Friday 4 November 2011

newsfromlondon201111

The idea of converging illusions and the comfortable sensation of felling uncomfortable.

Always remember the BBC's factual drama about the genesis of Beethoven's Symphony No 3, the Eroica - a collaboration between the the classical musical and drama departments, which is set over the course of a single day in June 1804 at the Viennese palace of Beethoven's patron, Prince Lobkowitz: the composer hears his music for the very first time and waits for the answer to his proposal of marriage from the woman he adores.

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