ANNUAL REPORT
2019 2020
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. LIFETIME DIRECTORS
Samuel Frankel ◊ David Handleman, Sr.◊ Dr. Arthur L. Johnson ◊
James B. Nicholson Clyde Wu, M.D.◊
CHAIRMEN EMERITI
Peter D. Cummings Phillip Wm. Fisher Stanley Frankel
Alfred R. Glancy III◊ Robert S. Miller James B. Nicholson
◊ DIRECTORS Robert A. Allesee EMERITI Floy Barthel
OFFICERS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Directors are responsible for maintaining a culture of accountability, resource development, and strategic thinking. As fiduciaries, Directors oversee the artistic and cultural health and strategic direction of the DSO.
Chacona Baugh John A. Boll, Sr. Richard A. Brodie Lois & Avern Cohn Marianne Endicott Sidney Forbes Mrs. Harold Frank
Barbara Frankel Herman Frankel Paul Ganson Mort Harris Gloria Heppner, Ph.D. Ronald M. Horwitz Harold Kulish Bonnie Larson David McCammon
David R. Nelson Marilyn Pincus Lloyd E. Reuss Marjorie S. Saulson Alan E. Schwartz Jane Sherman David Usher Barbara Van Dusen Arthur A. Weiss, Esq.
Mark A. Davidoff Chairman Glenda D. Price, Ph.D. Vice Chair Anne Parsons President & CEO
Faye Alexander Nelson Treasurer Arthur T. O’Reilly Secretary Ralph J. Gerson Officer at Large
David Provost Officer at Large Nancy Schlichting Officer at Large Hon. Kurtis T. Wilder (Ret.) Officer at Large
Pamela Applebaum David Assemany Governing Members Chair Marco Bruzzano Richard L. DeVore Samuel Fogleman Aaron Frankel Herman B. Gray, M.D. Nicholas Hood III Richard Huttenlocher Trustee Chair
Daniel J. Kaufman Michael J. Keegan Arthur C. Liebler Xavier Mosquet Stephen R. Polk Jay Ritchie Orchestra Representative Bernard I. Robertson Camilo Serna Sharon Sparrow Orchestra Representative
Shirley Stancato Arn Tellem Nancy Tellem Janice Uhlig James G. Vella Dr. M. Roy Wilson David M. Wu, M.D.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Richard Huttenlocher, Chair Trustees are a diverse group of community leaders who infuse creative thinking and innovation into how the DSO strives to achieve both artistic vitality and organizational sustainability.
Ismael Ahmed Rosette Ajluni Richard Alonzo Hadas Bernard Janice Bernick Robert Bluestein Suzanne Bluestein Penny B. Blumenstein Elizabeth Boone Gwen Bowlby Margaret Cooney Casey Karen Cullen Joanne Danto Stephen R. D’Arcy Maureen T. D’Avanzo Afa Sadykhly Dworkin Annmarie Erickson Peter Falzon James C. Farber Carolynn Frankel Christa Funk
Alan M. Gallatin Robert Gillette Jody Glancy Malik Goodwin Mary Ann Gorlin Laura Grannemann Laura Hernandez-Romine Donald Hiruo Michele Hodges Julie Hollinshead Renato Jamett Joseph Jonna John Jullens David Karp Joel D. Kellman Jennette Smith Kotila William Lentine James P. Lentini, D.M.A Linda Dresner Levy Florine Mark Tonya Matthews, Ph.D.
Anthony McCree Anitha Mercy Lydia Michael
Margaret Shulman Cathryn M. Skedel, Ph.D. Ralph Skiano
Lois A. Miller Daniel Millward Scott Monty Shari Morgan Sandy Morrison Frederick J. Morsches Sean M. Neall Eric Nemeth Mary Okun Vivian Pickard William F. Pickard, Ph.D. Gerrit Reepmeyer Richard Robinson James Rose, Jr. Marc Schwartz Lois L. Shaevsky Mary Shafer
Richard Sonenklar Mark Tapper Yoni Torgow Laura J. Trudeau Gwen Weiner Donnell White Jennifer Whitteaker R. Jamison Williams Margaret E. Winters Johanna Yarbrough
NextGen Chair
Orchestra Representative
Orchestra Representative
Ellen Hill Zeringue
MAESTRO CIRCLE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Janet & Norm Ankers, Chairs Cecilia Benner Joanne Danto
Gregory Hanes Bonnie Larson
Lois Miller Richard Sonenklar
GOVERNING MEMBERS OFFICERS
David Assemany, Chair
Suzanne Dalton Maureen T. D’Avanzo
Judy Doyle James C. Farber Diana Golden
Marcia Hiru Samantha Svoboda
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Deceased
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2019 | 2020 ANNUAL REPORT WELCOME Dear Friends, As we’ve all experienced firsthand, 2020 has been anything but typical. Despite unprecedented challenges, we still celebrated unprecedented milestones and successes. We want to humbly celebrate these successes, while recognizing all that has been lost as we begin to look to the possibilities that 2021 may offer. As always, your DSO aspires to a future filled with potential and optimism. That future is heralded by the arrival of Music Director Jader Bignamini. Following an intensive, years-long search for the right fit for our organization, we were elated to share and celebrate Jader’s appointment in January. He is the perfect music director for our orchestra—and he is particularly well-suited to serve at this unique moment in our history. Jader exemplifies everything that’s core to the DSO identity: boldness, vision, skill, excellence, and passion. His ability to connect with musicians and audiences alike is precisely what is needed to lead the DSO and Detroit forward. The 2019-20 season kicked off with a look back to our past, with the celebration of Orchestra Hall’s centennial. Orchestra Hall’s history of resilience continues to inspire us 100 years later, as our extended time away from its stage during the pandemic led us to cherish our home even more. The stories fill us with hope and fortitude: a community that came together to declare that a magnificent concert hall would attract world-class artists to Detroit and provide its citizenry with incredible music; a dedicated board of directors that financed and got it built at the height of the last major global pandemic; the artistic vision of those who refashioned it as the Paradise Theatre for a new audience of jazz lovers; and the civic leadership from so many who fought to save it from the wrecking ball, ensuring it will inspire many future generations of performers and audiences. We know, however, that 2020 will be defined both by our response to the COVID crisis, and by our reaffirmation to our long-term commitment to equity. We are proud of the incredibly collaborative and innovative work we have done to navigate these turbulent times. We established effective guardrails this year to protect our people and the institution and set the stage to come out of the pandemic even stronger. We have forged powerful new connections with our community of patrons and supporters. We are strong, sustainable, and while heeding the important lessons of the past, we look to our future with optimism. With appreciation,
Anne Parsons
Mark Davidoff
President and CEO
Chairman
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There’s no American orchestra that’s been through more existential crises in its history than the DSO. It has survived and managed often to thrive ... This is an institution that has survived anything and everything that has been thrown at it, and I expect that here, too.” -MARK STRYKER, DETROIT FREE PRESS , JUNE 21, 2020
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2019 | 2020 ANNUAL REPORT FINANCIALS
The DSO finished its 2019-2020 season with its eighth consecutive operational surplus, a significant achievement considering the loss of earned revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This was accomplished through a board-led emergency Resilience Fund that raised an additional $1.58 million; across-the-board expense cuts, including compensation reductions at all levels of the organization; and a Paycheck Protection Program loan (PPPL) of just over $4 million. In addition to a net end-of-year surplus of $430,000, the extraordinary measures allowed us to transfer $2 million to reserves for use in the 2020-2021 season, to help offset the continued loss of earned revenue. Early in the pandemic the DSO Board committed to balancing operational needs with preserving the principal of the endowment fund. Modest endowment growth was achieved in the 2019-2020 season through contributions and positive investment returns in excess of the standard endowment distribution.
