May is . . .
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Lang Lang, piano
Long Yu, guest conductor
May 4 and 5 -- 8 p.m.
Music Hall
They're calling it "Raise the Roof" and why not? Star pianist Lang Lang, one of three creative directors guiding the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra this season, returns to close the season with Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3. On the podium will be the eminent Chinese conductor Long Yu. Also on the program are Tan Dun's "Internet" Symphony No. 1 ("Eroica"), composed for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique"). Tickets begin at $25. Special "Ignite" tickets for ages 18-30 are $12. Call (513) 381-3300 or visit http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org
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Society for
the Preservation of Music Hall
"Hooray for
Hollywood with the Mighty Wurlitzer”
Jelani Eddington,
organist
May 10 – 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Music Hall Ballroom
Hear the “Mighty Wurlitzer,” grand fugitive from the
Albee Theater of ages past in Cincinnati, in a program of music it was made
for. Renowned theater organist Jelani
Eddington will perform music from the golden age of Hollywood musicals, as
well as movie themes and hit songs. Joining Eddington will be Seth Wallen and Carmyn Howe from the department of theatre and dance at Northern
Kentucky University. Tickets (all seats reserved) are $25, $20 for students,
seniors and groups of 10 or more. Call (513) 621-2787, or visit www.CincinnatiArts.ORG
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University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Stravinsky, "The Rake's Progress"
Robin Guarino, director
Mark Gibson, conductor
May 10 and 12 -- 8 p.m.
May 13 -- 2 p.m.
Corbett Auditorium
University of Cincinnati
The opera department at the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music gives Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” a
high-tech twist in this new production directed by opera chair Robin Guarino. The set design, by Paul Shortt, comprises digital
projections created by CCM’s E-Media division to bring to 21st-century
life the “progress” of ne’er do well Tom Rakewell as he pursues money and the
easy life led on by the devil himself. Originally set in 18th-century
London, the opera (inspired by English artist William Hogarth’s famous
paintings of the same name, with libretto by W. Auden and Chester Kallman)
transpires this time in modern day New York City. CCM’s Mark Gibson will conduct, with a CCM student cast. Sung in English with supertitles. Admission is
$27-$29, $17-$19 for students. $11 student rush tickets available for Sunday
matinee, beginning at 1 p.m. Call (513) 556-4183 or order online at www.ccm.uc.edu
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Kentucky Symphony Orchestra
"Cinematic Piano"
James R. Cassidy, conductor
May 12 -- 8 p.m.
Florence Baptist Church at Mt. Zion
The KSO led by James R. Cassidy closes its 2011-2012 season on a cinematic note with music commissioned to play a featured role in films, such as the one-movement “Warsaw Concerto” by Richard Addinsell, composed for the 1941 film “Dangerous Moonlight,” and music from films that included speaking and performing roles for classical artists (such as Arthur Rubenstein and Eugene Ormandy). Piano soloists will be Marcus Kuchle, Scot Woolley, Steve Hinnenkamp and Edward Neeman. Admission is $28 and $23, $18 for seniors (60 and over), $10 for students. Call (859) 431-6216, or order online at www.kyso.org_
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Classical Revolution
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Elysium Saxophone Quartet
Ohio River Brass Quintet
May 13 -- 8 p.m.
Northside Tavern
"Classical Revolution," the classical music initiative that is
"occupying" bars, cafes and other non-traditional venues across the
country, will be at Northside Tavern again Sunday evening May 13. Hear young
cellist Coleman Itzkoff perform the finale of Edward Elgar's Cello
Concerto, the Elysium Saxophone Quartet in music by Piazzolla and
others, and the Ohio River Brass Quintet in David Dzubay's Brass
Quintet. Admission is free. Information at www.classicalrevolution.org
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Jaime Laredo
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Sharon Robinson
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May 13 -- 4 p.m.
First Unitarian Church, Avondale
May 14 -- 7:30 p.m.
