Independent Study

A guest of the orchestra this week is Kathleen Strahm, a UM-St. Louis student who is doing independent-study work with John McGrosso of the Arianna Quartet (and former SLSO violinist). Strahm is studying the repertoire for this week's concerts, which includes Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, with SLSO violinist Dana Edson Myers. Strahm also gets a back-of-the-first-violin-section view of rehearsals with guest conductor Carlos Kalmar and guest soloist Joseph Kalichstein. And she'll have a good seat in the auditorium for the concerts too.