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October 21 & 23: Program ............................................................15 October 21 & 23: Program Notes ..................................................16 Xian Zhang: Biography..................................................................22 Xiang Yu: Biography ......................................................................24 October 28, 29 & 30: Program ......................................................27 October 28, 29 & 30: Program Notes............................................38 Leonard Slatkin: Biography ..........................................................34 Sir James Galway: Biography ......................................................36

Heinz Hall opens its doors: September 10, 1971........................2 It is the mission of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to provide musical experiences at the highest level of expression to enrich the community and satisfy the needs and preferences of our audiences.

We will achieve this mission by working together to support an internationally recognized orchestra and by ensuring a viable long-term financial future; a fulfilling environment for our orchestra, staff, volunteers; and the unsurpassed satisfaction of our customers.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performances are brought to the community in part by generous support from the Allegheny Regional Asset District and corporations, foundations and individuals throughout our community. The PSO receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Radio station WQED-FM 89.3 and WQEJ-FM 89.7 is the official voice of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Tune in Sundays at 8 p.m. for “Pittsburgh Symphony Radio” concert broadcasts hosted by Jim Cunningham.

TO ADVERTISE IN THE PROGRAM, CONTACT: Elaine Nucci at 412.471.6087, or email: nucci@culturaldistrict.org

The World of Alan Hovaness ........................................................9 2011 European Festivals Tour, presented by BNY Mellon ......7

Annual Fund Donors: Individuals..............................................38 Foundations & Public Agencies ..................................................47 Corporations .................................................................................. 48 Legacy of Excellence: Steinberg Society ....................................50 Legacy of Excellence: Sid Kaplan Tribute Program ................51 Legacy of Excellence: Endowed Chairs ....................................51 Commitment to Excellence Campaign ..........................................52

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians ..............................6 Board of Trustees & Chairman’s Council ....................................8 Jack Heinz Society ..........................................................................10 New Leadership Board..................................................................10 Pittsburgh Symphony Association..............................................10 Friends of the PSO ..........................................................................10 Administrative Staff........................................................................12 Heinz Hall Information & FAQ ..................................................56

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SEPTEMBER 10, 1971: HEINZ HALL OPENS ITS DOORS The opening night for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in its newly-renovated home was full of celebration fitting to the grandeur of the building itself. September 10, 1971 marked the 45th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Symphony and the 20th year of William Steinberg’s role at the helm of the Orchestra. Before the opening event, sub-

H. J. “Jack” Heinz II (right) and Henry L. Hillman (left) prior to their opening remarks on September 10, 1971.

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scriptions for the 1971-72 season were sold out!

The festive evening was celebrated with ceremony and pageantry: flowers adorned the tables and hallways; dinners were held for guests; champagne was served to all; and above all, world-class music was performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The entire city of Pittsburgh was celebrating the opening of its new performing arts center and the nation took notice.

A thousand of the 2,847 guests were

Mayor Pete Flaherty (1970-1977), opening night.

invited to H.J. “Jack” and Drue Heinz’s intimate dinner party in the main ballroom of the Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel. In attendance at the dinner were such friends as Henry and Elsie Hillman, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mellon, Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Mellon, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Benedum, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Peck and composer Samuel Barber. Although the Hilton was only two blocks from the new venue, Mr. Heinz provided his guests with air-conditioned buses to transport them to the red carpet rolled out in front of the entrances to the Hall.

Members of the National Council on the Arts, including chairwoman Nancy Hanks, deputy chairman Michael Straight, Marian Anderson, Charlton Heston, James Earl Jones, Maurice Abravanel, conductor and director of the Utah Symphony Orchestra, concert pianist Rudolf Serkin, Peter Mennin, director of the Juilliard School, and sculptor Richard Hunt, among others, attended the opening night’s events, despite the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opening the same week a little closer to home.

The inaugural concert of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in its new home of

W.F. and Mrs. Rockwell (left) with Henry L. Hillman (right).

Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts began at 8:40 p.m. and concluded at 10:45 p.m. The dedication address was given by Henry L. Hillman. The oboe sounded an ‘A,’ Maestro Steinberg arrived at the podium and the first notes of Beethoven’s Overture to Consecration of the House rang throughout the new concert hall, pleasing the ears of all in attendance. Samuel Barber’s Fadograph of a Yestern Scene, commissioned by the Alcoa Foundation for the occasion, followed the Overture. Prior to intermission, Maestro Steinberg led the PSO in the first movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection,” with the rest of the work to follow after intermission. Soloists for the evening were Joanna Simon, mezzo-soprano, and Benita Valente, soprano. The Pennsylvania State University Chorus, directed by Raymond Brown, completed the necessary forces for such a momentous piece, aptly chosen for the resurrection of a world-class concert hall from the “ashes” of Penn Theatre.

Pennsylvania Senator and Mrs. Richard Schweiker (1969-1981) (right) with James Earl Jones (left). pittsburghsymphony.org 3

HEINZ HALL

“In the late 1960s the Pittsburgh Symphony was due to move out of its old home at Syria Mosque in Oakland. Yet its promised new concert hall in the showy Center for the Arts, planned for the lower Hill urban-renewal area, had not been started (and never was). To give the Symphony temporary space, the Heinz Endowments bought the old Penn Theatre, which, like many of the silentmovie theaters, had stage space. As the hope of the cultural display case on the Hill was deferred still further, and as

interested parties stressed the advantages of a concert hall in the center of the city, the temporary expedient became the permanent plan with a remodeling by the local firm Stotz, Hess, MacLachlan & Fosner. Shop space became a lobby; the old entrance became a huge foyer window; and broad office windows above were partly filled in, in a rather Viennese Baroque style. [One of the last makers] of architectural terra cotta in the United States was commissioned to match the warm off-white of the original facing, and

Mr. and Mrs. H. J. “Jack” Heinz II entering the hall

Drue Heinz with Henry and Elsie Hillman

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Music Director William Steinberg leading the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in their performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony during the inaugural concert on September 10, 1971

did an almost-perfect job.

Inside, the richly decorated auditorium, originally meant to be dark, was lightened in tones of cream, red, and gold, and Verner S. Purnell of Sewickley painted huge gray-gold trophies in a Neo-Baroque manner. The old spaces outside the auditorium were adapted to intermission crowds, presenting a spectacle of real marble, fake marble, glossy ceramics, and chandeliers.

The popularity of Heinz Hall led to its facilities being over-taxed, and anoth-

H. J. “Jack” Heinz II welcoming Music Director William Steinberg to the podium

er grand movie house of the 1920s, the Stanley Theatre, was adapted as Benedum Center for the Performing Arts.”

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2011 European Festivals Tour

“The first-class Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, which under Manfred Honeck’s artistic direction is well on the way to opening up new dimensions of sound.”

– ALAIN STEFFEN, TAGEBLATT LUXEMBURG

Maestro Manfred Honeck and the PSO returned in early September from a successful three-week tour at the prestigious Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, the Berlin Festival in Germany, as well as concerts in Wiesbaden, Hamburg, Vilnius, and Paris. The orchestra performed two concerts at the Grafenegg Festival in Austria, and at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, at the prestigious BBC Proms concerts at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall. This is the 116th year of the Proms, billed as one of the world’s greatest music festivals.

Violin virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter and acclaimed pianist Hélène Grimaud joined the PSO on tour.

Additionally, a string quartet and a brass quartet of PSO musicians performed at Berlin City Hall in a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

The PSO’s performance of Mahler 5 at the Berliner Philharmonie on September 11 was streamed live on Arte Web Live, and later on American Public Media, and is now available for viewing at pittsburghsymphony.org.

To see a recap of their travels, visit the PSO tour blog at pittsburghsymphony.org/blogs.

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The World of Alan Hovaness

THE WORLD OF ALAN HOVHANESS Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) was one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century, with close to 400 individual works, including 67 symphonies, nine operas, two ballets, dozens of works for orchestra and band, more than a hundred chamber pieces, a similar number of vocal works, and compositions for solo piano. Drawing from a vast array of styles, Hovhaness found his unique voice of tonal, truly transcendental music at a time when other composers were exploring atonality, serialism and minimalism, partly through his travels around the world.

One of Hovhaness’ first ventures abroad was to Finland, where he met Jean Sibelius, after his graduation from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1934. Upon his return to the US, Hovhaness became interested in his Armenian heritage and its music. His ears wandered even further eastward: “In the 1930s in Boston and New York, I was listening to Armenian and Kurdish singers, and was influenced by what Uday Shankar, Ravi’s brother, was doing. The Eastern modalities were always there.” It was Hovhaness’ position as organist at St. James Armenian Church in Watertown, MA that exposed him to the modes and monody of the Armenian liturgy.

He studied with the composer-priest Komitas Vartabed, of whom he stated, “To me, he’s the original minimalist, and it was through Komitas that I got the idea of saying as much as possible with the fewest possible notes.”

Between 1959-60, Hovhaness was a Fulbright Research Scholar in India. He studied Karnatic music with native South Indian musicians, was commissioned by All India Radio to write music for an orchestra made up entirely of Indian instruments, and was the first Westerner invited to participate at the annual Music Festival of the Academy of

Music in Madras.

Following his trip to India, Hovhaness traveled to Japan and Korea where he studied Bunraku and Gagaku (ancient ceremonial and court music of Japan) as well as Ah-ak (ancient court music of Korea). His research with traditional musicians and serious study of native instruments continued to add color to his compositional palette.

Whereas many composers used music from foreign cultures as a resource for their compositions, Hovhaness incorporated those foreign sounds into his own thinking, his own voice: “My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called ‘spirit resonance’ in melody and sound.” –ALAN HOVHANESS Top: Mount Ararat; bottom left: composer Alan Hovhaness, working in score littered studio with black cat nestling among the papers on the piano; bottom right: painting of Alan Hovhaness by Mary Zakarian

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BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS | HEINZ HALL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011 AT 8:00 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 AT 2:30 PM

PRE-CONCERT one hour prior

XIAN ZHANG, XIANG YU,

CONCERT PRELUDE ON STAGE WITH PSO COMPOSER OF THE YEAR STEVEN STUCKY

CONDUCTOR

VIOLIN

STEVEN STUCKY

Radical Light

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 63

INTERMISSION

ROBERT SCHUMANN (ED. MAHLER)

I. Allegro moderato II. Andante assai III. Allegro, ben marcato MR. YU LOBBY EXHIBITS

Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Opus 120

I. II. III. IV.

Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft Romanze: Ziemlich langsam Scherzo: Lebhaft Langsam - Lebhaft

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STEVEN STUCKY PSO 2011-2012 COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

Radical Light (2006-2007) Steven Stucky is one of America’s most highly regarded and frequently performed composers. Born in Hutchinson, Kansas on November 7, 1949 and raised in Abilene, Texas, he studied at Baylor and Cornell universities, where his teachers in composition ABOUT THE COMPOSER: included Richard Willis, Robert Palmer, Karel Husa Born 7 November 1949 in Hutchinson, Kansas and Burrill Phillips. Stucky taught at Lawrence University in Wisconsin from 1978 to 1980, and has PREMIERE OF WORK: Los Angeles, 18 October 2007 since been on the faculty of Cornell University, where Walt Disney Concert Hall he founded the new music group Ensemble X and is Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor now Given Foundation Professor of Composition; he THESE CONCERTS MARK THE has also taught at the Aspen Festival, Eastman School PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PREMIERE of Music and University of California at Berkeley.

INSTRUMENTATION: Stucky’s compositions have been widely perpiccolo, three flutes, three oboes, formed throughout the United States and abroad by English horn, three clarinets, bass leading chamber ensembles and symphony orchesclarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, tras, and he has fulfilled commissions from the orchesthree trombones, tuba, percussion, tras of Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland, Singapore, harp and strings.

Philadelphia, Minnesota, Baltimore, Cincinnati and APPROXIMATE DURATION: St. Louis, as well as from the National Endowment for 17 minutes the Arts, Yale University, Boston Musica Viva, Cornell University and other distinguished organizations. He was one of 10 composers selected internationally to contribute a work to the centennial celebration of New York’s Carnegie Hall; Angelus was premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in that celebrated auditorium on 27 September 1990. Stucky was Composer-in-Residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1988 to 2009, and hosted the New York Philharmonic’s Hear & Now concert series from 2005 until 2009. His other residencies include the American Academy in Rome, Princeton University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotà, Colombia, Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and National University of the Arts in Taipei.

In addition to composing, Stucky is also active as a conductor, writer, lecturer and contributor to music journals in America and Britain; he won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Prize for his 1981 book, Lutosławski and His Music. Among his other honors are the ASCAP Victor Herbert Prize and First Prize from the American Society of University Composers, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra. He is a trustee of the American Academy in Rome, chair of the American Music Center, a board member of the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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formed on 18 October 2007 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall by that orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. The composer wrote of the work, “According to [ancient Chinese philosopher] Lao-tse, ‘Nothing that can be said in words is worth saying.’ And according to Goethe, ‘Music begins where words end.’ If they are right, then to say what Radical Light is ‘about’ is doubly impossible. Still, man is not only the animal that sings, but also the animal that speaks, the animal that cannot resist the urge to explain himself.

