a star you shine on me! Shine, then, my whole night through, Your light divine bids me hope a-new That dreams of mine may perchance come true And I shall hear you whisper: “I love you!”
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FRANZ LEHÁR
(1826-1827) THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE
INSTRUMENTATION
woodwinds in pairs, four hours, two trumpets, three trombones, percussion, harp and strings DURATION
five minutes
Lehár’s Der Zarewitsch was based a play by the Polish actress, playwright and critic Gabriele Zapolska about the life of Alexei, son of Peter the Great, who fled from Russia to Italy with his beloved only to become suspected of plotting against his father and summoned home, where he was imprisoned and sentenced to death. The operetta’s libretto, by Heinz Reichert and Béla Jenbach, retained most of Zapolska’s plot but omitted Alexei’s tragic end. In the operetta, the Tsarevich, Russia’s Crown Prince, suffers great loneliness because of his professed lack of interest in women. His uncle, the Grand Duke, concerned about the young man’s ability to provide a successor for the royal line, arranges with Sonja, a dancer in a Cossack troupe, to try to overcome his antipathy. The Duke’s plan succeeds and the lovers escape to Naples. When the Tsarevich learns of his father’s death, however, he realizes that he must return to St. Petersburg to assume his duties. Marriage to a commoner such as Sonja is now impossible for him. They part, heartbroken. The Czarevich sings the poignant Wolgalied (“Volga Song”) at his first appearance, expressing his own sorrow by telling of a soldier stationed on the great river who has lost his love.
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Wolgalied (“Volga Song”) from Der Zarewitsch (“The Czarevich”)
Alone! Always alone! Lonely, as ever, The prime of life is slipping past, The die of loneliness is cast, My whole life here is grey and drear, With nobody to share my heart. A soldier stands guard on the Volga’s side, He keeps his watch on the river wide. The night is dark and full of fear; No friendly stars or moonlight here. Silent is the land around, Not a shred of comfort has he found, And his heart cries out in his loneliness; As he scans the wintry sky, Hear him softly sigh: “Have you forgotten me, Lord up above? I stand here, forsaken by all I love. Hear me, oh, hear me and answer my plea; Send an angel to earth to comfort me. Hear me, oh, hear me and answer my cry; Send an angel to me before I die.”
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EDUARD STRAUSS
Telefon-Polka, Opus 165 (1878) ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 15 March 1835 in Vienna; died there 28 December 1916 THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE
INSTRUMENTATION
piccolo, flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four hours, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, snare drum and strings DURATION
three minutes
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Eduard Strauss, the youngest son of Johann Strauss, Sr. and ten years Johann II’s junior, was intended for a career in the Austrian consular service, but he was drawn into the family’s music business when his older brother cut down the number of his concert appearances. Eduard made his debut as conductor and composer in Vienna on April 6, 1862, and toured extensively throughout Europe, Russia and the United States for the next 40 years. He wrote some 250 waltzes and polkas. The Paris World’s Fair of 1878 was both a celebration of the country’s recovery from the debacle of the Franco-Prussian War eight years before and a showcase of fine arts, manufactures and technology from 35 nations (Germany refused to participate) — the completed head of Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty was displayed before it was shipped to New York, carbon arc lightning was installed for the first time in the city along the Avenue de l’Opera and throughout the fair’s 66 acres, the immense main exhibition building was a marvel of modern ironwork (Gustave Eiffel gained experience by designing its entrances that he put to good use in building his preposterously tall tower for the World’s Fair in Paris eleven years later), and Victor Hugo chaired a Congress for the Protection of Literary Property that eventually led to the international copyright laws. Among the new technological wonders on display from America were Thomas Edison’s phonograph and Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, for which Bell received the fair’s Grand Prize and a street named in his honor in suburban Marne-la-Vallée. For the appearances of the Strauss orchestra at the fair, Eduard composed Telefon-Polka in the style of the graceful polka française.
HENRY MANCINI
“Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s Henry Mancini, born in Cleveland in 1924 and raised in Pittsburgh, studied briefly at Juilliard before being drafted into the Air Force in Cleveland, Ohio; died 14 1943. After the war, he worked as a free-lance arranger and composer for dance bands, nightclub acts and radio in Los Angeles and studied June 1994 in Beverly Hills, composition privately with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Ernst Krenek California and Albert Sendrey. In 1952, Mancini joined the music staff of Universal Pictures, and received his first Academy Award nomination the followTHESE PERFORMANCES ing year for The Glenn Miller Story. After scoring Orson Welles’ Touch MARK THE PSO CLASSICAL of Evil for Universal in 1958, Mancini went out on his own, taking as SUBSCRIPTION PREMIERE one of his first projects a new television mystery series titled Peter Gunn, the creation of an ambitious young director named Blake Edwards. ManINSTRUMENTATION cini’s sophisticated use of jazz helped to make the show a hit, and he two flutes, oboe, two worked with Edwards again on the Mr. Lucky series and went on to colclarinets, bassoon, two laborate with him on two-dozen feature films during the next 35 years. horns, three trumpets, two Mancini established his reputation in Hollywood with Edward’s 1961 trombones, tuba, timpani, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, based on Truman Capote’s novella, in which the percussion, piano and strings irresistible Audrey Hepburn plays the aspiring socialite Holly Golightly in a performance that earned her an Oscar nomination. Mancini’s music DURATION for Breakfast at Tiffany’s won him one Academy Award for Best Score and another for Best Song, “Moon River,” with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. three minutes 1213_Steinberg_programads:Layout 1 9/6/2012 11:57 AM Page 1 ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 16 April 1924 in
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JOHANN STRAUSS, JR.
Unter Donner und Blitzen (“Thunder and Lightning”), Polka Schnell, Opus 324 (1868) (1868) PSO PREMIERE
Syria Mosque; 19 April 1946; Fritz Reiner, conductor INSTRUMENTATION
piccolo, flute, two oboes, two clarinet, two bassoons, four hours, three trumpets, three
“Amid Thunder and Lightning” originated as a Schnell-Polka (“Fast Polka”) titled Sternschnuppe (“Shooting Star”) written for the Hesperus Ball given by the Vienna Artists’ Association on February 16, 1868; Johann, Josef and Eduard Strauss took turns conducting the orchestra that evening. For the traditional “Carnival Revue” on March 1, of all the new pieces that the Strauss brothers had written for that year’s festivities (20 in 1868), Johann revised Sternschnuppe and re-titled it Unter Donner und Blitzen (“Thunder and Lightning”).
trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings DURATION
three minutes PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA
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/// MANFRED HONECK Manfred Honeck was born in Austria and studied music at the Academy of Music in Vienna. An accomplished violinist and violist, he spent more than ten years as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. It is this experience that has heavily influenced his conducting and has helped give it a distinctive stamp. Honeck was appointed the ninth Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in January 2007, and began his tenure at the start of the 2008-2009 season. After a first extension in 2009, his contract was extended for the second time in February 2012, now through the 2019-2020 season. Following their successful European Tour in 2010 and the European Festival Tour 2011 with appearances at the major music festivals, such as BBC Proms, Lucerne, Grafenegg, Rheingau, SchleswigHolstein or Musikfest Berlin, Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra returned to Europe in October-November 2012. This year’s tour took them to Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Luxembourg and Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart in Germany. During a week-long residency at the Musikverein in Vienna, the orchestra performed four concerts. Honeck’s successful work in Pittsburgh is captured on CD by the Japanese label Exton. So far, Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben have been released to critical acclaim. Their recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 has won a 2012 International Classical Music Award (ICMA). From 2007 to 2011, Honeck was Music Director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart, where he conducted premieres including Berlioz’s Les Troyens, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Verdi’s Aida, Richard Strauss’s Rosenkavalier, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and Wagner’s Lohengrin and Parsifal, as well as numerous symphonic concerts. His operatic guest appearances include Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Royal Opera of Copenhagen, the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg and the Salzburg Festival. He commenced his career as conductor of Vienna’s Jeunesse Orchestra, which he co-founded, and as assistant to Claudio Ab26
bado at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Vienna. Subsequently, he was engaged by the Zurich Opera House, where he was bestowed the prestigious European Conductor’s Award in 1993. In 1996, Honeck began a three-year stint as one of three main conductors of the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig and in 1997, he served as Music Director at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo for a year. A highly successful tour of Europe with the Oslo Philharmonic marked the beginning of a close collaboration with this orchestra which consequently appointed him Principal Guest Conductor, a post he held for several years. From 2000 to 2006, he was Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Stockholm and served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2011, a position he will resume from 2013 to 2016. As a guest conductor, Honeck has worked with major orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic and in the U.S. with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Washington and Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is also a regular guest at the Verbier Festival. Guest engagements of the 2012-2013 season include concerts at his earlier places of activity in Stockholm and Prague, as well as appearances with other prestigious orchestras including Bamberg Symphony, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Accademia di Santa Cecilia Rome, the New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra and his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2010, Honeck was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Apart from his numerous tasks as conductor, he has been Artistic Director of the “International Concerts Wolfegg” in Germany for more than 15 years.
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/// YEFIM BRONFMAN Yefim Bronfman is widely regarded as one of the most talented virtuoso pianists performing today. His commanding technique and exceptional lyrical gifts have won him consistent critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences worldwide, whether for his solo recitals, his prestigious orchestral engagements or his rapidly growing catalogue of recordings. Bronfman’s 2012-2013 season begins early with concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in Berlin, Salzburg and the London Proms followed by the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich with David Zinman and London’s Philharmonia conducted by Tugan Sokhiev. A year-long residency with the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra and long time collaborator Mariss Jansons begins in the fall and encompasses orchestral and chamber music in a broad range of repertoire. A return to Salzburg’s Easter Festival with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Christian Thielemann is planned for the spring followed by appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic and Michael Tilson Thomas in Vienna and London, subscription concerts in Spain and Germany and a spring tour with Ensemble Wien-Berlin. In North America, he works with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in one of their infrequent Carnegie Hall visits conducted by Fabio Luisi and returns to the orchestras in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Montreal where he is a beloved regular. In collaboration with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, he will make a short winter tour including New York’s Carnegie Hall and in solo recital he can be heard in Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver and Atlanta, as well as the great halls of Paris, Berlin and Lisbon. The 2011-2012 U.S. season began with the Chicago Symphony’s opening Gala conducted by Ricardo Muti followed by a residency with the Cleveland Orchestra in Miami and Cleveland focusing on the concerti and chamber music of Brahms. A recital tour in winter culminated with Carnegie Hall followed by the world premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s concerto commissioned for him by the New York Philharmonic with whom he toured the west coast in the spring. In Europe, he com28
pleted a two-season project of the three Bartók concerti with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen in London, Spain, Brussels and gave recitals in Amsterdam, Vienna, Frankfurt, Milan and Lucerne. In partnership with Emmanuel Pahud he visited Spain, Turkey, Denmark and London where he returned in the spring with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas followed by a tour with the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Bronfman works regularly with an illustrious group of conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yuri Temirkanov, Franz Welser-Möst and David Zinman. Summer engagements have regularly taken him to the major festivals of Europe and the U.S. He has also given numerous solo recitals in the leading halls of North America, Europe and the Far East, including acclaimed debuts at Carnegie Hall in 1989 and Avery Fisher Hall in 1993. In 1991, he gave a series of joint recitals with Isaac Stern in Russia, marking Bronfman’s first public performances there since his emigration to Israel at age 15. That same year he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists. In 2010, he was honored as the recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane prize in piano performance from Northwestern University. Widely praised for his solo, chamber and orchestral recordings, he was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2009 for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s piano concerto with Salonen conducting and with whom he won a Grammy Award in 1997 for his recording of the three Bartók Piano Concerti and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Most recently his performance of Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto with Andris Nelsons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from the 2011 Lucerne Festival is now available on DVD, with his performance of Rachmaninoff’s third concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle already
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available on the EuroArts label. His most recent CD releases are Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Mariss Jansons and the Bayerischer Rundfunk, a recital disc, Perspectives, complementing Bronfman’s designation as a Carnegie Hall “Perspectives” artist for the 2007-2008 season, and recordings of all the Beethoven piano concerti as well as the Triple Concerto together with violinist Gil Shaham, cellist Truls Mørk, and the Tönhalle Orchestra Zürich under David Zinman for the Arte Nova/
BMG label. Born in Tashkent in the Soviet Union on April 10, 1958, Bronfman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973, where he studied with pianist Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. In the United States, he studied at The Juilliard School, Marlboro and the Curtis Institute, and with Rudolf Firkusny, Leon Fleisher and Rudolf Serkin. Bronfman became an American citizen in July 1989. He last appeared with the PSO in 29
/// GREGG BAKER A Baritone of imposing voice and stature, Gregg Baker continues to make an indelible mark on the world of Opera Theater. Since his opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1985, he has performed leading roles at The Vienna Staatsoper, Arena di Verona, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Hamburg Opera, New Israeli Opera, Stuttgart Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Vancouver Opera, Baden-Baden Opera, Scottish National Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Houston Grand Opera, Greater Miami Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, and the Berkshire Opera. The past two seasons held important role debuts for Baker: title roles in Verdi’s Macbeth and Rigoletto. Opera Now said, “As Macbeth, he revealed a real affinity for Verdi, his glowing voice strong and seamless throughout its registers.” And, The Philadelphia Inquirer agreed, “Baker’s commanding voice and presence made him a viable Macbeth in a world that had few.” The Times Union of Albany, New York, honored his Rigoletto, “In the title role of court jester who is cursed and double cursed, baritone Baker was a commanding powerhouse.” This past season Baker appeared as Macbeth with Memphis Opera opposite Marquita Lister. At the Spoleto Festival USA, he appeared in Armistad as Cinque. This summer he appeared at the Cinncinati Pops and shared the stage with Roberta Laws. This fall he performs at The New Jersey State Opera Gala. He returns to Detroit’s Michigan Opera production of Margaret Garner. Later this coming season he is in San Francisco for their Porgy and Bess production as Crown staged by Francesca Zambello. A successful veteran of Broadway and a Lawrence Olivier Award nominee, Baker discovered his gift for and love of opera while performing the role of Crown in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. The Metropolitan Opera heard his performance in the Radio City Music Hall production and engaged him immediately for their production of the opera. He has since returned to the Metropolitan Opera in the roles of High Priest in Saint-Saëns’ Samson
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et Dalila, Amonasro in Verdi’s Aida, Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen, Silvio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, Donner in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Belcore in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’Amore. In addition to his operatic performances, Baker has performed and recorded with leading orchestras and conductors including the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Danish Symphony, Radio Stuttgart Symphony, James Levine, Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, André Previn, Lorin Maazel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Roger Norrington, Jesus Luis Cobos, Daniel Oren, Eric Kunzel, and the late Anton Guadagno and Robert Shaw. Baker has worked with the renowned stage directors Otto Schenk, the late Pierre Ponelle, Nathaniel Merrill and Franco Zeffirelli. Other career highlights include a Grammy Award nomination in 1986, numerous engagements with the Opera Company of Philadelphia where he has won their public’s heart and is hailed as “the opera crowd’s favorite deep voice,” and repeat appearances in Europe, particularly with Arena di Verona. Recent performances include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Milwaukee Symphony, Amonasro in Verdi’s Aida with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen in both Japan and Rome. Most recently, he performed the role of Renato in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and created the role of Robert in the world premiere of Danielpour’s Margaret Garner, a co-production of Michigan Opera Theatre and the Cincinnati Opera. Baker returns to the Opera Company of Philadelphia in February as Porgy for that company’s production of Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Gregg Baker Last performed with the PSO in June 2012.
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THANK YOU. For the second year in a row your Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra was “number one” in dollars received during The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Day of Giving on October 3rd! In a 24-hour period the PSO received 645 gifts – over $247,000 – for the Annual Fund. Thank you to everyone who participated, and helped make Day of Giving 2012 a success for the PSO and the other local non-profits who benefitted from our region’s overwhelming generosity. If you missed Day of Giving – don’t worry – there’s still time to make a tax-deductible gift to the PSO’s 2012-2013 Annual Fund before the end of the calendar year. The musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra have led the way with their pledge of $100,000 to the 2012-2013 Annual Fund. We ask that you show your support for their incredible gesture by making your own gift – TODAY! Consider making your gift to the Annual Fund via the web at www.pittsburghsymphony.org. It’s quick, secure and easy. An added bonus – By making your gift online, you help the PSO save on administrative, printing and mailing costs. And your support will go to work immediately. For more information about the PSO’s Annual Fund call the Donor Relations Department at 412.392.4880. THANK YOU!
BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS | HEINZ HALL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012 AT 8:00 PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 AT 2:30 PM
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Manfred Honeck, conductor Michael Rusinek, clarinet Mason Bates, electronica Pre-concert
Concert Prelude with Resident Conductor Lawrence Loh and PSO Composer of the Year Mason Bates
Mason Bates
Mothership for Orchestra and Electronica
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Concerto in A major for Clarinet and Orchestra, K. 622
I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Rondo: Allegro Mr. Rusinek
Mr. Bates (Improvisations by Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin, and Jeffrey Grubbs, bass)
Intermission Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Opus 36
I. II. III. IV.
Andante sostenuto — Moderato con anima Andantino in modo di canzona Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato Finale: Allegro con fuoco
This weekend’s performances by Clarinet Soloist Michael Rusinek are made possible, in part, through the Annual Fund support of Jon & Carol Walton and Bob & Joan Peirce. This weekend’s performances by Music Director Manfred Honeck are made possible, in part, OFFICIALAnnual AIRLINE Fund support of the R.P. Simmons Family. through the generous
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Additional support for this weekend’s performances is provided by PPG Industries Foundation. Mason Bates’ Composer of the Year residency is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts. Mason Bates is the Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the PSO. Music Alive is a national residency program of the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA.
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MASON BATES, PSO Composer of the Year
Mothership for Orchestra and Electronica (2011) ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 23 January 1977 in Philadelphia PREMIERE OF WORK
Sydney Opera House; YouTube Symphony Orchestra; 20 March 2011; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE INSTRUMENTATION
piccolo, three flutes, two oboes, English horn, E-flat clarinet, two clarinets, two bass clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, laptop and strings DURATION
nine minutes Mason Bates as PSO Composer of the Year is made possible through Music Alive, a residency program of the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA. This national program is designed to provide orchestras with resources and tools to support their presentation of new music to the public and build support for new music within theie institutions. Funding for Music Alive is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Aaron Copeland Fund for Music, and the ASCAP Foundation.
