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2 A Note from Riccardo Muti A welcoming message from the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra’s Zell Music Director

4 A Note from the Board Chair and President Board of Trustees Chair Helen Zell and Chicago Symphony

Orchestra Association President Jeff Alexander welcome audiences to the 2018–19 season.

5 Board of Trustees and Governing Members

8 Riccardo Muti—“The Maestro Among Maestros” by Phillip Huscher

A special interview with Riccardo Muti on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his professional conducting debut

17 Symphony Center Information From coat check to cough lozenges, learn how to have an

enjoyable and safe experience at Symphony Center.

18 Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Institute celebrates many special anniversaries this season, reaffirming its commitment to providing Chicagoland with the best in music education.

20 Our Donors and Volunteers Recognition of our generous donors and volunteers, plus

photo highlights from last season’s Corporate Night

42 Our Donors and Volunteers, continued

64 Upcoming Events Listings of concerts to be held in the weeks ahead. Learn

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25 Program Information about the program and the performers for this concert

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a note from riccardo muti zell music director

Riccardo Muti Zell Music Director, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and I welcome you to the 2018–19 season. For more than 125 years, this Orchestra has enriched the lives of the people in Chicago and around the world through its performances. The members of the CSO are both exceptional artists and citizens, who foster the health of our shared cultural legacy

and bring us beauty and inspiration.We open the season with Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony,

inspired by Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s powerful 1961 poem, “Babi Yar.” In this work, two great artists confront a deeply trou-bled world with an extraordinary marriage of music and text.

Although the premiere of the symphony faced challenges and censorship, its impact was immediately felt by listeners in the then Soviet Union and later around the world. I had the privilege of conducting the first per-formance in Western Europe in 1970— an experience that touched me deeply and strengthened my belief in the power of music.

Your presence today and throughout the season is one of the most important actions

you can take to support this great institution, for in a world torn apart by anger and violence, we must treasure our cultural expe-riences. The Orchestra and I invite you to share our love of music and extend to you our warmest welcome and thanks.

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a note from the chair and the president

PHOTOS BY TODD ROSENBERG

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 128th season of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, an iconic ensemble comprised of the finest classical musicians, led by the distinguished conductor Riccardo Muti, the CSO’s Zell Music Director. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association—the parent organization of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Symphony Center Presents, Negaunee Music Institute, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Symphony Center complex—presents over 400 concerts and events annually. These performances enrich the lives of millions of people throughout Chicago and around the world.

Programming in the 2018–19 season is inspired by historical events, including the hundredth anniversary of the World War I Armistice in November. The power of narrative in orchestral music and an exploration of celebrated masterworks interpreted by Riccardo Muti and esteemed guest conductors are also focuses of the season. Muti’s choice to open with Shostakovich’s

profound Symphony no. 13 and Hindemith’s powerful Mathis der Maler Symphony sets a tone that offers an opportunity for reflection and ultimately inspiration. We look forward to these opportunities to celebrate the triumph of the human spirit through the transformative power of music as expressed by the exceptional artistry of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

This season also features exciting celebrations. Muti leads a special CSO and Civic Orchestra side-by-side community concert in Millennium Park, which launches the centennial seasons of both the Civic Orchestra and the series of concerts for children established by our second music director, Frederick Stock. On October 6, the Symphony Ball program revels in the timeless appeal of the waltz and features pianist David Fray as soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 24.

These various programs are emblematic of hundreds of extraordinary per-formances and events that will take place throughout the season. We thank you for your support, and hope to see you often at Symphony Center.

Helen Zell Chair, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association Board of Trustees

Jeff Alexander President, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

dear friends of the cso

chicago symphony orchestra association board of trustees

* Ex officio Trustee † Deceased


officers (2017–18)Helen Zell ChairMary Louise Gorno Vice ChairRobert A. Kohl Vice ChairLiisa Thomas Vice ChairJames W. Mabie TreasurerJeff Alexander PresidentKaren Rahn Secretary of

the BoardStacie M. Frank

Assistant TreasurerDavid A. Chambers Vice

President for DevelopmentThe Honorable

Rahm Emanuel Honorary Chairman

The Honorable Bruce Rauner Honorary Chairman

honorary trusteesThe Honorable

Richard M. DaleyLady Valerie Solti

trusteesJohn AalbregtseH. Rigel BarberRandy Lamm BerlinLaurence O. BoothKay BucksbaumRobert J. BufordLeslie Henner BurnsDebra A. CafaroMarion A. CameronDavid CasperBruce E. ClintonGeorge P. ColisDr. Christopher L. CulpTimothy DuffyMimi Duginger*Brian W. Duwe

J. Bradley FewellRichard C. GodfreyGraham C. GradyJoyce T. GreenDavid P. HackettLori JulianJared Kaplan*Donna L. KendallJames KolarJoseph A. KonenDr. Randall S. KrosznerJosef LakonishokPatty LaneBeth ManninoMark G. McGrathChristopher MelvinRenée MetcalfMary Pivirotto MurleySylvia NeilElizabeth Parker*Gerald PaulingJose Luis PradoDr. Irwin PressCol. Jennifer N. PritzkerMohan RaoBurton X. RosenbergKristen C. RossiEarl J. Rusnak, Jr.E. Scott SantiSteven E. ShebikAlejandro SilvaWalter SnodellDaniel E. Sullivan, Jr.Scott SwansonNasrin ThiererLiisa ThomasTerrence J. TruaxFrederick H. WaddellPaul R. WigginRobert WislowHelen Zell

life trusteesWilliam Adams IVMrs. Robert A. BeattyMarshall BennettArnold M. BerlinWilliam G. BrownDean L. BuntrockRobert N. BurtRichard ColburnRichard H. CooperJames S. CrownAnthony T. DeanCharles DouglasJohn A. EdwardsonThomas J. EyermanJames B. FadimDavid W. Fox, Sr.Richard J. FrankeCyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.H. Laurance FullerMrs. Robert W. GalvinPaul C. GignilliatJoseph B. GlossbergWilliam A. GoldsteinMary Louise GornoHoward L. GottliebChester A. GougisRichard Gray †Mary Winton GreenDietrich GrossJoan W. HarrisJohn H. HartThomas C. HeagyJay L. HendersonDebora de HoyosMrs. Roger B. HullJudith W. IstockWilliam R. JentesPaul R. JudyRichard B. KapnickDonald G. Kempf, Jr.

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

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

Past ChairmanCharles Emmons, Jr.

Vice Chairman of the Annual FundEric Kalnins Vice Chairman of

Member EngagementMichael A. Perlstein

Vice Chairman of Nominations & Membership

governing members (2018 –19)Anonymous (3)Dora J. AalbregtseFloyd AbramsonSandra AllenRobert A. AlsakerMegan P. AndersonMrs. Ruth T. AndersonMychal P. AngelosDr. Edward ApplebaumDavid ArchDr. Robert ArensmanDr. Kent ArmbrusterCarey AugustVernon Armour †Marta Holsman BabsonEd BachrachPeter BarackMara Mills BarkerMr. Merrill BarnesPeter BarrettRoberta BarronRoger BaskesRobert H. BaumMr. Robert A. BeattyMike BellArlene BennettEdward H. Bennett IIIMrs. James F. Beré †Meta S. BergerD. Theodore BerghorstAnn BerlinPhyllis BerlinRobert L. Berner, Jr.Ronald A. BevilMr. William E. BibleMrs. Arthur A. BillingsTomás BissonnetteDianne BlancoJudy BlauMerrill BlauDr. Phyllis C. BleckAnn BlickensderferMrs. Ted C. Bloch †Terry BodenMrs. Suzanne BorlandJames G. BorovskyAdam BossovJohn D. BramsenMr. Roderick BranchMs. Jill BrennanBarbara Bridges

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

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

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

governing members

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


John C. KernElizabeth I. KeyserRichard L. KeyserEmmy KingSusan KiphartCarol KippermanDr. Jay KleimanCarol Evans KlenkJean KlingensteinMrs. Harriet B. KoehlerMr. Henry L. KohnSanfred KoltunJudy KonenDr. Mark KozloffMr. David KravitzDr. Michael KrcoDavid KreismanMaryBeth KretzDr. Vinay KumarDr. Paul KurtinRubin KuznitskyMr. John LaBarberaArthur LadenburgerPatricia LeeSunhee LeeEleanor LeichenkoSheila Fields LeiterJeffrey LennardLaurence H. LevineMrs. Bernard LevitonDr. Edmund J. LewisGregory M. LewisMrs. Paul LiebermanPhilip R. Liebson, M.D.Patricia M. LivingstonJohn S. Lizzadro, Sr.Jane LoebJames R. LoewenbergRenée LoganAmy LubinMrs. Duncan MacLeanDr. Michael S. MalingMr. Daniel ManoogianNathaniel M. MarrsJudy MarthPatrick A. MartinBeLinda I. MathieJames MatsonMarianne C. MayerSteven D. McCormickHoward M. McCue IIIAnn Pickard McDermottDr. James L. McGeeDr. John P. McGee IIMrs. Lester McKeeverJohn A. McKennaMrs. Peter McKinneyMrs. C. Bruce McLaganMrs. James M. McMullanJames Edward McPhersonMr. Paul MeisterMrs. Newton MinowMs. Mary MittlerDr. Toni-Marie MontgomeryEmilie Morphew, M.D.Kate B. MorrisonChristopher MorrowMr. Herbert F. Munsterman

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

Dr. H. Jay Rothenberg, M.D.Roberta H. RubinMrs. Susan B. RubnitzSandra RusnakDavid W. “Buzz” RuttenbergMary RyanMrs. Patrick G. RyanRichard O. RyanWilliam RyanNorman K. SackarMr. Agustin G. SanzInez SaundersDavid SavnerMr. Timothy M. SawyierKarla SchererDavid M. SchiffmanJudith Feigon SchiffmanRosa SchlossDouglas M. SchmidtJana SchreuderAl SchriesheimDonald L. SchwartzDr. Penny Bender SebringChandra SekharDr. Ronald A. SemerdjianMrs. Richard J.L. SeniorIlene W. ShawPam SheffieldJames C. Sheinin, M.D.Richard W. SheproJessie ShihMorrell McK. Shoemaker, Jr.Mrs. Elizabeth ShoemakerStuart ShulruffLinda SimonCraig SirlesValerie SlotnickMrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.Mrs. Nancy SmerzCharles F. SmithDiane W. SmithLouise K. SmithMary Ann SmithStanton Kinnie Smith, Jr.Stephen R. SmithBetty W. SmykalDiane SnyderKimberly SnyderMrs. Ida N. SondheimerO.J. SopranosMrs. James Cavanaugh SpainOrli StaleyWilliam D. StaleyHelena StancikasGrace StanekDr. Eugene StarkLeonidas StefanosMs. Momoko SteinerMrs. Richard J. SternBruce StevensLiz StiffelVirginia Lee StiglerLawrence E. StricklingHarvey J. Struthers, Jr.Patricia StudyCheryl SturmMr. Sean SusaninMrs. Robert Szalay

Mr. Patrick Tagny DiesseMr. Gregory TaubeneckMr. David A. ThomsonDr. Robert ThomsonMr. Scott ThomsonMs. Carla M. ThorpeJoan ThronMrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr.William R. Tobey, Jr.John T. TraversDavid TrushinPaula TurnerRobert W. TurnerHenry J. UnderwoodZalman UsiskinMrs. James D. Vail IIIMrs. Virginia C. ValeDr. Cynthia M. ValukasPenelope Van HornMrs. Peter E. Van NiceMrs. Herbert A. VanceWilliam C. VanceJulia Vander PloegThomas D. Vander VeenDr. Douglas VaughanDr. Michael ViglioneMr. Christian VinyardTheodore WachsMark A. WagnerMr. Erich WalchBernard T. WallNicholas WallaceMs. Carol WarshawskyPaul S. WatfordDr. Catherine L. WebbMrs. Jacob WeglarzMrs. Joseph M. WeilDr. Jamie WeinerChickie WeisbardMr. Robert G. WeissBarbara WellerMrs. Barbara H. West †Penelope G. WestMrs. H. Blair WhiteMrs. Arnold R. WolffLaura WollDr. Hak WongCourtenay R. WoodMichael H. WooleverMs. Debbie WrightOwen YoungmanDavid J. ZampaDr. John P. ZarembaMs. Anne ZenzerRichard E. ZieglerKaren Zupko

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I t is high summer in Florence, Italy—the air buzzes with the song of cicadas and the streets are teeming with tourists. ATMs run out of

cash by noon. Scantily clad visitors, wilting in the midday heat, are required to rent plastic cover-ups for one euro before they enter Santa Croce, the great basilica at the heart of the city where Michelangelo and Rossini are buried. But Riccardo Muti is a picture of cool composure as he perches on a sofa in his hotel on a quiet street just around the corner from the house where he and his family lived years ago, when his interna-tional career was just beginning. He has returned to Florence in July to celebrate an important mile-stone, the fiftieth anniversary of his professional debut as a conductor, with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. To mark the occasion, the celebrated festival, which gave Muti his first important post as principal conductor in 1969, is presenting two concert performances of Verdi’s Macbeth, the opera Muti led in Chicago in 2013, and a work he has been associated with throughout his career.

“In the Macbeth that I’m now doing in Florence, the basic element is the same interpretation of

many years ago, but if you compare, it’s com-pletely different,” he says, in an expansive, reflec-tive mood. “The roots are the same, but all the experiences of my life—positive and negative, suffering, joy, friends, enemies—make you a different person over the years.” In five decades, Muti has risen to a position of unusual power and prestige in an increasingly commercial field, and he has developed a reputation as a musician of strong, unbending principle and discipline, a rarity in today’s celebrity-driven culture. Between the two Macbeth performances, he raced back home to nearby Ravenna, a small, historic city with eight Unesco World Heritage sites, so that he could work—he spent the day studying the score of Paganini’s D minor violin concerto, which he would conduct the next week for the first time in many years—and enjoy the luxury of sleeping in his own bed.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is the fifth organization Muti has led in his fifty-year career, following the Maggio Musicale, the London Philharmonia, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and La Scala, for which he served as either chief

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conductor or music director. In his 2010 auto-biography, he called Chicago “the final test of my artistic life.” He had intended to shift gears after nineteen years at the head of La Scala. “I thought that was enough time devoted to music

directorship,” he says now, “because a good music director is somebody who really has to give time, care, and attention to his music organiza-tion, and of course to his musicians—not only as artists, but as human beings.” Then the Chicago Symphony began to tempt him, particularly after he and the Orchestra spent two weeks together on a European tour in 2007. “Something hap-pened artistically between us,” he says. “The way they responded to my musical ideas and the sense of family that we immediately created together pushed me to accept this very prestigious com-mitment. But I was really thinking that this is the last one,” he says, not because of his age, he is quick to interject (he turned seventy-seven in July), recalling that the French conductor Pierre Monteux accepted a contract for twenty-five years when he was ninety (“maybe it was a joke or a very optimistic view of his future,” he says with a smile). But in Chicago, as in each of his previous positions, he was persuaded by a simple, remark-able fact: the musicians themselves made it clear they wanted him, “not the superpowers above—no politicians, no agents, no managers.”

M uti is something of a rarity in today’s publicity-driven music world in that he stands at the peak of his profession and

yet has no manager or agent to take care of busi-ness. In many ways, he is a throwback to a simpler time when the pace was slower—conductors spent years studying music before they even picked up a baton; engagements were booked weeks or months, not years, in advance—and

opposite pageA rehearsal at the Philharmonie de Paris on January 12, 2017, during the CSO’s 2017 European Tour

this pageTo celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his professional conducting debut, Muti led two performances of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino on July 11 and 13, 2018. PHOTO BY PIETRO PAOLINI, TERRAPROJECT

“ A good music director is somebody who really has to give time, care, and attention to his music organization, and of course to his musicians—not only as artists, but as human beings.”

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the travel less frenetic and less global. At both Macbeth performances, the Florence audience roars with approval and affection each time Muti takes the stage. At the end, they will not let him go until he steps to the apron to speak—about the significance of the occasion, of course, but also, characteristically, about music, in this case his campaign to have the remains of Luigi Cherubini, a seriously underappreciated composer he has long championed, transferred from Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris back to Florence, his birthplace, to rest in Santa Croce. (Two weeks later, a petition posted on Change.org had more than 25,000 sig-natures.) Italians love Muti not just because he is one of their own, but also because they recognize him as a figure of unique musical authority and

dignity in an industry increasingly skewed toward popular entertainment—“perhaps the last ‘big beast’ still prowling the classical music world,” as Richard Morrison writes in The Times of London that same week. A few days later, Manuel Brug, the longtime critic for the German newspaper Die Welt, calls Muti an “Italian national hero of art.”

After spending twelve years in Philadelphia and now another eight in Chicago, Muti knows very well that the United States differs in a fun-damental way from Italy. “We have an advantage here,” he says, gesturing out the window toward Brunelleschi’s terra cotta dome poised atop the Duomo, to the street where Dante once lived. “At every corner, you are surrounded by history,” he says. “Every corner tells you where you come

from.” People here spend their lives amid art and beauty, and it changes how they feel about it. “It’s part of them,” Muti continues. “In Italian, the word is convivenza, to spend your life together.”

“I think that America has the privilege of having some of the

left to rightMuti conducting the CSO at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria on January 23, 2017, during the CSO’s 2017 European Tour.

