The good folks of Euclid Records in Webster Groves sent an emissary to Saturday's Bloggers' Night. Here is what she had to say. Click.

Again, I'm greatly affected by how many of our guests believed that coming to Powell was like crossing a border into a hostile country. And I greatly re-emphasize: they had a great time!

Bloggers' Night just keeps being fun on into the week. I again thank everyone who participated and for writing such great postings, and cartoons!

Trouble in River City tells the tale.

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Mike Lynch was standing inside a cold truck on a chilly November morning directing the unloading of instruments and equipment from the Chicago run-out when I arrived at the Hall today. Guitar Fest was quite a week: six concerts in six days at four venues, including the Harris Theatre in Millennium Park. I wasn't even on the Chicago trip and I'm beat. The musicians get a couple days before they launch into Mahler 9 with David Robertson Wednesday morning.

We sent out an invite to a number of local bloggers to come to Saturday night's concert, and as of about an hour before the show about nine are scheduled to arrive. They've been asked to post their responses to the SLSO experience in whatever form they choose (there is at least one cartoonist and one video blogger among us) and then I will link to their postings via the SLSO blog. I hope to have some postings for you Monday.

Thursday night David Robertson and the SLSO played the Pageant Theatre, in St. Louis' Loop District, a hip-and-happening part of the city, which is actually mostly University City, near Wash. U., with restaurants, retail, a movie theater, a bowling alley, Vintage Vinyl, the St. Louis Walk-of-Fame (you'll find stars in the sidewalk and mini-bios of such notable St. Louisans as T.S. Eliot and Tina Turner), and the one and only Blueberry Hill--to name a few of the things that make the Loop special.

A fellow blogger recently wrote asking me if the Palins really came to Powell Hall, as I wrote in the slso blog. I wondered what he was talking about and then remembered--the Palins of Halloween Night.

As I am writing this, something less than 100 electric guitarists are rehearsing Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 13, "Hallucination City." This afternoon, following the Stravinsky/Mackey rehearsal, a steady stream of unfamiliar musicians (other than David Robertson and a few others) made their way to the stage carrying their axes and their amps. They will be going at it until around midnight tonight, and I think the same tomorrow.

A blog reader writes:

I know I promised to put up Halloween pictures this week, but, alas, with Guitar Festival week dead ahead (and everything else) we've been scurrying around the hall to prepare. I know people who may be sleeping on cots in their offices next week. We'll try to get the pictures up soon.