Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...

Dum-dum-dum-DUM! The opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony are as iconic as they come, a musical phrase that even those new to classical music may recognize immediately from its popular cultural ...

Gerard Schwarz is back, and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra is entrusting him with four of the biggest notes in musical history. Hartford Symphony audiences got a taste of Schwarz’s musical mindset ...

Houston Symphony presents Andrés Conducts Beethoven’s Fifth The most famous four notes in music usher in a towering masterpiece for the ages in Beethoven’s immortal Fifth Symphony. Music Director ...

__Carlos Simon__: Four Black American Dances __Richard Strauss__: Four Last Songs __Ludwig van Beethoven__: Symphony No. 5 You know the famous four-note opening—now, be there for the full glory that ...

A COMMON saying of the Philistine is that music makes no appeal to the intellect : it neither deals with definite ideas, nor arrives at exact results ; it is clearly nothing but an amusement of the ...

Learn why the Philadelphia Orchestra had to cut Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from their program and replace it with his Sixth. Tan Dun on Preserving the Nu Shu Language Composer Tan Dun explores the ...

The Colorado Symphony Orchestra is performing at the Vilar Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Feb. 24, with an afternoon education program for young students and a main event of Beethoven’s Fifth and ...

Tucson Symphony Orchestra Music Director George Hanson has never conducted Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony, and it's been about 20 years since the TSO last performed it. It's understandable. The Second ...