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This April, following a four-year search interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, we were pleased to announce the appointment of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s eleventh music director, Klaus Mäkelä. After a three-year term as Zell Music Director Designate, with an increasing presence in Chicago, Mäkelä will embark on an initial fiveyear tenure as Zell Music Director in September 2027. In this role, he will lead the Orchestra for a minimum of fourteen weeks per season, including ten weeks of subscription programs and other concerts in and around Chicago, in addition to four weeks of domestic and international tours. We eagerly anticipate the exciting performances and artistic vision that Mäkelä will bring to our community. In his first two memorable engagements with the Orchestra, Mäkelä established an exceptional connection with CSO musicians and demonstrated his ability to deliver extremely moving performances of a wide range of repertoire. As we got to know him off the podium and witnessed—in addition to his extraordinary musical talent—his passion for the art form, keen interest in music education and the legacy of the CSO, and innate ability to connect warmly and sincerely with our trustees, volunteers, concert attendees, donors, and administrative staff, it quickly became clear that he was the ideal choice to lead the Orchestra into the future. We are delighted with this outcome and deeply moved by the enthusiastic reception of Chicagoans and music lovers worldwide. An inspiring new chapter awaits us all.

In performances this spring, we celebrate the outstanding contributions of our Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery and Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn. Montogomery’s Procession, a CSO-commission of a concerto written for CSO Principal Percussion Cynthia Yeh, receives its premiere at the end of May. Hahn performs a multidisciplinary recital with artistic collaborators on June 9 as part of the Symphony Center Presents series.

We would also like to recognize the exceptional generosity of the Negaunee Foundation, which made a landmark $21 million gift to the CSOA in March as part of our ongoing SEMPRE ALWAYS Campaign. Representing one of the largest commitments in the CSOA’s history, this contribution builds on its multi-decade history of giving to the organization. We express our sincere gratitude to the Negaunee Foundation for this latest visionary gift that will sustain our programs for years to come.

There is much to celebrate this spring as we enjoy all of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association’s rich offerings and look ahead to a bright future.

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

Jeff Alexander President Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS

Mary Louise Gorno Chair

Chester A. Gougis Vice Chair

Steven Shebik Vice Chair

Helen Zell Vice Chair

Renée Metcalf Treasurer

Jeff Alexander President

Kristine Stassen Secretary of the Board

Stacie M. Frank Assistant Treasurer

Dale Hedding Vice President for Development

HONORARY TRUSTEES

The Honorable Richard M. Daley

The Honorable Lori Lightfoot

TRUSTEES

John Aalbregtse

Peter J. Barack

H. Rigel Barber

Randy Lamm Berlin

Roderick Branch

Kay Bucksbaum

Robert J. Buford

Johannes Burlin

Leslie Henner Burns

Marion A. Cameron-Gray

George P. Colis

Keith S. Crow

Stephen V. D’Amore

Timothy A. Duffy

Brian W. Duwe

Charles Emmons, Jr.*

Judith E. Feldman*

Graham C. Grady

John Holmes

Lori Julian

Neil T. Kawashima

Geraldine Keefe

Donna L. Kendall

Thomas G. Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner

Patty Lane

Susan C. Levy

Vikram Luthar

Renée Metcalf

Britt M. Miller

Sharon Mitchell*

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

Mary Pivirotto Murley

Sylvia Neil

Santa J. Ono

Gerald Pauling

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

Dr. Don M. Randel

Dr. Mohan Rao

Melissa M. Root

Burton X. Rosenberg

E. Scott Santi

Steven Shebik

Marlon R. Smith

Walter Snodell

Dr. Eugene Stark

Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr.

Scott Swanson

Nasrin Thierer

Liisa Thomas

Frederick H. Waddell

Paul S. Watford

Craig R. Williams

Robert Wislow

Ann Marie Wright

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.

Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.

H. Laurance Fuller †

Mrs. Robert W. Galvin

Paul C. Gignilliat

Joseph B. Glossberg

Richard C. Godfrey

* Ex-officio Trustee † Deceased List as of April 2024

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

William R. Jentes

Paul R. Judy †

Richard B. Kapnick

Donald G. Kempf, Jr.

Mrs. John C. Kern

Robert Kohl

Josef Lakonishok

Charles Ashby Lewis

Eva F. Lichtenberg

John S. Lillard †

John F. Manley

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. †

John R. Schmidt

Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Robert C. Spoerri

Carl W. Stern

William H. Strong

Louis C. Sudler, Jr.

Richard L. Thomas

Richard P. Toft

Penny Van Horn

Paul R. Wiggin

Klaus Mäkelä Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Zell Music Director Designate

The exceptional musical legacy of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra continues with the appointment of Klaus Mäkelä as the Orchestra’s eleventh music director, beginning September 2027.

An Appreciation Jessie Montgomery

MEAD COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE 2021–24

By Kyle MacMillan

During her three seasons as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mead Composer-inResidence, Jessie Montgomery has left a profound impression on the Orchestra and the city’s cultural scene. Her many accomplishments include a trio of world premieres, the curation

clockwise from top: Mead Composer-in-Residence Montgomery’s Hymn for Everyone and CSO Viola and composer Max Raimi’s Four Lisel Mueller Settings are featured on the most recent CSO Resound recording: Contemporary American Composers Here, Montgomery discusses her work in a preconcert conversation with Raimi before its premiere on April 28, 2022. | Montgomery takes a bow after the CSO’s premiere of Transfigure to Grace, conducted by Riccardo Muti on May 11, 2023. | A talented violinist, Montgomery performed regularly on the MusicNOW series, October 24, 2022.

of nine inspired CSO MusicNOW concerts, and the founding of a unique mentorship program for young composers. The residency has put an exclamation point on an already soaring national and international reputation that includes being named Musical America’s 2023 Composer of the Year and a 2023 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

“I have a new sort of family at the CSO,” the lifelong New Yorker, who has made Chicago home since the summer of 2022, said. “I’ve become part of the CSO fabric, and I’m grateful for that.”

In April 2021, Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti named Montgomery to the position. She is the sixth woman to hold the post.

A major highlight of the residency has been commissions to write three orchestral works for the CSO, starting with Hymn for Everyone, a “meditation for orchestra,” which debuted in April 2022. Her second commission received its premiere in May 2023—Transfigure to Grace, which evolved from an earlier chamber music piece that commemorated the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to America.

“I was really happy with how those went,” Montgomery said, “and it was really great to have Maestro Muti be the conductor of those pieces.”

Rounding out this triumvirate of new works is Procession, a concerto that Montgomery wrote for Cynthia Yeh, the CSO’s principal percussion, that will premiere May 30, 31, and June 1. Yeh approached the composer two years ago or so about the possibility, and the two have collaborated closely on it, including selecting instruments and crafting the work’s overall tone.

“It just made a lot sense,” Montgomery said. “Writing for percussion is new to me, and I thought this would be a good, big way to get into the world of percussion, and my music is rhythmically inspired, so it felt like a natural way to communicate that.”

The CSO has what the composer calls an “oldworld sound” with really lush strings and brass and winds that have a kind of glow. “It’s an iconic sound that comes to mind when you think of the old recordings that I grew up listening to as a kid,” she said. “That’s what I had in my ear, so it’s just really amazing to be in the room and hear them work. That’s been really special.”

The Orchestra also commissioned two chamber works by Montgomery for the MusicNOW

series, including a violin duo performed by the composer and Rachel Barton Pine and a Concerto Grosso featuring violinist Curtis Stewart that premiered in March. Several of her existing works were also performed on the main subscription, Civic Orchestra, and family concert series during her tenure.

Among her chief duties as Mead Composer-inResidence has been curating the repertoire and exploring new multidisciplinary collaborations for MusicNOW, the CSO’s contemporary-music series that features chamber works performed by Orchestra musicians and guest artists.

Montgomery has emphasized diversity in her choices of composers for the series, including her inclusion of works by Jasmine Barnes, Damien Geter, Shawn E. Okpebholo, Dave Ragland, and Joel Thompson on a December program. The five are members of an informal composer group with a playful name—the Blacknificent 7.

She pointed with pride to some of the high-profile composers who have taken part in the series during her tenure, including former Mead Composer-in-Residence Osvaldo Golijov and violinist Mark O’Connor, who performed two of his works with his wife, Maggie (also a violinist) and composer and bassist Xavier Foley.

“I really love how diverse the audiences are for MusicNOW,” Montgomery said, “and I feel like it is really a wonderful expression of the breadth of community there is in Chicago around new music.”

Montgomery has also overseen the twoyear-old Young Composers Initiative, in which students from across the Chicago area (five in 2022–23 and six in 2023–24) work on compositions, with the benefit of her guidance and individual coaching, that are performed by members of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. This season’s culminating concert is set for May 31 in Symphony Center’s Buntrock Hall.

“I’m really proud of the work that I’ve done,” Montgomery said. “It’s been very full between all of the commissions and certainly the curatorial work with MusicNOW and the really nice successes in those programs over the last few years.”

Read an extended version of this article at cso.org/experience.

from top: Montgomery coaches Angel Alday as an ensemble performs his music during a Young Composers Initiative workshop on December 16, 2023. | Montgomery speaks with patrons after the March 3, 2024, CSO MusicNOW performance.

A NEW SEASON AWAITS

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

BEETHOVEN Eroica

R. STRAUSS Don Juan and Don Quixote

TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake

BARTÓK Bluebeard’s Castle

SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS A journey through musical stories

BERLIOZ The Damnation of Faust Extraordinary talent. Thrilling collaborations. Unforgettable moments.

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Evgeny Kissin

Julia Fischer

Leonidas Kavakos

Mao Fujita

Daniil Trifonov, CSO Artist-inResidence

Klaus Mäkelä, Zell Music Director Designate

An Appreciation Hilary Hahn

CSO ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2021–24

By Kyle MacMillan

Show, don’t tell. Soloists want conductors who actually support them during a performance and don’t just offer assurances ahead of time.

“You can say it all you want, but once we get on stage, we know in ten seconds if you have us or not,” said Grammy Award–winning violinist

Hilary Hahn, who completes a three-year artist residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the end of the 2023–24 season.

That pithy observation was among dozens that she offered on the little-discussed art of orchestral accompaniment during a master class she led in March with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and three emerging conductors.

clockwise from top left: CSO Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn and Leah Dexter perform “A Song for Terrell,” written by Trevon Osley and Joshua Fink, at the Notes for Peace Celebration on March 19, 2024. | Hahn leads a master class with student musicians in the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative on December 9, 2023. | A standing ovation in a sold-out Orchestra Hall for Hahn’s all-Bach program as part of the Symphony Center Presents Chamber Music series, March 19, 2023

It was exactly the kind of unusual and innovative initiative that has long distinguished Hahn as anything but a conventional soloist and has brought enormous variety and novelty to her time in Chicago.

“I’m always curious about a lot of things,” she said, “I like to explore things, and I like to have a community. So, a lot of what I do is about community-building.”

Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti appointed Hahn as the CSO’s inaugural artist-in-residence, with an initial term of two years, beginning with the 2021–22 season, that was later extended. In each of the three seasons, she has made several visits to Chicago, each centered on a set of concerts with the CSO or on the Symphony Center Presents Chamber Music series, like a March 19, 2023, program of selected solo sonatas and partitas by J.S. Bach.

“Whenever I get to play a solo Bach recital in a great venue,” she said, “I feel a connection to the venue that I didn’t have before. I don’t feel anymore that I’m trying to read the room. Once I do that, I feel like it’s part of me and I’m part of it. So, that was really special.”

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SUMMER RESIDENCY

FEATURING

MARIN ALSOP, Ravinia Chief Conductor

AUGUSTIN HADELICH, violin

ABEL SELAOCOE, cello

JONATHAN RUSH, conductor

MICHELLE CANN, piano

RACHEL BARTON PINE, violin ...AND MANY MORE!

Highlights of her appearances with the CSO have included December 9–11, 2021, performances of Dvořák’s Violin Concerto marking the 130th anniversary of the U.S. premiere by the CSO, and December 7–9, 2023, concerts with Brahms’s Violin Concerto.

The Orchestra has a strong, well-established identity, she said, but she discovered during her residency that it can also be flexible and adaptable. “When they know you as a soloist,” she said, “and when they adopt you sort of into their world, they will move with you. They come to you, and you can go to them.”

