The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Stéphane Denève.
In last Tuesday’s (2/13) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Daniel Durchholz writes, “The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra announced the schedule for its 2024-25 season; its 145th overall and sixth with Stéphane Denève as music director. While the renovation and expansion of Powell Hall continues, the SLSO will once again perform its concerts at other area venues … The season begins … on Sept. 19 and runs through May 9, 2025…. The music planned for 24-25 will ‘speak about a lot of journeys, bringing you to different places, (questioning) where are your roots? What do you feel are your roots?’ [Denève] says…. The SLSO will perform the world premieres of two commissioned pieces: Anna Clyne’s ‘Palette’ and Nina Shekhar’s accordion concerto, plus the U.S. premiere of an SLSO co-commission, Magnus Lindberg’s viola concerto. Other U.S. premieres include Guillaume Connesson’s ‘Lost Horizon’ violin concerto, and Daniel Slatkin’s ‘130.’ Composers … making their SLSO debut include Mason Bates, Gabriela Lena Frank, Detlev Glanert, and Kevin Puts, among others. Denève stresses the many premieres and pieces by contemporary composers are in keeping with his and the orchestra’s commitment to music of our time…. There will be works from the classical canon as well … [as] community, film, family and holiday programming.”
