Mozart's Requiem

Item details

Date

Saturday, Nov 9, 2024 7:30PM

Name

Mozart's Requiem - Joy and Sorrow

Description

Stéphane Denève, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano
Josh Lovell, tenor
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
St. Louis Symphony Chorus | Erin Freeman, director

W.A. Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546
Detlev Glanert Four Preludes and Serious Songs
W.A. Mozart Requiem, K. 626

📍 This concert takes place at Stifel Theatre
🕒 1 hour, 45 min (including intermission)

Our celebration of Mozart begins at the very end. The circumstances surrounding Mozart’s unfinished Requiem are shrouded in mystery, but the music’s sorrow and beauty speak across the centuries. The Adagio and Fugue, another late work, is a dark and almost mystical vision. Acclaimed bass-baritone Dashon Burton returns to the SLSO in Detlev Glanert's arrangement of Brahms’ final song cycle, the Four Serious Songs.

A few things to know:

• “I try to always serve the composer,” says Music Director Stéphane Denève. “With Mozart this is difficult, as the music is perfect in itself. I love music to tell us its own tale, its own story. I try to find the most pure childish joy of making music and let the music speak through…”
• Brahms’ Four Serious Songs are among “his most personal works,” says Detlev Glanert, whose orchestration is performed on this concert. “Brahms was hard to know as a person, but here you have, for a few moments, access to the open soul of a believer in God, who knows that life will end.”

Please note: Online ticket sales close three hours before the performance. However, you can still purchase tickets in person or by calling the box office at 314.534.1700. 

Presented by the Whitaker Foundation.
The Saturday, November 9 concert is dedicated in loving memory of Dr. Ken Smith.
Kelley O'Connor's performance is supported by the Sarah Bryan Miller Fund.