fires of resistance
Mar. 27th, 2022 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaA long, long time ago, I said that Beethoven breaks a rule in each of his symphonies, and then, for the ninth, breaks a whole bunch of them.
In the second symphony, Beethoven replaced the standard minuet with what was dubbed a scherzo because a minuet has an ABA form and when you get past b, you know exactly what’s coming and that’s boring.
He contemplated suicide because he realized that not only were his hearing problems irreversible, they could only get worse. I can’t even imagine the state of music had he gone through with it.
The Eroica, number three, is longer and larger than any symphony that came before it.
Trombones belonged to the church in those days.
Five and six premiered at a disastrous four hour benefit concert. Fun fact: six was the first to premiere and was called the fifth for a while. Six tells a story.
He brought back the minuet for the 8th symphony. In fact, 8 is almost a parody of a classical era symphony. Nine, of course, introduces a chorus.
They held it at the new Plymouth North school. The one that was rebuilt because it was getting too crowded for its own good and because a raccoon fell through the ceiling in one of the classrooms. It looks like they used remnants of the old school to make some artwork. Their theater has good acoustics but not so great thermostatics, and I didn't ever take my coat off.
A trick of the light made it look like some people in the back of the orchestra had teal-blue hair. Not so for the double bassist. Her horse mane of radioactive mint ice cream was her actual hair color.
They opened with a rendition of the Ode to Joy for orchestra because they couldn’t get a chorus, and they probably couldn’t fit a chorus of that size on stage.
The violin concerto is long. Longer than anything Beethoven wrote before that other than the Eroica. Beethoven rewrote the cadenza as a solo piano with timpani accompaniment.
They were planning this one for a while, so this is not yet another premature declaration of V for Victory over the pangovirus menace or on the lich buried under the stage or a commentary on the situation in eastern Europe.
burning question: is anyone else bothered by the continued lack of a 9th Beethoven (the dog) movie?
In the second symphony, Beethoven replaced the standard minuet with what was dubbed a scherzo because a minuet has an ABA form and when you get past b, you know exactly what’s coming and that’s boring.
He contemplated suicide because he realized that not only were his hearing problems irreversible, they could only get worse. I can’t even imagine the state of music had he gone through with it.
The Eroica, number three, is longer and larger than any symphony that came before it.
Trombones belonged to the church in those days.
Five and six premiered at a disastrous four hour benefit concert. Fun fact: six was the first to premiere and was called the fifth for a while. Six tells a story.
He brought back the minuet for the 8th symphony. In fact, 8 is almost a parody of a classical era symphony. Nine, of course, introduces a chorus.
They held it at the new Plymouth North school. The one that was rebuilt because it was getting too crowded for its own good and because a raccoon fell through the ceiling in one of the classrooms. It looks like they used remnants of the old school to make some artwork. Their theater has good acoustics but not so great thermostatics, and I didn't ever take my coat off.
A trick of the light made it look like some people in the back of the orchestra had teal-blue hair. Not so for the double bassist. Her horse mane of radioactive mint ice cream was her actual hair color.
They opened with a rendition of the Ode to Joy for orchestra because they couldn’t get a chorus, and they probably couldn’t fit a chorus of that size on stage.
The violin concerto is long. Longer than anything Beethoven wrote before that other than the Eroica. Beethoven rewrote the cadenza as a solo piano with timpani accompaniment.
They were planning this one for a while, so this is not yet another premature declaration of V for Victory over the pangovirus menace or on the lich buried under the stage or a commentary on the situation in eastern Europe.
burning question: is anyone else bothered by the continued lack of a 9th Beethoven (the dog) movie?
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Date: 2022-03-28 06:12 am (UTC)I think I've only seen parts of the first, on video rented during our middle school after-hours time killing.
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