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Dear friends, Music is handed down. Byron Stripling learned that in his father’s church choir, where each Sunday began with a classical anthem, moved to a spiritual, and closed with gospel. “You learn about other people’s music too,” Byron says, “and then you get to put it into this whole big pot.” This month, he brings that generosity to the Heinz Hall stage celebrating Aretha Franklin, a voice that moved between gospel, soul, and opera. The same thread runs through our other programs. Sophia Jani’s I Wish You Daisies and Roses, which opens Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Kevin John Edusei and James Ehnes, began as a wish for her young son’s health, happiness and love, and was given to him on his first birthday. Josef Strauss wrote his polka Plappermäulchen as a portrait of his ten-year-old daughter. Thanksgiving is a time for traditions, and one of ours arrives that weekend. Manfred Honeck carried his Viennese program with him from Vienna, and Pittsburgh has made it our own. This year it comes with the world premiere of Mason Bates’s Appalachian Ayre, a PSO commission, and Alexander Malofeev’s PSO debut in Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. We also pass music to the next generation. Schooltime begins its 89th season this month, and last season nearly 23,000 students from 196 schools joined us. In partnership with U.S. Steel, we are bringing two free concerts to Carnegie One in Braddock on November 7 and 12 so families can experience world class music in their own neighborhoods. None of this happens by itself. Every concert, every Schooltime visit and every free community performance continues because people choose to support it. Thank you for helping us deliver on our mission of Great Music in Every Life. That includes our newest partner, UPMC, title sponsor of the new UPMC Movies with the PSO. This Giving Tuesday, December 1, I hope you might consider a gift to the PSO or invite a friend or family member to do the same. Your gift makes the music possible, on stage and in the community, for this generation and the next. Someone once shared this music with each of us. This Giving Tuesday, I hope you will help us share it with the next person. From all of us at the PSO, thank you for being part of the PSO family this November.

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Over the last quarter century, Manfred Honeck has established himself as one of the world’s leading conductors, acclaimed for his distinctive interpretations and original arrangements. Now in his 19th season as Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra — a partnership recently extended through 2032/33 — he has led the ensemble to international acclaim, earning multiple Grammy nominations and the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance. Honeck and the orchestra are celebrated as cultural ambassadors, having returned to Europe in 2026 with performances in Salzburg, Lucerne, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and the season-opening concert of Vienna’s Konzerthaus.

Conductor’s Award. Following early posts with the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, he served as Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm and as Music Director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart.

Born in Austria, Honeck studied at the Academy of Music in Vienna and gained formative experience as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Orchestra. He began his conducting career as assistant to Claudio Abbado, later joining Zurich Opera House, where he received the European

Honeck holds honorary doctorates from several North American universities, the honorary title of Professor from the Austrian Federal President, and was named “Artist of the Year” by the International Classical Music Awards in 2018. In 2026, he received the Julio Kilenyi Medal from the American Bruckner Society.

In September 2026, Honeck was appointed Principal Conductor of The Philharmonia Orchestra in London, and Festival Director of the San Francisco Symphony beginning in 2028. As a guest conductor, he appears with leading ensembles including the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic, and is a frequent presence with major North American orchestras.

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TCHAIKOVSKY’S VIOLIN CONCERTO

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JAMES EHNES violin

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SOPHIA JANI

I Wish You Daisies and Roses PSO Premiere

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 35 I. Allegro moderato II. Canzonetta: Andante III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo

JAMES EHNES

INTERMISSION | 20 MINUTES Bar closes at the end of intermission.

RICHARD STRAUSS

Also sprach Zarathustra, Opus 30

Prologue: Sunrise — Of the Afterworldly — Of the Great Longing — Of Joys and Passions — The Dirge — Of Science — The Convalescent — The Dance-Song — The Night Wanderer’s Song

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TCHAIKOVSKY’S VIOLIN CONCERTO

BEHIND THE SCORE Sometimes with Tchaikovsky, just because his music is just so overflowing with beauty and excitement and melody and virtuosity, it’s overlooked just how well it is composed and what a truly great craftsman he was. Part of the reason the piece works so well is the proportions are absolutely beautiful and there’s nothing excess to it. The orchestration is lush and grand, but in a way very clean and precise. JAMES EHNES ON THE TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO

GREAT MOMENTS

FURTHER LISTENING

Tchaikovsky’s Influences

Many composers living in Tchaikovsky’s time and shortly after were enraptured with themes based on Spanish traditions. In addition to the influence of Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole on Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, Tchaikovsky was also greatly influenced by Bizet’s Carmen when composing his Symphony No. 4, and considered Carmen a work of genius.

Sophia Jani Music as a Mirror Sophia Jani’s debut album further explores her experimentation with structural independence. Considering musical lines akin to poetry, this album is consistent with her minimalist style and includes a variety of chamber ensembles.

Cultural Longevity

While Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra is most notably heard in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the piece has had a massive impact on music in pop culture. The work’s themes have been quoted by Deep Purple, featured at the start of Elvis Presley’s concerts in the late 1970s, and included in the opening of the recent movie Barbie, to name a few. 10

JAN 8 & 10 Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Tessa Lark, violin

As part of this program, Andrés OrozcoEstrada conducts another of Richard Strauss’s signature tone poems, Don Juan, which recounts the tale of the legendary Spanish libertine.

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SOPHIA JANI (B. 1989)

I Wish You Daisies and Roses COMPOSED 2024 || PREMIERE 2025 14 MINUTES || PSO PREMIERE

“It is magical to me,” Sophia Jani marveled, “how music can reach you in such a deep personal way beyond words. Music is energy, mood, and somewhat like a connector to something mystical that words can’t quite catch.” Indeed, there was something rather inexplicable about the way Jani, born in Munich, Germany in 1989, became a composer. “My parents weren’t into classical music at all,” she recalled, “but growing up I wanted to become a classical pianist…. Two experiences sparked my interest in composition: first, I met my partner, who was a drummer in a hardcore band. I loved the environment in which this music took place, which made what happened there feel so self-determined and urgent. The energy in the venues made me realize in some way that music is more than just sound or little dots on paper…. It was also at that time that I started to explore the G Major Piano Concerto by Maurice Ravel, which gave me a desire to think creatively about music and to make sure there is more music in the world

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that is as beautiful as that piece.” It is hardly surprising that Jani has filtered into her own compositions a spectrum of influences from Bach and Schubert to 20th- and 21st-century European and American classical composers and avant-pop artists like Björk and Ryuichi Sakamoto. In addition to her general education, Sophia Jani studied piano and violin in high school, and then spent a year at the Conservatoire Jacques Thibaud in Bordeaux, France. She went on to earn degrees in composition at the University of Augsburg and University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, and in 2020 received a Fulbright Foundation grant for advanced study with Martin Bresnik and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang at the Yale School of Music. Following her graduation from Yale in 2022, Jani participated in the Edward T. Cone Composition Institute at Princeton University, where her What Do Flowers Do at Night? was performed by the New Jersey Symphony. In 2023, she was not only Musical Artist-in-Residence at the Arvo Pärt Center in Laulasmaa, Estonia but also began a continuing appointment as Composer-in-Residence with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Her compositions have been performed by leading orchestras, chamber ensembles and soloists in Europe and across America, and included in numerous film, theater and dance presentations. Jani is also a founder and artistic director of Feet Become Ears in Munich, which commissions, presents and promotes contemporary chamber music. “I composed I Wish You Daisies and Roses,” Jani wrote, “in 2024, at a very special time in my life, as it was the first composition I worked on after the birth

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of my son, Aaron. What really touched me in those first months as a new mother was the feeling of this immeasurable and infinite love that you feel as a parent and how with all your heart you wish your child the best for his future. I started writing this piece out of that energy and I think it guided me through the whole process. “In 19th-century floral language, daisies represent health and happiness and the joy of simple things, while roses stand for all sorts of things depending on the color, but generally represent the finer, nobler things and classically, as everyone knows, symbolize eternal love. I could never come up with a title that lists everything I wish for my son in his life, of course, but health, happiness and love are probably a pretty good choice to start this list and hopefully capture the idea of where this music is coming from. “As I was working on I Wish You Daisies and Roses, I wondered how many times in history a female composer has been able to capture something as crucial as the first year with her child and the feelings associated with it in such an exposed work for large orchestra. Music history is full of great existential emotions, but the complex emotional world that comes with the first months of motherhood has rarely or perhaps never been explored in an orchestral work, let alone from a female perspective. Even though I missed my son every second I was away from him while working on this music, I realize that this piece is probably part of something bigger, because it’s a great proof that a lot has changed in the field of classical music in the last decades. “I think I Wish You Daisies and Roses is one of the most intuitive compositions I have written so far. It surprised me in so

many ways and I am proud and grateful to be able to give my son such a unique gift for his first birthday.”

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893)

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35 COMPOSED 1878 || PREMIERE 1881 34 MINUTES || PSO PREMIERE 1899 PSO LAST PERFORMANCE 2023

In the summer of 1877, Tchaikovsky undertook the disastrous marriage that lasted less than three weeks and resulted in his emotional collapse and attempted suicide. He fled from Moscow to his brother Modeste in St. Petersburg, where he recovered his wits and discovered he could find solace in his work. He spent the late fall and winter completing his Fourth Symphony and the opera Eugene Onégin. The brothers decided that travel outside Russia would be an additional balm to the composer’s spirit, and they duly installed themselves at Clarens on Lake Geneva in Switzerland soon after the first of the year. In Clarens, Tchaikovsky had already begun work on a piano sonata when he heard the colorful Symphonie Espagnole by the French composer Edouard Lalo.

