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19/20 Louis Langrée music director 19/20 HAVE YOU HEARD? Our 19/20 season builds on 125 years of momentum. We’re writing the future of music here in Cincinnati. 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 orchestras 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 orchestra 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. 6 cincinnatisymphony.org Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 7 19/20 Full Season 1 3 1 2 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 piano pianos 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 Concerto. 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 Bryce Dessner 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 CSO SEASON SPONSOR CSO Commission made possible by Dianne and J. David Rosenberg 8 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 9 19/20 Full Season 19/20 RENÉE FLEMING AND RACHMANINOFF JAN 10–11, 2020 2 1 3 2 FRI 8 pm; SAT 7 pm Louis Langrée conductor 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 Schumann FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm | TIMELESS Louis Schwizgebel piano 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 CSO SEASON SPONSOR Concert Presenting Sponsor 10 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 11 19/20 Full Season 19/20 1 2 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 cello 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.