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Opinion | Barenboim: What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us The conductor Daniel Barenboim explores the political and spiritual power of what many consider the greatest symphony.

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William Byrd: An Essential English Composer for Four Centuries As the music world celebrates the 400th anniversary of Byrd’s death, it looks back on an artist of nimble styles and stubborn beliefs.

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Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

A great loss to the music world. R.I.P., Ennio Morricone.

Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning Composer of Film Scores, Dies at 91 His vast output included atmospheric music for spaghetti westerns in his native Italy and scores for some 500 movies by a Who’s Who of directors.

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mozart We asked Mark Hamill, Condoleezza Rice, Mitsuko Uchida and others to pick the music that moves them. Listen to their choices.

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The Folly of Memorization It was 1856 and Clara Schumann was newly widowed. She hadn’t seen her husband, Robert, for several years; his ragings, during his institutionalization, specifically made clear that he did not wish …

How The 'New World' Symphony Introduced American Music To Itself Sometimes it takes an outsider to see a culture clearly. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's Ninth Symphony was an ode to what American music could become.