Ludwig van Beethoven first performed his Ninth Symphony in Vienna in 1824, and created a work for the ages. We look at what makes it so special. Ludwig van Beethoven had his hands full before the ...

The Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra will perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at Bridge View Center on March 15 at 2 p.m. as part of a three-city Masterworks concert ...

Most people in Boulder know a thing or two about hiking. For your first time on the trails, you usually start slow — a loop at Marshall Mesa, maybe a gentle incline winding through Chautauqua.

Five years ago, Mobile Symphony Orchestra presented Beethoven’s majestic Ninth Symphony with the University of Southern Mississippi choir and a quartet of gifted soloists, who performed before a ...

The Pacific Symphony is offering its first-ever “plazacast” on June 2, a live simulcast performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 projected on the wall of the arts plaza of the Segerstrom Center for ...

[Orchestra playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, first movement: "Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso"] ♪ Conductor, voice-over: The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra was originally created to fight on ...

As I was laying out a few hors d’oeuvres on the living room coffee table for my husband’s and my customary Friday night “date night,” he was putting a CD into the stereo. We both love classical music, ...

Carl St.Clair is winding up his 22nd season as music director of the Pacific Symphony this week, while the orchestra caps its 33rd, with performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. These musicians ...

The CSO’s 2026-27 season — the last before Klaus Mäkelä becomes full-time music director in fall 2027 — opens with a concert ...

Jeffrey Kahane’s mission in his final season with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has become — with the help of the likes of Kurt Weill and Beethoven — an extraordinary encouragement to lift our ...