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2019 | 2020 ANNUAL REPORT
YOUR DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JADER BIGNAMINI Music Director Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation
JEFF TYZIK
TERENCE BLANCHARD
LEONARD SLATKIN
NEEME JÄRVI
Principal Pops Conductor
Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair
Music Director Laureate
Music Director Emeritus
FIRST VIOLIN
VIOLA
Linton Bodwin
Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy
Eric Nowlin
Christopher Hamlen
PRINCIPAL
Katherine Tuck Chair
Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair
Brandon Mason
Hai-Xin Wu
James VanValkenburg
Nicholas Myers
Schwartz Shapero Family Chair
Caroline Coade
Jennifer Wey Fang
Glenn Mellow
Walker L. Cisler/Detroit Edison Foundation Chair
Hang Su
INTERIM CONCERTMASTER
INTERIM ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Marguerite Deslippe* Laurie Landers Goldman* Rachel Harding Klaus* Eun Park Lee* Adrienne Rönmark* Laura Soto* Greg Staples*
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Shanda Lowery-Sachs Hart Hollman Han Zheng Mike Chen
CELLO Wei Yu
PRINCIPAL
James C. Gordon Chair
Steve Edwards ^
HARP Patricia Masri-Fletcher PRINCIPAL
Winifred E. Polk Chair
FLUTE Hannah Hammel PRINCIPAL
Women’s Association for the DSO Chair
Amanda Blaikie
Morton and Brigitte Harris Chair
Jiamin Wang*
Abraham Feder
Mingzhao Zhou*
Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair
Bernard and Eleanor Robertson Chair
Robert Bergman*
Jeffery Zook
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Sharon Sparrow
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Jeremy Crosmer*
SECOND VIOLIN Adam Stepniewski ACTING PRINCIPAL
The Devereaux Family Chair
Will Haapaniemi*
Victor and Gale Girolami Chair
David LeDoux* Peter McCaffrey*
Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Chair
David and Valerie McCammon Chair
Haden McKay*
Hae Jeong Heidi Han*
Úna O’Riordan*
David and Valerie McCammon Chair
PICCOLO Jeffery Zook
OBOE Alexander Kinmonth PRINCIPAL
Mary Ann and Robert Golin Chair
Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair
Sheryl Hwangbo*
Paul Wingert^
Sarah Lewis
Sujin Lim*
Cole Randolph
Hong-Yi Mo*
African-American Orchestra Fellow
Joseph Striplin^ Marian Tanau* Jing Zhang* Open
PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN
Monica Fosnaugh OPEN
Alexandros Sakarellos*
Drs. Doris Tong and Teck Soo Chair
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
BASS Kevin Brown PRINCIPAL
Van Dusen Family Chair
Stephen Molina ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Maggie Miller Chair
ENGLISH HORN Monica Fosnaugh
Shari and Craig Morgan Chair
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CLARINET
Scott Strong
Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal
Ralph Skiano
David Everson
William Cody Knicely Chair
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Jack Walters
Mark Abbott
James Ritchie
Robert B. Semple Chair PVS Chemicals Inc./Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair
Bryan Kennedy~
Laurence Liberson ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Jeremy Epp
TRUMPET
Shannon Orme
PRINCIPAL
Richard and Mona Alonzo Chair
Hunter Eberly
E-FLAT CLARINET Laurence Liberson
PRINCIPAL
James Ritchie
Kevin Good Stephen Anderson
LIBRARIANS
Lee and Floy Barthel Chair
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
BASS CLARINET
TIMPANI
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Robert Stiles PRINCIPAL
William Lucas
Ethan Allen
Shannon Orme
Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Chair
TROMBONE
BASSOON
Kenneth Thompkins PRINCIPAL
PERSONNEL MANAGERS Heather Hart Rochon
Michael Ke Ma Acting Principal
David Binder
DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL
Victoria King
Randy Hawes ^
Hannah Wetherholt
Marcus Schoon
BASS TROMBONE
Bob Williams ^ PRINCIPAL
Ilan Morgenstern
Jaquain Sloan
African-American Orchestra Fellow
CONTRABASSOON Marcus Schoon
MANAGER OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL
ACTING BASS TROMBONE
Randy Hawes ^
Karl Pituch PRINCIPAL
Johanna Yarbrough
Dennis Rottell STAGE MANAGER
Ryan DeMarco
TUBA
DEPARTMENT HEAD
Noel Keese
Dennis Nulty
DEPARTMENT HEAD
PRINCIPAL
HORN
STAGE PERSONNEL
PERCUSSION Joseph Becker
Steven Kemp DEPARTMENT HEAD
Matthew Pons
DEPARTMENT HEAD
PRINCIPAL
Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Glancy III Chair
Michael Sarkissian DEPARTMENT HEAD
LEGEND ~ Extended leave
^Retired following 19-20 season *These members may voluntarily revolve seating within the section on a regular basis
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2019 | 2020 ANNUAL REPORT MUSICIANS OF THE DSO
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musicians joined the DSO HANNAH HAMMEL
ALEXANDER VOLKOV
PRINCIPAL FLUTE
SECTION VIOLIN
COLE RANDOLPH
JAQUAIN SLOAN
CELLO
BASSOON
fellowship positions filled
379
national auditions were held*
134 audition candidates*
audition applicants
*Due To COVID-19 restrictions, only 2 of 3 scheduled national auditions and fellowship auditions could be held.
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position started SARAH LEWIS
position filled BRANDON MASON
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL OBOE
SECTION BASS
M U SI C I A N R ETIR EMEN TS JOE STRIPLIN
STEVE EDWARDS
VIOLIN, 48 YEARS
BOB WILLIAMS
PRINCIPAL BASSOON, 46 YEARS
DOUBLE BASS, 48 YEARS
PAUL WINGERT CELLO, 41 YEARS
RANDY HAWES
BASS TROMBONE, 34 YEARS
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2019 | 2020 ANNUAL REPORT ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF EXECUTIVE OFFICE Anne Parsons
President and CEO James B. and Ann V. Nicholson Chair
Jill Elder
Vice President and Chief Development Officer
Linda Lutz
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Erik Rรถnmark
Vice President and General Manager
Joy Crawford
Executive Assistant to the President and CEO
Elaine Curvin
Executive Assistant to the Vice President and CDO
ARTISTIC OPERATIONS ARTISTIC PLANNING Jessica Ruiz
@ THE MAX
Juliano Bitonti Stewart Sandra Mazza
Senior Director & Curator of @ The Max / Managing Director of DSO Paradise Jazz Series
Amanda Tew
Christopher Harrington
Goode Wyche
Cube Coordinator
CATERING AND RETAIL SERVICES Christina Williams
Director of Catering and Retail Services
Nate Richter
EVENTS AND RENTALS Catherine Deep
Manager of Events and Rentals
Jill Rafferty
Director of Digital Initiatives
ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS Kathryn Ginsburg
Senior Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager
Heather Hart Rochon Director of Orchestra Personnel
Dennis Rottell Stage Manager
Ezra Gans
Artistic Operations Assistant
Hannah Wetherholt Manager of Orchestra Personnel
Claudia Restrepo
Orchestra and Training Programs Librarian
Matthew Way
Michelle Wisler
Advancement Relations and Strategic Initiatives Manager
COMMUNICATIONS Matthew Carlson Senior Director of Communications
Hannah Engwall
Chantel Woodard
Marc Geelhoed
Sara Wabrowetz
Rita Sayegh
Retail Manager
Senior Director of Advancement
Alex Kapordelis
Campaign Director
Senior Accountant Payroll and Benefits Accountant
Data and Research Specialist
Natalie Berger
ADVANCEMENT
LIVE FROM ORCHESTRA HALL
Manager of Grants and Institutional Giving
Bar Manager
Director of Artistic Planning Artistic Coordinator
Current as of November 2020
Content Coordinator Public Relations Coordinator
Sarah Smarch
Content Manager and Lead Storyteller
COMMUNITY & LEARNING
Accounting Coordinator Payroll and Benefits Accountant
HUMAN RESOURCES Lisa Bradley
Senior Director of Talent and Culture
Mary Lambert
Human Resources Generalist
Shuntia Perry
Human Resources Coordinator
MARKETING & AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT
Director of Social Innovation
Stewardship Coordinator
Joey Edmonds
Debora Kang
Sharon Gardner Carr
Presley Feezell
Campaign Stewardship Coordinator
Kiersten Alcorn
Community Engagement Coordinator
Mickayla Chapman
Patron Loyalty Coordinator
Assistant Manager of Tessitura and Ticketing Operations
Jay Holladay
Digital Content Specialist
Manager of Advancement Services
Training Ensembles Recruitment and Operations Coordinator
LaHeidra Marshall
Leslie Groves
Hunter Janness
Connor Mehren
Amanda Lindstrom
Clare Valenti
Juanda Pack
Sarah Yeates
Holly Gorecki
Major Gift Officer Fulfillment Coordinator, Individual Giving Advancements Benefits Concierge
Susan Queen
Corporate Giving Officer
Education Coordinator Manager of Community Engagement Training Programs Operations Coordinator
FINANCE
Jeremiah Hess
Senior Director of Accounting & Finance
Anthony Morris Security Officer
Johnnie Scott
Security Officer
Antonio Thomas Security Officer
TECHNOLOGY & INFRASTRUCTURE Jody Harper
Senior Director of Technology & Infrastructure
FACILITY OPERATIONS
Dorothea Averyheart
Digital Marketing Manager
Managing Director of Detroit Harmony
Campaign Research Specialist
Manager of Safety and Security
Teresa Alden
Annick Busch
Director of Education
Edward John
Ken Waddington
Damien Crutcher
Beth Carlson
Security Officer
Michael Frisco
Caen Thomason-Redus Director of Audience Development Senior Director of Community & Learning Karisa Antonio
Norris Jackson
Audience Development Coordinator Marketing Coordinator
PATRON SALES & SERVICE Michelle Marshall
Manager, Patron Sales & Service
SAFETY & SECURITY George Krappmann Director of Safety & Security
Director of Facilities & Engineering
Housekeeping Lead
William Guilbault
Maintenance Technician
Taurean Plummer
Maintenance Technician
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Michelle Koning Web Manager
RaJon Taylor
Application Administrator
2019 | 2020 ANNUAL REPORT
ORCHESTRA HALLS’ CENTENNIAL The 2019-2020 season marked the centennial year of Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and one of the finest concert halls in the world. The DSO marked the occasion with special programming and events, a commemorative book, a documentary series produced by Detroit Public Television, a two-site exhibition in partnership with the Detroit Historical Society & Museum, and more. ORCHESTRA HALL CELEBRATES 100 YEARS
Built for the DSO at the request of then-music director Ossip Gabrilowitsch during the summer of 1919 and renowned for its understated beauty and perfect acoustics, Orchestra Hall was designed by noted theater architect C. Howard Crane, who also designed Detroit’s Fox Theatre and Detroit Opera House. When the DSO left for the larger Masonic Auditorium in 1939, Orchestra Hall took on a new life as the Paradise Theatre from 1941-1951, serving as Detroit’s premier venue for jazz. The hall was then long dormant and nearly demolished in 1970, before a group of musicians and civic leaders rallied to save it from the wrecking ball and raise money to restore it over the course of 20 years. The DSO returned to its historic home in 1989. SUPPORT
