Joyous Ode To Beethoven’s Ninth
Joyous Ode To Beethoven’s Ninth
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Ludwig’s final symphony
On May the 7th first was played.
1824’s the year
That music history was made.
Many critics called it “monstrous,”
“Tasteless” swipes undeftly writ.
Audiences felt its joy,
And that’s about the size of it.
(I was trying to be subtle. But apparently, most people need a sound track to get what it is that I was doing in that poem. Sigh…. So, now that I’ve officially forsworn further attempts at subtlety, here’s a sing-along version of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.)
what, still no comments? then let me be the first: this is a metrical tour de force!