The Monument to Luigi Cherubini by Odoardo Fantacchiotti (1811–1877) at Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. Muti has led a campaign to have Cherubini’s remains transferred here from Paris. PHOTO BY SAILKO

“ Music is a mission, and to be a good musician is like being a missionary. But to give people the possibility to do this for forty years, musicians have to feel that they are bringing good to society.”


greatest orchestras in the world,” he says, “but the society still doesn’t understand the impor-tance of these musicians. And this is a problem that starts with elementary school: education, education, education,” he says, broadening the tempo to emphasize each word, as he does at the dramatic peak in a work of music. The Vienna Philharmonic, he says, is considered “a treasure of the nation;” the owners of certain Viennese restaurants still bow out of respect when orchestra members walk in. Years ago, when he first came to the United States, Muti sometimes felt that orchestra players were treated like musicians in the eighteenth-century court of the archbishop of Salzburg: “you come in like slaves, you play, and you go,” he says. “Musicians have a big responsi-bility,” he continues. “They don’t entertain people, they educate. Music is a mission, and to be a good musician is like being a missionary. But to give people the possibility to do this for forty years, musicians have to feel that they are bringing good to society.”

That was another reason the Chicago Symphony lured him at this point in his life. “In Chicago, there was the opportunity not only to make

music with this great ensemble, but also to devote my energies to people that need to receive the spiritual and cultural food of music.” Year after year, he has taken members of the Orchestra to play for young people—teenagers mostly—confined to correctional facilities in Chicago and in far-western Warrenville and brought the entire Chicago Symphony to give free concerts in the Apostolic Church of God on the South Side of Chicago and Morton East High School in the sub-urb of Cicero. “Every time I brought music to the juvenile detention centers or to churches in com-munities that don’t come to the concert hall, I’ve seen that people receive music with great atten-tion, with great enthusiasm, and with great partic-ipation.” “And,” he says with obvious pride, “some-times this crowd of people who have never been in a concert hall responds to your performance with much more intensity and understanding than the so-called sophisticated audience.”

W hen Muti flies around the world, to conduct in Shanghai or Sydney or Kiev, where he led his annual Roads of

Friendship concert in July, he routinely stares at

aboveA performance of Verdi’s Otello in Orchestra Hall on April 7, 2011, during Muti’s first season as music director

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the electronic map that tracks the plane’s progress, charting journeys he never dreamed possible as a little boy in Molfetta on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy. “If you have strong roots,” he says, “you can be born in the smallest town in the hills in Calabria, and you can go anywhere in the world.” Today, Muti talks as freely with a fan on the Chicago streets, whom he may instruct with the story of how pizza Margherita got its name, as with Queen Elizabeth II, who spent twenty-seven minutes chatting with him in his La Scala dressing room—protocol had dictated seven—and was captured by a photographer sharing a moment of joyous laughter with him. (She later made him a Knight Commander of the British Empire.) “We are all the same people,” he says. “That is import-ant. And it is the same when I play in Carnegie Hall, or in the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg, or in Reno (Nevada), or Cicero near Chicago. I give it the same importance, because the public is the public. There is not a category A and a category B. They all deserve the same respect and attention.”

In June, at the end of his eighth season with the Orchestra, Muti led performances of Prokofiev’s tough and knotty Third Symphony, a rarely programmed work that he had conducted in Orchestra Hall in 2007, when he returned to the Chicago Symphony for the first time in thirty-two years. In rehearsal in June, he told the Orchestra that Prokofiev’s symphony would be something of a yardstick, a gauge of how things were going, a benchmark of what their years together had brought. Sipping a glass of mineral water in his Florence hotel in July, he is happy to share the verdict: “The first time was very good. I felt the

power of the Orchestra and the precision of the Orchestra. This time,” he said, with obvious satis-faction, “I was much more impressed by the sub-tlety of the Orchestra. The power was still there, but a little bit less aggressive—even the fortissimi were much more round and musical, without any doubt. But the Orchestra was singing, even in the most brutal music that the symphony requires.”

“Every good conductor should have a sense of what sound he wants,” Muti says, thinking back over his Chicago years. “But the secret is that you must give the musicians your idea of your sound without changing the personality of the orchestra. And this is the most important thing: the balance between your concept and the instrument you have. If you have a Stradivari in your hands and you are a great violinist, you produce your sound, but this is also the sound of the Stradivari; and

clockwise from top leftAn avid proponent of community outreach, Muti works with an Illinois Youth Center–Chicago resident in September of 2014.

Muti addresses the audience at the Concert for Chicago from the stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park September 18, 2015.

Muti in his dressing room with Queen Elizabeth II at La Scala in 2000

“ The public is the public. There is not a category A and a category B. They all deserve the same respect and attention.”


if the same violinist takes a Guadagnini, he will express his ideas and his concept of sound, but the instrument will also tell him, ‘I am a Guadagnini, you cannot make me sound like a Stradivari.’ ”

Dropping the musical analogy, Muti says sim-ply, “I’m sorry for the comparison, but being an Italian, I am a Ferrari fan. And I would say the Chicago Symphony is a Ferrari,” he says, speaking with the authority of someone who knows exactly how to maneuver the Italian autostrade with expert finesse and speed. “If you have another car, you cannot have the same results. This orches-tra has given me the possibility to experience complex, difficult repertoire in a way that other, less virtuosic, orchestras could not.” He also acknowledges that the Orchestra does not sound quite the same as the one he inherited. “At one time in Europe, we always heard about the brass

of the Chicago Symphony. I think that now the Orchestra is much more balanced between the sections. The brass are still fantastic, but we have a fantastic string section, and a fantastic wood-wind section, not to forget the fantastic percus-sion and timpani section. Without losing this, shall we say, American precision, it has more of a European versatility and softness.” He pauses to deliver the punch line: “In a word, it is an orches-tra today that sings more.” But canta, as Toscanini used to plead over and over in his rehearsals with the NBC Symphony, doesn’t mean just “to sing a song,” as Muti puts it. “Canta means to express the feeling and the melody, not only from the heart, but also from the stomach. The vibrato of the vio-lins should not come from the fingers, but from the deepest part of the body.” Muti, who often sprinkles his conversation, in the most natural

“ The secret is that you must give the musicians your idea of your sound without changing the personality of the orchestra.”

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way, with Latin phrases that have informed him as a person as well as a musician, introduces Saint Augustine: Cantare amantis est. “To sing is something that belongs to somebody who is able to love,” he translates. And then, quoting from The Divine Comedy, he turns to Dante: L’Amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle. “Love,” Muti says, glanc-ing out at the streets the poet once walked, “is able to move the sun and all the other stars.”

M uti is perpetually homesick, not just for Ravenna, where he lives today, but for the land of his childhood—a place

where he knew Christmas was coming, not from holiday lights and shop window displays, but from the scent of mandarins, the fruit of the season, perfuming the air. “It’s very poetic, but it’s gone today, even in Molfetta,” he says ruefully, “because everything has become commercial.” But, perhaps to his surprise, he has found himself very much at home in Chicago. “I happen to love Chicago,” he says. “I think it is a spectacular city, with fantastic architecture and great universities, and even if the city is so big, you can still have the sense of a

small town where people can walk, and meet in the street and talk. In Chicago, it is still possible to have human contact.”

For years, he has methodically crossed off each professional engagement on his calendar, one by one—“like a prisoner,” he laughs—inching closer to the day when he will lay down his baton. But at the moment, his eyes are on his future with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: “I want to make the instrument better and better, and to make the life of the musicians better and better. If you have a better life, you make better music.” In February, he signed an extension of his contract, which will keep him at the helm of the Chicago Symphony through the 2021–22 season. “We love each other very much,” he says, “and these years have gone very, very fast.” But he is acutely aware that the Orchestra will eventually have to find a new music director, and as he points out, the tradition of the Chicago Symphony has been to appoint conduc-tors who are very well established, with an inter-national name—and they are few and far between today. Clearly, he does not relish turning over the keys to a flashy newcomer.

aboveRiccardo Muti and the Orchestra during an open rehearsal in Orchestra Hall on November 15, 2017


In Florence, after the first Macbeth perfor-mance, there is a party that stretches into the night, full of friends and family, and including the leaders of several international music organi-zations, as well as members of Muti’s cast—Luca Salsi, who sang the title role in Orchestra Hall in 2013; his Lady Macbeth, Vittoria Yeo, who will appear under his baton in Verdi’s Requiem here in November; and Francesco Meli, who was also in the Chicago Macbeth and will sing Radames when Muti conducts the Orchestra in concert perfor-mances of Aida in June. Muti is presented with a monumental chocolate cake, which he cuts with customary resolve, crowned by a “50” bigger than numbers on a football jersey.

The next day, when I ask him about the legacy of these fifty years—about how he thinks he will eventually be remembered—he deflects the ques-tion at first and jokes about his overblown reputa-tion as a strict taskmaster, a stickler for following exactly what’s in the score. “People think that I want the eighth note mathematically correct,” he says. “It’s just that I don’t want performers to

completely change the text for their purposes or their bene-fit. If Verdi writes a half note instead of a quar-

ter note, there is always a dramatic reason that is connected with the words. It’s not about mathe-matical precision.” Over the years, Muti’s refusal to make cuts or transpose arias or interpolate high notes has sometimes been seen as rigid and imperious, particularly in a time in the world of opera when singers and directors often get their way. “Verdi made it very clear in his letters,” he explains, “There is only one creator: the composer, not the interpreter. So the interpreter really should be a servant, not a cocreator.”

Muti’s new “war,” which he has been waging for some time now, is with the “strange inventions” of stage directors in the opera house, which is why he has just one staged opera on his calen-dar, opening in November in Naples, Italy (and later moving to the Vienna Staatsoper): Mozart’s Così fan tutte, a score he knows note by note and

word by word, which will be directed by someone he trusts—his daughter Chiara, who regularly works as a stage director in Europe and shares her father’s concern with trying to understand what the composer had in mind. Today, he says, opera in concert form—such as the trio of Verdi’s Shakespearean operas he has led with the Chicago Symphony, and the upcoming Aida in June—is often preferable: “people can listen to the music, and to the words, and not be disturbed by visions that have nothing to do with the music.” He cites Arnold Schoenberg—“not the most conservative person in the world,” he is quick to point out—who warned Wassily Kandinsky, the great artist who also tinkered with set design, to be careful that what you see in an opera production doesn’t disrupt what you hear. In 2015, Muti started the Italian Opera Academy, held in Ravenna each summer and now expanding to Tokyo, to coach young conductors in the preparation of an opera and to teach singers how be become a personaggio by taking their cues directly from the score rather than from a director’s vision. “The regie,” he says, referring to the staging, “should be an extension on stage of the musical ideas.”

Muti stops finally to consider my question about memory and legacy. “Certainly I’ve tried to be honest in my artistic life,” he says. “I’ve never used music for purposes other than artistic. People will judge what I have done. The world goes so fast now,” he says wistfully, “even with great conductors like Toscanini or Karajan, we remember the names, but more and more they disappear.” Yet that same week, Muti was awarded the Praemium Imperiale, a global arts prize that is Japan’s answer to the Nobel Prize—it is awarded only in fields not covered by the Nobel committee—and the latest in a series of important honors he has been given in recent years that sug-gest his work has had a lasting impact, that it will not be forgotten. The citation begins, “With his prestigious goals as a conductor, Riccardo Muti is considered ‘The Maestro among Maestros’.”

“ There is only one creator: the composer, not the interpreter.”

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

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beethoven Overture to Egmont, Op. 84

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ludwig van beethovenBorn December 16, 1770; Bonn, GermanyDied March 26, 1827; Vienna, Austria

Overture to Egmont, Op. 84

composed1809–10

first performanceJune 15, 1810; Vienna, Austria

instrumentationtwo flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, timpani, strings

approximate performance time8 minutes

first cso performancesOctober 27, 1891; Amphitheatre Auditorium, Louisville, Kentucky. Theodore Thomas conducting

December 16 and 17, 1892, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting

August 1, 1937, Ravinia Festival. Vladimir Golschmann conducting

most recent cso performancesDecember 19, 20, and 21, 2013, Orchestra Hall. Christoph Eschenbach conducting

July 18, 2018, Ravinia Festival. Gustavo Dudamel conducting

cso recordings1954. Fritz Reiner conducting. VAI (video)

1957. Fritz Reiner conducting. CSO (From the Archives, vol. 17: Beethoven)

1972. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London

1989. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London

1990. Sir Georg Solti conducting. CBS (video)

Beethoven met Bettina Brentano in May 1810, when he was hard at work on his incidental music for Goethe’s Egmont. He sang and played two of his recent Goethe settings for her, because he knew that she was a good friend of the great poet. Bettina wrote to Goethe about the composer with such enthusiasm that he answered her at once, suggesting that Beethoven meet him

that summer in Karlsbad. In letter after letter that month, Bettina boasted to Goethe about Beethoven’s remarkable talent, and in particular, of the way he had uncovered a “new sensuous basis in the intellectual life.” On May 28, she even quoted Beethoven: “Music, verily, is the mediator between the life of the mind and the senses.”

We don’t know which of Beethoven’s works Bettina knew (aside from the Goethe songs he performed for her), but several of his recent scores revealed a thrilling union of masterly tech-nique and powerful expression—the Fifth and Sixth symphonies, the Appassionata piano sonata, the Violin Concerto, the Fourth Piano Concerto, and—perhaps above all, because of its theatrical nature—the opera Leonore (later known as Fidelio). The inciden-tal music for Goethe’s Egmont that Beethoven introduced in Vienna that June was his first score for the stage since Leonore, and it shows the composer striv-ing for an ever-greater sense of dramatic intensity.

In the first stern notes of the overture (as well as in the impas-sioned fast music that follows), Beethoven conveys a serious- ness and urgency unexpected

top to bottomBeethoven, oil portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler (1778–1860) 1804–05

Bettina von Arnim, née Brentano (1785–1859), as drawn by Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790–1863), ca. 1809

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aboveThe Incident at Teplitz, as imagined by Carl Rohling (1849–1922), 1887. On meeting members of the imperial family, Goethe bows, while Beethoven walks on.

in music. The story of Egmont is serious business, to be sure, for it’s not just a tale of free- dom and national liberation, but also of a hero who dies for his cause, a theme that prompted Beethoven to write some of his most powerful music throughout his career. Even in Beethoven’s time, the event that inspired Goethe’s drama was ancient history: Count Egmont, who led the Flemish resistance against the Spanish rule of the Netherlands, was beheaded in the Brussels marketplace on June 5, 1568. But to Beethoven, it was both personal and timely, recalling his own

Flemish ancestry and closely paralleling the cur-rent political situation in Vienna, which had been occupied by the French since May 1809. (During the bombardment, Beethoven hid in his brother’s cellar and covered his head with pillows to mute the noise.)

T he Egmont overture itself is a compact tone poem, and, like the Leonore overtures Beethoven wrote for his opera Fidelio,

it previews not only the central conflicts of the drama but its resolution as well. Here Beethoven depicts the oppression of Spanish rule (the slow opening is particularly grave), Count Egmont’s determination and rebellious spirit, the uprising of the Netherlanders, and Egmont’s fate. In an unexpected pause near the end—followed by the emphatic rhythm of the opening—Beethoven even depicts Egmont’s beheading, noting in his sketches that death “could be expressed by a silence.” Egmont’s posthumous triumph, however, is clear from the overture’s victorious close.

Beethoven sent Goethe a copy of his Egmont music in the spring of 1811, but the two men didn’t meet until the summer of 1812, when they spent time together at the spa town of Teplitz. Goethe was never convinced of Beethoven’s genius (he preferred Mozart’s music), but as a companion he dismissed him without hesitation as an “utterly untamed personality.”

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ludwig van beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37

composed1800

first performanceApril 5, 1803; Vienna, Austria. The composer as soloist

instrumentationsolo piano, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, strings

cadenzasBeethoven


first cso performancesDecember 16 and 17, 1910, Orchestra Hall. Ernest Hutcheson as soloist, Frederick Stock conducting

July 2, 1937, Ravinia Festival. José Iturbi as soloist, Sir Ernest MacMillan conducting

most recent cso performances

March 16, 18, 19, and 21, 2017, Orchestra Hall. Mitsuko Uchida as soloist, Riccardo Muti conducting

March 17, 2017; Wheaton College, Wheaton. Mitsuko Uchida as soloist, Riccardo Muti conducting

July 21, 2017, Ravinia Festival. Kirill Gerstein as soloist, Susanna Mälkki conducting

cso recordings1959. Gary Graffman as soloist, Walter Hendl conducting. RCA

1971. Vladimir Ashkenazy as soloist, Georg Solti conducting. London

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

We’re not certain that Beethoven and Mozart ever met. Their names were men-tioned in the same breath as early as 1783, when Beethoven’s first composition teacher, Christian Gottlob Neefe, wrote these words in the earliest public notice of his promising pupil: “This youthful genius is deserving of help to enable him to travel. He would surely become a second Wolfgang Amadeus

Mozart were he to continue as he has begun.”Neefe was suggesting that, with proper sponsorship, his young

pupil could tour the music capitals and entertain kings with his dazzling keyboard talent—like most musicians, Neefe assumed that Mozart would make his reputation as a virtuoso performer, not as a composer. Neefe didn’t live long enough to understand how limited his view was, but he did see his prize student take the first steps to becoming not a second Mozart, but more impor-tantly, the mature Beethoven.

It’s likely that these two great composers did meet early in 1787, when the sixteen-year-old Beethoven made his first trip from his native Bonn to Vienna, to breathe the air of a sophisticated musical city. Beethoven stayed no more than two weeks, and he may even have taken a few lessons from Mozart before being suddenly called home by the news of his mother’s failing health. There is, however, no mention of Mozart in a letter Beethoven wrote at the time.

When, late in 1792, Beethoven returned to Vienna, where he would stay for the rest of his life, it was to study with Haydn, for Mozart lay in an unmarked grave. We can sense disappointment in the famous words Count Waldstein inscribed in the album that served as a farewell gift from Beethoven’s friends:

You are going to Vienna in fulfillment of your long-frustrated wishes. The Genius of Mozart is still mourning and weep-ing over the death of her pupil. She found a refuge but no occupation with the inexhaustible Haydn; through him she wishes once more to form a union with another. With the help of assiduous labor, you shall receive Mozart’s spirit from Haydn’s hands.

aboveBeethoven portrait on ivory by Christian Horneman (1765–1844), 1803

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Beethoven arrived in Vienna in the second week of November 1792. He quickly realized that Haydn had little to teach him and took comfort in the fact that he was welcome in the same homes where Mozart was once popular.

