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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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

Friday, December 19, 2025, at 7:30 Saturday, December 20, 2025, at 1:00 Sunday, December 21, 2025, at 1:00 Sunday, December 21, 2025, at 4:30 Monday, December 22, 2025, at 7:30 Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at 1:00 Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at 4:30

MERRY, MERRY CHICAGO! Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra John Morris Russell Conductor Chicago Symphony Chorus Donald Palumbo Director COLERIDGE-TAYLOR

Christmas Overture (arr. Baynes)

TRADITIONAL

Angels We Have Heard on High (arr. Bradford) C H I C A G O SY M P H O N Y C H O R U S

PINKHAM

Gloria from Christmas Cantata C H I C A G O SY M P H O N Y C H O R U S

BIZET

Carillon from L’arlésienne

LEONTOVYCH

Carol of the Bells (arr. Bradford) C H I C A G O SY M P H O N Y C H O R U S

ANDERSON

Sleigh Ride

BONDS

Alleluia from The Ballad of the Brown King C H I C A G O SY M P H O N Y C H O R U S

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JESSEL

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (arr. Gould)

ARR. BRAZ

A Suite of Carols*

Joy to the World I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Here We Come a’ Wassailing Jingle Bells O Come, All Ye Faithful C H I C A G O SY M P H O N Y C H O R U S

INTERMISSION

J. STRAUSS, JR.

Overture to Die Fledermaus

ARR. MOUNSEY

Hark!

FRY

Christmas in Chicago C H I C A G O SY M P H O N Y C H O R U S

WALDTEUFEL

The Skaters Waltz

ARR. SHAW/BENNETT

Suite No. 4 from The Many Moods of Christmas Break Forth, O Beauteous Heav’nly Light The First Nowell O Little Town of Bethlehem I Saw Three Ships Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly C H I C A G O SY M P H O N Y C H O R U S

*Works that include audience participation. Song texts found on page 3

The appearance of the Chicago Symphony Chorus has been made possible by a generous gift from The Grainger Foundation.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.

Newsradio 105.9 WBBM is a Media Partner for this event.

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AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION TEXTS

JOY TO THE WORLD Joy to the world, the Lord is come, Let earth receive her king!

Let ev’ry heart prepare him room, And heav’n and nature sing, And heav’n and nature sing, And heav’n and nature sing.

I HEARD THE BELLS ON CHRISTMAS DAY I heard the bells on Christmas Day, Their old familiar carols play, And mild and sweet, the words repeat, Of peace on earth, goodwill to men.

HERE WE COME A’ WASSAILING Here we come a’ wassailing, among the leaves so green.

Here we come a’ wand’ring so fair to be seen.

Love and joy come to you, and to your wassail too, And God bless you and send you a happy New Year, And God send you a happy New Year.

JINGLE BELLS Dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh, O’er the fields we go laughing all the way.

Bells on bobtails ring making spirits bright, What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight.

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!

O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem.

Come and behold him, born the king of angels.

O come, let us adore him, o come, let us adore him, O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord!

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PROFILES John Morris Russell Conductor As conductor of the world-renowned Cincinnati Pops Orchestra since 2011, John Morris Russell continues to reinvigorate the music scene throughout Cincinnati and across the continent through the wide range and diversity of his work as a leader, collaborator, and educator. He is also music director of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra and of the prestigious Hilton Head International Piano Competition in South Carolina.

A popular guest conductor as well, Russell frequently leads such Canadian orchestras as Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver, and he has appeared with the orchestras of St. Louis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, and Dallas, among others. His work in opera and musical theater includes Cincinnati Opera, where he conducted the world premiere of Scott Davenport Richards’s Blind Injustice, released on CD in 2021.

Since 2014, Russell has regularly led the National Orchestral Institute and Festival (NOI+F) in College Park, Maryland. In 2024, he and the NOI+F collaborated with Wolf Trap Opera on a production of Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, which was also performed with the Hilton Head Symphony in 2025. Dedicated to sharing the American musical experience with the newest generation, between 1997 and 2009 he helped to develop and conducted Carnegie Hall’s Link Up concert series and has piloted other educational programs with the orchestras of Cincinnati, Windsor, and Hilton Head.

