There are great performances and there are earth-shattering ones. On opening night of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra season, the orchestra’s performance of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” under Christian Reif was definitely the latter.
The dynamic German conductor returned Sept. 30 to guest conduct the Cincinnati Symphony in a well-led and ultimately electrifying program. The orchestra, which played magnificently for Reif, likely knows him fairly well by now. Although this was his first…
