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...from the Ninth Symphony – Beethoven: “O friends, no more these sounds! Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full...
Hagebölling next presented “Roll Over Beethoven,” an array of installations made for the Bonn International Beethoven Festival in 2006. The piece, Hagebölling said, “aimed to meaningfully translate classical music” through use of audiovisual media...
...Roll Over Beethoven” also featured Kualshen Auson’s whimsical installation, “Scratching Beethoven.” Auson’s project harnessed the movement of ant colonies through a network of glass boxes to mechanically rotate a turntable playing Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio.” “The dissonant sound horrified Beethoven-lovers,” Hagebölling laughed, “but it amused the children...
Levine is excellent at making Beethoven into less of a god and more of a human. He visibly and audibly revels in the symphonies, and one of the many joys of being in the concert hall rather than listening to a recording is in catching the gleeful brio Levine exudes. Sitting rather than standing at the podium (due to well-chronicled health problems over the past four years), he swivels fluidly back and forth like a six-year old left alone in a big office chair, dancing his feet across a wooden support bar like some frenetic organist pedaling...
...Even in the dolorous intensity of the second movement, the emphasis on the starkness of the horns turned Beethoven’s exploration of grief into more of a public ritual of loss than an introverted sorrow—another interpretive move that helped the concert transcend the typical Beethoven performance...