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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A St. Louis bassoon brigade is heading from Grand Center to Marissa, Ill., on Tuesday. Well, it was heading there on Feb. 4, but a forecast of snow and… -
When word came that four former Post-Dispatch people were being inducted into the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame, we asked our own Robert W. Duffy to… -
Eugene Mackey III was a college sophomore in 1958, pursuing a degree in English at St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minn., when all of a sudden his… -
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 2, 2013 - The Carnegie Hall epiphany is one of a number of moments of extraordinary…
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This article originally appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. - Adolphus Busch Orthwein, a great-grandson of the legendary Adolphus Busch, founder of… -
This article originally appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. - NEW YORK - All is metaphor.From the embroidery floss used by Ellen Orford to draw the anchor… -
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. - When music director David Robertson takes the podium Saturday to lead the St. Louis Symphony and… -
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 11, 2013 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they…
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I am closing in on fly-away time, I guess, if the calculations of Moses are right. In the life of an oldster, my age, 68, peeks around the chronological…
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This article originally appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 3, 2013: This time almost a year ago, I was in Oxford, England, and on a stroll through…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 27, 2013 - Lex and Lux are a vowel away from being the same word. In interesting ways, the two –…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: Lex and Lux are a vowel away from being the same word. In interesting ways, the two – Latin for law,…
