TROY, N.Y. — The feeling most of us have when leaving a concert featuring the work of a musical giant like Beethoven is awe for the genius of the composer. This weekend the Albany Symphony Orchestra ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Beethoven, it's one of those names that make music lovers sigh in ...

Beethoven was stone deaf and in poor health when his last and greatest symphony, the Ninth (“Choral”) with its “Ode to Joy” finale, was premiered in May 1824. Although several eyewitness accounts of ...

`I shall lend you a book. One cannot stop reading it. A magnificent work,” wrote composer Robert Schumann to a friend in 1838 about this touching, comical and revealing ”small collection of memories” ...

There's a millstone classical music carries round its neck. It's the myth of purity. Other music gets down into the muck and mire of human feeling; classical music, says the myth, keeps its hands ...