APRIL 10-12, APRIL 17-19, 2015
HEINZ HALL
MANFRED HONECK, MUSIC DIRECTOR
It is the mission of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to provide musical experiences at the highest level of expression to enrich the community and satisfy the needs and preferences of our audiences. We will achieve this mission by working together to support an internationally recognized orchestra and by ensuring a viable long-term financial future; a fulfilling environment for our orchestra, staff, volunteers; and the unsurpassed satisfaction of our customers.
PROGRAM April 10-12 program...........................................................................9 April 10-12 program notes...............................................................10 Manfred Honeck biography..............................................................16 Hélène Grimaud biography..............................................................18 April 17-19 program.........................................................................23 April 17-19 program notes...............................................................24 Rainer Honeck biography.................................................................30 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra biography......................................32 EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL Individuals........................................................................................34 Foundations & Public Agencies.........................................................41 Corporations .....................................................................................42 Legacy of Excellence..........................................................................44 Commitment to Excellence Special Named Gifts.............................46 Honor/Memorial Gifts.......................................................................48
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 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 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.
INDIVIDUALS & HEINZ HALL INFORMATION Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians........................................2 Board of Trustees ................................................................................3 Chairman’s Council & Jack Heinz Society...........................................5 New Leadership Board........................................................................5 Pittsburgh Symphony Association......................................................5 Administrative Staff.............................................................................7 Heinz Hall Information.....................................................................56
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In celebration of National Jazz Appreciation Month, BNY Mellon and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust present 100 Years of Strayhorn featuring Allan Harris and Eric Reed. Strayhorn wrote and produced some of the most important work of an era and is celebrated for his three-decade long collaboration with Duke Ellington. Strayhorn’s roots are in Pittsburgh but his compositions of “Take the A Train,” “Satin Doll” and “Lush Life” are just a few of the internationally acclaimed standards that shaped the Jazz Age and had impact around the world.
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BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS | HEINZ HALL FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015 AT 7:30 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2015 AT 7:30 PM SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2015 AT 2:30 PM
Manfred Honeck, conductor Hélène Grimaud, piano Pre-concert
Concert Prelude with Guest Assistant Conductor Christian Capocaccia
Robert Schumann
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, Opus 54 I. Allegro affettuoso II. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso — III. Allegro vivace Ms. Grimaud Intermission
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Nowak Edition) I. Feierlich, Misterioso II. Scherzo: Bewegt, lebhaft III. Adagio: Langsam, feierlich
This weekend’s performances by Music Director Manfred Honeck are made possible, in part, through the generous Annual Fund support of the R.P. Simmons Family. This weekend’s performances by pianist Hélène Grimaud are made possible, in part, through the generous Annual Fund support of Susanne and Jim Wilkinson. This weekend’s performances by pianist Hélène Grimaud are made possible, in part, by support from the BNY Mellon Artistic Excellence Fund.
PHOTOGRAPHY, AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS PERFORMANCE ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, Opus 54 (1841, 1845)
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 8 June 1810 in Zwickau, Germany died 29 July 1856 in Endenich, near Bonn PREMIERE OF WORK
Dresden, 4 December 1845 Hôtel de Saxe Ferdinand Hiller, conductor Clara Schumann, soloist PSO PREMIERE
9 February 1900 Carnegie Music Hall Victor Herbert, conductor Antoinette Szumowska, soloist INSTRUMENTATION woodwinds, horns and trumpets in pairs, timpani, strings DURATION
31 minutes
PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA
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Schumann’s Piano Concerto occupied a special place in his loving relationship with his wife, Clara. In 1837, three years before their marriage, Schumann wrote to her of a plan for a concerted work for piano and orchestra that would be “a compromise between a symphony, a concerto and a huge sonata.” It was a bold vision for Schumann who had, with one discarded exception, written nothing for orchestra. In 1841, the second year of their marriage, he returned to his original conception, and produced a Fantasia in one movement for piano with orchestral accompaniment. That memorable year also saw the composition of his Symphony No. 1 and the first version of the Fourth Symphony, a burst of activity that had been encouraged by Clara, who wanted her husband to realize his potential in forms larger than the solo piano works and songs to which he had previously devoted himself. The Fantasia seemed to satisfy the desires of both husband and wife. Clara ran through the work at a rehearsal of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra on August 13, 1841, and Robert thought highly enough of the piece to try to have it published. His attempts to secure a publisher for the new score met with one rejection after another, however, and, with great disappointment, he laid the piece aside. In 1844, Robert had a difficult bout with the recurring emotional disorder that plagued him throughout his life. After his recovery, he felt a new invigoration, and resumed composition with restless enthusiasm. In May 1845, the Fantasia came down from the shelf with Schumann’s determination to breathe new life into it. He retained the original Fantasia movement, and added to it an Intermezzo and Finale to create the three-movement Piano Concerto, which was to become one of the most popular of all such works in the keyboard repertory. Schumann’s Piano Concerto is memorable not only for the beauty of its melodies and the felicity of its harmony, but also for the careful integration of its structure. Were the manner in which the work was composed unknown, there would be no way to tell that several years separate the creation of the first from the second and third movements. The Concerto’s sense of unity arises principally from the transformations of the opening theme heard throughout the work. This opening motive, a lovely melody presented by the woodwinds after the fiery prefatory chords of the piano, pervades the first movement, serving not only as its second theme but also appearing in many variants in the development section. Even the coda, placed after a stirring cadenza, uses a double-time marching version of the main theme. The second movement is a three-part form with a soaring melody for cellos in its middle section. The movement’s initial motive, a gentle dialogue between piano and strings, is another derivative of the first movement’s opening theme. The principal theme of the
sonata-form finale is yet another rendering of the Concerto’s initial melody, this one a heroic manifestation in triple meter; the second theme employs extensive rhythmic syncopations. After a striding central section, the recapitulation begins in the dominant key so that the movement finally settles into the expected tonic major key only with the syncopated second theme.
2014-2015 Concert Season Brentano Quartet with Todd Palmer, clarinet April 27, 2015 “Passionate, uninhibited, and spellbinding.” – The London Independent All concerts at 7:30pm in Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 9 in D minor (1887, 1891-1896, Nowak Edition)
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 4 September 1824 in Ansfelden, Upper Austria died 11 October 1896 in Vienna PREMIERE OF WORK
Vienna, 11 February 1903 Orchestra of the Vienna Concert Society Ferdinand Löwe, conductor PSO PREMIERE
5 May 1967 Syria Mosque William Steinberg, conductor INSTRUMENTATION three flutes, three oboes, three clarinets, three bassoons, eight horns, four Wagner tubas (a hybrid of horn and euphonium), three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani and strings DURATION
60 minutes
“Often, I found him on his knees in profound prayer. As it was strictly forbidden to interrupt him under these circumstances, I stood by and overheard his naive, pathetic interpolations in the traditional texts. At times he would suddenly exclaim, ‘Dear God, let me get well soon; you see I need my health to finish the Ninth.’” This touching report of Anton Bruckner during his last months came from Dr. Richard Heller, a physician who attended the ailing composer while he was in a fierce race against death to complete his D minor Symphony. Bruckner began sketching his Ninth Symphony in 1887, as soon as he had completed the Symphony No. 8. He collected many ideas for the new work, but decided to set the piece aside so that he could revise several of his earlier symphonies, notably the First and the justcompleted Eighth. These painstaking revisions caused Bruckner great difficulties, dragging on for four years and sapping much of his strength and spirit. By 1889, when he turned 65, Bruckner began to suffer from dropsy, the accumulation of fluids in the body tissues, the painful disease that had afflicted Beethoven. In the spring of the following year, he was stricken with a chronic catarrh, or inflammation, of the larynx, and began to show signs of an abnormal nervous condition. In the fall, he was relieved of his duties as organ professor at the Vienna Conservatory; he retired as professor emeritus in January 1891. Despite his deteriorating health, Bruckner returned to the D minor Symphony in April, telling the conductor Herman Levy, “I have already written down most of the themes.” The first movement was done by October 1892, the same year he left his position as organist at the Court Chapel, but work on the Symphony became more difficult with each passing month. A severe attack of dropsy in the fall of 1893, worsened by an attendant heart condition, prevented the completion of the Scherzo and Adagio until 1894. During the remaining two years of his life, after he had given his last lectures at the University of Vienna and largely withdrawn from the world, Bruckner worked solely on the gigantic finale he planned to crown his Symphony. He realized that this would be his last composition (one theme in the Adagio is labeled “Farewell to Life”), and he prayed daily (and often invited his visitors to join him) that God would grant him the time to complete the score: “I have done my duty on earth. I have accomplished what I could, and my only wish is to be allowed to complete my Ninth Symphony.... There remains only the finale. I trust Death will not deprive me of my pen.... If He refuses, then He must take the responsibility for its incompleteness.” Finished or not, the deeply religious Bruckner told Dr. Heller of his plans for the dedication of the new work: “I have made dedications to two earthly majesties: poor
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King Ludwig [of Bavaria], as a patron of the arts, and to our illustrious dear Emperor Franz Joseph, as the highest earthly majesty that I know. Now I dedicate to the Lord of lords, to my dear God, my last work, and hope that He will grant me enough time to finish it and will generously accept my gift.” Bruckner tried mightily to bring the Symphony to a conclusion. He worked on the finale whenever he felt able, sometimes even arising in the middle of the night to scratch down some thought or other. His housekeeper, Kathi Kachelmeyer (Bruckner never married), remonstrated with him for being out of bed when his health was so poor, but he responded by telling her, “One must compose when the right idea comes.” And ideas there were in abundance for the closing movement. The six extant variants of the finale, among whose shaky pen-strokes are scattered phrases from The Lord’s Prayer, stretch to some 400 measures, but none of the versions includes an ending, the necessary coda that would round out Bruckner’s overall vision of the work. It seems likely that the composer, who also suffered mental lapses in his last year, could not conceive the finish of the Symphony — could not bring about the overwhelming catharsis demanded by the earlier movements. (The sketches indicate that this finale would have been of a larger dimension than even those for the Fifth and Eighth Symphonies. An attempt by the American musicologist William Carragan in 1984 to make a performing edition from the available material was generally judged as unsuccessful.) In the event that death prevented the completion of the score, Bruckner suggested that the choral Te Deum of 1885 should be used as the finale. This request had more to do with his sense of classical formal balance, which demanded a symphony of four movements, than it did with musical suitability, however, and his stopgap measure is seldom used. Despite his fervent prayers and hopeful determination, the Ninth Symphony was left incomplete. He worked on the manuscript on the morning he died — October 11, 1896. In 1896, the poor state of Bruckner’s health was more widely known than was his progress on the Ninth Symphony, and it was assumed that he left the work in an unperformable state. Great was the public surprise, then, when the Bruckner disciple Ferdinand Löwe announced, six years after the composer died, that he had completed the score of the first three movements from the manuscript, added the Te Deum as the finale, and would perform the Symphony with the Vienna Concert Society on February 11, 1903. The composer’s biographer Josef V. Wöss reported that the audience was “spellbound” by the performance. However, some questions about the fidelity of Löwe’s edition to Bruckner’s true thoughts were raised. In the periodical Zeitschrift für Musik, Max Auer asked, “Where are those abrupt, Bruckneresque transitions between the passages? Why do the various phrases end in gentle expirations? In short, whence comes this odd finesse, this smooth polish, into the work of a composer universally noted for his rugged individuality?” The questions remained unanswered until the Bruckner Society sponsored a private concert in Munich on April 4, 1932 at which were performed both the Löwe edition and a new one by Robert Haas and Alfred Orel, which resurrected Bruckner’s original version. It was found that Löwe had made radical changes in the score, altering the dynamic scheme, many of the tempo indications, much of the orchestration, and even parts of the harmonic structure. That concert in Munich was perhaps the most important stimulus toward the modern view of Bruckner, which holds that he knew exactly what he was doing, and that the revisions of his symphonies he and others undertook only clouded the brilliance of the originals in concept and in detail. The Ninth Symphony is almost always performed today in the original three-movement version, without finale. The majestic scale of the work is established with the grandiose sonata form of the opening movement. The main theme group comprises three thematic motives. The first motive, PROGRAM NOTES 2014-2015 SEASON
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reminiscent of the Kyrie from Bruckner’s youthful Missa Solemnis of 1854, is intoned by the horns above a premonitory quivering in the strings. The second motive, a woodwind phrase based on a melodic figure turning around a single note, builds directly into the stentorian unison statement of the third, octave-leap motive by the full orchestra. Following a pause (“When I have something important to say, I must take a deep breath first,” Bruckner once explained), a quiet transition with pizzicato strings bridges to the second theme, a long melody of tender warmth played by the strings. The closing theme, an arch-shaped strain based on open chordal intervals, is initiated by the winds in imitation. The development section elaborates the moods and themes established in earlier pages. The recapitulation rolls in on an overwhelming wave of sound enfolding the third (octave-leap) motive, which is considerably extended before giving way to the tender second theme, presented here in a richer and darker setting. The movement ends with a mighty but hollow-sounding blast for massed instruments based on the octave-leap motive. “When they hear that, they won’t know what to make of it; but by that time, I’ll be in my grave,” predicted Bruckner of the spectral Scherzo. He referred specifically to the harmonic vocabulary of the movement, perhaps the most modern and daring in any of his symphonies, and to the music’s haunted mood and violent outbursts, which reflect characteristics of the comparable movement in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The contrasting trio is a nimble essay, which, like the Scherzo, attains by itself virtually the proportions of a full sonata movement. Bruckner called this Adagio the most beautiful of all his slow movements. Though he considered the Symphony unfinished, it is hard to imagine what music could follow this sublime statement of the composer’s intense, mystical faith. Josef Wöss detected several quotations from Bruckner’s earlier compositions in the movement, and surmised that it was intended as a valedictory summing-up of his works. The composer himself may have regarded it as such, since he marked one passage, “Farewell to Life.” He included in the scoring one of his most treasured tonal resources — a choir of four Wagner tubas, the velvet-voiced hybrid of baritone horn and standard French horn, as his final homage to his revered master, Richard Wagner. (He prayed at Wagner’s grave every day during his last visit to Bayreuth, in August 1892.) It was, appropriately, with this sound that Bruckner ended his last completed movement. Two lines from a poem that Moritz von Mayfeld dedicated to Bruckner summarize not only the mood of this rapturous Adagio, but also the philosophy by which its creator lived his life: “Art had its beginning with God — And so it must lead back to God.”
