Adams

Composer John Adams is well known to St. Louis audiences through the performances of music director David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. (Their Nonesuch recording of Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” Symphony and “Guide to Strange Places” continues to reap…

O'Leary

(This doesn’t appear on the Arts & Books homepage, and it was hard to find on the STLToday.com website - so I’m reposting it here. Special bonus: A nice color photo of Tim O’Leary.)

Fred Bronstein and Fredbird

As discussion panels go, it was one of the less obvious combos: “Let’s Talk About Baseball, Beethoven, and Biotech…and the St. Louis ‘Brand,’” one of the “Conversations” series at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, brought together…

The newly released Nonesuch recording by David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra of John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” Symphony and “A Guide to Strange Places” has hit the number two spot on the Nielsen/SoundScan “Top Traditional Classical Albums Chart,”…

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Can you find the typo?

Once you know where to look, it’s painfully obvious. The typo that delayed the release of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s new recording of John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” Symphony is right on the front of the…

So glad that’s been straightened out: The world premiere recording of John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” Symphony, performed by David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, was scheduled to be released on Tuesday by Nonesuch Records.

So the SLSO’s director of…

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has had some real success recently with its online music downloads; now, the SLSO has a new CD that will sit on actual physical shelves - and it’s distributed by a national company.

The content is…

David Robertson and the SLSO won’t confine their travels in the 2009-10 season to Carnegie Hall in the fall; they’re also going to California in the spring. On mid-April, 2010, they’ll perform in Los Angeles, at Walt Disney Hall; in…