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Quarantine Mini 13 - A Solo Story

🕑 Added 2020-03-29 22:37:58 +0000 UTC

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Claire P

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.

Anna Zaigraeva

Show of hands, who wants Mike to host Beethoven appreciation minis on the regular?

Shawn Furniss

Mike, 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.

Gina Dalfonzo

That was delightful! Beethoven is my favorite. Thank you, Mike!

Jessie Beyrer

Beethoven and Wagner are my favorites!

Emily Brown

Mike, were you playing that? Play some Chopin nocturnes, F # is my fav!!

Mark Burger

Follow-up thought: Mike's take on Rush's 2112 overture is just 20 minutes of him muttering "what the hell?"

Mark Burger

RiffTrax for movies, 372 Pages for books, now a Quarantine Mini for music... I'm a fan.

Taylor Conner

I came here to write the same thing... just explain to me why things are good...

Lene Taylor

Mike, who is the performer? Could you credit them?

Brion K

Was I just listening to an episode of Mr Rodgers?

Crystal

I very much enjoyed this and wouldn't mind hearing more of Mike talk about classical music.

Jason Hammack

Poor Conor is going to really have to class things up when he comes back.

Ally

This is genuinely lovely.

Lee Ann

I 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.

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

So, 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.

Christopher Dazey

I'd listen to a Michael J. Nelson classical music podcast if there was one (just sayin').

Lucas A

That’s the same thing to my wife as soon as we started listening, ha!

Lucas A

I 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?

Mike Truman

I could use some instruction in classical music. Please continue the seminar.

Taylor Budde

As 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.

John G

Moar 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.