FRI SEP 13, 2024, 7:30 PM
SAT SEP 14, 2024, 7:30 PM
SUN SEP 15, 2024, 2 PM
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John Morris Russell, conductor
Rick Steves, host and narrator

America the Beautiful — Samuel Ward
Emperor Waltz — Johann Strauss, Jr.
Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin — Richard Wagner
“The Moldau” from Má vlast — Bedřich Smetana
“Military March No. 1” from Pomp and Circumstance — Edward Elgar

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Movement I from Symphony No. 4, Italian — Felix Mendelssohn
Overture to Nabucco — Giuseppe Verdi
“Alborada” from Capriccio espagnole — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“Ritual Fire Dance” from El amor brujo — Manuel de Falla
“Morning Mood” from Peer Gynt — Edvard Grieg
“Marche militaire française” from Suite algérienne — Camille Saint-Saëns
“Ode to Joy” from Symphony No. 9 — Ludwig van Beethoven
The Stars and Stripes Forever — John Philip Sousa

This program will be filmed in partnership with CET, Cincinnati’s public television station, and made available to PBS stations across the country.

The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is grateful to Pops Season Presenter PNC. 

Rick Steves Europe: A Symphonic Journey, a Cincinnati Pops and CET broadcast partnership, is made possible by the following: Barbara W. Kellar, The George and Margaret McLane Foundation, The Friedlander Family, Melinda & Irwin Simon, Patti & Fred Heldman, Adele Lippert, The Ladislas & Vilma Segoe Family Foundation, Nancy Wagner & Patty Wagner, Deborah Campbell & Eunice M. Wolf, The Castellini Foundation, DeeDee & Gary West, and Barbara M. Weyand.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation and the Nina Browne Parker Trust, and for the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in-orchestra Steinway piano is made possible in part by the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.