U.S. Midwest

In celebration of Bruckner’s 200th birthday, the Milwaukee Symphony will present the composer’s Fourth Symphony, the Romantic, with Ken-David Masur on the podium. The first half of this Oct. 4-5 program comprises Clarice Assad’s Nhanderú and Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, featuring bass-baritone Dashon Burton. https://www.mso.org/concerts/bruckners-fourth-symphony/62509/

Leonard Slatkin will be both conductor and honoree for the Oct. 25 St. Louis Symphony program, “Slatkin’s Legacy,” celebrating his 80th birthday. The lineup includes Slatkin’s arrangement of D. Scarlatti’s Five Sonatas for orchestral wind ensemble, the U.S. premiere of Voyager 130 by the conductor’s song, Daniel Slatkin, Cindy McTee’s Timepiece, and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. […]