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Refimprove|date=May 2010Infobox musical artist | name = Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra| image = csobox2.jpg| caption =| landscape = yes| background = classical_ensemble| alias = CSO| origin = Cincinnati, Ohio , United States| genre = Classical music|Classical | occupation = Symphony orchestra | years_active = 1895–1907 1909- present | label = Telarc | associated_acts = CSO Chamber Players| website = | current_members = Music Director Designate Louis Langrée Creative Directors Lang Lang (pianist)|Lang Lang Philip Glass Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Pops Conductor John Morris Russell Assistant Conductor William White (2011-) Associate Conductor Robert Trevino (2011-) Music Director Emeritus Jesús López-Cobos | past_members = Founder Frank Van der Stucken | notable_instruments =As the fifth oldest orchestra in the United States, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ( CSO ) has a legacy of fine music making as reflected in its performances in historic Music Hall (Cincinnati)|Music Hall , recordings, and international tours. It represents the evolution of 200 years of music making in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati , in southwestern Ohio .
History
After the formation of several orchestras between 1825 and 1872, the Cincinnati Orchestra Association was founded by the wife of the future U.S. President William Howard Taft in 1893. The CSO gave its first concerts in 1895 at Pike's Opera house, and a year later moved to Music Hall (Cincinnati)|Music Hall . The first conductor was Frank Van der Stucken , a Texas-born musician of Flemish ancestry, who served until 1907. In the early years, the orchestra welcomed such notable international figures as Richard Strauss and Edward McDowell . The orchestra also performed the U.S. premiere of the Symphony No. 5 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 5 of Gustav Mahler .
For three years the orchestra was disbanded due to labor disputes and financial problems, and upon its reorganization in 1909, a young organist from England, Leopold Stokowski , was named to lead the group. After Stokowski's three years the orchestra enjoyed an evolution which gained them national prominence under conductors such as Ernst Kunwald through 1918, the virtuoso Belgian violinist Eugčne Ysa˙e (1918–1922), Fritz Reiner (1922–1933), and Eugčne Aynsley Goossens|Eugene Goossens (1933–1947). This period saw the orchestra move from Music Hall to Emery Auditorium in 1909, then back to Music Hall in 1936, the U.S. premiere of Mahler's Symphony No. 3 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 3 (1912), its first recordings (1917), first national tours, and the world premieres of Aaron Copland 's Fanfare for the Common Man and Lincoln Portrait .cite book|last=Pollack|first=Howard|title=Aaron Copland: the life and work of an uncommon man|year=2000|publisher=University of Illinois Press|page=357
After Goossens came Thor Johnson in 1947, who led the orchestra in some of the first stereo recordings for Remington Records , followed by Max Rudolf (conductor)|Max Rudolf in 1958, whose mark of musicianship is still reflected in the orchestra. Then came Thomas Schippers who died abruptly in 1977. Under Schippers, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra was formed in 1977, with Erich Kunzel as its conductor. After Schippers' death, Walter Susskind served as artistic advisor of the orchestra for three years before his own death in 1980.
That same year, the Austrian conductor Michael Gielen became conductor in 1980 for a six year term to be succeeded by Spanish conductor Jesús López-Cobos . López-Cobos led the orchestra on a very successful European tour in 1995, their first since 1969, and their first national television appearance on PBS . He retired in 2001 after the longest tenure of any CSO conductor, and was named emeritus music director in September of that year.
In addition to its many concerts given each year, the Cincinnati Symphony is the house orchestra for the Cincinnati May Festival , the oldest continuing choral festival in the Western Hemisphere.
The Orchestra today
On April 24, 2012, the CSO named French-born conductor Louis Langrée as Music Director starting in the 2013-14 season.cite news|last=Gelfand|first=Janelle|title=French conductor named CSO music director|url= http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel? NoCache=1& Dato=20120424& Kategori=ENT03& Lopenr=304240090& Ref=AR|accessdate=24 April 2012|newspaper=Cincinnati Enquirer From 2001 to 2011, the orchestra's music director was the Estonian-born Paavo Järvi . Järvi conducted his final concert as CSO Music Director on May 14, 2011, at which point he was named Music Director Laureate. In December 2010, John Morris Russell was named the Cincinnati Pops conductor, succeeding Pops Founder Erich Kunzel . During the period between Music Directors, the Orchestra engaged five different international musicians as artistic guides, pianist Lang Lang (pianist) , composer Philip Glass and conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos during the 2011-2012 season, and Maestro Frühbeck de Burgos, composer Jennifer Higdon and saxophonist Branford Marsalis during the 2012-2013 season.cite web|title=CSO Announces star-studded 2012-13 season|url= http://cincinnatisymphony.org/mediaroom/? p=2480|publisher=Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra|accessdate=24 April 2012
In January 2007, the orchestra reported financial difficulties, projecting a monetary deficit of about US$2 million for the current fiscal year. In 2009, those difficulties (plus the purchase of Telarc by the Concord Music Group) help to bring about the termination of the orchestra's contract with Telarc; the symphony and pops recording company for two decades.cite news | url= http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20070105/BIZ01/701050343/-1/CINCI | title=Symphony needs money | publisher=Cincinnati Enquirer | author=Cliff Peale | date=2007-01-05 | accessdate=2007-04-18 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070320010712/ http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20070105/BIZ01/701050343/-1/CINCI |archivedate = 2007-03-20
In 2010, the Orchestra launched its own record label, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Media. The inaugural album on the new label, "American Portraits," was released internationally in January 2011.
In late 2009, long-time arts patron and philanthropist Louise Nippert (who is also a minority owner of the Cincinnati Reds) announced a gift of $85 million dollars for the CSO. It was reported that the orchestra will receive directly about $3 million each year (around 75% of its annual distribution). 12% and 5% will go to the Cincinnati Opera and Ballet companies respectively with the intent of maintaining the CSO as those company's resident "pit" orchestra. The remaining 8% (around $300,000.00) is to be passed along to other arts institutions like the Cincinnati May Festival and the Linton Chamber Music Series.
The CSO serves as the official orchestra of the Cincinnati May Festival, Opera, and Ballet companies. The Cincinnati Symphony also serves as the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra .
In April 2012 the orchestra announced the appointment of new music director Louis Langrée effective in the 2013-14 season.
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External links
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/home.php home page
http://www.cetconnect.org/content/musichall.asp Music Hall: Cincinnati Finds Its Voice Music Hall documentary on WCET-TV
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