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HEARD? Our 19/20 season builds on 125 years of momentum. We’re writing the future of music here in . Get ready for new and important works and innovative and inspiring performances on the scale of dreams. There’s so much to share and look forward to as we create the future—together.

Louis Langrée, Music Director

2 cincinnatisymphony.org 3 The future of music is here Changing the face of American Lucky 13 The great unfinished symphony The CSO has premiered 325 new pieces of music in 125 Since 2016, the CSO has mentored and helped accelerate Since the beginning, only 13 people have stood at The CSO has welcomed tens of millions of concertgoers years. From the grand to the quietly sublime, each piece the careers of 13 musicians from backgrounds that are the artistic helm of the CSO. Through their vision, the over five generations. You’re writing the history of the is breaking news centuries in the making. underrepresented in the field. In partnership Orchestra has represented our city on tours across the CSO with us—right here, right now. Your presence tells with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and CCM, we're globe and captured the Cincinnati sound on recordings a story. After all, music lives in you. Louis Langrée with 18/19 composer-in-residence ensuring a seat for all—where every voice is heard. that have sold 10 million copies worldwide. Spreading Jonathan Bailey Holland. the joy of music globally, the CSO's legacy grows under Louis Langrée.

4 cincinnatisymphony.org Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 5 MUSIC LIVES WITHIN US ALL REGARDLESS OF WHO WE ARE OR WHERE WE COME FROM. WE BELIEVE THAT MUSIC IS A PATHWAY TO IGNITING OUR PASSIONS, WE BELIEVE DISCOVERING WHAT MOVES US, DEEPENING OUR CURIOSITY AND CONNECTING US TO OUR WORLD AND TO EACH OTHER.

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AT THE SUMMIT: ANNE-SOPHIE UNLIMITED COLOR: DVOŘÁK'S NEW Strauss + Dessner MUTTER PLAYS Bolero + Rouse WORLD SYMPHONY

BEETHOVEN Premiere SEP 20–21, 2019 OCT 25–26, 2019 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm SEP 28–29, 2019 OCT 18–19, 2019 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Gustavo Gimeno conductor Katia & Marielle Labèque Eun Sun Kim conductor Louis Langrée conductor Ingrid Fliter Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Guy Braunstein violin, Spanish composer Francisco Coll

Richard Strauss himself artist-in-residence paints excesses of modernity in Virtuoso phenom Anne-Sophie conducted Don Juan with the deepest blue. Manuel de Falla Mutter returns to Music Hall Experience the birth of a new CSO and so the season opens evokes the smells, textures for Beethoven’s beloved Violin symphony by Pulitzer Prize- with this exciting piece he chose and light from lavish gardens . Awestruck by winning composer Christopher for his visit to Cincinnati. First for his most impressionistic 1 Beethoven, Brahms once vowed Rouse, whose music is described performed in the U.S. by the CSO, score. Dvořák infuses the Old never to write a symphony. as “explosive and passionate” Strauss’ last orchestral odyssey, World with the New World in SERIES 1 Brahms' Fourth is featured (Baltimore Sun). CSO artist- An Alpine Symphony, leads us to a symphony he described as FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm in this program conducted by in-residence Guy Braunstein, the bright summit of experience. “genuine bohemian music,” Eun Sun Kim, who was praised the youngest-ever appointed The Labèque sisters give the musing on palettes of style for her Verdi at the May Festival concertmaster of the Berlin American premiere of music NPR from America. last season. Don’t miss a special Philharmonic, delights in the calls “gorgeous, full-hearted” by 2 exhibition from the Beethoven- Spanish passions of Lalo’s Cincinnati native Francisco COLL Hidd'n Blue Haus Bonn museum celebrating showpiece while Bolero takes us SERIES 2 “Louis Langrée assembles some of the of The National. [U.S. Premiere] Beethoven’s 250th birthday. in the direction of the timeless. DE FALLA Nights in the Gardens FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm R. STRAUSS Don Juan of Spain Gabriella SMITH New Work RAVEL Bolero Bryce DESSNER Concerto for DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, [World Premiere, LALO Symphonie espagnole savviest programs in North America…” Two Pianos [U.S. Premiere] From the New World CSO Co-Commission] Christopher ROUSE Symphony 3 An Alpine Symphony R. STRAUSS BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto No. 6 [World Premiere, SERIES 3 BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 CSO Commission] SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm The Philadelphia Inquirer

