On Oct. 25, Andrew Crust will conduct his first Beethoven symphony since becoming the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s fifth ...

Ludwig van Beethoven followed his percussive, brooding Fifth Symphony with an ode to nature. The piece bursts with idyllic passages, including sounds of a brook and a thunderstorm. Yet Symphony No. 6 ...

Whether Beethoven saved his best symphony for last is a matter of opinion. However, one can hang several descriptors on his Symphony No. 9, and “anticlimactic” isn’t one of them. If you’re performing ...

Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...

Led by Music Director Taichi Fukumura, the orchestra will perform Bartók’s spirited Romanian Folk Dances, Miklós Rózsa’s ...

Beethoven, the wild-haired German composer, is ubiquitous during the fall symphony season. It makes sense, as his booming, blustery compositions have a lot in common with the darkening, windy autumn ...