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2 A Note from the Board Chair and President

A welcoming message from Board of Trustees Chair Mary Louise Gorno and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association President Jeff Alexander

4 Community Outreach Concerts Warm Up Muti’s January Residency

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Dennis Polkow reports on the CSO’s recent community concerts conducted by Riccardo Muti at Morton East High School and Apostolic Church of God.

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A Tribute to Duain Wolfe

The CSOA honors Duain Wolfe, who has served as director and conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus for twenty-eight seasons, on the occasion of his retirement.

16 Three Days with Hilary Hahn, the CSO’s Artist-in-Residence

Graham Meyer reports on Hilary Hahn’s first residency in her new role, which included concerto performances and mentoring young musicians.

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Our Donors and Volunteers

Recognition of our generous donors and volunteers

41 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Pictured here are Mead Composerin-Residence Jessie Montgomery and CSO musicians at the November 1 MusicNOW concert. The next performance, Night of Song, on March 14, features contemporary works inspired by traditional art song.

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a note from the chair and the president It is our pleasure to welcome you to Symphony Center.

We are delighted that you have chosen to come and see the incredible Chicago Symphony Orchestra and other great artists and ensembles performing live in Orchestra Hall. There are so many great concerts here during the months of February and March, but we would like to draw your attention to a few of them.

Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti returns for two remarkable concerts, the first of which not only features Mitsuko Uchida performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 4 but also celebrates the eighty-fifth birthday of American composer Philip Glass with the CSO’s first performances of his Eleventh Symphony. Glass first came to Chicago in 1952 to study composition at the University of Chicago, and we are delighted to celebrate his music and his connection to our city with these concerts.

For the first time since 2014, Muti conducts Beethoven’s iconic Ninth Symphony with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. The Chorus is prepared by its Director and Conductor Duain Wolfe, who marks his retirement with this program after more than a quarter century leading the ensemble. A tribute to Wolfe appears on page 10. Truly extraordinary artistic forces assemble for this seminal work that culminates in the “Ode to Joy”—a welcome affirmation of friendship and humanity.

In March, the Orchestra also makes its first appearance this season at Wheaton College for a concert conducted by Dame Jane Glover that features organist Paul Jacobs and the CSO’s Principal Oboe William Welter as soloists.

Musicians from the CSO also perform on the second contemporary MusicNOW concert of the season curated by Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery at the Harris Theater.

This is also a time for robust concert offerings by Symphony Center Presents.

In addition to four Piano series recitals, the Chamber Music series features the remarkable trio of Leonidas Kavakos, Emanuel Ax, and Yo-Yo Ma, as well as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Mitsuko Uchida. On the Jazz series, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs two programs: one honoring Marsalis’s recent sixtieth birthday and the other, with special guest Bryan Stevenson, paying tribute to important moments and figures in Black history.

For more information on all our concerts, as well as the many educational activities of the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute, please visit our box office or cso.org. Thank you for supporting great music in Chicago.

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

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Jeff Alexander President Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

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“ Our door is always open, our hearts, even more” Community Outreach Concerts Warm Up Muti’s January CSO Residency

By Dennis Polkow

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mong the highlights of Riccardo Muti’s three-week January residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra were two community outreach concerts. The first occurred on January 14 at Morton East High School in Cicero.

Muti, the CSO’s Zell Music Director, led an all-Beethoven program that included the Coriolan Overture and the Eighth and Fifth symphonies.

Associate Principal Horn Daniel Gingrich, a Morton alumnus, was recognized by the school at the beginning of the concert. “Enough decades had gone by that I wasn’t expecting to recognize anyone, nor anyone to recognize me,” said Gingrich, class of 1971. “But nevertheless, it was definitely fun. After fifty-plus years, the recognition I received was much stronger than I expected. This was our second concert there.” Muti and

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f r o m t o p : Audiences at Chodl Auditorium at Morton East High School cheer the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti following performances of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Fifth and Eighth symphonies. January 14, 2022 Riccardo Muti addresses the audience at the Apostolic Church of God in the Woodlawn neighborhood during the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Handel’s Water Music and concertos by Vivaldi.

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the CSO had previously performed at Morton East in 2013.

“I was actually a Morton West student,” said Gingrich, “but we had a combined music program. This was the baby-boom

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era, so both schools were more than full. he second Muti-led CSO commuAnd because that auditorium is so much nity outreach concert took place on better than the one at the West building, January 28 at the Apostolic Church we had weekly rehearsals there and did of God in the Woodlawn neighborhood. all our evening performances there with a This was the third time Muti and the CSO combined band or orchestra. I was in both had performed there. band and orchestra.”

Pastor Dr. Byron T. Brazier introduced Gingrich fondly recalls late Morton the concert and noted that Muti had West band director Joseph Frantik, whom said “in one of his interviews how much he saw “every morning,” as band was a he loved Apostolic. I want all to know that credit class.” Joe was a clarinet player we love Maestro Muti,” Brazier said to who played around town as a freelancer,” thunderous applause. “We appreciate and said Gingrich. “He was Northwesternthank each and every one of you in this educated and did transcriptions of Saintorchestra. May God bless you. And please, Saëns’s Organ Symphony for band. We did let’s give the orchestra another hand.” band transcriptions of Brahms’s First and An intermission-less program of conShostakovich’s Fifth symphonies. It was certos by Vivaldi—spotlighting CSO solonot your typical high school band reperists Robert Chen, Stephanie Jeong, David toire. It was a really great program.”

Taylor, Yuan-Qing Yu, and Stefán Ragnar Muti was impressed with the attenHöskuldsson—and Handel’s Water Music tive, near-capacity family audience that followed, the audience gently pulled attended the Morton East concert, and in by the intimacy of the smaller forces with the venue itself. “This hall was built compared to the full orchestra that had in such a way that performed there in prethe acoustics could vious concerts. be excellent here,” “Thank you for comsaid Muti backstage ing to hear one of the after the concert. “In greatest orchestras in this way, the Chicago the world,” Muti said, Symphony could have a interrupting an enthuseries of concerts here. siastic standing ovation It could also be a good at the conclusion of the place for recording.” concert. “I would say In Gingrich’s own greatest orchestra in the Daniel Gingrich, the CSO’s associate principal horn, waves appreciatively when case of growing up in world, but I don’t want singled out as a graduate of Morton West Stickney, Illinois, his to have others upset!

High School. first CSO concert was “I am very happy, and the happenstance of we are very honored a friend who handed him a ticket and that Mayor Lightfoot is here tonight. And said, “You’re coming to this.” the First Lady, also. We are always happy “It was Good Friday, 1969,” Gingrich when you come to see us. recalled. “I was a sophomore in high “Music is something that is extremely school. Solti was doing Mahler Second, important. The first voice of God was harand that was a life-changing experience mony. And I am sure that there was some for me—all those horns strung across sound, it cannot be that the universe is the stage.” without sound. It is called the harmony

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Muti Conducts Montgomery & Beethoven Pastoral APRIL 28 – MAY 3 Riccardo Muti conductor Alexander Hanna bass MONTGOMERY Hymn for Everyone cso commission, world premiere

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c l o c k w i s e f r o m t o p l e f t: CSO musicians Robert Chen, Stephanie Jeong, David Taylor, and Yuan-Qing Yu perform Vivaldi’s Concerto in B minor for Four Violins (RV 580).

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and First Lady Amy Eshleman applaud the CSO’s recent performance at Apostolic Church of God. Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson performs Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto in G minor (RV 439) at Apostolic Church of God.

of the spheres of the planet. Our music— music of other countries, of different languages—all comes from the soul and the heart. It is universal and very important. A saint once said, ‘Cantare, amantis est.’ To make music, to sing, is an expression of love. Universal love.

“For twenty-five years, I have done Roads of Friendship concerts all over the world. One time, when we were in Nairobi, in Kenya, some wonderful kids did a chorus from an Italian opera, the famous ‘Va, pensiero.’ They were fantastic. They sang with perfect pronunciation of the Italian language. Music can free us to be brothers.

“We will come back to you,” Muti continued to applause. “But my goal is that you also come to us. Don’t be afraid of a famous hall, of people that are ‘competent,’ that think they know everything about music. Such people don’t know anything! They should stay home. You should come.

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“We will play music that belongs to your tradition, but also the music that belongs to ‘our’ so-called tradition. But it is all of our tradition. Then I will be happy.

We open our doors to you. We need you.

Frederick II, the famous emperor whom I worship said, ‘Semper patent corda magis.’

The door of our theater is always open to you. And our heart is open, even more.”

“That was beautiful, Maestro,” said Mayor Lori Lightfoot, coming into the sanctuary with First Lady Amy Eshleman to greet Muti after the concert, both visibly moved. “This is such a blessing to this community. It lifted everyone’s spirits.

I learned classical music when I was in high school and we learned Messiah from beginning to end. Handel is so distinctive.

Getting to hear this was such a treat.”

Award-winning veteran journalist, critic, author, broadcaster, and educator Dennis Polkow has been covering the Chicago Symphony Orchestra across various local, national, and international media for over thirty-five years.

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a b o v e : Among numerous other recordings, Wolfe prepared the Chicago Symphony Chorus for these two Grammy Award–winning recordings.

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he Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association celebrates Duain Wolfe on the occasion of his retirement from his role as the Chicago Symphony Chorus’s director and conductor. Only the second director of the Chorus since its founding in the 1957–58 season, he has been the tireless standard-bearer of an ensemble that represents the best in choral performance.

Wolfe first prepared the Chicago Symphony Chorus as a guest for a Ravinia Festival program of opera choruses in August 1993 and again early the following February for performances downtown of Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden.

Concluding a three-year search, the CSO’s then music director Daniel Barenboim announced that Wolfe would succeed Margaret Hillis, founder and first director of the Chorus. He officially began on June 1, 1994, and since then has prepared the Chorus for over 150 programs during his twenty-eightyear tenure. Clarity, focus, rhythmic precision, power, and transcendent beauty are just a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe the Chorus under his leadership.

Wolfe’s profound knowledge of the operatic and choral canons, appetite for new works, and expert musicianship have resulted in a remarkable legacy of memorable performances. Another element to his success has been his tireless work ethic. His attention to detail and standards for excellence for his myriad responsibilities—from meticulous score study to his understanding of the human voice, from leading expertly organized rehearsals to managing rigorous auditions—have been an inspiration to colleagues, conductors, soloists, and vocal and instrumental musicians. He has also encouraged generations of young musicians with his conducting and mentorship.

Duain Wolfe has prepared the Chicago Symphony Chorus for performances conducted by three CSO music directors— Sir Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, and Riccardo Muti— as well as CSO titled conductors Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, and Bernhard Haitink and many distinguished guest conductors. He has worked with CSO Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti on notable performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony; landmarks of the Italian vocal literature, including Verdi’s Requiem and four operas—Otello, Macbeth, Falstaff, and Aida—as well as Mascagni’s Cavalleria P HOTOS BY TODD ROS EN BERG U N L ES S OTHERW I S E N OTED

c l o c k w i s e f r o m t o p : Riccardo Muti shakes the hand of Duain Wolfe following the October 2012 performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana at Carnegie Hall.

Duain Wolfe conducts a special concert in honor of the fiftieth anniversary season of the Chicago Symphony Chorus on April 12, 2008.

At the Berlin Philharmonie on April 1, 1999— following two performances at Orchestra Hall on March 24 and 26—Pierre Boulez leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, and soloists in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron.

Wolfe leads a rehearsal on September 29, 1997, in preparation for Sir Georg Solti’s memorial concert, photo by Jim Steere.

Wolfe leads a rehearsal in Buntrock Hall to prepare the Chicago Symphony Chorus for the December 2021 performances of Handel’s Messiah.

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rusticana, the Prologue to Boito’s clock wise from top: During his tenure, Wolfe’s creA portrait of the Chicago Mefistofele, and many opera choativity and innovative programSymphony Chorus on the ruses; and Prokofiev’s Alexander ming were on full display. The very Armour Stage from 2017 Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible; along popular holiday series, Welcome Duain Wolfe and the Chorus with many of the classics of the Yule!, was conceived and conreceive an ovation following the October 25, 2012, perchoral literature. ducted by Wolfe for twenty years. formance of Beethoven’s In addition to concerts at His formation of the Chicago Missa solemnis conducted Orchestra Hall and the Ravinia Symphony Singers, a superb tourby Bernard Haitink.

Festival, Wolfe has prepared the ing chamber chorus, along with his Duain Wolfe addresses the Chicago Symphony Chorus for peraudience at Welcome Yule! imaginative youth programs, are on December 14, 2012. formances at the Pritzker Pavilion additional examples of his artistry in Millennium Park, Carnegie Hall, brought to life. He was also a freand the Philharmonie in Berlin. World premieres quent guest on the Classic Encounter preconwith the Orchestra and Chorus include John cert and Salon series.

Harbison’s Four Psalms and Bernard Rands’s Before his retirement, Wolfe prepares the apókryphos, both commissioned by the CSO. Chorus for four performances of Beethoven’s He also has prepared the Chorus for numerous Ninth Symphony conducted by Muti from recordings, including three Grammy Award winFebruary 24 to 27. Its famous choral finale, ners: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the “Ode to Joy,” will mark a symbolic celeconducted by Sir Georg Solti, won Best bration of Duain Wolfe’s career and extraordiOpera; Verdi’s Requiem received Best Choral nary artistic leadership, for which the Chicago Performance and Best Classical Album, and Symphony Orchestra Association family will be Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 13 (Babi Yar) won ever grateful.

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Three Days with Hilary Hahn, the CSO’s Artist-in-Residence

By Graham Meyer

a b o v e : From December 9 to 11, Hilary Hahn gave three performances with the CSO of Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, a work that received its U.S. premiere with the Orchestra in October 1891, 130 years earlier.

Photo by Anne Ryan o p p o s i t e pa g e , c l o c k w i s e f r o m t o p l e f t: Hahn provides feedback to violinist Kai Isoke Ali-Landing, a fellow of the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative (CMPI). Offering training, mentorship, and support to young musicians from diverse backgrounds who plan to pursue professional careers in music, CMPI is led by a consortium of Chicago musical organizations including the CSO. Photo by Anne Ryan Hahn coaches students in a chamber music performance at Northside College Prep High School, one of the city’s 653 public schools. Photos by Todd Rosenberg

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On December 9, 2021, Hilary Hahn strode onstage with her 1865 Vuillaume violin, wearing a Carolina Herrera gown with a red, orange, violet-blue, and lavender skirt, and publicly launched her two-year term as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Artist-in-Residence with a quadruple-stop downbow. She played Dvořák’s Violin Concerto in A minor with verve and fire, whipsawing from aching lyricism to virtuosic technical passages, spun out with a passion that belied their difficulty. During rests in the solo part, she kept her posture engaged with the Orchestra, leaning into phrases and feeling the articulation, almost as if she were the conductor and not Andrés Orozco-Estrada. After the concerto, the near-capacity audience tried to match her powerful performance with applause, and she graciously rewarded us with the Largo movement from Bach’s Sonata no. 3 for solo violin, played with a contemplative intimacy that held the audience rapt.

The subscription concert marked Hahn’s first local appearance since the June announcement of her appointment as the CSO’s

Artist-in-Residence. She is the first person on whom the Orchestra has ever bestowed the title, and while she holds it, she will make multiple visits per year to Chicago for music making and community building. “Music is bonding,” Hahn says. “It’s healing. Every one of us has something in common beyond being in the hall at the same place, at the same time, listening to the same piece.” Hahn continued, “I think the common connections of humanity and music are really deep, and that’s what I like to explore in a residency.”

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uring her December visit, organized by the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute, Hahn spent a school-day morning at Northside College Preparatory High School.

For a session in the Cedric L. Hampton Center for the Performing Arts, she coached four young players on Grażyna Bacewicz’s Quartet for Four Violins, in what Hahn said was her first-ever coaching of a chamber group. After the quartet played through the piece and a gentle insistence that the shy group bow for applause, she asked,

surprisingly, “Have you listened to much organ music?” She talked about how the theme of the piece should pop out of the texture because of its distinctive character, something that’s easy to do on a pipe organ by changing the registration.

She took the players through a series of experiments—“try it drier,” “close your eyes,” “find the space inside the sound”—and wrapped up with compliments and more applause.

She then coached a string quartet on Waiting in the Misty Woodland, a piece newly composed by the quartet’s violist, Ellen Campbell. The piece jumped mercurially among the gamut of string articulations, from pizzicatos to long bowings. After the playthrough, Hahn waxed poetic about the opportunity offered when a musician works with a living composer, something she knows quite a bit about, prominently from her album In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores, a collection of twenty-seven encore-length commissions (Hahn said learning the music was “for me, the equivalent of twenty-seven violin concertos”).

“The composer can plant inspirational or aspirational ideas for the sound-world of the piece in the minds of the players, and the performers’ job is to inhabit it,” Hahn said. “The more rewarding it is to inhabit, the better,” she added. Campbell described the essence of the piece as the experience of traveling for Thanksgiving, seeing autumnal scenes through the car window, and finally arriving at the end. Hahn had the quartet play some passages again with this scheme of images in mind, committing to conveying mood over accuracy and setting up a dynamic effect like a cinematic scene break at the end.

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bow, swept up in the attempt. “Don’t worry— that shows commitment,” Hahn said, with twinkling warmth.

The following morning in Buntrock Hall at Symphony Center, Hahn led a master class of students from the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative, a nonprofit organization that removes barriers for young BIPOC musicians on their way to top-tier conservatory or university music programs and a partner of the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute. Hahn coaxed a bolder, brighter soloistic tone out of a thirteen-year-old playing Bruch’s Concerto in G minor. In an already polished interpretation of Korngold’s Violin Concerto, she answered a request from a sixteen year old to help her find more precise articulations. And for another sixteen year old bravely presenting the very same concerto by Dvořák that Hahn was playing with the CSO that weekend, she helped him find a more fiery tone in some difficult passages.

