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San Francisco Performances 2024-25 Season - On Sale Now!
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San Francisco Performances 2023-2024 Season
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Single tickets are on sale now for our 2023-24 Season! Reconnect with your favorite artists, or get to know new ones. Order today! sfperformances.org
San Francisco Performances 2023-24 Season
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Single tickets are on sale now for our 2023-24 Season, filled with familiar faces AND artists you'll be thrilled to meet. Order today! sfperformances.org
San Francisco Performances 2022/23 Season
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Single tickets are on sale now for our 2022-23 Season, filled with delights and discoveries. Order today! sfperformances.org
PIVOT Festival 2021, San Francisco Performances
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Tickets for PIVOT Festival Now Available: sfperformances.org/performances/2122/Pivot.html October 20 - 24 | PIVOT Series Ghost Stories This breakout series brings together some of today’s artist-thinkers who explore the presence of the past and the impact of memories on our hearts, reminding us to look with hope to the future. Wednesday, October 20, 2021 | 7:30pm Theo Bleckmann, singer/composer...
San Francisco Performances 2021/22 Season
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A bold new season brings together great artists, inspiring programs, new interpretations, and classical masterworks.
Theo Bleckmann performs Songs for Voice, Loops and Toys for our annual Pivot Festival
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Theo Bleckmann performs Songs for Voice, Loops and Toys; a hauntingly beautiful collection of songs he recorded in his New York apartment during the pandemic. Theo Bleckmann Duet for One Theo Bleckmann Static Still Supertramp (Arr. Bleckmann) Lord Is It Mine Meredith Monk Wa Lai O Guillaume de Machaut (Arr. Bleckmann) Douce Dame Jolie Sam Stept, Lew Brown, Charles Tobias Comes Love Harry Purcel...
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Opens our Pivot Festival 2021
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Our annual Pivot Festival stretches the boundaries of chamber music. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a perfect fit for helping us to do exactly that! Program: Higher and Higher Jackson, Miner, Smith Thank You For The Music Andersson, Ulvaeus Crazy Reverberi, Callaway, Burton Limehouse Blues Furber, Braham The Model Bartos, Hütter, Schult Born This Way Garibay, Germanotta, Laursen, Bla...
Beethoven: Duet in F Major for Violin and Viola and String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Opus 131
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Beethoven’s extraordinary last Quartet No. 14, Op. 131 may be an ideal musical metaphor for 2020. It takes the listener on a long emotional arc of contrasts-self-reflection, defiance and yearning, ultimately ending in transformation. So here we are, with this profound music written at the end of Beethoven’s unprecedented life, and at the end of our own unprecedented year. Who but Beethoven, who...
Beethoven Duet in C Major, String Quartet in F Minor and String Quartet in G Major
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This program starts with a rarely heard duo (featuring the Alexander Quartet’s new violist, David Samuel, with his wife Yuri Cho, and then includes the Alexander String Quartet performing Beethoven's light hearted and sparkling String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18 No. 2, as well as the String Quartet in F minor, which the composer himself nicknamed “Serioso.” While serious and intense, the work's ...
Music Historian Robert Greenberg presents a lecture on the life of Beethoven
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What commemoration of Beethoven is complete without a lively presentation from Robert Greenberg, our music historian-in-residence. He brings all his wit and wisdom to bear on this one, revealing much about the grouchy genius. Buckle in for plenty of music history, theory, and some grade A Greenberg zingers. To learn more on our concert schedule and join our email list, go to sfperformances.org.
Beethoven Middle Quartets by Alexander String Quartet
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Thanks for joining us as we share in the worldwide celebrations of Beethoven’s 250th birthday. In our second installment of Beethoven concerts, we feature a sample from Beethoven’s middle and late string quartets. The concert is introduced by Paul Yarbrough, the Alexander String Quartet’s longstanding violist. String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2  I. Allegro String Quartet No. 16 in F...
Beethoven Early Quartets by Alexander String Quartet
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Thanks for joining us as we share in the worldwide celebrations of Beethoven's 250th birthday. We’re delighted to feature our “home team,” SF Performances’ own Ensemble-in-Residence, the Alexander String Quartet, as we explore several of Beethoven’s most loved chamber music works. We begin this series with Beethoven’s early string quartets, starting with a short introduction by Paul Yarbrough, ...
The Impact of Andalucían Flamenco on Spanish Song and Dance
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We wrap up the BobCasts with an episode packed with history and music clips. When the complex histories of Andalucía and the guitar combine, the result can only be a folk music tradition with an international influence. How big is that influence? Bob is a straight shooter: “In my humble (but not uninformed) opinion, flamenco is - along with jazz - the most viscerally exciting music to be found ...
The Guitar and the Art of Transcription
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The piano was blessed with a gigantic repertoire by a who’s-who of great composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schuman, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Debussy, to name a few. So why didn’t they compose anything for the guitar? At some time or another, they all wrote for the violin, the cello, the horn, and so forth: so why not the guitar? The answer: Composing for the g...
Why All the Fuss About Beethoven?
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Why All the Fuss About Beethoven?
Sergei Prokofiev: The Pianistic Steel Trust
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Sergei Prokofiev: The Pianistic Steel Trust
Mozart's "Prussian" String Quartets
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Mozart's "Prussian" String Quartets
The Original Fab Four: The Birth of the String Quartet
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The Original Fab Four: The Birth of the String Quartet
Franz Schubert’s Winterreise
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Franz Schubert’s Winterreise
The Origins of Song
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The Origins of Song
BobCasts Preview
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BobCasts Preview
San Francisco Performances presents Edwards Simon, piano
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San Francisco Performances presents Edwards Simon, piano
San Francisco Performances presents Nicholas Phan, tenor and Jake Heggie, piano
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San Francisco Performances presents Nicholas Phan, tenor and Jake Heggie, piano
Artist Talk: Music for Hard Times
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Artist Talk: Music for Hard Times
San Francisco Performances presents Music for Hard Times as performed by the Living Earth Show
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San Francisco Performances presents Music for Hard Times as performed by the Living Earth Show
San Francisco Performances presents Alexander String Quartet performing Brahms String Quartet
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San Francisco Performances presents Alexander String Quartet performing Brahms String Quartet
Pavel Haas Quartet performs works by Schulhoff, Debussy, Haas
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Pavel Haas Quartet performs works by Schulhoff, Debussy, Haas
San Francisco Performances Sérgio and Odair Assad perform Albéniz, Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, more
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San Francisco Performances Sérgio and Odair Assad perform Albéniz, Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, more