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cont. PETROUCHKA AMERICAN LIFE WINTER SCHUMANN’S Renée Fleming soprano

+ TCHAIKOVSKY DAYDREAMS: PARADISE Behzod Abduraimov piano NOV 15–16, 2019 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Tchaikovsky and DEC 6–7, 2019 NOV 8–9, 2019 Thomas Wilkins conductor Hear the boundless artistry of acclaimed soprano FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm | TIMELESS FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Schwizgebel piano Schumann Renée Fleming applied to Strauss’ songs of life and Louis Langrée conductor Paolo Bortolameolli Anniversary Gala

Gil Shaham violin The CSO follows the thread NOV 30–DEC 1, 2019 conductor love. Poetic works by Lili Boulanger and former CSO SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm of great African American May Festival Chorus, Music Director Eugène Ysaÿe frame an audacious SAT JAN 11, 2020 conductor Gil Shaham could give any composers. Adolphus Hailstork James Conlon Robert Porco director encounter with Rachmaninoff by pianist Behzod Concert 7 pm violinist a “close race in the muses on an American port city, Lise de la Salle piano Gala Dinner 8:30 pm Abduraimov, “the master of all he surveys” (The razzle-dazzle department” while rising composer James Lee Schumann created a new Lars and Susan Anderson (Chicago Tribune). Hear May Festival Music Director symphonic form to set Irish Times). Saturday night’s program has Fleming III finds sublimity in the stars. Laureate James Conlon leads a Gala Chairs his remarkable artistry in Florence Price’s Piano Concerto poet Thomas Moore’s ultra- dishing out show-stopping hits from film lavishly expressive program this Romantic verse to music. The Tchaikovsky’s concerto, a —performed by preeminent and Broadway. Following a stunning work once thought unplayable. Thanksgiving weekend. Wagner’s story follows a peri, a being of concert featuring legendary interpreter Louis Schwizgebel— majestic overture introduces the The CSO performs a piece contains folk-like accents. William both celestial and earthly origins, soprano Renée Fleming, themes of his opera about love who can only reenter heaven if by Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Grant Still frames jazz styles in PROGRAM • FRI JAN 10 PROGRAM • SAT JAN 11 join Louis Langrée and CSO and heartbreak. French pianist she offers up something dearest Wolfe, whose music has “long symphonic form, and the Duke L. BOULANGER L. BOULANGER musicians for an evening Lise de la Salle, a “talent in a to God. Schumann's oratorio put inhabited a terrain of its own” takes us strolling through Harlem Of a Spring Morning Of a Spring Morning of dinner and dancing. (Wall Street Journal). Stravinsky million” (Gramophone), shares his name on the international on a Sunday morning. soaring music written for the RACHMANINOFF R. STRAUSS pulls the strings on Petrouchka, scene and, blending the sacred Be a part of the celebration! gifted concert pianist Clara Piano Concerto No. 2 – Liebeshymnus a virtuosic musical tale evocative Adolphus HAILSTORK and secular, portrays the peri's cincinnatisymphony.org/gala HOLMÈS La Nuit et l'Amour – Morgen of Pinocchio. Schumann. Tchaikovsky’s hard- three attempts at the gates An American Port of Call R. STRAUSS Four Last Songs – Cäcilie Concert tickets sold separately won First reflects the sure voice of paradise. James LEE III Sukkot Through RACHMANINOFF Julia WOLFE Fountain of Youth Orion's Nebula of a master melodist. – Piano Concerto No. 2 [CSO Co-Commission] Piano Concerto in SCHUMANN Paradise and the Peri PRICE WAGNER Prelude to Die Additional Works TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto 2 One Movement Meistersinger von Nürnberg From Broadway and Film STRAVINSKY Petrouchka Symphony No. 1, STILL SCHUMANN Piano Concerto Afro-American Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1, ELLINGTON Harlem Winter Daydreams

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cont. SCHUBERT'S PLAY OF LIGHT: THE GREAT Ravel's Enchantment

