Beethoven News

Arriving this week on Seattle stages: a play partly written in Esperanto, a romp with J.S. Bach and some of his musical rivals, and the latest Hedgebrook festival of new works by esteemed women dramatists.

"You can call it comfort food, if you like," said music director and conductor Frank Fetta about the program for the May 18 season finale concert of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra.

A pair of successful Music Institute of Chicago alumni will give a recital Saturday from their new CD, "Violin Lullabies," which has been getting national attention for its unusual focus and beautiful sound.

In August of 1819, Anton Schindler, Beethoven's friend, visited the composer one afternoon to find a typical late Beethovian scene.

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Several years ago, a professional woman in her 30s, just transferred to Buffalo by her large, international corporation, asked a group of her new co-workers about the cultural scene in Buffalo.

Saturday night's "All Beethoven" program by the NBSO with pianist Alexander Schimpf was a truly extraordinary concert.

In 1804, Beethoven got the news that Napoleon, hero of the French Revolution, had declared himself emperor.

Keely Schmerber, 16 year-old budding piano virtuoso, returns to Historic Rutherfurd Hall, Allamuchy, Sunday, May 19, at 3 p.m., in a solo concert to perform an evening of classical works by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, and Scriabin.

As the last stains of sunlight receded below the horizon, Jim de Seve opened the doors of his 2010 Honda and turned on the stereo.

Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" is often reckoned a difficult undertaking for performers and listeners alike, a densely monumental summation of everything the composer had learned about music and spirituality over the course of a long career.

Under normal circumstances, a violin bow without rosin has the same practical value as a glass hammer or a chocolate teapot.

The final subscription concert in the 2010-2011 season of the San Francisco Symphony was a particularly memorable high point for Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas .

But it wasn't his only crowning achievement for symphony orchestra, nor for orchestra and chorus, nor even for the year 1823.

The Lawrence Academy music program presents the second yearly concert in its series, Calling All Composers! Intended to provide Lawrence Academy students and the Groton community direct access to the highest level of both piano performance and composition, the series welcomes pianist Jun Toguchi, who will perform the works of two of Lawrence ... (more)

Sure, it seems crazy to complain about hot weather in May, given the past few Seattle-like springs we've endured.

The 106th Bethlehem Bach Festival continues through this weekend, highlighting two works not by Bach, but celebratory in their own right.

NJ Conservatory's Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra, Edwin Foster, conductor/director and Eric Schaberg, concertmaster, will present Mozart's "Grand Mass in C Minor" at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 246 Woodport Road, Sparta, on Saturday at 8 p.m. The program will also feature Beethoven's "Symphony No.

The conductor of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra has programmed Beethoven's Third Symphony and Fifth Piano Concerto, two popular avatars of the composer's heroic style, for its upcoming concert .

Tonight, May 9 and May 11 & 12, Maestro Hans Graf will conduct the Houston Symphony in a moving program beginning with Weber's Overture to Euryanthe and ending with Beethoven's epic Symphony No.