To Beethoven, Vienna was Mozart’s city. The first music he published there was a set of vari-ations for violin and piano on “Se vuol ballare” from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. In March 1795, he played Mozart’s D minor piano concerto (K. 466) at a concert organized by the compos-er’s widow Constanze. (He later wrote cadenzas for it as well, the only concerto by Mozart he so honored.) And on April 2, 1800, at his historic first public concert, Beethoven included a sym-phony by Mozart on the program, which also was supposed to have introduced his brand new piano concerto (his third) in C minor. For reasons that we will never know, however, Beethoven played one of his earlier concertos instead.

This C minor piano concerto is one of a hand-ful of works in which the spirits of Mozart and Beethoven convene. To suggest, as some writers do, that Beethoven modeled his concerto after Mozart’s own C minor piano concerto (K. 491) is to confuse the deepest kind of artistic inheri-tance with plagiarism. (David Fray plays Mozart’s concerto on Saturday evening’s Symphony Ball program.) The choice of key certainly can’t be taken as a homage to Mozart, for Beethoven seemed unable to get C minor out of his system at the time. (Think of the Pathétique Sonata, or, a bit later, the funeral march from the Eroica Symphony, the Coriolan overture, and, of course, the Fifth Symphony.)

Obviously, Beethoven remembered Mozart’s C minor concerto when he was writing his own—they share too many musical details for sheer coincidence. According to a popular anecdote, Beethoven and the pianist Johann Cramer were walking together when they heard the finale of Mozart’s concerto coming from a nearby house; Beethoven stopped and exclaimed, “Cramer, Cramer! We shall never be able to do anything like that!”

But in his own C minor concerto, Beethoven does something far more remarkable: he writes

music that pays tribute to this great masterpiece and, at the same time, transcends the Mozartean model. It was conceived in a complimentary, rather than a competitive spirit. Mozart’s untimely death spared Beethoven a head-on rivalry with the one composer he worshiped, leaving him to make his own way in Vienna. (He hardly knew that Schubert existed, even though they lived in the same city for years; when asked to name the greatest living composer other than himself, he regularly said Luigi Cherubini.)

E ven nineteenth-century listeners, who thought Mozart a lightweight and Beethoven a quarrelsome revolutionary,

heard the resemblance in this music—both in its details as well as its spirit and sensibility. Certainly the way the soloist continues to play right after the first-movement cadenza up to the final bar can be found only in K. 491 among all of Mozart’s piano concertos. Beethoven’s opening theme, too, tosses a glance at Mozart’s. But on the big issues—how the music moves forward, the way it approaches the turning points in its progress—there is less agreement. As the British critic Donald Tovey pointed out long ago, Beethoven doesn’t yet seem to have figured out what Mozart always under-stood—that you shouldn’t give too much away before the soloist enters and the drama really begins. There are touches of pure Beethoven, like the unannounced entry of the timpani just after the cadenza—a complete surprise, even though it has been thoughtfully prepared by a main theme that imitates the beating of a drum every time it appears.

There’s nothing Mozartean about Beethoven’s choice of key for the central slow movement: E major, with its key signature of four sharps, is bold and unexpected in a concerto in C minor, with three flats. For a moment, the first E major chord, given to the piano alone, seems all wrong, as if the soloist’s hands have landed in the wrong place; at the same time, it’s fresh and irresist-ible. Where Mozart generally wrote andante or adagio, Beethoven dictates largo. Deliberately paced and magnificently expansive, this is the first great example of a new kind of slow movement.

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Throughout the rest of the nineteenth century, composers would profit from remembering this music, although it’s arguable that no one after Beethoven ever thought of anything like the lovely, fully blossomed romanticism of the duet for flute and bassoon over plucked strings and piano arpeggios midway through.

The way Beethoven glances over the final dou-ble bar of this movement at the opening of the finale also is new. The two movements aren’t yet literally connected, as they will be in later music, but Beethoven uses all of his wit and wisdom to carry us from one to the next. He capitalizes on the fact that G-sharp is the same note on the keyboard as A-flat, and he uses that note to pivot from the remote world of E major back to C minor. Our ears easily make the connection, and the rondo finale races forward, full of pranks and good humor.

Having convinced his listeners (and himself, perhaps) that E major is no stranger to C minor, Beethoven returns to the key of his slow move-ment in the middle of the finale as if it were the most logical move of all. Beethoven recovers C minor again, but, after a brief cadenza, he tears off at a gallop into C major, where he has been headed all along.

It’s not clear why this concerto, evidently designed for Beethoven’s first Vienna concert in April 1800, wasn’t performed that night. Perhaps it simply wasn’t ready. The manuscript suggests that last-minute changes were still being made before its premiere on April 5, 1803, when Beethoven also introduced his new Second Symphony and the oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives. Even then, the music was more firmly fixed in Beethoven’s mind than on the page. Ignaz von Seyfried, the new conductor at the Theater an der Wien, agreed to turn pages for Beethoven, only to discover that it was easier said than done:

I saw almost nothing but empty leaves, at most on one page or another a few Egyptian hieroglyphs wholly unintelligible to me and scribbled down to serve as clues for him. He played nearly all of the solo part from mem-ory since, as was so often the case, he had not had time to put it all down on paper. He gave me a secret glance whenever he was at the end of one of the invisible passages, and my scarcely concealable anxiety not to miss the decisive moment amused him greatly, and he heartily laughed at the jovial supper which we ate afterwards.

Nearly a year later, Beethoven finally got around to writing down the piano part for a performance given by his student Ferdinand Ries, who pro-vided his own cadenza.

The first reviewer of the Third Piano Concerto commented that the piece should succeed “even in places like Leipzig, where people were accus-tomed to hearing the best of Mozart’s concertos.” He continued, suggesting that this music would always require

. . . a capable soloist who, in addition to everything one associates with virtuosity, has understanding in his head and a heart in his breast—otherwise, even with the most impressive preparation and technique, the best things in the work will be left behind.

Those are wise words, particularly from a man working in a field that to this day expects sound judgments on new music heard cold. What no critic could predict is that this concerto, rooted in the previous century and a pioneer in its own, would continue to speak as strongly and directly to the centuries that followed.

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johannes brahmsBorn May 7, 1833; Hamburg, GermanyDied April 3, 1897; Vienna, Austria

Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor

Hungarian Dance No. 3 in F Major

Hungarian Dance No. 10 in F Major

Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor (Orchestrated by Martin Schmeling)

composed1867, for piano four-hands

first performancedate unknown

instrumentationtwo flutes, piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, percussion, harp, strings


first cso performancesFebruary 9, 1892; Saint Louis Exposition and Music Hall, Saint Louis, Missouri. Theodore Thomas conducting (specific dances not indicated)

March 4 and 5, 1892, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conduct-ing (nos. 1, 3, and 10)

July 16, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Willem van Hoogstraten conducting (nos. 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 orchestrated by Antonín Dvořák)

In 1869, after years of playing his Hungarian Dances at the piano for friends, Brahms decided to have them published. He had started playing these pieces at parties and social gatherings as long ago as the early 1850s, remembering the “Hungarian” style—the spirit and the sounds, the folklike melodies and the halting rhythms—that he had learned from Eduard Reményi, the

composer and violinist. For many years, Brahms didn’t even write these dances down. Then, in 1867, he put some on paper, in arrangements for piano four-hands, as a way of capturing a fuller orchestral sound. They were published in two sets of five dances each in 1869. He also wrote a second group of dances, which were published in 1880 (again in two sets, one of five dances, one of six). When the dances proved even more popular than either he or Simrock anticipated, he arranged the first ten for solo piano. Of the twenty-one dances, Brahms openly admitted that only three of them were truly original, the others based in varying degrees on actual Hungarian tunes. (Reményi later said Brahms stole some of his own melodies as well.)

The Hungarian Dances find Brahms at his most easy-going. They were, in a sense, his way of escaping through music to his favorite cafes, where he enjoyed leisurely hours listening to Gypsy bands. He may have resisted writing his Hungarian Dances down at first because he knew it would be difficult

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top to bottomBrahms, photographed by Ludwig Angerer (1827–1879), ca. 1870s

Eduard Reményi (left) and Brahms, photographed in Altona (Hamburg), early spring 1853, just before their joint concert tour

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to capture their essential rhythmic lilt—the idiosyncratic flair of true Hungarian dance—in simple notes on the page. He described them to Fritz Simrock, the first man to publish them, as “perhaps the most practical [pieces] so impractical a man as I can supply.” Eventually, the urge to make full orchestral dances of them proved irresistible, both to Brahms himself, who orches-trated three in 1885—the first three that Riccardo Muti conducts on this concert, nos. 1, 3, and 10—and to several other compos-ers, including most famously Antonín Dvořák and more recently Martin Schmeling, whose colorful arrangement of the popular fifth dance concludes this set.

A footnote. Late in 1889, Theo Wangemann, a representative of Thomas Edison, who had gone to Europe to market Edison’s new recording device, captured Brahms playing measures 13–72 of his Hungarian Dance no. 1 on a wax cylinder. Brahms was fascinated by the new technology—“It is as though one were living in a fairy tale,” he wrote to Clara Schumann—and his abbreviated Hungarian Dance is the earliest known recording made by a com-poser. However, experts are still divided as to whether the voice briefly introducing the music is that of Wangemann or Brahms himself. Not sur-prisingly, the sound through-out is extremely poor, and even though Stanford University recently produced a “de-noised” version of the recording, it is still hard to discern the once fabled magic of Brahms playing his Hungarian Dances at the keyboard.

most recent cso performancesAugust 10, 2014, Ravinia Festival. Bramwell Tovey conducting (no. 4 orchestrated by Paul Juon and no. 10)

November 7 and 8, 2014, Orchestra Hall. Cristian Măcelaru conducting (nos. 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 orches-trated by Antonín Dvořák)

cso recordings1926. Frederick Stock conducting. Victor (nos. 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 orchestrated by Antonín Dvořák)

1977. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Deutsche Grammophon (nos. 1, 3, and 10)

leftTheo Wangemann photographed in Berlin in 1890. The note in the corner reads, “To Mr. Thomas A. Edison / with greatest Esteem / devotion & friendship / Yours truly / A. Theo E. Wangemann / May 26th 1890”

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paul hindemithBorn November 16, 1895; Hanau, near Frankfurt, GermanyDied December 28, 1963; Frankfurt, Germany

Symphony, Mathis der Maler

composedNovember 1933–March 1934 (symphony)

first performanceMarch 12, 1934 (symphony)

instrumentationtwo flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani, glockenspiel, snare drum, cymbals, triangle, bass drum, strings


first cso performancesApril 2 and 3, 1936, Orchestra Hall. Frederick Stock conducting

July 1, 1944, Ravinia Festival. Pierre Monteux conducting

most recent cso performancesAugust 8, 1974, Ravinia Festival. Lawrence Foster conducting

February 18, 20, and 22, 1998, Orchestra Hall. Zubin Mehta conducting

Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Hindemith was not Jewish, but his wife Gertrude was half-Jewish by birth—it was she who later prompted Hermann Göring to make his often-quoted remark, “I’ll decide who’s Jewish”—and so the composer was particularly watchful of the new government’s policies. Later that year, he abandoned work on an operatic love

story and turned his attention to the tale of the German painter Mathias Grünewald, who was torn between a self-centered commitment to his art and a life of political activism.

Mathis der Maler (Mathis the painter) became Hindemith’s personal testament, conceived during the most challenging and difficult period in his life. It is his magnum opus. For nearly three years, he worked on little else, and every day he grappled with the relationship between music and politics, and pondered the artist’s responsibility when the world around him is torn apart by violence and hatred. Regularly, if privately, he weighed the value of his own work—at a time when art, to many, seemed a horribly selfish, if not completely irrelevant, pastime.

In the end, both Grünewald and Hindemith come down on the side of art, although the painter’s dilemma, during the Peasant’s Revolt that followed the Reformation, was neither as complicated nor as treacherous as that of a well-intentioned composer work-ing in Hitler’s Germany. Hindemith’s choices were not always easy ones, and his decisions did not satisfy everyone. For several years he remained in Germany, watching, one by one, his Jewish colleagues Arnold Schoenberg, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, and Artur Schnabel—as well as his own chamber music partners, Emanuel Feuermann and Szymon Goldberg—leave the country. Hindemith’s brother-in-law spent a year in a concentration camp.

Although Hindemith remained isolated from world events while he was writing Mathis der Maler, by the time it was com-pleted in 1935, the opera put him in the middle of controversy. A broadcast of Mathis der Maler was canceled when word leaked out that Hindemith had once spoken disparagingly of Hitler. Wilhelm Furtwängler was advised not to stage the work because, he was told, Hitler had, years before, walked out of a perfor-mance of Hindemith’s News of the Day, incensed by the sight of a

leftHindemith, in a portrait by Rudolf Heinisch (1896–1956), 1931, exhibited as part of the Nazi regime’s Entartete Kunst (Degenerate art), and later destroyed

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soprano singing from her bathtub. (She was merely extolling the joys of an apartment with hot running water.) Ultimately, Furtwängler rose to Hindemith’s defense with an essay that ran on the front page of local newspa-pers, and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, made a speech denounc-ing the com-poser. Hindemith was no longer on the side-lines. In 1938, he was included—along with Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Irving Berlin, and Louis Armstrong—in the now-famous traveling show of “Degenerate Music.” That September the Hindemiths left Germany for a new home in Switzerland. (They moved to the United States in 1940 and became American citizens in 1946.)

The idea for an opera about Mathias Grünewald had been suggested to Hindemith by his publisher, Willy Strecker, in 1932. At first Hindemith was more interested in Strecker’s other suggestion—an opera about Gutenberg. But he quickly came to realize that the Grünewald story was not only timely, but of enormous personal significance. Eventually, he grew to understand that Grünewald’s story, in a sense, was his story. By the time the opera was done, Hindemith admitted that Grünewald’s experiences had “shat-tered his very soul.”

Mathias Grünewald was born in the third quar-ter of the fifteenth century and died, like his more famous German contemporary Albrecht Dürer, in

1528. Grünewald sympathized with the German peasants in the bloody uprisings that began in 1524, and, as a result, he lost the patronage of the cardinal-archbishop of Mainz. Ultimately, however, Grünewald realized the futility of his political actions, and came to understand that only by returning to painting could he truly better mankind.

Grünewald’s masterpiece—his magnum opus—is the many-paneled altarpiece he painted around 1515 for a monastery and hospital in Isenheim, near Colmar. This great monument, one of the most powerful and expressive works in the his-tory of art, is, in effect, the scenic backdrop for Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler, and it inspired several of the opera’s scenes.

Shortly after Hindemith began work on the opera, Furtwängler asked him to write a new piece for the Berlin Philharmonic. Preoccupied as he was with Mathis der Maler, he decided to write a symphony on the same subject, taking its musical material from the pages of sketches that already

aboveSet design for the opera Mathis der Maler by Helmut Jürgens (1902–1963); Munich, Germany, 1948

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cluttered his desk. The symphony was completed more than a year before the opera.

E ach of the three movements represents one of the panels from Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece. The Angelic Concert, the opera’s

overture, begins solemnly, with three resounding, organlike chords, followed by the trombones intoning an old German song, “Es sungen drei Engel ein’ süssen Gesang” (Three angels sang a sweet song). (The song is played three times, each time a third higher.) From there the movement takes wing, in sequences of radiant and soar-ing music.

The Entombment is a gentle—but ultimately fearless—meditation on death. It moves slowly toward a somber climax, with a resoundingly peaceful ending. Hindemith originally planned to use this music at the end of his symphony, as the last of four movements. For a while, when he did not know how to go on, he even consid-ered leaving it a two-movement work. But then he seized on the idea of ending not with death,

but with another of Grünewald’s panels, The Temptation of Saint Anthony. This turned out to be the symphony’s longest and most complex move-ment, written on deadline, in just four weeks. The music is anguished and driven, then tormented and seemingly defeated, until the winds begin to play the Gregorian Lauda Sion salvatorem (Zion, praise the Savior). The brass offer a glorious halo of alleluias at the very end. This is the proud music of hard-won triumph. As Hindemith wrote of Grünewald,

Caught in the powerful machinery of church and state, he had the strength to resist these forces, and in his painting he could report clearly enough how profoundly he was shaken by the wild tumult of his time, with all its suffering, its sicknesses, and its wars.

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

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Riccardo Muti Conductor

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

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

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

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

the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Vienna State Opera.

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

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

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

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many of the world’s most troubled areas in order to bring attention to and advocate for civic and social issues.

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

During his time with the CSO, Muti has won over audiences in greater Chicago and across the globe through his music making as well as his

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

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riccardo muti—conductor and teacherThis summer, Riccardo Muti continued his long-standing relationship with the Salzburg Festival by conducting concerts on August 12, 14, and 15 with the Vienna Philharmonic, with which he has appeared regularly since his debut there in 1971 at the invitation of Herbert von Karajan.

The Salzburger Nachrichten observed: “The Italian maestro is a magnet for the public.” “When the Maestro . . . works with Vienna Philharmonic, it’s almost like a very musical family get-together,” the Kronen Zeitung declared, or as the headlines of Die Presse put it, “ ‘Sold out’ is not enough—Riccardo Muti is the Philharmonic Maestro par excellence.”

In these concerts, he conducted Schumann’s Second Symphony and Schubert’s Mass in E-flat Major, D. 950—works also featured on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2017–18 season. At Salzburg, he was joined by soprano Krassimira Stoyanova, who sang with the CSO and Muti in June 2018 and will return in the title role of Aida, also to be conducted by Muti, in June 2019.