JAN 24–25, 2020 FEB 7–8, 2020 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Simone Young conductor Louis Langrée conductor 3 Alban Gerhardt Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano Isabel Leonard the child One of Ravel’s earliest pieces TH James Bonas director 125 ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION introduces Schubert’s once lost Additional artists in

final symphony. Described by collaboration with CCM JAN 18–19, 2020 Robert Schumann as a work SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm “that transports us into a world Louis Langrée conducts Ravel's Louis Langrée conductor where we cannot recall ever fantastical story in a fully staged Aaron Diehl piano • Vadym Kholodenko piano having been before,” Schubert’s production that blooms with May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director masterpiece is a cornerstone illustrated animations and Tal Rosner video artist of classical music. Guest artist imagination. Vocalist Isabel Alban Gerhardt performs Leonard gives her Grammy- Ellington’s swinging utopian vision and music from former CSO a concerto written for him winning take on the title role. musician William Winstead honor the Orchestra’s remarkable past. by , a composer On the first half of the program, Bjarnason looks at the genesis of everything in the throes of a who “has a knack for binding the fearless pianist and Jean-Yves particle accelerator. Gershwin himself takes the stage for a player together seemingly irreconcilable Thibaudet accepts Saint-Saëns’ piano performance of Rhapsody and Scriabin’s visionary extremes” (The New Yorker). invitation to imaginary adventure. symphony transforms the Titan’s gift of fire into a full-on experience of synesthesia. RAVEL Pavane pour une SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto infante défunte No. 5, Egyptian William WINSTEAD New Work [World Premiere, CSO Commission] Unsuk CHIN Cello Concerto RAVEL L'enfant et les sortilèges YSAŸE Exil! SCHUBERT Symphony in C Major, Grégoire Pont & James Bonas ELLINGTON New World A-Comin' The Great Production GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue (for Pianola and Orchestra) Daníel BJARNASON Collider [CSO Commission] SCRIABIN Symphony No. 5, Prometheus: The Poem of Fire CSO SEASON SPONSOR

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FEB 29–MAR 1, 2020 SAT 4 pm; SUN 2:30 pm 1 Louis Langrée conductor 2 2 1 May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director cont. Inon Barnatan piano HANDEL IN ROME: MANNY AND BEETHOVEN NO. 8 RACHMANINOFF The Delirium of Love MOZART + Sō PERCUSSION AND PROKOFIEV Dorothea Röschmann soprano MAR 13–14, 2020 MAR 27–28, 2020 APR 3–4, 2020 APR 17–18, 2020 Louis Langrée leads the CSO in a recreation of FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Beethoven's legendary Akademie concert, held Jonathan Cohen conductor Peter Oundjian conductor Louis Langrée conductor Xian Zhang conductor in Vienna in December 1808. The most important Thomas Dunford lute Emanuel Ax piano Sō Percussion Sergio Tiempo piano Joélle Harvey soprano performance in Beethoven's lifetime, the concert Mozart's Piano Concerto No. Musical futurists Sō Percussion After her electrifying CSO debut featured the premieres of his Symphonies 5 and 6 and British conductor Jonathan 20 is a work that Beethoven, return to the CSO stage after a in 2012, conductor Xian Zhang his Fourth Piano Concerto, with the composer at the Cohen makes his CSO debut Brahms and Clara Schumann provocative performance at the returns to lead the CSO in a with Italian-inspired Baroque all admired and performed— 2015 MusicNOW Festival. Known program of Russian masterpieces. keyboard. For this once-in-a-lifetime experience, opt music. Revel in a concerto by and legendary pianist Emanuel for using uncommon items as Venezuelan pianist Sergio Tiempo to join us for dinner in the Music Hall Ballroom, which the Venetian master Vivaldi and Ax is its ideal interpreter. “His instruments, they'll perform a meets Paganini at the crossroads will be transformed into a Viennese Biergarten. delight in the daring of Zelenka’s greatness, his overwhelming suite from Lully's comedy-ballet of Rachmaninoff's immensely bohemian Sinfonia à 8. And if authority as musician, technician and move through the breakage popular Rhapsody. A new work you’re Handel, when in Rome, and probing intellect emerges of 's man made. by Caroline Shaw advances music SAT FEB 29 BEETHOVEN write Italian vocal works for high- quickly as he plays” (Los Angeles Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in Cincinnati, and Prokofiev's Part I: 4–6:30 pm – Symphony No. 6, Pastoral ranking clerics. Rejected in life, Times). Reeling from world war, follows the mystery of creation, heroic Fifth Symphony speaks Dinner Pause: 6:30–8:30 pm – Ah! Perfido, Scene and Aria rejected in death, the heroine Shostakovich courageously while Louis Langrée and the CSO to “the greatness of the Part II: 8:30–10 pm – Gloria from Mass in C of Handel’s Delirio Amoroso regards timbres of annihilation set out to create the music of the human spirit.” – Piano Concerto No. 4 makes a one-way journey to in a symphony that defied future with a world premiere by SUN MAR 1 – Symphony No. 5 the underworld. Stalin’s propagandists. Sebastian Currier. Caroline SHAW New Work Part I: 2:30–5 pm – Sanctus from Mass in C [CSO Co-Commission] Dinner Pause: 5–7 pm – Improvised Fantasia VIVALDI Lute Concerto MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 LULLY Le Bourgeois RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on Part II: 7–8:30 pm – Choral Fantasy ZELENKA Sinfonia à 8 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 8 gentilhomme Suite a Theme of Paganini 3 HANDEL Delirio Amoroso David LANG man made PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 Sebastian CURRIER New Work [World Premiere, CSO Commission] BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 CSO SEASON SPONSOR

