What fate destroys, faith renews. This conflict and comfort were the center of the Omaha Symphony’s season-opening concert on Friday night at the Holland Center. Almost 250 years after Ludwig van ...
The opening four notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 are the most iconic in all of music. There’s an apocryphal story that Beethoven called those four notes “fate knocking at the door.” But the very ...
On the night of Dec. 22, 1808, Ludwig van Beethoven took the stage of a theater in Vienna and conducted four hours of his latest pieces of music. Imagine Bruce Springsteen playing a concert of ...
The St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra is taking the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Ritsche Auditorium at St. Cloud State University. Saturday night’s performance will feature works by Felix Mendelssohn ...
2 Casting & Cities Announced For THE OUTSIDERS North American Tour Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. FRIDAY, AUGUST ...
GRAND RAPIDS — After 11 years of touring their uber-popular annual holiday show, guitarist Al Pitrelli and the rest of Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s brain trust had grown pretty comfy and relaxed with ...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Opening Night at Symphony” presented listeners with an intriguing interpretive puzzle. Works by Beethoven (the “Consecration of the House” overture) and Mozart (Piano ...
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the National Symphony Orchestra, joined by soloists Camilla Tilling, Kelley O’Connor, Issachah Savage and Ryan McKinny on June 1 at the Kennedy Center. (Scott Suchman) ...
Ludwig van Beethoven is considered to be a genius of orchestral composition. Was he equally good at composing for singers? Well, some think that even geniuses have limitations. “He wrote very ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Beginning in September with two of the pinnacles of Western music, the Emperor ...
Dickens’ specters would have been right at home at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2021-22 season opener. With a full orchestra and even fuller house, Thursday night’s concert felt more in the spirit ...
When Chuck Berry first sang “Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news!” in 1956, he was trumpeting the rise of rock ‘n’ roll and, perhaps, forecasting the decline of classical music. Sixty-four ...