This was the opening greeting to audiences as this year’s celebration of speech and performing arts which took place at the Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley from Tuesday, May 5 to Thursday, May 7. Classes ...

The play, which has enjoyed successful runs in Tehran and various other cities across Iran, offers a theatrical portrait of the life and legacy of the world-renowned German composer, Ludwig van ...

NEEDHAM — Of history’s great geniuses, the image of Ludwig van Beethoven is among the most unforgettable — and most consonant with both his temperament and his life’s work. In the famous 1820 portrait ...

Cellist Watkins’ career-long immersion in the composer pays dividends in his pairing with Alessio Bax’s unfussy virtuosity As cellist of the Nash Ensemble and the Emerson Quartet, Paul Watkins has ...

Laura Jacobs thought she would never wear animal fur, having witnessed years of protests over its use in clothing – until suddenly she started spotting it all over New York. Jacobs fished out the long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We call it "Für Elise." But there is a very good chance her name wasn't Elise at all. The reigning theory is a case of bad ...

One of music history’s most haunting images is also one of its most revealing: Ludwig van Beethoven, nearly deaf, still bent over a score, still filling page after page with ideas that would outlive ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Before she was staging a full-blown conceptual reckoning with power, entitlement and misogyny, Elise Trouw was an internet marvel. The drummer-looper and multidisciplinary musician’s ...

The Beethoven notebooks have at last been made public in entirety by Walter Nohl of Munich. They have been the most cherished possession of the Music Department of the State Library at Berlin.

MANKATO — Jenny Haugen-Hesse and Philip Zawisza speak eloquently about the origins, structure and uplifting nature of “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony,” but it’s not until Zawisza sings some of it that the ...