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  • And it was something from Beethoven, for the beginning of the victory, in one of those wars.†   (source)
  • Desperately he grabbed for the only bit of culture he knew offhand— he hummed the first bar of Beethoven's "Fifth."†   (source)
  • What Beethoven do you like?†   (source)
  • "Ike's was Beethoven's fourth quartet," Aunt Josephine replied.†   (source)
  • She missed teasing her for playing "old-fogy music" -- Beethoven.†   (source)
  • All the city's wealth, however, had failed to shake the widespread perception that Chicago was a secondary city that preferred butchered hogs to Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Eventually I learned a little, including the difference between Beethoven and "Roll Over Beethoven," even if I prefer the latter, and between Miles Davis and John Coltrane at their peak, but I remain a musical numskull.†   (source)
  • "Skinny Delivery Boy, you are talking to a very old woman who doesn't think much good music has been written since Ludwig van Beethoven finished his Ninth Symphony."†   (source)
  • For one, I can still hear the Beethoven.†   (source)
  • We were going to play together, reminding ourselves of a Beethoven sonata that we had not played for some time and that gave us both great pleasure.†   (source)
  • It's Beethoven!†   (source)
  • The great artists of history…Raphael, Beethoven, Michelangelo…they were all just putting out what people liked.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly—right in mid-sentence, apparently—Miss Emily had broken off from talking about Beethoven and announced that Miss Lucy had left Hailsham and wouldn't be returning.†   (source)
  • Beethoven was one.†   (source)
  • I owe a great deal to Beethoven.†   (source)
  • He played a fragment from Beethoven's concerto.†   (source)
  • I guessed it had begun to grow in the time of Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Some Beethoven and Debussy, mostly.†   (source)
  • "Ah"-my grandmother rolled her eyes-"another Beethoven!"†   (source)
  • What's the point if you can't at least play Beethoven or win state spelling bees or go to Harvard or something?†   (source)
  • She was knowledgeable about music and art, and at work, the recordings of Mozart or Beethoven were always flooding out of her office into the chaos of the newsroom.†   (source)
  • When you drive, you can listen to whatever you like," she'd say, then crank up Brahms or Beethoven to drown out our irritated sighs.†   (source)
  • In the Fifth and Ninth symphonies, Beethoven used the trombone as a noisemaker.†   (source)
  • It plays "Fur Elise," my favorite Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Even, it seems to me, if a war were on in Canada, I'd be found studying like deaf Beethoven playing his piano while Vienna burned.†   (source)
  • Kelly Armendariz busily tries to teach the opening bars of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata to Mark Mclntosh on an old piano in the lounge.†   (source)
  • She recognized Beethoven.†   (source)
  • They were holding me firm and it was fiery and above it all I kept hearing the opening motif of Beethoven's Fifth-three short and one long buzz, repeated again and again in varying volume, and I was struggling and breaking through, rising up, to find myself lying on my back with two pink-faced men laughing down.†   (source)
  • I have no doubt that if she had ever heard it she could have played Beethoven.†   (source)
  • From the house next door came the faint strains of Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Second movement, Beethoven's 7th Symphony).†   (source)
  • She gave us lectures on women's suffrage, Shakespeare, Beethoven, English history, and horticulture, and always had two freezers of homemade ice cream, which was why we all went.†   (source)
  • But I'm Beethoven when it comes to catching my lambs breaking the rules of the Institute.†   (source)
  • During the monsoon, on my last morning, all this Beethoven and rain.†   (source)
  • During lunch a boy of sixteen or seventeen too overstimulated to eat with his family went onto the verandah and played the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony over and over again.†   (source)
  • There was music in the background, Beethoven's 9th, Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee.†   (source)
  • It scratched the wobbly record for a moment, and then the room was filled with what Lou recognized as the music of Beethoven.†   (source)
  • The Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Then you'll discover the beauty of Beethoven and Mozart.†   (source)
  • That Saturday night he took the chain off the piano strings and played something he had been remembering and practicing in the morning, something called "Moonlight," a piece by Beethoven, Cotton Eye thought.†   (source)
  • With her hate, with her love, and with the small gnawing feelings that ate them, she offered Virgie her Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Big, booming Beethoven symphonies blast from her CD player all day long.†   (source)
  • "I don't know," I said, and then, so as not to appear stupid: "Beethoven."†   (source)
  • The very same who rendered Beethoven deaf and Monet blind.†   (source)
  • Then it went quiet, except for this: Beethoven's Cello Sonata no. 3, still playing.†   (source)
