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program October 11, 12 & 13 program.................................................................9 October 11, 12 & 13 program notes................................................... 12 Manfred Honeck biography................................................................ 22 Yulianna Avdeeva biography.............................................................. 24 October 25 & 27 program.................................................................... 27 October 25 & 27 program notes......................................................... 28 Nikolaj Znaider biography................................................................... 32 Noah Bendix-Balgley biography........................................................ 34

Every Gift is instrumental Individuals.............................................................................................. 38 Foundations & Public Agencies.......................................................... 44 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performances are brought to the community in part by generous support from the Allegheny Regional Asset District and corporations, foundations and individuals throughout our community. The PSO receives additional funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works. Radio station WQED-FM 89.3 and WQEJ-FM 89.7 is the official voice of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Tune in Sundays at 8 p.m. for “Pittsburgh Symphony Radio” concert broadcasts hosted by Jim Cunningham.

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Individuals & Heinz Hall Information Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians........................................2 Board of Trustees & Chairman’s Council...............................................3 Jack Heinz Society....................................................................................5 New Leadership Board............................................................................5 Pittsburgh Symphony Association........................................................5 Administrative Staff.................................................................................7 Heinz Hall Information......................................................................... 52

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Andrew Fuller Lorien Benet Hart Claudia Mahave Peter Snitkovsky Albert Tan Rui-Tong Wang viola MUSIC DIRECTOR

Manfred Honeck Endowed by the Vira I. Heinz Endowment

Victor de Sabata Guest Conductor Chair

Gianandrea Noseda

resident conductor

Lawrence Loh

Virginia Kaufman Chair

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Fawzi Haimor first violin

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Randolph Kelly j Cynthia S. Calhoun Chair

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Shanshan Yao B The estate of olga t. gazalie

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Louis Lev d The Morrison Family Chair

Dennis O’Boyle x Laura Motchalov William & Sarah Galbraith Chair

Eva Burmeister Carolyn Edwards

HILDA M. WILLIS FOUNDATION CHAIR

piccolo

bass trombone Murray Crewe j

Frank & Loti Gaffney Chair

tuba

Rhian Kenny j

Pittsburgh Symphony Association Chair

e-flat clarinet

David Premo d Adam Liu x

Jennifer Orchard

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Friday, october 11, 2013 at 8:00 PM Saturday, october 12, 2013 at 8:00 PM Sunday, october 13, 2013 at 2:30 PM

Manfred Honeck, conductor Yulianna Avdeeva, piano Pre-concert

Concert Prelude with Resident Conductor Lawrence Loh

Samuel Barber

Adagio for Strings

Leoš Janáček Symphonic Suite from Jenůfa arr. Manfred Honeck and Tomáš Ille

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

American PREMIERE

Concerto No. 21 in C major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 467

I. Allegro maestoso II. Andante III. Allegro vivace assai Ms. Avdeeva

Intermission

Ms. Avdeeva will be signing in the Grand Lobby

Antonín Dvořák

Symphony No. 8 in G major, Opus 88

I. Allegro con brio II. Adagio III. Allegretto grazioso IV. Allegro ma non troppo

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Samuel Barber

Adagio for Strings (1936 for string quartet; arranged for string orchestra in 1937)

about the composer

Born 9 March 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania; died 23 January 1981 in New York City premiere of QUARTET

Rome, December 1936 Pro Arte Quartet premiere of STRING ORCHESTRA ARRANGEMENT

New York, 5 November 1938; NBC Symphony NBC Radio Network broacast Arturo Toscanini, conductor PSO PREMIERE

3 January 1941 Syria Mosque Fritz Reiner, conductor duration

7 minutes

program notes by Dr. Richard E. Rodda

In 1936, Artur Rodzinski gave the American premiere of Samuel Barber’s Symphony No. 1 in One Movement in Cleveland and played it the following year at the Salzburg Festival, making it the first American work to be heard at that prestigious event. The chief conductor of the Salzburg Festival at that time was Arturo Toscanini, who was to begin his tenure with the NBC Symphony later that year. Toscanini asked Rodzinski if he could suggest an American composer whose work he might program during the coming season, and Rodzinski advised that his Italian colleague investigate the music of the 27-year-old Barber. By October, Barber had completed and submitted to Toscanini the Essay No. 1 for Orchestra and an arrangement for string orchestra of the slow movement from the Quartet (Op. 11, in B minor) he had written in Rome in 1936 — the Adagio for Strings. Toscanini accepted the pieces for performance, and broadcast them on November 5, 1938 with the NBC Symphony. The Adagio, with its plaintive melody, rich modalism, austere texture and introspective mood, was an instant success and remains among Samuel Barber’s greatest legacies.

Leoš Janáček

Symphonic Suite from Jenůfa (1894-1903; arranged by Manfred Honeck and Tomáš Ille in 2013) American Premiere

about the composer

Born 3 July 1854 in Hukvaldy, Moravia; died 12 August 1928 in Ostrava, Moravia premiere of OF OPERA

Brno, 21 January 1904 Brno Theater C.M. Hrazdira, conductor PSO PREMIERE OF SYMPHONIC SUITE

Düsseldorf, 7 September 2013 Tonhalle Manfred Honeck, conductor THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE AMERICAN PREMIERE OF THE SYMPHONIC SUITE

INSTRUMENTATION

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

24 minutes

program notes by Dr. Richard E. Rodda

In the late 1880s, the Czech press reported two incidents that the playwright Gabriela Preissová summarized as follows: “In the first, a lad wounded a girl, his brother’s sweetheart, while slicing cabbage. He wounded her in the face deliberately because he loved her himself. In the second, a woman helped her stepdaughter get rid of the fruits of her love (the girl threw the baby into the sewer).” Following the success of her play The Farm Mistress at the National Theater in Prague in 1889, Preissová was encouraged by the company’s manager to write another drama for them quickly, and she borrowed the two crimes of passion described above as the premises of Her Step-Daughter. Though Her Step-Daughter won favor with audiences upon its premiere on November 9, 1890, it was savaged by the critics, who professed themselves shocked by its brutal realism, and the play was hastily withdrawn by the National Theater. Just two months later, however, in January 1891, Her StepDaughter was staged in Brno, the capital of Moravia, where it was seen by Leoš Janáček, who was then laboring to forge a creative idiom that would capture Moravian life and language in music as had Preissová in her plays. He turned first not to Preissová’s stage works, however, but to one of the short stories from her 1886 collection, Tales from Slovácko (the eastern region of Moravia bordering Slovakia, where the author lived during the 1880s), as the basis for a one-act opera titled The Beginning of a Romance, though that work was largely a pastiche of the folk songs he was collecting at that time. He then took up Her Step-Daughter for a fully original operatic setting, and secured the necessary rights from the author. (Permission to use The Farm Mistress for an opera had already been granted to Josef Bohuslav Foerster, critic, composer and teacher at the Prague Conservatory, who premiered the opera under the title Eva in 1899.) Janáček made his own libretto from Her Step-Daughter, cutting and consolidating the story as necessary, but retaining the distinctive inflections and rhythms of Preissová’s stage dialogue. Janáček was at work on the new opera, his third, by early 1894, calling it Jenůfa to distinguish it from the original play. “He seldom had time for it during the day,” his housekeeper, Marie Stejskalová, recalled, “but he devoted all his free evenings to it. In the morning, I brought a lamp filled with paraffin into his study, the next day I took it away empty. The mistress would look at it: ‘He’s been writing the whole night through again.’ I find it strange that most of Jenůfa was written by the light of a paraffin-

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lamp.” Swamped with teaching, other composing projects, collecting and publishing folk songs, running the city’s music journal, and raising a family, Janáček worked on his opera for the next nine years, sketching, revising, orchestrating and tirelessly shaping his music to the sounds of the Moravian dialect of the text and the tragedy and redemption of the story. The composition of Jenůfa became part of Janáček’s life, and the work took on an intense personal quality as he identified the title character with his own teenage daughter, Olga. “Olga became a young woman during those nine years,” Marie Stejskalová explained, “she began to seek her place in the world. And then came her illness [typhoid fever, contracted in May 1902] and her death — and all that overlaid Jenůfa. The more sick that Olga became, the more obsessed she was with her father’s new opera. And sensitive as he was, he put his pain over Olga into his work, the suffering of his daughter into Jenůfa’s suffering.... The master once came to me: ‘Marie, do you know Zdravas, kralovno [a Czech version of the Salve Regina]? I went to get my prayer book, and looked up Zdravas, kralovno. The master took the book into his study, and after a while I heard the beginning of the song [Jenůfa’s aria in Act II], which has now gone round the world. People weep during it. I think this is because the master’s heart so wept and bled when he wrote Zdravas, kralovno.” Olga’s condition continued to deteriorate as Jenůfa neared completion until her death became imminent. Marie Stejskalová remembered that day, February 26, 1903: “In the afternoon, Olga was quite well. We all sat at her bed. During that time the master was just finishing Jenůfa. The whole time that he composed it, he had to tell Olga about it; she knew it well. Now she asked: ‘Daddy, play me Jenůfa. I will never hear your opera in the theatre.’ The master sat and played. If Olga had asked him to have his hand cut off, if that would have relieved her for a moment, he would have done so at once. When the mistress heard the beginning of Jenůfa, she held her head and ran into the kitchen so as not to burst out crying in front of Olga. The latter lay there peacefully, and without moving listened to the entire opera. The master’s hands trembled, he was white as death, but he went on to the end. When he got up from the piano, Olga said to him: ‘It’s beautiful, what a pity that I won’t see it.’” She died that night, just short of her 21st birthday. “I would bind Jenůfa simply with the black ribbon of the long illness, suffering and laments of my daughter, Olga,” Janáček confided in his memoirs. Jenůfa was premiered in Brno to an enthusiastic reception on January 21, 1904, though the production facilities were barely adequate and the orchestra seriously undermanned. The opera was immediately recognized as a milestone in Czech cultural life, but it took twelve years for the National Theater in Prague, the country’s leading opera house, to agree to stage the work — Janáček, it seems, had offended the company’s director with an injudicious (if justified) review of one of his compositions many years before. Janáček, at age 62, had finally achieved recognition not only as a composer of world stature, but also shown how music could embody the speech and spirit of his beloved homeland. During the remaining twelve years of his life, he created a remarkable series of stage works that contain some of the most powerful music drama ever conceived: Katya Kabanova, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Makropoulos Affair and From the House of the Dead. It was the most remarkable late blossoming by any composer in the history of the art, and its catalyst was the opera into which he almost literally poured his life’s blood: Jenůfa. 14

