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The CSO spent two weeks in January on a six-city tour with Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti. This tour, their twentieth together, featured works by Bellini, Chabrier, Donizetti, Falla, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky, as well as a recent CSO commission by former CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Osvaldo Golijov. After performances in Naples, Miami, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, Florida, the CSO traveled to New York for a concert at Carnegie Hall, followed by a two-day residency at the McKnight Center on the Oklahoma State University campus. The Orchestra has a rich history of serving as a cultural ambassador and continues to amaze audiences nationally and internationally with its artistry.

Now home in Chicago, the Orchestra provides an escape from winter with exceptional concerts. EsaPekka Salonen returns to the podium for two weeks of programs that feature the music of Béla Bartók, a composer with historic ties to the CSO, including his Concerto for Orchestra and Bluebeard’s Castle. The last time the CSO performed Bluebeard’s Castle was in 2010 with memorable concerts led by the Orchestra’s then Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez, whose centennial and legacy as a revelatory composer and conductor we celebrate in 2025. His music will be featured on programs in March with Nikolaj SzepsZnaider and in May with Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä, as well as CSO MusicNOW’s March 23 performance curated by Jimmy López.

Additional guest conductors in February and March include David Afkham, Dame Jane Glover, Santtu-Matias Rouvali in his CSO debut, Jakub Hrůša, and Manfred Honeck, who leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Haydn’s Mass in Time of War.

We look forward to enjoying these and many more concerts with you this season.

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Pierre

ÉMINENCE GRISE

Boulez

by Phillip Huscher

This year, as the international music world celebrates the centenary of the birth of Pierre Boulez, one of history’s most consequential composers and conductors, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra remembers the man we knew as our principal conductor (and later conductor emeritus), éminence grise, and beloved member of the family. Nearly every musician who worked with Boulez in Chicago has a vivid memory of his humor and humanity, his formidable intellect and musical knowledge, his never-ending wit and charm—or the devilish complexity of his own music, unexpected perhaps after the bracing clarity of his performances of other composers’ works. He was a man of many surprises. The legendary enfant terrible I was terrified to meet in 1987 was the same man who shimmied his shoulders to the jazzy background music when we had lunch in 2010, the last time he came to Chicago.

Boulez first appeared with the CSO in February 1969, conducting music by Debussy, Bartók, Webern, and his teacher Olivier Messiaen, as well as the U.S. premiere of his own Livre pour cordes. At the time, Boulez was famous as a revolutionary composer, but he was already beginning to earn a reputation as an unusually insightful conductor. By the time he began his annual residencies in 1991, he was known as one of the great conductors of our time. He was named the Orchestra’s principal guest conductor in March 1995, the month he turned seventy, and later became conductor emeritus.

Boulez’s hallmarks were the very virtues he once prescribed for the ideal conductor:

restrained gestures, good taste, rhythmical accuracy, open-mindedness, exactness, and respect for the music. His programs centered on the classics of twentieth-century music, of which he was a uniquely authoritative master with an infallible, razor-sharp ear for detail, possessing the rare ability to make every line and every note audible, as if he were cleaning and restoring a great painting using nothing but his bare hands (he never conducted with a baton).

Boulez transformed repertory standards, dusted off concert rarities, and introduced new works in Chicago under dream conditions, including his own thorny yet exhilarating works, which were at first a challenge for musicians and audiences alike. He even wrote a small

“A seasoned conductor and composer with a brilliant mind and an infallible ear, he was no longer the brash avant-gardist of his youth but more of a jovial uncle bringing us musicians exotic gifts from far away. . . . Though he held us to the highest standards of precision and clarity, Maestro Boulez led rehearsals with a sense of humor that made the hard work less arduous. He would delight in mistakes that were ‘deliciously wrong’ or ‘anything but right,’ his accented words chastising but with charm and graciousness.”

WILLIAM BUCHMAN Assistant Principal Bassoon

Boulez and Daniel Barenboim in rehearsal with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in February 1969. Terry’s Photography

“On one of the tours at Carnegie Hall with Boulez, the program included Amériques by Edgard Varèse. The work calls for a very large orchestra with many additional percussion instruments. I felt almost drowning in such a behemoth of an ensemble. There he was, his slight figure in the usual brown suit and immaculately pressed trousers, eyes soft but steady. At that moment, he reminded me of a Swiss watchmaker, calmly fitting hundreds of little wheels and pieces together with minimal movements and intimate knowledge of the inner complexity of the work—not a drop of sweat and all the power to take absolute control.”

NI MEI Violin

from left: Pierre Boulez in Orchestra Hall’s Grainger Ballroom in March 2006. © Todd Rosenberg Photography

“ We were making what turned out to be an extraordinary recording of Bartók’s masterpiece, Bluebeard’s Castle, featuring Jessye Norman as Judith. As Bluebeard and Judith would enter each room, Boulez had the horns blow through their instruments to suggest a slight flow of air as each door opened. At some point, one of the horns accidentally engaged their lip, producing a sound very much like that of human flatulence, to which Boulez remarked, ‘Mon Dieu! Which wife was that?’ We all laughed, of course, but Boulez, most of all. He was in utter hysterics at his own joke. He actually had to call a break to compose himself.”

MAX RAIMI Viola

but important piece, Notations VII, for the Orchestra. Over time, he became our guide to the modern classics, a valued restorer of familiar landmarks, and a prophet of the new. While in Chicago, Boulez also worked regularly with the Civic Orchestra, gave a popular series of lectures at the Art Institute, and appeared on the CSO’s new MusicNOW series. In 1991 he began a new series of recordings with the Orchestra—one of his first releases, an allBartók coupling of the Cantata profana and The Wooden Prince, won four Grammy awards in 1993, including Best Classical Album; eight of Boulez’s twenty-six Grammys are for discs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Boulez receives his Grammy statuettes for Best Classical Album and Best Orchestral Performance for the CSO’s recording of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra and Four Orchestral Pieces, onstage at Orchestra Hall in December 1995. Jim Steere

He conducted the Orchestra on tour in Japan in 1995, at the Berlin Festtage in 1999, and in Cologne in 2000, as well as at Carnegie Hall on several occasions. Chicago was one of the few places he conducted regularly, and his devotion to returning year after year provided one of the defining chapters both in his career and in our orchestra’s history.

Boulez made his name as a conductor devoted to the great pioneers of musical modernism— Stravinsky, Bartók, Debussy, Schoenberg—the same figures who were his starting point as a composer. Those composers, along with Ravel and Mahler, were the ones he explored in the greatest depth with the Chicago Symphony.

Annual Spring Gala

John Milbauer, Dean cordially invites you to attend the Annual Spring Gala

Presented by Ernest (BUS ’57, LLD ’91) and Mimi Wish

Presentation of the Pro Musica Award to Rich Daniels (SOM ’83)

Saturday, April 26, 2025

5–10 p.m.

Holtschneider Performance Center 2330 N. Halsted Avenue | Chicago

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SYMPHONIC SPLENDOR IN THE SUN

Each winter, some of the nation’s top orchestral musicians come together for a week of exceptional music-making in beautiful Scottsdale, AZ. Comprised of players from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and other distinguished ensembles, the Festival Orchestra presents a diverse and dynamic line-up of orchestral concerts. Enjoy golf, spring training, gorgeous weather and symphonic splendor in the sun!

• Mozart Requiem

• Tchaikovsky & Time For Three (M. Bates World Premiere)

Star Wars Celebration

Rachmaninoff & Copland

But, although we tended to think of Boulez as a specialist, during his Chicago seasons he conducted music by more than thirty composers, from Bach to the present day. He led revelatory Mahler (symphonies nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, and 9), blockbuster Berlioz (Romeo and Juliet, his rarely heard requiem, Symphonie fantastique, Les nuits d’été), what many consider definitive readings of the big Stravinsky ballets, newer classics (Berio’s Sinfonia and Ligeti’s Piano Concerto), and operatic landmarks of the twentieth century (Bluebeard’s Castle by Bartók—preserved in a Grammy Award–winning recording—and Schoenberg’s formidable Moses und Aron, which he transformed from a notoriously complex twelve-tone score

into a work of riveting theater). But he also led music by composers not regularly linked with his name—Haydn, Schubert, Dukas, Roussel, Szymanowski, Scriabin. And, in his last years, he turned his attention to Janáček and Bruckner, whom he had always dismissed outright (he gave his first performances of the Fifth and Ninth symphonies here.)

In the end, Boulez did something no Chicago music director had done: he treated the classics of modernism as if they, not Mozart or Beethoven or Brahms, constituted the traditional canon. In the same way, his recording career in Chicago largely steered away from the nineteenth-century scores that sit at the heart of most conductors’ recorded legacies, opting

“I feel privileged to have developed a close association with Pierre Boulez during the years when he regularly visited Chicago. Pierre was very gracious when I asked about the possibility of my playing his monumental work, Dialogue de l’ombre double (Dialogue of the Double Shadow), the fascinating kaleidoscopic live clarinet solo alternating with swirling prerecorded ‘shadow clarinet’ played through nine loudspeakers. He invited me to visit IRCAM in Paris while the CSO was on tour in 1986. There he presented me with the freshly copied music and the technical instructions to record and realize the swirling prerecorded clarinet sections.”

JOHN BRUCE YEH Assistant Principal Clarinet and E-flat Clarinet The Governing Members Chair

this page, from left: On November 19, 1992, Boulez led the Orchestra in his Fanfare for the 80th Birthday of Sir Georg Solti and presented our music director laureate with a copy of the score. Jim Steere

Boulez and Daniel Barenboim acknowledge applause following a performance of Bartók’s First Piano Concerto on April 1, 1995. Cheri Eisenberg

opposite page: Boulez leading a rehearsal with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago on December 8, 2003. © Todd Rosenberg Photography

instead to leave us revelatory accounts of the modern classics: hair-raising Varèse; crystalline yet fiery Stravinsky; and pristine Mahler, no less stunning for being so lucid and precise.

Over the years, it was our privilege to learn, to explore, and to grow along with him. He was our invaluable companion in the complex landscape of twentieth-century music, a world he knew intimately, from the double vantage point of composer and conductor, and we came to rely

on his concerts to help us better understand and love the music of our own time. He taught us to embrace what lies just over the horizon—as forward-looking a legacy as one can imagine.

Phillip Huscher is the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Expanded remembrances and more information on Pierre Boulez are available on cso.org/experience

Hear the music of Pierre Boulez

Domaines | March 23 | CSO MusicNOW

Livres pour cordes | March 27 & 29, March 28 at Wheaton | Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Initiale | May 1–4 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra

“I am forever grateful to Maestro Boulez for hiring me and have fond memories of our first meeting. When I found out that I got the job with the CSO, I was told that the maestro would like to meet me. I went downstairs and there he was, standing at the door, arms wide open with a big beaming smile. I was so giddy and excited that I thought he wanted to give me a hug, so I wrapped my arms around him and gave HIM a huge hug. My brain processed a second later—as he patted me on the back—that he was simply holding his door open to welcome me into the room. I will forever see that beaming and grandfatherly smile from Maestro Boulez.”

CYNTHIA YEH Principal Percussion

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Showcasing Education & Community Engagement at the CSO

MAR 17

Be inspired by the musicians learning, growing, and serving Chicago through the programs produced by the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy a showcase of extraordinary performances by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, musicians from the CSO, Percussion Scholarship Program students, and Young Artists Competition winner Jaden TeagueNúñez. Plus, hear works from the Notes for Peace program and Young Composers Initiative. Transform lives by supporting these vital education and community engagement activities.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is grateful for the generous support of our major corporate sponsors.

EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT

MICHAEL G. O’GRADY, CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Northern Trust

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is rightly regarded as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. Northern Trust is committed to serving our communities and the arts, and we are proud to support—as we have for more than a half century—the CSO’s extraordinary tradition of musical excellence.

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Jenner & Block LLP

Jenner & Block is proud to share the CSO’s passion for creativity, innovation, and the pursuit of excellence. As a longtime CSO supporter, the firm looks forward to continuing to participate in the symphony’s rich tradition of musical excitement and unfolding artistry in Chicago and the many communities it touches in the United States and around the world.

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Winston proudly supports the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and applauds the vital role the orchestra plays in enriching Chicago’s cultural landscape. For 133 years, the CSO’s consummate performances have inspired generations of music lovers and musicians alike. Winston is honored to support the CSO and its musicians as they educate and enrich audiences for years to come.

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CIBC

The arts help us build rich, vibrant communities. That’s why we’re pleased to support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which showcases the best in Chicago’s music scene. This partnership truly exemplifies bringing our purpose to life by actively supporting incredible organizations like the CSO in the communities we serve.

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Altair Advisers LLC

As a private, independent wealth advisory firm headquartered in Chicago, Altair is proud to be affiliated with the CSO. Classical music is an eternal art form that connects us to the past while fostering interpretation and creativity. Supporting the CSO is one way of demonstrating our philanthropic commitment to the performing arts in our community.

ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOURTH SEASON

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

KLAUS MÄKELÄ Zell Music Director Designate | RICCARDO MUTI Music Director Emeritus for Life

Thursday, March 27, 2025, at 7:30

Saturday, March 29, 2025, at 7:30

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider Conductor and Violin

BRUCH

INTERMISSION

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26

Prelude: Allegro moderato—

Adagio

Finale: Allegro energico

NIKOLAJ SZEPS-ZNAIDER

BOULEZ Livre pour cordes

SCHUMANN

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97 (Rhenish)

Lively

Scherzo: Very moderate Not fast

Solemn— Lively

These concerts are generously sponsored by Zell Family Foundation. The appearance of Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider is made possible by the Grainger Fund for Excellence. United Airlines is the Official Airline of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council. Livre pour cordes by Pierre Boulez presented under license from G. Schirmer, Inc., and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra thanks Zell Family Foundation for generously supporting these performances.

COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher

MAX BRUCH

Born January 6, 1838; Cologne, Germany

Died October 2, 1920; Friedenau, near Berlin, Germany

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26

Although he was born five years after Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch hit his stride much sooner. At eleven, he was writing chamber music; in 1852, at the age of fourteen, he tossed off his first symphony. (Brahms was forty-two years old when he finished his, after nearly a quarter century of intermittent work.) Bruch’s first violin concerto was begun in 1864 and first performed, to considerable acclaim, in 1868—before A German Requiem put Brahms on the map (and more than a decade before his own celebrated violin concerto).