“I could say, then, that Radical Light was influenced by its role as a companion to two Sibelius symphonies in a festival of that composer’s music. It was daunting to play the role of the upstart who dares to stand between two monuments like the Sibelius Seventh and Fourth, but there was nothing for it but to meet the assignment head-on. Sibelius has been a strong influence on me for many years, and I especially admire his Seventh Symphony as an architectural marvel. Having long wanted to attempt something like that myself, in Radical Light I tried to emulate something about the architecture of that peerless masterpiece: a single span embracing many different tempi and musical characters, but nevertheless letting everything flow seamlessly from one moment to the next — no section breaks or disruptions, no sharp turns or border crossings. Radical Light is a fundamentally slow piece, but it is infiltrated more than once by livelier music.

“And the title? That came after the fact, and not easily. In the writings of my favorite poet, A.R. Ammons [1926-2001], I found these striking lines: He held radical light in his skull: music turned, as over ridges immanences of evening light rise, turned back over furrows of his brain into the dark, shuddered, shot out again in long swaying furls of sound.

“This poetry seemed — even if accidentally — to capture something about the role of the artist in general, about the personality of Sibelius in particular, and even about the very architecture and physicality I had attempted in my piece. So I adopted Ammons’ title.

What I hope for this music is, I think, what Ammons hoped for poetry: that it ‘leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life.... Nothing that can be said about it in words is worth saying.’”

PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

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SERGEI PROKOFIEV Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 63 (1935) When Prokofiev returned to Russia late in 1933 after his long residency in the West full of allegiance to the ABOUT THE COMPOSER: socialist cause, he dedicated his art to fulfilling the Born 23 April 1891 in Sontzovka, Russia; dream of the 1917 Revolution. In his brief died 5 March 1953 in Moscow.

Autobiography of 1946 he wrote, “It is the duty of the PREMIERE OF WORK: Madrid, 1 December 1935; Enrique composer, like the poet, the sculptor or the painter, to Arbós, conductor; Robert Soetens, soloist serve his fellow men, to beautify human life and point PITTSBURGH PREMIERE: the way to a radiant future. Such is the immutable 17 November 1939 code as I see it.” Once back in his homeland, Fritz Reiner, conductor Jasha Heifetz, violin Prokofiev wasted no time in putting into practice his INSTRUMENTATION: theory of creating music that would communicate woodwinds, horns and trumpets in pairs, simply and directly to listeners, and within three years, percussion and strings. he wrote some of his most enduringly popular scores, APPROXIMATE DURATION: including Lt. Kijé, Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the 26 minutes Wolf and the Second Violin Concerto.

The Concerto’s direct lyrical expression and clean formal lines are evident from its first gesture. The slightly melancholy main theme, built around a simple triadic configuration, is presented simply by the unaccompanied violin.

The orchestra takes over the melody, allowing the soloist to apply to it some figurative arabesques that serve as the transition to the second subject. This theme, one of Prokofiev’s greatest melodic inspirations, is sung by the violin above a quiet, undulating accompaniment in the strings. The development section, an elaboration of the two main themes, achieves a masterful balance of flashing virtuosity, thematic manipulation and lyrical effusion. The recapitulation is begun by cellos and basses, and continues with the second theme soaring high into the soloist’s range. A brief coda, based on the main theme, brings the movement to a hushed, mysterious close. The second movement is one of the most rapt, transcendent inspirations of 20th-century music, and, like the opening movement, is unabashedly romantic and filled with a haunting, bittersweet emotion. The finale is in the traditional rondo form. Its theme is an ebullient dance melody that exudes some of the fiery spirit of a Gypsy fiddler.

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ROBERT SCHUMANN

Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Opus 120 (1841, 1851), Edited by Gustav Mahler

Though Robert Schumann’s four symphonies, composed during the 10 years after 1841, quickly entered the standard repertory, musicians later in the 19th century expressed concerns about his ability to write effectively for large ensemble. Most outspoken was the influential conductor Felix Weingartner (he was ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Born 8 June 1810 in Zwickau, the first to record all nine Beethoven symphonies, Germany; died 29 July 1856 in 1927-1938), who made the following comment in the Endenich, near Bonn. study of the development of the symphony after PREMIERE OF MAHLER’S Beethoven that he published in 1897, when he was EDITED VERSION: director of the Royal Opera House in Berlin: Vienna, 14 January 1900 Grosser Saal of the Musikverin “Schumann had not the slightest idea about handling Gustav Mahler, conductor an orchestra, either as a conductor or in writing for THESE CONCERTS MARK THE it…. His instrumentation was so thick and dull that if PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY played as written, nothing of any meaning would be ORCHESTRA PREMIERE OF given out by the orchestra.” Weingartner’s remark MAHLER’S EDITED VERSION overstated the problems in Schumann’s scoring, INSTRUMENTATION: which were created in no small measure by the woodwinds in pairs, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timexpansion of the orchestra from the 50 musicians pani and strings. comprising the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra that APPROXIMATE DURATION: Felix Mendelssohn led in the work’s premiere in 1841 29 minutes to the 100-strong ensemble demanded at the end of the 19th century by Wagner and Strauss, but it did reflect (and promote) the then-prevailing opinion that the pieces were fair game for a conductor’s revisions.

The year of Weingartner’s critique, 1897, was also when Gustav Mahler was appointed director of the Court Opera in Vienna, of whose orchestra, independently constituted as the Vienna Philharmonic, he became principal conductor the following year. He had long admired Schumann’s music, and programmed the Symphony No. 1 on 15 January 1899 and the Symphony No. 4 on 14 January 1900, both in his own edited versions, which he intended mainly to clarify their textures, rhythms, dynamics and instrumental colors. He left the works’ musical substance essentially untouched, though he did excise the exposition repeats in both the opening movement and the finale of the Fourth Symphony. Mahler authority David Matthews counted 466 separate changes in the Symphony No. 4, which Mahler made directly into his conducting score and had the orchestra librarian transfer to the players’ parts. Mahler’s versions were published by Universal Edition in Vienna in 1927. In the conclusion of a detailed study of Mahler’s edition of Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, published in Acta Musicologica in 2006, Veronica Mary Franke of the University of Kwazulku-Natal in South Africa wrote, “Mahler’s ‘emendations’ endorse Schumann’s orchestral aspirations, placing them in a positive rather than pejorative light. It is clear that Mahler greatly admired Schumann’s symphonies, and did not revise them with a view to exposing Schumann as a ‘bad’ or ‘deficient’ orchestrator.

His retouchings strengthen and highlight qualities that already exist within Schumann’s musical structure and orchestral style, always allowing Schumann’s original purpose to stand out unmistakably.”

PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

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Schumann undertook a daring approach to musical form in his Symphony No. 4, in which four interrelated movements are collected into a single span — he instructed that there be only momentary pauses between the movements, connected the Scherzo directly to the finale (as had Beethoven in his Fifth Symphony), shared some thematic material among them, and unified the entire structure by incorporating in each movement a “motto” phrase heard at the work’s outset. He toyed for a while with the title “Symphonic Fantasy” and then considered the cumbersome Introduction, Allegro, Romanze, Scherzo and Finale, in One Movement before settling on a conventional name for an unconventional piece.

The Introduction is somber and slow-moving, with the “motto” (a half-dozen scale notes turning around a central pitch) presented immediately by the second violins. The tempo quickens and the Allegro begins with a bounding theme for violins and high woodwinds that encompasses the “motto.” The movement continues, passionate and eloquent, with the bounding main theme almost constantly in evidence. Hardly before the recapitulation has begun, however, it is abruptly cut off to make way for the wistful Romanze, based on a haunting melody sung by the oboe. Following a limpid section graced with flowing triplet figures from the solo violin, the oboe melody returns briefly before pausing on an inconclusive harmony that resolves only as the tempestuous Scherzo begins; a gentle trio recalling the Romanze provides formal balance at the movement’s center. With no break, the hushed expectancy that began the Symphony returns and here leads to the Finale. The bounding main theme of the opening movement reappears, as do other musical ideas previously encountered. There is an excited energy about this closing movement that confirms its role as the goal of everything that had preceded it. As if the exuberant mood that begins the finale were insufficient to conclude the Symphony’s overall structure, the tempo in the closing pages twice leaps forward to provide a climactic coda.

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XIAN ZHANG

The 2011-2012 season marks Xian Zhang’s third year as Music Director of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, her contract having recently been extended to the end of 2014-2015. She is also Artistic Director of the NJO / Dutch Orchestra and Ensemble Academy and conducted her first summer course with them in August 2011. Prior to this, she held the position of New York Philharmonic’s Associate Conductor (and the first holder of the Arturo Toscanini Chair) for three years having previously been their Assistant Conductor.

In increasing demand as a guest conductor in Europe, future engagements include Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and Residentie Orkest as well as the London Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony and Gothenburg Symphony orchestras. Further ahead, she will return to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 20132014. Debuts last season included performances with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Danish National and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and a return to SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart.

Although now based in Europe, she continues to work in North America, and last season’s engagements included Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Dates this season and next include New Jersey, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Atlanta and Indianapolis symphony orchestras. She enjoys a strong relationship with the orchestra of the Juilliard School and recently conducted the 22 pittsburghsymphony.org

world premiere of a new work by Augusta Read Thomas at the Lincoln Center.

As an opera conductor, Xian Zhang made a sensational debut with La bohème for English National Opera in spring 2007 and will return to the ENO in 2013-2014. She conducted Turandot in Beijing in May 2009. She makes her debut with De Nederlandse Opera in a double-bill, directed by Robert Lepage of Stravinsky’s Renard and Le Rossignol, in January 2012. Future plans include her debut at La Scala in 2013-2014 and concert performances of Turandot at the Schleswig Holstein Festival in summer 2012.

Xian Zhang has championed Chinese composers, particularly the works of Chen Yi (including Momentum). In May 2008, she completed a major six-concert tour of China with the Orchestra of the Juilliard School on which Chen Yi’s Ge Xu was performed in Shanghai, Beijing and Suzhou. She also conducted Huang Ruo’s Fanfare with the New York Philharmonic.

She returns to China in April 2012 to conduct China Philharmonic and Guanghzhou Symphony.

Born in Dandong, China, Xian Zhang made her professional debut conducting Le nozze di Figaro at the Central Opera House in Beijing at the age of 20. She trained at Beijing’s Central Conservatory, earning both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, and served one year on its conducting faculty before moving to the United States in 1998. Winning the Maazel/Vilar conducting competition in 2002 effectively launched her career.

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XIANG YU

Xiang Yu is regarded as one of today’s most talented and creative young violinists in the world. His astonishing technique and exceptional musical talent have won him consistent critical acclaim (the Strad, String magazine.) and enthusiastic audience response worldwide for his solo recitals, orchestral engagements, and chamber music performances.

Xiang is the 1st prize winner of the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition 2010, together with the Bach Prize and the Audience Prize. He also won the 2nd

prize of Wieniawski International Violin Competition (2006) as the youngest prize winner; 3rd prize of Michael Hill International Violin Competition (2011); 2nd prize and the Best Commissioned Work Prize of 25th Irving M. Klein International String Competition; 1st prize and the Best Chamber Music Performance prize of the Baden-Württemberg International Youth Music Competition (2005).

As an active young soloist, Xiang has performed more than 20 concerts in venues throughout the world, including Konzerthaus Berlin (Germany), Shanghai Grand Theatre (China), Wianiwski Hall (Poland), the Grand Theatre of Calgary (Canada), Victoria Concert Hall (Singapore), Oslo Opera House & Troldsalen Bergen (Norway), Auckland Town Hall (New Zealand), Bennett-Gordon Hall, and Boston Jordan Hall (USA). Xiang also appeared as a soloist with world-leading orchestras such as the National Theatre Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Young Euro Classic Orchestra, Auckland Symphony Orchestra, and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.

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In addition to his solo career, Xiang is also an active chamber musician. Since the age of 14, he has regularly presented chamber music concerts in China with repertoire ranging from Joseph Haydn to Alfred Schnittke. His “Xiang Quartet” not only won the 1st prize of the Bode Cup Chamber Music Competition, but also premiered many contemporary chamber music masterpieces in China, including Ullmann’s String Quartet No.3 and Hartmann’s String Quartet No.1. Xiang has also been invited to numerous renowned summer festivals such as Kronberg Academy (Germany), Verbier Academy (Switzerland), Yellow Barn Festival (USA), Morningside Music Bridge (Canada), Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival(USA). He has worked and performed with Walter Levin, Zakhar Bron, Christian Tetzlaff, Nicolas / Ana Chumachenco, Pamela Frank, Kim Kashkashian, Ida Kavafian, Miriam Fried, Frans Helmerson, and Paul Katz.

