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4 A Welcome Letter From Board of Trustees Chair Helen Zell and Chicago

Symphony Orchestra Association President Jeff Alexander

6 World Premiere of a Low Brass Concerto Wynne Delacoma speaks with composer Jennifer Higdon

about her CSO-commissioned concerto.

10 Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Learn about the Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition and its long history of featuring talented young musicians in performance at Orchestra Hall.

11 Riccardo Muti Conducts Vienna’s New Year’s Concert The Vienna Philharmonic invited Riccardo Muti to conduct

his fifth New Year’s Concert at the Musikverein.

12 Meet the Musicians The latest in a series of profiles featuring the renowned

members of the CSO

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR AND THE PRESIDENT

Dear Friends,

Welcome to Symphony Center, home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Symphony Center Presents, the Negaunee Music Institute, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

In late January, Riccardo Muti and the CSOA announce the exciting 2018–19 season of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Center Presents. If you are a subscriber, you will receive a season catalog in the mail and be the first to have the opportunity to sign up for the concerts of your choice. If you are not yet a subscriber, we encourage you to become one to enjoy the many benefits associ-ated with this membership.

The CSO has many exciting activities lined up for the balance of the current season, including the Orchestra’s second domestic tour, with eight concerts taking place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.; Carnegie Hall in New York City; West Palm Beach and Naples, Florida; and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

We are pleased to bring on this tour two new works commissioned by the CSO: Jennifer Higdon’s Low Brass Concerto, receiving its world premiere at Symphony Center (February 1–3) and featuring the renowned CSO brass; and CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Samuel Adams’s many words of love, which was premiered by Maestro Muti and the CSO last spring. Additional repertoire on the tour will include Verdi’s Overture to I vespri siciliani, Brahms’s Symphony no. 2, Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique, Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Chausson’s Poème de l ’amour et de la mer with mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine, and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto performed by CSO Principal Clarinet Stephen Williamson.

On the Orchestra’s return to Chicago, we welcome back Christoph Eschenbach and Herbert Blomstedt, two distinguished conductors who have had long associations with the CSO. Soloist David Fray joins Eschenbach for Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto. We are also excited to mount our annual Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition, with finals taking place in an admission-free concert with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago on March 3.

Thank you for being with us today, and please enjoy the perfor-mance. We look forward to enjoying many concerts with you in 2018 and in the years ahead.

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Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Jennifer Higdon knows what audiences expect when trombones and tubas take the spotlight during an orchestral performance. Sound loud enough to raise the rafters. Heroic swagger and glittering declamation. Solemn nobility, perhaps, with a hint of impending doom. Or maybe some faintly comic lumbering.

Some of those qualities may pop up in the world premiere of Higdon’s Low Brass Concerto, a Chicago Symphony Orchestra commission to be conducted by Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti on February 1–3 (and to be performed on the CSO’s upcoming East Coast tour). But the American composer, whose extensive catalog includes several concertos for a wide range of solo instruments, was after something different in her commission for a concerto featuring two tenor trombones, bass trombone, and tuba.

In October 2016, Higdon flew to Chicago, from her home in Philadelphia, to meet with the CSO’s low brass section: Jay Friedman, principal trombone; Michael Mulcahy, trombone; Charles Vernon, bass trombone; and Gene Pokorny, principal tuba. “They’re great guys; they were a lot of fun to talk to,” she said. “We sat down and really discussed, believe it or not, what they would like in a concerto. Because when you’re writing a piece for some-one, you can tailor it for that player. They had a list of things. They gave me a DVD of recitals they had done, which helped a lot.”

Higdon also heard the CSO in Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition, a work that prominently features the Orchestra’s brass section. “This was amazing, a complete coincidence,” she said. “It was a great way to really hear the brass.”

A few weeks later, she held a similar meeting with the low brass players of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which co-commissioned the concerto. According to Higdon, players at both orchestras asked her for the same unusual element.

“They said, ‘We can play beautifully. We can play softly.’ They wanted some lyrical material,” she said.

Composer Jennifer Higdon

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WORLD PREMIERE OF A LOW BRASS CONCERTO interview with Wynne Delacoma

THEY WANTED THE AUDIENCE TO HEAR THE BEAUTY OF WHAT THEY CAN DO.

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They wanted the audience to hear the beauty of what they can do. They also said, “We want music that has serious depth, that isn’t just dancing hippo or dancing elephant music,” which is the kind of music people expect them to play. So I thought about the beauty of the instruments, and I also thought about the power of the instruments. I tried to build on just those two concepts.

Higdon also dispensed with mutes, those devices that brass players stuff into the bells of their instruments to create a thinner, buzzier sound. “I didn’t use mutes at all,” she said. “I thought, ‘Let’s just write music for the sake of music.’ ”

The concerto opens with the brass quartet in a slow, quiet passage unaccompanied by the orchestra. Approximately seventeen minutes long, with no breaks between the slow and fast movements, the piece also includes duets and trios for the featured low brass. “I tried to do a mix of everyone playing together,” said Higdon, “duets, and then solos for each of the players.”

The Low Brass Concerto marks Higdon’s downtown CSO debut. During the Ravinia Festival’s 2004 season, the Orchestra performed her short, rambunctious Loco, one of several train-inspired works commissioned for the park’s 100th anniversary. In 2009, also at Ravinia, the CSO performed her Concerto 4-3, a piece with a tinge of bluegrass that also featured several soloists, in this case, three string players: two violins and bass. Christoph Eschenbach conducted both performances.

B orn in Brooklyn, but reared in Atlanta and Tennessee, Higdon, fifty-five, speaks with a lingering

southern lilt. Friendly and approach-able, she nonetheless has forged her own path from an early age. Her father was a freelance visual artist, and she describes her parents as “hippies” who exposed her and her brother to Atlanta’s cutting-edge cinema, art, and theater scenes. Classical music wasn’t high on the family’s agenda; she wrote short stories and

made 8mm films as a youngster. But somehow Higdon became enamored of the flute. She taught herself how to play and won the prized spot as principal flute in the marching band of Heritage High School, Maryville, Tennessee.

“I loved marching band so much, I just loved playing,” she said. “I started out in flute perfor-mance, but my flute teacher got me started on composing: I must have said something about that at some point.”

Higdon did her undergraduate work at Bowling Green University in Ohio and earned master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. She also earned an artist’s certifi-cate in composition from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she currently holds a chair in composition.

I THOUGHT ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF THE INSTRUMENTS, AND I ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT THE POWER OF THE INSTRUMENTS. I TRIED TO BUILD ON JUST THOSE TWO CONCEPTS.

—Jennifer Higdon

Left to right: Jay Friedman, Gene Pokorny, Michael Mulcahy, and Charles Vernon

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An admitted “late starter,” Higdon faced mul-tiple naysayers during her early years in music, especially when she decided to focus on com-posing. “People were like ‘no way you’re going to make a living at this,’ ” she said.

That was the thing I was hearing the most. While I was in school, I made the decision to try to freelance compose, which basically made everyone flip out. My teachers were definitely not happy with me about that one. It was fairly rough going in the early days, but then I started winning competi-tions, and people just started asking me for pieces. That happened when I was still in graduate school.

Higdon also battled against aesthetic head-winds in her student years. In the 1980s, most music schools emphasized a strict focus on atonal, dissonant music. Students like Higdon, more interested in tonal music, were consid-ered renegades.

“There was a lot of pressure when I was in school,” she said.

I took a lot of grief for not following the path they thought I should go on. They said, “You’re not advancing music if you’re not

writing atonally.” But I grew up in an artistic household, and my dad always said you had to question everything. You don’t have to do a certain thing in art; that’s not the way art works. So that was my attitude. I was a fairly independent thinker.

Despite her teachers’ warnings, Higdon has become one of classical music’s busiest compos-ers. She has a hefty catalog of completed works and several pieces, including a chamber opera and several concertos, in the pipeline. Her first opera, Cold Mountain, based on the 1997 novel by Charles Frazier, had its world premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in 2015.

With commissions arriving in a steady stream, Higdon has the luxury of writing in her own authentic voice for top-flight soloists like Hilary Hahn and ensembles like Chicago’s Eighth Blackbird and the CSO.

“For me, the challenge in this Low Brass Concerto was just writing beautiful lines that go well together without any extraneous sound effects,” she said. “To write what I think is engaging music.”

Wynne Delacoma is a Chicago-based arts journalist and lecturer.

MY DAD ALWAYS SAID YOU HAD TO QUESTION EVERYTHING. YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO A CERTAIN THING IN ART; THAT’S NOT THE WAY ART WORKS.

—Jennifer HigdonChristoph Eschenbach conducting the CSO in the 2004 premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Loco, a Ravinia Festival commission celebrating its centennial and history with the railroad

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Since 1919, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions have featured the most talented young soloists from across Illinois. Past winners have included Rachel Barton Pine, CSO Associate Concertmaster Stephanie Jeong, and jazz great Herbie Hancock, who recently performed at Orchestra Hall in an SCP Jazz spe-cial concert. In an interview with Mike Thomas for CSO Sounds & Stories, Hancock described his debut performance with the CSO as an eleven-year-old pianist as “a major factor” in the development of his passion for music and in furthering his career.

Now known as the Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition, this reimagined concerto competition identifies one outstanding young performer each season to perform as a soloist with the CSO during the following season. The instrument category rotates each year among strings, piano, and woodwinds/brass/percussion. Last year’s winner, Maya Buchanan, will perform a movement from Korngold’s Violin Concerto with the CSO in March. Her performance of the first movement of the concerto with the Civic Orchestra, recorded during the final round of last year’s competition, has also been featured on WFMT’s program Introductions.

This season’s applicants are asked to pre-pare one movement from a selection of piano concertos. A preliminary round will be held on January 27 and 28 at Symphony Center. Finalists will perform in Orchestra Hall on March 3, accompanied by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago under the direction of Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice Erina Yashima.

This final performance is open to the public and begins at 2 p.m. Those interested may apply for a scholarship of up to $1000 toward a music camp or festival of their choosing.

For more information including eligibility require-ments, the repertoire list, and application instructions for the competition, please visit cso.org/yac.

Top to bottom: 2016–17 Young Artists Competition for Strings winner Maya Buchanan performs the first movement of Korngold’s Violin Concerto under the direction of Erina Yashima and accompanied by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

Kyle Jannak-Huang, winner of the 2011–12 Young Artists Competition for Piano, performs the third movement of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto no. 2 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on April 30, 2013.

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Muti Conducts Vienna’s New Year’s Concert

With a group of Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association trustees, governing members, patrons, and President Jeff Alexander in atten-dance, the celebrated annual event was televised and broadcast on New Year’s Day to as many as fifty million people across more than ninety-five countries. “Muti is the grand seigneur among the star conductors,” wrote Karlheinz Roschitz of Vienna’s Kronen Zeitung, “a sound magician,

who, with just a few gestures, evokes beauty, love, and passion . . . but also, melancholy, Strauss’s famous ‘tear in the eye.’ And he relishes the sumptuous festiveness of Strauss.”

The Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert is a long-standing tradition that dates to the late 1930s and early ’40s. With their cele-bratory tone and masterful interpretations of Vienna’s signature waltzes, marches, and polkas, the concerts have continu-ally grown in popularity and usher in each New Year with joy and optimism.

Muti conducted with “charisma, elegance, transparency, and fire, when appropriate,” according to Milan-based newspaper Corriere della Sera, as he led the ensemble with which he has had a close relationship since 1971. Salzburger Nachrichten noted that “Muti stimulated rather than tamed the musicians.” “He gives the philharmonic free rein, free rhythm. In return, he insists on exactness when he knows he is right,” added Wilhelm Sinkovicz of Vienna’s Die Presse.

Muti also provided an Italianate touch to this program by including works inspired by Italy, such as Roses from the South (nicknamed “La bella Italia”) and the inventive Quadrille by Johann Strauss, Jr., inspired by Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. The Blue Danube Waltz and the Radetzky March, which brought the concert to its traditional close, were met with thunderous applause and standing ovations.

Riccardo Muti conducting the 2018 New Year’s Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic

PHOTOS BY TERRY LINKE

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“ A HOMAGE TO BEAUTY” READ KRONEN ZEITUNG’S HEADLINE AFTER RICCARDO MUTI’S FIFTH NEW YEAR’S CONCERT WITH THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC AT VIENNA’S RENOWNED MUSIKVEREIN.

“ MUTI’S UNDERSTANDING OF THE VIENNESE STYLE IS PERFECT.”

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Meet the MUSICIANS

HOMETOWNChicago, Illinois

YEAR JOINED THE CSO1962

EDUCATIONRoosevelt UniversityYale University

In honor of the world-premiere performances of Jennifer Higdon’s Low Brass Concerto, February 1–3, featured soloists and members of the CSO share their unique perspectives.

Jay Friedman Principal Trombone The Lisa and Paul Wiggin Principal Trombone Chair

What does it mean to you to be part of the low brass section of the CSO?The style is so strong and has been well established through the years. I was lucky enough to play with Mr. (Arnold) Jacobs and Mr. (Adolph) Herseth for about thirty-five years, to learn from them, and to carry on the tradition with my colleagues.

Is there a precedence for concertos written for this grouping of instruments?I’m reminded of something I read years ago about Robert Schumann as he was writing the Konzertstück for Four

Horns. Nobody had ever writ-ten anything like that before, so he said “I’m flying blind here. I’m creating a new musical form, and I have nothing to relate it to historically.” I imag-ine that Jennifer felt the same way; she knew this would be an interesting experiment.

What did you discuss with the composer for this commission?There’s quite a bit of lyrical writing in this piece, and we really stressed that desire to her. I also asked her not to have any gimmicks in there, like different mutes or glissandos,

circus effects—make it all pure music. I think she responded to that request well.

Describe the collaborative process with Riccardo Muti.I told him recently that other conductors rehearse the concert and then simply conduct what they rehearsed at the perfor-mance. He doesn’t do that. He rehearses, and then he rehearses the concert during the concert, which is even more intense and gets better results because he’s so involved in the music making.

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Meet the MUSICIANS

HOMETOWNSydney, Australia


EDUCATIONSydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music)


Michael Mulcahy Trombone

What does it mean to you to be part of the low brass section of the CSO?This section has a history of not only legendary players, but also influential teachers. People from all over the world came to Chicago, as I did, to study and to get coaching. We have an awareness of the standard and style that has been created by this section historically, and a desire to continue to build on that tradition.

Describe the sound of the low brass section.It’s true that it’s a powerful orchestra and section, but

what is equally true and more unique is the fact that there is a lot of control with subtle dynamics. Of course we love the exciting big bits, but the wonderful thing about when we’re playing softly is that we’re often exposed—then you can really hear the amazing color of the section.

Is there a precedence for concertos written for this grouping of instruments?We have a tradition of pre-miering new works for brass. We’re very lucky to have the support of the Schmidt family, who have commissioned several

brass works, and each of us has given world premieres of concertos in the past. When you look at the history of all those pieces and now a new one, it’s historically significant. It’s unique in the world.

Describe the collaborative process with Riccardo Muti.When he has a score before him, he is the representative of the composer, and he’s very strict with himself. He is a dis-ciplined musician. Every con-cert counts. Whether in Vienna or a community concert, he is engaged and prepared.

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Meet the MUSICIANS

HOMETOWNAsheville, North Carolina


EDUCATIONBrevard CollegeGeorgia State University


Charles Vernon Trombone

What does it mean to you to be part of the low brass section of the CSO?One thing that I know and remind people about all the time is that this is the easiest place to perform because everybody just plays—similarly, the same. In other orchestras, there’s a lot of work towards getting a certain style, but here it just locks right in.

Is there a precedence for concertos written for this grouping of instruments?There have been several other trombone-section concertos written over the years. Basically

they’re all the same: showing the section as a whole without much interaction with the other members of the orchestra. Some are almost like a quar-tet. We understand the desire to feature the section on its own, but for this concerto, we wanted more interaction with the orchestra.

What should the audience listen for in this concerto?The piece starts with the four of us as a section, which is an impressive moment, but there is good energy throughout. All I can say is that when the maestro is up there, things

change; it puts a new light on what we’re doing. Muti can take something and make it really exciting.

Describe the collaborative process with Riccardo Muti.We’re the luckiest musicians on the planet to be in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and have him as the music director. There’s nothing like it anywhere; there’s nothing like him anywhere. With this unit, everything is at the highest possible level. I’m confident that, with him, this piece is going to be a hit.

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Meet the MUSICIANS

HOMETOWNDowney, California


EDUCATIONUniversity of RedlandsUniversity of Southern California


Gene Pokorny Principal Tuba The Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld

What does it mean to you to be part of the low brass section of the CSO?I am very honored to be part of the ensemble. The reputation of the brass section developed in the mid-1940s with Arnold Jacobs (tuba) on one end and, later, a new hire, Adolph Herseth (trumpet) on the top. With malleable colleagues in the middle between these strong bookends, a formidable brass section was forged. When the Orchestra found itself in European centers of music in the 1970s, the reputation of the

brass section really took off. To step into these very large shoes of those who came before us is more of an honor than you could believe.

What should the audience listen for in this concerto?I’m very glad that Jennifer chose to write for a contrabass tuba. Most of the time when there’s a solo piece for tuba, it’s written for a smaller instrument with a higher range. There’s a deeper sound with contrabass. In fact, this tuba is the one that Jacobs played in the Orchestra.

I’m glad to be part of that history by playing the very same instrument, continuing that legacy from 1944 up to this premiere.

Describe the collaborative process with Riccardo Muti.He gets up there and sells every work as if it’s the greatest piece of Western music ever written. He’s so involved in making a piece successful not only for the Orchestra and for the audience, but also for posterity.

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What inspires your love of music?

JARED KAPLAN: My father was a very accomplished pianist who would practice four or five hours a day, even though he was a practicing lawyer; I can’t figure out how he found the time. I was inspired by him and played the piano, but quit when I graduated law school.

MARIDEE QUANBECK: In fact, we’ve been married twenty-seven years, and I haven’t heard him play the piano once. When he says he gave it up, he means it!

When it came to me, I decided not to play piano. I saw my older sister practice, and it seemed like the worst thing in the world. My parents always sang in the church choir, so I grew up with a lot of church music, Bach and Handel, but not a lot of symphonic music. It wasn’t until I met Jerry that I went to my first symphony.

Do you have a first memory of attending the Chicago Symphony Orchestra?

JK: I feel like I’ve attended all my life. When I graduated law school, I started subscribing immediately. My father used to have seats up front on the left side. He’d go whenever there was a piano soloist and follow the score.

MQ: When I met Jerry, he had two subscriptions. We would go all the time.

How did you first get involved as a Governing Member?

