Pacific Symphony Given Record Gift by Foundation

The Pacific Symphony received $150,000 Tuesday from the Leo Freedman Foundation, the largest single-year donation in the orchestra’s 13-year history. The orchestra’s 1992-93 concert series will be named after the foundation, which is based in Anaheim.

In a prepared statement, foundation trustee Sharon Jaquith said the money was given because “we have been impressed by the artistic quality delivered by music director Carl St. Clair and the orchestra, and the potential of the orchestra to achieve even more in the future.”

The orchestra’s executive director, Louis Spisto, noted that its summer and children’s concerts series already are named after donors. “It is becoming a very important practice for orchestras and very common when a major corporation or foundation makes a sizable gift to have a particular series or portion of the series named after them,” Spisto said.