Pre-Concert Conversations

Pre-Concert Conversations are free to all ticket holders and start one hour prior to each classical concert. Learn about the music and musicians from experts in musicology.

• Opening Weekend – Samuel Hollister, Assistant Conductor and the Fred M. Saigh Youth Orchestra Music Director

• Slatkin and Ax – Samuel Hollister, Assistant Conductor and the Fred M. Saigh Youth Orchestra Music Director

• Prokofiev and Sibelius – Amy Greenhalgh, Assistant Dean of Advising at Washington University in St. Louis College of Arts & Sciences

• Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff – Amy Greenhalgh, Assistant Dean of Advising at Washington University in St. Louis College of Arts & Sciences

• Britten’s War Requiem – Erin Freeman, Director of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus

• Stravinsky’s Firebird – Peter Henderson, SLSO Principal Keyboardist

• Beethoven’s Seventh – Samuel Hollister, Assistant Conductor and the Fred M. Saigh Youth Orchestra Music Director

• Shostakovich’s 15th – Peter Henderson, SLSO Principal Keyboardist

• Handel’s Messiah – Peter Henderson, SLSO Principal Keyboardist

• Stravinsky and Debussy – Samuel Hollister, Assistant Conductor and the Fred M. Saigh Youth Orchestra Music Director

• Tchaikovsky’s Fourth – Chris Stark, ​Associate Professor of Composition at Washington University in St. Louis

• Prokofiev and Childs – Peter Henderson, SLSO Principal Keyboardist

• Mozart’s Magic Flute – Erin Freeman, Director of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus

• Bernstein and Robertson – Peter Henderson, SLSO Principal Keyboardist

• Scheherazade – Samuel Hollister, Assistant Conductor and the Fred M. Saigh Youth Orchestra Music Director

• John Williams and Kevin Puts – Peter Henderson, SLSO Principal Keyboardist

• Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto – Peter Henderson, SLSO Principal Keyboardist

• Mahler’s Fifth – Peter Henderson, SLSO Principal Keyboardist

• From Mozart to Wagner – Samuel Hollister, Assistant Conductor and the Fred M. Saigh Youth Orchestra Music Director

• Copland’s Third – Chris Stark, ​Associate Professor of Composition at Washington University in St. Louis

• Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé – Erin Freeman, Director of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus