A Night at the Symphony

Last night saw the first broadcast in KQED’s three part series, Keeping Score. Made in conjunction with the San Francisco Symphony, it looks at three compositions that changed the face of classical music. Last night’s program was about Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony. There was a lot of good material in it, but I did think that at times the narration assumed rather too much musical knowledge of musical form. It is a long time since I studied such things, and after the program I found this web site rather useful as a reminder. This being KQED, the program will be aired again several times over the next few days. A full schedule, including the other two parts of the series, is available here.