OPINION Savoring America’s ‘Ode to Joy’ moment
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There’s a scene near the end of the movie 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 […]
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OPINION Savoring America’s ‘Ode to Joy’ moment
There’s a scene near the end of the movie 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...
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