Keeping Score: Revolutions in Music - Beethoven's Eroica
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Actor: Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco SymphonyDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: San Francisco Symphony
Movie Reviews of Keeping Score: Revolutions in Music - Beethoven's Eroica
Movie Review: A Music Appreciation Course on DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
My first contact with classical music was with a music appreciation course in college. The instructor gave us LPs of three classical works: Beethoven's Eroica, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and a symphony by Cesar Franck. I was fascinated by Eroica and listened to it over and over.
Now with Michael Tilson Thomas' series Keeping Score, anyone interested in classical music can get a deep analysis of the major revolutions in classical music. There are 6 DVDs and several blu-rays available from KVIE in San Francisco and PBS. Season 1 includes Beethoven, Stravinsky and Copland. Season 2 features Berlioz, Ives and Shostakovich.
Beethoven's Third Symphony is a good place to start. Beethoven came to Vienna, the sophisticated music capital of the world as a rough youth from the hinterlands of Germany who had to prove himself. Thomas tells the story of Beethoven's encounter with a young rival who had mocked one of his compositions by improvising variations to the main theme. Beethoven totally destroyed him by turning the rival's score upside down and writing a new work based on it.
Thomas' commentary is anything but pedantic. He uses humor to make his point with references to Chuck Berry and Elvis. He explains the importance of Beethoven's impending deafness during this early period and tells how he overcame that handicap. By the time he completed his final symphony, the ninth, he was totally deaf.
Thomas illustrates his points by playing relevant passages from the symphony and concludes with a full performance by the San Francisco Symphony.
After watching this DVD you will want to see the other titles in the series.
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