Canceling Beethoven: Who's Relevant to Whom?
Posted By: Hazymac, 4/11/2022 12:31:55 PM
“Joy, immortal incandescence Daughter of Elysium! Breathing fire from your presence To your temple ground we come.” This is the invocation of joy that begins Friedrich Schiller’s great Ode, whose first three stanzas were set by Beethoven in the final movement of his 9th Symphony. Baltimore Symphony conductor Marin Alsop has replaced them with doggerel from a local rapper. She explained to Baltimore magazine: You know, the [Friedrich] Schiller poetry is phenomenal, but it’s not relevant for us today. (Snip) Alsop also inserted African drumming and a jazz ensemble between movements of Beethoven’s symphony. This is idiotic in more ways
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“Joy, immortal incandescence
Daughter of Elysium!
Breathing fire from your presence
To your temple ground we come.”
This is the invocation of joy that begins Friedrich Schiller’s great Ode, whose first three stanzas were set by Beethoven in the final movement of his 9th Symphony. Baltimore Symphony conductor Marin Alsop has replaced them with doggerel from a local rapper. She explained to Baltimore magazine:
You know, the [Friedrich] Schiller poetry is phenomenal, but it’s not relevant for us today. (Snip) Alsop also inserted African drumming and a jazz ensemble between movements of Beethoven’s symphony.
This is idiotic in more ways
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Re: Schiller's "Ode to Joy" and the fourth choral movement of Beethoven titanic Ninth Symphony. Lousing up Ludwig Van's masterpiece--not to mention Schiller's Ode--is like serving clam juice with a Glamis Castle magnum of Chateau Lafite-Rothschold 1870.