The Brothers of John the Steadfast, as noted before, is a website for conservative  members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. It’s run by Pastor Tim Rossow; he’s leader of an LCMS church in a Naperville, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. BJS…

(Photos by Eric Woolsey)

There wasn’t space in my review of Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s production of Brundibar to say everything that deserved to be said - so let me fill in some of the gaps here.

First, although critics really aren’t supposed…

The ghosts aren't scary; neither are the numbers.

Ireland’s Wexford Festival, which is now in partnership with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, has released the figures for its 58th season - and they’re pretty heartening.

Wexford, a co-producer of OTSL’s production of…

The birthday boy contemplates the performance.

St. Louis Chamber Chorus artistic director Philip Barnes is on sabbatical this year, from both his day job teaching classics at John Burroughs School and his work with the SLCC. He and his family -…

Zach Hemenway at St. Peter's/Ladue (Post-Dispatch file photo)

When two of my stories converge, clearly, I have some obligation to be on hand.

16 months ago I wrote an article about a gifted St. Louisan, organist Zach Hemenway, who had just finished…

When the evening’s soloist seats himself at the piano and announces, “The cadenzas shall be improvised without the slightest forethought,” and adds, “Those of you who get carsick should fasten your seatbelts,” you know you’re in for either a very…

Another St. Louis-area newspaper has picked up on the KFUO story: The Webster-Kirkwood Times.

The Times, whose delivery area stretches as far west across I-270 as (approximately) my  back fence, is a good local paper, covering crime reports from area suburbs…

Y'all come!

If you’re a choral singer and you enjoy travel, Kathryn Smith Bowers has a trip for you.

Bowers, a music professor at Webster University and the leader of the annual St. Louis Summer Sings there, has organized a trip to…

This Saturday night at 8, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will offer its now-customary live concert broadcast on KFUO-99.1 FM. (This week, it’s Sir Andrew Davis leading the orchestra in music of Berlioz, Mozart and Elgar.)

But instead of the customary…

Riccardo Muti

Musical America, the country’s leading source of information on all things related to classical music, whether in its printed directory or online at MusicalAmerica.com, has announced its awards for 2010.

They’re a distinguished group. Conductor Riccardo Muti, who has led…