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Brahms’ GERMAN REQUIEM
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 
Feb. 9-11
Music Hall [Over-the-Rhine]

Louis Langrée, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Will Liverman, baritone
May Festival Chorus

With prayerful music for both the living and the dead, the source of comfort in Brahms’ German Requiem is as much human as it is the divine. Louis Langrée leads the CSO along with the May Festival Chorus in Brahms’ large-scale masterpiece. Though Brahms was often discreet in nature, this is a deeply personal work. Spurred by the loss of his mother, and influenced by lingering emotions of self-doubt, he turned to his true religion – music – as a way to console not only himself, but others as well.

We believe that great music is for everyone, regardless of your budget. This concert is eligible for Pay What You Wish Pricing, as well as other discounts. To learn more visit Music for All.

• Fri-Sat, Feb. 9-10 at 7:30pm
• Sun, Feb. 11 at 2pm

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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
May 12-13
Music Hall [Over-the-Rhine]

Louis Langrée, conductor
Courtney Bryan, piano and composer

Program

• DARIUS MILHAUD: La création du monde (“The Creation of the World”)
• COURTNEY BRYAN: Piano Concerto [World Premiere, (orchestral version), CSO Co-Commission]
• DUKE ELLINGTON: Night Creature
• GEORGE GERSHWIN: An American in Paris (ed. Clague)

Louis Langrée and the CSO end the 22/23 season with jazz-infused musical visions. New Orleans native Courtney Bryan, “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests” (The New York Times), premieres her new concerto. Milhaud’s opening music evokes African folk mythology while Duke Ellington, who was both a prolific composer and famed jazz pianist, summons musical images of night creatures. Gershwin closes the program by dropping you into the sights and sounds of Parisian streets.

We believe that great music is for everyone, regardless of your budget. This concert is eligible for Pay What You Wish Pricing, as well as other discounts. To learn more visit Music for All.

• Fri, May 12 at 11am
• Sat, May 13 at 7:30pm

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MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 7
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
April 21-22
Music Hall [Over-the-Rhine]

Artists: Matthias Pintscher, conductor

Program: GUSTAV MAHLER: Symphony No. 7

If Mahler’s symphonies are like worlds, the Seventh is like the universe in a single night. Patterned in gigantic symmetry, the opening and closing movements are packed with enormous sounds, each like symphonies in themselves. The interior music is lighter by contrast, pivoting at the center with a ghostly dance. CSO Creative Partner Matthias Pintscher returns to conduct the huge orchestral forces needed for Mahler’s dusk-to-dawn universe, from clanging cowbells to titanic brass.

We believe that great music is for everyone, regardless of your budget. This concert is eligible for Pay What You Wish Pricing, as well as other discounts. To learn more visit Music for All.

• Fri, April 21 at 11am
• Sat, April 22 at 7:30pm

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PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
April 15-16
Music Hall [Over-the-Rhine]

Artists
Ramón Tebar, conductor
Steven Banks, saxophone

Program
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Overture
BILLY CHILDS: Saxophone Concerto [CSO Co-Commission]
MODEST MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel)

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is an epic musical stroll through an eclectic gallery of paintings, from a drawing of unhatched dancing chickens to an image of towering city gates. Originally for piano, Ravel’s version for orchestra adds a bursting palette of instrumental color. Saxophonist Steven Banks, who “has the potential to be one of the transformational musicians of the 21st century,” plays a new concerto by GRAMMY-winning pianist and composer Billy Childs.

We believe that great music is for everyone, regardless of your budget. This concert is eligible for Pay What You Wish Pricing, as well as other discounts. To learn more visit Music for All.

• Sat, April 15 at 7:30pm
• Sun, April 16 at 2pm

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