In the 1960s my mother put up with a lot of dreadful music. She bought me a trumpet and insisted I play it for an hour every day. She endured my wobbly scales, arpeggios and Al Hirt impersonations ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

A Late Quartet's centerpiece--Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131--can be a fool's errand. The marathon composition requires string musicians to play, without pauses, no fewer ...

The line of cars expecting to enter the underground parking of the Colburn School was long and stationary. A Beethoven concert was to begin in 10 minutes. It took another frustratingly full 25 minutes ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet, whose credits include a host of prestigious ...

This Thursday, Da Camera presents its second concert in their chamber music series this season: Beethoven Perspectives with the London-based Elias String Quartet. For this concert, the group will ...

It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Modern living forced me to grab a movement or two at a time, while commuting, cooking dinner and putting away laundry. By Daniel J.

LENOX – Beethoven, Beethoven and more Beethoven: He’s been as pervasive as rain and humidity at Tanglewood this summer. Actually, he’s pervasive every year. He just seems more so as Tanglewood tries ...

Almost 15 years ago, the men of the Danish String Quartet — they were in their 20s at the time and still called themselves the “Young” Danish — said in an interview that they would need to become more ...