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Program
JULIA ADOLPHE: Paper Leaves on Fields of Clay [World Premiere, CSO Commission]
MAHLER: Symphony No. 3
Artists
Louis Langrée, conductor
Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano
Women of the May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director
Cincinnati Boychoir, Jason Alexander Holmes, director
Venue
Music HallTicket Prices
$14-$130Concert Duration
About 2 hours, 20 minutes with intermissionSeries
This concert is part of Series 3
What's Interesting
- The 125th Anniversary season ends with the music Gustav Mahler heard when he put his ear to the world. The symphony’s movements have illustrative titles like “What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me,” and “What Love Tells Me.”
- The CSO gave the U.S. premiere of Mahler’s Third Symphony in 1914, foreshadowing the Orchestra's important commitment to performing contemporary music of the day.
- You can say you heard it here first: a new work from Julia Adolphe, whose music has been described as “alive with invention” (The New Yorker).
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What Critics Are Saying
“...mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, singing with ravishingly velvet vocal tone and an astonishing ability to sustain the song’s long, ardent phrases...”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Adolphe’s work was alive with invention. Plaintive strands of near-tonal melody floated in an eerie, wide-open space defined at its edges by groaning bass timbres…”
—The New Yorker
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CSO Commission by Julia Adolphe is made possible by Ann and Harry Santen
Celebrating new and diverse voices
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