Working with the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute, the violinist has also taken part in an array of less-visible community and educational outreach activities. “The Negaunee Institute is gold,” she said. “I wasn’t so aware of their work before, and I have such admiration for everything they do.”

In some cases, she has plugged into existing programs like Notes for Peace, which the Negaunee Institute began in 2018 in partnership with the support group Purpose Over Pain and the British-based Irene Taylor Trust. Members of the Civic Orchestra and others lead songwriting sessions for families who have lost a loved one to gun violence, and the resulting works are performed at community concerts and preserved on high quality recordings.

As part of her participation, for example, Hahn was part of a team that wrote a song devoted to Marquise Richardson. She performed it alongside vocalist Leah Dexter at the March 2024 Notes for Peace Celebration, in which twelve such songs were performed and their dedicatees memorialized.

“It’s very special to be part of that,” Hahn said of Notes for Peace, “because it’s such a huge issue and there is no way you can possibly encompass every single person’s life who has been taken. But at least for a few people, you can bring people together around the music, and the music is very concretely serving a purpose.”

The violinist has also initiated her own projects, such as Bring Your Own Baby, a continuation of a series of informal one-hour concerts she has done elsewhere for parents and guardians with babies eleven months and younger. Her

Chicago installment took place in March 2023 in Symphony Center’s Buntrock Hall.

Other activities have included working with art students at the Chicago High School for the Arts in Humboldt Park, coaching chamber groups at Northside College Preparatory High School, and leading a master class for the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative, which provides support for promising BIPOC musicians.

Mentoring, performing, collaborating, experimenting, and sharing. That’s what Hahn’s three-year odyssey with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been all about.

The Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is made possible through a generous gift from James and Brenda Grusecki.

Read an extended version of this article at cso.org/experience.

from top: Hahn shows an eager infant her instrument at her Bring Your Own Baby concert on March 20, 2023. | Hahn performing Saraste’s Carmen Fantasy with the CSO, April 13, 2023.

EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT

RENÉE METCALF, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, DIVISION PERFORMANCE EXECUTIVE, PRIVATE BANK MIDWEST AND MID ATLANTIC DIVISIONS

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Bank of America is proud to continue its long-standing support of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Our partnership not only delivers artistic quality but also helps to create meaningful connections with a diverse audience base in Chicago and around the world.

TOM WILSON, CHAIR, PRESIDENT, AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE

OFFICER

The Allstate Corporation

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

scott kirby, chief executive officer

United Airlines

United is pleased to serve the CSO as its official airline and proudly supports its remarkable contributions to the performing arts community here in Chicago and beyond. With the CSO, we celebrate the energy that performers and audiences alike bring to our hometown and to the global stage.

michael g. o’grady, chairman, president and chief executive officer Northern Trust

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

melissa root, partner and chicago office managing partner

robert b. ford, chairman and chief executive officer

Abbott

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

Jenner & Block LLP

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

maestro residency presenter

ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THIRD SEASON

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

KLAUS MÄKELÄ Zell Music Director Designate

RICCARDO MUTI Music Director Emeritus for Life

Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 7:30

Friday, May 17, 2024, at 1:30

Saturday, May 18, 2024, at 7:30

Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at 7:30

Kazuki Yamada Conductor

Martin Helmchen Piano

TAKEMITSU

BEETHOVEN

How slow the Wind

First Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

Allegro con brio

Largo

Rondo: Allegro

MARTIN HELMCHEN

INTERMISSION

FRANCK Symphony in D Minor

Lento—Allegro non troppo

Allegretto

Allegro non troppo

These concerts are generously sponsored by an anonymous donor.

Concert support for Friday’s matinee is generously provided by the Frank Family Fund in loving memory of Elaine and Zollie Frank.

United Airlines is the Official Airline of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.

WBBM Newsradio is a media partner for this program.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra thanks an anonymous donor for generously sponsoring these performances.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra thanks the Frank Family Fund for generously supporting the Friday, May 17 performance.

COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher

TŌRU TAKEMITSU

Born October 8, 1930; Tokyo, Japan

Died February 20, 1996; Tokyo, Japan

How slow the Wind

Tōru Takemitsu decided to become a composer at the age of sixteen, while listening to music on the radio as he recuperated from pneumonia. He began to study scores and to teach himself to play the piano. At eighteen he sought out Yasuji Kiyose as his teacher; although he studied with him on and off for a while, Takemitsu remained largely self-taught. (His main source of education, he once said, is “this daily life, including all of music and nature.”) Significantly, Takemitsu first studied Western, not traditional Japanese, music. (“During the war in Japan, listening to Western music was forbidden,” he recalled. “And so, when the war was over, we young people were thirsty for [it].”) It was another decade before Takemitsu became aware of the music of his own land. Ultimately, in a way that gave his output its distinctive sensibility, he explored both Western innovation and Japanese tradition at the same time. Takemitsu was one of the first important composers to bridge the musical worlds of the East and the West. He was inspired by the complex relationship between the two—their similarities as well as differences. The assimilation wasn’t always easy. (He once remarked, for example, that it’s very difficult for Japanese composers to write fast music.)

Takemitsu had a broader understanding of music than most composers because he learned European music as a foreigner, and he studied his own country’s music as someone who knew Western music first. He also walked the mountains of Indonesia, stopping in the villages to listen to their music. He once spent a few days on a small, remote Australian island with a group of bushmen (Takemitsu was the first Japanese person to visit the island) and found music unlike any he knew. Song and dance among the Aborigines aren’t separate from human experience, and he found it difficult to draw a distinction between what was music and what was life—the bushmen didn’t even have a special word for “music.” In 1967, working on a commission from the New York Philharmonic, Takemitsu attempted to write for symphony orchestra and traditional Japanese instruments for the first time. That work—November Steps—forced him to accept differences so profound that they were, as he

COMPOSED 1991

FIRST PERFORMANCE

November 6, 1991; Glasgow, Scotland

INSTRUMENTATION

flute, piccolo with alto flute, two oboes with english horn, two clarinets with bass clarinet, two bassoons with contrabassoon, two horns, percussion, harp, piano, celesta, strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME 11 minutes

These are the first Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances.

from top: Tōru Takemitsu, portrait, 1981, by Jack Mitchell (1925–2013)/ Getty Images

Les Yeux clos, oil portrait of his wife, Camille Falte, by Odilon Redon (1840–1916), 1890. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

remarked, beyond words. In his fusion of these traditions and cultures, Takemitsu anticipated what he envisioned as our future: “Indeed, I believe that, in time, diverse cultures born of diverse peoples will be merged into one synthesis, that human beings will come to have one culture, immense and on a global scale.”

Takemitsu first drew attention in this country when Seiji Ozawa led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of the Requiem for String Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival in 1963. Stravinsky had heard the piece during a trip to Japan two years earlier, when radio engineers played it for him by accident; after they realized their mistake, Stravinsky asked to hear the work all the way through. He immediately pronounced it a masterpiece. Although Takemitsu had already been composing for more than a decade, this was his first large-scale score. It was written in memory of his close friend and mentor, Japanese film composer Fumio Hayasaka, and it anticipates the delicately detailed impressionistic sound world of Takemitsu’s later work.

In February 1967 Takemitsu was stranded in Chicago for nearly a week by a blizzard that shut down the airport. Takemitsu took the time to explore the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was drawn to the work of Odilon Redon. Some twenty years later, when he was commissioned to write a piece honoring the centennial of the Chicago Symphony, his first thought was of two

Redon images, Mystére and Les Yeux clos (Closed Eyes). Visions, the resulting orchestral score, was given its premiere here, under Daniel Barenboim (then the Orchestra’s music director designate), on March 8, 1990.

How slow the Wind, the exquisitely nuanced work that is performed at this week’s concerts, was Takemitsu’s next orchestral piece. It is one of many of his compositions based on themes from literature or nature— trees, constellations, gardens, rain. As with Quotation of Dream, composed the same year, it takes a line from a poem by Emily Dickinson as its point of departure. Here is the Dickinson poem, in its entirety:

How slow the Wind— How slow the sea— How late their Feathers be!

“In this work,” Takemitsu writes, “an attempt is made, by means of delicate changes in nuance in the restrained coloring, to create a perspective view of sound. The motif, which consists of seven tones, is like the original material before it was formed into a melody, and it moves in a repetitive cycle, like waves or the wind. And with each repetition of the cycle, the scene waves slightly, undergoing a subtle change in its appearance.”

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Born December 16, 1770; Bonn, Germany

Died March 26, 1827; Vienna, Austria

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

This is not Beethoven’s first piano concerto. We are usually taught that the B-flat major concerto known as no. 2 is really no. 1, but that is not entirely accurate either. Sometime in 1784, when Beethoven was only fourteen years old, he wrote a piano concerto in E-flat major. It is the sort of sprawling, self-important, and florid music that one might expect of a teenager (if teenagers regularly composed), and it is a greater testament to the young Beethoven’s apparent virtuosity as a pianist than to his promise as a composer. Although the full score is lost, we still have a copy of the piano part, including indications for orchestral cues. (The concerto was reconstructed by Willy Hess and performed for the first time in 1943.)

Jumping ahead nearly a decade, we come to the first works in the form that Beethoven wished to acknowledge: a concerto in B-flat, probably begun before 1793, and the C major concerto on this program, which was composed in 1795. Both

from top: Ludwig van Beethoven, portrait on ivory by Danish artist Christian Horneman (1765-1844), 1803. Beethoven-Haus Bonn Collection, Germany | Third View of the Neuwaldegg Park in Dornbach. Engraving by Johann Ziegler (1749–1802) of a landscape by Laurenz Janscha (1749–1812), 1792. Dornbach was incorporated into the city of Vienna in 1892. Published by Artaria. Vienna Museum, Austria

COMPOSED 1795

FIRST PERFORMANCE

December 18, 1795; Vienna, Austria. The composer as soloist

INSTRUMENTATION

solo piano, one flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME

37 minutes

CADENZAS Beethoven

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

March 12 and 13, 1915, Orchestra Hall. Rudolph Ganz as soloist, Frederick Stock conducting

July 12, 1964, Ravinia Festival. Ann Schein as soloist, Seiji Ozawa conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

July 18, 2018, Ravinia Festival. Yuja Wang as soloist, Gustavo Dudamel conducting

January 30, 31, February 1, and 4, 2020, Orchestra Hall. Paul Lewis as soloist, Sir Andrew Davis conducting

CSO RECORDINGS

1972. Vladimir Ashkenazy as soloist, Sir Georg Solti conducting. London

1983. Alfred Brendel as soloist, James Levine conducting. Philips

works were published in 1801, but in the reverse order. Although Beethoven played both of these concertos in public on several occasions, he was intensely self-critical, and, when it came time to publish them, he could think of nothing good to say about either one:

One of my first concertos [in B-flat] and therefore not one of the best of my compositions is to be published by Hofmeister, and Mollo is to publish a concerto [in C major] which indeed was written later but which also does not rank among the best of my works in this form.

By 1801, Beethoven’s style had changed dramatically. He recently had begun a third piano concerto in C minor, one of the works with which he would establish his primacy in the new century. From our viewpoint, the Third Piano Concerto does not mark a critical advance over the first two, but, for Beethoven, every step forward was important and hard won. Later generations, in fact, would lump all three concertos together as “early period” works, although that does not mean lesser Beethoven.

Beethoven apparently was more interested in the C major concerto than he let on, because he composed three cadenzas for its first movement. All three are obviously later efforts, apparently dating from 1809, the time of the Emperor Concerto—his fifth and last piano concerto. By then, Beethoven realized that his worsening deafness would soon force him off the concert stage, and he wrote out definitive versions of the cadenzas that he previously had improvised.

It’s not difficult to understand why this music still held interest for Beethoven as late as 1809, for it is impressive material used with great mastery. Perhaps inspired by Mozart’s great C major concerto, which he undoubtedly knew by the time this piece was written, Beethoven works on a larger canvas here than in the B-flat concerto. (He also adds clarinets, trumpets, and timpani to the orchestra.) Beethoven begins quietly, having already learned that a soft opening is often the quickest way to capture an audience’s attention. The music is robust and energetic, despite the dynamic, and it soon bursts forth with typical Beethoven fervor. There is some characteristic horseplay with the choice of keys—the second theme begins in faraway E-flat—and Beethoven borrows from Mozart the unexpected touch of allowing the piano to enter with music the orchestra has not already presented (although, unlike Mozart, he never returns to the piano’s new theme).

