Features

Peabody Dance celebrates a century of being at the leading edge of an American art form.

by Rachel Wallach
Spring 2015

If this were a movie, it would open with a montage blending Peabody's Grand Arcade with Homewood's Gilman Hall with the Maryland Institute College of Arts' Brown Center. As the upbeat, slightly edgy music swells, a new image materializes: an enormous white 1930s-era building on Baltimore's North Avenue, just east of Charles Street in the burgeoning Station North Arts and Entertainment District.

by Rachel Wallach
Fall 2014

As the concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony, David Halen frequently arrived at work early in preparation for an upcoming performance. But no matter when he arrived each evening–7:30, 7:15, 7:00–one guy was always there before him: Fred Bronstein.

by Michael Blumfield
Fall 2014