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Mason Bates brings not only his own fresh talent to the concert hall but also the musical sensibilities of a new generation — he is equally at home composing “for Lincoln Center,” according to his web site (www.masonbates.com), as being the “electronica artist Masonic® who moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from New York City, where he was a lounge DJ at such venues as The Frying Pan — the floating rave ship docked off the pier near West 22nd Street.” Bates was born in Philadelphia in 1977 and started studying piano with Hope Armstrong Erb at his childhood home in Richmond, Virginia. He earned degrees in both English literature and music composition in the joint program of Columbia University and the Juilliard School, where his composition teachers included John Corigliano, David Del Tredici and Samuel Adler, and received his doctorate in composition from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 as a student of Edmund Campion and Jorge Lidermann. Bates was Resident Composer with the California Symphony from 2008 to 2011, Project San Francisco Artist-inResidence with the San Francisco Symphony in 2011-2012, and began a continuing residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in September 2010; he is Composer of the Year with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2012-2013. Bates’ rapidly accumulating portfolio of orchestral, chamber, vocal, theatrical and electronic compositions includes commissions and performances by the major orchestras of London, Lisbon, New York, Washington, Atlanta, Toronto, Phoenix, San Francisco, Oakland, Annapolis, Los Angeles, Miami and Detroit, the Tanglewood, Aspen, Cabrillo and Spoleto USA festivals, Biava Quartet, Chanticleer and New Juilliard Ensemble. Bates’ many honors include a Charles Ives Scholarship and Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Fellowship, Jacob Druckman Memorial Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, ASCAP and BMI awards, a Fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center, Rome Prize, Berlin Prize and a two-year Composer Residency with Young Concert Artists. Bates is also an ardent and effective advocate for bringing new music to new spaces, “whether,” he explained, “through institutional partnerships such as the residency with the Chicago Symphony’s MusicNOWseries, or through the project Mercury Soul, which has transformed spaces ranging from commercial clubs to Frank Gehry-designed concert halls into exciting, hybrid musical events drawing over a thousand people. Mercury Soul, a collaboration with director Anne Patterson and conductor Benjamin Shwartz, embeds sets of classical music into an evening of DJing and beautiful, surreal visuals.” In 2010, Bates was commissioned to write Mothership for the second concert of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble composed of musicians from around the world who were selected through
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on-line auditions by Michael Tilson Thomas, the project’s director and conductor, and assembled in Sydney, Australia for rehearsals and a live concert on March 20, 2010 streamed on the internet; the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra concert was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 2009. Of Mothership, Bates wrote, “This energetic concert opener imagines the orchestra as a mothership that is ‘docked’ by several visiting soloists, who offer brief but virtuosic riffs on the work’s thematic material over action-packed, electro-acoustic orchestral figuration. The piece follows the form of a scherzo with two trios (as found in, for example, Schumann’s Symphony No. 2). Symphonic scherzos historically play with dance rhythms in an appealing, high-energy manner, with the ‘trio’ sections temporarily exploring new rhythmic areas. Mothership shares a formal connection with the symphonic scherzo, but it is brought to life by thrilling sounds of the 21st century — the rhythms of modern-day techno in place of waltz rhythms, for example.”
WOLFGANG AMADÉ MOZART
Concerto in A major for Clarinet and Orchestra, K. 622 (1791) ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 27 January 1756 in Salzburg; died 5 December 1791 in Vienna PREMIERE OF WORK
Prague, Theatre 16 October 1791; Anton Stadler, clarinet PSO CLASSICAL SUBSCRIPTION PREMIERE
27 September 1985; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor; Richard Stolzman, clarinet INSTRUMENTATION
two flutes, two bassoons, two horns and strings DURATION
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Mozart harbored a special fondness for the graceful agility, liquid tone and ensemble amiability of the clarinet from the time that he first heard the instrument as a young boy during his tours, and he later wrote for it whenever it was available. During his years in Vienna, he was especially impressed by the technical accomplishment and expressive playing of the clarinetist in the imperial court orchestra, Anton Stadler. Stadler was a Freemason, and when Mozart joined the fraternity the two musicians became close friends. Those last years of Mozart’s life were ones of worrisome poverty, ill health and family problems that often forced him to go begging for loans from others, especially another fellow Mason, Michael Puchberg, who earned many laudatory footnotes in the closing pages of the composer’s biography for his generosity. It says much about Mozart’s kindness and sensitivity that he, in turn, loaned Stadler money when he could, and even once gave him two gold watches to pawn when there was no cash at hand. The final accounting of Mozart’s estate after his death showed that Stadler owed him some 500 florins — several thousand dollars at today’s rate. Stadler also came out of the friendship with far more than just some of Mozart’s silver. In addition to the flawless Clarinet Concerto, Mozart wrote for him the Clarinet Quintet (K. 581), the Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Viola (K. 498), the clarinet and basset horn parts in the vocal trios, and the clarinet solos in the opera La Clemenza di Tito. The Clarinet Concerto started as another piece apparently intended for Stadler — a work for basset horn (alto clarinet), strings, two flutes and two horns that was sketched as early as 1789. When Stadler conferred with Mozart about the solos in Tito, it seems that he encouraged him to revise the sketch into a full concerto for his instrument. The Clarinet Concerto was the next-to-last work Mozart completed, 35
followed before his untimely death in December 1791 by only the Masonic Cantata (K. 623) and the unfinished Requiem. The Concerto’s beauty, grace and deep emotion mark it as one of his supreme masterpieces. Only the greatest creator could have balanced music of such limpid, effortless formal perfection with the incipient Romantic sensibility pulsing beneath the work’s surface, a quality that the noted German musicologist Friedrich Blume wrote imparts “the impression of consummate equipoise and proportion.” The first movement is an exquisitely sculpted sonata-concerto form throughout which the dark, sensuous sound of the clarinet is carefully integrated into the orchestral texture. The simplicity of the theme and structure of the following Adagio belie the emotional depth of its music. The rondo-finale not only maintains the spirit of gaiety associated with that form, but also brings to it an entire world of feelings, by turns cheerful and somber, effusive and introverted. This wonderful Concerto embodies the words of the renowned pianist and Mozart specialist Lili Kraus, who stated in a New York Times interview of several years ago: “There is no feeling — human or cosmic — no depth, no height the human spirit can reach that is not contained in Mozart’s music.”
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Opus 36 (1877-1878) ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 7 May 1840 in Votkinsk; died 6 November 1893 in St. Petersburg PREMIERE OF WORK
Moscow, 22 February 1878; Moscow Conservatory; Nikolai Rubinstein, conductor PSO PREMIERE
Carnegie Music Hall; 1 November 1900; Victor Herbert, conductor INSTRUMENTATION
woodwinds in pairs plus piccolo, four horns, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings DURATION
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The Fourth Symphony was a product of the most crucial and turbulent time of Tchaikovsky’s life — 1877, when he met two women who forced him to evaluate himself as he never had before. The first was the sensitive, music-loving widow of a wealthy Russian railroad baron, Nadezhda von Meck, who became not only the financial backer who allowed him to quit his irksome teaching job at the Moscow Conservatory to devote himself entirely to composition, but also the sympathetic sounding-board for reports on the whole range of his activities — emotional, musical, personal. Though they never met, her place in Tchaikovsky’s life was enormous and beneficial. The second woman to enter Tchaikovsky’s life in 1877 was Antonina Miliukov, an unnoticed student in one of his large lecture classes at the Conservatory who had worked herself into a passion over her professor. Tchaikovsky paid her no special attention, and he had quite forgotten her when he received an ardent love letter professing her flaming and unquenchable desire to meet him. Tchaikovsky (age 37), who should have burned the thing, answered the letter of the 28-year-old Antonina in a polite, cool fashion, but did not include an outright rejection of her advances. He had been considering marriage for almost a year in the hope that it would give him both the stable home life that he had not enjoyed in the twenty years since his mother died, as well as to help dispel the alltoo-true rumors of his homosexuality. He believed he might achieve both these goals with Antonina. He could not see the situation clearly enough to realize that what he hoped for was impossible — a pure, platonic marriage without its physical and emotional realities. Further letters from
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Antonina implored Tchaikovsky to meet her, and threatened suicide out of desperation if he refused. What a welter of emotions must have gripped his heart when, just a few weeks later, he proposed marriage to her! Inevitably, the marriage crumbled within days of the wedding amid Tchaikovsky’s searing self-deprecation. It was during May and June that Tchaikovsky sketched the Fourth Symphony, finishing the first three movements before Antonina began her siege. The finale was completed by the time he proposed. Because of this chronology, the program of the Symphony was not a direct result of his marital disaster. All that — the July wedding, the mere eighteen days of bitter conjugal farce, the two separations — postdated the actual composition of the Symphony by a few months. What Tchaikovsky found in his relationship with this woman (who by 1877 already showed signs of approaching the door of the mental ward in which, still legally married to him, she died in 1917) was a confirmation of his belief in the inexorable workings of Fate in human destiny. After the premiere, Tchaikovsky explained to Mme. von Meck the emotional content of the Fourth Symphony: “The introduction [blaring brasses heard immediately in a motto theme that recurs throughout the Symphony] is the kernel of the whole Symphony. This is Fate, which hinders one in the pursuit of happiness. There is nothing to do but to submit and vainly complain [the melancholy, syncopated shadow-waltz of the main theme, heard in the strings]. Would it not be better to turn away from reality and lull one’s self in dreams? [The second theme is begun by the clarinet.] But no — these are but dreams: roughly we are awakened by Fate. [The blaring brass fanfare over a wave of timpani begins the development section.] Thus we see that life is only an everlasting alternation of somber reality and fugitive dreams of happiness. The second movement shows another phase of sadness. How sad it is that so much has already been and gone! And yet it is a pleasure to think of the early years. It is sad, yet sweet, to lose one’s self in the past. In the third movement are capricious arabesques, vague figures which slip into the imagination when one has taken wine and is slightly intoxicated. Military music is heard in the distance. As to the finale, if you find no pleasure in yourself, go to the people. The picture of a folk holiday. [The finale employs the folk song A Birch Stood in the Meadow.] Hardly have we had time to forget ourselves in the happiness of others when indefatigable Fate reminds us once more of its presence. Yet there still is happiness, simple, naive happiness. Rejoice in the happiness of others — and you can still live.”
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/// MICHAEL RUSINEK Michael Rusinek joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 1998 as Principal Clarinet. Born in Toronto, Canada, his early studies were with Avrahm Galper at the Royal Conservatory of Music. He later attended The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Upon graduation, he was appointed by Mstislav Rostropovich to the post of Assistant Principal Clarinet with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. In addition to his position in the PSO, he has performed as guest Principal Clarinet with the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada, the St. Louis Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Rusinek has performed as a soloist with many orchestras and as a recitalist across Canada, on CBC Radio, and throughout the United States and Israel, including appearances with the Czech Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Belgrade Philharmonic, Royal Conservatory of Music Orchestra, National Symphony, Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the Symphony Orchestra of The Curtis Institute of Music. He has been heard as a soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra many times, and in May 2008, premiered a new concerto by composer Alan Fletcher, a concerto commissioned for him by the PSO. That performance was recorded and is available on the Exton label. In 1985, Rusinek was awarded the grand prize in the International Clarinet Society competition, and was a prizewinner in the Belgrade International clarinet competition. He has participated in numerous music festivals around the world, including the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Festival of the Sound in Parry Sound, the Portland Chamber Music Festival, and Music In the Vineyards in Napa Valley. He can also be heard regularly at the Grand Teton, Santa Fe Chamber, and Aspen music festivals. He has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, and toured with the acclaimed “Musicians from Marlboro.” Rusinek was recently featured on the Sony label celebrating Marlboro’s 50th anniversary.
