History Brought to the Surface: I, Natalie, lived in Okenawa, Japan, for the first eight (8) years of my life and I never knew I was different from them accept when I found out that my sister and I stood out like sore thumbs with blonde hair. These people are a beautiful people and have a beautiful culture. I miss them and the culture I grew up in as they were my home once. It is a shame that this country was taken down and pressured by high-hoursed idiots who thought they were superior and had to control everyone. Yet, karma always comes back around, doesnt it. And it already has in different ways. Here they have risen from the ashes of the phoenix and re-birthed stronger and yet more respectful of Beethovens beauty that thrives in all of our beings which is called the spirit of LIFE. Beethoven showed one beautiful thing through his music and that was to Be ALive and his music permeated LIFE!!! Beethoven was deaf and living under the occupation of Napoleons forces when he wrote his 9th Symphony, set to a poem by Friedrich Schiller, Ode to Joy. Japan had been nuked not once but twice, losing horribly in the Second World War, when it arose from its ashes and formed, among other impressive things, the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra, located in the town of Nishinomiya, between the cities of Osaka and Kobe. The Orchestra performs Beethovens 9th Symphony once a year with a 10,000-person choir. This performance was held one year, almost to the day after the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, which quickly killed roughly 20,000 people in the area and made another 200,000 people homeless - families who can never return to the radiation Exclusion Zone, that was their home for countless generations. With all the bad news; wars, rumors of wars going around, I thought it would be good to remind ourselves of the power and beauty that resides within the human spirit, in this March 2012 performance of Beethovens Ode to Joy by the Hyogo Orchestra, joined by a choir of 10,000 singers. https://youtube/watch?v=xBlQZyTF_LY#t=1097
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:32:27 +0000
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