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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.

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The great unfinished symphonyThe CSO has welcomed tens of millions of concertgoers over five generations. You’re writing the history of the CSO with us—right here, right now. Your presence tells a story. After all, music lives in you.

Changing the face of American orchestrasSince 2016, the CSO has mentored and helped accelerate the careers of 13 musicians from backgrounds that are underrepresented in the orchestra field. In partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and CCM, we're ensuring a seat for all—where every voice is heard.

The future of music is hereThe CSO has premiered 325 new pieces of music in 125 years. From the grand to the quietly sublime, each piece is breaking news centuries in the making. Louis Langrée with 18/19 composer-in-residence Jonathan Bailey Holland.

Lucky 13Since the beginning, only 13 people have stood at the artistic helm of the CSO. Through their vision, the Orchestra has represented our city on tours across the globe and captured the Cincinnati sound on recordings that have sold 10 million copies worldwide. Spreading the joy of music globally, the CSO's legacy grows under Louis Langrée.

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WE BELIEVE 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, DISCOVERING WHAT MOVES US, DEEPENING OUR CURIOSITY AND CONNECTING US TO OUR WORLD AND TO EACH OTHER.

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AT THE SUMMIT: Strauss + Dessner SEP 20–21, 2019 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Katia & Marielle Labèque pianos Richard Strauss himself conducted Don Juan with the CSO and so the season opens with this exciting piece he chose for his visit to Cincinnati. First performed in the U.S. by the CSO, Strauss’ last orchestral odyssey, An Alpine Symphony, leads us to the bright summit of experience. The Labèque sisters give the American premiere of music NPR calls “gorgeous, full-hearted” by Cincinnati native Bryce Dessner of The National. R. STRAUSS Don Juan Bryce DESSNER Concerto for Two Pianos [U.S. Premiere] R. STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony

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ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER PLAYS BEETHOVEN SEP 28–29, 2019 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Eun Sun Kim conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Virtuoso phenom Anne-Sophie Mutter returns to Music Hall for Beethoven’s beloved Violin Concerto. Awestruck by Beethoven, Brahms once vowed never to write a symphony. Brahms' Fourth is featured in this program conducted by Eun Sun Kim, who was praised for her Verdi at the May Festival last season. Don’t miss a special exhibition from the Beethoven-Haus Bonn museum celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Gabriella SMITH New Work [World Premiere, CSO Co-Commission] BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

UNLIMITED COLOR: Bolero + Rouse Premiere OCT 18–19, 2019 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Guy Braunstein violin, artist-in-residence Experience the birth of a new symphony by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse, whose music is described as “explosive and passionate” (Baltimore Sun). CSO artist-in-residence Guy Braunstein, the youngest-ever appointed concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, delights in the Spanish passions of Lalo’s showpiece while Bolero takes us in the direction of the timeless. RAVEL Bolero LALO Symphonie espagnole Christopher ROUSE Symphony No. 6 [World Premiere, CSO Commission]

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SERIES 2 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm

SERIES 3 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm

DVOŘÁK'S NEW WORLD SYMPHONY OCT 25–26, 2019 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Gustavo Gimeno conductor Ingrid Fliter piano Spanish composer Francisco Coll paints excesses of modernity in deepest blue. Manuel de Falla evokes the smells, textures and light from lavish gardens for his most impressionistic score. Dvořák infuses the Old World with the New World in a symphony he described as “genuine bohemian music,” musing on palettes of style from America. Francisco COLL Hidd'n Blue [U.S. Premiere] DE FALLA Nights in the Gardens of Spain DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World

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| TIMELESS Anniversary Gala SAT JAN 11, 2020 Concert 7 pm Gala Dinner 8:30 pm Lars and Susan Anderson Gala Chairs Following a stunning concert featuring legendary soprano Renée Fleming, join Louis Langrée and CSO musicians for an evening of dinner and dancing. Be a part of the celebration! cincinnatisymphony.org/gala

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RENÉE FLEMING AND RACHMANINOFF JAN 10–11, 2020 FRI 8 pm; SAT 7 pm Louis Langrée conductor Renée Fleming soprano Behzod Abduraimov piano Hear the boundless artistry of acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming applied to Strauss’ songs of life and love. Poetic works by Lili Boulanger and former CSO Music Director Eugène Ysaÿe frame an audacious encounter with Rachmaninoff by pianist Behzod Abduraimov, “the master of all he surveys” (The Times). Saturday night’s program has Fleming dishing out show-stopping hits from film and Broadway.

