Mary Kunz Goldman was for over 10 years the classical music critic for The Buffalo News, the daily paper of Buffalo, N.Y. She is also the authorized biographer of the great American pianist Leonard Pennario.
Monday, December 17, 2012
A Beethoven fantasy
Yesterday we spoke of Charles Schulz and Beethoven. Since then there have been new developments.
No. 1, there is a God, and He posted "Copying Beethoven" on YouTube. That is a bad title, I have to say that. "Copying Beethoven." There has to be a better title out there. But oh well.
I have only watched the first five minutes but I have to say, it looks kind of cool.
Outrageous, sure, there's certainly a lot of poetic license, kind of like "Mozart's Sister," but still.
Who wouldn't have wanted to have assisted Beethoven?
And who wouldn't want to have been there, you know, the first time they played the Ninth Symphony? That is what someone wrote in a comment on YouTube. He wrote: "I would give everything I have if only I could have been there."
Passion like that, it makes YouTube interesting.
Anyway, what a fantasy. I will watch it as soon as I have time.
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