In addition to his appearance in Salzburg, Muti also conducted his annual Roads of Friendship concerts (this year in Kiev and Ravenna); celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his professional conducting debut; and led the fourth annual Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy, where he provided detailed instruction and insight on Verdi’s Macbeth to aspiring young conductors and répétiteurs. Members of the international press were in attendance representing such distinguished publications as Le Monde, Il Sole 24 Ore, Die Welt, Klassik begeistert, and German magazines Orpheus and Concerti, among others.

Kristin Liese of Orpheus noted in her article that,

It is not guaranteed that a brilliant musician will also make a gifted teacher. . . . Riccardo Muti is the last great—very great—musician who is also a superb teacher, and he is completely engrossed in his work at the Italian Opera Academy. . . . He does this work in an incredibly intense, concentrated, collegial, and humorous way, uninterrupted for many hours each day—morning, noon, and night—without exception, even on his seventy-seventh birthday!

For more information on Riccardo Muti’s summer, please refer to Phillip Huscher’s article (“The Maestro Among Maestros”) on page 8, csosoundsandstories.org, and riccardomuti.com.

Riccardo Muti offers guidance to student conductor John Lidfors during a session at the Italian Opera Academy in Ravenna. © silvia lelli

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David Fray Piano

first cso performancesMay 30, 31, June 1, and 4, 2013, Orchestra Hall. Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20, Jaap van Zweden conducting

most recent cso performancesFebruary 22, 23, 24, and 27, 2018, Orchestra Hall. Chopin’s Piano Concerto no. 2, Christoph Eschenbach conducting

Acclaimed for his interpreta-tions of music from Bach to Boulez, David Fray continues to thrill audiences worldwide as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician. He has collaborated with leading orchestras under such distinguished conductors as

Marin Alsop, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph Eschenbach, Daniele Gatti, Paavo Järvi, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Sanderling, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Jaap van Zweden. Concert appearances in Europe have included the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra–Amsterdam, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Academy of St Martin in the Fields in London, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Salzburg Mozarteum, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and Orchestre National de France. David Fray made his U.S. debut in 2009 with the Cleveland Orchestra followed by performances with the Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Park Avenue Armory in New York; and here at Orchestra Hall.

This season, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées presents a cycle of works by Bach with David Fray performing in the concertos for two, three, and four keyboards; sonatas with violinist Renaud Capuçon; and the Goldberg Variations. He returns to North America with the New York Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony, and

the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa, Ontario). He also gives recitals in Amsterdam, Budapest, Dresden, Milan, and Istanbul; tours South Korea and Russia; and joins Renaud Capuçon again for a series of duo recitals throughout Europe. Orchestral collaborations include the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Vienna Radio Symphony and play-directing the Casa da Musica Orchestra in Porto (Portugal). In recent seasons, Fray toured Asia with the Dresden Philharmonic and Michael Sanderling and made debuts with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and at the Prague Spring Festival. Last summer, he was a guest artist at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where he taught a series of master classes in addition to appearing in recital.

In 2017, David Fray released a CD of selected piano works by Chopin, followed by his first pub-lic performances of the composer’s music. An ear-lier disc, an album of Schubert’s late piano works, was named Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice. Fray records exclusively for Erato/Warner Classics, and his first album, including works of Bach and Boulez, received critical praise. His second release, a recording of Bach’s keyboard concertos with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, was praised by the German Recording Academy. An album of Schubert’s Moments musicaux and impromptus followed. Fray’s other critically acclaimed discs include Mozart’s piano concertos nos. 22 and 25 with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden and Bach’s partitas nos. 2 and 6 and the Toccata in C minor (BWV 911). In 2008, ARTE +7 presented a documentary on David Fray, Sing, Swing, and Think, directed by renowned French director Bruno Monsaingeon, which was later released on DVD.

Fray holds multiple awards, including the German Echo Klassik Prize for Instrumentalist of the Year and the Young Talent Award from the Ruhr Piano Festival. In 2008, he was named Newcomer of the Year by BBC Music Magazine.

David Fray began piano lessons at the age of four. He furthered his studies at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Rouvier, who also is featured on his latest album of works by Schubert.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

violinsRobert Chen Concertmaster

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

Stephanie Jeong Associate ConcertmasterThe Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair

David Taylor Yuan-Qing Yu

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

Baird Dodge PrincipalSylvia Kim Kilcullen Assistant

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

violasLi-Kuo Chang Acting Principal

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

John BartholomewCatherine BrubakerYouming Chen

Sunghee ChoiWei-Ting KuoDanny LaiDiane MuesLawrence NeumanMax RaimiWeijing Wang

cellosJohn Sharp Principal

The Eloise W. Martin ChairKenneth Olsen Assistant

PrincipalThe Adele Gidwitz Chair

Karen BasrakLoren BrownRichard HirschlDaniel KatzKatinka KleijnDavid SandersGary StuckaBrant Taylor

bassesAlexander Hanna Principal

The David and Mary Winton Green Principal Bass Chair

Daniel ArmstrongJoseph DiBelloMichael HovnanianRobert KassingerMark KraemerStephen LesterBradley Opland

harpsSarah Bullen PrincipalLynne Turner

flutesStefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

PrincipalThe Erika and Dietrich M. Gross Principal Flute Chair

Richard Graef Assistant Principal

Emma GersteinJennifer Gunn

piccoloJennifer Gunn

oboesWilliam Welter Principal

The Nancy and Larry Fuller Principal Oboe Chair

Michael Henoch Assistant PrincipalThe Gilchrist Foundation Chair

Lora SchaeferScott Hostetler

english hornScott Hostetler

clarine tsStephen Williamson PrincipalJohn Bruce Yeh Assistant

PrincipalGregory SmithJ. Lawrie Bloom

e -flat clarine tJohn Bruce Yeh

bass clarine tJ. Lawrie Bloom

bassoonsKeith Buncke PrincipalWilliam Buchman Assistant

PrincipalDennis MichelMiles Maner

contrabassoonMiles Maner

hornsDaniel Gingrich Acting

PrincipalJames SmelserDavid GriffinOto CarrilloSusanna Gaunt

trumpe tsMark Ridenour Assistant

PrincipalJohn HagstromTage Larsen

trombonesJay Friedman Principal

The Lisa and Paul Wiggin Principal Trombone Chair

Michael MulcahyCharles Vernon

bass tromboneCharles Vernon

tubaGene Pokorny Principal

The Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld

timpaniDavid Herbert Principal

The Clinton Family Fund ChairVadim Karpinos Assistant

Principal

percussionCynthia Yeh PrincipalPatricia DashVadim KarpinosJames Ross

librariansPeter Conover PrincipalCarole KellerMark Swanson

orchestra personnelJohn Deverman DirectorAnne MacQuarrie

Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel

stage techniciansKelly Kerins Stage ManagerBlair CarlsonDave HartgePeter LandryChristopher LewisTodd SnickJoe Tucker

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CSOA’s Annual Corporate Night June 11, 2018The CSOA’s twenty-ninth annual Corporate Night offered Chicago’s corporate community an opportunity to cel-ebrate the many partners and leaders who support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the arts across the city. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association presented its second annual Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award to Northern Trust, a corporate partner of the CSOA since the founding of the Orchestra in 1891. Prior to the concert, Northern Trust Chairman Rick Waddell and President and CEO Mike O’Grady were welcomed on stage to receive the award on behalf of their company. The event on Monday, June 11, 2018 raised more than $1 million (for the first time since 2014) in support of the CSOA’s artistic, education, and community engagement programs. The CSOA is grateful to Corporate Night Co-chairs Megan and Steve Shebik, and League Chairs Jennifer Bumbu and Cheryl Istvan, for their leadership and vision for this special celebration of the strong partnership between the CSOA and Chicago’s corporate community.

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guest artistsGregory Porter VocalsEdwin Outwater ConductorMarc-André Hamelin Piano

program bernstein Overture to Candidegershwin Rhapsody in Bluenat king cole and me

presentingsponsor Allstate Insurance Company

guest artist sponsor ITW

2018 excellence in corporate philanthropy awardee Northern Trust

co-chairsMegan Shebik, Steve Shebik

The Allstate Corporation

league event chairsJennifer Bumbu, Cheryl Istvan

left to rightCorporate Night Co-chairs Megan and Steve Shebik, CSOA President Jeff Alexander, and League of the CSOA Co-chairs Jennifer Bumbu and Cheryl Istvan

Banners recognizing CSOA corporate sponsors hang in Symphony Center’s Rotunda while a brass quintet of musicians from the Civic Orchestra welcome arriving guests

save the date—Next year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Corporate Night. We hope that you will join us on monday, june 3, 2019, for another successful event! For more information, please contact [email protected] or 312-294-3122.


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clockwise from topGregory Porter performs songs by Nat King Cole with the CSO.

Megan Shebik, Jennifer Bumbu, Mike O’Grady (holding the Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award), Rick Waddell, and Steve Shebik

Gregory Porter and the CSO receive a standing ovation for their performance.

Guests enjoy a reception in Buntrock Hall before the concert.

Gifts listed as of August 13, 2018

honor roll of donors

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Corporate Partners

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

global sponsor of the csoBank of America

$250,000 and aboveITWUnited Airlines

$100,000 –$2 49,999Allstate Insurance CompanyBMO Harris BankExelonKirkland & Ellis LLPNorthern Trust

$50,000 –$99,999AnonymousAbbottFinancial Ecnomics Consulting Inc.Jenner & Block LLPPNC BankPricewaterhouseCoopers LLPSidley Austin LLPSP Plus

$25 ,000 –$49,999AnonymousAbbott FundBaker & McKenzieBulgariCIBCJPMorgan Chase & Co.KPMG LLPMagellan Development Group, LLCMayer Brown LLPS&C Electric Company FundSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &

Flom LLPWalgreensWintrust Financial

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

$5 ,000 –$14 ,999AccentureAmsted Industries IncorporatedAriel InvestmentsBairdBlueCross and BlueShield of IllinoisThe Boston Consulting GroupChoose ChicagoCognitive Capital PartnersComPsych CorporationConcentric Equity PartnersCredit SuisseDeloitteDentonsThe Edgewater FundsErnst & Young LLPEvolve IPFellowes, Inc.Goldman Sachs & Co.Grant Thornton LLPLatham & Watkins LLPLazardLocke Lord LLPMolexNuveenPeoples GasSchiff Hardin LLPThe Segal CompanySipi Metals CorporationStarshak Winzenburg & Co.The Navarre Law FirmWeiss Financial, Inc.William Blair

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

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

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




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

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

Alyce DeCostaJCS Fund of the DuPage FoundationThe John D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsThe Negaunee FoundationPritzker Military 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

Sally Mead Hands FoundationIllinois Arts Council AgencyPolk Bros. Foundation

$25 ,000 –$49,999Crain-Maling FoundationJohn R. Halligan Charitable FundJS Charitable TrustThe Leslie FundBowman C. Lingle TrustThe Elizabeth Morse Charitable TrustMichael G. Woll Fund at

The Pauls FoundationHulda B. And Maurice L.

Rothschild Foundation

$10,000 –$2 4 ,999Anonymous (1)Barker Welfare FoundationRobert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.The Buchanan Family FoundationThe Darling Family FoundationPrince Charitable TrustsThe Rhoades FoundationCharles and M. R. Shapiro FoundationThe George L. Shields FoundationRonald and Geri Yonover Foundation

$5 ,000 –$9,999Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick FoundationThe Aaron Copland Fund for MusicFranklin Philanthropic FoundationHunter Family FoundationKovler Family FoundationThe Mayer & Morris Kaplan

Family FoundationMilne Family FoundationNIB FoundationDr. Scholl FoundationArch W. Shaw FoundationSiragusa Family Foundation

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

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

Charitable Trust

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

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The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and Civic Orchestra of Chicago are honored to recognize The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation as the 2018–19 Civic Orchestra of Chicago centennial season sponsor and lead sponsor of two special concert performances this season: the Civic Orchestra’s side-by-side performance with the CSO in the Concert for Chicago and its spring Centennial Celebration Concert. The Cheney Foundation has generously supported the Civic Orchestra for more than 25 years. Beginning with the 2013–14 season, The Cheney Foundation has underwritten a series of innovative Civic Orchestra performances at Symphony Center and in public venues that have been inspired and guided by CSO Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma. We are deeply grateful for the extraordinary generosity of The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, whose directors are committed to celebrating Ms. Cheney’s legacy through the philanthropic support of the arts.

† DeceasedItalics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.Gifts listed as of August 13, 2018

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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 13, 2018. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director of Individual Giving, at 312-294-3165.

$150,000 and aboveAnonymous (3)Randy L. and Melvin R. BerlinRosemarie and Dean L. BuntrockJudson and Joyce GreenMr. Kenneth C. GriffinMr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. GrossThe Julian Family FoundationMargot and Josef LakonishokThe League of the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra AssociationJim and Kay MabieNancy Lauter McDougal and

Alfred L. † McDougalThe James and Madeleine McMullan

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

(Retired)Megan and Steve ShebikRichard and Helen ThomasUnited AirlinesHelen and Sam Zell

$100,000 –$149,999Anonymous (4)Julie and Roger BaskesThe Davee FoundationIrving Harris Foundation, Joan W. HarrisSherry and Bob † ReumCatherine M. and Frederick H. WaddellWomen’s Board of the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra Association

$50,000 –$99,999Anonymous (2)Dora J. and R. John AalbregtseMr. & Mrs. William Adams IVPatricia and Laurence BoothKay BucksbaumRobert J. BufordThe Crown FamilyDr. Christopher L. CulpDr. Eugene FamaRhoda Lea and Henry S. † FrankMs. Susan Goldschmidt and

Mr. Miles TaubChet Gougis and Shelley OchabRichard † and Mary L. GrayJohn Hart and Carol PrinsPamela Kelley Hull / Roger B. HullMs. Patricia Hyde

Mr. & Mrs. Verne G. IstockMr. & Mrs. William R. JentesRobert Kohl and Clark PellettJim and SuAnne LopataLing Z. and Michael C. MarkovitzJudy and Scott McCueSusan RegensteinSandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.Cynthia M. SargentBarbara and Barre Seid FoundationRose Shure TrustMichael and Linda SimonLiz Stiffel

$25 ,000 –$49,999Anonymous (3)Sharon and Charles AngellRobert H. Baum and MaryBeth KretzMr. & Mrs. William Gardner BrownJohn D. and Leslie Henner BurnsMs. Marion A. CameronMr. & Mrs. David CasperBruce and Martha Clinton for

The Clinton Family FundMr. & Dr. George ColisThe Crown FamilyMs. Debora de Hoyos and

Mr. Walter CarlsonTimothy A. and Bette Anne DuffyMr. & Mrs. Brian DuweJohn and Fran EdwardsonDan J. Epstein Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. James B. FadimSheri and J. Bradley FewellMr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia NeilMr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.Nancy and Larry FullerEllen and Paul GignilliatRichard and Alice GodfreyWilliam A. and Anne GoldsteinMary Louise GornoMary Winton GreenMr. & Mrs. Jay L. HendersonJared Kaplan and Maridee QuanbeckMs. Donna L. KendallSidney Kohl Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. James KolarJoseph and Judith KonenRandall S. KrosznerLewis-Sebring Family FoundationMr. Terrance Livingston and

Ms. Debra CafaroBeth A. Mannino and Paul SchickPatty and Mark McGrathMr. David E. McNeelMr. & Mrs. Christopher MelvinMs. Renee Metcalf and Mr. Jim MetcalfMs. Mary MolloyMr. & Mrs. Robert S. MurleyDaniel R. MurrayAlexandra and John NicholsMr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Pauling II

Mr. † & Mrs. Albert PawlickLeAnn Pedersen Pope and

Clyde F. McGregorAndra and Irwin PressDr. Mohan RaoDiana and Bruce RaunerMrs. John Shedd Reed †Sheli Z. and Burton X. RosenbergMr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen RossiMr. & Mrs. Scott SantiMr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet GilboyMr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Robert ShillmanMarion E. SimonWalter and Kathleen SnodellBill and Orli Staley FoundationPam and Russ StrobelThierer Family FoundationMs. Liisa M. Thomas and

Mr. Stephen L. PrattMr. & Mrs. Richard P. ToftTerrence and Laura TruaxPenny and John Van HornMr. & Mrs. Robert A. Wislow

$10,000 –$2 4 ,999Anonymous (5)Mrs. Rosa Acevedo and

Mr. Jose Luis PradoJeff and Keiko AlexanderMrs. Ruth T. AndersonMr. & Mrs. Stuart ApplebaumHenry R. Berghoef and

Leslie Lauer BerghoefArnie and Ann BerlinMerrill and Judy BlauWayne D. and Nancy M. BobergMr. Roderick BranchMr. & Mrs. Arnold BrookstoneMr. & Mrs. Roger O. BrownHenry and Gilda BuchbinderTom and Dianne CampbellJoyce ChelbergSue and Jim CollettiMari Hatzenbuehler CravenMr. Jerry J. CritserDancing Skies FoundationMr. Philip DarlingMs. Nancy DehmlowMs. Shawn M. Donnelley and

Dr. Christopher M. KellyMr. † & Mrs. David A. DonovanMr. & Mrs. Charles W. DouglasDavid and Deborah DranoveAnne H. EvansMr. & Mrs. Richard J. FrankeMr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. GlossbergSue and Melvin GrayMr. & Mrs. John P. GrubeJames and Brenda GruseckiLynne R. Haarlow