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TRANSFIGURED MOZART'S PARIS

NIGHT cont. MAY 8–9, 2020 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm APR 25–26, 2020 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Guy Braunstein conductor, Philippe Bernold flute Emmanuel Ceysson harp violin, artist-in-residence

Sometimes outsiders have Mendelssohn draws inspiration greater insight into the cultural for a symphony from coasts 3 values of a place than those born and ruins while vacationing to it. Gluck, a German, reinvented in Scotland. The CSO honors the French operatic style. Mozart, SEASON FINALE: recently passed Pulitzer Prize- an Austrian, exemplified the winning George Walker with Mahler 3 + Adolphe Premiere French style in works like the this tender dedication to his Concerto for Flute and Harp. grandmother. Sublime early MAY 16–17, 2020 Adding to Mozart’s development music from Schoenberg at his SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm as a composer, the City of Light most lush and romantic matches Louis Langrée conductor gave back in kind; Parisian Ben-Ari’s tribute to hope. Artist- Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano audiences so loved the flair in-residence Guy Braunstein Cincinnati Boychoir, Christopher Eanes director of his Paris Symphony that returns to pull music from thin air. Women of the May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director they demanded encores.

WALKER Lyric for Strings Premiered in the U.S. in 1914 by the CSO, Mahler’s Third is what he GLUCK Overture to Iphigénie Ohad BEN-ARI Forgiveness and heard when he put his ear to the world. Movement titles like “What en Aulide Hope [U.S. Premiere] the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me” and “What Love Tells Me,” plus MOZART Concerto for Flute SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht the vastness of the orchestra required, show how deeply he listened. and Harp ("Transfigured Night") A new work from Julia Adolphe, whose music has been described GLUCK Overture and Dance of the MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, as “alive with invention” (The New Yorker), proves we are ever Furies from Orphée et Eurydice Scottish looking forward. MOZART Symphony No. 31, Paris Julia ADOLPHE New Work [World Premiere, CSO Commission] MAHLER Symphony No. 3

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–––––– –––––– Inspired by the A new three-concert native northern series that deeply AMERICAN SINGULIS ET SIMUL SURREALIST mockingbird’s connects artist PERSPECTIVE EL TROPICAL JAN 29, 2020 WED 7:30 pm ability to listen and and listener in NOV 22, 2019 APR 22, 2020 learn from others, fresh and exciting FRI 7:30 pm Keitaro Harada conductor WED 7:30 pm Andre de Ridder conductor Frédéric Nauczyciel Rosie Herrera choreographer Look Around asks ways, featuring Timo Andres composer, House of HMU Clyde Scott video designer

pianist Luke Kritzeck lighting designer how we can better elements of theater “The vogue ballroom culture