JK: One of my former partners, Tom Campbell, was Vice Chair of Nominations and Membership. He asked why I wasn’t a Governing Member (GM). I asked “What’s that?” He explained it to me, and so I joined.

MQ: Once Jerry joined the GMs, it really expanded our contact with the sym-phony. Up until then, I was just an audience member. The last eleven years have been a lot more fulfilling as a patron. We always know people at Symphony Center. It’s expanded my contact with and enthusiasm for the organization.

Tell us about the Patrons Tours you’ve participated in.

JK: We’ve been on three tours. The first one we went on was to New York, followed by a tour to Poland, Switzerland, and Paris, and most recently we went on the tour to the Canary Islands. While the Canary Islands and Paris sound like exotic places, a high point for us was that first performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. Before the Orchestra even began playing, there was a lengthy standing ovation when Maestro Muti took the stage. That’s when we realized what his joining the Orchestra meant to the musicians, and even to that New York audience.

MQ: On tours we have lots of contact with the musicians. They go on sightseeing tours with us and have dinner with us. You see them in different settings. Those were really fun things to do. What makes the tours extra memorable is getting up close and personal with the musicians.

Jared Kaplan and Maridee Quanbeck have been attending the CSO for over forty years as subscribers and are members of the Theodore Thomas Society. Jerry, who has been a Governing Member (GM) for eleven years, currently serves as the GM Chairman. He previously served as Vice Chair of the Nominations and Membership Committee in the 2012–13 & 2013–14 seasons. Recently retired, Jerry and Maridee enjoy traveling, attending the symphony, and catching a play in Chicago or the West End.

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What inspires you to continue supporting the CSO?

JK: It never occurred to me not to subscribe to the symphony. The eleven years that I’ve been a GM have really given us an added dimension. We’re now interacting with the Orchestra from the inside rather than the outside. It’s a different feeling every time we go to a concert. We really feel like part of the CSO family. It’s a big difference. When we see the musicians onstage, they’re real people we’ve seen at dinners or other events. It gives us a greater depth of appreciation for the symphony.

MQ: As you get more involved, you realize the CSO is a major cultural institution in the city of Chicago. It’s the brightest light that we have in this city for cul-ture. We just have to support it. What would we do without it?

Do you have any advice for those looking to get more involved at the CSO?

JK: Join the GMs and actively participate in the events! GMs get a lot more out of their membership than the donor groups of a lot of other organi-zations. You get great events, VIP ticketing, membership in the Thomas Club, postconcert receptions, patron tours, and interactive intermissions. There’s a lot happening on a constant basis. It’s a terrific value. If you’re willing to par-ticipate, you’ll get a lot out of it.


GMs enjoying a chamber performance by members of the CSO during the June 2016 Evening of Music and Celebration PHOTO BY TODD ROSENBERG

GMs at the June 2016 Evening of Music and Celebration featuring Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti (not pictured)PHOTO BY TODD ROSENBERG

The Governing Members are the CSOA’s oldest philanthropic society, supporting its artistic excellence and community engagement. For more information, please call the Governing Member office at 312-294-3337.


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What inspires your love of music?I started playing the flute when I was in fifth grade and loved it so much, that I played all the way through college. When I play music, the passage of time speeds up. Five hours feels like five minutes and that makes playing a great escape from my daily life.

I still play in the Buffalo Grove Symphonic Band and have played in a lot of different community bands in Florida, Boston, and Hawaii.

How did you first get involved with the Overture Council?I recently stopped traveling for work and was looking for a way to meet new people who had the common interest of the love of classical music. I looked on cso.org, found the Overture Council, and joined!

I really like the Overture Council. The members all have a common interest, and I have made some great friends. There are social events, educational events, and unique oppor-tunities to get a view of the inner workings of the CSO. The calendar includes events on different days of the week, offering everyone a chance to participate.

Tell us about Soundpost and your work as Co-Chair this season. What do you hope to achieve?I became the Soundpost co-chair in July with Elliot Callighan. My work is very enjoyable, because it gives me

the opportunity to help produce something creative and help bring young professionals to the Orchestra. It’s important to bring in a young audience to the Orchestra to get them excited about classical music. I’m nervous about the future of classical music and want to draw young people in to hear the Orchestra and inspire them to love classical music for the rest of their lives.

Are there any particular concerts you are looking forward to this season?I love holiday concerts! I have tickets to Home Alone and Merry, Merry Chicago! I also have tickets to the John Williams program in April and the Yo-Yo Ma concert in June. I’m looking forward to Lincoln Portrait by Copland and several other concerts to be determined.

My favorite composer, however, is a band composer—Percy Grainger. I enjoy how he incorporates common folk tunes into his works.

What is your advice for first-time concertgoers?People think they have to enjoy classical music in a certain way. That is not true! I encour-age people to enjoy it in their own way.

If you want to learn a bit more about the music before you attend a concert, Soundpost is a great way to enjoy the CSO. Soundpost explores the role of classical music in today’s world and includes a pre-concert lecture, light bites, and min-gling with others who share an interest in exploring classical music. The programming ties to the music you’re about to hear so you can walk into the hall with a bit of knowledge and something to consider as you listen to the concert. And it’s a great deal at $35.

Kristin Jaburek has been a member of the CSO Overture Council (OC) since the 2016–17 season and currently serves as the Soundpost Co-Chair with Elliot Callighan. She works in technology consulting, helping retailers to better serve their customers by aligning tech-nology with business strategy. Kristin played the flute throughout university while studying engineer-ing and geography. She also loves to spend as much time as possible each year in Hawaii pursuing her passions for longboard surfing and hiking.

To learn more about Soundpost visit cso.org/Soundpost

To learn more about the Overture Council visit cso.org/overturecouncil


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FOUNDATION Spotlight

JCS Fund of the DuPage Foundation

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is deeply grateful to the JCS Fund of the DuPage Foundation for its generous support of the CSO’s 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 CSO to develop and present meaningful concerts and community engagement programming in DuPage County and Chicago’s western suburbs.

Throughout the 2017–18 season, CSO programming in DuPage County maintains and deepens the Orchestra’s connections with DuPage audiences, especially youth and families. 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 CSO’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 County’s residents. Encouraging instrumental music programs, the JCS Fund Young People’s Music Initiative believes that young people who play, hear, and appreciate classical and orchestral instrumental music lead better, more successful, more rewarding lives. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is privileged to partner with the JCS Fund of the DuPage Foundation to share world-class orchestral music with audiences throughout DuPage County. For more informa-tion about the JCS Fund and its host, the DuPage Foundation, please visit www.dupagefoundation.org/grants/jcs-fund.html.


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PROGRAM

NINETY-NINTH SEASON

Civic Orchestra of Chicago

Monday, February 26, 2018, at 8:00

Christoph Eschenbach Conductor

WagnerOverture to Tannhäuser

SchoenbergChamber Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 9(In one movement)

INTERMISSION

BrahmsSymphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73Allegro non troppoAdagio non troppoAllegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino)Allegro con spirito

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COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher

Richard WagnerBorn May 22, 1813; Leipzig, GermanyDied February 13, 1883; Venice, Italy

Overture to Tannhäuser

Tannhäuser was once Wagner’s most popular opera. At the time of his death, it was staged more often than any of his other works and a bigger box-office draw than the later, groundbreaking music dramas—Tristan and Isolde, Die

Meistersinger, Parsifal, and The Ring. It was the first of his operas produced in the United States—in 1859, just fourteen years after the Dresden world premiere—where audiences lapped up the music so eagerly (along with the beer and cakes served between acts) that the theater put on a Tannhäuser burlesque four months later to keep the crowds coming.

Music from Tannhäuser introduced Wagner’s name to this country in 1852, when the opera’s “finale” was presented in Boston, and the follow-ing year, when the overture was performed, again in Boston. The overture quickly became a huge hit with the public and it was regularly played by bands as well as orchestras. In the years immedi-ately following Wagner’s death, the Tannhäuser overture was the theme song of the packed “Wagner Nights” concerts at Brighton Beach on Coney Island, where it was sometimes played ten or more times a season.

The idea for an opera about the thirteenth- century singer Tannhäuser came to Wagner when he was still in his twenties; he began to sketch the text before the premieres of Rienzi and The Flying Dutchman introduced his name to the opera-going public. Years later, Wagner

would identify it as “the work with which I first embarked upon a course that was as novel as it was fraught with difficulty.” But during the 1840s, when he composed the music and fussed over the first performances, in Dresden and Weimar, the work’s difficulty was more obvious than its originality. In fact, the final draft of the score shows that Wagner was still thinking in terms of the familiar numbers—arias, duets, ensemble finales—of traditional early German romantic opera. (He omitted the terms in the autograph score.) But Tannhäuser did mark the first step toward a new kind of opera—continuous in musical structure, attentive to the identification of word and sound, more demand-ing of the orchestra. As Wagner drew closer to this ideal with each new work, he continually went back to the drawing board to update Tannhäuser, first in light of Lohengrin, then the initial installments of the Ring cycle, and finally Tristan and Die Meistersinger.

Wagner took his subject from two separate legends—the tale of a crusading knight from Franconia who deserts Venus to make a pilgrim-age to Rome, and the story of a song contest at the Wartburg. By combining them, and in the process inventing the love between Tannhäuser and Elisabeth (taking a character from each legend), Wagner created a powerful conflict between two worlds. The idea of Tannhäuser, torn between the allure of the sensual Venus and the pure spirituality of Elisabeth, was partic-ularly intriguing to Wagner at the time, for he was troubled by the hedonism and emptiness of modern life. Tannhäuser captures his yearning for “more elevated and noble” concerns instead

COMPOSED1842–45; 1861

FIRST PERFORMANCEOctober 19, 1845; in Dresden, Germany, with the composer conducting

INSTRUMENTATIONpiccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (cymbals, triangle, tambourine), and strings

APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME14 minutes

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of the “immediately recognizable sensuality” he found all around him. The opera vividly defines this polarity through two distinct musical styles: a landscape of conventional arias, duets, and marches centered in E-flat major for Elisabeth and the pilgrims of the Wartburg; and a radically more advanced, unsettled music in E major for the exotic realm of Venus. The contrast between the two was made even stronger with the Paris revision of 1861, for Venus could now count among her charms the chromatic, seductive harmonic language of Tristan and Isolde that the world hadn’t yet heard, still confined, as it was, to the pages of Wagner’s manuscript. And although the opera is stylistically more inconsistent as a result, the drama itself is all the more potent—Tannhäuser is torn not just between Elisabeth and Venus, but between two discordant musical

worlds—and between tradition and revolution as well.

Tonight, we begin with the great overture that Wagner himself conducted from Leipzig to London (where the applause was led by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert), and which later won over Americans from Brighton Beach to Chicago (Theodore Thomas programmed it during the Chicago Symphony’s first season and also took it on tour to Rockford, Louisville, Indianapolis, and Minneapolis). Although it brilliantly introduces the two realms vying for Tannhäuser’s soul, even Wagner couldn’t juxtapose music in E-flat major and E major within a single curtain-raiser, and so, for the only time in the opera, the pilgrim’s noble march is played in E major, Venus’s key borrowed for the purpose to make musical, if not dramatic, sense.

Arnold SchoenbergBorn September 13, 1874; Vienna, AustriaDied July 13, 1951; Brentwood, a suburb of Los Angeles, California

Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 9

COMPOSED1906

FIRST PERFORMANCEFebruary 8, 1907; Vienna, Austria

INSTRUMENTATIONpiccolo, two flutes, two oboes, three clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, and strings


Schoenberg did not think of himself as an avant- garde extremist. He saw the dissolution of tonality (for which he is some-times blamed almost singlehandedly) as the inevitable consequence of the music of his predeces-sors, starting with the

chromatic richness of Wagner’s music dramas. Long after his own music had pushed forward into a new world of atonality (and eventually twelve-tone music), he sometimes spoke as if he had been swept along, almost against his will, by

a higher mission. He always regretted that he missed his chance to write more music in the style of his First Chamber Symphony and the other pieces he composed just before leaping, almost blindly, into the future.

Schoenberg knew that his most advanced music was of no concern to the general public. In the 1930s, around the time he settled in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood, he once said jokingly, “I have made many friends here who have never heard my works but who play tennis with me. What will they think of me when they hear my horrible dissonances?” Schoenberg had always claimed he didn’t care. In 1915, when his music regularly provoked one scandal

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after another, he wrote to his brother-in-law, the conductor Alexander von Zemlinsky, “You know that I have scarcely ever taken any account of whether my works were liked or not. I have become indifferent to public abuse and I have never had any inclination to do anything that wasn’t dictated by the purely musical demands of my works.” Yet in that same letter, he begged Zemlinsky not to program his First Chamber Symphony on an upcoming concert, but to substitute an earlier piece, “something that [we] can by now count on being fairly well received by the public.”

Although this chamber symphony sounds tame today, even romantic in gesture and language, it was clearly difficult for audiences to follow when it was first played. Midway through the premiere, given in Vienna’s elegant Musikverein in February 1907, people began to scrape their chairs loudly in protest and to walk out. Gustav Mahler, who was in the audience, rose from his seat in anger and demanded silence. At the end of the performance, he stood at the front of his box, applauding, until everyone had left the hall. Although he recognized the importance of Schoenberg’s latest work, on the way home he confessed, “I do not understand his music, but he is young; perhaps he is right.” When the chamber symphony was played again in Vienna in March 1913, it met with obvious displeasure, although that night it was the brand new music by Schoenberg’s pupil Alban Berg that touched off a riot which was only stopped, along with the concert itself, by the arrival of the police.

Schoenberg said he had a “perfect vision of the whole work” when he started to compose the First Chamber Symphony. The piece is written in the one-movement form conceived by Schubert in his Wanderer Fantasy and developed by Liszt in the B minor piano sonata: a sonata-form structure that also binds together in a single span of music the several movements of the sonata or the symphony. Schoenberg had explored this ingenious structure in his first string quartet, in D minor, completed the previous year; in the chamber symphony everything is tighter, more concentrated, and more swiftly paced (it is barely half as long as the quartet).

T he First Chamber Symphony is one of the composer’s most brilliant and out-going creations. Although Schoenberg

apparently composed at his usual great speed, he worked with particular care, and with some dif-ficulty, to shape the beginning of the symphony. The two opening themes—the first, in the horns, rising by a series of perfect fourths; the second, in whole tones—both undermine the basic E major tonality implied by the key signature. Schoenberg frequently seems like a subversive artist at work in a tonal world. The pull of a central key, and of subsidiary tonal centers, is still strongly felt during the course of the music, however, and we are not surprised when the music firmly settles in E major in the repeated string chords of the final bars. In the finale of his next completed work, the Second String Quartet, composed in 1907 and 1908, Schoenberg did not even indicate a key signature; tonality, a govern-ing principle since the end of the seventeenth century, no longer had any meaning for him.

Ironically, given the swiftness with which his music was veering toward atonality at the time, Schoenberg believed that he had arrived at a settled musical language with the First Chamber Symphony. He told his friends at the time: “Now I have established my style. I know now how I have to compose.” But several years later, he looked back and smiled: “It was as lovely a dream as it was a disappointing illusion.”

Immediately after completing the First Chamber Symphony, Schoenberg began a second. Despite repeated efforts, he found that the direction of his music was changing too rapidly, and he was unable to finish it. Many years later, Schoenberg went through an unex-pected period of dry-eyed nostalgia for a kind of music that was long gone; he transcribed pieces by eighteenth-century composers and then attempted, with only limited success, to recover his own old style. In 1939 he picked up the sketches of his Second Chamber Symphony made more than thirty years before and com-pleted the score. But he found it impossible to recapture the passion and urgency he felt in 1908, and the music is an unfortunate reminder of missed opportunity and bad timing.

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Johannes BrahmsBorn May 7, 1833; Hamburg, GermanyDied April 3, 1897; Vienna, Austria

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

COMPOSED1877, summer

FIRST PERFORMANCEDecember 30, 1877; Vienna, Austria

INSTRUMENTATIONtwo flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani, strings


Within months after the long-awaited premiere of his First Symphony, Brahms produced another one. The two were as different as night and day—logically enough, since the first had taken two decades of struggle and soul-searching and

the second was written over a summer holiday. If it truly was Beethoven’s symphonic achievement that stood in Brahms’s way for all those years, nothing seems to have stopped the flow of this new symphony in D major. Brahms had put his fears and worries behind him.

This music was composed at the picture- postcard village of Pörtschach, on the Wörthersee, where Brahms had rented two tiny rooms for his summer holiday. Later that summer, when Brahms’s friend Theodor Billroth, an amateur musi-cian, played through the score for the first time, he wrote to the composer at once: “It is all rippling streams, blue sky, sunshine, and cool green shadows. How beautiful it must be at Pörtschach.” Eventually listeners began to call this Brahms’s Pastoral Symphony, again raising the compari-son with Beethoven. But if Brahms’s Second Symphony has a true companion, it is the violin concerto he would

write the following summer in Pörtschach—cut from the same D major cloth and reflecting the mood and even some of the thematic material of the symphony.

When Brahms sent the first movement of his new symphony off to Clara Schumann, she predicted that this music would fare better with the public than the tough and stormy First, and she was right. The first performance, on December 30, 1877, in Vienna under Hans Richter, was a triumph, and the third movement had to be repeated. The D major symphony continually found receptive listeners nearly everywhere it was played.

From the opening bars of the Allegro non troppo—with their bucolic horn calls and woodwind chords—we prepare for the radiant

Pörtschach am Wörthersee by Markus Pernhart. Brahms wrote both his Violin Concerto and Second Symphony here.

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sunlight and pure skies that Billroth promised. And, with one soaring phrase from the first violins, Brahms’s great pastoral scene unfolds before us. Although another of Billroth’s letters to the composer suggests that “a happy, cheer-ful mood permeates the whole work,” Brahms knows that even a sunny day contains moments of darkness and doubt—moments when pas-toral serenity threatens to turn tragic. It’s that underlying tension—even drama—that gives this music its remarkable character. A few details stand out: two particularly bracing passages for the three trombones in the development section, and much later, just before the coda, a wavering horn call that emerges, serene and magical. This is followed, as if it were the most logical thing in the world, by a jolly bit of dance-hall waltzing before the music flickers and dies.

Eduard Hanslick, one of Brahms’s champions, thought the Adagio “more conspicuous for the development of the themes than for the worth of the themes themselves.” Hanslick wasn’t the first critic to be wrong—this movement has very little to do with development as we know it—although it’s unlike him to be so far off the mark when dealing with music by Brahms. Hanslick did notice that the third movement has the relaxed character of a serenade. It is, for all its initial

grace and charm, a serenade of some complexity, with two frolicsome presto passages (smartly disguising the main theme) and a wealth of shifting accents.

