chicago symphony orchestra riccardo muti …...middle school student pedro jimenez, 12, at immokalee...

CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICCARDO MUTISYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS

may 2019

WEALTH PLANNING | BANKING | TRUST & ESTATE SERVICES | INVESTING | FAMILY OFFICE

TO LEARN MORE VISIT

northerntrust.com

We Have A Real Appreciation For Things That Are Well Orchestrated.

Northern Trust is proud to support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. For more than 125 years, we’ve been meeting our clients’ financial needs while nurturing a culture of caring and a commitment to invest in the communities we serve. Our goal is to help you find perfect harmony.

may 2019 3 PHOTOS BY TODD ROSENBERG

a note from the chair and the president

GLOBAL SPONSOR OF THE CSO

We are pleased to welcome you back for concerts featuring the great Chicago Symphony Orchestra as well as esteemed guest artists on the Symphony Center Presents series.

We begin with two weeks of subscription concerts con-ducted by Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti. The first program includes such evocative works as Bizet’s Roma, Respighi’s Pines of Rome, and Berlioz’s The Death of Cleopatra with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. For Muti’s second May program, he and the Orchestra are joined by pianist Mitsuko Uchida in Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20. Also on the pro-gram are Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro and Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird.

CSO subscription concerts continue with the anticipated return of violinist Hilary Hahn, performing Sibelius’s Violin Concerto on a program conducted by Mikko Franck that also includes Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony and A Requiem in Our Time, a work for symphonic brass by Rautavaara.

Next, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero makes his Orchestra Hall debut with compo-sitions by Ginastera, Chabrier, and Piazzolla in addition to Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, performed by guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas.

The Symphony Center Presents series offers a range of programs highlight-ing the artistry of distinguished musicians across genres. May begins with Itzhak Perlman and Evgeny Kissin in violin sonatas by Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven. Kissin returns for the SCP Piano series on May 12. The SCP Jazz series features pia-nist Jason Moran with his wife, mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran, in Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration, an SCP commission in honor of the Jazz series’ twenty-fifth anniversary season.

In addition to CSO and SCP performances, the Negaunee Music Institute presents Pictures from an Exhibition, conducted by Thomas Wilkins, on the CSO School Concerts and Family Matinee series. On May 12, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and conductor Ken-David Masur give the world premiere of Cerrone’s Meander, Spiral, Explode featuring Third Coast Percussion.

We thank you for your continued patronage of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and hope to see you often at this impressive array of concerts. We also encourage you not to delay in making your plans for the 2019–20 season. By subscribing, you can guarantee your best options to participate in what will be a season to remember.

Helen Zell Chair, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Board of Trustees

Jeff Alexander President, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

4 cso.org

The tour began with a return appearance for Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the Kravis

Center’s Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall on February 26. “The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s magnif-icent concert Tuesday night in West Palm Beach showed audiences the difference between a good orchestra and a great one,” wrote David Fleshler of the South Florida Classical Review. “Under music director Riccardo Muti, the orchestra gave a concert at the Kravis Center that is sure to rank with the season’s best—a memorable evening of classics by a virtuoso orchestra before an audience that was clearly absorbed in the performance,” he contin-ued. This first concert program, which was performed a second time days later in Naples, opened with Beethoven’s Leonore Overture no. 3 and continued with his Fifth and Seventh symphonies.

The performances of this core orchestral repertoire were revelatory and the music well worth revisiting in the expert hands of Muti and the CSO. “Under Muti, however, the orchestra played with such gripping power that the

Florida tour 2019CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRARICCARDO MUTI Zell Music Director

Between February 25 and March 3, 2019,

Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra performed four concerts in Florida, right on the heels of their tour

of Asia, with performances in West Palm Beach,

Miami, and Naples.

may 2019 5

familiar music emerged uncommonly fresh and recovered much of its original elemental force,” commented Fleshler. “The expansive reading of Leonore no. 3 showed off the orchestra’s virtuos-ity while conveying the dramatic arc of Fidelio,” wrote David Rice of Classical Source. The Palm Beach Daily News praised the performance of the

Seventh, describing it as “infused with brilliant, energetic playing.” But, according to Harriet Howard Heithaus of the Naples Daily News, it was the Symphony no. 5 that “showed the orchestra at its most enthusiastic and responsive. . . . Its performance revealed the layers of the music without losing the building blocks of its architec-ture.” Classical Source added, “Muti maintained high intensity all the way through the seemingly

Beaming Reviews from the Sunshine State

Florida tour 2019

clockwise from rightFormer CSOA board chair and life trustee Dick Thomas and CSOA life trustee Judy Istock co-hosted a party at the Naples Grand Beach Resort on March 1, 2019. From left to right: John Hagstrom (trumpet), Susan Synnestvedt (violin), Verne Istock, Dick Thomas, Judy Istock, Charlie Vernon (bass trombone), and Florence Schwartz (violin)

Vadim Karpinos performs using a typewriter and a triangle with middle school student Pedro Jimenez, 12, at Immokalee High School. March 1, 2019

Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. February 27, 2019

Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. February 26, 2019

The New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida

6 cso.org

endless coda—rife with false endings—making the final chords come as a release of almost unbearable tension.” “The best way to describe an all-Beethoven concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the musically uninitiated,” noted Heithaus, “It’s the whole pint of Talenti salted caramel chocolate gelato. With a soup spoon.” If this is true, then Chicago audiences are in for a decadent treat next season when Muti and the Orchestra perform all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies in honor of his semiquincentennial.

After West Palm Beach, the tour con-tinued with Muti and the Orchestra’s first performance together at Miami’s

Knight Concert Hall on February 27. Presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, the concert featured the second program of the tour with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 5 and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, which was also performed in Naples on March 2. “These Russian showpieces glowed anew as true mas-terworks,” said Lawrence Budman of the South Florida Classical Review. “From the first bars,” of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, he contin-ued, “Muti generated the work’s emotional velocity through supple phrasing rather than exaggerated bombast. Tchaikovsky’s melodies soared under Muti’s baton and his keen ear for detail drew out the inner voices.” Budman praised the brass section for the “strength at the climaxes with their mellow corporate blend bereft of harsh-ness” as well as the eight basses that “could be felt as well as heard” at the conclusion of the first movement. Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson’s “silvery flute,” Jennifer Gunn’s “bright piccolo,” and Daniel Gingrich’s “large, vibrant horn sonority” were also singled out.

Sebastian Spreng of Miami Clásica described the performance of Sheherazade as an “impressive chromatic palette of unprecedented transparency.” He and other journalists complimented several featured members of the Orchestra: “Robert Chen’s finely wrought solos, embellished by Sarah Bullen’s harp” were frequently mentioned, as were the “warmth” of Keith Buncke’s bassoon in The Tale of the Kalandar Prince movement, Stephen

Williamson’s “delightful riffs” in The Young Prince and the Young Princess, and John Sharp’s “beau-tifully flowing cello solo was devoid of syrupy excess” (Miami Clásica, Classical Source, and South Florida Classical Review).

“A little Italian music” was offered as an encore throughout the tour: the intermezzo from Giordano’s opera Fedora, which allowed, “Muti to indulge his passion for opera, and this mostly string transcription was the perfect Italian sor-betto to end an evening of glorious orchestral playing” (South Florida Classical Review, and note, yet another reference to Italian delicacies).

The performances in Frances Pew Hayes Hall on February 28 and March 2 presented by Artis–Naples marked the

beginning of a three-year residency that includes multiple community performances. Between their two concerts this season, musicians participated in educational activities organized by the CSOA’s Negaunee Music Institute. One group traveled to nearby Immokalee High School to perform for students in middle- and high-school ensem-bles. Oto Carrillo (horn), Sunghee Choi (viola), Michael Hovnanian (bass), Russell Hershow (violin), Mihaela Ionescu (violin), and Vadim

clockwise from top leftDavid Taylor talks to student musicians at Dreyfoos School for the Arts in West Palm Beach. February 26, 2019

Baird Dodge gives a violin master class with student Mandy Drake, 16, at Artis–Naples. March 1, 2019

Riccardo Muti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a concert of music by Beethoven at Artis–Naples Frances Pew Hayes Hall in Naples, Florida. February 28, 2019

Stephen Williamson gives a clarinet master class at the New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida. February 27, 2019

may 2019 7

Karpinos (percussion) gave an interactive chamber music per-formance at the high school. A highlight was the performance of Leroy Anderson’s The Typewriter (1950), which uses a vintage Smith-Corona as a percus-sion instrument.

Another group conducted master classes on the Artis–Naples campus for members of the Naples Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Among the instructors were principal second violin Baird Dodge, acting principal viola Li-Kuo Chang, principal cello John Sharp, and assistant principal clarinet John Bruce Yeh. The master classes served as an integral part of the CSO’s residency at Artis–Naples. Open to the public, the master classes offered, “an intimate look into of the process of making a musical work ready for performance for the audience. They’re free; they’re fascinating; and they bring new ears to listeners” (Naples Daily News). As an added bonus, students participating in the master classes were given tickets to see the Orchestra for the Saturday night performance.

In fact, members of the Orchestra went into the communities to work with young musi-cians during every stop of the Florida tour. In West Palm Beach, on February 25, members performed the Once Upon a Symphony produc-tion of The Ugly Duckling for the young students of Palm Beach Day Academy and Opportunity Early Childhood Education and Family Center. Produced and presented in collaboration with Chicago Children’s Theatre, the family friendly performance featured Emma Gerstein (flute),

Lora Schaefer (oboe), David Griffin (horn), Gary Stucka (cello), and actor Lily Emerson. On February 26, CSO musicians including David Taylor (assistant concertmaster), Sylvia Kilcullen (assistant principal second violin), Li-Kuo Chang (acting principal viola), John Sharp (principal cello), and Daniel Armstrong (bass) led section-als at the Dreyfoos School for the Arts in West Palm Beach. In Miami, Stephen Williamson (principal clarinet), Dennis Michel (bassoon), and Michael Mulcahy (trombone) gave master classes for members of the New World Symphony at the Frank Gehry–designed New World Center, which opened in 2011 and serves as the home of the orchestra, a training ensemble established in 1987 by conductor-composer Michael Tilson Thomas. Florida students delighted in these rare opportunities to learn from the finest orches-tral musicians. Heithaus of the Naples Daily News encouraged locals to attend public master classes to witness this important exchange of professional-level experience and skill to stu-dents; here “the teacher works as a chef, finding the right ingredients and the right techniques to make the performance its absolute best—the most delicious—it can be.”

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra thanks the following donors for generously supporting its appearance in Florida during 2019: Bank of America, Global Sponsor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; The Lauter McDougal Charitable Fund; Mr. and Mrs. Verne G. Istock; Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett; and the Zell Family Foundation.

For more tour coverage and photos, visit the CSO on Tour category on csosoundsandstories.org as well as the CSO’s Facebook and Instagram platforms. #csoontour

All photos by Anne Ryan

Anonymous (4)Mr. & Mrs. Howard AdolphMr. & Mrs. Robert A. AlsakerMrs. Ann BarbiniMr. † & Mrs. Gershon BergMr. & Mrs. Jerome BerkelhamerMr. James BerlandMrs. Nancy BermanMr. & Mrs. William E. BibleMr. & Mrs. Ralph BlockMr. & Mrs. John BorlandHugh † and Charlotte BrauerBrown’s R. Ins. FoundationMrs. Dan BrusslanHenry and Gilda BuchbinderMr. Ray CapitaniniDr. and Mrs. Richard D. ChessickJames D. ComptonMr. & Mrs. Richard DavisonNatalie and Joshua DranoffMrs. Linda DybasMr. Richard EastlineMr. & Mrs. Bernhard EbsteinMr. Tomy EndoSidney Epstein † and

Sondra Berman EpsteinMs. Patricia ErensMrs. Walter D. FacklerMr. James B. FadimMr. & Mrs. Burt FainmanMrs. Edith FaldnerMr. Gordon FishburnMrs. John D. FosterRhoda Lea and Henry S. † FrankAllen J. Frantzen and George R. PatersonMrs. Joseph FreilichMr. & Mrs. John D. Galbraith IIIMr. David GilletteMr. Daniel Gilmour, IIIMs. Lenore GlanzMichelle and Gerald M. GordonMr. Lawrence GordonRichard † and Mary L. GrayJudith and Aubrey GreenbergMr. & Mrs. David Greenstein

Mr. & Mrs. L. Dale GriffithMr. John GrimesDr. & Mrs. Roy GrinkerMrs. Jackie HaffenbergMr. & Mrs. John HalesMarguerite DeLany HarkJoan W. HarrisJohn Hart and Carol PrinsMrs. Harriet HausmanMr. James Heard, Jr.Mrs. Margaret HilgendorfRichard and Joanne HoffmanMr. † & Mrs. Joel D. HonigbergFrances and Franklin † HorwichMr. and Mrs. Herbert HorwichMr. Robert IrvingMr. & Mrs. William R. JentesMiss Doris JohnsonDr. Peter KlassenKovler Family FoundationEldon and Patricia KreiderMr. & Mrs. Raymond KubyDr. † & Mrs. Klaus KuettnerDr. & Mrs. Murray LevinAverill and Bernard † LevitonDr. and Mrs. S. LoomisSamuel and Miriam MagadMs. Maryhelen MatijevicMrs. Jack MayMrs. Erma MedgyesyMr. Donald Metzger and

Mrs. Susan AndersonMr. Phillip M. MigdalMrs. Edward MillerMr. & Mrs. William MinerCharles A. MooreMr. J. Thomas MullenLuigi H. MumfordMr. Randall Nack † and

Mr. Lloyd KleinhuizenEleanor NicholsonNorm & Mary NodulmanMr. James NolenMr. & Mrs. Richard NoparDr. & Mrs. Ray Pensinger

Mrs. Edward PerlmanLorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Byron PollockMr. George PontikesRev. & Mrs. Fred ReklauBurton and Francine RissmanSheli Z. and Burton X. RosenbergRita † and Norman SackarDr. Virginia C. Saft, M.D.Bettylu and Paul SaltzmanMr. Samuel SaxMr. Allen SchechterMrs. Lawrence ScheffMrs. Milton SchefflerDr. Verne A. SchwagerDavid and Judith L. SensibarMr. and Mrs. † David ShayneDr. & Mrs. James C. SheininMr. and Mrs. Frank E. ShermanMr. Jerry ShiptonMr. Morrell Shoemaker, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Bruce SiewerthMr. Larry SimpsonIda N. Sondheimer & FamilyMr. & Mrs. O. J. SopranosAlex † & Mary SproulMr. & Mrs. Mark SternLiz StiffelMrs. Lorna P. StrausMr. Michael StraussDr. Terri and Mr. Allan SweigMr. Charles TauscheDr. David TermanMrs. Alice ThannerMiss Loretta ThurmMr. Edward TurkingtonMrs. Frederick UllmanDr. George Van VerstMrs. Anna Mary WallaceMr. Karl WechterDr. & Mrs. Howard WeissMrs. Iris WitkowskyJudge and Mrs. James ZagelHelen Zell

8 cso.org

50+

yearsA Special THANK YOU to Our Loyal Subscribers

† Deceased

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association recognizes those who are concert subscribers for fifty years or more.

These quotes come from CSOA concertgoers, subscribers, donors, and volunteers. If you would like to send a comment, please contact Luciana Bonifazi, communication manager for donor engagement, at [email protected].

Words of Appreciation for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

“ The CSO represents all that is beautiful about cultural differences. . . . Chicago and its sur-rounding areas are so very fortunate to have this local gem within our proximity and yet, be able to experience and enjoy music from around the world.”

JACALYN GRONEK

“ The CSO’s musicians and Maestro Muti put not just their immense talent, but also their souls, into every note and phrase. And, our souls feel better for it! . . . We always leave Symphony Center in a “higher” place . . . and with smiles on our faces.

VICKI AND BARRY KAUFMAN

“ We are truly blessed to have an orchestra of such consummate artistry so readily accessible. It is an honor to contrib-ute to its continuation for the inspiration of future generations.

EDWARD J. AMREIN

“ The CSO is magical!”

AUGUST PEREIRA

“ I will never forget the feeling of being over-whelmed by the sheer virtuosity of the orches-tra and the beautiful sound they produced.”

BRIAN PARK

“ We have been going to the symphony for decades. It is a treasured part of our cultural life.”

ALAN SCHRIESHEIM AND KAY TORSHEN

“ While the adult in me is deeply grateful each time I experience an exquisite CSO perfor-mance, it is the child in me who looks up at those twinkling palace lights, knowing that “not everyone gets to go,” and feeling so thankful for the privilege to do so.”

SUE BRIDGE

may 2019 9

100 years ago, CSO music director

Frederick Stock started the Chicago

Symphony Orchestra’s concert

series for children, and it continues

to this day. As part of the centennial

celebration, the Negaunee Music

Institute is collecting stories and

memories of these concerts. If

you’ve ever attended a CSO School

or Family concert, we would love

to hear from you.

Celebrating the 100th season of the CSO’s concert series for children

Please visit cso.org/CentennialStories to share your experience.

PB_Negaunee_100_6.5×9.5.indd 1 10/25/18 12:48 PM

the negaunee music institute at the cso

12 cso.org

Auxiliary Education: The CSO’s Percussion Scholarship Program

T oday we’re working on flams!” declares Christopher, an unbounded source of pure energy that has taken the form of a

charismatic third grader. “We have our technique test next week, and I need to work on my open and closed drum rolls.” He then demonstrates the double-stroke (open roll), where he gradually speeds to a full roll before decelerating back to the original metered, alternating hand movements. Christopher is one of the newest members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Percussion Scholarship Program (PSP).

Since its founding in 1995, PSP has offered intensive, weekly percussion instruction on full scholarship to Chicago youth in grades 4–12.

Students are admitted through a competitive pro-cess that includes a provisional period followed by an invitation to continue to participate through eighth grade, and a select group goes on through high school. The program’s founders direct the group: CSO percussion Patricia Dash and her husband, Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra assistant principal percussion Douglas Waddell.

PSP exemplifies the mission of the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute: a long-term com-mitment to music education under the highest pedagogical ideologies, void of financial and socio-discriminatory barriers. Students hail from neighborhoods across Chicago and proportion-ally reflect the city’s diverse population, includ-

ing African American, Latinx, and Asian American students, among others.

The program meets through-out the year and provides each student with free instruments and lesson materials. The Percussion Scholars perform four times each season at Symphony Center as an ensem-ble and offer a free concert for Chicago Public School students as part of the Chicago Youth in Music Festival. This season’s festival concert took place on February 11 and featured over 1,500 students in Orchestra Hall to hear a program that included everything from opera excerpts by Saint-Saëns to a trash can drumline set to rapper Macklemore’s beats and lyrics.

S ean, seventeen, a veteran of the program, now helps coach some of the

younger players. “I really like teaching the first-year players.” Cracking a smile, he adds, “It

ALL PHOTOS BY TODD ROSENBERG

clockwise from top leftPSP members find the pocket during a recent recital; PSP members perform in Orchestra Hall for the CSO-hosted League of American Orchestras 2018 National Conference; The 2017 PSP class photo

may 2019 13


reminds me how far I’ve come.” He works with Christopher on his flams and double-strokes. Christopher, who clearly looks up to Sean, soaks up all the advice.

In the past two seasons, Sean has appeared with PSP on an episode of NPR’s From the Top; was awarded the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Young Artist Award; received a scholarship to Interlochen Arts Camp; was a finalist with the CSO’s Crain-Maling Foundation Young Artist Competition; and was selected to join Carnegie Hall’s distinguished NYO2 orches-tral program this coming summer.

J enny is the mother to twelve-year-old PSP student Mekhi. She and her husband do not mind all that the program asks of the

family members of participants—rehearsals, recitals, potlucks, etc.—because she sees results in her son’s musical development and overall work ethic. Their family lives in a duplex on the South Side, where they have set up a practice space for Mekhi in the top-floor living room—where the ambient sound is “minimized.” Coming home from work recently, Jenny was stopped by her neighbor, who said, “Mekhi’s marimba solo is really coming along!”

PSP’s spring recitals draw capacity crowds to Symphony Center’s Buntrock Hall.

14 cso.org


Learning music fundamen-tals from trained and skilled instructors is an important step toward the development of new musicians. Good form, musical context, practice tips, and account-ability are all vital aspects of the formal training process. The advantage of having these lessons taught by world-class industry leaders is readily apparent in the improvement and skill level of the students.

Most musicians do not study with virtuosos until they are further along in their musical stud-ies. Even then, it tends to be one-off lessons in order to prepare for a major audition or recital. PSP demonstrates the benefits of having this level of training from the highest caliber of teach-ers from the very beginning of a musical career. Forty-eight weekends a year (yes, you read that correctly), with a strict, drill-sergeant-like adher-ence to the practice schedule, Patricia Dash and Douglas Waddell train all program participants.

The intrinsic value of this program is second-to-none (to say nothing of the “retail

value”). This is not a hyperbolic statement—the Percussion Scholarship Program is an anom-aly. Dissertations have been written about it; graduates go on to some of the most prestigious colleges and conservatories in the country; and Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony are currently considering using the PSP model to start a similar program. To add to all this, its leg-acy also includes the college graduation of every program participant.

—Benjamin Wise Negaunee Music Institute Programs Assistant

Three of the four finalists in the 2019 CSO Crain-Maling Foundation Young Artist Competition were current PSP members. From left to right: CSO Percussion Patricia Dash; sophomore Bridget Hemesath; sophomore and first runner-up Avi Gotskind; junior Sean Edwards; Lyric Opera Assistant Principal Percussion Doug Waddell

PSP is currently accepting applications from third and fourth grade City of Chicago students for the 2019–20 season. PSP has one remaining public performance this season, Sunday, May 26, at 7 p.m., in Symphony Center’s Buntrock Hall. To learn more, or download a membership application, visit cso.org/psp .

Lyric premiere of Bernstein’s West Side Story generously made possible by Lead SponsorThe Negaunee Foundation and cosponsors an Anonymous Donor, Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin, Robert S. and Susan E. Morrison, Mrs. Herbert A. Vance and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance, and Northern Trust. Major in-kind audio support provided by Shure Incorporated.

INCLUDING FAVORITES LIKE “MARIA,” “TONIGHT,”

“AMERICA,” AND MORE!

ON STAGE NOWL I M I T E D E N G A G E M E N T

312.827.5600 | WESTSIDESTORYCHICAGO.COMSAVINGS FOR GROUPS OF 10 OR MORE | 312.827.5720

WEST SIDE STORY

Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS | Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN | Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIMEntire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by JEROME ROBBINS

Based on a Conception of JEROME ROBBINS

16 cso.org

volunteer leadership and opportunities

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is profoundly grateful to the leaders and volunteers listed here and invites you to consider these volunteer opportunities.

governing members are leading individuals of the CSOA family and serve as its first established volunteer group, celebrating their 124th year in the 2018–19 season. GMs provide elevated enthusiasm and support for the CSOA’s artistic excellence and educational innovation. Members receive opportunities to gain a deeper connection with CSO’s musicians and orga-nization, as well as with fellow members through special access, ticketing services, events, and meetings. To learn more, call 312-294-3337.The women’s board promotes the artistic excellence and exemplary education programs of the Orchestra by engaging women leaders in advo-cacy and fundraising efforts. The board supports annual fundraising events to benefit the Orchestra, including its signature event, Symphony Ball. To learn more, please call 312-294-3160.The league is a creative, vibrant, and dedicated group of over 250 members with over an eighty-year history of supporting the CSO. Members plan and produce fundraising and social events; implement outreach opportunities for adults and children, such as the Young Artists Competition and the Docent Program; and support audience development. To learn more, please call 312-294-3170 or email [email protected] overture council is a dynamic group of young professionals ages 21 to 45 who have a love of music and a desire to learn more about how to support the CSO. Members have many opportunities to attend social activities and concert evenings together. Connect with new friends who share the same interests! Check out the Overture Council’s innovative event Soundpost—open to all! Learn more at cso.org/overturecouncil and cso.org/soundpost.The CSO latino alliance is a liaison and partner that connects the CSO with Chicago’s diverse community by creating awareness, sharing insights, and building relationships for generations to come. The group encourages individuals and their families to discover and experience timeless music with other enthusiasts in concerts, receptions, and educational events. To learn more, email [email protected], visit cso.org/latinoalliance, or join the CSO Latino Alliance Facebook group.The mission of the CSOA’s african american network is to engage Chicago’s culturally rich African American community through the sharing and exchanging of unforgettable musical experiences. The AAN seeks to serve and encourage individuals and families, educators and students, musicians and composers, and churches and businesses to expe-rience the timeless beauty of music. To learn more about how you can be involved, contact Sheila Jones, director of community stewardship, at [email protected] or call 312-294-3045.auxiliary volunteers provide invaluable administrative support in a variety of ways by working in the office during regular business hours. Occasional evening and weekend opportunities also are available. Please call 312-294-3160 to learn more.

governing members executive commit teeJared Kaplan ChairmanTimothy A. Duffy Immediate

Past ChairmanCharles Emmons Jr. Vice

Chairman of the Annual FundEric Kalnins Vice Chairman of

Member EngagementMichael A. Perlstein Vice

Chairman of Nominations and Membership

women’s boardElizabeth A. Parker PresidentElisabeth Adams Immediate

Past PresidentHyla Kallen Communications/

Governance ChairJudith E. Feldman Community

Engagement ChairKatie Barber Membership Chair

league executive commit teeMimi Duginger PresidentWilliam Ward Vice President

of AdministrationKathy Solaro Vice President

of AreasNancy Friedman Vice President

of EducationMarcia Lewis Vice President

of EventsClaretta Meier Vice President

of FinanceCheryl Istvan Vice President

of FundraisingMary Goodkind Vice President

of MembershipBonnie McGrath SecretaryDenise Stauder Strategic

Planning ChairSue Bridge, Earle Cromer III

Members-at-Large

overture council executive commit teeErika Knierim PresidentJohn Dunson President-elect,

Membership ChairKathryn Davies Activities ChairKathie Chong Audience

Development ChairHank Bell Cultural Outreach ChairAmy Fallon

Communications ChairDavid Greene Social Media ChairElliot Callighan, Kristin Jaburek

Soundpost Co-chairsDanielle Flagg Secretary

latino alliance LeadershipRamiro J. Atristaín-Carrión Chair

The Volunteer Programs office is located at 67 East Adams, 6th floor. 312-294-3160

Contact Karen Bullen at 312-294-3192 or visit cso.org/PlannedGiving for more information.

Join the Theodore Thomas Society

Discover the benefits of making a legacy gift to your Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Named in honor of the founding music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Theodore Thomas Society recognizes those who make financial plans to benefit the CSO in the future.

Music was a constant part of the social connection among my friends when I was a teenager. To listen to music back then required a radio and/or record player(!), so we all shared. Through friends, I was introduced to classical music.

When I moved to Chicago, friends had season tickets to the CSO and I joined them sitting in the Terrace. From there we watched the conductors as they used small facial changes to intimately direct the musicians. It was like sitting in the middle of the musicians—such a thrill!

I am so proud to live in Chicago and to enjoy wonderful CSO concerts. The CSO brings me such joy and it was important for me through my estate plans to support this jewel and help ensure future generations of musicians will be able to give the gift of wonderful music to listeners.

— Ms. Dar Johnson

18 cso.org

event spotlight

PHOTOS BY TODD ROSENBERG

2019 Patrons Tour to Japan

On January 19, 2019, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra embarked on an eleven-concert tour of Asia with stops in Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, and Osaka. The tour repertoire showcased works by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Verdi. A group of twenty-one CSOA trustees and donors joined the CSO in Japan for the official patrons tour lead by tour chairs Leslie and John Burns and Shelley Ochab and Chet Gougis.

In Tokyo, the patrons participated in cultural activities, including a private lesson in noh—classical Japanese musical drama—and a wadaiko drumming class with CSO assistant principal timpani Vadim Karpinos, principal bassoon Keith Buncke, and principal second violin Baird Dodge; visited several art and history museums as well as Japanese temples and Mount Fuji; enjoyed walking tours showcasing Tokyo’s architecture; received a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to operate a CSO tour; shared several delicious meals with CSO musicians; and enjoyed CSO performances in the beautiful Bunka Kaikan concert hall. The patrons later traveled on to the island of Hokaido for the annual Snow Festival in its capital, Sapporo.

For information on future travel opportunities with the CSO, please contact Allison Szafranski, director of leader-ship gifts, at [email protected].

may 2019 19

event spotlight

opposite page, top to bottomGoverning Member Momoko Steiner takes photos during a community outreach event. January 31, 2019

Trustee Lori Julian partici-pates in a wadaiko drumming class. January 29, 2019

CSO musicians, patrons, and staff following a wadaiko drumming class at the the Taiko-Lab. January 29, 2019

this page, top to bottomThe CSO, soloists, and the Tokyo Opera Singers perform Verdi’s Requiem at Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan. January 31, 2019

CSO flute and piccolo Jennifer Gunn and Shelley Ochab share a meal. January 30, 2019

Higashiyama Elementary School strings play their school anthem, set to the tune of Sibelius’s Finlandia, during the program with CSO musicians. January 31, 2019

20 cso.org

sponsors

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is grateful for the generous support of this season’s major corporate sponsors.

global sponsor of the cso

official airline of the cso

may 2019 21

executive spotlight

renée me tcalf, marke t executive, illinois global commercial banking

Bank of America Merrill LynchBank of America is proud to continue its long-standing support of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Our partnership not only delivers artistic quality but also helps to create meaningful connections

with a diverse audience base in Chicago and around the world.

christopher l . culp, managing directorFinancial Economics Consulting, Inc.

The CSO commands respect both locally and worldwide and is an important ambassador of our city to the rest of the world. We are proud to support this amazing and unparalleled symphony

in all of its pursuits at home and abroad.

terrence j. truax , managing partnerJenner & Block LLP

Jenner & Block is proud to share the CSO’s passion for creativity, innovation and the pursuit of excellence. As a longtime CSO supporter, the firm looks forward to continuing to participate in the symphony’s rich tradi-

tion of musical excitement and unfolding artistry in Chicago and the many communities it touches in the United States and around the world.

chris crane, president and ceoExelon

At Exelon, we believe that creativity inspires us all. We are proud to serve as sponsor of the SCP Jazz series. Exelon has a strong tradition of committing our energy and resources to the communities we serve.

Through our corporate citizenship program, Exelon creates collaborations with community- based nonprofits to deliver cutting-edge ideas that achieve meaningful and measurable change for the better.david r. casper, u.s. ceoBMO Financial Group

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra commands the admiration of music lovers worldwide. Its reputation across the world brings acclaim to our great city, and its programming and outreach connect audiences

through the bond of music. As a proud admirer and supporter, BMO is pleased to help play a role in strengthening the CSO, one of our city’s greatest cultural legacies.ed wehmer, president & ceoWintrust Financial

Chicago has become a cultural touchstone for some of the most celebrated musical acts in the world. As Chicago’s Bank, we’re honored to support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and its dedication

to inspiring musicians in our community with educational programs that instill hard work, discipline, and creativity and through the power of music. Their work demonstrates that we can all play a unique part to produce something magical.

global sponsor of the cso

A VIRTUOSIC SHOWCASE OF 19TH-CENTURY ITALIAN MUSIC IN ALL ITS PASSION, JOY AND HEARTBREAK

Includes selections from Verdi’s Nabucco, Macbeth and I vespri siciliani, intermezzos by Puccini and Mascagni and Boito’s Prologue to Mefistofele. Recorded live in Orchestra Hall, June 2017.

Global Sponsor of the CSO

NEW ON CSO RESOUND!

chicago symphony orchestra association board of trustees

* Ex officio Trustee † Deceased

may 2019 23

officers (2018 –19)Helen Zell ChairMary Louise Gorno Vice ChairRobert A. Kohl Vice ChairLiisa Thomas Vice ChairJames W. Mabie TreasurerJeff Alexander PresidentKaren Rahn Secretary of

the BoardStacie M. Frank

Assistant TreasurerThe Honorable

Rahm Emanuel Honorary Chairman

honorary trusteesThe Honorable

Richard M. DaleyLady Valerie Solti

trusteesJohn AalbregtsePeter J. BarackH. Rigel BarberRandy Lamm BerlinLaurence O. BoothKay BucksbaumRobert J. BufordLeslie Henner BurnsDebra A. CafaroMarion A. CameronDavid CasperBruce E. ClintonGeorge P. ColisKeith S. CrowDr. Christopher L. CulpStephen V. D’AmoreTimothy A. DuffyMimi Duginger*Brian W. Duwe

J. Bradley FewellRichard C. GodfreyGraham C. GradyLori JulianJared Kaplan*Geraldine KeefeDonna L. KendallJames KolarRandall S. KrosznerJosef LakonishokPatty LaneBeth ManninoMark G. McGrathChristopher MelvinRenée MetcalfMary Pivirotto MurleySylvia NeilElizabeth Parker*Gerald PaulingJose Luis PradoDr. Irwin PressCol. Jennifer N. PritzkerDr. Mohan RaoBurton X. RosenbergKristen C. RossiEarl J. Rusnak, JrE. Scott SantiSteven E. ShebikAlejandro SilvaWalter SnodellDaniel E. Sullivan, Jr.Scott SwansonNasrin ThiererLiisa ThomasTerrence J. TruaxFrederick H. WaddellPaul R. WigginRobert WislowHelen Zell

life trusteesWilliam Adams IVMrs. Robert A. BeattyMarshall Bennett †Arnold M. BerlinWilliam G. BrownDean L. BuntrockRichard ColburnRichard H. CooperAnthony T. DeanCharles DouglasJohn A. EdwardsonThomas J. EyermanJames B. FadimDavid W. Fox, Sr.Richard J. FrankeCyrus F. Freidheim, JrH. Laurance FullerMrs. Robert W. GalvinPaul C. GignilliatJoseph B. GlossbergWilliam A. GoldsteinMary Louise GornoHoward L. GottliebChester A. GougisRichard Gray †Joyce T. GreenMary Winton GreenDietrich GrossDavid P. HackettJoan W. HarrisJohn H. HartThomas C. HeagyJay L. HendersonDebora de HoyosMrs. Roger B. HullJudith W. IstockWilliam R. JentesPaul R. JudyRichard B. Kapnick

Donald G. Kempf, JrGeorge D. KennedyMrs. John C. KernRobert KohlFred A. KrehbielCharles Ashby LewisEva F. LichtenbergJohn S. LillardDonald G. LubinJames W. MabieJohn F. ManleyLing Z. MarkovitzR. Eden MartinArthur C. MartinezJudith W. McCueLester H. McKeeverDavid E. McNeelJohn D. NicholsJames J. O’ConnorWilliam A. OsbornMrs. Albert PawlickJane DiRenzo PigottJohn M. PrattMrs. Neil K. Quinn †John W. Rogers, Jr.Jerry RoseFrank A. RossiCynthia M. SargentJohn R. SchmidtThomas C. Sheffield, Jr.Rita SimóRobert C. SpoerriCarl W. SternRoger W. StoneWilliam H. StrongLouis C. Sudler, Jr.Richard L. ThomasRichard P. ToftPenny Van Horn

Member FDIC. The CIBC Logo is a registered trademark of CIBC, used under license. ©2019 CIBC Bank USA. Products and services offered by CIBC Bank USA. cibc.com/US

Our clients get a banking partnership that makes the right connections.At CIBC, we believe every client is one of a kind. With an experienced commercial banking team and 150 years of putting clients first, we deliver on your financial goals by developing a business partnership that’s built for you.

Our clients get a banking partnership

may 2019 25

one hundred twenty-eighth season

Chicago Symphony OrchestraRiccardo Muti Zell Music DirectorYo-Yo Ma Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant GLOBAL SPONSOR OF THE CSO

Thursday, May 9, 2019, at 8:00Friday, May 10, 2019, at 8:00Saturday, May 11, 2019, at 8:00

Riccardo Muti ConductorMitsuko Uchida Piano

mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492

mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466AllegroRomanzaRondo: Allegro assai

mitsuko uchida

intermission

stravinsky Divertimento, Suite from The Fairy’s KissSinfoniaDanses suissesScherzoPas de deux

stravinsky Suite from The FirebirdIntroduction and Dance of the FirebirdDance of the PrincessesInfernal Dance of King KashcheiBerceuse—Finale

These concerts are generously sponsored by the Theckla Family Fund.

United Airlines is the Official Airline of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

This program is supported in part by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

26 one hundred twenty-eighth season

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra thanks the

Theckla Family Fund

for sponsoring the May 9, 10 & 11, 2019, performances.

may 2019 27

comments by phillip huscher

wolfgang mozartBorn January 27, 1756; Salzburg, AustriaDied December 5, 1791; Vienna, Austria

Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492

composedmanuscript dated April 29, 1786

first performanceMay 1, 1786; Vienna, Austria

instrumentationtwo flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, strings

approximate performance time4 minutes

first cso performancesNovember 30, 1892, Central Music Hall. Max Bendix conducting

November 21 and 22, 1902, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting

July 12, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Hans Lange conducting

most recent cso performancesNovember 1, 2, and 3, 2001, Orchestra Hall. Jun Märkl conducting

August 15 and 17, 2014, Ravinia Festival. James Conlon conducting (complete opera)

cso recordings1961. George Szell conducting. VAI (video)

1979. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Deutsche Grammophon

On November 11, 1785, Leopold Mozart complained that he had scarcely heard from his son Wolfgang: “He is up to his eyes in work on his opera The Marriage of Figaro,” he wrote. Lorenzo da Ponte, Wolfgang’s librettist, later recalled the whirlwind pace of their collaboration: “As fast as I wrote the words, Mozart set them to music. In six weeks everything was in order.” That is no

doubt sheer exaggeration—by a man often given to overstatement—but much of the four-act comic opera apparently was composed between October 16, when Mozart finished his great piano quartet in G minor, and December 1.

The overture to The Marriage of Figaro was left till the very last moment, as was Mozart’s custom. The manuscript is dated April 29, 1786, the same day he entered the work in his personal catalog of compositions. By then, the orchestral parts for the opera had been copied and rehearsals had started. Figaro opened on May 1 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, with the composer con-ducting from the keyboard. It was well received there, and after it was given in Prague that December, Mozart enjoyed a popularity seldom known to composers during their lifetimes. “Here they talk about nothing but Figaro,” he wrote when he visited Prague in January. “Nothing is played, sung, or whistled but Figaro. No opera is drawing like Figaro. Nothing, nothing but Figaro.”

T he overture is a perfect curtain raiser. It crackles with excitement and is full of promise. The combination of frantic music and a hushed tempo suggests intrigue and

conspiracy from the start; the warm glow of horns and winds assures us that this is, above all, a comedy. The pace is unrelent-ingly fast (we now know that Mozart tore up a page of slower music he intended as a contrasting middle section), but there is, nevertheless, an undercurrent of complexity. Mozart knew only too well that the human heart is animated by complicated attachments and great expectations.

leftWolfgang Mozart, detail from the family portrait by Johann Nepomuk della Croce (1736–1819), ca. 1780


comments

wolfgang mozart

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466

composedFebruary 10, 1785, entered in catalog

first performanceFebruary 11, 1785; Vienna, Austria. The composer as soloist

instrumentationsolo piano, one flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, strings

cadenzasby Beethoven


first cso performancesJanuary 14 and 15, 1916, Orchestra Hall. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, as soloist, Frederick Stock conducting

July 6, 1961, Ravinia Festival. John Browning as soloist, Josef Krips conducting

most recent cso performancesOctober 1, 2, and 3, 2015, Orchestra Hall. Leif Ove Andsnes as soloist, Riccardo Muti conducting

August 9, 2018, Ravinia Festival. Garrick Ohlsson as soloist, James Conlon conducting

This was Beethoven’s favorite of all Mozart’s piano concertos. It’s the only one he played in public (and the only one for which he wrote cadenzas). Throughout the nineteenth century, it was the sole concerto by Mozart that was regularly performed—its demonic power and dark beauty spoke to musicians who had been raised on Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt. When it was fashionable to

dismiss Mozart as an outdated composer with fussy manners and empty charm, this score brought people to their senses. It’s surely one of the most celebrated pieces ever written—“almost as much myth as work of art,” as Charles Rosen put it.

Mozart and Beethoven met for the first time in 1787, two years after this concerto was premiered in Vienna. Beethoven wanted to study with Mozart—he may even have had a few les-sons with him at the time. But it wasn’t until 1792, the year after Mozart’s death, that Beethoven settled in Vienna, and so he ended up studying with Haydn instead, finding little comfort—or truth—in Count Waldstein’s famous prophecy that he would “receive Mozart’s spirit from Haydn’s hands.” As a favor to Mozart’s widow Constanze, and as tribute to the composer he most admired, Beethoven played Mozart’s D minor concerto between the acts of La clemenza di Tito at a memorial perfor-mance on March 31, 1795, no doubt improvising that night the famous cadenza that he later wrote down. (Mozart’s own caden-zas haven’t survived, although they are mentioned in one of his father’s letters; at these performances, Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven’s cadenzas.) It’s the only time Beethoven is known to have played one of Mozart’s concertos in public, although he was certainly well acquainted with others and particularly liked the one in C minor.

It’s easy to understand what attracted Beethoven—as well as later nineteenth-century musicians—to this concerto. It belongs to a handful of works by Mozart that suggested he was the earliest great romantic composer. This is his first concerto in a minor key—in itself an unusual, forward-looking choice. Like the terrifying chords that open Don Giovanni (and return when Don Juan is dragged down to hell), or the Lacrimosa from the Requiem (the last music Mozart wrote), the concerto established D minor as the darkest of keys and seemed at first almost to exhaust its tragic potential.

leftWolfgang Mozart, a miniature portrait by Joseph Grassi (1757–1838), ca. 1783. Mozarteum Foundation

may 2019 29

comments

T he opening, with its syncopated, throbbing D minor chords, is not about theme or harmony

so much as gesture and tension. Like much truly dramatic music, it’s ominously quiet. The piano, surpris-ingly, doesn’t repeat this music when it enters, but begins with its own highly individual phrases—in fact, the soloist traverses the entire movement without once playing these signature chords. In the same way, the piano’s opening lines—as pure and unadorned as recitative—are not imitated by the orchestra. The relationship between soloist and orchestra had never before been so tense or complex. (When Haydn turned pages at a performance, Leopold Mozart boasted that this allowed him to appreciate “the artful composition and interweaving, as well as the difficulty of the concerto.”) Their uneasy interplay—sometimes accommodating, occasionally unyielding—is what carries this music into the realm of high drama. This is the first concerto with which Mozart so openly reveals not only the form’s symphonic qualities, but its affinity with the world of opera as well.

The piano alone begins the second movement, a serene romance that brings relief without com-pletely banishing the tragic mood. In particu-lar, an explosive G minor interlude—“the noisy part with the fast triplets,” as Leopold called it—recalls the unrest that came before—and will soon return.

When Leopold Mozart arrived in Vienna on February 10, 1785, the day before the premiere

of his son’s new D minor concerto, he noted that there was no time to rehearse the finale, since the parts were still being copied. (“Your brother did not even have time to play through the rondo,” he wrote home to Nannerl, “as he had to supervise the copying.”) The music shows no sign of haste, however. Rosen even argues that this is the first concerto with outer movements “so strikingly and openly related.” Mozart’s care and wisdom are evi-dent everywhere. Once again, it’s the unaccompa-nied piano that launches the argument, this time with unusual urgency. This isn’t a convention-ally cheerful rondo, but a highly charged, force-ful conclusion to a tragic work. (In its darkness and power, it anticipates the minor-key finale of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto.) Finally, just as the chilling D minor of Don Giovanni ends in the brilliance of D major, so too this drama, in a radiant coda that is the equivalent of the tidy happy ending the eighteenth-century opera stage demanded.

left to rightConstanze Mozart (1762–1842), portrait by brother-in-law Joseph Lange (1751–1831), 1782. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. Glasgow, Scotland

Leopold Mozart (1719–1787), portrait by Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni (1721–1782). Mozarteum Foundation


comments

igor stravinskyBorn June 17, 1882; Oranienbaum, RussiaDied April 6, 1971; New York City

Divertimento, Suite from The Fairy’s Kiss

composed1928 (The Fairy’s Kiss, complete ballet)

1934 (Divertimento, suite drawn from ballet)

first performanceNovember 27, 1928 (ballet)

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


first cso performancesJanuary 14, 1935, Pabst Theater, Milwaukee. The com-poser conducting

January 17 and 18, 1935, Orchestra Hall. The composer conducting

July 5, 1962, Ravinia Festival. Walter Hendl conducting

most recent cso performancesJune 28, 1992, Ravinia Festival. James Levine conducting

October 15, 2015, Orchestra Hall. Sir Andrew Davis conducting

cso performances, the composer conductingJanuary 14 and 15, 1954, Orchestra Hall

July 8, 1965, Ravinia Festival (complete ballet)

cso recording1958. Fritz Reiner conducting. RCA

Igor Stravinsky caught his only glimpse of Tchaikovsky when he was just eleven years old. Stravinsky and his mother had gone to the Mariinsky Theatre to hear Igor’s father, the acclaimed bass Fyodor, sing in the fiftieth-anniversary production of Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila. During the first intermission, when they stepped from their box, his mother suddenly said, “Igor,

look—there is Tchaikovsky.” As Stravinsky later recalled, “I looked and saw a man with white hair, large shoulders, a corpulent back, and this image has remained in the retina of my memory all my life.”

When Tchaikovsky died two weeks later, Stravinsky was deeply moved (when he broke the news of Tchaikovsky’s death to his fellow classmates, one of them asked what grade he was in). Igor would always remember the program book for a memorial con-cert he and his mother attended, which had Tchaikovsky’s por-trait, framed in black, on the cover. It may well have reminded him of the photograph signed by Tchaikovsky that hung in his father’s studio, “the most treasured object” among many musical treasures. He also knew that, in a letter to Nadezhda von Meck, Tchaikovsky had praised the elder Stravinsky’s singing. In fact, Igor’s father was one of Tchaikovsky’s pallbearers, the one who placed the wreath on the grave.

S travinsky had known and loved Tchaikovsky’s music from childhood—certainly ever since he was taken to The Sleeping Beauty for the first time at the age of seven

or eight. Some thirty years later, acting on a suggestion from Sergei Diaghilev, he even orchestrated two passages from The Sleeping Beauty that Tchaikovsky had cut before the first perfor-mance. Stravinsky’s next work, the opera Mavra, was dedicated to “the memory of Tchaikovsky, Glinka, and Pushkin,” and prompted by Diaghilev’s Sleeping Beauty revival. And so, in 1928, when Stravinsky was asked to compose a ballet inspired by Tchaikovsky’s music for Ida Rubinstein’s new company,

aboveIgor Stravinsky, photographed by Robert Regassi, 1921. Lausanne, Switzerland

may 2019 31

comments

he jumped at the challenge. The ballet was to be produced in November 1928, on the thirty-fifth anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s death.

For his subject, Stravinsky turned to Hans Christian Andersen, whose powerful and fantastic tales had been part of Stravinsky’s child-hood, along with Tchaikovsky’s music. He picked Andersen’s “The Ice Maiden,” apparently finding in Tchaikovsky’s creative life (branded by the Muse’s kiss) a parallel with the tale of a boy who is doomed by the kiss of the Ice Maiden. The ballet was described as an allegory.

Having already breathed new life into music by Pergolesi in Pulcinella, here Stravinsky decided to use music by Tchaikovsky, limiting himself only to works not written for orchestra. But where Pulcinella fashioned something purely Stravinskian out of old music he held in no par-ticular regard, The Fairy’s Kiss is a loving homage to his favorite Russian composer. Later, Stravinsky claimed he could no longer remember “which

music is Tchaikovsky’s and which mine,” but at various times he identified (not always accurately) a number of Tchaikovsky’s songs and piano pieces that he had borrowed. (Lawrence Morton eventually narrowed the debt list to some fourteen works.)

Stravinsky set to work with untiring

enthusiasm (once, when his train was stalled for four hours, he sat in his compartment quietly writing, determined to lose no time). He rented a room in a mason’s cottage where he could work undisturbed, although the potent aroma of the family’s lunch disrupted his thoughts every day at noon. The music was barely completed in time for the premiere, which the composer conducted, on November 27, 1928; Stravinsky wasn’t entirely pleased with Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography (the public evidently shared his view), but he had been too busy finishing the music to check out the dancing.

The music is prime Stravinsky, largely based on lesser Tchaikovsky. Only two Tchaikovsky works

THE FAIRY’S KISS: A SYNOPSIS OF THE COMPLETE BALLET

The Divertimento draws music from the first three scenes. The first movement includes most of scene 1; the second movement is identical with the opening of scene 2; the third movement is a shortened version of the beginning of scene 3; the fourth movement consists of the last three numbers of the pas de deux in scene 3 with a concert ending.

Scene 1 (Prologue). Pursued by spirits in a storm, a mother is

separated from her child, who is found and kissed by a fairy. A group of villagers passing by discovers the abandoned child and takes him away.

Scene 2. Eighteen years later, the young man and his fiancée are taking part in a village fête. They join in the country dances. When his fiancée and the villagers have gone home, the young man is approached by the fairy disguised as a gypsy. After read-ing his hand and promising him great

happiness in the future, she takes him to a mill.

Scene 3. There he finds his fian-cée surrounded by her friends. The lovers dance together, but when his fiancée retires to put on her bridal dress, the fairy reappears disguised as the bride and carries him off to her everlasting dwelling place.

Scene 4 (Epilogue). She then kisses him again, this time on the sole of his foot.

aboveSergei Diaghilev (left) and Igor Stravinsky (right), in Spain, 1921


comments

are used complete; the rest are excerpts. Most are taken from little-known songs and piano minia-tures. Stravinsky’s handling of borrowed material runs the gamut: he merely assigns instruments to the notes of Tchaikovsky’s popular Humoresque for piano, but much of the original music is so totally transformed that it’s easy to understand Stravinsky’s not remembering which music was whose.

As early as 1931, Stravinsky approved playing excerpts from the forty-five-minute ballet score as a concert-hall suite. In 1945, he finally settled on his own suite, which he called the Divertimento, cutting out nearly half of the music, but includ-ing substantial chunks from the first three of the ballet’s four scenes.

I n 1962, Stravinsky returned to Russia after nearly fifty years. The Stravinskys, along with Robert Craft, arrived in Moscow on September 21.

On October 4, they flew to Leningrad, where Stravinsky was met by Vladimir Rimsky-Korsakov (the youngest son of the composer), who was then living in the apartment where Stravinsky had writ-ten The Firebird more than half a century before. On October 8, Stravinsky conducted a concert of his own music. Before the performance, Stravinsky addressed the crowd, saying that he had attended his first concert in that hall: “Sixty-nine years ago I sat with my mother in that corner,” he said, pointing, “at a concert conducted by Napravnik to mourn the death of Tchaikovsky.” He then conducted music from The Fairy’s Kiss.

igor stravinsky

Suite from The Firebird

aboveIgor Stravinsky, in his youth, ca. 1910

The Firebird opened on June 25, 1910; on June 26, Stravinsky was a famous man. The great impresario Sergei Diaghilev had predicted as much—at one of the final dress rehearsals he pointed to Stravinsky and said, “Mark him well; he is a

man on the eve of celebrity.” Diaghilev was a good judge of such things, for in 1910 his circle included many of the most famous creative artists of the time. He was also, perhaps, excessively proud, for he had discovered Igor Stravinsky—or, to be more accurate, he was the one who put Stravinsky in the right place at the right time. The rest was all Stravinsky’s doing.

The right place was Paris in 1910. By chance, Diaghilev had heard Stravinsky’s music for the first time just two years before, at a concert

in Saint Petersburg. He immediately invited the twenty-six-year-old composer to assist in orchestrating music for the 1909 ballet sea-son in Paris. Stravinsky wasn’t Diaghilev’s first choice to compose his new ballet based on the Russian legend of the Firebird. He initially gave the job to Nikolai Tcherepnin, who promptly had a falling out with the choreographer Mikhail Fokine; then to Anatole Liadov, a prominent though modestly talented Russian composer who declined, as did Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Sokolov. Finally Diaghilev turned to the young, untested Stravinsky.

The Firebird was a spectacular success. (See Stravinsky’s account, which follows.) According to Ravel, the Parisian audience wanted a taste of the avant-garde, and this dazzling music by the daring young Russian fit the bill. The Firebird was Stravinsky’s first large-scale commission, and, being an overnight hit, it was quickly followed

may 2019 33

comments

composedNovember 1909–May 1910

first performanceJune 25, 1910; Paris, France (complete ballet)

instrumentationSuite (1919): two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and english horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, percussion, piano, celesta, harp, strings


first cso performancesFebruary 11 and 12, 1921, Orchestra Hall. Frederick Stock conducting (suite)July 3, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Ernest Ansermet conducting (suite)

cso performances, the composer conducting (suite)February 20 and 21, 1925, Orchestra HallJanuary 14, 1935, Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WisconsinJanuary 17, 18, and 22, 1935, Orchestra HallFebruary 27, 1940, Orchestra HallNovember 7, 8, and 12, 1940, Orchestra HallJanuary 12, 14, and 15, 1954, Orchestra HallJuly 21, 1962, Ravinia Festival

most recent cso performancesMay 19, 20, and 21, 2016, Orchestra Hall. Charles Dutoit conducting (complete ballet)July 26, 2016, Ravinia Festival. Janni Younge Productions as soloists, Ben Gernon conducting (complete ballet)

cso recordings1969. Carlo Maria Giulini conducting (suite)1992. Pierre Boulez conducting. Deutsche Grammophon (complete ballet)1996. James Levine conducting. Disney (selections)2000. Pierre Boulez conducting. EuroArts (video, complete ballet)

by two more. The first, Petrushka, enhanced his reputation; the second, The Rite of Spring, made him the most notorious com-poser alive.

Both of those works were more revolutionary than The Firebird—less indebted to folk melody and the gestures of other masters—and spoke in a voice of greater individuality. But The Firebird is one of the most impressive calling cards in the history of music—a work of such brilliance that, if he had written noth-ing else, Stravinsky’s name would still be known to us today.

Stravinsky later called the Firebird orchestra “wastefully large” (even though he used it with formidable clarity and imagina-tion), and in 1919, when he made his second concert suite from the complete ballet, he cut down the number of performers without lessening the music’s impact or daring. [That is the ver-sion performed this week.] “For me,” Stravinsky wrote, “the most striking effect in The Firebird was the natural-harmonic string glissando near the beginning, which the bass chord touches off like a catherine wheel. I was delighted to have discovered this, and I remember my excitement in demonstrating it to Rimsky’s violinist and cellist sons. I remember, too, Richard Strauss’s astonishment when he heard it two years later in Berlin.” The score is filled with delicious details, though none as novel as the one Stravinsky rightfully claimed as his own, and, in the closing pages, a magnificent sweep unmatched by much music written in the previous century and little since.

With The Firebird, Stravinsky found instant and enduring fame. “And, oh yes, to complete the picture,” he later wrote, “I was once addressed by a man in an American railway dining car, and quite seriously, as ‘Mr. Fireberg.’ ”

Igor Stravinsky on The Firebird

I had already begun to think about The Firebird when I returned to Saint Petersburg from Ustilug, in the autumn of 1909, though I was not yet certain of the commission (which, in fact,

did not come until December, more than a month after I had begun to compose; I remember the day Diaghilev telephoned me to say go ahead, and my telling him I already had). Early in November, I moved from Saint Petersburg to a dacha belonging to the Rimsky-Korsakov family about seventy miles southeast of the city. I went there for a vacation, a rest in birch forests and snow-fresh air, but instead began to work on The Firebird. Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov (son of the composer) was with me at the time, and he often was during the following months; because of this, The Firebird is dedicated to him. The introduction up to the bassoon and clarinet figure at bar six was composed in the country, as well as notations for later parts. I returned to Saint


comments

Petersburg in December and remained there until, in March, I had finished the composition. The orchestra score was ready a month later, and the complete music mailed to Paris by mid-April. (The score is dated May 18, but by that time, I was merely retouching details.)

The Firebird did not attract me as a subject. Like all story ballets, it demanded descriptive music of a kind I did not want to write. I had not yet proved myself as a composer, and I had not earned the right to criticize the aesthetics of my collaborators, but I did criticize them, and arro-gantly, though perhaps my age (twenty-seven) was more arrogant than I was. Above all, I could not abide the assumption that my music would be imitation Rimsky-Korsakov, especially as by that time I was in such revolt against poor Rimsky. However, if I say I was less than eager to fulfill the commission, I know that, in truth, my reser-vations about the subject were also an advance defense for my not being sure I could. But Diaghilev, the diplomat, arranged everything. He came to call on me one day, with Fokine, Nijinsky, Bakst, and Benois. When the five of them had proclaimed their belief in my talent, I began to believe, too, and accepted.

Fokine is credited as the librettist of The Firebird, but I remember that all of us, and espe-cially Bakst, who was Diaghilev’s principal adviser, contributed ideas to the plan of the scenario; I should also add that Bakst was as much respon-sible for the costumes as Golovine. My own “col-laboration” with Fokine means nothing more than that we studied the libretto together, episode by episode, until I knew the exact measurements required of the music. In spite of Fokine’s weary-ing homiletics, delivered at each meeting, on the role of music as an accompaniment to dance, he taught me much, and I have worked with chore-ographers somewhat in the same way ever since. I like exact requirements.

I was flattered, of course, at the promise of a performance of my music in Paris, and my

excitement on arriving in that city, from Ustilug, towards the end of May, could hardly have been greater. These ardors were somewhat cooled, how-ever, at the first rehearsal. The words “for Russian export” seemed to be stamped everywhere, both on the stage and in the music. The mimic scenes were especially obvious in this sense, but I could say nothing about them, as they were what Fokine liked best. I was also deflated to discover that not all of my musical remarks were held to be orac-ular, and Pierné, the conductor, disagreed with me once in front of the whole orchestra. I had written “non crescendo,” a precaution common enough in the music of the last fifty years, but Pierné said, “Young man, if you do not want a cre-scendo, then do not write anything.”

aboveTamara Karsavina (1885–1978) as the Firebird and Michel Fokine (1880–1942) as Prince Ivan in the 1910 Ballets Russes production of The Firebird

may 2019 35

comments

THE FIREBIRD: A SYNOPSIS OF THE COMPLETE BALLET

Fokine’s adaptation of the fairy tale pits the Firebird, a good fairy, against the ogre Kashchei, whose soul is preserved as an egg in a casket. A young prince, Ivan Tsarevich, wanders into Kashchei’s magic garden in pursuit of the Firebird. When he captures her, she pleads for her release and gives

him one of her feathers, whose magic will protect him from harm. He then meets thirteen princesses, all under Kashchei’s spell, and falls in love with one of them. When he tries to follow them into the magic garden, a great carillon sounds an alarm and he is captured. Kashchei is about to turn Ivan to stone when

the prince waves the feather; the Firebird appears. Her lullaby puts Kashchei to sleep, and she then reveals the secret of his immor-tality. Ivan opens the casket and smashes the egg, killing Kashchei. The captive princesses are freed, and Ivan and his beloved princess are betrothed.

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

The first-night audience glittered indeed, but the fact that it was heavily perfumed is more vivid in my memory; the gaily elegant London audi-ence, when I came to know it later, seemed almost deodorized by comparison. I sat in Diaghilev’s box, where, at intermission, artists, dowagers, aged Egerias of the Ballet, “intellectuals,” balleto-manes, appeared. I met for the first time Proust, Giraudoux, Paul Morand, Saint-John Perse, Claudel (with whom, years later, I nearly col-laborated on a musical treatment of the Book of Tobit) at The Firebird, though I cannot remember whether at the premiere or at subsequent per-formances. At one of the latter, I also met Sarah Bernhardt. She was thickly veiled, sitting in a wheelchair in her private box, and seemed terribly apprehensive lest anyone should recognize her. After a month of such society, I was happy to retire to a sleepy village in Brittany.

A moment of unexpected comedy occurred near the beginning of the performance. Diaghilev had had the idea that a procession of real horses should march on stage—in step with, to be exact, the last six eighth notes of bar eight. The poor animals did enter on cue all right, but they began to neigh and whinny, and one of them, a better critic than an actor, left a malodorous calling card. The audience laughed, and Diaghilev decided not

to risk a repetition in future performances. That he could have tried it even once seems incredible to me now—but the incident was forgotten in the general acclaim for the new ballet afterwards.

I was called to the stage to bow at the conclu-sion, and was recalled several times. I was still on stage when the final curtain had come down, and I saw Diaghilev coming towards me, and a dark man with a double forehead, whom he intro-duced as Claude Debussy. The great composer spoke kindly about the music, ending his words with an invitation to dine with him. Some years later, when we were sitting together in his box at a performance of Pelléas, I asked him what he really thought of The Firebird. He said, “Que voulez-vous, il fallait bien commencer par quelque chose” [Well, what do you want, you had to start with something]. Honest, but not extremely flattering. Yet shortly after The Firebird premiere, he gave me his well-known photo (in profile) with a dedica-tion “à Igor Stravinski en toute sympathie artis-tique.” I was not so honest about the work we were then hearing. I thought Pelléas a great bore as a whole, and in spite of many wonderful pages.


profiles

Riccardo Muti Conductor

Born in Naples, Italy, Riccardo Muti is one of the preeminent conductors of our day. In 2010, when he became the tenth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), he had more than forty years of experience

at the helm of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (1968–80), the Philharmonia Orchestra (1973–82), the Philadelphia Orchestra (1980–92), and Teatro alla Scala (1986–2005).

Muti studied piano under Vincenzo Vitale at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in his hometown of Naples, graduating with distinction. He subsequently received a diploma in compo-sition and conducting from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, also graduating with distinction. His principal teachers were Bruno Bettinelli and Antonino Votto, principal assistant to Arturo Toscanini at La Scala. After he won the Guido Cantelli Conducting Competition—by unanimous vote of the jury—in Milan in 1967, Muti’s career developed quickly. In 1968, he became principal conductor of Florence’s Maggio Musicale, a position that he held until 1980.

Herbert von Karajan invited him to conduct at the Salzburg Festival in Austria in 1971, and Muti has maintained a close relationship with the summer festival and with its great orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, for more than forty-five years. When he conducted the philharmonic’s 150th anniversary concert in 1992, he was pre-sented with the Golden Ring, a special sign of esteem and affection, and in 2001, his outstanding artistic contributions to the orchestra were further recognized with the Otto Nicolai Gold Medal. He is also a recipient of a silver medal from the Salzburg Mozarteum for his contribution to the music of W.A. Mozart and the Golden Johann Strauss Award by the Johann Strauss Society of Vienna. He is an honorary member of Vienna’s Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of the Friends of Music), the Vienna Hofmusikkapelle,

the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Vienna State Opera.

Muti succeeded Otto Klemperer as chief conductor and music director of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra in 1973, holding that position until 1982. From 1980 to 1992, he was music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and in 1986, he became music director of Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. During his nineteen-year tenure, Muti conducted operatic and symphonic reper-toire ranging from the baroque to the contempo-rary, also leading hundreds of concerts with the Filarmonica della Scala and touring the world with both the opera company and the orchestra. His tenure as music director, the longest of any in La Scala’s history, culminated in the trium-phant reopening of the restored opera house with Antonio Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta, originally commissioned for La Scala’s inaugural perfor-mance in 1778.

Muti has received innumerable interna-tional honors. He is a Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Italian Republic, Officer of the French Legion of Honor, and a recipient of the German Verdienstkreuz. Queen Elizabeth II bestowed on him the title of honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded him the Order of Friendship, and Pope Benedict XVI made him a Knight of the Grand Cross First Class of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great—the highest papal honor. Muti also has received Israel’s Wolf Prize in Music, Sweden’s prestigious Birgit Nilsson Prize, Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, from Japan the Order of the Rising Sun Gold and Silver Star and most recently the Praemium Imperiale, and the gold medal from Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his promotion of Italian culture abroad as well as the prestigious “Presidente della Repubblica” award from the Italian government. Muti has received more than twenty honorary degrees from universities around the world.

Passionate about teaching young musi-cians, Muti founded the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra in 2004 and the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in 2015. Through Le vie dell’Am-icizia (The roads of friendship), a project of the

PHOTO BY TODD ROSENBERG

may 2019 37

profiles

Ravenna Festival in Italy, he has conducted in many of the world’s most troubled areas in order to bring attention to and advocate for civic and social issues.

Riccardo Muti’s vast catalog of recordings, numbering in the hundreds, ranges from the traditional symphonic and operatic repertoires to contemporary works. He also has written two books, Verdi, l’italiano and Riccardo Muti: An Autobiography: First the Music, Then the Words, both of which have been published in several languages.

During his time with the CSO, Muti has won over audiences in greater Chicago and

across the globe through his music making as well as his demonstrated commitment to sharing classical music. His first annual free concert as CSO music director attracted more than 25,000 people to Millennium Park. He regularly invites subscribers, students, seniors, and people of low incomes to attend, at no charge, his CSO rehearsals. Muti’s commitment to artistic excel-lence and to creating a strong bond between an orchestra and its communities continues to bring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to ever higher levels of achievement and renown.

riccardomutimusic.com

Majestic Scale and Tricks from the Expert: Muti Conducts Verdi in Tokyo and Baden-BadenRiccardo Muti has expanded the footprint of his acclaimed Italian Opera Academy, which he founded in 2015, and brings it to the Spring Festival in Tokyo through 2021. The academy fosters the art of Italian opera. Regarded as the world’s foremost interpreter of Verdi, Muti established the academy to continue a lineage that connects the maestro to the composer through his own teacher, Antonino Votto, who in turn studied with Arturo Toscanini, a friend, colleague, and champion of Verdi.

The Tokyo arrangement began this year with Muti exploring the intricacies of Rigoletto with the partici-pants. Promising young singers, conductors, and the Tokyo–HARUSAI Festival Orchestra, “made up of the younger generation of Japan’s orchestral and freelance players,” were all, “super-responsive to Muti’s every gesture—phrasing, articulation, dynamics, and tempo change—and played with intense energy, but also with an Italianate clarity,” wrote Nahoko Gotoh of Bachtrack.

Manuel Brug of Die Welt covered Muti’s time in Japan extensively, sharing with readers some of the valu-able “tricks from the expert” that Muti gave to the musicians. The academy began March 28 and ran through April 4, concluding with a concert of selections from Rigoletto at Tokyo’s storied Bunka Kaikan. Next year, Muti and his academy will return to the Spring Festival with Macbeth, followed by Un ballo in maschera in 2021.

Muti then traveled to conduct Verdi’s Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir, and soloists in two weekends of sold-out concerts at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival. “Riccardo Muti, whose Verdi interpretations have set the standards, conducted with utmost concentration,” read the Pforzheimer Zeitung. The article went on to describe the performance as, “a funeral mass with the dignity of a liturgical cere-mony [transforming] into a ringing sculpture, unveiling a poignant tone of worldly devotion.”

“How Muti increased the tension, picked up the tempo, and delayed again at the climax, breathing the vocal parts in crescendos and decrescendos, attaching religious significance to the many solos in the orchestra,” wrote Lotte Thaler of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, “spoke of the decades of experience with this work, but above all the personal concerns. Verdi’s Requiem is Muti’s sanctum.”

Riccardo Muti instructs a young conductor at the Spring Festival in Tokyo. PHOTO BY SATOSHI AOYAGI


profiles

Mitsuko Uchida Piano

first cso performancesJune 12, 13, and 14, 1986, Orchestra Hall. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 4, Andrew Davis conducting

most recent cso performancesMay 24, 25, and 26, 2018, Orchestra Hall. Bartók’s Piano Concerto no. 3, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting

A superlative interpreter of classical, early romantic, and Second Viennese School repertoire, Mitsuko Uchida performs with the world’s most respected ensembles and conductors, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal

Concertgebouw Orchestra–Amsterdam, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, and Andris Nelsons. Since 2016, she has served as artistic partner of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, embarking on a five-year touring project together. She also

regularly appears in recital in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, New York, and Tokyo and is a regular guest at the Salzburg Mozart Week and the Salzburg and Edinburgh international festivals.

Mitsuko Uchida records exclusively for Decca Records. Her extensive discography includes the complete piano sonatas of Mozart and Schubert. She received a Grammy Award in 2011 for her recording of Mozart’s concertos directing the Cleveland Orchestra from the keyboard, and in 2017 for an album of lieder with soprano Dorothea Röschmann. Her recording of Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra and Pierre Boulez won four awards, including the Gramophone Award for Best Concerto.

A trustee of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and director of the Marlboro Music Festival, Uchida was awarded the Golden Mozart Medal from the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association in 2015. She received the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2012 and an honorary degree from the University of Cambridge in 2014.

Mitsuko Uchida was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2009.

PHOTO © BY DECCA/JUSTIN PUMFREY

may 2019 39

chicago symphony orchestraNow celebrating its 128th season, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the world’s leading orchestras. In September 2010, renowned Italian conductor Riccardo Muti became its tenth music director. His vision for the Orchestra—to deepen its engagement with the Chicago community, to nurture its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians, and to collaborate with visionary artists—signals a new era for the institution.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s distin-guished history began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, then the leading conductor in America and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra here. Thomas’s aim to establish a permanent orchestra with performance capabilities of the highest quality was realized at the first concerts in October 1891. Thomas served as music director until his death in 1905—just three weeks after the dedication of Orchestra Hall, the Orchestra’s permanent home designed by Daniel Burnham.

Frederick Stock, recruited by Thomas to the viola section in 1895, became assistant conductor in 1899, and succeeded the Orchestra’s founder. His tenure lasted thirty-seven years, from 1905 to 1942—the longest of the Orchestra’s music direc-tors. Dynamic and innovative, the Stock years saw the founding of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the first training orchestra in the United States affiliated with a major symphony orchestra, in 1919. Stock also established youth auditions, orga-nized the first subscription concerts especially for children, and began a series of popular concerts.

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

Sir Georg Solti, the Orchestra’s eighth music director, served from 1969 until 1991. He then held the title of music director laureate and

returned to conduct the Orchestra for several weeks each season until his death in September 1997. Solti’s arrival launched one of the most successful musical partnerships of our time, and the CSO made its first overseas tour to Europe in 1971 under his direction, along with numerous award-winning recordings.

Daniel Barenboim was named music director designate in January 1989, and he became the Orchestra’s ninth music director in September 1991, a position he held until June 2006. His tenure was distinguished by the opening of Symphony Center in 1997, highly praised oper-atic productions at Orchestra Hall, numerous appearances with the Orchestra in the dual role of pianist and conductor, twenty-one international tours, and the appointment of Duain Wolfe as the Chorus’s second director.

From 2006 to 2010, Bernard Haitink held the post of principal conductor, the first in CSO his-tory. Pierre Boulez’s long-standing relationship with the CSO led to his appointment as principal guest conductor in 1995. He was named Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus in 2006, a posi-tion he held until his death in January 2016. Only two others have served as principal guest conduc-tors: Carlo Maria Giulini, who began to appear in Chicago regularly in the late 1950s, was named to the post in 1969, serving until 1972; Claudio Abbado held the position from 1982 to 1985.

