October 23, 2024

The St. Louis community will gather this week to celebrate milestones: Leonard Slatkin’s 80th birthday and his 55-year legacy with the SLSO. The weekend of activities October 25-27 includes a concert program with deep personal meaning, a multi-day conducting workshop, and a book discussion in collaboration with the St. Louis County Library. The SLSO performances will feature the world premiere of Leonard’s arrangement of Five Sonatas for Orchestral Wind Ensemble by Scarlatti and the U.S. debut of Daniel Slatkin’s Voyager 130, as well as Timepiece by Cindy McTee and Tchaikovky’s Fifth Symphony, a work Slatkin took on multiple SLSO tours.