For over two decades, he has led the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Classical Roots program, honoring and celebrating

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Black musical excellence, which has garnered record-breaking in-person and online audiences.

Russell has contributed seven recordings to the discography of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, including 2023’s holiday album JOY! In 2015, he created the American Originals Project, which has won both critical and popular acclaim, with two landmark recordings: American Originals and the Grammy-nominated American Originals 1918. Other American Originals have included Harlem Renaissance with renowned jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, to be released in a live recording in the spring of 2026. He recently served as coproducer and conductor of American Public Television’s Rick Steves’s Europe: A Symphonic Journey carried on PBS stations from coast to coast. During the Cincinnati Pops’s 2025–26 season, he performs Peter Boyer’s newest work, American Mosaic, with celebrated actor Martin Sheen.

His American Soundscapes video series with the Pops and Cincinnati’s CET Public Television has surpassed one million views on YouTube since its launch in 2016.

Music director of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2012, Russell conducted over forty world premieres and recorded the Juno Award–nominated album of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. He recently concluded his nine-year tenure as principal pops conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, following in the footsteps of Doc Severinsen and Marvin Hamlisch.

John Morris Russell earned degrees from the University of Southern California–Los Angeles and Williams College in Massachusetts and has studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors in Hancock, Maine.

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PROFILES

Chicago Symphony Chorus

The Chicago Symphony Chorus regularly performs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Orchestra Hall and at the Ravinia Festival.

The history of the Chorus began in 1957, when sixth music director Fritz Reiner invited Margaret Hillis to establish a chorus to equal the quality of the Orchestra. Hillis accepted the challenge, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus debuted in March and April 1958, in Mozart’s Requiem under Bruno Walter and Verdi’s Requiem under Reiner. Hillis served the Chorus for thirty-seven years. In 1994 ninth music director Daniel Barenboim appointed Duain Wolfe, who served as the Chorus’s director and conductor until his retirement in 2022. Donald Palumbo was appointed as the Chorus’s third director in 2025.

The Chorus first performed in Carnegie Hall in 1967 in Henze’s Muses of Sicily and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe under seventh music director Jean Martinon, and most recently in 2015 with Riccardo Muti for Scriabin’s Prometheus and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. Touring internationally with the Orchestra, the Chorus traveled to London and Salzburg in 1989 with Sir Georg Solti for performances of Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust and to Berlin in 1999 with Barenboim for Brahms’s A German Requiem and Pierre Boulez for Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron.

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World premieres featuring the Chorus have included Ned Rorem’s Goodbye My Fancy, John Harbison’s Four Psalms, and Bernard Rands’s apókryphos. With visiting orchestras, the Chorus has collaborated with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Zubin Mehta, and the Staatskapelle Berlin under Barenboim.

Since first recording commercially in 1959—Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky under Reiner—the Chorus has amassed a discography that includes hallmarks of the choral repertoire and several complete operas. The Chorus most recently received a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for Verdi’s Requiem, led by Riccardo Muti on CSO Resound. The Chorus has received an additional nine Grammy awards for Best Choral Performance for Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Brahms’s A German Requiem, Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, Haydn’s Creation, and Bach’s Mass in B minor with Solti; Brahms’s Requiem and Orff’s Carmina Burana with James Levine; and Bartók’s Cantata profana with Boulez.

The Chorus also has appeared on two movie soundtracks with the Orchestra: Fantasia 2000 led by Levine, and John Williams’s score for Lincoln conducted by the composer. Recordings on CSO Resound featuring the Chorus include Mahler’s Second and Third symphonies, Poulenc’s Gloria and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe under Bernard Haitink; and Berlioz’s Lélio, Verdi’s Otello, Schoenberg’s Kol Nidre, choruses

by Verdi and Boito’s Prologue to Mefistofele, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 13 (Babi Yar), and most recently Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana under Riccardo Muti.

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Donald Palumbo Chorus Director Donald Palumbo was born in Rochester, New York, and received a bachelor of arts degree from Boston University. His career was launched in the 1980s at the Dallas Opera, where he served as assistant to Roberto Benaglio, the renowned Italian chorus master of Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Following a sixteen-year tenure as chorus director at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1991 to 2007, Palumbo assumed the same position at the Metropolitan Opera. There he was responsible for the Met Chorus’s participation in more than twenty productions each season, and his work was honored with seven Grammy awards for Best Opera Recording. After stepping down from his position at the Met in June 2024, he returned to the theater in the following season to prepare the chorus in a new production of Verdi’s Aida.

