Following the ninth : in the footsteps of Beethoven's final symphony
(2013)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Collective Eye Films, 2013
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 73 min.)) : sd., col
ISBN/ISSN
MWT12277030, 12277030
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Directed by Kerry Candaele
Billy Bragg
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has become an anthem of liberation and hope around the world: Playing at Tiananmen Square as the army crushed a struggle for freedom. In Chile, women in the Pinochet dictatorship sang it at torture prisons. The Berlin Wall fell to the sound of the Ninth. In Japan, it was sung 10,000 strong after the 2011 tsunami. Creating an ode to hope, this film asks "How could a man sick, childless and deaf, create an anthem of such beauty and transcendence over suffering?"
Not rated
Mode of access: World Wide Web