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Richard Lee, music director of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra. East Texas Symphony Orchestra will conclude its season on April 28 by teaming with choral groups to present Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 ...

Are performances of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 cursed in Columbus? The German composer’s 1824 masterpiece is best-known for its magisterial “Ode to Joy” choral section, but in recent years, ...

What more need be said? Beethoven's ninth symphony stands alone. It's position in music history and in the saga of modern civilization is unequaled. Mahler is the only composer who came close to ...

Friday night was a time for private musical thoughts and noble loftiness during the San Antonio Symphony’s concert at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. Ludwig van Beethoven’s mighty Symphony ...

ON FRIDAY, June 14, as part of the Éigse Festival, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fergus Sheil, will perform Beethoven's Symphony No 9 (choral) in Carlow Cathedral. The orchestra ...

Ludwig van Beethoven is considered to be a genius of orchestral composition. Was he equally good at composing for singers? Well, some think that even geniuses have limitations. “He wrote very ...

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Here is the sixth and final volume of all nine Beethoven symphonies heard in the arrangements for piano duet by Xaver Scharwenka. It is a timely end to a distinguished series: last May saw the 200th ...