The 2013-2014 season will mark the fourth year of partnership between the St. Louis Symphony and St. Louis Public Radio I 90.7-KWMU. Each Saturday night subscription series concert will be broadcast live on the air and streamed live on the internet. Concerts in that series include:

September 21, 2013 – OPENING WEEKEND, Ives’ Three Places in New England, Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Kirill Gerstein, piano, conducted by David Robertson.

September 28, 2013 – Patrick Harlin's Rapture, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, and Strauss' Ein Heldenleben. Stéphane Denève conducts. Lars Vogt is featured on piano.

October 5, 2013 – Gershwin's Cuban Overture, John Adams' new work (saxophone concerto) and The Chairman Dances, and Gershwin's Concerto in F. With Timothy McAllister, saxophone, and Jon Kimura Parker, piano. David Robertson conducts.

October 12, 2013 – Mozart's Symphony No. 1, K. 16; Violin Concerto No. 2, K. 211; Violin Concerto No. 3, K. 216; and Symphony No. 35, Haffner. With Anthony Marwood, conductor and violinist.

October 26, 2013 – Thomas Ades' Dances From Powder Her Face; Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Schenherazade. With Stewart Goodyear, piano. Peter Oundjian conducts.

November 9, 2013 – Weber's Aubu Hassan Overture; Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219; Rameau's Les Indes Galantes Suite; and Haydn's Symphony No. 100, Military. With Stefan Jackiw, violin. Nicholas McGegan conducts.

November 16, 2013 – Britten's Peter Grimes (complete) with Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor (Peter Grimes); Susanna Phillips, soprano (Ellen Orford); and the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, Amy Kaiser, director. David Robertson conducts.

November 30, 2013 – SMETANA'sVyšehrad from Má vlast, SIBELIUS' Violin Concerto, DVORÁK's In Nature’s Realm, EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA's Lintukoto (Isle of Bliss), and SMETANA's The Moldau from Má vlast. With Joshua Bell on violin. David Robertson conducts.

December 7, 2013 – Bach's Cantatas Nos. 1-3 from Christmas Oratorio. With Dominique Labelle, soprano; Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Stephen Powell, baritone; and the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, Amy Kaiser, director. David Robertson conducts.

More to come for 2014.

St. Louis Public Radio's live broadcasts
of the St. Louis Symphony are sponsored in part by SLUCare:

and by Purcell & Amen, Estate Planning and Elder Law

St. Louis Public Radio would like to thank all the musicians of the St. Louis Symphony and the Musicians Association Of Saint Louis Local 2-197 of the American Federation of Musicians for helping to make our live broadcasts of the St. Louis Symphony’s Wells Fargo Advisors Orchestral Series concerts, possible.

Commentator Adam Crane is the Vice President for External Affairs for the St. Louis Symphony. He was appointed Director of Communications for the St. Louis Symphony in 2008. Prior to this post, he served as Director of Public Relations for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. During his tenure with the LA Phil., he became an integral part of a story about a former Juilliard student, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, who ended up on the streets of Los Angeles homeless and schizophrenic yet held tight to his music. Crane introduced Ayers to the LA Phil and became an integral part of a book, The Soloist, based on a series of columns written by Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez. The book was also made into a Dreamworks movie released last April starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr.

Crane’s experience also extends to the record industry, where he worked for several years as a U.S. Classical Product Manager for some of the world’s most distinguished artists on the Deutsche Grammophon/Decca/Philips labels.   

A native of St. Louis, Crane is a voting member of the Recording Academy, a Board Member for NAMI St. Louis, and was recently named one of the 2010 “40 under 40” by the St. Louis Business Journal. Crane also plays the cello, enjoys listening to all types of music, and is happy to cheer for his beloved Cardinals from the home stands at Busch stadium.