MAYOR DUGGAN PRESENTS CERTIFICATE
Leadership support for the Orchestra Hall centennial was provided by Honorable Avern Cohn and Lois Cohn, Ann and James B. Nicholson, Bernard and Eleanor Robertson, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE, Ford Motor Company Fund, and Varnum LLP. The DSO also thanks all members of the Centennial Club without whom our year-long campaign to celebrate the hall would not have been possible. We also thank the DTE Energy Foundation for sponsorship of our exhibition work with the Detroit Historical Society and Director Aaron Frankel and Trustee Carolynn Frankel for sponsoring the October 23, 2019, Orchestra Hall Anniversary Concert. DESTINY
CENTENNIAL FANFARE
Destiny: 100 Years of Music, Magic, and Community at Orchestra Hall in Detroit traces the remarkable history of one of the world’s premier concert halls. Written by former Detroit Free Press music critic and arts reporter Mark Stryker and designed by Julie Pincus, Destiny takes readers behind the scenes of the building of the hall in 1919 and the DSO’s first Golden Age under Ossip Gabrilowitsch before detailing the decade when the hall was renamed the Paradise Theatre and became a jazz mecca. The book then chronicles the fight to save Orchestra Hall from demolition in 1970 and the 20-year restoration and return by the DSO in 1989. Destiny also details the creation of the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center and the present day activities within the expanded footprint of The Max, explores the hall’s acclaimed acoustics, sheds light on little-known corners of the building’s history, introduces many of the characters and organizations that intersected with its history, and shows how Detroit, Orchestra Hall, and the DSO all share the same destiny. CENTENNIAL PROGRAMMING
The DSO launched its 2019-2020 season on October 4-6 with a special program restaging the powerhouse Orchestra Hall opening concert from 1919. Michael Francis conducted Weber’s Overture to Oberon, Mozart’s Double Piano Concerto in E-flat Major with Christina and Michelle Naughton, Bach’s Triple Piano Concerto in C Major with the Naughtons and David Fung, and Beethoven’s immortal Fifth Symphony. DESTINY
Throughout the fall and the first part of 2020, the DSO presented other special programming connected to 100 years of Orchestra Hall. The hall’s past as a jazz venue was feted through concerts in the 20th anniversary, namesake Paradise Jazz Series, including The Music of Louis Armstrong, who opened the venue in 1941, a program by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, which performed just four weeks after
MICHAEL FRANCIS
the Paradise opened, and the Branford Marsalis Quartet. Major classical works performed during Orchestra Hall’s inaugural season were presented, including Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, “The Great,” and more. A special Young People’s Family Concert called “The Ghost of Orchestra Hall” paid tribute to the hall’s history through a visit by the friendly ghost of Ossip Gabrilowitsch. ORCHESTRA HALL DAY The DSO celebrated the 100th birthday of Orchestra Hall on October 23, 2019, with a free concert titled A Century of Pops, which included music from the first pops concert performed at the hall as well as selections from a century of orchestral pops music. Mayor Mike Duggan kicked off the festivities by reading a proclamation naming October 23 to be “Orchestra Hall Day” in Detroit in recognition of its central role in the cultural life of the city. The concert was conducted by former DSO resident conductor Leslie B. Dunner and featured cellist Abraham Feder (DSO Assistant Principal Cello, Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair) and mezzo-soprano Danielle Wright. Throughout the day, tours of Orchestra Hall were enjoyed by the public, and a string quartet composed of students in the Civic Youth Ensembles performed pre-concert.
PARADISE JAZZ SERIES
PARTNERSHIPS The DSO partnered with Detroit Public Television to produce “Orchestra Hall—A Centennial Celebration,” a series of six webisodes that serialized the story of Orchestra Hall. Released weekly across DPTV’s broadcast and social media platforms, including WRCJ 90.9 FM, beginning in October 2019 to coincide with the centennial, they were compiled in a culminating television event featuring the full documentary in December. In June 2020, the documentary was awarded a Michigan Emmy for best Historic / Cultural Program or Special. In partnership with the Detroit Historical Society (DHS), the DSO presented a joint exhibition of photos, artifacts, and interactive experiences tracing the history of Orchestra Hall. The DSO’s exhibition launched in October with a special treat: auto titan Horace Dodge’s personal 1920 Dodge Model 30 two-door coupe. As an early supporter and financier of the DSO, Dodge may have driven to concerts at Orchestra Hall in this very car. Throughout fall 2019, the exhibit expanded into several locations at The Max including the Paradise Lounge and the John and Marlene Boll Green Room, and in January, the Detroit Historical Museum opened its own exhibition in the Robert and Mary Ann Bury Community Gallery.
“ORCHESTRA HALL– A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION”
NEW YORK TIMES: ORCHESTRAS AND ART MUSEUMS
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 brought the DSO and DHS together once again to conceptualize bringing the Orchestra Hall exhibit online with a special updated digital exhibition. Premiered on Facebook Live in July 2020, “Detroit’s Orchestra Hall—A Virtual Exhibition” captures the magic and feel of walking through the original, in-person exhibit by retaining the artifacts and narrative, while also offering a present-day perspective. Detroit Month of Design and the DSO partnered to present a Centenary Sound Lab that explored what makes the sound of Orchestra Hall so appealing and why it’s important for communities to save and restore historic buildings for cultural enrichment. Acousticians from HEAD acoustics and Jaffe Holden offered a scientific perspective to support the claim of Orchestra Hall being one of the top concert halls in the world. The DSO also partnered with the Detroit Bus Company to offer bus tours of three of C. Howard Crane’s Detroit theaters: Orchestra Hall, the Detroit Opera House, and The Fillmore Detroit.
DHS VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
CENTENARY SOUND LAB
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THE JADER BIGNAMINI ERA BEGINS On January 22, 2020, Chairman Mark Davidoff and President & CEO Anne Parsons announced that Italian conductor Jader Bignamini had been selected as the next music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, following a years-long search and careful, deliberative work done by a search committee. This historic news was shared with DSO musicians, staff, and members of the board of directors at the top of the first rehearsal for that weekend’s performances of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, which Jader was in Detroit to conduct. Jader Bignamini was first introduced to Detroit audiences when he memorably stepped in for then-Music Director Leonard Slatkin to close the 2017-18 season with concert performances of Puccini’s Turandot. His chemistry with DSO musicians was evident to those who heard or were part of those concerts and knew that they had witnessed something truly special. That bond between conductor and orchestra was reaffirmed when Jader returned in October 2019 to lead performances of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.
WATCH: DETROIT WELCOMES JADER
The announcement of Jader as the DSO’s next music director was met with front-page news coverage and widespread public appreciation, including thunderous ovations at that week’s concerts. A public celebration of the appointment at Beacon Park in partnership with DTE Energy and DTE Foundation was attended by hundreds as the Detroit community officially welcomed its new music director.
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY The training programs of the Wu Family Academy welcomed over 500 students into its Civic Youth Ensembles (CYE) in the 2019-2020 season. Early-season highlights by the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra, CYE’s premier ensemble, included its annual Nutcracker holiday performance at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, and a special partnership with Michigan Opera Theatre’s Studio Artists program in which four singers rehearsed and performed with DSYO, giving these young players an opportunity to perform operatic repertoire for the first time. After the COVID-19 pandemic made in person training opportunities impossible, DSO staff, musicians, and CYE faculty continued to work with these young musicians virtually in an impromptu summer session that included delivering instruments into the hands of students enrolled in our Detroit Public Schools Community District school-based ensembles. Also over the summer, the Wu Family Academy began to prepare for the 50th anniversary of CYE throughout 2021, hosting several virtual alumni reunions and town halls.
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After successfully launching its sold-out Educational Concert Series in the fall, the DSO was unable to present the other two programs scheduled for the season, due first to a snow day for local schools and then to the pandemic. In lieu of being able to host classrooms at Orchestra Hall, the DSO rapidly began to present Educational Watch Parties, specially curated from the DSO webcast archives, on Facebook Live and dso.org. The DSO also created special music education infographics, sharing them with educators on Pinterest to aid them in providing remote learning. For the ninth consecutive year, the DSO performed four free community concerts to kick off its new season at venues across Metro Detroit, presented by DTE Energy Foundation. These performances in September 2019 took place in Detroit, Dearborn, Monroe, and East China. The DSO also presented chamber recitals at intimate and unexpected venues across Detroit during the first half of the season, including churches and community spaces like the Durfee Innovation Society in Detroit’s Dexter-Linwood neighborhood and the laundromat / coffee shop The Commons on the east side.