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ater this season, Hahn returns to perform a mixed chamber program on April 1 with cellist Seth Parker Woods and pianist Andreas Haefliger as part the Symphony Center Presents Chamber Music series. Hahn and Woods will play a duo by Zoltán Kodály, she and Haefliger will play Beethoven’s Violin Sonata no. 10, and the trio will play be still and know by Carlos Simon, the current composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The title of Simon’s piece comes from a quote from Oprah Winfrey, referring to the experience of mindfully feeling presence within calm. For Hahn, the idea resonates with her philosophy of music as a vehicle for human connection.

“Being a performer and being still in moments onstage, I do have a sense of enormous

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overlapping layers of presence,” she says.

“History, composers who have gone before me, the thousands of hours of great performances that have left some sort of mark in the space, or, more immediately, the audience—the presence of all of us together is really powerful.”

Future residencies will include more concert appearances, master classes, community engagement, and hopefully extensions of some of her own projects, such as the Bring Your Own Baby concerts, where she plays complex, ear-stimulating, un-stressful music such as solo Bach for caregivers to the smallest and squalliest audience members, in a setting where their noises and biological necessities are welcome.

Her greatest contribution to Chicago during her term, though, may be the chance for all of us to be exposed to her particular approach to music and music making: clear-eyed but not simplistic, cerebral but not sterile, self-aware but not self-serious. As she said in response to a questioner at Northside who asked how she came to the violin (the questioner herself came to it directly from watching Hahn play Mendelssohn’s E minor concerto on YouTube). “I didn’t have a moment where I said, ‘Can I please play violin?’ I was lucky to have stumbled across it,” said Hahn.

“I love the physical feel of playing it, of activating my voice, that it is somehow talking. It’s also close to the heart.” She paused. “It sounds hokey, but it’s also physically true.”

Beauty is truth, Keats told us, in half his famous inversion. It’s also intelligence, humor, and joy.

Graham Meyer is a writer, editor, composer, and crossword puzzle constructor based in Chicago. He writes the weekly arts and culture column The Big Ticket for Crain’s Chicago Business.

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Welcome back to Symphony Center!

I am thrilled to welcome you back to live performances in Orchestra Hall once again during the ninety-first season of the Symphony Center Presents series. We look ahead to a bright future with this season’s concerts that illustrate the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association’s ongoing commitment to offering presentations of the highest quality.

Our winter and spring 2022 season plans feature our hallmark mix of familiar artists as well as exciting debuts. In addition to upcoming appearances by Sir András Schiff, Yuja Wang, Yefim Bronfman, and Evgeny Kissin, the SCP Piano series features today’s debut performance by George Li as well as the debut of Denis Kozhukhin in June. Our Chamber Music series includes performances by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra led by Mitsuko Uchida and, in her first recital as the CSO’s new Artist-in-Residence, a unique program by violinist Hilary Hahn with cellist Seth Parker Woods and pianist Andreas Haefliger. The SCP Jazz series welcomes outstanding vocalists Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Cécile McLorin Salvant and new programs

by Sean Jones and Chicagoan Thaddeus Tukes.

While I am proud of the limited, virtual concerts that we were able to offer during the ninetieth season of Symphony Center Presents, we sorely missed presenting live performances for you, our loyal patrons and subscribers, who make these presentations complete. I cannot tell you how much I look forward to seeing you in the audience, and I thank you for your continued support.

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SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS Sunday, March 13, 2022, at 3:00

Piano Series GEORGE LI schumann schumann

Arabeske, Op. 18 Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17

To be performed always fantastically and passionately— In the style of a legend Moderate tempo: Always energetic Slow and solemn: Keep gentle throughout

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Instants d’un opéra de Pékin Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 28

No. 1 in C Major: Agitato No. 2 in A Minor: Lento No. 3 in G Major: Vivace No. 4 in E Minor: Largo No. 5 in D Major: Allegro molto No. 6 in B Minor: Lento assai No. 7 in A Major: Andantino No. 8 in F-sharp Minor: Molto agitato No. 9 in E Major: Largo No. 10 in C-sharp Minor: Allegro molto No. 11 in B Major: Vivace No. 12 in G-sharp Minor: Presto No. 13 in F-sharp Major: Lento No. 14 in E-flat Minor: Allegro No. 15 in D-flat Major: Sostenuto No. 16 in B-flat Minor: Presto con fuoco No. 17 in A-flat Major: Allegretto No. 18 in F Minor: Allegro molto No. 19 in E-flat Major: Vivace No. 20 in C Minor: Largo No. 21 in B-flat Major: Cantabile No. 22 in G Minor: Molto agitato No. 23 in F Major: Moderato No. 24 in D Minor: Allegro appassionato

This concert is generously partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

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comments by richard e. rodda robert schumann

Born June 8, 1810; Zwickau, Germany Died July 29, 1856; Endenich, near Bonn, Germany

Arabeske, Op. 18 composed 1839

By the middle of 1838, Robert Schumann’s parallel passions for music, writing, and Clara Wieck had brought the twenty-eight– year–old composer to a crucial point in his life. Denied by the adamant intervention of Clara’s father from having her hand in marriage, resigned to never becoming the piano virtuoso he had dreamed since childhood, and seeking a more vibrant musical milieu than Leipzig as the base for the journal Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), which he had edited since its inception in 1833, Schumann decided that a move to Vienna might improve his fortunes.

On August 5, 1838, he wrote to his friend Joseph Fischhof, then living in Vienna, “Don’t be frightened, if, in two months, somebody knocks at your door—my ghost, my very self; still more, if he tells you that he shall probably settle in Vienna next year and forever.” Hoping both to reestablish the Zeitschrift and to achieve sufficient financial and artistic success to force Papa Wieck into consenting to his marriage to Clara, Schumann arrived in Vienna at the end of September. “I have been received with great kindness, even by the minister of police, who gave me an audience day before yesterday,” he reported to his brother Eduard in Zwickau, the family’s hometown.

He said that there was no objection to my living here, and that I might set to work

as soon as an Austrian publisher could be found. If I could not find one, however, I might meet with great difficulties, being a foreigner, & etc. . . . You would hardly believe how many petty factions and coteries there are here: to get a firm foothold, one must have a great deal of the snake about him, which I don’t think I have.

He found rooms with a family named Cavalcabo, whose daughter Julia was taking lessons from Franz Xaver Mozart, Wolfgang’s son, and demonstrating some talent as a composer for piano and voice.

Schumann became friendly with Franz Xaver and was warmly greeted by a number of other prominent local musicians and artists, but he remained cautious about Vienna. “I shouldn’t like to live here long and alone,” he confided to Eduard.

“Serious men and Saxons are seldom wanted or understood here.” By Christmas, it had become clear to Schumann that his Viennese venture would fail—he could find no significant way in which to advance his career, there was no promising situation for the Zeitschrift, and he missed Clara terribly, all the more since the Viennese adored her playing and continually interrogated him to learn more about her. He lingered in the imperial city until March 30, 1839, when news that Eduard had become seriously ill took him posthaste to Zwickau; he arrived just after his

from top : Robert Schumann, 1850 Daguerreotype by Johann Anton Völlner. Hamburg, Germany Portrait of Franz Xaver Mozart (1825) by Karl Gottlieb Schweikart. Schumann befriended Franz Xaver in Vienna.

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brother died. Saddened by his loss and by the disappointment in Vienna, Schumann returned to Leipzig, where, after six more months of waiting to outlast Papa Wieck’s intransigence and legal obstacles, he finally married his beloved Clara on September 12, the eve of her twenty-first birthday.

Though Schumann did not realize his most immediate goals during his Viennese incursion, the enterprise was not without value. He brought home with him two important souvenirs—a steel pen that he found on the grave of Beethoven, with which he wrote his First Symphony in 1841; and the manuscript for the late Franz Schubert’s never-performed Ninth Symphony, unearthed from the piles of manuscripts preserved by that composer’s brother, Ferdinand, and heard for the first time, at Schumann’s insistence, at Felix Mendelssohn’s Leipzig Gewandhaus concert of December 12, 1839. In addition, Schumann composed several piano works in Vienna, including the finale of the G minor sonata (op. 22), Arabeske (op. 18), Blumenstück (op. 19), Humoreske (op. 20), Nachtstücke (op. 23), the opening sections of the Faschingsschwank

aus Wien (Carnival Jest from Vienna, op. 26), and a number of smaller pieces.

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he word “arabesque” has been used in the West since the Middle Ages to describe any ornamentation consisting of flowing traceries of sinuous, undulating, or geometrical designs. The term was inspired by the Arab tradition, which forbade the representation of living creatures and so instead developed intricate artwork around elaborate geometrical and botanical patterns that carefully interlaced scrolls and curves and spirals with dazzling virtuosity.

Schumann borrowed the word as the title for one of his most ingratiating short piano pieces, the Arabeske, composed in Vienna early in 1839.

The work is arranged in a rondo form, in which the elegant, whispering principal theme is twice interrupted by wistful minor episodes. Added as a coda is a thoughtful paragraph in slow tempo, “a final message for the listener to turn over in his mind” according to the British critic Kathleen Dale, that reflects the dreamy and romantic side of Schumann’s personality. A tiny wisp of the principal theme rises from the closing measure.

abov e : Lithograph of Robert and Clara Schumann by Eduard Kaiser (1820–1895), Vienna, 1847; inscribed to their Zwickau friend, composer and writer Emanuel Klitzsch (1812–1889)

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Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17 composed 1836–38

“Ruins,” he called it, “the most passionate thing I have ever written—a deep lament for you.” Thus did Robert Schumann explain the content and genesis of the Fantasy in C major to his beloved Clara Wieck following a bitter period of separation imposed by the girl’s tyrannical father in 1836. Friedrich Wieck of Leipzig was one of the most renowned piano pedagogues of his day, eagerly sought out for the discipline and efficacy of his teaching by talented students, including Schumann, who placed himself under Wieck’s stern gaze in 1829.

Schumann showed such promise that Wieck took him into his household for full-time instruction, and there the twenty-year-old musician worked up not only the obligatory scales and etudes, but also an infatuation for young Clara, whom Wieck was grooming for the life of a piano virtuoso. Love developed slowly but steadily between the couple—Clara was nine years younger than Robert—and it was sufficiently advanced by the mid-1830s to cause Papa Wieck serious concern. Schumann by that time had abandoned hopes of a career as a concert pianist and had turned instead to composing and editing the fledgling music journal Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, endeavors that Wieck judged offered slim prospects for producing an appropriate marriage partner for his daughter, who was just then beginning to establish her international reputation as a pianist.

Early in 1836, Wieck shipped the still-underage Clara off to Dresden to get her away from Schumann, but Robert followed his beloved there, and won a declaration of mutual love from her. When Wieck learned of this development, he retrieved Clara to Leipzig, and forbid

her further contact with Schumann in person or even by letter; Wieck filled the void by spawning unfounded rumors of new liaisons intended to make the lovers distrust each other. Schumann, referring to the volatile emotions that troubled him throughout his life, later wrote to Clara about those days, when he was afraid not just of losing her, but even his reason: Being unable to learn anything about you, I wished, with all my might, to forget you. It was at that time that we had become strangers to one another. I was resigned. Then my old suffering burst out afresh and made me wring my hands. Often at night I would implore God: “Grant me at least one night of tranquility in which my mind would not give way.”

Despite the unsettling anxiety of those months, Schumann’s creativity was fiercely fired by the mingled pain and hope, and in June 1836, he began the superb Fantasy in C major, into whose opening movement, which he entitled Ruins, he wove a quotation from Beethoven’s song cycle An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved) to summon the vision of the cloistered Clara. He inscribed a poem by Friedrich Schlegel at the head of the score as a message to her: Through all the tones / In earth’s many-colored dream / There sounds one soft long-drawn note / For the one who listens in secret. Clara and Robert remained faithful and determined through those difficult months, and by early the next year, they had resumed their correspondence. They were engaged in August 1837—by surreptitious letter— and finally married three years later.

Though it was his infatuation with Clara that provided the spark to begin the C major fantasy, it was another powerful influence in Schumann’s creative life that helped bring the work to fruition—Ludwig van Beethoven. In 1835, eight

abov e : Schumann, 1839, in a sketch by Josef Kriehuber (1800–1876)

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years after Beethoven’s death, the administrators of the composer’s hometown, Bonn, organized a subscription to erect a monument commemorating the city’s most famous son. Calls went out to the German musical community to offer support for the project, and Schumann reprinted the monument committee’s request in the April 1836 edition of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and authored a four-part essay entitled “Monument for Beethoven” for the journal two months later, at just the time that he was undertaking the fantasy. By the end of the summer, the work had transcended its original personal, confessional purpose and become associated with the campaign for the Beethoven memorial. By December, Schumann had added to the original opening movement, Ruins, two others, which he called Trophies and Palms to note the heroic stature Beethoven’s successors accorded to him; he later changed the names to Triumphal Arch and Constellation.

During 1837, Schumann proposed to two publishers, Kistner and Haslinger, that his sonata for Beethoven be issued in a special edition as a fundraiser but got nowhere. He finally placed the piece with Breitkopf and Härtel and made some final revisions to the score in January 1838; it was published in March or April of the following year.

Though the fantasy did not generate any revenues for the Beethoven memorial, Schumann did dedicate the score to Franz Liszt, whose time and money were essential to completing the monument, which was finally unveiled in Bonn in August 1845, the seventy-fifth anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. Schumann was too ill to attend the ceremony.

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hough the opening movement of the fantasy, which Schumann instructed should “be interpreted in a fantastic and passionate manner,” is founded upon traditional sonata form (with a nostalgic central episode marked Im Legendenton—In the Style of a Legend—replacing the conventional development section), the distinguished pianist and

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scholar Charles Rosen noted in his book on The Romantic Generation a revolutionary structural/ emotional process here that moves beyond the customary dynamics and balances of the traditional classical form: [The movement] begins with great tension, descends toward resolution and is frustrated, moves to a point of greater tension, and initiates the process over and over again. The structure is like a series of waves, starting with the climax, losing momentum each time, and then beginning again. . . .

Schumann’s radical innovation was a new large sense of rhythm conceived as a series of waves, crucial to later composers like Wagner and Strauss.

[The movement] begins with great tension, descends toward resolution and is frustrated, moves to a point of greater tension, and initiates the process over and over again. The structure is like a series of waves, starting with the climax, losing momentum each time, and then beginning again. . . .

Schumann’s radical innovation was a new large sense of rhythm conceived as a series of waves, crucial to later composers like Wagner and Strauss.

The second movement is an assertive and technically demanding march, which Liszt greatly admired and Clara said made her feel, Hot and cold all over. . . . Many images are evoked. . . . It strikes me as a victory march of warriors following a battle, and the [more subdued] central theme makes me think of young maidens in a village, all dressed in white, each with a wreath in her hand to crown the warriors kneeling before them.

The finale is a spacious, serene slow movement of exquisitely subtle light and shadow that seems to suspend time itself.

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qigang chen

Born August 28, 1951; Shanghai, China

Instants d’un opéra de Pékin (Moments from a Beijing Opera) composed 2000–04

“His compositions display real inventiveness, very great talent, and a total assimilation of Chinese thinking to European musical concepts. He is endowed with exceptional intelligence and an excellent internal ‘ear.’ I hold him in high esteem, and wish him the greatest success, for he deserves it.”

Olivier Messiaen offered this encomium shortly before his death, in 1992, about his last student, the only one he accepted after retiring from the faculty of the Paris Conservatory in 1978— Shanghai-born composer Qigang Chen.

Chen’s entry into Western musical life was hard won. He was born in 1951 in Shanghai and raised in Beijing, where his father, a noted calligrapher and painter, was administrator of the Academy of Fine Arts. When the Cultural Revolution abruptly halted China’s educational, intellectual, and artistic life in 1966, his father was sent to a labor camp and Chen’s musical studies were interrupted while he was held in confinement for the next three years to undergo “ideological reeducation.” His passion for music never wavered, however, and he continued to study composition on his own.

When the schools were reopened in 1977, Chen was one of just twenty-six of some 2,000 applicants to be accepted at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. After studying with Luo Zhonghong for the next five years, he graduated first in his class, a distinction that earned him a visa to continue his training abroad; a grant from the French government in 1983 took him to Paris to study with Messiaen. He

also worked with Ivo Malec, Betsy Jolas, Claude Ballif, Claude Castérède, and Franco Donatoni during the next four years, and in 1988 he was granted an advanced diploma in composition by the École Normale de Musique; he received a diploma in musicology from the Sorbonne a year later. Chen became a French citizen in 1992, and he has since divided his career between France and China, where he taught at the conservatories in Shanghai and Beijing, and served as music director for the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics; in 2015 he established a composition workshop for young musicians at Gonggen College in China. In 2013 he was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.

Chen composed Instants d’un opéra de Pékin (Moments from a Beijing Opera) in 2000 for the Olivier Messiaen International Piano Competition, held that December at the Cité de la Musique in Paris; it was the required piece for all the finalists. Of it, he wrote, As a former clarinetist, I never had the impulse to compose for piano solo, but when I was honored with a commission from the Messiaen International Piano Competition, I decided to venture it. At the same time, I wanted to experiment with mixing elements that have nothing in common.

The theme and counter-theme of Instants d’un opéra de Pékin come from two wellknown instrumental fragments that are often used in the operas for scenes in which the actors mime without singing. Two musical worlds are joined in the following ways: A traditional monophonic [single melody] element is married to harmonies

abov e : Qigang Chen, photo by Wang Hong

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and counterpoint. The repetitive traditional melody is gradually combined with theme and variations form. Parallel melodic lines without any changes of mode are contrasted with “Messiaenesque” modulations. If I were to make a suggestion regarding the interpretation, it would be to consider the piece as an orchestral one rather than one for piano.

