The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is accepting entries for its third annual Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Competition for Women Composers.

The international competition offers a $10,000 prize and a chance for the winner to have her work given its premiere as a…

“Whither Withering Criticism?” asks Justin Davidson in today’s MusicalAmerica.com. Davidson, the former music critic for Newsday, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2002, and currently music and architecture critic at New York Magazine, has some good points –…

This just in: Thursday, August 7th will be “Christine Brewer Day” in St. Louis.

Things are still falling into place, but this much is set: Mayor Francis Slay will read the proclamation over the air on KFUO (99.1 FM), with…

Theories about the legendary sound of the violins of Antonio Stradivari and other violin-makers in early 18th-century Cremona abound. Did they have a special way of treating the wood? Was the secret in the varnish?

A new scientific study finds…

Found on Alex Ross’s fine blog, The Rest is Noise, and worth stealing: Ben Rosen on marketing the Met.

(Singers hitting the gym is a very good thing, but can we try to remember that voice comes first?)

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Add my name to the list of WALL*E enthusiasts. It’s almost certainly the best-done computer animation film made to date. I’m a big fan of Pixar, but they’ve raised the bar several notches with this one.

It’s a brilliant, beautiful…

The Sacramento-based McClatchy chain has fired two classical music critics in recent weeks, apparently specifically targeted in the chain’s cutbacks. Paul Horsley of the Kansas City Star and Lawrence Johnson of the Miami Herald were both in cities with burgeoning…

Nine months after PR director Jeff Trammel left (nine months in which Dianne Darwin, assistant first to presdient Randy Adams and then to Fred Bronstein, filled in heroically) the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra has a new PR director. He has…

For full reviews of The Rape of Lucretia (seen at Central City Opera, 6/12) and Nixon in China (seen at Opera Colorado, 6/13) keep an eye on MusicalAmerica.com.

Lucretia is a problematic opera (although it contains some incredibly beautiful music), but it would…

“So who won, anyway?” you ask. Here’s the list:

2007 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition Winners

LASZLO MEZO-ARRUDA, CELLO
First Prize: $5,000 Grace Woodson Memorial Award

Laszlo Mezo-Arruda will perform the Lalo Cello Concerto in D minor at…