The finale is jubilant and electrifying; the clouds seem to disappear after the hushed open-ing bars, and the music blazes forward, almost unchecked, to the very end. For all Brahms’s concern about measuring up to Beethoven, he seldom mentioned his admiration for Haydn and his ineffable high spirits, but that’s who Brahms most resembles here. There is, of course, the great orchestral roar of triumph that always suggests Beethoven. But many moments are pure Brahms, like the ecstatic clarinet solo that rises above the bustle only minutes into the movement, or the warm and striding theme in the strings that immediately follows. The extraordinary brilliance of the final bars—as unbridled an outburst as any in Brahms—was not lost on his great admirer Antonín Dvořák when he wrote his Carnival Overture.

Phillip Huscher is the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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PROFILES

Christoph Eschenbach Conductor

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Christoph Eschenbach is in demand as a distinguished guest conductor with the finest orchestras, opera houses, and prestigious festivals throughout the world. His repertoire reflects not only his commitment to

canonical works, but also to the music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Born in Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland), Christoph Eschenbach studied piano with Eliza Hansen and won numerous compe-titions, including first prize in the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Lucerne in 1965, marking the start of his career as a soloist. He later met conductor George Szell and toured with the Cleveland Orchestra under his direction. In that same period, he became acquainted with Herbert von Karajan. Following his conducting studies in Hamburg, and with the influence of mentors Szell and Karajan, he was encouraged to begin his career as a conductor in 1972 and, as such, made his U.S. debut with the San Francisco Symphony in 1975.

He conducted Così fan tutte at Covent Garden in London in 1984 and at the Houston Grand Opera, and The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Salome, Elektra, and Parsifal, among others, at the Bayreuth Festival and at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. He led Don Giovanni for the fiftieth anniversary of the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2004. More recently, he inaugu-rated a Mozart–Da Ponte cycle at the Salzburg Summer Festival in 2013.

Highlights of his 2017–18 season include guest conducting appearances with the Orchestre de Paris, Spanish National Orchestra, London

Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra national de France, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, and the Vienna Philharmonic, among others. He also led the Bamberg Symphony, of which he is honorary conductor, on a ten-date U.S. tour in February 2017. In Asia, he made returns to the Seoul and Hong Kong philharmonic orchestras, the China NCPA Orchestra in Beijing, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra–Tokyo.

Eschenbach was music director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich from 1982 to 1986, the Houston Symphony from 1988 to 1999, and the NDR Symphony Orchestra–Hamburg from 1998 to 2004. He previously was music director of the Orchestre de Paris (2000–10); the Philadelphia Orchestra (2003–08); and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. (2010–17), now conductor laureate since June 2017. He currently is music director desig-nate of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, a post he assumes in September 2019.

To his discography as a pianist should be added numerous recordings as head of the Houston and NDR symphony orchestras, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and the London Philharmonic. Mahler’s complete symphonies with the Orchestre de Paris are visible in stream-ing on his website.

Christoph Eschenbach won a 2014 Grammy Award for his recording of works by Hindemith with the NDR Symphony Orchestra and violin-ist Midori. His many honors include such French distinctions as Chevalier in the Legion of Honor, Officer in the National Order of Merit, and Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters. He also holds the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Leonard Bernstein Award of the Pacific Music Festival. In 2015, he received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in honor of his life’s dedication to music.

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Since 1919, young artists have sought mem-bership in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago to develop their talents and to further prepare for careers as professional musicians. Founded by Frederick Stock, second music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra is the only training orchestra of its kind affiliated with a major American orchestra.

The Civic Orchestra offers emerging profes-sional musicians unique access to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) through immersive experiences with the musicians of the CSO and some of today’s most sought-after conductors, including world-renowned CSO Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti. With additional guid-ance from CSO Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma, Civic Orchestra musi-cians develop as exceptional orchestral players and engaged artists, cultivating their ability to succeed in the rapidly evolving world of music in the twenty-first century.

The importance of the Civic Orchestra’s role in Greater Chicago is underscored by its commit-ment to present concerts of the highest quality at no charge to the public. In addition to the critically acclaimed live concerts at Symphony Center, Civic Orchestra performances can be heard locally on WFMT (98.7 FM).

Civic musicians also expand their creative, professional, and artistic boundaries and reach diverse audiences through educational

performances at Chicago Public Schools, “artis-tic challenges” led by Yo-Yo Ma, and a series of chamber concerts at various locations throughout the city including Chicago Park District field houses, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and Zhou B Art Center.

To further expand its musician training, the Civic Orchestra launched the Civic Fellowship program in the 2013–14 season. Now engag-ing fourteen members of the Civic Orchestra, Fellows participate in a rigorous curriculum above and beyond their orchestral activities that is designed to build and to diversify their creative and professional skills.

The Civic Orchestra’s long history of pre-senting full orchestra performances without charge includes concerts at the South Shore Cultural Center (in partnership with the South Shore Advisory Council), the Apostolic Church of God, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, and the New Regal Theater, as well as numerous Chicago Public Schools.

The Civic Orchestra is a signature program of the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which offers a wide range of education and community programs that engage more than 200,000 people of diverse ages, incomes, and backgrounds each year, in Chicago and around the world. For more information on the Institute and its programs, please visit cso.org/institute.

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Civic Orchestra of ChicagoTraining Orchestra of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Chicago Symphony OrchestraRiccardo Muti Zell Music DirectorYo-Yo Ma Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant


VIOLINSCarmen Abelson*

ConcertmasterThe David W. and Lucille Stotter Chair

Joy VucekovichAssistant Concertmaster

Natalie LeePrincipal

Maria Arrua*Assistant Principal

Miguel AguirreYoojin BaekSam Battista+Sarah BowenHannah CartwrightHsin-Yu ChenKai-Wei ChenLilian ChouHannah ChristiansenEmelinda Escobar+Alexander GigerIzumi HoshinoMunjung JungJeongwon KimArthur MasyukJoanna NeriusAlex NorrisRachel PetersAnna PiotrowskiLaura SchaferYaeEun ShinLiaht SlobodkinSeung-mi SunBrent TaghapSofie YangTong Yu

VIOLASRoslyn Green*

PrincipalHelen Rucinski

Assistant PrincipalSusan BengtsonRebecca BoelznerAnnija KernoAleksa KuzmaKevin LinWilliam McLellan+Enrique OlveraHanna PedersonSeth PaeAriel Patkin

CELLOSDenielle Wilson*

PrincipalAdam Ayers

Assistant PrincipalEva María Barbado-GutiérrezAllison ChambersDiane ChouKelly QuesadaDavid Sands+Nicky Swett*Emily YoshimotoNomin Zolzaya

The Haliday Chair

BASSESGreg Heintz

PrincipalNicholas Adams

Assistant PrincipalDominic Azkoul+Joe Bauer*Christopher DeMarcoVince GalvanDaniel MeyersVincent Trautwein

FLUTESKayla BurggrafGabriel FridkisChristy Kim*

OBOESErik AndrusyakAndrew CooperAlice Siyoon Park*

CLARINETSNicholas BrownGordon Daole-Wellman*Cally Laughlin

BASSOONSQuinn DelaneyBen Roidl-WardMidori Samson*

HORNSStephanie DiebelDevin GossettLaura Pitkin*Renée VogenKelsey Williams

TRUMPETSBryant MilletDaniel PriceAlexander Schwarz*

TROMBONESJames PerezLucas Steidinger

BASS TROMBONERobinson Schulze*

TUBAAden Beery

TIMPANIMatthew Kibort

PERCUSSIONDavid Eisenreich+Patrick SperanzaWai Chi Tang

LIBRARIANClaudia Restrepo

*Denotes Civic Fellow +Denotes Civic Orchestra Alumni

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Meet the MUSICIANS

Name: Joe Bauer

Instrument: Bass

Hometown: Floyds Knobs, Indiana

What is your most memorable musical moment?

My buddy Graham and I went to a music festival. The day started out with John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean; that was followed by an hour long improvisation by pianist Chris Abrahams; which was followed by this incred-ible DJ set by Nicholas Jaar. That was an entire day of moments. It was awe-inspiring to have such wildly different experiences just being in the audience and listening.

Who is your favorite composer and/or what is your favorite piece?My favorite composer is György Ligeti. He is a very unique composer—even within his own body of work there is so much variety. His music can sound odd, but to me has a very natural quality to it. When I listen to one of his pieces, I feel like Ligeti has taken me into a dif-ferent galaxy and is showing me some strange beast he discovered. A favorite piece of music of mine is the Prelude to the Violin Partita no. 3 by J.S. Bach.

If I weren’t a professional musician I would be . . .If I could choose, I would be a millionaire.

What inspired you to choose your instrument?I think the inspiration came from the teachers who showed me what was possible with an instrument and encouraged me to keep playing.

What are your interests and/or hobbies outside of music?Lately, I’ve been trying to do a backflip.

Name: Erik Andrusyak

Instrument: Oboe

Hometown: Ufa, Russia


Performing Schubert’s Ninth Symphony with two of my musical heroes, conductor Valery Gergiev and oboist Eugene Izotov!

Who is your favorite composer and/or what is your favorite piece?My favorite composer is probably Alexander Scriabin; I’m so in love with his music! However, my favorite piece is Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. It was an absolutely life-changing piece for me.

If I weren’t a professional musician I would be . . .an archeologist perhaps. I’ve always been fasci-nated by history and past civilizations.

What inspired you to choose your instrument?My father actually chose the oboe for me, and I simply trusted his choice. Getting to play with accompaniment for the first time made me fall in love with music.

What are your interests and/or hobbies outside of music?I enjoy exploring new places, countries, and cultures. I also enjoy film and playing basketball occasionally.

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Name: Stephanie Diebel

Instrument: Horn

Hometown: Western Springs, Illinois


It had to be when I performed in the preconcert with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra at Riccardo Muti’s inaugural concert at the Pritzker Pavilion in 2011. It was then and there, after playing the Overture to The Barber of Seville for 25,000 people, that I wanted to become a professional musician.

Who is your favorite composer and/or what is your favorite piece?One of my favorite pieces, surprisingly, is Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. I never tire of listening to the incredible musical structure of the piece and the expectations it has of the soloist. My favorite composer has to be Richard Strauss; as much as I shake my fist trying to learn the notes, it is so fulfilling to listen to his music.

If I weren’t a professional musician I would be . . .an archivist at an art museum or an art restoration specialist

What inspired you to choose your instrument?The french horn gets the best of both worlds: rich, dark, and heavy chords to hold the orchestra together and an abundance of show-stopping solos.

What are your interests and/or hobbies outside of music?I enjoy graphite drawing and sewing clothing from different eras.

Name: Claudia Restrepo

Civic Librarian

Hometown: Risaralda, Caldas, Colombia


During my oboe teaching years, my boss, the orchestra conductor, suffered an arm injury and asked me to cover for him on the podium. When I was in front of the orchestra for the first time, I remember thinking that I wanted to spend my whole life making music.

Who is your favorite composer and/or what is your favorite piece?As a librarian and conductor, it is really difficult to have just one favorite composer or piece, but if I absolutely have to choose, I would say Stravinsky. I think his music runs the gamut from small chamber pieces to his monumental Rite of Spring. Similarly, if I have to choose a piece from orchestral literature, I would say Mahler’s Second Symphony, since every time I listen to it, I am reminded why I am a musician.

If I weren’t a professional musician I would be . . .an industrial engineer

What inspired you to choose your instrument?When a brand new oboe arrived to the band room, I was really impressed and thought it was a very unique instrument.

What are your interests and/or hobbies outside of music?I love putting together jigsaw puzzles; I have a whole collection of 1000-piece puzzles back home in my native Colombia.

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Symphony Center InformationWe are delighted that you have joined us for this performance. Below you will find information that addresses questions we often receive, and which can help provide the most enjoyable and safest experience for all. For more information, please ask an usher or, after this performance, visit cso.org/plan-your-experience/questions.

We are very grateful to The Saints—Volunteers for the Performing Arts (saintschicago.org), who assist our staff ushers in serving our patrons.

cameras and recording devices Photography, video recording, audio recording, or the use of any kind of recording device is prohibited during the performance in order to protect the rights of our musicians and visiting artists.

mobile devices Please turn off or silence all personal electronic devices before the performance begins.

late seating policy If you must arrive late or reenter the seating area after leaving it, you will be seated at the discretion of the house manage-ment during program pauses that are designated by the conductor or musicians. Some programs do not allow for late seating. If you need to leave early, please do so between program works so as not to disturb others.

facilities for patrons with special needs Symphony Center is accessible to all persons who have special needs. Push-button doors are located at the south end of the main entrance. Elevators

and removable seats on the Main Floor, Upper Balcony, and Gallery make wheelchair access easy and accessible. Restrooms are located on the Lower Level and second, fourth, sixth, and seventh floors. A family-assist restroom is located in the sixth floor lobby for patrons requiring assistance from a companion. Call 312-294-3000 for more information.

complimentary cough lozenges Walgreens generously provides the complimentary cough lozenges found in the Symphony Center lobbies.

first aid In case of a medical emergency, please contact the nearest usher.

prohibited items Carrying loaded, concealed firearms is prohibited in Symphony Center.

backpacks, oversize bags, and parcels The CSOA requires that oversized bags be checked at one of our many Coat Checks conveniently located throughout Symphony Center. There is no charge to check these items. The CSOA also reserves the right to search bags for security reasons.

emergency evacuation The lighted red EXIT sign nearest your seat indicates the shortest route outdoors. Fire exits are located on all levels of Symphony Center and should be used only in emergencies.

lost and found If you have lost an item, please call our Lost and Found service, 312-294-3000, during business hours. Unclaimed items are held for two months.

the symphony store For CSO recordings, gifts, and apparel, visit Symphony Store. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11:30 to 5:00, and before all CSO performances. Located at 67 E. Adams and online at www.symphonystore.com

ENHANCE YOUR CONCERT EXPERIENCE

Join us for FREE preconcert conversations held one hour prior to all CSO Main concerts (12:15 p.m. for Friday matinees).

Learn about your concerts on CSO Sounds and Stories through articles, interviews, videos, and more! Visit cso.org/sas.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to learn more about the CSO and Symphony Center.

Visit concert event pages on cso.org for more informa-tion about your concerts, including artist biographies.

Access program notes before and after the performance on each concert’s event page at cso.org or at csosoundsandstories.org/category/program-books. You can enjoy learning about the music and the CSO even if you cannot attend a performance!

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Symphony Center InformationWe are delighted that you have joined us for this performance. Below you will find information that addresses questions we often receive, and which can help provide the most enjoyable and safest experience for all. For more information, please ask an usher or, after this performance, visit cso.org/plan-your-experience/questions.

We are very grateful to The Saints—Volunteers for the Performing Arts (saintschicago.org), who assist our staff ushers in serving our patrons.

cameras and recording devices Photography, video recording, audio recording, or the use of any kind of recording device is prohibited during the performance in order to protect the rights of our musicians and visiting artists.

mobile devices Please turn off or silence all personal electronic devices before the performance begins.

late seating policy If you must arrive late or reenter the seating area after leaving it, you will be seated at the discretion of the house manage-ment during program pauses that are designated by the conductor or musicians. Some programs do not allow for late seating. If you need to leave early, please do so between program works so as not to disturb others.

facilities for patrons with special needs Symphony Center is accessible to all persons who have special needs. Push-button doors are located at the south end of the main entrance. Elevators

and removable seats on the Main Floor, Upper Balcony, and Gallery make wheelchair access easy and accessible. Restrooms are located on the Lower Level and second, fourth, sixth, and seventh floors. A family-assist restroom is located in the sixth floor lobby for patrons requiring assistance from a companion. Call 312-294-3000 for more information.

complimentary cough lozenges Walgreens generously provides the complimentary cough lozenges found in the Symphony Center lobbies.

first aid In case of a medical emergency, please contact the nearest usher.

prohibited items Carrying loaded, concealed firearms is prohibited in Symphony Center.

backpacks, oversize bags, and parcels The CSOA requires that oversized bags be checked at one of our many Coat Checks conveniently located throughout Symphony Center. There is no charge to check these items. The CSOA also reserves the right to search bags for security reasons.

emergency evacuation The lighted red EXIT sign nearest your seat indicates the shortest route outdoors. Fire exits are located on all levels of Symphony Center and should be used only in emergencies.

lost and found If you have lost an item, please call our Lost and Found service, 312-294-3000, during business hours. Unclaimed items are held for two months.

the symphony store For CSO recordings, gifts, and apparel, visit Symphony Store. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11:30 to 5:00, and before all CSO performances. Located at 67 E. Adams and online at www.symphonystore.com

ENHANCE YOUR CONCERT EXPERIENCE

Join us for FREE preconcert conversations held one hour prior to all CSO Main concerts (12:15 p.m. for Friday matinees).

Learn about your concerts on CSO Sounds and Stories through articles, interviews, videos, and more! Visit cso.org/sas.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to learn more about the CSO and Symphony Center.

Visit concert event pages on cso.org for more informa-tion about your concerts, including artist biographies.

Access program notes before and after the performance on each concert’s event page at cso.org or at csosoundsandstories.org/category/program-books. You can enjoy learning about the music and the CSO even if you cannot attend a performance!

