The St. Louis Chamber Chorus’ latest recording, “Saint Louis Commissions,” has won widespread recognition for the locally-based a cappella choir. Along with a review in the Post-Dispatch, the disc has been favorably reviewed by the International Record Review, American Record…

With James Levine out for the summer (unlike Mark Mulder, there is hope that he’ll return in six weeks’ time in top form) due to surgery, various substitutes are being called in.

The first one in is former St. Louis…

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra started its summertime “Casual Classics” series in order to broaden its appeal and bring in some revenue. It did far better than expected with both goals.

The four-concert series, which began on two Friday nights…

When Sacramento-based McClatchy Corp. decided to cut 10% of its newsroom employees, its classical music critics — Paul Horsley at the Kansas City Star and Larry Johnson of the Miami Herald — were among those fired.

The burgeoning Kansas City…

James Levine, music director of both the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has withdrawn from the rest of the summer Tanglewood Festival in order to have a kidney removed. Here’s the press release:

BSO MUSIC DIRECTOR JAMES LEVINE…

Webster University has a new music department chairman: he’s Jeffrey Carter, whose background is as a singer, voice teacher and choral director.

Carter’s a smart and charming man with deep Missouri roots — and a degree from the University of…

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…

HOUSTON- How often do I get to be a judge?

“How about ‘Week in, week out’?” retorted Aurelie Desmarais, the senior director for artistic planning at the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

Okay, fair enough. I’m a professional critic, after all. But…

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…