All three pieces were born in anguish — James Lee III's "Emotive Transformations," Jean Sibelius’ 1903 Violin Concerto in D Minor and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D Minor.
Nut Cracking It’s black walnut time in the Ozarks. Nature makes you work for every bit of nut meat you claw from those shells. The old saying: “It’s a tough nut to crack” must’ve come from old-timers struggling to get to the inside of a black walnut. This time of year, it’s not unusual to...
Even as nursing homes worked through the summer to get Missouri over the halfway mark in employee vaccinations, the state fell further behind peers, dropping to last in the nation. …
The steeple of the former Second Baptist Church at 500 North Kingshighway, the future home of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame-Missouri, was damaged by flames Oct. 26.