Born in Inner Mongolia, Mr. Yu received his early training from Qing Zheng in Shanghai. He is now studying at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Prof. Donald Weilerstein on full scholarship and NEC merit award. In addition, he is also a recipient of the NEC Presidential Scholarship, Rising Star Scholarship, and Irene M. Stare Scholarship in Violin.

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BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS | HEINZ HALL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011 AT 8:00 PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2011 AT 8:00 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2011 AT 2:30 PM

PRE-CONCERT one hour prior

LEONARD SLATKIN, SIR JAMES GALWAY,

CONCERT PRELUDE ON STAGE WITH PSO RESIDENT CONDUCTOR LAWRENCE LOH

CONDUCTOR

FLUTE

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

Symphony No. 67 in F major

ALAN HOVHANESS

Symphony No. 2, Opus 132, “Mysterious Mountain”

I. II. III. IV.

Presto Adagio Menuet Allegro di molto - Adagio cantabile - Primo tempo

I. Andante con moto II. Double Fugue: Moderato maestoso - Allegro vivo III. Andante espressivo

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WOLFGANG AMADÉ MOZART

Concerto No. 2 in D major for Flute and Orchestra, K. 285d [314]

GEORGES BIZET (ARR. FRANÇOIS BORNE ED: SIR JAMES GALWAY) POST-CONCERT

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Allegro aperto Andante ma non troppo Allegro JAMES GALWAY

Fantaisie Brilliante on themes from Bizet’s “Carmen” for Flute and Orchestra SIR JAMES GALWAY

CD SIGNING IN GRAND LOBBY WITH SIR JAMES GALWAY

This weekend’s performances by Leonard Slatkin are made possible, in part, through the endowed Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation Guest Conductor Chair.

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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN Symphony No. 67 in F major (ca. 1778) Since Haydn’s name is so closely associated with the genres of instrumental music, it is perhaps surprising to learn that at the time he apparently wrote this Symphony — 1778 — he was one of the busiest opera producers in Europe. As part of his duties at the Esterházy Palace, he was not only responsible for the ABOUT THE COMPOSER: regular Tuesday and Saturday orchestral concerts (for Born 31 March 1732 in Rohrau, which this work was written), but he was also in Lower Austria; died 31 May 1809 in Vienna. charge of the opera and marionette theaters. He comPREMIERE OF WORK: posed music for each of those functions, organized Esterházy Palace, Hungary, ca. 1778 the repertory and performers, oversaw the music Franz Joseph Haydn, conductor library and instrument collections, and conducted the THESE CONCERTS MARK THE performances. To say that he was busy is to seriously PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PREMIERE understate his situation. All of this operatic activity INSTRUMENTATION: meant that Haydn had less time to devote to the sympairs of oboes, bassoon and horns, phonic form than in previous years, and he tried to get and strings. the most out his creative work by devising composiAPPROXIMATE DURATION: tions that would interest not only the devoted con18 minutes noisseurs at Esterháza but also the wider European audiences who were increasingly demanding performances of his music. The Symphony No. 67 in F major, written around 1778, is a remarkable example of Haydn applying his mastery of craft to music of inventiveness and wide appeal.

The main theme of the Symphony’s opening movement comprises a violin melody that skips nimbly among the notes of the tonic chord balanced by a legato, rising motive.

The full ensemble repeats the opening idea and gives it a surprisingly tempestuous working-out as the transition to the second theme, a flowing strain in close harmonies for violins and oboes. Though the development section is concerned almost entirely with the nimble main theme, Haydn drew from it a wide variety of moods: tentative, dramatic, expectant, heroic. The materials of the exposition are then duly reprised before the movement ends with a delightful parting gesture from the winds.

The beautiful Adagio is built on a theme of delicacy and restraint presented by the muted violins and then enriched and elaborated by the full ensemble. A halting violin phrase bridges to the second subject, a smooth theme for the winds tastefully adorned with violin filigree. A recall of the opening motive, punctuated with the tiniest of fanfares from the winds, closes the exposition. The development concerns itself mainly with the principal theme, which at one point is given an extended treatment by the violins in exact, two-voice imitation (“canon” is the technical term). The earlier themes are recapitulated before the movement closes with an effect unique in Haydn: the strings tapping softly with the wood of the bow (“col legno”) to make the music virtually disappear as it ends.

The Menuet is a straightforward and sturdy affair that does nothing to prepare for the extraordinary trio at the center of the movement, in which two solo violins mimic a country dance accompanied by bagpipe, whose mock-drone requires the second violin to tune the instrument’s lowest string down a full tone.

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The finale begins in an expectable manner — quick tempo, distinctive main theme (whose memorable motives can easily be reconfigured in the development) and nicely contrasted, short-phrased second theme — but then comes to a dead stop and inserts an unrelated slow movement in place of the customary development section. Two violins and a cello provide a lovely chamber serenade and the winds add another strain before the music pauses on an expectant harmony to lead, as if nothing untoward had just happened, to a full recapitulation of the exposition’s materials.

ALAN HOVHANESS

Symphony No. 2, Opus 132, “Mysterious Mountain” (1955) Alan Hovhaness, one of the most intriguing and prolific figures in American music, was born Alan Vaness Chakmakjian in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1911; his Armenian-born father was a chemistry professor and his mother was Scottish. Hovhaness began improABOUT THE COMPOSER: vising and composing at an early age and studied at Born 8 March 1911 in Somerville, Massachusetts; died 21 June 2000 the New England Conservatory in the 1930s with in Seattle.

Frederick Converse. In 1940, he was appointed organPREMIERE OF WORK: ist at an Armenian church near Boston, from which Houston, 21 October 1955 post he investigated the music of his father’s native Leopold Stokowski, conductor land. Two years later, he attended the Berkshire Music PITTSBURGH PREMIERE: 12 February 1960 Center at Tanglewood on scholarship, but criticism Syria Mosque there of his music by Copland and Foss, his intensive Ronald Ondrejka, conductor study of Oriental music, philosophy and religion, and INSTRUMENTATION: three flutes, two oboes, English his increasingly mystical attitude toward his art left horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, him dissatisfied with his earlier work, so he summaritwo bassoons, contrabassoon, five ly destroyed most of what he had written before 1940, horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, harp, celesta said to have consisted of seven symphonies, five string and strings. quartets, a number of operas and several hundred APPROXIMATE DURATION: other compositions.

16 minutes The influence of Armenian and Oriental music on Hovhaness’ work became pervasive after 1945. In style, his works are primarily melodic, often melismatic and incantatory, with a harmonic vocabulary dependent on various modal formulas. There are frequent excursions into fugue and imitative textures, testimony to his long interest in the music of the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. During the 1950s, he traveled widely, notably to India, Japan and Korea, where his music was well received and where he discovered new stylistic elements that soon appeared in his compositions. Like Olivier Messiaen of France, Hovhaness sought to reconcile mystical and mundane, Occidental and Oriental, ancient and modern in music of distinctive personality. He died in Seattle on June 21, 2000.

Hovhaness wrote the Symphony No. 2, “Mysterious Mountain,” in 1955 for Leopold Stokowski’s first concert as music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Of its title, the composer noted, “Mountains are symbols, like pyramids, of man’s attempt to know God. Mountains are symbolic meeting places between the mundane and the spiritual worlds. To some, the ‘Mysterious Mountain’ may be the phantom peak, unmeasured, thought to be higher than Everest, as seen from great distances by fliers in Tibet. To some, PROGRAM NOTES BY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

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it may be the solitary mountain, the tower of strength over a countryside — Fujiyama, Ararat, Monadnock, Shasta or Grand Teton.” The composer went on to explain about the musical structure of the work: “The first and last movements are hymn-like and lyrical, using irregular metrical forms. The first subject of the second movement, a double fugue, is developed in a slow vocal style. The rapid second subject is played by the strings, with its own counter-subject and with strict four-voice canonic episodes and triple counterpoint episodes.... In the last movement, a chant in 7/4 is played softly by muted horns and trombones. A giant wave in a 13-beat meter rises to a climax and recedes.... A middle melody is sung by the oboes and clarinets in a quintuple beat. Muted violins return with the earlier chant, which is gradually given to the full orchestra.”

WOLFGANG AMADÉ MOZART Concerto No. 2 in D major for Flute and Orchestra, K. 314 (K. 285d) (1777-1778) During his stay in Mannheim early in 1778, Mozart met “a gentleman of means and a lover of all the sciences,” one Willem Britten de Jong (which came out as DeJean in Mozart’s letters) who numbered among his accomplishments a certain ability on the flute. De ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Jong had heard of the 21-year-old musician’s extraorBorn 27 January 1756 in Salzburg; died 5 December 1791 in Vienna. dinary talent for composition from a mutual friend, Johann Baptist Wendling, the flutist with the PREMIERE OF REVISED VERSION AS THE FLUTE CONCERTO NO. 2: Mannheim orchestra, and he commissioned Mozart Mannheim, March 1778 to write three concertos and three quartets with strings Willem Britten de Jong, soloist for his instrument. Since he was, as always, short of PITTSBURGH PREMIERE ON A money, Mozart accepted the proposal to help finance SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT: 17 May 1985 the swing he was then making through Germany and Zdenek Macal, conductor France in search of a permanent position. The next leg Paul Fried, flute of the journey was to lead from Mannheim to Paris, INSTRUMENTATION: and these flute pieces would help to pay the bills. two oboes, two horns and strings.

Mozart could not generate much enthusiasm for the APPROXIMATE DURATION: 20 minutes project. Already the trip was six months old, and he had not had so much as a hint of a firm job offer. He was flustered over a love affair recently hatched with a local singer, Aloysia Weber (whose sister he eventually married when this first choice became unavailable), and letters from his father in Salzburg persistently badgered him about his lack of a dependable income. Most of all, however, these flute works took time that he wanted to spend composing opera, the most alluring avenue to success for an 18th-century musician. He vented his frustration on the closest target — the flute — and vowed how he disliked it, and what a drudgery it was to have to write for an instrument for which he cared so little, and how he longed to get on with something more important.

Still, Mozart was too full of pride and good taste to make hack work of these pieces, and he wrote to Papa Leopold, “Of course, I could merely scratch away at it all day long: but such a thing as this goes out into the world, so it is my wish that I need not be ashamed that it carries my name.” He managed to finish all three quartets but completed only two of the concertos (the second one is actually just a transposition of the Oboe Concerto from 30 pittsburghsymphony.org

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the preceding year) by the time he left Mannheim. He settled with De Jong for just less than half of the original fee, and let it go at that. Despite his disparagement of the instrument, Mozart’s compositions for flute occupy one of the most delightful niches of his incomparable musical legacy — Rudolf Gerber characterized them as combining “the perfect image of the spirit and feeling of the Rococo age with German sentiment.”

Despite its double life (and more — Mozart sold it again a few years later), the Second Flute Concerto must have well pleased De Jong, since Mozart went well beyond the “short and easy” piece called for in the commission to produce a full-length concerto. Though the technical demands on the soloist are not extreme, Mozart allowed a cadenza in each of the work’s three movements so that players could display their skills as they wished. The opening movement is a compact and perfectly balanced concerto-sonata form, filled with Mozart’s usual bounty of beautiful melodies, whose style is reminiscent of a sparkling opera buffa scene. The Andante is a graceful and relaxed song in sonatina form (sonata without a development section) that exploits the warm, throaty sonority of the flute’s middle register.

The finale is a gossamer rondo based on a theme Mozart so prized that he lifted it almost intact from this Concerto and dropped it into The Abduction from the Seraglio as Blonde’s aria Welche Wonne, welche Lust in 1782.

GEORGES BIZET Fantaisie Brilliante on themes from Bizet’s “Carmen” (1872-1875) arr. François Borne, ed. Sir James Galway

Bizet’s Carmen continues to excite and intrigue as do few other musical works. The fascination of the opera is not just in the glorious music but also in the characterization and dramatic power that electrify the score: Carmen herself is an unfathomable mixture of dark ABOUT THE COMPOSER: sensuality and steely scorn; Don José is an all-tooBorn 25 October 1838 in Paris; died 3 June 1875 in Bougival, near Paris. human Everyman, drawn like a moth into the searing THESE CONCERTS MARK THE flame of Carmen’s temptations; Micaëla is sweet and PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY good and pitiable and defeated by events beyond her ORCHESTRA PREMIERE ON A control; Escamillo, the Toreador, parades his machisSUBSCRIPTION CONCERT mo as a mask for his lack of feeling and tenderness.

INSTRUMENTATION: woodwinds, horns and trumpets in The Fantaisie Brilliante on Themes from pairs, three trombones, timpani, per“Carmen” for Flute and Orchestra is by François cussion, harp and strings.

