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The Spokane Symphony will conclude 2025 and ring in the New Year with Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music. By the time of its 1824 premier, the composer was completely deaf. At the end of ...

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, ...

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 ...