“The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra took the occasion of the orchestra’s 125th anniversary gala to announce that it has extended the contract of music director Louis Langrée” through the 2023-24 season, writes Janelle Gelfand in Sunday’s (1/12) Cincinnati Business Courier (OH). “Langrée … is in his seventh season with the CSO.… The announcement comes as Langrée waits to see whether he and the orchestra will win a Grammy Award [on January 26] for ‘Best Orchestral Performance’ for ‘Transatlantic,’ an album featuring the first recording of a new critical edition of Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,’ the original version of Varese’s ‘Amériques’ and Stravinsky’s Symphony in C…. By the end of the 2020-21 season, Langrée and the CSO will have commissioned or co-commissioned 31 new works…. His tenure has been marked by other bold initiatives and multi-season projects [including] The Concertos for Orchestra project: During the 2015-16 season, composers from three continents, Zhou Tian, Thierry Escaich, and Sebastian Currier, were each commissioned to write a work demonstrating the virtuosity of each section of the orchestra…. CSO initiatives launched during Langrée’s tenure include CSO Proof, CSO Look Around, Luminosity, One City/One Symphony, and the MusicNOW collaboration with composer Bryce Dessner.”
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