Event: Unlike Some People
Venue: Drama Centre Black Box
Run: 22nd Sept – 26th Sept 2010
A great background interview with the director Jonathan Lim can be found (here).
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Many many years ago, when I was still struggling desperately with my piano lessons as a weak pianist (I still am a weak pianist, it’s just that I don’t take lessons anymore), I would occasionally have to face the insurmountable challenge of preparing a Beethoven piano sonata for my yearly exam.
Now the thirty-two Beethoven Piano Sonatas might perhaps be hailed as one of Western classical music’s greatest achievements, and rightly so due to the sheer complexity of Beethoven’s music and his complete mastery of the sonata form.
But to me, Beethoven’s sonatas were just some seemingly random compositions in three movements, with each movement taking on a slightly distinct mood from the other, and with the occasional motif being used and improvised upon ad nauseam.
That was what it was all about, as far as I was concerned…
Click (here) for the rest of the review at “Buttons in the Bread”.
