Perspectives: Ode to Joy: Ode to Understanding

Performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, including the soul-stirring “Ode to Joy” Fourth Movement will take place the evening of Saturday, March 30^th and afternoon of Sunday, March 31^st at FSU’s Ruby Diamond Concert Hall (the March 31^st event will also be live streamed on WFSU.org.) Joining the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra will be the Morehouse College Glee Club and Florida A&M Concert Choir.  Sunday’s performance, entitled “Ode to Understanding,” will begin with the presentation of Joel Thompson’s “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed,” followed by a community conversation about the work and its larger social implications and concluding with Beethoven’s Ninth.  To provide a preview of this groundbreaking weekend:  Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra CEO Mandy Stringer; TSO Board Member Byron Greene; Leon County Government’s Community and Media Relations Manager Britney Smith; and Founder/CEO of the Village Square, Liz Joyner.