“Sarah Bryan Miller, whose passion for classical music took her from performing on the opera stage to reviewing world-class orchestras, died at home Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, of cancer. She was 68,” write Amy Bertrand and Jane Henderson in Saturday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “She was the classical music critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch—the first woman in that role—but also explored other interests in her writing.… In 2002, the Post-Dispatch nominated Ms. Miller for a Pulitzer Prize for her series of articles and columns on the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra’s [financial] crisis…. Born in Kansas City, she was the daughter of the late Thomas Wade Hampton Miller III and Eleanor Cosens Simons Miller. She grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas, where she sang her first public solo in a preschool program at age 4.… She attended Carthage College, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with a double major in history and English and a double minor in music and education…. She built a career as a mezzo-soprano, taking principal roles at Chicago Opera Theatre and other area companies.… Ms. Miller started writing professionally … at a small weekly paper and quickly became a regular at the Chicago Reader and Chicago Tribune.” She is survived by two daughters and a brother.
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