The New York Times

Why We Still Want to Hear the ‘Ode to Joy,’ 200 Years Later

Beethoven’s aspirational vision of unity and peace can be applied to virtually any situation or place. The music makes sure of that. By Joshua Barone Even if you don’t know Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, ...
Los Angeles Times

Pacific Symphony’s future music director returns with a heavy dose of Beethoven

The opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony are iconic, but Alexander Shelley promises that the piece has much more in store. The next artistic and music director of the Pacific Symphony returns ...
Time

Music: Beethoven Man

A hunt was on in New York last week for the kind of chair Beethoven used when he played the piano. It had to have short, strong legs to suit a heavy, stumpy little man like Beethoven, a comfortable ...
Cleveland Scene

The Cleveland Orchestra Does Beethoven’s Ninth and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Weekend

Cleveland Chamber Choir will give two performances of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil in its hour-long version — ...
The New York Times

Too Many Dings and Beeps? Try Beethoven.

Mr. Biss is a concert pianist and co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival At the Marlboro Music School and Festival this summer, my fellow musicians and I spent an evening ...
NPR

Team uses AI to complete Beethoven's unfinished masterpiece

A group of musicians and scientists have used artificial intelligence to complete one of the great what-ifs in classical music: Ludwig van Beethoven's unfinished 10th symphony. MARTIN: There is no ...