Just and unjust Alike taste of her gift She gave us kisses and the fruit of the vine, A tried friend to the end. All creatures drink of joy At natures breast. Whoever has created An abiding friendship, Or has won A true and loving wife, All who can call at least one soul theirs, Join our song of praise But those who cannot must creep tearfully Away from our circle.
Thy magic power re-unites All that custom has divided, All men become brothers, Under the sway of thy gentle wings. O friends, no more of these sounds! Let us sing more cheerful songs, More songs full of joy! Joy! Joy! Joy, bright spark of divinity, Daughter of Elysium, Fire-inspired we tread Within thy sanctuary. Ihr stürzt nieder, Millionen? Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt? Such' ihn über'm Sternenzelt! Über Sternen muß er wohnen. Seid umschlungen, Millionen! Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! Brüder, über'm Sternenzelt Muß ein lieber Vater wohnen. Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen Durch des Himmels prächt'gen Plan, Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn, Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen. Küsse gab sie uns und Reben, Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben, Und der Cherub steht vor Gott. Wem der große Wurf gelungen, Eines Freundes Freund zu sein Wer ein holdes Weib errungen, Mische seinen Jubel ein! Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund! Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehle Weinend sich aus diesem Bund! Freude trinken alle Wesen An den Brüsten der Natur Alle Guten, alle Bösen Folgen ihrer Rosenspur. Freude! Freude! Freude, schöner Götterfunken Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum! Deine Zauber binden wieder Was die Mode streng geteilt Alle Menschen werden Brüder, Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Bragg will lead the audience in a singalong of the chorale.O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen, und freudenvollere. “It was a manifestation that we had survived the war, that the values we stood for were intact and that we were going to put them on display,” Bragg said.įor the North American premiere (and only the third performance) of Bragg’s “Ode to Joy” Saturday at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, the Asia America Youth Orchestra will perform the piece with a diverse array of cultural groups - including jazz singer Dwight Trible of the Pharoah Sanders Quartet, the Dafra Drum Ensemble and bluegrass singer Susie Glaze - performing their interpretations of various parts of the symphony.
It was given its debut in 2007 at the reopening of London’s Royal Festival Hall, the site of 1951’s Festival of Britain, the celebration of a bomb-ravaged nation staggering to its feet after World War II. Using what he considers to be the key line in Schiller’s poem, “Alle Menschen werden Bruder” (“all men become brothers”), Bragg wrote a new ode to unity and peace.
“That’s what I was thinking of when I wrote the lyrics: people brought together by culture, by reconciliation.”
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