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In the summer of 2000, he performed as Principal Clarinet in the Super World Orchestra, an ensemble comprised of musicians from orchestras around the world. Dedicated to teaching, he has led master classes at some of the leading institutions around the country, including The Curtis Institute, the Manhattan School of Music, and the New World Symphony. He served on the faculty of the Canton International Summer Music Academy in Canton, China, for its inaugural season, and returns often to play and teach in Tianjin and Beijing. He has also served on the faculty of Instrumenta Verano in Mexico. He is currently on faculty at the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University. Rusinek is proud of his association with Selmer Clarinets and Rico Reeds. When he is not performing or teaching, you may often find him on the golf course, or playing hockey in a non-contact league. Rusinek last performed solo with the PSO in November 2010.
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/// MASON BATES The music of Mason Bates fuses innovative orchestral writing, imaginative narrative forms, the harmonies of jazz and the rhythms of techno. Frequently performed by orchestras large and small, his symphonic music has been the first to receive widespread acceptance for its expanded palette of electronic sounds, and it is championed by leading conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Michael Tilson Thomas and Leonard Slatkin. He has become a visible advocate for bringing new music to new spaces, whether through institutional partnerships such as his residency with the Chicago Symphony, or through his classical/DJ project Mercury Soul, which has transformed spaces ranging from commercial clubs to Frank Gehry-designed concert halls into exciting, hybrid musical events drawing over a thousand people. Carnegie Hall’s 2012-2013 season opens with Riccardo Muti leading the Chicago Symphony in Alternative Energy, an “energy symphony” that spans four movements and hundreds of years. Premiered last season to rave reviews, the work subsequently toured California and receives its Canadian premiere in February by the Toronto Symphony. A new violin concerto for Anne Akiko Meyers and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra premieres in December under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, and the PSO will perform many of Bates’ works as he serves as Composer of the Year. This season, the Houston Ballet premieres a major new ballet to The B-Sides, a dance suite that drops into five surreal landscapes that has been performed around the country since its San Francisco Symphony premiere. And the Phoenix Symphony presents two of his works this season — Desert Transport, which conjures a helicopter trip over the Arizona landscape, and a new song cycle for soprano and orchestra. While Bates often performs the electronica onstage with orchestras, dozens of repeat performances of his symphonic music happen without him, demonstrating how electronics can act as a new section in the orchestra with little logistical effort. A good example is Mothership, which premiered at the Sydney Opera House by the YouTube Symphony to an
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online audience of 1.8 million; it will appear on symphonic programs across the country this season. Many purely acoustic works complement his diverse catalogue, such as Sirens, an a cappella work touring with the superstar chorus Chanticleer. The solo piano work White Lies for Lomax, commissioned by Tanglewood Music Center, won the Van Cliburn Composers Invitational and is heard regularly on recitals. A new string quartet premiered by the Del Sol Quartet at the 2012 Cabrillo Festival receives its Bay Area premiere this December. A great deal of his music has been performed by the musicians of Young Concert Artists, the acclaimed New York organization where he served as composer-in-residence. Bringing classical music to new audiences is a central part of Bates’ activities as a curator, be it through residencies with institutions such as the Chicago Symphony’s MusicNOW series, or in alternative spaces with Mercury Soul. A collaboration with director Anne Patterson and Maestro Benjamin Shwartz, Mercury Soul embeds sets of classical music into a fluid evening of DJing and immersive stagecraft. Soldout performances from San Francisco’s famed Mezzanine club to Miami’s New World Symphony have brought a new vision of the listening experience to widespread audiences, and this season it returns to Chicago’s Metro with members of the Chicago Symphony, as well as to Pittsburgh’s Static. For more info, go to www.masonbates.com. These performance mark Bates’ debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
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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! MAESTRO’S CIRCLE
Philip & Melinda Beard Noah Bendix-Balgley Michael & Sherle Berger Anonymous GUARANTOR’S Michael & Carol Bleier Mr. & Mrs. Juergen Mross Ted & Kathie Bobby Musicians of the Pittsburgh CIRCLE $10,000 - $14,999 Symphony Orchestra Ms. Spencer Boyd Anonymous Dick & Ginny Simmons Dr. Alan & Marsha Bramowitz Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Usher Michele & Pat Atkins Benno & Connie Bernt Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Brent Nadine E. Bognar Larry & Tracy Brockway BENEFACTOR’S CIRCLE Kathryn & Michael Bryson Barbara & David Burstin $50,000 - $99,999 Jane & Rae R. Burton Dr. & Mrs. Sidney N. Busis Anonymous Dr. Rebecca J. Caserio James & Margaret Byrne Mr. William F. Benter Rich & Scheryl Harshman Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Calihan Roy & Susan Dorrance Robert W. & Elizabeth C. James C. Chaplin Kampmeinert Audrey & Jerry McGinnis Joseph* & Virginia Cicero Nancy & Jeff Leininger Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Mr. & Mrs. E. V. Clarke Devin & Shannon Arthur & Barbara Weldon Mr.* & Mrs. Eugene Cohen McGranahan Estelle Comay & Bruce Rabin Janet & Donald Moritz FOUNDER’S CIRCLE Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Richard E. & Alice S. Patton $25,000 - $49,999 Ruby A. Cunningham Bob & Joan Peirce Anonymous Jerry & Mimi Davis Pauline Santelli Mr. & Mrs. James R. Agras Alison H. & Patrick D. Deem The David S. & Karen A. Bill & Loulie Canady Philip J. & Sherry S. Dieringer Shapira Foundation Randi & L. Van V. Dauler, Jr. John P. & Elizabeth L. Surma Dr. James H. Duggan & Mary E. Duggan Steven G. & Beverlynn Elliott Jill & Craig Tillotson Mr. William J. Fetter Mr. & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon Ellen & Jim Walton Mr. & Mrs. Milton Fine Marcia M. Gumberg Dr. & Mrs. Merrill F. Wymer Terri H. Fitzpatrick Drue Heinz Robert & Jeanne Gleason Elsie & Henry Hillman DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Mrs. Lee C. Gordon Audrey R. Hughes $7,500 - $9,999 Marjorie Burns Haller Rick & Laurie Johnson Allen Baum & Elizabeth Gail & Gregory Harbaugh Steve & Brenda Witzke-Baum Schlotterbeck Christiane & Manfred Betty Diskin in memory of Honeck Tom & Jamee Todd Arthur, William & Robert Diskin Mrs. Milton G. Hulme Jon & Carol Walton Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Elizabeth S. Hurtt Helge & Erika Wehmeier Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. James & Susanne Wilkinson Donahue Dr. & Mrs. Martin Earle Jamison, Jr. Caryl & Irving Halpern Barbara Jeremiah CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE John H. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Craig Jordan $20,000 - $24,999 Joseph & Dorothy Jackovic Mr. & Mrs. R. Drew Kistler Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brooks D. H. Lee, Jr. Jean & Sigo Falk Robinson Anne Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot Alece & David Schreiber Doris L. Litman Tom & Dona Hotopp James & Janet Slater Mr. Sheldon Marstine Mr. & Mrs. Thomas $15,000 - $19,999 $5,000 - $7,499 McConomy Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Anonymous Robert & Dana McCutcheon Churchill Alan L. & Barbara B. Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. Ron & Dorothy Chutz Ackerman McGuinn James K. & Sara C. Donnell Dan & Kay Barker Marilyn & Allan Meltzer Douglas B. McAdams $100,000+
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David & Carol McCormish Joanne B. Rogers
Sam Michaels Robert D. Mierley Family Foundation II Sally Minard & Walter Limbach 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 Dr. & Mrs. William R. Poller in honor of our four grandsons Mr. & Mrs. John R. & Svetlana S. Price Ms. Mary Alice Price Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer Millie & Gary Ryan Nancy Schepis Robert & Janet Squires Marcia & Dick Swanson Mrs. Carol H. Tillotson Jane F. Treherne-Thomas Dr. Michael J. White & Mr. Richard LeBeau Nozomi Williams in Honor of Sally Webster and Susan Bassett Rachel & Franny Wymard Robert P. Zinn & Dr. Darlene Berkovitz AMBASSADOR’S CIRCLE $2,500 - $4,999
Anonymous (10) Barbara & Marcus Aaron, II Dr. & Mrs. John C. Barber Dr. & Mrs. David Beaudreau David Blair & Marianne Bokan-Blair Marian & Bruce Block Don & Judy Borneman Mrs. William A. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Brand Hugh & Jean Brannan Gary & Judy Bruce Charles* & Patricia Burke Gene & Sue Burns