The slow movement is longer than the corresponding movement of any other concerto by Beethoven, but here he has learned how to move through slow music so that it never drags; the extra length is all bonus. The leisurely coda includes a poignant conversation between the piano and the first clarinet. A look through all of Mozart and Haydn’s finales will not produce a jazzier ending than this boisterous rondo, full of pranks and surprises. The good time goes on for nearly six hundred measures without seeming a moment too long.

CÉSAR FRANCK

Born December 10, 1822; Liège, Belgium

Died November 8, 1890; Paris, France

Symphony in D Minor

César Franck matured as a composer very late in life, but he first won acclaim as a prodigy. He was born in Liège, in the French-speaking Walloon district of the Netherlands; this heritage was reflected in the mixture of French and Flemish in his name. Early on he showed unusual musical talent, which his father, Nicolas-Joseph, set about nurturing, promoting, and finally exploiting. In 1830, his father enrolled him in the Liège Conservatory, and César made his first tour as a virtuoso pianist at the age of eleven, traveling throughout the newly formed kingdom of Belgium. (His specialty was playing variations on popular opera themes à la Liszt.)

Having outgrown the Liège Conservatory, César moved to Paris, with his entire family in tow, for advanced study in 1835. When the Paris Conservatory initially rejected his application because of his Belgian birth, Nicolas-Joseph sent for French naturalization papers. César was an exemplary student, and he walked off with many top prizes. He was always interested in composing, but his father discouraged him from entering the prestigious Prix de Rome competition in the hope that he would devote his life to concertizing. Nicolas-Joseph even pulled César out of school in 1842 to send him off on another recital tour, which was highlighted by a meeting with Franz Liszt, who encouraged him to keep composing.

Franck next won fame as an organist and a composer of organ music (his impassioned organ improvisations were greatly celebrated). Then, in middle age, he devoted himself to teaching, and, in the process, influencing an entire generation of French composers, including Vincent d’Indy and Ernest Chausson, who were nearly idolatrous in their devotion. Like Bruckner (with whom he has sometimes been compared), Franck came into his own as a composer late in his career. His major works— this Symphony in D minor, along with the violin sonata and the piano quintet, the Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra, and several symphonic poems—were all written between 1880 and 1890, the last decade of his life.

COMPOSED 1886–88

FIRST PERFORMANCE

February 17, 1889; Paris, France

INSTRUMENTATION

two flutes, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets and two cornets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, harp, strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME

41 minutes

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

February 2 and 3, 1900, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting

July 24, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Ernest Ansermet conducting

MOST RECENT

CSO PERFORMANCES

July 3, 1981, Ravinia Festival. James Levine conducting

February 2, 3, 4, and 7, 2012, Orchestra Hall. Riccardo Muti conducting

October 10, 2012; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico. Riccardo Muti conducting

CSO RECORDING

1961. Pierre Monteux conducting. RCA

above: César Franck, as photographed by Pierre Petit (1832–1909). New York Public Library, New York City

The symphony is by far the best known of Franck’s orchestral works. Although Franck called it a symphony in response to his students, who quite literally demanded that he try his hand at the form, it is not so much a work in the tradition of Beethoven as a hybrid characteristic of Franck, combining elements of both symphony and symphonic poem in a thematically unified whole. Even in the late 1880s, the French musical public was put off by the unclassifiable nature of the piece. “The subscribers could make neither head nor tail of it,” d’Indy wrote of the chilly reception at the premiere, “and the musical authorities were in much the same position.”

Although we think of Franck as a one-symphony composer like his countryman Georges Bizet, he had in fact written an earlier symphony when he was studying in Paris (it was even performed in 1841) that was plainly indebted to the Viennese classical tradition. The symphony he wrote in the mid-1880s, however, is the “real” Franck, inspired by the music of Liszt and Wagner, masters of thematic transformation, novel orchestral effects, and bold new forms. Franck also was influenced by the French orchestral tradition, although d’Indy, ever the loyal pupil, insisted that Franck completed his symphony before he knew Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony, which was premiered in May 1886. But Franck’s short-score sketch is dated September–October 1887, so his symphony may have been, at least in part, a reaction to SaintSaëns’s striking new work. We know that Franck finished the orchestration in August 1888, and that he also arranged the symphony for piano duet that year, obviously hoping it would be a piece people would want to play at home. He must have been as dismayed as his students when the work fell flat at the premiere.

The D minor symphony has three movements, a formal layout that Franck used in nearly all his major works (a fondness inherited by his students as well). The entire score is saturated with the main theme of the first movement, a three-note motif that echoes the famous questioning motto of Beethoven’s last string quartet—he gave it the

words Muss es sein? (Must It Be?)—which Liszt later transformed to unforgettable effect in his symphonic poem Les préludes. (It also is mirrored in Wagner’s “fate” motif in The Ring.) The opening movement follows the general guidelines of sonata form, but it also ranges widely, reinventing and transforming its basic thematic material as it goes; it offers a tantalizing suggestion of the kind of magic Franck must have created improvising at the organ.

The Allegretto is both slow movement and scherzo rolled into one. Its main melody, unfolded at a leisurely pace, is introduced by the english horn, an unconventional choice that particularly offended one of the conservatory professors who attended the premiere: “Just mention a single symphony by Haydn or Beethoven with an english horn,” he demanded of d’Indy that night, failing to recall the quite fantastic symphony by Berlioz that makes magical (unforgettable, one would think) use of the instrument. (Actually, Haydn’s Symphony no. 22 [The Philosopher] calls for two english horns, but it was unknown in France at the time.) Muted strings suggest the spirit of a scherzo, continuing and at the same time complementing what has gone before.

“The finale takes up all the themes again, as in [Beethoven’s] Ninth,” Franck wrote. “They do not return as quotations, however; I have elaborated them and given them the role of new elements.” That is the essence of the entire score—music continuously revisited, transformed, and in the process reborn. “I risked a great deal,” Franck said of his new symphony, “but the next time I shall risk even more.” Perhaps chastened by the cool reception the work received, however, he wrote no more orchestral works. It was only after his death in 1890 that the D minor symphony began to be played more and more—a spectacular performance in Paris in 1893 may have marked the turning point—eventually becoming the most popular work in Franck’s small but prime catalog.

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

PROFILES

Kazuki Yamada Conductor

These concerts mark Kazuki Yamada’s debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Kazuki Yamada is music director and artistic advisor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), a role he undertook in the spring of 2023.

Alongside his commitments in Birmingham, Yamada is also artistic and music director of Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (OPMC). Yamada has forged a link between Monaco and Birmingham, having conducted collaborative performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the CBSO Chorus in both cities in 2019 and Orff’s Carmina Burana in 2023. The CBSO Chorus opened the current season with Yamada in both Birmingham and Monaco with performances of Verdi’s Requiem and Mahler’s Symphony no. 2, respectively.

Time spent under the close supervision of Seiji Ozawa served to underline the importance of what Kazuki Yamada calls his “Japanese feeling” for classical music. Born in Kanagawa, Japan, he continues to work and perform in Japan every season with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Shortly after assuming his position in Birmingham, Yamada gave a series of concerts on tour around Japan with the CBSO in the summer of 2023, and he takes the OPMC on tour to Japan in the summer of 2024.

Yamada commands a busy international diary. The current season began with his return to

the BBC Proms with the CBSO in the summer of 2023, closely followed by his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Festival. He took the CBSO on tour to Germany and Switzerland in the fall of 2023, followed by additional concerts in Europe in the spring of 2024. He continues regular guesting commitments with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and Orchestre National de France in Paris. He made debuts with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Oslo Philharmonic, and the Orquesta Nacionales de España in Madrid.

Yamada performs with such soloists as Emanuel Ax, Leif Ove Andsnes, Seong-Jin Cho, Isabelle Faust, Martin Helmchen, Nobuko Imai, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Alexandre Kantorow, Evgeny Kissin, Maria João Pires, Baiba Skride, Fazıl Say, Arabella Steinbacher, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Krystian Zimerman, and Frank Peter Zimmermann.

Committed to his role as an educator, Yamada appears annually as a guest artist at the Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland in Geneva and with the outreach program at CBSO. Kazuki Yamada studied music at the Tokyo University of the Arts, where he discovered a love for both Mozart and the Russian romantic repertory. He came to international attention on receiving first prize in the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors in 2009. After living in Japan for most of his life, he now resides in Berlin.

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PHOTO

Martin Helmchen Piano

FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES

June 9, 10, and 11, 2016, Orchestra Hall. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 2, Christoph von Dohnányi conducting

MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES

April 27, 28, and 29, 2023, Orchestra Hall. Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 25, Vladimir Jurowski conducting

One of the most soughtafter pianists, Martin Helmchen has been performing on the world’s most important stages for decades. The originality and intensity of his interpretations, which he presents with impressive tonal sensitivity and technical finesse, distinguish him as a musician. In 2020 he was awarded the prestigious Gramophone Music Award for his recording of Beethoven’s piano concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Andrew Manze, released by Alpha Classics. In 2022 he received the International Classical Music Award.

The 2023–24 season began with a longawaited debut with the BBC Proms, performing Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo. Additional concerts have taken him to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Zürich, Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna, Chamber Academy Potsdam, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen including a touring project in Belgium. In February 2024 he embarked on a piano trio tour with his wife, the cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, and violinist Augustin Hadelich. Future engagements include the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

As a soloist, Martin Helmchen has performed with numerous renowned orchestras, including

the Vienna and Berlin philharmonics, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and the Cleveland Orchestra. He works regularly with such conductors as Herbert Blomstedt, Manfred Honeck, Andrew Manze, Kazuki Yamada, Vladimir Jurowski, Christoph von Dohnányi, Jakub Hrůša, Klaus Mäkelä, Paavo Järvi, Sakari Oramo, and David Zinman.

Chamber music has a special significance for him, a passion for which the late cellist Boris Pergamenschikow gave the essential impulses. His close chamber music partners include MarieElisabeth Hecker, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Julian Prégardien, Augustin Hadelich, Antje Weithaas, and Carolin Widmann.

With Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Martin Helmchen commissioned a double concerto from York Höller, which they premiered at the Ruhr Piano Festival in June 2022.

Martin Helmchen is an exclusive Alpha Classics recording artist. His most recent release was the highly acclaimed album Novellettes and Early Songs, with piano works by Schumann, in March 2022. May 2021 saw the release of his recording of Weber’s Konzertstück in F minor with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Christoph Eschenbach.

Born in Berlin, and a former student of Galina Iwanzowa, Helmchen continued his studies with Arie Vardi at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media. Other mentors include William Grant Naboré and Alfred Brendel. His career gained momentum when he won the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in 2001. Since 2010, Martin Helmchen has been an associate professor of chamber music at the Kronberg Academy.

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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra—consistently hailed as one of the world’s best—marks its 133rd season in 2023–24. The ensemble’s history began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, the leading conductor in America and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra. Thomas’s aim to build a permanent orchestra of the highest quality was realized at the first concerts in October 1891 in the Auditorium Theatre. Thomas served as music director until his death in January 1905, just three weeks after the dedication of Orchestra Hall, the Orchestra’s permanent home designed by Daniel Burnham.

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

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

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

Daniel Barenboim became ninth music director in 1991, a position he held until 2006. His tenure was distinguished by the opening of Symphony Center in 1997, appearances with the Orchestra in the dual role of pianist and conductor, and

twenty-one international tours. Appointed by Barenboim in 1994 as the Chorus’s second director, Duain Wolfe served until his retirement in 2022.

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

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

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

Jessie Montgomery was appointed Mead Composer-in-Residence in 2021. She follows ten composers in this role, including John Corigliano and Shulamit Ran—both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In addition to composing works for the CSO, Montgomery curates the contemporary MusicNOW series. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma served as the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant from 2010 to 2019. Violinist Hilary Hahn became the CSO’s first Artist-in-Residence in 2021.

