Program Book - Mahler 7 with Jaap van Zweden

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Thank you for joining us at Symphony Center for some of the most anticipated concerts of the season.

This spring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebrates its legacy as a revered interpreter of the music of Gustav Mahler. As a testament, it is the only North American orchestra invited to the Mahler Festival 2025 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, where it performs Mahler’s Sixth and Seventh symphonies under the baton of guest conductor Jaap van Zweden followed by additional concerts in Hamburg, Dresden, Prague, and Wrocław. Prior to the European tour, van Zweden leads Mahler’s Symphony no. 7 (April 17–19) and Symphony no. 6 (May 8–9) at Symphony Center. Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Uniting Voices Chicago, and contralto Wiebke Lehmkuhl in Mahler’s Third Symphony (April 24–26). Mäkelä also conducts Boulez’s Initiale, Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, and Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto, featuring CSO Artist-in-Residence Daniil Trifonov as soloist (May 1–4).

In addition, guest conductors Harry Bicket, Karina Canellakis, James Gaffigan, and Sir Mark Elder join the CSO. This spring also includes special performances with Broadway star Heather Headley and rock star Ben Folds, as well as a highly anticipated collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet featuring the world premiere of two choreographed works.

The 2024–25 season concludes with two weeks of performances conducted by Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti, who most recently led the Orchestra on an American tour in January marking their twentieth tour together. Their first program includes Haydn’s Symphony no. 48 (Maria Theresa) and Schubert’s Symphony no. 4 (Tragic), as well as Esteban Batallán, the CSO’s principal trumpet since 2019, performing concertos by Telemann and Michael Haydn. Muti concludes the season with four performances of Verdi’s Requiem with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and distinguished soloists.

Details of the upcoming 2025–26 season have been announced, and we encourage you to visit cso.org or the box office to view all the season has to offer and to take full advantage of subscription packages and rewards.

We look forward to having you with us to enjoy the remainder of this season and the next.

Mary Louise Gorno Chair, Board of Trustees Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Jeff Alexander President Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS

Mary Louise Gorno Chair

Chester A. Gougis Vice Chair

Steven Shebik Vice Chair

Helen Zell Vice Chair

Renée Metcalf Treasurer

Jeff Alexander President

Kristine Stassen Secretary of the Board

Stacie M. Frank Assistant Treasurer

Dale Hedding Vice President for Development

TRUSTEES

John Aalbregtse

Peter J. Barack

H. Rigel Barber

Randy Lamm Berlin

Merrill Blau*

Roderick Branch

Kay Bucksbaum †

Robert J. Buford

Johannes Burlin

Leslie Henner Burns

Marion A. Cameron-Gray

George P. Colis

Keith S. Crow

Stephen V. D’Amore

Timothy A. Duffy

Brian W. Duwe

James B. Fadim

Judith E. Feldman*

Estefania García*

Jennifer Amler Goldstein

Mary Louise Gorno

Graham C. Grady

John Holmes

Lori Julian

Neil T. Kawashima

Geraldine Keefe

Donna L. Kendall

Thomas G. Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner

Patty Lane

Jason M. Laurie

Susan C. Levy

Ling Z. Markovitz

Renée Metcalf

Britt M. Miller

Sharon Mitchell*

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

Mary Pivirotto Murley

Sylvia Neil

Christopher A. O’Herlihy

Santa J. Ono

Gerald Pauling

Andrew Pritzker

LTC. Jennifer N. Pritzker, USA (Ret.)

Katherine Protextor Drehkoff

Dr. Don M. Randel

Melissa M. Root

Burton X. Rosenberg

E. Scott Santi

Steven Shebik

Marlon R. Smith

Walter Snodell

Tracy A. Stanciel*

Dr. Eugene Stark

Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr.

Scott Swanson

Nasrin Thierer

Liisa Thomas

Christopher D. Tower

Frederick H. Waddell

Paul S. Watford

Craig R. Williams

Leah Williams*

Robert Wislow

Helen Zell

Gifford R. Zimmerman

LIFE TRUSTEES

William Adams IV

Mrs. Robert A. Beatty

Arnold M. Berlin

Laurence O. Booth

William G. Brown

Dean L. Buntrock

Bruce E. Clinton

Richard Colburn

Richard H. Cooper

Anthony T. Dean

Debora de Hoyos

John A. Edwardson

Thomas J. Eyerman

David W. Fox, Sr.

Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.

Mrs. Robert W. Galvin

Paul C. Gignilliat

* Ex-officio Trustee † Deceased List as of March 2025

Joseph B. Glossberg

Richard C. Godfrey

William A. Goldstein

Howard L. Gottlieb †

Chester A. Gougis

Mary Winton Green

Dietrich Gross †

David P. Hackett

Joan W. Harris

John H. Hart

Thomas C. Heagy

Jay L. Henderson

William R. Jentes

Paul R. Judy †

Richard B. Kapnick

Donald G. Kempf, Jr.

Mrs. John C. Kern

Robert Kohl

Josef Lakonishok

Charles Ashby Lewis

Eva F. Lichtenberg

John S. Lillard †

John F. Manley

R. Eden Martin

Arthur C. Martinez

Judith W. McCue

Lester H. McKeever

David E. McNeel

William A. Osborn

Mrs. Albert Pawlick

Jane DiRenzo Pigott

John M. Pratt

Dr. Irwin Press

John W. Rogers, Jr.

