Beethoven News

Daniel Barenboim, the Argentine-born conductor and long-term Berlin resident, who played a concert at the Brandenburg Gate with his Staatskapelle orchestra.

Theme: Beethoven's Ninth -- Freedom Without Walls. Collaboration between ICO and the U of I Music Department celebrates 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The new conductor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, Ronald Zollman, will lead a special concert of works by Jewish composers whose music the Nazis banned.

Martin Majkut, one of five conductors competing for the artistic helm of the Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the orchestra's second concert series of the season beginning Friday, Nov.

Beethoven's 'Razumovsky' string quartets were never meant to be easy listening a ' and they are even harder to play.

Updated 5:50 p.m. ET With two concerts and a series of workshops for young musicians, the White House put a big spotlight on classical music Wednesday and sent a strong message that it's not just for stuffed shirts.

The Oregon Symphony's first performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony under its new music director Carlos Kalmar was a jolt of discovery - fast, loud and thrilling.

The elegant sounds of harp, viola and flute will grace the stage of the Clarke Theatre on Saturday, Nov.

Musical Masterworks launched its 19th season Saturday night as if to prove that change is not necessarily loss.

Not that there aren't other bargains. , but for a penny less, iTunes is now offering Bernard Haitink's recent Beethoven cycle with the London Symphony - all nine symphonies plus the Leonore #2 and Triple Concerto, for $15.99. How could anyone resist? Check it out here: posted 10:40 PM

"Frozen Lake and Cliffs", Ansel Adams . The Sierra Nevada, Sequoia National Park, California, 1932.

The ensemble is lead by Conductor Michael Gilbert, who grew up in Memphis. He is a world renown violinist.

A Mount Vernon Music invites the public to attend a recital featuring pianist and MVM co-founder Dr.

THE bandleader announced "a lovely ballad from the World War II era," and the song "Waiting for the Train to Come In" emerged from the lips of a singer in a slinky black dress.

On Thursday, October 29th at 3:30 PM, a Piano Concert of Beethoven Sonatas will be given by Miss Hyun-Mi Chung at the Atrium, a residence of the Allendale Community for Mature Living.

Jonathan Vincent's favourite tipple is Old Speckled Hen, which is brewed by Greene King in Bury St Edmunds.

Emily Howell could be the next big hit in the classical music world. She has already received critical acclaim for her compositions and secured a record deal, with her debut album due for release next year.

In the 1940s, a man named B.H. Haggin, a music critic, wrote a little tome called 'Music for the Man Who Enjoys 'Hamlet.'' Its basic premise, as the title suggests, was that if you, dear reader, have the capacity to understand and love Shakespeare, the arcane world of classical music is open to you as well.

Scary moments abound in "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde," a stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novelette, which opens the 2009-2010 season at The Public Theatre of Lewiston-Auburn. One of Ludwig van Beethoven's most famous and enduring works will be the centerpiece of this weekend's program when the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra opens its ...

In Silver Spring, a cellist plays in duo with electric guitar, their music wrapped in an envelope of reverb and static from the computer processors onstage. In Baltimore, a saxophone and bass clarinet perform acoustic compositions by acclaimed 20th-century composers in tandem with new electronic pieces by younger ones, interspersed with a live contribution from a DJ. And in Washington, a composer who wants to form a new-music group turns, not to conservatories, but to Craigslist.

Classical music is thought of as a world of formal wear, red velvet seats and Mozart concertos. But young classical musicians here and elsewhere are increasingly exploring additional ways to express themselves. Once upon a time, young conservatory musicians wanted to grow up to play as soloists with major orchestras. Today, many of them are forming bands instead.