  • He hears footsteps and imagines Beethoven and Brahms out for a stroll.†   (source)
  • Art music is music composed by a particular person, like Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli.†   (source)
  • You look like somebody who would like Beethoven.†   (source)
  • I learned to tell the difference between Beethoven and Bach, between a sonata and a concerto.†   (source)
  • I haven't since I was in the car this morning, listening to Beethoven's Cello Sonata no. 3.†   (source)
  • Cleveland doesn't have the Beethoven statue.†   (source)
  • He's a delight…… He talks about Beethoven sonatas and then slips back into another world.†   (source)
  • I know that when I walked through there and saw Beethoven, I knew I was in Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • He tells Snyder he's more comfortable in the tunnel or out by the Beethoven statue.†   (source)
  • By the way, I said, they'll be working on Beethoven's Third Symphony.†   (source)
  • I try the Beethoven statue and the tunnel, then drive back to my office in defeat.†   (source)
  • I can imagine Mozart or Beethoven sitting in a room up there with the light on.†   (source)
  • I don't need to go to Walt Disney Hall, Fantasia, Donald Duck, Beethoven.†   (source)
  • It's rough out there, but as long as I can look at Beethoven, I'll be all right.†   (source)
  • "Beethoven can watch over you in here now," Snyder tells him.†   (source)
  • It's the Beethoven hall, the home of Beethoven, the Los Angeles Philharmonic.†   (source)
  • Beethoven's music is a portrait of Nathaniel's imagination.†   (source)
  • God, the Cleveland Browns, the mysteries of air travel and the glory of Beethoven.†   (source)
  • With a black marker he has written Brahms on one stick, and on the other, Beethoven.†   (source)
  • It's not as if that statue is the only likeness of Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Crane reminds Nathaniel that the orchestra will be rehearsing Beethoven's Third.†   (source)
  • I wonder if this is what makes Beethoven Nathaniel's god of creation.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel tentatively fingers his way through a Beethoven-like dirge.†   (source)
  • It's a Beethoven town that doesn't have all of that snow and ice.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel reaches for the Beethoven stick, taps, and the rat retreats.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel lowers himself onto his sleeping bag and reaches for the Brahms and Beethoven sticks.†   (source)
  • The man I expected to find—spit-shined and ready to revisit Beethoven—is a no-show.†   (source)
  • For which, at the end of Beethoven's emotional endurance test, he has one word.†   (source)
  • I like to be near the Beethoven statue for inspiration.†   (source)
  • The Brahms and Beethoven sticks are crisscrossed through the hubcap, his belongings piled high.†   (source)
  • The Lopez Beethoven Settlement West Studio of Los Angeles, Home of Beethoven.†   (source)
  • They have Beethoven heads in the Disney Hall gift shop, and he's already picked one out.†   (source)
  • It knocks me out that someone as great as Beethoven is the leader of Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he could hear it all in his head, the way Beethoven had.†   (source)
  • Unlike Parmenides, Beethoven apparently viewed weight as something positive.†   (source)
  • How long will I sit here, staring out the window, listening to my favorite Beethoven, all by myself?†   (source)
  • He stood still and listened; to Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, which was moving away from him.†   (source)
  • But just as I'm getting up the nerve, Beethoven's Ninth starts chiming from her bag.†   (source)
  • Beethoven composed the Eroica when he was mostly deaf, hadn't he?†   (source)
  • By that time, Beethoven had forgotten about Dembscher's purse.†   (source)
  • Smiling serenely, he asked, in the melody of Beethoven's motif,Muss es sein?†   (source)
  • From then on, Beethoven became her image of the world on the other side, the world she yearned for.†   (source)
  • So Beethoven turned a frivolous inspiration into a serious quartet, a joke into metaphysical truth.†   (source)
  • Beethoven's hero is a lifter of metaphysical weights.†   (source)
  • Now one of Beethoven's most famous songs was written about death.†   (source)
  • A Beethoven symphony would cost me a good hunk of what I used to call a week's pay."†   (source)
  • You know Beethoven's Fifth, 'The Flight of the Bumblebee' by Rimsky-Korsakov, and Brahms's Lullaby.†   (source)
  • PHI appeared in the organizational structures of Mozart's sonatas, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as the works of Bartók, Debussy, and Schubert.†   (source)
  • But you know how romantic the Moonlight Sonata is, and you can hear how dramatically Beethoven expresses himself in the Fifth Symphony.†   (source)
  • Beethoven was in a sense a 'free' artist—unlike the Baroque masters such as Bach and Handel, who composed their works to the glory of God, mostly in strict musical forms.†   (source)
  • No. They play Bach and Beethoven, Rossini and Puccini, while at Carnegie Hall the audience responds to Horowitz's performance of Tchaikovsky with thunderous applause."†   (source)