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He was so excited by the possibilities of a work for solo violin and orchestra that he set aside the sonata and immediately began a concerto of his own. By the end of April, the composition was finished. Tchaikovsky sent the manuscript to Leopold Auer, a friend who headed the violin department at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and who was also Court Violinist to the Czar, hoping to have him premiere the piece. Much to the composer’s regret, Auer returned the piece as “unplayable,” and apparently spread that word with such authority to other violinists that it was more than three years before the Violin Concerto was heard in public. It was Adolf Brodsky, a former colleague of Tchaikovsky at the Moscow Conservatory, who first accepted the challenge of the work when he premiered it with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1881. The Concerto opens with a tentative introductory tune. A foretaste of the main theme soon appears in the violins, around which a quick crescendo is mounted to usher in the soloist. After a few unaccompanied measures, the violin presents the lovely main theme above a simple string background. The complementary second theme begins a long buildup leading into the development, which is launched with a sweeping presentation of the main theme and followed by breathtaking virtuoso passages for the soloist. A flashing cadenza links to the recapitulation. The Andante opens and closes with a chorale for woodwinds that returns to serve as a frame around the movement; a soulful violin melody suggesting a Gypsy fiddler provides the material for the center section. The finale follows without a break and closes the Concerto with the spirit of a dashing Cossack Trepak.

RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)

Also sprach Zarathustra, Opus 30 COMPOSED 1896 || PREMIERE 1896 32 MINUTES || PSO PREMIERE 1939 PSO LAST PERFORMANCE 2016

“I did not intend to write philosophical music or to portray in music Nietzsche’s great work,” Richard Strauss wrote of the philosophical novel Also sprach Zarathustra. “I meant,” he continued, modestly, “to convey by means of music an idea of the development of the human race from its origin, through the various phases of its development, religious and scientific, up to Nietzsche’s idea of the Superman. The whole symphonic poem is intended as my homage to Nietzsche’s genius, which found its greatest exemplification in his book Also sprach Zarathustra.” It seems probable, however, that Nietzsche’s book was the source of generating in Strauss what he called “a poetical idea,” a literary hook upon which to hang a piece of music. Though the philosophical intentions of Strauss’s tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra are correctly questioned, there has never been any doubt about the expressive powers of this music. In fact, it was the Budapest premiere of Also sprach Zarathustra that inspired the young Béla Bartók to devote his life to

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There is an expressive progression inherent in the work, a sort of a-religious Pilgrim’s Progress, toward some transcendent state. One German writer, Rudolf Kloiber, viewed Also sprach Zarathustra as “a colorfully formed music-drama without words.... Strauss chose from the poem the speeches of

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composition. The work’s sections mirror several strong emotional states, as indicated by the following program note that appeared at the work’s premiere: “First movement: Sunrise, Man feels the power of God. Andante religioso. But still man longs. He plunges into passion (second movement) and finds no peace. He turns toward science, and tries in vain to solve life’s problems in a fugue (third movement). Then agreeable dance tunes sound and he becomes an individual, and his soul soars upward while the world sinks far below him.”

Zarathustra to create a kind of scenario for the content and form of the work.” Three overtly programmatic elements unify the work. The first, heard at the outset, is the theme of Nature, the unison call by four trumpets based on the most fundamental acoustical pitches in the musical spectrum: C–G–C (familiar from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey). The second is a sinister theme, perhaps depicting Fate, introduced by the trombones in the section, “Of joys and passions.” The third is the conflict between the C tonality — representing Nature — and the key of B, the latter standing for Man’s aspirations. The unsettled struggle between these two (the technical term is bi-tonality) is most clearly heard at the very end of the work, but it occurs many times throughout.

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Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra

HOW TO BUILD A SUNRISE IN UNDER TWO MINUTES Strauss begins his musical odyssey with one of the most iconic depictions of nature in all of music. Here’s how he does it.

STEP 1: Start with a literary hook “WHEN ZARATHUSTRA was 30 years old, he left his home and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit

and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed, and rising one morning with the

rosy dawn, he went before the sun and spoke thus unto it: O great star! What happiness would be yours if you did

not have those for whom you shine? Zarathustra is again going to be a man.”

– F R I E D R I C H N I E T Z S C H E , T H U S S P O K E Z A R AT H U S T R A

STEP 2: Create the sound of darkness

STEP 3: Add a glimmer of light

Combine the lowest sounding instruments of the orchestra: contrabassoon, bass, organ, and bass drum.

Play three quiet notes ascending upward: C-G-C. End on a minor chord.

NATURE THEME: C-G-C

STEP 4: Make the light brighter Add timpani. Turn up volume. Repeat three-note motif.

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NATURE THEME: STRONG AND STEADY

THEME OF MAN: FILLED WITH TWISTS AND TURNS

The themes Strauss writes for nature and human endeavors have very different shapes. Where the nature theme (sometimes called the “World Riddle”) is straight and direct, the “Theme of Man” is curvy and inconstant.

STEP 5: Welcome the arrival of the sun Combine all the instruments of the orchestra. Climb upwards. Arrive together at a glorious C major chord.

NOVEMBER 2026

KEVIN JOHN EDUSEI

JAMES EHNES

conductor

violin

German conductor Kevin John Edusei is sought after the world over, praised for the drama and tension of his musicmaking and the sense of architecture, warmth, and stylistic insight he brings to every performance. He is deeply committed to the creative elements of performance, to cultivating audiences, and to an eclectic range of repertoire.

James Ehnes has established himself as one of the most sought-after musicians on the international stage. Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, serene lyricism, and unfaltering musicality, he is a favorite guest at the world’s most celebrated concert halls, appearing with orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, London Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra.

In 2026/27, Edusei makes debuts with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Turku Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Metz, Ulster Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, and the Florida, Vancouver, Houston, Nashville, and Pittsburgh symphonies, with returns to the Oregon and Dallas symphonies and English National Opera’s La Traviata. Recent highlights include his acclaimed New York Philharmonic debut and concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, and Sydney Symphony. He has led productions at the Royal Ballet and Opera, Semperoper Dresden, and Hamburg State Opera, and is the former Chief Conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Bern Opera House. He won first prize at the 2008 Dimitri Mitropoulos Competition. 18

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A devoted chamber musician, Ehnes is Artistic Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society and leader of the Ehnes Quartet. His extensive discography has earned two Grammy Awards, three Gramophone Awards, and twelve Juno Awards, the most of any classical musician in history, as well as Gramophone’s 2021 Artist of the Year. Born in Canada, Ehnes studied with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music and The Juilliard School. He is a Member of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Professor of Violin at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He plays the “Marsick” Stradivarius of 1715.

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Byron Stripling is a conductor, trumpet virtuoso, singer, and actor known for his infectious smile and charm. Named Principal Pops conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2020, he has led numerous orchestras across the U.S. and Canada. As a frequent soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra, he has performed under conductors like Keith Lockhart and John Williams and has appeared on the PBS special “Evening at Pops.” Stripling also serves as the artistic director and conductor of the highly acclaimed Columbus Jazz Orchestra and as the Principal Pops conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Since his Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops, Stripling has become a pops orchestra favorite throughout the country, soloing with over 100 orchestras around the 20

world. An accomplished actor and singer, Stripling was selected for the lead role in the Broadway-bound musical Satchmo and has appeared in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He has showcased his talents at the Grammy Awards and contributed to numerous commercials and TV themes. With a rich background as lead trumpeter for the Count Basie Orchestra and collaborations with jazz legends, Stripling also emphasizes philanthropy, supporting organizations like The United Way and sharing music through master classes and seminars. Educated at the Eastman School of Music and Interlochen Arts Academy, he often returns as a guest lecturer. Residing in Ohio with his wife Alexis and their daughters, he balances a vibrant career with family life.

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Before he became the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Principal Pops Conductor, Byron Stripling learned from his family that music can lift people up. He has been passing that lesson on ever since. BYRON STRIPLING

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Byron Stripling’s father had a simple philosophy about music. There were only two kinds, he liked to say: the good kind and the other kind. He had time only for the good kind. As choir director of the family’s church, the elder Stripling planned every Sunday’s music, which settled one question for his son early on. “If your father’s the choir director,” Byron says, “you’ve got to be in the choir.” His father built the service the same way each week. It opened with a classical anthem, a rare choice in a Black church at the time. A spiritual such as “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless 22

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Child” came next, and gospel closed the service, carried by hand claps. That weekly mix became the foundation of Byron’s musical life. “I realized that my father was right,” he says. “You learn about other people’s music too, and then you get to put it into this whole big pot, and it can be stirred up.” The first time Byron saw a churchgoer shout, overcome with joy, he wondered whether someone was playing a joke on him. He came to understand it later. “Sunday morning is owned by the people who have suffered,” he says, “and have learned how to sing their way out of sadness.”

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The young trumpeter’s first idol was Maurice André, the French virtuoso of the piccolo trumpet. “That turned my life around,” Byron says. “I really wanted to be a classical player for a long time.” Then he discovered what he calls pat-your-foot music. Gospel had this quality, but jazz had it most of all, the kind of music the church elders said makes you feel so good you want to jump up and shout. “That’s what jazz does to me to this day.” Jazz brought mentors. The great trumpeter Clark Terry helped open doors to the Count Basie Orchestra and Woody Herman’s band, and he taught Byron a lesson he still repeats: “The price of proficiency is practice.” In recent years Byron toured with Doc Severinsen, who at 99 still starts each morning with pushups and practice. Byron has the same discipline. “Miss a day, you know it. Miss the second day, the audience starts to know it,” he says. “Who’s in charge? The trumpet’s in charge.”

