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 ...
Beethoven wrote some of the most profound music of any composer. Most people only know the top hits: The Ode to Joy from the 9th symphony, Symphony #5, the Moonlight and Appasionata piano sonatas.
The Claire Trevor School of the Arts Ensemble in Residence will take audience members on a journey through Beethoven’s life with piano trio chamber music on Wednesday. Trio Celeste is an award-winning ...
Watch a video of the inaugural performance from the Church of Beethoven. Albuquerque, N.M., is no different from any other American city, in terms of its religious life; you've got churches, ...
In Manhattan, the Beethoven Association* gave a concert. Sedate and grave was the music heard, the august, the decorous, the lovely works of the great masters of yesterday—Schubert, Schumann, Haydn.
Shock-rocker Ozzy Osbourne opens his live shows with "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's choral masterpiece "Carmina Burana." Which surprised Trans-Siberian Orchestra founder and composer Paul O'Neill. Not ...
"Music," Ludwig van Beethoven said, "is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." Transcending dogma, creed, culture and even language, music has the power to elevate the soul as well ...
The first time my husband, Jindong Cai, heard a Beethoven symphony was as a child in Cultural Revolution (1966-76) Beijing. His close friend, Wang Luyan, had somehow got hold of an old wind-up ...