St. Louis Symphony

Live Broadcasts

During the regular St. Louis Symphony Orchestra season, select concerts are broadcast on 90.7 KWMU on Saturday nights from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Most concerts are available on the SLSO website for 30 days following the broadcast. Program Notes for past broadcasts are also available to browse.

Hosts

  • Lauren Eldridge Stewart
    Lauren Eldridge Stewart
    Assistant Professor of Music at Washington University
  • Rod Milam
    Rod Milam
    St. Louis Public Radio Announcer
  • Jonathan Ahl
    Jonathan Ahl (Guest Host)
    STLPR's Interim Managing Editor
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Augustin Hadelich plays the violin on a desert landscape with mountains in the background.

November 9, 2024 Rebroadcast

In a concert from February 2, 2024, Music Director Stéphane Denève led the orchestra in Valerie Coleman’s Umoja: Anthem of Unity, Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto featuring violinist Augustin Hadelich (pictured) and Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3.

During the intermission hear conversations with Stéphane Denève, SLSO Principal Trombonist Jonathan Randazzo and Augustin Hadelich.

Hear Jeremy D. Goodwin's St. Louis on the Air conversation with Leonard Slatkin and Cindy McTee.

Program Notes

2024-2025 Season Schedule

September 28, 2024 Rebroadcast

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx; Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour; Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique. Stéphane Denève conducted (recorded May 11, 2019 and January 18, 2020).

October 5, 2024

Antonín Dvořák’s Carnival Overture; Gabriela Lena Frank’s Concertino Cusqueño; Alberto Ginastera’s Variaciones concertantes; Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6. Cristian Măcelaru conducts (recorded October 4, 2024).

October 19, 2024

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade; Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Conrad Tao, piano; James MacMillan’s One; Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, “Reformation.” David Danzmayr conducts.

October 26, 2024

Cindy McTee’s Timepiece; Domenico Scarlatti’s / arr. Leonard Slatkin Five Sonatas for Orchestral Wind Ensemble; Daniel Slatkin’s Voyager 130 (U.S. Premiere); Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Leonard Slatkin conducts (recorded October 25, 2024).

November 9, 2024

Valerie Coleman Umoja; Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto with Augustin Hadelich, violin; Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3. Stéphane Denève conducts (recorded February 2, 2024).

November 16, 2024

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No.1, K.16; Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466 with Behzod Abduraimov, piano; Mozart’s Overture to Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 87; Anna Clyne’s Within Her Arms; Mozart’s Symphony No. 31, K. 297, “Paris.” Stéphane Denève conducts.

November 23, 2024

William Grant Still’s Threnody: In Memory of Jean Sibelius; Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Yeol Eum Son, piano; Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5. Jonathon Heyward conducts (recorded November 22, 2024).

January 11, 2025

Samuel Barber’s The School for Scandal Overture; Nina Shekhar’s Accordion Concerto (World Premiere) with Hanzhi Wang, accordion; Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.” Daniela Candillari conducts.

January 18, 2025

Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite; Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with Kirill Gerstein, piano; Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with Kirill Gerstein, piano; Ravel’s Bolero. Stéphane Denève conducts (recorded January 17, 2025).

February 15, 2025

Anna Clyne’s PALETTE (World Premiere); Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Nikolai Lugansky, piano; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy. Stéphane Denève conducts.

February 22, 2025

Outi Tarkiainen’s The Ring of Fire and Love; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491 with Saleem Ashkar, piano; Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 1. David Afkham conducts (recorded February 21, 2025).

March 15, 2025

Kaija Saariaho’s Ciel d’hiver; Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto (U.S. Premiere) with Lawrence Power, viola; Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. Hannu Lintu conducts (recorded March 14, 2025).

March 22, 2025

John Williams’ Theme from Seven Years in Tibet; Guillaume Connesson’s Lost Horizons Violin Concerto (U.S. Premiere) with Akiko Suwanai, violin; Adolphus Hailstork’s An American Port of Call; Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront. Stéphane Denève conducts.

March 29, 2025

Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations with Michael Spyres, tenor; Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with Michael Spyres, tenor; Franz Liszt’s Les préludes. Stéphane Denève conducts (recorded March 28, 2025).

April 12, 2025

Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Jean Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Suite (Four Legends from the Kalevala). John Storgårds conducts.