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...think it is bullshit," says Trey Grayson '94about the "approaches to knowledge" teachingmethod. "In 'Beethoven' [Literature and Arts B-69]all they teach is Beethoven...
According to Brinkmann, the subjects of study would be works by Monteverdi, Handel, Beethoven, Berlioz, and Stravinsky. "I think that Tom isgoing to discuss the circumstances and historiesof some central pieces," he said." He's going totry to mix aesthetic, historical and socialapproaches to music...
...first work on the program, Beethoven's Quartet, Opus 18, No. 1, was the most impressively rendered of the pieces, Its second movement, a theme and variations set labeled "Adagio affettuoso e appassionato," was wrenchingly beautiful, the notes spun out with the refinement of silk. The piece provided a musical tour of each player's attributes, certain themes given from one to another, each adding his or her own carefully-conceived statement to the entirety of the conversation. The faster movements, while not quite as powerfully alluring, were also effectively interpreted and performed...
...significance didn't really hit meuntil the first four rolling notes of the lastpart of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony came driftingover the air. And then they repeated. Andrepeated. And I, somewhat hat to my surprise,started crying...
...down, ordered a glass of wine and sippedit while staring at the jukebox. The jukeboxdidn't play Beethoven but somehow that seemed allright...