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SEP Bienvenue Stéphane Stéphane Denève, conductor PUTS Virelai (World Premiere) Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano* HIGDON Blue Cathedral SEP SEP DEBUSSY La Mer 21 22 CONNESSON The Shining One RAVEL Piano Concerto in G GERSHWIN An American in Paris Mahler’s Resurrection Stéphane Denève, conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection” Joélle Harvey, soprano Kelley O’Connor, alto SEP SEP St. Louis Symphony Chorus 27 28 Amy Kaiser, director

OCT Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto Edo de Waart, conductor Joyce Yang, piano OCT OCT RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 4 5 ELGAR Symphony No. 1 A Hero’s Life Leonard Slatkin, conductor VARIOUS Yet Another Set of Variations (on a Theme of Paganini) Jelena Dirks, oboe OCT OCT MOZART Oboe Concerto, K. 314 12 13 R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) Symphonic Dances Stéphane Denève, conductor POULENC Les biches Suite Karen Gomyo, violin OCT OCT OCT PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1 18 19 20 RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

NOV Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony Stéphane Denève, conductor BARBER Adagio for Strings James Ehnes, violin NOV NOV J. WILLIAMS Violin Concerto 2 3 SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3, “Organ” Mozart’s Great Mass Masaaki Suzuki, conductor HAYDN Symphony No. 48, “Maria Theresia” Mojca Erdmann, soprano MOZART Mass in C Minor, K. 427 Joanne Lunn, soprano Zachary Wilder, tenor NOV NOV Dashon Burton, bass-baritone 9 10 St. Louis Symphony Chorus Amy Kaiser, director

Brahms’ Fourth Symphony Stéphane Denève, conductor KERNIS New Work (World Premiere) Gil Shaham, violin NOV NOV BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 15 16 BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 Pictures at an Exhibition Marcelo Lehninger, conductor HINDEMITH Concert Music for Strings and Brass Simon Trpceski, piano NOV NOV PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 1 22 23 MUSSORGSKY / orch. RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition

The Nutcracker THANKSGIVING WEEKEND Andrew Grams, conductor NOV NOV DEC TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker 29 30 1

DEC Baroque Fireworks Richard Egarr, director and harpsichord HANDEL Water Music Suite No. 1 Kristin Ahlstrom, violin HANDEL Sonata á 5, HWV 288 Angie Smart, violin DEC DEC DEC HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks Andrea Kaplan, flute 6 7 8 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3

JAN Thibaudet Plays Liszt Stéphane Denève, conductor WAGNER Siegfried Idyll Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano* JAN JAN LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2 18 19 CLYNE This Midnight Hour R. STRAUSS / arr. DENÈVE Der Rosenkavalier Suite

FEB Sleeping Beauty Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conductor SCHUMANN Manfred Overture Saleem Ashkar, piano JAN FEB MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 2 31 1 TCHAIKOVSKY / arr. SZEPS-ZNAIDER Sleeping Beauty Suite Beethoven’s Ninth Stéphane Denève, conductor PUTS Silent Night Elegy (SLSO Co-commission) Ellie Dehn, soprano BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano Issachah Savage, tenor FEB FEB FEB Davóne Tines, bass-baritone 7 8 9 St. Louis Symphony Chorus Amy Kaiser, director

Rafael Payare, conductor Bruckner’s Seventh FEB FEB GUBAIDULINA Offertorium Baiba Skride, violin BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7 15 16

MAR Beethoven and Schubert Nicholas McGegan, conductor HAYDN Symphony No. 31, “Hornsignal” Seong-Jin Cho, piano FEB MAR BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 29 1 SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5 Bolero Stéphane Denève, conductor HONEGGER Pacific 231 Timothy McAllister, saxophone J. ADAMS Short Ride in a Fast Machine MAR MAR MAR CONNESSON A Kind of Trane (U.S. Premiere) 6 6 7 ROUSSEL Symphony No. 3 RAVEL Bolero The Damnation of Faust Stéphane Denève, conductor BERLIOZ The Damnation of Faust Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano (Marguerite) Michael Spyres, tenor (Faust) John Relyea, bass (Méphistophélès) Anthony Clark Evans, baritone (Brander) MAR MAR St. Louis Symphony Chorus 13 14 Amy Kaiser, director St. Louis Children’s Choirs Barbara Berner, artistic director Adams Conducts Adams John Adams, conductor BEETHOVEN Fidelio Overture Jeremy Denk, piano MAR MAR J. ADAMS Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? 27 28 SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1

APR Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony John Storgårds, conductor TARKIAINEN Midnight Sun Variations Jennifer Pike, violin APR APR APR KORNGOLD Violin Concerto 3 4 5 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony Gemma New, conductor Mané Galoyan, soprano PÄRT Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten APR APR VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona Nobis Pacem Edward Nelson, baritone PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 St. Louis Symphony Chorus 17 18 Amy Kaiser, director

Dvorák’s New World Symphony Cristian Macelaru, conductor ENESCU Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 David Halen, violin APR APR APR BOLCOM Violin Concerto 24 25 26 DVORÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

MAY Maurice Ravel: A Musical Journey Stéphane Denève, conductor Didi Balle, playwright & director MAY Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano* 1

Denève Conducts Shostakovich Stéphane Denève, conductor AUERBACH Icarus Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano* MAY MAY RAVEL Piano Concerto for the Left Hand 2 3 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10 The Rite of Spring Stéphane Denève, conductor JALBERT Music of Air and Fire Gautier Capuçon, cello MAY MAY CONNESSON Cello Concerto 8 9 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

All programs, artists and dates subject to change. *Jean-Yves Thibaudet's appearances are made possible by the generous support of Jean-Paul and Isabelle Montupet. 16 18 20 22 23 25

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