Batiste re-imagines Beethoven compositions in his new album. It's "not that the original wasn't great and transcendent..." he says. "But there's also a lot of things since then that have happened." ...

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The music is attributed to Johann Crüger ... The ‘Pastoral’ Symphony, regularly voted the most loved of all Beethoven’s compositions, is a hymn to Nature which originally bore the title ...

Going backward, at least in opus numbers, Grimaud began with Brahms’s Op. 116. These are “Seven Fantasies,” which are three ...

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NPR's Eric Deggans speaks with musician and composer Jon Batiste about his new album, "Beethoven Blues," in which he riffs on ...

The Beethoven Festival has been such an exciting addition to the Melbourne music scene this past month. Among large concerts ...

in which he re-imagines Beethoven's compositions. Beethoven's work taps into a "universal connective, magnetic truth in music," Batiste explains, that you also hear in blues. "It's like things ...

Composer Tyler Mazone has been deaf since birth. Yet his clarinet professor said Mazone listens more than her students who ...