{"id":4895,"date":"2018-01-06T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/06\/whittaker-chambers-on-beethoven\/"},"modified":"2018-01-06T17:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T17:15:01","slug":"whittaker-chambers-on-beethoven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/06\/whittaker-chambers-on-beethoven\/","title":{"rendered":"Whittaker Chambers on Beethoven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/PoliticalPhilosophy\/EM735.cfm\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Whittaker Chambers&#0160;on the Third Movement of Beethoven&#39;s Ninth Symphony:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">. . . that music was the moment at which Beethoven finally passed beyond the suffering of his life on earth and reached for the hand of God, as God reaches for the hand of Adam in Michaelangelo&#39;s vision of the creation. (<em>Witness<\/em>, p. 19)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d2cd4cbe970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michaelangelo\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d2cd4cbe970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d2cd4cbe970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Michaelangelo\" \/><\/a>Well, either the adagio movement of the 9th or the late piano sonatas, in particular, Opus 109, Opus 110, and Opus 111. To my ear, these late compositions are unsurpassed in depth and beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2HiyWXGZURk\">Here<\/a> is Alfred Brendel performing the Second Movement of Opus 111.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In these and a few other compositions of the great composers we are granted&#0160; a glimpse of what music is capable of.&#0160; Just as one will never appreciate the possibilities of genuine philosophy by reading positivist philistines such as David Stove, one will never appreciate the possibilities of great music and its power of speaking to what is deepest in us if one listens only to contemporary popular music.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whittaker Chambers&#0160;on the Third Movement of Beethoven&#39;s Ninth Symphony: . . . that music was the moment at which Beethoven finally passed beyond the suffering of his life on earth and reached for the hand of God, as God reaches for the hand of Adam in Michaelangelo&#39;s vision of the creation. (Witness, p. 19) Well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/06\/whittaker-chambers-on-beethoven\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whittaker Chambers on Beethoven&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}