Saint Louis In Tune

The 7th Annual Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis has multiple events planned highlighed by this season's performance of The Rose Tattoo, a not to be missed production of Williams' romantic comedy, seen through the lens of an Italian one-ring circus! The season hosts more about Tennesse Williams and Italy including panel discussions, a film, short plays, and a bocce ball tournament! Executive Artistic Director Carrie Houk, provides key insight into the plans for another successful season!

This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com

#tennesseewilliams #italy #playwright #rosetattoo #stlouis

Immortalized by the writing of its most famous resident, Sam Clemens aka Mark Twain, Hannibal is known around the world as much for its history as for the characters it birthed. Enjoy a guided walk through that history in America’s Hometown. You might take the opportunity to trace the paths of the childhood adventures that Mark Twain shared through the stories of Tom and Huck. Or use Hannibal: A Walk through History to carve out your own adventure! 

Local author and tour director Dea Hoover deftly guides you around her birthplace like an old friend and her carefully planned walks will inspire you to explore life along the Mississippi and create memories that last a lifetime.

This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com

#Hannibal #MarkTwain #SamuelClemens #TomSawyer #HuckFinn #BeckyThatcher #Missouri

Rivermont Records, a Virginia-based label that specializes in early jazz and ragtime, is proud to announce the premiere release of One Step to Chicago, a 14-track album that features an all-star lineup of jazz music legends. Recorded in 1992 and then laid aside until now, the album is the product of legendary producer George Avakian. Avakian brought three generations of jazz giants together in RCA’s New York studio to record the exciting music of Frank Teschemacher (a pioneering jazz clarinetist of the late 1920s) and the Austin High Gang. The album features a Who's Who of notable jazz instrumentalists, including pianist/arranger Dick Hyman, clarinetists Kenny Davern and Dan Levinson, guitarist Marty Grosz, Grammy-winning bass saxophonist Vince Giordano and nearly a dozen more.

Bryan Wright, the founder and executive producer of Rivermont, says about the album, “This extraordinary recording documents the once-in-a-lifetime meeting of so many jazz greats — all playing in top form and recorded in state-of-the-art sound under Avakian’s personal guidance. All-star bands don’t always work artistically, but here, the chemistry is palpable. The musicians blend beautifully and sound as if they are having the time of their lives.”

One Step to Chicago was released on July 15, 2022, in deluxe CD and vinyl packages.

[00:50] Background

[02:12] Definition of Ragtime

[04:15] We don't use the word Dixieland

[07:45] Discovering the recordings

• George Avakian
• Dick Hyman
• New York Public Library

[14:27] More on George Avakian and Chicago Jazz

[18:05] Two different bands performed

• Dick Hyman's band-note for note creation
• Kenny Davern's band-spirit of the original but their own interpretations

[22:11] Details of the package

• Photos
• Details of the performers and sessions in an 80-page book
• CD, digital, or vinyl

[26:37] Surprise it was never released

[27:53] Jazz Styles

[31:34] Bryan Wright's interest in ragtime

• Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival

[36:07] Jazz songs and the lyrics

[39:49] Show-Me the homeland of ragtime

[40:44] Great Jazz musicians working together

• Thoughts on why this worked
• Behind-the-scenes information about the sessions

This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com

#jazz #georgeavakian #danlevinson #bryanwright #chicagostyle #ragtime #clarinet #rivermontrecords

"A New Home" is an informative documentary that tells the story of the Bosnian refugees who fled to St. Louis in the early ’90s. It examines their impact on our community and offers a retrospective overview of the war and resulting genocide. The St. Louis area is home to more displaced Bosnians than any other city in the world — perhaps more than 75,000. This 30-year diaspora has benefited the metro area in a multiplicity of ways.

“A New Home” is director Joseph Puleo’s much-anticipated follow-up to his wildly popular “America’s Last Little Italy: The Hill,” which screened virtually during the 2020 editions of both the Showcase and the St. Louis International Film Festival.

This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com

"Night Life" is an inspiring documentary that tells the story of the Rev. Kenneth McKoy, known to St. Louis as the “Pastor of the Streets.” The Night Life Ministry, whose participants walk the streets of North St. Louis at night, fights an epidemic of mental illness and drug addiction, actively interrupting gun violence with McKoy’s motto: “Our love for our people and belief in our convictions is stronger than our own fear of death.”