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SCHUMANN’S PARADISE DEC 6–7, 2019 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Paolo Bortolameolli conductor May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director Schumann created a new symphonic form to set Irish poet Thomas Moore’s ultra-Romantic verse to music. The story follows a peri, a being of both celestial and earthly origins, who can only reenter heaven if she offers up something dearest to God. Schumann's oratorio put his name on the international scene and, blending the sacred and secular, portrays the peri's three attempts at the gates of paradise. SCHUMANN Paradise and the Peri

WINTER DAYDREAMS: Tchaikovsky and Schumann NOV 30–DEC 1, 2019 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm James Conlon conductor Lise de la Salle piano May Festival Music Director Laureate James Conlon leads a lavishly expressive program this Thanksgiving weekend. Wagner’s majestic overture introduces the themes of his opera about love and heartbreak. French pianist Lise de la Salle, a “talent in a million” (Gramophone), shares soaring music written for the gifted concert pianist Clara Schumann. Tchaikovsky’s hard-won First reflects the sure voice of a master melodist. WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg SCHUMANN Piano Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1, Winter Daydreams

AMERICAN LIFE NOV 15–16, 2019 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Thomas Wilkins conductor Louis Schwizgebel piano The CSO follows the thread of great African American composers. Adolphus Hailstork muses on an American port city, while rising composer James Lee III finds sublimity in the stars. Florence Price’s Piano Concerto —performed by preeminent interpreter Louis Schwizgebel—contains folk-like accents. William Grant Still frames jazz styles in symphonic form, and the Duke takes us strolling through Harlem on a Sunday morning. Adolphus HAILSTORK An American Port of Call James LEE III Sukkot Through Orion's Nebula PRICE Piano Concerto in One Movement STILL Symphony No. 1, Afro-American Symphony ELLINGTON Harlem

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PETROUCHKA + TCHAIKOVSKY NOV 8–9, 2019 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Gil Shaham violin Gil Shaham could give any violinist a “close race in the razzle-dazzle department” (Chicago Tribune). Hear his remarkable artistry in Tchaikovsky’s concerto, a work once thought unplayable. The CSO performs a piece by Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe, whose music has “long inhabited a terrain of its own” (Wall Street Journal). Stravinsky pulls the strings on Petrouchka, a virtuosic musical tale evocative of Pinocchio. Julia WOLFE Fountain of Youth [CSO Co-Commission] TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY Petrouchka

PROGRAM • FRI JAN 10 L. BOULANGER Of a Spring Morning RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 HOLMÈS La Nuit et l'Amour R. STRAUSS Four Last Songs

PROGRAM • SAT JAN 11 L. BOULANGER Of a Spring Morning R. STRAUSS – Liebeshymnus – Morgen – Cäcilie RACHMANINOFF – Piano Concerto No. 2 Additional Works From Broadway and Film

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SCHUBERT'S THE GREAT JAN 24–25, 2020 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Simone Young conductor Alban Gerhardt cello One of Ravel’s earliest pieces introduces Schubert’s once lost final symphony. Described by Robert Schumann as a work “that transports us into a world where we cannot recall ever having been before,” Schubert’s masterpiece is a cornerstone of classical music. Guest artist Alban Gerhardt performs a concerto written for him by Unsuk Chin, a composer who “has a knack for binding together seemingly irreconcilable extremes” (The New Yorker). RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte Unsuk CHIN Cello Concerto SCHUBERT Symphony in C Major, The Great

