Tormentor Trump's ominous lurking casts a shadow over joyful America

Summary

There’s a scene near the end of the Beethoven biopic “Immortal Beloved” where joy emerges not so much as a final coda but as an emotional lifeline, a brief escape from harsh reality. By the time he wrote Ode to Joy, the fourth and final movement of his Ninth Symphony , Beethoven was functionally deaf , a memento left from a brutal childhood. Despite his genius, Beethoven in his advanced years was a tormented, lonely man, relatively impoverished and cut off from the world. It was in this harrowing, broken state that he wrote Ode to Joy . In the movie scene, as his Ninth Symphony premieres at…

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