It’s our job every day. Bring the dead back to life with anecdotes and trivia about the famous and not so famous composers we feature on KDFC. Director Phil Grabsky has taken to doing it through film. The last effort was In Search of Mozart and he has recently released an in-depth look at the life of Beethoven. As a recent review put it, the best way to unlock a long dead composers life and inspiration is through the music. To that end Grabsky interviews artists who are intimately involved in Beethoven’s music, like pianists Emmanual Axe, Helene Grimaud and Lars Vogt and conductors like Sir Roger Norrington. It is a fascinating look at a complex personality blessed with an overwhelming desire to be more than the next Mozart or Haydn. He could only be Beethoven. The double DVD set is available now, but you can enjoy it on the big screen in December at these venues…

Beethoven Center, San Jose, CA – 12 Dec 09

San Francisco Roxie Film Center, CA – 18 Dec for one week

Smith Rafael Film Center, CA – 18 Dec for one week

Follow this link to more about In Search of Beethoven.

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