The downside of early success is the waning star. Several composers, some as great as Felix Mendelssohn, are regularly accused of failing to sustain their promise. This is a standard line in the Bruch literature, too, along with that even more worrisome one about a one-hit reputation. Neither assertion is entirely accurate—or fair—although Bruch’s G minor concerto has always been immensely popular (far more so than his other two) and more frequently performed than Kol nidrei for cello and orchestra, or the Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra. The irony of Bruch’s career—particularly in light of the current admiration for art that is, above all, accessible—is that by writing music to please the audience of his day, Bruch lost the interest of succeeding generations.

The G minor violin concerto, however, has withstood time, and it makes a most persuasive case for the composer. Soloists keep concertos before the public, and violinists have always loved to play this piece. Bruch studied violin for several years, and he wrote for the instrument with enormous affection and skill. When his publisher once suggested he try a work for cello and orchestra, Bruch replied, “I have more important

COMPOSED 1864–67

FIRST PERFORMANCE

January 7, 1868; Bremen, Germany. Joseph Joachim as soloist

INSTRUMENTATION

solo violin, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME

25 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

February 23, 1892, Auditorium Theatre. Léon Marx as soloist, Theodore Thomas conducting

July 15, 1950, Ravinia Festival. Zino Francescatti as soloist, Antal Doráti conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

November 4, 5, and 6, 2021, Orchestra Hall. Robert Chen as soloist, Marek Janowski conducting August 9, 2023, Ravinia Festival. Benjamin Beilman as soloist, Jonathon Heyward conducting

CSO RECORDINGS

1980. Shlomo Mintz as soloist, Claudio Abbado conducting. Deutsche Grammophon

1986. Cho-Liang Lin as soloist, Leonard Slatkin conducting. CBS

from top: Max Bruch, engraving after a photograph by Adolf Neumann (1825–1884), ca. 1881

Joseph Joachim (1831–1907), soloist and dedicatee of Bruch’s Violin Concerto, as photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), 1868. London, England

things to do than write stupid cello concertos.” Eugen d’Albert asked for a piano concerto in 1886; Bruch fired back: “Me, write a piano concerto! That’s the limit!” (Bruch eventually wrote beautifully for cello with orchestra, though he never did compose a piano concerto.)

Bruch had difficulty writing this concerto, his first major work. There was even a public performance of a preliminary version, but Bruch was dissatisfied. The celebrated violinist Joseph Joachim offered important suggestions (he would later play the same role in the creation of Brahms’s concerto), and Bruch was smart enough to take his advice. When the concerto was presented in its final form in 1868, Joachim was the soloist (Bruch also dedicated the score to him).

PIERRE BOULEZ

Born March 26, 1925; Montbrison, France

Died January 5, 2016; Baden-Baden, Germany

Livre pour cordes

Bruch planned to call the concerto a fantasy, which helps to explain the disposition of the three movements. The first is a prelude in title and mood, rather than the weightiest movement of the work. Even though the violinist works as hard as in any of the great virtuosic concertos, and the dialogue between solo and orchestra is heated and extensive, the tone is anticipatory. When, without a pause, we reach the slow movement, we find the heart of the concerto: a rich, wonderfully lyrical expanse of music that shows Bruch at his best and offers melodies tailor-made for the violin. The finale begins in quiet suspense, broken by the entrance of the violin with a hearty dance tune and more fireworks.

A short piece for strings, Livre pour cordes offers us a disproportionately expansive view of Boulez’s output. For one thing, it takes us to two very different points in his career, starting in the late 1940s, when his radical views and bracing early works breathed new life into the music scene.

(Like many mathematicians—and mathematics was one of Boulez’s first interests— Boulez made his mark while he was still in his early twenties.)

The world of music was a relatively staid and uneventful place in the 1940s, and, after 1945, when it lost two of its greatest pioneers—Anton Webern and Béla Bartók—it seemed particularly bereft of visionaries. The two aging giants of the early century, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, were still writing music, although Stravinsky was stuck in the neoclassic mode he had been perfecting for two decades and Schoenberg was at something of a standstill, his output diminished by poor health and bad eyesight.

Boulez arrived in Paris in the autumn of 1943 to study music, and the following September he began to work privately with Olivier Messiaen, who had made his name before the war as

COMPOSED

1948–49, for string quartet (Livre pour quatuor)

1968, 1988, reworked for string orchestra as Livre pour cordes

FIRST PERFORMANCE

December 1, 1968; London, the composer conducting January 17, 1989; London, the composer conducting (revised version)

INSTRUMENTATION

strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME 11 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

February 27 and 28, 1969, Orchestra Hall. The composer conducting (U.S. premiere)

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

January 21, 22, and 23, 2010, Orchestra Hall; January 31, 2010, Carnegie Hall. The composer conducting

CSO RECORDING

1999. The composer conducting. CSO (From the Archives, vol. 19: A Tribute to Pierre Boulez)

the composer of several striking and idiosyncratic works. (His wartime masterpiece, Quartet for the End of Time, brought him renewed fame.) Boulez was not a student for long—that is, his singular, independent musical personality quickly emerged— and, with a string of compositions in the late 1940s, he rapidly staked his claim as one of the truly original musical thinkers of the time. The twelve short Notations for piano he composed in 1945 (later withdrawn and later still reexplored in versions for full orchestra) are among the earliest of these works. By the time of the Livre pour quatuor, a “book for quartet” composed in 1948 and 1949, Boulez had more than fulfilled the promise he later said any teacher must expect of a student: “Throw away the book I have taught you to read and add a new, wholly unexpected page!” This radical new Livre is the genesis of the Livre pour cordes—the “book for strings” performed at these concerts.

Livre pour quatuor foreshadowed much of Boulez’s development as a composer, and it also stood as a refutation of all that was passé and predictable in music at the time. (The Janusface of the century at its midpoint—when the shockingly new squared shoulders against the old-fashioned—was never more apparent than in the premieres, just three weeks apart in 1950, of two major scores—Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Boulez’s Second Piano Sonata.) Livre, in its first version for string quartet, is a collection of six movements (although the fourth was never published) that can be played in any order. (It predates the many scores of the 1950s and ’60s that leave the sequence of movements to the players.) It is an answer to the advances of earlier pioneering composers of quartets, from Beethoven to Bartók. Taking the last works

of Webern and the brand new Four Rhythmic Etudes by Messiaen as more immediate points of departure, in certain movements Boulez began to explore the idea of “total serialism,” where not only the pitch, but the duration, intensity, and timbre of each sound is governed by the rules of serialism. The work was introduced piecemeal over time, from 1955 to 1962—among the earliest of Boulez’s works to yield a series of premieres— and was then withdrawn by the composer, partly because of its extreme demands on the players.

By 1968, when Boulez returned to the Livre, he was no longer a young rebel, but a distinguished leader of the avant-garde. His founding of the Domaine Musical concerts in Paris in 1954 had set up an important dialogue between contemporary composers and “a public interested in its own century.” And the premiere in 1955 of his Le marteau sans maître (The Hammer Without a Master)—an instant classic—established him as an undisputed master in his own right. Beginning in the early 1960s, Boulez also emerged as a significant orchestral conductor. (His Bayreuth debut, conducting Parsifal in 1966, was a brilliant success.) Pli selon pli (Fold upon Fold) for soprano and orchestra—a

opposite page: Pierre Boulez, portrait by Siegfried Lauterwasser (1913–2000), 1966, for the Bayreuth Festival | th is page:

1969. Terry’s Photography

Boulez leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in rehearsal during his debut residency in February

setting of texts by Mallarmé dating from 1962— was immediately recognized as a landmark in the complex landscape of postwar music.

Boulez had been planning to revise Livre pour quatuor for some time. In 1968 he set out to completely reconsider the work, now recasting it for full string orchestra. The new Livre pour cordes was never just a practical renovation— simply spreading the players’ difficulties over a large ensemble, for example—but instead a total overhaul, allowing Boulez to explore every implication of his earlier score. The original quartet was not so much expanded as exploded—at one point there are now thirtyfour different lines of music on the page—into a work of intricacy, depth, and surpassing textural beauty. (The distance traveled is not as great as that of Notations, which blossomed from twelve-measure pieces for solo piano to much bigger structures for large orchestra, but the kind of journey undertaken is of a similar, transformative nature.)

This kind of reexamination, and, at the same time, amplification of early work, has become a hallmark of Boulez’s output, and he is a master at considering a single musical idea from every point of view—and creating a body of exquisite, ever-richer, often distantly related works in the process. Although Boulez has moved through

distinct phases in his work—so-called total serialism in the early 1950s, for example, or the more recent fusion of electronics with traditional instruments—essential ideas and preoccupations run through his output, linking past and present. As Boulez said in an interview with Jean-Pierre Derrien, “There is no doubt that my world is now more elaborate than it was before. It is basically the same with Proust, where the beginning and end of À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) are clearly by the same writer, but the whole nature and outline of the developments are different.”

In 1968 Boulez introduced the new Livre pour cordes in London. (It has two parts: 1a, Variation, and 1b, Movement.) In the meantime, he withdrew the original version for string quartet. Twenty years later, Boulez returned to this long-running work in progress and revised Livre yet again, in the process making one movement of the two parts. The piece performed at these concerts is the only remnant of the original Livre in the repertory—the sole extant “chapter” from the Proustian book Boulez began as a young composer.

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ROBERT SCHUMANN

Born June 8, 1810; Zwickau, Saxony, Germany

Died July 29, 1856; Endenich, near Bonn, Germany

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97 (Rhenish)

In his best-selling neurological case study, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, the late Oliver Sacks tells of Dr. P., an eminent musician and professor, who can no longer make sense of what he sees. He relies on Schumann’s music to keep his bearings, and every action in his daily life is linked to a musical theme. Sacks, a British neurologist (best known for Awakenings, which was made into a motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams, and, among other popular books, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain) explained: “The real hero of Hat is surely music—the power of music to organize and integrate, to knit or reknit a shattered world into sense.”

The year Robert Schumann was born, his father was attacked by a nervous affliction that troubled him the rest of his life. Schumann’s own medical history is full of mysterious ailments

this page, from top: Robert Schumann, daguerreotype portrait by Johann Anton Völlner, 1850. Hamburg, Germany | A sketch, ca. 1840s, of the private hospital in Endenich, near Bonn, Germany, where Schumann, at his own request, was admitted on March 4, 1854 | ne xt page: Cologne Cathedral, where the Schumanns attended the service for the elevation of Johannes von Geissel (1796–1864) from archbishop to cardinal in November 1850. Albuminized salt print by Johannes Franciscus Michiels (1823–1887), 1855

COMPOSED

November 2–December 9, 1850

FIRST PERFORMANCE

February 6, 1851; Düsseldorf, Germany. The composer conducting

INSTRUMENTATION

2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, strings

APPROXIMATE

PERFORMANCE TIME

38 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

June 9, 1893, Festival Hall at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Theodore Thomas conducting December 29 and 30, 1893, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting

July 22, 1941, Ravinia Festival. Carlos Chávez conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

July 30, 1994, Ravinia Festival. Hugh Wolff conducting

November 7, 9, and 12, 2019, Orchestra Hall. Riccardo Muti conducting

CSO RECORDING

1977. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Deutsche Grammophon

and breakdowns, depression, hallucinations, persistent trembling, a recurring fear of sharp metal objects, and—most painfully for a musician—tinnitus, a constant ringing in the ears. We now think that his mental instability first showed up when he was still in his teens. In 1844, at the age of thirty-four, when he suffered his worst breakdown, composing was out of the question and he couldn’t even bear to listen to music, “which cuts into my nerves,” he complained, “as if with knives.” Certainly, in his last years, when syphilis caused his decline, music didn’t have the power to reknit his shattered world, although he spoke of “wonderfully beautiful music” constantly playing in his head. In February 1854, just before he was institutionalized, he was haunted by devils and visited by angels who sang to him in

E-flat; he finally ran out of the house and threw himself into the Rhine.

The fishermen who saved him and took him home to his wife Clara didn’t recognize one of Düsseldorf ’s most distinguished citizens, the famous composer who, only four years earlier, had written his last symphony in loving tribute to the Rhine River. Even in 1850, when Schumann began this E-flat symphony, he wasn’t in the best of shape. He and Clara had recently moved to Düsseldorf—with some misgivings once he learned of the asylum there, for he didn’t like to be confronted with evidence of mental instability. At first, Schumann was unable to compose there because of the street noise. A visit to Cologne in late September 1850 greatly inspired him, and in October he began his cello concerto

and, on November 2, a new symphony in E-flat. The first movement was sketched in a week, and, despite taking time out for another trip to Cologne, Schumann finished the entire work by December 9.

Although Schumann sometimes is criticized for being unsympathetic to the symphonic language, the magnificent opening of this E-flat symphony argues otherwise. Here is a grand, striding theme that is both broad and powerful, obviously conceived in orchestral terms and ideal for symphonic treatment—Schumann writing for orchestra with the same command we find in his piano music.

Schumann originally called this music “a piece of life by the Rhine.” He had already captured the Rhine in song—the majestic “Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome” (In the Rhine, in the Holy River) from his song cycle Dichterliebe—but now, working with the full orchestral palette, Schumann creates one of the great German romantic musical landscapes. It’s a landscape by suggestion, for this isn’t a programmatic symphony; like Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, it’s “the expression of feelings rather than painting.”

If the Rhenish Symphony suggests Beethoven at all (and few musicians at the time saw the resemblance), it’s the Beethoven of the Eroica Symphony, also in E-flat. In the vast unfolding of his first movement, Schumann is working on a Beethovenian scale, and with material worthy of the grand dimensions. It’s largely through the sheer power of his main theme that Schumann sustains such an impressive movement, for development of the classical sort was never his strength, and even here he relies on simple, sequential repetition in place of thematic sleight of hand. There’s a splendid surge of energy—and a new melody, cleverly placed—just before the end.

