Artists

Stephanie Childress, conductor
Camilla Tilling, soprano
Daniel Okulitch, bass-baritone
May Festival Chorus
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Program

Julia WOLFE: All that breathes (May Festival Commission; World Premiere)
David LANG: the national anthems
Julia WOLFE: Pretty
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Dona nobis pacem

Artists

John Morris Russell, conductor
Hi-Tek, DJ/Rapper
Classical Roots Community Choir,
      Jason Alexander Holmes, resident
            conductor
      Chorus soloists: Veronda "Vee"
            Gibson, Ciara Harper, Sonia
            Harper, Mary Patton, Noel Walton, Rita Winters
The Nouveau Program, Marion Peraza,
      director
Lauren Eylise, vocalist
Noah Hawes, rapper & narrator
Alan B. Jones, narrator
Daru Jones, drummer
Yalie Saweda Kamara, Poet Laureate of
      Cincinnati
J.PERIOD, DJ/Producer
Gabrielle Walker, Youth Poet Laureate of
      Cincinnati

Program

Love and fellowship ring throughout Music Hall for one of Cincinnati's most anticipated musical traditions of each year! JMR leads the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Classical Roots Community Choir, Nouveau Program and special guest artists in an evening of inspirational music and poetry encompassing a variety of genres from Gospel to Hip-Hop.

Highlights of the program will include music from the Tony Award-winning musical and newly adapted film The Color Purple and a gospel and hip-hop tribute to the 200^th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

NOTE: Portions of this performance include adult themes and language

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Louis Langrée, conductor
Latonia Moore, soprano

In his final program as Music Director, Louis Langrée and the CSO share the stage one more time for a performance that will pay tribute to highlights of their time together over the past 11 years. Grammy Award-winning soprano Latonia Moore will joins the CSO for the world premiere of a new orchestral song cycle by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis, whose piece You Have the Right to Remain Silent profoundly impacted Louis and left a poignant impression on livestream viewers at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The program also includes Ravel’s mythical and airy Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2, a work that Louis and Orchestra performed on tour in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai in 2017; Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 2, which was last performed in 2015 as part of that season’s One City, One Symphony initiative; and Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which was a part of an all-French program that opened the Orchestra’s 2018-19 season at the newly renovated Music Hall.

Expect moving music and memories, celebrating the final performances of the CSO’s beloved Music Director.

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