Jerry Rose

Frank A. Rossi

Earl J. Rusnak, Jr. †

John R. Schmidt

Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Robert C. Spoerri

Carl W. Stern

William H. Strong

Louis C. Sudler, Jr.

Richard L. Thomas

Richard P. Toft

Penny Van Horn

Paul R. Wiggin

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Mahler’s Symphonies and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

by Phillip Huscher and Frank Villella

Since 1907 the symphonies of Gustav Mahler have been a key component of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s repertoire, with notable performances—in Chicago, at the Ravinia Festival, in Carnegie Hall, and on tour throughout Asia and Europe—as well as on numerous award-winning recordings.

In the 1960s and ’70s, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra emerged as one of the world’s great Mahler orchestras, the wisdom of Mahler’s famous prediction, “My time will come,” was indisputable. During Mahler’s lifetime (1860–1911), the Orchestra played just one of his symphonies—the Fifth, which second music director Frederick Stock led on March 22 and 23, 1907, during the sixteenth season and little more than three years after the symphony’s premiere in Cologne, Germany. It was only the second of the Mahler symphonies to be played in the United States. Gradually, Stock continued to introduce Chicago to these unknown masterworks, adding the First Symphony in 1914, the Fourth in 1916, and one year later, the colossal Eighth, which he had wanted to program ever since he heard Mahler conduct the world premiere in Munich in 1910.

After Stock heard Mahler’s Seventh Symphony in Amsterdam in May 1920, at the inaugural Mahler Festival organized by the composer’s great advocate, Willem Mengelberg,

Stock secured the U.S. premiere of the work for April 15, 1921, in Chicago—the only Mahler symphony that the Chicago orchestra introduced to this country. Still, despite Stock’s championship, no more Mahler symphonies were added to the Orchestra’s repertoire over the next three decades.

With the appointment of Rafael Kubelík as music director in 1950, Mahler’s music began to take hold in Chicago. In just three seasons, Kubelík led three of the symphonies and originally planned to close his second season with the Eighth. Although Kubelík had hoped to record the First Symphony, it was his successor, Fritz Reiner, who made the Orchestra’s first in a historic long line of Mahler recordings in 1958 with the Fourth Symphony, marking his own conversion to the composer’s music just as the Mahler craze was beginning to sweep the country. But the Orchestra had still never played the Third or Sixth symphonies—a half century after the composer’s death.

Gustav Mahler, photo by Moritz Nähr (1859–1945), 1907

From 2014 through 2016, tenth music director Riccardo Muti led Mahler’s First Symphony in Orchestra Hall; on tour in Michigan and Missouri; in Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, and Tokyo; and shown here in Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion on September 18, 2015. © Todd Rosenberg Photography. Courtesy of riccardomutimusic.com

For London Records in May 1980, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (prepared by Margaret Hillis) recorded Mahler’s Second Symphony in Medinah Temple under the baton of eighth music director Sir Georg Solti. The subsequent release won Grammy awards for Best Classical Album and Best Classical Orchestral Recording.

In his first concerts as the Orchestra’s principal conductor, Bernard Haitink led the Third Symphony in October 2006, featuring Michelle DeYoung, the Chicago Symphony Chorus (prepared by Duain Wolfe), and the Chicago Children’s Choir (prepared by Josephine Lee). Recorded live, the symphony served as the inaugural release on the CSO Resound label.

The Fourth was the first of the composer’s symphonies to be recorded by the CSO, with sixth music director Fritz Reiner conducting and Lisa Della Casa as soloist in December 1958 for RCA.

When the CSO performed the Fifth Symphony in Carnegie Hall on January 9, 1970, Georg Solti—in his first season as eighth music director—was called back to the stage for twelve curtain calls. His well-marked score is housed in the Rosenthal Archives.

As principal conductor, Bernard Haitink recorded the Sixth Symphony in October 2007 for CSO Resound and performed it in Orchestra Hall and at the Ravinia Festival, as well as on tour in Europe (Amsterdam, London, and Lucerne) in 2008 and Asia (Beijing, Shanghai, and Tokyo) in 2009, including this concert in Hong Kong on February 7. © Todd Rosenberg Photography

Only with the arrival of Georg Solti in 1969 did all of Mahler’s symphonies at last become part of the Orchestra’s regularly performed repertoire. Solti revived Symphony no. 5, which the Orchestra had only played once since its Chicago premiere in 1907; he programmed Symphony no. 7 for the first time in thirty-seven years; and

he led the Orchestra’s first performances of the Eighth since Stock introduced it fifty-four years earlier. It would take Solti more than a decade to work his way through the nine symphonies, and he would be the only music director in Chicago to perform and record the complete cycle, a set that was highly acclaimed and lavished with prizes.

After hearing the Seventh Symphony at the first Mahler Festival in Amsterdam in May 1920, second music director Frederick Stock obtained a copy of the score in Paris and led the CSO in the U.S. premiere on April 15, 1921.

In April 1917 at the Auditorium Theatre, second music director Frederick Stock led the Chicago Symphony, eight vocal soloists, and a chorus of over 800 in the Orchestra’s first performances of the Eighth Symphony, nicknamed the Symphony of a Thousand.

