David Robertson

Cinemaestro, John Williams

The Rites are All Right

Soundtrack for Dreamscapes

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 >>

Top Secret

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 >>

Love Is A Beacon in the Night

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 >>

Get Experienced

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 >>

Never Mind Concert Tickets -- The St. Louis Symphony Has the Perfect Holiday Gift

​It's still 25 days till Christmas, but Hanukkah starts tomorrow, and hoo boy does the St. Louis Symphony have a gift for you! No, it's not music. Which would actually be pretty nice. No, the Symphony has teamed up with Build-a-Bear Workshop to create a special symphonic Build-a-Bear. It does ... More >>

See You On the Ice

​It's still 25 days till Christmas, but Hanukkah starts tomorrow, and hoo boy does the St. Louis Symphony have a gift for you! No, it's not music. Which would actually be pretty nice. No, the Symphony has teamed up with Build-a-Bear Workshop to create a special symphonic Build-a-Bear. It does ... More >>

Despite Crappy Economy, St. Louis Symphony Still Had a Good Year

One of the most awesome things in St. Louis is our world-class symphony orchestra, led by world-class conductor and sometime-kazoo virtuoso David Robertson. Over the past fiscal year, which ended August 31, more St. Louisans have started to appreciate the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, at least if th ... More >>

SLSO Youth Orchestra Earns Kudos from New York Times

Image source​The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra made a triumphant New York debut last Tuesday, June 8, at a benefit performance in Riverside Church, earning a rave review in today's New York Times. "Significant collective and individual preparation had clearly gone into their ... More >>

Monk's Music

Image source​The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra made a triumphant New York debut last Tuesday, June 8, at a benefit performance in Riverside Church, earning a rave review in today's New York Times. "Significant collective and individual preparation had clearly gone into their ... More >>

SLSO Violinist Lisa Chong Talks About Performing Steve Reich's "Violin Phase" Tonight

When Nick Jonas put RFT music editor Annie Zaleski on the spot after his Pageant performance to ask her for an in-person critique, he crossed the standardized boundary between music journalist and music maker. I recently had a similar experience with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra violinist Lisa Chon ... More >>

Into the Void

When Nick Jonas put RFT music editor Annie Zaleski on the spot after his Pageant performance to ask her for an in-person critique, he crossed the standardized boundary between music journalist and music maker. I recently had a similar experience with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra violinist Lisa Chon ... More >>

SLSO to Dedicate Beethoven Concert to Des Lee

umsl.eduLee, with wife Mary Ann.​The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra has just announced that it plans to dedicate its all-Beethoven concert on Saturday, January 30 to longtime benefactor E. Desmond "Des" Lee who died last week.Lee, who was 92, donated more than $70 million during his career as a ph ... More >>

Is There a Doctor in the House? Confined to his home for a decade, Doug Lindsay is certain he knows what ails him, and he thinks he knows the cure.

umsl.eduLee, with wife Mary Ann.​The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra has just announced that it plans to dedicate its all-Beethoven concert on Saturday, January 30 to longtime benefactor E. Desmond "Des" Lee who died last week.Lee, who was 92, donated more than $70 million during his career as a ph ... More >>

You Don't Know Unless You Go

umsl.eduLee, with wife Mary Ann.​The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra has just announced that it plans to dedicate its all-Beethoven concert on Saturday, January 30 to longtime benefactor E. Desmond "Des" Lee who died last week.Lee, who was 92, donated more than $70 million during his career as a ph ... More >>

Mousterpieces

umsl.eduLee, with wife Mary Ann.​The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra has just announced that it plans to dedicate its all-Beethoven concert on Saturday, January 30 to longtime benefactor E. Desmond "Des" Lee who died last week.Lee, who was 92, donated more than $70 million during his career as a ph ... More >>

