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...Unlike his elder Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Beethoven does not hold the honor of having a Literature and Arts-B core course named after him. But he will soon be featured in a Hollywood biopic starring Ed Harris. And today, at 6:30 p.m. at the First Parish Church on 3 Church Street, Morris will seek to bring the long-dead Beethoven to life...
...pairing of Morris and Beethoven seems incongruous at first. The author of a two-volume biography of Roosevelt and a notoriously sub-par work on Ronald Reagan, Morris has no obvious ties to the music world. However, he goes out of his way to mention on the back flap that he is both a pianist and a “private music scholar” who has been studying Beethoven with 50 years of devotion. These credentials sound about as compelling as those of the ousted director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael D. Brown. (But when Morris discusses...
...Beethoven was born December 1770 in Bonn, in what is now Germany. Beethoven, like most musicians, began his career early. His father, a tenor, pushed him to learn the piano, violin, and music theory with a brutal zeal that included floggings and time spent locked in the cellar. Beethoven would often improvise, only to be reprimanded by his father: “You are not to do that yet.” By age 13, Beethoven had already become the court organist and had published several compositions...
Friday, Dec. 2—Saturday Dec. 3. Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Haydn. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra takes on such classics as Haydn’s “Te Deum” and Beethoven’s “Fidelio Overture,” accompanied by the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. Sanders Theatre. Tickets $12-16; students $8-12. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, online, or by subscription...
Thursday, Oct. 20. “Beethoven: Universal Composer.” Edmund Morris, who is best known for his biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, discusses the brilliant (and ultimately deaf) composer. 6:30 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church...