Arts - Spring 2010

Beethoven Visits Cleveland

In 1958, the Colossus speaks to an 11-year-old boy

By Harvey Sachs

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Harvey Sachs is a writer, lecturer, music historian, translator, and arts administrator. This essay is adapted from his book The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824, which will be published in June by Random House.