“He has … the power to make you feel at the finish: Something is right in the world.” That’s Leonard Bernstein on Beethoven during a segment of CBS’ 1950s ...

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 ...

Conductor Elim Chan kept The Cleveland Orchestra alternating between "light and attentive" and "clarity with relentless energy." As for Beethoven's most theatrical strokes? Masterful, triumphant. As ...

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 ...

The Elgin Symphony Orchestra continues its 76th Season Classics Series with a program of energy, elegance, and symphonic power at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 11, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 12, at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images An experiment in Brazil compared the effects of exposing breast cancer cells in culture to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony ...