WHAT: Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s Ryo Hasegawa conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with full orchestra and 100+ singers, ...

Beethoven, the wild-haired German composer, is ubiquitous during the fall symphony season. It makes sense, as his booming, blustery compositions have a lot in common with the darkening, windy autumn ...

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Project began with a disclaimer. Over the course of the project, the orchestra is to perform nearly all Beethoven’s symphonies plus the “Triple Concerto” and ...

The Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 75th season with a nine-year project to perform all nine of Beethoven's symphonies. The first concert, featuring Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 and ...

Is there ever a justification needed to perform Beethoven’s 9th, one of the most beloved and widely known pieces of music ...

The Santa Cruz Symphony's penultimate concert of its 2025-26 season will be a dramatic yet joyous affair, capped off by a ...

The Tucson Symphony Orchestra continues its season of Beethoven this weekend with a symphonic two-fer: Beethoven’s Symphonies No. 8 and No. 2. “Beethoven x 2” brings the orchestra, under the baton of ...

Whether Beethoven saved his best symphony for last is a matter of opinion. However, one can hang several descriptors on his Symphony No. 9, and “anticlimactic” isn’t one of them. If you’re performing ...

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music. By the time of its 1824 premier, the composer was completely deaf. At the end of ...