PLAY OF LIGHT: Ravel's Enchantment FEB 7–8, 2020 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano Isabel Leonard the child James Bonas director Additional artists in collaboration with CCM Louis Langrée conducts Ravel's fantastical story in a fully staged production that blooms with illustrated animations and imagination. Vocalist Isabel Leonard gives her Grammy-winning take on the title role. On the first half of the program, the fearless pianist and Jean-Yves Thibaudet accepts Saint-Saëns’ invitation to imaginary adventure. SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian RAVEL L'enfant et les sortilèges Grégoire Pont & James Bonas Production

125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION JAN 18–19, 2020 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Aaron Diehl piano • Vadym Kholodenko piano May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director Tal Rosner video artist Ellington’s swinging utopian vision and music from former CSO musician William Winstead honor the Orchestra’s remarkable past. Bjarnason looks at the genesis of everything in the throes of a particle accelerator. Gershwin himself takes the stage for a player piano performance of Rhapsody and Scriabin’s visionary symphony transforms the Titan’s gift of fire into a full-on experience of synesthesia. William WINSTEAD New Work [World Premiere, CSO Commission] YSAŸE Exil! ELLINGTON New World A-Comin' GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue (for Pianola and Orchestra) Daníel BJARNASON Collider [CSO Commission] SCRIABIN Symphony No. 5, Prometheus: The Poem of Fire

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SAT FEB 29 Part I: 4–6:30 pm Dinner Pause: 6:30–8:30 pm Part II: 8:30–10 pm SUN MAR 1 Part I: 2:30–5 pm Dinner Pause: 5–7 pm Part II: 7–8:30 pm

BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 6, Pastoral – Ah! Perfido, Scene and Aria – Gloria from Mass in C – Piano Concerto No. 4 – Symphony No. 5 – Sanctus from Mass in C – Improvised Fantasia – Choral Fantasy

RACHMANINOFF AND PROKOFIEV APR 17–18, 2020 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Xian Zhang conductor Sergio Tiempo piano After her electrifying CSO debut in 2012, conductor Xian Zhang returns to lead the CSO in a program of Russian masterpieces. Venezuelan pianist Sergio Tiempo meets Paganini at the crossroads of Rachmaninoff's immensely popular Rhapsody. A new work by Caroline Shaw advances music in Cincinnati, and Prokofiev's heroic Fifth Symphony speaks to “the greatness of the human spirit.” Caroline SHAW New Work [CSO Co-Commission] RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5

BEETHOVEN NO. 8 + Sō PERCUSSION APR 3–4, 2020 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Sō Percussion Musical futurists Sō Percussion return to the CSO stage after a provocative performance at the 2015 MusicNOW Festival. Known for using uncommon items as instruments, they'll perform a suite from Lully's comedy-ballet and move through the breakage of David Lang's man made. Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 follows the mystery of creation, while Louis Langrée and the CSO set out to create the music of the future with a world premiere by Sebastian Currier. LULLY Le Bourgeois gentilhomme Suite David LANG man made Sebastian CURRIER New Work [World Premiere, CSO Commission] BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8

MANNY AND MOZART MAR 27–28, 2020 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Peter Oundjian conductor Emanuel Ax piano Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 is a work that Beethoven, Brahms and Clara Schumann all admired and performed—and legendary pianist Emanuel Ax is its ideal interpreter. “His greatness, his overwhelming authority as musician, technician and probing intellect emerges quickly as he plays” (Los Angeles Times). Reeling from world war, Shostakovich courageously regards timbres of annihilation in a symphony that defied Stalin’s propagandists. MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 8

HANDEL IN ROME: The Delirium of Love MAR 13–14, 2020 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Jonathan Cohen conductor Thomas Dunford lute Joélle Harvey soprano British conductor Jonathan Cohen makes his CSO debut with Italian-inspired Baroque music. Revel in a concerto by the Venetian master Vivaldi and delight in the daring of Zelenka’s bohemian Sinfonia à 8. And if you’re Handel, when in Rome, write Italian vocal works for high-ranking clerics. Rejected in life, rejected in death, the heroine of Handel’s Delirio Amoroso makes a one-way journey to the underworld. VIVALDI Lute Concerto ZELENKA Sinfonia à 8 HANDEL Delirio Amoroso

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BEETHOVEN AKADEMIE 1808 FEB 29–MAR 1, 2020 SAT 4 pm; SUN 2:30 pm Louis Langrée conductor May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director Inon Barnatan piano Dorothea Röschmann soprano Louis Langrée leads the CSO in a recreation of Beethoven's legendary Akademie concert, held in Vienna in December 1808. The most important performance in Beethoven's lifetime, the concert featured the premieres of his Symphonies 5 and 6 and his Fourth Piano Concerto, with the composer at the keyboard. For this once-in-a-lifetime experience, opt to join us for dinner in the Music Hall Ballroom, which will be transformed into a Viennese Biergarten.

