This summer, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will divide its time between its summer home at Riverbend and Corbett Auditorium at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

        Sundaes at the Symphony, a new series of four Sunday evening concerts, will make its debut at Riverbend on June 9. A free ice cream sundae will be included with the price of a ticket, and the series will have a 7:30 p.m. start time.

Violinist Jaime Laredo

        Across town in Corbett Auditorium, violinist Jaime Laredo will return to conduct and perform in the second season of Bach & Beyond, a series of concerts for small orchestra, on three Tuesdays in June. Mr. Laredo will be joined by his wife, cellist Sharon Robinson, (a member of the Robinson-Laredo-Kalichstein Trio), pianist Lee Luvisi and CSO principal players.

        “I just had such a wonderful time last year with the members of the orchestra,” says Mr. Laredo, who is Distinguished Artist for the series. “Of course, working with my wife is more than a musical experience; it's something very special.”

        His programming philosophy means introducing new music, “with the idea of works making sense together.”

        For instance, Samuel Barber's Capricorn Concerto for flute, oboe, trumpet and strings “is similar in style to Baroque music,” so it fit well in a program with J.S. Bach (June 18).

        Jose Bragato's Tango for cello and strings (June 11) is “a real tango” by a composer who, in Argentina, is more popular than Astor Piazzolla.

        And John Corigliano's Voyage, a piece Mr. Laredo calls “haunting, moving and reminiscent of the Barber Adagio,” is paired with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, which has the “Elvira Madigan” theme in the slow movement (June 25).

        At Riverbend, the CSO's associate conductor, John Morris Russell, will lead two programs (June 9 and July 21). On July 28, Erich Kunzel will take time off from the Cincinnati Pops to conduct the CSO in an “All-Tchaikovsky Spectacular” (yes, it includes the 1812 Overture).

        And on June 16, Keri-Lynn Wilson will make her CSO conducting debut, when she leads Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4, Italian, in “Italian Night.”

        Her impressive career has taken her from the orchestras of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and St. Louis to the Vatican, where she conducted a televised concert with Jose Carreras and Andrea Bocelli.

        Soloists in the Riverbend season include teen pianist Anna Polusmiak, a junior at Northern Kentucky University, who was born into a musical family in Kharkiv, Ukraine; violinist Corey Cerovsek; trumpeter Rolf Smedvig and pianist Frank Weinstock, a CCM professor of piano.

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