  • I finger the notes of Beethoven's Cello Sonata no. 3 with my hands, as I often do when I listen to pieces I am working on.†   (source)
  • The car radio somehow still is attached to a battery and so Beethoven is broadcasting into the once-again tranquil February morning.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he would stop by Galerie Bertrand to see the latest canvases from Paris, or slip into the hall of the Conservatory where some youthful quartet was trying to master a bit of Beethoven; perhaps he would simply circle back to the Alexander Gardens, where he could find a bench and admire the lilacs as a pigeon cooed and shuffled its feet on the copper flashing of the sill.†   (source)
  • I hear the first few bars of Beethoven's Cello Sonata no. 3, which was the very piece I was supposed to be working on this afternoon.†   (source)
  • It's emotionally and physically exhausting," Hong says, and the two of them kibitz about conductors, composers and the genius of Beethoven.†   (source)
  • He's dressed in rags on a busy downtown street corner, playing Beethoven on a battered violin that looks like it's been pulled from a Dumpster.†   (source)
  • Disney Hall is empty when he begins playing, although in Nathaniel's mind, Beethoven might still be lingering in the shadows.†   (source)
  • I hire an attorney to draw up the papers, and Nathaniel meets with him at the Beethoven statue and plays violin for him.†   (source)
  • The Beethoven, Mr. Lopez, Little Walt Disney Concert Hall and Performing Arts Theater of Los Angeles, California.†   (source)
  • I cannot understand why Los Angeles is not coming to the Beethoven statue to find inspiration from that man.†   (source)
  • While I struggle with a children's lullaby, Nathaniel breezes through Beethoven's Ninth to completely demoralize me.†   (source)
  • The sculptor, Arnold Foerster, listened to a string quartet playing Beethoven while he chipped away in his studio.†   (source)
  • I know he's an excellent player, a magnificently accomplished professional musician, because I saw him playing Beethoven's Third Symphony.†   (source)
  • Less than a month later, we return to see the Philharmonic perform Beethoven's Fifth and Eighth Symphonies.†   (source)
  • Were his mother and father musicians or aficionados who filled the house with the sounds of Beethoven and Ernest Bloch, B —L— —C-H?†   (source)
  • Beethoven's Eighth," says the other.†   (source)
  • This guy could turn out to be a rare find in a city of undiscovered gems, fiddling away in the company of Beethoven.†   (source)
  • A bum with a violin, living out of a shopping cart and worshipping a Beethoven statue, turns out to be a Juilliard alum.†   (source)
  • A simple question about his love of Beethoven sends him on a flight through unhinged thoughts that float through his mind like wind-driven clouds.†   (source)
  • I bring him two new violin strings from Studio City Music and Nathaniel breaks them in on Mendelssohn, Brahms and Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Feels good, Hong tells him, and next Nathaniel wants to know about the challenges of Beethoven's Third.†   (source)
  • It's Beethoven, and the orchestra has been kind enough to invite you up to Disney Hall so you can enjoy the thing you love most.†   (source)
  • Then, having gotten your attention, Beethoven gets the string sections going with a conversation that swoons and swells.†   (source)
  • The day of the Beethoven rehearsal, we walked one block down from Disney Hall and he told me he had to go to the bathroom.†   (source)
  • As Cleveland burned, Nathaniel, a black teenager with a white mentor, was hard at work on Beethoven and Brahms.†   (source)
  • That's not a Beethoven city, though, like Los Angeles, which has the statue in Pershing Square, and I still cannot believe that Beethoven is there.†   (source)
  • Pershing Square is a shabby location for such an iconic figure, and Beethoven is shoved off in a dingy corner of the park.†   (source)
  • Juilliard or no, he still intrigued me, and his choice to move from the Beethoven statue to the tunnel struck me as peculiar.†   (source)
  • My favorite piece is Beethoven's Sixth," says Carol, who, at first glance, looks like she got lost on the way to high tea and ended up on Skid Row.†   (source)
  • The work of Nathaniel's beloved Beethoven has endured through parts of three centuries and will last beyond our time.†   (source)
  • "They're doing Beethoven's Third," I remind him, thinking the mere mention of Beethoven's name will be like a spoonful of medicine.†   (source)
  • The thought of loading the Beethoven statue onto a truck in the dead of night and transporting it to room B—116 at the Ballington has occurred to me more than once.†   (source)
  • He wanted a disheveled Beethoven lost in thought as he conceived the Ninth Symphony while walking through the woods, hands behind his back holding hat and cane.†   (source)
  • Beethoven is out there, isn't he?†   (source)
  • I assume they're to poke at anyone who comes snooping around, but he says no. "When the rodents come," he says, pointing the Beethoven stick at the sewer grate, "this guy takes care of them."†   (source)
  • This room has meaning to Nathaniel now He's made it his and filled it with music, and with his mother and Beethoven watching over him, I don't know how he'll walk away.†   (source)
