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Beethoven and Mozart cap spectacular Sinfonia season
On Saturday, March 30th, the Sinfonia da Camera gave the final performance of its 2024/25 season. Together with the University of Illinois Chamber Singers and Oratorio Society, the orchestra presented ...
The Paisano6d
Post meridiem with strings and keys
On a rainy Friday afternoon an audience of music students and music enjoyers impatiently wait at the Main Recital Hall for an ...
The New York Times18d
For Cleveland Orchestra, It’s Beethoven (and Freedom) to the Rescue
Beethoven demands utmost restraint from the orchestra in the bars leading up to that surge, as the music rises in pitch ... The ‘Goddess’ of the Piano: At 83, Martha Argerich is at the ...
ScienceAlert19d
DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals Surprise Nearly 200 Years Later
One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness. Bedridden since the previous Christmas, he was attacked by jaundice, his limbs and ...