The Fun Theory, according to Volkswagen, is that if you make something that’s good for you into fun, more people will be likely to go along.

The theory seems to be borne out in a video that’s going viral: Working overnight,…

Remember the Walkman? Remember the excitement when you could first take your music with you even when you stepped out of your car?

Earbuds?!?

It’s long since been superseded by successor technologies, of course., and we await the inspiration that will make…

They’ve got the house and the yard; now Opera Theatre of St. Louis general director Timothy O’Leary and his wife, Kara, are expecting their first baby in mid-January.

Tim O’Leary says he found out during OTSL’s artists welcome party, when Kara…

A new survey - from Chorus America, natch - reports that choral singing correlates with adults being all-around better citizens.

There’s more. It also finds that singing in a chorus helps children in a variety of ways: 70 percent of the…

A newly released study says that 42.6 million Americans sing in choruses - and that they are exemplary citizens.

Well, the study is by Chorus America, the choral trade group, the results come from a survey and methodology is perhaps…

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…

The Sheldon Concert Hall has announce plans to present music series this summer at two other venues.

Throughout June, free concerts will be presented at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Old Courthouse, 801 Locust Street.

The schedule:

June 4: Jeff Anderson Trio (jazz).

June…

It marks a sea change: The hardnosed musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra — the orchestra that shut down the CSO for the 100th anniversary performances that would also have been Daniel Barenboim’s first concerts as music director, one of…

You don’t have to dumb down music for children, says Dame Liz Forgan, the chair of Arts Council England, quoted by Charlotte Higgins in The Guardian.

“Start them off on Wagner: that is the unapologetic advice of the chair of Arts…

As previously noted, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will hold a radiothon before and during the performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the “Choral,” this Saturday, May 9, starting at 4 p.m. on KFUO (99.1 FM) and ending about six…