Music Director Eun Sun Kim and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra went back to Beethoven for their fall concert, which also ...

San Francisco Opera takes a breather from its regimen of presenting full-fledged and lavish operatic productions to let Music Director Eun Sun Kim shine a solo spotlight on her instrumentalists in ...

Adrian Spence does not pussyfoot around when talking about the relevance of Beethoven. The founder and artistic director of ...

The Irish pianist John O’Conor has been widely praised for his Beethoven; he’s recorded a complete sonata cycle for Telarc to critical acclaim. On Tuesday evening in an Auer Hall recital, to validate ...

The format for Thursday night’s Philadelphia Orchestra concert is tried and true: pairing two 19th-century warhorses with a more recent and unfamiliar work. William Grant Still’s symphonic suite Wood ...

Whether or not music stirs inside, each of us bears a living metronome at our core. It may tick at 40 or 100 beats per minute, in three-quarter time or in six-eight, erratically or like a Swiss clock.

When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and his “Leonore” Overture No. 3 subbed in. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Tharp ...

"Music," Ludwig van Beethoven said, "is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." Transcending dogma, creed, culture and even language, music has the power to elevate the soul as well ...

What makes Beethoven sound like Beethoven? Researchers have completed a first analysis of Beethoven's writing style, applying statistical techniques to unlock recurring patterns. EPFL researchers are ...

Besides being a Cabinet Minister, a Deputy, a party chief and Mayor of Lyon, Edouard Herriot, thrice Premier of France, manages to turn out a good book almost every year. He may write about politics, ...

Responses to a column by Jamelle Bouie. Also: Trade with China; rising autism rates; in awe of Schubert; games as a common bond; Local Call’s work. How the artist found the blues in Beethoven By John ...