FRI SEP 25, 2026 | 7:30 PM
SAT SEP 26, 2026 | 7:30 PM
SUN SEP 27, 2026 | 2 PM
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John Morris Russell conductor
Lightborne visual and light designer
The Star Spangled Banner — John Stafford Smith
“Dance” from Othello Suite, Op. 79 — Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
“Final Dance” from The Three-Cornered Hat — Manuel de Falla
“The Young Prince and the Princess” from Sheherazade, Op. 35 — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana — Pietro Mascagni
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78, Organ — Camille Saint-Saëns
IV. Maestoso—Allegro
INTERMISSION
Clair de lune — Claude Debussy
An American in Paris — George Gershwin
“On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring” from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra — Frederick Delius
The Pines of Rome — Ottorino Respighi
I. The Pines of the Villa Borghese
IV. The Pines of the Appian Way
Program subject to change.
The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is grateful to Pops Season Presenter PNC.
This weekend’s concerts are sponsored in part by a gift from Susan Laffoon in memory of her brother.
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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