The sweet sound of song and an exciting new duo graced the Linton Chamber Music Series Sunday afternoon (Feb. 26) at First Unitarian Church in Avondale. The pianist was Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra music director Louis Langrée, in his first public performance as a pianist in over 20 years. Better known as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Langrée performed art songs, from Schumann and Brahms to Debussy and Duparc, with mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor.
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Baroque programs are seldom heard on Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concerts, perhaps because of its over-size performance space in 3,400-seat Music Hall. The opportunity to perform in a more intimate environment while Music Hall is being renovated, 2700-seat Taft Theater in downtown Cincinnati, allowed for such an event Nov. 11, with instrumental works by Bach and Handel.
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Guest artist Yo-Yo Ma, cello, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Brahms Second Symphony, led by music director Louis Langrée, filled the Taft Theatre in downtown Cincinnati with beauty in Dvorak's Cello Concerto and the Second Symphony by Johannes Brahms Oct. 28. Leading the CSO with beauty and command was CSO music director Louis Langrée
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Saturday night’s Cincinnati Symphony concert at the Taft Theatre had a French accent. There was music by Debussy, his Prelude à l'apres-midi d’un faune (Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”) and “Nocturnes” plus, the centerpiece of the program, Gabriel Fauré’s Incidental Music for Pelleas et Mélisande, Op. 80 (1898, orchestrated by Charles Koechlin).

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Check out this review of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra's opening concert of Summermusik 2014 by the Cincinnati Enquirer's Janelle Gelfand. http://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/2016/08/28/saxophone-sensation-heats-up-chamber-orchestra/89500928/

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It was with joy -- and not a little sadness -- that James Conlon, music director of the Cincinnati May Festival for 37 years, led his final May Festival May 28 at Music Hall. He chose Mendelssohn's "Elijah," a fixture through the Festival's 143 years, as his summary event.
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If the performers and the venue are right, concert opera can be as compelling as the staged variety. So it was at Music Hall in Cincinnati with Verdi's "Otello," performed May 21 at the Cincinnati May Festival. James Conlon, in his final season as music director of the annual event, led a sterling cast with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, May Festival Chorus and Cincinnati Children's Choir.
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The 2016 Cincinnati May Festival opened with Mozart in what will be an... all-Mozart festival. On the podium was May Festival music director James Conlon.
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Simone Porter

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra led by music director Louis Langrée presented an all-American program Feb. 20 at Music Hall. Soloist in her CSO debut was violinist Simone Porter.
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Leon Fleischer

Pianist Leon Fleischer returned to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Feb. 5 at Music Hall with a splendid performance of Prokofiev's Piano Concero No. 4 for the Left Hand Alone. Guest conductor Christof Perick led a fine performance of Richard Strauss lengthy (45 minutes) "Symphonia domestrica" that was nevertheless fully engrossing
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Colin Currie

   A world premiere, a CSO premiere and an audience favorite shared the program of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Saturday night at Music Hall.

   Led by guest conductor Cristian Macelaru, it was a program that offered something for everybody: “riSE and fLY,” a concerto for percussion,  by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe; Symphonic Triptych, final work by American master Gunther Schuller, who died in June; and Edward Elgar’s well loved “Enigma Variations.”

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Kirill Gerstein

Brahms Fest, a two-year focus on the music of Johannes Brahms in Cincinnati, got an opening toast from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Jan. 14. Music director Louis Langrée led Brahms' Symphony No. 1. Guest artist was pianist Kirill Gerstein in the Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann. 
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A near-sellout audience greeted the final concert of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-2017 season Friday morning at Music Hall.

It was a program of debuts and premieres, including Prokofiev’s supremely (and deliberately) challenging Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Bacchus et Ariane Suite No, 2 by Albert Roussel.   - [Read more]

Guest artist Yo-Yo Ma, cello, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Brahms Second Symphony, led by music director Louis Langrée, filled the Taft Theatre in downtown Cincinnati with beauty in Dvorak's Cello Concerto and the Second Symphony by Johannes Brahms Oct. 28. Leading the CSO with beauty and command was CSO music director Louis Langrée
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