Mary Ellen Miller Barbara & Eugene Myers Maurice & Nancy Nernberg Dr. & Mrs. Michael L. Nieland Fritz Okie H. Ward & Shirley Olander Dr. Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. & Linda Shooer Osial Robert & Lillian Panagulias Drs. J. Parrish & C. Siewers Eric & Sharon Perelman Mr. & Mrs. William C. Pohlmann Doctors Mary & Raymond Pontzer Richard E. Rauh James W. & Erin M. Rimmel Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Riordan Mr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Rooney Abby & Reid Ruttenberg Drs. Guy & Mary Beth Salama Donald D. Saxton, Jr. in memory of Barbara Morey Saxton Karen Scansaroli Mrs. Virginia W. Schatz Leonard & Joan Scheinholtz Michael Shefler Kay L. Shirk Dr. Stanley Shostak & Dr. Marcia Landy Paul & Linda Silver Lowell & Jan Steinbrenner Drs. Michael & Beverly Steinfeld Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Stept Theodore & Elizabeth Stern Mr. & Mrs. Frank Talenfeld Margaret Tarpey & Bruce Freeman Dr. Sharon Taylor & Dr. Philip Rabinowitz Richard & Sandra Teodori Judith & Steve Thomas Dr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Thomas Dorothea & Gerald* Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Thompson, II John & Nancy Traina Dr. & Mrs. Konrad M. Weis Carolyn & Richard Westerhoff Seldon & Susan Whitaker Dr.* & Mrs. George R. White Mary Jo Winokur Drs. Barry Wu & Iris Tsung in honor of Louise Wu
Mr. & Mrs. David C. Genter Kenneth & Lillian Goldsmith Dr. & Mrs. Sanford A. Gordon ENCORE CLUB Rick & Stephanie Green $1,500 - $2,499 Mr. & Mrs.* George K. Anonymous (5) Hanna Andrew & Michelle Aloe Lauren Harder & Jason Kass Mrs. Jane Callomon Arkus Jay Frey & Michael Hires Mr. & Mrs. David J. Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Hiteshew Armstrong Natalie & Bill Hoffman Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Clare & Jim Hoke Ms. Elizabeth Bakoss Alysia & Robert Hoyt Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. Balog Dr. & Mrs. John W. Hoyt Mrs. Barbara C. & Mr. Ralph Micki Huff J. Bean, Jr. Mary Lee & Joe Irwin Fred & Sue Bennitt Jeanne & Richard F. Berdik Alice Jane & Paul R.* Jenkins Barbara Johnstone Dr. Michael & Barbara Bianco Jackie & Ley Jones Mr. Michael E. Bielski Mr. & Mrs. Jayant Kapadia Philip & Bernice Bollman Mr. & Mrs. David N. Kaplan Betsy Bossong Gerri Kay Dr. Carole B. Boyd Judge William Kenworthy & Mrs. Lucille Kenworthy Gary & Connie Brandenberger Gloria Kleiman Mr. & Mrs. James H. James & Jane Knox Bregenser Ms. Dawn Kosanovich Lawrence R. Breletic & Alice & Lewis Kuller Donald C. Wobb George & Alexandra Kusic Jill & Chuck Brodbeck Father Ronald P. Lengwin Myron David Broff Sally Levin Roger & Lea Brown Claire & Larry Levine Howard & Marilyn Bruschi Dr. Michael Lewis & Dr. David L. Buchta & Harmon Katia Sycara K. Ziegler Roslyn M. Litman Dr. Bernadette G. Callery* & Tom & Gail Litwiler Dr. Joseph M. Newcomer George & Jane Mallory Susan S. Cercone Dr. Richard Martin in Ms. Jensina A. Chutz memory of Mrs. Lori Mrs. Arthur L. Coburn, III Martin Christine & Howard Cohen Carolyn Maue & Bryan Hunt Mark & Sherri Cohen Jean H. McCullough Patricia Cover Alan & Marilyn McIvor Rose & Vincent A. Crisanti Sherman & Sue McLaughlin Marion S. Damick Susan Lee Meadowcroft Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Dell William J. Mehaffey Armand C. Dellovade Jim & Susan Morris in Honor Linda & Robert Ellison of Kay Stolarevsky Ms. Kelly G. Estes & Mr. Lesa B. Morrison, Ph. D Hank Snell Dr. & Mrs. Etsuro K. Mr. & Mrs. James A. Fisher Motoyama Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Fisher Constance Nelson Chauncey & Magdaline Charles & Lois Norton Frazier Mr. & Mrs. Patrick M. Dr. & Mrs. J. William Futrell O’Donnell Keith & Susan Garver Dr. Karl R. Olsen & Dr. Martha E. Hildebrandt Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Gebhardt Ellen Ormond Alice V. Gelormino Warren & Rena Ostlund Naomi Yoran Harvey & Florence Zeve Dorothea K. Zikos
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Mr. & Mrs. Frank V. Cahouet Gail & Rob Canizares Roger* & Judy Clough Charles C. Cohen & Michele M. McKenney Bill & Cynthia Cooley Cyert Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. G. A. Davidson, Jr. Ms. Jamini Davies Ada & Stanford* Davis Jim* & Peggy Degnan Barry & June Dietrich James N. Dill, Jr. Mr. Frank R. Dziama Frederick & Ruth Egler Marlene & Louis Epstein Donna & Bob Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Hans Fleischner Kim Tillotson Fleming J. Tomlinson Fort Janet M. Frissora Dina & Jerry Fulmer Gary & Joanne Garvin Mrs. Merle Gilliand Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. & Susan Gluckman Nancy Goeres & Michael Rusinek George & Jane Greer Mr. & Mrs. George V. Grune, Jr. William & Victoria Guy Mr. & Mrs.* Charles H. Harff Carolyn Heil Dr. & Mrs. Allen Hogge Dorothy A. Howat Hyman Family Foundation Leo & Marge Kane Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. Sydelle Kessler Charles & Kathleen Kovac Andrew J. Kozusko, III, Esq. & Kristin M. Kozusko Cliff & Simi Kress Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lane Judith & Lester* Lave Dr. Joseph & AnnaMae Lenkey Arthur S. Levine, M.D. & Linda S. Melada In Memory of Elliott (Bud) Lewis Barry Lhormer & Janet Markel Mr.* & Mrs. Howard M. Love Ted & Mary Lou Magee James C. & Jennifer Martin Dave & Kathy Maskalick Victoria & Alicia McGinnis George & Bonnie Meanor
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Dr. Paul M. Palevsky & Dr. Sharon R. Roseman Mr. & Mrs. James Parker Seth & Pamela Pearlman Dale & Michele Perelman Connie & Mike Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Edward V. Randall, Jr. Cheryl & James Redmond Dr. Tor Richter in memory of Elizabeth W. Richter Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Mr. Stephen Robinson Dr. Lee A. & Rosalind* Rosenblum Dr. Joel S. Rozen Rich & Linda Ruffalo Judy & Stanley Ruskin Dr. James R. Sahovey Juerg X. Saladin Thomas & Perri Schelat Joseph Schewe, Jr. Mr.* & Mrs. K. George Schoeppner Esther Schreiber Jolie Schroeder Dr. Nicholas Schulz & Dr. Brigitte Schmidt Dr. Allan & Mrs. Brina D. Segal Preston & Annette Shimer Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Shoop, Jr. Dr. Ralph T. Shuey & Ms. Rebecca L. Carlin Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Dr. & Mrs. Dennis P. Slevin Manny H. & Ileane Smith Marisa & Walter C. Smith Mrs. Alice R. Snyder Sandy & Mr. Edgar Snyder Hon. & Mrs. William L. Standish Lewis M. Steele & Ann Labounsky Steele Barbara & Lou Steiner Jeff & Linda Stengel Fred & Maryann Steward Dick & Thea Stover C. Dean Streator Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Stroebel Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Ticknor Mr. & Mrs. Walter W. Turner Drs. Ben Van Houten & Victoria Woshner Bob & Denise Ventura Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Vismor Jim Walker & Jonnie Viakley Dr. Ronald J. & Patricia J. Wasilak Ms. Sally Webster & Ms. Susan Bassett 44
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Mr. & Mrs. Thomas White Elizabeth & Frank L. Wiegand, III Sarah C. Williams & Joseph Wilson, III Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Witmer Ellie & Joe Wymard Miriam L. Young Mr. & Mrs. Isaias Zelkowicz Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zellefrow SYMPHONY CLUB $500 - $1,499
Anonymous (28) Mrs. Ernest Abernathy Drs. Frederic & Deborah Acevedo Mary Beth Adams Dr. & Mrs. Siamak Adibi Judy Brody & Lawrence Adler R. Ward Allebach & Lisa D. Steagall David & Andrea Aloe Dr. Madalon Amenta Donald & Kathleen Anderson Mrs. Doris Anderson Craig & Dawn Andersson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Angerman The Rev. Drs. A. Gary & Judy Angleberger Joan Frank Apt Warren J. Archer & Madeline C. Archer Janice Argabright & Nicholas Brown James & Susanne Armour Ruth Bachman in Memory of James Bachman Mrs. Donna L. Balewick Mr. & Mrs. Robert Y. Ball Lorraine E. Balun Dr. Esther L. Barazzone Richard C. Barney Robert & Loretta Barone Robert Bastress & Barbara Fleischauer Dr. & Mrs. R.C. Bauer Robert W. & Janet W. Baum John & Betsy Baun Barbara N. Baur Vitasta Bazaz & Sheen Sehgal Fund in Memory of Dr. Kuldeep Sehgal Kenneth & Elsa Beckerman Nick & Dotty Beckwith Yu-Ling & Gregg Behr Vange & Nick Beldecos Judith Bell
Edgar & Betty Belle Bendix-Balgley Fund of the Tides Foundation Rudy & Barbara Benedetti Eleanor H. Berge Dr. Peter & Judy Berkowitz Mrs. Georgia Berner & Mr. James Farber Ms. Robin Joan Bernstein & Mr. H. Seigle Don Berry Dr. & Mrs. Albert W. Biglan Harry S. Binakonsky, M.D. Franklin & Bonnie Blackstone Mr. & Mrs. W. Gerald Blaney Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Blansett, Jr. Joseph & Shirley Bonner Dana & Margaret Bovbjerg Dr. & Mrs. A’Delbert Bowen Matthew & Leslie Braksick Robert N. Brand Mr. & Mrs. William H. Brandeis David Braun Gerda & Abe Bretton Mary & Russell Brignano Mary L. Briscoe Suzy & Jim Broadhurst 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 Lois R. Brozenick John T. Buckley & Emily J. Rosenthal Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Burchfield William Burchinal Timothy & Linda Burke Dr. & Mrs. John A. Burkholder Mr. & Mrs. James Burnham Rev. Glen H. & Carol Burrows Dr. Stuart S. Burstein Michael F. Butler James & Judith Callomon Susan Campbell & Patrick Curry Andrés Cárdenes & Monique Mead Dr. & Mrs. Albert Caretto, Jr. Richard & Jeanne Carter Charles & Donna Cashdollar James P. Cassaro Sue Challinor & Matt Teplitz
Dr. Thomas S. Chang Peggy & Joe Charny Craig D. Choate Kenneth & Celia Christman Dr. & Mrs. Albert E. Chung Mr. & Mrs. William Clarkson William & Elizabeth Clendenning Stuart & Cathryn Coblin Jared L. & Maureen B. Cohon Dale Colyer Linda Cook Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Alan Cope Barton & Teri Cowan Susan O. Cramer John D. & Laurie B. Culbertson Zelda Curtiss Cynthia Custer Mrs. John C. Cutler* Dr. & Mrs. Richard Daffner Mr. & Mrs. Walter Damian Joan & Jim Darby Mr. & Mrs. William J. Darr Norina H. Daubner Joan Clark Davis Joan & David Dawson Alfred R. de Jaager Bruce & Rita Decker Charles S. Degrosky Captain Ronald M. Del Duca, USN (ret.) Lynn & David DeLorenzo Ms. Alice Demmler Dr. Jau-Shyong Deng Valerie DiCarlo Mr. & Mrs. Victor J. DiCarlo Elaine A. Dively Mrs. Tika Dickos Jerome A. Dixon Mr. & Mrs. Todd Donovan Mr. & Mrs. James R. Drake Anthony V. Dralle Mary Jo Dressel Robert & Lora Lee Duncan Jeff & Wendy Dutkovic Mary Jane Edwards Eugene & Katrin Engels Roger & Beverly Engle Arnold & Eva Engler Tibey & Julian Falk Dr. & Mrs.* John H. Feist Henry & Ann Fenner Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Madelyn & John Fernstrom Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Ms. Janet Fesq Marvin C. Fields