  • Over the next few days, we visit the Beethoven statue, the Second Street tunnel and the slab of pavement at Los Angeles and Winston streets where her brother used to sleep.†   (source)
  • I scribble that down in my notebook, and I also copy what he's written on his shopping cart with a Magic Marker: "Little Walt Disney Concert Hall—Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Crane knew Nathaniel worshipped Beethoven and often visited the Pershing Square statue for inspiration, and it just so happened that Ludwig was the star of the 2005-2006 season.†   (source)
  • I was out of school for a month, and my teacher sent home some Beethoven albums and a bust of Beethoven, and she said maybe I'd like listening to this while I was recuperating.†   (source)
  • He doesn't limit himself to trumpet music, declaring that he's never going to give up the cello or violin, so he needs this Dvorak, that Beethoven, this Bach and that Brahms.†   (source)
  • Now that the Little Pedro's Blue Bongo gig is a thing of the past, if he makes mistakes or finds himself stuck in a rut, he has to answer only to himself and the Beethoven statue.†   (source)
  • Why do they have the military statues in Cleveland and not in Los Angeles, where someone had the inspiration to put the Beethoven statue in Pershing Square?†   (source)
  • In the third-floor orchestra practice hall, standing among peers and cradled in the embrace of Beethoven, Brahms and Haydn, he was steady, he was sane, he was at peace.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ayers says he would have preferred to see Ma backed by full orchestra on a Beethoven concerto, but it's a small concern, and it's gone the moment the musicians appear onstage.†   (source)
  • Humbled and exasperated, I ask how he expects to be able to chase rats away with Brahms and Beethoven sticks while he's dead asleep, but he doesn't answer.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ayers insists on showing Jennifer his room, which I take as a good sign—pride of ownership—and a reminder of how far he's come from the days of tapping at rats with his Brahms and Beethoven sticks.†   (source)
  • I know you like Beethoven.†   (source)
  • He will interpret Beethoven.†   (source)
  • His only issue, he tells me, is the program, explaining that Serenade in D major, Op. 8, Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3, and String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18, No. 5, are not among Beethoven's more celebrated works, nor will we see the entire orchestra "in its full complement."†   (source)
  • This is the Beethoven city.†   (source)
  • Beethoven's name is written a hundred times on the door of his closet, and one wall has been felt tip–penned into the set of the "Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," with "special guest Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times staff writer."†   (source)
  • But he still has Saint—Saens, Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak, Haydn and Beethoven in his head, so he tries to make something of their compositions on the two-string violin he claims to have bought at Motter's Music House in Cleveland many years ago.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel plays Bach and Beethoven as if he's a young student again, the music filled with a sense of urgency and possibility Every few minutes he turns toward the dresser, checking in with his mother and his muse.†   (source)
  • In Cleveland you cannot play music in winter because of the snow and ice, and that's why I prefer Los Angeles, the Beethoven city, where you have this sunshine and if it rains you can go into the tunnel and play to your heart's content.†   (source)
  • You look over at the next player and say, 'Wow— Napoleon Bonaparte was the original inspiration for Beethoven's Third Symphony, but as legend has it, the composer's opinion of the man changed when he saw the liberator become a tyrant.†   (source)
  • There's Beethoven," he says.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ayers chats with Hong about the all-Beethoven program and Ma's accompanist, pianist Emanuel Ax, another Juilliard grad. Hong tells him the two musicians know each other so well and have performed together so often, they don't need to rehearse.†   (source)
  • His first offering is a Beethoven cello sonata, and this drab concrete corner of downtown Los Angeles, with its nearby settlement of bug-bitten denizens and moving clouds of noxious vehicle exhaust, is transformed into a place of lilting repose.†   (source)
  • At night, the corrugated doors of those shops are rolled down and padlocked, and the huddled masses take up residence on sidewalks "Los Angeles is a Beethoven city, but you have Walt Disney, Colonel Sanders, LAPD, the blacks, all the Yo-Yo Ma people, Jews, like JEW-hard, homosexuals.†   (source)
  • Beethoven could be my god.†   (source)
  • That's Beethoven.†   (source)
  • He is Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Beethoven plays on and on.†   (source)
  • Second, because he is a piano prodigy and takes great pleasure from music, he can be rewarded with anything from the Beatles to Beethoven.†   (source)
