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Get more out of your experience and learn more about the music you hear before or after the concert. Explore our carefully crafted Program Notes, come early for a Pre-Concert Conversation, or dig into our audio and video library. We have a treasure trove of info about the musicians prepared just for you.

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SLSO Stories

Explore more about your SLSO, including tales from backstage, at the hall, and in the community.

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Get to know the music and the musicians. Videos, the Noted podcast, and audio recordings take you behind the scenes.

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Program Notes

View past and present program notes. Program notes are also available in printed programs at concert venues and ahead of time online.

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Pre-Concert Conversations

View the schedule of upcoming Pre-Concert Conversations—free to all ticket holders and a start time of one hour prior to each classical concert.

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Upcoming Events

Slatkin and Ax: Hope and Humanity

Chuck Berry’s Birthday Bash

Concerts for Kids: Howl at Powell

Prokofiev and Sibelius: From Dark to Light

Chamber Concert with Augustin Hadelich

An Evening with Sissel

Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff: Passion and Drama

Live at the Pulitzer: Color into Form into Sound

Britten’s War Requiem: A Call for Peace

Community Open House

Live at The Sheldon: Folk Fest

The Lion King in Concert

Stravinsky’s Firebird: Flame and Fantasy

St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra: Season Opener

Beethoven’s Seventh: Energy and Reverie

Live at The Sheldon: Reeds in Turn

Shostakovich’s 15th: Rebellion and Reckoning

Handel’s Messiah: Joyful Praise

IN UNISON Christmas

Mercy Holiday Celebration

Home Alone in Concert

New Year’s Eve Celebration

Stravinsky and Debussy: Music in Motion

Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony

Live at the Pulitzer: Program 2

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth: Devotion and Destiny

The Wizard of Oz in Concert

Live at The Sheldon: Songs of Belonging

Prokofiev and Childs: Anthems of Resilience

Amadeus in Concert

Mozart’s Magic Flute: Opera in Concert

Lift Every Voice: Black History Month Celebration

Coltrane 100: Legacy

Concerts for Kids: Music Without Boundaries

Bernstein and Robertson: American Reflections

Chamber Concert with Orli Shaham

Scheherazade: Magic and Myth

John Williams and Kevin Puts: A Cosmic Journey

Víkingur Ólafsson in Recital: Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert

Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto: Radiant Vision

St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra: Spring Concert

Live at the Pulitzer: Program 3

Mahler’s Fifth: Landscapes of Emotion

Tower of Power

From Mozart to Wagner: Mysticism and Wonder

Copland’s Third: American Sky

Concerts for Teens: Cinematic Symphony

Live at The Sheldon: Lucid Dreams

Marvel Infinity Saga in Concert

Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé: Love and Transformation

Isata Kanneh-Mason in Recital: Beethoven, Ravel, and Tabakova

Concerts for Kids: Giraffes Can’t Dance

Route 66 Rewind with the Doo Wop Project

St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra: Season Finale

Ben Rector: Songs for America