Kevin McBeth directs the IN UNISON Chorus, which focuses on performing music from Black cultures and Black composers.

Gustav Mahler was an Austrian composer in the late Romantic period. His work is known for its extreme emotion, themes of life and death and the huge ensemble required to play it. This past week, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performed Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.

Frisbees were thrown on the Swamp, friends met at outdoor tables to study and the Bears’ Den was bustling with activity. All seemed normal on the South 40, except for the few dozen chairs filled with audience members and world-class symphony musicians performing, free of charge.

Washington University students should see this variety of performances as an opportunity to get out into the St. Louis artistic community.

This Saturday, Nov. 17, marks the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s fall student night of their 2018-19 concert season. In addition to selling student tickets for $10, SLSO will be hosting various activities for students, including a prize wheel with the chance to win tickets to future SLSO productions.