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"Try it, you'll like it," is a tough sell. Our mothers told us that about the beets. We didn't like the beets. We still don't.
But our mo...
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Encouraging curiosity is more problematic with an art form that skews toward the repertoire of only about a third of its history, and of that, stay...
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Visiting friends on a recent vacation, their 14-year-old daughter said grandly, "I think it's best to know what you like and what you don't like." ...
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In a recent essay in The New Yorker , the writer Zadie Smith looked back at a time in her life when she didn't like the music of Joni Mitchell and...
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I'm going in search of some warmer weather. My next blog post will be Tuesday, January 8. Happy Lucky 13 everyone!
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David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony pushed 2012 aside with a rollicking New Year's Eve concert, finishing the night off with Missouri Waltz ...
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Disclaimer: The St. Louis Symphony is not changing its url to stlsymphony.yaaarrrggg during Pirates of the Caribbean week.
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It's amazing how many people at the St. Louis Symphony celebrate Boxing Day. But for the rest of us, as Lou Reed said, "Some people like to go out ...
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Happy Holidays everyone. My next post will be the day after Christmas. Just a few more posts before Lucky 13 begins!
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The extraordinary a cappella group Take 6 took time out on Thursday afternoon to share some of their professional experience with St. Louis Symphon...
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The Trombones of the St. Louis Symphony have been making an annual holiday visit to the St. Agnes Home for more than fifteen years. For many years ...
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Although there is a pause between Circus Flora last weekend and A Gospel Christmas and Holiday Celebration coming this week, Symphony musicians are...
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We have something new available to you on our website. Thanks to our web wiz Travis Estes, you may find many of the articles that appear in our Pl...
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This from stagehand Joe Clapper: "It's not enough that's it's like a circus around here almost every day. Then they add a circus."
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I took a few photos of backstage props, all necessities for the Circus Flora-St. Louis Symphony concerts this weekend.
Looks like nail ...
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This is how it works. Circus Flora takes the stage for a couple days and rehearses its routines, gets its timing down. Guest conductor Alastair Wil...
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St. Louis Symphony publicist Erika Ebsworth-Goold gave this report of Circus Flora rehearsal: "At 12:12 on 12-12-12 I watched a three-legged man wa...
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I saw a man suspended in air, holding an umbrella by his foot.
Man suspended with umbrella You can too, with full orchestra added, wh...
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The last I looked the high-wire was up, with at least one bicycle on standby. More to come with Circus Flora this week.
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Orchestra, a big chorus, four soloists--you know there are a lot of people who will be working on stage for Messiah this weekend, because there a...
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