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Speedy Beet

2020-05-22 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·24m 8s ·by WNYC Studios
Speedy Beet
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About this episode

There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. But in this short, we find out that Beethoven might have made a last-ditch effort to keep his music from ever feeling familiar, to keep pushing his listeners to a kind of psychological limit. Big th