Mr. & Mrs. David HackettMr. Collier HandsMarguerite DeLany HarkIrving Harris Foundation, Joan W. HarrisHarris Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. Thomas C. HeagyMr. & Mrs. R. HelmholzMs. Leigh Ann HermanDavid Herro and Jay FrankeMr. & Mrs. Mark C. HibbardMr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Holman IIIFred and Sandra HolubowMr. † & Mrs. Joel D. HonigbergJanice L. HonigbergMr. & Mrs. George E. JohnsonBarbara and Kenneth KaufmanMs. Kola KennedyAnne and John KernJean KlingensteinDr. June KoizumiFerdinand and Bernadette KorndorfDr. Michael KrcoDr. † & Mrs. H. LeichenkoMs. Betsy LevinDrs. Edmund & Julie LewisDr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold TobinMr. & Mrs. John LillardMr. & Mrs. James LoewenbergMrs. Erma MedgyesyMichuda Construction Inc.Emilie Morphew, M.D.Edward and Gayla NieminenDavid and Dolores NelsonBill and Penny ObenshainMr. & Mrs. William J. O’NeillMrs. China I. OughtonPasquinelli Family FoundationMr. Robert PetersonMs. Emilysue PinnellMary and Joseph PlauchéMs. Judy PomeranzMr. & Mrs. John PrattDr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. RissmanJerry RoseMs. Judy RungeMr. Richard RyanMr. & Mrs. David SavnerKarla Scherer and Harve FerrillDavid and Judy SchiffmanMr. & Mrs. Albert SchlachtmeyerAl Schriesheim and Kay TorshenDavid and Judith L. SensibarThe Earl and Brenda Shapiro FoundationMr. & Mrs. Alejandro SilvaKimberly M. SnyderIda N. Sondheimer & Family, in memory of

Joseph SondheimerMr. Irving Stenn, Jr.Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-SternRoger and Susan Stone Family FoundationMary StowellMr. & Mrs. Louis Sudler, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Scott SwansonBill and Anne TobeyMr. & Mrs. William C. VanceMs. Nancy VoorheesMr. † & Mrs. H. Blair WhiteCraig and Bette WilliamsDr. Marylou WitzAnn S. WolffSarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman

$3 ,500 –$9,999Anonymous (18)Elaine and Floyd AbramsonFraida and Bob AlandMs. Rochelle AllenSandra Allen and Jim PerlowMr. & Mrs. Robert A. AlsakerMr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and

Mrs. Sara Jones-AmreinGeoffrey A. AndersonMegan P. and John L. AndersonMr. & Mrs. Michael AndersonCushman L. and Pamela AndrewsMs. Doris AngellMychal P. Angelos, in memory of

Dorothy A. AngelosDr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva RedeiDavid and Suzanne ArchDr. & Mrs. Kent ArmbrusterCarey and Brett AugustMarta Holsman BabsonEd BachrachMr. Edward M. BakwinMr. Neal BallPeter and Elise BarackMr. & Mrs. Christopher BarberPaul and Robert Barker FoundationMr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. BarnesMr. Peter BarrettRoberta and Harold S. BarronMs. Sandra BassDr. & Mrs. Robert A. BeattyDonna and Mike BellMr. Lawrence BellesMs. Dorothy J. BensonMrs. James F. Beré †Meta S. and Ronald † Berger

Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. D. Theodore BerghorstDr. Leonard & Phyllis BerlinMr. & Mrs. Robert L. Berner, Jr.Mr. Howard BernickCatherine & Ron BevilLois R. and Maurice J. BeznosMr. & Mrs. William E. BibleMrs. Arthur A. BillingsJim † and Dianne BlancoAnn BlickensderferMrs. Nancy BlumMs. Terry BodenMr. & Mrs. John BorlandMr. & Mrs. James Borovsky

Adam BossovMr. Donald BousemanMr. & Mrs. John D. BramsenMs. Jill BrennanConnie and Bob BrinkMr. & Mrs. John BrubakerMr. & Mrs. Timothy BryanMr. & Mrs. Samuel BuchsbaumLisa Dollar Buehler and Bill EscamillaKay and Rhett † ButlerMs. Lutgart CalcoteMs. Vera CappCarmine FoundationAnn and Richard CarrWendy Alders CartlandMr. & Mrs. Jerome CastelliniMia Celano and Noel DunnMr. James ChamberlainLinton J. ChildsJan and Frank Cicero, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. ClancyMr. & Mrs. Wesley M. ClarkMr. & Ms. Keith ClaytonPatricia A. ClickenerMitchell Cobey and Janet RealiMs. Jean CocozzaDouglas and Carol CohenLewis CollensJane and John C. ColmanMrs. Frances ComerDr. Thomas H. ConnerMr. Robert CookeMary Lynn CooneyJenny L. Corley in memory of

Dr. W. Gene CorleyMr. Lawrence CorryAnita J. Court, Ph.D.Ms. Jane CoxPatricia Cox and FamilyMs. Juli CrabtreeMrs. Beatrice G. CrainMr. & Mrs. William A. CraneMr. & Mrs. Richard CremieuxMr. Bert CrosslandMr. Ivo Daalder and Mrs. Elisa D. HarrisMr. & Mrs. Robert J. DarnallDr. Brenda A. Darrell and

Mr. Paul S. WatfordDr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das GuptaMuller Davis † and Lynn StrausMr. Guy DeBoo and Ms. Susan FranzettiDecyk Charitable FoundationMr. Steven DeliMr. & Mrs. Charles DemirjianDuane M. DesParte and

John C. SchneiderJanet Wood DiederichsMr. Patrick Tagny DiessePaul and Nona DixMr. & Mrs. William DooleyDr. & Mrs. James L. DowneyMs. Ann Drake


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Ms. Marilyn DugingerDr. George Dunea and Dr. Sally DuneaMr. & Mrs. Bernard DunkelMr. & Mrs. Frank A. DusekWendy EagerMr. & Mrs. Timothy EarleMr. & Mrs. David P. Earle IIIMr. & Mrs. Stephen EastwoodMr. & Mrs. Larry K. EbertMr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling IIIMr. † & Mrs. Richard EldenMs. Paula ElliottMichael and Kathleen ElliottMr. & Mrs. Samuel H. EllisCharles and Carol EmmonsMrs. Janice EngleScott and Lenore EnloeSidney Epstein † and

Sondra Berman EpsteinMrs. Carol Evans, in memory of

Henry EvansMr. Fred EychanerMarilyn D. Ezri, M.D.Mrs. Walter D. FacklerTarek and Ann FadelJeffrey Farbman and Ann GreensteinMr. & Mrs. William F. FarleySally S. FederCathy and Joe FeldmanJudith E. FeldmanDonald and Signe FergusonHector Ferral, M.D.Ms. Sharon Ferrill †Constance M. FillingDr. & Mrs. Sanford FinkelMr. Conrad FischerKenneth M. Fitzgerald and Ruby CarrEvelyn T. FitzpatrickMrs. Donna FlemingEileen T. Flynn and Thomas J. InglisHenry and Frances FogelMr. Robert Fordham †Ginny and Peter ForemanMrs. John D. FosterMr. & Mrs. Willard FraumannGerald FreedmanSusan and Paul FreehlingMr. & Mrs. Philip FriedmannIn Loving Memory of

Alice Furumoto-DawsonJudy and Mickey GaynorRobert D. GechtSandy and Frank GelberDr. & Mrs. Mark GendlemanMr. & Mrs. † Isak V. GersonRabbi Gary S. Gerson and

Dr. Carol R. GersonBernardino and Caterina GhettiCamillo and Arlene GhironMs. Karen GianfranciscoMrs. Willard GidwitzMr. & Mrs. Jerome Gilson

Mr. & Mrs. James J. GlasserMr. Jonathan W. GlossbergJudy & Bill GoldbergAlfred G. GoldsteinLyn GoldsteinMr. & Mrs. Thomas M. GoldsteinJeannette and Jerry GoldstoneRobert and Marcia GoltermannMary and Michael GoodkindMr. & Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr.Dr. Alexia GordonMrs. Amy G. Gordon and

Mr. Michael D. GordonMr. Gerald and Dr. Colette GordonDonald J. GralenMs. Freddi GreenbergTimothy and Joyce GreeningDr. Jerri E. GreerMr. & Mrs. Byron GregorySusan † and Kendall GriffithMr. & Mrs. Jerome GroenJacalyn GronekMr. & Mrs. John GrowdonDr. & Mrs. John W. Gustaitis, Jr.Anastasia and Gary GuttingMr. & Mrs. Ernst A. HäberliMr. & Mrs. John HalesJoan M. HallJerry A. Hall, M.D.Mrs. Richard C. HalpernStephanie and Howard HalpernAnne Marcus HamadaRonald and Diane HamburgerDr. & Mrs. Chester HandelmanJohn and Sally HardMary E. HarlandDr. Robert A. HarrisMs. Kyle HarveyMr. & Mrs. Michael R. HassanJames W. HaughThomas and Connie Hsu HaynesMr. & Mrs. Joseph Andrew HaysJames and Lynne † HeckmanPati and O.J. HeestandMr. James R. Helbert † and

Mrs. Mary Mako HelbertJanet and Bob HelmanDr. & Mrs. Arthur L. HerbstSonny and Marlene HershMr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. HesseMarjorie Friedman HeymanThe Hickey Family FoundationRobert A. Hill and Thea Flaum HillWilliam B. HinchliffJames & Megan HinchsliffMrs. Mary P. HinesMs. Joan R. HoatsonMrs. Edwin P. HoffmanRichard and Joanne HoffmanMr. William J. HokinEugene HollandDr. & Mrs. James Holland

Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson IIIJames and Eileen HolzhauerMs. Joanna HorsnailFrances and Franklin † HorwichJames and Mary HoustonMr. † & Mrs. Peter HuizengaTex and Susan HullDr. Ronald L. HullingerMichael and Leigh HustonLeland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. PerkinsMichael L. IgoeMrs. Babette InglehartMs. Elizabeth InglehartMr. Craig T. IngramMs. Frieda Ireland and Mr. Carroll DamronDr. Peter IvanovichMrs. Nancy Witte JacobsMr. & Mrs. Stan JakopinCynthia Jamison-MarcyDr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy JanusJoseph and Rebecca JarabakMr. John JaworBenetta and Paul JensonMr. & Mrs. Edward Jepson, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. † Howard JessenJoni and Brian JohnsonMaryl Johnson, M.D.Ronald B. JohnsonDr. Patricia Collins JonesMs. Stephanie JonesMr. & Mrs. Edward T. JoyceEric and Melanie KalninsThe Morris and Dolores Kohl Kaplan FundMr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/

Kaplan FoundationMrs. Lonny H. KarminJohn and Kerma KarolyBarry D. KaufmanLarry † and Marie KaufmanMr. Tyrus KaufmanDon Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-KaulSusie Forstmann KealyMarilyn M. KeilMr. & Mrs. Michael KeiserJim and Ellen KelleherMr. & Mrs. Jeff KellerJonathan and Nancy Lee KemperLinda J. Kenney, PhDGerould and Jewell KernMrs. Elizabeth KeyserMr. & Mrs. Richard KeyserThe King Family FoundationCarol KippermanEsther G. KlatzDr. Jay and Georgianna KleimanMr. & Mrs. James KlenkMr. Thomas KmetkoMrs. Harriet B. KoehlerMr. and Mrs. Norman KoglinCookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. KohnNancy and Sanfred KoltunMr. & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek




Mr. & Mrs. Jack KozikDr. & Mrs. Mark KozloffMr. and Mrs. David KravitzKay and Fred KrehbielEldon and Patricia KreiderDavid and Susan KreismanCarter Howard and Sarah KreppMr. & Mrs. Ronald KrueckDrs. Vinay and Raminder KumarMs. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan KurunaMr. & Mrs. Rubin P. KuznitskyMr. John LaBarberaArthur and Olga LadenburgerPatricia LeeAnne E. Leibowitz FundSheila Fields LeiterMr. Jeffrey LennardWally and Carol LennoxMary and Laurence LevineAverill and Bernard LevitonMr. Julius LewisGregory M. Lewis and Mary E. StrekMr. † & Mrs. Paul LiebermanPhilip R. Liebson, M.D.Stewart and Susan LiechtiDr. & Mrs. Herbert LippitzLing LiuPatricia M. LivingstonReva and John S. Lizzadro, Sr.Diane and William F. LloydJane and Peter LoebThe Loewenthal Fund at

The Chicago Community TrustRenée LoganMr. Russ LymanMr. Edward MackMr. & Mrs. Duncan MacLeanS. Stella MahDr. & Mrs. Michael S. MalingThe Malott Family FoundationMr. Daniel ManoogianRobert † and Judy MarthMr. & Mrs. Patrick A. MartinMs. Marjorie MartinMr. & Mrs. Robert MarwinDaniel and Lenore MassMs. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian HaagJames and Susan MatsonMarianne C. MayerMrs. Robert MayerMargaret H. and Steven D. McCormickRosa and Peter McCullaghAnn Pickard McDermottDr. & Mrs. James McGeeDr. & Mrs. John McGee IIJohn and Etta McKennaDr. & Mrs. Peter McKinneyIn memory of William and

Carolyn McKittrickJane and Bruce McLaganJames Edward McPherson and

David L. Murray

Heather McWilliamsMr. & Mrs. Paul MeisterMr. Gregory and Dr. Alice MelchorMr. Robert O. MiddletonMr. Llewellyn Miller and

Ms. Cecilia ConradEdward & Lucy R. Minor

Family FoundationMs. Mary MittlerMr. Frank Modruson and

Ms. Lynne ShigleyMs. Judith MoniakDr. Toni-Marie MontgomeryDrs. Bill and Elaine MoorCharles A. MooreMaria and Carl E. MooreDr. Charles MorcomMrs. Frank MorrisseyThe Morrow Family FoundationCatherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Herbert F. MunstermanEileen M. MurrayMr. † & Mrs. William NeimanMrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr.Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin BuzardDr. Zehava L. NoahMr. & Mrs. Richard NoparKenneth R. NorganMs. Susan NorvichMr. Gerard and Dr. Linda NussbaumMs. Martha NussbaumEric and Carolyn OesterleMr. & 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. Bruce OttleyMichael and Rebecca OwenMrs. Evelyn E. PadorrMs. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith CrowMr. Timothy J. PatenodeDianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.Ms. Shauna PeetGerald † and Mona PennerDr. & Mrs. Ray PensingerRoxy and Richard PepperKingsley PerkinsMr. & Mrs. Michael A. PerlsteinMr. & Mrs. Norman PermanDr. William PeruzziDavid and Sara PetersonLorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.Sue N. and Thomas F. PickMs. Kimberly PickenpaughStanley M. and Virginia Johnson PillmanMrs. Sherri PincusMr. & Mrs. Dale R. PinkertHarvey and Madeleine Plonsker

John F. Podjasek III Charitable FundChristine and Michael PopeStephen and Ann Suker PotterMr. Samuel PressMr. & Mrs. John PuthMr. & Mrs. Leigh RabmanDorothy V. RammMs. Helen ReedMari Yamamoto RegnierAl and Lynn ReichleAnn and Bob Reiland, in memory of

Arthur and Ruth KochMark S. ReiterMerle ReskinBurton and Francine RissmanCharles and Marilynn RivkinMs. Carol RobertsDavid and Kathy RobinRoberts Family FoundationWilliam and Cheryl RobertsDr. Diana RobinErik and Nelleke RoffelsenBob Rogers TravelMr. John W. Rogers, Jr.Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. VicencioMr. & Mrs. Harry J. RoperMr. & Mrs. Saul RosenMichael RosenthalDr. Roseanne RosenthalSharon and Louis F. RosenthalBetsy RosenzweigD.D. RoskinMr. & Mrs. Frank A. RossiMrs. Donald Roth †Jay and Maija RothenbergMs. Roberta H. RubinMrs. Susan B. RubnitzTina and Buzz RuttenburgWilliam and Mary RyanRita † and Norman SackarCarol S. SadowMs. Cecelia SamansMr. David SandfortMr. Agustin G. SanzMr. Muneer A. Satter and

Ms. Kristen H. HertelRaymond and Inez SaundersDusan Stefoski and Craig SavageMr. Laurence SaviersMr. Timothy M. SawyierMr. † and Mrs. Nathan SchlossShirley and John † SchlossmanDouglas M. SchmidtMr. & Mrs. Richard H. SchnadigMr. & Mrs. Michael SchollThe Schreuder FamilyDonald L. and Susan J. SchwartzMr. & Mrs. Thomas ScorzaJoan and George SegalMr. & Mrs. Chandra SekharRonald and Nancy SemerdjianMr. & Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior


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Ilene and Michael Shaw Charitable TrustMs. Courtney SheaDr. & Mrs. James C. SheininRichard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. RobertsJessie Shih and Johnson HoElizabeth and John ShoemakerMr. Morrell Shoemaker, Jr.Stuart and Leslie ShulruffMs. Ann SilbermanMr. & Mrs. John SimmonsThe Honorable John B. Simon and

Mrs. Millie Rosenbloom SimonJulia M. SimpsonCraig 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. SmithMr. and Mrs. Stephen R. SmithJames and Diane SnyderMr. & Mrs. O. J. SopranosMr. † & Mrs. James Cavanaugh SpainMr. & Mrs. Michael SpainJoel and Beth SpenadelRobert and Emily SpoerriMs. Adena StabenHelena StancikasDr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean StarkMr. & Mrs. Leonidas StefanosMs. Momoko SteinerFay S. Stern, in memory of John N. SternMr. Hal S.R. StewartVirginia Lee StiglerDr. & Mrs. Ralph StollLaurence and Caryn StrausLawrence E. Strickling and

Sydney L. HansMr. & Mrs. William H. StrongMr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.Cheryl SturmMs. Minsook SuhMr. Sean SusaninRuth Miner Swislow †Mr. & Mrs. Robert SzalayMr. & Mrs. Gregory TaubeneckMrs. Vernon ThomasMr. James ThompsonMs. Carla M. ThorpeJoan and Michael ThronRay and Mary Ann TittleMs. Mary TorresJohn T. and Carrie M. TraversHoward and Paula † TrienensJoan & Bill TrukenbroadMr. and Mrs. David TrushinPhil † and Paula TurnerMr. & Mrs. Robert W. TurnerKsenia A. and Peter Turula

Mrs. Elizabeth TwedeHenry and Janet UnderwoodZalman and Karen UsiskinMr. Peter ValeVirginia C. ValeDr. Cynthia M. Valukas and

