Composer and conductor Steve Hackman from Chicago hopes to break down barriers between the classical and pop music worlds. It hasn’t been easy.

A monumental portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, painted by the legendary artist and photographer Edward Steichen in 1902, has emerged after being largely hidden from public view for nearly a century.

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