I got an email on Thursday from someone signing himself “John Doe,” asking me to “share the information” in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s “FAQ” on their proposed sale of KFUO “Classic99″ to Gateway Creative Broadcasting, aka Joy FM.

It’s something I’ve been…

Saturday night’s concert of “The Movie Music of John Williams” by music director David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is sold out, reports director of communications Adam Crane. There are still some tickets left for Sunday afternoon’s performance,…

David Robertson contemplates possible tweaks to his chili recipe.

From Eddie Silva, blogger-in-chief for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, comes this spoonful of news, suggesting that music director David Robertson comes by his gustatory metaphors naturally:

Not only is David Robertson an…

Yesterday on the Culture Club, I posted prominent Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod layman and attorney Robert Duesenberg’s first letter to LCMS president Gerald Kieschnick and board chairman Donald Muchow about Omaha lawyer-politician-lobbyist-MoSyn board member-paid counsel-spokesman Kermit Brashear. As noted, the response to…

The members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra are home from this season’s Carnegie Hall adventure; communications director Adam Crane reports that the pilot of the plane on which his SLSO contingent flew greeted the players, and offered congratulations on…

Kermit Brashear (Lincoln Journal Star photo)

Another member in good standing of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Robert H. Duesenberg of St. Louis County, has shared some correspondence he sent to LCMS president Gerald B. Kieschnick and board chairman Donald K. Muchow.…

D-Rob

I’m not in New York City this week with music director David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - but the SLSO’s director of communications, Adam Crane, is there. (This time, unlike last spring, the soloist made it.)

The program,…

David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will perform at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening, but SLSO president and CEO Fred Bronstein won’t be with them.

Instead, he’ll be at the White House with the Obamas for a…

“It’s not a done deal,” says Neal Rabe of Washington, Missouri.

Rabe is a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; now retired, he worked for a Lutheran insurance company, and even worked for the Synod at one point in his career.…

Writing in the Guardian, British critic Tom Service reports on a new poll: British children like Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky - but their favorite (allegedly) classical music is the theme to Harry Potter, by John Williams.

Service is appalled, but rationalizes, “Harry…