Turtle Island’s classical-meets-jazz string quartet coming to Singletary Center

Turtle Island Quartet blends classical quartet form with jazz improvisation. Feb. 26 Singletary program 'Shades of Blue' ...
SFGate

BCNARTS: Best Bets: All-Beethoven Program At San Francisco Symphony

Charles Schulz's piano-playing Peanut Schroeder would be turning handsprings. It's an all Beethoven lineup in Davies Hall for this weekend's series of San Francisco Symphony concerts, as Dutch ...
The New York Times

Beethoven’s ‘Egmont,’ by Way of Cate Blanchett and Jeremy O. Harris

Gustavo Dudamel, Blanchett and Harris sit down to discuss their new version of Beethoven’s classic, premiering in Los Angeles this week. By Adam Nagourney Reporting from Los Angeles Gustavo Dudamel ...
Forbes

Gustavo Dudamel And Cate Blanchett Join Forces For Beethoven Concerts

The LA Phil series features Cate Blanchett in a reimagined Egmont by playwright Jeremy O. Harris and marks Dudamel’s first performance of the epic Missa Solemnis. Contributor. Forbes contributors ...
The Ledger

Southeastern students can now put a face to Beethoven's music

Southeastern University in Lakeland is temporarily displaying a life mask and a death mask of composer Ludwig van Beethoven. A music professor is using the masks as a teaching tool to help students ...
NPR

In 1992, the Crips and the Bloods negotiated peace. Here's how

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode "How to talk about peace" Aqeela Sherrills grew up amidst warring gangs in LA. To stop the violence, Sherrills spent years building bridges between the Bloods and ...
Sydney Morning Herald

It’s Beethoven or bust on our family mission to Germany

We are not exactly the ageing Blues Brothers but my brother Adrian and I are on some sort of mission. Not from God, though; more likely from our Viennese great-grandfather, Heinrich. Of course, I ...