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Christmas is about both the traditional and about the new, the
familiar and the foreign " and so are a batch of fine new compact
discs, recently released in time for the holidays. More than …
Flamenco selections added excitement.
With another holiday season comes the chance to get into the
swing of dance and jazz. Following is a selected guide to
performances with the potential to make your season brighter.
When a family spends a lot of time together, as they may during
the holidays, two worries loom.
This time of year, many people like to celebrate by attending a
special holiday concert or three. In St. Louis, happily enough,
classical music concerts are available for almost every taste.
A glance across the audience during a performance of "Mamma
Mia!" reveals a lot: Heads bob, feet tap, folks sing along and clap
to the beat. Even the curtain call becomes a concertlike repri…
A new skating rink will open Friday afternoon across from the
Peabody Opera House downtown.
She is sparring with acting manager of the City Museum.
Opera Theatre of St. Louis will receive $90,000 in grant money
from the National Endowment for the Arts to support two new
projects. The NEA announced this week it will distribute some
$230,…
The tradition of musicians' writing compositional tributes to
teachers and other inspirations is a long one. On Sunday afternoon
at Washington University's 560 Trinity building, artistic dir…
New gift cards are now on sale
PARTY NOTES: Soprano Miran
Halen kept an intimate group of about 50 mesmerized with
her singing and costume changes at a St. Louis Symphony "Party of
Note," that she co-hosted on Friday nigh…
What's love without hair products, leather jackets, and a little
rock and roll? In a commendable performance, Marquette High
School's production of "Grease" was full of the classic energy an…
On November 18, 2011 Wentzville's Holt High School performed
"Footloose", a musical written by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie.
Ren, an ordinary Chicago teenager, dances at his last visit t…
Fog gently wafts around stone pillars in a dimly lit cave. A
masked man steers a boat with an elegantly dressed young woman
inside. Candelabras flicker; glittering seductively in the
darknes…
This weekend's program by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is
definitely something out of the ordinary.
Paul Ha did not build the museum St. Louis knows simply as the
Contemporary. Long before his arrival in 2002, leaders of the
Forum, the Contemporary Art Museum's predecessor, decided to move…
There are plenty of introduce-baby-to-music programs for infants
and their parents. Music programs abound for school-age children.
But when it comes to possibilities for preschoolers, there'…
East St. Louis has few resources to protect homes of famous
dancer or jazz great Miles Davis.
Friday and Saturday's performances by David Robertson and the
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra represent a quiet coup in programming
by Robertson: presenting three very different works from thre…
A collection of nearly 150 paintings, sculptures, drawings and
prints has been pledged to the St. Louis Art Museum, officials
announced today.
More than a decade after its premiere, Opera Theatre of St.
Louis has a new production of "Joshua's Boots." Written for ages 10
and up by Adolphus Hailstork, it looks at racism and reconcili…
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conductor laureate Leonard Slatkin
has renewed his contract with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for
another three years. The extension takes the former SLSO musi…
UPWARD STAGES: Definitely one of the most
energetic events of the year, Stages St. Louis's tenth annual
"Applause!" gala raised a record-breaking $435,000+ for education
and outreach program…
Part of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius' long-lost Symphony No. 8
may have come to light.
