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SUMMARY:Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Holiday Observance
DESCRIPTION:“The Purpose of Education: Honoring education that not only informs the mind\, but reforms the world\,” is inspired by Dr. King’s 1948 essay “The Purpose of Education” published in the Morehouse College newspaper. \nKeynote speaker Mary Elizabeth Grimes is the president of Marian Middle School and a purpose-driven leader dedicated to ensuring students succeed from middle school through college and into sustainable careers. A nationally recognized executive\, speaker\, and author\, she brings decades of leadership experience across education\, healthcare\, media\, and nonprofit sectors\, and is widely honored for advancing equity\, excellence and community impact.
URL:https://www.grandcenter.org/event/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-holiday-observance/
LOCATION:Touhill Performing Arts Center\, 1 Touhill Circle\, St. Louis\, 63121
CATEGORIES:Media & Education,Speaking & Forum
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SUMMARY:Rhapsody in Blue
DESCRIPTION:Leonard Slatkin\, conductor\nAaron Diehl Trio (SLSO debut)\nJeffrey Siegel\, piano \nPaul Turok A Joplin Overture\nMary Lou Williams Selections from Zodiac Suite\nJohn Alden Carpenter Krazy Kat\nGeorge Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue \n\nThis performance is currently SOLD OUT. You might also enjoy Musical Fables with Film and Live Animation on January 27-28.\nThis concert takes place at Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.\nLet us do the driving! Reserve your seat on the Symphony Shuttle from Plaza Frontenac. Shuttle tickets are $15 per passenger and depart 75 minutes prior to the concert.\n\nWe return to jazz’s American home for a program featuring Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The Aaron Diehl trio makes its debut in Mary Lou Williams’ Zodiac Suite. John Alden Carpenter was an early classical composer to incorporate jazz in his ballet Krazy Kat\, while Paul Turok channels a past St. Louis resident in A Joplin Overture. \nA few things to know: \n\nAmerican pianist Aaron Diehl tours the world\, receiving acclaim for both jazz and classical performances. “They are both part of my musical DNA\,” he says. “Both genres speak and resonate heavily with me.”\n\n\nZodiac Suite began life as 12 songs for jazz trio. Each song is inspired by an astrological sign\, and by musicians born under the sign. The collection was soon performed with full symphony orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Zodiac Suite was “the beginning of a real fulfillment of one of my ambitions\,” said Williams.\n\n\nJohn Alden Carpenter wanted to capture the spirit of America. He wrote several patriotic works and was among the first classical composers to incorporate jazz into his music. He was vice president of his family’s business\, a shipping supply company\, for almost 30 years\, composing in his spare time.\n\n  \nThis concert is currently sold out. Please call the Box Office at 314-534-1700 for current availability.
URL:https://www.grandcenter.org/event/rhapsody-in-blue/
LOCATION:Touhill Performing Arts Center\, 1 Touhill Circle\, St. Louis\, 63121
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SUMMARY:St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra: SLSO Side-by-Side
DESCRIPTION:Leonard Slatkin\, conductor\nKevin McBeth\, narrator \nJohannes Brahms Academic Festival Overture\nAaron Copland Lincoln Portrait\nPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante \nThis performance takes place at Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. \nGet 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.
URL:https://www.grandcenter.org/event/st-louis-symphony-youth-orchestra-slso-side-by-side/
LOCATION:Touhill Performing Arts Center\, 1 Touhill Circle\, St. Louis\, 63121
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SUMMARY:An American in Paris
DESCRIPTION:Leonard Slatkin\, conductor\nScott Andrews\, clarinet \nDarius Milhaud La Création du monde\nIgor Stravinsky  Ebony Concerto\nKurt Weill Suite from The Threepenny Opera\nGeorge Gershwin An American in Paris \n\nThis performance is currently SOLD OUT. You might also enjoy Musical Fables with Film and Live Animation on January 27-28.\nThis concert takes place at Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.\nLet us do the driving! Reserve your seat on the Symphony Shuttle from Plaza Frontenac. Shuttle tickets are $15 per passenger and depart 75 minutes prior to the concert.\n\nWe take a detour through jazz-mad Europe. Darius Milhaud\, Igor Stravinsky\, and Kurt Weill all fell in love with American jazz\, and their sassy music bears its stamp. SLSO Principal Clarinetist Scott Andrews rocks and wails in Stravinsky’s Ebony Concerto. Kurt Weill’s Suite from The Threepenny Opera includes hits like “Mack the Knife\,” and the program ends with the honking horns and swaggering tunes of Gershwin’s An American in Paris. \nA few things to know: \n\nAt the center of The Threepenny Opera is Macheath\, a career criminal who wants to marry Polly\, daughter of Mr. Peachum\, the King of the Beggars. Much skullduggery ensues. Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s work\, based on The Beggar’s Opera\, is a withering indictment of the hypocrisy of “polite society.”\nStravinsky said that jazz as a musical form was “unrivaled. I can never get enough of it to satisfy me.” Still\, Ebony Concerto’s dedicatee Woody Herman found the concerto almost unplayable: “we were all so embarrassed we were nearly crying. Stravinsky walked over and put his arm around me and said\, ‘Ah\, what a beautiful family you have.’”
URL:https://www.grandcenter.org/event/an-american-in-paris/
LOCATION:Touhill Performing Arts Center\, 1 Touhill Circle\, St. Louis\, 63121
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SUMMARY:Porgy and Bess
DESCRIPTION:Leonard Slatkin\, conductor\nKelly Hall-Tompkins\, violin \nGeorge Antheil A Jazz Symphony\nJeff Beal Violin Concerto (World Premiere)\nDuke Ellington The Three Black Kings\nGeorge Gershwin Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture \nThis concert takes place at Touhill Performing Arts Center. \nThe SLSO and Jazz St. Louis come together for a very special festival. In three concerts over two weeks\, Leonard Slatkin explores the ways jazz has enriched orchestral music. Each program ends with a work by George Gershwin\, here suite from the opera Porgy and Bess. George Antheil’s Jazz Symphony is one of the first works of orchestral jazz\, and Duke Ellington’s final work\, The Three Black Kings was written as a eulogy for Martin Luther King\, Jr. Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins makes her SLSO debut in Emmy winner Jeff Beal’s new jazz-inflected Violin Concerto. \nA few things to know: \n\nAmerican violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins will be forever connected with the show Fiddler on the Roof. Hall-Tompkins was the “Fiddler” violin soloist on Broadway for more than a year. The New York Times hailed her in a feature article\, and she plays on the Grammy-nominated cast album. She has appeared on all major television networks.\nThe Three Black Kings took some time to come to life. It was unfinished on Ellington’s death\, so his son Mercer completed the work\, and arranger Luther Henderson orchestrated it for a tribute concert for his father\, where First Lady Betty Ford gave the downbeat. The “Three Kings” of the title are: King Balthazar (the Black king of the Nativity)\, King Solomon\, and Martin Luther King Jr.\n\n\nJeff Beal is a five-time Emmy Award-winning composer\, whose credits include House of Cards\, HBO’s Rome\, and Monk. He wrote The Paper-Lined Shack for the SLSO and Leonard Slatkin\, who has been a champion of his work. A jazz musician himself\, Beal composes\, orchestrates\, conducts\, mixes\, and often performs on his own scores.
URL:https://www.grandcenter.org/event/porgy-and-bess/
LOCATION:Touhill Performing Arts Center\, 1 Touhill Circle\, St. Louis\, 63121
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