Byron says his parents never let on how little money the family had. “They were not rich, but they were rich in their heart, and they made us rich.” He has lost all three of them. His mother died at 59. In 2022 his brother died of ALS, and his father died of a stroke within six months of his brother. Through those months Byron flew from his home in Columbus to Minnesota as often as twice a month to care for them. “They left me, but they’re still here through me,” he says. “I get to celebrate their lives each and every time I put the mouthpiece up to my face.” Byron brings that sense of purpose with him to Heinz Hall. In 2020, the PSO named him only the second Principal Pops Conductor in its history, and the first since Marvin Hamlisch. “I’m a purveyor of joy and gladness,” he says. “When I look out in the audience and I see somebody patting their foot, that means we got them.” He jokes that if you don’t feel transformed when you walk out of the theater, “it’s time to ask for your money back.”

Any long conversation with Byron comes back to his family. His father was “the only Black man on the campus of His father would the University of recognize that Kentucky singing creed. So would classical music.” “You learn about other Aretha Franklin, His brother was a people’s music too, and another child of clarinet prodigy then you get to put it into the church, in who played whose trumpet this whole big pot, and it Mozart’s Clarinet section Byron Concerto as a boy. can be stirred up.” spent many nights “These guys were — BYRON STRIPLING — watching her move trailblazers,” Byron PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR between gospel, says. “I want to soul, and opera. be one of them.” This month, Byron His mother was leads a celebration a teacher who of her music. The lesson he brings to it bought pencils and paper for students began in a church choir loft, with a father out of her own pocket. She kept snacks who believed in only one kind of music: stocked for children who came to school the good kind. hungry and offered them with a “Hey, baby, you want a little piece of this?” NOVEMBER 2026

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Precious Memories (J.B.F Wright /arr. Tim Davies) Until You Come Back to Me (Stevie Wonder, Clarence Paul & Morris Broadnax / arr. Jochen Neuffer) Don’t Play That Song (Ahmet Ertegun & Betty Nelson / arr. Jochen Neuffer) Dr. Feelgood (Aretha Franklin & Ted White / arr. Tommy Laurence) Chain of Fools (Don Covay / arr. R. Taggart) Somewhere (Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim / arr. Tommy Laurence) Think (Aretha Franklin & Ted White / arr. Tom Richards)

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I Say a Little Prayer (Burt Bacharach & Hal David / arr. Robin A. Smith / adapt. Giles Thornton) Sparkle (Curtis Mayfield / arr. Tom Richards) I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (Simon Climie & Dennis Morgan / arr. Tom Walsh) Rock Steady (Aretha Franklin / arr. Tom Richards) Amazing Grace (John Newton & William Walker / arr. Jochen Neuffer) (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

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vocals and piano With a voice that stirs the soul and hands that glide effortlessly over the keys, Sheléa has earned the admiration of music legends including Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, and David Foster. Born and raised in Bakersfield, California, she was writing songs on a miniature piano by age four and serving as a church musician by twelve, later graduating cum laude from Oakwood University with a B.A. in music. Sheléa has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, and the White House, where she received a standing ovation from the Obamas. In 2022, she made her Royal Albert Hall debut with a tribute to Aretha Franklin alongside maestro Jules Buckley, and she has also paid tribute to Quincy Jones at the Hollywood Bowl for his 90th birthday. On screen, she portrayed Dorinda Clark in the Lifetime biopic The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel and has appeared in PBS specials including Quincy Jones Presents: Sheléa and Aretha! With Sheléa and Pacific Symphony.

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DreamWorks Animation Presents “How To Train Your Dragon” MUSIC BY John Powell BASED ON THE BOOK BY Cressida Cowell S C R E E N P L AY B Y Will Davies and Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Kristine Belson Tim Johnson

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JOHN POWELL

JACOB JOYCE

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John Powell is one of film music’s most versatile and sought-after composers. A native of London, he was an accomplished violinist as a child, assisted composer Patrick Doyle in the early 1990s, and moved to the U.S. in 1997, where he worked with Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control. He soon emerged as an A-list voice with his pulsating score for The Bourne Identity.

Jacob Joyce serves as Associate Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra. He is gaining recognition for his work in both the symphonic repertoire and filmin-concert performances, a versatility that has been heralded by media outlets including the New York Times, BBC Newshour, and Pittsburgh Magazine.

Powell has become the go-to composer for family animation, with scores including Shrek, Chicken Run, Ice Age, Happy Feet, Rio, and Kung Fu Panda. His infectious music for How to Train Your Dragon earned him his first Academy Award nomination, and he returned to Berk for the sequels, including The Hidden World. His other credits include United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Jason Bourne, and Solo: A Star Wars Story, which brought him together with John Williams.

Highlights of Joyce’s 26/27 season include debuts with the Cleveland, Dallas, and St. Louis symphonies and the Orchestra of Opéra National de Bordeaux, alongside returns to the Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor symphonies. Recent seasons have brought engagements with the Baltimore, Indianapolis, Nashville, Houston, and Kansas City symphonies, the London Symphony, NDR-Sinfonieorchester, and hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt. He was awarded a Solti Career Assistance Award in 2020.

Powell has also written concert works for choir and orchestra, including A Prussian Requiem, featured on the album Hubris – Choral Works by John Powell.

Joyce studied conducting with Hugh Wolff at the New England Conservatory and holds degrees from Yale College and the Yale School of Music.

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NOVEMBER 2026

BIG SCREENS, BIG SOUND UPMC MOVIES WITH THE PSO On Tuesday, May 25, 2027, exactly 50 years after Star Wars first opened in theaters, the PSO will perform John Williams’ iconic score live alongside Star Wars: A New Hope at PPG Paints Arena with Associate Conductor Jacob Joyce conducting. When the film premiered on May 25, 1977, it changed movies, and its music changed film scoring along with it. Williams’ soaring main title, the noble Force theme and the unforgettable cantina band earned him the Academy Award and brought the sound of the full symphony orchestra back to the center of Hollywood filmmaking. In doing so, Williams was influenced by the very composers we celebrate regularly in this hall: Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Erich Korngold, and others. Half a century later, those themes are recognized around the world, and they remain some of the most thrilling music an orchestra can play.

This will be the largest film concert the PSO has ever presented. The film will play across the arena’s four-sided videoboard, so every seat has a view, while lighting and special effects throughout the venue make the whole arena part of the experience. Bring the generation that grew up with Luke, Leia and Han, and the one just meeting them. Costumes and lightsabers will be part of the fun. The concert also arrives with a new name for the series. UPMC is title sponsor of the PSO’s film-with-live-orchestra series, now UPMC Movies with the PSO. A film concert is often where a lifelong love of the orchestra begins. We are grateful to UPMC, and to you, whose enthusiasm for these concerts has made this growth possible. We’ll see you at the movies, at Heinz Hall and at PPG Paints Arena.

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Jacob Joyce, conductor Voces Solis, choir Ryan Keeling, director R AT E D P G

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Jacob Joyce, conductor R AT E D P G

Jacob Joyce, conductor Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh Daniel Singer, director R AT E D P G

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25–27

Ludwig Wicki, conductor Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh Daniel Singer, director Pittsburgh Youth Chorus Shawn Funk, director R AT E D P G -13

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MANFRED HONECK | Music Director

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THE ARTISTS

MANFRED HONECK conductor

ALEXANDER MALOFEEV piano

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PROGRAM TIMELINE PRE & POST-CONCERT

CONCERT BEGINS | SAT 7:30 PM SUN 2:30 PM

CONCERT ENDS | SAT 9:45 PM SUN 4:45 PM

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MASON BATES

Appalachian Ayre World Premiere and PSO Commission

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 23

I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso II. Andantino semplice III. Allegro con fuoco

ALEXANDER MALOFEEV

INTERMISSION | 20 MINUTES Bar closes at the end of intermission.

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

Symphony No. 60 in C Major, “Il distratto”

JOSEF STRAUSS

Plappermäulchen (Little Chatterbox), Polka, Opus 245

I. Adagio — allegro di molto II. Andante III. Menuet IV. Presto V. Adagio VI. Prestissimo

LEO MEYER | EMILY PANTIKIAN FANUK ALINA REITSCHULER-CROSS SINA BELLE REITSCHULER-CROSS | AMELIA WILKINSON SELAH WINKLER

JOHANN STRAUSS, JR.

Overture to Die Fledermaus (The Bat)

POST-CONCERT PERFORMANCE | Theater — This program will last approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes.

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BEHIND THE SCORE

Du siehst, nur der Champagner war an allem schuld! (You see, only the champagne was to blame for everything!) EISENSTEIN TO ROSALINDE IN ACT III OF DIE FLEDERMAUS

GREAT MOMENTS

FURTHER LISTENING

From Controversy to History

In its early days, the waltz was considered a rather scandalous dance because of the face-to-face position of the dancers, contrasting the previously popular courtly dances which involved minimal physical contact. Johann Strauss Sr. turned the dance into a commercial sensation in Vienna by expanding the musical form and orchestral scoring beyond a tavern folk-tune and Johann Strauss Jr. sealed its place in 19th-century Viennese society by composing nearly 170 waltzes in his lifetime.

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Leshnoff: Double Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon Manfred Honeck, conductor Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Like Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, his Symphony No. 4 is strongly influenced by folk music (coincidentally, in the final movements of each respective work), and contains soaring lyrical lines in which the PSO shines.

Humorous Haydn

Jokes were often intentionally written in Haydn’s works. Like the abruptly comical tuning sequence composed in the final movement of Symphony No. 60, Haydn also wrote specific instructions in his “Farewell” Symphony (Symphony No. 45) for musicians of the orchestra to leave stage one-byone when they finished playing their part, and included dramatic dynamic shifts in his “Surprise” Symphony (Symphony No. 94).

APR 16 & 18 Manfred Honeck, conductor Rudolf Buchbinder, piano

For more early Classical works like Haydn’s Symphony No. 60, PSO will be performing two All-Mozart concerts in April 2027, featuring the composer’s signature playfulness, and piano soloist Rudolf Buchbinder.

