“We were face-to-face with Beethoven,” writes Russ Rymer, Bowdoin’s Visiting Writer in Residence. “[The Ying Quartet] took us through the first movement of the Opus 74 quartet … teasing apart its elements to show how the cathedral was built, how ideas were introduced and then developed, how the structure worked, how Beethoven created anxiety and mystery and then offered resolution and triumph.”
Rymer is describing the Ying Quartet’s visit to his class, Creative Nonfiction Through Photography, just this week. Continue reading.