Cincinnati Symphony Opening Gala Features Lang Lang
There will be high voltage onstage at Music Hall this week.
Pianist Lang Lang, watched by millions worldwide at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, will be guest artist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra led by music director Paavo Järvi at 7:30 p.m. September 17 at Music Hall
The Chinese-born superstar will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2.
The balance of the program will be “Made in America,” theme of the CSO’s 2009-10 season, with music by Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland. Included are Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” (commissioned and premiered by the CSO in 1942), Bernstein’s Divertimento for Orchestra and Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” and Overture to “Candide.”
If that’s not upbeat, nothing is.
Remaining tickets for the non-subscription event are $55. Get them -- while they last -- at (513) 381-3300, the CSO box office at Music Hall and online at www.cincinnatisymphony.org.
Admission to the post-concert “Afterburn” party in the Music Hall Ballroom -- featuring champagne, desserts and an opportunity to mix with the artists -- is $30.
The CSO 2009-10 subscription season proper opens September 25-27 with Järvi leading the CSO in Richard Strauss’ “Till Eulenspiegel” (“Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks”), Alexander Borodin’s “Polovtsian Dances” from “Prince Igor” (with the May Festival Chorus) and the U.S. premiere of Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Symphony No. 7, “Pietas.” Guest artist will be the young Russian-born violinist Alina Pogostkina in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.
Concerts are 8 p.m. Sept. 25 and 26, 3 p.m. Sept. 27 at Music Hall. Tickets are $10-$95 ($5 for students and children Sept. 27) at (513) 381-3300, the CSO box office at Music Hall and online at www.cincinnatisymphony.org.
Note: “Till Eulenspiegel” will not be performed Sept.
27, which is the first of the CSO’s new Sunday matinee “Pathways” series. These concerts, shortened to 90 minutes, will
conclude with interactive post-concert talk-backs, this one to feature Järvi and Tüür with moderator Mark
Perzel of radio station WGUC, FM 90.9.