Tag: beethoven

  • Louis LangrĂ©e on Beethoven’s Mega-Concert

    Louis LangrĂ©e on Beethoven’s Mega-Concert

    Concerts were longer in the time of Beethoven, as were attention spans. But even by those standards, the storied program he organized for Vienna’s Theater an der Wien on Dec. 22, 1808 was over the top. Called the Akademie, it ran from 6:30 to 10:30 pm in two parts and included the premieres of the…

  • The Crown Season 3 Soundtrack Features Beethoven, Chopin

    The Crown Season 3 Soundtrack Features Beethoven, Chopin

    In the third season of the Netflix series “The Crown,” the story spans the mid-1960s to the late ’70s, a period that allows producers to draw on a rich array of popular music. American songbook standards give way to rock anthems by the Kinks, the Four Seasons, Deep Purple, the Who and David Bowie, among…