READ: DTE COMMUNITY CONCERTS
Once the COVID-19 pandemic took shape, the DSO maintained connections with 17 community partners to offer over 100 activities featuring 65 DSO musicians in a variety of virtual programming. Highlights included a partnership with Henry Ford Health System and Michigan Opera Theatre to offer monthly hour-long virtual musical performances to Henry Ford Cancer Institute patients receiving treatment via the David DiChiera Music Therapy Program; monthly virtual performances in partnership with Alzheimer’s Association for Community Connect Program participants; a special joint program of music from comic books with The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation; and pre-recorded “Musician Moments” videos that Beaumont Health patients could access in their hospital rooms; and weekly virtual sessions between DSO musicians and clients of Kadima Mental Health Services with support of music therapists. For the ninth consecutive year, the DSO performed four free community concerts to kick off its new season at venues across Metro Detroit, presented by DTE Energy Foundation. These performances in September 2019 took place in Detroit, Dearborn, Monroe, and East China. The DSO also presented chamber recitals at intimate and unexpected venues across Detroit during the first half of the season, including churches and community spaces like the Durfee Innovation Society in Detroit’s Dexter-Linwood neighborhood and the laundromat / coffee shop The Commons on the east side. Once the Covid-19 pandemic took shape, the DSO maintained connections with 17 community partners to offer over 100 activities featuring 65 DSO musicians in a variety of virtual programming. Highlights included a partnership with Henry Ford Health System and Michigan Opera Theatre to offer monthly hour-long virtual musical performances to Henry Ford Cancer Institute patients receiving treatment via the David DiChiera Music Therapy Program; monthly virtual performances in partnership with Alzheimer’s Association for Community Connect Program participants; a special joint program of music from comic books with The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation; and pre-recorded “Musician Moments” videos that Beaumont Health patients could access in their hospital rooms; and weekly virtual sessions between DSO musicians and clients of Kadima Mental Health Services with support of music therapists. THE CUBE AND @ THE MAX On December 7, 2019, all four performance spaces at The Max were activated with concurrent events for the first time in history: the DSO in Orchestra Hall; Grammy Award-winning band Ranky Tanky in The Cube; Detroit Public Theatre in Allesee Hall; and a whole host of events celebrating Detroit’s annual Noel Night in Sosnick Courtyard and its environs including holiday carolers and a live ice sculpture demonstration. Om @ The Max Yoga, our wildly popular yoga and live music experience featuring chamber music by DSO musicians and led by DSO librarian Ethan Allen, launched an official subscription series in the Peter D. and Julie F. Cummings Cube. Other highlights included six sold-out events: Nosferatu + Live Music, The Hot Sardines, Storm Large, Poetry Slam, Om @ The Max and Cyrille Aimée, and back-to-back film screenings of Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Us plus a talk by award-winning author and UCLA professor Tananarive Due, who discussed the history of Black Horror and explored themes covered in Get Out.
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#KEEPTHEM 2019 | 2020 ANNUAL REPORT #KEEPTHEMUSICPLAYING
Music is courageous, unifying, powerful, and calming, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra won’t let it be silenced in times of uncertainty. Even though the DSO wasn’t on stage for much of the year, we were committed to sharing music with you wherever you are. With technology in our DNA, the DSO navigated new pathways to #KeepTheMusicPlaying.
OM @ HOME
DSO REPLAY & WATCH PARTIES
Immediately following Michigan’s stay at home order in March, we opened our on-demand DSO Replay archive of Live from Orchestra Hall and Classroom Edition webcasts—usually accessed via $50 donation—to bring free music into the homes of audiences unable to attend concerts in person. To foster community and continue engaging with patrons, we launched DSO Watch Parties on Facebook (also shown on dso.org), where fans could hear from musician hosts and chat live with the orchestra and other audience members during the program. Spanning Classical, Pops, Educational, Family, and more, 59 Watch Parties were presented from March to August. Om @ The Max was also reimagined for the virtual space with once-monthly Om @ Home yoga sessions led by DSO Music Librarian Ethan Allen and soundtracks provided by the orchestra.
FROM OUR PORCHES... AND YOURS PLAY ON YOUR PORCH
When the world’s stages closed this spring, we invited musicians everywhere to perform for a virtual audience right from their front porches with the #PlayOnYourPorch campaign. Hundreds of community members from around the world responded and we shared their porch sessions—and sessions from DSO orchestra members—with our social media followers daily at 6 p.m. ET. DSO musicians also regularly recorded themselves playing in other areas of their homes, including living rooms, kitchens, and garages.
BETWEEN 2 STANDS
BETWEEN 2 STANDS
Monday nights became something to look forward to with new episodes of Between 2 Stands airing weekly. Created and hosted by orchestra members Abraham Feder (Assistant Principal Cello), Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal (Assistant Principal Percussion), and Scott Strong (Horn), the web series was an opportunity to connect viewers with musicians by taking audiences on a candid journey inside the musicians’ lives. We also hosted two live tapings with a branded B2S set in our Sosnick Courtyard in front of a limited-capacity, socially distanced live studio audience. Now in its second season, the hit program airs twice monthly on Facebook and YouTube.
VIRTUAL EDUCATION INITIATIVES With The Max closed for social distancing we stayed connected with students enrolled in our Civic Youth Ensembles, including our school-based ensembles, keeping them focused on routine and helping them stay in playing shape with online learning. On Saturday mornings, we also shared CYE @ Home episodes on Facebook, during which all music students could follow along with instructors from the Wu Family Academy and orchestra members as they provided quick lessons and insight for practice.
CYE AT HOME
When Interlochen Center for the Arts faced a radically adjusted summer season, DSO musicians spent three weeks working with students at their virtual summer camp. In July, DSO musicians launched their own DSO Summer Institute. Run by DSO musicians, the Summer Institute was designed to give college-age and pre-professional musicians who lost other summer opportunities a chance to work with members of the orchestra. From a pool of 380 incredibly talented applicants, our virtual festival welcomed 113 participants from diverse backgrounds into our family for a week.
PARTNERSHIPS The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation provided sponsorship support for Spirit of Detroit: A Symphony of the People. This project united 56 DSO musicians and 193 community instrumentalists and vocalists in a virtual ensemble performing the central theme from Gustav Holst’s “Jupiter” from The Planets—arranged by DSO cellist SPIRIT OF DETROIT
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Jeremy Crosmer with lyrics by Meaghan Heinrich and conducted by Music Director Jader Bignamini. The resulting video has been viewed 127,800 times on Facebook. The DSO partnered with The Henry Ford and WDIV-Local 4 to produce the 28th Salute to America: an hour-long primetime program filled with all the music and fanfare for which the annual concerts are known and loved.
OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING IN SOSNICK COURTYARD AND AROUND DETROIT
After five months without concerts, the warm weather brought the opportunity to present safe, socially distanced, live, outdoor music in Sosnick Courtyard. From August through October, the DSO offered 30 limited-capacity socially distanced live music experiences for 1,600 patrons—an increase of 21 events compared to our summer 2019 season. These “Summer Sessions” included outdoor chamber music performances (three webcasts), yoga + live music experiences; film screenings with live music; jazz and family concerts; and exclusive donor events. All events that featured DSO musicians were free and open to the public thanks to generous support from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, League of American Orchestra Future’s Fund, and our 2019-2020 series sponsors. We also brought live chamber ensembles to Robert C. Valade Park, the Dequindre Cut Freight Yard, Gabriel Richard Park, and Clark Park and collaborated with the Downtown Detroit Partnership to simulcast Wednesday night chamber concerts in Campus Martius Park. These performances were generously supported by General Motors. DSO musicians also returned to Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe for an evening of outdoor music.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION AT THE DSO In early June, amid the civil unres t taking place across the countr y, the DSO made a s tatement in suppor t of Black Lives Mat ter. With s taf f, musicians, and board leadership in alignment, it was impor tant to clearly communicate the DSO’s beliefs, intentions, and plans at this moment of crisis in our community and across our nation. The DSO has been inves ted in diversity, equity, and inclusion for decades, and people look to the orches tra to take a leadership role. From the music and ar tis ts on s tage to iconic boardroom and community leadership from the late Dr. Ar thur L . Johnson and the Honorable Damon J. Keith, the DSO has demons trated the immense role ar ts and culture can play in bridging dif ferences and connec ting people. In 2014, the DSO launched its Diversity & Inclusion Task Force, chaired by Shirley Stancato, and in 2018 elevated the Task Force to a board -level commit tee. This followed a year in which the DSO developed a Social Progress Initiative: A commitment to continuous dialogue and ac tion that leverages the power of music to improve the quality of life for all people of greater Detroit. This impor tant work led direc tly into the development of our Detroit Strategy, which can be seen through two primar y means: •
Detroit Harmony, a scalable and sus tainable city wide collaboration to improve child development through music education and ar ts- based learning while also growing economic oppor tunity by employing Detroiters in the provision of ins truments and music educa tion.
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And the Detroit Neighborhood Initiative: A measurable, community- driven process of dialogue and planning, resulting in cultural par tnerships that enrich the community, and musical experiences that align with the priorities of Detroit residents.
