Hyperion Knight

I recently changed my profile picture, and just so there's no misunderstanding, it does mean what you think it does: Beethoven's 9th is the greatest music ever written... and Godfather 1 & 2 are the greatest movies ever filmed. 😎

@RealJamesWoods Is this the greatest role ever?

@johnondrasik Allow me to opt for musical theater: "Everybody's playing the game, But nobody's rules are the same" - "Nobody's Side" in Chess

“Substitution, Mass Confusion, Clouds inside your head”

@Music_Goddesss No one plays this Polonaise like Horowitz...! ❤️🇵🇱

Do you want to learn about history? Polish history? Polish aura? Then listen to Chopin - an incredibly talented Polish composer who lived in exile because of Russian imperial forces in his homeland, particularly after the November Uprising of 1830. His experience and heartbreak influenced the emotional character of works like the Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44, with its brooding heroism, percussive "battle" sections, and contrasting nostalgic mazurka. This piece is a history lecture about the Polish national trauma, resistance against Russian oppression, and the intimate sorrow of displacement.

@BeladonnaRogers 🙏❤️

@1HyperionKnight I just listened to you playing this magnificent Prelude and was deeply moved. Bravissimo!

I first heard Chopin's heart wrenching Prelude in E Minor played by Jack Nicholson in the film Five Easy PIeces...

@Music_Goddesss Classical music is food for both the soul and mind...

We owe the great composers a real debt. The simplest way to repay it is to turn off everything else and listen to their music. Get to know it. Learn about it. Share it. Discuss it. Every time we do that, we’re doing our part to protect something beautiful that belongs to all of us.

@BlueBoxDave You're telling me - I'm exhausted! 😅

There is nothing quite so tiresome as cynicism.

@AdamSmithEcho Like Marie Curie winning Nobels for both physics and chemistry, Adam Smith deserves top awards for both economics and philosophy... 🏆

I first read Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" on a plane to Australia in 2013. The following year, Russ Roberts described his first time in this phenomenal book, which I saw reviewed in the Wall Street Journal in 2014. Robert's experience reading Smith's 1759 masterpiece matched mine so exactly it gave me goosebumps. Since then, I've given away some fifty copies of "How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life."

@Gentleman_Ways Beethoven remains the Emperor... 😎🎶

Your soul needs this, not Coachella

@seanonolennon Happens in science and medicine all the time…

It’s possible to have been right but for the wrong reasons.

@alexsimonelis @seanonolennon As a Beethoven man, I'd love to publicize this, but I'm afraid it would make a lot of Bach and Beatles devotees quite irate... 😎🎶

@1HyperionKnight @seanonolennon (1) David Sun on X: "A study linked various SAT test scores to favorite bands- the lowest SAT scorers preferred Lil’ Wayne, and the highest preferred Beethoven " / X

Happy Easter Everyone! Was just thinking this morning… Imagine you’re sitting on a bench in a beautiful field surrounded by beautiful forest; like a scene from Bambi in Spring, animals and sunlight scattered everywhere in pastoral glory. Okay, now imagine there is a large Jackson Pollack painting sat on an easel in front of you; bright colors splashed chaotically in every direction like skid marks on a New York pavement. What does it look like in this setting? Does it look like art? Is it beautiful? Is it even interesting? Or does it look like something that should be removed? Does it look more like trash when compared to the majesty of its surroundings? It just makes me wonder. It’s one thing to pretend we like Jackson Pollock while standing in a cement building in New York City, but once you take his painting outside, the object itself seems absurd, offensive even. What business do we have calling that ‘great art,’ when there is so much natural beauty around us? I don’t think this applies to all modern art. I heard that Brian Eno has a method of watching a river while listening to a mix. If the music doesn’t flow with the river, he knows he has to change something. Maybe a good metric for painting should be—if we place it in a field surrounded by natural beauty, does it look nice there? Or would we rather just throw it in a bin? I’m not saying painting has to be beautiful per se. I imagine any paining by Goya or Francis Bacon looking very elegant in a field somewhere. But what is the point of making anything at all if it would be nicer to just stare at a tree?

@rogerkimball I'd love to read more of your writing about this, Roger. I've always felt that perspective in painting is as ingenious and pivotal as temperament in music tuning.

It is an incredible book. Among other things, it is one of the earliest analyses of one-point perspective, a development whose intellectual importance to the rise of the modernity, not least the rise of modern science, cannot be overstated.

Trust me on this: @1HyperionKnight is absolutely brilliant; your life will be truly enriched, as he shares his extensive knowledge of classical music. Listening to him play is an unforgettable experience. Rediscover the Beauty of Classical Music theepochtimes.com/bright/redisco… via @epochtimes

@UPTOWNGIRL2008 🙏❤️🎶

@johnondrasik Long overdue - let's hope Villeneuve is looking for a new project...

OH YES OH YES OH YES OH YES OH YES

@rogerkimball What are the chances we get the name “Persia” back?

I like to see it. The start of a trend.

@ZitoSalena Tragically, there’s no stopping the march of “progress”…

Not wrong

If you'd like to hear two of Bach's Two Part Inventions, click here... youtube.com/watch?v=PdUWfO…

You could say that great music itself is one of J.S. Bach's "Inventions", like this beauty in F Major...