“Eckart Preu is already putting his personal stamp on the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra,” writes Janelle Gelfand in Sunday’s (7/30) Cincinnati Enquirer (Ohio). “As he leads his first Summermusik festival as music director next week, Preu … is planning something ‘different or fun’ on each program. He’ll be auditioning four candidates to be the new concertmaster. And he’ll even play a little keyboard in [Vivaldi’s Concerto No. 3]…. The Chamber Orchestra’s Summermusik—Aug. 5 to Aug. 26—is anchored by four traditional concerts…. There also will be ‘Chamber Crawls’ in bars and ‘A Little Afternoon Musik’ in alternative spaces…. Mozart is a common theme.… Audiences can also expect Walk the Moon’s ‘Shut Up and Dance’ in a … casual concert [that] will mix up music by Johann Strauss Jr., Leonard Bernstein and tango king Astor Piazzolla…. David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ appears on a space-themed program that includes a new commission, ‘Kepler’s Cosmos,’ written by Preu’s brother, Hans-Peter Preu…. A Chamber Crawl program … will hail the 50th anniversary of the ‘Summer of Love’ … with music by The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Turtles, Jefferson Airplane…. [Gelato and sweets maker] Madisono’s is creating Eckart’s German Chocolate, for sale.”
Posted August 1, 2017
