A gift to the Party. We have a leader! ODE to JOY!

[elleng]

[gopiscrap]

1. I love this piece

[OnDoutside]

6. It's actually the European Union anthem as well.

[NBachers]

2. Who is this leader of whom you speak?

[elleng]

3. Many DUers support Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend,

but in any event, DNC will vote this weekend and there will be a good one, and anything better than D. Wasserman Schultz.

[GeoWilliam750]

4. Indeed, some of the most beautiful music ever written

Here is the fourth movement in its entirety, with Barenboim at the Royal Albert Hall

[Samantha]

5. THANK YOU SO MUCH -- what a pleasure watching and listening to this

When I was in the third grade of elementary school in Knoxville, TN, the teacher played for us the Moonlight Sonata. I was mesmerized, and I have always considered that piece immortal. A few years later when I started piano lessons, my teacher asked me what I wanted to learn to play and I responded with two pieces: the Moonlight Sonata and The Duke of Earl! And those were the first two I learned!

I loved Fur Elise so much I named one of my cats that:

and much like everyone else, I the Fifth.

I think I am going to need Beethoven to help get me through the Trump daze....

Sam