Yet another of the country’s biggest and most prestigious orchestras has announced staff cutbacks. This time, it’s the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Boston Globe reports that ten staff positions in departments that include development and public relations have been cut. That…

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,…

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…

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra presents “Casual Classics” 7:30 p.m. May 22 at Powell Symphony Hall, 718 North Grand Boulevard. $25 to $45; 314-534-1700 or www.slso.org.

The Casual Classics series was a hit last year in its first season. Now it’s…

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…

It’s officially a sellout: all the seats for all three of David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s weekend performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” are sold.

Tickets for Thursday night’s dress rehearsal, at $25 each, are still…

The Bach Society of St. Louis in “Jesu, My Joy,” 6:30 p.m. at St. Francis Xavier “College” Roman Catholic Church, 3628 Lindell Boulevard. $20 to $35; 314-652-2224 or www.bachsociety.org.

Society seems to be getting back to basics these days. The Bach…

NEW YORK – I planned my trip to New York around the happy confluence of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s annual concerts at Carnegie Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings, and soprano Christine Brewer’s scheduled Bruennhilde in “Die Walkuere” at…

A copy of the New York Times sat outside my hotel room’s door this morning — and there on the bottom of A1 was a refer for chief critic Anthony Tommasini’s (highly favorable) review of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s…