Most people in Boulder know a thing or two about hiking. For your first time on the trails, you usually start slow — a loop at Marshall Mesa, maybe a gentle incline winding through Chautauqua.

Carl St.Clair is winding up his 22nd season as music director of the Pacific Symphony this week, while the orchestra caps its 33rd, with performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. These musicians ...

Five years ago, Mobile Symphony Orchestra presented Beethoven’s majestic Ninth Symphony with the University of Southern Mississippi choir and a quartet of gifted soloists, who performed before a ...

The Phoenix Symphony and Chorus under Maestro Tito Muñoz perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. It has been called the most important piece of music ever written. The Phoenix Symphony and The Phoenix ...

Boston Baroque and its Founder/Music Director, Martin Pearlman, have chosen to acknowledge a monumental moment in their history with a monument of music: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, ...

My introduction to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was linked to Schroeder’s tears. As a boy, I read the “Peanuts” comic strip in which piano prodigy Schroeder sobbed after recounting the story ...

Jeffrey Kahane’s mission in his final season with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has become — with the help of the likes of Kurt Weill and Beethoven — an extraordinary encouragement to lift our ...

For his Ninth and final symphony, Beethoven wove the themes of the Enlightenment into his work. He finally saw a chance to use Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy" -- Beethoven had long wanted to set the ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - On today's APP-tastic and Outta SITE - Beethoven's 9th Symphony. One of the most well-known pieces of classical music has gotten the full app treatment. Beethoven's 9th Symphony ...

Melissa Block and Audie Cornish read emails from listeners about the effect that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has had on them. Time now for your letters, and one correction. Last week, we reported on ...

In the mood for 'Beethoven’s Ninth: Symphony for the World' right from your couch? Check out streaming services and cable providers with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can find the ...

As I was laying out a few hors d’oeuvres on the living room coffee table for my husband’s and my customary Friday night “date night,” he was putting a CD into the stereo. We both love classical music, ...