Midweek Pick-Me-Up: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven's \"Ode to Joy\"
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08/05/2024
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Midweek pick-me-up: The joy of suffering overcome—young Beethoven's stirring letter to his brother about losing his hearing and how music saved him
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02/11/2022
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The remarkable story behind Beethoven's \"Ode to Joy,\" Rebecca Solnit reads a century-old love poem to trees by an 18-year-old Harlem Renaissance poet
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22/05/2022
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An illustrated meditation on the deepest meaning of love, Nick Cave on creativity, the myth of originality, and how to find your voice, and a poem
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23/01/2022
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Dreams, consciousness, and the nature of the universe; Nietzsche on walking and creativity; an illustrated ode to life, loss, and our search for light
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19/12/2021
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How to live with our human limitations: physicist Brian Greene reads Rilke; Beethoven on how music saved his life; to be an \"Earth ecstatic\"
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27/12/2020
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Elizabeth Gilbert on love and loss, Rebecca Solnit on rewriting the world's broken stories, a stunning illustrated celebration of the wilderness
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21/10/2018
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Beethoven on how music saved his life, Rachel Carson's brave and prescient 1953 letter against the government's assault on science and nature & more
