Anime Music Video that is.
Grim once asked "Where are the Beethovens today?" I think my answer was that one had to look to music for movies these days.
Or, our young Beethoven is mucking about editing up things like this:
The Anime is called "Black Lagoon". It has, of course, no redeeming value, and is, of course, all the more entertaining for that.
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Hm, so this is where Beethoven is spending his time? Making anime music video edits?
Anything is possible.
Square circles are not possible. I'm not sure about Beethovens who edit AMVs, either.
The thing that made Beethoven Beethoven is that he had a natural capacity to craft majestic music, and he realized it. There's something about the culture of his time and place that made that actualization of his capacity easier, or readier: that's why we see so many incredible figures in a short time, in the same place.
Culture matters. Ours is rotten. Most of it, anyway.
There are no Tommy guns in that video.
And, Grim points the way here: our culture destroys Beethovens; it doesn't create them.
A relevant video:
http://youtu.be/cyq6GHj9dUk
You make me laugh Thomas. A song that is so obviously about a failed relationship. It could practically be "Barbra Allen".
But yes, Grim is correct. Culture does matter. And if the culture is rotten, it has been so for a very long time. An ironic thing about Beethoven. He was good enough to write music for Aristocrats, (because that is what he was doing), but he was not good enough to marry one of their daughters.
But still, that Germanic court culture was the environment that composers like Bach, Handel, Hayden and Mozart wrote music for. My larger point was actually that somebody like Beethoven is simply doing something else today, probably because there is so much else to do, but certainly because there is no longer an Elector of Cologne, or a Prince-bishop of Trier.
Not really sure you'd want all that back.
There are plenty of patrons out there, including governments, corporations, wealthy individuals, and even crowd-sourcing. I think what has really changed is the place of beauty within the culture. I think that cynicism and a distrust of genuine beauty has suffused the arts community, which is the equivalent of the court today.
That said, I think you're right about where our potential Beethovens are.
And I'm glad I made you laugh. Sometimes I'm actually good for something! :-)
A number of our modern patrons of the arts are doing something more concretely positive (not to disparage music or painting, but they're more ephemeral): they're building rocket ships so we can go off planet without asking government's leave, they're building communications systems so we can interact more broadly and deeply (as well as more shallowly), ....
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