Borne (1862-1929), who taught the instrument at the APPROXIMATE DURATION: Toulouse Conservatory in the decades surrounding 11 minutes the turn of the 20th century. The Fantaisie Brilliante is a virtuoso gloss on some of the best-known moments from Bizet’s beloved opera: the dramatic music that accompanies Carmen’s entrance in Act I; the ominous “fate” theme that forms the second half of the opera’s prelude; the cigarette girls’ anxious chorus as they await the arrival of Carmen; the Habanera (with two elaborate variations), in which Carmen sings of the fickleness of her love (whose melody Bizet borrowed from a popular song by the Spanish composer Sebastián de Yradier); the Danse Bohême in Act II marking Carmen’s return to her Gypsy band after fleeing from Seville; and a dazzling treatment of the swaggering Song of the Toreador sung by the bullfighter Escamillo.

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LEONARD SLATKIN Internationally acclaimed American conductor Leonard Slatkin began his appointment as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in September 2008. He was recently named Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL), France, beginning with the 2011-2012 season. In addition, Mr. Slatkin continues to serve as Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, a post that began in the fall of 2008.

Following a 17-year tenure as Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Slatkin became Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. in 1996. Other positions in the United States have included Principal Guest Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, where he founded their “Sommerfest”; first Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra’s summer series at the Blossom Music Festival, a post he held for nine years; Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl for three seasons; and additional positions with the New Orleans Philharmonic and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.

His engagements for the 2011-2012 include Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Seoul Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, a tour of Germany with the Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, the New World and National Symphony (Washington, D.C.) Orchestras.

Most recently he has enjoyed return appearances with the Dresden Staatskapelle, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, L’Orchestre National de Lyon, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Orquesta Nacional de Espana (Madrid) and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona. He his consistently re-engaged with many leading North American ensembles including the Saint Louis Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and of course, Detroit.

Since his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1974, Mr. Slatkin has led virtually all of the major orchestras in the United States, including those of Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Cleveland and Philadelphia. He is a regular guest at major summer festivals such as 34 pittsburghsymphony.org

Aspen, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Saratoga, and New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival. In Great Britain he served as Principal Guest Conductor of London’s Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic and was Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Slatkin has conducted most of the world’s major orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Bayerische Symphony Orchestra and all the prominent ensembles in Paris and London. He has also appeared on podiums throughout the Far East.

Opera performances have taken him to many of the leading stages in the U.S. and abroad, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Bastille, Vienna Staatsoper, Stuttgart and Washington National Opera. He has also led summer productions in Orange, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Santa Fe. Leonard Slatkin’s more than 100 recordings have been recognized with seven Grammy awards and 64 nominations. He has recorded with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. European ensembles that he has recorded with include practically all the major London orchestras as well as those in Munich, Paris, Prague, Stockholm and Berlin.

Throughout his career, Mr. Slatkin has demonstrated a continuing commitment to arts education and to reaching diverse audiences. He is the founder and director of the National Conducting Institute, an advanced career development program for rising conductors.

Additionally, Mr. Slatkin founded the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra and has also worked with student orchestras across the United States, including those at the Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and the Eastman School of Music. He works frequently with youth orchestras across America and abroad, including the D.C. Youth Orchestra, Midwest Youth Symphony Orchestra, AmericanSoviet Youth Orchestra, European Community Youth Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago and

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LEONARD SLATKIN LAST CONDUCTED THE PSO IN MAY 2011.

American Youth Philharmonic. He also reaches out to younger musicians and music teachers through the NSO American Residencies program and regularly addresses and mentors public and private school students of all ages.

Mr. Slatkin has received many honors and awards, including the 2003 National Medal of Arts (the highest award given to artists by the United States Government), the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Gold Baton for service to American music, ASCAP awards with both the National and Saint Louis Symphonies, an honorary doctorate from his alma mater The Juilliard School, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the DC Mayor’s Arts Awards, and the prestigious Declaration of Honor in Silver from the Austrian

ambassador to the United States for outstanding contributions to cultural relations. Mr. Slatkin is the Arthur R. Metz Foundation Conductor at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and beginning with the 2007-2008 season, the Distinguished Artist in Residence at the American University.

Born in Los Angeles to a distinguished musical family, his parents were the conductor-violinist Felix Slatkin and cellist Eleanor Aller, founding members of the famed Hollywood String Quartet. Mr. Slatkin began his musical studies on the violin and studied conducting with his father, followed by Walter Susskind at Aspen and Jean Morel at The Juilliard School. He is the proud parent of a teenage son, Daniel. pittsburghsymphony.org 35

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SIR JAMES GALWAY Sir James Galway is regarded as both the supreme interpreter of the classical flute repertoire and a consummate entertainer whose appeal crosses all musical boundaries.

Sir James has made himself a legend, a modern musical master whose virtuosity on the flute is equalled only by his limitless ambitions and vision. Through his extensive touring, more than 30 million albums sold, and his frequent international television appearances, Sir James has endeared himself to millions worldwide and is a tireless promoter of the arts.

Arguably the busiest man in classical music, the 2011-2012 season sees Galway appearing all over the world in concert – opening the season with a tour of China, Korea and Japan. An extensive tour of North America follows, including performances with the Pittsburgh, Dallas, Detroit, Roanoke and Montreal Symphonies and recital performances in New York, Toronto and the American Midwest. European engagements include performances with the Orchestre National de Lyon and a New Year’s Concert with the Zurich Kammerorchestra. Other performances include a long awaited Spring tour of South America followed by performances in Ireland, the UK, Germany and Italy.

Belfast born, Sir James studied in London and Paris before embarking on his orchestral career with such prestigious orchestras as the Sadlers Wells & Royal Covent Garden Operas, The BBC, Royal Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra, before taking up the coveted position of solo flautist with the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan.

Since launching his successful career as a soloist in 1975, his busy touring schedule sees him performing with the world’s leading orchestras and most prestigious conductors. From Galway’s lips have come definitive treatments of classical repertoire and masterworks by Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart. He also features contemporary music in his programs, including new flute works commissioned by him and for him by composers such as Adamo, Amram, Bolcom, Corigliano, Heath, Lieberman and Maazel.

Recently commissioned are two new works: a Double Flute Suite for two flutes and piano, written for Sir James & Lady Galway by the Northern 36 pittsburghsymphony.org

Irish composer Philip Hammond; and an Irish concerto by Bill Whelan (composer of River Dance). Both are to be premiered in the 20112012 season.

The 1st James Galway International Flute Competition will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland in June 2012, in collaboration with the Ulster Orchestra, BBC Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Tourist Board and the Northern Ireland Arts Council. As part of the legacy of Sir James, he has created this platform to help launch and promote young flutists through this competition.

Alongside his busy performing schedule he makes time to share his wisdom and experience conducting annual master classes, commissioning new works for the flute, publishing articles, flute studies and books (his latest autobiography, entitled The Man with the Golden Flute, a Celtic Minstrel, was published by John Wiley & Son).

To celebrate his legacy and commitment to flute players all over the world, he has recently collaborated with Conn-Selmer Inc. in the development of a new, high quality student flute, aptly called ‘The Galway Spirit.’

His website www.thegalwaynetwork.com is devoted to students and educators.

Sir James has played for such dignitaries as Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John Paul II, President Clinton, President George W. Bush, President George H.W. Bush, President Mary McAleese, Prince Charles, HRH The Princess Royal, The Empress of Japan, The Queen of Norway, Princess Diana, TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex, TRH The Duke and Duchess of Kent, and most recently President Shimon Peres, and shared the stage with an amazing array of entertainers including Stevie Wonder, Henry Mancini, John Denver, Elton John, the Chieftains, Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell, Jessye Norman, Cleo Laine and Andrea Bocelli. He performed with Pink Floyd in their memorable concert at the Berlin Wall, was part of the Nobel Peace concert in Norway and performed at the G Seven summit hosted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.

He also devotes much of his free time to supporting charitable organizations such as SOS, FARA, Future Talent, Youth Music (UK), The

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SIR JAMES GALWAY LAST PERFORMED WITH THE PSO IN SEPTEMBER 2006.

Caron Keating Foundation and UNICEF, with which he holds the title of special representative.

Among the many honors and awards for his musical achievements are: the Recording Academy’s President’s Merit Award, Classic Brits Lifetime Achievement Award, numerous gold and platinum CDs, and most recent induction into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. He has been honored twice by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, with The OBE in 1979 and again in 2001 with a Knighthood for his services to music.

In December 2009, Sir James was awarded the honor of being made the first Artist Laureate of the Ulster Orchestra.

2009 saw the release of the spectacular Vivaldi DVD by Hardy Classics, with I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone and Lady Galway recorded live at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, Italy.

A discography of more than 65 CDs with BMG Sony Classics and Deutsche Grammophon ranging from the great classics such as Mozart and Bach, to his performing on the soundtrack of Lord of the Rings Return of the King, and a recent release “O’Reilly Street” with the Cuban timba group Tiempo Libre, reflects his mastery of musical diversity. Latest releases include a 70th Birthday compilation of some of the Maestro’s favourite collaborations. In March, Sony will be releasing as part or their ‘Sony Classical Masters’ series, a 12 CD box set titled “James Galway – The Great Flute Concerto Edition.”

Sir James lives with his wife and family in Switzerland and plays on the 20K ‘Galway’ Nagahara Flute – especially commissioned for him.

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Eliza & Hugh Nevin Fritz Okie H. Ward & Shirley Olander Elliott S. Oshry Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. M.D. & Linda E. Shooer Robert & Lillian Panagulias Richard E. & Alice S. Patton Eric & Sharon Perelman Mr. & Mrs. William C. Pohlmann Dr. Tor Richter in memory of Elizabeth W. Richter James W. & Erin M. Rimmel Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Riordan Mr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Rooney Abby & Reid Ruttenberg Donald D. Saxton, Jr. in memory of Barbara Morey Saxton Karen Scansaroli Mrs. Virginia W. Schatz Leonard & Joan Scheinholtz Michael Shefler Kay L. Shirk Dr. Marcia Landy & Dr. Stanley Shostak Dr. Ralph T. Shuey & Ms. Rebecca L. Carlin Paul & Linda Silver Mr. & Mrs. Harry Steele Lowell & Jan Steinbrenner Drs. Michael & Beverly Steinfeld Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Stept Theodore & Elizabeth Stern Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Stroebel Margaret Tarpey & Bruce Freeman Richard & Sandra Teodori Dorothea & Gerald* Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Thompson, II Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Ticknor John & Nancy Traina Konrad & Gisela Weis Carolyn & Richard Westerhoff Seldon & Susan Whitaker Dr. & Mrs. George R. White Jim* & Mary Jo Winokur Harvey & Florence Zeve Dorothea K. Zikos Robert P. Zinn & Dr. Darlene Berkovitz ENCORE CLUB 40 pittsburghsymphony.org

$1,500 - $2,499 Anonymous (9) Mrs. Ernest Abernathy Andrew & Michelle Aloe Dr. Madalon Amenta The Rev. Drs. A. Gary & Judy Angleberger Joan F. Apt Mrs. Jane Callomon Arkus Mr. & Mrs. David J. Armstrong Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Mr. & Mrs. Robert Barensfeld Mrs. Barbara C. & Mr. Ralph J. Bean, Jr. Fred & Sue Bennitt Jeanne & Richard F. Berdik Dr. Michael & Barbara Bianco Mr. Michael E. Bielski Philip & Bernice Bollman Betsy Bossong Dr. Carole B. Boyd Bozzone Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth S. Brand Gary & Connie Brandenberger Mr. & Mrs. James H. Bregenser Lawrence R. Breletic & Donald C. Wobb Jill & Chuck Brodbeck Myron David Broff Roger & Lea Brown Howard & Marilyn Bruschi Harmon K. Ziegler & David L. Buchta William Burchinal Dr. & Mrs. John A. Burkholder Gene & Sue Burns Dr. Bernadette G. Callery & Dr. Joseph M. Newcomer Susan S. Cercone Mrs. Arthur L. Coburn, III Mark & Sherri Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Alan Cope Rose & Vincent A. Crisanti Cyert Family Foundation Marion S. Damick Jerry & Mimi Davis Alfred R. de Jaager Jim & Peggy Degnan James N. Dill, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James R. Drake John & Gertrude Echement Linda & Robert Ellison Donna & Bob Ferguson Marvin Fields & Kate Brennan Albert L. Filoni