Margaret L. Groninger Mr. Matteo Gruelle Ira & Anita Gumberg Dr. Alberto M. Guzman Jerome P. & Claire* B. Hahn Marnie & Jim Haines Mr. & Mrs. Van Beck Hall Rev. Diana D. Harbison Susan & David Hardesty Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Harris Mrs. Mary O. Harrison Ms. Christine A. Hartung Jana & Fil Hearn Cathy & John Heggestad Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Heidenreich Ms. Martha S. Helmreich in Honor of my mother, Anne J. Schaff Eric & Lizz Helmsen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Henderson Paul Hennigan Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Hepler Thelma & Andrew Herlich Bob & Georgia Hernandez Marianne & Marshall Hess Douglas & Antionette Hill Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hill Dr. Joseph & Marie Hinchcliffe Ms. Donna Hoffman & Mr. Richard Dum Philo & Erika Holcomb Katherine Holter Dr. & Mrs. Elmer J. Holzinger Ms. Madeleine Hombosky Michael E. Hooten 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 Robert & Gail Hunter Joan M. Hurrell Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Hyland, Jr. George L. Illig, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David Iwinski, Jr. Lynne & Blair Jacobson Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Willcox Jenkins Dawn M. Johnson Tom & Cathie Johnson Tom & Wendy Jones in Honor of Chris Wu Greg & Ellen Jordan
Richard & Barbara Kahlson Alice & Richard Kalla Julie & Jeffrey* Kant Dr. & Mrs. Peter D. Kaplan Martin & Donna Keane Flo & Bob Kenny Rhian Kenny Ruth Ann & Eugene Klein Peggy C. Knott Ms. Marilyn Koch Madeline Kramer in Memory of Fred Kramer Helen Aldisert & William L. Krayer Mr. & Mrs. A. Frederick Kroen Mr. & Mrs. John Krolikowski Robert A. & Alice Kushner Mr. Nicholas Kyriazi Betty Lamb Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. Lang Ronald & Lida Larsen Earl & Marilyn Latterman 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. Phillip & Leslie Liebscher Robert & Janet Liljestrand Elsa Limbach Mr. & Mrs. Kurt L. Limbach Mr. & Mrs. James T. Linaberger Lawrence & Jacqueline Lobl Margery J. Loevner Don & Hanne Lorch Mrs. Sybil S. Lowy William & Helen Lyons Francis & Debbie Lynch Daphne & John Lynn Dr. Guinevere R. Mabunay Pat & Don MacDonald William & Nora MacDonald Neil & Ruth MacKay Hank & June Mader Mrs. George J. Magovern, Jr. John K. Maitland Mr. & Mrs. Robert Malnati Carl & Alexis Mancuso Ellen Mandel & Lawrence Weber Mr. & Mrs. Bernard S. Mars Helen F. Mathieson Dr. William Matlack & Leslie Crawford Matlack
Kenneth & Dr. Carol N. Maurer Ms. Sidney F. McBride Mr. & Mrs. Jon W. McCarter McCarthy Rail Insurance Managers, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. McChesney David & Carol McClenahan Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Mary C. McCormick Margaret S. McCoy Mrs. Samuel K. McCune Mary A. McDonough Keith McDuffie Kent & Martha McElhattan Mary & R. Lee McFadden Mr. & Mrs. Michael H. McGarry Margaret J. McGowan Carol Jean McKenzie Jean & John McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. William P. Meehan Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Mellon Barbara Sachnoff Mendlowitz In Memory of William C. Menges Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Merriman Robert & Elizabeth Mertz Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Mrs. William Metcalf, III. Mr. & Mrs. Roger F. Meyer Bridget & Scott Michael Dr. & Mrs. Milton M. Michaels Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton Robert & Miriam Miller Mr. & Mrs. Stuart M. 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
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Albert L. Filoni Dr. Joseph Fine Nancy A. Fitch Paul & Joanna Fitting Ms. Ann P. Flaherty Mr. Mark F. Flaherty Mr. & Mrs. James Flanigan Jan Fleisher Suzanne Flood Edward L. Foley, M.D. Mr. William R. Forsythe Mr. & Mrs. K. H. Fraelich, Jr. Mrs. Natalie H. Friedberg 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 Louise Gaffney-Gross Dr. & Mrs. R. Kent Galey Gamma Investment Corporation Keith & Christine Garbutt Mr. & Mrs. Phil Gasiewicz Joan & Stuart Gaul Pete Geissler Dr. & Mrs. Brian Generalovich Dr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Gerber Mr. & Mrs. William P. Getty Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Getze Josie & Geoff Gibson 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 Mr. Thomas W. Golightly & Rev. 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 Dr. & Mrs. M. Joseph Grennan Mr. & Mrs. Steven Gridley
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Mr. & Mrs.* Albert C. Muse 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 Nan R. Norris Heidi Novak Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Maureen S. O’Brien Dr. & Mrs. Kook Sang Oh Paul & Nancy O’Neill Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Orr Dee Jay Oshry & Bart Rack John A. Osuch Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Doug & Suzanne Owen Pamela & Ronald Pape Mr. & Mrs. William A. Partain Dr. Anthony William Pasculle John & Joan Pasteris Camilla B. Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Pellett Daniel M. Pennell Dr. Jeffrey & Francesca Peters Ms. Dorothy Philipp Mr. & Mrs. Jon R. Piersol Edward & Mary Ellen Pisula Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Porkolab David & Marilyn Posner Mrs. Mildred M. Posvar Shirley Pow Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Prus Mercedes & John Pryce Mrs. Jean Purvis Robert & Mary Jo Purvis Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Queenan, Jr. Fran Quinlan Dr. * & Mrs. Donald H. Quint Ms. Barbara Rackoff Betty Radvak-Shovlin James & Carol Randolph Barbara M. Rankin Dave & Joan Reale Mr. Joseph J. Regna, Jr. Paul & Dorothy Reiber Eric & Frances Reichl Ms. Diana Reid Mr. & Mrs. John Renton Carol & Patrick R. Riley Mavis & Norman Robertson Edgar R. & Betty A. Robinson Mr. William M. Robinson Sharon & Jim Rohr Mr. & Mrs. C. Arthur Rolander 46
Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Rom Elaine Rosecrans Janice G. Rosenberg Pinchas Rosenberg Shoshana & Jerry Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Byron W. Rosener, III Mrs. Louisa Rosenthal Carol & Scott Rotruck Dr. & Mrs. Wilfred T. Rouleau Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Edmund S. Ruffin, III Mr. R. Douglas Rumbarger Mrs. John M. Sadler Tamiko Sampson Dr. & Mrs. Isamu Sando Dr. Carlos R. Santiago Stephen & Susan Sargent Mr. & Mrs. Ferd Sauereisen Sally & Keith Saylor Charlie Ward & Marita Schardt Albert & Kathleen Schartner Ann & Bill Scherlis Dr. Melvin & Catherine Schiff Mr. & Mrs. George Schneider Shirley Schneirov Marvin & Fran Schreiber Bernie & Cookie Soldo Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Harry W. Schurr, II. Urban Schuster Mary Ann Scialabba Robert & Sharon Sclabassi George & Marcia Seeley Mr. & Mrs. David P. Segel Ms. Robin Joan Bernstein & Mr. H. Seigle 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 Rhoda & Seymour Sikov Marjorie K. Silverman Mr. Frank Simpkins Marilyn & Norman A. Sindler Ms. Ann Slonaker Elaine & William Smith Kathleen Opat Smith Margaret C. Smith Nancy N. Smith Wallace & Patricia Smith
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 R. Palmer Spierling* Richard C. Spine & Joyce Berman Henry Spinelli Janet H. Staab Jim & Judy Stalder Patricia D. Staley Gary & Charlene Stanich Dr. James G. Staples Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Stayer Bronna & Harold Steiman Edward & Rebecca Stephan Dr. & Mrs. Ron Stoller In Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Mona & E.J. Strassburger 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 Paul Teplitz Mr. & Mrs. George H. Thompson, Sr. Bob & Bette Thomson Gail & Jim Titus Denny & Colleen Travis Mr. & Mrs. Clifton C. Trees Rosalyn & Albert Treger Mr. Albert Trezza Paul A. Trimmer Jeff & Melissa Tsai Eric & Barbara Udren Diane & Dennis Unkovic Theo & Pia Van De Venne Suzan M. Vandertie Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Vest Cate & Jerry Vockley Bill & Sue Wagner Wagner Family Charitable Trust Suzanne & Richard Wagner C. Robert Walker John & Irene Wall Mr. W.L. & Dr. B.H. Ward Tony & Pat Waterman Drs. John & Carla Weidman
