My introduction to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was linked to Schroeder’s tears. As a boy, I read the “Peanuts” comic strip in which piano prodigy Schroeder sobbed after recounting the story ...
It will be remembered as a historic weekend for Austin entertainment and culture. Arranged as a chamber orchestra — a smaller ensemble harking back to those of Beethoven's day — the musicians treated ...
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra is finally reunited with its music director, Jaap van Zweden, and the result, as seen in its season opening concert on September 9, is something special. Orchestra ...
Here is the sixth and final volume of all nine Beethoven symphonies heard in the arrangements for piano duet by Xaver Scharwenka. It is a timely end to a distinguished series: last May saw the 200th ...
'All people become brothers.' Beethoven’s epic final symphony, a vision for music and for humanity. Beethoven, by this time almost entirely deaf, conducted the premiere performance of his Choral ...
Some things only Beethoven can do. Such as, fill a venue to capacity on the strength of a single symphonic work. Or make songbirds jealous. Keith C. Elder, executive director of the Tulsa Symphony ...
Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman make the case for exploring Beethoven's symphonies in their piano duet arrangements by Xaver Scharwenka Transcriptions and arrangements such as those of composer-pianist ...