* * * Jenůfa is set in a remote village in Moravia in the late 1800s. Jenůfa, young and attractive, is loved by two half-brothers, Steva and Laca, but she returns only the affections of Steva, by whom she is pregnant. Laca, still devoted to Jenůfa, hopes that Steva will be conscripted into the army so that he can press his own suit with the girl, but Steva, haughty, often drunk and unrepentant over Jenůfa’s pregnancy, avoids being drafted. At the end of Act I, the jealous Laca, unaware of Jenůfa’s pregnancy and convinced that Steva loves her only for her beauty, slashes her cheek with his knife, and is immediately remorseful. Act II takes place five months later, during winter, in the isolated cottage of Jenůfa’s step-mother, the Kostelnicka (a female sacristan, or keeper of a church’s vessels and vestments; her proper name is not given in the opera), who has hidden Jenůfa through the final months of her pregnancy and the birth of her son, Stevuska, eight days earlier. Jenůfa sits at a sewing table, a scarf covering her scarred cheek. Jenůfa and the Kostelnicka share their anxieties, Jenůfa fussing over the child, the Kostelnicka voicing her disappointment in her step-daughter and suggesting that she pray to God “to take the infant off your hands.” Jenůfa says that she feels faint, and the Kostelnicka sends her off to bed with a sleeping draught. The Kostelnicka, disgusted that the father has not tried to find Jenůfa, summons Steva to her cottage to tell him of his son’s birth and to urge him to marry Jenůfa. He says that his love for Jenůfa vanished when she was disfigured, and that he has become engaged to the mayor’s daughter. He offers to give Jenůfa money for the child, “only please don’t tell everyone it’s mine.” Refusing to see either the mother or the child, Steva runs away as Jenůfa is heard crying out in her sleep. Just as the Kostelnicka asks who will save Jenůfa, Laca enters. He has visited her regularly during the past months, always declaring his love for Jenůfa, whom he has been told is away in Vienna. She reveals that Jenůfa never left the village, but was secluded until she gave birth to Steva’s child, and that Steva has refused to marry her. When Laca, who has never abandoned his desire to marry Jenůfa, worries that he would have to take on Steva’s child as well as a new wife, the Kostelnicka tells him that the infant has died. She sends Laca off on an errand. In a wrenching scene, the Kostelnicka wrestles with her conscience until she decides to drown the baby in the icy mill-stream. She wraps the infant, “the fruit of sin,” in her shawl and rushes out. Jenůfa, still groggy from the sleeping draught, awakes and misses Stevuska, but thinks that the Kostelnicka has taken him to show her friends at the mill. She removes a picture of the Virgin from the wall, places it on the table, kneels, and utters a tender prayer for the protection of her child. The Kostelnicka, shivering and terrified, returns. When Jenůfa asks her about little Stevuska, she replies that he has died while Jenůfa has been unconscious with a fever for two days. Jenůfa resigns herself to her loss, as well as to the news that Steva will marry the mayor’s daughter. Laca returns. Jenůfa thanks him for the kind words she has overheard during his visits, and accepts his ardent proposal of marriage. The Kostelnicka blesses the union, but curses Steva: “Woe to him, and woe to me.” A violent gust of wind blows a window open. The Kostelnicka, deeply troubled, observes that it is “as though death were peering into the house.” Two months later (Act III) the guests arrive at the Kostelnicka’s cottage for the wedding of Jenůfa and Laca. The festivities are interrupted by news that an infant’s body has program notes 2013-2014 season

been found in the thawing mill-stream. The gathering crowd suspects Jenůfa of having drowned her own child, but the Kostelnicka confesses her guilt. Jenůfa is at first furious, but then realizes the profound love that drove her deeply religious stepmother to commit such an act. When the full story is revealed, the mayor’s daughter breaks her engagement to Steva: “There’s no girl who would marry him now.” Jenůfa forgives the Kostelnicka, who is led away by the mayor, and finds comfort in Laca’s abiding love for her. The Symphonic Suite from Jenůfa was arranged in 2013 by Manfred Honeck and Czech composer and guitarist Tomáš Ille (b. 1971), a graduate of the Prague Conservatory and Academy of Music, who has written for concert, film, theater and educational activities. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by the Czech Philharmonic, Czech Nonet, Pilsen Philharmonic and other of the country’s leading soloists and ensembles. Honeck and Ille wrote, “The Suite features typical Czech elements similar to those found in the Dvořák Violin Concerto, including dances and dramatic moments characteristic of Janáček’s style. The instrumentation follows mostly the original instrumentation of Janáček, with a few exceptions. The Suite is in a single movement played without pause and presents gripping and important melodies and dances from the opera. These include: Dance (Act I, Steva and Chorus): Daleko, široko do těch Nových Zámků (‘Far away in the town of Nových Zámků’); Aria (Act II, Jenůfa): Tož umřel můj chlapčok radostný (‘He died then, my darling baby boy’); Dance (Act I, Chorus): Všeci sa ženija (‘They’re all for marrying’); Aria (Act I, Grandmother Buryja): Každý párek si musí svoje trápení přestát (‘Love must always endeavour to triumph o’er misfortune’); Dance (Act III, Chorus): Ej mamko, mamko, maměnko moja! (‘Hey mother, mother, little mother mine!’); Act II, final scene; and Act III, final scene.”

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Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

Concerto No. 21 in C major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 467 (1785)

about the composer

Born 27 January 1756 in Salzburg; died 5 December 1791 in Vienna PREMIERE OF WORK

Vienna, 9 March 1785 National Court Theater Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, soloist PSO PREMIERE OF

28 February 1932 Syria Mosque Antonio Modarelli, conductor Walter Gieseking, soloist INSTRUMENTATION

flute, pairs of oboes, bassoons, horns and trumpets, timpani, and strings duration

29 minutes

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“We never go to bed before one o’clock and I never get up before nine.... Every day there are concerts; and the whole time is given up to teaching, music, composing and so forth. I feel rather out of it all.” Father Leopold Mozart had reached a rather brittle 66th year when he sent these lines off to his daughter, Maria Anna, from Vienna on March 12, 1785, just two days after Wolfgang had premiered his C major Piano Concerto (K. 467) at the Court Theater. Leopold had ventured from Salzburg to the busy Austrian capital city to visit Wolfgang and his wife, and to check on their growing brood, including the most recent addition — Karl Thomas, born the preceding September. (Mozart had six children in the nine years of his marriage; only two survived him.) Leopold wrote to Maria Anna that the new C major Concerto had an excellent reception at its first performance on March 10th. The applause, he allowed, was “deafening,” and the audience was even moved to tears. Amid the acclaim, however, the sensitive, professional musician in Leopold sensed a disturbing element in much of his son’s recent music. He felt that this Concerto was not only “astonishingly difficult,” but that it also held an expressive undercurrent which would not continue to please the Viennese public. The deeply felt emotionalism of the D minor Concerto (K. 466), completed only three weeks earlier, was proving to be not simply an experiment or a temporary aberration, but an integral element in Mozart’s mature style. The Viennese, like Leopold, were bewildered by this music and its incipient Romanticism, and the success of 1785 soon faded. Mozart composed three more piano concertos the following year, but then his subscribers melted away. No longer able to secure support for his own concerts, the need for concertos evaporated, and he wrote only two more during his last five years. By 1785 Mozart was composing his most important works to please only his own Muse. That he did so proved to be a tragedy for him but a treasure for us. The orchestral introduction of the C major Concerto opens with a soft, martial strain for unison strings answered by the winds. Other themes follow in abundance before the entry of the soloist. A brief excursion into the shadowy key of G minor by the pianist leads to the second theme in a brighter key of G major. The Andante is one of Mozart’s most sensually beautiful creations. The muted strings, pulsating accompaniment, exquisite scoring and rich harmonic palette give this movement a dreamlike quality. The sparkling rondo-finale joins the rollicking spirit of the opera buffa and the intensity and wealth of expression of the symphony with the virtuoso elements of the concerto. program notes 2013-2014 season

Antonín Dvořák

Symphony No. 8 in G major, Opus 88 (1889)

about the composer

Born 8 September 1841 in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia; died 1 May 1904 in Prague. PREMIERE OF WORK

Prague, 2 February 1890; National Theater; Prague National Theater Orchestra Antonín Dvořák, conductor PSO PREMIERE OF

2 March 1900 Carnegie Music Hall; Victor Herbert, conductor INSTRUMENTATION

woodwinds in pairs plus piccolo, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani

You would probably have liked Dvořák. He was born a simple (in the best sense) man of the soil who retained a love of country, nature and peasant ways all his life. In his later years he wrote, “In spite of the fact that I have moved about in the great world of music, I shall remain what I have always been — a simple Czech musician.” Few passions ruffled his life — music, of course; the rustic pleasures of country living; the company of old friends; caring for his pigeons; and a child-like fascination with railroads. Milton Cross sketched him thus: “To the end of his days he remained shy, uncomfortable in the presence of those he regarded as his social superiors, and frequently remiss in his social behavior. He was never completely at ease in large cities, with the demands they made on him. Actually he had a pathological fear of city streets and hated to cross a busy thoroughfare if a friend was not with him. He was happiest when he was close to the soil, raising pigeons, taking long, solitary walks in the hills and forests of the Bohemia he loved so deeply. Yet he was by no means a recluse. In the company of his intimate friends, particularly after a few beers, he was voluble, gregarious, expansive and good-humored.” His music reflected his salubrious nature, and the G major Symphony, in its warm emotionalism and pastoral contentment, mirrors its creator. It was composed during Dvořák’s annual summer country retreat at Vysoká, and his happy contentment with his surroundings shines through the music.

and strings duration

36 minutes

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Dvořák was absolutely profligate with themes in the opening movement. In the exposition, which comprises the first 126 measures of the work, there are no fewer than eight separate melodies that are tossed out with an ease and speed reminiscent of Mozart’s fecundity. The first theme is presented without preamble in the rich hues of trombones, low strings and low woodwinds in the dark coloring of G minor. This tonality soon yields to the chirruping G major of the flute melody, but much of the movement shifts effortlessly between major and minor keys, lending a certain air of nostalgia to the work. The opening melody is recalled to initiate both the development and the recapitulation. In the former, it reappears in its original guise and even, surprisingly, in its original key. The recapitulation begins as this theme is hurled forth by the trumpets in a stentorian setting greatly heightened in emotional weight from its former presentations. The coda is invested with the rhythm and high good spirits of an energetic country dance to bring the movement to its rousing ending.The second movement contains two kinds of music, one hesitant and

somewhat lachrymose, the other stately and smoothly flowing. The first is indefinite in tonality, rhythm and cadence; its theme is a collection of fragments; its texture is sparse. The following section is greatly contrasted: its key is unambiguous; its rhythm and cadence points are clear; its melody is a long, continuous span. These two antitheses alternate, and the form of the movement is created as much by texture and sonority as by the traditional means of melody and tonality. The third movement is a lilting essay in the style of the Austrian folk dance, the Ländler. Like the beginning of the Symphony, the movement opens in G minor with a mood of sweet melancholy, but gives way to a languid melody in G major for the central trio. Following the repeat of the scherzo, a vivacious coda in faster tempo paves the way to the finale. The trumpets herald the start of the finale, a theme and variations with a central section resembling a development in character. The bustling second variation returns as a sort of formal mile-marker — it introduces the “development” and begins the coda. The Symphony ends swiftly and resoundingly amid a burst of high spirits and warm-hearted good feelings.