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Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra Lawrence Loh, Music Director Presenting a FREE Concert
Enigma Variations Sunday, May 17, 2015 7:30 PM at Heinz Hall
Program will include:
Enigma Variations
by Edward Elgar
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture by Tchaikovsky performed with PYSO Alumni “side by side”
Third movement of
Piano Concerto No. 3 by Prokofiev, featuring soloist Ariana Chiu, winner of PYSO’s 2015 Concerto Competition. Photo by David Ren
Original artwork by Nathan Lutz.
The concert is free, but tickets are required for admission. To download FREE tickets, go to www.pyso.org and click on “Events/Tickets”. PROGRAM NOTES 2014-2015 SEASON
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MANFRED HONECK Manfred Honeck has served as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since the 2008-2009 season. After two extensions, his contract now runs until the end of the 2019-2020 season. To great acclaim, Honeck and his orchestra perform regularly for European audiences. Since 2010, annual tour performances have led them to numerous European music capitals and major music festivals, amongst them Rheingau Musik Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Musikfest Berlin, Grafenegg Festival, Lucerne Festival and the BBC Proms. The 2012 tour focused on a week-long residency at the Vienna Musikverein. In summer 2013, concerts took place in Grafenegg, Berlin, Bucharest, Paris, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Lucerne and Bonn. Several recordings, amongst them Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, which won a 2012 International Classical Music Award, are available on Japanese label Exton. Honeck’s successful work with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is now captured by Reference Recordings. The first SACD — of Strauss tone poems — was released in fall 2013 and received rave reviews. The second recording, of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 and the Symphonic Suite from Janáček’s opera Jenůfa, conceptualized by Honeck himself, followed in summer 2014 and was likewise enthusiastically received. Several additional recordings are completed and it is expected that two releases will be issued per year. From 2007 to 2011, Honeck was music director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart where he conducted premieres including Berlioz’s Les Troyens, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Verdi’s Aida, Richard Strauss’s Rosenkavalier, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and Wagner’s Lohengrin and Parsifal, as well as numerous symphonic concerts. His operatic guest appearances include Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Royal Opera of Copenhagen, the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg and the Salzburg Festival.
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Born in Austria, Honeck received his musical training at the Academy of Music in Vienna. Many years of experience as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and at the helm of the Vienna
Jeunesse Orchestra have given his conducting a distinctive stamp. He began his career as assistant to Claudio Abbado in Vienna. Subsequently, he was engaged by the Zurich Opera House, where he was bestowed the prestigious European Conductor’s Award in 1993. Other early stations of his career include Leipzig, where he was one of three main conductors of the MDR Symphony Orchestra and Oslo, where he assumed the post of music director at the Norwegian National Opera on short notice for a year and was engaged as principal guest conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra for several years. From 2000 to 2006, he was music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm and, from 2008 to 2011, principal guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he has resumed for another three years at the beginning of the 2013-2014 season. As a guest conductor, Honeck has worked with leading international orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Accademia di Santa Cecilia Rome and the Vienna Philharmonic. Orchestras he conducted in the United States include New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra. He also is a regular guest at the Verbier Festival. In February 2013, he had his successful debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the direct result of which was a CD recording together with Anne-Sophie Mutter (works of Dvořák) for DG. The current season sees him return to Bamberg, Stuttgart, Rome and New York as well as to the Vienna Symphony (a CD of works by the Strauss family was released in summer 2013) and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He also will conduct Tonhalleorchester Zürich and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst others. Honeck has received honorary doctorates from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania and, most recently, from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Moreover, he has been artistic director of the “International Concerts Wolfegg” in Germany for more than 15 years.
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HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD She could be called a Renaissance woman for our times. Hélène Grimaud is not just a deeply passionate and committed musical artist whose pianistic accomplishments play a central role in her life. She is a woman with multiple talents that extend far beyond the instrument she plays with such poetic expression and peerless technical control. The French artist has established herself as a committed wildlife conservationist, a compassionate human rights activist and as a writer.
But Grimaud’s engagement doesn’t end there: she is also a member of the organization Musicians for Human Rights, a worldwide network of musicians and people working in the field of music to promote a culture of human rights and social change. For most people, establishing and running an environmental organization or having a flourishing career as a musician would be accomplishment enough. Yet, remarkably, Grimaud has also found time to pursue writing. Her first book, Variations Sauvages, was Grimaud was born in 1969 in Aix-en- published in French in 2003 and subsequently Provence where she began her piano studies translated into English, Japanese, Dutch at the conservatory with Jacqueline Courtin and German. Her second book, Leçons and subsequently under Pierre Barbizet in particulières, which is part novel and part Marseille. She was accepted into the Paris autobiography, followed in 2005. Most Conservatoire at just 13 and won first prize in recently, she published Retour à Salem, also piano performance a mere three years later. a semi-autobiographical novel, which was She continued to study with György Sándor released in French in October 2013. and Leon Fleisher until, in 1987, she gave her well-received debut recital in Tokyo. The Despite her divided dedication to these multiple same year, the renowned conductor Daniel passions, it is through Grimaud’s thoughtful and Barenboim invited her to perform with the tenderly expressive music-making that she most Orchestre de Paris. deeply touches the emotions of audiences. Fortunately, they have been able to enjoy her This marked the launch of Grimaud’s musical concerts due to her extensive touring around career; one highlighted by concerts with the world. Throughout this season, Hélène most of the world’s major orchestras and will perform her new recital program inspired many celebrated conductors. Her recordings by water in the United States, Switzerland, have been critically acclaimed and awarded Germany, Austria, Italy, UK and France. In numerous accolades, among them the Cannes December 2014, she made her debut at the Classical Recording of the Year, Choc du Park Avenue Armory performing her recital Monde de la musique, Diapason d’or, Grand program as part of a large scale installation Prix du disque, Record Academy Prize (Tokyo), created by the artist Douglas Gordon – tears Midem Classic Award and the Echo Award. become…streams become… Her orchestral Between her debut in 1995 with the Berliner engagements include her return to the Berlin Philharmoniker under Claudio Abbado and Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev, Orchestre her first performance with the New York national de Lyon with Leonard Slatkin and the Philharmonic under Kurt Masur in 1999 – just Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Yannick two of many acclaimed musical milestones – Nézet-Séguin. Grimaud made a wholly different kind of debut: in upper New York State she established the In September 2013, Deutsche Grammophon Wolf Conservation Center. released her album of the two Brahms piano concertos; the first concerto with Andris Her love for the endangered species was Nelsons conducting the Bavarian Radio sparked by a chance encounter with a Symphony Orchestra and the second recorded wolf in northern Florida, which led to her with the Vienna Philharmonic. When she took determination to open an environmental the Brahms on tour to Southeast Asia, The education center. “To be involved in direct Straits Times of Singapore said: “Her playing conservation and being able to put animals was distinguished by superb timing and back where they belong,” she says, “there’s consistency of touch, and seamless interplay just nothing more fulfilling.” between piano and orchestra.” 18
Grimaud is also an ardent and committed chamber musician who performs frequently at the most prestigious festivals and cultural events with a wide range of musical collaborators that has included Sol Gabetta, Thomas Quasthoff, Rolando Villazón, Jan Vogler, Truls Mørk, Clemens Hagen and the Capuçon brothers. An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2002, her album prior to the Brahms concertos was Duo, a collaboration with cellist Sol Gabetta, which won the 2013 ECHO Award for “chamber recording of the year.” The disc was released in October 2012 and that autumn the pair gave a series of concerts in Germany and France, performing the cello sonatas by Schumann, Brahms, Shostakovich and Debussy, which are featured on the disc. The album’s repertoire originated as an inspired recreation of a concert they gave at the 2011 Gstaad Festival and that the Berner Zeitung described at the time as “breathtaking” while BBC Music Magazine commented that “. . . in the grand first movement [of Brahms’ Cello Sonata No. 1] Hélène Grimaud produces a context of almost orchestral depth and spaciousness into which Gabetta projects her eloquently refined lines.” Previous releases include her Mozart Piano Concertos No. 19 and No. 23, a disc released
in 2011, which also featured a collaboration with singer Mojca Erdmann on a recording of Mozart’s Ch’io mi scordi di te?. Grimaud’s 2010 release, the solo recital album Resonances, featured music by Mozart, Berg, Liszt and Bartók. Other DG recordings by Grimaud include Bach’s solo and concerto works in which she directed the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen from the piano bench, and a Beethoven disc with Staatskapelle Dresden and Vladimir Jurowski, Reflection and Credo (both of which feature a number of works linked thematically), a Chopin and Rachmaninov Sonatas disc, a Bartók CD with Grimaud playing the Third Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez and a DVD release of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado. Grimaud is undoubtedly a multi-faceted artist. Her deep dedication to her musical career, both in performances and recordings, is reflected and reciprocally amplified by the scope and depth of her environmental and literary pursuits. Grimaud last appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony in February 2014
photo credit: Mat Hennek
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Antonín Dvořák Suite from Rusalka, Opus 114 Concept by Manfred Honeck Arranged by Tomáš Ille
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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
Suite from Rusalka, Opus 114 (1900; suite arranged 2014-2015)
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 8 September 1841 in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia died 1 May 1904 in Prague PREMIERE OF WORK
Prague, March 31, 1901 National Theater Karel Kovařovic, conductor THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE SUITE INSTRUMENTATION
Piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and strings DURATION
25 minutes
Dvořák composed operas throughout his career, from 1870 (Alfred) to 1903 (Armida), but his success with most of them was limited, in part because of faulty librettos or his own miscalculations (when King and Charcoal Burner of 1871 proved unperformable by the available forces in Prague, he completely re-wrote the score to the same libretto), in part because their Czech texts were not easily accessible to either audiences or artists outside his homeland. (The Czech-proud composer maintained, “I consider opera to be the most suitable medium for the nation.”) He fared better with The Jacobin (1898), set in the Bohemian countryside, and The Devil and Kate (1899), a fairy tale-based comedy, and finally created his operatic masterpiece in 1900 with Rusalka. The libretto, by the 31-year-old poet and playwright Jaroslav Kvapil (who became a director and dramaturg at Prague’s National Theater later that year), was based mainly on the 1811 novella Undine by the German Romantic writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, with additional elements borrowed from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and the folk tales of Karel Jaromir Erben (1811-1870), on which Dvořák had based four orchestral tone poems in 1896-1897. The poignant story as well as the fantasy and natural worlds of Rusalka appealed strongly to Dvořák and he completed the score in just seven months. The work was premiered at the National Theater on March 31, 1901 under the direction of Karel Kovařovic, newly appointed music director at the house, and it triumphed. It had to be performed fifteen more times that season to meet demand and quickly came to be regarded as a masterwork of Czech opera equaled only by Smetana’s The Bartered Bride. A few weeks after the first performance, Gustav Mahler, then Music Director of the Vienna Court Opera, requested a copy of the score and expressed an interest in performing Rusalka, but settling terms proved to be elusive and it was not staged in that city until 1910, six years after Dvořák’s death. The first American performance was given in Chicago in 1935; Rusalka did not reach the Met until 1993. Dvořák’s opera tells the story of the water sprite Rusalka, who falls in love with a human Prince and enlists the aid of a witch to transform herself into a beautiful woman, in return for which she must give up the power of speech and accept that she will be accursed forever if her love fails. The Prince returns Rusalka’s affection and asks her to marry him, but he soon finds his fiancée silent and unresponsive, and instead is enticed by a scheming Princess visiting his court. Rusalka is changed back into a sprite. When the Princess betrays her suitor, however, the Prince returns to Rusalka in her lake, kisses her, and dies in her arms.
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Rusalka is exceptionally rich in melody and orchestral color and is especially amenable to the present treatment as a symphonic suite as conceived by Manfred Honeck and arranged by Czech composer and guitarist Tomáš Ille (b. 1971). Ille, a graduate of the Prague Conservatory and Academy of Music, has written for concert, film, theater and educational activities, and had his compositions and arrangements performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Czech Nonet, Pilsen Philharmonic and other leading soloists and ensembles. The Suite is woven from many of the score’s musical highlights and provides a précis of its action. It begins with the song three Wood Nymphs sing (Hou, hou, hou) in a forest glade at the edge of a lake in the opera’s opening scene. This is followed by the Prince’s Act I aria, in which he is transfixed by Rusalka after she has been transformed into a human (Divine vision, sweetest being, are you a real woman or something from a fairy tale?). Next is Rusalka’s rapturous Song to the Moon from earlier in Act I, when she appeals to the moon to carry her love to the Prince on its beams (Tell him, please, silvery moon in the sky, that I am hugging him firmly, that he should for at least a while remember me in his dreams). After an orchestral interlude in which the heart-broken Rusalka sees her Prince turn his affections to the visiting Princess, the wise old Water Goblin, Rusalka’s father, reminds her of his earlier warnings about assuming human form and the entanglements of love (You will come back worn out by life, with a curse hanging over your head). A choral scene set at a ball in the Prince’s castle follows (White blossoms along the road … Do not tarry, young lad, hasten to your beloved). The witch, Ježibaba, a figure both humorous and threatening, describes the potion she uses in Act I to turn Rusalka from a water sprite into a golden-tressed maiden (Abracadabra! A drop of dragon’s blood, ten drops of bile, the warm heart of a bird, still beating). At the end of Act II, when Rusalka fears she has lost the love of her Prince, she sings a poignant lament (Another has ensnared him with her beauty, with her fierce human beauty. He no longer wants to know me, his simple Rusalka). In the opera’s touching final act, Rusalka returns to her lake (I am neither dead nor alive, neither a woman nor a nymph, I am condemned to roam this earth as a phantom) before the Prince, unable to overcome his love for her, rushes in and begs for her kiss to restore peace to his soul. After they embrace and kiss passionately, he dies in her arms. “For your love, for your beauty,” Rusalka prays, “for your inconstant human passion, for everything which condemned me to my fate, may God have mercy on your human soul.”
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 15 (1938-1939)
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 22 November 1913 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England died 4 December 1976 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk PREMIERE OF WORK
New York City, 28 March 1940 Carnegie Hall New York Philharmonic John Barbirolli, conductor Antonio Brosa, soloist THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE INSTRUMENTATION
two piccolos, three flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings DURATION
31 minutes
Benjamin Britten was 26 in 1939, and much unsettled about his life. Though he had already produced 14 works important enough to be given opus numbers and a large additional amount of songs, chamber music, choral works and film and theater scores, he felt his career was stymied both by an innate conservatism among the British music public and by the increasingly assured threat of war in Europe. Additionally troubling was his proclaimed pacificism in a nation girding itself for battle. In January 1939, his friends poet W.H. Auden and novelist Christopher Isherwood left for America in search of creative stimulation and freedom from what Auden called the English artist’s feeling of being “essentially lonely, twisted in dying roots.” With the promise of a performance of his Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge by the New York Philharmonic in August and the prospect of writing a score for a Hollywood film about King Arthur, Britten decided to follow Auden, and in May he sailed from England with his life-long companion, the tenor Peter Pears, intent on becoming a citizen of the United States. Since Britten and Pears planned on taking up a permanent working status, they skirted immigration regulations by entering the United States through Canada, where they became “legal British immigrants” and spent several pleasant weeks in Toronto establishing contact with the representatives in that city of the composer’s publisher, Boosey & Hawkes. (In December 1939, Britten composed the lighthearted Canadian Carnival for orchestra as a souvenir of his visit.) They arrived in New York in late June, and were invited “for a weekend” by William and Elizabeth Mayer to their home in Amityville, Long Island — except for short trips away and a brief, rowdy period with a houseful of artists headed by Auden in Brooklyn, it was to be their principal residence until they returned to England almost three years later. Despite frequent bouts of depression and ill health, Britten composed freely in America, producing such important scores as the Violin Concerto, Les Illuminations, Michelangelo Sonnets, Sinfonia da Requiem, Ceremony of Carols and the operetta Paul Bunyan. (The Hollywood film project never materialized.) In August 1938, several months before he left for America, Britten appeared as soloist in the premiere of his Piano Concerto at a Promenade Concert in London. The venture went well enough that he began a concerto for violin three months later, and he carried the sketches with him when he sailed for Canada in May 1939. He worked on the Violin Concerto in Toronto over the next several weeks and at his home on Long Island during the summer, and finished it while vacationing in the Quebec town of St. Jovite in September.
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He submitted the score for consideration to Jascha Heifetz, who was then preparing for the December premiere in Cleveland of the Violin Concerto that William Walton had just written for him, but the famed violinist rejected Britten’s Concerto as unplayable (though without specifying whether his judgment arose from technical, contractual or political considerations). Britten then contacted the Spanish virtuoso Antonio Brosa, an old friend and fellow student of the English composer Frank Bridge with whom he had given the premiere of his Suite for Violin and Piano (Op. 6) on a BBC broadcast in March 1936. Brosa, like Britten, had settled in the United States with war looming in Europe, and he agreed to give the Concerto’s premiere on March 28, 1940 with the New York Philharmonic and its music director, John Barbirolli, another English musician then working in America. The reviews of the premiere were mixed — “pretty violent: either pro or con,” Britten remembered — but among those who heard a distinctive voice in this music was the American composer Elliott Carter, who wrote that “nobody could fail to be impressed by the remarkable gifts of the composer, the size and ambition of his talent.” The Concerto’s broad, darkly noble first movement begins with a succinct, open-interval motive in the timpani that recurs throughout as a motto. Above the bassoon’s muttering repetitions of the motto, the solo violin presents the main theme, a melody made from a series of short, smooth, mostly descending phrases. The orchestra takes over the main theme to provide a transition to the second subject, which is constructed from extensive elaborations of the rhythms and intervals inherent in the motto. A climax is built from this material in the development section before the recapitulation begins with roles reversed from the exposition: the upper strings play the main theme while the soloist hammers out aggressive permutations of the motto. The second subject is omitted in the recapitulation, but the violin reclaims the main theme in the coda, intoning it musingly above a sparse accompaniment of timpani, harp and plucked strings. The second movement is a driving, virtuosic, slightly sinister scherzo for which the more relaxed central section provides formal and expressive contrast. A brilliant cadenza that recalls the timpani motto and the main theme from the first movement serves as a bridge to the finale. The somber closing movement is a passacaglia, a formal technique using a series of variations on a short, recurring melody that was highly favored by Baroque composers but which fell into disuse with the changed requirements of the music of the Classical era. Britten fitted this passacaglia with nine variations on a stern scalar melody, and gave the music a serious emotional cast that seems to have reflected his sorrow over the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, which reached its bloody climax when he was completing the Concerto. “It is at times like these,” he said, “that work is so important — so that people can think of other things than blowing each other up! ... I try not to listen to the radio more than I can help.” Though Benjamin Britten was only 27 when he composed his Violin Concerto, the work shows that he had already become a master of reflecting the human condition in music of technical mastery and emotional depth.
