St. Louis Arts Coverage by Jeremy Goodwin

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin will celebrate his birthday with concerts that showcase his support for contemporary composers and up-and-coming musicians.

Chuck Berry’s family and former bandmates have launched a two-year project to celebrate the late rock ‘n’ roll legend’s music.

Graham Nash is touring behind his first solo album in seven years. After the breakup of Crosby, Stills and Nash, he sees renewed relevance in his classic songs and expresses a sense of renewed purpose in his latest work.

The newly launched St. Louis Film Project will offer $500,000 in grants to help applicants finish their film or TV projects. It’s a partnership between RAC and Continuity.

Ken Page, a St. Louis native who made it big on Broadway and became the voice of the Muny, died Monday.

Sarah Silverman is long accustomed to finding unlikely laughs in weighty topics like illness and the Holocaust. She’ll debut “Postmortem,” a stand-up show inspired by the death of her parents, at the Stifel Theatre on Thursday.

St. Louis Symphony’s Jack C. Taylor Music Center will encompass a renovated Powell Hall plus new facilities including an education center and rehearsal spaces. SLSO will resume concerts at its longtime home in September 2025.

A quintet of jazz players assembled for Music at the Intersection will pay tribute to the indelible contribution of jazz musicians and educators from the east side of the river.

Headliners at Music at the Intersection include genre-busting jazz phenom Esperanza Spalding. The festival will take over Grand Center this weekend.

Members of Canaan Wellspring and leaders of the St. Louis Arts Fair agree the Palestinian dance troupe won’t perform at the annual event this weekend. Why not? That’s where they differ.