Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ was written centuries ago, but this week it became a powerful celebration of unity through music, bringing together youth as they rehearsed for an upcoming concert with the ...

In 15 years, the group has gone from a $50,000 budget to $500,000, and built a full-time Music Academy with over 140 students.

“Ode to Joy” is part of a program that also includes Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy,” with piano soloist Glenn Priest, and the composer’s rarely performed “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage ...

John Suchet, Hans Rhieburg and Susan Greenfield reflect on the impact of Beethoven's last symphony 'Ode to Joy'. From 2000. Show more Reflections on the impact of Beethoven's last symphony.

The Key Chorale season concludes on May 10 with Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” Like a thunderbolt, the finale to Beethoven’s immortal Ninth Symphony was unleashed into the world. 200 years ...

Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the world’s most popular symphony – Beethoven’s 9th – with a performance documentary culminating in the ecstatic “Ode to Joy” that everybody knows ...

More than any of his eight preceding symphonies, Beethoven’s 9th is both a cultural icon (it’s hard to find someone who’s never heard the “Ode to Joy” in any context) and a capital-E ...

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which includes the magnificent "Ode to Joy," premiered on May 7, 1824. We recently passed its bicentennial. The Ninth was greeted as a masterpiece from the outset and ...

Often regarded as one of the most masterful pieces of music of all time, Beethoven’s Ninth was his final complete symphony and features the famed final movement titled “Ode to Joy.” ...

who has deafness in common with Beethoven. It’s hard not to feel things when we hear the originally German Ode to Joy text sung in Ukrainian. “When you have the words sung in the language of ...