Musicians are Peculiar #2

Here is a link to a little video of Victor Borge and a friend- and after watching it, do you start to wonder if maybe that's what the music really means? This is always funnier if you watch it after 11 PM.

Musicians are Peculiar #1

Beethoven wrote five piano concertos, and the one that tops my list of favorites is number four.

I used to dislike the second movement, but it grew on me, and still does.

The following is an interesting introduction to the movement. I chuckled over one person who commented something like, "I really like to listen to Lang Lang, but I have to put a bag over his head first." That makes me wonder -how uncomfortable are we watching up close someone who has complete freedom in expressing his own Transcendental Weirdness? Is he convincing? Or is he a clown? He seems to walk the line between the two!

Lang Lang talks about Beethoven Concerto No. 4.

By the way, when Lang Lang is telling a story when talking about the second movement, he is referring to classic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, which, if you are a musician, you'll see that it pops up once in a while. (If you avoid myths with gods and goddesses, skip it.)