
Explore the complete list of performances scheduled for our 2008-2009 Season including the Wachovia Securities Orchestral Series.

Opera Night
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
- Friday, January 9, 2009 at 8pm
James Gaffigan, conductor
Kelly Kaduce, soprano
VERDI La forza del destino Overture
VERDI arias from La Traviata
PUCCINI arias from Madama Butterfly and Gianni Schicchi
WAGNER Symphonic Suite from “The Ring of the Nibelungs”
including “Ride of the Valkyries”
Rising star Kelly Kaduce has captivated Opera Theatre of St. Louis audiences
in the title roles of Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre and Suor Angelica. Spend a
riveting night with Kaduce as she sings Verdi and Puccini, including a reprise
from Madama Butterfly—her summer ’08 star turn at OTSL.
PreConcert Perspective with Hugh Macdonald one hour prior to each concert.

Kristin Chenoweth at the Fox Theatre with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 8pm
The premier collaboration of Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra is history in the making! Not only does this performance mark the first time Chenoweth has performed in St. Louis it is also the first time that the SLSO in its entirety has appeared on stage at the Fox Theatre. Many remember Kristin Chenoweth’s show-stealing, Tony-winning performance in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown produced on Broadway by Fox Theatricals. She also originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked, which earned her a leading actress Tony Award nomination. Chenoweth can currently be seen starring in the ABC series Pushing Daisies, where she was recently nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. A veteran of the concert scene, Chenoweth has had numerous collaborations with various symphonies, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, National Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony. She can now add the SLSO to that list when she performs with them on January 10 at the Fabulous Fox Theatre!

Opera Passions
TOUHILL SUNDAYS
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 2pm
James Gaffigan, conductor
Kelly Kaduce, soprano
Soprano Kelly Kaduce moves to the Touhill stage for a stunning afternoon of opera
passions. Kaduce sings Verdi and Puccini,
and the exciting young American conductor
James Gaffigan leads the SLSO in a program
that includes the full power of Wagner’s “Ride
of the Valkyries.”
Touhill Performing Arts Center, UM-St. Louis
Contact the Touhill at 314-516-4949
or visit www.touhill.org for more information..

Susan Graham
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
- Friday, January 16, 2009 at 8pm
- Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 8pm
Philippe Jordan, conductor
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
BERG Seven Early Songs
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
Music critics reach for the adjectives to describe her voice: lustrous, creamy,
ample, supple, gleaming, beautifully focused, plush, silky, golden, and so forth.
After singing as a seductive Scheherazade and a vanquished Cleopatra with
the SLSO, you know that few vocalists immediately become as intimate with
an audience as Susan Graham. Sexy? That too.
PreConcert Perspective with Peter Henderson one hour prior to each concert.

Orchestral Magic
FAMILY CONCERTS
- Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 3pm
Ward Stare, conductor
$10 Adult, $6 Child | Children 3+ are welcome to attend. Everyone must have a ticket for admittance to a Family concert.
Ward Stare conducts The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and music from Harry Potter, in which different instrument families portray a number of different characters. You probably know the stories from the movies, and you and your family will be able to follow along just with the music alone. Discover how music may magically change a scene or create a mood.

Young People’s Concert
EDUCATION CONCERTS
Winter Program (grades 4- 6)
Tues, January 20, 2009 at 9:30 & 11am
Wed, February 18, 2009 at 9:30 & 11am
Ward Stare, conductor
The composer Paul Dukas employs a number
of different instruments to represent a number
of different characters in The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice. Instrument families not only
serve as different characters, but also set the
mood and tone. Discover how music may
depict scenes that at one moment may be
comic, and at the next moment menacing.

Dancing with Fate
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Presented by MasterCard
- Friday, January 23, 2009 at 8pm
- Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 8pm
Edward Gardner, conductor
Johannes Moser, cello
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances
Even amidst the harshness of life, the impulse of art is to inspire. Britten writes
of living from the sea and living with community, and the pleasure and pain
of both. Shostakovich creates beauty with the Gulag looming. Rachmaninoff
rises from human strife, with a physical dance to celebrate the divine.
PreConcert Perspective with Peter Henderson one hour prior to each concert.

