Hard Bop Messengers Play Tunes to Remember in ‘Live At the Last Hotel’

Hard Bop Messengers Play Tunes to Remember in ‘Live At the Last Hotel’

By CB Adams St. Louis’s Hard Bop Messengers new, first album, “Live At The Last Hotel,” has been on my repeat play in recent weeks... Details
St Louis Symphony Orchestra Sets the Stage for October – debuts, choral performances and guest artists

St Louis Symphony Orchestra Sets the Stage for October – debuts, choral performances and guest artists

On October 7–8, Jonathon Heyward makes his SLSO debut conducting the first SLSO performances of Kaija Saariaho’s Ciel d’hiver and Joseph Bologne’s Violin Concerto No. 2 performed by SLSO violinist Hannah Ji; concerts... Details
Four New Full-Time Musicians Join St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Four New Full-Time Musicians Join St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Appointments made to Principal Flute, Associate Principal Viola, Associate Principal Timpani/Section Percussion, and Second Bassoon positions The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Stéphane... Details
Ozark Mountain Daredevils Partner with Time Life, reissue two albums

Ozark Mountain Daredevils Partner with Time Life, reissue two albums

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils continue their yearlong 50th anniversary celebration with a new partnership with Time Life. The new deal kicked off Sept. 2 with the... Details
Classical Music Critic Sarah Bryan Miller Subject of PBS Documentary

Classical Music Critic Sarah Bryan Miller Subject of PBS Documentary

Nine PBS will air the documentary, The Places Music Has Taken Me: An Unfinished Story of Sarah Bryan Miller, Sunday, Sept. 18, at 3:30 pm, and... Details
Union Avenue Ends Festival Season With Some Scrumptious Sondheim

Union Avenue Ends Festival Season With Some Scrumptious Sondheim

By CB Adams It’s been a bit of a “Sondheim Summer” here in St. Louis, bookended by Far North Theatricals' "Assassins," The Muny’s “Sweeney Todd”... Details
Union Avenue Opera Offers a ‘Falstaff’ Full of Mirth and Girth

Union Avenue Opera Offers a ‘Falstaff’ Full of Mirth and Girth

By CB Adams There’s a moment in the “classic” 1989 movie “Fletch Lives” when Chevy Chase as Fletch says it takes a big man to... Details
Union Avenue Opera Offers Solid Production of ‘Eugene Onegin’

Union Avenue Opera Offers Solid Production of ‘Eugene Onegin’

By C. B. Adams“Eugene Onegin,” the opera based on Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel of the same name, inspired another great writer, Anton Chekhov, to write... Details
Opera Theater’s Overhauled ‘Harvey Milk’ Is Overwhelmingly Good with Understudy’s Debut

Opera Theater’s Overhauled ‘Harvey Milk’ Is Overwhelmingly Good with Understudy’s Debut

By CB Adams Opera Theatre of St. Louis has concluded a successful and altogether satisfying 48th festival season. But it would be a shame to... Details
Opera Theatre’s ‘Awakenings’ Is a Dream

Opera Theatre’s ‘Awakenings’ Is a Dream

By C.B. Adams I hold it true, whate'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved... Details