Palumbo’s appointment as the third chorus director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus was announced in June 2025, and he began an initial three-year tenure on July 1, 2025. As director, he works with the Chorus each year to prepare multiple programs across the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s downtown season and the annual summer residency at the Ravinia Festival.

Palumbo was music director of the Chorus pro Musica of Boston and has also served as chorus master of the Canadian Opera Company, Dallas Opera, Banff School for the Arts Summer Opera Program, the Opera Company of Boston, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. In Europe, he has

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held chorus master positions at Opéra de Lyon, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Théâtre du Châtelet, and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

From 1999 to 2001, Palumbo was chorus director of the Salzburg Festival, the first American to hold that position.

He has worked extensively at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, preparing the chorus for the Berlioz Festival in 1990—Requiem, The Damnation of Faust, Romeo and Juliet—and performances of Britten’s Peter Grimes and Janáček’s Jenůfa. Palumbo has conducted the Radio France Chorus in several a cappella choral concerts and prepared Britten’s War Requiem.

Palumbo has been a vocal coach for the Apprentices of the Santa Fe Opera since 2014 and a faculty member of the Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at the Juilliard School in New York since 2016.

In 2022 and 2023, he joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as guest chorus master for performances of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, both works conducted by Riccardo Muti. Shortly after his appointment in June 2025, he was guest chorus master for performances of Verdi’s Requiem, also led by Muti.

In June 2024 he prepared the choral forces for a concert performance of Puccini’s La bohème for the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick NézetSéguin and returned for Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde in June 2025. In March 2025 he prepared the chorus for Verdi’s La traviata staged in Kyoto and Tokyo for the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy.

Donald Palumbo returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago in May 2025 to prepare and conduct a program of scenes with the artists of the Ryan Opera Center.

TO D D R O S E N B E R G P H OTO G R A P H Y

PROFILES

Chicago Symphony Chorus

Donald Palumbo Director Cheryl Frazes Hill Associate Director Jennifer Kerr Budziak Assistant Director Benjamin Rivera Assistant Director SOPRANOS

Michele Agpalo Alicia Monastero Akers* Melinda Alberty Nicole Besa Laura Bumgardner Anastasia Cameron Balmer Katarzyna Dorula Mary Lutz Govertsen Nida Grigalaviciute Ashlee Hardgrave Megan Hendrickson Betsy Hoats Alexandra Ioan Alison Kelly Lisa Kotara Horwitz Susan Krout Katelyn Lee Kristin Lelm Amanda Compton LoPresti* Suzanne Ma-Ebersole Taylor Jacobson Manrique Lillian Murphy Máire O’Brien Cari Plachy Elvira Ponticelli Angela Presutti Korbitz Margaret Quinnette Alexia Rivera Heidi Jo Stirling Samantha Thielen Pak A LT O S

Melissa Arning Diane Busko Bryks Magaly Cordero Sandra Cross Leah Dexter Stacy Eckert Jennifer Gingrich Elizabeth Haley Hamilton

Miya Higashiyama Margaret Izard Carla Janzen Norton Robin A. Kessler Kathleen Madden Clarissa Parrish Short Cassandra Petrie Laura Polevoy Sarah Ponder Emily Price* Emlynn Shoemaker Bridget Skaggs Cassidy Smith* Elizabeth Vaughan Debra Wilder TENORS

Madison Bolt Michael Brauer Joseph Cloonan* Claire DiVizio Nicholas Falco Andrew Fisher W. Ryan Frenk Klaus Georg* Jianghai Ho Garret Johannsen James Judd Stephen Mollica Keith A. Murphy Nathan S. Oakes Marcos Ochoa Wha Shin Park Steven Michael Patrick Brett Potts Nicholas Pulikowski Cole Seaton Aaron Short Paul W. Thompson Ryan Townsend Strand

