The Republican convention was weird. Then they played Beethoven.
In an evening full of supremely weird moments, this was one of the weirdest: the long, arcing line of Beethoven’s greatest ...
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A journey through Beethoven's Ninth with Jeffrey Kahane
Two hundred years ago, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was “a piece that completely shatters anyone's preconceived ...
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Beethoven’s Ninth and the Ode to Joy: Symphony and Psyche
In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony (2013, streaming on Kanopy) also showcases how the Ninth inspired protestors in the 1989 democracy movement in Tiananmen Square and against the ...
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Imperial Beethoven & heroic Strauss
Nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts,” Beethoven wrote his publisher to describe the scene, which did nothing to help his incipient hearing loss. He dedicated the concerto not to ...