Nights_Like_These wrote:
Whenever I hear this I always think of a cassette I had growing up that I used to listen to every night when I went to bed. Not sure how well known it is, but it was called "Beethoven Lives Upstairs". It was basically an audio drama of sorts that consisted of a young boy writing letters back and forth with his uncle (so each character just reading their letters to the other in turn). The boy and his mother rented out the apartment above their home to Beethoven and so the boy would just write about his experiences with him and how "odd" he was, and about the music he was writing. I believe he was in the midst of writing this symphony at the time the story is taking place, but the story was full of his music anyhoo....makes me want to go look it up and see if it's still out there as I have no idea whatever became of the cassette (and wouldn't have anything capable of playing a cassette these days anyway LOL).
Haha.... sounds pretty funny.
I looked it up and found this:
"Beethoven Lives Upstairs is a Canadian 1992 HBO Original Films TV movie produced and directed by David Devine. Based on a vocal recording written and directed by Barbara Nichol, the film stars Illya Woloshyn as Christoph, a young boy who develops a friendship with composer Ludwig van Beethoven (Neil Munro), a boarder in the boy's parents' house."
There are a lot of odd fictional stories and films involving composers.
Amadeus is one of the most well-known Mozart-related films:
"Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Milo? Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus (1979), the story is a variation of Alexander Pushkin's play Mozart i Salieri (1830), in which the composer Antonio Salieri recognizes the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart but thwarts him out of pride and envy. The story is set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century."
24 Jun 2014, 12:28 am
