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  • “Made in America” with SLSO at Powell Hall

    October 7, 2021

    St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin takes the stage this weekend for a program that travels backwards in time to get three very different views of America. The performances on October 9 and 10 feature Joan Tower’s Made in America, William Bolcom’s Violin Concerto with soloist David Halen, and Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

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  • Slatkin Launches New Book, “Classical Crossroads”

    September 13, 2021

    This week marks the publication of Leonard’s third book, Classical Crossroads: The Path Forward for Music in the 21st Century, available September 15 from Rowman & Littlefield and anywhere books are sold.

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NOVEMBER 2023

The road beckoned, and I travelled west and east for what I hoped would be lovely sets of concerts. That wish has so far come true, but the intrusions on beauty by events taking place at home and abroad prevented total immersion in the music.

Over and over, I kept wondering what those of us who practice our art in public could do as war broke out in Gaza. And as usual, there was no answer. Organizations and individual artists can make statements, but ultimately we are powerless to do much more than offer some sort of diversion for a little while to those who attend our performances. The audience comes to the concert hall or opera house to escape the outside world. And, to an even greater degree, so do my fellow musicians, who work tirelessly to get to the heart and soul of the music we play.

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