Ideal (Dis-) Placements Concert at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
- Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 7:30pm
David Robertson, conductor
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA Meditation on Bach Chorale: Vor deinen Thron
tret ich hiermit (1993)
STOCKHAUSEN Adieu (1966)
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Bach Measures (1996)
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
3716 Washington Blvd

Emanuel Ax
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Presented by American Airlines
- Friday, January 30, 2009 at 10:30am (Coffee Concert)
- Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 8pm
David Robertson, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano (Whitaker Guest Artist)
HAYDN Symphony No. 92, “Oxford”
R. STRAUSS Burleske
GEORGE BENJAMIN Dance Figures
SZYMANOWSKI Symphony No. 4 (Symphonie concertante)
One of the most exciting virtuosic displays of last season was Christian
Tetzlaff’s sensational performance of Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto.
Let Szymanowski become a household name to you when the phenomenal
Emanuel Ax plays a late work of the Polish composer to complete a program
of raucous sophistication.
PreConcert Perspective with David Robertson one hour prior to each concert.

Latin American Carnival
CLASSICAL DETOURS
Presented by The Boeing Company
- Friday, January 30, 2009 at 6:30pm
Rhythm is as fine a way of defining a place
and a people as history, language or landscape.
To imagine Latin America is to hear
rhythms, wonderful variations of beat and
pulsation, and to feel lives moving with
distinctive grace. The SLSO makes Latin
rhythms sing in this Classical Detour.
$30 Reserved, limited availability |
$20 General Admission
Pre-concert happy hour begins at 5:30pm.

Seasons of the Heart
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Presented by Thompson Coburn LLP
- Friday, February 6, 2009 at 8pm
- Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 8pm
- Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 3pm
Christopher Seaman, conductor (Whitaker Guest Artist)
Daniel Lee, cello
TIPPETT Suite in D
ELGAR Cello Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
Out of the struggles of the heart comes a romantic masterpiece, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Elgar’s Cello Concerto makes beauty out of the ashes of WWI, with Daniel Lee playing the haunting work. Christopher Seaman conducts these concerts, which includes Tippett’s heartfelt Suite in D, written for Prince Charles’ birthday.
PreConcert Perspective with Amy Kaiser one hour prior to each concert.

Verdi’s Requiem
PREMIUM ORCHESTRAL SERIES

Broadway Valentine
SPECIAL EVENT
- Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 3pm
David Robertson, conductor
Orli Shaham, piano
BERNSTEIN Candide Overture
GERSHWIN Concerto in F
GERSHWIN "I've Got Rhythm" & "The Man I Love"
BERNSTEIN Selections from West Side Story
"Maria" & "Somewhere"
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Ain’t love grand? Especially as it’s expressed
in this concert of fantastic Broadway show
tunes by George Gershwin and Leonard
Bernstein. Orli Shaham plays Gershwin’s
scintillating piano concerto, with her husband
David Robertson conducting.

Young Adult Concert
EDUCATION CONCERTS
Winter Program (grades 7-12)
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 11am
Ward Stare, conductor
The composer Paul Dukas employs a number
of different instruments to represent a number
of different characters in The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice. Instrument families not only
serve as different characters, but also set the
mood and tone. Discover how music may
depict scenes that at one moment may be
comic, and at the next moment menacing.

Kinder Konzert
EDUCATION CONCERTS
Winter Program (grades K-3)
Thurs, February 19, 2009 at 9:30 & 11am
Fri, February 20, 2009 at 9:30 & 11am
Ward Stare, conductor
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which many
people know from the classic Disney
movie, Fantasia, is actually a musical interpretation
of a poem by the German poet
Goethe. Mozart imagines a fantastic world
in The Magic Flute. Through our imaginations
music creates pictures in our minds.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band
SPECIAL EVENT
- Friday, February 20, 2009 at 7:30pm
The "house" band for the birthplace of jazz.
Preservation Hall sits at the heart of the
French Quarter, and the musicians who
make up the band learned from legends
who played with the forefathers of New
Orleans jazz: Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll
Morton, Louis Armstrong and others. Spirits
preserved.
Lift Every Voice: Black History Month Celebration
SPECIAL EVENT
- Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 7:30pm
Robert Ray, conductor
Saint Louis Symphony
IN UNISON® Chorus
Join the SLSO and the Saint Louis Symphony
IN UNISON® Chorus for the Black History
Month Concert. Celebrate the rich experience
of African and African-American
culture that has influenced musical composition
over the past three centuries and
shaped the lives of people around the world.

