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 ...
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 ...
If there are any four notes in all the classical music canon that almost everyone recognizes – even those who wouldn’t know Mozart from Muddy Waters – it would be the bah-bah-bah-BOHM of Beethoven’s ...