“The number 2020 has a nice look to it,” writes Sarah Bryan Miller in Thursday’s (1/2) St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Stéphane Denève finished his season as music-director-in-waiting at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and ascended to the podium in September as the SLSO’s 13th music director. That’s just a start…. There’s also plenty of great music to look back on. Last fall, Denève and his new band did the best possible job on the Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ,’ possible without a pipe organ…. Here are some treats for the new year…. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra [will] welcome the orchestra’s first artist in residence, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet [in a program including] Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, as well as Wagner’s lovely ‘Siegfried Idyll,’ Anna Clyne’s ‘This Midnight Hour’ and the wonderful suite from Richard Strauss’ ‘Der Rosenkavalier.’ ” This year, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will also perform Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, with vocal soloists, the SLSO Chorus, and the St. Louis Children’s Choirs; and “Maurice Ravel: A Musical Journey,” written and directed by Didi Balle, combining actors playing characters from Ravel’s life with Denève, Thibaudet, and the SLSO performing Ravel’s music.
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