The members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra are home from this season’s Carnegie Hall adventure; communications director Adam Crane reports that the pilot of the plane on which his SLSO contingent flew greeted the players, and offered congratulations on…

(This is the unedited version of the review that will appear on STLToday and in Sunday’s A&E section.)
There’s no real secret about David Robertson’s true musical love: he is most engaged by works that pique his voluminous curiosity and challenge…

Reacting to a huge uproar over a recent story in Bloomberg News on stagehands making CEO-worthy paychecks - $530,044 in the case of the chief stagehand, with five men earning a total of $2.3 million - Carnegie’s executive and artistic director,…

Don’t ever doubt that stagehands belong to an important union: according to Bloomberg News, the chief stagehand at Carnegie Hall earned $530,044 in salary and benefits during the fiscal year that concluded in June 2008. The other full-timers made an…

Yesterday, it was announced that James Levine, music director of both the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, had to withdraw from several performances because of sudden unexpected back surgery.

Today two more substitutes were named. Edo de Waart, a…

James Levine

Indefatigable conductor James Levine, music director of both the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has withdrawn from several performances with both institutions due to what the the BSO’s press release called “immediate unanticipated back surgery for a…

Take that, Webster Groves: The Kirkwood High School Symphonic Orchestra, under the direction of instrumental music teacher and orchestra director Patrick Jackson, is one of just three high school orchestras selected to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City…

St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, 3 p.m. Sunday, May 3. Powell Symphony Hall, 718 North Grand Boulevard. $8 to $14 in advance; $10 to $18 day of concert. 314-534-1700 or www.slso.org.

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s resident conductor, Ward Stare, helped…

A St. Louis native, Andrew Chester, was among those selected - by online audition - for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Chester studied tuba with Gary Lipsutz of the St. Louis Brass Band, and was a member of the St. Louis…

The repercussions of H.K. Gruber’s non-arrival in New York for last Friday night’s concert with David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra continue to echo. Thanks to Robertson’s last-minute debut as a singer/kazooist in Zankel Hall, he and the…