Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a composer of extraordinary gifts, but a lifetime of maladies – including the almost-total ...

When you hear Eric Owens’ cavernous, commanding bass-baritone, it’s easy to understand why opera companies often cast him as a devil, king or hero with superhuman strength. It’s more difficult to ...

This is the second of CMSDetroit's three-concert "Epic Piano Works" series this season, each one centered around a major concert-length solo piano piece. All follow an "inDepth" format, beginning with ...

On Nov. 13-16, Houston audiences will experience a powerful opening to the 3 Weeks of Beethoven, a multi-weekend celebration of Beethoven’s music, led by new Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

The world will be celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday next year, but Chicago got started on Thursday night. Before a large audience in Orchestra Hall, with even the terrace seating behind the stage ...

'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 ...

After the Elias String Quartet finishes its six-night cycle of performances this week, the ensemble will take a break from Beethoven. The quartet’s undertaking, which began a week ago, was formidable: ...

If a musician travels across an ocean just to play one piece of music, then that piece of music must be pretty great. Violinist Sharon Roffman said Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto” ...

Queen guitarist Brian May is a busy man with all sorts of projects on the go. And today the 73-year-old revealed he has played an electric guitar solo of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy for an epic new video.

On Nov. 13-16, Houston audiences will experience a powerful opening to the 3 Weeks of Beethoven, a multi-weekend celebration of Beethoven’s music, led by new Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada.