{"id":73479,"date":"2021-04-28T16:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=73479"},"modified":"2021-04-28T16:42:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:42:34","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/04\/28\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beethoven: Spark of Joy &#8212; Tribute to the incomparable Christa Ludwig on her passing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To honor the memory of the great mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, who passed away April 26th, we hear today her legendary performance in the title role of Beethoven\u2019s opera,&nbsp; <em>Fidelio<\/em>. She sings the recitative, \u201cAbscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?\u201d followed by the aria, \u201cKomm, Hoffnung!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christa Ludwig - Fidelio - Abscheulicher...Komm Hoffnung\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CEdHa4AemLI?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monster! Where are you rushing?<br>What will you do in your wild rage?<br>Does the call of sympathy,<br>The voice of humanity,<br>Move nothing in your savage heart?<br>But just as like stormy seas<br>Anger and hatred surge in your soul,<br>There appears to me a rainbow,<br>That rests bright on the dark clouds,<br>That watches so quietly,<br>So peacefully below,<br>That mirrors old times,<br>And newly calmed my blood flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come, Hope, let the last star<br>Not fade for the weary,<br>Illuminate my goal, be it ever so far,<br>Love will reach it.<br>I follow an inner drive,<br>I waver not,<br>I am strengthened by my duty<br>Of true wedded love.<br>Oh you, for whom I bore everything,<br>Could I only be at your side,<br>Where evil has you chained,<br>And bring you sweet comfort!<br>I follow an inner drive,<br>I waver not,<br>I am strengthened by my duty<br>Of true wedded love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms. Ludwig was also a signer of the Schiller Institute&#8217;s 1988 call for the Verdi tuning to be restored bringing the pitch back to A = 432 cycles per second. [Message by Margaret Scialdone and Mary Jane Freeman.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beethoven: Spark of Joy &#8212; Tribute to the incomparable Christa Ludwig on her passing To honor the memory of the great mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, who passed away April 26th, we hear today her legendary performance in the title role of Beethoven\u2019s opera,&nbsp; Fidelio. She sings the recitative, \u201cAbscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?\u201d followed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":63774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,625,1,505,509],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-73479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-culture","category-daily-beethoven-sparks-of-joy","category-allgemein","category-updates","category-updates-music","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73520,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73479\/revisions\/73520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}