Elaine Weil William C. Weil Jodi & Andrew Weisfield Norman & Marilyn Weizenbaum Mr. & Mrs. James P. Welch J.B. Weller Frank & Heide Wenzel Mrs. Louis A. Werbaneth Nancy Werner Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Westerberg James Whitehead Dr. Philip M. Wildenhain & Dr. Sarah L. Wildenhain 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 Marie & Daniel Winschel Sheryl & Bruce Wolf Sidney & Tucky Wolfson Rufus J. Wysor Mark & Judy Yogman Ms. Susan Yohe Marlene & John Yokim Dr. & Mrs. Jack Yorty Alice L. Young Hugh D. & Alice C. Young Dr. & Mrs. Richard E. Young Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ziatek Simone Ziegler Mrs. Patricia M. Zimba The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra would like to thank the generous individuals whose gifts we cannot recognize due to space constraints. Please read their names on our website at pittsburghsymphony.org. Current as of Nov. 8, 2012 *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 Bruce Family Foundation Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of The Buhl Foundation The Jack Buncher Foundation Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable and Educational Trust Compton Family Foundation The Rose Y. and J. Samuel Cox Charitable Fund 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. Goldberg Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Grable Foundation Hansen Foundation The Heinz Endowments Elsie H. Hillman Foundation The Emma Clyde Hodge Memorial Fund May Emma Hoyt Foundation Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation Roy A. Hunt Foundation Eugene F. and Margaret Moltrup Jannuzi Foundation Roy F. Johns, Jr. Family Foundation Howard G. and Frances Y. Jones Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Thomas Marshall Foundation Massey Charitable Trust Ruth Rankin McCullough Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation William V. and Catherine A. McKinney Charitable Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Richard King Mellon Foundation Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International Howard and Nell E. Miller Foundation Phyllis and Victor Mizel Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Charles M. Morris Charitable Trust National Endowment for the Arts Vernon C. Neal & Alvina B. Neal Fund 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 The Platt Family Foundation Norman C. Ray Trust The Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation The William Christopher & Mary Laughlin Robinson Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Ryan Memorial 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 Wallace Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Robert and Mary Weisbrod Foundation Hilda M. Willis Foundation Phillip H. and Betty L. Wimmer Family Foundation
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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
The Frank E. Rath-Spang & Company Charitable Trust Hefren-Tillotson Trumbull Corporation and P.J. Dick Incorporated
SILVER CIRCLE $5,000 - $9,999 AlphaGraphics in the Cultural District Ansaldo STS USA Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC DIAMOND CIRCLE Calgon Carbon Corporation $40,000 - $74,999 Chesapeake Energy First National Bank of Corporation Pennsylvania PPG Industries Foundation The Common Plea Catering Inc. Eat’n Park Restaurants PLATINUM CIRCLE Ernst & Young LLP $20,000 - $39,999 Federated Investors, Inc. Acusis Huntington Bank Alcoa Foundation KPMG LLP Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Federal Home Loan Bank of Levin Furniture MEDRAD Pittsburgh Morgan Stanley Giant Eagle Mylan Pharmaceuticals H. J. Heinz Company Nordstrom Foundation Oliver Wyman Macy’s Foundation PwC MSA Reed Smith LLP Peoples Natural Gas Ruth’s Chris Steak House Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. Schreiber Industrial Development Co. Triangle Tech Group 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 Foundation Cipriani & Werner PC American Environmental Deloitte LLP Services, Inc. Dominion Resources Bayer USA Foundation ELG Haniel Metals Corp. Bobby Rahal Automotive Elite Coach Transportation Group Fort Pitt Capital Group Citigroup Koppers Delta Air Lines, Inc. Lighthouse Electric Dollar Bank Company, Inc. Ernst & Young LLP MARSH USA Inc. Fairmont Pittsburgh & Mascaro Construction Habitat Restaurant Company 48
Mozart Management NexTier Bank Northwest Savings Bank 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 Attorneys at Law Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. ESB 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. PARTNER LEVEL $500 - $999 Allegheny Valley Bank Bombardier
Bridges & Company, Inc. Cantor & Pounds Dental Associates Consolidated Communications Crawford Ellenbogen LLC Fancy’s Folly First Commonwealth Bank Flaherty & O’Hara, P.C. General Wire Spring Co. Goehring, Rutter & Boehm Hamill Manufacturing Company Hertz Gateway Center, LP The Hite Company Hoffman Electric Inc. Horovitz, Rudoy & Roteman LLC K&I Sheet Metal, Inc. Lucas Systems, Inc. Marstrand Industries, Inc. Metso Minerals Industries, Inc. Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP Attorneys at Law Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Modany-Falcone, Inc. Modern Reproductions, Inc. Neville Chemical Company Pittsburgh Wool Company Inc. Pzena Investment Management, LLC Scott Metals Inc. Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Triad USA Tube City IMS, LLC Wagner Agency, Inc. Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research, Inc. We would like to thank all corporations that contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Please see our website at pittsburghsymphony.org for a complete listing. Current as of Nov. 12, 2012
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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, 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 50
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 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
Mr. Sid Kaplan* Lois S. Kaufman Miss Virginia Kaufman* Stephen & Kimberly Keen Mr. Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. Ms. Bernadette Kersting Dr. Laibe A.* & Sydelle Kessler Walter C. Kidney* John W. Kovic, Jr.* Mildred Koetting* Raymond Krotec* Mr.* & Mrs.* G. Christian Lantzsch Stanley & Margaret Leonard Frances F. Levin Margaret M. Levin* Martha Mack Lewis* 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 * Catherine Missenda Ms. Jean L. Misner Dr. Mercedes C. Monjian Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Mooney Dr. Michael Moran* Perry* & BeeJee Morrison
Mildred S. Myers Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Eda M. Nevin* Rhonda & Dennis Norman Rose Noon* Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. M.D. Irene G. Otte* Mrs. Dorothy R. Rairigh* Barbara M. Rankin Richard E. Rauh Cheryl & James Redmond Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Yvonne V. Riefer* Martha Robel* Donald & Sylvia Robinson Mr. & Mrs. David M. Roderick Mr.* & Mrs. William R. Roesch Charlotta Klein Ross Harvey and Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Ryan Virginia Schatz Nancy Schepis In Memory of Isaac Serrins from Mrs. Isaac Serrins Michael Shefler Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Simmons Audrey I. Stauffer* Dr. & Mrs. Leonard A. Stept In Honor of Dr. Raymond Stept from His Loving Family Mrs. Margaret Stouffer in Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore In Loving Memory of Father and Grandfather William Steinberg from Silvia Tennenbaum & Family Richard C. Tobias* Tom & Jamee Todd
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 Jean & Sigo Falk TRIBUTE PROGRAM Principal Librarian Chair The Sid Kaplan Memorial Endowed Principal Piccolo Hallway given by David Chair, given to honor Kaplan in appreciation Frank and Loti Gaffney of generous gifts commemorating family William & Sarah Galbraith First Violin Chair and friends The Estate of Olga T. Gazalie In Honor of Dr. Raymond First Violin Chair Stept from his loving Ira & Nanette Gordon family – The Gracky Fund for In Honor of Mariss & Irina Education & Community Jansons and friendship Engagement from Dr. Laibe* & Sydelle Susan S. Greer Memorial Kessler Trumpet Chair, given by Honoring my dear friend, Peter Greer Marvin Hamlisch, from William Randolph Hearst Mina Kulber Endowed Fund for In Loving Memory of Education Martin Smith, PSO Horn, Vira I. Heinz Music Director 1980-2005, from his siblings Todd Smith, Judy Chair Dupont, & Susan Noble Principal Pops Conductor Chair Endowed by Henry & Elsie Hillman ENDOWED CHAIRS Tom & Dona Hotopp Principal Horn Chair, given by an Anonymous Donor Principal Bass Chair Milton G. Hulme, Jr. Guest First Violin Chair, given Conductor Chair given by by Allen H. Berkman in Mine Safety Appliances memory of his beloved Company wife, Selma Wiener Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Jones Berkman III, Principal Keyboard Chair
Virginia Kaufman Resident Conductor Chair, Lawrence Loh Stephen & Kimberly Keen Bass Chair G. Christian Lantzsch & Duquesne Light Company Principal Second Violin Chair Mr. & Mrs. William Genge and Mr. & Mrs. James E. Lee Principal Bassoon Chair Nancy & Jeffery Leininger First Violin Chair Edward D. Loughney Co-Principal Trumpet Fiddlesticks Family Concert Series Endowed by Gerald & Audrey McGinnis Honoring The Center for Young Musicians Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Cello Chair Dr. William Larimer Mellon, Jr. Principal Oboe Chair, given by Rachel Mellon Walton Messiah Concerts Endowed by the Howard and Nell E. Miller Chair Donald I. & Janet Moritz and Equitable Resources, Inc. Associate Principal Cello Chair The Perry & BeeJee Morrison String Instrument Loan Fund The Morrison Family Associate Principal Second Violin Chair Jackman Pfouts Principal Flute Chair, given in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Jackman by Barbara Jackman Pfouts Pittsburgh Symphony Association Principal Cello Chair Reed Smith Chair honoring Tom Todd Horn Chair James W. & Erin Rimmel Percussion Chair Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Oboe Chair Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation Guest Conductor Chair Martha Brooks Robinson Principal Trumpet Chair
Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Silberman Principal Clarinet Chair Mr. and Mrs. Willard J. Tillotson, Jr. Viola Chair Tom & Jamee Todd Principal Trombone Chair Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair, given by Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife Jacqueline Wechsler Horn Chair given in memory of Irving (Buddy) Wechsler Barbara Weldon Principal Timpani Chair Hilda M. Willis Foundation Flute Chair Thomas H. & Frances Witmer Assistant Principal Horn Chair The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra would like to thank the generous individuals whose gifts we cannot recognize due to space constraints. Please read their names on our website at pittsburghsymphony.org.
