“The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is planning its 26th international tour in the 2020-21 sea-son,” writes Janelle Gelfand in Friday’s (2/7) Cincinnati Business Courier (OH). “Led by music director Louis Langrée, the CSO will be traveling from New York to Berlin, Zagreb, Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Paris over 15 days in November [during which it will] perform Christopher Rouse’s luminous Symphony No. 6 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6.… At home, the CSO will present 18 subscription programs [to include] ‘Fountain of Youth’ by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Julia Wolfe, a CSO co-commission. The orchestra has also appointed a creative partner. Conductor/composer Matthias Pintscher, music director of Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain, will serve for three seasons…. Langrée leads a concert staging of Grieg’s ‘Peer Gynt’ with Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling, the May Festival Chorus and actors…. The program includes Daniel Bjarnason’s Violin Concerto, written for the soloist, Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto…. Leila Josefowicz performs the Cincinnati premiere of a Violin Concerto written for her by … Andrew Norman…. Eighth Blackbird premieres music by Kinds of Kings, a collective of U.S.-based female composers. Guest conductor Ruth Reinhardt makes her debut, capping the program with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7.”
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