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PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 74, “Pathétique” (1893)
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Born 7 May 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia died 6 November 1893 in St. Petersburg. PREMIERE OF WORK
St. Petersburg, 28 October 1893 Hall of the Nobility Orchestra of the Imperial Russian Music Society Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, conductor PSO PREMIERE
17 November 1899 Carnegie Music Hall Victor Herbert, conductor INSTRUMENTATION
piccolo and three flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani, gong, bass drum, cymbals and strings DURATION
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Tchaikovsky died in 1893, at the age of only 53. His death was long attributed to the accidental drinking of a glass of unboiled water during a cholera outbreak, but that theory has been questioned in recent years with the alternate explanation that he was forced to take his own life because of a homosexual liaison with the underage son of a noble family. Though the manner of Tchaikovsky’s death is incidental to the place of his Sixth Symphony in music history, the fact of it is not. Tchaikovsky conducted his B minor Symphony for the first time only a week before his death. It was given a cool reception by musicians and public, and his frustration was multiplied when discussion of the work was avoided by the guests at a dinner party following the concert on October 28, 1893. Three days later, however, his mood seemed brighter and he told a friend that he was not yet ready to be snatched off by death, “that snubbed-nose horror. I feel that I shall live a long time.” He was wrong. He died on November 6, and a sense of overwhelming grief and loss was felt by music lovers in Russia and abroad as the news of his passing spread. Memorial concerts were planned. One of the first was in St. Petersburg on November 18, only 12 days after he died. Eduard Napravnik conducted the Sixth Symphony on that occasion, and it was a resounding success. The “Pathétique” was wafted by the winds of sorrow across the musical world, and became — and remains — one of the most popular symphonies ever written, the quintessential expression of tragedy in music. The Symphony opens with a slow introduction dominated by the sepulchral intonation of the bassoon, whose melody, in a faster tempo, becomes the impetuous first theme of the exposition. The tension subsides into silence before the yearning second theme appears, “like a recollection of happiness in time of pain,” according to Edward Downes. The tempestuous development section is launched by a mighty blast from the full orchestra. The recapitulation is more condensed, vibrantly scored and intense in emotion than the exposition. Tchaikovsky referred to the second movement as a scherzo, though its 5/4 meter gives it more the feeling of a waltz with a limp. The third movement is a boisterous march. A profound emptiness pervades the Symphony’s closing movement, which maintains its slow tempo and mood of despair throughout.
ANDREW REAMER principal percussion
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RAINER HONECK Rainer Honeck was born in 1961 in Nenzing, Austria and started learning violin at the age of seven; he pursued his studies at the High School of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Edith Bertschinger and privately with Alfred Staar (a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra).
in Prague (Pony Canyon label), Franz Schubert’s Complete Works for Violin and Piano (Frohla Studios), a double CD of Mozart’s Violin Concertos released under the Orfeo label as well as an interesting “Rondo” CD as soloist and leader of the Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin (Sony).
Honeck joined the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra as a first violinist in 1981, advancing to the position of concertmaster in the Opera in 1984 and to that of concert master of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1992.
Honeck’s intensive work as a chamber musician — founding member and leader of the “Wiener Virtuosen,” of the Vienna String Soloists, primarius of the Ensemble Wien and the Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin (since 2008) —also is well documented in radio, television and CD productions (mostly under the Koch label).
While his work with the orchestra remains central to his musical life, Honeck is a renowned soloist, with concert appearances in Austria and in Europe, Japan and America. Personal highlights with the Vienna Philharmonic include Dvořák’s Violin Concerto under Mariss Jansons, Mozart’ concertos under Riccardo Muti and Herbert Blomstedt and Berg’s Violin Concerto with Daniele Gatti. He also played the Berg concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre under Valery Gergiev and the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. Further he performed the Stravinsky Violin Concerto under Andres Oroczo Estrada and with the London Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding. Recordings of note as concertmaster include live productions of Rimskij-Korsakow’s Scheherazade with the Vienna Philharmonic and Seiji Ozawa (Philips) and Richard Strauss’ A Hero’s Life under Christian Thielemann (Deutsche Grammophon). He has further recorded Dvořák’s and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concertos with the Czech Philharmonic
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All this “leading” experience, both as concertmaster and with various chamber music ensembles, seemed a natural stepping stone to extend his repertoire to encompass orchestral literature, conducting such orchestras as the Kioi Sinfonietta; the Nagoya Philharmonic; the Sapporo Symphony and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (Japan); the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (Sweden); the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg (Russia); the Philharmonic Orchestra in Nice (France) and the Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonie. Honeck plays the “ex-Hämmerle” Stradivarius violin (1709); the instrument is a loan from the Austrian National Bank. These performances mark Honeck’s debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony.
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THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA For more than 119 years, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been an essential part of Pittsburgh’s cultural landscape. The Pittsburgh Symphony, known for its artistic excellence, is credited with a rich history of the world’s finest conductors and musicians, and a strong commitment to the Pittsburgh region and its citizens. This tradition was furthered in fall 2008, when Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck became music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. With a long and distinguished history of touring both domestically and overseas since 1900, the Pittsburgh Symphony continues to be critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest orchestras. With more than 36 international tours, including 20
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European tours, eight trips to the Far East, and two to South America. The Pittsburgh Symphony was the first American orchestra to perform at the Vatican in January 2004 for the late Pope John Paul II, as part of the Pontiff’s Silver Jubilee celebration. The Pittsburgh Symphony has a long and illustrious history in the areas of recordings and radio concerts. As early as 1936, the Pittsburgh Symphony broadcast coastto-coast, receiving increased national attention in 1982 through network radio broadcasts on Public Radio International. The PRI series is produced by Classical WQED-FM 89.3 in Pittsburgh and is made possible by the musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
2015 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SUMMER CONCERT SERIES
Think outside the Bach. Thursday Icons:
Smokey Robinson
July 9, 7:30 p.m. Smokey Robinson brings his honeycoated voice to Heinz Hall for a stellar performance with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Classical BBQ
July 11, 6:30 p.m. August 2, 6:30 p.m. The Pittsburgh Symphony presents two festive evenings that are perfect for the whole family, featuring orchestral favorites, great food and drinks, pre- and post-concert music, and a chance to mingle with the symphony musicians.
Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY
August 1, 8 p.m. A multimedia experience, Distant Worlds combines stirring screen images to match the soaring emotions of the Pittsburgh Symphony performing music from SQUARE ENIX’s world-renowned video game series.
For the entire summer line-up, visit pittsburghsymphony.org/summer. PROGRAM 2014-2015 SEASON 33 Discounts available for multiple-concert purchases.
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Helen & Don Berman Mrs. Georgia Berner & Mr. James Farber Dr. Lawson Bernstein Robert S. Bernstein & Ellie K. Bernstein Fund Ms. Robin Joan Bernstein Don Berry* Marilyn & Guy Berry Henry & Charlotte Beukema Drs. Barbara & Al Biglan Harry S. Binakonsky, M.D. Rob & Hongwei Bittner Franklin & Bonnie Blackstone Michael & Carol Bleier Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Block Clifford Bob & Joan Miles Steve & Jeanne Boehmer Marianne Bokan-Blair Barbara H. Bott & Robert Jennings Dr. & Mrs. A’Delbert Bowen William & Elizabeth Bowers Robert N. Brand Mr. & Mrs. William H. Brandeis Gary & Connie Brandenberger Sue & Mark Breedlove Gerda & Abe Bretton Mary & Russell Brignano Mary L. Briscoe Daniel & Lise Brodkey Judy Brody & Lawrence Adler Anna Brophy Suzanne Broughton & Richard Margerum Mr. & Mrs.* Earle O. Brown Jr. Timothy R. Brown & Heidi K. Bartholomew Nancy & John* Brownell Lois R. Brozenick* Dr. & Mrs. John A. Burkholder James & Anne Burnham Dr. Stuart S. Burstein Nicholas Butera & Grace Wagner Michael F. Butler Christopher & Nancy Caldwell James & Judith Callomon John & Kelly Camp
Susan Campbell & Patrick Curry Andrés Cárdenes & Monique Mead Dr. Albert A. Caretto Richard & Jeanne* Carter Rebecca J. Caserio M.D. Charles & Donna Cashdollar James P. Cassaro Dr. & Mrs. Richard G. Cassoff Susan & Bill Cercone Sue Challinor & Matt Teplitz Deborah & David Chapman Peggy & Joe Charny Dr. & Mrs. Albert E. Chung Ralph & Phyllis Cioffi Edward Cipriano William R. Clarkson & Dr. Andrea Velletri Robert & Elizabeth Clemens Sarah Clendenning & Un Kim William & Elizabeth Clendenning Brian Clista Stuart & Cathryn Coblin Christine & Howard Cohen Dr. Richard & Sally B. Cohen Jared L. & Maureen B. Cohon Alan & Lynne Colker In Loving Memory of Johnathan Heath College Estelle Comay & Bruce Rabin Connell Leonard Family The David Conover Family Lin & Anne Cook R. Bruce Cooper Dr. & Mrs. Cleon L. Cornes Patricia J. Cover Barton & Teri Cowan Ms. Eileen Cox Hanley B. Cox Mary Ann Craig, D.M.E. Susan & George Craig Susan O. Cramer David* & Marian Crossman John D. & Laurie B. Culbertson Kent & Merle Culley Mr. S. A. Cunningham Zelda Curtiss Cynthia Custer Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus Daboo
