Inverted Beethoven
We hear music in relation to the lowest note. What happens when we turn this relation upside down?
Flashmob Nuremburg - Beethoven's Ode to Joy
A girl with a wooden recorder and a man playing a bass frame the call and response themes of Beethoven's choral symphony, eliciting the joy from bystanders for which the piece is named.
Beethoven and the Epigenome
Hong Kong: Ode to Joy Flashmob
The Hong Kong Festival Orchestra gives a flashmob performance of Beethoven's Ode to Joy in 2013. A spiritual prelude to Occupy Hong Kong and the Democracy Encampments?
Why We Love Beethoven's Fifth
Da da da dum. Three short, one long. Gerard Schwarz takes us inside Beethoven's brilliant improvisations on the most famous short theme in all of music.
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