Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He wrote nine symphonies. A symphony is a long piece for orchestra usually split into four sections known as movements. His Symphony No. 5 ...

When the music director Franz Welser-Möst planned ... “human dignity” in “desolate circumstances.” Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 traced a progression “from darkness to light,” he ...

Major orchestras in the US and around the world need little excuse to program the symphonic music of Soviet composer Dmitri ...

The Shangyin Opera House has staged grand galas in celebration of historically significant events, including the 70th ...

Novlis said, “Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.” He died in 1801; Beethoven’s Fifth came ...

That might have been a description of Sunday afternoon’s concert by four string players from the Boston Symphony except ... Chamber music concerts can be brow-wrinkling affairs with string quartets ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of the greatest ... Their USP is their apparent disapproval of sheet music: they regularly perform whole symphonies from memory. The sheer quality of their ...

Music director Franz Welser-Möst leads performances of Fifth Symphony, Leonore Overture No. 3 and Janáček suite.

We wanted to do something very celebratory for the end of the 80th season to kind of cap it off,” conductor and music director Daniel Hege said.

Broad, interconnected thematic programming drives the BSO's just announced 2025-2026 season, including "E Pluribus Unum," a ...