With the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s performances of Orff’s “Carmina burana” this weekend, and with regular listeners (who can be excused) and radio announcers (who cannot) all mispronouncing the title, it’s time to repeat The Word from Latin teachers: it’s…

When I was a girl in the Kansas City suburb of Prairie Village, Kansas, we studied state history while tiptoeing lightly around two of the most interesting characters: Carrie Nation and John Brown.

Nation, who took her tomahawk into saloons…

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has a new resident conductor and Youth Symphony music director.

He’s Ward Stare, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s League of American Orchestra’s Conducting Fellow. The former principal trombone of Lyric Opera of Chicago, Stare, a Juilliard…

It’s potentially great news for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: they’ve got a new music director, and he’s one of the best.

Riccardo Muti will be the CSO’s 10th music director, with a five-year contract to begin in the 2010-2011 season.…

IF YOU GO: Marin Alsop and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Powell Symphony Hall, 718 N. Grand

3 p.m. Sunday, April 28

$15.50 to $105; 314-534-1700 or www.slso.org

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has made an art of well-constructed programs…

No, tenor Juan Diego Florez didn’t do an encore to “Ah, mes amis,” despite a long and lusty accolade from the beyond-appreciative crowd. But he did just about everything else in a manner calculated to please the far-flung audiences of…

Concertgoers and others heading to Grand Center now have another worry: traffic for St. Louis University’s Chaifetz Arena.

A steady stream of cars heading for the Arena on Friday night clogged the highway and Compton Avenue, and made some ticket…

Haruka and Ayako Watanabe have been an important part of the St. Louis musical scene for over four decades. He’s a member of the first violin section of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; she was the regular second harp. They…

The flowers are blooming, and so are the audition announcements. This year’s concert season may be ending, but the area’s musical organizations are already gearing up for next fall. Here are three choruses and an orchestra:

The St. Louis Symphony…

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a page-one feature on an endangered species: the prompter. Prompters help to save singers’ musical lives, by being on the spot with musical cues and words where needed. But opera houses are using fewer of…