John Heginbotham is defined by its celebration of “I want you to imagine that, after see one another and dance that add choreographer femininity in the African American a night of gleefully overindulging Inbal Segev cellist transgender community, with and our city. new dimensions in absinthe cocktails, Fellini roots dating back to the Harlem stumbles down an alley in old of color. “I’ve put together a program Renaissance. It resonates with Photo: GBBN Havana. A door cracks open and around the idea of American the Baroque period. I create a music washes over him like a AUG 3, 2019 Co-created by: musical identity. We’ll hear path to explore juxtapositions sticky sunrise in September. He SAT 7 pm | Washington Park + OTR how Charles Ives toyed with between Baroque music and steps inside into a primordial soup cincinnatisymphony.org/lookaround the rhythms of ragtime, Tania urban ballroom culture of vogue, León fractured Cuban-American of neon and sound and tropical and the street culture of marching modernism, and how early heat. A wild undercurrent pulses The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, along with thirty local bands. I will combine the CSO New Englanders fused the through the room, whispering groups including choirs, instrumental ensembles and dancers, Mark and performance artists from sacred and secular into a vibrant that anything (and everything) gather together in musical meditation and a celebratory parade. DeChiazza Paris, Baltimore and Cincinnati to tradition of Sacred Harp singing. might happen.” This enveloping musical experience is free for the community and ultimately transform the concert American music has always been extends from Ziegler Park through Over-the-Rhine, culminating form, and the stage, into an area a stacking of influences, a mirror –Rosie Herrera in Washington Park for a full orchestral experience. Performing of accidental proximity.” Cincinnati Siri Imani of ourselves.” music co-created with composer Shara Nova and with direction Symphony by Mark DeChiazza, artists and audience become one as they + 30 local artists –Frédéric Nauczyciel Orchestra and ensembles –Timo Andres move throughout the neighborhood, inviting friends and neighbors to join in, simply listen, or...look around.

CSO Look Around Sponsors: Jackie and Roy Sweeney Fund of CSO Proof Sponsor: Tom and Molly Garber the Greater Cincinnati Foundation Singulis et Simul: This performative installation is co-produced by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Contemporary Arts Center

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Platinum Baton Circle | $50,000+ Anonymous • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation • ArtsWave • Clement & Ann Buenger Foundation •The Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr. / U.S. Bank Foundation The Dr. John & Louise Mulford Fund for the CSO • Ft. Washington Investment Advisors • Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation H.B., E.W., F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation, Fifth Third Bank and Narley L. Haley, Co-Trustees • Macy’s, Inc. • Ohio Arts Council PNC Bank • The Harold C. Schott Foundation / Francie and Tom Hiltz, Trustees • Marge and Charles J. Schott Foundation • Western & Southern Financial Group

Gold Baton Circle | $25,000-$49,999 The Cincinnati Symphony Club • Charles H. Dater Foundation • Coney Island • Croswell VIP Motorcoaches • Fifth Third Foundation • CCI Design / Tom & Molly Garber The Ladislas & Vilma Segoe Family Foundation • National Endowment for the Arts • Ohio Valley Foundation • United Dairy Farmers & Homemade Brand Ice Cream NEW NEW Jeffrey & Jody Lazarow and Janie & Peter Schwartz Family Fund at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Conductor’s Circle | $10,000-$24,999 light Anonymous • Bartlett Wealth Management • CFM International • Chemed Corporation night/ Corporex Companies, LLC • Crosset Family Fund • The Daniel & Susan Pfau Foundation • Frost Brown Todd LLC • Graeter’s Ice Cream • HORAN ILSCO Corporation / Bardes Fund • Johnson Investment Counsel • Kroger Company • Messer Construction Company • Ohio National Financial Services –––––– –––––– Oliver Family Foundation • PwC • Rendigs, Fry, Kiely & Dennis, LLP • Sutphin Family Foundation • Taft Stettinius and Hollister LLP Engage with music in surprising new ways. Music+ is Join guest artists and CSO musicians after select concerts for Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing NA, Inc. • The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation • The Proctor & Gamble Company U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management • Wodecroft Foundation • World Pac Paper, LLC a variety of pre-and post-concert experiences, often an intimate hour-long candlelit concert with wine. Dates and free and in collaboration with creative talent from our themes to be announced. Concertmaster’s Circle | $5,000-$9,999 community. Music+ includes performances, interactive Mayerson Family Foundations • Louise Taft Semple Foundation • The LaBlond Foundation of Makino • Pomeroy • Queen City (OH) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated exhibits, discussions with musicians and guest artists, cincinnatisymphony.org/nightlight Stone Financial Retirement Planning • Thompson Hine LLP • The Willard and Jean Mulford Charitable Fund • YOT Full Circle Foundation wine tastings, signature cocktails and more. 125th Anniversary Partners (as of December 2018) cincinnatisymphony.org/musicplus United Dairy Farmers & Homemade Brand Ice Cream • Messer Construction Company • The Proctor & Gamble Company • PwC • Graeter’s Ice Cream • Macy’s, Inc. PNC Bank • Western & Southern Financial Group • Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.