The next two movements are modest, taking their cue not from Beethoven’s Eroica, which

reaffirms the grandeur of its opening with each following movement, but from the “slow” movement of Beethoven’s Eighth, famous for daring to be so unassuming. Schumann first gives us a slow ländler, with a lovely rolling theme in the low strings, as a gentle alternative to the traditional scherzo. A tiny slow movement, as delicate in dimension and scope as any of Schumann’s miniatures for solo piano, follows.

The fourth movement is really part of the finale—a grand processional leading to a triumphant conclusion—even though they’re written as two separate sections. The inspiration for this majestic and solemn music came to Robert on the Schumanns’ second trip to Cologne, in November 1850, for the elevation of the archbishop of Cologne as cardinal, which was held in the magnificent cathedral there. Schumann immediately sets the ceremonial tone with a simple chorale in E-flat minor for three trombones. The music moves majestically, growing in strength and polyphonic complexity. And then, with the swift entrance of a striding new theme, Schumann launches his finale, an uncomplicated song of triumph in E-flat major. The cathedral music returns near the end, transformed by its bright new surroundings; a passing reference to the symphony’s bold opening leads to a volley of E-flat chords.

Schumann conducted the first performance of the Rhenish Symphony on February 6, 1851, in Düsseldorf. Just three years later, he was confined to a private asylum in nearby Endenich. Clara wasn’t allowed to see him for nearly two and a half years; when she finally visited him on July 27, 1856, Schumann (unlike Dr. P.) recognized his wife at once, but he was unable to speak intelligibly. When he died two days later, Clara and the young Johannes Brahms were at his side.

Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is grateful to United Airlines for its generous support as the Official Airline of the CSO.

PROFILES

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider Conductor and Violin

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

November 24 and 25, 2000, Orchestra Hall. Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, Daniel Barenboim conducting July 16, 2015, Ravinia Festival. Mozart’s Violin Concerto no. 3 (conducting from the violin) and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique

December 21, 22, and 23, 2017, Orchestra Hall. Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (conducting from the violin) and Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 5

MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

September 26, 27, and 28, 2024, Orchestra Hall. Vaughan Williams’s Overture to The Wasps, Walton’s Viola Concerto with Antoine Tamestit, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 4

The 2024–25 season marks Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider’s fifth as music director of the Orchestre national de Lyon, a partnership that has already been extended until 2026–27.

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider is regularly featured as guest conductor with some of the world’s leading orchestras, with recent and forthcoming performances with the New York Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, and the Bamberg Symphony. His return to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra continues a flourishing relationship. On the operatic front, following a successful debut conducting Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Semperoper Dresden, he was immediately re-invited to lead Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier in 2019. He also recently made his debut with the Royal Danish Opera and the Zurich Opera House with new productions of The Magic Flute, which he also conducted at the Bavarian State Opera.

A virtuoso violinist as well, Szeps-Znaider maintains his reputation as one of the world’s

leading exponents of the instrument with a busy calendar of concerto and recital appearances. This season, he makes return engagements with the London Philharmonic and with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, taking part in the Shostakovich Festival, held on the fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death, and performing alongside pianist Daniil Trifonov and cellist Gautier Capuçon.

Szeps-Znaider boasts an extensive discography of much of the core repertoire for violin, including a complete collection of Mozart’s violin concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, which he directs from the violin. Other recordings of note include Nielsen’s Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert, Elgar’s Concerto in B minor with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Sir Colin Davis, award-winning recordings of the concertos by Brahms and Korngold with the Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev, the concertos by Beethoven and Mendelssohn with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta, Prokofiev’s Concerto no. 2 and Glazunov’s Concerto in A minor with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Mariss Jansons, and Mendelssohn’s on DVD with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly. Szeps-Znaider has also recorded all of Brahms’s works for violin and piano with Yefim Bronfman.

President of the Carl Nielsen International Competition, which occurs every three years in Odense, Denmark, Szeps-Znaider is passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent. He plays the 1741 “Kreisler” Guarnerius del Gesù instrument on extended loan to him by the Royal Danish Theatre through the generosity of the VELUX Foundations, the Villum Foundation, and the Knud Højgaard Foundation.

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider is managed by Enticott Music Management in association with IMG Artists.

PHOTO BY LARS GUNDERSEN

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra—consistently hailed as one of the world’s best—marks its 134th season in 2024–25. The ensemble’s history began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, the leading conductor in America and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra. Thomas’s aim to build a permanent orchestra of the highest quality was realized at the first concerts in October 1891 in the Auditorium Theatre. Thomas served as music director until his death in January 1905, just three weeks after the dedication of Orchestra Hall, the Orchestra’s permanent home designed by Daniel Burnham.

Frederick Stock, recruited by Thomas to the viola section in 1895, became assistant conductor in 1899 and succeeded the Orchestra’s founder. His tenure lasted thirty-seven years, from 1905 to 1942—the longest of the Orchestra’s music directors. Stock founded the Civic Orchestra of Chicago— the first training orchestra in the U.S. affiliated with a major orchestra—in 1919, established youth auditions, organized the first subscription concerts especially for children, and began a series of popular concerts.

Three conductors headed the Orchestra during the following decade: Désiré Defauw was music director from 1943 to 1947, Artur Rodzinski in 1947–48, and Rafael Kubelík from 1950 to 1953. The next ten years belonged to Fritz Reiner, whose recordings with the CSO are still considered hallmarks. Reiner invited Margaret Hillis to form the Chicago Symphony Chorus in 1957. For five seasons from 1963 to 1968, Jean Martinon held the position of music director.

Sir Georg Solti, the Orchestra’s eighth music director, served from 1969 until 1991. His arrival launched one of the most successful musical partnerships of our time. The CSO made its first overseas tour to Europe in 1971 under his direction and released numerous award-winning recordings. Beginning in 1991, Solti held the title of music director laureate and returned to conduct the Orchestra each season until his death in September 1997.

Daniel Barenboim became ninth music director in 1991, a position he held until 2006. His tenure was distinguished by the opening of Symphony Center in 1997, appearances with the Orchestra in the dual role of pianist and conductor, and twenty-one international tours. Appointed by Barenboim in 1994 as the Chorus’s second director, Duain Wolfe served until his retirement in 2022.

In 2010, Riccardo Muti became the Orchestra’s tenth music director. During his tenure, the Orchestra deepened its engagement with the Chicago community, nurtured its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians and composers, and collaborated with visionary artists. In September 2023, Muti became music director emeritus for life.

In April 2024, Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä was announced as the Orchestra’s eleventh music director and will begin an initial five-year tenure as Zell Music Director in September 2027.

Carlo Maria Giulini was named the Orchestra’s first principal guest conductor in 1969, serving until 1972; Claudio Abbado held the position from 1982 to 1985. Pierre Boulez was appointed as principal guest conductor in 1995 and was named Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus in 2006, a position he held until his death in January 2016. From 2006 to 2010, Bernard Haitink was the Orchestra’s first principal conductor.

Pianist Daniil Trifonov is the CSO’s Artist-inResidence for the 2024–25 season.

The Orchestra first performed at Ravinia Park in 1905 and appeared frequently through August 1931, after which the park was closed for most of the Great Depression. In August 1936, the Orchestra helped to inaugurate the first season of the Ravinia Festival, and it has been in residence nearly every summer since.

Since 1916, recording has been a significant part of the Orchestra’s activities. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus— including recent releases on CSO Resound, the Orchestra’s recording label launched in 2007— have earned sixty-five Grammy awards from the Recording Academy.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Klaus Mäkelä Zell Music Director Designate

Daniil Trifonov Artist-in-Residence

VIOLINS

Robert Chen Concertmaster

The Louis C. Sudler

Chair, endowed by an

anonymous benefactor

Stephanie Jeong

Associate Concertmaster

The Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair

David Taylor*

Assistant Concertmaster

The Ling Z. and Michael C.

Markovitz Chair

Yuan-Qing Yu*

Assistant Concertmaster

So Young Bae

Cornelius Chiu

Gina DiBello

Kozue Funakoshi

Russell Hershow

Qing Hou

Gabriela Lara

Matous Michal

Simon Michal

Sando Shia

Susan Synnestvedt

Rong-Yan Tang

Baird Dodge Principal

Danny Yehun Jin

Assistant Principal

Lei Hou

Ni Mei

Hermine Gagné

Rachel Goldstein ‡

Mihaela Ionescu

Melanie Kupchynsky

Wendy Koons Meir

Joyce Noh §

Ronald Satkiewicz

Florence Schwartz

VIOLAS

Teng Li Principal

The Paul Hindemith

Principal Viola Chair

Catherine Brubaker

Youming Chen

Sunghee Choi

Wei-Ting Kuo

Danny Lai

Weijing Michal

Diane Mues ‡

Lawrence Neuman

Max Raimi

CELLOS

John Sharp Principal

The Eloise W. Martin Chair

Kenneth Olsen

Assistant Principal

The Adele Gidwitz Chair

Karen Basrak

The Joseph A. and Cecile

Renaud Gorno Chair

Richard Hirschl

Daniel Katz

Katinka Kleijn

Brant Taylor

The Blickensderfer

Family Chair

BASSES

Alexander Hanna Principal

The David and Mary Winton

Green Principal Bass Chair

Alexander Horton

Assistant Principal

Daniel Carson

Ian Hallas

Robert Kassinger

Mark Kraemer

Stephen Lester ‡

Bradley Opland

Andrew Sommer

HARP

Lynne Turner

FLUTES

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

Principal

The Erika and Dietrich M.

Gross Principal Flute Chair

Emma Gerstein

Jennifer Gunn

PICCOLO

Jennifer Gunn

The Dora and John Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair

OBOES

William Welter Principal

Lora Schaefer

Assistant Principal

Scott Hostetler

ENGLISH HORN

Scott Hostetler

Riccardo Muti Music Director Emeritus for Life

CLARINETS

Stephen Williamson Principal

John Bruce Yeh

Assistant Principal

The Governing

Members Chair

Gregory Smith

E-FLAT CLARINET

John Bruce Yeh

BASSOONS

Keith Buncke Principal

William Buchman

Assistant Principal

Miles Maner

HORNS

Mark Almond Principal

James Smelser

David Griffin

Oto Carrillo

Susanna Gaunt

Daniel Gingrich

TRUMPETS

Esteban Batallán § Principal

The Adolph Herseth Principal Trumpet Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor

Mark Ridenour

Assistant Principal

John Hagstrom

The Bleck Family Chair

Tage Larsen

TROMBONES

Jay Friedman Principal

The Lisa and Paul Wiggin Principal Trombone Chair

Michael Mulcahy Acting Associate Principal

Charles Vernon

BASS TROMBONE

Charles Vernon

* Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. ‡ On sabbatical § On leave

The CSO’s music director position is endowed in perpetuity by a generous gift from the Zell Family Foundation. The Gilchrist Foundation and Louise H. Benton Wagner chairs currently are unoccupied.

TUBA

Gene Pokorny Principal

The Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld

TIMPANI

David Herbert Principal

The Clinton Family Fund Chair

Vadim Karpinos

Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION

Cynthia Yeh Principal

Patricia Dash

Vadim Karpinos

LIBRARIANS

Justin Vibbard Principal

Carole Keller

Mark Swanson

CSO FELLOWS

Jesús Linárez Violin

The Michael and Kathleen Elliott Fellow

Olivia Reyes Bass

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

John Deverman Director

Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel

STAGE TECHNICIANS

Christopher Lewis

Stage Manager

Blair Carlson

Paul Christopher

Chris Grannen

Ryan Hartge

Peter Landry

Joshua Mondie

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically.

ADMINISTRATION

Jeff Alexander President

PRESIDENT’S OFFICE

Kristine Stassen Executive Assistant to the President & Secretary of the Board

Mónica Lugo Executive Assistant to the Music Director Emeritus for Life

Human Resources

Lynne Sorkin Director

Dijana Cirkic Manager

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION

Cristina Rocca Vice President

The Richard and Mary L. Gray Chair

James M. Fahey Senior Director, Programming, Symphony Center Presents

Randy Elliot Director, Artistic Administration

Monica Wentz Director, Artistic Planning & Special Projects

Lena Breitkreuz Artist Manager, Symphony Center Presents

Jackson Brown Artistic Planning Coordinator

Caroline Eichler Senior Artist Liaison, CSO

Phillip Huscher Scholar-in-Residence & Program Annotator

Pietro Fiumara Artists Assistant

Chorus

Melissa Hilker Manager

Olive Haugh Assistant Manager & Librarian

ORCHESTRA AND BUILDING OPERATIONS

Vanessa Moss Vice President

Heidi Lukas Director

Michael Lavin Assistant Director, Operations, SCP & Rental Events

Jeffrey Stang Production Manager, CSO

Joseph Sherman Production Manager, SCP & Rental Events

Jiwon Sun Manager, Audio Media & Audio-Visual Operations

Jenise Sheppard House Manager

Charlie Post Chief Recording Engineer

Logan Goulart Operations Assistant

Rosenthal Archives

Frank Villella Director

Orchestra Personnel

John Deverman Director

Anne MacQuarrie Manager, CSO Auditions & Orchestra Personnel

Facilities

John Maas Director

Engineers

Tim McElligott Chief Engineer

Michael McGeehan

Kevin Walsh

Stephen Excellent

Electricians

Robert Stokas Chief Electrician

Doug Scheuller

Stage Technicians

Christopher Lewis Stage Manager

Blair Carlson

Paul Christopher

Chris Grannen

Ryan Hartge

Peter Landry

Joshua Mondie

Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO

Jonathan McCormick Managing Director

Katy Clusen Associate Director, CSO for Kids

Katherine Eaton Coordinator, School Partnerships

Carol Kelleher Assistant, CSO for Kids

Anna Perkins Orchestra Manager, Civic Orchestra of Chicago

Zhiqian Wu Operations Coordinator, Civic Orchestra of Chicago

Rachael Cohen Program Manager

Charles Jones Program Assistant

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

Stacie Frank Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Renay Johansen Slifka Executive Assistant

Accounting

Sam Pincich Controller

Kerri Gravlin Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Hyon Yu Assistant Controller, Reporting & Systems

