He's Number Eight!
Paavo Järvi
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The folks in Cincinnati know that, since he has been dividing his time between Heartland, USA and Europe for several years now.*
His time in Cincinnati is coming to an end this season, much to the regret of his many fans here. He has enriched the music scene in this arts-rich city and brought added glory to the nation's fifth oldest orchestra since his arrival in 2001.
The CSO sent out a message Feb. 2 reminding people that, after this week, they have "five final chances" to hear him conduct as CSO music director (six, including the repeat of Mahler's Seventh Symphony at 8 p.m. tonight at Music Hall).
Those chances are:
Feb. 18-20. CSO. Music Hall. Alexander Toradze, piano. Liszt, "Mephisto Waltz No. 1. Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 2. Beethoven, Symphony No. 5.
March 25 and 26. CSO. Music Hall. Stewart Goodyear, piano; Cynthia Millar, ondes Martenot. Goodyear, Anniversary fanfare. Bach, Keyboard Concerto No. 1. Messiaen, "Turangalila-symphonie."
May 3. CSO. Music Hall. Yo Yo Ma, cello. All-Dvorak, "Carnival" Overture. Cello Concerto in B Minor, Symphony No. 9 ("from the New World".
May 6 and 7. CSO. Music Hall. Martin Fröst, clarinet. Charles Coleman, Anniversary fanfare. Bernstein, Three Dance Episodes from "On the Town." Copland, Clarinet Concerto. Ives (ed. Stokowski), Fugue from Symphony No. 4 ("from Greenland's Icy Mountains"). Varese, "Ameriques."
May 13 and14. CSO Music Hall. Awadagin Pratt, piano. Erkki-Sven Tüür, Anniversary Fanfare. Tüür, Piano Concerto. Mahler, Symphony No. 5.
He will also lead a community concert March 25 at Fairfield High School in Cincinnati.
Järvi, 48, also leaves 17 recordings with the CSO, including the just-released "American Portraits" on the orchestra's own (new) label, CSO Media. Two won Grammys (for Best Classical Producer and Best Surround Sound Album). There are hopes for another recording before his CSO tenure ends, the Mahler Seventh Symphony, recorded live in concert Feb. 3-5 at Music Hall.
For information and tickets, visit the CSO web site at www.cincinnatisymphony.org or call (513) 381-3300.
*The other busiest conductors in 2010 were, in order from 1-9: Valery Gergiev, Michael Tilson Thomas, Mariss Jansons, Ivan Fischer, Herbert Blomstedt, Charles Dutoit, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and (in ninth place after Järvi) Gustavo Dudamel. The rankings are based on number of concerts during the year and exclude opera and ballet.
**For the record, Järvi's other commitments are: artistic director, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; music director, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra; music director, Orchestre de Paris; artistic advisor, Estonian National Orchestra. He records with all of these orchestras and has toured internationally with the first three, in addition to the CSO.