Word: ode
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Slip the new pop single, A Song of Joy, on the turntable. Surprise. There, for everyone to hear, is the famous unison recitative for cellos and double basses that opens the Ode to Joy from the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Pause. Then comes the languorous twang of a guitar, and a voice begins to sing in accented English...
Because of the political nature of Elliott's Ode, the Class Chorister said that he would be unable to sing it. The class committee therefore decided to choose Bettman as a second choice, John F. Ince. Class Marshall, said...
Bettman, calling his Ode a "monument to obscurity," said that he agreed with what Elliott had written, but added that his poem was probably a little more circumspect about...
Before the reading of the class ode, written by Class Odist Gilbert S. Bettman III, Thomas Elliott, the original class odist, read the ode he had composed...
...class ode will be delivered by Gilbert S. Bettman III '70, instead of by Thomas R. Elliott '70, whose ode was rejected allegedly for its political content...