Odes to Joy and the Perils of a Single Society - Alastair Hannay - Books - Zeticula Ltd - 9781846220784 - February 5, 2021
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Odes to Joy and the Perils of a Single Society

Alastair Hannay

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Odes to Joy and the Perils of a Single Society

'Oh friends, not these sounds, let us instead strike up ones more pleasing and more joyful'. Written during the corona of 2020 and stretching into 2021, the sounds and words of music are here given a deeper and wider meaning. The words quoted above were Beethoven's own in the lockdown of his own deafness and just before letting the chorus loose to proclaim that 'all people become brothers'. The sounds he refers to are those of despair, exuberance, and utopian peace that his symphony has just portrayed. For him, and for us, the Ode is less the vision of an alternative world than an expression of a constant need to seek a joy which, beyond happiness and once-in-a-while cheerfulness, is a sense of doing something worthwhile with and, where possible, for others.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 5, 2021
ISBN13 9781846220784
Publishers Zeticula Ltd
Pages 106
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 8 mm   ·   272 g
Language English  

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