St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra: SLSO Side-by-Side

Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Kevin McBeth, narrator

Johannes Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Aaron Copland Lincoln Portrait
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante

This performance takes place at Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Get your tickets today to experience the moment when our YO musicians take the stage to perform with their St. Louis Symphony Orchestra counterparts in a side-by-side concert led by Leonard Slatkin, SLSO Conductor Laureate and founder of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. Slatkin leads the combined musicians through Johannes Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture followed by Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, which features narrator and Director of SLSO’s IN UNISON Chorus Kevin McBeth, then Jr. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s stirring Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante brings the program to a powerful close.