Wednesday (10/17) on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch blog Culture Club, Sarah Bryan Miller writes, “Baseball fans attending Game 3 of the NLCS at Busch Stadium this afternoon will see and hear the world premiere of a new video by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, as two of the city’s best-known institutions join forces. The 2 ½ minute video, to be shown on the jumbo screen in center field, features music director David Robertson conducting the musicians of the SLSO, all clad in red, in Richard Hayman’s arrangement of ‘Meet Me in St. Louis.’ The lyrics are superimposed so that the fans can sing along. … A video team from the Cardinals went to Powell Symphony Hall on the morning of Sept. 25 to film, in a session squeezed in between rehearsals for the orchestra’s opening weekend. On Tuesday, [Vice President for External Affairs Adam] Crane, publicist Erika Ebsworth-Goold and two executives from the League of American Orchestras went to Busch to review the final product. … It was a year in the making, she noted. ‘Last year, when the Cardinals made their improbable and unbelievable World Series run, the Symphony was there to offer musical support and became a bit of a good luck charm.’ The Cards won every game for which the SLSO provided musical support.”
Photo by Jay Golan
Posted October 18, 2012