In the years after Solti was succeeded as music director, first by Daniel Barenboim, and then by Riccardo Muti, their performances of Mahler’s music were now viewed as part of the Orchestra’s regular catalog rather than the exception, and the challenges to convert the public to the brilliance and power of these nine symphonies—and to demonstrate the Chicago orchestra’s particular affinity with them—were long past.

This spring, the Orchestra takes Mahler’s Sixth and Seventh symphonies, under Jaap

In 2025 Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä leads the Orchestra and Chorus in Mahler’s Third Symphony in Orchestra Hall. The Orchestra also performs Mahler’s Sixth and Seventh symphonies in Chicago and on tour to Europe, including appearances—as the only U.S. orchestra—at the third Mahler Festival in Amsterdam at the Concertgebouw, all under the baton of Jaap van Zweden.

van Zweden, to the third Mahler Festival in Amsterdam—revisiting the place Stock first heard the Seventh Symphony—as part of its European tour, and Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä leads the Orchestra and Chorus in Mahler’s Third Symphony in Orchestra Hall. Mahler’s time is now.

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

Frank Villella is the director of the Rosenthal Archives.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has recorded Mahler’s Ninth Symphony on three occasions—under Carlo Maria Giulini in April 1976, Sir Georg Solti in May 1982, and Pierre Boulez in December 1995—and each release was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance.

Klaus Mäkelä © Todd Rosenberg Photography

Jaap van Zweden Photo: Jason Bell

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

89th SUMMER RESIDENCY

JULY 11 - AUGUST 17 • HIGHLAND PARK FREE LAWN TICKETS FOR CHILDREN + STUDENTS*

Featuring three weeks with Ravinia Chief Conductor MARIN ALSOP and guest artists Cynthia Erivo, Beck, Lang Lang, Himari, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Janai Brugger, Sasha Cooke, Kelli O’Hara, Sutton Foster, Ray Chen, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Zlatomir Fung, Garrick Ohlsson, Bruce Liu, Lidiya Yankovskaya, CSO’s Stephen Williamson, and many more!

* For movies, child/student tickets are a reduced price, while supplies last.

Joyce DiDonato

Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti

Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä

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

EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT

CHRISTOPHER A. O’HERLIHY, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

ITW

ITW is proud to support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and its long tradition of excellence in providing extraordinary classical music performances for audiences here in Chicago and around the world.

tom wilson, chair, president, and chief executive officer

The Allstate Corporation

Allstate applauds the CSO for its commitment to enrich community and educational programs in our hometown of Chicago. We are a proud supporter of the Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO, as we believe that good starts young.

scott c. swanson, president

PNC Bank Illinois

At PNC, we recognize the importance of the arts in contributing to a dynamic, vibrant, and successful community. We applaud the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s achievements as a cornerstone of our local arts community, and look forward to another exciting year of world-class performances.

MELISSA ROOT, PARTNER AND CHICAGO OFFICE

MANAGING PARTNER

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.

robert b. ford, chairman and chief executive

officer Abbott

Abbott and Abbott Fund are proud to support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the world’s best orchestras and a highlight of our city. We are honored to continue our long legacy of partnership to bring inspirational music to the world.

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Mayer Brown

Mayer Brown proudly supports the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, an essential connector of people through world-class music. As a dedicated partner, the firm is committed to enhancing the symphony’s legacy of captivating performances and cultural enrichment in Chicago and beyond. Together, we look forward to many more years of collaboration and memorable musical experiences.

Evgeny Kissin

Joyce

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Negaunee Music Institute

The Negaunee Music Institute is the education and community engagement wing of the Chicago Symphony with a mission to connect people to the extraordinary musical resources of the Orchestra. Programming educates audiences, trains young musicians, and serves diverse communities, across the city and around the world.

Each season, the Negaunee Music Institute invests more than $5 MILLION in industry-leading programs that reach 200,000 PEOPLE across Chicago, around the world and online.

275+ CHICAGO AREA SCHOOLS

22 ,000 STUDENTS

attend CSO for Kids concerts at Symphony Center. Two-thirds of attendees come from Chicago Public Schools.

450 YOUNG MUSICIANS

receive intensive instrumental music training from world-renowned faculty over the course of 500 instructional hours.

90+ COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

collaborate with the NMI on social impact programming.

125 CONCERTS

75% OF WHICH ARE FREE

—the others for a nominal fee are presented at Symphony Center and in Chicago area neighborhoods.

30 MUSICIANS of the CSO serve as Civic Orchestra coaches.

ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOURTH SEASON

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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

Thursday, April 17, 2025, at 7:30 Friday, April 18, 2025, at 1:30 Saturday, April 19, 2025, at 7:30

Jaap van Zweden Conductor

MAHLER

There will be no intermission.

Symphony No. 7

Slow—Allegro risoluto, ma non troppo

Night Music 1: Allegro moderato

Scherzo: Shadowy

Night Music 2: Andante amoroso Rondo finale: Allegro ordinario—Allegro moderato ma energico

The appearance of Jaap van Zweden is made possible by the Juli Plant Grainger Fund for Artistic Excellence.

These concerts are generously sponsored, in part, by Gage Hospitality Group.

United Airlines is the Official Airline of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council. Permission for the performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony no. 7 is granted by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., for Bote & Bock publishing.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is grateful to Gage Hospitality Group for its generous support.

COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher

GUSTAV MAHLER

Born July 7, 1860; Kalischt, Bohemia

Died May 18, 1911; Vienna, Austria

Symphony No. 7

Gustav Mahler composed music only during the summer, when he had time off from his job as director of the Vienna Court Opera, and every June he worried that he wouldn’t be able to write anything. For seven years, he and his family summered at Maiernigg, on the Wörthersee, where he courted inspiration by maintaining a precise and orderly routine. Every morning he rose at 5:30 and went for a swim in the lake (he liked to begin with a high dive and stay underwater as long as he could hold his breath). Afterward, he dressed and climbed the hill to his studio, a tiny hut deep in the woods, where his breakfast had been carefully placed on the table. For seven hours he worked there without interruption on music his friends rarely understood.

COMPOSED summers of 1904 and 1905

FIRST PERFORMANCE

September 19, 1908; Prague, Bohemia. The composer conducting

INSTRUMENTATION

4 flutes and 2 piccolos, 3 oboes and english horn, 3 clarinets, E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet, 3 bassoons and contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tenor horn, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam, triangle, glockenspiel, tambourine, cowbells, tubular bells, mandolin, guitar, 2 harps, strings

APPROXIMATE

PERFORMANCE TIME

79 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

The summer of 1904 was the most productive of Mahler’s life. He finished his Sixth Symphony, began the Kindertotenlieder, and wrote two movements of the Seventh Symphony—the two nocturnes that became its second and fourth movements. But when he returned to Maiernigg the following June, he didn’t know how to continue with this symphony and, for the first time, he felt the desolation of being unable to compose a single measure of music, despite daily effort. After two weeks of blank pages and nervous pacing, he gave up and went hiking in the Dolomites (walking was one of his great pleasures and it had gotten him through tough times before), but still no music came to him. (“There I was led the same dance,” he told his wife, Alma.) He returned to Krumpendorf, on the shore opposite Maiernigg, convinced that the entire

April 15 and 16, 1921, Orchestra Hall. Frederick Stock conducting (U.S. premiere)

August 4, 1979, Ravinia Festival. James Conlon conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

July 25, 2013, Ravinia Festival. James Conlon conducting

April 9, 10, 11, and 14, 2015, Orchestra Hall. Bernard Haitink conducting

CSO RECORDINGS

1971. Georg Solti conducting. London

1980. James Levine conducting. RCA

1984. Claudio Abbado conducting. Deutsche Grammophon

summer was lost. “You were not at Krumpendorf to meet me,” he later wrote to Alma, “because I had not let you know the time of my arrival. I got into the boat to be rowed across. At the first stroke of the oars the theme (or rather the rhythm and character) of the introduction to the first movement came into my head.”

In that moment, Mahler discovered the beginning of this symphony, with its haunted horn call over lapping waters, and he remembered how it felt to be filled with music and eager to work it out on paper. The floodgates opened. In four weeks, Mahler composed the remaining three movements—the ones we now know as the first, third, and last. By mid-August his Seventh Symphony was completed in essence, if not in detail, and he returned to Vienna knowing that his holiday had been exceedingly well spent.

The Seventh Symphony wasn’t performed for three years, during which time Mahler’s life was turned upside down. Although the summer of 1906 was highly productive—the massive Eighth Symphony was sketched in its entirety in just eight weeks—the following year brought disruption and tragedy. In March 1907 Mahler gave in to pressure from the administration of the Vienna Opera and to rising anti-Semitism and resigned his position as director of the company. (He then signed a contract with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, to begin in the new year.) Shortly after Mahler and his family arrived in Maiernigg that summer, his four-yearold daughter Maria took ill with scarlet fever and died; a few days later Mahler was diagnosed with a serious heart condition. Mahler quickly abandoned Maiernigg and rented a place at Toblach, in the Dolomites. He spent his days there reading a book of Chinese poems a friend had given him, and he attempted to follow the regimen of leisurely strolls and lean cuisine the doctors ordered. He wrote no music that summer.

Mahler returned to Vienna, where he conducted Fidelio for the last time on October 15, bid farewell to the Viennese public with a performance of his Second Symphony on November 24, and left for New York in early December. He originally thought of giving the premiere of the Seventh Symphony in New York, but reconsidered, explaining, “The Seventh is too complicated for a public which knows nothing of me.” At that point, New Yorkers had heard only Mahler’s Fourth Symphony; the Chicago Symphony Orchestra hadn’t even played any of Mahler’s music yet. The premiere of the Seventh was then scheduled for September 19 in Prague, as part of a festival honoring the sixtieth year of the emperor Franz Joseph’s reign. After spending the summer of 1908 in Toblach, Mahler traveled to Prague to begin rehearsals.

previous page, from top: Gustav Mahler, cabinet photo by Leonhard Berlin-Bieber (1841–1931), 1893 | A lma Schindler Mahler (1879–1964), carte de visite ca. 1905–06, with daughters Maria at left (1902–1907) and Anna (1904–1988) at right | th is page: Mahler’s composing cottage at Toblach, ca. 1905. Pencil sketch on paper by Carl Moll (1861–1945), stepfather to Alma Mahler, having married her mother in 1892 | op posite page: Mahler in rehearsal for the premiere of his Seventh Symphony, 1908. Concert Hall, Prague Exhibition Grounds, Austro-Hungarian Empire