Dr. & Mrs. Richard H. Daffner Mr. Enrico & Mrs. Federica Dallavecchia Mrs. Heidi Daley Joan & Jim Darby Norina H. Daubner Dr. & Mrs. K. C. Davides Joan Clark Davis Constance P. Davis Morningside Dental Jim* & Peggy Degnan Charles S. Degrosky Dr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Dell’Omo Lynn & David DeLorenzo Dr. Richard S. DeLuca David & Diane Denis Edward U. DePersis Patrick C. Derrico Diane Dewalt Mr. & Mrs. Victor DiCarlo Mrs. Tika Dickos Alfred & Eileen Diorio Peter Ditsch Docimo Family Holland & Susan Donaldson Lisa Donnermeyer Doris Dowling Anthony V. Dralle Dristas, Thomas & Teresa Mr. David Duffee & Ms. Rebecca Catelinet Mary A. Duggan* David & Lisa Durbin Jeff & Wendy Dutkovic John & Elizabeth Eckenrod Mr. & Mrs. David H. Ehrenwerth Christopher* & Gretchen Elkus Mr. Jack W. & Mrs. Mary Jo Elliott Arnold & Eva Engler Mindy & Richard Epstein Dan & Nancy Fales Mr. Carmine Fantini Joan Feldman Dana H. Ferry Janet Fesq Dr. Joseph Fine Dr. A.M. & Jeanne Blend Finton Nancy A. Fitch Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Warren & Joan Fitzpatrick Ms. Ann P. Flaherty Mr. Mark F. Flaherty Mr. & Mrs. James Flanigan Jan Fleisher Michael J. Flinn & Eileen Flinn Suzanne Flood Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Fonseca Mr. & Mrs. Edward Fortwangler Mr. & Mrs. K. H. Fraelich Jr. Christina Friday Eleanor Friedman Friends of the PSO Reanette & Steve Frobouck John & Elaine Frombach Francis T. Fruehstorfer Mrs. Fran Frye Normandie Fulson Mr. Gabriel C. Fusco Michael & Nina Gaffney Dr. Kent Galey & Dr. Karen Roche Dr. & Mrs. Marc E. Garfinkel Hans & Gudrun Garkisch Beth & Phil Gasiewicz Joan & Stuart Gaul Pete Geissler Mr. & Mrs. William P. Getty Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Getze Revs. Gaylord & Catherine Gillis Barbara & Fred Gilman Mr. David Givens & Mr. Stephen Mellett Mike & Cordy Glenn Virgil Gligor & Alicia Avery Daniel & Marcia Glosser Fund 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 Ms. Rita J. Gould The Graf Family Dr. Lora D. Graves & Dr. Bryan D. Dye David & Nancy Green Lori Greene & Chris Decker Charlotte T. Greenwald
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Mr. & Mrs. Steven Gridley Ernest Grindle Margaret L. Groninger D.T. Gruelle Specialty Logistics Ms. E. A. Gundelfinger Andrew Gurcak & Elaine Lees Kristine Haig & John Sonnenday John & Judith Hall Mr. & Mrs. Van Beck Hall Susan & Wilfred Hansen Jeanie & Ben Hardesty Susan & David Hardesty Mr. & Mrs. James H. Hardie Mary O. Harrison Mr. Robert Hartman Ms. Christine A. Hartung James & Ann Harty Cal & Donna Hastings Greg Haughey Dr. Bobbie Lee Hawranko DMD Barbara A. Hays Mr. Phillip Hazlet Cathy & John Heggestad Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Heidenreich In Memory of John G. Heidish Ms. Martha S. Helmreich in Honor of my mother, Anne J. Schaff Eric & Lizz Helmsen Paul & Colleen Hennigan Marianne & Marshall Hess Professor Benjamin E. Hicks Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hill Jean A. Hinrichsen Pete & Rebecca Hoch Mr. Richard Hodos Ms. Donna Hoffman & Mr. Richard Dum Karen & Thomas Hoffman Greg & Amy Hogue Clare & Jim Hoke Philo & Erika Holcomb Katherine Holter Dr. & Mrs. Elmer J. Holzinger Ms. Madeleine Hombosky Tom & Mary Hooten Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Hooton
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Thomas O. Hornstein* Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Joseph W. Hostetler Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Huffman Mr. & Mrs. Elwood T. Hughes Jean & Richard Humphreys Robert W. & M. Elise Hyland George L. Illig Jr.* Anthony C. Infanti Robert & Rose Marie Izzo Mr. & Mrs. Vincent J. Jacob Dr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Jacobs Lynne & Blair Jacobson Dr. & Mrs. Edward W. Jew Jr. Dawn M. Johnson Janis & Jonas Johnson Joanne K. Johnson Tom & Wendy Jones in Honor of Chris Wu John & Maureen Joyce Mr. & Mrs. J. Paul Kadlic Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kahlson Alice & Richard Kalla Daniel G. & Carole L. Kamin Dr. & Mrs. Peter D. Kaplan Michael & Dolores Kara Jim Keller & Mary Ellen Hoy Flo & Bob Kenny Rhian Kenny Jayne & Niles Kenyon The Kessler Family Greta Keverline Ellen Kiam & William B. Troy Norman L. Kimes Mr. Milton B. Kimura Rich & Jan Kleiser Stuart L. & Ann K. Knoop Peggy C. Knott Ms. Marilyn Koch Bob & Susie Kopf Drs. Fotios & Linda Koumpouras Mr. & Mrs. John Krolikowski Phyllis Jo Kubey Rose M. Kutsenkow Mr. Nicholas Kyriazi Betty Lamb Mr. & Mrs. Scott Lammie Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Landay Ronald & Lida Larsen Earl & Marilyn Latterman Kathy & Hank Lawrence Marvin & Gerry Lebby
Drs. Grace & Joon Lee Ms. Janet Lee & Mr. Matthew Rosengart Joe Leja Diana K. Lemley MD & Paul L. Shay MD Mr. David W. Lendt Robert W. Lenker Dr. Herbert & Barbara Levit Mrs. William E. Lewellen III Anne Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Phillip K. Liebscher Robert & Janet Liljestrand Dr. Claudio A. Lima & Mrs. Kenia Ashby Mr. & Mrs. Kurt L. Limbach Walter F. Limbach Jim & Sandi Linaberger W. F. Lindgren Ken & Hope Linge Jackie & Larry Lobl Margery J. Loevner Don & Hanne Lorch Mrs. Howard M. Love Eddie Lowy & Ricardo CortĂŠs Mr. Anthony G. Lucas & Mr. Andrew Leo Annette Lutz Mr. David A. Lynch & Ms. Dorothy A. Davis Edward Lynch & Regina Lindsey-Lynch In Memory of James Lyne Daphne & John Lynn Mrs. Guinevere R. Mabunay Pat & Don MacDonald Mr. & Mrs. William L. MacDonald Dr. & Mrs. George J. Magovern Jr. John K. Maitland Louise & Michael Malakoff Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Malnati Mr. & Mrs. William G. Malter Carl & Alexis Mancuso Drs. Ellen Mandel & Lawrence Weber Mr. & Mrs. Jay R. Mangold Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Donald Marinelli Bud & Barbara Mars Mr. & Mrs. Rodger Marticke Thomas & Elizabeth Massella Helen F. Mathieson
Dr. William Matlack & Leslie Crawford Matlack Karen Matthews Kenneth & Dr. Carol N. Maurer Sidney McBride Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall Mr. & Mrs. Jon W. McCarter Patrick & Michelle McCarthy McCarthy Rail Insurance Managers, Inc. Mr. Richard E. McClain Mr. Samuel A. McClung* Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Paula & Bob McCracken Mr. Bernard J. McCrory Mrs. Samuel K. McCune Nancy McDonald Mary McDonough Keith McDuffie Kent & Martha McElhattan Barbara McKenna & Family Alexis & Andrew McKinley Jean S. McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. William J. Mehaffey Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Mellon Suzanne 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 Mrs. William Metcalf III Bridget & Scott Michael Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton Ms. Laurie Miller Robert & Miriam Miller Mr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Miller Dr. & Mrs. Vincent P. Miller Jr. Jack Millstein Frank C. & Judy L. Mindicino Mr. & Mrs. M. Lee Minter Jeffrey Mishler Ann & Mark Mizer Paul & Connie Mockenhaupt Ruth M. Montgomery Amy & Ira* M. Morgan
Bill & Jane Morgan Dr. Harvey M. Morris Eric Von Morton Frank & Brenda Moses Michael & Cynthia Mullins Hilde Munck & Eckard Munck Richard & Martha Munsch Arthur J. Murphy Jr. Mr. George Mycoff James & Marlee Myers Dr. & Mrs. Donald D. Naragon Dr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Nebel Ellen & Ade Neidermeyer Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Rev. Robert & Suzanne Newpher Patricia K. Nichols Renee K. Nicholson Mr. & Mrs. David Nimick Karen Kelley Noble Hide & Julia Miller Nobumori Dr. Sean Nolan Mark & Nikki Nordenberg Charles A. Norton James & Lindsey Nova Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Lee* & John Oehrle Dr. Everett F. Oesterling & Mrs. Joyce Oesterling Mr. & Mrs. Hale Oliver John Orndorff Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Orr Dee Jay Oshry & Bart Rack John A. Osuch Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Russell G. & Karen Overfield Paul M. Palevsky, MD & Sharon R. Roseman, MD Dr. & Mrs. A. H. Panahandeh Dr. Armand J. Panson Pamela & Ronald Pape Sang C. Park Pauline R. Parker John & Joan Pasteris Carol & Richard Patterson Mr. & Mrs. James Patton Camilla Brent Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Pellett Daniel M. Pennell Dale & Michele Perelman Bill & Stella Perrine
Dr. Jeffrey & Francesca Peters Judy Petty Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Pfendler Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jon R. Piersol Ed & Mary Ellen Pisula Drs. Mary & Raymond Pontzer Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Porkolab David & Marilyn Posner Shirley Pow Ann & Mal Powell Richard O. Price Sarah A. Prichard Bob & Mary Jo Purvis Mrs. Jean Purvis Andrew & Liberty Pyros Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Queenan Jr. Fran Quinlan Janet K. Quint Ms. Barbara Rackoff The Rackoff Family, ASKO Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Betty Radvak-Shovlin Susan M. Rakfal, MD James D. & Carol L. Randolph Barbara M. Rankin Mr. Leonard E. Rausch Paul & Dorothy Reiber Eric* & Frances Reichl Marnie Repasky John C.* & Mary A. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs.* James H. Rich Mr. & Mrs. James Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Sam & Diana Robinson Bette & Howard M. Rom Janice G. Rosenberg Dr. Pinchas Rosenberg Shoshana & Jerry Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Byron W. Rosener III Mrs. Louisa S. Rosenthal* Carol & Scott Rotruck Dr. Joel S. Rozen Harvey & Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Edmund S. Ruffin III Mr. Robert Rupp Shirley & Murray Rust
Mrs. John M. Sadler Tamiko Sampson Mr. & Mrs. Ferd Sauereisen Sally & Keith Saylor Lawrence P. & Sharron A. Schaefer Eric Schaffer & Michelle Gray-Schaffer Albert & Kathleen Schartner Christopher & Jennifer Scheib Ann & Bill Scherlis Dr. & Mrs. Melvin M. Schiff Joe & Nancy Schmitt Mrs. Shirley Schneirov Christian Schörnich Ms. Carol Schuler Bernie & Cookie Soldo Schultz Mary Ann Scialabba Louise & Franco Sciannameo Barry & Celina Scott Mr.* & Mrs. Jobst W. Seehausen George & Marcia Seeley Mr. & Mrs. David P. Segel Mr. & Mrs. John M. Seifarth Michael Sexauer Aleen Mathews Shallberg & Richard Shallberg Mrs. Sue Shapera Dr. Karen Shulman & Mr. Jay I. Shulman Mr. & Mrs. Raymond V. Shepherd Jr. Dr. Charles H. Shultz Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Shure Rhoda & Seymour* Sikov Lee & Myrna Silverman Marjorie K. Silverman Marilyn & Norman A. Sindler Carol Slomski, MD Bobbie & Keith Smith Don & Beth Smith Kathleen Opat Smith Margaret C. Smith Nancy N. Smith Rep. Sam & Donna Smith Mrs. Barney Snyder Mr. Edgar Snyder J. Soffietti David Solosko & Sandra Kniess Fund
Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Sorr in support of music & wellness Herbert H. & Barbara South Drs. Horton C.* & Jannene M. Southworth Mr. James Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Alexander C. Speyer III Henry Spinelli Janet H. Staab Mr. & Mrs.* Jack Stabile Mr. & Mrs. James C. Stalder Gary & Charlene Stanich Ms. Carrie M. Stanny Dr. James Staples Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Stayer Jim & Barbara Steffy Charles & Rachel Stegeman MaryJean & John Stephen Jerry Stephens Dr. & Mrs. Mervin S. Stewart Mr. Ray C. Stoner In Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Mona & E.J. Strassburger Mr. Su & Ms. Van Dusen Peter Sullivan Richard A. Sundra, in Loving Memory of Patricia Sundra Drs. Gary & Heidi Swanson Joel & Maria Swanson Robert Swendsen & Roberta Klatzky Stu & Liz Symonds in Memory of Roger Sherman Tom & Karen Tabor Dr. Jocelyn Tan & Dr. Alaa Shalaby Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Tannenbaum Carol L. Tasillo Mr. & Mrs. William H. Taylor Jr. Gordon & Catherine Telfer Mr. Doug Thomas Dorothea Thompson Mayor John A. Thompson Mary Lloyd & George Thompson Mrs. Sonya Thorbecke Jim & Gail Titus Melissa Trax & Adam Kupec Mr. & Mrs. Clifton C. Trees
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In Memory of Audrey Treloar & Florence & Norman Golomb Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Trombetta Jeff & Melissa Tsai Jeffrey Turner & Tonya Stefko Eric & Barbara Udren Mary & Gerald Unger Diane & Dennis Unkovic Theo & Pia Van De Venne Suzan M. Vandertie Dr. Filomena F. Varvaro Mary Vasilakis Dr. & Mrs. James E. Vaux Cate & Jerry Vockley Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Vogel Edward L. & Margaret Vogel Drs. Joan Vondra & Thomas Chang John & Linda Vuono Jan Wagner
