 backstage Music Hall, Feb. 22, 2007, following concert by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra led by guest conductor Valery Gergiev. L to R: Louise Dieterle Nippert, Valery Gergiev, Mary Ellyn Hutton |  "Talk Back" with (left to right) Cincinnati Symphony music director Paavo Järvi, CSO principal oboist Dwight Parry and moderator Mark Perzel of WGUC-FM following CSO Sunday matinee Jan. 10, 2010 |  Recording session at the Funkhaus Nalepastrasse in Berlin, April 2010, Listening to a playback of Schumann's "Spring" Symphony are, seated in front left to right, producer Philip Traugott, conductor Paavo Järvi, and audio engineer Dirk Fischer. Standing are members of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. |  L to R: Leonid Grin and Neeme Järvi with student conductor Martin Sildos onstage at the Kontserdimaja (Concert Hall) in Pärnu, Estonia. Neeme Järvi Summer Academy, August, 2010. |
 Memorial concert for Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel, Oct. 19, 2009, Music Hall, Cincinnati. Left to right: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra assistant conductor Vincent Lee, CSO music director Paavo Järvi, soprano Kathleen Brett, Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, New York Pops conductor Steven Reineke and Cincinnati May Festival Chorus director Robert Porco |  Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra "talk back" session April 25, 2010 following CSO concert at Music Hall. L to R: guest conductor Julian Kuerti, guest artist/violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Brian O'Donnell of radio station WGUC FM90.9 |  dress rehearsal, "The Heart of Mahler," Cincinnati concert:nova, Corbett Opera Center, Feb. 23, 2010. L to R: Yael-Nathalie Senamaud, Owen Lee, Ted Nelson, Amy Warner as Alma Mahler |  Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra music director Mischa Santora and puppet from "Master Peter's Puppet Show" (Manuel de Falla) presented by the CCO and MadCap Productions June 7, 2009 in Corbett Auditorium at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. |
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