  • "It has always seemed to me," Arturo said, "that, except in art, except for someone like Beethoven or Chateaubriand"-Alessan-dro's eyes widened-"men of great ambition and great success go through life in a frictionless way, as if they were always riding the waves but never in them.†   (source)
  • To this day, whenever I hear Beethoven played my eyes close and out of the dark rises the sad, pale face of my Polish friend, as he said farewell on his violin to an audience of dying men.†   (source)
  • He's taking mental notes on every discussion of who hails from where and what they've done, every hand raised in a group discussion that's not his, every offhand late-night reference to Hemingway or John Grisham, to Beethoven or Bob Dylan.†   (source)
  • They were nearly all Jews: Juliek, a bespectacled Pole with a cynical smile on his pale face; Louis, a distinguished violinist who came from Holland — he complained that they would not let him play Beethoven: Jews were not allowed to play German music; Hans, a lively young Berliner.†   (source)
  • He said, quickly, "I'm all by myself, I've got no one to talk to—and—and you don't run into people playing Beethoven every day."†   (source)
  • Since the German wordschwer means both difficult and heavy, Beethoven's difficult resolution may also be construed as a heavy or weighty resolution.†   (source)
  • To which Beethoven replied, with a hearty laugh,Es muss sein! and immediately jotted down these words and their melody.†   (source)
  • I imagine a gloomy, shock-headed Beethoven, in person, conducting the local firemen's brass band in a farewell to emigration, anEs Muss Sein march.†   (source)
  • Even though he came to love Beethoven through Tereza, Tomas was not particularly knowledgeable about music, and I doubt that he knew the true story behind Beethoven's famousMuss es sein?†   (source)
  • Co-incidence means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time, they meet: Tomas appears in the hotel restaurant at the same time the radio is playing Beethoven.†   (source)
  • No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Beethoven's Ninth, Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Beatles' White Album?†   (source)
  • We would have been shocked, on the other hand, if Beethoven had transformed the seriousness of his quartet into the trifling joke of a four-voice canon about Dembscher's purse.†   (source)
  • This allusion to Beethoven was actually Tomas's first step back to Tereza, because she was the one who had induced him to buy records of the Beethoven quartets and sonatas.†   (source)
  • Rounding the counter with Tomas's cognac, she tried to read chance's message: How was it possible that at the very moment she was taking an order of cognac to a stranger she found attractive, at that very moment she heard Beethoven?†   (source)
  • And although the quartet of musicians on stage faced only a trio of spectators down below, they were kind enough not to cancel the concert, and gave a private performance of the last three Beethoven quartets.†   (source)
  • We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing theEs muss sein! to our own great love.†   (source)
  • Much more than the card he slipped her at the last minute, it was the call of all those fortuities (the book, Beethoven, the number six, the yellow park bench) which gave her the courage to leave home and change her fate.†   (source)
  • What remains of Beethoven?†   (source)
  • If the seat Tomas occupied had been occupied instead by the local butcher, Tereza never would have noticed that the radio was playing Beethoven (though the meeting of Beethoven and the butcher would also have been an interesting coincidence).†   (source)
  • The last movement of Beethoven's last quartet is based on the following two motifs: To make the meaning of the words absolutely clear, Beethoven introduced the movement with a phrase,Der schwer gefasste Entschluss, which is commonly translated as the difficult resolution.†   (source)
  • Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence (Beethoven's music, death under a train) into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life.†   (source)
  • It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of Anna, Vronsky, the railway station, and death or the meeting of Beethoven, Tomas, Tereza, and the cognac), but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life.†   (source)
  • This is how it goes: A certain Dembscher owed Beethoven fifty florins, and when the composer, who was chronically short of funds, reminded him of the debt, Dembscher heaved a mournful sigh and said,Muss es sein?†   (source)
  • This is a conviction born of Beethoven's music, and although we cannot ignore the possibility (or even probability) that it owes its origins more to Beethoven's commentators than to Beethoven himself, we all more or less share, it: we believe that the greatness of man stems from the fact that hebears his fate as Atlas bore the heavens on his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Miss Eckhart played as if it were Beethoven; she struck the music open midway and it was in soft yellow tatters like old satin.†   (source)
  • She had absorbed the hero and the victim and then, stoutly, could sit down to the piano with all Beethoven ahead of her.†   (source)
  • The male's voice was dominant—a husky and furious baritone that all but drowned out the limpid Beethoven.†   (source)
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