“Beethoven’s famous ‘Ode to Joy’ will soon be ringing throughout every corner of the region,” writes Janelle Gelfand in Sunday’s (10/7) Cincinnati Enquirer. “And for the first time, a live concert by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will beam to multiple communities. The transmission, a Nov. 17 performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 led by incoming music director Louis Langrée, will cap a new initiative called ‘One City, One Symphony.’ The program is a first-of-its-kind partnership between the Cincinnati Symphony, public broadcasters WCET-TV and WGUC 90.9 and the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. It’s one of several events centered around Cincinnati Symphony performances of Beethoven’s Ninth and Schoenberg’s ‘A Survivor From Warsaw’ to be conducted by Langrée in Music Hall (Nov. 15, 17 and 18). They include ‘listening parties,’ radio broadcasts and a homegrown video produced by CET, featuring local celebrities, symphony stars and people on the street performing Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy.’ Langrée, the orchestra’s music director-designate, said he hopes ‘One City, One Symphony’ will ‘bring people together from all walks of life to share and experience something truly extraordinary.’ Langrée begins his tenure with the orchestra in 2013. … Over the next six weeks, classical radio WGUC will air broadcasts of different recordings of the Ninth Symphony.”
Posted October 10, 2012
