STLtoday.com has new blog software, and it should make the site easier to use for Post-Dispatch bloggers — once we figure out all of its fine points, at least. (I ask readers of Classical Music/Culture to bear with me during…

You probably didn’t read it here first — but you definitely won’t see it here last: STLToday’s blogs are getting new software.

The good news is that we’ll be able to offer some helpful new features. The bad news is…

Lorin Maazel was never seen as much more than a caretaker music director for the New York Philharmonic, but it’s turned into a seven-year run. The Phil announced its 2008-09 season on Thursday. Maazel’s last hurrah will come on June…

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“Wicked” is the rare example of a stage show that improves, in many ways, on its source material. It has humor, and a knack for giving a familiar story a sly twist. As seen on Friday night at the Fox,…

“Pope to purge the Vatican of modern music” says the headline in the U.K.’s Telegraph. A related story, by Damian Thompson, promises to explain “Why the Pope is right to purge modern music.”

As Thompson puts it, “Church music in…

I’m still out sick, so here’s a guest review from George Yeh. (One note about attendance: Powell Hall, of course, seats many hundreds more than the Pulitzer.)

Take it away, George:

At the beginning of the Pulitzer Foundation concert on…

Never mind all that fussing between Luciano Pavarotti’s second wife and his daughter by his first: Pavarotti died deeply in debt.

The CBC reports that the late tenor owed more than 18 million euros ($25 million) — and his assets…

Charles J. Budde writes:

“Why is it so difficult to obtain information about concerts going on in Saint Louis? I am speaking of serious music. KFUO consistently announces recitals and concerts that never appear on their web site. Other, so…