Light Play
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
- Friday, February 27, 2009 at 10:30am (Coffee Concert)
- Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 8pm
- Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 3pm
Jun Märkl, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
TBA, organ
LISZT Les Préludes
DVORÁK Piano Concerto
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
“Chiaroscuro” means the contrasts between lights and darks in a picture or
painting. It’s an effective word to describe this concert: Liszt’s tone poem of life
and death; Dvorák’s concerto, with an interplay between soloist and orchestra
like dappled light; and Saint-Saëns’ symphony of dazzling variations.
PreConcert Perspective with Amy Kaiser one hour prior to each concert.

Dance/Music I
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Presented by American Airlines
- Friday, March 6, 2009 at 8pm
David Robertson, conductor
Scott Andrews, clarinet
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Whitaker Guest Artist)
(Performing Bach, Stravinsky
and Bernstein)
Jim Vincent, artistic director
BACH Movements from Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 & 1
STRAVINSKY Symphonies of Wind Instruments
BERNSTEIN Prelude, Fugue & Riffs
RAVEL Boléro
In the first of two deliciously different concerts,
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago adds
the grace and power of the human form to
works by Bach, Stravinsky and Bernstein, as
played by the SLSO. Then a purely orchestral
finale as the musicians unleash the sensual
sounds of Ravel's Boléro.
PreConcert Perspective with David Robertson one hour prior to each concert.

Dance/Music II
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Presented by American Airlines
- Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 8pm
David Robertson, conductor
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Whitaker Guest Artist)
(Performing Mozart and Britten)
Jim Vincent, artistic director
MOZART Symphony No. 40
BRITTEN Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
RAVEL Boléro
Mozart inspires a divine comedy of physical
gesture as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
reveals the composer's ingenious wit
through bodies in motion. Then a new
HSDC work, performed to Britten's homage
to his teacher. Boléro—with the SLSO alone
providing the movement—closes this exquisite
evening of music and dance.
PreConcert Perspective with David Robertson one hour prior to each concert.

Dance & Music: Boléro
FAMILY CONCERTS
(ages 3+)
- Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 3pm
David Robertson, conductor
Scott Andrews, clarinet
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Whitaker Guest Artist)
Jim Vincent, artistic director
$10 Adult, $6 Child | Children 3+ are welcome to attend. Everyone must have a ticket for admittance to a Family concert.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago brings the
SLSO Dance Festival to the final Family
Concert of the season. Rarely do such extraordinary
dancers and such exceptional
musicians perform together live, and with
the exciting Boléro and David Robertson
conducting, this is one family event that will
delight everyone.

Beethoven’s “Pastoral”
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
- Friday, March 13, 2009 at 10:30am (Coffee Concert)
- Friday, March 13, 2009 at 8pm
- Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 8pm
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Mark Sparks, flute
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
NIELSEN Flute Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”
Beethoven treasured the sounds of the woods, even when those sounds
were more remembered than heard. His “Pastoral” Symphony contains
a storm (of nature and of mind) that inspired many cinematic soundtracks
to come. In Vaughan Williams and Nielsen you hear two composers who
listened as deeply to nature, and were as inspired.
PreConcert Perspective with Peter Henderson one hour prior to each concert.

Discover Beethoven
TOUHILL SUNDAYS
- Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 2pm
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Guest conductor Nicholas McGegan reveals
the wonders of one of the best-loved
symphonies. McGegan shares his understanding
of Beethoven’s Symphony No.
6, “Pastoral,” with slide show, discussion,
and musical excerpts. Then McGegan
leads the SLSO in a full performance of the
composer’s dramatic evocation of the natural
world.
Touhill Performing Arts Center, UM-St. Louis
Contact the Touhill at 314-516-4949
or visit www.touhill.org for on-sale dates.

Youth Orchestra
- Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 3pm
Ward Stare, conductor
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8, Op. 93, in F major
Concerto TBD
ELGAR Enigma Variations, Op. 36
Haydn lavishes intricate pleasures on an
audience in his "Oxford" Symphony. Elgar
paints musical portraits of his dearest friends
in the Enigma Variations. It is like being
invited to a garden party filled with wit—and
a bit of intrigue. This season’s YO Concerto
Competition winner performs as well.
Single tickets on sale Monday, September 29 at 9am.

