Name: Beethoven 7 & Dessner Premieres
Start: 2024-05-03T11:00:00-04:00
Location: Cincinnati Music Hall

If Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is known as a musical embodiment of fate, his Seventh carries the spirit of freedom and liberation, with catchy, dance-like melodies woven throughout. Bryce Dessner, founder of Cincinnati’s MusicNOW Festival and a member of the Grammy-winning band The National, shares two of his works for orchestra.
Program:
Bryce DESSNER: Mari
Bryce DESSNER: Piano Concerto (CSO Co-Commission, US Premiere)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7
Artists:
Louis Langrée, conductor
Alice Sara Ott, piano
CSO Season Sponsor: Western & Southern
This concert is lovingly donated to the memory of Laura Gamble Thomson from the estate of the Thomson family.
The CSO co-commissioned U.S. Premiere of the Piano Concerto by Bryce Dessner is made possible by the Frank and Mary Bergstein Fund for Musical Excellence.
Pre-Concert Talks are made possible by an endowed gift from Melody Sawyer Richardson.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra co-commissioned, U.S. premiere of Piano Concerto by Bryce Dessner is made possible by a generous gift from Kari and Jon Ullman.