On Oct. 25, Andrew Crust will conduct his first Beethoven symphony since becoming the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s fifth music director in 2023. The Sixth, called the “Pastoral Symphony,” is one of ...

For Crust’s teacher at McGill University, the Austrian conductor and composer Alexis Hauser, Beethoven was a “god.” “We spent so much time doing very, very deep analysis,” Crust said. “I actually, for ...