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Inspired programming and a proper celebration: Barbican's Beethoven Weekender reviewed

7 February 2020

10:00 PM

7 February 2020

10:00 PM

Beethoven Weekender

Barbican Centre

Beethoven wears a feather boa and pink shades. He wrangles an electric guitar. A red lightning flash streaks across that familiar, scowling face. ‘Genius before Elton. Radical before Prince. Iconic before Bowie’ proclaimed the posters for the Barbican’s Beethoven Weekender, and apparently there’ve been complaints about them, which probably means that they’ve got the tone about right.

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