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YULIANNA AVDEEVA Following her sensational win of the First Prize at the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition 2010 in Warsaw, Yulianna Avdeeva is fast establishing herself as an artist whose performances combine intense musicality and emotional depth with a formidable technique and intellectual rigour. Engagements this season include returns to the Czech Philharmonic and Finnish Radio Symphony orchestras, under Manfred Honeck and Vasily Petrenko respectively, as well as debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Vladimir Jurowski) and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (again with Honeck), alongside performances with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Pacific Symphony. She also tours to Spain and Italy with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio and Vladimir Fedoseyev. Upcoming recitals include appearances in Paris, Munich, Mainz, Trieste, Milan, Seoul and at the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Further ahead, she will return to Japan for a recital tour and her debut with Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra.

Festival ‘Chopin and his Europe’, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Jacek Kaspszyk) and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Frans Brüggen). She performed again with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Brüggen when they toured together to Japan in spring 2013. They have recently released a recording of these concertos on the Fryderyk Chopin Institute label, to great critical acclaim.

Highlights of Avdeeva’s 2012/13 season included highly successful debuts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Marek Janowski), as well as an acclaimed tour of the USA with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Antoni Wit. Recent recitals have included returns to London’s International Piano Series and the Rheingau Musik Festival, as well as appearances at Barcelona’s Palau de la Música Catalana, Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, Klangräume Festival in Waidhofen, Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Essen’s Philharmonie, Salle Molière in Lyon and Schwetzinger Festspiele.

Beginning her piano studies at the age of five with Elena Ivanova at the Gnessin Special School of Music, Avdeeva attended the Zurich University of the Arts (studying with Konstantin Scherbakov) and the renowned International Piano Academy Lake Como (under Artistic Director William Grant Naboré) where she continues to work with Dmitri Bashkirov and Fou Ts’ong. Avdeeva has won several other international competitions including the Bremen Piano Contest in 2003, the Concours de Genève 2006 and the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Poland.

Avdeeva’s repertoire spans a wide range, from Bach to music of the 20th century. She is known for performing on period instruments: in August 2011 and 2012 she played Chopin’s Piano Concertos on an Erard piano at the

In addition to her solo recital and concerto performances, Avdeeva is an enthusiastic chamber musician, working with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker (the Philharmonia Quartet) and violinist Julia Fischer, amongst others. She has appeared with Fischer twice at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, giving a duo recital and also performing Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings, and they will tour together in Europe in October 2014. Other chamber music partners include members of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with whom she collaborated at the Muziekgebouw Frits Philips Eindhoven in December 2012.

These performances mark Ms. Avdeeva’s debut with the PSO.

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on the Bluff

Season One 2013-2014: The Early Years

David Allen Wehr, Artistic Director Monday, October 14 • 7:30 p.m. Piano Trios II Sunday, January 12 • 3 p.m. Violin/Cello I

Sunday, February 16 • 3 p.m. Violin/Cello II All Beethoven on the Bluff performances take place in PNC Recital Hall, Mary Pappert School of Music. Admission is a suggested $10 donation. For more information about Beethoven on the Bluff, visit duq.edu/beethoven.

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Friday, october 25, 2013 at 8:00 PM Sunday, october 27, 2013 at 2:30 PM

Nikolaj Znaider, conductor Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin Pre-concert

Concert Prelude with Resident Conductor Lawrence Loh

Felix Mendelssohn

The Hebrides Overture, Opus 26 [Fingal‘s Cave]

Max Bruch

Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 46

I. Prelude: Grave — Adagio cantabile II. Scherzo: Allegro — III. Andante sostenuto IV. Finale: Allegro guerriero Mr. Bendix-Balgley

Intermission Robert Schumann

Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Opus 120

I. Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft II. Romanze: Ziemlich langsam III. Scherzo: Lebhaft IV. Langsam - Lebhaft

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felix mendelssohn

The Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave), Opus 26 (1829-1830)

about the composer

Born 3 February 1809 in Hamburg; died 4 November 1847 in Leipzig PREMIERE OF WORK

London, 14 May 1832 Covent Garden Philharmonic Society Orchestra Thomas Atwood, conductor PSO PREMIERE

26 November 1896 Carnegie Music Hall Frederic Archer, conductor INSTRUMENTATION

woodwinds, horns and trumpets in pairs, timpani and strings duration

10 minutes

program notes by Dr. Richard E. Rodda

Felix Mendelssohn was in England in the summer of 1829 for the first of the nine visits he made to that country during his brief life, and was receiving great acclaim as composer, conductor and pianist. He had just turned twenty. Between engagements, Mendelssohn, an avid traveler, undertook a walking tour of Scotland with a friend, the poet Carl Klingemann. Mendelssohn, who once wrote that “it is in pictures, ruins and natural surroundings that I find the most music,” was fruitfully inspired by his trip — Mary Queen of Scots’ Holyrood Castle gave rise to the “Scottish” Symphony (No. 3) and the wild Hebrides Islands off the rugged west coast of the country sparked the atmospheric Hebrides Overture. The most famous spot in the Hebrides is the awesome, sea-level Fingal’s Cave, named for a legendary Scottish hero, on the tiny island of Staffa. Klingemann described the site: “A greener roar of waves surely never rushed into a stranger cavern — its many pillars made it look like the inside of an immense organ, black and resounding, and absolutely without purpose, and quite alone, the wide grey sea within and without.” Mendelssohn was rowed to the mouth of the cave in a small skiff, and sat spellbound before the natural wonder. As soon as he got back to land, still inspired by the experience, he rushed to his inn and wrote down the opening theme for a new piece. He included a copy of the melody in a letter to his sister, Fanny, in Berlin so that she would know, as he told her, “how extraordinarily the Hebrides affected me.” The Hebrides Overture does not tell a story. Rather it sets a scene and describes a mood that Charles O’Connell noted “evokes the mysterious spirit that seems to pervade the place, the feeling of restlessness and contrary motion, a strange and wild and beautiful atmosphere.” Despite the enthusiasm that accompanied the conception of the Hebrides Overture, it took Mendelssohn almost three years to finish the piece to his liking. He completed the first version of the score in Rome at the end of 1830, but he was dissatisfied with it when it was performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra on May 14, 1832. He complained particularly about the middle section, which he felt “smells more of counterpoint than of train-oil, seagulls and salt fish, and must be altered.” He revised the work during the following year, and published it in its finished version late in 1833. The Hebrides was one of the first of a new genre of composition that arose early in the 19th century — the “concert overture” that was not associated with a stage production, but intended specifically for the concert hall. The work opens with the well-known theme inspired from Mendelssohn as he bobbed about in the small dinghy at the mouth of Fingal’s Cave. Not really a complete melody at all, it is simply a one-measure motive that recurs over colorful, changing harmonies. The broad complementary theme, “the greatest melody Mendelssohn ever wrote,” according to English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey, is presented in the dark hues of bassoons and cellos. A martial closing theme ends the exposition. The development section, built largely upon the main theme, rises to a ringing climax before a brilliant flash of lightning from the flutes ushers in the recapitulation. The second theme provides a brief emotional respite before the agitated mood of the opening returns in the extended coda. The storminess subsides, and the Overture concludes with a soft, eerie whisper from the flute.

MAX BRUCH

Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 46 (1879-1880)

about the composer

Born 6 January 1838 in Cologne; died 20 October 1920 in Friedenau, near Berlin PREMIERE OF WORK

Hamburg, September 1880 Max Bruch, conductor Pablo de Sarasate, soloist PSO PREMIERE

14 December 1951 Syria Mosque; Maurice Abravznel, conductor Samuel Thaviu, soloist INSTRUMENTATION

woodwinds in pairs, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings duration

28 minutes

Max Bruch, like many Romantic composers, was interested throughout his life in folk song. In 1863, he published twelve Scottish folk airs in four-part settings, and incorporated German, British and Hebrew traditional music into his works. (One of his best-known compositions is the Kol Nidrei for Cello and Orchestra, based on an ancient chant of the Hebrew ritual.) When Bruch was conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society from 1878 to 1880, he took the opportunity to gather first-hand knowledge of Great Britain’s indigenous music, and, like Mendelssohn (one of the gods in Bruch’s musical pantheon), he was inspired by the music, lore and land of Scotland to produce one of his finest works — the Fantasy with Free Use of Scottish Airs for Violin and Orchestra. In a letter to the publisher Simrock on July 30, 1880 explaining the work’s appellation, Bruch wrote, “The title ‘Fantasy’ is very general, and as a rule refers to a short piece rather than to one in several movements (all of which, moreover, are fully worked-out and developed). However, this work cannot properly be called a concerto because the form of the whole is so completely free, and because folk-melodies are used.” Abraham Veinus added, “Bruch operates freely with a set of Scottish folk melodies, distinguished, as such melodies are, by a wholesome simplicity and beauty. Grafted on to this is the kind of elaborate virtuoso technique which usually brings the house down. Bruch’s harmonic idiom and his orchestration technique run to juicy, well-rounded and solidly set sonorities.” The Fantasy, composed for the celebrated virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate, is in four movements rather than the concerto’s traditional three. The opening movement is divided almost equally between a solemn introduction and an elegant setting of the tune Auld Rob Morris. The music scholar Wilhelm Altmann, a Berlin friend of Bruch, said that the Fantasy had been inspired by the books of Sir Walter Scott. The prominence of the harp, with its bardic and folk associations, prompted Altmann to continue that this opening movement represents “an old bard who contemplates a ruined castle and laments the glorious times of old.” The vigorous second movement, subtitled Dance, is based on the song Hey, the Dusty Miller. Connecting passages resembling recitative lead without pause to the next movement, a richly bedecked version of the touching Scottish love ballad I’m a-doun for lack o’ Johnnie. The rousing finale uses the traditional war song Scots wha hae, which, according to legend, was sounded by Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.

