Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 / Omer Meir Wellber

Dance, and its consequences. This is, implicitly, the common thread of this evening, which began with Bach, via the Musical Offering reinterpreted by Webern, followed by the First Partita for solo violin , then culminating with Beethoven's Seventh Symphony , in which Wagner heard "the apotheosis of dance, dance in its supreme essence, the fusion of body and mind." There is still dance, with Aziza Sadikova, refining a Chaconne for mandolin after B...