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

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

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Klaus Mäkelä Zell Music Director Designate

Riccardo Muti Music Director Emeritus for Life

Jessie Montgomery Mead Composer-in-Residence

Hilary Hahn Artist-in-Residence

VIOLINS

Robert Chen Concertmaster

The Louis C. Sudler

Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor

Stephanie Jeong

Associate Concertmaster

The Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair

David Taylor*

Assistant Concertmaster

The Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz Chair

Yuan-Qing Yu ‡ Assistant Concertmaster

So Young Bae

Cornelius Chiu

Gina DiBello

Kozue Funakoshi

Russell Hershow

Qing Hou

Matous Michal

Simon Michal

Sando Shia

Susan Synnestvedt

Rong-Yan Tang

Baird Dodge Principal

Danny Yehun Jin

Assistant Principal

Lei Hou

Ni Mei

Hermine Gagné

Rachel Goldstein

Mihaela Ionescu

Sylvia Kim Kilcullen

Melanie Kupchynsky

Wendy Koons Meir

Joyce Noh

Ronald Satkiewicz

Florence Schwartz

VIOLAS

Catherine Brubaker

Youming Chen

Sunghee Choi

Wei-Ting Kuo

Danny Lai

Weijing Michal

Diane Mues

Lawrence Neuman

Max Raimi

CELLOS

John Sharp Principal

The Eloise W. Martin Chair

Kenneth Olsen §

Assistant Principal

The Adele Gidwitz Chair

Karen Basrak

The Joseph A. and Cecile

Renaud Gorno Chair

Loren Brown ‡

Richard Hirschl

Daniel Katz

Katinka Kleijn

Brant Taylor

BASSES

Alexander Hanna Principal

The David and Mary Winton

Green Principal Bass Chair

Alexander Horton

Assistant Principal

Daniel Carson

Ian Hallas

Robert Kassinger

Mark Kraemer

Stephen Lester

Bradley Opland

Andrew Sommer

HARP

Lynne Turner

FLUTES

Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

Principal

The Erika and Dietrich M.

Gross Principal Flute Chair

Yevgeny Faniuk

Assistant Principal

Emma Gerstein

Jennifer Gunn

PICCOLO

Jennifer Gunn

The Dora and John

Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair

OBOES

William Welter Principal

The Nancy and Larry Fuller

Principal Oboe Chair

Lora Schaefer

Assistant Principal

Scott Hostetler

ENGLISH HORN

Scott Hostetler

CLARINETS

Stephen Williamson Principal

John Bruce Yeh

Assistant Principal

Gregory Smith

E-FLAT CLARINET

John Bruce Yeh

BASSOONS

Keith Buncke Principal

William Buchman

Assistant Principal

Miles Maner

HORNS

Mark Almond Principal

James Smelser

David Griffin

Oto Carrillo

Susanna Gaunt

Daniel Gingrich

TRUMPETS

Esteban Batallán Principal

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

Mark Ridenour ‡

Assistant Principal

John Hagstrom

The Bleck Family Chair

Tage Larsen

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library Chair

TROMBONES

Jay Friedman Principal

The Lisa and Paul Wiggin

Principal Trombone Chair

Michael Mulcahy

Charles Vernon

BASS TROMBONE

Charles Vernon

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

TUBA

Gene Pokorny Principal

The Arnold Jacobs Principal

Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld

TIMPANI

David Herbert Principal

The Clinton Family Fund Chair

Vadim Karpinos

Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION

Cynthia Yeh Principal

Patricia Dash

Vadim Karpinos

James Ross

LIBRARIANS

Justin Vibbard Principal

Carole Keller

Mark Swanson

CSO FELLOWS

Gabriela Lara Violin

The Michael and Kathleen Elliott Fellow

Jesús Linárez Violin

Olivia Reyes Bass

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

John Deverman Director

Anne MacQuarrie

Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel

STAGE TECHNICIANS

Christopher Lewis

Stage Manager

Blair Carlson

Paul Christopher

Ryan Hartge

Peter Landry

Joshua Mondie

Todd Snick

The CSO’s music director position is endowed in perpetuity by a generous gift from the Zell Family Foundation. The Paul Hindemith Principal Viola, Gilchrist Foundation, and Louise H. Benton Wagner chairs currently are unoccupied. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically.

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION GOVERNING MEMBERS

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

GOVERNING MEMBERS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Charles Emmons, Jr. Chair

Michael Perlstein Immediate Past Chair

Merrill and Judy Blau Vice Chairs of Member Engagement

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

Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership

GOVERNING MEMBERS

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Dora J. Aalbregtse

Floyd Abramson

Ms. Patti Acurio

Fraida Aland

Sandra Allen

Gary Allie

Robert Alsaker

Cat Anderson

Megan P. Anderson

Dr. Edward Applebaum

David Arch

Dr. Kent Armbruster

Dr. Carey August

Hillary August

Susan Baird

Ms. Judith Barnard

Merrill Barnes

Peter Barrett †

Roberta Barron

Roger Baskes

Ms. Sandra Bass

Cynthia Bates

Deborah Baughman

Robert H. Baum

Mrs. Robert A. Beatty

Daniel Bedford

Kirsten Bedway

Gail Eisenhart Belytschko

Edward H. Bennett III

Meta S. Berger

D. Theodore Berghorst

Ann Berlin

Phyllis Berlin

Mr. William E. Bible

Mrs. Arthur A. Billings

Joyce Black

Dianne Blanco

Judy Blau

Merrill Blau

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Ann Blickensderfer

Terry Boden

Fred Boelter

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Mrs. Suzanne Borland

James G. Borovsky

Adam Bossov

Janet S. Boyer

John D. Bramsen

Ms. Jill Brennan

Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Sue Brubaker

Mrs. Patricia M. Bryan

Gilda Buchbinder

Rosemarie Buntrock

Elizabeth Nolan Buzard

Ms. Lutgart Calcote

Thomas Campbell

Ms. Vera Capp

Wendy Alders Cartland

Mrs. William C. Childs

Linton J. Childs

Frank Cicero, Jr.

Patricia A. Clickener

Mitchell Cobey

Jean M. Cocozza

Carol Cohen

Robin Tennant Colburn

Mrs. Jane B. Colman

Eileen Conaghan

Dr. Thomas H. Conner

Ms. Cecilia Conrad

Beverly Ann Conroy

Taylor Corbitt

Jenny L. Corley

Nancy Corral

Ms. Sarah Crane

Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven

Mr. Richard Cremieux

R. Bert Crossland

Rebecca E. Crown

Daniel R. Cyganowski

Catherine Daniels

Mrs. Robert J. Darnall

Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Roxanne Decyk

Nancy Dehmlow

Mrs. Suzanne Demirjian

Duane M. DesParte

Janet Wood Diederichs

Doug Donenfeld

Mrs. William F. Dooley

Sara L. Downey

Ms. Ann Drake

David Dranove

Robert Duggan

Mimi Duginger

Mr. Frank A. Dusek, CPA

Mrs. David P. Earle III

Eric Easterberg and Cindy Pan

Judge Frank H. Easterbrook

Mrs. Dorne Eastwood

Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Louis M. Ebling III

Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten

Jon Ekdahl

Kathleen H. Elliott

Charles Emmons, Jr.

Scott Enloe

Dr. James Ertle

William Escamilla

Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri

Neil Fackler

Melissa Sage Fadim

Jeffrey Farbman

Mr. Don Fehrs

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Hector Ferral, M.D.

Ms. Constance M. Filling

Mr. Daniel Fischel

Jenny Fischer

Henry Fogel

Mrs. John D. Foster

David S. Fox

Mr. Paul E. Freehling

Mitzi Freidheim

Marjorie Friedman Heyman

Malcolm M. Gaynor

Robert D. Gecht

Frank Gelber

Mrs. Lynn Gendleman

Dr. Mark Gendleman

Rabbi Gary S. Gerson

Dr. Bernardino Ghetti

Karen Gianfrancisco

Ellen Gignilliat

Mr. James J. Glasser †

Madeleine Glossberg

Mrs. Judy Goldberg

Mrs. Mary Anne Goldberg

Anne Goldstein

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Mary Goodkind

Dr. Alexia Gordon

Mr. Michael D. Gordon

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Ms. Sandra Ihm

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Dr. Todd Janus

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Brian Johnson

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Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

Harvey R. Plonsker

Mr. John F. Podjasek, III

Andrew Porte

Charlene H. Posner

Stephen Potter

Carol Prins

Elizabeth H. Pritchard

Maridee Quanbeck

Mrs. Lynda Rahal

Diana Mendley Rauner

Susan Regenstein

Mari Yamamoto Regnier

Mary Thomson Renner

Hilda Richards

Burton R. Rissman

Charles T. Rivkin

Carol Roberts

Mr. John H. Roberts

William Roberts

David Robin

Dr. Diana Robin

Chauncey H. Robinson

Bob Rogers

Kevin M. Rooney

Harry J. Roper

Saul Rosen

Sheli Z. Rosenberg

Dr. Ricardo T. Rosenkranz

Michael Rosenthal

Doris Roskin

Lisa Ross

Jean Rothbarth

Maija Rothenberg

Roberta H. Rubin

Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz

Sandra K. Rusnak

David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg

Richard O. Ryan

Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan

Dr. Christine Rydel

Norman K. Sackar

Anthony Saineghi

Mr. Agustin G. Sanz

Inez Saunders

Libby Savner

Karla Scherer

David M. Schiffman

Judith Feigon Schiffman

Rosa Schloss

Al Schriesheim

Elizabeth Schroeder

Donald L. Schwartz

Susan H. Schwartz

Dr. Penny Bender Sebring

Chandra Sekhar

Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior

Ilene W. Shaw

Pam Sheffield

James C. Sheinin, M.D.

Richard W. Shepro

Jessie Shih

Junia Shlaustas

Caroline Orzac Shoenberger

Stuart Shulruff

Adele Simmons

Linda Simon

Mr. Larry Simpson

Craig Sirles

Miyam Slater

Christine A. Slivon

Valerie Slotnick

Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.

Charles F. Smith

Louise K. Smith

Mary Ann Smith

Stephen R. Smith

Mrs. Ralph Smykal

Naomi Pollock and David Sneider

Diane Snyder

Kimberly Snyder

Kathleen Solaro

Ms. Elysia M. Solomon

Dr. Stuart Sondheimer

Orli Staley

William D. Staley

Helena Stancikas

Grace Stanek

Ms. Denise M. Stauder

Leonidas Stefanos

Penelope Steiner

Mrs. Richard J. Stern

Liz Stiffel

Mr. John Stover

Mary Stowell

Lawrence E. Strickling

Patricia Study

Cheryl Sturm

BISCO Foundation

Mrs. Robert Szalay

Mr. Gregory Taubeneck

Chris Thomas

James E. Thompson

Dr. Robert Thomson

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

Joan Thron

David Timm

Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr.

William R. Tobey, Jr. †

Bruce Tranen †

James M. (Mack) Trapp

John T. Travers

David Trushin

Dr. David A. Turner

Robert W. Turner

Janet Underwood

Zalman Usiskin

Mrs. James D. Vail III

John Van Horn

Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice

Thomas D. Vander Veen

Jennifer Vianello

Catherine M. Villinski

Charles Vincent

Mr. Christian Vinyard

Theodore Wachs

Mark A. Wagner

Beth Ann Waite

Bernard T. Wall

Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Jeffrey J. Webb

Mrs. Jacob Weglarz

Chickie Weisbard

Richard Weiss

Robert G. Weiss

Dr. Marc Weissbluth

Rebecca West

Carmen Wheatcroft

Leah Williams

M.L. Winburn

Peter Wolf

Laura Woll

Dr. Hak Yui Wong

Courtenay R. Wood

Michael H. Woolever

Ms. Debbie Wright

Nancy G. Wulfers

Ronald Yonover

Owen Youngman

Priscilla Yu

David J. Zampa

Dr. John P. Zaremba

Karen Zupko

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

† Deceased

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

Corporate Partners

$200,000 AND ABOVE

Bank of America

ITW

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO

United Airlines

$100,000–$199,999

Abbott

Allstate Insurance Company

CIBC Private Wealth

Citadel and Citadel Securities

Northern Trust

$50,000–$99,999

Anonymous (1)

BMO

Jenner & Block LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

PNC Bank

Sidley Austin LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

$25,000–$49,999

AAR CORP.

Abbott Fund

Altair Advisers LLC

Kinder Morgan

Latham & Watkins LLP

Mayer Brown LLP

S&C Electric Company Fund

Walgreens

Winston & Strawn LLP

$10,000–$24,999

ADM

Anonymous (1)

Deloitte

Exelon

GCM Grosvenor

Goldman Sachs & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

McGuireWoods LLP

McKinsey & Company

Peoples Gas

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

$5,000–$9,999

Ariel Investments

Dentons

Fellowes, Inc.

