CARMINA BURANA - The Chicago Bar Association

CBA SYMPHONY & CHORUS OFFICIAL PROGRAM
Founding Members from the Orchestra’s
Debut Concert Performance
These individuals performing in Carmina Burana also performed in
the debut concert of the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra
on June 25, 1987 at the CBA Annual Dinner Meeting
in the Drake Hotel:
David Katz, Music Director Mark Hellner, trumpet
Jerome Kaplan,
oboe and English horn
Tom Lichten, clarinet
Blanche Manning, clarinet
Katherine Erwin, bassoon
Michael Poulos, trumpet
Desiree Grode, violin
Pat Bronte, violin
Gail Margolis, violin
Leslie Bertagnolli, violin
Alexander Weaver, viola
Bob Hodge, bass
CBA Symphony Orchestra Co-Chairs
1986-1987 Julia Nowicki, Susan Chernoff Huvard
1987-1988 Susan Chernoff Huvard, Karen Boyaris
1988-1989 Leslie Bertagnolli, Mark Hellner
1989-1990 Leslie Bertagnolli, Mark Hellner
1990-1991 Gail Margolis, Adam Walker
1991-1992 Giff Zimmerman, Gail Margolis
1992-1993 Todd Weiner, Mary Alred
1993-1994 Mary Alred, Michael McVickar
1994-1995 Mary Alred, Michael McVickar, Beth Lodal
1995-1996 Beth Lodal, Michael Poulos, Peter Duda
1996-1997 Michael Poulos, Ellen Douglass
1997-1998 Michael Poulos, Ellen Douglass, James
McMasters
1998-1999 Ellen Douglass, James McMasters, John
Vishneski
1999-2000 James McMasters, John Vishneski, Karen Barnes
2000-2001 John Vishneski, Karen Barnes, Jon Duncan
2001-2002 Karen Barnes, Jon Duncan, Mitchell Brumwell
2002-2003 Jon Duncan, Mitchell Brumwell, Alexander
Weaver
2003-2004 Mitchell Brumwell, Alexander Weaver, Mary
Callaghan
2004-2005 Alexander Weaver, Mary Callaghan,
Arthur Carvajal
2005-2006 Mary Callaghan, Arthur Carvajal, Emily Chen
2006-2007 Arthur Carvajal, Emily Chen, Heather Neaveill
2007-2008 Emily Chen, Heather Neaveill, Gregory Zinkl
2008-2009 Emily Chen, Gregory Zinkl, John Tangren
2009-2010 Gregory Zinkl, John Tangren, Alan Jedlicka
2010-2011 John Tangren, Alan Jedlicka, Liisa Thomas
Chicago Bar Association Chorus Co-Chairs
2006-2007 Jennifer Widmer, Mark Burkland
2007-2008 Jennifer Widmer, Terrence Kennedy, Jr.
2008-2009 Jennifer Widmer, Terrence Kennedy, Jr.
2009-2010 Jennifer Widmer, Terrence Kennedy, Jr.
2010-2011 Jennifer Widmer, Terrence Kennedy, Jr.,
Rebecca Burlingham
8 | CBA SYMPHONY & CHORUS
The Chicago Bar association Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
David Katz, music director / Rebecca Patterson, chorus director
The Chicago Bar association Symphony Orchestra is Chicagoland’s unique
orchestra of attorneys, judges and law students. Founded in 1986 by two lawyercellists
who shared a stand at a Do-It-Yourself Messiah performance conducted by
Margaret Hillis, it was she who recommended David Katz, her Elgin Symphony
associate conductor, to be the group’s music director. Growing from just a handful
of musicians at its first rehearsal, many of whom still play with the ensemble, the
group now regularly fields an orchestra of 75 musicians or more, virtually all affiliated
with Chicago’s legal community.
Among notable performances in the orchestra’s long history are the first performances
anywhere of Gilbert & Sullivan’s courthouse operetta, Trial By Jury, in which
the entire cast—soloists, chorus and orchestra—was made up of legal professionals
and performed in a working courtroom. The CBASO has collaborated with such
notable soloists as Grammy Award winners William Warfield (Copland’s Lincoln
Portrait) Robert Black (Glazunov’s Saxophone Concerto), Chicago Symphony principal
tubist Gene Pokorny (Tubby the Tuba), and former Lyric Opera concertmaster, Henry
Criz (Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto).
The ensemble has performed at many public events for the Chicago Bar Association,
its prime sponsor, including annual Law Day observances on Daley Plaza, the Lincoln
Bicentennial Celebration at Navy Pier with noted author Doris Kearns Goodwin, and
the recent gala for retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
To mark its 20th anniversary in 2006, the CBASO presented Beethoven’s Symphony
No. 9 at Navy Pier on the final evening of the convention of World Bar Associations.
The choral ensemble formed for that performance became the CBa Chorus, now
celebrating its fifth anniversary. Under the direction of Rebecca Patterson, the Chorus
has performed many times with the CBASO in repertoire ranging from Mendelssohn’s
Elijah and Haydn’s Creation to the Faure Requiem and Poulenc Gloria.
The CBASO and Chorus join together next season for an evening of opera choruses.
Additional repertoire for the 2011-12 season includes Respighi’s Pines of Rome,
Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, Gershwin’s Concerto in F and the Schumann Piano
Concerto, all presented at the CBASO’s performance home, St. James Episcopal
Cathedral, Wabash at Huron, Chicago.
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membership information
Membership in the Chicago Bar association Symphony Orchestra is open to
qualified CBA members, law students, and other interested musicians in the legal
community. Openings may be limited, but please inquire. For additional information,
contact the co-chairs at cbaso.cochairs@gmail.com.
Chicago Bar association Chorus membership is open to all CBA members, law
students, and other interested singers. No audition is required, although prior
choral experience is preferred. For additional information, contact the chorus cochairs,
Jennifer Widmer (jennifer.widmer@sbcglobal.net) or Rebecca Burlingham
(rburlingham@atg.state.il.us). For more information visit the CBA Chorus web page.
www.chicagobar.org/chorus