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Music Director James Lowe (left) and composer Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven had been almost completely deaf for nearly a decade when his Ninth Symphony debuted in Vienna in 1824. It was the famously tormented composer’s last finished symphony, now regarded as a milestone in humankind’s long history of music, but not a note of the performance — nor, for that matter, a single handclap of the audience’s rapturous applause — ever reached his ears.
And yet, with Friedrich Schiller’s poem “Ode to Joy” on their lips, a multitude
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