Musical Spirituality

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: The Power to Create Anew

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Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: The Power to Create Anew Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has an electric quality perhaps because of its energy and vitality. What rises in human consciousness when a symphony of this magnitude is heard? What energies does it loose on the human soul? How do we grow in a planetary and cosmic sense as a result of hearing it? After all, we are receptive to the music because it arouses something within, reminding us that we are, “above all, the carriers of culture, the endless frontier of creative transformation” (1) Beethoven’s Ninth “stands unchallenged, this...