NPR Classical

Updated Oct. 9, 2025: Hats off to Yo-Yo Ma, the cellist and self-described "venture culturalist" who just turned 70. Hear ...
The New York Times

Why We Still Want to Hear the ‘Ode to Joy,’ 200 Years Later

Beethoven’s aspirational vision of unity and peace can be applied to virtually any situation or place. The music makes sure of that. By Joshua Barone Even if you don’t know Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, ...
Chattanoogan.com

Lee University School Of Music To Present Final Beethoven Series

The recital, “Finale in C,” is the final recital in Wei’s “Complete Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Concert Series,” which ...
The New York Times

Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 It is overplayed all over pop culture. But the pianist Igor Levit says it is “one of the most beautiful pieces I know.” By Joshua ...
The Conversation

Beethoven 250: how the composer’s music embodies the Enlightenment philosophy of freedom

Freedom in Beethoven’s music takes many, frequently overlapping forms. There is heroic freedom in the Eroica (1803), freedom from political oppression in the Egmont Overture (1810), artistic freedom ...
The New Yorker

Keep Beethoven Weird

At the beginning of 2020, I resolved to ignore, as far as possible, celebrations of the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, which fell last month. The uncontested ...