St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra

Season Opener

📍 This event takes place at Powell Hall

Sunday, Nov 22, 2026, 3:00pm Get Tickets

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Program

Samuel Hollister, conductor

Grażyna Bacewicz Overture
Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

About this Concert

The St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra and Music Director Samuel Hollister return to the Powell Hall stage with a program full of drama, energy, and vivid storytelling. Grażyna Bacewicz’s wartime Overture sets the story in motion with rhythmic momentum and triumphant fanfares that counter darkness with blazing light. Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 follows, transporting listeners from the peaceful dawn of “Morning Mood” to the mounting tension of “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” The concert culminates with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, the beloved orchestral retelling of tales from One Thousand and One Nights that brings the season opener to an exhilarating close.

Artists

Meet the people that make the music.

Assistant Conductor Samuel Hollister

Samuel Hollister

Assistant Conductor and the Fred M. Saigh Youth Orchestra Music Director

St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra

Samuel Hollister, Director

Sponsors

YO programs are presented by the Tynewald Foundation and supported in part by the G.A., Jr. and Kathryn M. Buder Charitable Foundation, Gateway Metro Federal Credit Union, and the ESCO Technologies Foundation.

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