The Beethoven 9 as we explore the world of Beethoven through the lens of his symphonies with renowned classical biographer Jan Swafford. Each month is dedicated to a different symphony. Each week ...

JHU Choral Society, Baltimore School for the Arts Chorus, Towson University Chorale directed by Mark Hardy and Diana Saez Take an epic journey with HSO as we finish our season with a bang. William ...

On stage again this Sunday afternoon, May 12, it has all the earmarks of a season finale: a flashy violin concerto, an audience favorite soloist, a huge work for orchestra, chorus, and four soloists ...

Ludwig van Beethoven's ninth and final symphony took orchestral music in thrilling new directions when it debuted in 1824. It lasts more than an hour. Its climax calls for a full choir singing poet ...

'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 ...

The first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on May 7, 1824, in Vienna, will be celebrated during a 200th anniversary performance by Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra. Joyful Voices: ...

It is widely believed that Beethoven wrote some of his greatest masterpieces while completely deaf – but now there’s evidence to the contrary... It has long been propagated that Beethoven was pretty ...

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which includes the magnificent "Ode to Joy," premiered on May 7, 1824. We recently passed its bicentennial. The Ninth was greeted as a masterpiece from the outset and ...

- [Announcer] Major funding for this program is provided in part by Alan G. Benaroya, and Martin Messinger Symphony Orchestra Fund. (orchestra music) (music) - It is a piece of extremes. - It's a life ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – There’s always joy to be found, even during trying times in a challenged city. That’s the message of the “Beethoven 9 Project,” the Cleveland Orchestra’s latest pandemic release. A ...

Poor old Beethoven. He was not to know the problems he would cause 200 years later by making his Ninth Symphony too short to fill a concert programme, yet too monumental to sit beside another work ...