In January 2010, Yo-Yo Ma was appointed the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant by Riccardo Muti. In this role, he part-ners with Muti, staff, and musicians to provide program development for the Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO.

Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli was appointed by Riccardo Muti and begins her two-year term this fall. In addition to composing, she curates the contemporary MusicNOW series.

Since 1916, recording has been a signifi-cant part of the Orchestra’s activities. Current releases on CSO Resound, the Orchestra’s inde-pendent recording label, include the Grammy Award–winning release of Verdi’s Requiem led by Riccardo Muti. Recordings by the CSO have earned sixty-two Grammy awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

cso.org


* Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. ‡ On sabbatical § On leaveThe Louise H. Benton Wagner Chair currently is unoccupied.The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically.

chicago symphony orchestra

Chicago Symphony OrchestraRiccardo Muti Zell Music DirectorYo-Yo Ma Judson and Joyce Green Creative ConsultantDuain Wolfe Chorus Director and ConductorMissy Mazzoli Mead Composer-in-Residence

violinsRobert Chen Concertmaster

The Louis C. Sudler Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor

Stephanie Jeong Associate ConcertmasterThe Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair

David Taylor Yuan-Qing Yu

Assistant Concertmasters*So Young BaeCornelius ChiuAlison DaltonGina DiBelloKozue FunakoshiRussell HershowQing HouBlair MiltonPaul Phillips, Jr.Sando ShiaSusan SynnestvedtRong-Yan Tang

Baird Dodge PrincipalSylvia Kim Kilcullen Assistant

PrincipalLei HouNi MeiFox FehlingHermine GagnéRachel GoldsteinMihaela IonescuMelanie KupchynskyWendy Koons Meir ‡Matous MichalSimon MichalAiko NodaJoyce NohNancy ParkRonald SatkiewiczFlorence Schwartz

violasLi-Kuo Chang Acting Principal

The Paul Hindemith Principal Viola Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor

John BartholomewCatherine BrubakerYouming ChenSunghee Choi

Wei-Ting KuoDanny LaiDiane MuesLawrence NeumanMax RaimiWeijing Wang

cellosJohn Sharp Principal

The Eloise W. Martin ChairKenneth Olsen Assistant

PrincipalThe Adele Gidwitz Chair

Karen BasrakLoren BrownRichard HirschlDaniel KatzKatinka KleijnDavid SandersGary StuckaBrant Taylor

bassesAlexander Hanna Principal

The David and Mary Winton Green Principal Bass Chair

Daniel ArmstrongJoseph DiBelloMichael HovnanianRobert KassingerMark KraemerStephen LesterBradley Opland

harpsSarah Bullen PrincipalLynne Turner

flutesStefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

PrincipalThe Erika and Dietrich M. Gross Principal Flute Chair

Richard Graef Assistant Principal §

Emma GersteinJennifer Gunn

piccoloJennifer Gunn

oboesWilliam Welter Principal

The Nancy and Larry Fuller Principal Oboe Chair

Michael Henoch Assistant PrincipalThe Gilchrist Foundation Chair

Lora SchaeferScott Hostetler

english hornScott Hostetler

clarine tsStephen Williamson PrincipalJohn Bruce Yeh Assistant

PrincipalGregory SmithJ. Lawrie Bloom

e -flat clarine tJohn Bruce Yeh

bass clarine tJ. Lawrie Bloom

bassoonsKeith Buncke PrincipalWilliam Buchman Assistant

PrincipalDennis Michel ‡Miles Maner

contrabassoonMiles Maner

hornsDaniel Gingrich Acting

PrincipalJames SmelserDavid GriffinOto CarrilloSusanna Gaunt

trumpe tsMark Ridenour Acting

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

John HagstromTage Larsen

trombonesJay Friedman Principal

The Lisa and Paul Wiggin Principal Trombone Chair

Michael MulcahyCharles Vernon

bass tromboneCharles Vernon

tubaGene Pokorny Principal

The Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld

timpaniDavid Herbert Principal

The Clinton Family Fund ChairVadim Karpinos Assistant

Principal

percussionCynthia Yeh PrincipalPatricia DashVadim KarpinosJames Ross

librariansPeter Conover PrincipalCarole KellerMark Swanson

orchestra personnelJohn Deverman DirectorAnne MacQuarrie

Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel

stage techniciansChristopher Lewis

Stage ManagerBlair CarlsonPaul ChristopherDave HartgePeter LandryTodd SnickJoe Tucker

chicago symphony orchestra association governing members

† DeceasedItalics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, supporting its artistic excellence and community engagement. In return, members enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition. For more information, please contact 312-294-3337 or [email protected].

may 2019 41

governing members executive commit tee (2018 –19)Jared Kaplan ChairmanTimothy A. Duffy Immediate

Past ChairmanCharles Emmons, Jr.

Vice Chairman of the Annual FundEric Kalnins Vice Chairman of

Member EngagementMichael A. Perlstein

Vice Chairman of Nominations & Membership

governing members (2018 –19)Anonymous (4)Dora J. AalbregtseFloyd AbramsonFraida AlandSandra AllenRobert A. AlsakerMegan P. AndersonMrs. Ruth T. AndersonMychal P. AngelosDr. Edward ApplebaumDavid ArchDr. Kent ArmbrusterCarey AugustMarta Holsman BabsonEd BachrachMara Mills BarkerMerrill BarnesPeter BarrettRoberta BarronRoger BaskesRobert H. BaumDr. Robert A. BeattyMike BellArlene BennettEdward H. Bennett IIIMeta S. BergerD. Theodore BerghorstAnn BerlinPhyllis BerlinRobert L. Berner, Jr.Ronald A. BevilMr. William E. BibleMrs. Arthur A. BillingsTomás BissonnetteDianne BlancoJudy BlauMerrill BlauDr. Phyllis C. BleckAnn BlickensderferMrs. Ted C. Bloch †Terry BodenMrs. Suzanne BorlandJames G. BorovskyAdam BossovJanet S. BoyerJohn D. BramsenMr. Roderick BranchMs. Jill BrennanBarbara BridgesBob BrinkAdrienne Brookstone

Arnold BrookstoneMr. Roger O. BrownMrs. Roger O. Brown †Mrs. William Gardner BrownJohn D. BrubakerMrs. Patricia BryanGilda BuchbinderSamuel BuchsbaumLisa Dollar BuehlerMrs. Dean L. BuntrockLynn BurtElizabeth Nolan BuzardMs. Lutgart CalcoteThomas CampbellMs. Vera A. CappBryce CarmineMary Anne CarpenterWendy Alders CartlandJudy CastelliniTina ChapekisLinton J. ChildsMrs. William C. ChildsFrank Cicero, Jr.Dana Green ClancyMr. Wesley M. ClarkPatricia A. ClickenerMitchell CobeyJean M. CocozzaMrs. Douglas CohenRobin Tennant ColburnLewis CollensMrs. Jane B. ColmanMrs. Earle M. Combs IIIMs. Cecilia ConradPatricia CoxMrs. Beatrice G. CrainMrs. William A. CraneMari Hatzenbuehler CravenMr. Richard CremieuxMr. Jerry J. CritserRebecca E. CrownMrs. Robert J. DarnallDr. Tapas K. Das GuptaMichael DawsonRoxanne DecykMs. Nancy DehmlowDuane M. DesParteJanet Wood DiederichsPaul DixMrs. William F. DooleySara L. DowneyMs. Ann DrakeDavid DranoveDr. George DuneaMr. Frank A. Dusek, CPAMrs. Dorne EastwoodMrs. Larry K. EbertLouis M. Ebling IIIMrs. Richard EldenMr. Richard Elden †Kathleen H. ElliottMrs. Samuel H. EllisMr. Charles Emmons, Jr.Mrs. Janice EngleScott EnloeCynthia G. Esler †Dr. Marilyn D. EzriTarek Fadel

Melissa Sage FadimJeffrey FarbmanWilliam FarleySally S. FederJoe FeldmanSigne FergusonHector Ferral, M.D.Mr. Harve FerrillMs. Constance M. FillingMr. Daniel FischelKenneth M. FitzgeraldEileen T. FlynnMrs. John D. FosterRhoda Lea FrankMr. Paul E. FreehlingMitzi FreidheimMr. Philip M. FriedmannMalcolm M. GaynorRobert D. GechtFrank GelberMrs. Lynn GendlemanDr. Mark GendlemanRabbi Gary S. GersonIsak V. GersonDr. Bernardino GhettiKaren GianfranciscoMrs. Willard GidwitzEllen GignilliatJerome GilsonMr. James J. GlasserMr. Jonathan W. GlossbergMrs. Madeleine Condit GlossbergMrs. Mary Anne GoldbergMrs. Judy GoldbergAlfred G. GoldsteinAnne GoldsteinJerry A. GoldstoneMarcia GoltermannMary GoodkindMrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr.Dr. Alexia GordonMr. Michael D. GordonDonald J. GralenDr. Ruth GrantMary L. GrayFreddi L. GreenbergJoyce GreeningDr. Jerri GreerKendall GriffithJerome J. GroenJacalyn GronekMrs. John GrowdonJohn P. GrubeJames P. GruseckiJoel R. Guillory, Jr., M.D.Dr. John W. Gustaitis, Jr.Gary Gutting †Lynne R. HaarlowMrs. Ernst A. HäberliJerry A. Hall, M.D.Joan M. HallDr. Howard HalpernMrs. Richard C. HalpernAnne Marcus HamadaJoel L. HandelmanJohn HardMrs. William A. HarkMrs. Caryn Harris

Mr. King HarrisDr. Robert A. HarrisJames W. HaughThomas HaynesMrs. Joseph Andrew HaysJames HeckmanMrs. Patricia Herrmann HeestandMary Mako HelbertBob HelmanMarilyn P. HelmholzRichard H. HelmholzDr. Arthur L. HerbstMarlene Kovar HershSeymour “Sonny” I. HershJeffrey W. HesseMarjorie Friedman HeymanKonstanze L. HickeyThea Flaum HillMrs. Mary P. HinesMr. William J. Hokin †Wayne J. Holman IIIMr. Richard S. Holson IIIFred E. HolubowMr. James HolzhauerCarol HonigbergJanice L. HonigbergMrs. Nancy A. HornerMrs. Arnold Horween, Jr.Frances G. HorwichMrs. Peter H. HuizengaMichael L. IgoeMr. Craig T. IngramMrs. Verne G. IstockDr. Peter IvanovichMrs. Nancy Witte JacobsCynthia Jamison-MarcyDr. Todd JanusJohn JaworBenetta Park JensonMs. Justine JentesMrs. William R. JentesBrian JohnsonGeorge E. JohnsonRonald B. JohnsonMrs. Shirley JohnsonDr. Patricia Collins JonesMs. Stephanie JonesEdward T. JoyceEric KalninsMrs. Carol K. KaplanMrs. Dolores Kohl KaplanJared KaplanClaudia Norris KapnickMrs. Lonny H. KarminMr. John A. KarolyMrs. Byron C. KarzasBarry D. KaufmanKenneth KaufmanMarie KaufmanDon KaulMarilyn M. KeilEllen KelleherMolly KellerJonathan KemperDonald G. Kempf, Jr.Linda J. Kenney, PhDGerould KernJohn C. Kern †

governing members

† DeceasedItalics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).The Governing Members are the CSOA’s first philanthropic society, supporting its artistic excellence and community engagement. In return, members enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition. For more information, please contact 312-294-3337 or [email protected].

42 cso.org

Elizabeth I. KeyserRichard L. KeyserEmmy KingSusan KiphartCarol KippermanDr. Jay KleimanCarol Evans KlenkJean KlingensteinMrs. Harriet B. KoehlerMr. Henry L. KohnSanfred KoltunJoseph KonenJack KozikDr. Mark KozloffMr. David KravitzDr. Michael KrcoDavid KreismanMaryBeth KretzDr. Vinay KumarDr. Paul KurtinRubin KuznitskyMr. John LaBarberaArthur LadenburgerPatricia LeeSunhee LeeEleanor LeichenkoSheila Fields LeiterJeffrey LennardLaurence H. LevineMrs. Bernard LevitonDr. Edmund J. LewisGregory M. LewisMrs. Paul LiebermanPhilip R. Liebson, M.D.Patricia M. LivingstonJohn S. Lizzadro, Sr.Jane LoebJames R. LoewenbergRenée LoganAmy LubinMrs. Duncan MacLeanDr. Michael S. MalingMr. Daniel ManoogianJudy MarthPatrick A. MartinBeLinda I. MathieMarianne C. MayerSteven D. McCormickHoward M. McCue IIIAnn Pickard McDermottDr. James L. McGeeDr. John P. McGee II †Sharon McGeeMrs. Lester McKeeverJohn A. McKennaMrs. Peter McKinneyMrs. C. Bruce McLaganMrs. James M. McMullanJames Edward McPhersonMr. Paul MeisterMs. Mary MittlerDr. Toni-Marie MontgomeryCharles A. MooreEmilie Morphew, M.D.Christopher MorrowDaniel R. MurrayEileen M. MurrayMr. Stuart C. Nathan

Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr.Edward A. NieminenDr. Zehava L. NoahKenneth R. NorganSusan NoyesMr. Gerard NussbaumMartha C. NussbaumWilliam A. ObenshainShelley OchabMrs. James J. O’ConnorEric OesterleMrs. Norman L. OlsonJoy O’MalleyMr. Thomas OrlandoBeatrice F. OrzacMr. Gerald A. OstermannJames J. O’Sullivan, Jr.Bruce L. OttleyMrs. China I. OughtonMichael L. OwenMrs. Evelyn E. PadorrMr. Bruno A. PasquinelliMr. Timothy J. PatenodeRobert J. Patterson, Jr.Mr. Michael PayetteFrances PennMrs. Richard S. PepperJean E. PerkinsKingsley PerkinsMr. Michael A. PerlsteinDr. William PeruzziRobert C. PetersonSara PetersonEllard Pfaelzer, Jr.Mrs. Sue N. PickVirginia Johnson PillmanMrs. Sherri PincusBetsey N. PinkertHarvey R. PlonskerMr. John F. Podjasek IIIJudy PomeranzMr. Michael PopeStephen PotterCarol PrinsBetsey PuthDiana M. RaunerSusan RegensteinMari Yamamoto RegnierMark S. ReiterMary Thomson RennerMerle ReskinBurton R. RissmanCharles T. RivkinCarol RobertsMr. John H. RobertsDavid RobinDr. Diana RobinBob RogersKevin M. RooneyHarry J. RoperMrs. Sheli Z. RosenbergDr. Ricardo RosenkranzMichael RosenthalDr. Roseanne RosenthalBetsy RosenzweigDr. H. Jay Rothenberg, M.D.Roberta H. RubinMrs. Susan B. Rubnitz

Sandra RusnakDavid W. “Buzz” RuttenbergMary RyanMrs. Patrick G. RyanRichard O. RyanWilliam RyanNorman K. SackarMr. Agustin G. SanzInez SaundersDavid SavnerMr. Timothy M. SawyierKarla SchererDavid M. SchiffmanJudith Feigon SchiffmanRosa SchlossShirley SchlossmanDouglas M. SchmidtJana SchreuderAl SchriesheimDonald L. SchwartzDr. Penny Bender SebringChandra SekharDr. Ronald A. SemerdjianMrs. Richard J.L. SeniorIlene W. ShawPam SheffieldJames C. Sheinin, M.D.Richard W. SheproJessie ShihMrs. Elizabeth ShoemakerMorrell McK. Shoemaker, Jr.Stuart ShulruffHonorable Richard J. SiegelLinda SimonCraig SirlesValerie SlotnickMrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.Mrs. Nancy SmerzCharles F. SmithDiane W. SmithLouise K. SmithMary Ann SmithStanton Kinnie Smith, Jr.Stephen R. SmithBetty W. SmykalDiane SnyderKimberly SnyderKathleen SolaroMrs. Ida N. SondheimerO.J. SopranosMrs. James Cavanaugh SpainOrli StaleyWilliam D. StaleyHelena StancikasGrace StanekDr. Eugene StarkLeonidas StefanosMs. Momoko SteinerMrs. Richard J. SternBruce StevensLiz StiffelLawrence E. StricklingHarvey J. Struthers, Jr.Patricia StudyCheryl SturmMrs. Robert SzalayMr. Patrick Tagny DiesseMr. Gregory Taubeneck

Mr. David A. ThomsonDr. Robert ThomsonMr. Scott ThomsonMs. Carla M. ThorpeJoan ThronMrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr.William R. Tobey, Jr.John T. TraversDavid TrushinPaula TurnerRobert W. TurnerHenry J. UnderwoodZalman UsiskinMrs. James D. Vail IIIMrs. Virginia C. ValeDr. Cynthia M. ValukasJohn E. Van HornMrs. Peter E. Van NiceMrs. Herbert A. VanceWilliam C. VanceJulia Vander PloegThomas D. Vander VeenDr. Michael ViglioneCatherine M. VillinskiMr. Christian VinyardTheodore WachsMark A. WagnerBernard T. WallNicholas WallaceMs. Carol WarshawskyPaul S. WatfordDr. Catherine L. WebbMrs. Jacob WeglarzMrs. Joseph M. WeilDr. Jamie WeinerChickie WeisbardMr. Robert G. WeissBarbara WellerMrs. Barbara H. West †Penelope G. WestMrs. H. Blair WhiteM.L. WinburnStephen R. WintersPeter WolfMrs. Arnold R. WolffLaura WollDr. Hak Yui WongCourtenay R. WoodMichael H. WooleverMs. Debbie WrightRonald YonoverOwen YoungmanDavid J. ZampaDr. John P. ZarembaMs. Anne ZenzerRichard E. ZieglerKaren Zupko

Gifts listed as of January 23, 2019

honor roll of donors

may 2019 43

Corporate PartnersThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following corporate partners for their generous support. For more information on becoming a corporate partner, please contact Jennifer Adams at 312-294-3122 or [email protected].

global sponsor of the csoBank of America

$250,000 and aboveITWUnited Airlines

$100,000 –$2 49,999Allstate Insurance CompanyBMO Harris BankExelonKirkland & Ellis LLPNorthern TrustPNC BankSidley Austin LLP

$50,000 –$99,999Anonymous (1)AbbottCIBCFinancial Economics Consulting, Inc.Jenner & Block LLPPricewaterhouseCoopers LLPSP Plus

$25 ,000 –$49,999Abbott FundAriel InvestmentsBaker McKenzieBulgariJPMorgan Chase & Co.KPMG LLPMagellan Development Group, LLCMayer Brown LLPS&C Electric Company FundSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &

Flom LLPTiffany & Co.WalgreensWintrust Financial

$15 ,000 –$2 4 ,999AonDLA PiperEvans Food Group, Ltd.Fifth Third BankGoldman Sachs & Co.McDermott Will & Emery LLPMcKinsey & CompanyOxford Bank & TrustSheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

$5 ,000 –$14 ,999AccentureAmsted Industries IncorporatedBairdBlueCross and BlueShield of IllinoisThe Boston Consulting GroupChoose ChicagoCognitive Capital PartnersComPsych CorporationConcentric Equity PartnersCredit SuisseDeloitteDentonsThe Edgewater FundsErnst & Young LLPEvolve IPFellowes, Inc.Grant Thornton LLPThe Japanese Chamber of Commerce

of ChicagoLatham & Watkins LLPLazardLocke Lord LLPMolexNuveenPeoples GasSchiff Hardin LLPSegal ConsultingSipi Metals CorporationStarshak Winzenburg & Co.The Navarre Law FirmWeiss Financial, Inc.William Blair

$1,000 –$4 ,999Advent Systems, Inc.American Agricultural Insurance CompanybKL ArchitectureBuilding Consultants, Ltd.Burwood Group, Inc.Central Building & Preservation LPColumbia Capital Management, LLCDeka LashDraper and Kramer IncorporatedDS&P Insurance Services, Inc.Duchossois GroupEagle Capital Management, LLCEast Loop DentalElk Grove Graphics, A Vomela

Network CompanyExchequerGemini Graphics, Inc.Generations DentalGoodSmith Gregg & Unruh LLPHyatt Hotels CorporationKimco ServicesKinder MorganLake Capital, LLCMacLean-Fogg CompanyOld Republic International CorporationParkway ElevatorsSahara EnterprisesThe Law Offices of Jonathan N. SherwellShetland Limited PartnershipShow ServicesShure IncorporatedTCB Mailing, Inc.Vienna BeefWellington Management Company

UP TO $1,000Allied UniversalEssendantFlooring Management Group, Inc.Global Water Technology, Inc.Kristy’s Audacious Interiors LLCThe Ungar Group

44 cso.org


Foundations and Government AgenciesThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following foundation and government partners for their generous support. For more information, please contact Susan Green at 312-294-3121.

$100,000 and aboveAnonymous (2)Paul M. Angell Family FoundationThe Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationThe Davee FoundationJulius N. Frankel FoundationIrving Harris FoundationWalter E. Heller Foundation, in honor of

Alyce DeCostaJCS Arts, Health & Education Fund of the

DuPage FoundationJohn D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsThe Negaunee FoundationPritzker Military FoundationZell Family Foundation

$50,000 –$99,999The Brinson FoundationThe Chicago Community TrustRobert and Joanne Crown Income

Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown

Lloyd A. Fry FoundationSally Mead Hands FoundationIllinois Arts Council AgencyPolk Bros. Foundation

$25 ,000 –$49,999Alphawood FoundationCrain-Maling FoundationJohn R. Halligan Charitable FundLeslie Fund, Inc.Bowman C. Lingle TrustThe Elizabeth Morse Charitable TrustThe Michael G. Woll Fund at The

Pauls FoundationHulda B. And Maurice L.

Rothschild Foundation

$10,000 –$2 4 ,999Anonymous (1)Barker Welfare FoundationRobert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.The Buchanan Family FoundationDarling Family FoundationStanley L. and Lucy Lopata

Charitable FoundationNIB FoundationPrince Charitable TrustsThe Rhoades FoundationCharles and M. R. Shapiro FoundationThe George L. Shields FoundationTully Family FoundationRonald and Geri Yonover Foundation

$5 ,000 –$9,999Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick FoundationFranklin Philanthropic FoundationHoellen Family FoundationHunter Family FoundationJS Charitable TrustKovler Family FoundationThe Mayer & Morris Kaplan

Family FoundationE. Nakamichi FoundationMilne Family FoundationDr. Scholl FoundationArch W. Shaw FoundationSiragusa Family Foundation

$2 ,500 –$4 ,999The Allyn Foundation, Inc.Arts Midwest Touring FundCharles H. and Bertha L.

Boothroyd FoundationCarl Forstmann Memorial FoundationWilliam M. Hales FoundationBenjamin J. Rosenthal FoundationWalter and Caroline Sueske

Charitable Trust

$1,000 –$2 , 499Geraldi Norton FoundationPritzker Traubert Family Foundation

foundation spotlight

The JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of the DuPage FoundationThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) is deeply grateful to the JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of the DuPage Foundation for its generous support of activities in DuPage County that engage thousands of students, families, and audience members. Since the 2012–13 season, the leadership support provided by the JCS Fund of the DuPage Foundation has allowed the CSOA to develop and present meaningful concerts and programming in DuPage County and Chicago’s western suburbs.

Throughout the 2018–19 season, CSOA programming in DuPage County maintains and deepens the Orchestra’s connections with audiences. Education and community engagement programs offered throughout the year—at schools and community venues across the region—complement three full-orchestra concerts at Wheaton College. These concerts have established the CSOA’s long-term, residency-style partnership with Wheaton College and the DuPage community in forthcoming seasons.

The JCS Fund of the DuPage Foundation supports music, cultural, health, educational, artistic, and other charitable organizations serving DuPage residents. For more information about the JCS Fund and its host, the DuPage Foundation, please visit dupagefoundation.org/grants/jcs-fund.html.

† DeceasedItalics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.Gifts listed as of January 23, 2019

may 2019 45


The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association deeply appreciates the generous support of all its donors. To learn more, please call 312-294-3100.

Annual SupportThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through January 23, 2019. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.

$150,000 and aboveAnonymous (4)Randy L. and Melvin R. BerlinRosemarie and Dean L. BuntrockMr. & Mrs. James B. FadimMr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia NeilJudson and Joyce GreenMr. Kenneth C. GriffinMr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. GrossThe Julian Family FoundationMargot and Josef LakonishokJim and Kay MabieNancy Lauter McDougal and

Alfred L. † McDougalThe James and Madeleine McMullan

Family FoundationCathy and Bill OsbornCOL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL

ARNG (Retired)Megan and Steve ShebikHelen and Sam Zell

$100,000 –$149,999Anonymous (3)Julie and Roger BaskesThe Davee FoundationIrving Harris Foundation, Joan W. HarrisRobert Kohl and Clark PellettLing Z. and Michael C. MarkovitzJudy and Scott McCueCynthia M. SargentCatherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$75 ,000 –$99,999Anonymous (1)Chet Gougis and Shelley OchabJohn Hart and Carol PrinsPamela Kelley Hull / Roger B. HullMs. Patricia HydeMr. & Mrs. Verne G. IstockNancy and Sanfred KoltunSandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.Rose Shure TrustRichard and Helen Thomas

$50,000 –$74 ,999Anonymous (1)Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse

Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IVPatricia and Laurence BoothKay BucksbaumRobert J. BufordMs. Marion A. CameronChristopher L. CulpMr. Thomas Drennan †Mr. Eugene Fama and Mrs. Sallyann FamaRhoda Lea and Henry S. † FrankEllen and Paul GignilliatMs. Susan GoldschmidtRichard † and Mary L. GrayMr. & Mrs. William R. JentesJim and SuAnne LopataSusan RegensteinBarbara and Barre Seid FoundationMichael and Linda SimonLiz Stiffel

$35 ,000 –$49,999Anonymous (2)Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner BrownJohn D. and Leslie Henner BurnsBruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton

Family FundMr. & Dr. George ColisJohn and Fran EdwardsonDan J. Epstein Family FoundationRichard and Alice GodfreyMr. Collier HandsMs. Donna L. KendallMrs. John Shedd Reed †Sheli Z. and Burton X. RosenbergMr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.Walter and Kathleen SnodellMs. Liisa M. Thomas and

Mr. Stephen L. PrattPenny and John Van Horn

$25 ,000 –$34 ,999Anonymous (3)Sharon and Charles AngellPeter and Elise BarackRobert H. Baum and MaryBeth KretzMr. & Mrs. David CasperThe Crown FamilyMs. Debora de Hoyos and

Mr. Walter CarlsonTimothy A. and Bette Anne DuffyMr. & Mrs. Brian DuweSheri and J. Bradley FewellMr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.Nancy and Larry FullerWilliam A. and Anne GoldsteinMary Louise GornoMr. Graham C. GradySue and Melvin GrayMary Winton Green

Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. HendersonDiana C. Hunter, in memory of

Henry S. FrankJared Kaplan and Maridee QuanbeckSidney Kohl Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. James KolarJoseph and Judith KonenRandall S. KrosznerMs. Ruth LabitzkeLewis-Sebring Family FoundationMr. Terrance Livingston and

Ms. Debra CafaroBeth A. Mannino and Paul SchickPatty and Mark McGrathMr. David E. McNeelMr. & Mrs. Christopher MelvinMs. Renee MetcalfMs. Mary MolloyMr. & Mrs. Robert S. MurleyDaniel R. MurrayAlexandra and John NicholsMr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Pauling IIMr. † & Mrs. Albert PawlickAndra and Irwin PressDr. Mohan RaoDiana and Bruce RaunerDr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. RissmanMr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen RossiMr. & Mrs. Scott SantiMr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet GilboyDr. & Mrs. Robert ShillmanMarion E. SimonBill and Orli Staley FoundationThierer Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. Richard P. ToftTerrence and Laura TruaxMr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow

$20,000 –$2 4 ,999Arnie and Ann BerlinMarguerite DeLany HarkMs. Leigh Ann HermanMichuda Construction Inc.Mr. Robert PetersonLeAnn Pedersen Pope and

Clyde F. McGregorMr. & Mrs. John PrattIda N. Sondheimer & Family, in memory of

Joseph SondheimerMr. Irving Stenn, Jr.Roger and Susan Stone Family FoundationMr. † & Mrs. H. Blair White

$15 ,000 –$19,999Anonymous (3)Joyce ChelbergSue and Jim CollettiMr. Jerry J. Critser


46 cso.org


Ms. Nancy DehmlowAnne H. EvansMr. & Mrs. Richard J. FrankeMr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. GlossbergLynne R. HaarlowJoan M. HallMr. & Mrs. R. HelmholzMr †. & Mrs. Joel D. HonigbergMs. Kola KennedyAnne and John † KernDr. June KoizumiDr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold TobinMr. & Mrs. James LoewenbergMs. Emilysue PinnellMs. Judy PomeranzJerry RoseMr. & Mrs. Albert SchlachtmeyerMr. & Mrs. Alejandro SilvaCarl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-SternMary StowellMr. Christian VinyardDr. Marylou Witz

$11,500 –$14 ,999Mr. & Mrs. Stuart ApplebaumMerrill and Judy BlauMr. Roderick BranchHenry and Gilda BuchbinderMr. Philip DarlingMs. Shawn M. Donnelley and

Dr. Christopher M. KellyMr. & Mrs. Bernard DunkelMr. & Mrs. John P. GrubeMr. & Mrs. David HackettDr. Michael KrcoEdward and Gayla NieminenMary and Joseph PlauchéDr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean StarkAnn S. Wolff

$7,500 –$11, 499Anonymous (6)Mrs. Rosa Acevedo and

Mr. Jose Luis PradoJeff and Keiko AlexanderMr. & Mrs. Christopher BarberMr. Peter BarrettProfessor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and

Elaine KlemenMr. Lawrence BellesMrs. James F. Beré †Henry R. Berghoef and

Leslie Lauer BerghoefMr. Donald BousemanMr. & Mrs. Arnold BrookstoneMr. & Mrs. † Roger O. BrownTom and Dianne CampbellMs. Vera CappMr. & Ms. Keith ClaytonDouglas and Carol CohenMr. Lawrence CorryMr. & Mrs. William A. Crane

Mari Hatzenbuehler CravenMr. & Mrs. Richard CremieuxMr. & Mrs. Charles DemirjianMs. Christina DonohueMr. † & Mrs. David A. DonovanMr. & Mrs. William DooleyMr. & Mrs. Charles W. DouglasDr. & Mrs. James L. DowneyMs. Ann DrakeDavid and Deborah DranoveDr. George Dunea and Dr. Sally DuneaMr. † & Mrs. Richard EldenMs. Paula ElliottMr. & Mrs. Samuel H. EllisConstance M. FillingMs. Sonia FlorianDr. & Mrs. Mark GendlemanMr. & Mrs. † Isak V. GersonJeannette and Jerry GoldstoneDr. Alexia GordonJames and Brenda GruseckiMrs. Richard C. HalpernHarris Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. Michael R. HassanMr. & Mrs. Thomas C. HeagyPati and O.J. HeestandDavid Herro and Jay FrankeMr. & Mrs. Mark C. HibbardMrs. Mary P. HinesMr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman IIIFred and Sandra HolubowJanice L. HonigbergMr. & Mrs. † Howard JessenMr. & Mrs. George E. JohnsonRonald B. JohnsonMr. & Mrs. Edward T. JoyceBarbara and Kenneth KaufmanJean KlingensteinDr. † & Mrs. H. LeichenkoMs. Betsy LevinDrs. Edmund & Julie LewisMr. † & Mrs. Paul LiebermanMr. & Mrs. John LillardThe Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago

Community TrustDr & Mrs. Daniel MassHeather McWilliamsCharles A. MooreEmilie Morphew, M.D.David and Dolores NelsonMs. Susan NorvichMs. Martha NussbaumBill and Penny ObenshainMr. & Mrs. William J. O’NeillThe Osprey FoundationMr. & Mrs. James O’Sullivan, Jr.Mrs. China I. OughtonMs. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith CrowPasquinelli Family FoundationGerald † and Mona PennerRoxy and Richard PepperSue N. and Thomas F. PickDr. Diana Robin

Ms. Judy RungePatrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan FoundationMr. Richard RyanRita † and Norman SackarMr. & Mrs. David SavnerKarla Scherer and Harve FerrillDavid and Judy SchiffmanMr. & Mrs. Michael SchollAl Schriesheim and Kay TorshenJoan and George SegalDavid and Judith L. SensibarThe Earl and Brenda Shapiro FoundationKimberly M. SnyderMs. Momoko SteinerFay S. Stern †, in memory of John N. SternCheryl SturmMr. & Mrs. Louis Sudler, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Scott SwansonDr. Cynthia M. Valukas and

Mr. Joseph A. KohlMr. & Mrs. William C. VanceMs. Nancy VoorheesMr. † & Mrs. Jacob WeglarzMr. & Mrs. Robert G. WeissIn memory of Peter Leland Wentz and

Vida Broadbent WentzCraig and Bette WilliamsM.L. WinburnSarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman

$4 ,500 –$7, 499Anonymous (8)Fraida and Bob AlandMr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and

Mrs. Sara Jones-AmreinMr. George AnastaploGeoffrey A. AndersonMegan P. and John L. AndersonCushman L. and Pamela AndrewsMarta Holsman BabsonMr. Edward M. Bakwin †Mr. Neal BallDonna and Mike BellMs. Dorothy J. BensonMeta S. and Ronald † Berger

Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. D. Theodore BerghorstMr. Howard BernickMr. & Mrs. William E. BibleMrs. Nancy BlumMs. Terry BodenAmy and Brian Boonstra, in memory of

Jung R. Lee and Ida BychkovMr. & Mrs. John BorlandAdam BossovMs. Janet BoyerMr. & Mrs. John D. BramsenMyrna R. BromleyMr. & Mrs. Samuel BuchsbaumKay and Rhett † ButlerElizabeth Nolan and Kevin BuzardMs. Lutgart CalcoteAnn and Richard Carr


may 2019 47


Mia Celano and Noel DunnMr. Wesley M. ClarkDr. Edward A. Cole and

Dr. Christine A. RydelJane and John C. ColmanMrs. Francie ComerDr. Thomas H. ConnerMr. Robert CookeMary Lynn CooneyJenny L. Corley in memory of

Dr. W. Gene CorleyMr. & Mrs. Richard CorradoAnita J. Court, Ph.D.Ms. Jane CoxMrs. Beatrice G. CrainMr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. HarrisDancing Skies FoundationDr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das GuptaIn Loving Memory of

Alice Furumoto-DawsonDuane M. DesParte and

John C. SchneiderJanet Wood DiederichsMs. Marilyn DugingerMr. & Mrs. Frank A. DusekMr. & Mrs. Timothy EarleMr. & Mrs. Stephen EastwoodEstate of Dr. Edward ElisbergMichael and Kathleen ElliottCharles and Carol EmmonsScott and Lenore EnloeSidney Epstein † and

Sondra Berman EpsteinMrs. Carol Evans, in memory of

Henry EvansMr. Fred EychanerMrs. Walter D. FacklerTarek and Ann FadelJeffrey Farbman and Ann GreensteinMs. Sharon Ferrill †Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of

Robert CoadMr. Conrad FischerKenneth M. Fitzgerald and Ruby CarrHenry and Frances FogelGinny and Peter ForemanMr. & Mrs. Willard FraumannJerry Freedman & Elizabeth SacksSusan and Paul FreehlingMr. & Mrs. Philip FriedmannSandy and Frank GelberCamillo and Arlene GhironMs. Karen GianfranciscoMrs. Willard GidwitzMr. & Mrs. James J. GlasserLyn GoldsteinMary and Michael GoodkindMr. & Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr.Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette GordonDr. Jerri E. GreerSusan † and Kendall GriffithMr. & Mrs. John HalesStephanie and Howard Halpern

Anne Marcus HamadaRonald and Diane HamburgerJohn and Sally HardMary E. HarlandJames W. HaughMr. & Mrs. Joseph Andrew HaysJanet and Bob HelmanSonny and Marlene HershThe Hickey Family FoundationWilliam B. HinchliffRichard and Joanne HoffmanMr. William J. Hokin †Dr. & Mrs. James HollandJames and Eileen HolzhauerJames and Mary HoustonMr. † & Mrs. Peter HuizengaTex and Susan HullMichael and Leigh HustonLeland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. PerkinsMrs. Babette InglehartMs. Elizabeth InglehartDr. Peter IvanovichDr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy JanusJoseph and Rebecca JarabakMs. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan KurunaDolores Kohl KaplanMr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/

Kaplan FoundationLarry † and Marie KaufmanMr. Tyrus KaufmanDon Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-KaulMarilyn M. KeilMr. & Mrs. Michael KeiserJim and Ellen KelleherMr. & Mrs. Jeff KellerMrs. Elizabeth KeyserEsther G. KlatzMr. & Mrs. Richard K. KomarekJack and Cathie KozikMr. & Mrs. David KravitzKay and Fred KrehbielDavid and Susan KreismanMr. & Mrs. Ronald KrueckMr. Dennis KuhnsMr. & Mrs. Rubin P. KuznitskyPatricia LeeMr. Jeffrey LennardWally and Carol LennoxMr. Michael LeppenMr. Julius Lewis †Ms. Barbara LieberDr. Herbert & Francine LippitzDiane and William F. LloydMr. Russ LymanS. Stella MahThe Malott Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. Patrick A. MartinMs. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian HaagMrs. Robert Mayer †Margaret H. and Steven D. McCormickAnn Pickard McDermottIn memory of William and

Carolyn McKittrick

James Edward McPherson and David L. Murray

Mr. Gregory and Dr. Alice MelchorMs. Judith Moniak †Dr. Charles MorcomMr. † & Mrs. William NeimanMrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr.Dr. Zehava L. NoahMr. & Mrs. Richard NoparMr. & Mrs. Norman L. OlsonMr. Bruce OltmanDianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.Mr. Michael PayetteMs. Shauna PeetRichard and Frances PennDr. & Mrs. Ray PensingerMr. & Mrs. Norman PermanLorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. PhilipsbornMs. Kimberly PickenpaughMr. Samuel PressMr. & Mrs. John PuthMs. Helen ReedMari Yamamoto RegnierAnn and Bob Reiland, in memory of

Arthur and Ruth KochBurton and Francine RissmanCharles and Marilynn RivkinMs. Carol RobertsBob Rogers TravelMr. John W. Rogers, Jr.Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. VicencioMr. & Mrs. Harry J. RoperDr. & Mrs. Louis RosenblumSharon and Louis F. RosenthalD.D. RoskinMr. & Mrs. Frank A. RossiMrs. Donald Roth †Jay and Maija RothenbergMs. Roberta H. RubinMr. & Mrs. Rich RyanWilliam and Mary RyanMs. Cecelia SamansMr. David SandfortMr. Muneer A. Satter and

Ms. Kristen H. HertelMr. Timothy M. SawyierThe Schreuder FamilyShannon SchuylerDonald L. and Susan J. SchwartzMr. & Mrs. Chandra SekharIlene and Michael Shaw Charitable TrustJessie Shih and Johnson HoMs. Ann SilbermanJulia M. SimpsonMitchell † and Valerie SlotnickMrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.Mrs. Nancy SmerzMrs. Diane W. SmithLouise K. SmithJames and Diane SnyderDr. & Mrs. R. SolaroMr. † & Mrs. James Cavanaugh Spain


48 cso.org


Robert and Emily SpoerriMs. Adena StabenDusan Stefoski and Craig SavageNancy and Bruce StevensMr. Hal S.R. StewartLaurence and Caryn StrausLawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. HansMr. & Mrs. William H. StrongMr. & Mrs. Robert SzalayMr. Patrick Tagny DiesseRay and Mary Ann TittleBill and Anne TobeyJohn T. and Carrie M. TraversHoward and Paula † TrienensMr. & Mrs. William & Joan TrukenbrodVirginia C. ValeMrs. Dorothy VanceMr. & Mrs. Peter E. Van NiceBert and Barbara WellerLinda † and Marc WeissbluthMr. & Ms. Richard WilliamsMr. Stephen Winters and Peter WolfMichael † and Laura WollDr. Hak WongMichael H. and Mary K. WooleverMs. Karen Zupko

$2 ,500 –$4 , 499Anonymous (17)Elaine and Floyd AbramsonMs. Patti AcurioMs. Susan AdlerMs. Rochelle AllenSandra Allen and Jim PerlowMr. & Mrs. Robert A. AlsakerMr. & Mrs. Michael AndersonMs. Doris AngellMychal P. Angelos, in memory of

Dorothy A. AngelosDr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva RedeiDavid and Suzanne ArchDr. & Mrs. Kent ArmbrusterMrs. Jeanne B. AronsonCarey and Brett AugustEd BachrachMr. & Mrs. William BardeenPaul and Robert Barker FoundationMr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. BarnesMr. Peter BarrettRoberta and Harold S. BarronMs. Barbara BarzanskyMs. Sandra BassMs. Elaine BaumannDr. & Mrs. Robert A. BeattyMs. Michele BeckerMr. Ken BelcherMr. & Mrs. Richard BenckMr. Thomas BergDr. Leonard & Phyllis BerlinMr. & Mrs. Robert L. Berner, Jr.Catherine & Ron BevilLois R. and Maurice J. BeznosMrs. Arthur A. Billings

Mr. & Mrs. Harrington BischofJim † and Dianne BlancoAnn BlickensderferMr. & Mrs. Andrew BlockTimothy and Karen BondyCassandra L. BookMr. & Mrs. James BorovskyMr. Douglas BraganMs. Jill BrennanBarbara and Powell BridgesConnie and Bob BrinkMr. & Ms. Joel BroskMr. & Mrs. John BrubakerMr. & Mrs. Timothy BryanLinda S. BuckleyLisa Dollar Buehler and Bill EscamillaCarmine FoundationWendy Alders CartlandMr. & Mrs. Jerome CastelliniMr. & Mrs. Candelario CelioMr. James ChamberlainTina and Fredrick ChapekisJayson and Elizabeth CheeverLinton J. ChildsJan and Frank Cicero, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. ClancyPatricia A. ClickenerMitchell Cobey and Janet RealiMs. Jean CocozzaLewis CollensMary Ellen Cooney and Ken Higgins †Nancy R. CorralPatricia Cox and FamilyMs. Juli CrabtreeMr. Earle Cromer IIIMr. Bert CrosslandConstance CwiokMr. & Mrs. Robert J. DarnallDr. Brenda A. Darrell and

Mr. Paul S. WatfordMelissa and Gordon DavisMuller Davis † and Lynn StrausMr. Guy DeBoo and Ms. Susan FranzettiDecyk Charitable FoundationMr. Steven DeliMr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoungPaul and Nona DixWendy EagerMr. & Mrs. David P. Earle IIIMr. & Mrs. Larry K. EbertLa and Philip EngelMrs. Janice EngleMarilyn D. Ezri, M.D.Mr. & Mrs. William F. FarleySally S. FederCathy and Joe FeldmanJudith E. FeldmanSteven and Carol FelsenthalDonald and Signe FergusonHector Ferral, M.D.Evelyn T. FitzpatrickMrs. Roslyn K. FlegelMrs. Donna Fleming

Eileen T. Flynn and Thomas J. InglisMr. Robert Fordham †Mrs. John D. FosterMs. Irene FoxArthur L. Frank, M.D.Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry IIIJan Gaines and Andrew S. KenoeEstate of Florence GanjaJudy and Mickey GaynorRobert D. GechtRabbi Gary S. Gerson and

Dr. Carol R. GersonBernardino and Caterina GhettiMr. & Mrs. Jerome GilsonMr. Jonathan W. GlossbergMr. & Mrs. Perry GoldbergJudy & Bill GoldbergAlfred G. GoldsteinMr. † & Mrs. Thomas M. GoldsteinRobert and Marcia GoltermannMrs. Amy G. Gordon and

Mr. Michael D. GordonMr. Jacques GordonSamantha GordonMr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana FrenchDonald J. GralenMs. Freddi GreenbergThomas † and Delta GreeneTimothy and Joyce GreeningDr. Michael GreenwaldMr. & Mrs. Byron GregoryMr. & Mrs. Jerome GroenJacalyn GronekMr. & Mrs. John GrowdonMrs. Marguerite GuidoDr. & Mrs. John W. Gustaitis, Jr.Anastasia and Gary † GuttingMr. & Mrs. Ernst A. HäberliJerry A. Hall, M.D.Ms. Nancy HallerMs. Agnes HamosDr. & Mrs. Chester HandelmanMr. & Mrs. Stuart HandlerDr. Robert A. HarrisMrs. John M. HartiganMs. Kyle HarveyThomas and Connie Hsu HaynesJames and Lynne † HeckmanMr. Steven HeiseMr. James R. Helbert † and

Mrs. Mary Mako HelbertMs. Dawn E. HelwigDr. & Mrs. Arthur L. HerbstMr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. HesseMarjorie Friedman HeymanMr. Paul E. HicksRobert A. Hill and Thea Flaum HillJames & Megan HinchsliffMrs. Edwin P. HoffmanMs. Gretchen Hoffmann and

Mr. Joseph DohertyEugene HollandMr. Todd Holleman


may 2019 49


Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson IIIMs. Joanna HorsnailFrances and Franklin † HorwichMs. Roberta M. HorwitzCarter Howard and Sarah KreppBruce and Carol HuckDavid and Marcia HulanDr. Ronald L. HullingerMr. Harry Hunderman and

Ms. Deborah SlatonMichael L. IgoeMr. Craig T. IngramMs. Frieda Ireland and Mr. Carroll DamronMrs. Nancy Witte JacobsMr. & Mrs. Stan JakopinCynthia Jamison-MarcyMr. & Mrs. † Edgar D. Jannotta, Sr.Mr. John JaworBenetta and Paul JensonMr. & Mrs. Edward Jepson, Jr.Joni and Brian JohnsonMaryl Johnson, M.D.Dr. Patricia Collins JonesMs. Stephanie JonesMs. Kathleen JordanMs. Hyla KallenEric and Melanie KalninsMrs. Lonny H. KarminJohn and Kerma KarolyMs. Ethelle KatzBarry D. KaufmanSusie Forstmann KealyJonathan and Nancy Lee KemperLinda J. Kenney, PhDGerould and Jewell KernMr. & Mrs. Richard KeyserMr. Howard KiddAnne G. Kimball and Peter SternThe King Family FoundationCarol KippermanDr. Jay and Georgianna KleimanMr. & Mrs. James KlenkAnna Z. KleymenovaMr. Thomas KmetkoMr. & Mrs. Thomas KnauffMrs. Harriet B. KoehlerMr. & Mrs. Norman KoglinCookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. KohnDr. & Mrs. Mark KozloffEldon and Patricia KreiderMs. Iris KriegDrs. Vinay and Raminder KumarPaul and Ruth Ann KurtinBob and Marian KurzMr. John LaBarberaMr. & Mrs. Mark LabkonArthur and Olga LadenburgerThe League of the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra AssociationAnne E. Leibowitz FundSheila Fields LeiterMary and Laurence LevineAverill and Bernard † Leviton

Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. StrekPhilip R. Liebson, M.D.Stewart and Susan LiechtiLing LiuPatricia M. LivingstonMs. Alma LizcanoReva and John S. Lizzadro, Sr.Jane and Peter LoebRenée LoganMs. Jean LorenzenMr. Edward MackMr. Daniel Macken and

Mr. Merlyn HarboldMr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLeanDr. & Mrs. Michael S. MalingMr. Daniel ManoogianDan and Lynne Mapes-RiordanRobert † and Judy MarthMs. Marjorie MartinArthur and Elizabeth MartinezRobert & Doretta MarwinJames and Susan MatsonMarianne C. MayerDr. & Mrs. James McCrearyRosa and Peter McCullaghDr. & Mrs. James McGeeDr. † & Mrs. John McGee IIBonnie McGrathBill McIntoshJohn and Etta McKennaDr. & Mrs. Peter McKinneyJane and Bruce McLaganMr. Zarin MehtaMr. & Mrs. Paul MeisterMr. Robert O. MiddletonMr. Llewellyn Miller and

Ms. Cecilia ConradEdward & Lucy R. Minor

Family FoundationDr. Leo and Catherine MiserendinoMs. Mary MittlerMr. Frank Modruson and

Ms. Lynne ShigleyMr. & Mrs. Robert MoellerDr. Toni-Marie MontgomeryMaria and Carl E. MooreMr. & Mrs. Stephen MoralesMrs. Frank MorrisseyThe Morrow Family FoundationCatherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Herbert F. MunstermanEileen M. MurrayJo Ann and Stuart NathanMr. & Mrs. Kenneth NebenzahlMr. Richard NichollsKenneth R. NorganMrs. Janis NotzMr. Gerard and Dr. Linda NussbaumSharon and Lee OberlanderEric and Carolyn OesterleMichael and Kay O’HalleranMarjory OlikerJohn and Joy O’Malley

Mr. Thomas OrlandoBeatrice F. OrzacMr. & Mrs. Gerald OstermannMr. Bruce OttleyMichael and Rebecca OwenMrs. Evelyn E. PadorrMr. Timothy J. PatenodeEugene and Lois PavalonKingsley PerkinsMr. & Mrs. Michael A. PerlsteinDr. William PeruzziDavid and Sara PetersonStanley M. and Virginia Johnson PillmanMrs. Sherri PincusMr. & Mrs. Dale R. PinkertHarvey and Madeleine PlonskerJohn F. Podjasek III Charitable FundTerrence PolichChristine and Michael PopeStephen and Ann Suker PotterSusan and Joseph A. Power, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Leigh RabmanMary RaffertyJohn and Mary † RaittDorothy V. RammMark & Nancy RatnerMs. Polly RattnerHarper ReedAl and Lynn ReichleMark S. ReiterMerle ReskinMary K. RingRoberts Family FoundationWilliam and Cheryl RobertsDavid and Kathy RobinErik and Nelleke RoffelsenMr. & Mrs. Saul RosenMr. & Mrs. Richard RosenbergMichael RosenthalDr. Roseanne RosenthalBetsy RosenzweigBob RoweMrs. Susan B. RubnitzTina and Buzz RuttenburgCarol S. SonnenscheinMr. Agustin G. SanzRaymond and Inez SaundersMr. Laurence SaviersMr †. and Mrs. Nathan SchlossShirley and John † SchlossmanDouglas M. SchmidtMr. & Mrs. Richard H. SchnadigMr. & Mrs. Thomas ScorzaStephen A. and Marilyn ScottDrs. Deborah and Lawrence SegilRonald and Nancy SemerdjianMr. & Mrs. Richard J.L. SeniorMs. Courtney SheaMary and Charles M. SheaMs. Mary Beth SheaDr. & Mrs. James C. SheininRichard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. RobertsElizabeth and John Shoemaker


50 cso.org


Mr. Morrell Shoemaker, Jr.Stuart and Leslie ShulruffMargaret and Alan SilbermanMr. & Mrs. John SimmonsJack and Barbara SimonThe Honorable John B. Simon and

Mrs. Millie Rosenbloom SimonMr. Larry SimpsonCraig SirlesMary Ann SmithMary Beth and Stanton K. Smith Jr.Charles F. SmithMs. Patricia SmytheMr. & Mrs. O. J. SopranosMr. & Mrs. Michael SpainJoel and Beth SpenadelHelena StancikasSylvia SteenMr. & Mrs. Leonidas StefanosMr. & Mrs. Stephen R. SmithVirginia Lee StiglerDr. & Mrs. Ralph StollMr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.Ms. Minsook SuhMr. Sean SusaninMr. & Mrs. Gregory TaubeneckMr. James ThompsonMs. Carla M. ThorpeJoan and Michael ThronDrs. Karl and Sarah TichoMs. Mary TorresJoan and David TrushinPhil † and Paula TurnerMr. & Mrs. Robert W. TurnerKsenia A. and Peter TurulaMrs. Elizabeth TwedeLori L. and John R. TwomblyHenry and Janet UnderwoodZalman and Karen UsiskinMrs. James D. Vail IIIMr. Peter ValeMs. Julia Vander PloegThomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D.Dr. Michael ViglioneMs. Raita VilninsTheodore and Elisabeth WachsMr. & Mrs. Mark A. WagnerLuluMr. & Mrs. Bernard WallNicholas and Jessica WallaceMr. & Mrs. William A. WardMs. Carol WarshawskyIn memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-

Wasserman from David Wasserman MDDr. Catherine L. WebbSusan A. WeberMr. & Mrs. Joseph M. WeilDrs. Carolyn and Jamie WeinerHilary and Barry WeinsteinSamuel † and Chickie WeisbardAbby and Glen WeisbergMrs. Barbara H. West †Mr. & Mrs. Peter West

Ms. Zita WheelerDan and Paula WiseCourtenay R. Wood and

H. Noel Jackson, Jr.Cheryl B. and James T. WormleyMr. & Mrs. Donald WoulfeMs. Debbie WrightSusan Schaalman Youdovin and

Charlie ShulkinOwen and Linda YoungmanPaul and Mary YovovichMr. Laird Zacheis and Ms. Sunhee LeeAlexander F. Zajczenko and

Julie SchwertfegerDavid and Eileen ZampaDr. & Mrs. John ZarembaMolly Ziegler and Karen WhittMs. Anne ZenzerRichard E. ZieglerMs. Camille ZientekDr. Michael P. Zygmunt

$1,000 –$2 , 499Anonymous (29)Mr. Richard AbramMr. & Mrs. Sherwin AbramsMichael and Mary AbroeNancy A. AbshireThe Acorn FoundationMr. & Mrs. Stanley AdelmanIn memory of Martha and Bernie AdelsonMr. David R. AdlerSarah AdlerDr. & Mrs. Carl H. AlbrightMs. Judy AllenMs. Mary T. AlrothMrs. Evelyn AlterDr. Diane AltkornDr. Ronald and Barbara AltmanDr. Charles and Marie Grass AmentaMs. Carol AndersonMr. Karl Anderson and Ms. Pamela ShuDr. Smiljana AntonijevicDr. & Mrs. Robert ArensmanMr. Kevin ArmstrongGregory Yuri AronoffMs. Marie AsburyMr. & Mrs. Peter AscoliMary Jane and Bob AsherMr. & Mrs. Theodore M. AsnerMr. Sinan AtacJack S. AtenAthena FundMs. Frances AtkinsMr. Bhupat AtluriTom AuchterMs. Bernice AuslanderMr. Tom BachtellDr. Richard BaerCatherine Baker and Timothy KentJon Balke and G. BalkeEdith M. BallinMs. Barbara Ballinger

Mr. Robert BarkeiMrs. Horace B. BarksMs. Judith BarnardMr. Carroll BarnesMr. & Mrs. John BarnesPatrick BarnesJames and Bartha BarrettNita & Alvin BarshefskyWilliam BartleyMr. & Ms. John J. BasalayHoward and Donna BassMichael and Gail BauerMr. Ronald BauerRobert and Linda BaumMs. Patricia BayerleinMs. Ellen BechtholdPaul Becker and Nancy BeckerDr. & Mrs. Enrique BeckmannKirsten Bedway and Simon PeeblerShirley BehrendtPrue and Frank BeidlerMichelle BennettArlene and Marshall † BennettMs. Susan BennettMr. & Mrs. Charles S. BergenMr. Marc BerlowGene and Natalie BernardoniMr. Louis BernsteinMs. Catherine BerryMr. & Mrs. Loren Berry IIIMs. Ludmila BidwellMr. Jerry BiedemanBigoness FamilyMr. & Mrs. Charles BlackMr. Joe BlackburnIn Memory of John R. BlairDavid E. Blatt and David M. MooreMr. & Mrs. David BlumbergMr. & Mrs. Norman BobinsSusanna BodnarMr. Edward Boehm IIIMs. Virginia BoehmeMr. & Mrs. Peter BorichMr. James BorkmanMr. & Mrs. Fred P. BosselmanMr. John BostjancichMr. & Mrs. David BoydCarl and Kathryn BoyensDrs. Nader and Mandan BozorgiMs. Danolda BrennanMr. Richard BresowarMr. & Mrs. Joseph BreuMr. Michael BrewerMs. Susan BridgeMr. & Mrs. Robert BrightfeltMr. Wesley BroquardMr. Lee M. Brown, Mr. John B. Newman

and Ms. Pixie NewmanMs. Alice BrunnerMrs. Dan BrusslanMr. † & Mrs. Allen BuhlerJack M. BulmashMs. Kathryn Burgdorfer


may 2019 51


Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Burns, Jr.Mr. David BurrageMr. George BurrowsBob and Lynn BurtMs. Jeanne BuschMr. & Mrs. Mark BushmanMr. & Mrs. John ButlerGabriel and Jill BuzasMs. Linda CalandraMr. & Mrs. Wiley Caldwell, Jr.Mr. Robert CallahanMr. & Mrs. Dennis CalvaneseFather John CanaryRobert and Kay CarlsonDavid and Orit CarpenterMr. Fairbank CarpenterDrs. Virginia and Stephen CarrMr. & Mrs. Blouke CarusDonald & Linda CassilBeverly and Lawrence CentellaMr. † & Mrs. Henry T. ChandlerMr. Aaron ChandranMr. Rowland ChangMs. Margaret ChaplanMr. & Mrs. John ChapmanMr. Myron CherryHarriett and Myron CholdenMr. & Mrs. Gerry ChrismanMr. George ChristakesBruce ChristianMr. & Mrs. Stanley ChristiansonMr. & Mrs. Joseph ChungPeter and Hedy CiocciMs. Kathleen ClarkStephen ClarkNancy J. ClawsonRobert Coen and Marjorie CoenMr. & Mrs. Frank CohenDavid ColburnMs. Kathryn CollierMr. Jonathan CollinsMr. Stan CollinsMr. & Mrs. Mathew CollopyE. and V. Combs FoundationJames D. ComptonMrs. Eileen ConaghanPeter Conover and Kristi SlonigerPeter and Beverly Ann ConroyMs. Sharon ConwayJoe and Judy CosenzaMatt and Carrie CotterMr. & Mrs. Bill CottleKristen and John CourtneyGayla W. CoxMs. Susan CrawJay Crawford and Lynne FriedlanderHector CruzSen. John CullertonWilliam and Janice CutlerMrs. Marcia DamDr. Mark E. Dato and Dr. Mary P. BrownMr. Robert DaughertyDenise and Dr. Ariel David

Norma E. Davis WillisMr. & Mrs. Richard DavisonRomke de HaanMr. Eric C. DeanDelaney Delaney & Voorn LTDMrs. David DeMarMr. Adrian DemooyDr. & Mrs. Terrence DemosMs. Marcia DevlinMr. & Mrs. Byram DickesMs. Amy Dickinson and

Mr. James FutranskyLinda and Peter DiDonatoMr. William Dietz, Jr.Mr. Frank DileonardoMichael and Laurel DiPrimaKevin & Kelly DockeryMr. & Mrs. Otto Doering IIIMrs. Janice DomanikMr. Fred DonnerMs. Joan D. DonovanMrs. Adrienne DoppeltMrs. Catherine DouglasDr. & Mrs. Heratch DoumanianNatalie and Joshua DranoffMs. Rosanne DruianIngrid and Richard DubberkeMr. & Mrs. Andrew DudaMr. & Mrs. Eugene DudaMr. Ronald DukeMr. & Mrs. Robert DulskiDr. Thomas Durica & Sue JacobMr. & Mrs. Dan DvorkinTerry Charles DwortzJoan & Warren EagleJudge Frank EasterbrookMr. Nik B. EdesGary and Deborah EdidinElaine Edwards and Fred L. BonnerRichard Egen and Donna EgenNancy EibeckEdward and Nancy EichelbergerMr. & Mrs. Estia EichtenSondra and Karl S. EisenbergRobert S. and Ardyth J. EisenbergMr. H.J. EisenmanReese and Jeanne ElledgeThomas EllerMr. & Mrs. Victor Elting IIIMs. Laura EmerickMr. & Mrs. A. Gerald EricksonDr. & Mrs. James ErtleKeith and Diane ErtnerNancy EstradaPaul and Clare FahertyLaura and John FairfieldDr. Robert A. Fajardo and Judith MarohnJudith Farquhar and James HeviaMr. & Mrs. Andrew FeinbergMr. & Mrs. Robert FeitlerDr. & Mrs. William FeltenMr. & Mrs. Joel FenchelFrank J. & Diana Lynn Feraco Trust

Joy FettDebra FienbergSandra E. FienbergStephen and Patricia FisherMr. Patrick Fitzgerald and

Ms. Mary K. KrigbaumMs. Lola FlammMr. William FleigMs. Anita D. FlournoyMr. Paul FongMr. Mark FossMs. Stacie M. FrankLawrence and Pamela FrankelDr. & Mrs. James FranklinAllen J. Frantzen and George R. PatersonDr. † & Mrs. Uwe FreeseMr. & Mrs. Louis Freidheim, Jr.Fred FreitagMr. George Frerichs and

Ms. Cheryl D. McIntyreDr. & Mrs. Gary J. FriendDr. Barbara FullerMr. & Mrs. James GaebeMs. Cecile GaganMrs. Joan M. GalinskiPeter GallanisDr. & Mrs. Ronald GanellenDr. Francisco GarciniMr. John GardnerMr. & Mrs. † Robert J. GareisDrs. Henry and Susan GaultNancy GavlinCassandra SalgadoLouis and Judith GenesenMr. & Mrs. John E. GepsonMrs. Elizabeth GibbyMr. James GibsonMs. Sharon GibsonMs. Gloria GierkeMr. Ben Gierl and Ms. Karla HayterMr. & Mrs. Alan GilbertMargaret GillingLawrence and Amy GillumMr. & Mrs. John GinascolDr. & Mrs. Paul B. GlickmanMr. David GlueckWilliam and Ethel GofenNorman † and Barbara GoldMr. Stanford GoldblattMr. † & Mrs. Samuel GoldenDr. & Mrs. Marshall D. Goldin, in memory

of Dr. William WarrenAdele and Marvin GoldsmithMs. Maria GoncaloMs. Sarah GoodGordon and Nancy GoodmanIsabelle GoossenLeo & Linda GordonMerle GordonMr. Andrew GoreMr. & Mrs. James GorterDavid and Elizabeth GrahamCarol R. Grant


52 cso.org


Mr. Ellsworth GrantBrooks and Wanza GrantierMr. & Mrs. Delmon GrapesMr. Anthony GreenRochelle and Michael GreenfieldMr. & Mrs. David GreensteinMr. David GriffinGregory GrobarcikCharles Grode and Heidi LukasMr. & Mrs. Jim GrotelueschenGeorge F. and Catherine S. HaberHalasmani/Davis FamilyTimothy R. Hale & Katherine Grace HaleMrs. Mary HallmanJo Ellen and Stephen C. HamJohn and Patricia HamiltonMs. Lee HamiltonHill and Cheryl HammockStuart and Shelly HanflingMr. Michael Hansen and

Ms. Nancy RandaMr. Charles HanusinMs. Patricia HarperRobert and Margot HaselkornDr. & Mrs. James HaughtonDr. & Mrs. Paul J. HauserMr. William P. Hauworth IIBridgette Hayes and Eric HayesBeth Healy & Mike FordneyMs. Joan HeaneyWilliam HeffernanMrs. Nancy HeilRoss and Andrea HeimDr. Joseph N. Heiney and

Mr. Khadbaatar JargalsaikhanMrs. Valerie HeintzMr. David HelversonMs. Ayana HendersonMr. Thomas C. HennigerMichael and Suzanne HensleyMr. David HerbertMr. † & Mrs. Peter HerrBarbara and Jim HerstLarry HerzogMr. & Mrs. David KistenbrokerHarriet E. HeydaJeana HillMr. Felipe HillardMr. & Mrs. David HilliardJames and Margot HinchliffThe Rev. Melinda Hinners-Waldie and

Mr. Benjamin WaldieMs. Judith HirschDr. Richard HirschmannMrs. Annika HoffmanDavid Glenn HoffmanMr. Karl HoffmanSuzanne Hoffman and Dale SmithMr. Jim HollandMs. Sharon Flynn HollanderMrs. J. HolmbeckDr. George Honig and Ms. Olga WeissMr. & Mrs. Peter Horne

Vicki and Thomas Horwich FoundationMs. Amanda Howland and

Dr. Phillip E. LaneMichael and Beverly HuckmanMs. Patricia HurleyMr. & Mrs. Robert HutchinsDr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul NavinMr. & Mrs. Jorge IorgulescuCheryl IstvanMr. Benjamin IvoryMs. Marina JacksMr. Harold E Jackson JrMerle L. JacobMs. Ann JagiellaMr. Matt JamesMrs. Sonya JasperMr. & Mrs. Joel JastrombMs. Lynn JerathMrs. Mary Johnston, Ph.D.Jean and Cynthia JohoMr. Thomas JonesDr. Rebecca JosefsonMr. & Mrs. Saul KadinMr. † & Mrs. Tom KallenJames KallianisThomas and Reseda KalowskiSteven Kaplan and Carol RubinWayne S. and Lenore M. KaplanRoula and George KarcazesMr. & Mrs. Byron C. KarzasMrs. Louise KaschDouglas and Dana KaslMr. Neil KatzDr. & Mrs. Robert KatzMs. Carole KellerNancy and Donald KempfMr. & Mrs. Ken MollMs. Helen KesslerMr. & Mrs. W. K. KetchumMs. Catherine KetterMr. & Mrs. † Algimantas KezelisMr. & Mrs. Gene KieselEllen KingHank KinzieMr. & Mrs. John E. KirkpatrickKathy Kirn and David LevinsonMs. Lilia KiselevJack and Terry KleckaMr. & Mrs. LeRoy KlemtJanice KlichMs. Mary KlyasheffMs. Erika KnierimRobert and Andrea KnightMr. George KochMr. & Mrs. Thomas KoelblKoldyke Family FundMr. Edward KossMr. Mark KraemerMrs. Leona KrompartMr. & Mrs. Larry KrucoffMaria KubikMr. & Mrs. Walfrid KujalaMr. Steven Kukalis

Dr. & Mrs. Ken KuoMs. Michele KurlanderMr. Matthew KusekGary J. KussowDr. Marina and Andrey KuznetsovMr. Chaeyoung KwonMr. Thomas LadMarvin & Carol LaderCarl LaMarkLisa and Bill LandesRichard Landgraff and Bernadette FoleyMr. & Mrs. Frederick LangrehrMr. John LansingDJ and Natalie LaRocqueMs. Pamela LarsenMs. Leah LaurieMs. Ruby LawSharon and Bill LearElaine Lebhoff-Ries, MD and

Michael Ries, MDMr. & Mrs. Peter LedererMr. Mark LedogarMr. & Mrs. Bruce LeepDarla and Hunter LeggittMr. Jonathon LeikJohn and Jill LeviMrs. Richard LeviFay and Daniel LevinDr. & Mrs. Stuart LevinAbby and Jonathan LevineDr. & Mrs. Robert LevyJosephine Lewis and Morton DubmanMs. Judith LewisDr. Marcia A. LewisCara LichtensteinBrian Lighty and Andrew BigelowMr. Ross LillieRobert † and Joan LipsigMs. Anne LittleKathleen Lockhart & James DixonMr. Melvin LoebMr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. LoftusMrs. Gabrielle LongSherry and Mel LopataMs. Isabela LopesMs. Melynda LopinMr. & Ms. Matthew LoPrestiMs. Esther LothDonna and Richard LoundyMr. Joel LoweryTimothy LubenowAmy and Don LubinJennifer and Dan LubyRonald and Carlotta LucchesiMr. & Mrs. Michael LutzMr. Glen J. Madeja and Ms. Janet SteidlMs. Janice MagnusonDr. Allan MaierMs. Jeanne MalkinMs. Margaret A. MaloneMr. Gary L. Mandell and Mrs. Diana KonMiles Maner


may 2019 53


Ms. Amy B. Manning and Mr. Paul C. Ziebert

Mr. George MannosMark & Wendy MantoMarty L. ManuelSharon L. ManuelMr. & Ms. Steven MarcusBarbara and Larry MargolisMr. Robert MarksMr. Timothy MarshallMr. & Mrs. Roland MartelMs. Mirjana MartichMs. Molly MartinSharon and Eden MartinMr. Julio MartinezDrs. Annette and John MartiniMr. † & Mrs. Lowell Mason, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Walter MasseyDr. Ann B. MatasarMarilyn and Myron MaurerMs. Adele MayerLarry and Donna MayerMr. † & Mrs. George MazeMs. Sue McCandlessJohn McCartneyMr. Robert McColleyMs. Margaret McCoyMs. Marilyn McCoyMr. & Mrs. William McDowell, Jr.Ms. Patricia A. McGuireMr. & Mrs. George C. McKannMr. Charles McKeeMr. & Mrs. Lester McKeeverDr. & Mrs. Bruce McLeodMs. Florence McMillanDennis and Elyse McWherterMrs. Erma MedgyesySheila and Harvey MedvinMrs. Helen MehlerMs. Claretta MeierDr. & Mrs. Jack L. MelamedMr. Ernst MelchiorDr. Janis MendelsohnDr. Ellen MendelsonMrs. Robert MendelsonJim and Ginger MeyerMr. & Mrs. Thomas Meyers, Jr.Simon MichalAmy MichalakMrs. Edward MillerFloyd and Elizabeth MillerMs. Katie Miller and Mr. Jonathan MillerMrs. Mary MillerMs. Vlasta MinarichDr. & Mrs. Robert MinkusMr. & Mrs. Newton MinowMs. Helen MinskerMs. Annet MirandaMr. Fred MittelstaedtMr. Hiroshi and Mrs. Chika MiyamoriMr. Sanford MoltzIan and Robyn Moncrief

Dr. Anthony Montag † and Dr. Katherine Griem

Drs. Bill and Elaine MoorHugh and Della Rae MooreMalcolm MooreLloyd and Donna MorganSanford and Monica MorgansteinAnn T. MoroneyMrs. MaryLouise MorrisonWayne L. Mory and Marcia SnyderDavid MoscowMr. Vijai MosesMs. Vanessa MossAllison MoultonJT Mueller and Jennifer LiuPhyllis and Zane MuhlLuigi H. MumfordMr. Henry MunezMr. George MurphyMr. Mark NaborMs. Victoria NeeMr. & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.Deborah J. NelsonKay A. NelsonMr. Wayne NelsonMr. Wayne NestanderMr. John NewmanMs. Hathuy NguyenRichard NiJeff NicholsMs. Sylvette NicoliniMr. John NighMr. William NovshekMr. & Mrs. James NowackiMark and Gloria NusbaumMrs. Susan NutsonMr. Douglas NygaardMr. & Mrs. Delano O’BanionMargo and Michael ObermanDr. Dragic ObradovicMr. Álvaro R. ObregónDr. Kathryn Occhipinti and

Jerome WojciechowshiBrendan O’ConnorJames J. and Ellen O’ConnorBarbara and Larry OlinSarah and Wallace OliverMr. Arne OlsonLarry and Karen OlsonMr. Thomas O’Neill IIIMr. & Mrs. Paul OppenheimDr. Michael OrenMs. Maria OrtizKathleen Field OrrMr. Ronald OrzelGarry and Joanne OwensDaniela PaganiRichard and Carolyn PalasMs. Joan PantsiosDan and Diane ParrlliMr. & Mrs. Charles R. Patten, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Dan PeichlHarold E. † and Marcia A. Pendexter, Jr.

