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Arena Stage opened this season with a play that riffs on an improbable work by Ludwig van Beethoven, the "Diabelli" Variations. Moisés Kaufman's "33 Variations," which runs through the end of this ...
In 1819, Anton Diabelli, a Viennese music publisher, composed a little waltz and sent it to dozens of composers—he wanted each of them to write and send him a single variation, which he’d publish ...
Among Ludwig van Beethoven’s prodigious gifts was an ability to transform the most mundane materials into something exquisite. Perhaps the most famous example of this is his “Diabelli Variations,” Op.
Johannes Brahms sent Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78 manuscript copy to Clara Schumann wife of late Robert Schumann; her response was “I must send you a line to tell you how excited I am about your ...
Classical Gas: Beethoven's Music is Overwhelmed by a Bloated Script in Variations at the Beck Center
If you had only a relatively short time to live, what would you want to do in your remaining time? Complete that Elvis paint-by-numbers portrait? Binge-watch The Sopranos one more time? Perhaps, but ...
What was Beethoven thinking? That may sound more like the premise for an esoteric academic paper than a viable piece of theater. But with the help of seven talented actors and a script by Moisés ...
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