Mr. & Mrs. James A. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Fisher Chauncey & Magdaline Frazier Dina & Jerry Fulmer Dr. & Mrs. J. William Futrell Keith & Susan Garver Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Gebhardt Ms. Alice V. Gelormino Mr. & Mrs. David C. Genter Dr. Robert Joel Gluckman & Susan Johnson Rick & Stephanie Green Dr. & Mrs. Sanford A. Gordon Mr. & Mrs. William H. Gullborg William & Victoria Guy Mr. & Mrs. George K. Hanna Eric & Lizz Helmsen Greg & Mary Hempfling Jay Frey & Michael Hires Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Hiteshew Alysia & Robert Hoyt Dr. & Mrs. John W. Hoyt Micki Huff Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hunley Mary Lee & Joe Irwin Alice Jane & Paul R. Jenkins Mr. & Mrs. Jayant Kapadia Gerri Kay Judge William Kenworthy & Mrs. Lucille Kenworthy Gloria Kleiman James & Jane Knox George & Alexandra Kusic Dr. Joseph & AnnaMae Lenkey Dr. Michael Lewis & Dr. Katia Sycara Roslyn M. Litman George & Jane Mallory Dr. Richard Martin in Memory of Mrs. Lori Martin Carolyn Maue & Bryan Hunt Jean H. McCullough Mary A. McDonough Margaret J. McGowan Alan & Marilyn McIvor Sherman & Sue McLaughlin Susan Lee Meadowcroft Muriel R. Moreland Abby L. Morrison Lesa B. Morrison, Ph..D. Dr. & Mrs. Etsuro K. Motoyama Gerd D. & Helen Mueller Dr. Cora E. Musial Dr. David L. Obley

individual donors

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick M. O’Donnell Dr. Karl R. Olsen & Dr. Martha E. Hildebrandt Ellen Ormond Warren & Rena Ostlund Mr. & Mrs. James Parker Drs. J. Parrish & C. Siewers Seth & Pamela Pearlman Connie & Mike Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Edward V. Randall, Jr. Cheryl & James Redmond Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Mr. Stephen Robinson Dr. Lee A. & Rosalind* Rosenblum Mr. & Mrs. Stanley C. Ruskin Drs. Guy & Mary Beth Salama Dr. Carlos R. Santiago Mr. David M. Savard Joseph Schewe, Jr. Esther Schreiber Dr. Allan & Mrs. Brina D. Segal Preston & Annette Shimer Dr. & Mrs. Dennis P. Slevin Manny H. & Ileane Smith Marisa & Walter C. Smith Sandy & Mr. Edgar Snyder Hon. & Mrs. William L. Standish Lewis M. Steele & Ann Labounsky Steele Mr. & Mrs. James E. Steen Barbara & Lou Steiner Jeff & Linda Stengel Fred & Maryann Steward Dick & Thea Stover C. Dean Streator Mr. & Mrs. Frank Talenfeld Dr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Walter W. Turner Bob & Denise Ventura Jim Walker & Jonnie Viakley Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Vismor Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Vogel Dr. Ronald J. & Patricia J. Wasilak Ms. Sally Webster & Ms. Susan Bassett Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Mr. & Mrs. Thomas White Elizabeth B. & Frank L. Wiegand, III Sarah C. Williams & Joseph Wilson, III

Robert S. Bernstein & Ellie K. Bernstein Fund Don Berry Dr. & Mrs. Albert W. Biglan Harry S. Binakonsky, M.D. Franklin & Bonnie Blackstone SYMPHONY CLUB W. Gerald & Carolyn E. Blaney $500 - $1,499 Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Blansett, Jr. Anonymous (27) Diane C. Blanton Mr. & Mrs. Gary Abbs Richard & Susan Bloom Frederic & Deborah Acevedo Joseph & Shirley Bonner Mary Beth Adams Donald W. & Judith L. Borneman Dr. Lawrence Adler & Ms. Mr. Albert Bortz Judith Brody Dana & Margaret Bovbjerg R. Ward Allebach & Lisa D. Dr. & Mrs. A’Delbert Bowen Steagall Robert N. Brand Mr. Christopher D. Allen & Ms. Mr. & Mrs. William H. Brandeis Claudia Mahave Hugh & Jean Brannan David & Andrea Aloe Gerda & Abe Bretton Donald D. Anderson Mary & Russell Brignano Mrs. Doris Anderson Mary L. Briscoe Craig & Dawn Andersson Suzy & Jim Broadhurst Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Suzanne Broughton & Richard Angerman Margerum Mr. & Mrs. Charles Armitage Nicholas Brown James & Susanne Armour Nancy & John Brownell Gerry & Jack* Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. David A. Brownlee James* & Ruth Bachman Timothy & Linda Burke Mr. & Mrs. Robert Y. Ball Mr. & Mrs. James Burnham Mary L. Biscoe Rev. Glen H. & Carol Burrows Lorraine E. Balun Barbara & David Burstin Dr. Esther L. Barazzone James & Judith Callomon Robert & Loretta Barone Andrés Cárdenes & Monique Robert C. Barry, Jr. & Nancy L. Mead Bromall Dr. Albert A. Caretto Robert Bastress & Barbara Charles & Donna Cashdollar Fleischauer Janet E. Chadwick Barbara N. Baur Dr. Thomas S. Chang Vitasta Bazaz & Sheen Sehgal Monsignor Willliam G. Fund in Memory of Dr. Charnoki, P.A. Kuldeep Sehgal Craig D. Choate Dorothy Becker Mr. Kenneth Christman Kenneth & Elsa Beckerman Dr. & Mrs. Albert E. Chung Yu-Ling & Gregg Behr David Clark & Janese Abbott Vange & Nick Beldecos in memory of Perry Morrison Judith Bell Mr. & Mrs. William Clarkson Edgar & Betty Belle William & Elizabeth Rudy & Barbara Benedetti Clendenning Eleanor H. Berge Mrs. Sarah Clendenning & Mr. Ms. Evelyn Berger Un Kim Dr. Peter & Judy Berkowitz Mr. & Mrs. Philip Coachman Mrs. Georgia Berner & Mr. Stuart & Cathryn Coblin James Farber Christine & Howard Cohen Nancy Bernstein & Robert Schoen Jared L. & Maureen B. Cohon Alan & Lynne Colker

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Witmer Naomi Yoran Hugh D. & Alice C. Young Miriam L. Young Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zellefrow

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Dale Colyer Mr. & Mrs. Jack Cornelius Barton & Teri Cowan Susan & George Craig Susan O. Cramer Melvin R. Creeley David & Marian Crossman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel G. Crozier John D. & Laurie B. Culbertson Susan Campbell & Patrick Curry Zelda Curtiss Cynthia Custer Dr. & Mrs. Richard Daffner Joan & Jim Darby Mr. & Mrs. William J. Darr Norina H. Daubner Joan Clark Davis Marlene & Richard Davis Janis A. Davis Bruce & Rita Decker Charles S. Degrosky Captain & Mrs. Ronald M. Del Duca, USN (ret.)

Dr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Dellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Omo Mr. & Mrs. Lynn & David DeLorenzo Dr. Jau-Shyong Deng Mr. & Mrs. Edward DePersis Mr. & Mrs. Victor J. DiCarlo Mrs. Tika Dickos Richard & Joan DiSalle Docimo Family Mr. & Mrs. Todd Donovan Dr. Jane Donovan & Dr. W. G. Donovan Anthony V. Dralle Mary Jo Dressel Mary A. Duggan Jeff & Wendy Dutkovic Mr. & Mrs. Wm. F. Edsall Mary Jane Edwards In Memory of Judith R. Eidemueller Christopher & Gretchen Elkus Eugene & Katrin Engels Arnold & Eva Engler Jane M. Epstine Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Dr. Timothy Evans Tibey & Julian Falk Dr. & Mrs. John H. Feist Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Madelyn & John Fernstrom Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti 42 pittsburghsymphony.org

Ms. Janet Fesq Dr. Joseph Fine Mr. & Mrs. David Fitzsimmons Mr. Mark F. Flaherty Jane Flanders* Jan Fleisher & Rob Boulware Suzanne Flood Dr. & Mrs. Edward L. Foley Mrs. Barbara E. Forrester Janice & Larry Foulke Mr. & Mrs. K. H. Fraelich, Jr. Mrs. Natalie H. Friedberg Friends of the PSO John & Elaine Frombach Mr. & Mrs. Frank B. Fuhrer, III Normandie Fulson Ann & Bruce Gabler Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Gallagher Gamma Investment Corporation Marlene E. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Gaudelli Joan & Stuart Gaul Pete Geissler Dr. & Mrs. Brian Generalovich Dr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Gerber Mr. & Mrs. William P. Getty Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Getze Jane N. Gilbert Revs. Gaylord & Catherine Gillis Mike & Cordy Glenn Dolores Gluck Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Goble Mr. & Mrs. Ted Goldberg Walter I. Goldburg Samuel H. Golden Mr. Thomas W. Golightly & Rev. Carolyn J. Jones Dr. & Mrs. C. B. Good Mr. James Gorton & Mrs. Gretchen Van Hoesen The Graf Family Laurie Graham Ms. Rosanne Granieri & David Macpherson David & Nancy Green Charlotte T. Greenwald Dr. & Mrs. M. Joseph Grennan Mr. & Mrs. Steven Gridley Hanna Gruen Dr. & Mrs.* Alberto Guzman Jerome P. & Claire B. Hahn Marnie & Jim Haines Mr. & Mrs. Van Beck Hall Mr. & Mrs. Henry E. Haller Marjorie Burns Haller

Jim & Mary Hamilton Jeanne M. Hanchett Susan & David Hardesty Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Harris Ms. Christine A. Hartung Mr. & Mrs. Calvin R. Hastings Mr. & Mrs. Jack W. Hausser Cathy & John Heggestad Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Heidenreich Ms. Martha S. Helmreich in Honor of my mother, Anne J. Schaff Paul Hennigan Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Hepler Bob & Georgia Hernandez Marianne & Marshall Hess Douglas & Antionette Hill Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hill Dr. Joseph & Marie Hinchcliffe Mr. Carlyle Hoch Ms. Donna Hoffman & Mr. Richard Dum Philo & Erika Holcomb Katherine Holter Dr. & Mrs. Elmer J. Holzinger Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Hooton Mr. & Mrs. G.T. Horne Thomas O. Hornstein Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Hope H. Horst Drs. Mary & John Hotchkiss Anne K. Hoye Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Huffman Mr. & Mrs. Elwood T. Hughes Jean & Richard Humphreys Robert & Gail Hunter Joan M. Hurrell Dr. & Mrs. Robert W. Hyland, Jr. George L. Illig, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David Iwinski, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Vincent J. Jacob Dr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Jacobs Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Willcox Jenkins Richard C. Alter & Eric D. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Johnson Tom & Cathie Johnson Mrs. Barbara B. Johnston Barbara Johnstone Ley & Jackie Jones Dr. Raymond M. Juriga Richard & Barbara Kahlson Alice & Richard Kalla

individual donors

Daniel & Carole Kamin Julie & Jeffrey Kant Dr. & Mrs. Peter D. Kaplan Rhian Kenny Ruth Ann & Eugene Klein Lynn & Milton Klein Peggy C. Knott Hetty* & James Knox Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Kobus Ms. Marilyn Koch Nancy & Bill Koch Dr.* & Mrs. Kian S. Kooros Ms. Dawn Kosanovich William B.* & Karen M. Kost Stephen Kostyniak Carly, Catherine & Kim Koza Madeline Kramer in Memory of Fred Kramer Helen Aldisert & William L. Krayer Alice & Lewis Kuller Robert A. & Alice Kushner Betty Lamb Dr. Michael Landay Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. Lang A. Lorraine Laux Marvin & Gerry Lebby Mr. David W. Lendt Father Ronald P. Lengwin Robert W. Lenker Sally Levin Claire & Larry Levine Dr. & Mrs. Herbert & Barbara Levit Mrs. William E. Lewellen, III Phillip & Leslie Liebscher Robert & Janet Liljestrand Elsa Limbach Mr. & Mrs. Kurt L. Limbach Mr. & Mrs. James T. Linaberger Constance T. Long Don & Hanne Lorch Mrs. Sybil S. Lowy Francis & Debbie Lynch Rosemarie & Jeffrey Lynn Pat & Don MacDonald William & Nora MacDonald Neil & Ruth MacKay Prof. Heather MacLean Hank Mader John K. Maitland Mr. & Mrs. Robert Malnati Carl & Alexis Mancuso Pam & Charley Mansell Mr. & Mrs. Bernard S. Mars