Commission Underwriters Dianne and J. David Rosenberg • Ann and Harry Santen • Irwin and Melinda Simon • Classical Movements’ Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program

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AUG 19 DEC 19 MAR 20 CSO LOOK AROUND DVOŘÁK'S NEW WORLD SYMPHONY SCHUMANN'S PARADISE SCHUBERT'S THE GREAT HANDEL IN ROME: TRANSFIGURED NIGHT FREE AUG 3, 2019 | SAT 7 pm OCT 25–26, 2019 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm DEC 6–7, 2019 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm JAN 24–25, 2020 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm THE DELIRIUM OF LOVE APR 25–26, 2020 | SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm • JULY SALE 2019 ON 30, TICKETS • SINGLE Washington Park + OTR Gustavo Gimeno conductor Paolo Bortolameolli conductor Simone Young conductor MAR 13–14, 2020 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Guy Braunstein conductor/violin cincinnatisymphony.org/lookaround Ingrid Fliter piano May Festival Chorus Alban Gerhardt cello Jonathan Cohen conductor WALKER Lyric for Strings Co-created by: Francisco COLL Hidd'n Blue [U.S. Premiere] SCHUMANN Paradise and the Peri RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte Thomas Dunford lute Ohad BEN-ARI Forgiveness and Hope [U.S. Premiere] Shara Nova, Mark De Chiazza DE FALLA Nights in the Gardens of Spain Unsuk CHIN Cello Concerto Joélle Harvey soprano SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht ("Transfigured Night") Siri Imani, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World SCHUBERT Symphony in C Major, The Great VIVALDI Lute Concerto MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Scottish

JAN 20 ZELENKA Sinfonia à 8 SINGULIS ET SIMUL ★ HANDEL Delirio Amoroso RENÉE FLEMING JAN 29, 2020 | WED 7:30 pm SEP 19 NOV 19 MAY 20 AND RACHMANINOFF Keitaro Harada conductor MANNY AND MOZART

AT THE SUMMIT: PETROUCHKA + TCHAIKOVSKY JAN 10–11, 2020 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 7 pm Frédéric Nauczyciel MAR 27–28, 2020 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm MOZART'S PARIS | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm STRAUSS + DESSNER NOV 8–9, 2019 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor House of HMU Peter Oundjian conductor MAY 8–9, 2020 conductor SEP 20–21, 2019 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Renée Fleming soprano Emanuel Ax piano Louis Langrée Louis Langrée conductor Gil Shaham violin Behzod Abduraimov piano MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 Philippe Bernold flute

