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...
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Tales from backstage, at the hall, and in the community
with your St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Oct 18, 20204 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, 20204 min
Program Notes: Beethoven's Eroica
The ‘Eroica’ is full of hope, and this is the right piece to begin making music together again.
Feb 24, 20209 min
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 17, 20209 min
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 9, 20208 min
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 2, 20207 min
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...
Jan 27, 202012 min
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 13, 20208 min
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...
Nov 25, 20199 min
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 18, 20199 min
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 11, 20196 min
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 4, 20197 min
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,...
Oct 28, 20196 min
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 14, 20198 min
Program Notes: Symphonic Dances
Friday, October 18, 2019 at 8:00 PM Saturday, October 19, 2019, at 8:00 PM Sunday, October 20, 2019, at 3:00 PM Stéphane Denève,...
Oct 7, 20198 min
Program Notes: A Hero's Life
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 8:00PM Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 3:00PM Leonard Slatkin, Conductor Jelena Dirks, Oboe SLATKIN (arr.) Yet...
Sep 30, 20195 min
Program Notes: Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto
Friday, October 4, 2019, at 10:30AM Saturday, October 5, 2019, at 8:00PM Edo de Waart, conductor Joyce Yang, piano RACHMANINOFF Piano...
Sep 23, 20196 min
Program Notes: Mahler's Resurrection
Friday, September 27, 2019 at 8:00PM Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 8:00PM Stéphane Denève, conductor Joélle Harvey, soprano Tamara...
Sep 16, 201911 min
Program Notes: Bienvenue Stéphane
Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 8:00PM Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 3:00PM Stéphane Denève, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano KEVIN...
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