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NEGAUNEE MUSIC INSTITUTE AT THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE BOARD OF THE NEGAUNEE MUSIC INSTITUTE AT THE CSOLiisa Thomas

ChairLori Julian

Vice ChairBenjamin Wise

SecretaryJames BorkmanLeslie Henner BurnsRichard ColburnJoyce T. GreenMary Winton GreenRobert KohlAmy B. ManningLing Z. MarkovitzJudith W. McCueÁlvaro R. ObregónGerald PaulingEarl J. Rusnak, Jr.Steven E. ShebikPenny Van Horn

Ex-officio MembersJeff AlexanderStephen LesterVanessa MossJonathan McCormickJames Smelser

CIVIC ORCHESTRA ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP

Coaches from the Chicago Symphony OrchestraRobert Chen

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

Baird DodgePrincipal Second Violin

Li-Kuo ChangAssistant Principal ViolaThe Louise H. Benton Wagner Chair

Members of the CSO cello section Alexander Hanna

Principal BassThe David and Mary Winton Green Principal Bass Chair

Stefán Ragnar HöskuldssonPrincipal FluteThe Erika and Dietrich M. Gross Principal Flute Chair

Scott HostetlerOboe and English Horn

John Bruce YehAssistant Principal Clarinet

William BuchmanAssistant Principal Bassoon

Daniel GingrichActing Principal Horn

Mark RidenourAssistant Principal Trumpet

Michael MulcahyTrombone

Charles VernonBass Trombone

Gene PokornyPrincipal TubaThe Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld

David HerbertPrincipal Timpani The Clinton Family Fund Chair

Vadim KarpinosAssistant Principal Timpani

Cynthia YehPrincipal Percussion

Sarah BullenPrincipal Harp

Mary SauerFormer Principal Keyboard

Peter ConoverPrincipal Librarian

NEGAUNEE MUSIC INSTITUTE AT THE CSOJonathan McCormick

Director, Education & The Negaunee Music Institute

Jon WeberDirector, School & Family Programs

Molly WalkerOrchestra Manager, Civic Orchestra of Chicago

James HallManager, Community Programs & Civic Orchestra Engagement

Katy ClusenManager, School & Family Programs

Sarah Vander PloegCoordinator, School & Community Partnerships

Kimberly JoslynCoordinator, Civic Orchestra of Chicago

Benjamin WiseAssistant, Institute Programs

Frances AtkinsContent Director

Kristin TobinDesigner

ALL-ACCESS Free Chamber Music Series

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Reserve your free tickets at cso.org/allaccesschamber or by calling 312-294-3000

Sunday, April 15, 3:00kenwood academy high school

Kittel Quartet Cornelius Chiu violinBaird Dodge violinWei-Ting Kuo violaGary Stucka cello beethoven String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor (From My Life)

Wednesday, May 9, 6:30orchestra hall at symphony center

Chicago Loop Quintet Stephanie Jeong violinSo Young Bae violin Sunghee Choi violaWeijing Wang violaKatinka Kleijn cellomozart String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516brahms String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111

Sunday, May 20, 3:00 south shore cultural center

Meridian String Quartet Cornelius Chiu violinKozue Funakoshi violinDanny Lai violaDaniel Katz cello bartók String Quartet No. 3brahms String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor

Featuring musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center’s Orchestra Hall and around Chicago!

The All-Access series is generously underwritten by an anonymous donor.

All-Access at South Shore Cultural Center is presented in partnership with The Advisory Council of South Shore Cultural Center and The Chicago Park District.

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VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP & OPPORTUNITIES

Schubert Mass

Amanda Forsythe sopranoElizabeth DeShong mezzo-soprano

Paul Appleby tenorNicholas Phan tenor

Nahuel di Pierro bassChicago Symphony Chorus Duain Wolfe chorus director

WEBER Overture to OberonRAIMI Three Lisel Mueller Settings

[WORLD PREMIERE, CSO COMMISSION]SCHUBERT Mass in E-flat Major

THURSDAYMARCH 228:00

FRIDAYMARCH 238:00

SATURDAYMARCH 248:00

CSO.ORG • 312-294-3000 These concerts are generously sponsored by the Zell Family Foundation. Global Sponsor of the CSO

Artists, prices and programs subject to change.

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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 123rd year in the 2017–18 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 organization, as well as with fellow members through special access, ticketing services, events, and meetings. To learn more, call 312-294-3337.

Executive Committee—Chairman: Jared Kaplan, Immediate Past Chairman: Timothy A. Duffy, Vice Chairman of the Annual Fund: Charles Emmons Jr., Vice Chairman of Member Engagement: Eric Kalnins, Vice Chairman of Nominations and Membership: Michael A. Perlstein

The Women’s Board promotes the artistic excellence and exemplary education programs of the Orchestra by engaging women leaders in advocacy 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.

Leadership—President: Elizabeth A. Parker, Immediate Past President: Elisabeth Adams, Communications/Governance Chair: Hyla Kallen, Community Engagement Chair: Judith E. Feldman, Membership Chair: Katie Barber

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 audi-ence development. To learn more, please call 312-294-3170 or email [email protected].

Leadership and Executive Committee—President: Mimi Duginger, Vice President of Administration: Barbara Dwyer, Vice President of Areas: Mary Torres, Vice President of Education: Jennifer Bumbu, Vice President of Events: Marcia Lewis, Vice President of Finance: Claretta Meier, Vice President of Fund-raising: Barbara Zutovsky, Vice President of Membership: Mary Goodkind, Secretary: Christine Uhlig, Strategic Planning Chair: Cheryl Istvan, Members-at-Large: Eileen Conaghan, Jeffrey Ring

The 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 oppor-tunities 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.

Executive Committee—President: Erika Knierim, Immediate Past President: BeLinda Mathie, Soundpost Co-Chairs: Elliot Callighan and Kristin Jaburek, Activities Chair: Haley Titus, Audience Development Chair: April Christensen, Communications Chair: Eric Rubio, Membership Chair: John Dunson, Social Media Chair: Jonathon Leik, Secretary: Danielle Flagg

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.

Leadership—Co-chairs: Ramiro J. Atristaín-Carrión and Loida Rosario

Auxiliary Volunteers provide invaluable administrative support in a variety of ways by working in the office during regular business hours. Occasional evening and weekend opportu-nities also are available. Please call 312-294-3160 to learn more.

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, edu-cators and students, musicians and composers, and churches and businesses to experience the timeless beauty of music. To learn more how you can be involved, contact Sheila Jones, coor-dinator, at [email protected] or call 312-294-3045.The Volunteer Programs office is located at 67 East Adams, 6th Floor Phone 312-294-3160


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Honor Roll of DONORS

Corporate PartnersThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following corporate partners for their generous support.

GLOBAL SPONSOR OF THE CSOBank of America

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSOUnited Airlines

$100,000 AND ABOVEAllstate Insurance CompanyBMO Harris BankExelonITWKirkland & Ellis LLPNorthern Trust

$50,000–$99,999Anonymous (1)AbbottAonCitadelJenner & Block LLPKPMG LLPMayer Brown LLPSP PlusNuveen InvestmentsPricewaterhouseCoopers LLPSidley Austin LLP

$25,000–$49,999Abbott FundAmsted Industries IncorporatedBaker McKenzieThe Boston Consulting GroupDLA Piper US LLPPNCS&C Electric Company FundSchiff Hardin LLPSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Walgreens

$15,000–$24,999CIBCE&J Gallo WineryMcKinsey & CompanyMorgan StanleyRMCS, Inc.William BlairWinston & Strawn LLP

$5,000–$14,999Ariel InvestmentsBairdBaxter International Inc.BlueCross BlueShield of IllinoisCDWDeloitteThe Edgewater FundsEvans Foods Group, LTDEvolve IPFederated Group, Inc.Fellowes, Inc.Italian Village RestaurantsMacLean-Fogg CompanyMagellanMolexOxford Bank & TrustR. Crusoe & SonSahara EnterprisesSipi Metals CorporationThe Segal CompanyStarshak/WinzenburgTelephone & Data Systems, Inc.James and Minerva Weiss FoundationWunderman

$1,000–$4,999Anonymous (1)AHEAD, LLCAdvent Systems, Inc.American Agricultural Insurance Company

Building Consultants, Ltd.Burwood Group, Inc.Central Building & Preservation L.P.Chicago Classic Coach, LLCCisco Systems Inc

Davidson Kempner Capital Management LLC

DentonsDraper and Kramer IncorporatedDS&P Insurance Services, Inc.Elk Grove GraphicsExchequerGemini Graphics, Inc.Gofen and Glossberg LLCGoodSmith Gregg & Unruh LLPHyatt Hotels CorporationThe Law Offices of Jonathan N. Sherwell

Jones Lang LaSalleKimco ServicesKinder MorganLake Capital, LLC.The Mail HouseMomentum WorldwideThe Navarre Law FirmOdell Hicks & Company, LLCOld Republic International Corporation

Parkway ElevatorsShow ServicesShure IncorporatedTCB Mailing, Inc.Vienna Beef

UP TO $1,000Allied UniversalArlington Resources Inc.Flooring Management Group, Inc.Global Water Technology, Inc.NIR Roof CarePalmer Printing, Inc.Quinlan & Fabish Music CompanySchenk Annes Tepper Campbell Ltd.Shetland Limited PartnershipThe Taben GroupThe Ungar Group


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Foundations and Government Agencies

$100,000 AND ABOVEAnonymous (2)The Paul M. Angell Family FoundationElizabeth F. Cheney FoundationThe Davee FoundationJulius N. Frankel FoundationIrving Harris FoundationWalter E. Heller Foundation, in honor of Alyce DeCosta

JCS Fund of The DuPage FoundationThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

National Endowment for the ArtsThe Negaunee FoundationZell Family Foundation

$50,000–$99,999Alphawood FoundationThe Brinson FoundationThe Chicago Community TrustRobert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown

Lloyd A. Fry FoundationAnn and Gordon Getty FoundationSally Mead Hands FoundationIllinois Arts Council AgencyPolk Bros. FoundationVirginia B. Toulmin Foundation

$25,000–$49,999Crain-Maling FoundationJohn R. Halligan Charitable FundLeslie FundBowman C. Lingle TrustMazza FoundationPoetry FoundationThe Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation

Michael G. Woll Fund at The Pauls Foundation

$10,000–$24,999Anonymous (1)Barker Welfare FoundationRobert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.

The Buchanan Family FoundationThe Clinton Family FundDarling Family FoundationDuchossois Family FoundationThe H B B FoundationJS Charitable TrustAdam Mickiewicz InstituteNIB FoundationPrince Charitable TrustsThe Rhoades FoundationHulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation

Charles and M.R. Shapiro FoundationThe George L. Shields FoundationRonald and Geri Yonover Foundation

$5,000–$9,999Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Franklin Philanthropic FoundationHunter Family FoundationKovler Family FoundationStanley and Lucy Lopata Charitable Foundation

The Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation

Lannan FoundationLyon Family FoundationMilne Family FoundationThe Siragusa Foundation

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

Carl Forstmann Memorial FoundationWilliam M. Hales FoundationBenjamin J. Rosenthal FoundationStearns Charitable TrustWalter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust

Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund

$1,000–$2,499Amphion FoundationGeraldi Norton FoundationJosephine P. & John J. Louis Foundation

Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation


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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra SocietyThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association deeply appreciates the generous support of all its donors. To thank and acknowledge individual supporters, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Society recognizes annual gifts and lifetime, cumulative gifts and commitments in support of all areas and programs of the CSOA. The following list includes contributions to the Annual Fund; the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; employer matching gifts; donations as part of patron tours; and fundraising event support between May 10, 2017, and August 15, 2017.

Lifetime Support

HERITAGE CIRCLE $10,000,000 AND ABOVEAnonymous (1)Estate of Mrs. A. Watson ArmourDavid and Juli GraingerThe Negaunee FoundationHelen and Sam Zell

LEGACY CIRCLE $5,000,000–$9,999,999Estate of Mrs. Robert C. BorwellRosemarie and Dean L. BuntrockJudson and Joyce GreenMary Winton GreenMr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. GrossEstate of Eloise MartinThe Regenstein FoundationSage Foundation, Melissa Sage FadimIn Memory of Alice Welsh SkillingRichard and Helen Thomas

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE $2,500,000–$4,999,999Anonymous (2)Randy L. and Melvin R. BerlinThe Clinton Family FundEstate of Nelson D. CorneliusThe Crown FamilyThe Grainger FoundationRichard and Mary L. GrayMarguerite DeLany HarkThe Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris

The Kapnick FamilyMargot and Josef LakonishokJim and Kay MabieEstate of Claire Bastian MaynardThe Robert R. McCormick FoundationCathy and Bill OsbornEstate of Virginia H. RogersCynthia M. SargentEstate of Florence SewellEstate of Louise Benton Wagner

FOUNDERS CIRCLE $1,000,000–$2,499,999Anonymous (8)Mrs. Ruth T. AndersonMr. & Mrs. William Gardner BrownThe Buchanan Family FoundationCooper Family FoundationEstate of Alan GarberMrs. Zollie S. FrankEstate of Edmund FroehlichNancy and Larry FullerMrs. Willard GidwitzEllen and Paul GignilliatMr. & Mrs. Joseph B. GlossbergEstate of William B. Graham and William B. Graham Trust

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. GriffinEstate of Lester and Betty GuttmanSally Mead Hands FoundationJohn Hart and Carol PrinsJudy and Verne IstockMr. & Mrs. William R. JentesMr.* & Mrs. Kenneth A. JulianThe Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation

Lewis-Sebring Family FoundationEstate of Marion J. LivingstonArthur Maling TrustJudy and Scott McCueThe James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation

Janet L. MelkAlexandra and John NicholsThe Pritzker FoundationEstate of Christine QuerfeldPriscilla and John* RichmanSandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.Barbara and Barre Seid FoundationMr.* & Mrs. Ralph SmykalEstate of Bernard Williams

SUSTAINING MEMBER $500,000–$999,999Anonymous (4)The Paul M. Angell Family FoundationEstate of Wayne BalmerJulie and Roger BaskesArlene and Marshall BennettEstate of Norma Zuzanek BennettMr.* & Mrs. James F. Beré

Arnie and Ann BerlinKay BucksbaumEstate of Marie K. BurnsideRobert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund

Tony and Lawrie DeanMrs. Arthur Edelstein*Mr.* & Mrs. Donald F. FlynnMr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.Rhoda Lea and Henry S. FrankMr. & Mrs. Richard J. FrankeRichard and Alice GodfreyRobin Tieken HadleyJulie and Parker* HallMr. & Mrs. Thomas C. HeagyEstates of Benjamin W. and Natalie Heineman

Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. HendersonEstate of Elizabeth HoffmanPamela Kelley Hull / Roger B. HullMr. & Mrs. Paul JudyMr. & Mrs. George KennedyRichard P. and Susan Kiphart FamilyDr. David* and Mrs. Barbara KipperRobert Kohl and Clark PellettJoseph and Judith KonenKay and Fred KrehbielLing Z. and Michael C. MarkovitzOscar G. and Elsa S. Mayer Family Foundation

Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal*

Mr.* & Mrs. Albert PawlickEstate of Halina J. PresleyEstate of Harriet Cary RossPatrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation

Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet GilboyMr.* & Mrs. Irving Seaman, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.Estate of Berton E. SiegelMr. & Mrs. William C. SteinmetzRoger and Susan Stone Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. William H. StrongMr. & Mrs. Louis Sudler, Jr.Catherine M. and Frederick H. WaddellThe Helen F. Whitaker Fund

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Annual SupportThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through August 15, 2017.

$150,000 AND ABOVEAnonymous (2)Randy L. and Melvin R. BerlinRosemarie and Dean L. BuntrockEstate of Marcia S. CohnJudson and Joyce GreenMr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. GrossThe Julian Family FoundationMargot and Josef LakonishokThe League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Jim and Kay MabieNancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred* L. McDougal

The James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation

Cathy and Bill OsbornSandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.Megan and Steve ShebikRichard and Helen ThomasPhil* and Paula TurnerWomen’s Board of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Helen and Sam Zell

$100,000–$149,999Anonymous (7)The Davee FoundationEnivar Charitable Fund, in memory of Mrs. Leonard S. Florsheim, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. GlossbergIrving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris

Richard P. and Susan Kiphart FamilySherry and Bob* ReumShure Charitable Trust

$50,000–$99,999Anonymous (1)Dora J. and R. John AalbregtseMr. & Mrs. William Adams IVJulie and Roger BaskesKay BucksbaumRobert J. BufordAnn and Richard CarrDr. Christopher L. CulpMr. Eugene FamaRhoda Lea and Henry S. FrankEllen and Paul GignilliatRichard and Alice GodfreyChet Gougis and Shelley OchabRichard and Mary L. GrayJohn Hart and Carol PrinsPamela Kelley Hull / Roger B. Hull

Ms. Patricia HydeRobert Kohl and Clark PellettJoseph and Judith KonenJim and SuAnne LopataLing Z. and Michael C. MarkovitzJudy and Scott McCueAlexandra and John NicholsCOL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)

Burton X. and Sheli RosenbergCynthia M. SargentBarbara and Barre Seid FoundationLiz StiffelCatherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell

$25,000–$49,999Anonymous (4)Sharon and Charles AngellRobert H. Baum and MaryBeth KretzProfessor M. Cherif Bassiouni and Elaine Klemen

Arnie and Ann BerlinMr. & Mrs. William Gardner BrownJohn D. and Leslie Henner BurnsMs. Marion A. CameronMr. & Mrs. David CasperBruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund

Mr. & Mrs. George ColisThe Crown FamilyMs. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson

Mr. & Mrs. Brian DuweMrs. Arthur Edelstein*John and Fran EdwardsonDan J. EpsteinDan J. Epstein Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. James B. FadimMr. Rajiv FernandoMr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia NeilMr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.Mrs. Zollie S. FrankNancy and Larry FullerMs. Susan GoldschmidtWilliam A. and Anne GoldsteinMary Louise GornoMary Winton GreenMr. Collier HandsMr. & Mrs. Jay L. HendersonMr. & Mrs. Verne G. IstockMr. & Mrs. James KolarLewis-Sebring Family FoundationMr. Terrance Livingston and Ms. Debra Cafaro

Beth A. Mannino and Paul SchickPatty and Mark McGrathMr. David E. McNeelMr. & Mrs. Christopher MelvinMembers of the CSOA StaffDaniel R. MurrayJames J. and Ellen O’Connor

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Pauling IIMr.* & Mrs. Albert PawlickAndra and Irwin PressDiana and Bruce RaunerMrs. John Shedd ReedSusan RegensteinMr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen RossiMr. & Mrs. Scott SantiMr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet GilboyMr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Robert ShillmanMichael and Linda SimonWalter and Kathleen SnodellBill and Orli Staley FoundationCarl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-SternRoger and Susan Stone Family Foundation

Thierer Family FoundationMs. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt

Terrence and Laura TruaxPenny and John Van HornMr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow

$10,000–$24,999Anonymous (7)Mrs. Rosa Acevedo and Mr. Jose Luis Prado

Jeff and Keiko AlexanderMrs. Ruth T. AndersonMr. & Mrs. Stuart ApplebaumMr.* & Mrs. Robert H. Bacon, Jr.Henry R. Berghoef and Leslie Lauer Berghoef

Patricia and Laurence BoothMr. Roderick BranchMr. & Mrs. Roger O. BrownHenry and Gilda BuchbinderTom and Dianne CampbellJoyce ChelbergSue and Jim CollettiMari Hatzenbuehler CravenMs. Christina DonohueMr.* & Mrs. David A. DonovanMr. & Mrs. Charles W. DouglasDavid and Deborah DranoveTimothy A. and Bette Anne DuffySidney Epstein* and Sondra Berman Epstein

Henry and Frances FogelMr. & Mrs. Richard J. FrankeMr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. GoldsteinMr. & Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr.Sue and Melvin GrayMr. & Mrs. David HackettMarguerite DeLany HarkHarris Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. Thomas C. HeagyMr. & Mrs. R. HelmholzDavid Herro and Jay Franke


