Touhill Performing Arts Center

St. Louis Storytelling Festival Offers Programs For All Ages

Mary Edwards and Alex Heuer — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:35:46 +0000

For the 34^th year, the University of Missouri – St. Louis School of Professional and Continuing Studies presents a four-day festival highlighting the art of storytelling. From May 1 – 4, six featured storytellers from across the nation join fifty storytellers from the St. Louis region to present more than one hundred events in a host of locations including the Gateway Arch, the Missouri History Museum and numerous libraries, parks and bookstores in St. Louis and St. Charles Counties.

Alarm Will Sound Remembers The Year 1969

Mary Edwards and Alex Heuer — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:48:20 +0000

In the late 1990’s Eastman School of Music students Gavin Chuck and Alan Pierson saw the need for a top notch ensemble to perform their compositions and other contemporary music. They set to work and formed the student ensemble Ossia. One of their more notable concerts was one in 1999 that featured music by Steve Reich which the composer attended. After the concert, Reich expressed to the group his desire for an American new music ensemble that would be equivalent to England’s London Sinfonietta or Germany’s Ensemble Modern.

Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival Celebrates 10 Years

Mary Edwards and Alex Heuer — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:13:38 +0000

From April 18^th through 20th, the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival will bring some of the greatest names in professional jazz to the stage as well as provide training opportunities for some 800 students. In its tenth year, the festival has grown to be one of the most significant festivals in the Midwest. Founded in 2004 by the University of Missouri – St. Louis and the Touhill Performing Arts Center, the festival last year added a partnership with Jazz St. Louis.

Larger-Than-Life Production Of ‘Carmina Burana’ At The Touhill

Mary Edwards and Alex Heuer — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:51:57 +0000

When a symphony orchestra performs Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana,” it’s always something of a spectacle. The stage is packed to the brim with a large orchestra including two pianos and celeste, vocal soloists, a chorus and children’s chorus. But Nashville Ballet Artistic Director Paul Vasterling’s vision of “Carmina Burana” employing 120 singers, 60 orchestral musicians and 40 dancers takes the work to new proportions.