In 2021, Chen based a symphonic overture on Instants d’un opéra de Pékin, which was premiered on March 20 at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing by the China Philharmonic Orchestra.

frédéric chopin

Born February 22, 1810; Żelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, Poland Died October 17, 1849; Paris, France

Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 28 composed 1836–38

By the summer of 1838, Chopin’s health was showing disturbing signs of decline, and George Sand, the flamboyantly iconoclastic novelist who was his muse and protectress, told him that they needed to leave Paris before damp winter set in. They settled on the distant Mediterranean island of Majorca, off the eastern coast of Spain, which friends (who had not been there) assured them was blessed with abundant sunshine and fresh air. Chopin sold the rights to his Twenty-Four Preludes, which he had been planning (and perhaps sketching) since 1836, to the publisher Camille Pleyel to help finance the trip (500 francs in advance, 1,500 upon delivery of the manuscript), and he, George, and her son and daughter left Paris in October. Sand recorded that Chopin was “fresh as a rose and rosy as a turnip” when they embarked from Barcelona for Majorca on November 7, and that he had stocked up on manuscript paper in anticipation of a fruitful retreat away from Paris. Their high spirits were

little dampened when they had trouble finding a place to stay in Palma—they had to settle for noisy rooms above a cooper’s shop—and Chopin reported to his university friend Julius Fontana, “I am at Palma, among palms, cedars, cactuses, olive trees, oranges, figs, pomegranates, etc. The sky is turquoise, the sea like emeralds, the air as in heaven. A superb life! I am close to what is most beautiful. I feel better.”

The company moved to a sparsely furnished house at the edge of Palma a few days later, where the bad luck that was to mark their Majorca stay continued. While they were out for a long walk across rugged country, a violent storm blew up, and Chopin contracted a severe case of bronchitis. The rains returned, the house became miserably dank, and Chopin got worse.

The physician that Sand summoned diagnosed Chopin’s malady as consumption, the highly contagious scourge of the nineteenth century, and their landlord demanded that they leave his property before it became infected. The party transferred to the French embassy for a few days, and then moved to converted cells in a deserted monastery at Valldemosa, situated in a wild and romantic spot six miles from town. “He is recovering, and I hope he will soon be better

a b o v e : Chopin, watercolor and ink drawing by fiancée Maria Wodzińska (1819–1896), 1836. National Museum, Warsaw, Poland

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than before,” wrote Sand on December 14, just before they installed themselves at Valldemosa. “His goodness and patience are angelic.”

Chopin was well enough by the end of December to write down two more of the preludes that he had promised to Pleyel, though his work was considerably hampered by a dilapidated old piano, the only one he could find for himself on the island. The storms continued, and his health varied from day to day, but he still found some joy in the time on Majorca— “everything here breathes poetry and the scenery is wonderfully colored,” he wrote to a friend.

A good piano, sent from Paris two months before

by Pleyel, finally arrived in mid-January, and it inspired him to complete the preludes and send them off to Pleyel in short order, but by then the spartan accommodations, the shabby treatment by the locals (whose antagonism had been aroused by the visitors’ unmarried state), the rambunctious children, the poor weather, and the continuing fragility of Chopin’s health had brought them to a state of loathing the island.

Sand concluded that the Majorca venture had been “a complete disaster.” When they sailed for Barcelona on February 15, Chopin’s health was much worse than when they had arrived three months before. Their crossing, in a cargo boat laden with live pigs, was rough, and Chopin developed a serious hemorrhage of the lungs, from which he lost much blood. A French doctor in Barcelona stabilized him well enough so that he could be taken to Marseille, and the company stayed there until leaving for Sand’s country villa at Nohant in May. Chopin’s strength revived with the coming of spring, and he, Sand and the children, a year older, finally returned home to

Paris in October. The preludes were published in France, England, and Germany later that year.

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he very quintessence of the musical art— the ineffable balance of head and heart, of intellect and emotion—is embodied in Chopin’s preludes. Franz Liszt admired greatly their apparently unfettered romantic spontaneity, saying that these pieces “cradle the soul in golden dreams, and elevate it to the regions of the ideal. . . . Everything seems fresh, elastic, created at the impulse of the moment, abounding with that freedom of expression which is characteristic of works of genius.” Robert Schumann (who had hailed Chopin in his review of the 1827 Variations on Mozart’s “Là ci darem la mano” with the encomium “Hats off, gentlemen!

A genius!”) wrote that they were “ruins, eagle wings, a wild motley of pieces . . . [with] a note of the morbid, the febrile, the repellent.”

Yet undergirding—perhaps even making possible—the undeniably impetuous passion of the preludes is a precise, rigorous, almost coldly intellectual organization of both atomistic detail and overall architecture inspired by the Twenty-Four Preludes and fugues comprising The Well-Tempered Clavier of Johann Sebastian

a b o v e : The Carthusian monastery in Valldemosa, Majorca, where George Sand and Chopin spent the winter of 1838–39.

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Bach, whom Chopin revered. As in the WTC, each of Chopin’s movements concerns itself with just a single musical idea, presenting it, varying it, seeking its multiplicity of expressive shadings by turning it this way and that, as a jeweler would hold a precious stone to the light to see its many sparkling facets. The string upon which these tiny, radiant musical gems is threaded is woven from the essence of the tonal system itself: in Bach, by alternating major and minor pieces arranged by ascending half-steps (C major, C minor; C-sharp major; C-sharp minor; etc.); in Chopin, by alternating major and minor movements around the “Circle of Fifths” (C major, A minor; G major, E minor [one sharp]; D major, B minor [two sharps]; etc.). The wonder of Bach, of Chopin, indeed, of all good music, is the way in which the craftsman-like calculation

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that is mandatory for the creation of a work of art (98% perspiration) becomes the invisible bearer of the expressive message (2% inspiration). The American philosopher Susanne Langer posited the concept that the artist’s principal job is “the search for significant form” in which to express emotion. There is no better example in all of music of the truth of Langer’s maxim than Chopin’s preludes—tiny, perfect sketches of the heart’s infinite moods realized through Olympian purity of thought.

Richard E. Rodda, a former faculty member at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, provides program notes for many American orchestras, concert series, and festivals.

profiles George Li Piano Pianist George Li possesses an effortless grace, poised authority, and brilliant virtuosity far beyond his years. Since winning the silver medal at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Li has rapidly established a major international reputation and performs regularly with some of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including Gustavo Dudamel, James Gaffigan, Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Gimeno, Manfred Honeck, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Vasily Petrenko, David Robertson, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson Thomas, Long Yu, and Xian Zhang.

Highlights of the 2021–22 season include orchestral engagements with the San Diego, Nashville, New World, Richmond, Utah, North Carolina, Pacific, and Valencia symphonies, as well as recitals in New York, Seattle, Prescott, Fort Worth, Costa Mesa, and Atlanta.

Recent concerto highlights include performances with the Los Angeles, New York, London, Rotterdam, Oslo, St. Petersburg, and Buffalo philharmonics; the San Francisco, Tokyo, Frankfurt Radio, Sydney, Montreal, and Baltimore symphonies; as well as the Philharmonia, DSO Berlin, and Orchestra National de Lyon. His eight-concert tour of Germany with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra included performances at the Berlin Philharmonie, Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich, and the Stuttgart Liederhalle. He frequently appears with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, including performances

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at the Paris Philharmonie, Luxembourg Philharmonie, New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music, Graffenegg Festival, and in various venues throughout Russia.

In recital, Li performs at venues including Carnegie Hall, Davies Hall in San Francisco, the Mariinsky Theatre, Elbphilharmonie, Munich’s Gasteig, the Louvre, Seoul Arts Center, Tokyo’s Asahi Hall and Musashino Hall, NCPA Beijing, Shanghai Poly Theater, and Amici della Musica Firenze, as well as appearances at major festivals including the Edinburgh International Festival, Verbier Festival, Ravinia Festival, Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence Festival, and Montreux Festival. An active chamber musician, Li has performed alongside Benjamin Beilman, Noah Bendix-Balgley, James Ehnes, Daniel Hope, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and Kian Soltani.

Li is an exclusive Warner Classics recording artist. His debut recital album, recorded live at the Mariinsky Theatre, released in 2017.

His second recording features solo works by Liszt and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1, recorded live with Vasily Petrenko and the London Philharmonic.

Li gave his first public performance at Boston’s Steinway Hall at the age of ten, and in 2011 performed for President Obama at the White House in an evening honoring Chancellor Angela Merkel. Li was been awarded many distinguished prizes, including a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a 2012 Gilmore Young Artist Award, and first prize at the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He is currently pursuing an artist diploma at the New England Conservatory, studying with Wha Kyung Byun.

When not playing piano, George Li is an avid reader and photographer, as well as a sports fanatic.

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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 Human Resources Lynne Sorkin Director Dijana Cirkic Coordinator A R T I S T I C A D M I N I S T R AT I O N Cristina Rocca Vice President The Richard and Mary L. Gray Chair Guillermo Muñoz Küster Artistic Planning Coordinator 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 Caroline Eichler Artist Coordinator, CSO Phillip Huscher Scholar-in-Residence & Program Annotator Pietro Fiumara Artists Assistant Chorus Shelley Baldridge Manager Heather Anderson Assistant Manager and Librarian ORCHESTR A AND B U I L D I N G O P E R AT I O N S 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 Charles Braico House Manager Michael Manning Manager, Audio Media & Operations Charlie Post Audio Engineer 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 Kyle Hendle Electricians Robert Stokas Chief Electrician Doug Scheuller Stage Technicians Christopher Lewis Stage Manager Blair Carlson Paul Christopher Ramon Echevarria Ryan Hartge Peter Landry Todd Snick

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Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO Jonathan McCormick Director, Education & the Negaunee Music Institute Katy Clusen Manager, School & Family Programs Sarah Vander Ploeg Coordinator, School & Community Partnerships Antonio Padilla Denis Operations Coordinator, Civic Orchestra of Chicago Rachael Cohen Programs Assistant F I N A N C E A N D A D M I N I S T R AT I O N Stacie Frank Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Renay Johansen Slifka Executive Assistant Accounting Kerri Gravlin Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Paulette Jean Volf, Janet Kosiba Assistant Controllers Janet Hansen Payroll Manager Marianne Hahn Accounting Manager Linda Long Accountant Hyon Yu General Ledger Manager Cynthia Maday Accounts Payable Manager Ted Sofios Payroll Assistant Information Technology Daniel Spees Director Douglas Bolino Client Systems Administrator Jackie Spark Lead Technologist Kirk McMahon Technologist SALES AND MARKETING Ryan Lewis Vice President Erika Nelson Director, Institutional Marketing & Revenue Management Content Marketing and Digital Experience Elisabeth Madeja Director Dana Navarro Associate Director, Digital Content & Producer Laura Emerick Digital Content Editor Steve Burkholder Web Manager Landon Hegedus Coordinator, Digital Engagement Niky Crawford Coordinator, Digital Content Megan Ireland Associate, Digital Engagement, Social Media Sasha Aleksandra Associate, Digital Engagement, Email Program Marketing and Operations Amy Brondyke Director Alex Demas Marketing Manager, CSO Tommy Crawford Associate Manager, Marketing Operations Kate McDuffie Coordinator, Community Marketing Amanda Swanson Marketing Associate, Data & Operations Jessica Reinhart Advertising & Promotions Specialist Creative Todd Land Director Sophie Weber Creative Services Manager Eddie Limperis Designer Emily Herrington Design Associate Content Frances Atkins Director Gerald Virgil Senior Content Editor Kristin Tobin Designer & Print Production Manager

Communications and Public Relations Eileen Chambers Director Clay Baker Coordinator 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 Manager, Box Office Steve Paulin Assistant Manager, Box Office Aislinn Gagliardi Supervisor, Patron Services, Accessibility Lead The Symphony Store Tyler Holstrom Manager DEVELOPMENT Dale Hedding Vice President Jeremiah Strickler Executive Assistant Bobbie Rafferty Director, Individual Giving & Affiliated Donor Groups Allison Szafranski Director, Leadership Gifts Alfred Andreychuk Director, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving Charles Palys Major Gifts Officer & Administrator Tori Ramsay Major Gifts Officer Dakota Williams Associate Director, Education & Community Engagement Giving Richard Riedl Manager, Governing Member Gifts Karen Bippus Manager, Endowment Gifts & Planned Giving Emily McClanathan Manager, Strategic Development Communications Erin Gernon Prospect Research Specialist & Moves Management Coordinator Neomia Harris Senior Assistant, Individual Giving Programs & Planned Giving Institutional Advancement Susan Green Director, Foundation & Government Relations Nick Magnone Director, Corporate Development Jennifer Urevig Manager, Corporate Development Jennifer Harazin Grant Writer Donor Engagement and Development Operations Liz Heinitz Senior Director, Development Operations & Annual Giving Lisa McDaniel Director, Donor Engagement Caitlyn Cushing Associate Director, Donor & Development Services Kimberly Duffy Senior Donor Engagement Manager Jocelyn Weberg Manager, Annual Giving Kevin Gupana, Ariana Strahl Managers, Donor Engagement Jamie Forssander Coordinator, Donor Engagement Bri Baiza, Emily Werner Coordinators, Donor Services

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 HONOR ARY TRUSTEES

The Honorable Lori Lightfoot, Honorary Chair The Honorable Richard M. Daley TRUSTEES

John Aalbregtse Peter J. Barack H. Rigel Barber Randy Lamm Berlin Roderick Branch Kay Bucksbaum Robert J. Buford Leslie Henner Burns Debra A. Cafaro Marion A. Cameron-Gray George P. Colis Keith S. Crow Stephen V. D’Amore Timothy A. Duffy Brian W. Duwe Judith E. Feldman* Graham C. Grady Lori Julian Neil T. Kawashima

Geraldine Keefe Donna L. Kendall Thomas G. Kilroy James Kolar Randall S. Kroszner Patty Lane Renée Metcalf Britt M. Miller Mary Pivirotto Murley Sylvia Neil Gerald Pauling Michael A. Perlstein* Col. Jennifer N. Pritzker Dr. Don M. Randel Dr. Mohan Rao Burton X. Rosenberg Kristen C. Rossi E. Scott Santi Steven Shebik Marlon R. Smith Walter Snodell Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr. Scott Swanson Nasrin Thierer Liisa Thomas Terrence J. Truax Frederick H. Waddell William Ward* Paul S. Watford Craig R. 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 Charles Douglas John A. Edwardson Thomas J. Eyerman James B. Fadim David W. Fox, Sr. Richard J. Franke Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr. H. Laurance Fuller Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Paul C. Gignilliat Joseph B. Glossberg Richard C. Godfrey William A. Goldstein Mary Louise Gorno 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 Mrs. Roger B. Hull † Judith A. Istock William R. Jentes Paul R. Judy Richard B. Kapnick

Donald G. Kempf, Jr. George D. Kennedy Mrs. John C. Kern Robert Kohl Josef Lakonishok Charles Ashby Lewis Eva F. Lichtenberg John S. Lillard Donald G. Lubin John F. Manley Ling Z. Markovitz R. Eden Martin Arthur C. Martinez Judith W. McCue Lester H. McKeever David E. McNeel John D. Nichols James J. O’Connor 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. Cynthia M. Sargent John R. Schmidt Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Robert C. Spoerri Carl W. Stern Roger W. Stone † William H. Strong Louis C. Sudler, Jr. Richard L. Thomas Richard P. Toft Penny Van Horn Paul R. Wiggin

* Ex-officio Trustee † Deceased List as of November 3, 2021

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chicago symphony orchestra association governing members The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, which celebrated its 125th anniversary in the 2019–20 season.

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 Michael Perlstein Chair Jared Kaplan † Immediate Past Chair Nancy Dehmlow Vice Chair of Member Engagement Charles Emmons, Jr. Vice Chair of the Annual Fund Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership GOVERNING MEMBERS Anonymous (5) Dora J. Aalbregtse Floyd Abramson Patti Acurio Ms. Patti Acurio Fraida Aland Sandra Jo Allen Gary Allie Robert A. Alsaker Megan P. Anderson Dr. Edward Applebaum David Arch Dr. Kent F. Armbruster Dr. Andrew J. Aronson Marta Holsman Babson Ed Bachrach Mara Mills Barker Judith Barnard Merrill Barnes Peter Barrett Roberta Barron Roger S. Baskes Robert H. Baum Dr. Robert A. Beatty Arlene Bennett † Edward H. Bennett III Meta S. Berger D. Theodore Berghorst Ann Berlin Phyllis Berlin Ronald Bevil William E. Bible Mrs. Arthur A. Billings Tomás G. Bissonnette Dianne Blanco Judy Blau Merrill Blau Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Ann Blickensderfer Terry Boden Suzanne Borland James G. Borovsky Adam Bossov

Janet S. Boyer John D. Bramsen Roderick Branch Jill Brennan Bob Brink † Mrs. William Gardner Brown John D. Brubaker † Sue Brubaker Patricia M. Bryan Gilda Buchbinder Samuel Buchsbaum Lisa Dollar Buehler Rosemarie Buntrock Elizabeth Nolan Buzard Lutgart Calcote Thomas D. Campbell Vera Capp Mary Anne Carpenter Wendy Alders Cartland Judy Castellini Tina Chapekis Mrs. William C. Childs Linton J. Childs Frank Cicero, Jr. Dana Green Clancy Patricia A. Clickener Mitchell Cobey Jean M. Cocozza Mrs. Douglas Cohen Robin Tennant Colburn Lew Collens Jane B. Colman Mrs. Earle M. Combs III † Dr. Thomas H. Conner Cecilia Conrad Jenny L. Corley Patricia Cox Mrs. William A. Crane Sarah Crane Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven R. Bert Crossland Rebecca E. Crown Catherine Daniels Mrs. Robert J. Darnall Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta Michael C. Dawson Roxanne Decyk Nancy Dehmlow Duane M. DesParte Janet Wood Diederichs Paul Dix Mr. J. Donenfeld J. Douglas Donenfeld Mrs. William F. Dooley Sara L. Downey Ann Drake Dr. David Dranove Robert R. Duggan Frank A. Dusek Virginia Earle Judge Frank H. Easterbrook Dorne Eastwood Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Louis M. Ebling III Jon Ekdahl Kathleen H. Elliott Mrs. Samuel H. Ellis Charles Emmons, Jr. Janice Engle Scott Enloe