Mr. Joseph A. KohlMrs. Dorothy VanceMr. & Mrs. Peter E. Van NiceMs. Julia Vander PloegThomas D. Vander VeenDr. Michael ViglioneMr. Christian VinyardTheodore and Elisabeth WachsMr. & Mrs. Mark A. WagnerMr. & Mrs. Bernard WallNicholas and Jessica WallaceMs. Carol WarshawskyDr. Catherine L. WebbMr. & Mrs. Jacob WeglarzMr. & Mrs. Joseph M. WeilDrs. Carolyn and Jamie WeinerHilary and Barry WeinsteinSamuel † and Chickie WeisbardAbby and Glen WeisbergMr. & Mrs. Robert G. WeissLinda and Marc WeissbluthBert and Barbara WellerIn memory of Peter Leland Wentz and

Vida Broadbent WentzMrs. Barbara H. West †Mr. & Mrs. Peter WestM.L. WinburnMr. Stephen WintersMichael † and Laura WollDr. Hak WongCourtenay R. Wood and

H. Noel Jackson, Jr.Michael H. and Mary K. WooleverMs. Debbie WrightOwen and Linda YoungmanPaul and Mary YovovichMr. Laird Zacheis and Ms. Sunhee LeeDavid and Eileen ZampaDr. & Mrs. John ZarembaMs. Anne ZenzerRichard E. ZieglerMs. Karen Zupko

$1,000 –$3 , 499Anonymous (34)Mr. Richard AbramMr. & Mrs. Sherwin AbramsMichael and Mary AbroeNancy A. AbshireMs. Patti AcurioMr. & Mrs. Stanley AdelmanIn memory of Martha and Bernie AdelsonSarah AdlerMs. Susan AdlerDr. & Mrs. Carl H. AlbrightMs. Judy Allen

Ms. Mary T. AlrothMrs. Evelyn AlterDr. Diane AltkornDr. Ronald and Barbara AltmanDr. Charles and Marie Grass AmentaMs. Carol AndersonMr. Karl Anderson and Ms. Pamela ShuDr. Smiljana AntonijevicDr. & Mrs. Robert ArensmanGregory Yuri AronoffMrs. Jeanne B. AronsonMs. Marie AsburyMr. & Mrs. Peter AscoliMary Jane and Bob AsnerMr. & Mrs. Theodore M. AsherMr. Sinan AtacJack S. AtenAthena FundMs. Frances AtkinsTom AuchterMs. Bernice AuslanderMr. Tom BachtellDr. Richard BaerCatherine Baker and Timothy KentJon Balke and G. BalkeEdith M. BallinMs. Barbara BallingerMr. & Mrs. William BardeenMr. Robert BarkeiMs. Judith BarnardMr. Carroll BarnesMr. & Mrs. John BarnesPatrick BarnesJames and Bartha BarrettMr. Peter BarrettNita & Alvin BarshefskyWilliam BartleyMs. Barbara BarzanskyMr. & Ms. John J. BasalayHoward and Donna BassProfessor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and

Elaine KlemenMichael and Gail BauerMr. Ronald BauerMs. Elaine BaumnnMs. Patricia BayerleinMs. Ellen BechtholdMs. Michele BeckerPaul Becker and Nancy BeckerDr. & Mrs. Enrique BeckmannKirsten Bedway and Simon PeeblerShirley BehrendtPrue and Frank BeidlerMr. & Mrs. Richard BenckMichelle BennettArlene and Marshall BennettMs. Susan BennettMr. Thomas BergMr. and Mrs. Charles S. BergenMr. Marc BerlowGene and Natalie BernardoniMs. Catherine Berry




Mr. & Mrs. Loren Berry IIIMr. Jerry BiedemanBigoness FamilyMr. & Mrs. Harrington BischofMr. & Mrs. Charles BlackMr. Joe BlackburnMr. & Mrs. Andrew BlockMr. and Mrs. David BlumbergSusanna BodnarMr. Edward Boehm IIIMs. Virginia BoehmeTimothy and Karen BondyCassandra L. BookMr. & Mrs. Peter BorichMr. James BorkmanMr. & Mrs. Fred P. BosselmanMr. John BostjancichDrs. Nader and Mandan BozorgiMr. Richard BresowarMr. and Mrs. Joseph BreuMr. Michael BrewerMs. Susan BridgeBarbara and Powell BridgesMr. & Mrs. Robert BrightfeltMr. Wesley BroquardMr. Lee M. Brown, Mr. John B. Newman

and Ms. Pixie NewmanMrs. Dan BrusslanAnn M. BuckleyLinda S. BuckleyMr. and Mrs. Allen BuhlerDr. Jack BulmashMs. Kathryn BurgdorferDr. 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 BuzasMs. Linda CalandraMr. & Mrs. Wiley Caldwell, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Dennis CalvaneseFather John CanaryRobert and Kay CarlsonMr. Fairbank CarpenterDrs. Virginia and Stephen CarrMr. & Mrs. Candelario CelioBeverly and Lawrence CentellaMr. David A. ChambersMr. † & Mrs. Henry T. ChandlerMr. Aaron ChandranMr. Rowland ChangMs. Margaret ChaplanMr. & Mrs. John ChapmanMr. Jayson CheeverMr. Myron CherryHarriett and Myron CholdenMr. and Mrs. Gerry ChrismanMr. George Christakes

Bruce ChristianMr. & Mrs. Stanley ChristiansonMs. Kathleen ClarkStephen ClarkMs. Nancy ClawsonRobert Coen and Marjorie CoenMr. & Mrs. Frank CohenDavid ColburnDr. Edward A. Cole and

Dr. Christine A. RydelMs. Kathryn CollierMr. Jonathan CollinsMr. Stan CollinsE. and V. Combs FoundationJames D. ComptonMrs. Eileen ConaghanPeter Conover and Kristi SlonigerPeter and Beverly Ann ConroyMary Ellen Cooney and Ken HigginsNancy R. CorralJoe and Judy CosenzaMr. & Mrs. Bill CottleKristen and John CourtneyGayla W. CoxMs. Susan CrawJay Crawford and Lynne FriedlanderMr. Earle Cromer IIIHector CruzWilliam and Janice CutlerConstance CwiokMrs. Marcia DamDr. Mark E. Dato and Dr. Mary P. BrownMr. Robert DaughertyDenise and Dr. Ariel DavidMelissa and Gordon DavisNorma E. Davis WillisMr. & Mrs. Richard DavisonRomke de HaanMr. Eric C. DeanDelaney Delaney & Voorn LTDMrs. David DeMarMr. Adrian DemooyDr. & Mrs. Terrence DemosMs. Marcia DevlinMr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoungMr. & Mrs. Byram DickesMs. Amy Dickinson and

Mr. James FutranskyMr. Peter DiDonatoMr. William Dietz, Jr.Mr. Frank DileonardoMichael and Laurel DiPrimaKathleen Lockhart & James DixonKevin & Kelly DockeryMr. & Mrs. Otto Doering IIIMrs. Janice DomanikMr. Fred DonnerMs. Joan D. DonovanMrs. Catherine DouglasDr. & Mrs. Heratch DoumanianNatalie and Joshua DranoffMs. Rosanne Druian

Ingrid and Richard DubberkeMr. and Mrs. Andrew DudaMr. and Mrs. Eugene DudaMr. Ronald DukeMr. and Mrs. Robert DulskiDr. Thomas Durica & Sue JacobMr. & Mrs. Dan DvorkinMr. & Mrs. Warren EagleJudge Frank EasterbrookMr. Nik B. EdesGary and Deborah EdidinRichard Egen and Donna EgenNancy EibeckEdward and Nancy EichelbergerMr. & Mrs. Estia EichtenRobert S. and Ardyth J. EisenbergSondra and Karl S. EisenbergReese and Jeanne ElledgeThomas EllerMr. & Mrs. Victor Elting IIIMs. Laura EmerickLa and Phillip EngelMr. & Mrs. A. Gerald EricksonDr. & Mrs. James ErtleNancy EstradaPaul and Clare FahertyLaura and John FairfieldDr. Robert A. Fajardo and Judith MarohnMr. & Mrs. Robert FeitlerSteven and Carol FelsenthalDr. & Mrs. William FeltenMr. & Mrs. Joel FenchelJoy FettSandra E. FienbergStephen and Patricia FisherMr. Patrick Fitzgerald andMs. Mary K. KrigbaumMs. Lola FlammMrs. Roslyn FlegelMr. William FleigMs. Anita D. FlournoyMr. Paul FongMr. Michael FordneyMr. Mark FossArthur L. Frank, M.D.Ms. Stacie M. FrankLawrence and Pamela FrankelDr. & Mrs. James FranklinAllen J. Frantzen and George R. PatersonDr. † & Mrs. Uwe FreeseMr. and Mrs. Louis Freidheim, Jr.Fred FreitagMr. George Frerichs andMs. Cheryl D. McIntyreDr. & Mrs. Gary J. FriendMr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry IIIDr. Barbara FullerMr. & Mrs. James GaebeMs. Cecile GaganJan Gaines and Andrew S. KenoeMrs. Joan M GalinskiDr. & Mrs. Ronald Ganellen


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Estate of Florence GanjaDr. Francisco GarciniMr. John GardnerMr. and Mrs. † Robert J. GareisDrs. Henry and Susan GaultNancy GavlinCassandra GeigerLouis and Judith GenesenMr. and Mrs. John E. GepsonMrs. Elizabeth GibbyMr. James GibsonMs. Sharon GibsonMs. Gloria GierkeMr. Ben Gierl and Ms. Karla HayterMr. & Mrs. Alan GilbertMargaret GillingLawrence and Amy GillumMr. David GlueckWilliam and Ethel GofenNorman † and Barbara GoldMr. & Mrs. Perry GoldbergMr. † & Mrs. Samuel GoldenDr. & Mrs. Marshall D. Goldin, in memory

of Dr. William WarrenAdele and Marvin GoldsmithMs. Maria GoncaloMs. Sarah GoodGordon and Nancy GoodmanIsabelle GoossenMr. Jacques GordonLeo & Linda GordonMerle GordonMr. Andrew GoreMr. & Mrs. James GorterMr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana FrenchIn Memory of DeannaDavid and Elizabeth GrahamCarol R. GrantMr. Brooks GrantierMr. and Mrs. Delmon GrapesThomas † and Delta GreeneRochelle and Michael GreenfieldMr. and Mrs. David GreensteinMr. David GriffinGregory GrobarcikCharles Grode and Heidi LukasMr. & Mrs. Jim GrotelueschenMrs. Marguerite GuidoGeorge F. and Catherine S. HaberHalasmani/Davis FamilyTimothy R. Hale & Katherine Grace HaleMs. Nancy HallerMrs. Mary HallmanJohn and Patricia HamiltonMs. Lee HamiltonHill and Cheryl HammockMs. Agnes HamosMr. & Mrs. Stuart HandlerStuart and Shelly HanflingMr. Michael Hansen andMs. Nancy RandaMs. Patricia Harper

Mrs. John M. HartiganRobert and Margot HaselkornDr. & Mrs. James HaughtonDr. & Mrs. Paul J. HauserMr. William P. Hauworth IIBridgette Hayes and Eric HayesMs. Joan HeaneyMrs. Nancy HeilRoss and Andrea HeimDr. Joseph N. Heiney and

Mr. Khadbaatar JargalsaikhanMr. David HelversonMr. Steven HeiseMs. Dawn E. HelwigMr. Thomas C. HennigerMichael and Suzanne HensleyMr. David HerbertMr. † & Mrs. Peter HerrBarbara and Jim HerstLarry HerzogHarriet E. HeydaMr. Paul E. HicksJeana HillMr. & Mrs. David HilliardJames and Margot HinchliffThe Rev. Melinda Hinners-Waldie andMr. Benjamin WaldieMs. Judith HirschDr. Richard HirschmannMr. Christian HoffmanDavid Glenn HoffmanMs. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph DohertyMr. Karl HoffmanSuzanne Hoffman and Dale SmithMs. Sharon Flynn HollanderMr. Todd HollemanMrs. J. HolmbeckDr. George Honig and Ms. Olga WeissMr. and Mrs. Peter HorneVicki and Thomas Horwich FoundationMs. Roberta M. HorwitzMs. Amanda Howland and

Dr. Phillip E. LaneBruce and Carol HuckMichael and Beverly HuckmanDavid and Marcia HulanMr. Harry Hunderman and

Ms. Deborah SlatonMs. Patricia HurleyDr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul NavinMr. and Mrs. Jorge IorgulescuCheryl IstvanMr. Benjamin IvoryMr. Harold E Jackson JrMiss Merle JacobMs. Ann JagiellaMr. Matt JamesMr. & Mrs. † Edgar D. Jannotta, Sr.Jeong-YoonMs. Lynn JerathMrs. Mary Johnston, Ph.D.

Jean and Cynthia JohoMr. Thomas JonesMs. Kathleen JordanMs. Hyla KallenMr. † & Mrs. Tom KallenJames KallianisThomas and Reseda KalowskiWayne S. and Lenore M. KaplanRoula and George KarcazesMr. & Mrs. Byron C. KarzasMrs. Louise KaschDouglas and Dana KaslMs. Ethelle KatzMr. Neil KatzDr. and Mrs. Robert KatzMs. Carole KellerMs. Robyn KelleyMr. & Mrs. † Algimantas KezelisMr. Howard KiddAnne G. Kimball and Peter SternEllen KingMr. & Mrs. John E. KirkpatrickMr. & Mrs. David KistenbrokerKathy Kirn and David LevinsonMs. Lilia KiselevJack and Terry KleckaMr. & Mrs. LeRoy KlemtAnna Z. KleymenovaJanice KlichMs. Mary KlyasheffMr. & Mrs. Thomas KnauffRobert and Andrea KnightMr. George KochMr. & Mrs. Thomas KoelblKoldyke Family FundMr. Edward KossMr. Mark KraemerMrs. Leona KrompartMr. and Mrs. Larry KrucoffMaria KubikMr. & Mrs. Walfrid KujalaMr. Steven KukalisDr. & Mrs. Ken KuoMs. Michele KurlanderPaul and Ruth Ann KurtinBob and Marian KurzMr. Matthew KusekMr. and Mrs. Gary KussowDr. Marina and Andrey KuznetsovMr. and Mrs. Mark LabkonMr. Thomas LadMarvin & Carol LaderMr. Craig Lancaster and

Ms. Charlene T. HandlerElisabeth and William LandesRichard Landgraff and Bernadette FoleyJohn LansingMr. & Mrs. Gerald R. LanzDJ and Natalie LaRocqueMs. Pamela LarsenMs. Leah LaurieMr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sauter




Sharon and Bill LearElaine Lebhoff-Ries, MD, and

Michael Ries, MDMr. & Mrs. Peter LedererMr. Mark LedogarMr. & Mrs. Bruce LeepDarla and Hunter LeggittJohn and Jill LeviMrs. Richard LeviFay and Daniel LevinDr. & Mrs. Stuart LevinAbby and Jonathan LevineDr. & Mrs. Robert LevyJosephine Lewis and Morton DubmanMs. Judith LewisDr. Marcia A. LewisCara LichtensteinBrian Lighty and Andrew BigelowMr. Ross LillieRobert † and Joan LipsigMs. Anne LittleMs. Alma LizcanoMr. Melvin LoebMr. † & Ms. Gerald F. LoftusMrs. Gabrielle LongMs. Melynda LopinMr. & Ms. Matthew LoPrestiMs. Esther LothDonna and Richard LoundyMs. Jean LorenzenMr. Joel LoweryAmy and Don LubinJennifer and Dan LubyRonald and Carlotta LucchesiMr. and Mrs. Michael LutzMr. Aaron MaciasMr. Daniel Macken and

Mr. Merlyn HarboldMr. Glen J. Madeja and Ms. Janet SteidlMs. Janice MagnusonDr. Allan MaierMs. Jeanne MalkinMs. Margaret A. MaloneMr. Gary L. Mandell and Mrs. Diana KonMiles ManerIn honor of Miles ManerMs. Amy B. Manning and

Mr. Paul C. ZiebertMr. George MannosMr. & Mrs. Mark MantoMarty L. ManuelSharon L. ManuelDan and Lynne Mapes-RiordanMr. and Ms. Steven MarcusBarbara and Larry MargolisMr. Robert MarksMr. Timothy MarshallMr. and Mrs. Roland MartelMs. Mirjana MartichSharon and Eden MartinArthur and Elizabeth MartinezMr. Julio Martinez

Drs. Annette and John MartiniMr. † & Mrs. Lowell Mason, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Walter MasseyDr. Ann B. MatasarMarilyn and Myron MaurerMs. Adele MayerLarry and Donna MayerMr. and Mrs. George MazeMs. Sue McCandlessJohn McCartneyMr. Robert McColleyMs. Marilyn McCoyDr. & Mrs. James McCrearyMs. Patricia McGuireBonnie McGrathBill McIntoshMr. & Mrs. George C. McKannMr. Charles McKeeMr. & Mrs. Lester McKeeverDr. and Mrs. Bruce McLeodMs. Florence McMillanDennis and Elyse McWherterSheila and Harvey MedvinMrs. Helen MehlerMr. Zarin MehtaMs. Claretta MeierDr. & Mrs. Jack L. MelamedMr. Ernst MelchiorDr. Janis MendelsohnMrs. Robert MendelsonJim and Ginger MeyerMr. & Mrs. Thomas Meyers, Jr.Mrs. Edward MillerFloyd and Elizabeth MillerMrs. Mary MillerMs. Vlasta MinarichDr. & Mrs. Robert MinkusMr. & Mrs. Newton MinowMs. Helen MinskerMs. Annet MirandaDr. Leo and Catherine MiserendinoKathleen MitchellMr. Fred MittelstaedtMr. Hiroshi and Mrs. Chika MiyamoriMr. & Mrs. Robert MoellerMr. Sanford MoltzDr. Anthony Montag andDr. Katherine GriemHugh and Della Rae MooreMalcolm MooreMr. & Mrs. Stephen MoralesLloyd and Donna MorganSanford and Monica MorgansteinAnn T. MoroneyMrs. MaryLouise MorrisonWayne L. Mory and Marcia SnyderDavid MoscowMr. Vijai MosesMs. Vanessa MossJT Mueller and Jennifer LiuZane and Phyllis MuhlLuigi H. Mumford

