The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Winter Pass
Attend as many concerts as you wish
in January & February for just $99!
Winter Pass won’t put you on the slopes of Aspen
but it will provide you with the invigorating thrills
of the SLSO for just $99.
The 2009 SLSO Winter Pass provides access to most SLSO performances at Powell Hall in January and February 2009*. Passholders may request one ticket per pass for any, or all, of the included performances (listed below). So consider the Winter Pass your $99 lift ticket to such amazing stars as Susan Graham, Emanuel Ax and Garrick Ohlsson. Verdi’s stunning Requiem with Christine Brewer and great symphonies such as Brahms’ Fourth, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, and Saint-Saën’s Third (“Organ”) Symphony are all here to warm the winter months. You may also use your Pass to explore other SLSO events, including a Family Concert: Orchestral Magic, our “Lift Every Voice” Black History Month celebration with the Saint Louis Symphony IN UNISON Chorus, or Classical Detours: Latin American Carnivale. And, with the $99 Winter Pass you may come to as many performances as you wish throughout January and February. Can’t get enough of Susan Graham? Come hear her again! The Winter Pass is a sure way to keep the winter blues away.
SOLD OUT! Purchase online now or call (314) 534-1700 to charge by phone.
*Prior sales excluded. Touhill Sundays, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Broadway Valentine, Pulitzer and Education Concerts are excluded from the Winter Pass. One ticket per pass per person, non-transferable. Passholders may request tickets in advance of selected performances starting Monday, December 29th, 2008. Seating will be best available excluding boxes at the discretion of the Box Office, and general admission for Classical Detours.
10 Great Events to choose from in January & February!
Kaduce
Opera Night
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Friday, January 9, 2009 at 8pm
James Gaffigan, conductor
Kelly Kaduce, soprano
VERDI La forza del destino Overture
VERDI arias from La Traviata
PUCCINI arias from Madama Butterfly and Gianni Schicchi
WAGNER Symphonic Suite from “The Ring of the Nibelungs”
including “Ride of the Valkyries”
Audio Clip - “Ride of the Valkyries” (1:46)
Rising star Kelly Kaduce has captivated Opera Theatre of St. Louis audiences
in the title roles of Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre and Suor Angelica. Spend a
riveting night with Kaduce as she sings Verdi and Puccini, including a reprise
from Madama Butterfly—her summer ’08 star turn at OTSL.
PreConcert Perspective with Hugh Macdonald one hour prior to each concert.
Graham
Brahms Symphony No. 4
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Friday, January 16, 2009 at 8pm
Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 8pm
Philippe Jordan, conductor
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
BERG Seven Early Songs
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
Audio Clip - Brahms Symphony No. 4 (2:30)
Music critics reach for the adjectives to describe her voice: lustrous, creamy,
ample, supple, gleaming, beautifully focused, plush, silky, golden, and so forth.
After singing as a seductive Scheherazade and a vanquished Cleopatra with
the SLSO, you know that few vocalists immediately become as intimate with
an audience as Susan Graham. Sexy? That too.
PreConcert Perspective with Peter Henderson one hour prior to each concert.
Orchestral Magic
FAMILY CONCERTS
Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 3pm
Ward Stare, conductor
$10 Adult / $6 Child | (ages 3+)
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.
Moser
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Presented by MasterCard
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 8pm
Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 8pm
Edward Gardner, conductor
Johannes Moser, cello
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances
Audio Clip - Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances (1:35)
Even amidst the harshness of life, the impulse of art is to inspire. Britten writes
of living from the sea and living with community, and the pleasure and pain
of both. Shostakovich creates beauty with the Gulag looming. Rachmaninoff
rises from human strife, with a physical dance to celebrate the divine.
PreConcert Perspective with Peter Henderson one hour prior to each concert.
Ax
Emanuel Ax
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Presented by American Airlines
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 10:30am (Coffee Concert)
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 8pm
David Robertson, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano (Whitaker Guest Artist)
HAYDN Symphony No. 92, “Oxford”
R. STRAUSS Burleske
GEORGE BENJAMIN Dance Figures
SZYMANOWSKI Symphony No. 4 (Symphonie concertante)
Audio Clip - R. Strauss Burleske (2:25)
One of the most exciting virtuosic displays of last season was Christian
Tetzlaff’s sensational performance of Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto.
Let Szymanowski become a household name to you when the phenomenal
Emanuel Ax plays a late work of the Polish composer to complete a program
of raucous sophistication.
PreConcert Perspective with David Robertson one hour prior to each concert.
Latin American Carnivale
CLASSICAL DETOURS
Presented by The Boeing Company
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 6:30pm
Rhythm is as fine a way of defining a place
and a people as history, language or landscape.
To imagine Latin America is to hear
rhythms, wonderful variations of beat and
pulsation, and to feel lives moving with
distinctive grace. The SLSO makes Latin
rhythms sing in this Classical Detour.
$30 Reserved, limited availability |
$20 General Admission
Pre-concert happy hour begins at 5:30pm.
Lee
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Presented by Thompson Coburn LLP
Friday, February 6, 2009 at 8pm
Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 8pm
Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 3pm
Christopher Seaman, conductor (Whitaker Guest Artist)
Daniel Lee, cello
TIPPETT Suite in D
ELGAR Cello Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
Audio Clip - Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 (1:58)
Music of the seasons, from an Asian perspective. Then Elgar’s concerto,
written near the close of World War I, makes music from the ashes of a world
destroyed, hauntingly played by SLSO Principal Cello Daniel Lee. Out of
Tchaikovsky’s struggles of the heart, he makes an eloquent appeal to Fate.
PreConcert Perspective with Amy Kaiser one hour prior to each concert.
Brewer
Verdi’s Requiem
PREMIUM ORCHESTRAL SERIESFriday, February 13, 2009 at 8pm
Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 8pm
David Robertson, conductor
Christine Brewer, soprano
Elizabeth Bishop, mezzo-soprano
Marcus Haddock, tenor
Roberto Scandiuzzi, bass
Saint Louis Symphony Chorus
Amy Kaiser, director
VERDI Requiem
Giuseppe Verdi liked to tell a story about how he walked to the village church three miles, sometimes without shoes, to play the organ each Sunday. A bit of a tall tale, but it conveys the sense of devotion realized in his great Requiem Mass. You might imagine yourself walking miles to hear it.
PreConcert Perspective with David Robertson one hour prior to each concert.
Please note there will be no intermission for these performances.
Lift Every Voice: Black History Month Celebration
SPECIAL EVENT
Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 7:30pm
Robert Ray, conductor
Saint Louis Symphony
IN UNISON® Chorus
Join the SLSO and the Saint Louis Symphony
IN UNISON® Chorus for the Black History
Month Concert. Celebrate the rich experience
of African and African-American
culture that has influenced musical composition
over the past three centuries and
shaped the lives of people around the world.
Ohlsson
Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
ORCHESTRAL SERIES
Friday, February 27, 2009 at 10:30am (Coffee Concert)
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 8pm
Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 3pm
Jun Märkl, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
TBA, organ
LISZT Les Préludes
DVORÁK Piano Concerto
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
Audio Clip - Dvorák Piano Concerto (1:56)
“Chiaroscuro” means the contrasts between lights and darks in a picture or
painting. It’s an effective word to describe this concert: Liszt’s tone poem of life
and death; Dvorák’s concerto, with an interplay between soloist and orchestra
like dappled light; and Saint-Saëns’ symphony of dazzling variations.
PreConcert Perspective with Amy Kaiser one hour prior to each concert.