“A Hero’s Life”: Slatkin Celebrates 75 with the SLSO

“A Hero’s Life”: Slatkin Celebrates 75 with the SLSO
October 11, 2019 leonard slatkin

October 11, 2019

This weekend, Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin returns to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. As part of his 75th birthday celebration, the orchestra will perform a new set of variations on Paganini’s most popular melody written by 11 composers with whom Slatkin has enjoyed a close collaboration. In addition to this festive co-commissioned work, which will be performed by a total of five orchestras this season, the program includes SLSO Principal Oboe Jelena Dirks making her first major concerto appearance with Mozart’s Oboe Concerto, followed by Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, a piece that displays the skill of every section of the SLSO.