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Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, soprano

Julia PERRY (1924–1979)
A Short Piece for Orchestra

Richard STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Vier Letzte Lieder ("Four Last Songs")
Frühling ("Spring")
September
Bein Schlafengehen ("At Bedtime")
Im Abendroth ("At Sunset")

INTERMISSION 

Ottorino RESPIGHI (1891–1953)
Fontane di Roma ("Fountains of Rome") *
La fontana di Valle Giulia all’alba ("The Fountain of Valle Giulia at Dawn")
La fontana del Tritone al mattino ("The Triton Fountain at Morn")
La fontana di Trevi al meriggio ("The Fountain of Trevi at Mid-day")
La fontana di Villa Medici al tramonto ("The Villa Medici Fountain at Sunset")

Ottorino RESPIGHI (1891–1953)
Pini di Roma ("Pines of Rome") *
I pini di Villa Borghese ("The Pines of the Villa Borghese")
Pini presso una catacomba ("Pines near a Catacomb")
I pini del Gianicolo ("The Pines of the Janiculum")
I pini della via Appia ("The Pines of the Appian Way")

*Movements of this piece are played attacca, meaning with little or no break between.

These performances are approximately 115 minutes long, including intermission.

The CSO is grateful to CSO Season Sponsor Western & Southern Financial Group and Fort Washington Investment Advisors. 

This concert is lovingly donated to the memory of Laura Gamble Thomson from the Thomson Family 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 May 11, 2025 at 8 pm, followed by 30 days of streaming at cincinnatisymphony.org/replay.