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 ...

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 ...

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.

Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik said Friday she is suspending her campaign for governor of New York and will not seek reelection to Congress. In a statement, Stefanik — who had just entered the race ...

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 ...

A happy birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the biggest giants of classical music, born Dec. 16, 1770. (He died March 26, 1827. An old joke: a fan opens Beethoven's grave in Vienna and sees him .

The discovery of a love letter revealed the depths of Beethoven’s yearning for his "immortal beloved." Scholars have been piecing together clues to her identity ever since. Ludwig van Beethoven wasn’t ...