On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness. Bedridden since the previous Christmas, he was ravaged by jaundice, his limbs and ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 12: In 1792, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven paid the equivalent of 19 cents for his first lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn in Vienna. Beethoven is ...

Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...

John Malkovich is returning to the stage - but not in the role audiences might expect. He plans to appear as a sharp-tongued ...

When composer and conductor Steve Hackman stepped on stage at Chicago’s Harris theatre, he might as well have been walking ...

John Malkovich will appear with the San Francisco Symphony in Aleksey Igudesman’s The Music Critic, a theatrical concert ...

Víkingur Ólafsson will return to Bourgie Hall for a pair of recitals featuring works by Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. Known ...

The Philharmonie de Paris celebrates its tenth anniversary and invites Klaus Mäkelä and Gustavo Dudamel for a concert that ...