Dr. James Ertle Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri Tarek Fadel Melissa Sage Fadim Jeffrey S. Farbman Sally S. Feder Signe Ferguson Hector Ferral, M.D. Harve Ferrill † Constance M. Filling Daniel Fischel Jennifer J. Fischer Henry and Frances Fogel Adrian Radmore Foster David S. Fox Rhoda Lea Frank Paul E. Freehling Mitzi Freidheim Philip M. Friedmann Malcolm M. Gaynor Robert D. Gecht Frank Gelber Lynn Gendleman Dr. Mark Gendleman Rabbi Gary S. Gerson Karen Gianfrancisco Ellen Gignilliat James J. Glasser Madeleine Condit Glossberg Judy Goldberg Mary Anne Goldberg Anne Goldstein Jerry A. Goldstone Marcia Goltermann Mary Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen Dr. Ruth Grant Hanna Gray Mary L. Gray Freddi L. Greenberg Joyce Greening Dr. Jerri Greer D. Kendall Griffith Jerome J. Groen Jacalyn Gronek Mrs. John Growdon John P. Grube James P. Grusecki Joel R. Guillory, Jr., M.D. Dr. John W. Gustaitis, Jr. Anastasia Gutting Gary Gutting † Lynne R. Haarlow Mrs. Ernst A. Häberli Joan M. Hall Dr. Howard Halpern Mrs. Richard C. Halpern Anne Marcus Hamada Joel L. Handelman John Hard Mrs. William A. Hark Dr. Dane Hassani James W. Haugh Thomas Haynes James Heckman Patricia Herrmann Heestand Mary Mako Helbert Dr. Scott W. Helm

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

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Marilyn P. Helmholz Richard H. Helmholz Dr. Arthur L. Herbst Jeffrey W. Hesse Marjorie Friedman Heyman Konstanze L. Hickey Thea Flaum Hill Mary P. Hines Suzanne Hoffman Anne Hokin William J. Hokin † Wayne J. Holman III Richard S. Holson III Fred Holubow James Holzhauer Carol Honigberg Janice L. Honigberg Nancy A. Horner Mrs. Arnold Horween Frances G. Horwich Dr. Mary L. Houston Patricia J. Hurley Michael Huston Barbara Ann Huyler Sandra Ihm Craig T. Ingram Verne G. Istock Nancy Witte Jacobs Dr. Todd Janus John Jawor Justine Jentes Mrs. William R. Jentes Brian Johnson George E. Johnson Ronald B. Johnson Dr. Patricia Collins Jones Edward T. Joyce Carol K. Kaplan † Jared Kaplan † Claudia Norris Kapnick Lonny H. Karmin Barry D. Kaufman Kenneth V. Kaufman Marie Kaufman Don Kaul Ellen Kelleher Molly Keller Jonathan Kemper Nancy Kempf Linda J. Kenney, Ph.D. John C. Kern † Elizabeth I. Keyser Leslie Kiesel Emmy King Susan Kiphart Carol Kipperman Carol Evans Klenk Jean Klingenstein Janet L. Knauff Henry L. Kohn, Jr. Joseph Konen Jack Kozik Dr. Mark Kozloff David Kravitz Dr. Michael Krco David Kreisman MaryBeth Kretz Dr. Vinay Kumar Rubin P. Kuznitsky John LaBarbera

GOVERNING MEMBERS

Lynda Lane Maria Lans Stephen M. Lans William Lawlor Flora Lazar Sunhee Lee Sheila Fields Leiter Frederick Lengrehr Jeffrey P. Lennard Laurence H. Levine Mrs. Bernard Leviton Dr. Edmund J. Lewis Gregory M. Lewis Carolyn Lickerman Mrs. Paul Lieberman Dr. Philip R. Liebson Patricia M. Livingston John S. Lizzadro, Sr. Jane Loeb Renée Logan Amy Lubin Anna Lysakowski Carol MacArthur Mrs. Duncan MacLean Brooke MacLean Dr. Michael S. Maling Sharon Manuel David A Marshall Judy Marth Patrick A. Martin BeLinda I. Mathie Howard M. McCue III Ann Pickard McDermott Dr. James L. McGee Dr. John P. McGee II † Sharon McGee Mrs. Lester McKeever John McKenna Mrs. Peter McKinney Mrs. James M. McMullan † James E. McPherson Paul Meister Mary Mittler Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery Charles A. Moore Emilie Morphew, M.D. Kate Morrison Christopher Morrow Daniel R. Murray Eileen M. Murray Stuart C. Nathan Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr. Edward A. Nieminen Dr. Zehava L. Noah Kenneth R. Norgan Gerard M. Nussbaum Martha C. Nussbaum Mrs. James J. O’Connor Joy O’Malley James J. O’Sullivan, Jr. William A. Obenshain Shelley Ochab Maria Ochs

Eric A. Oesterle Mrs. Norman L. Olson Thomas Orlando Kathleen Orr Beatrice F. Orzac † Gerald Ostermann Bruce L. Ottley China I. Oughton † Dr. Pamela Papas Bruno A. Pasquinelli Timothy J. Patenode Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Michael Payette Mrs. Richard S. Pepper Jean E. Perkins Michael A. Perlstein Bonnie Vaughn Perry Dr. William Peruzzi Robert C. Peterson Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Sue N. Pick Stanley M. Pillman Virginia Johnson Pillman Betsey N. Pinkert Julia Vander Ploeg Harvey R. Plonsker John F. Podjasek III Judy Pomeranz Stephen Potter Carol Prins Elizabeth R. B. Pruett John Wells Puth Duane Quaini Maridee Quanbeck Diana Mendley Rauner Susan Regenstein Mari Yamamoto Regnier Ruth Anne Rehfeldt Emilysue Pinnell-Reichardt Mary Thomson Renner Burton R. Rissman Charles T. Rivkin Carol Roberts John H. Roberts William C. Roberts David Robin Dr. Diana Robin Bob Rogers Kevin M. Rooney Harry J. Roper Saul Rosen Sheli Z. Rosenberg Ricardo Rosenkranz Michael Rosenthal Dr. Roseanne Rosenthal Doris Roskin Lisa Ross Dr. H. Jay Rothenberg † Roberta H. Rubin Susan B. Rubnitz Sandra K. Rusnak David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg Mary A. Ryan

Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan Richard O. Ryan William G. Ryan † Norman K. Sackar Anthony Saineghi Agustin G. Sanz Inez Saunders David A. Savner † Karla Scherer David M. Schiffman Judith Feigon Schiffman Rosita Schloss Shirley Schlossman Douglas M. Schmidt Al Schriesheim Donald L. Schwartz Dr. Penny Bender Sebring Chandra Sekhar Dr. Ronald A. Semerdjian Mrs. Richard J. L. Senior Ilene W. Shaw Pam Sheffield Dr. James C. Sheinin Richard W. Shepro Jessie Shih Elizabeth Shoemaker Morrell McK. Shoemaker, Jr. † Stuart Shulruff Honorable Richard J. Siegel, Ret. Adele Simmons Linda B. Simon Larry G. Simpson Craig Sirles Miyam Slater Valerie Slotnick Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr. Charles F. Smith Diane W. Smith Louise K. Smith Mary Ann Smith Stanton Kinnie Smith, Jr. Stephen R. Smith Mrs. Ralph Smykal David A. Sneider Diane Snyder Kimberly Snyder Kathleen Solaro Ida N. Sondheimer † Orli Staley William D. Staley Helena Stancikas Grace Stanek Dr. Eugene Stark Leonidas Michael Stefanos Carol Stein Momoko Steiner † Mrs. Richard J. Stern Liz Stiffel John Stover Mary Stowell Lawrence E. Strickling Patricia Study Cheryl Sturm

Nancy K. Szalay Gregory Taubeneck James E. Thompson Dr. Robert Thomson David A. Thomson † Scott Thomson † Carla M. Thorpe Joan Thron David Timm Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr. Anne Coulter Tobey John T. Travers David Trushin Paula Turner Robert W. Turner Henry J. Underwood Zalman Usiskin Mrs. James D. Vail III Dr. Cynthia M. Valukas † John E. Van Horn Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice Mrs. Herbert A. Vance † William C. Vance Thomas D. Vander Veen Jennifer Vianello Dr. Michael Viglione Catherine M. Villinski Charles Vincent Christian Vinyard Theodore Wachs Mark Wagner Bernard T. Wall Nicholas Wallace Paul S. Watford Dr. Catherine L. Webb Jeffrey Webb Mrs. Jacob Weglarz Mrs. Joseph M. Weil † Dr. Jamie Weiner Chickie Weisbard Richard Weiss Barbara Weller Barbara H. West † Carmen Wheatcroft Mrs. H. Blair White M. L. Winburn Stephen R. Winters Peter Wolf Laura Woll Dr. Hak Yui Wong Courtenay R. Wood Michael H. Woolever Debbie K. Wright Ronald Yonover Owen Youngman David J. Zampa Dr. John P. Zaremba Anne Zenzer Richard E. Ziegler † Gifford Zimmerman Karen Zupko

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

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honor roll of donors Corporate Partners M A E S T R O R E S I D E N CY P R E S E N T E R

foundation spotlight

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO

The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Bank of America United Airlines

$ 1 0 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E

Allstate Insurance Company ITW Northern Trust $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9

Anonymous (1) Abbott Exelon Jenner & Block LLP Kinder Morgan PNC Bank Sidley Austin LLP

$ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9

Abbott Fund Aon Chicago Capital, LLC Mayer Brown LLP S&C Electric Company Fund Tiffany & Co. Walgreens $ 1 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9

Advanced Technology Services Archer Daniels Midland Company Deloitte GCM Grosvenor Goldman Sachs & Co. Latham & Watkins LLP McDermott Will & Emery McKinsey & Company Oxford Bank $ 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 9, 9 9 9

Baird Entercom Chicago Fellowes, Inc. Grant Thornton LLP The Hallstar Company Italian Village Restaurants Segal Consulting Starshak & Winzenburg Ventas Weiss Financial $ 1,0 0 0 – $ 4 , 9 9 9

American Agricultural Insurance Company Amsted Industries Incorporated Central Building & Preservation L.P. Parkway Elevators Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Shetland Limited Partnership Shure Incorporated Vienna Beef Vomela Gifts listed as of January 13, 2022

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and Civic Orchestra of Chicago are honored to recognize The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation as the 2021–22 Civic Orchestra of Chicago season sponsor. One of Chicago’s nonprofit leaders in arts support, the Foundation has been a longtime and generous supporter of the Civic Orchestra. The CSOA and Civic Orchestra of Chicago are deeply grateful for the extraordinary generosity of The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, whose directors are committed to celebrating Ms. Cheney’s legacy through the philanthropic support of the arts.

Foundations and Government Agencies $ 1 0 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Julius N. Frankel Foundation Walter E. Heller Foundation in memory of Alyce DeCosta National Endowment for the Arts The Negaunee Foundation Sargent Family Foundation TAWANI Foundation Zell Family Foundation $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9

The Brinson Foundation The Chicago Community Trust Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Sally Mead Hands Foundation Illinois Arts Council Agency Polk Bros. Foundation $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9

Barker Welfare Foundation The Clinton Family Fund Crain-Maling Foundation Crown Family Philanthropies Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Bowman C. Lingle Trust $ 1 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation The Buchanan Family Foundation Darling Family Foundation Irving Harris Foundation Leslie Fund, Inc. Pritzker Traubert Foundation Roy and Irene Rettinger Foundation

Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation The George L. Shields Foundation Tully Family Foundation $ 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 9, 9 9 9

The Allyn Foundation, Inc. Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Hoellen Family Foundation Hunter Family Foundation JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation Kovler Family Foundation Music Performance Trust Fund Dr. Scholl Foundation $2,500–$ 4,999

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation Franklin Philanthropic Foundation William M. Hales Foundation Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation $ 1,0 0 0 – $ 2 , 4 9 9

Brown-Monson Foundation Geraldi Norton Foundation Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the Patrons Circle for Un ballo in maschera for its generous support.

Zell Family Foundation Walter E. Heller Foundation Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin Anonymous Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

T H E C A M PA I G N F O R T H E C H I C A G O S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the donors who have made a generous commitment in support of the future of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as of January 2022.

Anonymous (5) Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Jeff and Keiko Alexander Ruth and Roger Anderson Family Foundation Peter and Elise Barack Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown Kay Bucksbaum Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock John D. and Leslie Henner Burns George and Minou Colis The Davee Foundation Richard and Alice Godfrey William A. and Anne Goldstein Mary Louise Gorno Howard Gottlieb

Mr. Graham C. Grady The Heestand Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes Julian Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy Estate of Esther G. Klatz Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg Jim † and Kay Mabie Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Mr. David E. McNeel Mr. Robert Meeker James and Renée Metcalf Estate of Gloria Miner Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Mr. Daniel R. Murray

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Cathy and Bill Osborn Andra and Irwin Press Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy Megan and Steve Shebik Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern Thierer Family Foundation Richard and Helen Thomas Penny and John Van Horn Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell Craig and Bette Williams Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow Helen and Sam Zell Estate of Rita Zralek

Annual Support

$ 1 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 1 4 9, 9 9 9

$ 1 5 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E

$ 75 ,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9

Ms. Sarah Crane Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim Dr. Eugene Fama Rhoda Lea † and Henry S. † Frank Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation Mrs. Janet Kanter Ms. Renée Metcalf Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Susan Regenstein Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable Trust Shure Charitable Trust Michael and Linda Simon Mr. Irving Stenn, Jr. Liz Stiffel

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through January 13, 2022. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.

Anonymous (2) Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes The Julian Family Foundation Margot and Josef Lakonishok The Negaunee Foundation Cathy and Bill Osborn COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired) Megan and Steve Shebik Zell Family Foundation

Anonymous (3) Ms. Nancy Dehmlow James and Brenda Grusecki Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Jim † and Kay Mabie Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Cynthia M. Sargent Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab John Hart and Carol Prins Pamela Kelley Hull † and Roger B. Hull † Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock Judy and Scott McCue Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Lisa and Paul Wiggin $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 74 , 9 9 9

Anonymous Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Carey and Brett August Mrs. Janet R. Bauer Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Patricia and Laurence Booth Kay Bucksbaum Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock

$ 3 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9

Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund John and Fran Edwardson Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil Mr. Collier Hands Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

Gifts listed as of January 13, 2022

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Walter and Kathleen Snodell Mary Stowell Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas Penny and John Van Horn $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 3 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous (3) Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV Peter and Elise Barack Julie and Roger Baskes Robert J. Buford Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Mr. & Dr. George Colis Mr. & Mrs. Stephen V. D’Amore Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson Ms. Ann Drake Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans Neil Fackler Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Richard and Alice Godfrey William A. and Anne Goldstein Mr. Graham C. Grady Mary Winton Green Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson Ms. Geraldine Keefe Ms. Donna L. Kendall Anne and John † Kern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy Sidney Kohl Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James Kolar Randall S. Kroszner Long Story Short Media The James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation Ms. Britt Miller Dr. Charles Morcom Daniel R. Murray Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow Mr. & Mrs. Don Phillips Mary and Joseph Plauché Andra and Irwin Press Dr. Mohan Rao Diana and Bruce Rauner Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy Ms. Courtney Shea Bill and Orli Staley Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan Thierer Family Foundation Terrence and Laura Truax

In memory of Joan White † Craig and Bette Williams Susan & Bob Wislow Mr. Gifford Zimmerman $ 2 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous Nancy A. Abshire Arnie and Ann Berlin Mary Louise Gorno Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris Ronald B. Johnson Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Mr. Michael Leppen Mr. Donald W. Nelson Alexandra and John Nichols Mr. & Mrs. John Pratt Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar Ida N. Sondheimer † & Family, in memory of Joseph Sondheimer Dr. Stuart Sondheimer Liisa Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft Ms. Rebecca West $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 1 9, 9 9 9

Anonymous (3) Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Sue and Jim Colletti Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Dunkel Sue and Melvin Gray Halasyamani/Davis Family Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III The King Family Foundation Kay and Fred † Krehbiel Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck Dr. Lynda Lane Ms. Betsy Levin Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin Mr. Philip Lumpkin Mr. David E. McNeel Charles A. Moore Edward and Gayla Nieminen Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte D. Elizabeth Price Jerry Rose Mr. † & Mrs. David Savner Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Marlon Smith and Dominique Brewer Carol S. Sonnenschein Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern Mr. & Mrs. William C. Vance Mr. Christian Vinyard Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs Dr. Marylou Witz

$ 1 1, 5 0 0 – $ 1 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Applebaum Ann and Richard Carr Ms. Shawn M. Donnelley and Dr. Christopher M. Kelly Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle Marguerite DeLany Hark Pati and O.J. † Heestand Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall Emilie Morphew, M.D. David and Judy Schiffman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Silverstein $ 7, 5 0 0 – $ 1 1, 4 9 9

Anonymous (4) Mrs. Rosa Acevedo and Mr. Jose Luis Prado Ms. Patti Acurio Jeff and Keiko Alexander Geoffrey A. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Baker Peter and Betsy Barrett Mr. Lawrence Belles Mr. & Mrs. Richard Benck Henry R. Berghoef and Leslie Lauer Berghoef Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Merrill and Judy Blau Ms. Terry Boden Adam Bossov Mr. Donald Bouseman Tom and Dianne Campbell Joyce Chelberg Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Dr. Thomas H. Conner Mr. Lawrence Corry Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford Janet Wood Diederichs Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Douglas Mr. & Mrs †. Allan Drebin Charles and Carol Emmons La and Philip Engel Ms. Nancy Felton-Elkins and Larry Elkins Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr. David and Janet Fox Rosemary Framburg Nancy and Larry Fuller Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geraghty Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Paul Gray Kendall Griffith Lynne R. Haarlow

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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Joan M. Hall Mrs. Richard C. Halpern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy Ms. Anna Hertsberg Richard and Joanne Hoffman Fred and Sandra Holubow Janice L. Honigberg Mr †. & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg Miriam U. Hoover Foundation Carter Howard and Sarah Krepp Tex and Susan Hull Ms. Patricia Hurley Merle L. Jacob Mr. † & Mrs. † Howard Jessen Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Joyce Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller Mr. Alfred Kelley Kohn and Mitchell Family Foundation Dr. June Koizumi Nancy and Sanfred Koltun Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler Mr. Stephan Lans Dr. † & Mrs. H. Leichenko Mr. Jeffrey Lennard Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. John Lillard Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Robert † and Judy Marth Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag Mr. & Mrs. Lester McKeever Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor Mrs. Frank Morrissey Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr. Ms. Susan Norvich Ms. Martha Nussbaum Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson Mr. Bruce Oltman Dr. Edward S. Orzac Foundation The Osprey Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James O’Sullivan, Jr. Pasquinelli Family Foundation Richard and Frances Penn Roxy and Richard † Pepper Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Sue and Thomas † Pick Ms. Emilysue Pinnell Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn Mr. Rudolph Rasin † Mr. John W. Rogers, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper Jay † and Maija Rothenberg Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan Mr. Richard Ryan Rita † and Norman Sackar

