The leaves haven’t even changed, and the Chicago Symphony has already given us one of its can’t-miss billings of the season. On paper, this weekend’s cycle has two big draws. German baritone Christian ...
An experiment in Brazil compared the effects of exposing breast cancer cells in culture to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D, and Ligeti's "Atmosphères." The experiment ...
The opening four notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 are the most iconic in all of music. There’s an apocryphal story that Beethoven called those four notes “fate knocking at the door.” But the very ...