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Symphony San Jose presents Beethoven's Eroica, featuring one of Beethoven's most celebrated works, Symphony No. 3, known for its exploration of humanity. Conducted by Nathan Aspinall, the performance ...

Conductor José Luis Gomez will lead the Tucson Symphony Orchestra this weekend in the finale of its season-long ode to Beethoven. The orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” — the ...

on Saturday, Dec. 7 at the Santander Performing Arts Center. “We’re looking forward to a thrilling evening of powerful melodies to move the hearts and minds of our patrons,” said Music Director Andrew ...

The most compelling performance of a Beethoven symphony I've heard in quite a while happened Tuesday night at Moody Performance Hall. With music director Richard McKay conducting the Dallas Chamber ...

As Beethoven set about composing his Third Symphony, his hearing was failing and he felt certain his life was about to get worse. That it was born in a moment of despair may help explain why the ...

As part of our daily series Armchair Arts, Ivan Hewett guides you through one of the greatest pieces of classical music Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works ...

It was only when he was nearing his 70s that Günter Wand finally made his mark in this country. The received opinion has long been that only then had he developed from being a mere Kapellmeister, in ...