Following The Ninth: In The Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony, is a documentary film taking us on a journey into one of the world’s greatest works of art.
"Art, the persecuted one, always finds an asylum. Did not Daedalus, shut up in the labyrinth, invent the wings which carried him out into the open air? I shall find them, too, these wings." Ludwig van Beethoven, 1814. The man has a... https://t.co/MSuEmKMKYW
Off in the distance, but for Long Beach area friends, a screening of Following The Ninth on June 2nd. I'll be there. https://t.co/ri3nkZayuJ https://t.co/ri3nkZayuJ
A big thanks again to Bill Moyers for bringing nation-wide attention to my Beethoven 9th film. He did a wonderful job here: https://t.co/K0hsmMsr0k https://t.co/K0hsmMsr0k
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Bettina Brentano
"As for instructing Beethoven, this would surely be insolent, even on the part of person endowed with insight greater than mine, as his genius lights his way and often illuminates him... https://t.co/S43PWWgOJJ
Every once in a while I post this streaming version of my Beethoven's 9th film, for those of you who have not seen it. Feel free to share. https://t.co/MUbndTWk8X https://t.co/MUbndTWk8X
The 4th piano concerto was just one of the great pieces that Beethoven composed after the crises of 1802, when he found that he was going increasingly deaf. Add the Eroica Symphony, the Razumovfsky Quartets, the 5th Symphony, and a... https://t.co/8AgU2IST25
Kind of strange. Who thinks up these kind of performances? I've heard the "Ode" played on wine glasses filled with water, on electric guitars going full metal, on hundreds of penny whistles, and so many other... https://t.co/J27tyYRjxb
Just a reminder for you Tucson area folks, that I'm be screening Following The Ninth at The Loft Cinema this Sunday. See you at 2 pm. And everyone who attends gets a free poster:)! https://t.co/K5UC7xajoa