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ROBERT SCHUMANN

Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Opus 120 (1841, revised 1851)

about the composer

Born 8 June 1810 in Zwickau, Germany; died 29 July 1856 in Endenich, near Bonn PREMIERE OF WORK

Leipzig, 6 December 1841 Gewandhaus Gewandhaus Orchestra Ferdinand David, conductor PSO PREMIERE

7 January 1897 Carnegie Music Hall Frederic Archer, conductor INSTRUMENTATION

woodwinds in pairs, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings duration

29 minutes

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“I often feel tempted to crush my piano — it is too narrow for my thoughts,” wrote Schumann in 1839 to Heinrich Dorn, his former composition teacher. “I really have very little practice in orchestral music now; still, I hope to master it.” To that time (Schumann turned thirty the following summer), he had produced only songs and small-scale works for solo piano, with the exception of an abandoned symphony of 1832. Within a year of his words to Professor Dorn, Schumann received strong encouragement from three sources to act on his ambition to launch into the grander genres of music. First, the redoubtable Franz Liszt had taken up Schumann’s piano works, especially the brilliant Carnaval, and convinced his young colleague that he was capable of bigger things. Liszt fired off several letters in 1838 and 1839 encouraging Schumann to forge ahead, even offering to arrange performances and seek out a publisher for him. Liszt was the brightest star in the European musical firmament at the time, and Schumann could hardly help but be swayed by his advice. As the second impetus toward undertaking an orchestral work, Schumann had discovered the wondrous Symphony No. 9 in C major of Franz Schubert among the papers of the late composer’s brother in 1839. Schumann was ecstatic over his find, and he talked Mendelssohn into conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in a performance of the work. Schumann called the Symphony “heavenly,” and saw it as a masterful solution to the problem of infusing Classical form with the impetuous spirit of Romanticism, something after which he had striven for years. Schumann’s third source of encouragement was his beloved wife, Clara. Their long-hoped-for marriage finally took place in September 1840, and Clara, one of the greatest musicians and pianists of the 19th century, was soon coaxing her new husband to begin a symphony. Her urging had an immediate effect. The year 1841 was one of almost unmatched creativity for Schumann, during which he wrote not one but two symphonies, the first movement of what became his Piano Concerto, a hybrid orchestral work called Overture, Scherzo and Finale (Op. 52) and sketches for a C minor symphony that was never completed. He began the D minor Symphony in May, as soon as he finished the one in B-flat major (No. 1, “Spring”), and was able to present the manuscript as a gift to Clara for her birthday on September 13, 1841, also the day on which their first child was baptized. Schumann felt unsure of the orchestration of the new Symphony because of his limited background in writing for instruments, however, and, after hearing a trial performance of the work in December, he decided not to publish it. The score went into his desk drawer, where it lay untouched for a decade. In 1851, after he had written two more symphonies (hence, this D minor Symphony became known as “Number 4,” though it was the second he composed), Schumann undertook a revision of the score. He excised some passages and changed the orchestration by heavily reinforcing many of the lines. Because of the interrelationships of

the movements, he toyed for a while with the title “Symphonic Fantasy,” but settled instead on calling the first published version Introduction, Allegro, Romanze, Scherzo and Finale, in One Movement. He wanted to indicate by this cumbersome title that this composition was a new approach to the problem of form, in which several moods or movements were collected into a single long arch of music. He insisted that there be only momentary pauses between movements, and he even connected the third movement directly to the finale, as had Beethoven in his Fifth Symphony. Schumann strengthened the relationships among the movements by transforming in each a “motto” phrase heard at the outset of the Symphony, as well as interchanging some thematic material among the movements. The specifics of the structure make a revealing study in the adaptation of Classical forms to Romantic expressive needs. The Introduction is somber and slow-moving, with the “motto” (a half-dozen scale notes turning around a central pitch) presented immediately in the second violins. The tempo quickens and the Allegro begins with a bounding theme for violins and high woodwinds that encompasses the “motto.” The movement continues, passionate and eloquent, with the bounding main theme almost constantly in evidence. Hardly before the recapitulation has begun, it is abruptly truncated to make way for the wistful Romanze, based on a haunting tune sung by the oboe. Following a lovely, limpid section marked by shimmering triplet figures in the solo violin, the oboe melody returns briefly but stops on an inconclusive harmony which resolves only as the tempestuous Scherzo begins. The gentle central trio recalls the Romanze. With no break, the hushed expectancy that began the Symphony returns, and here serves to usher in the Finale. The bounding main theme of the opening movement reappears, as do other musical ideas previously encountered. There is an invigorating rhythmic energy about this closing movement that carries the music forward and gives a sense of arrival, as though the Finale were the goal of all that had preceded it. (It is, of course.) As if the exuberant mood that began this movement were insufficient to cap the structure, the tempo in the closing pages twice is increased twice to provide a thrilling final climax to this grand Symphony.

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nikolaj Znaider Nikolaj Znaider is not only celebrated as one concerti with Sir Colin Davis and conduct a of the foremost violinists of today, but is fast large-scale symphonic programme. becoming one of the most versatile artists of his generation uniting his talents as soloist, An exclusive RCA RED SEAL recording artist, Znaider’s most recent addition to his conductor and chamber musician. discography is the Elgar Violin Concerto with Znaider was invited by Valery Gergiev to Sir Colin Davis and the Dresden Staatskapelle. become principal guest conductor of the His award winning recordings of the Brahms Mariinsky Orchestra in St. Petersburg where and Korngold Violin Concerti with the he conducts opera productions, to include Vienna Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev, the Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni this Beethoven and Mendelssohn Concerti with season, and a number of symphonic concerts. Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic He is a regular guest conductor with and Prokofiev 2 and Glazunov Concerti with orchestras such as the London Symphony Mariss Jansons and the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Munich have been greeted with great critical acclaim, Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, as was his release of the complete works LA Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony for violin and piano of Johannes Brahms Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de with Yefim Bronfman. For EMI Classics he Radio France, Russian National Orchestra, has recorded the Mozart Piano Trios with Halle Orchestra, Swedish Radio Orchestra Daniel Barenboim and the Nielsen and Bruch and Gothenburg Symphony. Last season, Concertos with the London Philharmonic. he appeared as artist in residence with the Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra and this Znaider is passionate about the education of season will make his conducting debut with musical talent and was for 10 years founder the Concertgebouw Orkest and Orchestra of and artistic director of the Nordic Music Academy, an annual summer school whose Santa Cecilia Rome. vision it was to create conscious and focused As a soloist, Znaider works regularly with the musical development based on quality and world’s leading orchestras and conductors commitment. such as Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Znaider plays the “Kreisler” Guarnerius “del Christian Thielemann, Mariss Jansons, Gesu” 1741 on extended loan to him by The Charles Dutoit, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Royal Danish Theater through the generosity Ivan Fischer and Gustavo Dudamel. In recital of the VELUX FOUNDATIONS and the Knud and chamber music he appears at all the Højgaard Foundation. major concert halls. This season the London Symphony Orchestra will present an artist Mr. Znaider last conducted the PSO in portrait of Znaider when he will play two March 2012.

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Noah Bendix-Balgley Noah Bendix-Balgley has thrilled and moved audiences around the world with his performances. A Laureate of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, he also won 3rd prize and a special prize for creativity at the 2008 Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris. BendixBalgley won the 1st prize at the 2011 Vibrarte International Music Competition in Paris and was awarded 1st Prize and a special prize for best Bach interpretationat the 14th International Violin Competition “Andrea Postacchini” in Fermo, Italy. Bendix-Balgley has appeared as a soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Belgique, I Pomeriggi Musicale of Milan, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana (Italy), Orchestre Royal Chambre de Wallonie (Belgium), the Binghamton Philharmonic and the Asheville Symphony (USA). In 2011, Bendix-Balgley was appointed concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. His Pittsburgh debut recital in January 2012 was named the “Best Classical Concert of 2012” by the Pittsburgh PostGazette. Bendix-Balgley’s performance with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, featuring his own original cadenzas, was acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. Bendix-Balgley has also performed his own version of The StarSpangled Banner for solo violin in front of 39,000 fans at the Pittsburgh Pirates Opening Day at PNC Park. Bendix-Balgley is a passionate and experienced chamber musician. He has performed on North American tour with the Miro String

Quartet. From 2008 to 2011, he was the 1st violinist of the Munich-based Athlos String Quartet, which won a special prize at the 2009 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition in Berlin, and performed throughout Europe. He has performed with artists including Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Gary Hoffman, Emanuel Ax, Ralph Kirshbaum, and percussionist Colin Currie. Mr. BendixBalgley has appeared at numerous festivals in Europe and North America, including the Verbier Festival, the Sarasota Festival, ChamberFest Cleveland, and Chamber Music Connects the World in Kronberg, Germany. Born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1984, he began playing violin at age 4. At age 9, he played for Lord Yehudi Menuhin in Switzerland. Bendix-Balgley graduated from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the Munich Hochschule. His principal teachers were Mauricio Fuks, Christoph Poppen, and Ana Chumachenco. In his spare time, he enjoys playing klezmer music. He has played with world-renowned klezmer groups such as Brave Old World, and has taught klezmer violin at workshops in Europe and in the United States. Bendix-Balgley performs on a violin made in 1732 in Cremona by Carlo Bergonzi. His first recital CD, “A Musical Tour of the early 20th Century” (Anima Records) was recorded in Switzerland in May 2011 and is now available. Mr. Bendix-Balgley’s last solo performance with the PSO was in October 2012.