Judy Wagner & Mike LaRue Wagner Family Charitable Trust Suzanne & Richard Wagner Kevin & Jennifer Walker John & Irene Wall Mr. W.L. & Dr. B.H. Ward Tony & Pat Waterman Ms. Sally Webster & Ms. Susan Bassett Marvin & Dot* Wedeen Phillips Wedemeyer & Jeanne Hanchett Drs. John & Carla Weidman Michael & Cynthia Weisfield Norman & Marilyn Weizenbaum Mr. & Mrs. James P. Welch Jim & Jinny Welker Jane Wentling Bernard & Sheila Werner Nancy Werner
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Westerberg Rebecca M. Wharton Mr. & Mrs. Thomas White Robert Wickesberg & Susan Noffke Mr. Norm Wien Dr. Philip M. Wildenhain & Dr. Sarah L. Wildenhain Ken & Trudie Wilkins Robert E. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Miles C. Wilson James & Ramona Wingate Mary Jo Winokur Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Witmer Sheryl & Bruce Wolf Dr. & Mrs. D. Scott Wood Michael J. Woodring Mr. Christopher Wu & Mrs. Annette Wu Dr. & Mrs. John A. Yauch Mark & Judy Yogman
Marlene & John Yokim Alice L. Young Hugh D*. & Alice C. Young Maureen Young Mr. Joe Yzurdiaga Frank A. Zabrosky Mr. & Mrs. Richard Zahren Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ziatek Michael & Naomi Zigmond David & Patricia Zimba *deceased We would like to thank all individuals who contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Heinz Hall. Please see our website at pittsburghsymphony.org for a complete listing. Current as of March 31, 2015
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY RADIO
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FOUNDATIONS & PUBLIC AGENCIES Allegheny County Economic Development 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 The Benter Foundation The Sherle and Michael Berger Charitable Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Allen H. Berkman and Selma W. Berkman 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 Dietrich Charitable Trust Peter C. Dozzi Family Foundation Eden Hall Foundation Eichleay Foundation Jane M. Epstine Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Fair Oaks Foundation, Inc. Falk Foundation The Fine Foundation The Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation, Inc. Goldberg Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Grable Foundation Grune Family Foundation Hansen Foundation William Randolph Hearst 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 Lawrence County
Martha Mack Lewis Foundation Edward D. and Opal C. Loughney Foundation Thomas Marshall Foundation Massey Charitable Trust Ruth Rankin McCullough Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation 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 Montague Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts 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, a state agency Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development Anna L. & Benjamin Perlow Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Pauline Pickens Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh Symphony Association Norman C. Ray Trust RMK Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation The William Christopher & Mary Laughlin Robinson Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Ryan Memorial Foundation Salvitti Family Foundation James M. & Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation Scott Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation 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 The Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Current as of March 31, 2015
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CORPORATIONS Business Leadership Association SIGNATURE CIRCLE
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SILVER CIRCLE $5,000 - $9,999
A.C. Dellovade, Inc. American Eagle Outfitters Allegheny Technologies Bayer Healthcare R&I Incorporated (ATI) Bayer USA Foundation BNY Mellon The Brown Hurray Plantz EQT Foundation Group, Merrill Lynch Highmark Blue Cross Blue Management Shield c3controls PNC The Common Plea Catering Inc. DIAMOND CIRCLE Deloitte $40,000 - $74,999 ELG Haniel Metals Corp. MSA Farmers & Merchants Bank of Western PA Levin Furniture PLATINUM CIRCLE Mascaro Construction $20,000 - $39,999 Company Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Federal Home Loan Bank of Oliver Wyman Pittsburgh PwC First National Bank of Pennsylvania Schreiber Industrial Development Co. Giant Eagle Trumbull Corporation and H. J. Heinz Company P.J. Dick Incorporated Foundation LANXESS Corporation BRONZE CIRCLE Macy’s $2,500 - $4,999 Triangle Tech Group Angelo, Gordon & Co. Trib Total Media Bank of America Merrill Lynch GOLD CIRCLE BB&T $10,000 - $19,999 Bender Consulting Citigroup Services, Inc. Clearview Federal Credit Berner International Corp. Union Big Burrito Restaurant Delta Air Lines, Inc. Group Dollar Bank Foundation Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Ernst & Young LLP Cipriani & Werner PC Fairmont Pittsburgh & Habitat Restaurant Dominion Resources Federated Investors, Inc. Eat’n Park Restaurants FedEx Ground Elite Coach Transportation Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. Erie Insurance Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Fifth Third Bank Inc. Huntington Bank PPG Industries Foundation Koppers The Frank E. Rath-Spang & Company Charitable Trust KPMG LLP Lighthouse Electric Reed Smith LLP Company, Inc. United States Steel Marsh USA Inc. Corporation Morton’s The Steakhouse $75,000 AND ABOVE
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Mozart Management Pittsburgh Corning Corporation Pittsburgh Valve & Fitting Co. Silhol Builders Supply United Bank Wampum Hardware Inc. WPXI-TV
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Allegheny Valley Bank Armada Austrian American Cultural Society, Inc. Bridges & Company, Inc. The Buncher Company BYS Yoga Students Clark Precision Machined Components Business Partners Consolidated PEWTER LEVEL Communications $1,000 - $2,499 CrawfordEllenbogen LLC AlphaGraphics in the Cultural District Enterprise Bank Calgon Carbon Corporation General Wire Spring Co. Clayton Engineering Goehring, Rutter & Boehm Company Hamill Mfg. Co. Coury Financial Group Hertz Gateway Center, LP ESB Bank John B. Conomos, Inc. First Commonwealth Bank Joyce’s Jewelry Boutique Flaherty & O’Hara, P.C. K & I Sheet Metal, Inc. Gordon Terminal Service Lucas Systems, Inc. Co. Marketing Support Network Hughes Television Master Remodelers Productions Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP Jendoco Construction Attorneys at Law Corporation Mitsubishi Electric Power Jennmar Corporation Products, Inc. Kerr Engineered Sales Modany-Falcone, Inc. Company Neville Chemical Company Lawrence County Tourist Promotion Agency PGT Trucking MacLachlan, Cornelius & Pzena Investment Filoni, Inc. Management, LLC McKamish, Inc. Rebecca L. Pounds DDS LLC Nocito Enterprises, Inc. Scott Metals Inc. Practice Growth Partners Walter Long Manufacturing Company Rothman Gordon PC Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Sarris Candies, Inc. Co., LPA Six Penn Kitchen Westmoreland Mechanical Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Testing & Research, Inc. Stringert, Inc. The Techs We would like to thank all Trebuchet Consulting LLC corporations who contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & TriState Capital Bank Heinz Hall. Please see our website United Safety Services, Inc. at pittsburghsymphony.org for a UPMC & UPMC Health Plan complete listing. Vallozzi’s Pittsburgh Current as of March 31, 2015
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LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE
In addition to income from the Annual Fund, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is dependent on a robust endowment to assure its long-term financial stability. Gifts from Legacy of Excellence programs are directed to the endowment to provide for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s future. The Steinberg Society honors donors who have advised the Pittsburgh Symphony in writing that they have made a provision for the orchestra in their will. Members of the Sid Kaplan Tribute program have made a gift to the endowment of $10,000.00 or more to commemorate a particular person or event. Endowed naming opportunities for guest artists, musicians’ chairs, concert series, educational programs or designated spaces allow donors to specify a name or tribute for 10 years, 20 years or in perpetuity. For additional information, please call Jan Fleisher at 412.392.3320. STEINBERG SOCIETY Anonymous (19) 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* Tom & Jackie Cain Estate of Cynthia Calhoun Judy & Michael Cheteyan Educational/Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David W. Christopher Mr.* & Mrs. Edward S. Churchill Estate of 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 Keith & Susan Garver Ken* & Lillian Goldsmith Mr. & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon James A. Gorton Estate of Anna R. Greenberg 44
Estate of Lorraine M. Gross Mrs. Nancy K. Hansen Elizabeth Anne Hardie Charles & Angela Hardwick Carolyn Heil Eric & Lizz Helmsen Ms. Judith Hess Estate of Mr. John H. Hill Estate of Mr. & Mrs. William C. Hurtt Philo & Erika Holcomb Mr. & Mrs. Blair Jacobson Esther G. Jacovitz Patricia Prattis Jennings Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Kahn* Leo & 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 Doris L. Litman Penny Locke Estate of Edward D. Loughney Lauren & Hampton Mallory Dr. Richard Martin in Memory of Mrs. Lori Martin* Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall George E. Meanor Mary Ellen Miller 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
Rhonda & Dennis Norman Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. M.D. Estate of Irene G. Otte Judy Petty Estate of 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 Charlotta Klein Ross Harvey & Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Ryan Virginia Schatz Nancy Schepis Dr. & Mrs. Harry E. Serene Dr. Charles H. Shultz Michael Shefler Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Simmons Dr. & Mrs. Leonard A. Stept Estate of Dr. Raymond & Karla Stept Mrs. Margaret Stouffer in Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Tom & Jamee Todd Mrs. Jane Treherne-Thomas Eva & Walter J. Vogel Mr. & Mrs. George L. Vosburgh Estate of John & Betty Weiland In memory of Isaac Serrins from Mr. & Mrs. Ira Weiss Brian Weller Seldon Whitaker Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Charles L. & Katherine A. Wiley
James & Susanne Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Witmer Patricia L. Wurster Estate of Rufus J. Wysor Naomi Yoran Miriam L. Young Estate of Ruth Yount SID KAPLAN TRIBUTE PROGRAM The Sid Kaplan Memorial Hallway given by David Kaplan in appreciation of generous gifts commemorating family and friends In Honor of Dr. Raymond Stept from his loving family In Honor of Mariss & Irina Jansons and friendship from Dr. Laibe* & Sydelle Kessler Honoring my dear friend, Marvin Hamlisch, from Mina Kulber In Loving Memory of Martin Smith, PSO Horn, 1980-2005, from his siblings Todd Smith, Judy Dupont & Susan Noble
ENDOWED CHAIRS Principal Horn Chair, given by an Anonymous Donor First Violin Chair, given by Allen H. Berkman in memory of his beloved wife, Selma Wiener Berkman Michael & Carol Bleier Viola Chair given in memory of our parents, Tina & Charles Bleier and Ruth & Shelley Stein
ENDOWED CHAIRS Cont.
