VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The world-famous composer Ludwig van Beethoven turns 250 this year, and the Virginia Symphony is celebrating all year-long. Things will kick off on Sunday, January 12 at 3 p.m.

Two hundred years ago last month, in Vienna’s Kärntnerthor Theater, the curtain went up on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. And across the intervening centuries, that curtain has never really fallen. In ...

CHICAGO – Riccardo Muti was in total control to the very end. He had signaled the last note of his final Orchestra Hall concert as Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director on Sunday when several ...

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