“The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s new foray into digital concerts is welcome news,” writes Daniel Hill in Thursday’s (2/11) Riverfront Times (St. Louis, MO). “In a press release this afternoon, the SLSO has announced that it will make full concert performances available online for the first time in its 141-year history. The series will feature six concerts filmed using the SLSO’s high-definition camera system. The first, released today and available for free, features … Strauss’s Metamorphosen, Yoshimatsu’s And the birds are still…, and Dvořák’s Wind Serenade. Subsequent concerts will be made available every two weeks and will cost just $15 apiece. The concert series is just the latest pandemic-era offering from the SLSO. Last month the symphony launched its Soundlab learning initiative, which aims to teach school-aged kids about the science of music through a series of educational videos featuring SLSO performers. The new digital concerts simply serve to expand the SLSO’s portfolio of online offerings.… Each concert will be available for viewing at slso.org and will stay online for 30 days…. Each concert was filmed in front of a (reduced-capacity) live audience between October 22 and November 20…. The symphony plans to make more digital concerts available.”
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