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    Program Notes for the SLSO's first Chamber Music Livestream: Musical Smirks
    • Mar 8, 2021
    • 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.
    Program Notes: The Heart of the Matter
    • Mar 1, 2021
    • 4 min

    Program Notes: The Heart of the Matter

    In this program, composers challenged by love, life, and death test their mettle.
    Program Notes: Stravinsky & Tchaikovsky
    • 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.
    Program Notes: Music for Winds
    • 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.
    Program Notes: Mendelssohn, Montgomery, and Frank
    • 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.
    Program Notes: Schubert's Octet
    • Oct 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    Program Notes: Schubert's Octet

    The music on this program understands this all-too-human complexity.
    Program Notes: Debussy and Ravel
    • Oct 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    Program Notes: Debussy and Ravel

    This program features works from this golden age of the harp.
    Program Notes: Night Music
    • 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.
    Program Notes: Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence
    • 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...
    Nathalie Joachim's Dam Mwen Yo
    • 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.
    Program Notes: Metamorphosen
    • Oct 18, 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
    Program Notes: Beethoven's Eroica
    • 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.
    SLSO Songs of America | "Amazing Grace"
    • Jul 3, 2020
    • 2 min

    SLSO Songs of America | "Amazing Grace"

    One of the most recognizable tunes in America, “Amazing Grace” has a complex history.
    SLSO Songs of America | "St. Louis Blues"
    • 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.”
    SLSO Songs of America | "A Change Is Gonna Come"
    • 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.
    SLSO Songs of America | Lyric for Strings
    • 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.
    SLSO Songs of America | "The Easy Winners"
    • Jun 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    SLSO Songs of America | "The Easy Winners"

    “The Easy Winners” of this rag’s title are the athletes who come out on top with seemingly little effort.
    SLSO Songs of America | "America the Beautiful"
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 2 min

    SLSO Songs of America | "America the Beautiful"

    Malena Smith: I believe that there is a vivid element of hope, both lyrically and melodically, that I connected to.
    Program Notes: Adams Conducts Adams
    • Mar 9, 2020
    • 11 min

    Program Notes: Adams Conducts Adams

    Friday, March 27, 2020, at 10:30AM Saturday, March 28, 2020, at 8:00PM John Adams, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano BEETHOVEN Fidelio...
    Program Notes: Youth Orchestra Performs Symphonic Dances
    • Mar 3, 2020
    • 7 min

    Program Notes: Youth Orchestra Performs Symphonic Dances

    Sunday, March 15, 2020, at 3:00PM St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra Stéphane Denève, conductor Gemma New, conductor Anna Zhong, violin...
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