“The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will occupy two main temporary homes for its next season while Powell Hall undergoes a major expansion and renovation,” writes Daniel Durchholz in Thursday’s (2/16) St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “The announcement came along with the schedule for the 2023-24 season—the orchestra’s … fifth with Stéphane Denève as music director. The $100 million expansion will continue … into 2025. Groundbreaking … is expected to take place in April. Concerts will be split between Stifel Theatre downtown and the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center [at] the University of Missouri-St. Louis…. Several performances will be hosted by the J. Scheidegger Center for Performing Arts at Lindenwood University … The season kicks off Sept. 21 with the orchestra’s traditional free concert on Art Hill in Forest Park, then begins in earnest … with concerts Sept. 23-24 at Stifel…. Among the highlights are performances by superstar violinist Hilary Hahn and cellist Yo-Yo Ma … The orchestra will perform a complete cycle of Beethoven’s five piano concertos … There are world premieres of works by Jeff Beal and Adam Schoenberg and Julia Wolfe, plus a U.S. premiere by Hannah Eisendle. Eighteen pieces will be new to the SLSO repertoire, including nine by composers of today.”
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