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These are the most recent articles mentioning "beethoven" It's not music Posted 04/06/08, 10:37 ... ing that music had to have personal expression, which of course is nothing like a definition, and is even tough to defend as a thesis. In a nutshell, Beethoven is music, what is piped into the grocery store is not.In the first class, when my turn came to define music, I gave a standard avant-gardist... The Beethoven Icon Posted 05/28/07, 23:46 Ludwig Van Posted 01/07/08, 20:27 Okay droogs, confession time. I'm having a bit of a falling out with Beethoven. Don't get me wrong, I'm not casting aspersions on Beethoven or his music. Beethoven's music just sounds so frustrated to me lately that I haven't wanted to listen to it. I used to be the same way: constantly frustrat... When Liszt played for Beethoven Posted 11/21/06, 23:41 I was teaching Beethoven's mammoth 'Hammerklavier' Sonata today--that last movement fugue is incredibly difficult--pianistically challenging to say the least. My student, who has also brough Medtner's g minor Sonata and Copland's Piano Variations, was sharing how Egon Petri and Ernst Levy played the... William Bolcom to pen Choral Fantasy Posted 10/14/06, 03:59 ... think, 'Hey, this is pretty good--it might even be fun!' I believe the piece will be something very special--there hasn't been a Choral Fantasy since Beethoven. Maybe pairing the Beethoven and Bolcom will work--who knows. I have a good feeling about the project--and Bill has lots of fans of his musi... << back