Name That Tune: Da-Da-Da-DUM
Matthew Guerrieri On Beethoven’s Fifth and the Curious Workings of Genius
They may be the most easily recognizable four notes of music ever composed, but the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony confounds orchestras and conductors with its very notation: a rest that Boston Globe music critic Matthew Guerrieri, author of The First Four Notes: Beethoven’s Fifth and the Human Imagination, called “a little slice of nothing.” Zócalo editor T.A. Frank opened his conversation with Guerrieri by asking the crowd at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, at an event co-presented by the Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination, to …
