Robert W. Duffy
Robert W. Duffy reported on arts and culture for St. Louis Public Radio from 2013-2016. He had a 32-year career at the Post-Dispatch, then helped to found the St. Louis Beacon, which merged in 2013 with St. Louis Public Radio. He wrote about the visual arts, music, architecture and urban design throughout his career. An archive if his writing for the St. Louis Beacon can be found here, along with his stories for STLPR.
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If you looked across a crowded room at a party and saw Perry Bascom, you might get the impression that he was just another unreconstructed preppy on his… -
“If you didn’t know better you’d think we were prescient.”Washington University history professor Jean Allman was talking about a new cross-disciplinary… -
Remember the big flood of 1993, and how it seemed eternal?Remember how it felt to hear – just when it seemed the worst was over – that 51 propane tanks,… -
We confront trouble in various ways, and the most destructive of them and wasteful of them is violence. Certainly, tragically, the death of Michael Brown… -
Going into the inner city and taking a hike through the abandoned Pruitt-Igoe public housing site could be regarded as a lark, but once the hike is… -
Ralph Lowenbaum didn’t get a news obituary either in the morning paper or here at St. Louis Public Radio. News editors, rightly, ask “What did he or she…
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Thirty-one years ago, Opera Theatre of St. Louis pulled off a season that resounds in memory as an artistic volcano, a bonanza, an operatic gold mine, a… -
When confronted with apparently transcendent genius, the predictable mere-mortal inclination is to concentrate attention and fascination on the person… -
There is a big-man-size hole in the heart of St. Louis’ Circus Flora, a vacancy left by the death of Ivor David Balding last month at 75. Balding was the… -
Mozart’s Songspiel “The Magic Flute” functions at the summit of human achievement as one of the most affecting and popular works in the history of this… -
In writing about the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary American cities, the word infrastructure frequently issues forth from the keyboard.… -
It’s not as if everyone were oblivious to the architecture of the middle of the 20th century in St. Louis before current interest in it took hold.…