In addition, beginning in 2019 and continuing extensively this year, the DSO has been developing a comprehensive DEI s trategy to make DEI a fun damental value that impac ts and benefits ever y DSO cons tituenc y. The DSO is excited to share this work more completely in the nex t year. Even though we are proud of our successes, one thing is clear: Our DEI work is ongoing and not something that we will ever really “finish.” In ever ything we do, we want to provide ar tis tic excellence in meaningful and authentic ways. We also want to inspire people and be ac tive lis teners in our community. A s we said in June: We unders tand the value of lis tening.
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ADVANCEMENT AND SPECIAL EVENT HIGHLIGHTS RESILIENCE FUND
THE DSO RESILIENCE FUND
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the DSO’s Board of Directors launched and led an emergency impact fund that ultimately raised $1.58 million during both its private and public phases. The Resilience Fund filled gaps left by a variety of lost revenue sources and allowed our talented musicians to keep the music playing during their time away from the stage; empowered our youth to use music as a creative outlet during times of need and times of joy; and enabled our emergence as a vibrant and impactful organization when it was possible to return to the stage. We thank all those who went above and beyond to support this urgent need.
SECURING OUR FUTURE THROUGH ENDOWMENT GROWTH Dedicated to advancing William “Bill” Davidson’s legacy of philanthropic giving, the William Davidson Foundation made a transformative $15 million investment in the DSO in 2017. Up to $5 million of its grant was designated as a 1:1 match towards new gifts pledged and received between 2018 and 2023 to the DSO’s permanent endowment. Thanks to the generosity of donors at all levels, we have secured commitments two years ahead of schedule for all $5 million required to fully meet the matching challenge!
WILLIAM DAVIDSON NEIGHBORHOOD SERIES
As of August 31, 2020, all DSO and third-party controlled endowment funds are valued at more than $57 million. An additional $21 million has been pledged but not yet received, including $15 million in known testamentary giving, valuing the DSO’s perpetual capital at $78 million after the fulfillment of all current commitments.
CLASSICAL ROOTS The 42nd annual Arthur L. Johnson and Honorable Damon Jerome Keith Classical Roots Celebration raised a record $385,000 to support DSO programs that aim to celebrate and create more opportunities for African Americans in classical music. The 2020 Honorees were Chacona Baugh, former DSO Board of Directors member and advocate for and benefactor of the Classical Roots mission, and André Watts, the celebrated pianist and educator.
HONOREE ANDRÉ WATTS
The concert was conducted by Thomas Wilkins and featured pianist Terrence Wilson and the Brazeal Dennard Chorale, a touchstone of every Classical Roots concert since 1978. Classical Roots Composer-in-Residence Nkeiru Okoye’s DSO-commissioned work Black Bottom had its world premiere. Black Bottom references the people and music of Detroit’s historic Black Bottom neighborhood. During a research visit to Detroit, Nkeiru found inspiration in the Black Bottom Street View exhibition, which was then brought to the William Davidson Atrium and was on display for patrons to experience from February through March. Community outreach included school visits by Okoye and DSO African American Fellow Michael Gause; a Classical Roots Chamber Recital at the Plymouth United Church of Christ; and a lecture given by Okoye to the membership of the Detroit Association of Women’s Clubs, which she directly references in the eighth section of Black Bottom, “5461 Brush Street,” the association’s address. Michigan House Representative Isaac Robinson attended the event to deliver a tribute certificate from the State of Michigan that read: “It is an honor to acknowledge award-winning composer Nkeiru Okoye for her extraordinary contributions to the history of Detroit, Michigan.”
HONOREE CHACONA BAUGH
DECANTED @ THE DSO The newly launched Decanted @ the DSO was held at The Max on November 14, 2019, and was a beautiful evening with incredible wines, music, and community. We’re so grateful for the leadership support of our Decanted Executive Chairs Carolynn and Aaron Frankel,
COMPOSER NKEIRU OKOYE’S BLACK BOTTOM
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Morgan and Danny Kaufman, and Shari and Craig Morgan along with Committee Members Jiehan Alonzo, Rob Gillette, and Laura Hernandez Romine. DSO musicians who performed at the event were violinist Sheryl Hwangbo, cellist David LeDoux, clarinetist Shannon Orme, horn player David Everson, trombonists Kenneth Thompkins and Randy Hawes, and percussionist Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal. Thanks to all who participated to make the evening a success.
LEADERSHIP GIFTS The DSO celebrates Mr. & Mrs. James B. Nicholson, Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Frankel, Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel, Penny & Harold Blumenstein, Julie & Peter Cummings, Mr. & Mrs. Peter Karmanos, Jr., Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr., and Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen for their steadfast investments in the institution’s financial sustainability.
DECANTED AT THE DSO
During opening weekend of the 2019-2020 season, the DSO celebrated oneDSO leadership gifts from Director Emeritus Bonnie Larson and Chairman Emeritus Peter D. and Julie F. Cummings. The DSO also honored Board of Trustees Chair Ric and Carola Huttenlocher, Trustee Ric Sonenklar and Greg Haynes, Directors Emeriti Honorable Avern and Lois Cohn, Chairman Emeritus Phillip Wm. and Lauren Fisher, and DSO musicians for their commitment to the DSO Musicians’ Fund for Artistic Excellence. On February 18, the DSO hosted DTE leadership at Orchestra Hall to express gratitude for their support of the oneDSO campaign and Orchestra Hall centennial. DTE has remained one of the most consistent corporate sponsors of the DSO, including most recently with a multi-million-dollar campaign gift. As a token of appreciation, we presented them with an original hand-blown glass sculpture designed by April Wagner (Epiphany Studios).
BONNIE LARSON - DIRECTOR EMERITA
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PARTNERS Investments in the strategic planning phase of Detroit Harmony were made possible by the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation and the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation, bringing the DSO closer to its goal of placing an instrument in the hands of every student in Detroit and enabling the DSO to hire Damien Crutcher as the program’s Managing Director. The Ford Foundation expanded its long-standing partnership with the DSO in order to create positive change in the lives of Detroit students and community members through specialized, world-class music education programming. Spotlighting Detroit visual artists, Art @ The Max VI was made possible with generous support from the Applebaum Family Philanthropy. Later in the season, we launched the first Virtual Art @ The Max exhibition.
PETER D. CUMMINGS - CHAIRMAN EMERITUS
The FCA Foundation continued their support of programming for veterans, active military, and their families, and initiated support of Civic Youth Ensemble and Educational Concert Series programming. Thanks to the very generous support from Rocket Community Fund, the DSO, Wu-Tang producer and rapper RZA, and members of Wu-Tang Clan joined forces to announce a first-of-its-kind concert at Orchestra Hall, originally scheduled for March 21 and 22, 2020. Unfortunately, the concerts were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Making these groundbreaking concerts happen safely is a top priority for the DSO, RZA, Wu-Tang Clan, and Rocket Community Fund. These concerts are currently scheduled for May 2021. Made possible by a generous grant from the William Davidson Foundation, the DSO presented its ninth consecutive season of the William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series, bringing music to eight surrounding communities: Southfield, Clinton Township, Beverly Hills, West Bloomfield, Plymouth, Bloomfield Hills, Grosse Point, and a new venue—the Meyer Theater—in Monroe. The DSO Classical Series is generously sponsored by PVS Chemicals, Inc. The title sponsor of the DSO’s PNC Pops Series is PNC Bank, and the series is presented by Masco Corporation Foundation, with additional support from the Greektown Casino-Hotel. The Paradise Jazz Series is sponsored by General Motors with additional support from MGM Grand Detroit and TCF Bank.
DAMIEN CRUTCHER
VIRTUAL ART @ THE MAX
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TRANSFORMATIONAL SUPPORT The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is grateful to the donors who have made extraordinary multi-year, comprehensive gifts to support general operations, endowment, capital improvements, named chairs, ensembles, or programs. These generous commitments establish a solid foundation for the future of the DSO.
FOUNDING FAMILIES Julie & Peter Cummings The Davidson-Gerson Family and the William Davidson Foundation The Richard C. Devereaux Foundation The Fisher Family and the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation Stanley & Judy Frankel and the Samuel & Jean Frankel Foundation Danialle & Peter Karmanos, Jr. Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. James B. & Ann V. Nicholson and PVS Chemicals, Inc. Clyde & Helen Wu◊
CHAMPIONS John S. & James L. Knight Foundation The Kresge Foundation Mrs. Bonnie Larson The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ms. Deborah Miesel Shari & Craig Morgan Dr. William F. Pickard The Polk Family Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Stephen M. Ross Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen
Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation Penny & Harold Blumenstein Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation DTE Energy Foundation The Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher Ford Motor Company Fund Mr. & Mrs ◊ Morton E. Harris
LEADERS Applebaum Family Philanthropy Charlotte Arkin Estate Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Herman & Sharon Frankel Ruth & Al ◊ Glancy Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin John C. Leyhan Estate Bud & Nancy Liebler
Richard & Jane Manoogian Foundation David & Valerie McCammon Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller Jack & Aviva Robinson ◊ Martie & Bob Sachs Mr. & Mrs. ◊ Alan E. Schwartz Drs. Doris Tong & Teck Soo Paul & Terese Zlotoff
BENEFACTORS Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Robert & Lucinda Clement Lois & Avern Cohn Mary Rita Cuddohy Estate Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff DSO Musicians Bette Dyer Estate Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher & Mr. Roy Furman Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak Victor+ & Gale Girolami Fund Herbert & Dorothy Graebner ◊ Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes Ronald M. & Carol ◊ Horwitz Richard H. & Carola Huttenlocher
Mr. and Mrs. David Jaffa Ann & Norman Katz Dr. Melvin A. Lester Florine Mark Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs Pat & Hank Nickol Ruth Rattner Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd E. Reuss Donald & Gloria Schultz Estate Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest ◊ Jane & Larry Sherman Cindy McTee & Leonard Slatkin Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Nelson Jr. Marilyn Snodgrass Estate
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THE ANNUAL FUND
Gifts received between September 1, 2019 and August 31, 2020
Being a community-supported orchestra means you can play your part through frequent ticket purchases and generous annual donations. Your tax-deductible Annual Fund donation is an investment in the wonderful music at Orchestra Hall, around the neighborhoods and across the community. This honor roll celebrates those generous donors who made a gift of $1,500 or more to the DSO Annual Fund Campaign. If you have questions about this roster, or to make a donation, please contact 313.576.5114 or go to dso.org/donate.