Global Verification Network

Italian Village Restaurants

Mars Snacking

Mesirow Financial

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Segal Consulting

The Law Offices of Jonathan N. Sherwell

Starshak & Winzenburg

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Weiss Financial

$1,000–$4,999

American Agricultural Insurance Company

Amsted Industries Incorporated

AspireUp

Carey’s Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc.

Central Building & Preservation L.P.

DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.

Etnyre International Ltd

FeX Group of Companies

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Parkway Elevators

Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation

Scott & Kraus, LLC

Show Services

William Blair

Foundations and Government Agencies

$100,000 AND ABOVE

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

The Chicago Community Trust

Julius N. Frankel Foundation

JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation

Sargent Family Foundation

State of Illinois

TAWANI Foundation

Zell Family Foundation

$50,000–$99,999

The Brinson Foundation

Robert and Joanne Crown Income

Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation

Sally Mead Hands Foundation

Illinois Arts Council

National Endowment for the Arts

Polk Bros. Foundation

$25,000–$49,999

Crain-Maling Foundation

The Crown Family

Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation

John R. Halligan Charitable Fund

Irving Harris Foundation

Leslie Fund, Inc.

Bowman C. Lingle Trust

Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation

$10,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation

The Buchanan Family Foundation

The Clinton Family Fund

Darling Family Foundation

William M. Hales Foundation

The Maval Foundation

Pritzker Traubert Foundation

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation

The George L. Shields Foundation

$5,000–$9,999

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music

The Allyn Foundation, Inc.

Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Hoellen Family Foundation

Hunter Family Foundation

Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation

Kovler Family Foundation

Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation

Dr. Scholl Foundation

$2,500–$4,999

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

$1,000–$2,499

Franklin Philanthropic Foundation

Geraldi Norton Foundation

Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust

Annual Support

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through April 2024. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.

$150,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous (2)

Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin

Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel and Citadel Securities

Mr. † & Mrs. Dietrich M. Gross

Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation

Margot and Josef Lakonishok

The Negaunee Foundation

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

Megan and Steve Shebik

Zell Family Foundation

$100,000–$149,999

Anonymous (4)

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim

James and Brenda Grusecki

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz

$75,000–$99,999

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Nancy Dehmlow

John Hart and Carol Prins

Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. Istock

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †

Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation

Gene and Jean Stark

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

$50,000–$74,999

Anonymous

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV

Mrs. Janet R. Bauer

Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz

SEMPRE

Kay Bucksbaum

Dean L. and Rosemarie

Buntrock Foundation

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund

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

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Frances and Franklin † Horwich

Ms. Geraldine Keefe

Judy and Scott McCue

Cathy and Bill Osborn

Sidley Austin LLP

Michael and Linda Simon

This $175 million fundraising effort provides the secure footing needed to promote the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s preeminent role as a cultural icon showcasing musical brilliance, leadership, and innovation. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the generous donors who have shown tremendous support for this strategic initiative. Contact Al Andreychuk at 312-294-3150 for more information.

$20,000,000 AND ABOVE

Zell Family Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation

$10,000,000–$19,999,999

The Grainger Foundation

$5,000,000–$9,999,999

Anonymous

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation

Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz

$2,500,000–$4,999,999

Anonymous

Mary Louise Gorno

Estate of Esther G. Klatz

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Megan and Steve Shebik

Richard and Helen Thomas

$1,000,000–$2,499,999

Anonymous

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV

Liz Stiffel

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Kay Bucksbaum

Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock

Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Erika Gross

Joseph † and Rebecca Jarabak †

Jim † and Kay Mabie

Estate of Gloria Miner

The Oberman Family Charitable Trust

Cathy and Bill Osborn

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$500,000–$999,999

Patricia and Laurence Booth

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray

D & R Charitable Fund

The Davee Foundation

David and Janet Fox

Howard Gottlieb

ITW

Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley

Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg

UP TO $500,000

Anonymous

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Patricia Ames

Ruth and Roger Anderson

Family Foundation

Peter and Elise Barack

Merrill and Judy Blau

Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor

Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car

George and Minou Colis

Nancy Dehmlow

Mimi Duginger

Charles* and Carol Emmons

Dr. Maija Freimanis and

David A. Marshall

Robert D. Gecht

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

Alice and Richard Godfrey

William A. and Anne Goldstein

Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

Ms. Beth Ann Waite

$35,000–$49,999

Anonymous

Sharon and Charles † Angell

Peter † and Betsy Barrett

Mr. & Mrs. Johannes Burlin

Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation

Mary Winton Green

Mr. Collier Hands

Ms. Renee Metcalf

Dr. Charles Morcom

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley

Jennifer Amler Goldstein, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Mr. Graham C. Grady

Timothy and Joyce* Greening

John Hart and Carol Prins

The Heestand Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson

Mr. † & Mrs. Paul R. Judy

Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman

Karen and Neil Kawashima

Ms. Geraldine Keefe

Anne Kern

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson

Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg

Judy and Scott McCue

Mr. David E. McNeel

Mr. Robert Meeker

James and Renée Metcalf

Dr. Sharon D. Michalove

John H. Mugge

Mr. Daniel R. Murray

Estate of Donald V. Peck

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Charlene H. Posner*

Estate of Donald Powell

Andra and Irwin Press

Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi

James S. Rostenberg

Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim

Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy

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

Mr. † & Mrs.* John Simmons

Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern

Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.

Thierer Family Foundation

Penny and John Van Horn

Dr. Catherine L. Webb*

Craig and Bette Williams

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow

Mr. Gifford Zimmerman

Estate of Rita Zralek

Ms. Karen Zupko*

*Governing Members who have made a commitment to the Governing Members Chair, a collective initiative of the Campaign to sponsor a revolving musician chair of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Martha C. Nussbaum

Margo and Michael Oberman

Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow

Walter and Kathleen Snodell

Laura and Terrence Truax

Craig and Bette Williams

$25,000–$34,999

Anonymous

Nancy A. Abshire

Altair Advisers LLC

Carey and Brett August

Peter and Elise Barack

Julie and Roger Baskes

Patricia and Laurence Booth

Mr. Roderick Branch

Robert J. Buford

Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray

Orit K. Carpenter, in memory of David W. Carpenter

Mr. & Dr. George Colis

Mrs. Barbara Flynn Currie

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. Stephen Eastwood

Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil

Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

William A. and Anne Goldstein

Mary Louise Gorno

Howard L. Gottlieb and Barbara G. Greis

Mr. Graham C. Grady

Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris

Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson

Ronald B. Johnson

Mr. † & Mrs. Burton Kaplan

Karen and Neil Kawashima

Ms. Donna L. Kendall

Tom and Betsy Kilroy

Randall S. Kroszner

Susan and Rick Levy

Mr. Terrance Livingston and Ms. Debra Cafaro

Mr. Vikram Luthar

Ms. Britt Miller

Daniel R. Murray

John D. † and Alexandra C. Nichols

Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation

Dr. Mohan Rao

Susan Regenstein

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

Melissa and Joseph Root

Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg

Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi

Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy

Bill and Orli Staley Foundation

Mary Stowell

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan

Thierer Family Foundation

Susan & Bob Wislow

Ms. Ann Marie Wright

Mr. Gifford Zimmerman

$20,000–$24,999

Anonymous (2)

Arnie and Ann Berlin

Tom and Dianne Campbell

Joyce Chelberg

Nancy and Bernard Dunkel

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe

Ellen and Paul Gignilliat

Mary and Lionel Go

Richard and Alice Godfrey

Sue and Melvin Gray

Halasyamani/Davis Family

Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman

Anne and John † Kern

Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family

Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin

Jim † and Kay Mabie

Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall

Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

John and Merry Ann Pratt

D. Elizabeth Price

Diana and Bruce Rauner

Ms. Courtney Shea

Rebecca West

Dr. Marylou Witz

Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation

$15,000–$19,999

Anonymous (3)

Fraida and Bob Aland

Merrill and Judy Blau

Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown

Henry and Gilda Buchbinder

Robert D. Carone

Ann and Richard Carr

Sue and Jim Colletti

John and Fran Edwardson

Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy

Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz

Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman III

Janice L. Honigberg

Mrs. Janet Kanter

Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Klein

Nancy and Sanfred Koltun

Ms. Betsy Levin

Mr. Philip Lumpkin

Mr. David E. McNeel

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

Edward and Gayla Nieminen

Kathleen Field Orr

Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli

Family Foundation

LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor

Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte

Andra and Irwin Press

Jerry Rose

Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.

Penelope R. Steiner

Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern

Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft

Penny and John Van Horn

Mr. Christian Vinyard

Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs

Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung

David Woodhouse

$11,500–$14,999

Cynthia Bates and Kevin Rock †

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

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan

Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng

Merle L. Jacob

Stephen and Maria Lans

The Osprey Foundation

Leslie and Tom Silverstein

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

Carol S. Sonnenschein

Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson

Ksenia A. and Peter Turula

Caroline Foulke Wettersten

Mr. & Ms. Richard Williams

$7,500–$11,499

Anonymous (5)

Ms. Patti Acurio

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

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

Geoffrey A. Anderson

Ms. Miah Armour

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

Ms. Judith Barnard

Mrs. Gail Belytschko

Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck

Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin

Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof

Mr. & Mrs. Fred Boelter

Cassandra L. Book

Mr. & Mrs. John Borland

Adam Bossov

Janet S. Boyer

Ms. Danolda Brennan

Mr. Ray Capitanini

Patricia A. Clickener

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

Mr. Lawrence Corry

Mr. Marc DeMoss

Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley

Mr. † & Mrs. Charles W. Douglas

Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle

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

Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

Charles and Carol Emmons

Mr. Fred Eychaner

Judith E. Feldman

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

Ms. Hazel Fisher

Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin

Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

Camillo and Arlene Ghiron

Mr. † & Mrs. James J. Glasser

Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone

Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon

Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory

Lynne R. Haarlow

Joan M. Hall

Mrs. Richard C. Halpern

Anne Marcus Hamada

John and Sally Hard

Pati and O.J. † Heestand

Richard † and Joanne Hoffman

Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson III

Fred † and Sandra Holubow

Tex and Susan Hull

Michael and Leigh Huston

Howard E. Jessen Family Trust

Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson

Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller

Ms. Librada Killian

The King Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk

Dr. June Koizumi

Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff

Dr. Michael Krco

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck

Mr. John LaBarbera

Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler

Dr. Lynda Lane

Mr. Jeffrey Lennard

Mr. Michael Leppen

Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation

Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman

Mr. † & Mrs. John Lillard

Jane and Peter Loeb

Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

Francine R. Manilow

Judith Partipilo Marth

Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Sheila Medvin

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley

Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor

Emilie Morphew, M.D.

Ms. Susan Norvich

Jim O’Sullivan

Eric and Carolyn Oesterle

Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson

Richard and Frances Penn

Sue N. Pick

Mary and Joseph Plauché

Mr. & Mrs. † Neil K. Quinn

Harper Reed

Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman

Mr. Richard Ryan

Rita † and Norman Sackar

Mr. Agustin G. Sanz

Karla Scherer

David and Judy Schiffman

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl

Joan and George Segal

Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil

Diana and Richard Senior

The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation

Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho

Julia M. Simpson

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro

Cheryl Sturm

Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.

Ms. Bernadette Y. Tang

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck

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

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

TravTours, Inc.

Tully Family Foundation in honor of Helen Zell

Mr. † & Mrs. William C. Vance

Frances S. Vandervoort

Mr. David J. Varnerin

Catherine M. Villinski

M.L. Winburn

Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever

Ms. Karen Zupko

$4,500–$7,499

Anonymous (15)

Elaine and Floyd Abramson

Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker

Cat Anderson

Megan P. and John L. Anderson

Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews

Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei

David and Suzanne Arch

Dr. & Mrs. Kent Armbruster

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Baird

Mr. William Baker and Ms. Rita Corley-Baker

Paul and Robert Barker Foundation

Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes

Joseph Bartush

Sandra Bass

Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen

Deborah Baughman

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Bedford

Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler

Mr. Ken Belcher

Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst

Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible

Mrs. Arthur A. Billings

Mr. † & Mrs. Dennis Black

Jim † and Dianne Blanco

Ann Blickensderfer

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block

Ms. Terry Boden

Mr. Edward Boehm III

Mr. Virgil Bogert

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Borich

Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky

Mr. Donald Bouseman

Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen

Ms. Jill Brennan

Cindy Marie Brito and Anthony Costello

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum

Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard

Ms. Lutgart Calcote

Ms. Vera Capp

Wendy Alders Cartland

Mia Celano and Noel Dunn

Margery al Chalabi

Mr. James Chamberlain

Linton J. Childs

Ms. Jue H. Chung

Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy

Nancy J. Clawson

Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali

Ms. Jean Cocozza

Douglas and Carol Cohen

Jane and John C. † Colman

E. and V. Combs Foundation

Mrs. Eileen Conaghan

Dr. Thomas H. Conner

Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy

Mr. Robert Cook

Mrs. Taylor Corbitt and Mr. Christopher Sweeney

Nancy R. Corral

Ms. Jane Cox

Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux

R. Bert Crossland

Daniel Cyganowski and Judith Metzger

Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian

Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider

Janet Wood Diederichs

Mr. William Dietz, Jr.

