Beethoven’s last symphony, the Symphony No. 9 (“Choral”), holds a unique place in the canon of Western music, because it is beloved around the world as an expression of human idealism. The Ninth, ...

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 opens with a crush of percussion and brass. It’s beautiful and shocking and brilliant and dramatic, and everything that you would expect from Beethoven. When the Tucson ...

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On Saturday, May 6, the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra will present "Beethoven 9" featuring Beethoven's awe-inspiring masterpiece, Symphony No. 9, along with the beautiful and technically-challenging ...

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 ...

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JHU Choral Society, Baltimore School for the Arts Chorus, Towson University Chorale directed by Mark Hardy and Diana Saez Take an epic journey with HSO as we finish our season with a bang. William ...

A successful performance of Beethoven's ninth symphony is an event worth remembering. It is a work that has come to represent the ideals of transcendence. The music presents substantial challenges to ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The program features organ reductions of the final movements of Mahler's Second ...

Joe Miller is experimenting with color this spring. Not the color a painter might use, mixing oils together on a canvas, but the colors of music unique to Ludwig van Beethoven and Oliver Messiaen.