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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts) Sat Jan 19, 2013, 02:46 AM Jan 2013

Ten THOUSAND Japanese performers doing Ludwig Van's Ninth

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Ten THOUSAND Japanese performers doing Ludwig Van's Ninth (Original Post) MrScorpio Jan 2013 OP

That. Was. Stunning!!!!!!!!!!!! BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2013 #1

Here's a bit of trivia about the 9th Art_from_Ark Jan 2013 #2

oh I didn't discover it until much later BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2013 #3

Wow. krispos42 Jan 2013 #4

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)

1. That. Was. Stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2013, 03:03 AM

Jan 2013

Omg that piece always makes my heart sing!!!!!!!!

Oh man I would love to BE there! I'd cry for sure!!!!!!!!!

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

2. Here's a bit of trivia about the 9th

Reply to BlancheSplanchnik (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 19, 2013, 03:57 AM

Jan 2013

Back in the '60s and early '70s, the 2nd movement was the sign-off theme for NBC Nightly News.

One Christmas Eve (I think maybe 1972), they played a good deal of the 4th movement to end their broadcast. Once I found out the name of the music, I asked a local radio station to play the entire symphony for me