“This summer, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will be criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to northern Spain,” writes Janelle Gelfand in Friday’s (5/12) Cincinnati Enquirer (Ohio). “As part of its first European tour since 2008, the orchestra will perform 11 concerts in eight cities in six countries. Highlights will include the world premiere of a new version of George Gershwin’s ‘An American in Paris’ and three performances in a new concert hall on the Seine in Paris. The three-week tour [from August 25 to September 9] will include stops in Edinburgh, Scotland; London; San Sebastian and Santander in Spain; Eindhoven and Utrecht in The Netherlands; and Antwerp, Belgium. The tour will conclude with three concerts in Paris, where CSO music director Louis Langrée, a French native, will lead the orchestra in the inaugural season of the ultra-modern La Seine Musicale, which opened in April…. Concerts will feature an American work on each program, including music by John Adams, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland…. The [‘American in Paris’ new critical] edition was prepared by musicologist Mark Clague, director of the Gershwin Initiative at the University of Michigan. The research project is part of an educational partnership with the Gershwin estate.”
Posted May 15, 2017