The young conductor Otto Klemperer, who went to Prague to watch Mahler at work, later recalled that around two dozen rehearsals were necessary to prepare this difficult new symphony. “Each day after rehearsal,” Klemperer wrote, “[Mahler] used to take the entire orchestral score home with him for revision, polishing, and retouching.” Rehearsals were somewhat chaotic, and the musicians were wary of Mahler’s demanding score; a brass player confronted the composer: “I’d just like to know what’s beautiful about blowing away at a trumpet stopped up to a high C-sharp.” Mahler had no answer, although he put a characteristically philosophical spin on the encounter when he wrote to Alma about man’s inability to understand the agony of his own existence. When Alma arrived in Prague a few days before the premiere, she found the hotel suite littered with orchestra parts and her husband a nervous wreck. The Seventh Symphony was received with respect rather than enthusiasm (the critic from Berlin was particularly hard on the work). When Mahler conducted the score in Munich a few weeks later, the response was similar, but the composer was not disheartened. He had learned to expect no more.

In November 1909 Arnold Schoenberg attended the Vienna premiere of the Seventh conducted by Ferdinand Löwe. Schoenberg

himself stood at the threshold of a new frontier in music—“I am conscious of having broken through every restriction of a bygone aesthetic,” he wrote that year. He had already abandoned tonality, a move of almost unfathomable consequences, and Mahler’s brave new score sounded to him like music from the old world. It struck him as “perfect repose based on perfect harmony. . . . I have put you with the classical composers—but as one who to me is still a pioneer.” Most listeners then, however, found Mahler’s music nearly as incomprehensible as Schoenberg’s, and the Seventh Symphony, in particular, took a long time to make friends.

The Seventh has remained something of an outsider among Mahler’s symphonies. It is still the least well known of the nine he completed; it is often the last one conductors learn, and the one orchestras rarely play—with the possible exception of the Eighth, which is seldom performed simply because of the enormous forces it requires. When Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony performed the Seventh Symphony for the first time, in April 1921, it had never before been played in this country.

The Seventh Symphony doesn’t disclose its secrets readily. Perhaps because of its jigsaw construction—further complicated by the composer’s bout with writer’s block—it lacks the sheer narrative sweep of Mahler’s other symphonies. Mahler’s working methods were always idiosyncratic, but the Seventh gave him particular trouble. He didn’t have a grand design in mind when he started composing it in 1904, and when he returned to the symphony the following summer, he apparently still hadn’t outlined the entire work. The three movements he wrote that year weren’t composed “in order,” and, according to the Mahler scholar Donald Mitchell, who has

studied the composer’s manuscript, the first movement was the last one to be finished.

Like its two immediate predecessors, the Seventh is purely instrumental; there’s no vocal text to suggest an extramusical topic, and Mahler never divulged a hidden program, even when pestered by colleagues and friends. The Seventh is sometimes called the Song of the Night; the title isn’t Mahler’s, but he once wrote to the Swiss critic William Ritter of the symphony’s “three night pieces” (referring to the central triptych), and of the finale as “bright day.”

The Seventh Symphony is in five movements, a scheme Mahler had used most recently in his Fifth Symphony. This time he chose a symmetrical arrangement, with a dark and fiery scherzo at the center, surrounded by the two nocturnes and framed at either end by large and energetic movements (there is no true slow movement).

Like the Fifth Symphony, the Seventh doesn’t end in the key in which it begins, but a half step higher—here moving from its brooding B minor introduction to the brilliant C major of the finale.

The opening movement is the largest—a great journey through shadow and light set in

AN AMERICAN PREMIERE

The Seventh Symphony is the only symphony by Mahler that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra introduced to this country. Mahler originally thought of programming the work himself when he first came to New York in 1910, but he changed his mind, fearing that the Seventh was too complicated for a public unfamiliar with his music. But after Second Music Director Frederick Stock heard the symphony for the first time at the inaugural Mahler Festival in Amsterdam in May 1920, he moved quickly to set the U.S. premiere of the work for April 15, 1921, in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall.

Stock said up front that he cut out eleven minutes of music, paring the playing time down to one hour and four minutes. In fact, Stock left out nearly a quarter of the score, omitting three passages in the first movement, three from the second, an entire chunk of 108 measures from the middle movement, another eighty-eight measures from the fourth, and three sections in the finale— for a total of 571 out of the symphony’s 2,374 measures. (In Stock’s full score, stored today in the Orchestra’s Rosenthal Archives vault—and seen on page 9 of this program book—the heavy gauze tape used to bind

motion by the boatman’s oars at Maiernigg. A magnificent theme rises over the rhythm of the rowing—“Here nature roars,” Mahler told Ritter. Mahler gave this melody to the tenor horn, an instrument with a dark and mysterious tone that he remembered from the military bands that he often heard as a child, when his family lived near an army barracks. This movement is one of Mahler’s most fantastic creations. The harmonies are bold and exotic, often built from superimposed fourths rather than thirds, like the chords Schoenberg coincidentally was using at the same time. For the last time, Mahler follows the itinerary of sonata form—he specifies that the rhapsodic second theme should be performed in precisely the same tempo as the first (a recommendation that is often ignored). His sense of fearless adventure gives this music its character and force, and it’s marked throughout by resonant, glittering sonorities. At the height of the development section, Mahler stops to listen to the world around him; one hears only distant fanfares and the gentle hum of the night. Suddenly the harp reveals the sky, afire with stars.

together skipped pages dangles from the sides of the book.) At its abridged length, Stock was able to squeeze the symphony into the middle of his program—preceded by Smetana’s Overture to Libussa and followed, after an intermission, by Bruch’s Fantasie for Violin and Orchestra—a maneuver that would be unthinkable today. One critic noticed that unusually long pauses between Mahler’s movements were necessary for the “refreshment” of the players. But Stock’s main objective in cutting the score was to allow challenging new music to more easily reach its audience.

