Are performances of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 cursed in Columbus? The German composer’s 1824 masterpiece is best-known for its magisterial “Ode to Joy” choral section, but in recent years, ...

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Fred Child and Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Christoph Eschenbach discuss the diametrically opposed messages Beethoven wrote into the final movements of his Ninth Symphony. A universal expression ...

Beethoven's epic Ninth Symphony has long been a traditional fan favorite at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Since 1997, it's ended every season but one at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home in ...

TOKYO – Concerts featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 are a popular year-end cultural event in Japan. But for Toshihide Koroyasu, a vocalist and specially appointed professor at Naruto University of ...

Members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra string section perform for students at Skyview High School in February 2022. Arts and concert programming is on the rebound locally, leading to more jobs ...

The first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on May 7, 1824, in Vienna, will be celebrated during a 200th anniversary performance by Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra. Joyful Voices: ...

New Jersey Symphony’s Music Director Xian Zhang will conduct four performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Three of the performances will take place at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) ...

In the final movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s towering Symphony No. 9, he sets his transcendental music to the text of Friedrich Schiller’s poem “An die Freude” (“Ode to Joy”) to impart a universal ...

Since 2011, the Green Mountain Mahler Festival has celebrated every New Year’s Day — save for a COVID hiatus — with a community performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. And every year it has been ...

On this significant day in 1824, in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 premiered, marking a pivotal moment in musical history. Despite his profound deafness, Beethoven conducted the ...