Joshua Bell

It's one of the most popular tunes in the world.

Everyone can hum it.

It's almost cliche in classical music, right?

But if you actually listen to this piece in its proper form, with an orchestra live in the concert hall, with all the winds and timpani as well, it could be one of the most powerful

experiences.

We're going to do the last one because I want to show you about really what the transformative experience is with the Beethoven symphony.

And I hope anybody who only knows the first movement should listen to the whole thing.

Beethoven takes you on a journey from the darkness and struggle of what you just heard, the first movement, to redemption in the last movement.

C minor becomes C major.

We have triumph over fate.

When I think of beauty of melody, just sheer beauty, the composer that comes to my mind is Franz Schubert.

I mean, Schubert wrote the most gorgeous melodies.

Unfortunately, he died when he was only 31 years old, and most of his music was not performed or published during his lifetime.

But he left us with the most beautiful songs, chamber music and symphonies.

So we're going to play just a tiny bit from his now famous unfinished symphony.

And you can listen to how this beautiful melody is interrupted by Schubert's idea of fate and the inevitable.

Schubert.

Sorry to all these composers, we're only playing this tiny bit that's not the way it's supposed to be.

I wish we could play the whole thing.

But anyway, you might ask, who are the Schuberts of today?