Guest vocalists Dominique Labelle (soprano), Susanne Mentzer (mezzo-soprano), Adam Diegel (tenor), and David Pittsinger (bass-baritone) join the Columbus Symphony, Columbus Symphony Chorus, and Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni for a one-night-only season opening performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, the world renowned Ode to Joy. The evening's program will also include Handel's grand ode for the coronation of England's King George II and a gentle motet by Mozart.
CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni will lead the Columbus Symphony in a celebration of orchestral virtuosity with an unmistakable French accent and allure, featuring guest mezzo-soprano Jennifer Rivera and the Columbus Symphony Chorus. The program includes Debussy's Prélude a I'Après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to 'The Afternoon of a Faun'), Fauré's Pavane, excerpts from Chausson's Poeme de l'amour et de la mer for Voice and Orchestra, Ravel's Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloe, and Duruflé's Requiem.
CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni will lead the Columbus Symphony in the world premiere of Donald Harris' Symphony No. 2, the first commissioned piece for the CSO in more than 20 years. Harris, Professor Emeritus of Composition and Theory for The Ohio State University, composed the traditional four-movement, large-scale symphony over a five-year period and describes it as a kaleidoscope, which is also the title he chose for the first movement.
Subscriptions are now on sale for the Columbus Symphony's 2012-13 Masterworks and Pops seasons. Masterworks will continue to present eight concerts at the Ohio Theatre and four concerts at the Southern Theatre. All Pops concerts will remain at the Ohio Theatre.
Joined by guest vocalists Michele Losier, mezzo-soprano, and Alisa Suzanne Jordheim, soprano, CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Columbus Symphony will perform works inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet and A Midsummer's Night Dream.
Joined by guest vocalists Michele Losier, mezzo-soprano, and Alisa Suzanne Jordheim, soprano, CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Columbus Symphony will perform works inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet and A Midsummer's Night Dream.
CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the Columbus Symphony in three of the most popular orchestral examples of creative and appealing musical "conversations" in the Themes & Variations program. The program includes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor featuring guest pianist Stewart Goodyear, and Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma Variations."
CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the Columbus Symphony in three of the most popular orchestral examples of creative and appealing musical "conversations" in the Themes & Variations program. The program includes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor featuring guest pianist Stewart Goodyear, and Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma Variations."
CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni will lead the Columbus Symphony in the world premiere of Donald Harris' Symphony No. 2, the first commissioned piece for the CSO in more than 20 years. Harris, Professor Emeritus of Composition and Theory for The Ohio State University, composed the traditional four-movement, large-scale symphony over a five-year period and describes it as a kaleidoscope, which is also the title he chose for the first movement.
Joined by guest vocalists Michele Losier, mezzo-soprano, and Alisa Suzanne Jordheim, soprano, CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Columbus Symphony will perform works inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet and A Midsummer's Night Dream.
Handel and Haydn Society will present Beethoven Eroica, conducted by Jean-Marie Zeitouni. Students are set to perform at Symphony Hall in celebration of 25th Anniversary of Collaborative Youth Concerts.
CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the Columbus Symphony in three of the most popular orchestral examples of creative and appealing musical "conversations" in the Themes & Variations program. The program includes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor featuring guest pianist Stewart Goodyear, and Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma Variations."
CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the Columbus Symphony in a complete performance of one of his own personal favorites, Mahler's magnificent Symphony No. 6 in A Minor, Tragic.
CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the Columbus Symphony in a complete performance of one of his own personal favorites, Mahler's magnificent Symphony No. 6 in A Minor, Tragic.
CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the Columbus Symphony in a complete performance of one of his own personal favorites, Mahler's magnificent Symphony No. 6 in A Minor, Tragic.
Handel and Haydn Society will present Beethoven Eroica, conducted by Jean-Marie Zeitouni. Students are set to perform at Symphony Hall in celebration of 25th Anniversary of Collaborative Youth Concerts.
Heralded as "one of today's pre-eminent violinists" by The New York Times and recently named Musical America Worldwide's 2012 Instrumentalist of the Year, Gil Shaham is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors.
Great musical conversations will abound when Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni conducts the Columbus Symphony and Symphony soloists in artistically engaging dialogues.
Although acoustically favorable to the strings, the Southern Theatre hosted a new (and not improved) Columbus Symphony Orchestra format which fell flat on many levels.
