Four recordings of Beethoven's Ninth on a £10 app

Beethoven, Bowie, beatings and brainwashing are all part of the mix in Action to the Word's A Clockwork Orange, which opened at the Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre, on Wednesday. Written for the stage by Anthony Burgess from his novel, the ...

In August of 1819, Anton Schindler, Beethoven's friend, visited the composer one afternoon to find a typical late Beethovian scene. Chaos reigned. The composer's two servants had quit that morning, having been screamed at the night before for ...

DIE Bloemfontein-stadsorkes bied in Classics and movies, sy eerste konsert van die jaar, die interessante kombinasie van Beethoven-werke in die eerste helfte en fliekmusiek in die tweede helfte.n Klavier-concerto én n koorwerk vervul die dirigent ...

From Beethoven to Kafka to Warhol, artists reveal the daily rituals that help them create. Ernest Hemingway rose by 6 oclock in the morning, no matter what escapades had taken place the night before, and he wrote his first drafts in pencil on ...

_ The performance did not take place quite in the manner Yo-Yo Ma had envisioned for the young members of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. But that was much less important than the skills the newly empowered players took away from the experience. And ...

When the winds of change rise, says the old Chinese proverb, ordinary people build walls, while extraordinary people build windmills. The music industry may have faced stiffer winds in recent years than any other, gales that have scattered the walls ...

YouTube hit 'Epic Rap Battles of History' meshes traditional contests of wit, rhyme and raw humor with the random collisions of characters real and fictional. By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Comedian Lloyd Ahlquist steps onto the stage, girded for battle.

Justin Bieber did it. Nora the cat and other aspiring pet pianists do it all the time. And now, 24-year-old mezzo-soprano Grace Newberry of Thousand Oaks has done it. They've all become musical YouTube sensations. Newberry, although her online ...