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For 50 years, the Philadelphia Orchestra has played a singular role in connecting America and China through the universal love of music.

Beethoven fondly spoke of his ebullient and inventive Seventh Symphony as his “most excellent.” Critics hated it. One sniped that Beethoven must have composed it while drunk; another called him “ripe for the madhouse.” Composed five years later, Schubert’s Sixth Symphony wears its Beethovenian heart...

Jay Nordlinger on recent performances at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House & David Geffen Hall.

Alex Ross writes that a six-minute set piece in Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” strikingly captures Leonard Bernstein’s passion for music.

Concerts, plays, holiday activities and more things to go and do this week.

Check out the latest events in Metro Detroit Dec. 7-13, including holiday celebrations at the Detroit Zoo, DSO and The Henry Ford.

Electronic musician Chambers will join the contemporary classical ensemble to perform a suite of six pieces arranged with fellow New Zealander Sonya Waters

In back-to-back programs, the orchestra presented concertos by Beethoven and Benjamin Britten.

The visit, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the orchestra’s pathbreaking 1973 visit to Beijing, drew praise from President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China.

PORT ANGELES — What a difference three years have made.