
To Read or Not to Read. That is the Question.
Listening to a YouTube lecture today on the outer- /inner-life of Ludwig van Beethoven, the eminent speaker mentioned a biography of the Master which he considers to be the best
Listening to a YouTube lecture today on the outer- /inner-life of Ludwig van Beethoven, the eminent speaker mentioned a biography of the Master which he considers to be the best
The String Quartet No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131 December 17, 1770 is the day that Ludwig van Beethoven’s name is first noted in a public registry, in the public records of baptism in Bonn.
A fragment of the third movement of Ludwig von Beethoven’s “Piano Sonata No. 14” (named by others “the Moonlight Sonata”), this emotion-laden piece of existential mania — marked “presto agitato”
In Zen tradition, it is said that transmission happens when “You can stand on your teacher’s head.” This means, you have attained penetration of the heart of practice, and its
And so, it metastasizes. This ineluctable concept-listening disease… Since that listening of the final movement of Mahler’s First Symphony, I fell into study this eveningof just Beethoven’s opening movement from