Thomas & Elizabeth Massella Dr. William Matlack & Leslie Crawford Matlack Kenneth & Dr. Carol N. Maurer Ms. Sidney F. McBride Mr. & Mrs. Jon W. McCarter McCarthy Rail Insurance Managers, Inc. Mr. Samuel A. McClung Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Paula & Bob McCracken Mrs. Samuel K. McCune Keith McDuffie Mary & R. Lee McFadden Mr. & Mrs. Michael H. McGarry Carol Jean McKenzie Jean & John McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. William P. Meehan Mr. David Givens & Mr. Stephen Mellett In Memory of William C. Menges Robert & Elizabeth Mertz Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Mrs. William Metcalf, III Mr. & Mrs. Roger F. Meyer Bridget & Scott Michael Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton Robert & Miriam Miller Mr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Miller Dr. & Mrs. Vincent P. Miller, Jr. Mr. David J. Millstein Dr. Samuel* & Nessa Mines Phyllis S. Mizel* Paul & Connie Mockenhaupt Mr. Jason Mooney Amy & Ira M. Morgan Jim & Susan Morris in Honor of Kay Stolarevsky Connie & Bruce Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Morrow Frank & Brenda Moses Mr. & Mrs. Richard Munsch David & Joan Murdoch Mary & Jim Murdy Terrence H. Murphy P. & A.M. Nagem Dr. & Mrs. Donald D. Naragon Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Nathanson Dr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Nebel Constance Nelson Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Rev. Robert & Mrs. Suzanne Newpher Patricia K. Nichols

Renee K. Nicholson Mr. & Mrs. David Nimick Charles & Lois Norton Heidi Novak Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Maureen S. O’Brien Dr. & Mrs. Kook Sang Oh Paul & Nancy O’Neill Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Orr Dee Jay Oshry & Bart Rack John A. Osuch Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Dr. & Mrs. Henry Overbeck Dr. Paul M. Palevsky & Dr. Sharon R. Roseman Mr. & Mrs. William A. Partain Dr. Anthony William Pasculle Patricia Passeltiner John & Joan Pasteris Kenneth Patterson Camilla B. Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Pellett Daniel M. Pennell Dr. Jeffrey & Francesca Peters Ms. Dorothy Philipp Mr. & Mrs. Jon R. Piersol Drs. Robert & Kathy Piston Edward & Mary Ellen Pisula Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Porkolab David & Marilyn Posner Mrs. Mildred M. Posvar Eberhard Pothmann Mrs. Shirley Pow Ann & Malvern Powell Ms. Mary Alice Price Nancy S. Price* Myrna & Gerald Prince Mercedes & John Pryce Robert & Mary Jo Purvis Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Queenan, Jr. Fran Quinlan Dr. * & Mrs. Donald H. Quint Barbara Rackoff James & Carol Randolph Barbara M. Rankin Drs. Bruce & Jane Raymond Dr. & Mrs. John A. Redfield Paul & Dorothy Reiber Eric & Frances Reichl Ms. Victoria Rhoades Carraro Dr. & Mrs. J. Merle Rife Mavis & Norman Robertson Edgar R. & Betty A. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. James E. Rohr Mr. & Mrs. C. Arthur Rolander pittsburghsymphony.org 43

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Mr. & Mrs. Howard M. Rom Elaine Rosecrans Janice G. Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Byron W. Rosener, III Mrs. Louisa Rosenthal Carol & Scott Rotruck Dr. & Mrs. Wilfred T. Rouleau Joseph Rounds Melvin & Jeanne Rudov Mr. & Mrs. Edmund S. Ruffin, III Mr. R. Douglas Rumbarger Mr. Robert Rupp Mr. Leo P. Russell Murray & Shirley Rust Mrs. John M. Sadler Dr. James R. Sahovey Merrilee H. Salmon Tamiko Sampson Dr. & Mrs. Isamu Sando Bill McAllister & Janet Sarbaugh Charlie Ward & Marita Schardt Albert & Kathleen Schartner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Schelat Ann & Bill Scherlis Dr. Melvin & Catherine Schiff Mr. & Mrs. George Schneider Mr. & Mrs. K. George Schoeppner Bernie & Cookie Soldo Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Harry W. Schurr, II Mary Ann Scialabba George & Marcia Seeley Mr. & Mrs. David P. Segel Sharon Semenza Aleen Mathews Shallberg & Richard Shallberg Richard F. & Linda W. Shaw Judith D. Shepherd Mr. & Mrs. Raymond V. Shepherd, Jr. Dr. Charles H. Shultz Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Shure Rhoda & Seymour Sikov Marjorie K. Silverman Marilyn & Norman A. Sindler Ms. Ann Slonaker Wallace & Patricia Smith Elaine & William Smith Bill & Patty Snodgrass Mrs. Alice R. Snyder Marjorie A. Snyder Marcie Solomon & Nathan Goldblatt 44 pittsburghsymphony.org

David Solosko & Sandra Kniess Fund Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Sorr in support of music and wellness Dr. Horton C. Southworth Samuel & Judith Spanos Richard C. Spine & Joyce Berman Henry Spinelli John Spohler in Memory of Perry Morrison Janet H. Staab Jim & Judy Stalder Patricia D. Staley Gary & Charlene Stanich Shirley & Sidney Stark, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Terence Starz Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Stayer William H. Steele Bronna & Harold Steiman Gene & Charlene Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Bernard P. Stoehr and Family Dr. & Mrs. Ron Stoller in memory of Joanne Smaldino In Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Mona & E.J. Strassburger Richard A. Sundra, in Loving Memory of Patricia Sundra C.J. Sylak, Jr. Stuart & Liz Symonds Carol L. Tasillo Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. William H. Taylor, Jr. Gordon & Catherine Telfer Matthew Teplitz Mr. Philip C. Thackaray Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Thompson Mr. & Mrs. George H. Thompson Bob & Bette Thomson Gail & Jim Titus Denny & Colleen Travis Rosalyn & Albert Treger Paul A. Trimmer Jeff & Melissa Tsai Eric & Barbara Udren Diane & Dennis Unkovic Theo & Pia Van De Venne Suzan M. Vandertie Edward L. & Margaret Vogel John & Linda Vuono Linda & Don Wagenheim Wagner Family Charitable Trust

Suzanne & Richard Wagner Bill & Sue Wagner John & Irene Wall Mr. & Mrs. John Wandrisco Mr. W.L. & Dr. B.H. Ward Mr. & Mrs. L.A. Waterman, Jr. Ellen Mandel & Lawrence Weber Marvin & Dot Wedeen Elaine Weil William C. Weil Jodi & Andrew Weisfield Bill Weiss Norman & Marilyn Weizenbaum Mr. & Mrs. James P. Welch Nancy Welfer J.B. Weller Frank & Heide Wenzel Mrs. Louis A. Werbaneth Nancy Werner Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Westerberg Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Wettach James Whitehead Mr. Robert E. Williams Philip R. Wills Dr. Ann G. Wilmoth Mr. & Mrs. Miles C. Wilson James & Ramona Wingate Marie & Daniel Winschel Sheryl & Bruce Wolf Sidney & Tucky Wolfson Ellie & Joe Wymard Rufus J. Wysor Mark & Judy Yogman Marlene & John Yokim Dr. & Mrs. Jack Yorty Dr. Mark C. Zemanick Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ziatek Simone Ziegler The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra would like to thank the generous individuals whose gifts we cannot recognize due to space constraints. Please read their names on our website at pittsburghsymphony.org.

Current as of September 30, 2011

*deceased

BOOK CLUB

in partnership with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh & Classical WQED-FM 89.3

PSO BOOK CLUB COMES TO HEINZ HALL! Join us in an exploration of major themes from the 2011-2012 season through a variety of books genres. Read the book and join WQED-FM’s Jim Cunningham and PSO musicians in an afternoon of lively discussion! PSO Book Club meetings are held at 1:30 pm prior to select BNY Mellon Grand Classics Sunday afternoon performances in the Dorothy Porter Simmons Regency Rooms at Heinz Hall. FREE and open to all ticket holders to the afternoon’s performance.

Sunday, October 30, 2011, 1:30 PM

The Man with the Golden Flute: Sir James, A Celtic Minstrel

by James Galway With Rhian Kenny, piccolo Sunday, November 27, 2011, 1:30 PM

The Tale of the 1002nd Night

by Joseph Roth With James Rodgers, contrabassoon Sunday, February 5, 2012, 1:30 PM

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

by Daniel J. Levitin With Penny A. Brill, viola Sunday, April 1, 2012, 1:30 PM

The Student Conductor

by Robert Ford With Jeffrey Turner, bass Sunday, June 10, 2012, 1:30 PM

Richard Strauss: A Musical Life

by Raymond Holden With Louis Lev, violin

Call 412.392.4876 or email explore@pittsburghsymphony.org to register.

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. AVAILABILITY IS LIMITED.

BLACK

HESTON

CABALLERO

SAMUELS

LOH

HONG

Jeremy Black, violin

“Melodic by Design” Thursday, October 27, 2011

Betsy Heston, bass

“Why the Bass?”

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

William Caballero, horn

“A Triple Horn for a Triple Concerto” Thursday, February 16, 2012

Ron Samuels, clarinet

“The Clarinet: Last Will and Testament” Thursday, March 22, 2012

Lawrence Loh and Thomas Hong “Confessions of a Staff Conductor” Thursday, May 10, 2012

12:30-1:30pm Heinz Hall

Dorothy Porter Simmons Regency Rooms

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC NO RESERVATIONS NECESSARY Bring a brown-bag lunch, or enjoy a $12 gourmet picnic lunch from The Common Plea. Desserts and beverages will be provided by the PSA. To order lunch or for additional information call

412.361.3346, or email PSAmusic101@gmail.com.

To reserve parking call 412.566.4190 at least 24 hours in advance.

Pre-ordered lunches available 11.15 am onwards.

foundations & public agencies

FOUNDATIONS & PUBLIC AGENCIES

Anonymous (1) Allegheny County Allegheny Regional Asset District The Almira Foundation Bessie F. Anathan Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Benjamin and Fannie Applestein Charitable Trust Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation Meyer & Merle Berger Family Foundation, Inc. Allen H. Berkman and Selma W. Berkman Charitable Trust The Louis & Sandra Berkman Foundation H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust Maxine and William Block Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Paul and Dina Block Foundation Bruce Family Foundation Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of The Buhl Foundation Jack Buncher Foundation Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable and Educational Trust Compton Family Foundation The Rose Y. and J. Samuel Cox Charitable Fund Cyert Family Foundation Kathryn J. Dinardo Fund Peter C. Dozzi Family Foundation Eden Hall Foundation Mary McCune Edwards Charitable Lead Trust Lillian Edwards Foundation Eichleay Foundation Jane M. Epstine Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Fair Oaks Foundation, Inc. Falk Foundation The Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation, Inc. Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Goldberg Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Grable Foundation Hansen Foundation The Heinz Endowments Elsie H. Hillman Foundation The Emma Clyde Hodge Memorial Fund May Emma Hoyt Foundation Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation Roy A. Hunt Foundation Hyman Family Foundation Eugene F. and Margaret Moltrup Jannuzi Foundation Howard G. and Frances Y. Jones Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Thomas Marshall Foundation Massey Charitable Trust Ruth Rankin McCullough Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Richard King Mellon Foundation R.K. Mellon Family Foundation Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International Howard and Nell E. Miller Foundation Millstein Charitable Foundation The Charles M. Morris Charitable Trust National Endowment for the Arts Vernon C. Neal & Alvina B. Neal Fund A.J. & Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust Parker Foundation W. I. Patterson Charitable Foundation Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development Anna L. & Benjamin Perlow Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Pauline Pickens Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh Symphony Association The Platt Family Foundation Norman C. Ray Trust The Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation The William Christopher & Mary Laughlin Robinson Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Rossin Foundation Ryan Memorial Foundation James M. & Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation The Mrs. William R. Scott Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Scott Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Snavely Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Alexander C. and Tillie S. Speyer Foundation Symphony East Symphony North Symphony South Tippins Foundation Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust Wallace Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Weiner Family Foundation Samuel and Carrie Arnold Weinhaus Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Robert and Mary Weisbrod Foundation Hilda M. Willis Foundation Phillip H. and Betty L. Wimmer Family Foundation Current as of September 29, 2011

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CORPORATIONS Includes annual corporate donations and sponsorships BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION SIGNATURE CIRCLE $75,000 AND ABOVE Acusis Allegheny Technologies Incorporated BNY Mellon EQT Corporation Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield PNC DIAMOND CIRCLE $40,000 - $74,999 Bobby Rahal Automotive Group PLATINUM CIRCLE $20,000 - $39,999 Alcoa Foundation Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company Delta Air Lines Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh First Niagara Giant Eagle H. J. Heinz Company Foundation LANXESS Corporation MSA Charitable Foundation PPG Industries Foundation Peoples Natural Gas Thorp Reed & Armstrong LLP Triangle Tech Group United States Steel Corporation UPMC & UPMC Health Plan GOLD CIRCLE $10,000 - $19,999 Anonymous American Eagle Outfitters Foundation Bayer USA Foundation Bobby Rahal Volvo Citigroup Clearview Federal Credit Union Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Dollar Bank Ernst & Young LLP Fairmont Pittsburgh & Habitat Restaurant 48 pittsburghsymphony.org

The Frank E. Rath-Spang & Company Charitable Trust Hefren-Tillotson Macy’s Foundation Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. Sarris Candies, Inc.

