Tsunami Benefit Goes On Despite Work Stoppage

This week, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will perform a benefit concert to aid the victims of the Asian tsunami. The event is notable because the SLSO is still technically on strike. (Or locked out, depending on whom you ask.) However, anyone hoping that the concert could lead to a reconciliation between musicians and management will probably be disappointed: the benefit, which was organized entirely by the musicians, won’t be held at the orchestra’s home at Powell Symphony Hall, and the official SLSO web site contains no information on the benefit.