06.23.2008 1:00 pm
Post-Dispatch Classical Music
Nine months after PR director Jeff Trammel left (nine months in which Dianne Darwin, assistant first to presdient Randy Adams and then to Fred Bronstein, filled in heroically) the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra has a new PR director. He has…
06.22.2008 5:47 pm
Post-Dispatch Classical Music
As of Sunday afternoon’s concert, there’s one plus and one minus on the safety front at Powell Symphony Hall.
The good: The Dress Circle boxes now have standards to aid in supporting patrons as they make their way up or…
06.21.2008 4:20 pm
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Yes, it’s true: Assistant principal horn Larry Strieby is moving down to the utility horn position, after 41 years in the assistant horn chair.
The talented and highly capable Tod Bowermaster will serve as acting assistant principal/third horn for the…
06.12.2008 5:52 pm
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Just in: a report that St. Louis Symphony Orchestra assistant principal horn Larry Strieby is giving up that post.
He’s not leaving the orchestra, but he will give up the responsibilities of assistant principal for the job of utility horn.…
06.12.2008 3:08 pm
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Conductor Marin Alsop spoke to the members of the Music Critics Association this afternoon informally, over turkey sandwiches and brownies. Some of what she said was of the “This shouldn’t leave this room” variety; some of it deserves a wider…
05.09.2008 8:08 am
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With the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s performances of Orff’s “Carmina burana” this weekend, and with regular listeners (who can be excused) and radio announcers (who cannot) all mispronouncing the title, it’s time to repeat The Word from Latin teachers: it’s…
05.07.2008 3:11 pm
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The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has a new resident conductor and Youth Symphony music director.
He’s Ward Stare, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s League of American Orchestra’s Conducting Fellow. The former principal trombone of Lyric Opera of Chicago, Stare, a Juilliard…
04.26.2008 10:30 pm
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IF YOU GO: Marin Alsop and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Powell Symphony Hall, 718 N. Grand
3 p.m. Sunday, April 28
$15.50 to $105; 314-534-1700 or www.slso.org
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has made an art of well-constructed programs…
04.24.2008 12:54 pm
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The flowers are blooming, and so are the audition announcements. This year’s concert season may be ending, but the area’s musical organizations are already gearing up for next fall. Here are three choruses and an orchestra:
The St. Louis Symphony…
03.11.2008 12:41 pm
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This just in: Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, the “Symphony of a Thousand,” will be broadcast live from Quebec on Saturday night. If you’re not going to hear Haydn’s “Creation” by the SLSO that night, this might be fun listening.
(”Colisée…