Quarantine Mini 13 - A Solo Story
Added 2020-03-29 22:37:58 +0000 UTCI refuse to preview in print the content of this mini because I am certain you will not click on it.
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Listening to this two years later really brings me back. About a week before this episode came out, my choir met in person for the last time for over a year. We sang "A Silence Haunts Me" for a group of teenagers and moved some of them to tears. It's a piece about Beethoven and when he was losing his hearing.
Claire P
2022-09-29 02:19:53 +0000 UTCShow of hands, who wants Mike to host Beethoven appreciation minis on the regular?
Anna Zaigraeva
2020-06-11 04:57:35 +0000 UTCMike, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on Gustav Holst's The Planets, particularly considering John Williams raided much of it for Star Wars.
Shawn Furniss
2020-04-01 23:49:42 +0000 UTCThat was delightful! Beethoven is my favorite. Thank you, Mike!
Gina Dalfonzo
2020-04-01 02:52:30 +0000 UTCBeethoven and Wagner are my favorites!
Jessie Beyrer
2020-03-31 13:11:41 +0000 UTCMike, were you playing that? Play some Chopin nocturnes, F # is my fav!!
Emily Brown
2020-03-30 22:14:56 +0000 UTCFollow-up thought: Mike's take on Rush's 2112 overture is just 20 minutes of him muttering "what the hell?"
Mark Burger
2020-03-30 20:09:01 +0000 UTCRiffTrax for movies, 372 Pages for books, now a Quarantine Mini for music... I'm a fan.
Mark Burger
2020-03-30 19:45:28 +0000 UTCI came here to write the same thing... just explain to me why things are good...
Taylor Conner
2020-03-30 18:48:10 +0000 UTCMike, who is the performer? Could you credit them?
Lene Taylor
2020-03-30 18:30:30 +0000 UTCWas I just listening to an episode of Mr Rodgers?
Brion K
2020-03-30 16:51:49 +0000 UTCI very much enjoyed this and wouldn't mind hearing more of Mike talk about classical music.
Crystal
2020-03-30 16:09:29 +0000 UTCPoor Conor is going to really have to class things up when he comes back.
Jason Hammack
2020-03-30 11:52:26 +0000 UTCThis is genuinely lovely.
Ally
2020-03-30 09:05:48 +0000 UTCI recently saw a man on Youtube who played Beethoven's "Adagio cantabile" to a blind bull elephant named Romsai at an elephant sanctuary in Thailand. The connection that this elephant has to the music is palpable. He even hangs his trunk over the piano at one point as if to feel the vibrations of the notes being played. It's so moving to see.
Lee Ann
2020-03-30 03:10:48 +0000 UTCSo, Maynard Solomon's is the classic; from my VERY limited understanding there are important flaws, but those flaws are obviously all debated. A bit of comedy about him that I recently saw in a documentary (I do not remember the source, sadly); it has always been said of him that he was at best "cranky" at worst "very very difficult". Probably true, but evidently he could also be very warm and curious about musicians. So the story goes that musicians would show up at his home to meet the master and because he lived on the second floor his landlady would alert him when they knocked on his door. Sometimes he would dump cold water on their heads from his second floor window. YET, other times he would invite them in, bring them upstairs to his rooms and spend a few hours with them playing on his piano, drinking tea or whatever and just spending time with other musicians.
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2020-03-30 02:17:37 +0000 UTCI'd listen to a Michael J. Nelson classical music podcast if there was one (just sayin').
Christopher Dazey
2020-03-30 01:25:45 +0000 UTCThat’s the same thing to my wife as soon as we started listening, ha!
Lucas A
2020-03-30 00:59:19 +0000 UTCI enjoyed this, Fur Elise has been one of my favorite pieces of music since I was 8. Do you have a favorite Beethoven biography you’d recommend, Mike?
Lucas A
2020-03-30 00:43:02 +0000 UTCI could use some instruction in classical music. Please continue the seminar.
Mike Truman
2020-03-30 00:25:32 +0000 UTCAs a fan of both 372 and LTW I'm all for any and all classical music digressions. Currently finishing writing my PhD comprehensive exams and have switched to Beethoven as my background noise.
Taylor Budde
2020-03-29 23:21:23 +0000 UTCMoar Beethoven! Can’t go wrong. I used to use the Sonata no. 20 when I taught Sonata form in college. That one’s fairly easy to analyze. Later sonatas...slightly less so.
John G
2020-03-29 23:11:32 +0000 UTCI clicked on it.
Nick Donald
2020-03-29 23:06:12 +0000 UTCDid Mike...just issue Beethoven a "settle down"? A FIRM one, even?
Moviegique
2020-03-29 22:52:15 +0000 UTCthanks mike ^-^ that was awesome!
amolove
2020-03-29 22:50:15 +0000 UTCBeethoven's not so great. He never got his picture on bubblegum cards did he?
Joe Talledo
2020-03-29 22:46:14 +0000 UTC
