WQXR CLASSICAL RADIO FEATURES THE GREAT KAT IN "HOW BEETHOVEN BECAME AN AMERICAN ICON"

By Brian Wise, WQXR Classical Radio

 

"Ludwig Through the Lens of Filmmakers, Activists, Rockers and Rappers. The Great Kat riffs on Beethoven." READ ARTICLE HERE!

 

"WQXR Declares NOVEMBER BEETHOVEN AWARENESS MONTH"!

"Ever since Beethoven’s music arrived on the shores of the United States in 1805, the composer has become a constantly morphing icon. In his expansive new book Beethoven in America, Michael Broyles argues that the composer gradually became democratized -- a symbol not merely of the European classical canon but one who 'transcends boundaries of aesthetic preference and ethnicity.'
Feminists and black radicals, filmmakers and architects, poets and rappers all grasped something in the emotional power of Beethoven’s music. Broyles, a professor of music at Florida State University, said that probably the watershed moment for Beethoven came in the 1960s, when rock ‘n’ roll and the counterculture appropriated Beethoven’s music and persona towards all kinds of ends..." READ ARTICLE HERE!