{"id":235441,"date":"2023-06-05T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=235441"},"modified":"2023-05-15T03:57:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T02:57:37","slug":"beethovens-ode-to-joy-music-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/06\/beethovens-ode-to-joy-music-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven\u2019s Ode to Joy (Music Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>A Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians in a<\/em><em> Touchingly Human Reminder of Our Capacity for Ecstasy, Transcendence, and Collective Felicity<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the spring of 2012, the Spanish city of Sabadell set out to celebrate the 130th anniversary of its founding with a most unusual, electrifying, and touchingly human rendition of Beethoven\u2019s masterpiece, performed by a flashmob of 100 musicians from the <em>Vall\u00e8s Symphony Orchestra<\/em>, the <em>Lieder, Amics de l\u2019\u00d2pera<\/em> and <em>Coral Belles Arts<\/em> choirs. Watching the townspeople \u2014 children with kites, elders with walkers, couples holding hands \u2014 gather to savor the unbidden music in a succession of confusion, delight, and ecstasy is the stuff of goosebumps: living proof that<em> \u201cmusic so readily transports us from the present to the past, or from what is actual to what is possible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Som Sabadell flashmob - BANCO SABADELL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GBaHPND2QJg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians in a Touchingly Human Reminder of Our Capacity for Ecstasy, Transcendence, and Collective Felicity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[871],"class_list":["post-235441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week","tag-music-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235442,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235441\/revisions\/235442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}