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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The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has hired theater director Kate Bergstrom as its eighth artistic director. Bergstrom hopes to emphasize theater as a means to bring together people with different viewpoints.
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Musician Mike Mills looks back at his work with R.E.M. in “R.E.M. Explored,” a program including symphonic interpretations of the band’s songs, and Mills’ concerto written for violin, rock band and symphony orchestra.
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St. Louis-based artist Damon Davis worked with the experimental classical ensemble Alarm Will Sound to create “Ligeia Mare,” an opera based in Black musical forms. They’ll perform a 20-minute excerpt tonight in a program that also includes new music by seven other composers.
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Leaders of the IN UNISON Chorus signed a contract with Fenton-based MorningStar Music Publishers to publish and distribute original music and arrangements around the world.
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The Arctica festival draws experimental artists and performers to a spot near the St. Louis waterfront for two days every year. Organizers say the site’s new owners told them to find a new location.
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Artist Kahlil Robert Irving is a St. Louis native with two solo exhibitions in museums right now. His exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis is like an archeological dig into a contemporary urban landscape.
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The Evolution Festival will return to Forest Park for its second year. The late-September event will include performances by nearly 30 artists spread across three stages, including The Killers, Beck, Jane’s Addiction and Killer Mike.
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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra on Saturday will perform “Brahms X Radiohead,” a musical fusion by conductor/composer Steve Hackman.He said it draws on the intense anxiety present in each.
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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.