Reads tagged with “Beethoven”
Of Wonder, the Courage of Uncertainty, and How to Hear Your Soul: The Best of The Marginalian 2023
Love, Music, Solitude, and How to Be More Alive: The Best of The Marginalian 2022
From Emily Dickinson to Bruce Springsteen, by way of galaxies and gardening.
Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.
Incubation, Ideation, and the Art of Editing: Beethoven on Creativity
“I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, sometimes a very long time, before I set them down.”
How to Take Fate by the Throat: Beethoven on Creative Vitality and Resilience in the Face of Suffering
“Day by day I am approaching the goal which I apprehend but cannot describe.”
Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Brought to Life in a Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians
A touchingly human reminder of our capacity for ecstasy, transcendence, and collective felicity.
Beethoven and the Art of Amends
“When friends are at variance, it is always better to employ no mediator, but to communicate directly with each other.”
John Lennon on Creativity
“Every song I’ve ever written has been absolute torture… except for the ten or so songs the gods give you and that come out of nowhere.”
Walt Whitman on Beethoven and Music as the Profoundest Expression of Nature
In praise of the “dainty abandon” that awakens us to wonder and carries us outside ourselves.
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