Word: odes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fully deciphered, and may never have come wholly clear to Runge himself. Evidently he was combining several systems of mythChristian, Judaic, classicalin one encyclopedic statement. But for all its obscurities, its transcendent optimism blazes forth: this is the closest contemporary equivalent to Beethoven's Ode...
Concerts at the United Nations often include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which ends with the choral affirmation of Schiller's Ode to Joy: "All mankind shall be brothers . . ." The U.N. was founded 25 years ago on that dream. Disillusionment over its failure to achieve this goal has become a permanent feeling, like a chronic toothache...
...friends will. And on Nov. 28, 1965, Eliot's heart stops for 3½ minutes during an operation for floating retina. Many medical details and a hint of geriatrics, though, do not add up to a philosophical treatment of death. In the end, Last Things is less an ode to mortality than a lip reading through the obituary column...
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...
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...