2008-2009 Family Concerts
For an hour on Sunday afternoons you and your family share a live performance by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra that is truly fun for everyone. You’ll join in—clapping or singing or even stomping your feet. Family Concerts are educational too, but you’ll hardly even notice. Come as you are.
$10 Adult, $6 Child | (ages 3+)
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Single tickets - $10 Adults & $6 Children
Picture the Music
- Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 3pm
Courtney Lewis, conductor
The Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky visited an exhibition of paintings and was inspired to translate the paintings he had seen into sound. He wrote Pictures at an Exhibition for piano. Later, the French composer Maurice Ravel added to Mussorgsky's work to make it a composition for full orchestra. Both composers combined their senses—seeing and hearing—to create works of art. Can we see sound? Can we hear images?
Orchestral Magic
- Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 3pm
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.
Dance & Music: Boléro
- Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 3pm
David Robertson, conductor
Scott Andrews, clarinet
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Whitaker Guest Artist)
Jim Vincent, artistic director
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.
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