Darkness to Light. Where: 12 Miles West Theatre Company, 33 Green Village Road, Madison. When: Through June 8. Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. How much: $26. Call (973) ...

“What Beethoven wanted from pianos, as he wanted from everything, was more: more robust build, more fullness of sound, a bigger range of volume, a wider range of notes. As soon as new notes were added ...

This period sees Beethoven reaching into his soul for stunning results. • Beethoven makes his last appearance as a pianist in an 1814 performance of the Archduke Trio; one observer notes "there was ...

WASHINGTON -- Edmund Morris has finally written a biography that's (1) not about a Republican president and (2) fewer than 784 pages. Morris -- the author of "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan," "The ...

His parents die and Beethoven receives lessons from Mozart and Haydn. • Contact with the wealthy von Breuning family brings Ludwig an emotional and intellectual solace he never had at home. He begins ...

The Spokane Symphony staged a Beethoven mini-festival over the weekend with two excellent concerts at the Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. Conductor Eckart Preu took the highly appreciative audience ...

Under the baton of Andris Nelsons, the BSO presented three new works and the English pianist Paul Lewis masterfully traversed all five Beethoven Piano Concertos. LENOX — Sometimes, as Freud might have ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s career was and still is boxed into early, middle, and late periods; the last three of his violin-and-piano sonatas, taken together, fairly race through those checkpoints. The ...