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It's day 4 and Symphony No. 4 in the Performance Today Beethoven Symphony Marathon. All nine symphonies, in concert with Maestro Christoph Eschenbach and the Philadelphia Orchestra, at their home base ...

Beethoven, the wild-haired German composer, is ubiquitous during the fall symphony season. It makes sense, as his booming, blustery compositions have a lot in common with the darkening, windy autumn ...

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 ...

This is a 4-DVD set, featuring the Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi and the chamber orchestra (around 40 members) Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. The first 3 DVDs feature live performances of ...

The second movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 is a powerful and haunting piece of classical music. It's also a favorite of NPR's Robert... Robert Siegel On Why He Still Loves Beethoven's Symphony ...

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 ...

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Project began with a disclaimer. Over the course of the project, the orchestra is to perform nearly all Beethoven’s symphonies plus the “Triple Concerto” and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The three-day celebration starts off with Beethoven's First and Fourth Piano ...

On stage again this Sunday afternoon, May 12, it has all the earmarks of a season finale: a flashy violin concerto, an audience favorite soloist, a huge work for orchestra, chorus, and four soloists ...