Congregation Beth Adam, Loveland
Linton Music co-artistic directors Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson team up with fellow Linton artists Benny Kim, violin, Ida Kavafian and Steven Tenebom, viola, and Eric Kim, cello, in this final concert of Linton’s 2011-2012 season. Concerts take place May 13 in Linton’s performance home, First Unitarian Church in Avondale, and May 14 at Congregation Beth Adam in Loveland. The special program features the Cincinnati premiere of Richard Danielpour’s “Inventions on a Marriage,” Duo for Violin and Cello. Composed in honor of Laredo and Robinson’s 35th anniversary, the work was commissioned by Linton as part of an eight-member consortium. Also on the program are Mendelssohn’s Quintet for Strings in B-flat Major, Op. 87 and Tchaikovsky’s Sextet for Strings in D Minor, Op, 70, “Souvenir de Florence.” Admission is $30. Call (513) 381-6868, or visit www.lintonmusic.org
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May Festival
Chorus, May Festival Youth Chorus
Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra
James Conlon,
music director
Robert Porco,
director of choruses
James Bagwell,
director, May Festival Youth Chorus
May 11, 12, 18 and 19 – 8 p.m.
Music Hall
May 13 – 8 p.m.
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption
Covington, Kentucky
The Cincinnati May Festival, 139 years old this season,
presents five evenings of choral orchestral music featuring the May Festival
Chorus and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
There are four concerts at its home in Music Hall (built for the May
Festival in 1877) and one at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in
Covington, Kentucky. Music director James Conlon, director of choruses Robert Porco and May Festival Youth Chorus
director James Bagwell will conduct. Guest artists are sopranos Heidi Grant Murphy, Nicole Cabell and Tatiana Pavlovskaya, mezzo-sopranos Ronnita Nicole Miller, Hana Park and Elena Zaremba, tenors Rodrick Dixon and John Aler, baritones Stephen
Powell and John Relyea and
basses Yohan Yi and William McGraw. The festival opens with hardy perennial Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” May 11, followed by a French program May 12, a sacred
program May 13 (at the Basilica), a Bach/Beethoven/Brahms program May 18
featuring Brahms' "A German Requiem" and an all-Tchaikovsky program May 19. There will be a recital by one of the
festival guests before each Music Hall concert. For a complete schedule, visit www.mayfestival.com. Tickets begin at $20 (admission to the
Basilica is $35), available at (513) 381-3300, or visit www.mayfestival.com
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Music at Ascension
"Stars of Tomorrow"
May 26 -- 7 p.m.
Ascension Lutheran Church
7333 Pfeiffer Rd., Montgomery
The annual "Stars of Tomorrow" concert at Ascension Lutheran
Church in Montgomery will present four young area artists: violinist Spencer Sharp, pianist Kevin Bao, cellist Benjamin Fryxell and violinist Jacqueline Kitzmiller. All are competition winners and have made significant debuts, in Cincinnati and elsewhere. Sharp,
14, will perform the first movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto In
E Minor, the theme from "Schindler's List" by John Williams and Souvenir d'Amerique: Variations on "Yankee Doodle" by Henri Vieutemps. His accompanist will be Lynette Sharp. Bao, 16, a student of Sergei Polusmiak, will perform Dumka, Op. 92, and Barcarolle by Tchaikovsky and the third movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor. Fryxell,
17, principal cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra and a
student of CSO cellist Alan Rafferty, will perform Robert Schumann's Fantasiestücke and Elfentanz by David Popper, accompanied by pianists Margery Fryxell and Minsun Park. Kitzmiller,
a freshman at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and
former concertmaster of the CSOYO, will perform J.S. Bach's Partita No. 3
in E Major. Admission is free.
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Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra
Memorial Day Concert
William White, conductor
May 28 -- 3 p.m.
Seasongood Pavilion
Eden Park
CSO assistant conductor William White
will lead the Youth Orchestra in its annual Memorial Day concert in
Eden Park. The program includes Bernstein's "Candide" Overture,
selections from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and Richard Rodgers' "The
King and I," "At World's End" from "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Hans
Zimmer and White's own Overture to "Mulligan." CSYO members Jack Henning, Kerstin Nilsson and Benjamin Fryxell
will make their conducting debuts in Sousa's "Washington Post," "Semper
Fidelis" and "Stars and Stripes Forever" marches, respectively.
Admission is free.
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