A statue of Beethoven gets a homemade mask in Bonn, Germany, where measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak are still in effect this month. (Getty Images) “He has … the power to make you feel at the ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Fate knocking at the door.” Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony opens with the four most ...

Maybe you know Beethoven's Fifth Symphony by heart. But you might never have heard it like this. On Friday, the Mercury ensemble will take the beloved symphony, long the property of thundering ...

Learn why the Philadelphia Orchestra had to cut Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from their program and replace it with his Sixth. Tan Dun on Preserving the Nu Shu Language Composer Tan Dun explores the ...

The post-modern politics of power are now trying to tack their sloppy thought processes onto Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. An article at vox.com claims: “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony starts with an ...

Consider the warhorses: those pieces of music that have seemingly permanently wedged their way into the standard kit of Western cultural literacy, repeated and reprogrammed as if by reflex. And ...

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 monthslong wait is over for Elgin Symphony Orchestra music director Andrew Grams, who opens his second season with concerts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14, at the ...

“He has … the power to make you feel at the finish: Something is right in the world.” That’s Leonard Bernstein on Beethoven during a segment of CBS’ 1950s ...