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Slatkin at Taipei Music Academy & Festival SF
Read moreJuly 7, 2021
Leonard Slatkin will work with young musicians at the 2021 Taipei Music Academy & Festival. Originally scheduled to take place on the campus of the National Taipei University of the Arts, the program has been moved to the San Francisco Conservatory due to increased pandemic restrictions in Taiwan.
leonard slatkinLeonard Slatkin Returns to the Aspen Festival
Read moreJune 23, 2021
Slatkin will conduct the Aspen Chamber Symphony in a concert featuring pianist Inon Barnatan on July 2, 2021. Two Beethoven monuments kick off the season’s first Aspen Chamber Symphony concert, with Julia Perry’s A Short Piece for Orchestra opening the program.
leonard slatkinAcclaim for William Grant Still’s “Highway 1, U.S.A.” at Opera Theatre of St. Louis
Read moreJune 4, 2021
OTSL resurrects a seldom-performed opera by William Grant Still, regarded as “the dean of African-American composers.” Highway 1, U.S.A. is an intimate, one-act work with a sweeping score that blends elements of Romanticism, blues, and musical theater.
leonard slatkinRave Reviews for “Gianni Schicchi” at Opera Theatre of St. Louis
Read moreJune 1, 2021
Opera has returned to the Gateway City with the opening of Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s 2021 festival season. As reviewer Eric Meyer noted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Palpable anticipation radiated from audience, staff and performers alike before the opening performance.”
leonard slatkinSlatkin Conducts Two Productions with Opera Theatre of St. Louis
Read moreMay 20, 2021
Opera Theatre of St. Louis brings its 2021 season outdoors at the Loretto-Hilton Center. The festival begins with Puccini’s comic opera in one act, Gianni Schicchi, and continues with Highway 1, U.S.A., a long-neglected opera by the “dean” of African American composers, William Grant Still.
leonard slatkinNEA Funding for “The Slatkin Shuffle” on Classic 107.3 FM
Read moreMay 13, 2021
The National Endowment for the Arts announced that Radio Arts Foundation will receive a Grant for Arts Projects in the music category. Classic 107.3 FM will use the funding to support “The Slatkin Shuffle,” a weekly radio program in which Slatkin shares anecdotes about the eclectic collection of songs in his playlist.
leonard slatkinSlatkin Continues Musical Journey with SLSO
Read moreApril 21, 2021
In a time of limited travel, Slatkin takes listeners across the globe with music by Britten, Ravel, and Ginastera. The concerts will be performed for a socially distanced live audience in Powell Hall Friday through Sunday, April 23-25.
leonard slatkinSlatkin Returns to Detroit April 15-16
Read moreApril 7, 2021
Celebrating ten years of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Live from Orchestra Hall webcasts, Leonard Slatkin returns to conduct two concerts featuring works by William Grant Still, Alberto Ginastera, Gerald Finzi, Jennifer Higdon, and Ernest Bloch on Thursday, April 15 and Friday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. EDT.
leonard slatkinSlatkin Steps in at Rhode Island Philharmonic
Read moreApril 6, 2021
Leonard Slatkin returns to Rhode Island this week to fill in for conductor Bramwell Tovey in a program featuring Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, Wagner’s Siegfied Idyll, and Jon Kimura Parker performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21. The concert will be live-streamed on Saturday, April 10, at 8 p.m. EDT.
leonard slatkinSlatkin Conducts Rhode Island Philharmonic
Read moreMarch 16, 2021
Slatkin returns to the stage with live concerts on Saturday, March 20. The program includes Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending with violinist Jennifer Frautschi, the First Symphony of 18th-century Black French composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Cindy McTee’s Adagio, and Percy Grainger’s arrangement of Danny Boy.
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