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Hameln1
    @Hameln1 Місяць тому

    20:04

  • @russs7574
    @russs7574 Місяць тому

    Having purchased and consumed nearly everything Dr. Greenberg has done for The Great Courses, I am glad the algorithm sent this my way. He is one of my 3 or 4 favorite lecturers from The Great Courses, and I especially enjoy when he talks about Beethoven. I would absolutely love to be able to hear him lecture in person.

  • @mudhens-r6k
    @mudhens-r6k 2 місяці тому

    What a fine lecture. Now Mozart.

  • @juanemilioaranda
    @juanemilioaranda 2 місяці тому

    LOL. "Hotter than Bengay on Sophia Loren"

  • @diegoandonirubio4436
    @diegoandonirubio4436 2 місяці тому

    Brilliant

  • @ericchaillier3774
    @ericchaillier3774 3 місяці тому

    To read a paper is not the best way to give a conference. Beethoven had a very complex personality which is not explained here. He was not only angry, he suffered a lot, was sometimes very kind and helpful for poor peoples. Where are the quotations of the best german musicologists (Paul Bekker, Hermann Abert, etc) ? The theme of the 5th Symphonie was used in several pieces of music of Joseph Haydn and Mozart. Mozart 's music can't be reduced at die Kleine Nacht Musik, listen the 39th Symphonie in E flat major ! Beethoven was strongly influenced by Joseph Haydn and Mozart.This speech is too superficial.

  • @eduardostupnik8261
    @eduardostupnik8261 3 місяці тому

    Excellent.

  • @ChristineB-hi5uv
    @ChristineB-hi5uv 3 місяці тому

    Thank you. A most enjoyable programme.

