St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra to Play Duke Ellington's "Nutcracker Suite" for Family Concert on Sunday, November 27

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 18, 2011

The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, working in partnership with Jazz St. Louis, will perform Duke Ellington's “Nutcracker Suite" as part of a “family concert" at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, November 27 at Powell Symphony Hall. The suite, which is Ellington's jazz interpretation of “The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky, originally was recorded for Columbia Records and released in 1960. The concert will be conducted by Ware Stare, SLSO's resident conductor and director of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra (SLSYO), and also will ...
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