Paray Society — Giving of $250,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Penny & Harold Blumenstein Julie & Peter Cummings Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Frankel Mr. & Mrs. ◊ Morton E. Harris
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Karmanos, Jr. Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James B. Nicholson Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen
Ehrling Society — Giving of $50,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Brodie Lois & Avern Cohn Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin Mr. & Mrs. James Grosfeld Mrs. Bonnie Larson Nicole & Matt Lester Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller
Nancy Schlichting & Pamela Theisen ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Simon Mr. & Mrs. Arn Tellem Paul & Terese Zlotoff The Clyde & Helen Wu Family
Dorati Society — Giving of $100,000 and more Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Alonzo James & Patricia Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Raymond M. Cracchiolo Joanne Danto & Arnold Weingarden Ms. Leslie C. Devereaux ◊ Mrs. Marjorie S. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher
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Emory M. Ford, Jr. Endowment David & Valerie McCammon Shari & Craig Morgan The Polk Family Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Martie & Bob Sachs Drs. David & Bernadine Wu
Järvi Society — Giving of $25,000 and more Ms. Sharon Backstrom Mrs. Cecilia Benner Margie Dunn & Mark Davidoff Madeline & Sidney Forbes Mr. & Mrs. Edsel B. Ford II Mrs. Martha Ford Herman & Sharon Frankel Barbara Frankel & Ronald Michalak Dale & Bruce Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Frankel Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Gerson Ms. Jody Glancy Richard H. & Carola Huttenlocher Mr. & Mrs. Norman D. Katz
Betsy & Joel Kellman Bud & Nancy Liebler Mr. & Mrs. David Provost Maurcine & Lloyd Reuss ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Mrs. Patricia Finnegan Sharf Mr. & Mrs. Larry Sherman Mr. & Mrs. James H. Sherman Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes Dr. Doris Tong & Dr. Teck M. Soo Mr. & Mrs. Gary Torgow Wolverine Packing Company And one who wishes to remain anonymous
Gabrilowitsch Society — Giving of $10,000 and more ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. & Mrs. Norman Ankers Pamela Applebaum W. Harold & Chacona W. Baugh Drs. John & Janice Bernick John & Marlene Boll Gwen & Richard Bowlby Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Brownell Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Cowger Gail Danto & Art Roffey Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. DeVore Red Dotson Eugene & Elaine C. Driker Mr. Charles L. Dunlap & Mr. Lee V. Hart Mr. Peter Falzon Jim & Margo Farber Barbara & Alfred J. Fisher III Dr. Marjorie M. Fisher & Mr. Roy Furman Mr. Michael J. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Fogleman Dr. Saul & Mrs. Helen Forman
Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr. ◊ Byron & Dorothy Gerson ◊ Victor & Gale Girolami ◊ Dr. Kenneth & Roslyne Gitlin Dr. Robert T. Goldman Allen C. Goodman & Janet R. Hankin Dr. Herman & Mrs. Shirley Gray Judy & Kenneth Hale Charlene Handleman Ms. Nancy B. Henk Michael E. Hinsky & Tyrus N. Curtis Dr. Gloria Heppner Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Hofley ◊ Ronald M. & Carol Horwitz Julius & Cynthia Huebner Foundation Renato & Elizabeth Jamett Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup William & Story John Lenard & Connie Johnston Faye & Austin Kanter Morgan & Danny Kaufman
Mike & Katy Keegan Dr. David & Mrs. Elizabeth Kessel Marguerite & David Lentz Mr. Daniel Lewis ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Lile The Locniskar Group Alexander & Evelyn McKeen Ms. Deborah Miesel Cyril Moscow Xavier & Maeva Mosquet Geoffrey S. Nathan & Margaret E. Winters David Robert & Sylvia Jean Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Albert T. Nelson, Jr. Jim & Mary Beth Nicholson ◊ Patricia & Henry Nickol Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Nycek George & Jo Elyn Nyman Anne Parsons* & Donald Dietz Kathryn & Roger Penske Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Peterson Dr. Glenda D. Price
Ms. Ruth Rattner Dr. Erik Rönmark* & Mrs. Adrienne Rönmark* Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Rosowski Peggy & Dr. Mark B. Saffer Lois & Mark Shaevsky William H. Smith John J. Solecki Mr. & Mrs. John Stroh III Ms. Marie Vanerian ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan T. Walton Gary L. Wasserman & Charles A. Kashner Mr. & Mrs. R. Jamison Williams And three who wish to remain anonymous
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Deceased *Current DSO Musician or Staff
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Mrs. Denise Abrash Mrs. Jennifer Adderley Richard & Jiehan Alonzo Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mr. Joseph Aviv & Mrs. Linda Wasserman Mrs. Jean Azar Drs. Brian & Elizabeth Bachynski Dr. David S. Balle Mr. & Mrs. Beznos Mr. David Barnes Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Berner Timothy J. Bogan Ms. Nadia Boreiko Claire P. & Robert N. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Marco Bruzzano Philip & Carol Campbell Mr. & Mrs. François Castaing Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Christians Dr. & Mrs. Charles G. Colombo Mr. James Schwyn & Mrs. Françoise Colpron Thomas W. Cook & Marie L. Masters Adel & Walter Dissett ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dunn
Giving of $5,000 and more Mr. Lawrence Ellenbogen Marianne T. Endicott Mr. & Mrs. John M. Erb Mr. Sanford Hansell & Dr. Raina Ernstoff Michael & Sally Feder ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Anthony C. Fielek Mrs. Janet M. Garrett Allan D. Gilmour & Eric C. Jirgens Dr. & Mrs. Theodore Golden Goodman Family Charitable Trust ◊ Mr. & Mrs. James A. Green Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hage Ms. Doreen Hermelin Mr. Eric J. Hespenheide & Ms. Judith V. Hicks Mr. George Hill & Mrs. Kathleen Talbert-Hill Mr. Donald & Marcia Hiruo Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hollinshead Mr. Matthew Howell & Mrs. Julie Wagner Mr. George G. Johnson Judy & David Karp Michael E. Smerza & Nancy Keppelman Samantha Svoboda & Bill Kishler Ms. Susan Konop
Barbara & Michael Kratchman John & Marilyn Kunz Dr. Raymond Landes & Dr. Melissa McBrienLandes Allan S. Leonard Max Lepler & Rex L. Dotson Bob & Terri Lutz Mrs. Sandra MacLeod Maurice Marshall ◊ Patricia A. & Patrick G. McKeever Dr. & Mrs. David Mendelson John & Marcia Miller Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Miller Joy & Allan Nachman Mr. & Mrs. Eric Nemeth Dr. William W. O’Neill Mr. & Mrs. Arthur T. O’Reilly Debra & Richard Partrich William H. & Wendy W. Powers Charlene & Michael Prysak Barbara Gage Rex Dr. & Mrs. John Roberts Mr. Ronald Ross & Ms. Alice Brody Mr. R. Desmond Rowan
Mr. David Salisbury & Mrs. Terese Ireland Salisbury Marjorie & Saul Saulson Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley G. Sears Elaine & Michael Serling Mrs. Kathleen Straus & Mr. Walter Shapero Mr. & Mrs. Paul Tobias Alice & Paul Tomboulian Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Trudeau Mr. James G. Vella Peter & Carol Walters S. Evan & Gwen Weiner Ms. Anne Wilczak Dr. M. Roy & Mrs. Jacqueline Wilson Ms. Mary Wilson Dr. & Mrs. Ned Winkelman Ms. June Wu Milton Y. Zussman And one who wishes to remain anonymous
Giving of $2,500 and more Howard Abrams & Nina Dodge Abrams Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Anthony Drs. Kwabena & Jacqueline Appiah Dr. & Mrs. Ali-Reza R. Armin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Armstrong Mr. David Assemany & Mr. Jeffery Zook* Pauline Averbach & Charles Peacock Mr. & Mrs. John Axe Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Babbish Ms. Ruth Baidas William & Lisa Barnett Nora & Guy Barron Mr. Mark G. Bartnik & Ms. Sandra J. Collins Jeffrey Bass Mr. & Mrs. Martin S. Baum Mr. & Mrs. Richard Beaubien Dr. & Mrs. Brian J. Beck Ms. Therese Bellaimey Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Bernard Martha & G. Peter Blom Dr. George & Joyce Blum Nancy & Lawrence Bluth The Honorable Susan D. Borman & Mr. Stuart Michaelson Don & Marilyn Bowerman Mr. Paul & Mrs. Lisa Brandt Mr. Anthony F. Brinkman Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Buchanan Dr. Carol S. Chadwick & Mr. H. Taylor Burleson Dr. & Mrs. Roger C. Byrd Mr. & Mrs. Brian C. Campbell Mrs. Carolyn Carr Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Carson Ronald & Lynda Charfoos Mr. Fred J. Chynchuk Mr. & Mrs. James Ciroli Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clark Nina & Richard Cohan Jack, Evelyn & Richard Cole Family Foundation Ms. Elizabeth Correa ◊ Patricia & William Cosgrove, Sr.