The Chicago Evening Post reported that the Orchestra played with astonishing virtuosity. “There was nothing Mahler could write which they could not play, as they demonstrated to full satisfaction. At the close of the symphony there was a great demonstration for Mr. Stock, in which he had all the players rise and join.” After the concert Stock said, “Mahler is one of the coming composers and the musical world is just beginning to understand him.”

—P.H.

The first of the two movements that Mahler titled Night Music is a slow march through a nocturnal landscape; he once described it as a “night patrol.” It begins with horn calls echoing across the valley and is colored by cowbells and birdcalls—the sounds of nature that he so loved. Mahler said he wanted the cowbells to sound as distant as possible, as if coming from far across the meadow. At one of the rehearsals in Prague, the composer asked to have a window closed because he was disturbed by a bird outside—“This one’s not in my score,” he said. At the beginning of the third movement, Mahler wrote Schattenhaft (shadowy). The darkest of his scherzos, this is a nightmare of waltz tunes and ländler. He filled these pages with ominous and grotesque effects; even the quietest passages are disturbed by startling thumps from the timpani and loud noises in the bassoons and tuba. A more genial trio offers a brief change of mood, but no real relief.

The second Night Music is a serenade in F major scored for chamber orchestra; a solo violin has the lover’s song, accompanied by the plucked strings of the mandolin, guitar, and harp. (Mahler conceived this music with the guitar in mind—Schoenberg later wrote that “the whole movement is based on this sonority”; the mandolin was an afterthought.) This is intimate, often delicate music, and Alma said that when her husband wrote it he was “beset by Eichendorff-ish visions—murmuring springs

and German romanticism.” In 1948, when Olin Downes, the conservative New York Times music critic, wrote disparagingly of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, Arnold Schoenberg sent him an angry letter, offering the simple melodies from this movement as evidence of Mahler’s creative power.

The finale instantly brings the “bright day” of C major. It opens in a blaze of timpani flourishes and horn fanfares; the effect is momentarily blinding, like “parting the curtains in a dark room and finding oneself dazzled by brilliant sunlight,” as Donald Mitchell suggested. The music recalls—and practically quotes—Wagner’s prelude to Die Meistersinger; on at least one occasion, Mahler actually conducted Wagner’s score and the symphony on the same program to underscore their affinity. The mood of Mahler’s finale, like Wagner’s opera, is joyous, occasionally riotous, and even playful. The nocturnal specter of the first movement returns near the end, but it only demonstrates, by contrast, the indomitable brilliance of the finale’s primary colors. This is the most openhearted, exuberant, and good-humored music of Mahler’s career, and by the time he conducted the premiere only three years after he had finished the symphony, it was a kind of music he could not ever write again.

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

PROFILES

Jaap van Zweden Conductor

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

October 9, 10, 11, and 14, 2008, Orchestra Hall. Bruckner’s Symphony no. 5

July 7, 2012, Ravinia Festival. Mahler’s Symphony no. 6

MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

October 12, 13, 14, and 15, 2023, Orchestra Hall. Shekhar’s Lumina, Mahler’s Songs from Der Knaben Wunderhorn with Christian Gerhaher, and Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5

Jaap van Zweden hears a vision for an orchestra and then works to achieve it.

His artistic mastery has served him and the ensembles he has guided in good stead. Among them are his recent past music directorships: the New York Philharmonic, where he championed and, in 2022, inaugurated the transformation of David Geffen Hall; the Hong Kong Philharmonic, which he led to international prominence; and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which earned national acclaim under his direction. His current positions include becoming music director of the Seoul Philharmonic in 2024 and artist-inresidence of the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan in January 2025. He adds the title of music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in the fall of 2026. Widely recognized on three continents, Jaap van Zweden appears as guest with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, Orchestre de Paris, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra in Europe; and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and other distinguished ensembles in the United States.

Among Jaap van Zweden’s discography of more than fifty recordings is the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s first-ever performances in Hong Kong of Wagner’s Ring cycle, released on the Naxos label. To this is added the New York Philharmonic’s recordings of the world premiere of David Lang’s prisoner of the state (2020) and Julia Wolfe’s Grammy Award–nominated Fire in my mouth (2019), both released on the Decca Gold label. Plus, his acclaimed performances of Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal—the last of which earned him the prestigious Edison Award for Best Opera Recording in 2012—are available on CD and DVD.

Born in Amsterdam, Jaap van Zweden, at nineteen, while still a student at the Juilliard School, was appointed the youngest-ever concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and began his conducting career in 1996. Van Zweden received the Concertgebouw Prize in 2023. He remains conductor emeritus of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and honorary chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, where he was chief conductor (2005–13); he also served as chief conductor of the Royal Flanders Orchestra (2008–11) and as music director of the Dallas Symphony (2008–18) and the New York Philharmonic (2018–24). Under his leadership, the Hong Kong Philharmonic (2012–24) was named Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year in 2019. Van Zweden was named Musical America’s 2012 Conductor of the Year and was the subject of a CBS 60 Minutes profile in 2018.

