St. Louis Walk of Fame April Inductions Announced

ST. LOUIS - March 2, 2015 - PRLog -- What:   Induction Ceremonies of the St. Louis Walk of Fame
Ceremonies are about 15 minutes.   A four-piece ragtime band will play prior.

Who:     Christine Brewer – in person!  Apr. 29, 2015
6134 Delmar in The Loop

Who:     Frankie Muse Freeman – in person! April 16, 2015
6138 Delmar in The Loop

Who:     Lee Falk –widow+daughter flying in to accept!Apr. 28, 2015
6142 Delmar in The Loop

Where: see above three addresses

When:  11:30 am      Free to the public!

CHRISTINE BREWER (BORN:  OCTOBER 26, 1955)
Soprano Christine Brewer began her career singing in the choruses of the St. Louis Symphony and Opera Theatre of St. Louis.  After winning the Metropolitan Opera Auditions and the Richard Tucker Award in 1989, Brewer performed with top symphonies and operas around the world, including debuts with the Royal Opera in 1993 and Metropolitan Opera in 2003.    A preeminent interpreter of Wagner and Strauss, Brewer showed her versatility with a 2006 Grammy Award for Songs of Innocence and Experience, a recording of contemporary material.   A meticulous yet down-to-earth artist blessed with a golden voice, Christine Brewer was named one of the 20 greatest sopranos of all time by BBC Music Magazine in 2007.

FRANKIE MUSE FREEMAN (BORN:  November 24, 1916)
Frankie Muse Freeman began a celebrated legal career that spanned 60 years when she opened a private practice in St. Louis in 1949.   Freeman was lead counsel in the 1954 landmark NAACP suit against the St. Louis Housing Authority, which ended legal segregation of public housing.  In 1964 Freeman became the first woman appointed to the US Commission on Civil Rights and contributed to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.   Inducted into the National Bar Association’s Hall of Fame in 1990, the Civil Rights Walk of Fame in 2007 and the recipient of the NAACP’s prestigious Spingarn Medal in 2011, Frankie Muse Freeman courageously fought for justice her entire career.

LEE FALK (Born:  April 28, 1911 / Died:  March 13, 1999)
Writer and cartoonist Lee Falk, originally named Leon Harrison Gross, was born and raised in St. Louis.   Falk created and wrote the comic strip Mandrake the Magician, which debuted in 1934 and featured a stage magician who used hypnosis and magic to fight evildoers.  In 1936 Falk premiered The Phantom, the first masked, costumed superhero of the comics, pre-dating both Superman and Batman.  Syndicated worldwide, at their height the strips boasted over 100 million readers per day.  Falk also wrote novels and plays, and he directed or produced over 300 stage productions.  One of the greats of the Golden Age of Comics, Lee Falk thrilled readers with daily doses of mystery and adventure until his death in 1999.

St. Louis Walk of Fame - (314) 727-STAR - www.stlouiswalkoffame.org
The St. Louis Walk of Fame is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 to provide a showcase for the cultural heritage of St. Louis and to advance the knowledge, awareness and appreciation of creative St. Louisans and their achievements and contributions.  Set in the sidewalks of The Loop, it is open 24 hours a day and is free.

There are 140+ sets of stars and plaques.  Great St. Louisans honored include Tennessee Williams, Chuck Berry, Miles Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Stan Musial, T.S. Eliot, Tina Turner, John Goodman, Bob Costas, Josephine Baker, Yogi Berra, Betty Grable, Jack Buck, Maya Angelou, Lou Brock, Shelley Winters, Charles Lindbergh, Nelly, Vincent Price, Joseph Pulitzer, Grace Bumbry, and Cedric the Entertainer.

Info for the media, please contact:  Joe Edwards at 314-727-0110

With support of the Regional Arts Commission
With the support of Emerson