Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky

RFT Spring Arts Guide 2013: Music

Reich Rewrites Radiohead: A twenty-piece Chamber Ensemble Plays Steve Reich’s Radiohead-inspired opus at the Sheldon

Punk Princes of Jazz: The Bad plus is not a cover band

The Merits Of Reading Music

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. There is a modern tendency among musicians to shun the practice of reading music. I understand why, si ... More >>

For The Love Of Boring Music

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. The greatest living composer (Steve Reich) is currently writing a piece based on source material from the ... More >>

The Bad Plus

7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 4, to Saturday, January 7. Jazz at the Bistro, 3536 Washington Avenue.

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 >>

The Rites are All Right

Park Life

The Gorge is more than metal

The Gorge's Prehistoric Relapse: Listen

​The Gorge is here: its full-length debut, Prehistoric Relapse, gets an official release tomorrow night at the Firebird at a show the band will headline. In this week's feature, Ryan Wasoba examines the band, its disparate influences (Coltrane, Stravinsky and Refused, to name three), and its ... More >>

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 >>

See You On the Ice

The Bad Plus

8:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m., Wednesday, January 6, through Saturday, January 9, at Jazz at the Bistro, 3536 Washington Boulevard.

Make Musical Memories

Coco Puff: Chanel hagiography is so last season

Project: Concert

Chamber music gets a makeover

War Is Still Hell: Opera Theatre's season-closing Troilus and Cressida is not to be missed

Go! Top St. Louis Weekend Events: May 2-4

Go! 9/21-9/23

On Pointe, Phoenix!

Picasso on the Run

Opening Nights 2006-2007

The Riverfront Times' performing arts guide

Double Decade of Dance

Alexandra Ballet turns twenty in style

Baysay It Loud

Pop cheese meets music theory in the Baysayboos

Obscenity! Obloquy! Opera!

OTSL bows with Tosca

Auto Iconography

Bad-boy skaters perpetuate their own myth in Dogtown and Z-Boys

Gunn-Play

St. Louis native Russell Gunn returns home for a much-anticipated gig at Bistro Europa

Fantasia/2000

Directed by James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg and Pixote Hunt

Dinosaur

Directed by Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton

Flourescent

The 2000 Valley of Flowers Festival promises something for everyone

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Frank Zappa