Beethoven

[MissTaken]

Reading a book is far more interactive than watching a movie. It is your imagination that fills in the blanks, provides images and expression to the text.

For a movie, it is a different art form, but lacks audience participation.

So, generally, "I liked the movie, but the book was better" is true.



Re: deafness. Music is science and art. It is a combination of math and sound. Sound is vibration. When I was in High School, I taught a deaf boy to play guitar by using an electric guitar and having him touch the amplifier and the strings to get a sense of what I was hearing.

No, he was no Beethoveen, but the experience was very fulfilling for both of us.

 

[kotori]

The only successful adaptation from book to screen is the godfather.

Other than that, the screenwriter's only responsibility to to be true to the 'spirit' of the book.

Disappointment is common, but the feeling you got from the book can never be reproduced on celluloid. You have to distance yourself from the book and regard the story in a whole other art form.

The most faithful adaptation I ever saw was the t.v. version of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, with Jeremy Irons, Claire Bloom and Anthony Andrews. But it was 13 hours long for a book that was only about 200 pages.

 

[Byron In Exile]

"It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer."
Beethoven

That is what makes Beethoven's 9th Symphony so remarkable.

That a composer who had been deprived of the ability to hear music at all could feel the joy expressed in the 4th movement of the 9th, and then carry through the effort necessary to communicate it, is hard to understand.

 

[Lorrie Flash]

A guy who's been stone deaf for 10 years writes the ultimate symphony.

What's that about?

pure genius

 

[sticky_keyboard]

Perfect pitch: The ability to throw an accordian into the middle of a pond without hitting any of the ducks.

Beethoven's very best work (IMHO) was the 4th, 6th and 9th Symphonies, but I also have a weak spot for Für Elise, Moonlight Sonata and Leonora Overature #3. They say that you can see the artist's subconsicous in a painting but you can certainly hear Beethoven's personality in his music. Playful, joyful, reverent but very troubled all at the same time.

Every time I hear the storm movement of the 6th, I immediately think of Disney's Fantasia and I believe the Disney artists may have captured exactly what Beethoven was dreaming about as he wrote it. Well, OK, perhaps not with mythical animals but the Summer storm is so accurately portrayed in his music.

He was a genius.

 

[Bent]

Originally posted by Byron In Exile
A guy who's been stone deaf for 10 years writes the ultimate symphony.

What's that about?

If he was deaf for only 10 years, he would have heard music before. He was probably a better composer after losing his hearing because he could concentrate on the music in his head instead of distractions from the outside.

 

[catfish]

Originally posted by Byron In Exile
A guy who's been stone deaf for 10 years writes the ultimate symphony.

What's that about?

The only explanation I can find for genius's like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, all composers who transcend time with their work is they were touched by ( insert your personal deity here ). I don't think there is a rational explanation.

 

[sticky_keyboard]

Bumping for Killer B's - Bach Beethoven Bizet Bernstein

I'd love to make a Lizst of my favorite composers, but I'm leaving to go Chopin.

The only explanation I can find for genius's like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, all composers who transcend time with their work is they were touched by ( insert your personal deity here ). I don't think there is a rational explanation.

Don't forget that Bach's progeny were also talented composers in their own right. (I'm partial to P.D.Q. Bach myself, but I guess that's no surprise. )

Music is math, so I would think it would be safe to assume that they were math wizzes as well, but not in the rocket fuel sense of the word.

 

[catfish]

Re: Bumping for Killer B's - Bach Beethoven Bizet Bernstein

Originally posted by sticky_keyboard
I'd love to make a Lizst of my favorite composers, but I'm leaving to go Chopin.



Don't forget that Bach's progeny were also talented composers in their own right. (I'm partial to P.D.Q. Bach myself, but I guess that's no surprise. )

Music is mathmatics, so I would think it would be safe to assume that they were math wizzes as well, but not in the rocket fuel sense of the word.

I am partial to Johann Sebastian....not as familiar with his families work. I put people like Einstein and Steven Hawking in this class of the touched by God. I find it fascinating how their minds work and the way they are able to construct and deconstruct abstract theory.

 

[sticky_keyboard]

Re: Re: Bumping for Killer B's - Bach Beethoven Bizet Bernstein

I am partial to Johann Sebastian....not as familiar with his families work. I put people like Einstein and Steven Hawking in this class of the touched by God. I find it fascinating how their minds work and the way they are able to construct and deconstruct abstract theory.

No one was able to fugue around the way Johann could, but I also like C.P.E. Bach. Anyone who is too serious about classical music needs to spend time with P.D.Q. Bach, though. Prof. Peter Shickele (spell?) reminds us gleefully that life is not to be taken too seriously and is to be enjoyed fully.

As for Einstein, Hawking et. al. I am also dazzled by their thought processes. I cannot construct with Tinkertoys, let alone abstract theory. One of the most brilliant people I ever met was a physics professor at the local University. He was in such a high orbit that he wore tennis shoes with Velcro® straps. To bother with mundane things like tying his shoes was a waste of his intellect and time. I am in awe of folks like him.