Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He wrote nine symphonies. A symphony is a long piece ... CMPSR (kom-poh-zah) is a fun and inclusive music controller, like a piano but ...

The works discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies, Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and ...

In his thrilling 1956 call to arms, Chuck Berry pictured classical music’s colossus spinning in his grave as the age of rock’n’roll dawned. “Roll over Beethoven,” he hollered, “and ...

Beethoven's Ninth was "revolutionary," Otto Biba said The musicologist Otto Biba said the symphony was revolutionary, partly because it culminated with singing. “It was a symphony, but with ...

San Francisco Opera hosted a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducting the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and vocal soloists Jennifer Holloway ...

Leonid Sigal is marking his 20th anniversary as the concertmaster of Hartford Symphony Orchestra by playing the iconic Beethoven violin concerto for the latest Masterworks series concert at The ...

Happy Halloween! From All the Saints Theater Company’s Halloween Parade to the Lemon Twigs, RVA Makerfest, Hardywood Bluegrass Festival, and Mississippi Records' “A People's History of American Music” ...

In the case of San Diego Symphony, starting over might have seemed ... demonstrated both how the orchestra could come across in a traditional Beethoven concerto as well as in an orchestral showpiece.

While en route to Beirut in 1984 to cover the civil war, he tells us, he has Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony in his ears, thanks to a new-fangled device called a Sony Walkman. Almost 40 years on ...

Yet music scholarship has traditionally paid little attention to ballroom dance music before the era of the Strauss dynasty, with the exception of a handful of dances by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

The Dresden Symphony Orchestra has presented an innovative ... "If, for example, you were to play a Beethoven, you wouldn’t need a robot like that, it’s pointless," he explained.

The organist of the day was the expressive and astute Olivier Latry, joined by BSO assistant conductor Samy Rachid, making his subscription series debut More people have probably seen Symphony ...