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Strauss & Debussy
Strauss’ Merry Pranks and Debussy’s Images
About the Concert

FRI JAN 31, 2025, 7:30 PM
SAT FEB 1, 2025, 7:30 PM
Music Hall

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Program

Jun Märkl, conductor
Elizabeth Freimuth, horn

Richard STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (“Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks”), Op. 28

Richard STRAUSS
Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major for Horn and Orchestra, Op. 11
Allegro
Andante
Allegro

INTERMISSION 

Claude DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
Images
Gigues
Rondes de printemps
Ibéria: 1. Par les rues et par les chemins ("Through Streets and Lanes")
Ibéria: 2. Les parfums de la nuit ("The Fragrances of the Night")
Ibéria: 3. Le matin d'un jour de fête ("Morning of a Feast-Day")

These performances are approximately 86 minutes long, including intermission.


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

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 March 30, 2025 at 8 pm, followed by 30 days of streaming at cincinnatisymphony.org/replay.

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