As Handel’s “Messiah” is a revered Christmas ritual, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has become a New Year’s Day tradition here in ...

The Spokane Symphony will conclude 2025 and ring in the New Year with Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9.

To play Beethovens music is to give oneself over completely to the childspirit which lived in that grim awkward violent man Without that utter submission it is impossible to play the Adagio of the ...

Jenny Haugen-Hesse and Philip Zawisza speak eloquently about the origins, structure and uplifting nature of “Beethoven’s ...

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 ...

The 2024-25 Symphonic Choir season, the first full one for new Executive Director Jennifer Cooper, is chock full of masterpieces and partnerships. The ensemble, for example, will join the Indianapolis ...

Ten months before he died, Leonard Bernstein conducted one of the most moving performances of his life — a special Berlin Celebration Concert in what was formerly East Berlin featuring a ...

TOKYO – Concerts featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 are a popular year-end cultural event in Japan. But for Toshihide Koroyasu, a vocalist and specially appointed professor at Naruto University of ...

In the final movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s towering Symphony No. 9, he sets his transcendental music to the text of Friedrich Schiller’s poem “An die Freude” (“Ode to Joy”) to impart a universal ...

In this documentary portrait prepared for the anniversary of Ludwig Van Beethoven's 200th birthday, Leonard Bernstein illustrates his analysis with excerpts from his performances of Beethoven's Piano ...