When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and his “Leonore” Overture No. 3 subbed in. By Corinna da Fonseca ...

March 19, 2025, 5:28 PM · A few weekends ago, I attended a marathon performance of all of ... mind while playing this music, it would be this: that we are, for much of the time, accompanying the piano ...

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 ...

“I thought, ‘What can I do for the next 20 or 30 years?’” He found an answer in SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, that was rapidly spreading around the worl ...