New Jersey Symphony has revealed its 2025–26 season, Music Director Xian Zhang’s 10th season with the Symphony. This season, the Symphony will present over 55 mainstage programs in five New Jersey ...

Western Piedmont Symphony's 2024-2025 season continues with a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on November 9, 2024. This concert showcases the iconic first four notes of Beethoven's work, ...

Gerard Schwarz is back, and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra is entrusting him with four of the biggest notes in musical history. Hartford Symphony audiences got a taste of Schwarz’s musical mindset ...

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is quite simply the most famous piece of classical music ever written. The opening four notes, commonly referred to as “fate knocking at the door,” are easily recognizable ...

That four-note opening motif — da-da-da-duuum — of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony gets your heart pumping. But Tucson Symphony Orchestra Conductor José Luis Gomez said the real excitement goes beyond fate ...

If asked to name my three favorite sounds, I’d choose waves crashing against the rocky shoreline of Lake Superior, wind blowing through a boreal forest, and the section of the finale of Beethoven’s ...

The Spokane Symphony will conclude 2025 and ring in the New Year with Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9.

Beethoven, the wild-haired German composer, is ubiquitous during the fall symphony season. It makes sense, as his booming, blustery compositions have a lot in common with the darkening, windy autumn ...

Maybe you know Beethoven's Fifth Symphony by heart. But you might never have heard it like this. On Friday, the Mercury ensemble will take the beloved symphony, long the property of thundering ...

Consciously or not, the management and artistic staff of the Houston Symphony couldn't have picked a better work than Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to kick off its 2008-09 season. Certainly they had ...