Mr. David Sandfort Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl Joan and George Segal David and Judith L. Sensibar The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Julia M. Simpson Mr. Larry Simpson Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Roger † and Susan Stone Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck Kelly Thedinger Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Ksenia A. and Peter Turula Mrs. Elizabeth Twede Peggy White M.L. Winburn Dr. Nanajan Yakoub Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation David and Eileen Zampa $ 4 , 5 0 0 – $ 7, 4 9 9

Anonymous (15) Elaine and Floyd Abramson Fraida and Bob Aland Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein 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 Drs. Iris & Andrew Aronson Mrs. Jeanne B. Aronson Marta Holsman Babson Mr. Neal Ball Ms. Bonnie Barber Paul and Robert Barker Foundation Ms. Judith Barnard Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes Ms. Sandra Bass Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen Donna and Mike Bell Mrs. Gail Belytschko Mr. Thomas Berg Meta S. and Ronald † Berger Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst Dr. Leonard & Phyllis Berlin Mr. Howard Bernick Mrs. Arthur A. Billings Jim † and Dianne Blanco Ann Blickensderfer Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block

Mr. & Mrs. John Borland Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky Janet S. Boyer Ms. Jill Brennan John D. Brubaker † Mrs. Sue Brubaker Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum Linda S. Buckley Lisa Dollar Buehler and Bill Escamilla Butler Family Foundation Ms. Lutgart Calcote Ms. Vera Capp Wendy Alders Cartland Mia Celano and Noel Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Candelario Celio Mr. James Chamberlain Ms. Margaret Chaplan Linton J. Childs Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy Mr. & Ms. Keith Clayton Patricia A. Clickener Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali Ms. Jean Cocozza Douglas and Carol Cohen Lewis Collens Jane and John C. Colman E. and V. Combs Foundation The Comer Foundation Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Jenny L. Corley in memory of Dr. W. Gene Corley Nancy R. Corral Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux R. Bert Crossland Constance Cwiok Dancing Skies Foundation Mr. & Mrs. C. Daniels Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider Mr. J. Donenfeld Dr. & Mrs. James L. Downey David and Deborah Dranove Mr. Robert R. Duggan Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek Mr. & Mrs. David P. Earle III Judge Frank Easterbrook Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III Charles and Lois Edwards Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Elden Thomas Eller Michael and Kathleen Elliott Scott and Lenore Enloe Dr. & Mrs. James Ertle

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein Donald and Signe Ferguson Hector Ferral, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad Mr. & Mrs. Dean Fischer Ms. Hazel Fisher Mrs. Roslyn K. Flegel Mrs. John D. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann Jerry Freedman & Elizabeth Sacks Susan and Paul Freehling Dr. † & Mrs. Uwe Freese Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr. Judy and Mickey Gaynor Robert D. Gecht Sandy and Frank Gelber Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Dr. & Mrs. Richard Gieser Mr. & Mrs. James J. Glasser Judy & Bill Goldberg Lyn Goldstein Mary and Michael Goodkind Dr. Alexia Gordon Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon Donald J. Gralen Hanna H. Gray Ms. Freddi Greenberg Thomas † and Delta Greene Dr. Jerri E. Greer Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen Ann and John Grube Anastasia and Gary † Gutting Stephanie and Howard Halpern Anne Marcus Hamada Hill and Cheryl Hammock John and Sally Hard Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan Dr. Dane Hassani James W. Haugh Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes James and Lynne † Heckman Mr. Dale C. Hedding David Hefter Scott Helm Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Hesse Marjorie Friedman Heyman The Hickey Family Foundation Robert A. Hill and Thea Flaum Hill William B. Hinchliff Dr. Richard Hirschmann Mr. William J. Hokin † James and Eileen Holzhauer Frances and Franklin † Horwich James and Mary Houston Frances and Phillip Huscher Michael and Leigh Huston

Michael L. Igoe † Mr. Craig T. Ingram Ian and Valerie Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus Mr. John Jawor Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna Joni and Brian Johnson Dolores Kohl Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans Ms. Ethelle Katz Barry D. Kaufman Larry † and Marie Kaufman Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Mr. & Mrs. Neil Kawashima Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser Jim and Ellen Kelleher Mrs. Elizabeth Keyser Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel Carol Kipperman Dr. Jay and Georgianna Kleiman Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk Mr. Thomas Kmetko Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek Joseph and Judith Konen Ms. Liesel Kossmann Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff Eldon and Patricia Kreider David and Susan Kreisman Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar Mr. & Mrs. Rubin P. Kuznitsky Mr. John LaBarbera Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Langrehr Mr. William Lawlor, III Mr. & Mrs. Dean Leff Anne E. Leibowitz Fund Sheila Fields Leiter Mary and Laurence Levine Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek Mr †. & Mrs. Howard Lickerman Dr. Philip R. Liebson and Mrs. Carole F. Liebson Robert † and Joan Lipsig Jane and Peter Loeb The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust Renée Logan Dr. Anna Lysakowski Carol MacArthur Mr. & Mrs. † Barry MacLean Mr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLean Eileen Madden Sharon L. Manuel Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin Ann Pickard McDermott

Dr. & Mrs. James McGee Dr. † & Mrs. John McGee II John and Etta McKenna Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray † Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meister Mr. Gregory and Dr. Alice Melchor Dr. Ellen Mendelson Jim and Ginger Meyer Mr. Robert O. Middleton Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Jo Ann and Stuart Nathan Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman David † and Dolores Nelson Dr. Zehava L. Noah Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar Bill and Penny Obenshain Margo and Michael Oberman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs Eric and Carolyn Oesterle John and Joy O’Malley Mr. & Mrs. William J. O’Neill Kathleen Field Orr Dr. Stephanie Pace and Robert Marshall Mrs. Evelyn E. Padorr Minsok Pak and Carrie Shuchart Ms. Pamela Papas Mr. Timothy J. Patenode Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. Michael Payette Bonnie Perry Dr. William Peruzzi Mr. Robert Peterson Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Richard Phillips Stanley M. and Virginia Johnson Pillman Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert John F. Podjasek III Charitable Fund Stephen and Ann Suker Potter Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett Mr. & Mrs. John Puth Mr. Duane Quaini Ms. Helen Reed Ruth Anne Rehfeldt Dr. Rutbert D. Reisch Dr. Hilda Richards Mary K. Ring Burton and Francine † Rissman Charles and Marilynn Rivkin Ms. Carol Roberts William and Cheryl Roberts Dr. Diana Robin Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg D.D. Roskin Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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Tina and Buzz Ruttenburg William † and Mary Ryan Anthony Saineghi Raymond and Inez Saunders Karla Scherer Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht Mr †. & Mrs. Nathan Schloss Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz Ruth Grant and Howard Schwartz Diana and Richard Senior Ms. Mary Beth Shea Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields Stuart and Leslie Shulruff Dr. & Mrs. Richard J. Siegel Ann Silberman Ms. Ann Silberman Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons Craig Sirles Valerie Slotnick Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr. Charles F. Smith Mrs. Diane W. Smith Louise K. Smith Mary Ann Smith Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith David A. Sneider James and Diane Snyder Kimberly M. Snyder Elysia Solomon Robert and Emily Spoerri Helena Stancikas Ms. Mary Clare and Mr. Joseph Starshak Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos Carol D. Stein Ms. Momoko Steiner † Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Stoll Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong Cheryl Sturm Ms. Minsook Suh Mr. & Mrs. Robert Szalay Mr. James Thompson Joan and Michael Thron David Timm Ray † and Mary Ann Tittle Bill and Anne Tobey James M. and Carol Trapp John T. and Carrie M. Travers Mrs. Robert Trotter Joan and David Trushin Dr. & Mrs. David Turner Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner Henry and Janet Underwood Zalman and Karen Usiskin Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice Ms. Jennifer Vianello Dr. Michael Viglione Catherine M. Villinski Ms. Raita Vilnins

Charles Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall Nicholas and Jessica Wallace Dr. Catherine L. Webb Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz Abby and Glen Weisberg Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Marc Weissbluth in memory of Linda Weissbluth Bert and Barbara Weller Ms. Caroline Wettersten Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft Stephen R. Winters Peter and Marlee Wolf Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Michael † and Laura Woll Dr. Hak Wong Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr. Stephanie Wood Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever Mari Yamamoto Regnier Owen and Linda Youngman Paul and Mary Yovovich Mr. Laird Zacheis and Ms. Sunhee Lee Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross Ms. Karen Zupko $ 3,500–$ 4,499

Anonymous (6) Ms. Doris Angell Ed Bachrach Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Bachrach Roberta and Harold S. Barron Martin and Jill Baumgaertner Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Mr. Ken Belcher Cassandra L. Book Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen Mr. Charles Capwell Peter and Hedy Ciocci Ms. Jane Cox Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall In loving memory of Alice Furumoto-Dawson Mr. Guy DeBoo and Ms. Susan Franzetti Ms. Marilyn Duginger Mr. & Mrs. Samuel H. Ellis Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D. Dr. Gail Fahey Judith E. Feldman Fidelity Charitable Gift Funds Ms. Irene Fox Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Timothy and Joyce Greening Jacalyn Gronek Dr. Robert A. Harris Ms. Dawn E. Helwig James and Margot Hinchliff

Mrs. Edwin P. Hoffman Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith Dr. & Mrs. James Holland Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger Mrs. Caryn Jacobs and Mr. Daniel Cedarbaum Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs Dr. Patricia Collins Jones Jonathan and Nancy Lee Kemper Averill and Bernard † Leviton Dr. Herbert & Francine Lippitz Patricia M. Livingston Mr. Daniel Macken and Mr. Merlyn Harbold Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic Dr. & Mrs. Walter Massey Bill McIntosh Jane and Bruce † McLagan Eileen M. Murray Ms. Victoria Nee Kenneth R. Norgan Mrs. Janis Notz Mr. Thomas Orlando Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann Mr. Bruce Ottley Dr. & Mrs †. Ray Pensinger Mr. Ed Platcow Mary Rafferty Dorothy V. Ramm Ms. Evelyn R. Richer Jerry and Carole Ringer David and Kathy Robin Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross Ms. Roberta H. Rubin Mr. Agustin G. Sanz Shirley and John † Schlossman Douglas M. Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts Elizabeth and John Shoemaker Mr. & Mrs. Frederic Smies In memory of Timothy Soleiman Joel and Beth Spenadel Mr. Michael Sprinker Mrs. Marjorie H. Stephan Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Eric Vaang Mr. Peter Vale Ms. Julia Vander Ploeg Mr. David J. Varnerin Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner Mr. Lawrence Wechter Samuel † and Chickie Weisbard David E. and Kerstin Wellbery Mr. Alfred White Ms. Lois Wolff Ms. Debbie Wright

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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$2,500–$ 3,499

Anonymous (18) Richard † and Louise Abrahams Richard J. Abram and Paul Chandler Michael and Mary Abroe Ms. Susan Adler Dr. & Mrs. Carl H. Albright Ms. Linda Alexander Ms. Rochelle Allen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Allen Ms. Rene Alphonse Mrs. Evelyn Alter Dr. Diane Altkorn Mr. & Mrs. John Amboian Dr. Charles and Marie Grass Amenta Sharon and Charles Angell Mychal P. Angelos †, in memory of Dorothy A. Angelos Dr. & Mrs. Robert Arensman Mr. & Mrs. Peter Ascoli Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Asner Ms. Bernice Auslander Ms. Marlene Bach Richard and Janice Bail Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Baird Rob and Denise Baptista Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Barber Mr. Robert Barkei Mrs. Horace B. Barks Mr. Carroll Barnes James and Bartha Barrett Thomas Barta Mr. Richard Bartecki Ms. Barbara Barzansky Howard and Donna Bass Mr. Ronald Bauer Ms. Elaine Baumann Ms. Patricia Bayerlein Ms. Ellen Bechthold Prue and Frank Beidler Mr. Michael Berman Mr. & Mrs. † Robert L. Berner, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Loren Berry III Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Bezold Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof Mr. Poul Bjerre-Jensen Virginia Blanford Dr. Roger Blickensderfer Mrs. Nancy Blum Mr. Edward Boehm III Ms. Virginia Boehme Dr. H. Constance Bonbrest Mr. James Borkman Mr. & Mrs. Fred P. Bosselman Mrs. Joyce Bottum Carl and Kathryn Boyens Drs. Nader and Mandan Bozorgi Mr. Douglas Bragan Mr. Roderick Branch Ms. Danolda Brennan Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Breu Mr. Michael Brewer

Chris Brezil Ms. Susan Bridge Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brightfelt Andrew and Gail Brown Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman Mrs. Dan Brusslan Sue and John Buchanan Mr. † & Mrs. Allen Buhler Jack M. Bulmash Jack Buoscio Ms. Jeanne Busch Mr. & Mrs. Mark Bushman Mr. & Mrs. John Butler Kay and Rhett † Butler Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard Mr. & Mrs. Charles Callard Robert and Kay Carlson Robert D. Carone Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr Mr. & Mrs. John Chapman Mr. YiKai Chen Mr. Myron Cherry Ms. Melinda Cheung Mr. Donald Clark Nancy J. Clawson Ms. Ruth Colby Ms. Kathryn Collier Mr. Ronald Combs Mrs. Eileen Conaghan Mr. Howard Conant Mr. William Conlon and Ms. Patricia Habicht Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy Mr. & Mrs. Richard Corrado Matt and Carrie Cotter Matthew Cotter Ms. Beth Coughlin Ms. Juli Crabtree Ms. Susan Craw Mr. Earle Cromer III Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Dam Mary Dedinsky and William Carlisle Herbert Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung Mr. Stephen Diamond Kathleen Lockhart & James Dixon Kevin & Kelly Dockery Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III Elaine and Jay Dolgin Thomas E. II and Barbara C. Donnelley Family Fund Ms. Maureen Dooley Natalie and Joshua Dranoff Tom Draski Mr. Robert Druzinsky and Ms. Renee Friedman Ingrid and Richard Dubberke Mr. Howard Dubin Josephine Lewis and Morton Dubman Janet Duffy Linda Dykes

Ms. Paula Ebert Mr. Charles Ebner Gary and Deborah Edidin Patricia and James Edwards Edward and Nancy Eichelberger Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten Ms. Paula Elliott Ms. Laura Engelstein Mrs. Doris Esko Nancy Estrada Ms. Shirley Evans-Wofford Mr. & Mrs. William F. Farley Sally S. Feder Sheri and J. Bradley Fewell John Fewell Ms. Mary Fields Debra Fienberg Sandra E. Fienberg Mr. Conrad Fischer Mrs. Donna Fleming Ms. Anita D. Flournoy Henry and Frances Fogel Ginny and Peter Foreman Mr. Matthew Fox Mr. Timothy Fox Lee Francis and Michelle Gittler Lawrence and Pamela Frankel Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson Mr. & Mrs. Louis Freidheim, Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Friedgut Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III Dr. & Mrs. Willard A. Fry James & Rebecca Gaebe Jan Gaines and Andrew S. Kenoe Mr. John Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Robert Garro Dr. & Mrs. T. H. Gasteyer Nancy Gavlin Lawrence and Amy Gillum Mr. Timothy Gleason Dr. & Mrs. Paul B. Glickman Mr. David Glueck Ms. Barbra Goering Ms. Barbara Gold Eunice and Perry Goldberg Mr. Stanford Goldblatt Mr. † & Mrs. Samuel Golden Dr. & Mrs. Marshall D. Goldin, in memory of Dr. William Warren Dr. Robert Golub and Dr. Deirdre Dupre Ms. Eileen Good Ms. Sarah Good Gordon and Nancy Goodman Isabelle Goossen Michelle and Gerald M. Gordon Mr. Jacques Gordon Merle Gordon Mr. Andrew Gore Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French Brooks and Wanza Grantier Delmon & Sherry Grapes Dr. Michael Greenwald

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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Ms. Jean Griffin Gregory Grobarcik BHD Kozloff Family Fund Mr. Adam Grymkowski Mr. Tom Guensburg Mrs. Marguerite Guido Jennifer Haar Mr. Tsuneo Hachiuma Mr. † & Mrs. Thomas Hageman Mr. & Mrs. John Hales Ronald and Diane Hamburger Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Handler Mrs. Terri Hanson Nancy and Thomas Hanson Mr. Joseph Harmon Mrs. John M. Hartigan Ms. Kyle Harvey Mrs. Dorothy G. Harza John Heaton and Margaret Martin-Heaton Ross and Andrea Heim Mr. Bradley J. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hentschel Neal Heriaud and Ann Platzer Ms. Leigh Ann Herman Mr. David Heroy Barbara Herzog Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hill James & Megan Hinchsliff Pat and Joseph Hinkel The Rev. Melinda Hinners-Waldie and Mr. Benjamin Waldie Ms. Linda Hirt Mrs. & Mr. Elizabeth Hoffman Ms. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph Doherty Mrs. J. Holmbeck Mr. Stephen Holmes Rose Marie Houston Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton Mr. & Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu Cheryl Istvan Ms. Kineret Jaffe Cynthia Jamison-Marcy Mr. & Mrs. William Jastrow Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jencks Maryl Johnson, M.D. Ms. Kathleen Jordan Ms. Joann Joyce Mr. † & Mrs. Saul Kadin Ms. Barbara Kahn Ms. Janet Kalin Mr. & Mrs. Larry Kallembach Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kallman Thomas and Reseda Kalowski Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Roula and George Karcazes Mrs. Louise Kasch Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Kearney

Peter Keehn Peter and Stephanie Keehn Mr. & Mrs. Richard Keethers Ms. Helen Kessler Mr. & Mrs. † W. K. Ketchum Mr. Howard Kidd Anne G. Kimball and Peter Stern Mr. & Mrs. John E. Kirkpatrick Jack and Terry Klecka Jean Klingenstein Ms. Mary Klyasheff Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin Akiko and Shohei Koide Ms. Jeanne Koons Mr. Howard Korey Richard and Nancy Kosobud Mr. Ken Krantz Dr. Michael Krco Mrs. Leona Krompart Mr. George E. Kuebler Christine Kuo Dr. & Mrs. Ken Kuo Ms. Michele Kurlander Bob and Marian Kurz Mr. Thomas Lad Ms. Barbara Lanctot Mr. John Lansing Mr. & Mrs. Peter Lederer Dr. † & Mrs. Jan Leestma Ms. Nicole Lehman Mr. Jonathon Leik Mr. Philip Lesser Ms. & Ms. † Ida Lessman Mr. Robert Letchinger † Dr. & Mrs. Murray Levin Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin Mr. Jerrold Levine Dr. & Mrs. Robert Levy Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Lewis Mr. Michael Licitra Stewart and Susan Liechti Mr. Robert Lindgren Dr. Peter Littlewood Mr. Melvin Loeb Mrs. Gabrielle Long Sherry and Mel Lopata Ms. Jean Lorenzen Robert Losik Ms. Karen MacKay Ms. Janice Magnuson S. Stella Mah Daniel and Karen Maki Ms. Barbara Malott Dan and Lynne Mapes-Riordan Mr. & Ms. Steven Marcus Barbara and Larry Margolis Mr. Timothy Marshall Ms. Molly Martin Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez Mr. Marco Martinez Robert & Doretta Marwin Mr. † & Mrs. Lowell Mason, Jr.