Middle East Crossroads
CLASSICAL DETOURS
Presented by The Boeing Company
- Friday, March 20, 2009 at 6:30pm
The Middle East is where peoples of the
world—with disparate beliefs, customs,
religions, and histories—have converged for
most of human time. This passionate mingling
of cultures, these crossroads of hopes
and dreams are the source materials for the
finale to this season’s Classical Detours.
$30 Reserved, limited availability |
$20 General Admission
Pre-concert happy hour begins at 5:30pm.

Beethoven's "Emperor"
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Three musical portraits. Two composers draw portraits of heroic (and antiheroic)
musical figures. Beethoven creates a portrait of power. The soloist for
these concerts, Richard Goode, is known for music-making of tremendous
emotional power. With Beethoven’s ultimate piano concerto, a well-known
classic receives the most unique expression. Expect unexpected passions.
PreConcert Perspective with David Robertson one hour prior to each concert.

Transformations
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
- Friday, March 27, 2009 at 8pm
- Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 3pm
David Robertson, conductor
Karita Mattila, soprano (Whitaker Guest Artist)
Anssi Karttunen, cello
WAGNER Good Friday Music from Parsifal
ZIMMERMANN Canto di Speranza
SIBELIUS Luonnotar
Kaija SAARIAHO Mirage (US Premiere)
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
Tensions build. Worlds break open and
take new form. Transformation–magical,
mystical, spiritual, physical–is the theme
here: contemplations of Good Friday, a cello
song of the spirit, the mystery of things
seen and unseen, and Sibelius’ wondrous
evocation of swans in flight.
PreConcert Perspective with David Robertson one hour prior to each concert.

The 5 Browns
SPECIAL EVENT
- Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 7:30pm
Take five precociously gifted siblings
(Juilliard-trained, no less), five pianos, and
some of the greatest music ever written,
with that music superbly played at a feverpitch
by those five siblings—and you get
some small sense of the phenomenon that
is The 5 Browns. Bring your whole family
for an awesome entertainment experience.

The Damnation of Faust
ORCHESTRAL SERIESDavid Sedaris
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 7pm - Tickets Available Through KWMU
An Evening with David Sedaris at Powell Symphony Hall

Nadja
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Presented by Thompson Coburn LLP
- Friday, April 24, 2009 at 8pm
- Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 8pm
- Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 3pm
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin (Whitaker Guest Artist)
ELGAR Cockaigne Overture
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
With the Bruch concerto, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is given a melody that
never stops from beginning to end. Watch where it takes her. She nearly
took the roof off Powell Hall when she played Tchaikovsky two seasons ago.
Just as well, Shostakovich is sure to give you a view of the sky.
PreConcert Perspective with Peter Henderson one hour prior to each concert.
Community Concert
FREE SPECIAL EVENT
Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 6pm
Robert Ray, conductor
Saint Louis Symphony
IN UNISON® Chorus
André Thomas, guest conductor
The relationships between the SLSO and
the local community continue to grow and
evolve, as with this free concert in one of
the city’s historic African-American churches.
This event takes place at Union Memorial
United Methodist Church, located at 1141
Belt, St. Louis. Call 314-533-2500 for details.

Showing Off
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Youth Orchestra
- Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 3pm
Ward Stare, conductor
VERDI La forza del destino Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5, Op. 64, E minor
A Verdi overture invites you into the entertainment
to come—La forza del destino opens
you to a world of romance. Tchaikovsky’s
Symphony No. 5 is as dramatic as they
come, with the troubled composer making
great music out of his anguished heart.
Single tickets on sale Monday, September 29 at 9am.

Ode to Joy
PREMIUM ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Beethoven, nearly deaf, must have been composing as if in a dream as he
built the rugged grandeur of his final symphony. “All creatures drink joy!” it
shouts ecstatically, and ecstasy (the emotion and the drug) is a theme of
Thomas Adès’ Asyla. Music starts. Enter dream.
PreConcert Perspective with David Robertson one hour prior to each concert.
Please note there will be no late seating for these performances.

Casual Classics