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This festival is a celebration of wine, food and music, and has earned its reputation as a world-class culinary event for both experienced and novice wine & food lovers. Offering a full complement of wine-related events, it is one of the Midwest’s largest such festivals. “The Grand Tastings” are the centerpiece events of this multi-day festival and feature 130+ wineries pouring nearly 600 wines, as well as delicious foods, souvenirs and live music.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is a dynamic ensemble of some of the world’s finest musicians. The fifth oldest symphony orchestra in the U.S. and the oldest orchestra in Ohio, the CSO has played a leading role in the cultural life of Greater Cincinnati and the Midwest since its founding in 1895.

Louis Langrée began his tenure as the CSO’s 13th Music Director in the 2013–2014 season with a celebrated programThe New York Times said “deftly combined nods to the orchestra’s history, the city’s musical life and new music.” Over the Orchestra’s 119-year history, it has also been led by Leopold Stokowski, Eugène Ysaÿe, Fritz Reiner, Eugene Goossens, Max Rudolf, Thomas Schippers, Jesús López-Cobos, and Paavo Järvi, among others.

The CSO has built a reputation as one of the world’s foremost orchestras, determined for greatness and heralded as a place of experimentation. This was on full display during the inaugural LumenoCity, a spectacular concert of live music combined with stunning images projected on the façade of Music Hall. This event in August of 2013 garnered international attention and drew 35,000 people over two nights.

A champion of new music, the Orchestra has given American premieres of works by such composers as Debussy, Ravel and Bartók and has commissioned works that have since become mainstays of the classical repertoire, including Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. The CSO was the first orchestra to be broadcast to a national radio audience (1921) and the third to record (1917). The orchestra continues to commission new works and to program an impressive array of music. Most recently, the CSO performed the world premieres of Nico Muhly’s Pleasure Ground and David Lang’smountain as part of the groundbreaking collaboration with the MusicNOW Festival, Cincinnati’s premier new music festival.

The mission of the Cincinnati World Cinema is to provide the community with outstanding motion pictures that explore the human condition and celebrate cultural diversity. CWC is committed to the importance of films that inform and educate, as well as entertain. To enhance the educational experience, our film events typically include discussions with local authorities and/or filmmakers. We present films that otherwise might not be seen in this market, with genres including international, documentary, American independent, live-action and animated shorts and locally-produced works. As part of our educational focus, community outreach efforts include programming for community, educational and institutional venues, with film and discussion formats tailored to specific audiences and age groups.Cincinnati World Cinema actively collaborates with arts, cultural and educational organizations locally and throughout the region to curate and co-present individual films, thematic collections or series consistent with the CWC mission.