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Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. HibbardFred and Sandra HolubowJanice L. Honigberg, in memory of Joel D. Honigberg

Mr. Sidney Jarrow*Mr. & Mrs. William R. JentesMr. & Mrs. George E. JohnsonBarbara and Kenneth KaufmanMr. & Mrs. George KennedyAnne and John KernJean KlingensteinFerdinand and Bernadette KorndorfDr. Michael KrcoMr. Leonard LavinDr.* & Mrs. H. LeichenkoMs. Betsy LevinDrs. Edmund & Julie LewisDr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin

Mr. & Mrs. John LillardMake It BetterMrs. Erma MedgyesyMembers of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Dr. Toni-Marie MontgomeryEmilie Morphew, M.D.David and Dolores NelsonEdward and Gayla NieminenSusan NoelMr. Neil OrtenbergPasquinelli Family FoundationMr. Robert PetersonMr.* & Mrs.* Curt G. PinnellLeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor

Mr. & Mrs. John PrattDr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. RissmanJerry RosePatrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Foundation

Mr. Richard RyanMr. & Mrs. David SavnerKarla Scherer and Harve FerrillDavid and Judy SchiffmanMr. & Mrs. Albert SchlachtmeyerAl Schriesheim and Kay TorshenKimberly M. SnyderIda N. Sondheimer & Family, in memory of Joseph Sondheimer

Mr. & Mrs. William SteinmetzMr. Irving Stenn, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Louis Sudler, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Scott SwansonMr. & Mrs. Richard P. ToftDr. Cynthia M. Valukas and Mr. Joseph A. Kohl

Mr. & Mrs. William C. VanceMs. Nancy VoorheesIn memory of Peter Leland Wentz and Vida Broadbent Wentz

Mr.* & Mrs. H. Blair WhiteCraig and Bette Williams

M.L. WinburnDr. Marylou WitzAnn S. WolffSarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman

$3,500–$9,999Anonymous (17)Elaine and Floyd AbramsonSandra Allen and Jim PerlowMr. & Mrs. Robert A. AlsakerMr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein

Geoffrey A. AndersonMegan P. and John L. AndersonMr. & Mrs. Michael AndersonMs. Doris AngellMychal P. Angelos, in memory of Dorothy A. Angelos

Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei

David and Suzanne ArchDr. & Mrs. Robert ArensmanDr. & Mrs. Kent ArmbrusterDonald and Carol AsherCarey and Brett AugustMarta Holsman BabsonEd BachrachMr. Edward M. BakwinPeter and Elise BarackMr. & Mrs. Christopher BarberPaul and Robert Barker FoundationMr. Carroll BarnesMr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. BarnesMr. Solomon BarnettMr. Peter BarrettRoberta and Harold S. BarronJeff and Beth BauerDr. & Mrs. Robert A. BeattyDonna and Mike BellMr. Lawrence BellesMrs. James F. BeréMeta S. and Ronald* Berger Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore BerghorstMr.* & Mrs. Melvyn BergsteinDr. Leonard & Phyllis BerlinMr. & Mrs. Robert L. Berner, Jr.Mr. Howard BernickRon and Catherine BevilMr. & Mrs. William E. BibleMrs. Arthur A. BillingsJim* and Dianne BlancoMerrill and Judy BlauAnn BlickensderferMrs. Nancy BlumMs. Terry BodenMr. & Mrs. John BorlandMr. & Mrs. James BorovskyAdam BossovMr. Donald BousemanMr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen

Mr. & Mrs.* William BrauneisMs. Jill BrennanBarbara and Powell BridgesConnie and Bob BrinkMr. & Mrs. John BrubakerMr. & Mrs. Timothy BryanMr. & Mrs. Samuel BuchsbaumKay and Rhett ButlerElizabeth Nolan and Kevin BuzardMs. Lutgart CalcoteMr. & Mrs. Robert CalvinCarmine FoundationMr. & Mrs. Jerome CastelliniMs. Margaret CaswellMr. John CavanaughMia Celano and Noel DunnMrs. Sara Chaffetz*Mr. James ChamberlainTina and Fredrick ChapekisRobert and Laura ChenLinton J. ChildsJan and Frank Cicero, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. ClancyMr. & Mrs. Wesley M. ClarkMs. Patricia ClickenerMitchell Cobey and Janet RealiMs. Jean CocozzaLewis CollensJane and John C. ColmanE. and V. Combs FoundationMrs. Frances ComerGarth J. and Martha H.* ConleyDr. Thomas H. ConnerMary Lynn CooneyMr. Lawrence CorryAnita J. Court, Ph.D.Patricia Cox and FamilyMrs. Beatrice G. CrainMr. & Mrs. William A. CraneMr. & Mrs. Richard CremieuxJohn and Cynthia CsernanskyMr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. Harris

Dancing Skies FoundationMr. & Mrs. Robert J. DarnallDr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford

Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das GuptaMuller Davis and Lynn StrausIn Loving Memory of Alice Furumoto-Dawson

Mr. Guy DeBoo and Ms. Susan Franzetti

Decyk Charitable FoundationMs. Nancy DehmlowMr. & Mrs. Charles DemirjianDuane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider

Janet Wood DiederichsPaul and Nona DixMr. & Mrs. William Dooley


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Dr. & Mrs. James L. DowneyMs. Ann DrakeDr. George Dunea and Dr. Sally DuneaMr. & Mrs. Bernard DunkelMr. & Mrs. Frank A. DusekWendy EagerMr. & Mrs. Timothy EarleMr. & Mrs. Stephen EastwoodMr. & Mrs. Larry K. EbertMr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling IIIMr. & Mrs. Richard EldenMichael and Kathleen ElliottMr. & Mrs. Samuel H. EllisCharles and Carol EmmonsMr. Joseph EnderMrs. Janice EngleScott and Lenore EnloeCynthia G. EslerAnne H. EvansMrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Mr. Fred EychanerMarilyn D. Ezri, M.D.Mrs. Walter D. FacklerMr. Tarek FadelPaul and Clare FahertyJeffrey Farbman and Ann GreensteinMr. & Mrs. William F. FarleySally S. FederCathy and Joe FeldmanDonald and Signe FergusonHector Ferral, M.D.Ms. Sharon FerrillConstance M. FillingKenneth M. Fitzgerald and Ruby CarrEvelyn T. FitzpatrickEileen T. Flynn and Thomas J. InglisGinny and Peter ForemanMrs. John D. FosterMr. & Mrs. Willard FraumannGerald FreedmanSusan and Paul FreehlingMr. & Mrs. Philip FriedmannMs. Ginger GasselJudy and Mickey GaynorSandy and Frank GelberDr. & Mrs. Mark GendlemanRabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson

Mr. & Mrs. Isak V. GersonBernardino and Caterina GhettiCamillo and Arlene GhironMs. Karen GianfranciscoMrs. Willard GidwitzMr. & Mrs. Jerome GilsonMr. & Mrs. James J. GlasserMr. Jonathan W. GlossbergMr. & Mrs. William GoldbergLyn GoldsteinJeannette and Jerry GoldstoneRobert and Marcia Goltermann

Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette GordonTimothy and Joyce GreeningDr. Jerri E. GreerMr. & Mrs. Byron GregorySusan* and Kendall GriffithMr. John Groccia and Mrs. Kirstie Steiner

Mr. & Mrs. Jerome GroenJacalyn GronekMr. & Mrs. John GrowdonMr. & Mrs. John P. GrubeJames and Brenda GruseckiDr. & Mrs. John W. Gustaitis, Jr.Anastasia and Gary GuttingMr. & Mrs. Ernst A. HäberliMr. & Mrs. John HalesJerry A. Hall, MDJoan M. HallMrs. Richard C. HalpernStephanie and Howard HalpernAnne Marcus HamadaRonald and Diane HamburgerJohn and Sally HardDr. Robert A. HarrisJames W. HaughThomas and Connie Hsu HaynesMr. & Mrs. Joseph Andrew HaysJames B. Heaton IIIJames and Lynne* HeckmanPati and O.J. HeestandScott HelmJanet and Bob HelmanDr. & Mrs. Arthur L. HerbstSonny and Marlene HershMr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. HesseMarjorie Friedman HeymanThe Hickey Family FoundationMr. Paul E. HicksRobert A. Hill and Thea Flaum HillMr. David HillerMrs. Mary P. HinesMrs. Edwin P. HoffmanRichard and Joanne HoffmanMr. William J. HokinMr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman IIIMr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson IIIJames and Eileen HolzhauerJoel* and Carol Honigberg FundMrs. H. Earl HooverThe Horner Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. Geoffrey FelsenthalDr. & Mrs. Ira M. HananMrs. Nancy A. HornerMr. & Mrs. John G. LeviMr. & Mrs. Richard Perlstein

Frances and Franklin* HorwichJames and Mary HoustonCarter and Carolyn HowardMr. & Mrs. Peter HuizengaTex and Susan HullThe Hunter Family

Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins

Michael L. IgoeMr. Craig T. IngramMs. Frieda Ireland and Mr. Carroll Damron

Dr. Peter IvanovichMrs. Nancy Witte JacobsMr. & Mrs. Stan JakopinCynthia Jamison-MarcyTimothy and Jennifer JanowickDr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy JanusJoseph and Rebecca JarabakMr. John JaworBenetta and Paul JensonMs. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan KurunaMr. & Mrs. Edward Jepson, Jr.Mr. & Mrs.* Howard JessenJoni and Brian JohnsonMaryl Johnson, M.D.Mr. Ronald JohnsonDr. Patricia JonesMs. Stephanie JonesMr. & Mrs. Edward T. JoyceEric and Melanie KalninsDolores Kohl Kaplan and Morris A. Kaplan*

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/Kaplan Foundation

Jared Kaplan and Maridee QuanbeckMr.* & Mrs. Kurt KarminJohn and Kerma KarolyMr. & Mrs. Byron C. KarzasBarry D. KaufmanJudy and Jerry KaufmanLarry and Marie KaufmanDon Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-KaulSusie Forstmann KealyMarilyn M. KeilMr. & Mrs. Michael KeiserMs. Ellen KelleherMr. & Mrs. Jeff KellerJonathan and Nancy Lee KemperGerould and Jewell KernMr. & Mrs. W. K. KetchumMrs. Elizabeth KeyserMr. & Mrs. Richard KeyserBen and Laura KingMr. & Mrs. Robert E. KingCarol KippermanEsther G. KlatzDr. Jay and Georgianna KleimanMr. & Mrs. James KlenkMr. Thomas KmetkoCookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. KohnMs. June KoizumiNancy and Sanfred KoltunMr. & Mrs. Richard K. KomarekDr. & Mrs. Mark KozloffKay and Fred KrehbielEldon and Patricia Kreider


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David and Susan KreismanPeter and Susan KruppDrs. Vinay and Raminder KumarPaul and Ruth Ann KurtinMr. & Mrs. Rubin P. KuznitskyMr. John LaBarberaArthur and Olga LadenburgerMr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler

Mark J. and Susan S. LarsonPatricia LeeSheila Fields LeiterMr. Jeffrey LennardWally and Carol LennoxMary and Laurence LevineGregory M. Lewis and Mary E. StrekMr. Julius LewisMr.* & Mrs. Paul LiebermanPhilip R. Liebson, M.D.Mr. & Mrs. Stewart LiechtiLing LiuPatricia M. LivingstonReva and John S. Lizzadro, Sr.Diane and William F. LloydJane and Peter LoebThe Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust

Renée LoganMr. Russ LymanMr. & Mrs.* Barry MacLeanMr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLeanMr. Eric MakstenieksDr. & Mrs. Michael S. MalingThe Malott Family FoundationMr. Daniel ManoogianNathaniel M. MarrsRobert* and Judy MarthMr. & Mrs. Patrick A. MartinArthur and Elizabeth MartinezMr. & Mrs. Robert MarwinMs. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag

James and Susan MatsonMarianne C. MayerMargaret H. and Steven D. McCormickDr. & Mrs. James McGeeDr. & Mrs. John McGee IIJohn and Etta McKennaIn memory of William and Carolyn McKittrick

Jane and Bruce McLaganJames Edward McPherson and David L. Murray

Mr. Zarin MehtaMr. & Mrs. Paul MeisterMr. Gregory and Dr. Alice MelchorMr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad

Edward & Lucy R. Minor Family Foundation

Ms. Mary Mittler

Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley

Ms. Judith MoniakCharles A. MooreMrs. Frank MorrisseyCatherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Herbert F. MunstermanMr. & Mrs. Michael MurphyEileen M. MurrayJo Ann and Stuart NathanMr.* & Mrs. William NeimanMrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr.Dr. Zehava L. NoahMr. & Mrs. Richard NoparKenneth R. NorganMs. Susan NorvichMr. Gerard NussbaumMs. Martha NussbaumBill and Penny ObenshainEric and Carolyn OesterleMichael and Kay O’HalleranMr. & Mrs. Norman L. OlsonMr. Bruce OltmanJohn and Joy O’MalleyMr. Thomas OrlandoBeatrice F. OrzacThe Osprey FoundationMr. & Mrs. Gerald OstermannMr. & Mrs. James O’Sullivan, Jr.Mr. Tom O’TooleMr. Bruce OttleyMrs. China I. OughtonMichael and Rebecca OwenMrs. Evelyn E. PadorrMr. Timothy J. PatenodeMr. & Mrs. Charles R. Patten, Jr.Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.Eugene and Lois PavalonMr. Michael PayetteRichard and Frances PennGerald* and Mona PennerDr. & Mrs. Ray PensingerRoxy and Richard PepperMr. & Mrs. Michael A. PerlsteinMr. & Mrs. Norman PermanDr. William PeruzziDavid and Sara PetersonLorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.Sue N. and Thomas F. PickStanley M. and Virginia Johnson PillmanMrs. Sherri PincusMr. & Mrs. Dale R. PinkertHarvey and Madeleine PlonskerJohn F. Podjasek III Charitable FundMs. Judy PomeranzChristine and Michael PopeStephen and Ann Suker PotterMr. Samuel PressMs. D. PriceMr. & Mrs. John Puth

Drs. Joseph and Kimberly PyleMr. & Mrs. Leigh RabmanJames and Cheryll RaffDorothy V. RammDr. Mohan RaoAl and Lynn ReichleMark S. ReiterMr. & Mrs. John ReliasMerle ReskinMiles and Peggy RidgwayBurton and Francine RissmanJ. Timothy Ritchie*Charles and Marilynn RivkinMs. Carol RobertsDr. Diana RobinErik and Nelleke RoffelsenBob Rogers TravelMr. John W. Rogers, Jr.Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. VicencioMr. & Mrs. Harry J. RoperLorelei RosenthalMichael RosenthalSharon and Louis F. RosenthalD.D. RoskinMr. & Mrs. Frank A. RossiMrs. Donald RothJay and Maija RothenbergMs. Roberta H. RubinMrs. Susan B. RubnitzWilliam and Mary RyanRita* and Norman SackarCarol S. SadowMs. Cecelia SamansMr. David SandfortMr. Agustin G. SanzMr. Muneer A. Satter and Ms. Kristen H. Hertel

Raymond and Inez SaundersMr. Timothy M. SawyierShirley and John SchlossmanDouglas M. SchmidtBarbara and Gene SchmittMr. & Mrs. Michael SchollThe Schreuder FamilyDonald L. and Susan J. SchwartzMr. & Mrs. Thomas ScorzaJoan and George SegalMr. & Mrs. George SelakRonald and Nancy SemerdjianMr. & Mrs. Richard J.L. SeniorDavid and Judith L. SensibarThe Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation

Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable TrustDr. & Mrs. James C. SheininRichard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts

Jessie Shih and Johnson HoElizabeth and John ShoemakerMr. Morrell Shoemaker, Jr.Stuart and Leslie Shulruff


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Ms. Ann SilbermanJulia M. SimpsonMr. Larry SimpsonSinclair S. SiragusaCraig SirlesMitchell and Valerie SlotnickMrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.Mrs. Nancy SmerzMrs. Diane W. SmithLouise K. SmithMary Ann SmithMary Beth and Stanton K. Smith Jr.Melissa and Charles F. SmithJames and Diane SnyderIn memory of Timothy SoleimanMr. & Mrs. O. J. SopranosMr.* & Mrs. James Cavanaugh SpainMr. & Mrs. Michael SpainRobert and Emily SpoerriHelena StancikasDr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean StarkMr. & Mrs. Leonidas StefanosDusan Stefoski and Craig SavageMs. Momoko SteinerFay S. Stern, in memory of John N. Stern

Hon.* & Mrs. John C. StetsonMr. Hal S.R. StewartVirginia Lee StiglerMary StowellLaurence and Caryn StrausLawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans

Mr. & Mrs. William H. StrongMr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.Cheryl SturmMs. Minsook SuhRuth Miner SwislowMr. & Mrs. Robert SzalayMr. Patrick Tagny DiesseMr. & Mrs. Gregory TaubeneckMrs. Vernon ThomasMr. James ThompsonJoan and Michael ThronRay and Mary Ann TittleBill and Anne TobeyJohn T. and Carrie M. TraversHoward and Paula* TrienensMr. & Mrs. William TrukenbrodMr. & Mrs. Robert W. TurnerKsenia A. and Peter TurulaMrs. Elizabeth TwedeHenry and Janet UnderwoodZalman and Karen UsiskinVirginia C. ValeMr. & Mrs. Peter E. Van NiceMr. John Van PeltMrs. Dorothy VanceMs. Julia Vander PloegDr. Douglas VaughanDr. Michael Viglione

Mr. Christian VinyardMr. William A. Von Hoene Jr.Theodore and Elisabeth WachsMr. & Mrs. Mark A. WagnerMr. Erich Walch, in memory of Diane Walch

Nicholas and Jessica WallaceMs. Carol WarshawskyDr. Catherine L. WebbMr. & Mrs. Jacob WeglarzMr. & Mrs. Joseph M. WeilDrs. Carolyn and Jamie WeinerHilary and Barry WeinsteinSamuel* and Chickie WeisbardMr. & Mrs. Robert G. WeissLinda and Marc WeissbluthBert and Barbara WellerMrs. Barbara H. WestMr. & Mrs. Peter WestMichael* and Laura WollDr. Hak WongCourtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr.

