![]() Visit Lynnette Shelley‘s store and view more of her beautiful artwork - including whimsical, original depictions of animals. Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning, Daughter of Elysium, Fire drunken we are ent’ring Heavenly, thy holy home Thy enchantments bind together, What did custom stern divide, Every man becomes a brother, Where thy gentle wings abide. Illustration: “Crow in a Lemon Tree,” giclee archival art print by Lynnette Shelley. ![]() Listen to Leonard Bernstein conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in the “Ode to Joy” chorale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at - beautiful! ![]() Be embraced, Millions This kiss for all the. Here are some excerpts (English translation from German). Joy, beautiful spark of the gods, Daughter of Elysium, We enter fire imbibed, Heavenly, thy sanctuary. While much of the language is obscure by today’s standards, suffice it to say the verses address Joy as a goddess and cite her accomplishments and attributes. So this post is my way of sharing a joyous moment - and wishing the same for all of you.īeethoven based the “Ode to Joy” chorale on a poem written by Friedrich von Schiller in 1785. As the junior pianist repeated passages over and over, ending in the middle and beginning again, I felt privileged that life was reminding me to recognize and appreciate joy. On this Memorial Day morning, I woke up to the child next door practicing the “Ode to Joy” section of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on the piano, with a crow sitting in the lemon tree outside the building singing along with the music.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |