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The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced another in the 2009-2010 season’s offerings of “SLSO Presents:” “Swing, Swing, Swing,” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 9.

The program includes big band hits from from Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, and…

A hussar. (There were no horses onstage)

If you go to see Franz Lehar’s Die Lustige Witwe (better known in English-speaking countries as The Merry Widow), your eye might be caught by the colorful military uniforms - including square-topped helmets -…

Union Avenue Opera presents Lehar’s “Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow)” at Union Avenue Christian Church, 733 Union Boulevard. 8 p.m. July 31, August 1, 7, 8; 3 p.m. August 9; $32 to $52; 314-361-2881 or www.unionavenueopera.org

One of the quintessential…

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 St. Louis Chamber Chorus, our region’s finest choral ensemble, was recently featured on HEC-TV, the St. Louis Higher Education Channel. Jim Althoff, a weekend announcer on KFUO (99.1; http://www.classic99.com narrates. It gives some good insights into how artistic director Philip…

Tune in, turn on, drop in: Beginning on July 1 and running through September 9, KFUO (99.1-FM) will broadcast a weekly “SLSO Summer Series,” hosted by music director David Robertson. The broadcasts will be heard on Wednesdays beginning at 8…

Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s new production of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles opened on Wednesday night. Present for the occasion, along with the usual suspects, were the composer, the librettist, William Hoffman, and representatives of the publisher, G. Schirmer,…

St. Louis will be the host of an international choir festival in November 2010, it was announced on Wednesday. The American International Choral Festival is expected to draw approximately 2,000 singers in 50 choirs from 20 countries around the world.

The…

It’s the latest thing in online ticketing: now you can select your own seats for concerts by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and other performances at Powell Symphony Hall.

A new twist in the Tessitura ticketing technology allows patrons to see…

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…