Michael H. and Mary K. WooleverMs. Debbie WrightOwen and Linda YoungmanMr. Laird Zacheis and Ms. Sunhee LeeAlexander F. Zajczenko and Julie Schwertfeger

Dr. & Mrs. John ZarembaRichard E. ZieglerMs. Karen Zupko

$1,000–$3,499Anonymous (36)Mr. & Mrs. Sherwin AbramsMichael and Mary AbroeNancy A. AbshireThe Acorn FoundationMs. Patti AcurioMr. & Mrs. Stanley AdelmanIn memory of Martha and Bernie Adelson

Ms. Susan AdlerFraida and Bob AlandDr. & Mrs. Carl H. AlbrightMs. Judy AllenMs. Rochelle AllenMs. Mary T. AlrothDr. Diane AltkornDr. Ronald and Barbara AltmanMs. Carol AndersonMs. Judith AndersonMr. Karl Anderson and Ms. Pamela Shu

Cushman L. and Pamela AndrewsJanet ArbesmanGregory Yuri AronoffDr. & Mrs. Andrew AronsonMrs. Jeanne B. AronsonMs. Marie Asbury

Mr. & Mrs. Peter AscoliMr. & Mrs. Robert H. AsherMr. & Mrs. Theodore M. AsnerJack S. AtenAthena FundMs. Frances AtkinsMr. Bhupat AtluriMs. Bernice AuslanderMrs. Dianne AvgerisMs. Marlene BachMr. Tom BachtellDr. Richard BaerCatherine Baker and Timothy KentJon Balke and G. BalkeEdith M. BallinMr. & Mrs. William BardeenMr. Robert BarkeiMr. & Mrs. John BarnesMs. Barbara BarzanskyMr. & Ms. John J. BasalayHoward and Donna BassMs. Sandra BassMrs. Janet R. BauerMr. Ronald BauerRobert and Linda BaumDr. Dharmesh BavdaMr. & Mrs. George BeamMs. Michele BeckerPaul Becker and Nancy BeckerDr. & Mrs. Enrique BeckmannKirsten Bedway and Simon PeeblerPrue and Frank BeidlerAugust Belauskas and Ray WebbMr. Ken BelcherMr. & Mrs. Richard BenckArlene and Marshall BennettMr. Peter and Dr. Judith BensingerWilliam and Ellen BentsenDr. Rachel BergMr. Thomas BergMr. & Mrs. Charles S. BergenMr. Paul BerghoffGene and Natalie BernardoniMr. & Mrs. Loren Berry IIIMr. Jerry BiedemanMr. & Mrs. Harrington BischofMr. & Mrs. Charles BlackMr. & Mrs. Edward BlairIn memory of John R. BlairMr. & Mrs. Andrew BlockMr. & Mrs. David BlumbergNancy BodeenMr. Edward Boehm IIIMs. Jane BolkemaDr. H. Constance BonbrestTimothy and Karen BondyMs. Alison C. BonneyCassandra L. BookAmy and Brian Boonstra, in memory of Jung R. Lee and Ida Bychkov

Mr. & Mrs. Peter BorichMr. James Borkman


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Mr. & Mrs. Fred P. BosselmanMr. & Mrs. David BoydBetty and Bill BoydMs. Danolda BrennanMr. Michael BrewerMr. & Mrs. Robert BrightfeltMr. & Mrs. Arnold BrookstoneMr. Wesley BroquardMr. & Ms. Joel BroskMr. Lee M. Brown, Mr. John B. Newman and Ms. Pixie Newman

Mrs. Dan BrusslanMs. Katherine BryanAnn M. BuckleyLinda S. BuckleyDr. Mary Louise BurgerMr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Burns, Jr.Mr. David BurrageMr. George BurrowsBob and Lynn BurtMs. Jeanne BuschMr. & Mrs. Mark BushmanMr. & Mrs. John ButlerGabriel and Jill BuzasMr. & Mrs. Wiley Caldwell, Jr.Mr. Robert CallahanMs. Vera CappDr. & Mrs. Michael CarbonRobert and Kay CarlsonMr. Fairbank CarpenterDrs. Virginia and Stephen CarrDr. R. Cavallino and Mrs. Patricia Cavalino

Mr. & Mrs. Candelario CelioBeverly and Lawrence CentellaMs. Margaret ChaplanMr. & Mrs. John ChapmanMr. Jayson CheeverHarriett and Myron CholdenMr. George ChristakesMr. & Mrs. Stanley ChristiansonThe Clark Family FoundationMr. & Ms. Keith ClaytonRobert Coen and Marjorie CoenMelanie R. CohenMr. & Mrs. Frank CohenMr. Harry N. CohenDr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel

Ms. Kathryn CollierJames D. ComptonPeter Conover and Kristi SlonigerPeter and Beverly Ann ConroyMs. Renee ContrerasMs. Sharon ConwayMr. & Mrs. Richard CorradoNancy Raymond CorralJoe and Judy CosenzaMr. & Mrs. Bill CottleGayla W. CoxMs. Jane Cox

Ms. Juli CrabtreeMs. Bette-Jane CriggerMr. Earle Cromer IIIMr. Bert CrosslandMr. & Mrs. Dan CroweConstance CwiokMrs. Marcia DamMr. & Mrs. C. DanielsMs. Eleanor DankMr. John D’ArcyMelissa and Gordon DavisNorma E. Davis WillisMr. & Mrs. Richard DavisonMr. Eric C. DeanMary Dedinsky and William Carlisle Herbert

Mrs. David DeMarMr. Adrian DemooyDr. & Mrs. Terrence DemosMs. Marcia DevlinMr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoungMr. & Mrs. Byram DickesMr. Peter DiDonatoMr. William Dietz, Jr.Ms. Crystal DippreMichael and Laurel DiPrimaZo K. DodgeMr. & Mrs. Otto Doering IIIShawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly

Mr. Fred DonnerMs. Joan D. DonovanDr. & Mrs. Heratch DoumanianNatalie and Joshua DranoffMs. Rosanne DruianIngrid and Richard DubberkeMr. & Mrs. Craig DuchossoisMr. & Mrs. Andrew DudaMs. Marilyn DugingerMr. Ronald DukeMr. & Mrs. Robert DulskiMrs. Mary S. M. DuneaDr. Thomas DuricaMr. & Mrs. Warren EagleMr. & Mrs. David P. Earle IIIJudge Frank EasterbrookGary and Deborah EdidinNancy EibeckEdward and Nancy EichelbergerMr. & Mrs. Estia EichtenRobert S. and Ardyth J. EisenbergSondra and Karl S. EisenbergMr. H.J. EisenmanMr. Ebrahim El KalzaMs. Paula ElliottMr. & Mrs. Victor Elting IIIMr. Vincent EmbserMs. Laura EmerickLa and Philip EngelMr. & Mrs. A. Gerald EricksonMs. Patricia EricksonDr. & Mrs. James Ertle

Keith and Diane ErtnerDr. Ron EshlemanDr. Robert A. Fajardo and Judith Marohn

Mr. Christopher FarisJudith Farquhar and James HeviaJudith E. FeldmanSteven and Carol FelsenthalDr. & Mrs. William FeltenMr. & Mrs. Joel FenchelJoy FettSandra E. FienbergMr. Henry FinesilverDr. & Mrs. Sanford FinkelMr. Conrad FischerStephen and Patricia FisherMr. Dale FitschenMs. Nora FitzgeraldMs. Lola FlammMrs. Roslyn FlegelMrs. Donna FlemingMr. Marvin FletcherMs. Anita D. FlournoyMrs. Susan FlynnMr. Paul FongMr. Mark FossMrs. Judith FoxArthur L. Frank, M.D.Dr. & Mrs. James FranklinAllen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson

Dr.* & Mrs. Uwe FreeseMr. George Frerichs and Ms. Cheryl D. McIntyre

Ms. Diane Tkach and Mr. James F. Freundt

Ms. Elizabeth FriedgutDr. & Mrs. Gary J. FriendMr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry IIIMr. & Mrs. James GaebeMs. Cecile GaganJan Gaines and Andrew S. KenoeDr. & Mrs. Ronald GanellenMr. John GardnerMr. & Mrs. Robert J. GareisDrs. Henry and Susan GaultNancy GavlinRobert Gecht and Rachel WinparLouis and Judith GenesenMr. & Mrs. John E. GepsonMs. Sharon GibsonMs. Gloria GierkeMr. Ben Gierl and Ms. Karla HayterMr. & Mrs. Alan GilbertMr. Lyle GillmanLawrence and Amy GillumSteven Ginsberg and Lizzie Kaplan-Ginsberg

Dr. & Mrs. Paul B. GlickmanWilliam and Ethel GofenNorman and Barbara Gold


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Mr. & Mrs. Perry GoldbergMr.* & Mrs. Samuel GoldenMr. Robert GoldmanAdele and Marvin GoldsmithMs. Sarah GoodMary and Michael GoodkindDr. Melvin and Edith T. GoodmanGordon and Nancy GoodmanIsabelle GoossenMrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon

Michelle and Gerald GordonMiss Merle GordonMr. & Mrs. James GorterMr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana FrenchIn memory of DeannaDavid and Elizabeth GrahamMr. Ellsworth GrantMr. & Mrs. Delmon GrapesMs. Freddi GreenbergThomas* and Delta GreeneRochelle and Michael GreenfieldMr. & Mrs. David GreensteinDr. Michael GreenwaldMr. David GriffinMs. Jacquelyne GrimshawCharles Grode and Heidi LukasMr. Robert GrundstadRichard Gunther and Kathleen McLaughlin

George F. and Catherine S. HaberMrs. Anne C. Haffner*Julie and Parker* HallMrs. Mary HallmanJohn and Patricia HamiltonHill and Cheryl HammockMs. Agnes HamosDr. & Mrs. Chester HandelmanMr. & Mrs. Stuart HandlerStuart and Shelly HanflingMr. Michael Hansen and Ms. Nancy Randa

Mr. Charles HanusinMary E. HarlandMrs. John M. HartiganMs. Kyle HarveyRobert and Margot HaselkornDr. & Mrs. Paul J. HauserMr. William P. Hauworth IIRoss and Andrea HeimMr. & Mrs. M. Theodore HeineckenDr. Joseph HeineyMr. Preston HelgrenMr. David HelversonMs. Dawn E. HelwigDr. Leo HenikoffMr. & Mrs. Thomas HentschelMr. David HerbertMs. Leigh Ann HermanMr.* & Mrs. Peter HerrMr. & Mrs. David Kistenbroker

Harriet E. HeydaMr. & Mrs. David HilliardWilliam B. HinchliffThe Rev. Melinda Hinners-Waldie and Mr. Benjamin Waldie

Ms. Judith HirschDr. Richard HirschmannMrs. Mary HoeyMr. Christian HoffmanDavid Glenn HoffmanMs. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph Doherty

Eugene HollandMr. Jim HollandMs. Sharon Flynn HollanderMrs. J. HolmbeckDr. George Honig and Ms. Olga WeissVicki and Thomas Horwich FoundationMs. Roberta M. HorwitzMr. Scott HostetterDavid R. Houck, Ph.D.Roger and Nadeane HrubyMr. & Mrs. Samuel HuberBruce and Carol HuckMichael and Beverly HuckmanDavid and Marcia HulanDr. Ronald L. HullingerMark and Peg HumphreyMr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton

Ms. Patricia HurleyMichael and Leigh HustonMr. Laurence HymanDr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin

Mr. & Mrs. Jorge IorgulescuCheryl IstvanMiss Merle JacobMr. & Mrs. Loren JahnMr. Matt JamesMr. & Mrs.* Edgar D. Jannotta, Sr.Mr. Edward T. Jeske and Mr. John F. Hern

Mr.* & Ms. Robert JillsonMr. Matthew JohnsonMr. Michael JohnsonMr. & Mrs. Bruce JohnstonMrs. Mary Johnston, Ph.D.Jean and Cynthia JohoMr. Charles JonesMs. Robin JonesMr. Thomas JonesMs. Kathleen JordanMs. Leah KaddenRuth and David V. KahnMs. Hyla KallenThomas and Reseda KalowskiRoula and George KarcazesDr. Laleh KarimiMrs. Marion KarrasMrs. Louise Kasch

Douglas and Dana KaslFaye Katt and Ganesh NatarajanMs. Ethelle KatzMr. Neil KatzMr. Tyrus KaufmanMs. Carole KellerJohn and Judy KellerNancy and Donald KempfMs. Linda KenneyMr. & Mrs. Algimantas KezelisMr. & Mrs. Thomas KichlerMr. Howard KiddAnne G. Kimball and Peter SternMr. & Mrs. John E. KirkpatrickKathy Kirn and David LevinsonDarlene Kittredge and Lloyd KittredgeMr. & Mrs. LeRoy KlemtJanice KlichMs. Mary KlyasheffMr. & Mrs. Thomas KnauffRobert and Andrea KnightMr. & Mrs. Thomas KoelblMr. & Mrs. Norman KoglinKoldyke Family FundDr. Jason KopinskiMr. Edward KossMr. Fred KotoskeMr. & Mrs. Jack KozikMr. Mark KraemerMr. & Mrs. Barry KreiterMrs. Leona KrompartRabbi and Mrs. Harold L. KudanMr. Steven KukalisMs. Michele KurlanderBob and Marian KurzMr. Matthew KusekMr. & Mrs. Mark LabkonMr. Thomas LadCarol and Marvin LaderElisabeth and William LandesMr. & Mrs. Gerald R. LanzMiss Ellyn LanzMs. Pamela LarsenSharon and Bill LearMr. & Mrs. Bruce LeepLefkovitz FoundationMolly Lemeris and Carl FoltaJohn and Jill LeviMrs. Richard LeviDr. & Mrs. Stuart LevinAbby and Jonathan LevineDr. & Mrs. Robert LevyBrian LiCara LichtensteinMr. & Mrs. Myron LiebermanMrs. Peggy LimDr. & Mrs. Herbert LippitzRobert* and Joan LipsigMs. Anne LittleDr. Peter LittlewoodMr. Robert Locke


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Mr. Melvin LoebMr. & Ms. Gerald F. LoftusMrs. Gabrielle LongMrs. Harriett LongMs. Jean LorenzenDonna and Richard LoundyMaggie and Tom LovaasJennifer and Dan LubyRonald and Carlotta LucchesiMr. Aaron MaciasMr. Daniel Macken and Mr. Merlyn Harbold

Chuck and Jan MackieBetty Mackune-CarrerMr. Todd MacMillanMr. Glen J. Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

Daniel and Karen MakiMs. Jeanne MalkinMr. & Mrs. Jeffry MallowMiles ManerIn honor of Miles ManerMs. Amy B. Manning and Mr. Paul C. Ziebert

Mr. George MannosMr. & Mrs. Mark MantoMs. Sharon ManuelDan and Lynne Mapes-RiordanBarbara and Larry MargolisMr. Robert MarksMs. Mirjana MartichMs. Marjorie MartinSharon and Eden MartinDrs. Annette and John MartiniDr. & Mrs. Walter MasseyMs. Catherine MastersMarilyn and Myron MaurerMs. Adele MayerLarry and Donna MayerMrs. Robert MayerMs. Marilyn MccoyDr. & Mrs. James McCrearyRosa and Peter McCullaghJohn and Ann McDermottMr. & Mrs. William McDowell, Jr.Bonnie McGrathMs. Patricia McGuireBill McIntoshMr. & Mrs. George C. McKannMr. Charles McKeeMrs. Jill McLaughlinMs. Florence McMillanDr. William McMillerHeather McWilliamsThe Medici GuildSheila and Harvey MedvinMrs. Helen MehlerMs. Claretta MeierMr. Ernst MelchiorDr. Hebert and Sharon Meltzer

Members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus

Dr. Janis MendelsohnMrs. Robert MendelsonJim and Ginger MeyerMr. & Mrs. Thomas Meyers, Jr.Michuda Construction Inc.Ms. Melinda MilenkovichFloyd and Elizabeth MillerMrs. Mary MillerMs. Vlasta MinarichDr. & Mrs. Robert MinkusMr. & Mrs. Newton MinowMs. Helen MinskerDr. Leo and Catherine MiserendinoKathleen MitchellMr. Fred MittelstaedtMr. Hiroshi and Mrs. Chika MiyamoriMr. Roger ModderMr. & Mrs. Robert MoellerDr. Anthony Montag and Dr. Katherine Griem

Maria and Carl E. MooreHugh and Della Rae MooreLloyd and Donna MorganSanford and Monica MorgansteinDavid MoscowMr. Vijai MosesMs. Vanessa MossAllison MoultonZane and Phyllis MuhlMrs. Sue MullinsLuigi H. MumfordMr. & Mrs. Robert S. MurleyMr. George MurphyJim and Marion MyersMr. Mark NaborMiyoko NagaeMs. Kay C. NalbachMs. Chitra NandwaniMr. Robert NapierMr. & Mrs. Kenneth NebenzahlMs. Victoria NeeMr. & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.Dr. Ben NelsonKay A. NelsonPaul Nelson and Shobha SinhaMr. Wayne NelsonMr. Albert A. Nemcek, Jr.Thomas NeujahrDr. & Ms. Richard NewcombJeff NicholsWilliam H. NicholsMs. Sylvette NicoliniMr. John NighMr. & Ms. Hiroyoshi NotoMrs. Janis NotzMr. William NovshekMr. Douglas NygaardSharon and Lee OberlanderMargo and Michael Oberman

Mr. Álvaro R. ObregónMarjory OlikerBarbara and Larry OlinSarah and Wallace OliverMr. Arne OlsonLarry and Karen OlsonMr. Thomas O’Neill IIIMr. & Mrs. William J. O’NeillMr. & Mrs. Paul OppenheimMr. Michael OrenDr. Edward S. Ogata and Ms. Kathleen F. Orr

Mr. Garry OwensMr. Gerald PadburyRichard and Carolyn PalasMs. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow

Mr. & Mrs. Todd ParkhurstMs. Susan PayneMs. Marilyn PearsonKarl and Sandra PedersenHarold E.* and Marcia A. Pendexter, Jr.

