“Greatness is subjective to some degree,” Kendrick said. “But to me, it’s the effectiveness of what they create. So if Steven Spielberg is trying to create a film that’s going to move you emotionally in a certain way or get you to feel or think about certain things, and he does that effectively, there’s a kind of greatness and that’s hard to do.”
Browsing: Beethoven
In 1933, Florence Price became the first Black female composer to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra. Almost a century later, Dr. Michael Clark, a lecturer of piano at Baylor, is preparing to release his rendition entitled “Waltzes & Character Pieces of Florence Price.”
As the piece came to a close after riding the highs of Beethoven’s hope and the lows of his torment, the piano accompaniment and voices faded, but the choir kept ‘singing.’ In silence their mouths moved, and Holmes continued to conduct as if to convince the audience and allow them a taste of Beethoven’s inevitable surrender to his deafness.
Congratulations for your sensitive and comprehensive coverage of the tragedy in West that has affected us all so profoundly.
Realizing that this breaking news appropriately pre-empted stories that were scheduled, I still question decisions made about what to run and what to cut. Unfortunately, these reflect institutional values and merit some serious questions.
Beethoven’s immortality will be put on display Saturday night.
The Baylor Symphony Orchestra, the A Cappella Choir, the Concert Choir and the Central Texas Choral Society will combine forces and end the concert season definitively with Ludwig van Beethoven’s colossal Symphony No. 9.
