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betsuni

(25,442 posts) Wed Dec 31, 2014, 12:43 PM Dec 2014

Beethoven's ninth symphony, a holiday tradition in Japan -- Ode to Joy

Best performance ever. 2011. Dedicated to the victims of the tsunami in March that year. 10,000 of the living sing to the dead.
James Joyce, "The Dead": "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."

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Beethoven's ninth symphony, a holiday tradition in Japan -- Ode to Joy (Original Post) betsuni Dec 2014 OP

#9 Skittles Dec 2014 #1

Thanks, it's two a.m. ... mistakes were made. betsuni Dec 2014 #2

The Ninth is my holiday favorite. hifiguy Dec 2014 #3

Skittles

(153,138 posts)

1. #9

Reply to betsuni (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 12:53 PM

Dec 2014

and yes it is lovely

betsuni

(25,442 posts)

2. Thanks, it's two a.m. ... mistakes were made.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 01:04 PM

Dec 2014

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

3. The Ninth is my holiday favorite.

Reply to betsuni (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 05:50 PM

Dec 2014

I burn out on Xmas music pretty quickly but "alle menschen werden Bruder" is a sentiment that never, ever gets old. And I really like Beethoven anyway.

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