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Prokofiev and Childs

Name: Prokofiev and Childs
Start: 2026-02-07T19:30:00
Location: Powell Hall

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

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Humanity is at the core of this transformative program. “I conceived of it as a symphony on the greatness of the human soul,” Prokofiev remarked about his wartime Fifth Symphony. In 2020, as Reena Esmail set out to compose RE|Member, she felt the deep healing of a collective return to music-making after a global pandemic. And Billy Childs expresses trauma, resilience, and empowerment within the Black American experience through his poignant symph...

Program

Billy Childs - Diaspora

Composer

Sergey Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5

Composer

Reena Esmail - RE|Member

Composer

Participants

Xian Zhang

Conductor

Steven Banks

Saxophone