{"id":2403,"date":"2023-05-09T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/beethovens-ode-to-joy-brought-to-life-in-a-spanish-flashmob-of-100-musicians-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T12:00:28","slug":"beethovens-ode-to-joy-brought-to-life-in-a-spanish-flashmob-of-100-musicians-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/beethovens-ode-to-joy-brought-to-life-in-a-spanish-flashmob-of-100-musicians-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven\u2019s \u201cOde to Joy\u201d Brought to Life in a Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A touchingly human reminder of our capacity for ecstasy, transcendence, and collective felicity. <\/h2>\n

By Maria Popova<\/h3>\n
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Imagine what life would be like if lived, in May Sarton\u2019s lovely phrase, with \u201cjoy instead of will.\u201d<\/a> That is what Beethoven imagined, and invited humanity to imagine, two centuries ago in the choral finale of his ninth and final symphony, known as \u201cOde to Joy\u201d \u2014 an epochal hymn of the possible, half a lifetime in the making<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the spring of 2012, the Spanish city of Sabadell set out to celebrate the 130th anniversary of its founding with a most unusual, electrifying, and touchingly human rendition of Beethoven\u2019s masterpiece, performed by a flashmob of 100 musicians from the Vall\u00e8s Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de l\u2019\u00d2pera and Coral Belles Arts choirs. Watching the townspeople \u2014 children with kites, elders with walkers, couples holding hands \u2014 gather to savor the unbidden music in a succession of confusion, delight, and ecstasy is the stuff of goosebumps: living proof that \u201cmusic so readily transports us from the present to the past, or from what is actual to what is possible.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n