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MOZART'S PARIS MAY 8–9, 2020 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Philippe Bernold flute Emmanuel Ceysson harp Sometimes outsiders have greater insight into the cultural values of a place than those born to it. Gluck, a German, reinvented the French operatic style. Mozart, an Austrian, exemplified the French style in works like the Concerto for Flute and Harp. Adding to Mozart’s development as a composer, the City of Light gave back in kind; Parisian audiences so loved the flair of his Paris Symphony that they demanded encores. GLUCK Overture to Iphigénie en Aulide MOZART Concerto for Flute and Harp GLUCK Overture and Dance of the Furies from Orphée et Eurydice MOZART Symphony No. 31, Paris

TRANSFIGURED NIGHT APR 25–26, 2020 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Guy Braunstein conductor, violin, artist-in-residence Mendelssohn draws inspiration for a symphony from coasts and ruins while vacationing in Scotland. The CSO honors recently passed Pulitzer Prize- winning George Walker with this tender dedication to his grandmother. Sublime early music from Schoenberg at his most lush and romantic matches Ben-Ari’s tribute to hope. Artist-in-residence Guy Braunstein returns to pull music from thin air. WALKER Lyric for Strings Ohad BEN-ARI Forgiveness and Hope [U.S. Premiere] SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht ("Transfigured Night") MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Scottish

SEASON FINALE: Mahler 3 + Adolphe Premiere MAY 16–17, 2020 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano Cincinnati Boychoir, Christopher Eanes director Women of the May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director Premiered in the U.S. in 1914 by the CSO, Mahler’s Third is what he heard when he put his ear to the world. Movement titles like “What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me” and “What Love Tells Me,” plus the vastness of the orchestra required, show how deeply he listened. A new work from Julia Adolphe, whose music has been described as “alive with invention” (The New Yorker), proves we are ever looking forward. Julia ADOLPHE New Work [World Premiere, CSO Commission] MAHLER Symphony No. 3


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A new three-concert series that deeply connects artist and listener in fresh and exciting ways, featuring elements of theater and dance that add new dimensions of color.

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AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE NOV 22, 2019 FRI 7:30 pm Andre de Ridder conductor Timo Andres composer, pianist John Heginbotham choreographer Inbal Segev cellist “I’ve put together a program around the idea of American musical identity. We’ll hear how Charles Ives toyed with the rhythms of ragtime, Tania León fractured Cuban-American modernism, and how early New Englanders fused the sacred and secular into a vibrant tradition of Sacred Harp singing. American music has always been a stacking of influences, a mirror of ourselves.”

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SINGULIS ET SIMUL JAN 29, 2020 WED 7:30 pm Keitaro Harada conductor Frédéric Nauczyciel House of HMU “The vogue ballroom culture is defined by its celebration of femininity in the African American transgender community, with roots dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. It resonates with the Baroque period. I create a path to explore juxtapositions between Baroque music and urban ballroom culture of vogue, and the street culture of marching bands. I will combine the CSO and performance artists from Paris, Baltimore and Cincinnati to ultimately transform the concert form, and the stage, into an area of accidental proximity.”

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SURREALIST EL TROPICAL APR 22, 2020 WED 7:30 pm Rosie Herrera choreographer Clyde Scott video designer Luke Kritzeck lighting designer “I want you to imagine that, after a night of gleefully overindulging in absinthe cocktails, Fellini stumbles down an alley in old Havana. A door cracks open and music washes over him like a sticky sunrise in September. He steps inside into a primordial soup of neon and sound and tropical heat. A wild undercurrent pulses through the room, whispering that anything (and everything) might happen.”