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Symphony Orchestra, Teresa Heinz remarked that “his music has moved the orchestra into the digital age and dissolved the boundaries of classical music.” It is little surprise that recent surveys have found Mason Bates to be one of the most frequently performed composers of his generation.

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MASON BATES (B. 1977)

Appalachian Ayre COMPOSED 2023 AND 2026 12 MINUTES || WORLD PREMIERE PSO COMMISSION

Mason Bates brings not only his own considerable creative talents to the concert hall but also the technology and musical sensibilities of the 21st century. Bates is a leader in integrating electronic and other unconventional sound sources into the symphony orchestra, not only expanding and enhancing the ensemble’s sonorities but also bringing to it a contemporary perspective. Except for his concertos for piano, violin, cello, Chinese pipa and synthesizer (!), the titles of his works are contemporary in reference and intriguing enough to be posted on a movie marquee: Silicon Hymnal, Anthology of Fantastic Zoology, The Rise of Exotic Computing, The B-Sides, Alternative Energy, Omnivorous Furniture, Mothership, Devil’s Radio, Sea-Blue Circuitry, Mainframe Tropics: Silicon Blues. In presenting the Heinz Award in Arts and Humanities to Bates during his 2012-2013 residency with the Pittsburgh

Among Mason Bates’ many honors are selection as “2018 Composer of the Year” by the influential trade journal Musical America, Charles Ives Scholarship and Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Fellowship, Jacob Druckman Memorial Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, ASCAP and BMI awards, a Fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center, Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, and Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities. Of Appalachian Ayre, Bates writes, “Appalachian Ayre is a dreamy meditation on the fascinating connection between baroque performance practice and early bluegrass. Growing up in Virginia, I was often struck by the way bluegrass players held their bows in the middle, rather than at the end, where classical players hold their bows today. Indeed the baroque manner of holding the bow, brought over by the early colonists from the Old World, remained frozen in time as bluegrass fiddling spread through America. There are also some melodic ornaments that connect these seemingly disparate genres. Enamored of both Americana and Baroque music, I first explored this concept with a baroque ensemble before realizing that a modern orchestra continued on page 40

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has the wider textural range to draw these connections. Invited by longtime collaborators Manfred Honneck and the Pittsburgh Symphony to contribute to their America 250 project, I was thrilled to offer a work connecting Old and New Worlds for this beloved orchestra located in Appalachia.

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893)

Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 23 COMPOSED 1874–1875 || PREMIERE 1875 33 MINUTES || PSO PREMIERE 1898

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At the end of 1874, Tchaikovsky began a piano concerto with the hope of having a success great enough to allow him to leave his irksome teaching post at the Moscow Conservatory. By late December, he had largely sketched out the work, and sought the advice of Nikolai Rubinstein, Director of the Moscow Conservatory and an excellent pianist. Tchaikovsky reported the interview in a letter: “On Christmas Eve 1874, Nikolai asked me to play the Concerto. We agreed to it. After I played through the work, there burst forth from Rubinstein’s mouth a mighty torrent of words. It appeared that my Concerto was utterly worthless, absolutely unplayable; the piece as a whole was bad, trivial, vulgar.” Tchaikovsky was furious and made only one change in the score: he obliterated the name of the original dedicatee — Nikolai Rubinstein — and substituted that of the virtuoso pianist continued on page 42

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Hans von Bülow, who was performing Tchaikovsky’s piano pieces across Europe. Bülow gladly accepted the dedication and asked to program the premiere on his upcoming American tour. The Concerto created such a sensation when it was first heard, in Boston on October 25, 1875, that Bülow played it on 139 of his 172 concerts that season. The Concerto opens with a sweeping introductory melody. Following a decrescendo and a pause, the piano presents the snapping main theme. Tchaikovsky said that this curious melody was inspired by a tune he heard sung by a blind beggar at a street fair. The clarinet announces the lyrical second theme. The outer sections of the second movement’s three-part structure (A–B–A) are based on a languid melody introduced by the flute; the central episode uses a swift, balletic melody. A crisp rhythmic motive presented at the beginning of the finale dominates much of the movement. To balance the vigor of this music, a romantic melody is given by the violins. The two themes contend until the Concerto comes to its rousing close.

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JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)

Symphony No. 60 in C Major, “Il distratto” COMPOSED 1774 || PREMIERE 1774 23 MINUTES || PSO PREMIERE

Among the most eagerly awaited visitors during the summer months to Esterháza Palace in western Hungary, where Haydn spent much of his working life, was the theatrical troupe headed by Karl Wahr, a fine actor and a capable businessman. The company’s principal fare was comedy and farce, but Wahr balanced this light repertory with such weightier material as King Lear, Hamlet and Richard III, given in translations specially prepared for Esterháza. Haydn provided the incidental music for these productions or arranged it from other sources. His score for Hamlet, composed in 1774, has not survived; some music for King Lear, once attributed to him, is probably by one W.G. Stegmann. During the 1774 season, Wahr also presented the comedy Der Zerstreute (The Distracted One), a German translation of an old French farce by Jean François Regnard (1655-1709) titled Le Distrait. The play concerns Leandre, a man of nearly oblivious absentmindedness — he dresses his servant instead of himself in the morning; he nibbles on his fingers rather than the bread at meals; he gets

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Though the six movements of the Symphony No. 60 are chock full of tunes in the popular style of the day, some borrowed, some original with Haydn, the work begins with a stately slow introduction. The serious mood, however, is soon broken by a jolly little triple-meter ditty, given in tightly packed harmonies by the violins and oboes, which serves as the main theme of the movement, the overture for the original production. The music chuckles its way into the second theme, but then the strings threaten to doze off (“perdendosi” — “dying away” — instructs the score), and need to be reawakened by a noisy clattering from the impatient ensemble. The development section is concerned with the main theme and a descending arpeggio motive. A recapitulation of the earlier themes and another traversal of the soft-loud joke round out the movement. The Andante is based on a graceful melody that is repeatedly interrupted by rude fanfares from the winds. The dainty music continues for most of the movement, but gives way in its middle regions to a two-voiced passage in trilled notes which some old editions labeled “ancien chant français,” though exactly which old French song is unknown. The Menuetto proceeds according to the proper courtly manner, but its central trio offers a tiny parade of

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into the wrong coach, the wrong house and the wrong bed after leaving a party; and he almost forgets his own wedding. Haydn’s music for this merry exercise was received enthusiastically. Soon after Der Zerstreute was first presented at Esterháza in June 1774, Haydn compiled the overture and the entr’actes into a suite of music that he issued as the Symphony No. 60 in C major under the Italian rendering of the play’s title, Il distratto.

craggy Balkan folk tunes. The following Presto begins in a tempestuous Sturm und Drang mode, but then resumes the quotation of Balkan folksongs before ending in a sunburst of C Major. The penultimate movement is subtitled “di Lamentatione” in a reliable old manuscript copy preserved at the monastery of Melk in Austria. The phrase may refer simply to the nostalgic mood of the music, or it may indicate a thematic source in an as-yet-unidentified Gregorian chant. The trumpets and drums barge into this serene episode with a noisy fanfare, but some calming pizzicato notes from the strings return the movement to its original path. The finale bolts out of the gate at a breakneck pace, but stops cold when the violins remember that they forgot to tune their instruments. That bit of business achieved, the movement resumes its moto perpetuo frenzy, pausing just once for the quotation of a morose little tune, given in unison by the strings.

JOSEF STRAUSS (1827–1870)

Plappermäulchen (Little Chatterbox), Polka, Opus 245 COMPOSED 1868 || PREMIERE 1868 3 MINUTES || PSO PREMIERE 2010 PSO LAST PERFORMANCE 2022

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Papa Johann Strauss tried to discourage his sons from following him into the music business, but only Josef, the second-born, initially took his advice. Josef also rejected his father’s advice to join the military, and instead trained as an engineer and architect and started a promising career in those fields. Older brother Johann, however, was working himself into a nervous exhaustion with his feverish activity with the Strauss Orchestra at the time — he came home late one night and collapsed at his mother’s feet. Young Eduard was only eighteen, so the sole choice to take over the family business seemed to be Josef. He was brought into the family discussion and at first refused to take over, pleading lack of training and ability, the duties of another occupation, and an awkward personal public appearance. His objections were finally overcome when Johann, from his sickbed, told him, “You are the most talented of us all.” Josef acquiesced, and, after some lessons in music theory and violin, he made his debut as conductor of the Strauss Orchestra on July 23, 1853. Among the Strauss family’s many lighthearted pieces referencing such matters as current events, humorous topics or local personalities is Josef’s polka Plappermäulchen — “Little Chatterbox” — premiered under his direction on April 26, 1868 at the “Neue Welt,” a popular amusement park in suburban Vienna. With the work’s rumbustious motion, percussion effects and evocative title, the musicians of the Strauss Orchestra knew as soon as the parts for the piece showed up on their music stands that it referred to Josef’s loquacious ten-year-old daughter, Karoline Anna Strauss, known affectionately as “Plappermäulchen.”

JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. (1825–1899)

Overture to Die Fledermaus (The Bat) COMPOSED 1874 || PREMIERE 1874 9 MINUTES || PSO PREMIERE 2024 PSO LAST PERFORMANCE 2024

Die Fledermaus (The Bat) was Johann Strauss’ first theatrical masterpiece. So taken was he with the libretto that 43 days after shutting himself into his room with it, he emerged with the finished score. Surprisingly, the Viennese public did not take kindly to Die Fledermaus when it was premiered on April 5, 1874. A stock market crash the preceding year had temporarily soured the local taste for stage representations of rich, world-weary aristocrats, and it took a rousing success in Berlin for Vienna to accept the operetta, just as it had taken Parisian acclaim for the Blue Danube Waltz to achieve its fame. The amusing story of Die Fledermaus is filled with mistaken and concealed identities, glittering balls, assignations and an unquenchable joie de vivre, and the sparkling Overture perfectly reflects this heady world of champagne, Schlag and chambres séparées.

