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Orchestra Rocks & Swings: A Mary Starling In-School Education Concert

Reynolds Auditorium 301 Hawthorne Rd NW, Winston-Salem, NC, United States

This interactive concert by the Winston-Salem Symphony invites students to participate with the orchestra from their seats. The Orchestra Rocks & Swings will teach students about rhythm in the year of Beethoven, students will lift their voices and sing Ode to Joy from Beethoven's beloved Symphony No. 9. Curriculum for this performance is provided by Carnagie Hall's Link Up Education Program and is presented in partnership with the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools.

Verona Quartet in Concert

UNCSA Watson Hall 1533 South Main Street, Winston-Salem, NC

The program celebrates Beethoven’s 250th birth year under the prism of contrast. How will Beethoven sound after hearing the whimsical Clarinet Quintet Spanish Composer Isabel Urrutia wrote just eight years ago? This haunting work recreates the composer’s fascination with the sound of the wind and, in a mere 10 minutes, will set the stage to hear Beethoven from a fresh new angle. UNCSA faculty members Ulrich Eichenauer and Oskar Espina Ruiz collaborate with the renowned Verona Quartet.

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In Search of Beethoven

a/perture cinema 311 W 4th Street, Winston-Salem, NC, United States

Filmed over the course of four years, award-winning director Phil Grabsky follows leading concert pianist Leif Ove Andsnes as he travels the world playing sold-out concerts with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in an attempt to understand and interpret one of the greatest sets of piano works for piano ever written: Beethoven’s five piano concertos. Against the backdrop of these performances, the film attempts to peel back the many myths of Beethoven’s life to explore how this prodigious talent from Bonn became one of the world’s greatest composers by the time he wrote the fifth concerto.

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Elias String Quartet: The Complete Beethoven String Quartets (Part 1)

Brendle Recital Hall 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

The Secrest Artists Series presents the second half of the complete String Quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven, performed by the vibrant young Elias String Quartet in a series of six concerts. The Elias have performed the complete cycle of Beethoven quartets for BBC Radio 3 as well as at 11 major venues in the UK. Their recently recorded Beethoven cycle for the “Wigmore Hall Live” record label has received wide acclaim from the classical-music press and listeners alike. Special pricing for attendance at all three concerts.

Piano Recital

Piedmont Music Center 212 N Broad Street, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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Gary Taylor’s “Dancing Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Rakowski”

Hanesbrands Theater 209 Spruce St N, Winston-Salem, NC, United States

Beethoven may be 250 years old, but his works never felt so contemporary as Gary Taylor explores the intricacies of this amazing epic composer and finds the path to create a dynamic tribute of music and dance with Barbara Lister-Sink as pianist.

Sightreading the Symphonies

Mitchell's Piano Gallery 1530 Hanes Mall Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC, United States

Dive into some of the greatest masterworks ever written, rich with melody, syncopation, and surprise. We’re all in this together — whatever happens, keep the beat and keep going!