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Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis Save Normal text size Advertisement No matter how many times one listens to his music, Beethoven’s command of contrasting worlds and conflict is breathtaking, says Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The German master created some of the most sublime, sensitive, electrifying and fiery works, sometimes composed at the same time and premiered in the very same concert. Still heard: Be...

Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis Save Normal text size Advertisement No matter how many times one listens to his music, Beethoven’s command of contrasting worlds and conflict is breathtaking, says Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The German master created some of the most sublime, sensitive, electrifying and fiery works, sometimes composed at the same time and premiered in the very same concert. Still heard: Be...

Ninth Symphony (the Choral Symphony), was used as the sign-off music for some 15 years on the dominant US evening news broadcast, The Huntley Brinkley Report, five nights a week on the NBC television network. The particular performance’s recording had been conducted by the redoubtable Arturo Toscanini back in 1942, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. (How many commercial television networks still have a resident orchestra these days, hey?) This was all back in a day when even a weekly shoot-’em-up western television show aimed at children, William Tell, instead of some synthesiser-generat...

Beethoven's Life, Liberty And Pursuit Of Enlightenment Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Two-hundred-fifty years ago, a musical maverick was born. Ludwig van Beethoven charted a powerful new course in music. His ideas may have been rooted in the work of European predecessors Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Josef Haydn, but the iconic German composer became who he was with the help of some familiar American values: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That phrase, from the Declaration of Independence, is right out of the playbook of the Enlightenment, the philoso...