Saturday, April 15, 2023, 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 16, 2023, 2 pm
Cincinnati Music Hall

Ramón Tebar, conductor
Steven Banks, saxophone

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Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36
(1844–1908)    

Billy CHILDS: Saxophone Concerto  (CSO co-commission)
(b. 1957)

Part I: Motherland
Part II: If We Must Die
Part III: And Still I Rise

INTERMISSION 

Modest MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition
(1839–1881)        
orch. Ravel

Introduction: Promenade    
I. Gnomus        
Promenade 
II. Il Vecchio Castello (“The Old Castle”)
Promenade
III. Tuileries
IV. Bydło
Promenade
V. Ballet des poussin dans leurs coques (“Ballet of Little Chicks in Their Shells”)
VI. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuÿle
VII. Limoges
VIII. Catacombs Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (“With the Dead in a Dead Language”)
IX. La Cabane sur des pattes de poule (“The Hut on Fowl’s Legs”) (Baba Yaga)
X. La grande porte de Kiev (“The Great Gate of Kiev”)

The CSO co-commission of Billy Childs’ Saxophone Concerto is made possible by a generous gift from Kelly Dehan and Rick Staudigel.