St. Louis' Top 10 New Year's Eve Parties Under $75 for 2009

​The $75-and-under category for New Year's Eve parties this year seems to have grown a great deal since last year. From special-menus being offered at restaurants to expanded party packages at night clubs, there are more than a dozen nightlife options to choose from if you've got the scratch. - He ... More >>

iTunes Honors SLSO For Recording 2009's Best Contemporary Classical Album

Congratulations to the SLSO, which received quite an honor today. Doctor Atomic Symphony, the John Adams composition it recorded under conductor David Robertson, was named iTunes' Best Contemporary Classical Album of 2009. (Screenshot below.) Released by Nonesuch Records in July, Atomic was recorded ... More >>

Perform Like the SLSO in Your Very Own Bathtub

Over the weekend, the Saint Louis Symphony gave a preview of Powerful Percussion, the concert it will be performing at Carnegie Hall in New York this season. The highlight of the show was undoubtedly the second number, Tan Dun's Water Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra, in which percussioni ... More >>

Arts and Education Council Names 2010 Award Honorees

www.cocastl.orgStephanie Riven​The Arts and Education Council yesterday announced the recipients of its annual arts awards. Earning the "Lifetime Achievement Award" is Stephanie Riven, the longtime executive director of COCA (Center of Creative Arts). Last month Riven announced that she'll re ... More >>

Last Week's Most Popular Daily RFT Posts, June 29-July 5, 2009

If you missed any of these items posted last week on the Daily RFT -- or were like some of us and just checked-out for the holidays by Monday -- here's your chance to catch up before you have to do any real work this morning.Michael Jackson Watched Donald Duck to Fall Asleep, Exercised with Incredib ... More >>

Saint Louis Symphony Reports Increase in Revenue, Audiences in 2008-'09 Season

flickr.com/photos/bottleofbluesThe SLSO onstage at Powell Hall.This past season has been a banner one for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Not only did music director David Robertson make his singing and kazoo-playing debut at Carnegie Hall and management negotiate a three-year labor agreement wi ... More >>

More Good News for SLSO

It's a good time to be David Robertson right now.Not only has the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra music director been nationally-lauded for his superior singing and kazoo-playing, he has his musicians for another four years, thanks to a remarkably-peaceful labor agreement earlier this week.And now Ro ... More >>

Mideast by Midwest

It's a good time to be David Robertson right now.Not only has the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra music director been nationally-lauded for his superior singing and kazoo-playing, he has his musicians for another four years, thanks to a remarkably-peaceful labor agreement earlier this week.And now Ro ... More >>

Holy Night

Regards, Messiaen

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 >>

Guitar Masters

Old, new, borrowed and true

Rach out with Your Baton Out

The SLSO is off and running

Glenn Branca Coming to St. Louis, Looking for Guitarists/Bassists for "Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City)" Premiering Symphony No. 14

The SLSO is off and running

Hungary for More

The SLSO is off and running

Turangalîla-philia

The SLSO is off and running

The Other Newsworthy 40

The SLSO is off and running

The Music Man

Dennis talks theater with a symphony conductor — and a theatrical one, at that.

Unreal News Challenge 2007

Week of December 27, 2007

Loudest. Talkie. Ever.

Week of December 27, 2007

Journey to the Poles

Week of December 27, 2007

Here’s Your French Connection

Week of December 27, 2007

Park It

Week of December 27, 2007

Download Mozart

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

Procrastinator's Tip for Valentine's Day

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

Portrait Concert Series: Steve Reich and George Crumb

7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, February 14 and 15. Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (3716 Washington Boulevard).

Bon Voyage!

7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, February 14 and 15. Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (3716 Washington Boulevard).

Bittersweet Symphony

7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, February 14 and 15. Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (3716 Washington Boulevard).

The Bangin' Big Beats

7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, February 14 and 15. Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (3716 Washington Boulevard).

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of September 14, 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.

Remember Nonna?

Her kitchen welcomes you!

Letters

Week of September 22, 2004