The Mandelbear's Musings

This is going to be a fairly short post, which is all out of proportion to the amount of time I've spent in this particular rabbit-hole.

Sometime last March I signed up for a year's worth of online access to The New York Times -- it was deeply discounted, and prevented a lot of annoying dead-ends when following links from their COVID-19 coverage, which is free. As I said, rabbit hole.

The Times has an ongoing series of articles with titles starting with "Five MinuteS That Will Make You Love X" where X is some sub-genre of classical music, the idea being that they ask various people to suggest their favorite short selection. All but the first two were published this year. The most recent one, which dropped me straight into the rabbit-hole this time, was 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven:

In the past, we’ve asked some of our favorite artists to choose the five minutes or so they would play to make their friends fall in love with In the past, we’ve asked some of our favorite artists to choose the five minutes or so they would play to make their friends fall in love with classical music, the piano, opera, the cello, Mozart, 21st-century composers, the violin, Baroque music, and sopranos.

Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the stormy, tender music of Beethoven, who was born 250 years ago this month.

As I said, it's all classical. But it might be fun to think of what you'd pick for X=Filk. (You can probably guess my pick.)

( The full list to date (from the most recent): )