Sunday, March 28, 1999
Cincinnati Symphony schedule for 1999-2000
In a season hailing music of the 20th century, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the anniversaries of Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Francis Poulenc, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg and Kurt Weill.
Repertoire highlights will include John Adams' Harmonium (1981), Britten's Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes; Ellen Taaffe Zwillich's Violin Concerto (written for Pamela Frank); Sibelius' Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4; Nielsen's Symphony No. 4; Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring; Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde; and John Corigliano's Symphony No.1 in memory of the victims of AIDS.
Wagner's Lohengrin will be the next opera in music director Jesus Lopez-Cobos' string of concert stagings of Wagner operas. Leading roles will be sung by Margaret Jane Wray as Elsa and Robert Dean Smith as Lohengrin, with the May Festival Chorus singing choral parts.
The opera's three acts will be spread over three concerts; this year, concertgoers may attend all three acts for the price of one, and a buffet dinner will be served between acts on Saturday. The Children and Family Concerts, conducted by John Morris Russell, will be announced later. Mr. Russell also will conduct the Millennium New Year's Eve Gala concert, although details are not yet firm.
Next year, the Thursday night series will expand to five concerts.
The season:
• Sept. 17-18 — Gala Opening Weekend, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin. Barber, Violin Concerto Op. 14; Shostakovich, Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 (Leningrad), 8 p.m.
• Sept. 24-25 — Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Helen Huang, piano. Haydn, Symphony No. 99 in E-flat Major; Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19; Britten, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a, 11 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday.
• Oct. 1-2 — Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Ivo Pogorelich, piano. Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18; Elgar/Payne Symphony No. 3, 8 p.m.
• Oct. 15-16 — Paavo Jarvi, guest conductor. Nielsen, Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 (The Inextinguishable).
• Oct. 22-23 — William Eddins, guest conductor; Alexander Toradze, piano. Nino Rota, Concerto for String Orchestra (1967); Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26; Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, 11 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday.
• Nov. 5-6 — John Adams, guest conductor; May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director. Sibelius, Finlandia, Op. 26; Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63; Adams, Harmonium (1981), 8 p.m.
• Nov. 12-13 — James DePreist, guest conductor; Yumi Hwang, violin. Faure, Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Op. 80; Dvorak, Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53; Lutoslawski, Concerto for Orchestra (1954), 11 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday.
• Nov. 18-20 — Jesus Lopez-Co bos, conductor; Alicia de Larrocha, piano. Copland, Danzon cubano; Xavier Montsalvatge, Concierto breve (1953); Sibelius, Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43, 7:30 p.m. Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
• Nov. 26-27 — Junichi Hirokami, guest conductor; Vadim Gluzman, violin. Francis Poulenc, Suite from Les Biches (The Red Deer); Leonard Bernstein, Serenade for Violin, Strings and Percussion (1954); Dvorak, Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 (From the New World), 8 p.m.
• Dec. 3-4 — Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Till Fellner, piano. Bach/arr. Anton Webern, Fuga Ricercare from The Musical Offering; Beethoven, piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 (Emperor); Kurt Weill, Suite from The Three Penny Opera (1928); Scriabin, The Poem of Ecstasy (Le Poeme de l'extase); Symphony No. 4, Op. 54, 8 p.m.
• Jan. 14-15 — Jesus Lopez-Co bos, conductor; Margaret Jane Wray, soprano (Elsa); Robert Dean Smith, tenor (Lohengrin); Greer Grimsley, bass-baritone (Telramund); Charles Austin, bass (Henry I); William McGraw, baritone (Herald); TBA mezzo-soprano (Ortrud); May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director (Counts and Nobles, Ladies of Honor, Pages, Attendants). Wagner, Lohengrin. Act I (8 p.m. Friday evening); Act II (4 p.m. Saturday afternoon); Act III (8 p.m. Saturday evening).
• Jan. 21-22 — Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Richard Stoltzman, clarinet. Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man; Clarinet Concerto; Barber, Adagio for Strings; Bernstein, Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (1949); Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe Suites Nos. 1 and 2, 11 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday.
• Feb. 4-5 — Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Christian Zacharias, piano. Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491; Mahler/Mazzetti, Symphony No. 10, 8 p.m.
• Feb. 10-12 — John Morris Russell, conductor; Timothy Lees, violin. Charles Griffes, The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, Op. 8; Korngold, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35; Franck, Symphony in D Minor, 7:30 p.m. Thursday; 11 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday.
• Feb. 25-26 — Karlos Kalmar, guest conductor. Johann Strauss, Jr., Voices of Spring (Fruhlingsstimmen); Schumann, Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 38 (Spring); Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) (1913/rev. 1947).
• March 3-4 — Christof Perick, guest conductor; Eric Kim, cello. Schreker, Prelude to Drama (1916); Haydn, Cello Concerto in D Major; Strauss, Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53, 8 p.m.
• March 10-11 — Peter Oundjian, guest conductor; Leonidas Kavakos, violin. Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Bartok, Violin Concerto No. 2; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13 (Winter Dreams), 8 p.m.
• March 17-18 — Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Eric Bates, Gerald Itzkoff and Kathryn Robertson, violin; Julian Wilkison, viola; Richard Jensen, percussion. Honegger, Pacific 231 (Mouvement symphonique No. 1); Saint-Saens, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28; Bartok, Rhapsody No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra; Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, Third Movement; Bartok, Viola Concerto, First Movement; Richard Mills, Soundscapes (1983), Movements 2 and 4; Britten, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell), 8 p.m.
• March 23-25 — Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Midori, violin. Michael Karmon, And The Rhythm Is Just A Little Bit Off (1996); Schoenberg, Pelleas and Melisande, Op. 5; Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61, 7:30 p.m. Thursday; 11 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday.
• March 31-April 1 — Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Barry Douglas, piano. Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor; John Corigliano, Symphony No. 1, 8 p.m.
• April 7-8 — Alessandro Siciliani, guest conductor; Scott St. John, violin. Glinka, Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla; Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19; Mahler, Symphony No. 1 in D Major (Titan).
• April 13-15 — Junichi Hirokami, guest conductor; Pamela Frank, violin. Webern, Im Sommerwind (1904); Ellen Taaffe Zwillich, Violin Concerto (1997); Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, 7:30 p.m. Thursday; 11 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday.
• April 28-29 — Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Truls Mork, cello. Dvorak, Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104; Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27, 11 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday.
• May 4, 6 — Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor; Soloists TBA; Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade K. 525); William Grant Still, Festive Overture (1944); Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde, 7:30 p.m. Thursday; 8 p.m. Saturday.
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