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May 16, 2024

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May 9, 2024

What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us

Daniel Barenboim The 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....

October 1, 2021

Friday Nite Videos | October 1, 2021

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Rudy Giuliani Is Banned From Fox News, But Not From the Late Show! Congresswomen Share Personal Abortion Stories. Joe Manchin's Yacht Surrounded by West Virginian Protesters. Amazon Empire. Beethoven Xth Symphony: The AI Project.

October 1, 2021

How Musicologists and Computer Scientists Completed Beethoven’s 10th Symphony

Ahmed Elgammal The Conversation

Beethoven died in 1827 leaving behind only short sketches for his planned 10th Symphony. Now, thanks to the work of a team of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists, Beethoven’s vision will come to life.

Beethoven Xth Symphony: The AI Project

October 1, 2021

A three minute foretaste of the album "Beethoven X - The AI Project," to be released October 8. Read the full story of how this unfinished work has been completed after 250 years.

July 16, 2021

Friday Nite Videos | July 16, 2021

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"I'm Not Into Coups" Claims Our Fascist Former President. Beethoven's 5th: A Pandemic Graduation Production. Biden's Child Tax Credit vs FDR's Social Security. How We Eradicated Polio. Palestinians Film War in Gaza: ‘So They Know We Existed’

Beethoven's 5th Symphony: A Pandemic Graduation Production

July 16, 2021

Children at this school in the Basque country in Spain prepared for five months during the pandemic to create a unique percussive rendition of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

December 20, 2020

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.

November 20, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | November 20, 2020

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Trump & Election Results | John Oliver. 'We Didn’t Start the Fire’ | The Trump Presidency in 3 Minutes. Jordan Klepper Takes on the Million MAGA March. Visible Beethoven. Feed the Birds (Trump Pence and MAGA) | Roy Zimmerman.

Beethoven 250 tribute

November 20, 2020

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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