A new Mendelssohn Festival, the DSO’s first, plus a trio of heavy-duty choral works – Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, Beethoven’s Fidelio and Berlioz’ Te Deum – are among the highlights of the symphony’s new season.

Today in the roundup: Words with the new DSO concertmaster, assessing the Dallas arts scene and ranking the halftime shows.

Break it down: what composer is performed by symphonies more than any other? Which internationally known music director conducts more concerts than any other? Bachtrack has the stats for 2010.

The man means money. Bill Lively, president of the Super Bowl Host Committee and former president of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, continues his whistle stop tour of Major North Texas Civic and Cultural Jobs and Fundraising Spectaculars by becoming the new president of the Dallas Symphony.

Dallas Symphony conductor Jaap van Zweden will receive the Radio 4 Prize in the Netherlands today — the ceremony will be broadcast on the public-service radio network.

Jaap is leaving? Beane on Broadway? What’s Heritage Auction Galleries doing in New York? Check out today’s installment of the Roundup.

Highlights from last night’s conversation with Jaap van Zweden and Trenton Doyle Hancock.

Today in the roundup: Jaap returns, Fort Worth gets jazzy and the Notorious C.H.O. talks music and comedy.

All this week, WFAA’s Gary Cogill has been in Colorado covering the Dallas Symphony’s visit to the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. Some 50 orchestras applied, and the DSO is among the three chosen to take part this year. Kudos to Channel 8 for investing the time and money in the series, “Music in the Mountains.”

Uptown Players offers their ‘Regrets,’ Steve Miller remembers Dallas, Jaap van Zweden recovers, the head of the Globe Theatre visits and a former North Texas actor speaks frog.