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Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Ticknor Drs. Ben Van Houten & Victoria Woshner Bob & Denise Ventura Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Vismor Dr. Ronald J. & Patricia J. Wasilak Ms. Sally Webster & Ms. Susan Bassett Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Mr. & Mrs. Thomas White Elizabeth & Frank L. Wiegand III Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Witmer Ellie & Joe Wymard Naomi Yoran Miriam L. Young Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zellefrow

Symphony Club $500 - $1,499

Anonymous (30) Mrs. Ernest Abernathy Barbara & Otto Abraham Frederic & Deborah Acevedo Deborah Acklin Mary Beth Adams Dr. & Mrs. Siamak Adibi Judy Brody & Lawrence Adler Joyce & John Allen Richard C. Alter & Eric D. Johnson Dr. Madalon Amenta Donald & Kathleen Anderson Mrs. Doris Anderson Craig & Dawn Andersson The Rev. Drs. A. Gary & Judy Angleberger Joan Frank Apt Yoshio Arai Warren J. Archer & Madeline C. Archer Rod & Tammy Ardolino Janice Argabright & Nicholas Brown James & Susanne Armour Dr. Donald & Joann Atkinson Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Atwell Mrs. Alicia Avery Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Ruth Bachman in Memory of James Bachman Donna L. Balewick, M.D. Dr. Esther L. Barazzone

Wendy & David Barensfeld Richard C. Barney Robert & Loretta Barone Robert Bastress & Barbara Fleischauer Martin & Bridgett Bates Dr. & Mrs. R.C. Bauer Robert W. & Janet W. Baum John & Betsy Baun Barbara N. Baur Vitasta Bazaz & Sheen Sehgal Fund in Memory of Dr. Kuldeep Sehgal David & Gail Becker Dorothy Becker Kenneth & Elsa Beckerman Yu-Ling & Gregg Behr Vange & Nick Beldecos Judith Bell Edgar & Betty Belle Rudy & Barbara Benedetti Eleanor H. Berge Ron & Nancy Bergey Dr. Peter & Judy Berkowitz Mrs. Georgia Berner & Mr. James Farber Robert S. Bernstein & Ellie K. Bernstein Fund Ms. Robin Joan Bernstein & Mr. H. Seigle* Don Berry Henry & Charlotte Beukema Dr. & Mrs. Albert W. Biglan Harry S. Binakonsky, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Birsic Franklin & Bonnie Blackstone Harry & Gayle Blansett Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Block Sandi & Jim Bobick Joseph A. & Shirley H. Bonner Dr. & Mrs. A’Delbert Bowen Bozzone Family Foundation Robert N. Brand Gary & Connie Brandenberger David Braun Gerda & Abe Bretton Mary & Russell Brignano Mary L. Briscoe Mr. Randy & Mrs. Deborah Broker Mr. Stephen Bronder Suzanne Broughton & Richard Margerum Alan M. Brown

Mr. & Mrs.* Earle O. Brown, Jr. Timothy R. Brown & Heidi K. Bartholomew Nancy & John* Brownell Mr. & Mrs. David A. Brownlee Lois R. Brozenick John T. Buckley & Emily J. Rosenthal Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Burchfield William Burchinal* Timothy & Linda Burke Dr. & Mrs. John A. Burkholder Mr. & Mrs. James Burnham Rev. Glen H. & Carol Burrows Dr. Stuart S. Burstein Michael F. Butler James & Judith Callomon Susan Campbell & Patrick Curry Andrés Cárdenes & Monique Mead Dr. & Mrs. Albert Caretto Jr. Richard & Jeanne* Carter Charles & Donna Cashdollar David & Kathryn Cashman Sue Challinor & Matt Teplitz Dr. Thomas S. Chang Mr. & Mrs. David Chapman Peggy & Joe Charny Geri Chichilla Craig D. Choate Kenneth & Celia Christman Dr. & Mrs. Albert E. Chung William R. Clarkson & Dr. Andrea Velletri William & Elizabeth Clendenning Stuart & Cathryn Coblin Christine & Howard Cohen Jared L. & Maureen B. Cohon Alan & Lynne Colker In Loving Memory of Johnathan Heath College Dale Colyer Linda Cook Barton & Teri Cowan Dr. Mary Ann Craig Susan & George Craig Nelson & Carol Craige Susan O. Cramer David & Marian Crossman John D. & Laurie B. Culbertson

Mr. S. A. Cunningham Zelda Curtiss Cynthia Custer Mrs. John C. Cutler* Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus Daboo Dr. & Mrs. Richard H. Daffner Patricia & Walter Damian Joan & Jim Darby Mr. & Mrs. William J. Darr Norina H. Daubner Joan Clark Davis Joan & David Dawson Alfred R. de Jaager Bruce & Rita Decker Jim* & Peggy Degnan Charles S. Degrosky Dan & Dee Delaney Dr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Dell’Omo Lynn & David DeLorenzo Ms. Alice Demmler Mr. & Mrs.* Edward DePersis Valerie DiCarlo Victor & Delia DiCarlo Mrs. Tika Dickos Elaine A. Dively Jerome A. Dixon D.J. Knowles Dodds Mr. & Mrs. A. Doedyns Mr. & Mrs. Todd Donovan Doris Dowling Mr. & Mrs. James R. Drake Anthony V. Dralle Mary Jo Dressel Mr. John M. & Ms. Victoria W. Duff Robert & Lora Lee Duncan Jeff & Wendy Dutkovic Mary Jane Edwards Mr. & Mrs. David H. Ehrenwerth Christopher & Gretchen Elkus Eugene & Katrin Engels Roger & Beverly Engle Arnold & Eva Engler Richard Epstein & Mindy Frazer Tibey & Julian Falk Donald & Judith Feigert Dr. & Mrs.* John H. Feist Joan P. Feldman & Hilary Feldman Martin & Suzanne Fenster Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan

Madelyn & John Fernstrom Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Janet Fesq Marvin C. Fields Dr. Joseph Fine Nancy A. Fitch Paul & Joanna Fitting Warren & Joan Fitzpatrick Ms. Ann P. Flaherty Mr. & Mrs. James Flanigan Jan Fleisher Suzanne Flood Dr. Edward L. Foley Mr. & Mrs. Edward Fortwangler Mr. & Mrs. K. H. Fraelich Jr. Christina Friday Eleanor Friedman Friends of the PSO John & Elaine Frombach Dr. Janet Fromkin & Dr. Ronald Stiller F. Thomas Fruehstorfer Dr. & Mrs. Freddie H. Fu Normandie Fulson Bruce & Ann Gabler Louise Gaffney-Gross Dr. & Mrs. R. Kent Galey Gamma Investment Corporation Keith & Christine Garbutt Dr. & Mrs. Marc E. Garfinkel Hans & Gudrun Garkisch Mr. & Mrs. Randall Garloff Mr. & Mrs. Phil Gasiewicz Joan & Stuart Gaul K. Gavigan & Wm. B. Dixon Pete Geissler Mr. & Mrs. William P. Getty Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Getze Revs. Gaylord & Catherine Gillis Mr. David Givens & Mr. Stephen Mellett Mike & Cordy Glenn Daniel & Marcia Glosser Fund Mr. & Mrs. Harry M. Goern Mr. & Mrs. Ted Goldberg Walter L. Goldburg Bernard Goldstein, M.D. & Russellyn Carruth Thomas W Golightly & Rev. Dr. Carolyn J Jones Dr. & Mrs. C. B. Good

Richard E. Gordon & June F. Swanson Mr. James Gorton & Mrs. Gretchen Van Hoesen The Graf Family Laurie Graham Dr. Lora D. Graves & Dr. Bryan D. Dye Charlotte T. Greenwald Mr. & Mrs. Steven Gridley Ernest J. Grindle Margaret L. Groninger Mr. & Mrs. G. Fred Grove D.T. Gruelle Specialty Logistics Ms. E. A. Gundelfinger Kristine Haig & John Sonnenday Mr. & Mrs. Van Beck Hall Susan & David Hardesty Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Harris Mrs. Mary O. Harrison Ms. Christine A. Hartung Roger & Lou Haskett Cal & Donna Hastings Cathy & John Heggestad Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Heidenreich Ms. Emily Heidish Ms. Martha S. Helmreich in Honor of my mother, Anne J. Schaff Paul & Colleen Hennigan Thelma & Andrew Herlich Marianne & Marshall Hess Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hill Dr. Joseph & Marie Hinchcliffe Pete & Rebecca Hoch Ms. Donna Hoffman & Mr. Richard Dum Philo & Erika Holcomb Katherine Holter Dr. & Mrs. Elmer J. Holzinger Ms. Madeleine Hombosky Thomas O. Hornstein Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Hope H. Horst Anne K. Hoye Emanuel & Lorraine Hudock Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Huffman Mr. & Mrs. Elwood T. Hughes Jean & Richard Humphreys Robert & Gail Hunter Joan M. Hurrell

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Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Hyland Jr. George L. Illig Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Jacobs Lynne & Blair Jacobson David & Terry Jancisin Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Willcox Jenkins Dr. & Mrs. Edward W. Jew Jr. Dawn M. Johnson Joanne K. Johnson Tom & Wendy Jones in Honor of Chris Wu Greg & Ellen Jordan Richard & Barbara Kahlson Alice & Richard Kalla Daniel & Carole Kamin Julie & Jeffrey* Kant Mr. & Mrs. David N. Kaplan Dr. & Mrs. Peter D. Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Kara Martin & Donna Keane Flo & Bob Kenny Rhian Kenny Natalie W. Klein Ruth Ann & Eugene Klein Stuart L. & Ann K. Knoop Peggy C. Knott Ms. Marilyn Koch Ms. Dawn Kosanovich Madeline Kramer in Memory of Fred Kramer Mr. & Mrs. A. Frederick Kroen Robert A. & Alice Kushner Mr. Nicholas Kyriazi Betty Lamb Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. Lang Ronald & Lida Larsen Earl & Marilyn Latterman A. Lorraine Laux Marvin & Gerry Lebby Drs. Grace & Joon Lee Ms. Janet Lee & Mr. Matthew Rosengart Diana K. Lemley, M.D. & Paul L. Shay, M.D. Mr. David W. Lendt Robert W. Lenker Dr. Herbert & Barbara Levit Mrs. William E. Lewellen III Philip & Leslie Liebscher Robert & Janet Liljestrand Mr. & Mrs. Kurt L. Limbach Jim & Sandi Linaberger Ken & Hope Linge 42

