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Sibelius and Saint-Saëns
Exuberance abounds in audacious works
About the Concert

SAT OCT 26, 2024, 7:30 PM
SUN OCT 27, 2024, 2:00 PM
Music Hall

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Program

Ramón Tebar, conductor
Benjamin Beilman, violin

Wang LU (b. 1982)
Surge

Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921)
Concerto No. 3 in B Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 61
Allegro non troppo
Andantino quasi allegretto
Molto moderato e maestoso. Allegro non troppo. Più allegro

INTERMISSION 

Jean SIBELIUS (1865–1957)
Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39
Andante, ma non troppo—Allegro energico
Andante (ma non troppo lento)
Scherzo: Allegro
Finale (quasi una fantasia): Andante—Allegro molto

These performances are approximately 115 minutes long, including intermission.


The CSO is grateful to CSO Season Sponsor Western & Southern Financial Group.

Surge was commissioned by the League of American Orchestras with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation

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

Pre-Concert Talks are made possible by an endowed gift from Melody Sawyer Richardson.

WGUC is the Media Partner for these concerts.

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

Listen to selections from this program on 90.9 WGUC January 26, 2025 at 8 pm, followed by 30 days of streaming at cincinnatisymphony.org/replay.

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