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What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us

Daniel Barenboim New York Times
I don’t believe that Beethoven was interested in everyday politics. He was not an activist. He was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was concerned with moral behavior and the larger questions of right and wrong....

Friday Nite Videos | October 1, 2021

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Friday Nite Videos | July 16, 2021

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The Revolutionary Genius of Ludwig van Beethoven

Simon Behrman Jacobin
250 years after his birth, Beethoven’s music still has an exhilarating, subversive power. His revolution of artistic form was intimately linked to his sympathy for the political revolutions of his time.

Friday Nite Videos | November 20, 2020

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Beethoven 250 tribute

In honor of Beethoven's 250th anniversary, the complex and beautiful cymatic geometry embedded in Beethoven's gorgeous melody are revealed. The imagery is the actual geometry of music imprinted onto pure water and is not computer generated.

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