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Four is a Charm: Paavo Järvi's Fourth Season Cincinnati

Mary Ellyn Hutton
Posted: Jun 2, 2011 - 3:22:29 PM in news_2011

(part four of a continuing series)


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program cover for the 2004-2005 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra season


The CSO season opened in September at Music Hall with the Estonian National Male Choir as guest artists in Sibelius' dramatic symphony "Kullervo." 




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Conducting the Estonian National Male Choir at the Estonian National Song Festival, July, 2004


Ask Paavo when he spent his summer and he will include (among other places) Estonia, where he was one of the conductors of the Estonian National Song Festival, an every-fifth-year event held in an amphitheater near Tallinn on the Baltic Sea.  Every conductor gets an oak leaf wreath and flowers at the end.

(Järvi became artistic advisor of the Estonian National Orchestra in the fall of 2003 and artistic director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in August, 2004.)

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Posing with plaque of Gustav Mahler outside Konzerthaus in Vienna, Oct. 2004


Europe calling. First Vienna where the CSO performed Mahler's Symphony No. 5 at the Konzerthaus.

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L to R: Paavo Järvi, Helene Grimaud, Steven Monder


Guest artist on the October-November European tour was pianist Helene Grimaud.  Here she is with Järvi and CSO president Steven Monder.

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Being interviewed by Cincinnati Enquirer music critic Janelle Gelfand

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Järvi with sister, flutist Maarika Järvi


And giving his sister Maarika a smooch in Madrid