Music Courses from "The Teaching Company"

[Caroluna]

I’m a big fan of the audio courses from The Teaching Company. I usually go to Amazon.com to buy used versions, though I’ve gotten some courses at the website when they’re offered on sale (which happens often).

Over the past few years, I’ve gone through most of the music classes by Dr. Robert Greenberg
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/search/search.aspx?searchphrase=Greenberg

Not everybody likes him (he has a thick New Jersey accent, and a corny sense of humor). As the courses get more in depth, though, he’s less jokey.

Anyway. The current course I’m working through is “The String Quartets of Beethoven”. Today was a lecture on opus 127. Apparently this music was a bit ahead of its time Greenberg quoted one of the contemporary reviews.

@Beethoven's Critic

An incomprehensible, incoherent, vague, overextended series of fantasias – chaos – from which flashes of genius emerged from time to time, like lightning bolts from a black thundercloud

[Caroluna]

@Beethoven's Critic

An incomprehensible, incoherent, vague, overextended series of fantasias – chaos – from which flashes of genius emerged from time to time, like lightning bolts from a black thundercloud

OK, I want this on my tombstone. Definitely a new siggie.

[Peter_Duggan]

@Caroluna

Today was a lecture on opus 127. Apparently this music was a bit ahead of its time

But perhaps still the most ‘normal’ of the late quartets!

So what’s this?
‘a repulsive monster, a wounded, tail-lashing serpent, dealing wild and furious blows as it stiffens into its death agony in the end’




(His Second Symphony, would you believe it?)

[Nanohedron]

@Peter Duggan

So what’s this?
‘a repulsive monster, a wounded, tail-lashing serpent, dealing wild and furious blows as it stiffens into its death agony in the end’

Some putz who likes to hear himself talk.