Mrs. Renee Crane Mrs. Barbara Cunningham ◊ Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Cutler Dr. Edward & Mrs. Jamie Dabrowski Suzanne Dalton & Clyde Foles Deborah & Stephen D’Arcy Fund ◊ Maureen & Jerry D’Avanzo Barbara A. David Lillian & Walter Dean Ms. Joyce Delamarter Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Diana & Mark Domin Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Douglas Judith A. Doyle ◊ Paul & Peggy Dufault Mr. Roger Dye & Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Edwin & Rosemarie Dyer Dr. Leo & Mrs. Mira Eisenberg Dr. & Mrs. A. Bradley Eisenbrey Randall & Jill* Elder Ms. Laurie Ellias & Mr. James Murphy Donald & Marjory Epstein Dave & Sandy Eyl Ellie Farber & Mitch Barnett Hon. Sharon Tevis Finch Ms. Joanne Fisher Kit & Dan Frohardt-Lane ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Gabrys Alan M. Gallatin Mr. George Georges Frank & Elyse Germack Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Gillette Mr. Lawrence Glowczewski Paul & Barbara C. Goodman Ms. Jacqueline Graham Mr. Luke Ponder & Dr. Darla Granger Dr. & Mrs. Joe L. Greene Ms. Lindred Greer Mrs. Betty J. Harrell Cheryl A. Harvey Ms. Barbara Heller James Hoogstra & Clark Heath
Dr. Karen Hrapkiewicz Larry & Connie Hutchinson Ms. Elizabeth Ingraham Mr. & Mrs. Ira J. Jaffe Mr. John S. Johns Mr. Arthur Johns Paul & Karen Johnson Carol & Rick Johnston Paul & Marietta Joliat Mr. & Mrs. Michael Jones Ms. Stephanie Jones Mr. & Mrs. John Jullens Grace & Evelyn Kachaturoff Diane & John Kaplan June K. Kendall Mrs. Frances King Mr. James Kirby ◊ Thomas & Linda Klein Tom & Beverly Klimko Mr. & Mrs. Ludvik F. Koci Mr. & Mrs. Robert Koffron Miss Kathryn Korns James Kors & Victoria King* Richard & Sally Krugel Mr. Michael Kuhne Mr. & Mrs. Robert LaBelle Drs. Lisa & Scott Langenburg Ms. Sandra Lapadot Ms. Anne T. Larin Dr. Lawrence O. Larson The Dolores & Paul Lavins Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Leverenz Barbara & Carl Levin Drs. Donald & Diane Levine Arlene & John Lewis Ms. Carol Litka Daniel & Linda* Lutz Cis Maisel Margaret Makulski & James Bannan Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Manke, Jr. Mervyn & Elaine Manning Ms. Florine Mark Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Mark
Brian & Becky McCabe Dr. & Mrs. Peter M. McCann, M.D. Mr. Edward McClew ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Alonzo McDonald Mr. John McFadden Mr. & Mrs. Brian Meer Olga Sutaruk Meyer Mr. Steve Mihalik Bruce & Mary Miller Steve & Judy Miller Mr. & Mrs. Randall Miller Reverend & Mrs. Daniel Millward J.J. & Liz Modell Dr. Susan & Mr. Stephen* Molina Eugene & Sheila Mondry Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Moore Ms. A. Anne Moroun Ms. Sandra Morrison Ms. I. Surayyah R. Muwwakkil Robert & Paulina Treiger Muzzin Mariam C. Noland & James A. Kelly Ellen & Larry Oshkaloff Mrs. Margot Parker Ms. Lisa A. Payne Mr. & Mrs. Philip E. Pfahlert Benjamin B. Phillips Mr. Dave Phipps Ms. Janet Pounds Jill M.* & Michael J. Rafferty Drs. Stuart & Hilary Ratner Mrs. Hope Raymond Mr. & Mrs. Dave Redfield Mr. & Mrs. Gerrit Reepmeyer Dr. Claude & Mrs. Sandra Reitelman Mr. & Mrs. John Rieckhoff Ms. Linda Rodney Michael & Susan Rontal ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Jane & Curt Russell Linda & Leonard Sahn Ms. Joyce E. Scafe Ms. Martha A. Scharchburg & Mr. Bruce Beyer
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David Szymborski & Marilyn Sicklesteel Dr. Neil Talon Joel & Shelley Tauber Dr. & Mrs. Howard Terebelo Mr. Norman Thorpe Mr. & Mrs. James W. Throop Mr. & Mrs. John P. Tierney Dr. Barry Tigay Yoni & Rachel Torgow Barbara & Stuart Trager Mark & Janice Uhlig Amanda Van Dusen & Curtis Blessing Charles & Sally Van Dusen Mr. Noah VanValkenburg Mrs. Eva Von Voss Mr. William Waak Dr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Wadle Captain Joseph F. Walsh, USN (Ret.) Mr. Michael A. Walch & Ms. Joyce Keller Mr. Patrick Webster Beverly & Barry Williams
Rissa & Sheldon Winkelman ◊ Mr. Jonathan Wolman & Mrs. Deborah Lamm Cathy Cromer Wood Ms. Andrea L. Wulf Dr. Sandra & Mr. D. Johnny Yee Mr. & Mrs. Alan Zekelman And five who wish to remain anonymous
Giving of $1,500 and more Dr. & Mrs. Gary S. Assarian Drs. Richard & Helena Balon Bowden & Elaine Brown Steve & Geri Carlson Dr. & Mrs. Glenn B. Carpenter Ms. Anne Carrier Mr. & Mrs. Matthew P. Cullen Ms. Beatrice D’Ambrosio Ms. Sherri Davis DeLuca Violin Emporium Gordon & Elaine Didier Mr. Patrick Doig Mr. Howard O. Emorey Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Lois Gilmore Lisa Goldstein Dr. William & Mrs. Antoinette Govier Howard & Francina Graef Anne & Eugene Greenstein
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Harmon Dr. William Higginbotham III M.D. The Honorable Denise Page Hood & Reverend Nicholas Hood III Nicki & Brian Inman Carolyn & Howard Iwrey Ms. Nadine Jakobowski Kathryn A. Katz Dr. Jean Kegler Carole Keller Ms. Ida King Aileen & Harvey Kleiman Mr. & Mrs. Kosch Mr. Robert L. Martin Dr. Tonya Matthews Mr. & Mrs. Germano Mularoni Mrs. Ruth Nix Fionnuala & Declan O’Riordan
Mr. & Mrs. Mark H. Peterson Drs. Renato & Daisy Ramos Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rapson Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Rask Cheryl & Paul Robertson Mr. & Mrs. William W. Rose, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Lewis Rosenbaum Mr. & Mrs. George Roumell ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest Mr. Lawrence Shoffner Ms. Claudia Sills Lawrence & Isabel Francis Smith Shirley R. Stancato Mr. & Mrs. Carl Steinecker Ms. Susanne Stroh Polly Tan Mr. & Mrs. Charles Tholen David & Lila Tirsell
Dennis & Jennifer Varian Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Verhelle Dr. Elliot & Mrs. Wendy Wagenheim Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Walsh Ms. Janet Weir Hon. Kurtis T. Wilder (Ret.) Dr. & Mrs. Philip Wolok And two who wish to remain anonymous
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*Staff/Musician
SCOTTY REILLY & KATHLEEN M C NELIS
JASMIN DEFORREST & LEONA MEDLEY
JULIE CUMMINGS, SUSAN KLEINPELL, MARY MARTELLA
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CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION GIVING Giving of $500,000 & more
SAMUEL & JEAN FRANKEL FOUNDATION
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Applebaum Family Philanthropy Detroit Pistons Edward C. & Linda Dresner Levy Foundation League of American Orchestras Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Matilda R. Wilson Fund Milner Hotels Foundation National Endowment for the Arts TCF Bank Wells Fargo Advisors
American House Senior Living Communities Blue Star Catering The Clinton Family Fund DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Eleanor & Edsel Ford Fund Flagstar Foundation Henry Ford II Fund MASCO Corporation Miami Foundation Speyer Foundation Sun Communities Inc. Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation
Beaumont Consulate General of the Peoples Republic of China Creative Benefit Solutions, LLC Honigman LLP Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss Laskaris-Jamett Advisors of Raymond James Macy’s MGM Grand Detroit Mandell & Madeleine Berman Foundation Myron P. Leven Foundation Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation Sage Foundation Stone Foundation of Michigan
