December 20, 2025Dec 20 I imagine that you attended the symphony and for the first time ever heard Beethoven's Ninth, culminating in the astonishing power of the Ode to Joy in the fourth movement.The audience erupts in a standing ovation. (That was Avatar 1.) You start to get up, but the lights in the symphony hall go dim again. The orchestra resume their seats, the conductor returns and leads the orchestra into a fifth moments and then a sixth and then a seventh. Much of it sounds familiar, though just different enough to keep you in your seat, if only out respect for the mastery of the Ode to Joy still ringing in your memory.(Avatar 2) At the end of the eighth movement, the audience applauds though not as loudly and again rise to go when the house lights dim yet again. Movements nine through twelve. Only courtesy has held the audience in their seats. At the end in place of applause, there is only a sigh of relief. (Avatar 3 et al.)
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