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Classical Music

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Save Powell Hall: Concert Marketing Doesn't Get Any Better Than This

    Destruction isn't something commonly associated with symphonies. But building-crushing sound is at the heart of a particularly eye-catching promotion for the St. Louis Symphony's performance of Sergei Prokofiev's Scythian Suite. The "Save Powell Hall" campaign has been the St. Louis Symphony's vehi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Ben Folds with the St. Louis Symphony, 11/6/11: Review

    Courtesy of the artist​Ben Folds with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Powell Hall November 6, 2012 As he sat behind Powell Symphony Hall's grand piano and sang the phrase "Kiss my ass goodbye," the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra echoed his melody with trumpets and Ben Folds smiled the smile of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Ben Folds on Making the Most of a Misunderstood Career

    Courtesy of the artist.​This Sunday, Ben Folds performs a sold-out show at Powell Hall alongside the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. We talked to the versatile, potty-mouthed and misunderstood performer during a rare moment of rest between rehearsing for one of his many orchestral concerts and j ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 2, 2011

    The Italian Battalion: Opera Theatre attacks Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment with all due delight

    Courtesy of the artist.​This Sunday, Ben Folds performs a sold-out show at Powell Hall alongside the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. We talked to the versatile, potty-mouthed and misunderstood performer during a rare moment of rest between rehearsing for one of his many orchestral concerts and j ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 26, 2011

    Turn of the Screwer: Opera Theatre whips out Don Giovanni

    Courtesy of the artist.​This Sunday, Ben Folds performs a sold-out show at Powell Hall alongside the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. We talked to the versatile, potty-mouthed and misunderstood performer during a rare moment of rest between rehearsing for one of his many orchestral concerts and j ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    A Few Bars For Lunch

    Courtesy of the artist.​This Sunday, Ben Folds performs a sold-out show at Powell Hall alongside the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. We talked to the versatile, potty-mouthed and misunderstood performer during a rare moment of rest between rehearsing for one of his many orchestral concerts and j ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    St. Louis Symphony Announces 2011-12 Season

    image viaDavid Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony will be back for another season.​It's still only about halfway through the current orchestral season, but the St. Louis Symphony believes in planning ahead. And so, late last week, the orchestra announced its offerings for the 2011-12 season, ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 26, 2010

    Opera Theatre's Marriage of Figaro isn't quite ready for prime time

    image viaDavid Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony will be back for another season.​It's still only about halfway through the current orchestral season, but the St. Louis Symphony believes in planning ahead. And so, late last week, the orchestra announced its offerings for the 2011-12 season, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 3, 2010

    Zing Go Those Strings

    image viaDavid Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony will be back for another season.​It's still only about halfway through the current orchestral season, but the St. Louis Symphony believes in planning ahead. And so, late last week, the orchestra announced its offerings for the 2011-12 season, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 6, 2010

    Sad and Wonderful Love

    image viaDavid Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony will be back for another season.​It's still only about halfway through the current orchestral season, but the St. Louis Symphony believes in planning ahead. And so, late last week, the orchestra announced its offerings for the 2011-12 season, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 30, 2009

    Mousterpieces

    image viaDavid Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony will be back for another season.​It's still only about halfway through the current orchestral season, but the St. Louis Symphony believes in planning ahead. And so, late last week, the orchestra announced its offerings for the 2011-12 season, ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 24, 2009

    St. Louis Stage Capsules

    Dennis Brown, Lew Prince and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

  • Culture

    May 27, 2009

    Bohèmian Rhapsody: Opera Theatre rings in 2009 with a spirited La Bohème

    Dennis Brown, Lew Prince and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

  • Calendar

    March 4, 2009

    Papa, Can You Hear Them?

