Tonight I attended my third (and probably last, since my Junior Child is now an eighth grader, and will move on to high school in the fall) “Fine Arts Festival” at a middle school in West County.

These are get-there-early…

It’s a big night for conductor Leonard Slatkin, composer Joan Tower and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, whose “Tower: Made in America” won three Grammy awards, including “Best Classical Album.” It’s a big night for Naxos, their label, as well.

This…

For decades, some people have trivialized the horrors of Stalinism by putting McCarthyism in the same league. We can now update that comparison: the music director of the New York Philharmonic, Loren Maazel, has compared the United States to North…

The new chairman of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra is Ned Lemkemeier, a partner at Bryan Cave, who specializes in representing employers in labor law.

Those who know him well characterize him as “generous,” “well-respected,” “a straight shooter,” “a deal-maker.”…

Some of us have been afraid of this all along: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra chairman of the board Cynthia J. Brinkley will leave St. Louis, and the chairmanship. She has accepted the new position of Senior Vice President, Talent Development…

Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced that Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez has had to cancel all his performances in the company’s production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia: the company announced on Thursday that he has a serious throat…

When Randy Adams retired as president of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra without leaving a successor in place, it left his assistant, Dianne Darwin, without a boss. When Jeff Trammel, the SLSO’s director of public relations and media, took another…

The dates haven’t been released yet, but the 2008-09 Carnegie Hall programs for David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra have been. Extracted from the news release from Carnegie Hall:

‘…David Robertson leads the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in…

NOTE: Due to a space shortage in Sunday’s A&E section, this story had to be cut severely. Here’s the whole thing.

It may be strange, but it’s gorgeous.

The music of Olivier Messiaen, that is. Messiaen was the most important…

Designer André Barbe, one-half (with director Renaud Doucet) of the Montreal-based creative team that gave Opera Theatre of St. Louis its delightful production of André Grétry’s Zémire et Azor (aka Beauty and the Beast) and is now working on The…