Rocco Landesman (Michael Eastman photo)
Rocco Landesman didn’t pick just any old time to include St. Louis on his Art Works tour. He’s scheduled come here the week of Nov. 23 - the week of Thanksgiving.
Landesman and his wife, Debby Busch…
Rocco Landesman (Michael Eastman photo)
Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced today in New York that he will visit St. Louis - his hometown - and other cities on a six-month “Art Works” tour.
“Art Works” is the new…
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…
Rocco Landesman (Michael Eastman photo)
Rocco Landesman, the Broadway producer who was just confirmed as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is impressed with the growth of the St. Louis theater scene in recent years.
“When they give the Kevin Kline awards,…
St. Louis-born Rocco Landesman is coming home to the Central Time Zone. The recently confirmed Director of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) smeared Peoria theater, and by extension all small-town theater, in a pre-confirmation interview with New York…
When Rocco Landesman was appointed director of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), I asked rhetorically if we couldn’t do better than have a commercial producer of Broadway musicals be our national arts’ czar, however limited a job that is considering its…
Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra are among the local arts groups which will each receive $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The grants are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and…
The Los Angeles Times asked a diverse group of arts leaders — including St. Louis Symphony Orchestra music director David Robertson — how they’d run the National Endowment for the Arts if they found themselves in charge. You can see…