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CSO Look Around Sponsors: Jackie and Roy Sweeney Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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CSO Proof Sponsor: Tom and Molly Garber Singulis et Simul: This performative installation is co-produced by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Contemporary Arts Center

–––––– Inspired by the native northern mockingbird’s ability to listen and learn from others, Look Around asks how we can better see one another and our city.

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AUG 3, 2019 SAT 7 pm | Washington Park + OTR cincinnatisymphony.org/lookaround The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, along with thirty local groups including choirs, instrumental ensembles and dancers, gather together in musical meditation and a celebratory parade. This enveloping musical experience is free for the community and extends from Ziegler Park through Over-the-Rhine, culminating in Washington Park for a full orchestral experience. Performing music co-created with composer Shara Nova and with direction by Mark DeChiazza, artists and audience become one as they move throughout the neighborhood, inviting friends and neighbors to join in, simply listen, or...look around.

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Season Support

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 FoundationH.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 Jeffrey & Jody Lazarow and Janie & Peter Schwartz Family Fund at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Conductor’s Circle | $10,000-$24,999 Anonymous • Bartlett Wealth Management • CFM International • Chemed Corporation

Corporex Companies, LLC • Crosset Family Fund • The Daniel & Susan Pfau Foundation • Frost Brown Todd LLC • Graeter’s Ice Cream • HORANILSCO 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 LLPToyota 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

Concertmaster’s Circle | $5,000-$9,999 Mayerson Family Foundations • Louise Taft Semple Foundation • The LaBlond Foundation of Makino • Pomeroy • Queen City (OH) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated

Stone Financial Retirement Planning • Thompson Hine LLP • The Willard and Jean Mulford Charitable Fund • YOT Full Circle Foundation

125th Anniversary Partners (as of December 2018) 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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SERIES 1 FRI 11 am SAT 8 pm SERIES 2 FRI 8 pm SAT 8 pm SERIES 3 SAT 8 pm SUN 2 pm

Concert times as listed, unless otherwise noted

Beethoven Revolution Louis Langrée concludes his three-year Beethoven symphony cycle with programs that explore the composer's genius.

CSO Proof A three-concert series featuring elements of theater and dance adding new dimensions of color.

Programs, artists and prices subject to change. The May Festival Chorus is the official chorus of the CSO.

AUG 19 CSO LOOK AROUND AUG 3, 2019 | SAT 7 pm Washington Park + OTR cincinnatisymphony.org/lookaround Co-created by: Shara Nova, Mark De Chiazza Siri Imani, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

SEP 19 AT THE SUMMIT: STRAUSS + DESSNER SEP 20–21, 2019 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Katia & Marielle Labèque pianos R. STRAUSS Don Juan Bryce DESSNER Concerto for Two Pianos [U.S. Premiere] R. STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER PLAYS BEETHOVEN SEP 28–29, 2019 | SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Eun Sun Kim conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Gabriella SMITH New Work [World Premiere, CSO Co-Commission] BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

OCT 19 UNLIMITED COLOR: BOLERO + ROUSE PREMIERE OCT 18–19, 2019 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Guy Braunstein violin RAVEL Bolero LALO Symphonie espagnole Christopher ROUSE Symphony No. 6 [World Premiere, CSO Co-Commission]

DEC 19 SCHUMANN'S PARADISE DEC 6–7, 2019 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Paolo Bortolameolli conductor May Festival Chorus SCHUMANN Paradise and the Peri

JAN 20 RENÉE FLEMING AND RACHMANINOFF JAN 10–11, 2020 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 7 pm Louis Langrée conductor Renée Fleming soprano Behzod Abduraimov piano JAN 10, 2020 | FRI 8 pm L. BOULANGER Of a Spring Morning RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 HOLMÈS La Nuit et l'Amour R. STRAUSS Four Last Songs JAN 11, 2020 | SAT 7 pm L. BOULANGER D'un matin de printemps R. STRAUSS – Liebeshymnus, Morgen, Cäcilie RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 Additional Works from Broadway & Film 125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION JAN 18–19, 2020 | SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Aaron Diehl piano Vadym Kholodenko piano May Festival Chorus Tal Rosner video artist William WINSTEAD New Work [World Premiere, CSO Commission] YSAŸE Exil! ELLINGTON New World A-Comin' GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue Daníel BJARNASON Collider [CSO Commission] SCRIABIN Symphony No. 5, Prometheus: Poem of Fire