  • @susannehermeling9207
    @susannehermeling9207 6 місяців тому

    lowest level gossip

  • @annanikia7949
    @annanikia7949 6 місяців тому

    Bravo!❤🎶❤️🎉🎶❤️

  • @annanikia7949
    @annanikia7949 6 місяців тому

    Wow! A super-varied menu! Love it all but particularly cherish the unexpected Arrival of the Queen of Sheba!!!!!

  • @annanikia7949
    @annanikia7949 6 місяців тому

    Fantastic! Watching this in February 2024!!!!❤🎉

  • @jasonclarke7422
    @jasonclarke7422 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for posting this, it has really cheered me up listening to these talented musicians playing these fantastic song’s, and has also reminded me to practice my ukulele more often.

  • @pedrosherpa5848
    @pedrosherpa5848 8 місяців тому

    The 5th IS nice!!! No matter what anyone says. My kids like it, you like it, it's nice. Saying beethoven is an angry man is to reductive, he obviously had a wide range of virtues and defects like everyone else. Don't you just hate it when unoriginal, and ordinary men, opinionate about beethoven?!

  • @pedrosherpa5848
    @pedrosherpa5848 8 місяців тому

    Lady gaga? 😂 Not even close. Association between gaga music and beethoven is absurd.

  • @cherylorton8001
    @cherylorton8001 9 місяців тому

    Just wonderful. So talented, a total joy. Xx 09.35

  • @brandonterzic
    @brandonterzic 9 місяців тому

    Beethoven and Hendrix--the great Saggitarian musicians...

  • @SophiaVonHelgastein
    @SophiaVonHelgastein 9 місяців тому

    I bet beethoven had an h pylori infection and sibo, and to top it off later...lead poisoning.

  • @Singapom888
    @Singapom888 10 місяців тому

    Sailing away. Moves me to tears every single time

  • @Singapom888
    @Singapom888 10 місяців тому

    You all live in such lovely houses...

  • @vickiehorowitz1934
    @vickiehorowitz1934 10 місяців тому

    Always wonderful... thank you Dr. Bob.

  • @RochestersGotTalentbyPaulRefic
    @RochestersGotTalentbyPaulRefic 11 місяців тому

    he was deaf

  • @kickywicky4616
    @kickywicky4616 11 місяців тому

    Sure, bring out Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. For emotional profundity, try the middle movements of piano concertos like #17 and 22?

  • @simonabbott5578
    @simonabbott5578 11 місяців тому

    NOBODY will see this but with all the stuff going on now this gives me hope

  • @simonabbott5578
    @simonabbott5578 11 місяців тому

    WOWOWOWOW

  • @peterandolph7628
    @peterandolph7628 Рік тому

    Very nicely done. Thank you.

  • @mastermike9855
    @mastermike9855 Рік тому

    When are you all coming to play in Manchester North West England UK

  • @ES-ge7bb
    @ES-ge7bb Рік тому

    The angriest composer wrote some of the most tender pieces of music - think the slow movements from Symphonies 2, 6 & 9, Piano Concerto 5, Violin Concerto, Piano Sonata 25, Romance 2, for example. And yet, such an angry individual was able to write some of the most uplifting and heroic music. His see-saw temperament was with little doubt a result of his health issues.

    • @gorankatic40000bc
      @gorankatic40000bc 6 місяців тому

      Fire in the 1st movement of the 2nd symphony, humor in the finale, thunderstorm in the 6th, militaristic marching like theme in the 1st movement of the 5th PC, syncopated wild swirling dance in the finale with written or unwritten but anticipared "hammer blows" - percussion only or full orchestra it matters not, they're there just like there's their rhytmic "brother" in the 1st movement of the 7th symphony. Health issues with physical and psychological interaction with his childhood thrown into the mix.

  • @macklyn
    @macklyn Рік тому

    Truly wonderful, I had tears in my eyes during Heroes. Thank you!

  • @bealreadyhappy
    @bealreadyhappy Рік тому

    4:06 what a load of balls! So far All that you say is your personal take? Not facts, they are not facts, just a projection of your personal fantasy.