Janet Kosiba Assistant Controller, Accounting Operations

Mehrin Reid Payroll Manager

Nancy Sheehy Accounting Manager

Milda Reklyte Senior Accountant

Christopher Biemer Accountant

Cynthia Maday Accounts Payable Manager

Elizabeth Tyska Payroll Assistant

Information Technology

Kirk McMahon Director

Douglas Bolino Client Systems Administrator

Jackie Spark Lead Technologist

Dwayne Laughlin Tessitura Systems Analyst / Technologist

SALES AND MARKETING

Ryan Lewis Vice President

Erika Nelson Director, Institutional Marketing & Revenue Management

Alyssa Greenberg Manager, Audience Engagement

Digital Content and Engagement

Dana Navarro Director

Laura Emerick Digital Content Editor

Peter Breithaupt Manager, Digital Content

Steve Burkholder Web Manager

Megan Ireland Manager, Digital Engagement

Zoe Carter Associate, Digital Engagement: Social Media

Program Marketing and Operations

Amy Brondyke Director

Alex Demas Marketing Manager, Classical Programs

Tommy Crawford Marketing Manager, Jazz, World & Popular Programs

Kate McDuffie Manager, Community & Family Programs

Jessica Reinhart Advertising & Promotions Manager

Amanda Swanson Marketing Analyst

Jesse Bruer Marketing & Promotions Associate

Andrew Hilgendorf Email Marketing Associate

Creative

Jaime Hotz Director

Sophie Weber Associate Director, Project & Digital Asset Management

Emily Herrington Lead Designer

Fattah Mulya Design Associate

Content

Frances Atkins Director

Gerald Virgil Senior Content Editor

Kristin Tobin Designer & Print Production Manager

Communications and Public Relations

Eileen Chambers Director

Hannah Sundwall Associate Director, Media Relations

Clay Baker Manager

Sales and Patron Experience

Joseph Fernicola III Director

Pavan Singh Manager, Patron Services

Brian Koenig Manager, Preferred Services

Robert Coad Manager, VIP Services

Joseph Garnett Senior Manager, Box Office

Aislinn Gagliardi Assistant Manager, Patron Services

Carmen Ringhiser Assistant Manager, Preferred Services

Fernando Vega Assistant Manager, Box Office

The Symphony Store

Tyler Holstrom Manager

Annie Grapentine Assistant Manager

DEVELOPMENT

Dale Hedding Vice President

Jeremiah Strickler Manager, Development Administration

Allison Szafranski Director, Leadership Gifts

John Heffernan, Tori Ramsay, Richard Riedl

Major Gifts Officers

Karen Bippus Director, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving

Kevin Gupana Associate Director, Giving, Educational and Engagement Programs

Victoria Barbarji Associate Director, Campaigns and Strategic Giving

Brian Nelson Manager, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving

Institutional Advancement

Susan Green Director, Foundation & Government Relations

Nick Magnone Director, Corporate Development

Mary Grace Corrigan Manager, Grants & Institutional Giving

Donor Engagement and Development Operations

Liz Heinitz Senior Director, Development

Lisa McDaniel Director, Donor Engagement

Alyssa Hagen Associate Director, Donor & Development Services

Kimberly Duffy Associate Director, Donor Engagement

Jocelyn Weberg Senior Manager, Annual Giving

Jamie Forssander, Brent Taghap Managers, Donor Engagement

Jeremiah Pickett Manager, Governing Member Gifts

Hope Oester Prospect & Donor

Research Specialist

Bri Baiza, Victoria Menendez Coordinators, Donor Services

Casey Bowman Coordinator, Development Communications

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION GOVERNING MEMBERS

The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, founded in 1894. Its support funds the CSOA’s artistic excellence and community engagement. In return, members enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition. For more information, please contact 312-294-3337 or governingmembers@cso.org.

GOVERNING MEMBERS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Merrill Blau Chair

Charles Emmons, Jr.

Immediate Past Chair

Judy Blau Vice Chair of Member Engagement

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Vice Chair of the Annual Fund

Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership

GOVERNING MEMBERS

Anonymous (8)

Dora J. Aalbregtse

Floyd Abramson

Ms. Patti Acurio

Ayana Akpan

Fraida Aland

Sandra Allen

Gary Allie

Robert Alsaker

Cat Anderson

Megan P. Anderson

Dr. Edward Applebaum

David Arch

Dr. Kent Armbruster

Dr. Carey August

Hillary August

Susan Baird

Ms. Judith Barnard

Merrill Barnes

Peter Barrett †

Roberta Barron

Roger Baskes

Ms. Sandra Bass

Cynthia Bates

Deborah Baughman

Robert H. Baum

Patricia Bayerlein

Mrs. Robert A. Beatty

Daniel Bedford

Kirsten Bedway

Gail Eisenhart Belytschko

Edward H. Bennett III

Meta S. Berger

D. Theodore Berghorst

Ann Berlin

Phyllis Berlin

Mr. William E. Bible

Mrs. Arthur A. Billings

Joyce Black

Dianne Blanco

Judy Blau

Merrill Blau

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Ann Blickensderfer

† Deceased

Terry Boden

Fred Boelter

Peter Borich

Mrs. Suzanne Borland

James G. Borovsky

Adam Bossov

Janet S. Boyer

John D. Bramsen

Ms. Jill Brennan

Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Sue Brubaker

Mrs. Patricia M. Bryan

Gilda Buchbinder

Rosemarie Buntrock

Elizabeth Nolan Buzard

Ms. Lutgart Calcote

Thomas Campbell

Ms. Vera Capp

Wendy Alders Cartland

Mrs. William C. Childs

Linton J. Childs

Frank Cicero, Jr.

Patricia A. Clickener

Mitchell Cobey

Jean M. Cocozza

Carol Cohen

Robin Tennant Colburn

Mrs. Jane B. Colman

Eileen Conaghan

Dr. Thomas H. Conner

Ms. Cecilia Conrad

Beverly Ann Conroy

Taylor Corbitt

Jenny L. Corley

Nancy Corral

Ms. Sarah Crane

Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven

Mr. Richard Cremieux

R. Bert Crossland

Rebecca E. Crown

Daniel R. Cyganowski

Catherine Daniels

Mrs. Robert J. Darnall

Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta †

Frank Davis III

Roxanne Decyk

Mary Dedinsky

Nancy Dehmlow

Mrs. Suzanne Demirjian

Duane M. DesParte

Janet Wood Diederichs

Doug Donenfeld

Mrs. William F. Dooley

Phyllis Dougherty

Sara L. Downey

Ms. Ann Drake

David Dranove

Robert Duggan

Mimi Duginger

Mr. Frank A. Dusek, CPA

Mrs. David P. Earle III

Eric Easterberg and Cindy Pan

Judge Frank H. Easterbrook

Mrs. Dorne Eastwood

Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Louis M. Ebling III

Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten

Jon Ekdahl

Kathleen H. Elliott

Charles Emmons, Jr.

Scott Enloe

Dr. James Ertle

William Escamilla

Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri

Neil Fackler

Melissa Sage Fadim

Jeffrey Farbman

Mr. Don Fehrs

Steven Felsenthal

Signe Ferguson

Hector Ferral, M.D.

Ms. Constance M. Filling

Mr. Daniel Fischel

Jenny Fischer

Henry Fogel

Mrs. John D. Foster

David S. Fox

Dr. Lee Francis

Anne Fraumann

Williard Fraumann

Mr. Paul E. Freehling

Mitzi Freidheim

Marjorie Friedman Heyman

Malcolm M. Gaynor

Robert D. Gecht

Frank Gelber

Mrs. Lynn Gendleman

Dr. Mark Gendleman

Rabbi Gary S. Gerson

Dr. Bernardino Ghetti

Karen Gianfrancisco

Ellen Gignilliat

Mr. James J. Glasser †

Madeleine Glossberg

Mrs. Judy Goldberg

Mrs. Mary Anne Goldberg

Anne Goldstein

Jerry A. Goldstone

Mary Goodkind

Dr. Alexia Gordon

Mr. Michael D. Gordon

Donald J. Gralen

Ruth Grant

Mrs. Hanna H. Gray

Mary L. Gray

Dana Green Clancy

Freddi L. Greenberg

Delta A. Greene

Joyce Greening

Dr. Jerri Greer

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

Kendall Griffith

Jerome J. Groen

Jacalyn Gronek

John P. Grube

James P. Grusecki

Dongqi Guo

Anastasia Gutting

Lynne R. Haarlow

Joan M. Hall

Dr. Howard Halpern

Mrs. Richard C. Halpern

Anne Marcus Hamada

Josephine Hammer

Joel L. Handelman

John Hard

Dr. Dane Hassani

James W. Haugh

Thomas Haynes

James Heckman

Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).

Mrs. Patricia Herrmann Heestand

Marilyn P. Helmholz

Richard H. Helmholz

Dr. Arthur L. Herbst

Jeffrey W. Hesse

Konstanze L. Hickey

Thea Flaum Hill

Dr. Richard Hirschmann

Suzanne Hoffman

Anne Hokin

Wayne J. Holman III

Fred E. Holubow †

Mr. James Holzhauer

Carol Honigberg

Janice L. Honigberg

Mrs. Nancy A. Horner

Mrs. Arnold Horween

Frances G. Horwich

Dr. Mary L. Houston

Harry Hunderman

Patricia J. Hurley

Michael Huston

Barbara Ann Huyler

Ms. Sandra Ihm

Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs

Dr. Todd Janus

John Jawor

Ms. Justine Jentes

Brian Johnson

George E. Johnson

Raymonda Johnson

Ronald B. Johnson

Dr. Patricia Collins Jones

Edward T. Joyce

Mrs. Carol K. Kaplan †

Claudia Norris Kapnick

Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin

Barry D. Kaufman

Kenneth Kaufman

Marie Kaufman

Don Kaul

Molly Keller

Jonathan Kemper

Nancy Kempf

Elizabeth I. Keyser

Leslie Kiesel

Emmy King

Susan Kiphart

Carol Kipperman

Dr. Leonard Klein

Dr. Elaine H. Klemen

Carol Evans Klenk

Mrs. Janet Knauff

Mr. Henry L. Kohn

Evangel A. Kokkino

Dr. Mark Kozloff

Dr. Michael Krco

Eldon Kreider

David Kreisman

MaryBeth Kretz

Dr. Vinay Kumar

Mr. Rubin Kuznitsky

Mr. John LaBarbera

Dr. Lynda Lane

Frederick and Virginia Langrehr

Stephen and Maria Lans

William J. Lawlor III

Sunhee Lee

Dr. Anu Leemann

Dean Leff

Jonathon Leik

Sheila Fields Leiter

Jeffrey Lennard

Zafra Lerman

Jerrold Levine

Laurence H. Levine

Mrs. Bernard Leviton

Gregory M. Lewis

Carolyn Lickerman

Mrs. Paul Lieberman

Jane Loeb

Gabrielle Long

Amy Lubin

Anna Lysakowski

Carol MacArthur

Mrs. Duncan MacLean

Jacen Maleck

Dr. Michael S. Maling

Sharon L. Manuel

David A. Marshall

Judith Partipilo Marth

Patrick A. Martin

Ryan Martin

BeLinda I. Mathie

Charles McCall

Scott McCue

Ann Pickard McDermott

Dr. James L. McGee

Dr. John P. McGee †

Mrs. Lester McKeever

John A. McKenna

Mrs. Peter McKinney

James Edward McPherson

Sheila Medvin

Mr. Paul Meister

Dr. Ellen Mendelson

Mara Mills Barker

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

David H. Moscow

John H. Mugge

Daniel R. Murray

Mr. Stuart C. Nathan

Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr.

Edward A. Nieminen

Dr. Zehava L. Noah

Kenneth R. Norgan

Martha C. Nussbaum

William A. Obenshain

Shelley Ochab

Maria Ochs

Mrs. James J. O’Connor

Eric Oesterle

Wallace Olliver

Mrs. Katherine Olson

Joy O’Malley

Michael Oman

Kathleen Field Orr

Mr. Gerald A. Ostermann

James J. O’Sullivan, Jr.

Bruce L. Ottley

Pamela Papas

Mr. Bruno A. Pasquinell

Joseph Paszczyk

Mr. Timothy J. Patenode

Robert J. Patterson, Jr.

Mr. Michael Payette

Mrs. Richard S. Pepper †

Jean E. Perkins

Mr. Michael A. Perlstein

Bonnie Perry

Dr. William Peruzzi

Robert C. Peterson

Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.

Sue N. Pick †

Betsey N. Pinkert

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

Harvey R. Plonsker

Mr. John F. Podjasek, III

Andrew Porte

Charlene H. Posner

Stephen Potter

Carol Prins

Elizabeth H. Pritchard

Maridee Quanbeck

Stephen K. Racker

Mrs. Lynda Rahal

Diana Mendley Rauner

Susan Regenstein

Mari Yamamoto Regnier

Mary Thomson Renner

Hilda Richards

Burton R. Rissman

Charles T. Rivkin

Carol Roberts

Mr. John H. Roberts

William Roberts

David Robin

Dr. Diana Robin

Chauncey H. Robinson

Bob Rogers

Kevin M. Rooney

Harry J. Roper

Saul Rosen

Sheli Z. Rosenberg

Dr. Ricardo T. Rosenkranz

Michael Rosenthal

Doris Roskin

Lisa Ross

Jean Rothbarth

Maija Rothenberg

Helen Rubenstein

Roberta H. Rubin

Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz

Sandra K. Rusnak

David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg

Richard O. Ryan

Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan

Dr. Christine Rydel

Norman K. Sackar

Anthony Saineghi

Mr. Agustin G. Sanz

Inez Saunders

Libby Savner

Karla Scherer

David M. Schiffman

Judith Feigon Schiffman

Rosa Schloss

Al Schriesheim

Elizabeth Schroeder

Donald L. Schwartz

Susan H. Schwartz

Dr. Penny Bender Sebring

Chandra Sekhar

Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior

Ilene W. Shaw

Pam Sheffield

James C. Sheinin, M.D.

Richard W. Shepro

Jessie Shih

Junia Shlaustas

Caroline Orzac Shoenberger

Stuart Shulruff

Adele Simmons

Linda Simon

Mr. Larry Simpson

Craig Sirles

Miyam Slater

Christine A. Slivon

Valerie Slotnick

Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.

