St. Louis Arts Coverage by Jeremy Goodwin
David Kovaluk
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St. Louis Public Radio
Jeremy is the arts & culture reporter at St. Louis Public Radio.
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Jazz great David Sanborn, a Kirkwood native, got his start playing teen hangouts and clubs around St. Louis. Jazz St. Louis will honor him with its first lifetime achievement award on Thursday.
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The latest round of work by local artists is now installed throughout St. Louis Lambert International Airport. Participating artists say it’s a way to achieve heightened visibility for their work.
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St. Louis Symphony will again split its concerts among several venues in its 2024-25 season, including the Stifel Theatre. Programs will include three world premieres and 20 pieces that the orchestra has never before performed.
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Music at the Intersection will return to Grand Center in September with kickoff and finale concerts, and partnerships with MvsterCamp and werQfest. Festival headliners will include Big Boi, Esperanza Spalding, Trombone Shorty and Chahka Khan.
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The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis hasn’t quite reached the $2.5 million fundraising goal it set in October, but has raised enough funds to proceed with one additional production this season and make plans for its 2024-25 season.
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The production of “Moby Dick” at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis dramatizes life on a whaling ship with the aid of aerial techniques borrowed from the circus arts.
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Keyon Harrold mixes jazz, hip-hop and R&B on this third solo album. The Ferguson-born trumpeter’s new songs reflect his quest for inner peace.
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St. Louis arts saw a lot of change in 2023, with new music venues and festivals, attendance struggles for theaters and an embattled community radio station seeing a DJ revolt. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jeremy D. Goodwin and Chad Davis recap trends from the year in the arts.
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After announcing in October the theater must raise $2.5 million by year’s end to continue its season, leaders of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis said they’ve raised $1.85 million so far.
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Richard Gaddes merely intended to advise some opera lovers about starting a new company. He wound up founding Opera Theatre of St. Louis. The visionary opera producer died Tuesday at 81.