There is more than one way to fill Music Hall and Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel can do it like no one else.  Besides the audience, he has filled it with brass bands, choruses, dancers, animals, gymnasts, even an aerialist.  The Pops' 2003-2004 season will be no exception. (first published in The Cincinnati Post)
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Paavo Järvi and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra take off for Japan on their first international tour together following this weekend's CSO concert at Music Hall.  The two-week tour includes eight concerts in seven cities, two of them in Tokyo.  Soloists will be Chinese pianist Yundi Li and Japanese violinist Akiko Suwanai.  Sponsor for the tour is Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America.
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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's popular "Home for the Holidays" Christmas show at the Taft Theater, threatened by budget-cutting at the CSO, will continue thanks to a partnership created to benefit Children's Hospital Medical Center. Sponsors are channel 12 WKRC-TV, Clear Channel Entertainment, Thriftway and Procter and Gamble.
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