Dr & Mrs. Daniel Mass Igor and Olga Matlin Marilyn and Myron Maurer Patricia and Richard May Adele Mayer Mr. † & Mrs. George Maze Ms. Jane McCarthy Mary McCarthy Ms. Marilyn Mccoy Margaret and Michael McCoy Rosa and Peter McCullagh Mr. William McCune Mother Richard McDonough Mr. & Mrs. William McDowell, Jr. Ms. Patricia A. McGuire Mr. & Mrs. George C. McKann Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Mcleod Mr. & Mrs. William McNally Mrs. Erma Medgyesy Sheila and Harvey Medvin Mr. & Mrs. John Meeker Mr. Zarin Mehta Ms. Claretta Meier Lois and Hugo J. † Melvoin Mrs. Robert Mendelson Mr. Gerald W. Miarecki Ms. Ruth Migdal-Brown Mr. Aaron Mills Ms. Sarah Mirkin Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Mr. & Mrs. Robert Moeller Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Moffat Dr. Anthony Montag † and Dr. Katherine Griem Mr. Carl and Maria Moore Lloyd and Donna Morgan Sanford and Monica Morganstein Mr. Thomas Morris David H. Moscow Mr. Vijai Moses Allison Moulton Phyllis and Zane Muhl Mr. George Murphy Shankar and Katharine Nair Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl Ms. Yana Nedvetsky Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr. Kay A. Nelson Dr. & Ms. Richard Newcomb Mr. Jack Newsom Fr. Charles Niblick Eleanor Nicholson Mr. John Nigh Mr. William Novshek Mr. & Mrs. James Nowacki Ms. Julia Nowicki and Dr. Timothy Sanborn Mr. Franklin Nussbaum Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. O’Donnell Ms. Christine Lee Oler Marjory Oliker Sarah and Wallace Oliver Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oppenheim

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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Dr. James Orr Ms. Diane Ososke Ms. Lynne Ostfeld Garry and Joanne Owens Richard and Carolyn Palas Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Paszczyk Ms. Joan Lardner Paul Jennifer Pavelec Kingsley Perkins † Mr. & Mrs. Norman Perman Mrs. Victorina Peterson Rita Petretti Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn Mr. Paul Phillips, Jr. and Mr. Lloyd Palmiter Mr. Christopher Pickering Lee Ann and Savit Pirl Dr. Joe Piszczor Larry & Judy Pitts Mr. & Mrs. Howard Pizer Don and Martha Pollak Christine and Michael Pope Susan Poser and Stephen DiMagno Charlene H. Posner Barry and Eunice Preston Mr. & Mrs. Brad Price Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard Chris and Elizabeth Quigg Ms. Constance Rajala Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel Mr. Jeffrey Rappin Mr. & Mrs. Frederic Rasio Ms. Polly Rattner Ms. Carol Rech Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards Lyn Ridgeway Mrs. Enid Rieser Mr. Alexander Ripley Roberts Family Foundation Thomas Roberts and Teresa Grosch Chauncey Robinson Mr. & Mrs. John Robinson Mr. James Rocks Steve Roper Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman Ms. Elaine Rosen Lorelei Rosenthal Ms. Lisa Ross Mr. Maris Roze Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Rusnak, Jr. Mr. Nicholas Russell John Jeral Sabl Cassandra Salgado Bettylu and Paul Saltzman Ms. Cecelia Samans Mr. † & Mrs. William Sample Ms. Judy Saslow Mr. Laurence Saviers Michael and Judith Sawyier Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin Margaret Schaefer Kathleen and Anthony Schaeffer

Ms. Penelope Schaschwary Mr. & Mrs. Steven W. Scheibe Mrs. Rebecca Schewe Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig Barbara and Lewis Schneider Mr. & Mrs. Michael Schnell Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schuette Schultz Family Private Foundation Gerald and Barbara Schultz Susan and Charles Schwartz Edward and Irma Schwartz Ms. Marilyn Schweitzer Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Thomas and Maryellen Scott Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil Ms. Gail Seidel Mr. James Selsor Ronald and Nancy Semerdjian Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Sennett Mr. Mark Sexauer Dr. Lemuel Shaffer Mrs. Phyllis Shafron Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro Dr. & Mrs. Mitchell Sheinkop Susan Shimmin and David Tekler Carolyn M. Short Mr. David Showalter Ellen and Richard Shubart Margaret and Alan Silberman Jack and Barbara Simon Mr. Jack Simpson Mr. Thomas Simpson Lynn B. Singer Christine A. Slivon David and Laraine Spector Michael Spertus and Wendy Jablow Spertus Mr. Stephen Spigel and Ms. Diana Williams Lavanya Srinivasan Mrs. Julie Stagliano Charles and Joan Staples Ms. Denise Stauder Ms. Sue Stealey Ms. Corinne Steede Mr. & Mrs. Mark Stein Mr. Richard Stein Steinway & Sons Mr. & Mrs. Mark Stern Mrs. Marjorie Moretz Stinespring Laurence and Caryn Straus Donna Stroder Barry and Winnifred Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Mark Sutherland Wan Suwandi Sharon Swanson Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft Mrs. Florence & Ron Testa Ms. Alison Thomas Ayana Tomeka Mr. Jay Tremblay Howard † and Paula † Trienens Mr. Jay Tunney

Rheal and Denise Turcotte Trevor Turk Ms. Helen Turley Michael Urbut and Barbara Kirchick Urbut Mr. & Mrs. Allan Vagner Jim and Cindy Valtman Dr. Eladio Vargas Gayle and Loren Veltrop Henrietta Vepstas Todd and Cari Vieregg Ms. Donna Vos Lulu Robert J. Walker Mr. Les Wallinga David Wasserman, M.D. in memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-Wasserman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Watson Judge Eugene Wedoff Cynthia & Ben Weese Mr. David Weible In Honor of Larry Neuman and Qing Hou Mrs. William White Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Wick Jamie Wigglesworth AIA Robert J. Wilczek † and Shirley Pfenning Jennifer D. Williams Mr. Randall Winans Ted Windsor & Associates Consulting Actuaries Mr. Robert Winn Herbert and Ruth Winter Foundation Joseph Wisne Mr. Kenneth Witkowski Barbara and Steven Wolf Peggy and Ted Wolff Mr. Joseph Wolnski and Ms. Jane Christino Mark & Randi Woodworth Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers Mr. Robert Yarbrough Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin Ms. Janice Young Ms. Mary Zeltmann William Zeng Ms. Camille Zientek Drs. Donald Zimmerman and Susan Pearlson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Zitnik Dr. Michael P. Zygmunt For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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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 Dakota Williams, Associate Director, Education and Community Engagement Giving, at williamsd@cso.org or 312-294-3156. $ 1 5 0,0 0 0 A N D A B O V E

Julian Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation $ 1 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 1 4 9, 9 9 9

Allstate Insurance Company The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation $ 75 ,0 0 0 – $ 9 9, 9 9 9

John Hart and Carol Prins Megan and Steve Shebik $ 5 0,0 0 0 – $ 74 , 9 9 9

Anonymous Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Kinder Morgan Judy and Scott McCue Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal † Polk Bros. Foundation Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Shure Charitable Trust Michael and Linda Simon Mr. Irving Stenn, Jr. $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 4 9, 9 9 9

John and Fran Edwardson Bowman C. Lingle Trust National Endowment for the Arts $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 3 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous (2) Abbott Fund Barker Welfare Foundation Crain-Maling Foundation The James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation $ 2 0,0 0 0 – $ 2 4 , 9 9 9

Anonymous Illinois Arts Council Agency Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family

Leslie Fund, Inc. PNC Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.

Mr. Robert Middleton Dr. Scholl Foundation Segal Consulting Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs

$ 1 5 ,0 0 0 – $ 1 9, 9 9 9

$ 3,500–$ 4,499

The Buchanan Family Foundation Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund Sue and Jim Colletti Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Mary Winton Green Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Mr. Philip Lumpkin D. Elizabeth Price Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. Lisa and Paul Wiggin Dr. Marylou Witz $ 1 1, 5 0 0 – $ 1 4 , 9 9 9

Nancy A. Abshire Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans Halasyamani/Davis Family $ 7, 5 0 0 – $ 1 1, 4 9 9

Archer Daniels Midland Company Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz Mr. Lawrence Belles Mr. Lawrence Corry Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Dunkel Ms. Nancy Felton-Elkins and Larry Elkins Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geraghty Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Richard and Alice Godfrey Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek Ms. Susan Norvich Robert E. † and Cynthia M. Sargent Carol S. Sonnenschein Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt Liisa Thomas Penny and John Van Horn Dr. Nanajan Yakoub $ 4 , 5 0 0 – $ 7, 4 9 9

Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray Ann and Richard Carr Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin Dr. June Koizumi Anne E. Leibowitz Fund Jim and Ginger Meyer

Ms. Patti Acurio Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation Mr. & Ms. Keith Clayton Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger The Osprey Foundation Mary and Joseph Plauché $2,500–$ 3,499

Anonymous (2) Ms. Sandra Bass Mr. James Borkman Mr. Douglas Bragan Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker Mrs. Roslyn K. Flegel William B. Hinchliff Italian Village Restaurants Mrs. Gabrielle Long Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino David † and Dolores Nelson Margo and Michael Oberman Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation Mr. David Sandfort David and Judith L. Sensibar Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho Margaret and Alan Silberman Mr. Larry Simpson Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Abby and Glen Weisberg $ 1, 5 0 0 – $ 2 , 4 9 9

Anonymous Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse Howard and Donna Bass Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible Adam Bossov Mr. Donald Bouseman Patricia A. Clickener Edward and Nancy Eichelberger Ms. Paula Elliott Charles and Carol Emmons Judith E. Feldman Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of the Civic Horn Section Lee Francis and Michelle Gittler Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth Sacks James & Rebecca Gaebe Camillo and Arlene Ghiron Brooks and Wanza Grantier Gregory Grobarcik James and Megan Hinchsliff Dr. & Mrs. James Holland

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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Michael and Leigh Huston Thomas and Reseda Kalowski Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer Mr. John Lansing Sharon L. Manuel Mr. & Mrs. William McDowell, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Moffat Mrs. Frank Morrissey Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley Edward and Gayla Nieminen Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Ms. Carol Rech Ruth Anne Rehfeldt Mary K. Ring Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen Ms. Cecelia Samans Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust Mrs. Florence and Ron Testa David E. and Kerstin Wellbery Jamie Wigglesworth AIA M.L. Winburn Mr. Robert Winn $ 1 ,0 0 0 – $ 1 , 4 9 9

Anonymous (5) John Albrecht Dr. Diane Altkorn Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein Dr. & Mrs. Robert Arensman Ms. Marlene Bach Jon W. and Diane Balke Mr. Peter Barrett Ms. Elaine Baumann Ann Blickensderfer Mr. Thomas Bookey Mr. & Mrs. Donald Bowey, Jr. Ms. Danolda Brennan Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman Jack M. Bulmash Jacqui Cheng The Chicago Community Foundation Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes Mr. Howard Conant Matt and Carrie Cotter In memory of Ira G. Woll William and Janice Cutler Constance Cwiok Robert Allen Daugherty Mr. Adam Davis Mr. Robert Deoliveira Ms. Amy Dickinson and Mr. James Futransky Mrs. Susan F. Dickman Dr. Thomas Durica and Sue Jacob Lori Eich Elk Grove Graphics Ms. Lola Flamm David and Janet Fox Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Ms. Elizabeth Friedgut

Peter Gallanis Dr. & Mrs. Paul B. Glickman Goodman Law Group Chicago George F. and Catherine S. Haber Mrs. Zahraa Hajjiri Mr. & Mrs. John Hales Charlotte Hampton Dr. Robert A. Harris Ms. Dawn E. Helwig Mr. Felipe Hillard Ms. Sharon Flynn Hollander Ms. Kasey Jackson Egill and Ruth Jacobsen Mr. Matt James Dr. Jay and Georgianna Kleiman Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin Mr. Steven Kukalis Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin Mr. Jerrold Levine Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus Robert Losik Mr. Daniel Macken and Mr. Merlyn Harbold Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic Marilyn and Myron Maurer Marilyn Mitchell Mrs. MaryLouise Morrison Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr. Phyllis and Zane Muhl Mr. & Mrs. Delano O’Banion Mr. Bruce Oltman Ms. Joan Pantsios Ms. Audrey Paton Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper Susan Rabe Dorothy V. Ramm Dr. Hilda Richards Cristina Romero Mr. Nicholas Russell Mr. Laurence Saviers Mr. & Mrs. Eric Scheyer Gerald and Barbara Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott Xiaokui Katie Shan Jane A. Shapiro Richard Sikes Dr. & Mrs. Richard Snow Dr. Sabine Sobek Mr. George Speck Joel and Beth Spenadel Mrs. Julie Stagliano Ms. Denise Stauder Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Stepansky Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Stoll Sharon Swanson Ms. Deborah Tate Terry Taylor Ayana Tomeka Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis

Dr. Joyce Van Cura Henrietta Vepstas Dr. Pietro Veronesi Mrs. Hempstead Washburne Ms. Christine Wilson William Zeng Irene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin ENDOWED FUNDS

Anonymous (3) Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth Concert Fund Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund CNA The Davee Foundation Frank Family Fund Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund Mary Winton Green William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Community Engagement Richard A. Heise Peter Paul Herbert Endowment Fund Julian Family Foundation Fund The Kapnick Family Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust The Malott Family School Concerts Fund The Eloise W. Martin Endowed Fund in support of the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Negaunee Foundation Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends Shebik Community Engagement Programs Fund Toyota Endowed Fund The Wallace Foundation Zell Family Foundation CIVIC ORCHESTR A OF CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIPS

Members of the Civic Orchestra receive an annual stipend to help offset some of their living expenses during their training in Civic. The following donors have generously underwritten a Civic musician(s) for the 2021–22 season.

Thirteen Civic members participate in the Civic Fellowship program, a rigorous artistic and professional development curriculum that supplements their membership in the full orchestra.

Major funding for this program is generously provided by The Julian Family Foundation.

The 2021–22 Civic season is sponsored by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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To learn more, please contact Dakota Williams, Associate Director, Education and Community Engagement Giving, at williamsd@cso.org or 312-294-3156.

Nancy A. Abshire Shannon Merciel, cello Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund Rachel Mostek, viola Mr. Lawrence Belles and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Michael Stevens, horn Sue and Jim Colletti Bethany Pereboom,** viola Lawrence Corry Wesley Jones bass Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund Edin Agamenoni, bassoon Irina Chang, clarinet James Jihyun Kim, oboe Jacob Medina, horn Sofia Nikas, viola Charlotte Ullman, cello Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan Alyssa Primeau,** flute Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Benjamin Foerster, bass Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geraghty and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Haley Slaugh, cello Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat Ye Jin Goo, viola Benjamin Wagner, viola Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg Michael Leavens, trumpet Richard and Alice Godfrey Robbie Herbst, violin Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Liam Jackson, bassoon Mary Winton Green Isaac Polinsky, bass Jane Redmond Haliday Chair Hana Takemoto, cello

The Julian Family Foundation Taylor Hampton, percussion Nelson Mendoza,** violin Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust Miles Link, cello Crystal Qi, violin Daniel Solowey, clarinet Holly Wagner, violin John Wagner, trumpet Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett John Heffernan, violin League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Lindsey Sharpe,** cello Leslie Fund Inc. Joseph Bricker,** percussion Tabitha Oh, violin Phillip G. Lumpkin Dylan Feldpusch,** violin Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl Abigail Monroe, cello Judy and Scott McCue and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Luke Lentini,** violin Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal † Diego Diaz, violin Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Olivia Reyes, bass Ms. Susan Norvich Eleanor Kirk, harp Sandra and Earl J. Rusnak Jr. Teddy Schenkman, viola Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation Jarrett McCourt, tuba Nelson Ricardo Yovera Perez, horn The George L. Shields Foundation Inc. Phillip Bergman, cello Laura Schafer, violin Seth Van Embden, viola The David W. and Lucille G. Stotter Chair Joshua Burca, violin Ruth Miner Swislow Charitable Fund Nick DeLaurentis, bass

Lois and James Vrhel Endowment Fund Caleb Edwards, bass Dr. Marylou Witz Hee Yeon Kim,** violin Anonymous Hugo Saavedra,** trombone Anonymous Francisco Malespin,** cello Rannveig Sarc, violin

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.

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 Al Andreychuk, Director of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3150.

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

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individuals for generously creating a revocable bequest of $100,000 or more, or an irrevocable life-income trust or annuity of $50,000 or more, to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, as of February 2022.