Mr. Doug Donenfeld

David and Deborah Dranove

Ingrid and Richard Dubberke

Mimi Duginger

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dusek

Judge Frank Easterbrook

Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert

Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten

Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp

Thomas Eller

Mr. & Mrs. Victor Elting III

Scott and Lenore Enloe

Dr. & Mrs. † James Ertle

William Escamilla

Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D.

Neil Fackler

Dr. Gail Fahey

Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein

Donald and Signe Ferguson

Hector Ferral, M.D.

John and Geraldine Fiedler

Mr. Conrad Fischer

Dean and Jenny Fischer

Thea Flaum/Hill Foundation

Mrs. Donna Fleming

Mrs. John D. Foster

David and Janet Fox

Arthur L. Frank, M.D.

Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann

Susan and Paul Freehling

Judy and Mickey Gaynor

Robert D. Gecht

Sandy and Frank Gelber

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

Bernardino and Caterina Ghetti

Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco

Judy and Bill Goldberg

Lyn Goldstein

Robert and Marcia Goltermann

Mary and Michael Goodkind

Dr. Alexia Gordon

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

Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French

Donald J. Gralen

Hanna H. Gray

Richard † and Mary L. Gray

Ms. Freddi Greenberg

Thomas † and Delta Greene

Timothy and Joyce Greening

Dr. Jerri E. Greer

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen

Jacalyn Gronek

Ann and John Grube

Mr. Dongqi Guo

Anastasia and Gary † Gutting

Stephanie and Howard Halpern

Ms. Josephine Hammer

Mrs. John M. Hartigan

Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan

James W. Haugh

Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes

James and Lynne † Heckman

Mr. Hirad Hedayat

Mr. Dale C. Hedding

Scott Helm

Dr. † & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst

Jeffrey W. Hesse

Marjorie Friedman Heyman

The Hickey Family Foundation

William B. Hinchliff

Dr. Richard Hirschmann

Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith †

Mr. William J. Hokin †

James and Eileen Holzhauer

Mr. † & Mrs. Joel D. Honigberg

James † and Mary Houston

Carter Howard and Sarah Krepp

Hunter Family Foundation

Ms. Patricia Hurley

Frances and Phillip Huscher

Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins

Ian and Valerie Jacobs

Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs

Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin

Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus

Mr. John Jawor

Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna

Dr. & Mrs. Hulon Johnson

Joni and Brian Johnson

Dr. Patricia Collins Jones

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation

Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck

Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin

Ms. Ethelle Katz

Barry D. Kaufman

Larry † and Marie Kaufman

Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul

Peter and Stephanie Keehn

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser

John and Judy Keller

Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel

Carol Kipperman

Mr. Thomas Kmetko

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff

Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin

Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn

Eldon and Patricia Kreider

David and Susan Kreisman

Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar

Mr. & Mrs. Rubin P. Kuznitsky

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Langrehr

Mr. William Lawlor, III

Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann

Dean and Rebecca Leff

Sheila Fields Leiter

Ms. Zafra Lerman

Mr. Jerrold Levine

Mary and Laurence Levine

Averill and Bernard † Leviton

Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek

Mr. † and Mrs. Howard Lickerman

The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust

Mrs. Gabrielle Long

Dr. Anna Lysakowski

Carol MacArthur

Mr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLean

Eileen Madden

Jacen Maleck

Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling

Sharon L. Manuel

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin

Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez

Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag

Igor and Olga Matlin

Charles and Clara McCall

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 †

Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey

Dr. Ellen Mendelson

Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.

Jim and Ginger Meyer

Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad

Mrs. Frank Morrissey

David H. Moscow

Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek

John H. Mugge

Jo Ann and Stuart Nathan

Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman

David † and Dolores Nelson

Dr. Zehava L. Noah

Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar

Kenneth R. Norgan

Mark and Gloria Nusbaum

Bill and Penny Obenshain

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs

Sarah and Wallace Oliver

John and Joy O’Malley

Mr. Michael Oman and Mrs. Patricia Wakeley

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann

Mr. Timothy J. Patenode

Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.

Mr. Michael Payette

Dr. & Mrs. † Ray Pensinger

Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein

Bonnie Perry

Dr. William Peruzzi

Mr. Robert Peterson

Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.

Richard Phillips

Lee Ann and Savit Pirl

Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker

John F. Podjasek III Charitable Fund

Charlene H. Posner

Stephen and Ann Suker Potter

Mrs. Mary Jo Potts and Mr. Jim Selsor

Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard

Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett

Dr. Hilda Richards

Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards

Mary K. Ring

Charles and Marilynn Rivkin

Ms. Carol Roberts

William and Cheryl Roberts

Dr. Diana Robin

Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen

Bob Rogers Travel

Mr. John W. Rogers, Jr.

Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio

Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper

Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg

Michael Rosenthal

D.D. Roskin

Ms. Lisa Ross

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi

Maija Rothenberg

Ms. Roberta H. Rubin

Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz

Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan

Mrs. Martha Sabransky † and Dr. Paul Glickman

Anthony Saineghi

Mr. David Sandfort

Raymond and Inez Saunders

Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht

Mr. † and Mrs. Nathan Schloss

Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig

Gerald and Barbara Schultz

Susan H. Schwartz

Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz

Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar

David and Judith L. Sensibar

Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin

Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts

Mrs. Junia Shlaustas

Mr. & Ms. Alan Shoenberger

Stuart and Leslie Shulruff

Alan and Margaret Silberman

Ms. Ann Silberman

Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons

Mr. Larry Simpson

Craig Sirles

Christine A. Slivon

Valerie Slotnick

Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.

Jennifer Zobair and Chuck Smith

Louise K. Smith

Mary Ann Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Smith

Naomi Pollock and David Sneider

James and Diane Snyder

Kimberly M. Snyder

In memory of Timothy Soleiman

Elysia M. Solomon

Mrs. Linda Spain

Robert and Emily Spoerri

Helena Stancikas

Ms. Denise Stauder

Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos

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

Carol D. Stein

Roger † and Susan Stone

Family Foundation

Laurence and Caryn Straus

Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong

Ms. Minsook Suh

Mr. Mitchell Suter and Ms. Hillary August

Mr. Chris Thomas

Mr. James Thompson

Joan and Michael Thron

David and Beth Timm

Bill and Anne Tobey

Ayana Tomeka

Bruce † and Jan Tranen

James M. and Carol Trapp

John T. and Carrie M. Travers

Joan and David Trushin

Dr. & Mrs. David Turner

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner

Ms. Judith Tuszynski

Zalman and Karen Usiskin

Mr. Peter Vale

Jim and Cindy Valtman

Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D.

Mr. † & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice

Henrietta Vepstas

Ms. Jennifer Vianello

Ms. Raita Vilnins

Charles Vincent

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner

Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ward

Dr. Catherine L. Webb

Mr. & Mrs. David Weber

Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman

Mr. Louis Weiss

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss

Marc Weissbluth in memory of Linda Weissbluth

Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft

Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Whellan

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

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.

Ms. Debbie Wright

Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers

Mari Yamamoto Regnier

Ms. Janice Young

Owen and Linda Youngman

Paul and Mary Yovovich

In memory of Anthony C. Yu

David and Eileen Zampa

Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba

Ms. Camille Zientek

Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross

$3,500–$4,499

Anonymous

Ms. Rene Alphonse

Ms. Doris Angell

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore M. Asner †

Ms. Marlene Bach

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Barber

Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez

Ms. Susan Bridge

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brightfelt

Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr

Ms. Anne Chien

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

Ms. Juli Crabtree

Mr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris

Mr. † & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker

Ms. Louise Dixon

Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III

Dr. & Mrs. James L. Downey

Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson

Ms. Sarah Good

Hill and Cheryl Hammock

Dr. Robert A. Harris

Ms. Dawn E. Helwig

Ms. Anna Hertsberg

Dr. Ashley Jackson

Maryl Johnson, M.D.

Ms. JoAnn Joyce

Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt

Joseph and Judith Konen

Eric Kuhlman

Margaret and Michael McCoy

Ms. Claretta Meier

Robert O. Middleton

Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.

Ms. Victoria Nee

Noteable Notes Music Academy/ Wheaton, IL

Mr. Bruce Ottley

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn

Howard and Sheila Pizer

Mary Rafferty

Dorothy V. Ramm

Mrs. Enid Rieser

Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields

Lynn B. Singer

Joel and Beth Spenadel

Ms. Joanne Tremulis

Eric Vaang

Mr. James Vardiman

Ms. Mary Walsh

Ms. Lois Wolff

Mike Zimmerman

$2,500–$3,499 Anonymous (4)

Mr. Frank Ackerman

Mrs. Evelyn Alter

Catherine Baker and Timothy Kent

William and Marjorie Bardeen

Larry and Sarah Barden

James and Bartha Barrett

Ms. Barbara Barzansky

Ms. Patricia Bayerlein

Meta S. and Ronald † Berger

Family Foundation

Mr. James Borkman

Mr. Douglas Bragan †

Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Breu

Chris Brezil

Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman

Linda S. Buckley

Mr. & Mrs. John Butler

Curtis W. Cassel

Ms. Margaret Chaplan

Lisa Chessare

Ms. Melinda Cheung

Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes

Joe and Judy Cosenza

Mr. John Crosby

Ms. Angela D’Aversa

Mr. Frank R. Davis III

Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung

Mrs. Kelli Gardner Emery † and Mr. Peter Emery

Debra Fienberg

Sandra E. Fienberg

Kenneth M. Fitzgerald and Ruby Carr

Leo and Kim Flynn

Ms. Irene Fox

Mr. Ray Frick

Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III

James and Rebecca Gaebe

Jane Gaines and Andy Kenoe

Mr. Stanford Goldblatt

Isabelle Goossen

Merle Gordon

Mr. Adam Grymkowski

Mr. & Mrs. John Hales

Ronald and Diane Hamburger

Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman

James and Megan Hinchsliff

Ms. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph Doherty

Dr. & Mrs. James Holland

Mr. Stephen Holmes

Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton

Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin

Joshua and Faye Jacobs

Ms. Kathleen Jordan

Saul Juskaitis

Mr. & Mrs. Frank Klapperich, Jr.

Mr. Matthew Kusek

Mr. Thomas Lad

Ms. Pamela Larsen

Jules M. Laser

Estate of Gerald Lee

Mr. Jonathon Leik

Mr. Philip Lesser

Robert † and Joan Lipsig

Mr. Melvin Loeb

Sherry and Mel Lopata

Ronald and Carlotta Lucchesi

Ms. Janice Magnuson

Mr. Timothy Marshall

Robert and Doretta Marwin

Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass

Mr. Donald P. Maves

Ms. Marilyn Mccoy

Rosa and Peter McCullagh

Ric D. McDonough

Bill McIntosh

Mr. & Mrs. Lester McKeever

Mr. Zarin Mehta

Ian and Robyn Moncrief

Ms. Maryrose Murphy

Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl

Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.

Mrs. Janis Notz

Dr. Linda Novak

Beatrice F. Orzac †

Mr. Sebastian Patino

Kingsley Perkins †

Rita Petretti

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper

Dr. Joe Piszczor

Kenneth J. Poje

Dr. Susan Rabe

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker

Ms. Constance Rajala

Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel

Mr. Jeffrey Rappin

Neal Reenan

Patricia Richter

Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross

JF Sarwark M.D.

Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin

Shirley and John † Schlossman

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Mr. James Selsor

Mrs. Phyllis Shafron

Dr. & Mrs. Charles Shapiro

Mary and Charles M. † Shea

Carolyn M. Short

Ellen and Richard Shubart

Jack and Barbara Simon

The Honorable John B. Simon and Millie Rosenbloom

Nancy J Smith

Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein

Mr. Michael Sprinker

Ms. Sue Stealey

Carole Stone and Arthur Susman

Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.

Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

Mrs. Jeanne Sullivan

Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft

Ms. Alison Thomas

Margaret Trumbull

Mr. & Mrs. Allan Vagner

Robert J. Walker

Alexander J. Wayne

Mr. Lawrence Wechter

Mr. Michael Welsh and Ms. Linda Brummer-Welsh

Ms. Ellen Werner

Mr. Eric Wicks and Ms. Linda Baker

Robert J. Wilczek † and Shirley Pfenning

Mr. Kenneth Witkowski

Barbara and Steven Wolf

Mr. Joseph Wolnski and Ms. Jane Christino

Dr. Nanajan Yakoub

Ms. Mary Zeltmann

Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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

$150,000 AND ABOVE

Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation

The Negaunee Foundation

$100,000–$149,999

Anonymous

Allstate Insurance Company

$75,000–$99,999

The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

John Hart and Carol Prins

Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation

Megan and Steve Shebik

$50,000–$74,999

Anonymous

BMO

Robert and Joanne Crown Income

Charitable Fund

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Judy and Scott McCue

Polk Bros. Foundation

Michael and Linda Simon

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

$35,000–$49,999

Bowman C. Lingle Trust

National Endowment for the Arts

The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.

$25,000–$34,999

Anonymous

Abbott Fund

Carey and Brett August

Crain-Maling Foundation

Nancy Dehmlow

Kinder Morgan

Margo and Michael Oberman

Shure Charitable Trust

Gene and Jean Stark

$20,000–$24,999

Anonymous

Mary and Lionel Go

Mary Winton Green

Halasyamani/Davis Family

Illinois Arts Council

Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family

PNC

D. Elizabeth Price

Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation

$15,000–$19,999

Nancy A. Abshire

Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.

The Buchanan Family Foundation

John D. and Leslie Henner Burns

Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund

Sue and Jim Colletti

Mr. Philip Lumpkin

The Maval Foundation

Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †

Dr. Marylou Witz

$11,500–$14,999

Barker Welfare Foundation

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan

Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Ksenia A. and Peter Turula

$7,500–$11,499 Anonymous

Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz

Mr. Lawrence Corry

Mr. & Mrs. † Allan Drebin

Nancy and Bernard Dunkel

Ellen and Paul Gignilliat

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

Ms. Susan Norvich

Ms. Emilysue Pinnell

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

Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation

Ms. Courtney Shea

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

Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs

Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$4,500–$7,499 Anonymous

Joseph Bartush

Ann and Richard Carr

Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr.

Dr. June Koizumi

Dr. Lynda Lane

Francine R. Manilow

Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey

Jim and Ginger Meyer

Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek

The Osprey Foundation

Lee Ann and Savit Pirl

Dr. Scholl Foundation

Laura and Terrence Truax

Lisa and Paul Wiggin

$3,500–$4,499 Anonymous

Arts Midwest Gig Fund

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker

Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng

Judith E. Feldman

Camillo and Arlene Ghiron

Ms. Dawn E. Helwig

Ms. Ethelle Katz

Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic

Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards

Mr. Peter Vale

Ms. Mary Walsh

$2,500–$3,499

Anonymous

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

David and Suzanne Arch

Mr. James Borkman

Adam Bossov

Mr. Douglas Bragan †

Mr. Ray Capitanini

Lisa Chessare

Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes

Patricia A. Clickener

Charles and Carol Emmons

William B. Hinchliff

Michael and Leigh Huston

Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin

Italian Village Restaurants

Mrs. Frank Morrissey

David † and Dolores Nelson

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker

Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen

Mr. David Sandfort

Gerald and Barbara Schultz

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza

Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho

Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro

Carol S. Sonnenschein

Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein

Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis

Mr. Kenneth Witkowski

Ms. Camille Zientek

$1,500–$2,499

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

Ms. Marlene Bach

Ms. Barbara Barzansky

Mr. Lawrence Belles

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible

Cassandra L. Book

Mr. Donald Bouseman

Ms. Danolda Brennan

Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman

Darren Cahr

Bradley Cohn

Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of the Civic horn section

Mr. Conrad Fischer

Ms. Lola Flamm

David and Janet Fox

Ronald and Diane Hamburger

Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick

Thomas and Reseda Kalowski

Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin

Dona Le Blanc

Adele Mayer

Mr. Aaron Mills

Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery

Stephen and Rumi Morales

Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley

Susan Rabe

Mr. Alexander Ripley

Ms. Mary Sauer

Mrs. Rebecca Schewe

Jane A. Shapiro

Mrs. Julie Stagliano

Michael and Salme Steinberg

Walter and Caroline Sueske

Charitable Trust

Ayana Tomeka

Ms. Betty Vandenbosch

Abby and Glen Weisberg

M.L. Winburn

Irene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin

Dr. & Mrs. Larry Zollinger

$1,000–$1,499

Anonymous (4)

Duffie Adelson, in memory of Martha and Bernie Adelson

John Albrecht

Ms. Rochelle Allen

Altair Advisers LLC

Ms. Margaret Amato

Allen and Laura Ashley

Howard and Donna Bass

Daniel and Michele Becker

Paul Becker and Nancy Becker

Ann Blickensderfer

Mr. Rowland Chang

David Colburn

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

Mr. & Mrs. Bill Cottle

Alan R. Cravitz

Mr. & Mrs. Barnaby Dinges

Tom Draski

DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.

Mr. Edward and Nancy Eichelberger

Ms. Sharon Eiseman

Neil Fackler

Richard Finegold, M.D. and Ms. Rita O’Laughlin

Foxman Family Foundation

Eunice and Perry Goldberg

Enid Goubeaux

Dr. Fred Halloran

Mrs. Susan Hammond

Dr. Robert A. Harris

Mr. David Helverson

Clifford Hollander and Sharon Flynn Hollander

Holy Trinity High School

Dr. Ronald L. Hullinger

Mr. Ray Jones

Charles Katzenmeyer

Cantor Aviva Katzman and Dr. Morris Mauer

Randolph T. Kohler and Scott Gordan

The Lee Family

Ms. Foo Choo Lee

Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Levin

Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus

Timothy Lubenow

Sharon L. Manuel

Rosa and Peter McCullagh

Mr. & Mrs. William McNally

Robert O. Middleton

Stephen W. and Kathleen J. Miller

Geoffrey R. Morgan

Mrs. MaryLouise Morrison

Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.

Lewis Nashner

Ms. Sylvette Nicolini

Edward and Gayla Nieminen

Mr. Bruce Oltman

Ms. Joan Pantsios

Kirsten Bedway and Simon Peebler

Ms. Dona Perry

James † and Sharon Phillips

Christine and Michael Pope

Quinlan & Fabish

Mr. George Quinlan

Dr. Hilda Richards

Dr. Edward Riley

Mary K. Ring

Christina Romero and Rama Kumanduri

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg

Mr. David Samson

Peter Schauer

Mr. David M. Schiffman

Barbara and Lewis Schneider

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schuette

Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott

Mr. Rahul and Mrs. Shobha Shah

Mr. & Mrs. James Shapiro

Dr. Rebecca Sherrick

Mr. Larry Simpson

Dr. Sabine Sobek

Ms. Adena Staben

Ms. Denise Stauder

Mrs. Pamela Stepansky

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Stepansky

Donna Stroder

Sharon Swanson

Dr. Douglas Vaughan

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Waxman

Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman

Ms. Susan Whiting

Mr. Eric Wicks and Ms. Linda Baker

Joni Williams

Jane Stroud Wright

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

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

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

Theodore Thomas Society

Mary Louise Gorno Chair

Listed below are generous donors who have made commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their wills, trusts, and other estate plans, including life-income arrangements, as of March 2024. 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.

STRADIVARIAN ASSOCIATES

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

Anonymous (11)

Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Lisa J. Adelstein

Jeff and Keiko Alexander

Evy Johansen Alsaker

Robert A. Alsaker

Geoffrey A. Anderson

Louise E. Anderson

Brett and Carey August

Marlene Bach

Dr. Jeff Bale

Mr. Neal Ball

Sally J. Becker

Marlys A. Beider

Dr. C. Bekerman

Martha Bell

Mike and Donna Bell

Julie Ann Benson

K. Richard and Patricia M. Berlet

Merrill and Judy Blau

Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck

Ann Blickensderfer

Danolda Brennan

Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr.

Mitchell J. Brown

Marion A. Cameron-Gray

Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong

Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark

Patricia A. Clickener

Judith and Stephen F. Condren

Anita Crocus

David L. Curry

Mimi Duginger

Harry and Jean Eisenman

Michael and Kathleen Elliott

Dr. Marilyn Ezri

David S. and Janet M. Fox

Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.

Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson

Mary J. and Ronald P. Frelk

Penny and John Freund

Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat

Merle Gordon

Mary Louise Gorno

Dr. & Mrs. David Granato

Mary L. Gray

Mary Winton Green

Dr. Jon Brian Greis

Mr. Michael Hansen and Ms. Nancy Randa

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

Mary Ann Judy

Lori Julian

Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan

Howard Kaspin

James Kemmerer

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett

Edwin and Karen Kramer

Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka

Jonathon Leik

Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring

Robert Alan Lewis

Dr. Valerie Lober

Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl

Sheldon H. Marcus

James Edward McPherson

Janet L. Melk

Dr. Frederick K. Merkel

Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino

Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor

Craig and Rose Moore

Mrs. Mario A. Munoz

John H. Nelson

Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen

Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer

Diane Ososke

Dr. Joan E. Patterson

Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger

Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn

Judy Pomeranz

Maridee Quanbeck

Neil K. Quinn

Randall and Cara Rademaker

Constance A. Rajala

Al and Lynn Reichle

Ann and Bob † Reiland

Wendy Reynes

Dr. Edward O. Riley

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

Charles and Marilynn Rivkin

David and Kathy Robin

Jerry Rose

Mr. James S. Rostenberg

Richard O. Ryan

John A. Salkowski

Cecelia Samans

A. Wm. Samuel

Franklin Schmidt

Mr. Craig Sirles

Betty W. Smykal

Annette and Richard Steinke

Mrs. Deborah Sterling

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong

Mrs. Gloria B. Telander

Karin and Alfred Tenny

Richard and Helen Thomas

Ms. Carla M. Thorpe

Dr. Richard Tresley

Laura and Terrence Truax

John L. and Dyanne L. Turner

Paula Turner

Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner

Judith and Paul Tuszynski

Mr. & Mrs. John E. Van Horn

Mr. Christian Vinyard

Craig and Bette Williams

Florence Winters

Stephen R. Winters and Don D. Curtis

Dr. Robert G. Zadylak

Helen Zell

MEMBERS

Anonymous (36)

Valerie and Joseph Abel

Louise Abrahams

Patrick Alden

Richard and Elynne Aleskow

Judy L. Allen

Carlos Almeida and Dr. Matthew Sweeney

Ann S. Alpert

Patricia Ames

Ms. Judith L. Anderson

Steven Andes, Ph.D.

Dr. Edward L. Applebaum

Catherine Aranyi

Dr. Susan Arjmand

Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba

Mara Mills Barker

Shirley Baron

Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty

Joan I. Berger

Robert M. Berger

Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky

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

Ron and Dolores Daly

Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels

Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson

Sylvia Samuels Delman

Mrs. David A. DeMar

Ms. Phyllis Diamond

Janet Wood Diederichs

Mrs. William Dooley

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

Ray Frick

Susan Fuchs

Nancy and Larry † Fuller

Dileep Gangolli

Maurice Garnier

Miss Elizabeth Gatz

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Ghielmetti

Steve and Lauran Gilbreath

Mr. Daniel Gilmour, III

Mr. Joseph Glossberg

Ms. Georgean Goldenberg

Adele Goldsmith

Douglas Ross Gortner

Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab

Ms. Elizabeth A. Gray

Ms. Claire Annette Green

Delta A. Greene

Mrs. Barbara Gundrum

Lynne R. Haarlow

Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley

Mr. Tom Hall

Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett

William B. Hinchliff

Marcia M. Hochberg

Mr. Thomas Hochman

Jack and Colleen Holmbeck

Richard J. Hoskins

Mary Houston

Mr. James Humphrey

Merle L. Jacob

Ms. Jessica Jagielnik

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

Ann B. Kaplan

Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Kaufman

Marshall Keltz

Valerie Kennedy

Anne Kern

Paul Keske

Helen Kessler

Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr.