Mozart Management Pittsburgh Corning Corporation Pittsburgh Valve & Fitting Co. Silhol Builders Supply The Techs WPXI-TV

SILVER CIRCLE $5,000 - $9,999 AlphaGraphics in the Cultural District American Environmental Services, Inc. Ansaldo STS USA, Inc. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Calgon Carbon Corporation Chesapeake Energy Corporation The Common Plea Catering Inc. Deloitte Federated Investors, Inc. Gleason, Inc. Heritage Valley Health System KPMG LLP Levin Furniture Mascaro Construction Company MEDRAD Morgan Stanley Mylan Pharmaceuticals Oliver Wyman PwC Reed Smith LLP Ruth’s Chris Steak House Schreiber Industrial Development Co. SYCOR Trombino Piano Gallerie West Penn Allegheny Health System

BUSINESS PARTNERS PEWTER LEVEL $1,000 - $2,499 Berner International Corp Bowles Rice Attorneys at Law Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. Elements Contemporary Cuisine Ellwood Group, Inc. FISERV Hughes Television Productions Jendoco Construction Corporation Kerr Engineered Sales Company Lidia’s Italy Pittsburgh MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, Inc. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Nocito Enterprises, Inc. Oxford Development Company Rothman Gordon PC Six Penn Kitchen Stringert, Inc. Tube City IMS, LLC United Safety Services, Inc. Wampum Hardware Inc

BRONZE CIRCLE $2,500 - $4,999 A.C. Dellovade, Inc. Angelo, Gordon & Co. Bank of America Merrill Lynch Burrell Group, Inc. Cipriani & Werner PC Elite Coach Transportation Fort Pitt Capital Group Koppers Lighthouse Electric Company, Inc. Marsh USA Inc.

PARTNER LEVEL $500 - $999 Allegheny Valley Bank Big Burrito Restaurant Group Bombardier The Buncher Company Cantor and Pounds Dental Associates Consolidated Communications Crawford Ellenbogen LLC Enterprise Bank General Wire Spring Co. Goehring, Rutter & Boehm Hamill Manufacturing Company Hertz Gateway Center, LP Hoffman Electric, Inc. Horovitz, Rudoy & Roteman The Jas H. Matthews Educational & Charitable Trust John B. Conomos, Inc.

corporations

K&I Sheet Metal, Inc. Lucas Systems, Inc. McKamish, Inc. Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Modany-Falcone, Inc. Modern Reproductions, Inc. Neville Chemical Company Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neal Steel, Inc. PGT Trucking Pzena Investment Management, LLC Scott Metals Inc. Triad USA Wagner Agency, Inc. Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., LPA Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research, Inc. We would like to thank all corporations that contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Please see our website for a complete listing at pittsburghsymphony.org.

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Keep the legacy growing by remembering the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in your estate plans.

CONTACT THE STEINBERG SOCIETY: 412.392.3190

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In addition to income from the Annual Fund, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is dependent on a robust Endowment to assure its financial stability. Gifts from Legacy of Excellence programs are directed to the endowment account to provide for the PSO's future. The Steinberg Society honors donors who have advised the PSO in writing that they have made a provision for the orchestra through their estate plans. Members of the Sid Kaplan Tribute program have made a planned gift to the endowment of $10,000 or more to commemorate a particular person or event. Endowed Naming Opportunities for guest artists, musicians' chairs, concert series, educational programs or designated spaces allow donors to specify a name or tribute for ten years, twenty years or in perpetuity. For additional information, call 412.392.3320.

STEINBERG SOCIETY Anonymous (13) Siamak and Joan Adibi Rev. Drs. A. Gary & Judy Angleberger The Joan & Jerome* Apt Families Francis A. Balog Robert & Loretta Barone Patricia J. Bashioum* Scott J. Bell Mr.* & Mrs.* Allen H. Berkman Dr. Elaine H. Berkowitz Benno & Constance Bernt Marilee Besanceney* Michael Bielski Ruth M. Binkley* Thomas G. Black Barbara M. Brock Gladys B. Burstein Helen B. Calkins * Janet T. Caputo* Bernard Cerilli* Judy & Michael Cheteyan Educational/Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David W. Christopher Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Churchill Dr. Johannes Coetzee* Mr.* & Mrs. Eugene S. Cohen Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Rose Y. Cox* Chester* & Caroline* Davies Jean Langer Davis* Katherine M. Detre* Dr.* & Mrs*. Daniel J. Dillon In memory of Stuart William Discount Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas J. Donnelly Mrs. Philip D'Huc Dressler* Frank R. Dziama Steven G. & Beverlynn Elliott Jane M. Epstine* Emil & Ruth* Feldman Mrs. Loti Gaffney Keith and Susan Garver Mr.* & Mrs.* William H. Genge Ken & Lillian Goldsmith C. Ruth Gottesman* Anna R. Greenberg May Hanson* Elizabeth Anne Hardie Charles & Angela Hardwick Carolyn Heil 50 pittsburghsymphony.org

Eric & Lizz Helmsen Mr.* & Mrs.* Benson Henderson Mr. John H. Hill Doris M. Hunter, M.D.* Mr.* & Mrs.* William C. Hurtt Philo & Erika Holcomb Ms. Seima Horvitz Florence M. Jacob* Esther G. Jacovitz Eugene F. and Margaret Moltrup Jannuzi Foundation Patricia Prattis Jennings Jane I. Johnson* Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Kahn Mr. Sid Kaplan* Lois S. Kaufman Miss Virginia Kaufman* Stephen & Kimberly Keen Mr. Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. Ms. Bernadette Kersting Dr. Laibe A.* & Sydelle Kessler Walter C. Kidney* John W. Kovic, Jr.* Mildred Koetting* Raymond Krotec* Mr.* & Mrs.* G. Christian Lantzsch Stanley & Margaret Leonard Frances F. Levin Margaret M. Levin* Martha Mack Lewis* Doris L. Litman Penny Locke Edward D. Loughney* Lauren & Hampton Mallory Beatrice Malseed* Jeanne R. Manders* Dr. Richard Martin in memory of Mrs. Lori Martin Dr. Marlene McCall Elizabeth McCrady* J. Sherman and Suzanne S. McLaughlin George E. Meanor Mary K. Michaely * Catherine Missenda Dr. Mercedes C. Monjian Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Mooney Dr. Michael Moran Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Mildred S. Myers Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson

Eda M. Nevin* Rhonda & Dennis Norman Rose Noon* Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. M.D. Irene G. Otte* Mrs. Dorothy R. Rairigh* Barbara M. Rankin Richard E. Rauh Cheryl & James Redmond Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Yvonne V. Riefer* Martha Robel* Donald & Sylvia Robinson Mr. & Mrs. David M. Roderick Mr.* & Mrs. William R. Roesch Charlotta Klein Ross Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Ryan Virginia Schatz Nancy Schepis In Memory of Isaac Serrins from Mrs. Isaac Serrins Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Simmons Audrey I. Stauffer Dr. & Mrs. Leonard A. Stept In Honor of Dr. Raymond Stept from His Loving Family Mrs. Margaret Stouffer in memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore In Loving Memory of Father and Grandfather William Steinberg from Silvia Tennenbaum & Family Richard C. Tobias* Tom & Jamee Todd Mr. & Mrs. Gideon Toeplitz Mrs. Jane Treherne-Thomas Eva & Walter J. Vogel Mr. & Mrs. George L. Vosburgh In Memory of Isaac Serrins from Mr. & Mrs. Ira Weiss David G. Weiss* Brian Weller Donald Frederick Wahl* Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Sara Cancelliere Wiegand * James & Susanne Wilkinson Mr.* & Mrs.* Arnold D. Wilner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Witmer Patricia L. Wurster Rufus J. Wysor Naomi Yoran Miriam L. Young

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SID KAPLAN TRIBUTE PROGRAM

The Sid Kaplan Memorial Hallway given by David Kaplan in appreciation of generous gifts commemorating family and friends In Honor of Dr. Raymond Stept from his loving family

In Honor of Mariss & Irina Jansons and friendship from Dr. Laibe* & Sydelle Kessler Honoring my dear friend, Marvin Hamlisch, from Mina Kulber

ENDOWED CHAIRS Principal Horn Chair, given by an Anonymous Donor First Violin Chair, given by Allen H. Berkman in memory of his beloved wife, Selma Wiener Berkman Michael & Carol Bleier Horn Chair given in memory of our parents, Tina & Charles Bleier and Ruth & Shelley Stein Jane & Rae Burton Cello Chair Cynthia S. Calhoun Principal Viola Chair Virginia Campbell Principal Harp Chair Ron & Dorothy Chutz First Violin Chair Johannes & Mona L. Coetzee Memorial Principal English Horn Chair George & Eileen Dorman Assistant Principal Cello Chair Albert H. Eckert Associate Principal Percussion Chair Beverlynn & Steven Elliott Associate Concertmaster Chair Jean & Sigo Falk Principal Librarian Chair Endowed Principal Piccolo Chair, given to honor Frank and Loti Gaffney William & Sarah Galbraith First Violin Chair Ira & Nanette Gordon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Gracky Fund for Education & Community Engagement Caryl & Irving Halpern Cello Chair William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Vira I. Heinz Music Director Chair Principal Pops Conductor Chair Endowed by Henry & Elsie Hillman Tom & Dona Hotopp Principal Bass Chair

Milton G. Hulme, Jr. Guest Conductor Chair given by Mine Safety Appliances Company Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Jones III, Principal Keyboard Chair Virginia Kaufman Resident Conductor Chair, Lawrence Loh 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 Edward D. Loughney CoPrincipal Trumpet Fiddlesticks Family Concert Series Endowed by Gerald & Audrey McGinnis Honoring The Center for Young Musicians Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Cello Chair Dr. William Larimer Mellon, Jr. Principal Oboe Chair, given

by Rachel Mellon Walton Messiah Concerts Endowed by the Howard & Nellie 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 Associate Principal Second Violin Chair Mildred S. Myers & William C. Frederick Co-Principal Oboe Chair Jackman Pfouts Principal Flute Chair, given in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Jackman by Barbara Jackman Pfouts

In Loving Memory of Martin Smith, PSO Horn, 1980-2005, from his siblings Todd Smith, Judy Dupont, & Susan Noble

Pittsburgh Symphony Association Principal Cello Chair Reed Smith Chair honoring Tom Todd Horn Chair James W. & Erin Rimmel Percussion Chair Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Oboe Chair Donald M. & 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. Viola Chair Tom & Jamee Todd Principal Trombone Chair Trumpet Chair, given by an anonymous donor Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair, given

by Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife Jacqueline Wechsler Horn Chair given in memory of Irving (Buddy) Wechsler Barbara Weldon Principal Timpani Chair Hilda M. Willis Foundation Flute Chair Thomas H. & Frances Witmer Assistant Principal Horn Chair The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra wishes to thank individuals who have made gifts or provisions through the Legacy of Excellence programs. If you find that your name has not been listed and should be, or if you would like additional information about making gifts to the endowment, please call 412.392.3320.

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COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is grateful to our Commitment to Excellence Campaign donors and is pleased to acknowledge the following members of our donor family who have made gifts of $1,000 or more to the Commitment to Excellence Campaign. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy; however, if we have not listed you correctly, please call 412.392.2887.

