The Mainly Mozart Festival concluded on Saturday, June 19 with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. There were also concerts on Wednesday, June 16, and Friday, June 18. Each ...

Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...

I’ve had dozens of conversations that discussed the greatest symphonies of all time. I’ve read dozens of articles on the same topic. The usual suspects are all there, Beethoven’s Ninth, Mahler’s Ninth ...

A COMMON saying of the Philistine is that music makes no appeal to the intellect : it neither deals with definite ideas, nor arrives at exact results ; it is clearly nothing but an amusement of the ...

The Wichita Symphony Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Ninth on Saturday, April 12. Arguably the classical icon’s second-best-known work, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony will close out the 80th season for ...

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which includes the magnificent "Ode to Joy," premiered on May 7, 1824. We recently passed its bicentennial. The Ninth was greeted as a masterpiece from the outset and ...

Whether Beethoven saved his best symphony for last is a matter of opinion. However, one can hang several descriptors on his Symphony No. 9, and “anticlimactic” isn’t one of them. If you’re performing ...

The Dallas Symphony and music director Jaap van Zweden indulge, this weekend, in the time-honored classical music programming tactic of matching a new, unfamiliar work with a standard box office cash ...

"Go small or go home" may sound like unusual motivational advice, but there are times when it's the right approach. Take this weekend's season-opening St. Paul Chamber Orchestra concerts. It's not ...

A world premiere of an American composer’s new work, four U.S. premieres, five Beethoven piano concertos, and a trip “Back to the Future” are all part of the Utah Symphony’s 2020-2021 season, the ...