Review: The Viano Quartet’s provocative mix of Haydn, Beethoven, Penderecki and Kernis
American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...
Concert review: Spokane String Quartet’s Sunday audience rivals the Super Bowl’s in terms of enthusiasm
The large, active crowd flowing into the Fox Theater on Sunday afternoon might well have been taken for a group of football fans waiting for the Super Bowl game to start.
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Can Star of Beethoven Beat the Odds in Shonen Jump?
Morihiro Hayashi's new manga Star of Beethoven debuted this week in Shonen Jump. But has it got what it takes to stick around ...
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Symphony’s Beethoven stresses power for the people
After a three-month absence, the Sedona Symphony returned to the Sedona Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Feb. 2, with its ...
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Vermont Philharmonic Winter Concerts: Beethoven, David Gunn and young virtuosity
It’s got a lot of lovely and interesting music on it,” says Lou Kosma. “It has some of the old chestnuts. It has a Vermont ...
Review: Dallas Symphony presents a new Raven Chacon piece and Beethoven’s Fifth
That was an exciting Beethoven Fifth Symphony. Leading the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Thursday night, music director Fabio Luisi wisely eschewed the overstuffed monumentality that became the default ...
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A pair of impressive debuts mark the BSO’s program from Beethoven to Stravinsky
The night’s post-intermission sampling of Ravel and Stravinsky delivered their own fireworks, though of a somewhat more ...