Then he brings in the theme, the "Ode to Joy" theme, played by the woodwinds ... it's a fugue, but the second violin, the cello start with the conversation, then the second vi ...

The San Francisco Symphony has revealed details of the Orchestra’s 114th season, taking place September 4, 2025–June 28, 2026 ...

The first Melton Proms, featuring top orchestras and massed choirs of local schoolchildren, was such a success it could ...

Growing up, I realised I didn’t learn to play the piano and violin simply because of the ... Soon, I wasn’t just learning how to play Ode to Joy by Beethoven. I began participating in ...

Since her retirement from the operatic stage was announced in 2017 the great American soprano Renée Fleming has had more comebacks than the Spice Girls. She’s played Pat Nixon in John Adams’ Nixon in ...

In the opening funeral march he made us aware that the fierce trumpet call and the violin ... ode” with an Italian title – L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (meaning roughly “Joy ...

The duo’s first offering, Schumann’s Stücke im Volkston was a late substitution for Che Buford’s Resonances of Spirit. Though ...

The joy of theatre is unparalleled and I hope more and more people become patrons of the art form.