Some real joy to celebrate with, not of the confected/commercialised Xmas type - Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" as a flashmob performed by Sabadell's orchestra.

Every time I watch this I see more details, and beauty, and I tear up 😢

As an ardent European, they played this at Isabel's Irish citizenship ceremony, and it simply melts me. We are better together 🇪🇺

My best moment: imo so many but - the walk-on of the 2nd violin section at 02:20 as it builds, the music sweetens, the joy of the woman captured then at 02:35.

Enjoy ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg

#beethoven #christmas #odetojoy #xmas

@Alice
(Edited to add Ai to a crackpot theory.)

Don't quote me on this, Alice, but I'm almost certain that snippet is from a bad Ai translation of German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy," employed by the immortal Ludwig von Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony.
#Ai #Poetry #FriedrichSchiller #Beethoven #OdeToJoy #NinthSymphony
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