BASSES

Evan Bravos Conor Broaders Terry L. Bucher Timothy Christopoulos Chris DiMarco Christopher Filipowicz Dimitri German David Govertsen Kevin Michael Hall Jess Koehn Mathew Lake Lee Lichamer* Bill McMurray Eric Miranda Ian Murrell Douglas Peters Robert J. Potsic Leo Radosavljevic Stephen Richardson Joseph Smith Scott Uddenberg Peter Wesoloski Jonathan Wilson CHORUS MANAGER

Melissa Hilker

A S S I S TA N T M A N A G E R AND LIBRARIAN

Olive Haugh

REHEARSAL PIANISTS

John Goodwin Sharon Peterson Chuck Foster

The Chorus was prepared for these performances by Donald Palumbo. *Section leader

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PROFILES

Brian McCartney A native of Toledo, Ohio, Brian McCartney shares the holiday season reprising one of his all-time favorite roles. He has worked with several Chicago-area theaters, including Strawdog, Shattered Globe, TimeLine, Vitalist, Eclipse, Provision, the Metropolis Performing Arts Center in Arlington Heights, and many others.

McCartney was most recently seen as Sir John Falstaff in First Folio Theatre’s outdoor summer production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. He also had a long-running stint in Clue and Manton’s Leaving Iowa at the Royal George Theatre for eight months, portraying thirteen characters in each performance.

Brian McCartney was most recently seen in a very familiar role in the Great American Family Network’s Once Upon a Christmas Wish that premiered in 2024. He has also appeared in NBC’s Chicago Fire and Chicago Med and USA Network’s Sirens.

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A R T I S T I C C O O R D I N AT O R

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P H OTO C O U R T E SY O F T H E A R T I S T

PRELUDE AND INTERMISSION PERFORMANCES

Friday, December 19, 2025, at 7:30 grainger ballroom: Bel Canto (University High School) inner lobby: Vernon Hills High School Chamber Choir rotunda: Providence Catholic Singing Celtics Saturday, December 20, 2025, at 1:00

grainger ballroom: Chicago West Community Music Center Orchestra inner lobby: Barrington High School Madrigals rotunda: Kenwood Academy Orchestra

Sunday, December 21, 2025, at 1:00

grainger ballroom: Lane Tech High School Sinfonietta Orchestra inner lobby: Earl Clemens Wind Quintet rotunda: Northwestern Music Academy Virtuosi Strings

Sunday, December 21, 2025, at 4:30

grainger ballroom: Campanella Children’s Choir inner lobby: Earl Clemens Wind Quintet rotunda: Chicago West Community Music Center String Ensemble

Monday, December 22, 2025, at 7:30

grainger ballroom: Kaneland High School Madrigals inner lobby: Leyden High School Chamber Singers rotunda: Hanson String Quartet

Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at 1:00

grainger ballroom: Crown Point High School Chamber Ensemble krehbiel upper balcony lobby: Sterling Brass Quartet rotunda: Bureau Valley High School Concert Band

Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at 4:30

grainger ballroom: Crown Point High School Chamber Ensemble inner lobby: Maud Powell String Quartet rotunda: Bureau Valley High School Concert Band

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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Chicago Symphony Orchestra—consistently hailed as one of the world’s best—marks its 135th season in 2025–26. 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.

In July 2025, Donald Palumbo became the third director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

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.

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato is the CSO’s Artist-in-Residence for the 2025–26 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.

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Celebrating Black Excellence in Classical Music and Beyond

The CSO African American Network aims to engage Chicago’s culturally rich African American community through the sharing and exchanging of unforgettable musical experiences while building relationships for generations to come. The AAN seeks to serve and encourage individuals, families, educators, students, musicians, composers and businesses to discover and experience the timeless beauty of music.

Be a part of the season with concerts across musical genres highlighting world-class performances and compositions from Christian McBride, Julia Bullock, Lizz Wright, Mike Reed, Wynton Marsalis and more!

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Klaus Mäkelä Zell Music Director Designate Joyce DiDonato Artist-in-Residence

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Robert Chen Concertmaster Stephanie Jeong David Taylor Cornelius Chiu Kozue Funakoshi Gabriela Lara Matous Michal Ariel Lee Minyoung Baik Yuka Kadota Baird Dodge Hermine Gagné Mihaela Ionescu Ronald Satkiewicz Ying Chai Troy Gardner Kiju Joh Trista Wong VIOLAS

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25 26 Celebrating Latino composers, conductors and artists

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