Jon Batiste joins us at the piano to play his reimaginings of Beethoven, and more. His new album is called Beethoven Blues. Also, we hear from visual artist Mickalene Thomas. She puts Black women in ...

David Hockney used his iPad to create this portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven in celebration of his 250th birthday this week. (David Hockney/Apple) On Wednesday, Ludwig van Beethoven’s birthday will be ...

The Mainly Mozart Festival concluded on Saturday, June 19 with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. There were also concerts on Wednesday, June 16, and Friday, June 18. Each ...

FARGO — In promoting this weekend’s concerts, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra referred to Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven as “grumpy.” The great composers could have been curmudgeons in ...

The best of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and more will come to life on stage as the Handel and Haydn Society announces the 210th season. Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen has crafted a schedule of concerts ...

I cannot imagine what a celestial-level bummer it must be to spend more than two centuries hovering around the ether, waiting for your big sestercentennial bash to pop off and take over the planet, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Brahms, Wagner, even Sondheim: All have followed the great master in building their works from small bits of music. By Anthony ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is set to begin its first-ever Beethoven Festival Thursday night. The festival will run for two weeks and feature four performances of ...

NEW HAVEN -- Not to be left out of the city's great week for spotlighting new works and talented composers, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra Thursday will sandwich "Monk Dances," a commissioned work ...

Some years ago, I was stopped at a traffic light and heard Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 1 on the radio. It dawned on me (after many times listening and playing it in orchestras on the violin) that ...