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ALEXANDER MALOFEEV piano Hailed as a “Russian genius” by Corriere della Sera, Alexander Malofeev came to international prominence in 2014 when, at age thirteen, he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. He has since become one of the most prominent pianists of his generation, and Der Standard called his Musikverein debut “a world piano revolution.” Born in Moscow in 2001 and now based in Berlin, Malofeev has performed in many of the world’s great halls, including Carnegie Hall, Teatro alla Scala, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Musikverein, and the Philharmonie de Paris. He has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, collaborating with conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Mikhail Pletnev, Myung-Whun Chung, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Juraj Valčuha. His festival appearances include Verbier, Tanglewood, Aspen, and La Roque d’Anthéron. In 2017, he was named Best Young Musician of 2017 and became the first Young Yamaha Artist. NOVEMBER 2026

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Patricia and John Whitehill Ms. Bridgit Wolf Harton Wolf Mr. Robert H. Wyche Haakan Younes & Genevieve Hower Mr. & Mrs. James D. Young Dr. & Mrs. P. Alvin Zamba

Jane & George* Greer Mr. & Mrs. George V. Grune, Jr. Mr. Justin W. Gunther Caryl Halpern Gail & Greg Harbaugh Ron & Nancy Herring Monica & Adam Hertzman Stephanie Hill Ms. Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds $2,500-$4,999 Karen & Thomas Hoffman Anonymous (6) Clare & Jim Hoke Dr. Mary Beth Adams Katherine Holter Kathryn Albers & Brian Davis D. O. Holzapfel Rev. Drs. A. Gary* & Dr. Jerome M. Itzkoff & Judy Angleberger Dr. Barbara Zawadski Reverend Joseph & Kathy Baird Gail G. Jenkins Robert A. Banks Diane & Howard Jernigan David & JoAnn Beaudreau Edward W. Jew Jr. MD Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan and Carolyn J. Jones Melinda Berdyck Jane & Bud Kahn Robert S. Bernstein & Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Kamin Ellie K. Bernstein Fund Mr. & Mrs. Jayant Kapadia Michael & Lisa Blow Greg & Debbie Knowles Dr. & Mrs. W. Dennis Bossick John & Mary Adele Krolikowski Mary & Jeff Bragdon Harry & Lisa Levinson Sue & Mark Breedlove Anne Lewis Barbara A. Brooks Michael & Jane Louik in Lisa & Larry Brown memory of Elliott Oshry Nancy Brownell Neil & Ruth MacKay Marilyn* & Howard Bruschi Mr. Steve Mader & Dr. Chris W. Brussalis – Ms. Martina Hahn Point Park University Mrs. John Marous John Buckley & Emily Rosenthal Dr. Richard H. Martin In Memory Mr. Earl Buford of Mrs. Lori Martin The Milton Burkart & Patricia Donna & Stephen Maxwell Crumrine Charitable Trust In memory of Walter John Marne & Bradley Busatto McCarthy Jr. by Sharon McCarthy Nicholas Butera & David Krackhardt David Capozzi Mark and Jane Mendlow Barbara & Jerry* Chait in Mary Ellen Miller honor of Bill Meehan David & Momoko* Mills Sue Challinor & Matt Teplitz Bernard Moncla & Sharon Hillier Ms. Mary Lou Christie Drs. Paolo Montemaggi & Kenneth & Celia Christman Patrizia Guerrieri Charles C. Cohen* & Alice & Bob Moore Michele M. McKenney Gerald Lee Morosco Estelle Comay & Bruce Rabin Dr. Harvey M. Morris Cynthia & Bill* Cooley Dr. & Mrs. Etsuro K. Motoyama Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Dr. Eugene & Mr. & Mrs. Gregory D. Curran Mrs. Barbara L.* Myers Mr. Sylvester & Mrs. Lu Damianos Harry & Kathleen Nagel Kyriakos* & Alexandra Davides Rev. Beth L. Nelson & Giles Davidson & Dan Waldmann Rev. Terry G. Shaffer Jamini Vincent Davies Deborah L. Nichols Elliot & Beth Davis Linda & Jim Northrop Robert DeAngelis Lee & Lisa Oleinick Mr. & Mrs. John DiPucci Paul M. Palevsky, MD & Ms. Katherine Doeden Sharon R. Roseman, MD Michel & Christine Douglas Drs. Thomas Pearce & Mr. & Mrs. James R. Drake Nadia Sundlass Richard P. Dum & Ms. Dawn Petrosky Donna S. Hoffman Drs. Robert & Cynthia Potter Mr. Frank R. Dziama Ms. Leigh Solomon Pugliano George D. Ehringer Paul Purdy & David Onufer Linda & Robert Ellison Richard E. Rauh Marie Emanuel Robert Rauschenberger Mr and Mrs. Brian Portman Mr. Gene Reiness in Dan & Nancy Fales Memory of Diane Jean & Sigo Falk Patricia A. Richards & Janet Fesq William K. Nichols Reanette & Steve Frobouck Dr. Tor Richter in memory of The Dorothy M. Froelich Elizabeth W. Richter Charitable Trust Ms. Shelley Roisen Lawrence Frolik & Ellen Doyle* Brian Roush Michael & Nina Gaffney Drs. Guy & Mary Beth Salama Dr. Kent Galey & Dr. Karen Roche Bonnie Sandman Mr. & Mrs. Larry Garber Ann & Bill Scherlis Kathleen Gavigan & Stephanie L. Schneck-Jacob & William B. Dixon* Timothy D. Jacob Mr. Murry S. Gerber Esther Schreiber Dr. Virgil Gligor & Mrs. Alicia Avery George & Marcia Seeley

Mr. John Seminatore Harry E. Serene Dr. Stanley Shostak Dr. Charles H. Shultz Marjorie K. Silverman Dr. Carol Slomski & Dr. Keith Apelgren Alexander and Sandra Smith Alice Snyder J. Scott & Christie A. Southerland Carl & Nancy Staible Dick & Thea Stover Neil & Bronya Strosnider Drs. Heidi & Gary Swanson Dennis & Martha Sweeney Gordon & Catherine Telfer Richard & Sandra Teodori Barbara Trachtenberg John Traugut Cathy & Robert Trombetta John* & Missy Unkovic Bob & Denise Ventura Nancy J. Vuckovich John & Irene Wall Carolyn & Richard Westerhoff Robert Wickesberg & Susan Noffke Barbara & Bruce Wiegand Dr. & Mrs. Michael Wollman Brian Wongchaowart Miriam L. Young Darlene Berkovitz & Robert Zinn $1,750-$2,499

Anonymous (4) Jorge & Bernadette Alba Myron Arnowitt & Nancy Niemczyk Brian Ashton Richard C. Barney John & Betsy Baun Nancy H. Bergey Michael E. Bielski Don & Mary Block Glenn Bost & Susan DeRiggi Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Botos Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Broudy Ms. Mary Patricia Brown Mary & Montgomery Brown Linda B. Burke Gene & Sue Burns Dr. Raymond Capone Jr. & Dr. Martha R. Clarke The Castro-Redkin Family Julie & Mike Connors Shelley Crannell Cynthia Custer Sylvia Dallas & John Oliver Chris DeCardy Dee Delaney James Delligatti Mr. & Mrs. Mark Erickson Dr. & Mrs. Terry L. Evans Ms. Michele Fabrizi Judith & Donald* Feigert In Memory of Ruth & Emil Feldman by Joan Feldman & Family Mr. & Mrs. Albert Firtko Lisa and Ted Frick Hilda Pang Fu Frank Fuhrer III Keith Garver Sean Grasby Cynthia Maleski Groch Margaret L. Groninger Christine Hartung Dale Hershey* Robert & Patricia Heusser Dr. Benjamin E. Hicks Mr. Wayne Honath

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Mrs. Barbara Hughes Hyman Family Foundation Kate Jackson Blair & Lynne Jacobson Barbara Johnstone Timothy Jones Raymond and Sheila Karolak Laura Kieras Dr. Marcia K Landy Dr.* & Mrs. Howard N. Lang Natalie Cecere Hobson Lucas Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Trevor Macpherson Melissa R. Marshall Drs. Robert & Donna Martsolf John & Cathy Mary David & Chris Michelmore Ms. Laurie Miller Peggy & Bill Mooney Sheila & Jack Murtagh Patricia K. Nichols Karen Kelley Noble Dr. Paula Novelli & Mr. Paul Lee Andrew & Julianna Paluch Dr. Gail Pesyna & Dr. John Hooper Dr. Mark Piasio and Mrs. Paula Cherry Suzanne Powell Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pritchard Bryan L. Rall Drs. David* & Catherine Ravella Mary A. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Riordan Robinson Family Bette Rom in memory of Barbara Miller Christine I. Rudock Rich & Linda Ruffalo Mrs. John M. Sadler Dawne Sohn & Pix Sohn John Sonnenday & Kristine Haig Dr. & Mrs. J. Matthew Stacy, Jr. Marguerite O. Standish Lee & Judy Stern Mona & E.J. Strassburger Elena Swann Mandy Ticknor L. Torres & V. Petti Dr. W. Bruce & Regina Watkins Frank & Heidemarie Wenzel Arthur & Barbara* Westerberg Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zellefrow $1,000-$1,749