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Mr.* & Mrs. Gideon Toeplitz Mrs. Jane Treherne-Thomas Eva & Walter J. Vogel Mr. & Mrs. George L. Vosburgh In Memory of Isaac Serrins from Mr. & Mrs. Ira Weiss David G. Weiss* Brian Weller Donald Frederick Wahl* Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Sara Cancelliere Wiegand * James & Susanne Wilkinson Mr.* & Mrs.* Arnold D. Wilner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Witmer Patricia L. Wurster Rufus J. Wysor Naomi Yoran Miriam L. Young
Current as of Oct. 10, 2012 *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+
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
Jon & Carol Walton Helge & Erika Wehmeier Thomas H. & Frances M. Witmer
$50,000-$99,999
Benno & Constance Bernt Michael & Carol Bleier Sidney & Sylvia Busis Ann & Frank Cahouet $100,000-$249,999 Ron & Dorothy Chutz Anonymous (4) Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Wendy & David Barensfeld Estate of Olga T. Gazalie in memory of Dr. Robert E. Marvin & Terre Hamlisch 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 Donald I. & Janet Moritz Memorial Fund Mildred S. Myers & William C. EQT Corporation Frederick Falk Foundation & Sigo & Elliott S. Oshry Jean Falk $500,000-$999,999 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot Anonymous (1) Reed Smith LLP Goldman Sachs Gives Dollar Bank Abby & Reid Ruttenberg Ira & Anita Gumberg Roy & Susan Dorrance John P. & Elizabeth L. Surma Hansen Foundation Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Jill & Craig Tillotson William Randolph Hearst Maxwell Foundation Jacquelin G. Wechsler Catharine M. Ryan & John T. Hefren-Tillotson Ryan III H.J Heinz Company $25,000-$49,999 Tom & Jamee Todd Foundation Anonymous (1) Barbara Jeremiah Alan L. & Barbara B. $250,000-$499,999 Rick & Laurie Johnson Ackerman Allegheny Technologies Nancy & Jeff Leininger Astorino Incorporated Edward D. Loughney* Larry & Tracy Brockway Claude Worthington The Estate of Beatrice Benedum Foundation Robert C. Denove Malseed Jim & Carolyn Bouchard The Estate of Joan Dillon Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. Edward S. & Jo-Ann M. Pamela R. & Kenneth B. McGuinn Churchill Dunn Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Martin & Lisa Earle Rachel Mellon Walton Donahue Eichleay Foundation of The Pittsburgh Lillian Edwards Foundation Fund Ernst & Young LLP Foundation Esmark Nancy Goeres & Michael Mr. & Mrs. William E. Mr. & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon Rusinek Rinehart Drue Heinz Trust Ms. Anna Greenberg Bill* & Carol Tillotson Tom & Dona Hotopp The Estate of Donald F. Wahl Stephen & Kimberly Keen G. Christian Lantszch* Mrs. H.J. Levin Samuel & Carrie Arnold Weinhaus Fund Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Michael Baker Corporation McConomy James & Susanne Wilkinson Betty & Granger Morgan Steve & Brenda Hilda M. Willis Foundation The Pittsburgh Foundation Schlotterbeck Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Usher Robinson 52
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
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. Douglas Cameron 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 John & Gertrude Echement Thomas J. Emmerling $1,000-$4,999 Francis & Gene Fairman, III Anonymous (8) In Honor of Ruth Feldman* Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen, & Emil Feldman Sr. Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Mr. Thomas L. Allen Jan Fleisher David & Andrea Aloe Mr. & Mrs. Joseph U. Frye Joan & Jerome* Apt & $5,000-$9,999 Friends & Family of Family Stanford P. Davis Jim & Jane Barthen Michele & Pat Atkins Bruce & Ann Gabler Scott Bell Ms. Linda M. DeArment Dr. R. Kent Galey & Dr. Karen Betsy Bossong John H. Ashton Roche Allan J. & Clementine K. Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Gamma Investment Brodsky Kathleen & Joseph Baird Corporation Roger & Judy Clough Richard C. Barney Kathleen Gavigan & Estelle Comay & Bruce Robert W. & Janet W. Baum William B. Dixon Rabin Mr. & Mrs. James Genstein Philip & Melinda Beard Philip J. & Sherry S. Bernard Goldstein, M.D. & Dieringer Yu-Ling & Gregg Behr Russellyn Carruth Mr. & Mrs. David Patti & Sandy Berman Mr. Thomas W. Golightly & Ehrenwerth Georgia Berner Rev. Carolyn J. Jones Mr. Ian Fagelson Ms. Mary Biagini Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Farmers & Merchants Bank Drs. Barbara & Albert Graham Of Western PA Biglan John F. Gray Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Mr. Stuart Bloch Mr. & Mrs. Frank T. Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Guadagnino Paul E. Block Gebhardt Mrs. Ellen Hagerty Marian & Bruce Block Mr. & Mrs. Frank Grebowski Kristine Haig & John Nadine E. Bognar Gail & Gregory Harbaugh Sonnenday Jim & Debbie Boughner Mr. & Mrs.* Charles H. Harff Deirdre & Brian Henry Mr. & Mrs. David A. Eric & Lizz Helmsen Carol E. Higgins Brownlee Richard & Alice Kalla Adam & Allison Hill Lois R. Brozenick Jack & Virginia Kerr Howard & Marilyn Bruschi Kelvin Hill Douglas W. Kinzey Mr. Carlyle Hoch Doug Burns Cliff & Simi Kress Esther & Terry Horne Burrell Group, Inc. Betty L. Lamb
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas O. Hornstein David & Mary Hughes Hyman Family Foundation Mary Lee & Joe Irwin Vincent J. Jacob Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Jacobs, Jr. Maureen Jeffrey Trust Susan & Wyatt Jenny Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur S. Jones Daniel G. & Carole L. Kamin Leo & Marge Kane Joan M. Kaplan Mr. Navroz J. Karkaria Judge William Kenworthy & Mrs. Lucille Kenworthy Jan & Guari Kiefer Aleta J. & Paul King Karen & Margaret Klimczyk Carly, Catherine & Kim Koza Elaine & Carl Krasik In Memory of Jack Larouere Mike LaRue & Judy Wagner A. Lorraine Laux Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Leech John Lenkey, III Dr. Joseph & AnnaMae Lenkey Frances F. Levin Ken & Hope Linge Tom & Gail Litwiler E.D. Loughney Neil & Ruth MacKay MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, Inc. Mary Lou & Ted N. Magee Andrea & Glenn R. Mahone Carl & Alexis Mancuso Mr.* & Mrs. Perry Manypenny In Memory of Elizabeth & Leonard Martin James C. & Jennifer L. Martin Dave & Kathy Maskalick Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Massaro, Jr. Mr. Samuel A. McClung Mr. & Mrs. Water T. McGough, Jr. George & Bonnie Meanor Marilyn & Allan Meltzer Merrills Family Burl J. F. Moone, III Arthur J. Murphy, Jr.
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Judith & Lester* Lave Carolyn Maue & Bryan Hunt Douglas B. McAdams Alicia & Victoria McGinnis Sam Michaels Mary Ellen Miller Maureen S. O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. O’Brien Orbital Engineering Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. M.D. & Linda E. Shooer Robert & Lillian Panagulias Mr. & Mrs. John R. Price Deborah Rice James W. & Erin M. Rimmel Judy & Stanley Ruskin Max & Tiffany Starks Estate of Audrey I. Stauffer Elizabeth Burnett & Lawrence Tamburri The Estate of Richard C. Tobias Edward L. & Margaret Vogel Mrs. Evette Wivagg Rachel W. Wymard Seldon & Susan Whitaker
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Terrence H. Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Perry Napolitano Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Nussbaum Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Roger & Sarah Parker John & Joan Pasteris Richard E. & Alice S. Patton Camilla B. Pearce & Dan Gee* Joseph & Suzanne Perrino Kears & Karen Pollock Ms. Mary Alice Price Symphony East Barbara Rackoff Bruce S. Reopolos Rhoades-Carraro Family 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
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 Dorothea K. Zikos Current as of Oct. 26, 2012 *deceased
SPECIAL NAMED GIFTS BNY Mellon ........................................................................... Recordings & Electronic Media and Artistic Excellence Programs Benno & Constance Bernt.......................................................................................................................................Stage Right Door Jim & Carolyn Bouchard, Esmark, Inc. ........................................................................................................... Schooltime Concerts Rae & Jane Burton........................................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Basil & Jayne Adair Cox................................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Randi & L. Van V. Dauler, Jr. ............................................................................................. Mozart Room Elevator & Garden Bench William S. Dietrich, II*................................................................................................Endowment for PSO Educational Programs Dollar Bank................................................................................................................................ Community Engagement Concerts Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Donahue.....................................................................................................................Music for the Spirit Roy & Susan Dorrance ......................................................................................................................................Music for the Spirit EQT Corporation.....................................................................Community Engagement & EQT Student Side-By-Side Program Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot......................................................................................................................Grand Piano, Paris Festival Goldman Sachs Gives .......................................................................................................... Community Engagement Concerts Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield ....................................................................................................Music and Wellness Program Elsie & Henry Hillman........................................................The Henry L. Hillman Endowment for International Performances Ms. Seima Horvitz.........................................................................................................................................................Garden Bench David & Melissa Iwinski..............................................................................................................................................Stage Left Door Lillian Edwards Foundation............................................................................................................................Heartstrings Program Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Maxwell .............................................................................................................President and CEO’s Office Pittsburgh Post-Gazette................................................................................................................. Grand Tier Door - Right Center PNC...........................................................................................................................PNC Walkway at Heinz Hall and PNC Tiny Tots Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart ...................................................................................................................................... Grand Piano Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer........................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Catharine M. Ryan & John T. Ryan III ..................................................................................................................Music for the Spirit Alece & David Schreiber...............................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Harvey & Florence Zeve ............................................................................................................................................Garden Bench 54
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Chabad of the South Hills Jewish Center for Living & Learning cordially invites you to our
“Light Up The Night ” Benefit GaLa and CeLeBration featuring
WorLd renoWned VioLiniSt
Andrés Cárdenes former Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony orchestra with Luz Manriquez, piano
Sunday, December 9th, 2012
6:00pm 7:30pm
Cocktails and feast of the nations Buffet dinner Program and featured Performance at the
PittSBurGH Marriott City Center downtown Pittsburgh Couvert $125
to rSVP call 412-344-2424 or log onto www.chabadsh.com
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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. 56
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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