The Virginia Symphony’s Beethoven Festival begins tonight and runs through Sunday at the Williamsburg Winery, 5800 Wessex Hundred Road, Williamsburg. Here’s the schedule of concerts. * 8:30 tonight.

When questioned about the way he conducted music by a certain, sacred German composer, Gustav Mahler replied simply, “Your Beethoven is not my Beethoven.” Truer words never spoken. It wasn’t just that ...

‘Beethoven and His World,’ the latest in the Bard Music Festival Rediscoveries series running Friday through Sunday and Aug. 18-20 at Bard College, will feature the following programs: Saturday, ...

Bass-baritone John Cheek never tires of singing Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis,” and he will have yet another chance to do the world-renowned mass at the Bard Music Festival beginning Friday at Bard ...

ARGONNE, Ill. – An analysis of a lock of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair suggests lead poisoning could explain the erratic genius’ lifelong ailments, his strange behavior, his death, maybe even his ...

The recent scientific discovery that the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven suffered from lead poisoning for at least the last six months of his life –and perhaps much longer –has attracted ...

CHICAGO, Oct. 17 -- The death of classical composer Ludwig von Beethoven was likely due to lead poisoning, said researchers who spent the past four years studying strands of Beethoven's hair.

Allan Birney doesn’t remember what it was that Lauren Curnow sang when he first heard the Easton native at a college music competition in 1996, but he recalls being so impressed by the “lovely voice” ...

An analysis of a lock of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair suggests lead poisoning could explain the erratic musical genius’ life-long ailments, his strange behavior, his death, maybe even his deafness. The ...