James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, had to bow out of his summer duties at the Tanglewood Festival in order to have a kidney removed.

The originally reported cause of the removal was…

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…

If you’re interested in finding out what’s going on in the orchestral world from an instrumentalists’-eye view, check out Myauditions.com . (The 7/8 Post-Dispatch story on the new Wachovia Securities sponsorship is the lead on the homepage at this writing.)…

James Levine, music director of both the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has withdrawn from the rest of the summer Tanglewood Festival in order to have a kidney removed.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

It’s a boy for St. Louis Symphony Orchestra president Fred Bronstein and his wife, Liz: two weeks ago, they adopted a Nevada-born, ethnic-Chinese baby who now bears the bigger-than-he-is name of Max Russell Jing-qi Bronstein.

The infant Max, now a…

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…

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…