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On Nov. 16, 2020, I started as public information officer for the STL County prosecuting attorney. My tweets before that date are my personal problems.
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Focus on the 4th leads to night of magical chamber music

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By Chris King
| St. Louis American
The Chamber Music Society of St. Louis programmed their final show of an exciting season around the date of the concert, May 4, as in, may the 4th be with you. There were a lot of 4s and quartets. The first half of the concert paired two compositions that counted as an Opus 4: Arcangelo (coolest name, ever) Corelli’s Sonata a Quattro for Trumpet and Strings and Benjamin Britten’s Simple Symphony, Op. 4.
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Viola gets rare spotlight in SLSO’s Live at the Sheldon

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By Chris King
| St. Louis American
The viola is the odd instrument out in an orchestra’s string section. It is not the diva violin, it is not the moody cello, and it is not the burly double bass. Musicians love to make fun of instruments they don’t play and those who do play them, but the viola joke literature is especially robust. A high school physics teacher who plays the much-maligned instrument in two regional orchestras maintains three webpages of viola insults (that have all been translated into Japanese). Here is one.
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Remembering the Publisher of “The Riverfront Times” and “St. Louis Magazine”

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By Chris King, Ben Fulton, John Griswold 
| The Common Reader
Ray Hartmann, who died in a car crash on April 23 at age 73, launched the careers of many journalists and scribes who got their first byline in The Riverfront Times or St. Louis Magazine when Ray owned those publications. They will mourn him and tell their stories. This is mine. I make no pretense of writing a news obituary of this complicated and provocative man. Rather, this is a memoir of his impact on my life, which endures in every word I write for publication.
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