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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has canceled plans to resume concerts in August. Powell Hall has remained dark since March, when orchestra leaders began… -
Stéphane Denève will lift the baton on his second full season as music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra on Sept. 16 with a free concert in… -
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Wynton Marsalis has championed traditional jazz for decades, working many of its styles into the big-band format. In 1997, the acclaimed trumpeter,… -
This weekend’s concerts at Powell Hall are a homecoming for Leonard Slatkin in more ways than one.In addition to returning last year to live in the St.… -
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When Stéphane Denève was a 10-year-old child growing up in a small town in the north of France, he heard something he liked.A nun liked to play the pipe… -
In a cramped hallway outside Stéphane Denève’s new office at Powell Hall, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra chief executive Marie-Hélène Bernard had a warning… -
As the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra opens its 140th season this Saturday, its new music director, Stéphane Denève, is calling the season a gift to St.… -
When the St. Louis Symphony begins its 2019-20 season in September, concert-goers will notice changes orchestra managers hope will broaden its appeal.… -
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Five years ago, Kevin and Danielle McCoy were making art that wasn’t particularly political.“We made a lot of safe work,” Kevin McCoy said, “but it didn’t… -
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s music director designate, Stéphane Denève, is set to close the season this weekend with Hector Berlioz’s “most…
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