Charles F. Smith

Louise K. Smith

Mary Ann Smith

Stephen R. Smith

Mrs. Ralph Smykal

Naomi Pollock and David Sneider

Diane Snyder

Kimberly Snyder

Kathleen Solaro

Ms. Elysia M. Solomon

Dr. Stuart Sondheimer

Orli Staley

William D. Staley

Helena Stancikas

Grace Stanek

Ms. Denise M. Stauder

Leonidas Stefanos

Penelope Steiner

Mrs. Richard J. Stern

Liz Stiffel

Mr. John Stover

Mary Stowell

Lawrence E. Strickling

Patricia Study

Cheryl Sturm

BISCO Foundation

Mrs. Robert Szalay

Mr. Gregory Taubeneck

Chris Thomas

James E. Thompson

Dr. Robert Thomson

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

Joan Thron

David Timm

Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr.

William R. Tobey, Jr. †

Bruce Tranen †

James M. (Mack) Trapp

John T. Travers

David Trushin

Dr. David A. Turner

Robert W. Turner

Judy Tuszynski

Janet Underwood

Zalman Usiskin

Mrs. James D. Vail III

John Van Horn

Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice

Thomas D. Vander Veen

Jennifer Vianello

Dr. Michael Viglione

Catherine M. Villinski

Charles Vincent

Mr. Christian Vinyard

Theodore Wachs

Mark A. Wagner

Beth Ann Waite

Bernard T. Wall

Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Jeffrey J. Webb

Mrs. Jacob Weglarz

Chickie Weisbard

Richard Weiss

Robert G. Weiss

Dr. Marc Weissbluth

Rebecca West

Carmen Wheatcroft

Leah Williams

M.L. Winburn

Peter Wolf

Laura Woll

Joseph Wolnski

Dr. Hak Yui Wong

Courtenay R. Wood

Michael H. Woolever

Ms. Debbie Wright

Nancy G. Wulfers

Ronald Yonover

Owen Youngman

Priscilla Yu

David J. Zampa

Dr. John P. Zaremba

Karen Zupko

For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.

† Deceased

Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).

Corporate Partners

MAESTRO RESIDENCY PRESENTER Bank of America

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO

United Airlines

$100,000–$199,999

Abbott

Abbott Fund

Allstate Insurance Company

CIBC Private Wealth

Citadel and Citadel Securities

ITW

Northern Trust

$50,000–$99,999

Anonymous (1)

BMO

DIOR

Jenner & Block LLP

PNC Bank

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

$25,000–$49,999

AAR CORP.

Altair Advisers LLC

Anonymous (1)

Kinder Morgan

Latham & Watkins LLP

Mayer Brown LLP

S&C Electric Company Fund

Sidley Austin LLP

Walgreens

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Winston & Strawn LLP

$10,000–$24,999

ADM

Deloitte

Gage Hospitality Group

GCM Grosvenor

Goldman Sachs & Co.

Huron Consulting Group

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

McGuireWoods LLP

McKinsey & Company

Millennium Garages

Peoples Gas Community Fund

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

TravTours, Inc.

Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

$5,000–$9,999

Ariel Investments

Baird

Dentons

Fellowes, Inc.

Global Verification Network

Italian Village Restaurants

Mars Snacking

Scott Byron & Co., Inc.

Segal Consulting

The Law Offices of Jonathan N. Sherwell

Starshak & Winzenburg

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Weiss Financial

$1,000–$4,999

American Agricultural Insurance Company

Amsted Industries Incorporated

AspireUp

Central Building & Preservation L.P.

Chicago Blackhawks Foundation

DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.

Nascar Events and Entertainment, LLC

Parkway Elevators

Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation

Show Services

Smith Hulsey & Busey

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP

Foundations and Government Agencies

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Julius N. Frankel Foundation

JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation

Sargent Family Foundation

TAWANI Foundation

Zell Family Foundation

$50,000–$99,999

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

The Brinson Foundation

The Chicago Community Trust

The Clinton Family Fund

Robert and Joanne Crown Income

Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation

John R. Halligan Charitable Fund

Sally Mead Hands Foundation

Illinois Arts Council

National Endowment for the Arts

Polk Bros. Foundation

$25,000–$49,999

Crain-Maling Foundation

The Crown Family

Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation

Irving Harris Foundation

Bowman C. Lingle Trust

The Maval Foundation

Pritzker Traubert Foundation

Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation

$10,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Barker Welfare Foundation

Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation

The Buchanan Family Foundation

Darling Family Foundation

William M. Hales Foundation

Leslie Fund, Inc.

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation

The George L. Shields Foundation

$5,000–$9,999

The Allyn Foundation, Inc.

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Hoellen Family Foundation

Hunter Family Foundation

Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation

Kovler Family Foundation

E. Nakamichi Foundation

Dr. Scholl Foundation

$1,000–$4,999

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music

Geraldi Norton Foundation

Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation

Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust

Annual Support

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through December 2024. To learn more, please call Allison Szafranski Director, Leadership Gifts, at 312-294-3143.

$150,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous

Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin

Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel and Citadel Securities

Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation

Margot and Josef Lakonishok

The Negaunee Foundation

Megan and Steve Shebik

In honor and loving memory of Alice Welsh Skilling

Gene and Jean Stark

Zell Family Foundation

$100,000–$149,999

Anonymous (4)

Nancy Dehmlow

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Mr. & Ms. Lawrence Elman

Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim

James and Brenda Grusecki

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz

COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)

Ruth Ann and Neil K. Quinn Family

Ms. Cecelia Samans

SEMPRE

This fundraising initiative provides the secure footing needed to promote the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s preeminent role as a cultural icon showcasing musical brilliance, leadership, and innovation. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the generous donors who have shown tremendous support for this strategic initiative.

$20,000,000 AND ABOVE Zell Family Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation

$10,000,000–$19,999,999

The Grainger Foundation TAWANI Foundation

$5,000,000–$9,999,999

Anonymous

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation

Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz

$2,500,000–$4,999,999

Anonymous

Mary Louise Gorno

Estate of Esther G. Klatz

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Megan and Steve Shebik

Richard and Helen Thomas

$1,000,000–$2,499,999

Anonymous (3)

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Ann Blickensderfer and Roger Blickensderfer

Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Kay Bucksbaum

Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock

J. Douglas Donenfeld

Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Erika Gross

Estates of Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak

Jim † and Kay Mabie

Estate of Gloria Miner

The Oberman Family Charitable Trust

Cathy and Bill Osborn

Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger

Judith and Paul Tuszynski

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$500,000–$999,999

Patricia and Laurence Booth

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray

D & R Charitable Fund

The Davee Foundation

David and Janet Fox

Howard Gottlieb †

ITW

Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley

Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg

Betty W. Smykal*

Laura and Terrence Truax^

$250,000–$499,999

Ruth and Roger Anderson

Family Foundation

Wayne D. and Nancy M. Boberg

Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car

George and Minou Colis

Nancy Dehmlow

Mimi Duginger

Alice and Richard Godfrey

Jennifer Amler Goldstein, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein

Merle L. Jacob

Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman

James and Renée Metcalf

Estate of Donald V. Peck

Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Susan and Bob Wislow

Estate of Rita Zralek

$100,000–$249,999

Cynthia Bates* in honor of Kevin Rock

Merrill and Judy Blau

William A. and Anne Goldstein

Timothy and Joyce Greening*

John Hart and Carol Prins

Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson

Mr. † & Mrs. Paul R. Judy

Judy and Scott McCue

Estate of Donald Powell

Andra and Irwin Press

Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy

Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern

Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.

Thierer Family Foundation

Penny and John Van Horn

Craig and Bette Williams

Mr. Gifford Zimmerman

UP TO $100,000

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Sharon Angell^

Patricia Ames

Peter and Elise Barack

Mr. & Mrs.^ Christopher Barber

Gail Eisenhart Belytschko*

Ms. Elizabeth Berry^ and Mr. Philip S. Revzin

Lizbeth Branch^

Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor

Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Burlin

Ms. Vera Capp*

Dr. Thomas H. Conner*

Ms. Juli Crabtree^

Charles and Carol Emmons*

Judith E. Feldman^

Mrs. Donna Fleming^

Leo and Kim Flynn^

Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall

Robert D. Gecht

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab^

Mr. Graham C. Grady

Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris^

Helen Han^ and Dan Pan

Ms. Kyle Harvey^

The Heestand Foundation

Karen and Neil Kawashima

Ms. Geraldine Keefe

Anne Kern

Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn*

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson

Ms. Leah Laurie^

Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg

Ms. Mirjana Martich^ and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin*

Mr. David E. McNeel

James Edward McPherson*

Dr. Ellen Mendelson*

Mr. Robert Meeker

Dr. Sharon D. Michalove

John H. Mugge

Mr. Daniel R. Murray

Sarah and Wallace Oliver*

Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan*

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Charlene H. Posner*

Mary Rafferty^

Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel

Ms. Carol Roberts*

Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi

James S. Rostenberg

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †^

Mr. & Mrs.^ Michael Scholl

Susan H. Schwartz*

Ms. Courtney Shea^

Ms. Kim Shepherd^

Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons*

Ms. Lynn B. Singer^

Cheryl Sturm^ David and Beth Timm*

Dr. Catherine L. Webb*

Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung*

Ms. Janice Young

Ms. Karen Zupko*

*Commitment to the Governing Members Chair, a collective initiative to endow a revolving musician chair of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

^Commitment to the Women’s Board Guest Artist Endowment Fund, which will annually support the appearance of a guest artist, conductor, or composer.

† Deceased

$75,000–$99,999

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

John Hart and Carol Prins

Cathy and Bill Osborn

Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

$50,000–$74,999

Anonymous (2)

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV

Mrs. Janet R. Bauer

Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz

Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin

Kay Bucksbaum †

Dean L. and Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation

Ms. Sarah Crane

Dr. Eugene F. and Mrs. SallyAnn D. Fama

Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation

Frances and Franklin † Horwich

Mr. Jonathan K. Karoly

Ms. Geraldine Keefe

Judy and Scott McCue

Ms. Deborah K. McNeil

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †

Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation

Sidley Austin LLP

Michael and Linda Simon

Liz Stiffel

Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas

Ms. Beth Ann Waite

David and Marsha Woodhouse

$35,000–$49,999

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Ms. Kay Boehme

Mr. Roderick Branch

Mr. & Mrs. Johannes Burlin

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund

Mr. Philip Darling

Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation

Mr. Collier Hands

Ms. Renee Metcalf

Charles Morcom

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley

Ms. Martha C. Nussbaum

Margo and Michael Oberman

Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow

Walter and Kathleen Snodell

Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt

Mr. Gifford Zimmerman

$25,000–$34,999

Anonymous (2)

Nancy A. Abshire

Altair Advisers LLC

Sharon and Charles † Angell

Carey and Brett August

Peter and Elise Barack

Julie and Roger Baskes

Patricia and Laurence Booth

Robert J. Buford

Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray

Mr. & Dr. George Colis

Mrs. Barbara Flynn Currie

Mr. Stephen V. D’Amore

Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson

Ms. Ann Drake

Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood

Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil

Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.

Ellen and Paul Gignilliat

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

William A. and Anne Goldstein

Mary Louise Gorno

Howard L. Gottlieb † and Barbara G. Greis

Mr. Graham C. Grady

Ms. Helen Han

Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris

Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson

Mr. John Holmes

Janice L. Honigberg

Ronald B. Johnson

Karen and Neil Kawashima

Ms. Donna L. Kendall

Tom and Betsy Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson

Mr. Jason M. Laurie

Susan and Rick Levy

Mr. & Mrs. Vikram Luthar

Ms. Britt Miller

Daniel R. Murray

John D. † and Alexandra C. Nichols

Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation

Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation

Dr. Mohan Rao

Diana and Bruce Rauner

Susan Regenstein

Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch

Melissa and Joseph Root

Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi

Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy

Shure Charitable Trust

Bill and Orli Staley Foundation

Mary Stowell

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan

Thierer Family Foundation

TravTours, Inc.

Laura and Terrence Truax

Craig and Bette Williams

Susan and Bob Wislow

Ms. Ann Marie Wright

$20,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Peter † and Betsy Barrett

Tom and Dianne Campbell

Nancy and Bernard Dunkel

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe

Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Mary and Lionel Go

Richard and Alice Godfrey

Mary Winton Green

Halasyamani/Davis Family

Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman

Anne and John † Kern

Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family

Mr. † & Mrs. John Lillard

Mr. Philip Lumpkin

Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

D. Elizabeth Price

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro

Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung

Dr. Marylou Witz

Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation

$15,000–$19,999

Anonymous (4)

Fraida and Bob Aland

Mr. & Mrs. John Baldwin

Merrill and Judy Blau

Fred and Phoebe Boelter

Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Henry and Gilda Buchbinder

Robert D. Carone

Joyce Chelberg

Sue and Jim Colletti

Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford

John and Fran Edwardson

Anthony and Karin Gambell

Sue and Melvin Gray

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy

Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz

Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard

Mr. & Mrs. David Hilliard

Mrs. Janet Kanter †

Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Klein

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck

Stephen and Maria Lans

Ms. Betsy Levin

Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin

Mr. David E. McNeel

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

Edward and Gayla Nieminen

Kathleen Field Orr

Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli

Family Foundation

Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick

LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor

Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte

Andra and Irwin Press

Jerry Rose

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Penelope R. Steiner

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern

Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft

Penny and John Van Horn

Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs

$11,500–$14,999

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Ann and Richard Carr

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan

Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng

Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin

Jim † and Kay Mabie

The Osprey Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl

Leslie and Tom Silverstein

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson

Mr. Chris Thomas

Ksenia A. and Peter Turula

Ms. Judith Tuszynski

Caroline Foulke Wettersten

$7,500–$11,499

Anonymous (4)

Ms. Patti Acurio

Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein

Mr. Robert C. Austin and Dr. Kathryn C. Gamble

Ms. Judith Barnard

Mrs. Gail Belytschko

Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck

Arnie and Ann Berlin

Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin

Mr. † & Mrs. Dennis Black

Cassandra L. Book

Mr. & Mrs. John Borland

Adam Bossov

Janet S. Boyer

Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen

Ms. Danolda Brennan

Mr. Ray Capitanini

Patricia A. Clickener

Dr. Thomas H. Conner

Mr. Lawrence Corry

Rachel Cowen

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian

Mr. Marc DeMoss

Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley

Mimi Duginger

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle

Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan

Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

Charles and Carol Emmons

Mr. Fred Eychaner

Judith E. Feldman

Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr.

