TUE APR 14, 2026 | 7:30 PM
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Wilbur Lin conductor
Chika Kinderman narrator
Symphonic Variation “Merry-Go-Round” from Howl's Moving Castle — Joe Hisaishi
My Neighbor Totoro Orchestra Stories — Joe Hisaishi
Hey Let's Go
The Village in May
Dust Bunnies
Mother
A Little Monster
Totoro
The Path of the Wind
A Lost Child
Cat Bus
My Neighbor Totoro
INTERMISSION
“A Town with an Ocean View” from Kiki's Delivery Service Symphonic Suite — Joe Hisaishi
Spirited Away Suite — Joe Hisaishi
One Summer's Day
Nighttime Coming
The Gods
View of the Morning
The Bottomless Pit
The Dragon Boy
No Face
The Sixth Station
Reprise
The Return
Program subject to change.
The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is grateful to Pops Season Presenter PNC, and Support Sponsors Asianati and CinSei.
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.
‘Studio Ghibli’ Conductor Wilbur Lin on the Art of the Film Score
April & May 2026 Fanfare Magazine
Former CSO Assistant Conductor Wilbur Lin returns to Music Hall to lead the Cincinnati Pops in its “The Music of Studio Ghibli” concerts, featuring music of film score composer Joe Hisaishi. In this article he shares his insights into the art of presenting film music for a live audience and the intricacies of the music itself.