Anonymous (8) 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 Sally J. Becker Marlys A. Beider Dr. C. Bekerman Martha Bell Mike and Donna Bell Celine Bendy Julie Ann Benson K. Richard and Patricia M. Berlet Merrill and Judy Blau Ann Blickensderfer

† Deceased ** Fellow § Partial sponsor Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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Danolda Brennan Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr. Mitchell J. Brown Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark Patricia A. Clickener Judith and Stephen F. Condren Anita Crocus Harry and Jean Eisenman Dr. Marilyn Ezri Mrs. William M. Flory Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr. Rhoda Lea Frank 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 Nancy Griffin John and Patricia Hamilton John Hart and Carol Prins Mr. William P. Hauworth II Thomas and Linda Heagy Mr. R.H. Helmholz Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Concordia Hoffmann Stephen D. and Catherine N. Holmes Frank and Helen Holt Mark and Elizabeth Hurley Frances and Phillip Huscher Ms. Darlene Johnson Ronald B. Johnson Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy Lori Julian Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan Howard Kaspin James Kemmerer Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Edwin and Karen Kramer Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka Robert B. Kyts Memorial Fund Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring Robert Alan Lewis Dr. Valerie Lober Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl Sheldon H. Marcus Marilyn G. Marr James Edward McPherson Janet L. Melk Dr. Frederick K. Merkel Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor Charles Moore Craig and Rose Moore Mrs. Mario A. Munoz

John H. Nelson Muriel Nerad Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer Diane Ososke Dr. Joan E. Patterson Donald Peck Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn Judy Pomeranz Neil K. Quinn Randall and Cara Rademaker Constance A Rajala Al and Lynn Reichle Ann and Bob † Reiland Wendy Reynes Dr. Edward O. Riley 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 Joanne Silver Mr. Craig Sirles Betty W. Smykal Annette and Richard Steinke Mrs. Deborah Sterling Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong Mrs. Gloria B. Telander Karin and Alfred Tenny Richard and Helen Thomas Ms. Carla M. Thorpe Dr. Richard Tresley Paula Turner Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner Mr. & Mrs. John E. Van Horn Mr. Christian Vinyard Craig and Bette Williams Florence Winters Stephen R. Winters and Don D. Curtis Dr. Robert G. Zadylak Helen Zell MEMBERS

Anonymous (34) Valerie and Joseph Abel Louise Abrahams Patrick Alden Richard and Elynne Aleskow Judy L. Allen Ann S. Alpert Ms. Judith L. Anderson Steven Andes, Ph.D. Catherine Aranyi Dr. Susan Arjmand Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba Mara Mills Barker Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty

Joan I. Berger Robert M. Berger John L. Browar Catherine Brubaker Joseph Buc Edward J. Buckbee Michelle Miller Burns Mr. Robert J. Callahan Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Car Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael Dr. Marlene E. Casiano Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy Sharon Conway Mr. Jerry J. Critser Ron and Dolores Daly Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson Sylvia Samuels Delman Mrs. David A. DeMar Ms. Phyllis Diamond Mr. Richard L. Eastline Nancy Schroeder Ebert Robert J. Elisberg Richard Elledge Charles and Carol Emmons Lu and Philip Engel Tarek and Ann Fadel James B. Fadim Leslie Farrell Donna Feldman Frances and Henry Fogel Allen J. Frantzen Nancy and Larry Fuller Dileep Gangolli Miss Elizabeth Gatz Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Steve and Lauran Gilbreath Mr. Daniel Gilmour, III Mr. Joseph Glossberg Adele and Marvin † Goldsmith Douglas Ross Gortner Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab Ms. Elizabeth A. Gray Delta A. Greene Mrs. Barbara Gundrum Lynne R. Haarlow Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley Mr. Tom Hall Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett Dr. Donald Heinrich William B. Hinchliff Mr. Thomas Hochman Jack and Colleen Holmbeck Mrs. Walter Horban James and Mary Houston Mr. James Humphrey Merle L. Jacob Ms. Jessica Jagielnik Joseph and Rebecca † Jarabak Mrs. Marian Johnson Ms. Janet Jones

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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Nathan Kahn, in memory of Zave H Gussin and in honor of Robert Gussin Marshall Keltz Valerie and George Kennedy Paul Keske Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr. Mrs. LeRoy Klemt Sally Jo Knowles Mrs. Russell V. Kohr Ms. Barbara Kopsian Liesel E. Kossmann Eugene Kraus John C and Carol Anderson Kunze Thomas and Annelise Lawson Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey Ms. Nicole Lehman Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy Ms. Sally Lewis Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg Mr. Michael Licitra Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson Bonnie Glazier Lipe Candace Loftus Suzette and James Mahneke Ann Chassin Mallow Sharon L. Manuel Mrs. John J. Markham Judy and Scott McCue Mr. William McIntosh Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey Dorothe Melamed Marcia Melamed Dale and Susan Miller Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten Thomas R. Mullaney Daniel R. Murray Dolores D. Nelson Franklin Nussbaum Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr. Wallace and Sarah Oliver Lynn Orschel Dr. David G. Ostrow and Mr. Rafael Gomez Helen and Joseph Page George R. Paterson Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein Elizabeth Anne Peters Mr. Lewis D. Petry Judy C. Petty Karen and Dick Pigott Lois Polakoff D. Elizabeth Price Dorothy V. Ramm Jeanne Reed Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones Karen L. Rigotti Don and Sally Roberts Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal Dr. Virginia C. Saft Craig Samuels Sue and William Samuels Paul and Kathleen Schaefer

Mrs. Milton Scheffler Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt David Shayne Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Anne Sibley Larry Simpson Thomas G. Sinkovic Rosalee Slepian Mary Soleiman Jim Spiegel Julie Stagliano Denise M. Stauder Karen Steil Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale Mr. John Stokes Richard and Lois Stuckey Jeffrey and Linda Swoger Mr. John C. Telander Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Thorson Karen Hletko Tiersky Myron Tiersky Jacqueline A. Tilles Mr. James M. Trapp Mr. Donn N. Trautman Mike and Mary Valeanu 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 Claude M. Weil 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 IN MEMORIAM

Listed below are individuals who were Theodore Thomas Society members and 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 (9) Hope A. Abelson Elizabeth E. Abler Richard Abrahams Frances B. Abrahamson Donald Alderman Sara Anastaplo Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos

Elizabeth M. Ashton Irwin Askow Jacqueline and Frank Ball Wayne Balmer Paul Barker Leland and Mary Bartholomew Patricia Anne Barton Barbara Burt Baumann Hortense K. Becker Arlene and Marshall Bennett Norma Zuzanek Bennett Sally J. Benson Harriet and Harry H. Bernbaum Lenore M. Berner Judith and Dennis Bober Naomi T. Borwell Kathryn Bowers Harriet B. Brady Marjorie L. Bredehorn Howard Broecker Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown George and Jacqueline Brumlik Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger Marie Kraemer Burnside Norma Cadieu Wiley Caldwell Elizabeth R. Capilupo Charles R. Casper Margaret G. Chamales Marcia S. Cohn Milton Colman Robert Cooke Nelson D. Cornelius Anita J. Court, Ph.D. Christopher L. Culp Barbara DeCoster Billie Dale Delevitt Robert L. Devitt Azile Dick Edison and Jane Warner Dick James F. Drennan William B. Drewry Robert L. Drinan, Jr. Daisy Driss William A. Dumbleton Evelyn Dyba Marian Edelstein Estelle Edlis Dr. Edward Elisberg Kelli Gardner Emery Joseph R. Ender Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson Shirley Mae Evans Mildred F. Fanslau Dr. James D. Fenters Leslie Fogel Robert B. Fordham Herbert and Betty Forman Richard Foster Etha Beatrice Fox Elaine S. Frank Henry S. Frank

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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Herbert B. Fried Dr. Muriel S. Friedman Gustave D. Friesem Hynda and Maurice Gamze Florence Ganja Alan J. Garber William and Helene Gardner Martin and Francey Gecht Isak Gerson Betsy N. and James R. Getz Mrs. Willard Gidwitz Lyle Gillman Marvin Goldsmith Elizabeth S. Graettinger William B. Graham Richard Gray David Green Allen J. Greenberger Dr. Robert A. Greendale Ann B. Grimes Ernest A. Grunsfeld III Elizabeth and Paul Guenzel Cecile Guthman Betty and Lester Guttman A. William Haarlow III Grace and Vernon Hajeck Clarine and James Hall Julie and J. Parker Hall Richard Halvorsen Leah C. and Robert J. Hamman CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret. Mrs. David J. Harris Polly Heinrich Mary Mako Helbert Lawrence J. Helstern Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth Marriane Deson Herstein Mary Jo Hertel Helen Hoagland Blanche Hoheisel Eugene P. Holland Allen H. Howard Hugh Johnston Hubbard Joseph H. Huebner Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr. Mrs. Henry Isham Barbara Isserman Robert Johnson Phyllis A. Jones James Joseph Joseph M. Kacena Stuart Kane Jared Kaplan Morris A. Kaplan Roberta Kapoun Paul Keske Esther G. Klatz Russell V. Kohr Jeffrey W. Korman William Kruppenbacher Karen Kuehner Evelyn and Arnold Kupec

Rebecca Jarabak Ruth Lucie Labitzke Louise H. Landau Alice M. La Pert Sadie Lapinsky Caressa Y. Lauer Robert A. Leady Arthur E. Leckner, Jr. Patricia Lee Christine D. Letchinger Lena T. Levinson Richard Alan Livingston Marion M. and Glen A. Lloyd Mary Longbrake William C. Lordan Iris Maiter Arthur G. Maling June Betty and Herbert S. Manning Kathleen W. Markiewicz Irl and Barbara Marshall Eloise Martin Virginia Harvey McAnulty Helen C. McDougal, Jr. Lillian E. McLeod Eunice H. McGuire Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick Carolyn and Bruce McPherson Jack L. Melamed, M.D. Hugo J. Melvoin Richard Menaul Susan Messinger Shirley R. Mesirow Phillip Migdal Kathryn and Edward Miller Micki Miller Gloria Miner Beth Ann Alberding Mohr Bill Moor Kathryn Mueller Marietta Munnis Leota Ann Meyer Murray David H. Nelson Helen M. Nelson Sydelle Nelson Otto Nerad John and Maynette Neundorf Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld Raymond and Eloise Niwa Joan Ruck Nopola Carol Rauner O’Donovan T. Paul B. O’Donovan Mary and Eric Oldberg Bruce P. Olson Suzanne and Brace Pattou Dorothy and William G. Paulick, Jr. Mary Perlmutter Bette G. Petersen Helen J. Petersen Madge and Neil Petersen Maxine R. Philipsborn Walter Placko Elaine and Harold H. Plaut

Charles J. Pollyea Miriam Pollyea Virginia and Eugene Pomerance Donald D. Powell Halina J. Presley Samuel Press Alfred and Maryann Putnam Christine Querfeld Ruth Ann Quinn Muriel F. Reder Walter Reed Daniel Reichard Bob Reiland Paul H. Resnik Sheila Taaffe Reynolds Joan L. Richards J. Timothy Ritchie Dolores M. RixFanada David M. Roberts Rosemary Roberts Virginia H. Rogers Jill N. Rohde Elaine Rosen Irmgard Hess Rosenberger Ben J. Rosenthal Harriet Cary Ross Anthony Ryerson Margaret R. Sagers Beverly and Grover Schiltz Richard Schieler Erhardt Schmidt Muriel Schnierow Donald R. Schreiber Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr. Margaret and Edwin Seeboeck Nancy Seyfried Denise Selz Joseph J. Semrow Ingeborg Haupt Sennot Soretta and Henry Shapiro Muriel Shaw Mr. Morrell A. Shoemaker Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure William F. Sibley Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel Peter E. Sincox Allen R. Smart Walter Chalmers Smith Jean H. Smith Peggy E. Smith-Skarry Willis B. Snell Karen A. Sorensen Georgette Grosz Spertus Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel Vito Stagliano Mrs. Zelda Star Charles J. Starcevich Curtis D. Stensrud Lucille G. and David W. Stotter Helmut and Irma Strauss Franklin R. St. Lawrence

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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Robert Sychowski Dr. Gerald Sunko Mr. & Mrs. Robert Swanson Ruth Miner Swislow Robert Sychowski Andrew and Peggy Thomson J. Ross Thomson Sue Tice Beatrice B. Tinsley C. Phillip Turner Paul D. Urnes Ted Utchen Robert L. Volz Lois and James Vrhel Cecilia Sue and Burton J. Wade Louise Benton Wagner Michael Jay Walanka Nancy L. Wald Jeanne Walker Josephine Wallace Laurie Wallach Jean Angus and Ferre C. Watkins Virginia O. Weaver Ann Dow Weinberg Marco Weiss James M. Wells Barbara Huth West Joyce Hadley Williams Arnold & Ann Wolff Ronald R. Zierer Rita A. Zralek

In memory of Heather DeBuhr Anderson and Janet Stover Mallot Kenje Mallot

In memory of John R. Blair Mrs. Barbara J. Blair

Kathryn Kerr Bob and Peggy Kimble Susan Koehler Ms. Ann W. Krouse Scott Levee Daniel Libit Marjorie Loeb Jan Mathes Cary Mendelsohn Mr. & Mrs. Russel L. Miron Myra Morris Mrs. John Myers Mr. & Mrs. Scott Nierman John Hart and Carol Prins Julie Regan Mr. & Ms. Thomas Rein Daniel Reisner Elaine Lebhoff-Ries, M.D., and Michael Ries, M.D. Amy Saltzman Alison Salzman Gail Seidman Lynne Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sharfstein Bonnie Shlensky Mr. Daniel Sobol Nancy Swan Donna Zarcone

In memory of Kettee J. Boling Mr. Thomas Boling

In memory of John Bross Rev. Robert Wyatt

In memory of Robin Beauchamp Ms. Jacqueline Harper In memory of Dr. & Mrs. Owen and Sylvia Belmont Chifan Belmont In memory of Gerry Benyo Ms. Elisabeth Long In memory of Dr. David Bergson Gary and Carole Lauger In memory of Dr. David Berkson Dr. & Mrs. David Berkson In memory of Hector Berlioz Linda Spadlowski In memory of Bud Beyer Ms. Jean Flaherty

In memory of Barbara Borovsky Anonymous (2) Douglas Bade The Tribute Program provides an opporJim and Emily Borovsky tunity to celebrate milestones such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and Peter Borzak graduations. It also can serve as a way to Richard Bray honor the memory of friends and family. Robert Buchsbaum An Honor or Memorial Gift enables you to David Carmell express your feelings in a truly distinctive Melinda Cook and memorable way. Contributions may Mr. & Mrs. Dan Drexler Kristen Van Dyke be any amount and are placed in the Orchestra’s Endowment Fund. For more Mr. & Mrs. James Esser Terri Feldman information regarding this program, Mrs. Lisa Fisher please call 312-294-3100. Listed below are Honor and Memorial Gifts of $100 or Lee Frank Katie Froelich more received through July 2020.

Charles Gofen William and Ethel Gofen MEMORIAL GIFTS Ms. Judy Golson Mark Goodman In memory of Dorothy Aalbregtse Leslie Grauer John D. and Leslie Henner Burns Renee Greenspon Juli Greenwald In memory of Claudio Abbado Jamie Haddad Mr. Daniel Balsam Chris Hamilton John Hammerschlag In memory of her loved ones Elaine Jacoby Ms. Laverne Alexander Steve Joung Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin In memory of Roy B. Alper Beth Kaufmann Mr. Jeffrey Alper

Tribute Program

In memory of Carol Mary Carruthers Marshall Johnson In memory of Robert Chaiken Mary Chaiken In memory of Mr. Myron Cholden Harriett and Myron Cholden In memory of Dale Clevenger Ms. Betty Henneman In memory of Dorothy Cohn Kim Lande In memory of Matthew Cook Ms. Veronica Cook In memory of Frank R. Crisafulli Mrs. Dorothy Crisafulli In memory of Lawrence Daker and the Reavis High School Administration Mr. Lawrence Daker In memory of Gary A. Davis Dr. Steven Andes In memory of Inge de la Camp Stephanie Wood

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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In memory of Dennis and Bridget Griffin Ms. Kathleen Griffin

In memory of Howard E. Jessen and Susanne C. Jessen Mr. † & Mrs. † Howard Jessen

In memory of Barbara Groves’s mother Ms. Barbara Groves

In memory of Emil Johnson Dr. Christakes

In memory of Zave Gussin Mr. Nathan Kahn

In memory of Shirley Kalnitz Mr. Nathan Linsk

In memory of Roger Harris Gail Shiner

In memory of Bernard E. Kane, M.D. Lisa DeVitto

In memory of George Estevez Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Wilhelm

In memory of Steve Harris H. Bruce Bernstein Sarah Harding Mr. Edward A. Hogikyan David and Barbara Slivnick Susie and Sam Tenenbaum

In memory of Jared Kaplan Mr. Jeffrey Jahns Tony Kempf Nancy Leizman Stephanie Silverman Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith

In memory of Hazel S. Fackler Neil Fackler

In memory of John Hayes Mr. John Hayes

In memory of Lyn Corbett Fitzgerald Ms. Nancy Kittle

In memory of OJ Heestand Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez Jane M. Gaines Ms. Barbara Malott The O’Connor Partnership Leila Shakkour and Michael Thorne

In memory of Merrily Ketchum Lois Berger Wally and Carol Lennox Marijo Schneiderwind Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Smith Kelly Thedinger

In memory of Herb Drury Jill and Scott Gundy In memory of Ron Eisenhauer Mr. † & Mrs. Gershon Berg In memory of Marc and Carolyn Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Demetrios Moschandreas Rachel Silver In memory of Lucille Marilyn Marks Ellison Ms. Nancy Friedman In memory of Susan K. Gordy Epstein Mr. David Epstein and Ms. Susan K. Gordy

In memory of James Foy Ms. Lucienne Johnson In memory of Shirley Freilich Mr. & Mrs. Don Borzak Ms. Carol Dragon Dr. Gershon Locker In memory of John P Flanzer Mrs. Gloria Flanzer In memory of Salah Galal and Yasser Mansour Hysam Galal In memory of Neil Gerdes Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Helm In memory of Isak Gereson Gabriel Gregoratos Bruce Johnson Lynne L. Kuehl In memory of David Lee Gibson Stephanie Jaeger Shannon Rusnak In memory of Dr. Jay M. Goldberg Dr. Anna Lysakowski In memory of Michael Cotter Greenfield Ms. Victoria Greenfield

