From this symphony, the finale, known as the "Ode to Joy," is one of the most recognizable ... stands above a purely national perspective," notes Malte Boecker. The Ninth Symphony is, according ...

And while it is Ode to Joy that has received all the attention, Sir Keir's other choice was Beethoven's 5th piano concerto, the Emperor Concerto. Perhaps that is the pick which gives us the real ...

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Indie folk sensation Conor Oberst used the melody to Beethoven’s Ode to ... the chords for the verse of the song from the slow movement of Rachmaninov’s emotionally-charged Piano Concerto ...

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9, when Los Angles Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel leads Beethoven's "Ode to Joy." Tens of thousands of Angelenos have been forced to deal with power outages over the weekend ...

Without sheet music, I release the songs frolicking in my mind as I escape the dark depths of life with MS. And every time I sit down at my piano, I think of the stranger who played it first.

Finneas revisits the awkward agony of unrequited adolescent love on “Cleats,” the latest effort from his upcoming solo album, For Cryin’ Out Loud. The sweet, but bouncy indie pop tune finds ...

After briefly setting the tone, the film opens with a blast of the song “Ghosts,” an assertive ode to rock ... when its piano intro rises out of the last mournful trumpet notes of ...

Scores of films and documentaries about Muhammad Ali have spotlighted his historic 1970 comeback fight, which took place more than three years after he was stripped of his heavyweight title for ...

On ‘Joy’ for example, Cave rhapsodies about ... Although occasional, the band still knows how to rock out with church-like piano chords, churning guitars and Warren Ellis’ shrieking strings ...

The allegory is a bit confused, but the message still has bite in Marielle Heller’s surrealistic statement about all that mothers are asked to sacrifice. It’s been more than half a century ...