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the great maestro's birthday being celebrated this day
vince guaraldi style
cheers
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12-16-2020 05:03 PM
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I can't count the times I've been at Mass and sang this as we processed out.
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I'll be attending virtual birthday party for him tomorrow night...
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Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
his 250th b-day!
my local classical radio station playing beethoven all day!
have a virtually great time rob!...
cheers
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as per chuck b
hard to beat his set from belgian tv 1965...superb showman still in those days
belgian guitarist willy donni on harmony meteor thru valco made gretsch amp....great band!
here's roll over beethoven, but whole set is worth watchin ...& on u-tube
cheers
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Originally Posted by neatomic
Not to diverge too much from good old Ludwig Van, but my dad said that in the late 50's when rock n roll started everyone assumed Chuck was a white guy and Elvis was black, just by hearing them on the radio. It was quite a long while before they realized the truth.
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
* A J. Cage acolyte, truth be told.
** TBH, one or two of us weren't all that tightly wrapped. Who is?
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More than you probably wanted to know about the possible causes of Beethoven's deafness:
Aetiology of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hearing impairment: hypotheses over the past 100 years – A systematic review | SpringerLink
One of my daughter's physicians had been a speech pathologist before going to medical school, and wrote a paper on Beethoven's deafness. She attributed it to combined or cochlear otosclerosis (Patricia Shearer--reference 17). (As an aside I will mention she was a VERY attractive lady...redhead...)
Being an infectious disease physician I should perhaps be "pulling for" syphilis, but I don't think that's likely. I think it would have been very rare for a slowly progressive hearing loss to occur without other cardinal features of neurosyphilis, which generally, as in the case of Scott Joplin, trended toward insanity and paralysis.
That's not too say he didn't have syphilis though...it was pretty common among artists of his day. As was, unfortunately, alcoholism and cirrhosis, which led to his death at 52.
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
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One of the most profound artists ever in History. His Sonata No. 8 in Cm, Op13, "Pathetique" is one of the most beautiful compositions ever written. Here's one of the best versions played by Wilhelm Kempff.
Play live . . . Marinero
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And 56 years later, "Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est."
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Best composition of all time imo. I can't stand to hear a mortal play it. Rather hear it executed perfectly by a computer as written by the genius.
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Originally Posted by Clint 55
Op 27 no 1 does not get enough love, the rhythm in the last movement is just incredible (and far better time than MIDI)
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Originally Posted by Clint 55
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In fact by writing it down at all Beethoven was committing an unfathomable crime, by encouraging mere mortals to play it.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Yas
A nice blond and Mickey Rooney on drums
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