Milton G. Hulme Jr. Guest Conductor Chair given by Mine Safety Lois R. Brozenick Memorial Appliances Company First Violin Chair Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Jane & Rae Burton Jones III Cello Chair Guest Keyboard Chair
Pittsburgh Symphony Association Principal Cello Chair
Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair, given by Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife
Beverlynn & Steven Elliott Associate Concertmaster Chair
Reed Smith Chair honoring Tom Todd Jacqueline Wechsler Horn Chair Horn Chair given in memory of Irving (Buddy) Dr. & Mrs. William E. Wechsler Rinehart Robert & Louise Kahn Fund Oboe Chair for Pittsburgh Symphony Barbara Weldon Orchestra Schooltime Principal Timpani Chair Donald & Sylvia Robinson Concerts Family Foundation Hilda M. Willis Foundation Guest Conductor Chair Virginia Kaufman Flute Chair Resident Conductor Chair, Martha Brooks Robinson Thomas H. & Frances Lawrence Loh Principal Trumpet Chair Witmer Assistant Principal Stephen & Kimberly Keen Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Silberman Horn Chair Bass Chair Principal Clarinet Chair Current as of March 31, 2015 G. Christian Lantzsch & Mr. and Mrs. Willard J. *deceased Duquesne Light Company Tillotson Jr. Principal Second Violin Viola Chair Chair Tom & Jamee Todd Mr. & Mrs. William Genge Principal Trombone Chair and Mr. & Mrs. James E. Lee Principal Bassoon United States Steel Chair Corporation Assistant Principal Bass Nancy & Jeffery Leininger Chair First Violin Chair
Jean & Sigo Falk Principal Librarian Chair
Edward D. Loughney Co-Principal Trumpet
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
Endowed Principal Piccolo Fiddlesticks Family Concert Chair, given to honor Frank Series Endowed by Gerald & Audrey McGinnis and Loti Gaffney Honoring The Center for Young Musicians William & Sarah Galbraith Second Violin Chair Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. The Estate of Olga T. Gazalie McGuinn Viola Chair First Violin Chair Ira & Nanette Gordon The Gracky Fund for Education & Community Engagement Susan S. Greer Memorial Trumpet Chair, given by Peter Greer William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education
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 Vira I. Heinz Morrison String Music Director Chair Instrument Loan Fund Principal Pops Conductor Chair Endowed by Henry & The Morrison Family Elsie Hillman Associate Principal Second Violin Chair Tom & Dona Hotopp Principal Bass Chair Jackman Pfouts Principal Flute Chair, given in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Jackman by Barbara Jackman Pfouts EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL 2014-2015 SEASON
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COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE SPECIAL NAMED GIFTS BNY Mellon .................................................................... Recordings & Electronic Media and Artistic Excellence Programs Benno & Constance Bernt..........................................................................................................................Stage Right Door 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 PittsburghSymphony Educational Programs Dollar Bank Foundation................................................................................................ Community Engagement Concerts Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Donahue.........................................................................................................Music for the Spirit Roy & Susan Dorrance ..........................................................................................................................Music for the Spirit EQT Foundation............................................................... 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 Robert & Louise Kahn*......................................................................................................................... Schooltime Concerts Lillian Edwards Foundation.................................................................................................................Heartstrings Program Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Maxwell .................................................................................................President and CEO’s Office Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.........................................................................................................Grand Tier Door - Right Center PNC.............................................................................................................. PNC Walkway at Heinz Hall and PNC Tiny Tots Dr. & 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
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HONOR/MEMORIAL GIFTS The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is pleased to acknowledge the following members of our donor family who have made generous gifts in honor or in memory of others from January 1, 2014 to February 18, 2015. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy; however, if you are not listed correctly, please call 412.392.4880. Thank you! HONORARY GIFTS Barbara L. Barry, in honor of Michael White’s Birthday Borrebach Grandsons, in honor of Edwin & Frances Borrebach for Christmas Jamini Vincent Davies, in honor of Harold Smoliar Mrs. Betty F. Diskin, in honor of Noah Bendix-Balgley Mrs. Betty F. Diskin, in honor of Ron Schneider Pamela Dodge, in honor of Connie Nelson’s Birthday The Edward Lowy Charitable Fund, in honor of Usher Chris Cox George & Anne Fattman, in honor of Anne Fattman for Christmas Joan Feldman, in honor of Ruth & Emil Feldman Dana H. Ferry, in honor of Paul Silver The Fezziwig Foundation, in honor of Jim Cunningham and Symphony Musicians Scott Bell, Cynthia DeAlmeida, Michael DeBruyn, Erina Laraby-Goldwasser, Jim Nova, Suzanne Park, James Rodgers Stephen & Joyce Fienberg, in honor of Charles Miller’s Special Birthday Ms. Ann Galvez, in honor of Aunt Carol Mueller Mr. & Ms. Donald Grace, in honor of Dr. & Mrs. Nelson Grace Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern, in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Ira Gordon’s granddaughter’s marriage Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern, in honor of Sam Michaels’ Birthday Rebecca Harriman, in honor of Jessica Wolfe Charles Harris & Darlene Nowak in honor of William & Kathleen Caballero Ms. Martha S. Helmreich in Honor of my mother, Anne J. Schaff Mr. and Mrs. Alan Hirsig, in honor of Helge & Erika Wehmeier Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hoburg, in honor of Monica Meyer’s Birthday Clare & Jim Hoke, in honor of Margaret Bovbjerg Mr. & Mrs. Stuart J. Horner, Jr., in honor of Lauren Scott Mallory Mary Louise Kissane, in honor of Rhian Kenny Marjory Klein, in honor of Steve Oliphant’s Birthday Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Landay, in honor of Sylvia Landay League Of Women Voters Of PA, in honor of Mary Beth Adams PhD Doug & Jeanette MacCallum, in honor of Barbara MacCallum’s birthday 48
Gail Mallory, in honor of Hampton & Lauren Mallory Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton, in honor of Al & Barbara Biglan Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton, in honor of Ron & Dorothy Chutz Mr. & Mrs. M. Lee Minter, in honor of George Daughtery & David Ka Lik Wong Jim & Susan Morris in Honor of Kay Stolarevsky Carol J. Mueller, in honor of Richard P. Simmons Arthur J. Murphy, Jr., in honor of Hampton Mallory Mr.* & Mrs. Charles H. Muse, Jr., in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Simmons Ms. Caroline Nagel, in honor of Dr. Tor Richter & Ms.Karen Esch’s Wedding Anniversary Ms. Kay C. Neuhausen, in honor of Hans Fleischner’s Birthday Mr. & Mrs. David Nimick, in honor of Bill Caballero Ogden & Betty Nutting, in honor of Peter Greer Mr. and Mrs. George Olsen, in honor of Granger & Betty Morgan Elliott S. Oshry, in honor of Richard Marshall’s Birthday Ms. Patricia Persinger, in honor of Lt. Col Dale McCall Dr. & Mrs. William R. Poller in honor of our four grandsons Mr. Leonard E. Rausch, in honor of Ms. Jackie Evancho’s birthday Mr. Thomas Robinson, in honor of Fritz Okie Millie & Gary Ryan, in honor of Michael E. Bielski’s Birthday Ms. Patricia Shirey, in honor of Mrs. Paul (Doris) Ely’s Birthday Rep. Sam & Donna Smith, in honor of Jim & Electra Agras Ellen Solomon, in honor of Ada & Ed Lieberman John & Sally Stephens, in honor of Dr. William Stept Ms. Jean Stewart, in honor of Charlotta Ross in Memory of her husband Paul Ross Ellen Kiam & William B. Troy, in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Reid Ruttenberg Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Trozzo, in honor of Mrs. Samuel E. Hopkinson Robert S. & Linda F. Walters, in honor of Bob Lauver, Marina Nielsen, Tom & Dona Hotopp Mr. & Mrs. E.J. Ward, in honor of Kim Tillotson Fleming Sally & Leonard Weaver, in honor of Ralph & Kay Reubi Helge & Erika Wehmeier, in honor of Michele & Chuck Cohen
Helge & Erika Wehmeier, in honor of Carol & Jon Walton Ruth O. Williams, in honor of The Martindale Family Drs. Barry & Iris Wu, in honor of Louise Wu Mr. Christopher Wu & Mrs. Annette Wu, in honor of Alan Russell’s Wedding Mr. Joe Yzurdiaga, in honor of Cynthia DeAlmeida Ms. Carol Zich, in honor of Sylvia Landay’s Birthday In Honor of Roy & Susan Dorrance James & Anne Burnham Dr. John McSorley MD In Honor of Juergen Mross Julie Koester Karin M. Holmes Helge & Erika Wehmeier In Honor of Tina & Paul O’Brien Mr. William J. Strimbu Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Wallace In Honor of Abby Ruttenberg’s Special Birthday Alan L. & Barbara B. Ackerman Mrs. Linda Ackerman Ada Davis Toby Frank & Martyn Gefsky Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern Susan Oberg Lane Zola & Stephen Munter Dr. & Mrs. Jerrold Post Nancy & Bill Rackoff Sally & Fred Rock Judy & Stanley Ruskin Dr. & Mrs. Peter E. Sheptak Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Skirboll Don & Beth Smith Susan Leader Of Schwab Charitable Fund Tom & Jamee Todd Suzanne & Richard Wagner In Honor of Chris Wu Edith H. Fisher Tom & Wendy Jones Mr. Raymond Sekula & Mrs. Anne Sekula Tom & Sandy Usher In Honor of Rachel Wymard Mr. Michael Lipman & Mrs. Shirli Nikolsburg Paul & Linda Silver Mr. Christopher Wu & Mrs. Annette Wu MEMORIAL GIFTS Ruth Bachman, in Memory of James Bachman Lorraine E. Balun, in memory of Phyllis E. Zimmerman Barbara L. Barry, in memory of Agnes Kinard Vitasta Bazaz & Sheen Sehgal Fund, in Memory of Dr. Kuldeep Sehgal Mr. Kenneth Beatty & Ms. Susan Weiskopf-Beatty, in memory of Anne Townsend Nick & Dotty Beckwith, in memory of Edna Diamond Jean G. Boyer, in memory of Dale E. Boyer Daniel & Lise Brodkey, in memory of Jerald S. Brodkey Lois R. Brozenick*, in memory of Dr. Helene Borke
