A World Without Ode to Joy? Fri, 12/12/2025 - 2:40 pm David Martosko explores the new musicological finding that Beethoven thought adding the choral movement at the end of his 9th symphony was a mistake.
Of Beethoven, the Eclipse, and Universality Thu, 5/2/2024 - 11:02 am James Jacobs reflects on experiencing the eclipse in totality, and ponders on the meaning of beauty and universality in a broken world as expressed in Beethoven's 9th symphony.
