Event

In Search of Beethoven

Friday, September 25 at 7:30pm
In Person: Filmmaker Phil Grabsky & Musicologist Cliff Eisen

Members $9 / Public $12 / Includes Reception
Active Membership Will Be Checked

In Search of Beethoven has brought together the world's leading performers and experts on Beethoven to reveal new insights into this legendary composer. The line-up of performers and interviewees includes Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Roger Norrington, Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbado, Fabio Luisi, Frans Brggen, Ronald Brautigam, Hlne Grimaud, Vadim Repin, Janine Jansen, Paul Lewis, and Emanuel Ax among others. In Search of Beethoven addresses the romantic myth that Beethoven was a heroic, tormented figure battling to overcome his tragic fate, struck down by deafness, who searched for his 'immortal beloved' but remained unmarried. It delves beyond the image of the tortured, cantankerous, unhinged personality, to reveal someone quite different and far more interesting.

USA, 2005, 90 min.