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You are part of something great. With unprecedented numbers of people joining us for our return to Music Hall, we bring you a new season of extraordinary music that explores the sonic depth and artistry of this Orchestra. The experience of live music, shared with thousands of souls next to you and on stage, is the deepest expression of our humanity. The result is one of pride and deep joy. Your support has helped transform the CSO, the experience, and our city—this season and every season. With gratitude,

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who constantly seeks, through a subtle mix of the different ingredients, to bring out the essence of the work. … The French conductor and his orchestra can serenely make their way back across the Atlantic: they leave behind them the best possible image of America.”

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LE GALA D’OUVERTURE SAT SEP 22, 2018 Gala Dinner 5:30 pm Concert 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Gillian Benet Sella harp Dwight Parry oboe d'amore Concert tickets may be purchased separately Louis Langrée and the Orchestra invite you to kick off the fall arts season at Music Hall! Savor a luscious French-inspired dinner followed by a bite-sized program of French masterworks. End your evening on a high note with drinks and dancing in Music Hall's Ballroom. DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DEBUSSY Danses sacrée et profane GUILLAUME CONNESSON Flammenschrift FAURÉ Pavane FAURÉ Sicilienne from Pelléas et Mélisande RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 Concert and After-Party $25–75 Dinner, Concert and After-Party $275 • Guest Level $375 • Host Level

ONE CITY: BEETHOVEN'S 9TH NOV 9–10, 2018 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Angel Blue soprano • Jennifer Johnson Cano mezzo-soprano Rodrick Dixon tenor • Dashon Burton bass-baritone May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director Members of Classical Roots Community Mass Choir, William H. Caldwell resident conductor Ode to Joy! We come together in celebration of Beethoven's dream of shared humanity with his epic Symphony No. 9. Composer-in-Residence Jonathan Bailey Holland shapes the journey with a world premiere commission. JONATHAN BAILEY HOLLAND World Premiere BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, Choral Composer-in-Residence is underwritten by Irwin and Melinda Simon

TRIFONOV PLAYS BEETHOVEN MAY 3–4, 2019 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Daniil Trifonov piano Hailed by The Times (London) as “the most astounding pianist of our age,” keyboard master Daniil Trifonov makes his first CSO appearance performing Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. Atmospheric works by Gluck and Pärt create a sound landscape to experience Stravinsky's Symphony in C and Beethoven's poetic concerto in a new way. GLUCK Dance of the Furies and Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orphée and Eurydice BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 ARVO PÄRT Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten STRAVINSKY Symphony in C

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JOSHUA BELL + THE RITE OF SPRING SEP 28–29, 2018 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Joshua Bell violin Violin sensation Joshua Bell opens the CSO season with Sibelius’ only violin concerto, a sublime show-stopper in the hands of a master. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, the most influential work of the 20th century, continues to amaze audiences with its flamboyant range of color and primal energy. STRAVINSKY Fireworks SIBELIUS Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

ADAMS’ THE DHARMA AT BIG SUR OCT 5–6, 2018 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Christopher Rountree conductor Tracy Silverman electric violin Adam Larsen video artist Anchoring this stunning, all-American program is John Adams’ The Dharma at Big Sur, a lyrical and innovative work featuring an electric violin that, in the composer’s words, “swoops down like a seagull moving in a windstorm.” Video artist Adam Larsen choreographs atmospheric visuals to bring Adams’ West Coast adventure to life. JOHN ADAMS The Chairman Dances COPLAND Billy the Kid Suite BARBER Essay No. 1 ADAMS The Dharma at Big Sur

THE HEART OF DON QUIXOTE OCT 20–21, 2018 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Christian Colberg viola Ilya Finkelshteyn cello Fabled windmill-fighting knight Don Quixote inspires music of adventure and passion. Strauss' homage employs solo cello and viola along with a full orchestra (including a wind machine!) to depict Cervantes' colorful characters. CSO Principal Violist Christian Colberg performs his own Viola Concerto, which also traces the fantasies and triumphs of the chivalrous Spanish knight. TELEMANN Don Quixote Suite CHRISTIAN COLBERG Viola Concerto R. STRAUSS Don Quixote

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>> About the photographyThe CSO invited three accomplished artists from Ohio to listen to six concert pieces from the 18/19 season and create visual depictions based on their responses to the music. The fine art photography you see throughout reflects their moods and reactions to the music.

