“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…

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…

Late-arriving announcements of concerts you should know about. This brief is for Sunday’s A&E section, but you might want to plan further ahead:

Symphony Mondays: 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Birth of Olivier Messiaen
Members of the St. Louis Symphony…

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…

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…

The musical part of the program for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Powell Symphony Hall 40th birthday celebration has been announced:

“Solace” by Scott Joplin, performed by Barbara Liberman

The first and last movements of Symphanie Espagnole by Lalo, with…

In honor of Powell Symphony Hall’s 40th anniversary on January 24 as the home of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, I offer the following fun figures.

Year built (as St. Louis Theatre): 1925

Original number of seats: 3,500

Number of…

The best thing about “Doctor Atomic,” seen Tuesday night at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is John Adams’s music. The second best thing was librettist/director Peter Sellars’s pre-performance lecture.

It was classic Sellars: passion, humor, fun facts aplenty, outrageousness, and a…

I visited Chicago to see John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” at Lyric Opera of Chicago — but while there, I got a welcome chance to catch “La Traviata” as well.

“Traviata” is one of the most frequently performed operas in the…

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…