Lawrence & Jacqueline Lobl Mr. & Mrs.* Thomas J. Locke Margery J. Loevner Mark & Joan Lombardi Don & Hanne Lorch Mrs. Howard M. Love Eddie Lowy & Ricardo Cortés Ann Quinn Lyle Francis & Debbie Lynch James & Cheryl Lyne Daphne & John Lynn William & Helen Lyons Mrs. Guinevere R. Mabunay Pat & Don MacDonald William & Nora MacDonald Neil & Ruth MacKay Hank & June Mader Mrs. George J. Magovern Jr. John K. Maitland Louise & Michael Malakoff Mr. & Mrs. Robert Malnati Carl & Alexis Mancuso Drs. Ellen Mandel & Lawrence Weber Mr. & Mrs. Donald Marinelli Mars Family Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John Mary Helen F. Mathieson Dr. William Matlack & Leslie Crawford Matlack Kenneth & Dr. Carol N. Maurer Sidney McBride Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall Mr. & Mrs. Jon W. McCarter McCarthy Rail Insurance Managers, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. McChesney Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Mary C. McCormick Paula & Bob McCracken Mrs. Samuel K. McCune Mary A. McDonough Keith McDuffie Kent & Martha McElhattan Mary & R. Lee McFadden Carol Jean McKenzie Jean & John* McLaughlin Susan Lee Meadowcroft Mr. & Mrs. William P. Meehan Mr. & Mrs. William J. Mehaffey

Barbara M. Meharey Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Mellon Peter & Memi Melotti Barbara Sachnoff Mendlowitz In Memory of William C. Menges Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Merriman Robert & Elizabeth Mertz Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Roger F. Meyer Bridget & Scott Michael Dr. & Mrs. Milton M. Michaels Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton Ms. Laurie Miller Mary Ellen Miller Robert & Miriam Miller Dr. & Mrs. Vincent P. Miller Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William H. Miller Frank C. & Judy L. Mindicino Nessa Green Mines Catherine Missenda Paul & Connie Mockenhaupt Chuck & Karen Moellenberg Amy & Ira* M. Morgan Bill & Jane Morgan Mr. Gary Morrell Connie & Bruce* Morrison Dr. & Mrs.* William S. Morrison Frank & Brenda Moses Carol J. Mueller Theodor & Inge Mueller Richard & Martha Munsch David & Joan Murdoch Mary & Jim Murdy Suzanne Murphy James & Marlee Myers Dr. & Mrs. Donald D. Naragon Dr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Nebel Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Rev. Robert & Mrs. Suzanne Newpher Patricia K. Nichols Mr. & Mrs. David Nimick Susan Noffke & Robert Wickesberg Dr. Sean Nolan Mark & Nikki Nordenberg Charles & Lois* Norton James & Lindsey Nova Heidi Novak Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null

Maureen S. O’Brien Dr. Everett F. Oesterling & Mrs. Joyce Oesterling Dr. & Mrs. Kook Sang Oh Paul & Nancy O’Neill Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Orr Dee Jay Oshry & Bart Rack John A. Osuch Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Russell G. & Karen Overfield Doug & Suzanne Owen Dr. Paul M. Palevsky & Dr. Sharon R. Roseman Dr. & Mrs. A. H. Panahandeh Pamela & Ronald Pape Mr. & Mrs. William A. Partain Dr. Anthony William Pasculle John & Joan Pasteris Kenneth & Rose Patterson Camilla B. Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Pellett Daniel M. Pennell Ms. Irina A. Peris Bill & Stella Perrine Dr. Jeffrey & Francesca Peters Judy Petty Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Pfendler Jr. Ms. Dorothy Philipp Mr. & Mrs. Jon R. Piersol Edward & Mary Ellen Pisula Larry & Nancy Podey Mr. & Mrs. E. Kears Pollock Drs. Mary & Raymond Pontzer Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Porkolab David & Marilyn Posner Mrs. Mildred M. Posvar Shirley Pow Ann & Malvern Powell Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Prus Mercedes & John Pryce Bob & Mary Jo Purvis Mrs. Jean Purvis Liberty & Andrew Pyros Sandy Pysh & Rich Somplatsky Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Queenan Jr. Fran Quinlan Dr.* & Mrs. Donald H. Quint Ms. Barbara Rackoff Betty Radvak-Shovlin James D. & Carol L. Randolph Barbara M. Rankin Mr. Joseph J. Regna Jr.

Eric & Frances Reichl Ms. Diana Reid Mr. & Mrs. John Renton Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Mavis & Norman Robertson Edgar R. & Betty A. Robinson Mr. William M. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. James E. Rohr Mr. & Mrs. C. Arthur Rolander Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Rom Janice G. Rosenberg Dr. Pinchas Rosenberg Shoshana & Jerry Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Byron W. Rosener III Mrs. Louisa Rosenthal Carol & Scott Rotruck Dr. & Mrs. Wilfred T. Rouleau Harvey & Lynn Rubin Mr. R. Douglas Rumbarger Mr. Robert Rupp Mr. Leo P. Russell Shirley & Murray Rust Mrs. John M. Sadler Tamiko Sampson Dr. & Mrs. Isamu Sando Dr. Carlos R. Santiago Mr. & Mrs. Ferd Sauereisen Sally & Keith Saylor Albert & Kathleen Schartner Christopher & Jennifer Scheib Ann & Bill Scherlis Dr. Melvin & Catherine Schiff Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Schmitt Mr. & Mrs. George Schneider Shirley Schneirov Marvin & Fran Schreiber Ms. Carol Schuler Bernie & Cookie Soldo Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Harry W. Schurr II Urban Schuster Mary Ann Scialabba Louise & Franco Sciannameo Robert J. & Sharon E. Sclabassi Barry & Celinda Scott George & Marcia Seeley Mr. & Mrs. David P. Segel Rebecca A. Seip Anne Selinger & Nyles Charon Michael Sexauer Aleen Mathews Shallberg & Richard Shallberg Mrs. Sue Shapera

Richard F. Shaw & Linda W. Shaw Judith D. Shepherd Dr. Charles H. Shultz Marilyn G. Shure Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Shure Rhoda & Seymour* Sikov Constance Field Silipigni Marjorie K. Silverman Mr. Frank Simpkins Lois & Bill Singleton Ms. Ann Slonaker Kathleen Opat Smith Nancy N. Smith Wallace & Patricia Smith Bill & Patty Snodgrass Sandy & Mr. Edgar Snyder David Solosko & Sandra Kniess Fund Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Sorr in support of music & wellness Drs. Horton C. & Jannene M. Southworth Samuel & Judith Spanos Henry Spinelli Janet H. Staab Mr. & Mrs. James C. Stalder Patricia D. Staley Gary & Charlene Stanich Shirley & Sidney Stark Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Stayer Bronna & Harold Steiman Edward & Rebecca Stephan Jerry Stephens Dr. & Mrs. Mervin S. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Bernard P. Stoehr & Family In Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Mona & E.J. Strassburger C. Dean Streator Mr. Su & Ms. Van Dusen Peter Sullivan Richard A. Sundra, in Loving Memory of Patricia Sundra Jan & Leslie Swensen In Memory of Roger C. Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Szejko Carol L. Tasillo Mr. & Mrs. William H. Taylor Jr. Gordon & Catherine Telfer Mr. Paul Teplitz Mr. Doug Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Rollie G. Thomas

Mary Lloyd & George Thompson Bob & Bette Thomson Gail & Jim Titus Denny & Colleen Travis Mr. & Mrs. Clifton C. Trees Rosalyn & Albert Treger Jane F. Treherne-Thomas Albert R. Trezza & Megan A. Trezza Paul A. Trimmer Jeff & Melissa Tsai Eric & Barbara Udren Mary & Gerald Unger Diane & Dennis Unkovic Ms. Phyllis Vail Theresa Valeri Theo & Pia Van De Venne Suzan M. Vandertie Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Vest Dr. & Mrs. Carey T. Vinson III Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Vogel John & Linda Vuono Bill & Sue Wagner Judy Wagner & Mike LaRue Wagner Family Charitable Trust Suzanne & Richard Wagner C. Robert Walker Kevin & Jennifer Walker Mr. W.L. & Dr. B.H. Ward John & Lynn Warmus Tony & Pat Waterman Marvin & Dot Wedeen Drs. John & Carla Weidman Elaine Weil William C. Weil Cynthia & Dr. Michael Weisfield Norman & Marilyn Weizenbaum Mr. & Mrs. James P. Welch Jim & Jinny Welker Frank & Heide Wenzel Mrs. Louis A. Werbaneth Nancy Werner Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Westerberg Rebecca M. Wharton James Whitehead Dr. Philip M. Wildenhain & Dr. Sarah L. Wildenhain Dr. Bruce L. Wilder Ken & Trudie Wilkins Robert & Carole Williams

Ruth Williams in honor of Anne M. Williams and her parents Mr. & Mrs. Miles C. Wilson James & Ramona Wingate Sheryl & Bruce Wolf Sidney & Tucky Wolfson Rufus J. Wysor* Dr. & Mrs. John A. Yauch Mark & Judy Yogman Marlene & John Yokim Alice L. Young Hugh D.* & Alice C. Young Dr. & Mrs. Richard E. Young Joan & Isaias Zelkowicz Mark C. Zemanick, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ziatek The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra would like to thank the generous individuals whose gifts we cannot recognize due to space constraints. Please read their names on our website at pittsburghsymphony.org. Current as of Sept. 25, 2013 *deceased

every gift is instrumental 2013-2014 season

foundations & public agencies Allegheny County Allegheny Regional Asset District The Almira Foundation Bessie F. Anathan Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Benjamin and Fannie Applestein Charitable Trust Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation Meyer & Merle Berger Family Foundation, Inc. Allen H. Berkman and Selma W. Berkman Charitable Trust H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust Maxine and William Block Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Paul and Dina Block Foundation Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of The Buhl Foundation Jack Buncher Foundation Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable and Educational Trust Compton Family Foundation The Rose Y. and J. Samuel Cox Charitable Fund Jean Hartley Davis and Nancy Lane Davis Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation 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 Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation, Inc. Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Goldberg Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Grable Foundation Hansen Foundation The Heinz Endowments Elsie H. Hillman Foundation The Emma Clyde Hodge Memorial Fund May Emma Hoyt Foundation Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation Roy A. Hunt Foundation Eugene F. and Margaret Moltrup Jannuzi Foundation Roy F. Johns, Jr. Family Foundation Edward D. and Opal C. Loughney Foundation Thomas Marshall Foundation Massey Charitable Trust Ruth Rankin McCullough Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation William V. and Catherine A. McKinney Charitable Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Richard King Mellon Foundation Howard and Nell E. Miller Foundation Phyllis and Victor Mizel Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation National Endowment for the Arts New Music USA 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 Norman C. Ray Trust The Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation The William Christopher & Mary Laughlin Robinson Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Ryan Memorial Foundation Salvitti Family Foundation 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 W.P. Snyder III Charitable Fund Alexander C. and Tillie S. Speyer Foundation Tippins Foundation Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Phillip H. and Betty L. Wimmer Family Foundation Current as of Sept. 25, 2013

corporations (Includes corporate annual fund contributions and sponsorships) Business Leadership Association