Anonymous (12) Andrew & Michelle Aloe Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Antos Ms. Mary Ann C Aug The Bardack Family Foundation Robert & Loretta Barone The Honorable Camera Bartolotta Mr. Richard Beeman Martha L. Berg Diane L. Berman Mr. Robert Bibel Andrew Bloomgarden & Leah Nicolich-Henkin Bronwell Berg Bond Tony Bonidy Don & Judy Borneman Barbara & Lester Botkin Stephanie Bozic Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Bridges William H Brown Jr. Nancy and Dan Bryson Drs. James & Clare Budd The Burkholder Foundation Stephen & Helen Hanna Casey Carlo & Carla Caso Ruth Ciemielewski Christine & Howard Cohen

Amanda Cole Tim & Allison Coleman Ms. Laura Coleman Dr. & Mrs. Richard Collins Mary Ann Craig, D.M.E. Dr. & Mrs. Daffner David R. & Chris A. Daniels Robert F. Davis Landon Deamer Mr. & Mrs. Matthew J. Deep David & Diane Denis Mr. and Ms. Bryon Deysher Scott Donohoo Lucy & John Douglas Leslie Oden Dunn Ms. Christine L. Dvonch Kevin Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Elias Robert* & Sara Englesberg Francis & Joan Fereday Moses and Laryn Finder Mr. & Mrs. Gregory S. Finerty Ann P. Flaherty Mr. Gene Forsythe Mr. & Mrs. Edward Fortwangler Eric & Patricia Fulmer Ms. Christine Fulton & Mr. George Fechter Nolly Gibbs Jane N. Gilbert Elliot Gill Anthony Giresi Richard A. Gloyer & Michelle M. Rossi Nancy & Mel Goldstein Dr. & Mrs. C. Bernie Good Lori Greene & Chris Decker Patrick & Lynn Gurrentz in memory of Natalie Friedberg Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Guttman Ms. Laura Hall & Mr. Matthew Kresock Robert Harris Dr. and Mrs. Brack G. Hattler Jr. Kurt Herbst Thelma and Andrew Herlich Elias & Lisa Hilal Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hill Marie & Joseph* Hinchliffe Dr. & Mrs. Elmer J. Holzinger Tom & Mary Hooten Helen Hopkinson Sara H. Horsman Mr. Steven L. Husted Linda & Robert Indovina Mary Lee Irwin Mr. & Mrs. David R. Jardini in honor of Helge & Erika Wehmeier Ellen & John Johnson Maura & John Kelly Natalie and Jay Kinzel Richard & Jan Kleiser Gary and Stephen Kohr-Cravener Amy Jo Labi-Carando & Peter M. Carando Dr. & Mrs. Walter Labys Betty Lamb Jason & Christina Lamport Paul Lee Stanley & Margaret Leonard Helena Leslie Edward Leventhal Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Leverett Jeffrey Levitt Mr. James Lewis Ken Lewis & Diane Ichikawa Jinghong Liang & Weizhong Tian George & Roxanne Libby Martin & Alice Lieb

Dr. Ronald & Mrs. Judith Linaburg Ken & Hope Linge Jane MacLeod Bryan Magee Dr. & Mrs. George J. Magovern, Jr. Virginia M. Mance Mr. Edward A. Massarsky & Ms. Sylvia Slavkin Barbara & Mark* Matera Mrs. Beverly McCarter Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. McChesney Katherine K. McCormick Sibby & Duff McCrady Michael & Wanda McGarry Ann Muldoon McGuinn Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. McSorley Timothy M. McVay & David C. Bush George & Bonnie* Meanor Mr. & Mrs. Sam Michaels Joan Miles & Clifford Bob Jack Millstein David R. and Geraldine Misch Terrence H. Murphy Mr.* & Mrs. Albert Muse Dr. Donald & Nancy A. Naragon Susan Nicklos Prof. and Ms. Ken K Nischal Prof. Lester C. Olson Mr. & Mrs. James O’Neill, Jr. Dee Jay Oshry & Barton Rack Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Parrish Robert A. Paysen Mr. and Ms. Jay Peacock Mr. Richard Pietroski and Ms. S. Stuart Beth & Paul Piraino Margaret V. Ragni & Frederick L. Porkolab David & Marilyn Posner Mr. & Mrs. John Roy Price Mrs. Janet Quint* John & Gail Rackley Dr. Susan Maffey, MD Mr. & Mrs. Robert Randall Mr. Scott Ray Dr. Jane Raymond James Rebel Ms. Marnie Menser Repasky Clark Rexrode Mary Ann Rose Bill & Sue Rossetti Cynthia Roth Fritz Roth Aaron Roupe Harvey & Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Edmund S. Ruffin III Elizabeth Russell & Linda Natho Abby & Reid* Ruttenberg Bruce D. & Treasure Sachnoff Charitable Family Foundation Darius & Ester Saghafi Dr. and Mrs.* E. Ronald Salvitti Mr. and Mrs. James Santilli Drs. Michael F. Scheier & Karen Matthews Steven Schlossman & Stephanie Wallach Shirley G. Schneirov Patricia S. Schroder Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Schroeder Mr. & Mrs. Benedict Serratore Richard F. Shaw & Linda W. Shaw Paul & Linda Silver Lee & Myrna Silverman George & Jenny Siple Bobbie & Keith Smith Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Smithers Theresa V. Snavely

David Solosko & Sandra Kniess Gary & Charlene Stanich Dr. & Mrs. Terence Starz Mark & Tammy Steele Dr. Ron & Nancy Stoller Ms. Laura Swallow Marcia & Dick* Swanson Dr. & Mrs. Michael D. Swanson C. J. Sylak, Jr. Stu & Liz Symonds in Memory of Roger Sherman Francesca Tan Mr. & Mrs. William H. Taylor, Jr. Gregory Thibeaux Ms. Constance Thompson Becky & Herb* Torbin Lois & Nigel Treloar Dr. & Mrs. Albert Tse Mrs. & Mr. Christopher Turner Thomas Uram Barbara A. Urban Judy Vaglia Ted & Liz Valk Suzan M. Vandertie Reeve & Jane Vanneman Marilyn & Joseph Vettorazzi Prof. Dario Vignali Cate & Jerry Vockley Michael & Clare Vranesevic Mr. Timothy Warco Yuling Wei Patricia Weiss Ron Wetzel Mr. and Mrs. Dennis White Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wild James* & Susanne Wilkinson Naomi Yoran Myrna & Allan Zelenitz Dr. Audrey Zelkovic $600-$999

Anonymous (6) Janese Abbott & David Clark Jerry Agin & Terri Denmon Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ashbridge John H. Ashton Joni L. Banks Wendy Becker Payton Mr. David Bergad & Mr. David Taylor Paul E. Block Debbie & Jim Boughner Mary Bouwkamp Kathleen Boykin Mr. Ian M. Brown & Ms. Jodie Minor Jaclyn Camus Gillian Cannell & John Cummings Alvin & Sheila Catz Luisa Charbonneau in memory of Dr. James H. Duggan Gail D. Coates Alan & Lynne Colker Tom & Stephanie Conroy Marcia J. Constantine Carly Corris Mr. & Mrs. William D. Crise William and Anne Curtin Jillian Dickinson David R. & Lisa G. Durbin Tom & Linda Eld Ms. Linda Esposito Janis Fink Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Fonseca Mrs. Carol Franklin Dr. & Mrs. Marc E. Garfinkel Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Glaid Jonathan Glance Robertta & Bob Goffeney Hanna Gruen

Ms. Meg Hartenstein Dr. and Mrs. Marvis Hartman Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Heidenreich Ms. Sarah Hoffman Ms. Madeleine Hombosky Dr. & Mrs. David Horvath Joseph Hostetler & Tom Spanedda Lyndall Huggler & Dr. Elizabeth Seiders Vaughn & Eleanor Irwin Micah & Beth Jacobs Bob & Bridget Jarsulic Dr. Frank & Debbie Jenkins Joshua Jun & Chloe Chung Mr.* & Mrs. Robert W. Kampmeinert J. Edward Kimble Mr. Steven Knapp Sue & Peter Koehler Dr. David Landis Eddie Lowy & Ricardo Cortés Mrs. Lauren Loya Ruth Macklin Giulio & Barbara Magrini Drs. Ellen Mandel & Lawrence Weber Mr. Kenneth L. Manders & Mrs. Weia Boelema Dr. & Mrs. George J. Maruschock Bill & Kiki McConnel Dr. Patrick McCulloch Susan Lee Meadowcroft Marian G. Michaels Robert & Christine Misback Signe Mitchell Michael & Cynthia Mullins Katie Nadorlik Dr. Jerome and Smadar Parness Mr. Jayesh Patel and Ms. Marcia Klein-Patel Roy Provins Fran Quinlan Constance Rapp Michelle V. Reid Burton Roberts Bert & Susan Rockman Al Rosenfeld Douglas Rosenthal Linda Sanders Kathleen A. Sandoe & Daniel H. Ready Tom & Janet Schaefer George & Yvonne Schexnayder Jonathan & Veronica Schmerling Mr. Chester B. Scholl, Jr. Bernie & Cookie Soldo Schultz Mr. Mylaina Sherwood Mr. & Mrs. Virgil Simplaceanu Michele & Brian Skwirut Mr. Ronald F. Smutny & Mr. George Hettler Mr. & Mrs. Mark Sobota Clifford J. Spiegel in memory of Dr. Martin Spiegel Dr. Anthony Spinola Bill Stickman Karen & Don Stump Richard A. Sundra, in Loving Memory of Patricia Sundra Ms. Cynthia Sweet and Mr. Paul Campbell Father James Torquato Jan & Doug Toth James & Dorothy Valimont Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wehner Lucile Weingartner Arlene & Richard Weisman Mr. Jeffrey Wigton Mark Wilson & Kathleen Cook