Seth Ferranti vividly documents the North Side’s poverty and homelessness, its drug addicts and dealers, and its gangbangers and prostitutes; but Ferranti also reveals the seldom seen side filled with hope, love, consideration, and caring. This film is part of the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.

This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com

Lakesha Glover describes her role as part of the cast of Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea which runs at the Black Rep from July 6-23 at Edison Theatre on the campus of Washington University. Lakesha also gives some background on her career as an actor, producer, and her show Rosebud by her production company, Tootsie Productions.

This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com

#blackrep #dontrellwhokissedthesea #theatre #stlouis #lakeshaglover #washingtonu #neworleans #nathanalandavis

Not far from where Dred and Harriet Scott submitted the freedom suit which ultimately became a historic Supreme Court case, stands a new memorial commemorating all freedom suits filed by slaves in St. Louis between 1812 and 1865. Freedom's Home, the name given to the sculpture by the artist Preston Jackson, is the hard work of many specifically The Honorable Judge David C. Mason. Saint Louis In Tune discussed the upcoming unveiling of the sculpture with Judge Mason and sculptor Preston Jackson and the meaning for all.

[01:00] Judge David C. Mason Interview

• Timeframe of Project

[02:01] What is a Freedom Suit?

[06:15] Plaintiffs, defendants, attorneys

[08:45] What was legal and upheld in court all of a sudden changed

[13:46] The discovery of the Freedom Suits files stored in boxes

[19:49] A few more details

[21:02] Choosing a sculptor

[24:45] What should be the takeaway for people who view the memorial?

[26:34] Donations; a virtual learning system planned

[31:12] A current story of change

[36:57] Preston Jackson Interview

[37:42] Researching for the sculpture

[39:28] Challenge of the sculpture

[40:47] Process from start to finish

[42:32] Time from start to finish

[45:05] Perspectives of the sculpture views

[46:02] Takeaway from the artist's viewpoint

This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com

#dredscott #harriettscott #supremecourt #stlouis #courts #freedomsuits

What do Phyllis Diller, Charlotte Peters, Martha Mason, Harry Carey, Tennessee Williams, and Ulysses S. Grant have in common? Amazing Webster Groves! Award-winning author, journalist, former editor of the Webster-Kirkwood Times, St. Louis Media Hall of Fame Member, and Professor Emeritus at Webster University Don Corrigan highlights the who, what, when, where, why, and how in this book published by Reedy Press.

This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com

Celebrate Juneteenth in the Delmar Loop with art, music, and food. The event will open with a Drum Call by Baba Kunma. Performances include African Mascarade-Mask to Stilts, African Dance by Spirit Angel of African Dance, and Red Black & Brass Band. DJ KP will be the dj for the event.

Look for live art including a community mural painting and activities at St. Louis Artworks.

Fun for the whole family with bounce houses, Face Painting, Henna Painting, Science Lab, art activities, 360 Photo Booth, and Balloon Makers.

Food for sale by local restaurants including AAA Fish House, Krab Kingz, Palomino Lounge, and Vails Brothers.

For more information, click here.

This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com

The media industry is no exception when it comes to desiring a skilled and diverse workforce yet like numerous other companies, finding content creators, filmmakers, and crew members of different backgrounds, ethnicities, races, ages, identities, and neurodivergence can be quite challenging. To help meet this demand, Continuity, a St. Louis based non-profit, created one-day workshops to teach people the basic skills and networking they need to start working in the media industry. Its mission is to expand diversity in media production through skills-based training, mentorship, and opportunities for untapped talent.

On Saturday, June 11th, Continuity will be holding its second Set Basics Workshop at Spot Content Studio in south St Louis City. Jacob Kurtz discusses the workshop which is sponsored by the Missouri Film Office and provides 30 attendees an intense 10-hour day to learn set etiquette, how a film set works and how to find work. Attendance is by invitation only and those interested must submit an application online.

The Set Basics Workshop will be held in Kansas City in the Fall and offered again locally one more time before the end of the year. Continuity will continue offering the workshops in multiple cities in the years that follow with various dates projected in 2023. To learn more about Continuity, go to www.continuitystl.org.

This is Season 5! For more episodes, go to stlintune.com