Signature Circle $75,000 and above

The Frank E. Rath-Spang & Company Charitable Trust Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. Nordstrom Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. Trumbull Corporation and P.J. Dick Incorporated

ATI (Allegheny Technologies Incorporated) BNY Mellon EQT Corporation Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Silver Circle PNC $5,000 - $9,999 Bayer Healthcare R&I Diamond Circle Calgon Carbon Corporation $40,000 - $74,999 PPG Industries Foundation Chesapeake Energy Corporation The Common Plea Platinum Circle Catering Inc. $20,000 - $39,999 Eat’n Park Restaurants Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Ernst & Young LLP Federal Home Loan Bank Heritage Valley Health of Pittsburgh System First Niagara KPMG LLP Giant Eagle Levin Furniture H. J. Heinz Company Morgan Stanley Foundation Morton’s The Steakhouse LANXESS Corporation Mylan Pharmaceuticals Macy’s Foundation PwC MSA Reed Smith LLP Peoples Natural Gas Ruth’s Chris Steak House Triangle Tech Group Schreiber Industrial Trib Total Media Development Co. UPMC & UPMC Health Plan

Gold Circle

Bronze Circle

$2,500 - $4,999 A.C. Dellovade, Inc. Anonymous AlphaGraphics in the American Eagle Outfitters Cultural District American Environmental Bank of America Merrill Services, Inc. Lynch Bayer USA Foundation Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Bobby Rahal Automotive Group Deloitte Citigroup Elite Coach Transportation Delta Air Lines, Inc. Koppers Dollar Bank Lighthouse Electric Company, Inc. Fairmont Pittsburgh & Habitat Restaurant Marsh USA Inc. Federated Investors, Inc. Mascaro Construction Company Mozart Management $10,000 - $19,999

NexTier Bank Pittsburgh Corning Corporation Pittsburgh Valve & Fitting Co. Sarris Candies, Inc. Silhol Builders Supply The Techs Wampum Hardware Inc. WPXI-TV Business Partners

Pewter Level

$1,000 - $2,499 Berner International Corp Big Burrito Restaurant Group ESB Bank First Commonwealth Bank Hughes Television Productions Income Research & Management Jennison Associates LLC Kerr Engineered Sales Company JoAnn McBride - Lawrence County Tourism The Jas H. Matthews Educational & Charitable Trust McKamish, Inc. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Nocito Enterprises, Inc. Rothman Gordon PC Scott Metals Inc. Six Penn Kitchen Stringert, Inc. Trebuchet Consulting LLC United Safety Services, Inc. Vallozzi’s Pittsburgh Woman’s Club of Upper Saint Clair

Crawford Ellenbogen LLC Flaherty & O’Hara, P.C. Goehring, Rutter & Boehm Hamill Mfg. Co. Hertz Gateway Center, LP The Hite Company Hoffman Electric, Inc. Horovitz, Rudoy & Roteman LLC John B. Conomos, Inc. K&I Sheet Metal, Inc. Lucas Systems, Inc. Marketing Support Network Metso Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP Attorneys at Law Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Modany-Falcone, Inc. Neville Chemical Company Pzena Investment Management, LLC Steptoe & Johnson PLLC United Hospital Center Wagner Agency, Inc. Wells Fargo Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research, Inc. We would like to thank all corporations who contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Please see our website at www. pittsburghsymphony.org for a complete listing. Current as of Sept.25, 2013

Partner Level $500 - $999

Allegheny Valley Bank Bridges & Company, Inc. Cantor & Pounds Dental Associates

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legacy of excellence 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 PSOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, musiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chairs, concert series, educational programs or designated spaces allow donors to specify a name or tribute for 10 years, 20 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 Scott J. Bell Dr. Elaine H. Berkowitz Benno & Constance Bernt Michael Bielski Drs. Barbara & Albert Biglan Thomas G. Black Barbara M. Brock Lois R. Brozenick Gladys B. Burstein Judy & Michael Cheteyan Educational/Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David W. Christopher Mr. *& Mrs. Edward S. Churchill Mr. & Mrs. Eugene S. Cohen* Basil & Jayne Adair Cox In memory of Stuart William Discount Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas J. Donnelly Frank R. Dziama Steven G. & Beverlynn Elliott Emil & Ruth* Feldman Joan Feldman & William Adams Mrs. Loti Gaffney 46

Keith & Susan Garver Ken & Lillian Goldsmith Mr. & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon Anna R. Greenberg* Lorraine M. Gross* Elizabeth Anne Hardie Charles & Angela Hardwick Carolyn Heil Eric & Lizz Helmsen Ms. Judith Hess Mr. John H. Hill Mr. & Mrs. William C. Hurtt* Philo & Erika Holcomb Esther G. Jacovitz Patricia Prattis Jennings Mr.* & Mrs. Robert S. Kahn Leo and Marge Kane Lois S. Kaufman Stephen & Kimberly Keen Mr. Arthur J. Kerr Jr. Ms. Bernadette Kersting Dr. Laibe A.* & Sydelle Kessler Stanley & Margaret Leonard Frances F. Levin Edith H. Lipkind Doris L. Litman Penny Locke Edward D. Loughney* Lauren & Hampton Mallory Dr. Richard Martin in Memory of Mrs. Lori Martin* Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall J. Sherman & Suzanne S. McLaughlin

George E. Meanor Ms. Jean L. Misner Catherine Missenda Dr. Mercedes C. Monjian Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Mooney Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Mildred S. Myers & William C. Frederick Donn & Peggy Neal Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Rose Noon* Rhonda & Dennis Norman Thaddeus A. Osial Jr., M.D. Irene G. Otte* Mrs. Dorothy R. Rairigh* Barbara M. Rankin Richard E. Rauh Cheryl & James Redmond Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Donald & Sylvia Robinson Mr. & Mrs. David M. Roderick Mr.* & Mrs. William R. Roesch Charlotta Klein Ross Harvey and Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Ryan Virginia Schatz Nancy Schepis Dr. Charles H. Shultz Michael Shefler Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Simmons Dr. & Mrs. Leonard A. Stept Dr. Raymond & Karla Stept*

Mrs. Margaret Stouffer in Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Tom & Jamee Todd Mr.* & Mrs. Gideon Toeplitz Mrs. Jane TreherneThomas Eva & Walter J. Vogel Mr. & Mrs. George L. Vosburgh Estate of John & Betty Weiland Brian Weller Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White James & Susanne Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Witmer Patricia L. Wurster Rufus J. Wysor* Naomi Yoran Miriam L. Young

the sid kaplan tribute program The Sid Kaplan Memorial Hallway given by David Kaplan in appreciation of generous gifts commemorating family and friends In Honor of Dr. Raymond Stept from his loving family In Honor of Mariss & Irina Jansons and friendship from Dr. Laibe* & Sydelle Kessler Honoring my dear friend, Marvin Hamlisch, from Mina Kulber In Loving Memory of Martin Smith, PSO Horn, 19802005, from his siblings Todd Smith, Judy Dupont, & Susan Noble Endowed Chairs Principal Horn Chair, given by an Anonymous Donor First Violin Chair, given by Allen H. Berkman in memory of his beloved wife, Selma Wiener Berkman Michael & Carol Bleier Horn Chair given in memory of our parents, Tina & Charles Bleier and Ruth & Shelley Stein Jane & Rae Burton Cello Chair Cynthia S. Calhoun Principal Viola Chair Virginia Campbell Principal Harp Chair Ron & Dorothy Chutz First Violin Chair Johannes & Mona L. Coetzee Memorial Principal English Horn Chair George & Eileen Dorman Assistant Principal Cello Chair Albert H. Eckert Associate Principal Percussion Chair Beverlynn & Steven Elliott Associate Concertmaster Chair

Jean & Sigo Falk Principal Librarian Chair Endowed Principal Piccolo Chair, given to honor Frank and Loti Gaffney William & Sarah Galbraith Second Violin Chair The Estate of Olga T. Gazalie First Violin Chair Ira & Nanette Gordon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Gracky Fund for Education & Community Engagement Susan S. Greer Memorial Trumpet Chair, given by Peter Greer William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Vira I. Heinz Music Director Chair Principal Pops Conductor Chair Endowed by Henry & Elsie Hillman Tom & Dona Hotopp Principal Bass Chair Milton G. Hulme, Jr. Guest Conductor Chair given by Mine Safety Appliances Company Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Jones III, Principal Keyboard Chair Virginia Kaufman Resident Conductor Chair, Lawrence Loh Stephen & Kimberly Keen Bass Chair G. Christian Lantzsch & Duquesne Light Company Principal Second Violin Chair Mr. & Mrs. William Genge and Mr. & Mrs. James E. Lee Principal Bassoon Chair Nancy & Jeffery Leininger First Violin Chair Edward D. Loughney CoPrincipal 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 Horn Chair honoring Tom Todd 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 United States Steel Corporation Assistant Principal Bass Chair Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair, given by Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife Jacquelin 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 Current as of Sept. 25, 2013 *deceased every gift is instrumental 2013-2014 season

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 you are not listed correctly, please call 412.392.2887. $1,000,000+

Anonymous (1) Michele & Pat Atkins 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

Esmark Mr. & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon Drue Heinz Trust Tom & Dona Hotopp G. Christian Lantszch* Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McConomy Steve & Brenda Schlotterbeck Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Usher Jon & Carol Walton Helge & Erika Wehmeier Thomas H. & Frances M. Witmer

Edward D. Loughney* The Estate of Beatrice Malseed Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Bill* & Carol Tillotson United States Steel Corporation The Estate of Donald F. Wahl Samuel & Carrie Arnold Weinhaus Fund James & Susanne Wilkinson Hilda M. Willis Foundation

Abby & Reid Ruttenberg John P. & Elizabeth L. Surma Jill & Craig Tillotson Jacquelin G. Wechsler

