In the distance, a low murmur of basses evolved into a roar of thunder, as timpani rained down lightning on a woodsy, country scene created by strings and woodwinds. The passage, which arrived briskly ...

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What goes with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony? We must be up to Example No. 2743 by now. Everybody’s a got a different idea, and some, such as Gustavo Dudamel, more than one. Last summer, with our ...

Regal works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Leonard Bernstein will be celebrated by the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra. “Beethoven & Bernstein” is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday at The Auditorium at ...

Prepare to crank those amps up to eleven.

Both iconoclasts, both formidable pianists and both wildly ground-breaking composers, Beethoven and Bernstein belong together on an orchestral program. Maestro Kevin Rhodes realized that in concocting ...

No composer meant more to Leonard Bernstein – nor did more to inspire his social activism and hopes for humanity – than Beethoven. Several weeks after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Bernstein famously ...

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony should be fresh in the collective memory of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra patrons. Paired with the premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff's Symphony No. 2 in November 2015, ASO Music ...