MAR 20 HANDEL IN ROME: THE DELIRIUM OF LOVE MAR 13–14, 2020 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Jonathan Cohen conductor Thomas Dunford lute Joélle Harvey soprano VIVALDI Lute Concerto ZELENKA Sinfonia à 8 HANDEL Delirio Amoroso MANNY AND MOZART MAR 27–28, 2020 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Peter Oundjian conductor Emanuel Ax piano MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 8

APR 20 BEETHOVEN NO. 8 + Sō PERCUSSION APR 3–4, 2020 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Sō Percussion LULLY Le Bourgeois gentil homme Suite David LANG man made Sebastian CURRIER New Work [World Premiere] BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 RACHMANINOFF AND PROKOFIEV APR 17–18, 2020 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Xian Zhang conductor Sergio Tiempo piano Caroline SHAW New Work [CSO Co-Commission] RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 SURREALIST EL TROPICAL APR 22, 2020 | WED 7:30 pm Rosie Herrera choreographer Clyde Scott video designer Luke Kritzeck lighting designer

DVOŘÁK'S NEW WORLD SYMPHONY OCT 25–26, 2019 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Gustavo Gimeno conductor Ingrid Fliter piano Francisco COLL Hidd'n Blue [U.S. Premiere] DE FALLA Nights in the Gardens of Spain DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World

NOV 19 PETROUCHKA + TCHAIKOVSKY NOV 8–9, 2019 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Gil Shaham violin Julia WOLFE New Work [CSO Co-Commission] TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY Petrouchka AMERICAN LIFE NOV 15–16, 2019 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Thomas Wilkins conductor Louis Schwizgebel piano Adolphus HAILSTORK An American Port of Call James LEE III Sukkot Through Orion's Nebula PRICE Piano Concerto in One Movement STILL Symphony No. 1, Afro-American Symphony ELLINGTON Harlem AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE NOV 22, 2019 | FRI 7:30 pm Andre de Ridder conductor Timo Andres composer, pianist John Heginbotham choreographer Inbal Segev cello WINTER DAYDREAMS: TCHAIKOVSKY AND SCHUMANN NOV 30–DEC 1, 2019 | SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm James Conlon conductor Lise de la Salle piano WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg SCHUMANN Piano Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1, Winter Daydreams

SCHUBERT'S THE GREAT JAN 24–25, 2020 | FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Simone Young conductor Alban Gerhardt cello RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte Unsuk CHIN Cello Concerto SCHUBERT Symphony in C Major, The Great SINGULIS ET SIMUL JAN 29, 2020 | WED 7:30 pm Keitaro Harada conductor Frédéric Nauczyciel House of HMU

FEB 20 PLAY OF LIGHT: RAVEL'S ENCHANTMENT FEB 7–8, 2020 | FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano Isabel Leonard the child James Bonas director Additional artists in collaboration with CCM SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian RAVEL L'enfant et les sortilèges Grégoire Pont & James Bonas Production BEETHOVEN AKADEMIE 1808 FEB 29–MAR 1, 2020 SAT 4 pm; SUN 2:30 pm Louis Langrée conductor May Festival Chorus Inon Barnatan piano Dorothea Röschmann soprano BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 6, Pastoral – Ah! Perfido, Scene and Aria – Gloria from Mass in C – Piano Concerto No. 4 – Symphony No. 5 – Sanctus from Mass in C – Improvised Fantasia – Choral Fantasy

TRANSFIGURED NIGHT APR 25–26, 2020 | SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Guy Braunstein conductor/violin WALKER Lyric for Strings Ohad BEN-ARI Forgiveness and Hope [U.S. Premiere] SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht ("Transfigured Night") MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Scottish

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