Issue: April 2026
With the start of the 2025–26 season, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has returned to its historic concert hall following a two-year transformational expansion and renovation. Powell Hall has served as the SLSO’s home since 1968, and the former vaudeville house and movie theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The $140 million project created the Jack C. Taylor … [Read more...]
Issue: April 2026
As we head into another CBA expiration season, I want to bring our attention back to some of the important issues that continue to trouble our industry. Too often, we treat these problems as separate from bargaining, as though they belong to some other conversation. They do not. Bargaining is where our values become policy and where our aspirations are tested against what we are actually … [Read more...]
Issue: April 2026
In Article I (Re: The Library), I laid the groundwork for something most of us already know instinctively: The library isn’t an add-on to orchestral life. It’s part of the artistry and the infrastructure that quietly holds everything together. That infrastructure—the preparation, decisions, and labor that exist long before anything happens onstage—is easy to overlook precisely because it usually … [Read more...]
