Germany
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The goal of our events is to help students get to know the city and it's surroundings.
Also we want to bring them together to find new friends and get to know other cultures, for this we organize different events like parties, trips, sports events and many more.
We published the event with this description:
The Ninth Symphony is regarded as Beethoven's greatest work and one of the supreme achievements in the history of music. An exhilarating testament to the human spirit, it bursts with brooding power and kinetic energy, culminating in the exultant hymn "Ode to Joy" that has been adapted countless times, most prominently as the anthem of the European Union.
In Germany, performing the Ninth Symphony on New Year's Eve has had a long tradition that originated from the Worker's Movement in 1918. Performances commonly started at 11 pm so that the finale would coincide with the beginning of the new year. Curiously, it has had a similarly long tradition in Japan ever since captured German soldiers from World War I interned in a prisoner-of-war camp mounted the first performance of the symphony in Asia. If you need chills running down your spine, watch 10,000 people in Japan perform the finale of the symphony in its native German text.
This concert, performed by the Munich Philharmonic in the newly built Isarphilharmonie, is poised to become one of the most memorable evenings during your stay in Germany. As a symbol of Europe, the symphony celebrates the values we all share and the unity of our countries in diversity. It expresses the ideals of a united Europe: freedom, peace, and solidarity.
More information about the event can be found here.
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (1824)
I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
II. Molto vivace
III. Adagio molto e cantabile
IV. Presto
Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor
Munich Philharmonic