Katia & Marielle Labèque pianos Julia WOLFE New Work [CSO Co-Commission] 20 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 8 Emmanuel Ceysson harp | FRI 8 pm FEB R. STRAUSS Don Juan TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto JAN 10, 2020 GLUCK Overture to Iphigénie en Aulide L. BOULANGER Of a Spring Morning Bryce DESSNER Concerto for Two Pianos [U.S. Premiere] STRAVINSKY Petrouchka PLAY OF LIGHT: MOZART Concerto for Flute and Harp Piano Concerto No. 2 R. STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony RACHMANINOFF RAVEL'S ENCHANTMENT APR 20 GLUCK Overture and Dance of the Furies AMERICAN LIFE HOLMÈS La Nuit et l'Amour FEB 7–8, 2020 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm from Orphée et Eurydice NOV 15–16, 2019 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm R. STRAUSS Four Last Songs conductor BEETHOVEN NO. 8 MOZART Symphony No. 31, Paris ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER Louis Langrée PLAYS BEETHOVEN Thomas Wilkins conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano + Sō PERCUSSION Louis Schwizgebel piano JAN 11, 2020 | SAT 7 pm SEASON FINALE: SEP 28–29, 2019 | SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm L. BOULANGER D'un matin de printemps Isabel Leonard the child APR 3–4, 2020 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Eun Sun Kim conductor Adolphus HAILSTORK An American Port of Call James Bonas director Louis Langrée conductor MAHLER 3 + ADOLPHE PREMIERE James LEE III Sukkot Through Orion's Nebula R. STRAUSS Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Additional artists in collaboration with CCM Sō Percussion MAY 16–17, 2020 | SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm PRICE Piano Concerto in One Movement – Liebeshymnus, Morgen, Cäcilie Gabriella SMITH New Work [World Premiere, SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian LULLY Le Bourgeois gentil homme Suite Louis Langrée conductor STILL Symphony No. 1, Afro-American Symphony RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 CSO Co-Commission] RAVEL L'enfant et les sortilèges David LANG man made Women of the May Festival Chorus ELLINGTON Harlem Additional Works from Broadway & Film BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto Grégoire Pont & James Bonas Production Sebastian CURRIER New Work [World Premiere] Cincinnati Boychoir Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 125TH ANNIVERSARY BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ★ BEETHOVEN Julia ADOLPHE New Work NOV 22, 2019 | FRI 7:30 pm CELEBRATION RACHMANINOFF [World Premiere, CSO Commission] Andre de Ridder conductor JAN 18–19, 2020 | SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm AKADEMIE 1808 FEB 29–MAR 1, 2020 AND PROKOFIEV MAHLER Symphony No. 3 OCT 19 Timo Andres composer, pianist Louis Langrée conductor SAT 4 pm; SUN 2:30 pm APR 17–18, 2020 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm UNLIMITED COLOR: John Heginbotham choreographer Aaron Diehl piano piano Louis Langrée conductor Xian Zhang conductor BOLERO + ROUSE PREMIERE Inbal Segev cello Vadym Kholodenko May Festival Chorus May Festival Chorus Sergio Tiempo piano OCT 18–19, 2019 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Tal Rosner video artist Inon Barnatan piano Caroline SHAW New Work [CSO Co-Commission] SERIES 1 Beethoven Revolution Louis Langrée conductor WINTER DAYDREAMS: William WINSTEAD New Work [World Premiere, Dorothea Röschmann soprano RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on FRI 11 am Louis Langrée concludes Guy Braunstein violin TCHAIKOVSKY AND SCHUMANN CSO Commission] BEETHOVEN a Theme of Paganini SAT 8 pm his three-year Beethoven RAVEL Bolero NOV 30–DEC 1, 2019 | SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm YSAŸE Exil! – Symphony No. 6, Pastoral PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 symphony cycle with LALO Symphonie espagnole James Conlon conductor ELLINGTON New World A-Comin' – Ah! Perfido, Scene and Aria programs that explore Christopher ROUSE Symphony No. 6 Lise de la Salle piano SURREALIST EL TROPICAL ★ SERIES 2 GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue – Gloria from Mass in C the composer's genius. [World Premiere, CSO Co-Commission] WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg APR 22, 2020 | WED 7:30 pm FRI 8 pm SCHUMANN Piano Concerto Daníel BJARNASON Collider [CSO Commission] – Piano Concerto No. 4 SAT 8 pm Rosie Herrera choreographer CSO Proof TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1, Winter Daydreams SCRIABIN Symphony No. 5, Prometheus: Poem of Fire – Symphony No. 5 – Sanctus from Mass in C Clyde Scott video designer A three-concert series SERIES 3 ★ CSO SEASON SPONSOR – Improvised Fantasia Luke Kritzeck lighting designer featuring elements of SAT 8 pm – Choral Fantasy theater and dance adding SUN 2 pm new dimensions of color. 26 27 Programs, artists and prices subject to change. The May Festival Chorus is the official chorus of the CSO. Concert times as listed, unless otherwise noted • SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE JULY 30, 2019 • 29

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