Mrs. LeRoy Klemt

Sally Jo Knowles

Mrs. Russell V. Kohr

Ms. Barbara Kopsian

Liesel E. Kossmann

Catherine Grochowski Kranz

Eugene Kraus

John C. and Carol Anderson Kunze

Thomas and Annelise Lawson

Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey

Ms. Nicole Lehman

Barbara W. Levin

Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy

Ms. Sally Lewis

Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg

Mr. Michael Licitra

Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson

Bonnie Glazier Lipe

Alma Lizcano

Candace Loftus

Heidi Lukas and Mr. Charles Grode

Suzette and James Mahneke

Ann Chassin Mallow

Sharon L. Manuel

Mrs. John J. Markham

Deborah McCabe

Judy and Scott McCue

John McFerrin

Mr. William McIntosh

Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey

Dorothe Melamed

Marcia Melamed

Dr. Sharon D. Michalove

Dale and Susan Miller

Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten

Thomas R. Mullaney

Daniel R. Murray

Dolores D. Nelson

Jeffrey Nichols

Franklin Nussbaum

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr.

Wallace and Sarah Oliver

Lynn Orschel

Helen and Joseph Page

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

Charlene H. Posner

D. Elizabeth Price

Dorothy V. Ramm

Donald F. Ransford

Jeanne Reed

Edgar C. Reihl

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

Leslie A. Sanders

Paul and Kathleen Schaefer

Lawrence D. Schectman

Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt

Mr. & Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro

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

Charles Steinberg

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

Gerrit Vanderwest

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

Joyce S. Wildman

Kayla Anne Wilson

Robert A. Wilson

Nora M. Winsberg

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf

Beth Wollar

Lev Yaroslavskiy

IN MEMORIAM

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

Anonymous (10)

Hope A. Abelson

Richard Abrahams

Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson

Ross C. Anderson

Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos

Elizabeth M. Ashton

Jacqueline and Frank Ball

Wayne Balmer

Paul Barker

Arlene and Marshall Bennett

Judith and Dennis Bober

Naomi T. Borwell

Kathryn Bowers

Howard Broecker

Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown

George and Jacqueline Brumlik

Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger

Norma Cadieu

Wiley Caldwell

David W. Carpenter

James D. Compton

Nelson D. Cornelius

Anita J. Court, Ph.D.

Christopher L. Culp

Barbara DeCoster

Azile Dick

James F. Drennan

Robert L. Drinan, Jr.

Evelyn Dyba

Richard Eastline

Marian Edelstein

Dr. Edward Elisberg

Kelli Gardner Emery

Joseph R. Ender

Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson

Greta Wiley Flory

Leslie Fogel

Herbert and Betty Forman

Richard Foster

Elaine S. Frank

Martin and Francey Gecht

Isak Gerson

Mrs. Willard Gidwitz

Lyle Gillman

Marvin Goldsmith

William B. Graham

Richard Gray

David Green

Nancy Griffin

Ernest A. Grunsfeld III

Betty and Lester Guttman

A. William Haarlow III

Carolyn Hallman

CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret.

Polly and Donald Heinrich

Mary Mako Helbert

Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth

Mrs. Diane Hoban

James Houston

Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr.

Barbara Isserman

Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak

Mrs. Marian Johnson

Janet Jones

Phyllis A. Jones

James Joseph

Paul R. Judy

Joseph M. Kacena

Jared Kaplan

Morris A. Kaplan

Roberta Kapoun

George Kennedy

Esther G. Klatz

Russell V. Kohr

Karen Kuehner

Evelyn and Arnold Kupec

Robert B. Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts

Rebecca Jarabak

Caressa Y. Lauer

Gerald Lee

Patricia Lee

Christine D. Letchinger

Melynda K. Lopin

William C. Lordan

Tula Lunsford

Iris Maiter

Arthur G. Maling

Bella Malis

Kathleen W. Markiewicz

Walter L. Marr III and Marilyn G. Marr

Eloise Martin

Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal

Eunice H. McGuire

Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick

Jack L. Melamed, M.D.

Lois G. and Hugo J. Melvoin

Richard Menaul

Susan Messinger

Phillip Migdal

Mollyann Miller

Gloria Miner

Bill Moor

Charles A. Moore

David A. Moore

Marietta Munnis

David H. Nelson

Helen M. Nelson

Muriel Nerad

Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld

David Niwa

Raymond and Eloise Niwa

Carol Rauner O’Donovan

T. Paul B. O’Donovan

Mary and Eric Oldberg

Bruce P. Olson

David G. Ostrow

Donald Peck

Charles J. Pollyea

Miriam Pollyea

Donald D. Powell

Samuel Press

Alfred and Maryann Putnam

Christine Querfeld

Ruth Ann Quinn

Kenneth Recu

Walter Reed

Bob Reiland

Paul H. Resnik

Evelyn Richer

J. Timothy Ritchie

Virginia H. Rogers

Jill N. Rohde

Elaine Rosen

Ben J. Rosenthal

Anthony Ryerson

Cynthia Mead Sargent

Mrs. Milton Scheffler

Richard P. Schieler

Beverly and Grover Schiltz

Robert W. Schneider

Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr.

Nancy Seyfried

Muriel Shaw

Morrell A. Shoemaker

Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure

Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel

Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel

Joanne Silver

Rita Simó and Tomás Bissonnette

Allen R. Smart

Walter Chalmers Smith

Peggy E. Smith-Skarry

Karen A. Sorensen

Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel

Vito Stagliano

Zelda Star

Charles J. Starcevich

Curtis D. Stensrud

Franklin R. St. Lawrence

Ruth Miner Swislow

Robert Sychowski

Lester G. Telser

Andrew and Peggy Thomson

Sue Tice

Beatrice B. Tinsley

C. Phillip Turner

Ted Utchen

Lois and James Vrhel

Louise Benton Wagner

Nancy L. Wald

Josephine Wallace

Marco Weiss

Barbara Huth West

The Whateley Trust, in memory of Baron Whateley

Max and Joyce Wildman

Joyce Hadley Williams

Arnold and Ann Wolff

Larisa Zhizhin

Ronald R. Zierer

Rita A. Zralek

Tribute Program

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

MEMORIAL GIFTS

In memory of Mary Alroth

Carla Ciulla

In memory of Heather DeBuhr

Anderson and Janet Stover Mallot

Kenje Mallot

In memory of Theodore Asner

Mrs. Barbara Asner

In memory of Alfred Balandis

Robert Callahan

In memory of Luise Baldin

Ms. Claretta Meier

Mrs. Sharon I. Quigley

In memory of Bud Beyer

Ms. Jean Flaherty

In memory of John R. Blair

Mrs. Barbara J. Blair

In memory of Dennis M. Boyd

Mr. Byron Reed

In memory of Lin Brehmer

Franklin Brehmer and Sara Farr

In memory of Suhail al Chalabi

Margery al Chalabi

In memory of Dr. Minkyu Cho

Robert Callahan

In memory of William L. Conaghan

Mary and Michael Goodkind

Mr. Jack Jensen and Mrs. Becky Davenport

In memory of Christopher L. Culp

Laura Yergesheva

In memory of Robert B. Dean

Ms. Helen Moorman

In memory of Hazel S. Fackler

Neil Fackler

In memory of George Gilkerson

DuPage Foundation

In memory of Martha Sabransky

Glickman

Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin

In memory of Bill Gofen

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn

In memory of Thomas M. Goldstein

Jennifer Amler Goldstein

In memory of Dietrich Gross

Howard L. Gottlieb and Barbara G. Greis

In memory of Joseph Guastafeste and Gordon B. Peters

Mark Swanson and Nancy Pifer

In memory of Zave Gussin

Mr. Nathan Kahn

In memory of Dr. C. Anderson Hedberg

Anonymous

Elizabeth Hedberg

In memory of Graham Hemsley

Dr. Steven Andes

In memory of Peter R. and Mary Herr

Mr. Peter A. Herr

In memory of Jane Hindsley

Ms. Cynthia LaFond

In memory of J. Paul Hunter

Kristin H. Jensen

In memory of Sally Jacob

Merle L. Jacob

In memory of Joel Jacobson

Alfred and Sandra Jolson

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

Howard E. Jessen Family Trust

In memory of Mr. Jack Klecka

Mrs. Terry Klecka

In memory of Ruby Knight

Ms. Jacquline Briggs

In memory of Nathaniel Lederer

The Lederer Family

In memory of Sang Hyung Lee

Pamela and Charles Smith

In memory of Jim and Nancy Loewenberg

Mr. Michael Berger

In memory of Dr. David and Renée Lubell

Mrs. Barbara Asner

In memory of Evelyn G. Meine

Mr. Curt Meine

In memory of Dr. Peter Michalove

Dr. Sharon D. Michalove

In memory of William Miller Suzanne Johnson

In memory of Charles F. Moles

Ms. Kathleen Harrington

In memory of Anthony G. Montag

Dr. Katherine L. Griem

In memory of Thomas Owen Maureen Obermeier

In memory of Eul-Soo Pang

Dr. Laura Pang

In memory of Kingsley Perkins

Ms. Susan Thomas

In memory of Paul Phillips

Charles and Carol Emmons

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mitzen

Mr. Clark Sheldon

In memory of Allan Poretsky Rachel Poretsky

In memory of Ruth Ann Quinn

Ms. Carolyn Quinn

In memory of Bennett Reimer Elizabeth A. Hebert

In memory of Al Rose

Mrs. Marian Rose

In memory of Richard Rusz

Mrs. Alla Rusz

In memory of Dr. Seymour M. Sabesin

Ms. Marcia Sabesin

In memory of Joanne Silver

Ms. Betty Winer

In memory of Michael Silverstein

Ms. Mara Tapp

In memory of Zan and Blossom Skolnick

Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Hafter

† Deceased

In memory of Susie Stein

Betsy Beckmann

Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta

Ms. Claretta Meier

Pamela and Charles Smith

Mr. & Mrs. David Weber

In memory of Mona Stern

Mr. Larry Simpson

In memory of Marjorie Stone

Stifel Charitable Inc.

In memory of Ron and Lynne Wachowski

Peggy Ryan

In memory of Novella Winston

Ms. Betty Henson

In memory of Woon-Young and Hyo-Kyoung

B. Seo-Pero

HONOR GIFTS

In honor of Esteban Batallán

Mimi Duginger

In honor of Marcia Baylin

Mr. Marc Baylin

In honor of Mr. † & Mrs. Thomas Boodell for their 50+ years of CSO support

Ms. Denise Stauder

In honor of Charles Braico and Robert Coad for outstanding customer service

Ms. Denise Stauder

In honor of Robert Coad

Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard

Diana and Richard Senior

Mr. and Mrs. † David Shayne

Ms. Ann Silberman

In honor of Gina DiBello, Diane Mues, Ken Olsen, Scott Hostetler, and Greg Smith

Mrs. Eileen Conaghan

In honor of Hermine Gagné and Florence Schwartz

Mrs. Sharon I. Quigley

In honor of Rachel Goldstein and Alex Horton

Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer

In honor of David Griffin and Mihaela Ionescu

Ms. Sarah Good

In honor of Jennifer Gunn and Nancy Park

Ms. Angela D’Aversa

In honor of David Herbert

Ms. Bobbie Huskey

In honor of Russell Hershow

Fred Garzon

In honor of Dr. Victoria E. Ingram

Dr. Paul Navin

In honor of Brian Koenig for 25+ years with the CSO from the Koenig Family

Mr. Thomas Koenig

In honor of Melanie Kupchynsky

Ms. Susan Bridge

Mrs. Eileen Conaghan

Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell

Mrs. Sharon I. Quigley

In honor of Tage Larsen

Mr. George M. Williams † and Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor

In honor of Scott and Judy McCue and John Schmidt

Mr. Graham C. Grady

In honor of Dr. Robert McSay

Ms. Lois Wolff

In honor of Diane Mues

Cynthia Kirk

In honor of Joyce Noh and Andrew Sommer

Ms. Jessica Jagielnik and Ms. Sam Kufta

In honor of Kathy Nordmeyer

Ms. Janice Young

In honor of Margo Oberman

Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell

In honor of Neil Quinn

Ms. Carolyn Quinn

In honor of John Sharp

Ms. Denise Stauder

In honor of Weijing Wang

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Stanciel

In honor of Helen Zell

Penelope R. Steiner

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

Gifts listed as of April 2024

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