07.10.2008 5:02 pm
Slatkin pinch-hits for Levine
Post-Dispatch Classical Music
With James Levine out for the summer (unlike Mark Mulder, there is hope that he’ll return in six weeks’ time in top form) due to surgery, various substitutes are being called in.
The first one in is former St. Louis Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin; he’ll step in for Levine as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Friday, July 18. Slatkin and the BSO will be joined by mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey (an Opera Theatre of St. Louis favorite) and baritone Thomas Meglioranza to perform Harbison’s Symphony No. 5. The program will also include Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. This will be Slatkin’s first time at Tanglewood since 1994.
