I love Beethoven. Have since I was a kid…which is weird, because kids don’t usually dig that kind of stuff. But I did, and there are probably a couple of records (like, real vinyl) at my mother’s house to prove it.
So of course I loved this short piece from an interview of Leonard Bernstein explaining beautifully what made Beethoven — despite not being very good at many of the particulars in his music — brilliant as a composer. After seeing this, I can hear it…