NOVEMBER 2026

FOUNDATIONS & PUBLIC AGENCIES Allegheny County Economic Development Allegheny Foundation Allegheny Regional Asset District Bessie F. Anathan Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation William H. Anderson Foundation Anonymous (1) Benjamin and Fannie Applestein Charitable Trust Arts, Equity, & Education Fund Melissa H. Barry Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation The Benter Foundation H.M. Bitner Charitable Trust Maxine and William Block Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Paul and Dina Block Foundation The Buhl Foundation Jack Buncher Foundation The Ann & Frank Cahouet Foundation James C. Chaplin, IV and Carol C. Chaplin Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable and Educational Trust Edwin and Kathryn Clarke Family Foundation Compton Family Foundation The Rose Y. and J. Samuel Cox Charitable Fund

Jean Hartley Davis and Nancy Lane Davis Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Dietrich Foundation Arthur J. and Betty F. Diskin Cultural Endowment Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Peter C. Dozzi Family Foundation Eden Hall Foundation Jane M. Epstine Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation Goldberg Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation The Heinz Endowments Drue Heinz and H.J. Heinz Charitable Trust Henry L. Hillman Foundation Historical and Archival Records Care (HARC) Grant from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) Emma Clyde Hodge Memorial Fund Honkus-Zollinger Charitable Foundation Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation Roy A. Hunt Foundation George and Jeanne Illig Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation

R. Drew and Mary S. Kistler Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation James T. and Hetty E. Knox Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Martha Mack Lewis Foundation John Keith Maitland Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Thomas Marshall Foundation Massey Charitable Trust Richard King Mellon Foundation Howard and Nell E. Miller Foundation Phyllis and Victor Mizel Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Eugene F. and Margaret Moltrup Jannuzi Foundation The Lesa B. Morrison Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Pittsburgh National Endowment for the Arts W. I. Patterson Charitable Foundation Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development Pennsylvania Department of Education Anna L. & Benjamin Perlow Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation

Pauline Pickens Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh Symphony Association RMK Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation The William Christopher & Mary Laughlin Robinson Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Rossin Foundation Ryan Memorial Foundation Salvitti Family Foundation James M. & Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation The Mrs. William R. Scott Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Irene C. Shea Foundation The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation Tippins Foundation The Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Robert and Mary Weisbrod Foundation Hilda M. Willis Foundation

LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE In addition to income from the Annual Fund, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is dependent on a robust endowment to assure its long-term financial stability. Gifts from Legacy of Excellence programs are directed to the endowment to provide for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s future. The Steinberg Society honors donors who have advised the Pittsburgh Symphony in writing that they have made a provision for the orchestra in their will. Endowed naming opportunities for guest artists, musicians’ chairs, concert series, educational programs or designated spaces allow donors to specify a name or tribute for 10 years, 20 years or in perpetuity. For additional information, please call 412.392.4880. STEINBERG SOCIETY

Anonymous (57) Alan L. & Barbara B. Ackerman Mary Beth Adams Siamak* & Joan Adibi Estate of Raymond A. Ames Rev. Drs. A. Gary* & Judy Angleberger The Joan & Jerome Apt* Families Estate of Dorothy Avins Estate of Ruth Z. & James B. Bachman Ronald Bachowski* in Memory of Lois Bachowski L. Douglas Baker Francis A. Balog Lorraine E. Balun Estate of Barbara A. Bane Robert & Loretta Barone Mr. & Mrs. Leicester Barry* Marion C. Baum* Robert W. & Janet W.* Baum Willeen L. Benedum Trust Andrea Beranek* Dr. Elaine H. Berkowitz Keith E. Bernard Nancy C. Bernard Robin Joan Bernstein Benno* & Constance Bernt Drs. Barbara & Albert Biglan Estate of Dr. Harry S. Binakonski Jim & Alison Bischoff

Thomas G. Black James* & Sandra Bobick Dr. & Mrs. Bennett P. Boffardi* Estate of Joseph Bookmyer Barbara M. Brock Lois R. Brozenick* Michael F. Butler* Tom & Jackie Cain Margaret Calder Estate of Cynthia Calhoun Mr. & Mrs. James Callomon* RJ & Trish Campolo Rebecca L. Carlin Estate of Rebecca J. Caserio M.D. Bernard P. Cerilli* Genevieve H. Chaudhuri* Sondra Chester Judy & Michael Cheteyan Educational/ Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David W. Christopher* Mr.* & Mrs. Edward S. Churchill Estate of Mr. & Mrs. Eugene S. Cohen Estate of Geraldine M. Cohen Sean & Sherri Collins Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Mary Ann Craig Shelley Crannell L. Van V. Dauler, Jr.* & Randi Dauler Alan Derthick*

In Memory of Stuart William Discount Arthur J. & Betty F. Diskin* Estate of Ellen M. Diskin Rev. Lawrence A. Dominik Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Donnelly* Ellen Doyle* & Lawrence Frolik Mary A. Duggan* Dr. James H. Duggan* Frank R. Dziama Estate of Robert B. Egan Steven G. & Beverlynn Elliott Estate of Doris Ely Estate of Edythe Jean Engel Katrin & Eugene Engels* Kelly G. Estes* & Hank Snell Anthony Fabio* Dr. John H. Feist* Emil & Ruth Feldman* Joan Feldman & William Adams Estate of Dorothy M. Fels Mr. & Mrs. Albert Firtko Estate of Ruth K. Fischer Mrs. Loti Gaffney* Keith Garver Alice V. Gelormino Estate of Arlyn Gilboa Mabel Lindsey Gillespie Trust Dr. Robert J. & Susan J. Gluckman Ken* & Lillian Goldsmith Mr. & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon*

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In Memory of Frank L. Grebowski Estate of Anna R. Greenberg Estate of Lorraine M. Gross Ms. Shirley Jean Grube Elizabeth A. Gundelfinger* Maureen Guroff Kristine Haig & John Sonnenday Marnie & Jim Haines Mrs. Nancy K. Hansen* Elizabeth Anne Hardie Charles & Angela Hardwick John P. Harman* Edward J. Harris Carolyn Heil Eric & Lizz Helmsen William* & Jacqueline Herbein Monica & Adam Hertzman Ms. Judith Hess Betsy S. Heston* Estate of Mr. John H. Hill Philo & Erika Holcomb * Walker P. Holloway, Jr. Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas O. Hornstein Tom* & Dona Hotopp Susan Candace Hunt Estate of Mr. & Mrs. William C. Hurtt Mr. & Mrs. Blair Jacobson Patricia Prattis Jennings Barbara Johnstone Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Kahn*

Estate of Calliope H. Kamaras Daniel G. & Carole L. Kamin Leo* & Marge Kane David N. Katz in Memory of Lynn Schwartz Katz Lois S. Kaufman Stephen & Kimberly Keen Estate of Patricia M. Kelley Mr. Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. Ms. Bernadette Kersting* Dr. Laibe A. & Sydelle Kessler* R. Drew & Mary S. Kistler* Craig P. Knox Estate of Elizabeth Krotec Dr. Marcia Landy Stanley & Margaret Leonard Frances F. Levin* Doris L. Litman Estate of Edward D. Loughney Estate of Jane M. Lubic Giulio & Barbara Magrini Estate of John Keith Maitland Lauren & Hampton Mallory Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Malnati Elizabeth-Ann Manchio* Dr. Richard Martin in Memory of Mrs. Lori Martin Cynthia N. Mastro Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall Stephen McClure & Debra Gift* John W. McDonald, Jr.* Estate of Cecelia F. McKibben Estate of James S. McKeen, Jr. George E. Meanor Estate of Mary K. Michaely Ms. Barbara W. Miller Mary Ellen Miller Ms. Jean L. Misner* Catherine Missenda* Dr. Mercedes C. Monjian* Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Mooney Alice & Bob Moore Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Estate of Carolyn Mortensen Michael & Cynthia Mullins Dr. Eugene N. & Barbara* Myers Mildred S. Myers & William C. Frederick* Estate of Katherine L. Nash Linda Natho & Elizabeth Russell Rhoda & Bill Neal Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson* Rhonda & Dennis Norman Estate of Glenn E. Nordmark Katherine O’Brien Elliott S. Oshry* Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. M.D. Estate of Irene G. Otte Estate of Mark Perrott Estate of Richard Petrovich Judy Petty Estate of Deloris V. Pohelia Martha & Ramen* Raak Estate of Dorothy R. Rairigh Estate of Robert Wayne Rairigh Barbara M. Rankin * Richard E. Rauh Cheryl & James Redmond Donald O. & M. Susan Regan, and their daughter, Susan M. Regan Mr. Gene Reiness Dr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart* Donald & Sylvia Robinson* Mr.* & Mrs. David M. Roderick Charlotta Klein Ross Harvey & Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Ryan Estate of Sylvia Sachs Beth Fabiani Scaggs

