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 ...

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Thanks to teamwork and tremendous dedication, the girls at Oakcrest School are celebrating a victory three years in the making ... Alix Baldwin, Instrumental Director at Oakcrest School, celebrating ...

'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 ...

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Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Two classical music podcasters have sparked an explosive debate: is Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony a “symbol of elitism and exclusion”? Da-da-da-DUMM. Beethoven’s most hummable tune, his great Fifth ...