James Conlon discusses the May Festival season and shares insights about each concert.
James Conlon, Music Director, Cincinnati May Festival 2009 Season: Opening Night
James Conlon, celebrating his 30th year as Music Conductor of May Festival, introduces the 2009 Season and specifically the Opening Night concert, featuring Patti LuPone in her debut performance of Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, followed by a performance of Mozart’s Requiem featuring the May Festival Chorus, May Festival Youth Chorus, guest soloists, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at Music Hall.
May 22, 8 PM
Music Hall
James Conlon conducting
WEILL: The Seven Deadly Sins MOZART: Requiem
James Conlon, Music Director, Cincinnati May Festival 2009 Season: Verdi’s Luisa Miller
Maestro Conlon discusses the concert version performance of Guiseppe Verdi’s Luisa Miller, featuring guest soloists, the May Festival Chorus, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at Music Hall.
May 23, 8 PM
Music Hall James Conlon conducting
VERDI: Luisa
Miller
James Conlon, Music Director, Cincinnati May Festival 2009 Season: Cathedral Basilica Concert
Maestro Conlon discusses the majestic space of the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and the annual concert featuring the May Festival Youth Chorus, performing works by Morley, Thompson, Hindemith, and Dawson, and conducted by James Bagwell. The May Festival Chorus, conducted by Robert Porco, performs Vaughn Williams’ Mass in G Minor and Brahms’ Zigeunerlieder.
May 24, 8 PM
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption
MORLEY:
Fire, Fire! My Heart
THOMPSON: The Paper Reeds by the Brooks
from The Peaceable Kingdom
HINDEMITH: Selections from Six Chansons
Puisque tout passe ("Since everything passes")
and Verger ("Orchard") arr. DAWSON: Soon Ah Will Be Done James Bagwell conducting
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Mass in G Minor
BRAHMS: Zigeunerlieder ("Gypsy Songs") Robert Porco conducting
James Conlon, Music Director, Cincinnati May Festival 2009 Season: A May Festival Chorus Spectacular
Maestro Conlon discusses this concert, which showcases the May Festival Chorus performing jubilant works by Handel and Beethoven; Bach’s Magnificat, selections from Schubert’s Rosamunde; Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and finally, Mendelssohn’s Walpurgisnacht, performed at Music Hall.
May
29, 8 PM Music Hall
James Conlon conducting
HANDEL:Hallelujah from Judas Maccabaeus and Messiah BEETHOVEN: Hallelujah from Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op. 85
BACH: Magnificat, BWV
243
SCHUBERT: Rosamunde– Shepherds' Chorus and
Huntsmen's Chorus
MENDELSSOHN: Selections
from A Midsummer Night's Dream – Song with
Chorus from Act II, Scene 3 and "Through This House
Give Glimmering Light" from Finale;
The
First Walpurgis Night (Die
erste Walpurgisnacht)
James Conlon, Music Director, Cincinnati May Festival 2009 Season:Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”
Maestro Conlon discusses the final concert of 2009 May Festival, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand.” The work unites, for the first time on the Music Hall stage, the May Festival Chorus and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, both of which are prepared by Robert Porco, and features guest soloists, the Cincinnati Children’s Choir and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Altogether, over 500 artists are assembled on the stage of Music Hall.
May 30, 8 PM
Music Hall
James Conlon conducting
MAHLER: Symphony
of a Thousand, Symphony No. 8 in E-flat Minor
