Season's best
The Cincinnati Symphony released its season stats this week, and below are the top 5 shows of the season:
The top five best attended Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concerts in 2005-06 (average attendance for the weekend):
1. Opening weekend, Beethoven’s Ninth, Paavo Järvi conducting (Sept. 16-17), 2,968
2. Järvi conducting Gershwin, Bernstein and Kurt Weill (April 21-23), 2,667
3. All-Rachmaninoff concert with Järvi and NKU grad Anna Polusmiak (April 27-29), 2283
4. All-Mozart concert with Jaime Laredo conducting (April 7-8), 1,988
5. Järvi conducting the season finale (May 5-6), 1,978
Take a poll on the Enquirer Web site to vote for your favorite!
posted by Janelle Gelfand at 4:37 PM
2 Comments:
at 5/24/2006 11:32:00 AM 
Primavera said...
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at 5/28/2006 05:05:00 AM 
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Post a Comment*janelle,
i attended all of the top 5 concerts except for the jaime laredo one (which i still regret) and while they were wonderful, my season favorite had to be Mahler's monumental Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection"), march 10 and 11. i had never heard this particular piece played before and so i went both nights and was absolutely overwhelmed with emotion. during the finale, I suddenly found myself taken by a major case of the chills and then, for good measure, i just burst into tears! the soloists, the may festival chorus, the orchestra and paavo combined as one to create one of those unforgettable nights when, years later, you can say "I was there when..."
*this* was a performance worthy of being presented at the London Proms... we are so blessed.
Janelle,
I thought you were originally asking people to post their personal choices for favorite concert of the season--NOT their favorite of the top 5. As many friends have mentioned to me, the high attendance at the end of the season was top-heavy, possibly, in part, due to people with subscriber choice tickets which needed to be used. Just because a concert had high attendance does not necessarily mean that it was the favorite one for listeners throughout the season.
As much as I enjoyed the all-Rach program, I find it curious that it has so out-distanced the other four in the top 5 to date:
#1 opening weekend/Paaavo/Beethoven's 9th: 9
#2 4/21-23, Paavo/Weill/Bernstein/Gershwin: 4
#3 4/27-29, All Rach/Anna Polusmaik: 89!!!!!!
#4 4/7-8, All Mozart/Jaime Laredo: 2
#5 5/5-6, Paavo/Season Finale/Beethoven Violin Concerto: 8
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I would LOVE to hear what other programs were people's favorites this year--regardless of the attendance they received!
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