Mr. Henry MunezMr. George MurphyMr. Mark NaborJo Ann and Stuart NathanMr. & Mrs. Kenneth NebenzahlMs. Victoria NeeMr. & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.Deborah J. NelsonKay A. NelsonMr. Wayne NelsonMr. John NewmanMs. Hathuy NguyenRichard NiJeff NicholsMr. Richard NicholsMs. Sylvette NicoliniMr. John NighMrs. Janis NotzMr. William NovshekMr. and Mrs. James NowackiMrs. Susan NutsonMr. Douglas NygaardBrendan O’ConnorMr. & Mrs. Delano O’BanionSharon and Lee OberlanderMargo and Michael ObermanDr. Dragic ObradovicMr. Álvaro R. ObregónDr. Kathryn Occhipinti and

Jerome WojciechowshiJames J. and Ellen O’ConnorMichael and Kay O’HalleranMarjory OlikerBarbara and Larry OlinSarah and Wallace OliverMr. Arne OlsonLarry and Karen OlsonMr. Thomas O’Neill IIIMr. and Mrs. Paul OppenheimDr. Michael OrenMs. Maria OrtizKathleen Field OrrMr. Ronald OrzelGarry and Joanne OwensDaniela PaganiRichard and Carolyn PalasMs. Joan PantsiosMr. Daniel ParrilliMr. & Mrs. Charles R. Patten, Jr.Eugene and Lois PavalonHarold E. † and Marcia A. Pendexter, Jr.Ms. Ana Luz Perez DuranRobert & Barbara PerkausMs. Bertha PerlowMs. Dona PerryDr. Rebecca JosefsonMr. & Mrs. † James PetersMrs. Victorina PetersonMs. Lynn PetrelliRita PetrettiMrs. Jana PharissGenevieve Phelps


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Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. PhilipsbornMr. & Mrs. Robert G. PierceMr. & Mrs. Robert L. PierceKaren and Dick PigottDr. & Mrs. V.K.G. PillayMr. Savit PirlMr. & Mrs. Joel PokornyDon and Martha PollakTerrence PolichMr. John PorterDr. William PorterSusan and Joseph A. Power, Jr.Allan and Carla PriceMr. and Mrs. Brad PriceD. Elizabeth PriceJean and Preston PriceMs. Eleanor PrinceRodney L. PruittDrs. Joseph and Kimberly PyleChris and Elizabeth QuiggMs. Cheryl QuinlanMirjam QuinnMr. Robert RadaMs. Bobbie RaffertyMary RaffertyMs. Tara RaghavanJohn and Mary † RaittAnna Rappaport and Peter W. PlumleyMr. Jeffrey RappinDr. & Mrs. Pradeep RattanMs. Kathleen RattereeMs. Polly RattnerMark & Nancy RatnerMs. Carol RechMrs. Caroline Reed †Harper ReedJack W. ReevesMr. James RhoadsBenjamin and Florence M. RhodesMr. & Mrs. Evan RichardsDr. Hilda RichardsRobert J. Richards and

Barbara A. RichardsMs. Evelyn R. RicherLyn RidgewayMiles and Peggy RidgwayDrs. Rodney and Patricia RiegerMr. & Mrs. Richard Rieser, Jr.Ms. Karen L. RigottiRing Family FoundationMary K. RingJerry and Carole RingerMr. Paul RinkMr. Alexander RipleyDr. Anita RobbinsThomas Roberts and Teresa GroschMs. Cristina RoccaMr. James RocksMr. David RodenMr. Steven RoessLance & Lori RogersMr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rooney

Al and Mimi RoseMr. Edgar RoseMs. Roberta RosellDr. & Mrs. Melvin RosemanMs. Elaine RosenMr. † & Mrs. Sherman RosenMr. & Mrs. Richard RosenbergJohn RosensweigMrs. Babette RosenthalLorelei RosenthalDr. & Mrs. Robert RosnerJoan and Ashley RossMs. Sharon RothsteinMr. Zhaosong RuanPeter and Monique RubHelen and Marc RubensteinMr. & Ms. Kevin A. RussellMs. Mary RussellPatrick Ryan and Mary McBridePriscilla E. Ryan and Frank BattleMr. & Mrs. Rich RyanMrs. Martha SabranskyDrs. David and Karen SagerAnna Salman and Brian DeRosaDr. † & Mrs. Edwin SalterBettylu and Paul SaltzmanKathleen and Tony SchaefferRobert P. SchaibleScott SchepkeMrs. Rebecca ScheweMr. and Mrs. John SchladweilerMrs. Julie SchmidtMr. Robert SchmidtMr. & Mrs. Lewis M. SchneiderMs. Marcia SchneiderJohn J. and Barbara L. SchornackMr. and Mrs. Steve SchuetteMs. Virginia Hall SchulteGerald and Barbara SchultzEdward and Irma SchwartzDr. Howard Schwartz and Dr. Ruth GrantJohn SchwartzSusan and Charles SchwartzStephen A. and Marilyn ScottThomas and Maryellen ScottDrs. Deborah and Lawrence SegilMr. & Mrs. Richard SeidMs. Gail SeidelDavid and Christine SeidmanMr. Mark SexauerDr. & Mrs. Charles ShapiroDr. Jerry and Eunice ShapiroMr. and Mrs. Myron ShapiroThomas and Nancy SharpMs. Mary Beth SheaMr. Christopher SheahenMr. & Mrs. Mitsuzo ShidaDr. & Mrs. Mark C. ShieldsMargaret and Alan SilbermanSusan Shimmin and David TeklerCarolyn M. ShortEllen and Richard Shubart

Ms. Judith SiabaChian Ban SiauMs. Debra SiegelMr. & Mrs. Thomas SilbermanDr. Rita Simó and Mr. Tomás BissonnetteJack and Barbara SimonMr. Larry SimpsonMr. Alvin SingerMr. & Mrs. Robert SingerThomas G. SinkovicChristine A. SlivonMr. & Mrs. Frederic SmiesAugustine SmithPat and J. Clarke SmithMs. Patricia SmytheMr. & Mrs. Paul SnopkoFrank So and Deborah HuggettDr. Sabine SobekDr. & Mrs. R. SolaroIn Memory of Timothy SoleimanMr. Ethan SolomonJudith SommersDr. Stuart SondheimerMs. Sondra SonnebornMr. Alexander SozdatelevMr. George SpeckMr. Michael SprinkerAnne-Marie St. GermaineMrs. Julie StaglianoCharles and Joan StaplesMs. Denise StauderMs. Corinne SteedeMr. & Mrs. Eric SteeleSylvia SteenGeorge and Julie SteffenCarol D. SteinMr. Andrew SteinwoldMr. & Mrs. Ronald StepanskyMrs. Marjorie H. StephanMr. & Mrs. Mark SternMs. Karen StevensMs. Kathleen StewartEllen Stone-BelicIn memory of Marjorie StoneSteve and Ann StranahanMr. and Mrs. Alfred Stresen-Reuter, Jr.Donna StroderDr. & Mrs. Frank StuartMr. Frederick Sturm and

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

Helen ZellMr. Gregory SurufkaMr. & Mrs. Mark SutherlandSharon SwansonDr. John SwansonMr. and Mrs. Richard TaftMs. Claudine TambuatcoMs. Barbara Taylor




Mr. Frank TenBrinkThachana ThanakitcharuDrs. Karl and Sarah TichoMr. and Mrs. Myron TierskyMs. Diane Tkach and Mr. James F. FreundtMr. Steve TomashefskyMr. Mark TomassiniMs. Tatia TorreyBruce and Jan TranenJames M. and Carol TrappDr. Carol Ann TrautMrs. Sally TreKellMs. Joanne TremulisMrs. Robert TrotterDr. Sabrina S. TsaoMr. Jay TunneyLori L. and John R. TwomblyMrs. Jean M. UnsworthEllen and Jerry UptonMr. Theodore UtchenMr. and Mrs. Allan VagnerMrs. James D. Vail IIIJim and Cindy ValtmanMs. Betty VandenboschFrances and Peter VandervoortJose VargasMr. David J. VarnerinMr. & Mrs. Todd ViereggFrank VillellaMiss Raita VilninsMs. Linda VincentMs. Carol VixMs. Darla VollrathDr. Malcolm V. Vye and Ms. Sherie SteinLuluRobert J. WalkerMr. Les WallingaRobert Walsh and Doris WalshMr. Frank WalschlagerMr. and Mrs. William A. WardMorrison C. WarrenIn memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-

Wasserman from David Wasserman, MD

Ms. Vanessa J. WeathersbyMr. † & Mrs. William Weaver, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. David WeberSusan A. WeberMr. Tom WedellJudge Eugene WedoffCynthia & Ben WeeseMr. Brian WeisbartMiss Genevieve WeissenselDrs. Anne and Dennis WentzMs. Patricia WerhaneMr. Donald WertzMrs. Walter WesleyAllen WheatcroftMs. Zita WheelerFrank White and Sierra KellyDr. Wesley WhiteMrs. William White

Ms. Susan WhitingDr. & Mrs. Lawrence WickMr. Eric Wicks and Ms. Linda BakerJamie Wigglesworth AIAJennifer WilliamsNorman WilliamsScott R. Williamson andSusanna E. KrentzPeter and Michele WillmottDr. Wendall WilsonMartha WiltsieTed Windsor & Associates

Consulting ActuariesDr. Doris Wineman, Ph.D.Caroline WinnMs. Ann WinshipHerbert and Ruth Winter FoundationMs. Florence WintersDan and Paula WiseMr. Michael WislekBarbara and Steven WolfDuain WolfePeggy and Ted WolffMr. Joseph Wolnski and

Ms. Jane ChristinoDr. Christopher and Julie WoodDavid WoodhouseMrs. Randi WoodworthProf. Robert WoottonCheryl B. and James T. WormleyMr. and Mrs. Donald WoulfeElizabeth WrightMrs. Jane Stroud WrightDennis XieDr. Robert B. YahrIn memory of Anthony C. YuDr. Robert G. ZadylakMrs. IdaLynn ZahourKarl and Joan C. ZeislerMs. Mary ZeltmannMrs. Barbara ZennerIrene Ziaya and Paul ChaitkinMs. Susan ZickMolly Ziegler and Karen WhittSusan Schaalman Youdovin and

Charlie ShulkinThe Charles A. Zika FamilyMs. Camille ZientekDrs. Donald Zimmerman and

Susan PearlsonDr. & Mrs. Larry ZollingerMs. Barbara ZutovskyDr. & Mrs. Michael Zygmunt

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

$100,000 and aboveAnonymous (1)The Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationJudson and Joyce GreenJulian Family FoundationThe Negaunee FoundationAllstate Insurance CompanyThe James and Madeleine McMullan

Family FoundationPolk Bros. FoundationMegan and Steve Shebik

$50,000 –$99,999Anonymous (1)Alphawood FoundationRobert and Joanne Crown Income

Charitable FundJohn Hart and Carol PrinsJudy and Scott McCueNational Endowment for the ArtsThe Claire Rosen & Samuel

Edes FoundationBarbara and Barre Seid FoundationRose Shure Trust

$25 ,000 –$49,999Anonymous (1)Abbott FundBarker Welfare FoundationJohn and Fran EdwardsonPeter G. Horton Charitable Remainder

Annuity TrustBowman C. Lingle TrustNancy Lauter McDougal and

Alfred L. † McDougalMichael G. Woll Fund at the

Pauls FoundationPNCMichael and Linda SimonWintrust Financial Corp.


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$10,000 –$2 4 ,999Anonymous (1)Dora J. and R. John AalbregtseRobert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.The Buchanan Family FoundationSue and Jim CollettiMr. Jerry J. CritserMr. & Mrs. Allan DrebinMary Winton GreenIllinois Arts Council AgencyDr. June KoizumiLing Z. and Michael C. MarkovitzMrs. Erma MedgyesyMs. Judy PomeranzPrince Charitable TrustsSandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.Charles and M. R. Shapiro FoundationMr. Irving Stenn, Jr.Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and

Mr. Stephen L. PrattPenny and John Van HornDr. Marylou Witz

$5 ,000 –$9,999Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth KretzMr. Lawrence BellesBlue Cross Blue Shield of IllinoisMs. Marion A. CameronAnn and Richard CarrMr. & Ms. Keith ClaytonThe Clinton Family FundMr. Lawrence CorryMari Hatzenbuehler CravenMr. & Mrs. Bernard DunkelAnne H. EvansMr. and Mrs. Robert GeraghtyMr. & Mrs. Joseph B. GlossbergRichard and Alice GodfreyChet Gougis and Shelley OchabDr. & Mrs. James HollandRobert Kohl and Clark PellettThe League of the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra AssociationMilne Family FoundationThe Navarre Law FirmDavid and Dolores NelsonMs. Susan NorvichMr. & Mrs. William J. O’NeillGerald † and Mona PennerMrs. John Shedd Reed †Al and Lynn ReichleSherry and Bob † ReumThe Rhoades FoundationMs. Judy RungeMs. Cecelia SamansDr. Scholl FoundationSegal ConsultingThe Siragusa Foundation

$2 ,500 –$4 ,999Anonymous (1)Arts Midwest Touring Fund

Daniel and Michele BeckerCharles H. and Bertha L.

Boothroyd FoundationMr. Donald BousemanThe Brinson FoundationPatricia A. ClickenerMary Ellen Cooney and Ken HigginsAnita J. Court, Ph.D.Ms. Jane CoxDan and Paula WiseDr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean StarkDr. Alexia GordonWilliam B. HinchliffSusie Forstmann KealyAnne E. Leibowitz FundEdward & Lucy R. Minor

Family FoundationDr. Leo and Catherine MiserendinoMaria and Carl E. MooreMr. and Mrs. Stephen MoralesMs. Kimberly PickenpaughBenjamin J. Rosenthal FoundationDavid and Judith L. SensibarJessie Shih and Johnson HoMs. Adena StabenMr. Hal StewartWalter and Caroline Sueske

Charitable TrustRuth Miner Swislow †Joan & Bill TrukenbroadMr. Peter Vale

$1,000 –$2 , 499Anonymous (5)Ms. Patti AcurioMr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and

Mrs. Sara Jones-AmreinDr. Smiljana AntonijevicGregory Yuri AronoffMr. Sinan AtacJack S. AtenCatherine Baker and Timothy KentJon Balke and G. BalkeMr. Carroll BarnesMr. & Mrs. John BarnesMr. Peter BarrettWilliam BartleyHoward and Donna BassMichael and Gail BauerMichelle BennettMs. Susan BennettMr. & Mrs. William E. BibleMr. James BorkmanAdam BossovMr. & Mrs. Samuel BuchsbaumJohn D. and Leslie Henner BurnsMr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Burns, Jr.Ms. Vera CappMr. & Mrs. Wesley M. ClarkDr. Edward A. Cole and

Dr. Christine A. RydelMr. Jonathan Collins

Mr. & Mrs. Bill CottleMr. Bert CrosslandConstance CwiokMelissa and Gordon DavisRomke de HaanMr. Frank DileonardoMs. Joan D. DonovanMr. and Mrs. Andrew DudaMs. Ana Luz Perez DuranNancy EibeckRobert S. and Ardyth J. EisenbergElk Grove GraphicsMs. Paula ElliottCharles and Carol EmmonsMrs. Carol Evans, in memory of

Henry EvansMrs. Walter D. FacklerTarek and Ann FadelDr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of

Katinka KleijnEvelyn T. FitzpatrickMs. Lola FlammMrs. Roslyn FlegelGerald FreedmanMr. George Frerichs and

Ms. Cheryl D. McIntyreDr. & Mrs. Ronald GanellenGenerations DentalCamillo and Arlene GhironLawrence and Amy GillumMrs. Amy G. Gordon and

Mr. Michael D. GordonCharles Grode and Heidi LukasHalasmani/Davis FamilyMr. & Mrs. John HalesJohn and Patricia HamiltonMs. Dawn E. HelwigMr. Karl HoffmanSuzanne Hoffman and Dale SmithMs. Sharon Flynn HollanderMs. Amanda Howland and

Dr. Phillip E. LaneDavid and Marcia HulanMichael and Leigh HustonMr. Benjamin IvoryBarbara and Jim HerstThomas and Reseda KalowskiMr. & Mrs. † Algimantas KezelisMr. Howard KiddKinder MorganEsther G. KlatzAnna Z. KleymenovaMs. Leah LaurieMr. & Mrs. Stewart LiechtiDr. & Mrs. Herbert LippitzMr. † & Ms. Gerald F. LoftusLuluMr. Russ LymanMr. Edward MackMr. Glen J. Madeja and Ms. Janet SteidlMs. Janice MagnusonMs. Jeanne Malkin




Ms. Margaret A. MaloneMs. Amy B. Manning and

Mr. Paul C. ZiebertMr. & Mrs. Robert MarwinMs. Adele MayerMr. and Mrs. George MazeRosa and Peter McCullaghJim and Ginger MeyerMr. Robert MiddletonMs. Annet MirandaWayne L. Mory and Marcia SnyderAnn T. MoroneyMrs. Frank MorrisseyDeborah J. NelsonMrs. Susan NutsonMr. Álvaro R. ObregónMarjory OlikerDr. Michael OrenMs. Joan PantsiosMr. Daniel ParrilliDianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.Eugene and Lois PavalonMs. Shauna PeetMr. & Mrs. Thomas D. PhilipsbornPoetry FoundationMr. John PorterSusan and Joseph A. Power, Jr.D. Elizabeth PriceMark & Nancy Ratner Ms. Kathleen RattereeHarper ReedMiles and Peggy RidgwayMary K. RingMr. Paul RinkMr. Alexander RipleyDrs. David and Karen SagerMr. David SandfortMr. Laurence SaviersMrs. Rebecca ScheweMr. & Mrs. Albert SchlachtmeyerMr. Robert SchmidtMr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza Stephen A. and Marilyn ScottThomas and Nancy SharpThe Honorable John B. Simon and

Mrs. Millie Rosenbloom SimonMr. Larry SimpsonDr. Sabine SobekMr. Alexander SozdatelevMrs. Julie StaglianoMr. Andrew SteinwoldLaurence and Caryn StrausMr. Frederick Sturm and

Ms. Deborah GillaspieSharon SwansonMs. Tatia TorreyMs. Darla VollrathMs. Vanessa J. WeathersbyMr. Brian WeisbartAbby and Glen WeisbergMs. Zita WheelerFrank White and Sierra Kelly

Ms. Susan WhitingScott R. Williamson and

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

Consulting ActuariesMs. Ann WinshipMrs. Randi WoodworthCheryl B. and James T. WormleyElizabeth WrightDavid and Eileen ZampaIrene Ziaya and Paul ChaitkinMolly Ziegler and Karen Whitt

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 2018–19 season.

