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Thursday, June 4, 2025 6:30 PM (concert starts at 8:00 PM)
The ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park, located adjacent to The Andrew J. Brady Music Center®
Daniel Wiley, conductor
Thorgy Thor, host & vocalist
Phaedra Phaded, host
Johnny Justice, drag performer
Quasi Powell, drag performer
Anita Spritzer, vocalist
CincyVogue, dancers
DJ Boywife, block party DJ
Karen Arnold and Laverne Rutledge, ASL Interpreters
Overture to West Side Story — Leonard Bernstein
All The Things She Said — Martin Kierszenbaum
"Entrance of the Queen of Sheba" from Solomon — George Frideric Handel
Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasie — Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Finale” from L’oiseau de feu ("The Firebird") Suite— Igor Stravinsky
"Pizzicati" from Sylvia — Léo Delibes
“Hot Honey Rag” from Chicago — John Kander
Overture to Barber of Seville — Gioachino Rossini
"Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get Your Gun — Irving Berlin
"Over the Rainbow" from Wizard of Oz — Harold Arlen
I'm Still Standing — Elton John
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun — Cyndi Lauper
Closer — Tegan and Sara Quin
Mvt. II, “Andantino poco Allegretto,” from String Quintet, Op. 1 — Ethel Smyth
9 to 5 — Dolly Parton
Break My Soul — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
Brady Block Parties are financially assisted by the Fifth Third Foundation. The CSO is grateful to Presenting Sponsor Procter & Gamble Company, Show Sponsors Metro and Interact For Health, and Partner Sponsor Visit Cincy.
Brady Block Parties are funded in part by a grant from the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. 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.
We hope you are enjoying the Brady Block Party. If you are, consider making a tax-deductible gift to the Orchestra to support this community event and concert. You can do so online at our website here.
