Speedy Beet

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

History, Science, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. But in this short, we find out that Beethoven might have made a last-ditch effort to keep his music from ever feeling familiar, to keep pushing his listeners to a kind of psychological limit. Big thanks to the folks at Brooklyn Philharmonic: Conductor Alan Pierson, Deborah Buck and Suzy Perelman on violin, Arash Amini on cello, and Ah Ling Neu on viola. And check out The First Four Notes, Matthew Guerrieri's book on Beethoven's Fifth. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
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0:05.0	All right.
0:06.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:09.8	From W. N. Y. Se.
0:12.8	See?
0:13.1	Yeah.
0:16.7	Hey, I'm Jad. This is Radio Lab.
0:19.6	I want to play a story that's come up a couple of times in conversations with folks here at the show.
0:26.7	I guess I'll preface it this way.
0:28.2	So one of the things that's been a little spooky weird about this moment is just time.
0:39.0	You know, at least for those of us who don't have to work on the front lines
0:42.3	and are lucky enough to still have jobs,
0:45.9	we are stuck in our homes, doing the zooms, trying to get things done,
0:51.3	but just the lack of routines,
0:56.2	routines that typically give a day purpose.
0:59.5	Without those routines, time does weird things.
1:04.4	It bleeds, it stretches and then collapses.
1:08.4	I mean, we've all had the experience of talking about something
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