An ode to joy : a season of grief
Beethoven's Ninth in Bailey Hall the other evening, April 20, ending in an instant standing ovation by a clearly enchanted audience, was an unforgettable experience. And, like all such truly extraordinary events that are marked not only by artistic merit, but draw their power from the circumstances surrounding their creation or performance, it recalled others and enhanced their significance. I was reminded of a stellar performance on Christmas Day of 1989, only weeks after the unexpected fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, that haunting date in German history. Few people believed it would ever happen. But now, suddenly, reunification in justice and freedom, as the truncated old national anthem phrases it, was within reach.
| Author: | Herbert Deinert |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1147316 |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 02.02.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Beethoven; Deutschland <DDR> / Revolution <1989>; Friedrich ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Ludwig van ; Schiller |
| Source: | http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hd11/BeethovenIX.html ; (in:) The Cornell Daily Sun, May 2, 2007 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 223652180 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Sammlungen: | GiNDok |
| Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft | |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.08.00 Poetik > 03.08.04 Dichtung und Musik |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: 13.00.00 Goethezeit > 13.14.00 Zu einzelnen Autoren | |
| Note: | Herbert Deinert (Professor of German Studies, Emeritus) Department of German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853. Zusätzliches Material findet sich unter: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hd11/ |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
