Don’t miss your chance to hear one of the most iconic pieces of music of all time: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. You have four chances: Thursday, March 19 (7:30 pm), Friday, March 20 (7:30 pm), Saturday ...

A portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, a friend of the composer, painted during 1804-1805. Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770, and so it's little surprise that 250 years ...

Beethoven changed the course of music with his mighty nine symphonies. What would happen to music — and to the world — if the manuscript of a 10th symphony by Beethoven suddenly emerged from oblivion?

Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste is set to release his first solo piano album, titled “Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1),” on Nov. 15. This album is a unique blend of classical and ...

Certain pieces of classical music have legions of fans far beyond the concert hall. Richard Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” has been in many movies, from “Apocalypse Now” to “The Blues Brothers.” If ...

During a senior year English lit seminar when I was in college, the conversation drifted toward the Romantics—and for some reason touched on German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. One of my fellow ...

Classical California honors the composers of "Bugonia," "Frankenstein," "Hamnet," "Sinners" and "One Battle After Another" ...

“Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie” (2004), another award-winning documentary available on YouTube, takes as its subject Scottish percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie (b. 1965), who ...