General Chat

Have always loved this, it is really uplifting, but this is the best version I have ever heard. Am very moved by it.
This has nothing to do with the music/singing, but can't help thinking what a good-looking race they are.

The church choir sang this at my Dad's memorial service. Always moves me to tears.

If you stuck a hatpin in my backside I'd hit a high note....... but I'd be RR'd :-D

Should I have said continual, or perhaps repeated high notes, instead of constant?

I have sung it as a choral piece. The sopranos need somebody sticking hatpins in their backsides to get the constant high notes, though. But otherwise it is a joy to sing.

Ooooo Our Kitty, You've gone all political :-D

I love Ode to Joy, one of the first pieces I learned to play on the piano.

One of my favourites Sharron, must get it on DVD.

:-) :-) :-)

Ode to Joy is a piece that our granddaughter plays to us on the violin...... a joy to hear bless her. K plays other musical instruments and very definitely takes after her paternal grandparents as hubby and I couldn't master the recorder in our schooldays.

I always had the Pastoral Symphony in my van to play in traffic jams.

Very soothing.

I am aware of the connection, but it is still an amazingly uplifting piece of music.

I still like Things Can Only Get Better.........despite the revoltingly smug faces on all the New Labour lot as they danced awkwardly to it when they were elected.

It should have been played when they eventually sent us plummeting into debt as the Labour party have a habit of doing :-D

not aware of that, cos I'm on the other side of the planet

:-D

Poss. you are not aware that O2J is the anthem of the EU and for that reason has taken a sharp nose dive in popularity in the UK regardless of format. Apart from Mr Clegg that is.

So it goes.
:-|

This is fantastic!

Beethoven Symphony "Ode to Joy", Hong Kong Festival Orchestra


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzKk7upkdE

:-D