New York - Day 12 through Day 16: The Fifth Class and Opus 109

Barenboim reciting Hans von Buelow: "Whereas the Well Tempered Klavier is the Old Testament, the Beethoven Sonatas is the New Testament."

On a dire note, I've been rudely cancelled - now forcefully required to do the Appassionata instead of Opus 111. Why did I even come here?

Reading the program notes today, I think I found out a little bit more about Opus 111. Beethoven's last piano sonata is a monument to his conviction that solutions to the problems facing humanity lie ever within our grasp if they can be recognized for what they are and be confronted by models of human transformation. I guess...

Geoff, Jeff and I were all talking about relative musical parellels to the most significant movies for technology. The original Star Wars, we decided, is Beethoven Fifth Symphony. Terminator 2 is Beethoven's Ninth. Jurassic Park is Brahms's First Symphony and The Matrix is Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring.
The original Star Wars was monumental for technological progress in the respect that it created a new genre of things to come. The realism of the technology in Star Wars at the time was unparalleled. Terminator 2 was the culminative glory point, Jurassic Park was a perfected path for 3d computer graphics and The Matrix innovatively inspired the level of technology to a no-bounds limit.

Anyway, I'm out.