Fifteen Civic members participate in the Civic Fellowship program, a rigorous artistic and professional development curriculum that supplements their membership in the full orchestra. Major funding for this program is generously provided by The Julian Family Foundation.

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

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

Anonymous (3)Dora J. and R. John AalbregtseDr. † & Mrs. † Bernard H. AdelsonRobert H. Baum and MaryBeth KretzMr. Lawrence Belles and

Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationSue and Jim CollettiLawrence CorryMr. Jerry J. CritserRobert and Joanne Crown Income

Charitable FundMr. † & Mrs. David A. DonovanMr. & Mrs. Allan Drebin and

The Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationMr. and Mrs. Robert Geraghty and

The Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationMr. & Mrs. Paul C. GignilliatMr. & Mrs. Joseph B. GlossbergRichard and Alice GodfreyChet Gougis and Shelley OchabMary Winton GreenThe Julian Family Foundation

Lester B. Knight Charitable TrustRobert Kohl and Clark PellettLeague of the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra AssociationLeslie Fund Inc.Judy and Scott McCueNancy Lauter McDougal and

Alfred L. McDougal †Ms. Susan NorvichMrs. Mona Penner in memory of

Gerald PennerPrince Charitable TrustsMrs. John Shedd Reed †Sandra and Earl J. Rusnak JrBarbara and Barre Seid FoundationThe George L. Shields Foundation Inc.Ruth Miner Swislow †Dr. Marylou WitzMichael G. † and Laura WollMichael G. Woll Fund at the

Pauls Foundation

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 individ-uals for generously creating a revocable bequest of $100,000 or more, or an irrevocable life-income trust or annuity of $50,000 or more, to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, as of September 2018.

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

Dorothy A. AngelosDr. Jeff BaleLeland and Mary BartholomewMarlys A. BeiderDr. C. BekermanMartha BellMike and Donna BellCeline Bendy


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Julie Ann BensonK. Richard and Patricia M. BerletMerrill and Judy BlauAnn BlickensderferDanolda BrennanMr. Leon Brenner, Jr.Mitchell J. BrownDr. Mary Louise Hirsh BurgerMr. Frank and Dr. Vera ClarkPatricia A. ClickenerJudith and Stephen F. CondrenDr. Marilyn EzriMrs. William M. FloryMr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.Rhoda Lea and Henry S. Frank †Mary J. and Ronald P. FrelkPenny and John FreundMr. & Mrs. Paul C. GignilliatLyle GillmanMerle GordonMary Louise GornoDr. & Mrs. David GranatoRichard † and Mary L. GrayMary Winton GreenDr. Jon Brian GreisJohn and Patricia HamiltonJohn Hart and Carol PrinsMr. William P. Hauworth IIThomas and Linda HeagyMr. R.H. HelmholzStephanie and Allen HochfelderConcordia HoffmannFrank and Helen HoltMark and Elizabeth HurleyMichael L. Igoe, Jr.Ms. Darlene JohnsonRonald B. JohnsonRoy A. and Sarah C. JohnsonMr. & Mrs. Paul R. JudyLori JulianJared Kaplan and Maridee QuanbeckWayne S. and Lenore M. KaplanHoward KaspinJames KemmererEsther G. KlatzRobert Kohl and Clark PellettMr. & Mrs. Alan KubickaRobert B. Kyts Memorial FundCharles Ashby Lewis and

Penny Bender SebringRobert Alan LewisSheldon H. MarcusMr. Robert C. MarksMarilyn G. MarrJames Edward McPhersonMarcia and Jack L. Melamed, M.D.Janet L. MelkDr. Leo and Catherine MiserendinoDrs. Bill and Elaine MoorCraig and Rose MooreCharles MooreMr. & Mrs. Mario A. Munoz

John H. NelsonMuriel NeradEdward A. and Gayla S. NieminenDr. Joan E. PattersonDonald PeckMrs. Thomas D. PhilipsbornJudy PomeranzNeil K. QuinnRandall and Cara RademakerAl and Lynn ReichleAnn and Bob ReilandWendy ReynesDr. Edward O. RileyCharles and Marilynn RivkinDavid and Kathy RobinJerry RoseRichard O. RyanJohn A. SalkowskiCecelia SamansFranklin SchmidtJoanne SilverMr. Craig SirlesBetty W. SmykalAnnette and Richard SteinkeMrs. Deborah SterlingMr. & Mrs. William H. StrongMr. & Mrs. John C. TelanderKarin and Alfred TennyRichard and Helen ThomasMs. Carla M. ThorpeMr. & Mrs. Richard P. ToftDr. Richard TresleyPaula TurnerRobert W. Turner and Gloria B. TurnerMr. & Mrs. John E. Van HornMr. Christian VinyardJoan 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 BennettWilliam and Ellen BentsenJoan I. BergerHarriet H. BernbaumCandace BroeckerMrs. Lucille BrouseJohn L. BrowarCatherine BrubakerJoseph BucEdward J. Buckbee

Michelle 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 EmmonsJames 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 HochmanMrs. 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. KostEugene KrausThomas 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 IIIMr. William McIntoshMrs. Leoni McVeyMrs. Harmon MeigsDale and Susan MillerMichael Miller and Sheila NaughtenKathryn 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 GomezHelen and Joseph PageGeorge R. PatersonDianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.Mary 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. RosenthalDr. Virginia C. SaftCraig SamuelsSue and William SamuelsMr. Douglas M. SchmidtDavid ShayneMr. Morrell A. ShoemakerAnne SibleyLarry Simpson

Mr. 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 TierskyJacqueline A. TillesMr. James M. TrappMr. Donn N. TrautmanMs. Rose Gray TynanMr. Theodore UtchenVirginia C. ValeFrank VillellaMr. Milan VydarenyDr. Malcolm VyeAdam R. Walker and BettyAnn MocekMr. Frank WalschlagerLouella Krueger WardDr. Catherine L. WebbKarl WechterClaude M. 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 AldermanSara AnastaploRoger A. AndersonFaye AngellElizabeth M. AshtonIrwin AskowJames E.S. BakerJacqueline and Frank BallWayne Balmer

Paul BarkerPatricia Anne BartonBarbara Burt BaumannHortense K. BeckerNorma Zuzanek BennettSally J. BensonHarry H. BernbaumLenore M. BernerEleanor BolzNaomi 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. DonaldsonJames F. DrennanWilliam B. DrewryRobert L. Drinan, Jr.William A. DumbletonEvelyn DybaMarian EdelsteinDr. Edward ElisbergKelli Gardner EmeryJoseph R. EnderShirley L. and Robert EttelsonShirley Mae EvansMildred F. FanslauDr. James D. FentersNatalie N. FerryRobert B. FordhamEtha Beatrice FoxMrs. Zollie S. FrankHerbert 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 Guttman


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A. William Haarlow IIIGrace and Vernon HajeckClarine and James HallJulie and J. Parker HallRichard HalvorsenChalkley J. HambletonLeah C. and Robert J. HammanCAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret.Allan E. HarrisMelville D. HartmanLawrence J. HelsternAdolph “Bud” and Avis HersethMarriane Deson HersteinMary Jo HertelHelen HoaglandRichard J. HofemannBlanche HoheiselAllen H. HowardHugh Johnston HubbardJoseph H. HuebnerMrs. Henry IshamBarbara IssermanPhyllis A. JonesJoseph M. KacenaMorris A. KaplanRussell V. KohrJeffrey W. KormanSarah H. and Bertram D. KribbenWilliam KruppenbacherEvelyn and Arnold KupecRuth Lucie LabitzkeLouise H. LandauAlice M. La PertH. Elizabeth and Earl D. LarsenCaressa Y. LauerRobert A. LeadyArthur E. Leckner, Jr.Lena T. LevinsonBeryl M. LewisRichard Alan LivingstonMrs. Richard Q. LivingstonMarion M. and Glen A. LloydMary LongbrakeArthur G. MalingJune Betty and Herbert S. ManningMrs. Robert C. MarksIrl and Barbara MarshallEloise MartinVirginia Harvey McAnultyHelen C. McDougal, Jr.Eunice H. McGuireCarolyn D. and William W. McKittrickHugo J. MelvoinShirley R. MesirowBeth Ann Alberding MohrEdward MillerMicki MillerKathryn MuellerMarietta MunnisDavid H. NelsonHelen M. NelsonOtto Nerad

John and Maynette NeundorfPiri E. and Jaye S. NiefeldJoan Ruck NopolaCarol Rauner O’DonovanT. Paul B. O’DonovanMary and Eric OldbergBruce P. OlsonSuzanne and Brace PattouDorothy and William G. Paulick, Jr.Bette G. PetersenHelen J. PetersenMadge and Neil PetersenMaxine R. PhilipsbornWalter PlackoElaine and Harold H. PlautCharles J. PollyeaMiriam PollyeaVirginia and Eugene PomeranceHalina J. PresleyChristine QuerfeldRuth Ann QuinnDolores M. RixMuriel F. RederWalter ReedPaul H. ResnikSheila Taaffe ReynoldsJoan L. RichardsDavid M. RobertsRosemary RobertsVirginia H. RogersJill N. RohckIrmgard 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 StaglianoLucille G. and David W. StotterDr. Gerald Sunko

Ruth Miner SwislowAndrew and Peggy ThomsonJ. Ross ThomsonBeatrice B. TinsleyC. Phillip TurnerPaul D. UrnesRobert L. VolzLois and James VrhelCecilia Sue and Burton J. WadeLouise Benton WagnerMichael Jay WalankaNancy L. WaldEsther H. WaldmanJeanne WalkerLaurie WallachJean Angus and Ferre C. WatkinsVirginia O. WeaverJames M. 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 through August 13, 2018.

memorial gif ts

In memory of Judith Armbruster Catherine Horan

In memory of M. Cherif BassiouniPaul J. DaveyEileen B. LandauPMI ImpactDr. & Mrs. Sateh ShafikWilderness Dunes Property Association

In memory of Sally J. BensonDorothy J Benson

In memory of Marlene BowenGilbert Bowen




In memory of Roger CarlsonCatherine Grochowski

In memory of Robert C. ClarkJanet Arbesman

In memory of Robert CookeMary Mulier

In memory of Gary A. DavisSteven Andes

In memory of David DonovanMargaret and John KemperLisa and Paul Wiggin

In memory of Bob DrinanElizabeth Scott

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

In memory of Norman GoldWedner Family Foundation

In memory of Cecile Renaud GornoLynne R. Haarlow

In memory of Harriet HirshDonald F. and Alice P. GoldsmithArnold and Nina HarrisHarriet and Ernest KarminNancy R. LeviHerbert and Joan LoebRita LovePeter and Robin MarksBetty & Thomas PhilipsbornJennifer RosenKurt RosenBlossom Wohl

In memory of Bernard H. HolstEdith A. Holst

In memory of Marjorie Lindsay ReedPamela K. Hull

In memory of Ed KoleskeDorothy Erickson

In memory of Robert MarthCIBC

In memory of Albert NagyAndrea Stamm

In memory of William A. PollakKara HughesKathryn JohnsonJohn MalusaJulie MolinaDon Pollak

In memory of Ruth Ann QuinnPhil and Gaye Kenny

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

In memory of Dolores SavinAnonymousPam and Charles Meyerson

In memory of Fred SpectorChicago Symphony Orchestra

Alumni AssociationMartine DeromCatherine HoranJerry and Maia MullinRuth Ann and Tom Watkins

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

In honor of Leslie Henner BurnsSteven and Lauren Scheibe

In honor of David ChambersRobin Angly and Miles Smith

In honor of Robert CoadAlfred GoldsteinJoanne SilverMr. and Mrs. Marco Weiss

In honor of Robert Kohl and Clark PelletLynn and Louis Philipson

Happy birthday to our mom Sue Lerch Leibowitzfrom your children and grandchildren

In honor of Mary PlauchePamela and Paul James

In honor of Helen ZellMr. & Mrs. Stephen Kaufman

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In Memory of Ruth Ann QuinnHazel Fackler

In Honor of Dorothy ClarkBetsy BeckmannSarah GoodRenée Lubell

In Honor of Heratch and Sonya DoumanianStreeterville Area of the

League of the CSOA

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

Allium String QuartetAplandAvalon String QuartetBaker & McKenzieBanfiChris and Katie BarberBBJ LinenBetsy and Enrique BeckmannBelmont Yacht ClubBelvedere VodkaBig Foot MediaBlue Plate CateringBoleoBooth HansenBoston Consulting GroupBridges Mavrakakis LLPBrightwok KitchenWilliam BuchmanSarah BullenJohn D. and Leslie Henner BurnsElliot Callighan, Ramova MusicCapstone Financial AdvisorsOto CarrilloLi-Kuo ChangChicago BearsChicago Cultural CenterChicago MagazineChicago Tribune CompanyCivitasPatsy DashDLA Piper LLP (US)Drury Lane TheaterE&J Gallo WineryEmmett’s BreweryMrs. Walter D. Fackler



Forbidden RootFour Seasons Hotel ChicagoFour Seasons Resort Scottsdale

at Troon NorthFrederick C. Robie HouseSusanna GauntGemini Graphics, Inc.Daniel GingrichGoddess and the BakerGoose Island Beer Co.Greenwich StudiosDavid GriffinHewitt AssociatesHillshire SnackingHispanicProIron Galaxy StudiosIwan Ries & Co.Jet’s PizzaRobb Jibson, So MidwestGabrielle JohnsonKathy JordanNicholas JosephLori JulianCarole KellerKimpton Gray HotelLincoln Park ZooYo-Yo Ma

Mayer Brown LLPTammy McCannMcKinsey & CompanyMetrograph CommissaryMetropolitan BrewingNational Hispanic Sales NetworkNicado Publishing / NegociosNowPaul Rehder SalonJonathan PegisPianoForteGene PokornyPricewaterhouseCoopers LLPR. Crusoe & SonAnna and Iliana ReganLora SchaeferCourtney SheaShow ServicesSlover Linett StrategiesJames SmelserMike Smith, Photographic

Services InternationalKathy SolaroSoldier FieldThe Sound Co-Op, LLCSteinway Piano Gallery ChicagoMichelle SterlingSusan Synnestvedt

Brant TaylorDavid TaylorBenjamin TeichmantesoriTheatrical Lighting ConnectionThink-cellTime Out ChicagoTootsie RollUnion League Club of ChicagoUnion StationUnited AirlinesVancouver Symphony OrchestraVirginia WoolfVirtue CiderWalgreensWBBMWBEZWDCBWFMTWheaton CollegeChris WhiteJohn WilliamsWLS-FMWrigley FieldWXRTCynthia YehYuan-Qing Yu

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CSO: October 6Symphony BallRiccardo Muti conductorDavid Fray pianoWorks by Brahms, Mozart, Puccini & more Chamber Music: October 7Jerusalem Quartet with Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda ForsythWorks by R. Strauss, Schoenberg & Tchaikovsky

CSO: October 11–14Mahler 3Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductorKelley O’Connor mezzo-sopranoWomen of the Chicago Symphony Chorus Duain Wolfe chorus directorAnima—Young Singers of Greater Chicago Charles Sundquist director

Jazz: October 12Ahmad Jamal

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CSO Chamber Music: October 16 music803Rachel Goldstein violinWei-Ting Kuo violaGary Stucka celloStephen Lester bass Mio Nakamura pianoWorks by Chausson & Labor

CSO: October 18–20Copland Symphony No. 3 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3Marin Alsop conductorDaniil Trifonov piano

Civic Orchestra: October 21* & *south shore cultural center**orchestra hallMahler 6 & Ogonek All These Lighted ThingsErina Yashima conductor

MusicNOW: October 22harris theater for music and dance Quirks & CurrentsCliff Colnot conductorStephanie Jeong violinWorks by Moore, Greenstein & more

Special: October 24 “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band

CSO: October 25–30Haitink Conducts Bruckner 6 & Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2Bernard Haitink conductorPaul Lewis piano

Piano: October 28Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara StefanovichWorks by Bartók, Ravel, Birtwistle & Messiaen

CSO: November 1–3 Barenboim Conducts Smetana Má vlastDaniel Barenboim conductor

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Visiting Orchestra: November 4Czech Philharmonic Plays Dvořák New World Symphony & Cello ConcertoSemyon Bychkov conductorAlisa Weilerstein cello

Special: November 5 Barenboim Conducts West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: R. Strauss Don Quixote & Tchaikovsky 5Daniel Barenboim conductorKian Soltani cello

CSO: November 8–10Muti Conducts the Verdi RequiemRiccardo Muti conductorVittoria Yeo sopranoDaniela Barcellona mezzo-sopranoPiotr Beczala tenorDmitry Belosselskiy bassChicago Symphony Chorus Duain Wolfe chorus director

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