Introducing Paavo Järvi
Posted: Sep 11, 2001 - 12:00:00 AM in: features_2001
Think
Paavo Järvi. Think Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. That's the
linkage the CSO's new music director wants to create, beginning at 8 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 14 at Music Hall. At that hour, with the opening of
Charles Coleman's "Streetscape" a world premiere commissioned for the event
Järvi makes his debut as the 12th music director of the 107-year-old orchestra. Author's note: Paavo Järvi's inaugural concert as music
director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra took place just three days after
9/11, on Sept. 14, 2001. The program was changed to include Samuel Barber's
Adagio for Strings and to replace the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 with
Truls Mork, who was unable to appear, Debussy's "La Mer."
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Lopez-Cobos, CSO Tour Spain
Posted: Jan 31, 2001 - 12:00:00 AM in: features_2001
Rain followed the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra to Spain for the first leg of its European tour this
week. Bilbao, where the orchestra landed after a changeover in Frankfurt
Sunday, was cold and rainy, putting a damper on the group's free day Monday.
A car bombing Sunday in
San Sebastian and demonstrations outside one of the Bilbao tour hotels Tuesday
and Wednesday were reminders of continuing unrest by Basque separatists, who
seek autonomy from Spain.
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