Name: Beethoven's Ninth: Ode to Joy
Start: 2024-09-22T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Woolsey Hall

On Sunday, September 22 at Woolsey Hall, Music Director Perry So Opens his first season at Woolsey Hall with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, known best for its triumphant Ode to Joy.
The concert will open with Courtney Bryan's "Gathering Song," performed by Met Opera star Eric Greene.
Following Gathering Song, the orchestra will perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Mr. Greene will perform as part of the soloist quartet, alongside Lisa Williamson, Annie Rosen, and Chad Kranak.
Maestro So says, “We’re kicking off with Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, his great 9th symphony in its 200th anniversary year: a deep dive into the unifying joy that all of us find in music. This piece has taken generations through its harrowing journey in oppressive darkness, holding out false promises of an Eden that never materializes, until a voice pulls us back from the brink and shows us the way out of despair through community and through art. I love that this piece brings solace in bereavement at the same moment that it calls for a radical egalitarianism in art. It says to us: “since we are equally human in joy and sadness, together let’s choose the joy that reminds us how much we all share.”
Tickets start at $15 and youth under 18 go free with an adult ticket purchase. Learn more at NewHavenSymphony.org.
Sponsored by the City of New Haven, Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism; Frontier Communications, and the New Haven Register.