Ms. Ana Luz Perez DuranRobert & Barbara PerkausMs. Bertha PerlowMs. Dona PerryMr. & Mrs. † James PetersMrs. Victorina PetersonMs. Lynn PetrelliRita PetrettiMrs. Jana PharissGenevieve PhelpsMr. & Mrs. Robert G. PierceRob and Mindy PierceKaren and Dick PigottDr. & Mrs. V.K.G. PillayLee Ann and Savit PirlMr. & Mrs. Joel PokornyDon and Martha PollakMr. & Mrs. Byron PollockMr. John PorterDr. William PorterAllan and Carla PriceMr. & Mrs. Brad PriceD. Elizabeth PriceJean M. and R. PriceMs. Eleanor PrinceMr. & Mrs. Barry PritchardRodney L. PruittDrs. Joseph and Kimberly PyleMr. Duaine QuainiChris and Elizabeth QuiggMs. Cheryl QuinlanMirjam QuinnMr. Robert RadaDr. Homer RaddenPatrick and Bobbie RaffertyMs. Tara RaghavanAnna Rappaport and Peter W. PlumleyMr. Jeffrey RappinDr. & Mrs. Pradeep RattanMs. Carol RechMrs. Caroline Reed †Jack W. ReevesMs. Catherine ReiterMr. James RhoadsBenjamin and Florence M. RhodesMr. & Mrs. Evan RichardsDr. Hilda RichardsRobert J. Richards and

Barbara A. RichardsMs. Evelyn R. RicherLyn RidgewayMiles and Peggy RidgwayDrs. Rodney and Patricia RiegerMr. & Mrs. Richard Rieser, Jr.Ms. Karen L. RigottiRing Family FoundationJerry and Carole RingerMr. Paul RinkMr. Alexander RipleyDr. Anita RobbinsThomas Roberts and Teresa GroschMs. Cristina RoccaMr. James Rocks


54 cso.org


Mr. David RodenMr. Steven RoessLance & Lori RogersMr. & Mrs. Kenneth RooneyWilliam J. RosasAl and Mimi RoseMr. Edgar RoseMs. Roberta RosellDr. & Mrs. Melvin RosemanMs. Elaine RosenMr. † & Mrs. Sherman RosenJohn RosensweigMrs. Babette RosenthalLorelei RosenthalDr. & Mrs. Robert RosnerJoan and Ashley RossMr. & Mrs. Michael RothmanMs. Sharon RothsteinMr. Zhaosong RuanPeter and Monique RubHelen and Marc RubensteinMr. & Ms. Kevin A. RussellMs. Mary RussellPatrick Ryan and Mary McBridePriscilla E. Ryan and Frank BattleMrs. Martha SabranskyDrs. David and Karen SagerAnna Salman and Brian DeRosaDr. † & Mrs. Edwin SalterBettylu and Paul SaltzmanMr. Alfred SalvinoSuzanne G. SamuelsMr. & Mrs. Lawrence SauterKathleen and Tony SchaefferRobert P. SchaibleScott SchepkeMrs. Rebecca ScheweMr. & Mrs. John SchladweilerJeremy SchleeMrs. Julie SchmidtMr. Robert SchmidtBarbara and Lewis SchneiderMs. Marcia SchneiderJohn J. and Barbara L. SchornackMr. & Mrs. Steve SchuetteMs. Virginia Hall SchulteGerald and Barbara SchultzEdward and Irma SchwartzDr. Howard Schwartz and Dr. Ruth GrantJohn SchwartzSusan and Charles SchwartzMs. Terry SchwartzThomas and Maryellen ScottMr. & Mrs. Richard SeidMs. Gail SeidelDavid and Christine SeidmanMr. Mark SexauerMr. Todd ShamalyDr. & Mrs. Charles ShapiroMr. & Mrs. Myron ShapiroThomas and Nancy SharpMr. Christopher SheahenMs. Kim Shepherd

Mr. & Mrs. Mitsuzo ShidaDr. & Mrs. Mark C. ShieldsSusan Shimmin and David TeklerCarolyn M. ShortEllen and Richard ShubartMs. Judith SiabaChian Ban SiauMs. Debra SiegelMr. & Mrs. Thomas SilbermanDr. Rita Simó and Mr. Tomás BissonnetteMr. Thomas SimpsonMr. Alvin SingerMr. & Mrs. Robert SingerThomas G. SinkovicChristine A. SlivonMr. & Mrs. Frederic SmiesAugustine SmithPat and J. Clarke SmithMr. & Mrs. Paul SnopkoFrank So and Deborah HuggettDr. Sabine SobekIn Memory of Timothy SoleimanMr. Ethan SolomonJudith SommersDr. Stuart SondheimerMs. Sondra SonnebornMr. Alexander SozdatelevMs. Vesselina SpassovaMr. George SpeckMr. Michael SprinkerAnne-Marie St. GermaineMrs. Julie StaglianoCharles and Joan StaplesMrs. Marjorie K. StaplesMs. Denise StauderMs. Corinne SteedeMr. & Mrs. Eric SteeleGeorge and Julie SteffenCarol D. SteinMr. Andrew SteinwoldMr. & Mrs. Ronald StepanskyMrs. Marjorie H. StephanMr. & Mrs. Mark SternMr. Bradley SterrenbergMs. Karen StevensMs. Kathleen StewartPatrick StiffIn memory of Marjorie StoneEllen Stone-BelicSteve † and Ann StranahanMr. & Mrs. Alfred Stresen-Reuter, Jr.Pam and Russ StrobelDonna StroderDr. & Mrs. Frank StuartMr. Frederick Sturm and

Ms. Deborah GillaspieBarry and Winnifred SullivanMrs. Jeanne SullivanMs. Mary SummersDr. Xiang Qing SunMr. † & Mrs. Michael Supera, in honor of

Helen ZellMr. Gregory Surufka

Mr. & Mrs. Mark SutherlandSharon SwansonDr. John SwansonMr. & Mrs. Richard TaftMs. Claudine TambuatcoSamuel TaniosMr. Charles TauscheMs. Barbara TaylorMr. Frank TenBrinkMrs. Florence & Ron TestaThachana ThanakitcharuMr. & Mrs. Myron TierskyMs. Diane Tkach and Mr. James F. FreundtMr. Steve TomashefskyMr. Mark TomassiniMs. Tatia TorreyBruce and Jan TranenJames M. and Carol TrappDr. Carol Ann TrautMrs. Sally TreKellMs. Joanne TremulisSteve & Jocelyn TrokenheimMrs. Robert TrotterMs. Corina TsangDr. Sabrina S. TsaoMr. Jay TunneyMrs. Jean M. UnsworthEllen and Jerry UptonMr. Theodore UtchenMr. & Mrs. Allan VagnerRuben A. ValadezJim and Cindy ValtmanMs. Betty VandenboschFrances and Peter VandervoortJose VargasMr. David J. VarnerinTodd and Cari ViereggFrank VillellaMs. Linda VincentMr. John VinciMs. Carol VixMs. Darla VollrathDr. Malcolm V. Vye and Ms. Sherie SteinMs. Beth WaiteRobert J. WalkerMr. Les WallingaMr. Frank WalschlagerRobert Walsh and Doris WalshMorrison C. WarrenMs. Vanessa J. WeathersbyMr. † & Mrs. William Weaver, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. David WeberMr. Tom WedellJudge Eugene WedoffCynthia & Ben WeeseMr. Brian WeisbartMiss Genevieve WeissenselLinda WelshDrs. Anne and Dennis WentzMs. Patricia WerhaneMr. Donald WertzMrs. Walter WesleyMs. Caroline Wettersten


may 2019 55


Allen WheatcroftMr. John WheelerPeter and Valerie WhitcupFrank White and Sierra KellyDr. Wesley WhiteMr. & Mrs. † William WhiteMrs. William WhiteMs. Susan WhitingDr. & Mrs. Lawrence WickMr. Eric Wicks and Ms. Linda BakerJamie Wigglesworth AIARobert J. Wilczek † and Shirley PfenningMrs. Albert Williams, Jr. †Jennifer D. WilliamsNorman WilliamsScott R. Williamson and

Susanna E. KrentzPeter and Michele WillmottMr. Robert WilsonDr. Wendall WilsonMartha Wiltsie †Ted Windsor & Associates

Consulting ActuariesDr. Doris Wineman, Ph.D.Dr. Lawrence WinerCaroline WinnMs. Ann WinshipHerbert and Ruth Winter FoundationMs. Florence WintersMr. Michael WislekPaul Wochinske and Kathleen RattereeBarbara and Steven WolfDuain WolfePeggy and Ted WolffMr. Joseph Wolnski and

Ms. Jane ChristinoDr. Christopher and Julie WoodDavid WoodhouseMark & Randi WoodworthProf. Robert WoottonElizabeth WrightMrs. Jane Stroud WrightDennis XieDr. Robert B. YahrDr. Nanajan YakoubDr. Travis Yamanaka and Yuri YatsudaIn memory of Anthony C. YuDr. Robert G. ZadylakMrs. IdaLynn ZahourKarl and Joan C. ZeislerMs. Mary ZeltmannIrene Ziaya and Paul ChaitkinMs. Susan ZickThe Charles A. Zika FamilyDrs. Donald Zimmerman and

Susan PearlsonMike ZimmermanMr. & Mrs. Martin E. ZimmermanDr. & Mrs. Larry ZollingerMs. Barbara Zutovsky

Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony OrchestraThe Negaunee Music Institute connects individuals and communities to the extraordinary musical resources of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The follow-ing donors are gratefully acknowledged for making a gift in support of these education and engagement programs. To make a gift, contact CSOA Development at 312-294-3100. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.

$150,000 and aboveAnonymous (1)Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationJudson and Joyce GreenJulian Family FoundationThe Negaunee Foundation

$100,000 –$149,999Anonymous (1)Allstate Insurance CompanyThe James and Madeleine McMullan

Family FoundationMegan and Steve Shebik

$75 ,000 –$99,999Anonymous (1)John Hart and Carol PrinsJudy and Scott McCueRose Shure Trust

$50,000 –$74 ,999Anonymous (1)Alphawood FoundationRobert and Joanne Crown Income

Charitable FundLloyd A. Fry FoundationEllen and Paul GignilliatNancy Lauter McDougal and

Alfred L. † McDougalNational Endowment for the ArtsPolk Bros. FoundationBarbara and Barre Seid FoundationMichael and Linda Simon

$35 ,000 –$49,999Robert Kohl and Clark PellettBowman C. Lingle TrustMichael G. Woll Fund at the

Pauls Foundation

$25 ,000 –$34 ,999Anonymous (1)Abbott FundBarker Welfare FoundationJohn and Fran EdwardsonLeslie Fund, Inc.

PNCWintrust Financial Corp.

$20,000 –$2 4 ,999Anonymous (1)Illinois Arts Council AgencyThe George L. Shields FoundationPrince Charitable TrustsCharles and M. R. Shapiro FoundationMr. Irving Stenn, Jr.

$15 ,000 –$19,999Dora J. and R. John AalbregtseBruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton

Family FundSue and Jim CollettiMr. Jerry J. CritserSandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.Dr. Marylou Witz

$7,500 –$14 ,999Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.Mr. Lawrence BellesThe Buchanan Family FoundationMr. Lawrence CorryMr. † & Mrs. David A. DonovanMr. & Mrs. Allan DrebinAnne H. EvansMr. & Mrs. Robert GeraghtyMr. & Mrs. Joseph B. GlossbergRichard and Alice GodfreyChet Gougis and Shelley OchabMary Winton GreenDr. June KoizumiThe League of the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra AssociationLing Z. and Michael C. MarkovitzMs. Susan NorvichGerald † and Mona PennerMs. Judy PomeranzMrs. John Shedd Reed †Robert E. † and Cynthia M. SargentThe Siragusa FoundationMs. Liisa M. Thomas and

Mr. Stephen L. PrattPenny and John Van Horn

$4 ,500 –$7, 499Anonymous (1)Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth KretzBlue Cross Blue Shield of IllinoisMr. Donald BousemanMs. Marion A. CameronAnn and Richard CarrMr. & Ms. Keith ClaytonMari Hatzenbuehler CravenMr. & Mrs. Bernard DunkelDr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean StarkDr. Alexia GordonDr. & Mrs. James HollandMs. Barbara LieberMilne Family FoundationThe Navarre Law Firm


56 cso.org


David and Dolores NelsonMr. & Mrs. William J. O’NeillMary and Joseph PlauchéThe Rhoades FoundationMs. Judy RungeMs. Cecelia SamansDr. Scholl FoundationSegal Consulting

$2 ,500 –$4 , 499Anonymous (1)Ms. Patti AcurioAlfredo and Ada Capitanini FoundationArts Midwest Touring FundDaniel and Michele BeckerCharles H. and Bertha L.

Boothroyd FoundationMr. Douglas BraganThe Brinson FoundationPatricia A. ClickenerDr. Edward A. Cole and

Dr. Christine A. RydelMary Ellen Cooney and Ken Higgins †Anita J. Court, Ph.D.Ms. Jane CoxDan and Paula WiseMrs. Carol Evans, in memory of

Henry EvansMs. Irene FoxCamillo and Arlene GhironWilliam B. HinchliffSusie Forstmann KealyEsther G. KlatzAnne E. Leibowitz FundMr. Russ LymanMr. Edward MackEdward & Lucy R. Minor

Family FoundationDr. Leo and Catherine MiserendinoMaria and Carl E. MooreMr. & Mrs. Stephen MoralesMrs. Frank MorrisseyMr. & Mrs. Thomas D. PhilipsbornMs. Kimberly PickenpaughAl and Lynn ReichleBenjamin J. Rosenthal FoundationDavid and Judith L. SensibarJessie Shih and Johnson HoMs. Adena StabenMr. Hal StewartWalter and Caroline Sueske

Charitable TrustRuth Miner Swislow †Mr. & Mrs. William & Joan TrukenbrodMr. Peter Vale

$1,000 –$2 , 499Anonymous (7)Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and

Mrs. Sara Jones-AmreinDr. Smiljana AntonijevicGregory Yuri AronoffMr. Sinan Atac

Jack S. AtenAthena FundCatherine Baker and Timothy KentJon Balke and G. BalkeMr. Carroll BarnesMr. & Mrs. John BarnesMr. Peter BarrettWilliam BartleyHoward and Donna BassMichael and Gail BauerMichelle BennettMs. Susan BennettMr. & Mrs. William E. BibleMs. Ludmila BidwellMr. James BorkmanAdam BossovMyrna R. BromleyMr. Lee M. Brown, Mr. John B. Newman

and Ms. Pixie NewmanMr. & Mrs. Samuel BuchsbaumMr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Burns, Jr.John D. and Leslie Henner BurnsMs. Vera CappDonald & Linda CassilMr. & Mrs. Candelario CelioJayson and Elizabeth CheeverMr. Wesley M. ClarkMr. Jonathan CollinsMr. & Mrs. Bill CottleMr. Bert CrosslandConstance CwiokMelissa and Gordon DavisMs. Ana Luz Perez DuranRomke de HaanLinda and Peter DiDonatoMr. Frank DileonardoMs. Joan D. DonovanMr. & Mrs. Andrew DudaGary and Deborah EdidinNancy EibeckRobert S. and Ardyth J. EisenbergElk Grove GraphicsMs. Paula ElliottCharles and Carol EmmonsMrs. Walter D. FacklerTarek and Ann FadelJudith E. FeldmanJoy FettDr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of the

Civic Orchestra horn sectionEvelyn T. FitzpatrickMs. Lola FlammMrs. Roslyn K. FlegelJerry Freedman & Elizabeth SacksThe Nina Frenkel Commemorative FundMr. George Frerichs and

Ms. Cheryl D. McIntyreDr. & Mrs. Ronald GanellenGenerations DentalLawrence and Amy GillumCharles Grode and Heidi LukasHalasmani/Davis FamilyMr. & Mrs. John Hales

John and Patricia HamiltonBeth Healy & Mike FordneyMrs. Valerie HeintzMs. Dawn E. HelwigMr. Thomas C. HennigerBarbara and Jim HerstJames & Megan HinchsliffMr. Karl HoffmanSuzanne Hoffman and Dale SmithMs. Sharon Flynn HollanderMs. Amanda Howland and

Dr. Phillip E. LaneDavid and Marcia HulanMichael and Leigh HustonMr. Benjamin IvoryThomas and Reseda KalowskiMr. & Mrs. † Algimantas KezelisMr. Howard KiddKinder MorganAnna Z. KleymenovaMs. Leah LaurieMs. Ruby LawMr. & Mrs. Stewart LiechtiDr. Herbert & Francine LippitzMs. Alma LizcanoMr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. LoftusMr. Glen J. Madeja and Ms. Janet SteidlMs. Janice MagnusonMs. Jeanne MalkinMs. Margaret A. MaloneMs. Amy B. Manning and

Mr. Paul C. ZiebertRobert & Doretta MarwinDr & Mrs. Daniel MassMs. Adele MayerMr. † & Mrs. George MazeRosa and Peter McCullaghJim and Ginger MeyerMr. Robert MiddletonFloyd and Elizabeth MillerMs. Annet MirandaAnn T. MoroneyWayne L. Mory and Marcia SnyderAllison MoultonDeborah J. NelsonEdward and Gayla NieminenMrs. Susan NutsonMr. Álvaro R. ObregónMarjory OlikerMr. Bruce OltmanDr. Michael OrenMs. Joan PantsiosDan and Diane ParrlliDianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.Eugene and Lois PavalonMs. Shauna PeetPoetry FoundationMr. John PorterSusan and Joseph A. Power, Jr.D. Elizabeth PriceMark & Nancy RatnerPaul Wochinske and Kathleen RattereeHarper Reed

† Deceased ** FellowItalics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.Gifts listed as of January 23, 2019

may 2019 57


Dr. Hilda RichardsMiles and Peggy RidgwayMary K. RingMr. Paul RinkMr. Alexander RipleyDrs. David and Karen SagerMr. David SandfortMr. Laurence SaviersMrs. Rebecca ScheweMr. & Mrs. Albert SchlachtmeyerMr. Robert SchmidtMr. & Mrs. Thomas ScorzaStephen A. and Marilyn ScottThe Honorable John B. Simon and

Mrs. Millie Rosenbloom SimonMr. Larry SimpsonDr. Sabine SobekDr. & Mrs. R. SolaroMr. Alexander SozdatelevMrs. Julie StaglianoMs. Denise StauderMr. Andrew SteinwoldMr. & Mrs. Steve SchuetteLaurence and Caryn StrausMr. Frederick Sturm and

Ms. Deborah GillaspieSharon SwansonMrs. Florence & Ron TestaThomas and Nancy SharpMs. Tatia TorreyMs. Corina TsangMs. Darla VollrathLuluMs. Vanessa J. WeathersbyMr. Brian WeisbartAbby and Glen WeisbergMs. Zita WheelerFrank White and Sierra KellyMs. Susan WhitingScott R. Williamson and

Susanna E. KrentzDr. Wendall WilsonM.L. WinburnTed Windsor & Associates

Consulting ActuariesMs. Ann WinshipMark & Randi WoodworthCheryl B. and James T. WormleyElizabeth WrightDavid and Eileen ZampaMolly Ziegler and Karen WhittIrene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin

endowed fundsAnonymous (3)Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth

Concert FundDr. † & Mrs. † Bernard H. AdelsonMarjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert FundCNAKelli Gardner Youth Education

Endowment FundMary Winton Green

William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund for Community Engagement

Richard A. HeisePeter Paul Herbert Endowment FundThe Kapnick FamilyLester B. Knight Charitable TrustThe Malott Family Very Special

Promenades FundThe Eloise W. Martin Endowed

Fund in support of the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Negaunee FoundationNancy Ranney and Family and FriendsDolores M. Rix Endowment FundToyota Endowed FundThe Wallace FoundationZell Family Foundation

centennial season sponsorsThe Centennial Campaign for the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert series for children is supported with a generous lead gift from The Julian Family Foundation.

The 2018–19 Civic Centennial season is sponsored by The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.

Major support for the Centennial season is provided by an Anonymous Family Foundation, Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse, John Hart and Carol Prins, Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett, Judy and Scott McCue, Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. † McDougal, The Negaunee Foundation, The Osprey Foundation, Megan and Steve Shebik, Michael and Linda Simon, and Penny and John Van Horn.

We are also thankful to the following donors for making a special commitment during our Centennial seasons: Anonymous, Ms. Patti Acurio, Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible, Mr. James Borkman, Ann and Richard Carr, Tarek and Ann Fadel, Camillo and Arlene Ghiron, Dr. Alexia Gordon, Halasmani/Davis Family, Ms. Ruby Law, Mrs. Frank Morrissey, Allison Moulton, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn, Ms. Corina Tsang, and In Memory of Edward Zasadil.

To make your gift in support of the Centennial season, please contact the CSO Development office at [email protected] or 312-294-3100.

civic orchestra of chicago scholarshipsMembers of the Civic Orchestra receive an annual stipend to help offset some of their living expenses during their training in Civic. The following donors have generously underwritten a Civic musi-cian(s) for the 2018–19 season. Fifteen Civic members participate in the Civic Fellowship program, a rigorous artistic and professional development curriculum that supplements their membership in the full orchestra. Major funding for this program is generously provided by The Julian Family Foundation.

To learn more, please call BobbieRafferty, Director of Individual Giving,at 312-294-3165.

Dr. † & Mrs. † Bernard H. AdelsonRebecca Boelzner,** viola

Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth KretzPei-yeh Tsai,** keyboard

Mr. Lawrence Belles and Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationJoanna Nerius, violin

Sue and Jim CollettiLaura Pitkin,** horn

Lawrence CorryKevin Lin, viola

Mr. Jerry J. CritserJoe Bauer,** double bass

Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable FundMiguel Aguirre, violinNicolas Chona, clarinetAndrew Cooper, oboeIzumi Hoshino, violinRachel Peters, violinVincent Trautwein, double bass

Mr. † & Mrs. David A. DonovanAleksa Masyuk, viola

Mr. & Mrs. Allan Drebin and Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationGregory Heintz, double bass

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Geraghty and Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationHannah Cartwright, violin

Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. GignilliatJamie Lee, violinLiaht Slobodkin, violin

† Deceased ** FellowItalics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.Gifts listed as of January 23, 2019

58 cso.org


Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. GlossbergEnrique Olvera, viola

Richard and Alice GodfreyJoy Vucekovich, violin

Chet Gougis and Shelley OchabHanna Pederson, viola

Mary Winton GreenAdam Attard, double bass

Jane Redmond Haliday ChairAdam Ayers, cello

The Julian Family FoundationHannah Christiansen, violinRoslyn Green,** viola

Lester B. Knight Charitable TrustStephanie Diebel, hornJames Perez, tromboneSofie Yang, violin

Robert Kohl and Clark PellettJohn Heffernan,** violin

League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra AssociationAlexandria Hoffman,** flute

Leslie Fund Inc.Queenie Edwards,** violinJuan Gabriel Olivares,** clarinet

Judy and Scott McCueDenielle Wilson, cello

Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal †Nicholas Adams, double bassMathew Burri, double bass

Ms. Susan NorvichEleanor Kirk, harp

Mrs. Mona Penner in memory of Gerald PennerSarah Bowen, violin

Prince Charitable TrustsQuinn Delaney,** bassoon

Mrs. John Shedd Reed †Alex Norris, violin

Al and Lynn ReichleJarrett McCourt, tuba

Sandra and Earl J. Rusnak Jr.Anna Piotrowski, violin

Barbara and Barre Seid FoundationMatthew Kibort, timpaniKelly Quesada, cello

The George L. Shields Foundation Inc.Eva María Barbado Gutiérrez, celloBen Roidl-Ward, bassoonBenjamin Wagner, viola

The David W. and Lucille G. Stotter ChairPauline Kempf, violin

In memory of Ruth Miner SwislowMaria Arrua, violinBrent Taghap, violin

Lois and James Vrhel Endowment FundVincent Galvan, double bass

Dr. Marylou WitzCarmen Abelson,** violin

Michael G. † and Laura WollKelsey Williams, horn

Michael G. Woll Fund at the Pauls FoundationDevin Gossett, hornBryant Millet, trumpetLucas Steidinger, tromboneRenée Vogen, horn

AnonymousPhilip Bergman,** cello

AnonymousRobinson Schulze,** bass tromboneJacob Thonis, bassoon

Theodore Thomas SocietyListed below are generous donors who have made commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their wills, trusts, and other estate plans, including life-income arrangements. The Society honors their generosity, which helps to ensure the long-term financial stability and artistic excellence of the CSOA. To learn more, please call Al Andreychuk, Director of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3150.

stradivarian associatesThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individ-uals for generously creating a revocable bequest of $100,000 or more, or an irrevocable life-income trust or annuity of $50,000 or more, to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, as of January 2019.