Lois R. Brozenick*, in memory of Doris Polzot Mr. and Mrs. John College, in memory of Johnathan Heath College Theodore D. Cox, in memory of W. Jerrold Cox Roy & Susan Dorrance, in memory of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Flecker The Edward Lowy Charitable Fund, in memory of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos The Edward Lowy Charitable Fund, in memory of Dr. Alexander & Cybil Lowy Brooke T. Bonner & Steven D. Fleshman, in memory of M. Douglas Fleshman Mr. John Gesselberty, in memory of Herman Vallecorsa Veronica, Ron, Chloe Greenbaum, in memory of Mrs. Evi Kent Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern, in memory of Kenneth Goldsmith Mrs. Emily E. Heidish, in memory of John G. Heidish Jon Heiman, in memory of Ruth Heiman Mr. Harold Hoffman, in memory of Janet Burgess Patricia Prattis Jennings, in memory of Martin Lerner Dr. & Mrs. R.W. Jilcott III, in memory of Furman South III Christine E. Jordanoff, in memory of Nicholas Jordanoff Ms. Florence Karnofsky, in memory of Emil Feldman Ms. Elise Keely, in memory of Richard M. Holland Madeline P. Kramer, in memory of Fred Kramer Harriet, Barbara, Marc, Scott and Kim Lewis, in memory of Elliott (Bud) Lewis Mrs. Ann Q. Lyle, in memory of Norval W. Lyle Mr. David A. Lynch & Ms. Dorothy A. Davis, in memory of David J. Armstrong Mrs. Cheryl Lyne, in memory of James J. Lyne Dr. Richard Martin, in memory of Mrs. Lori Martin Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall, in memory of Margaret Cillo Ms. Margaret Menges, in memory of William C. Menges Mrs. Margaret Mima, in memory of Joseph A. Mima Lesa B. Morrison, Ph. D, in memory of Hax McCullough & Perry Morrison Perry* & BeeJee Morrison, in memory of Brian Kalla Perry* & BeeJee Morrison, in memory of Marilyn Spirer Eric & Shelley Nilson, in memory of Lois Nilson Hide & Julia Miller Nobumori, in memory of Ida Mae Good Miller Mr. Alfred J Nogrady, in memory of Russell Clarkson Tom & Nancy Noone, in memory of John Howard Hill Dr. Lynne Porterfield, in memory of James T. & Marjorie Hill Steen Dr. & Mrs. Rafael G. Quimpo, in memory of Malcolm Clemens Dr. Tor Richter, in memory of Elizabeth W. Richter Josefina O. Rodriguez, in memory of Jose Rodriguez Kenneth & Gail Rowles, in memory of Mary Patricia Buehler Donald D. Saxton, Jr., in memory of Barbara Morey Saxton Alberta Sbragia & Martin Staniland, in memory of Burkart Holzner EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL 2014-2015 SEASON
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Ms. Margaret S. Stouffer, in memory of Jean Alexander Moore Richard A. Sundra, in Loving memory of Patricia Sundra Stu & Liz Symonds, in memory of Roger Sherman Barbara Trachtenberg, in memory of Lee A. Trachtenberg, MD Mr. and Ms. Nigel Treloar, in memory of Audrey Treloar & Florence & Norman Golomb Dr. Art Wegweiser, in memory of Helen F. Wegweiser Dr. Konrad & Mrs. Konrad M. Weis, in memory of Leonard Scheinholtz Seldon Whitaker, in memory of Susan Whitaker Ms. Sallie Jane Zoerb, in Memory of Mr. & Mrs. John W. Zoerb
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In Memory of Dr. Falk Arnheim Elizabeth & Charles Altman Janet W. Hirshberg Susie, Mark & Greg Tabor In Memory of Don Berry Randolph & Rebecca Allen Larry & Dawn Amos and Jim Warcholak Dr. Richard S. DeLuca Linda Mates Bruce & Susy Robison In Memory of Lois Brozenick Mrs. Sandra Armstrong Jan Fleisher Ms. Colleen S. Gaughan Eric & Lizz Helmsen Alfred & Necole Jacobsen Mary Ellen Miller Camilla Brent Pearce Nancy Schepis Jodi & Andrew Weisfield Jessica D. Wolfe & Joseph R. Martinez Miriam L. Young In Memory of Amy Wenchi Chen Takahiro & Kazumi Hayakawa Mr. & Mrs. Chris and Annice Hu Yen-Yu & Wu-Kuang Yeh Friends of the Taiwanese Association of America DFW Chapter Mr. & Mrs. K.L. Lin Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Tsay In Memory of Samuel H. Elkind Estelle & Fred Barnett Mrs. Angela B. Bianco Mr. & Mrs. Roger S. Braverman Rosalie/Rachel Brown Caesar’s Designs Inc. Sarah/Anne Cogliano Michael Cresanta Karen Dreyfus Carolyn R. Everett Janet Elkind Finfrock & Charles H. Finfrozk David & Carol Gillis L. Gaye Hirz & Jerome B. Feinstein Patricia Prattis Jennings Barbara Katz Kawaii Gifts Ruth Kovacs Mr. Lawrence Kubey Phyllis Jo Kubey Betty & Gary Lee Susan Liebman & Family Jack Markowitz Barbara McKenna & Family Mr. & Mrs. David E. Palefsky Bernard T. Resnick
Roberta Weissburg Leathers Sandi Selby & Family Stephanie Snyder Alan & Merle Stolzenberg Tennis Village Mrs. Carole Timblin Ethel Tumim Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Weiner In Memory of Wilbert F. Frisch Bill & Linda Balsinger Ms. Lori Carnvale Gordon R. & Linda W. Clark Mr. Stephen Ferber Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Fitzgerald Ms. Janet L. Frisch Mrs. Charles J. Hinton Mark & Elizabeth Hornak Patricia Prattis Jennings Ms. Amy Korb Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Barbara McKenna & Family Mr. & Mrs. Ian B. Prisuta David & Deborah Faulkner Warn Paul Weber & Ana Dan Sam & Anne Zacharias In Memory of Eva R. Kent Barbara A. Graham Deborah Raggo In Memory of Raymond W. Lehman Mr. David Byrne Mr. Jason C. Bye Patricia Prattis Jennings Rose Mary Lauterbur In Memory of Lorin Maazel The Edward Lowy Charitable Fund Wilbert* & Louise Frisch Dr. & Mrs. Mordecai D. Treblow In Memory of Dr. Marlene McCall Ms. Patricia Persinger Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Smithers In Memory of Rita Painter Ms. Joan Beddow Anna Berenbrok English Department of Beaver Area Schools Ms. Dawn Guillou Frances Linkesh Tom & Meryl Rackley Dane & Jane Schlenke In Memory of Bernard Simmons Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern Janet & Donald Moritz In Memory of Dr. William Stept Mr. Elliott Becker Ms. Kenzy Brooks Highlands Hospital Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Green Lynne & Blair Jacobson Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Sachs James & Susanne Wilkinson In Memory of Elizabeth Wiegand Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern James & Susanne Wilkinson In Memory of Francis X. Wymard Mr. Michael Lipman & Mrs. Shirli Nikolsburg Paul & Linda Silver Mr. Alexander Speyer III Rhian Kenny Mr. Robert S. Whitehill
PRESENT
APRIL 28, 2015 - 7 P.M.
HEINZ HALL
LAWRENCE LOH, CONDUCTOR
From 412, 724, 814 and all points in-between!
This concert has been planned by Western PA high school students from start to finish! Enjoy a unique, family-friendly concert by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performing a blend of familiar classics and exciting new works – including a side-by-side performance bringing student musicians to the stage! Help these schools reach their fundraising goals by purchasing a $10 ticket from participating students directly or at the Heinz Hall box office.
For more information visit pittsburghsymphony.org/splendidEVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL 2014-2015 SEASON STUDENT SIDE-BY-SIDE TITLE SPONSOR
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MAGIC. IT HAPPENS HERE.
MEDIA SPONSOR
CONDUCTOR: Ward Stare
DISNEY FANTASIA
May 8-10
Beethoven: Excerpts from Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67 Beethoven: Excerpts from Symphony No. 6 in F major,Opus 68, “Pastoral” Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from Suite from The Nutcracker, Opus 71a Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Ponchielli: “Dance of the Hours” from La Gioconda Debussy: Clair de lune Elgar: Military March from Pomp and Circumstance, Opus 39 Stravinsky: Excerpts from Suite from The Firebird (1919 revision)
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CASH PRIZES $5,000, $2,500, $1,000 SPORTS IN THE ‘BURGH PAckAGE 7 PSO cONcERTS & 7 DINNERS $500 GIANT EAGlE/$500 GETGO ®
Entries available in the lobby, at pittsburghsymphony.org, or by contacting PSAsweepstakes@gmail.com. Enter by June 12, 2015 The Pittsburgh Symphony, with more than 300 members, is the primary, all-volunteer fundraising organization for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Through the years, it has raised over $7 million dollars for the PSO to "Keep Music Alive!" in our region. For information and a membership application: E mail: PSAmember@gmail.com or C all: 412-392-3303
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HEINZ HALL INFORMATION
BOX OFFICE HOURS are Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m; Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Weekend hours vary based on performance times. Tickets may be purchased by calling 412.392.4900 and are also available at the Theater Square Box Office. CHILDREN are encouraged to attend our youth concerts and Fiddlesticks Family Concerts. Children age six and over, are welcome at all performances with a purchased ticket. The Latecomer’s Gallery and lobby video monitors are always options for restless children.
GROUPS can receive discounted tickets, priority seats, personalized service and free reception space. For more information, call 412.392.4819 or visit our website at pittsburghsymphony.org/groups for information. LATECOMER’S GALLERY is located behind the Main Floor to enjoy the performance until you can be seated. Latecomers will be seated at suitable intervals during the program, at the discretion of the conductor. The gallery is also available for parents with restless children.
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, and COAT CHECK is available in the LOCKERS are located on the off the Garden and Overlook rooms; Grand Lobby or in the Dorothy Porter Lower, Grand Tier and Gallery levels. a wheelchair-accessible restroom is Simmons Family Regency Room on LOST AND FOUND items on the Main Floor. the lower level. can be retrieved by calling SMOKING is not permitted 412.392.4844 on weekdays from CONCIERGE SERVICE is in Heinz Hall. The garden is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. available in the Entrance Lobby accessible during performances to assist with your questions for this purpose. MOBILE DEVICES should and to help with dining, hotel, be turned off and put away upon SUPPORTING THE PSO entertainment and transportation entering the theater. AND HEINZ HALL concerns. [Penny Vennare, Event is critical to the financial future of the THE MOZART ROOM Supervisor; Ron Ogrodowski, Pittsburgh Symphony. Ticket sales is available for a grand dining Barbara Smorul, Concierges.] only cover a portion of our operating experience catered by The DRESS CODE for all concerts costs. To make a tax-deductible gift, Common Plea, just seconds is at your personal discretion and please contact our Development away from your seats. For ranges from dress and business department at 412.392.4880 or visit reservations: 412.392.4879 attire to casual wear. us online at pittsburghsymphony.org or pittsburghsymphony.org/ mozartroom. 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.
THE FOLLOWING ACCOMMODATIONS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES:
• Level entrance and route to main floor of auditorium • Accessible seat locations with companion seats* • Portable assistive listening devices: Please see ushers for assistance. • Braille programs are available at the concierge desk for all BNY Mellon Grand Classics and PNC Pops performances. • Large print programs are available at the concierge desk for all BNY Mellon Grand Classics, PNC Pops, and Fiddlesticks Family Series performances. *Please contact the box office for the location of these seats.
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