This performance, preceded by an illuminating, engaging and amusing 45-minute “musical and dramatic exploration”, was a reminder of quite how far Aurora has grown in confidence and stature, and has ...

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 ...

Mr. Barenboim is a pianist and conductor. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was first performed exactly 200 years ago Tuesday and has since become probably the work most likely to be embraced for ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Ludwig Van Beethoven’s 9th symphony may be the defining work of a composer whose work has been immortalized for nearly two centuries. If only he could have heard it. When the ...