Anonymous (9)Dora J. and R. John AalbregtseLisa J. AdelsteinEvy Johansen AlsakerRobert A. AlsakerGeoffrey A. AndersonRuth T. AndersonMychal P. Angelos, in memory of

Dorothy A. AngelosDr. Jeff BaleLeland and Mary BartholomewMarlys A. BeiderDr. C. BekermanMartha BellMike and Donna BellCeline BendyJulie Ann BensonK. Richard and Patricia M. BerletMerrill and Judy BlauAnn BlickensderferDanolda BrennanMr. Leon Brenner, Jr.Mitchell J. BrownMr. Frank and Dr. Vera ClarkPatricia A. ClickenerJudith and Stephen F. CondrenAnita CrocusHarry and Jean EisenmanDr. Marilyn EzriMrs. William M. FloryMr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.Rhoda Lea FrankMary J. and Ronald P. FrelkPenny and John FreundMr. & Mrs. Paul C. GignilliatLyle GillmanMerle GordonMary Louise GornoDr. & Mrs. David GranatoMary L. GrayMary Winton GreenDr. Jon Brian GreisJohn and Patricia HamiltonJohn Hart and Carol PrinsMr. William P. Hauworth IIThomas and Linda HeagyMr. R.H. HelmholzStephanie and Allen HochfelderConcordia HoffmannFrank and Helen HoltMark and Elizabeth HurleyMichael L. Igoe, Jr.Ms. Darlene JohnsonRonald B. JohnsonRoy A. and Sarah C. JohnsonMr. & Mrs. Paul R. JudyLori JulianJared Kaplan and Maridee QuanbeckWayne S. and Lenore M. KaplanHoward KaspinJames KemmererEsther G. KlatzRobert Kohl and Clark Pellett


may 2019 59


Mr. & Mrs. Alan KubickaRobert B. Kyts Memorial FundCharles Ashby Lewis and

Penny Bender SebringRobert Alan LewisSheldon H. MarcusMr. Robert C. MarksMarilyn G. MarrJames Edward McPhersonMarcia and Jack L. Melamed, M.D.Janet L. MelkDr. Leo and Catherine MiserendinoDrs. Bill and Elaine MoorCraig and Rose MooreCharles MooreMr. & Mrs. Mario A. MunozJohn H. NelsonMuriel NeradEdward A. and Gayla S. NieminenDr. Joan E. PattersonDonald PeckMrs. Thomas D. PhilipsbornJudy PomeranzNeil K. QuinnRandall and Cara RademakerAl and Lynn ReichleAnn and Bob ReilandWendy ReynesDr. Edward O. RileyCharles and Marilynn RivkinDavid and Kathy RobinJerry RoseRichard O. RyanJohn A. SalkowskiCecelia SamansFranklin SchmidtJoanne SilverMr. Craig SirlesBetty W. SmykalAnnette and Richard SteinkeMrs. Deborah SterlingMr. & Mrs. William H. StrongMr. & Mrs. John C. TelanderKarin and Alfred TennyRichard and Helen ThomasMs. Carla M. ThorpeMr. & Mrs. Richard P. ToftDr. Richard TresleyPaula TurnerRobert W. Turner and Gloria B. TurnerMr. & Mrs. John E. Van HornMr. Christian VinyardDr. Robert G. ZadylakHelen Zell

membersAnonymous (31)Valerie and Joseph AbelLouise AbrahamsJudy L. AllenAnn S. AlpertMs. Judith L. AndersonSteven Andes, Ph.D.

Catherine AranyiMr. Neal BallMara Mills BarkerDr. & Mrs. Robert BeattyArlene BennettWilliam and Ellen BentsenJoan I. BergerHarriet H. BernbaumCandace BroeckerMrs. Lucille BrouseJohn L. BrowarCatherine BrubakerJoseph BucEdward J. BuckbeeMichelle Miller BurnsMr. Robert J. CallahanDr. & Mrs. Joseph R. CarMr. & Mrs. William P. CarmichaelDr. Marlene E. CasianoBill and Betsy ClineBeverly Ann and Peter ConroySharon ConwayMr. Robert L. CrawfordMr. Jerry J. CritserRon and Dolores DalyMr. & Mrs. John DanielsMr. & Mrs. Clyde H. DawsonSylvia Samuels DelmanMrs. David A. DeMarMs. Phyllis DiamondMr. Richard L. EastlineNancy Schroeder EbertMs. Estelle EdlisRobert J. ElisbergRichard ElledgeCharles and Carol EmmonsTarek and Ann FadelJames B. FadimLeslie FarrellDonna FeldmanFrances and Henry FogelAllen J. FrantzenGustave D. FriesemNancy and Larry FullerDileep GangolliMr. William E. GardnerMiss Elizabeth GatzDr. and Mrs. Mark GendlemanMrs. Willard GidwitzMr. Joseph GlossbergAdele and Marvin GoldsmithJoan E. GordonDouglas Ross GortnerChet Gougis and Shelley OchabMr. & Mrs. George GrahamMs. Elizabeth A. GrayDelta A. GreeneNancy P. GriffinMrs. Ann B. GrimesMrs. Barbara GundrumLynne R. HaarlowMrs. Robin Tieken HadleyMr. Tom Hall

Mr. & Mrs. Tom HallettMrs. David J. HarrisDr. & Mrs. Donald HeinrichJohn and Linda HillmanWilliam B. HinchliffMrs. Morris H. HirshMr. Thomas HochmanMrs. Walter HorbanJames and Mary HoustonMrs. Marian JohnsonMs. Janet JonesMarshall KeltzValerie and George KennedyPaul KeskeMr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr.Mrs. LeRoy KlemtSally Jo KnowlesMrs. Russell V. KohrMs. Barbara KopsianLiesel E. KossmannRichard J. KostEugene KrausFrederick and Virginia LangrehrThomas and Annelise LawsonPatricia LeeDr. & Mrs. David J. LeeheyDr. & Mrs. Robert L. LevyMs. Sally LewisDr. Eva F. LichtenbergMr. Michael LicitraDr. & Mrs. Philip R. LiebsonBonnie Glazier LipeGlen J. Madeja and Janet SteidlAnn Chassin MallowSharon L. ManuelMrs. John J. MarkhamKathleen W. MarkiewiczJudith W. McCue and

Howard M. McCue IIIMr. William McIntoshMrs. Leoni McVeyMrs. Harmon MeigsDale and Susan MillerKathryn MillerMichael Miller and Sheila NaughtenThomas R. MullaneyDavid J. and Dolores D. NelsonFranklin NussbaumJames F. OatesDiana J. and Gerald L. OgrenMr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr.Wallace and Sarah OliverLynn OrschelDr. David G. Ostrow and

Mr. Rafael GomezHelen and Joseph PageGeorge R. PatersonDianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.Mary PerlmutterElizabeth Anne PetersMrs. Lewis D. PetryJudy C. PettyKaren and Dick Pigott


60 cso.org


Lois PolakoffJeanne ReedDr. Merrell ReissMs. Oksana Revenko-JonesDon and Sally RobertsMs. Rosemary RobertsMs. Elaine RosenMrs. Ben J. RosenthalDr. Virginia C. SaftCraig SamuelsSue and William SamuelsMr. Douglas M. SchmidtDavid ShayneMr. Morrell A. ShoemakerAnne SibleyLarry SimpsonMr. Allen R. SmartMary SoleimanJim SpiegelJulie StaglianoMrs. Zelda StarMr. Charles J. StarcevichKaren SteilTimothy and Kathleen StockdaleMr. John StokesMr. & Mrs. Robert SwansonJeffrey and Linda SwogerMr. & Mrs. Jerald ThorsonKaren Hletko TierskyMyron TierskyJacqueline A. TillesMr. James M. TrappMr. Donn N. TrautmanMs. Rose Gray TynanMr. Theodore UtchenVirginia C. ValeFrank VillellaMr. Milan VydarenyDr. Malcolm VyeAdam R. Walker and BettyAnn MocekMr. Frank WalschlagerLouella Krueger WardDr. Catherine L. WebbKarl WechterClaude M. WeilJoan and Marco WeissMr. Thomas WeylandLinda and Payson S. WildKayla Anne WilsonNora M. WinsbergMr. & Mrs. Stephen M. WolfAnn WolffBeth Wollar

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

Anonymous (7)Hope A. AbelsonElizabeth E. AblerRichard AbrahamsFrances B. AbrahamsonDonald AldermanSara AnastaploRoger A. AndersonFaye AngellElizabeth M. AshtonIrwin AskowJames E.S. BakerJacqueline and Frank BallWayne BalmerPaul BarkerPatricia Anne BartonBarbara Burt BaumannHortense K. BeckerMarshall BennettNorma Zuzanek BennettSally J. BensonHarry H. BernbaumLenore M. BernerEleanor BolzNaomi T. BorwellHarriet B. BradyMarjorie L. BredehornPatricia W. and Kenneth A. BroHoward BroeckerClaresa Forbes Meyer BrownDr. Mary Louise Hirsch BurgerMarie Kraemer BurnsideElizabeth R. CapilupoRose Mary CarterCharles R. CasperMargaret G. ChamalesMarcia S. CohnMilton ColmanRobert CookeNelson D. CorneliusBillie Dale DelevittRobert L. DevittEdison and Jane Warner DickHoward M. DonaldsonJames F. DrennanWilliam B. DrewryRobert L. Drinan, Jr.William A. DumbletonEvelyn DybaMarian EdelsteinDr. Edward ElisbergKelli Gardner EmeryJoseph R. EnderShirley L. and Robert EttelsonShirley Mae EvansMildred F. FanslauDr. James D. FentersNatalie N. FerryRobert B. FordhamRichard FosterEtha Beatrice FoxElaine S. FrankHenry S. Frank

Herbert B. FriedDr. Muriel S. FriedmanHynda and Maurice GamzeFlorence GanjaAlan J. GarberMrs. Helen S. GardnerMartin and Francey GechtBetsy N. and James R. GetzJeanne Brown GordonBarbara L. GouldElizabeth S. GraettingerWilliam B. GrahamRichard GrayDavid GreenAllen J. GreenbergerDr. Robert A. GreendaleErnest A. Grunsfeld IIIElizabeth and Paul GuenzelCecile GuthmanBetty and Lester GuttmanA. William Haarlow IIIGrace and Vernon HajeckClarine and James HallJulie and J. Parker HallRichard HalvorsenChalkley J. HambletonLeah C. and Robert J. HammanCAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret.Allan E. HarrisMelville D. HartmanLawrence J. HelsternAdolph “Bud” and Avis HersethMarriane Deson HersteinMary Jo HertelHelen HoaglandRichard J. HofemannBlanche HoheiselAllen H. HowardHugh Johnston HubbardJoseph H. HuebnerMrs. Henry IshamBarbara IssermanPhyllis A. JonesJoseph M. KacenaStuart KaneMorris A. KaplanRussell V. KohrJeffrey W. KormanSarah H. and Bertram D. KribbenWilliam KruppenbacherEvelyn and Arnold KupecRuth Lucie LabitzkeLouise H. LandauAlice M. La PertH. Elizabeth and Earl D. LarsenCaressa Y. LauerRobert A. LeadyArthur E. Leckner, Jr.Lena T. LevinsonBeryl M. LewisRichard Alan LivingstonMrs. Richard Q. LivingstonMarion M. and Glen A. Lloyd


may 2019 61


Mary LongbrakeWilliam C. LordanArthur G. MalingJune Betty and Herbert S. ManningMrs. Robert C. MarksIrl and Barbara MarshallEloise MartinVirginia Harvey McAnultyHelen C. McDougal, Jr.Eunice H. McGuireCarolyn D. and William W. McKittrickHugo J. MelvoinShirley R. MesirowBeth Ann Alberding MohrEdward MillerMicki MillerKathryn MuellerMarietta MunnisDavid H. NelsonHelen M. NelsonOtto NeradJohn and Maynette NeundorfPiri E. and Jaye S. NiefeldJoan Ruck NopolaCarol Rauner O’DonovanT. Paul B. O’DonovanMary and Eric OldbergBruce P. OlsonSuzanne and Brace PattouDorothy and William G. Paulick, Jr.Bette G. PetersenHelen J. PetersenMadge and Neil PetersenMaxine R. PhilipsbornWalter PlackoElaine and Harold H. PlautCharles J. PollyeaMiriam PollyeaVirginia and Eugene PomeranceHalina J. PresleyChristine QuerfeldRuth Ann QuinnDolores M. RixMuriel F. RederWalter ReedPaul H. ResnikSheila Taaffe ReynoldsJoan L. RichardsDavid M. RobertsRosemary RobertsVirginia H. RogersJill N. RohdeIrmgard Hess RosenbergerBen J. RosenthalHarriet Cary RossEdith S. RuettingerAnthony RyersonMargaret R. SagersBeverly and Grover SchiltzErhardt SchmidtMuriel SchnierowDonald R. SchreiberMargaret and Edwin Seeboeck

Denise SelzJoseph J. SemrowIngeborg Haupt SennotHerman ShapiroSoretta and Henry ShapiroMuriel ShawRose L. and Sidney N. ShureMr. William F. SibleyDr. & Mrs. Alfred L. SiegelJoan H. and Berton E. SiegelPeter E. SincoxDavid SlesurJean H. SmithWillis B. SnellKaren A. SorensenGeorgette Grosz SpertusEdward J. and Audrey M. SpiegelVito StaglianoLucille G. and David W. StotterThe Family of Helmut and Irma StraussDr. Gerald SunkoRuth Miner SwislowAndrew and Peggy ThomsonJ. Ross ThomsonBeatrice B. TinsleyC. Phillip TurnerPaul D. UrnesRobert L. VolzLois and James VrhelCecilia Sue and Burton J. WadeLouise Benton WagnerMichael Jay WalankaNancy L. WaldEsther H. WaldmanJeanne WalkerLaurie WallachJean Angus and Ferre C. WatkinsVirginia O. WeaverJames M. WellsBarbara Huth WestJoyce Hadley WilliamsArnold WolffRonald R. Zierer

Tribute ProgramThe Tribute Program provides an opportunity to celebrate milestones such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and graduations. It also can serve as a way to honor the memory of friends and family. An Honor or Memorial Gift enables you to express your feelings in a truly distinctive and memorable way. Contributions may be any amount and are placed in the Orchestra’s Endowment Fund. For more information regarding this program, please call 312-294-3100. Listed below are Honor and Memorial Gifts of $100 or more received through January 23, 2019.

memorial gif ts

In memory of Marshall BennettKay Bucksbaum

In memory of Sally J. BensonDorothy J. Benson

In memory of Gary A. DavisDr. Steven Andes

In memory of David DonovanLisa and Paul Wiggin

In memory of Bob DrinanElizabeth Scott

In memory of Robert J. Drinan, Jr.Lisa Haberman

In memory of Jeannette DritzCraig Schechtman

In memory of Sam EpsteinMs. Corinne Brophy

In memory of Henry FrankEugene and Sue Gilbertson

In memory of Nancy GersonMr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III

In memory of Cecile Renaud GornoLynne R. Haarlow

In memory of Richard GrayJohn Hart and Carol PrinsDaniel LevinBeatrice MayerJudy and Scott McCue

In memory of William J. HokinAnonymousSusan Drymalski BoweyMr. Matthew Colnon

In memory of Bernard H. HolstEdith A. Holst

In memory of Zave Hillel GussinNathan Kahn

In memory of beloved parents Arthur and Ruth KochAnn and Bob Reiland

In memory of Ed KoleskeDorothy Erickson

In memory of Bernice and Earl MeltzerMrs. Judy Lewis


62 cso.org


In memory of William OchabJohn and Dora Aalbregtse

In memory of my beautiful and loving aunt, Betty Piper, who loved the CSO Anne Nguyen

In memory of Ruth Ann QuinnPhil and Gaye Kenny

In memory of Mrs. John Shedd ReedRichard A. and Janice Y. Domanik

In memory of Marjorie Lindsay ReedPamela K. Hull

In memory of Bennett ReimerElizabeth A. Herbert

In memory of Virginia H. Rogers and Arthur E. Leckner, Jr.Robert Wilson

In memory of Haley Ann Royko, our beloved granddaughterRuth Smerling

In memory of Dolores SavinPam and Charles Meyerson

In memory of Alan L. ShulmanJune Shulman

In memory of Fred SpectorChicago Symphony Orchestra

Alumni Association

In memory of Andrea SwanDavid Moore

In memory of Ruth SwislowJudy and Gary KatzMary Sara McDonald and Daniel PascaleJerry and Maia Mullin

In memory of John D. Van PeltSharon Quintenz Van Pelt

In memory of Dr. William WarrenDr. & Mrs. Marshall Goldin

honor gif ts

In honor of Dr. Edward L. Applebaum and Dr. Eva E. RedeiFrieda Applebaum

In honor of Peter Barack’s birthdayNorm and Judy Soep

In honor of David ChambersMs. Priscilla Angly

In honor of Robert CoadMr. and Mrs. Marco Weiss

In honor of Edith Demar’s birthdaySteve and Susan Maynard

In honor of the upcoming marriage of Larry DeMar and Amy MayThe Rosens and The Marks

In honor of Glenn DerringerJanet Duffy

In honor of Daniel GingrichBarbara Meyer

In honor of Paul B. Glickman’s birthdayPhilip and Leah Marcus

In honor of Gloria Gottlieb’s new great granddaughter, RemiMrs. Helaine Billings

In honor of Judson and Joyce GreenMr. & Mrs. Kaplan

In honor of Chuck KachelPat Daley

In honor of Mary PlauchePamela and Paul James

In honor of the birthday of Cindy SargentPaul and Ellen Gignilliat

In honor of Dr. John and Mrs. Connie SkoseyLaura Skosey

In honor of Denise StauderJanet Duffy

In honor of Richard and Helen ThomasDawn Kerth

In honor of Helen and Sam ZellMrs. Myrna KaplanNancy and Don Borzak

league of the chicago symphony orchestra association tribute program

In Memory of Dorothy ClarkBetsy BeckmannHelene BellMim DugingerSarah GoodRenèe LubellThe Spice Investment ClubJacqueline Spillman

In Memory of William FaldnerSheri Hammonds

In Memory of Robert F. JaegerSusan and Nicholas Bridge

In Memory of Helen MelherBetsy BeckmannHazel Fackler

In Memory of Ruth Ann QuinnHazel Fackler

In Memory of Ruth SwislowMaureen Shelly

In Memory of Claire Ellen WilsonBeth Lodal

In Honor of the Civic Orchestra CentennialNatalie and Paul SikesElizabeth and Maureen Shelly

In Honor of Heratch and Sonya DoumanianThe Streeterville Area of the League of

the CSOA

In Honor of Barbara DwyerClaretta Meier

In Honor of Lori JulianRobert MarksMargo and Michael ObermanKathy and John SolaroThe Streeterville Area of the League of

the CSOA

In Honor of Maestro MutiSheila Jones and Hope College

Preparatory High School

In Honor of Molly McGrath’s Art Works Being Exhibited in New YorkBonnie McGrath

In Honor of Linda and Bill Ward’s 50th Wedding AnniversaryBarbara Dwyer


may 2019 63


Contributed Gifts and ServicesThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is grateful to Steinway & Sons for its generous support.

Dora and John AalbregtseMr. & Mrs. Willam Adams IVAllium String QuartetAplandAvalon String QuartetBaker & McKenzieBanfiChris and Katie BarberBBJ LinenRobert and Fran BeattyBetsy and Enrique BeckmannBelmont Yacht ClubBelvedere VodkaBig Foot MediaBlue Plate CateringBoleoBooth HansenBoston Consulting GroupBridges Mavrakakis LLPBrightwok KitchenWilliam BuchmanRobert J. BufordBulgariSarah BullenJohn D. and Leslie Henner BurnsElliot Callighan, Ramova MusicCapstone Financial AdvisorsOto CarrilloLi-Kuo ChangChicago BearsChicago Cultural CenterChicago MagazineChicago Tribune CompanyCivitasPatsy DashDLA Piper LLP (US)Drury Lane TheaterE&J Gallo WineryEmmett’s BreweryMrs. Walter D. FacklerMelissa and Jamey FadimDonna and David FlemingForbidden RootFour Seasons Hotel ChicagoFour Seasons Resort Scottsdale

at Troon North

Four Seasons Westlake VillageFrederick C. Robie HouseFrederick Lynn HaberdasshereSusanna GauntGemini Graphics, Inc.Daniel GingrichGoddess and the BakerGoose Island Beer Co.The Grammy AwardsGreenwich StudiosDavid GriffinJohn HagstromElisa Harris and Ivo DaalderJohn Hart and Carol PrinsMr. & Mrs. Thomas C. HeagyLeigh Ann and Casey HermanHewitt AssociatesHillshire SnackingHispanicProHotel Santa FeIron Galaxy StudiosIwan Ries & Co.Jet’s PizzaRobb Jibson, So MidwestGabrielle JohnsonKathy JordanNicholas JosephLori JulianCarole KellerAnne and John KernKimpton Gray HotelLagunitas Brewing Co.Lincoln Park ZooYo-Yo MaBeth Mannino and Paul SchickMaple & AshMayer Brown LLPTammy McCannJudy and Scott McCueMcKinsey & CompanyMetrograph CommissaryMetropolitan BrewingNational Hispanic Sales NetworkNicado Publishing / NegociosNowShelley Ochab and Chester GougisCathy and Bill OsbornLiz Parker and Keith CrowPaul Rehder SalonJonathan PegisSara and Chris PfaffPianoForteGene PokornyPricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

R. Crusoe & SonMary and Scott RaffertyAnna and Iliana ReganJohn RogersRuthie and Rich RyanThe Santa Fe OperaScott and Nancy SantiLora SchaeferCourtney SheaSteve and Megan ShebikShow ServicesSlover Linett StrategiesJames SmelserMike Smith, Photographic

Services InternationalKathy SolaroSoldier FieldThe Sound Co-Op, LLCSpring Mountain VineyardsSteinway Piano Gallery ChicagoMichelle SterlingSusan SynnestvedtBrant TaylorDavid TaylorBenjamin TeichmantesoriTheatrical Lighting ConnectionThink-cellTime Out ChicagoTootsie RollUnion League Club of ChicagoUnion StationUnited AirlinesVancouver Symphony OrchestraVirginia WoolfVirtue CiderWalgreensWBBMWBEZWDCBWFMTWheaton CollegeChris WhiteJohn WilliamsWLS-FMWrigley FieldWXRTCynthia YehYuan-Qing YuSam and Helen Zell

A Division of Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

When it comes to family, there’s no such thing as too close. With coverage from

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, you know you can count on comfort and

security for you and your family, for life.

C l o s e . C o m f o r t .

BCBSIL_BRD_011135_2019_Brand_Creative_02219_6.5x9.5_4c_CloseComfort1.indd 1 4/8/19 2:39 PM

chicago symphony orchestra riccardo muti …...middle school student pedro jimenez, 12, at immokalee...

Documents