Ms. Bertha PerlowElizabeth Anne PetersMr. & Mrs.* James PetersMr. Charles PetersonMrs. Victorina PetersonMs. Lynn PetrelliMs. Sara PfaffMrs. Jana PharissGenevieve PhelpsStephen Philibosian FoundationMr. & Mrs. Thomas D. PhilipsbornMs. Kimberly PickenpaughMr. & Mrs. Robert G. PierceMr. & Mrs. Robert L. PierceDr. & Mrs. V.K.G. PillayMary and Joseph PlauchéMr. & Mrs. Joel PokornyTerrence PolichDon and Martha PollakMr. Charles PolskyDr. William PorterCharlene H. PosnerSusan and Joseph A. Power, Jr.Allan and Carla PriceMr. & Mrs. Brad PriceJean M. and R. Preston PriceChris and Elizabeth QuiggLee and Al RabinMr. Robert RadaMs. Bobbie RaffertyMary RaffertyKaren and Thomas RafterJohn and Mary* RaittAnna Rappaport and Peter W. PlumleyMr. Jeffrey RappinMs. Susan RashidMr. Mark RatnerDr. & Mrs. Pradeep Rattan


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Ms. Kathleen RattereeMs. Polly RattnerMs. Carol RechMs. Muriel Reder*Harper ReedMs. Helen ReedMr. & Mrs. Jeffrey ReedMrs. Thomas K. Rees, Sr.Jack W. ReevesMari Yomamoto RegnierMr. James RhoadsBenjamin and Florence M. RhodesMae Svoboda RhodesMr. & Mrs. Evan RichardsDr. Hilda RichardsRobert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards

Ms. Evelyn R. RicherPriscilla and John* RichmanLyn RidgewayDrs. Rodney and Patricia RiegerMr. & Mrs. Richard Rieser, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Shelby RifkinMs. Karen RigottiRing Family FoundationMary K. RingJerry and Carole RingerDr. Anita RobbinsRoberts Family FoundationThomas Roberts and Teresa GroschWilliam and Cheryl RobertsDavid and Kathy RobinMs. Cristina RoccaMr. Steven RoessMr. & Mrs. Kenneth RooneyAl and Mimi RoseMr. Edgar RoseMs. Roberta RosellDr. & Mrs. Melvin RosemanMs. Elaine RosenMr. & Mrs. Saul RosenMr.* & Mrs. Sherman RosenLeona Z. RosenbergMr. & Mrs. Richard RosenbergMr. & Mrs. John RosenheimMrs. Babette RosenthalDr. & Mrs. Robert RosnerJoan and Ashley RossMr. & Mrs. Jeffrey RossMs. Eugenie Ross-Leming and Mr. Robert Singer

Ms. Sharon RothsteinSusan Rowley and Alexander WeissPeter and Monique RubHelen and Marc RubensteinMs. Judy RungeMr. & Ms. Kevin A. RussellPriscilla E. Ryan and Frank BattleMr. & Mrs. Rich RyanMrs. Martha SabranskyDr. Virginia C. Saft, M.D.

Anna Salman and Brian DeRosaJane SalonenDr.* & Mrs. Edwin SalterBettylu and Paul SaltzmanMr. Alfred SalvinoMr. & Mrs. Richard SamuelsMr. & Mrs. Lawrence SauterMr. Laurence SaviersSusan Schallman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin

Anthony and Kathleen SchaefferRobert P. SchaibleMr. & Mrs. John SchladweilerMr. & Mrs. Michael SchlesingerDr. Nathan SchlessingerMr. & Mrs. Richard H. SchnadigMrs. Gary SchneiderMr. & Mrs. Lewis M. SchneiderMs. Marcia SchneiderMr. & Mrs. Steve SchuetteGerald and Barbara SchultzDr. Howard Schwartz and Dr. Ruth Grant

John SchwartzStephen A. and Marilyn ScottThomas and Maryellen ScottMs. Marilyn SebastianDrs. Deborah and Lawrence SegilMr. & Mrs. Richard SeidMs. Gail SeidelMr. & Mrs. Chandra SekharMr. Joseph SeminettaMs. Marsha SerlinDr. Jerry and Eunice ShapiroMs. Courtney SheaMary and Charles M. SheaMs. Mary Beth SheaMr. Christopher SheahenMr. & Mrs. Mitsuzo ShidaDr. & Mrs. Mark C. ShieldsSusan Shimmin and David TeklerEllen and Richard ShubartMs. Nailah SiddiqueMargaret and Alan SilbermanMr. & Mrs. Thomas SilbermanDr. Laurel O. SillerudDr. Rita Simó and Mr. Tomás BissonnetteThe Honorable John B. Simon and Mrs. Millie Rosenbloom Simon

In memory of Carolyn A. SimonsMr. Alvin SingerThomas G. SinkovicChristine A. SlivonMr. & Mrs. Frederic SmiesMs. Caroline SmithDavid Y. and Barbara J. SmithPat and J. Clarke SmithMs. Melanie SniderMr. & Mrs. Paul SnopkoFrank So and Deborah HuggettDr. & Mrs. R. SolaroJudith Sommers

Dr. Stuart SondheimerMrs. Hugo SonnenscheinMr. Alexander SozdatelevMr. George SpeckMr. Daniel SpeesJoel and Beth SpenadelMr. Michael SprinkerAnne-Marie St. GermaineMs. Adena StabenMrs. Julie StaglianoCharles and Joan StaplesMs. Denise StauderMs. Corinne SteedeMr. & Mrs. Eric SteeleSylvia SteenGeorge and Julie SteffenMr. Michael Stein and Ms. Laurie Butler

Mr. George StenitzerMr. & Mrs. Ronald StepanskyMr. & Mrs. Mark SternCharles and Catherine StichDr. & Mrs. Ralph StollMs. Carole StoneIn memory of Marjorie StoneEllen Stone-BelicMr. & Mrs. John StreitMr. & Mrs. Alfred Stresen-Reuter, Jr.Mrs. Jane Stroud WrightDr. & Mrs. Frank StuartMr. Frederick Sturm and Ms. Deborah Gillaspie

Barry and Winnifred SullivanMrs. Jeanne SullivanMr.* & Mrs. Michael Supera, In Honor of Helen Zell

Mr. Gregory SurufkaMr. & Mrs. Mark SutherlandSharon SwansonDr. John SwansonMs. Jeannette SwitzerLaurel and Dan TancrediMr. Frank TenBrinkEleanor Hurtak TengZelda* and Marvin TetenbaumMr. & Mrs. Theodore TheophilosDrs. Karl and Sarah TichoMr. & Mrs. Myron TierskyMr. & Mrs. Edward TichenerMs. Michelle A. TolliverMr. Steve TomashefskyMs. Mary TorresBruce and Jan TranenMrs. Sally TreKellMs. Joanne TremulisMrs. Robert TrotterDr. Sabrina S. TsaoMr. Jay TunneyLori L. and John R. TwomblyMr. & Mrs. Sye UnellEllen and Jerry Upton


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Mr. Theodore UtchenMr. Peter ValentinoJim and Cindy ValtmanFrances and Peter VandervoortMr. David J. VarnerinMr. & Mrs. Todd ViereggFrank VillellaMs. Linda VincentMs. Carol VixMr. & Mrs. Richard VoitMs. Darla VollrathLuluRobert J. WalkerMr. Frank WalschlagerMr. & Mrs. William A. WardMrs. Sally WarnerMorrison C. WarrenDr. David Wasserman, in memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-Wasserman

Ms. Vanessa J. WeathersbyMs. Elissa WeaverMr.* & Mrs. William Weaver, Jr.Diane WebbMr. & Mrs. David WeberSusan A. WeberMr. Tom WedellJudge Eugene WedoffAbby and Glen WeisbergMr. Michael Welsh and Ms. Linda Brummer-Welsh

Drs. Anne and Dennis WentzMs. Patricia WerhaneMr. John WheelerDr. Wesley WhiteMr. & Mrs.* William WhiteMrs. William WhiteMs. Susan WhitingMr. & Mrs. William WhitneyDr. & Mrs. Lawrence WickMrs. Abra WilkinMr. David WilliamsScott R. Williamson and Susanna E. Krentz

Peter and Michele WillmottMs. Christine WilsonMr. Robert WilsonMartha WiltsieTed Windsor & Associates Consulting Actuaries

Dr. Doris Wineman, Ph.D.Herbert and Ruth Winter FoundationMs. Florence WintersDan and Paula WiseBarbara and Steven WolfDuain WolfePeggy and Ted WolffDr. Christopher and Julie WoodMrs. Randi WoodworthCheryl B. and James T. WormleyMr. & Mrs. Donald WoulfeMs. Jodi WuChris W. Wurth

In memory of Anthony C. YuDr. Robert G. ZadylakMrs. IdaLynn ZahourDavid and Eileen ZampaMs. Mary ZeltmannMrs. Barbara ZennerDavid and Suzanne ZesmerIrene Ziaya and Paul ChaitkinMs. Susan ZickMs. Camille ZientekThe Charles A. Zika FamilyDrs. Donald Zimmerman and Susan Pearlson

Gifford ZimmermanDr. & Mrs. Larry ZollingerMs. Barbara Zutovsky

Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

$100,000 AND ABOVEAnonymous (1)Allstate Insurance CompanyElizabeth F. Cheney FoundationJudson and Joyce GreenITWThe Julian Family FoundationThe James and Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation

The Negaunee FoundationShure Charitable Trust

$50,000–$99,999Anonymous (1)Alphawood FoundationAnn and Richard CarrRobert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund

Lloyd A. Fry FoundationJohn Hart and Carol PrinsRichard P. and Susan Kiphart FamilyJudy and Scott McCueNational Endowment for the ArtsPolk Bros. FoundationBarbara and Barre Seid Foundation

$25,000–$49,999Anonymous (2)Abbott FundCrain-Maling FoundationJohn and Fran EdwardsonEllen and Paul GignilliatPeter G. Horton Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust

Robert Kohl and Clark PellettLeslie Fund, Inc.Bowman C. Lingle TrustMazza Foundation

Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred* L. McDougal

The Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation

Michael and Linda SimonMegan and Steve ShebikUnited AirlinesMichael G. Woll Fund at the Pauls Foundation

$10,000–$24,999Anonymous (1)Mr.* & Mrs. Robert H. Bacon, Jr.Barker Welfare FoundationRobert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.

Baxter International Inc.The Buchanan Family FoundationSue and Jim CollettiMr.* & Mrs. David A. DonovanDuchossois Family FoundationAnn and Gordon Getty FoundationMary Winton GreenIllinois Arts Council AgencyLing Z. and Michael C. MarkovitzMrs. Erma MedgyesyPrince Charitable TrustsSandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.Charles and M. R. Shapiro FoundationThe George L. Shields FoundationMr. & Mrs. William SteinmetzMr. Irving Stenn, Jr.Dr. Marylou Witz

$5,000–$9,999Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth KretzMr. Lawrence BellesMs. Marion A. CameronHarry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation

Ms. Patricia ClickenerMr. Lawrence CorryMari Hatzenbuehler CravenAnne H. EvansMr. & Mrs. Joseph B. GlossbergRichard and Alice GodfreyChet Gougis and Shelley OchabThe League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

Lyon Family FoundationMilne Family FoundationDavid and Dolores NelsonMs. Susan NorvichGerald* and Mona PennerMrs. John Shedd ReedAl and Lynn ReichleSherry and Bob* ReumThe Rhoades FoundationMs. Cecelia SamansSegal ConsultingSiragusa Family FoundationPenny and John Van Horn


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$2,500–$4,999Anonymous (1)The Arts FederationArts Midwest Touring FundProfessor M. Cherif Bassiouni and Elaine Klemen

Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation

Mr. & Mrs.* William BrauneisAnita J. Court, Ph.D.Mr. & Mrs. Bernard DunkelCarl Forstmann Memorial FoundationJames B. Heaton IIIMr. Paul E. HicksItalian Village RestaurantsMr. & Mrs. Loren JahnJean KlingensteinMs. June KoizumiMr. John LaBarberaMr. Gregory and Dr. Alice MelchorEdward & Lucy R. Minor Family Foundation

Michael and Kay O’HalleranMr. & Mrs. William J. O’NeillMs. D. PriceBenjamin J. Rosenthal FoundationDr. Joy Segal and Mr. Michael SegalDavid and Judith L. SensibarJessie Shih and Johnson HoMr. Larry SimpsonMs. Adena StabenWalter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust

Ruth Miner SwislowLulu

$1,000–$2,499Anonymous (8)Ms. Patti AcurioDr. Diane AltkornMr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein

Geoffrey A. AndersonDr. & Mrs. Kent ArmbrusterGregory Yuri AronoffMr. & Mrs. Robert H. AsherJon Balke and G. BalkeMr. Carroll BarnesMr. & Mrs. John BarnesHoward and Donna BassDr. Dharmesh BavdaDaniel and Michele BeckerMr. Peter and Dr. Judith BensingerMr. & Mrs. William E. BibleAnn BlickensderferMs. Jane BolkemaCassandra L. BookAdam BossovMr. Donald BousemanMr. & Mrs. Samuel BuchsbaumMr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Burns, Jr.

Mr. David BurrageMr. & Mrs. Candelario CelioThe Clark Family FoundationMr. & Ms. Keith ClaytonDr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel

Garth J. and Martha H.* ConleyMr. & Mrs. Bill CottleMelissa and Gordon DavisMr. Frank DileonardoMs. Crystal DippreMr. & Mrs. Timothy EarleMr. Carl EkbergElk Grove GraphicsCharles and Carol EmmonsMs. Patricia EricksonDr. Ron EshlemanMrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans

Mrs. Walter D. FacklerJoy FettDr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Katinka Kleijn

Evelyn T. FitzpatrickMs. Lola FlammMrs. Susan FlynnGerald FreedmanCamillo and Arlene GhironMrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon

Mr. & Mrs. John HalesJohn and Patricia HamiltonMr. & Mrs. Mark C. HibbardWilliam B. HinchliffThe Rev. Melinda Hinners-Waldie and Mr. Benjamin Waldie

Ms. Sharon Flynn HollanderRoger and Nadeane HrubyDavid and Marcia HulanMr. Matthew JohnsonMs. Robin JonesMr. Howard KiddKinder MorganBen and Laura KingEsther G. KlatzJanice KlichMr. & Mrs. Thomas KnauffMolly Lemeris and Carl FoltaMr. & Mrs. Stewart LiechtiDr. & Mrs. Herbert LippitzMs. Anne LittleMr. & Ms. Gerald F. LoftusMr. Russ LymanMr. Glen J. Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl

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

Mr. & Mrs. Robert MarwinMs. Catherine MastersMs. Adele MayerJim and Ginger Meyer

Dr. Leo and Catherine MiserendinoMr. Roger ModderMs. Judith MoniakMaria and Carl E. MooreMrs. Frank MorrisseyCatherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.

The Navarre Law FirmMr. Albert A. Nemcek, Jr.Thomas NeujahrMr. Álvaro R. ObregónThe Osprey FoundationDianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.Eugene and Lois PavalonMs. Susan PayneKirsten Bedway and Simon PeeblerStephen Philibosian FoundationMs. Kimberly PickenpaughMr. & Mrs. Robert G. PierceSusan and Joseph A. Power, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Pradeep RattanHarper ReedMrs. Thomas K. Rees, Sr.Jack W. ReevesMs. Evelyn R. RicherMiles and Peggy RidgwayMs. Karen RigottiMs. Sharon RothsteinSusan Rowley and Alexander WeissMs. Judy RungeMrs. Martha SabranskyMr. David SandfortRobert E.* and Cynthia M. SargentMr. Laurence SaviersGerald and Barbara SchultzMr. & Mrs. Thomas ScorzaStephen A. and Marilyn ScottMs. Marilyn SebastianThe Honorable John B. Simon and Mrs. Millie Rosenbloom Simon

Pat and J. Clarke SmithCharles and Joan StaplesMr. Hal StewartDr. & Mrs. Ralph StollMary StowellLaurence and Caryn StrausMr. Frederick Sturm and Ms. Deborah Gillaspie

Sharon SwansonMr. & Mrs. William TrukenbrodMs. Carol WarshawskyMs. Vanessa J. WeathersbyAbby and Glen WeisbergMs. Christine WilsonM.L. WinburnDan and Paula WiseMs. Jodi WuAlexander F. Zajczenko and Julie Schwertfeger

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ENDOWED FUNDSAnonymous (3)Cyrus H. Adams Memorial Youth Concert Fund

Dr.* & Mrs.* Bernard H. AdelsonMarjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund

CNAKelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund

Mary Winton GreenWilliam 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 Fund

The 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

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 musician(s) for the 2017–18 season.

Fourteen 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 with additional funding from Prince Charitable Trusts.

The 2017–18 Civic season is sponsored by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.

Dora J. and R. John AalbregtseSiyoon Park†, oboeDr.* & Mrs.* Bernard H. AdelsonRebecca Boelzner, violaMr.* & Mrs. Robert Bacon Jr.Yoojin Baek, violinAnnija Kerno, viola

Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth KretzPei-yeh Tsai†, keyboardMr. Lawrence Belles and Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationAriel Patkin, violaSue and Jim CollettiLaura Pitkin†, hornLawrence CorryKevin Lin, violaMr. Jerry J. CritserNicky Swett†, celloRobert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable FundMiguel Aguirre, violinKayla Burggraf, fluteQuinn Delaney, bassoonRachel Peters, violinVincent Trautwein, bassTong Yu, violinMr.* & Mrs. David A. Donovan and Lloyd A. Fry FoundationAllison Chambers, celloAleksa Kuzma, violaMr. & Mrs. Allan Drebin and Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationGreg Heintz, bassMr. and Mrs. Robert Geraghty and Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationGeirþrúður Anna Guðmundsdóttir, cello

Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. GignilliatAdam Ayers, celloMathew Burri, bassArthur Masyuk, violinLiaht Slobodkin, violinSeung-mi Sun, violinMr. & Mrs. Joseph B. GlossbergEnrique Olvera, violaRichard and Alice GodfreyDiane Chou, celloChet Gougis and Shelley OchabChristy Kim†, fluteMary Winton GreenDaniel Meyers, bassThe Julian Family FoundationRoslyn Green†, violaJoseph LeFevre, tubaLester B. Knight Charitable TrustChris DeMarco, bassStephanie Diebel, hornJames Perez, tromboneRobert Kohl and Clark PellettGordon Daole-Wellman†, clarinetLeague of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra AssociationJordan W. Thomas, harp

Leslie Fund Inc.Midori Samson†, bassoonDenielle Wilson†, celloJudy and Scott McCue and Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationAnna Piotrowski, violinNancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L.* McDougalNicholas Adams, bassGabriel Fridkis, fluteMrs. Mona Penner, in memory of Gerald PennerSarah Bowen, violinPrince Charitable TrustsMaria Arrua†, violinMrs. John Shedd ReedAlex Norris, violinAl and Lynn ReichleNicholas Brown, clarinetSandra and Earl J. Rusnak JrSusan Bengtson, violaBarbara and Barre Seid FoundationMatthew Kibort, timpaniKelly Quesada, celloThe George L. Shields Foundation Inc.Eva María Barbado Gutiérrez, celloSeth Pae, violaBen Roidl-Ward, bassoonRuth Miner SwislowAlexander Giger, violinCally Laughlin, clarinetLois and James Vrhel Endowment FundVincent Gawan, bassDr. Marylou WitzCarmen Abelson†, violinMichael G.* and Laura WollKelsey Williams, hornMichael G. Woll Fund at the Pauls FoundationDevin Gossett, hornBryant Millet, trumpetPatrick Speranza, percussionLucas Steidinger, tromboneRenée Vogen, hornAnonymousAlexander Schwarz†, trumpetAnonymousNatalie Lee, violinRobinson Schulze†, bass tromboneAnonymousNomin Zolzaya, cello

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FRIENDS OF THE CIVIC ORCHESTRAThe following donors have aligned themselves as Friends of the Civic Orchestra by directing a gift of $1,500 or more toward the stipend Civic musicians receive each season.

