Back	THE POLITICS OF BEETHOVEN This season, the Ottoman Bank Museum is adding a new series to its Voyvoda Street Lectures program. "Music and Politics", will discuss the interface of music and politics, exploring musicians and their compositions within the context of the political history of their times. In the first talk of the series scheduled for Wednesday, October 20, at 6:30 p.m., İlke Boran follows the trail of politics in some of Beethoven's music. The tremendous impact of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars over European thought and art is clearly revealed in music, in Beethoven's compositions. This lecture will examine some of the great composer's most "heroic" works from his 1801-1812 Napoleonic period. Born in Rome, in 1972, İlke Boran is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in musicology at the State Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University. Since 1998, he has also been teaching music history at Mimar Sinan University. For further information on this free lecture offered by the Museum, call: (212) 334 22 70 The Museum offers a robust program of lectures, presented every Wednesday, under the general heading Voyvoda Street Lectures. This season's themes are - music and politics, objects and rituals, economic history, and Istanbul. A continuing series, the Making of Modern Turkey Seminars, are held on the third Saturday of each month.