A new conductor has taken over the baton for the Gaston String Orchestra. Faith Foster was selected as conductor after an extensive search by the Gastonia-based community orchestra, which is in its ...

The conductor’s artistic skills come first, the mantra goes, then everything else. But everything else looms hugely. In the BSO’s case, health and age will be issues, surely, more than ever.

Karen Veverka has been appointed conductor of the Syracuse Youth String Orchestra. She succeeds Muriel Bodley who has led student musicians from throughout Central New York in the orchestra since ...