When the evening’s soloist seats himself at the piano and announces, “The cadenzas shall be improvised without the slightest forethought,” and adds, “Those of you who get carsick should fasten your seatbelts,” you know you’re in for either a very…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Here's looking at you, kid.

You’re probably aware that the next SLSO Presents concerts will feature music David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in “The Movie Music of John Williams.”

Now a special fillip has been added to the performances:…

(This is the unedited version of the review that will appear on STLToday and in Sunday’s A&E section.)
There’s no real secret about David Robertson’s true musical love: he is most engaged by works that pique his voluminous curiosity and challenge…

Don’t ever doubt that stagehands belong to an important union: according to Bloomberg News, the chief stagehand at Carnegie Hall earned $530,044 in salary and benefits during the fiscal year that concluded in June 2008. The other full-timers made an…