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...sweetness, Pressler called the audience “back to earth” by playing the frenzied scherzo of Shostakovich’s second piano trio. After this outburst of energy, Pressler then returned listeners “back to heaven” with the slow movement of Beethoven??s Trio No. 11. Arguing for Beethoven??s status as a romantic, the trio played with some of the maudlin expressivity that the previous performances had lacked. If the applause were any indication, this self-referential in-joke was not lost on the audience...
Appropriately, the program concluded with something from the height of classic sensibility, Beethoven??s Second Symphony. The symphony, of a bright and carefree character, was written during one of the darkest times of the composer’s life. He had finally realized that his hearing was failing and that his health would never be restored. It is a joyful symphony, rendered in equally high spirits by the BSO. The connection between personal misery and musical delight would recur several times throughout the rest of Beethoven??s life. It was necessary, after an intense musical evening...
Together, Goodridge and Young performed Beethoven??s Cello Sonata in A Major, one of Kletzsch’s all-time favorites—and received a standing ovation from the audience...
...nine billion names of God did it get to this: Dead in the middle of a lecture on Plato or sociological concepts or Joyce, some god-awful ear-piercingly high shriek of Beethoven??s Ninth repeats over and over again until the dipstick, realizing the phone is his or hers, fumbles among candy wrappers and Chapstick to turn it off, only for it—or another—to go off five minutes later. And I love the people who are too humiliated to take responsibility, instead simply allowing the phone to complete a cycle of four...
...don’t say you don’t know the rules to the game. You’ll find that they are just as easy to learn as the Felkin-Ahn Model or the violin part of Beethoven??s Ninth. Plus watching a game with friends is a lot more fun than sitting in the library reading James Joyce...