Comments on: Master Class: the Global Beethoven http://www.radioopensource.org/master-class-the-global-beethoven/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: potter http://www.radioopensource.org/master-class-the-global-beethoven/#comment-92428 potter Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:54:17 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=1224#comment-92428 I don't know how I missed this. I was looking for Hun-Kuan Chen's recording of Debussy's "Ondine" and "Gaspard de Nuit" ( I have others) which I don't think exists. He was in studio at WGBH this week playing. I tuned in at the end of the "Classics" program for "the World" and happened upon the last bit of it. It stopped me cold. I remember where I was at that moment- so penetrating it was. Wow! I don’t know how I missed this. I was looking for Hun-Kuan Chen’s recording of Debussy’s “Ondine” and “Gaspard de Nuit” ( I have others) which I don’t think exists. He was in studio at WGBH this week playing. I tuned in at the end of the “Classics” program for “the World” and happened upon the last bit of it. It stopped me cold. I remember where I was at that moment- so penetrating it was. Wow!

]]> By: Zeke http://www.radioopensource.org/master-class-the-global-beethoven/#comment-92427 Zeke Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:37:53 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=1224#comment-92427 I found parts of this conversation quite inspiring. My favorite part was the perspective quoted above: "Oh, my God," as he says,"it's culture that leaves a legacy, not war or money, or who wins or who places second." This is the remarkable conclusion of witness to both the totalitarian "perfectionism" of Mao and capitalist nirvanna as exemplified in booming Shanghai. Walt Whitman said: "To the artist has been given the command to go forward into all the world and preach the gospel of beauty.The perfect man is the perfect artist...in the life we live upon this beautiful earth there may, after all, be something vaster and better than dress and the table, and business and politics." How wonderful to hear similar sentiments from the mouth of Hung-Kuan. I found parts of this conversation quite inspiring. My favorite part was the perspective quoted above: “Oh, my God,” as he says,”it’s culture that leaves a legacy, not war or money, or who wins or who places second.”

This is the remarkable conclusion of witness to both the totalitarian “perfectionism” of Mao and capitalist nirvanna as exemplified in booming Shanghai.

Walt Whitman said: “To the artist has been given the command to go forward into all the world and preach the gospel of beauty.The perfect man is the perfect artist…in the life we live upon this beautiful earth there may, after all, be something vaster and better than dress and the table, and business and politics.”

How wonderful to hear similar sentiments from the mouth of Hung-Kuan.

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