Roll Over, Beethoven

In my irregular feature:  You may have seen the popular video of a large and  exciting "flash mob" orchestra and choir doing the ...

Fascinating piece from the folks at RadioLab on the long debate over Beethoven's metronome marking.  The device was invented near the...

Perhaps her greatest love song? Certainly, at moment, and perhaps others, her immortal beloved.

One has to wonder what took so long, but Glenn Gould will finally get his Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammy folks tomorrow--and my ...

It may surprise you to learn (if you don't know) that the late Leonard Bernstein once said in a documentary--I have seen it--that if he ...

Researching Journeys With Beethoven , I was amazed to find famed conductor Lorin Maazel not only using Twitter but taking questions there.  ...

As I've noted, we feature recordings of our title tune from time to time, from the creator himself, Mr. Chuck Berry on down.  Now here i...

Of course, we refer to the famous LvB note to his "Immortal Beloved." The mystery in identifying the woman has provided scholars w...

Always loved this little interview with the great Paul Lewis, talking about playing all of LvB's piano concertos, with special emphasis ...

Probably my favorite two dozen notes in all of music (along with the opening of "Like a Rolling Stone") are the ones that come at ...

 John Belushi as Beethoven / Ray Charles.  That deaf and blind boy, can he also play pinball?

Terrific excerpt from a Leonard Bernstein talk at Harvard, as he plays a bit of Ludwig on piano (starting with call and response from sonata...

I posted below more than once  about the cycle of Beethoven symphonies this past week at Carnegie Hall, with Daniel Barenboim leading his re...

Excited to announce that I will serve as co-host and curator of a unique, year-long Beethoven festival based in Nyack, N.Y.  (home of the we...

Amazing, from last night, with author of that new book (which I've read, of course), on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The Colber...

As I've posted more than once here--and highlight in our new book--I am a huge fan of Glenn Gould's rendition of the wonderful Liszt...

Milan Kundera, from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting , where the narrator's father excitedly claimed to have finally understood a ...

Some of you may know that Tim Page is one of the leading writers about classical music (not to mention Glenn Gould and Dawn Powell) of our...

A few months back I brought you a couple of scenes from famed film director Abel Gance's biopic about Beethoven in the 1930s.  I mention...

We usually don't take the church part seriously here, but can't resist this unusual vid of part of Beethoven's Mass in C Major, ...

Here's the wildest, most star-studded version of "Roll Over, Beethoven," ever, billed as "Dick Clark's All-Star Band...

Excited to announce that I will serve as co-host and curator of a unique, year-long Beethoven festival based in Nyack, N.Y.  (home of the we...

UPDATE Thursday:   NYT reviews the first concert at Carnegie. Earlier:   Fine, lengthy piece at The Guardian awhile back on Daniel Bare...

Amazing video of local orchestra, last year,  in a kind of "flash mob" approach playing the "Ode to Joy" in a square in ...