Gabriel Kahane, composer, lyricist
Srinija Srinivasan, tech & arts executive
Andrew Marantz, writer, New Yorker

A conversation about art, ego and surveillance capitalism.

• A frequent collaborator across a range of musical communities, Gabriel Kahane has worked with an array of artists including Paul Simon, Sufjan Stevens, Andrew Bird, Phoebe Bridgers, Caroline Shaw, and Chris Thile.
• Srinija Srinivasa became an accidental tech exec when she joined Yahoo! in 1995 as one of their first five employees. She served as Vice President, Editor-in-Chief at Yahoo! for over 15 years and now serves multiple roles at Stanford University including Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees.
• Andrew Marantz is a writer for the New Yorker whose primary focus for the magazine has been technology, social media and their intersection with and influence on culture and psychology.

Damon Gupton, conductor

Grab your popcorn and settle in for a program of celebrated film scores, played with power and passion by the Cincinnati Pops led by Pops Principal Guest Conductor Damon Gupton. Enjoy music from cinematic favorites including Forrest Gump, Schindler’s List, Lincoln, The Mission and more.

Note: This program does not contain film clips.

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Juxtaposing newly composed songs for an electro-acoustic ensemble of dynamic musical polymaths—drawn from alternative classical, jazz, neo-soul and experimental rock worlds—with re-contextualized elements of the '80s sound, The Meta Simulacrum Vol. 1 uses the symbology of our shared past to look forward into our uncertain future.

A Liquid Music production, commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and presented by The Great Northern, Walker Art Center and CSO

Members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
William Brittelle, creation, composition, text, performance
Isaac Gale, filmmaker, editor, photography
Kate Nordstrum, creative producer
Patrick Marschke, project management, text editing, sound mixing

Performances & Additional Composition:

Holland Andrews, vocals
Rafiq Bhatia, guitar, production
Ian Chang, percussion, production
Erika Dohi, synth, harpsichord, production
Chris Fishman, keys, production
Jackson A. Hill, bass, production
Will Johnson, vocals, visuals, void
Channy Leaneagh, vocals, narration, movement
Immanuel Wilkins, sax

Constellation Chor, voice, movement:
— Marisa Michelson
— Kalli Siamidou
— Luisa Muhr
— Jen Anaya

Roomful of Teeth, vocals
— Caroline Shaw, soprano
— Virginia Warken Kelsey, alto
— Thann Scoggin, baritone
— Cameron Beauchamp, bass

Andrew Garman, narration
Robert. J. Frakes, narration

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Louis Langrée, conductor
Christopher Pell, clarinet
Robert Sullivan, trumpet
Christopher Olka, tuba

GABRIELLA SMITH: Carrot Revolution
CHRISTOPHER CERRONE: A Body, Moving [CSO Commission, World Premiere]
COPLAND: Concerto for Clarinet
ELLINGTON: Night Creature

John Morris Russell, conductor
Mandy Gaines, vocalist
Darius de Haas, vocalist

Nobody swings like the Pops! Join JMR and the Pops for a program filled with favorites from the Great American Songbook, including standards at the heart of mid-century American culture from icons like Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, and more.

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Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano
Sean Panikkar, tenor

MAHLER (arr. Cortese): Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth")

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John Morris Russell, conductor
Michael Chertock, piano
Julie Spangler, piano

Camille Saint-Saëns’s beloved Carnival of the Animals is a merry, musical menagerie filled with Lions, Donkeys, Elephants and more. This is the wildest way to introduce even the littlest listeners to the sounds of the orchestra.

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Louis Langrée, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano

WALKER: Folk Songs for Orchestra
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 2
KODÁLY: Galántai táncok (Dances of Galánta)

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John Morris Russell, conductor
Jessica Hendy, vocalist
Melvin Tunstall III, vocalist
Veronica Stern, vocalist

While the lights on Broadway may be dark for the moment, JMR and the Pops light up Music Hall’s stage with memorable music from some of Broadway’s greatest shows including Chicago, Wicked, and Les Misérables, as well as Leonard Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from On the Town.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Nate Bachhuber and composer William Brittelle explore the creation of the The Meta Simulacrum Vol. 1.

The Meta Simulacrum Vol. 1 was commissioned by Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. This talk is a co-presentation of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Walker Art Center and The Great Northern Festival.

The CSO will livestream the full performance of The Meta Simulacrum Vol. 1 free to the public, on May 2, 2021 at 8 pm EST at cincinnatisymphony.org/live.