Program Notes

6 days ago
4 min

Program Notes: Airs and Dances (April 16-18, 2021)

Music whisks us to another time. Boccherini's music leaps, Mozart's glows, and Respighi's reflects.

Apr 5
4 min

Program Notes: Welcome, Stephanie (April 9-11, 2021)

This program is centered around the reawakening of nature and therefore life. It’s very fitting now, as we try to start anew.

Mar 29
5 min

Program Notes: Seasonal Wonder (April 1-3, 2021)

This concert is music of rebirth. There is sunrise, nature, the hope of Spring. French and American cultures unite, giving us two dawns.

Mar 19
5 min

Program Notes: Songs, Prayers, and Rituals (March 26-28, 2021)

Our Spring season opens with music to cleanse your spirit: J.S. Bach, Ester Mägi, Arvo Pärt, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Mar 8
4 min

Program Notes for the SLSO's first Chamber Music Livestream: Musical Smirks

This is a program of rogue moments, of creators letting loose.

Mar 1
4 min

Program Notes: The Heart of the Matter

In this program, composers challenged by love, life, and death test their mettle.

Nov 6, 2020
4 min

Program Notes: Stravinsky & Tchaikovsky

The composers on this program speak quite distinct musical languages, yet the spark for all three pieces is the same: love.

Oct 28, 2020
4 min

Program Notes: Music for Winds

As a collection of instruments, the wind quintet should not get along. Oddly, this mismatched group makes beautiful music.

Oct 28, 2020
4 min

Program Notes: Mendelssohn, Montgomery, and Frank

Jessie Montgomery’s Strum and Gabriela Lena Frank’s Leyendas both dance with abandon.

Oct 27, 2020
4 min

Program Notes: Schubert's Octet

The music on this program understands this all-too-human complexity.

Oct 27, 2020
4 min

Program Notes: Debussy and Ravel

This program features works from this golden age of the harp.

Oct 23, 2020
4 min

Program Notes: Night Music

Day eases into an unsettled night. Strauss' Sextet from Capriccio; Mazzoli's Vespers for Violin; Schoenberg's Transfigured Night.

Oct 23, 2020
4 min

Program Notes: Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence

Music can be a time-travel device or a teleportation machine. A chord progression might whisk you back a decade or two...

Oct 21, 2020
2 min

Nathalie Joachim's Dam Mwen Yo

For composer Nathalie Joachim "home" conjures the voices, strength, and fearlessness of women, and the cello sings their song.

Oct 19, 2020
4 min

Program Notes: Metamorphosen

This program connects to our current world: there is a lot of anxiety, sadness, and division, and this music gives comfort to heal our souls

Oct 11, 2020
4 min

Program Notes: Beethoven's Eroica

The ‘Eroica’ is full of hope, and this is the right piece to begin making music together again.

Jul 4, 2020
2 min

SLSO Songs of America | "Amazing Grace"

One of the most recognizable tunes in America, “Amazing Grace” has a complex history.

Jul 3, 2020
2 min

SLSO Songs of America | "St. Louis Blues"

The lament—“My man's got a heart like a rock cast in the sea”—became the inspiration for the “St. Louis Blues.”

Jul 2, 2020
2 min

SLSO Songs of America | "A Change Is Gonna Come"

A deeply personal song about fear and doubt and faith and hope, this civil rights anthem would have deep and lasting influence.

Jul 1, 2020
2 min

SLSO Songs of America | Lyric for Strings

A barrier-breaking figure in the overwhelmingly white field of classical music, George Walker was an American compositional giant.

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