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

    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.

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  • Emmys Flub Leads to Appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for Slatkin

    September 24, 2019

    Leonard Slatkin appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, talking to Jimmy via video conference from Ireland to prove that he is indeed alive after his image was erroneously displayed during the “In Memoriam” segment commemorating the passing of André Previn on the Emmy Awards.

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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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