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 ...

Twenty-three guest conductors will lead the San Francisco Symphony in place of departing Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen during its upcoming 114th season. Six will make their orchestral series ...

But there will be at least one constant in the coming years: The conductor Gianandrea Noseda will stay on as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, one of the center’s flagship groups.

One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness. Bedridden since the previous Christmas, he was attacked by jaundice, his limbs and ...

Beethoven from LSO St Luke's and the Pastoral Symphony from the BBC Symphony OrchestraBeethoven from LSO St Luke's and the Pastoral Symphony from the BBC Symphony Orchestra ...

At Boston’s Symphony Hall, if concertgoers step through the door after the lights go down but before the music starts, conductors (and soloists, if applicable) usually either start the show ...

Time and again, he has established that he has no bounds as far as music is concerned and his latest, Symphony No. 1, aka Valiant, is yet another step in his never-ending quest. It also seems a ...