Ms. Patti AcurioMr. & Mrs. Bernard DunkelCharles and Carol EmmonsAnne H. EvansJames B. Heaton IIIEsther G. KlatzMs. June KoizumiMr. Russ LymanJim and Ginger MeyerDr. Leo and Catherine MiserendinoMs. Susan NorvichMr. & Mrs. William J. O’NeillMr. & Mrs. Robert G. PierceThe Rhoades FoundationMs. Cecelia SamansMr. Larry SimpsonMs. Belle Waldfogel

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 CSO. To learn more, please call Al Andreychuk, director of planned giving, at 312-294-3150.

STRADIVARIAN ASSOCIATESThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individuals for generously creating a revocable bequest of $100,000 or more, or an irrevocable life-income trust or annuity of $50,000 or more, to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, as of August 2017.

Anonymous (8)Dora J. and R. John AalbregtseEvy Johansen AlsakerRobert A. AlsakerGeoffrey A. AndersonRuth T. AndersonMychal P. Angelos, in memory of Dorothy A. Angelos

Dr. Jeff Bale

Leland and Mary BartholomewMarlys A. BeiderMike and Donna BellCeline BendyJulie Ann BensonK. Richard and Patricia M. BerletMerrill and Judy BlauAnn BlickensderferDanolda BrennanMr. Leon Brenner, Jr.Dr. Mary Louise Hirsh BurgerMr. Frank and Dr. Vera ClarkPatricia A. ClickenerJudith and Stephen F. CondrenRobert L. Drinan, Jr. and Mitchell J. Brown

Dr. Marilyn EzriMrs. William M. FloryMr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.Rhoda Lea and Henry S. FrankMrs. Zollie S. FrankMary J. and Ronald P. FrelkPenny and John FreundMr. & Mrs. Paul C. GignilliatLyle GillmanMary Louise GornoDr. & Mrs. David GranatoRichard and Mary L. GrayMary Winton GreenDr. Jon Brian GreisJulie HallJohn 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. JudyJared Kaplan and Maridee QuanbeckWayne S. and Lenore M. KaplanHoward KaspinJames KemmererEsther G. KlatzRobert Kohl and Clark PellettMr. & Mrs. Alan KubickaRobert B. Kyts Memorial FundCharles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring

Robert Alan LewisSheldon H. MarcusMr. Robert C. MarksMarilyn G. MarrJames Edward McPhersonMarcia and Jack L. Melamed, M.D.

Janet L. MelkDrs. Bill and Elaine MoorCharles MooreMr. & Mrs. Mario A. MunozJohn H. NelsonMuriel NeradEdward A. and Gayla S. NieminenDr. Joan E. PattersonDonald PeckMrs. Thomas D. PhilipsbornJudy PomeranzMr. & Mrs. Neil K. QuinnRandall and Cara RademakerAl and Lynn ReichleAnn and Bob ReilandWendy ReynesDr. Edward O. RileyCharles and Marilynn RivkinDolores M. RixJerry RoseJohn and Nancy RutledgeRichard O. RyanCecelia SamansFranklin SchmidtJoanne SilverMr. Craig SirlesBetty W. SmykalAnnette and Richard SteinkeMrs. Deborah SterlingMr. & Mrs. William H. StrongMr. & Mrs. John C. TelanderKarin and Alfred TennyMs. Carla M. ThorpeMr. & Mrs. Richard P. ToftDr. Richard TresleyPaula TurnerRobert W. Turner and Gloria B. TurnerMr. & Mrs. John E. Van HornMr. Christian VinyardMr. Robert VolzJoan and Marco WeissDr. 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 and Marshall BennettSally J. BensonWilliam and Ellen BentsenJoan I. BergerHarriet H. Bernbaum


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Candace BroeckerMrs. Lucille BrouseCatherine 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. CritserAnita CrocusRon and Dolores DalyMr. & Mrs. John DanielsMr. & Mrs. Clyde H. DawsonSylvia Samuels DelmanMrs. David A. DeMarMs. Phyllis DiamondMr. Francis T. DombrowskiMr. Richard L. EastlineNancy Schroeder EbertMs. Estelle EdlisRobert J. ElisbergRichard ElledgeCharles and Carol EmmonsJoseph R. EnderJames B. FadimLeslie FarrellDonna FeldmanFrances and Henry FogelAllen J. FrantzenGustave D. FriesemNancy and Larry FullerDileep GangolliMr. & Mrs. William E. GardnerMiss Elizabeth GatzMrs. 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 HallMr. & Mrs. Tom HallettMrs. David J. HarrisDr. & Mrs. Donald HeinrichJohn and Linda HillmanMrs. Morris H. HirshMr. Thomas Hochman

Mrs. Walter HorbanMrs. 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. KostThomas 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 MallowMrs. John J. MarkhamKathleen W. MarkiewiczJudith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue III

Mr. William McIntoshMrs. Leoni McVeyMrs. Harmon MeigsDale and Susan MillerKathryn MillerThomas 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 Gomez

Helen and Joseph PageGeorge R. PatersonDianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Jerry PerlmutterElizabeth Anne PetersMrs. Lewis D. PetryJudy C. PettyKaren and Dick PigottLois PolakoffJeanne ReedDr. Merrell ReissMs. Oksana Revenko-JonesDon and Sally RobertsMs. Rosemary RobertsMs. Elaine RosenMrs. Ben J. RosenthalCraig SamuelsSue and William Samuels

Mr. 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 SwansonRuth Miner SwislowJeffrey and Linda SwogerMr. & Mrs. Jerald ThorsonKaren Hletko TierskyMyron TierskyMr. James M. TrappMr. Donn N. TrautmanMs. Rose Gray TynanVirginia C. ValeFrank VillellaMr. Milan VydarenyDr. Malcolm VyeAdam R. Walker and BettyAnn MocekMr. Frank WalschlagerLouella Krueger WardDr. Catherine L. WebbKarl WechterClaude M. WeilMr. Thomas WeylandLinda and Payson S. WildMrs. Albert D. Williams, Jr.Kayla 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 AldermanRoger A. AndersonFaye AngellIrwin Askow


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James E.S. BakerJacqueline and Frank BallWayne BalmerPaul BarkerPatricia Anne BartonBarbara Burt BaumannHortense K. BeckerNorma Zuzanek BennettHarry H. BernbaumLenore M. BernerNaomi T. BorwellHarriet B. BradyMarjorie L. BredehornPatricia W. and Kenneth A. BroHoward BroeckerMarie 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. DonaldsonWilliam B. DrewryWilliam A. DumbletonEvelyn DybaDr. Edward ElisbergKelli Gardner EmeryShirley L. and Robert EttelsonShirley Mae EvansMildred F. FanslauDr. James D. FentersNatalie N. FerryRobert B. FordhamEtha Beatrice FoxHerbert B. FriedDr. Muriel S. FriedmanHynda and Maurice GamzeFlorence GanjaAlan J. GarberMartin and Francey GechtBetsy N. and James R. GetzJeanne Brown GordonBarbara L. GouldElizabeth S. GraettingerWilliam B. GrahamDavid GreenAllen J. GreenbergerDr. Robert A. GreendaleErnest A. Grunsfeld IIIElizabeth and Paul GuenzelCecile GuthmanBetty and Lester GuttmanA. William Haarlow IIIGrace and Vernon HajeckClarine and James Hall

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 HersteinHelen HoaglandRichard J. HofemannBlanche HoheiselAllen H. HowardHugh Johnston HubbardJoseph H. HuebnerMrs. Henry IshamPhyllis A. JonesJoseph M. KacenaMorris A. KaplanRussell V. KohrJeffrey W. KormanSarah H. and Bertram D. KribbenWilliam KruppenbacherEvelyn and Arnold KupecLouise 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. LloydMary LongbrakeArthur G. MalingJune Betty and Herbert S. ManningMrs. Robert C. MarksIrl and Barbara MarshallVirginia Harvey McAnultyHelen C. McDougal, Jr.Eunice H. McGuireCarolyn D. and William W. McKittrick

Hugo 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’Donovan

Mary 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 QuerfeldMuriel F. RederWalter ReedDavid M. RobertsRosemary RobertsVirginia H. RogersIrmgard Hess RosenbergerBen J. RosenthalHarriet Cary RossEdith S. RuettingerAnthony RyersonMargaret R. SagersBeverly and Grover SchiltzErhardt SchmidtMuriel SchnierowDonald R. SchreiberMargaret and Edwin SeeboeckDenise 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 StaglianoDavid W. StotterDr. Gerald SunkoAndrew and Peggy ThomsonJ. Ross ThomsonBeatrice B. TinsleyC. Phillip TurnerPaul D. UrnesLois and James VrhelCecilia Sue and Burton J. WadeLouise Benton WagnerMichael Jay WalankaNancy L. Wald


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Esther H. WaldmanJeanne WalkerLaurie WallachJean Angus and Ferre C. WatkinsVirginia O. WeaverJames M. WellsArnold 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 between May 15, 2017 and September 1, 2017.

MEMORIAL GIFTSIn Memory of Sara ChaffetzKathryn and Bruce JohnsonSusan D. OliverAbra Prentice WilkinIn Memory of Rev. David A. DonovanGeoffrey A. AndersonJoan M. HallGary and Krista KaplanLois A. KlimstraKaren V. MaurerWilliam V. PorterRobert R. WatsonLisa and Paul WigginIn Memory of Susan FillerWilliam V. PorterIn Memory of Marie GuntherStephanie MadsenIn Memory of Clarine C. HallRuth K. AllenLucy W. GrohIn Memory of Cora Patricia HullingerHer sons and grandchildIn Memory of Rudolph NashanChicago Symphony Orchestra Alumni Association

In Memory of Bennett ReimerElizabeth Hebert

In Memory of Virginia H. Rogers and Arthur E. Leckner, Jr.Robert WilsonIn Memory of Dolores SavinLinda KaplanIn Memory of Fred SpectorChicago Symphony Orchestra Alumni Association

In Memory of Gail WeimerChicago Symphony Orchestra Alumni Association

In Memory of Marion WognumAnne E. Shafer

HONOR GIFTSIn Honor of Dr. Edward L. Applebaum and Dr. Eva E. RedeiFrieda ApplebaumIn Honor of Jeanne and Wally Braun’s 50th AnniversaryTara KaisershotIn Honor of Donna FlemingCaroline HuebnerIn Honor of Robert KohlMr. and Mrs. Joseph Andrew HaysIn Honor of Sue Lerch Leibowitz on her birthdayHer children and grandchildrenIn Honor of Apostolis MarkatosAndreas KourouklisIn Honor of Barbara and Lewis Schneider’s 50th AnniversarySusan and Ken LorchIn Honor of the SkoningsNancy and Dan Borzak

LEAGUE OF THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION TRIBUTE PROGRAMIn Memory of Sara ChaffetzHazel FacklerPenny and John Van HornIn Memory of Donald GoldsteinLarry and Janice GoldsteinIn Memory of Terry JonesBetsy BeckmannCheryl IstvanElizabeth PetersIn Memory of Pierre LeonianPenny and John Van HornIn Memory of Audrey SpiegelPenny and John Van HornIn Honor of Mimi DugingerElizabeth PetersIn Honor of Lisa McDanielPenny and John Van Horn

In Honor of Tessie Cameron RawlsTheresa CameronIn Honor of Mitchell J. Wiet on his 80th birthdayJessica JagielnikIn Honor of Nancy WoulfeJane Beam

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

Allium String QuartetAmpersand Wine BarAplandBaker & McKenzieBanfiBBJ LinenBetsy BeckmannBelmont Yacht ClubBig Foot MediaBlue Plate CateringBoleoBooth HansenBoston Consulting GroupBridges Mavrakakis LLPWilliam BuchmanSarah BullenElliot Callighan, Ramova MusicCapstone Financial AdvisorsOto CarrilloLi-Kuo ChangChicago BearsChicago Cultural CenterChicago MagazineChicago Tribune Companyde Quay RestaurantDLA Piper LLP (US)E&J Gallo WineryMrs. Walter D. FacklerFour Seasons Hotel ChicagoFrederick C. Robie HouseSusanna GauntGemini Graphics, Inc.Gentleman’s CooperativeDaniel GingrichGoose Island Beer Co.Greenwich StudiosDavid GriffinHewitt AssociatesHillshire SnackingHispanicProIron Galaxy StudiosIwan Ries & Co.Jet’s PizzaRobb Jibson, So MidwestGabrielle Johnson


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Kathy JordanNicholas JosephLori JulianCarole KellerKimpton Gray HotelBen and Laura KingLincoln Park ZooYo-Yo MaMayer Brown LLPTammy McCannMcKinsey & CompanyMetrograph CommissaryMetropolitan BrewingNational Hispanic Sales NetworkNicado Publishing / NegociosNowPaul Rehder SalonJonathan PegisPianoFortePricewaterhouseCoopers LLPR. Crusoe & Son

Lora SchaeferShow ServicesSlover Linett StrategiesJames SmelserMike Smith, Photographic Services International

Kathy SolaroSoldier FieldThe Sound Co-Op, LLCSteinway Piano Gallery ChicagoSusan SynnestvedtBrant TaylorDavid TaylorBenjamin TeichmanTeslaTesoriTheatrical Lighting ConnectionThink-cellTimeOutTootsie Roll

Union StationUnited AirlinesVancouver Symphony OrchestraVirtue CiderWalgreensWBBMWBEZWFMTWheaton CollegeWrigley FieldWTMXCynthia YehYuan-Qing Yu

*Denotes deceased

Italics indicate Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

Gifts listed as of August 15, 2017


february & march at Symphony CenterThursday, February 1, 8:00 Friday, February 2, 1:30 Saturday, February 3, 8:00 Muti, Britten & Higdon World PremiereChicago Symphony OrchestraRiccardo Muti conductorClémentine Margaine mezzo-sopranoJay Friedman tromboneMichael Mulcahy tromboneCharles Vernon bass tromboneGene Pokorny tubastravinsky Scherzo fantastiquehigdon Low Brass Concerto [world premiere, cso co-commission]

chausson Poème de l’amour et de la merbritten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

Saturday, February 3, 10:00 & 11:45 buntrock hall

Once Upon a Symphony®: Stone SoupMembers of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Alexander Mauney actor

Friday, February 9, 8:00 scp jazz seriesAmir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound: Not TwoMike Reed’s Flesh & Bone

Saturday, February 17, 3:00 Chinese New Year CelebrationZhejiang Symphony Orchestra Chongqing Chuanju Opera Theatre Sunday, February 18, 3:00 scp piano series

Mitsuko Uchidaschubert Sonata in B Major, D. 575schubert Sonata in A Minor, D. 845schubert Sonata in D Major, D. 850

Wednesday, February 21, 6:30 All-Access Chamber Music Concert: music803 Rachel Goldstein violinWei-Ting Kuo violaGary Stucka celloStephen Lester double bass Mio Nakamura pianohaydn Baryton Trio in D Major, Hob.XI. 11dohnányi Serenade in C Major for String Trio, Op. 10vaughan williams Piano Quintet in C Minor

Thursday, February 22, 8:00 Friday, February 23, 1:30 Saturday, February 24, 8:00 Tuesday, February 27, 7:30 free postconcert q&a

Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 & Mendelssohn Italian SymphonyChicago Symphony OrchestraChristoph Eschenbach conductorDavid Fray pianoweber Overture to Der Freischützchopin Piano Concerto No. 2mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dreammendelssohn Symphony No. 4 (Italian)

Friday, February 23, 8:00 scp jazz series Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Trance

Sunday, February 25, 3:00 scp chamber music series

Ax, Kavakos and Ma Play BrahmsEmanuel Ax pianoLeonidas Kavakos violinYo-Yo Ma cellobrahms Piano Trio No. 2brahms Piano Trio No. 3brahms Piano Trio No. 1

Monday, February 26, 8:00Civic Orchestra of ChicagoChristoph Eschenbach conductorCivic Orchestra of Chicago wagner Overture to Tannhäuserschoenberg Chamber Symphony No. 1brahms Symphony No. 2

Thursday, March 1, 8:00 Friday, March 2, 8:00 Saturday, March 3, 8:00 Beethoven Eroica SymphonyChicago Symphony OrchestraHerbert Blomstedt conductormozart Symphony No. 39beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)

Saturday, March 3, 10:00 & 11:45 buntrock hallOnce Upon a Symphony®: The Elves and the ShoemakerMembers of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Sunday, March 4, 2:00fullerton hall, art institute of chicago

AIC Chamber Music series: Civitas Ensemble China Rises Emma Gerstein flute/piccoloJ. Lawrie Bloom clarinetYuan-Qing Yu violin Kenneth Olsen celloVadim Karpinos percussionWinston Choi pianoWei-Wei Lan pipadun Triple Resurrectionyao Emanations of Tararuo Divergencezhou long Five Elements

Thursday, March 8, 8:00 classic encounterFriday, March 9, 1:30 Saturday, March 10, 8:00 Sunday, March 11, 3:00 Debussy La mer Chicago Symphony OrchestraConductor to be announcedLeonidas Kavakos violinmussorgsky, orch. rimsky-korsakov Prelude to Khovanshchinashostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1kodály Suite from Háry Jánosdebussy La mer

Friday, March 9, 8:00 scp jazz series

Bill Charlap Trio Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard BernsteinCécile McLorin Salvant

Thursday, March 15, 8:00 Friday, March 16, 7:30 edman memorial chapel, wheaton collegeSaturday, March 17, 8:00 Muti, Chen & MozartChicago Symphony OrchestraRiccardo Muti conductorRobert Chen violinPaul Neubauer violahaydn Symphony No. 89mozart Sinfonia concertantemozart Symphony No. 36 (Linz)

Saturday, March 17, 11:00 & 12:45CSO Family Matinee: Let’s Explore!Chicago Symphony Orchestra Edwin Outwater conductorEmily Graslie co-hostfrank Three Latin-American Dancesbeethoven Symphony No. 5smetana The Moldau, No. 2 from Má vlastbates Desert Transport

Visit cso.org or call 312-294-3000 for more information or to order tickets.symphony center 220 south michigan avenue chicago, il 60604

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BRAHMS - Chicago Symphony Orchestra · BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 8:00 Christoph Eschenbach˜conductor ˜˚˛˝˙ˆˇOverture to˜Tannhäuser ˘ ˙˝ ˙ˆ˛ˇChamber