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11.10.2009 11:39 am

SLSO will offer an “interactive” intermission feature

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This Saturday night at 8, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will offer its now-customary live concert broadcast on KFUO-99.1 FM. (This week, it’s Sir Andrew Davis leading the orchestra in music of Berlioz, Mozart and Elgar.)

But instead of the customary…

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11.07.2009 7:58 am

SLSO: SRO for Saturday night’s John Williams fest

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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,…

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11.06.2009 5:01 am

SLSO: Carnegie past, Star Wars coming up

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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…

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11.05.2009 5:06 am

SLSO: Adam Crane on the Carnegie Hall concert

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D-Rob

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,…

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11.03.2009 4:27 pm

Leonard Slatkin suffers heart attack, finishes concert (updated)

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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin, 65, suffered a heart attack while conducting a concert by the Rotterdam Philharmonic in the Netherlands on Sunday night.

The Detroit News reports that Slatkin suffered chest pains during the concert, but finished…

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10.14.2009 12:33 pm

SLSO: Standing room added for Yo-Yo Ma; 3rd Bloggers’ Night

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Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma

There’s good news, bad news, and good news about the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s first gala concert in a decade, featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma, on Saturday, October 24.

The good news, for the SLSO, is that the gala is sold-out,…

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10.08.2009 6:57 am

CraneWatch: The Big Read

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Lopez, Crane, Ayers

Lopez, Crane, Ayers

Adam Crane, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra director of communications - he’s the one in the center of the photo - is the man chiefly responsible for the book and movie “The Soloist,” says the actual author of the…

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10.07.2009 5:32 pm

KFUO: The comments keep coming in

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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra director of communications Adam Crane got a warning from the SLSO’s email administrator: His mailbox is almost full.

Much of that is a direct result of all the mail that’s flooding in response to the SLSO’s e-blast…

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08.28.2009 7:32 pm

“The Soloist” goes to hear the soloist

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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra communications director Adam Crane was along for the ride in Los Angeles when the subject of Steve Lopez’s “The Soloist,” Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, went to hear cellist Yo-Yo Ma play the Dvorak cello concerto at the…

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08.12.2009 8:18 am

SLSO announces another Town Hall meeting

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The maestro

The maestro

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will hold another of its “Town Meetings” from 6 to 7 p.m. (with a reception to follow) on Thursday, September 24. The meeting is designed to bring patrons up-to-date on the latest at the…

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