The video and the music don't match. Thanks crotchflame for correcting the summary. I love Beethoven; the entire 5th piano concerto is pure genius.

>> ^crotchflame:

I hate to sound as dickish as this does, but it's Beethoven's 5th piano concerto being played by Alfred Brendel - it isn't Brendel's concerto.


For a name like "crotchflame" I don't think anyone would've expected a comment like that from you lol

nicely done

I hate to sound as dickish as this does, but it's Beethoven's 5th piano concerto being played by Alfred Brendel - it isn't Brendel's concerto.

that would be beethovens 9th

I preferred how the movie Amadeus was made, but this was also enjoyable. Beethoven is perhaps my favorite composer.

^You say:

I believe that the difference between the average human being and Stephen Hawking is far larger then the difference between the average human and the chimpanzee.

But that's not true. Like he said, the average human child (and even most stupid ones) can do tasks that are just too complicated even for the smartest chimps. Also, Stephen Hawking is a genius when it comes to astrophysics, but he's not a genius at everything. I'm sure he'd agree with that. Bach was a musical genius, Shakespeare was a literary genius, Kurosawa was a film making genius, etc. But all these geniuses were pretty normal in most other aspects of their intellect. Dr. Tyson is saying, I believe, that aliens who are just 1% more genetically "advanced" (for lack of a better word), would be intellectually superior to us in just about everything. Their grasp of science would be superior, and so would their communications skills, their conceptual skills, and maybe even their art skills. Maybe they could all paint like Michaelangelo, compose like Beethoven, write like Jane Austen, and so on.

It might seem far-fetched, but just because it's hard to imagine doesn't mean it isn't possible. And "intelligent" life might be far more abundant than even the most optimistic scientists predict. So who knows? We know so very little, that it's almost laughable, really.

Excellent poetry. Made me think of one of my favorite quotations:

"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe." — Douglas Adams

*music for Beethoven!

Yay! My favorite chunk of Beethoven.

It was also used at the end of Zardoz in a creepy way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz

Help me with the tags/channels? Not my usual post but I like this guy and liked this piece. Put what I thought was right but... yeah fix it will ya? lol
http://videosift.com/video/Shane-Koyczan-Beethoven

Thank you, esquire!

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*quality

>> ^raverman:
nice!
This is a bitch to play on guitar hero


>> ^Rotty:
Nice. Kind of reminded me of an ATARI 2600 though.


Maybe its the unreleased Atari 2600 Guitar Hero?

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