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When Edmund Morris was here at Harvard in February 1978 – presumably at work on his soon-to-be-released Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880 – a bitter blizzard battered Boston and left Harvard underneath several feet of snow.
On a Thursday morning, as students skied across the Yard, “some invisible person threw open a second-floor window…and blasted the finale of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony into the crisp air,” Morris writes. “So why, after...
Unlike his elder Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Beethoven does not hold the honor of having a Literature and Arts-B core course named after him. But he will soon be featured in a Hollywood biopic starring Ed Harris. And today, at 6:30 p.m. at the First Parish Church on 3...
The pairing of Morris and Beethoven seems incongruous at first. The author of a two-volume biography of Roosevelt and a notoriously sub-par work on Ronald Reagan, Morris has no obvious ties to the music world. However, he goes out of his way to mention on the back flap...
Regardless of his musical talent—or perhaps lack thereof—Morris’ “Beethoven” is a leisurely masterpiece that tells the story of the man behind the music with contagious enthusiasm. Undoubtedly, the music is important, and Morris lovingly describes the most...