I’m back in St. Louis (there’s a production opening tonight at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, www.experienceopera.org , Mozart’s Il Re Pastore, and I’m covering it), which means that I’m watching the final round in the same way as millions of…

FORT WORTH - Saturday’s marathon at the Cliburn piano competition finals continued at 7:30 with Di Wu of China, who opened with J.S. Bach’s Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910. She gave it a lovely, light, accurate and transporting account,…

FORT WORTH - From an interesting and entertaining talk on the stage of Bass Hall, by conductor James Conlon, who’s leading the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in the concerto rounds of the Cliburn piano competition:

“Our society puts most of its…

FORT WORTH – Every four years in late May and early June, this self-proclaimed “cowtown” becomes the center of the classical piano universe. Van Cliburn, who rocked the world with his Cold War-era win of the first International Tchaikovsky Competition…