I was thinking of posting some of my own memories from ten years ago; and I was also thinking of posting links to some of the excellent commemorative writing I see elsewhere. But ultimately I find I cannot commit myself either to being a part of the media frenzy around this date or to distancing myself from what was after all an important moment in my life and in the world around me. Instead let's just be quiet and listen to some music.
posted morning of Sunday, September 11th, 2011
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Good music, and good players.
You know that the title refers to the next movement, not this one? There's no program here (that I know of), though it's surely dramatic.
posted morning of September 11th, 2011 by Vance Maverick
Oh: No, I did not realize that. Death and the Maiden (2). I will make an embedded playlist.
posted morning of September 11th, 2011 by Jeremy
Thanks, Vance.
posted morning of September 11th, 2011 by Jeremy
To be clear, the quartet does get called that too, but the connection to the text is in the variation movement. (Likewise the "Emperor" quartet is so called because of variations in the second movement.)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_the_Maiden_%28song%29 . One of those "you may not be interested in Death, but Death is interested in you" numbers.
posted morning of September 11th, 2011 by Vance Maverick
(I found out about the song only recently, when I was reading Dorfman's Feeding on Dreams -- he wrote a play in 1990 called Death and the Maiden which includes this piece of music as an important plot element.)
posted morning of September 11th, 2011 by Jeremy
