Colorado Music Festival Director Peter Oundjian on the 49th season of the five-week classical music concert series at ...

Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman has been given a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to drama. The ...

The timing was unfortunate for Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday celebration. Commemorations of the fêted composer came in 2020 (scholars’ best guess at his birthday is 1770), just as the world ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY The National Museum of American History turns 60 this month! ... Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Quartetto serioso,” Op. 95, in an arrangement by Gustav Mahler; ...

While the exact date of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth in December of 1770 is debated by scholars, what is inarguable was his musical genius. We'll hear the Kansas City Symphony perform his ...

One of the greatest composers of all time, Ludwig Van Beethoven, was the product of a shadowy family scandal, it has been revealed. Fresh genetic analysis of his hair samples, published in the science ...

It was March 1827 and Ludwig van Beethoven was dying. As he lay in bed, wracked with abdominal pain and jaundiced, grieving friends and acquaintances came to visit.

Five locks taken from Ludwig van Beethoven's head have revealed that he may likely have died from liver disease, not lead poisoning as was previously thought. When you purchase through links on ...

Hoping to reach a wider audience with the story about a boy whose grandfather helps him learn about Ludwig van Beethoven’s life ... With the commemoration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday on ...

By Brad Hundt Staff writer [email protected] A 252nd birthday is not quite the milestone that a 250th birthday is, but the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) believes it’s still worth ...

Last year the pandemic complicated plans to celebrate Beethoven's 250th birthday. But, said Alsop, ... Ludwig van Beethoven was by age ten considered the next Mozart.

It was the year of Beethoven. During 2020 the world wanted to celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday with concerts, symposiums, lectures, podcasts, radio specials, etc. At least that’s what had ...