$25,000-$49,999

Anonymous (1) Alan L. & Barbara B. Ackerman Astorino Larry & Tracy Brockway Robert C. Denove The Estate of Joan Dillon Pamela R. & Kenneth B. Dunn $100,000-$249,999 Martin & Lisa Earle Anonymous (4) Eichleay Foundation Wendy & David Barensfeld Ernst & Young LLP in memory of Dr. Robert E. Nancy Goeres & Michael Herlands Rusinek $50,000-$99,999 Kathryn & Michael Bryson Ms. Anna Greenberg* Benno & Constance Bernt Rae & Jane Burton $500,000-$999,999 Stephen & Kimberly Keen Michael & Carol Bleier Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Calihan Anonymous (1) Mrs. H.J. Levin Sidney & Sylvia Busis The Estate of Johannes Dollar Bank Michael Baker Corporation Ann & Frank Cahouet Coetzee Roy & Susan Dorrance Betty & Granger Morgan Ron & Dorothy Chutz Randi & L.Van V. Dauler, Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert The Pittsburgh Foundation Jr., Emma Clyde Hodge Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Maxwell Memorial Fund The Estate of Dorothy Estate of Olga T. Gazalie Catharine M. Ryan & John T. EQT Corporation Rairigh Marvin* & Terre Hamlisch Ryan III Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brooks Falk Foundation & Sigo & Estate of Eleanor Hurtt Tom & Jamee Todd Robinson Jean Falk Estate of Florence M. Jacob Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot Robert W. & Elizabeth C. Stan & Carole Russell Goldman Sachs Gives Kampmeinert $250,000-$499,999 Karen Scansaroli Ira & Anita Gumberg Devin & Shannon Allegheny Technologies James M. & Lucy K. Hansen Foundation McGranahan Incorporated Schoonmaker Foundation William Randolph Hearst A. W. Mellon Foundation Claude Worthington Schreiber Industrial Foundation James & Joan Moore Benedum Foundation Development Co. Hefren-Tillotson Donald I. & Janet Moritz Jim & Carolyn Bouchard Mr. & Mrs. James E. Steen H.J Heinz Company Mildred S. Myers & William C. Edward S.* & Jo-Ann M. Milton & Nancy Washington Foundation Frederick Churchill Harvey & Florence Zeve Barbara Jeremiah Elliott S. Oshry Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Dr. & Mrs. Merrill F. Wymer Rick & Laurie Johnson Donahue Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Lillian Edwards Foundation Nancy & Jeff Leininger Reed Smith LLP 48

$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 Andrés Cárdenes & Monique Mead James C. Chaplin Virginia K. Cicero The Chester A. Davies Trust The Estate of Jane I. Johnson Ruth Feldman* & Emil Feldman First National Bank of Pennsylvania FRG Group Elizabeth H. Genter David & Nancy Green Caryl & Irving Halpern David G. Hammer The Walt Harper Memorial Fund W.S. & Linda J. Hart Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Karen & Thomas Hoffman Ms. Seima Horvitz Mark Huggins & Bonnie Siefers David & Melissa Iwinski Eric & Valerie Johnson Greg & Ellen Jordan Rhian Kenny Judith & Lester* Lave Carolyn Maue & Bryan Hunt Douglas B. McAdams Alicia & Victoria McGinnis Sam Michaels Mary Ellen Miller Maureen S. O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. O’Brien Orbital Engineering Dr. Thaddeus A. Osial Jr. & Linda Shooer Osial

Robert & Lillian Panagulias Mr. & Mrs. John R. Price Deborah Rice James W. & Erin M. Rimmel Judy & Stanley Ruskin Snyder Charitable Foundation Max & Tiffany Starks Estate of Audrey I. Stauffer Elizabeth Burnett & Lawrence Tamburri The Estate of Richard C. Tobias Jan & Anthony Tomasello Edward L. & Margaret Vogel Mrs. Evette Wivagg Rachel W. Wymard Seldon & Susan* Whitaker

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

Burrell Group, Inc. 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 $1,000-$4,999 $5,000-$9,999 Susie & George Dull Anonymous (8) Jim & Jane Barthen Mr. Frank R. Dziama Mr. & Mrs. John Crile Allen Scott Bell John & Gertrude Echement Sr. Betsy Bossong Thomas J. Emmerling Mr. Thomas L. Allen Allan J. & Clementine K. Francis & Gene Fairman III David & Andrea Aloe Brodsky In Honor of Ruth Feldman* Joan & Jerome* Apt & Roger* & Judy Clough & Emil Feldman Family Estelle Comay & Bruce Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Michele & Pat Atkins Rabin Chris Fette & Mary Leach Ms. Linda M. DeArment Philip J. & Sherry S. Fette John H. Ashton Dieringer Jan Fleisher Mr. & Mrs. David Ehrenwerth Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Mr. & Mrs. Joseph U. Frye Kathleen & Joseph Baird Mr. Ian Fagelson Friends & Family of Stanford Farmers & Merchants Bank Richard C. Barney P. Davis of Western PA Robert W. & Janet W. Baum Bruce & Ann Gabler Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Philip & Melinda Beard Dr. R. Kent Galey & Dr. Karen Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Yu-Ling & Gregg Behr Roche Gebhardt Patti & Sandy Berman Gamma Investment Mr. & Mrs. Frank Grebowski Georgia Berner Corporation Gail & Gregory Harbaugh Kathleen Gavigan & William Ms. Mary Biagini Mr. & Mrs.* Charles H. Harff Drs. Barbara & Albert Biglan B. Dixon Mr. & Mrs. James Genstein Eric & Lizz Helmsen Mr. Stuart Bloch Bernard Goldstein, M.D. & Richard & Alice Kalla Paul E. Block Russellyn Carruth Jack & Virginia* Kerr Marian & Bruce Block Thomas W. Golightly & Rev. Douglas W. Kinzey Nadine E. Bognar Dr. Carolyn J. Jones Cliff & Simi Kress Jim & Debbie Boughner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Betty L. Lamb Graham Mr. & Mrs. David A. Jeanne R. Manders* Brownlee John F. Gray Scott & Bridget Michael Lois R. Brozenick Mr. & Mrs. Frank T. Guadagnino Mr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Miller Howard & Marilyn Bruschi Mrs. Ellen Hagerty Doug Burns every gift is instrumental 2013-2014 season

Kristine Haig & John Sonnenday Deirdre & Brian Henry Carol E. Higgins Adam & Allison Hill Kelvin Hill Mr. Carlyle Hoch Esther & Terry Horne Mr. & Mrs. Thomas O. Hornstein David & Mary Hughes Hyman Family Foundation Mary Lee & Joe Irwin Vincent J. Jacob Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Jacobs Jr. Maureen Jeffrey Trust Susan & Wyatt Jenny Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur S. Jones 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 50

James C. & Jennifer L. Martin Dave & Kathy Maskalick Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Massaro Jr. Mr. Samuel A. McClung Mr. & Mrs. Water T. McGough, Jr. George & Bonnie Meanor Marilyn & Allan Meltzer Merrills Family Burl J. F. Moone III Arthur J. Murphy Jr. Terrence H. Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Perry Napolitano Donn & Peggy Neal Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Nussbaum Sandy & Gene Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan Roger & Sarah Parker John & Joan Pasteris Richard E. & Alice S. Patton Camilla B. Pearce & Dan Gee* Joseph & Suzanne Perrino Kears & Karen Pollock Ms. Mary Alice Price Symphony East Barbara Rackoff Bruce S. Reopolos* Rhoades-Carraro Family Don & Jenny Rhoten Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Betty & Edgar R. Robinson Mr. William M. Robinson Bruce & Susan Robison Dr. Lee A. & Rosalind* Rosenblum Charlotta Klein Ross Joseph Rounds Millie & Gary Ryan Gail Ryave & Family Williams Saunders & Elizabeth Casman Mary Sedigas Mrs. Virginia W. Schatz Allyn R. Shaw, William M. Shaw III & Family, Susan Wambold Michael Shefler Mr. & Mrs. Raymond V. Shepherd Jr.

Dr. Ralph T. Shuey & Rebecca L. Carlin Paul & Linda Silver Laurie & Paul Singer Lois & Bill Singleton Marjorie A. Snyder Martin Staniland & Alberta Sbragia Shirley & Sidney Stark Jr. Sarah & Thomas St. Clair William H. Steele Jeff & Linda Stengel Stringert, Inc. Peter Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Frank Talenfeld Mr. & Mrs. Llewellyn C. Thomas III Dorothea & Gerald* Thompson Mrs. Rollie G. Thomas Ruth (Krysik) Thon Dennis L. Travis & Colleen Bryne Travis Jeff & Melissa Tsai Drs. Ben Van Houten & Victoria Woshner Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Vogel John & Linda Vuono Scott & Stacy Weber Marvin & Dot Wedeen Jodi & Andrew Weisfield James R. Whitehead Sandra D. Williamson Jim* & Mary Jo Winokur Mr. & Mrs. Richard Zahren Simone J. Ziegler Dorothea K. Zikos Current as of Sept. 25, 2013 *deceased

special named gifts BNY Mellon ........................................................................... Recordings & Electronic Media and Artistic Excellence Programs Benno & Constance Bernt.......................................................................................................................................Stage Right Door Jim & Carolyn Bouchard, Esmark, Inc. ........................................................................................................... Schooltime Concerts Rae & Jane Burton........................................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Basil & Jayne Adair Cox................................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Randi & L. Van V. Dauler, Jr. ............................................................................................. Mozart Room Elevator & Garden Bench William S. Dietrich II*.................................................................................................Endowment for PSO Educational Programs Dollar Bank................................................................................................................................ Community Engagement Concerts Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Donahue.....................................................................................................................Music for the Spirit Roy & Susan Dorrance ......................................................................................................................................Music for the Spirit EQT Corporation.............................................................................................................Community Engagement & EQT Student . Side-By -Side Program Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot......................................................................................................................Grand Piano, Paris Festival Goldman Sachs Gives .......................................................................................................... Community Engagement Concerts Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield ....................................................................................................Music and Wellness Program Elsie & Henry Hillman.......................................................................................................... The Henry L. Hillman Endowment for International Performances Ms. Seima Horvitz.........................................................................................................................................................Garden Bench David & Melissa Iwinski..............................................................................................................................................Stage Left Door Lillian Edwards Foundation............................................................................................................................Heartstrings Program Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Maxwell .............................................................................................................President and CEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office Pittsburgh Post-Gazette................................................................................................................. Grand Tier Door - Right Center PNC........................................................................................................................................................... PNC Walkway at Heinz Hall and PNC Tiny Tots Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart ...................................................................................................................................... Grand Piano Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer........................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Catharine M. Ryan & John T. Ryan III ...............................................................................................................Music for the Spirit Alece & David Schreiber...............................................................................................................................................Garden Bench Harvey & Florence Zeve ............................................................................................................................................Garden Bench *deceased

every gift is instrumental 2013-2014 season

Heinz Hall Information

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

groups can receive discounted tickets, priority seats, personalized service and free reception space. For more information, call 412.392.4819 or visit our website at pittsburghsymphony.org/groups for information.

Latecomerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Latecomerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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 or 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 Development department at 412.392.4880 or visit us online at pittsburghsymphony.org

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