Thursday, June 21, 2012

KC Symphony, Beethoven's 9th preview by Patrick Neas

Perhaps even more than his Symphony No. 5, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 has become the iconic work of classical music. Its final choral movement, the “Ode to Joy,” is an ecstatic hymn to universal brotherhood that always leaves audiences on, well, cloud nine.

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Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/16/3658765/patrick-neas-beethovens-ninth.html#storylink=cpy

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