Giving of $5,000 & more The Aaron Copland Fund For Music, Inc. Aptiv Foundation Benson & Edith Ford Fund Edibles Rex Founders Brewing Co. KPMG Marjorie & Maxwell Jospey Foundation Michigan Ear Institute Rocket Fiber Sigmund & Sophie Rohlik Foundation Schaerer Architextural Interiors US China Cultural Foundation Warner Norcross & Judd LLP Young Woman’s Home Association
Giving of $1,000 & more Alix Partners LLC Butzel Long Coffee Express Roasting Company Clarence & Jack Himmel Fund EY Frank & Gertrude Dunlap Foundation Great Lakes Mass Mutual James & Lynelle Holden Fund Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation Josephine Kleiner Foundation
Louis & Nellie Sieg Foundation Ludwig Foundation Fund Madison Electric Company Michigan First Credit Union Plante & Moran, PLLC Renaissance (MI) Chapter of the Links Samuel L. Westerman Foundation Save Our Symphony And one who wishes to remain anonymous
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CELEBRATING YOUR LEGACY SUPPORT BARBARA VAN DUSEN, Honorary Chair
The 1887 Society honors individuals who have made a special legacy commitment to support the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Members of the 1887 Society ensure that future music lovers will continue to enjoy unsurpassed musical experiences by including the DSO in their estate plans. If you have arranged a planned gift to support the DSO or would like more information on planned giving, please call 313.576.5114. Ms. Doris L. Adler Dr. & Mrs. William C. Albert Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mr.◊ & Mrs. Eugene Applebaum Dr. Augustin & Nancy ◊ Arbulu Ms. Sharon Backstrom Sally & Donald Baker Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barthel Mr. Mark G. Bartnik & Ms. Sandra J. Collins Mary Beattie ◊ Stanley A. Beattie Mr. & Mrs. John D Begnoche Mr. & Mrs. Mandell L. Berman ◊ Mrs. Betty Blair Ms. Rosalee Bleecker Mr. Joseph Boner Gwen & Richard Bowlby Mrs. Ellen Brownfain Mr. Charles Broh ◊ William & Julia Bugera Cynthia Cassell, Ph. D. Dr.◊ & Mrs. Victor J. Cervenak Eleanor A. Christie Ms. Mary Christner Gary Ciampa Robert & Lucinda Clement Lois & Avern Cohn Mr. Scott W. Cook, Jr. Mrs. RoseAnn Comstock ◊ Thomas W. Cook & Marie L. Masters Dorothy M. Craig Mr. & Mrs. John Cruikshank Mr. Kevin S. Dennis & Mr. Jeremy J. Zeltzer Ms. Leslie C. Devereaux Mr. John Diebel ◊ Mr. Stuart Dow Mr. Roger Dye & Ms. Jeanne A. Bakale Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Eidson Marianne T. Endicott Mrs. Rema Frankel ◊ Patricia Finnegan Sharf Ms. Dorothy Fisher Mrs. Marjorie S. Fisher◊
Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Wm. Fisher Dorothy A. & Larry L. Fobes Samuel & Laura Fogleman Mr. Emory Ford, Jr.◊ Dr. Saul & Mrs. Helen Forman Barbara Frankel & Ron Michalak Herman & Sharon Frankel Jane French Mark and Donna Frentrup Janet M. Garrett Dr. Byron P. & Marilyn Georgeson Mr. & Mrs. Jim Gietzen Mr. Joseph & Mrs. Lois Gilmore Victor ◊ & Gale Girolami Ruth & Al ◊ Glancy David & Paulette Groen Mr. Harry G. Bowles ◊ Donna & Eugene Hartwig Gerhardt A. Hein & Rebecca P. Hein Ms. Nancy B. Henk Joseph L. Hickey Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Hitchman Andy Howell Carol Howell Paul M. Huxley & Cynthia Pasky David & Sheri Jaffa Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Jeffs II Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Jessup Mr. & Mrs. George Johnson Lenard & Connie Johnston Ms. Carol Johnston Carol M. Jonson Drs. Anthony & Joyce Kales Faye & Austin Kanter Norb ◊ & Carole Keller Dr. Mark & Mrs. Gail Kelley June K. Kendall Dimitri ◊ & Suzanne Kosacheff Douglas Koschik Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Krolikowski Mary Clippert LaMont Ms. Sandra S. Lapadot Mrs. Bonnie Larson Ann C. Lawson ◊
Allan S. Leonard Max Lepler & Rex L. Dotson Dr. Melvin A. Lester ◊ Mr. & Mrs.◊ Joseph Lile Harold Lundquist ◊ & Elizabeth Brockhaus Lundquist Mr. & Mrs. Eric C. Lundquist Roberta Maki Eileen & Ralph Mandarino Judy Howe Masserang Mr. Glenn Maxwell Ms. Elizabeth Maysa Mary Joy McMachen, Ph.D. Judith Mich ◊ Rhoda A. Milgrim Mr. & Mrs. Eugene A. Miller John & Marcia Miller Jerald A. & Marilyn H. Mitchell Mr.◊ & Mrs. L. William Moll Shari & Craig Morgan Ms. I. Surayyah R. Muwwakkil Geoffrey S. Nathan & Margaret E. Winters Beverley Anne Pack David ◊ & Andrea Page Mr. Dale J. Pangonis Ms. Mary W. Parker Mrs. Sophie Pearlstein ◊ Helen & Wesley Pelling ◊ Dr. William F. Pickard Ms. Christina Pitts Mrs. Robert Plummer Mr. & Mrs. P. T. Ponta Mrs. Mary Carol Prokop ◊ Ms. Linda Rankin & Mr. Daniel Graschuck Mr. & Mrs. Douglas J. Rasmussen Deborah J. Remer Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd E. Reuss Barbara Gage Rex Ms. Marianne Reye Lori-Ann Rickard Katherine D. Rines Bernard & Eleanor Robertson Ms. Barbara Robins Jack ◊ & Aviva Robinson
Mr.◊ & Mrs. Gerald F. Ross Mr. & Mrs. George Roumell Dr. Margaret Ryan Marjorie & Saul Saulson Mr. & Mrs. Donald & Janet Schenk Ms. Yvonne Schilla Mr. & Mrs. Fred Secrest ◊ Ms. Marla K. Shelton Edna J. Shin Ms. June Siebert Dr. Melissa J. Smiley & Dr. Patricia A. Wren Ms. Marilyn Snodgrass ◊ Mrs. Margot Sterren ◊ Mr. & Mrs. Walter Stuecken Mr.◊ & Mrs. Alexander C. Suczek David Szymborski & Marilyn Sicklesteel Ms. Mary Evelyn Durden Teal ◊ Mrs. Rose Taksier Alice & Paul Tomboulian Mr. David Patria & Ms. Barbara Underwood Roger & Tina Valade Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen Charles & Sally Van Dusen Mr. & Mrs. Melvin VanderBrug Mrs. Jane Van Dragt ◊ Mr.◊ & Mrs. George C. Vincent Christine & Keith C. Weber Mr. Herman Weinreich John ◊ & Joanne Werner Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Wilhelm Mr. Robert E. Wilkins ◊ Mrs. Michel Williams Ms. Nancy S. Williams ◊ Mr. Robert S. Williams & Ms. Treva Womble Ms. Barbara Wojtas Elizabeth B. Work ◊ Dr. & Mrs. Clyde Wu ◊ Ms. Andrea L. Wulf Mrs. Judith G. Yaker Milton & Lois ◊ Zussman Five who wish to remain anonymous
The DSO’s Planned Giving Council recognizes the region’s leading financial and estate professionals whose current and future clients may involve them in their decision to make a planned gift to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Members play a critical role in shaping the future of the DSO through ongoing feedback, working with their clients, supporting philanthropy, and attending briefings twice per year. For more information or to join the PG Council, please call 313.576.5114.
Mrs. Katana H. Abbott* Mr. Joseph Aviv Mr. Christopher Ballard* Ms. Jessica B. Blake, Esq. Ms. Rebecca J. Braun Mr. Timothy Compton Ms. Wendy Zimmer Cox* Mrs. Jill Governale* Mr. Henry Grix*
Linda Wasserman, Chair Mrs. Julie R. Hollinshead, CFA Mr. Henry P. Lee* Mr. Mark W. Jannott, CTFA Ms. Marguerite Munson Lentz* Ms. Jennifer A. Jennings* J. Thomas MacFarlane Ms. Dawn Jinsky* Mr. Christopher M. Mann* Mrs. Shirley Kaigler* Mr. Curtis J. Mann Mr. Robert E. Kass* Mrs. Mary Mansfield Mr. Christopher L. Kelly Mr. Mark Neithercut* Mr. Bernard S. Kent Mrs. Alice R. Pfahlert Ms. Yuh Suhn Kim Mr. Steven C. Pierce
Ms. Deborah J. Renshaw, CFP Mr. James P. Spica Mr. David M. Thoms* Mr. John N. Thomson, Esq. Mr. Janson Tinsley* Mr. William Vanover Mr. William Winkler *Executive Committee Member ◊
Deceased