Ryan Kurtz Cover–front and back pg.12–SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15 pg.20–DEBUSSY Images

Benjamin Nelson pg.14–MOZART Requiem

Yvonne Palkowitsch pg.10–ADAMS The Dharma at Big Sur pg.16–BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8 pg.18–VARÈSE Amériques

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RUSSIAN MASTERPIECES NOV 2–3, 2018 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Hannu Lintu conductor Yevgeny Sudbin piano “Any chance to hear him should be snapped up,” hails The Daily Telegraph about pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, who makes his CSO debut for Tchaikovsky's wildly popular First Piano Concerto. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 reaches out into new areas of sound and feeling, with a dramatic finale that fades away into an utterly original infinity of percussion whirrings and clickings. MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15

TCHAIKOVSKY’S FOURTH NOV 24–25, 2018 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Kirill Karabits conductor Alexander Gavrylyuk piano Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk–an audience favorite and guest on the CSO’s lauded 2017 tour across Asia–returns with Prokofiev’s impish and popular Piano Concerto No. 3. This Thanksgiving weekend program includes Tchaikovsky’s beloved Fourth Symphony, centering on man’s triumph over the forces of Fate. PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4

BRONFMAN PLAYS BRAHMS NOV 30–DEC 1, 2018 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Yefim Bronfman piano The tempestuous Brahms First Piano Concerto in the hands of a keyboard master like Yefim Bronfman is an incredibly special experience. Pairing beautifully with Brahms is Haydn’s Symphony No. 44, a driving, stormy work of emotion and yearning. BRAHMS Variations on a Theme of Haydn HAYDN Symphony No. 44, Trauersinfonie BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1


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ROMANTIC RACHMANINOFF JAN 4–5, 2019 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Karina Canellakis conductor Kirill Gerstein piano The music of Rachmaninoff has touched the heart for generations. Hear Rachmaninoff’s masterpiece (as featured in the film Shine) performed by acclaimed pianist Kirill Gerstein, who “shows how virtuosity and soulfulness can go hand in hand” (The Chicago Sun-Times). RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes ELGAR In the South, “Alassio”

VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS JAN 11–12, 2019 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Richard Egarr conductor/keyboard Benjamin Beilman violin Randolph Bowman flute Immerse yourself in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with its musical pictures of birds in the spring, summer storms, autumn harvests and warm fires in winter. Richard Egarr conducts from the keyboard this program of Baroque jewels, opening with two masterpieces by Bach. BACH Orchestral Suite No. 4 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 VIVALDI The Four Seasons

MOZART’S REQUIEM JAN 26–27, 2019 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm David Robertson conductor Nicole Cabell soprano Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano Nicholas Phan tenor Eric Greene baritone May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director Mozart’s transcendent Requiem—which has inspired stories and speculation—contains the final notes he ever composed. Conductor David Robertson, a preeminent interpreter of Boulez’s music, opens the program with Boulez's moving Rituel, an immersive ceremony of memory. BOULEZ Rituel (in memoriam Bruno Maderna) MOZART Requiem


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ROMEO AND JULIET FEB 1–2, 2019 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Joshua Weilerstein conductor Sergei Babayan piano Robert Sullivan trumpet Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet score paints musical pictures of star-crossed lovers and their journey from naive passion to tragic end. Pianist Sergei Babayan performs Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, with Principal Trumpet Robert Sullivan providing the concerto’s prominent solos. CAROLINE SHAW Entr’acte SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No. 1 PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet

MAJESTIC BRUCKNER 8 FEB 8–9, 2019 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Donald Runnicles conductor Writing a symphony for Anton Bruckner was nothing short of a spiritual experience. This is no more evident than in his Symphony No. 8, which explores the expanse of human emotion. Fellow composer Hugo Wolf wrote, “This symphony is the creation of a giant.… It was a complete victory of the powers of light over darkness.” BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8

BEETHOVEN’S EROICA FEB 23–24, 2019 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Leila Josefowicz violin “As ever, the soloist, Leila Josefowicz, astonished,” says The New York Times about our guest artist. A champion of contemporary music, Leila Josefowicz is the ideal interpreter for Adès’ colorful Concentric Paths, which sets the stage for Beethoven’s heroic Third Symphony, a revolutionary work that still resonates today. BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture THOMAS ADÈS Violin Concerto, Concentric Paths BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica


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ORCHESTRAL FIREWORKS MAR 1–2, 2019 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Sir Mark Elder conductor Peter Serkin piano The centerpiece of this program: the color and spectacle of Janáček's Sinfonietta, accentuated by 25 blazing brass. The CSO welcomes legendary conductor Sir Mark Elder as well as pianist Peter Serkin, known for performing “as if channeling the music from another realm” (The New York Times). DVOŘÁK The Midday Witch STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments SUK Scherzo fantastique JANÁČEK Sinfonietta

AMERICAN IN PARIS + AMÉRIQUES MAR 15–16, 2019 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Augustin Hadelich violin Gershwin’s jazzy musical postcard highlights this French-American program, including Gershwin’s impressions of France–and Edgard Varèse’s raucous reflections of America. Violinist Augustin Hadelich, 2018 Musical America Instrumentalist of the Year, brings virtuoso fireworks to Barber's Violin Concerto and Ravel's Tzigane. GERSHWIN An American in Paris BARBER Violin Concerto RAVEL Tzigane VARÈSE Amériques

