Through the Global Ode To Joy, people from all around the world have drawn inspiration from Beethoven’s message. Thousands of people from more than 70 countries created and shared videos using #GlobalOdeToJoy.
Introductions by:
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal President of Germany
Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, President of the Bundestag (Germany)
Armin Laschet, Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
VIDEO CREDITS
Produced by:
21C Media Group
Shared_Studios
Featured:
Stacie Eirich
Yo-Yo Ma
Itzhak Perlman
Tracy K. Smith
Rolando Villazón
Music:
Excerpt from the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Performed by members of the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and the GO Global Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop and the Stay At Home Choir
Text:
“Ode to Joy”
A new adaptation of Schiller’s poem by Tracy K. Smith
Commissioned by Carnegie Hall
O friend, my heart has tired
Of such darkness.
Now it vies for joy.
Joy, bright God-spark born of Ever
Daughter of fresh paradise—
Where you walked once now walk rancor,
Greed, suspicion, anger, fright.
Joy, the breeze off all that’s holy,
Pure with terror, wild as flame.
Make us brothers, give us comfort,
Bid us past such fear and hate.
If you’ve loved another’s beauty
If you’ve craved the warmth of flesh,
If your spirit is invested
In another’s sense of worth,
Lift your voice to touch my voice now,
Let our song bring joy to earth.
Lift your voice to touch my voice now,
Let our song bring joy to earth.
Joy like water, milk of mothers.
Kind and wicked all deserve
Joy’s compassion freely given,
Joy which can’t be sold or earned.
In the depths of blackest soil
In the lightless atmosphere
In the atom and the ether,
Animating all that is.
Let us feel it, let us heed it,
Let us seek its deepest kiss.
Let us live our brief lives mining
That which joy alone can give.
Battered planet, home of billions,
Our long shadow stalks your face.
All we’ve fractured, all we’ve stolen,
All we’ve sought blind to your grace.
Earth, forgive us, claim us, let us
Live in humble thanks and joy.
Let our hearts wake from our stupor,
Let us praise you in one voice.
#GlobalOdeToJoy #BTHVN2020 #Beethoven #ClassicalMusic
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