Darlington Conducts Beethoven's Seventh

For Richard Wagner, it was the "apotheosis of dance," and some therefore refer to it as "The Choreographic." But Romain Rolland summed it up more succinctly when he called it an "orgy of rhythm" – Beethoven's 7th Symphony, pulsating with a rhythmic drive that ultimately builds to wild ecstasy in the inexorably forward-rushing finale. There's no stopping it – that's the rhythm you simply have to go with! But Maurice Ravel, the composer of Bolero ,...