LANGRÉE CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN MAR 30–31, 2019 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Esther Yoo violin The infectious joy of Beethoven’s Second Symphony was in stark contrast to his personal life, as he was losing his hearing while he wrote it. The Prokofiev Second Violin Concerto, played by BBC New Generation Artist Esther Yoo, is a beautiful sonic pairing. We also revisit Halcyon Sun by Composer-in-Residence Jonathan Bailey Holland, premiered by the CSO in 2004. JONATHAN BAILEY HOLLAND Halcyon Sun PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2

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PERCUSSION MASTER COLIN CURRIE APR 12–13, 2019 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm John Storgårds conductor Colin Currie percussion Colin Currie, a “percussion magician” (Herald Scotland), explore the flair, groove & color of Aho's percussion concerto. Sibelius' exhilarating Fifth Symphony, whose finale theme was inspired by the call of migrating swans, brings the concert to a sublime close. NIELSEN Helios Overture KALEVI AHO Sieidi SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

RAVEL + DEBUSSY: COLORS OF SPAIN APR 27–28, 2019 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Matthias Pintscher conductor Alisa Weilerstein cello Sounds of Europe abound with Ravel’s high-spirited Alborada del gracioso and Debussy’s Images, a series of musical scenes evoking colors and flavors of Spain. Music Director of the world-renowned Ensemble InterContemporain Matthias Pintscher conducts his own tender Un despertar, written specifically for guest cellist Alisa Weilerstein. RAVEL Alborada del gracioso MATTHIAS PINTSCHER Un despertar DEBUSSY Images

SEASON FINALE: LANGRÉE CONDUCTS MOZART + MAHLER MAY 10–11, 2019 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Timothy Lees violin The CSO gave the US premiere of Mahler's Fifth Symphony in 1905, deepening its connection to this central figure in music with a work that was the composer's most personal statement yet. Concertmaster Timothy Lees plays Mozart's ebullient Turkish Violin Concerto, which the composer wrote when he was only 19. MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish MAHLER Symphony No. 5

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SEP 18 LE GALA D’OUVERTURE SAT SEP 22 Gala Dinner 5:30 pm; Concert 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Gillian Benet Sella harp Dwight Parry oboe d'amore DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice DEBUSSY Danses sacrée et profane G. CONNESSON Flammenschrift FAURÉ Pavane FAURÉ Sicilienne from Pelléas et Mélisande RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2

JOSHUA BELL + THE RITE OF SPRING SEP 28–29 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Joshua Bell violin STRAVINSKY Fireworks SIBELIUS Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

OCT 18 ADAMS’ DHARMA AT BIG SUR OCT 5–6 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Christopher Rountree conductor Tracy Silverman electric violin Adam Larsen video artist JOHN ADAMS The Chairman Dances COPLAND Billy the Kid Suite BARBER Essay No. 1 JOHN ADAMS The Dharma at Big Sur

THE HEART OF DON QUIXOTE OCT 20–21 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Christian Colberg viola Ilya Finkelshteyn cello TELEMANN Don Quixote Suite C. COLBERG Viola Concerto R. STRAUSS Don Quixote

NOV 18 RUSSIAN MASTERPIECES NOV 2–3 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Hannu Lintu conductor Yevgeny Sudbin piano MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15

ONE CITY: BEETHOVEN’S 9TH NOV 9–10 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Angel Blue soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano mezzo-soprano Rodrick Dixon tenor Dashon Burton bass-baritone May Festival Chorus Members of the Classical Roots Community Mass Choir JONATHAN BAILEY HOLLAND World Premiere BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, Choral

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TCHAIKOVSKY’S FOURTH NOV 24–25 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Kirill Karabits conductor Alexander Gavrylyuk piano PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4

DEC 18 BRONFMAN PLAYS BRAHMS NOV 30–DEC 1 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Yefim Bronfman piano BRAHMS Variations on a Theme of Haydn HAYDN Symphony No. 44, Trauersinfonie BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1

JAN 19 ROMANTIC RACHMANINOFF JAN 4–5 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Karina Canellakis conductor Kirill Gerstein piano RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes ELGAR In the South, “Alassio”

VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS JAN 11–12 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Richard Egarr conductor/keyboard Benjamin Beilman violin Randolph Bowman flute BACH Orchestral Suite No. 4 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 VIVALDI The Four Seasons

MOZART’S REQUIEM JAN 26–27 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm David Robertson conductor Nicole Cabell soprano Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano Nicholas Phan tenor Eric Greene baritone May Festival Chorus BOULEZ Rituel (in memoriam Bruno Maderna) MOZART Requiem

FEB 19 ROMEO AND JULIET FEB 1–2 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Joshua Weilerstein conductor Sergei Babayan piano Robert Sullivan trumpet CAROLINE SHAW Entr’acte SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No. 1 PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet

MAJESTIC BRUCKNER 8 FEB 8–9 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Donald Runnicles conductor BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8

BEETHOVEN’S EROICA FEB 23–24 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Leila Josefowicz violin BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture THOMAS ADÈS Violin Concerto, Concentric Paths BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica

MAR 19 ORCHESTRAL FIREWORKS MAR 1–2 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Sir Mark Elder conductor Peter Serkin piano DVOŘÁK The Midday Witch STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments SUK Scherzo fantastique JANÁČEK Sinfonietta

AMERICAN IN PARIS + AMÉRIQUES MAR 15–16 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Augustin Hadelich violin GERSHWIN An American in Paris BARBER Violin Concerto RAVEL Tzigane VARÈSE Amériques LANGRÉE CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN MAR 30–31 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Esther Yoo violin JONATHAN BAILEY HOLLAND Halcyon Sun PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2

APR 19 PERCUSSION MASTER COLIN CURRIE APR 12–13 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm John Storgårds conductor Colin Currie percussion NIELSEN Helios Overture KALEVI AHO Sieidi SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

RAVEL + DEBUSSY: COLORS OF SPAIN APR 27–28 SAT 8 pm; SUN 2 pm Matthias Pintscher conductor Alisa Weilerstein cello RAVEL Alborada del gracioso MATTHIAS PINTSCHER Un despertar DEBUSSY Images

MAY 19 TRIFONOV PLAYS BEETHOVEN MAY 3–4 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Daniil Trifonov piano GLUCK Dance of the Furies and Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orphée and Eurydice BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 ARVO PÄRT Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten STRAVINSKY Symphony in C

SEASON FINALE: LANGRÉE CONDUCTS MOZART + MAHLER MAY 10–11 FRI 11 am; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Timothy Lees violin MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish MAHLER Symphony No. 5

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ONE CITY: BEETHOVEN’S 9TH NOV 9–10, 2018 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor

CLASSICAL ROOTS MAR 8, 2019 FRI 7:30 pm An uplifting celebration of African-American musical heritage.

TRIFONOV PLAYS BEETHOVEN MAY 3–4, 2019 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor Daniil Trifonov piano

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ADAMS’ DHARMA AT BIG SUR OCT 5–6 Christopher Rountree conductor Tracy Silverman electric violin Adam Larsen video artist

RUSSIAN MASTERPIECES NOV 2–3 Hannu Lintu conductor Yevgeny Sudbin piano

ROMANTIC RACHMANINOFF JAN 4–5 Karina Canellakis conductor Kirill Gerstein piano

ROMEO AND JULIET FEB 1–2 Joshua Weilerstein conductor Sergei Babayan piano Robert Sullivan trumpet

AMERICAN IN PARIS + AMÉRIQUES MAR 15–16 Louis Langrée conductor Augustin Hadelich violin

SEASON FINALE: LANGRÉE CONDUCTS MOZART + MAHLER MAY 10–11 Louis Langrée conductor Timothy Lees violin

JOSHUA BELL + THE RITE OF SPRING SEP 28–29 Louis Langrée conductor Joshua Bell violin

BRONFMAN PLAYS BRAHMS NOV 30–DEC 1 Louis Langrée conductor Yefim Bronfman piano

VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS JAN 11–12 Richard Egarr conductor/keyboard Benjamin Beilman violin Randolph Bowman flute

MAJESTIC BRUCKNER 8 FEB 8–9 Donald Runnicles conductor

ORCHESTRAL FIREWORKS MAR 1–2 Sir Mark Elder conductor Peter Serkin piano

PERCUSSION MASTER COLIN CURRIE APR 12–13 John Storgårds conductor Colin Currie percussion

THE HEART OF DON QUIXOTE OCT 20–21 Louis Langrée conductor Christian Colberg viola Ilya Finkelshteyn cello

TCHAIKOVSKY’S FOURTH NOV 24–25 Kirill Karabits conductor Alexander Gavrylyuk piano

MOZART’S REQUIEM JAN 26–27 David Robertson conductor May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director

BEETHOVEN’S EROICA FEB 23–24 Louis Langrée conductor Leila Josefowicz violin

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LE GALA D'OUVERTURE SEP 22, 2018; SAT 8 pm

ONE CITY: BEETHOVEN'S 9TH NOV 9, 2018; FRI 8 pm NOV 10, 2018; SAT 8 pm

TRIFONOV PLAYS BEETHOVEN MAY 3, 2019; FRI 8 pm MAY 4, 2019; SAT 8 pm

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