Beethoven Symphony No. 4
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Beethoven often gets the reputation of being a composer of extreme seriousness, shaking his fist at the heavens while dealing with a litany of medical ailments and heartbreak, and there is some truth to that as well. But the 4th symphony, a very strange and mysterious introduction aside, is a piece of almost unadulterated joy. It is another side of Beethoven: bouncy, funny, silly, and quite simply, happy. How and why did he write such a happy symphony? How does music become “happy?” Join us to find out..
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the Classical Music Podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | My name is Joshua Weilersstein, I'm a conductor, and I'm the artistic director of the |
| 0:11.9 | Lozon Chamber Orchestra in Lozon, Switzerland, and the music director of the Phoenix Orchestra |
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| 0:53.5 | So I'm back in London after an amazing week in the Netherlands with the Netherlands |
| 0:57.0 | Philharmonic. |
| 0:58.0 | I had such an incredible time working on a really cool American program with the Orchestra. |
| 1:03.7 | We did a live radio broadcast. |
| 1:06.5 | We did a program of Copeland Florence Price, Derek Spive and Joan Tower. |
| 1:10.9 | It was just really great. |
| 1:11.9 | The Orchestra was so enthusiastic about this repertoire, and I really hope we get to do that |
| 1:15.7 | kind of concert live someday in the concert hall, which would be really, really exciting. |
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