Celebrate 100 years of exceptional music in Fort Collins with Beethoven’s brilliant Symphony No. 9, “Ode to Joy.”
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Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 55, “Eroica”
Program Notes by Dr. K. Dawn Grapes If just one adjective were offered to describe Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the word “more” might come to mind....
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Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Beethoven’s fifth symphony is the iconic work of classical music. It pervades the whole world of symbols and imagery of musical art as an evocation of a welter of ideas. In a sad way it is almost impossible to escape all...
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Symphony no. 2 in D Major, op. 36
The years 1801-02 marked the nadir of Beethoven’s emotional life, as he grappled with the reality of his increasing and permanent deafness. His despair was...
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Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 61
By 1806 Beethoven had surmounted a series of significant distractions that had seriously affected his creative life. The difficulties that he had with writing his...