Virginia Schatz* Nancy Schepis* Estate of Audrey S. Schoenwald Patricia S. Schroder Bernie & Cookie Soldo Schultz Dr. & Mrs.* Harry E. Serene Michael Shefler Preston & Annette Shimer Estate of Marjorie F. Shipe Dr. Stanley Shostak Dr. Charles H. Shultz Estate of Stuart W. Siegel Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Simmons* Estate of Janice G. Singer Estate of Betsy Badger Smith Ronald F. Smutny Estate of Evelyn B. Snyder Henry D. Spinelli Robert & Janet Squires Estate of Dr. Raymond & Karla Stept Theodore Stern* Andrew & Gale Stevenson Mrs. Margaret Stouffer* in Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Dick & Thea Stover Estate of Robert J. Stringert Estate of Ruth A. Succop Charles J. Sylak, Jr. Francesca Tan Estate of Nancy B.Thompson Carol H. Tillotson Tom & Jamee Todd Myra L. Toomey Mrs. Jane Treherne-Thomas* Mr. & Mrs.* Millard K. Underwood Gerald & Mary Unger David & Carol Van Hoesen* Eva J. & Walter J. Vogel* Jon & Carol Walton Estate of John & Betty Weiland Lucile Weingartner Estate of Carrie Weinhaus In memory of Isaac Serrins from Mr. & Mrs. Ira Weiss Harvey Weissman & Louise Eckman Brian Weller Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Wellinger Seldon Whitaker Jr.* Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White James R. Whitehead* Charles L.* & Katherine A. Wiley James* & Susanne Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Williams* Mr. & Mrs.* Thomas Witmer Sidney & Tucky Wolfson Patricia L. Wurster Estate of Rufus J. Wysor Naomi Yoran Estate of Alice Carroll Young Miriam L. Young Estate of Ruth Yount Dr. & Mrs. P. Alvin Zamba Estate of Florence H. Zeve Estate of Simone J. Ziegler CURRENT AS OF 10/29/26

ENDOWED CHAIRS

Principal Horn Chair, given by an Anonymous Donor Librarian Chair, given through an Anonymous Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation First Violin Chair, given by Allen H. Berkman in memory of his beloved wife, Selma Wiener Berkman

William Block Memorial Cello Chair Dr. Alan & Marsha Bramowitz First Violin Chair, Endowed in memory of Bach pianist Rosalyn Tureck Lois R. Brozenick Memorial First Violin Chair Jane & Rae Burton Cello Chair Michael F. Butler Memorial Assistant Concertmaster Chair Cynthia S. Calhoun Principal Viola Chair Virginia Campbell Principal Harp Chair Dr. Mary Ann Craig Principal Tuba Chair Randi & L. Van V. Dauler, Jr. President & CEO Chair George & Eileen Dorman Assistant Principal Cello Chair Albert H. Eckert Principal Percussion Chair Beverlynn & Steven Elliott Associate Concertmaster Chair Jean & Sigo Falk Principal Librarian Chair HaleyFesq Cello Chair Endowed by Janet Haley Fesq William & Sarah Galbraith Second Violin Chair Alice Victoria Gelormino Second Violin Chair Arlyn Gilboa Second Violin Chair Ira & Nanette Gordon -The Gracky Fund for Education & Community Engagement Susan S. Greer Memorial Trumpet Chair, given by Peter Greer William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Vira I. Heinz Music Director Chair William & Jacqueline Herbein Principal Bass Trombone Chair Principal Pops Conductor Chair Endowed by Henry & Elsie Hillman Hotopp Family Assistant Principal Horn Chair Milton G. Hulme, Jr. Guest Conductor Chair given by Mine Safety Appliances Company Susan Candace Hunt Cello Chair Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Jones III Guest Keyboard Chair Virginia Kaufman Resident Conductor Chair Stephen & Kimberly Keen Bass Chair G. Christian Lantzsch & Duquesne Light Company Principal Second Violin Chair Mr. & Mrs. William Genge and Mr. & Mrs. James E. Lee Principal Bassoon Chair Nancy & Jeffery* Leininger First Violin Chair Cynthia Nixon Mastro and Joseph M. Mastro Horn Chair Fiddlesticks Family Concert Series Endowed by Gerald & Audrey McGinnis Honoring The Center for Young Musicians Ann McGuinn Trombone Chair Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Viola Chair Dr. William Larimer Mellon, Jr. Principal Oboe Chair, given by Rachel Mellon Walton

Messiah Concerts Endowed by the Howard and Nell E. Miller Chair Donald I. & Janet Moritz and Equitable Resources, Inc. Associate Principal Cello Chair The Perry & BeeJee Morrison String Instrument Loan Fund The Morrison Family Second Violin Chair John F. & Nancy L. Oyler First Violin Chair Jackman Pfouts Principal Flute Chair, given in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Jackman by Barbara Jackman Pfouts Pittsburgh Symphony Association Principal Cello Chair Sissons and Snapp Family Cello Chair Dr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart First Violin Chair Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation Guest Conductor Chair Martha Brooks Robinson Principal Trumpet Chair Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Silberman Principal Clarinet Chair Mr.* and Mrs. Willard J. Tillotson, Jr. Principal Bass Clarinet Chair Tom & Jamee Todd Principal Trombone Chair Jon & Carol Walton Associate Principal Viola Chair Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair, given by Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife Barbara Weldon Principal Timpani Chair Hilda M. Willis Foundation Flute Chair CURRENT AS OF 10/29/26

NOVEMBER 2026

CORPORATE PARTNERS MAESTRO PARTNERS

Eric Boughner Chairman, BNY Pennsylvania

Louis R. Cestello

Executive Vice President, Head of Regional Markets and Regional President for Pittsburgh, PNC Bank

Sally McCrady

Executive Vice President & Director, Community Affairs, PNC Bank / Chair & President, The PNC Foundation

PRINCIPAL PARTNERS

Dollar Bank EQT Foundation Federated Investors Foundation, Inc. ASSOCIATE PARTNERS

Audia Group Baird Citizens Deloitte USA LLP Dentons Cohen & Grigsby Ernst & Young LLP FedEx Ground Giant Eagle Foundation JP Morgan Chase & Co. Kurt J. Lesker Company Levin Furniture M&T Bank Mascaro Construction Company, LP Miller McCurry LLC MSA Ninja Transfer LLC Oil Services, Inc. Pirates Charities Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. PPG Foundation Rush Order Tees The Wilson Group Trebuchet Consulting LLC University of Pittsburgh Wabtec Foundation Williams Coulson Johnson Lloyd Parker & Tedesco, LLC CORPORATE MEMBERS $5,000+

Daniel A. Onorato

Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Highmark Health

Kenya Boswell

Senior Vice President, Community Affairs, Highmark Health

Aspire Grant & Development Eat’n Park Hospitality Group Fund Everett & Hurite Eyecare Specialists Fox Chapel Golf Club Frank B. Fuhrer Wholesale Company and Fuhrer Eagle Sales and Service HORAN Wealth Kerr Engineered Sales Company Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA) MCF architecture NexTier Bank PJ Dick - Trumbull - The Lindy Group The Frank E. Rath-Spang & Company Charitable Trust The Reschini Group

$2,500+

ARMADA Berner International Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Duquesne University Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Fisher & Phillips LLP German American Chamber of Commerce, Pittsburgh Chapter InterPark Holdings Lighthouse Electric Company, Inc. McKamish, Inc. Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Nocito Enterprises, LLC Schneider Downs & Co., Inc. Vallozzi’s Pittsburgh UP TO $2,500

Bender Consulting Services, Inc. ComForCare Senior Services CrawfordEllenbogen LLC E.G. Conley, P.C. Friends Of Education George Jackson Promotions GRB Law Joy Cone Co. K & I Sheet Metal, Inc. Lucas Systems, Inc. Marsh USA Inc. Menard USA Pittsburgh Wool Co., Inc. Saint Vincent Archabbey Saint Vincent College W. J. Beitler Co. IN KIND PARTNERS

Jones Day One by Spork Ricola USA, Inc. Sarris Candies Inc.

OFFICIAL PARTNERS OF THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Carnegie Mellon School of Music | Official Partner

Fairmont Pittsburgh & Fl. 2 Restaurant | Official Hotel The Atterbury Hotel, Autograph Collection | Official Caterer Fort Pitt Piano Company | Official Piano Store Delta Air Lines, Inc. | Official Airline Elite Coach Transportation | Official Transportation Service ABARTA Coca-Cola Beverages | Official Soft Drink Provider

Listings are current as of September 2026. Thank you to all corporations who contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Heinz Hall! Please contact Lisa Herring, Director of Institutional Support, LHerring@pittsburghsymphony.org to become a Corporate Partner.

26/27 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

HEINZ HALL NEED TO KNOW Accessible Seating with companion seats is available through the box office.

The Elevator is located next to the Grand Staircase.

Heinz Hall Box Office Hours Phone service is available Monday–Friday, 10 AM–6 PM. In-person service is available on performance days beginning at 10 AM Tuesday–Friday and noon on weekends, with no walk-up sales on Mondays. The box office closes 30 minutes after the performance begins Tuesday–Saturday and at 4 PM Sunday.

Dauler Hearing Loop is for use with hearing aid telecoil settings. Portable assistive listening devices are available. Please see the ushers for assistance.

Braille and Large Print Programs for BNY Classics, PNC Pops, and Sensory Friendly performances are available at the concierge desk.

Lost and Found Call 412-392-0340 weekdays, 10 AM–5 PM.

Concierge is in the Entrance Lobby. Call 412-906-1166 during performance lobby hours.

Pre-paid Parking is available to all ticketholders in the Sixth & Penn garage across from Heinz Hall.

Drinks and Refreshments by The Atterbury Hotel are sold at Main Floor and Grand Tier bars.

Fire Exits are for emergencies only. If an alarm sounds, follow usher and staff directions. Latecomers are seated at program intervals at the conductor’s discretion.

Photography without flash is permitted. Recordings of any kind are prohibited.

Restrooms are on all levels; accessible restrooms are on the Main Floor and Grand Tier.

CORPORATE SPOTLIGHT

The Kurt J. Lesker Company (KJLC), headquartered in Pittsburgh, is a global manufacturer of scientific vacuum equipment that Enables Technology for a Better World. Guided by our SPIRIT values, we support initiatives that promote creativity, cultural enrichment, sustainability, and community engagement. We believe strong communities, a vibrant arts culture, and a commitment to sustainable growth help inspire innovation and create lasting positive impact in the places where we live and work.

Our purpose has always been simple: making life better everywhere our neighbors call home.