Comments for http://followingtheninth.com Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Comment on John Cale and The Ninth by Anonymous http://followingtheninth.com/2011/02/john-cale-and-the-ninth/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Anonymous Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:22:00 +0000 http://followingtheninth.com/?p=358#comment-6 This is a great project my very best wishes to the team and those who support it. That said your latest poster is getting a bit carried away Beethoven's loneliness was not total or "inexpressable" he may have been deaf but he was not dump! or unable to respond to his many vistors - his converstation books show us just how alert and responsive he was. BTW I also find i find it odd that Malher's symphony no8 is seen by the same poster as akin to the Beethoven 9 when that work is about nature and rebirth not the comos. Not in the way that Bruckner's 9th manages to be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZ6OEKmW7s&feature=related This is a great project my very best wishes to the team and those who support it. That said your latest poster is getting a bit carried away Beethoven’s loneliness was not total or “inexpressable” he may have been deaf but he was not dump! or unable to respond to his many vistors – his converstation books show us just how alert and responsive he was. BTW I also find i find it odd that Malher’s symphony no8 is seen by the same poster as akin to the Beethoven 9 when that work is about nature and rebirth not the comos. Not in the way that Bruckner’s 9th manages to be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZ6OEKmW7s&feature=related

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