SAT SEP 27, 2025 | 7:30 PM
SUN SEP 28, 2025 | 2 PM
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Arnie Roth, conductor
Matthew Swanson, May Festival Chorus director
May Festival Chorus
Final Fantasy Series: Prelude — Nobuo Uematsu
Final Fantasy VIII: Liberi Fatali
Final Fantasy Victory Theme
Final Fantasy IV: Battle with The Four Fiends
Final Fantasy VII: Aerith’s Theme
Final Fantasy IX: Not Alone
Final Fantasy XIV: Songs of Salt and Suffering (Shadowbringers) — Masayoshi Soken
Final Fantasy XIV: Triumph (Stormblood)
Final Fantasy XIV: The Final Day (Endwalker)
Final Fantasy Series: Chocobo Medley — Nobuo Uematsu
INTERMISSION
Final Fantasy Series: Battle & Victory Theme Medley — Nobuo Uematsu
Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth: Cosmo Canyon — Sanctum of Planetology
Final Fantasy X: Zanarkand
Final Fantasy XIII: Blinded by Light
Final Fantasy XV: Valse di Fantastica — Yoko Shimomura
Final Fantasy XVI: Away — Masayoshi Soken
Final Fantasy XVI: Ascension
Final Fantasy XVI: Find the Flame
Final Fantasy Series: Main Theme — Nobuo Uematsu
The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is grateful to Pops Season Presenter PNC.
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 CSO in-orchestra Steinway piano is made possible in part by the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.
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