$1,000,000+ Anonymous (1) BNY Mellon The Buncher Family Foundation Eden Hall Foundation Beverlynn & Steven Elliott The Heinz Endowments Elsie & Henry Hillman The Estate of Virginia Kaufman The Richard King Mellon Foundation PNC R.P. Simmons Family Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program Arthur and Barbara Weldon $500,000 - $999,999 Anonymous Roy & Susan Dorrance The Giant Eagle Foundation Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Maxwell Catharine M. Ryan & John T. Ryan III Tom & Jamee Todd $250,000 - $499,999 Allegheny Technologies Incorporated Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation Edward S. & Jo-Ann M. Churchill Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Donahue Mr. & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon Drue Heinz Trust Tom & Dona Hotopp G. Christian Lantszch* Lillian Edwards Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McConomy Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Usher Thomas H. and Frances M. Witmer $100,000 - $249,999 Anonymous (3) Rae & Jane Burton Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Calihan The Estate of Johannes Coetzee Randi & L.Van V. Dauler, Jr., Emma Clyde Hodge Memorial Fund EQT Corporation The Estate of Beatrice Malseed The Estate of Donald F. Wahl 52 pittsburghsymphony.org

Falk Foundation & Sigo and Jean Falk Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot Ira & Anita Gumberg Hansen Foundation Hefren-Tillotson Rick & Laurie Johnson Nancy & Jeff Leininger Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Samuel and Carrie Arnold Weinhaus Fund Edward D. Loughney* Bill* & Carol Tillotson Jon & Carol Walton Helge & Erika Wehmeier James & Susanne Wilkinson Hilda M. Willis Foundation $50,000 - $99,999 Estate of Florence M. Jacob Benno & Constance Bernt Michael & Carol Bleier Kathryn & Michael Bryson Sidney & Sylvia Busis Ann & Frank Cahouet Ron & Dorothy Chutz Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Pamela R. & Kenneth B. Dunn Barbara Jeremiah Goldman Sachs Gives A. W. Mellon Foundation James & Joan Moore Donald I. & Janet Moritz Mildred S. Myers & William C. Frederick Elliott S. Oshry Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reed Smith LLP Abby & Reid Ruttenberg John P. & Elizabeth L. Surma Jacquelin G. Wechsler $25,000-$49,999 Anonymous (1) Alan L. & Barbara B. Ackerman Larry & Tracy Brockway Robert C. Denove Martin & Lisa Earle Eichleay Foundation Ernst & Young LLP Nancy Goeres & Michael Rusinek Ms. Anna Greenberg

Robert W. & Elizabeth C. Kampmeinert Stephen & Kimberly Keen Mrs. H.J. Levin Betty & Granger Morgan The Pittsburgh Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brooks Robinson Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer Stan & Carole Russell Karen Scansaroli James M. & Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation Schreiber Industrial Development Co. Mr. & Mrs. James E. Steen The Estate of Joan Dillon Milton & Nancy Washington Harvey & Florence Zeve $10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (1) William & Frances Aloe Charitable Foundation The Louis & Sandra Berkman Foundation Michael E. Bielski Estate of Ruth M. Binkley Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Booker AndrĂŠs CĂĄrdenes & Monique Mead James C. & Carol* C. Chaplin Joseph* & Virginia Cicero The Estate of Richard C. Tobias The Estate of Jane I. Johnson Greg & Ellen Jordan Ruth Feldman* & Emil Feldman Elizabeth H. Genter David & Nancy Green Caryl & Irving Halpern David G. Hammer The Walt Harper Memorial Fund W.S. & Linda J. Hart Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Karen & Thomas Hoffman Ms. Seima Horvitz Mark Huggins & Bonnie Siefers David & Melissa Iwinski Eric & Valerie Johnson Rhian Kenny Judith & Lester* Lave Carolyn Maue & Bryan Hunt Douglas B. McAdams Alicia & Victoria McGinnis Mary Ellen Miller

commitment to excellence Maureen S. O'Brien Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. O'Brien Thaddeus A. Osial, Jr. M.D. & Linda E. Shooer Mr. & Mrs. John R. Price Deborah Rice James W. & Erin M. Rimmel Max & Tiffany Starks Elizabeth Burnett & Lawrence Tamburri The Chester A. Davies Trust Rachel W. Wymard Seldon & Susan Whitaker Dr. & Mrs. Merrill F. Wymer $5,000-$9,999 Jim & Jane Barthen Scott Bell Allan J. & Clementine K. Brodsky Roger & Judy Clough Estelle Comay & Bruce Rabin Philip J. & Sherry S. Dieringer Mr. & Mrs. David Ehrenwerth Mr. Ian Fagelson Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Gebhardt Gail & Gregory Harbaugh Mr. & Mrs.* Charles H. Harff Eric & Lizz Helmsen Richard & Alice Kalla Douglas W. Kinzey Cliff & Simi Kress Betty L. Lamb Scott & Bridget Michael Mr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Miller Robert Moir & Jennifer Cowles Mary & Jim Murdy Mr. & Mrs. Hale Oliver Mr. & Mrs. Michael B. Pollack Tor Richter in memory of Tibbie Richter Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Stept Dick & Thea Stover Becky & Herb Torbin Jane F. Treherne-Thomas Dr. Michael J. White & Mr. Richard L. LeBeau Robert P. Zinn & Dr. Darlene Berkovitz

$1,000 - $4,999 Anonymous (7) Mr. Thomas L. Allen Joan & Jerome* Apt & Family Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Kathleen & Joseph Baird Richard C. Barney Robert W. & Janet W. Baum Philip & Melinda Beard Yu-Ling and Gregg Behr Patti & Sandy Berman

Georgia Berner Drs. Barbara & Albert Biglan Marian & Bruce Block Nadine E. Bognar Betsy Bossong Lois R. Brozenick Howard & Marilyn Bruschi Doug Burns Burrell Group, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Cameron Mr. & Mrs. Brian and Shannon Capellupo Gloria R. Clark Mr. Ray Clover Dr. Richard L. & Sally B. Cohen Bill & Cynthia Cooley Stacy Corcoran Rose & Vincent Crisanti Patricia Criticos Donna Dierken Dado Ada & Stanford Davis Dr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Dell'Omo Valerie DiCarlo William S. Dietrich, II* June & Barry Dietrich Lisa Donnermeyer Francis & Gene Fairman III In Honor of Ruth Feldman* & Emil Feldman Jan Fleisher & Rob Boulware Friends & Family of Stanford P. Davis Dr. R. Kent Galey & Dr. Karen Roche Gamma Investment Corporation Kathleen Gavigan & William B. Dixon Mr. & Mrs. James Genstein Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Graham John F. Gray Mr. & Mrs. Frank T. Guadagnino Carol E. Higgins Adam & Allison Hill Kelvin Hill Esther & Terry Horne Mr. & Mrs. Thomas O. Hornstein Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Jacobs, Jr. Susan & Wyatt Jenny Leo & Marge Kane Joan M. Kaplan Mr. Navroz J. Karkaria Judge William Kenworthy & Mrs. Lucille Kenworthy Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. Jan & Guari Kiefer Aleta J. & Paul King Elaine & Carl Krasik In Memory of Jack Larouere Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Leech Dr. Joseph & AnnaMae Lenkey Frances F. Levin Ken & Hope Linge

E.D. Loughney MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, Inc. Mary Lou & Ted N. Magee Carl & Alexis Mancuso Dave & Kathy Maskalick Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Massaro, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Water T. McGough, Jr. George & Bonnie Meanor Marilyn & Allan Meltzer Burl J. F. Moone, III Arthur J. Murphy, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Perry Napolitano Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Nussbaum Roger & Sarah Parker Camilla B. Pearce and Dan Gee* Joseph & Suzanne Perrino Symphony East Barbara Rackoff Bruce S. Reopolos Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Betty & Edgar R. Robinson Bruce & Susy Robison Dr. Lee A. & Rosalind* Rosenblum Joseph Rounds Millie & Gary Ryan Gail Ryave & Family Mary Sedigas Allyn R. Shaw, William M. Shaw III & Family, Susan Wambold Mr. & Mrs. Raymond V. Shepherd, Jr. Dr. Ralph T. Shuey & Rebecca L. Carlin Paul & Linda Silver Laurie & Paul Singer Lois & Bill Singleton Marcie Solomon & Nathan Goldblatt Shirley & Sidney Stark, Jr. Jeff & Linda Stengel Stringert, Inc. Peter Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Frank Talenfeld Dorothea & Gerald* Thompson Jeff & Melissa Tsai Jim* & Mary Jo Winokur Scott & Stacy Weber Marvin & Dot Wedeen Jodi & Andrew Weisfield Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Wright Mr. & Mrs. Richard Zahren We would like to thank all of our donors to the Commitment to Excellence Campaign. A complete listing can be found on our website at pittsburghsymphony.org Current as of October 4, 2011 *deceased pittsburghsymphony.org 53

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SPECIAL NAMED GIFTS BNY Mellon ....................Recordings & Electronic Media, and Artistic Excellence Programs Benno & Constance Bernt ..................................................................................Stage Right Door Rae & Jane Burton ....................................................................................................Garden Bench Randi & L. Van V. Dauler, Jr. ....................................Mozart Room Elevator & Garden Bench Roy & Susan Dorrance ..................................................................................Music for the Spirit EQT Corporation ..............Community Engagement & EQT Student Side-By-Side Program Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot ......................................................................................Grand Piano Goldman Sachs Gives ..........................................................Community Engagement Concerts Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield ..............................................Music and Wellness Program Elsie & Henry HillmanThe Henry L. Hillman Endowment for International Performances David & Melissa Iwinski ......................................................................................Stage Left Door Lillian Edwards Foundation......................................................................Heartstrings Program Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Maxwell ........................................................President and CEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ............................................................Grand Tier Door - Right Center PNC................................................................PNC Walkway at Heinz Hall and PNC Tiny Tots Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart ................................................................................Grand Piano Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer ................................................................................Garden Bench Catharine M. Ryan & John T. Ryan, III ........................................................Music for the Spirit Harvey & Florence Zeve..........................................................................................Garden Bench Current as of October 4, 2011

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In November 2006, the R.P. Simmons Family made a transformational $29.5 million lead gift to launch the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Commitment to Excellence Campaign.

To date, more than $71 million has been raised to help ensure a bright future for your Orchestra.

In November 2011, the matching portion of the R.P. Simmons gift will expire. Your support of the Campaign NOW earns a match from the Simmons gift.

That means your donation will make an even greater impact.

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HEINZ HALL BOX OFFICE Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday from Noon to 4 p.m. Weekend hours vary based on performance times. Tickets may be purchased by calling 412.392.4900 and are also available at Theater Square Box Office.

THE LATECOMER’S GALLERY, located behind the Main Floor, affords patrons who arrive after the beginning of a concert the opportunity to enjoy the performance until they can be seated.

Latecomers will be seated at suitable intervals during the program, at the discretion of the conductor. The Latecomer’s Gallery is also available for parents with younger children.

THE MOZART ROOM AT HEINZ HALL Just seconds away from your seats, enjoy an all new dining experience with The Common Plea. pittsburghsymphony.org/mozartroom Reservations at 412.392.4879.

SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS, such as requests for wheelchair accessible locations, may be made when purchasing tickets.

Hearing assistance devices are available in the Entrance Lobby.

Doormen and ushers are also available for assistance with these needs.

RESTROOMS are located on the Lower, Grand Tier and Gallery levels and off the Garden and Overlook rooms; a wheelchair-accessible restroom is on the Main Floor.

FOR LOST AND FOUND ITEMS, call 412.392.4844 on weekdays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

THE ELEVATOR is located next to the Grand Staircase.

HEINZ HALL IS A NON-SMOKING BUILDING AND HAS A NO SMOKING POLICY.

AN ATTENDED COAT CHECKROOM is available in the Dorothy Porter Simmons Family Regency Room, located on the Lower Level or in the Grand Lobby. Coin-operated lockers are located on the Lower, Grand Tier and Gallery levels.

REFRESHMENT BARS are located in the Garden and Overlook rooms and in the Grand Tier Lounge. Intermission beverages may be ordered prior to performances. Water cups are available in the restrooms.

FIRE EXITS are to be used ONLY in case of an emergency. If the fire alarm is activated, follow the direction of Heinz Hall ushers and staff to safely evacuate the theater.

CONCIERGE SERVICE, in the Entrance Lobby, is available to assist with information about Heinz Hall, the Cultural District and area attractions and to help with dining, hotel, entertainment and transportation concerns.

THE EMERGENCY REGISTRY BOOK, for the convenience of physicians and others who may be called in an emergency, is located at the concierge desk. Please turn off cellular phones and pagers upon entering the theater and refer all emergency calls to 412.392.2880.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AT CONCERTS: Penny Vennare, Event Supervisor; Tina Castrodale, Concierge; Ron Ogrodowski, Concierge.

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Can I organize a group for a concert?

Absolutely. With a group ticket purchase you receive discounted tickets, priority seats, personalized service and free reception space. For more information, call 412.392.4819 or visit our website at pittsburghsymphony.org/groups

What time should I arrive for concerts? You may want to arrive at least 20 minutes prior to concert start time to allow time for parking, entering the hall and finding your seat. BNY Mellon Grand Classics patrons have the opportunity to attend Concert Preludes, which begin one hour before the concert in the auditorium.

What should I wear to concerts?

There is no official dress code for events in Heinz Hall. Many patrons wear business attire, and many prefer to be more casual. Wear whatever makes you feel comfortable.

May I bring my children? Introducing small children to music is important to the PSO and we welcome young children to our youth concerts and Fiddlesticks Family Series. Children, approximately age six and over, are welcome at all performances with a purchased ticket. The Latecomer’s Gallery and lobby video monitors are always options for restless children.

May I take pictures? All still and video photography, or audio recording are strictly prohibited at all times.

How will I find parking? Pittsburgh’s Cultural District can be very busy but guaranteed prepaid parking is available to all ticketholders in the Sixth & Penn garage across from Heinz Hall. Ask about prepaid parking when you order your tickets.

What can I do to support the PSO? Your ticket purchase supports the PSO and we thank you! However, ticket sales only cover a portion of our operating costs. To make a tax-deductible gift to the PSO, contact our Donor Relations department at 412.392.4880 or visit us online at pittsburghsymphony.org How can I get someone from the PSO to speak at our event? The volunteers of the Speakers Bureau would like to share their passion for the PSO with the community by providing a speaker for you and your organization. If you are interested, please call 412.392.2235.

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