  • @bealreadyhappy
    @bealreadyhappy Рік тому

    2:03 how do you know Beethoven was the first? How do you know?

    • @somasabul3883
      @somasabul3883 Місяць тому

      I think this guy says things that lack support and needs to take a course in historiography to help him stop making up stuff.

  • @srothbardt
    @srothbardt Рік тому

    The Fifth is “about “ the fact that he realized that he could develop a complete symphony based on four notes.

  • @daydays12
    @daydays12 Рік тому

    Please don't abuse the wonderful language of Shakespeare's plays ..in this case 'the Tempest'. I gave up after that.

  • @babyirene3188
    @babyirene3188 Рік тому

    This was utterly riveting. I want to hear more by this guy. The Swafford bio was sadly a dull slog in comparison to this talk. Wow. Wow. Wow

  • @janklaas6885
    @janklaas6885 Рік тому

    📍33:50

  • @justicegusting2476
    @justicegusting2476 Рік тому

    That was the most awesome presentation I have ever heard even though his most remarkable works, the piano sonatas, were largely skipped-over.

  • @edwardlloyd9468
    @edwardlloyd9468 Рік тому

    Of all composers, Beethoven music is most human, not divine like Mozart.

  • @folkeholmberg3519
    @folkeholmberg3519 Рік тому

    Thank you for an outstanding and witty speach about my lifelong frontrunner ❤

  • @mariateresacassel6102
    @mariateresacassel6102 Рік тому

    Musicians belong to a special class of people. I love you very much

  • @passtheparcel2007
    @passtheparcel2007 Рік тому

    Excellent selection of classic pop songs an even some classical thrown in. Wonderful...

  • @josesaraiva9566
    @josesaraiva9566 Рік тому

    Good afternoon This instrument is Portuguese and not Hawaiian, it is called "Cavaquinho", it was taken to Haway by the Portuguese where it was renamed "Ukulele", so it should be called "Orquestra de Cavaquinhos" to do justice to the instrument's real name . You can see and hear it if you put in the You Tube search engine: "cavaquinho Kalinka Chico Gouveia", among other songs, just search for songs from "Cavaquinho", you'll see how it sounds. Yours sincerely.

  • @jochemkremer
    @jochemkremer Рік тому

    I can't stop watching it again and again. So wonderful.

  • @bluetortilla
    @bluetortilla Рік тому

    Well sorry to be grumpy again. Great lecture, but revealing that Beethoven's gastronomical disturbances inspired the 4th really ruins it for me. I'll get it over it...Most of us Beethoven lovers are quite aware of how he weaves the crude and grotesque with beautiful melody. It's really apparent in the choral finale of the 9th. it's how the dance of life is here on earth. Nothing to be ashamed about.

    • @somasabul3883
      @somasabul3883 Місяць тому

      I think this person is irresponsible and knows little about how assertions and motivations work in an historical study.

  • @bluetortilla
    @bluetortilla Рік тому

    Aw come on! They copywrited over a stupid song like 'Mr. Sandman?' FN Greedy bastards. You'll get yours one day. $$$$$$$ up yer stinkin arses. Great lecture on the world's greatest composer btw.

  • @simonwai-sz6bk
    @simonwai-sz6bk Рік тому

    And as for David Bowies HEROES, so sad to think of him gone but boy did you make a good job,, EXCELLENT.

  • @simonwai-sz6bk
    @simonwai-sz6bk Рік тому

    The Dead south. In Hell I'd be good company is a song you could take on board, it's just up your street.

  • @simonwai-sz6bk
    @simonwai-sz6bk Рік тому

    I'm blown away, WOW how good is this. Thank you for the music 😍

  • @zoe_blackmore
    @zoe_blackmore Рік тому

    where the hell did you find that small white furry bow tie for Will's cat ...it matches the black one the players wear ... :)))

  • @alfredbooth6854
    @alfredbooth6854 Рік тому

    A beautifully constructed program, breathtaking in its execution, by two enormous American talents.

  • @ssvemuri
    @ssvemuri Рік тому

    very nice topic. Even for my untrained ears, I can get the storm of emotions in some music works