Ms. Hazel Fisher

David and Janet Fox

Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.

Robert D. Gecht

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone

Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon

Richard † and Mary L. Gray

Lynne R. Haarlow

Joan M. Hall

Mrs. Richard C. Halpern

John and Sally Hard

Pati and O.J. † Heestand

Janet Helman

Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson III

Fred † and Sandra Holubow

Tex and Susan Hull

Michael and Leigh Huston

Merle L. Jacob

Howard E. Jessen Family Trust

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller

Ms. Librada Killian

The King Family Foundation

Klein Family Giving Fund

Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk

Dr. June Koizumi

Mr. † & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek

Ms. Margaret Kuhajek

Mr. John LaBarbera

Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler

Sheila Fields Leiter

Mr. Jeffrey Lennard

Mr. Michael Leppen

Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation

Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman

Mrs. Gabrielle Long

Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

Judith Partipilo Marth

Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Sheila Medvin

Dr. Ellen Mendelson

Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor

Emilie Morphew, M.D.

David † and Dolores Nelson

Ms. Susan Norvich

Mr. Christopher A. O’Herlihy

Eric and Carolyn Oesterle

Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson

Jim O’Sullivan

Richard and Frances Penn

Sue N. Pick †

Mary and Joseph Plauché

Charlene H. Posner

Harper Reed

Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman

Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan

Mr. Agustin G. Sanz

Karla Scherer

David and Judy Schiffman

Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen

Joan and George Segal

Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil

Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar

Diana and Richard Senior

David and Judith L. Sensibar

The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation

Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho

Julia M. Simpson

Dr. Stuart Sondheimer, M.D. and Ms. Bonnie Lucas

Cheryl Sturm

Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.

Mr. † & Mrs. Michael Supera, in honor of

Helen Zell

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

John T. and Carrie M. Travers

Mr. Bill Tyree

Mr. David J. Varnerin

Rebecca West

M.L. Winburn

Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever

Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers

$4,500–$7,499

Anonymous (13)

Elaine and Floyd Abramson

Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker

Mrs. Evelyn Alter

Cat Anderson

Geoffrey A. Anderson

Megan P. and John L. Anderson

Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews

Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei

David and Suzanne Arch

Dr. & Mrs. Kent Armbruster

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Baird

Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes

Joseph Bartush

Sandra Bass

Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen

Cynthia Bates and Kevin Rock †

Deborah Baughman

Ms. Patricia Bayerlein

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Bedford

Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler

Mr. Ken Belcher

Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst

Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible

Mrs. Arthur A. Billings

Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof

Jim † and Dianne Blanco

Ann Blickensderfer

Kovler Family Foundation

Ms. Terry Boden

Mr. Edward Boehm III

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Borich

Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky

Mr. Donald Bouseman

Ms. Jill Brennan

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Breu

Cindy Marie Brito and Anthony Costello

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum

Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard

Ms. Lutgart Calcote

Ms. Vera Capp

David † and Orit Carpenter

Wendy Alders Cartland

Mia Celano and Noel Dunn

Mr. & Mrs. Candelario Celio

Margery al Chalabi

Mr. James Chamberlain

Linton J. Childs

Ms. Jue H. Chung

Jan and Frank † Cicero, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy

Nancy J. Clawson

Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali

Ms. Jean Cocozza

David Colburn

Jane B. Colman

E. and V. Combs Foundation

Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy

Mrs. Taylor Corbitt and Mr. Christopher Sweeney

Jenny L. Corley in memory of Dr. W. Gene Corley

Nancy R. Corral

Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux

R. Bert Crossland

Daniel Cyganowski and Judith Metzger

Dr. † & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Mr. Frank R. Davis III

Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation

Mary Dedinsky and William Carlisle Herbert

Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider

Owen Deutsch and Rona Talcott

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph DiBello

Janet Wood Diederichs

Mr. William Dietz, Jr.

Mr. Doug Donenfeld

Ms. Phyllis Dougherty

David and Deborah Dranove

Ingrid and Richard Dubberke

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek

Judge Frank Easterbrook

Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Ms. Paula Ebert

Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten

Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp

Thomas Eller

Mr. Matthew Ellison

Mr. & Mrs. Victor Elting III

Scott and Lenore Enloe

Dr. & Mrs. † James Ertle

William Escamilla

Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D.

Neil Fackler

Tarek and Ann Fadel

Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein

Steven and Carol Felsenthal

Hector Ferral, M.D.

John and Geraldine Fiedler

Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad

Mr. Conrad Fischer

Dean and Jenny Fischer

Thea Flaum/Hill Foundation

Leo and Kim Flynn

Mrs. John D. Foster

Lee Francis and Michelle Gittler

Arthur L. Frank, M.D.

Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann

Susan and Paul Freehling

Judy and Mickey Gaynor

Sandy and Frank Gelber

Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson

Bernardino and Caterina Ghetti

Camillo and Arlene Ghiron

Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco

Mr. † & Mrs. James J. Glasser

Judy and Bill Goldberg

Lyn Goldstein

Robert and Marcia Goltermann

Mary and Michael Goodkind

Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon

Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French

Donald J. Gralen

Mr. Daniel Gray

Hanna H. Gray

Ms. Freddi Greenberg

Thomas † and Delta Greene

Timothy and Joyce Greening

Dr. Jerri E. Greer

Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen

Jacalyn Gronek

Ann and John Grube

Mr. Dongqi Guo

Anastasia and Gary † Gutting

Stephanie and Howard Halpern

Anne Marcus Hamada

Ronald and Diane Hamburger

Ms. Josephine Hammer

Mrs. John M. Hartigan

Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan

Hassani Family Foundation

James W. Haugh

Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes

James and Lynne † Heckman

Mr. Hirad Hedayat

Mr. Dale C. Hedding

Scott Helm

Ms. Dawn E. Helwig

Dr. † & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst

Marjorie Friedman Heyman

The Hickey Family Foundation

William B. Hinchliff

Richard † and Joanne Hoffman

Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith †

James and Eileen Holzhauer

Mr † & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg

James † and Mary Houston

Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton

Ms. Patricia Hurley

Frances and Phillip Huscher

Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins

Mr. & Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu

Ian and Valerie Jacobs

Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs

Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin

Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus

Mr. John Jawor

Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna

Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson

Dr. & Mrs. Hulon Johnson

Dr. Patricia Collins Jones

Mr. † & Mrs. Saul Kadin

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation

Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck

Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans

Barry D. Kaufman

Larry † and Marie Kaufman

Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul

Peter and Stephanie Keehn

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser

Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel

Mr. Thomas Kmetko

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff

Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin

Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn

Evangel Kokkino and Francesca Johns

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff

Dr. Michael Krco

Eldon and Patricia Kreider

Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar

Dr. Lynda Lane

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Langrehr

Mr. William Lawlor, III

Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann

Dean and Rebecca Leff

Ms. Zafra Lerman

Mr. Jerrold Levine

Mary and Laurence Levine

Averill and Bernard † Leviton

Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek

Mr. † & Mrs. Howard Lickerman

Jane and Peter † Loeb

The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust

Dr. Anna Lysakowski

Jacen Maleck

Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling

Francine R. Manilow

Sharon L. Manuel

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin

Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez

Dr. & Mrs. Walter Massey

Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag

Charles and Clara McCall

Ann Pickard McDermott

Dr. & Mrs. James McGee

Dr. † & Mrs. John McGee II

Bill McIntosh

John and Etta McKenna

Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney

James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray †

Leoni and Bill McVey

Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.

Jim and Ginger Meyer

Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad

Paul and Robert Barker Foundation

Mr. Jeremiah Moon

Stephen and Rumi Morales

Mrs. Frank Morrissey

David H. Moscow

Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek

John H. Mugge

Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl

Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman

Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar

Kenneth R. Norgan

Mark and Gloria Nusbaum

Bill and Penny Obenshain

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs

Sarah and Wallace Oliver

John and Joy O’Malley

Mr. Michael Oman and Mrs. Patricia Wakeley

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Paszczyk

Mr. Timothy J. Patenode

Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.

Mr. Michael Payette

Dr. & Mrs. † Ray Pensinger

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Dr. William Peruzzi

Mr. Robert Peterson

Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.

Mr. Paul Phillips, Jr. † and Mr. Lloyd Palmiter

Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert

Lee Ann and Savit Pirl

Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker

Stephen and Ann Suker Potter

Mrs. Mary Jo Potts and Mr. Jim Selsor

John and Merry Ann Pratt

Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard

Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett

Mrs. & Mr. Albert E. Pyott

Mrs. Lynda Rahal

Dr. Hilda Richards

Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards

Charles and Marilynn Rivkin

Ms. Carol Roberts

William and Cheryl Roberts

Dr. Diana Robin

Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen

Mr. John W. Rogers, Jr.

Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio

Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper

Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen

Michael Rosenthal

D.D. Roskin

Ms. Lisa Ross

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi

Maija Rothenberg

Helen and Marc Rubenstein

Ms. Roberta H. Rubin

Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz

Tina and Buzz Ruttenburg

Anthony Saineghi

Mr. David Sandfort

Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht

Mr † & Mrs. Nathan Schloss

Susan H. Schwartz

Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz

Ruth Grant and Howard Schwartz

Scott Byron & Co.

Ms. Mary Beth Shea

Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin

Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts

Mrs. Junia Shlaustas

Mr. & Ms. Alan Shoenberger

Stuart and Leslie Shulruff

Alan and Margaret Silberman

Ms. Ann Silberman

Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons

Mr. Larry Simpson

Lynn B. Singer

Craig Sirles

Valerie Slotnick

Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.

Louise K. Smith

Mary Ann Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith

Naomi Pollock and David Sneider

James and Diane Snyder

In Memory of Timothy Soleiman

Elysia M. Solomon

Carol S. Sonnenschein

Mrs. Linda Spain

Robert and Emily Spoerri

Helena Stancikas

Ms. Denise Stauder

Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos

Dr. Dusan Stefoski, M.D. and Mr. Craig Savage

Carol D. Stein

Roger † and Susan Stone Family Foundation

Ms. Donna L. Strand

Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans

Mr. Gary Stucka

Ms. Minsook Suh

Mr. Mitchell Suter and Ms. Hillary August

Mr. James Thompson

David and Beth Timm

Bill and Anne Tobey

Ayana Tomeka

Bruce † and Jan Tranen

James M. and Carol Trapp

Ms. Joanne Tremulis

Joan and David Trushin

Dr. & Mrs. David Turner

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner

Henry † and Janet Underwood

Zalman and Karen Usiskin

Mr. Peter Vale

Jim and Cindy Valtman

Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D.

Frances S. Vandervoort

Mr. † & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice

Mr. James Vardiman

Henrietta Vepstas

Ms. Jennifer Vianello

Dr. Michael Viglione

Catherine M. Villinski

Charles Vincent

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner

Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall

Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz

Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman

Mr. Louis Weiss

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss

Marc Weissbluth in memory of Linda Weissbluth

Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft

Mr. Paul R. Wiggin

Peter and Marlee Wolf

Ms. Lois Wolff

Michael † and Laura Woll

Mr. Joseph Wolnski and Ms. Jane Christino

Dr. Hak Wong

Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr.

Ms. Debbie Wright

Mari Yamamoto Regnier

Ms. Janice Young

Owen and Linda Youngman

David and Eileen Zampa

Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba

Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross

Ms. Karen Zupko

$3,500–$4,499

Anonymous

Ms. Rene Alphonse

Ms. Doris Angell

Mrs. Barbara Asner

Ms. Marlene Bach

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block

Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener

Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr

Ms. Anne Chien

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clusen

Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel

Joe and Judy Cosenza

Mr. † & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall

Ms. Louise Dixon

Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III

Ms. Sarah Good

Hill and Cheryl Hammock

Dr. Robert A. Harris

Ms. Anna Hertsberg

Jess D. Jordan

Ms. JoAnn Joyce

Ms. Ethelle Katz

Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt

Mr. Philip Lesser

Mr. Laurance C. Martin

Margaret and Michael McCoy

Ms. Claretta Meier

Miss Marija Michalczyk

Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.

Noteable Notes Music Academy/ Wheaton, IL

Mr. Bruce Oltman

Mrs. Ann Oros

Mr. Bruce Ottley

Rita Petretti

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker

Mary Rafferty

Dorothy V. Ramm

Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig

Gerald and Barbara Schultz

Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields

Carolyn M. Short

Jack and Barbara Simon

Joel and Beth Spenadel

Laurence and Caryn Straus

Eric Vaang

Hilary and Barry Weinstein

Abby and Glen Weisberg

Ms. Mary Zeltmann

Ms. Camille Zientek

Mike Zimmerman

$2,500–$3,499 Anonymous (4)

Mr. Frank Ackerman

Dr. † & Mrs. Carl H. Albright

Ms. Sharon Alter

Catherine Baker and Timothy Kent

Connor Ballgae

Larry and Sarah Barden

Ms. Barbara Barzansky

Meta S. and Ronald † Berger

Family Foundation

Mr. James Borkman

Chris Brezil

Ms. Susan Bridge

Ms. Rosalind Britton

Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman

Linda S. Buckley

Mr. & Mrs. John Butler

Curtis W. Cassel

Ms. Margaret Chaplan †

Lisa Chessare

Ms. Melinda Cheung

Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes

Mr. Robert Cook

Ms. Juli Crabtree

Mr. John Crosby

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker

Mr. Matthew Denk

Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung

Mr. Stephen Diamond

Mrs. Kelli Gardner Emery † and Mr. Peter Emery

Debra Fienberg

Sandra E. Fienberg

Mrs. Donna Fleming

Ms. Nona Flores

Ms. Irene Fox

Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson

Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III

James and Rebecca Gaebe

Jane Gaines and Andy Kenoe

Ms. Nancy Garfien

Mr. Stanford Goldblatt

Isabelle Goossen

Merle Gordon

Dr. & Mrs. Alan Graham

Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory

Mrs. & Mr. Christina Greviskes

Mr. Bruce G. Amsterdam and Ms. Ilene K. Grossman

Mr. Adam Grymkowski

Suzanne Hales

Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman

Dr. Dominic Harris

Grant P. Haugen

Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick

Alex Hemmer

Ms. Nancy Hess

James and Megan Hinchsliff

Ms. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph Doherty

Dr. & Mrs. James Holland

Mr. Stephen Holmes

Mr. & Mrs. R. Howell, Jr.

Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin

Joshua and Faye Jacobs

Egill and Ruth Jacobsen

Ronald E. Jacquart

Ms. Stephanie Jones

Ms. Kathleen Jordan

Daniel P. and Barbara J. Justus

Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan

Mr. Matthew W. Kasper

Mr. Thomas Lad

Ms. Pamela Larsen

Jules M. Laser

Ms. Leah Laurie

Dona Le Blanc

Mr. Jonathon Leik

Sherry and Mel Lopata

Ronald and Carlotta Lucchesi

Ms. Janice Magnuson

Mr. Timothy Marshall

Dr & Mrs. Daniel Mass

Igor and Olga Matlin

Mr. Donald P. Maves

Ms. Marilyn Mccoy

Rosa and Peter McCullagh

Mr. Charles McKee

Mr. Zarin Mehta

Ms. Maryrose Murphy

Mr. Robert Napier

Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.

Mrs. Janis Notz

Dr. Linda Novak

Marjory Oliker

Peg Gould and Howard Owen

Kingsley Perkins †

Mrs. Victorina Peterson

Mr. † & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn

Richard Phillips

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper

Howard and Sheila Pizer

Ms. Rebecca Preston

Dr. Susan Rabe

Ms. Constance Rajala

Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel

Mr. Jeffrey Rappin

Dr. Jennifer Reenan

Patricia Richter

Dr. Anita Robbins

Charles Peter Rogers M.D.

Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross

Mrs. Martha Sabransky † and Dr. Paul Glickman

Rita † and Norman Sackar

JF Sarwark M.D.

Michael and Judith Sawyier

Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin

Shirley and John † Schlossman

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Dr. Lemuel Shaffer

Mary and Charles M. † Shea

Christine A. Slivon

Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein

Juliet and Bram Spector

Mr. Michael Sprinker

Sue Stevens

Carole Stone and Arthur Susman

In memory of Marjorie Stone

Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.

Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft

Mr. Yuki and Mrs. Kazusa Tanemura

Ms. Alison Thomas

Margaret Trumbull

Mr. John Turner

Mr. & Mrs. Allan Vagner

Judge Eugene Wedoff

Cynthia and Ben Weese

Ms. Ellen Werner

Mr. Howard White

Mr. Eric Wicks † and Ms. Linda Baker

Robert J. Wilczek † and Shirley Pfenning

Jennifer D. Williams

Mr. Kenneth Witkowski

Barbara and Steven Wolf

Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Negaunee Music Institute connects individuals and communities to the extraordinary musical resources of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The following donors are gratefully acknowledged for making a gift in support of these educational and engagement programs. To make a gift or learn more, please contact Kevin Gupana, Associate Director of Giving, Educational and Engagement Programs, 312-294-3156.

$150,000 AND ABOVE

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation

$100,000–$149,999

Abbott Fund

Allstate Insurance Company

Megan and Steve Shebik

$75,000–$99,999

John Hart and Carol Prins

Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation

$50,000–$74,999

Anonymous

BMO

Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Judy and Scott McCue

Ms. Deborah K. McNeil

Polk Bros. Foundation

Michael and Linda Simon

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

$35,000–$49,999

Bowman C. Lingle Trust

National Endowment for the Arts

Margo and Michael Oberman

$25,000–$34,999

Anonymous

Carey and Brett August

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Crain-Maling Foundation

Nancy Dehmlow

Kinder Morgan

The Maval Foundation

Ms. Cecelia Samans

Shure Charitable Trust

Gene and Jean Stark

$20,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Mary and Lionel Go

Halasyamani/Davis Family

Illinois Arts Council Agency

Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family

Mr. Philip Lumpkin

PNC

D. Elizabeth Price

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation

The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.

Dr. Marylou Witz

$15,000–$19,999

Nancy A. Abshire

Mr. & Mrs. John Baldwin

Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.

Sue and Jim Colletti

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

$11,5000–$14,999

Barker Welfare Foundation

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan

Nancy and Bernard Dunkel

Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation

Ksenia A. and Peter Turula

$7,500–$11,499

Anonymous

Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz

Fred and Phoebe Boelter

The Buchanan Family Foundation

Mr. Lawrence Corry

Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Ellen and Paul Gignilliat

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Mary Winton Green

The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

Ms. Susan Norvich

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

Mary and Joseph Plauché

Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt

Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs

$4,500–$7,499

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Joseph Bartush

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

Ann and Richard Carr

Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

CIBC

Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford

Tarek and Ann Fadel

Ms. Dawn E. Helwig

Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans

Dr. June Koizumi

Leoni and Bill McVey

Jim and Ginger Meyer

Stephen and Rumi Morales

Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek

David † and Dolores Nelson

The Osprey Foundation

Lee Ann and Savit Pirl

Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards

Dr. Scholl Foundation

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro

Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis

Laura and Terrence Truax

Mr. Paul R. Wiggin

$3,500–$4,499

Anonymous (2)

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clusen

Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng

Charles and Carol Emmons

Judith E. Feldman

Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Mr. Bruce Oltman

$2,500–$3,499

Anonymous

David and Suzanne Arch

Adam Bossov

Ms. Danolda Brennan

Ms. Rosalind Britton

Mr. Ray Capitanini

Lisa Chessare

Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes

Patricia A. Clickener

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker

David and Janet Fox

Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick

William B. Hinchliff

Michael and Leigh Huston

Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin

Ronald E. Jacquart

Ms. Stephanie Jones

Dr. Linda Novak

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker

Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen

Mr. David Sandfort

Gerald and Barbara Schultz

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza

Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho

Carol S. Sonnenschein

Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein

Mr. Peter Vale

Mr. Kenneth Witkowski

Ms. Camille Zientek

ENDOWED FUNDS

Anonymous (5)

Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund

Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund

Civic Orchestra Chamber Access Fund

The Davee Foundation

Frank Family Fund

Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund

Jennifer Amler Goldstein Fund, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein

Mary Winton Green

John Hart and Carol Prins Fund for Access

William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund

Richard A. Heise

Julian Family Foundation Fund

The Kapnick Family

Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Chair Fund

The Malott Family School Concerts Fund

Eloise W. Martin Endowed Funds

Murley Family Fund

The Negaunee Foundation

Margo and Michael Oberman Community Access Fund

Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends

Helen Regenstein Guest Conductor Fund

Edward F. Schmidt Family Fund

Shebik Community Engagement

Programs Fund

The Wallace Foundation

Zell Family Foundation

Theodore Thomas Society

Mary Louise Gorno Chair

Listed below are generous donors who have made commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their wills, trusts, and other estate plans, including life-income arrangements, as of January 2025. The Society honors their generosity, which helps to ensure the long-term financial stability and artistic excellence of the CSOA. To learn more, please contact Brian Nelson, Manager of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3192.

STRADIVARIAN ASSOCIATES

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individuals for generously establishing a legacy bequest plan of $100,000 or more to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

Anonymous (11)

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Lisa J. Adelstein

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Evy Johansen Alsaker

Robert A. Alsaker

Geoffrey A. Anderson

Louise E. Anderson

Brett and Carey August

Marlene Bach

Dr. Jeff Bale

Mr. Neal Ball

Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba

Sally J. Becker

Marlys A. Beider

Dr. C. Bekerman

Martha Bell

Mike and Donna Bell

Julie Ann Benson

K. Richard and Patricia M. Berlet

Merrill and Judy Blau

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Ann Blickensderfer

Roger Blickensderfer

Wayne D. and Nancy M. Boberg

Danolda Brennan

Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr.

Mitchell J. Brown

Marion A. Cameron-Gray

Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong

Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car

Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark

Patricia A. Clickener

Judith and Stephen F. Condren

Anita Crocus

David L. Curry

J. Douglas Donenfeld

Mimi Duginger

Harry and Jean Eisenman

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Dr. Marilyn Ezri

Tarek and Ann Fadel

David S. and Janet M. Fox

Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.

Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson

Mary J. and Ronald P. Frelk

Penny and John Freund

Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat

Merle Gordon

Mary Louise Gorno

Dr. & Mrs. David Granato

Mary L. Gray

Mary Winton Green

Dr. Jon Brian Greis

John and Patricia Hamilton

Mr. Michael Hansen and Ms. Nancy Randa

John Hart and Carol Prins

Mr. William P. Hauworth II

Thomas and Linda Heagy

Mr. R.H. Helmholz

Marcia M. Hochberg

Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder

Concordia Hoffmann

Stephen D. and Catherine N. Holmes

Frank and Helen Holt

Mark and Elizabeth Hurley

Frances and Phillip Huscher

Merle L. Jacob

Ms. Darlene Johnson

Ronald B. Johnson

Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson

Mary Ann Judy

Lori Julian

Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan

Howard Kaspin

James Kemmerer

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Edwin and Karen Kramer

Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka

Jonathon Leik

Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring

Robert Alan Lewis

Dr. Valerie Lober

Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl

Sheldon H. Marcus

James Edward McPherson

Janet L. Melk

Dr. Frederick K. Merkel

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor

Craig and Rose Moore

Eileen M. Murray

Jeffrey Nichols

John H. Nelson

Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen

Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer

Diane Ososke

Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger

Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn

Judy Pomeranz

Christoph G. Ptack Trust

Jo Ann & Joe Paszczyk

Maridee Quanbeck

Neil K. Quinn

Randall and Cara Rademaker

Constance A. Rajala

Al and Lynn Reichle

Ann and Bob † Reiland

Wendy Reynes

Dr. Edward O. Riley

Daniel J. Riordan, in loving memory of Lynne D. Mapes-Riordan

Charles and Marilynn Rivkin

David and Kathy Robin

Jerry Rose

Mr. James S. Rostenberg

Richard O. Ryan

John A. Salkowski

Cecelia Samans

A. Wm. Samuel

Franklin Schmidt

Mr. Craig Sirles

Betty W. Smykal

Annette and Richard Steinke

Mrs. Deborah Sterling

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong

Gloria B. Telander

Karin and Alfred Tenny

Richard and Helen Thomas

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

Dr. Richard Tresley

Laura and Terrence Truax

John L. and Dyanne L. Turner

Paula Turner

Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner

Judith and Paul Tuszynski

Mr. & Mrs. John E. Van Horn

Mr. Christian Vinyard

Craig and Bette Williams

Florence Winters

Stephen R. Winters and Don D. Curtis

Dr. Robert G. Zadylak

Helen Zell

MEMBERS

Anonymous (36)

Valerie and Joseph Abel

Louise Abrahams

Richard J. Abram and Paul Chandler

Patrick Alden

Richard and Elynne Aleskow

Judy L. Allen

Carlos Almeida and Dr. Matthew Sweeney

Ann S. Alpert

Patricia Ames

Ms. Judith L. Anderson

Steven Andes, Ph.D.

Barbara Andrews

Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei

Catherine Aranyi

Dr. Susan Arjmand

Mara Mills Barker

Shirley Baron

Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty

Joan I. Berger

Robert M. Berger

Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin

Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky

Candace Broecker

John L. Browar

Catherine Brubaker

Joseph Buc

Edward J. Buckbee

Michelle Miller Burns

Mr. Robert J. Callahan

Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael

Dr. Marlene E. Casiano

Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy

Mr. Robert L. Crawford

Ron and Dolores Daly

Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels

Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson

Sylvia Samuels Delman

Mrs. David A. DeMar

Ms. Phyllis Diamond

Janet Wood Diederichs

Barbara Doerner

Mrs. William Dooley

Mrs. Susan Duda

Nancy Schroeder Ebert

Robert J. Elisberg

Richard Elledge

Charles and Carol Emmons

Lu and Philip Engel

James B. Fadim

Leslie Farrell

Donna Feldman

Judith E. Feldman

Frances and Henry Fogel

Ray Frick

Susan Fuchs

Nancy and Larry † Fuller

Dileep Gangolli

Maurice Garnier

Miss Elizabeth Gatz

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

Margaret and Patrick Ghielmetti

Steve and Lauran † Gilbreath

Mr. Daniel Gilmour, III

Mr. Joseph Glossberg

Ms. Georgean Goldenberg

Adele Goldsmith

William A. and Anne Goldstein

Douglas Ross Gortner

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Ms. Elizabeth A. Gray

Ms. Claire Annette Green

Delta A. Greene

Mrs. Barbara Gundrum

Lynne R. Haarlow

Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley

Mr. Tom Hall

Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett

William B. Hinchliff

Mr. Thomas Hochman

Jack and Colleen Holmbeck

Richard J. Hoskins

Mary Houston

Mr. James Humphrey

Ms. Jessica Jagielnik

Ansuk Jeong

Nathan Kahn, in memory of Zave H. Gussin and in honor of Robert Gussin

Ann B. Kaplan

Bonnie & Michael Kaufman

Valerie Kennedy

Anne Kern

Helen Kessler

Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr.

Mrs. LeRoy Klemt

Sally Jo Knowles

Mrs. Russell V. Kohr

Ms. Barbara Kopsian

Liesel E. Kossmann

Catherine Grochowski Kranz

Eugene Kraus

John C. and Carol Anderson Kunze

Thomas and Annelise Lawson

Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey

Ms. Nicole Lehman

Barbara W. Levin

Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy

Ms. Sally Lewis

Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg

Mr. Michael Licitra

Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson

Bonnie Glazier Lipe

Alma Lizcano

Heidi Lukas and Mr. Charles Grode

Suzette Mahneke

Ann Chassin Mallow

Sharon L. Manuel

Mrs. John J. Markham

Judith Partipilo Marth

Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Deborah McCabe

Judy and Scott McCue

John McFerrin

Mr. William McIntosh

Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey

Dorothe Melamed

Marcia Melamed

Dr. Sharon D. Michalove

Dale and Susan Miller

Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Moeller

Virginia K. Moore

John H. Mugge

Thomas R. Mullaney

Daniel R. Murray

Dolores D. Nelson

Mariko Kaneda Niwa

Franklin Nussbaum

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr.

Wallace and Sarah Oliver

Lynn Orschel

Helen and Joseph Page

Robert W. Parsons, M.D.

Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Elizabeth Anne Peters

Dr. Ann Peterson

Judy C. Petty

Karen and Dick Pigott

Lois Polakoff

Charlene H. Posner

D. Elizabeth Price

Dorothy V. Ramm

Donald F. Ransford

Jeanne Reed

Edgar C. Reihl

Ann and Bob † Reiland

Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones

Karen L. Rigotti

Don † and Sally Roberts

Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal

Craig Samuels

Suzanne G. Samuels

Leslie A. Sanders

Kathleen Schaefer

Lawrence D. Schectman

Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt

Dr. Byung-In Seo

Mr. & Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro

David Shayne

Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Ms. Elizabeth Shelly

Anne Sibley

Larry Simpson

Ms. Lynn B. Singer

Thomas G. Sinkovic

Rosalee Slepian

Rebecca G. Smith

Mary Soleiman

Jim Spiegel

Julie Stagliano

Denise M. Stauder

Karen Steil

Charles Steinberg

Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale

Richard and Lois Stuckey

Mark Swanson and Nancy Pifer

Jeffrey and Linda Swoger

Mr. John C. Telander

Liisa Thomas

Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Thorson

Karen Hletko Tiersky

Myron Tiersky

Jacqueline A. Tilles

Mr. James M. Trapp

Mr. Donn N. Trautman

Mike and Mary Valeanu

Gerrit Vanderwest

Mr. David J. Varnerin

Frank Villella

Mr. Milan Vydareny

Dr. Malcolm Vye

Adam R. Walker and BettyAnn Mocek

Mr. Frank Walschlager

Louella Krueger Ward

Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Karl Wechter

Joan Weiss

Mr. Thomas Weyland

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

Linda and Payson S. Wild

Kayla Anne Wilson

Robert A. Wilson

Nora M. Winsberg

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf

Beth Wollar

Lev Yaroslavskiy

Ms. Karen Zupko

IN MEMORIAM

Listed below are individuals who were Theodore Thomas Society members or patrons who made exceptional commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their estates. They are remembered with gratitude for their generosity and visionary support.

Anonymous (10)

Hope A. Abelson

Richard Abrahams

Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson

Ross C. Anderson

Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos

Elizabeth M. Ashton

Jacqueline and Frank Ball

Wayne Balmer

Paul Barker

Arlene and Marshall Bennett

Judith and Dennis Bober

Naomi T. Borwell

Howard Broecker

Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown

George and Jacqueline Brumlik

Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger

Norma Cadieu

Wiley Caldwell

David W. Carpenter

James D. Compton

Sharon Conway

Nelson D. Cornelius

Anita J. Court, Ph.D.

Christopher L. Culp

Azile Dick

James F. Drennan

Robert L. Drinan, Jr.

Evelyn Dyba

Richard Eastline

Marian Edelstein

Dr. Edward Elisberg

Kelli Gardner Emery

Joseph R. Ender

Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson

Greta Wiley Flory

Leslie Fogel

Herbert and Betty Forman

Richard Foster

Elaine S. Frank

Martin and Francey Gecht

Isak Gerson

Mrs. Willard Gidwitz

Lyle Gillman

Marvin Goldsmith

William B. Graham

Richard Gray

David Green

Nancy Griffin

Ernest A. Grunsfeld III

Betty and Lester Guttman

A. William Haarlow III

Carolyn Hallman

CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret.

Polly and Donald Heinrich

Mary Mako Helbert

Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth

Mrs. Diane Hoban

James Houston

Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr.

Barbara Isserman

Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak

Mrs. Marian Johnson

Janet Jones

Phyllis A. Jones

James Joseph

Paul R. Judy

Joseph M. Kacena

Jared Kaplan

Morris A. Kaplan

Roberta Kapoun

Carol W. Keenan

Marshall Keltz

George Kennedy

Paul Keske

Esther G. Klatz

Russell V. Kohr

Karen Kuehner

Evelyn and Arnold Kupec

Robert B. Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts

Caressa Y. Lauer

Gerald Lee

Patricia Lee

Christine D. Letchinger

Nancy R. Levi

Melynda K. Lopin

William C. Lordan

Tula Lunsford

Iris Maiter

Arthur G. Maling

Bella Malis

Kathleen W. Markiewicz

Walter L. Marr III and Marilyn G. Marr

Eloise Martin

Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal

Eunice H. McGuire

Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick

Jack L. Melamed, M.D.

Lois G. and Hugo J. Melvoin

Richard Menaul

Susan Messinger

Phillip Migdal

Mollyann Miller

Gloria Miner

Bill Moor

Charles A. Moore

David A. Moore

Mrs. Mario Munoz

Marietta Munnis

David H. Nelson

Helen M. Nelson

Muriel Nerad

Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld

David Niwa

Raymond and Eloise Niwa

Carol Rauner O’Donovan

T. Paul B. O’Donovan

Mary and Eric Oldberg

Bruce P. Olson

David G. Ostrow

Dr. Joan E. Patterson

Donald Peck

Mr. Lewis D. Petry

Charles J. Pollyea

Miriam Pollyea

Donald D. Powell

Samuel Press

Alfred and Maryann Putnam

Christine Querfeld

Ruth Ann Quinn

Kenneth Recu

Walter Reed

Bob Reiland

Evelyn Richer

J. Timothy Ritchie

Virginia H. Rogers

Jill N. Rohde

Elaine Rosen

Ben J. Rosenthal

Anthony Ryerson

Dr. Virginia C. Saft

Cynthia Mead Sargent

Mrs. Milton Scheffler

Richard P. Schieler

Beverly and Grover Schiltz

Robert W. Schneider

Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr.

Nancy Seyfried

Muriel Shaw

Morrell A. Shoemaker

Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure

Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel

Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel

Joanne Silver

Rita Simó and Tomás Bissonnette

Allen R. Smart

Walter Chalmers Smith

Karen A. Sorensen

Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel

Vito Stagliano

Charles J. Starcevich

Curtis D. Stensrud

Franklin R. St. Lawrence

Mr. John Stokes

Ruth Miner Swislow

Robert Sychowski

Lester G. Telser

Andrew and Peggy Thomson

Sue Tice

Beatrice B. Tinsley

C. Phillip Turner

Ted Utchen

Lois and James Vrhel

Louise Benton Wagner

Nancy L. Wald

Josephine Wallace

Claude M. Weil

Marco Weiss

Barbara Huth West

The Whateley Trust, in memory of Baron Whateley

Max and Joyce Wildman

Joyce Hadley Williams

Larisa Zhizhin

Tribute Program

The Tribute Program provides an opportunity to celebrate milestones such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and graduations. It also can serve as a way to honor the memory of friends and family. An Honor or Memorial Gift enables you to express your feelings in a truly distinctive and memorable way. Contributions may be any amount and are placed in the Orchestra’s Endowment Fund. For more information regarding this program, please call 312-294-3100. Listed below are Honor and Memorial Gifts, from both the CSOA Tribute Fund and League Tribute Fund, of $100 or more received from October 2023 through December 2024.

MEMORIAL GIFTS

In memory of Carl Albright

Mrs. Cynthia A. Albright

William and Marjorie Bardeen

Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten

Dorothy Flanagan

Croissy Sans Frontières

Dr. Manfred Lindner

Mr. & Mrs. Paul MacKenzie

In memory of David W. Alm

Mrs. Susan Alm

In memory of Charles T. Angell

Dr. Michael Angell

In memory of Theodore Asner

Mrs. Barbara Asner^

In memory of Alfred Balandis

Mr. Robert Callahan

In memory of Angie Bannister

Robin Johnson

In memory of John R. Blair

Fidelity Charitable Gift Funds

In memory of Lin Brehmer

Franklin Brehmer and Sara Farr

In memory of Carolyn “Kay” Bucksbaum

Ms. Kathleen Cahill

In memory of David Carpenter

Orit Carpenter

In memory of Frank Cicero, Jr.

Jan Cicero

In memory of Henry Cohler

Mrs. Evelyn Alter

In memory of Mark William Damisch

Mr. & Mrs. Allan Ruter

In memory of Gary A. Davis

Dr. Steven Andes

In memory of Mary Paula Dix

Anonymous

In memory of Karl Eisenberg

Laura Solon

In memory of Linda Eisenhauer

Ms. Janice Young^

In memory of Agnes Gupana

Margo and Michael Oberman

In memory of Tapas Das Gupta

Ms. Angela Schmeltekopf

In memory of Zave Gussin

Mr. Nathan Kahn

In memory of Adolph “Bud” Herseth, Dale Clevenger, and Arnold Jacobs

Mr. Esteban Batallán

In memory of Alex and Sally Jacob

Merle L. Jacob^

In memory of Howard E. Jessen and Susanne C. Jessen

Howard E. Jessen Family Trust

In memory of Janet Kanter

Ms. Judith J. Crampton

In memory of John and Kerma Karoly

Mr. Jonathan K. Karoly

In memory of Walfrid Kujala

Tiffany B. Carmona

Ms. Johanna Hauki and Mr. Diamond Mendonides

Cynthia Henricks

In memory of Marie Kukalis and Harold Homans

Mr. Steven Kukalis

In memory of of Jon Lassa

Mr. Robert Coad and Mr. David Ellis

In memory of Nicole Lehman

Ms. Marlene Bach

In memory of Dr. Steven M. Lewis

Ms. Heather E. Lewis

In memory of John S. Lillard

Red Bird Hollow Foundation

In memory of Peter A. Loeb

Mr. Robert Naegele

In memory of Rita Loew

Ms. Kathleen Cahill

Ms. Sandra Hebenstreit

Janice S. Kaplan

Gina Propp-Schmarak

Cynthia Riedl

Christine Sampson

A H. Scott

In memory of Jim and Nancy Loewenberg

Mr. Michael Berger

In memory of Mera Lome

Dr. and Mrs. Leon Lome, M.D.

In memory of Carol Wordsworth Malley

Dr. Karol Sue Reddington

In memory of Edith McDonald

Ms. Rebecca Preston

In memory of Bonnie McGrath

Mimi Duginger^

In memory of Dr. Jal Mistri

Mrs. Zenobia Mistri

In memory of George Mitchell Williams

Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor^

In memory of Anthony G. Montag

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

In memory of Francis (Joe) Nolan

Ms. Vera Capp

In memory of Eul-Soo Pang

Dr. Laura Pang

In memory of Charles Kingsley Perkins

Ms. Susan Thomas

In memory of William H. Phillips

Richard Phillips

In memory of William A. Pollak

Don and Martha Pollak

In memory of Bennett Reimer

Elizabeth A. Hebert

In memory of Al Rose

Mimi Rose

In memory of Woon-Young and Hyo-Kyoung Seo B. Seo-Pero

In memory of Phyllis Shulman

Ms. Susan Gumbiner

In memory of Michael Silverstein

Ms. Mara Tapp

In memory of Susie Stein

Mrs. Barbara Asner^

Ms. Victoria Dorgan

Mrs. Marguerite Guido^

In memory of Sandra J. Tybor

Michael B. Meyer

In memory of Lynne and Ron Wachowski

Peggy Ryan

In memory of Dr. Alan J. Ward, Ph.D., ABPP

Ms. Louella Ward

In memory of Claude M. Weil

Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro

In memory of Claude Weil

Kik and S. I. Gilman

Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro

In memory of Eric Wicks and Walfrid Kujala

Anonymous

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Koss

In memory of Mary Evelyn Williams

Mrs. William White

Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor

In memory of Novella Winston

Ms. Betty Henson

HONOR GIFTS

In honor of Michael Adolph

Mrs. Ann Oros

In honor of Jeffrey and Keiko Alexander

Mr. Dean Solomon

In honor of Al Andreychuk

Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III

In honor of Esteban Batallán and John Hagstrom

Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin^

Lizbeth Branch^

Ms. Joan Dattel^

Mrs. Mary Dietrick^

Dr. & Mrs. Heratch Doumanian^

Mrs. Allisa Gam^

Fred Garzon^

Ms. Sarah Good^

Mary and Michael Goodkind^

Mary Ann Harting^

Ms. Bobbie Huskey^

Ansuk Jeong^

The Julian Family Foundation^

Ms. Claretta Meier^

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino^

Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell^

Margo and Michael Oberman^

Dr. Juan Solana^

John Garret Van Weezel^

Ms. Janice Young^

John Zimnie and Linda Zimnie^

In honor of Phyllis Bleck

The Julian Family Foundation^

In honor of Sue Bridge

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward^

In honor of Jeannine Burnier

Mr. Franz Burnier, Jr.

In honor of Robert Coad

Anonymous^

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker

Mrs. David DeMar

Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard

Diana and Richard Senior

Mr. & Mrs. † David Shayne

Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba

In honor of CSOA Box Office Staff

Ms. Diane Falk

In honor of the legendary CSO Brass section

Mr. Esteban Batallán-Cons

In honor of Mimi Duginger

Mr. J. C. Costen and Dr. Sarah F. Orwig^

In honor of the flute section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Mr. John Thorne

In honor of Jay Friedman

Mr. Peter Bouchard^

In honor of Allisa Gam^

Ms. Sarah Good

In honor of Mary Lou Gorno

Mr. Graham C. Grady

In honor of Carol Honigberg

Janice L. Honigberg

In honor of Lori Julian

Mr. Robert Napier

In honor of Neil Kawashima

Mr. Bill Tyree

In honor of Joseph Koerner

Robin F. Davies

In honor of Sharon Mitchell

Sebastian P. Mitchell

In honor of Diane Mues

Cynthia Kirk

In honor of Joan Nemickas

Mary and Michael Goodkind^

In honor of Richard C. Riedl

Cynthia Riedl

In honor of Martha and Dean Sayles

Ellen Sayles

In honor of Charlie Vernon, Jennifer Gunn, Lora Schaefer, and Vadim Karpinos

Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer^

In honor of Frank Villella and the Rosenthal Archives

Mr. Paul Phillips, Jr. † and Mr. Lloyd Palmiter

In honor of William Ward

Ms. Susan Bridge^

In honor of Patty Weber

Ms. Sarah Good^

In honor of Helen Zell

Mr. Rowland Chang

Mr. Robert S. Levinson and Ms. Laura Sage

Mr. † & Mrs. Michael Supera

In honor of Jerrold Zisook

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Schimberg

† Deceased | ^Part of the League Tribute Fund Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Gifts listed as of December 2024

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