Beethoven 250

Celebrate #Beethoven250, the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, with daily postings of (mostly) live music performances in (roughly) chronological order.

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Muss es sein? Es muss sein!

This is the last tweet. The contents of this feed have been moved to a spanking new website that I hope will be a useful resource for anyone wishing to explore the entire range of Beethoven’s music.

Thank you all!

https://t.co/A3drMLO2kH

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@DrDavidVernon Thanks for the suggestion. I began on that day and finished yesterday evening. What a wonderful trip!

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@jeremydenk Debussy, yes.

But when it comes to piano concerti...

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@HellTweet Is the libretto available anywhere (other than the vocal score)? I'm very interested in reading the poems etc before seeing the Met production.

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@sarahfritzwritr

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@sarahfritzwritr I'll be there, but since "Carnegie Hall" includes Zankel and Weill, in which many song recitals take place, I suspect it's not Alma's debut.

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@DrDavidVernon I remember Pierre Boulez conducting the NY Phil in a Webern piece, and then turning to the audience and saying "That was somewhat short, so let's hear it again."

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@ThatEricAlper A "song" (to quote Wikipedia) "is a musical composition performed by the human voice."

There are very few songs without lyrics. An example of these rare exceptions is Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise."

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@EnricoGalvagni John Oliver did a segment of "Last Week Tonight" on AI last night, and quoted from this book, which has an intriguing title.

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@EnricoGalvagni Ezra Klein did 3 podcasts on the subject.

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@sarahfritzwritr @Tom_Godell @theresasmets This is the best I could find:

https://t.co/VI4RBvkYKL

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@DrDavidVernon In 2020 I performed an extensive search of YouTube for live performances of Beethoven's folksong settings. Scroll to the bottom of this page for the complete list of what I found.

https://t.co/FBH4f6djRn

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@DrDavidVernon For sheer variety -- from Haydnesque classicism to proto-Bartokian modernism -- there's really only one choice. The string quartets alone would provide yearlong nourishment.

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@sarahfritzwritr To me it was the chamber music that revealed the wonders of Brahms, and that required some maturity in my listening habits. Twenty-four brilliant works and not a clunker in the batch.

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@EnricoGalvagni Have you seen this?

https://t.co/nxnqKnlf1B

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@sarahfritzwritr I'll be at the Carnegie Hall performance (8 days after seeing the NY Phil play Price's 4th Symphony!) in Orchestra F-15 & 17.

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@sarahfritzwritr A short bio and a little taste of Nadia Boulanger's music:

https://t.co/MAdKnWYZv7

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Happy birthday, Clara Schumann!

Here's a new website that incorporates all my posts on the music of women composers.

https://t.co/P6RwoMELwZ

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What I've been doing since Beethoven 250: the music of over 180 women composers.

https://t.co/UhX0kqEQA9

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@SondraRadvan October 8!