Beethoven’s “Tempest,” Opus 31 #2 in D-minor. We come to one of the greatest sonatas in the entire repertoire, the Opus 31 #2 in D-minor, nicknamed “The Tempest”. From the unsettling eerieness of the opening movement, to the marvelous , orchestra-like setting of the Adagio second movement, and then the “moto perpetuo” Allegretto at the […]
Join us LIVE on Saturday, February 13 at 1pm EST. Please register today. “The U.S. military must shift its principal assumption from ‘nuclear employment is not possible’ to ‘nuclear employment is a very real possibility.’” Adm. Richards, head of U.S. Strategic Command This astonishing utterance from the head of U.S. Strategic Command, Adm. Charles Richard, […]
The flames of international conflict and domestic polarization are being fanned at a moment when sober deliberation is needed, to address the interconnected crises confronting humanity. In the last days, on the eve of the Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump, representatives of the Military Industrial Complex have compared Trump supporters to ISIS and […]
Beethoven’s Opus 31 piano sonatas began a new path for him. Beethoven composed his trio of Opus 31 piano sonatas in 1801-1802, after he had remarked to his student Carl Czerny that he was dissatisfied with his compositions so far and was setting out on a new path. Each of the sonatas is strikingly different, […]
George Shultz was a leading economic hitman, a prominent promoter of Schachtian economic policies, named for Hjalmar Schacht, who was responsible for Nazi’s slave labor policy. Shultz was at the center of more than fifty years of the “controlled disintegration” of the U.S. economy: advising Nixon to break with the gold-reserve system in 1971; advocating […]
Beethoven, Franz Schubert: musical dialogue and the C-minor series. No investigation of the C-minor dialogue among composers can be complete without the astonishing C-minor sonata by Franz Schubert, whose birthday we recognized on January 31. Schubert, a native of Vienna, was 15 years Beethoven’s junior, although he died just one year after Beethoven at the […]
In a Feb. 4 interview with NPR, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH emphasized the urgency of taking a global approach to the eradication of the coronavirus, and of doing so quickly before it has more time to mutate. “You’ve got to be able to get — with the help of the developed world — […]
The ECR (European Society of Radiology) and the Renew group of the European Parliament commissioned an independent study to assess the effectiveness of EU climate neutrality, and analyse and compare two climate-neutral power-generating technologies that, if they effectively replace fossil fuel infrastructure, can result in decarbonisation of the electricity system – wind/solar and nuclear. The […]
Beethoven and the C-minor dialogue. We return to Beethoven with two of his best-known sonatas in C-minor: the Pathétique and the Opus 111. Listen for the development of the theme that Bach put forward in his Musical Offering! Sonata Pathétique (1st movement) played by Dubravka Tomsic: Opus 111 (1st movement) played by Alfred Brendel:
Beethoven, Mozart, Bach: A Musical Dialogue. We continue the investigation of the C-minor dialogue with Bach’s Ricercar à 6 and Mozart’s sonata K.457. When the elderly J.S. Bach visited his son who was court musician for Frederick II, the king presented the elder Bach with a difficult theme, and challenged him to improvise a three-part […]