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Tales from backstage, at the hall, and in the community
with your St. Louis Symphony Orchestra


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 19, 20215 min read


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, 20204 min read


Program Notes: Mendelssohn, Montgomery, and Frank
Jessie Montgomery’s Strum and Gabriela Lena Frank’s Leyendas both dance with abandon.
Oct 28, 20204 min read


Program Notes: Schubert's Octet
The music on this program understands this all-too-human complexity.
Oct 27, 20204 min read


Program Notes: Debussy and Ravel
This program features works from this golden age of the harp.
Oct 27, 20204 min read


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, 20204 min read


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 23, 20204 min read


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 18, 20204 min read


Program Notes: Beethoven's Eroica
The ‘Eroica’ is full of hope, and this is the right piece to begin making music together again.
Oct 11, 20204 min read


Program Notes: Bolero
Friday, March 6, 2020, at 10:30AM Friday, March 6, 2020, at 8:00PM Saturday, March 7, 2020, at 8:00PM Stéphane Denève, conductor Timothy...
Feb 24, 20209 min read


Program Notes: Beethoven and Schubert
Saturday, Febuary 29, 2020, at 8:00PM Sunday, March 1, 2020, at 3:00PM Nicholas McGegan, conductor Seong-Jin Cho, piano HAYDN Symphony...
Feb 17, 20209 min read


Program Notes: Bruckner's Seventh
Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 8:00PM Sunday, February 16, 2020, at 3:00PM Rafael Payare, conductor Baiba Skride, violin SOFIA...
Feb 9, 20208 min read


Program Notes: Beethoven's Ninth
Friday, February 7, 2020, at 8:00PM Saturday, February 8, 2020, at 8:00PM Sunday, February 9, 2020, at 3:00PM Stéphane Denève, conductor...
Feb 2, 20207 min read


Program Notes: Sleeping Beauty
Friday, January 31, 2020, at 10:30AM Saturday, February 1, 2020, at 8:00PM Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conductor Saleem Ashkar, piano SCHUMANN...
Jan 27, 202012 min read


Program Notes: Thibaudet Plays Liszt
Saturday, January 18, 2020, at 8:00 PM Sunday, January 19, 2020, at 3:00 PM Stéphane Denève, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano WAGNER...
Jan 13, 20208 min read


Program Notes: The Nutcracker
Friday, November 29, 2019 at 8:00PM Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 8:00PM Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 3:00PM Andrew Grams, conductor St....
Nov 25, 20199 min read


Program Notes: Pictures at an Exhibition
Friday, November 22, 2019 at 8:00PM Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 8:00PM Marcelo Lehninger, conductor Simon Trpčeski, piano HINDEMITH...
Nov 18, 20199 min read


Youth Orchestra Performs La Mer
Sunday, November 17, 2019, at 3:00PM Gemma New, conductor ROSSINI Semiramide Overture JOHN ADAMS The Chairman Dances, Foxtrot for...
Nov 11, 20196 min read


Program Notes: Mozart's Great Mass
Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 8:00PM Sunday, November 10, 2019, at 3:00PM Masaaki Suzuki, conductor Carolyn Sampson, soprano Joanne Lunn,...
Nov 4, 20197 min read


Program Notes: Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony
Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 8:00PM Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 3:00PM Stéphane Denève, conductor James Ehnes, violin BARBER Adagio for...
Oct 28, 20196 min read
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