    Dennis Brown, Lew Prince and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2009

    That's Entertainment

    Dennis Brown, Lew Prince and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Interview: Composer Glenn Branca

    With his spiky, greying mullet, Bob Dylan shades and hotel room drink in a plastic cup, Glenn Branca cuts a mean, iconic hipster figure, a pure punk aesthete who for 30 years has been taking music -- call it rock, call it classical, call it Post-Minimalist, call it Maximalist -- to places the most s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2008

    Rach out with Your Baton Out

    The SLSO is off and running

  • Calendar

    August 27, 2008

    Night of the Viola

    All you violinists can stay home

  • Culture

    June 11, 2008
  • Culture

    May 28, 2008
  • Calendar

    October 3, 2007

    Waxing Brazilian

    All you violinists can stay home

  • Culture

    June 20, 2007

    Aria Ready?

    Opera Theatre concludes its season with a bel canto bang.

  • Culture

    May 30, 2007

    Love in the Time of Tuberculosis

    Conspicuous consumption: Opera Theatre of Saint Louis spins a smooth La traviata.

  • News

    May 9, 2007

    Download Mozart

    The Saint Louis Symphony is ready to hit the high-tech notes.

  • Calendar

    August 24, 2005

    Concerts

    The Saint Louis Symphony is ready to hit the high-tech notes.

  • News

    August 24, 2005

    Unfinished Symphony

    The arrival of a brilliant conductor was drowned out by labor discord. Now the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra begins a new season -- with some strings attached.

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2005

    Festive Firearms

    Rockets' red glare and a concert

  • Calendar

    September 1, 2004

    Opening Nights

    Rockets' red glare and a concert

  • Culture

    June 2, 2004

    Cry, Cry Again

    A devastatingly moving Opera Theatre double bill

  • Calendar

    June 11, 2003

    Might Makes Flight

    Opera Theatre of St. Louis sends an opera on its maiden voyage

  • Culture

    June 26, 2002

    Bard Bellowing

    Opera Theatre of St. Louis tackles a tough adaptation of Hamlet and nails it

  • Culture

    June 5, 2002

    Lucia in the Sky

    In Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti scores a trifecta: murder, madness and suicide

  • Culture

    May 15, 2002

    Honk If You Love Vonk

    The maestro's tumultuous tenure with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra comes to a close

  • Calendar

    November 21, 2001

    Surround Sound

    "Night at the Oscars" juxtaposes the music of the St. Louis Symphony with clips from acclaimed films

  • Calendar

    November 7, 2001

    Triple Threat

    The Eroica Trio bring their lovely harmonies and visages to St. Louis

  • Culture

    September 12, 2001

    Stop the Music

    If the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra does not raise $29 million by the end of this year, it's bankrupt

  • Culture

    August 15, 2001

    Carmen's Electric

    Taking on the classic Georges Bizet tragedy is another step in Union Avenue Opera Theatre's ongoing success story

  • Culture

    May 30, 2001

    Farce Field

    Opera Theatre's take on Offenbach's light comedy The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein is joyful and sure-handed

  • Culture

    May 23, 2001

    A Little Night Music

    Opera Theatre opens its season with La Bohème and enchants an evening.

  • Culture

    March 28, 2001

    Bang the Drum Repeatedly

    Composer Philip Glass and timpanist Jonathan Haas move the kettledrums to the front of the Powell Hall stage

  • Culture

    March 7, 2001

    Radiodead

    The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra goes off the air

  • Culture

    November 1, 2000

    Facing the Music

    "Great music, no red ink" is the new refrain of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 27, 2000
  • Best of St. Louis

    September 27, 2000

    Best Musical Theater Production

    Radamisto, Opera Theatre of St. Louis

  • Culture

    August 23, 2000

    La Bohème

    Music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (Union Avenue Opera Theatre)

  • Culture

    July 19, 2000

    Così fan tutte

    By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (Union Avenue Opera Theatre)

  • Culture

    June 21, 2000

    The Tale of Genji

    By Minoru Miki; libretto by Colin Graham, adapted from the novel by Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Opera Theatre of St. Louis)

  • News

    May 17, 2000

    A Guest of Honor

    Scott Joplin receives a celebratory homecoming with Opera Theatre of St. Louis' revival of Treemonisha

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2000

    This One Goes to 11

    The St. Louis Symphony puts a cast of (seeming) thousands onstage for its production of Carmina Burana

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