After 15 years, Green Mountain Mahler Festival’s annual New Year’s Day performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at ...

Beethoven is part of German conductor/pianist Matthias Manasi’s musical DNA so when he got the invite to guest conduct an all-Beethoven program in Tucson, he jumped. As a bonus, he also gets to solo ...

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

So I was watching one of those flash mob videos, and this one took place in Germany. The camera was panning the crowd, and I realized that a lot of people in the audience were also singing, which ...

The first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on May 7, 1824, in Vienna, will be celebrated during a 200th anniversary performance by Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra. Joyful Voices: ...

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 ...

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