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Celebrate Beethoven in the Library’s collections and as a cultural juggernaut. The Library pays tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven with a varied program of events: family films that shaped the idea of Beethoven in two generations of young imaginations, staff lectures on Beethoven treasures from our archives, and a keynote lecture and panel on Beethoven’s portrayal in popular media.Streaming information will be available closer to the event date.
9:30am: Film: Beethoven Lives Upstairs [1992, 51m, NR]
10:30am: Film: Leonard Bernstein’s “Forever Beethoven” from Young People’s Concerts
11:30am: Break/Collection Display
12:30pm: Six Bagatelles, op. posth. 200: Micro-lectures on Artifacts from the Library’s Collections
2:00pm: Break/Collection Display
2:30pm : Keynote Lecture: Michael Custodis: “Examining Art in Times of War: Beethoven as a Cultural Force 1930-50”
3:30pm: Panel Discussion: Beethoven in Popular Culture
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Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, 10 1st St. SE,Washington D.C., Washington, United States
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