In memory of Tom Hill Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hill In memory of Margaret Hillis Mrs. Leona Krompart In memory of Joel Honigberg Janice L. Honigberg In memory of Christopher Horsch Mr. † & Mrs. Christopher Horsch In memory of Kenneth Hummenyj Mr. Jerry Zitko In memory of Mary Ingmire Jann Ingmire In memory of Mrs. Estelle Wolowitz Jacobs Mr. Daniel Balsam In memory of Janet Jentes Anonymous Lynne R. Haarlow Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul Mr. David E. McNeel Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr. Dr. Catherine L. Webb

In memory of Len Kipnis Ms. Carol Septow In memory of Lawrence Klevan Ms. Jane Heron Mabel Menard Ayana Tomeka In memory of Adele Kornfeld Ms. Lois Weiss In memory of Antoinette Lalagos Mr. Daniel Creed In memory of Caroll Seiser Laque Alison Small In memory of Abba and Eleanor Leifer Ms. Diana Leifer In memory of Ida Oiring Lessman Anonymous Jane Birenberg Jennifer Roth In memory of Lena Levinson Sherwin Levinson In memory of Richard S. Levy Mr. David Jordan In memory of Irene Lindau Mr. Kevin Rudd

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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In memory of Richard A. Livingston Mr. & Mrs. Royce Eckhardt

In memory of Barbara P. Millar Ms. Kola Kennedy

In memory of Selma Perlmutter Mr. Jerry Smith

In memory of Jim Mabie Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

In memory of Carol Mittleman Mr. & Mrs. Ted Banks Kelly Carter Gloria Gray Jeffrey Gray Karen Gray-Keeler Cynthia Kane Ms. Monica Tobler Shelley Ziack

In memory of Dyan Peterson Joe Bass

In memory of Earl J. Macey Eliot Konz In memory of Edith G. MacLaren Mr. & Mrs. Robert Watson In memory of Kathleen and Joseph Madden Eileen Madden

In memory of Mildred E. Mohr Mr. Dale Mohr

In memory of Carol J Mason Jill C. Hawkes

In memory of Charles Francis Moles Ms. Kathleen Harrington

In memory of Dr. Ronald Massarik Ms. Catherine Alvary

In memory of Anthony G. Montag Dr. Anthony Montag † and Dr. Katherine Griem

In memory of William C. McConnell Mr. William and Karen McConnell In memory of Edith G. McLaren Mr. & Mrs. Robert Watson In memory of Dr. Donald J. and Nancy B. McNeil Elizabeth Gill In memory of Bruce and Carolyn McPherson Mr. Michael Berman Carolyn McPherson In memory of Evelyn Meine Mr. Curt Meine In memory of June Merkel Susan Clifford Mike and Carol Connelly Andrew and Diana DaMiano Mr. Kevin Donnellon John Gehron Ms. Paula Hambrick Ms. Tara McKee Esperanza Morales Cynthia Scillitani Sue Swan Nancy Wiltgen In memory of Leonard E. Meyers Ms. Julie Bromley Ximena Mora Y Olivan Gertrude Slowik Mr. & Ms. James Socke In memory of Sharon Mitchell’s mom Margo and Michael Oberman

In memory of Clark and Joann Montgomery Ms. Susan Montgomery In memory of Emma Alice Mosely Ms. Erica Mosely In memory of Dorothy Moszynski Judith E. Feldman Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman Ms. Sandra Morgan Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. In memory of Kay Nalbach Ms. Susann Ball In memory of Sooja Cho Nehrlich Ms. Louise Anderson Joan and David Trushin In memory of Gail Niwa Edward Inbusch Emi Matsuda Everett Zlatoff-Mirsky Jean Shin Nanjo Roycroft Chamber Music Festival In memory of Beatrice F. Orzac, violinist Dr. Edward S. Orzac Foundation In memory of Eul Soo Pang Dr. Laura Pang In memory of Carmen Perez Mr. Jeffrey Callison In memory of Charles Kingsley Perkins Ms. Susan Thomas

In memory of Fay B. Photopulos Mark Gorgal In memory of Shelly Plager Mrs. Janice Pranger In memory of Justin Edwin Pregenzer Dr. Gerard Pregenzer In memory of Ruth Ann Quinn Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn In memory of Ted Rachofsky Susan Rachofsky In memory of Lynne Raimondo Lynne Raimondo and Family In memory of Florence Rand Elizabeth R. Fuller In memory of Charles Leonard Reddington Dr. Karol S. Reddington In memory of Mary Lee Reed Patricia A. Clickener In memory of Robert N. Reiland Eloise Hirschey Ann Reiland In memory of Bennett Reimer Elizabeth A. Hebert In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Reuter Mr. Ulrich Sterzl In memory of Virginia H. Rogers and Arthur E. Leckner, Jr. Mr. Robert Wilson In memory of Edgar Rose Annie Lamb In memory of Robert Rosenman Mrs. Harriet Rosenman In memory of Jerry Roucka Sandra Koehler In memory of Delores Sarovich Mr. & Mrs. Steven Sarovich

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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In memory of Earl V. Schuster Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Dam Mrs. Marcia Dam In memory of William Shapiro Marie Waite In memory of Charles M. Shea Nancy J. Clawson Ms. Martha Egeland In memory of Jean Shorr Pauline Taylor In memory of Michael Silverstein from his family Ms. Mara Tapp

In memory of Joan Turk Trevor Turk

In memory of Edward T. Zasedil Mr. Larry Simpson

In memory of Mr. Donald C. Verlenden Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

HONOR GIFTS

In memory of John Vesevick Julie Molina In memory of Mary Anne Vestal Mr. Walter Vestal In memory of J. Michael Wagner Kim Wagner In memory of Kay Walsh Ms. Nancy Phelan

In memory of Gene Simon Jay Simon

In memory of Richard and Vanya Wang Eric Vaang

In memory of Helga Singwi Anjali Oberai

In memory of Dr. William Warren Dr. & Mrs. Marshall D. Goldin

In memory of Gerard Smetana Michelle Israel Beth Smetana

In memory of Carol Wechter Mr. Lawrence Wechter

In memory of Frank S. So Frank So † and Deborah Huggett

In memory of Walter Whisler M.D., Ph.D. Laura Whisler

In memory of Hallie Stein Liz Radgowski

In memory of Joan White Brian White

In memory of Marjorie Stone Anonymous

In memory of Rachel Nussbaum Wichert Gerd Wichert

In memory of Carol Strauss Mr. Edward Turkington In memory of Terri Sweig Marjorie Friedman Heyman

In memory of Dr. Kenneth F. Wieg Annette Wieg

In memory of Viktor Tomilov Ms. Anna Tomilova

In memory of Wes Wildman Jessica Armour-Ardizzone Valerie Feldman Mr. James Franczek Karen Gallagher Susan Hastings Ann Leeds Charles Rose Mrs. Jennifer Wilson Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba

In memory of Feyga and Samuil Totodov Ms. Mariya Kalinovskiy

In memory of Mrs. Sandra Wilkins Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Peterson

In memory of Alex Trebek Ms. Rita Mendelsohn

In memory of Novella Winston Ms. Betty Henson

In memory of Denise Turcotte Annette Snyder

In memory of Dale E. Woolley Ms. Regina Janes

In memory of Richard Taft Mrs. Anne Taft In memory of Grandma Tita Ian Rubin

In honor of Liz Adams Mr. Kevin Connellan In honor of Liz and Bill Adams Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Reilly In honor of Mr. & Mrs. David K. Adams James and Rebecca Gaebe In honor of Michael Adolph Mrs. Ann Oros In honor of Lucretia Aiello Lisa Aiello In honor of Jeff Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Alan Dennis In honor of Jeff and Keiko Alexander Dr. Abigail Sivan In honor of Elizabeth A. Allen Pat Allen In honor of Doris Angell Dr. Michael Angell In honor of Dolores Nathanson and Daniel Armstrong Norma Gilson In honor of Lev Aronson Travis Casper In honor of Esteban Batallán Mr. John Burson In honor of Randy and Mel Berlin Susan J. Moran and John M. McDonough In honor of Buddy Block Howard and Donna Bass In honor of Lawrie Bloom Ms. Catherine Stephenson In honor of Doug Bolino Wendy-Jo Toyama In honor of Boodell, Trop, Daley, Daley, Deneve, Little, Gottschall, Herbert, Krishnamoorthi, Papas, Preckwinkle, Thomas, Van Horn, Watts, Wislow The Clinton Family Fund

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Dienstag Mr. Jerome Dienstag

In honor of Mary Winton Green Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Cohan

In honor of Deborah Brusveen John Brusveen

In honor of Baird Dodge Charles Granville Ms. Lori Mitchell

In honor of Dale Griffith Ms. Lynn Friedman

In honor of Ricky Ray Byrd Donald Byrd

In honor of Katy Donovan Emily Corbett

In honor of piano students from the studio of Helen Grosshans Ms. Helen Grosshans

In honor of Kevin Carroll Steph Svarz

In honor of Mimi Duginger The Julian Family Foundation

In honor of Jennifer Gunn Mr. John Thorne

In honor of Virginia Chao’s brother Virginia Chao

In honor of Larry Ebert Pete Friedmann

In honor of Mary Hagen Ms. Alyssa Hagen

In honor of Members of the Chicago Federation of Musicians (AFM 10-208) and IATSE 2 Mr. Michael Sprinker

In honor of Mimi Elder and Dian Eller Penny and John Van Horn

In honor of Taylor Hampton Charlotte Hampton

In honor of The Elliot Family Ruth Colegrove

In honor of Neomia Harris Ms. Liesel Kossmann

In honor of Cynthia Ellis Donna Maibusch

In honor of O.J. Heestand Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Babson Ms. Linda Rosenzweig

In honor of Sue Bridge Ms. Renita M. Esayian Ms. Kathleen Jordan

In honor of Ms. You Ming Chin Mrs. Mary Dietrick In honor of Charlene Chisek Marianne Nesler In honor of Sunghee Choi Mrs. Eileen Conaghan In honor of Robert Coad Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III Carol S. Sonnenschein

In honor of Amy Fallon Erik Schwedhelm In honor of Elizabeth Fernandez Dr. & Mrs. Jack Faling In honor of Daniel Foster Anna Tyson

In honor of Dorothy Cohn Mr. Gary Cohn

In honor of Calvin Fultz Alison Madrigal

In honor of Richard W. Colburn Charles Katzenmeyer

In honor of Erin Gernon Charlene Gernon

In honor of Eileen Conaghan Mrs. Julie Stagliano

In honor of Emma Gerstein Mr. John Thorne

In honor of Sheila Conlon Ms. Mary Neville

In honor of George Gilkerson Ms. Linda Wallin

In honor of Esme Conour Stacy Fifer

In honor of Jim Gill Rosanne Thompson

In honor of Ruth and Evelyn Cvengros Kathleen Malone

In honor of William Goldstein Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

In honor of John and Barbara Dabrowski Ms. Sara Dabrowski

In honor of Jan and Larry Goldstein’s 50th wedding anniversary Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Goldstein

In honor of Jim Dale Mr. Neil Harris

In honor of Richard Graef Ms. Greta Connor

In honor of design, program book, and marketing departments Gretchen Sauer

In honor of Madelyn Greenberger Mr. Jeffrey Greenberger

In honor of Robert Hindsley Anita Hindsley In honor of Robert and Jane Hindsley Julia Byrne In honor of David Hines, Sr., M.D. Mr. David Hines, Jr. In honor of Joel Horwitz Katharine Horowitz In honor of Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, Michael Henoch, Jim Smelser, Esteban Batallán, David Herbert, Lei Hou, Ni Mei, Matous Michal, and Bill Buchman The Julian Family Foundation In honor of Lei Hou, Qing Hou, and Lawrence Neuman Richard Cohn In honor of Leland Hutchinson and Jean Perkins Ms. Pamela Baker In honor of Pamela Kelly Hull Mr. and Mrs. Allan Bulley III In honor of Mihaela Ionescu Ms. Lois Wolff

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

In honor of Stephanie Jeong, Cornelius Chiu, Jennifer Gunn, Lynne Turner, Gene Pokorny, Patricia Dash, Miles Maner, Katinka Kleijn, Stephen Lester, Nancy Park, and David Sanders Ms. Marilyn Duginger In honor of Earl A. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Johnson In honor of Lori Julian’s 75th birthday Ms. Suzan Bramson Dr. Marcia A. Lewis Mr. † & Mrs. Marshall Matz In honor of Jared Kaplan Ms. Rosellen Monter In honor of Blain and Debbie Keith Dr. Thomas Keith In honor of Todd Kersh David Schroeder In honor of Bob and Ruth Kinsman Mrs. Jeanne Girard In honor of Howard Klapman Mr. Michael Alter In honor of Brian Koenig Paul Roskoph In honor of Robert Kohl Mr. Gregory Cameron In honor of Mark Kraemer Mr. David J. Varnerin In honor of Dr. & Mrs. Ken N. Kuo Christine Kuo In honor of Melanie Kupchynsky Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell In honor of Ida Lessman Carol Depew In honor of Stephen Lester Ms. Helen Goldstein In honor of Ben Levy Ms. Jessica Jagielnik and Ms. Sam Kufta In honor of Dezhong Liang Ms. Jingyi Liang In honor of The Lincoln Quartet Bruce Gribens Bob and Marissa Happ Jonathan Maayan Hung Tzaw Tai

In honor of The Logas Family Mr. Daniel Logas

In honor of Riccardo Muti Ms. Mary Neville

In honor of Jeffrey London Stephanie Garry

In honor of Dolores Nathanson Noah Gilson

In honor of Hershey and MaryGene Longenecker Evelyne Manning

In honor of Raymond, Eloise, and Gail Niwa Ms. Karen Visser

In honor of Virginia Lorber Svetlana Rivilis

In honor of NMI staff Dana M. Cook

In honor of Maggie and Tom Magarian Greta Wilkening

In honor of Michael J. O’Donnell Martin O’Donnell

In honor of Margot Martino Mr. Richard Martino

In honor of Ken Olsen Dr. Charles Morcom

In honor of Jonathan McCormick Emily Wright

In honor of Bradley Opland Ms. Lois Wolff

In honor of Lisa McDaniel and Kim Duffy Ms. Florence Connelly

In honor of Craig Oxford Dr. Hebert and Sharon Meltzer

In honor of David McNeel Dr. Catherine L. Webb

In honor of Kevin Pavao Jennifer Mislinski

In honor of Leonard E. Meyers Alice Finn and John Finn

In honor of Clark Pellett and Robert Kohl Dr. & Mrs. Louis Philipson

In honor of Simon Michal Ms. Sarah Good

In honor of Dane Philipsen Michael Philipsen

In honor of Dr. Gordon Millichap Bridgette Hayes and Eric Hayes

In honor of Todd Rosenberg Rail Splitter Capital Management LLC

In honor of Lamont Moore, Rhoda Ward, and Margaret Dee Ms. Helen Sinn

In honor of James Ross Mr. & Mrs. David Weber

In honor of Diane Mues Cynthia Kirk Paula Gorlitz Brae Korin Bill Loumpouridis and Melanie Loumpouridis

In honor of Ruthie Ryan Mr. & Mrs. David Heeren James Percifield Mr. & Mrs. Steven W. Scheibe In honor of Heloisa and Emi Ryhal Luz Pinilla

In honor of Bob and Mimi Murley Suzanne Sennatt

In honor of David A. Samson Ken Samson

In honor of Alaina Murphy Samantha Silva

In honor of David Sanders Mr. James Taylor

In honor of Musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Ms. Lois Wolff

In honor of Dean and Martha Sayles Ellen Sayles

In honor of Heidi Musser Ms. Erika Musser

In honor of Will Schermer Mary Jane Schermer

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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In honor of Barbara Schneider Barbara and Lewis Schneider

In honor of Denise Stauder Mrs. Janet Duffy

In honor of Penny Van Horn Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews

In honor of Evan Schnurr Adam Baechler

In honor of Momoko Steiner Ms. and Ms. Eri Iwakuni

In honor of Sondra Varco Mr. Gregory Nyczak

In honor of Florence Schwartz Dr. & Mrs. Enrique Beckmann

In honor of Irving Stenn, Jr. Mr. John Stiefel and Mrs. Lesa Ukman

In honor of Ann Wagener Mr. & Ms. Robert Savard

In honor of John Sharp Ms. Janice Young

In honor of Ray Still Debra and David Barford

In honor of Robert F. Wallwork Family Ms. Michele Packard

In honor of The Shebik Family Giovanna Imbarrato

In honor of Heather Storey Mr. Mark Mandich

In honor of Claude Weil Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro

In honor of Amy Shevitz Ms. Jane Lippow

In honor of Ariana Strahl Mrs. Janet Duffy

In honor of Wilfred Edward White Ms. Olive Dilworth

In honor of our family Steven and Susan Sidell

In honor of Jean Stremmel Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Maughan

In honor of Lisa Simeone Elaine Murphy

In honor of Mr. & Mrs. Louis Sudler Mr. Neal Ball

In honor of Stephen Williamson, Joyce Noh, Hemine Gagne, Max Raimi, and Richard Hirschl Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward

In honor of Ida N. Sondheimer Dr. Stuart Sondheimer

In honor of Symphony Financial Scott Jonas

In honor of Karen Sonderby Kate Sheehan

In honor of Susan Synnestvedt Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward

In honor of Fran Spellman Ms. Jalene Szuba In honor of Charles Srstka Ms. Beth Hakamy In honor of Judy and Karl Stadler Ms. Mary Dougherty

In honor of Cynthia Yeh Mr. Thomas Libera Gabriel Villani Ms. Carla Williams In honor of So Young Bae Ms. Renita M. Esayian

In honor of David Taylor Ms. Claretta Meier Dr. Steven Pierson

In honor of Helen Zell, in memory of Deborah Sobol Mr. Rowland Chang

In honor of Josie Tomes Li Rigler

In honor of Simon Zreczny Mr. Christopher Pickering

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

† Deceased Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

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