Albany Symphony has announced its 2025-2026 season, which features masterworks including Stravinsky's The Firebird Suite, Holst's The Planets, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Beethoven's Violin ...

American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...

Judged in terms of name recognition, Ludwig Van Beethoven is almost certainly the best-known composer of classical music in America. Yes, Beethoven has yet to be the subject of an Academy Award ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is seeking a new design for euro banknotes, with possible subjects including great cultural figures like German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, or birds ...

The Owensboro Symphony will showcase a wealth of classical music during the “Beethoven. Brahms. Haydn. Hooten.” program — the organization’s first concert of 2025 — starting at 7 p.m ...

Trump went without his signature red tie and opted for something more muted. Vice President JD Vance (C) and President Donald Trump (R) at the U.S. Capitol for their inaugurations on January 20.

In fact, two of the works on the program were conventional, as they were both by Beethoven: the Overture to his ballet, “The Creatures of Prometheus” (1801), and his Symphony No. 3 in E-flat ...

Bruce Springsteen’s jeans and tight T-shirt. For the famous, having a signature wardrobe item can work very well. It accentuates the best features or makes a virtue of the worst. It inspires ...

Vice President Harris will mark the final days of the Biden administration by signing her desk drawer in the ceremonial White House office Thursday afternoon, carrying on a tradition that began ...