Editing Gateway Arch (section)

===Cultural references===
* Dutch composer [[Peter Schat]] wrote a 1997 work, ''Arch Music for St. Louis'', Op. 44.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Eisler |first=Edith |date=May–June 1999 |title=Choice Concerts: Soloists, Duos, and Trios in New York |journal=Strings |volume=13 |issue=78 |url=http://www.stringsmagazine.com/issues/strings78/reviews.html |access-date=February 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105080118/http://www.stringsmagazine.com/issues/Strings78/reviews.html |archive-date=January 5, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="peterschat">{{cite web |url=http://www.peterschat.nl/prognote.html#ARCHuk |title=Program Notes: Arch Music for St. Louis, Op. 44 (1997) |last=Schat |first=Peter |work=peterschat.nl |access-date=February 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724163019/http://www.peterschat.nl/prognote.html |archive-date=July 24, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> for the [[St. Louis Symphony Orchestra]]. It premiered on January 8, 1999, at the [[Powell Symphony Hall]]. Since Schat did not ascend the arch due to his fear of heights, he used his creativity to depict in music someone riding a tram to the top of the arch.<ref name="peterschat"/>
* [[Paul Muldoon]]'s poem, "The Stoic", is set under the Gateway Arch. The work, "an elegy for a miscarried foetus<!--This is the correct British spelling. Please do not change it to "fetus."-->",<ref name="Twiddy">{{cite journal |last=Twiddy |first=Iain |year=2006 |title=Grief Brought to Numbers: Paul Muldoon's Circular Elegies |journal=English |volume=55 |issue=212 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |doi=10.1093/english/55.212.181 |pages=181–199 }}</ref> describes Muldoon's ordeal standing under the Gateway Arch after his wife telephoned and informed him that the baby they were expecting had been miscarried.
* [[Percy Jackson]] encounters [[Echidna (mythology)|Echidna]] and the [[Chimera (mythology)|Chimera]] in the Gateway Arch in ''[[The Lightning Thief]]'' and its [[Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV series)|television adaptation]], after he, [[Grover Underwood]], and [[Annabeth Chase]] visit the Arch during their trip to California to recover the Master Bolt. Percy faces the Chimera, jumps over 200 meters (600 ft.) out of the Arch, and falls into the Mississippi River.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fox2now.com/news/st-louis-arch-to-play-a-pivotal-role-in-new-disney-show/ |title=St. Louis Arch to play a pivotal role in a new Disney+ show |work=[[KTVI]] |last=Millitzer |first=Joe |date=June 29, 2021 |access-date=August 7, 2022 |archive-date=August 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807193309/https://fox2now.com/news/st-louis-arch-to-play-a-pivotal-role-in-new-disney-show/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* A damaged Gateway Arch is prominently featured in ''[[Defiance (TV series)|Defiance]]'', a science fiction television series. The apex is used as a radio station studio, with the arch itself acting as the station's [[Antenna (radio)|antenna]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/television/gail-pennington/defiance-imagines-aliens-humans-in-st-louis/article_bc2d16c8-0d39-50eb-841b-fa86c1aa120a.html |title='Defiance' imagines aliens, humans in 2046 St. Louis |date=April 14, 2013 |access-date=July 12, 2015 |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |last=Pennington |first=Gail }}</ref>