In 1997 Jaap van Zweden and his wife, Aaltje, established the Papageno Foundation to support families of children with autism. Today, the foundation has grown into a multifaceted organization that focuses on the development of autistic children and young adults. In addition to in-home music therapy through a national network of qualified music therapists in the Netherlands, the foundation has opened several Papageno houses, where young adults with autism can live, work, and participate in the community.

PHOTO © BY SIMON VAN BOXTEL

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

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

Mykele Callicutt Coordinator, Donor Engagement

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

Matthew Ellison

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

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

James Heckman

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

Jo Ann and Joe 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

Minsook Suh

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).

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

Judith 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

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

Anonymous

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Patricia Ames

Sharon Angell^

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*

Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy*

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

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy

Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn*

Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson

Ms. Leah Laurie^

Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek*

Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg

Ms. Mirjana Martich^ and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin*

Mr. David E. McNeel

James Edward McPherson*

Mr. Robert Meeker

Dr. Ellen Mendelson*

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^

Grace K. Stanek*

Cheryl Sturm^

David and Beth Timm*

Dr. Catherine L. Webb*

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

Ms. Janice Young

Owen and Linda Youngman*

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

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

TravTours, Inc.

Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

$5,000–$9,999

Ariel Investments

Baird

Clayco

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

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

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

The Brinson Foundation

The Chicago Community Trust

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

The Clinton Family Fund

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

Shure Charitable Trust

$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

$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 February 2025. To learn more, please call 312-294-3100 or email gifts@cso.org.

$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 (5)

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

$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

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood

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 (3)

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. 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

Fraida and Bob Aland

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

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro

Howard and Sarah D. Solomon Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson

Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung

Dr. Marylou Witz

Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation

$15,000–$19,999

Anonymous (4)

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

Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French

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

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

Mrs. Gail Belytschko

Ann and Richard Carr

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan

Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng

Charles and Carol Emmons

Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin

Robert D. Gecht

Jim † and Kay Mabie

The Osprey Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl

Leslie and Tom Silverstein

Carol S. Sonnenschein

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

Judith Barnard and Michael Fain

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

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.

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone

Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon

Richard † and Mary L. Gray

Timothy and Joyce Greening

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

Ann and John Grube

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

Edward Joyce

Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Joyce

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller

Ms. Librada Killian

The King Family Foundation

Marci Klein

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

Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor

Emilie Morphew, M.D.

Drs. Robert † and Marsha Mrtek

David † and Dolores Nelson

Ms. Susan Norvich

Mr. Christopher A. O’Herlihy

Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Oberman

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

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. William † and Mrs. Suzanne 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

James R. Looman † and Donna 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

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

Donald J. Gralen

Mr. Daniel Gray

Hanna H. Gray

Ms. Freddi Greenberg

Thomas † and Delta Greene

Dr. Jerri E. Greer

Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen

Jacalyn Gronek

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

Stan and Jeri 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

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

Mr. Donald P. Maves

Charles and Clara McCall

Margaret and Michael McCoy

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

The Moon Family Foundation

Stephen and Rumi Morales

Mrs. Frank Morrissey

David H. Moscow

John H. Mugge

Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl

Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman

Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar

Kenneth R. Norgan

Dr. Linda Novak

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

Jo Ann and Joe 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. and Mr. Albert E. Pyott

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

Michael and Judith Sawyier

Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht

Mr. † & Mrs. Nathan Schloss

Shirley and John † Schlossman

Susan H. Schwartz

Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz

Ruth Grant and Howard Schwartz

Scott Byron & Co.

Ms. Mary Beth Shea

Dr. & Mrs. James and Rita 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

Christine A. Slivon

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

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

Laurence and Caryn Straus

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

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. James Borkman

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

Mr. Robert Cook

Joe and Judy Cosenza

Mr. † & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker

Ms. Louise Dixon

Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III

Kenneth M. Fitzgerald and Ruby Carr

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

Ms. Janice Magnuson

Mr. Laurance C. Martin

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

Ms. Amanda Sonneborn

Joel and Beth Spenadel

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

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

Mrs. Jane B. Colman

Ms. Juli Crabtree

Mr. John Crosby

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. and Mr. Christina Greviskes

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

Mr. Adam Grymkowski

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.

Illinois and Florida Club, Inc.

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

Mr. Timothy Marshall

Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass

Igor and Olga Matlin

Ms. Marilyn McCoy

Rosa and Peter McCullagh

Mr. Charles McKee

Mr. Zarin Mehta

Ms. Maryrose Murphy

Mr. Robert Napier

Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.

Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer

Mrs. Janis Notz

Marjory Oliker

Peg Gould and Howard Owen

Ms. Jane Park

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

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.

Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Dr. Lemuel Shaffer

Ms. Courtney Shea

Mary and Charles M. † Shea

Dr. Juan Solana

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

Dr. & Mrs. Robert Wertz

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

$11,500–$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 (2)

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

Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Joyce

The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

Drs. Robert † and Marsha Mrtek

Ms. Susan Norvich

Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Oberman

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

Mary and Joseph Plauché

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

Laura and Terrence Truax

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

Charles and Carol Emmons

Tarek and Ann Fadel

Mr. Graham C. Grady

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

David † and Dolores Nelson

Dr. Linda Novak

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

Mr. Paul R. Wiggin

Zell Family Foundation

$3,500–$4,499 Anonymous (2)

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clusen

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker

Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng

Judith E. Feldman

Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Mr. Bruce Oltman

$2,500–$3,499

Anonymous

David and Suzanne Arch

Mr. James Borkman

Adam Bossov

Ms. Danolda Brennan

Ms. Rosalind Britton

Mr. Ray Capitanini

Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson

Lisa Chessare

Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes

Patricia A. Clickener

David and Janet Fox

Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick

William B. Hinchliff

Michael and Leigh Huston

Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin

Merle L. Jacob

Ronald E. Jacquart

Ms. Stephanie Jones

Anne and John † Kern

Northern Trust

Ms. Jane Park

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

Amanda A. Sonneborn

Carol S. Sonnenschein

Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein

Mr. Peter Vale

Mr. Kenneth Witkowski

Jack And Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund

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 Karen Bippus, Director, Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at bippusk@cso.org or 312-294-3150.

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

Mr. Doug 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

Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder

Concordia Hoffmann

Kent and Cathy 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 and 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

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

Patrick and Patrice Wooldridge

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

Ms. Vera Capp

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

Ryan Eikmeier and Timothy Silver

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

Mr. Michael Hillbruner

William B. Hinchliff

Marcia M. Hochberg

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 and Michael Kaufman

Valerie Kennedy

Anne Kern

Helen Kessler

Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr.

Mrs. LeRoy Klemt

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

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

William and Elizabeth Cline Living Trust

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

Sally Jo Knowles

Russell V. Kohr

Karen Kuehner

Evelyn and Arnold Kupec

Robert B. Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts

Caressa Y. Lauer

Gerald Lee

Patricia Lee

Ms. Nicole Lehman

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

David Matteson

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 September 2024 through March 2025.

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

Emmanuel Paschos

In memory of David W. Alm

Mrs. Susan Alm

In memory of Charles T. Angell

Dr. Michael Angell

In memory of John R. Blair

Mrs. Barbara J. Blair

In memory of Lin Brehmer

Franklin Brehmer and Sara Farr

In memory of Carolyn “Kay” Bucksbaum

Scott Yonover

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 and Graham Hemsley

Dr. Steven Andes

In memory of Robert B. Dean

Ms. Helen Moorman

In memory of Mary Paula Dix

Anonymous

In memory of Gloria Gottlieb from her family

Anonymous

In memory of Agnes Gupana

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Margo and Michael Oberman

In memory of Tapas Das Gupta

Ms. Angela Schmeltekopf

In memory of Zave Gussin

Mr. Nathan Kahn

In memory of David N. Henneman

Mr. Stephen Dolezal

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 John and Kerma Karoly

Mr. Jonathan K. Karoly

In memory of James Stephan Kerwin

Don and Martha Pollak

In memory of Charles Kingsley Perkins

Ms. Susan Thomas

In memory of Walfrid Kujala

Anonymous

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 Jon Lassa and Samuel Dauby

Mr. Robert Coad and Mr. David Ellis

In memory of Nicole Lehman

Ms. Marlene Bach

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

Andrea Loew

Michael B. Meyer

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. & Mrs. Leon Lome, M.D.

In memory of Edith McDonald

Ms. Rebecca Preston

In memory of Bonnie McGrath

Dr. & Mrs. Enrique Beckmann

Mimi Duginger^

In memory of Joseph McPhillips

Maggie Bielinski

In memory of Dr. Jal Mistri

Mrs. Zenobia Mistri

In memory of Anthony G. Montag

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

In memory of Eul-Soo Pang

Dr. Laura Pang

In memory of William H. Phillips

Richard Phillips

In memory of William A. Pollak

Don and Martha Pollak

In memory of Marianne Quinn

Give Lively Foundation

In memory of Bennett Reimer

Elizabeth A. Hebert

In memory of Al Rose

Mimi Rose

In memory of Phyllis Shulman

Ms. Susan Gumbiner

In memory of Michael Silverstein

Ms. Mara Tapp

In memory of Deborah Sobol

Mr. Rowland Chang

In memory of Susie Stein

Mrs. Barbara Asner^

Mrs. Marguerite Guido^

In memory of Sandra J. Tybor

Mr. Jim Krupkowski

Robert M. Loner Jr.

Lessett A. Steele

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

Ms. Louella Ward

In memory of Claude Weil

Kik and S. I. Gilman

Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro

In memory of Eric Wicks Anonymous

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Koss

In memory of Mary Evelyn Williams

Mrs. William White

In memory of George Mitchell Williams Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor

In memory of Novella Winston

Ms. Betty Henson

In memory of Woon-Young and Hyo-Kyoung Seo

B. Seo-Pero

HONOR GIFTS

In honor of Michael Adolph

Mrs. Ann Oros

In honor of Fraida and Bob Aland

Ms. Meredith A. Berlin

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 Scott Bell

Ms. Martha Bell

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

Mrs. David DeMar

Diana and Richard Senior

Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba

In honor of CSOA Box Office Staff

Ms. Diane Falk

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 John Heffernan

Paula Tironi

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 Judy and Scott McCue

Anonymous

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 Margo and Michael Oberman

Mr. Gary Auerbach

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 Karen Zupko

Carey and Brett August

† 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 February 2025

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