CLEVELAND, Ohio — The four Cleveland Orchestra concerts at Severance Music Center this weekend are as traditional in form as orchestral programs can be. Although they follow the long-established ...

Why can't the rest of the year be more like summer? I'm not talking about weather patterns but referring to the concerts of the Minnesota Orchestra. Rather than cling to the conventional style of ...

As UGG season returns and Halloween decorations spawn, people are defrosting their fall playlists. This year, I have decided to add Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major, also known as the Pastoral ...

In this first week of spring, you’ll feel the joy of being outdoors again in Beethoven’s Sixth (perhaps best known as his “Pastoral”) Symphony–even with a thunderstorm brewing on the horizon. Mozart ...

In the distance, a low murmur of basses evolved into a roar of thunder, as timpani rained down lightning on a woodsy, country scene created by strings and woodwinds. The passage, which arrived briskly ...

The Handel and Haydn Society will blend the softer side of Beethoven with the groundbreaking brilliance of Farrenc Friday, November 5 and Sunday, November 7 at Symphony Hall. Led by one of the leading ...

The 52nd Istanbul Music Festival held at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art witnessed a wandering cat during the orchestra performance of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No. 6 by Festival Strings Lucerne ...

The following essay first appeared on 18 April, 1999, as part of my series on Beethoven’s nine symphonies. The Pacific Symphony performs the “Pastoral” tonight through Saturday. “My miserable hearing ...

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

Principal guest conductor Gemma New leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in a concert at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on Nov. 18. Allison Slomowitz / Special Contributor The Dallas Symphony ...

I have had the opportunity to perform full cycles of the Beethoven symphonies several times in the past few years and, when you look at the full group, it’s the Sixth Symphony that stands out as an ...