In honor of Powell Symphony Hall’s 40th anniversary on January 24 as the home of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, I offer the following fun figures.
Year built (as St. Louis Theatre): 1925
Original number of seats: 3,500
Number of…
The best thing about “Doctor Atomic,” seen Tuesday night at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is John Adams’s music. The second best thing was librettist/director Peter Sellars’s pre-performance lecture.
It was classic Sellars: passion, humor, fun facts aplenty, outrageousness, and a…
I visited Chicago to see John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” at Lyric Opera of Chicago — but while there, I got a welcome chance to catch “La Traviata” as well.
“Traviata” is one of the most frequently performed operas in the…
STLtoday.com has new blog software, and it should make the site easier to use for Post-Dispatch bloggers — once we figure out all of its fine points, at least. (I ask readers of Classical Music/Culture to bear with me during…
You probably didn’t read it here first — but you definitely won’t see it here last: STLToday’s blogs are getting new software.
The good news is that we’ll be able to offer some helpful new features. The bad news is…
Lorin Maazel was never seen as much more than a caretaker music director for the New York Philharmonic, but it’s turned into a seven-year run. The Phil announced its 2008-09 season on Thursday. Maazel’s last hurrah will come on June…
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| Kathleen van Bergen, former vice president at the SLSO, moved to the Philadelphia Orchestra three years ago to become VP of artistic planning . Now she’s moving again — to become executive director of St. Paul,Minnesota’s Schubert Club.
Van Bergen… |
“Wicked” is the rare example of a stage show that improves, in many ways, on its source material. It has humor, and a knack for giving a familiar story a sly twist. As seen on Friday night at the Fox,…
“Pope to purge the Vatican of modern music” says the headline in the U.K.’s Telegraph. A related story, by Damian Thompson, promises to explain âWhy the Pope is right to purge modern music.”
As Thompson puts it, âChurch music in…
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