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The Violin Concerto was written in 1806, when Beethoven was 36 years old. He had already made a name for himself in his adoptive town of Vienna; his works were regarded as challenging but brilliant; ...

A season opener can be many things. If it's an occasion for old friends to get together and conjure up some music, violinist Joshua Bell was a good choice as soloist in a pair of concerts kicking off ...

Sept. 15-June 3. $20-$79. Symphony Hall, 1280 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. 404-733-4900, www.atlantasymphony.org. It almost seemed like Music Midtown had started early. Not only was there a horrendous ...

Feb. 27 is a very special day for the Jacksonville Symphony. We will celebrate our orchestra with a gala concert featuring the international virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell performing Tchaikovsky's ...

Joshua Bell may be America’s greatest living violinist. But he radiates the kind of Midwestern friendliness that makes you think he’s got all the time in the world to chat. In reality, Bell’s schedule ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. With a career spanning almost four decades, GRAMMY Award-winning violinist Joshua ...

You get 15 minutes with Joshua Bell these days. He doesn’t need the publicity. And good luck catching up with him, somewhere in the world. The appointed time to do so was precisely 9:25 a.m. (PST) on ...

A friend of mine studied with the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen in the 1980s. He sent me a cassette (remember those?) of De Staat, and I can remember being bowled over by the music’s stark majesty ...

Case Scaglione conducted the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in a program of Debussy, Glazunov and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5. By Vivien Schweitzer The New York Philharmonic began its ...