In-Person Concerts
We’re thrilled to welcome audiences to Music Hall for an exciting season of music. Join us in-person at Music Hall and enjoy the music you love.
We’re thrilled to welcome audiences into Music Hall.
Below is a comprehensive, all-new schedule of events, including free concert livestreams and in-person live performances.
IMPORTANT: Please review our health and safety information and current protocols at cincinnatisymphony.org/safety.
Quartet for the End of Time
Fri May 12, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Inspired by the Book of Revelations, Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time was written while the composer was in a prisoner-of-war camp during the early days of World War II. Composed based on the instruments available to him at the time, each movement of the piece relates to the apocalyptic literature and the quartet’s fury unfolds alongside hauntingly beautiful patches of ethereal wonder. Opening the program is Bozza's complex and virtuosic duet for bassoons and Brahms' Horn Trio, his only dedicated chamber work for the horn.
EUGÈNE BOZZA:
Duettino pour deux bassons
JOHANNES BRAHMS:
Horn Trio
OLIVIER MESSIAEN:
Quartet for the End of Time
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Fri May 12, 2023 | 11:00 am
Sat May 13, 2023 | 7:30 pm
Louis Langrée, conductor
Courtney Bryan, piano and composer
Louis Langrée and the CSO end the 22/23 season with jazz-infused musical visions. New Orleans native Courtney Bryan, “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests” (The New York Times), premieres her new concerto. Milhaud's opening music evokes African folk mythology while Duke Ellington, who was both a prolific composer and famed jazz pianist, summons musical images of night creatures. Gershwin closes the program by dropping you into the sights and sounds of Parisian streets.
The CSO is grateful to Kari and Jonathan Ullman for their support of the Courtney Bryan Co-Commission.
DARIUS MILHAUD: La création du monde ("The Creation of the World")
COURTNEY BRYAN: Piano Concerto [World Premiere, (orchestral version), CSO Co-Commission]
DUKE ELLINGTON: Night Creature
GEORGE GERSHWIN: An American in Paris (ed. Clague)
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