By Brian Wise | From the March/April 2020 issue of Strings magazine As the new decade began and classical-music organizations ramped up their celebrations of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, a simmering backlash rose to a boil. It started among musicologists, arguably the very professionals tasked with tending to the classical canon. Using the … Continue reading Beethoven’s 250th and Classical Music’s Anniversary Obsession