That four-note opening motif — da-da-da-dum — of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony gets your heart pumping. But Tucson Symphony Orchestra Conductor José Luis Gomez said the real excitement goes ...
both pieces featured that evening—Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73, nicknamed “Emperor” in English-speaking countries, and Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), the composer’s ...
LEWIS LOCKWOOD IS a research professor at Harvard University who has spent most of his working life thinking about Beethoven and, in particular, his music for the cello. A stream of scholarly ...