Classical Music

For 30 years, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s IN UNISON Chorus has taken the music of the Black church to the symphony hall. On Friday, it celebrates its anniversary at the Stifel Theatre with gospel singer BeBe Winans. The chorus has covered a large part of the Black experience through gospel and spiritual music.

Scott Joplin, the king of ragtime music, wrote an opera that lay dormant for decades. A new adaptation of “Treemonisha” at Opera Theatre of St. Louis shows that the composer blended influences from European opera and Black culture.

St. Louis Women’s Chorale will collaborate with the St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra on a performance of “Brushstrokes: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci,” a multimedia work including projected animations.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will perform its 2023-24 season at the Touhill Center, Stifel Theatre and other venues while Powell Hall undergoes a $100 million renovation and expansion.

Composer James Lee III’s “Visions of Cahokia” is inspired by the Cahokia Mounds in Illinois, once one of the largest Native American settlements in North America. St. Louis Symphony Orchestra gives the world premiere of the piece this weekend at Powell Hall.

Stéphane Denève, artistic director of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, will take on an additional role next year when he leads the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, home to early-career musicians.

Chamber Project St. Louis will launch its 15th season Thursday with an evening of works by Latin American composers. The ensemble challenges assumptions about what a classical music concert should look and sound like.

Leonard Slatkin, conductor laureate of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, discusses his new book “Classical Crossroads” and the many forces challenging classical music.

Tom Stubbs has played timpani and other percussion instruments with the symphony orchestra since 1970.

The first Powell Hall concert since March will take place Oct. 15. Music Director Stéphane Denève will lead the first two weeks of performances, in front of tightly limited audiences of 100 patrons.