An Evening with Yo-Yo Ma

Stifel Theatre, St. Louis, USA

Friday 3 May 2024

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You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Important Info

Type: Classical Concert

City: St. Louis, USA

Starts at: 19:30

Programme

Claude Debussy: La Mer

Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85

Overview

Any appearance by Yo-Yo Ma is an extraordinary event. Edward Elgar’s popular concerto is the perfect vehicle for Ma’s blend of keen intelligence and a firmly beating heart. And Stéphane Denève is on home soil for the delicate, multi-layered textures of Claude Debussy’s portrait of the ocean, La Mer. Subscribers have first access to tickets for this concert.

A few things to know: 

Yo-Yo Ma asks big questions with the music he makes. “What is our place in the universe?” “Where do we sit between the past and future, between human and nature?” “How can we sit and talk and play together?” He does this with ambitious projects that reach everyone from retired West Virginia coal miners, to creative peacemakers in Tunisia, to community leaders in Los Angeles.  

Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto is still linked with Jacqueline Du Pré, the English cellist who brought the work to international fame. There is a link with Yo-Yo Ma: the cello he plays was once Du Pré’s. He thinks of this connection each and every time he performs the Elgar concerto. 

Claude Debussy was a radical. “I feel more and more that music,” wrote Debussy, “is not something that can flow inside a rigorous, traditional form.” Debussy dismissed those who “love and defend traditions which, for me, no longer exist. [Such traditions] were not all as fine and valuable as people make out. [T]he dust of the past is not always respectable.”

Venue Info

Stifel Theatre - St. Louis
1400 Market Street

Stifel Theatre was home to the SLSO from 1934 until the orchestra moved to Powell Hall in 1968. The venue has hosted opera productions, Broadway shows, major touring concerts, and even presidential speeches. This season, the SLSO shows off the Stifel Theatre’s majestic interior with programs of epic scale and scope.

Stifel Theatre is a historic, 3,100 seat theatre in the heart of downtown St. Louis. Originally opened in 1934, Stifel Theatre's stage has welcomed some of entertainment’s greatest performers, including Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Following a $78.7 million restoration, this historical gem has been restored to its original splendor and undergone state-of-the-art upgrades.

Stifel Theatre plays host to a wide variety of events, including concerts, comedies, theatricals, family shows, holiday productions and more.

In addition to the fantastic main theatre, Stifel Theatre has a variety of spaces available for rent. From weddings to Bar Mitzvahs, business meetings to fundraisers, let Stifel Theatre and our expert in-house event planners help guide you every step of the way to make your special event an unforgettable experience.