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If you’re a choral singer and you enjoy travel, Kathryn Smith Bowers has a trip for you.
Bowers, a music professor at Webster University and the leader of the annual St. Louis Summer Sings there, has organized a trip to…
Christine Brewer
Soprano Christine Brewer, the pride of Lebanon, Illinois, recently returned from singing (and touristing) in Australia. She performed Strauss’s “Four Last Songs” in Melbourne; elsewhere, she and her husband, Ross, communed with assorted marsupials, including quokkas, best described as…
There’s a new face - and a new baton - on campus at Webster University. Both belong to Dr. Paul G. Davis, taking up his duties as an associate professor, conductor of the Webster University Symphony Orchestra, and director of…
It’s been a tradition for 19 years now: “St. Louis Summer Sings,” at Webster University. The “Summer Sings,” directed by Kathryn Bowers, are a series of three Tuesday evening sessions in which participants sight-read choral masterworks, giving performances for their…
It’s almost opera season in St. Louis, that brief, magical time when the Loretto-Hilton Center at Webster University turns into an international festival center. The season opens Saturday, May 23, but things are already gearing up.
For starters, there’s “From…
The St. Louis Chamber Chorus has announced its 2009-2010 season, along with some other important news: Artistic director Philip Barnes will be on sabbatical next year.
Barnes, who recently became a U.S. citizen, is taking a sabbatical from his day job…
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis is staying put at its home at the Loretto-Hilton Center on the Webster University campus.
This fall, the theater made a study about relocating to its own theater in Grand Center. The conclusion: This is no time to think about…
Last summer, the Post-Dispatch features department was blessed with a delightful intern, Webster University student Anthony Hagan. We all treasure him - a capable organizer, a bright writer, and THE go-to guy for accessorizing fashion shoots.
But Anthony is a young…
